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Actually, immigration is a federal issue due to the fact that authority over immigration at the federal level is explicitly written in the Constitution.
same can be said the other way around.
Immigration is a states right issue, cannabis is a fed issue.
Hypocrites on both sides.
Marijauna = STATES RIGHTS! GET OUT FED! Immigration = FEDERAL ISSUE!
Immigration is outlined in the constitution, is it not?
The Constitution never uses the word immigration, so how is it that the rules for immigrants, and quotas for countries, are set by the federal government and not by the state governments? After all, as the 10th Amendment states, are the powers not delegated to the United States held by the states, or the people?
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Congressional power to regulate naturalization, from Article 1, Section 8, includes the power to regulate immigration (see, for example, Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong, 426 U.S. 88 [1976]). It would not make sense to allow Congress to pass laws to determine how an immigrant becomes a naturalized resident if the Congress cannot determine how, or even if, that immigrant can come into the country in the first place. Just because the Constitution lacks the word immigration does not mean that it lacks the concept of immigration.
There is also an argument that immigration is an implied power of any sovereign nation, and as such, the federal government has the power to regulate immigration because the United States is a sovereign nation. While it is true that the United States is a sovereign nation, and it may be true that all sovereign nations have some powers inherent in that status, it is not necessary to determine if immigration is such a power that does not even require constitutional mention, because the Naturalization Clause handles the power.
It's funny watching the left twist themselves into a knot over these two issues.
When it comes to marijuana, the left gets all federalist and says its a state issue.
When it comes to immigration, the left takes a dump all over states rights and says that its a federal issue.
. Believe it or not, marijuana gets support from both sides of the aisle.
Actually, immigration is a federal issue due to the fact that authority over immigration at the federal level is explicitly written in the Constitution.
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text: I just wanted to say. I did not use it that much but sometime trying to have a quick conversation with someone here is real hard without it. I did not mind that it was small and not that appalling or even kind of out of date. It was there to be used. When it was brought up that it was being taken off. I did not care that much. Now here to find out, I DO. It is hard to sit here and private massage someone back and forth. :gasp: I think we should consider just a simple one. Who cares what it looks like? It is a great tool I miss.


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Just around the corner there stops a subway line which travels south to Brooklyn, or north to Times Square in just 15 minutes. Take the subway for 10 minutes to the world-famous Broadway to catch one of the spectacular shows performed there.
The immediate area has undergone rapid gentrification and today is home to some of the city's best restaurants on Clinton Street's restaurant row. It is also a popular destination for late night revelers as there are several bars and nightclubs nearby.
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First of all: Mike, the host, who also lives there is very nice and helpful.
The apartment is situated in the lower east side, only a 2 min. walk from a subway station, that takes you to Central Park in about 20min.
The only thing I have to say to people who think about staying here: If you are two persons travelling with luggage, make sure you get the big room!!! The smaller one is just way too small!!
Other than that, it's clean. Perfect for a short stay in New York. (In the bigger room)
Perfect for people which are only for sleeping at the apartment. The room and bathroom is small but enouh. It is very close to the subway, clean and you can use the kitchen. For us it was the perfect accommodation!
Thank you so much! Great place to stay during your visit, recommend it! . Great host!!
We spent one week at the appartement. The room is small,but still ok. We were on tour most of the time, why its wasn't important for us. The room and the whole flat is clean. Mike was a very friendly host and helped us, if we needed any information about NY or anything else. We can recommend the appartement and its host.
We really enjoyed our stay, even though the room was very small. It was crowded for two people.However, the apartment was clean, the price was good, and Mike was a great host - we can certainly recommend this accommodation to those who just need somewhere to sleep.
Room (clean idem for the bathroom) ok for one week holiday apart from the noise of the air conditionning machine of the neighbour. Practical kitchen for preparing the breakfast. Nice area close to Chinatown.
Mike our host met us on our arrival and provided us with the essentials for getting into the city.
His apartment was in the best location for talking a walk by the Hudson or hopping on the subway Uptown
if you want a bed just somewhere to crash after long days threading through the city - Mike's place is it :-)
We enjoyed our stay in this shared appartement: kind host, located in a calm safe neighbourhood (in/nearby chinatown), 1min walk from subway station. All in all a good price/quality ratio!
We've stayed at the Henry Street (Manhattan) apartment for 16 days. It's located in a safe neighborhood next to Chinatown. Large supermarket (open till 1 pm) is nearby as well as many (cheap) places to eat. The nearest metrostation is East broadway which is only a thirty seconds walk away.
We (a couple) stayed in the smallest room which is in fact really small. However, it's mainly just for sleeping and storing your stuff and for that it is enough. The bed is of great quality. We've had some problems with air circulation (there is none, because of the close next door building) but the installation of an airco solved this. Bathroom is small as well, but functions great. There's a fridge, tv, microwave-oven etc to be used. Overall great and clean apartment with a very friendly host. Expect the real thing, it's NY and a real NY apartment. Just as advertised. We will recommend this place, especially over all the expensive hotels and gross hostels.
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Sheriff: Boone County is "the most dangerous county in the state of Missouri"
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Boone County Sheriff Dwayne Carey says violent gun crime numbers are up this year in Columbia.
That comment comes after a press conference last Friday where City Manager Mike Matthes said crime is down, despite nine shootings within city limits since June 15.
ABC 17 News pulled crime statistics in Columbia for the last five years and the numbers support Carey's claims.
The city does not have a specific category for violent gun crime, so an incident can be classified under aggravated assault or in some cases, assault with a firearm.
However, the city does categorize violent crime, including murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In all of those categories, the numbers are up.
In 2008, Columbia police reported 176 incidents between January and June. Just five years later, that number has risen to 274.
Sheriff Carey says gun violence alone is significantly higher than last year.
"A reliable source through the [Bureau of] Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said we are, per capita, the most dangerous county in the state of Missouri," said Sheriff Carey.
ABC 17 News pull stats of the first six months of 2013 and the previous four years. They show a consistent growth overall since 2008.
Specifically, Columbia has had four criminal homicides so far in 2013, compared to three for the same time last year. The city's fifth homicide happened in July, out of the counting period.
Sheriff Carey believes the higher crime numbers could be fixed if law enforcement works together to enforce stricter policing policies.
"I've been talking about all agencies in this community... They need to become proactive law enforcement agencies, where we're serving search warrants, we're doing car stop," said Carey. "The criminals seems to be running amuck."
Just last week, Matthes addressed criticism from Carey that the city wasn't admitting to its crime problem.
However, Carey says he believes policy changes are needed to get crime under control.
"My opinion is, the solution is proactive law enforcement," he said. "You've got to get into the business of the criminal. You've got to let them know you're going to be making car stops, that they can't transport their drugs back and forth without a fear of being stopped."
The differences in opinion raise questions about the state of public safety. Dale Roberts with the Columbia Police Officers' Association says Sheriff's deputies and officers work together well.
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Carey says if the Columbia Police Department changed some of their policies, crime would drop.
"If we can get them to buy into this proactive philosophy, I think we'll be able to catch up with this problem in a short period of time and get it under control," he said.
ABC 17 reached out to Matthes and Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton. Matthes never returned phone calls and Burton is out of town.


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Alternative summit to WSIS under heavy political pressure
Organisers of the Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) were forbidden from holding their event in a pre-confirmed hotel conference room at Tunis, venue of the currently-underway World Summit on the Information Society. After confirming the reservation, Hotel Oriental Palace announced to the organisers by fax that, "following unforeseeable works in room Farabi", they were compelled to cancel the reservation, and would reimburse the advance payment, awaiting the CSIS' technical suggestions.
Another big 'Big Brother' in Korean cyberspace: the internet real-name system
South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) officially announced on September 12, the that it would introduce the internet real-name system as a counter-measure against problems of cyber violence and start a legislative process regarding this system. But this move — seen by some as a form of pre-censorship — has brought in resistance and concern.
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Alternative global news agency, IPS, focuses on Tunis
Inter-Press Service (IPS), civil society's leading news agency, is offering special coverage of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held at Tunis, from November 16-18, 2005. IPS, unlike the mainstream global news agencies which are mostly focused on the affluent world, calls itself an "independent voice from the South and for development".
Another look at scientific and technological progress
BANGKOK, THAILAND 7 November 2005 (Dafne Sabanes Plou)
It is interesting that during this new Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Forum that is being held in Bangkok, Thailand, numerous workshops and even an intervention at the plenary have been on scientific and technological advances, which are bringing along great changes regarding nature and the conception of human life. There were however also interventions on the modification of life that can seem aggressive and once again oppressive for women. In the two workshops presented by the Center for Genetics and Society and Our Bodies Ourselves, both from the United States, great concerns arose relating to genetic testing, choosing the sex of babies, selective abortion rendered possible thanks to ultrasound technology, and the technology to select sperm to produce boys or girls.
Communicators and activists focus on the relationship between gender and ICT
The women's movement knows just how handy new ICTs can be when it's time to coordinate its own movement, lead campaigns, lobby, and have political effect. Nevertheless there are difficult access barriers for these technologies that are not limited to infrastructural or cost-related issues, but are trapped by power relations and inequalities that leave these tools out of the reach of millions of people, most of which are women. The workshop that tackled this subject during the 10th Feminist Encounter held in Serra Negra, Sao Paolo, Brazil, aimed to raise awareness about the relationship between gender and ICTs though an open dialogue with the participants, composed of a majority of journalists, community radio producers, social communicators, and women's and feminist movement activists.
APC gets its first woman chair person in Natasha Primo (South Africa)
APC members meeting in Bulgaria in October elected their new executive board until 2007. For the first time, the APC chair is a woman and more than half of the eight member-board are women. This is good news for an organisation where traditionally governance has been a male-dominated arena. Continuing another positive advance established in the previous board where each region APC works in was represented, in the new board, once again representatives come from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and now North America.
Making websites accessible for the rest of us
On the internet, you find websites in hundreds of different languages and dialects, in all shapes and designs. If diversity in audio, photo, text or video content is the living proof that the internet is a space for true expression and creation, certain web development standards need to be applied for the content to reach and be shared by people at the margins of mainstream communication channels. During a well-attended workshop entitled 'Inclusive development and ICTs/universal design for all', hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in Varna, Bulgaria on October 9, 2005, Hiroshi Kawamura of the DAISY Consortium presented a set of practical tools that can make the internet work for the rest of us.
Ready for Tunis: Tin-can antennas, free software, and e-riding models
From demoing cantennas (low-cost antennas made out of used cans), to community wireless training programmes, highlighting gender issues, to joining a citizens' summit, the Association for Progressive Communications is chalking out plans for its participation in the second World Summit on Information Society at Tunis in mid-November 2005.
Egyptian duo among bloggers shortlisted globally
Manal and Alaa Bit Bucket — www.manalaa.net — an Egyptian blog set up on March 20, 2004, promoting free expression and human rights, was one of eight finalists chosen for a weblog contest by the German radio station Deutsche Welle, under its freedom of expression category. Manal and Alaa have been working with the APC in the field of FOSS (free and open source software). Their site contains blog posts which they wrote "about our experience as part of the pro-democracy movement in Egypt". It also includes detailed accounts of street protest, political rallies, elections monitoring, police brutality, the picketing of court houses in order to get activists released, secret meetings and the like.
New media for new times: keeping track via a group blog in Bangkok
With moods that range from bouncy, to curious and overwhelmed, a team of APC bloggers — a little irreverently, in keeping with the trend of this fast growing popular medium — kept track of what's happening at AWID, an international meeting of women's rights activists that drew 1800 participants to Bangkok. The Association for Women's Rights in Development's International Forum on 'How does Change Happen?' brought together an amazing diversity of women and men united in the goal of advancing the rights of women globally, organisers said. Participants included feminist activists, development practitioners, human rights defenders, trade unionists, government representatives, policy makers, students, researchers and community organisers from 120 countries. This forum is in other terms the biggest gathering of women's rights advocates of this decade. And this is reflected in the issues coming out of this group blog.
WSIS PrepCom 3: Actors from the South debate in view of the summit
The Third World Institute (ITeM) organised the debate panel "WSIS within the context of global ICT governance processes", during the third meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Preparatory Committee (19-30 September, Geneva, Switzerland). The purpose of this panel was to present and debate from the outcomes of ITeM's project "WSIS Papers". This project intends to contribute to involve different actors of Southern countries in debates, negotiation and policy definitions within the WSIS process, thus providing visibility to the perspectives and specific needs of the developing world.
From here, where? Looking ahead after the WSIS
During the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) — the UN-sponsored conference about information and communication — ITeM will organise an event titled "Framing WSIS in global governance processes: Linkages and follow-up". It will be held on November 17, 2005 from 10:45 to 12:45 at the Room Mehdia (Kram Exhibition Hall).
In the classroom, the computer alone can't perform magic
Getting computers into schools is just not enough. The challenge that remains unfulfilled is for the community to feel a sense of 'ownership' of the equipment and to use it to meet their needs, as this Inter-Press Service feature from Argentina eloquently points out. Prior to the World Summit on the Information Society, governments of Latin America have pledged to double the current number of schools, libraries and community centres hooked up to the internet by the year 2007. But officials themselves admit that it's not enough to simply hand out computers and internet connection, without training or course content. "In order for this technology to be used, it is essential to provide training, create networks among organisations, and promote access for the most marginalised sectors as well," APC member in Argentina Nodo Tau's Carolina Fernández is quoted as telling IPS.
Summitry and strategies: taking a close and critical look at Tunis 2005
In November 2005, the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will meet for the last time in Tunis. APC's WSIS coordinator Karen Banks points out that in its five year history, the summit has failed to redress the North-South "digital divide". Consensus at WSIS has been elusive: the private and public sectors hold diametrically opposing views on issues such as market fundamentalism, free and open-source software, and intellectual property rights reform; while on issues of financing and internet governance, agreement between governments has been split along North-South lines. It remains to be seen whether civil society groups participating in the summit will be able to shift attention away from these competing interests towards human rights issues.
Open Forum of Cambodia, government train teachers OpenOffice in Khmer
APC-member Open Forum and the National ICT Development Authority of the Cambodian government (NiDA) submitted a proposal for teacher training to InWent (International Capacity Building, Germany) and received support for training 300 computer end-user teachers, as well as for training 30 Linux administrators (for which Open Forum is developing training materials in Khmer). If the present rhythm of training is maintained, more than 350 teachers will be trained in Phnom Penh and at least six other provinces (in teacher training centres and NGOs) before the end of the year.
Fantsuam takes the lonely road to rural wireless internet
APC member Fantsuam Foundation remains a lone player in rural wireless internet service in northern Nigeria. Represented by Ochuko Onoberhie, the Fantsuam Foundation was one of the new trainers at the IDRC-APC South African Wireless Workshop, held in mid-September 2005. Fantsuam was also identified as a strategic partner for the next round of trainers for the West African version of this workshop. Through these various capacity building events, Fantsuam is working to act as a sub-regional resource centre for wireless training.
In Bangkok, time for awards... and knowledge-sharing
Pallitathya Help-line Centre — an innovative call centre for the underprivileged — received the 2005 Gender and Information and Communication Technology (GICT) award on October 27, 2005 at Bangkok, Thailand. Sponsors of the contest are APC's Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) and the Global Knowledge Partnership.. These awards are supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Department for International Development (DfID), UK. Besides the Bangladesh venture, the 30 other entries for this Asia-Pacific prize threw up a runner-up from India. Putting ICTs in the Hands of the Poor is an interactive community ICT centre in North India. The other runner-up was eHomemakers, a network for home-based business from Malaysia. A knowledge-sharing session was also organised along with the award ceremony.
Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll
APC member BytesForAll's mailing list recently played host to a strong, and at times polemical, debate on proprietary-versus-FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software). It threw up a range of issues about the role of FLOSS in the 'developing' countries, its role in localisation, how it competes with proprietorial software, why its benefits haven't yet reached regions like Africa, and how diverse approaches to software could actually make a difference in the real world. BytesForAll is a South Asian voluntary network, founded along the free software principles of volunteering, but focussing on information — and how information and communication technologies could be more relevant to the common(wo)man, specially in South Asia.
Different technology multinationals, one destination: Tunis
Big companies on the technology business have known for long that the dissemination of information and communication technologies can promote democracy, but that it can also be a very profitable business. Seeking new potential markets, they send their best lobbyists to pressure governments and international agencies into using their products. Paulo Lima of APC's brazilian member group RITS has something to say about some of these participants in the upcoming multistakeholder summit.


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Maybe this is an odd question, but I'm profoundly ignorant and hoping to improve, so I'll ask anyway. First, background:
I'm a would-be beekeeper. I spent this winter studying everything I could find, reading books and forums.
We have a piece of forest and meadow up in Northern NY that I plan to put a few hives on this spring. I have a couple of 8 frame Langstorth hives-- 1 deep and 4 mediums each. I'm fascinated by top bar hives, so I built one of those, too. However, the more I think about it, the more merit I see in horizontal hives for hobbyists like me, so I'm building one of those too. This hive will have the volume of four 8 frame deeps, and be fitted with standard frames and a divider board to adjust the cavity size to fit the colony.
An advantage to a horizontal hive of this sort is that it can be supered, if needed. What I'd like to know is: on which end of the hive should a super first be placed, relative to the entrance? I find the arguments for an end entrance on top bar and horizontal hives to be the most persuasive... so if the entrance is on the east end, should the super be stacked on the west end first? Why or why not?
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"We've all come into contact with people who are really, really good at what they do," says singer-songwriter Josh Garrels in The Sea in Between, an uplifting new documentary produced by Mason Jar Music. "What they are doing is inviting you into their joy."
Shot on a remote island in British Columbia, Canada, and featuring stunningly beautiful photography, the inspiring film follows an experiment in friendliness that became a discovery of joy for the musicians and locals who helped make it happen.
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Speaking Event: Peace Begins with a Home - Faith & Human Rights in Palestine / Israel
Presentation by Nobel Peace nominee Jeff Halper.
American-Israeli Halper founded the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) in 1997 to end Israel's Occupation over the Palestinians. ICAHD takes as its main focus, as its vehicle for resistance, Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and within Israel proper.
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This article appears in the September 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.
When then President Richard Nixon in 1971 called for a "cure for cancer," he envisioned a crusade akin to the efforts that developed the atomic bomb and led to the moon landing.
But more than 40 years later, it has proven to be an elusive goal, and one that has changed dramatically over the decades. Now, the vision has transformed from seeking a singular cure for cancer to finding a multitude of cures for a complex disease that differentiates into the hundreds of types. The emerging singular focus now in the so-called war on cancer is personalized medicine, which involves tailoring drugs for each patient to attack that person's individual kind of cancer. Some have dubbed it one pill for one patient, or even named it individualized medicine. Others have a different take, describing it more as precision medicine, narrowing treatment for groups with certain ailments.
To pursue and exploit innovative technology, some health systems are developing service lines or special institutes for personalized medicine, with a focus on one-patient-at-a-time cancer care. While some healthcare systems are making slow and cautious moves into the frontier of personalized medicine, others are moving quickly in a this-is-the-future-right-now environment.
Some are moving ahead because they "perceive themselves on the frontier of the movement in personalized medicine," says Edward Abrahams, president of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, an education and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. "Not only do we hope systemic expenses can be cut with personalized medicine, but also the possibility of adverse events by targeting cost-effective diagnoses. Researchers will use tumor and patient genomes to find new therapies and drugs for individual patients."
There are economic gaps that personalized medicine advocates believe can be bridged over time, particularly related to government reimbursements. As of now, there are technological improvements for genomic sequencing that are reducing costs significantly, according to Maurie Markman, MD, senior vice president of clinical affairs and national director of medical oncology for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which has five acute care hospitals and is headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill.
"The future is here," Markman says, noting that there have been gradual and significant cost reductions for genome sequencing over the past decade or so. "Within the next year, it will be possible to sequence the entire genome of a tumor and the corresponding normal genome of an individual cancer patient for $3,000. Twelve to 15 years ago, it would cost about $6 million."
CTCA has contracted for genomic research with a biopharmaceutical firm, but does not have active clinical trials linked to the partnership yet. As part of its personalized medicine focus, CTCA includes available molecular-targeted therapy approaches for breast cancer and hormone screening, according to Markman.
Terry Hisey, vice chairman and U.S. life sciences leader for Deloitte, agrees that genome cost reductions are a "major tipping point" for development of personalized medicine and, like Markman, has seen reductions in time and money. "A few years ago, it took a year and $75,000 to do the gene sequencing of a person, and now it takes a day and $1,000," Hisey says. "In terms of care capability, it's going to help the industry with the number of therapies available. Things are happening to accelerate and enable it."


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On Monday, rescue teams rushed to reach isolated parts of China's Sichuan province after a deadly earthquake struck the area on April 20. The quake struck at 8:02 as Ren Keming, 19, was preparing for his school sports day. "I was in the middle of getting changed when the room started to rock, things began to shake all over the place," he said. Ren did as many others did and raced to the ground floor to join his teachers in the gymnasium, where the floor was wide and flat.
Saturday's quake killed more than 188 people and injured more than 11,000. Nearly two-dozen people are still missing. Authorities say Sichuan has experienced more than 2,200 aftershocks since the quake struck. China's Earthquake Administration measured the event at a magnitude 7.0 while the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a magnitude 6.6 quake. Many of the hardest hit areas were rural farming areas.
In Longmen village, authorities said nearly all the buildings had been destroyed during the frightening minute-long shake. Farmer Fu Qiuyue, 70, was working in a field when she heard explosions. "I turned around and saw my house simply flattening in front of me," she said. "It was the scariest sound I have ever heard."
An All-Too Familiar Heartbreak
Lushan is one of the hardest-hit areas. It is home to 1.5 million people. Saturday's earthquake happened along the same fault line where a deadly quake struck in May 2008. That magnitude 7.9 quake killed more than 90,000 people.
Saturday morning, many people were at home, sleeping or having breakfast when disaster struck. Aftershocks continued to shack the region and tens of thousands of people moved into tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back.
Chinese Premier Le Keqiang arrived in Ya'an on Saturday afternoon. He visited those injured in hospitals and tents. "The current priority is to save lives," he said.
Helping Hands
Rain on the first night after the quake slowed rescue work. Boulders from landslides blocked roads and made it difficult for relief teams to reach victims. The crews used dynamite to blast through the rubble-blocked roads. Many rescuers hiked through the rural hills to reach victims and led sniffer dogs to search for survivors.
Authorities in Ya'an said more than 2,000 rescuers were dispatched to the disaster area, bringing with them 200 tents and 1,400 quilts. The Chinese Red Cross deployed relief teams with food, water, medicine and rescue equipment to the disaster areas. People packed cars with supplies and headed to the disaster area. Anticipating traffic congestion that could hamper emergency teams, the government issued a notice on Monday asking volunteers, tourists and others not trained as rescuers to stay out of the disaster area.
In Lushan, quake survivors formed long lines in front of trucks and stalls to receive instant noodles, bottled water and other supplies. About 2,000 people gathered at a truck handing out bottled water on Monday. Ji Yanzi loaded a vehicle with cartons to take to her family of 10. "We're so grateful for these donations, " she said.


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I thought about the herbicide also but since I spray my yards with roundup( also purposely sprayed it heavy on a pallet of 4 hives last year) and it had no apparent effect unlike the ares of no-till when dandelion in bloom( my yard with the worse sign had no round up applied). What I did notice was dead and dying bees wiggling in front of entrance. Did mite samples and with the very few mites found I would rule them out but not totally. All hives in yards that had problem( signs of pesticide kill) did not all have it at the same time(maybe they only work the"poison" until they sensed it was bad). It was noticed at the same time but was obvious some hives had kills from that day thay were still dying while the hive next door had nothing and the other hive next door had bees that were dead for a few days. Then it was good for a while and I noticed it again when there was bloom in close proximety to the corn(alfalfa and clover). But again it wasn't all hives affected.
You need to send a sample of bees to Beltsville. Then you will have a better idea of the place to start. Beltsville can rule out nosema ceranae which your problem sounds like at times. Beltsville will not detect most pesticide kills from my experience.
A Penn state sample to Maryann F. might turn up a pesticide problem and Penn State will do testing for around 40-50 bucks i have been told.
My experience is that those beekeepers which have been using fumidil on a regular basis usually have nosema ceranae issues which can be cleared up easily. Those which have never used fumidil or rarely and when they find their bees are testing 5 million spores per bee have spore counts on equipment so high that even when you get under control before long the bees are sick again.
In those cases equipment need acetic acid treatment to kill spores as spores can live up to 12 months and can not be seen (dysentary looking )with nosema ceranae like with nosema apis.
if my bees beeslave I would rule nosema ceranae out as step one after making sure varroa is under control.
While waiting I would drench with fumidil and feed syrup & pollen patties to the sick.
I had a lot of dead bees in front of my hives to right after planting corn and soybean two years in a row now. At same time there was dandelion was on edge of fields. I remember thinking, round up was not poisonous and wondered what had killed the bees since I use it around my hives too. I did not understand there was a potential of seed dust contaminating other flowers in the area till after some reading this last summer. I will have to keep my eyes open this next season.
I guess to get a contract with a grower for apple orchard pollination. He says that they will use fungicides spray at the night ones during the blooming. Will it be harmful for bees or not?
Depends. I would certainly find out what he's spraying. If it were me, I'd probably pass on the contract. I believe the bloom should be sacred and nothing sprayed while my bees are in the field.
"Corn Seed Treatment As Lethal As It Gets For Honey Bees All Season Long, And Long After The Season Is Gone."
the entire article is here
people need to realize that pollinating don't always mean big money. you need to charge more for the service, that way you might buy more bees.if if I did move my bees in a orchard there is contract no spraying and a up front price if bees die.
a post from bee-l on the corn/pesticide issue.
on the issue of reporting I'm not sure how you would know enough at the time it happened to know enough to report it.
> >Although the study has touched on my concerns quite a bit of research is
> still needed.
At the AHPA conference today, Bayer and EPA representatives reported.
The issue of contaminated dust from pneumatic planters was downplayed. I
brought it up during questioning, and found that they are not receiving
incident reports about it in the U.S., which surprised me. I asked to whom
reports by beekeepers experiencing seed dust problems such as in the paper
cited should be made.
Beekeepers experiencing bee kills due to planting dust should call Tom
Steeger at EPA directly, and Dick Rogers at Bayer directly.
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA


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An advisor is a faculty member in your major who will advise you and be your mentor at UIS. Your advisor can help you select courses, find an appropriate AST, choose a minor, learn about career opportunities, select a graduate school, improve your study skills, etc. You should meet with your advisor before registering for your first semester, and during each subsequent semester.
Admissions counselors in the Office of Admissions can also help with many administrative matters, but they cannot adequately advise you on academic matters regarding your major. New SOA students select or are assigned a faculty advisor when they choose their major. (Call the Program office if you don't remember who your advisor is.) You may change advisors at any time by sending in a form available from the program office.
Petitions, Waivers, Exceptions, etc.
The academic policies of SOA and UIS are designed to cover most cases, most of the time, but sometimes exceptions are necessary. For such exceptions or waivers of policies, you will need to submit a student petition. After you pick up a petition form in the program office, you should fill it out, being careful that it clearly explains what you want and the reasons that this makes sense. Then, before submitting the petition, call your advisor or, if necessary, make an appointment to explain the circumstances.
Petitions are necessary to:
- waive a course requirement or substitute another course
- take more than 18 semester hours (eight in summer)
- have a course from another college accepted toward your degree
- waive academic suspension, etc.
"WPIs" – With Permission of Instructor forms
WPIs are required to register for occasional classes. By requiring a WPI we can insure that some places in the course are saved for SOA majors.
You may select either the letter grade or credit/no credit grading option for most SOA courses. In the letter grade option:
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Students planning to attend graduate school or who want a "traditional" transcript to present to employers should take most courses under the letter grade option; however, if you feel that you learn better under the reduced pressure of credit/no credit grading or want to try out a new subject without risking your GPA, feel free to select the credit/no-credit grading option. You may change your grading option from letter grade to CR/NC or visa versa until eight weeks from the end of the semester.
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BEEKEEPING For Profit and Pleasure ~ Addison Webb - 1943 HC/DJ
Is this a good book to use for teaching a course in Beekeeping?
I am looking for an inexpensive text to use to teach a very simple course in beekeeping (not advanced).
JG in TN
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BEEKEEPING For Profit and Pleasure ~ Addison Webb - 1943 HC/DJ
Is this a good book to use for teaching a course in Beekeeping?
I am looking for an inexpensive text to use to teach a very simple course in beekeeping (not advanced).
JG in TN
Was this published in 1943? Is Addison Webb the publisher or the author? The nearest I can find to it would be:
Beekeeping for Fun and Profit by Louise G. Hanson published by Random House.
If it was written in 1943 I would be concered about coverage of Tracheal and Varroa mites and the viruses that they bring.
I think the simple version of beekeeping is you put them in a box and steal honey from time to time. Anything else ends up being much more. I suppose the next step up is to do basic managment of the hive and handle the pests.
I started out with The Hive and the Honey Bee and ABC XYZ. I reread them many times before they started to make a lot of sense, but that's the only way I know to learn. Reality is complex. A simplified version of anything is not really the truth. When I was starting out, I would have prefered a book with a lot in it and a class that focused on the basics within a comprehensive book. That way I could continue the journey after the class.
[This message has been edited by Michael Bush (edited October 30, 2003).]
That's a good question Michael. I don't know.
The university suggested it for price reasons.
I agree with you completely. I suppose I need another suggestion for a good text to use then.
I would like to use the Beekeeping for Dummies, but I wonder if the class would be taken seriously.
Any ideas?
JG in TN
I couldn't find the book so I don't know what the content is.
As for anything for Dummies being taken seriously, they sure seem to sell a lot of books for dummies. I don't know what that says for the self esteem of Americans. Personally I refuse to buy a book that insults me. Ignorance is a good reason for me to buy a book, but if I'm a "dummy" what is the point of the book? If it was "Skiing for the ignorant" or whatever suject, I would not be put off by that.
Anyway, I can't say how other's would respond to the title, except that a lot of people buy them so it must be interupted by them to mean that it is a beginners book which I would think is what you want.
I used to have a short book by Dadant that was a paperback called First Lessons in Beekeeping. They still publish it and it's only $4.95. I couldn't say how the current one covers pests, because mine is 30 years old, but it was a nice simple beekeeping book with a step by step approach. The original one was published 75 years ago.
Please don't be 'put off' by my question, and it's certainly not meant to cast aspersions on your teaching ability but I have to ask. You say, you're getting ready to teach a college (or adult continuing education) level course on beekeeping. I can't help wonder, since you are the instructor, you surely have read many of these titles which have been suggested, correct? I would think that Walter Kelley's book or "First Lessons" or any of the other several beginning-type books that have been suggested, would be suitable (content-wise and price-wise). Your students will take away from the class not only the information given them in a book but perhaps, more importantly, what YOU have to say about the various topics. Undoubtedly, regardless on what book you settle, you will have your own ideas of what topics to place emphases on (that may be slightly 'at odds' with the book's author). Anybody can pick up a book and read and probably (at least, for the most part) figure out how to keep bees. The value YOU offer to the class, is your own experience and your insights into local conditions that affect/influence beekeeping in your immediate area.
The only general recommendation / comment I have (as has been stated previously), just make sure you're using a fairly current edition - one that at least touches on the topics of AHB, Varroa Mites and Small Hive Beetle problems, etc. If they don't, make up some supplemental "handouts" that cover these topics. There is always much "free" (i.e., not copyrighted) information on the web - usually all government websites (like the honeybee labs), allow you to use their published information. Good luck!
I guess all of the books I have read have been quite weighty and technical such as the Hive and the Honeybee which is about 3 inches thick and costs too much for an introductory class.
This is good advice though...the free info online and government sources.
thanks again,
JG in TN


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"Oh, What a Relief?" by Nathan Dube
Satellite Space hosts 'Play and Re-Play' through July 22
By Jasmyne Graybill
Graduate Assistant, UTSA Satellite Space
(July 5, 2007)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History presents through July 22 at the UTSA Satellite Space the metal sculpture exhibit "Play and Re-Play" with works by Nathan Dube, Suguru Hiraide and Anna Jaquez. Free and open to the public, the exhibit is curated by Scott Sherer, UTSA assistant professor of art and art history and gallery director.
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"Play and Re-Play" examines themes from childhood and adolescence that continue to play a significant influence in adult lives. In intricate sculptures that make use of the detailed techniques of metalsmithing, the artists demonstrate how personal or shared experiences linger in our psyches.
Nathan Dube, now of Carbondale, Ill., recalls and repositions experiences of growing up in Texas suburbs. Anna Jaquez of El Paso, Texas, explores the cultural and gender politics of El Paso and the border region. Suguru Hiraide of Wichita Falls, Texas, engages with themes of Japanese youth culture after years of living and working in the United States.
In silver, aluminum and painted metal, the exhibit presents viewers with a range of scenes and objects including a child's bedroom, a lunchbox, a bicycle wheel, a spit-wad shooter and a range of experiences from the intimacy of miniaturized environments and hand-held objects to the reverie of small toys expanded into fantastic proportion.
The UTSA Satellite Space is in Blue Star Arts Complex Suite 115 at S. Alamo and Probandt streets, south of downtown San Antonio. Gallery hours are noon-6 p.m., Friday-Sunday or by appointment. As part of First Friday, Southtown's monthly gallery open house, hours are 6-9 p.m., Friday, July 6. The gallery will be closed July 7-8.
For more information or to arrange a private showing, contact Jasmyne Graybill at (210) 212-7146 or the Department of Art and Art History at (210) 458-4391.


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Classy Apartment Central Berlin (apt.5)
Size160 m²
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The classy apartment is suitable for 8 to 10 people across 3 bedrooms. Enjoy the high ceilings, large windows, and stuccoed ceilings. The apartment runs on renewable energy, and the bathroom has a tub with a shower.
Alexanderplatz is home of the iconic TV Tower and is less than 20 minutes away by bus and U-Bahn (underground). Checkpoint Charlie is 25 minutes away by U-Bahn.
Reach the Reichstag (Parliament) in 15 minutes on the U-Bahn. From there, the Brandenburg Gate is around the corner, and the Holocaust Memorial is just 2 blocks from that.
House rulesA €250 deposit is required to be returned upon successful check-out.
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Nice apartment to stay with friends. Good service and host. Close to the highlights of Berlin.
Really nice flat in Mitte, very close to a station, shops, baker and some clubs (although we didn't go to them). We enjoyed our stay very much. Danke!
I stayed with five friends in this appartment. The appartment had a nice location and was very clean.
It's located nearby the centre of Berlin.
We stayed 2 nights at this nice apartment quite close to Alexander Platz. Very near to a couple of U-Bahn stations.
Clean, there were loads of towels, sleepers, shampoo and other bathroom stuff which we did not expect. Same for the kitchen, there was coffee, tea, sugar, some spices etc.. quite a nice surprise.
There is a Lidl and also a Kaiser´s supermarket around the corner.
The contact with Myra and her colleagues was fluent and they were very caring. They organized a quite late check-in without any problem and the same for the late check-out.
All in all I would definitely recommend it for a stay in Berlin.
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Domino's songs were chronicles of lives at once contentious and enamoured, hanging in a curious balance of ambition and insecurity. Often, her dreamy passages recalled the amorously conflicted characters of Tama Janowitz novels; her songs were about women of the '80s who had found a new stretch of freedom to play around with as well as the growing awareness of not knowing what to do with all that newfound space. Much like the singer herself, who once made a living from making furniture out of found objects, her characters were victims of happenstance, often lost in the quirky, unusual situations afforded to them by city life.


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Town in the middle of nowhere with four black people, no stoplights, and one gas station where everyone gets their chew. If you drink, you go to mountain road extension. If you go to school (even if its once a week), it's the tight halls of BSHS. And if you fuck up, everyone knows about it. LET'S GO BUBBLERS.
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A small college town in North Carolina, close to Gaffney, SC and Shelby, NC. I've read the definitions on here and they were all super negative. Yes, it is a one-stoplight town, but you can walk everywhere, there's no traffc, and the environment is positively beautiful. It's the home to Gardner-Webb University, a small Christian college. While there aren't any movie theatres or shopping malls in the town itself, it's a very short drive to the outlet mall in Gaffney and there are movie theatres that take less than 20 minutes to get to. I think it's a wonderful place.
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A town that sounds like it has a lot to offer when its name is spoken, but the people who live there know better. This one stoplight town is mainly comprised of students from Gardner-Webb University. They have to drive 20 minutes down the road just to buy a damn beer. Go Runnin' Bulldogs!
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Dorit Cypis attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in the mid-1970s, where the then-new theories of semiotics and deconstruction saw professors and students alike grappling with the effects of these ideas on art practice. For the artist, deconstruction created a gap between subject and object, a disconnect that allowed her to focus on practices more keyed to the personal, to the spaces of subjectivity. Asking the question "How does one make work about the body within a theoretical framework?", she used analytical modes to address the realm of the body. Her early work, heavily influenced by film and cinematic experience, utilized performance as well as slide and overhead projections (in the days before video projection) in an attempt to reinsert the figure in the picture, to place the viewer's physical form in the space of the photographed, and projected, body.
Three of the works in the Walker Art Center's collection were created during a short period, a moment for Cypis in which she was entrenched in a work called X-Rayed (altered). The piece, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1988, was a large-scale, slide-dissolve installation that projected image after image of a nude woman. Distraught after seeing the installed piece, the individual depicted in the work demanded that Cypis destroy it. Wanting to explore the psychological implications of such an extreme reaction, the artist decided to re-create the work using her own body, a pivotal move that in turn compelled her to continue and deepen explorations of the human form.
My Father's Nudes (1989) is a sculpture composed of an Oriental rug, a wooden salon table, and framed snapshots of famous nudes. The work, at its psychological center, represents Cypis' tense relationship with her father, a bond strained by her evocative use of her own naked body in her artwork. As the artist explains, her father returned from a trip to France with a handful of pictures of nudes from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Northern European paintings and sculptures in the Louvre. When she asked him why he would give her such photos, he replied, "So, you think you have a monopoly [on] being naked?" For Cypis, her father's gift collapsed Freudian theories with ideas of home. In the sculpture, she reframes her father's snapshots in order to reframe his view of the nude. This action is as much reclamation as empathy. The Old World European style of too many Oriental carpets and heavy wood furniture used in the work, influenced by her immigrant parents, evokes the salons in which such nudes were viewed and the particular class of people who had the power to own such images.
Yield (the Body) (1989) was, for the artist, a somewhat didactic attempt to engage fellow female photographers in a dialogue about representation. She invited four women (Linda Brooks, Nan Goldin, Lynn Hambrick, and Ann Marsden) to shoot nudes of her, thereby transforming herself, a photographer, from subject to object, while at the same time forcing a discourse among her peers. As late as 1988, audiences were unused to looking at photos of women by women, especially naked, voluptuous figures. This work became something of a manifesto, a methodological tool to explore the ramifications of such a situation; Cypis received much criticism for it. Some called it revisionist, a reinforcement of sexism, but for Cypis the investigation begs the question of how a work can be sexist when it documents the artist's own, willing body.
The photos in Yield (the Body), presented as unframed snapshots, are propped on small brass easels, with each photographer's work assigned to one of four shelves. This strategy presents the pictures as if they were merely books on a shelf, each offering a different theory of representation. Each row is labeled with an attributive artist's card, reminding the viewer of the specific authorship on display. One large, convex, box-framed photo crowns the shelves. This life-size image (sixty inches across) is a self-portrait of the artist, an abstracted form made so by the techniques employed to make the picture. It is the photographer's view of herself as well as an anonymous body. An empty easel sits before it, subtly inviting a photo for display, and rhetorically inviting the viewer to engage in the game of representation.


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What is the best way to find out how your truck came from the factory?
One of the Best Links to see what your Truck came with from the Factory.......is Compnine/9......from what Drivetrain to the Color of your Interior.....it cover's Vehicles from.....1988" and up to present day.......just enter your vehicles Vin # Number,
In the glove box there should be a sticker that has all of the RPO codes. there is a site that you can plug them in to decode. Someone else will probably chime in with that site.
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It is really getting hot now and I am starting to wonder about the depthof my hives. I have two Kenya top bar hives with bees in them. I have one standing by for the next swarm. I made these 23 by 48 inches and am wondering about the length of my comb.
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I admit my hives are in a save, easy to get to spot. I have been talking to a few people for outyards for next year. They I am looking at the local flora. One spot has about 50/50 high woodland and soybean feilds. The Second is at the foot of the mountain and has alot of black locust and other hardwoods like poplar. This one worries me the most because if the locust do not hit it will not be a prime location. The third is real close to my dad's place where my hives are now(because of the creek it is about a 5 mile drive). I am thinking it is about 2 miles away and has alot of poplar along the creek but other than that it is cow pastures. The land owner wants them for pollenation of watermelon and pumpkins but will not pay for pollenation except with the use of a plot of land for upto 50 hives.
So if you only needed one next year which would you choose?
Second thought is try and get the locust bloom then move them to the pumpkin farm. The problem here is I may not be able to get help for the second move. But this will only be about 5 to 10 hives this next spring as my main yard is going to stay at my father place which is surrounded by nurseries with flowering pears.


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