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Barrick Gold: When Losing $8.6 Billion is Considered Good News
Barrick Gold (ABX) didn't exactly surprise the market today when it reported a massive loss, huge write down and slashed its dividend by 75%. Most of these moves had been telegraphed and investors might even be relieved that the news wasn't even worse–especially considering that sans charges the company actually beat earnings estimates. Barrick's shares have ticked up 0.1% to $16.99 at $12:15.
The Wall Street Journal sums up the news:
Barrick said it lost $8.56 billion, or $8.55 a share, in the second quarter, compared with a year-earlier profit of $787 million, or 79 cents a share.
The overall charge included $5.1 billion related to Pascua Lama, $2.3 billion in goodwill impairments and $1.3 billion for other asset impairments.
Adjusted to exclude the unusual items, Barrick earned 66 cents a share in its latest quarter, down from 82 cents a year earlier but ahead of the latest
Thomson Reuters mean estimate for a profit of 56 cents.
Revenue edged down to $3.20 billion from $3.24 billion.
Investors clearly consider Barrick an outlier, as other miners have gotten hit hard today. South Africa's Gold Fields (GFI) has dropped 3.3% to $5.83 and Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) has dipped 2.6% to $3.75. Peru's Compania de Minas Buenaventura (BVN), which reported earnings yesterday, has fallen 3.7% to $13.77. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) has dropped 2% to $26.43.


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I am just learning about natural beeekeeping and top bar hives. I have just read and review The Barefoot Beekeeper. Is that a popular book in the States or just the UK.
Anyhow ... I am wondering, what would happen if I opened my Langstroth hive without using smoke? Any experience anyone?

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Police: Threatening comment on news article led to man's arrest
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. - Police tell us that in late February, a Carter County, Tennessee man threatened to shoot a deputy sheriff if he ever saw him again.
The comment was made via Facebook on WCYB.com in response to a story about 20 drug-related indictments handed down in Bristol, Virginia around February 26.
A police report obtained from the Carter County Sheriff's Office says Dustin Caleb Potter wrote:
"I'm still getting followed around and if I catch that pig that was goin thru my baby mamas trash like a ful stick i got that ak47 n i will touchem up."
A WCYB employee informed the Bristol, Virginia Police Department of the post, and they took things from there. "We had an alias of a person in Bristol that used that name," said Bristol police officer Major Sean Carrigan. "So we thought we had someone local. We did some digging first here, and then when we realized that Dustin Potter was a resident of the Carter County area. We contacted the Elizabethton Police Department and the Carter County Sheriff's Office to make them aware that we had viewed what we considered a credible threat to harm a law enforcement officer."
Dustin Potter had used his personal Facebook account to make the alleged threat, and Bristol police matched his profile picture to a mug shot from a previous incident -- Potter had been arrested in Carter County on February 13 on charges of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture.
Potter was located at a Zoomer's gas station less than a mile from the Carter County Sheriff's Office just after 3 a.m. in mid-March.
"We don't tolerate any kind of threat or harassment from anybody towards an officer here at the sheriffs department," said Carter County officer Sgt. Derrick Hamm. "We're just not going to tolerate it." Sgt. Hamm was in on Potter's arrest, as was the deputy Potter threatened.
Both the Bristol Police and Carter County Sheriff's Office tell us they take this kind of thing very seriously, and even though the threat was made online neither department was going to waste time. "The threat he made is actually considered a deadly threat," Hamm said. "In his words, he stated he was going to shoot my officer."
The officer who arrested Potter had ended up at Potter's girlfriend's house days earlier investigating a report of smoke in a trash can. That incident, we're told, may have led to the threat.
Potter is in jail on a $50,000 bond. He's charged with retaliation for past action, a Class E felony. He could face up to three years in jail.
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By: Bruce Allender
There are a number of design-build formats to choose from —prescriptive, performance, and progressive (see table on page 48) — but owners who believe they can lower cost or otherwise improve the outcome by participating directly in design decisions while leveraging design-build's schedule and collaboration advantages often choose progressive design-build.
The "progressive" method works well when a project is complex or lacks definition. It provides flexibility that allows the owner and the design-build contractor to design and construct a project to budget. It also gives the owner a single point of contact, along with overall cost, schedule, performance, and process guarantees.
In progressive design-build, the design-build contractor is selected primarily based on qualifications. This translates into a lower procurement cost to the owner, when selecting the design-build contractor, than the other more traditional design-build procurement methods.
Instead of preparing documentation associated with requests for qualifications and requests for proposals for prescriptive- and performance-based procurement, the progressive design-build team completes the design to between 30% and 60% in collaboration with the owner and then submits a lump sum or guaranteed maximum price for the total project to the owner for approval. If the two parties can't agree on terms, including price, the owner can either use the partially completed design as the basis for completing the design and proceed with design-bid-build procurement or negotiate with another design-build team.
Because the proposal preparation cost is comparatively low, progressive procurement elicits more interest from the contracting community in competing for the project at the procurement stage of the project.
Finally, unlike other design-build contracts, owners have the option to have input in the selection of local subcontractors through a "best value" bidding process with the design-build team, rather than being restricted to considering only lowest cost. Examples of value-based criteria are team and individual personnel qualifications, safety record, and innovative solutions.
When faced with constructing its 30-mgd Nelson-Flanders Water Treatment Plant, the City of Longmont, Colo., wanted to:
Black & Veatch and joint-venture partner Western Summit Constructors provided design and construction services in a two-phased, design-build open-book approach.
The first phase included design development to establish scope and schedule under a guaranteed maximum price of $43 million. Preliminary design and pricing were completed on a fast-track basis, which allowed for determination of a guaranteed maximum price within five months of notice to proceed. The guaranteed maximum price came in under budget.
In the second phase, the design-build team provided full design, procured engineered equipment, and provided onsite construction engineering, construction management, start-up, and performance testing. The plant was completed three months ahead of schedule and $2.8 million under the guaranteed maximum price.
"The relationships established for this project resulted in significant cost savings," says Larry Wyeno, engineering administrator with Longmont's Public Works and Natural Resources Department.
In California, the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District used progressive design-build delivery to design and build a pump station in less than nine months.
The in-line, 108-cubic-foot facility is located adjacent to an existing 78-inch-diameter pipeline. It was designed to increase the hydraulic grade line in the pipeline to ensure continued delivery of water to an existing downstream pump station while also allowing deliveries to be made at high flow rates without pumping to a 144-inch-diameter feeder pipeline owned by another agency, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
"This was our first design-build undertaking, within an extremely challenging timeline," says Sam Fuller, chief engineer for Valley District. The project was implemented on a fast track. The basis-of-design report was developed collaboratively among the two agencies and design-build contractor Black & Veatch, with input continuously solicited from the owners during design development. This enabled them to order pumps before a gross maximum price was developed, and optimize the design for the specific pumps.
Black & Veatch provided engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning services under a cost-based guaranteed maximum price of $9 million.
Owners need to understand the risks their advisors may recommend the design-build contractor take for a project. Fair allocation of risks is critical for any design-build contract, and risks should be allocated to the parties in the best position to manage them (see table at right). Risk management should include consideration of:
When owners push all risk and liability to the design-builder, the result is a more costly contract or, in some cases, lack of interest from design-build contractors.
Most contractors will work with the owner to establish fair risk allocation. Owners can also use standard contracts from the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee or the Design-Build Institute of America as templates for terms and to lower legal advisory costs.
In 2008, the Water Design-Build Council published The Municipal Water and Wastewater Design-Build Handbook, which provides more detailed information about design-build methods. For a copy, visit www.waterdesignbuild.org.
— Allender (firstname.lastname@example.com) is director of business development for alternative delivery in North America for Black & Veatch's water business and president of the Water Design-Build Council.


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XNA axed (duh) and DX tech not evolving.
What exactly does that mean? According to the article, neither XNA nor DX MVPs will be given in the future. Does this mean that DX as an API and hardware standard is dying or dead? Is MS going to embrace OGL? Will neither of those APIs be available anymore?
DX MVPs or gurus especially, just what is going on?


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Mandala sand painting
UTSA presents mandala sand painting Nov. 5-7
By Marlon Anderson
Director, Inclusion and Community Engagement Center
(Oct. 31, 2008)--To begin UTSA Diversity Month, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a Mandala Sand Painting from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Nov 5-7 in the University Center window lounge at the 1604 Campus.
From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks to form the image of a mandala. To date the monks have created mandala sand paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers, and colleges and universities in the United States and Europe.
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Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning sacred cosmogram. These cosmograms can be created in various media, such as watercolor on canvas and wood carvings. However, the most spectacular and enduringly popular are those made from colored sand.
In general all mandalas have outer, inner and secret meanings. On the outer level, they represent the world in its divine form; on the inner level they represent a map by which the ordinary human mind is transformed into enlightened mind. On the secret level, they depict the primordially perfect balance of the subtle energies of the body and the clear light dimension of the mind. The creation of a sand painting is said to produce purification and healing on these three levels.
The mandala sand painting begins with an opening ceremony, during which the lamas consecrate the site and call forth the forces of goodness. This is done by means of chanting, music and mantra recitation, which will be at 11 a.m., Nov. 5 at UTSA.
The lamas begin the exhibit by drawing an outline of the mandala on the wooden platform. On the following days, they lay the colored sands. Each monk holds a traditional metal funnel called a chakpur, while running a metal rod on its grated surface. The vibration causes the sands to flow like liquid onto the platform.
Traditionally most sand mandalas are destroyed shortly after their completion. This is done as a metaphor for the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn; to fulfill the function of healing, half is distributed to the audience at the closing ceremony, while the remainder is carried to a nearby body of water, where it is deposited. The waters then carry the healing blessing to the ocean, and from there it spreads throughout the world for planetary healing. The closing ceremony at UTSA will be at noon, Nov. 7.
For more information on this and Diversity Month programs, contact the UTSA Inclusion and Community Engagement Center at (210) 458-4770.


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Cozy Apartment with Balcony
Size60 m²
Floor No.3
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- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
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Accommodation summary
|Erasmusgracht, 1056BD Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Hall with access to most of the rooms, separate toilet, bedroom at the rear of the apartment with access to the balcony (Location: south) and French doors to the living room, living room located on the street side with access to the second balcony (facing : north), kitchen, bathroom with shower, sink, washer and dryer.
For daily shopping, you can use different stores that are located close to the house. There are also several cafes and parks within walking distance. Opposite the house, on the water, is Fossa café where you can enjoy a drink on the terrace. In the park across the water there is a nice café called " Het Wilde Westen". Both cafés also serve food.
By public transport, the house is easily accessible by both bus, tram and metro.
It's a 15 to 20 min. ride on the tram to the center (tram 7 and 14).
If you come by car, it's only a few minutes' drive to the ring road A-10!
However, there is parking money to be paid! Parking just outside of the Ring is cheaper and there is also a P&R parking (Bos en Lommer).
I live in the apartment but I move out when the guests arrive.
The property has a free WIFI connection. Please note there is no elevator.
House rules-Smoking is not allowed.
-Pets are not allowed.
-Minimum age: 25
-Maximum number of people: 2
-Check-out time is before 12 AM. Luggage can be left at Central Station.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
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Reviews of this property
Very nice location.Apartment very nice but felt like there was too much of the host's stuff about.Also on the 4th floor,with no elevator, a bit of a hike after a long day walking around. Easy for public transport.Just around the corner where you can pick up the number 21 bus to centrum station.Host was easy to contact.
Hanneke is really nice and helped us at all times, even during the stay she took care about us, if everything was correct.
Her apartment is perfect to rest after an exhausting days of walking, very clean and near the center.
If I have to go back to Amsterdam I know where I would like to stay.
Everything was fine, a nice hostess, a beautiful and sunny, with the S-Bahn or the main railway station can easily be reached by bus 21 - absolutely use one- or two-day tickets!
Es war alles prima, eine nette Gastgeberin, eine schöne und sonnige Wohnung, mit der S-Bahn oder vom Hauptbahnhof mit dem Bus 21 gut zu erreichen - unbedingt Ein- oder Zwei- Tagestickets nutzen!
Very nice contact with Hanneke, trouble Schlüsselübergabe.Viele good tips, brochures and a Welcome wine.
Cozy apartment, lovingly furnished and decorated with its own art. Here is otherwise the hostess at home.
Bus and tram within easy reach, for example, Bus 15: a station from the station Sloterdjik, bus 21 to the Central Station and tram 14 to the center (Dam).
We felt at home, THANK Hanneke !!!!
Sehr netter Kontakt mit Hanneke, problemlose Schlüsselübergabe.Viele gute Tips, Broschüren und ein Willkommens- Wein.
Gemütliche Wohnung, liebevoll eingerichtet und mit eigener Kunst dekoriert. Hier ist sonst die Gastgeberin zu Hause.
Bus und Tram gut erreichbar , z.B. Bus 15: eine Station vom Bahnhof Sloterdjik, Bus 21 zum Zentralbahnhof und Tram 14 ins Zentrum ( Dam).
Wir haben uns wohl gefühlt, DANKE Hanneke!!!!
We had a great time at Hanneke's Apartment which was very cosy and clean! It was super easy to get into the city and the contact was easy in english and very friendly!! Thank you!! we would love to stay there again :)
we felt at home. The location is very good, you can go to the city center quickly by bus 21.
wir haben uns wie zu Hause gefühlt. Die Lage ist ganz gut, man kann mit dem Bus 21 schnell ins Stadtzentrum fahren.
We had a Great Time at Hannekes Apartment. The contact was very friendly and everything was fine at the arrival. From her Apartment it is just a Journey of 10 Minutes to the centrum of amsterdam. Hanneke is a Great Host.
We enjoyed the bright apartment of Hanneke. A nice bed, close to the tram and shops. Top!
We hebben genoten van het lichte appartement van Hanneke. Een fijn bed, dicht bij de tram en winkels. Top!
Everything to the fullest satisfaction. Nice and simple contact. Gladly again.
Alles zur vollsten Zufriedenheit. Netter und einfacher Kontakt. Gerne wieder.
Very happy with our stay at Hanneke's apartment.
Area is great for fresh food available in supermarkets and handy for buses/trams to centre of Amsterdam and bus 15 to Station Zuid for train connection to Schiphol (journey took about 30 mins in total to airport).
Quiet and relaxing apartment with a lovely welcoming bottle of wine!
Very good and prompt communication from Hanneke.
Thank you!
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I am a first year beekeeper w/ 2 hives. I purchased enough new woodenware for 10 hives(50 mediums) from a gentleman who kept hives in the 1980's. I loaded my van with everything he had, woodenware, suits, foundation, frames, top feeders,frame feeders,smokers,queen excluders, equipment for rearing queens and many other items.
Good thing my wife decided not to come with me to pick up the items. I would of had to leave her there because the front seat was loaded with 2 cases of frames and 3 cases of wax foundation. I went to the local bee class and learned one valuable lesson; I knew absolutely nothing. Here is a toast (honey whine of coarse) to beekeepers and successful harvests for years to come.


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Beautiful as always, Dotty and Gladys!!
I can't believe soon we'll be coming up on one year ago that we started! Thank you again, Gus, for organizing us.
Here is another block I'm trying to catch up with. C-7 Megan's Mountain Laurel. The right side is not that crooked, it just wasn't lying flat. But, can you believe I scorched it???!!! (See bottom, center of block.) Reminded me of the Little Women movie when Jo scorched her sister's hair while curling it. What is that smell? LOL I'm not taking myself too seriously here, I have so much to be thankful for and DJ is what I do for fun and relaxation.
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Firms growing, expanding at NW Crossing
BEND, Ore. - NorthWest Crossing will be growing this winter: Ruffwear Performance Dog Gear, which has been located in the neighborhood for the last 10 years, will be expanding to a larger building; and local company Hydro Flask is moving into Ruffwear's former space.
Both manufacturing companies chose NorthWest Crossing as the perfect place to continue growing their businesses. Between them, the companies employ more than 30 people locally.
Patrick Kruse, owner and founder of Ruffwear, said, "We are all looking forward to the opportunities that our new space will inspire. The views out of our office perch allow me to feel like a kid sitting in a tree house, envisioning the ideas and dreams that accompany those experiences.
"The new building's huge distribution center allows us to continually improve our logistics processes. Our new design and development center will be decked out with new tools that rival Santa's workshop, allowing us to quickly cobble together whatever we conjure up for our four-legged friends and their human companions," he continued.
The move to the 21,000-square-foot building at 2843 NW Lolo Drive was part of the company's plan to bring the majority of Ruffwear under one roof. By consolidating into a single location, Ruffwear is looking to streamline operations, improve collaboration, have room to grow, and be that much closer to trails and open space for product testing and getting out for a ride or a run.
Local company Hydro Flask won't let Ruffwear's current space stay empty long. This manufacturer of insulated water bottles will be moving from Bend's east side and taking over the space at 561 NW York Drive.
Scott Allen, CEO of Hydro Flask, explained, "Since our start in 2009, we have seen tremendous growth, and we've come to the point where we've outgrown our current space. We chose NorthWest Crossing because it's a vibrant neighborhood with a great sense of community and values, which is important to Hydro Flask. The timing with the vacancy of Ruffwear's headquarters couldn't have been better and the space will allow us to continue to expand and grow with our employees."
Ruffwear expects to begin operating out of its space on Lolo Drive at the end of this month, and Hydro Flask will be relocating soon after.
About NorthWest Crossing
NorthWest Crossing is a mixed-use community on Bend's west side which has won several national awards for its green building practices, as well as being a 2011 recipient of the Environmental Center's Sustainability Award and 2010 Building a Better Central Oregon Award. West Bend Property Company LLC, a partnership of Brooks Resources Corporation and Tennant Family Limited Partnership, is developing the community. Both companies, based in Bend, have solid histories of commitment to thoughtful, quality real estate developments in Central Oregon. Their goal of creating a livable and sustainable community at NorthWest Crossing is rooted in their understanding and respect for the true essence of Bend and the Central Oregon lifestyle. http://www.northwestcrossing.com


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PPR league. 12 men, 150 a head. I'll go by round:
Matt Forte RB
Chris Johnson RB
Jimmy Graham TE
Dwayne Bowe WR
Peyton Manning QB
Robert Meachem WR
Peyton Hillis RB
Anquan Boldin WR
Laurent Robinson WR
Joe Flacco QB
Mercedes Lewis TE
David Wilson RB
Kansas City Defense
Kendall Hunter RB
Josh Scobee K
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Loveland, Lafayette verify petitions on fracking
Ban could be on ballot in November
BOULDER, Colo. - Officials say petitioners have turned in enough valid signatures to ask voters in November to ban new oil and gas extraction in Lafayette.
The Daily Camera reports the city clerk verified 1,059 signatures in support of the proposal. Supporters had to submit 948.
The measure would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and would disallow the disposal of associated waste products inside the city.
Also this week, the city of Loveland verified more than 2,200 voter signatures in support of a two-year moratorium on fracking, which involves blasting sand, water and chemicals underground to free oil and gas.
State regulators contend municipalities can enforce local land use codes related to drilling but can't ban energy extraction. They are joining a trade group's lawsuit challenging Longmont's voter-approved fracking ban.


text: This rare painting was created by three Mannerist artists from Lombardy. During the 1620s Scipione Torsco from Milan commissioned three artists to paint this dramatic work. Although working simultaneously they concentrated on different parts of the painting. Procaccini painted the figure of St Rufina and the consoling angel on the right. Cerano created the figures on the left, the decapitated St Seconde, the curious dog, the angel and the knight. Morazzone painted the executioner, the rider in shadow and the angel in flight.


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Enough already. I got tired of a good foodie friend of mine badgering me about this bakery and gourmet food place he was in love with and wanted me to review. So I finally went along recently, with humoring him in mind rather than expecting to take out a pad and pen. Imagine my surprise.
I don't know if they have the best croissants in town, as he insists. I was too distracted by all the other great food I sampled to get around to them.
Jaime D'Oliveira, who has Al Forno, Mills Tavern, and Capital Grille among his chef and exec chef experiences, will be in charge when they start preparing dinners in a month or so, in case you were wondering about the place's credentials. L'artisan was established in Wayland Square last August by Ghassan Daou, who used to have an establishment "with the same concept," as he explained, in Montreal. He has been in the gourmet market business for more than 20 years.
There are some interesting Lebanese touches here, given Daou's background. Perhaps the most interesting one is a large flatbread, densely sprinkled with za'atar, composed of ground sumac and sesame seeds as well as thyme and oregano. Tasty, and only $1.99. Their baba ganoush, a mashed eggplant dip, is wonderfully smoky, and the stuffed grape leaves have plenty of olive oil and lemon tang.
The non-bakery items here are in cold cases, but if you're eating there they can be heated up, if appropriate. Such items include chicken marsala, lasagna, and chicken Parmesan with pasta. The prices range between $4.49 and $5.99, and their kitchen-packaged salads I took note of — garbanzos tahini, carrot and walnut, spicy Thai chicken salad — were $3.49 to $5.99. Wraps are $4.99. (Moist falafel — yay!)
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And I'd sleep plenty. When I was in HS, I only needed 4 hours of sleep, regardless of what I did to myself the night before (save hallucinogens, those I needed a full night's sleep to recover from, not that I always did). Back when I was making the Heart Attacks, I only needed 5 or so hours of sleep a night. As it stands now, work nights I only get 4-6. I try to get 8 or so on my days off, however, it's never uninterrupted. I either get woken up to go to the couch because I'm snoring too loudly, or if nothing else, I get up in the morning to pack the wife's lunch and make her breakfast shake while she's in the shower, then go back to bed.
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Its just ridiculous. Bringing up Edwards record for God's sake? He was a good assistant coach and not a very good HC. But he played in the league a long time and had success both as a player and a coach. he obviously knows a heck a lot about the NFL. You can disagree...that's fine. But to tell fans (none of whom every won a single game in the NFL as a HC or assistant, including this writer) that his record as a HC disqualifies him from commenting on current players is rather ......."Cultish".
If it weren't for THE FUMBLE, nobody would have ever remembered his name.
Eli's career stats to date are very impressive, and no amount of Eli hating can change that fact.
ESPN is like FOX news in that they have an agenda (Bad Mouth The Giants Whenever Possible) and they stick to the script.
Without getting into the "is Eli elite or not" conversation, I completely disagree with the thought that there can only be a certain number of elite QBs in the league. They aren't exactly competing against each other. If 8 QB's are playing dominant football year in and year out and carving up defenses, then there are 8 elite QB's.
I am not trying to say that there are 8 elite qb's, I am just using the number 8 as an example because it was used in the article. Nor am I claiming that Eli is elite or not.
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Michael and I are good friends...there is far more that we agree on than disagree on...but the disagreements make for a bit more drama This is a bit of rant (or tirade) but it is thoughtful, and I think reveals some of the issues and history that are at play.
If I were to start some academic research on the economics of running a nuc and queen producing business in Vermont, I would have a few options of how to setup the model.
If one was not aware of what you and Kirk teach (or not bothered to understand it well enough to appreciate the advantages), the obvious thing to do would be to split in the spring to make up winter losses, and harvest some frames or bust up yards at various times throughout the year for the nucs....and buy in fancy "3 letter queen" stock every year. The conventional wisdom is that wintering nucs in Vermont is iffy at best (this is not to say that you haven't been changing this).
You could do the above, and you could show that it is either profitable or not.
But if the academic instead looked at what people are actually doing in Vermont to run a nuc and queen production operation....especially if they looked at what Mike Palmer was doing, they would see a method that would probably produce more nucs/year, produce nucs with a higher market value (overwintered nucs with overwintered queens that are selected for honey production in a commercial honey production operation in the north), _and_ produce a commercial honey crop to boot. Such research (based upon some proven successful models) would be much more valuable than a research done with procedures determined by the researchers first instincts.
Comparing the two, one would see not only a huge difference in economic outcome, but also see an operation that is much more robust. Not only is your system elegant, it actually works and has some redundancy built into it. I'm sure you feel the same way, otherwise I don't think you would care as much as you do that people understand what you are talking about.
As recently as two years ago, one of our state bee inspectors (you know the one) told me to my face that nucs won't survive in Massachusetts over the winter. ...yes, I feel the same way when I'm told by Marla Spivak to my face that non-AHB won't/can't draw small cell comb without foundation and she say's "no thank you" to an offer to bring her some the next day....it's as if you aren't actually doing what you are doing....it's as if no one wants to know.
I know that for USDA trials held in these parts (the one run by Jeff Pettis on tree injected imidacloprid specifically), HFCS feeding is part of the protocall. No one has to mix anything, and its easy on the beekeeper to feed and measure. I think you have commented recently that you moved away from HFCS because nuc survival, specifically, suffered.
What if there were a study, using HFCS as winter feed as part of the protocall, that claims to prove that nucs cant be overwintered effectively in the north? Using package style queens for the nucs? Doesnt feed up to weight in the fall, but opens hives to put HFCS patties on the nucs every week? You would say (loudly, I imagine), But that isnt what works. Ive shown what works, but you have to look at the details and at the operation and management as a whole system.
What if there were 10 such studies? What if Jim Fischer threatened your publisher with litigation if they didnt recall the book you wrote talking about what you actually do? What if Peter Borst posted a bogus 1star review on Amazon removed it when there were negative comments made in response, and then reposted a similar one (in an effort to get rid of the negative comments)? What if Amazon (on their own) found it to be abuse, and deleted all traces of the reviews? Now, what if neither of the above had actually read the book you wrote? What if they didnt even know what you wrote, yet thought that it was important enough to discredit that they bother to take the above actions? That would feel pretty weird? WOULDNT IT?
This is essentially what is going on WRT small cell and treatment free beekeeping.
I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to (Im sure Ive said something like that, Im just not recalling the context), but it does bring up a few thoughts.Last I read, you said that there's no need for such a study, as the proponents of SC know it's the answer, and don't have to prove anything to anyone.
Do you remember what your first words were to me when we first met? I do...you said, "I think it is terribly unfair what they are doing to you over on Bee-L." (Im pretty sure thats word for word).
At the time, I was posting to bee-l about some of the research and thoughts we had regarding the gut microflora. Statler and Waldorf over there were having a field day, while we were busy going over everything as Ramona was giving her first presentation on the gut microflora. This was October/November 2008, and well before these issues were being discussed by anyone....certainly before the 3 part series in ABJ June-Jully 2009. You should listen to the recording of the talk she hadnt given a public talk since college, and was really nervous. Please remember that she assembled this without the aid of any of the articles, discussion, or knowledge that we have 4 years later she had a vision and went with it.
The stuff we were saying back then is largely commonly accepted nowadays, but if you read the discussions on Bee-L from the time, you will understand why Michael felt I was being treated unfairly.
This is typical of the environment in which weve been able to try and discuss these ideas .
A Bee-L moderator posts a paper touting antibiotics as being beneficial to all manner of livestock. When I replied after looking at the paper, that the paper was the product of a trade group for animal meds, and was entirely made up of reps from major pharmaceutical companies (Phyzer, Bayer, etc), the mod replied back privately stating simply that this fact was not worthy of discussion, and my post would not be put through (there were no issues with personal attacks or any of that stuff).
The same moderator claims to lose all of his bees by following the advice of the treatment free folks .except that in addition to the obvious things that deviated from what those whos advice he claimed to have followed, he used two antibiotics (TM and Tylan), at least one miticide, and I cant remember if/what else. So much for testing anything about not treating but this remains his claim .his failed no treatment experiment.
More recently, the _same_ moderator posted results of how the bees drew some pf100s (small cell) vs some other brand of 5.4mm plastic frame/foundation. He reported that the bees much preferred the other brand that they didnt all draw the pf frames well. .later to mention that the other brand was wax coated, and the pf frames were bare.
Things are quite a bit better here on beesource in this regard, but there is also a different demographic here, and some discussions would be better served by being allowed to happen on Bee-l. I say all this just to highlight that we have been trying to get to the bottom of a lot of this for a very long time and we havent had much support from the establishment. This is the long way around of explaining why I might have been dismissive of doing these studies the other (most important reason) is that they are not done well, and the conclusions are not supported by the work. Why perpetuate more of the same?
Mike, you would be the first to criticize any work that I did where I:I'm not criticizing anyone, or trying to dis-credit anything. I'm only getting impatient with the attacks on the SC studies, with nothing better coming out of the SC camp.
Measured 10 cells in the middle of each side of a frame, averaged them, and called that the mean cell size for that frame. Seeley did this.
Reported that overwintering nucs in New England is not possible without spending any time talking to a beekeeper that overwinters nucs in New England. Seeley did this with respect to small cell.
Pretended that molded plastic comb is the equivalent of wax comb in a side by side comparison. Seeley did this.
Found the most mite ridden bees I could find, let them fester for 6 weeks, then break them down into nucs to see if they will survive winter (conventional wisdom is that nucs do a better job of handling mites, especially if they are newly made up ..but will this work in the most heavily infested bees you can find? Are such results relevant?) .Seeley did this wrt small cell.
Claimed that none of my experimental or control colonies contained any drone comb. That none of the colonies tried to rear a single drone. That at most these hives (with no other drone comb) built 25 drone cells in a month but never tried to rear a single drone. This is exactly what Seeley claims with both the control and experimental colonies .it is not believable.
Im with you I want to see some good work in this area but not critiquing the incredibly bad work done so far (no matter whos name is on the paper) is not going to make that happen. I was excited that Tom Seeley was looking into small cell, and you will see that I posted several times that I was looking forward to reading his study. I was disappointed.
Yes, I do remember, and I was flattered. but I think the Paul Harvey version (the rest of the story) needs to be told in order for this to be honest.Remember in 2009...I asked you for the same. Gave you 2 1/2 years to put it together...really would have included your report at EAS. Ramona said, at the time..."He's a really smart guy and could do a good job".
You did ask, but there were conditions. It had to be something with real science behind it..some hard data to work with. I have a lot of respect for you, and I had (and have) no doubt that we would generally agree on what kind of work would meet that standard. I have some ideas of some more simple things that would be interesting, but it remains that I have no budget, no grad students, and a limited time. Is anyone asking Tom Seeley to do research on his own time and on his own dime?
Michael, now that your EAS is over and done, how many speakers can you name that presented who presented work that you would consider up to that standard who work for themselves? Im sure there were a few with small SARE grants, I certainly would consider your data on your overwintering operation as valid. Most, I expect, do research as a career. They are employed by institutions that pay them a salary, and their job is to secure funding and carry out the research.
How many speakers who were asked to speak were told that they had to have scientifically valid data to back them up as a precondition? Did the guy who claimed to be able to affect the shape of water crystals by saying I love you rather than I hate you to a freezing glass of water have data? Given that presentation, do you think that anything that I would present would be any kind of embarrassment? I know you didn't have total control of the program, but we were excluded for not having better "science" than we have, while Tom Seeley would have been presenting "valid research" if he talked about his small cell study...meanwhile you have the angry ice crystals being presented next door....I'm supposed to feel like I'm being treated fairly?
There was no funding offered. EAS notoriously doesnt reimburse speakers for expenses. I appreciated the offer (and I still do), but it is not quite as simple as you make it out to be, it isnt quite being fair to me at all, in fact. Remember, to some extent, it is the opportunity to present to the same crowd that has already dismissed anything that I have to say.
You did have Tom Seeley at EAS? did he speak about his small cell study? He did have funding. He did have a reputation to uphold. He did have the resources of Cornell behind him. He did have 3 years to do the study. He did have a phd and years of experience behind his model and execution. He failed miserably. I dont know what the funding was, but it was for 3 years. At the very least the write up could have been more honest with the write up fortunately we have the funding reports (that I posted earlier) to let us know how things unfolded. Telling me I cant critique such a bad study unless I do my own is, frankly, insulting. Im not criticizing it for no reason its simply lousy, and the beekeeping community should demand better (that includes you).
Well, as you can see from the rough outline I posted yesterday, I have some ideas, and Ramona and I are discussing how to get all this stuff funded .but thanks for poking a bit at it it has stimulated some new ideas that might be workable.I know how busy you are...as posted recently in discussions with squarepeg. But, we're all busy.How about it?
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Re: AW: st: RE: Graphing time on the x axis
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Re: AW: st: RE: Graphing time on the x axis
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The problem was with the data only being interpreted within the realms
of a days 24 hrs...In case anyone else should struggle-this works very
local m=24*60*60*1000
sum x
gen x2=x+`m´if x<`r(min)´
replace x2=x if x>`r(min)´-1
format x2 %tc_HH:MM:SS
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gen x3=x2-`r(min)´
format x3 %tc_HH:MM:SS
**Normalized time also works fine**
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Nick Cox <email@example.com> wrote:
> That should not be necessary. In fact, I suspect it won't help at all.
> If your original date-times are both consistently measured, the difference has the same units but does not have the same interpretation. It should be as simple as that. The key is that Stata just does not know what the differences mean.
> Nick
> firstname.lastname@example.com
> moleps islon
> Thank you Nick. This is indeed the case. I'll have another look at it
> when I get back from work. Maybe if I instead code the time according
> to date in addition I'd get the correct elapsed time ? ie I add
> another day to the measurements after midnight.
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> As I understand it, you have subtracted one date-time from another, but the result is not itself a date-time. It is an elapsed time, and Stata lacks any support specific to elapsed times. So, for example, 1 (elapsed) day and 2 (elapsed) days look identical in terms of clock time, as you already know.
>> . di %tc_HH:MM:SS 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
>> 00:00:00
>> . di %tc_HH:MM:SS 48 * 60 * 60 * 1000
>> 00:00:00
>> Conversely, the difference between 21 December 2009 and 22 December 2009 is not as indicated by
>> . di %d mdy(12,22,2009) - mdy(12,21,2009)
>> 02jan1960
>> But just 1 day.
>> In short, applying date-time formats to elapsed times at best tells only part of the story and at worst gives you nonsense. That shouldn't be a surprise when you think about it.
>> For elapsed times, you need to create your own code (setting aside earlier user-written efforts best consigned to history).
>> In essence, Stata carries no knowledge forward of how your variables were calculated. As I guessed earlier in the thread, you assigned a format that is no use for graphing, as it does not distinguish elapsed times except in terms of what a clock would show.
>> I asked earlier for you to -summarize- the values of your variables, but I've not seen any results. From your graph it seems that the data fall into two distinct subsets, times less than 1 day and times more than 1 day. I can't suggest why that is, but only looking at your data closely can tell you if there is some error or this does in fact make sense.
>> As I suggested earlier, it is likely that you need to create your own axis labels, using a conversion from milliseconds to hours. -mylabels- from SSC is there to help.
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Wes Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, will try the patience and frazzle the nerves of those immune to the writer-director's wry, unapologetically eccentric output. If movies as odd and good as Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums or Fantastic Mr. Fox didn't impress you, then this twee little charmer is not likely to win you over. For those willing to ease up and give Moonrise Kingdom a shot, there is a lot to like about this charming, sometimes unsettling curio set in the summer of 1965. The film centers on a pair of love-struck, precocious, highly imaginative 12-year-olds (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) who run off and hide together on an idyllic, pop art-colored New England island, the fictional New Penzance.
Anderson puts the accent on the "England" in New England with a whimsical mood and merrily self-mocking visuals that evoke not only Gilbert and Sullivan and Lewis Carroll but also Peter Pan. With a major storm brewing, a search for the preteens is headed by a wayward pack of adult screwballs that includes Bruce Willis as a mild-mannered small town cop, Edward Norton and Harvey Keitel as peculiar scoutmasters, Tilda Swinton as a shock therapy-happy social worker and, as the young heroine's parents, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, who live in a dollhouse-like converted lighthouse and whose kids listen to records of lectures on composer Benjamin Britten (whose work, and that of Alexandre Desplat, is a lovely part of the show). No wonder these passionate kids flee to wildness far more magical and unusual than their own. Unlike the coffee table book aesthetic of Anderson's previous films, cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman has shot this one in a slightly more modest but meticulously oddball style.
As one would expect, the movie bursts at the seams with highly stylized acting, insistent costume and production design, lots of boy scouts frantically running back and forth and Bob Balaban popping up to deliver deadpan on-screen narration. Anderson is certainly onto something when he lets things simmer down and focuses on the hothouse, us-against-the-world relationship of the two kids; it evokes a bit of the freshness and lyricism of films by Truffaut or even Bonnie and Clyde and such '70s movies as A Little Romance. Moonrise Kingdom may be a light summer entrée, but it rewards us by serving up a rich romantic fantasy and isn't afraid to share its sweet, beating young heart.


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Today my friend Juan of JuanOfWords.com, wrote about faith. (I encourage you to click over and read it.)
"I recently tried to blog about this but the post sits in my drafts because it ended cynically and I don't like to spread negativity if possible. Faith has never been easy for me but unlike you, as I've gotten older I've found it more difficult.
Not having that belief that "everything happens for a reason" and is part of a bigger plan – that there is someone in charge up there that knows what is going on even when it looks like chaos from down here – having the unsettling feeling that we're on our own, doesn't feel good.
Faith is not something that can be bought or forced. If it could be, I'd spend good money to stock up on it just for the comfort it can provide.
The natural optimist in me won't go down that easily though. There's a tiny spark of hope that I'm wrong. My heart and mind are in constant battle over this… I've had to accept this, and accept that my definition of faith isn't the solid kind some are lucky enough to stand on. My faith is something fleeting that I must constantly chase."
As a result, Juan encouraged me to finish this post and hit the publish button… and so here it is – a post that otherwise wouldn't have seen the light of day.
"It's not fair!" … These three words of indignation are one of the first phrases we learn as children. We shout it at our parents with a stamp of our foot when we've been denied something we want and it's thrown around on school playgrounds across the nation as much as those bouncy red balls.
"It's not fair!" was a phrase that was especially easy for me to employ as a middle child. With an older sister who was granted more freedoms and a little sister who was bestowed more mercy, there was plenty to find unfair, and maybe because of my birth order, it's easy for me to perceive injustice, whether it's done to myself, someone I love, or a complete stranger.
"It's not fair!" I'd shout, and my wise mother would calmly respond, "Life's not fair."
Middle children are called "peace-makers", (as well as "trouble-makers", but that's another story.) … We are accustomed to being sandwiched in the middle seat of a hot station wagon. We know what it's like when one person is taking more than their fair share, ("Mom! She's touching me!")… and I guess that affects our view on the world. We like to make things fair, for ourselves and for others, and there are few things more frustrating than when the power to do that is completely out of our hands.
Eventually that frustration has to become something. It festers like an infected wound. It can become discontent, depression, cynicism. I look out at the world and increasingly find myself disappointed with the lack of fairness, and unable to shake it off as I used to. When I was younger, I'd wrap myself up in optimism. Close my eyes and think happy thoughts until my short attention span managed to be distracted and occupied by something full of fluffy goodness. People living in poverty… It's so unfair… Ooo! Cake on a stick!
These days it seems there isn't enough cake on a stick in all the world to make me forget the unfairness that is life. This is when many people will lean on their faith. The belief that there is a higher power, that it all happens for a reason, that someone up there is looking out for us – it is comforting. Like a child at the beach who walks deeper and deeper into the waves, looking over his shoulder every once in awhile to make sure his mother is there to run to him and pull him out when the tide gets too rough.
But what if you don't have that sort of faith? Those with an abundance of faith may see it as a willful rebellion, but I can assure you, it is not. We are all gifted different gifts, and resigned to accept certain flaws. A doubting mind, a mind that questions, a mind that can not be shut off, is one of those things many of us would trade in a heartbeat. There is no comfort in looking back at the shore and seeing that no one is watching over us as we feel the sand slip beneath our toes.
So, with a lack of strong faith, and an increasingly cynical world view, where does that leave me? Should I simply accept this as my new reality? Am I capable of waking each morning knowing that I'll encounter injustices in this world that I can do nothing about?
I began writing this without knowing where I would finish it. Something in my heart demands that I dig down deep and find that fluffy goodness that makes everything okay again, but I don't want to be trite. I don't want to pretend that there is always a happy ending. For myself, maybe I can truthfully say that so far life has demonstrated to me time and time again, that everything happens for a reason – but it's not fair for me to say it's a universal truth. It's not fair for me to speak on behalf of others who may not see their reality that way.
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you think Beyonce's kid is gonna look like her or Jay?
you think Beyonce's kid is gonna look like her or Jay?Nat says (Aug 31, 2011)40Filed Under: Questions
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I hope Beyonce's kid looks more like her than Jay-Z. My mom says that he looks like a monkey, and the truth is that he's not very attractive. He's super-smart, but not good looking.
haha i love that this question is totally irrelevant but i feel totally compelled to take it seriously. i think wen it grows up its gonna turn white (lol not that seriously i guess)
i hope like her. that one guy who is her bf is ugly, think his name is jay-zee?
lol, naw i know who jay-z is lol but really i hope it looks like beyonce.


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I seem to think at one time there was pdf file in the plans section to make a Tanzanian top bar hive. But I can't seem to find it, or just a straight forward plans to making one :confused:
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Teens charged with stealing cigars
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Three teen-aged boys will go before a judge in Johnson City on charges related to the burglary of a West Market Street business.
Johnson City Police tell us the incident happened August 10. Police say the suspects got into Bays Mart through a back window and into the ceiling of the business.
The suspects, ages 14 and 15, are accused of stealing about $50 worth of cigars from behind the counter, then leaving through the front door.
Police say surveillance video helped them identify the three boys and led to their arrest September 12. All three are charged with burglary and theft under $500.
They will all appear in Johnson City Juvenile Court.


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The Tennessee Dairy Producers Association (TDPA) is pleased to announce that Stan Butt has been chosen to serve as their new Executive Director. Tony White, president of TDPA, said, " the TDPA board is excited to have someone with Stan's experience to step into this new position. We are confident that he will bring continuity to our association and will be a positive voice for our industry."
Stan grew up in Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee and recalls his first milking experience was hand milking an old Jersey cow belonging to a neighboring farmer. Stan graduated from Portland High School and went on to receive his college degree from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. Stan's first position was with the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, in Nashville, serving as the District Executive for the Dan Beard District. As a District Executive, he attended the National Executive Institute in New Jersey preparing him for his career ahead. Stan and his wife Sheila have been married 41 years and have three sons of their own and one adopted son and thirteen grandchildren. They reside in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee where they lived since 1985.
In his new position, Stan will become the contact person for TDPA assuming the many responsibilities under taken by the board since the formation of TDPA in 2009. His primary responsibilities will include being a proactive voice for the dairy industry, increasing membership in the association, securing and maintaining funding for the association, working to involve and retain youth in the dairy industry, interacting with the many livestock entities in the state as well as serving as the legislative liaison in both Nashville and Washington.
The Tennessee Dairy Producers Association is a non-profit organization seeking to represent all dairy producers in Tennessee, expediting a consistent and proactive response to issues affecting the viability of the dairy industry in Tennessee and serving as an unbiased source of information for producers as well as consumers.


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Citizens shocked, upset over budget bill's passing
BOZEMAN, Mont. - To the surprise of many, all 100 members of the house seemed to be on the same page- even breaking out into applause as they passed the bill.
But not everything is hunky dory. There are still some issues to iron out, and the budget has some locals concerned.
When Bozeman residents Caleigh Searle and Katy Mistretta heard about the budget bill passing, they weren't too happy.
"Very surprised. Very disappointed" Searle said. "Shocked, disappointed" Mistretta echoed.
They aren't on board with the unanimous agreement because it'll mean cuts to programs like family planning.
"I think it's crazy. I think it's going to cause more problems" Searle said.
The budget bill is usually the center of controversy and disagreement, and doesn't get passed without long fights and dozens of proposed amendments.
But on Tuesday, both sides fully endorsed the $9 million budget as-is. No disagreement, no negotiations.
"This was done in a matter of hours" said Republican Appropriations Chairman Duane Ankney. "We all agreed that the budget was a good budget."
Democratic Vice Chair Galen Hollenbaugh agreed- for the most part. "The budget in total is very good" he said. "It could be better, and we will continue to try and make it better as this budget process goes along."
There are still some issues. Many aren't happy with the $4.6 million in cuts to the federal Title X Family Planning Program.
Hollenbaugh said they'll fight to put that back in the budget.
"We will carry that issue and that fight over to the Senate as they begin to work on this budget now" he said.
Residents like Searle and Mistretta said they hope that gets worked out.
"I think family planning is just, it's a huge prevention and it needs to be supported" Mistretta said.
But others like Belgrade resident Jeremy Annis said they don't think that belongs in the budget. "We can probably use those funds in other places first" he said.
Now that the budget bill has passed the House, it'll head to the Senate- where it's uncertain if it'll get the same unanimous approval, or if lawmakers will start pushing for amendments.


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Israeli Startup Touts a Credit-Card-Hack Warning System
With credit-card fraud and financial-data theft rising alarmingly around the world, an Israeli fraud-watchdog startup says it can tell you when your credit-card details have been stolen by hackers—pretty much in real time.
BillGuard, a company that makes a monitoring app that surfaces erroneous or disputed merchant charges on consumers' credit cards, is adding a hacker-breach notification system to its offering.
British police this month said that seven out of 10 fraud cases in the U.K. are now classified as cyber crime.
Established in August 2010 in Israel by army veterans, BillGuard analyzes millions of credit-card transactions conducted by its 500,000 users.
The analysis takes place on the company's read-only analytics engine, and is fed by data from users' accounts. The accounts are linked to online credit-card statements and bank accounts from thousands of financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada. The idea is that when enough people flag or complain about a particular charge from a specific vendor, that data is surfaced and an alert is sent out to the users and to the vendor.
The company has had success in flagging these "gray charges"—small amounts of money siphoned off credit cards by merchants for deceptive, hidden or fraudulent sales and billing practices, like ghost renewal of subscriptions and cost creep.
The app's user interface works a bit like dating app Tinder: swipe right for an approved charge, swipe left to disapprove of a charge. Like another Israeli crowdsourced app, the navigation engine Waze, BillGuard's information is more accurate the more users are on its system.
The company is now adding a hacker-breach layer to the existing system. The breach-notification system will work in much the same way as the gray-charges system. Working in tandem with its app, the company scours a huge merchant database for sentiment analysis and complaints about gray charges.
But when it comes to cyber breaches of credit cards, there is another level of complexity at play: Many companies either don't know they've been breached or, if they do know, don't want to report it quickly, opting to minimize their data loss while managing their reputations. This can leave consumers high and dry as criminals resell their credit-card data to others.
Hackers who want to sell credit-card information to criminals usually charge their victim' credit cards with a small amount to show buyers that the stolen cards are valid.
BillGuard thinks that if it can detect signals of those charges, which could indicate a hacker breach, before a compromised vendor even knows it has been breached.
Usually, BillGuard informs vendors when users flag their charges, and waits for the vendor's response.
The company's founder and chief technology officer, Raphael Ouzan, says that when it comes to hacker breaches, BillGuard will give merchants "an acceptable length of time, say under one week" to disclose the breach before notifying the authorities.
Ouzan started the company on the day he was discharged from the Israeli army. Its investors include the founders and CEOs of Google, PayPal, Verisign and Sun Microsystems. The company is now expanding globally, launching in Canada in April, and is scheduled to launch in Australia and the U.K. next. Its data-aggregation partner is Yodlee, which provides services for major U.S. and Canadian banks.


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I've seen Thundercats piping tutorial but is there a vest tutorial? I've already sent Lady a pm.
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I've seen Thundercats piping tutorial but is there a vest tutorial? I've already sent Lady a pm.
Not that I have found... there is one for Boba that could be "kinda" converted by making it longer and adding the shoulders and whatnot... also there is a womens cheerleader pattern from Simplicity (I believe) that can be used and altered slightly; that is what I did for my first one.
Do you have the link for the Boba vest tutorial TLobe00?
If you are not using the cheerleader vest pattern, here is a tutorial to make your own pattern.
Again, just extend the bottom down so it tucks under the girth belt and make the shoulders different.
Thanks alot TLobe00 I guess I'll do what I can with what's available. I think we should work on getting a proper Jango vest tutorial.
i'd be interested in a jango vest template, planning on building a bust for my helmet to sit on


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