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Starting Position: Lay out your cones as illustrated creating a zig-zag line for 10 - 15 yards (9 - 14 m). The cones should be 2 - 4' (approximately 1 m) apart.
Start by standing to the outside of the first cone, with both feet together or hip-width apart and toes facing forward. Brace your abdominal muscles to stabilize your spine and maintain your abdominals engaged throughout the exercise.
Squat down, then immediately explode upward in a diagonal direction over the cone in a direction towards the 2nd cone. Your jump should push through your the heels of your feet and extend your hips, knees and ankles in one movement. Swinging your arms upwards as you jump will increase your power and jumping ability. Maintain your foot alignment during the jump, landing with your feet aligned in the same position as when you jumped.
The most important components of the landing phase are correct foot position and control of the forward movement in your knees. Excessive forward movement in the knees places additional stress on the joint. Try to land softly and quietly on the mid-foot, rolling into the heels. Always push your hips back and down to absorb the impact of landing. Do not lock out your knees on your landing. Land with your trunk slightly forward, head aligned with your spine and back rigid or flat. Keep your abdominal / core muscles engaged, bracing your torso to protect your spine. Continue to drop into a 1/2 squat position before exploding upward into another diagonal jump.
With ONLY a very brief pause at the bottom of your downward phase, explode up through your lower body, fully extending your hips, knees and ankles jumping over the second cone with another diagonal jump. As your jump into the air, try to keep your feet level with each other and parallel with the floor. Continue this sequence until you have cleared all the cones.Exercise Variation: Progress the drill intensity by jumping higher over the cones, spacing the cones further apart (4 - 6') or increasing the overall length of the grid. However, one set through the drills should not exceed 10 seconds (if performing at a 9 or 10-out-of-10 effort) or 15-20 yards for lower intensities.
Always learn the proper mechanics of landing before jumping. Alignment of the foot, knee and ankle, and the mechanics of landing are critical to minimizing injury associated with jumping activities.


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Two Maryland Women Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Connection with Theft from a D.C. Program that Provides Services to the Blind
--Mother & daughter failed to perform a contract with D.C. and allegedly embezzled money entrusted to them --
WASHINGTON - Two local women, Barbara A. Stevenson-Jones, 70, and her daughter, Pamela Stevenson, 51, both of Bowie, Maryland, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of Theft Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Securities, and First Degree Theft, all in connection with the theft from a D.C. government program that assists blind individuals to be employed, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor, Gregory Campbell, Jr., Inspector in Charge of the Washington, D.C. Division, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, District of Columbia Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby, and U.S. Department of Education Acting Inspector General Mary Mitchelson announced.
According to the Indictment, from approximately November 1, 2003 until July 13, 2004, Barbara A. Stevenson-Jones and Pamela Stevenson, through their company, The Wellness and Management Company, Inc. ("Wellness"), had a contract with the District of Columbia to manage the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facilities Program. The Randolph- Sheppard Act promotes entrepreneurship and employment for the blind by granting them a priority to operate vending facilities, including cafeterias, snack bars, vending machines, and gift shops located on federal properties. The individual vendors are paid commissions and funds are placed into retirement accounts for them, from monies generated from vending machine sales. The program is funded by a block grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which in the year that began October 1, 2003, gave the District $327,002.00.
Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, each state and the District of Columbia has established a State Licensing Authority ("SLA") to administer the blind vending program in that state. In the District of Columbia, the SLA is the Department of Human Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration, which is authorized to contract with a company to perform the accounting and managerial services. Under the terms of the contract with D.C., Wellness had a number of responsibilities including the provision of accounting, the generation of certain reports and tax forms, and the collection and distribution to the blind vendors of certain funds - which were to be held in escrow, for the benefit of the District's Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program and the blind vendors. However, according to the Indictment, shortly after they received the contract, the Stevensons began stealing from the funds they received on the Program's behalf - including monies given to them by the blind vendors for possible repairs and maintenance of equipment - by writing checks to themselves and to each other, by transferring funds to another bank account they controlled, and by writing checks to Wellness. Unaware of the embezzlement that was taking place, the District of Columbia terminated the contract with Wellness for non-performance and demanded a return of the monies entrusted to Wellness. The Indictment alleges that in total, the Stevensons stole approximately $281,375.38.
Based upon the conduct alleged in the Indictment, the defendants face possible statutory sentences of up to 10 years of incarceration, a fine of $250,000.00, and an order of restitution for each of the federal violations and up to 10 years of incarceration and a fine of $5,000.00 for each of the D.C. Code offenses. Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, there is a likely sentence of 51-63 months of incarceration upon conviction.
In announcing the Indictment, U.S. Attorney Taylor, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Campbell, D.C. Inspector General Willoughby, and U.S. Department of Education Acting Inspector General Mitchelson commended the work of Special Agent Derek Savoy of the D.C. Office of the Inspector General, Postal Inspector Steven Sultan, and Special Agents Margo Hill and Andrea Todt, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General, and the staff of the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Legal Assistant Lisa Robinson, Financial Analyst Crystal Boodoo, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sherri L. Schornstein, who is prosecuting the case.
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Has anyone seen this lately? Yesterday, I checked two different Walmart stores, two Lowes, and a Home Depot with no luck.
I do have a half can thats got a goopy nozzle (probably 2 years old by now). I should be able to pop that old nozzle off and just swap a new one on it, if I can't find a new can, right?


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Buskers are street performers that perform in public places for money. Such pedestrians were only introduced late in the Grand Theft Auto series, with Grand Theft Auto IV being the only game to feature them to date.
Buskers debuted in Grand Theft Auto IV in the form of saxophone-playing street musicians commonly spotted in affluent portions of Liberty City in Broker, Dukes and Algonquin, mostly in various parks, subway stations and waterfronts, as well as stages of the Superstar Café.
Evidently having only a saxophone as a music instrument, the Busker will only play songs that may also be heard on the Jazz Nation Radio 108.5 radio station. In most of his appearances, the busker is depicted with a buttoned up brown trench coat, and his music can easily be heard within hearing distance, a hint he is near the player. Most buskers also wear occasionally a hat depicting he may be poorer then others by its wornness.
When standing close to a busker, the player has the option of giving him $10, restoring the player's health and receiving an expression of gratitude from the busker, in the form of a simple "thank you". However, should the player push the busker, he may stop playing, drop his music instrument and respond unfavorably to the player. Running past a busker in close proximity will also force him to drop his saxophone and walk away. Unlike many minor items dropped by pedestrians, the player cannot pick up a busker's dropped saxophone.
After giving the busker $10 multiple times, the player will eventually receive the instrumental ringtone "St. Thomas" for their mobile. This is one of the songs the busker plays and is also featured on the radio station Jazz Nation Radio 108.5.
- Buskers were planned to make an appearance in GTA III but was dropped during development of the game. Remnants of their existence can be seen within the game files.[1]
- The busker is voiced by Walter Houser, father of the Houser brothers. Walter Houser was "part-owner of London's seminal jazz club Ronnie Scott's, where the brothers were exposed to jazz stars throughout their youths."[2]
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Who effin cares? Damn, the game was not lost on this one play and lets be honest, of the 7 possible outcomes of the play, we would have been ecstatic with 3 of them (caught tackle out of bounds, caught touchdown, defensive pass interference), ok with 2 of them (caught tackled in bounds clock it, incomplete). Its because the last possible outcome is what happened that everyone is decrying the play. But its a hindsight argument. In case you haven't noticed throwing the ball for his receiver to make a play is what Eli does alot. Mainly because he has to.
Barden got hardly any separation, played the defender wrong and got beat, even after all that, make a play on the ball, not the defender,
Barden is not a reliable Third or Fourth Receiver,
if needed put him in Goal line situations, either on the Fade route, or as misdirection
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
***Stat provided by "Schloss22"***
just watched it ......wide open
completely alone
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I couldn't stop watching the bumble bees swavvin on the field. Please don't make the Seahawks wear stuff like that!
I thought they were Halloween costumes!


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Over the last two decades, Uganda has balanced strong demographic expansion with economic dynamism and significant social progress. Less than one fifth of the population live in poverty (down from more than half in the early 1990s), mortality rates for under-5s have been cut, the incidence of malaria has dropped and access to HIV treatment has increased. Even so, Uganda remains one of the world's poorest countries, ranked a modest 163rd out of 188 in the 2015 Human Development Report.
Agriculture employs 80 percent of the workforce; nine out of 10 women are thought to depend on it. Smallholders account for 96 percent of farmers and 75 percent of agricultural produce. But they underperform significantly as a result of poorly integrated markets, limited access to credit, uncertain land tenure and low levels of technology. Limited market information and the inability to meet regional and international standards limit exports. Post-harvest losses caused by inadequate handling techniques and storage facilities have been estimated to reach 40 percent in some sectors.
While food is generally available, access to it is inadequate in some places. The north-eastern region of Karamoja suffers from chronic food insecurity and vulnerability to hunger, as well as poor access to services. A combination of chronic underdevelopment and recurrent drought means that the majority of families there cannot meet basic nutritional requirements and undernutrition rates are higher than the national average. More than 100,000 people in Karamoja will require treatment for moderate acute malnutrition annually over the next few years.
7.3 percent of Uganda's population is living with HIV. Between 2005 and 2013, strong HIV prevention and treatment initiatives saw a decrease of 19 percent in the number of AIDS-related deaths. However, in 2013 the number of new infections rose to 140,000 – globally, the third largest rise that year and the fourth highest rise among children. Access to treatment for adults living with HIV remains low at around 40 percent.
Regional instability and conflicts in neighbouring countries, including South Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), mean that the number of refugees hosted by Uganda is rising, reaching 620,000 as of 30 August 2016. The Government gives refugees plots of land to cultivate, to encourage their self-sufficiency. However, as the number of refugees grows, these plots become gradually smaller. Moreover, refugees lack farming skills, handling techniques and proper storage facilities preserve their crops.
WFP is working with the Government, UN partners and NGOs, moving from emergency responses to longer-term investments that address the root causes of food insecurity.
What the World Food Programme is doing in Uganda
Support to refugees
Over 70 percent of refugees in Uganda are supported by WFP with high-energy biscuits upon arrival, cooked meals at transit centres, and dry food rations or monthly cash once they are in settlements. WFP also provides nutrition support to pregnant and nursing women and children aged between six months and five years.
As refugees start farming the land allocated to them by the Government, WFP support shifts to enhancing their self-reliance.
Food and cash assistance
In Karamoja WFP provides moderately food-insecure families with conditional food assistance during the lean season, linked to the creation of assets for land reclamation, soil and water conservation, and water for agricultural production.
Emergency preparedness
WFP provides technical assistance, and policy and planning advice to support the Office of the Prime Minister's efforts to decentralize disaster risk preparedness and response. In Karamoja, WFP supports local governments in updating and implementing their emergency response plans.
Agriculture and market support
WFP supports small-scale farmers in all regions of Uganda in their transition from subsistence to commercial production. Activities include: building the capacity of farmers, farmers' organizations and traders; enabling access to productive assets and infrastructure; supporting markets development; and enhancing public-private partnerships. To reduce post-harvest loss, farmers are trained in handling and storage techniques.
WFP provides nutritional assistance in Karamoja and the Katakwi and Amuria districts. This includes nutritional support to pregnant and nursing women, and children under two; community-based supplementary feeding to treat malnourished children using WFP's specialized nutritious food Super Cereal Plus; and the distribution of sachets of micronutrient powders (containing 15 vitamins and minerals) to be sprinkled over the food of children under two.
School meals
WFP provides midday meals at 284 schools in Karamoja. With WFP's support, in 2015 the Government launched a programme called Karamoja Feeds Karamoja. Under this scheme, the Government contributes locally-grown cereals to WFP's school meals basket, with WFP supporting the handling, storage, warehousing and delivery.
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Clear spells developing through the night for many, but staying mild. Mostly dry, although patchy drizzle possible in the far northwest of Scotland. Some low cloud may persist in the far north-west too, and also along south-western coasts.
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UK Outlook for Monday 29 May 2017 to Wednesday 7 Jun 2017:
A very uncertain period, but the more likely scenario is for rather mixed conditions on Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday, with showery outbreaks of rain, perhaps heavy and thundery, drifting in from the south, but also some brighter spells. Temperatures are likely to be down in comparison to the weekend, although it could stay rather warm and humid, especially in the southeast. Meanwhile, it will probably be cooler and fresher in the north and west, where we may see windier conditions. From Wednesday onwards, we will generally see a mixture of sunshine and showers, particularly across the northwest. However, we may hold on to drier, brighter and perhaps warmer conditions in the far southeast, although some thundery showers are possible.
Updated at: 1326 on Wed 24 May 2017
UK Outlook for Thursday 8 Jun 2017 to Thursday 22 Jun 2017:
Confidence is currently low through this period, though we are more likely to see changeable conditions continue through the early part of June. More settled weather may begin to dominate for a time towards the middle of June, bringing drier and brighter weather for many. Temperatures are likely to be close to normal at first, but may become generally warm, perhaps locally very warm for a time during mid June. By the latter part of June, there is a possibility of more unsettled conditions developing, with spells of rain at times, and temperatures returning closer to average.
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Archived exhibitions are no longer available for booking but are maintained as a virtual record of past Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) programs.
The history of this country is one of perilous voyages and unchartered territory, but few journeys have captured the imagination and hearts of the public as the race into space. It was seemingly unattainable, but American ingenuity, innovation, and determination made the impossible possible. And it is that ingenuity and innovation that is explored and celebrated in the SITES exhibit Suited for Space.
Through rare and original photography, including unique, new x-ray images of the interiors of the spacesuits, the exhibit reveals how the modern technological marvel that is the spacesuit enables astronauts to live and work in space. This exhibit reveals the remarkable creativity and determination of the extraordinary few who ventured into space, but it highlights and showcases the brilliant ingenuity of the hundreds more who worked tirelessly—and often anonymously—to get them there.
In May 1961, when President Kennedy made the promise that America would put a man on the moon within a decade, the ability to fulfill that promise existed only in theory. The spacesuit was a critical piece of engineering that allowed Neil Armstrong to step onto another world and survive in the hostile environment of outer space. The Apollo spacesuit he wore evolved from the groundbreaking advances of the Gemini and Mercury mission suits, facilitating movement and dexterity in small spaces, remaining pressurized in zero gravity, and providing essential oxygen, heating, and cooling in as efficient a manner as possible.
The national exhibition tour is generously supported by DuPont.
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Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection by Amanda Young. Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2009. Hard cover.
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Spacesuits That Helped Launch the American Space Program Explored
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy stated the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. To achieve this ambitious goal, astronauts would need not only a spacecraft to launch them safely into space, but a spacesuit that would protect them as well. Without the proper clothing to keep them alive while traveling, living and working beyond the bonds of Earth, space exploration was not possible.
Suited for Space, a new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES) and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, explores the evolution of spacesuit development from the first quarter of the 20th century until the dawn of the shuttle era.
Suited for Space will premiere at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago April 6. It will remain on view through Sept. 25 and will continue on an 11-city national tour through 2015. The national exhibition tour of Suited for Space is supported by DuPont.
The exhibition features large-scale photographs of suits worn by astronauts from Project Mercury through the Skylab program as well as suits used in testing and training. The photographs featured in Suited for Space were taken by Smithsonian photographer Mark Avino. In addition, Avino, in collaboration with Ronald Cunningham produced new X-ray images that provide a unique view of the interiors of the spacesuits. While the fragility of these spacesuits prevents them from traveling, the exhibition will feature a replica Apollo spacesuit on loan from NASA and 10 objects from the National Air and Space Museum's collection, including a glove, a boot and helmets. Avino's photographs provide a visual timeline of the spacesuits' development over the years.
Suited for Space includes suits that made history—like the one Buzz Aldrin wore on the Moon—and those that never left the ground such as the Mark V spacesuit designed for Project Mercury. The design of the Mark V suit included an over-sized shoulder joint that provided an expanded level of mobility. However, with three astronauts sitting side-by-side in a capsule the size of the front seat of a small car, the suit was not feasible for the Apollo mission. A visitor to the exhibition can see an exciting visual timeline of the spacesuits' evolution over the years. In addition, the exhibition has its own Facebook page for space trivia, curatorial insight, and general fun. Visit www.facebook.com/suitedforspace.
Suited for Space is accompanied by a richly illustrated book, titled Spacesuits: The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Collection available through powerHouse Books. DuPont's sponsorship reflects the company's commitment to protecting people though innovative protective apparel. DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere.
The National Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, Va., near Washington Dulles International Airport. Both facilities are open daily from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free, but there is a $15 fee for parking at the Udvar-Hazy Center.
SITES has been sharing the wealth of Smithsonian collections and research programs with millions of people outside Washington, D.C., for more than 60 years. SITES connects Americans to their shared cultural heritage through a wide range of exhibitions about art, science and history, which are shown wherever people live, work and play. Exhibition descriptions and tour schedules are available at www.sites.si.edu.
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text: I am very new to bee keeping and have been reading everything in site. I have a question reguarding this topic. Background: so my two hives were in an orange orchard for the last month in Phoenix. They had a very strong build up over 4-5 weeks ending 1 week into the opening of the blossoms. There were several differnt speicies of citrus so the bloom lasted almost one month. I pulled them out with the last blooms and when I got them home I decided to do some maintenance and another inspection. There are two deep hives and three supers. the lower two suppers are 100% full of honey the third supper is partly full of honey but completely drawn. In the uppermost brood chamber there are 4 frames of capped honey and the rest are half honey half brood with every available cell filled with nectar. In the lower brood body I found my queen and an emergency cell cap which was empty. the cap at most has been there for 1 week. It was not there in a previous inspection. I pulled the brood frames that were honey and replaced them with empty frames. I was worried about swarming with the overflowing numbers of bees but never saw a swarm cell. I also split out 4 frames for a nuc with a russian / carniolan queen. Did this avert a swarm? everything I've read leads me to belive they have not. Will they build an emergency cell and not use it?


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Nancy Luo didn't expect an answer when she e-mailed Steve Jobs one Wednesday evening two summers ago. But less than a day later, an Apple emissary knocked on her door at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
It was Aug. 25, 2010, the last day of a long heatwave in Chicago. Luo — a second-year resident at the hospital's internal medicine department — had been assigned the tricky task of figuring out whether a pilot program that put iPads in the hands of the hospital's residents was working out. So she sent a note to the CEO of Apple.
The iPad had hit the market just four months earlier, but the young, tech-savvy residents at the hospital were already using Apple's tablet to access medical data on the go. Luo thought that with some internal tweaking, she could measure whether the students were actually saving time with the iPad. "I just wanted to see if maybe Apple wanted to help us out," she remembers.
Jobs didn't get back to her, but at 5:21 a.m. the next day, she had an answer. Luo didn't even read the e-mail at first, assuming it was some sort of automatic response. But when she did, she was amazed. The note was from an Apple employee named Afshad Mistri, who offered to swing by the hospital later that afternoon — he just happened to be in Chicago that day. "Your e-mail was forwarded to me for follow up from Steve," wrote Mistri, Apple's medical market manager, the company's go-to guy for the medical industry.
Apple is a company that builds stuff for consumers. Macs. iPods. iPhones. iPads. Though these devices may show up inside businesses, the company rarely promotes them for corporate use, and it has slowly pulled away from the few products it does sell to businesses. Its XServe servers died a premature death this past January. But for some reason, Apple is pushing the iPad into hospitals, playing against its well-polished image as the world's most successful consumer gadget company.
Afshad Mistri is Apple's secret weapon in a stealth campaign to get the iPad into the hands of doctors. And it's a campaign that seems to be paying off.
If you talk to technical staffers at any large hospital that is using — or even thinking of using — iPads today, Afshad Mistri's name is pretty likely to come up. Earlier in November, he organized a cross-Canada series of invitation-only conferences for medical professionals in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto who are looking at using the iPad at work.
He's also the guy who in September launched a special iTunes room for healthcare, and promoted it to a select group of healthcare app developers.
Everybody who's met him seems to like him. Luo describes him as "super friendly, super charasmatic, down-to-earth guy." True to his name, and Apple's inscrutable public relations practices, Mistri declined to comment for this article.
He can't talk to us because Apple fires employees who talk with the press without permission, but also because the company must walk a fine line in the medical arena. Right now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seems set on regulating the software that runs on the iPad, not the device itself, but if the FDA were to decide that Apple is marketing the iPad for regulated medical uses, it could unleash a regulatory nightmare on the company.
Apple has to carefully watch what it says when it talks about the iPad in medicine, says Bradley Thompson, a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and an expert on FDA regulations. As long as they promote it as a general-use computing device, Apple should be fine. But "if they were promoting it for specific medical device uses," he says, "they would cross a line."
Mistri isn't new to the medical profession. According to his LinkedIn profile, he got a bachelor's degree in computer science and then cut his teeth as an engineer on the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Program during the late 1980s. He got into using computers to display 3-D images, including an x-ray technology known as computerized tomography (CT) during a 15-year career at Silicon Graphics before jumping ship to Apple five years ago.
Like some rare subatomic particle, he's existential proof that Apple sees iPads in the hospital as a special phenomenon. "Just the fact that he exists, that there's a director for medical marketing, tells you it's different because Apple never does vertical markets," says Elliot Fishman a professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins. "The fact that two years ago they assigned someone to that position tells you there is a difference."
The Doctor's Best Friend
Fishman is one of a growing number of doctors who look at the iPad as an indispensable assistant to his medical practice. He studies 50 to 100 CT scans per day on his tablet. Recently, he checked up on 20 patients in his Baltimore hospital while he was traveling in Las Vegas. "What this iPad does is really extend my ability to be able to consult remotely anytime, anywhere," he says. "Anytime I'm not at the hospital, I'm looking at the iPad."
For some doctors at Johns Hopkins, the iPad can save an hour to an hour and a half per day — time that would otherwise be spent on collecting paper printouts of medical images, or heading to computer workstations to look them up online. Many doctors say that bringing an iPad to the bedside lets them administer a far more intimate and interactive level of care than they'd previously thought possible. Even doctors who are using an iPad for the first time often become attached, Fishman says. "Their biggest fear is what if we took it away."
Apple's devices are especially popular with students and residents such as Luo. Patients at Johns Hopkins' pancreatic clinic get iPad loaners to track their treatment. At Stanford's catheterization and angiography laboratory, they're a way of giving patients something to do — they can watch a movie or catch up on e-mail — during boring wait times.
That helps doctors, too. Residents at the University of Chicago Hospitals have 28-hour on-call shifts and when things quiet down at night, it's often time to break out the iPad. Some will do their e-mail or even catch some video. Luo is partial to Fruit Ninja. "It helps pass the time a little," she admits.
And though hospital sterilization techniques might run slightly afoul of Apple's prescribed cleaning techniques, iPads have even been spotted in the operating room.
It's a story that's been repeated again and again in small-scale projects at hospitals everywhere since the iPad's April 2010 launch. Now, some of those hospitals are getting ready for some really big rollouts. In October, the Veterans Administration started soliciting bids from contractors to help them manage as many as 100,000 tablet users across its network of 152 hospitals.
The VA has just about 1,500 iPads in limited trials right now — most of them in its Washington, D.C., hospital. But if things go as planned, the VA, with a staff of 315,000, could easily be managing many more devices in a year's time.
"We are the largest medical training organization in the country. We bring in 115,000 medical residents every year to help us provide care to veterans," says Roger Baker, the VA's chief information officer. "A large number of those folks come in with a mobile device and they want to know why they can't just use that."
It may seem strange that the same government organization that was rocked by a major league data breach just five years ago is now at the vanguard of mobile computing. But Baker thinks that he will help lock down the VA's data by being quick to allow the iPads, while simultaneously placing strict controls on how they are configured and used. "There's huge demand," he says. "We have to balance that demand with the information protection requirement."
Hospitals aren't speedy adopters of new computer technology, but the iPad has freed up doctors to read papers and look up information no matter where they are — at home, while traveling, or doing hospital rounds. That's a big deal, says Iltifat Husain, an emergency medicine resident physician at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who edits a blog about mobile medical apps. "Initially hospital were saying, 'no, you can't bring the device,'" he says, "they were really discouraging their use. But if you look at it now, they realize that you can't just keep pissing off the physicians."
Canada's Ottawa Hospital uses close to 3,000 iPads, and they're popping up everywhere — in the lab coats of attending physicians, residents, and pharmacists. For hospital CIO Dale Potter, the iPad gave him a way out of a doomed "computer physician order entry" project that was being rolled out hospital-wide when he started working there in 2009.
It sounds complicated, but computerized physician order entry really means something simple: replacing the clipboards at the foot of patient's beds with a computer, so that doctors can order tests, prescribe drugs, and check medical records using a computer rather than pen and paper. In theory, it's a great idea, but in practice, many of these projects have failed, in part because of the clunky and impersonal PC interfaces: Who really wants to sit down and start clicking and clacking on a PC, moving a mouse while visiting a patient?
The catalyst for his hospital's move to the iPad was Potter's own anxiety about this medical records project becoming a complete failure. Even if there were PCs in every room in the hospital, doctors probably wouldn't use them. Potter says that the typical doctor, "is not going to take the time to open up the health record, find the patient, find the appropriate document, fill it out, and push enter to enter an electronic order. They're going to scribble it on a piece of paper."
After an anxious 2009 Christmas break, Potter finally saw his ray of hope. He heard about a new tablet coming from Apple later in 2010: the iPad. Though the iPad wasn't even available in Canada, he picked up a pair of them during a spring trip to Las Vegas and brought them back to Ottawa for testing. To get one of them, he had to hand over an extra $200 cash to a student who was about to buy the last one in the store.
But it was money well spent; within a half-year, he had what he was after: an iPad app that talks to the hospital's medical records system.
Potter has rolled out more apps and iPads at the Ottawa Hospital since then, and medical staff has requests for another 100 apps in the pipeline. "The worst thing you could ever do is to try to take these iPads out of these environments," he says. "You'd be lynched."
Steve Jobs and the Pixar Connection
Doctors may like their iPads, but it's not entirely clear why Apple cares so much about them. After all, Apple likes to promote its products broadly as consumer devices. So why have a guy like Afhsad Mistri spending his days talking to doctors and medical software developers? Why is healthcare the one vertical market that Apple promotes on its iPad apps for business page?
As with so many questions about Apple, the answer links to the late Steve Jobs. Apple's founder was interested in medical technology long before he took ill. But one can't help but wonder whether all that time in hospitals during his final years had some effect. After all, this was a man who, deeply sedated and dying from cancer, once ripped an oxygen mask off his face, mumbling that he hated the design.
When Jobs acquired Pixar in the late 1980s, the company worked with Fishman and Johns Hopkins, trying to make a go of it in the medical imaging market. The project failed because Pixar's CT system cost a lot and took about a day to produce an image. Fishman remembers doing a demo with Bob Drebin, then a Pixar engineer, in the late 1980s. The patient showed up at 8 a.m. "It was a fracture," Fishman recalls. "Ten minutes later the surgeon came, and said, 'Where are the images?' I said, 'Come back tomorrow, same time.' And that was the end of the story."
Drebin went on to build the Nintendo GameCube graphics processor. He's now Apple's graphics processor guru.
Jobs took a personal interest in medical imaging back in the Pixar days, and he and Fishman stayed in touch through the years. In the late 1990s, Jobs sat in on a Stanford Grand Rounds lecture that Fishman gave on 3-D medical imaging. Fishman is one of the country's foremost experts on medical imaging and a polished speaker, but he was intimidated. "I'd given a lot of lectures at many, many places and that was the only lecture I was afraid of," he remembers. "I figured if I said something wrong to a bunch of radiologists on 3-D, they would never know the difference. He might."
In 2010, around the time Luo was writing her e-mail, Fishman and his daughter paid Jobs a visit in August 2010. Jobs invited him to do a demo for senior iPad execs of some iPad 3-D imaging software designed for Siemens by a company that Fishman co-founded, HipGraphics.
Fishman can't say if Jobs' illness made him more interested in helping out doctors. And Apple won't end up selling millions of iPads to hospitals. But it's not impossible to imagine that at a time when some are saying that Silicon Valley is no longer producing anything important, Apple believes that improving doctors' lives might just be the right thing to do.
There's an intangible appeal that comes from making things better for sick people who are seeking help. "People in computer science are always interested in medical imaging," Fishman says. "They always like to think that, you know, maybe Angry Birds is good but something medical might actually change the world."
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April 20th is the day they unveil them...purposely. Detroit Lions set to unveil new logo, uniforms - The Morning Sun Sports: Serving Clare, Gratiot and Isabella counties
Here's another link as well. Lions to reveal new logo, uniform next week - Detroit Lions: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats - MLive.com
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Hi Twiv folks
I am developing a class on how infections can alter the behaviour of their hosts. There are some fantastic examples of this in parasitology where the parasite alters the behaviour of the host to increase its chances of transmission. The reason I decided to develop this class is that I find it fascinating that rabies induces aggression, causing the infected animal to bite and transmit the disease, but I dont know anything about how it actually does it. I'm developing the class with a physiological psychologist who does animal behaviour research and we are already having too much fun learning about zombie ants and other strange infections.
My question is, other than rabies are there other viruses that alter host behaviour, especially with the effect of increasing transmission?
It seems like there must be a sexually transmitted disease that increases sexual desire or promiscuity, but havent found one. Do you know of any?
Also, do you have any thoughts on the origins of the mythology of zombies and vampires as possibly based on behaviour mediating infections? Certainly many zombie movies portray zombieism as an infectious disease, could these ideas have started with historical cases of altered behavior due to infections?
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Wendy writes:
I was recently listening to your 100th podcast where you featured David Baltimore. One aspect of virological history that was discussed, but is frequently overlooked, is the work by several investigators at NIH in the late 1970s to determine if indeed cloning was safe. These investigators took time from their own studies to identify dangers of cloning and whether such studies could safely be performed. The studies were very important in the history of molecular biology as well as virology and I believe that the details of these studies would be of interest to the community at large. Those individuals who did this work are getting older and that history will be lost once they are gone since there seems to be few details of this work published (as far as I can tell). How about getting some of those scientists on your program to talk about the events?
University of Iowa
Joe writes:
Dear TWIVcats.
I would like to wade in to the viruses are they/aren't they alive debate with a thought experiment.
Like every person on the planet, I am related to every other terrestrial organism via a common ancestor, for a Chimpanzee our shared relative lived relatively recently (geologically speaking), whereas for an E.coli it was probably billions years ago. However, we share grandparents and are all very distant cousins. So, with this in mind, am I also related to Poliovirus, is Ebola my tear-away cousin 10 to the power 30 times removed? And if we are related to viruses, does this have implications for their alive/not-alive/undead status.
Just a thought.
Love the show.
Joe (London, UK)
Joe writes (re Agave viruses, Kevin's letter on TWiV 137):
As a long time listener to TWIV I was dismayed that the crew was not familiar with the groundbreaking work of Prof. Jose Cuervo regarding the agave life cycle. He identified the T-Kwillia virus as its primary infective agent and showed how it was transmitted by the common Bar Fly. It is one of few agents that also causes diseases in humans, the dreaded Morning After Sickness with the classic symptoms of headache, dry mouth, blurry vision and tremors.
Love the shows
PS. Allan can probably come up with a better virus name, feel free to edit.
EH&S Manager
Jeffrey writes:
Hello – In TWIV 139, after describing the loss of the fiber genes from the mimvirus genome upon passage, one of you asked if other viruses lose their fibers as well and someone mentioned adenoviruses. I am now a community college assistant professor, but in my former life I was a researcher and did my dissertation on the persistence of adenoviruses in human lymphocytes. Bringing up adenovirus was interesting for a couple of reasons.
First, if you compare the genomes of the animal adenvoiruses, the conserved genes are in the middle of the genome and its the ends that are the most different (see http://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/84/11/2895.long).
Second, its the fiber genes that are in the middle (not at the ends) and appear to be pretty well conserved.
Anyhow – love the show; thanks for keeping me current on research now that I have to spend my time grading.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Georgia Perimeter College
Geoffrey writes:
I feel that I must rebut a point made by Alan Dove in episode 130:
"We're not looking at a world where we have a choice between these genetically-modified pest-resistant plant and some beautiful organically-grown, no-pesticide, no-evil chemical, no-nothing types of food. In fact, with more than six billion people on the planet, what we have is a choice between these pest[icide – delete?]-resistant, genetically-modified plants or plants that are grown with petrochemical pesticides."
First, ask Dr. DesPommier to describe permaculture to you. It is proving to be an increasingly more viable method of growing food while improving the environment. Farmers like Mark Shepard in Wisconsin (Here is a little information on Shepard and his farm:http://www.forestag.com/bio.html. Here is an article by him:http://www.nfs.unl.edu/documents/specialtyforest/shepard.pdf) are showing that permaculture can be a financially viableand product ton/acre efficient way to produce food without pesticides. Second, there is at least one other alternative to grow enough food to feed our planet – grow your crops within a semi-customized eco-system (rather than in isolation) and direct natural biological controls towards keeping your crops happy as your first line of defense. Use pesticides as a highly selective and time-limited second line.
This is not to protest against genetic engineering. I strongly believe that it has a valuable place in the future of our culture but it should be used in a manner that promotes rather than degrades the health of the planet.
Yes, this type of agriculture requires a complete re-structuring of our current agricultural system but, then, what do we think will happen to the system when gasoline (and related petrochemicals) reach $5… $10 a gallon?
Thanks for the excellent show,
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caught two wild swarms last summer and now have two pretty good looking hives. I just checked the hives the other day, It's been in the high 60's all week here in boulder, they looked pretty good i left all the honey stores they built up last summer to be sure they made it through the winter. they have been out gathering pollen during the day. I have a couple ? for the the spring
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Also when i first caught the swarms i put them in home made hives that i built. I built the frames myself as well and didn't realize how much the bees glued down the frames, so now they are all falling apart in the bottom hive body, the cluster in one hive is in the 2nd body and the other is in the bottom body. i purchased the upper bodies on both hives, so the only problem i have are that the top of the frames in the home made body are very wide and restrict movement and ventilation, my thought was to go in there and pull out all the comb which is sort off a mess and wire it into the new frames i got, and let the bees patch it up. any thoughts on this. the other reason i want to get rid of the home made body is because i have the bottom board nailed on, never saw a hive before and couldn't find a local bee store and had a swarm ready to start building so i did my best only to find out it was all wrong, Thanks in advance for the advice, i am very excited about this upcoming summer with my bees.


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|I personally hate hex tanks.. dont know why.. the view is just all weird.. But you did do a great job, it looked pretty good. RIP
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..It also produced every freshwater species of algae known to man)
RIP 5 gallon hex tank
Lol, thanks for sharing that. It is good to know that I am not the only one who was having issues with this type of tank. For anyone interested in my trials and tribulations with the tank, you can check out my log at: http://azdhan.googlepages.com/thelostworld2.
I had to also tear down the tank, bleach and disinfect it, and redo it. Don't know how things will work out. Diatom algae reared its ugly head one month after the tank was redone and running. The Otocat I put in made short work of the diatom algae. The tank also has two cherry shrimp, a zebra danio, and is pretty much packed with plants(anubias, ambulia, dwarf lily, java fern, cryptocorne). Now I am patiently waiting to see what other type of algae rears its ugly head. I am also dosing fluorish Excel and using a 15 watt 6500 K GE daylight compact fluorescent in the canopy. We will see if the split 9 hour photo-period helps deter algae.
Well, if this fails, it is on to plan C: Tear down, bleach, disinfiect and redo the tank using ADA Aquasoil with fluorish excel/and or DIY C02 with the 15 watt compact fluorescent bulb to see how that works out.
This practice tank has been officially taken down, scrubbed, and bleached. It's now being converted to an unplanted blue&pink gravel tank and given to my 7 year old brother and sister, who will undoubtedly kill many fish in it. Well, hopefully I can prevent that.
FYI - Over the 6 months or so it was set up, this tank produced over 30 vallisneria plantlets and half a gallon of java moss. I kid you not. With only flourish excel and a 15 watt spiral CF. (It also produced every freshwater species of algae known to man)
RIP 5 gallon hex tank
Sorry to hear about the messy move. This will be a good opportunity for you to start over though. Keep us posted!
The tank took a beating when I moved to a new apartment closer to my office. I thought I could just lower the water level halfway, but that resulted in swaying waves in the tank during the car ride to the new place. The driftwood dislodged from the substrate and started smacking against the sides of the tank, but as I was the only person in the car, there wasnt much I could do except try to drive a little slower...
All the fish and the two shrimp made it, though one very large MTS was crushed. The big ones are green inside, if anyone was curious.
I was seeing good growth before the move, so I'm a little disenheartened right now. Everything is back how it was, for the most part. Vals are growing, and most of the Guppy Grass ended up in the trash.
But now I can begin my plans for a new tank, now that I've got my new place. Something that's not an eclipse and not a hex and not acrylic. I've already decided to convert this tank to a shrimp tank once I have my next one set up.
|How's the tank looking?
|One can definitely reproduce by itself. I started with one small hitchhiker on some plants from the LFS and I tossed it in my 5 gallon as opposed to "humanely euthanizing" it. Now about 3 months later, that one turned into around 100 and the biggest one is about the size of a quarter. If you don't want them, get rid of that one asap. Mine started laying eggs after about a week.
|One can reproduce by itself
I checked aquabid. There's only a couple people selling them, and none look nearly as nice as some of the pics I've seen on here and other websites. I'll keep looking.
And regarding the pond snail, I've only seen one so far, so I'm hoping its the only one. I guess I should have smashed it (uhhh I mean humanely euthanized), cause it's no where to be found now.
|The vals will grow like mad and eventually take over. Thats what mine did under the CF light that I was using. That single pond snail will turn into a nation of snails if you let it. I started with one too and now I have +100. Aquabid has several auctions for red ramshorns in case you haven't looked there yet. Good luck!
Well, I assume that today is the last day that my amanos will be eating algae. While feeding my fish, both amano shrimp swam to the surface and stole flake food. And in case you're wondering, they grabbed red "meat" flakes, dropped them, and went back for the green "spirulina" flakes. So they definitely have a preference.
Oh well!
On another note, I ended up letting the Najas grass float. I got two new runners on my Vallisneria, with two new baby plants so far, which I'm pleased about. Since every runner produces about five new plants in my experience, I really do appreciate every bud. It's funny how Vals are the only thing I have grown with 100% success so far. I can't wait to get a tank with more floor area and higher light to try new things.
Oh, and I found a pond snail in my tank today. Just one. I do really want to try some red ramshorns. Some really nice, really crystalline red ones. If anyone has some, or knows where to get really great ones, please do let me know.
|No the hex definitely sucks. I'm just glad to see other people trying to make it work.
Well, I was warned not to aquascape with Najas/Guppy Grass. I have learned my lesson. Also, disappointingly, quite a lot of my Najas melted away. I attribute this to 1. being manhandled at the petstore, as each stem is incredibly fragile, and 2. the insane heat in this apartment. The water temperature in this tank goes up to 86 degrees every day since they turned the heat on, and one morning the tank was 92 degrees. That anything survives in this tank is a miracle. Heck, that *I* can survive in this sweltering apartment is a miracle. And no, I can't leave my windows open, as I'm on the ground floor and I would be robbed. And no, the tank doesn't have a heater as I definitely don't need one.
Fortunately, I'm moving to a new place soon where I'll have my own thermostat for the heat and hopefully the tank will be able to hover around a normal 75+-.
Anyways, here's the half-melted Guppy Grass mess, which completedly spread out all over my tank... On the plus side, the grass put out a ton of roots, and between all the stems, I probably have 50 new leaves in the last week (seriously)... So I have hope that now that it's done melting and has roots, the growth will be good. This stuff is supposed to be indestructible.
I actually just got a great deal from a fellow PT'er on some eco-complete for a larger tank I plan to set up, and decided to switch this tank over from inert gravel to the EC. I found guppy grass at a LFS, a plant I'd never seen before but is reportedly tough as nails. I also took out most of my java moss cause I felt that it was just an unruly algae magnet. I took a handsaw to my driftwood and hacked it in half, cause it was too large for my tank (and hidden by vals in previous photos). Anywho, here's my update. Redid the tank two days ago, and I already have a new Val runner. I am losing a couple val leaves right now, though. I suspect they dried out a little while I was rescaping, or maybe they're just suffering some kind of trauma.
First pic is my tank as of two days ago, second is my new Najas. Sweeet.
Mikeb210, I gotta say, Im not a big fan of the 5 gallon hex. I would never recommend it to a plant grower. Its difficult to aquascape. The light fixture is not good at all. Its difficult to photograph. The main benefit is that its a big space-saver.
ANOTHER HEX!!! We could start an army soon haha. This is some good inspiration for us fellow hexers(?) so keep up the good work.
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Re: st: indicator variable and interaction term different signs but both significant
Nahla Betelmal <email@example.com>
Re: st: indicator variable and interaction term different signs but both significant
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Thank you all for your valuable comments. It was very interesting to
interact with you guys.
I think my case is shown in this useful file
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/21120_Chapter_7.pdf . Figure 7.9, page
Many thanks again
On 7 April 2013 08:25, Richard Williams <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> At 11:07 PM 4/6/2013, David Hoaglin wrote:
>> Richard gave the following interpretation of the coefficient of OC_D
>> in the initial model: "The coefficient for OC-D is the predicted
>> difference between an overconfident manager and a regular manager when
>> MV = 0 and the values of other variables are the same for both." The
>> phrase "and the values of other variables are the same for both,"
>> however, does not reflect the way multiple regression works. The
>> appropriate general interpretation of an estimated coefficient is that
>> it tells how the dependent variable changes per unit change in that
>> predictor after adjusting for simultaneous linear change in the other
>> predictors in the data at hand. (I realize that various books have
>> interpretations similar to the one that Richard gave, but that does
>> not make those interpretations correct in general.) Since OC_D is an
>> indicator variable, its coefficient gives the difference, on average,
>> between overconfident managers and rational managers after adjusting
>> for the contributions of the other predictors. One of those other
>> predictors is OC_MV, so the resulting interpretation for the
>> coefficient of OC_D is the one that I gave above.
> I have to admit that I don't understand what is wrong with my statement, at least in the case of this specific example. To be clear, if MV = 0, the interaction term OC_MV will also equal 0. So, go ahead and plug in whatever values you want for the other variables, compute the predicted values for a regular manager and an overconfident manager, and it will indeed always be the case that "The coefficient for OC_D is the predicted difference between an overconfident manager and a regular manager when MV = 0 and the values of other variables are the same for both." They have to be since the calculations of the predicted values are identical for both, except that for regular managers the coefficient for OC_D gets multiplied by 0 whereas for overconfident managers it gets multiplied by 1.
> I would agree that things like other interaction terms or X^2 terms make life more complicated, e.g. two cases can't have different values of X while having the same value of X^2. But, that isn't the case here. I also don't think it makes much sense in such a case to talk about the effect of X separate from the effect of X^2, so I am not clear how the language on "after adjusting for simultaneous linear change in the other predictors at hand" really helps any. Even if it were more technically correct, I don't think it is at all clear what it means. You have to break down and use a few sentences when you have interaction terms and squared terms and things like that!
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Posting to describe my grandfather's old world style of hives that some have asked me about and ask some questions about beekeeping.
Michael, their pretty much nothing like the Langstroth of Dandant hives, in fact their unmovable frames (well you can move them without killing bees if your careful (read somewhere in nonmovable frame hives you have to kill the bees to get them out)), basically their is no bee space between the frames so they get propopalised (sp) together and you've got to give it a good pull to get them out.) Like I said their very different, at our last class a guy from the local bee keeping club showed up and was thrilled to meet the grandson of the guy with the heavy beehives. (his friends had apparantly bought a full hive of my grandfather years ago and he was so intrigued he took pictures of it) They have an inner cover and a telescoping outer cover as well as two small entrances (top and bottom, about 1/4 to 1/2 inch high and 4-5 inches wide) Anyway the dimensions are 32in long, 21in tall, and 13in wide. They're made of wood that is 1-1.5 inches thick (depending on part of hive). The frames are oriented vertically in them instead of horizontally and there is only 1 level (story if you will). I'll post some pictures online once I get my digital camera back and link to them).
As far as why did my grandfather prefer them when he had some langsroth style hives (he only used them when he had nothing else, always made his style ones, and those were always the first to be sold)? One I think it was just habbit he was 80 and had been raising bees since he was 12. Also he claims that they winter a lot better in those hives, which I really didn't believe up until this year. I've heard stories from other beekeepers in the area of a 50% loss rate or worse and like I said I only lost 1 of 20.... so who knows, they are a complete pain to work though so I figure I'll do half and half or something.
Couple of questions:
Any recomendations on switching them over quickly, I was just going to take the capped brood, tie it into the new frames (the frames of course aren't compatable anything else would be to easy) and just shake the rest of the bees into the new hive. I figure I'll do it on a nice warm day, either putting the new hive right infront of the old or right beside then just move it into place when I'm done.
Also can bees use the honey that's hardened and sugared in the frames, or is it worthless to them.
And the hive that didn't make it can I feed their winter stores to the other bees (when I opened it up their were a bunch of dead bees on the bottom in a pile in the center and a bunch hanging off some of the center frames, I'm assuming they just couldn't move left or right or fell down or something and starved to death. I didn't see any signs of disease but I'm not to great at picking it out yet either. The only thing I did notice was that the combs seem to have a whitish waxish substance on the outside of them, I was thinking this may be due to them freezing or something).
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Our apartment is fully equipped. It has a fully equipped kitchen with stove, oven, fridge and washing machine. Of course everything is for cooking and eating. Our apartment is complete with laminate, suitable for allergy sufferers. Smoking is not allowed in the apartment. Furthermore, the apartment consists of a large bedroom with a comfortable double bed (200x140) and a spacious wardrobe. In addition to the bedroom, large living room invites you to the relax an and offers a comfortable sofa bed (190x140) in addition to a TV and a radio. In addition, the apartment has a newly designed bathroom with a shower and a separate toilet.
Only the Weser Park (Northern Germany's largest shopping centre) is located 5 minutes ' walk. Same here the Temple of wellness is OASIS. A sauna that is unparalleled.
Cinema complex also belong to the Weser Park with restaurants, bowling alleys and a children's paradise.
The recreation areas of Mahndorfer Lake and Lake Oyter invite for swimming and hiking. Distance only 5 minutes by car.
An indoor and outdoor swimming pool are located nearby.
The Achimer Golfclub is only a few minutes away.
From our House you directly reach signposted cycling trails.
You can reach our historic and beautiful downtown easily in 10 minutes by regional train. 20 Minutes by car. The Weser stadium is 15 minutes away.
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alles perfekt, super freundlich und hilfsbereit, wir haben hilfreiche tipps fuer unsers aufenthalt in Bremen bekommen. trotz wirklich sehr kurzfristiger Buchung unsererseits ist alles bestens und perfekt gelaufen. saubere Wohnung, bestens zu erreichen mit oeffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln...wir kommen sicher wieder!!!
super appartement.super schoon.zeer aardige gastvrouw.
bremen was geweldig. heerlijk paas weekend gehad.
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Very friendly family
Very nice house with everything we needed. It's a little out of the way but the tram stop is a couple of minutes walk away and you are in the city centre in 10 minutes. We had a bit of snow and frost while we were there but the house was always warm and the shower hot. Lots of room, nice fully equipped kitchen, Wi-Fi, TV (even found BBC news). Highly recommended and excellent value. Anja very helpful and easily contactable.
We enjoyed our stay very much, the place was spacious and wonderful. It had a large bathroom, a good living space, six comfortable beds, washer and dryer, WiFi, close to the bus stop. We six women had plenty of space and were pleased with how clean it was. Our only challenge was having only one mirror in the house.
It is many years since I had the pleasure of being in Germany (24 years) and I was not disappointed. Our house was in a lovely location with excellent transport links to the city centre, by train. We were only about 200m from the main train track but the trains did not cause any noise problems at all. We arrived at the house and got in straight away thanks to our hosts excellent communications, she was unable to meet us there due to other commitments but the keys were right by the property. The house was very clean and had everything we needed. It was a fantastic base to use for our city break. I have disabled, mobile children but the house was perfect for there needs and very safe indeed. In fact the only negative thing I can say about my stay was the squeaky floor in the house but we used this to our advantage and could tell when the children were wandering about and up to mischief. Fantastic place with a 100% recommendation.
There were 6 ladies all visiting the Christmas market and all 6 of us were more than thrilled with the apartment. It was easy to find, in a fantastic location, just across the road from the tram and train which took us into the heart of Bremen and also from a very well stocked small supermarket.
The rooms were very clean and well equipped, Anja had put put discreet decorations for us and the whole place was warm, cozy and welcoming. We would highly recommend this place to anyone, we all had a fantastic time here and would not hesitate to return. A true home from home. Thanks so much
We spend a very nice weekend in Anja's house.
A very good place to go with friends and enjoy Bremen.
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Sometimes having to eat just gets in the way. I didn't say that. The weather man said that there was a possibility of snow this afternoon. Apparently the conditions are just right. I live in hope. It is very grey and overcast and the temp is about 34degF. It's a bit after 6:00 am and the news and weather man have just finished, hence the snow report. We are off to Mount Vernon. Mr Washington, no that's General Washington as well as President Washington's house. Breakfast is first. Cereal, yogurt, bowl of fruit, juice, English muffin and grape jelly jam and of course coffee. The robust blend is much better that the drip coffee. This will usually see me through to about three which is usually when we manage to have lunch on most days. Trying to have it early just doesn't fit in.
Where we are staying, the entrance the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Pope-Leighey house is a short stroll up the road, with Mt Vernon about 10 minutes away by carin the oter drection and Fort Belvoir, the army base, is about 5 minutes up the road in the same direction as Pope-Leighey
A fifteen minute drive and we are pulling into the car park with a short walk to the shop and ticketing desk. We get the house tour and an audio tour for me. There are a few things happening today and hopefully we can join them together. We walk to the house and pass the blacksmith on the way. Mount Vernon is a working historic site. The gardens are kept, however not as the original owner had set up, and much to the dissatisfaction of the traditionalists. There are animals that are the same breed as were on the farm when Washington was the owner.
The smithy is working on fire place tools for one of the people who donates money to Mount Vernon. He is a smith by trade starting his apprenticeship at fifteen. On completing his apprenticeship he went travelling round the neighboring states and finally has a permenant gig at Mount Vernon fixing the exhibits in the manner in which they had been repaired when they were being used. That includes nails! We wonder to the house with the house tour about to begin. We pass through each room with a different guide giving us their perspective on GW, family, the room and the house. Apparently GW had control of the decorating the house except the master bedroom
We exit the house and join the 'slave' tour. This tour not only gave us an insight into the daily lives of the slaves on the property but an extra insight on how the Washington's ran their staff. The tour guide is very knowledgeable about the Washingtons, but also as we found out later on the Civil War, as she she tells us about particular slaves and the antics they get up to to avoid work and their other duties. This tour is available because it is Black History month. After this tour, we follow the guide to the slave burial grounds for a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument and she explains how this monument came about


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