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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
And just because they structured a deal, doesn't mean they were talking about contract negotiations and actual prices. Why would the Giants do that before FA and the draft?.
Also, stop blasting other people just because they don't agree with your opinions.
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Read the articles, not just the headlines. Neither Cruz, his management, nor the Giants have floated any numbers. Any dollar values that have been bandied about have been pure speculation.
The only fact in this matter is that the Giants haven't re-signed him yet.
Ok I know we have all seen this article before. And I know it just speculates what Cruz will ask for. But if you look again in the middle of the article where it lists the contracts of a few other WR's, all of which Cruz compares to very favorably, you have to think he is going to be looking for similar money. Honestly, if he wasn't then his agent is doing a bad job. Face it, I think they will sign him, but it's going to cost a lot.


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If you have lids that have cleats on top set your 1x6 runner back so they inter-loc with the lid, this keeps your load lower & fits snug.
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alot of nesting going on this spring.
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Tefer2, there are a couple things you need to take into account, as Jim mention they need to stack when emty, they need to fit when boxes are on, try to find a happy medium.
My pallets are 33 x 48 we set the runner (bee way) back a 1/2 inch to not to do damage when loading. We also have about a five inch gap between the back to back of hives, this alows us to use our tool so when we fill emty pocket up it's fast and easy. We use W clips as they are faster and easyer to use, some folks think rought is a problem, but we wax dip everything that's wood so it's not a concern for us.
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So your runners(long 2X4) touch in the middle of the load?
Mark Berninghausen
Mark: We have our bottoms set back on the stringers about 1/2" (to net an inch of ventilation) and then stack the pallets together so they touch in the middle. We have tried leaving gaps in the middle but they always seem to shift by the time they get to the destination.
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Jim, do you use spreader boards? The kind made from 2X4s run across the top of thge load?
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I have never used "spreader boards" they look like a good system though. I dont consider a load properly secure, though, unless there are 2"x6" boards under at least 9 straps and "v" boards front and back. Some drivers use "v" boards topped by 2"x6"'s the entire length of the load. It is nice but I think it is overkill. I havent seen Keith's pallets but I am assuming that the stringers are 4' and that he sets the bottoms back from the end of them a bit for ventilation so you end up with only the ends of the 2"x4"'s actually touching. Dont worry he will set me straight if thats not the case.
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Mark, yes 4 feet long 2x4s, if the truck that we load is 8 feet plus why not use it. If you look up nutra bee on the you-tube video it show the pallets well & me feeding sub by myself with out lifting off the hives, this can be done quickly "if" you have space between your hives. We do use 2x6 board to tie down the load (10) then cross tie the ends.
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RAK, how do you strap your hives to your pallets. Friends of mine strap theirs and have no trouble. Side to side the lids touch each other, as they also do front to back, or close enuf.
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Anybody know a source of steel ply in the Dakota's. I need to "re-top" some pallets with something that lasts longer than plain old ext plywood.
Chip, have you try dipping pallet in wax to help extend the life.
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Chip I use the stealply love it but as you say getting harder to find even in Texas,noticed where some was using AdvanTech flooring which is in 4x8 sheet but cost around $30 per sheet lot more then the 25 cents ft for the used steelply.Dont know how this stuff would hold up ,maybe if someone has used it they could comment on it
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Side to Side works great for us with all U hives. I like my boxes and lids perfectly on when strapped. We use ratchet straps on white rope(rope used for pulling cables). A bit of sewing skills + chinese ratchets and you could make quite a bit of them.


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Area students participate in Junior Music Festival
A total of 171 piano students participated in the 31st annual Junior Music Festival March 2 at the Pequot Lakes Public School. Established by the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Junior Festival program is for students 18 years of age and younger who study with a qualified teacher as a member of the Minnesota Federation of Music Clubs. Students prepare one piece from a required list of American composers and one of their own choosing. Students may work toward a gold cup, earning points on the basis of performance. A maximum of five points is given for a superior performance and 15 points are required to earn a gold cup, 30 for the second and 45 for the third.
Renee Anderson, Pequot Lakes, is the Festival chairperson and the judges were Scott Ruffing, Patricia Lundeen, Lois Jensen, NolaVarilek and Teresa Kingsley. Teachers that had students in the Festival were Nancy Albertson, Renee Anderson, Lila Clarke, Kara Craine, Kate Davis, Pat Dullum, Rebecca Gordon, Sue Kavanaugh, Teresa Kingsley, Maren Sederquist, Sandy Pancoast, Carolyn Nygard, Elizabeth Schwanke, Cathy Taylor and Lisa Walker.
Those receiving superior ratings were: Grace Adland, Brianna Adkins, Olivia Adkins, Nathan Anderson, Montanna Aragon, Lauren Bensen, Alec Belisle, Gracie Birks, Emily Birchem, Isaac Birchem, Olivia Birchem, Abigail Bjorlo, Bethany Bjorlo, Caleb Bjorlo, AC Borowicz, Lynne Borowicz, Sam Borowicz, Taylor Borowicz, Erin Brine-Doyle, Jackie Brine-Doyle, Megan Buffington, Zachery Burtard, Jacob Butcher, Anne Campion, Caitlyn Carkhuff, Brant Dabill, Emily Danielson, Colton Dohls, Mackenzie Dondelinger, Elizabeth Downie, Ryan Dueth, Erin Fisker, Anna Felthouse, Emma Ferrie, Lauren Forsythe, Anna Fox, Parker Freeman, Alexa Fyle, Luke Fyle, Cameron Gearns, Madelynn Gibbons, Alicia Goode, Abby Grider, Haley Griggs, Laura Halvorson, Caitlinmae Hamilton, Joshua Hankel, Samual Hardy, Summer Hardy, Megan Hensel, Jordan Higgins, Emerson Holcome-Smith, Grace Holcome-Smith, Emma Hopman, Sadie Hopman, Korbyn Hulke, Elizabeth Joque, Noah Joque, Mikaela Kadolph, Tristan Kavanaugh, David Kelm, Tennyson Kelm, Hanna Kennedy, Jed Klang, Josiah Klang, Alli Krantz, Garret Krantz, Nick Krantz, Amanda Kunde, Keyahna Kurilla, Kate Kurtzman, Libby Kurtzman, Hayden Kvalevag, Hannah Larson, Jonathan Larson, Lydia Larson, Madison Leas, Lily Loshko, Rose Loshko, Quintin Lubke, Matthew Majerle, Alex Mann, Raleigh Mann, Gabe Maurer, Alexis Mengini, Luke Meyer, Alli Miska, Mary Moore, Nicholas Moore, Caitlin Murray, Victoria Neff, Aaron Nibbe, David Nibbe, Gunner Niemeyer, Aliyah Nelson, Sarah Nesheim, Jacque Norman, Jennifer North, Isabelle Olson, Preston Owen, Autumn Paulus, Sean Paulus, Abby Pelowski, Maren Pelowski, Riley Pelowski, Micah Pence, Eddie Pierson, Emma Pitzl, Laura Platt, Allison Rice, Dan Root, Taylor Ruhl, Thomas Ruhl, Arielle Roubal, Milena Roubal, Abby Rubado, Anna Russell, Morgan Schmidt, Monte Schott, Jadyn Selisker, Harry Seymour, David Schroeder, Magali Seymour, Taylor Sherack, Ellie Smith, Tanner Smith, Samantha Strong, Cora Tappe, Clayton Taylor, Ava Thompson, Isabel Thompson, James Thompson, Thomas Thompson, Madison Trowbridge, Megan Tschida, Nikita VanHeerden, Tyler VanHeerden, Jamie Wallace, Julia Wallace, Cassandra Weyaus, Dylan Wheeler, Maxwell Wheeler, Nick Whiteman, Sara Whiteman, Sophia Urbaniak and Rylie Young.
Those receiving excellent ratings were: Kate Benson, Britta Bittner, Amber Burtard, Anna Downie, Greta Harmala, Austin Evenson, Jack Gangl, Emma Gearns, Dirk Henry, Riley Henry, Cole Kaneski, Jenna Lee, Olivia Lundgren, Gunnar Niemeyer, Deanna Root, Jenna Seeling, Anna Streed, Ethan Strong, Matthew Thompson and Devon Wheeler.
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Those receiving their first gold cups are: Lauren Benson, Emily Danielson, Emma Ferrie, Alexa Fyle, Dirk Henry, Cameron Gearns, Jordan Higgeins, Kate Kurtzman, Alexis Menghini, Madison Leas, Caitlin Murray, Victoria Neff, Riley Pelowski, Allison Rice, Harry Seymour, Isabel Thompson, Matthew Thompson, Madison Trowbridge and Sophia Urbaniak.
Those receiving their second gold cups are: Bethany Bjorlo, Lynne Borowicz, Sam Borowicz, Erin Fisker, Lauren Forsythe, Alycia Goode, Haley Griggs, Laura Halvorson, Quintin Lubke, Matthew Majerle, Abby Rubado, Magali Seyjmour, Tanner Smith, Clayton Taylor, Thomas Thompson, Jamie Wallace, Julia Wallace and Sara Whiteman.
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There are plenty of ways to introduce yourself to Boston. You can put up little LED boards under bridges all over town and get pilloried, you can assume multiple identities and kidnap your daughter and get exposed, or you can ride a bike towing a big wooden cart around town and holler warnings at everyone in your path. These tested methods work — though sometimes at the expense of your valuable rep. A better way is to get in good with newly reactivated local gut-pop heroes Dear Leader. They do these two-night residencies sometimes at T.T.'s (like this Friday and Saturday) and tend to fill the bills with the cream of the up-and-coming crop. Alongside more familiar names, like Taxpayer and the Motion Sick (both of whom join DL on Friday), there's a handful of notable newbs and special guests. Let's have a listen, shall we?
The Rones,"Nonsense"
Friday + Saturday
That was close. Dear Leader frontman Aaron Perrino and his family up and relocated to Belgium last year. Sounds awesome, yes? No. Visa shit, cultural shit, apartment shit, and none of that lovely Boston humidity. But lo! He has returned, with (I'm guessing) a new fondness for mayonnaise and (I'm certain) a crush on these slick Belgian lickmeisters, who join Dear Leader both nights.
The Fatal Flaw, "The Great Indoors"
Although they demonstrate mastery of the interpersonal-squabble emo ballad ("When We Were Friends"), the true strengths of the Fatal Flaw (dudes from the Information, the Plus Ones, and — wow — the Mr. T. Experience) reveal themselves when the band get all loud, chunky, and pop-punky, splitting the difference between Jawbox and Jawbreaker. Do they sometimes go "Whoa-oa-oa"? Well of course they do.
The Painted Lights, "Kind Wind"
I'm with you: the idea of a halfway point between the Replacements and Coldplay makes me feel bad for coming up with it — but here we are. In other words: singer Brendan Little's voice can go from milky coos to raspy calls while remaining tuneful, and their songs (especially this one) rock a balance of real grit and true class.
Dear Leader, "Raging Red (vs. Guns N' Roses)"
Friday + Saturday
This live clip of hosts-with-the-most(s) Dear Leader is notable for a couple of reasons. One: it's pretty much a spontaneous mash-up of "Sweet Child o' Mine" and their own hit "Raging Red" that would make the Dismemberment Plan proud. Two: I swear, 22 seconds in, Barney Gumble makes a cameo. How is that even possible?
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Bad Company is the UK's Official Yokkao Training Center
- Written by Dave Walsh
If you know Muay Thai and Kickboxing in the UK then you've heard of the Bad Company Gym. Bad Company is home to fighters like Liam Harrison and Jordan Watson, both fighters who compete for Yokkao and have made names for themselves all across the globe. Richard Smith, the founder and head trainer, has come to a deal with Yokkao for Bad Company to become the official Yokkao Training Center in the UK, with the gym being fully outfitted in Yokkao gear!
For those looking to purchase Yokkao gear in the UK you can do so thanks to a new deal between Stefania Picelli and Jack Bolam at www.thaiboxingstore.co.uk.
Of course, this focus on the UK has to do with the upcoming Yokkao 8 card, which happens on March 8th in the UK! Tickets are still available at Yokkao's website and here is a look at the card.
- Liam Harrison vs Houcine Bennoui (65kg)
- Pakorn PK MuayThaiGym vs Greg Wootton (63.5kg)
- Dean James vs Rungravee Sasiprapa (57kg)
- Panicos Yusuf vs Rittuak Kaewsamrit (60,5kg)
- Tim Thomas vs Reece Mcallister (67kg)
- Soloman Wickstead vs Nathan Epps (72kg)
- Dan McGowan vs Jordan Coe (54kg)
- Steven Long vs Josh Turbill (68kg)
- Wayne Fidhre vs Brad Stanton (66kg)
- Mike Egan vs Pindi Singh Madahar (69kg)
- Chris Whittle vs Daniel Crompton (61kg)
- Johnny Miller vs Didzis Musulis (77kg)
- Laura Baugh vs Jacqui Bogart (55kg)
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One double bedroom. Living room: with one double sofa bed /TV/ table for 2. Fully equipped kitchen& appliances. One little indoor terrace. Full bathroom/hair dryer. Electric heaters, WiFi and Washing machine!
Catalonia and Barcelona has become one of the first tourist destination of Spain, it knows how to please the big majority : with a history among the oldest in Europe, a capital, Barcelona, which never sleeps and an inland full of charm not to forget beautiful beaches in La Costa Brava. The variety of artistic treasures, the Romanesque churches and the great names in modern art and architecture , Dali, Gaudi, Miro, Picasso and more.
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Very good service from Laia & Mohammed. The appartment is very well located. What we would like to recommend is : please install a (movable) airconditionner & replace of clean the sofa.
Apart from these 2 (small) remarks, we were very pleased about this appartment and we are especially very happy with the good service received from Laia & Mohammed
Reviews for this host's other properties
The apartment we were given was on floor 3, not floor 1. The bed was horrible, like sleeping on an old box spring. The bathroom was not the one pictured, the toilet was very cramped, and the hydro massage shower only worked as a regular shower. Although an oven is pictured there is not a single casserole or other oven capable pan. We put up with the apt because we only staying a few days and the location was very convenient. This is no reflection on WIMDU as a service as we have been very satisfied with every other apartment we have stayed at with them.
1. Nice and clean apartment
2. Good location
3. Good organization of check-in
4. No additional fee (deposit)
5. Unfortunately, poorly soundproofed apartment
Apartment is on great location..right in the heart of Barrio Gottico and it's perfect for exploring the city! It's close to beach and all sightseeing places. Close you have many bars, restaurants and 24/7 markets. Apartment building is renovated and looks good. Apartment is clean and new with new furniture and fully equipped kitchen. Bed linen and towels are clean. Reception staff is friendly and helpful. Only negative thing for us was there was no wifi in apartment even they granted one in description. Reception staff said it's not working temporarily but we staid for 6 days and it didn't work any day. Every day they were saying that it will work from tomorrow but it never did. That was so frustrating! I asked to move us to another apartment where there was wifi, they said they will check and let us know but they never did. So advice for all future guests- check the wifi when you come to apartment!
Everything was very good with this apartment. Good communication by the host and the location was especially good. We were attending a game at Camp Nou and it is very pleasant walk there. Plenty of places to eat and shop. I highly recommend it.
Clean spacious apartment comfortable and very quiet, ideal for 4 people, located in a residence near the center of Barcelona, 5 minutes walk from the subway.
The staff at the reception is very nice and helpful with any information you need.
If we come back to Barcelona certainly we will contact Laia & AinB team.
Nice apartment with everthing I needed. Great location - very central. Thanks.
We had a great weekend in Barcelona. The apartment is nice, clean and big and it has a nice view on the street of Barcelona. Location is also great, very close to centrum and Barcelona Saint Station.
A very nice flat. We had a wonderful stay there.
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Darren Purse has become the latest former Oxford United player to apply for the vacant manager's position.
The 36-year-old's CV has been sent into the club, joining ex-U's Dean Windass and David Rush, who wants to be considered for a coaching role, in the process.
Purse has his UEFA 'A' licence and is studying for a Diploma of Football Management at St George's Park in Burton.
The centre back joined Calor League Premier Division side Chesham United last month after a spell playing in Finland with IFK Mariehamn.
Purse made 72 appearances for United before moving to Birmingham City in a £700,000 deal in February 1998.


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Hampton residents face three flash floods in two weeks
CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. - A heavy downpour dumped three inches of rain in less than an hour in parts of Carter County Wednesday, causing localized flash flooding that's been all too familiar for some residents.
Thursday, Zane Church was faced with a daunting clean-up after a storm cell hovered over Rittertown Road, leaving him with a big mess in his front yard.
"All that mud and debris [is] down in my gate. My gates won't close or anything else down there," Church told News 5.
We found out his garage was caked with mud after flood waters seeped inside, and the water that rushed down his hill actually swept a hole through Church's garage foundation.
He might not be so upset if this was the first time it happened.
"That makes the third time in about two weeks. Water just kept coming," Church said.
Carter County highway crews agreed that this has become an unusually frequent problem.
Officials said this summer's extreme amounts of rain are more than Bill's Branch Creek can bear.
"It just keeps gushing rain in on us all the time. Most of the time it comes from the back side of that mountain up yonder, and we can't slow it down," said Willie Campbell with the Carter County Highway Department.
We learned what is slowing it down is a drainage pipe, called a tile, that officials said is too small and tilted; making an already bad situation much worse.
"I've been here 38 years and I've never seen it like this, but hopefully we'll get the problem solved," Campbell told us.
We found crews already digging up rock and moving debris to make the creek wider and flow easier Thursday afternoon, but officials told me it's just a 'Band-Aid' of a fix and it will take a lot more planning to create a long-term solution.
That's one more frustration for a homeowner tired of his frequent flooding.
"It's just bad. I don't know what to do about it," said Church.
Here are more flooding facts we found out:
Carter County's Emergency Management Agency director, Andrew Worley, told us three families evacuated their homes during the Rittertown flash flood, but all were allowed back in their homes in about an hour.
Part of the road was also shut down, but it is now back open.
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I am building some top feeders for my hives and have a question concerning top entrances. Since the top feeder box serves as the inner cover, should I put a hole in the box to allow for a top entrance? Or will this be just an easy access for robbing?
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it's been brought up in several threads now, so it might as well have it's own topic. nassim haramein has discovered the math that unifies the strong and weak field theories that einstein created, but could not solve.
the paper can be downloaded (pdf) by following the link below, and clicking the link to download it in the second paragraph: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory: ... FoundationNassim Haramein's award winning scientific paper, "The Schwarzschild Proton," has passed the peer review process and has been published at the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings. The table of contents of the proceedings book can be found on their site and should soon be updated with full text.
if you're not much into math, i've included a link to a talk he did that covers a good bit of the material that he's discovered, and what this means for our society, and the good news is, it's done in a way that most people will be able to understand without a degree. enjoy!
(part 1 of 4)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1256390335


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Section I - Correspondence and business papers
1921-1939, Dec.
1939-1948 (bound group)
Section II -Volumes
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company
1919-1920 Ledger
1920-1923 Stock Ledger & Transfer Journal
1921-1924 Stock Ledger & Transfer Journal
1921-1932 Stock Certificate Account Book
1923-1934 Cash Book
1926-1935 Ledger
1928-1935 Journal (account book)
1932-1935 Cash Book
1933-1934 Cash Book
1935-1937 Loans and Interest Journal
1935-1937 Pay Roll Ledger
1935-1946 Stock Certificate Account Book
1937-1939 Pay Roll Ledger
Other Material
1921-1935 Ophir Mining Co. - Stock Ledger & Transfer Journal
1931-1935 Zeb Kendall, Mrs. Zeb Kendall, Abe L. Kendall - Joint Account Book
1936-1938 Mexican Gold & Silver Mining Co. - Account Book
Section III - Map Rolls
1 General map of surface claims for Comstock Mines, including California, Consolidated Virginia, Best & Belcher, Gould & Curry, Savage, Hale & Norcross, Chollar, Potosi, Bullion, Exchequer, Yellow Jacket, and Sutro Tunnel. Cloth-backed - ink. HOFFMANN, Charles Frederick, cartographer. [1879?]
2 General map of levels and inclines for Ophir, Consolidated Virginia, Best & Belcher, Gould & Curry, Savage. Draft, pencil and ink. Cloth-backed.
3 General map of surface claims for Capital, Alta, Lady Washington, Justice Mill Site, Woodville, North Monumental, Monumental, Echo, Silver Hill Mining Co., Gold Canon Creek, Devil's Gate Toll Road. Ink on brown paper.
4 General map of surface claims from Lone Cabin Placer to Sunshine. Ink and pencil draft on white paper.
5 General map of surface claims, including Fairfax, July Lode, Plutus, Miami, Ohio, Shamo, March, Rocky Bar. Ink and pencil on printed Plat Claim Form. 1900
Individual Mines
6 Alpha, Emma, Star of the West, Ohio, Como Chief. Surface claims. On verso: pencil notations. Ink on white paper.
7 Alpha, Exchequer, Bullion. Surface claims. Black and red ink on brown paper.
8 Auer, John (ground claimed by), Bailey Mine, including Lafayette Consolidated Mining Co., Great Eastern. Surface claims. Red and black ink on brown paper. On verso: Sutro tunnel Shaft.
9 Bonanza (North) - Flowery Dist. Surface claim. Ink on brown paper.
10 Bryan (L.G.). Surface buildings, tunnels, hoist, mill, Flowery Ravine, etc. Red ink on brown paper.
11 Champion Consolidated Mining Co., including Kossuth, Webber, Silver Central Co., Carson Co.. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
12 Comstock (North), Pioneer (including also Spanish Co., Scorpion Silver Mining Co.). Surface claims. Red and black ink on brown paper. On verso: Gold Hill Co., Scorpion, & Sierra Nevada.
13 Consolidated Virginia, California, Ophir, Vermont. Workings. (Includes Virginia & Truckee Railroad track and Sutro tunnel). Ink and color on brown paper.
14 Consolidated Virginia, California Mining Co. and surrounding mines. Surface claims. Black and red ink on brown paper.
15 Consolidated Virginia Mining Co., Ophir, California, and Consolidated Virginia Mines. On oil skin. 1936, Feb.
1) 60' level
2) 145' level
3) 245' level
4) shovel-pit assay map.
SQUIRES, Howard W., cartographer.
16 Consolidated Virginia and Ophir Mines: Assay plans: 1933-1934
1) 75' level workings
2) 123'-104' levels
3) 138'-111' levels
4) 207'-187'-163' levels
5) 237' level
6) California claim - East ore body
7) Ophir claim - North Extension - 146' level
8) Ophir - A & A Workings (Blocks C-D-E-F)
9) Ophir - Mexican and Boucher Winze 250' level
10) Composite map of Ophir and Consolidated Virginia workings - negative photostat. OSBORNE, W. L., cartographer.
17 Consolidated Virginia corresponding to Ophir (level 1921 maps). Oil skin ink and color.
1) Con Virginia 1000'
2) Con Virginia 1200
3) Con Virginia 1500
Ophir 1366
4) Con Virginia 1550
Ophir 1400
5) Con Virginia 1600
Ophir 1445
6) Con Virginia 1650
Ophir 1500
7) Con Virginia 1700
8) Con Virginia 1750
Ophir 1600
9) Con Virginia 1800
10) Con Virginia 1950
11) Con Virginia 2050
Ophir 1900
12) Con Virginia 2150
Ophir 2000
18 Consolidated Virginia - Bonanza. Shaft map, cross section. On oil skin.
19 Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. - Cyanide Mill designed by Lou M. Louis. 1935, Aug. 21
POWELL, C. A., cartographer.
20 Consolidated Virginia - Savage & Norcross - Ventilating. Map to accompany report on ventilating system at North End Mines. Blue print. 1914, Jan.
LIDDELL, Chas. A., cartographer.
21 Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. - Mine Dumps (printed with MS. notations) 1947, Dec.
1) Con Virginia Dump
2) Ophir Dump
3) Ophir Dump
4) C.C. Dump
5) C.C. Dump, Brewery Dump.
SQUIRES, Howard W., cartographer.
22 Cosmopolitan Stope (incomplete?). Ink on brown paper.
23 Croton & North Ophir, Conflict between. Surface claims. Ink and pencil on brown paper.
24 Fairfax, Spring Garden, Butcher. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
25 Fairfax, Vermont, Venis [sic] and others. Surface claims. Ink and color on oil skin.
26 Gold Lead, Margarita, Comstock. Surface claims. Black and red ink on brown paper.
27 Golden Eagle Mine & Independent. Inclines. Draft, pencil.
28 Joe Scates. Surface claim. Pencil draft on brown paper.
29 Juniper Claim, Golden Era Claim, Prospect Claim. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
30 Justice Blaine. Surface claim. Pencil draft on brown paper. On verso: draft. 1901, Oct. 5
MORAN, W. T., cartographer.
31 Margarita, Marsano, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Esperance, Manhattan Consolidated. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
32 Mary Ann, Northern Light, Butcher, Vermont, Venis [sic], also North Consolidated Virginia, Kearsarge, Light, California Consolidated, Joe Scates. Surface claims. Ink, outlined in color on brown paper.
33 Mexican Shaft and Mt. Blanc Shaft. Pencil draft on oil skin.
34 Monte Cristo Mine. Surface Claim. Draft, pencil and ink.
35 New York-Nevada Mining Co. Claims, Gold Hill Mining District, Storey Co. Blue print with MS. notations.
NICKERSON, Geo. S., cartographer.
36 Northern Belle, Golden Eagle, Oest, Boston. Surface claims. Blue print. On verso: pencil notations.
37 North Ophir, Scorpion & others. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
38 Ophir - shaft and stope maps
1) Portion of Ophir works - 2000'-2700' level
2) Mexican shaft, Walsh shaft
3) Belcher shaft, Crown Point shaft
4) Consolidated Virginia shaft
39 Ophir Claim - North Section, Potential Ore Reserves. G. Mc.M. Ross, data. Blue line print with manuscript notations and traced copy. 1934
OSBORNE, W. L., cartographer.
40 Palmyra District. West Rapidan. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
41 Potosi. Cross section. Ink on brown paper. MORAN, W. T., cartographer.
42 Russian Gold & Silver Mining Co. Claim and North Point Mine. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
43 Savage Incline. Black and red ink, pencil.
44 Savage & Norcross Combination Shafts.
45 Savage, Norcross & Co.: Sacramento Surface claims. Draft, pencil and ink.
46 Senator, showing Sutro tunnel and Julia Consolidated mine. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
47 Shamo Co. Also containing Fairfax, Spring Garden and Butcher. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
48 Sheerin & Holman, Corey Jay Boer. Surface claims. Pencil and ink draft on brown paper. On verso: two other mines.
49 Sheridan Co. Lassen Lode, Virginia Claim. Surface claims. On brown paper.
50 Silver Hill and adjoining mining claims (Succor White Lead, Snell, Justice & others). Ink draft on brown paper. On verso: Vivian Mine.
51 Silver Hill-Dageet Survey. Workings. Including Sheerin, Holman & Cory Jay. Blue print. TAYLOR, C.C., cartographer. 1908, Dec.
52 Silver Leaf. Surface claim and shaft. Ink on brown paper. 1889, Oct. 13
53 Utah, also Allen Consolidated Mining Co. located as the Peruvian Claim, and Blue Jacket. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper.
54 Utah, Ward, Orleans. Surface claims. Ink on brown paper. On verso: Atlantic Company's tunnel.
55 Unidentified.
56 Falette Tract. Surveyed for R. Marcoux. Showing also the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Roux Gardens, and American Flat road. On brown paper. 1876, Dec. 13
57 Truckee River, proposed dam. Blue print. 1911, June 9
58 Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co. Pencil, traced copy.
59 Virginia City. Mill Street and A, B, C Streets and Mexican Shaft. Pencil draft on brown paper. 1935, Oct. 15
60 Virginia City. Official map of Virginia City, as adopted, June 6, 1865. Traced by Walter G. Reid. Blue line print. 1955, Mar.
61 Virginia City. Topographical maps for Virginia City Mining Co., showing Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. and adjoining claims. Two sheets. Blue prints. 1944, Sep.
62 Virginia City, showing Consolidated Virginia, Ophir, Mexican and Union Mining claims and town lots. Blue print. [c.1944?]


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Is there any information, studies if you will, on how far drones travel to breed? Treated drones, I am sure you are aware, could hamper your TF work.
Is there any information, studies if you will, on how far drones travel to breed? Treated drones, I am sure you are aware, could hamper your TF work.
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
In German studies, drones traveled up to 5 km. A single Drone Concentration Area had 238 separate colonies represented (based on mark and recapture studies). In an Arizona study, a 2 x 5 km block had multiple flyways and congregation areas (26!) where flyways crossed.
The discussion in both studies have drones making optimization decisions -- they distribute over several areas and optimize for time spent aloft, and mating likelihood.
A recent German study shows strong bias by drones to the closer DCA versus distant. No description of the Queen preference.
A obligate out-crossing mating system with promiscuous queens is going to maintain enormous variability in the F2 generation (i.e. the daughter queen's workers).
Most of the discussion on this forum conflates bee genetics with dog breeding. It is very different imperative-- the whole evolutionary strategy of the bee is stable morphology-- it is all about forcing flowers (and parasites) to evolve to what the bee desires, not changing the bee to the flower.
There is fascinating microsatellite studies of Mediteranean bees. In Algeria, where thousands of Italian queens were imported during the colonial period, there are zero Italian genetics in the mitochodria DNA-- it is all the native "Moroccan" subtype. Mitochondria descends outside the nucleus recombination-- and indicates the wild type has completely suppressed the "improved" introduction at tje queen level. This can be interpreted both as a case study in "local" races and as a cautionary tale about improving genetics in bees through wild out-crossing.
Yes you can change the genetics of the honeybee, but to maintain lines with high entropy, you need isolation and saturation. Think offshore islands (per Baton Rouge trials), multi-hundred unit daughter colonies surrounded by sterile water or cornfields. Saturation and Isolation-- the keys to moving an outcrossing genotype -- unless you have that the "selection" is going to revert very quickly. Remember the future colony will express the F2 generation in its social survival-- double hybrid distance from the mother queen.
If you are in a suburban backyard with a woodlot of hollow trees and a yard of 15 to 20 hives-- your genotype is going to regress to the wild norm-- simple and cruel mathematics. (Many of the most vocal advocates of TF beekeeping are in this type of apiculture).
In order to resolve whether this type of yard has any contribution to make to changing genotype through non-treatment selection, an evaluation of the "survivor hive" concept needs to be made. Two possibilities pertain: wild hives reflect the agricultural predominance of the southern queen breeders, or wild hives represent a unique "survivor genotype" local to the area. I haven't seen real evidence to support the "survivor hive" theory, but the published record is riduculously spotty for the core question. Some of my reluctance to embrace the "survivor hive" postulate is due to the Africanized Hybrid that increasing dominates my region -- the genetic drift is moving to AHB, and not to some other equilibrium.
Arizona Study: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.230...21102527347043
German Study: http://dunkle-biene.de/downloads/dca...tion-areas.pdf
German Near site selection: http://link.springer.com/article/10....-0763-z#page-1
Check out the work of Freidrich and Hans Ruttner. (I think it is)
There's likely other stuff also, I know it has been studied.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
He also recommends raising vast numbers of drones from selected queens. His method is to tie in bits of drone comb to make whole frames, have them laid up by the selected queen/s, and then raised and housed in nursery hives that become 'drone colonies'.
He also talks about a 'guard ring' of such hives around the mating station, outlining the sorts of numbers required for mating a specific number of queens.
He speaks of the short lives of drones, and the need to co-ordinate drone-raising and mating requirements.
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
Friedrich Ruttner. Seems to be out of print, will look a little more, thanks.
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
Journal article available online -- Use Google Scholar Search -- specialized search option just for Academic sources.
Honey Bee Drone Flyways and Congregation Areas: Radar Observations
Gerald M. Loper, Wayne W. Wolf and Orley R. Taylor, Jr.
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), pp. 223-230
-- really cool paper on flyways and DCA is Arizona. MUST READ
Drone competition at drone congregation areas
in four Apis species1
Nikolaus KOENIGER, Gudrun KOENIGER*, Michael GRIES and Salim TINGEK
Apidologie 36 (2005) 211–221
-- Great bibliography
Koeniger N., Koeniger G. Pechhacker H. (2005) The
nearer the better? Drones (Apis mellifera) prefer
nearer drone congregation areas, Insectes Soc. 52
Landscape analysis of drone congregation areas of the honey
bee, Apis mellifera
Alberto Galindo-Cardonaa*, Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 12 | Article 122
Thanks JWChesnut! Exactly the info I wanted! Short and filled with information on Drones and drone flyways and collection areas, DCAs.
Forgot to mention...25000 drones in one DCA! For one queen! Been in a few bars like that!
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
Interesting paper.
Of central interest to me is the idea that to get good breeding, we need to maintain drone yards, or drone colonies at least a mile from the apiary containing our mating nucs. Do we?
So quotes from the paper:
"Selected drone congregation areas were regularly observed for five years to verify that the dimensions of these congregation zones did not change greatly during this time (Ruttner and Ruttner 1968). When strange colonies were introduced into the vicinity, new drones were found at the congregation areas on the first day in equal proportion with local drones. This was true for congregation zones both near and distant to the apiary (2-3 km)...
"Drone congregation areas are commonly visited by drones from almost every apiary in the neighborhood..
"Areas as far as five km from an apiary may be visited regularly by numerous drones; some drones were found coming from more than six km away...
"Although the number of drones in a congregation area is quite variable, one such area had an estimated 25,000 drones from more than 200 colonies (Winston 1987). Several regularly frequented DCA's were observed 500-1000 m from the nearest apiary.
"it was determined that the composition of the DCA contained equal representation from the local colonies, approximately 240 in number. Considering the density of colonies around the congregation area and average flight ranges of males, the results suggested that most colonies within the recruitment parameter of a DCA delegated equal proportions of males to a DCA. Consequently, the relatedness of a queen to her mates – and ultimately the inbreeding coefficient of the progeny – should be minimal. The relatedness among the drones mated to a common queen is also very low, maximizing the genetic diversity among the different patrilines (paternal sub-families) of a colony."
Now, reading that, I feel like it really wouldn't make a bit of difference if I went to the trouble of locating drone yards a mile away. All the DCA's in the area are still going to be frequented by those drones; in relatively equal parts to other colonies in the area. So diversity is maintained through the drones splitting up and spreading themselves out between DCA's. Queens don't really need to do anything to "avoid" their own drones, as the genetics are as diverse as there are enough healthy colonies in the area to produce drones.
It seems to me that it is enough for me to maintain healthy bees, graft queens and open mate. My colonies will influence the gene pool of the area proportionately.
So if you really want to influence the genetics, you have to have more colonies in the area than anyone else. And that "flooding the area" approach is done by many, and has been done for a long time.
Trying to maintain yards at distances for better mating with your own queens might just be a waste of time...
Erickson published the "recipe" for breeding resistant stock in 2000. This recipe is very distinct from an undirected "Bond" approach.
His six steps are:
1. Identify Varroa-tolerant colonies in your
2. Move all colonies identified as Varroa tolerant
to a single isolated test apiary. This
apiary should be at least 3-4 miles from
managed colonies treated for mite control.
3. Monitor Varroa levels in the selected
colonies every three months.
4. Graft only from those colonies with the
lowest mite loads…Never use colonies
with known problems such as disease,
poor productivity or unacceptable defensive
behavior, no matter how Varroa-tolerant
they may appear.
5.Mate all queens in the isolation test apiary.
6. Requeen colonies in your other apiaries
as queens become available. Once requeened,
these colonies become candidates
for future selections of improved
Varroa-tolerance, hence, the need for
good record keeping. (viz: http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/1694632...bee+RECIPE.pdf )
The promoters of a "Live-and-let-die" theory don't address the issue of inbreeding or genetic swamping -- the Erickson prescription and the Russian program address these explicitly.
On inbreeding read: Harbo and Harris : viz: http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...8b649c009c.pdf
Note they did 3 conditions: Resistant x Resistant crosses, R x Control , and C x C. The R x R queens were 100% hygenic, but produced on 1/2 the brood of free mated sisters. The loss of productivity is the mark of inbreeding. The Russian breeding program now takes out-crossing very seriously through grafting from one lineage for the virgin queens and yearly drone hive circulation from out-yards to saturate drones of a different lineage.
Improved selection requires A) isolation and B) saturation. There is very strong inertia in the bee breeding system (promiscuous obligate out-crossing) to revert to the normal genotype.
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As I said before, it seems to me that more attention you pay to this aspect, the more you increase your chances of success - at least if there are treaters around. If there are ferals all around your yard its a different story. I haven't read anything yet that makes me think its not a good idea, for me, to try to maintain say 4 outstands at a mile or two's distance around my yard as a genetic measure. And to encourage them to raise good numbers of drones.
We've read that ""it was determined that the composition of the DCA contained equal representation from the local colonies... " and that DCA's are populated more by nearer colonies. The latter makes more sense to me. As distance increases the likelihood of drones from a given colony must decrease.
I've read somewhere that you only need a few patrilines with mite-management behaviours to provide resistance. Probably there's an optimum of some sort, though given that there are several distinct behaviours the picture must be rather complex. But I think an equally important issue is that you want to maximise the chances of the daughter queens of the one mated to carry the right genes - not just for immediate purposes, but into the future. The next generation queen will be a product at random of her mother and one of the mated drones, and may or may not inherit the required behaviours from her mother (50% chance in each case). So the more resistance-carrying drones her mother has mated with the better - at least up to a point.
That's my attempt at rationalising matters on the info we've seen. But really I'm running with the intuition that more good colonies * more drones = more positive matings, and the longstanding understanding of people like Ruttner, Manley, and Solomon, that keeping dedicated drone colonies around a mating yard makes a positive difference. It makes sense, whereas taking no action against my local treaters doesn't. I don't need to know the ins and outs of it all.
Mike (UK)
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Located in Seattle Central Business District, Executive Hotel Pacific is within a 10-minute walk of popular sights such as Nordstrom and Pike Place Market. This 3-star hotel has 155 guestrooms and offers conveniences like a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and a fitness center. It's in central Seattle and also a short walk from Columbia Center and Seattle Great Wheel.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or have a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café, and chat with other guests at the free daily manager's reception. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee.
All 155 recently renovated rooms provide coffee makers, free weekday newspapers, and free bottled water. Guests can expect free WiFi and 42-inch LCD TVs. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and bathrobes, and beds are dressed in premium bedding. Laptop-compatible safes and ironing boards are other standard amenities.
Property features
Renovated in 2014, Executive Hotel Pacific offers a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and a meeting room. Valet parking is offered for USD 40.55 per night. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Additional amenities include a 24-hour business center, free newspapers, and a porter/bellhop.
- Walking distance to Nordstrom and Pike Place Market
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Fitness center
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Executive Hotel Pacific
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include The Lodge, a restaurant, and Vovito Specialty Cafe. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A 24-hour business center is on site at this 3-star property.
High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. 1 meeting room is available. This Seattle hotel also offers a fitness center, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.
Executive Hotel Pacific is a smoke-free property.
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge 1
- Coffee shop or café 1
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 155
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 8
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Year Built 1928
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Fitness facilities
- Luggage storage
- One meeting room
- Restaurant 1
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free WiFi
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
Executive Hotel Pacific offers 155 air-conditioned accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and complimentary bottled water. Beds feature premium bedding. LCD televisions are featured in guestrooms.
Bathrooms include bathrobes and hair dryers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and complimentary weekday newspapers. Housekeeping is offered daily and refrigerators can be requested. Renovation of all guestrooms was completed in September 2014.
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Free weekday newspaper
- Free bottled water
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Heating
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
The Lodge - This restaurant redefines what it means to enjoy sports and local craft beer; 50 beers are available on tap. They pride themselves in the quality and heartiness of the food presented, from the gourmet Pac12 burgers to fine steaks and fresh seafood.
Vovito Specialty Cafe - Offers hand-crafted espresso, coffee, and beans in Premium Blend and Single Origin varieties. A full selection of gourmet teas, chai beverages, house-made gelato, sorbetto, a wide variety of paninis, salads and baked goods, all made fresh daily, are also available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 25 per pet, per night (maximum USD 200.00 per stay)
- 2 per room (up to 30 lb)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
No rollaway/extra beds available
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
Parking height restrictions apply
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 6 and USD 15 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 40.55 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per night (maximum USD 200.00 per stay)
Hotel Name
- Executive Hotel Pacific
- Executive Hotel Pacific Seattle
- Executive Pacific
- Executive Pacific Seattle
- Pacific Executive Hotel
- Executive Hotel Seattle
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Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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From what I have read, Senator Dodd Sr, who authored the 1968 Gun Control Act, took it almost word for word from the Nazi Laws of 1935.
Interesting read. I know part of the gun confiscation was due to the treaty at the end of the war, but it definitely got progressively worse.
Nazi Gun Control Laws: a Familiar Road to Citizen Disarmament??
In an article earlier this month, the online Huffington Post mocked the Drudge Report for posting pictures of Adolf Hitler (shown on right, with Benito Mussolini) and Josef Stalin above the headline: White House Threatens Executive Orders on Guns.
A Google search using the search term Obama Hitler Gun Control delivers nearly six million results.
While such evidence is certainly not scientific, it does reveal an increase in the interest of the role of the disarmament of a citizenry in the development of a fascist regime. If one can identify these milestones on the road to the Third Reich, for example, perhaps similar steps can be avoided in the United States of America.
There are those, of course, who hold to the belief that a reduction in arms is progress. President Obama said as much after his recent meeting with police chiefs regarding local enforcement of forthcoming gun control measures.
Not surprisingly, some of those advocates of an unarmed society have sat on the bench of the nations highest court.
In 1972, in the case of Adams v. Williams, Justice William O. Douglas wrote a dissenting opinion stating, There is no reason why pistols should not be barred to everyone except the police.
There is one glaring reason that should be obvious to a trained jurist. The Second Amendment to the United States declares, A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. This right historically has been the right that protects all others. An armed populace is recognized as the most significant ally of liberty in its conflict with tyranny.
As Adolf Hitler himself explained, The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.
Regardless of the historical importance of the right to bear arms and the identification of disarmament by one of historys most notorious dictators as critical to conquering a people, there are those who will instantly dismiss comparisons between President Obamas promised gun control executive orders and Hitlers murderous rampage through Europe.
Take for example this paragraph from a Policy Mic article published earlier this month:
The use of executive orders will likely spur gun owners to even greater opposition to the White House and increase the number of activists comparing the President to dictators like Hitler or Stalin. As Media Matters analyst Eric Boehlert recently commented, the gun debate draws together two far-right paranoid fantasies: the first that Obama is just like Hitler, ready to force Americans into a fascistic or Stalinist state (or both, if the rhetorician feels no obligation to historical accuracy), the other that Americans need an unrestricted supply of heavy armaments to fight their looming insurrectionist war with the government.
Such attacks are transparent attempts to poison the well and prevent the impressionable from searching the historical record for themselves.
A more journalistic and dispassionate piece might present some of the gun control laws passed in Germany before and during Hitlers reign of terror.
Such a survey is the purpose of this article. If there are similarities between German disarmament laws that cleared the way for the seizure of absolute power by the Nazi party and contemporary American gun control proposals, they will become apparent to the reader, regardless of personal prejudices or predetermined outcome.
First, in 1919 (about nine years before the rise of the National Socialists), the German post-World War I government passed the Verordnung des Rates der Volksbeauftragen über Waffenbesitz (Regulations of the Council of the Peoples Delegates on Weapons Possession). A reaction to the increasing presence of communists in Germany, this gun control law mandated, All firearms, as well as all kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately. Anyone who was found in possession of a gun or ammunition could be punished by up to five years imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks.
As agents of the German military enforced this law throughout Germany, in order to accelerate the seizure of all weapons and ammunition, the decision was made to install what might be called in modern political parlance a Disarmament Czar. Call for a gun control czar. Sound familiar?
On August 7, 1920, the German government passed the Gesetz über die Entwaffnung der Bevölkerung (Law on the Disarmament of the People). This law created the office of Reichskommissar for Disarmament of the Civil Population. This official was tasked with making a list of military weapons that were subject to immediate seizure. Sound familiar?
Perhaps the most frightening and foreboding provision of the law was that requiring all citizens with knowledge of anyone hoarding ammo or who owned outlawed weapons to turn in to the Reichskommissar the names of these people. Neighbors spying on neighbors. Sound familiar?
The next step in the complete disarmament of Germany prior to Hitlers wresting of absolute power was the passage in 1928 of the Gesetz über Schußwaffen und Munition (Law on Firearms and Ammunition). This law required licensing of anyone who manufactured, assembled, or repaired firearms and ammunition. This included private citizens who reloaded their own rounds. Trade and sale of arms and ammo was also forbidden without a license, including at gun shows and competitive shooting events. Sound familiar?
The license to own a weapon provided for in the 1928 law was called a Waffenschein. This carry license was issued at the will of the government, and an applicant was required to show that his reliability is not in doubt and that he had a particular need for a firearm. Psychological testing for a gun license. Sound familiar?
Further, this law placed caps on the types and numbers of weapons and ammunition that could be owned, even by those with licenses. Persons who owned more than five guns or more than 100 rounds of ammunition would have to seek a special license for such an arsenal. Caps on ammo. Sound familiar?
Progressive? The disarmament of the population certainly did progress rapidly. As legal scholar Stephen Halbrook wrote in an extraordinarily thorough article published in 2000 in the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law:
Within a decade, Germany had gone from a brutal firearms seizure policy which, in times of unrest, entailed selective yet immediate execution for mere possession of a firearm, to a modern, comprehensive gun control law. Passed by a liberal republic, this law ensured that the police had records of all firearms acquisitions (or at least all lawful ones) and that the keeping and bearing of arms were subject to police approval. This firearms control regime was quite useful to the new government that came to power a half decade later.
On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag (German parliament) passed, by a vote of 441 to 94, a measure called the Enabling Act permitting Hitler to make laws without consulting the Reichstag. The president issuing decrees without consulting Congress. Sound familiar?
Finally, within a week of assuming autocratic control of the lawmaking power in Germany, Hitler issued the following order regarding gun ownership:
The units of the national revolution, SA, SS, and Stahlhelm, offer every German man with a good reputation the opportunity to join their ranks for the fight. Therefore, whoever does not belong to one of these named units and nevertheless keeps his weapon without authorization or even hides it, must be viewed as an enemy of the national government and will be held responsible without hesitation and with the utmost severity.
And, in case there were any doubts about the seriousness of the severity, a newspaper entry announcing the edict informed citizens: If we find military weapons or ammunition after 31 March 1933, we will be forced to proceed ruthlessly.
This brief, irrefutable recitation of the progress of German gun control laws and executive orders demonstrates that there is more than just incidental similarity and that the fear of future firearms seizures by the government is historically sound and not just paranoid fantasies of the far-right.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
From what I have read, Senator Dodd Sr, who authored the 1968 Gun Control Act, took it almost word for word from the Nazi Laws of 1935.
Tommo is correct.
The U.S. has been using a Nazi gun law on American citizens for 45 years.
Welcome to reality.
The Liberals have been screwing over Americans for quite some time now. I hate Liberals, now and forever.
Throughout the past 45 years by means of mass propaganda and the meticulously engineered ''formed public opinion'', too many uninformed jurors are willing to convict their fellow countrymen on many of these illegal laws.
The job of the juror is to judge the law as well as the facts. For some reason the sheep don't get it.
I think the only thing worst than a liberal is a fellow 'gunowner' advocating the enforcement of such pretented legislation.. We always hear one or two who will mindlessly chant 'enforce the laws that are on the books' while they have NO idea that the laws on the books are actually not legal according to the TRUE law already on the books.
Instead of supporting Nazi gun control laws, we should be advocating the repeal of them.
What he saidwe should be advocating the repeal of them.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Thanks. If I remember correctly, Dodd got a copy of the Nazi 1935 law from the Library of the Congress before he wrote the 1968 Law.
Dodd brought a copy of the Germany 1935 Nazi Gun Law back with him after the Nuremburg trails at the end of WWII.
He had the Library of Congress translate it into English. He had some changes made to it (removal of trunnions and knifes), and submitted it to Congress where it was approved as the 1968 Omnibus Crime (Gun) Law.
Don't you just love Liberals, and their anti-gun beliefs! I think their brains are wired for absurdity.
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Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller


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DoDEA Has a New Website!
In an effort to streamline our information and better serve our students DoDEA has upgraded our web presence into a more cohesive and robust site. This new website will help us provide and publish up to date and relevant information without duplication.
All of our pages can be accessed from the DoDEA Pacific drop down located in the top right corner of your web browser.
Please take a minute to browse through the links below to familiarize yourself with the site,
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I lost my nickle plated Norinco in a breakin in 2010.I thought about building a SS 1911 until I found I could get a brand new Taurus PT1911 for 650$ out the door.My bigest concern was screwing up the build and having Peter Garrett in Newport Ky finish my screwup.
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Every season a number of Arsenal players go out on loan to gain valuable first-team experience. The 2011/12 campaign is no different and 18 Gunners are currently away from the Club.
Arsenal.com track their progress throughout the season. Our Arsenal's Loanees page offers an overview of all the players and below is the latest instalment of our Loan Watch feature with reports from their latest matches.
Sanchez Watt
Crawley Town 4-2 Cheltenham
Tuesday, February 7
Sanchez Watt scored twice in Crawley's 4-2 win over fellow League Two promotion hopefuls Cheltenham at the Broadfield Stadium on Tuesday. The striker opened the scoring in the 12th minute before capping off a fine evening for Steve Evans' side with 20 minutes remaining.
Chuks Aneke
Stevenage P-P Oldham
Tuesday, February 7
Stevenage's League One fixture against Oldham Athletic on Tuesday was postponed due to a frozen pitch at Broadhall Way.


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My favorites are my Pfaffs 1222E(electric) and 60 treadle. I like the 1222E for its built in walking foot and the 60 for how nicely it sews; its a joy to treadle. I have a variety of machine brands and they all have their specialties.
The Singer Featherweights sew a lovely stitch and are light enough to travel easily, the Singer treadles all sew beautifully and can quilt as well as sew anything I can get under the presser foot.
Recently one of my FW went to the hospital with me to keep me busy piecing log cabin blocks while I had IV antibiotics for 2 days; wasn't sick except for the MRSA on my leg.
Sharon W.


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text: I still think Bridgewater is the better QB, but Mariota is going to be a stud as well. They should probably go 1-2 in the 2014 draft if they both come out. I think Clowney goes 3rd. I could see a Jags Bridgewater, Bucs Mariota, Giants Clowney beginning of the draft.