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I will never forget when I started my catering company and offered sweet and spicy peanuts as one of the gift items. I had to toss peanuts for days, but they were delicious! Although I don't suggest that you mix quite as many as I did in the early years of my career, I do suggest you toss a few of these delights for the occasion.
YIELD: Makes 10 servings
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Heat a large sauté pan on high, and add olive oil. Add almonds to pan, toast for 1 minute stirring often, and reduce heat to low. Continue to stir until the almonds are light golden brown, 6-7 minutes. Add honey and spices, salt and sesame seeds and stir to coat evenly.
3. Spread nuts out evenly on to a large sheet tray and place in the oven until honey is dry, 10-15 minutes. Allow nuts to cool before serving.
Excerpted from the book Katie Brown Celebrates: Simple and Spectacular Parties All Year Round. © 2008 by Katie Brown. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company, NY. All rights reserved.


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Guide to the Web
Best Internet Genealogy - Directs you to a number of free quality sources of genealogical information and includes a search page that aids you in formulating internet searches using the major search engines.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - Comprehensive index to genealogy sites, organized by subject.
Ellis Island - Immigration History Center - Allows name search for passengers who came to America through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. Free registration is required to view the full passenger records but site will then keep a record of your searches.
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service - Family history records collected and indexed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) - A portal for answering many questions relating to Central (German, Swiss) and East European genealogy.
Genealogy Exchange and Surname Registry - A genealogical data exchange where visitors and researchers alike can go to find specific persons, and exchange specific data with one another.
Genealogy Home Page - Provides links to genealogy sites sorted by category. Subjects include help and guides, religious resources, family/personal pages and other Internet guides.
Genealogy Today - Includes reviews of genealogy search engines, a site of the day and a question and answer section. Provides detailed reviews of genealogy software and advice on planning family reunions, as well as articles on topics such as searching for birth parents and using the National Archives.
Genealogy.com - A good all-purpose site with emphasis on the novice. There is a glossary of terms, links to other Web sites and a question and answer section.
Geneanet - Focuses on genealogical lines of European descent. Includes links to specialized U.S. and European sites such as the Kansas Pioneers Project or 1801 Norwegian census.
General Land Office - Bureau of Land Management - Offers researchers a source of information on the initial transfer of land titles from the Federal government to individuals. In addition to verifying title transfer, this allows the researcher to associate an individual (Patentee, Assignee, Warrantee, Widow, or Heir) with a specific location (Legal Land Description) in time (Signature date).
Heraldica - This site contains a variety of information on heraldry (coats of arms) and related topics, in the form of texts, images and links. It is organized into articles, collected by themes.
Kenosha County Genealogical Society - Official web page for the local group. Includes an events calendar, meeting locations and a guide to getting started.
Kenosha County WIGenWeb Page - Includes some cemetery information, early history of the area, indexes for births, deaths and marriages (which are works in progress) and other local resources.
Kindred Trails - A nicely organized and easy to use portal to locality databases worldwide. Each locality page has detailed categories such as census, tax lists, histories and the like.
Linkpendium - Offers links to over 5 million websites listed under two headings - U.S. Localities and Surnames Worldwide. The first group takes you to sites where detailed genealogical information is available for a specific location. The second, and by far the larger portion of the site, provides sites for specific surnames.
National Cemetery Administration - Department of Veteran Affairs - Provides information on national cemeteries including links to their web pages and a nationwide gravesite locator that covers most of the DVA's 120 national cemeteries. Information is also given on other veterans' cemeteries.
Online Genealogical Database Index - Contains links to all known genealogical databases searchable through the Web. It is limited to searchable databases and does not include links to sites devoted to a family unless a database is available for searching.
Rootsweb - One of the largest genealogical sites. It both provides information and serves as a portal to other tools and databases.
Social Security Death Index - Rootsweb lets you search the Social Security Death Index. Records begin (but are incomplete) with deaths that occurred in the 1960's and become more complete in later years. Only the month and day are given until about the mid 1990's and until then middle initials were not used.
Soundex Converter (Rootsweb) - Just enter a name and this will provide the Soundex equivalent.
U.S. GenWeb Project - "We are a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone." Includes a link to the WorldGenWeb Project which attempts to cover every country in the world.
United States Vital Records Information - Directory of national, state, and county offices to contact for vital records.
University of Wisconsin - Parkside Archives and Area Research Center - This center is a repository for a variety of state-owned manuscript and public record collections related to Kenosha and Racine counties. Their site contains descriptions of their resources, links to area societies, libraries and archives, LDS Family History Centers and to general genealogical sites.
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She may be the matriarch of one of Hollywood's most polarizing families, but tabloid fodder and scathing digs can't stop Kris Jenner's hustle. In fact, it's the fuel that keeps the momanger and her money-making brood in headlines and on America's television screens.
This summer, we'll be seeing a lot more of the Calabasas cynosure thanks to her talk show debut on Fox. On July 15, the series will enter a six-week run in markets like New York and L.A where Jenner's perspective on pop culture will be tested for syndication—and a slice of daytime television's billion-dollar industry. Executive producer Robert Clifton has hinted at the 20th Century show's viability, citing Jenner's "cult of personality" as a win; an asset that has made her as much of a household name as it has her most-famous offspring, Kim Kardashian.
In The Hollywood Reporter's latest issue, the reality monarch opens up—even more—about rumors, Kimye, and what she hopes to bring to daytime TV.
On O.J. Simpson's 1994 murder trial:
"The Bible says don't judge anybody else. And I try to live by that. I try not to judge anybody. Am I devastated, am I confused, am I all the things that I felt since that morning when I found out that my girlfriend had been murdered? Yes. But it's taken me a long time to get to this place of where I need to let God judge him and not me."
On a pregnant Kim having plastic surgery:
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On a Kimye wedding:
"This time it will be private and smaller, if she does get married again—not 500 people."
On the criticism her family faces for their E! empire:
"We've created businesses and a workplace. It's so funny that somebody can criticize a show like ours, and yet we employ hundreds of people. And it's been such a great learning experience for all of my kids. It's the best education I could offer them."
On what she hopes to achieve with her talk show:
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BEIRUT: A fire broke out at Lebanon's justice ministry in Beirut, injuring Director General Omar Natour, his son Mahmoud and eight employees.
Firefighters managed to put out the fire about an hour after it broke out around 1 p.m.
A source at the ministry said Natour suffered minor burns to his face, in addition to a head injury sustained when he passed out due to smoke inhalation.
Natour's son and eight staff members suffered smoke inhalation and slight burns, the source said, adding that they and Natour were taken to local hospitals for treatment.
Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi inspected the building and expressed relief that Natour and the other employees were not seriously hurt.
"They should soon leave the hospitals," Qortbawi told reporters outside the Justice Ministry.
The fire, which was likely ignited by power line friction due to voltage fluctuations, erupted on the fourth floor and quickly spread to the fifth floor of the five-story building in Furn al-Shebbak, near the National Museum.
Natour's office is located on the fifth floor.
In all, firefighters rescued about a dozen ministry staff who were trapped with Natour on the ministry's upper floor.
Four fire trucks from the Beirut fire department were involved in the operation.
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Phetprasert Tour is a privately owned tour bus company. It is located in the Muang district of Phechaboon in north-central Thailand. The company runs passenger buses from Bangkok to the northern and northeastern provinces on a daily basis. The company maintains a large fleet of buses as well as numerous ticket counters for ticket purchases and telephone reservation services as well.
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Free Casting Calls and Acting Auditions Online
Acting Auditions are hard to find. Or, shall we say, good acting auditions are rare and almost impossible to find. Don't get discouraged in your journey toward becoming a successful actor or actress. Get creative about your casting and auditioning process.
Find Good Acting Auditions Where You Wouldn't Expect
Where do you currently look for casting calls? Let me guess – Craigslist and sites like ActorsPages? Hopefully you've been checking out our acting auditions page as well. But here's the problem with using audition sites that everyone else knows about – everyone else is auditioning at those sites to. I do feel the need to put a shameless plug out there, that we've found a good way of creating a site that's strictly for serious actors. We post good acting auditions and don't have the same (spammy) traffic as Craigslist.
Different ways to Find Acting Auditions
- Find Acting auditions through Old school – Word of Mouth
This is going to take a little bit of actual talking to people and making friends, but you're going to have to buddy up with other actors and actresses in your area. You'll even end up competing with them, but you'll still both learn about double the amount of auditions. If they pick your friend, they probably weren't going to pick you anyway. At least your friend got the acting role and now owes you a favor (and maybe they made some good connections that are now in your social circle).
- Social Networking to find good acting auditions
Maybe we got a little too carried away with the first tip for finding good auditions and you don't have to time to make tons of new friends. Then at least make a lot of facebook and twitter pals that you can use to hear about auditions and other opportunities. Get connected with casting agents through facebook groups or fanpages in order to stay tuned into different auditions.
- Acting Schools are a good source for acting auditions
Often times acting schools are well connected with different talent agencies, casting agents, and successful actors. Your acting coach or other staff members at your acting school will probably know of several auditions being held, or may even be creating their own production and hold auditions for that. Combine this tip with tip number 1 and make friends at your acting school. Now you're "in the biz" – just not the majors – yet.
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The marriage is made up of a number of key areas, in which raw logically their love for one another. However, we must not forget one important aspect: the spirituality of the couple, which will allow us to not stay stagnant and grow day by day as marriage.
What is spirituality?
The spirituality is the way we live our own religious beliefs. In the case of spirituality within the couple, you can experience the religious beliefs of promotion, enriching them with ideas or strengthening them each individually.
How important is spirituality in the couple?
We should note that spirituality is an element of life that one can choose or not. There are people who choose not to include spirituality in your daily life, or just on your partner. That decision is personal and should not pressure anyone to change their beliefs.
If we decide to have a partner in spirituality, we must consider that there is infinity of beliefs that may vary, are they or be based on a specific religion. Many religions believe that the primary reason for marriage is the spiritual union of two people, so if we got married under the standards of the Church, Judaism or Islam, spirituality in the couple is the key to marriage.
The spirituality can mean the success of a family or a marriage as a couple together spiritually is an advantage when making decisions, facing unpleasant situations, discuss the problems of the relationship or parenting. However, we know that a couple with a strong spirituality is not perfect. Inside may be potholes, tension or deterioration of spirituality, spirituality and even without the couple can work perfectly.
Suggestions for spirituality as a couple:
If the couple decides to give importance to spirituality, it can sometimes be difficult to be consistent. Therefore, we can use some basic tips to improve the spirituality of marriage:
- Start with you: before including someone else, we have our own spiritual journey.
- No rush to another, if one has the most desire, not to hurry to get to another level of spirituality.
- Begin spiritual tasks together: prayer, meditation, or other spiritual activity can be helpful to join.
The spirituality is one of many ways to spend time with your partner, regardless of the beliefs you have, and even if you are different from your partner.


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When Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. Dallaire left Rwanda a broken man; disillusioned, suicidal, and determined to tell his story. An award-winning international sensation, Shake Hands with the Devil is a landmark contribution to the literature of war: a remarkable tale of a soldier's courage and an unforgettable portrait of modern warfare. It is also a stinging indictment of the petty bureaucrats who refused to give Dallaire the men and the operational freedom he needed to stop the killing. 'I know there is a God,' Dallaire writes, 'because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.'
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Romeo Dallaire joined the Canadian Army in 1964. A three star General, he served as Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army and later in the Ministry of Defence. In 1993 he was sent to Rwanda on a UN peace-helping mission; he was soon struggling to prevent one of modern history's most shocking events and the UN's famous failed mission: the genocide in Rwanda. General Dallaire was medically released from the armed forces in April 2000 due to posttraumatic stress disorder and is now special adviser to the Canadian government on war-affected children and the prohibition of small arms distribution. In January 2002, he received the inaugural Aegis Award for Genocide Prevention in London. The Rwandan genocide is one of the most shocking examples of political exploitation and ethnic cleansing in living memory. It has been immortalised in the films Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs, and here in the words of a seasoned soldier.
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Hey, man in the street: have you ever been torn between petrol and a diesel? Wanted the performance of a petrol engine but the economy of an oil-burner?
Sound familiar? Well, the solution to all your problems just might be on the way, in the shape of... the Mercedes DiesOtto engine!
OK, enough of the American-accented advertising spiel. But this DiesOtto could be a biggie.
Due to premiere in Frankfurt inside a large luxury concept called the F700, Merc reckons the DiesOtto could give the responsiveness of a 3.5-litre V6 petrol engine with the frugality of a tiny diesel-burner.
But how? Hold on, here comes the technical bit. The DiesOtto is, at heart, a 1.8-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with twin sequential turbochargers and direct injection.
But the clever bit is that Merc engineers have incorporated both the conventional Otto cycle and a sparkless, diesel-style combustion
On start-up, the engine runs in standard petrol mode, with spark plugs igniting petrol injected directly into the cylinder. But once the engine is warm and cruising, it switches to a more efficient 'diesel mode', raising the compression ratio and deactivating the spark plugs.
And because it runs on petrol, the DiesOtto boasts lower emissions than an equivalent diesel engine.
Merc is keeping quiet about exactly how it has managed to create a variable compression engine, but the results are impressive.
The 1.8-litre engine puts out 238bhp and 295bhp of torque, and Merc reckons it'll return 40mpg in a car the size of an S-Class. Wedge it into a hatchback and it could return 70-odd mpg.
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My Dream Moves Towards Reality: The Naperville Scooter Store
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Just curious: does anyone here know of an independent new scooter retailer who has been in business for more than 5 years, does not sell the Vespa brand, and has no other means of support? I don't. I've seen a lot of them come and go, but I'm not aware of any thriving scooter shop offering second tier brands who can make a profitable income solely from sales and service of new scooters. Loving scooters and thinking it would be a fun business and "hope" is not enough. You need a solid and realistic business plan, and most likely once the hard work of developing a business plan is done, that's all the info you'll need.
The last one I knew of just announced they are closing their doors, and they enjoyed a great reputation and a large metropolitan market (Los Angeles.)
I got my Aprilia at Twist and Scoot in Atlanta. They have been in business since 2003, and sell only new scooters other than Vespa. They carry Kymco, Genuine, and Aprilia, but they are an authorized service center for Vespa and Lambretta. And they also sell electric bicycles, but I've never seen more than a couple of them on the showroom floor. No ATV's or motorcycles, though.
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Gerard Butler and David Arquette's Stay-Sober Secret!
Laying off the booze when you're in Hollywood is no easy task — especially during awards season when there's a different party almost every night. But Wetpaint Entertainment has learned both Gerard Butler and David Arquette — two of our favorite sober leading men — both relied on the same beverage to help them get by: Tea of a Kind flavored iced teas!
We're told David sipped the trendy new drink while cuddling up to girlfriend Christina McLarty at the pre-Oscars Hollywood Dominos bash. At the same party, Gerard Butler also threw back a few bottles.
"He really liked it," an onlooker tells Wetpaint Entertainment. "He kept asking for more." We're told the company plans on sending him a steady supply.
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Social Justice as a Unifying Issue for Dharmic Communities
by Joshua Stanton
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Religious communities are never the same once they reach America. In my view, they often become even more remarkable.
As a third-generation American Jew, it is at times even challenging for me to think of Judaism apart from the American experience. In spite of hardships early on for our community, the search for common threads between the disparate Jewish groups that came in droves to America two (and more) generations ago forced us to reexamine and hone our religious beliefs. What actually bound us together?…
As has become quite evident in the past several years, another set of religious groups, bolstered by recent waves of immigrants to America, is also looking to social justice as a possible unifying trope. Launched by Anju Bhargava, Hindu-American visionary and founder of Hindu American Seva Charities, this effort seeks to increase long-term collaboration between Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Sikh communities through religiously inspired volunteerism, charity and social services.
Together, these groups — several of which are comprised primarily of immigrants from South and East Asia — represent what may be described as Dharmic religious communities and a new coalition in the American religious landscape. They are seeking a unique American identity and niche for their adherents. Like other religious communities that have flourished during and after waves of immigration, they appear poised to make essential contributions to American society.
Immigrants Remaking Canada's Religious Face in Surprising Ways
by Douglas Todd
from the Vancouver Sun
Canada is welcoming more than the global average of immigrants who are Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and non-religious.
The country, however, is taking in less than the global average of immigrants who are Muslim, Hindu and Jewish.
Those are some of the surprising findings of a sweeping global survey on immigration and religion conducted by the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The report, titled Faith on the Move, provides an enormous amount of data on the religious loyalties of the world's 214-million immigrants, a group larger than the population of Brazil.
Canada, which has 7.2 million permanent residents who were not born in the country, is the fifth most popular destination for the world's immigrants. This country of 34 million accepts twice as many immigrants per capita as the U.S.
The Pew Forum report, which describes migration patterns in every country of the world, makes clear that immigration is changing the religious face of Canada in unexpected ways.


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Visit the VA Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services website for a listing of Virginia producers
Be a smart driver & Clean Air Champion.
Keep your car in tune to prevent air pollution. Check out the VA Department of Environmental Quality daily air quality index for ozone.
Plant a SHADE tree
Trees cool our cities, filter the air, buffer noise & provide homes and food for wildlife. For information & assistance, visit the VA Department of Forestry.
Save energy to conserve non-renewable fuels and protect air & water
See DEQ's Pollution Prevention site for more tips.
Be water-wise
Return clean water to your watershed to keep the land productive. For ideas, visit the VA Department of Conservation & Recreation or the VA Department of Environmental Quality.
Recycle historic buildings & used sites
Visit the VA Department of Historic Resources. Learn about remediating idled, underutilized, or abandoned industrial or commercial properties.
Enhance healthy wildlife habitat
Help make sure wildlife has room for its footprint. VA Department of Game & Inland Fisheries can help.
Be a concerned citizen & support environmental programs
Don't forget to let your friends know that you care about Virginia's environment. To find a program that suits you, visit Virginia Naturally.
Our Community and the Environment
Often the solutions to environmental concerns can best be found in your own community. To find those solutions, you can identify the departments and people who handle environmental matters by conducting an "Environmental Inventory" of your community. If you are looking for ways to improve your community or lessen the amount of pollution generated or quantity of resources used, start with calculating your "environmental footprint."
What's your environmental footprint?
It depends on the shoe you wear. There are a variety of footprint calculators which can be used to gauge your personal impact upon the planet.
Two footprint calculators that have become popular these days focus on the Ecological Footprint and the Carbon Footprint. Both generate a number based upon personal lifestyle choices but the difference is what the numbers represent. The Ecological Footprint measures the amount of nature (acres) needed to support our lifestyle while Carbon Footprint measures the amount of carbon emissions our lifestyle generates.
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Drawing on 70 years of experience in the industry, IADC operates specially designed accreditation programs that are recognized throughout the world. These programs have been developed to ensure that contents of critical training programs adhere to recognized industry standards:
IADC members share the belief that well control is the most critical area for safe and successful operations. The new WellSharp program offers a reliable and trustworthy set of training standards for the drilling industry.
Provides building blocks for a well control culture through every level of an organization. WellCAP offers curriculum guidelines for a full array of drilling and workover activities. Accredited training providers must meet criteria for training materials, facilities, instructor qualifications, simulation exercises, test administration, and course management.
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An advanced well control training program that targets more experienced operations personnel. This program encourages participation among multiple levels of decision makers (e.g., drilling superintendents, operations engineers, rig superintendents, and rig managers), and utilizes a facilitated learning approach to improve critical team decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Accredits Health, Safety, & Environmental (HSE) and Underbalanced Operations (UBO) orientation programs. The HSE RigPass curriculum embraces safety fundamentals relevant to new rig employees. UBO RigPass familiarizes rig crews with the procedures, fluids, and equipment associated with this emerging technology.
Drilling Industry Training Accreditation System
Accredits training providers in the delivery of custom-designed courses. IADC strives to assure that similar courses meet the same industry-defined standards for course design, delivery, and quality control. Note: IADC does not accredit course content.
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Designed to assure that in-house competence programs meet accepted practices for developing and ensuring the skills of personnel. Companies accredited must demonstrate a commitment to having a competent work force through processes for defining competencies for each position and assessing and maintaining employee knowledge and proficiency. Consistent program oversight and quality control must be maintained.
Ballast Control and Stability (BCS)
Accredits providers of Marine Stability training. The BCS program is operated in conjunction with the Nautical Institute, based in London. The Ballast Control/Stability system establishes training guidelines based on International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements. The program fulfills international flag state training requirements for Ballast Control Operator, Barge Supervisor, and Offshore Installation Manager licenses. Following coursework, individuals can obtain IADC BCO Credentialing after documenting sea time service and task proficiency.
IADC has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS) certification for "The Development of Drilling Industry Training Standards and the Accreditation of Training Providers." IADC's QMS system is registered with Det Norske Veritas (DNV), a company long recognized by the drilling industry as having a reputation for thoroughness, quality, and credibility.


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no, we won't help you do this! ... just kidding... sorry... we're too
nice... we'll help you anyway...
If you don't have too many tables, just open up the tables in PhpMyAdmin
and copy & paste the table entries to Excel & save.
Even writing such tool doesn't sound too hard in PHP -- just connect, and
write out CSV data for each table.
Now, ask a ASP/MS-SQL guy to do the same thing and it'll take twice as
long... (just knowing the surface of the ASP syntax and the availability
of tools for MS products...)
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Greetings!
> Well it is a sad day for in the world of opensource software gaining ground
> over proprietary products... (and in this case all at the taxpayer's expense)
> We had a beautiful system for managing about 500 volunteers written in
> PHP/MySQL and running on a linux machine, that was set to be moved to a MacOS
> X box for permenant use... Now it would seem that after some re-shuffling of
> administrative departments this is no longer the case, and they want the
> application re-written in ASP/MS-SQL... needless to say I won't have the
> privilege of participating in this act, but it would seem that before I go
> they want "flat files" of the MySQL DB. Short of writting some code to build
> the files, I was wondering if there is any such tool in the MySQL utils that
> will save something like a CSV file that represents the records in the DB...
> something like mysqldump, but without all of the SQL code mixed with the
> data...
> any ideas?
> Thanks in advance!
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'Woman in Black' official trailer: Start sleeping with the lights on now
"The Woman in Black" is the first big-screen project for Daniel Radcliffe since he wrapped the "Harry Potter" franchise. The movie is based on the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. There is also a still-running stage adaptation that started in 1987 and a TV movie version in 1989.
(In a fun bit of trivia, guess who played Radcliffe's part in the TV movie? His on-screen "Harry Potter" father, Adrian Rawlins.)
The plot is that lawyer Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) visits the Drablow house in remote England to settle the affairs of the deceased Alice Drablow. While there, he is haunted by the ghost of the woman in black. Whenever her spectre is seen, a child dies.
Let us tell you - it's super creepy. The stage version (stage version!) gave us nightmares. And this new trailer is doing nothing to make us think the movie will be any different.
"The Woman in Black" opens nationwide Feb. 3, 2012.
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When JEFF BRINKMAN left his songwriting days in Iowa for the indie music scene in Colorado nine years ago, he was in search of exposure—but not the kind that brings fame and fortune. Rather, he wanted an outlet to get his message of hope across; and as of late, he's found it, playing numerous events for the Love Hope Strength Foundation and performing with the Delivering Happiness Bus Tour. Both organizations collaborate with musicians and artists across the country to raise money and awareness about cancer.
Brinkman's good deeds have come back full circle; in March of 2012, he released his second EP—a collection performed with a five-piece backing band—with Devonshire Records. The singer-songwriter, 33, has developed a loyal following thanks to his catchy acoustic-based ballads. Reviewers have described him as a cross between Dave Matthews and Counting Crows' Adam Duritz—an apt comparison—but Brinkman's voice is a dead ringer for Ray LaMontagne.
Despite the potential to go big, Brinkman hasn't forgotten his roots. About two years ago, a friend asked him to write a song and do a video for the 10-year-old son of a woman who was dying of cancer. It was the impetus to commit full-time to his music. "I lost my mom to cancer when I was 10, so it was something I was happy to do," Brinkman says. In the wake of his latest album, however, fame is not his primary motivator. "I just try to actually say something with my music and put out messages of hope and kindness to others," he says. "It's kind of a pay-it-forward thing."
"Every once in a while there is a musician who emerges with a genuine and honest approach to their craft, and whose music accurately depicts that unadulterated simplicity. With his debut album Jeff places himself in that category"- Marquee Magazine
The first thing you notice about Atlanta-raised singer/songwriter Riley is how self-assured she is at sixteen. Her vocal virtuosity is undeniable too, but neither trait marks her as an outlier among what a new book calls Alpha Girls. Thanks to the ubiquity of Garage Band, she's also not the first Alpha Girl to write her first song after school on her neighbor's laptop. As common as it's become few of those composers are compelling enough to hook producers, publishers, and Elton John's management company as Riley has done. "I try to write about what's real," Riley says. "I write about love, because everybody knows what that's like, good or bad." Twenty-first century girls rule. Beyonce, Adele, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, P!nk, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift – and now Riley. To check out Riley's music and more go to:


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LOS ANGELES—Jason Winer was directing Julie Bowen on first episode of "Modern Family" when inspiration struck.
"In the initial draft, Julie's character was described as mildly controlling and neurotic," Winer says of the suburban sitcom mom. "But what she didn't have in that draft was this idea that she was formerly a bad girl who had kind of reformed herself."
Ultimately, his suggestion led to one of TV's most widely quoted lines in recent years, with Claire saying, "I just don't want my kids to make the same bad mistakes I made. If Haley never wakes up on a beach in Florida half naked, I've done my job."
Now, two years and two straight Emmys as best comedy later, it is hard to imagine "Modern Family" or Claire without that extra edge. But at the time, suggesting to one of your stars that her uptight housewife character should suddenly take on a wild past could have been a big problem — if not for the rapport and trust that the two Baltimore natives share.
"I think the fact that we both come from Baltimore really does have an effect on our relationship and our work in Hollywood today," Winer says. "We go way back, and occasionally we'll even turn on our Baltimore accents for each other. We'll expose a little of our Baltimore twang to make each other laugh."
"We do go full Baltimore on accents some days, and no one can understand us," Bowen affirmed in a radio interview showcasing her best Bawlmer accent. "We can go real deep on the use of the word 'hon.'"
And they're doing it on one of the hottest sets in television — a critical and commercial success that some see as the catalyst for a renaissance in network comedy.
Each week, "Modern Family," a multicultural ensemble sitcom featuring three households of members of the Pritchett clan, is making about 14 million Americans laugh. In only its third season, the series has become such a ratings powerhouse that ABC placed it in head-to-head competition this fall with the most heavily promoted and eagerly anticipated reality TV series of the season in Simon Cowell's "The X Factor." And "Modern Family" blew the new Fox show away opening the year at 14.3 million viewers — up 1.5 million from last season's premiere.
"I'm sure Simon Cowell has a target on my back," says Steven Levitan, who co-created the series with Christopher Lloyd.
That's somewhat milder than the tweet Levitan posted when the premiere-week ratings were released: "It's extremely gratifying that a scripted comedy finally beat an over hyped karaoke contest. Thank you, #Modern Family fans!"
But perhaps the best gauge of the series' status this fall is the shorthand term that has been coined to describe its effect on networks' appetite for sitcoms: "the 'Modern Family' Effect." The "effect" tag is usually reserved in television circles for shows with such ratings clout that they jump-start entire genres or inspire slews of imitators.
That's not to say that the network comedy genre was totally dead when "Modern Family" launched in 2009. CBS sitcoms such as "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" were doing quite well, in fact.
But comedies were mostly in the second tier of Nielsen ratings, with reality fare such as "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars" crowding the top-rated show rankings year after year alongside tried and true dramas like "N.C.I.S."
Now, the genre is experiencing a revival, more than at any time since "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" ended their runs in the early '00s — with "Modern Family" leading the charge.
And the "Modern Family" Effect seems to be spreading. The first pickup of the season went to Fox sitcom "New Girl." And other half-hour comedy series — including "New Girl" and fellow rookie "2 Broke Girls" — got off to especially strong starts among adults ages 18 to 49.
Freshman ABC comedies "Suburgatory" and "Last Man Standing" and NBC's "Up All Night" are also looking good in the ratings. Meanwhile, veterans "Two and a Half Men" and "Big Bang Theory" have posted notable audience gains.
"Modern Family's" success might even be reinvigorating the family sitcom, a bedrock TV formula with roots that reach back to the very earliest days of prime-time network TV with "The Goldbergs" in 1949.
This fall there have been reports of several edgy family sitcoms in development — including two for NBC, one created by Ryan Murphy and the other starring Snoop Dogg. Edge is again a good thing in family sitcoms.


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Fixing The Facts
That Robin F's Up - 3 Visitors
"I don't know what to tell you about
anything..." Robin Quivers - June 19th, 2007
Pledge to shut Robin up!
In an interview with Steve Langford, I've said that I
will donate $500 to the 15 Foundation if Robin can go a week without
saying, "I was going to say that!"
If you would like to join, please let me know what you
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Total so far: $700
Robin's latest gaffes. . .
Robin Quivers did a story on P.E.T.A.'s picketing of KFC today. The
emphasis of the story was how KFC inhumanly treats the chickens they use
for their restaurants.
Did Robin do any research to find out how KFC inhumanly treats the
chickens? Did Robin do any research to find out how KFC processes the
chickens for slaughter? How about any research at all? Nope.
Once again Robin sounded clueless when Howard asked her what P.E.T.A.
claims KFC does to the chickens and all she could do was stammer and
provide almost no information. A chicken with its head cut off could
have more accurately reported on this story. (2.7.08) -CJBronco77.
While "reporting" on a planned P.E.T.A. demonstration against KFC, Robin
Cronkite-Quivers announced that a life-size version of Colonel
"Saunders" would be burned.
The rest of the world refers to the KFC icon as "Sanders".
(2.7.08) -MacHinehead
Lisa G mentioned during her segment this morning that High Pitch Mike
had gone to see the movie 27
Dresses with Richard Christie's girlfriend before the Super Bowl.
After some discussion of Mike going to see a chick flick Robin Quivers
interrupted and said that Richard's girlfriend was obviously thinking
about marriage because she had gone to see the movie "28 Dresses".
A brain late and a dress extra once again for Robin. (2.7.08) -hero1240.
Howard was discussing the death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the show
this morning. The subject was so foreign to Robin, she was strangely
silent. Howard mentioned that the expert in Transcendental Meditation
was a Hindu. Sensing that she hadn't graced the audience with an inane
comment or interrupted someone else in several seconds, Robin blurted
out, "I don't know anything about Hinduism."
Please add Hinduism to the list of things that Robin Quivers knows
nothing about. (2.6.08) -The Amazed Listener.
During the news while talking about Amy Winehouse at this year's Grammy
Awards, Robin Quivers said Britney was the big star at last year's show.
Britney was nowhere to be seen or heard from at last year's Grammy
Awards...she wasn't a
nominee or award winner.
As usual, Robin was as confused as Britney Spears when she made her
appearance at the
MTV VMA's last year. (2.5.08) -Crazy Ray.
This morning Howard was talking about the Super Bowl upset by the Giants
over the Patriots. Howard said, "...it really does hit you with the
enormity of it. This team, this New England Patriots team had won every
single game...."
Just as he was about to make his point, sports genius and mathematician
Robin Quivers interrupted with a long and drawn out, "19 games in a
Sorry Robin, the Patriots
won 18 in a row. If they had won the Superbowl, it would have
been 19. (2.4.08) -The Amazed Listener
If you have a few extra minutes to spare from online gambling or looking
at pr0n, please head over to
VitalPodcasts and vote for my friends at Uncensored Net noise.
Thanks! (2.1.08) -robinswrong
On today's show, there was discussion of the writers' strike but
despite the strike, Howard mentioned that a new episode of
Smallville will air tonight. TV expert Robin Quivers remarked,
"They must have held one back." If Robin would have done a mere ten
seconds of research it would have revealed that the next three
episodes will be new.
If cucumbers and gourds were kryptonite to Robin, the Robinswrong
website would not have Robin to critique! (1.31.08) -The Amazed
Howard played a great bit created by Sal & Richard in which Big Foot
talked at length on the phone with snippets of recordings of his own
voice without realizing it was his own voice. The analogy was drawn
between Big Foot's performance and that of a dog barking at its own image
in a mirror. Robin Quivers "added to" or more accurately "subtracted
from" the conversation with her comment, "or chasing his own tail."
is a dog chasing its own tail analogous to Big Foot speaking to his own
voice or a dog barking at its own image? Only on Planet Quivers,
somewhere beyond Uranus (or in it!). (1.31.08) -The Amazed
During Robin Quiver's news the group was talking about funny videos
online such as "Hitler
loves the Cowboys" and Tracy Morgan's "Blackass."
Robin surprisingly had to chime in with her twenty eight cents on the
topic. She brought up Will Ferrell's sketch, "The Landlord" in which he
gets cursed out by his two year old landlord for not paying his rent on
time. She then mistakenly said that the child playing the landlord is
Will Ferrell's daughter, when it is in fact Ferrell's longtime
collaborator (and co-star/co-creator of this video)
Adam McKay's daughter.
Just another pearl of misinformation from Robin Quivers. (1.30.08)
-Robin=Ear Cancer.
The Landlord on FunnyOrDie.comThe Landlord on FunnyOrDie.com
The gang was discussing Sean Young's outbursts at the Directors' Guild
of America awards ceremony on the show today. Howard played audio of the
incident and Howard commended Ms. Young while criticizing the director
Julian Schnabel for "futzing around" and not being prepared to speak.
Medical Expert Robin Quivers opined, "So you don't think she should have
been carted off to a mental institution after this?" Howard immediately
corrected Robin and explained (what everyone in the world but Robin
knew) that Ms. Young had gone into
rehab for alcoholism.
This incident made me ponder whether Robin should go into rehab or a
padded cell for flying to California in a first class seat for a less
than 24 hour trip to rearrange the location of her blood.
(1.30.08) -The Amazed Listener
This morning, the gang was discussing Howard and Beth's future wedding
and the fact that Sal won't be there. The thought was shared
sarcastically that maybe everyone who wronged Beth in high school should
be invited along with Sal.
Wedding Planner Robin Quivers chimed in saying, "When she looks out on
her wedding party, she will just see all the people who have done her
No one ever suggested Sal might be one of Howard's ushers. As anyone but
Robin knows, the "wedding party" consists of the Best Man, Maid (or
Matron) of Honor, Ushers and Bridesmaids. "Wedding
Party" is not synonymous with "wedding guests." (1.30.08) -The
Amazed Listener
Howard talked once again this morning about having
pinworms as a child.
Just as she was wrong
March 15, 2007 when talking about pinworms, Robin Quivers was wrong
once again today when she said her dog once had the parasite.
If Robin would only glance at this site occasionally she could keep from
making the same mistakes over and over and over because
dogs don't
get pinworms. (1.29.08) -robinswrong
Robin Quivers mentioned that the new Rambo movie fell short in
its opening weekend because of another new film's debut which she
referred to as, "The Spartans."
Now, I didn't see this ridiculous movie, nor will I, but at least I can
name a horrible flick when it comes out so I know what not to see.
Someone please inform The Queen of Disinformation that the movie all of
us should avoid is entitled, "Meet
the Spartans."
Don't worry, Robin...we don't expect much from you. We all know how hard
reading words can be, especially when your head is in the place you put
your coffee. (1.28.08) -Griff, Head From A** Removal Services.
Robin Quivers bashed the new Rambo movie during her news claiming it
performed far worse in the box office than the previous films in the
series. The latest Rambo installment had the second strongest opening
weekend out of the four. Here's the breakdown:
- First
Blood (Rambo 1) had the weakest opening weekend with $6.6 million.
- Rambo:
First Blood 2 had the best opening weekend with $20 million.
- Rambo 3
had an opening weekend with $13 million.
- Rambo
(2008) opened the past weekend at $18.2 million.
When it comes to movie knowledge we give Robin two thumbs down.
(1.28.08) -Hollywood G.
"The Patriots have not won by large margins this season."
Yet another quote from Robin "the Greek" Quivers, the resident football
expert on the Howard Stern Show. Fearing death if she should stop
speaking for one second, Robin unleashed this little diddy straight from
her ass. In fact, they were mauling teams so badly that articles were
written about the possible backlash for Belichick and the Patriots
because they were
running up the score.
Here are some totals:
38-14, 38-14, 38-7, 34-13, 34-17, 48-27, 49-28, 52-7, 56-10...Right
again Robin...the Patriots barely squeaked by in these games.
(1.28.08) -Always more informed than Robin.
Today Artie said he would be on Letterman January 29th and one of the
other guests was none other than Paris Hilton.
He then mentioned that for his last appearance, Nicole Ritchie was one
of the guests. Robin Quivers piped up and said,"you're always with the
Hilton sisters!"
The last time I checked, Nicole Ritchie wasn't a Hilton sister.
(1.28.08) -Deasel
Robin Quivers, during her news, wondered aloud if
Najeh Davenport
was still playing for the Packers.
A quick check on the interweb reveals what Robin could have found out:
he plays for the
Steelers (drafted by the Pack, yes), but why is she just now getting
around to telling the story from his college days? She told a
six year old story about a player who is nowhere near the Super Bowl
like it was news. And Davenport was drafted in 2002, not 2004 as Robin
Somebody please let her know that Gore lost to Bush...that's a hot story
right now. (1.23.08) -bumliquor.
Howard took a call from someone claiming to have information about a
recent boating trip that Robin took. Apparently, she smashed into
a number of other boats, but Robin claims none of them were damaged. Then she blamed what happened on the wind.
We received this picture, but have been unable to confirm if it is
Robin's boat after her demolition derby.


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The Carolina Hurricanes say Alexander Semin is out with a concussion. Coach Kirk Muller said Thursday that Semin will miss their final two games of the season, including the home finale against the New York Rangers. Semin ends his season with 13 goals and 31 assists while establishing himself as a valuable component of the Hurricanes' top line. He was Carolina's marquee free-agent acquisition this offseason after coming over from division rival Washington. He had a goal in the Hurricanes' 4-3 shootout win over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night, but was held out of practice Wednesday.
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Located near the eastern border of Davis, California, Frontier Fertilizer Superfund Site encompasses nearly 14 acres of land. Since 1995, EPA has been operating a groundwater extraction and treatment system. Its remediation efforts also include the use of electrical energy to heat and reduce the most contaminated areas. To offset energy use, a Solar Photovoltaic (PV) System was installed on the roof of the treatment building. The 5.7 kW PV System was designed and installed by CH2MHill and Roseville Solar Electric (RSE) on December 2007 and consists of 30 Evergreen ES-190-RL and190 Watt solar modules formed into ten 3-module panels. Over the course of a full-year, the PV System is expected to produce approximately 8,500 to 9,000 kilowatt-hours of energy, offsetting up to 5% of the site's annual electricity use for Pump & Treat system operations, and saving energy costs of approximately $1,500 per year. EPA plans to add additional panels in FY 2009.
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Like an atom bomb, news hit last week that A&E will be renewing Storage Wars, Storage Wars: Texas, and Shipping Wars for 26 episodes each. That means that, starting this summer, people will be treating to 78 new episodes of how things are shipped and stored. People who would like a third of them to take place in Texas will be especially pleased.
Given the success of these shows, we're sadly past the point where we can make fun of the subject matter (though shows about cake are still fair game), so let's begin a discussion in earnest of where middle-American reality television goes from here.
Know your market. Joe Sixpack and Jane Sixpack-Of-Wine-Coolers burn the candle at both ends to put food on the table, but there isn't always enough left over to enroll the young ones in a "good" day care center. So, rather than leaving children with a meth-head or some doctor that performs abortions with his bare hand, why don't they leave their children, free of charge, at a state-of-the-art day care facility owned by A&E's parent company.
Of course, there's a catch. Catches, actually. The children's formative years will be captured on camera by an extremely intrusive production crew. The footage will be edited so that the toddlers are given a distinct "personality" for America to love or hate. These "personalities" could be: the bitch, the closeted toddler, the anorexic pill-popper, the hippie, and the slut.
Once the show has been cast, the day care center will be divided up into two camps, and the camps will compete in a bevy of different events to determine who the better toddlers are. Events will range from Red Rover to freeze tag to TV tag to TV freeze tag. There will be also more direct physical match-ups, which means that the toddlers will team up with strength and conditioning coaches, as well as hand-to-hand combat instructors that will teach krav maga, submission wrestling, drunken boxing, and ji kun do (the way of the fists).
Most of the participants of Day Care Wars will not survive.
Sure, it will be controversial, as many believe that abortions stop a beating heart, and most every decent person will be completely repulsed by the idea of pregnancy being terminated with some backcountry hick's bare hand. However, Game of Thrones shows gross stuff like this all the time, and it's a crossover hit, so don't just offer up a knee-jerk reaction. Really think about it.
And think about the cast of characters! Sure, there will be some eccentric rural folk both giving and receiving the abortions, but I guarantee that the people performing the procedures will be doctors (how irresponsible would we be if that wasn't the case?), so maybe this show could go a long way towards changing some perceptions about rural Americans.
Also, you'd want to put the production company on a VERY secure lot, because it would get firebombed about once every four hours.
We've got LA Ink, Sunset Tan, and myriad shows about hairstyling, so let's push the envelope a little further by not only going with a less-celebrated-but-equally-glamorous trade (waxing), but also spotlighting one of the "flyover" cities that the mainstream media seems so quick to ignore.
Fortunately, Kansas City has the hairiest residents in all of America*, so there's little doubt that the folks at Kansas City Wax will have their work cut out for them. Further, audiences will get to go on BEHIND THE SCENES at waxing salons. The talcum powder, the ingrown hairs, it's ALL GOOD!
Also, dog waxing. You'll have to see it to believe it!
*I made this up. It's probably not true.
A chain is tied to two tractors. The tractor that is able to pull the other one over a line between them wins the tractor war.
A team of collection agents-for-hire is assembled and billed as a "Canine Recovery Unit." The program will offer a Law & Order-type introduction:
In the deep south, dog disputes are an unpleasant way of life. Too hostile and trivial for conventional law enforcement, the location and recovery of these animals is tasked to:
The Canine Recovery Unit
Made up of various dog catchers, washed-up bounty hunters, and sexy blondes, this motley crew will often provide "ridealongs" for celebrity guests such as Selena Gomez, Rick Santorum, and Motley Crüe.
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After the beaches the 2nd most popular attraction to the island is Phuket's nightlife and entertainment which has an international reputation. Patong and Soi Bangla in particular are where many of the visitors to Phuket end up for at least one night but there is much more to Phuket than bars and drinking.
Phuket has a number of excellent cabaret and entertainment venues that every night provide ladyboy and cultural shows for both visitors and residents.
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Lisa Vanderpump Says Hubby Ken Todd Doesn't Want Her to Do Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Not only did Bravo reportedly turn down Lisa Vanderpump's spinoff about her life in the restaurant biz, the 56-year-old British beauty says she might not return to the network for RHoBH Season 3. Oh no!
Brace yourselves, V-Pump fans: The provocative restaurateur's husband, Ken Todd, isn't 100-percent sold on his wife and her luscious derriere continuing on TV. Turns out, Ken takes Lisa being criticized even worse than she does, the reality star revealed in a new interview with KTLA.
"I don't know really ," Lisa says when asked if she'll return for Season 3. "My husband's not as in to it as he was because for some reason I've managed to fool him for the last 30 years in to thinking I'm perfect and he hates to see me criticized."
But Lisa also has her doubts, especially after the explosive reunion that left her feeling attacked by women she thought were friends "After the reunion, I felt blindsided and I went out of town for a week because I really did feel devastated and it wasn't just the accusations it was the silence of my friends that's what was really hurtful," she says.
As sad as we'd be to see Lisa walk away, we kind of see where she's coming from.
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We decided to give each of our honey bee colonies about 4 pounds of sugar yesterday because the bees have been clustering at the top of the hives for the past few weeks and are possibly running low on honey stores. We fed them dry sugar following what in some circles is referred to as the Mountain Camp method: Place a piece of newspaper over the top bars, pour dry sugar on top and shelter the whole thing inside a shallow super or an eke. Here's a brief video that shows how we did it:
We sprayed the newspaper lightly to make it easier for the bees to chew through it. The dry sugar will harden on its own by absorbing moisture from the bees' respiration, but we also sprayed it a bit to get the process started. (Update: Both the sugar and the newspaper will absorb plenty of moisture without having to be sprayed.)
I'm not convinced the bees are running low on honey. All the hives seemed to have plenty of honey the last time we checked them in the fall. Maybe the bees are clustering high in the hives because it's easier to stay warm up there. Whatever the case may be, the dry sugar feeding was the quickest, simplest precaution we could take. And it sure beats having to mix up a batch of hard candy for them.
For anyone on dial-up who can't play videos, here are two photos:
|Bees clustering high in the hive. (Dec. 31/11.)
We used our prototype ventilation rim with the holes taped over to make room for the sugar. The video shows us pulling up one of our insulated inner covers. Two of the hives have only a piece of hard insulation over the inner cover but it makes no difference. Four pounds of sugar on a piece of newspaper over the top bars looks like this:
|2.1kg of dry sugar on newspaper.
Then we put the insulated inner cover back on, duct taped the hive wrap back in place and that was it. The bees were exposed to the 2°C air (36°F) for about two minutes tops.
See comments and this post for updates.
P.S.: Make sure to remove the sugar before spring. See Big Time Burr Comb for more info.
ADDENDUM (Nov. 25/13): I can't see myself ever switching to another method of winter feeding because I just don't see how it could be easier. Yes, the dry sugar method involves exposing the bees to potentially brood-chilling air, but I pre-cut the newspaper so it easily fits over the top bars and I have the raw sugar on standby in an easy-to-pour container (and I don't spray down the newspaper or sugar anymore — that was a mistake). I can open a hive, load it up with 4 or 5 pounds of raw sugar and have it sealed up in less than a minute. That's good enough for me. I also don't wait until January or February anymore. I put the sugar in the hives around the same time I wrap and insulate the hives for winter.
UPDATE (Jan. 15/14): One extra improvement for this method: Don't cover the entire top bars with newspaper. Leave a wide strip near the front of the hive. Otherwise you can't see down into the frames and see how the bees are doing. You could also just put the sugar over a large circle of newspaper in the middle of the top bars because most likely that's where the cluster will rise anyway.
UPDATE (April 16/14): I don't use hard insulation (or insulated inner covers) to insulate my hives anymore. I switched to moisture quilts because they keep the hives well ventilated and bone dry. The hard insulation method is the easiest, but for my local soaking wet environment (in Logy Bay), I need to keep my hives as dry as I can.
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Hey Phil,
I have some colonies that are high up in the top too. Even though they had good stores going into winter and candy boards added to the top.
I think they are on top now because I added honeybee healthy to the candy boards.
If we get a break in March I will take a look again to see if I need any feed to get them through winter.
I'm curious to see how your small cluster is going to fair. Major differnece in size between colonies.
I'll take her, don't squish her. I'll put her in a nuc and graft some eggs. I'm looking for bees with smaller clusters for my stock. Those colonies will have a better chance of making it through winter and build really fast in the spring.
First off I will have some capped queen cells for you this year.
Second, an electric fence goes a long way. Keep the charger in the shed. I have some tech cable you could bury where you want to set up camp and set the Fencing up around the new colonies with cleareance an signs warning the bees are there and a few good tie straps just in case some one gets brave and jumps the fence. Just make a loop 6′ high so no one can jump or climb over it.
If you tie the electric fencing in with some buried tech cable they are not going to try to dig it up. I highly doubt they will carry insulated cable cutters to get through the fence.
Then if you have some tie straps as a backup just to make sure if they tip a colonly over they will survive.
just thoughts
I'd say for about $150 you can get a plug in type electric fence to address your problems and the mats to go along with it.
Not much is required. Like I said I think I have some tech cable to suite you. Assuming you have some sort of power to your shed.
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Oct 15, 2009
NXT in South America
We are always happy to blog about NXT activities in South America - however, there seem to be so few of them there (?).
Hence, if you are from Brasil, Uruquay, Argentina, Venzuela or the likes, and you are related with LEGO® MINDSTORMS NXT: tell us about it.
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- Enrique said...
Team PuroLEGO from Montevideo, Uruguay, wishes to thank everyone in this wonderful community who encouraged us for this challenge and answered our questions. Two persons however, were key to this project. Philo (Philippe E. Hurbain) for the information published at his web site on how to derive power under program control from NXT motor port A. This information enabled us to power AriaAna's electromagnet at the desired times.
Also, a big thanks to Dave Parker, since AriAna's lifting mechanism is inspired on his Forklift design published at his fabulous site nxtprograms.com.
A couple of further explanations: the name of the team "PuroLEGO" is based on the fact that besides the electromagnet, its electronics, cables, kevlar string, and a few zip-ties, AriAna was built entirely with Lego parts. In this spirit, the programming was written in NXT-G, for which Mauricio's software mastery was invaluable.
And finally the robot's name, AriAna, comes after the two most important members of the team, Ariel Mordetzki and Ana Belén Pego!
- Oct 16, 2009, 9:13:00 AM
- Cesar said...
"We are always happy to blog about NXT activities in South America - however, there seem to be so few of them there (?)."
Unfortunately the activity here isn't shared over the internet, but...
We had 2 International FLL championships out there this year. One in Atlanta-US, and Other in Kobenhaven-Dennmrk.
In BOTH of them, the MISSIONS WINNER TEAM came from BRASIL!
In Dennmark Team Terradróide won the missions and in the USA Team Emerotecos also won the missions trophy.
I'm a member of Team Terradróide, who won the European Championship Missions. We compete against almost 70 winner teams from almost 30 countries all over the world!
Here in Brasil we're gettin close to the mark of 700 FLL teams. Our National championship is becaming a huge event!
There IS activity down here in South America! We only have to share that with the others!!
Cesar Barscevicius from São Paulo - Brasil
- Oct 19, 2009, 12:39:00 PM