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Lafayette High's only chance at success in its Friday regular-season football finale was to play keep-away.
The Mighty Lions had to keep the football out of the hands of Barbe's high-octane offense, and the strategy worked ... sort of. The Class 5A second-ranked Buccaneers only ran 20 offensive plays in the first half and only 31 plays through three quarters.
The problem for the host Lions was that Barbe scored five times on those 20 first-half plays, and put up touchdowns on each of their first eight possessions in rolling to a 56-35 District 3-5A victory.
Barbe, which won the District 3-5A crown, will likely be one of the top four seeds when the playoff brackets are announced Sunday. The Lions, on the other hand, are just hoping to have their name listed somewhere.
Buccaneer quarterback Kennon Fontenot threw for seven touchdowns as part of a 449-yard night, even though Barbe (9-1, 6-0) didn't throw a pass over the final quarter and a half.
"They just have a great offensive football team," said Lafayette coach Jay Domengeaux, whose team will play the waiting game until Sunday's announcement of the qualifiers for the 5A playoffs. "They're very impressive and very efficient, and they make so many good decisions."
Fontenot made a lot of those decisions, continually throwing over the top of the Mighty Lion secondary with touchdown passes of 11, 43, 77, 23, 5, 68 and 71 yards.
"We went in with a game plan and we stuck to it," said Fontenot, who finished 14-of-20 throwing and upped his touchdown total to 31 in 10 regular-season games. "Our offensive line is one of the best in the state ... I wouldn't want anyone else protecting me."
Barbe had 28 points in the first quarter on only 10 snaps, never taking more than three plays to score, but the Lions (5-5, 2-4) used their veer running attack and a well-timed onside kick to stay even with the Bucs at 28-28 late in the first half. LHS had 255 rush yards in the first half alone, and quarterback Colin Comeaux hit Damion Morgan with a 30-yard scoring pass with 2:15 left in the half for that 28-all tie.
But the Bucs came right back, going 80 yards in a comparatively-marathon nine plays before Fontenot hit running back Courtney Galentine with a 5-yard scoring toss 11 seconds before halftime.
SULPHUR — With each of its seasons on the line, the Sulphur Golden Tors and the Carencro Bears played with a sense of desperation.
Sulphur intercepted a pair of Carencro passes to take to a six-point halftime lead. But in the end Carencro dominated possession in the second half, scoring two touchdowns in the first 6 minutes of the third quarter to win and all but assure itself a spot in the Class 5A playoffs.
"I thought the first half definitely went our way and our kids played well," Sulphur head coach Harold Fusilier said. "We started the second half by giving them good field position, and I think that got them fired up a little bit."
It was that third quarter that turned the game in Carencro's favor.
Down 20-14, Carencro's Kyler Perrault took the opening kickoff 44 yards and gave the Bears a short field.
From there, it was an early-and-often dosage of senior fullback Galen Carter. Carter carried the ball eight of the drive's nine plays and capped the drive with a 6-yard run to give the Bears (5-4, 4-2) a lead they didn't relinquish.
MOSS BLUFF — A tough 10-minute run cost Sam Houston a shot at picking up its first District 3-5A win of the season.
Comeaux used two interceptions and two big plays in that time frame to beat the Broncos.
The Broncos (2-8, 0-6) jumped ahead 6-0 in the first quarter when Dustin Duhon scored on a 75-yard run.
Comeaux (4-5, 2-4) answered back midway through the second quarter when Ethan Rose connected with Don Rubin on a 18-yard scoring pass.
The Broncos turned the ball over on the next series and Rose wasted no time, scoring on an 83-yard run with 34 seconds to go in the half.
Sam Houston turned it again on the opening series of the second half and the Spartans moved ahead 21-6 when Marvin Barker ran one from 2 yards out.
Duhon scored again at the end of the third on an 8-yard run.
A year after losing a shot at an outright district championship with a blowout loss at Washington-Marion, LaGrange turned the table on the Charging Indians with a win that gave the Gators a share of the District 4-4A crown, along with Washington-Marion and DeRidder.
The Charging Indians (8-2, 4-1) could have won the title outright with a win, but the Gators reeled off 28 straight points in the first half to take control of the game.
The win will likely give the Gators (7-3, 4-1) a home game in the playoffs for the first time since 1999, which was also the last season the Gators won a postseason game.
"It feels really good, the program has come a long way, to be able to host a playoff game means a lot," said LaGrange head coach Jules Sullen.
The Gators scored a pair of touchdowns midway through the first quarter. Tyler Guillory ran 67 yards down the left sideline for a touchdown. On the next play from scrimmage, Tirell Wellmaker picked off a pass and zig-zagged his way down the right sideline for a 63-yard touchdown return.
Gators quarterback Nick Pitre threw a pair of touchdown passes in the second quarter to put the game out of reach. On fourth-and-17 from the W-M 42, Pitre scrambled right and found Hawthorne down the sideline for a 42-yard score. On the next drive, Pitre hit Wellmaker, who spun out of a tackle and sprinted down the sideline for a 39-yard touchdown.
Pitre finished with 125 yards on just three completions. Guillory ran for 136 yards on 17 carries.
DERIDDER — The Dragons captured a share of the District 4-4A championship with a victory over Opelousas.
DeRidder finished in a three-way tie with LaGrange and Washington-Marion after the Gators beat the Charging Indians.
Jamom Bradford led the way with 21 carries for 103 yards, including a 6-yard touchdown run in the opening quarter and the Dragons never looked back.
DeRidder enters the playoffs next week with a 6-4 record overall and 4-1 mark in district play.
Last year there was also a three-way tie for the title with St. Louis joining Washington-Marion and LaGrange atop the standings.
Jarrett Floyd and D'Angelo Reder also scored touchdowns for the Dragons.
DeRidder finished the night with 231 yards rushing compared to just 34 for Opelousas (2-8, 1-4).
ARNAUDVILLE — The Saints took care of business Friday night. Now they must wait for a little help and hope the stars align just right.
St. Louis battered winless Beau Chene 26-7 in a District 4-4A game, improving their chances of moving up in the power rankings and into a spot in the top 32.
The Saints (5-5, 2-3), who have made the playoffs for eight straight seasons, will have to wait until the LHSAA playoff pairings are released Sunday night to find out if their season will continue.
Against Beau Chene, the Saints ground out 264 yards and scored three rushing touchdowns.
Jared Smith led the way with 143 yards and a score on 28 carries, while Dylan Greeman and Andrew Dietz added rushing touchdowns.
Saints kicker Thomas O'Dowd nailed two field goals, of 38 and 37 yards, as St. Louis took a 6-0 lead in the second quarter.
Clay Cormier connected with Tyler Adams for an 80-yard touchdown late in the first half as Beau Chene took a 7-6 halftime lead.
St. Louis rallied back in the third quarter with two quick scoring drives before Dietz finished it out with a 10-yard run midway through the fourth.
TIOGA — Tioga scored twice in the fourth quarter to take control of the game.
Devail Lewis carried the ball 14 times for 146 yards to lead Leesville (1-9, 1-4), while Kory Jones threw for 115 yards and ran for two touchdowns.
Tioga finished the season 5-5 and 3-2.
IOWA — A playoff atmosphere came to Iowa a week early, as Jennings outlasted the host Yellow Jackets after a fourth quarter filled with big plays.
"We came over here to play a very good football team with a lot of weapons," said Jennings coach Rusty Phelps. "I'm proud of the effort tonight with these kids."
One of the last players anyone would have suspected played the role of hero for the Bulldogs.
Keaton Bertrand, listed as a defensive lineman and primarily used as a tight end on offense, barely scored from a yard out on fourth-and-goal to give Jennings the lead with 3:54 left to play.
"I had faith in my O-line because I play tight end with them," Bertrand said. "It's just a great feeling when your coach trusts you to run the ball like that and you accomplish what he asks you to do. They've been saving it all year 'til when we needed it the most."
Phelps said Bertrand has carried the ball twice all year. The Bulldogs use him in a jumbo package that was installed a few weeks ago.
"It was to give us a little more pop inside with some size in the backfield," Phelps said. "It wasn't meant to go for it on fourth down, I can promise you that."
The touchdown plunge was set up by a 42-yard completion from Jaylon Boutte to Keagan Deaville to the 5-yard line on third-and-13. Boutte rolled out of the pocket to find Deaville racing down the sideline, and the senior hauled the long throw in by his fingertips.
CROWLEY — Latrell Martin rushed for 302 yards and quarterback Jim Hamilton threw three touchdowns passes as Westlake turned on its running game late and pulled away from Crowley in the fourth quarter.
Westlake (6-3, 3-2), which had struggled offensively in recent weeks, strengthen its bid for a home playoff game next week.
Martin scored three touchdowns, including a 67-yard run that put the Rams up for good, 34-28, early in the fourth quarter and he got another on a 1-yard run moments later. He also scored on a pair of 2-point conversion runs.
Crowley (2-8, 1-4) closed the gap to 42-35 on quarterback Andre Mills' fourth touchdown pass of the game, but the Rams salted the game away on Hamilton's 15-yard scoring pass to Jacory Washington, which came on a fourth-down gamble.
Martin also had a 1-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter.
Hamilton opened the game's scoring the way he closed it, with a 10-yard pass to Washington and also found Armon Dunbard for a 15-yard scoring strike in the second quarter.
But the Rams didn't take control of the game until the second half when Martin pounded away with 29 carries for the game. Westlake finished with 343 on the ground.
Nick Latour also had a 29-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, one his two carries.
Mills had scoring passes of 15 and 45 yards to Kiriakis Brown, 16 to Tiron Foreman and 7 yards to Chanz Moore.
LONGVILLE — Notre Dame captued the district championship outright with the easy victory.
The loss ended South Beauregard's season at 2-8, 0-5.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame heads to the playoffs with an 8-1 record overall and perfect in district play at 5-0.
KINDER — The Yellow Jackets took a convincing shutout over Lake Arthur behind three Marshall Harmon touchdowns in the final District 4-2A game of the regular season.
Both team are expected to make the playoffs when the seedings are announced Sunday.
"I think tonight, most importantly, we put a lot of things together," said Kinder coach Jeff Wainwright. "We kicked the ball well, ran the ball well, threw it well, and obviously we played very good defense."
The Kinder (8-2, 5-2) offense started rolling early as it scored on its opening drive. Harmon scored on a 2-yard run with 2:57 left in the first quarter to take a 6-0 lead.
The Yellow Jackets forced the Tigers (8-2, 5-2) to punt on their second offensive possession. They went ahead 14-0 when Devaughn Thompson was on the receiving end of an Austin Pickle 19-yard pass with 6:49 to play in the second quarter.
PICKERING — Welsh earned a share of the District 5-2A championship with a convincing win over Pickering.
Welsh (8-2, 6-1) bolted to a 21-0 first half lead, then scored two TDs in the third quarter to salt the game away.
Welsh opened the scoring after stopping the Red Devils (2-8, 2-5) on downs at the Greyhound 37. Six plays later, Destin Reed scored the third of his two touchdowns on a 2-yard.
The Greyhounds halted Pickering at the Welsh 35 on down on the next series, then motored 65 yards in 11 plays. Reed plunged in from the 1 to make it 14-0.
DEQUINCY — DeQuincy snapped its four-game losing streak to end the year on a winning note.
Brandon Brown caught a touchdown and returned an interception 40 yards to lead DeQuincy (3-7, 3-4).
The Tigers held Vinton (3-7, 1-6) to negative yards rushing.
ROSEPINE — Rosepine claimed its share of the District 4-2A championship by shellacking East Beauregard.
Quarterback Blank Hinson figured in five of the Eagles' six touchdowns, rushing for three and throwing for two others.
Hinson sprinted 29 yards to the end zone for the Eagles' first TD.
Minutes later, he tossed a 45-yard scoring strike to Eric Kyle.
Martin led the Eagles' attack with 125 yards on nine carries. Rosepine (7-3, 6-1) rolled up 427 yards in total offense.
East Beauregard finished the year 0-10.
IOTA — Thomas Murrell rushed for 165 yards and Brandon Fantroy scored three touchdowns as Iota rolled over Mamou.
The Bulldogs finished the season 4-6, 3-2 in district while Mamou was 2-8, 2-3.
The Iota defense held Mamou 76 yards rushing while intercepting four passes.
Fantroy scored on runs of 34, 4 and 3 yards, and finished the game with 98 yards.
BASILE — Basile spotted Elton a 12-0 lead, then roared back for a victory in this U.S. 190 rivalry.
The victory earned Basile (9-1, 4-1) a share of the District 5-1A championship. Elton fell to 8-2, 3-2.
Kendrick Ceasar scored three touchdowns and rushed for 148 yards on 18 carries.
The Bearcats' defense also factored heavily in the outcome, forcing six Elton turnovers.
Oberlin won its championship, Hamilton Christian is hoping it won a chance to play again.
On a night when the visiting Tigers claimed the District 5-1A crown, it was the Warriors who believe they made enough noise to earn a playoff spot.
Moments after his team lost to Oberlin at Cougar Stadium, Hamilton head coach Reggie Nelson told his players, "You didn't win the game, but I believe you won the right to play another game."
Sunday we all find out if the Warriors (3-7, 2-3) did in fact earn a playoff spot.
OAKDALE — Ville Platte took advantage of three turnovers and raced to a big lead to claim the District 5-2A championship.
Bulldog quarterback Isaiah Thomas threw for 171 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Ville Platte (7-3, 5-0) attack. He finished 8-22 with all three of his TD throws coming in the first half when the Bulldogs led 41-0.
Justin Charles caught two of the Thomas scoring tosses and finished with four catches for 102 yards.
Oakdale finished the regular season 4-6, 4-1.
MERRYVILLE — Coy Harrington, Larry Irvin and Kade Jackson each ran for a touchdown as Merryville ended its season on a high note with a shutout in a District 5-1A game.
The Panthers (3-7, 1-4) ran for 214 yards and forced four turnovers. South Cameron fell to 1-9, 0-5.
Nick Ardoin led the balanced Merryville attack with 62 yards on six carries. Harrington added another 57 on 10 runs.


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Evidently some of you haven't tried Guadalajara on the East side on Kolb Rd going North near Speedway. They are very professional in all they do to serve you. By the way...The owners are from Washington state and Zeth is up on all counts. On Fridays they have musicians playing your requests. The service is fantastic. No soggy chips and the mole is fresh.
Great margaritas, especially at happy hour. Love the fresh salsa, and the enchiladas de calabacitas are excellent!
The parking lot is overflowing every time I drive by, the secret must be out.
This is my favorite Mexican restaurant! I have tried several meals and every one of them ~delicious! Lupita's has the best salsa; when I go to the register to pay my bill, I buy a quart! And their service is just as good as their food. I am so glad Lupita's came to Northwest Tucson!!
I would not recommend the cazuelitas event center. I had my wedding there in April and the service was horrible. The contract we signed was not followed as promised. The wedding cake that was supposed to be included in the package was made out of frosted wood. Who in their right mind has a fake wedding cake. Tried to call and complain but the owner was not available. The staff assigned that night could not believe it either. To top it all off the owner is my new wifes family. If that's how they treat family imagine what they do to those that are not related. As of today they have not called to see how everything went. They don't deserve the one star I gave them. Maybe a quarter of a star.
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Bottom line is El Charro sucks, regardless of location. They don't even heat up their Americanized, pre-made food enough. Come on guys. At least heat your crap up a little longer in the microwave before you serve it.
This kind of a late entry as we ate here a few months back. Verdict? OK food. Basically a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10. About the anti SB1070 comment from john127. If that's true about not speaking English to customers I won't be back either. This same thing happens to me every time I go to the deli section at all Food City stores. The women actually give me an attitude for not ordering in Spanish. This is totally unacceptable! If you dislike America why are you here? Oh that's right. The free government handouts. I forget.
Not fancy but with really well made food. The menu is limited, which in this case, is good, as every thing is home/scratch made. Service is very freindly albeit bit slow, but after a Margarita or two, who cares. This could become a very nice neighborood cantina.
We tried it because we were getting hungry and wanted to eat something before shopping at Sunflower Market. Overall we weren't impressed. Sorta ugly building, very average food, slow service. Now we now better.
I only gave them three stars, because they put cheese in their guacamole! It is always a sign of bad guacamole when restaurants/suppliers try to stretch out their guac with cheese or sour cream. A little more authenticity would go a long way!
THE BEST green chili in town!
I agree with the last comment. Horrible experience the last time I was having dinner outside. The silverware was dirty, and I saw a cockaroach lying on it's back underneath the next table. I informed those in charge, and no action seemed to be taken. Wonder what the kitchen is full of
Yeah the food is good... when you get it! The service is ridiculous!! I guess quality service isn't what it used to be to say the least. I waited an hour for 2 measly tacos, and asked to speak to the manager. He didn't care one bit. Luckily my server did, and even commented that she would've done the same thing. The manager is a coward and an idiot. I refuse to go back!! It's cheap food so I guess it's expected that they don't care either... enjoy!
the restaurant is gorgeous. the food is mediocre. located in sahuarita.
I actually drove down to this location to meet a friend. We had lunch. Bottom line is that regardless of their location the food is sincerely crappy. Menu items have a very precooked, processed, heat and serve quality to them. Not good. The service at this location was real slow also. Had we gone to Jerry Bobs which is in the same plaza we could have had an equally disappointing truck stop like meal.
I lived in Tucson for 38 years, I ate at Michas at least once a week for many of those years. The best breakfasts, best Chimichangas, best machaca in town. I left Tucson five years ago and one for the things I miss most is Machaca and Eggs at Michas.
About a year ago I made a brief visit to the Old Pueblo, Michas was still there, the food still good and now I miss it even more.
Pros: Chips and salsa are good. Cons: The meats they serve, chicken, pork, and beef are of somewhat low quality. We went to Guadalajara Grill two times. First time I had their chicken mole dish. Not good at all. The chicken they used for this dish was obviously strips of the frozen variety. Honestly, the chicken reminded me of the same stuff that's on a fast food salad from McDonald's. The mole sauce? Terrible. The next time, and last time we went, I had carnitas. The meat just didn't have a good fresh taste. Oh well!
Maria Bonita on Oracle has closed. We are disappointed as it was our favorite Mexican food restaurant. Anyone at Tucson Weekly know why? Thank you.
I love this place! Great food (had the fajitas, burros, seafood). Servings are large - I am able to take 1/2 home for lunch next day. Great beans. Good Margaritas. (Happy hour they are only $3!) Women will make salsa at your table - free, but they have a basket for donations.
It is one of the few restaurants in Tucson I will wait for a seat to open up. (FYI...not many around. Since Tucson is so blessed with so many great restaurants we can usually find one with no wait, even on weekends.)
I started eating at Micha's MANY years ago -- before the bar and extra seating were added to accomodate patrons of this Tucson gem of Norteno Cuisine -- in a pleasant, economic and unpretentious setting.
When I say many yeaqrs ago -- I mean when I was editing newspapers that required me to be at a printing plant in South Tucson early in the morning -- so I would hit Micha's for some of the best Machaca and Eggs and/or Chorizo and eggs at the no longer extant breakfast counter with other journalists who used the counter as an informal answer to press club hangovers.
Most often lately as a retired persopn I get there for lunches when I go to the nearby VA hospital. The Machaca is still the most exceptional have had in my 69 years -- and their Albondigas is a tradition. It is almost impossible for a npormal person to finish their tasty Burros -- and their Chimis are always crisp and lite.
AND -- it is a family restaurant -- with prices moderate to low for the family. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION -- is that the same family that established Michas is the same family (second and third generation) the runs it today. The wait staff DOES NOT MAKE YOU WAIT. Fast, attentive and efficient -- some of these folks have been working at Michas for more years that I can remember --- and have waited on me literally hundreds of times over the years.
BE AWARE -- that on Fridays there is sometimes a short wait to get a table for lunch -- but once inside everything makes up for the very few minute delay.


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"Thinking Inside The Box"
Yeah, the folks at my local beekeeping club gave me that sideways look when I said I was going to start with a TBH. Got all sorts of negative advice. That is why I never joined the club. That kind of negativity is stupid. It also simply gives me incentive to simply go about my business, and prove them wrong. Let them wallow in their ignorance. Do what YOU enjoy. I enjoy being unconventional.
Join the club. You will find the practicle help invaluable. Just impress on them that although they consider a TBH an inferior design, you intend to go with that design anyway, but tell them other than that, you would appreciate any help and advice they can give. Having been involved with both hive designs, I can tell you that nearly all bee advice is generic, ie, it pertains to bees regardless opf what shape the box is they live in.
Main difference is when they are talking about adding supers for the bees to put honey in or prevent swarming, well, you can't do that. You'll just have to shrug your shoulders when it's that time of year.
Sure, some of them will see you as some kind of hippy. Just get used to it, over time you will be accepted as part of the group.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
I don't regularly maintain TBH's, but am often asked to produce Top Bar Nucleus colonies. I am certainly willing to do it, especially if the customer provides their own Top Bars. I simply place the Top Bars, overnight, between combs in full-size hives. By the next morning the bees have usually grown 2-3 inches of comb, which are also usually laid with eggs. I simply swap these started Top Bar combs for the combs in a Langstroth Nuc, moving the bees onto the Top Bars and moving the Nuc combs into an additional level on other established Langstroth Nucs. If the Top Bars are shorter than 19 inches, I temporarily fasten them to 19 inch long strips of wood. If they're longer I just allow one end to protrude from the Langstroth supers.
If there were any hostility directed at Top Bar beekeeping, I haven't noticed. Though I usually do what I do, without taking notice how others perceive it.
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Wow. I've started crusing the TBH section of the site because I'm building a TBH shortly for this spring, to go along with my Langs. I'm more than a little shocked that there is this kind of animosity. Granted, I've only spoken with two beekeepers outside of this site for any length of time, because there isn't a club anywhere near me, but they were both incredibly helpful, and neither one said boo about the prospect of running a TBH. In fact, one of them (who works at my "local" Dadant), lamented the fact that they didn't carry any TBH items (bars, followers, hives, etc.)
I suppose it's likely I'll encounter someone more difficult to avoid than pressing the back button on my browser in this matter, but I suppose when I do, I'll just tell them the truth. I did it because I thought it would be fun, and because I wanted to see bees do it a different way. Not hurting anyone.
Interesting. In my case,bees dictate what they like. I started with KTBH because it sounded much more natural than old Lang. Also, it was different and I love to build. So, bees ignored my beautiful hand-made KTBH! I was shocked. OK, I offered to them the Lang opportunity... They did not want to expand vertically as well. We (me and bees) ended up on hybrid between TBH and Lang - horizontal double-Lang deep box. Girls love it! It has 20 deep frames max horizontally and may be expanded vertically as well (another 20 frames). It has many advantages of TBH - less invasive inspections etc. and standard Lang's deep frames. It is heavy, but I do not need to move it. So far - bees love it!
I personally do not care what others think about me and my bees. At the same time, I noticed that my bee-club members mostly are very conservative and do not approve "other ways". I stop visiting the club since they are all about chemical treatments for the bees. I think Lang is good for commercial beekeeping. For hobbyist? - I think everything is good as long as YOU are happy and bees ARE happy. To me KTBH has obvious advantages vs Lang, but my bees think differently. Sergey
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It seems to be all about leadership. TBHs have a kind of celebrity status right now in our area. When I decided to build one last year, I built two and gave one to our club president. He had great success with the swarm he installed in it, and his positive remarks at our club meeting have set a tone of acceptance. He even asked me to do a presentation at a club meeting on TBHs. I think the position most people take, including the tone of their comments, is a reflection of the "leader" they are following as much as anything.
The leader, or, the book or website.
I think a lot of the problems started out with a TBH book that spends the first 50 pages, plus most of the rest of the book, pouring vitriol on langstroth hives. Which is a shame because although he is a convincing writer, some of his basic facts are not even correct. Gullible minds who have not yet experienced real bees, read this book, and then tell people like me I've got it all wrong. Hear enough of this and you start feeling like reacting.
Shame this divisive crap was even published because nearly all beeks are basically good folks. Lots of beekeeping books have been written pretty much using langstroth methods, I have yet to see anything in one of them critisising TBH's. But it seems to be kind of fashionable for some TBH literature to devote a lot of energy to critisizing everybody else. Very destructive, if they want to talk TBH's, they should talk TBH's.
I'm not saying this attitude applies to the average TBH keeper, it's mostly book and web authors. But when you see this garbage in print, don't allow yourself to be influenced.
What Langstroth invented / re-invented / popularised, was movable comb hives. As such, he is the father of both the modern langstroth hive, and the modern top bar hive. The roots of the modern TBH are not in ancient Egypt. A version of modern TBH's were first built by a team of Canadian aid workers in Africa, who had langstroth hives at home and thought up a easy to make moveable comb hive that could be cheaply built by Africans, to avoid the then practise of killing all the bees to get the honey.
We should all just get along.
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Given the thread drift, readers may find the following interesting. It deals with many of the issues discussed:
An analysis of the Kenyan Top Bar Hive in Calgary Alberta.pdf
And I think that someone who pays $300 for a top bar should invest the cash in some tools, or just purchase Langs. I can get several Langs for $300.
$150 for a "complete" hive (with 2 deeps and 2 mediums), less frames, and their Pierco frames add another $95. That $245 without any "accessories", which brings the total comparable to the $300 TBH.
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I always forget about the cost of frames in a Lang! True, if you compare apples to apples, assembled to assembled, the Lang can get expensive.
"... I enjoy being unconventional..."
i would posit many who champion TBH's not only enjoy being unconventional but also controversial. not everyone that uses TBH's is like that of course,and even less "champion" their use above all others, but once one has to endure a diatribe from a promoter,often they have little patience for another round.
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> $150 for a "complete" hive (with 2 deeps and 2 mediums), less frames, and their Pierco frames add another $95. That $245 without any "accessories", which brings the total comparable to the $300 TBH.
That seems qute hight to me. When I buy my equipment deeps are now $12.00 ea. a med. shallow is $9.00, cedar bottom board $4.00, top around $14.00, and 30 new frames with ritecell foundation would be around $1.66 each. Added up that comes to $100.00 for a complete setup. What other accessories are you referring to? And since when is a "complete hive" considered to be 2 deeps and 2 mediums?
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(Dec. 27, 2005)--For the first time, The University of Texas at San Antonio celebrated three days of commencement ceremonies as 2,811 degree candidates walked the stage in five ceremonies at the Convocation Center and a sixth ceremony at the Recital Hall, all on the 1604 Campus.
In the past, UTSA spread four ceremonies, plus an Honors College celebration, over two days.
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The highest profile weekend ceremony was the 7 p.m. College of Liberal and Fine Arts commencement Friday, Dec. 16, as Ambassador Tony Garza, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, addressed the college's 649 degree candidates.
The College of Engineering and College of Sciences were first on the commencement schedule with a 7 p.m. ceremony, Thursday, Dec. 15. Outgoing UTSA Provost and Executive Vice President Guy Bailey addressed the 487 graduates.
Friday featured an Honors College ceremony at 3 p.m. in the Arts Building Recital Hall. The College of Liberal and Fine Arts ceremony with Garza was the other Friday commencement.
On Saturday, Dec. 17, there were three ceremonies, beginning with a 9 a.m. College of Education and Human Development commencement. Raymund Paredes, commissioner of the Higher Education Coordinating Board spoke to the college's 601 degree candidates.
The second ceremony on Saturday featured Bailey in a return appearance as he addressed the College of Architecture as well as the management and marketing departments of the College of Business at 1 p.m. There were 886 total degree candidates in the College of Business, which was split between the two ceremonies at 1 and 5 p.m.
The 5 p.m. College of Business commencement also recognized 140 College of Public Policy degree candidates, capping the weekend festivities with a keynote from Elizabeth Ames Jones, chairperson of the Texas Railroad Commission.
A total of 2,184 undergraduate students participated in the six ceremonies, which recognized both summer and fall graduation candidates with 613 graduate students and 14 doctoral students joining the procession.
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College of Engineering -- 142 degree candidates
College of Sciences -- 345 degree candidates
College of Liberal and Fine Arts -- 649 degree candidates
College of Education and Human Development -- 601 degree candidates
College of Architecture -- 47 degree candidates
College of Business -- 886 degree candidates
College of Public Policy -- 140 degree candidates
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Hello Everyone,
I just bought a used TBH that consists of the main box with sloped sides and the top bars. I have a few questions about it and am hoping for suggestions based on your expertise in a California-like coastal environment. It does get hot here (90's) for a few days in the summer, but is generally mild.
- The bottom is a solid board. I was not going to open it up for a screened bottom for ventilation or mites.
- I want to ventilate via holes in the hive. I am thinking of one on the back side, three entry holes on the front side and one up high on an end for moisture control. Is this enough? I would use corks to close them off as needed.
- Has anyone put in a screened tray on the solid bottom board that is lined with a sticky paper for mites?
- What are the pros and cons of side entrances or end entrances?
- Aside from the asthetic value of a peaked roof, are there advantages over just using a flat board?
- Does anyone use burlap as a cover for the top bars? Does it make a difference? Help with wicking moisture away?
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i'm glad to hear your kitty is feeling better! it's terrible to loose a pet.
i'll keep Kitty Boos in my thoughts.
I hope he will get better soon Keiko! Glad that so many people helped 🙂
Happy to hear he's going better !! Keeping him in prayers and not to worry, he'll be fine 🙂
Aww, I'm glad to hear he is better.
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Wow, people must have been so generous! Blogging is a wonderful community and it makes me happy when things like this happen.
Glad to hear he's getting better!
I'm so glad he's better!
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so good to hear he's getting better! I'll be thinking of him today!
I am so happy he is feeling better!!! I call my little guy boobear as well and I have been in that situation where he tries to knead my hand with an IV. Knowing vet bills I donated a little. Take care! Your little boobear is in my thoughts.
I'm so glad to hear it. You'll have more money coming from me as soon as we can work out this PayPal business. I'll keep you and Kitty Boos in my thoughts.
My warmest thoughts are with you! Hope he feels much better soon! 🙂
Oh, I'm so glad he's doing alright! I couldn't even concentrate on work today because I was worried about someone else's cat. 😉
Anyway, I was happy to hel, didn't even think twice.
I'll be thinking of Kitty Boos in hopes that he makes a full recovery, and also lots of mental support to you, love.
Oh, I'm so glad he's doing alright! I couldn't even concentrate on work today because I was worried about someone else's cat. 😉
Anyway, I was happy to hel, didn't even think twice.
I'll be thinking of Kitty Boos in hopes that he makes a full recovery, and also lots of mental support to you, love.
I'm so glad to hear that Kitty Boos is looking better. I'm so sorry to hear about the emergency… at least you were there to support him and be with him through this tough time. My thoughts are with you both ♥
This made me cry, I'm so glad that people did that for you! I wish all the luck I can give to you and your cat 🙂
Take care.
YEA!!! People are mostly good and this is a great reminder! I went through a really hard time with one of our cats, it was expensive and stressful. I know what you are going through. If you want to read about the ordeal we had, I started a blog about it when it was going on. It's intense but interesting. Ours was a month long and I was the best kitty nurse I could be.
Good luck to you and your little sweetie!
Thank goodness your cat's getting better. Poor you. Tell kitty boo to get well soon.
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I am so happy to hear that!!
Glad things are improving! Even I was on the verge of crying yesterday after reading that post! I'll keep Kitty Boos in my prayers as well!
I'm sending you my best vibes right now. Its crazy because I was going to tell you yesterday that I think I can afford to become a sponsor this next month. We can email when all this chaos in your life has subsided 🙂 But I just wanted to give you some good news.


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The new Warriors coach(es) should be confirmed this week - but there is no sign of the "marquee coach" that CEO Wayne Scurrah suggested just over six weeks ago, in the aftermath of Brian McClennan's exit.
The Herald on Sunday understands that David Kidwell stands ready as the eighth coach of the Auckland franchise, with Matthew Elliott alongside him in a football manager role.
While both men apparently impressed during the extended interview process, it is hard to believe they were the first choice of the Warriors. Elliott's name has been in the frame for some time now but two days before the grand final, at an NRL function, he apparently told friends he was keen on the job but hadn't heard from the Warriors "in a while".
It is believed that the Warriors still have hopes of Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy crossing the Tasman but that door seems to be almost shut.
It is understood detail of the contracts of Kidwell and Elliott are being worked on. Their appointment seems certain to be announced this week - if there is no last-minute levering of Bellamy out of his Melbourne stronghold.
Prising Bellamy away from the Storm is unfortunately not just a matter of money. The club is owned by News Ltd and there are vested interests all across the sport in ensuring that the Melbourne franchise continues to succeed and make some league inroads into the AFL heartland. There is also talk that the Storm could be put up for sale at some stage. A Bellamy exit would drastically affect the market price.
As an illustration of what is at stake, Storm owner Rupert Murdoch apparently flew into Melbourne on the Tuesday before the grand final for a private meeting with Bellamy at Storm headquarters.
While Owen Glenn has deep pockets, Murdoch is in another league when it comes to money, power and influence.
It had been hoped that Bellamy might be ready for a new challenge, after finally winning a grand final "legally" - i.e. under the salary cap. There is also the thought Bellamy may want to move on at some stage in the near future as he doesn't want to be the coach who has to send Billy Slater (29), Cameron Smith (29) or Cooper Cronk (28) out to pasture in coming years.
The Storm will struggle to match the Warriors' massive offer but an upgraded deal for 2013 plus a lucrative contract for subsequent seasons should see Bellamy pocket somewhere close to the reported A$4 million ($5 million) that he might have earned in Auckland. He would have been worth every cent, as the man nicknamed "Bellyache" would help to attract players to the club.
Meanwhile, there has continued to be widespread interest in the Warriors' job, with several new applications arriving last week. They weren't considered but the CEO has plenty of other business on his plate.
The future of assistant Tony Iro and head strength and conditioning coach Craig Walker need to be decided, along with other football operations people, some of whom have contracts that expire at the end of this month. Rumours also persist that former Kiwis coach Graham Lowe, who has been involved in the interview process as an adviser to Scurrah, could be offered a position.
Scurrah also confirmed that the club is still on the hunt for new players for 2013 but that has been delayed with the lengthy process around the coaching position. The new coach will have his own ideas on possible targets.
Scurrah has also recently completed extensive one-on-one debriefs with every member of the NRL squad, looking at the issues that arose from the dismal season this year.
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1. Fewer Crowds. Not only does Yellowstone take on a whole new look in the winter, there are less people there to see it, meaning more space for you to enjoy.
2. You get to ride in a snowcoach. No doubt the frigid temperatures scare some people away from taking a Yellowstone winter vacation. However, nothing beats enjoying this unique perspective of the park from a heated, comfortable snowcoach. The first snowcoach was patented in 1939 by J. Armand Bombardier (hence the Bombardier Snowbus), and was first brought to Yellowstone in 1955. While the snowcoach has been much updated, you can still see a few of the original 1955 fleet cruising around. In fact, you may even have the chance to ride in one!
3. Frosted bison. That's right, frosted bison. The Yellowstone Bison are famous, and seeing them hanging out around the thermal pools, covered in a dusting of snow, is pretty darn cool, and an incredible opportunity for the professional and casual photographer alike.
4. Bald Eagles are WAY easier to see in the winter. Bald Eagles are probably the most incredible birds we have in this country (I know that's a statement several people might debate), and seeing them in person (or bird) is a unique and unforgettable experience.
5. Snow Shoeing the terrace loop at Mammoth Hot Springs. Take in the white, orange, and yellow limestone travertine formations, constantly changing over time, on the first day of your Yellowstone Winter trip. It will set the tone for five days of adventure and exploration in Yellowstone's winter wonderland!
6. Cross Country Skiing around the Old Faithful boardwalks. Marvel as Old Faithful, surrounded by a blanket of snow, erupts, and glide past its fellow neighbors, as you cross country ski in the Upper Geyser Basin.
7. Hot Chocolate by the fire at Old Faithful Snow Lodge. After an exciting day of cross country skiing, relax, out your feet up, and get warm with a delicious cup of hot chocolate by the inviting fireplace in the lobby of the Old Faithful Snow Lodge.
8. Geysers are steamier in the winter. Steamy geysers attract a lot of wildlife, who use the heat to keep warm in the winter. Keep an eye out for bison, elk, coyote and foxes around these natural hot (really hot) springs.
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"Emergency Planning for Indian Point: A Guide for You and Your Family" is a booklet published as a public service by the plant's owner, Entergy Nuclear Northeast. Part "Hints from Heloise," part "Dr. Strangelove," the booklet has a cheerful blue cover decorated with drawings of a siren and a reactor dome. Inside, it is filled with tips like "Six Facts You Need to Know About KI—Potassium Iodide" (No. 1: it can protect your thyroid if you are exposed to radioactive iodine) and "helpful answers" to questions like "Could Indian Point explode like a bomb?" ("No. It is impossible for any nuclear power plant to explode like a bomb under any conditions.") At the back, there is an "Emergency Planning Checklist," which recommends, "If you are told to evacuate, you should bring enough personal supplies for three days," including a portable radio, potassium-iodide tablets, and "this planning booklet."
In total, Entergy printed more than two hundred thousand copies of the guide, which were mailed to households within ten miles of the plant, in northern Westchester County. Nowhere does the booklet explicitly mention sabotage, but this fear was clearly on the minds of the authors:
Q: How can I be sure that Indian Point is secure and well-protected?
A: Indian Point is defended by armed guards, sophisticated detection equipment and other advanced protection systems that meet or exceed federal, state and local requirements.
An attack on a nuclear power plant would seem to fulfill, almost perfectly, Al Qaeda's objective of using America's technology against it. In his State of the Union Message last year, President Bush announced that United States forces searching Afghan caves had indeed found diagrams of American reactors. Around the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, acting on information provided by the F.B.I., warned of a plot to crash a commercial aircraft into a plant. According to the N.R.C., the identity of the plant was not known; a captured Al Qaeda operative had told the F.B.I. that the specific target was to be chosen by a "team on the ground."
As potential targets go, Indian Point seems almost too obvious. It is situated on the Hudson River, in Buchanan, New York, some twenty miles north of the Bronx and thirty-five miles from midtown Manhattan. Nearly three hundred thousand people live within the plant's ten-mile "emergency planning zone," and another several hundred thousand reside within seventeen and a half miles, in the so-called "peak fatality" zone. More than twenty million people live within fifty miles of the plant. A 1982 analysis by a congressional subcommittee estimated that, under worst-case conditions, a catastrophe at one of the Indian Point reactors could result in fifty thousand fatalities and more than a hundred thousand radiation injuries. The same study calculated the cost of such an accident at roughly three hundred billion dollars. By an uncomfortable coincidence, American Airlines Flight 11, just minutes before it slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, flew almost directly over Indian Point's twin reactor domes. Apparently, the Hudson River was the landmark that the hijackers used to navigate by.
The Indian Point nuclear power plant, or energy center, as it is now called, is named after the spit of land, once home to an amusement park, on which it's built. There are two functioning reactors on the site, Indian Point 2 and 3, and a third, Indian Point 1, which has been closed for nearly thirty years. Recently, I went to Buchanan to take a look around. I had been told to report to the plant's emergency-operations facility, and when I drove up to it an armored tank was rumbling across the parking lot. Inside the facility, I was issued the first of several security badges and was introduced to Entergy Nuclear Northeast's director of emergency programs, Michael Slobodien.
Before I arrived, Slobodien had laid out a tableful of charts and diagrams, one of which was titled "Chernobyl-Indian Point Contrast." On the left side, it noted that "Chernobyl used flammable graphite for neutron control" and "did not have a comprehensive emergency plan." On the right, it said, "IP uses non-flammable water for neutron control" and has "modern emergency plans." There were also several large black-and-white photographs chronicling the construction of the reactors' four-and-a-half-foot-thick containment domes.
"This building was designed with the intent to withstand the tremendous energy of a massive release from an accident of some unknown origin," Slobodien told me, picking up one of the photographs. "We really don't care what the origin is. We just said, 'Let's assume that that happens.' Because that's kind of the worst-case situation you could envision. And, by the way, in our business everything is worst case. We always think about what is the worst that can happen, and we design to accomplish protection for the worst case." Slobodien told me that he had been one of the "responders" sent by the N.R.C. to Three Mile Island, outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after the meltdown there, in 1979, and later had overseen the cleanup of the site. He explained, without a trace of irony, that, while one of the lessons of the disaster had been that "serious accidents can occur," another was that "the reactor design was successful."
Like Three Mile Island, Indian Point 2 and 3 are pressurized-water reactors. Each reactor contains a hundred and ninety-three fuel assemblies, and each assembly holds a hundred fuel rods—skinny zirconium tubes filled with pellets of enriched uranium. To produce power, the fuel rods must first be bombarded with neutrons. This sets off a chain reaction, which produces more neutrons, "fission products" like radioactive iodine, and a great deal of energy. The energy is used to heat pressurized water to 550 degrees Fahrenheit, and this pressurized water is then used to heat more water to make steam. The steam, in turn, powers a set of turbines, which, finally, generate electricity. (Together, the two reactors at Indian Point produce, on average, two thousand megawatts, or enough electricity to supply two million homes.) The chain reaction is carefully monitored and controlled; however, if, for whatever reason, heat is not carried away from the core, the fuel can melt and, in the presence of oxygen, catch fire. Depending on conditions, this can take hours or merely minutes.
Slobodien took me down to the emergency center's control room, a large windowless office filled with computers that, ideally, should never have to be used. (In a truly catastrophic accident, the emergency-operations facility might itself have to be evacuated, which is why there is a second command center, similar to the first, twenty miles away, in White Plains.) On the walls of the room were charts listing possible disasters, like "tornado strikes a plant vital area." The charts were color-coded by type of hazard, and each calamity was further specified by a numerical designation. On a table was a detailed map of the area around the plant.
Slobodien pulled out a set of transparencies illustrating how a plume of airborne radioactive contamination would travel under various conditions. He selected one that posited a wind coming from the north with a relatively high degree of turbulence. It showed the plume travelling south in a widening band. "The areas that are most affected would be the communities of Buchanan and Verplanck"—small towns right next to the plant—"and pretty much the river," he observed, laying the transparency over the map. Slobodien said that he was distressed by diagrams put out by the plant's critics which suggest that in the event of an accident radioactivity would drift in all directions.
"It doesn't really happen that way," he explained. "The concept that everything is affected all at once is clearly not true." The control-center map showed only the area within a few miles of Indian Point, so I couldn't tell what would happen to the plume once it travelled beyond that radius. I did notice, though, that as it was widening it was headed toward New York City.
Eventually, I tried to steer the conversation around to September 11th. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy and the F.B.I. warning, public concern has tended to focus on the possibility of another aerial attack. Whether the containment domes at most plants could withstand the impact of a fully loaded 767 is a much debated question; the N.R.C. is, somewhat belatedly, looking into this matter. There are, however, also many other possible scenarios. To cool its reactors, for example, Indian Point relies on the circulation of more than a billion gallons of water a day from the Hudson. Several groups, including the Green Party of New York and the environmental organization Riverkeeper, have tried to demonstrate the plant's vulnerability by boating—or, in one case, canoeing—near the cooling-water intake pipes. One of the groups claims to have made it within fifty feet of the pipes. I asked Slobodien what would happen in the event that the pipes were blocked, or destroyed.
"A lot of these things we don't talk about in great detail, for obvious reasons," he told me. "So, when it comes to the intake, all I will tell you is that you can block the intake and you still can successfully cool the reactor. Now, would it be of concern to us? Yeah, it would be of great concern to us. We would have to shut the reactor down, and we would have to do alternative cooling techniques, which we have available to us. Yeah, it would be of great concern. We don't minimize it. But it's not the kind of thing that leads axiomatically to, you know, the end, as some people would have you believe."
In a practical sense, insuring that Indian Point operates safely is the job of its owner, Entergy, but in a broader sense this responsibility belongs to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The N.R.C. describes its primary mission as "to protect the public health and safety," and to this end it not only licenses and inspects nuclear plants but continually analyzes the risks posed by them. If it deems a particular risk to be too high, it has the power to shut down a reactor—or, if need be, many reactors—until the problem is addressed; in 1975, for example, the commission temporarily closed all of the nation's two dozen boiling-water reactors—their design is slightly different from that of pressurized-water reactors—after finding a hairline crack at one of them. The N.R.C., however, has never defined what constitutes an unacceptable risk, and critics charge that its judgment on the matter has grown susceptible to outside influences. Just a few months ago, the N.R.C.'s inspector general issued a report chastising the commission for giving too much weight to the financial concerns of a nuclear operator. The report found that, despite compelling safety concerns, the N.R.C. had allowed the owner of the Davis-Besse plant, outside Toledo, Ohio, to delay an inspection for more than six weeks. When the commission finally performed the inspection, it discovered that acidic water had been eating through the reactor's lid—a process that, had it been allowed to continue, could well have produced a disaster.
"You have a very dangerous situation where the industry is calling the shots," Paul Leventhal, the president emeritus of the Nuclear Control Institute, a non-proliferation advocacy group, told me.
The N.R.C. began treating sabotage as a more urgent threat after the terrorist attacks of the nineteen-eighties, which included the bombing of the American Marine barracks in Beirut. In 1991, it introduced a program of drills, known as Operational Safeguards Response Evaluations, or osres, specifically to test plant defenses. In these drills, off-duty security guards were hired to carry out a mock attack devised by N.R.C. specialists. For obvious reasons, plant operators were alerted to the osres in advance; meanwhile, N.R.C. guidelines limited the attackers to three outside assailants and one insider, whose role was restricted to providing information. Between 1991 and 2000, the N.R.C. conducted the drills at the rate of roughly eight plants a year. Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 both passed in 1994. At nearly half of the plants tested, though, guards failed to repel the assailants before they had destroyed at least one so-called "target set." In other words, had the attack been real, the terrorists would have been in a position to cause potentially catastrophic damage.
Many plant operators were disturbed by this result, but not, it seems, for the reason one might have thought. They pressed the N.R.C. to replace the drills with more frequent security exercises of the operators' own devising. In a scathing assessment of this idea, David Orrik, a retired Navy captain who oversaw the osres and is still a senior official at the N.R.C., wrote that nuclear operators had demonstrated an "abject failure . . . to be capable—by themselves—of protecting against radiological sabotage. It took the threat of an osre to make them prepare to be 'ready,' and 47% still were not 'ready.' " In spite of this assessment, the N.R.C. was in the process of moving toward precisely the sort of program the operators were advocating when the attack on the World Trade Center occurred. At that point, the commission suspended all anti-sabotage drills, owing, as its chairman, Richard Meserve, put it, to the general "high level threat environment."
The N.R.C. is now in the process of redesigning the osres, presumably to better reflect the sophistication of international terrorists. The commission has said that when the redesign is completed, in the next few months, it will ask several plants, each in a different region, to volunteer to try out the new drill. Officials in New York, including Senator Hillary Clinton, strongly urged that Indian Point be one of them, and recently the N.R.C. announced that it would be.
After Slobodien had shown me around the emergency-operations facility, I continued my tour of Indian Point with Jim Steets, the communications manager for Entergy Nuclear Northeast. Steets is tall and lanky, with prematurely gray hair and an easygoing affability. He has worked at Indian Point for ten years, a period during which the plant has posed more than its share of public-relations challenges.
In May, 1992, the N.R.C., after having identified a long list of safety lapses at Indian Point 3, including one that caused a six-month failure of the backup reactor-shutdown system, fined the reactor two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and put it on a watch list for heightened scrutiny. (At the time, Indian Point 3 was owned and operated by the New York Power Authority, and Indian Point 2 was owned and operated by Consolidated Edison.) Shortly after this fine was imposed, engineers at the reactor noticed a problem with a set of valves, and rushed to replace them before an N.R.C. inspection. In their haste, the engineers put the new valves in backward, blocking the cooling systems. The power authority fired several of its top officials and voluntarily shut down Indian Point 3 in order to conduct a safety overhaul. This overhaul was supposed to be completed in six months but ended up taking two and a half years. One N.R.C. official compared the reactor to "a plane losing altitude," while others, with a nod to "The Simpsons," dubbed it "Homer on the Hudson."
"Basically, it boiled down to poor management," Steets told me. "You could write a book on it, in all honesty."
In the late nineties, as Indian Point 3's record finally seemed to be improving, Indian Point 2's went into decline. In 1997, the N.R.C. found that electrical breakers at the reactor had not been properly inspected or maintained, and imposed a fifty-five-thousand-dollar fine on Con Ed. A year and a half later, the breaker problem still hadn't been fully resolved, an oversight that, thanks to a string of related errors, one day left the control-room alarm system without power. The N.R.C. was still figuring out the proper penalty for this incident when, in February, 2000, a tube in the reactor's steam generator ruptured, spilling twenty thousand gallons of radioactive water. The reactor received a "red finding," the N.R.C.'s lowest safety rating, and spent most of the rest of the year out of operation.
Entergy had completed its purchase of Indian Point 2 and 3 by the summer of 2001. At that point, many people at the plant, Steets told me, were hopeful that a new era was beginning. To celebrate the event, the company put up an enormous tent by the river and threw a party. "We had a great, great day out here," Steets said of the party, which took place just four days before September 11th. A month later, four of the seven control-room operating crews at Indian Point 2 failed an annual relicensing exam. Four months after that, also at Indian Point 2, a security guard was fired for pulling a gun on a colleague in an argument over a glass of orange juice.
Steets had promised to show me whatever there is to see at a nuclear reactor, and so we got into his car and drove down to Indian Point 3. The area right around the reactors, called the "protected area," is much more heavily guarded than the area around the emergency-operations center, which is called the "owner-controlled area." On the drive, we passed a tall chain-link fence rimmed with concrete barriers and topped with motion sensors. A truck was idling at the gate while a guard inspected its undercarriage with a mirror on a long pole.
Before I could enter the plant, I had to get a badge from a guard carrying a semi-automatic rifle and pass through a metal detector, an explosives detector, and, finally, a radiation detector. Next, I had to go upstairs to get a dosimeter, as well as a brief, government-mandated lecture from a radiological engineer named James Barry. On the way to Barry's office, I passed signs printed with slogans like "star: Stop, Think, Act, Review" and "step: Safety Takes Employee Participation." One poster said, "IP3 Practices alara," which stands for "as low as reasonably achievable" and refers to radiation exposure. Another urged employees to "Save an mrem Today." (One millirem is equal to a tenth of the amount of radiation a person would be exposed to in a typical chest X-ray.) Barry told me how to respond in the event of an alarm—"the one thing we don't want you to do is run or panic"—and informed me that if I saw anything that I thought constituted a hazard to myself or anyone else I had "the right to go to the N.R.C." Then he took Steets and me over to a bank of computers that read our dosimeters, through a set of doors of the sort typically seen in prisons, and down to a huge concrete tub filled with water. At the bottom of the pool, metal racks holding spent fuel rods were just barely visible.
For more than three decades now, the federal government has been planning to construct a repository for spent uranium, with limited success. (The repository now under construction at Yucca Mountain, in the Nevada desert, will not be open until at least 2010, if it opens at all.) In the meantime, like every other reactor in the country, Indian Point has been obliged to store its spent fuel on-site. By now, Indian Point 3 has collected six hundred and twenty-four tons of the stuff, and Indian Point 2 has amassed eight hundred and eight tons. Although the fuel is of no use in generating electricity, it is still highly radioactive and produces a great deal of heat, which is why it must always be kept submerged. Two years ago, after much prodding from groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists, the N.R.C. released a study looking at the risks of a spent-fuel fire. While the commission concluded that the risk of such a fire was low—the fuel would have to be left out of water for several hours—it acknowledged that the consequences "could be comparable to those for a severe reactor accident." This finding is frequently cited by critics of Indian Point, who note that the spent fuel is housed outside the containment domes, in buildings that are comparatively vulnerable, and that it contains a host of extremely dangerous "fission products," including radioactive iodine, radioactive cesium, and strontium. Gazing down into the pool, I couldn't help wondering—even though I realized that this was not the issue—what would happen if someone fell into it. There was a lot of noise from water rushing around, and a sign that said, "Do Not Linger." Before turning in our dosimeters, we all had to have full-body radiation scans, a process that involved climbing into a closetlike structure, first frontward and then backward. I set off an alarm during mine but was assured that it didn't mean anything.
As Steets and I were leaving the plant, we passed the control room. It was filled with visitors from an international nuclear operators' association, so Steets offered to take me to see the control-room simulator instead. The simulator is an exact replica of the control room, with glass replacing one wall to allow observation of trainees. When we arrived, a large white-haired man was leading two nervous-looking younger men through a training exercise. The older man told us that the younger men were trying to keep the reactor from overheating despite eight simultaneous malfunctions. I asked him how the exercise was going to end.
"Oh, I'll be a nice guy and give them a pump back," he said, adding that before that he would probably let the temperature of the reactor core get up to eleven hundred degrees. (The tubes holding the fuel start to crack at twelve hundred degrees.) For the first time during my visit, I thought Steets looked discouraged.
After the meltdown at Three Mile Island, the N.R.C. resolved that every nuclear power plant in the country had to have an evacuation plan. Indian Point's was put together by Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam Counties, in conjunction with the New York State Emergency Management Office. It details everything from the routes that buses should follow to the intersections where police should direct evacuees. The section of the plan devoted to Westchester County alone runs to two volumes, each several hundred pages.
Last summer, in the midst of his reëlection campaign, Governor George Pataki ordered an independent evaluation of the plan. (At the time, Riverkeeper was running a series of ads showing the plant in the center of a bull's-eye and calling on the Governor to "get the target off our backs.") The study was conducted by James Lee Witt, a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and ran to more than five hundred pages. When it was made public, in January, the plan documented what just about everyone who lives in the region suspected: that there are simply too many people and too few roads around the plant for the area to be evacuated effectively. In an accident, only those people living in the expected path of the plume would be ordered to leave their homes; however, as the report noted, inevitably people all over the region would try to get away—a phenomenon known as a "shadow evacuation"—which could produce chaos. The report called the plan "not adequate . . . to protect the people from an unacceptable dose of radiation."
The release of the Witt report, as it has come to be known, triggered—or perhaps just provided the excuse for—a political shift in New York. The Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam county executives all declared that this year they would not sign off on the evacuation plan, as they are required to do annually. Subsequently, the state, which is supposed to send on its approval to the federal government, announced that it could not vouch for the plan, either. By now, dozens of elected officials in the region have come out openly against Indian Point, including Representative Sue Kelly and Representative Nita Lowey, of Westchester, and Representative Eliot Engel, of the Bronx, who have called for the plant to be shut down, at least temporarily.
What happens next is largely up to the N.R.C. Under its own rules, the commission would seem to have grounds to close Indian Point—the very groups that are supposed to carry out the evacuation plan have now deemed it inadequate—but that seems unlikely. (The last time the N.R.C. ordered a plant shut over its owner's objections was back in 1987, when inspectors arrived at the Peach Bottom Unit 3 reactor, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and found the control-room crew fast asleep.) Indian Point supplies ten per cent of New York's power, and while this electricity could be purchased elsewhere, it is estimated that utility bills in the state would rise by a billion dollars a year if the plant were closed. Meanwhile, whatever decision the N.R.C. reaches is bound to have ramifications far beyond New York. Because of the number of people who live around Buchanan, the risks may be quantitatively higher at Indian Point than at other reactors, but qualitatively they're really no different. In this sense, shutting down the plant would, effectively, be acknowledging that in a post-9/11 world nuclear power just isn't worth the gamble. Two weeks ago, in the middle of a heightened terrorism alert, Richard Meserve, the N.R.C.'s chairman, faulted the Witt report for giving "undue weight" to the risk of a terrorist attack.
Along with helping to distribute "Emergency Planning for Indian Point," Westchester County recently held several potassium-iodide giveaways and invited members of the public to pick up free tablets for their families. Even though I live on the other side of the county from Buchanan, more than ten miles outside the evacuation zone, I kept thinking that I really ought to go to one to get some for my kids. (Children are particularly vulnerable to thyroid damage.) A few weeks ago, I decided to visit a local drugstore instead. By that point, a lot of other parents had evidently made the same decision, because the pharmacist told me that I was getting his last three packages. They came in a thin cardboard folder marked "thyroid blocking in a radiation emergency only." ♦


text: Hi all. I have a '99 Silverado that is rusting very badly on the bottom. It is time to get a different truck. I am looking for a long suburban with a double door rear doors, not the hatch with window that opens, but with left & right doors. What was the last year Chevy offered those doors on Suburbans? longcaster


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I am getting my package bees in april and am going to be putting them on the 4.9 mm foundation. I was wondering, does the 2nd deep that you put on top need to be 4.9 mm also, or can it be the larger size?
I am getting my package bees in april and am going to be putting them on the 4.9 mm foundation. I was wondering, does the 2nd deep that you put on top need to be 4.9 mm also, or can it be the larger size?
Personally I would use nothing but 4.9mm everywhere. But the 2nd brood chamber should definitely be 4.9mm. If you insist on cheating on size, do it above the queen excluder. But if you use the same everywhere isn't it simpler? And it keeps them in the habit of drawing small cells.
Ok, that is what I needed to know. I have two packages coming to me, and enough 4.9 cells to do two deep supers. I will do one package with 4.9 and the other with the bigger size I already have, then shake down the bigger size next spring. I am going to also be trying to extract bees from the side of a house, so will use the bigger cells for those bees.
If I was starting two packages and had enough foundation for two deeps, I'd put in in two deeps and put each package in one of those deeps and order some more 4.9mm. It's MUCH easier to do it off the bat. They probably won't outgrow one deep for a month or so. Plenty of time to get some more foundation.
And if you can't afford the foundation, make starter strips and use that, but don't start down the big cell road when you're planning to go to small cell.
[This message has been edited by Michael Bush (edited March 21, 2003).]
Also if you're getting them out of a house, use 4.9mm or 4.9mm starter strips because they may already be regressed and you'll be artifically enlarging them only to regress them again.
To tell the truth I'm quite fond of starter strips. I'd use a plain unembossed starter strip before I'd use enlarged cell foundation. I like 4.9mm starter strips. The bees build nice comb in a size that is natural to them with clean wax. You can make 10 or more starter strips from one sheet of 4.9mm foundation.
If you're too cheap to buy more 4.9mm foundation, then do the starter strips. I will save you and the bees a lot of work regressing later.
If you want to spend the money, buy all 4.9mm foundation. It's not that expensive.
If you've decided on the small cell regression route, stay with it. Giving them large cell foundation when you want to regress them is like going south when you really wanted to end up north. It's the wrong direction.
Regressing is one of those things you need to either do or not do. If you're going to do it, then don't compromise.
[This message has been edited by Michael Bush (edited March 21, 2003).]
Thanks for the information. That is what I will do then. I don't think the 4.9 is all that bad priced...I was more worried about the time frame.


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We had a hive of honey bees move into a unused pop-up trailer in the Summer of 2010. We left them alone and they seemed very happy. Today my boyfriend opened up the trailer to see what was going on since we wanted to get rid of the trailer and to move the hive to a new home. There was a bunch of honey comb and honey and some of the comb appears to be sealed up but no bees at all.
Did the hive abscond? Will they be back? Are there pupa in the sealed cells (I assume if there are they are dead given the cold and lack of bees)? Is the honey safe to process?
Thanks in advance!