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New study shows that Apple's 13" MacBook Pro running Boot Camp is the most reliable Windows notebook
Apple vs. Microsoft, OS X vs. Windows -- these are comparisons that pit fanboys from each side against each other with little middle ground. The two sides have bickered for years with Windows fans bragging about lower prices and larger market share, while OS X backers cite high quality, reliable machines and the lack of significant malware penetration.
Today, however, an Israeli PC management firm has added a slight twist in the age-old Mac vs. PC debate. Between January 1st, 2013 and April 1st, 2013, Soluto monitored 150,000 notebook computers running Windows and analyzed the data from:
224,144 crashes
250,791 hangs
84,251 BSoDs
1,346,000 boot cycles
62,476 hours spent on boot
After analyzing the above data and giving each machine a "Soluto Score", the results of the study were quite surprising. The results showed that the most reliable "PC" was the
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Soluto attributes this victory to the fact that a MacBook Pro running a copy of Windows via Boot Camp is free of the typical bloatware that comes with a brand new Windows machine. To this point, Soluto opines, "PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro."
To those that say that a clean install of Windows on a MacBook Pro isn't a fair comparison, Soluto offers this consolation, "One could argue that we should not compare a cleanly installed MacBook Pro with an OEM-imaged PC from Acer or Dell… But – for this first report we simply compared the real PCs in the field, some with original images and some reinstalled by their users. We believe it's more representative of reality."
Rounding out the top five entries were the Acer Aspire E1-571, Dell XPS 13, Dell Vostro 3560, and the Acer Aspire V3-771. The 15" Retina MacBook Pro, three more Dells, and a single Lenovo entry fleshed out the top 10. Notebooks from ASUS, Samsung, Toshiba, and Samsung were nowhere to be found on the list.
Ed Bott reckons that the reason for the strong showings by Acer and Dell in the study is the companies' relatively bloat-free installs, with very few third-party utilities to muck with users' computers. On the other hand, Samsung, which didn't make the list, is notorious for filling machines with needless third-party software junk.
"And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like it's superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say?" -- Bill Gates on the Mac ads
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there were a couple of little kids outside of my house earlier today hunting for easter eggs with their mom, dad and grandpa. it's always nice to see family moments like that.
Sounds like Moke's sister needs some of what my mom dishes out to my youngest brother. the kid is 21 and is STILL downright defiant to my mother, so I get really pissed off at that...
And the problem is, he's kind of a *****. Like, he thinks hes all badass, but hes terrified that i could crush him at any given moment. He thinks i wont do anything, cuz im his brother, but yesterday i snapped, and I told him the only reason I wont knock him out is because he's in our mothers house. And my mom chimes in, it's a shame cuz he deserves a good asskicking. lol
So I decide to completely clown him, and I just walk up to him while he's sitting eating breakfast, and ***** slap him right across the face. and he flips out like he's going to do something. and he gets up, and he's cursing at me, saying he'll beat my ***. And I just say "pick your battles wisely, don't make a bad decision", and he comes at me, and i just moved out of the way, and throw him on the ground of the living room. And im like "im going outside to smoke. let me know when you cool off, and in the meantime, apologize to mom."
It's too bad you cant beat up your sister, Moke =P
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
He's a very nervous kid. He smokes cigarettes and he's pretty addicted to them unfortunately because he always gets boiled up and then has to go get a few cigarettes to calm himself down.
He's an *******. Pretty much feels like my house is a hotel... yesterday he came with us to the pizzeria and all that so we can all eat as a family. After, my mom said she wanted to go check out the new house they bought at night because she wanted to see if it was dark... my brother was flipping out that he didn't want to go and all that.
My mom goes, "so what do you do? You just come to eat?"
It's true. He's always complaining that there is nothing to eat, meanwhile he makes good money.
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....

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Very friendly welcome at the Interhome office in Chamonix.
Apartment very well located in the city center, clean, comfortable and with stunning views of the Mont Blanc.
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Appartement très bien situé , en centre ville ,propre , confortable et avec une vue imprenable sur la chaîne du Mont Blanc.
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Good apartment which perfectly meets the needs of those seeking rest and good location after enjoying the wonderful mountain scenery.
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Buen apartamento que cubre perfectamente las necesidades de quien busca descanso y buena ubicación después de disfrutar de las maravillosas montañas del valle.
Estuvimos 8 días, 5 de ellos los aprovechamos para hacer diferentes rutas por la montaña y 2 para visitar Ginebra y Annecy.
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Post by Anna ScarlettThe high river flows and lake levels we saw in the first week of April brought breathtaking views at our area dams along with water over some parts of our roads and trails. This may have you thinking we're well into the spring runoff season. But the fact is what we saw earlier this month was just a preview of what's to come.
An abundance of early spring rain rapidly increased the flow of water into Coeur d'Alene Lake, and from there, into the Spokane River in the last days of March and early part of April. The Spokane River peaked on April 3 with nearly 28,000 cubic feet per second flowing through downtown Spokane, while Coeur d'Alene Lake peaked at just over 2,131 feet above sea level, or about 3 feet above its normal summer level. Since then, river and lake levels have gradually fallen, remaining fairly steady for the last few days.Today (April 13), they're starting to rise slightly again – and we're likely in for a couple more months of high waters. Due to higher than normal seasonal snowpack (as of Friday April 13, it's still at 108 percent of normal), and warmer expected temperatures in addition to the heavy rainfall we've already received, the National Weather Service is predicting above average river flows in the area in the coming months. Safety is a top priority at Avista. So as warmer, sunny days draw you to the water, we want to remind you that Coeur d'Alene Lake and the downstream river and reservoir levels can change rapidly at any time, due to weather and other factors. Please use caution on the water and comply with all posted notices and closures, especially near the vicinity of hydroelectric facilities, and always wear your life jacket when on the water. Property owners and lake users – remember to make necessary preparations, including removing boats from the water, and removing or securing docks and boathouses to accommodate changing water conditions.When recreating on or along a river or reservoir, always follow these important safety tips:• Always be alert for debris, obstructions, and partially submerged objects. • Always obey warning signs near dams.• Never cross boater restraining cables or buoy lines that designate areas where boats should not operate. • Never fish, swim or boat above or below a dam - water levels can change rapidly with little warning due to operation of spill gates and turbines.• If in a sailboat or catamaran, always look for overhead cables and power lines. • Always wear personal flotation devices (PFDs), even if you are an adult.• Never operate watercraft under the influence of drugs or alcohol.• When on the water, obey all warning signs and follow all rules and regulations. Remember rivers and streams are at their peak flows during spring and early summer. For more safety information, visit http://www.avistautilities.com/safety/dams.


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Chemistry and I progressed; it took chemistry a good 75 years from Lavoisier's time to have the macroscopic compounds—there at the beginning, with us today—be joined by a realization of an underlying microscopic reality, imagined well before it was proven, that of molecules. And it took another 65 years (now we're circa 1925) for the new quantum mechanics to be created, explaining the why and wherefore of the molecules of dihydrogen (a nomenclature I will use when I need to distinguish hydrogen molecules from hydrogen atoms). In my education, I made that transition from compounds to molecules, much as chemistry did. Except I did it in three years instead of 140. I encountered the molecule, more precisely the quantum mechanical treatment of H2, in a class George Fraenkel taught, and beautifully so, in my last year at Columbia College.
Fraenkel took us through the first calculation on H2 by Heitler and London, in 1927, a calculation parlayed by Linus Pauling into a general theory of covalent bonding. By this time the dissociation energy of H2 (the strength of the bond, the energy needed to take it apart into two hydrogen atoms) was known. It was 4.48 electron volts (eV) per molecule, 104 kilocalories per mole (kcal/mol). If that doesn't touch you, let's begin with the fact that a mole of H2 (roughly 22 liters of it in gaseous form at room temperature) has a mass of 2.0 grams. Not much, that's why it was used in airships. Kcal/mol? To heat a liter (about a quart, 1.057 quarts to be exact) of water from room temperature to boiling (a real-life operation most of us, even men, have done) takes about 80 kcal. That should help—to knock 2 grams of hydrogen molecules into hydrogen atoms takes about the same energy as to heat one and a quarter liters of water to boiling. Except, don't try it on your stove—remember the Hindenburg airship.
The energy of the hydrogen molecule as a function of distance is described by a "potential energy curve" shown in the figure below, a graphical depiction of how the chemical potential energy of the molecule varies with separation of the hydrogen atoms (actually their nuclei) in the molecule from each other. The depth of the well relative to the separated atoms is the dissociation energy I described above. But any molecule is a quantum mechanical entity; so the molecule, in a way as a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, does not sit still at the minimum of the potential energy curve. The molecule vibrates, the vibrations of the molecule are quantized—and in its lowest energy state the hydrogen nuclei retain some motion (in a way like a pendulum but less deterministically so) around the "equilibrium distance." Sometimes they are a little closer, sometimes a little farther apart, on the average they are ~0.74 × 10–8 centimeter, 0.74 Ångström (Å) from each other. We call that the bond distance.
The bond distance in the H2 molecule and its dissociation energy were known by the time the new quantum mechanics came. Heitler and London got a dissociation energy of 3.14 eV, an equilibrium distance of 0.87 Å. Not too great (compared with experiment) but a remarkable result: For the first time quantum mechanics "explained" the existence of a molecule. Which classical mechanics coupled with electrostatics, try as it might, couldn't.
One could not solve the Schrödinger equation, the wave equation that describes all matter, exactly for H2, but the path down a road of increasingly accurate approximations to the exact solution seemed beautifully logical and enticing to this young apprentice. Fraenkel took us through it first of all by another method, called the molecular orbital (MO) method, pioneered by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken. A molecular orbital is a combination of atomic orbitals, an approximate way to describe the location of electrons in a molecule—I will show you one soon. This method eventually dominated chemical thinking from the 1950s through today, but initially gave a poorer description of the H-H bond in H2. Yet both the MO and the Heitler-London methods (expanded into Pauling's "valence bond" [VB] approach) could be systematically, logically improved. We followed and understood that path in our class, culminating in a remarkable 1933 calculation by H. M. James and A. S. Coolidge, using hand-cranked mechanical calculators, that matched experiment.
I would like to show you the molecular orbitals of H2, because (a) they're important, and (b) I can't escape them; they bring to me new chemistry at roughly 25-year intervals. The two 1s orbitals of the individual atoms combine in in-phase and out-of-phase fashion to give molecular orbitals called σg and σu*, shown in the figure at the top of the next page.
The σ and the subscripts and superscripts on it are labels, symmetry labels; what matters is that σg has no node between the nuclei, while σu* does. That puts σg low in energy, σu* high. And, importantly, σg is a "bonding" orbital, if occupied (as it is in H2), the electrons in it bring the atoms together, whereas σu* is an antibonding orbital, any electrons in it (there are none in an unperturbed H2 molecule, at least in the simpolest analysis) pushing the nuclei apart. Interesting that the big guys, the massive nuclei, move where the small electrons tell them to move.
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I was preparing my Cloake board for tomorrows graft. When I located the queen, I noticed her wings looked chewed and tattered. I raised this queen this year from a swarm cell. She is laying very well. Is chewing off a queen's wing normal behavior?
I was preparing my Cloake board for tomorrows graft. When I located the queen, I noticed her wings looked chewed and tattered. I raised this queen this year from a swarm cell. She is laying very well. Is chewing off a queen's wing normal behavior?
Nope. But what the heck, you've got not only a good laying queen but a fiesty survivor as well and one that won't swarm.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Do your queen's wings look something like this? I hadn't noticed wings like that either. I posted in this thread about it. Sometimes those mating flights are hard on the queens.
...We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are...
Noticed a one year old queen this week with no wings.
I've seen queens with no wings in hives that have more than one queen. It's always the older of the 2 that is wingless seems that the older queen is superceded but isn't killed. I would have a look for another younger queen in that hive.
I split the hives into 2-3 nucs so if there was a second queen I'm not sure where she may have ended up.
In another yard a nuc had a queen missing 2 legs on one side and my thinking was in line with yours that the hive must have had two queens and I had kept the younger queen on the original stand.
My parents were down for Mother's day and while they were here, it was kind of late, so my dad and I walked out just to take a glance at the hives. We were not planning on doing and inspection or anything, just wanted to view them from a far. While we are watching some late bees come and go, I look down and saw a queen crawling on the ground near us, away from all the hives. Her wing on one side completely removed and a the other wing was almost gone as well. I just figured that they wanted her replaced, but didn't want to swarm, so the took her wings and kicked her out, but I don't know that for a fact or anything.
Frazzle I noticed the exact same thing earlier this spring. I had a really big black queen that was mated last spring. Well this spring I noticed her in the hive and she had absolutely no wings at all, she appeared healthy other than that and was still laying well. A coupld frames over I found another laying queen she was a normal blonde color queen. Both queens lived together for over a month before I split the hive taking one of the queens.
I have a queen just like that too. The bees are making queen cells in that hive. It is my most productive hive this year so I am planning on removing her and putting in a queen from a nuc. I don't want to risk swarming or lose time waiting for a new one to come on line.


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I wanted to start a new topic on grants. I'm just starting the post, and welcome all to give any information you may have on the subject. I will be adding info. that I have in the days to come.
Grants can be applied for from a variety of places. They come for local, state, and federal gov. agencies. Grants can also be applied for through some large corp. Most of your county extension agents can help you find state and federal grants. The internet is also a great place to find them.
Some things to know about grants are:
You have to use the money (all of it) on what you applied for, ie. hives, land, honey house, ect. You can't use some of it on a new truck unless that is what you applied for. You have to show (whoever) what you did with the money.
Grants are put out for reasons! Don't waste your time putting in for a grant that you KNOW will not get ie. don't apply for one that doesn't cover beekeeping ect. Make sure it's not a loan!!! You don't want to pay it back!
Be creative! One for the most important parts when appling is the "essay" or "explanation" part of the grant. This is the part where you tell the person why YOU should get the grant instead of somone else. It helps if you can show how the communty will benefit from your grant. ie "With the money that receive for the honey house. I want to have a class room in it so I can educate the public about the honey bee and its benefit to aricultural crops...."
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Pentatonix is comprised of lead vocalists Scott Hoying (21), Kirstie Maldonado (20) and Mitch Grassi (20), vocal bass Avi Kaplan (23) and beatboxer Kevin "K.O." Olusola (24) and, while the individuals would maintain that each of their fellow band members is irreplaceable, the fact remains that 24-hours before their audition for The Sing-Off they still hadn't all officially met.
A freshman at The University of Southern California, Scott decided to audition for the show and enlisted childhood friends and fellow Arlington, Texas-natives Kirstie and Mitch. As a high school vocal trio, they had found success both locally and online thanks to their cover of Lady Gaga's "Telephone." Determined to add depth and a distinctive dynamic to the group, Scott set out to add more vocalists, first adding Avi, who'd built himself a reputation as one of the most talented vocal basses in Southern California, and eventually took to YouTube where he found the video for "Julie-O," featuring Kevin's cello-boxing (simultaneously beatboxing and performing the song on his cello).
Finally a fully formed group, Pentatonix perfected their sound (and their chemistry) throughout the season, naturally developing a signature style and a knack for arranging songs that pulled equally from the five individuals' strengths. Despite drawing from a dizzyingly eclectic set of musical genres – the group cites pop, jazz, r&b, indie, folk, dubstep and electronica as just a few of their inspirations – the quintet seemed to mesh magically, evident in their modern interpretation of The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star," or their epic adaptation of Florence and the Machines' "The Dog Days Are Over." Before long, Pentatonix had become a legitimate musical force, armed with a collective confidence and swagger that would eventually propel them to win the competition.
Now a year removed from The Sing-Off, Pentatonix – who have all relocated to Los Angeles – have continued to build upon their already fiercely loyal fanbase, introducing a slew of new material via their YouTube channel, including covers of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," Fun's "We Are Young," and Psy's "Gangnam Style." The three videos – featured by Perez Hilton, The Huffington Post, RyanSeacrest.com and Nightline – have eclipsed 17 million views, collectively, while the channel has quickly reached 30 million views, buoyed by its roughly 250,000 subscribers.
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that's nice. i really like the wood.
that's nice. i really like the wood.
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams
Good job! I always liked that Israeli furniture.
Nice build
That there is just plain purty!
If you want more gun control, use both hands.
Where did you score the Argi kit???
I just finished an austrian stg 58 waiting on some new blue tanks.
I hope mine turns out as good as this one did!
Great Job.]
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Be like an old dog!!!! If you can't eat it or screw it, just piss on it and walk away!!!!
Looks good.
And after shooting one for the first time this last weekend, I thing I need to build one for myself.
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Hi Everyone,
Well, this team sure feels full of holes. Oline is bad, dline is old, no big time linebacker for how long now? What do the Giants do in the upcoming draft? All I know is whomever comes with our 1st pick, they have to contribute immediately. I don't want to see them starting to show flashes in week 15. They may not have to start but they need to contribute game 1.
I would love to see a big time linebacker. Someone who can assist the line with the rush. I don't follow college foootball very closely but I hear a lot of talk about the guy from Notre Dame, Mantai Taeo. It sounds like he is going really high, like top 10. Could the Giants make a move to get him? Is that possible?
What do you guys think? Let's hear your ideas. Thanks everyone for the time.
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Miriam Boer
When I finished my Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Maryland in 2011, I graduated into one of the toughest biotech job markets in history. I applied for over 200 traditional positions within academia and industry, with no luck. As my search stalled, I turned to a pet interest I had had in low-intensity ultrasound and built a business plan around using it as a novel melanoma treatment.
Miriam Boer, Optics, Photonics, Career, Independent Science, Entrepreneur, Small Business, Start-ups
Lisa Balbes
This post was adapted from content on the Career blog of the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the kind permission of ACS and the author.
Recently, I encountered several graduate students who were considering starting their own businesses. While many people dream about being an entrepreneur, a significantly smaller number are willing to put in the time and effort it takes to make their dream a reality. A colleague who has been running his own company for over 20 years said that, when people ask for his advice on starting a business, he tries to talk them out of it to gauge how dedicated they are to the idea. When he started his own business, he noted that "the only thing that would have stopped me from doing it was if my wife had told me no!"
If you have that kind of dedication, you just might be an entrepreneur.
Starting point A great place to begin is by writing a business plan—a document in which you completely describe the business. Forcing yourself to write it down will make you step back and really plan out the venture. The living document then serves as a roadmap as you move forward and start to involve other people.
SummaryOne of the first sections of the business plan will be the executive summary. You should be able to describe your business in several different levels of detail. Are you going to sell a product or a service? What is your targeted industry? What will make your offerings compelling to potential customers?
Legal structureWill you start a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, C or S corporation? The form you select will have implications for taxes, liability, staffing and complexity. Make sure you understand all the options and implications, and choose what's right for you.
Products and servicesWhile you may have an idea of what you're going to sell, in a written business plan you'll have to detail your offerings. How many different products/versions will you have to offer in the beginning? How is your offering going to be different/better from other things already on the market? Will you offer customization? How will you protect your intellectual property? Will you patent your ideas, or keep them trade secrets?
Market analysisDescribe the industry in which you will be working, including historical, current, and projected future size. What subsection constitutes your target market? What is the critical problem your offering is going to solve? What alternatives are they currently using? What are their geographic and demographic characteristics? Who is your ideal customer? Are there any seasonal or cyclical purchasing patterns you'll have to work around? What market share do you expect, and why?
Marketing planOnce you have your product and target market, you have to get the two together. What is your marketing plan? How are those ideal customers going to find out about your offering? Will you exhibit at trade shows or conferences? Offer free trials?
Competitive intelligenceWho exactly is your competition? It could be other companies—or possibly even your own potential customers if they have the capability to devise internal solutions to the problem you aim to address? What are the strengths, weaknesses and market share of each? How important is this market to your competitors? What are barriers to entry to this market? What other offerings will present to differentiate you from the pack? What is on the horizon from other companies?
Organization and managementWho is going to run the company? What is their expertise and experience? If you are plan to hire employees, you become responsible for bringing in enough business to cover their salary, and taxes, while reporting requirements get more complicated. Depending on the number of employees you have and the state in which you are operating, various other regulations start to apply as headcount numbers increase. How will you address the various regulatory requirements?
PricingHow much is it really going to cost to make your product or service, and how will you price it? Are you going to compete on low cost and high volume? Or high cost and high quality? Is your offering a need or a want for your customers, and will that affect what they are willing to pay?
Revenue Will you reply on repeat customers, subscriptions, or contracts? Will you sell over the Internet or are face-to-face sales required? Will you hire your own sales force, or use distributers? Where will start-up money come from? How will you ensure enough money to cover operating expenses until substantial profits arrive? Will you seek investors? If so, how will you attract them and what will you offer them?
There are many more questions your business plan will have to answer, but if you've already thought about all these issues, congratulations! You are well on the way to becoming an entrepreneur. If not, you now know how to get started. For more resources, see the US Small Business Administration or SCORE for more ideas, and the new ACS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI).
This article was written by Lisa M. Balbes (email@example.com) of Balbes Consultants LLC. Lisa is a technical writer/editor and author of Nontraditional Careers for Chemists, published by Oxford University Press.
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By Christina Folz
At last week's Frontiers in Optics meeting, I attended the first meeting of OSA's Network of Entrepreneurs (ONE), a new group intended to connect optics students and young professionals with mentors who are scientist-entrepreneurs.
At last week's Frontiers in Optics meeting, I attended the first meeting of OSA's Network of Entrepreneurs (ONE), a new group intended to connect optics students and young professionals with mentors who are scientist-entrepreneurs.
This post shares advice that was given at the event on how to jump into the startup world. The speakers included Greg Quarles, president and chief operating officer of B.E. Meyers; Michelle Holoubek, director in the electronics group at the intellectual property law firm Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox; and Tom Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University, cofounder of Arcturus Bioscience Inc. and 2009 OSA President.
Like a startup, ONE is still in development. Its organizers, including Bright Futures bloggers Brooke Hester and Danny Rogers along with Armand Niederberger of Stanford, are seeking volunteers to grow the program. Please contact Brooke, Danny or Armand if you are interested in joining this new community.
Greg Quarles: How to Act Like an Entrepreneur
Have clarity. Know why you do what you do. Successful entrepreneurs have a purpose, cause or belief that exists above and beyond the products or services they sell.
Have discipline. You must understand not only what product or service you plan to offer but how you intend to do it. Business owners cannot simply demand that their team "make it so," in the fashion of Captain Jean Luc Picard on Star Trek. They must hold themselves and their teams accountable to a defined set of guiding principles or values.
Be consistent. Everything you do and say must prove what you believe. In this sense, YOU are the product—a critical part of your own brand. The product should reflect your core values, and you should adopt a winning attitude in all areas of developing your business. If you don't believe in what you're doing, how can others?
Michelle Holoubeck: Why Intellectual Property MattersIntellectual property (IP) includes trade secrets, patents, copyrights and trademarks. Every fledgling entrepreneur should learn the fundamentals of IP to protect their growing business because it enables you to:
Guard your ideas and establish a competitive edge. IP is the only way that small companies can contend with larger ones on an otherwise skewed playing field. For example, when Microsoft was shown to have used XML technology that was patented by the small company i4i in one of its product releases, the software giant was ordered to pay i4i to the tune of several hundred million dollars.
Promote investments. Because funders want to protect their investments, they are unlikely to finance startups that have not developed IP safeguards.
Encourage disclosure of new ideas. Sharing exactly how a company's products or processes work in a patent helps to drive further innovation in the marketplace, and it enables businesses and consumers to easily distinguish among different products and services.
Also keep in mind:• Publically disclosing your invention—by describing it at a conference, for example—before filing a patent application may limit your ability to protect your invention.
• If you disclose some of your invention, you must disclose it all. You can't keep the best components a secret.
• You don't have to actually make an invention to patent it; you just have to describe how you would make it.
• Not everyone who works on a product is an inventor. Incorrectly attributing inventorship to someone who did not play a real role can damage your patent.
Tom Baer: Know your Market FirstContrary to popular belief, a product idea is not required to start a successful company. Here's the process that worked for Tom:
Identify a market. A couple years ago, Tom worked with a team to develop the Stanford spinoff Auxogyn—without a specific product idea in mind. Instead, the team started by targeting the area of assisted reproduction, a market that is growing by about 20 percent per year, with about 1 in 6 couples facing infertility.
Look for people who can build your company. For Auxogyn, this included a diverse group of medical doctors, developmental biologists, engineers, imaging experts and others. Look for those with the skills you lack.
Study the market. Talk with customers and assess other businesses in your niche. How do they work? What will give your company a differentiable edge?
Find and develop your idea. As you do your homework, your idea will emerge. Once it does, create product models to show your customers and incorporate their feedback into the next version. For its product, Auxogyn ultimately decided on imaging platforms that monitor the developmental process of embryos in an incubator—allowing for the selection of the healthiest ones for in vitro fertilization.
Delay financing as long as possible. Once you have the right ideas and the right market, you can find investors. If you fail, it's better to fail early—before you've invested significant time and funding into product development and pilot production.
Christina Folz (email@example.com) is OPN's editor and content director.
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By Bill Greener
Thinking about a start-up? More and more enterprising scientists are applying their knowledge of technology and industry to their own new businesses. What does it take to shape one's vision into a sustainable business? A solid business plan is obviously important. However, even before that, you must figure out which type of business entity will best suit your needs. This decision will affect everything from the amount of taxes and paperwork you'll face to your personal liability to the bottom line. Here are the major options you have, along with their advantages and drawbacks.
Sole proprietorship: Someone who owns an unincorporated business by himself or herself. The main advantage is ease of formation. To get started, you need only perform a simple filing with a County Clerk's office. The tax implications and reporting requirements are straightforward, involving taxation at individual tax rates and standard IRS Schedule C filing. There is no separate entity tax.
However, as your own boss, you are the sole risk manager and the profit/loss center—for better or worse. Your liability is unlimited, but you may have restricted sources of capital and funding.
General partnership: An association of two or more people who co-own a business for profit. These partnerships are generally easy to form at the state and county levels. Partners agree how to share profits and losses, which flow through the partnership to each partner's individual tax return via a form K-1. General partnerships are typically not subject to federal or state business entity taxes. The general partners, however, are jointly liable for the obligations of the entity.
Limited partnership: One or more limited partners and at least one general one. Limited partners cannot be active in the business management; if they are, they risk losing their "limited" status.
Limited and general partnerships are similar in areas of taxation and what is referred to as "special allocation of income and loss." Government fees for partnership formation may be higher for a limited partnership than for a general one, however. State regulations may require notices about the partnership formation to be published.
C-Corporations are your large business "Inc's." Corporate business entities provide greater segregation between their owners and the entity itself than is provided for in partnership arrangements.
Taxation issues are comprehensively addressed by the IRS, under subchapter "C" of the Internal Revenue Code. C Corporations require corporate officers and directors whose identities must periodically be reported to the state.
On the plus side, a C Corporation is taxed for income purposes as a separate corporate entity at both the federal and state levels. In addition, the number and types of shareholders are unrestricted. Shareholders have limited financial liability even if they participate in corporate management; rather, the corporate entity becomes the liable party. In a C Corporation, the retained corporate earnings can be kept in the business.
On the other hand, C Corporations are subject to double taxation; corporate income is taxed at the corporate level, while dividends are taxed at the individual (shareholder) level. The formal requirements of a C Corporation include government formation fees, significant record- and book-keeping, shareholder meetings and corporate elections, the issuance of stock certificates, and the sale of stock for raising capital. Financial losses are only deductible at the corporate level.
S Corporation: A small business entity that makes a valid election with the IRS to be taxed differently than a C Corporation. S Corporations generally pay no corporate income taxes on their profits. Instead, shareholders pay income taxes on their proportionate shares of the corporate profits. Thus, an S Corporation is considered a pass-through entity similar to a partnership, but shareholders enjoy the limited liability of a corporate structure.
Among the limitations: These entities must be domestic corporations organized under state law, and shareholders are limited to fewer than 100 and to certain entities such as individuals, estates and trusts. All individual shareholders must be citizens or residents of the United States. Unlike a C Corporation, an S Corporation cannot have retained earnings.
Limited liability companies, or LLCs, are formed by filing Articles of Organization with a state's secretary of state. The IRS taxes LLCs as if they were partnership entities. There are no restrictions on the number or types of owners or the extent of owner participation in management. An LLC will be dissolved when certain events occur; for example, bankruptcy, the death of a member, or the incapacity or withdrawal of any member unless otherwise voted upon. Annual filing fees are required.
Bill Greener is a U.S. registered patent attorney who practices in Ithaca, N.Y. and is a partner in the firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC. This blog post is based on an article that appeared in the May 2007 issue of Optics & Photonics News.
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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › Tent/shelter system with small staked footprint under 1 lb. total possible?
Nov 4, 2013 at 6:34 pm #1309489
Ive been using a TarpTent, floorless Squall, 25 oz. or so for about nine years, sold it last week. Its footprint wasnt bad, had no issues setting it up in the Sierra. Sold my ZPacks Hexamid solo tent, took up quite a bit of real estate, but not too bad, loved the 12.5 oz. complete with stakes and tent pole. It fit nice in my ZPacks Arc Blast pack, if that gives you any idea of what I want in bulk.
I bp mostly in the Sierra, solo mostly, do not use hiking poles, would like to get something good in the wind and ability to shield me from the wind if I get cold in my six foot, 160lbs, 60 year old bones. Anything with netting down low isnt too good. Would be nice to be able to use it early in the season and Fall trips in Oct or so. Pushing it Im sure. Ive been thinking that what I want is sounding like a free standing tent.
I was taking a look at the ZPacks Solo Plus which could be staked to the ground on one side maybe and still give sufficient headroom. I'm just not sure about the size footprint some tarps have like Lightheart, MLD, Bearpaw etc. A tall bathtub bottom would cut the wind, with a overhang for rain protection, but then the weight goes up then. Ive paced some shelters off and they need an area about 8-9' by about 10-12'. Ouch! Weight or space? Oh man!
DuaneNov 4, 2013 at 6:46 pm #2041298
Max DiltheySpectator
@mdiltheyLocale: MaxTheCyclist.com
The tough part is when we have to decide what "sufficient" headroom is, etc. We don't know much about your comfort preferences.
I would start with the ZPacks Pocket Tarp and a cuben bathtub and go up from there in terms of durability/space. That's about as light as I can think while giving you the bathtub and full features.Nov 4, 2013 at 6:49 pm #2041300
Jon LeibowitzBPL Member
@jleebLocale: 4Corners
I'm not sure what the zpacks plus would do for you since it's just a larger version of your old tent you just sold.
It's not freestanding, but take a look at the SMD Gatewood. I've been using it for a couple of years, it's a relatively small footprint (don't know the exact size). You don't need the netting if you don't want and the thing is bomb proof. I've been in heavy wind and all-night rain and stayed dry on countless occasions. There is a large "vestibule" for all of your gear and cutting down on the wind is a nonissue because you can stake it to the ground and then open the vent on top and still have good airflow. I honestly love the thing. Hoping for a cuben version in the future!
As Max said, check out the pocket tarp. But no option for bug protection if you ever need it…..Nov 4, 2013 at 7:35 pm #2041320
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
A true free standing tent is going to be over 35 oz and or very small particularly if you don't sleep on the floor without a mat, as some manufacturers seems to suggest you do with theirs…
Since wind/weather protection is your main point (and you are 6' tall and probably don't fancy 30" high doors…) you could take a look at the Tarptent Moment with fabric inner.
It is around 35oz but you have a shelter that sets up dry in around a minute, gives you full protection all around , so no problem with wind changing direction during the night.
The only bit of extra real estate apart from the fly would be two pole guylines taking the total of stakes needed to 4.
As a bonus when it rains you can take the inner off (takes a minute) and have extra room inside to cook or get changed.
franco@tarptentNov 4, 2013 at 7:50 pm #2041322
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"Anything with netting down low isnt too good."
Why, specifically?
I've used a couple of shelters with perimeter netting, and I thought that added just a touch of ventilation with bug protection. Besides, if you don't want the ventilation on one night, just pitch it lower so that the netting is all on the ground.
Your one-pound limit is very restrictive. I use a shaped cuben fiber tarp with two Fibraplex poles. Not only is there no netting down low, there is nothing at all down low. I normally pitch it with the edges the major part of a foot above ground. With guylines and a plastic sheet for the ground, the total weight is right at 16 ounces. However, it is intended mostly for a summer shelter for the Sierra.
–B.G.–Nov 4, 2013 at 8:02 pm #2041328
A pound is doable, but maybe not under my conditions. Some of my trips do have wind, plus in the Fall, it would be nice, although I have had the Squall out and been snowed/snow pelleted on, then had that freeze. Just getting older and getting to prefer a bit more protection, although Franco or someone mentioned a short time back about it being lighter to add insulation to a bag then adding protection in a shelter, something like that. Some netting is needed for ventilation, but I've had bugs on most of my bp trips this year, even a month ago along the PCT up north here by the Middle Fork of the Feather River and Bucks Lake Wilderness.
Yep, I've considered a TT for Winter use, but I have a BD Hilight. I had a bivy for one overnighter this Spring, I did not like the slowness of getting in and out of it, maybe a bulky one and a spacious, but light cuben tarp combo and a headnet.
DuaneNov 4, 2013 at 8:06 pm #2041331
John HarperBPL Member
@johnnyh88Locale: The SouthWest
What about an Oware Alphamid? This tarp has always intrigued me: 18.5 oz in silnylon, 9 ft long, 4.5 ft wide, and 5 ft tall. It would be pretty easy to tie off to a tree with its flat face. Cuben might be an option – you'd have to ask Oware.
An Uber Bivy from Miles Gear would be about the smallest footprint you could get.Nov 4, 2013 at 8:57 pm #2041344
Oware is out of the one small tepee, then you need to add in netting somewhere, if only they and TT would go cuben.
A MLD solo cuben inner net is 6.5oz, ZPacks flat cuben 7'X9' tarp is 5.3 oz, add stakes and a couple poles, at 17 oz. depending on brand of pole.
DuaneNov 4, 2013 at 9:13 pm #2041346
+1 on the Gatewood. You get a full CYA rain gear and 360 coverage shelter in an 11oz package. Add a small bundle or 6 Ti stakes and whatever you are going to use for a pole. You could get the carbon pole for it, but I would get one SUL adjustable carbon fiber trekking pole just for cool factor. I use trekking poles anyway, so I've never had to address that issue. You wanted an excuse to use a trekking pole anyway, right?
You can stake it down tight or jack it up 6" as needed. The design lends itself to stacking rocks on top of your stakes for wind insurance. I use a wide polycryo ground cloth so I can spread things out in the big floor space. No reason you couldn't make a polycryo or space blanket bathtub for it. If get tired of the bugs, there is the inner net available.
There is 35 square feet of space under the canopy– as much as many 2 person shelters. And it has a *door* with a *zipper* that you can open and close or guy it out to catch a breeze. Pretty sexy for a rain cape, I mean tarp, I mean tent :)
You get there with a completely dry pack too– forgot that part. It kind of looks like a tossed salad coming down the trail in rain gear mode, but I like salads :) If you get stuck out on a day hike, you can get out your "rain coat" and sleep under it.Nov 5, 2013 at 5:52 am #2041375
Has this been updated or changed? I know a ULer from our group here in CA used the Gatewood on one trip maybe 5 years back or so and even for him he thought it was pretty minimal. I just hate fiddling with the gc in the event of a rain storm. You dont know if you got it right until it does come down.
DuaneNov 5, 2013 at 6:21 am #2041381
James MarcoBPL Member
@jamesdmarcoLocale: Finger Lakes
Well, this is a difficult set of parameters. No tents will actually fill all your needs. Here is one that comes closest to the weight, weather-proof, warmth and foot print, but you loose some head height and vestibule space. Expense??? well that is out the ceiling…
Check this: http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/terra_nova_laser_ultra_1_tent_review.html
There are a few others. Again, listed in the same review. This is several years old, though.
Z-Packs makes a pretty good 3 season tent here: http://zpacks.com/shelter/hexamid_long.shtml
These take some time to set up and want a higher stick or hiking staff.
As far as a component system goes, The Yama people make a pretty good net tent that fills most requirements at about 9oz. This is mounted to the poles used for a tarp. A good tarp is about 8×11 to cover the net tent relatovly tightly. Z packs makes one at around 7.2oz. But, you need treking poles or you need to get carbon fiber poles.
A smaller tarp will work with a piece of netting over your head area. Lots of different combo's for this, but avoid gadgets. They never work as advertised, it seems.
I use a simple 9×11 tarp. Generally, nights are cool enough to keep most bugs down to tolerable levels. A 2oz piece of mesh covers that, OK. Carefull selection of ground, means I don't need to worry about heavy rains. The somewhat large tarp means cover with shifting winds. The tarp, stakes, and hiking staff weigh ~22oz for everything, easy to set up, really a large area, cook under it, etc. But, again, you are back to using at least one hiking staff.Nov 5, 2013 at 7:32 am #2041392
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
… Or a Wild Oasis. Same as the Gatewood but doesn't convert into a poncho and has perimeter netting.Nov 5, 2013 at 7:45 am #2041395
A Gatewood is a minimal tent but certainly gives more protection than a simple tarp and it uses just one pole. Pitching is easy enough and you just have one guy line and that is right at the door and the pole is inside, so a tweak can be done without leaving the shelter.
I don't get what you mean about not knowing until it comes down— you have a tight pitch or you don't. That is important with any shelter. Not knowing which direction the weather will come from is a problem with any open tarp, which is why I suggested the Gatewood.
You do have some tough parameters there. If not the Gatewood, I would look a a good Cuben mid design, but the footprint and cost will go up and you lose the rain gear weight savings.
Other than that, a good cat cut Cuben tarp is the benchmark for sub 1 pound shelters I think. You will need to add two poles, 6-8 stakes and room for all the lines. You may need to as a bivy for full weather protection.
Good questions! Happy gear stalking :)Nov 5, 2013 at 8:05 am #2041402
Thanks all and Dale. Dale, I meant by my comment related to setup, if your gc is not right, the rain will quickly let you know. Ill take a look at more SMD stuff.
DuaneNov 5, 2013 at 8:57 am #2041407
I think any shelter needs good site selection and orientation. Getting the slope and the direction of the weather right is always interesting. Double that for tarps.
A good taut pitch is the rule and taking a little care with that pays off. Silnylon will relax with rain or dew, so starting out right is important.
Getting a good purchase with stakes is important with minimalist shelters. Those of us raised with free standing dome tents were spoiled— the stakes mainly kept the tent from sailing away. Lose a main guy on a tarp and down it comes. Tunnel tents are excellent shelters in heavy weather, but they too rely on a couple strong guy lines to stay up.
Many of the UL modified dome double wall tents are marketed as free standing. After trying a few, I have come to the conclusion that this a lie. Yes, the inner tent may stand up on its own after putting together a Tinker Toy set of poles, but then you need a couple handfuls of stakes to get a completed pitch. Sinking 11-12 stakes to pitch a solo "free standing" tent is ridiculous! I have pitched 6-person car camping tents with fewer parts.
The Tarp Tent Rainbow has impressed me with needing just 6 stakes to pitch or just 2 if you use trekking poles. I think bit woul be a great choice for rocky ground. It does weigh nearly three times what my Gatewood does, and costs twice as much, but it is a full featured tent vs a SUL shelter.
I don't hike above treeline much, so hammocks have become my favorite. Sleeping on the ground is so ….. uncivilized :)Nov 5, 2013 at 9:35 am #2041417
Kevin BabioneBPL Member
@kbabioneLocale: Pennsylvania
Like Dale I've moved up to hammocks, but I have a Gatewood Cape (seam sealed – that was a pain) that I've used a couple of times that I'm happy to loan you to try if you'd like. You'll need a trekking pole or other support (I used a straight stick broken to the correct length once when I wanted to take my trekking pole on a side trip).
PM me if you're interested.Nov 5, 2013 at 10:29 am #2041426
Thank you for the Gatewood offer. I remember once in awhile to view my campsite after setting up to see if a hammock would work there. I remember maybe once in 10 trips. :(
My biggest concern after spending some of my dough this year has been the staked footprint of anything. I could live with netting, just want to be able to stake a shelter in a smaller area. I would love to get a TT Rainbow except for the weight. I wish Henry used cuben, never read the reason he does not use it. After using the ZPacks Hexamid solo tent, kinda hard to accept anything heavier. I forget all the companies out there, so names help me alot, I can, after much research and weighing info (Libra here, hard to make decisions) make up my mind, but then I made up my mind enough already this year to the detriment of my checkbook. I'm at lunch, so it is about over, no research this morning now.
DuaneNov 5, 2013 at 11:26 am #2041442
Kevin BabioneBPL Member
@kbabioneLocale: Pennsylvania
So – take me up on my offer, if only to see the footprint of the GC when it's set up in your back yard. I'm a big guy – 6 feet tall and 250+ lbs – and I was a little skeptical about having enough space under it, but I was always fine. I pitch it pretty high when I'm not expecting bad weather and low when I am. There's a big difference when you can have 6" of airflow under the entire shelter. The other thing that's nice about the GC is that the footprint doesn't change when it's elevated in the air…You just end up with more usable room inside.
I know I'm not going to be using it until the Spring at the earliest so there's no hurry returning it. I'm a big fan of SMD products (two packs, two tents, plus the GC) so all this will cost you is return postage…Outbound is on me.Nov 5, 2013 at 11:45 am #2041449
I don't speak for Henry Shires, but the Rainbow is already $245, so a Cuben version would be pushing the edges of the market. The design might not be Cuben friendly as well. The Rainbow is making full use of the tension on the fabric, so it may not be a simple switch. It would be cool, as would a Cuben Gatewood.
Let me add some heresy to consider: unless you want to play the SUL game and if the rest of your kit is very light, I wouldn't fear adding another pound for a good shelter. That would open up all kinds of alternatives and probably give you a better margin of safety— and comfort.
As to hammocks, you will be hauling more than a pound there. You need reliable forest cover. Dense clumps of small sub-alpine trees don't work very well if at all. If you are camping with a mix of above and below treeline sites, you need a setup that is even more versatile (read heavy, complex and expensive). A good hammock tarp can be used on the ground, but would require poles and space— they can be big. But there is nothing like swingin' in the trees, away from the rocks, mud, roots and bugs.Nov 5, 2013 at 11:48 am #2041451
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
"I meant by my comment related to setup, if your gc is not right, the rain will quickly let you know."
Not directed at anyone, but we need to keep in mind that skill and technique will always trump gear. Skill and technique also includes bringing the right gear for the trip.Nov 5, 2013 at 11:53 am #2041453
Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
I've sold my original TT Moment(SW) and getting the TT Moment DW.
Initially I'll get the ripstop inner tent for this winter and next spring I'll get the net inner tent.
So then I'll have 4 options for tents:
1. fly W/"solid" inner (& the crossing pole for winter)
2. fly W/net inner
3. fly alone
4. net inner alone
But, yeah, I'm looking at 2 lbs. for the solid inner and fly together, twice your goal.
Cuben fabric is just way too 'spensive unless I quit buying firearms and reloading equipment.Nov 5, 2013 at 12:19 pm #2041459
Franco DarioliBPL Member
@francoLocale: Tarptent
It really depends of where you want to compromise.
Freestanding,size,weight,small footprint,weather protection.
At least one of the above has to go.
This is a Terra Nova Laser Ultra.
Pretty close to what you want at 1 lb 4oz packed weight.
The same tent in silnylon is 1 lb 9 oz (Laser Photon)
The point here is that keeping the same design, Cuben saves a few ounces not pounds.
Note that headroom is 34", so this would be the compromise for you here.Nov 5, 2013 at 12:28 pm #2041461
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"Pretty close to what you want at 1 lb 4oz packed weight."
Plus, add the weight of some decent tent stakes.
–B.G.–Nov 5, 2013 at 1:16 pm #2041476
Nick, you cant always see that the ground is sloping the right direction. I take 30 minutes sometimes deciding which spot is best. I agree with you though about gear being trumped.
DuaneNov 5, 2013 at 2:53 pm #2041525
"you cant always see that the ground is sloping the right direction"
Or the evil properties of running water through that campsite :) Yeah, time to throw down the ground cloth and give it a test— if it's not pouring buckets. Many times, you don't get much choice and overused sites are hollowed, so you get a nice puddle. Lovely, camping in a muddy pond.
Just to rub it in: with the hammock, I can handle up to 45 degrees or so slope on my campsite. The limit is how far up I can reach on the lower tree to set the suspension and still keep my backside off the dirt once I'm in the hammock. And that is if there aren't two trees on the traverse of the hill. Puddles are meaningless, along with anything else short of something that might impale me in a fall.
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anyone have any thoughts on used equipment? i understand from the guy that he is moving and just wants it gone. any reason not to take it? needs a sanding and paint job but looks ok otherwise.
anything i should do to it in prep for using?
anyone have any thoughts on used equipment? i understand from the guy that he is moving and just wants it gone. any reason not to take it? needs a sanding and paint job but looks ok otherwise.
anything i should do to it in prep for using?
The only thing I do with used boxes is scorch the inside with a propane torch, paying extra attention to the corners and rabbits to destroy any hiding AFB spores, and I don't reuse frames.
Mike Forbes
Red Dirt Apiaries
AFB unfortunately is endemic. It is everywhere in the air and ground. It is a crap shoot like the rest of life. Sounds like the price is right. If you put bees in it and end up with AFB, it is a simple matter. You have to burn it. I just bought out a guy who didn't want to quit but got old. I have inspected the brood being raised in those frames and am finding no disease. If I do, you burn it. Sinmple.
I got started on used equipment and so far no signs of disease. I guess you take your chances every time. These days I build all my own stuff from scratch.
thanks, thats kinda what i figured. i will give it a nice burn fsgo.
I would be very cautious about using any old equipment, especially from Central Ct. There have been a few operations in that area who either had a long history of AFB infections or covered up AFB problems with continuous use of Terramycin at double the recomended dosage. Unless you know the entire history of those hives, you are just begging for disaster. You will be better off starting with new hives.
I would assume the guy wouldn't lie to me about free hives... I'll have to inquire about all the gear
Have it your way, you have been warned.
Go for it, sound like a bargain, don't let others scare you off, like you said, what would he have to gain from lying to you?
You take risks every time you get used equipment. You take risks every time you drive to work. If you are the guy who had a wreck this morning and ended up in the hospital, you probably don't think it was worth the risk but if you are the guy who got to work and made another day's wages you probably think it was...
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
michael are you saying that its not worth the risk of used equipment, because people get into crashes everyday. they get new cars and go right back to driving.
im not sure i understand your perspective, pls advise what you would do.
Perhaps you should talk to some one who has experienced AFB. I got some 15 years ago by purchsing nucs from a beekeeper whos' entire 600 hive operation was comprised of used equipment he got for nothing. He fed Terra patties at double the normal dosage, year round. When I bought the nucs, I stopped the terra patties and guess what ? AFB in Spades. It took years to clean it up. I burned and burned. Another Beekeeper who followed this beekeepers practices, never got it all out of his bees until he retired and burned everything. I know what I am talking about, and once again, am warning you. Run from used hives as if your life depends upon it.
Captain, I believe Michael is talking about perspective (correct me if I am wrong) for instance Adam was in a wreck and went to the hospital (got AFB from used equipment), I have always made it to work (after scorching have never got it). Thus Adam is saying don't do it and my post said with a little fire it should be OK. Perspective.
Mike Forbes
Red Dirt Apiaries
So is it only wooden ware to avoid or all equipment as there are tools etc as well
I started with used stuff before I got here and knew enough about AFB to even scorch it. I figure that it the deal is greater than the risk. If I have problems then I'll burn it, but until then I am good to go. Like said before, if you are an optimist then go for it. Let says that it's a 1 in 20 chance that you get it. Heck 1 in 4. You still have a 75% chance that you get great equipment that is cheap or free. If they are active hives then try smelling them and see if you can smell anything except honey. You can also have a guildie or the state come out and check it.
Disclaimer: I know enough to know I don't know anything yet.
>im not sure i understand your perspective, pls advise what you would do.
I'm just saying if you take the risk and get AFB you will not think it's worth it. If you take the risk and you don't get AFB you will think it's worth it. There is always risk.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF


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Gluten Free
As 'trying' to cook every day meals from scratch that have no wheat or Cows milk makes for meals that never turn out like they do on the TV could Jamie please do some dishes using the alternative ingredients.
I make pastry that pours over the pie filling like a cake mix as the rolled pastry would never leave the surface where it was flattened, that turns out a bit like a suet pastry and tastes great but I need help.
Jamie's pizza in a pan with wheat free flour is well how should I say this, nothing like Jamie's!
Please can Jamie have a go at wheat free foods and help us wheat intolerant peeps out. The Cow's milk isn't so big a problem as goats milk suits us all fine in our household.
#2 Wed 18 Sep 13 9:51am
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Re: Gluten Free
Welcome to the Forums, Deedlea There are quite a few of us here who need to eat gluten-free foods (and lactose free, too), and you might find this thread to be of help: http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=28081
A very quick tip for you - if you do make a more traditional style gluten-free pastry that needs rolling out, trying rolling it out between two sheets of clingfilm or greaseproof paper - that way it's a doddle to transfer to the top of a pie
#3 Thu 19 Sep 13 6:17pm
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Re: Gluten Free
I like using a Silpat for rolling out gluten-free dough. I also love using my KitchenAid pasta rolling attachments with gluten-free pasta doughs.
I have yet to try it, but am planning to get some coconut oil to use in gluten-free baking. Almond flour is also a very nice ingredient for gf baking.
I find that patching and even pressing gluten-free pastry dough in to form works pretty well usually. And, keep it chilled.
If I'm substituting gf flour in a recipe for the first time, I cut the recipe down to see if it will work well because the gf flour blend I use is very expensive. It does contain dairy and it's only available in the U.S.
I'm sure someone in your country will be able to recommend a blend that works well and some recipes. Are you in the U.K?
edit to add: One of my favorite simple doughs uses olive oil and is a tart dough - good wheat-like flavor and very crisp, although no 'chew' like a good pizza dough, but it holds a lot of wet toppings and remains crisp. It's no use giving you a link to that recipe as it uses the gf flour blend I mentioned above, but if you want to try it with another blend, let me know.
A lot of companies recommend you buy their gluten-free 'bread' flour blend for yeast doughs, not the all-purpose gluten-free blends. I've had success with ap gf flour, again not a brand you can use.
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Re: Gluten Free
Hi Deedlea, welcome! To be honest, you're absolutely in the right place - if you ever have any questions about speciality recipes the forum members will be able to help. I would definitely recommend having a read through the gluten-free thread Olivia posted earlier, too.
We do also have a huge number of gluten-free recipes on the site - do have a look! http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/cate … luten-free
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Re: Gluten Free
When cooking gluten free you are going to find that you will not be able to do somethings that you can with wheat. Pizza bases and breads will be different because they use gluten to work the way they do. I find that the vast majority of Jamie's recipes are suitable for gluten free with little or no alteration. In addition to the links you could try tobee puttock's books as they have the gluten free and lactose variations for most recipes.
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AMES, Iowa – The GIS Mapping Replication and Expansion Project, a unique partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and 4-H, was honored by the FWS and 4-H National Headquarters with the 2012 Connecting Youth with Nature through Natural Resources Conservation Education Award. Two Iowa youth, Jennifer and Benjamin Akers of Oskaloosa, accepted the award and spoke about the project within Iowa.
The award was presented at the 77th Annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Atlanta in March.
According to Jay Staker, director of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Science, Engineering and Technology (E-SET), students in four states -- Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and New York -- are partnering with FWS sites in their states to do GIS mapping within the site. The students are mapping trails, invasive species, prairie burn effectiveness, assets within the sites and more. The students in Iowa focused on invasive tree species in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper County.
Ben and Jennifer Akers, Iowa 4-H youth, presented their work at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge during the award reception in Atlanta. They met with FWS Director Dan Lane and deputy directors at the reception.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson
I think the only comment I would want to make is that sometimes we get painted with the 'stuck in the old ways' brush....and it isn't always true. I ran a handful of small cell hives some years ago. Oldtimer....another conventional beekeeper just finished a small cell trial....
and I'm sure there are others.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson
20 colonies on 4.9 for 3 years. P.T. Barnum's statement, "There is a sucker born every minute," well I guess it was my minute.
I was in it for three years and it was a pain in the you know where. Nothing about regressing was as easy as it was described and the 20 colonies in the same yard that was on standard Pierco plastic was as healthy, had fewer varroa, and the overwintering losses was the same in both groups. At the end of the 3 years I phased out the small cell because introducing new queens was a problem. The new queens would take 3 weeks or more to start laying, they did not like the 4.9 at all.
I am glad I did the small cell thing, it gave me a chance to prove to my satisfaction that it failed to produce what it was reported to do. My purpose in keeping bees is for the pleasure of keeping bees, so I was only out the expense of the foundation. At the time I had several yards and enough bees so that any losses would not endanger my hobby.
I been getting all my brood boxes on 4.9 but there mixed with 5.1s right now but most on 4.9 and I have mites so I don't know about this sm. cell thing helping with VARROA. I didn't have any problem with making queens on sm. cell but they seem to draw out 5.1 much better . I use 5.1 for my honey supers {I use all deeps}.
Say hello to the bad guy!
year five==== 31 hives==== T{OAV}
I started to regress with 5.1 also. The bees made comb that was useable with the 5.1 foundation, but when the 4.9 was introduced they made comb that was not useable. I used deep frames also and there would be perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 of the frame that had cells the queens would use for worker brood. I introduced 4.9 three times before I had frames that 1/2 to 3/4 of it in worker cell size. I started drawing comb on the spring flow, when it started to taper off I started to feed sugar syrup to keep the comb drawing going, but it was the second year before my comb was what I would consider useable.
The mite counts were the same on small cell as the counts on Pierco foundation. Actuall, the counted mites were more on the small cell colonies but usually not more than 200 to 500. All of my colonies were above the 4000 count, small cell and standard, when at the end of the 3 years I treated and counted the mite fall.
My advice is to do mite counts and watch the brood patterns. If you are using good bees they will attempt to remove the breeding mites and you will see the uncapped pupa and the spotty brood pattern. Here the danger time is after mid July, and usually late August or early September when the crash comes. I have not treated the bees in my home yard now for 3 years and this year I did no splitting or requeening. I am paying the price now, some colonies are showing very poor brood patterns and the colonies are casting swarms caused by heavy varroa infestations. The 24 hour natural falls are all over the 40-50 mite range and 3 colonies are dropping 90 +. I hope to start putting in the Hopguard tomorrow, it is a month late but that is the life of a sloppy beekeeper!
If you have decided to try small cell, by all means go ahead and do your best to make it work. Don't believe all you read about how it is a cure all for all beekeeping problems, it is not. Enjoy your bees and try new and interesting things, always try to learn more about management. Pleasure is what it is all about, unless you are one of those poor souls that tries to make his living with bees!
I am not on small cell but I an not going to throw someone under the bus that is. I spent a large part of my adult life doing things that others said they tried and was impossible until I proved it to them. If you don't have your heart into something, if you half believe in it, you will most certainly fail, guaranteed.
You didn't try small cell anymore than I tried small cell. You just put yourself through a little aggravation to convince yourself that it doesn't work.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Acebird, I have kept more bee in my hip pocket than you have kept in your entire life. You are like several posters on the forums, you mouth a lot but you know little about practical beekeeping.
No one hoped more than I did that small cell would work, but it did not. I stated what I did, what the result was and made my recommendations to a fellow beekeeper. Why don't you tell us about your experiences with practical beekeeping?
I spent most of my adult life dealing with scumbags and honest sportsmen, I learned early on how to spot the difference between a fake and the real McCoy, and I have you pegged. You know very little about bees.
I have made my position known, so I intend to drop this subject and not drag on and on as is the usual procedure.
My problem with PF 120s is still ladder comb. It's annoying.
I did not think it was a cure all just thought it would help .
I'm a four year beekeeper and wasted a lot of cash on this hobby but i'll know if sm.cell works or not .
guess it's like fogging I tried that and well i'm OAV now and that's working for the VARROA lots has been learned in the 4 years I have had bees.
Say hello to the bad guy!
year five==== 31 hives==== T{OAV}
4.9mm is the cell size for AHB stock.
Do you have any stock that might be AHB derived?
Which goes to show the level of dogma around the subject. Some folks just could not accept that it didn't work, because it didn't work. I put my heart and soul into it and researched and did everything. EOD, didn't work.
Belief or lack of, is a crutch. Once for a joke, after a water diviner had been to a friends farm to tell him where to put wells, I visited & told him the water divining thing was a load of crap. The wire the guy had used was still there, my friend had tried the wire himself but it didn't work. So for a joke he gave it to me, I rolled my eyes but walked around with it and in some places it did swing around & hit me in the chest etc. Turns out they were the same places the water diviner had picked. So my non belief didn't change anything.
To say something with bees didn't work cos the guy didn't believe in it is getting into the realms of mysticism. The reality is a thing will work or not work depending how it's done, not the level of belief someone has. Most of the people I know locally who lose hives to mites do so because they believe they will not lose the hives to mites.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
Then I wonder why michael bush stands behind sm. cell.
He says it fixed his varroa problem.
Say hello to the bad guy!
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Sometimes what we believe is the cure or answer to a problem/issue is not really the cure but some other overlooked item is the real answer. It is not easy for anyone to accept.
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Then I wonder why michael bush stands behind sm. cell.
He says it fixed his varroa problem.
I wondered the same, and so I asked him to retry large cell as a proof, and he refused. I questioned if he was using small cell to select a different bee, and hat was the reason for his success.
Crazy rOLAND
AR Beekeeper.
Something else to be aware of though, the latest new treatment free sensation, Tim Ives, does not use small cell. He thinks it's about sugar.
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