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HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE? David A. Weintraub. x + 370 pp. Princeton University Press, 2011. $29.95.
Astronomers and physicists are today convinced that the universe is 13.7 billion years old. How have they arrived at this conclusion? How is it possible to determine the age of something as strange and all-encompassing as the universe? This is what astronomer David Weintraub explains in his new book, How Old Is the Universe?, and he does it systematically and in considerable detail. At the same time he gives a popular introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics. In fact, the book does not focus narrowly on the problem of the age of the universe; rather, it explores the subject by discussing a large number of age determinations of celestial objects.
The general structure of the book is based on the undeniable truth that the universe must be at least as old as the oldest objects in it, which follows from the very meaning of the term universe. Adopting a semihistorical framework, Weintraub starts with objects found in the solar system, such as meteorites and the Earth, and proceeds to larger and more distant objects, including stars, globular clusters and galaxies. Only after having explained how the ages of these objects have been determined does he turn to cosmology proper, meaning the class of big-bang models based on Einstein's cosmological field equations. In this way readers are introduced to classical problems such as the stellar parallax method and the generation of solar energy, as well as to ideas at the cutting edge of modern astrophysics. They learn about supernovae, the cosmic microwave background, dark energy, gravitational lensing and much more. Many of the issues dealt with are only indirectly related to the age of the universe, but they are nonetheless relevant and are described carefully and pedagogically.
Although this is a popular book, it is quite ambitious and in places demands the full attention of the reader. I found Weintraub's explications of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, the distance method based on Cepheid variable stars, the accelerating universe, and the dark matter problem to be particularly enlightening. The same is true of the final chapter, a careful and innovative account of how the analysis of patterns in the cosmic microwave background obtained by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite has led to the conclusion that the age of the cosmos is close to 13.7 billion years.
Weintraub has a gift for presenting complicated matters in a lucid and understandable way by employing clever analogies. For example, he invites the reader to "think of the universe as a flute" in order to understand the role of sound waves in the early universe.
For relativistic big bang models, the age of the universe is closely related to the Hubble constant, a measure of the rate of expansion of the universe. As Weintraub correctly points out, although Edwin Hubble was indeed the father of the famous constant, he held back from interpreting it in terms of an expanding universe. This was first done by the Belgian pioneer cosmologist Georges Lemaître, who was also the first to introduce the notion of a finite-age universe of the big-bang type. Unfortunately, Weintraub's account of this crucial episode in the history of cosmology is not as clear as it might have been, for he appears to conflate Lemaître's 1927 paper presenting the idea that the universe is expanding and his 1931 paper proposing that the universe expanded from an initial point—the "Primeval Atom."
Given the book's topic and its length (there are 363 pages of text), I had hoped to find in it some discussion of the concept of the universe and the meaning of its age. But Weintraub ignores philosophical questions, focusing solely on the science. He seems to take it for granted that astronomers know what the universe is, and for him, its age is no more problematic than, say, the age of a person or a used car. Astronomers know, he says, that the universe has a finite age—that it is not eternal. However, being able to say with confidence how long ago the big bang occurred does not mean that we know how much time has passed since the universe began. Medieval philosophers suggested that the universe might well be eternal in the past, and this idea has been taken up again by some modern advocates of alternative cosmological models that have been inspired by string theory.
Although the number of years that have passed since the big bang is finite, we do not know for certain whether the universe is finite or infinite in its spatial dimension. Yet Weintraub claims confidently that the universe cannot be infinite. One of the reasons he gives is that an infinite universe would violate Einstein's theory of relativity. His arguments for a finite universe are puzzling, and particularly so because he acknowledges that we live in a flat, or Euclidean, universe. According to many cosmologists this implies, or at least strongly suggests, that we live in an infinite universe. Strangely, if I understand him correctly, Weintraub argues that in an infinitely large universe the net gravitational force on every galaxy would be zero. This is precisely what Richard Bentley, referring to stars instead of galaxies, suggested in a famous correspondence with Isaac Newton in 1692, but the argument is incorrect. As Newton realized, and as later astronomers confirmed, the so-called gravitational paradox appears even in an infinite universe uniformly populated with stars or galaxies.
How Old Is the Universe? is a welcome contribution to the popular literature on astronomy and cosmology. Unlike many other books in this very extensive genre, it offers a scientifically competent and impressively informative account of how astronomers and physicists have unveiled the secrets of the universe, in this case leading to the astounding insight that our universe can be traced back in time to an explosive event that happened 13.7 billion years ago. Although the book has much to recommend it, I find it somewhat disappointing when it comes to those conceptual and philosophical issues that are an integral part of cosmology in the wider sense. The concept of the age of the universe is not a purely scientific one, for it necessarily involves considerations of a philosophical nature.
Helge Kragh is professor of the history of science, Aarhus University, Denmark, where he does research in the history of the physical sciences. Among his publications are Cosmology and Controversy (Princeton University Press, 1996), Matter and Spirit in the Universe (Imperial College Press, 2004) and Conceptions of Cosmos (Oxford University Press, 2007).
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On the Ever17 website, there's two new pieces of art you can download and use as a wallpaper: one is the game's cover (left side) and the other is promo art (right side).
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Also, the official opening movie for the game has been released.
New CG at 0:34. What the...
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On a positive note, the new LeMU is looking cooler and cooler.
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Ichikawa has said on the Twitter that Ever17 is complete and gone gold. Now they are just waiting for the release date.
This worries me, because they still have another 2 months to do stuff with the game, such as improve on anything that might need to be improved (the 3-D models certainly aren't where they could be) I hope the final game is everything they wanted it to be, otherwise...
On the other hand, it also confirms my suspicion that the delay with the game was purely for marketing reasons, to give space for code_18 and Dunamis15...
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Just finished the game. I'm amazed, there were so many plot twists that sent a shock throught my spine... Sometimes I could do nothing but stare expressionless at the screen going : "Huh?"
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And sometimes the game just pulls stuff out of nothing... You'll know what i'm talking about
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Translations for Chapter 2 are done, so I just have to wait for a typesetter from my group. Hopefully it'll be up pretty soon, but until then.
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I beat Ever 17 a little while ago (maybe three months?) and I just noticed soemthing while reading through this thread that made me need to sign up just to ask, is the manga based on the xbox 360 remake? Because I seem to recall the whole 170 hours and 17 mins only being on that trailer for 360, and that has unfortunate implications for the future quality of the manga if I'm right
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text: I did a cutout today and got home around 12:30, placed the hive with brood comb and honey/pollen on the stand. I began cleaning up and the bees wouldn't leave me alone. After 30 minutes of smoking myself I was able to make my way to the house without letting 20 or more bees in. Stayed in the house 3 hours and went to see if they had calmed down. They got after me again but not so many this time. I got about 20 or more stings through my jacket and veil while doing the cutout and my gloves must have 100 stingers in them. Is this normal for some cutouts or should I be thinking Africanized? I will have to requeen this hive and move them. Positive note: I only saw 1 small hive beetle.


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Just got my issue of Car and Driver and read the comparo of the Audi TT RS, BMW 1-Series M Coupe and the Infiniti IPL G37. To be honest though, I'm not quite sure the IPL G37 and the BMW 1-Series M Coupe directly compete with the TT RS, wouldn't the TT S be more appropriate?At any rate, DAMN I WANT A TT RS!Just read the numbers-0-60 in 3.6 Seconds, while still being able to achieve 28mpg?1/4 Mile in 12.1 @ 113.Not to mention, I think the little guy is pretty B.A. looking.
Oh, and for anyone who hasn't seen it, the BMW 1-Series M did take the win.Pretty impressive so far. Just not a big fan of the 1-Series myself :/
Poor Infiniti was seriously outgunned.
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This was one of the lamest comparison tests within memory. The Infiniti didn't belong there at all and the Audi was a Euro-spec model in a configuration that won't even be offered in the U.S. Plus, the Audi is about 30% more expensive than the BMW. What is the point of comparing cars that aren't even in the same segment?
Cause they wanted to drive the BMW and the Audi. Duh!
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I thought I read the title wrong, the Infiniti does not belong in this comparo...and if I recall correctly, it's not much, if any quicker or better handling than the G37S, and not as good looking--at least in my eyes. I'm waiting to see some more reviews of the TTR-S, but damn if it really is that quick that's impressive.Never cared for the 1, it looks like a cheap Hyundai from the early 90's.
Well that was weird, the right car won, and the best looking one might I add. Still scratching head.
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Bellanca5.0:I thought I read the title wrong, the Infiniti does not belong in this comparo...and if I recall correctly, it's not much, if any quicker or better handling than the G37S, and not as good looking--at least in my eyes. I'm waiting to see some more reviews of the TTR-S, but damn if it really is that quick that's impressive.Never cared for the 1, it looks like a cheap Hyundai from the early 90's.Agreed. To be honest, if you look at the points breakdown the only real reason the TTR-S lost was because it was a 2 seater lol.It was just a really strange test:The Audi is a 2 Seater that costs 10k more, so it really kind of pushes itself out of the Comparo. That leaves really the G37 and the 1-Series M to duke it out in the same price range, but even then it just doesn't feel like a good comparo.As I said before, the TTS should have been put here, and the TTR-S should have been given it's own review (or a h2h with cars like the Porsche Boxter, Lotus Exiege etc...)
The 1 series M is fun to drive, I got drive a round in one recently. Much feels like a GTI. But you cannot compare it to the TT, that's just weird. They are both great cars so I cannot decide. The IPL G37 isn't bad either but I hate the grill.
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This is such an odd comparo. Doesn't the G37 coupe weigh more than the CTS-sized sedan? They should have thrown in the new SLK instead, it would have been a perfect fit.
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I'd take the 1-series. Ya'll don't seem to be reading the fine print... aka. the article. The TT RS isn't offered with LC here, which seems to be a big factor. Look at the 5-60 times for the TT RS vs. The 1-series M : 5.2sec vs. 5.0sec. We'd have to see how a LCless TT RS would do to compare fairly, but it looks to be only marginally better considering the lap times. Either way, for over $15K less, I'd definitely take a 1-series M. The IPL G37 is nice, but doesn't really run with this company.
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the IPL should've won.and CD has been known to be biased toward BMW. just look@ them comparing the G to the 1series instead of the 3. biased.


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Can I just newspapper combine it to a hive?
How long will they usually last if you do nothing to them?
Looked at some of my nucs today and one of them appears to be a laying worker nuc.
Can I just newspapper combine it to a hive?
How long will they usually last if you do nothing to them?
They can last several months slowly dwindling away. But sooner you deal with it the better. Long as it's laying workers not a drone laying queen you can combine with a hive simple enough just put it straight on top of the hive. I usually put a queen excluder between them for two or three weeks then remove it & rearrange the hive.
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Why the queen excluder oldtimer?
What would happen if you shook them into a screen box with some food and water. Then put them in the dark for a couple days with a caged queen and attendent bees on top of the screened box, also fed and watered of course. After a week or so, put them back in the hive. Just a thought from a novice.
You could give them a queen cell.
Curious, what is the success rate doing a newspaper combine on a LW hive ?
MOTJ3,,,,One has to consider that the bees treat a LW like a Queen and react accordingly.( the bees view is they have a queen even though we know they do not . One way to fix the LW is with open brood. My preference is to do a trap out.
Most of the bees in a laying worker hive are near the end of there lives. Depending on how many bees you're talking about you could take the hive away 100 feet or so and shake the bees on the ground and pack up your hive or use the equipment somewhere else. The bees with developed ovaries are not supposed to be able to fly and the others will drift into other hives in the apiary. If you want to replace this hive I would start fresh with new brood and resources instead of putting energy into a hive with old workers that may not accept a new queen.
another way to think about it.
I was in some of my hives yesterday and saw a small amount of capped drones. If I put a frame of eggs in with the laying worker would they go ahead and draw out a queen cell. Also if I don't have many drones flying yet would the drones from the laying worker hive work for mating.
MP I don't have any queen cells.
The drones from the laying workers are stunted as they are raised in worker cells. However they do have sperm and in theory can mate. But if they are the only drones in your area, I would say your chances of getting a successful mating at this time would be pretty much zilch.
The bees may or may not make queen cells. Laying workers make the rest of the bees think they have a queen so they don't usually feel the need to build queen cells, but, sometimes they do.
However if you give them young brood, the brood pheremones suppress the laying workers and the bees then realise they are queenless and will build queen cells or can be requeened. But it takes a week or two for the laying workers to be suppressed, so you give them young brood once a week until they build queen cells, which is normally a week or two after you gave them the first frame of brood.
But as per Papar, the by the time the hive has laying workers, the bee population is ageing and will slowly dwindle. The time involved in getting them to build queen cells then hoping one will mate successfully and start laying, plus another 3 weeks before the first brood to result emerges as adults, can mean that even if it all works there may be little left of your hive by the time it's all come together. Resources wise, you will generally make better use of the bees by one way or another, getting them into a queenright colony.
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Thanks again oldtimer and papar.
It's a tough time of year for them to be rearing a queen and getting her mated... I'd probably shake them out on the ground on a warm day and put the frames away somewhere.
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I put a frame of open brood in and got lucky. I checked the hive last Sunday and had a new queen.
Did you check the hive you took the brood from to make sure it still has a queen? Been there done that LOL!
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First year, we have two colonies located about 7 feet apart. We are near Boise in hardiness zone 6b.
Picked up as nucs in April and seemed to do well, each filling two deeps as brood chambers, and two 8 frame mediums, the mediums we harvested on Labor Day weekend.
Treated for mites and the counts are pretty low (<10 /24 hrs) monitored with a sticky board under a screened bottom.
I've been offering 2:1 syrup through a mason jar top feeder and also placed Bee Pro patties above the upper deep.
1. Both hives have always taken syrup before, but both stopped consuming the syrup this week. This is odd?
2. Yesterday I noticed 100 - 200 dead bees on the ground mainly in front of one hive (Yellow). I had not encountered that before.
The other hive (Blue) was normal, no bee fallout.. The Yellow hive has always been stronger, but now this.
3. Today I went out to check on them and I saw more sick bees exiting, one at a time one leaving about every minute.
Normal bees going out or back from forage were also observed.
4. The sick bees were kind of staggering in a jerky kind of motion then either just rolling over dead or flying off the deck right
into the ground where they buzzed around frantically in circles on the ground until they collapsed.
5. Although the temperature was about 60F I decided I needed to take a look inside.
There appeared to be the normal population of bees below the cover, and the patty I put there on Saturday was 80% consumed.
I did not rip everything out and inspect due to the low temperature.
6. I think I saw white material (looked something like white paint) on two or three bees yesterday but not on any of the casualties today.
I have no idea what is happening to the Yellow hive.
Temperature change?
Exposure to some toxin?
A common bee disease?
Any ideas or suggested courses of action would be appreciated.
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The Winter Queen of Faerie manipulates him into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing.
©2002 Jim Butcher; (P)2006 Buzzy Multimedia
"Harry & James are one."
Anyone who has made it this far LISTENING to the Harry Dresden series has to feel that James Marsters is the perfect Harry and one of the best overall narrators out there.
Jim Dale move over! James Marsters is the new leader in town...(at least Chicago). His tone, pitch, inflections and a host of different character voices make it seem like he is actually telling HIS story.
I have been listening to recorded books for decades & i can tell you a bad narration can ruin the experience; a great narration can make it hard to stop listening.
You probably could not go wrong with Jim Butchers story lines but then i wouldn't be going through them as fast as i am without Marsters.
The story in Summer Knight is extrodinary. Just when you think Butcher can't be more inventive, he comes up with more spells & monsters to make your pulse fly!
"Pleasant entertainment :)"
Not deep at all. Comfort food in so many ways. The hard boiled detective who's a sucker for a damsel in distress. The guy who is ALWAYS taking a beating. An interesting compliment of companions (take Bob the Skull for example). Magnum PI... but with witches and vampires, etc. The story DOES progress book-to-book, but each story is complete in itself. I agree with others, the narrator is PERFECT for the job. LOL.
"Love these books!"
We have the print versions and took them to jamaica with us, they go very easy with rum. We have bought the audible books available but really want Books 5, 6 & 7! It leaves a big gap in the story line.
James Marsters is a very good narrator, he handles the characters very well. Jim Butcher has done a very good job with The Dresden Books! I am very cheap, so I really have to love a book to buy it in print and Audible!
"A 'Harry' Situation"
I'm a fan of urban fantasy and I also love a good a detective story, so people have been telling me to read Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series for years. Since I find myself with very little time for reading at this particular moment in my life, I decided to check out the audio books. I'm glad I did.
James Marsters does a magnificent job giving a voice to Harry. I had read several of the short stories before I began reading the series, so I had an idea of what I thought Harry sounded like --- but now I can't picture Harry sounding any other way. James Marsters skillfully breathes life & emotion into Harry and the gang. I enjoy the various vocal nuances he brings to ALL the characters, and in this book there are MANY.
As for the story, Harry finds himself in some truly hairy situations in this book. (I suppose that is normal, but it seemed like more than usual.) We get a closer look at Wizard Dresden and what makes him tick. I haven't read all the books yet, but I didn't truly become invested until the last book, Grave Peril. I feel as though the series has hit its stride with the 4th installment, Summer Knight, in which we continue to see the measure of the man. I can't wait to listen to the rest of the series --- I can't imagine experiencing the books in any other fashion now.
Narration --- 5/5
Story --- 4/5
"I know I run the risk of public scourge but"
I can't listen to James Marsters make mouth/swallowing noises again. I don't care how much I love him as an actor or how much I might enjoy the book I can't NOT hear the smacking and saliva noises of his mouth. Ok feel free to rip me a new one I'm good with it. Go.
I am an entertainer...so I spend a lot of time on the road. I take my audio seriously. I appreciate great writing and outstanding narration.
"Another Great Story"
Oh yeah...there's desperation...secret pacts...wry observations. All the stuff that makes the Dresden files rock is here.
What a great series!
"Brilliant series but where is the next book ?!"
Why, Audible, WHY CAN I NOT HAVE MORE DRESDEN BOOKS ON AUDIO? Please tell me there are more coming! I find it difficult to get time to read physical books but I can get through a lot of audio books while I'm working and I would love to listen to the entire series if it was available.
This is a fantastic series, and each book so far has been better than the last. I love all the detail about the Faerie courts and it's interesting to see a bit more of the White Council in this book.
I read alot and I almost always read non-fiction. I normally do not care to read fiction and I do not care to much for fantasy BUT... O.M.G!!! This was a fantastic story that kept you going. There was never a dull moment and oh what a sense of humor the author has! So Bravo Mr. Butcher and Bravo Mr. Masters for such a great narration. This is a book I will recommend to everyone.
I'm the managing editor of the Fantasy Literature blog. Life's too short to read bad books!
"Bring on book 5!"
Usually by book four in a series, things are starting to get repetitive, predictable, and dull. Not so here. Butcher's world and relationships continue to expand in new ways. Harry and his friends are continually entertaining. Bring on book five!
Superb audio narration by James Marsters!
I like scifi and urban fantasy. I don't like romance novels. If you are the same my reviews should help.
"This is one of my favorites in this series."
I really liked this book. It is one of the best in a series of 14 books. That says it all. I normally hate faeries but the author mnakes them fun and interesting. Lots of plot twists and once you get into the later books you can actually see where elements for the earlier novels fit into the over arching story. If you've read the other books in the series you'll want to read this one too.
"An excellent audiobook"
This is the fourth book in the \"Dresden Files\" series and it is right up to the high standard of the first three. New characters are introduced, existing characters developed in an interesting way and the fantasy background is widened very imaginatively. And the story simply hurtles along with unstoppable momentum, building to a terrific climax. All narrated superbly by James Marsters. Brilliant stuff and strongly recommended. Let's hope that Audible UK acquires the other books in the series, which are available to US readers on theAudible.com site.
"Best of writing with best narration = awesome!"
Combine Jim Butcher's great writing with James Marsters' unmatched narration and you end up with a great book in a fantastic series - if you like books set in what is close to our world, but with the fantasy elements of magic, fairies, vampires & other monsters, then this is the series for you!
Jim Butcher's is brilliant at writing characters, setting the scenes and action, giving a fabulous book series, his descriptions come to life on the page, but the way that they're read in these books is just amazing
I can't imagine a better narrator than James Marsters, the variety of characterisations he brings to the characters, plus the pacing of the way he reads the variety from romantic scenes to action, he is truly the best narrator that I've ever heard in the decades that I've listened to audio books!
If only all books on here were written as well, and read as well, then we would be spoiled, but alas, most are nowhere near this good - I'm surprised that authors aren't clamoring to get James to read their books - after his work on Buffy & Angel brought him to the public's knowledge, plus his other work on stage & screen, he is a chameleon, and it comes through in his readings - you have to listen to his audio renditions to understand how amazing he is, and how bad a lot of the others are!
"thundering good story"
This is part of a really addictive series of tales about Harry Dresden, the lone Chicago wizard.I check periodically for more additions to the series, but they seem a long time coming. James Marsters is a terrific narrator and keeps a lively pace. I think these are great and wish there were more.
"Jim Butcher and James Marsters Are Amazing"
I already loved Jim Butcher's works, I've read everything he's written. But his stories come even more alive with the brilliant readings down by James Martsters. Marsters does a wonderful job of giving each character their own, unique voice, as well as making Harry sound like the genre-savvy, wise-cracking wizard he is. This isn't the first Dresden Files audiobook I've listened to, and it certainly won't be the last.
"Harry Dresden is at it again!"
I am a big fan of the Dresden Files and have read them all over the years. A few years ago I bought Storm Front in audio format and I was not disappointed, James Marsters is a great narrator. As soon as I got my Audible membership I bought Fool Moon and Grave Peril soon after. It's been a few years and I intermittently check if the rest of the series has become available on audio. Lo and Behold! A few weeks ago I found that they were now all available! I used up the credits I'd stashed for a rainy day and got Summer Knight and Death Masks for listening.
Private detective/wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is suckered into tangling in the affairs of Faerie, where the fate of the entire world-and his soul-are at stake, again.
The greatest thing about audio books is being able to multi task... playing with toddler, washing up, housework [Yuk] and knitting are all things I can do while listening to these great books.
"Easy to listen to, easy to enjoy!"
I love everything about this series of books. I love the characters and how they are developing, just enough to keep you interested, but not quite enough, so you want to read the next book.
James Marsters is genius in reading them. Most unusual. It takes a little while to get used to it, but not long. It makes you feel really involved in the story. I have just listened to three Dresden stories in a row and am steeling myself to download the next one as I feel I should take a break and give other authors a chance!
I highly recommend this series.
Really good story and plot with great twists made me buy the next book as soon as I finished this book
"This is the book you want to start with"
previous books are ok, but this is the one were it becomes great.
I have listed to all the previous books in the series, but until now I have been on the fence
"Amazing Again!"
Another fantastic installment, these just keep getting better and better! Marsters' voice is perfect for the character as always, with a range of tones and accents for the various side characters. Top notch!
"OK I guess"
I certainly would - I enjoy the storylines and the characters - generally
So so
I enjoy the story-telling style.
Not really
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First post and appreciate the wealth of information on the site. I'm a first year beek with two hives and wasn't planning on going after swarms, but couldn't let my daughters school kill the big ball of bees. The swarm was a little over a pound hanging on a tree branch(my guess from lifting the branch which felt like 5). I used the cardboard nuc that I got my bees in this year, placed some new frames in it and coaxed the bees into it. I took it home with me which is 3 miles away and left it closed up overnight. I want to move it to our farm (23 miles away), but can't move it for a day.
My question is, do I leave them closed up or open the nuc up for a day?
I'm in So Cal and have them in a cool location with a good breeze blowing through the vents. Just trying to do what's best and not kill them.
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Over the Top - Indian Burn
Ok, now this... this right here, is some sweet sweet baby disco lovin'. Over the Top, this cat from LA that I know jack on, but now yearn to learn 'bout, comes through with a terrifyingly terrific fix of Don Armando's I'm An Indian, Too. But yo, even before OTT did DA right, DA did all sorts of rubbed up remixery on the originally original tune courtesy of Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin and Ethel Merman. Yeah, you never quite thought you'd read THOSE names here, now did ya? The scoop, in short...
In 1946, the Berlin-penned musical saw Merman tackle vocals on the showtune.
In 1979, the song was remixed as a dance track by disco dude Armando.
In 2011, I 'eared Over the Top's sped up sasser, Indian Burn, and today, I share it with you, and let you know, that this is one dandy fine ditty that will be an oft-repeated radlet of beastly proportions. Just go grab it, or all or any, cause it's so worth the 12 seconds it will take you to download. So so good. SO GOOD.
mp3: Over the Top - Indian Burn
mp3: Don Armando - I'm An Indian, Too
mp3: Ethel Merman - I'm An Indian, Too


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Chapter 1 Summary
"The First Day: Birth in a Bare-Bulb Place"
China, the pit bull, has gone into labor, but she looks nothing like Esch's mother looked when she was giving birth to Esch's youngest sibling, Junior. Mama had given birth to all four children right there in the house. Esch was only eight at the time so she was of no help to her mother, but Mama had told everyone that she did not need any help. Daddy said that Esch and her two older brothers, Randall and Skeetah, had been easy births, but Junior's birth was hard. He came into the world purple and blue, and Mama did not want to go to the hospital. Later, Daddy dragged her to the truck to take her anyway, and the children never saw her again. Now, as China suffers in labor, the only person she will let near her is sixteen-year-old Skeetah, who tries to keep her relaxed. Skeetah had her mated with a male pit bull that Manny's cousin enters into illegal dogfights. China births her first puppy, a large, reddish-orange male that Skeetah says will one day be a killer. The next one comes out backward, a white puppy with black spots. His tongue sticks out—he is dead. The next three are birthed without incident, and when they think she is done, China gets up and goes to the corner of the shed. She spills the afterbirth, and when she walks away, Skeetah sees something moving. A brindle-colored runt has come out last, and luckily, the puppy is breathing.
Outside, Daddy gets the house ready for possible hurricanes, because in summer there are always hurricanes. He can feel a storm coming. He sends Junior under the house to fetch jugs so that they can be filled with water. Meanwhile, Manny arrives at the house—he is nineteen, two years older than Randall—and the two shoot basketball together. While the boys play, Daddy tells Esch to wash the bottles, but one breaks in her hand, and the blood mingles in the puddled water near her feet. She wants Manny to see her, but does...
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Chapter 2 Summary
"The Second Day: Hidden Eggs"
The morning after China gives birth, Esch wakes to the sound of hammering. Skeetah is outside building a kennel for the puppies—he is amazed that China gave birth to five living puppies and wants to see them thrive. Skeetah does not want to abandon the task, so Esch goes off alone to look for breakfast. Her mother taught her how to scan the yard for hidden eggs, but for Esch, the task is still hard work that requires concentration. Esch thinks that the only two things that have ever been easy for her to do are swimming and sex. She lost her virginity at age twelve to Skeetah's best friend, Marquise, in the backseat of her father's dump truck. She learned to swim when she was six—her father had picked her up and thrown her in the Pit, but she did not get pulled down by the water and used her limbs to stay on the surface.
At the breakfast table, Junior is pouting because he does not want to eat the eggs and prefers to eat dry noodles. Esch takes out the plate of eggs to Skeetah so that China can eat them instead. Esch notices that the dog's teats look like human breasts, and suddenly she runs outside the shed and vomits in the dirt.
Later, Big Henry arrives and Daddy tries to scam beer off him. Skeetah comes from the shed and says that he needs to buy dog food, so Big Henry offers a ride and Esch tags along with them. They go to the grocery store in St. Catherine, which is packed with people buying provisions for the impending hurricane. Inside, Esch sneaks off to hide a pregnancy test in the band of her shorts, and Skeetah broods over the dog food; he must get the most expensive brand. On the way home, the trio witnesses a car accident. A man has run his car into a tree, and a woman is lying on the road like she is sleeping. The man appears disoriented, so Big Henry offers assistance. He takes the man's cellular telephone to give directions to the 911 operator, who asks him to remain at the scene until help arrives. Skeetah is angry. He assumes the man and the woman are having an affair and therefore not worthy of their help; besides, he wants to return to help China with her puppies. Big Henry makes them stay.
At home, Esch thanks Big Henry for the ride. In the bathroom, Esch runs water for the tub and pees on the stick of the pregnancy test. She sets it on the edge of the tub as she climbs in, careful not to knock it into the water. The two lines turn blue, and Esch recalls the directions on the package. She is pregnant.
Chapter 3 Summary
"The Third Day: Sickness in the Dirt"
Esch tries hard to sleep, but the truth of her pregnancy keeps her awake. Right now, pregnancy means vomiting from the minute Esch wakes up in the morning. She hugs the toilet while her brothers scream at her from outside the bathroom door. She tells them that she is shaving her legs and hopes that they do not notice her condition. Esch goes back to bed, and her father never sends one of her brothers to wake her so that she can prepare the family for the hurricane. She wonders what all the men are up to this morning. Then Skeetah appears in the door, and Esch knows that something is wrong. She follows him out to the shed, where one of the puppies is not eating with the rest. Skeetah tries to move the puppy closer to China so that it can nurse, but China growls and bites at the puppy. Esch says that the mother must know that something is wrong, and Skeetah suspects that the puppy has picked up parvo. Skeetah decides to separate the puppy from the rest of the litter to protect the healthy ones, and he asks Esch if she will help him when the time comes. Esch agrees. Skeetah steals some of the hurricane provisions from the kitchen and packs them for the night's trip into the woods to kill and bury the puppy.
Skeetah, Randall, and Esch enter the woods and find the makeshift barbecue pit that they made when they were younger. They set out supplies, and Skeetah decides that they need more food, so he shoots a squirrel with his BB gun. Randall refuses to clean the squirrel, so Skeetah does, but he accidentally nips the intestines. The smell forces Esch into the bushes to vomit. While the meat is cooking, Marquise, Big Henry, and Manny arrive. Esch comments that Skeetah never named the puppy, so he tells her to give it a name. She chooses Nella. Manny says that they should kill the puppy now to save it from suffering. Skeetah grabs the puppy's head and twists, swiftly breaking its...
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Chapter 4 Summary
"The Fourth Day: Worth Stealing"
There are fleas everywhere as Esch walks toward Mother Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's house. Little is left of the porch to the house, and overall, the house is dilapidated. Mama had tried to keep the house a shrine, but the increasing needs of their own family forced her and Daddy to pilfer items from inside the house. Esch finds Skeetah there pulling up linoleum tiles from the kitchen floor. He says that he needs to build a floor for the puppies because the parvo must be in the dirt. They soon hear Daddy's tractor approaching, so Skeetah throws the tiles out the window where they will not be seen. When Daddy enters, he makes Esch boost Skeetah up to the rafters to take down plywood to use against the upcoming storms.
Skeetah asks Esch to help him with an important task, and when she agrees, he tells her that they are going into the woods to the east where a small house and old barn belonging to a white family are located. Skeetah found the place one day when they were playing chase in the woods, and he knows that the family keeps cows and supplies in the barn. He is on a mission to steal cow wormer to help the puppies. Skeetah and Esch change into camouflaged clothes and jog out to the barn. The two watch the house for movement and determine that no one is home. Skeetah tells Esch to keep watch and to whistle if she sees a car or a person approaching. Then they see someone in a nearby cove of trees—Randall, Junior, and Big Henry have followed them. Randall gets Skeetah to tell him his plan, and only when Skeetah says that he plans to use some of the money from the sale of the puppies to put Randall through basketball camp does the elder brother submit. Randall also takes up a watch post, while Big Henry takes Junior back into the woods.
Skeetah breaks a window and climbs into the barn. Outside, Esch is consumed by an intense need to go to the bathroom, so she squats...
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Chapter 5 Summary
"The Fifth Day: Salvage the Bones"
In the morning, Esch bursts into the bathroom, her need to pee intense. Skeetah stands shirtless at the sink, gently tracing wounds on his stomach. He tells Esch that he was cut on the window glass while hurrying from the barn. Skeetah picks up an old Ace bandage that he has cleaned and bleached and tries to wrap it around himself. Esch takes the bandage to help him. While she wraps him up, Esch notices that Skeetah smells like wind over the Gulf of Mexico, and this makes her think about times past when her father took them swimming there. They dug up oysters and watched the pelicans floating on the water. Once when Mama went along, she caught a shark, which she...
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Chapter 6 Summary
"The Sixth Day: A Steady Hand"
Daddy is outside knocking down what is left of the chicken coop. Skeetah spent the night in the shed after he and Daddy fought last night, and Esch is sitting on the sofa waiting for Skeetah to come inside through the front door to avoid seeing Daddy in the back yard. While she waits, Esch sneaks into the bathroom to devour cans of Vienna sausages from the hurricane stockpile. Eventually she gets tired of waiting and goes out to the shed. China rests her head on her paws while the puppies suckle, and Skeetah says that he knows something is wrong with the dog because she is being so mild-tempered. Esch assures him that Manny gave him the right advice about the wormer and...
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Chapter 7 Summary
"The Seventh Day: Game Dogs and Game Men"
All the kids except Skeetah get into Big Henry's car to go to the hospital. Daddy sits in the front seat, his hand wrapped in a blood-soaked towel. When the nurse sees the stream of blood from Daddy's hand, she asks him his name and whisks him away in a wheelchair. At three o'clock in the morning, Randall and Daddy come down the hall; Daddy's eyes are glazed like they are when he is drunk. His hand is wrapped in gauze and tape. At home, Daddy sleeps like he has not slept since Mama died. Esch takes soup and crackers into his room; he nibbles the crackers while watching television. Daddy then asks Esch to play with the antenna, and soon they are able...
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Chapter 8 Summary
"The Eighth Day: Make Them Know"
The next morning, Junior tries to get Esch out of bed but she rolls away from him, feeling the hurt of the day before. Still he pesters her—Skeetah has said that Junior cannot go to the dog-fight unless Esch takes him. Esch gets up and Junior tells her that Randall made Daddy's breakfast earlier that morning. In Daddy's room, a map of the hurricane is on the television screen and two cans of beer are on the nightstand next to the bed. Junior follows Esch and she tells him that they can go see the dog-fight. Outside, Skeetah is bathing China, who recognizes her master. Randall is outside too, arguing with Skeetah about his behavior during the game. Skeetah says...
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Chapter 9 Summary
"The Ninth Day: Hurricane Eclipse"
Esch is woken by the sound of Daddy vomiting in the bathroom. He calls for Randall who is still in his bed. Skeetah is not in the room though. After the dog fight, Skeetah cleaned and treated China's wounds and must have slept outside in the shed with her. In the bathroom, Daddy tells Randall that he is sick and needs to stay by the toilet, but Randall and Esch carry him back to bed and promise to put a garbage pail next to the bed. Randall searches for Daddy's medicine and asks him if his hand hurts. Randall tells Daddy that he is not supposed to drink while on his pain medication and antibiotics, but Daddy shakes his head and says that beer is not really like...
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Chapter 10 Summary
"The Tenth Day: In the Endless Eye"
Esch eats all of Skeetah's eggs and bologna because he has stayed outside in the shed with China. Randall curses and throws a can of tomato paste across the room after he counts the meager food supplies that are stored for the family. After breakfast, Esch overhears Randall telling Daddy that they do not have enough food, and Daddy tells him that if they cannot cook during the storm, then they will have to eat the Ramen noodles dry. He adds that they will make do with what they have. He then asks for his wedding ring, and Esch retrieves it from her drawer. He goes back to his room because he is the only one who can stand being inside the boarded-up house;...
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Chapter 11 Summary
"The Eleventh Day: Katrina"
Esch wonders where all the animals go when hurricanes occur. She used to think that all the animals ran away, but now she thinks that the small animals just hunker down in their homes to wait out the storms. The telephone always rings on the day before a hurricane to play a message from the state government encouraging evacuation and warning residents about the potential consequences of staying in the area during a hurricane. The hurricane becomes real when people realize that they could die during the storm. The worst hurricane that Esch remembers, Hurricane Elaine, a category 3, happened when she was eight years old. Randall and Daddy slept through the storm, but...
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Chapter 12 Summary
"The Twelfth Day: Alive"
The family sits in the attic of Mother Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's house until the wind quiets and water recedes. Esch scoots past everyone to get to Skeetah who is sitting near a gap in the roof. He looks outside like he wants to jump. Esch touches him between his shoulders, and his skin is hot to the touch. He jerks but does not look at her. He says that he has failed China, but Esch reminds him that he did not fail his family. He starts to shake, and Esch tightly embraces him. Skeetah says that as soon as the water gets down to the middle of the tires on the truck outside, he is going to go out to search for China. But he cannot wait that long, and as soon as he sees the...
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Saturday, June 4, 2016
Five Things About Coral and CORAL
What Is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project?
It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.
Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather. Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 390 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.
The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.
So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plantlife helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.
This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.
So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.
It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad
It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal?
Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago
Aug. 31, 2011. Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment
May 31, 2013. Scientists find that higher CO2 levels green arid regions
Higher atmospheric CO2 levels causing boom in vegetation
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Just to share some photos from my small island
Just to share some photos from my small island
I don't see any photos?
I know. I'm having problems posting the pics here. I'm using my phone so I think that is the problem
I find it easier to upload photos to a free server like www.photobucket.com.
Then I just post a link to the picture in my post.
Thanks I'm going to try that

How do those hive stay on those hive stands??? What is in the containers underneath the legs on the metal hive stands???
The metal one appears to be for nuc production. & the cups for ant control.
The exact location I am at have some very large ants that we call red ants. The containers are filled with water and/or old engine oil so the ants can't crawl onto the boxes. These ants will kill even a strong colony in a few hours. I have seen these ants team up and fight colonies colonies in batches. Sometimes they come for honey sometimes for brood.
Theses hives are mmuch closer than I would prefer as well but with the lack of space as well as this apiary being a feeder for smaller apiaries they seem to be doing fine. I use different colour boxes so only two boxes beside eachother can look alike on a row.bees seem to be able to tell the difference between 2 similar boxes but have problems with 3 or more. Even if the bottom boards alone are differnt seems to help.
That particular stand was just an experiment my neighbour made it for me. The others are stronger because of slanted legs. Stands that will hold honey producers are just metal pipes on top of blocks.
I reap small quantities very often. Gets the bees constantly building.
constantly building? are you crushing the comb or extracting... Jamaica is a beautiful place lotsa flowers year round what a wonderful place to have bees no winter down time. hmmm honey glazed jerk chicken i am inspired.
Maryville, Tn
I like your apiary
Do you have any mites or beetles or other pests that plague the bees (other than the red ants )?
Since year, the beekeeping industry in my country haas taken a big blow. The mites have taken over.The beetles have moved in on the weaaker hives. Truth be told though, I broke my brood cycles and then continuously did splits. So I'm one of the few beekepers smiling. Most of the older guys just go by routine and even when I've tried to share with them some are not receptive.
Thanks Lburou!
Well I started off with 10 single brood chambers and 20 5 frame nucsss in February as an experiment. I am now at about 90 with a feww nucs. Soundss crazy but I'm trying to reach 200 before december. I don't let them go lazy on me and I give them lots of work to do by building fresh combs to expand. I extract not crush the combs. I havnt fed once for the last 2 years can u imagine if I did?
Oh apart from the mites, bettles and ants we have foul brood. I had it about 5 years back but I shook them down phased out those beess and purchased this new stock which I have tested for being hygenic and they are in majority. My queens are replaced after a few months and they out breed most pests...oh ya we have some birds we call pitcheries. I pay my little cousins for shooting them with the sling


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My chair is squeaking. Strange, I haven't even sat on it yet. OK, "chair" might be going a bit far - it's just a roughly hewn bench, a low wooden thing jammed into the pressed-mud floor.
But it's definitely squeaking.
On closer inspection, the squeaking isn't coming from the bench but below it, towards the back of the hut. There's barely any light in there, just the dying rays of sun poking through the gaps in the wall like prison bars on the dark earth.
Squeak, squeak.
I can't take the curiosity any more, so I bend down, crane my neck and peer under the bench. Slowly, an amazing sight appears: a whole lot of little faces taking shape in the gloom. Furry, cute faces. Guinea pig faces.
There must be 10 of them down there. Maybe 20. Squeaking away. And they're not even penned in. After a few minutes they cast aside their shyness and venture into the centre of the room, a fluffy, moving carpet of rodents on the rough floor.
Usually, this would be joyous. "Aw," you'd think, "look at the little fellas." You might be tempted to try to grab one and give it a pat. Or just brush soft fur as it scurries past.
Trouble is, this is Peru, which means the guinea pigs squeaking below aren't pets - they're dinner.
Glorious, tasty dinner. The hut I'm in is someone's kitchen, a place set in a coffee plantation high in the Andes. The real reason I'm here is to taste the coffee, which is bubbling away on a wood-fired stove, its rich aroma cancelling out the guinea pig.
However, despite the obviously fine cup of coffee coming my way, the main attractions are still scurrying around on the floor, nibbling scraps of food by my feet. It's fascinating and disturbing at the same time.
This two-metre-by-two-metre wooden hut serves as kitchen, farm and pantry. Maria, who lives here, uses the guinea pigs like little garbage disposals, dropping food scraps on the ground to be quickly devoured.
Maria, of course, will ultimately return the favour.
This is the disturbing part. For a gringo used to buying his meat from a neatly sealed packet at the supermarket, getting personal with dinner can seem pretty strange.
I ask Maria if any of them have names. Javier, another Peruvian who's doing the translating, shakes his head. "You don't usually give your dinner a name," he says.
Fair point. But you wonder if these guinea pigs have an inkling of their fate. Can they see their future from that low vantage point on the mud floor? Or do they just shrug off the sudden disappearance of their mate Brian, and the not-coincidental appearance of dinner plates?
The other disturbing thing is that Maria and her family are planning to eat the guinea pigs at all.
They're pets! You don't eat guinea pigs. At least, we don't eat guinea pigs. It's accepted wisdom in the Western world. But it's hardly my place as a visitor to complain. (And besides, I never had a guinea pig as a pet, so there's nothing deeply scarring about to happen here.)
In cultures across the globe, certain animals are designated as food and certain animals are designated as friends. Trouble is, they don't always match up and it can take a while to get your head around the differences.
Some cultures eat horses. Others abhor the consumption of cows. Some eat dogs. Some cats. Some rats.
And in Peru they eat guinea pigs, or "cuy" as the locals call them, which, incidentally, is onomatopoeic. Say it out loud, then think about the sound guinea pigs make.
Peruvians don't, however, eat rabbits. Everyone looks shocked when you mention rabbits. "Are you mad?" they're probably thinking. "Rabbits are pets! Cuy are food."
Fine. You can't knock it until you try it, which is why, a few days after my visit to Maria's coffee plantation, I find myself sitting at a table faced with a plate of primary school pet.
Somewhat frighteningly, it's cooked whole, but it least with its crispy skin it no longer resembles the cute critters on Maria's floor. And the taste? Good. Great, even.
It's probably never going to take off in Australia though. We're just too hard-wired to think of guinea pigs as pets - which should be cause for miniature sighs of relief the country over.
Have you ever eaten something while travelling you would never touch at home? Post a comment below.


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On the Banks of Sacacomie Lake
Hotel Sacacomie • Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Canada
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Forestview Room with One or Two Beds from Now through May 14, 2013 ($198) or from May 15 through June 20, 2013 ($250)
- Breakfast Buffet for Two
- Welcome Drinks for Two
- One-Day Access to GEOS Spa for Two and a $10 Spa Credit Per Person
- Combine Vouchers to Stay Up to Three Nights
The Destination
The Mauricie region of Quebec is known for the striking beauty of the Laurentian Mountains with its rolling hills, verdant valleys, and more than 600 lakes. Approximately equidistant from Quebec City and Montreal, Sacacomie Lake's close proximity to the Mastigouche Wildlife Reserve affords it close encounters with nature—hiking excursions in the summer often result in beaver and bear sightings, and cross country skiers are apt to spot a moose or two in winter.
The Digs
Hotel Sacacomie stands like a warm fortress in the middle of an endless sea of pine trees on the shore of Sacacomie Lake. Your room features forest or lake views, and extensive native wood architecture. Rooms are engineered for peace and quiet by eliminating TVs, but Wi-Fi in the rooms and common areas provide plenty of potential for electronic indulgence, should you feel the need to connect. Enjoy a cocktail before visiting Geos Spa, where you can relax in the spacious sauna or indulge in a eucalyptus steam bath. The resort is happy to arrange weather-appropriate activities during your visit, including an American Indian interpretation, a maple sugar feast, and year-round outdoor recreation, from season-specific opportunities like dog sledding and broomball in the winter to seaplane flights, horseback riding, fishing, and ATVing in the summer.
"The food was amazing; the views were breathtaking; the free activities were terrific, and the ones that come at an extra fee are worth the money. Great staff and rooms—couldn't think of a bad thing to say about the place!"-- TripAdvisor
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Can't find the dates you want? Dog ate your passport? No worries. You have 30 days post-purchase to return your voucher, no questions asked.
the fine print
- Up to 3 vouchers may be combined to extend stay
- Reservations required and subject to availability; must be made by June 7, 2013
- Stays that include a Saturday have a 2-night minimum (must purchase 2 vouchers)
- Room types are subject to availability; limited availability for rooms with two double beds
- Not valid on group or existing reservations
- Merchant cancellation/re-scheduling policy applies; voucher subject to forfeiture
- Blackout dates are April 27, May 1-2, 10-11, 15, 18-19, 21 and June 9-10
- Based on double occupancy; additional adult fee of $68.5 per night including breakfast, spa access and $10 spa credit
- Children 12 and under stay free; breakfast is not included and you receive 50% off all meals
- Check-in is 4 p.m. and checkout is noon
- Upgrade to Lakeview rooms may be available at booking
- Must be at least 14 to use spa
- Taxes and resort fees are not included and will be collected at redemption
- Stay must be completed within date range purchased
- The deal is valid only for date range purchased and may not be exchanged or redeemed for any other dates
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On September 18 and 19 in Washington, DC, NADO co-hosted the Forum on Regional Innovation in Rural America with USDA and the White House Rural Council. Representatives from federal initiatives such as the Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, Stronger Economies Together, and the HUD Sustainable Communities Initiative met to discuss issues of importance to rural regions and small towns. The participants, which included many NADO members, discussed entrepreneurial development, broadband infrastructure, public-private partnerships, affordable housing, food systems, asset-based economic development, and other timely topics.
NADO member Cheryal Lee Hills, Executive Director of Region Five Development Commission, spoke as part of the opening panel and presented her organization's work on the Resilient Region plan, funded in part through a HUD Sustainable Communities grant. As part of its capacity building efforts for HUD Sustainable Communities grantees, NADO hosted a training session during the forum, led by Director of Economic Development Brian Kelsey, which addressed regional economic development and preparing for upcoming changes to the CEDS process.
During the opening plenary at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (pictured above), attendees heard from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, EDA Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Erskine, and ARC Federal Co-Chairman Earl Gohl. A closing plenary included remarks from DRA Federal Co-Chairman Christopher Masingill, Acting Director of HUD's Office of Housing and Sustainable Communities Salin Geevarghese, and Acting Under-Secretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien. Click here to view images from the event.
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Egypt's Falling Apart, Why is Its Stock Market Rising?
The situation in Egypt remains in flux. Headlines suggest that the military is slowly seizing control, while President Mohammed Morsi refuses to relinquish power.
The irony is that Egypt's stock market has taken the unrest as good news. The Egyptian EGX 30 Price Return Index has dropped just 0.3% today after gaining 4.2% yesterday.
Standard Bank's Stephen Bailey-Smith tries to explain why in a note released yesterday:
The constructive response is interesting. We suspect the equity market rally is derived from local buying rather than foreign. Certainly, it is hard to find local equity market participants who felt the Mursi administration would deliver a supportive environment for equities over either the short or medium term.
The military ultimatum makes it less likely that a Mursi administration will dominate the political economy going forward and it also makes it less likely that the present political impasse and economic decay will continue, preventing the country sliding into more comprehensive socio-political disorder.
Long-term investors, however, should probably avoid similar bets. Sure, the Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (EGPT) has gained 9.2% this week through Tuesday, but it's also more volatile than other emerging markets. The ETF has a three-year standard deviation of 33.44, according to Morningstar, compared to just 21.10 for the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM).
Get the bet wrong, and the loss could be substantial.


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Style and Comfort in Huertas
숙박 가능인원4
침실 수1
면적40 m²
Floor No.2
- 인터넷
- 수건
- 부엌
- 세탁기 / 건조기
- 가족 / 아이들과 친근함
- 에어콘
Accommodation summary
|Calle Santa María, 28012 Madrid, 스페인
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The apartment is on the second floor of a building 190 years declared of cultural interest and freshly renovated and opens onto a patio with large windows, so light and quiet are guaranteed. It was renovated in 2013 and is furnished and ready for you with great detail and high quality materials, so that you do not miss anything and you can you feel at home from the first moment.
The apartment includes: A living room with a comfortable sofa for two people (that turns into bed 140 * 200) and a flat screen TV 26 ". This connected to the bedroom by a huge sliding door solid wood and glass. The decor is modern, warm and functional, and includes a breakfast bar with stools or work with computer
The kitchen has a large opening that overlooks the living room and is equipped with everything needed to cook and eat at home, including ceramic hob, washer / dryer, fridge / freezer and microwave.
The bedroom with a double bed (140 * 200) with canopy for added charm. It has a large wardrobe with mirrors so you can keep your things :). The ceiling is dotted with beautiful original wooden beams of the building.
A large and spacious bathroom with a huge shower.
Of course, there are Wi-Fi in the apartment with the router inside (not shared network) and telephone for local calls. Conditioners also have cold for summer and heating for the winter.
Baby cot available under request, 10€/stay
During your stay we provide you TOWELS and SHEETS. You will also find iron, hairdryer and everything you need for a pleasant stay. If you think that something is missing, we are happy to have your feedback to further improve expensive apartment.
Upon your arrival one of us will be in the apartment at the previously agreed to welcome you and provide you the necessary information about Madrid and the apartment hour. And we will be at your disposal during your stay, whether to take a wine
Huertas is also known as the "Barrio de las Letras". It is where the most important writers of the Golden Age of Spanish literature lived in the seventeenth century: Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina. Cortes was his place of inspiration, writing and representation of their work. Immediately you'll notice the architectural elegance of the neighborhood in a ride that transports us to another era.
The streets off Plaza Santa Ana are populated with tapas bars, restaurants and places to have a drink. We like to discover new places then proponérselas our guests. Every first Saturday of the month the market Frog's Market takes place on the streets of the district, with dealers in the area (including designers, vintage clothing, antiques ...)
The apartment location allows you to visit the city of Madrid without using our public transport network. In fact, in less than 15 minutes, you can reach on foot the main museums (Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen Bornemisza), Retiro Park, Gran Via and its neoclassical architecture, Trail, The America ... etc..
But in any case, the nearest meter (Anton Martin) is 200m / 2min walk. Is connected with the Metro Line 1, which leads to the Atocha train station (where also leaves the bus line that goes to the airport). We are sure you will have no problem navigating the city from our apartment.
The minimum stay is two nights, but exceptionally accept reservations for ONE NIGHT. Only one night bookings PRIOR us confirming accepted, so please do not book for one night if you have not previously asked if the apartment is available.
We try to be very flexible so you can start visiting the city as soon as possible. Tell us your schedule and we will see how to organize.
Please note that for arrivals after 22h charge 15 euros for late entry (25 € if check in is from midnight). That is paid to your arrival.
Our calendar is always updated, so you can check the availability of the apartment at 100%.
We can only accept bookings via the web; please contact us if you have any questions regarding the booking process. When booking, we will provide the exact address of the apartment and driving directions.
Hope to see you soon!
P. S. If this apartment is not available, click on our profile and check out our other listings or send a message. Sure we have something for you!
숙소규정•Security Deposit: 100€
• Our check in time is from 4pm, this meaning that by then the apartment will be ready. However, if you come to Madrid earlier, we will make our best so that you can drop your luggage before 4pm.
• In case you plan to arrive after 9pm, check in can be arranged by any of the following options:
1. A pick up from your arrival point with the taxi driver we normally work with. He would pick you up and bring you to the apartment, leaving you settled and giving you a set of keys. The cost of this service is 10€ plus the regular taxi fare.
2. Reception in the apartment by us from 9pm to 11pm (subject to payment of 15 euro as late check in fee). Unfortunately after 11pm we are not able to meet you in person, so the taxi would be the only option.
Let us know your travel info so that we can decide what option would be doable in your case.
•Check out is by 11:00am.
•Please do not leave trash or dirty dishes in the apt.
•Parties or smoking are not allowed
•Only people who are officially on the reservation can sleep in the apt.
•Please be sure that you've turned everything off when you leave the apt.
•The Spanish legislation requires us to notify to the police the data of all people staying in the apartment, so we must ask you to show us your passport.
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This is a lovely little studio, clean and smartly decorated. Someone was waiting for us at the time agreed upon and explained all the rules in perfect English (our Spanish isn't quite good enough unfortunately)! The apartment has all the amenities and is well situated. Surprisingly quiet! Perfect for a couple! No elevator so not suited for anyone with reduced mobility, but not an issue for most people I would think. The owners have created a laminated map with recommended restaurants, etc. Very useful!
We enjoyed our stay. Vanessa and Oscar were very cooperative. We could use the apartment dircetly after our arrival at Madrid and earlier than officially scheduled. On the day of our departure we could leave our luggage until 5 p.m indoors. The appartment was nicely furnished and comfortable. For people who have problems with their back the bed was a bit too soft. But I could sleep on the sofabed very well.
The house is ideallly situated for exploring Madrid on foot. There are many nice restaurants and bars around the corner.
Everything was perfect. The flat ist very cozy and extremely quiet although it is in the centre of Madrid. The rooms are a little bit dark, due to the windows going to an inside patio. Therefore the temperature inside the rooms is fine. The bathroom is modern and stylish. Vanessa was very helpful and supporting. So we can recommend the apartement to everyone who likes a quiet place in the middle of a busy town. B&R
Top appartment which is very good located close to the typical sightseeing points. Vanessa, the landlady, was very friendly and offered also help with good recommendations. We would go there everytime again.
Hemos pasado una semana en el apartamento y salimos muy contentos. La localización es buenísima, en un barrio tranquilo y a la vez cerca de todo.
Nuestro tren salía más tarde del horario de salida, y nos permitieron dejar las maletas para no cargar con ellas mientras tanto.
El apartamento tiene todo lo necesario para ser acogedor y funcional. El único punto a mejorar sería el colchón que al paso de la horas se hundía un poco hacia el medio. Aún así, totalmente recomendable!! Paula, gracias por tu buena disposición!!
La estancia ha sido magnifica. y los minutos que tuve la suerte de compartir con Paula fueron estupendos. El barrio muy animado y lleno de locales. Lo hemos pasado muy bien.
Leuk appartement op een toplocatie, midden in de gezellige straatjes, en alles is er schoon. Het enige nadeel is dat het bed heel slap is, waardoor je al snel in een kuil ligt. Wij hebben een nacht op de bank moeten slapen vanwege rugproblemen. Verder een leuk appartement!
Gut ausgestattete Unterkunft, sehr gut gelegen - quasi in der Mitte zwischen Prado und Zentrum. Sehr angenehme und nette Vermieter. Bei Anreise mit schwerem oder grossem Gepaeck ist der Aufstieg ins zwiete Stockwerk in dem recht engen und steilen Treppenhaus etwas anstrengend.
Fue una positiva y gran experiencia la que tuve de contratar y disfrutar de este apartamento en el centro de Madrid. No solo es tal cual se muestra en las fotos sino mucho mejor dado la cantidad de recursos que tiene para que puedas hacer vida en él. Todo funciona perfectamente. La cocina esta dotada de todos los utensilios para hacer de comer incluidos productos mínimos como café y aceite, y productos de limpieza básicos como lavavajillas, detergente lavadora, fregona; para el baño, champú, gel, toallas. Está decorado con muy buen gusto y con toques de modernidad.
El check-in fue correcto, allí estaba Paula que me mostró el apartamento y me dio las llaves. Sólo la vi esa vez, aunque tanto ella como Oscar estuvieron siempre al teléfono prontamente para solucionarme algún problemilla menor.
Para llegar desde la T4 tomé la opción de pillar el BusExpress (de color amarillo) que está a la salida de la T4, fácil de localizar, (5€), hasta La Cibeles, y allí taxi hasta la dirección (4€).
La zona, Huertas, es muy atractiva por la cantidad de servicios que tiene, lugares donde tomar desayunos, comer, terrazas, vida nocturna, un supermercado DIA, y hasta la comisaría de la Policía Nacional, todo en un par de manzanas.
La única pega fue que durante mi estancia estaba en obras la línea 1 del metro y para acceder a este medio tenía que subir a Sol. Lo mejor en este capítulo es que estás junto al paseo del Prado y por allí pasa la linea 27 de autobuses que sube y baja la Castellana con bastante regularidad, con parada delante del museo del Prado que es donde te tienes que bajar para ir al apartamento.
Ya he recomendado este apartamento a mis amigos y sin dudarlo volveré a él.
El check-out es facilísimo, ordenas, limpias, tiras la basura y dejas las llaves en la mesita.
Para volver a la T4, llamas taxi a la puerta y vas a Atocha (7€), y allí pillas de nuevo el BusExpress amarillo a Barajas T4 (5€). Fácil, cómodo y rápido.
Gracias Paula por tu amabilidad, y Oscar por ser tan solícito.
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