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Man arrested after 15 people found in HGV near Ilminster
- HGV stopped at the services next to Southfields Roundabout around 2pm
- 15 people treated for possible dehydration
- Police and immigration authorities investigating.
- Man from Germany arrested on suspicion of facilitating the unlawful entry of people into the UK.
- Roundabout connects the A303 towards Yeovil with the A358 towards Taunton.
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Six vehicles hit, two troopers injured in high-speed chase
Suspect charged with attempted capital murder
SCOTT COUNTY, Va. - Two Virginia State Troopers are recovering tonight after a chase ends in a crash. It happened Tuesday afternoon in Scott County, Virginia.
We're told they are both expected to be ok after a day on the job that involved a checkpoint, a police chase and a six-vehicle crash.
You can view photos here of a few of the six damaged vehicles after a police chase came to a crashing end. It happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Route 704 and Route 903.
State police say a man made an abrupt turn at a police checkpoint. That's when troopers tried to stop the suspect and a chase ensued.
Scott County sheriff John Puckett told us about what happened. "I fell in behind the trooper that was chasing him. He came through Gate City very fast right through the town," he said. "He came out at Daniel Boone Road and was doing over 100 miles per hour."19698352
The chase ended with two troopers being injured -- Trooper Brian Hubbard and Trooper Jamie Lawson are both expected to recover.
"One of the troopers running lost control and went in the creek. It injured him and probably totaled his vehicle," he said. "A trooper sideswiped another trooper and the [he] ran into a parked vehicle on the side of the road. He was injured."
In all six vehicles were damaged; five were police vehicles.19698124
Police tell us the suspect, Jason Thomas Byrns, was taken into custody at the scene.
We talked with Commonwealth's Attorney Marcus McClung at the hospital Tuesday evening. He told us the suspect is charged with felony eluding police and attempted capital murder.
He'll be held in the Duffield Regional Jail. More charges are pending.
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BEND, Ore. - Two Bend residents and a suspected illegal immigrant living in Madras were arrested Wednesday in a traffic stop on Highway 97 south of Bend, police said Thursday.
The driver and passenger were arrested in a recent shoplifting incident at the Bend Walmart, while the second passenger was found in possession of a pound of methamphetamine, officers said.
A Deschutes County sheriff's deputy pulled over the white 1991 Toyota Camry around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday on Highway 97 near China Hat Road for an unspecified traffic violation, said Bend police Lt. Kurt Koester.
During the stop, 911 dispatchers told the deputy the car was associated with a Jan. 21 robbery and theft at the Bend Walmart in which the suspects threatened to use pepper spray on a store employee, Koester said, adding that no one was injured in the encounter.
Bend police responded to the deputy's location and, based on their investigation, arrested driver Joshua Joe Joseph Jr., 24, and passenger Melissa Lynn Stokes, 26, both of Bend, on second-degree theft and robbery charges. Joseph was being held on $52,500 bail Thursday at the county jail, while Stokes, also facing a third-degree robbery charge, was held on $35,000 bail.
A second passenger, Carlos Romero Pineda, 36, of Madras, was found to have about a pound of meth in his possession, Koester said, estimating its value at about $17,000.
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Ligger tio minuter från Roma Termini, lätt tillgängligt. Mycket fint boende, estetisk vacker, rent och alltigenom gott bemötande. Det finns fler rum, bra för grupp! Lugnt fast det är mitt i centrum. Rekommenderas!
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Wir waren 5 Nächte in der Pension. Einfaches Zimmer (mit Klimaanlage), aber sauber und durch die dunklen Holzmöbel und die Holzdielen gemütlich. Wlan hatten wir leider nur in der Küche, der Empfang reichte nicht bis ins Zimmer. Gute Anbindung zum Stadtzentrum, zum Kolosseum brauchten wir nur ca. 10-15 min. Ein kleiner Einkaufsmarkt ist gleich gegenüber. Den brauchten wir auch, da es zum Frühstück kein Brot, sondern nur Marmelade, Zwieback und kleine Küchlein gab.
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Excellent welcome despite our late arrival. Very clean. Near the metro and even walk can do a lot of walking tours if you like.
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Home › Forums › General Forums › Winter Hiking › Updgrade Tele gear or get Snowshoes?
Jan 7, 2013 at 12:27 pm #1297747
Jeff GerkeBPL Member
@mtnrunnerLocale: Utah
I used to do a bit of backcountry skiing in my younger days. This winter I dug out the old gear and have gone on a couple tours. However it is time to upgrade my equipment or maybe buy some snowshoes instead. The idea to buy snowshoes instead of upgrading my tele gear is mainly due to much lower cost. Will I be disappointed? I like skinning up as much or maybe even more than skiing back down. Plus I just like to be out hiking around in the mountains. I'm thinking I might enjoy snowshoes as much as skiing. Anyone out there prefer snowshoeing over skiing? I'm having a hard time deciding cause I can't seem to shake the thought that snowshoeing would be a step down.Jan 7, 2013 at 1:39 pm #1941513
j lanMember
@justaddfuelLocale: MN
Try some Altai hok's for the best of both worlds!Jan 7, 2013 at 9:01 pm #1941693
Andy FSpectator
@andyfLocale: Midwest/Midatlantic
I'm somewhat of a beginner on XC skis, but I'd rather have skis on flat and rolling terrain with a wide trail so that I can't hit any trees. Otherwise, I prefer snowshoes. Also, snowshoes are simpler and a more natural-feeling way to travel.Jan 7, 2013 at 10:28 pm #1941718
Paul McLaughlinBPL Member
The only situation where I'd rather be on snowshoes is in thick forest, especially steep slopes and thick forest. Anything else, I'd rather ski. Faster up and way faster down. Note that I am not a very good skier. I can get down the hill, but it ain't pretty. If you still have any of your old skills left, I'm betting you'll prefer skis.
For those who have never skied, the advantage of snowshoes is a very short learning curve.Jan 7, 2013 at 10:58 pm #1941725
David GardnerBPL Member
@gearmakerLocale: Northern California
I've done a fair amount of both (my avatar is a shot of me telemarking the Sierra High Route), and I too greatly prefer skins & skis over snowshoes on any but the steepest forested terrain, where any ski is just too long to maneuver. Nothing compares to climbing some backcountry hill and then getting to carve down it. And for normal climbing, I'm much faster uphill on skis than on snowshoes. When I'm on snowshoes I'm always a little disappointed, especially at the end of a climb when I have to trudge down the hill I just trudged up.
If you've already got decent tele skills but your gear is old, you're going to love it when you upgrade. The gear I own is old school but I've rented a couple different sets of the new tele boots and skis and the difference is amazing.
The Hoks look really cool, and I would like to have a pair of skis that size and shape. But I prefer being able to remove the skins at the end of a climb and ski down unfettered. That being said, my backcountry skiing experience is mainly in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges, where the climbs and downhills are long. Perhaps in rolling terrain the Hoks would be faster overall because you wouldn't have to stop frequently to put the skins on and take them off.
The best thing I ever did for my backcountry skiing skills was to take a series of classes offered by Alpine Skills International at Donner Summit near Lake Tahoe. Years of expert XXX backcountry experience and skills packed into a few days. Take a class with your new gear and you'll be able to climb and ski anything you want.Jan 7, 2013 at 11:34 pm #1941732
Paul MagnantiBPL Member
@paulmagsLocale: Front Range Zoo
" Also, snowshoes are simpler and a more natural-feeling way to travel."
Dunno about that.
I personally find snowshoes clunky and un-natural feeling. A bit like a duck! :)
A glide through the powder feels almost magical.
A bit like flying….
Ah; good stuff.
I must confess, when I switched from snowshoes to skis about 10 yrs ago, I had similar feelings. Once you get the hang of skiing to at least an intermediate level (I'm better at Nordic than telemarking myself), you'll not want to go back to snowshoeing. :)
Keep at it…and have fun.Jan 7, 2013 at 11:46 pm #1941734
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
Why upgrade the old ski equipment?
Snowshoes are fine for the 5% of the population that has poor balance and therefore can't ski.
As long as you have the ability to ski, and you have already expressed desire to ski, then why not?
–B.G.–Jan 8, 2013 at 7:52 am #1941789
Jeff GerkeBPL Member
@mtnrunnerLocale: Utah
I think I have decided to upgrade my tele gear. I'm leaning towards the Black Diamond Revert with 01 bindings. I'll probably use my 15 year old Scarpa T2's until I can afford to upgrade my boots. Currently I'm skiing on some Black Diamond Arc Ascents with Voile three pin cable bindings, all about 15 years old. From what I hear the new skis and bindings will make a big difference.Jan 8, 2013 at 3:06 pm #1941943
Ryan BresslerBPL Member
We haven't really taken our snow shoes out since we started skiing…modern (fat, rockered and carbon) skis and stiff/light boots make even tight steep trees pretty doable (we ski at with dynafit bindings but tele vs AT is another religious war). My BD Justices are effortless to turn or stop on a dime in almost any condition. They make tree skiing fun right up until the branches start poking you in the eyes.
I've looked at the revert … they have a nice modern shape but are heavy due to more burly side wall construction to increase hard snow/ice/resort performance.
If that isn't important to you you might check out the voile vector which is a similar shaped ski that is about 10 oz lighter in the same length, made in the usa, cheaper and gets great reviews. BD also has a bunch of skis with the lighter no side wall construction including the aspect, drift and justice and g3 is making some cool light skis too. (I have the Justices and my wife has the Starlets which are the women's Drift but i have only heard about the other skis).Jan 8, 2013 at 4:29 pm #1941966
Michael BMember
@mbenvenutoLocale: Vermont
snowshoes are lighter and faster and easier on steep icy trails, particularly if you are summitting. so many trails in the east cant be skied. but you are in Utah, so definitely keep teleing.Jan 9, 2013 at 3:10 pm #1942282
Jim W.BPL Member
@jimqpublicLocale: So-Cal
My plastic AT boots disintegrated the first time I buckled them up after 10 years of nonuse. The soles fell off my leather telemark boots when I used them after 5 years of nonuse (luckily re-attached at the Rubber Room in Bishop, CA). My bindings are all old, my tele skis are half the width of modern models. The glue is dried up on all my skins.
Skiing is fun. I love skiing. Snowshoeing is fun. I like snowshoeing. I love turning around at the top of a 6 hour ski climb and planning out the 30 minute ski down. I hate turning around at the top of a 6 hour snowshoe and dreading the 3 hour snowshoe down.
That said, I am older than I used to be (47), budget is tight, and I have two kids back home. We ski downhill together at the resort with professional ski patrol and avalanche control. We snowshoe together on safe (avalanche-wise) terrain. When I go out for the few solo or adult trips each year they are on snowshoes and/or crampons mostly because of cost, but also because I believe that I am at less risk of avalanche and injury when on this gear than skis. I don't mind snowshoeing through bushes and across rocks; skis like to be out in the middle of the bowl.
Still, I drool over the slopes I don't get to ski.Mar 10, 2013 at 10:34 pm #1964128
Richard NiemiBPL Member
@rickniemiLocale: Santa Cruz Mountains
My vote is for skis. It's way more fun then snowshoeing.
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My hubby and I started beekeeping last spring with a new 10 frame hive. The bees and their queen seemed to adjust well and started building out the frames with honey and brood just as expected. They seemed happy with no signs of any disease or pest until afer the first frost this fall. We hadn't checked them for a couple weeks and the next time we checked them, the bees were gone. There were some dead bees ob the ground beneath the hive. There were several dead bees attached to the comb.
They had large honey stores and we were going to be supplementing with bee food as well, but it hadn't gotten cold yet and we hadn't taken any of their honey.
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Home › Forums › Campfire › Hiking Partners / Group Trip Announcements › Ride to Yellowstone's Bechler Ranger Station from Kepler Cascades?
Jun 21, 2011 at 12:08 pm #1275754
I'm backpacking with a friend August 3-6 from Bechler Ranger Station to Kepler Cascades trailhead near Old Faithful. Initially, I figured we'd drop off the car at Kepler and thumb a ride to Bechler, but it looks like there's 10 miles of unpaved road to Bechler. Under those conditions, it doesn't seem bloody likely that anyone would drive us there, even two nice ladies sporting backpacks.
A shot in the dark: Will anyone be hiking in this area, around this time and will be willing to give us a lift? Alternatively, if someone is going in the opposite direction, swap keys?
If hitchhiking is the only way, might it be easier to end the trip at Bechler and try for a ride to Old Faithful?
OR, if anyone has any other suggestions . . . I've never been to Yellowstone.Jun 21, 2011 at 1:05 pm #1751738
Gary DunckelBPL Member
@zia-grill-guyLocale: Boulder
Rebecca, you are in for a real logistical nightmare. I hope somebody, a trail angel, will come to your rescue on this one. Getting from Old Faithful to Bechler RS involves exiting the Park at West Yellowstone, then somehow getting down to Ashton, Idaho and on to Bechler. I'm thinking that it will be difficult to hitch a ride all that way. But by hiking N-S, you might possibly get lucky and come out at Bechler the same time somebody else does, and maybe be able to catch a ride to Ashton. Or, perhaps not, and you'd be at the mercy of the Bechler ranger as to whether you can camp there until somebody shows up. Also, don't try hitchhiking the southern boundary roads, as there is very little traffic. The only options I see (assuming that the trail shuttle angel doesn't surface) is to do one of several loops out of the Bechler RS, or an out-and-back from the north. Hopefully Mike Clelland will chime in with some better advice, as he lives near Ashton. Good luck.Jun 21, 2011 at 1:35 pm #1751748
Thanks Gary.
A loop from Bechler or Kepler is sounding more and more desirable. Any recommendations on that would be greatly appreciated. Our main goal is to see the waterfalls and soak in the hot spring near Three River Junction, which looks to be about 14 miles from the north or south.
–BeckyJun 21, 2011 at 2:11 pm #1751758
William CummingsMember
@rcummings1Locale: Colorado
Do the loop from Bechler RS up to the Three River Junction and back. It's right at 14 miles one way. You travel through Bechler Meadows and the lower part of Bechler Canyon with lots of great waterfalls. This loop has better scenery with big vistas of the Tetons. If you do the Northern loop you spend a lot more time hiking in a never changing Lodgepole forest. Lone Star and Shoshone Lake are my least favorite part of the park. You might have to take one of the perimeter trails around Bechler Meadows if the water is still high. Bring your bug spray/nets and check with the Ranger at Bechler RS about the trail through the meadow. Try to get 2 nights at Three River Junction, it's a great spot to hang/explore.Jun 21, 2011 at 3:04 pm #1751770
David ChenaultSpectator
@davecLocale: The West Slope
Hitching in Yellowstone can be a pain, but there are enough people that eventually it'll work (with patience). Leaving the car at Old Faithful, hiking to Bechler RS, then hiking the S Boundary to the paved road would be one option. Even better, hike the trail over the SE corner of the Pitchstone to the TH near Lewis Lake (name escapes me). Even better, hitch up to Lewis River, hike in to Shoshone Lake, then up to the road and finish with a short hitch to Old Faithful.Jun 21, 2011 at 5:32 pm #1751827
Thanks for the info, William. We will be fortified with Deet.
A couple more questions for you, William:
It looks like I choose Bechler River or Meadow trail out of the ranger station and then in about 7 miles I connect or continue along the Bechler River trail, and then on up to Three River Junction. On the return, it's the same trail (Bechler River) and then choose Bechler Meadow or River trail back to the ranger station, yes? It's more like a lollipop route?
A couple more questions: Am I safe to wait until arriving at the Ranger Station to get the permit? And I see nothing about bear canisters, only about hanging your food. Are bear canisters frowned upon or absolutely not allowed?Jun 21, 2011 at 5:33 pm #1751828
Thanks, David. I have options, I see.Jun 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm #1751851
Richard LyonBPL Member
@richardglyonLocale: Bridger Mountains
Becky, The Bechler Meadows are the lowest point in Yellowstone Park, and hence are kind of a natural sump. They can be marshy and muddy through August and underwater in July. And the Northern Rockies had its highest snowfall in years this past winter, and heavy rain in the spring. The Meadows/Boundary Creek to Three Rivers lollipop loop is a great trip, but in early August this year it may be impassible.
You might try an out-and-back from Lone Star south to Three Rivers (or beyond – there are some terrific falls along the Bechler Trail before you get to the Meadows. Great side trip to Shoshone Lake.
If you can do the loop from Bechler RS, don't miss Dunanda Falls, which has two great soaking pools within 75 yards of the Falls. In my opinion even better than the Ferris Falls hot springs.
RichardJun 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm #1751943
Richard, can Dunanda Falls be approached from the north, or does that add significant mileage?
I'm certainly glad that I queried the BPL crew first. Looks like I've got some more planning to do.Jun 22, 2011 at 6:48 am #1752004
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@davecLocale: The West Slope
I'd ring the Old Faithful backcountry desk and ask about the availabilty of permits. They do cap the number of folks at given sites, and August is usually quite crowded. You could end up being SOL.
Bear canisters are certainly allowed, but rather pointless. All BC sites in Yellowstone have a pole of some sort that makes hanging food dead easy, and MT/WY bears are less interested in human food and less acrobatically motivated than CA bears (thankfully). 40 feet of rope is all you'll need.Jun 22, 2011 at 1:24 pm #1752165
Richard LyonBPL Member
@richardglyonLocale: Bridger Mountains
Becky – It can be approached from the north, but I realize this would make it a very long out-and-back. Dunanda and Silver Scarf Falls are located off the Boundary Creek Trail, which intersects the Bechler River Trail just after the last Bechler River crossing (above the Meadows). Dunanda is 2-3 miles up that trail, toward Buffalo Lake. Campsite 9A3 is right at the Falls. This is about 24 miles from Lone Star trailhead. But you'd hike the length of the Bechler River Canyon – best sets of falls in Yellowstone.
David is correct about availability of permits in August – do check with the Backcountry office first.
RichardJun 22, 2011 at 5:41 pm #1752259
Thanks Charles and David. I called the backcountry ranger today and he agreed that early August is cutting it too close this year for lower Bechler. And he suggested that I call before submitting my campsite requests to see if I have a snowball's chance. I'll be doing that tomorrow. Thanks for all the helpful info.
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Roald Hoffmann
Everything in oxygen chemistry seemed more or less in place: Up there, in the stratosphere, there were oxygen atoms, O2 molecules and ozone, O3, as well as ions derived from these and a bit of active OH, all in a dance of creation and destruction.
Meanwhile, within our bodies, normal O2 served us well. There was even a place, under enzyme supervision, for the somewhat nasty relatives hydrogen peroxide (H2O2 and its deprotonated form, O22-) and superoxide (O2- and its protonated alter ego, HOO●), whose chemistry may generate the harmful hydroxyl radical ●OH. Of course, there's also water everywhere. And here and there singlet dioxygen, a more reactive and excited state of normal diatomic oxygen.
A nice, neatly compartmentalized world: ozone for atmospheric chemists, but not biologists, who had plenty of more complicated molecules to worry about.
So they thought.
This complacent state has now changed—dramatically so—with a series of remarkable discoveries. There is new evidence for the occurrence of ozone in living cells. Hydrogen peroxide is being made by molecules thought incapable of doing so. Even a metastable laboratory curiosity, the unusual HOOOH molecule (which sounds like a holler; call it dihydrogen-trioxide), may be in living systems. Meanwhile, we are still puzzling out the state of oxygen in high-temperature superconductors. And the menagerie of alternative forms of elemental oxygen continues to expand—there are strong theoretical arguments for the existence of a cyclic ozone isomer, and there may even be ways of stabilizing it.
Oxygen is the most abundant element in the crust of the Earth. It is mostly tied up in carbonates and phosphates, and in a wider range of silicates, from clays to zeolites to quartz.
Under ambient conditions, diatomic oxygen is the stable form of the element. O2 is a strange molecule, for all its ubiquity. Its problem (no, our problem as we try to think about it) is that oxygen's two least strongly held electrons, responsible for most of its chemistry, have available to them two orbitals. One electron goes into each orbital, so the ground state of O2 has two unpaired electrons.
From here on I will refer to this ground state simply as O2. The first excited state of O2, usually simply called singlet oxygen or 1O2, lies 95 kilojoules per mole above the ground state. Singlet oxygen is an energetic, still more reactive form of oxygen that is relatively easy to make, either chemically or with light.
Normal ground state O2 is not an inert molecule. A single unpaired electron on oxygen (as in ●OH) or on an organic fragment (as in methyl, ●CH3) makes such a "radical" very reactive. Radicals rip hydrogens from previously stable molecules; they also start polymerization chains. With its two unpaired electrons, O2 is a "diradical." It enters many organic and inorganic reactions—as we'll soon see, this changed the course of evolution.
But compared to other diradicals, O2 is surprisingly unreactive. "Otherwise California would be burning permanently, and not just from time to time all the time," as a La Jolla-based colleague remarked in the midst of the recent fires. Many organic molecules have large barriers to reaction with O2. The reasons for O2's attenuated reactivity are still being debated, but there is no ambiguity about the destructive nature of singlet oxygen and the ●OH and ●OOH radicals. Or of the metastable allotrope of oxygen, ozone. These attack, with alacrity, nearly anything organic.
Diatomic O2 apparently was not abundant early on in the history of the Earth, based in part on the age of oxidized iron deposits. So life, evolving as it did to utilize oxygen atoms in almost every molecule of consequence, got those atoms from carbon dioxide and carbonates. But the energy—and the electron donors and acceptors needed to run reduction-oxidation chemistry—came from elsewhere, likely first from reactions in the absence of light, such as H2 reacting with CO2. Later, with light but still without free O2, the energy and electron sources may have been bacterial photosynthesis, described by the schematic equation
About two billion years ago, oxygen-releasing photosynthesis spread widely among biota, introducing vast amounts of O2 into the atmosphere. One might look at the 2X in the generic equation above as just a waste product. But nature is opportunistic. The leavings of one organism, even if dangerous, provide food for another. Or (for 2X= O2) a breathable gas.
Yes, oxygen drove many of the early prokaryotes into anoxic niches, where they survive perfectly well to this day. Other survivors, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, evolved O2 detoxification strategies. These schemes included enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, classes of molecules such as luciferins, and some isoprenoids. With these and other molecular constables, aerobic organisms created an intracellular balance (perhaps upset as we age): Some oxygen-containing radicals were kept dangerous, even as aerobes evolved the biochemistry to control them.
And organisms did evolve to use O2. What was waste, now nourished. Yet oxygen does more than fuel cellular fires. The immune system is actively involved in making killing forms of oxygen, such as peroxide and ozone.
Part of the immune system is adaptive, an assortment of receptors that cover the surface of white blood cells. Some of these receptors are antibodies, which recognize and bind to pathogens. To actually destroy them, to disrupt bacterial membranes or initiate ingestion, immunologists thought that antibodies had to signal other parts of the system.
In the past three years, Scripps Research Institute chemists and biochemists have dramatically revised this picture. Richard Lerner, Albert Eschenmoser and Paul Wentworth, Jr., collaborating with several groups, first discovered that all antibodies could produce hydrogen peroxide. More recently, they have found that antibodies appear to catalyze the generation of ozone! The overall reaction (unbalanced, and obscuring many intermediate steps) is
This reaction includes many of oxygen's protean molecular manifestations: Aside from the familiar water, hydrogen peroxide, excited singlet and normal ground state oxygen, it contains the unusual HOOOH molecule. Dihydrogen-trioxide was proposed more than 60 years ago, but direct proof for its existence has trickled in over the last 30 years. There is also a possible role for the HOOO● radical, not shown in the equation, which in turn may be a masked ●OH. All are reactive molecules, as shown by their short half-lives in water: around 1 minute for ozone, 20 milliseconds for HOOOH and 1 microsecond for 1O2.
The narrative of discovery that details the unraveling dogma is fascinating. Initial observations of H2O2 production in the presence of antibodies were startling enough. But as the Scripps group thought about what they saw, so much H2O2 was being produced that it became an enigma where all the electrons come from. The problem was resolved when the researchers realized that two molecules of singlet oxygen could react with water to give HOOOH, which could then go on to form ozone and hydrogen peroxide. A simple experiment ran the process in 18O-labeled water and showed that the label wound up in the H2O2; this result immediately supported the hypothesis. Albert Eschenmoser says:
The situation is reminiscent of photosynthesis when it started to use water as an electron donor and then began to poison the environment. It is "burning water," in one case by excitation of a cofactor by light, and in the other case by singlet oxygen mediated by an antibody.
And where does the singlet oxygen, the energy source, come from? Certain white blood cells produce it when stimulated by infection. In the tight economy of the cell (Lavoisier, the banker, would have loved this), everything is utilized.
Recent work from the same imaginative collective has shown that atherosclerotic plaques also generate ozone. That ozone attacks cholesterol and the consequent oxidation products are all-around bad actors, implicated in cytotoxicity and mutagenesis.
This seemingly unorthodox chemistry has been with us (albeit unknowingly) for years. There is an old, potent oxidation system used to cleanse industrial quantities of soil and water contaminated with PCBs and worse, the peroxone process. In it, the samples are treated with a synergistic mixture of O3 and H2O2. In another cross-disciplinary study, the Scripps group, in collaboration with theoretician William A. Goddard, III, at California Institute of Technology, has shown that the peroxone process involves the same H2O3 molecule.
So now we have oxygen chemistry in the atmosphere, in the cell, in a decontamination process. But have we exhausted all of oxygen's secrets?
For a few intriguing small molecules you can draw a perfectly good Lewis structure. But they don't exist. Beginning chemistry students, nicely unsullied by the burden of knowing the answer, often give us one—ask them for a Lewis structure of ozone, O3, and they are as likely to write down the cyclic molecule in Figure 3a as the known form in Figure 3b, for which one has to draw two resonance structures. So what's wrong with the ring in Figure 3a? Or four-, or five-, or six-membered cyclic variants? The usual explanation is that the rings have too many unshared electron pairs close to one another—note the 12 dots, symbolizing electrons, in Figure 3a.
Now the situation grows interesting. A theoretical analysis shows that the interconversion of the normal bent form (the O-O-O angle in ozone is 117 degrees) and the cyclic form of O3 is what R. B. Woodward and I called a forbidden reaction. Which means that just the breaking of what one might have thought to be a single weak bond should have a substantial energy barrier. So there may yet be hope for stable cyclic O3.
Indeed, the best calculations today confirm the metastability of this ring. Cyclic ozone lies about 130 kilojoules per mole above normal O3 but has a barrier of no less than 95 kilojoules per mole preventing conversion to the open form. There is an even bigger barrier to falling apart to O2 + O.
Sulfur is like oxygen, in some of its chemistry. So what happens for the sulfur analogues of ozone? SO2 forms a three-sided ring that is at much higher energy (computed at about 400 kilojoules per mole) than the open structure (the geometries resemble those of ozone in Figures 3a and 3b). Nevertheless, cyclic SO2 also has a relatively large barrier to breaking a bond and opening up an angle—84 kilojoules per mole. S or O, there is no escape from the constraints quantum mechanics puts on reaction barriers. In S3 the ring is calculated to lie only 33 kilojoules per mole above the open form, again with a substantial barrier to opening.
Cyclic O3 or S3 has not been detected. Should one give up on them? By no means. One of the beauties of organometallic chemistry is that an appropriately chosen MLn fragment (M=transition metal, L=ligand) can bind to and stabilize a molecule that, by itself, is unstable. So . . . to find the elusive cyclic ozone, one could try to make a molecule such as shown in Figure 4. Beate Flemmig, Shen-shu Sung and I are trying to predict what ligands on a metal (tungsten looks best) might be able to do this.
Actually, there has been one observation of cyclic ozone on an annealed magnesium-oxide surface. The technique used to image the molecules, transmission electron diffraction, showed O3 rings that appeared to be centered over underlying Mg ions.
Incidentally, the solid state is a fine place to look for oxygen in other weird forms. A mystery remains (one of many) about the chemical nature of oxygen in the cuprate superconductors. Oxygen doping is necessary for high-temperature superconductivity (high Tc) in systems such as La2CuO4. During the synthesis of this composite, the oxygen enters as O2, but it surely does not reach its equilibrium positions in the lattice in this form. To get at the problem in another way—all the signs are that the holes (missing electrons) in high Tc cuprates are partially on Cu2+, partially on (formal) O2-. But a hole, or one electron less, on O2- makes it O-. And this radical (here they are again!) will not sit still in the lattice. Large or small motions of the oxygens, static or dynamic formation of O21-, O22-, O23- or even a bigger aggregate—what will it be?
Would it surprise me to see cyclic ozone, or an as-yet unknown, metastable, oxygen-containing radical in a biological system? Two years ago I would have said, "You're crazy." After the beautiful and exciting Scripps work of the past two years, I'd rather leave the final word to Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, who in a recent play about the element, puts it simply: "Imagine!"
© Roald Hoffmann
Thanks to Beate Flemmig for her help with some research on this article, Richard Lerner and Albert Eschenmoser for telling me of their work, and Lynn Margulis for enlarging my knowledge of microbial chemistry.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-story-of-o/5
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Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (CRMC) recently welcomed three new emergency medicine physicians to the Emergency Department in Crosby. They are Dr. Tom Lorenz, Dr. Mohammad Chelehmalzadeh and Dr. Erik Vilen.
Lorenz joins CRMC with more than 30 years of emergency physician experience. Before joining CRMC he provided emergency medicine care in Perham and primary care in Onamia.
Lorenz graduated from St. John's University magna cum laude and attended the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. His internship was at St. Luke's Hospital in Fargo.
Lorenz is board certified in emergency medicine. With a passion for medicine, Lorenz has also put his many years of experience to use as an educator teaching and was Instructor of the Year twice through NE Area Health Education Center at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.
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For four years, he attended Central America Health Sciences University in Belize City, Belize, where he completed his clinical rotations.
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Chelehmalzadeh has held the position of medical director at facilities in Minnesota, including Buffalo Lake, Renville County and Hector. Before his transition to CRMC he provided care at Renville County Hospital and Clinics in Olivia, where he held a variety of leadership roles since 2009 as chief of emergency services, vice president of medical staff and interim Hospice director.
Vilen is a graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he obtained his Bachelor's Degree in biology.
In August of 2004, he started medical school at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis and went on to complete his residency at Montana Family Medicine Residency.
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Fogo de Chao brings the flavors of Southern Brazil to Las Vegas, just off the famous Las Vegas Strip. The restaurant features an important element of this culture by cooking food 'The Gaucho Way.' Churrasco is the Gaucho way of roasting meats over pits of open fire for delicious barbecues, which is always present at every festive occasion, especially family gatherings. Experience fantastic food in a unique atmosphere and enjoy the cultural foods of Southern Brazil.


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Drums of Death, Live at FIXED, This Friday
Long story short, I love me some Drums of Death. The Glasgowian underlord's moniker is the alter-ego of Colin Bailey, who emerged from London's club scene in early 2008 and after Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and Alex Waldron heard a tape of his music, signed him to their record label and party crew: Greco-Roman. Stories quickly began to emerge in the press that he was cursed by some voodoo magic and had his heart cut out and replaced with a broken drum machine. That. Is. Awesome.
This Friday, at Public Assembly for part of the FIXED show series, DoD will take the stage for a live performance. Now, last time I caught the facepainted monster, he was opening for Peaches at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and he put on a terrorizingly terrific set. More of the same will surely be in effect this weekend, as he's gearing up to drop an album, and the new songs we've already heard, well, WHEW, they's a beast's dream.
Want to hit up the gig? More information on tickets and times can be found here.
Do it.
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Fenrir Greyback's gang of Snatchers was the most prominent snatcher gang in Britain. There were seven members of this gang. This gang caught Dean Thomas and Griphook and also killed their companions, Gornuk, Dirk Cresswell and Ted Tonks. This group then caught Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They almost fell for their lies but then realised who they caught and brought them to Malfoy Manor. When there, one snatcher got into a disagreement with Bellatrix Lestrange and all were stunned except for Greyback. Bellatrix then planned to kill them but never did because they escaped when she was tortured by Voldemort. Later, Every member of this gang fought in the Battle of Hogwarts. Six were killed when the bridge collapsed and what happened to Greyback is unknown. He was either killed, escaped back to his pack or was caught and sent to Azkaban.


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Other than the occasional Nerf gun, we tend to be a weapons-free household. And yet, when I heard about a new book from No Starch Press that focuses solely on crafting heavy weaponry out of Lego bricks, I wanted to share it here on GeekMom. Not because of the topic — the guns actually make me a little uncomfortable — but because of the author.
Jack Streat was just 16 years old when No Starch Press spotted his automated Lego weapons on YouTube and approached him about writing the book that would ultimately become Lego Heavy Weapons. He became a published author at the age of 17 when the book was released in May.
I recently asked Jack some questions about his work with No Starch Press, his building process, and his plans for the future.
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The polygon-deficient Tomb Raider definitely needs a reboot. Fortunately, that's exactly what's happening. The direction that developers Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix have sent our heroine Lara Croft on, however, might take some time for fans to adjust to.
At E3 I got a personal run-through of the opening sequences with Brian Horton, the Senior Art Director, to learn more about Lara's next adventure - including an unexpected New Zealand connection.
This Tomb Raider is a prequel that is set to re-establish Lara Croft's character in the new age. From the opening cinematic, Lara is grounded in reality. She feels more 'human', and the game seems determined to connect with you on some sort of emotional level. Gone are the days where Lara ploughs through dozens of enemies before somersaulting over a pit of spikes without breaking a sweat. Here she is literally fighting for her own survival. The new Lara is vulnerable and afraid.
Her trials begin when she is shipwrecked in the Philippine Sea. Stranded on a tropical island, she is alone, wounded, and terrified. She has to put her fears aside, however, and track down other survivors from the wreck who are somewhere on the island with her. Completely unarmed, you'll lead Lara to explore her hostile territory, set up base-camp, build or salvage basic weapons, gather food, and ultimately try not to get killed.
Lara's acrobatic prowess is dramatically reduced this time around. Instead of flipping and cartwheeling like a nubile gymnast, Lara now moves around with an almost awkward demeanour. In a similar way to Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Lara now stumbles and even fails to latch onto surfaces when performing death defying leaps. Often she'll fall or slip and injure herself.
In an effort to strive for realism and confrontation, I can't help but feel the developers have taken it a little bit too far. After our short ten minute play-through, a part of me wanted to put poor old Lara out of her misery. She was constantly grunting, crying, bleeding, sweating, and screaming. Either you'll form a heart-wrenching bond with our unfortunate heroine or you'll just fling her off the nearest cliff and turn off the console.
Tomb Raider has been visually rebooted as well. The look is gritty and unforgiving, just like the gameplay dynamics. The lighting effects and texture detail create a harsh, but inviting island environment, and these translate even better to interior underground cavern levels which are reminiscent of Lara's roots. Like most modern games, there is no HUD and the game has a cinematic feel, backed up by some impressive camera angles and visual effects. It's hard not to compare the game's look and feel with Uncharted, but there are plenty of aspects which give Tomb Raider its own vibe.
Most of this comes down to the vulnerability of the lead character. While Drake has survival elements, I never felt concerned for Drake's safety. His cockiness and humour have been replaced with Lara's uncertainty and dread. The game also incorporates some well integrated quick-time events for particular cinematics.
It was about halfway through our demo, where Lara encounters a group of fellow survivors, that I got my biggest surprise. Tomb Raider seems to have a mad local connection, by way of a male survivor who appears wearing a red t-shirt with 'New Zealand' stamped across the front of it. Immediately I queried Brian, the Senior Art Director, but he wasn't allowed to go into any detail about the story or Lara's surrounding characters. I pushed further and learned about Brian's passion for New Zealand. Despite the fact that he hasn't had the chance to visit this country, his fascination and personal research were behind the character's design.
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Discussion in 'TV ALERTS' started by mtnskater, Jan 23, 2013.
My listings show Sasha Cohen on Today this Friday a.m.
YUP - she was on and skated to Barry Manilow. It was in the usual Friday skater spot, in the 4th quarter of the 2nd hour. I'm sure it will be available online as usual. For those who care, she said she's cheering for Ashley (who trains with her old coach).
Oh, sorry I missed her, but thanks anyway -- I'll look for it online. Nice she's a fellow Ashley fan.
I caught it here in my hotel room in Omaha. Sasha was really pretty.....has long hair again which she wore loose. Good interview in which she mentioned she will be in Omaha selling her new line of skates this Sat. No one has her lovely line and use of arms today.
Thanks, will look for the link!
Poor Sasha, it looked so cold out there. I'm surprised she was able to move at all.
Here's a YouTube link
Her hair is freaking gorgeous. Well, she is freaking gorgeous, lol. But man did it look cold!
I'm guessing the song was switched out for by the user for copyright reasons though? I don't know anything about Barry Manilow but whatever was playing didn't seem to go with her skating.
Just today my ophthalmology professor was talking about her - he described a foreign body abrasion leaving marks like "Sasha Cohen skating over your cornea"
I thought there was something strange with the music, like it was added after the fact, but I don't know any of Manilow's music so I have no idea if that was even Manilow. Her skating was still good either way.
And they say the general public doesn't remember skaters' names!
Thanks for the link, michiruwater.
Here's what she was probably skating to...
Sasha Cohen skating to Barry Manilow Live(short fan made video from the Pandora Love on ice show)
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Ethnic city-ette in Luzerne County, PA. Better than Scranton. Only prob is, nobody seems to know how to pronounce the name of this damn place.
Wilkes-Bar? Wilkes-Baar? Wilks-Barry?
Who knows?
Wilkes-Bar? Wilkes-Baar? Wilks-Barry?
Who knows?
We're passing Wilkes-Barre on your right.
by steviedee May 26, 2004
Up-and-coming city in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The de facto hub of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton metro area which is home to over 600,000 people. Like most Pennsylvania cities, Wilkes-Barre went through hard times in the latter part of the 20th century, but for the past decade or so, the city has been on a serious rebound along with its more notorious, but less happening neighbor, Scranton. With all of the renovations, the scenery in Wilkes-Barre has become very charming, including Northampton and Main, the beautiful riverside areas near Wilkes University, the new PA Dept. of Labor building, new antique downtown lighting system, and the loads of mid to upscale shopping establishments near the arena. Wilkes-Barre is the original home to HBO and Planters Peanuts and there are over 8 colleges/universities both in and around the city. Perhaps not the best place on the planet but a very decent affordable pleasant city located conveniently right outside of the Eastern Seaboard.
During presidential elections, Wilkes-Barre, a swing area in a swing state, becomes a noisy circus of national personalities, including George W. Bush, Al Gore, John Kerry, Rudy Giuliani, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, and Hillary Clinton.
by BrianPK August 14, 2006
One of the better areas in northeastern Pa, along with the Poconos and Kingston. Certainly better than Hazleton, Nanticoke, Scranton or Glen Lyon. Dosent consist of low class scum like those areas. Located near Kingston Pennsylvania in the valley surrounded by mountains. Has arenas, good restraunts, decent, good scenery.
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Wilkes-Barre not as redneck as Pottstown and Wellsboro... Where RAPE AND MURDER is not news to a citizen.
by Bearded Abe February 26, 2005
A city in north eastern pennsylvania, midway right between NYC and Philly. W-B is home to some of the hardest gangsters in the Northeast. There are shootings and stabbings every week in the downtown part of this small ghetto city(or rather, ghetto without a city. Many people think Wilkes-Barre is shitty compared to it's bigger neighbor in Lackawanna county, Scranton(which is also ghetto as hell). But hey, we have a casino, racing track, huge theater complex, ghetto projects, crazy good hardcore and hip-hop scene, dangerous clubs, a huge heroin and crack market,a bunch of gangsta black people and a bunch of old white people. What more can you ask for? WB's is also geting a lot of people moving in from poor places in other North Eastern cities like NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and Newark. Carry some form of protection with you when you're in da Dubya-Bee. and oh yeah, the mall there sucks.
My name's razz da mc and you better be scared, don't call me a pussy nigga 'cause i'm from wilkes-barre
by Mopemaster March 18, 2006
A dump town named after two memebers of the french parliament, John Wilkes and Isaac Barre. And guess what, they never set foot in America. What was once a sprwaling metropolis of 25,000 people, is now a town being overrun by old people, funeral homes, and ghetto drug dealers. Every-where you look, there's a funeral home in some fancy old house and down the road, you'll see another drug deal or shooting taking place. Another thing Wilkes-Barre prides itself in, having the most amount of potholes and closed bridges, and the most run-down and dumpy downtown ever. Main attractions? The yet to be built movie theater..stanton lanes and never forget..Skateaway!!
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by Chesil May 09, 2005
City which wishes it was Scranton. Still bragging (can't imagine why) about a stupid flood that happened 32 years ago. Likely to see people dressed like the year is 1983.
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(6th year, 15 hives, Zone 5b, 5500')
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Not sure of the long term effects of breathing FGMO. I would think that short term exposure would do little damage. If I was concerned I would maintain an upwind orientation or get a mask with filter.
If you lookup damage to lungs from oil vapors you'll find they are quite dangerous. You definitely do not want to breath them. I find standing upwind is pretty effective. You'll be able to see the direction from the smoke from the fogger.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Here's a link to a newer study. I'm not great when it comes to reading these reports and picking them apart but they fogged every single week and did not eliminate the mites. If you guys at home are going every 2-3 weeks I think you are waisting your time.
I am fogging weekly with straight FGMO and it's about low mite counts not mite elimination I don't think that's possible and if it is it's not for long.
It seems to be working for me so think what you like but at least read the thread
I will do my own study.
Heres the study he's talking about.
Old news.
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That's cool BILL I just wondered see I have most of my hive on 4.9 cell now and was going to take like 5 hives {I have 3 bee yards} and not fog and see if the small cell alone can control the mite . M. BUSH swears by sm cell . I am just trying to make healthy bees and this has been my best year by far and I am sure fogging is helping.
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The FMGO study by Heather Kyser cited in Post #86 concludes: "Experimental hives that were fogged had an overall lower mite count, produced more honey, over wintered better, and were generally more robust and stronger than control colonies that were stressed by a higher mite infestation."
However, the data (which is presented in a very confusing manner, IMHO) appear to show little if any difference in mite counts between the control hives and the weekly fogged hives for the 1st year, a slight difference the 2nd year, and a roughly 30%-60% (depending on which month you look at) end-of-season difference the 3rd year (if I am reading the data correctly). In other words, it took 3 years of weekly fogging to achieve some improvement in mite counts, so there is indeed some long term benefit to fogging, but it requires weekly applications and a few years to see those benefits, according to the author. Good news that FMGO has a favorable affect, but it takes a lot of time and effort to see that benefit, and, at least at the 3-year mark, the reduction in mites isn't gonna knock your socks off. At least in this one study.
I should add that I have no doubt that those who fog with FMGO and say they achieve good results, do indeed achieve good results. Ms. Kyser's study is just one person's results in one area with one person's bees.
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I don't think you can take away from the study that there is a long term effect. I Don't believe that if fogging works, that the effect would be cumulative. IE, a reduction this year would result in a reduction next year. They didn't fog over the winter so you are basically starting from scratch every year. Also, the heavier the infestation, the larger the effect. That just stands to reason. All the bees in a hive don't have mites, nor do all the bees in a hive get oil on them during each treatment. So the higher the infestation rate, the greater number of bees with mites getting oiled, the greater the effect. Which could be why 08, with it's very low numbers showed no improvement.
Also, the study was in New York. With much longer periods that you can't fog. I live in Florida. Probably have much higher infestation rates, and a much longer warm season in which I can fog.
Fogging doesn't hurt (as long as you don't blow up a hive like Mr. Bush did), it's not expensive and its fast/easy…..
I don't count mites. I just fog them… So I can't tell you if it really works or not, but I've read about enough other people fogging and counting to believe that it works. And you don't have to count mites to know you've got them.
Robbin - I understand your reasoning why you would see a bigger affect from fogging with a larger mite infestation.
Could you also explain your statement: "I Don't believe that if fogging works, that the effect would be cumulative. IE, a reduction this year would result in a reduction next year. They didn't fog over the winter so you are basically starting from scratch every year."
It seems to me that if a hive goes into winter with fewer mites, then it would emerge in spring with fewer mites than otherwise even without a winter treatment, and if a moderately effective mite treatment protocol was then followed, the hive would then also have fewer mites at the end of the season. This would only hold true for a moderately effective treatment protocol: An ineffective protocol would not be cumulative because it would have no impact on mites; and a highly effective treatment protocol would not be cumulative because it would reduce the mite population to near zero with each treatment. (Just me thinking out loud.)
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Well last year at this time I had hives crumbling to PMS this is a bee at the start of this year
The hive I took this bee pic from was weak in the spring and took all spring and part of summer to get up and running but has been requeened
and is strong making bees for winter.
And I had bees that looked like that all over the ground last year not a one this year just healthy bees.
I have not seen a bee like this since may all hives are doing well and are not showing any PMS at all so I am sure fogging is helping giving my bees a chance to get strong and maybe one day be able to deal with varroa on there own till then I will help
My goal is to have bees that can live with the varroa and not try to eliminate the mite. I want varroa resistance not elimination. I had read the study last year and and every thing I could on fogging and read every thing Dr. Rodriguez's posted on BS plus his studies that one of the reasons I am giving fogging a try plus the fat beeman and ever person that fogs and post on BS .
I will see when spring comes but I bet I have some nice hive in the spring. Fogging is helping for sure.
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Glock....very intresting thread. gives me something to think about on treatment. Question...have you seen a reduction in other pests (SBH-wax moths) in your hives as well???
Well did alcohol washes on 6 of my hives and 4 had high mite counts . I used a half a cup of bees and it went as followed.
Hive 1 the first hive I did a brood break this year it requeened and been laying great lots of eggs and brood doing well 9 mite count.
Hive 2 second hive did a brood break to it this past spring mite count 6
Hive 3 same as hive 2 mite count 5
Hive 4 supersedure in spring took queen out be for they killed her it requeend and layed for 2 weeks and supersedure again so it had 2 brood breaks and has low mite counts 4 total
Hive 5 has lots of bees in it had the highest count 13 but its healthy and and lots of brood and eggs.
And I did a single nuc 2 mite count.
The reason I did alcohol washes was with in a week I went from around 5 mites on the sticky boards in a 24 hour drop now there at any where from 10 to 20 happened real fast .
And all my darn nucs are robbed out but have queens and are laying funny how fast things change in the bee yards .
What do you all think I should do i'm thinking oxalic acid.
Like i said all hives are healthy and no virus no DWV I just don't understand.
Maybe fogging every 5 days maybe or fogging with essential oil or just let them go and see what happens.
Thank you.
I have to make a move soon I am guessing
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Here are my 24 hour results of 6 hives; Total mites on a sticky board
Hive Jul 25 Aug 9
1 ---- 3 ---- 1 small hive
3 ---- 0 ---- 6 medium hive
6 ---- 0 ---- 5 medium hive
8 ---- 5 ---- 15 medium hive
15 --- 50 ---- 2 small hive
18 --- 0 ---- 17 big hive
I installed my sticky board 48 hours after I fogged ; therefore my counts may be lower than yours. I used a piece of waxed freezer paper 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches with petroleum jelly on it.
I am using 16 oz. FGMO with 15 drops of spearmint oil.
I cannot explain why the one high count of 50 mites. This hive was my largest last summer and crashed this summer.
13 hives zone 5
My yards are about 60 miles north of you.
We didn't get a dearth this year, just a severs slowdown of nectar flow, with goldenrod just starting to bloom this last week.
Btw nectar slowdown and the shortage of flying days due to thunderstorms and rain, I've noticed a lot fewer drone cells in the brood nest.
If you've seen similar, perhaps the spike in mite drop has to due with phoretic mites finding a shortage of drone cells and a shortage of host cells resulting in a greater proportion of mites being out of cells searching for host cells and subject to out-of-cell mortality hazards (bee bites, for example).
I think it not unlikely that what you are seeing could be the result of bees going after mites and a shortage of larger host cells, particularly if you have a high proportion of sealed brood in the brood nest (I've noticed more sealed brood in proportion to open here last inspection as well as the reduction in drone brood).
In other words, what you are seeing perhaps isn't an increase in mite population, but an increase in mite deaths b/c of bees doing what they have been doing combined with more mites seeking new cells as drone brood population dropped, if you have experienced such a drop there, as I have here.
Bad news about the mites, the silver lining in that is you know about it in time to do something. Why not try the addition of Thymol in the FGMO for fogging and use the cords.
Good luck with the mites and please keep this thread going.


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#1 Mon 30 Nov 09 7:31pm
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Could you / Would you run your own cafe / restaurant?
I was thinking about this question today, as I sat in the only cafe on the huge park near our house, eating a mediocre lunch, cake and average mocha, all at over-inflated prices. What can I say, Location Location Location.
I can make beautiful, delicious cakes, biscuits, sweets, and nice meals...better than most cafes I frequent due to being out and about with the kids. And it is no longer picnic weather in the UK!
I thought as far as the food goes I could run my own cafe and I feel confident that people would enjoy the food, but I would need some coffee making training or hire a barrista (I hope that is the right word!).
I am just so disappointed in most cafes, knowing that I could make better food.
Does anyone else feel this way? Ever thought of opening your own food establishment?
#2 Mon 30 Nov 09 7:38pm
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Re: Could you / Would you run your own cafe / restaurant?
I would love to do this Jutta. Not anything huge mind you. Just a nice smallish coffee shop, with good home made cakes, scones, soups, brown bread, good salads, lunches rather than dinners type, nice teas and coffees. My sister claims she would "do" the garden and make it an edible type. Her words not mine. I reckon I'd need an accountant as I'd likely bankrupt the place within the first couple of months.
I know what you mean Jutta, mediocre products and dirty premises. It's pitiful, and such a lack of pride in ones work.
#3 Mon 30 Nov 09 7:42pm
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I'd like a little Italian place, but with a family caf� in mind, a lounge area with sofas and comfy chairs where you can have latte and cappuccinos with biscotti and cakes. And a part where working lunches are served, pasta, pizza, panini and antipastis for 2 with focaccia. Nice light wines and typical drinks like Chinotto and other italian beverages.
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I would like to run an aussie milk bar/cafe, with proper milkshakes, a nice cake/biscuit selection, and two areas, one with toys for kids and suitable seating, and one for non-kiddy people. Not a huge selection of food, but good quality and tasty.
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Hmmm...I am not sure , I see this as quite a hard thing to do.
Yes, I can cook well and I can make some pretty tasty cakes , decent coffee and selections of teas etc etc , but ,its another thing altogether making money from this.
Commercial premises in decent areas are very very expensive which I would say puts the scheme at a disadvantage to start with.
Big chain competition...very difficult as they can afford the pricier premises and trade on a brand and reputation.
Equipment , furnishings , licenses , rates , rubbish collections etc etc ,all cost and it is hard to make a good return on your money from a few scones and tea and the like.
Lots of small cafes 'Go Under' , and quite a few of those are from folk who have sunk all their savings / redundancy money or similar into the project.
So I think that I will stick to making cakes etc at home for my friends.
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I went to Giraffe in London a few years ago and thought it was a great idea.
Very kid friendly without turning into fast food...
This would be my direction...its a lot of work though, not exactly family friendly work either...you're always working weekends and holidays.
Mrs S is definitely against it even though she's got a fabulous temperament for front of house
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I would love to do just that Jutta.... that is a wonderful idea.
I have been living in different areas in the Caribbean for the last couple of years and during all that time (because I was missing a lot of things from back home) I thought I should open a small litlle place - some sort of eclectic little bakery/coffee shop/specialty store selling nice breads and suits but also sandwiches with fresh prosciutto etc. .... Just a little space with the things I love most... can't be wrong?
The advantag here is that you don't have that much competition - the disadvantage is that your market is limited... Certainly there are still a lot of things missing - not even talking about product quality....
So it has always been a hard toss and as you might imagine I haven't done a thing.....
I have seen many come and jump into niches that I thought... I could have done that, couldn't I - Why did I not come up with that .... that sort of thing....
But one of these days I will......
I wonder what it would take - besides a lots of guts - for me to go forward? Does anyone have any experiences to share?
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It would be hard work and might take the fun out of cooking. I'd like to buy a few places in Cornwall, design the menu, do a bit of cooking but mostly just manage the places. Masterchef and The Restaurant glamorize things - working in your own restaurant means sweating your socks off for 12+ hours a day most days for not much money.
In fact one idea I had, was to open a restaurant where you could have a "holiday" cooking there. They'd be staff to help, but given the popularity of cookery courses and TV shows, I think people would pay a few hundred to have a go at running a restaurant and getting to set the menu. Would make for an interesting place, especially in a nice tourist area.
Feel free to nick this idea - I'll make my millions another way :-)
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In our little town of 2,500 people, we have at least 5 coffee shops/take away/milk bars and not one of them had good coffee and wonderful food. One comes close, good but not excellent.
We have often thought it would be great to run a coffee shop but the hours are long and some days customers can be difficult . I would like to incorporate a coffee shop with an old fashioned lolly shop...wow that would be great!! but it is too much of a financial risk for us. Done well in the right place i don't think it could lose.
There is a coffee shop/restaurant in the mts that comes closest to what I like...fabulous food and good coffee and a relaxed friendly atmosphere.
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Last week 2 girlfriends and I met for coffee in town. I thought the muffins dry, another said "yummy" and other thought mediocre.
I thought coffee delicious, one said too strong.
I guess we cant all be pleased all of the time.
The idea of running the quaint tea rooms is appealing, same goes for pubs, with breweries taking in and spitting out the never ending gullible queue of wannabe landlords.
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"As far as having great bands, the current scene is alive and kicking," Sampson recently told me. "It's the fans who have died. People just don't go out to shows like they used to, and I wish more people would."
Recession aside, Sampson has a valid point: local clubs have been stepping up after the closing of the Living Room and Jake's (the site for Coma Coma's new EP Live at Jake's, available at 75OrLessRecords.com), hosting low-dough weekend shows. The three-dozen or so people rocking out with the High Seas, Girl Haggard, Six Star General, and Coma Coma at Firehouse 13 two weeks ago sure-as-hell got their $6 worth. Sampson, guitarist Steve Demers, and drummer Dan Ulmschneider took the stage while fans were still buzzing about the face-melting performance provided by Six Star General, who closed their set with a kinetic cover of the Flaming Lips' "Jesus Shooting Heroin." Coma Coma opened with "Urban Death Maze" and "Binary Code" from their debut six-song EP, Does Your Remote Control Have a Remote Control? ("My brother has a crazy $300 TV remote," Ulmschneider explained). The trio, together for just over a year, locked in from start to finish, which was impressive considering Ulmschneider had just played with Six Star General on short notice, and after witnessing that set the fact Ulmschneider had zero practice time with SSG still blows my mind.
But what followed sent us older folk into a frenzy — a cover of "In the Mouth a Desert" by Pavement. And as Demers nonchalantly carved out that slowly-churned, lackadaisical riff, friends yelled out "No fucking way" as Sampson pridefully declared, "I told you it was a surprise." The bassist looks like a dude you'd find doing keg stands in the basement or stumbling down Lansdowne Street after a Sox game, the kind of guy who'd be in a band called Mustache Ride (on RedTide Records) — which happens to be the name of the other band featuring Sampson on bass.
"Playing in Mustache Ride is a blast, but I wanted to do something closer to the music I grew up listening to," Sampson told me. Coma Coma clearly caters to the trio's influences, namely Silkworm, the Minutemen, and Ween; Live at Jake's opens with their rendition of "Baby Bitch." When I asked Sampson to pick any band he could open for, he declared "Hands down — any band with Mike Watt." The 75OrLess Records press release for Live at Jake's states: "The improvised guitar solos meld seamlessly with a pulsating rhythm section that explores their sonic landscape." In other words, high-quality improv jams most likely fueled by Narragansett tallboys and bong rips.
"Mustache Ride is straight-up pop-punk, we drink and make fun of ourselves," Sampson said. "Coma Coma is a little more eclectic and experimental. We tend to jam out a little more and put more time into the songwriting aspect."
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