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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by roscoe36, Jan 22, 2007.
Lay it all down. Smack talk, predictions and news. Let me know if we should run a SB chat.
The Lions have succeeded in making me completely indifferent about pro football. I have never been less interested in the Super Bowl, but I gotta root for Dungy and the Colts...34-27.
I'm in the same boat as Detteam. The Lions have killed my love of football. That being said, I'm pulling for Da Bears, because I have read that they play crushing defense, and that's my favorite.
I thought it was just me who the Lions made turn away from football. Now I see in addition to myself, Linwood and Detteam fell the same way. Oh yeah, a guy named Barry Sanders would concur........ Anyway, got to go with the Colts, they are a team of destiny as they say, I have no idea what the score will be.
Add me to the list. I haven't turned away totally, but I really am thinking of finding a new team because I can't take it any longer. I've always liked the Chargers. Plus Tomlinson is awesome...
I was pullin for San Diego & LT to make it cuz the Chargers are the team I've been trying to adopt over the last few years.
OK, next season we both wear a San Diego Chargers avatar opening day.
For me, the final straw with the Lions (of many, many final straws) was the total neglect of shoulda-been-a-hall-of-famer Herman Moore. I watched in pain and agony as the Lions, who had decided to go West Coast Light-and-Fast looked off the sticky hands of Herman Moore just to pass to a triple covered Johnny Morton. <------ Me, yelling "he's wide open!"
Morton had 'the worm' thing goin on playing for the camera. Herman was an old time footballer...catch the ball and move on to the next play. Barry was the same outta the backfield. Roy should watch some old tape and learn to keep his finger down after his next catch...Detroit ain't Hollywood and don't wanna be.
Sounds good to me...the Chargers will make the Super Bowl next year...and the Lions will blow another top pick, go 4-12, and hang on to Millen.
I don't like Chicago. I don't like visiting there. I don't like the wind. Whenever I encounter a Chicagoan, I ask them, "Are you enjoying OUR lake?" I don't like the Blackhawks, hate the Bulls, hate Michael Jordan, I can barely stand the White Sox. Hate Ozzie Guillen. The Cubs are OK, but I think Cubs fans have to be nuts to keep spending money on tickets although I would definitely go to Wrigley Field if I had the chance. Be that as it may: Chicago's D gets it done. Bears 21, Colts 17
Gazoo, come out here in the summer... it's not so bad. The wind is overrated.
I refused to let the Lions kill my love for football. I have Directv with the football pkg. so I choose to laugh at the Lions and watch other teams play good football. I think the Colts will score early and run the Bears right out of Joe Robbie as Grossman throws pick after pick trying to play catch up. I think the game itself will suck but the party I go to every year is great and I know there will be some good commercials.
I wanna see some trick plays. Colts 22 Bears 20 P.S. if Colts can't hang on to the ball...two or more TOs, it's ova.
I should also say that I like Chicagoans for the most part.
I love Chicago, except that it's just too damn cold. Summers are beautiful though. I hate Indianapolis. First of all, it's in Indiana. Second of all... I don't think I really need a second of all. I would like to see the Bears completely shut down the fancy pants offense of the Colts. I don't have a prediction, but the game I would like to see is: Bears 14 Colts 3
I predict the Colts will win so I think the Bears will. If that doesn't make sense, just remember I haven't recovered from that college football championship yet.
On Sunday, it is supposed to be a low of 1 and a high of 11. Too bad the game isn't at Soldier Field. Getting hit by Urlacker and then hitting the frozen ground would not be a fun thing to repeat for 3 hours.
I say luck runs out on the overachieving Bears while the Colts show their dominance as Manning steps up. Colts 35 Bears 3.
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C. Oregon marijuana shops face hazy future
Lawmakers may let cities ban, regulate dispensaries
BEND, Ore. - As more pot shops sprout in Bend, the debate over medical marijuana heats up in Salem with a new bill to regulate the drug: Senate Bill 1531.
And many in Central Oregon are watching.
"It helps to professionalize what we're doing," Bloom Well owner Jeremy Kwit said Tuesday.
Important legislation for those in the business, and those hoping to prevent substance abuse.
"We've got to get ready for this, or all of this is just going to roll on into place before we even know it," said Barbara Stoefen of the Bend Area Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition.
The newest debate in Salem comes just days before medical marijuana facilities become officially licensed statewide, thanks to a bill that passed last summer.
Legalization has given newer dispensaries like High Grade Organics, Bloom Well and CANNABend the confidence to set up shop in Bend.
"We're going to register with the state through OHA, the Oregon Health Authority," High Grade Organics owner Nick Harsell said. "And we have to meet their guidelines"
CANNABEND is planning some upgrades to comply.
"Computer systems, servers and storing video surveillance," said CANNABEND owner Lyle Coppinger.
Now the big question is: Will new legislation allow cities to ban dispensaries entirely?
"It's definitely unsettling," Coppinger said.
So far, lawmakers in Salem can't agree. They first cultivated a bill allowing the bans, then amended it to remove the option of bans -- and now the bans are back.
"I'm delighted to hear we as a community will hopefully have the opportunity to place some of our own limitations on it," Stoefen said.
Stofen said her group hopes to meet with Bend city councilors to discuss crafting regulations and guidelines for Bend dispensaries.
And despite the uncertainty in Salem, marijuana shops on the High Desert may be safe -- for now.
"We don't have much of an issue with dispensaries here," said Bend City Councilor Jodie Barram. "We don't limit how many dispensaries that we might have in Bend."
It's an attitude troubling Stoefen.
"I'm concerned that Bend has been a little passive on this subject," Stoefen said. "In spite of the perception that so many have about marijuana as being this benign, no-big-deal drug it can pose danger, especially to teenagers."
Bend city officials said the number of dispensaries in the city has more than doubled in a year to about 10 shops.
But if you drive north a few miles, you won't find any marijuana dispensaries.
Redmond City Mayor George Endicott told NewsChannel 21 that he's not against marijuana, but he also said Redmond's stance on the plant is firm.
"For us to grant a license to someone to dispense an illegal substance means we're complicit in breaking a federal law, and we're just not going to go there," Endicott said.
But those working closest to the drugs say it's only going to hurt individuals already suffering.
"I don't think a local city council or a county knows better than the Oregon Health Authority or an individual's own doctor," Kwit said. "To make access more difficult for patients for political gain, I think, is really unfortunate."
Also under fire is the sweeter side of marijuana, pot-laced candies and treats.
"That kind of product could be really appealing to young people," Stoefen said.
The bill includes provisions that could ban certain types of edibles, and prohibit marketing and product packaging that could be attractive to minors.
Local marijuana shop owners are upset the state would intervene in different types of medicine.
"There's a lot of people who want to get the relief from ingesting," Harsell said, noting his large array of marijuana-infused candies and chocolates.
Kwit said some of his clients can't smoke or inhale marijuana.
"It's really beneficial for clients who have GI tract issues or nausea," he said.
It's a divisive topic on so many fronts, but there's common ground -- both sides favor some local control.
"The more we can be compliant, and the more changes to how organizations operate will reduce the stigma about this misunderstood botanical plant," Kwit said.
For now, many are waiting to see what state lawmakers will decide, and where the shops can take root.

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Should You Avoid Popular Baby Names?
Written by Leslie Kennedy for BabyPost.com
When you pick the names for your babies, do you care if the name made the most recent "most popular baby names" list? Is that a bonus? Is it a detriment? Do you go out of the way to avoid using a name that anyone you have ever known or ever could possibly know could have or sound like, or remind you of?
I am trying to decide how I feel about my daughter's name falling out of the top 10 this year. I feel like I should have a feeling about it. I don't really.
My daughter's name, which we picked when I was about six months pregnant, was in the Top Ten list the year she was born. My husband and I totally thought we were being original. We had no idea it was a popular name. Somehow, despite being #6 the year she was born, I only have ever encountered one other child with her name, and it's my friend's daughter who was born just weeks before mine. I still gave my daughter the name. CRAZY. Even crazier is that I wasn't mad at her for "stealing" the name and she wasn't mad at me for copying her.
Related: The 10 Trendiest Baby Names of 2013
Fast forward two and a half years. We give my son an Anglicized version of a family name, thinking it was rare. That year it was. Remarkably, it's in the Top 30 this year.
I have heard countless people complain of other people "stealing" their name or weighing whether to use a name because it sounds like a third cousin's daughter's name. I have never understood that. Maybe it's because my cousin and I share a middle name and I have a first cousin with the same first name as my brother. It's never even occurred to me to care.
Topping the list of boys names in 2012 was William, Jacob, Liam, Nathan and Noah. Personally I'd argue that Liam and William are the same name, but regardless, the top five boys names are classic names, none that I would consider trendy. And like years previous, the names in the top 10 did not change significantly from last year's list. They rarely do. Give or take a trend.
Then we have the girls' names. Maya/Mia/Mya, Sofia/Sophia, Olivia, Emma and Emile/Emily. Top girls names tend to change significantly every year. Trends seem to come and go far more quickly. Those names all sound classic (and are) but growing up, I never knew a Maya, a Sophia, an Olivia or an Emma.
People are trying to get more creative, to keep their child from being one-of in a classroom, and to give them an identity. Some of the uniqueness manifests in nothing more than changing up a spelling, using a "ph" instead of an "f," a "y" instead of an "i".
And then, there's Hashtag. Poor poor baby Hashtag.
Thankfully, that name didn't crack the top 100 and hopefully never will.
Whether you want to give your child a classic name or a trendy one, the choice is yours. Charlotte, Pearl, Sarah. All names. William, Connor, Xavier, also, all names.
Hashtag? Not a name.
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I am a newbie, just started 2 hives back at the end of March. I am happy to see this resource for questions and sharing experiences with folks who are new like me and those who've been caring for bees for years. I always wanted to keep bees and now that I am almost retired, I decided it was now or never. I am not as afraid of the bees as I thought I would be and actually find it very relaxing watching them buzz around.
I look forward to reading all the posts and am sure I will come away with some great information to help me keep my bees healthy and maybe even happy!


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They are saying 50 degrees today. I was thinking about putting a sugar board on. One of my hives that did not get one this fall. Still so new to this, it's my first winter with 4 hives. So do I smoke a little when going in quick or not? Anything I should be looking for on this quick look? I will try too answer this, live bees in a cluster ok that part is over what else should I looking for?
Thanks in advance
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So what ever happened with the hive, anything
So what ever happened with the hive, anything
Rick Kumer
That's where all the lost bees in the USA have gone. Not CCD.
Sorry, I forgot about this thread. The hive was installed last summer and nucs were placed in. My brother has not opened it up this spring as of yet.
Here it is in place.
Dan Hayden 5 Years. 10 hives. Tx Free. USDA Zone 5b.
I noticed on your photobucket page your bee suit is black! Interesting design.
Regards, Barry
Whats the hole in the background? A place to bury it if it fails. Lots of stinking bees.....
I like the door to put the hay bales in.
That is a foundation for a greenhouse.
Dan Hayden 5 Years. 10 hives. Tx Free. USDA Zone 5b.
Well we opened the hive up last weekend. The hive configuration was not ideal, the division boards were to close together and most of the colonies became honey bound and swarmed themselves to death last fall by leaving an insufficient biomass of bees to survive the winter. There is one that is building back up and is looking good. I advised my brother to move the division boards to make the equivalent of about 3-4 deeps in volume. There is a ton of drawn comb, and I would love to get a picture of the monster frames, however it was to cold to open up the large box on the bottom. I will try to make it down there when they repopulate the dead out sections and get some pictures. Once the colonies are established the goal is to remove some of the division boards and have two queen sections. We will see how it turns out.
The window below the roof is a ventilation vent. The shallow top box is full of standard medium frames. The deep is full of custom frames that measure 12 x 48 inches. The whole hive is about 8 feet long.
Dan Hayden 5 Years. 10 hives. Tx Free. USDA Zone 5b.
i love it...its cool i wish you both goodluck....greg
Well thats it >>>>> you da man !
thats the way i roll.
Your kidding right??? Nucs are $120 a piece so he is going to waste $1200 on this? Cant wait to see how it survives the winter... 10 colonies down the drain all in one shot...He is building frames for it and initially using 10 nucs to start it
Well its been almost a year since you posted this... How did it turn out???
sorry didnt see your post on 3/29
10 nucs were for this and his other traditional hives, so no 10 did not go into this big boy. Yesterday they put 5 packages back onto the dead out sections. The problem is that it is cold, but they should have stores. (His teen age sons did the install, as he is gone on a mission trip).
Dan Hayden 5 Years. 10 hives. Tx Free. USDA Zone 5b.
I agree. There was a man who made a 15 queen hive and the super was one peace that fit on top of 15 two deep hives. The super was lifted with a crane and a lot of eye bolts. lol
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
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the legos at legoland do alright in the sun. I guess you could use propolis for mortar
This one is for the record book, makes my back hurt just looking at it.
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(I considered posting this in the Beekeeping 101 section, but Diseases and Pests seemed more appropriate.)
One of the locations that I am contemplating for my first hives typically contains a few large ant hills during the summer. In the few years that we have lived here, they have always been "formica ants" - the usual black and/or red ants that build large, loose mounds of dirt for their nests. They seem fairly harmless... but, then again, I'm not a fellow insect.
So, are these mundane ants a threat to any bees that I would place in the area? Would they steal the honey? Would the bees let them? I know that some types of ants can be problematic... but what about these common, every-day ants?
Also, we typically have a fair amount of "paper wasps" and bumble bees on our property. Not really in the area that the hives will likely be located, but within a quarter mile or so. Are those going to be a problem?


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Trained, certified volunteer tax preparers will be available to assist property owners and renters to accurately complete the forms needed to apply for a refund. This is a free service available to all middle- and low-income taxpayers.
Volunteer sites include the Center in Brainerd, Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library in Crosby and the Pequot Lakes Library.
Summer schedule:
• The Center, 803 Kingwood St., Brainerd, 9-11:30 a.m. May 8, June 19, July 17 and Aug. 7. Call 218-829-9345 for an appointment.
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Armour of King James II. English, London, 1686 (II.123)
Armour of King James II. English, London, 1686 (II.123)
Detail of mark on armour of King James II. English, London. 1686 (II.123)
Harquebusier's armour. (II.108)
Toiras breastplates displayed in the White Tower after 1882
Helmet of armour of King James II. English, London, 1686 (II.123)
Figure of King James II in the Horse Armoury, The Penny Magazine, 1840.
Date: 1686 | Object number: II.123
|Object Provenance:
|English, London, 1686
|Object Number:
|Total weight:
|16.85 kg (37.1 lb)
|Pot Weight:
|3.32 kg (7.3 lb)
|Cuirass Weight:
|12.34 kg (27.2 lb)
|Gauntlet Weight:
|1.19 kg (2.6 lb)
This is the last Royal armour in the Royal Armouries collection. The armour cost £100, was made by Richard Holden, and was delivered on 14 December 1686. It is the only finely decorated royal armour ever known to have been made by a member of the London Armourers Company, and the last.
It is a harquebusier's armour, comprising a pot, breastplate, backplate and long elbow gauntlet; essentially the same as the ordinary munition armours made for the contemporary cavalry, but of rather finer quality. Like the ordinary munition armours, the cuirass bears the proof marks that attest that it is bullet proof.
The whole armour is decorated with punched, engraved and originally gilt bands of trophies. The faceguard is fretted and decorated with the initials IR (Iacobus Rex) and with the Royal Arms and their supporters: the lion and the unicorn. The central band on the breastplate has IR separated by a crown and surmounted by a figure 2 at the top, with crossed sceptres below.
Richard Holden, from Swadlincote in Derbyshire, was apprenticed to a London armourer in 1658 and made free in 1665. From 1673, he was supplying munition armour to the Board of Ordnance, and by 1681 he had become the armourer responsible for Royal commissions. He was involved in the negotiations that resulted in the incorporation of the Brasiers into the Armourers Company in 1708, though he was too old to sit on the Court of Assistants that was formed to control the new company. He died in 1709, the last of the London armourer makers.
This object is currently on loan to Royal Museums Greenwich as part of their 'Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution' exhibition.
J. Britton, Memoirs of the Tower, London, 1830, 277, no. 20
J. Hewitt, Official Catalogue of the Tower Armouries, London, 1859, 9, II.23
Viscount Dillon, Illustrated Guide to the Armouries, Tower of London, 1910, 192, II.22
H.L. Blackmore and C. Blair, 'King James II's armour and Richard Holden of London' Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, XIII, 1991, 316-34
C. Paggiarino, The Royal Armouries, masterpieces of medieval and renaissance arms and armour, Milan, 2011, volume 2, 273–5
|Object Provenance:
|English, London, 1686
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|Total weight:
|16.85 kg (37.1 lb)
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|12.34 kg (27.2 lb)
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Accused child pimp re-arrested, alleged victim found after going missing
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Accused child pimp Trevor Baker is back behind bars and the search is over for the teen he's accused of prostituting.
Baker was re-arrested Friday for allegedly violating a restraining order that says he can't have contact with the 17-year-old alleged victim in the case.
It's the second time Baker has been accused of violating the order. After bailing out of jail twice, he is now being held without bond.
Also on Friday, the alleged victim's mother contacted police after the teen went missing. The girl had been hanging out with friends Thursday night.
"She left them at 3 a.m. They called me and told me she was gone," said the girl's mother, who didn't want to be identified for fear of retaliation by those involved with the child prostitution case.
The teen's mom said she believed her daughter could be in danger because there are a lot of people who don't want her to testify against Baker. The teen was found at about 9 p.m. Her mother said the girl has struggled since Baker was arrested.
"She is a very caring person and she has felt horrible about what everyone is going through," said her mother. "As any victim in this situation, she's very traumatized and going to have to go through a lot of therapy to get past this."
Baker was arrested in May after police said he was caught with the teen and an 18-year-old female at a Colorado Springs motel. According to arrest documents, Baker admitted to pimping them, but said the underage girl, who was 16 at the time, told him she was 18.


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- A Two-Night Stay for Up to Four People in a North-Facing Room, Sundays through Thursdays ($178)
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St. Augustine, Florida, bears distinction as the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the US. Founded by Spaniards as a military outpost, the city's history reaches back more than 150 years before George Washington was born. In Old St. Augustine, you'll find original Spanish-style houses, museums showcasing the area's evolution, and vast architectural achievements of the Flagler era. But just across the Bridge of Lions, the beaches of Anastasia Island remain as pristine as if they were discovered yesterday.
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Well, if D/D retire, I'll hope to see something of a professional career for them. I like them. And I'm a particular fan of Jess , she IS lovely ,not to mention brave and downright dauntless.
I didn't mean to imply that I had heard or read Jess or Bryce themselves express that thought.( And I would have been very surprised if they did.I believe they know how to give an interview at this stage of their career.) I worded that poorly. Sorry.The they I referred to was their team,as a whole. And I didn't take note of who ,in particular, the idea was attributed to.The gist of it was that just as Love Story brought out the emotional connection between the skaters,and the skaters and audience , D/D's team had looked for a vehicle that would reawaken that connection between them , and expand it to draw in the audience.( It may have been a feature on the fact that David was working closely with them )...but even if I had never heard / seen that, what my eyes told me when I saw The Way We Were would have led me to the same conclusion.
Maybe most wouldn't agree with me, that's OK, too. Just don't think I'm picking on Jess and Bryce. To be honest, I liked Love Story in spite of myself...but I was sorry when S/P scrapped their Orchid program . I thought it had the potential to be stunning and I'm not sure their results wouldn't have been the same anyway. That's just the kind of hairpin I am...
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Anyways, I really loved S/P's Orchid too. I certainly would be griping about the pairs debacle at 2002 SLC a lot less if S/P had skated to Orchid perfectly in the LP. If I recall correctly, S/P switched away from Orchid to Love Story because they weren't able to skate to Orchid cleanly all season--I would hazard a guess and say they chose Love Story because it was easier to skate to cleanly than Orchid, which had more complex choreography.
Oooooh, i love to skate, them's fighting words about Shen/Zhao.
I'm actually surprised at how much the D/D long program lacked schmaltz, truth be told. The music is definitely sappy, but the story itself (both in the film and on the ice) is cannier than that.
I think D/D's connection is very overrated. Honestly, I think Jessica's been phoning it in for a while and fainting schoolgirl is the only thing she can pull off on the ice, hence all their lovey dovey programs. I sometimes wish Bryce had a different partner so he could try different styles. Also their programs are really empty, choreographically speaking! (though they're not the only ones)
They had a solid skated here, but unless the top skaters make mistakes, I can't see them medaling.
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Dube and Davison skated fine enough, their best all season. But I don't believe they skated any where near Sale and Pelletier in 2001/02 season, which some (Canadian Journalists) compared them to. D & D, especially Dube is way too cautious and reserved, nothing like Sale with her mega watt spark and confidence that went right up to the rafters. I saw them win the Nationals and the Words in person. She dared us, with her "look to kill" to think of them anything but the best and they were the best. They truly believed it. They worked it and they willed it. I don't see and have not in four years, anything near that in performance, confidence or attitude in D & D. I know they were supposed to take S & P mantle for Canada but it's a heavy burden to meet and they have not. With their best performance, they would do well to be in top 10 at the Olympics. And I am an ardent Canadian figure skating fan.
I can see why people would compare this to Love Story. I certainly thought of it. Schmaltzy music, grey costumes, and the re-enactment of key moments from the movie - for Love Story, it was the snowball fight, while for The Way We Were, it's the Hubbell Hair Tussle. I think they performed their program beautifully, but while I usually feel like I'm drawn to them when I watch them for the first time, I do find that I don't want to watch their performance when it's replayed.
Then again, judges only need to watch it once, when it's live.
Wow...A bit harsh on Jessica...I was at that world's. It was swe-e-e-et , to say the least. I adored Jamie's spunk but I can appreciate a gentler on ice-persona equally. You certainly can't fault Jess on her air positions, daring..her jumps may be stronger..
You can tell from my previous posts that I don't want to compare the couples outright. Let them be individual. However, if we must...if there's a weak link here , it's Bryce. I can't see that he's ever put much work into his extensions ,e.g. He may be sure footed and a reliable partner. I believe he is, but he's never really tried to look her equal. I don't know how he can go out on the ice looking like he's just someone they grabbed out of the stands or the parking lot ( This costume is not the first trangression.)
Yeah, what he/she (ImaginaryPogue) said...
There's no use pretending that they are top contenders for gold ,or even (in this rich,rich year ) for the podium .They are very good. They need to skate their very best. Then it will all depend on how many teams can do that... that's sport.
And L/H could be right there with them , if they keep progressing the way they have.
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I am reminded of what my (nearly) 3 year old granddaughter said recently to her dad as he was trying to help her through a crisis. "It's too late dad, I'm already crying"
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Wow This is amazing. how lucky are we at Beesource to have the worlds oldest member of the ME generation visit us. Not to mention take their time to explain exactly how we are supposed to respond to their presents. Guess we should have done some research and praised His/Her for the concerns.
210 views were probably just searchbots looking for clues. They have a forum for pounding Koi's?
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I personally mildly resent all the welcome notices I read and consider them a waste of my time. I have often tried to assist someone who asks a question I think I can paartially answer and while writing I would like others to know that I find it most helpful when others let me know what they are writing about by their ffirst few words rather than just where they are from or something related to their status that has nothing to do with bees. Due to the doctor thinking I have an alergic reaction from bee stings I may not respond so often as for now I am following his advice until I learn more. I am so old the stings really didn't seem to bother me but I didn't consider what a couple hundred or more injections of their poison would do. When my smoker burned its fuel and I had bare skin showing I continued to finish my set goals when it would have been better to back off. Maybe the 103 degree temperature and lack of water was paart of the problem too.
barry, how 'bout this for a site slogan:
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as john belushi would say: "well excuuuuuuuuuse me!"
i started to write a short reply to only to say i didn't have a clue, but didn't.
sorry rick.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I think you mean, Steve Martin.
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journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I am a brand newbie and I have had nothing but positive responses to my inquiries. Sorry you feel that way. Good luck.
Op said he/she wanted to learn a lot about bees but obviously couldn't because no one would chat with him/her. Try reading through all the posts first....!! You would have learned a metric butt-ton! Then make comments on what you feel you should comment on. Introduce yourself but don't expect every other member to feel blessed and appreciative that you decided to join. Just expect to give a little of yourself without much in return. I guarantee you that if you saddle up and join some of the conversations going on in here then you'll be addressed and included. Sitting around like a wall flower and feeling hurt because you weren't made a fuss over isn't the way to make friends....or good impressions! This also isn't a bar or FB or Twitter or any other generic chat room. The measure of your sincerity is determined by what it takes to make you leave..... You didn't measure up and that's not anyone's fault but your own.
I'm a new member here also. My skin must be thicker. The AC forums I'm in are brutal! The saltwater aquarium and pond forums I'm in don't tolerate lurkers who want to talk a lot without any work to back it up. This place is a cake walk! Ideas get exchanged and the dumb ones aren't commented on....until I make a REALLY dumb comment!
I should be ignored more. All you heavy posters should respond to me and let me know you're ignoring me... I might leave and then where would you be!?
I haven't even posted yet should I feel ignored? I'm gleaning more information than I can process.
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Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **
Any discussion or comments on addressing latency issues in attempt to create a fair multiplayer gaming experience?
Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **
IzunaShisui wrote:
MachoTbig wrote:
Will you ever listen to your community's ideas?
They listen to them to a certain degree... but mostly it is seeing what's wrong with the game and then make up a fix themselves without thinking about the consequences
Well, that's why we are here, to post what's wrong with the game and most formers propose very good fixes to those problems, but i think ND knows more 'bout that, i mean, they play this game every day, don't they?
Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **
i swear, we need a mod to just delete questions that have been answered so many times, like these:
samcrossette wrote:
FHC members are still waiting for the fourth maps pack, Fort Coop ain't one.
iBiiiZa_Deary96 wrote:
Does ND give us new Patches in the Future?
Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **[ Edited ]
Have you read Matthijs_17's hipfire thread? It has over 145 kudos, so what are you going to do?
Hardiess331 channel uploads new video daily!
Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **
Anything for co-op? I know it's been asked endlessly, but any plans to at least tweak some things, like prioritize grendades over healing a teammate, to make the co-op gameplay a little better?
Re: ** Q&A with the Naughty Dog Development Team: April Edition **[ Edited ]
Question: Naughty Dog, will you ever fix the whack and roll glitch?
Explanation: The whack and roll glitch (in case you don't know) is a glitch in which a player cancels a melee attack by pressing circle immediately after pressing square, the player will still do damage with his/her canceled punch and roll away to avoid damage from his/her opponent, this is unfair, and the sad thing is, almost the whole community is abusing this glitch, only newcomers don't do it because they do not know how yet, how many free-2-players do you think have left your game just because of that glitch, think about it, and those people do not use the glitch because they like to use it, but because they know they are in a disadvantage against other players when they don't use the glitch, this glitch excists since the game was released and it's time you fix it, and I mean, really fix it, you said you would fix the airwalk and the dead body glitch in patch 1.17 but both are still working, seriously, how hard can it be? Also this glitch is overused in combination with hipfire and therefore steelfisting, and considering aiming in your game is useless anyway (due to a horrible working aim assist and overall difficulty of aiming guns with little to none stopping power), you might want to do something about that too... (look at this thread: http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/UNCHARTED-3-Drake-s-Deception/NERF-HIPFIRE-140-bleep-kudo-s-t..., 140 kudo's, 140 people on this forum who want hipfire and whack and roll fixed, that's a lot of people... for the record, 50 kudo's for a revenge nerf thread was enough for you to do something about revenge or 90 kudo's for adding classic mode, so why do you still consider hipfire and whack and roll not to be a widespread problem, or have you finally made up your mind on this subject?)


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Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out
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This tool allows you to create custom-specified random numbers,
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Think that a coin toss is 50-50 heads or tails? Read on to appreciate the ever-changing and random nature of the world in which we live.
In 1881 an astronomer, Newcomb, first noticed a very bizarre property of some naturally occurring sets of numbers: if you list the surface areas of all the rivers in a country, about $30\%$ of them are numbers that have $1$ as a first digit, about $18\%$ have $2$ as a first digit and so on, with only about $5\%$ of them having $9$ as a first digit.What's more, if you convert the lengths into any other unit (miles, feet, mm, etc) the distribution of first digits remains the same (we say, the distribution
is 'scale invariant'.) The same pattern of first digits, occurs in many sets of seemingly random numbers. It is called Benford's Law, after its second discoverer physicist Frank Benford, working in 1938. In this problem we shall use probability to predict the numbers observed by Newcomb.
You will need to know that a function f(x) is called 'scale invariant' if scaling x by a fixed amount does not change the shape of the function. Mathematically, the property of scale invariance is written as: f(Ax) = k f(x) for fixed numbers A and k
Show that if a probability density function $f(x)$ with $x> 0$ is scale invariant then
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Can a function $f(x)$ be both scale invariant and a probability density function if $x$ is allowed to take any non-negative value? Experiment with various forms of $f(x)$ to try to find out.
How would your results change if $f(x)$ was restricted to take values a< x< b, for some positive numbers $a$ and $b$?
Suppose that $a = 1$ and $b = 1,000,000$. Which of the functions will make a scale invariant probability density function? For this density, show that $$P(1< x< 2) = P(100< x< 200) =P(1000000< x< 2000000)$$ Suppose that a number X is drawn randomly from this distribution. Calculate the probability that its first digit is$1$. Extend this to calculate the probability that the
first digit is $2, 3, 4, ...., 9$. How would these results change if $b$ was $1,000,000,000$ or $1,000,000,000,000$?


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La semana pasada compartí una foto del "Taxi Latino" … Este semana, tengo algo para mis Hondureños.
(The other week I shared a photo of the "Taxi Latino"… This week, I have something for my Hondurans.)
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Police: Parents grow pot near 3-year-old child
HOLLY RIDGE, ONSLOW COUNTY - Police said two Onslow County parents grew marijuana near their home where their 3-year-old child was living.
According to warrants, 28-year-old Jeanna Gail Dillon and 30-year-old Raymond Allen Dillon, both of Trout Street in Holly Ridge, had more than 520 grams of marijuana that they were planning to sell.
The parents were growing the drug in flower pots near their house, the warrants stated. Their 3-year-old child was living in the home.
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I'm Red and I'm Scared
Original post made by J. Talis III, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Sep 11, 2012
But, more important is how conservatives can't seem to muster a good race after GWB. California was debacle at the senate and gubernatorial level and now we have a lukewarm run at the oval office. I feel that if Obama should win this time around, I want to rally my friends back to the table and suggest that maybe being a Rhino is not such a bad thing. Maybe it's time the centrists take the spotlight and lead with a steadier hand.
Does it appear I have thrown in the towel. Yes, I have. Mitt just isn't doing it for me. I'm not sure he's doing it for any of us on the conservative side of the isle.
Maybe I am wrong. Enlighten me. I'm all ears.
Comments (19)
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 11, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Hello union troll, I guess you're back from the convention now. We missed you. Really.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 11, 2012 at 9:44 pm
As far as I can tell Romney doesn't have a lot to say about unions.
a resident of Castlewood
on Sep 11, 2012 at 9:49 pm
J Talis III, how can you deny that Mitt is the savior of our country? His plan to create jobs and reduce the federal deficit is clear, specific, and guaranteed to turn this country around. By supporting Obama, you support godless secularism, rights for womenfolk, international cooperation, and treating homosexuals as if they were real people, and a tax plan that empowers the middle class.
Take a good, hard look at yourself in the mirror. Is this who you REALLY want to be?
a resident of another community
on Sep 11, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Since this election is about the economy (because I say so and the media have followed in lockstep), my running mate and I haven't wanted to tire out the public by getting into such inane matters as to whether or not I pay any taxes or what kinds of tax loopholes we're going to fill beyond making rich people even richer.
But here is a stark difference between my opponent and I. As you know, Obama saved the auto industry by giving it stimulus money to continue operating while it dug itself out of bankrupcy (which it has done).
I, on the other hand, simply wanted the auto industry to go belly up. It would have put 300,000 union thugs, I mean workers, out of a job, but that was the beauty of it. The union could have been smashed, and the car corps could have rebuilt from the bottom up, paying nonunion workers minimal wages. There is just no rationale for why auto workers should make a good wage when bootstrapper picker-uppers like Ann and myself have to get by on 15-20 million per year.
Mitt -- He loves God, our fighting men and women, and he can recite the Pledge of Allegiance without a teleprompter (unlike one of our muslim Kenyan friends)
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 12, 2012 at 8:45 am
Ryan sided with Rahm yesterday on the teachers union strike, so if that's not a statement about union power, corruption, entitlement, I'm not sure what else they'd need to do.
The fact that R's would ever side with Rahm on anything is very telling. Oh, what are dems to do, biting the hand that feeds them........
a resident of another community
on Sep 12, 2012 at 9:09 am
All I want to say is that it is disgusting that the teachers would strike during this time when muslim extremists, some perhaps from Kenya (we don't yet know), have stormed our embassies and killed American personnel. That kind of craven and crass response is not welcome here in America.
Mitt -- He'll always act presidential in times of crisis, which aren't of course of his doing but derive from the incompetents on the other side of the aisle.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 12, 2012 at 9:27 am
Go to Chicago Mittens, they need your more there.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 am
Stop this thread of lies !! PHONY trolls to the core. JT may be all ears, but is full of sxxt!! JT is an extreme leftist attempting a pathetic form of obama campaigning..really twisted !!...Followed by some equally twisted trolls, or JT faking as others trolls two...
so demented, a political partisan showing despertion.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 12, 2012 at 10:33 am
@ Scum Sam
Wow! First of all I am NOT a troll. I am a legitimate person, I owned my own business for 30 years, I do business the finest Silicon Valley Companies in the world, I have been married for 35 years, three kids all excellent achievers in Universities, one with 4 top degrees in Math, Physics, electrical engineering and computer engineering, the other a top economist and the third working in the corporate office of a major bank. I value my country, and I value the future of our collective lifestyles.
Now with that said, to have the gumption to think that by expressing my true and honest feelings, that I somehow don't fit into the Republican or conservative venue, or worse as Sam Scum would infer that I am a troll, that is exactly what I suggest is wrong with my party.
Extremists rule. If you don't march in line with their tactics they resort to name calling. That's it, name calling. My statement is that I am saddened by this type of approach to politics. I don't see Mitt waging a great fight. That shouldn't make me a victim of verbal or intellectual abuse.
Let me repeat one thing. It is the sophomoric attitude of extremist right name callers both left and right that are the real problem in America. They symbolize everything wrong with adhering to the basic freedom of speech. Yes, I emphatically do NOT being called names. But, honestly, I am use to it by my Right friends. Too bad, there is so much more at stake than simple 3rd grade hair pulling to choose the leadership of our country.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 12, 2012 at 1:00 pm
How to destroy America...vote Democrate...or Republican.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm
J T you're Busted, you are so NOT a xxxxx, since you don't know how to spell it...a big tipoff. Proof you're a phon you'd know what it means, thus how to spell it. Your 'front' just gives you a safe haven for saying stupid and mean things.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 14, 2012 at 1:41 am
@ Sam Scum
You are a truly pathetic human being. You seek the low end of life and you have found it. Your name sake belies it. Pond Scum = Sam Scum. I am sure your life is a wonderfully small place that you control. Your children must be proud ... do you speak to them? Didn't think so. Low life, unfortunate human Sam Scum. Get a life. Live at a higher level than the lowest human being and you will find that using one ounce of intelligence is better than where you reside.
You and your kind make this forum a puky place to visit.
a resident of another community
on Sep 14, 2012 at 6:53 am
My heavens. Perhaps we should take a break and give me and my campaign team credit for running the excellent campaign thusfar. As you know, our mantra is that the economy is bad, or, more specifically, that unemployment remains high (which is a real giggle of course because rich guys like me make higher profits when unemployment is high). We've been able to wage our campaign with this negative theme from the get-go. And you know what? We been able to do so without revealing our own economic plan. Tighten up tax loopholes? Just trust me! Dismantle medicare? No, no, look at my past business leadership! Tax returns? Trust me! Now, let's get back to bashing the guy in office who, have you heard, is really really really out of his depth. So, c'mon guy, give some credit where credit is due!
Mitt -- He's the kind of guy you want at the helm during an international snafu or crisis or, well, you know.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Sep 14, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Bill, you have it backwards. The Republicans have been so hell bent on defeating President Obama (it's well documented) that they have nearly destroyed this country's economy by stopping every attempt to push it forward.
We need stimulus, not cowed into a gopher's hole by the Tea Party.
Vote for President Obama.
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 14, 2012 at 8:04 pm
This is great... listening to all you guys arguing over Democrat or Republican... heck I don't care who is in power... You play the hand you're dealt... kept my nose to the grind stone and made a few $... and now taking advantage of Democrat's inability to understand economics and using "sugar rush" stimuli to juice the markets, now making a "killing" in the stock market, while all you guys are looking for a job, taking pay cuts, paying $4 for gas, swallowing 50% college tuition increases, health care insurance premiums going through the roof... my family is set, but your kids will have to pay the Bill! ... when you guys figure out that this Keynesian stuff doesn't work and we get back to a real American Capitalistic economy... I will simply put my $ back to work building wealth and leverage my dollars in building businesses and acquiring Real Estate ...
I loved the 80's-90's - good times ... got to witness each recovery from too much Govt ... Carter was a great wake-up call! 20% interest rates, gas lines, 8% unemployment, commodity prices going through the roof ... Reagan was fun watching him show everyone how Capitalism works and kick the Communist butts without breaking a sweat... was even more fun watching the Republicans come in 1994 after 40 years of Democratic Congresses and show Clinton how to balance a budget! Wow that was fun!! and ride that Technology wave that Real Capitalism generates... Life is Good!!
I just Hope America is able to withstand this latest assault on the American Ideal and we again become the World Power and Capitalistic model that everyone respects... We should never apologize for our Success!!
We've been able to avert disaster in the past, hopefully we can pull this one off ... Enjoy the ride...
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on Sep 15, 2012 at 12:23 am
Righto Great, this 'sugar rush' stimuli is really bad news for me as a senior with no pension, just $1000. mo Social Sec and savings. Savings that will now become worthless because of inflation. Not surprising, MORE rewards for NON-savers, punish savers, including senior savers. cruel. Cowardly. Easy, but temporary shiny object, to the detriment of our economy and country in the long run.
Surely seniors will understand the damage to their savings. I was barely OK, but now I will definitely have to live a much shorter life than intended.
a resident of Castlewood
on Sep 15, 2012 at 5:32 am
Now I understand where you're coming from, Scum Scam. Thanks for the explanation. Too bad you didn't prepare for retirement--no 401k, no pension, no IRA. Clearly Obama is to blame. He probably went back in time and convinced your younger self to make poor decisions and fail to plan for his future. Damn those Democrats!
a resident of Ironwood
on Sep 17, 2012 at 11:53 am
Taliss - "Rhino is not a bad thing" Seriously, what the heck are you saying, I agree with Sam Scum; you are full of it. Rinos are designation for politicians to get the vote of republican voters; it absolutely makes no sense to say a voter is rino, if that is the case, then they are not republican. Does that make sense to you? Think about it, why associate with a party you do not vote with or agree with so much that you make posts on local message boards? Get over yourself, and your four degrees or whatever you got under your belt; all that means nothing, your vote is no more than my vote or the bum's on the street.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 17, 2012 at 5:25 pm
at least you didn't morph into caca this time...
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Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
I will be a few days late doing my cooking with pumpkin , but I have my pumpkin ready and waiting to be cooked.
#682 Tue 25 Sep 12 9:13pm
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Pumpkin pie was my only experience of winter squash as a kid. It was a relief that to me at that age that some vegetables could be made into desserts.
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I made pumpkin soup for the first time and I did a pumpkin curry as well. Just had a try ...
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Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
Min, pumpkins have so many varieties, maybe you just need to find a different one? I grew up on Queensland Blue, but as soon as I tasted Butternut (which we call a pumpkin here) I never ate it again. My other favourite is what we call Jap - hmm just looked it up and it is a squash too: a Japanese squash called kabocha. Maybe I am with you, and don't like pumpkins!
Edit: But PS here is a run down of so many types! http://www.allaboutpumpkins.com/varieties.html
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Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
Joy, I think that is my favourite too.. Kobocha , specifically the Sweet mama hybrid variety of kobocha , it is even better than the buttercup hobocha hybrid .. So tasty.
Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or a cook. { cowboy saying}
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In autumn and winter I like to cook pumpkin and porro cream!
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Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
I love pumpkin. Or Squash. Like 2 others the Jap/kabocha is a favourite.
I grow butternut though
This year I'm going to grow spaghetti squash
Joy. Are all varieties of pumpkin & squash expensive down south? These last monthes they have been asking $3.99 per kilo. Usually during this time it is well under a dollar per kilo.
My fave thing is to simply roast chunks of it until they are tender & slightly blackened. Sooo good.
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My memory is a sieve Frizz, but I think I gasped at the price a couple of weeks ago. I bet all this water means they haven't been able to keep well. Just found my docket from yesterday: Jap at $3.59 a kilo (I bought a piece without checking the price - oops!). That is expensive! I'll eat my pumpkin risotto with due reverence!
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francesca italy wrote:
In autumn and winter I like to cook pumpkin and porro cream!
Welcome to the forum Francesca Italy . That's interesting , what is Porto pease and how do you make the icecream.
I am interested in learning about how you use the pumpkin like this.
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Porro is a vegetable, sweeter than a onion, is long,white inside and green outside. I think in english is leek.
I cook the cream in this way: in a saucepan I put oil. After one minute add sliced leeks and I cook for 5 minuts. Then I ampdd sliced pumpkin and I add water. It must be cooked untill the vegetables are soft. I add salt and pepper and than cream.
Now I whip and I cook for 10 minutes. At the end if you want you can add extravergin oil and parmesan.
I'm very sorry about my english, I know that is not good, and sometimes I write something wrong, but I love Jamie Oliver and I follow his forumevery day and when I came in London I buy his magazine!


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All this for overseeing a staff of 3 full time equivalent employees (FTE's) in the distribution of property tax dollars to charities and programs chosen by a beneficent Board of Directors.
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Thank You Jack
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
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Kim Griffin's slanderous attack on my character, in today's Palo Alto Daily Post, demands a response and an apology. I daresay that the 30,378 voters who supported me in the 2008 District election would not agree that I have done "...absolutely nothing except collect...health care benefits." And, for the record, when I first found out that some Directors, who couldn't manage to attend all 6 annual meetings, were costing the District more than $20,000/year for health insurance, I suggested that the health insurance be replaced by compensation for meeting attendance. Several years later, the Board reduced the health insurance subsidy to $14,400/year.
Regarding the $160,000 election cost, I take full credit for making this election happen. And, I have defined this election as a poll of voters on the dissolution issue. One vote for John J. "Jack" Hickey is a vote for dissolution. The District should have stopped collecting taxes and dissolved itself after it sold Sequoia Hospital. Or, at the very least, called an election to validate it's assumed philanthropic role.
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Whenever voters see the name jack Hickey on a ballot, they should place an X next to it! This man has demonstrated the best common sense, the best fiscal responsibility and the kind of thoughtful involvement all citizens should appreciate in their local governments. Kudos to you once again, jack. Never mind the idiots at the local scandal sheet from Palo Alto . . . theirs is the ignorance that thinking people will ignore.
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I just have this short video clip of my top bar hive I left there the day I did the cut-out that's chocked full of brood comb.
It pains me to even watch this stuff:
Oh well, youtube isn't showing the video yet. I'll post it later.
I just have this short video clip of my top bar hive I left there the day I did the cut-out that's chocked full of brood comb.
It pains me to even watch this stuff:
Oh well, youtube isn't showing the video yet. I'll post it later.
My hive has a much prettier roof than this. This was an improvised roof because the other roof would have been too big to fit in my wife's trunk and wouldn't have been a good enough seal anyhow.
Top bar hives aren't too great for cut-outs....................but SMALL price to pay for all the joy they bring.
Thanks for the honesty of doccumenting what you did wrong, I think it is so much more educational seeing what works AND what doesn't work. I'm brand new myself and learned a ton about trapouts from viewing this thread. I haven't done a cut out yet, but I'll definately enlist some help for the first one. I do like the bee vac it seems cheap and easy to make. I'd like some more info on the bee vac if you could.
Early Sat morning I'll be finishing up this botched cut-out.
My plan-of-attack is vacuum, vacuum a bit more, and then keep vaccuuming.
Then I'm going to spray down the whole underside area that has bee-residue with soapy water.
I'm not using a smoker because (a), I don't have one yet, and (b), these Florida bees chew up smokers and spit them out.
I'm going to be bundled-up like the Michelin-Man® again for protection, but it's going to be MUCH cooler here in Florida.......60 degrees or so in the morning......CHILLING !!!
On a side-note, my wife witnessed me doing an inspection of the hive that's thriving in my backyard that's from the SUCCESSFUL trap-out I did several months ago. Anyhow, those bees are extremely mean and were all over me. She now wants me to invest in a smoker, although with bees like this, I doubt it will knock a dent in them, however, I do agree I need one. I plan on re-queening these batches-of-bees that I am getting from these cut-outs as soon as I can. I realize they are pretty-much unworkable. Plus, I don't want these bees stinging my kids who may be playing 50 feet away.
If you don't have a smoker, how did you get the experience with one to feel that they are valueless?
You absolutely need to get a smoker and learn to use it properly. It is extremely ignorant to be working bees in the proximity of others without a smoker.
If you haven't been using smoke you have no idea what the temperament of any of the bees you have worked with really is.
You are lucky your wife hasn't pulled the plug on your bee ventures by now.
Anyhow, you have no argument from me. I am going to invest in a smoker.
I hope a smoker DOES make a big difference with these types of bees.
Look at them trying to kill me:
And please don't worry - my kid is well protected in the screened-in porch. Please no one report me to CPS.
I don't want drones bombing my house. (Hahaha, no pun intended)
So I went to finish the cut-out today at the mobile home. The new vacuum I made worked GREAT as far as having a low kill-rate. However, I had to completely abandon using my bee vac because it would have taken me 18 hours to vacuum those bees. I had the holes closed-up all the way for FULL vac-force and many of the bees were able to fly back out of the nozzle.
What I ended up doing is requesting from the maintenance guy who was on hand the usage of one of his shop vacs.
Now THAT thing had some pulling-power, but the kill-rate was much higher, obviously.
I'm not sure how many of you have been bundled-up under the bottom of a mobile home with bees trying to kill you and not much room to work while laying on your back - but a vac with almost no suction ain't gonna cut it, folks.
After I was done vacuuming, I doused the whole area where the hive was with soapy water.
I then brought the bees home that survived the vacuuming and let them go near my existing backyard hive and allowed them to assimilate into their new community.
It all seemed to go very well.
A lot of action for awhile - but I didn't really see any fighting.
I believe that an existing hive can sense whether bees are there to rob vs if they are homeless and can be taken in to lend a hand.
Here is a short video of them assimilating into my hive.
I am sorry pat I should have made myself available for you I am down in Bartow & didn't reply until after you did the cutout . A cut out is still a good way to start any hive . I attend the Tampa Bay Beekeepers Association & the Ridge Beekeepers Association . TBBA has more members but Ridge is closer .
(Tongue in cheek, folks)
But would love to meet with you at some point and perhaps stomp around each others' hives.
Sit back and soak it up. Learn what you can. Just because folks are doing some things you don't want to do does't mean you can't learn a lot by being around them. Some of these guys have probably been beeks for a long, long time. You are not going to be successful as a beek commercially if you didn't learn a thing or two along the way. Once you have been at it for a few years you may be able to return the favor by showing them the way that you keep your bees. Just a thought.


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