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A variety of activities have been scheduled at Hope College on Monday-Saturday, Jan. 21-26, in conjunction with the college's annual Civil Rights Celebration Week. The week honors all persons and groups who have worked toward the advancement of civil rights and social justice, and has been organized in conjunction with the national commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21.
Events will include screenings of the film "The Great Debaters," the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Luncheon, a special Chapel service and the Civil Rights Commemorative March. The public is invited.
Admission to all of the events except for the film is free, although advance registration is required for the luncheon
The week will open with the college's Chapel service on Monday Jan. 21, at 10:30 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel with special guest Rev. Robert Stevenson. Stevenson is the senior pastor of City Hope Ministries in Grand Rapids and also serves as an adjunct professor at Grand Valley State University as well as Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses in African American studies and African American church history.
Built around 1 Cor. 12:12-28, his message will focus on activism as an issue of body unity, noting that throughout the history of social change there has always been a collective movement that crosses ethnicity, culture and race.
The Civil Rights Commemorative March will take place immediately following the Chapel service on Monday, Jan. 21, from approximately 11 a.m. until 11:15 a.m. The silent march, which will begin at the anchor by Graves Hall and end on the first floor of the rotunda of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication, provides an opportunity to commemorate the sacrifices and contributions that people of all backgrounds have made for freedom and equality. The march is co-sponsored by the college's Office of Multicultural Education and multicultural student organizations.
Following the march, there will be a brief presentation honoring past and present social justice activist and movements on Monday, Jan. 21, at 11:15 a.m. on the first floor of the rotunda in the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication. The event will feature remarks by Stevenson as well as poster displays, and is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Education and Campus Ministries.
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Luncheon will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 11:30 a.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
Dr. John Lee, who is a licensed psychologist and coordinator of the Multi-Ethnic Counseling Center Alliance (MECCA) at Michigan State University, will present the keynote address, "What is This Dream All About." Lee will provide a deep analysis of King's dream, particularly as it relates to race, culture, and character. The luncheon is sponsored by the college's Office of Multicultural Education and Herman Miller Inc. Advance registration for the luncheon is taking place until Friday, Jan. 11 for community members and Hope faculty and staff. Hope students have until Thursday, Jan. 17, to RSVP. Registration is through the Office of Multicultural Education, which can be called at(616) 395-7867.

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The 1977 Census of Public Water Supplies in Missouri, published by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, lists 179 public water supply districts serving rural areas and 180 communities in the state.
Many Missouri rural areas experienced considerable population growth during the 1970s. As rural population increases, especially in the Ozarks, there will likely occur an increasing need for safe drinking water. In 1977, 34 counties had no rural public water supply districts; 18 of those were in the Ozarks.
In 1977 most water districts in the Ozarks, 73 percent, had wells that furnished water not requiring treatment. Most districts in the remainder of the state, 65 percent, purchased water from other utilities. Purchased water was usually finished and treated. Average monthly consumption of water per hookup (meter connection) in 1978 was 4,522 gallons in the Ozarks districts compared to 5,671 gallons in districts outside of the Ozarks. There were 11 hookups per mile of distribution pipeline in the Ozarks compared to six hookups per mile in the remainder of the state.
Treatment practices are reported in the 1977 Census of Public Water Supplies. Most well water supplies in the Ozarks require no treatment practices. About one-fifth of the Ozarks well supplies require disinfection, except in the St. Francois Mountains, where about one-half of the well water supplies need disinfection. Hypochlorinators may be used for this purpose. More extensive treatments are generally needed elsewhere in the state, especially in northern Missouri. Such treatment can be obtained by using factory-built complete treatment plants with modules for aeration, chemical mixtures, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection.
Construction of rural water districts can be expensive as noted by selected costs listed in Table 1. Costs for items commonly used in Missouri's rural water districts were obtained from contractors' bids received in late 1977 and 1978. These costs include not only material but also labor and installation.
No economies of construction associated with large scale projects versus small scale projects was detected. On the other hand, regional differences in construction costs were detected for service meters, distribution pipeline and gate valves. These items, furnished and installed, cost more per unit in the Ozarks than in the remaining areas of the state. Rocky, mountainous terrain likely accounts for cost differences. For example, pipeline costs were 65 percent higher in the Ozarks than elsewhere in the state.
Table 1Average construction costs of selected items, December 1978
Operating costs were acquired from accounting reports filed with the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) for 1978. Average annual operating costs per hookup were:
Operating costs included salaries, accounting and legal fees, utilities, insurance, repairs, chemicals and other supplies; operating costs excluded water line extensions, interest and debt repayment.
Noticeable cost differences included higher salary costs for Ozarks districts with wells and for other districts with treatment practices. In the Ozarks case, this may be partly explained by the higher amount spent on repairs and maintenance. In the latter case, higher salary costs likely reflect the need for treatment plant operators. Costs for utilities were lowest for those districts without wells that purchased treated water. On the other hand, these districts spent more than $43 per hookup for purchasing water. Most districts purchasing water paid a flat rate per 1,000 gallons. The average rate was $0.56 per 1,000 gallons. Costs for supplies and chemicals were highest for those districts with treatment facilities.
Operating costs per hookup were nearly constant for districts purchasing treated water and for districts with wells and fewer than 700 hookups. No economies of large scale operation were detected for such districts. For districts with wells and more than 700 hookups, economies of size might possibly be attained with more than 1,000 hookups. However, our sample contained only a few such districts, and no definite answer could be ascertained.
Sources of revenue include hookup fees, water sales and construction grants obtained from FmHA, other Federal agencies or the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Hookup or connection fees are flat fees charged customers when they sign a water users' agreement with the public water supply district. Typical hookup fees have increased from about $40 to $60 between 1971 and 1977. Currently, FmHA's recommended guideline for hookup fees is $60 or twelve months' minimum water bills, whichever is greater. For districts financed by FmHA, monies from hookup fees are usually set aside in an initial operations-maintenance fund and/or a bond reserve fund for loan repayment.
Average monthly water rates per 1,000 gallons in both the Ozarks and in the remainder of the state decreased as more water was purchased (Table 2). The minimum monthly water bill is usually stated as the charge for the first 1,000 gallons. Rates per 1,000 gallons usually remained constant after 6,000 gallons were purchased.
An argument for using decreasing water rates is that all users should contribute to repayment of high fixed costs of construction, whereas users of additional water should pay only the additional operating costs incurred. Higher water rates in the non-Ozarks areas of the state can be attributed to purchases of water from other utilities and the use of treatment facilities.
Table 2Average monthly water rates per 1,000 gallons, 1977
The Farmers Home Administration provides loans and/or grants for water facilities development through the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities Program. Funds provided under this program may be used to finance installation, repair, improvement or expansion of a rural water system including distribution lines, wells, pumping facilities and related costs. The applicant must be a public body, nonprofit corporation or Indian tribe that has the legal authority to pledge security, bonds, for a loan. The service area cannot include any portion of a city having more than 10,000 people.
Grants cannot exceed 75 percent of the project's capital costs. Grant shares are determined by a set of rules that include the area's median family income and average user charges of similar water systems. All grants are subject to the availability and appropriation of monies by the Federal Government. FmHA loans generally have a 35-year term with only interest payable during the first two years and both interest and principal payable during the remaining 33 years. The current interest rate is 5 percent.
Communities interested in the FmHA program should contact FmHA district offices in St. Joseph, Trenton, Kirksville, Clinton, Columbia, Springfield, Lebanon, Ellington or Sikeston.
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) provides grants and loans through its Economic Development — Grants and Loans for Public Works and Development Facilities Program. Eligible applicants include states and their subdivisions, Indian tribes and non-profit organizations representing an EDA-designated area. For designation, an area must have high unemployment and low family incomes.
The Small Cities Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides loans and grants for the development of water and sewer systems in cities with less than 50,000 population. Grants are competitively awarded to communities having the greatest needs as evidenced by poverty and substandard housing.
Programs summarized above are described in greater detail in The 1978 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, published by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, also lists the above programs; numbers 10.418, 11.300 and 14.219.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is empowered to make rules and regulations for the maintenance of safe quality water dispensed to the public in accordance with the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act and the National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations. All plans for installations and extensions of water supply systems are submitted to DNR for approval. DNR can also furnish assistance in planning, designing and financing rural water systems and in training operators.
Missouri statutes for rural water systems are governed by Revised Missouri Statutes Sections 247.010 through 247.220.
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The Mekong delta province of Kien Giang has opened a new tourism trail to beauty spots in Cambodia's Kampot province.
A sea service will bring tourists from Ha Tien town to the famous beach city of Kep twice a week while four buses run between Rach Gia city and Kampot town with four weekly departures.
Businesses from the two provinces have reached agreements on five tourism infrastructure projects totalling over 60 billion VND (3.7 million USD), in the hope of starting construction next year.-(VNA)
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Ann Arbor biotech NanoBio to develop flu, RSV vaccines for Merck
Ann Arbor-based NanoBio Corp., one of the most successful fundraisers in the history of state technology companies, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Merck & Co., the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, to help develop two potential vaccines.
Merck will receive the exclusive rights to an intranasal vaccine to fight respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and nonexclusive rights for an intranasal flu vaccine.
Terms were not released.
In a news release, NanoBio said it will receive an upfront payment, milestone payments based on the vaccines' development and regulatory approval, and royalties on eventual sales.
"We've collaborated with Merck on research in RSV since 2011 and are very pleased to broaden our relationship with this license agreement," said David Peralta, NanoBio's CEO.
RSV is a highly contagious viral disease and one of the most common causes of bronchiolitis and pneumonia. It is the No. 1 cause of childhood hospitalization in the United States and around the world. Nearly all children are infected with the virus at least once by age 3.
Currently, there are no approved vaccines for RSV.
NanoBio was founded in 2000 by James Baker, a physician and professor at the University of Michigan. He joined Merck in October 2012 as senior vice president to head up its global vaccine business. Over the years, NanoBio has raised more than $130 million, about half in grants and the other half in equity capital.
Last year, Merck announced a licensing agreement with another UM spinoff, Lycera Corp., that could be worth more than $300 million as it hits milestones to develop small-molecule drugs to treat a range of immune-mediated disorders.
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fish love plants. they will color up because of the plants.
since you mention cabomba let me tell you whats working for me in my super lo tech setup: thats one plant thats flourishing in my tank. i have 1.5 WPG 6500K and lots of daylight (no direct sunlight). i infrequently dose liq ferts. my substrate is just 3-5mm gravel, 2 inch tall, so the plants are living off fish waste and the little ferts i give them. this has been going 2 months only so i am still tuning the system.
if this growth continues by christmas i will have a new cabomba farm in one area of my tank planted from the cuttings from existing plants.
|That looks like argentine sword which will grow long stalks with smaller leaves on top. It will grow until the leaves are too tall for your tank and keep growing. I suggest it for a riparium look, but not a tank this small because it will outgrow quickly.
Hi. Your clown loaches will get too big for that aquarium. I would find them a new home. The tetras are fine.
Cabomba sheds when it doesn't have enough light. This is probably your issue.
As you get more involved you will wish you had changed that rainbow gravel sooner. I would do it now before your plants grow in. Search on how to do it...it is quite simple. I would replace it with a single colour substrate of your choice.
Search for low-light plants like cryptocoryne, Anubias, java fern, mosses, etc and use your current light.
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Hi, thanks for the help. i could only find t 12 where i live. you are right i think i should cut on the NPK liquid plant food. i have started the tank almost a month ago with the fishes. they all survived and ammonia and nitrite , nitrate had been in range initially. i added the plants a week ago. i have attached the pic. i just dont want the plants to die. fish seem happy with them .
How long has the tank been set up? When the tank is cycling you can very easily have spikes in Ammonia, Nitrite and nitrate. Once nitrites and ammonia are 0 and nitrate's are showing up, between 10-40 then your tank is cycled. This process (from the time you set up the aquarium) can take up to 6 weeks.
From what I've heard, the best way for these guys to answer a deficiency question is to take a picture of the plants with the problem.
Only thing I can see is that you're dosing nitrates .. it'd cause a spike if your plants aren't absorbing it. Maybe cut back on those a little?
I'm still new to the game. I'm sure someone who is more experienced will come along shortly and offer more information.
as for the light, it sounds ok to me. Do you think you can run a t8 instead of a t12? It'd save a bit in energy costs. The bubls run $8 for 2 at lowes/homedepot ..
newly planted 20 g tank, need advise
Hi, i have been keeping fish for some time now, but i recently(i week ago) added plants to an already running 20 g tank. i have 2 clown loach and 6 white skirt tetras. unfortunately i had ordinary gravel and cannot change it right now. plants i have are : Amazon sword, java fern and cobomba. i planted them by burying some fertilizer along side. where as java fern came with drift wood that i placed. the lights are 40 w flourosent t12 daylight in my tank. I am seriously not in favour of CO2 and want to run the tank as it is. i have an external filter (powerhead) and an airstone in place. fish seem happy for now. but i got spikes in the nitrite and nitrate. water ph is 7.6. i do 25 percent water change every week. the shop guy gave me a liquid plant food with trace of NPK to put daily. plz advise me am i doing things right? since other plants look ok but comboma is not staying straight and shedding leaves.
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I know what she did was wrong right? But do you all have to be so heartless? I know she seemed heartless in what she did, but what the gives you the right to judge her? There's some of you on here that have done your fair share of whoring around? But because she's famous she's supposed to be perfect too? She messed up. She was dead wrong, but damn it's not like she can take it back. Get over it, she didn't cheat on you. She wasn't with you. Some of you are living in a fantasy world if you get mad like that off of someone else's relationship…….Lol that you don't even know. Please get a life, a relationship of your own, and leave this woman alone. As if she doesn't feel terrible already, as fine as RP is??!!!
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Kristen Stewart has made herself a home wrecker, and is not special in the eyes of her fans anymore.
She has made herself into a common cheap little Hollywood WHORE who has lost a man who adored her, was loyal to her and would have married her.
Kristen Stewart will fade with age like every other little trashy Hollywood starlet, she is young now, but with age, her films will fail and Hollywood will kick her to the curb.
She could have spent her life happily ever after with Robert Pattinson, but instead of showing him the same loyalty that he showed her, she blatently betrayed him, and now she is reaping the harsh consequences of her thoughtless cruel and heartless actions. And she certainly deserves it; however what she does NOT deserve is a man like Robert Pattinson.
He should dump her and find himself a woman who truly loves him; not one that is sorry only because she was caught with her grubby little hand in the cookie jar. If she had not been caught being unfaithful to Robert Pattinson, she would never have told him and she would have continued to carry out her sick love affair with a married man who has fathered two children.
It is better that Robert Pattinson found out now what kind of woman Kristen Stewart really is, instead of finding out later after he would have married her. Kristen Stewart is nothing more than a cheap little tramp.
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Jerry Springer knows a thing or two about cheaters, he's been interviewing them for 21 years! HollywoodLife.com spoke to Jerry about his gig as the resident host for The Price Is Right Live stage show at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, NJ., and he talked to us about Kristen Stewart's cheating scandal and whether he'd want them to come on his show!
First off, Jerry, 68, says Robsten can't come on his show because they're famous, darn! But he does say that since Kristen got caught cheating on Robert Pattinson with Rupert Sanders, instead of coming clean on her own, it makes him wonder if she's truly sorry.
"[Cheating] doesn't have to end a relationship," he tells us. "It can, but the only way it doesn't, is if the person who did the cheating, is not just sorry they got caught."
Jerry goes on to offer some advice to Kristen and it's actually pretty wise.
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A teachable moment for the GOP
Uber-consultant Mike Murphy believes that the way forward for the Republican Party is to ditch conservatism, particularly its social variety; stop doing campaigns the way they were done 25 years ago; and push back against the Jim DeMints of the world, who recruit "unelectable" candidates.
This is a teachable moment for the GOP, and I'm glad Murphy is publicly making this argument, given that it is a good encapsulation of the message he's been advancing for a quarter century or so. It provides an opportunity for Republicans to decide who really represents the anachronism in the room and to engage in some creative destruction likely necessary to adapt to the future. …
What's really out of date here – conservative ideas and ground-up grassroots activism, or the rich guy paired with genius consultant, advertising carpet-bomb, write off the electorate as idiots approach? I am increasingly of the view that these two approaches cannot both survive as a house divided – pick one, and send it out hunting with Dick Cheney.
If only Republicans were teachable. Conservatives being the exemption to my statement.
McCain and Romney backer/advisor Murphy? Uh huh.
Dongemaharu on November 30, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Jeff Lord at AmSpec called Murphy a Quisling. Murphy objected. Lord responded with, "Oh, perhaps Benedict Arnold would have been more apt":
Saw your screed in the AmSpec.
I deeply resent the Nazi angle. A lazy, cheap shot of the worst kind.
I have not worked at Navigators for two years. They list me on web site as a strategic partner because we have a deal where they refer potential issue advertising clients to my real firm the Revolution agency. I never worked on any of the NPR stuff, never took a dime for any of it. Your should try at least a little fact checking before you reprint a unsubstantiated clip off the internet search engine like that.
I'm a conservative, just not a paleo con. I've worked for "moderates" like Gov Christine Todd Whitman, Arnold (the recall) and Meg Whitman and for movement conservatives like Sen Jeff Sessions, and Ollie North, I've also worked for candidates in between like Governors Jeb Bush, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Terry Branstad, Lamar Alexander, Larry Pressler, Mitt Romney (Gov race), and a bunch more at the House, Senate and Gubernatorial level. I've helped right of center candidates beat the left in Canada. In the 28 years I spent running GOP campaigns, I had a success rate of about 75%.
I did not work for any of the establishment GOP committees or Super-pacs this cycle or last. The last time I was invited into the WH to give my opinion was in 1991, and I told them the polls were an illusion and I thought they were on a road to defeat. I was never invited back. (You can ask Bill Kristol, he was there.)
I live in Los Angeles CA, not DC. Whatever gilded aristocracy of the Washington consultant/media complex you carp about is not a place where I regularly reside. I'm hardly an establishment GOP favorite. (In fact the last time I had dinner in a hugely expensive Georgetown five star restaurant, it was with your beloved icon Rush Limbaugh. We had a good time.)
But I have been in the fight for the conservative side for nearly thirty years. Your piece was lazy, simplistic, uniformed and lacked any reasonable standard of fact-checking. And as I said, the traitor/Nazi stuff was deeply offensive.
Mike Murphy
Here's my response:
Would you have preferred Benedict Arnold?
No conservative in his right mind goes onto a notoriously liberal television show of a notoriously liberal network, sits next to John Podesta and promptly turns on his own team. Which is exactly what you did when you went on Meet the Press and slammed Rush Limbaugh. It is passing strange that you tell me you have broken bread with Rush, then go out there and clobber him on a liberal TV show. Since any real conservative knows better than to do what you did, and I know you are a smart guy, one can only assume that your attack on Rush was quite deliberately calculated.
This is not the first time you have gone after conservatives. Your previous attacks on South Carolina's Senator Jim DeMint and Governor Sarah Palin are typical of how moderate Republicans play this game.
You are at it again in the current issue of Time magazine.
What you propose is anything but new.
In fact, this is the kind of nonsense that was preached all the way back in 1950 by New York Governor Tom Dewey in his Princeton lectures. Dewey, as you recall, lectured Republicans about the "vociferous few" and the "impractical theorists" — meaning the Reaganesque-Rush Limbaugh-style conservatives of the day — in the GOP who were intent on driving out all the GOP moderates and liberals and into the arms of Democrats. Concluded Dewey: "The results would be neatly arranged, too. The Republicans would lose every election and the Democrats would win." Dewey said all of this, of course, following his own two defeats against FDR and Truman. In both of which elections he ran as the Great Moderate Hope — and got clobbered. The second time, I might add, when everybody in politics alive in the day expected him to trounce the unpopular Harry Truman.
Surely you remember when former President Ford insisted to the New York Times in 1980 — four years after he ran the typical moderate losing campaign — that Reagan was too "extreme" to win a national election.
When you note in your Time piece that "we still design campaigns to prevail in the America of 25 years ago" you are incorrect. Every single campaign beginning with the Bush 41 re-election campaign of 1992 – 20 years ago – has run head-long from Ronald Reagan and conservatism. And the results are, accordingly, dismal. Say again, dismal.
What you fail to note is that the campaigns of 1980 and 1984 were an overwhelming success — precisely because unlike all but one that followed, not to mention the Ford disaster of 1976 that preceded them — they were run with a presidential nominee who fully embraced conservative principles. Even George H.W.Bush realized he had to do this to get a win on Reagan's coattails in 1988, and Lee Atwater saw to it. But notably, once on his own, President Bush, as good a man as can exist but a thorough-going moderate, wound up with a dismal 37% of the vote. The GOP has never recovered from this Bush/moderate/"compassionate conservatism" business.
You also skirt the obvious.
Anybody with any knowledge of the way the Washington world works knows that your name on the Navigators web site is because you are allowing them to benefit from their association with your name as a high-profile GOP consultant. And it works like a charm.
Here's NPR itself reporting their decision to hire Navigators — and they specifically mention you by name. The only reason to do so, in the world of Washington, is to send a message to GOP lawmakers via your name. A message that says, in essence, "Listen to us… we're really not that bad… hey… you know ole Mike Murphy, don't you? Well Mike's firm… yada yada yada."
There is a growing fury out there among conservatives with the "consultant class" of which you are a card carrying member. The idea is fast growing (and one doesn't have to be a "Paleo-Conservative" which neither you nor I claim to be, to believe this) that none of you are serious about limited government, much less willing to stand up against the Establishment GOP that has brought us to this pass. And saying, in essence, that Republicans should campaign for the dissolution of marriage and get on with supporting the legalization of polygamy, polyamory, bigamy etc. (the inevitable legal consequences of gay marriage, as Justice Scalia has noted) is only the modern version of Dewey or Ford saying conservatives of the day were too extreme and out of touch.
The term "Quisling" as I documented, is in the vernacular meaning someone who is a traitor of some sort… to principles in this case. It has nothing to do with Nazis. Most assuredly you are not a Nazi. I will be happy to Americanize and use the term "Benedict Arnold."
Mike, I wish you well. But what you did to Rush Limbaugh on national television — particularly in this climate — was disgraceful. If you haven't apologized to him at this point you should. Ditto with Senator DeMint and Governor Palin. Not to mention conservatives all over the land.
Again, the reason you are provided these mainstream media platforms is because you can be counted on to do exactly what you did do. You know it, everybody knows it. But it plays well with liberals — particularly in places like Los Angeles.
Thanks for your response.
Best wishes for continued dialogue from this Reagan conservative,
Wethal on November 30, 2012 at 9:18 PM
The funny thing about the consultants and pundits who comprise the establishment telling us to give up on social issues is that you can take a look at who the GOP won and lost in the last election: they won people earning above $50,000 a year. Who did they lose? Everyone earning below that. And who are those people?
White working class voters and minorities. White working class voters tend to be socially conservative and populist. Blacks and hispanics? Slightly more pro-life and heavily more in favor of keeping traditional marriage than the rest of the population at large. Yet what's the instinct of the GOP establishment? Keep needling them with the economic conservative message in the hopes that the 47% will treat the investor class as living gods who they admire and fawn over, and would never dare wish ill upon even as those "productive people" pull up the ladder and insult them for being moochers.
Finally, a question for the establishment: if the 47% are unproductive, then why is it that so many of the establishment and "productive class" keep pushing for amnesty, which, given the supposed correspondence of income tax contributions with productivity, would supposedly make these people moochers? If the establishment wants makers and not takers, why do you keep trying to bring in more takers? Could it be that those who don't earn enough to pay the income tax are actually productive, this maker vs taker rhetoric is crap, and that you just want dirt cheap labor?
Stoic Patriot on November 30, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Without social conservatives, the GOP couldn't get a dogcatcher elected.
Just sayin'.
Wait, not squishy enough?
John the Libertarian on November 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM
The GOP doesn't need to ditch anything.
It needs GOOD consultants who can execute good ground games, and it needs a national campaign that is willing to start the long struggle of slowly digging into blue states
blatantblue on November 30, 2012 at 9:35 PM
Oh, and people who can actually target high value counties in swing states.
blatantblue on November 30, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Gosh…Just what we need.
Advice from a RedState boy.
They had so many winners in November.
They were so helpful to Mitt Romney.
"Look…I never wanted Romney but…"
What's their record now?
Hit the showers Ben.
NeoKong on November 30, 2012 at 9:46 PM
Ahh… it's the old RINO if they can't tell the difference between us and them then maybe they'll accidentally vote for us instead of for them trick.
viking01 on November 30, 2012 at 9:47 PM
viking01 on November 30, 2012 at 9:47 PM
But they always can tell the difference. (D) compared to (R). (D) voters will always vote (D) no matter what. (R) voters on the other hand can tell the difference between conservative (R) and progressive (R) and a large percentage are allergic to the progressive (R).
What's really out of date here – conservative ideas and ground-up grassroots activism, or the rich guy paired with genius consultant, advertising carpet-bomb, write off the electorate as idiots approach?
Best point of the article.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 30, 2012 at 10:10 PM
"Permanent Political Class." A lady once called them.
HerneTheHunter on November 30, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Step aside, RINOs.
faraway on November 30, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Grassroots conservative activism will only work if you take it into the cities, en espanol.
ernesto on December 1, 2012 at 12:19 AM
Grassroots conservative activism will only work if you take it into the cities, en espanol.
ernesto on December 1, 2012 at 12:19 AM
True. I have always been baffled by conservatives' mocking of Community Organizing. By any other name, it's Tea Party (WIN), or Occupy Wall Street (FAIL). Mitt Romney's team ignoring the immense power of ground-level motivation and his incessant speaking of Job Creators even in his concession speech, showed a cluelessness that could not be overcome by his inherent decency.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 1, 2012 at 5:28 AM
Ahh… it's the old RINO if they can't tell the difference between us and them then maybe they'll accidentally vote for us instead of for them trick.
viking01 on November 30, 2012 at 9:47 PM
Precisely. If all you want is to win elections and you've noticed that the other guy is winning all the elections then by all means become just like the other guy.
On the other hand, if you stand on principle and put out your message and do you best to get the majority on board, even if you lose you can do so with your dignity intact.
I would argue that Republicans need a "state and local only" approach to social issues. You can do this on constitutional grounds and not give up your principles, just add federalism to your principles. That way, you take away one of the Democrats' boogeymen, that Republicans want to regulate your bedroom activities.
Odysseus on December 1, 2012 at 6:51 AM
….by conservatives' mocking of Community Organizing……
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 1, 2012 at 5:28 AM
That has more to do with whether Obama's background qualified him for the Presidency. As we know it is a joke.
CW on December 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM
CW on December 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Perhaps. But as I have said (and said, and said), that during my time in Chicago, David Axelrod was the best Community Organizer I have ever seen.
I'm talking about winning tactics, CW. See: Tea Party involvement 2010, vs. 2012. Mr. Romney's election day GOTV effort egregiously did not feel they needed to engage the grassroots army that was necessary for victory.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 1, 2012 at 8:43 AM
This was pretty funny. I like the cut of this man's jib.
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Is there a breeder that focuses on long life queens as one of their traits? I did spend considerable time searching for the topic in the forum. If this topic has been previously covered help direct me to the thread.
Is there a breeder that focuses on long life queens as one of their traits? I did spend considerable time searching for the topic in the forum. If this topic has been previously covered help direct me to the thread.
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I have no knowledge of this (no shock there due to my inexperience), but it seems very unlikely. It seems there are at least TWO (there might be more) methods do determine longevity. One is the actual age of the queen, and the other is based on how long she lays well. The forst would be very hard to breed into queens. One doesn't know she's long lived until she is no longer living, and by then she'd be pretty hard to breed. The second seems more plausible, but once again, if someone waits until she lays poorly, it is likely that she will be superceeded. Even if this were not the case, it seems like it would be significantly more difficult to cultivate queens from an aged queen that may be laying drones. it would certainly make grafting harder if one didn't have a nice batch of brood of the appropriate age for grafting.
These are just thoughts from some guy that doesn't even have bees yet, so take it all with a large grain of salt. It just seems to be that most beeks would place a higher value on other characteristics and requeen at a shorter interval. I'm interested to read other responses though.
I would love to hear from any that use longevity as a requirement for breeding. I think this is one item that is not generally looked for as much any more, and I think that is a mistake. I've been thinking this may be a reason for some of the bee problems some people are having. This has just been my thinking lately, I could very well be wrong.
Most quality breeders that I know of breed from queens that are at least two years old.
On the other hand, we can learn not to be afraid of supersedures and swarms. There is nothing wrong with them. They are natural.
age is not a value in itself.
the more a queen lays the sooner she is of no value because sperm is a limiting factor. She will not refill the tank by a second mating flight.
You can extend a Q's value by limiting the hive size and area she will lay.
You can speed a Q's loss of value by increasing her laying.
You ca have one or the other.
You can't have both.
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Last edited by PanchoBee; 03-04-2013 at 10:59 PM. Reason: Duplicate message
It's best to requeen once every year because younger queens tend to head a larger colony going into winter, but depends how harsh your winters are.
I have several hives in which I haven't requeened in 3 years, same queen, she's (was marked) and clipped(The paint already faded wear and tear) this year she's laying but is now becoming a drone layer Drone brood intermixed with worker brood since last fall....My winters here are mild. several of my long lived hives(queens) have mother - daughters hives, it seems that the mother queen has not been yet retired she still roams around and lays some drone eggs in worker cells, but the workers did start a supercedure cell(I keep the too seperated by an exculder, 2-queen system). A queen can live long but it depends on how many drones she mated with to provide a good year(s) of sperm available for worker brood production. plus hives with older queens tend to swarm more readily than young queens heading a colony, all of course if swarm management is being done, swarming is a natural process for colonies to reproduce.
today breeders look for tolerance to Trachael mites/varroa, Build up, Production, Hygenic behavior, gentleness...not soo much on longevity, but I believe that it is something to be looked at as well, but their are other issues....the availabilty of Drones to mate with that queen which will then influence her ability to lay good worker brood in the years to come. Queens also release a phermone which is distibruated amongst the house bees, if the nurse bees feel that the phermone is somehow depleting(Due to age???) they may start to rear a new queen, a supercedure queen cell that will eventually replace the mother queen but will be allowed to live, its not in the case of swarm cells where the mother queen heads off with the prime swarm, supercedure cells can occur at any time of the year here for me because of our climate year round.
Longevity is an important selection factor to me. Selecting two strains, the Aurea (Italian based) and the Karnica (Carniolan based), I see large differences in longevity. I have had inseminated Karnica queens heading a full sized colony into their 5th season, but seldom have Aurea queens make it into their 3rd season in good shape. It appears to be as mentioned above the Aurea queens simply "lay" themselves out. Not a good thing or a bad thing, as each strain has its place in beekeeping.
The longer a queen is able to head a full size production colony the more measures of production I can take over time, which provides a greater estimate of her ability. It also allows me to look at her progeny (daughter queens) while she is still alive which is very valuable in terms of selection.
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In my small sampling of Zia, I had it go both ways. One year old queen superseded, one still going into the third year. Two deceased for other reasons.
JBJ mentioned monitoring for longevity
Disclaimer: I've never been a bee.
I want bees that can sense a failing queen and replace her. I also want queens that are productive for a long time. But I think that is secondary to them sensing a failing queen and doing a seamless supersedure where the daughter is laying before the mother is disposed of. I haven't been around to mark mine for the last few years, but I used to and I had a lot of three and four year old queens. I don't think I had any five year old queens, but then the marking colors wouldn't indicate it anyway since they wrap at five years.
All in all, if they raise a new queen, even every year, and do it with a seamless supersedure, the colony will thrive.
Longevity has to do with how well fed the queen is, how well mated she is, how low the chemical load in the wax is and how booming of a hive she was trying to keep up with. A queen is basically going to run out of eggs or sperm eventually. Once she does she is done, and a queen who is laying up a storm all her life will live a shorter life than one that is not laying so much. Another instance where breeding for one trait may actually be breeding counter to another good trait. In other words, if you're not careful you may be selecting out the queens who lay so much they run out of eggs, when they may be better queens than the ones who lay less and live longer... I think we need to look at the big picture instead.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
What happens when they are left alone or "wild" ? A good strong queen in the wild would potentially, leave the hive with a swarm each year. She has to trim down to flying weight, leave with swarm, land with swarm, then fly to new home, establish a survivable population, and do it again the next spring. That would be some tough data to gather Each time she leaves the hive, she is at risk. IMHO, to do that three times would be something. It doesn't seem to me nature would select for something like that. Just food for thought.
Since I seldom breed from a queen that isn't 2 years old, because I can't really judge her until she has a full year of her bees to evaluate her on, mine have to be somewhat long lived...
The useful life of a queen (pre Varroa mite treatments) has always been considered to be about 3 years in a production colony. More if she was confined to a smaller area (such as breeder queens sometimes are).
From "Better Queens" page 18:
"In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid."--Jay Smith
I would point out that Jay says: "This, however is a rare exception."
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
The chances of any swarm surviving are relatively low. The chances of the same queen making multiple swarm journeys are correspondingly miniscule.
The Anatolica is one of the strains of queens/bees with great natural longevity,and plays an important part in the Buckfast strain.
http://www.exmoorbeesandbeehives.co.uk/ Buckfast UK.
The highest queen longevity is found in bees from the Mellifera subtype. These bees tend to build huge colonies at the drop of a hat in early spring starting from a very small cluster. This trait tends to reduce overall quantity of eggs laid by the queen to a minimum in a given year. The reduced egg laying correlates with increased longevity.
As mentioned above, breeding for longevity could be done, but would be negatively correlated with honey production. I don't care if a queen wears herself out in 2 years, honey production in those 2 years is far more important. Excessive egg production which is typical of many Italian derived strains is correlated with reduced honey production. There is a happy medium where a colony develops at the right time with maximum population to collect honey, then reduces population during times of dearth. The only line deliberately developed with these traits is Buckfast.
You could also ask if it would be possible to breed longer lived workers. This can indeed be done and in time would result in a more productive colony based on worker bees having a longer life span to collect nectar. This trait is present in Apis Mellifera Mellifera. It probably is also found in Tellian bees from NorthWest Africa.
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>You could also ask if it would be possible to breed longer lived workers. This can indeed be done and in time would result in a more productive colony based on worker bees having a longer life span to collect nectar.
I agree, this might be a trait worth measuring and selecting for. The real "profit" in a bee is at the end of their life. The beginning is an investment in the overhead of the hive and the future of the hive, but the last week or two of their life is the only "profit". Adding a week to the life of the workers could result in twice as much surplus.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
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Author(s): Homer; Quintus Smyrnaeus
Title: The Iliad; The Odyssey; Quintus Calaber. Paraleipomena In Libros Homeri In Quatuordecim Libros Distincta
Folios: 538
Date: 1450
Place: Italy
Institution/Collection: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Parker Library)
Catalogue: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge - 1912
Lot #: 81
Provenance: Gaza, Theodore; Christ Church, Canterbury?; Parker, Matthew (Archbishop); Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, University of CambridgeDuplicates: 170876, 201631


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A lovely and relaxing place to stay. The room was comfortable and the breakfast delicious. The location is wonderful, right next to the Thames with good pubs nearby.
Vicki and Chris are excellent hosts and made us feel very welcome. I would definitely stay here again.
Had an excellent stay with Vicki and Chris. A beautify home in a lovely area very convenient to Chiswick High Road and easy to get into the city. They were great company at breakfast. I'll definitely be back.
Thank you to Vicki for friendly meeting , the room I booked was occupied but I got upgrade to better option my apologise for any misunderstanding ( I thought the visitors rights for Windu users are same as in hotels )
we had a very nice stay at vickis and chris' cozy house over the weekend. they both are very friendly and funny and gave us good hints for our stay. also their two little siamese cats made us feel at home. the room was comfy and clean and had a big nice window and everything we needed. the breakfast was very tasty and plentiful. there are several ways to get to central london, all take about half an hour, but also staying in chiswick and the local area (kew botanical gardens e.g.) can be a nice option apart from the tourist hustle. the heathrow airport is also barely half an hour away. when we are in london again, we will definitely come back.
My stay at Vicki's house was absolutely fantastic!!! The atmosphere was great, neighborhood quiet and peaceful, perfect for anyone. Accomodation was brilliant, with huge house and cosy room with many needful things included (microwave, tv, wi-fi) and wonderful view on river Thames . Vicki and her family are wonderful people and incredible hosts. I spent only one day with them but I was treated like long-time friend of the family. We had a delicious breakfast and nice chat. I regret I couldn't stay longer :) ! I would reccomend this accomodation to everyone - it's really nice and friendly, and of course I hope I can come back one day and spend more time with those amazing people. Many thanks!
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Perfect location, perfect house and perfect host. Everything was very clean and the room is just lovely - with a stunning view from the window. Hope to go back there at some point.
I enjoyed my stay right on the Thames in Chiswick, and appreciated the hospitality. Good public transport options from here, as long as you have the time to combine walking with bus routes and train connections. Large bedroom, small but adequate bathroom, all round a good value option.
We were only 1 night there but it was very nice with Vicki and Chris. The homemade bread was delicious and the stories entertaining.
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Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada
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Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning "from the books of "), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada's leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Morley Ayearst, bookplate for Viola L. Allen, 1920


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This farmers market is held every Tuesday in the Grange parking lot from
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February 25 (12-4pm)
The Network for a Healthy California-Gold Coast Region invites all San Luis Obispo County residents to lead healthier lives by eating more fruits and vegetables and staying physically active. What better way to learn about healthier meal options than a free, healthy food demonstration being held at Albertsons on Feb. 25 from 12pm-4pm. Come sample tasty recipes filled with fruits and vegetables and take home a free recipe book and goody bag.
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MindScans from Alliance Digital Studios. Feature film produced in San Luis Obispo 154 minutes NOT RATED. Tickets are available at http://mindscans.com starting January 15th, 2013. Show dates February 25th and 28th.
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Be the star for the night! Take the stage and belt out all of your favorites! Mother's Tavern hosts Karaoke every Sunday and Monday night from 10pm. This party is unlike any other, and always promises to be a great time full of your favorite songs and great dancing! Read more here: http://events.sanluisobispo.com/san_luis_obispo_ca/events/show/308343527-karaoke-night#storylink=cpy
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Songwriters At Play presents Dulcie Taylor. with special guest performers on Feb. 25 including: Tiana Star, Deborah Kirk, Ezra Henderson, and Amie Richie.
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February 25 (12 PM to 4 PM)
Shades of Green is the title for the new show opening at the Art Center Morro Bay on Thursday, February 21 and running through Monday, April 1. Featured artists Diane Henderson and Ray Atzet present acrylic and watercolor paintings around a theme. A reception for the artists that is open to the public will take place Sunday, February 24 from 2 to 4 PM. Art Center Morro Bay is at 835 Main Street in Morro Bay. For more information call 772-2504.
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Liliana Graham teaches ballroom dance classes every Monday at 7:15pm in a friendly and social environment. Ages 16 to 106, beginner to advanced are encouraged to come and learn Swing,Tango, Cha Cha, Waltz, Foxtrot, Rumba and More. No partner needed.
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I have been trying to get my 16v swap started and the knock box is only sending 1.3 volts to the hall sender and full battery power to the the fuel pump relay (which should be the ground for the ignition switch current needed to trip the relay)
is there something that would cause this behavior? or is the box its self bad???
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Beachgoers in Marin should have no reservations about jumping in and taking a dip as the weather warms — at least based on water quality.
The county's beaches have some of cleanest water in the state during spring and summer months, according to an annual Beach Report Card released Thursday by the environmental group Heal the Bay.
Analysts from the Santa Monica-based group assigned A to F letter grades to beaches as part of their annual statewide study, based on data on levels of bacterial pollution.
Heal the Bay gave an A or A+ to all 24 Marin beaches in its report.
"Marin County earned excellent water quality grades this past year during summer dry weather with all locations receiving 'A' grades," according to the report.
The water quality during wet-weather months is not consistently tested in Marin, however, so that is not accounted for on the report card.
"In the summer the water quality is generally very good," said Deb Self, executive director of San Francisco BayKeeper, a bay pollution watchdog group. "But the bay tends to have bacterial problems after heavy rains, and that is definitely true in Marin."
The rains wash pollutants into the bay, which worsens water quality. Marin County, as with most other jurisdictions, only has money to test between April and October, when more people are active in the water.
Poor water quality means beachgoers face a higher risk of contracting illnesses such as stomach flu, ear infections, upper respiratory infections and skin rashes.
"We are encouraged by the excellent beach water quality in the Bay Area, specifically during the peak summer season," said Amanda Griesbach, a water quality scientist and lead author of the report.
But she added it's "important for local agencies to implement more wet-weather water quality improvement projects."
The report did note, however, that "there were no reported sewage spills in Marin County that led to beach closures this past year."
And beachgoers throughout the Bay Area can generally feel secure during the summer season.
Ninety-three percent of the beaches in Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties received an A for water quality. Those marks are an improvement from last year's report, when only 78 percent of Bay Area beaches earned A grades for the summer period. Statewide, 85 percent of 445 California beaches graded received A grades for the reported time period.
Marin beaches that received an A+ in the report: Dillon Beach, Lawson's Landing, Shell Beach, Drakes Beach, Limantour Beach, Stinson Beach (North, Central, South) and Rodeo Beach (North, Central).
Marin beaches that received an A in the report: Miller Park, Heart's Desire, Chicken Ranch, Millerton Point, Bolinas Beach, Muir Beach (North, Central, South), Rodeo Beach (South), Baker Beach (Horseshoe Cove, three areas) Schoonmaker and China Camp.
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