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Hmmm, that was the year I had the most colonies and the least losses in all my career.
Still saying losses are not significantly higher for treatment free folks Solomon?
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It was actually, just had to read the data properly, through an unbiased lens. This year they have seen how it was misinterpreted & written it harder to misunderstand, or cherry pick to suit an agenda.
Where's Bispham? He's all over the forum like a rash, then mentions a few mite issues, next thing poof, he's gone, vanished! Collecting new swarms I guess to maintain numbers.
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The results were interesting, thank you for sharing Oldtimer.
I meant that there was a significant difference last year, but it was true in some prior years that the difference was less. I always found it odd that there was so little difference in prior years, because I assumed that most non-treaters were relative novices, and thus more likely to lose their bees, for other reasons.
So far my problems have been too many bees, and hives that were excessively strong for the backyard, but I'm sure I'll have different results by fall.
My North Country bees had 100% survival, despite the ferocious winter. But honesty compels me to admit that I only left one hive up there. Still, I was astonished that it survived, because it was a little light in October, and I failed to close down the entrance. No wrapping or insulation, and yet it was brooding up nicely in April.
I'm taking a half-dozen home-made nucs north to NY in a few days. It's nice not having to buy bees.
Ray--1 year, 7 hives, TF
Ray there has always been a difference, as one would expect, despite what has been said on Beesource.
It has been stated on the likes of Beesource that there is no difference, however that has been backed up by spin and carefully cherry picked and massaged data, or not backed up at all.
The previous survey, which some claimed showed no difference, when read properly showed a 30% difference and because of all the dishonesty I demonstrated that one time. None of the people who had been using data in a misleading manner responded.
This is all the more remarkable considering the stressors commercial hives are subjected to that treatment free, stationary, intensively cared for, hobby hives, are not subjected to.
Anyhow congrats on having all but one of your hives survive.
Where's Bispham? Kinda quiet around here lately.
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My losses this past winter were actually a bit higher than the winter before but more significantly hive populations were down. Why? There is no doubt in my mind that it's because I got a bit behind on our treatment plan. My hives got a single thymol treatment which I chose to delay because of a late heat wave. We didn't do any oxalic treating because it got too late on us to do it up north. Late winter/early spring sampling was showing 2 to 3% infestations at a time of year when it should be difficult to find a mite. This spring we changed course and opted for a single treatment of either oxalic or Hopguard at the 3 week window post queen removal in our spring nucing and saw a good mite knockdown. Bees look awesome right now, well see how they look 4 months from now.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I'm planning to take off in a few days.
Ray--1 year, 7 hives, TF
Too many bees do not kill a hive, blocking them in does. It's one of the biggest arguments I have with some people who buy my bees, some of whom seem hell bent on ensuring all the bees they have just paid for will be dead by the time they get home. Experience is the only way some people can learn. One guy did too, soon as he was out of my site he pulled over & blocked all the hives in, this so he could visit a relation on the way home. I heard via his friend that when he got home there was not a bee left alive. The guy himself though has never fessed up to me about it, but I am sure he will not do it again.
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You have to love how NBC's report attempts to balance Dr. Lu's bee poisoning experiment involving 24 hives against the real world experiences of about 3,800 respondents operating well over a half million hives. Furthermore the bee informed survey can't begin to determine whether treatments were timely or effective only that they were administered. Ideal treatment windows are often quite narrow.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Quote - "The survey found that bee mortality was much lower for beekeepers who carefully treated their hives to control the mites".
I have highlighted carefully, because I think this is one of the main weaknesses in the survey. The treatment free participants, who seem to be the majority, avoid treating if at all possible. It is only when they see a hive badly infested with mites and in obvious distress, that they may reluctantly decide to treat it. However going by the treads I've seen with people talking about this, very often the hive is too far gone & dies out completely not long after treatment is applied.
Then on the survey, this hive is entered as one that was treated, but died anyway. But what really killed the hive, was not being treated, early enough.
However, despite these types of discrepancies, IMO the survey is being done as well as it could be, working with a diverse group of people using many methods and having many experience levels, and not being able to fully investigate each case, it melds the whole thing into a workable result.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson
Are you saying I should have left the hive completely open? How would that have worked in a car? If you were to put them on a trailer with the entrance open, wouldn't you lose a lot of bees over a 36 hour trip? I don't have a bee net.
Ray--1 year, 7 hives, TF
Why do you ask? I am trying to treat carefully starting w/ my Spring treatment. I will use Apigaurd come Fall.
I figured that a Spring treatment when few varroa wete present would result in few being present come Fall.
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And the reason this joint is so cashed-up? The natural thermal springs they feature in such abundance. I thought these were the types you lounge around in when deciding to head here, but in fact they were the drinking kind. Not quite as cool, but an open-mind was kept.
How where they originally found? A former King hunting through the grounds lost one of his dogs in a spring and realised that these were all around.
What's the point of it all? The locals have convinced one-too-many people that drinking the stuff is therapeutic for all sorts of pain and ailments.
How did we rate it? It tastes as if that poor little hound all those years ago is still in the water supply. The stuff comes out of the taps at anywhere between 20-65 degrees depending where along the springs trail you are. What doesn't change is the horrible metallic, almost salt-water like taste, the tourists fawning over it and the over-priced mugs used to drink the stuff. We brought our own – Lime green and from Ikea – a hit with the more serious spring drinkers around us.

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Really think the David Wilson pick is going to haunt us for years. worthy Reyes branch and Glenn would have really gave us better options when cutting high costing vets and not having much of a dropoff in talent. and yes, I know I won't sit up about it.
I'd let Webster, Rolle, Diehl, Osi, and Bradshaw walk.. This may be the last yr for a big group of giants who been here for awhile, and its not that they totaly stink because obviously some of em are still really good, but u gotta do what u gotta do..
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I think Canty and Boley are first to go. I think there is a reason why neither were asked to restructure, which would only have made moving on from their contracts more difficult in the future. Both are valuable players, but with Boley in particular, there is some great depth behind him for better rates.
U know a guy i was really high on who continues to sour me with dropped catches and silly mistakes is Josh Boyce.. I've seen him drop about 3or4 very easy catches in the past 2weeks and do a couple stupid things that lead to penalties.. I wonder if he started playing football later in life? It seems that way to me..


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- Columbus discovered America -- and paprika
- It's a spice but can be used in desserts
- Not too long ago, you could be arrested for selling it
It's as red as blood and, for the traditional Hungarian chef, no less essential for a healthy life.
But humble paprika -- national spice and integral to all the most treasured Hungarian dishes -- has been having a rough time.
Hungarian paprika production has slumped as buyers across the world have turned to cheaper supplies from Spain, China and Latin America.
And two years of unpredictable weather in Hungary may mean this year's crop of capsicum annuum peppers -- the raw ingredient of paprika -- is the poorest in 50 years.
Horror of horrors, Hungary may even resort to importing the crop.
But despite these trials, and past upsets such as the communists nationalizing paprika production, the spice remains as crucial as ever to the Hungarian soul.
To understand Hungarians, you need to know a little bit about their favorite ingredient.
And if all else fails, this paprika primer will make for good talking points if you're stuck in a Budapest goulash restaurant on a rainy afternoon.
1. It's Mexican
Well, from around those parts, anyway.
Paprika peppers aren't indigenous to Europe -- the spice was among the treasures collected by Christopher Columbus on his expeditions around southern Mexico, Central America and the Antillies in the 15th century.
It made its way to Hungary via the Balkans a little later, where it was grown in the gardens of the aristocracy.
Its name is the diminutive of a Slavic word for pepper: "Papar."
"We believe Columbus's mission was a success because he came back to Europe with a marvelous spice," says Gyula Vegh, of the Szeged Paprika Museum, in southern Hungary.
"He discovered America on the way."
2. There are two -- yes, two -- paprika museums
And two paprika festivals -- one in the town of Kalocsa (Hungarian site only) and another in Szeged, which has been the center of the Hungarian paprika industry for more than a century.
And, no, Szeged doesn't have a huge fiberglass paprika pepper on a pole just outside town.
The two museums are also both working production plants.
The Szeged Paprika Museum (Felső Tisza-Part 10, Szeged 6721, Hungary; +36 20 980 8000) shares a building with the Pick Salami factory -- visitors get three varieties of salami to taste and a 10 gram sampling of paprika.
Visitors to the Paprika Molnar (Hungarian site only) factory, in the village of Roszke, get a guided tour from the company's CEO, Anita Molnar, as well as a spice sample.
"When people see how much work paprika-growing takes, they appreciate what they get in their little takeaway bag," Molnar says.
Dried paprika peppers resemble red potato chips and can be eaten like that -- they're a big hit among kids visiting the Molnar factory.
3. Hungarian paprika is super sweet
It takes seven months, from seed to ground powder, to produce paprika.
Hungarian paprika peppers are sweeter than others because of the country's cool growing season, which retains sugar in the spice.
The weather also affects the color of the paprika.
"In hotter regions such as Peru or western China, the sun makes the paprika dark red," Molnar says.
"As the sugar content decreases, the red color is enhanced."
But Hungarian paprika wasn't always so sweet.
In the 1920s, the peppers were of such a hot variety they could only be used after the pith had been removed, typically by women workers.
"However, women with little babies couldn't do the job because they'd have to touch the children afterward," Molnar explains.
"So unmarried women, or those with older children, picked the peppers instead."
4. It's not just for goulash -- try cake
Early last century, 830 workshops in Szeged alone processed peppers for paprika.
But after a Hungarian botanist cultivated a new -- naturally sweet -- variety, large-scale farming became possible and the artisans were replaced.
Hearty and cheap, the classic paprika-rich dish goulash was originally considered peasants' food.
But paprika's good for more than goulash: It's liberally dispensed in the dishes served at Sotarto Halaszcsarda (Roosevelt tér 14, Szeged, Hungary; +36 62 555 980) fish restaurant in paprika central, Szeged.
In Budapest, the upmarket Zeller bistro (Izabella utca 36-38, Budapest 1077, Hungary; +36 30 651 0880) gets rave reviews for its wide range of paprika-rich offerings.
It sounds strange but Hungarian paprika's also sweet enough to use in desserts.
"Even I didn't know that paprika could be used for sweets and not only savory dishes," says Lajos Kossar, a Hungarian food writer and chef.
"Then I tasted my grandmother's paprika cake."
5. The communists traded it for hard currency
After World War II, paprika production in Hungary was nationalized by the communist government.
Local growers were prohibited from milling their own paprika powder and had to hand over all their peppers to state-owned mills.
"The old lady who looked after me when I was a child was sent to prison for four months for being caught selling two kilos of paprika," Molnar says.
"Paprika was strategic. Each year several thousand tonnes were exported for Deutschmarks or dollars.
"The communists needed the foreign currency."
6. Paprika's bursting with vitamin C
The Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi won the Nobel Prize in 1937 partly for the discovery of vitamin C. He also found a high vitamin C content in paprika peppers and learned to extract it.
Szent-Györgyi sent vitamin C crystals from paprika peppers to parts of the world where people were suffering from scurvy.


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Dow Sheds 111 Points
Stocks fell on the heels of a pair of disappointing readings on U.S. growth and as investors hit the pause button after the recent push into record territory.
The defensive tilt came ahead of policy decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan on Thursday and employment data in the U.S. Friday.
"It might be a bumpy road toward the end of the week," said Jonathan Corpina, senior managing partner with brokerage firm Meridian Equity Partners Inc.
On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its third-largest point drop of the year, declining 111.66 points, or 0.8%, to 14550.35. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index shed 16.56 points, or 1.1%, to 1553.69, and the Nasdaq Composite Index pulled back 36.26 points, or 1.1%, to 3218.60.
On Tuesday, the Dow and the S&P 500 rose to records for the second time in three sessions. But going into Wednesday's session, a chorus of traders and analysts had cautioned that stock prices were looking vulnerable. They pointed to warning signs within the market, such as better performance in recent days among defensive sectors such as health-care stocks.
Also attracting attention was a decline in the Russell 2000 index, a gauge of small-capitalization stocks. The index slid more steeply than other benchmarks, with a 1.7% decline, signaling an investor aversion to riskier corners of the market. The Dow Jones Transportation Average—an index of 20 shipping, railroad and airline stocks that is considered a bellwether of economic activity—also saw declines outpacing the broader market, losing 1.3%.
A pair of disappointing economic reports sparked the pullback. In the final hour of trading, shares looked set to notch their second-biggest decline of the year but recovered from their worst levels of day shortly before the close.
Traders said many investors are looking for any pullbacks in stock prices to move money out of cash. "The sellers took us [lower], and the buyers picked that up," said J.J. Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
The Institute for Supply Management's reading on the U.S. nonmanufacturing sector came in worse than expected, slipping to its lowest level since August 2012, and employment slowed as well.
In addition, a report on private-sector jobs growth for March compiled by Automatic Data Processing and Moody's Analytics showed an increase of 158,000 jobs on the month, well below the 192,000 expected. The measure is seen as a preview to Friday's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said Wednesday that the U.S. economic recovery may have strengthened enough for the Fed to begin winding down its bond purchases this summer.
"I expect we will meet the test for substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market by this summer," Mr. Williams said in a speech in Los Angeles. "If that happens, we could start tapering our purchases then. If all goes as hoped, we could end the purchase program sometime late this year."
European markets slid, with the Stoxx Europe 600 closing down 0.9% ahead of monetary-policy announcements by the ECB and the Bank of England.
In Asia, most markets edged lower, although Japan's Nikkei Stock Average bucked the trend, surging 3% ahead of a policy announcement by the Bank of Japan on Thursday where additional easing measures are expected to be announced.
In commodities markets, gold fell 1.4% to a nine-month low, at $1,552.80 a troy ounce, as investors sold assets seen as linked to global economic growth. Demand rose for the 10-year Treasury note, pushing the yield down to 1.813%.
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Alice: Madness Returns Latest News
American McGee denies his studio Spicy Horse is shutting down
Yesterday, an anonymous artist from Shanghai-based developer Spicy Horse claimed on Chinese social media site Weibo that the studio was shutting down. Studio founder American McGee denies this claim.
Alice: Otherlands begins Kickstarter campaign, 20 days for $200k
American McGee has fired up his Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter which aims to secure the films rights to the IP so Spicy Horse can produce some animated shorts. Ultimately they want to produce a feature film.
They cancelled their Oz Action Adventure project in order to try their luck with convincing backers to pledge for more Alice, although this isn't a video game project. It could go 'The Animatrix' route.
Spicy Horse "sacrifices" Oz Kickstarter for "real chance with Alice"
American McGee's Kickstarter campaign for an 'Oz Action Adventure' has been terminated early. With 20 days left it had achieved just 15% of its $950k goal, and trending suggested only 30% funding by the end.
As it wasn't going to be a success, McGee decided to gamble even further by ending it now and launching another Kickstarter to "campaign for the Alice films rights" instead.
McGee: Talks with EA over Alice IP "continue to this day"
American McGee is currently leading Spicy Horse on OZombie, their Kickstarter project which $950k isn't going to be enough to see completed but it's enough to, well, kick start it. What about Alice?
McGee tells us he'd love to throw Alice into her own Kickstarter but "being realistic" about the legal hurdles, he decided to pursue OZombie. He's "confident we'll get something worked out".
Will fans back an Alice 3 Kickstarter, asks American McGee
Publisher EA holds the rights to American McGee's Alice, a darker and crazier spin on Alice in Wonderland. McGee has taken to Facebook asking if fans would chip in their pledges if he could get the IP back.
The last entry was Alice: Madness Returns in 2011 which didn't perform well commercially. Earlier this year McGee remarked EA has 'mis-marketed' the game, before shortly retracting his comments.


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PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED STATISTICS. D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly. x + 202 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2011. $39.99.
D. R. Cox published his first major book, Planning of Experiments, in 1958; he has been making major contributions to the theory and practice of statistics for as long as most current statisticians have been alive. He is now in a reflective phase of his career, and this book, coauthored with the distinguished biostatistician Christl A. Donnelly, is a valuable distillation of his experience of applied work. It stands as a summary of an entire tradition of using statistics to address scientific problems.
Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics that studies how to draw reliable inferences from partial or noisy data. The field as we know it arose from several strands of scholarship. The word "statistics," coined in the 1770s, originally referred to the study of the human populations of states and the resources those populations offered: how many men, in what physical condition, with what life expectancies, what wealth and so on. Practitioners soon learned that there was always variation within populations, that there were stable patterns to this variation and that there were relations between these variables. (For instance, richer men tended to be taller and live longer.) Another component strand was formed when scientists began to systematically analyze or "reduce" scientific data from multiple observers or observations (especially astronomical data). It became obvious from this research that there was always variation from one observation to the next, even in controlled experiments, but again, there were patterns to the variation. In both cases, probability theory provided very useful models of the variation. Statistics was born from the weaving together of these three strands: population variability, experimental noise and probability models. The field's mathematical problems are about how, within a probability model, one might soundly infer something about a given process from the data the model generates, and at the same time quantify how uncertain that inference is.
Applied statistics, in the sense that Cox and Donnelly profess, is about turning vexed scientific (or engineering) questions into statistical problems, and then turning those problems' solutions into answers to the original questions. The sometimes conflicting aims are to make sure that the statistical problem is well posed enough that it can be solved, and that its solution still helps resolve the original, substantive dilemma—which is, after all, the point.
Rather than spoiling any of Cox and Donnelly's examples, I will sketch one that recently came up in my department. The scientific question was "Are large lesions of type X in organ Z a sign of disease D?" This is far too inexact to be a statistical problem. Large compared to what: lesions of another type in the same people? Lesions of type X in people without the disease? Is the enlargement a direct marker of the disease? If so, what is the mechanism? If not, might enlargement be a side effect of something that causes the condition? What makes a lesion large—its volume, mass, diameter? How does one deal with multiple lesions in a single person? Once we agree on metrics for the size of lesions, how well can we measure them? Is the disease really an all-or-nothing affair, or might it come in stages or grades that might be related to the lesions? How do we know who has the disease, anyway? How should size be compared: differences, ratios, the number of lesions larger than some threshold? How precise is our comparison, and how much uncertainty does it inherit from our originally imprecise measurements and limited set of patients? To frame this question as an applied statistics problem, these points must all be settled, at least in a preliminary way.
For translating between scientific questions and statistical problems, we don't (yet!) have much useful mathematics or many algorithms, but we do have good heuristics and traditions. (For my example, these include comparing individuals with the disease to those without, making sure you know how variable lesions are within both groups, and avoiding diagnosing the disease by looking at lesions.) The point of Principles of Applied Statistics is to convey those traditions. It is thus quite appropriate that the first half of the book contains very few equations. Rather, the first five chapters go into the elements necessary to make the translation: understanding what, exactly, the scientific question is getting at (chapter 1); understanding where the data came from, and weighing the pros and cons of different data-gathering tactics (chapters 2 and 3); finding clarity about exactly what was measured and how (chapter 4); and maintaining quality control over data collection and data storage, or, failing that, at least understanding the errors (chapter 5).
Only in the second half of the book (chapters 6–10) do statistical models and methods, the subject of most textbooks, make their appearance, and with them a few select equations. The book is structured this way partly because Cox has already written many books about these matters (most recently Principles of Statistical Inference, 2006), but the choice also shows a sound sense of proportion. For most people with decent mathematical training, learning the standard models and methods is not that hard. (These days, computing can substitute for math; I know a well-regarded statistician who can barely do integrals but is good at simulation.) What is harder is learning to match models and methods to the actual problem. Our most common method for relating one variable to another is called regression. It gives us models where one variable is a function of others but is also perturbed by unpredictable fluctuations, which must be accounted for. If we are mostly interested in the relation between two variables, what others should we include as controls, and which ones should we exclude? When and how should we incorporate constraints on the regression function suggested by prior scientific opinions? How can we check those constraints? When there are multiple ways of representing the same function, how can we pick one that will be easy to interpret in terms of the original scientific question? These issues of formulation and specification are the real subject of the book's second half.
Nothing that Cox and Donnelly have to say about these matters is revolutionary—it's not supposed to be. All good applied statisticians know that they need to check that their models make sense not just as formal mathematical objects but as substantive representations of the problem being studied. They know that statistically significant results may be scientifically trivial, and vice versa; that picking a meaningful parameterization is often more helpful than using the most efficient procedure; and so forth. The point of the book is to share these fruits of experience in this tradition with newcomers, so that they can make original mistakes.
At some points I would depart from Cox and Donnelly—I wish they had made more systematic use of graphical models when discussing causality and dependence among variables, and my experience with simple nonparametric smoothing has evidently been better than theirs—but these are small things. The big thing is their vision of what good applied statistics looks like: formulating important scientific questions as problems about carefully designed statistical models, and then solving them by applying thoughtfully selected methods to high-quality data, all while being clear about the uncertainty inherent in statistical inferences. There are other traditions of data analysis and even of applied statistics—what's now called "data mining" is one—with different virtues. But the applied statistics tradition that Cox and Donnelly describe has been uniquely successful in helping scientists understand the world. If you do not have a few years to spend apprenticed to a master, I can think of few better ways of being initiated into that tradition than reading Principles of Applied Statistics.
Cosma Shalizi is an assistant professor in the statistics department at Carnegie Mellon University and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is writing a book on the statistical analysis of complex systems models. His blog, Three-Toed Sloth, can be found at http://bactra.org/weblog/.
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Axelrod: How could Obama know what his underlings were doing when the government's so big?
posted at 12:41 pm on May 15, 2013 by Allahpundit
Via NRO, I flagged this in the last thread but it needs its own post. How desperate are O's cronies that they're now willing to dance on this rhetorical and ideological landmine in the name of protecting him? Conn Carroll flags this passage from Politico's piece today about the dangerous new narrative developing for The One:
The uproars over alleged politicization of the IRS and far-reaching attempts to monitor journalists and their sources have not been linked directly to Obama. But it does not strain credulity to suggest that Obama's well-known intolerance for leaks, and his regular condemnations of conservative dark-money groups, could have filtered down to subordinates.
The narrative is ideological. For five years, this president has been making the case that a growing and activist government has good intentions and can carry these intentions out with competence. Conservatives have warned that government is dangerous, and even good intentions get bungled in the execution. In different ways, the IRS uproar, the Justice Department leak investigations, the Benghazi tragedy and the misleading attempts to explain it, and the growing problems with implementation of health care reform all bolster the conservative worldview.
John Dickerson argues that right now Obama's making the case for conservatism better than Romney ever did. All of which is fine, but obvious: Of course an explosion of government scandal will tend to vindicate a worldview that's suspicious of government. What's significant about Axelrod's defense of O is that he's pointing to the size of government as a structural reason for why scandal might proliferate, which is downright Reaganesque as a critique of the federal leviathan. The bigger the government gets, the less accountability there'll be. That's conservatism 101.
The perverse twist is that he's using that logic to exculpate Obama. Try to get your mind around that. A guy who helped O win two presidential elections by arguing that government needs to do more, especially for health insurance (which will soon be partly under the jurisdiction of the IRS, natch), is now trying to absolve Obama of responsibility for his underlings' malfeasance by suggesting that … no one can really control a government this big. Obama's off the hook, thanks to his dogged efforts to make the country even more ungovernable than it already is. Say what you will about Ax but let no man question the elephantine size of his balls.
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Trainer plans for southern sojourn after Warhorse wins Ellerslie 3YO feature.
If you saw Warhorse blow up across the back after winning Saturday's Bonecrusher Stakes, take little notice.
Trainer Jason Bridgman says the talented colt always does.
That said, he reckons it's wrong to believe last year's champion juvenile will not improve with his win in that stakes race. "He's odd like that, He can work hard - he had three hitouts this week - and still give the impression he's short [of fitness]."
An additional degree of fitness never goes astray, but it may not be critical until the grand finals because Warhorse had to come across the heels of a wall of horses in the home straight to win and would almost certainly have got the money by several lengths with a clear home-straight passage.
He has clearly gone on from the champion 2-year-old of last season. He looks one of those that has gone from juvenile class to 3-year-old glory, which is not always the case.
"He had a reasonable puff after the race, but he's been a fair way off his total best."
The 2000 Guineas at Riccarton on November 10 is the obvious target for Warhorse and Bridgman is planning things carefully in making the trip to the South Island.
"The No1 choice is the Wellington Guineas because you're halfway there.
"The Sarten Memorial [at Te Rapa] is an option, but if you look back through the record the horses that have won that and been successful at Riccarton have been the dominant ones.
"Trentham looks best at this stage."
There is no question Misstrum's inside barrier helped her win Saturdays Soliloquy Stakes, but that also was not a measure of her class.
Trainer Roger James was extremely aware of the classy filly having missed a barrier trial because of cancellations, and would have been happy if she had finished close to the placegetters on Saturday.
The inside barrier gave Misstrum the run of the race and under a hard ride, she ground her way to victory.
James accepts he now has to lift the filly towards Riccarton.
The Avondale Jockey Club returns to racing today. It's a low-key approach to the revival, after a couple of years, of what was only recently one of the country's major racing clubs.
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I recently previewed one of the most amazing video game systems ever created. It's called Disney Infinity. It brings to life a completely new kind of game universe where players create stories and interact with many Disney characters.
I met with executives John Vignocchi and Ryan Rothenberger of Disney Interactive. Both have worked on Disney Infinity for the last three years. They let me try out the games just as the system was about to be released. Watch a video from my visit below.
"Back in the day, you would go see a movie, and then play the game," Vignocchi said. "Now, kids want to see the movie, and then go on new adventures with the characters from the film. That's what we've tried to do with Disney Infinity."
Here is how the system works. First, you place one of several figures on a device called the "Disney Infinity Base." The character appears on the screen! Once you choose your character, you can play in either of two different modes: "Play Sets" or "Toy Box."
Introducing Play Sets
"Play Sets" include the worlds of five different Disney films: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Incredibles, Monsters University, Cars, and The Lone Ranger. Each play set is a whole new game. Whether you are racing in Cars, or sword fighting in Pirates of the Caribbean, you're going to have a lot of fun!
"For the most part, all the roles are reprised by the actors who actually played the character in the movie," Vignocchi told TFK.
The best part about "Play Sets" mode? The adventures are different from those in the films. You don't just go on missions and dangerous quests. You can do whatever you want, especially in "Toy Box" mode.
What's in the Toy Box?
"Toy Box" is a place where you can build your own world out of the "toys" you collect while playing in "Play Sets." The toys include items like the shrink gun, Cinderella's carriage, and Buzz Light year's jetpack.
What's the difference between "Toy Box" and "Play Sets?" Any character from any movie can play in "Toy Box!" That's not the case in "Play Sets." For example, Sulley, from Monsters University, can't enter the western world of The Lone Ranger in "Play Sets."
"Think of 'Toy Box' as an open world sandbox," Rothenberger said. "Your imagination is the only limitation."
Now, to make your game experience even more awesome, I have two words: power discs.
Power Play
Power discs come in two different shapes: hexagons and circles. The hexagon-shaped power discs change the surroundings in "Toy Box" mode. Let's say you have a hexagon-shaped power disc with a picture of Wreck-it-Ralph on it. Put the disc on the Disney Infinity Base, and everything from trees to racetracks change to look like they are part of the Sugar Rush arcade game from Wreck-it-Ralph. Circular power discs give a chosen character a special ability or power.
After playing the games in the Disney Infinity system, I became a real fan of this exciting new form of gaming. I especially liked that players can create their own stories in "Toy Box" by combining characters, environments and all sorts of gadgets. You will also be pleased to know that Disney Infinity will work on Xbox360, PS3, Wii, Wii-U, 3DS, PC and online, as well as on smart devices, including tablets and mobile phones.
With all of its great characters, variations and amazing visuals, Disney Infinity is sure to be a hit. The game system is already available in stores. So what are you waiting for? Get ready to travel to Disney Infinity and beyond!


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Hogs are produced in three types of specialized enterprises:
- Farrow-to-finish operations raise hogs from birth to slaughter weight, about 240-270 pounds.
- Feeder pig producers raise pigs from birth to about 10-60 pounds, then generally sell them for finishing.
- Feeder pig finishers buy feeder pigs and grow them to slaughter weight.
Some overlap exists in enterprise type. For example, farrow-to-finish operators may sell or buy feeder pigs if their feed production is smaller or larger than their own production needs. However, most producers use only one production system.
The Biological Hog Cycle
The biological hog cycle is longer than that of broilers, but shorter than for cattle. (The economic hog cycle refers to the peaks and valleys in hog inventories over time, while the biological hog cycle refers to the biological time lags involved in hog production). A sow can produce an average of slightly more than two litters per year, each consisting of an average of nearly nine pigs. Production of hogs has consisted of five different phases: farrow-to-wean, feeder pig or nursery, finishing, breeding stock, and farrow-to-finish. Swine biology may be thought of as a flowing, cyclical process.
Source: Dr. Paul Pitcher and Sandra Springer, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, 1997.
It takes about 32 weeks, from birth to breeding age, before a gilt (a female hog that has not farrowed—that is, given birth) is ready to reproduce. The reproduction process begins with the mating of a gilt capable of conception and a boar (male hog) or by artificially inseminating the gilt with semen from a desired boar. Once the gilt has been bred successfully, she will farrow an average of nine piglets (young pigs) in approximately 16 weeks. A sow (adult female hog that has farrowed at least once) can be bred again shortly after pigs from the previous litter are weaned.
In a farrow-to-finish operation, 22-26 weeks (starting at birth) are required to grow a pig to slaughter weight. Sows nurse their piglets for an average of 2-3 weeks before they are weaned (separated from the sow). This is the farrow-to-wean phase of hog production. Weighing an average of 10-20 pounds, the weaned pigs are moved on to the next phase of production known as wean-to-feeder pig. During this phase, young pigs are fed rations varying in protein content until they reach an average weight of 20-60 pounds. From the feeder pig stage, the animals enter an intense feeding stage and remain there until they reach a desired weight, ranging from 240-270 pounds. Operations of this type are known as the feeder-pig-to-finish phase.
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Most hog producers use some type of confinement production, with specialized, environmentally modified facilities. Confinement production allows year-round production by protecting hogs from seasonal weather changes, while reserving productive land for crops. Central farrowing houses shelter sows that give birth and care for their young until they are weaned. After being weaned, baby pigs enter the pig nursery where conditions ease the transition between weaning and the growing-finishing stage. After reaching a weight of 20-60 pounds, the pigs are either sold to a feeder-pig finisher or transferred to the growing-finishing house, where they are grown out for slaughter.
One of the most striking features of the U.S. hog industry has been the rapid shift to fewer and larger operations, associated with technological change and evolving economic relationships among producers, packers, and consumers. Over the past 15 years, the number of farms with hogs has declined by over 70 percent, as individual enterprises have grown larger. U.S. hog operations tend to be heavily concentrated in the Midwest—Iowa and Southern Minnesota, particularly—and in eastern North Carolina.
Large operations that specialize in a single phase of production have replaced farrow-to-finish operations that performed all phases of production. The use of production contracts has increased. Operations producing under contract are larger than independent operations and are more likely to specialize in a single phase of production. These structural changes have coincided with efficiency gains and lower production costs. Most of the productivity gains are attributable to increases in the scale of production and technological innovation. For more information, see:The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production


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Dominated at the Bell Centre by a team fighting for a wild-card playoff spot, lucky to salvage a point, your Montreal Canadiens took to the ice 24 hours later against a team that sits atop the Eastern Conference standings.
With Carey Price nursing a mysterious lower-body injury – groin? knee? – Peter Budaj had to play both ends of a back-to-back.
And when the back-up goaltender let in two soft, short-side goals in Pittsburgh, how many fans looked at the upcoming California trip and pondered the possibility of our heroes tumbling out of a playoff spot by mid-March?
Oh we of little faith!
In their first two games coming out of the Olympic break, the Canadiens took three of a possible four points.
It wasn't pretty.
At times, the games against Detroit and Pittsburgh were downright ugly.
But they found a way. And when the dust had settled, the Canadiens were in second place in the Atlantic Division.
This should be cause for celebration in Montreal and among the Canadiens' far-flung community of fans.
It isn't.
Yes, the Canadiens beat the Penguins in their own barn.
No, the win did not soothe fan anxieties. And the game raised more questions than it answered.
The most ominous: What the heck is going on with P.K. Subban?
The reigning Norris Trophy laureate came back all smiles from Sochi. He played limited minutes in only one game for Team Canada, but P.K. assured everyone – including RDS's Pierre Houde, in an interview telecast before the Thursday night game – that it was a great learning experience and he was just glad his team won.
Maybe P.K. was trumpeting that party line in Pittsburgh after he spent Overtime nailed to the bench, watching Douglas Murray and Jarred Tinordi.
During regulation time, P.K. was on for three Pittsburgh goals – including the Brandon Sutter shorty that was a direct consequence of Subban coughing the puck up at the Pittsburgh blueline and making hardly any effort to get back and correct his error.
Subban had six minutes less ice time than Andrei Markov in Pittsburgh. He also played less than Josh Gorges and Alexei Emelin.
Among the Canadiens' defence corps, only Murray and Tinordi had fewer minutes.
When asked about Subban during his postgame press conference, Michel Therrien said: "Il n'est pas dans son match."
Roughly translated: "He wasn't on his game."
Wednesday wasn't his night either. Subban's penalty for embellishment deprived the Canadiens of a power-play in OT against Detroit.
With his hometown team coming to the Bell Centre Saturday night, P.K. will be looking for redemption. In a game almost as crazy as the one in Pittsburgh, the Leafs lost in Overtime on Long Island. But they're only two points behind the Canadiens, and the Saturday game will be huge.
The Canadiens' most gifted skater will have to bring his A-game against Toronto – especially if Price is still nursing whatever ails him.
Let's hope the coach steps it up a notch as well.
Subban had company on the bench for the Overtime in Pittsburgh.
Therrien didn't use Daniel Brière, whose nine minutes of ice time in regulation produced two goals an an assist.
And as was the case against Detroit, Alex Galchenyuk – a key element of the team's future – spent the OT on the bench … while Brian Gionta and Lars Eller each got two shifts.
Eller was in the penalty box when Olli Maatta gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead that lasted 57 seconds. Held off the scoresheet again, Eller has four points in 31 games and, as a punishment for his penalty, found himself on the fourth line centring Travis Moen and George Parros as Brière moved up between Rene Borque and Dale Weise.
In Game 61 of the schedule, Therrien is still looking for line combinations that deliver with some minimal consistency.
DD's linemates, Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher, had 11 of the Canadiens' 29 shots on Marc-André Fleury. And Galchenyuk had some decent chemistry with Tomas Plekanec and Brian Gionta – although the kid played less than 12 minutes.
With Ryan White and Brandon Prust out of the lineup, the bottom six forwards were a grab bag that delivered neither scoring chances nor physical play.
Bottom line, though: Three of four points – without Carey Price.


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Adelina also did 3f+3lo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71H-ibvidk, so I believe she now has 5 different types ! 3s+3lo, 3lz+3o,3f+3lo,3t+3t,3lz+3t
Adelina also did 3f+3lo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71H-ibvidk, so I believe she now has 5 different types ! 3s+3lo, 3lz+3o,3f+3lo,3t+3t,3lz+3t
(Going off on a slight tangent here ) -- either "close" attempts or successes.
Disclaimer: Jumps during the 6.0 era may or may not be ratified under the current judging system.
1. Tara Lipinski - 1998 Olympics - 3Lo/3Lo & 3T/half-Lo/3S
2. Sasha Cohen - 2002 Crest Whitestrips International Challenge - 3Lz/3T & 3T/half-Lo/3S
3. Sarah Hughes - 2002 Olympics - 3T/3Lo & 3S/3Lo
4. Shizuka Arakawa - 2004 Worlds - 3Lz/3T/2Lo & 3S/3T
5. Miki Ando - 2004 Worlds - 3T/3T & 3Lz/3Lo
6. Mao Asada - 2007 Grand Prix Final - 3F/3Lo & 3F/3T
7. Anyone else?
Bonus: I know he's not female, but Kurt Browning did 3A/3T, 3F/3T, and 3S/3Lo at the 1991 World Championships.
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^ Irina Slutskaya, 2000 Grand Prix Final: 3Lz/3Lo and 3S/3Lo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28djAK9g4-0
Carolina Kostner: 3Lz/3T & 3F/3T (and an interesting 2A/half-loop/3S) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXO6s3MCDw
This thread is mind-boggling. What impressive variety. I love that Kurt has been added to it!
If you're talking also about combos not perfectly landed, Mao landed a clean 3F+3T and a DG with -1 GOE 3F+3Lo in her 2008 Worlds FS, but I think that under the 6.0 system they would be both considered clean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_Z1uJnUeU
Gracie Gold at Salt Lake International Classics landed 3Lz+3T and 3F+1Lo+3S (the video should be in the IN archive)
Polina Shelepen last season landed many times 3Lz+3T and 3S+3T in her FS (just one example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcnQ-...OJTL7LLDvfzySw )
Bonaly 1994 Worlds and Olympics did 3T/half-Lo/3S and 3F/3T


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Dance, Theater, and Music
The Arcola
For "a strange and different experience" visit this fringe theatre in a converted garment factory in Dalston, a "part of town you'd never go to otherwise. Fantastic, dirt cheap Turkish food at Mangal opposite."—Sean Holmes, theatre director. 27 Arcola St.; tel. 44 (0) 207 503 1646. www.arcolatheatre.com
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Everyman Cinema Club
"Book a sofa, order a bottle of wine, and watch black and white classics like Casablanca."—Mat Osman, musician and editor of le cool London. Instead of popcorn you get wasabi peas and Bombay Sapphire G&Ts. 5 Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead; tel: 44 (0) 870 066 4777. www.everymancinema.com
National Theatre
Classic British plays on three stages. Look out for cheap ticket offers and Watch This Space Festival—"free outdoor performances on summer evenings, dynamic and surprising theatrical events."—Sean Holmes. South Bank; tel. 44 (0) 207 452 3000. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
The Royal Court
"The most famous theater in the world for new writing; both completely intimate and completely epic."—Sean Holmes. Post-show, mingle with the cast in the glamorous bar downstairs. Sloane Square, Chelsea; tel. 44 (0) 207 565 5000. www.royalcourttheatre.com
Shepherd's Bush Empire
Rising stars and musical legends rock this classy venue. "Good size, great sound, brilliant booking policy. Catch up-and-coming acts at nearby Bush Hall, London's prettiest music venue, dripping with chandeliers."—Mat Osman. Shepherds Bush Green; tel. 44 (0) 208 354 3300. www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk
Bush Hall
310 Uxbridge Rd., tel. 44 (0) 208 222 6955. www.bushhallmusic.co.uk
The American Bar
"Salim Khoury does the best dry martinis in London."—Stephen Bayley, design consultant and author. Khoury has kept the Savoy Hotel's art deco bar ahead of the competition since 1969; his predecessor, Harry Craddock, wrote the definitive Savoy Cocktail Book. Savoy Hotel, The Strand; tel. 44 (0) 207 836 4343. www.fairmont.com
Favela Chic
Anything goes at this kitsch club. "Organizes some of the oddest nights in town, like Swaparama Razzmatazz—everybody has to swap clothes when music stops."—Mat Osman, musician and editor of le cool London. 91- 93 Great Eastern St., Shoreditch; tel. 44 (0) 207 613 4228. www.favelachic.com/London
Notting Hill Arts Club
"Small, unpretentious venue with eclectic music policy. The Brazilian Love Affair and Costa Urbana nights are absolutely great and absolutely packed."—Mat Osman, musician and editor of le cool London. 21 Notting Hill Gate; tel. 44 (0) 207 7598 5226. www.nottinghillartsclub.com
Ronnie Scott's
After its first refurbishment in 47 years, this legendary jazz club has pumped up the glamour. Impressive acts live up to a long legacy of jazz giants including Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey. 47 Frith St. Soho; tel. 44 (0) 20 7439 0747. www.ronniescotts.co.uk
Brick Lane Festival
Second Sunday in September. Fiery food and multicultural music celebrating the street's Asian population. http://www.visitbricklane.org/#/festivals/4537680270
City of London Festival
June-July. Music and arts, walks and talks, staged in the Square Mile's most remarkable buildings, squares, and gardens. www.colf.org
London Film Festival
October-November. International premieres, art-house screenings, master classes, Q&As with stars and filmmakers in venues across town. www.lff.org.uk
Notting Hill Carnival
Last weekend in August. Europe's biggest street party. Steel pan bands, sound systems (traditionally soca, calypso and reggae), and colorful floats showcase Caribbean culture. http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/
Open House London
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Ahh, The Jersey Shore. Chew on a piece of orange taffinated goodness and contemplate these simple words in that powerful
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represent an experience that is uniquely New Jersey, a way of life that is as much a part of the Garden State as tired jokes
about oil refineries and alleged political shenanigans.
Extending 120 miles from Sandy Hook to Cape May, The Jersey Shore provides a mixture of entertainment and relaxation,
fine dining and fast food, grand Victorian buildings and modern seaside architecture. For well over a century families have
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"Wildwood Days" have burned The Jersey Shore into our collective musical consciousness. Lighthouses dot the coastline.
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For those who have had the pleasure of spending time at The Jersey Shore its enormous versatility is embedded in those
three little words. Do you like history? Go to Ocean Grove, a planned community where for decades families have spent their
summers getting spiritual rejuvenation. How about crabbing? Join the many folks who toss their cages in the waters up and
down the coast…errrrr, shore…to capture a fresh treat from the sea. Does the thrill of a financial windfall appeal to you?
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When those three little words float into your ears you instinctively know fun times for people of all ages sits at your
fingertips (or more realistically, within a car trip). The skee-ball arcades and the wealth of kiddie rides enchant
children. Young adults bask in the robust nightlife and the freedom that comes from renting a house two blocks from the
beach for a week with 20 of your closest friends. The preserved charm of places like Cape May fills older folks with
Many years ago this part of the Atlantic seaboard was nothing more than a string of islands and inlets, a place for
fisherman and locals. It was simply where the ocean met the land. In 1800 practically the entire area we now call The Jersey
Shore was undeveloped and sparsely populated. It wasn't even called The Jersey Shore. If people considered it at all they
probably referred to it as "That yonder place next to the briny sea where no man, woman or child can easily reach without
the hazards of hard overland travel" or some such nonsense. (They were quite wordy back in those days.) Transportation
networks were virtually non-existent and the idea of vacationing anywhere, much less by the ocean, was a luxury beyond the
means of most people. In those days you could say "The Jersey Shore" and be met with blank stares, followed quickly by an
offer to shod your horse or a request to share your meal of salt pork, Indian corn and malt spirits.
But time changes everything. By the late 19th century people were coming from New York and Philadelphia, among other
places, to experience a New Jersey seaside getaway. Summer homes sprung up. Entertainment venues were built. "That yonder
place" began to mean something new and exciting to people. Although they didn't yet realize it, the three little words The
Jersey Shore were fermenting in our "lingo to be" box like the flavors of grape, oak and fruit in an aging bottle of fine
wine. In the 20th century the cork would be removed and the subtle and distinct spirit that we now know as The Jersey Shore
would be released and savored.
So next time you see or hear what seem to just be three little common words, think again! Be prepared to jog your memory,
smile big toothy grins and make fantastic fun plans. Be prepared to explore and appreciate. Be prepared to experience a
unique piece of Americana for a very simple reason. In this case we're talking about more than just words. We're talking
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text: Okay guys and dolls. Complete newbee here. I originally planned on doing a cut-out of a log this weekend. The weather, however, is going to take a dip Friday night into the 30's. The high for Saturday is going to be in the 60's, low in the 40's, and continue for a few days then begin to warm up again. The question is, do I continue with the cut-out, or do I wait for next weekend? Any help is appreciated!


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Scientists are still studying the after-effects of the nuclear disaster caused by an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The amount of neutron fluence, for example, has been calculated from the site to establish what might be a safe level of exposure for humans. (Neutron fluence is the number of neutrons from the blast found per square centimeter.) The advent of nuclear accidents such as Three Mile Island and potential nuclear accidents in the future makes accurate information imperative. But scientists have recently realized that there are discrepancies in earlier estimates and have been looking for ways to resolve them. According to the latest research, the standards for a safe level of exposure to humans might be too conservative.
Analyzing the neutron-induced fission tracks on certain objects found in Hiroshima enables scientists to calibrate the nuclear fluence. Geologist Robert L. Fleischer (Union College in New York), S. Fujita (Radiation Effects Research Institute in Japan), and M. Hoshi (Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology in Japan) have published their findings on a glass button found near ground zero in Hiroshima in the Health Physics Society Journal.
More recently, Union College geology student Jonathan MacDonald joined the team to determine the track density of fission tracks in porcelain fragments that were also found near ground zero. This study complements the previous work.
"At face value, these results are fluence values from a specific bomb event that will hopefully never be used again. These fission events occurred when thermal neutrons from the bomb caused fission in the normal trace amounts of uranium in the material," MacDonald explained. "We determined the track density on the exterior glaze (glass), on the outside of one porcelain fragment and in a cross section of the glaze in another."
While the value of the one sample nearly matches the previous estimates, the other one is 2 to 2.5 times higher. MacDonald will report the new values at the Geological Society of America's North Eastern Section Meeting on March 25.
"If correct, the latter value may be important for regulation of human exposures in the U.S., because many of the current regulations are based on theoretical calculated values," MacDonald said. "If this latter dose is correct—being higher than what is currently assumed—then the current standards should be less restrictive."
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'While we were working, this young American folk singer played her own records so that her child could continue to hear his mother's voice. She was among the most natural of all the performers I have photographed.' (Karsh)
Baez began singing and playing the guitar in her early teens. She first attracted wide acclaim with her 1959 Newport Folk Festival debut and her first self-titled album, which was released in 1960. On early albums she accompanied herself simply with an acoustic guitar. The tracks were traditional songs and covers, often of Bob Dylan songs, with whom she toured a number of times. She was prominent in the civil rights and peace movements. A spokesperson for non-violent resistance, she refused to pay taxes that would support the war in Vietnam, took part in demonstrations (singing We Shall Overcome before an estimated quarter of a million people at the civil rights march on Washington in 1963) and was arrested a number of times in 1967 for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California.


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Just a few miles away from numerous championship golf courses and the Daytona International Speedway, Ocean Walk's towers overlook one of Daytona Beach's few car-free stretches. Next door, the Ocean Walk Village features myriad shopping and dining options as well as a 10-screen cinema and a surf shop. The condo resort also offers casual food court-style fare at McGregor's Market as well as light fare and tropical cocktails at an alfresco poolside lounge.
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This is my second spornette brush, my first being the smaller $8 brush. Back combing for volume very easy at roots for a lift with a good texture spray, dry shampoo, and my preferred Parlor sea salt spray. Gentle and doesn't break hair when used carefully. Thinner hair girls will adore. There is a reason this had been a long long time favorite back when bouffant styles were in vogue. A great investment and can't beat the price!5
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"TROOPER MK V -- .357 Mag. cal. only, 4, 6, or 8 in. barrel, adj. sights, walnut target grips, improved version of MK III action, vent rib barrel, a few made with solid rib, redesigned 1982. Discontinued 1986." They give approximate prices for blue and nickel finishes, so I guess those were the only finish options.
I think the "redesigned 1982" refers to the previous version, the MK III, being redesigned and renamed the MK V. The production years shown for the older Trooper MK III are 1969-83, so that fits right in with a tiny bit of overlap. They did the same redesign with the fixed-sight version of both guns, the Lawman MK III (1969-83) and Lawman MK V (1984 and 1985 only).
Colt also made a model called the Peacekeeper (made 1985-87), which is described as "...similar to Trooper MK V, 4 or 6 inch barrel, matte blue finish, rubber combat grips, adj. rear sight, about 42 oz. Mfg. 1985-87". I believe I fired one of those, many years ago, as a buddy of mine had bought one used at a gun show. If I remember correctly, it shot well, and never gave him any trouble.
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[quote user="Ntegrase96"]Too much emphasis is placed on the QB position. Defense is still key in winning in the playoffs or games that 'matter'.
It's no coincidence that Eli Manning has gotten exponentially better since the superbowl win, yet the Giants have consistently gotten worse with the inability to replace the production of key components to the superbowl winning defense.
And as Casvdry stated, Romo's never had a solid o'line or solid defense.
Great talent on the defensive side of the ball. But it has yet to come
together for the Cowboys.
I've stated that I'm done defending Romo, and to some extent, I am. I think there are better options out there for the Cowboys (maybe not at the moment) and a lot of aspects of his gameplay leave a lot to be desired.
But As critical of Romo as I've been this year I can't deny that with better team effort Romo plays much better as well. He's no different that any other QB in that regard.
He may not be the most 'clutch' QB, but I think his 'chokes' are greatly exaggerated because of two things.
1.) He's the cowboys QB.
2.) the fumbled snap to set the tone for the rest of his career.
There's only one game in Romo's entire career where I've felt that he lost the game despite winning effort from the entire team around him, and that was this year's opener against the Jets.
[/quote]I will be the first to admit that i have somewhat more limited knowledge than most here when it comes to Romo. I think he seems to press too much at times when he doesnt have to. I saw one game a few weeks back where you guys had a sizeable lead late in the game and he was making these horrible throws. I think one got picked for a TD deep in your end.....There is no denying his regular season numbers are up there with the best of them. Playoff numbers and wins are what seperate him from the rest.


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3 flights and 29 hours after jetting off from the dreary International Terminal at Perth Airport I touched down in Orlando to end the first travel phase of the trip.
At Perth Airport Qantas must be having a crackdown on carry-on luggage as mine was
weighed and deemed (at 9kg) to be too heavy. As such I had to put my
emergency American-airports-and-handlers-are-going-to-lose-my-bag
clothes and a book into my checked luggage. The surly check-in lady
wanted me to check my suit bag (I am going to a wedding later on) in
too, making some remark about how I'd better not be taking more than 2
bags onboard, but I just put my small camera bag into the suit bag to
shut her up
The first flight was on Qantas to Tokyo and went pretty much as expected. The only surprise was the late arrival of the aged 767-300ER from the domestic terminal, causing a flow-on effect that delayed our departure by about half an hour. A sign of how great Perth Airport is was that the check-in staff apparently could not control the display that automatically announced that the flight was boarding as if it were on time, leading to many queries and crowds for them to deal with in the meantime. At least I had a Qantas Club pass to use (thanks Mum and Dad) so I could relax and enjoy the free refreshments while I waited. I also met up with brother Charles and 2 of his work colleagues at the Club as they were waiting for their Jetstar flight to Singapore for a cheap weekend away.
Despite the late departure we landed in Tokyo under sunny skies and right on time. Everytime that I've take this sector the flight has always taken half an hour less than scheduled. I was on the left side of the plane so was afforded nice views of Mt Fuji during our descent. The pilot was good and pointed it out over the PA system
Connecting in Tokyo was easy, not least because our plane pulled up at the gate adjacent to the one that my next plane was parked at. Despite this I had to walk down to the centre of the terminal to go through transit security to then walk back to the departure side of the gate. I noticed that my phone was not logging on to any networks and summised that due to a recent change of plan (but still on Optus) the roaming function had been disabled on my account. I bought 24 hours of WiFi credit (the shortest time available) and made some email enquiries and sent some SMSes from the internet to let people know that I was okay but phoneless.
Soon enough I was boarding my American Airlines 777-200 for the flight to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. AA had already got off on the wrong foot by using a different booking system to Qantas which meant that when I checked in with Qantas my AA seat requests were lost and I was allocated B seats for my 2 AA flights, meaning there was going to be someone between me and the window. I was pleasantly suprised when I boarded as the flight attendants didn't seem too much more crabby than some of the older ones I've had the pleasure of travelling with on Qantas and the interior was certainly newer and nicer than the old 767 that I had just come from
Beyond entertainment, the food was pretty poor. Sure, they served it on large trays but there was a lot of space on those trays and everything clearly had come out of a tin. Leg room was passable but the seats themselves were awful. They must've been designed for midgets because the headrest was at my shoulder blades and even though it could be raised, the padding ended there and curved outward slightly, coercing me into an uncomfortable hunched position. You really start to notice after sitting there for 11 hours
While my fellow passenger at the window was a nice enough, small Indian lady that was polite and didn't invade my space, the window was lost on her. She, like 99% of the other passengers prefered to have the window shade closed all the time. Sure, when people are sleeping this makes sense but when there's a great sunrise out the window and everyone's already been woken for breakfast anyway, or when you're reading and you turn on the artificial reading light instead of letting the natural morning light stream through the window?! I at least thought she'd open it as we descended, but with 10 minutes and around 10000 feet to go I couldn't wait any longer and asked her to open it, which she did. Annoyingly AA don't share Qantas' policy of requiring all window shades to be open at takeoff and landing so I didn't even have that as a fall back.
Landing into Dallas was foggy so there was little to see anyway, but we were 30 minutes early thanks to some nice tailwinds that had us cranking it at over 1200km/h over the Pacific. Immigration didn't take long, once they realised that we had arrived early and therefore should staff the counters sooner than expected, and my bag had thankfully made it to the right airport in the US, with the bonus of it not taking too long to come out on the carousel
On my brother's advise I spent most of my layover time in the newer international terminal (D), paying for more Wi-Fi to try keep in touch and try to resolve the mobile roaming issue. I was not suprised to read an email from Dad stating that I had to be the one to call Optus as they wouldn't accept his request becuase the phone account was in my name. I transferred to dingy old Terminal A, via the realtively new Skytrain elevated people mover system, where I found a bank of payphones in the waiting lounge for my gate. One call had it fixed and I was informed that roaming would be operational in "15 minutes to 4 hours". Don't ask me why the timeframe is so variable, I can't figure it out either.
The bummy old MD-80 for the flight to Orlando arrived at the gate late, so we ended up getting out of Dallas 30 minutes late. I had not been looking forward to this flight and it certainly didn't exceed my low expectations. It was like flying in a bus. Old, clapped-out, worn, a bit funky smelling and crampt. Even the first class looked worse than a decent economy product. There wasn't even audio entertainment! There was no food, but this was not unexpected, but remains disappointing nonetheless. The only redeeming fact was that this plane had been equiped with in-flight WiFi. I had a look at the AA website as it was free, using it to check on the estimated arrival time of our flight. In this way the WiFi substituted for the lack of onboard entertainment or information systems. I decided not to pay the relatively modest for what it is $9.95 fee to surf the net because after my phone trouble-shooting exploits my battery was running low so I wouldn't have been able to get the maximum benefit.
Again the window seat was taken by a girl who didn't appreciate it fully, although she did look out a bit. The flight was full, aparently something happened yesterday that prevented flights or at least people from getting out to Orlando. While the flight from Tokyo consisted of about 50% Americans, this flight only had a smattering of non-US citizens. They were living up to their reputation, being loud and needy, lazy and inconsiderate. Being a flight from Dallas the staff and many passengers had a southern drawl or tang to their accents too, which didn't endear them to me.
We touched down in the infinitely sprawly Orlando only 15 minutes late, relieved that I had survived another flight on a clapped-out Mad Dog without it costing my life. The airport itself was nothing to write home about and it took eons for our bags to come off the plane, so much so that other later flights got their bags before us! Relieved and to be frank, surprised, that my bag had indeed arrived on my flight. I then made my way across the terminal to reach the Disney's Magical Express shuttle check-in and departure area. This service is free to guests staying at the Disney World "Resorts" (hotels) so I relaxed for the 30 minute trip, fighting off the urge to sleep.
Thanks to my friend Alicia, who I should be catching up with tomorrow, working here at WDW I was able to secure her castmember 50% discount, which allowed me to stay at Disney's BoardWalk Villas, smack-bang between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios, with boats footpaths, buses and monorails connecting me to these parks and all the other parts of WDW. Because of its relatively good location (most resorts are dead end exits off the internal highway-like road system with road-only connections to everywhere else) this accommodation and the others in the precinct are at the higher end of the spectrum, which has worked to filter the crowd somewhat, making the crowd a little less informal than anticipated.
Upon entering my room I showered and then crashed, before even reading the promo and informational material. I woke again after about an hour of snoozing (I'd set an alarm) and went for a walk to check out the precinct and grab some dinner. After about 30 minutes exploring and soaking up some of the last sun of the day it was time to retire to my villa (includes a microwave and some cooking facilities) to eat, get clued up and type this entry.
Tomorrow is my first day in the parks and my first chance to catch up with Alicia, which I'm excited about. The time difference to home is an easy 12 hours at the moment so if you want to contact me late evening or until mid-morning Perth time is best.


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Brenda Flower my travel companion and I arrived in Delhi last night at 9:30pm. We had a great flight and the 15 hour flight wasn't so bad since I was able to sleep through a lot of it. James and Shannon the AG missionaries came to pick us up at the airport and we stayed at the AG guest house. Didn't see much of Delhi except for cows walking along the streets intermingled with the traffic and then the thick fog in the morning. When we arrived in Kolkata at 11:40 this morning, Janelle, the local missionary came to pick us up at the airport. The ride to the Baptist Mission Society Guest House (BMS) was an eye opening experience..
There is so much traffic, noise, people and pollution. This is the most crowded, poverty stricken place that I have ever seen! The most outstanding things that I saw on the ride to the BMS was the dirty, little huts assembled not 2 feet from the side of the highway where little children live with their mothers. Then as we were stopped in traffic, a boy who looked to be about 12 was walking in between the cars begging at each of the car windows. He was missing his right arm from the shoulder down and there was no hand on his left arm. I was told that this was purposely done to him to make him a more sympathetic beggar. The person resposible for his maming was probably nearby to collect the cash.
Ambika Pandey a local missionary, took the entire team out to lunch today. We then went shopping for some Indian outfits to wear. We took a taxi back to the BMS. What a ride!! These drivers make 6 lanes out of 4 lane road. They are quite skilled at dodging cars coming from all angles, bicycles, people and oh yes, the cows. I won't be sitting in the front seat anymore!! We actually piled 7 ladies into one cab. He made some sort of comment that some of us had to get out. Most of us acted as though we didn't understand and Janelle told him in Bengali to get a move on and she would give him 50 extra Rupees (about $1). He moved on and gladly took the extra money. He went past the gated entrance to the BMS so when we got out we had to walk a short way back to the gate. Along the street, on the sidewalk were little children sleeping on dirty blankets. We were told this is where they live. Some of them jumped up to ask us for money. We were told it was ok to give thiese children money because their mothers would go and buy food for them. I need to go and change some of my money into coins because I know I will be walking by them frequently.
we will be going to church tomorrow and then Liz wants to show me the market place where she bought the yarn - 100 pounds of it!! I will probably spend the rest of the day organizing the yarn and planning what patterns to use the yarn for. I will be teaching on Monday at a brand new vocational school right across from one of Mother Theresa's buildings. There is still a practicing order of nuns carrying on her work. It is greatly needed.
Well I will be going to bed tonight feeling sad for the unfortunate people and children that I saw today. I can only pray that what I do in the short time that I am here will somehow make a difference. And to everyone who has supported me, know that you are a part of helping to bring a little light to this very dark place.
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