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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by AJM1613, May 13, 2004.
I was just wondering if you liked the Mavericks or the Spurs better.
Did you watch that Spurs-Lakers game, I can't believe how lucky the Lakers are. A shot, nothing but net, with 0.4 seconds left I knew that when they came back from their (LA) 2nd timeout they would draw up a play to another person other than Kobe. Shaq said it was designed for Kobe but he wouldn't tell them what they were really looking to do.
You're a Kings fan, good for you, that means you hate the Lakers. I'm a Spurs fan.
Go Rangers!!!
I'm a Spurs fan.
I can't believe that shot, I can't believe the shot that preceded it either. But I was happy about the first one.
I dislike the Lakers, but I despise Malone. I hope he never gets a ring. Ever. I would actually be happy if the Lakers go to the finals and Malone misses the last shot of game 7 that costs the Lakers the title, because then for the rest of his life he would always remember that he just wasn't quite good enough. Probably not though, I think that's the alcohol and the recent defeat talking.
You seem like you think the series is over...The Spurs will still win it in 7, Robert Horry with .3 seconds left...
I don't think it's over. Spurs have an uphill battle to win game 6, but I think they're the better team and can do it. I was just going on a little rant about how much I hate Malone. Right now I'd give the Lakers a slight edge going into game 6, but not so much that the Spurs can't beat it if they play like they're capable of.
spurs fan here
Rockets and Lakers, as far as SA and DAL i'll take SA anyday. I like SA too, i respect Duncan alot. I'm just happy right now.
Gotta be my hometown Blazers...
Oh my gosh, I love your sig picture. Seriously love it.
Cool sig, I like the Rangers too , the braves are my team in the NL.... Blaylock is my fav player....
Lakers all the way baby .
Philadelphia 76ers
I never have been a big NBA fan. Growing up in the '80's I liked the Celtics but I really haven't kept up with it much over the last 10-15 years.
thx, i jacked it off the web and did some photoshop work to take off the guy's name who did it.. haha.. he would be mad i took off his credit.
Man, that is the sweetest.
I'm a Sixers fan also.
My two biggest wishes in the offseason are to get rid of Glen Robinson (what a waste of space) and to acquire Antoine Walker (I think he'd excel again under Jim OBrien).
Honestly, with a little tweaking and a high draft pick I don't think we're that far away.
Sixers fan here as well.
Dr J is the reason i started watching basketball in the first place!
with dalembert stepping up, if there was ANY type of center to go along with him so he could play F, the front line would be very good with McKie on the other side, and as much as i love Eric Snow, we DESPERATELY need a G that can score besides AI! they need a legit 3 point threat or 2 that the defense HAS to respect! even so, last season would have been much better if big Todd hadn't had his problems! is he ever going to come back?


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Docket Number:
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05-AFC-2C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Licensed; In Compliance Phase. Operational: May 1, 2013.
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on February 27, 2008. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, Chairman, Presiding Member
Karen Douglas, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: TBA
Key Dates
- November 22, 2005 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed with Energy Commission.
- February 1, 2006 - Application deemed data adequate at Commission business meeting.
- December 29, 2006 - Commission staff issues its Preliminary Staff Assessment
- April 12, 2007 - Commission staff issues its Final Staff Assessment
- August 15, 2007 - Presiding Member's Proposed Decision is released.
- February 27, 2008 - Energy Commission votes to approve the project
- May 1, 2013 - Power plant on line and producing power.
On November 22, 2005, Walnut Creek Energy, LLC (WCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, submitted an Application for Certification (AFC) to construct and operate a nominal 500 megawatt (MW) simple-cycle power plant, the Walnut Creek Energy Park (WCEP), in the City of Industry.
The proposed WCEP site is located at 911 Bixby Drive in the City of Industry, Los Angeles County, in an area zoned for industrial uses. The project site is an 11.48-acre parcel currently owned by the Industry Urban Development Agency (Development Agency). A large, commercial distribution warehouse currently occupies the parcel. The Development Agency has designated the parcel for redevelopment and intends to demolish the warehouse in the near future. NRG has entered into a lease option agreement for the project site. The lease option will be assigned to and exercised by WCE, which will take possession of the site from the Development Agency after the warehouse has been demolished. The City of Industry is in the process of reviewing a Negative Declaration, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), for the demolition.
The proposed generating facility would consist of five General Electric LMS100 natural gas-fired turbine-generators and associated equipment. The WCEP is designed as a peaking facility to meet electric generation load during periods of high demand, which generally occur during daytime hours, and more frequently during the summer than other portions of the year. The project is expected to have an annual capacity factor of approximately 20 to 40 percent, depending on weather-related customer demand, load growth, hydroelectric supplies, generating unit retirements and replacements, the level of generating unit and transmission outages, and other factors.
The WCEP would use reclaimed water for cooling and other power plant processes and for site landscape irrigation. The Rowland Water District would supply, on average, approximately 827 acre-feet per year of reclaimed water for the project from the San Jose Creek Wastewater Reclamation Plant. This water would be supplied to the WCEP site via an approximately 30-foot-long pipeline connection to an existing reclaimed water pipeline at the corner of Bixby Drive and Chestnut Street. Potable water for drinking and sanitary uses would be provided through a 30-foot-long pipeline connection to a Rowland Water District water main in Bixby Drive, immediately adjacent to the project site. Sanitary wastewater would be discharged to a Los Angeles County Sanitation District trunk sewer line that runs in a utility easement within the project site. Process wastewater would also be discharged to this sanitary sewer line through a connecting pipeline to the trunk sewer line.
The WCEP would be connected to Southern California Edison's (SCE) electrical system at the existing Walnut Substation, which is located approximately 250 feet south of the project site. This connection would require 600 feet of 230-kilovolt transmission line and two transmission towers to be located adjacent to the substation within SCE's transmission line corridor.
Natural gas would be supplied to the WCEP via a pipeline connection to a Southern California Gas Company high-pressure gas pipeline that runs in a utility easement within the WCEP parcel.
WCEP received a license from the Energy Commission in February 2008, construction of the project began in the spring of 2011, and full-scale commercial operation is anticipated by May 2013.
Energy Commission Facility Certification Process
The California Energy Commission is the lead agency (for licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts and larger) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has a certified regulatory program under CEQA. Under its certified program, the Energy Commission is exempt from having to prepare an environmental impact report. Its certified program, however, does require environmental analysis of the project, including an analysis of alternatives and mitigation measures to minimize any significant adverse effect the project may have on the environment.
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Managing multiple facilities across multiple continents can be a pain especially when Wi-Fi is involved. Different regions use different frequencies depending on regulatory domain. And, depending on your hardware vendor, compliant hardware could be backordered.
In my case, the Cisco Aironet 1140 Series Access Point (AIR-AP1142N-T-K9 802.11a/g/n Standalone AP; Int Ant; Taiwan C) is backordered by 4-6 weeks. I guess our Taipei 101 office is out of luck for a while unless I can find a different piece of compliant hardware.
Here are some miscellaneous regulatory notes for when I need to revisit this in the future:
- Cisco Aironet 1140 Series Access Point Ordering Guide [PDF]
- Wireless LAN Compliance Status
- List of WLAN channels
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Re: st: Calculate product from two dta files
Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Calculate product from two dta files
Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:23:58 +0000
You asked this yesterday and no-one wanted to wrap their head around it.
As I understand it you seek here not just one product price * share
but several, so if each file is already too big for comfort, what
structure precisely are you seeking?
There are some small things you can do:
1. Your dates are being held as values like 19700701. If that's a
string or a large integer, convert to Stata daily dates, so that for
example 19700701 if stored as a string or long could be stored as an
int instead, a storage saving of 75% for that variable.
2. -compress- anyway. It will do no harm.
There is really one solution here (other than Stata grinding exceedingly slow):
It seems to me that you need more memory. I am guessing that this is
the start of a project and you are doing early basic manipulations.
You've not even started on the serious statistical analysis. You are
going to be hitting this problem again and again. You need to talk to
your boss(es)/supervisor/advisor.
It's still true that you have an inadvisable data structure. I have
asserted this twice before. If you had a long data structure, then the
product price*share would just be one multiplication. That wouldn't
solve your memory problem, however.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Zhangqunzi <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> I have two dta files having the same structure :
>> Dta1
>> time firm price 1 2 3 4
>> 19700701. 0.1. 12. 14. 3
>> Dta2
>> Time firm share 1 2 3 4
>> 19700701. 10 20. 30. 40
>> I want to get the product of price*share then generate a new dat file to store the result.
>> The varlists from dta1,2 are not the same, eg p1 p3 p5. S1 S3 S5. Also the numbers are not continuous numbers.
>> Also my cimputer's memory is not enough only 730mb, the two dtas are 600mb, if u calculate the product in one dta file it will exceed the memory limit.
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Mosquito Range > Horseshoe Mountain > Climber's Log
Horseshoe Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|winter horseshoe
Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2007
|knocked horseshoe off the winter top-100 list. very windy with many devils coming across the slopes above treeline. much nicer day than forecasted.
|Posted Jan 12, 2007 8:13 pm
|Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2007
|Good, God! Sustained 20mph winds with gusts up around 45-48mph up on the ridge. Air temps in the mid 20's. Don't want to know what the wind chill was. I got knocked down a few times, on a snow slope that was very alarming!
Hiked this with 2 other friends. 7.5 hours. The cirque is amazing!
|Posted Jan 12, 2007 3:31 am
|Brian Kalet
|From Iowa Gulch
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
|From Sheridan & Peerless back to Peerless. 6 hours roundtrip.
|Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:25 pm
|Eric Holle
|Route Climbed: Gold Basin Date Climbed: August 19, 2006
|Nice quick trip.
|Posted Aug 19, 2006 6:46 pm
|boudoir couloir
Date Climbed: May 13, 2006
|climbed the boudoir couloir with chicagotransplant. going into the horseshoe was very impressive.....glissading over the cornice was fun too.
|Posted Jul 1, 2006 12:21 am
|Came in from Weston Pass
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006
|Climbed coming from Weston Pass. Gained ~1700 ft. in first 1.25 mi from TH to Ptarmigan Peak ~13,800. Continued along ridge to Horsehoe. Didn't see a soul all day. Caught some elk that had two predators stalking (Mtn. Lion?). Scrambled 3 miles of rock falls on the way back down. Bad idea. There was literally no trail to follow from Weston Pass, but all is over treeline, so peaks were simple to find. 99% free of snow.
|Posted Jun 18, 2006 3:00 pm
|Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: May 20, 2006
|Some drifts still on the road but still an enjoyable hike. The wind really picked up once on top of the ridge but died down a bit on the summit. I'd been wanting to do this one for a while. I'll have to come back and do the couloir sometime.
|Posted May 23, 2006 4:02 pm
|Boudoir Couloir
Date Climbed: May 13, 2006
|Shanahan96 and I climbed Boudoir Couloir, great climb. It was pretty windy up top so we didn't complete the ridge traverse we had hoped, but a good day none the less. Next time I'm bringing my skis!
|Posted May 15, 2006 5:50 pm
|Tour de Mosquito Range
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2003
|Did this along with Dyer, Gemini, Sherman, Sheridan, and Peerless that day. Good fun.
|Posted Mar 5, 2006 6:17 pm
|Brad Snider
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Creek Date Climbed: December 20, 2005
|Definitely a memorable trip. Had a great time with Joe, John and Stuart. The winds were ferocious, but the blowing snow and chilly temperatures kept us moving. And it wasn't even officially winter for another 12 hours! :-)
|Posted Dec 22, 2005 12:26 pm
|Route Climbed: Peerless Mine, east slopes Date Climbed: December 20, 2005
|Summitted with SP'ers Brad Snider and John Clements after numbing climb through vicious wind. (John's summit log phrasing is testimony to standard 'climbers' understatement' and the fact that, well, he's tougher than me.) Typing this I still have some residual numbness in the tips of my fingers. Thanks to John and Brad for pushing upward. SP'er Denali20K took an equally wise decision and turned back near the saddle because of the wind. He (Stuart) was the real hero of the day, waiting at the cars to see us safely down and meeting us there with Christmas cookies and beer that he'd brought up.
|Posted Dec 21, 2005 1:51 pm
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Date Climbed: December 20th, 2005
|Snowshoed to the saddle, tapped Peerless, booted up to the summit after Brad Snider. High winds, cloudy, not much view. Didn't think we were going to make it but Brad pressed on. NOTICE: Summit register removed, cap broken.
|Posted Dec 21, 2005 11:41 am
|Route Climbed: Iowa Gulch via West Ridge of Sheridan Date Climbed: October 8, 2005
|Perfect weather.
|Posted Oct 9, 2005 12:54 pm
|Route Climbed: East Slopes- Leavick TH Date Climbed: October 17, 2004
|Climbed with my husband and my friend Blair.
|Posted Jul 25, 2005 6:08 pm
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Creek Date Climbed: March 2005
|Fun mountain with EXTREMELY high winds! Definately earned this one.
|Posted Jul 1, 2005 11:01 am
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Creek Date Climbed: June 1, 2005
|Great outing to a wonderful summit. No one else around. High winds and awesome views.
|Posted Jun 1, 2005 12:04 pm
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Creek Date Climbed: 03/22/05
|Great views and not many people on this one. The namesake cirque is spectacular. It looks even better with snow, so do it on a nice winter or spring day when the snow is consolidated, otherwise it will turn into a postholing nightmare. See my trip report.
|Posted Mar 23, 2005 7:10 pm
|Route Climbed: Fourmile Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: 03/2005
|Due to some avalanche areas me and asphazell had to do some off trail climbing with our snowshoes on, the summit log had not been signed since November
|Posted Mar 20, 2005 8:14 pm
|Route Climbed: Northest Ridge. Date Climbed: July 14, 1991
|This was a solo hike with my sweet dog Logan. Following moderate 4WD roads all of the way from the TH to the NE ridge saddle just south of Peeless Mtn, the remainder of the ridge route was a nice "hands in the pockets" hike. We climbed Peerless on the return, but didn't continue to Sheridan, since I had climbed that previously.
|Posted Feb 7, 2005 2:05 pm
|Ed F
|Route Climbed: East Slopes- Leavick TH Date Climbed: October 17, 2004
|A nice, easy hike to the summit. Great views of the Sawatch! Also a chance to preview some nice couloirs in the cirque.
|Posted Oct 17, 2004 6:19 pm


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Just over two years ago, I had my first child, Max. My entire pregnancy was magically boring. Both baby and I were in perfect health—until the last month, when we learned that Max was breech. No big deal, my husband Eric and I figured. We'd just get in touch with the local doctor who is known for his ability to "spin" babies—to turn them so that they are facing downward toward the birth canal. Then I got a call from my midwife. My most recent ultrasound had revealed some problems; I had to have more tests right away.
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Nov 3, 2011 at 5:29 pm #1281511
Nino LorenzoMember
@neanyoeLocale: Bay Area
Planning on backpacking the big sur this weekend with a friend. Driving down and getting started Saturday morning.. planning on coming home Sunday BUT
* We NEED A STARTING POINT, GOOD HIKE/SCENERY and DESTINATION *
Any suggestions?Nov 3, 2011 at 8:37 pm #1798386
Dan MagdoffBPL Member
@highsierraguyLocale: Northern California
Check out Willow Creek
if you had more time, id say head up to Sykes..but ya want at least two night for that to make it worth it.Nov 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm #1798416
Harald HopeMember
@hhopeLocale: East Bay
Check the weather report. Very high chance of rain there this weekend, listed as 90% tonight as well. Since you didn't mention any mileages you want to or can do per day, can't make any real suggestions beyond what was already said. Personally I'd never go to Big Sur for just a night, too long a drive. Now going in Friday night and hiking in with lights for two nights total, that would be interesting.
Think about starting at China Camp and hiking in from there, staying up on the high levels, camp in one of the central camp places, can't remember the names, off of Pine Ridge trail, Bear Basin is one of them I think unless I got the name wrong, Divide might be another, I think that's right off the trail, but I could have it wrong. That's not a bad hike, about 3, maybe 4 hours depending on your speed. Somewhat reminiscent of the Sierras up there, it's cool. But the drive there is over a long dirt road, so that will add a lot to your time, probably a bad idea for an overnighter.
Big Sur ranger station to Barlow Flat on Pine Ridge is an easy hike, if you get to Barlow with 2 hours of daylight remaining, or an hour and decent headlamps, you can make it to Sykes, though most of the miles from Barlow to Sykes are uphill, but personally I'd rather stay at Barlow Flat, than deal with the overcrowded and over-impacted Sykes. If it's raining you'll see very few people though. Sykes is only between 10 and 12 miles, nobody knows for sure, all the signs differ in their mileages, but Barlow is a safe 6 to 7 miles I'd say.
I read that there might be some downed trees, but they might also have been cleared, they aren't a big deal, you just clamber carefully over them, it's kind of fun.
Watch out for Poison Oak and Ticks. Ticks are small, not big.
Also realize that there are very few flat spots in Big Sur's mountain areas, so you can't really just stop to camp unless you get to a campground, generally speaking. Consider that re hiking in the rain, ie, be prepared to actually hike to your destination all the way in the rain.Nov 4, 2011 at 11:59 am #1798568
Nino LorenzoMember
@neanyoeLocale: Bay Area
After posting I did a little research. I think we'll be doing sykes. heading out early saturday morning and getting started through the evening.. set camp and mush back down sunday morning and head home.
Yeah it says rain Sunday morning so we're prepared for that, I hope :)Nov 19, 2012 at 5:59 pm #1929751
I'm going to spend thanksgiving (wednesday through Sunday) in Carmel at my wife's grandmother's home. She's encouraged my idea of taking a trip down to Big Sur on Friday a.m. and doing a one or two night solo trip (all dependent on whether we meet up with ou friends and their kids in Santa Cruz Sunday a.m.). I have never gone hiking in Big Sur. Only to the Sierras and North (Pt. Reyes and Mendocino Cty.). What trail might you recommend for someone looking to do 10 to 15 miles a day Friday and Saturday. If there's a one-night or two-night trip you recommend, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks.Nov 19, 2012 at 6:34 pm #1929758
Marc EldridgeBPL Member
@meldLocale: The here and now.
Check out this site for trail info.Nov 19, 2012 at 8:56 pm #1929806
Thank you Mark. I have seen that before but did not remember the link. Also, I plan for wet weather and hope to bring my MLD Trailstar, but I've heard ventana does not offer much in terms of site selection. Should I plan to use my SMD Skyscape trekker instead? Maybe a 5×8 tarp and bivy? Any help/opinions appreciated.Nov 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm #1930641
I think this is closest to Carmel proximity wise, and where I want to go in tomorrow. Looks like a loop could be made coming back along Church Creek trail. Otherwise I will go to Pine Ridge Falls and continue on toward Big Sur/Sykes and then out Sunday a.m., mostly the same way I went in. The only issue is the 6-ish miles to the falls is a little underwhelming in this near perfect weather were having and I am not seeing much on places to camp beyond that. My map is good, though, but if anyone has suggestions in the northern Ventana area, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.Nov 24, 2012 at 12:02 am #1930650
Justin BakerBPL Member
@justin_bakerLocale: Santa Rosa, CA
Brian, look up the Ventana Double Cone Hike. 15 mile trail to the summit. I haven't been there yet, but I plan on taking some cross country routes and climbing around the window, kandlebinder, and the double cone (all connected on the same massive ridge) this winter. If you do go that route, keep in mind that the Double Cone summit is just below 5000 feet and you could encounter snow.
The pine ridge trail is beautiful and amazing near the ocean. I haven't been up near China Camp. The problem is that the Pine Ridge Trail is massively crowded and over impacted. I would recommend staying away from Sykes, almost everyone on the trail crowds there for the hot springs. Lately I have been using the pine ridge trail as an entrance to explore around the big sur river, which can be very remote in the areas away from camps. Barlow Flat is a super nice place, one of the best camp sites I have ever seen.Nov 24, 2012 at 9:15 pm #1930828
Marc EldridgeBPL Member
@meldLocale: The here and now.
I have a 3 day, 11/16-18, to La Ventana (the window) and Kindlbinder from the Boy Scout Camp and up Jackson Creek. Should be interesting if the weather holds.Nov 25, 2012 at 1:16 am #1930852
Justin BakerBPL Member
@justin_bakerLocale: Santa Rosa, CA
Yeah, that's the same route I am taking. I imagine with the wind storms last winter, the trail (if there even is one) will be in horrible condition. I don't mind some good creekwacking.
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Musings on John Vaughan and the "Going Out of Style" of Fresh, Local, and Lovingly Roasted Coffee
I never had the opportunity to meet John C. Vaughan from St. Louis. And that saddens me, because he looks like the sort of man a person would WANT to meet… especially if they were a person like me that is (and as John obviously was) absolutely crazy about roasting coffee.
Let me back up a bit here. I recently came across a fantastic old photograph of Mr. Vaughan, taken in the spring of 1967 and showing him smiling (wistfully, it seems to me) while scooping and weighing out a customer's order of freshly roasted coffee. According to the UPI teletype story headlined "GOING OUT OF STYLE" pasted to the back of the photo, John C. Vaughan - the last surviving small-time coffee roaster, tea blender, and spice merchant in St. Louis - was closing his doors for the final time, having started to work there as a young man scooping beans in 1915. The reason? Apparently, John C. Vaughan had become an American anachronism, insisting on producing fresh, local, and hand-roasted coffees for a dwindling clientele that increasingly pronounced such establishments as "out of style" when compared to the large, well-lit, and heavily advertised supermarkets that had replaced America's neighborhood grocers, bakers, and fruit merchants.
At one time, the article states, there were at least a half-dozen roaster-retailers in St. Louis like the J. Vaughan Coffee Company, but the number had dwindled through the decades until Mr. Vaughan had become the last man standing – well, at least the last man standing behind a counter with coffee scoop in hand, Toledo scale at the ready, and rolls of butcher paper and string to neatly wrap his customers purchases up with while chatting with them about the weather or the latest news of the neighborhood. After standing behind that counter scooping and weighing and grinding coffees for 52 years, he was going to finally retire – with no one noting or mourning his loss except for a nosy newspaper reporter, no one interested in taking his place in front of the warm coffee roaster on bitterly cold mornings, no one to proudly stand behind his counter as he had done through a Depression and two World Wars, amazed and delighted to be serving the now-grown grand-children of his first customers.
How many days did Mr. Vaughan have left, after the photographer and reporter left, before roasting his last roast and grinding his last few pounds in one of those massive Hobart grinders on his back counter? There's no way to tell for certain, but if you observe the coffee price sign ("All High Grades") hanging above the grinders, you'll note John sold four blends at four prices - a coffee for every taste and every budget could be found at J. Vaughan's Coffee Company. If you look at the sign closely, you can see where someone – presumably John himself – has crossed out the per pound prices and hand-written new, low close-out prices, perhaps marked down to help him get rid of his last sacks of green coffee. John must have been fighting a losing battle with the supermarkets of St. Louis, who in 1967 were advertising one pound cans of 100% Colombian Coffee for $.79 each, with a coupon inside worth $.25 cents off the next can. Of course the supermarket's canned coffee wasn't as fresh or good tasting even as John's $.79 a pound lowest-grade coffee, but that became a moot point when fewer and fewer customers crossed the threshold of his store to make a purchase.
I remember that era of displacement quite well, shopping with my grandmother here in Portland in 1967, walking her to the small neighborhood grocer in Ladd's Addition she had patronized since the 1930s. I felt completely out of style and out of place, being young and hip and full of myself, helping my grandmother push one of the store's tiny metal carts through the narrow aisles, uphill and down, uphill and down, the old wooden floor of the grocer sagging between the joists with age. Being "out of style" in that era of freedom – freedom of thought, freedom of speech, even freedom of love – was unthinkable to most of us, and in our rush to embrace change we turned our backs on the very things we needed to sustain us and our cities, especially small, livable neighborhoods and their supporting cast of independent merchants like John C. Vaughan, sustaining us with their coffees, foods, and connections to each of us.
Ironically, today's specialty coffee industry was born almost simultaneously with when the J. Vaughan Coffee Company closed its doors forever. Alfred Peet opened his small, neighborhood coffee roastery on Vine Street in Berkeley in 1966, quietly launching a coffee revolution that is still going strong these many decades later. The revolutionary '60s cut both ways, I suppose. The old guard deemed to be out of style and without value, and the young Turks blazing trails that turned out to be not so new. Having personally bridged both eras, I mourn and honor these old urban roasters, while being comforted knowing that coffee roasting has never been in better hands than it is today. Somehow, I think Mr. Vaughan would probably agree…


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Excuse me - I asked a question a while back - post 262 of this thread - and no one has answered or commented on the question yet.
Excuse me - I asked a question a while back - post 262 of this thread - and no one has answered or commented on the question yet.
Andrew; I think you will get some responses if you move from this forum to one of the others.
Andrew, my apologies for not answering your question sooner. With all the hokum going around, I totally missed this post.
The disparaging remarks about 4 particular people in your last post are 1. not true, 2. not called for, 3. show you in a bad light for saying them.
My results have not matched some peoples theories. That does not mean I should have my integrity questioned by those who live far away and don't know me, or that I should be badgered, insulted, and talked down to.
If theory does not match the result, check the theory.
Also, most treatment free people do split a lot. You yourself have put a lot of energy into splitting and nuc making. And you are likely aware that techniques based around splitting or broodless periods are commonly thought to be a way to achieve chemical free beekeeping. Nobody is saying that's wrong or anything, heck I do it myself. No need to get your hackles up.
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What would you say be the worst way to make splits, from the perspective of supplying false resistance impressions?
How would you build an apiary from a limited number of swarms and cut-outs of mixed parentage, some of which are certainly at least surviving if not thriving thriving ferals, with a commercial beekeeper with 120 hives 2 miles in one direction, good rough forage and known ferals on the opposite side?
Would you consider it wise to build as fast as possible, to give yourself many chances of good genetic combinations, and to raise drone numbers to counter the effect of commercial and local treating beekeepers?
To seize the opportunity, while you actually have promising bees, to parlay them into a functional apiary in the knowledge that such an opportunity may not come again for some years? (And to do so without capital with which to buy packages to re-queen.)
What is the route that maximises the likelihood of success? If you agree that making rapid increase is important, how would you go about it, while trying to maintain the ability to select for resistance effectively?
Given a handful of promising hives and nothing else in May, there are choices to be made about how to go about things in the next few months. Anything you do will open some doors and close others. How would you go about it?
Mike (UK)
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The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
So the context is different: we do need to make increase, and often (as when threatened by nearby treated bees) rapidly. One way or another. And we do need to be able to do that without giving ourselves false readings in terms of mite management behaviours, in order that we can select effectively.
Once you have your resistant strains, and can pick out best mothers easily, requeening existing stocks and making up spares at will, its another world. We're not there yet. We're trying to get there.
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
I use what Sam Comfort and I came up with, Expansion Model Beekeeping. Well, he came up with the name, I came up with the method, partly adapted from Michael Palmer and Kirk Webster, I must give credit where credit is due.
1. During spring inspections I pick out which hives I think will produce honey that year and I mark them mentally, that's how you can expand rapidly and still make honey. I don't touch those other than to borrow a couple dozen larvae from the best ones for new queens.
2. Those queens a reared in a queen-right cell builder hive, maintaining that hive's ability to make honey as well. Still no brood breaks.
3. The other hives that are doing poorly are dismantled, moosh the queen, take the brood to start mating nucs. There's usually only a couple of these which yield only a couple frames each, so I end up having to borrow brood from the lower moderate performing hives as well. Those I don't dismantle, just take most of the brood and usually requeen when the queens are ready. I guess you could consider that a brood break even though the brood cycle is never broken if you're being adversarial. I'll grant you that. That accounts for 10% of hives or so.
4. Mating nucs are made of 1 frame brood, 1 frame honey, one empty frame, all in a 3x3 Queen Castle.
5. Once the new queen is well into the first round of brood or has filled up the first three frames, the nuc gets moved to a 5-frame box. Failed nucs (lost or non-laying queen) are shuffled into the successful ones to provide drawn comb in those two new slots.
6. A major proportion of the nucs are sold at this point.
7. The outstanding stars are used (the whole nuc) to replace the queen in the lower moderate performers, making a pretty substantial new hive.
8. If I want to increase numbers or have a bunch of nucs left over, I combine them 5+5 and then 10+10 as they demonstrate strength or weakness, to make new hives.
9. Harvest honey from the hives you left alone at the beginning. These hives almost always are several years old, occasionally they are one of the ones that was requeened last year, they have not had a brood break, and they've only been inspected minimally. These are the ones I keep asking for an explanation for. I have one that is now over ten years old, always naturally superseded, not split in several years. I have several others that have never been split in the several years since I made them.
The reason why I use this method is because it is what I have discovered to be the most efficient method in turning one or a couple hives into a whole bunch. One strong hive can be multiplied into ten in one spring, minus failed virgins. As many bees as you can make mating nucs, that's as many nucs as you can make from a hive. The first year I tried it, I used 7 to make 30, while not killing off any of the 7 (2 were later requeened). So I'm super efficient in making the nucs that I want while using the unburdened other hives to make honey. Just ignore mites.
> But its my understanding that others are able to succeed using normal foundation. If this is so, then yours, and Dee's, and the (only) breeders' success can be logically attibuted to genetics only.
That depends on your definition of "success". I still have not met anyone using large cell foundation who is not losing a colonies to Varroa in significant numbers which they are trying to make up with splits. I see a significant difference in success that cannot be logically attributed to genetics only. I got to the point of not losing them from Varroa with standard commercial queens on small cell. My only issue then was winter losses from southern stock, which is, in my opinion, entirely genetics.
>>You want to believe it's all genetics but that does not explain my success at all.
>Am I right in thinking Marla Spivak claims success without any mention of small cell - genetics only?
I have never heard Marla make that claim in writing or in person. I have heard Marla Spivak speak many times. I have NEVER heard her claim to have resolved the Varroa problem with genetics. She will talk about hygienic behavior and how that helps. She will talk about the idea of not treating and then tell you how to treat and how it's still necessary.
>Are you certain the genetic lines you got to replace all of the colonies lost to varroa wreren't better suited to varroa?
The lines I got were regular commercial stock from several sources. They did fine against Varroa:
I went to local survivor stock, not for Varroa, but for wintering.
>I have noted consistencies in survivabilty of bees caught at specific locations around here. There seem to be great differences in swarm size, coloration, work ethic and overwintering abilities
Yes. So have I.
>even here in this 50 mile x 50 mile zone where I place my traps. These locations consistently provide bees with similar attributes (swarm size, coloration, work ethic etc.) year after year.
So have I.
>I don't know what else to attribute this to other than genetics. The entire region is mono cropped soy and corn, so it isn't like some of these bees are coming from easy to live locations. What do you think?
I think wintering is almost entirely genetics. I certainly believe that genetics is important to bee survival. It's just that I never had any survive Varroa until I change the cell size. So until then I had no survivors to breed from. When Tom Seeley took the survivor feral bees from Arnot forest and put them on large cell in his apiary they all died. He assumed because of the virility of the mites in the apiary as opposed to the ones in the forest, which is a reasonable theory. But, based on my experience I think it's because of the cell size.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Mr Bush
I have not measured my cell sizes, but I have been experiencing fewer losses since I:
1 quit using foundation in brood chambers,
2 quit feeding,
3 quit treating, and
4 sourcing all my bees from swarm traps.
With all of those changes it is hard to use the scientific method to determine what the true cause is, but I am going to continue doing what I am doing. I don't care which factor is leading to better overwintering.
Jason Bruns
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My main difficulty this year was having enough bees to make more, and the fact that drawing down my best hives reduced drone populations.
As you seem to agree, I think that young or not, these are good bees. Wall to wall brood says a lot to me. I don't think my kind of splitting has artificially reduced varroa, and from what I can gather I think you agree that.
All in all I'm reassured to hear you say I'm doing things roughly right. Thanks for taking the trouble to write it out at length for me.
I think these are issues relevant to anyone trying to build up an untreated apiary. When transitioning some things might be different, but the principles are the same.
BTW your method of making increase is pretty close to that recommended by R.A.B. Manley in Honey Farming, written in the 1930's or 40's. Making increase and requeening from best stock was just normal practise - back when people understood beekeeping was no different to any other form of husbandry. Propagate carefully, systematically and selectively or health suffers.
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
So I don't 'believe it's all genetics', but I do believe that neglecting genetics will cause failure.
Thanks for your comments as ever,
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
>That isn't how her published work presents things.
Dr. Spivak has certainly made clear she thinks genetics will be the answer, and specifically that hygienic behavior will be the answer. However I have never heard her claim to have found that answer (Varroa tolerant bees that don't require treatment) nor that anyone else has. Can you point out where she says that?
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
I know some of you successful TF guys think it's a waste of time to do mite counts, but aren't you at least interested in the mechanism by which your bees are tolerating mites. I, for one, am curious as to whether your bees are keeping numbers down or tolerating high numbers. It's really not that big a deal to do. How about it?
Buy the ticket, take the ride. -H.S. Thompson
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Sol, your post in #348 is pretty much the way I'm going as well. I'm glad to see I'm coming to similar conclusions, and hope it proves successful in the coming year. We shall see.
Thanks for taking the time to lay it all out once again.
This document isn't dated, but includes references up to 2003
"Our goal is to breed honey bees, Apis mellifera, resistant to diseases and parasitic mites to reduce the amount of antibiotics and pesticides used in bee colonies and to ensure that our breeding methods and stock are accessible to beekeepers everywhere."
"We have been breeding honey bees for resistance to diseases and Varroa destructor since 1994"
"We have bred hygienic behavior into an Italian line of honey bees. However, the behavior is present in all races and lines of honey bees in the US (and the world!), and can be easily selected for, using the methods described below. Our "MN Hygienic Line" of bees is available commercially in the US and has become widely accepted by beekeepers."
"However, our hope is that beekeepers select for hygienic behavior from among their favorite line of honey bee, whether it be Carniolan, Italian, Caucasian or other species. In this way, there will be a number of resistant lines avail-able within the U.S. to maintain genetic diversity -- the perfect way to promote the vitality of our pollinators."
"The effects of American foulbrood, chalkbrood and Varroa mites can be alleviated if queen producers select for hygienic behavior from their own lines of bees."
[MB That word 'alleviated' is rather vague. I agree it doesn't mean 'fixed' but it could mean 'reduced to little more than a light nuisance.
"Since 2001, we have been incorporating another trait into the MN Hygienic line called "Suppression of Mite Reproduction" or SMR. We also have been investigating the mechanism for the SMR trait to determine how bees can reduce mite reproductive success. Our results demonstrated that bees bred for SMR are both hygienic and have some yet unknown property associated with their brood that reduces the number of viable offspring the mites pro-duce. Combining the SMR trait into the hygienic line, therefore, helped increase the degree of hygienic behavior in our line, and added another factor that helps suppress mite reproduction. Field trials in commercial apiaries have demonstrated that the Hygienic/SMR cross significantly reduces mite loads in colonies relative to the pure Hygienic line and unselected lines of bees."
There is a more up to date approach at Bee Lab
"Our research includes:
Breeding Better Bees: The "Minnesota Hygenic Bees" have been bred in Minnesota. Hygienic bees detect and remove damaging diseases and parasites from the hive, helping bees defend themselves naturally."
Honey Bee Diseases and Pests Manual Updates for 2013 Marla Spivak and Gary Reuter
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It seems to me that here there is something of a change of tune. The optimistic note of earlier publications is replaced by instructions to monitor and treat without fail. Yet the words seem to me to be addressed to those beekeepers who have been treating regularly. Dr. Spivak writes that 90% of colonies will die in their 2nd winter - a figure that she must know isn't true of many non-treatment beekeepers - like yourself.
Thanks again for pointing out the likely limitations in this approach.
Mike (UK)
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And any description of the megastar's day-to-day life — hopping from New York to London to the Netherlands to Australia to Philadelphia to Winnipeg to Iceland and Paris in the last year, alone — would pale next to Muhly's own account of his travels. More than 13,000 people subscribe to his delicious, rapid-fire tweets: "Confused polish vegetarian hippies on MDMA just made me miss this rather necessary bus. I feel like this is a turning point for me" and "I am gonna lock my ass into a hotel room in Amsterdam and finish this ballet."
A recent blog post at his web site, nicomuhly.com, mused, "The process of idling at the airport, taxiing, and taking off (to say nothing of the flight itself) is a series of changing drones. Idling, for instance, is a constant C#, with an ever-changing top note: F#, E#, or E . . . The ventilation system insists on a kind of extra-flat G#, but the whole thing is gorgeously rooted on the everpresent C#. When the plane levels out, though, a G# in the bass reframes the whole thing, so you end up with a chord in a strange position: confident, but with a changing root."
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Muhly — along with his frequent collaborator, the pianist Bruce Brubaker — will be a guest of the Brown University Music Department for a mini-residency October 4 and 5. It's a lucky break for the school's students; both musicians will take part in private coaching and master classes. And it's also lucky for Providence. In between private sessions, Muhly will speak publicly in the town where he once wandered into experimental jazz shows at AS220 (his mother, a painter, had a studio nearby) and sang in youth choirs downtown at Grace Church.
On Thursday afternoon, October 4, Brubaker and Muhly will sit for a panel discussion entitled "Appropriation + Authorship in Contemporary Music." There, you might hear Muhly discuss the string arrangement he wrote for the R&B star Usher's single, "Climax." Or Brubaker might pick up a conversation about Philip Glass, Battlestar Galactica, Glee fanfiction, and This American Life that he started on his blog, "Pianomorphosis." The following day, Muhly will be discussing contemporary opera — in particular, his chamber opera, Dark Sisters and its follow-up, Two Boys, about a murder plot and identity-swapping on the Internet, premiering at New York's Metropolitan Opera next year. Then, on Friday night — the residency's "center of gravity," according to Brown music professor Dana Gooley — Brown's Granoff Center will host a concert featuring Muhly's music and performances by Brubaker and Brown students.
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Montana man arrested in Washington cold case
MISSOULA, Mont. - New information Tuesday on a cold case arrest south of Missoula in the small town of Victor.
59-year-old Clifford Reed was arrested by Ravalli County deputies at a business Monday on charges of second degree murder filed in Washington state.
He's in the Ravalli County Jail on a $5 million bail.
Court affidavits claim Reed murder 28-year-old Sandi Johnson when she spurned his romantic advances in 1996.
King County, Wash., deputies arrested Reed in 1997 but say they could not prove their case against him.
One sheriff's deputy told NBC Montana they revisited the case in 2004 and in the years since then gathered enough evidence to lead prosecutors to file criminal charges.
Officials would not elaborate on what the evidence was, but said it was not DNA.
People in Victor remember Reed from junior high school. We uncovered school records that show he attended school in Victor all the way through ninth grade. But no one we talked to, including his friends, wanted to talk with us about him.
Ravalli County Undersheriff Perry Johnson describes his arrest as simple.
Johnson said, "The detectives from Washington state were in the area. They arrived shortly after the arrest. They had an opportunity to talk to this man as a suspect in their case."
King County sheriff's deputies told NBC Montana that Reed has a criminal history, and that's what we found when we dug into his past.
In 1997 he pleaded guilty to robbing and hitting a woman in King County. Court documents say he did it because she refused to have sex with him after taking his money.
Reed is fighting extradition, but could be taken to Washington in the coming days to face the charges against him. NBC Montana will following this story as it develops, and we will keep you updated with the latest details as soon as we know more.
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The patriots are becoming the yankees of football. If they keep this up, everyone's going to start hating them if they don't already.
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the minnesota vikings should easily be able to win the super bowl this year
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no doubt, with moisture at least things can grow,
but what I am getting at, is with our short growing season, a delayed spring eats away at our growing year. Time is money, earlier crops here usually have higher yield potential. Compound that with cool conditions, and things just dont grow, so then again things are delayed in development, time is money, earlier crops here usually have higher yield potential
Does this delayed growing season impact honey yields? I would think that higher moisture would be of great benefit, but you never know with bees. Is higher moisture offset with shortened growing season? I suppose you also need 1" of rain every week at night preferably, for optimal nectar flows. Comments?
Our conditions in Manitoba where we live warrant an 1" a week in moisture. It helps with keeping the pastures in good condition and helps with the alfalfa and grasses for the hay land and honey.
We are also so wet this year that a cool wet spring will not be good. The ground is so saturated, culverts are near full and most of the snow will be over land flooding delaying any work on the land to try and recover the alfalfa crops from the major flooding last summer.
In our area the hay crop is in such bad condition that the animals have been feeling the pressure from this obsessively cold winter. A good stand of pasture early on would help in bringing up their condition immensely.
As for the bees here, they had a rough spring and summer with some hives getting very wet. Our long fall helped to give time for the bees to dry themselves out, but the damage was already done in some lower than normal numbers of bees and brood going into winter.
In one yard site, all the hives requeened themselves near the end of September. They ended up with three frames of eggs at that time. That field was under water for so long, and the hives were not in water themselves, but the pallets they are on were submerged. The wood in the hives soaked up a pile of moisture. In that yard site the honey pull was delayed due to the inability to get there and so was fall feeding and treating. I am not counting on any live hives in that site.
I'm not even going to try and guess our other yard site losses might be. I am hoping for the best, trying to figure on what to do in case of the worst. I have bought pollen patties and got most everything ready so that when the warmth starts, i can try and strengthen the hives. I was thinking on making some sort of fondant to drop in the hives to help with the feed. I'm not sure how this long cold winter is affecting the bees.
>>Does this delayed growing season impact honey yields? I would think that higher moisture would be of great benefit, but you never know with bees. Is higher moisture offset with shortened growing season? I suppose you also need 1" of rain every week at night preferably, for optimal nectar flows. Comments?
Ya your right Jean-Marc, delayed crop doesnt always mean poor honey crop, sometimes it means the opposite
But from what I have experienced here in my area of Manitoba, a delayed wet spring gets the crop off to a poor start. Lets say it does struggle through to and makes a half decent stand by July, we are usually looking at poor root development, leaving the crop susceptible to burn off. Which usually happens in July. So if that burn off does come, the crop is toasted, regardless of the moisture available to it a foot into the soil. Make sense? It sometimes doesnt to me. It will turn a three - four week flowing period into one week, period. A crop well established in spring has an elaberate root network established by July, allowing it to tap three to even six feet into the soil if needed. That is where we get our big honey crops. Off the high hot summer sun, and from the moisture deep in the soils,
Its frustrating, but thats the kind of circumstances we deal with if the spring seeding doesnt get off to a good start.
But sometimes what we loose on th canola, we gain on the alfalfa.
Who really knows in this business, right?
>>I know a guy that use to migrate his hives over to the west coast to pollinate, and winter his hives, to send them back for summer. It worked out very well until they restricted the movement of hives across the country.
I was just talking to a fellow Manitoba beekeeper who says the transport of hives across our country has been allowed again, and for a few years by now. News to me, but in my mind its a step in the right direction,


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A 58-year-old Lake Charles man with a lengthy criminal history has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, city police said.
Deputy Chief Mark Kraus said Gary Jonathon Thibodeaux, 1701 Sunset Drive, was arrested Wednesday.
"We responded to a call at 5:58 p.m. in reference to a shooting at Thibodeaux's home," Kraus said in a news release. "Upon arrival, the victim was located at a neighbor's residence with an apparent gunshot wound. Thibodeaux was identified as the shooter and arrested without incident.
"The victim was treated and released from a local hospital. Thibodeaux has a lengthy criminal history, including an arrest for first-degree murder."