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Coughlin broke up a viable partnership. I can believe he/she/they were no longer happy, regardless of their public face. The article definitely reads as a public relations ploy, but I don't think it's unfair.
No, I don't think it's unfair either.. what can we expect them to say after all , we couldn't stand each other ,so I dumped him/her when I saw there was another prospective partner available ?...or I'd been secretly keeping my eye open for about 6 mo's ?..or whatever... we wouldn't want them to stay together being miserable ,surely.
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Haarlem 4/5 pers. apartment on the riverside
Size90 m²
Floor No.1
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Dishwasher
Accommodation summary
|Noordschalkwijkerweg, 2034JA Haarlem, Netherlands
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|3 days ago
The apartment is on the first floor, you have access to a private garden with garden furniture.
- Capacity: 4 persons (in consultation a possibility to expand to 6 people)
- House Description:
Hallway, seperate room with laundrymachine
2 bedrooms (1 room with 2 beds, 1 bedroom with 2 single beds.)
Bathroom with bath and shower.
Separate toilet.
Open kitchen with oven, microwave, fridge-freezer and dishwasher.
Living room with water views.
Private garden with garden furniture.
- Surroundings: Walking and cycling distance, the center of Haarlem.
At ± 9 km Zandvoort and Bloemendaal for a great beach day or a beautiful bike ride through the dunes.
At ± 8 km the Linnaeushof (Europe's largest family playground)
At ± 3 km away Haarlem station, then 15 minutes you are in the center of Amsterdam.
Furthermore, within ± 2 km swimming pool, mini golf, petting zoo, recreational lake, shops, restaurants, park, museums, green area the Haarlemmerhout, supermarkets, entertainment including a cinema, tennis court and squash court. In short, you will not be bored!
Includes: Bath towels, kitchen towels, bed linen and electricity.
House rulesHouse Rules:
No pets
No smoking
100 euro deposit on arrival
No arrivals and departures at sunday
|Price for > 4 guests
|$ 18 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Our stay at Leanne's apartment was just great. The place is lovely, well furnished and equiped with all the necessary devices to enjoy holidays!
We had bikes at disposal to go to the train station, and from there, Amsterdam is only at a 15-minute ride from Haarlem.
The whole family would definitely recommend the place.... not to mention the view on the canal which is the cherry on the cake!
Thanks to Nathan too for welcoming us and showing us around.
We all had a great time while there.
Very nice apartment conveniently located to the center of Haarlem. Spacious and very clean with a great view of the river. Even through we did not use them, we appreciated the availability of bicycles. Free parking on site.
Thanks Leanne and Nathan, we enjoyed our stay!
Thanks Leanned and Nathan!
Was a pleasure to be there, everything was pefect and we spend a very nice time.
It was very nice to stay at Leanne in Haarlem. We had enough space, the apartment is well equipped and comfortable. The view to the river is very scenic. Its very easy to get to the city centre of Haarlem by foot, bike or public transport. Leanne gave us her bikes. Thank you!
Everything was great. Nice, modern, clean and well equipped apartment plus very friendly owner. We had a wonderful time!
We had fantastic stay in Haarlem. Nathan and Leanne were most helpful prior to and
during our stay and helped answer any questions we had and provided us with directions as needed.
The apartment is beautiful,clean and well maintained. The house is right on the
canal in a quiet area of Haarlem but an easy bike ride to the town centre and station.
We enjoyed our days out to Amsterdam, the bulb fields and coast and Haarlem it's self is a pretty and interesting town.
We would highly recommend the apartment. We hope to go back again next year and spend more time enjoying the Dutch relaxed way of life.
Very lovely home, very nicely well located with lots of amenities very close by! Bikes were included in the price, so you are able to ride around the city. Would definitely stay there again, and recommend to others!
Land really nice apartment in a perfect location. There were five in Leanne's apartment and came out of the swarm not get out at all. The apartment is very nicely decorated and just beautiful.
The apartment had everything you need washing machine, dishwasher etc. Bed linen and towels were also plenty available.
By bike you can get very quickly in Harleems downtown that we liked especially because of the small shops and the coziness.
By train and bus they came very quickly to Amsterdam.
I am thrilled and can only recommend Leanne and her little cottage!
Eien richtig schöne Ferienwohnung in perfekter Lage. Wir waren zu fünft in Leannes Ferienwohnung und kamen aus dem schwärmen gar nicht mehr raus. Die Wohnung ist sehr liebevoll eingerichtet und einfach wunderschön.
Die Wohnung hatte alles was man braucht Waschmaschine, Spülmaschine etc. Bettwäsche und Handtücher waren auch genügend zur Verfügung.
Mit dem Fahrrad kommt man sehr schnell in Harleems Innenstadt, die uns besonders wegen der kleinen Läden und der Gemütlichkeit gefallen hat.
Mit Bus und Bahn kam man auch sehr schnell nach Amsterdam.
Ich bin begeistert und kann Leanne und ihr kleines Häuschen nur weiterempfehlen!
We found this place a great value for money. The apartment is spacious and well arranged: the wide canal view is very nice. Conveniently located between Amsterdam and Keukenhof and near the airport, this offer has allowed us had a great family holiday. Hosting Leanne is courteous and efficient.
Nous avons trouvé cette adresse d'un excellent rapport qualité prix. L'appartement est spacieux et bien agencé : la large vue sur le canal est très agréable. Bien situé entre Keukenhof et Amsterdam puis près de l'aéroport, cette offre nous a permis de passé un excellent séjour en famille. L'accueil de Leanne est courtois et efficace.
Very nice, bright and spacious apartment with the typical for the Netherlands large windows! Everything available (washing machine, kitchen equipment, 2 bicycles, etc.) plus a tastefully decorated.
The property is thanks to the directions of Leanne easy to find.
With the bike you are in 10 minutes in the city center of Haarlem and also very fast at sea (about 8 km). Haarlem is highly recommended: great old town with many attractions.
We will come back!
Sehr schöne, helle und große Wohnung mit den für die Niederlande typischen großen Fenstern! Alles vorhanden (Waschmaschine, Küchenausstattung, 2 Fahrräder, etc.) und dazu noch geschmackvoll eingerichtet.
Die Unterkunft ist Dank der Wegbeschreibung von Leanne leicht zu finden.
Mit dem Fahrrad ist man in 10 min in der Innenstadt von Haarlem und auch sehr schnell am Meer (ca. 8 km). Haarlem ist sehr empfehlenswert: tolle Altstadt mit vielen Sehenswürdigkeiten.
Wir kommen gerne wieder!!
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Lisbon 200 - Chiado
Size200 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Family/child friendly
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
- Baby cot
- Dishwasher
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Rua Nova do Almada, 1200-289 Lisbon, Portugal
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|5 days ago
Spacious, luminous and well equipped, the flat has 200m2 and includes:
• a bedroom with double bed (160x200 cm)
• a bedroom with 3 single beds
• a bedroom with 2 single beds (90x200 cm)
• a bedroom suite with a double bed (160x200 cm), walking closet and a bathroom with bathtub;
• Living room with sitting and dining areas, satellite TV, DVD and stereo
• Fully equipped kitchen (from kitchen utensils to dishwasher)
• a bathroom with bathtub
• a wc
• Free Wi-Fi
• Central heating
• Iron and Ironing board available
• Bed Linen and Towels are included
• Baby cot can be provided, but please inform in advance!
The standard time for check-in is after 16h00 and check-out is before 11:00, but if the apartment is available other arrangements can be made.
This is a licensed local lodging accommodation, registered at Turismo de Portugal (1406/POL/2010)
House rules• No parties.
• Smoking is not allowed.
• Quiet time is from 10PM to 8AM. The nightly rest of the neighbors must be respected.
• We will ask for some identification document information. Under Portuguese law we are required to do so.
• We will also request you to sign a responsibility term containing your credit card information, as damage deposit guarantee.
The standard time for check-in is after 16h00 and check-out is before 11:00, but if the apartment is available other arrangements can be made. Particular situations:
- additional 30 Euro for check-in from 9:30 PM to 00:00 AM every day;
- additional 45 Euro for check-in from 00:00 AM to 8:30 AM every day;
- additional 25 Euro for check-in on Week-ends and on Portuguese public holidays till 9:30 PM.
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Reviews of this property
Very good location, very clean apartment and equipped. Overall excellent.
Muy buena ubicación, el apartamento muy limpio y equipado. En general excelente.
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Great apartment in a perfect location. Highly recommended!
We had a very nice stay in an amazing apartment in an amazing city. Very good contact with the host before and during the travel.
10/10 would book again.
Although it has been some time, I remember very well that it was a great experience to stay at this appartment for some days. We even stayed longer than intended and that was no problem at all. Beautiful view when sitting on the rooftop at night or day. The slanted walls throughout the whole appartment give it a funky feeling, but is a bit inconvenient for very tall people. Would recommend this place to anyone wanting a Lisboa city experience, as it is very central and close to most sights.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Absolutely wrong described Apartment: not quiet !!! otherwise very stylish, but very non-functional. Loud, hot, not really be ventilated because of the noise ...; Floors and great mattress great, but bed too narrow. No shelf next to it ..
Absolut falsch beschriebene Wohnung : NICHT ruhig!!! ansonsten sehr stylish, aber sehr unfunktional. Laut, heiß, nicht wirklich lüftbar wegen dem Lärm...; Fußböden toll und Matratze toll, aber Bett zu schmal. Keine Abstellfläche daneben..
Upsides - Absolutely amazing location. Beautiful apartment. Friendly staff. Bottle of wine on arrival. Couldn't ask for a better place to stay.
Downsides - hot water service would heat up once, then shutdown and had to be reset 2 hours prior to every shower. Pillows were really flat and little. Tried to charge extra 30 euros/night when I requested a 3rd bed to be made up. Left waiting for an hour after arranging the arrival time by email and had to make an extra phone call. No hand towels in bathrooms. Had to buy more toilet paper. A partial roll in each bathroom is not sufficient for a 4 days stay for 3 people!
Very welcome. Many explanations on life ã Lisbon, good restaurants. The good addresses ...
No problem. The apartment is perfect ã all points of view.
We were very satisfied.
Très bon accueil . Beaucoup d'explications sur la vie ã Lisbonne , les bons restaurants. Les bonnes adresses ...
Aucun problème . L'appartement est parfait ã tous les points de vue .
Nous avons été très satisfaits .
Perfect location of strategic sightseeing. Apartment with every comfort with some small defect ... a drain in the bathroom not working, motor outside the air conditioner if lit does not collect water with rain falling in the tables in the restaurant below, lack of soap and detergents. Solved these minor inconveniences I would say that the accommodation is absolutely perfect. Comfortable living room with access to all the TV except the Italian. Silent on the 4th floor. What remain perplexed is the commission of Wimdu that seems exaggerated compared to the actual cost of the apartment (€ 85?!?)
Perfetta ubicazione dell'appartamento strategica per visita della città. Appartamento con tutti i confort con qualche piccolo difetto riscontrato...uno scarico del bagno non funzionante, motore esterno del condizionatore che se acceso non raccoglie l'acqua con caduta a pioggia nei tavoli del ristorante sottostante, mancanza di detersivi e sapone. Risolti questi piccoli inconvenienti direi che l'alloggio è assolutamente perfetto. Soggiorno comodo con accesso a tutte le TV tranne l'italiana. Silenzioso al 4°piano con ascensore. Ciò di cui rimango perplesso è la provvigione di Wimdu che mi sembra esagerata rispetto al reale costo dell'appartamento (€ 85?!?)
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Oh my ****ing god. That's not a bad call. Most OCs call that play in that situation. You take what the defense gives you, especially when your OL can't block for ****. What do you guys want, a five receiver set and a QB on IR, or a two man route that is easily contained with 6 or 7 under? You take the draw and if it doesn't work, try to play defense with 4 minutes. This isn't madden where 3rd and 20 you can run your whole playbook; there isn't much in reality that you can run in that down and distance. ****ing Ravens won by throwing a screen on 4th and 27. Colts won with Luck throwing a 3 yard dumpoff. When a defense calls a play to specifically keep you from getting 20+ yards or whatever it is you need, your chances of executing the play where you try to get it all is AT BEST equally as low as throwing a screen or running a draw. Now take your coaches cap off, wipe your tears, and go to bed.
29 rushes against the 2nd worst pass defense in the NFL... That's brilliant.


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So that's four chances. This is for US only. Contest winner will be picked on 2/11/13 at 10pm EST and will be contacted.Im doing it old Fashioned and taking a name out of a hat! (Ill Post A Video For Proof!) Comment to let me know you entered! Good Luck and thanks for any feedback!
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Are you talking about an AR15 gas tube and block?
I am looking for a gasblock which does not require the tube to be kinked (i.e. gasblock hole is level with the hole in the receiver). I saw such a beast , but cannot find it now. LMT sells a barrel assembly with such, but I do not find the block sold sperately.
Thanks in advance,
Are you talking about an AR15 gas tube and block?
Yes, I am refering to the AR15.
The only other thing I could find is a super bull barrel from dpms with a straight gas tube, but the gas block was way over size. You could probably make one with only a drill press. The gas tube hole is about 0.18" and 0.9" deep. Spaced 0.78" on center from the barrel hole (0.75") with a gas tube roll pin hole (.08") spaced 0.7" from the back edge. The gas port hole is .125" on one of my steel blocks and .145" on an aluminum block, both are set .265" from the back edge. I saw You already asked on AR15.com, did you have any luck yet?
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No luck yet from the various sites I asked. Thanks for the input and measurements!
I have a YHM/ZM bolt/carrier that is begging to be made into a working clone. The ZM carrier lacks the back half, so it needs no buffer tube. Instead, it has a "horn" - a long gas tube extending forward of the key. The tube extending from the gas block is mothered inside the extended carrier tube. A return spring and retainer captured by the extended tube brings the B/C home after each cycle.
My 6.8spc Ko-Tonics midlength needs thic mod.
Sounds neat, what kind of stock are you going to go with then, or is it for a pistol? I've been waiting to get a lathe and milling machine to try switching an ar over to a piston system. A member here (VZ58 I think) used a VZ58 gas system and modified it for an ar.
Because of the extended key tube's length (midlength), a pistol build would be impractical and long! I have a mid-length 6.8spc upper now. The carrier should work with it or a 20' barrel. I may contact Kurts Kustom Firearms to see if he will make me a custom block. AR15barrels.com is having trouble over at ARFCOM, or I'd ask him.


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General Motors' future green-car efforts will focus on plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles rather than conventional hybrid powertrains, product chief Mary Barra says.
Barra told Automotive News that GM has narrowed its future development emphasis on plug-ins in an effort to defend its leadership position solidified with the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, launched in 2010. The Volt has just been launched under the Holden badge in New Zealand.
GM will unveil an electric Spark minicar this month at the Los Angeles auto show.
"A major focus for GM's electrification strategy will center on the plug," said Barra. She added that plug-ins offer "a unique opportunity to change the way people commute," and that Volt owners "love the ability to refuel at home".
Traditional hybrid technology "is important, of course", Barra said. "But we think plug-in technology will play an increasingly important role over the years to come."
The strategy leaves GM with a heavy focus on both ends of the electrification spectrum: pure EVs at one end and plug-in hybrids, along with its eAssist mild-hybrid technology, which uses a much smaller battery and small electric motor to assist the petrol engine under certain conditions, at the other end.
By 2017, GM expects to sell 500,000 vehicles a year globally with some form of electrification, from mild hybrids to pure electrics, Barra said.
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Bye Bye CRT
Posted on 18th Mar 2009 at 10:07 by Clive Webster with 23 comments
Having just moved house, the time has come to finally get rid of my old CRT monitor. For some reason I haven't felt ready to part with it until now – possibly because the colours are so rich and vibrant. Certainly more so than the 22in screen I replaced it with (why oh why did I not get the BenQ FP241W or whichever 24in Dell UltraSharp was out at that time?). Anyway, after realising that I hadn't even turned the Iiyama CRT on in a year, it was time to phone the council to take the screen to the recycling plant.
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I think you just gave her the answer. Beekeeping is a fluid activity. You cannot simply keep a static number. I just hope the thread has not scared her off. Personally, I have found it facinating and instructive.
I think you just gave her the answer. Beekeeping is a fluid activity. You cannot simply keep a static number. I just hope the thread has not scared her off. Personally, I have found it facinating and instructive.
I am frequently confused!
What are you talking about...flat clusters. How do these "flat" clusters impact the bees, the clusters, and the future of the colony?
The only proof I have of those 2 improvements is the results. Changing configuration and incorporating the pollen box were done over a two year period - in parallel. When they were both in place, suddenly, I had a marked improvement in wintering. Went from 25% feeble clusters in Feb to constently adequate cluster size. Can't say wihich of the two changes had the most effect, but suspect the pollen box was the key. The configuration change supported the pollen box maneuver.
By moving a shallow of brood below the single deep during the spring expansion, that shallow is backfilled with long-term pollen, bee bread. It remains there until August when fall expansion starts to rear wintering young bees. August, locally, is a period of low field pollen availability. The colony dips into their pollen reserve to start the fall expansion. By first frost, the pollen box is empty and is left in place going into winter. Used in late winter to CB honey above the brood nest.
This doesn't make much sense until you recognize the bees heritage. Their instincts were developed for life in the tree hollow of extended forest. Not much fall flow in the forest. What the pollen box is intended to do is accommodate their instincts in a Lang hive. The hypothesis is that in the vertical tree hollow, they store pollen in the period when it's plentiful, the spring. As the brood nest grows upward, the pollen reserve is stored at the bottom. Come time to rear wintering bees, the broodnest grows downward into the pollen reserve. In so doing, the cluster winters in the bottom with their honey stores overhead to grow into in the late winter. The small-cell folks call that the "core" broodnest.
Note that in the pollen box application the brood nest does not recede to the bottom. Their reluctance to jump the gap at the interbar space and their preference for maintaining brood in the larger volume of the deep keeps the winter cluster in the deep.
You ask how these observations affect colony performance. Although colony reservaltions about Lang design are not limited to the circumstance here, certainly, wintering is a biggee.
Would you go for a little skull drill? Picking a circumstance that we both see (?) I would like to see your answer. The situation: A starter colony has nearly filled their first deep.(70 to 90%) A second deep is added above. There is some delay in the start of comb-drawing in the added, upper deep of foundation. The question: What are the factors influencing the length of the delay - both shortening and lengthening?
If Pamela was scared off by this Thread I don't know what to say. It's been pretty tame compared to others one will find.
Mark Berninghausen
And the relevance of your flat bottomed cluster is....??
By city ordinance I am only allowed to have 2 hives, and am supposed to do all I can to prevent swarming. How to accomplish this? If I do splits, I have too many hives. If I don't I have to result to other means of swarm control.
Perhaps Pamela is in a similar situation and has constraints that make 5 hive optimal. My choice to date is to go ahead and do the splits and then combine, (the city doesn't keep a very close eye on us) but will start CB next year.
Buzz Abbott
USDA zone 11a, Western Garden zone 24 (75 ft elev. n34.0w118.47)
Perhaps brood removal and destruction? Thru freezing of brood combs?
Mark Berninghausen
pull the queen prior to swarm season, destroy all but one queen cell, or even all the queen cells, no new brood for a month, and requeen.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
understood, that's why i suggested just taking the queen. not really splitting, but the same mo as a cut down split. i.e. just prior to main flow, take queen (but not frames of bees), go back a week later and remove queen cells, (maybe leave one good one), go back a month later and check for mated queen, (or put in new queen).
i did a cut down split on one of my strong hives this spring, (read about it on bushfarms.com, under swarm prevention i think). it worked exactly as mike bush said it might.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
And what do you do w/ the queen you took?
Mark Berninghausen
On the issue of the queen and a gap. I am not saying this is correct, I am saying this is how I understand the explanation of a problem. Notice I said "A" problem, no the "The" problem.
First is the theory that a queen starts at the first cell and lays an egg. she then moves to an adjacent egg to lay the next. This is argued as the method the queen will lay maximum brood. If the queen passed an empty cell to lay time was lost. Equals less efficiency. The overall idea is that the queen then lays in a pattern that has the first egg at the center of a circle and continues to spiral outwardly from this center laying in the next adjacent empty cell. This explains why a nest woudl be round in cross section. but does not explain to me how it widens into a ball. Btu that is another issue and it never did get addressed for me anyway. Anyway the queen is doing her circling thing with the next available cell right a her nose merrily laying eggs to beat the band. but then suddenly the location where the next empty cell should be is a strip of wood. This disrupts the queens progress to the next empty cell. she turns around and heads back only to find cells full of eggs. she must continue to hint around and reestablish her natural pattern of egg laying. This could in theory cause such a disruption that the queen actually abandons that entire pattern and finds a new location to start again. Possibly requiring that she search for and find another completely empty comb. I suspect it would actually be very hard to know just exactly how much this disruption effects laying. I can imagine a female dog that has chosen it location to whelp. To then only be moved. She may spend hours or even a day or more adjusting to such a disruption. It may be just a disruption of a few minutes. I have heard from several sources that queens are reluctant to cross the gap between fraems. deep frames present fewer gaps than med or shallow. One of the sources I was reading on this issue promoted the use of only ultra or extra deep fraems for a brood box. a frame large enough to contain an entire laying patter, as it only gets so large, with no disruptions.
So although med and even shallow boxes are used, and queens to lay in them. They do work. But are they the best choice? It is not so much a matter of all brood being lost. but a matter of how much brood is being lost.
So do I think that the size of fraems in the brood box will make or break a beekeeper. By no means. But it could be a way to improve your management for those looking for ways to improve.
So far my direct observations of how a queen lays is not consistent with the above. At least in the early part of the season. I have observed twice now that the queen will go to the highest point in the hive that contains empty cells and begin laying. In both cases it struck me as the queen was getting as far away from the entrance as possible. As she lays she will then be forced to move downward. or toward the entrance to find new empty cells. In 21 days as the first eggs are emerging. the queen is far removed from that location in the hive. the bees will then fill that cell with nectar. Eventually the queen gets pushed back down toward the entrance where, Hopefully, the brood nest will be maintained for the season. that or she runs out of room and it is time for the colony to swarm.
I watched almost daily as a queen filled almost two full deep boxes with brood in this way. IT did strike me that she was clearly either in the upper or the lower box. but it never appeared she was laying in both boxes at the same time. It had the effect of something like she was in one room or the other. but the gap clearly made a difference. not necessarily a problem.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Thank you all for your responses. I am now thoroughly confused, but will go with my best instinct and read, read, read. I know you all have your own way of beekeeping and I really enjoy reading what you have to say. I am brand new to this and have been learning so much and hopefully don't lose my bees for my ignorance. I am old-fashioned in lots of ways and believe that they know way more than we do. I think lots of common sense will go along way. I just want to do right by them. They give me more than I ever asked for. It is a challenge for me and I don't really care to go into the Scientific way of doing things. Just as long as they are ok, I will let nature stay in charge. The bees have done fine without us for a long time. Thanks for all of your help and comments and suggestions.
"Live it like you stole it"
I'm glad to see you are still w/ us. More participation from you, especially on your own Thread, would help us better understand your goals and thereby make suggestions more aplicable to your situation.
What exactly is your situation? Are you averse to splitting or simply don't want to lest you make a mistake, do more harm than good. Or what?
Thanks for a reply.
Mark Berninghausen
Where a queen lays eggs and in which cells she lays them in has a lot to do w/ which cells have been prepared for her to lay in and where she is directed to by the worker bees.
Mark Berninghausen


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Haci Bekir is the 18th-century sweets maker credited with inventing Turkey's signature confection—lokum (Turkish Delight)—sweet, gelatinous cubes. Today, Haci Bekir's "Bon Bon Turc" confections are available throughout the city in gift-ready packaging. Custom-packed boxes of coarse-ground almond paste or assorted Turkish Delight flavors include rose, cinnamon, mint, and chocolate-coated pistachio. Store locations in Eminönü or İstiklal Caddesi.
Turkish Coffee
Try Turkish coffee from producer Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi. Freshly roasted, finely ground beans are available at a shop next to the Egyptian Bazaar or at franchises throughout the city. Don't forget a long-handled copper cezve (coffee pot) for preparing the thick, dark brew.
Look for Anatolian archaeology-inspired Paşabahçe historic glassware collections. Vases are engraved with 11th-century Selçuk designs or Ottoman calligraphy. Byzantine mosaic work on decorative bowls. Outlets are located in major shopping areas.
Ottoman-Inspired Art
Ottomania: miniature reproductions, illuminated paintings of Sultan's caftans, whirling dervishes, calligraphy on dieffenbachia leaves. Available at the Anatolian Arts Club showroom in Büyükdere, Pera Museum shop in Tepebaşı, Artrium in Tünel, and at better shops in and around the Grand Bazaar, like Nick Merdenyan's Calligraphy Corner (#24 İç Bedestan).
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Authentic Turkish bath supplies, including handmade Turkish towels, olive oil soap, natural fiber kese scrub mitts, and embossed copper bathing bowls, are available at Abdulla or Derviş on Keseciler Caddesi, Grand Bazaar.
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March 2013 Suggestions!
Hey Home Community,
March is here, and green clothes and other spring-related wishes are on the horizon. What will March bring?
Let me get down to business—
Helpful hints to post the best suggestions:
1) Your top Virtual Item requests from games or general items. A Virtual Item is pretty much anything in Home you can own (clothing, figurines, furniture, etc.) but cannot live in (like Personal Spaces).
2) Visual aids AKA screenshots! If you can find a screenshot of what you want, please include these! That old saying, "A picture is worth 1000 words," could not be truer. You all do a great job. Keep throwing suggestions and pics our way! Thanks in advance for collecting images, reference art, etc. to best illustrate just what you're talking about.
P.S.: If you are new to these forums (or just new to this process), check last month's suggestion thread to see how your fellow community members submit their requests.
P.P.S.: Continuing the effort to keep this thread tidy, please refrain from making commentary about other suggestions in this thread. Simply copy/paste and begin another thread to start a conversation about a particular item, suggestion, concept or idea.
Re: March 2013 Suggestions!
-Bumper Cars Space
-Game related costumes
-Gym Emotes
- push ups
- jumping jacks
- sit-ups
- etc.
-Flying Pegasus and a Flaming Horse
Re: March 2013 Suggestions!
How about a new portable camera or active item that has the ability to blur out the background with a few added effects for touch. So you can get nice, cinematic, & artistic shots without having to do much through post production in a photo editing program. Home needs depth of field & more bokeh! lol
Homie From November 26, 2008 - September 13, 2013.
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Please can we get more Real Game Related Content in Home. Home shouldn't simply be about 3rd party developers.
The Last of Us is coming in May. It would be wonderful if we got a lounge, costumes and more just like we did for Uncharted 3.
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We've had two different Isaac Clarke costumes in Home, so how about we get some Necromorphs! If possible, give them custom animations/emotes.
Dead Space Necromorph Slasher Costume (for males)
Dead Space Necromorph Spitter Costume (for females)
Dead Space Puker Costume (for both genders)
Dead Space Necromorph Stalker Costume (for both genders)
But above all else, I want to see a Plasma Cutter locomotion! Now that Home's capable of such a thing and Dead Space 3 is out, I've gotta prepare my Home avy for the horrors that await!
Plus, it would make me VERY happy if it came with a shooting emote and a way to toggle it between vertical and horizontal mode. Hoooly crap that would be awesome.
Re: March 2013 Suggestions!
We have earned quite a few trophies in Home these past few years. Unfortunately the shelves we have cannot accommodate all of them due to their sizes and the sizes of the trophies themselves.
I recommend having a complimentary Home Trophy Room given to every Home user, in addition to the Harbor Studio Apartment. This room would have shelves up and down the walls to hold 100 trophies no matter what their sizes are. Many of us will have the same trophies, but some will have rare ones that can no longer be attained due to spaces having been removed or events that are no longer active.
I think some of us would like to show off those rare trophies along with the rest. It would be nice if we had that Home Trophy Room with shelves designed for all of them. Have baked in furniture for sitting around in while we chat about how we earned the trophies.
I hope having a Home Trophy Room for trophies won in Home makes some kind of sense.


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" Brand: Lamaze / Age: 6 months "
According to www.lamazetoys.co.uk/ the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stacker has two great games in one. These are that the bugs can be played with individually, or stacked. Within this review, I seek to explore how Lamaze can justifiably claim that these two games are 'great', and show how the Balancing Bug Stacker's construction and design is crucial in achieving this success. Moreover, I will illustrate how Lamaze are underselling their product through this description since there are further uses to which this toy can be put.
The Balancing Bug Stacker consists of six brightly coloured, slightly anthropomorphised arthropods. They are plastic, each housing an integral magnet which also serves to make each bug rattle if it is shaken (physically, rather than emotionally). Being approximately the size of a large egg they fit snugly in the palm of my medium-sized hands, if held in such a way as to avoid the various rubbery and knobbly protrusions that form wings, legs and antennae. Lamaze suggest this toy is suitable from six months, and we have owned a set since Baby was 7 months (4 months corrected). She is now coming up to 14 months, so we have had plenty of time to review and assess this toy.
Individual play
It will be obvious to you, the reader, that these bugs can be played with individually. What is it that makes this activity 'great' as Lamaze claim? Observing Baby at play I can see that she has enjoyed shaking the Bugs to make them rattle. There is a definite weight to the bugs so this will have helped her develop her arm muscles a little. She has also spent time feeling them and sensing the different shapes and textures that Lamaze have provided, something that has undoubtedly helped her fine motor skills. Latterly the bugs' legs and wings have become a favourite surface upon which to relieve Baby's sore gums. I notice she favours the flat wings for her emerging front teeth and the legs for her as yet unseen back teeth.
When playing together, Baby and I generally afford each Bug its own persona. We are slightly hampered in that each bug has the same smiley face, but nevertheless we are able to have Snail slowly slithering, Bee buzzing, and Butterfly fluttering for example. The spider is a useful prop when singing Incy Wincy Spider, the Ladybird when reciting Ladybird, Ladybird Fly Away Home.
The sixth bug is a squat green thing and is something of an enigma. I guess he can be whatever we want him to be.
It is the variety of possibilities when playing with the bugs individually that makes this a great activity.
Stacking items on top of each other is a developmental milestone for babies that demands good hand-eye co-ordination, so any stacking toy should be of interest and use to baby. Because these bugs have magnets in them and the top and bottom of each bug is flattened, they stack on top of each other easily, and stay in position reasonably well. They can go either way up and will stack in any order, so they are most suitable for the novice stacker. They stack with a satisfying 'clomp' sound too.
As yet Baby CrazyEgg is not much interested in stacking things for herself, though she is highly delighted when others stack on her behalf. This is because one of the things Baby CrazyEgg loves to do is...
This can be achieved through the direct lunge or using an intermediary such as cuddly Elmo. Simply grab his eyeball and swing and the bug stack comes tumbling down. Baby will applaud this, or sometimes 'Bash-a-Bug' on the carpet and blow raspberries to signify her glee.
Pulling apart
This is where the Balancing Bug Stacker really triumphs over many other stacking toys. Baby can grasp two attached bugs and has to exert pressure to pull them apart. How the bugs are held will determine to an extent what development is taking place, for example perfecting the pincer-grasp action of thumb and forefinger, or clasping and gripping with the whole hand. The action of pulling apart requires the use of both sides of the brain and so is great for cognitive development, in the same way that you might get Baby to have fun by ripping paper.
Since the Bugs are magnetic they will stick to other magnetic surfaces. We have a magnetic board that the Bugs will stick to. If you hit the back of the board they will slide down, so you can have races. The snail always wins though, so sometimes he has to be left out in order to achieve a surprise result.
Fridge magnets
Useful as well as fun, each of the Bugs can do time as an honorary fridge magnet if you so choose. They will hold one or two sheets of paper quite readily.
The magnetic quality of the bugs, their size and shape is crucial to their performing the above tasks so well.
No toy is perfect and the stackable Bugs are no exception. My biggest complaint is the inaccuracy and illogicality in the modelling of the bugs. I can forgive some elements since they are, as I have said previously, anthropomorphised somewhat, and I realise that the bugs have a magnetic task that they are obliged to be able to perform. Nevertheless, the following factors irk:
I have already referred to the Spider bug: his form renders his arachnid heritage indisputable. However he has only six legs, not eight. This is wrong.
The gastropod in the gang has a green body, but its tail-end is blue to match his shell. This is just sloppy. Additionally, his antennae are strangely placed: one behind the other so it appears he has a Mohican.
If during imaginative role-play, you fly the Ladybird eyes first so that it can see where it is going, its spotty wings are under its belly. Sigh.
Overall this is a magnificent stacking toy. Entomologists and gastropod gurus may be disappointed.
I am a big Lamaze fan, and have only ever experienced one poor product from them in terms of the wrist and foot rattles ( see previous review). My five month old daughter received a Lamaze gift set for Christmas, and one of the several products within this set were these Lamaze Bug Stackers, which alone cost just under £8 on the likes of Amazon, which I think is good value for a good quality Lamaze product.
This set includes 6 brightly coloured bugs, ranging from spiders (although it only has 6 legs!) snails and ladybirds, which rely on the use of internal magnets to enable them to be stacked up on top of each other. These bugs can be stacked in any order, however some will make the tower that is built more sturdier. When you stack them altogether, it actually quite resembles a totem pole due to the animals and shape that they form.
Although this toy is aimed at encouraging coordination and motor skills as the child stacks them up, these little bugs can also be used as tiny rattles (although the rattle noise is quite faint) or just little animals toys to play with. My daughter loves trying to chew the legs of the spider and the wings of the butterfly which are textured, making them perfect for her to get into her mouth. They are just the right size for her to hold herself, although at five months she is unable to to stack them herself. However, she absolutely loves these bugs, and will watch me stack them up and knock them over. She has got quite good at knocking them down too!
These stacking bugs are the equivalent of stacking cups or rings, however I think they are even better than the more traditional stacking objects, as they are brighter, more colourful, easier to handle and can be used as a toy/rattle/teether individually.
All in all, these are a brilliant toy from Lamaze. Although my five month old daughter cannot stack the bugs herself yet, she has great fun looking at me stacking them, and loves grabbing them, and trying to chew them.
I have in the past year become an aunty and as he's my first nephew I am always looking out for new toys for my nephew to play with. He is coming to that age where he is moving a lot more and he now needs some toys that can engage him in play instead of just something to chew on like all his stuffed toys.
This is where I purchased him these Lamaze balancing bug stacker, it is a great toy as it something that he can chew on but it is also a toy that we can engage in play as we can stack the bugs too.
The Lamaze balancing bug stacker is a pack that comes with six bright and colourful bugs that you can stack one on top of the other as they all come with a built in magnet. If your child is a little too young to want to stack them they also can be a great rattle as each individual bug makes a different sound.
Each individual bug is the perfect size to fit into your child's hand and are made from plastic so are child friendly and are the perfect weight for your child to lift. The Bugs have wings and legs which are made of a softer plastic so that you child can grasp different shapes and also chew them if they prefer.
There is a ladybird, a bee, a butterfly, a snail, a spider and I can only guess that the other one is an ant and they each have a wonderful smiley face. The only strange thing is that we know that a spider has eight legs, but the spider in this Lamaze set only has six, but for a child under a year old I am sure this will not even cross their mind.
The bugs have large bases and they also have flat tops on their heads so that they can sit flat on top of each other. The great thing is that the magnets make the bugs easier to connect and stay in place, but when a child knocks them down, they also fall apart with ease.
The bugs are easy to keep clean as you just need to wipe them with a damp cloth, you will need to do this regularly if your child plays with these while sitting in their highchair whilst eating.
These are a great small toy so you are able to put them into your changing back and take them anywhere you go for your child to play with and it will keep them entertained for ages.
At the moment my nephew prefers to watch me stack them up as he then races over to knock them down, he can also put two together, but unfortunately any more than that is a challenge, but I am sure that will change in the coming months.
Overall a great toy that retails at under £10, Lamaze have once again created a toy that is great for children of all ages as they grow and develop the bugs can be used in different ways. These Bugs are now a good few months old and they look as good as they day they came out of the box, they have no scratches or marks on where they have been dropped and chewed.
Littlemommabear's overview
This is a great set of toys with lots of engaging features that Little C and I are just starting to enjoy playing with. I bought them recently as I have found the Lamaze toys a really good buy.
What are the stacking bugs like?
This set comes with six bugs: a bee, a spider (who has clearly been in the wars as he only has six legs!), a snail, a caterpillar, a ladybird and a greenfly.
Each bug has a flat top and bottom obviously for stacking purposes and are all various sizes and shapes with funny Lamaze faces - nice big eyes and smiles. They are brightly coloured and definitely attract Little C's attention. They each have a unique rattle so they make all sorts of funny noises to entertain the babies and they also each have different features like legs, wings or a shell. These all have different textures and 'nobbly' bits which I know Little C loves to suck and lick.
They are made of hard, durable plastic.
What age are they best suited for?
Lamaze suggest that they are suitable for babies from 6 months however Little C is already starting to notice them now at 15 weeks if I shake them for him or hand them to him. I am hoping they will entertain for a quite some time yet as my 8 month old nephew Baby M loves throwing them and bashing them and my other nephew, Toddler N, loves to stack them and knock them over and he's 18 months. So from this very personal experience I would say they have wide appeal!
What are my personal experiences of the stackable bugs?
As I spoke of above, the little visitors to my house all seem to really love playing with them in many different age appropriate ways. I actually find them fun to play with too!
The noises and faces engage my younger baby whilst the different textures and bits to grab are just right for an older baby with good hand and eye coordination. The toddlers seem to love stacking and knocking them over, treating them more as a puzzle.
What about its Quality and Health & Safety aspects?
These are very well made. The plastic is hard and durable and doesn't seem likely to break or shatter. The extra parts eg the legs or antennae seem extremely tight and secure so there doesn't seem to be any chance of Little C pulling off any and eating or choking on them. I would always keep an eye on any baby with a toy like this just in case.
One point to note is that *boisterious* children can make these charming little bugs into some pretty nifty missiles. They can be quite painful if used to bash someone (the nose is particularly sore if caught unaware!) or can probably do a fair bit of damage if they are thrown around the room - watch out big plasma TV!!
On the hygiene front I'm happy to say the bugs are all washable and I have washed them successfully a good number of times after much sucking from Baby M and little from Little C in the sink with hot soapy water. To be extra clean you could give them a wipe over with some sterilising fluid like Milton.
Where did I get it and for around how much?
I bought my set from eBay in May 2011 for £5.99. I see lots of them are on eBay and as they are so easily cleaned you could easily buy a second hand set for your own baby if you don't mind about them not being brand new.
Also, as I've mentioned previously in reviews, a plus point is that second hand Lamaze toys seem to sell really well on eBay. So if you're baby gets bored of them you could simply list them and almost get your money back!
Littlemommabear plus points
* Charming and cute bugs which are probably suitable from about 4 months onwards to probably age 3 or 4
*They do encourage the baby to shake, touch and interact
*They have bright contrasting colours and lots of patterns which seem to attract babies attention
*Rattles noises which Little C loves to hear
*Lots more textures to suck, lick, grip and grab - just my baby's favourite kind of things to do!
Littlemommabear negative notes
*Unfortunately the bugs can be great missiles!
*As mentioned above the spider does only seem to have 6 legs - unless he's something else!!
Our family seem very keen on buying the boys "presents" usually not for an occasion, just when they come to visit us. The gifts usually take the form of toys, one of these gifts have included the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stack.
***What Are They?***
The Lamaze Balancing Bug Stack is a colourful bug stack made of six different bug blocks. The blocks are circular with a flat top and base so they can be easily stacked. Inside each bug is a magnet which makes it very easy for a baby to stack these. Each block is a different bug which includes a ladybird, bee, spider, snail, butterfly and beetle. Each block is made from hard brightly coloured plastic. The wings and bits that stick out the blocks are a hard rubber type material that can't be chewed off.
Lamaze state that the Balancing Bug Stack is suitable for children from 6 months plus. My boys received this toy at 4 months old and enjoyed the toy. They enjoyed me building the brightly coloured bug stack up and knocking them down and as they grew and were able to sit unaided, were able to stack and demolish the bug tower. The magnets within the bugs make it very easy for young babies to stack these on top of each other. At 4 months old my boys also enjoyed holding and knowing on the individual bugs. These are a good quality and have no parts that can break off or be swallowed.
I do feel now my boys are 13 months their interest in these toys are limited therefore definitely suited to children under a year old.
These were purchased as a present however after a search online the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stack is sold by a number of retailers in store and online. These include Boots, Tesco and Toys R Us and play.com.
Prices range from £6.99 on play.com to £9.99 in Boots and Tesco with most retailers selling these for around the £9 mark. Personally I was quite surprised by this and feel that this is quite expensive considering these are a basic stacking toy and other more traditional stacking cup type toys are sold around the £5 mark.
***Playing with them***
My boys first started playing with the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stack at around 4 months old. I say playing with this was more a case of me stacking and building the bugs into a tower and trying to encourage them to knock these over. We got a number of smiles from doing this but the boys were more interested in holding and chewing on the bug shaped blocks and hearing the bugs rattle. The multi-coloured design and rattle in each block are stimulating for young babies.
As the boys got to around 6 months old and sit unaided they were very keen and able to play with these toys themselves. The design of the blocks makes it easy for a child to stack the bug blocks on top of each other. The flat base and top make the tower sturdy and because there are magnets within the blocks a baby can easily stack the blocks on top of each other. The bugs can be stacked anyway up so children will not get frustrated at the tower being unsteady and falling down or being over complex to build.
These are made from hard plastic and very durable. There are no scuffs on the plastic bugs despite being regularly knocked over on the floor. Because these are made from quite hard plastic you do need to take care that your child does not throw these at furniture or other children as they could cause some damage. The design and shape are perfect for small hands to do so!
Cleaning the blocks is very easy, you can do so with a damp cloth or wipe. There are a number of grooves on the various blocks so you do need to get into the nooks to ensure they are very clean.
I do feel that these are quite a basic toy definitely suited to younger children under 1 year old. The bug blocks are very easy for small hands to hold and because they are easy to stack in terms of development will help children around the 6 months mark with hand eye coordination and help to develop motor skills. I also found these a useful aid to help my boys to develop to sit unaided to give them something to play with and concentrate on.
For older children these are a fun toy to stack and knock down, something my boys like doing but do have limited interest in these and will crawl off to play with something else once they have built them up and knocked them over once. In terms of learning there are some benefits as you can teach your child about the various bugs and ask them to pick up a certain bug. However these are not the most distinctive of figures so for a toddler these are quite difficult to recognise what they are. Because the blocks are multi-coloured it would also be quite difficult to use these as a learning aid for colours (i.e. asking your child to pick the blue bug up) as each block is made from so many colours.
As a stacking toy I think these are excellent especially for young children. The magnets make these very easy to stack for a young child and the bright colours and smiley faces make them very attractive to children. For parents these are very easy to clean, although you do need to be aware these are made from quite hard solid plastic which if thrown could cause some damage.
I do think in comparison to other toys available in this price range, the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stack is quite expensive. I think the quality of this toy is excellent however for £10 this is a very basic toy and older toddlers will get bored of this quite quickly.
A great alternative to traditional stacking cups albeit at a price.
Logan received these stackable bugs as a present for christmas 2009, I noticed today that he still plays with them even though he has had a huge dose of new toys, so they definitely deserve a review!
There are six bugs in total, all roughly the same size, (inbetween a golf and tennis ball) but they vary a little in shape, meaning some have a larger base than others, they are also flat on the tops of their heads so they can sit flat on top of each other. The body of the toy is hard plastic which is easy to keep clean with a dettol wipe or damp cloth and each has little legs, wings or in the snails case a head, which protrude from the body. Any legs or wings are made of a what feels like hard rubber, which I should imagine would be quite satisfying for a teething baby to gnaw on.
It's difficult to decide what some of the bugs are, but one is definitely a snail, another looks a bit ladybird like and another is similar to a bee - actually, now I look closely, there is also a spider and a butterfly, however the last species escapes me! Not that it's really important what they are, they aren't really close enough to be any use for educational purposes, instead they have other things to offer your baby/ toddler, such as visual stimulation from the bright contrasting colours and cute little smiley faces, each one rattles and obviously, the whole reason behind them - stackability! This is where this toy stands out from other stacking toys, the stacking is made easier as each bug is magnetic. The magnets aren't too strong, so they can easily be pulled apart and there still needs to be some level of control to stack all six on top of each other. As I mentioned earlier, some have larger bases so they are easier to stack if these are placed at the bottom, something Logan is just beginning to understand at 20 months.
They are all in great condition, they aren't played with every day, but at least every other and as they do tend to collapse and fall to the floor I'm impressed that they aren't at all scratched. There is a thin join around each bug which collects a bit of dirt, but I've just cleaned ours up by pushing a dettol wipe around the groove using my finger nail. The only downside really is they are made of hard plastic, so could hurt if rolled on top of or dropped on a little foot (although they are hollow, so quite light).
The bugs are recommended for age 6 months plus, which I agree with. My daughter is 4 months old and although she finds the colours attractive and will get quite excited looking at them, they are still too big for her fingers to get a grasp of. They are still available on Amazon for £8.27 which I think is a great price for such a cute and quality toy.
The Lamaze Balancing Bugs is a magnetic stacking-tower-type baby toy. It's formed out of six, cute, cartoon-style plastic creepy-crawly type creatures, each a couple of inches high. The bugs are an attractively chunky, bulbous-bodied collection, with similar basic shapes all based on flat top and bottomed, squat barrel-shaped cylinders. There's an orange-winged green butterfly, a stripy orange and yellow bumble bee, a blue -shelled snail, a blue caterpillar (which has the Lamaze logo on the front), a ladybird and a purple spider. They all have sweet boggly eyes and a smiling expression and their various protuberances - antennae, butterfly wings, little legs and so on are all exaggeratedly short and rounded to make the toys safe for little children. The bugs all have rattles inside them too, so they make a good noise when they're shaken about. The toy is intended for babies aged six months and up.
The bugs can stack together in any order - although I think the poles of the magnets are arranged so they have to be the right way up or they won't stick together - and when they're all standing on top of each other, especially with the little wings and legs and so on sticking out slightly, end up looking a bit like a mini, cartoon totem-pole. The magnets are all inside the plastic moulding of the bugs' bodies, so they're not likely to be swallowed by a youngster - especially as the plastic these toys are made from seem pretty heavy-duty and robust. Due to the magnets, the bugs click and stick together very satisfyingly, and because of the weight, and the click they make when they go together, I have to admit that there's something strangely appealing even for an adult to get them stacking up.....
The magnets are strong enough that you can pick up and carry one bug with another with no trouble, and if you're careful you can even carry a stack of three, all held together by the magnets and dangling down from the top one. My partner got this toy from Amazon.co.uk for about £8 just before Christmas - the RRP seems to be about the tenner mark.
I really like this as a baby toy as it's so cute, unfortunately however, the baby doesn't seem especially enamoured with it. Our son is just over a year old and quite likes smashing the totem-pole-style stack of bugs apart, if someone else has put them all together, and occasionally rattles one about for a few seconds, but doesn't seem so keen on trying to put them together yet. Maybe that'll come with time.
I Like to fill out online surveys and since a year or so i am a Valuewait member. When answering questions through their website you can save yourself some points and when I reached the amount of 300 points I redeemed them for a Lamaze Balancing Bug Stacker set. I loved the look of these funny bugs and my daughter had the perfect age for this kind of toy.
**About Lamaze**
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Learning Curve offers developmental toys that engage children, and provide parents with peace of mind, knowing their children are being inspired and enlightened by safe and quality playthings. The company proved parents with day to day solution you might need during betime, at home and on the go.
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**Lamaze Balancing Bug Stacker**
This bug stacker can be bought for about 9 Pounds from Amazon.co.uk. The toys exists of 6 bright coloured plastic bugs (a butterfly, wasp, snale, spider etc) that are magnetic. The bugs can be put on top of each other so your child can make a tower of bugs! Each bug also has a little rattle inside of it which means shaking the bug is making a funny sound. The toy is made for children from 6 months to .... and my 18 month year old daughter loves to built towers out of these 6 funny insects.
**My opinion**Wow, such a great and simple toy, with such a great look. I bought this toy mainly because I liked the design and colors and I was pretty sure my girl would also like that! She does. At first she didn't really understand the whole magnetic tower building effect, but once she discovered how to stack these funny bugs, she protected them with her life! A great colourful and educational toy that isn't too expensive and is made of firm material.
I purchased the Lamaze Balancing Bug Stacker from Amazon as a Christmas gift for my son. In fact this particular product was paid for with an Amazon voucher earned on DooYoo, I found that they come in very useful over what was a very expensive Christmas period! Looking back at my records I paid £6.24 for this toy, however as Amazon's prices generally change with the wind, this price has now risen ever so slightly to £6.75.
The Lamaze Balancing Bug Stacker consists of six different mini-beasts; a bumble bee, a snail, a spider, a ladybird and two more which I presume are an aphid and a green fly. Each bug is made from soft plastic and any protruding legs or wings are made from what feels like a hardened rubber, being somewhat softer and more malleable than the body itself. The bugs fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. They are brightly coloured although not overly so. Each has a rattling sound when shaken and each has a magnet it in the top and bottom which aids the stacking of the bugs.
Although very simple in terms of function, these bugs are plenty of fun. They are visually appealing with their smiling faces and childish forms which make them look as though they were drawn by a toddler. They are relatively easy to stack, having magnets inside them, however in order to stack all six the larger bugs need to be positioned towards the bottom.
My little boy enjoys these, not always for stacking but quite regularly for taking around the house and hiding behind pillows, in drawers and the usual places he finds. The soft protruding legs and wings are often used as a teething aid which is perhaps what they were intended to be.
The Lamaze Balancing Bugs are easily cleaned in a bowl of soapy water. Their hard and sturdy form makes them extremely durable and they can easily withstand rough play.
This product is suitable for babies aged 6 months and upwards. However one ever so small concern I have is that one of the bugs has the Lamaze logo situated on it in the form of a sticker. This sticker has already become loose since December. Although my son is a little older, I feel that this could be a choking hazard for younger babies. Surely Lamaze could have painted the logo on in the same way that the faces and detail are painted on?
My only remaining niggle with this product is that it was highly over-packaged. Lamaze have in my opinion gone a little too far in terms of packaging for what is in essence a very sturdy toy. With many food manufacturers now cutting down vastly with regards to use of packaging I do feel that some of the more popular toy manufacturers, Lamaze included, could do their bit too.
Overall I would recommend this product as an alternative to stacking blocks or cups. It is simple yet appealing and may even entice you to play with it yourself!
Each individual plastic bug character has a unique rattle and an enclosed magnet allows them to be stacked on top of each other and stick together. Baby can have lots of fun stacking the bugs together and then knocking them down!


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#1 Sun 02 Dec 12 1:04am
Liquidiser recommendations
I want to get a liquidiser and I want one that:
*actually liquidises rather than leaving chunky bits
*is easy to clean but doesn't have a removable base
any recommendations?
#2 Sun 02 Dec 12 1:27am
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
I have been using a stick blender for years, love it as it has a metal base that can be inserted into a hot pot of veggies and turn it into soup right in the pot. Cleans up easily as it detaches from the motor and goes into the sink for washing up.
Some are better than others with those and more expensive isn't always better. Make sure it has steel bottom that detaches easily and a blending head that circulates well.
#3 Sun 02 Dec 12 1:57am
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
I would buy a Vita-mix if I could afford it. right now we just have a cheapy oster
here is a good breakdown review of some of the better ones on the market
http://www.livingrawbygrace.com/1/post/ … ninja.html
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#4 Sun 02 Dec 12 6:36am
Re: Liquidiser recommendations
I've got a stick blender already (on to my second actually) and it's just not cutting it for all jobs.
I've heard of vita-mix.
Anyone tried a commercial brand? Some seem to be roughly the same price range as kitchen aid.
Anyone got a magimix one? (though that's almost like asking is your second car a Jag).
#5 Sun 02 Dec 12 9:32am
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
I have a kitchen aid blender that I have been very pleased with , some years ago I was instumental in the school buying 2 kitchenaid blenders that they use for making fruit smoothies .
The stick blender that I have is a cuisinart one .
I have seen a demonstration of the vitamix machine . The usual
Demonstration. Where they make vegetable soup that gets hot through the blades spinning do fast .
And they make icecream putting ice ( I think ) in the blender and this freezes the other ingredients.
In the demonstration they make a big thing about putting a small piece of cabbage in everything .. As its good for you and as it blends so smoothly that you can't taste it . ( so they say ) ...
So cabbage and chocolate icecream anyone ?
#6 Sun 02 Dec 12 1:42pm
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
We have the CuisineArt blender and are very happy with the performance.
#7 Sun 09 Dec 12 3:47am
Re: Liquidiser recommendations
Thanks guys. Thinking i'll go either the kitchenaid or cuisinart (is that it mspablo?). I'm going to avoid kenwood as I've had issues with 2 of the 3 things i own.
#8 Sun 09 Dec 12 5:26am
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
I don't know much about the cuisinart blender and what it can manage .
The kitchenaid blender has about 5 different settings , one setting is particularly for crushing ice and another is for blending soup.
The blender is easy to use and has a motor that starts gradually over a few seconds to help prevent motor strain.
I have had a kitchen aid blender for at least 12 years ,probably much longer .. Can't remember .. The years wizz by so fast !
#9 Sun 09 Dec 12 2:00pm
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Re: Liquidiser recommendations
It's a CuisineArt and it crushes ice.
#10 Mon 10 Dec 12 10:27pm
Re: Liquidiser recommendations
mummza, what model have you got?
I'm not sure we have cuisineArt here. Are they the same as http://www.cuisinart.com.au/index.php/h … s/blending (sometimes we see different names for the same products to the US)
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This is the URL to download the BIOS CD iso if you need to update the BIOS.
Bonne chance..
As an FYI since this is another occurrence similar to Mainframe_Snob and 5150CD:
I used the 1.15 Winphlash update method for a 64bit OS. The install appeared to be successful (or so the popup said) but when I confirmed to restart the ThinkPad screen came up and then hung there. I hardbooted (as 5150CD did) and from that point forward the system is almost entirely unresponsive (see my previous description).
I have the laptop with me until I return to the states and in 2 weeks so if there are any tricks I can attempt to resolve this, please let me know.
"I used the 1.15 Winphlash update method for a 64bit OS..."
I tried the same using Win 7 64-bit and ended up with a dead Thinkpad (Mainboard rendered unserviceable).
RMA it - no other choice.
Yeah, I figured its a lost cause but since I have to wait till I get back to the states I'm open to trying just about anyhting that won't damage it any further.
I have the exact same problem with my external monitor (DELL 2405) using a Display Port -> DVI adapter. When the external monitor is hooked up, Windows sometimes doesn't bootup all the way and stops after the 4 dots combine to form the windows logo.
Doesn't happen when the external monitor is not plugged in.
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Hi blade117runner
More interestingly, it is your comments regarding the computer hanging at the Windows logo screen when you have an external monitor (connected through HDMI). I have the same issue (albeit my monitor is connected through the DVI port connected to a Lenovo dock) and has been present before the BIOS update to 1.12. I have spent quite some time troubleshooting this issue with Lenovo and to date we have isolated the fault to either be with the NVIDIA drivers or with the actual GPU on the motherboard. One thing that has come up is the possibility that the screen resolution of the external monitor is different to the native resolution of the internal screen and when the drivers load and have to switch resolution, it causes the system to hang.
If I leave the external monitor unplugged from the dock at bootup, it never hangs. I merely plug in the external monitor into the DVI port after a minute or so and everything is sweet. Not a great solution but it does ensure a successful bootup each and every time.
Does anybody know if there will be a fix for the missing SLIC table after the old flash update? Some people have stated that once it's gone - the only way to get it back is to send the laptop to Lenovo to have them use their reflash tools on it (not an option for many of us who use the laptop for work)
I have an external monitor plugged in and no problems ... however I do have the same problem SOMETIMES with external USB devices.


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So much potential coexists with so many scientific, environmental and economic challenges
Philip T. Pienkos, Lieve Laurens, Andy Aden
Two basic cultivation systems have been developed for photosynthetic microalgae agriculture: open ponds and closed photobioreactors. The ponds can be simple and shallow, 20 to 30 centimeters deep, with little or no mixing. Or they can be oval raceways with dividers in the middle and paddlewheels to keep the water moving. Ponds represent the cheapest possible system (especially if they consist of simple trenches in the ground with no liners), but they provide limited protection against pests, predators and pathogens that can drop from the air. Ponds also tend to have a relatively low surface-to-volume ratio. In dense cultures, too many algal cells can get stuck in the shade, especially without adequate mixing.
Closed photobioreactors must be constructed of clear materials such as glass or plastic and can come in a variety of configurations, such as flat panels, tubes or simple plastic bags that either hang from a support or lie on the ground. Photobioreactors can have higher surface-to-volume ratios, so they reduce self-shading. The closed design can also help keep out unwanted organisms and reduce the amount of evaporation (thus reducing the amount of water needed for continuous cultivation). But they can have problems with CO2 transfer and with heat and O2 buildup. And they are also much more expensive than ponds. Even though the cost of production of algal biomass for high-value products such as nutraceuticals and food supplements is not as critical as it will be for fuel production, most commercial algae enterprises use open ponds. They control the quality of the crop by choosing conditions that encourage the growth of the production strain rather than the drop-ins.
Our evaluation of production economics indicates that open ponds will be much more cost effective than photobioreactors, but our laboratory hasn't yet advocated for one technology over the other. Both systems have advantages and disadvantages, and both, at this stage, are too expensive to produce biofuels that are cost competitive with petroleum-based fuels. We will continue to monitor developments that will either reduce production costs or help defray those costs, with other improvements or by identification of value-added coproducts.
Cultivation is only one of the challenges to scaling up algal-feedstock production. Harvesting the cells and removing water to facilitate TAG extraction pose commercialization hurdles. Even under ideal growth conditions, it is difficult to get more than 1 to 2 grams of biomass per liter of culture. Aerobic fermentation processes with industrial bacterial strains such as E. coli can reach 100 grams per liter. The low algal-cell densities require as much as a hundredfold concentration of algal cells before the extraction process can be performed efficiently. Centrifugation can easily achieve this sort of concentration, but it is considered too capital- and energy-intensive for use in fuel production. Other methods such as flocculation and dissolved-air flotation have been adapted from the wastewater-treatment industry and are much cheaper. Flocculation uses inorganic ions or organic polymers (or in some cases takes advantage of the intrinsic properties of the algal cell wall) to get cells to clump together. The clumps can be collected by gravity settling or can be brought to the surface by bubbling with air or other gases—dissolved-air flotation. Both of these methods are less expensive than centrifugation but may require modifications for each algal strain and each set of growth conditions, and achieve just a fraction of the cell concentration that centrifugation produces.
Once algal cells have been adequately concentrated, it is still not easy to extract lipids. Vegetable oils can be removed by pressing seeds, but algal cells are too small and tough for efficient pressing. Hexane solvent extraction is useful with soybeans and other oil seeds, but it can be difficult to get the hexane to penetrate the algal cell walls. Often additional steps, such as sonication or mechanical homogenization, are needed to disrupt an algal cell wall and make the lipids more accessible. These steps add to the overall cost and energy requirements, so the search goes on for the process that works at scale with wet algae.
Although lipids are the key algal component for biofuel production, algal carbohydrates and proteins could be feedstock for other energy products. Methane can be produced with anaerobic digestion, and other biofuels can be made using fermentative and catalytic processes. Given this potential, NREL is also developing a strategy for accurate and detailed carbohydrate and protein quantification in algal biomass.
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City Commissioner Tony Yaniz is known for his exuberance on the dais at Old City Hall, often fueling up with Rockstar energy drinks or a cafe con leche.
But it's not local politics fueling his latest venture.
Try baseball, the unofficial sport of this tropical island that produced major leaguers Boog Powell, Bronson Arroyo and Khalil Greene.
And try it from a Cuban-born longtime Key Wester who slugs it out in the over-39 softball league he founded, while approaching his 63rd birthday in April.
"I've got 100 people who want to go," said Yaniz, of the reaction to the recently crafted plan to take a teen boys baseball team to Havana for Cuba's annual Scholastic Games. "Our history of sports and culture and history itself with Cuba is so intertwined. They're one and the same."
Yaniz, who left the island nation for Miami at age 10 and is a first term city commissioner, received a flood of interest after he posted about the Cuba trip on his Facebook page a week ago.
"It's gone nuts," he said. "People are calling me."
The plan is to put together a 16-member boys baseball team, the Key West All-Stars, to compete in the games this July. The age bracket could be 13 and 14-year-olds or 15 and 16-year-olds, said Yaniz.
Fundraising will be necessary, said Yaniz, who estimated the trip will cost $1,600 per person and pointed out that he would pay his own way.
Yaniz said he and School Board Member Robin Smith-Martin started talking about such a trip and reached out to others in town. If successful, the same backers want to take a girls softball team to the neighboring island in 2014.
While Americans' travel to Cuba remains restricted, having been outright forbidden after Fidel Castro took over the island nation in 1959, it's no longer completely illegal.
The Obama administration in 2011 revised the rules to allow for "people to people" licenses, which requires that Americans take part in a full-time schedule of "educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction between the travelers and individuals in Cuba," according to the U.S. Treasury Department guidelines.
The trips were created under President Bill Clinton in 1999 but stopped in 2003 when President George W. Bush took over the White House.
A youth soccer team from Key West has made two annual trips to Cuba for a big tournament, after coaches wrangled with the Treasury Department over whether the teens would have much free time while on the island.
In the summer of 2011, the Key West Strikers were granted the necessary travel licenses to send 13 players and 12 chaperones to Havana. Last year, the same organization sent three teams of boys and girls to the soccer tournament.
But when it comes to baseball, the iconic sport in Key West and Cuba, Yaniz said his All-Stars would be a first.
Nancy Coward, who with her husband and soccer coach Tom Coward, helped take a Key West boys soccer team to a Cuban tournament the past two years, called this great news.
"They're going to have a good opportunity over there and a life lesson," said Nancy Coward. "I wish them all the best and I'll definitely be contacting them to offer my help."
Critics still say that U.S. travel to Cuba inadvertently provides money to the Communist regime.
"This is nothing more than tourism," U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said on the Senate floor in a speech last year. "This is tourism for Americans that, at best, are curious about Cuba and, at worst, sympathize with the Cuban regime."
Yaniz, who hasn't been back to Cuba since his birth there in 1960, obviously disagrees, saying the experience will enrich kids from both nations.
"The only politics here are between the foul lines," said Yaniz. "Stolen bases, RBIs, hits and runs, suicide squeezes home runs and bunts. It's all about baseball."
Cuban officials overseeing the sports tournaments have already welcomed the Key West contingent, said Yaniz.
"I got an email from them saying, yeah, come on," said Yaniz. "They want us to come there."


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City to dealership: Take military flags down
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The City of Idaho Falls told an auto sales company to take down its flags honoring the military.
"We're just here supporting the troops," said Autos 4 Less owner Jonathon Long. "We're even doing a Christmas donation box for veterans."
Long was told to take these flags down after the city apparently received complaints.
"With that notice, I pulled the flags down, and after thinking about it overnight, I became more and more upset and decided to do something about it," Long said Wednesday.
Long contacted the code enforcement officer and was told the flags are considered portable signs and do not follow the city's sign code regulations.
Long was told he could face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if Autos 4 Less continued to fly the flags.
"I'm just really upset we can't support our military," Long said.
One of Long's employees is especially upset.
"It really hits home for me," said Transportation Specialist David Claiborne. "I'm a veteran. I was in the Navy. I have a son that actually went to Afghanistan in the Province of Helmand and fought for this country literally, and we love to support our troops."
The city says it's not the content of the signs, but simply the rules. So for now, Autos 4 Less will have to cooperate.
"We do support our troops, and hopefully we'll be able to put our flags back up," said Claiborne.
A code enforcement officer also said the business doesn't have a permit for even one portable sign.


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I purchased a June Tailor thread rack that I hung on the wall next to my embroidery machine.
I love it, easy to see and use the thread, no going through drawers or plastic boxes.
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I purchased a June Tailor thread rack that I hung on the wall next to my embroidery machine.
I love it, easy to see and use the thread, no going through drawers or plastic boxes.
my dad made me a big rack to hold thread. then I covered them with sandwich baggies so that I could see what I had and also stuck a bobbin on top if had the color loaded. he also made me cone holders for the large cones from a small board, a dowel and a wire hanger. I added the small needle cover from syringes to thread through it and it doesn't tangle.
I use this box to store my threads, have 2 of them. It keeps the dust and dog fur off of my threads. My friend was a LA quilter and she used the rolling drawer stacks that have 3-4 drawers in them, they were perfect for the large cones.
Just wanted to post what I decided to do for my thread storage. After everyones ideas and comments I came up with this idea.
I think it will work, keeps dust off, portable and can hold 350+ spools of thread. I haven't even begun to load it with my thread yet. (may need two units!)
Thank you everyone for your comments on this.
This is working out real nice for me.
Well, Wal Mart sells the plastic see through cases for matchbox/hot wheels cars. I bought those for $5.00 each and my Mettler threads are stored in them. They lay flat so you can see the colors and fit perfectly. I have seperate ones for all purpose, embroidery and quilting threads. I never buy the "sewing/quilting" storage containers, I look in the sporting goods department or in the toy section. Much cheaper.
Chickadeee55, what are those units you have.. they look like they are doing a great job holding a LOT of thread.
Judie, this is a storage unit on wheels, that I got at JoAnns (they go on sale for 35.00), I put peg board in the bottom of the drawers and added plastic dowels - each drawer can hold up to 30 large spools, so that comes out to 300 spools of thread for the whole unit and that is the large spools.
I really like it, dust free and portable.
I have 2 plastic storage drawer units. I wanted the thread spools to stay in place, so I lined the bottom of the drawers with peg board and then glued golf tees into the holes. It works great. I had to have my dad drill the holes slightly larger to accommodate the size of the golf tee heads (we left one hole between each of the golf tees). It makes it easy to just open the drawer and see what colors you have.
To keep the thread from unraveling off the spools, I tape the ends to the thread with a snip of the 1/4" tape they sell at JoAnn's to mark 1/4" on your quilting projects. It doesn't seem to gum up the thread (it's designed not to gum up the quilt projects) and seems to work fairly well - although the adhesive does dry out after a few months. It does seem to keep my thread drawers nice and neat though!
Totally agree. The sports department always has the best finds and the best $.


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The Quest for Smoke Detection Perfection
An effort to reduce nuisance alarms and better detect smoldering fires has led to the development of a new type of algorithm-assisted alarm. Learn how the device differs from standard photoelectric and ionization devices and how it might advance life-safety measures.
Fred Conforti December 2, 2012
How to End the Smoke Detection Debate
In 1991, a recommendation was made to the NFPA Steering Committee for Smoke Detection Technology for a tighter test regimen that (if detectors could pass) would eliminate the controversy surrounding photoelectric and ionization technologies. The assessment proposed two changes to the UL 217 large-scale fire tests: shorten the UL smoldering fire test time allowed to less than 40 minutes from the current 75 minutes; and light the paper fire test from the top, not the bottom.
Detector technology at that time could not pass both of these revised tests. The photoelectric devices would not have enough visible smoke in the paper test, and the ionization devices would not have enough time in the smoldering test. The purpose of the recommendations was to set a standard of excellence that manufacturers would have to work diligently to meet. New technology would have to be developed, but at least there would have been a target.
While the recommendations were not adopted at the time they may still come to fruition. They would establish a new category of detectors capable of equaling detection times in flaming fires and substantially improving detection times in smoldering fires. Additionally, these new detectors could be set with lower sensitivities making them less susceptible to nuisance alarms. These devices can be set with lower sensitivities because they do not have to be set to high sensitivities to detect smoldering fires any longer. False alarms will be reduced.
Photoelectric detectors may not survive this test regimen, but there are accounts of multiple flaming fires (residential and commercial) during which the ion detectors went off quickly. Had it not been for the speed of the ion detector activation, the negligible damage would have been much worse.
Furthermore, when these fires were detected there was hardly any visible smoke and what damage there was would have resulted in little to no financial loss. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that a photo detector would not have alarmed until these fires were much larger and considerably more damage was done.
Once detectors are required to pass these two revised tests, not only would the controversy finally be put to bed but the following benefits would result:
- Faster fire detection over a broader range of types of fires
- Fewer nuisance alarms than with current ion detectors because sensitivities can be set lower
- Lower cost than photoelectric or combo detectors
- Fewer models stocked by stores
- Less confusion for fire officials and buyers
Instituting a more stringent test protocol would revitalize fire protection efforts anew with the ultimate goal of saving more lives.
Fred Conforti is former CEO of the Pittway Systems Technology Group (PSTG). He can be contacted at [email protected]
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Cassini spacecraft sends fresh photos of Phoebe
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Saturn's moon Phoebe is shown in this photo, taken by NASA spacecraft Cassini on June 11 and released by NASA on Sunday.
High-resolution pictures taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's mysterious moon Phoebe have shown scientists evidence that it hailed from the outer reaches of the solar system.
The internationally built Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Phoebe on Friday as it prepares to enter a four-year orbit to study Saturn, its rings and 31 known moons.
The $US3.3 billion ($4.74 billion) plutonium-powered spacecraft, which is carrying 12 science instruments and a probe, came within about 2070 kilometres of the dark moon.
Photographs released yesterday showed shiny patches, probably ice, on the battered moon that is dotted with overlapping craters of various sizes. The ice was probably excavated from under the moon's surface layer as objects over the eons struck Phoebe, the ringed planet's largest outer moon.
"My suspicion so far from what we've seen is that it's a body from the outer solar system," Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team, said.
The bright patches on Phoebe's surface are one indication that it is an icy body, which would make it similar to other objects in the outer solar system, Porco said.
Phoebe and a handful of smaller outer moons also orbit Saturn in the opposite direction of the planet's inner moons. "That alone marks it as a body that was probably captured in Saturn's orbit early in the life of the solar system," Porco said.
The US-European spacecraft successfully transmitted hundreds of images and data from its instruments that scientists will pore over to determine Phoebe's mass, density and composition. The data could show that Phoebe is the first object from the outer reaches of the solar system to be the subject of an up-close encounter.
Dennis Matson, project scientist for the mission, has called the flyby "key to knowing more about the mysterious oddball, which has been the object of interest of many scientists".
Up next for Cassini is a trajectory correction scheduled for Wednesday to bring the spacecraft into position to become a satellite of Saturn on June 30.
The US-European built Cassini, which is the most sophisticated science spacecraft ever, could take as many as half a million pictures during the course of its mission. Cassini also carries the Huygens probe, which was supplied by the European Space Agency and carries six instruments.
The probe is set to be released in December and is expected to land a month later on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.