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Can someone explain just what the deal is with 4.9 mm cell structure. I see alot of pro and con but I cant seem to get the facts. If you cant tell me then point me in a direction please.
Mike Garitta
Hi All
Can someone explain just what the deal is with 4.9 mm cell structure. I see alot of pro and con but I cant seem to get the facts. If you cant tell me then point me in a direction please.
Mike Garitta
Hi Maggiebee, The big WHOHA about 4.9mm foundation has to to with varroa mites and a back to basics theory about beekeeping and natural treatment for pests and diseases. On this site you can read about how this was developed. Check out Element of Beekeeping and you will find the article about how the Lusby's came to this conclusion. Steve
[This message has been edited by NewBee (edited January 18, 2003).]
There is reasearch and history to support that feral bees build cells closer to 4.9mm than what is currently used in foundation, which is 5.3 to 5.5mm (usually around 5.4mm). In fact they probably build closer to 4.85mm for worker brood cells. The bee industry was founded on 4.84mm cell size foundation.
There is also research to support that varroa cannot reproduce well in a worker larva in a 4.9mm cell because basically they can't find each other to reproduce.
I should also say, there is speculation backed by some experience, but no study that I know of, that tracheal mites can't live in the smaller bees trachea.
I suppose I also didn't say that the cell size determines the bee size and 4.9mm brood cells result in smaller bees.
Some other place you have said that to regress to 4.9 mm you would start right away with 4.9mm foundation although on their first pass they will most likely build 5.1 mm cells. Wouldn't bulding 5.1 mm cells on wrong foundation be unnecessary stress for the bees? Since you have to chuck the 5.1 comb on your 2nd round anyway, common sense indicates to me that the bees would be sligtly happier building 5.1 mm cells on 5.1 mm foundation.
What do you think?
I agree about the stress, which is why for a first regression I've been using just a starter strip of 1/2" wide 4.9mm foundation. Once they get started on a size they are happy with, they build what they want, so they don't have to rework it.
Others have used the 4.9mm full sheets though, without too much problems.
My next experiment in this realm is PermaComb (fully drawn plastic comb) heated to 200 degrees F and dipped in 212 degree F wax to make already drawn cells equivilant to 4.95mm.
This should make a two regressions on the first time out. Then I can either see how many generations it takes for the coccoons to fill it to 4.9mm or do the last regression to 4.9mm foundation.
Hi Jorge,
Some other place you have said that to regress to 4.9 mm you would start right away with 4.9mm foundation
I would recommend using 4.9 right away.
although on their first pass they will most likely build 5.1 mm cells. Wouldn't bulding 5.1 mm cells on wrong foundation be unnecessary stress for the bees?
I found that on the first regression that most colonies built combs around 4.98 to 5.05 with the average colony being around 5.0mm cells. There will be variation amoung all colonies buy giving them the size you are trying to achieve you will have some regress further than others so as not to limit the bees. I don't think that the bees build a larger cell size on smaller foundation is much stress here. I think the process of the shakedown is the cause of most of the stress here. The bees are quite capable of adapting and changing the cell pattern of the foundation. I have seen some colonies that WILL NOT regress these colonies will often chew the cell walls off the foundation and build what they like.
Since you have to chuck the 5.1 comb on your 2nd round anyway, common sense indicates to me that the bees would be sligtly happier building 5.1 mm cells on 5.1 mm foundation.
Why chuck the comb? Why not start the next hive with it? Why not sell it as an intermediate step to someone else for regression? Harvest the wax and get the frame back in again? As I mention before some bees will do better than 5.1mm, 80% of my colonies went further than 5.1mm on the first regression. So by giving them 5.1mm foundation you don't get bees worked down any further than that. Also another reason is without consumers buying enough 4.9 foundation Dadant could be liable to pull it off the market should there not be enough demand for it. I think the 4.9 gives the maximum flexiblity here the bees will build what they like regardless of cell pattern. Wouldn't one foundation be easier to keep track of too?
Clay- my POV
It depends on how you are going about things and what you want to accomplish in what time frame. I have been doing shakedowns, which require that you brush all of the bees off of all of their combs and put them in another hive. I find the starter strips better for this, myself.
I have not tried, but was suggesting that it might be practicle to just use 4.9mm foundation all the time and let things go as they will. The bees don't seem to mind much, they just cheat a little on each cell and build an occasional smaller cell to make it all fit.
I don't dispose of any of the comb. I would use the 5.1mm comb for regressing another hive.
I would use 5.1mm foundation for the first regression if I knew where to find any.
By all means, don't throw the comb away. Use it on another hive, or even make candles or something. I am going to try starter strips, and 4.9 direct, and see what happens. By doing it together, the same scenario, as far as environment is concerned, will be present. This way, I can see which way is smarter, and less time consuming for my area.
Dale Richards
Dal-Col Apiaries
Drums, PA
If you want clean wax for making your own foundation, one way to get some is to melt down the 5.1 mm.Here in the UK its currently quite easy to get 5.1, but there are no sources of 4.9 yet.
When would you shake down a hive from 5.1 to 4.9? How do you know when it is time to do a shakedown? How do you clean out the 5.1 foundation? What about the brood in it?
Doug Z.
I only do shakedowns once a year when there is a good honey flow going. This seems to have the bees draw the 4.9 mm foundation properly. Some others do it again after 2 to 3 different broods have been raised in the hive to create smaller bees to regress again. When I tried this the bees absconded after 2 weeks on the new foundation after I removed the queen includer so I only do it once a year and seem to keep my bees
Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan
Now I've got bees on 5.1 I'm hoping to avoid having to do it a second time. I discovered last year that the bees will draw 4.9 so the strategy now is to give them 4.9 foundation and just let them roll. My one surviving hive is weak so I may have to get some more bees, which may require shakedowns onto the 5.1. Alternatively, it may be possible to do it more gently. In my climate bees don't lay much in the outer frames of a box so the frames of a nuc could be removed one by one during the season, forcing them onto 5.1 gradually. I may try that if it comes to it. Bees hate being shaken down, and I'd rather not stress them like that if I can avoid it.
Now that I've tried wax coating the PermaComb and coming up with fully drawn 4.95mm comb, I'm hoping I can regress that far in one shot. We'll see this spring. The ones I had on 5.1mm didn't make it. The mites did them in. Of course they often do in the 5.4mm bees I've had in the past too.
>>>The ones I had on 5.1mm didn't make it. The mites did them in.
Michael I think it has nothing to do with your 5.1 cells. There are questions from Alfred for ÂDee but to bad, there are no answers so far.
I believe too, the 4.9mm cells working only in the combination with the blood from Africanized bees.
A small bee with less pheromone production because of the 4,9mm cells and higher cleaning behaviors (Africanized bees) is an possible answer but after a few year breeding with regular drones the effect might be gone.
I hope ÂDee can give us the answer???
I donÂt know why should have ONLY a little difference an impact? From 5.1mm to 4.9mm = 0.2mm thatÂs only 0.008 of an inch!
From Dee's experience she did not notice any significant change in the health of hives until she reached 4.9mm. At 5.0mm the problems remained. I was only at 5.15mm. A long ways from 4.9mm.
I don't think the cell size had anything to do with my mite problems. For some reason the mite population exploded just when it turned cold.
I still don't understand why there seems to be little problems with mites in the summer, but I have a lot of problems in the fall.
It's not like the bees aren't making a lot of brood all summer. There seems to be something that allows the mites to really take off in the fall.
Michael thatÂs not your problem, it is the way Varroa kills the colonies all over the western world.
The end of summer (August) your colony has approx 45 000 bees with maybe 2000 Varroa. Now the colony goes into the winter stadium (November) with approx 10 000 bees.
During the year the miteÂs doublet the population every 3 weeks (August= 2000 / November= 6000 Varroa) but the bee population goes the opposite way in fall.
In August every 22 bees have 1 Varroa. Now in November every 1.7 bees have a Varroa and the colony canÂt survive!!
The numbers of bees here are only an illustration, some colonies stronger some not.
Same with the Varroa, but I will give you an idea how that system works.
I think in a long run we have to deal with other specie of honeybees, maybe from Asia or India. I have no idea what the future is???
Michael,the late summer mite explosion seems to be what does us in.Axtmanns explanation seems correct,but another factor is the late season robbing out of dying hives.If you have a lot of hives in an area and they are being treated sucessfully for mites,some will swarm carrying a few mites with them to their new site.By next summer these swarms are reaching the crash stage and are re-infecting the managed hives as they get robbed out.This is what has been wiping me out as far as I can tell.My strategy to deal with this is to do a better job of swarm prevention(wont help with the other guys swarms) and get the supers off faster(need a faster extracting system)so that the bees can get treated before they crash.This is a race against time.Small cell,SMR or Russian isnt going to stop your bees from picking up the thousands of virus carrying varroa until such time as all weak strains of bees are gone.
>The end of summer (August) your colony has approx 45 000 bees with maybe 2000 Varroa. Now the colony goes into the winter stadium (November) with approx 10 000 bees.
During the year the miteÂs doublet the population every 3 weeks (August= 2000 / November= 6000 Varroa) but the bee population goes the opposite way in fall.
Yes, but the life expectancy of a worker bee and the life expectancy of a mite are not that different. A varroa mite has an expectancy of about 50 days. So why don't the mites die at the roughly the same rate as the bees? Also, wouldn't the mites die WITH the bees? Maybe not, maybe they crawl onto another bee. But the mites on the bees dying outside the hive wouldn't make it back and the ones in the hive would still be dying of old age at 50 days. Of course bees life expantancy changes as the seasons change. I suppose in the middle of the honey flow the mites outlive the bees, but in winter the bees are supposed to live 3 to 6 months. Do the mites live longer also? I don't know what the mechanism would be to cause this.
>In August every 22 bees have 1 Varroa. Now in November every 1.7 bees have a Varroa and the colony canÂt survive!!
I assume that is 1 in 7? Anyway, I've observed this kind of mite population explosion, but I still don't have a model to explain it.
Your explanation is the same as others have purported to try to explain this explosion of mites, but I still think they should die at approximately the same rate as the bees, according to the data I have available. Obviously there is something I'm still not understanding, that is happening in the fall.
Perhaps the data of the life expectancy of the Varroa is wrong and your explanation is correct. Or maybe I'm not taking into account that the life expantancy of the bees is shortened by the mites and so we have the vicious circle of less and less bees because their life expectancy is being made shorter and shorter by more and more fat healthy mites per bee. At least it would explain some of it.
Thanks for the ideas.
I feel breeding has as much to do with surviving varroa as small cell,mineral oil,etc. The varroa can't reproduce during the winter unless there is brood present.Hives which wait until late winter to start brood rearing may have an advantage over hives which start brood rearing say late dec. or early jan.


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Pigs in a Blanket
2 tablespoons butter
1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoons black pepper
1 egg
1 9- by 9-inch piece, frozen all-butter puff pastry dough, thawed but still very cold
4 5-inch pork hot dogs or beef hot dogs
Chinese hot mustard, or other favorite mustard, for dipping
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes; stir in salt and pepper. Cool, then finely chop and set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together 1 tablespoon water and egg to make an egg wash; set aside. Arrange puff pastry on a clean surface and cut into 24 triangles, each about 2 inches wide at the bottom and about 3 inches tall. Transfer to a sheet tray, cover with plastic wrap, and keep refrigerated while working on step 3.
Remove a few pieces of puff pastry from refrigerator at a time, so that the rest remain chilled until ready to use. Spoon about 2 teaspoons onion onto a 3-inch end of each puff pastry triangle, then top with a piece of hot dog. Roll up, starting with hot dog end first. Along the way, using your fingers or a pastry brush, dab the puff pastry with a bit of egg wash to help seal. Transfer to a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet, seam side down.
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The Pequot Lakes Revolution varsity kick dance team placed second in its first conference action of the season Thursday, Dec. 13, at a high kick meet hosted by Pine River-Backus.
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Crosby-Ironton came in third, Pierz was fourth, and Pine River- Backus finished fifth.
The Revolution JV kick team also took home a second-place finish, falling to the Aitkin Black JV team. The Pierz junior varsity team claimed the third-place spot, followed by Crosby-Ironton JV and Aitkin Red JV.
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When you thought some rest was to come about on things, ISRAEL is setting its expectations out loud.
A time line instead of a RED line has been laid out now.
Do you really think SYRIA is going to follow the orders?
When you thought some rest was to come about on things, ISRAEL is setting its expectations out loud.
hey MUSIBIKE your tik tak tik tak tik tak clock is rolling but no Iran attack yet, Looks like Syria will survive also. And the blood thirsty Israel is getting isolated in their war mongering yelp
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the U.N.. He pretty much laid it on the line.. Iran does not stop production on their nuke, were going in..
Yupper were heading your way and it is not going to be with a tour group..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
When Iran is turned into 'green glass" some smart ass like me is going to say....
'Ayatollah you so!"
They monitor the computer traffic over there. So don't post anything get yourself in trouble. Just a general consensus.
When I went too the computer shop in Cambodia few years back "Phonm Phen" real nice girl told me to be careful what I say.. I listened for once..
Food is terrible in those Cambodian prisons. Yuk..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
Hi 4th, How the heck are ya? I'm finer than frog hair and that's pretty darn fine.
Yep I'm, still in Godless Commie Red China missing my guns.
I borrowed a plastic SKS (a toy, but it sure did look pretty good) from a kid the other day, and asked em if I could play with it for a spell (rent it so to speak) gave em a couple RMB (30 cents US). Little bastard watched me like a hawk until I handed it back. Even had a little folding blade bayo on it. 2nd time I've done that!
I hate the food here. If it wasn't for beer, KFC and McD's I would most likely be dead by now.
The Chinese are in it for the long haul. They talk all sweet but really, to them, we are the great imperialist Satan and must be destroyed.
Now Mao by all accounts killed maybe 50 million people. I have been all around China, and no one will talk about that until you get them drunk. Then it comes out (especially from the old timers). They hate his murdering ass, but there was nothing they could do about it. He killed half their families and his ass is on every denomination of Chinese money 1,5,10,20, 50 and 100. How would like to spend money with the portrait of the guy that murdered your family on that money?
The first thing Mao did after seeing how easy it was to seize power at the point of a gun was take away all the guns from the people. Sound familiar? Let this be a lesson to everyone in the US about safeguarding your 2nd amendment rights. The US is trying to pull a Mao on us. It will be the death of a thousand cuts. First it will be assault rifles and high capacity magazines, then it will be semi auto's , then pistols. Then they will come for your bolt actions and grandaddy's black powder guns.
But I have yet to meet one person who has one bad word to say about Deng XiaoPing. He was the one that opened China to the West and is responsible for it's current prosperity.
I don't care if they kick me out. I am just saying the true. I don't think they would do anything bad to me. I have so much dirt on low friends in high places held by others overseas if I disappeared and those Docs got mailed it would be a shitstorm like no other, and they know that. I can't wait to get kicked out. The only reason I am over here is I couldn't find a job in the US, being well over 50 and over qualified. I was too proud to take welfare or food stamps so I started up a company and here I am. Oh Lucky me!
The Press over here is the same as the press over there. In the States AP (American Pravda) carry water for big ears. Over here they carry water for the party. When I want to read the low down on the US I get it from the China news. When I want the lowdown on China I get if from the EU or the US news.
There is trouble afoot here. Now the Chinese understand the Muslim threat. They understand the US response to it. They have a muslim threat of their own out there in the wild , wild west of China in Xinjiang province. I was out there back in August. I think I may have posted some pix up on here. Those muslims out there are always shooting someone, hijacking a plane, or blowing something up. They just arrested near to 140 them a week or so ago in a round up.
To the Southeast of there is Tibet. Trouble a brewing there too. They arrested a lot of monks because they did not fly the Chinese flag at the temples on Chinese national holiday (1st week in October..Like the 4th of July in the US). And they arrested a lot of other fellers too who they deemed inflamatory.
Trouble a brewing up in Mongolia too (AGAIN), but so far it has not boiled over.
They have the Inet here blocked up tight. Speed is slow. With the NSA snooping in the US, and the Chinese snooping over here it slows everything down.Its just not conducive to business. I have to use a VPN to just to get on and blow thru the firewalls here and back in the US.
I am watching this US gummit shutdown and was dismayed when armed US park Services thugs chased Vets and seniors out of Parks. And then Obama apparently closed the Ocean in Florida. WTF?
4th I don't want to sound unpatriotic but there ain't a hell of lot difference between Commie China right now and what the US has become in my lifetime. It makes me sad. The politicians lie, steal and do anything they want on both sides of the pond. The rich get richer, the poor gets poorer and the government grows stronger. The only thing that sets us apart from China is we still have our guns!
That's all the scuttlebutt from China I have. Well I must apologize for bending your ear for quite so long. It's just good to hear a little proper redneck English now and again from my Gunco Brothers!
Ya'all take care now.
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The little feral bees are back. They are the same size as last year, but they are slightly different in color now. The stripes have changed from the dark reddish black to grey. The body is a little less black and a little more silver. The conformation is identical. They are quite small. I'd say my "normal" bees look like 15mm long. These are 10mm long. But I've examined them quite extensively. One I have in a jar (from when they were still reddish brown) and one was on the sweet clover today just sitting there. I thought it was dead at first so I picked the flower off and looked closely. It is anatomically correct in every way from antenna to it's stinger. It must have been resting because it finally stirred itself and flew off. I'd swear it was taking a nap.
I would still doubt that it was a honey bee because of it's size, if a few hadn't drifted into my observation hive last year.
It would seem to me that they are 2/3 the length and 2/3 of the diameter of a "normal" bee. In cell size that would translate to:
"normal" bee cell size counting cell wall 5.4mm. Minus .06 cell wall=5.34 inside cell size. divided by 3= 1.78 * 2 = 3.56mm + .06 cell wall = 3.62mm cell size.
Could this be a different race of honey bee? It doesn't seem like it could be that small and be a honey bee and except for their perfect anatomy and them drifting into my hive I wouldn't believe they were.


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(Nov. 18, 2005)--The UTSA Department of Music Monday Night Artist Series presents a concert by Tony-Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown and Broadway singer Lauren Kennedy at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 21 in the Arts Building Recital Hall at the UTSA 1604 Campus.Broadway composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown has been described as "a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical."
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In 2001, he won the Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics for his show, "The Last Five Years," and in 1999 he won a Tony Award for his score to "Parade," which premiered at the Lincoln Center Theater in 1998 and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Critics' Awards for Best New Musical.
Brown's "Songs for a New World," a theatrical song cycle, played off-Broadway in 1995 and has since been performed in more than two hundred productions around the world. Brown's first solo album, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes," featuring his band, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, was recently released on Sh-K-Boom Records.
Singer Lauren Kennedy has appeared on Broadway as Fantine in "Les Miserables," Betty Schaefer in "Sunset Boulevard," Daisy Hilton in "Side Show" and Cinderella at the New York City Opera. In London, she performed as Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" at the Royal National Theatre. She also can be heard on the cast albums of "South Pacific," "Sunset Boulevard," "Side Show" and "Good News, and the Paul Simon album, "Varese Sarabande."
The UTSA performance will include songs from Brown's albums, along with selections from his musicals "Songs for a New World," "Parade," "The Last Five Years" and "Urban Cowboy."
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I have been following the Jamie Oliver recipe for sourdough bread, tomorrow is the day for baking so fingers crossed. The recipe says to reserve 500g for the next loaf, does anyone know how it should be stored if I don't want to make it daily? I have read on other sites that it can be stored in the fridge and will become suspended, does any one know if it needs feeding, needs to be able to breathe, what I need to do when I want to make another loaf ? When making a second loaf, do you still use 1kg of flour?
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Keep the reserved sourdough starter in your fridge for up to 6 months.
If it separates, stir in some flour and put it back in. Make sure gasses can escape but the lid is still tight enough to keep other visitors out.
If there is too much dry crusty starter on the sides, move it to a new container occasionally. If you use a dishwasher always rinse your container 1st to remove soap and rinse agent residue.
3 days before the next bake-off, take it out of the fridge, add 1/2 cup four & 1/3 cup water mixed to make a sponge. Put in a warm, dark place (pantry). Repeat on 2nd day and repeat on 3rd day. Starter should now be well fed and fully active and ready to bake.
You will have to adjust your recipe so you won't have too much starter left over.
If you have a dehydrator, try to dehydrate your starter. That's how the "Old Salts" or "Sourdoughs" from the gold rush days did it. (Though it was sun-dried). They would keep it in a leather pouch around their necks to keep it from freezing.
**** Save the water from boiling potatoes, salted or not. This Potato Water is the best liquid to add to sourdough starters and will improve your bread immensely. The salt will also assist in a better gluten structure.
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Did someone say sourdough?
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Santa Rosa Junior College will present a talk by Scott Gabaldon, tribal chairman of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley, will speak on the struggle to have their tribal status restored by the federal government.
The Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley is the last remaining Wappo Tribe in existence, with 340 living members. Scholars have noted that the Wappo Indians are among the oldest tribes in the State of California. In 1851, there were approximately 8,000 Wappo Indians, who occupied the great valleys of Sonoma and Napa Counties. In 1959 they lost their land and tribal status under an act of Congress aimed at privatizing California's small Indian reservations. Scott Gabaldon is the tribal chairman of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley, and he has been leading the fight to have their tribal status restored by the federal government. Napa and Sonoma counties oppose restoring tribal status out of fear that granting recognition would allow the tribe to pursue construction of a casino within their boundaries. On July 25, 2013, the tribe and counties will have a final face off in U.S. District Court that will determine the fate of the Wappo people. Scott Gabaldon will present the story of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe.
The event will start at 7:00pm and run until 8:30pm in Newman Auditorium on the Santa Rosa campus. Doors will open at 6:30pm. The event is free, and parking permits are required on campus in self service lots. The talk is co-sponsored by the SRJC Behavioral Sciences and Physics departments and the Native American Student Council.


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So far, Hyundai and Kia have said they would reimburse customers and add a 15 percent premium by sending out debit cards that can be reloaded in the future. The automakers could spend over $100 million compensating for their exaggerations.
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From there, the EPA investigated Hyundai for misleading mileage claims and found that the fuel economy estimates of most of its 2012-2013 models were inflated. The same goes for Kia. Both Kia and Hyundai will be lowering the fuel economy estimates on the majority of their 2012 to 2013 models after EPA testing discovered a gap between its data and what both of the companies are claiming.
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When Abbi Hollins came to town I knew I was in good hands. The Englishwoman, who now heads St Tropez's skin team in Australia, has sprayed a stack of celebrities. She has worked at the Oscars, on X-Factor, magazine shoots and at London Fashion Week. But she got her start in a neighbourhood tanning salon helping wean Brits off their love of sunbeds and on to their spray-tan addiction. Up north they like their tans darker, Geordie Shore-style, compared with a more restrained look in London.
Hollins reiterates the usual stuff about exfoliation before and moisturiser afterwards to help preserve a good tan, but she has interesting tips about how to create a sculpted body look by applying tan like a facial contouring product. Darker in the bits you want to recede and lighter in the areas of prominence. Seems a six-pack can be sprayed on by clever hands like hers and slimming trickery is often used in editorial shoots.
You can try this look at home. Her advice is to spray evenly all over your body one day, then a day later go back over the areas you want to darken, say down the side of the leg. The concave of the collarbone can be darkened, with a cosmetic highlighter applied where it protrudes.
She has reassuring advice for a spray tan simpleton like me who has always found rubbing in a gel or lotion easier. Shooting the spray tan into the palm of your hand and rubbing it on is okay.
St Tropez recommends you do this while wearing its application mitt and then lavish your skin with its various tan-extending products. The good news is that it has recently cut its prices in New Zealand considerably and though it is still at the premium end of the spectrum we're talking reductions of 40 per cent for some items. New distribution arrangements also mean the range is no longer in department stores, with a return of focus to the salon and spa market and some pharmacy stockists.
Three days into my customised Hollins tan, the colour is the most natural I've struck on my fair skin. St Tropez's patented Aromaguard ingredient, which minimises the smell of the dihydroxyacetone in spray tans does its job. I've since tried the top-selling home product, St Tropez Bronzing Mousse ($49.95) to good effect, but can't be bothered with the tan-extending clobber.
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Promoted as the one-hour spray tan, the new formula in use at Auckland's two Lucy & The Powder Room salons is ideal for busy people. It takes around 15 minutes to apply, then you are best advised to dry it off for a few minutes before dressing in something loose that won't rub up the results.
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We are thrilled to announce that our baby boy, Malcolm, was born on January 3, 2009 at 11:05 a.m. weighing in at 8 lbs 10 oz and measuring 21 inches long.
This was our third home birth and we are so glad that we were able to be all together, with his two older sisters (Madeline, 5.5 and Zara, 3) on hand for the last 10 minutes to see him arrive.
Here's Malcolm at one day old, snuggling up with his two sisters:
It's still pretty much business as usual at Continuum Family, but we are estimating that custom orders (most items from our CF line, especially pouch slings and baby clothing) will be about 3 weeks from date of order to date of ship for the rest of January.
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Oh my goodness, D, he's beautiful! Really! Brings a little tear to my eye!!
Take care, rest and enjoy some babymooning.
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Congradultations Deirdre Greg Madelne and Zara. Malcolm picked a wonderful family to grow with.
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Big boy!!! Congratulations Deirdre and best wishes. :) :) :)
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Congrats Dierdre!
I'm so glad you got a third home birth!
Malcolm is beautiful!
Happy baby-mooning.
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Congratulations, Deirdre! He's beautiful! And congratulations on another successful home birth! :-)
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Congratulations, Deirdre! He is just perfect...
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Living Direct, Inc. announces the launch of IceMakerDirect.com, a comprehensive new resource for ice maker information and online shopping.
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Creating and Maintaining Effective Large-Scale Scientific Computing Applications
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Richard Barrett, co-author of Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods and contributing programmer for the ASCI Stockpile Stewardship Program
2—4 pm Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 109 Butrovich
On October 2, 1992, President Bush signed into law the FY1993 Energy and Water Authorization Bill that established a moratorium on U.S. nuclear testing. President Clinton extended the moratorium on July 3, 1993. These decisions ushered in a new era by which the U.S. ensures confidence in the safety, performance, and reliability of its nuclear stockpile. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASCI) is an integral and vital element of our nation's Stockpile Stewardship Program. ASCI provides the integrating simulation and modeling capabilities and technologies needed to combine new and old experimental data, past nuclear test data, and past design and engineering experience into a powerful tool for future design assessment and certification of nuclear weapons and their components.
These computational physics simulations consist of hundreds of thousands of lines of code, written using multiple programming languages. These codes must execute accurately, consistently, and efficiently on a variety of computing platforms throughout their multiple decade lifetimes. They must withstand the participation of many code developers, each of whom brings different skill sets to the project. They must adapt to dynamic user requirements, and thus be amenable to the inclusion of new algorithms and other improvements.
Barrett's focus is on abstracting the necessary complexities of the distributed memory parallel processing environment in a way that is natural to the code developer, yet enables the incorporation of sophisticated computer science ideas "under-the-hood." Barrett will illustrate how these requirements have been managed by describing a variety of specific applications and computational kernels. These applications include hydrodynamic algorithms operating on unstructured and semi-structured dynamic meshes, various radiation transport approaches (Sn and Monte Carlo), and an approach to solving linear systems when the system properties are poorly understood.
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(Sept. 25, 2008)--The desire to collaborate on health disparities research attracted nearly 80 faculty and administrators from the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and UTSA to a half-day conference Sept. 12 at the UTHSC Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC). The sponsor for the Health Disparities Research Forum was the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI), formed to promote greater scientific collaboration between the two institutions.
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More than a dozen investigators gave presentations on projects ranging from alternative medicine in maternal and child health to community-based interventions for prevention of obesity and diabetes in adults. Opening speaker Karl Eschbach, Texas State Demographer and UTSA associate professor of demography, raised questions about the health impact of demographic changes that Texas will experience in the coming 20 years.
"By 2030, Latinos will likely be a majority of the state's population," said Eschbach. "This group has low rates of health insurance coverage. At the same time, the aging Anglo population will put increasing demand on the Medicare system. Financing quality health care for the people of Texas will be a challenge."
The Institute for Health Promotion Research in the UT Health Science Center School of Medicine hosted the event. Director Amelie G. Ramirez, D.P.H., noted, "We have a community in great need, and it's important for local researchers to prioritize the issues where we can really make a difference in South Texas."
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JEFFERSON CITY—The staff of the Missouri Public Service Commission has filed a complaint against Cintex Wireless, LLC seeking to have the wireless carrier's designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) in Missouri provisionally revoked pending further investigation.
The PSC staff complaint alleges Cintex: 1) omitted material facts in its application for designation or in its responses to PSC staff data requests; 2) marketed and provided service to customers outside its area of designation; 3) engaged in misleading marketing; 4) falsely responded to a properly propounded data request from the PSC staff; and 5) engaged in other acts or practices that should disqualify it from ETC designation in Missouri.
The complaint involves the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) and disbursements from that federal fund to a commercial mobile radio service provider (such as a cell phone or wireless carrier). Cintex is a wireless carrier. According to the PSC staff, Cintex has not nor is it currently receiving federal USF support for its Missouri Lifeline customers.
A carrier designated as an ETC is authorized to offer telephone discounts to eligible low income and disabled customers through the state and federal Lifeline program. Eligible customers receive the discounts to help them to maintain vital telephone service. The ETCs receive reimbursement for providing the discounts through the federal or state universal service fund.
Based upon its investigation, the PSC staff complaint questions whether it was in the public interest to grant Cintex ETC status in December of last year and whether it is in the public interest to allow Cintex to continue to be eligible for federal reimbursement.
As part of its complaint, the PSC staff is seeking to have the Commission issue a Show Cause Order as to why the Commission should not provisionally revoke Cintex's ETC designation during the pendency of the complaint proceeding.
The staff complaint also seeks a Commission order making Cintex continue to serve its Missouri customers until they can be migrated to another provider. In addition, staff asks that Cintex be ordered to migrate to another provider, within a specified period of time, those customers who are not within Cintex's authorized service area in Missouri.
In May, the Missouri Public Service Commission also opened a file to collect information regarding a PSC staff investigation into the practices and procedures of ETCs concerning the use of universal service funds to offer telephone discounts to eligible low income and disabled customers.
The PSC staff has indicated that it will file a report with the Commission regarding its investigation as well as plans to propose certain revisions to current PSC rules to address any problems that the staff identifies in its report.
Setting up a file will enable any person with an interest in this matter to view documents and submit any pertinent responsive comments or documents. This is not a contested case therefore any person may file a comment without counsel and without ex parte constraints.
The public is also welcome to submit comments by forwarding electronic communications through the Commission's electronic filing and information system (EFIS) or by mailing written comments to the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102. Please reference the file number TO-2012-0364.
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MM&M Awards: Glimpse at Gold
MM&M Awards: Glimpse at Gold
A panel of 100 esteemed industry leaders and thinkers spent several hours discussing, reviewing and scoring around 700 entries to the MM&M Awards. Here are the results of their efforts—the 2013 finalists
Following two exhaustive rounds of scoring by 100 or so independent industry judges, the results are in for the MM&M Awards 2013. The finalists for each category are revealed on the following pages—but you'll have to wait for the spectacular dinner and ceremony on October 2, 2013 to find out who will take home the gold and silver awards.The MM&M Awards are judged with the utmost independence and authority, using an esteemed panel of leaders and thinkers representing a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds within the healthcare marketing community.
This year, we again incorporated a preliminary round of online reviews into the judging process. We also expanded the size of the panel to increase the number of judges reviewing each submission, to allow greater flexibility in matching judges' expertise with particular category disciplines, and to enable an extended review of the leading contenders in the final round.
Make no mistake. Judging the MM&M Awards is a serious business. If you need further proof, take a look at some of the photographs from the judging day (pages 62-66), each conveying the dedication and hard work that goes into the review process.
It's not enough for a submission simply to look good, either—it must also be effective. That's why, as well as assembling a band of seasoned creatives, we recruited more than 30 marketing and branding execs from the pharma industry to further extend the authority and credibility of the judging process. (See opposite for a complete list of 2013 judges.)
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our judges for their efforts.
As usual, the identities of all gold and silver winners will be withheld until the spectacular gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on October 2, 2013. Not even the judges will know who the winners are until they are called to the stage; the suspense and elation of claiming gold in front of several hundred peers is second to none. Not to mention the celebration that follows. We hope to see you there.
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A three-member student team from Hope College has won this year's Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition.
A total of 31 teams from 11 colleges and universities competed in the event, held at Olivet College on Saturday, April 6.
The winning Hope team consisted of Stefan Coltisor of Bucharest, Romania, who recently completed his freshman year; Caleb Gleason of Hudsonville, who recently completed his junior year; and Richard Smith of Athens, N.Y., a member of the graduating Class of 2002.
Two other Hope teams also competed in this year's Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition. The team of Joel Berrier and Heidi Libner tied for 20th/21st, and the team of Henry Gould and Mike Rininger tied for 22nd/23rd. Berrier is from Michigan City, Ind., and a member of the graduating Class of 2002; Gould is from Zeeland and recently completed his freshman year; Libner is from Park Ridge, Ill., and recently completed her freshman year; and Rininger is from Holland and recently completed his freshman year.
In addition to Hope, the colleges and universities that fielded teams included Albion College, Alma College, Calvin College, Grand Valley State University, Kalamazoo College, Lawrence Tech, Olivet College, Saginaw Valley State University, the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Michigan at Flint.
The Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition results represent a second strong showing in mathematics this year for Hope students. In December, Peter Van Wylen of Holland, who recently completed his freshman year, finished in the top 13 among students from participating Michigan colleges and universities in the nationwide William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Van Wylen's score on the Putnam exam was 22 out of a possible 120 points, ranking him 365th out of the 2,954 students who took the exam nationwide. In addition, Dana Ranschaert of Holland, a member of the graduating Class of 2002, earned one point on the exam, ranking in the top half (1,470th) of those who took the exam. Typically, more than half of the students who take the exam score zero, and the top score this year was 101.
The college's team of students taking the Putnam exam ranked in the top half, 148th, of the 336 teams participating. In addition to Ranschaert and Van Wylen, the Hope students who competed were: Berrier; Coltisor; Carrie Halvorsen of Traverse City, who recently completed her sophomore year; and Brian Yurk of Schoolcraft, who recently completed his junior year.


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Takeover Talk Fuels Saks' Rise, Up 15%
Shares of Saks (SKS) are up 15% Wednesday afternoon, following an 11% rise on Tuesday, and it seems reports of a possible takeover/sale of the retailer are behind the move.
The New York Post reported after yesterday's close that Saks has hired Goldman Sachs "to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company" -- the paper named private-equity firms KKR (KKR) and Leonard Green & Partners as possible buyers.
That story was followed by a Bloomberg report suggesting that KKR was actively deciding whether to take a stake in Saks -- and possibly merge Saks with Neiman Marcus:
The deliberations may not lead to a transaction, said one of the people, who asked not to be named as the process is private. It wasn't immediately clear whether KKR had approached New York-based Saks.
Merging the two would create an upscale department-store chain with more than $7 billion in annual sales, second only to Nordstrom (JWN) in the U.S. Both Saks and Neiman recently hired advisers to explore strategic options including sales, people with knowledge of the matter said this month. If combined, the two could cut costs by closing stores, one person said.
In a research note published after the Post's story was published, JPMorgan analyst Matthew Boss -- who has a neutral rating on the stock -- laid out why Saks is considered a target for some kind of takeover:
Saks is no stranger to takeout reports (including an 8/30/10 article from the UK Daily Mail), with its company profile supportive in our view: (1) under-earning financial model (4.8% in FY12 vs. 9.6% peer avg), (2) healthy balance sheet w/ 21% debt/cap and recent share count reduction (14% past 5 quarters) and (3) underlying real estate value with the 5th Ave Flagship at $1B+ and total portfolio value (27 owned full-line) approaching mid-teens/share on our back-of-the-envelope analysis.


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This report is based on an interview based survey concerning e-government with 180 of the most senior managers within public administration in Sweden to understand the issues affecting e-government. Among the topics addressed in the survey are the effectiveness of the support provided by the Swedish government and The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, as well as issues concerning IT governance, the national strategy for e-health, social media and open data.
Our analysis of the responses shows that extensive measures will need to be taken in order to manage the government's goals for third generation of e-government.
There is a long way to go before Sweden has a public administration which develops services effectively on the basis of the demands of citizens and businesses, and which utilises society's combined capacity and power of innovation. The ability of government agencies, county councils and municipalities to interact with each other, and with their external environment, must also be improved in order to achieve this goal.


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Here at MAPHCentral, we are gearing up for Campus Days 2016 and are excited to meet everyone this weekend! You can find an outline of the schedule for Campus Days here and a more detailed schedule here.
If you get to Chicago before Campus Days or have some time here afterwards, or if you are a current student hosting someone and want to point out things to do and see, below are some suggested spots and activities!
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Although this weekend your focus will likely be on the University, Hyde Park as a whole has a lot to offer. To enjoy some time outside, we strongly recommend Promontory Point, the east end of 55th Street. Promontory Point provides one of the most beautiful views of the Chicago skyline and of Lake Michigan. If the weather is warm, we also recommend taking a stroll on the Lakeshore Path.
Hyde Park also has several bookstores worth browsing. We have the Seminary Co-op (which is also next to one of our favorite coffee shops, Plein Air Cafe), and its sister store, 57th Street Books. On 55th is an excellent selection of used books at Powell's. (Also, there are often a couple of boxes of free books, of mixed quality, on the sidewalk outside Powell's. Who doesn't love free books?)


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Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award–winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
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Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark medal, given to the most influential American economist under the age of forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career—as an almost-rock-star—to become a writer. He has worked for The New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He lives with his family in New York City.About the Author:
Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty. He is also founder of The Greatest Good, a company that applies Freakonomic principles to philanthropy and business.
Stephen J. Dubner, a former writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Turbulent Souls (Choosing My Religion), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper, and the children's book The Boy with Two Belly Buttons.
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