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SIDON, Lebanon: A two-day protest by vegetable vendors who blocked a road leading to the main square of this southern city was called off after the pressure they exerted on Sidon officials seemed to have paid off.
Dozens of vendors were seen dismantling the tents they had erected in Nijmeh Square Tuesday to protest their relocation to the new souk.
Jamal Jaafil, a member of the delegation that met Sidon municipal head Mohammad Saudi, said an agreement has been reached to allow vendors to return to the commercial souks Thursday.
"As a goodwill gesture, we immediately began to pull out of the streets in return for being allowed to go back to the commercial souks tomorrow," Jaafil told The Daily Star.
A huge traffic buildup occurred on the coastal highway linking Beirut with south Lebanon earlier Wednesday as the vegetable protest – together with an ongoing anti-Hezbollah sit-in – blocked the main roads of Sidon.
A group of about 60 vegetable vendors blocked the road leading to Nijmeh Square with their carts for the second day straight Wednesday, some deliberately emptying crates of fruit and vegetables onto the street.
Garbage trucks arrived around 2 p.m. to clean up the litter.
"We're rallying here because business is not going well at the new souk," Mohammad Kallas said during the peak of the protest Wednesday. "We are trashing our fruits and vegetables."
At around 10 a.m., some 30 angry protesters left the crowd in Nijmeh Square for the old commercial souks in downtown Sidon, tossing vegetables and fruits at store windows.
Proprietors quickly shut their stores for fear the protests would spin out of control.
The disgruntled vendors were denouncing a municipality decision made in March to relocate the vegetable stalls and carts from the commercial souks to the new souk.
Owners of legal vegetable carts and stalls have complained of a lack of business in the new souk.
Meanwhile, an ongoing sit-in by Sheikh Ahmad Assir and his supporters on Sidon's highway has limited road travel between Beirut and Sidon to two routes, causing much traffic congestion on weekends.
Assir, who began his protest against Hezbollah's arms last month, is blocking the highway at the northern entrance to Sidon.
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June 14, 2013
Eat, shoot, share and win at the V&A Waterfront
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Fazielah Williams has lived in and loved her Mother City since birth. Having lived all over the Peninsula during her childhood, she now calls the picturesque City Bowl home and likes nothing more than watching the sun set over Table Bay from the window of her apartment.
A lover of the arts and proud Cape Town fanatic, Fazielah began her writing career by spending many hours as a child conjuring fantastical stories that featured independent heroines from faraway lands who saved the Prince instead. This Capetonian princess has enjoyed stints as a magical arts PRO and TV publicist before finding her calling as a travel writer.
When not waxing lyrical about the Fairest Cape's most loved attractions and activities and embarking on unexpected adventures, Fazielah can usually be found taking in a show at one of the City's fabulous theatres.
What do you get when you combine gourmet food and flash photography in an inspirational seaside city? Why, the Discover Delicious winter campaign at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, of course!
This chilly season, the Mother City's premier shopping destination gives you plenty of reasons to venture out and discover delicious on its vast premises with a variety of tempting winter specials that are easy on the pocket too.
You can indulge in divine, affordable and unusual dishes (think meals like the exotic Leberkäse, a German meatloaf that is a traditional Bavarian pork/beef dish best enjoyed hot or cold) at more than 80 restaurants, including Alba Lounge, Balducci's, Den Anker Restaurant & Bar, Ferryman's Tavern, Fisherman's Choice, Hildebrand Ristorante, Meloncino, Mitchell's Waterfront Brewery, OYO Restaurant and Cocktail Bar, Primi Wharf, Reuben's, Sevruga, Shimmy Beach Club, Signal, the Atlantic Grill, and the V&A Market on the Wharf, to name but a few.
Lucky patrons also stand to win big. So, what's the prize, I hear you ask? Well...
Visitors have the opportunity to win one of 10 x R5 000 V&A gift cards when they enjoy a meal at any of the aforementioned 80 eateries. All you have to do is:
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- Get social and upload your prize-worthy images to www.discoverdelicious.co.za or tag the V&A Waterfront on Twitter with #discoverdelicious
The lucky winners will be announced each Monday.
I know it's cold out there and you may be inclined to seek warmth under the covers this winter, but the V&A Waterfront's Discover Delicious campaign is just too tempting to ignore. So come and join me on this discovery of taste sensations .. and who knows? You could be one of the lucky winners of those tantalising gift cards!
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PERHAPS it's because they take an age to grow and then fade into the landscape. Or it could simply be that we don't eat them. Whatever the reason, genetically modified trees have never raised such fierce passions as GM food crops.
But this week, for the first time, a team of geneticists has tried to evaluate the risks posed by GM trees to native woods and forests. Critics of biotech have applauded the move, saying that, for once, we may actually have some evidence on the risks of GM plants before the debate begins in earnest.
GM trees are being developed for a variety of uses, though none is yet grown on a commercial scale. The good news is that if they were, they would only rarely cross-breed with wild relatives - and then only with nearby trees.
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90% of the plastic modelling activity here is done by people who think the war was very nice and unfortunatley ended way too soon.
IMO, the traditional plastic car kit modelling countries are the USA and Japan.
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The bargain hunters jockey gingerly for a spot to park their luxury sedans and SUVs along Brewster Drive, a winding road in the hills of Tarzana.
It's a woodsy neighborhood of large homes behind wrought-iron gates, and more than two dozen shoppers are here to bid for a piece of it.
"A one-off," says Andrew Levant of the Beverly Hills auction house, meaning just that single property is on the block. The minimum bid at the noon event: $2.1 million for the seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom property.
"The typical auction we do -- whether for a lender, developer or investors -- is 20 to 60 units in a condo or patio homes project, not necessarily multimillion-dollar homes," says Levant, who estimates that the cost to build the three-level Tuscan-style villa topped $7.5 million.
With a four-week marketing campaign and a budget of $25,000, Levant conducted eight open houses, plus some private showings, leading up to the auction on a recent Saturday. He says more than 250 people viewed the property, dubbed the Brewster Estate.
"There apparently are still lots of people interested in purchasing mansion-size homes," says Levant, the firm's senior managing director of business development. "They just don't want to spend $10 million to $20 million for the privilege."
More than an hour before auction time, the 29 registered participants begin signing in. They bring family, friends and real estate agents. They carry the requisite $25,000 cashier's checks. A uniformed security guard keeps a low profile in the background.
Each bidder gets a large yellow card with a number. Every entrant is outfitted with a blue wristband that looks more like a remnant from a hospital stay than an appropriate accessory for the crowd's winter version of California casual. The only hint of their shrouded wealth is a fur-collared jacket here and a heavy ring there.
After passing a bubbling fountain in the entry courtyard, through the tall arched double French doors and into the foyer with its hand-painted ceiling, many of the attendees roam the house.
On the ground level they tour the kitchen with its two Sub-Zero refrigerators, two pantries, single and double sinks and two dishwashers. Downstairs, they view the home theater, wine cellar with tasting room and fitness center. Upstairs, they examine the master suite with its wet bar and a glass-enclosed steam shower large enough to hold six adults. Outside, they stroll the nearly 1 1/2 -acre grounds, taking in the tennis court, a koi pond with a waterfall and expansive views.
Some position themselves in the great room, which has a 36-foot ceiling open to the second floor and is topped by leaded-glass skylights. One extended family settles into the kitchen's circular breakfast area and chats around the large table.
The affair is catered, with strawberries, cookies, assorted appetizers and coffee in cardboard cups. Rented furniture, rugs and knickknacks have been brought in.
The home was about 95% completed before it went into foreclosure, according to Steven Miller, a general contractor hired to prepare the property for sale. On hand for the big event, he estimates that a buyer would need to spend about $300,000 to finish the work, including the permitted infinity pool with spa and an unfinished underground room plumbed for a pool bathroom.
Miller enumerates the home's quality details: $250,000 worth of travertine floors, fine workmanship on the plaster arches leading from one room to the next, solid walnut floors, 38 French doors and five fireplaces. There's even an elevator and a 16-car subterranean parking garage.
Ten minutes before noon, the tension mounts. One participant speaks urgently on a cellphone to an absent client, demanding, "Where are you now?" Another discusses power of attorney with on-site personnel. The family in the kitchen grows restless.
Then the voice of auctioneer Dean Cullum breaks through the polyglot hubbub announcing that the auction will start at 12:05.
He and Rhett Winchell, president of Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, wait by the oversized fireplace in the great room as the bulk of the attendees gather on the first level. The family of Bidder 783 has staked out the couch and chairs along the back wall. Bidder 199 edges near a column and murmurs to her real estate agent in French. Half a dozen others with yellow bid cards arrange themselves on the second-floor overlook as if watching a play unfold.
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By Don Vaughan
Vaughan's Vocabulary
Recently I was reading about George A. Custer (1839-76), particularly "Custer's Last Stand." In the book "A Short History of the American Nation", John A. Garraty, who taught at Columbia University, has pointed out that after gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota, miners invaded areas reserved for Indians. Already alarmed by railroad builders, the Sioux went on the warpath. Joining with tribes to the west, they concentrated along the valley of the Bighorn River in Montana.
General Alfred Terry sent a detachment of the Seventh Cavalry under Colonel Custer to locate the Indians' camp and occlude their escape route into the inaccessible Bighorn Mountains. Custer attacked with his force of between 200 and 300 men; at the Little Bighorn he was surrounded by 10 times more Indians than his detachment. It was a decisive Native American victory.
1. Which word describes Custer's actions?
A. copacetic
B. prudent
C. reckless
D. assonantal
E. paronymous
An essay by Brian Dippie points out that Custer attacked immediately; he was accused of disobeying Terry. Reckless is the relevant adjective. You probably already know copacetic and prudent, but what about assonantal and paronymous?
2. assonantal (as-so-NAN-tull)
A. having similar sound, especially of vowel sounds
B. repeating consonants without repeating vowels
C. being well-equipped
D. aggressive
An assonance is the resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words.
An assonance has a vowel or two repeating in adjoining words, but without repeating the consonants. With "holy and stony", the vowels o and y are repeated, but the consonants h, l, s, t, and n are not repeated.
3. paronymous (puh-RON-uh-mus)
A. formed from a word in another language
B. containing the same root or stem
C. gullible
D. sardonic
4. The word hysteria came from the Greek language and pertains to
A. the womb.
B. the tomb.
C. sleep.
D. stars.
Both A and B are correct for paronymous. For example, our word hysteria is paronymous of the Greek word hysterikos. The words wise and wisdom are paronymous because they contain the same root or stem. The Greek word "hystera" has been translated "womb" (the Greeks had the notion that hysteria was caused by disturbances of the uterus).
Last week's mystery word is rutabaga.
This week's mystery word might sound odd if it replaced the adjective in the name of one of the Indian warriors present at Custer's Last Stand; the adjective, however, would mean the same.
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Winthrop Opens Filmless Diagnostic Imaging Center
Winthrop Complies with Mammogram Quality Standards Act
New Device Revolutionizes Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Long Island's First Electric Mechanical Heart Recipient
Women's Resource Center Helps Women Navigate the Healthcare Maze
American Cancer Society Recognition
New Logo Heralds New Era at Winthrop
People with Diabetes Learn to Master Buffets
Four New Winthrop Board Members Strengthen Leadership
Winthrop's Junior Volunteer Program Awards Scholarships to Deserving Students
Students Stock the Shelves of the Child Life Program
Pharmacy Robot: A First on Long Island
A Warning from the Long Island Poison Control Center at Winthrop
Asthma and Allergy Family Fair Presented by the Winthrop Asthma Center
More than 500 Celebrate Life at Winthrop's Cancer Survivors' Day
75th Annual Meeting of Winthrop's Auxiliary
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he newest employee of Winthrop's Pharmacy is an amiable Robot - Walterx, the McKesson Robot RxTM - which has been filling patient medication orders since completing simulation training in May. At that point, Winthrop became the first hospital on Long Island to implement robotics in its Pharmacy Department. Now, the medication orders of almost every inpatient are filled by the Robot - up to 2,800 unit doses within four to five hours.
Walterx, the Robot, is actually a mechanized arm moving on a track in its metal-framed, plexiglass enclosed "room," which measures about 28 feet long, six feet wide, and eight feet high. Each of its two long walls contains approximately 400 metal rods, holding individual doses of medication.
The Robot frees the Hospital's Registered Pharmacists from some of their more routine duties, enabling them to more directly contribute their professional training to the patient care team. Nonetheless, the need for professional and technical human input and oversight has not been eliminated. Registered Pharmacists still review and enter all drug orders into the Pharmacy's computer system, and dispense each patient's initial order. The Robot, restocked daily by human Pharmacy Technicians, fills all subsequent medication orders.
Bar coding makes the Robot smart. The system is dependent upon Robot-produced bar coding - which encodes National Drug Codes (NDC) and expiration dates on each medication package. The Pharmacy Technician labels each patient drawer with the individual's unique Hospital identification number, as well as the bar coded labels. The drawers are fed into the Robot by a conveyor belt. When the Robot scans the drawer's label, it retrieves the needed information from the computer, which tells it exactly what medications to pick and place in the drawer. "As long as the packaged medication is correctly bar coded, there is virtually no chance of a picking error," declares Steven Gerson, RPh, MPA, Assistant Director, Pharmaceutical Services.
Once the drawers are filled, the Pharmacy Technician loads them into cassettes, transports them to the Nursing Stations, and exchanges them for the depleted drawers. Walterx, through ongoing communication with the Pharmacy's computer system, keeps track of all patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, as well as changes and discontinuations of medications.
As a further assurance of complete accuracy, nurses check both the physician's order and the labels on the medications before administering medications to a patient.
"The technology is simple, focusing on bar codes and suction cups, driven by compressed air and vacuum," says Joseph Giunta, MS, RPh, Director of Winthrop's Pharmacy. The suction cup serves as the pick- up and placement device.
The Robot is already popular with co-workers in the Winthrop Pharmacy, who are very enthusiastic about its contributions.
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QPR boss Harry Redknapp is interested in signing Los Angeles Galaxy striker Robbie Keane in January.
The 32-year-old played under Redknapp at Tottenham and, with the Major League Soccer season over, could be available on a short-term deal similar to that which took him to Aston Villa last season.
"Robbie Keane is a good shout," Redknapp said in the Daily Telegraph. "I haven't spoken to him yet but he would be an interesting player. He's a good pro and he'd be an ideal type to have around."
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I Like Doing My Hair, Makeup and Dressing UpFunny Thing! I like to dress up adn pretend im a singer/actrress. It's loadsa fun! … [more]
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My hair is now cut, and I think I look awsome. I now have bangs wich is awsome cuase I've always wanted bangs. Well, I am now packing for my big trip to Idaho that I've been talking about. It's going to be so fun. Except I have to share a room with my dad and when he snoors he sounds like a broken lawn mower running over a rock! J.K.! Well, if anyone has any suggestions as to were I should go or shop please let me know! … [more]
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Hey everyone...I want to say thank you to abcrabbit becuase she told be to go shopping at abracrombie and I did and abcrabbit was right, I got some amazing outfits! I think I bought 7 shirts and a couple other things from abacrombie so thankn you so much abcrabitt. I also wanted to say that I went to see Shrek 4 which was hillarious! I recommend that everyone go and see it. I am also glad that SCHOOLS OUT!!! I don't know about you guys but school dragged on and on for me so I am glad it's out. Well, blog latter, bye!… [more]
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- Packing foam snowflakes from dollar store
- Glitter
- Glue, cup, and brush
"A" in particular was guilty of over glittering. When she was done, we shook off the excess (there was lots!) and let the snowflake dry.
Very nice! I saw those snowflakes & almost bought them. Bummer. :)ReplyDelete
They look so festive!!! Love glitter crafts :)
Fun idea! I'd love to have you link up to my party if you get a chance at http://scrapbookingez.blogspot.com/2011/12/anything-goes-linky-party_08.html. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Those are pretty. I told my son's kindergarten teacher about your blog today. I helped with elf factories today. They made some cute things,and of course, I got an easy craft.
I also have a give away for children this week on the blog. It's with collegiate mascot books. Winners can pick a book about their favorite mascot. They have a lot of big schools, but not all the smaller schools. Leigh
These glitter snowflakes turned out great, Vicky!
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Hi Vicky! What a fun place you have here. I knew I should have grabbed those foam snowflakes when I saw them. It's ok, lets face it, I will be back there 10 more times before Christmas. Thanks for stopping by Printable Decor today. I am following your awesome blog now.
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I saw these and thought about letting the boys paint them, but passed on them when my 5 year old suggested letting the puppy play fetch with them!
So cool thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE this.. and I love your adorable blog header.... I have a Brand New Linky Party that started today and would love for you to link uphttp://shoprubyjean.com/2011/12/sew-crafty-tuesday-linky-party1/ReplyDelete
So cute! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Great idea but I've called several dollar stores in my area and couldn't find the snowflakes. I finally went to AC Moore to get foam ones.ReplyDelete
@ Stacey, they were still selling them as of last week.
@ MiaB, Thanks so much. I love your blog, you have so many fun ideas.
@ Digital Scrapbooking, I have joined your link party, thanks for the invite.
@ Leigh, sounds fun! I will be by to enter.
@ Andrea, thanks so much!
@ Johnnie, so happy to have you here!
@ Brittney, hadn't thought about painting them. Thanks for the idea!
@ Crystal, So happy you came by!
@Ruby Jean, Thanks, I will be by later to link up!
@ Betty, thanks for the kind words.
@ SJB, that's a bummer. I went to a few dollar stores here and they all carried them.
@ April, Thanks!
Thanks for linking to Take-A-Look Tuesday - - I featured you today!!
- Mandy, www.SugarBeeCrafts.com
What a precious project for the kids! I love memory-makers and even little things like this will be great kid-memories when they are grown. Great Christmas post! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I love these! I am pinning then now and will have to try them soon!ReplyDelete
This is a great simple kids craft! I love it!ReplyDelete
Oooh my kids LOVE glitter. Fun!
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!!
Great idea! My oldest loves glitter and painting so this will be a great project for him!ReplyDelete
This is such a fun project to do with the littles! Great idea! I'd love for you to link up to my Christmas Linky Carnival.
Hi Vicky, what a great Christmas craft idea for the children. Looks like they had so much fun, you also!! Thanks for sharing. have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
These turned out super cute VIcky! What a fun idea!!!
Merry Christmas,
Beth (TGIF)
We LOVE snowflakes! That's our decorating theme this year :) Thanx for sharing.
New follower/LIKE here... popping in from Play Academy Linky.
Oh, I LOVE these, Vicky! Glitter makes everything better!! Would you pretty please share these at my party this week?
YeeHaw! What fun! Can never have too much glitter!ReplyDelete


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PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is asking an Arizona appeals court to temporarily put on hold a trial judge's ruling that the county must provide zoning clearance for a planned medical marijuana dispensary in Sun City.
A three-judge Court of Appeals panel scheduled a hearing next Thursday on Montgomery's request Friday for a stay of Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon's ruling.
Montgomery is appealing Gordon's ruling that federal drug laws don't stand in the way of implementation of Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana law.
Montgomery says county employees stand at risk of possible federal prosecution if they facilitate marijuana growing, distribution or marketing of marijuana.
Gordon already refused to put his own ruling on hold pending the appeal.


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Pet owner recalls how her dog's companionship assisted her recovery from surgery
Man's best really can do a lot more than fetch.
Studies have shown for years how pets can help us emotionally as well as physically. They can give us a sense of purpose; help ease loneliness and isolation, while helping us to keep our blood pressure and cholesterol levels low, as well.
Just ask Sara Krill, author of the book My Pal Lou: The Story of Me (www.lbgpublishing.com), who recalled how her faithful beagle Louie eased her pain when she was recovering from a painful hysterectomy brought on by endometriosis.
"I can't describe the heartache of the decision I finally had to make to have the surgery," she said. "I had always wanted children, but the pain of the endometriosis became too much to bear, often bringing me literally to my knees. I knew that once I had the surgery, there would be no chance whatsoever that I could have a child of my own. That being said, perhaps I transferred those maternal feelings to the way I treated Lou, but the truth is that my relationship with him helped to heal me, and kept me whole during one of the most difficult periods of my life."


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This was superb!!! Finally a person who exhibits some intelligence about the wrestling product. Someone else who isn't afraid to say "I like blah blah, but I didn't like blah blah blah". I can appreciate you honesty. I think to many of these wrestling fans or marks claim that they have to be one way versus another. People we are not wrestlers who have to be face or heel; We are fans. We are allowed to love and hate at the same time.
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Great blog!!! I think you speak like the realistic smart fan should... The fact is that there is always gonna be good and bad with every part of life. Its only when people get this pationate about something they love that they get so wrapped up and emotional over it... Always have loved wrestling and i always will... Monday night is for chilling out and forgetting about lifes real problems... Even if we have to see tensai in lingerie..
Thanks! Always appreciate any comments!!
Great blog!!! I think you speak like the realistic smart fan should... The fact is that there is always gonna be good and bad with every part of life. Its only when people get this pationate about something they love that they get so wrapped up and emotional over it... Always have loved wrestling and i always will... Monday night is for chilling out and forgetting about lifes real problems... Even if we have to see tensai in lingerie..
WWE needs to take the floundering mid carders and place them in long term tag teams, first off. They need to realize that not everyone is meant to be a singles star. They push everybody to be a singles star and when they can't live up to expectations they cut their losses. Some great talent has been fired. Put them in tag teams. No shame in that. Some of the greats have been tag team competitors and failed as single stars. I can name tons of greats, that were great because of tag team wrestling.
Second it would be cool if they resurrect the Jim Crockett Cup Tournament. They can name it the McMahon tournament. If you never witnessed the Crockett Cup Tournament you were either too young or you missed out, BIG time.
It's too bad TNA beat the WWE to the bunch with their random placement tag team tournament that produced Samoa Joe and Magnus. That was a good move by TNA and would have worked really well in the WWE.
i'd have the usos win both funky and lord tensai are boring and they are not quite young if you'd give the usos the win over the miz and jomo that would really make the usos credible as a tag team.
I enjoyed reading your blog...I am 33 so we've grown up watching the same era's, familiar with the same wrestlers. I was a huge Rock fan during the attitude era...he wasnt my #1 but I loved the Rock. I am glad he's back...and I love the feud with Cena and am very excited for the Mania match. I'd tend to agree with The Next Big Thing in that, I think the Rock is here for the fans and to help the business. I really do.
I don't buy into rumors and backstage gossip on wrestling websites. What I am seeing each week on RAW is an exciting feud between Rock and Cena that feels special because of the year long build up. A great feud takes time to build...and this Cena-Rock feud has that. Both of these guys are two of the best ever...they both are good wrestlers (Rock a little better than Cena but that really doesn't matter) and they both are amazing on the mic. I don't see Rock having any disrespect for the fans, the wrestlers or the business. I'm just excited he's back.
I will agree with you on Cena should get more respect than he does. He's a good wrestler who gives his absolute best each and every week for the fans. I personally have no problem with Cena. He's not my favorite. But I don't hate him at all. I like the guy. I think for the most part he does nothing but good for the company. I loved his rap promo this week - the old school Cena - it was a nice trip back to what started him off and running towards being the #1 guy. And he deserves the spot he has.
Personally, I'm cheering for the Rock...I'm loyal to him and the attitude era. It was my favorite time in wrestling and until a new era passes it...I will always back those guys. I won't be pissed if Cena wins though. I'd understand if that's what has to happen.
This blog is great and brings back a lot of memories. In 1991 for some reason my entire housing estate got Sky 1 for free and big shows for me were superstars followed by wrestling challenge. I Remember guys like The Berzerker, Mr. Perfect, The Warlord you name it. Every character was absolutely awesome for a kid. It makes me sad that kid's these days have to watch with all these tame characters, absolutely nothing like the awesomeness the Legion of Doom.
We didn't get sky sports for ages but it was great to get it, and though I always looked down on wcw I was glad it was there on tnt.
My opinion of all the Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stuff is this - Whatever everybody thinks about him, or is compelled to think about him, it really is just rumors really. I personally don't really care what rock's agenda is, nobody really should. I didn't before and I don't now. Dwayne is the same man he has always been, whether you thinks he reeks of a dickhead's aura or you think the man can do no wrong, he's always been the same. He has as much respect for the business now that he did in the attitude era. I'm not going to say the man's a saint, he might have no respect or he might have huge respect, only the man himself genuinely knows. As long as he's there that's what it is, money or spots being taken should be irrelevant.
Thanks for the great read.
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"Charge! Charge Hans!" called his other owner, Barbara Fortnert.
Hans was unhampered by the small "wheelchair" holding up his limp hind legs.
About six months ago, Hans suffered nerve damage to his hind legs when he jumped off a couch. The Fortnerts recently ordered him the wheelchair.
"We're glad we were able to give Hans a chance," Barbara said.
The wheelchair lets him keep up with his neighborhood calls.
Almost every day, Hans visits with his next-door neighbor, Joann Ingersoll. He runs through her garage, walks inside and heads for her pantry full of dog treats. He also tears over to visit with his other neighbor, a black Labrador.
The Fortnerts said Hans moves around well in the wheelchair — except for corners.
"His spatial relationships are not so good," Barbara said.
After about an hour or so, he gets tired just wants a nap.
His legs have been getting stronger. The Fortnerts and Ingersoll are holding out hope.
"He's going to walk again," Ingersoll said.
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English actor Charlie Hunnam is mainly known for that country's original version of the TV series Queer As Folk, as well as films like Green Street Hooligans and Children of Men.
He made his breakthrough here as biker club leader Jax Teller on the FX TV drama Sons of Anarchy. Now the 32 year-old's latest role is as Jay in the crime thriller Deadfall.
In the film, Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde play sibling thieves Addison and Liza who flee to the Canadian border after a botched casino heist. When they separate, Liza encounters Jay and the two end up having an affair, and their journey culminates over Thanksgiving dinner with Jay's parents, played by Kris Kristofferson and Sissy Spacek.
Hunnam talks about what it was like filming on location in Montreal, often showing plenty of skin in the freezing cold.
"You know, where there's a will," Charlie says, "I actually had been really excited about a period in the cold weather because we shoot Sons Of Anarchy in L.A. through the course of the summer, and I'm a skinny guy. I want to look as big as possible, so I wear several layers of clothing everyday and it gets really old being that hot."
"But I must say a couple days in, I was craving the sunshine," he adds, "Because when you're really hot, you're miserable and a little bit grumpy and just dab down the sweat, but cold is really debilitating. I found it hard to function in that. Those two scenes, the scene that we had outside, the contentious moment with me in my boxer shorts. Our fight scene was very cold. I'd so much rather be cold that goes through the production of shooting in real snow than be comfortable freezing in fake snow."
Charlie also discussed how he got himself in the mindset of Jay.
"That's always the trick, to figure out how to get oneself," Hunnam recalls, "I mean, I've done a great deal of work in my personal life to try to get myself away from feeling that way day to day and I always find the trick is to identify a way to get close to the character emotionally, without having to resort to intellectual analysis or empathizing and actually have a feeling. So what I set about doing was I had experienced before working out and stopping and what a negative effect that has on the psyche. And I felt that was a very close area to where Jay was coming out of prison. I also have been very interested in boxing, so I put myself through an intense boxing academy where you got up and ran five miles every morning, and then went and had breakfast and boxed a couple hours and came home and watched fights all day long, and then went and swam and saunaed every night seven days a week for several weeks running up to this."
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Hunnam was asked if his role on Sons helped prep him for Deadfall.
"No, it's been my childhood, I would say, more than anything," Charlie says, "But Sons has been an incredible experience for me, just doing that volume of work, going to work everyday and being there all day, everyday, and putting 80 hour weeks in, six months in a row. It's developed a real ease for me in front of the camera and then, at the areas I was struggling with in America, specifically doing an American accent and just having that volume of time to tackle that."
"I feel less, not fully like I've mastered it, but much, much less contained than I used to," he adds, "It always used to sound right. It's about being effortless in it and getting to the point where it doesn't govern anything that is required of you in that moment. And I felt from the first couple of seasons of Sons that all that I was doing was trying to speak in a Californian accent and everything else was falling off by the wayside. And thankfully, I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable enough to concentrate on some of the other stuff."
Charlie talks about what viewers will come to expect for the next season of Sons Of Anarchy.
"Now that everybody's dead, I don't know if there will be a season six," Hunnam says, "I'm very excited. It's been, people who watch the show, I think it's clear that it's been a very fulfilling season for Jax and his overall arc through the story."
"It's wonderful getting to be the president finally and not having to be so reactive and a little bit more proactive," he continues, "Which sounds just kind of nice ways to describe character, but it's actually the experience of playing this guy. It's everything to have to sit in a room and receive information as opposed to say, 'You know what? This is how were going to handle this and move forward,' and it's been fun."


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Acer Aspire 5740-333G25Mi
SpecificationsNotebook: Acer Aspire 5740-333G25Mi (Aspire 5740 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i3 330M
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Display: 15.6 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 500 euro
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
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This 15.6-inch notebook provides powerful graphics, zippy Core i5 performance, and strong audio for less than the competition. Gamers on a budget would do well to consider the $749 Acer Aspire 5740G-6979. While the design of this notebook doesn't thrill, multimedia aficionados and impoverished fraggers looking for an affordable mainstream system with powerful graphics can't do much better than this.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/11/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%
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Rating: Total score: 69% performance: 44% display: 38% mobility: 46% emissions: 66%
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics: Onboard graphics card that is built in the new Arrandale CPUs (Core i3 / i5 / i7 Dual Cores). Depending on the model and Turbo Boost, the GMA HD is clocked between 166 and 766 MHz.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
The Core i3-330M is a slower clocked 350M and therefore also lacks the Turbo Boost feature and clocks with max. 2.13 GHz. Thanks to Hyperthreading, 4 threads can be processed simultaneously. An integrated graphics card (GMA HD 3150) and a DDR3 memory controller are also included in the package.
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15.6": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. However nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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Box Office, 01/14/2010, 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Directing team The Hughes Brothers have chosen ELI as their first film in nearly a decade and though it certainly delivers all the fireworks you might come to expect from their earlier work, its religious undertones separate it from the pack..."
Variety, 01/10/2010, "One of the clever conceits of the script by first-time Gary Whitta is that there are only a handful of people still alive who remember how things were 'before'..."
Sight and Sound, 03/01/2010, "[A]mong films about material scarcity, religion and power, it compares favourably with THERE WILL BE BLOOD."
A.V. Club, 01/14/2010, "THE BOOK OF ELI takes the form of an ultra-violent graphic novel, with Washington as a steely Man With No Name type who cuts a righteous path through the gullets of sinners and savages." -- Grade: B
Chicago Sun-Times, 01/13/2010, "The Hughes brothers have a vivid way with imagery here, as in their earlier films....The film looks and feels good, and Washington's performance is the more uncanny the more we think back over it."
Washington Post, 01/15/2010, "[Washington] beautifully inhabits the film's titular hero, a laconic, solitary gunslinger who's also a custodian of a mysterious tome..."
USA Today, 01/18/2010, "An attractively grizzled Denzel Washington plays the enigmatic Eli, a true believer with quasi-mystical fighting skills..."
Hollywood Reporter, 01/10/2010, "[A]n intense, surprisingly serious study of a man making his way through a wilderness of catastrophic destruction and human cruelty like a latter-day prophet."
Los Angeles Times, 01/15/2010, "A lean, stark, surprisingly effective headliner in Hollywood's ongoing apoc-a-pala-looza."
With unflappable cool and surprising gentleness, Denzel Washington strides a bleak and barren world in The Book of Eli. Eli is headed west, but on the way, he passes devastation and squalor, and occasionally he must mete out some devastation of his own with a sharp blade. But when he arrives in what passes for a town in this dust-and-ash future, the power-hungry owner of the town''s bar, Carnegie (Gary Oldman, looking a million years old), covets his one important possession. (Spoiler alert, sort of: it becomes apparent pretty quickly that it''s a King James Bible.) Conflict ensues! Though the plot is simple and the "mystery" of the book doesn''t last long, The Book of Eli is carried along effortlessly by its star. Washington has always had a compelling mixture of authority and tenderness, and it''s this latter quality that makes this contribution to the testosterone-and-violence-drenched post-apocalyptic subgenre unexpectedly human. The script, while not particularly original, has effective dialogue and is smart enough not to explain too much. The supporting actors--including Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jennifer Beals (who hasn''t aged a day since Flashdance), and Ray Stevenson (Rome)--are all capable and easy on the eyes. The movie''s bleached-out, sepia-tone look isn''t new either, but it suits the subject matter. Anyone who wants to be offended by the movie''s spiritual conclusion would be wiser to enjoy the subversive insinuation that religion can enslave as much as save. All in all, a competent action movie with some enjoyably atypical elements. --Bret Fetzer
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn''t fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Denzel Washington is Eli, who keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland... and into explosive conflict with a resourceful warlord (Gary Oldman) set on possessing the book. "We walk by faith, not by sight," quotes Eli. Under the taut direction of the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society), those words hit home with unexpected meaning and power.
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AMG, In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect the sacred tome that could hold the key to the survival of the human race in this futuristic thriller from filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes (FROM HELL, DEAD PRESIDENTS). Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Ray Stevenson co-star in this Warner Bros. production.
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WE welcome the announcement by the Southern Africa Civil Society Forum, that draws its membership from all the Sadc countries, that they have dropped their adversarial approach to Government and seek to work with for national development.
Sadc Council of NGOs regional economic integration manager Mr Rangarirai Machemedze last week said confrontation between Government and civic society was not good for the country.
"We have to close ranks and work together as a collective unit for the good of the country," said Mr Machemedze.
He said the civic society could play a major role in complementing Government in national development.
Mr Machemedze said the forum came up with resolutions that would be submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for onward submission to the Victoria Falls Sadc Summit.
The announcement, which was made at the NGOs forum in Harare last week, could not have come at a better time as Zimbabwe prepares to host the 34th Summit of Sadc Heads of State and Government where President Mugabe assumes chairmanship of the bloc.
A progressive civil society will be a boon to Zimbabwe's stewardship of regional affairs.
By their nature, NGOs have all along been a study in paradox where on one hand they masqueraded as independent groupings cut off from any governmental influence yet on the other hand by virtue of funding were intrinsically linked to Western countries which invariably used them as instruments of foreign policy.
The NGOs were virtual latter-day missionaries that claimed to be voluntary organisations there to serve people mainly in the developing world in the social services sector, when they were as much a part of capitalism as the neo-liberal economic prescriptions from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that create enabling environments for their emergence.
The economic prescriptions from the two Bretton Woods institutions advocate minimum government as they call for budget cuts in the "non-productive" social services sectors.
When the State moves out of these sectors, the void left is conveniently filled by the Western-sponsored NGOs that take over the government's role of looking after the citizens.
The ultimate objective being to alienate the citizen from the "uncaring" government.
This may all seem harmless since these philanthropic organisations are, after all, "non-governmental".
The plot is, however, much uglier as the NGOs are intrinsically linked to the governments in their home countries, which is why some scholars have likened them to latter day missionaries as they facilitate neo-colonialism.
Nowhere has this reading of NGOs been more apparent than in Zimbabwe since the standoff with London began at the end of the 20th century as a glut of Western-funded NGOs sprouted agitating for regime change.
They naturally became embedded in opposition politics and took an adversarial approach to Government, making them Anti-Governmental Organisations that EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Aldo Del'Ariccia recently characterised.
To this end we welcome the announcement made by the NGOs and urge them to move from the sordid past of dabbling in opposition politics and focus on the terms of reference of their registration by working with Government.
Zimbabwe is the only country we have, anywhere else we go we will be mere visitors.
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How many hours is sleeping through the night?
When my son sleeps from 9 pm to 8 am and wakes up once or twice to eat, is that okay? Should I wean him from night feedings? He is 6 mos and in the 90-95 percentile in weight and height
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Old post I know. My LO started sleeping 5-6hrs through one night feeding ( mid to 6am) @ 4 months (normally eating every 4hrs - 4 1/2oz) and by 5m she has a larger size bottle at night (6.5oz) and will sleep sometimes 10 hrs. At first I feared so much sleep could deprive her of nutrition but her doc said some babies sleep through 6-7hrs some longer. He said to expect her to nap during the day too. She eats a breakfast bottle (6oz) goes back to sleep for an hour & a half then has cereal with a pinch of fruit. Only trouble is her schedule is late day so she wakes between 9 & 11am, foods are later in the day ( she's eating lunch while family is eating dinner) but doc don't worry as long as shes is eating enough this is fine but don't expect her to always go to sleep & wake at same time, she will start making it an early night. <- Thank God, we have a hard time staying up til 11pm with her.posted 03/17/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
My 23 month old son still wakes up during the night; for water now though. All through babyhood he never slept though the night but always woke up for feeds. My 2.5month old daughter, on the other hand, has been sleeping from about 11.30 until anytime between 7a.m and 9.30a.m for about 3 weeks now. I'd say every baby is different and if yours wakes up to nurse, it's okay to feed him/her.posted 07/17/2011 by Lishnikov
My baby has been sleeping thru the night from about 2 and a half months,she falls asleep right after her midnight feeding and sleeps till about 7am.Now she is 5 mths old and has her last bottle at 11pm and sleeps till 7am.Good for me cos i am a busy working mumposted 10/02/2010 by baby omish
My baby has been sleeping thru the night from about 2 and a half months,she falls asleep right after her midnight feeding and sleeps till about 7am.Now she is 5 mths old and has her last bottle at 11pm and sleeps till 7am.Good for me cos i am a busy working mumposted 10/02/2010 by baby omish
I guess we are lucky...our 6 month old daughter has been sleeping through the night for approximately 4 months. Last bottle is about 9:00 and she sleeps till between 7:00 and 8:00. But I agree with many moms on here if baby wakes in the middle of the night they want a snack.posted 04/28/2010 by MadieBoosmom
my son is 4 and a half months and he just started sleeping throught he night. he sleeps from about 8pm to 6:30 am so i consider that all night.posted 04/27/2010 by Tyler keiths mommy
Sleeping through the night according to pediatricians is 5-6 hours. My daughter is 6 months and also in the 90-95% range. She goes to sleep around 10, wakes up to eat around 3 or 4, then sleeps again until 7 or 8. I don't mind the one feeding in the early morning and I figure she will give it up when she is ready. If you want to encourage your baby to sleep longer, try giving them an extra large feeding before putting them down, and keep the night feedings small. They will eventually sleep through the night when they are ready.posted 02/14/2010 by Chelsea Momma
My son woke during the night to nurse until he was 16 months old. The doctor told me he didn't need a night feeding, but I disagreed. If he woke and was hungry, I fed him. Even if it was just comfort for him, how is that a bad thing? I want him to trust me as a source of comfort. Then one night he just slept through the night, and has ever since. He slept all night when he was ready to, not when I was ready for him to. I think you should do what feels right for you, moms know what is best.posted 03/28/2008 by Carrie0820
Girlfriend, you are soooo lucky! My one-year-old wakes several times during the night to nurse and he's never slept through the night. Keep up what you are doing. Our ped told us the same thing about night feedings, but I personally disagree. If he is waking to nurse, he needs it.posted 03/27/2008 by FirstTimeMommy29
My baby is 3 1/2 months and he started the other day to sleep thru the night 8:00 pm to 5:30 am or 6:00a.m. but I get worried about 10hrs without feedings. Evyrone says it's normal. I think I will have to get use to his new routine!posted 03/27/2008 by nicolettasun
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I'm intrigued by Robert Griffin and I'm starting to think he could sneak into the 1st round should he enter the draft this year.
Griffin is an elite athlete who compares favorably to Michael Vick in terms of his ability to run with the football. But to evaluate him, you have to take those plays out of the mix. His ability to run is nice, but without the ability to stand in the pocket and throw he can't be considered an elite prospect.
At first glance all you notice about Griffin is the athleticism, but a closer look turns up some more traditional skills.
I went back and looked at his game against TCU – arguably the best defense he's faced this season – to see how he performed in NFL-style plays. Basically what I was looking for was how he handled pressure and how he looked when standing in the pocket.
Griffin attempted 27 passes (excluding those called back by penalties) and, much to my surprise, only five came from outside the pocket. This can be viewed one of two ways.
The positive spin is that he actually operates in a system closer to an NFL-style offense than it appears.
The negative spin is that once the play breaks down, he typically tucks the ball and runs. There were only three or four plays where he kept his eyes downfield after being flushed out of the pocket, and on one of those plays he actually threw the ball after having already crossed the line of scrimmage.
However, it was clear that Art Briles and his staff are trying to prepare Griffin for the NFL by giving him experience in the pocket. By my count he was 9-10 on passes in the pocket and thrown at least 10 yards downfield.
Baylor's offense isn't complicated and he was rarely forced to throw into tight coverage in this game, but he clearly demonstrated an ability to stand in the pocket and play the roll of the traditional quarterback. He isn't polished, but the ground work is in place which will allow him to further develop at the next level.
Take into consideration his potential as a pocket passer, his athleticism and his intangibles, and I would be surprised if he doesn't come off the board in the 1st round – possibly as high as the top 10.


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One of my six colonies either has a mouse in the hive that's scaring all the bees to the very top of the hive, or the colony is completely starved for honey. Either way it seems like most of the bees (and they're grumpy) are clustered above the top bars and living entirely off dry sugar I added about a month ago. The bees are so crowded above the top bars, they're constantly walking in and out around the top entrance, as can be seen in this photo I took during my lunch break today:
I also noticed many dead bees in the snow in front of the hive:
Not that dead bees in the snow are unusual, but none of the other hives have many dead bees nearby, hardly any. This does not bode well.
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I used to add dry sugar to my hives in January or February following what some call The Mountain Camp Method, but this year I decided to add sugar around the same time I wrapped my hives, in late November. Why not? I have several reasons for adding the sugar early — the main reason is I don't want to see another colony starve to death — but ultimately it doesn't hurt to put the sugar on early and it saves me the trouble of having to do it in the middle of winter with snow all around. So yeah, why not? Here's a video that shows how I did it.
This is probably the last time I'll post a video about the Mountain Camp Method. There's not much else to see.
I also mention in the video (at the 58sec mark) how one of my hives was full of exceptionally nasty bees until I moved the colony far away from my other colonies and just like that they settled down to become the nicest bunch of bees around. This is just speculation, but for now on whenever I come across an especially defensive colony, I'll try moving it way off by itself, far from any other colonies, before I resort to requeening.
ADDENDUM (Jan. 16/14): It's come to my attention that covering the entire top bars with sugar isn't a good idea because then you can't see down into the frames to see how the bees are doing. I knew that last year but forgot about it this year. So don't do what I did. Cover only the back two-thirds or so of the top bars.
Cutting to the chase: A frame feeder works just as well as a hive top feeder for anyone with easy access to their hives, especially with a modified frame feeder.
I created two nucs for a friend earlier this summer. He used a frame feeder to feed the bees sugar syrup all summer and now the bees in each hive have filled all the frames — minus two frames taken up by the frame feeder.
Question: How does he get the bees to work the final two frames with the frame feeder in the way? Answer: Leave the frame feeder in and just keep swapping out frames until the bees stop taking down syrup. Then remove the frame feeder and replace it with capped honey/syrup. Here's the step-by-step answer:
• Remove a frame of capped syrup/honey and replace it with an empty frame.
• Keep the feeder where it is and let the bees go to work on the empty frame.
• When the new frame is full, pull another frame of syrup/honey and repeat the process until the bees stop taking down syrup.
• Make sure the feeder never goes empty.
If he's lucky, he'll have three or four extra frames of capped syrup/honey put aside at the end of it all.
• Remove the frame feeder and replace it with two frames of syrup/honey. Done.
Keep any extra frames of syrup-honey for emergency or spring feeding.
The fine print: Place empty frames between fully drawn frames. Shift frames around to make this happen if necessary. Pull two frames at a time if the bees are working fast and furious. You might as well insulate and wrap your hives for winter after this, because other than adding a mouse-proofing mesh, what else is there to do? Cancel that. You might want to add dry sugar before winter kicks in.
If you don't own or don't want to bother with a hive top feeder, you could feed your bees like this in the fall to top them up before the winter. You'd start by removing two frames of honey to make room for the frame feeder. Then you'd have to put them back once the bees were done taking down syrup. I haven't tried it, but yeah… that could work.
Frame feeders aren't practical for people with a large number of hives because they may need to be refilled more than once a week at the height of summer. But they're perfect for new beekeepers because it gives them an excuse to look inside the hives and see what's going on without disturbing the bees too much.
P.S.: The above method of topping up a hive or building up a nuc with a frame feeder may seem obvious. But the obvious is easily overlooked. How often have you heard a beekeeper say, "Why didn't I think of that?" (I wrote this post because I didn't think of it until someone suggested it to me.)
I had more jars of crystallized honey than I could eat or give away, so I gave it to the bees and they loved it.
They cleaned out every piece of honey from the jars. I eventually surrounded the inner cover hole with five or six jars of crystallized honey all at once and it worked perfectly as a spring feeding.
I have an idea to make patties from crystallized honey instead of using sugar. I'll talk about that later.
I caught a swarm out in the country last year and I loved it. But unfortunately I live a in relatively crowded urban neighbourhood with an easily enraged next door neighbour, so even though I only have one hive in the city now, I don't have the luxury of a laid back attitude towards swarms. I need to keep my neighbour from calling the fire department on me again, which means I have to do everything I can to prevent my lonely little colony from swarming. So what should I do?Last year I reversed the brood chambers and checker-boarded my hives. But three of my four colonies swarmed anyway. Here's a video that shows what one of the hives looked like shortly before its colony swarmed:
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One of my honey bee colonies died over the winter. (See A Winter Die-Off, A Winter Die-Off Post Portem: The Photos and Why My Honey Bees Died for more details.) It starved to death because: (1) I thought it had enough honey of its own and didn't need to be fed extra honey or sugar syrup in the fall. I was wrong. I'll feed my colonies in the fall for now if I have any doubts about their honey stores. (2) I wrapped all my hives for winter on December 1st and didn't check on them for two months, not until February 3rd. I waited too long. I should have checked on them first thing in the new year and given any starving colonies some sugar.
|Dead cluster on a frame near the brood nest. (March 10, 2013.)
But now I know and I'm not discouraged by it. I had to lose a colony sooner or later. I went into the 2011 winter with two colonies, 2012 with four and 2013 with seven. So now I have six instead of seven. That's not a catastrophic loss and it's a pretty good survival rate for three winters of beekeeping. I also now have an extra twenty frames of drawn comb to work with this year. That's a luxury I've never had.
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One of my honey bee colonies starved to death over the winter and I suspect about half of the six colonies still alive are living entirely off the raw sugar I've been feeding them since February. There are many reason for this. I gave the colonies some of their own honey but didn't top them up with sugar syrup in the fall. Some of the colonies were weakened last spring because they swarmed. One colony had a failing queen for most of the year. Another colony was a caught swarm with a virgin queen that didn't begin laying well until mid-July. Another two colonies were started up from splits (not much different then starting from mid-season nucs). All of the above can significantly reduce a colony's ability to produce honey, especially considering the short summers in Newfoundland. New policy: Don't harvest honey from any colony that's been potentially weakened (from swarming, splitting, etc.). The bees need all the honey they can get. New sub-policy: I'd rather not feed the bees sugar if I can help it, but for now on if I have any doubts, I'll top them up with sugar syrup in the fall. It's better than dealing with dead or starving bees in the middle of the winter. Here's a photo of some bees today that have eaten through most of the sugar I gave them since February:
You can see I added two pollen patties but the sugar is dangerously low. I dumped in more sugar over the pollen patties a few minutes after I took the photo. I'll have to keep a close eye on all the colonies now, at least until the May dandelions bloom and they can start bringing in nectar and pollen on their own.
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The fount of beekeeping wisdom that is Mud Songs will dry up someday. I give it another two years, tops. I'm already running out of original material. Exhibit A: Here's a long video of my visit last weekend to the six hives we have on a farm about 30 minutes from our house in the city. It's more or less a repeat of my Mountain Camp video.
Here's a break-down of what the video has to offer:
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It seems as if one of my honey bee colonies starved to death sometime over the past two months. At a glance it may look like a normal colony. But trust me, those bees are dead.
I didn't have time for a close inspection, so I can't confirm that starvation is the cause of death, but I'd say it's a pretty good guess. I didn't top up any of our hives with sugar syrup before winter. I let the bees take honey from their own honey supers instead. Unfortunately, these bees didn't get enough. And so it goes.
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This is probably the closest video shot I've managed to get of the bees from inside the hive. (It zooms in and tracks along the comb around the 44-second mark.)
It's from inside a honey super, not the hive per se. I gave most of the colonies between a half and a full medium honey super full of scraped and uncapped honey about a month ago. I'll probably do it for now instead of topping them up with sugar syrup before winter. The honey comb is pretty much bone dry by now, but maybe the bees are hanging up around the comb because it's been so warm that they don't need to maintain a full cluster in the brood chamber.


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25 Years Ago: Reba McEntire Hits No. 1 With 'Cathy's Clown'
25 years ago today (July 29, 1989) was a day of celebration for Reba McEntire. It was on this day that her single, 'Cathy's Clown,' soared to the top of the charts.
The song, which was the debut single from her platinum-selling 'Sweet Sixteen' album, had already been a hit in the pop world for the Everly Brothers, staying at the top of the pop charts for five weeks in 1960. But it was McEntire's spin on it, almost 30 years later, that gave it an entirely new life.
The song was originally written in first person, with lines like, "Don't want your love anymore / Don't want your kisses, that's for sure / I die each time / I hear this sound / 'Here he comes. That's Cathy's clown.'"
McEntire changed the lyrics to third person for her version. "She don't want your lovin' anymore / She don't want your kisses, that's for sure / Why do you let them put you down / And let 'em call you Cathy's Clown?"
'Cathy's Clown' was the Oklahoma native's 13th No. 1 single, and the only one from 'Sweet Sixteen' to land at the top of the charts. Actor Bruce Boxleitner appeared in the video as a clown, set in an Old West scene.
McEntire included the song in several of her compilation albums, including 'Reba Live' in 1989, 2005′s 'Reba's Number 1′s,' and 'Reba's Greatest Hits' in 2008.
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MSNBC makes me giggle. If you intent to kill, you shoot one time? If anything, i'm surprised by the restraint Zimmerman had to shoot ONE time while being pounded by Trayvon for close to a minute. If he did intent to kill, he got damn lucky the one bullet and that little gun did the job.
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Meaningful Use for Eligible Professionals: 10 Challenges
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Eligible professionals (ambulatory and outpatient care providers) who expect to share American Recovery and Reimbursement Act of 2009 stimulus incentives for using electronic health records (EHRs) must meet EHR meaningful use stage 1 criteria to be eligible.
These criteria, develop by the Office of the National Coordinator and finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cover numerous functions, features and processes that are part of EHR use, and meeting them will be a challenge both to eligible professionals that are still without an EHR (the majority), and those that already have an EHR (almost all of which need upgrades to be a meaningful use eligible professional criteria).
The Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices is the applied research arm of CSC's Healthcare Group.
This paper defines meaningful use stage 1 eligible professionals in more detail, provides a summary table of meaningful use Stage 1 criteria (incrementally more demanding Stage 2, Stage 3 and possible subsequent stage criteria will follow), and discusses what we consider to be the top ten challenges to meeting meaningful use Stage 1 criteria. Challenge discussions include a brief description of and what has to be addressed to overcome each.
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At first, you'd figure Paul Burch to be just another retro-novelty act. After all, as the name of his swell band suggests, he records in a hillbilly style that fuses bits of World-War honky-tonk, swinging western bop, and Depression-era folk. But then you hear his songs and know this is more than cutesy nostalgia. In "Living, Forgiving," for example, Burch experiences crippling self-revelation after a lover leaves, confessing "The light that came through when you stepped aside nearly made me blind." Throughout this American reissue of a '96 European release, Burch peers inward to produce old-style music that feels completely contemporary. --David Cantwell
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This is now the 4th problem in which I've encountered with this car since owning it. My Catera now has a problem with the ignition switch. When I insert the key, it will not turn. I cannot turn it to the "on" position, the "acc." postition nor the "start" position. Very frustrating! I haven't been able to use my car for the past 3 weeks. Before this mishap, I've noticed when I pull out the key from the ignition(after driving) the key would have a little tension while pulling it out. There would also be an audible "click" as the key is coming out. Now when I insert the key, I've noticed that there is no tension going in or out. There also is no audible click when the key is pulled out. A locksmith told me to spray some type of oil into the tumbler. I've done this and still nothing. I'd like to know if someone can help me or give me some advice as to solve this problem. Thanks...
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patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, September 02, 2009, 00:11Master
To replace the ignition lock assembly the air bag needs to be disarmed, the steering wheel removed, the steering column trim panels removed and when the key is placed in the ignition switch a small detent at the top of the switch can be depressed allowing the ignition switch locking mechanism to be withdrawn from the steering column. A mechanic should do this but a lock smith may be able to do the job as well.
ReplyVisitor, July 07, 2010, 11:35
is it beter to replace the collum then just the ignition switch?
Answer #2Visitor, June 17, 2010, 17:30
just had the same problem diagnosed by a locksmith. Ther eis a small casting about 1/8 " thick by 1/4 " by 3/8 "that is in the tumbler. This piece was worn out . it has something to do with the anti theft locking device for the steering wheel.
Answer #3RandyKight August 30, 2010, 10:20Enthusiast
I've had the same problem with my 2001 Toyota Avalon. It's even mentioned as a possible problem in the owners manual. The manual says to wiggle the steering wheel (left to right) while turning the ignition switch. This has worked for me. You have to wiggle the steering wheel at the SAME TIME as you turn the key in the ignition switch or it doesn't work.
Also, when I went to the dealer about the problem they said that it almost never requires a new ignition switch. The problem is almost always caused by the key wearing down with use over several years and not fitting in the ignition switch properly. They made me a new key from the original serial code specifications for my key and the problem happens much less often.
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Study: Cut Va. taxes
The rich may be rich and the poor may be poor, but a nonpartisan think tank says there's a way to eliminate state income taxes on the poorest Virginians while providing as much as a 10 percent tax cut to everyone else.
The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy on Friday unveiled a plan to restructure Virginia's tax system – which the group says could generate substantial economic growth.
The nonprofit group's report recommends slashing certain business taxes and income taxes while expanding the sales tax to currently untaxed services.
"By expanding the current sales tax to most of the industries that do not currently collect it from their end-user individuals, every individual taxpayer can be substantially helped," said Michael Thompson, president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute.
"The competitive business environment in Virginia can be enhanced, and our state and local governments would not lose a penny."
The institute, based in Springfield, advocates a philosophy of "limited government, free enterprise and individual responsibility." Its new economic study, "Tax Restructuring in Virginia: Revenue Neutral Path for Improving Virginia's Economy," was prepared by Chmura Economics and Analytics, a Richmond consulting firm.
"Basically, this is a collaborative team effort," Xiaobing Shuai, Chmura's senior economist, told reporters during a telephone news conference. "What Chmura Economics did in this study is go through probably 100-plus sales tax exemptions, and then try to estimate the value of those sales tax exemptions."
A computer model developed by economists at the Beacon Hill Institute, an independent public policy foundation at Suffolk University in Boston, tested various scenarios for overhauling Virginia's tax system.
Nine economic scenarios were put through the tax model.
"We took Chmura's numbers, which is a static model that doesn't account for the positive economic benefits of the tax restructuring, and put them in our dynamic model and ran the nine scenarios that you see in the study," said Paul Bachman, director of research at Beacon Hill Institute.
"The model resolves for new values, and we get new values for jobs, investment and disposable income. What we are doing, in economic terms, is shifting some of the tax burden away from businesses and households in some scenarios and putting it onto an untaxed service sector."
Virginia currently exempts almost all services, from haircuts to auto repair, from sales taxes.
A major goal of the Thomas Jefferson Institute's plan is to eliminate three taxes that business owners consider onerous and an impediment to creating jobs:
• The Business Professional Occupation Licensing tax, which is levied on gross receipts.
• The Machine and Tool tax, which is levied on equipment a business buys.
• The Merchants Capital tax, which is levied on a business' inventory.
Virginia businesses must pay those taxes regardless of whether they make a profit. Thompson called them "job-destroying taxes," saying they discourage businesses from expanding and hiring more employees.
The Thomas Jefferson Institute initiated its study to see if it was possible to eliminate those taxes and restructure the state's tax system in a revenue-neutral manner that could improve Virginia's economy.
The nine scenarios outlined in the study range from a relatively small impact to a radical overhaul.
The first scenario, for example, would simply eliminate the BPOL, M&T and Merchants Capital taxes and make up the revenue by extending the sales tax to certain currently untaxed services. The study said this would create 900 private-sector jobs.
Other scenarios suggested not only eliminating the three business taxes but also eliminating the lowest income tax bracket and cutting other personal income tax rates. Under these scenarios, the sales tax would be expanded to more services. In some scenarios, the sales tax would be cut, too. (It's currently 4 percent for the state and 1 percent for local government.)
The scenarios did not specify exactly what types of services would be taxed. The study acknowledged that taxing medical bills, health insurance premiums, private school tuition and financial fees probably wouldn't fly.
The more extensive scenarios would create at least 40,000 jobs, the study said.
Short Pump Rotary volunteers help with rebuild, repair
On June 13, the Short Pump Rotary Club partnered with Schnabel Engineering for a day of volunteer work with Rebuilding Together Richmond. Team members (among them [from left] Chris Rufe, Melissa Abraham, Rick Naschold, and Micky Ogburn) completed a variety of repairs and home improvements ranging from painting and landscaping to cabinet installation and fence building.
"It was a privilege to be involved in this project," said club president Melissa Abraham. "The homeowner kept thanking the volunteers, but I think all of us would agree we are the ones who actually benefited. It was an opportunity to help a community member, fellowship with great people and improve our handyman skills." > Read more.
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Dr. Even Alexander, a New York Times best-selling author who has been featured on Oprah and Dr. Oz, was in town last week to promote his June 27 talk, "Proof of Heaven," at Glen Allen High School.
Alexander (pictured, at right, while Unity of Bon Air church member Harry Simmons interviews him) has written about what he considers to be his journey through the afterlife.
Tickets to this month's event are $25 and will support the new Bon Secours Hospice House being built later this year. > Read more.
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Pixar's 'Inside Out' is a magnificent, emotional ride
Explaining the nuts and bolts of Pixar's new, exciting, innovative Inside Out – really digging into the film's shape-and-color explanation of the human mind – would take up the entirety of this review. And probably three or four more (if movies had instruction manuals, Inside Out's would be the size and general poundage of a cinder block).
It's a complicated movie. So here's the gist, in as simply-put terms can be. > Read more.
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