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overweight people being especially mean, rude, and aggressive towards non-fat people, because the fat person is insecure about their fatness, ugliness, or they are hungry
Fat Girl: Why aren't you finishing your hamburger? Don't you know that's a waste of money? You could have bought a bus pass with the money you wasted on your plate!
Guy: Don't lay your fat hangups on me.
Guy: Don't lay your fat hangups on me.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush

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Shame about the puncture...Pismo Beach - I like the name but long day to get there. The sunset photo is beautiful. Loving the blogs - first pleasure of the day xxx
Day 23 - Leaving San Francisco for Pismo
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San Francisco to Pismo Beach on the Pacific Highway
The plan today was a 5-6 hour longish drive on the old US1 coast road and to get about three quarters of the way to LA so we picked Pismo Beach last night and booked a nice looking place. Up bright and early, had a quick chat to Vic on Skype and IM to Meg at the same time as we had to check out at 10am. Off on time and stopped at Safeway to get a few bits to re-stock Tina's Afternoon trolley before heading out.
Just about to head out of the city and a cabbie pulled up beside me and told me a tyre was flat so we re-routed to pump it up but sadly it had a nail in it so we had to find a tyre place to fix it up
Anyway we left the city and cut across to Half Moon Bay, no total eclipse in sight, and picked up Highway 1. That turned out to be a long road…
We kept on to Monterey stopping occasionally, slightly obsessed with the odd fog rolling in from the Pacific and settling in odd places on the coast. Mostly the coast was obscured but it was an interesting set of views. Just as suddenly as it was there it disappeared and we stopped for a stretch and some tea at Monterey which is very charming and had free parking. We didn't have time for the aquarium so left there heading through Carmel and back on US1.
The coast road is a bit like Amalfi or Cornwall except much bigger and much longer and with safer drivers! The fog kept coming and going which was strange but there were lovely stops all along the way. We drove maybe 200-250 miles or so today. We drove down 17 mile drive which is a long road full of swanky houses, golf course (pebble beach which is being used in the US Open this month) and dripping with wealth. We parked up on a beach there and ate our prepared bargain salad bought earlier from Safeway
The next chunk of road was a longer stretch than earlier and took another 3 hours or so and by the time we made Pismo we were fidgeting a lot! We arrived at about 8pm, took in the cases and grabbed some dinner which was excellent – lovely clam chowder, shrimp and steak. One great thing here is the service is really fast and we can turn around in 30-40 mins which is great when you're tired like now.
Anyway, that's it for today. Far too long on the road. Tina's going to caption the pics then we're crashing. LA tomorrow…
Safe, sound, and saddle-sore
Mark & Tina
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wow who took the pictures there amazing
i got 3 postcards in the post yesterday and i was reading them laast night
well roads roads and more roads. when do you stay a couple of days to enjoy thoes lovely swimming pools. i see your your still on your diet then. i carn't believe the miles your traveling but it all looks different so its not boreing. the time is flying by. hot and sunny back here. xx
Nice travel blog, we are right behind you doing this drive on the 17th,. hope we have more luck with the car.


text: After searching and reading the info on the site about synthetic trans/gear oil it seems like it has possibilities for use in my trans and rear end. Because of the cost of swithing over I'd like the member opionions. My trans is a 5 speed manual. My driving is aproximarely 95% rural county roads up to 45 mph and 5% highway driving. It will cost me about $125 to swith over both the trans and rear end. What type of benefits can I expect? Does the cost justify the benefits?


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Last Modified: Thursday, April 18, 2013 2:50 PM
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
On wobbly knees and strained nerves we return to our lives a little less certain about where we are headed.
And maybe looking over our shoulders a little more often.
Once again our foundation has been rocked, our confidence shaken and resolve tested.
This thanks to unexpected madness found at an unexpected place and time.
Monday afternoon, at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, two bombs exploded, leaving in their wake chaos and tragedy. America's best-known running event had been tarnished forever.
Sad to say this was not the first time our country has been sucker punched. Even sadder to say it won't be the last.
Nor is it the first time sports has been at the center of such rage.
While they are meant to bring us together, oftentimes others use such events to try to pull us apart. This is another one of those attempts.
There is no way to make sense of the senseless, but we must try to reassure our children that the good people still outnumber the bad.
So we hold them a little closer, a little tighter and try and protect them from our newest bogeyman.
It's hard to do when in the past few months we have found that we are no longer safe in school, in a movie theater or even in the open at a sporting event being watched by millions.
We have learned that evil lurks in the darkness but there is also hope that shines a light on such horror.
While many will remember the carnage those bombs created — the families forever be torn apart, the dreams of so many dashed — we also must remember the good.
In a world where we honor the speed and power of our athletes, we also found much more from runners who themselves are not usually in the spotlight.
Even after the bombs went off runners still raced to the finish line, almost in defiance of the hatred. Many didn't stop there.
Having accomplished their goals and then realizing an even bigger responsibility, more than a few kept right on running to the nearest hospitals, racing to give their blood for others in need.
It is a lesson we have learned from our sports fields, that getting knocked down is the easy part, but that getting back up is what makes us strong.
It is also what makes us know we will not let the actions of others define our moments.
There is no question that sports is often way over blown, that we put too much emphasis on such trivial things as final scores, batting averages and even national championships.
In the end they are all just fun and games, played for our amusement.
This was much bigger than that.
The Boston Marathon became a symbol of our hope Monday afternoon. It became bigger than a race, larger than the winner and much more important than his time.
It became about the average Joe, but in a situation that one should never be put in, and how he responded like a true hero.
Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi said winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
But how we judge winning is actually just as important.
For last Monday, winning wasn't about finishing first, it was about finishing the race.
Even if those last few steps were taken on those wobbly knees.
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Wow, that was a lot of falling. And she's even built like Nancy Kerrigan too.
Wow, that was a lot of falling. And she's even built like Nancy Kerrigan too.
Oy... we're getting more and more splats with the ladies during this Grand Prix season. What the heck? I'm wondering if the fatigue from the past the seasons of training and competing under the CoP is finally taking its toll.
All that falling and she's in 3rd? Damn, what a night..
Catherine Zeta-Jones is on ice!
Well, let's see if Lepisto will bomb for Akiko... probably not, she's too seasoned.
Lepisto landed her triple lutz, fwiw.
and a 2-2 (?) from Lepisto...how low can we go...
Don't worry, she'll get the Finnish beauty bonus... even in Canada. She'll pass Akiko, I think.
Akiko's in already, no? 15 for a 1st, at least 7 in 5th and she wins the placement tiebreaker unless Alissa wins the whole thing here.


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This is a bit of a long narrative on my first inspection so please skip to the next thread if you wish.
I do have a few questions I will put at the end for those that make it that far.
I installed a new package on for my first hive last Saturday and visited it today (Friday) almost a week later for the first time since the install.
Last Saturday was a warm day (70's) and package install went very well.
Since then it has been cold (highs in the 40's and 50's and lows in the 20's) and lots of rain every day until yesterday).
Left two quarts of sugar water in two entrance feeders last Saturday and both were empty today. Just dandelions in bloom now (really late spring this year).
Today was sunny and in the 70's again.
Probably about 30 dead bees spread around randomly on the black landscape fabric I put on the bare ground in front of the hive to keep the weeds down.
Suited up and removed the lid and the queen box was empty and there was about 6 inches by 3 inches of burr comb on the queen box.
Most of the bees appeared to be on a couple of the frames that already had some drawn comb when I installed the package and also between the adjacent frames with the queen box. (I am reusing someone else's old hive and a couple of the frames had old comb on them).
I gently removed the queen box with the comb. It was covered with bees and some of them were in clumps but i could not identify a queen, but could easily have missed her since I have never identified a queen before (and I don't think she was marked).
Anyway, I gently laid the comb on top of the frames while I readjusted the spacing of the frames (with the queen box now removed). I gently brushed the remaining clumps off the comb onto the frames and the remaining dozen or so bees flew off the comb.
I put the lid back on and gave them two new quarts of sugar water.
3 or 4 really irate bees followed me for about 100 ft. (around the garage and out of sight of the hive.
I inspected the burr comb and saw eggs so the queen is laying.
The burr comb also had sugar syrup in some of the cells.
Just a few questions -
Is the number of dead bees (about 30) in front of the hive of concern given the poor weather and temps?
What are the chances that the queen was on the burr comb?
(If so - hope I did not harm her or that she flew away).
Is it normal that there would be cells with sugar syrup adjacent to cells with eggs on the burr comb?
I can only get to the hive once a week or so - is two quarts a week sufficient?
How long should I feed? - (hopefully trees should start blooming in the next week or two)
Thanks for your help!


text: I did my first cu-out earlier this week, it was a small colony that had some africanized characteristics, but was very docile. The cut-out itself seemed to go great, the colony was above a door and required a ladder, but overall was a very smooth process. This was my first cut-out and I did not realize that I was sucking up as much honey as I was in my bee vac. Apparently too much honey is a bad thing, as when I moved the colony into a hive body it was difficult for the bees to get around. Well the colony was nearly a total loss, the only things that I gained were knowledge, experience, and a little honey for the colony I already had to steal away.


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Why take it? Perhaps because it's there. This non-euphoric, non-psychedelic, brain-destroying plague makes Scanner one of Dick's bleakest and most claustrophobic novels.
That poses a problem for Richard Linklater in this faithful adaptation: how to make such an exercise in dysphoria pleasurable. Perhaps through rotoscoping, darkly. Computer animation of live-action footage delightfully discombobulated Linklater's Waking Life. Lately it's been seen in those creepy Charles Schwaab commercials. Here its fluid, whimsical vertigo doesn't mitigate the grimness, but helped out by a terrific cast it does enliven the whimsy, pathos, mind-boggling paradoxes, and melancholy ironies of Dick at his finest.
Not that Scanner proscribes all hallucinogenic moments, only that those allowed are mostly of the icky DT and brown-acid variety. The film opens with illusory aphids swarming from the head of Freck (Rory Cochrane). Barris, a gloriously convoluted paranoid wheedler played with motor-mouthed brio by Robert Downey Jr., reassures him that these are just preliminary symptoms in Death's inescapable pathological course. The way this scene unfolds, the film itself seems to unreel from Freck's skull. Be that as it may, Freck remains a marginal character, though his warped perceptions prove most amusing.
Instead, the narrative springs from Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves), a druggie loser who shares a dilapidated Orange County house with Barris and Luckman (Woody Harrelson, who else?) and has unrequited hots for Donna (Winona Ryder). The trio are Cheech and Chong plus one, and their Substance D jones has translated into low moron comedy and clammy-palmed paranoia. They fear the narcs, one another, and themselves.
Not without cause. Arctor, we learn early on, is a government narcotics agent so undercover that not even his fellow agents can know who he is. He can't appear as himself except when he's disguised by a "scramble suit," a covering on which is projected the features of countless random people in a rapid blur. The rotoscoping does this justice: Arctor is everyone and no one.
But the suit isn't the only thing that's scrambled. Downing doses of Death so he can fit in with the other druggies has taken its toll on Arctor. He can't trust his own perceptions, especially since his bosses suspect him of being a dealer and, unaware (or are they?) that he's the same person, want him to investigate himself. They install scanners — in this world the only guarantee of objective reality — in his house, but the scanners play back what Arctor knows is not real.
Like many of Dick's parallel-mirror scenarios, this one is air-tight and diabolical. More fresh air in the form of Linklater's humor would be welcome. Despite the revelation promised by the title reference to Corinthians, Scanner gazes only on dissolution and death.
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Private Room in Little Italy NYC 33.1
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Floor No.1(with elevator)
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|Mulberry Street, 10013 New York, 미국
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Private room with 1 full bed. Enjoy a prime location in the heart of Little Italy as guests of this private bedroom set within a nice apartment situated on Mulberry Street. Authentic Italian restaurants can be found in the same building.
The apartment is part of a historic pre-war building with original New York City construction dating back to early 1900s including exposed piping, a fire-escape outside the window and vintage radiators. Guests will stay in a comfortable double room with a lockable door. The bathroom and kitchen are shared spaces. Wi-Fi and flat-screen satellite TV are provided.
To find more restaurants serving excellent dishes, walk for 300 metres to Chinatown. Walk in 20 minutes to the financial district to find New York City Hall, Ground Zero and Wall Street. Times Square is reachable in 15 minutes via the subway.
Find upmarket boutiques, music bars and venues, and a range of restaurants lined along the streets of the multicultural Lower East Side area.
숙소규정No smoking.
Please contact the host before booking to confirm availability.
Please feel free to ask the host any questions or inquire about their other offers.
Bed linen and towels are provided.
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Super saubere Wohnung.Das Bett war gemütlich weich und das Zimmer gemütlich klein.Die Wohnung befand sich in einer Seitenstraße , in der eine kuschelige Athmosphere war .Die Gegend ist ruhig ab 23h ,da um uns herrum nur Resturangs waren und das Puplikum eher dort ruhig Speisen mochte.Ohrstöpsel doch empfelendswert da die Zwischenwände zu den anderen Gästen in der Wohnung sehr dünn sind , der Kühlschrank öfters sehr laut anspringt und die Müllabfuhr sehr früh radau macht.Die Dusche hab ich nicht verstanden ,egal welche Richtung der Hahn ging ,es war nur kochend heisses Wasser.Im ganzen habe ich mich sehr wohl gefühlt in der Wohnung und der Gastgeber war sehr nett am Telefon.
La ubicación para mi fue ideal, en una de las calles mas animadas, en Little Italy, por la noche es muy tranquila y segura la zona. Tienes varias lineas de metro a una manzana y puntos de alquiler de bicis. El pis tiene los utensilio de cocina por si te quieres prepara tu comida ahí.
La habitación es pequeña pero suficiente si solo vas a dormir, con respecto al baño es compartido, así que no coincides con los mismos horarios que tus compañeros de habitación estupendo.
Relación calidad precio muy bien.
Die Lage war sehr gut, zahlreiche Cafés und Restaurants in unmittelbarer Nähe, mehrere U-Bahn-Stationen und Einkaufsmöglichkeiten. Das Zimmer war wie beschrieben sehr klein, aber sauber. Da andere Besucher zum Zeitpunkt der Reise anwesend waren, gab es morgens Schwierigkeiten das Bad zu benutzen. Die Gastgeber haben wir in den 2 Wochen leider nicht gesehen, Einlass wurde uns über einen Code gewährt. Wenn man nicht zu hohe Ansprüche an die Unterkunft hat und günstig wohnen möchte, ist man hier richtig.
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Good location, close to Midtown, Central Park and subway station. Despite the apartment is small, it is comfortable. Suitable for staying two people. We didnt see the owner, although the workers who gave us the keys were very nice.
We spent almost 3 weeks in NYC and the apartment we stayed at was fantastic.
it is a pretty big new studio,it's super nice, cozy and really really comfortable.
it is definetely well located : it is close to Midtown (the heart of the city) and even closer to a subway station. right across the street there are 2 supermarkets, many restaurants,pizza places, pubs and even a mani and pedi place!! second avenue is filled with good energy and it is impossible to count all the cafes, shops, supermarkets and restaurants . it is important to consider that it is also very safe,let me give you just a little example: two seconds away from the apartment there are the UNITED NATIONS!! plus the owner is really nice! give it a try :)
The room was very nice and as described by John. All the appartment was clean and the other guests were very friendly.
It was a lovely stay in little Italy, close to almost everything and not even two minutes from chinatown (amazing place to find very good fruit and very good little restaurants).
If I come back in New-York I will probably contact the host again !
Thank you !
Me and my two friends were super happy to stay at this apartment. The location was great with the subway almost outside the door. Mike was nice and made us feel at home. We would definately recommend this place if you want to go to New York. :-)
Nice, clean appartment in China Town. Nex time in New York I know where to stay.
First of all: Mike, the host, who also lives there is very nice and helpful.
The apartment is situated in the lower east side, only a 2 min. walk from a subway station, that takes you to Central Park in about 20min.
The only thing I have to say to people who think about staying here: If you are two persons travelling with luggage, make sure you get the big room!!! The smaller one is just way too small!!
Other than that, it's clean. Perfect for a short stay in New York. (In the bigger room)
Very clean apartment at a great location real close to Downtown Manhattan, We stayed in Room nr 2 for a week as family with 1 kid. During the week the other 3 rooms in apartment were almost all occupied, which makes it a bit busy for the shower. But due to the fact we had nice people around us, it was all fine.
Rooms are not that big but good enough. Couple of tips for John/Lucy: Mirrors in the rooms, makes it easier to clear the bathroom quicker. And the bathroom can use some new equipment, as the others are oxidated.
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text: Not ignoring it, just think it is unfair to continually blame the defense. They need some help from the offense to win games because, as you have pointed out, they are not as good as billed. Ryan is doing the best he can with this M.A.S.H. unit and they need some help. There are plenty of times to blame the defense but I don't think last night was one of them. On the road against Atlanta facing that offense and we gave up one TD, that was good enough to win if the offense showed any signs of life before 54 minutes remaining in the game.


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Let's Talk About Suicide
Gerald McEachern | Posted 08.28.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Financial Problems, Mental Illness, Small Communities, Bullying, Suicide, Social Disease, Inequality, Social Misfits, Suicide Statistics Canada, Mental Health Canada, Suicide Prevention, Canada Living News
There have been two recent suicides in our small community, which I find distressing. When a suicide happens we usually learn about it from the local whispering network, but rarely from the news. The reason is obvious: local media still protect surviving families from guilt or shame. Suicide is too common, yet preventable, and the the subject is still taboo.


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Film & Discussion: The Healthcare Movie
Following the film, a discussion about solutions to the health care crisis in the United States will be led by Lynn Huidekoper and Joan Simon of Health Care for All - California.
Filmed primarily in Portland, OR and Canada, The Healthcare Movie tells the story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be so completely different, when at one point they were essentially the same. Most people under the age of 50, in both countries, are not aware of the intensity of the political struggle that led to the universal medical care system in Canada. Nor are they aware of the public relations campaigns, still active today, that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900s to dissuade the public from supporting national health care.
Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg and narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland, The Healthcare Movie reveals the personal and emotional impact on Canadians who now have access to universal health care because of the heroism of people who took a stand nearly 50 years ago. It also reveals the continuing struggle in the United States for the right to quality health care for all people.
Despite the popularity of Medicare, most Americans have not considered Medicare for All, or "single payer." Some are not aware that this is not only the Canadian model, but also the one adopted by many other advanced democracies.


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dablaw wrote:This goes back to my previous statement about being cautious, careful, and using your damned head....I saw that on the news and was thinking what kind of idiot assed moron would put there self in danger like that and then your young son on top of that....Maybe it's time for a bunch of us to get together, say down at the lake, and have an all day safety class on the water of what can happen and what to do when something bad happens...But more so to prevent bad things from happeneing in the first place...If several of us would participate in this and get the media involved it might help educate some of the morons of the world...Try finding that freakin app for your iphone...
dablaw wrote:Try finding that freakin app for your iphone...
chrispbrown271 wrote:I have seen some 16 ft boats that would be overloaded with all of that.
chrispbrown271 wrote:Unless anorexia was rampant in that duck blind I would guess you are right!
mudman692566 wrote:Pure dumbASS. No other way about it. The boy's the only one that didn't know any better, bet he does now. What the hell is going on when you cant whoop your kids (the way our folks whooped us) without fear of jail, but you can stick em in a overloaded boat in winter in backwater with a chance of finding a life jacket if crap goes wrong. Plum pisses me off to say the very least!!!
mike_b wrote:dablaw wrote:Try finding that freakin app for your iphone...
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Ask Aladeen: Dating
The Dictator, Admiral General Aladeen, is back again, this time dispensing his most wise dating advice. This week, and this week only.
Every few decades, a man of such uncommon charm, sexual magnetism and unparalleled instances of documented human cruelty emerges and is immediately catapulted into full-blown pop cultural relevance. This time, it is the one and certainly only Admiral General Aladeen, gentleman dictator of the Republic of Wadiya himself. Fresh off the promotional trail for his worldwide box office hit The Dictator, follow Aladeen as he goes up against some of the strangest advice queries we've ever received and comes back with answers that are somehow even stranger.
And just because Aladeen's at the top of his game doesn't mean he's stopped counting — he says the proof is in the pillage, and we can't disagree or he'll kill us. Join the (admittedly open) ranks by adding yourself to Aladeen's Wall of Sexual Conquests now.
Question: People always ask me what my type is, but I don't have one. I love all sorts of women, of any age, even. But my "open-fly" policy — I coined that myself, thankyouverymuch — sometimes leads me into murky water. What's a good policy to go by in terms of age, beauty, etc.?
Answer: Firstly, it is quite hard for me to personally give advice on which women to select, since I am rarely the one who directly does this. My Government's third-biggest department is the Ministry for the Procurement of Women — it employs 20,000 "scouts" who travel the world looking for supermodels who are willing (they all are if you give them the right drink) to travel to Wadiya to receive $30,000, a Rolex and herpes. I do sometimes choose women myself — usually when I'm watching MTV — it is like a shopping channel to me. If I like the girl singing the song, then I call my Minister for the Procurement of Women and "order" her. This usually works out, although one time I ordered Beyonce and Macy Gray turned up. Aaaarrrgghhh!!!!
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Has anyone seen a source for this new system?
Has anyone seen a source for this new system?
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Curious for a source on the above and the price tag... Seems like it could be a worthwhile option compared to the nicot/jenter. It's 512 cells vs the 110. You would need to built a frame with a back cover, but I'd think it would be possible to just drop the frame into a breeder hive with a queen that is limited to lay on 2-3 frames. Just replace the outside 2 frames with two of these.. come back 3 days later for 1024 non-grafted queen cells...
Much better in my opinion that dealing with nicot/jenter in trying to capture the queen and dealing with that...
I agree... I don't know if I could graft 512 grafts in the time that it would take me to snap off the little pin holders... but maybe...
Always end up rolling one here and there, or smacking them against the wall... *shrugs*
Just thought it was a neat idea, if the price is right and I can find it.. Might give it a shot...
Interesting. Grafting and making your own wax queen cups is so cheap and easy I just don't see this going much of anywhere.
It would have to be priced correctly... I'm assuming they sell enough nicots and jenters to offset the injection molding costs.. Those appear to be less ideal than this... IMO....
If the cups and inserts work out to be the same price or less than the JZBZ cups and the foundation is less than 20 bucks.. I'd send them money to check it out...
Only real downside that I see, is what to do with the bees larva in the surrounding cells, but I guess you could just them keep growing and insert new inserts every 3 days... *shrugs*
I have a bone spur in my neck that affects my hands, causing them to twitch and the feeling in my fingers to fluctuate. Grafting is still, so easy, I don't even consider other ways of doing it.
I never said I was anti grafting...
How long would it take you to graft 512 larvas? At 1 second per that's 8 minutes, I expect that you can't graft them that fast. I know I can't... I don't know if I could locate perfect ones on the comb at one second per... Say it's 5 seconds per, that's 42 minutes to graft the same number.. 85 minutes at 10 seconds per graft...
Personally, I expect that I'm probably somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds per graft... depending how good of a pattern the queen left me on the frame. The more hunting you have to do, the longer it takes...
I wonder how fast the people are that graft raise 100-200k cells per year... Would be interesting to compare..
Again, I'm not anti grafting.. I have 50 Chinese tools laying in a bag beside my keyboard waiting to get started in the spring... I just wonder if this is a "practical" solution.
Well, you're never going to need to graft 512 larvae, and the device will never, on its best day, have 512 larvae of the proper age. But, if you want to play with it, then do it. My take on these devices is, you do all the setup work for your cell building, and the grafting part is only a tiny part of the whole. If there are no larvae of the correct age in your plastic cell bases, all the setup work is for naught.
Why would you assume that? I know that people, including myself place a frame into a a hive where the queen is restricted to laying on the 3 frames she's given.. I put in a empty frame and come back 3 days later... This "should" have similar results.
I assumed that you did something similar to have a known starting point on larva. Do you just eyeball the larva or do you try to control it more?
As for the 500 grafts... I won't need that anytime soon, but I'd like to be there at some point. I'd quit my day job as soon as I'm making and selling 400 queens a week. *grins* I'd just do IT consulting in the winter months or spend time in the woods chasing bambi.
I doubt this is a silver bullet for making queens... I just believe it could be a step up from the nicot/jenter. It may suck like an open chest wound....
If I were going to start, even 200 cells, or more, per batch, I'd never "plan" to get them all from a single mother queen (MQ). I like to limit cell batches to 100 or fewer from a single MQ, at any one time. Perhaps many more are possible, or even practical, but it seems much easier, and requires less intensive management, to keep MQs in nuc size colonies, and pull frames of hatching eggs, for grafting (replacing them with empty comb). Since I predominantly use medium size frames, 100 grafts, per MQ, per batch, is a much easier, upper limit.
I have a lot of respect for MP and J Clemens' experience and knowledge. That said, I think it might be interesting to hear from someone who actually knows a bit about the product, perhaps with a little less negativity and more of an open mind towards the idea. Wonder if Jenter and Nicot got this reaction when they were introduced?
I am not affiliated with, nor do I use any of the three "systems" mentioned..
The OP asked a straight-forward question.
"Has anyone seen a source for this new system?"
I tried searching for the product, without success. I don't have access to the ABJ article, perhaps there is a clue there, that would assist this search.
I wasn't trying to be negative about this product, or the several other products and techniques for raising queens, without grafting. I'll be the first to admit that I avoided raising my own queens for at least three decades, because I assumed that the process, including grafting, would be beyond my ability. I didn't attempt using graftless products, since they are outside my budgets reach. I got desperate enough to attempt grafting, because I couldn't afford the queens I needed.
My very first grafts, were into natural queen cells. I dequeened a strong colony and waited until they had a nice group of queen cells started. I then eliminated all the cells except a dozen on one frame, that were well formed and spaced on the comb. Then I selected my donor comb of just hatching eggs, and as I removed each resident larva, I replaced her by grafting from the donor comb. Afterwards I replaced the comb in the hive. I had 100% success with this method, placing the cells after they were ripe, into their own queenless nucs, where the cells emerged and the virgins mated and established their own colonies.
I wonder how the bees are going to draw out this frame. The Jenter has a short simulated drawn comb section that is placed over the grid, so no comb needs to be built prior to the queen's laying. This design is almost exactly like bare plastic foundation, which will require some amount of comb to be built prior to the queen laying. I just wonder what issues will occur initially and in the long term with such a frame. I agree, if its cheap give it a shot.
I have the Jenter system and pretty much every grafting tool available. I consider myself reasonably proficient at grafting, but when the Jenter system works it works exceptionally well. I wonder if there have been any studies done on the quality of queens from both grafting vs the various on-grafting systems. The thing that comes to mind with the Jenter (and similar) is that there is nearly zero disturbance to the larvae during transfer. The only diisturbance is the required 90 deg rotation, with no disturbance to the RJ pool or placement of the larvae within the RJ. Perhaps master grafters can approach zero disturbance, but I suspect that the bulk of us couldn't make such a claim. The question is does the "zero disturbance" of these systems result in better queens? I realize that the bulk of the success comes from the cell builder colony, mating nucs, and drone saturation, but if small tweaks could provide measurable improvements, why not?
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I was looking at it from a pure speed standpoint. With the nicot/jenter you are "suppose" to capture and force the queen into the 110 cell area to lay, then you have to release her later.
My thoughts on this product is that it's a foundation that is placed into a normal hive to be drawn out in a normal way. It would just only have one side.. Assuming it's cheap enough, you could in theory get a couple to rotate out.
It's my assumption that I could drop the frame into a queen breeder colony, come back 3 days later and collect the larva.. I know Joseph had some concerns over grafting 512 cells from the same queen. I wonder if this is really an issue, if your trying to put out 100-500+ queens a week. You could just go between your breeder queens on a rotational basis.. I'd also expect that not all of the 512 would be used. i.e. the queen didn't lay the larva on the center/bottom and the larva is disturbed when the plug is removed.
This would allow 5 times the amount of cell/plugs to select from. Allow the queen to remain free and laying. I "think" that the plugs should be reusable, since the "cell" would remain part of the comb.
I sent an email to ABJ for more information on the product, but it remains to be seen if I get a response. Worst case, I think this might be something to be tested on the 3d printer.
The "Fatbeeman" has a queen youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RDmh...ED6684E5F97742
I want to try this method in the spring.
Yea, I believe that is how most of the large queen breeders do, or something similar... I did this in a 5 frame nuc... But I didn't rotate the combs.. I just put in a new comb and took the old one.. I did it this way to keep the nuc's population from exploding..
You have your 5-10 breeder queen/hives. You just drop a empty/drawn comb in the hive 3 days before you want to graft.. That's my general plan that I'm working toward.


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Torture in U.S. Custody: Why it will happen again if we don't address it now
By: Mehroz Baig
"Perhaps the most important or notable finding of this panel is that it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture." That's the finding after a two-year investigation by a high-level panel that examined detainee treatment by the United States during the war on terror, in a report published earlier this year by The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment. The report states that there was systematic use of torture and in many cases, it did not result in any useful information. The report also identifies the maneuvering that allowed torture to happen — the legalities of war, as noted in the Geneva Conventions, have already been outlined; definitions of conduct that is allowed and conduct that is illegal in international law have been hammered out. What has happened over the past 13 years, however, is the fudging of boundaries and the redefining of terms that allowed government officials to distinguish between abuse and torture, drawing a very fine line between what constitutes legal torture and what doesn't. The report concludes that torture took place widely, that it was in fact illegal, and that it violated our ethical duties.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, there was uncertainty about the best way to proceed and the repercussions of any action by the U.S. on policy, military, and legal fronts. This was also new terrain — there wasn't a clear, territorial enemy, but rather one classified as a non-state actor, and not much precedence for an attack against the United States on U.S. soil. The new circumstances allowed officials to create a plan of action on policy, tactics, and the U.S. approach toward its enemy. Rules were created, bent, and broken and in some cases, to avoid a broken rule, a new classification was invented to circumvent current law.
The report clearly states,
"The most important element may have been to declare that the Geneva Conventions, a venerable instrument for ensuring humane treatment in time of war, did not apply to Al-Qaeda and Taliban captives in Afghanistan or Guantánamo. The administration never specified what rules would apply instead."
Other actions, such as classifying detainees as "enemy combatants," allowed for military proceedings to overtake civilian proceedings. "By defining Guantanamo detainees as enemy combatants, the Bush administration cleared the way for some to be tried in newly created offshore military commissions rather than in civilian courts," reported The Wall Street Journal. The creation of the military commissions was found to be unconstitutional in 2006 but military commissions were reinstated when Congress passed the Military Commissions Act. This was followed by a ruling giving the military commissions power to choose if each detainee classified as an "unlawful enemy combatant." If so, he was not accorded any rights that a prisoner of war, under the Geneva Conventions, would receive. The Obama administration dropped the term "enemy combatant" in 2009, in a symbolic gesture to distance itself from the Bush administration — the Department of Justice under President Obama continued to argue for indefinite detention of Guantánamo inmates.
The report goes on to address the complicity of medical professionals in creating interrogation techniques that amounted to torture and not reporting any abuse. "After September 11, 2001, military psychologists and physicians were instructed that they were relieved of the obligation to comply with nonmilitary ethical principles, and in some cases their military roles were redefined as non-health-professional combatants." The report notes that established professional conduct for medical professionals includes refraining from abusive conduct, participating in interrogations, or providing medical information to interrogators. Yet the policy and reclassification of doctors and psychologists as "non-health-professional combatants" allowed them to circumvent their ethical duties on paper through a very conservative adherence to the letter of the ethical standards.
Policy changes also took place elsewhere within the U.S. apparatus against terrorism. As the report points out, changes were made in the Army Field Manual that allowed previously negated interrogation techniques:
"For over 50 years, the Army Field Manual has been an invaluable document guiding American soldiers away from abusing prisoners, with its clear prohibitions on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and torture. However, the 2006 version deleted language that explicitly prohibited the use of sleep deprivation and stress positions, and its Appendix M authorizes an interrogation technique called "separation," which could inflict significant physical and mental anguish on a detainee."
The problem with these changes is that they did not happen in isolated incidents but in a cohesive manner that shields the government from accountability. There is evidence that torture occurred and yet when a victim of torture seeks justice, the judiciary cannot help him. The report is explicit in noting that the Convention Against Torture, to which the U.S. is a party, requires that nations have a legal system that allows victims of torture redress. However, "the United States has not complied with this requirement," the report's authors note, adding, "in large part because of the government's repeated, successful invocation of the state-secrets privilege in lawsuits brought by torture victims." The argument has been that the government cannot defend itself in such cases without revealing state secrets pertaining to national security, so the cases are dismissed.
"It's a travesty that we've applied classification to [torture]," said Ambassador Thomas Pickering, one of the members of The Constitution Project's Task Force, at a Commonwealth Club program in October. He added that the minimum requirement we face as a nation is to ensure that torture doesn't happen again. He counts torture as "a serious and disturbing problem in our national history."
However, it's a slow move away from some of the terrible and illegal actions the U.S. government took, and continues to take, in its quest to hunt down terrorists. Even today, Guantánamo — a prison that has housed 779 suspected terrorists, including 15 children, one as young as 13 years old — remains open. Ambassador Pickering said, "I hope Guantánamo is closed shortly," but added, "I don't think it will happen."
In her article, "The Tortured Body, the Photograph, and the U.S. War on Terror," Julie Gerk Hernandez, a professor at the University of Cincinnati examined the violence that took place at Abu Ghraib, arguing that the torture that took place in Afghanistan is part of a "historical continuum of racialized violence." She compared the photographs from Abu Ghraib to photos of lynchings in the post-Civil War years. "In both cases," she says, "a group of people records — as a source of enjoyment, pride, and righteousness — another person's experience of mind-numbing pain or the aftermath of such an experience (death), which individuals of the group inflict." She further goes on to say in reference to one of the photos from Abu Ghraib, "What this picture suggests is that the sexual violence at Abu Ghraib stems from the same racialized hatred and fear that made lynching possible."
If Hernandez is correct, the torture, ethical, and moral abuses are not simply part of an unprecedented situational context. And as such, they could easily happen again, given the right combination of zealousness, anger, hatred, and a defined "other" as the enemy. We're not doing ourselves any favors if we don't address this issue head-on and try to amend some of the mistakes we've made. Much of that involves transparency about what happened and accountability for it. Accountability comes in many forms, including allowing justice for victims of torture through recognition of what they've endured and compensation. But if we don't take an introspective look at the policies and actions we've taken in the name of national security, actions that grossly violate our fundamental values, then we are leaving the door open for this to happen again. Public outrage on some of these issues has been short-lived, and we may face the same situation or worse yet again, if we decide not to look back.
Is Roe v. Wade in Danger?
By: Mehroz Baig
Even though 87 percent of all U.S. counties lack an abortion provider according to 2008 data, actions to restrict the access of abortion services continue steadily. In 2013 so far, state legislatures have introduced 321 anti-choice measures and enacted 46 of them, according to internal research by NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation. NARAL defines anti-choice broadly, including any measure that hinders a woman's ability to exercise her reproductive rights.
In a panel discussion at The Commonwealth Club of California that addressed reproductive rights, Lisa Lindelef, a pro-choice activist and board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, noted that the abortion conversation has moved to the state level. Lindelef added that the landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 that seemed to enshrine a woman's right to choose isn't being attacked directly. Instead, the restrictions being enacted are attacking the infrastructure around access to legal abortion services. "What they are doing is chipping away incrementally around it," she said. She noted that adding constraints like decreasing how early a woman can have a legal abortion, requiring ultrasounds, waiting periods, and counseling before gaining access to abortion services are all ways of undermining the right that Roe v. Wade outlined, without directly attacking that decision.
Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Texas law aimed at abortion clinics is unconstitutional. This is the same law that Texas Democratic state legislator Wendy Davis, who is now running for governor, filibustered against in June. The Texas attorney general filed an emergency appeal, and a federal appeals court reinstated most of the restrictions until the case is heard in January 2014.
Accessing abortion services has become restricted in some areas of the country. This interactive map from the The Daily Beast details how accessible clinics are and the restrictions imposed on women seeking abortions by geography.
Lindelef was joined by two other panelists: Fran Moreland Johns, author of Perilous Times: An Inside Look at Abortion Before – And After – Roe v. Wade, and Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life at Stanford University. Shanelle Matthews, communications strategist for ACLU Northern California, moderated the panel.
Fran Johns agreed with Lindelef about the possibility that current legislation could put Roe v. Wade in jeopardy. She added, "I would like never to see abortion happen again. But that's not going to happen." Johns' book examines back-alley abortions before Roe v. Wade and looks at the difficulty women face in accessing abortion services today. "What we want is for abortion to be safe, legal, and rare," added Lindelef.
Some areas of the country have been fairly progressive in their approach to ensuring that women have access to all reproductive services, including contraception and abortion. San Francisco even went a step further in 2011 by implementing an ordinance against crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), to prevent false advertising. CPCs often advertise themselves as counseling centers that provide women with information on pregnancy and abortion services. However, according to pro-choice advocates, they tend to have an anti-abortion stance and generally counsel women against accessing abortion services.
While similar laws in New York and Baltimore were struck down, San Francisco's ordinance focused on false advertising and has been upheld. That has made San Francisco's ordinance the first successful one of its kind in the nation. The ordinance was enacted to ensure that CPCs advertise accurate information about the services they provide, making it a consumer protection issue, argued the authors of the ordinance, Supervisor Malia Cohen and City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
Geography plays a role in the restrictions that are enacted. The Daily Beast's analysis noted, "Often, the states with the fewest clinics also have more restrictions." In those cases, not only are women physically unable to access abortion, but there are added restrictions — such as wait times and requirements of ultrasounds or in-person counseling — that make it more burdensome for them to do so. That is all in addition to the social pressures that accompany the issue. "I've spoken with women, especially very young women, who felt so intimidated or frightened by the protestors that they were worried about, or felt they could not do it," said Fran Johns in an email. She's referring to protests held by activists outside abortion clinics to dissuade women from getting abortions, a tactic now being exported outside the U.S.
Johns added, "It's not so much an urban/rural issue as a state-by-state issue. But the saddest stories I heard were from women in rural or small-town areas who did not have the money, time, and resources to access a safe abortion." Again, state legislation plays a big role in allowing women access to safe services. The New York Times reported in September that in the last three years, 54 clinics in 27 states have closed. And an interactive map from The Washington Post shows which states have introduced and enacted restrictions on abortions this year. According to this article, restrictive abortion legislation has been introduced in 32 states and enacted in nine states.
Decisions on these laws differ from state to state: though a judge in Ohio upheld that state's law requiring doctors to follow FDA protocol in medical abortions, a similar regulation was deemed unconstitutional in Oklahoma and may be heard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the article notes, "Supporters of the law say such procedures protect women. But the Oklahoma court concluded that it effectively bans medication abortions, which are used early in pregnancies, because doctors over the past decade have found the FDA protocol to be excessive or outdated."
The legislative wrangling at the state level leaves women behind who need abortion for any number of reasons. Cases such as those of the Davises from Oklahoma, profiled in an MSNBC report, will continue. According to the article,
Earlier that month, at home in Oklahoma City, the Davises were told that the boy she was carrying had a severe brain malformation known as holoprosencephaly. It is rare, though possible, for such a fetus to survive to birth, but doctors told them that he would not reach his first birthday. "He would never walk, lift his head," Jessica, 23, recalled in an interview…The lack of options sent them to Dallas, where protesters outside the clinic tried to hand Jessica a pair of baby socks. She told them to go to hell. She left the clinic with a death certificate, which she and Eric had asked for, and a footprint of the son they named Mark Gordon Scott Davis.
The funeral homes Jessica called for a "proper burial" laughed at her, or hung up "because I mentioned the word 'termination,'" she said. The funeral homes told her she had an abortion. "I don't look at it like that," Jessica said. "I'm showing my son mercy.'
For those who cannot afford to go elsewhere for the procedure, the outcomes are less well known. One study conducted recently of women who wanted an abortion but were turned away shows increased negative consequences in their health and economic stability. However, this area can use more research, not only on the consequences of being turned away from an abortion for women, but also for the children who are subsequently born.
"It's never an easy decision," said Fran Johns, who herself had to obtain a secret and illegal abortion after being assaulted at her job, before Roe v. Wade made abortions legal.
And Lindelef cautioned, "Making this illegal is not going to make it go away. It will probably make it more frequent and less safe."


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Keeper set for derby day duel
Born in Birmingham, and having come through the Wolves Academy, Carl Ikeme doesn't need any telling when it comes to the local significance of tomorrow's trip to Walsall.
But if he did, then the ticket requests from friends and family have offered him a gentle reminder!
"I've been asked for about 15 tickets already so I know it's sold out or nearly sold out," says the big keeper.
"Being a tight ground you can imagine what the atmosphere is going to be like.
"We're taking a fair few fans and I love derby days – there's a bit more of an edge to the game and people look to get the bragging rights as well as us pushing on for promotion.
"Walsall gave us a tough game when we played them in September and it's a local derby.
"We haven't really played each other for a long time which always adds a bit more spice to the game.
"I'm not really thinking about the record (getting eight successive wins) – it's more about trying to get another win in what's a difficult month.
"It's a derby and we all enjoy those so it's one to look forward to but we've got to concentrate on our performance and hopefully the right result will come."
Ikeme was in goal when Wolves suffered their first league defeat of the season in the home fixture against Walsall back in September.
Well acquainted with both former Wolves striker Ashley Hemmings and the Chambers twins, he says he won't be getting involved in any pre-match banter!
Instead his focus will be on trying to help Wolves to another three points to try and keep pace with such an intense battle at the top of Sky Bet League One.
"It's about cool heads in derbies and not getting carried away with the atmosphere," adds Ikeme.
"We just need to play our own game, which we're doing quite well at the minute, and try to keep this run going.
"It was a bit of a surprise at the time when we lost at home, and because we hadn't been beaten this season at that point.
"But we knew Walsall were a decent side and they seem to do well against the better sides of the division.
"It was just a shame to get beat in a local derby, but you're going to lose games during the season.
"It's about us and where we want to go and what we want to do.
"We'll give them the respect they deserve but we'll be worrying about our game and how we're trying to win it.
"Leyton Orient and Brentford seem to keep winning so we're just looking at the next match.
"Being top is great and we'd rather be there than anywhere else, but as boring as it may sound, it is about the next game.
"I saw a fan on the train the other day and he was saying he expects us to walk away with the title.
"A lot of people seem to think the job's done, but I was trying to explain to him that I was just concentrating on Saturday – that's enough!
"But if we only look to the next game and then to have a positive month then get to April and have a really strong push over the last five games of the season."
It is an excellent defensive record which Ikeme and company will be putting to the test tomorrow, including five successive clean sheets.
That, says the keeper, is a true team effort.
"From the start of the season, these lads – especially the back four, whoever has been playing – has had real pride in trying to keep the ball out of the net," he explains.
"And to be fair the whole team, with the midfield and the strikers, have been defending from the front.
"So it's been a team effort to keep the back door shut as much as possible without being too defensive at the same time.
"We take pride in keeping clean sheets, and as a back line it is our triumph to keep a clean sheet – it's what we strive for.
"Keeping a clean sheet is like us scoring a goal – if you see me go mad for no apparent reason at times it's because I'm determined to try to not let any goals in or keep it to as low an amount as possible.
"All the lads at the back are the same, putting their bodies on the line and putting in last-ditch challenges.
"Aaron played in the first two of the current run so he has to take some of the credit.
"He kept four clean sheets in five, so he did fantastically well and he can claim a few of them, so it's a proper team effort and I was happy for Aaron as well."
For now then, all thoughts are on Walsall tomorrow, and not the more long term of what lies ahead.
"There's no promotion talk – I'm not saying the word has been banned, but I think the lads are too focused," Ikeme explains.
"We've got a really good set of lads and a really good team spirit – everyone is pulling in the right direction, which we might not have had for the last few seasons.
"Everyone is scared of talking about promotion because we're concerned about the next game and how we're going to beat Walsall.
"After that we'll worry about Tuesday's game, but until then we're not going to start thinking about top spot or anything like that."
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