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Settlement could usher in a new era of co-operative agreements and will be watched closely by claimants.
Was that a thin smile beginning to spread across the face of Chris Finlayson when he finished announcing the deal that the Crown had struck with Tuhoe - a deal which promises to resolve one of the most fraught Treaty claims in recent times?
Certainly, the minister has good reason for such measured triumphalism. The settlement's seemingly simple ingredients of a new legal entity for Te Urewera - with territorial co-management, a social services management plan, increased iwi self-determination, compensation, and an apology - have been combined, and by some ingenious alchemy the former adversaries in the negotiations will now become allies. This will give rise to a partnership in its purest form emerging from what until now has been a frequently fractious relationship.
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On the other side of the negotiating table, Tamati Kruger and his team acted with good faith and much patience, even when relations were punctured by occasional political obstinacy, and when factions within their own camp threatened to pull away some of the props supporting the claim.
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Ban on Paper and Plastic starts on Tuesday
Original post made by Long Time Resident, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Dec 27, 2012
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:29 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Appears to be Alameda County (for one): Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:47 am
Dublin and Pleasanton and all of Alameda County. I'm curious-is it only bags at the checkout counters or will they also ban plastic produce bags and deli bags? I think it should be all plastic.
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:50 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Gotta love those liberal, enviro-nazi types micromanaging and intruding on every part of our lives. This scheme is similar the 'recycle' program for glass bottles that does nothing but drive up the price of goods across all income levels. What's next, bring your own bottle for refill at the local brewery? More income redistribution brought to you by our appointed taxing authority under the guise of saving the environment.
Don't forget to bring your grungy old bags into the store to avoid this scheme....like that'll happen.
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:52 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
roseann, bring your own fish wrappers into the store and don't presume the rest of us are as unsanitary as you.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:57 am
To Long Time Resident, We need our Pleasanton businesses to be socially responsible, and, unless I misunderstand your post, you have just implied that you would prefer to move your business to Dublin rather than do your part to help our environment. A little research online before posting your question would have shown you that you will need to relocate outside of Alameda County to achieve your objective. Please reconsider your perspective and become part of the solution. I, for one, don't mind bringing my own reusable bags into stores. In fact, our family has been doing this for years. We need good businesses in Pleasanton. They provide jobs and help support the health of our community. And now they will help reduce waste in our environment.
a resident of another community
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:07 am
Plastic and paper bags aren't banned: "The Alameda County Waste Management Authority (StopWaste.org) adopted its ordinance banning plastic bags and placing a 10 cent price requirement on paper and reusable bags in January of 2012. It is effective on January 1, 2013 in unincorporated Alameda County as well as its 14 incorporated cities."
You just have to pay 10 cents a bag if you don't bring your own.
Trader Joes and Safeway have been providing very sturdy, reusable bags for years for their customers. They sell the bags at a subsidized price (below cost). The Trader Joes bags in particular are excellent. I use the TJ bags and have for many years--they have shown only a little bit of wear after year after year of use. 99 cents for a bag, and at 10 cents a bag for paper/plastic means that the TJ bags pay for themselves in a few shopping trips.
This is a good move for the environment and isn't really an inconvenience. If you can plan to go to the store and make a shopping list, surely you're organized enough to remember to take your reusable shopping bags with you?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:13 am
After reading the web site, most stores are exempt from the bag ban. It mainly focuses on grocery stores and stores that sell packaged food.
a resident of Old Towne
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:16 am
My wife loves the reusable shopping bags. She always keeps several in her car. Unfortunately, on the infrequent times that I do the shopping, I forget to bring the bags. So, I end up buying more. We now have about 20 reusable bags from Trader Joe's. There are a number of designs from the past several years. To lessen her wrath, I keep telling my wife that they're collectible and will be worth money some day. She's not buying that story...
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:18 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Our family has been using heavy duty, washable canvas bags and washable mesh produce bags for quite some time now. Prices are reasonable and there is a larger variety available. Add up all the nickel (?) charges for paper bags I've seen and the initial cost for recyclable bags makes sense. I believe there was a bill proposed in December to move to banning plastic bags statewide (this has been attempted before and failed).
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:22 am
"All grocery stores, mini-marts, convenience stores, liquor stores, other stores and pharmacies selling packaged food and/ or alcohol are affected."
Web Link
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:54 am
Thanks for the informative link. I was not aware that this ban included mini-marts, convenience stores, liquor stores, other stores and pharmacies selling packaged food. Good information.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 9:56 am
It appears that the meat, produce and deli bags are not affected.
Single-Use Carryout Bags d
not include bags that are integral to the packaging of the product, or bags without
handles provided to the Customer (i) to transport produce, bulk food or meat from
produce, bulk food or meat department within a Store to the point of sale, (ii) to
hold prescription medication dispensed from a pharmacy, or (iii) to segregate food
merchandise that could damage or contaminate other food or merchandise when
placed together in a Reusable Bag or Recycled Paper Bag.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 10:51 am
no one likes changes, however we always get used to them.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 11:08 am
You and your neighbors elected the Democrat politicians that created this law and many more such intrusive laws. Being good stewards of our planet's resources is something that many of us work at in lots of areas of our lives. Having a bunch of Democrat politicians mandate how we do this is the kind of mob rule that our nation's founders tried to prevent through the Bill of Rights.
a resident of another community
on Dec 27, 2012 at 11:39 am
Folks: Have you not read about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
"The size of the patch is unknown, as large items readily visible from a boat deck are uncommon. Most debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite. Instead, the size of the patch is determined by sampling. Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.41% to 8.1% of the size of the Pacific Ocean), or, in some media reports, up to "twice the size of the continental United States"."
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We're killing the oceans. Kill the oceans = kill the Earth's ability to sustain us humans.
Calling people Nazis because they want to charge you a dime if you forget your reusable grocery bag? Get a grip.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Dec 27, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Hello There,
I did not vote democratic but will use recycled bags. I have no problem with trying to help this old Earth and this is an easy way to do something.
To me what would be even more effective is if we banned throw-away plastic water bottles. Let's go back to glass, and use the hard plastic or metal recycled bottles for sporting events. If we went back to glass we could add jobs because there are many shuttered glass plants to could very easily be re-opened in this country.
But I suppose wanting to add jobs is considered socialistic by some folks making comments above.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Dec 27, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Would there be a net gain in jobs if those employed at plastic bottle manufacturers lose their jobs? There is also the topic of energy and transportation used to recycle one over the other. There are trade offs to consider. I'm not advocating for plastic; I just don't think it's simple.
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 27, 2012 at 4:04 pm
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Daniel, this tax will do nothing to alleviate your Patch. It just punishes people who will continue to use bags to carry their goods. Are you really thinking this is an altruistic effort to save the planet from baggies, instead of just another tax to punish consumers? You people as so naive...no wonder you like Dem rule. Start thinking for yourselves and quit following the lemmings.....
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 6:53 pm
There are some nice grocery stores in Contra Costa County such as in Danville and San Ramon.
I use the paper bags for various other uses once I bring them home. I'll be shopping in San Ramon and Danville for groceries from now on.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Santa Clara county has managed to fully transition to reusable bags, and with a larger and much more diverse population. In fact, even department stores in that county will be operating under similar rules in the new year.
We Care put it well: become part of the solution.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Dec 27, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Oh my gosh, so many of you are so stupid. Plastic bags are a huge issue. They're a waste of resources. They blow all over getting stuck in cars and can potentially cause auto accidents. Wildlife choke on them. Kids choke on them. It is not difficult to either re use bags you own, or pick up a few reusable canvas bags and wash them after you go shopping. Most women already carry purses with them everywhere, what is so difficult about a canvas bag? Shove it in your trunk and call it done. IT's not rocket science. If you don't like it, you can move to Saudi Arabia, it's nirvana for you nimrods who think getting rid of plastic bags is anything similar to Nazism.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:02 pm
@ liberalism is a disease:
I know facts and logic are really hard for Tea Party imbeciles like yourself, but you only pay for bags if you don't already have some or some kind of carrying device. People have been giving out free reusable bags for years. You can reuse plastic or paper bags you have, or you could use a backpack or tote bag for your groceries. No one is making you buy anything. It's not our fault you're lacking in the common sense department and never thought about how much easier it is to have your own bags. They're sturdier than plastic or paper bags most of the time anyways. But again, Saudi Arabia or Somalia await if you feel Alameda County is too democratic!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2012 at 5:44 am
A while back the garbage company raised our prices, so that we could start doing the recycling for them. That would help pay for the extra truck that now comes once a week for the blue cans. We were asked to start putting vegetable scraps in a paper bag and place it in the green can with the garden waste.
I have been using the grocery store paper bags for that purpose, but apparently come next week I will have to stop doing that, since I will no longer have paper bags brought in from the grocery stores, and I'll be damned if I will pay a penny to buy paper bags to recycle, on top of the garbage bill hike that has already happened.
I understand the ban on plastic bags, but paper should not have been banned.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 am
To Kathleen Ruegsegger,
You are correct in that most things are never as simple as they seem. However, my reasoning for going away from plastic bottles is 1.) they are made from oil which is purchased from the Middle East (who hates us) and 2.) they are made overseas. My thinking is that we made the glass bottles here and go back to recycling them like they did when I was a kid.
A few more jobs for the USA.
Thank you
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Dec 28, 2012 at 10:14 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Thank you PN. Do you have a link for where bottles used in the US are made outside the US? I found one link that shows 376 US manufacturers. Web Link I also found this link on where we import petroleum from: Web Link And this on how much petroleum is used to make plastics: Web Link
Even with those links, it presents an incomplete picture. I still don't know that we can predict a net gain in jobs. I would, however, agree there are individuals, groups, governments in the Middle East who don't like Americans as a whole. That would be true of a lot of countries.
There are plenty of sites covering the impact of plastics on the environment--all pretty scary. One suggested using only landfills rather than the oceans. In the meantime, we support efforts like the banning of plastic bags. There are plenty or reasonable substitutes.
@No More: we tried using the biodegradable baggies for scraps, but they degrade before you get them to the can. Now we just use a paper towel while we prep and throw it and the scraps into the green bin.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Dec 28, 2012 at 10:27 am
There's a really good post on another thread about the reasoning behind the plastic ban. Goes back to a Sierra Club initiative that was passed years ago: Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Enough is enough... we have enough regulations telling us what to do and how to act... In this case, let's have education that educate the idiots we don't know what's best... We don't need more 'tell me what I need to do...!' For those who don't know, all those recycling bags are made of plastic and these are even more dangerous to the health of our beloved wild life! They are even more stronger than thst thin plastic bags.. also, if we don't wash, more people will get sick and get salmonella and e-colli from contaminated bags!!!! Let's have a law that tells us we must wash our bags before reuse.. That will be useful!
What do we do when we buy stuff from the Mall?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Deborah, you elitists must be really passionate about this bag tax, hence the juvenile name calling (stupid, imbecile, etc.) .
Maybe when you grow up and have to get a real job ( as opposed to living off your husband's accomplishments) you'll realize this latest attempt at social engineering costs lower and middle class consumers disproportionately.
Your further disparaging of middle eastern countries assumes that none of them are democratic. Egypt would love to have a Western beeyatch like you.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 29, 2012 at 10:32 am
May a thousand camels dump on the lawns of each and every enviro-Nazi. We're moving out of California in two years, and can't wait to get out. We just hope the state doesn't collapse before we get the heck out of here.
a resident of Livermore
on Dec 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Camel is waaaaaaaaaaay too funny. Where would like me to send the dump for your din-din? tee hee hee...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 30, 2012 at 6:02 am
This has been said before by others and I'm going to say it again.
The announced justification for this action by the county is to prevent plastic bags from being discarded on the ground and winding up in the waterways and eventually in the Bay.
This is a problem, a real problem. However, the solution decided upon by the County is nothing more than an environmentalist punishment imposed upon the public at large.
I believe a better analysis should have been made, and a more logical solution adopted to address this problem.
The county board's decision lacks the critical thinking necessary to address not only the problem, but more importantly to balance and protect the needs of the people as a whole.
Here's how is sums up for me:
OBSERVATION: Plastic bags are being found in the Bay and other waterways within the county.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Plastic bags are being discarded by individuals as litter upon the ground.
OBSERVABLE RESULT: Natural processes, such as weather, allow undesired litter to work its way into the drainage systems and waterways that empty into the Bay.
DESIRED OUTCOME: Prevent / Reduce undesired litter within waterways and the Bay.
SOLUTION: If you have a problem with a group of people, then address that group directly to solve the problem. There are existing anti-litter ordinances(s) to tackle this problem. Enforce them and the problem will be addressed directly with the people causing the problem.
Today, the all too frequently applied solution skips the critical thinking phase and jumps right into the middle of a current populist fix. We allow an emotional, albeit popular, action to be taken in place of a more logical, thought through sensible approach.
The county's solution to the problem is to punish the public at large, for the actions of a few, by forcing retail merchants to charge people for a plastic bag.
This issue goes even further. Not only must the retailer charge for the bag (paper or plastic), they are prohibited from absorbing the charge and giving the bag for free. The retailer is required to insure that a customer is made aware of the fact that they are being charged for the bag, and they must make this an identified separate charge in the register.
This is absurd. Once again we have social engineering through legislation, geared to reform societal thinking to comply with a particular viewpoint. It does not matter if the viewpoint is good, or bad. It is our own legislative process being used against us that is the objection.
Any rule, regulation, ordinance or law, passed by our representatives, should meet the test of majority benefit and minimal negative impact upon the people as a whole.
In this case the solution met the test of majority benefit, in that a majority of people in the county will benefit from a cleaner less littered environment. However it failed the minimum impact test as it applies penalties upon everyone, and not just the specific people throwing their trash on the ground.
And this leads me to conclude that the people who throw their trash on the ground today will simply continue to throw their trash on the ground tomorrow. For there is no specific targeted plan to address the littering problem. The people as a whole will now have to pay a price due to the actions of a few that our representatives have failed to address properly.
I don't know why we put up with representatives who have their own grandiose "Perfect Society" agendas that they want to apply to the rest of us. I for one will remember this at the next election.
a resident of Las Positas Garden Homes
on Dec 30, 2012 at 6:49 am
Couldn't agree more--we need to have our police monitor any citizens who shop for groceries and tail them all as they leave the stores, just to make sure they don't litter with their plastic bags. If that's too expensive, we should put a unique tracking device into each separate shopping bag and fingerprint shoppers so that we can address the problem directly with the perps responsible. If all else fails, satellite surveillance backed up with drone patrols should do the trick. I'm quite sure each of these solutions would be far more reasonable, enforceable, and cheaper than a ten cent bag tax to pay for cleanup.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 30, 2012 at 10:19 am
Bob, outstanding post. Well thought out and obviously struck a cord with at least one sarcastic enviro lemming, who typically ridicule those citizens against social engineering and unnecessary income confiscation.
Can't wait for the next set of regulations that will further punish the majority of stewards of our local environment. Socialism at its worst, following the example of our dear leader.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 30, 2012 at 10:22 am
Nice come back. Who ever you are. You should feel good about that one. A real 'Gotcha'. Truly, another well informed, and well intentioned I'm sure, member of society.
Why do you hide in the facelessness of the on-line post without giving your name? Perhaps you feel more secure making such remarks only while hiding behind a mask? There actually are names for people who hide like this, but it would be bad form to use one here. So we'll move on.
Yes, nice come back, except, of course for the failure to understand the ordinance. Specifically, this 10-cent charge pays for nothing and offsets no cost whatsoever.
The charge is not considered a Tax. It would have required a vote by the people to establish a new tax. This is considered a 'nuisance charge', and therefore did not require a vote of the people.
It is a requirement for the merchant to specifically charge this fee. It is a requirement for the merchant to inform the purchaser that they will be charged the fee (either by signage or verbally). It is prohibited for the merchant to include the fee in the product price and may not in any other way hide from the customer this new charge. It is a requirement for the merchant to maintain records to prove that the fee was charged, how much was collected, and that it was actually paid for by the customer.
However the money collected by the retailer does not go to the county or the city. This charge is not collected by any agency. The merchant retains it.
The bag fee does not pay for trash cleanup or any other action or operation conducted by the county or city.
The approach here is like the coach punishing the whole squad for the action of one member. That does work in small groups where everyone knows who that one person is. But it does not work beyond that small group.
This is simply a punishment upon the people as a whole because of the selfish actions of a few. The actions of people, who without thinking and without care, throw trash on the ground. And they do so with impunity. But perhaps their feeling towards this is understandable. After all when people like you leave the impression that there is just no point to enforce the anti-littering laws, then why bother following them.
a resident of Las Positas Garden Homes
on Dec 30, 2012 at 10:35 am
I don't know if that last post was directed at me or not, but I think you misunderstood me. I totally agree with you. Maybe you think my suggestions for enforcement are unrealistic? Please tell me how YOU envision enforcing anti-littering laws. Please be specific, so that I can learn from you.
Also, I didn't know that full disclosure was necessary in a comment on plastic bags. My name is Tom. Is my post legitimate now?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 30, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Maybe you think my suggestions for enforcement are unrealistic? Please tell me how YOU envision enforcing gun laws. Please be specific, so that I can learn from you.
a resident of Avignon
on Jan 5, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Camel, take me with you.
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Deep Sea Diver – History Speaks
March 5, 2012 by Matt Zimmerman
Deep Sea Diver finally release their debut album HISTORY SPEAKS filled with raucous guitars ('You Go Running'), ruminations on the world's end ('NWO') and heart-breaking ballads ('Tracks of the Green Line').Similar artists: Arcade Fire, Cat Power, St. Vincent, Talking Heads, Yeah Yeah YeahsTagged: Deep Sea Diver, indie, Jessica Dobson, rock, The Shins
Conversation w/ Deep Sea Diver
February 25, 2012 by Matt Zimmerman
The following conversation was conducted on Tuesday, January 31 with Jessica Dobson (vocals, guitar) of Deep Sea Diver/The Shins. ———————————— Since we talked last in 2010, there's been a lot of change in your life both personally and professionally. Biggest, I suppose, is the move from California to Seattle, WA. […]Similar artists: Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, St. Vincent, Talking Heads, Yeah Yeah YeahsTagged: Deep Sea Diver, indie, Jessica Dobson, rock, Seattle, The Shins


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Target this week entered the seasonal fray dominated so far by Walmart and Toys "R" Us attempting to outdo one another with announcements about their layaway offers, product reservation programs and top toy lists.
Target released its top 20 toy list and introduced a new technological wrinkle to the toy category that provides shoppers with added convenience and potential frustration if the technology doesn't work properly. Beginning October 14, Target will showcase its top 20 toys on the main aisle in-store to increase the product visibility in a time-tested merchandising strategy. In addition, for added convenience, each of the top toys will have a QR code that can be scanned to purchase the toy directly using a mobile device and ship it for free to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. The QR initiative sounds intriguing, but it also introduces new complexity during a time of year when that's the last thing any retailer needs so Target had better hope the technology functions perfectly.
In addition to the QR initiative, Target has introduced a new tool to create and share wish lists. Shoppers can browse the toy catalog or visited a new dedicated top toys Web page to organize their choices into a digital wish list that is instantly shareable with anyone via email.
Not one to give up on tried and true strategies, Target also plans to distribute an old-fashioned toy catalog in early November that features more than 200 toys and a variety of coupons.
"Target is the ultimate destination for toy shopping this holiday season. Not only do we have the hottest toys, we are helping guests shop the way they want – in stores, online and directly from their mobile devices," said Stephanie Lucy, Target's vp of toys. "Our in-store QR codes for this year's top toys will add real convenience for busy moms. Now, rather than hoping the kids won't notice when a gift is slipped into the cart, guests can scan the QR codes to buy top toys and have them shipped anywhere for free."


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Hey Eric, I hope you can read this just so you get my thoughts on Uncharted TV.
I have never really been a huge fan of it. It seemed like such an innovative idea, yet it turned into a very unimpressive feature fast. For a long time it was constantly just Top Plays videos, and I'm not sure who is to blame for that. And I guess I shouldn't speak for everyone, but to me that was just very boring. Anyways, those are just some initial thoughts.
The real problem for me started last August. I had spent a while editing a community montage. When it was finished, I uploaded it to youtube and it got a lot of success and praise. We sent it your way, and you said it was too long (14 mins), and it had to be under 10 minutes. It was upsetting but I completely understood. However, I still had hopes of getting a video up on UCTV eventually. So, last december I made an Uncharted edit called DragonBolt. It was 4 minutes 30 seconds long. About a week prior to it's completion, RobinGaming's Connected montage was uploaded to UCTV (5 minutes 30 seconds). When DragonBolt was sent, you replied saying that this video was again too long, as all future vids had to be under 3 minutes. You can imagine this was frustrating, but I tried to not let it bother me that much. However, when you uploaded that kid's friend list video AFTER you rejected DragonBolt, I was shocked. Especially considering the friend's list video was over 3 minutes.
What am I getting at? Well, to be honest, I don't know. Consider it an airing of grievances. I would just like to say that I worked very hard on all the videos I sent to you guys for UCTV, and I hope that in the future I can actually see my hard work pay off.
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Just as long as they DON'T include friendlist videos. lol.
That cracked me up as well!
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Hopefully by enforcing the 3 minute rule, we'll see less "BPOTW" videos which shouldn't be on UCTV in the first place.
They should also state that intros should be no more than 10 seconds long. Vids are being put up with 30+ second intros, by which time you've already found a game so you'll never see the video......
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So I try with my old video !
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No self-aggrandizing videos in UCTV plz... we need stuff that will help the Uncharted community as a whole (i.e. a Co-op tutorial or something).
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This is mine! I'm sorry this is 4.22 minutes, but i don't know how to cut this! And all the video is important! <3
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As novels ripe for musical adaptation go, Kiss of the Spider Woman is no Les Misérables. A flaunting queen and a fearful political prisoner growing closer in a prison of a South American dictatorship, with the sounds of torture recurring as background music? Bravely, Brown University Theatre and Sock & Buskin are staging it anyway (through November 11), directed by Marcus Gardley, with musical direction by Adria Barbosa.
Its Broadway creators certainly have credentials, between the book by Terrence McNally (Ragtime), the music by John Kander and the lyrics by Fred Ebb (both behind Chicago and Cabaret). After a rocky development start, it ended up doing well on London's West End and Broadway in the early '90s.
Given that it relies at least equally on dramatic character development as on song and dance distractions, a college production is more problematical. We won't be seeing it replace The Fantasticks in high school auditoriums unless the general psychological atmosphere gets far more dire.
Already in prison three years on an eight-year sentence for soliciting a male minor is window dresser Molina (Evan Strouss), a remarkably upbeat guy, considering his circumstances. The only thing he seems to worry about is missing his mother (Neha Verma), which is eventually put to good use by the conniving warden (Gerrit Thurston). He keeps his spirits up by screening in his mind all the movies of seductive film star Aurora (Madeleine Heil), claiming to know every line in nearly every film. All but one, Kiss of the Spider Woman — in which she kills with a kiss, prompting nightmares for Molina.
Tossed roughly onto the floor of his cell one day is Valentin (Teng Yang), arrested after passing on a message for a revolutionary group. He's furious at being there and annoyed at being thrown in with a homosexual, marking a line between their cots that he forbids Molina to cross. Inevitably, they get to know each other, with Valentin saying that he loves an aristocratic young woman named Marta (Becca Millstein) and Molina telling him of his love for a waiter named Gabriel (Hayward Leach). Inevitably, freedom is dangled before Molina, if only he will betray his new friend.
Some of the songs reflect or advance the characters, such as recurring snatches from "Over the Wall," in which the prisoner ensemble fantasizes about rum and "big-busted women" and the like. "Gabriel's Letter" is an interesting addition, establishing that despite protests to Molina that he is "not that way," his heterosexuality is on shaky footing. At least a couple of the songs are downright silly, such as "Morphine Tango," where Molina in the infirmary is delirious as male orderlies stagger around him like zombies; and "Gimme Love," a purportedly erotic orgiastic production number replete with gold hot pants — it's more like choreographed birth control.
However. Heil's singing and dancing and vamping as Aurora is a series of wowing wonders to behold. There is "Where You Are," which she shares with Marta, and a rendition of "Gimme Love" with Molina that closes Act One. But with "Russian Movie" and "Good Times" opening the second half, complemented by the two male leads, Heil delights us with a campy spoof of the classic femme fatale, giving her character a winking sense of humor and a down-on-your-knees-slave sexuality.
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the process by which one symbolically removes blood from a sword blade. The term chiburui can thus be translated as "shaking off the blood". In the Japanese martial art of iaidō, this is done before placing the blade back into the scabbard.
So THATS what thats called when that ninja shakes the blood from the sword after mowing through all of those bad guys! Chiburi!"
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NPGA achieved a major milestone last week when the Department of Energy (DOE) published a Statement of Policy (SOP) announcing its plans to adopt Full-Fuel-Cycle (FFC) Analyses into their Energy Conservation Standards Program. Specifically, DOE intends to use FFC measures of energy use and emissions, rather than the primary (or site) energy measures it currently uses. In addition, DOE intends to work collaboratively with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to make readily available to consumers information on the FFC energy and greenhouse gas emissions impact of specific products to enable consumers to make "cross-class comparisons of product energy use and emissions."
NPGA has strongly pushed the agency to take this action, particularly since the 2009 publication of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study recommended that DOE move to a FFC approach over time. NPGA also played an instrumental role in the origin of the NAS study by lobbying for the study's inclusion in the 2005 Energy Policy Act.
With this action, DOE will now measure the impact of their energy conservation standards based upon environmental assessments and national impact analyses using Full-Fuel-Cycle, which measures site energy plus primary energy plus the energy consumed in the extraction, processing and transport of primary fuels.
While this is a major step in the effort to get FFC adopted, work remains to be done as the benefits of this approach are more long-term at this point in time. NPGA continues to participate in various public agency meetings and rulemakings and is part of an industry coalition (including the American Gas Association) that is seeking to gain more near-term benefits of FFC analyses. NPGA will keep you updated as we continue to review the details and benefits of this extremely positive development by DOE.
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Wondering if there are any of the PRC-77's or PRC-25's still floating around, thanks KF5UVC
A friend of mine has a few, all working. they're still around, the 77s are pricy though. Here's a pic of his display.
That's an impressive setup, I'm also looking for a S-280 com shelter the one that fits in the back of a M-35, what part of the world are you guys in? Most of the stuff we see nowdays is coming out of Israel and a 77 with a good battery seems to be running around 1K.
We're in central FL, if you look in the background you can just see on the left a Mighty Mite jeep and on the right is a M-37 with a S-122 comm box on it, all the stuff in there works too, just no KW-7, yet.
I did basic there and then went to North Fort for AIT, because I was going to Benning they made us go thru TigerLand, it was really something in 73 staffed mostly with lifers coming out of Nam trying to get their 20 in. What would make you want to transfer out of Signal to the Infantry? In the old Army, Signal and Transport were the last of the gravy train.
I always envied the grunts who transferred to signal. I wanted to be part of that. I did alright in the infantry. But it sure wasnt a cake walk. Also, my signal years were in the National Guard, where I worked my way up to E-5, and when I went into the Regular army, I lost that rank and went down to E-2, as they dont count NG rank, exept as prior service, unless you go into the same MOS. So there I was, getting chewed out by corporals and spec 4's, when I was the one doing the ass chewing just a short time before. I eventually worked my way back up to spec 4. I hope they dont do it that way anymore, as alot of NG soldiers have served in combat zones with their units,and to lose their rank if they decide to go full time to a different MOS would be f'd up. Back on topic, my dad used to be into HAM radio. I wonder if he still has his old set. I think I may go ask him.
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Learn to identify the most common causes of floor sagging—and what to do about it. Learn the best tools and methods for lifting and shoring a load-bearing beam and the steps to safely replace a rotted post.
Sagging floors, doors that won't close and cracks that appear in interior walls can be symptomatic of a more serious problem. You may have undersized support beams, support posts that are rotting and losing their structural integrity, or undersized post footings that are settling. It's important to stop this problem and reverse it before it gets worse and becomes more costly to repair.
We'll show you how to identify two common causes of floor sagging, the best tools for lifting and shoring (temporarily supporting) a house beam, and the steps to safely replace a post. The actual work of repairing three to four posts and footings takes three or four working days spread over 10 days. Add to that the time to plan the work and obtain any required building permits.
Raising the main beam that carries the floors and interior walls of a house is complex. Don't tackle it if you're a novice. When you raise a house even 1/2 in., the effects can ripple through the building's framing, plaster walls, rigid piping and chimneys. For this reason, only specialty contractors should raise a beam or wall more than about 1 in. or undertake extensive floor leveling.
Mark the size of the new footing and cut the outline with a circular saw fitted with a diamond masonry blade. Start by making a 1-in. deep plunge cut on each side of the post. Make successively deeper 1-in. cuts until soil pulled from underneath the slab tells you the concrete has been breached.
Floors sag because the posts supporting a house beam are failing and/or the footings holding those posts are undersized and sinking. Diagnose the problem by seeking the easiest solution first; go further only as needed. If your posts directly contact the floor, start by using a screwdriver to probe the base of your wood posts to reveal any rot that could have caused them to settle.
If the post isn't rotting, the concrete footing it's on is almost certainly sinking or has deteriorated. Compare the old footing's dimensions with an engineer's recommendations and current code requirements (see next section). To get at the footing, you'll have to saw through and strip off the concrete floor covering it, then dig down one side of the footing until you can measure its length, width and thickness (Photos 1 and 3). The 7-1/4 in. circular saw we used won't cut through slabs more than 2-1/2 in. thick. For cutting through thicker slabs, rent a 14-in. concrete saw fitted with a diamond blade. Hang plastic sheeting to block migrating dust.
Our floor sagging occurred because the post bottoms had rotted and the footings were undersized. Besides pouring new footings and restoring the posts, we added plinth blocks (Photo 12) to elevate the wood above moisture on the basement floor.
Posts and footings support the weight of your house, so you have to size them right. Consult with a structural engineer, local building officials and contractors who specialize in this work. Hire the professionals to review all aspects of your project and provide the calculations and drawings necessary to obtain a building permit (Fig. A). Look for listings in the Yellow Pages under "Engineers, Structural," and interview those who do residential work and have experience with this type of project. You can expect them to:
Release all rigid connections between gas, heating, plumbing or electrical lines (in conduit) and the house beam. To avoid rupturing these lines while the beam is being raised, support them with a 2x6.
Repair or replace posts or footings by raising the beam with a hydraulic jack and 4x4 post, then shoring it with adjustable steel posts (Photos 4 and 5). Buy a hydraulic jack and rent the shoring posts for the project. If you're removing and resetting more than one basement post, use one hydraulic jack and move from station to station as you install and later remove the shoring posts.
CAUTION: As a house beam is raised, any rigid plumbing, gas, electrical or heating lines in the basement connected to the beam, the floors or walls above could rupture. Before jacking the beam, release the connectors holding these lines and support them with lumber resting on the basement floor (Photo 2). To monitor the total rise during lifting, measure and write the floor-to-beam heights on the beam where hydraulic jacks will be placed. Then remove or cut any nails, screws or straps that join the posts to the beam.
Position two 3-ft. long 2x10 "weight-spreader" boards a minimum of 6 in. from the sides of the hole, then center a hydraulic jack directly under the beam's lifting point using a plumb bob. Make sure the jack is perfectly plumb and sits solidly level on the boards.
Cut a 4x4 or 6x6 jacking post to fit between the jack piston and the beam. Place a 1/4-in. thick steel plate between the piston and the bottom of the post to prevent the piston from becoming embedded in the post. Snug the post up to the beam by closing the jack's release valve and pumping the jack handle up and down to raise the piston.
Center a shoring post on its spreader boards about 12 in. from the 4x4 jacking post. Then lower the post's screw head to its lowest position, raise the telescoping sections as high as they'll go under the beam and insert the metal pins to lock the sections together. Raise the screw head to its centered position under the beam and attach the top plate to the beam with duplex nails.
To avoid cracking the basement floor, lay two "weight-spreader" boards under hydraulic jacks and shoring posts (Photo 3). Place the boards flat and level to ensure a safe lifting base for the jacks and posts. If you have a concrete floor less than 2 in. thick, ask the engineer if you should substitute thicker lumber to prevent floor cracking. Check along the cut edge of the concrete floor for voids that would collapse under lifting pressure. If you find any, ask the engineer for remedies to the problem.
Jacks apply tons of hydraulic force to lift the wood jacking post and beam, so select a virtually knot-free Douglas fir or Southern yellow pine 4x4. Don't use 2x4s or weaker woods like cedar or redwood. Use a 6x6 if you're jacking houses with two or more stories. Once the spreader boards are laid and the hydraulic jack is set in place, cut the 4x4 to length. Measure the height between the support beam and the top of the jack's lowered piston, then deduct 1/2 in. and cut the post to length.
Snug up the 4x4 to the beam and position the shoring post (Photo 5). Now you're ready to lift.
Raise the house beam by pumping the hydraulic jack very slowly using short strokes. Raise it no more than 1/2 to 1 in. total to release the weight from each post. Measure from the floor to the beam to monitor the beam's rise. Have an assistant simultaneously raise the shoring post as tight as possible against the beam to provide backup load support. When the old post loosens, remove and label it for reuse.
I have never lifted a house beam without having the hairs stand up on my neck as I pumped the jack and heard the beam, floors and walls above groaning in response. Before lifting, double-check your equipment, visualize your plan and think safety. Follow these rules:
Excavate the footing hole to the specified size, digging the sides and bottom of the hole square and level. Scrape loose soil from the bottom of the hole until you reach undisturbed soil. If the soil caves in along the edges, install 1/2-in. plywood to hold the dirt back. Remove them while pouring the concrete.
Install rust-free, 1/2-in. dia. reinforcing rod (rebar) to strengthen the concrete footing. Suspend the rebar in the lower third of the footing and tie the rebar together using 16-gauge wire.
Pour concrete into the hole to the level of the existing floor and smooth it with a steel trowel. Suspend a plumb bob from the post's center point under the beam above and place a 1/2-in. x 12-in. anchor bolt in the wet mud.
Level an 8x8 concrete block in freshly laid concrete, centering it around the anchor bolt. Completely fill the core with concrete.
If you have to replace undersized footings, it's time to excavate, place steel reinforcing rods and pour concrete for them. With the post removed, break out an undersized footing with a sledge and shovel (wear goggles and gloves) and pour the new one. Follow Photos 7 – 10 and these tips for building solid footings and plinths:
Measure the height between the house beam and the plinth, subtract 3/16 in. and cut the old basement post to length. Saw a squared bottom from the rotted end, using a circular saw to girdle the post. Finish the cut with a handsaw.
Set the post on its plinth block (use sill sealer as a vapor barrier), matching the post top to its prior contact position with the house beam. Then reset the hydraulic jack, lower the shoring post, and very slowly open the valve of the hydraulic jack to carefully lower the beam onto the post.
Using a hammer drill fitted with a masonry bit, predrill two 3/16-in. holes 1-1/4 in. deep into opposite sides of the plinth block. Install 1-1/4 in. concrete screws through metal anchor straps into the plinth and then nail the straps to the wooden post with galvanized 10d box nails.
Join the support beam and wood post by toenailing them together and attaching two metal T-braces to opposite sides of the beam with galvanized 10d box nails.
Install the post on a new plinth and footing only after the concrete has cured for seven days.
Wood posts are easier to work with, so stick with wood rather than metal. Home centers and lumberyards carry steel "mono-posts" and steel posts with telescoping sections, but you need special skills and techniques to properly support wood beams with steel posts. Consult with engineers and/or local building officials before using them.
Your local building officials may insist you install only new, pressure-treated 6x6 posts set on plinths. We had no such restrictions and reused our old wood posts because they were still tall enough after sawing off the rot (Photo 11). Most old posts don't have a square, level top. Don't change that. For the best contact and load transfer, reinstall the posts exactly in their original position under the house beam, with all those old irregularities fitting like a hand in glove. To prevent any moisture from wicking into the post from the plinth, lay sill sealer or galvanized sheet metal between the two (Photo 12).
In your excitement to reset the posts and finish the job, don't take risks. Use an assistant and lower the jack very slowly, leaving the shoring in place while putting weight onto the posts.
Complete the job by installing the specified metal straps and T-braces (Photos 13 and 14) to connect the plinth block, post and house beam all together—especially in earthquake- prone areas. Once that's done and the support strapping is reinstalled on all gas, electric, plumbing and heating lines, you'll have the satisfaction of completing a job that will last for the life of the house.
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
Hydraulic jack, Shoring post, Plumb bob, Diamond blade for circular saw
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Foreclosures and Fair Property Tax Valuation
November 20, 2009
Moderator: Welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Foreclosure Response podcast series. I'm Odetta MacLeish-White with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Today we're talking with Susan Adams, director of research, policy, and information for Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc., or ANDP. ANDP is a nonprofit established in 1991 to lead and coordinate community-based development throughout metropolitan Atlanta and the surrounding counties and municipalities. Over the years, ANDP has focused on housing development, lending, and public policy to support affordable housing and mixed-income communities. As the tide of foreclosures engulfed ANDP's target clientele, the organization decided to focus its efforts around neighborhood stabilization issues, including the need to address property tax disparities. Susan, thank you for joining me today.
Susan Adams: Thank you for having me.
Moderator: Susan, home sales prices and appraised home values in low-income neighborhoods have dropped significantly during this foreclosure crisis. Why is this issue particularly important for low-income communities?
Adams: As home sales prices have plummeted, we at ANDP were concerned property taxes were not reduced accordingly, and the result is that you had property taxes that were out of line with true market values in high-foreclosure, predominantly low-income and minority neighborhoods. So the risk for property tax overpayment was potentially very high. Inflated property taxes are not only an equity issue, but it's also a neighborhood stabilization issue. Neighborhoods will not stabilize and begin to recover until prospective homebuyers invest in those neighborhoods, and when property taxes are too high, that's a deterrent to that investment. Until very recently, tax assessors, as a standard matter of practice, did not include foreclosed and bank-owned sales in the valuation process. So when you're in a community where foreclosures are really the market, then you can see how those tax-assessed values would not be reflective of the market.
Moderator: We know that ANDP has studied the effects of depreciated home values and property taxes in neighborhoods hit hard by foreclosure. So what were some of your key findings?
Adams: I'll talk first about the study that we released in October of last year. We looked at the fifteen ZIP codes with the highest foreclosure filing rate in metro Atlanta, and that spread across the five core counties—Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett. What we found is that those fifteen ZIP codes were at risk to overpay their taxes by over $71.6 million.
Let me give you a detailed analysis of one particular ZIP code. We'll talk about 30315, which is, if you are familiar with Atlanta, the neighborhood surrounding Turner Field Stadium. The median sales price in that neighborhood in the first six months of 2008 was around $49,900, but the median assessed value for property taxes was $140,900. The sales price was 35 percent of the tax-assessed value, leading to a potential overpayment for the individual homeowner of over $1,400; $1,400 is a lot of money. Particularly if you are living in a low-income neighborhood, struggling to get by, $1,400 could mean additional mortgage payments that shouldn't be going to inflated property taxes. That was the key finding of our first report.
Our second report looked at sales data from the second half of 2008, and we found that as the foreclosure crisis wore on, home values and sales prices continued to plummet, and, as a result, the property tax overpayment risk increased by 66 percent for those fifteen ZIP codes alone. So the total property tax overpayment risk for those fifteen ZIP codes was over $118 million.
Moderator: Distributing the tax burden on low- and moderate-income families in a fair manner is an important goal, but in the process local governments find themselves with reduced revenues. This may mean a reduced capacity to provide services throughout the community. So what has been the reaction of local governments to the findings in your studies?
Adams: Well, that's true—local governments are really strapped right now; these are hard times for local governments. But it's very important to remember that these are also very difficult times for local families who are struggling to get by. We were very cognizant of reaching out to local elected officials to explain to them our research findings. And the bottom line is that this is really an equity issue. Tax assessors are legally bound to get tax values correct, to make sure that tax values reflect current market values. So that is the law. That's point number one.
Point number two is that if the tax digest is ultimately to stabilize and recover and grow, you have to encourage reinvestment in these struggling neighborhoods. Otherwise, homes will remain vacant and the tax digest will deteriorate further. I think that local elected officials really understood those points, and as a result we actually had two DeKalb County commissioners participate in a media event where we rolled out the research findings from the first report. And then, subsequently, Atlanta City Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd introduced a resolution at the Atlanta City Council urging the Fulton County tax assessors to use innovative practices in valuing properties in high-foreclosure neighborhoods. And, at the Fulton County Commission, Commissioner Emma Darnell introduced a similar measure, and both were passed unanimously. So I think that demonstrates that there is support among local government officials who understand that it is important to ensure that families in high-foreclosure communities are not bearing more than their fair share of the property tax burden.
Moderator: Susan, what were some of the outcomes from the release of these studies? And what lessons can you offer our listeners about the use of research and data to raise awareness about issues that may be impeding the recovery of low-income communities?
Adams: In considering pursing this study, we thought it was very important to find a respected and trusted research source, and we found that through Robert Charles Lesser & Co.; they're a national real estate advisory firm with an excellent reputation. We thought that solid data was critical to gaining the attention of the tax assessors, local elected officials, and others to this matter. So that was a very important first step. As a result of that, we did produce a very comprehensive report with data that was compelling; that was helpful to us in engaging the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As it turns out, the media became a critical component to this process. Reporter David Bennett at the AJC took a great interest in this issue, and he actually devoted seven front-page articles over eight months to the property tax disparity issue. It raised general awareness, and it just brought the issue front and center. That, in turn, inspired legislation at the Georgia General Assembly. And this legislation, which was passed at the end of last session, mandated that tax assessors across the state use and include foreclosed and bank-owned properties in their valuation process. Now the ultimate outcome—in May of this year, the AJC reported that 350,000 residential parcels in the five core counties were reduced in value for taxes.
Moderator: You've told us a little bit about the first and second phases of your study, but we understand that there's a third phase. How has this been building on your previous work?
Adams: We are in the midst of the research phase of our third study right now. What we are looking at for the third study is how tax-assessed values in 2008 compared to tax-assessed values in 2009. We want to see where tax-assessed values were lowered and by what percentage. We also want to track in which communities those tax-assessed values were lowered. The other element that we're adding to this study is a comparison of how low-foreclosure neighborhoods faired in the tax digest as compared to high-foreclosure communities, and we think that will be a very interesting analysis as well.
Moderator: What outcomes do you hope to obtain with the third phase of this study?
Adams: Well, with the third phase of the study we hope to identify, as I mentioned, how much taxes have been lowered—by what percentage—so we can determine whether or not tax assessors did follow the new Georgia state law. And we also hope that the Atlanta Journal Constitution will continue to report on this. They play a very important role as sort of public policy watchdog, and I think that their continued interest in this issue benefits us all.
Our approach from the very beginning of this project has been to work collaboratively with tax assessors and their boards, and we will continue to do that as the third phase of research is released. We feel that an open dialogue is very important. We have kept them informed at every step along the way with our previous two research studies, and we will continue to do that with the third and hope that, if we do find issues that we need to shed light on, we will work with them to identify solutions to address them.
Moderator: Susan, thank you so much for joining us today.
Adams: Thank you.
Moderator: This concludes our podcast. We've been speaking with Susan Adams from Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc. For more podcasts on this topic and others, visit the Atlanta Fed's Web site at frbatlanta.org. If you have comments or questions, please e-mail email@example.com. Thanks for listening.


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I'm already thinking ahead to next year and was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for good sources of Carniolan queens and Russian queens?
I'm already thinking ahead to next year and was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for good sources of Carniolan queens and Russian queens?
Olivarez Honey Bees in CA has some good Carnies. But If I were you, I'd try to get some local queens.
I just re-queened 5 colonies with Olivarez a month ago, all 5 are doing quit well.
When I bought queens, I thought Pat Heitkam's hygienic carniolans were excellent. Very good at cleaning up chalkbrood.
Pat's carni's kick ass. Great honey production, build up and over-wintering.
I've had great looking carnies from Lohmans, love em
Velbert Williams on here has some good queens. He sells Russians.
Plant Hardiness Zone 6B, 5300 ft., Bee Zone A/B, Proverbs 24:13
.Get up with canoemaker he raises the same strain of bees your interested in. He is a member of my bee club in Southwest Virginia stand up guy. Hope this helps.
You have one of the best supplier of queens very close to you. Kelleys carries Shamrock carni queens. The Kelley hygenic has mostly carni lineages, from what I've heard. I have both and will probably will not change lineages, because I have tried several differient genetics thru the years and so far I think that they are the very best genetics for our area. I love them, and am now enjoying beekeeping again. Oh, and yes I've had Russians and from my experience there is no such thing as a good Russian.
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A flametardo is a double slander of someone who acts both 'Gay' (not in the sexual sense, but more like calling someone a Gaylord'" and Retard as the same time.
John Doe swears that 'The Holiday' is a great movie (He's begin 'Gay' or a 'Flamer') and that Jennifer Aniston is in the movie (He's retarded, because she's not). Therefore John is officially a Flametardo.
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hell a saw a NBC news man introduce obamma as "the most powerful man in the world! the leader of the free world!" and other such jibberish --
i was like thinking " if obamma is so god-all-powerful why does he have to call china and pray the latest check he wrote clears?"
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text: As I stated in another current thread, I was given a lot of unassembled/unused wood frames. The bottom bars are what I think is called a slotted bottom bar. I don't plan on using these because I will be using plasticell foundation, and i am guessing the foundation would just fall right through the bottom bar. The top bars are the wedge style. What do/did beekeepers use this kind of bottom bar for? Thanks, juzzerbee.


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Lights, Camera…Roadshow!February 10th, 2012
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U.S. Rep. John Boozman (R-AR), the RankingRepublican of the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment,today supported legislation authorizing the extension of expired CleanWater Act programs but questioned the bill's incorporation of theDavis-Bacon Act.
The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held asubcommittee markup today on H.R. 1262, the "Water Quality InvestmentAct of 2009."
"The bill includes a provision that would cause all projectsfunded in whole or in part by the State Revolving Loan Fund to besubject to the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, meaning thatprevailing wage rate standards would apply even in right-to-work Stateslike Arkansas. This is an expansion of how Davis-Bacon has applied tothis program in the past," said Boozman.
"Although the American people have been very generous to theStates in making resources available during our economic recovery, thoseresources are going to be stretched to their maximum extent possible.Yet we still have needs that will be unmet. We feel that expanding theapplication of the Davis-Bacon Act will artificially increase the costof construction of these important infrastructure projects. This willonly ensure that it will take longer in our achieving the necessaryrecovery. With the Davis-Bacon expansion, this program will createfewer jobs and will result in less clean water."
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Ive been using these for about a month now at the gym for 2 hours at a time and they work great. it has a long range, sometimes i forget my phone at a machine when i walk away and they connection stays uninterrupted.
there is some discomfort at first when i was started wearing them, but you do get used to it.
as for an earlier comment by someone about the continuous beeping, Is sure you know its for a low battery and does not come on for after at least 3 hrs of use.
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Put one on when I put the second deep on
Put one on when I put the second deep on
odfrank...You have been my hero, and now you are advocating inner covers????? WHY???
If you look at the video again, you can see the beginnings of exactly what OF is talking about. Bees are going to "seal" things up. I have some hives that glue the inner cover down pretty good. I know some beeks don't use them. I may not for a time, but once the population grows, I normally get one on there.
odfrank...Rick 1456.....PLEASE don't take this as a criticism, but if you are getting frames glued to the inner cover or migratory cover, (other than the seal around the box edge), then there is improper bee space. (Maybe old or ill fitting equipment??? I never use an inner cover, and rarely have glueing except at the edge. I often use a telescoping cover, (perhaps 75 -100 right now) but no inner cover, and by starting at the side, and proper angle on the hive tool, the top comes right off.
Perhaps locale accounts for this, and the amount of propolis available in this area is not as intense as in yours.
I was just asking. odfrank, you are still my hero. Anyone who catches that many swarms each year is doing something right. You catch more swarms each year than there are colonies of bees, (with the exception of mine) in this entire area. I have out about 35 swarm traps, caught 7 so far. Our feral bees were just about wiped out back in the late 1990's, they are making a come back now.
No problem,,,,,I make my own stuff so your observations are most likely correct. My thoughts are the dimensions given to build your own stuff incorporates an inner cover in the mix. Leave that off and the glueing begins. An inner cover creates additional bee space so the edges are what are sealed making entry less of a hassle. Just my thoughts.
Rick 1456. You are correct. Unfortunately all companies do not use the same bee space procedure. Some make top, some make bottom. If beekeepers interchange these boxes, covers, and inner covers, they can get a lot of glue, burr comb, etc.
I make all my equipment, plus what I sell, and mine are made for a flat top, migratory top, or inner cover that is all flat bottom. If the underside of the inner cover is indented, ( as most used to be years ago) they tend to glue it together, because of the additional space between the top bars and the recessed bottom of the inner cover..
My biggest complaint with inner covers is small hive bettles.
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And pray tell what size bee space from topbar to lid will not get combed down???
Whatever space mine have. I've never had one combed down. 5/16"? Must be a western bee thing.
Regards, Barry
Maybe it is a Kentucky thing, mine don't get glued down. Tops come off clean.
I really do believe bees care about bee space, if not, boxes / frames, would be made any size, any length, any height, just add bees.
But, I don't use inner cover.
I use modified TBH with Lang. compatible bars (i.e. bee space between and above the bars)...bee space of 3/8" until the ply warps...have had 0 comb built above the bars, but PLENTY of propolis sealing the lids down
Bee race seems to have a role in propoplis amounts. Mine are pretty much Mutts at this point but I see big differences propolis amounts between the ones I have. The swarm in the video was responding, to a certain extent, to some ants that were taking up residence on the top of the frames. Put a circle of cinnamon around the hive. Repels the ants for a while at least.
For those of you that are following the saga of, "Gertrude and the Girls" here is week seven. Thanks for looking
Well you did better than me! I have 6 traps out this year and when I did my weekly check I seen bees coming and going (like in your first video) and ran it home and had nothing. Same as last year, patience is not my tool kit. I put the trap back up the next Monday and have not gone back for fear of setting the hook premature. It all sounds so easy on the forum but it does not seem to work as I want it to. Just like watching the fishing video and then going out and expecting to get so many I can do the upgrade for the larger limit.
Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up Alfred Pennyworth Batman Begins (2005)
It is the difference between being in a "target rich" environment and not It makes the "one" you get all the more special That's why it is called "fishing" instead of "catching", and "trapping" instead of "getting". LOL Hang in there.
Just went and checked the one that I put back up. I am seeing about 1 bee per second (BPS) going in and only 1 per minute leaving. No orientation flights, they are in a straight line down through the pine boughs. It is too brush heavy to see if their baskets are loaded. Figure I will leave them bee and pull it on this upcoming weekend. I don't think I have enough deep frames made for them anyway. Besides the blackberries are in full bloom down here and just starting at home. Funny how 500' elevation difference can set the bloom back by a week or two.
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We all know it would come down to if a team could stop Alabama's run game and I just can't see Oakland pulling that off. I'll admit that if the game had to be won by A.J. McCarron, the Raiders would win anytime.
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Oaklands offense would tear them up too. Matt leinart is a veteran now. Was great in college and is now terrible in the nfl. That's with years of experience! Oh, and hes not even the best qb on the team... Alabama has 19 yr old kids starting. Why am I even responding to this?


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So now you want in on the Cheap Truck Challenge, don't you? You're reading this, just itching to do some cheap wheeling, but you don't have a good place to go and no brothers-in-arms to celebrate your cheapness with. Well, if you're on the West Coast--or will be the fourth weekend in September--here's your chance. Just bring your cheapest 4x4 to the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area in Gorman, California, September 24-25, 2005, during the California Off-Road Vehicle Association's (CORVA) Southern Jamboree. We're not putting on any kind of event or hosting any big trail ride, but the staff of 4-Wheel & Off-Road will be there in full force, wheeling in our nickel-and-dime 4x4s.
Our plan is to roll in on Saturday morning and set up camp. We'll play around in the four-wheel-drive practice area next to the Aliklik campground for a little while and then poke our way around a few of the marked trails. You'll know our caravan when you see it, 'cause we'll be the guys having fun with some of the most clapped-out 4x4s you've ever seen. If the weather's good, we'll spend the night at Editor Rick Pw's favorite campsite in Hungry Valley and repair our piles enough to limp them home Sunday afternoon.
It'll be a great time, and we'd love to see you come out with your friends and family for some real grassroots off-roading. Plus, we'd love to see the kinds of creations you've put together with a $1,500 budget. We know they'll be better than ours.
Remember, the Cheap Truck Challenge isn't a competition. It's just an excuse to get out for a weekend full of low-buck fun. If you make it there, have a good time, and get home to tell your buddies about it, then you're a winner. If you don't, you get an F. And we will be taking attendance. While we can't promise to shoot a feature on everybody's 4x4 that does show up, we will be there with our cameras, stickers, and the Primedia corporate helicopter. OK, that last part's not true, but would you really want a ride in a $1,500 helicopter? No, you wouldn't. There also won't be any judging, racing, bragging, or prizes handed out. It's all just for fun. The way it should be. And it may just be the best thing we do all year. Keep an eye on www.4wheeloffroad.com for any updates or last-minute changes. We hope you all can make it.
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Significant Other/Kids/Pets: I've been married 12 years to my husband, Marc, and we have 2 boys- Mason, 5, and Grahm, 2.
# Years Quilting: I've been sewing & quilting off and on my whole life, but really started getting into it about 5 years ago, right before Mason was born. Then when my husband decided to go back to school for his Phd, I found myself with a lot more time on my hands and really got into the sewing blogging world. I'm so addicted now!
How you learned to quilt: From sewing blogs, YouTube videos & just winging it! To me, the idea behind making a quilt is easy (cutting fabric up & sewing it back together) as long as you break it down into manageable steps. I'm not afraid to try anything at least once, either.
Favorite Completed Project Description : My favorite completed project right now is my Bee Tweet Virtual Quilting Bee quilt - 11 great friends each made me a crazy scrappy wonky block that I sewed up into one terrifyingly awesome quilt.
It's really wild & loud but I love it & I use it every day. I love that it's made by some of the people I've been friends with online the longest.
Quilting workstation setup: I'm super lucky to have an extra room in our house that I can use as my sewing room. It's in the basement so it doesn't get the best light & gets really cold in the winter, but I can let fabric get strewn all over the place & keep projects out on the tables, so I don't complain too much. I currently have it set up with a U shaped area with my sewing machine, cutting station & ironing board (with my laptop close by too) and it's working out great.
I found out that CD/DVD shelves from IKEA work great to hold fabric! I love that they're tall and skinny and they hold lots of yardage!
And just to keep it real, lest you think that my sewing room looks that pristine at all times (hint: no way) here's a picture I took right after the Christmas-present-sewing-madness-rush last year. Disaster!
Machine(s) you sew on: I have a few machines, but the main machine I'm using right now is the BabyLock Grace. It's a solid little machine with a few nice extras that make it super fun to work on. It has a quarter-inch stitch that's great for piecing. I also just recently got a serger - which both excites & terrifies me. All that threading! The fact that it has a knife in it! Scary.
Your favorite notion/tool in your sewing room: Favorite notion has to be the rotary cutter. Quilting today wouldn't be what it is without that fabulous little tool! But my favorite things in my sewing room are the bright & beautiful mini quilts I've received from friends. They make my room so cheery & me happy to look at them every day.
You can find me at my blog, Two More Seconds, blogging about daily life & the sewing projects I do. You can find more about the Sewing Summit conference here (you should come!). And I'm kind of addicted to Social Media, you can follow me on Twitter or Flickr (and Instagram & Facebook too!) Thanks so much for having me, AnneMarie!!
Love that picture of your Christmas rush sewing room, Erin.... we've all been there! Have a great weekend everybody! Pin It