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Hyde director to present still life talk
The Hyde Collection announces that on Thursday, March 17, 2011, the Museum will hold a lecture on still life by David F. Setford, the Museum's executive director.
Titled Fish, Fowl, and Flowers: 20th Century Still Life from the Norton Museum, the talk will be held in conjunction with the current exhibition at Hyde - Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art.
The exhibition brings together fifty-one works of painting, watercolor, collage, sculpture, and ceramics as well as glass pieces and textiles, spanning four centuries. The show features such famous artists as Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol. Setford, who was chief curator at the Norton throughout the 1990s, brings his specific expertise to this presentation as he was responsible for major shows at the Norton which featured 20th century artists, including Picasso, Man Ray, Dufy, and Bellows.
Setford's lecture will highlight the different way that 20th century artists used still life as a way to grapple with the new styles of the century and will be held in The Hyde's Froehlich Auditorium at 6 pm.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Suggested non-member donation to view the exhibition, which will be open to visitors until the start of the lecture, is $8. Seating is limited and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Those wishing to make reservations area asked to call 518-792-1761 ext. 17.


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#41 Fri 18 Jan 13 4:44pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
When in doubt...make your own
#42 Fri 18 Jan 13 6:09pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
Tee hee. How do you 'make' tomatoes?
#43 Fri 18 Jan 13 9:05pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
Well.... this topic is about canned tomatoes
#44 Fri 18 Jan 13 9:28pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
Thistledo wrote:
Tee hee. How do you 'make' tomatoes?
You take a tomato seed, you plant it in the soil. add water..and wait....when your tomato plant starts to grow..you nurture it, feed it..support it...you protect it from slugs and snails...
Keep it warm. pot it on as necessary...feed again..make sure it is gettting plenty of air and daylight...
add more supports in the way of canes if required...
when the fruits start feed again...
Then you get a completely rotten summer, your tommies rot on the vine....and you go out and buy tins of tomatoes....
you then resolve not to try raising tomatoes again......
Until next year......you never know...we might have a good summer........
#45 Fri 18 Jan 13 9:49pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
here is what needs to be done if you dont want plastic lined tins or comercially peeled tomatoes...
http://localfoods.about.com/od/homecann … matoes.htm
#46 Sat 19 Jan 13 3:29am
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
We do up a few cases of our own every summer/fall. I don't do them whole though, process time is less for ground , so I run them through our kitchenaid grinder after skinning them. I need the strainer attachment so that we don't even have to skin them next time. I use citric acid instead of bottle lemon juice, but both are ok and you can't taste either. If you are worried about BPA though and are using bottles like the ones in mummza's link . Make sure the snap lids are BPA free. The inside of snap lids are clear or white plastic/resin coated to reduce corrosion and the older ones did contain BPA.
Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or a cook. { cowboy saying}
#47 Sat 19 Jan 13 9:26am
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
Darn it ... I hadn't thought about the inside of those lids !
#48 Sat 19 Jan 13 12:32pm
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
wine-o. Ah the member meant Growing, rather than Making tomatoes then. All has become clear - thanks. Thought there was something going on that I didn't know about.
I grew a cascading cherry tomato 2011. Not very successful. Putting it down to that summer, too. In the past though, when I had a greenhouse, I loved growing them and mostly very successfully.
#49 Sun 20 Jan 13 10:07am
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
The quality of fresh tomatoes here is not consistent so I always have tinned tomatoes in the cupboard just in case. In the UK I tended to buy chopped tinned tomatoes but here they are twice the price of the whole ones (because they are imported - the whole are local). I always buy fresh if they are good because they are far more versatile.
#50 Sun 20 Jan 13 10:41am
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Re: Canned Tomatoes......
MsPablo wrote:
People tend to freak about these Norwegian foods, but honestly if you're a haggis eater, nothing should really scare you.
Haggis contains offal. Not caustic soda!

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My Vasectomy: A Farewell To Balls
One man documents his journey through a vasectomy, the Heart of Darkness for anyone who has ever held close their balls.
Part 1 – Prelude to a Snip
I count myself as incredibly lucky to have a healthy, beautiful daughter. And I don't just mean beautiful through the lens of my doting fatherly eyes. She's easily hotter than 97% of your little fuglings. I'm not usually this open with my feelings, but understanding my unconditional love for her is important when I further proclaim that I absolutely never ever want to curse my family with another one of her.
My wife and I have decided to let the idiots outbreed us and cap it at one kid. Though it was a decision intended to help our little clan prosper, it simultaneously crystallized for me just how little unprotected sex I've had in this life. I've always had to be very diligent about birth control because my superhuman virility does not share my fear of supporting unplanned children. That's not bravado, by the way. My spermatozoa were the subject of a fertility study a few years back when a scanning electron microscope revealed their unique method of contending with condoms:
Saying farewell to theoretical offspring was easy enough, but imagining a world without unfettered intercourse was just too dreary to consider. Indulging in that oft-forbidden fruit meant something had to change.
I started dropping hints that my wife should just have her baby factory plucked out of her, but it's difficult to work "hysterectomy" into casual conversation. It became clear that if I wanted infertility I was going to have to make it happen myself.
I made an appointment with my friendly neighborhood Emasculationologist for a consultation. While waiting to be called in, I picked up a comic book to do some light reading:
This Cliffs Notes on male sterilization (masquerading as a MILF porn comic for some reason) spelled out everything I needed to know about vasectomies. Each subtopic was structured the same: clinical data about the procedure somehow softened by intimate, nannycam views into total stranger's homes:
For brevity's sake, I'll paraphrase the "FACTS" section the above picture was plucked from.
FACT: A vasectomy does not reduce your sex drive. However if you're particularly bashful about scars on your testes, you may wish to keep them behind a veil during intercourse.
FACT: A vasectomy will not solve relationship problems. You'll need to dump the bitch for that.
It went on to demystify the post-op mechanics of your junk. Unfortunately the fine print was lost in the scanning process, so I've summarized the bullet points:
About halfway through my reading I was lead to an examination room to be greeted by the doctor. He quietly assured "It's like a dental procedure. You'll even be able to drive home afterward. There's really nothing to worry about."
His tone should have soothed me, but in my semi-petrified state this is all I heard:
"It's like a dental procedure, with the notable exception that I won't be able to see the unbridled terror in your eyes from my vantage point. You'll even be able to drive home afterward, provided you can do so without actually sitting on anything. There's really nothing to worry about, except for the laser-sharp surgical blade I'll be using to whittle down the seat of your manhood."
I considered seeking the council of a new physician that would better comprehend how crap-your-pants-worthy this surgery was to me, but something extraordinary kept me there: his hands were freakishly tiny. Hands that diminutive would almost certainly perform detail work with ease. That was precisely the kind of advantage my balls deserved. It didn't hurt that they made my package look massive when he began his examination as well.
He was mostly silent during the inspection, probably thinking something like "Sturdy build…graceful slope into the taint…I'd give them a B+" (or maybe "What am I doing with my life?"). After nearly a minute of silence, he finally remarked "Oh, you don't shave? That's not a problem. I'll take care of that before the procedure."
The hint of surprise in his observation intrigued me. Perhaps I give off a "This guy totally shaves his balls" vibe? More likely, everyone shaves them these days so my crotch looks like I've got Einstein in a triangle leg choke. In either case, he didn't judge. It was then I knew I was going to ask him to do the honor of robbing this world of further iterations of me.
I made the appointment for my vasectomy and headed home contemplating how exactly one makes quality time with their balls. They deserved that much before we said adieu.
Yes, my testes speak French. Yours don't?
Part 2 – The First Cut is the Deepest
After a long couple of weeks the much anticipated/reviled appointment was upon me. D-day (for Deez Nuts) had arrived.
Though I was never particularly close with my vas deferens, I felt they deserved some manner of sendoff. My wife and I decided that a delicious breakfast with tall stacks of pancakes and bacon was a fitting enough last meal. Unless of course my vas deferens were vegetarians. In that case it was a serious dick move on my part.
Somewhere between the arrival of the coffee and flapjacks doubts started to nag at me, but probably not for the reasons you'd expect. I certainly didn't want any more kids and I wasn't wary of surgery. If the only method to render me sterile involved inserting my sack into box holding an agitated honey badger, I'd still happily submit.
The source of my hesitation was a bit more oblique. Truth be told I'm primarily concerned about a healthy sex life. As many a dime-store comedian has remarked before, marital relations can run the risk of becoming stale over time. The failure to make romance a priority (and the fact that women seldom have additional vaginas to uncover) renders it inevitable. Worse, I am cursed with a partner who has no interest in BDSM, converting our kitchen into a sex dungeon or bringing her sisters into the mix. Prude. In a climate like this, about the only thing left that makes sex exciting is the risk of possibly knocking her up. If we eliminate that…heaven help us.
By the time the check arrived I had a moment of clarity – I am a selfish, barely adequate lover. No amount of manufactured allure was going to address that. In summary, my dog would soon be the only intact male in the house.
Mere hours later I entered the site of my demise. It was a multipurpose room of sorts. I didn't truly expect the hospital to have a dedicated Vasectarium, but an operating theater without overflow storage for ballpoint pens would be nice. It even had a wall-mounted otoscope, just in case I noticed hearing loss during the operation on my testicles.
The other equipment in the room was a bit more disconcerting. I was pretty sure most of it wasn't to be used on me, but just knowing it existed didn't warm me to the medical profession. I don't care how well-intentioned the "Scope Buddy" is, I can't welcome any probing instrument with tubes that diameter.
I also noted the location of the surgical lubricant, mostly because there would be no cause for using it during my procedure. Anyone reaching for it was bound to be taking certain liberties under my gown.
At the doctor's instruction I laid down on the table. Staring at the ceiling I contemplated just how many other men had this view before the days of their proliferation came to a close. That's when it sank in that this room was to be my balls' ground zero.
I could feel my anxiety beginning to percolate, so I tried to shift my focus to anything but the increasing commotion south of the border. It was then that I noticed the cool breeze from the fan humming behind my head. It was a pleasant touch, making it feel more like a casual vasectomy on a cruise ship's lido deck.
It all felt pretty surreal until the doctor taped my penis against my pubis like a MacGuyvered chastity belt. About then shit got pretty real. "You're going to feel a little sting as I deliver the anesthesia," he said with a matter-of-fact tone that in no way telegraphed the terrifying notion of a needle plunging into my junk.
His assessment was accurate – it hurt. It's hard to describe the pain, but I'd probably compare it to someone sticking a needle into my testicles.
Describing what happened next is difficult. I was too numbed up to interpret the stabbing and sawing motions in my peripheral vision. I could feel the twins getting nudged around, but that was about it. Having little recourse to observe how things were going I focused my attention on the nurse's face for any sudden looks of surprise or terror.
One detail was sickeningly vivid. As each tube was bisected he seared it shut with electrosurgical cautery. That's a fancy way of saying I got to hear my plumbing sizzle like bacon on a skillet.
Overall it went pretty well, at least as much as scheduled testicular trauma can have an upside. The doctor was poised and efficient, so any discomfort almost certainly stemmed from nervousness on my part. I was mostly relieved that my dry streak with the missus prior to the surgery didn't complicate things. I was sure that cutting into a system with that much back-pressure would manifest in a disaster akin to an explosion at the glue factory.
I walked out of there feeling accomplished. All that ugliness was finally behind me. And then I remembered that I was still numb and the real fun might just be moments away…
What will become of our intrepid hero?
Will there be swelling? Blood loss? Whining? (Probably lots of the last one).
Part 3 – What Hath My Urologist Wrought?
As I ambled out of the procedure room (ambling really is the least testicle-intensive form of locomotion), I had a sinking feeling. Had I endured the worst part of this process or was I cruising headlong into it? In either case I was pretty sure I didn't have to worry. After all, I just had surgery on the most tender and vulnerable portion of the male anatomy. Any doctor with even the slightest inkling of humanity would have to send me home with a caravan of prescription pain pills appropriate for equine dentistry.
By the time I reached the car I started to realize that the odds of even getting a Vicodin prescription were becoming steadily less favorable. Yeah, I was a little slow on the uptake, but remember that I was probably still in shock. Apparently the buzzkills of the medical establishment intended to leave me with the cold comfort of over-the-counter drugs. Needless to say, I was upset.
My family did not disappoint with their warm homecoming. My kid hit me with a battery of questions on the procedure, probably because she was granted temporary license to say "penis" as much as she wanted. My dogs pounced and jumped on me playfully, though I can't be sure they didn't sniff out my condition and attempt to assert pack dominance by alpha-rolling me.
"Hey Eunuch, we don't take kindly to your type 'round here"
I knew it was important to not do anything testicle-intensive, so I sat down to watch some TV. This proved to be more difficult than expected.
Since channel surfing was off the table, I reviewed the doc's take-home paperwork. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill list of common sense warnings ("Please do not let household cats swat at your testes for at least 7 days"). It didn't get particularly interesting until the section on possible complications, provided you substitute "interesting" for "horrifying beyond all sense and reason."
Granted, there are zero medical conditions I'm okay being unleashed on my balls, but these sounded particularly nasty. The actual diagnoses were almost immaterial, since each was just another cocktail variation made with swelling and/or leakage. Luckily in my feeble state the computer was too far away for me to run a Google image search on "sperm granuloma", which would have only cemented my terror.
The remaining paperwork had considerably less nightmarish news to deliver:
It takes between 10 – 20 ejaculations, 6 – 8 weeks on average, for you to become sterile. After that, ejaculate once in the cup provided. The sample must be 4 hours fresh when you submit it to the lab.
This was hilarious to me on multiple levels. I especially loved the reminder to not get creative with the delivery of semen to their lab. I imagine all it took was one guy sauntering up to the reception desk with his sample in a zip-tied condom before they had to tighten up regulations. Further, whoever established those guidelines didn't have much of a grasp on the male libido. Allotting 6 to 8 weeks just to accomplish ten or more ejaculations? Even in my fragile state I managed to knock out a round during my ride in the parking structure elevator.
I was surprised to find they didn't provide anything for me to track my "progress" to sterility in all that paperwork, but where some see a gross oversight I visualized an opportunity. Let me introduce you to the Intertilometer. Think of it as a masturbation Advent calendar, except at the end you get NO baby Jesus:
With the snipping finally behind me and days of bed rest ahead, there was little else to do but capture the details of my recovery. I decided to start a diary to note every gruesome detail and occasionally speculate if my doctor liked me "like, more than than a friend". It was the best way to keep memories fresh…and it if happened to assist in future lawsuits for "Emotional Distress" all the better. Here's how it broke down:
Day 0
Dear Diary,
My balls were punctured today. How are you?
I spent most every waking moment today sitting on a block of ice. I don't know if the goal here is to prevent swelling or encourage my balls to take up permanent residence in my abdomen. But at least it doesn't hurt much.
Day 1
Dreary Dairy,
I woke up to realize that I had bled through my gauze into my underwear. As a precaution I am applying direct pressure to the incision site and trying to keep my balls elevated. The latter is easier said than done without some form of pulley system.
I'm a little sore, but its not remotely approaching the worst case scenarios I had envisioned. It's kind of like the persistent sensation of being kicked in the groin an hour prior – not particularly painful, but you can still feel their resentment.
Day 2
Dirty Diana (NAH!),
Bled into my underwear again. Let me say that you simply never EVER get used to seeing blood down there. I'm beginning to suspect they operated with a pizza cutter. I may have to set up a nannycam in my bed to make sure no one is taking opportunistic crotch stabs on me.
It looks like pain I've been waiting for is just not coming. It appears I'm going to walk away from this largely unscathed, apart from my vas deferens of course. Maybe I'll go celebrate with some mountain biking or perhaps some step aerobics since I'm invincible.
Looking back I have to admit that nothing hurt nearly as much as I figured it would. As a patient and a total sissy, I am relieved. As a comedy writer, I'm a little disappointed because my pain would probably be more hilarious to you. I wasn't even sure if I should share this story, but given the way my wife has been laughing at me through this whole process I thought others might enjoy it.
To close this out I should really thank my vas deferens, the little unsung heroes of my balls. Without them I wouldn't have the family I cherish or the 4 others scattered around the continental U.S. that I never speak of. Despite years of scrotal trauma courtesy of karate sparring sessions, they validated my potency when it mattered most. I'm gonna miss you guys.


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Not even safe in my house anymore...
There are so many off leash dogs here, it's really ridiculous... Eko is DA and has to wear a muzzle outside we are in training to get him to ignore other dogs, he has made some progress but it is slow.
When I went to answer the door earlier today Eko came with me as usual, when I opened the door there was a woman there and a little pit mix who immediately charged into my house and into Eko's face. I'm shocked I reacted so quickly but I managed to grab the little dog's and Eko's collar, one in each hand and I yanked both dogs up off of their front feet on reflex just as Eko's jaws were snapping shut where the other dog's head was... I don't think I handled it the best way but I tossed the dog back through the door at the lady (the dog didn't get hurt I didn't do it hard just to get the dog out) and wrestled Eko back inside. He didn't bite me but his teeth scraped my knuckles and scratched me and drew blood a little bit.
The lady was screaming at me for throwing her dog, I was trying to figure out what she was even doing at my house in the first place and why the heck she just let her dog run in my house, I think she was on drugs or looking for some, she says she was looking for someone who apparently used to live in my house but I've lived there for a few years now so I don't know what she was thinking. The whole time we are arguing her dog is just running amuk in the neighborhood, I guess she just walks around with the dog off leash wherever she goes. I don't think she was in her right mind because after a while she calmed down and started asking me for like a soda or some food and if she could sleep on my couch. I said **** no get out of here before I call the cops, and she just walked off, didn't even call her dog just started walking and the dog was just running from one side of the street to the other following her.
A weird, scary experience, I feel bad for her dog, mostly I'm angry, though. I hope if Eko had hurt her dog and the cops showed up they would see she was totally in the wrong, but wouldn't they still have to report the bite? Would I have had to pay for the vet bills for the other dog? Sorry for the long read, just been stewing about this all day... The more I think about it the angrier I get.
My junior woodchuck attorney response would be ....no way on paying the other dog's vet bill as the other dog entered your premises uninvited with owner at hand...end of story.
Wow, the whole story sounds crazy...much like the other lady.
Good thing you have quick reflexes and separated the two.
Personally, I would like to think I would have done exactly the same.
I assume there is only a single door...no outer screen or glass door...otherwise I would never open the outer door until I surveyed the situation and was confident no situations might take place by opening the door.
Feel bad for you and the other dog......sounds like the other lady is having some considerable difficulties of her own.
F. Lee. SuperG
It sounds as though you almost experienced a passive home invasion.
I would have called the police and given them a full report of this incident and a description of this woman. You don't know how many other people she has tried this on. She may also be casing your house for herself or someone else to report vulnerabilities.
Definitely report this.
No, he dog was trespassing on your property, you did nothing wrong. You would have to check local ordinances because they vary. This is a strange enough incident that you should report it. I would be livid if this happened to me. But I guess you know now that Eko can't answer the door. :(
Regarding off-leash dogs, I have recently started driving to a nearby baseball field instead of walking through the neighborhood because we got attacked. It has lowered my stress levels SO much. I hate feeling like I'm walking through a minefield whenever I leave the house. It's much better to play fetch in a big empty field, and we can practice off-leash obedience besides.
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well, you did the right thing, you were protecting your pup, I'm sure your training has been setback because of this,
File a report to get it on record.
Years ago, in a previous home; there was a man who didn't like to take his meds as he was supposed to. It began with off the wall singing and yelling as he walked down the street and progressively got worse including threats to various neighbors. The last incident got very ugly. He terrorized our next door neighbor, actually broke her front door, then headed to our house. Began with banging on the house, put his hand through the window of the front door, yelling he was going to kill. I was on the phone with 911, they were hearing all this as it happened; other half was standing at the front door holding it closed - then of course had to go all macho and go outside <sigh> . Police arrived and it went down hill from there. When all the excitement was over, they told us that if there had been reports of this guy all along, there could have been action taken before it got so bad.
File a report.
Sorry that happened. My last dog got attacked 3 times by pits off leash in the park (not a dog park and leash laws applied). All 3 times luckily it was broken up before real damage happened and my dog never had any wounds. Usually the pits had bloody faces/tongues from my dog defensively biting at them when they tried to lock down on her. No one ever tried to sue or report it.
On the bright side your dog being aggressive may have just had your house crossed off the 'easy mark' list.
My parent's house was broken into last year. Just prior to that break in a lady had been wandering the neighborhood, not acting quite normal. When she was asked 'what are you doing here', she responded looking for house cleaning work.More then likely she was casing houses.
Often women are the ones sent to do that as women are not perceived as much of a threat as men who are or look out of place.
i agree...report it.
And don't know the laws in your area but I cannot imagine that you would be responsible for any injuries to the other dog. This past summer a neighbor's dog came running onto my property. My dog went for the dog. My neighbor came running to grab her dog and unfortunately got bit (not badly) by my girl when my dog was fighting with the other dog. She wound up going to the hospital as a precaution so a report was made to AC. I was so worried that my girl (who has NO human aggression) would be in trouble. I called AC and was told the other dog was roaming and trespassing on my property. As far as the bite...don't stick your hand in the middle of a dog fight. So no bad marks against my dog.
And that was just on my property not a dog charging into my house!
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#1 Mon 27 Sep 10 7:16pm
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super size me
last night on planet green
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock puts his health on the line in this examination of the food industry by eating McDonalds for 30 days
anyone see it?
#2 Mon 27 Sep 10 7:21pm
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Re: super size me
Yeah, watched it in fascination/horror a few months ago.
I've never been a big fan of fast food, but that was enough to put you off for life. I couldn't believe that Spurlock carried on with his experiment even against medical advice.
Maybe they should show it in schools, might just put a few kids off!
#3 Mon 27 Sep 10 7:47pm
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Re: super size me
A very smart and diplomatic answer. It�s really appreciable and
#4 Tue 28 Sep 10 1:30am
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Re: super size me
They showed it at my daughters school a few years ago and she swore she would never eat maccas again.
Sadly this didn't last very long. But it was good awareness raiding anyway!
#5 Wed 20 Apr 11 8:59pm
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after watching it i gave up sodas and drinking anything that contained calories lol but i had already given up fast food years before the movie came out, i agree they ought to show it in schools! this is the food that is literally killing people.
#6 Thu 21 Apr 11 8:23am
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Re: super size me
It certainly put me off of US chain fast food - I have it once a year to remind me why I don't eat it anymore.
That said, Man vs Food was epic and I don't get how Adam isn't the size of a house. I'm jealous, why can't I eat like him and not put weight on
#7 Thu 21 Apr 11 5:37pm
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Re: super size me
Ive watched that maybe 2 years ago or so. What impressed me the most - at the time I was working in the Health industry - was the dramatic changes in the cholesterol levels along with triglycerides and other hepatic markers. Cholesterol isnt supposed to have a major change in such a short period!
I think the movie served a few purposes and one was - I think it started there - having McD to start serving salads and soups.
Ironically today is possible to go to a McD and have a healthy meal, go figure
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My first stop was a little town called Mercedes that sits along side the Rio Negro... and you'll never guess what I saw!!! C'mon people think... it's everywhere.... if you guessed a statue with some dead guy on a horse you would be correct. They love their dead guy on a horse here and the little town of Mercedes did not dissapoint! My next stop was an even smaller town called Fray Bentos that was once famous for the world's largest meat packing factory; employing 4000 people and slaughtering 2000 head of cattle per day! Thus making plenty of steaks for all the good people around the world who choose not to harm innocent fruits and vegetables. I went to the meat factory museum and it was about as excitng as it sounds. Unfortunately, they weren't giving tours this day of the actual factory...or what remains of it anyway, so I was stuck looking at old factory photos, tin cans, and ancient refridgeration components in the museum.
My next destination was the city of Salto in the north. After a quick look around downtown, I found the statue of the dead guy on a horse in the main plaza, promptly took a photo, and decided I need to get the hell out of here. Tomorrow I would be on a bus to somewhere exciting ....


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My dear mother died some weeks ago. I missed her so much. Among her things I found a beatiful necklace made of silver and dark stones. I can´t remember her wearing this necklace. Of course I´m curious knowing from where she got it.
Our local jeweller told me that the necklace is more than 100 years old. So I started to look for it among my photographs. I have a lot of pictures from the early 50´s. And belive it or not I reconized this special jewelry around the neck of my mother´s aunt Dagny. She carried it on her 50th birthday. Perhaps even she has inherit from an older relative.
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The bad side of being independent and handling PR, gets you the brainmelt.
fran bow pr indie press media
Ever since we released the demo we had a lot of good feedback! The story and Fran really got to people the way we wanted to, the story was getting lift up and the immersion. We were really happy about that, since we are former filmmakers, who never really succeeded there either since our films where to narrowed down to a specific genre. Anyway, games are the best way to tell a story for us! You are interactive and there!
Now, when that part was over and we could finally breathe again, we had to start reaching out to people.. That part sucks!
I now have the fullest respect to those people who get paid to talk with people, those PR folks! All mails I send out to sites and whatnot return with nothing, I try to do my research and make every mail personal, but it's like applying for a job and then get a "No, thx" and not even a "bye".
And we are only two! I should be working on the game and Natalia should be drawing, and we thought this bit would be the easiest.. But it isnt! We both feel exhausted by talking about the game to everyone, we feel like dirty sellers that forces stuff to people they don't know about, its disqusting!
One thing I've noticed is that when Natalia sends emails and stuff, she gets a respons faster. We should ride with that, since she is female and a game developer! But then she gets all that workload and it's not right either.
And as a side note, we have had friendly youtuber guys helping out with doing let's plays, but really, the biggest coverage we have gotten have come from women! That is interesting. I am totally against mixing up the sex when it comes to creative creations, but it's atleast interesting. Let's see what the final statistic says, just because I really like statistics.
And! Another side note, that I'm most angry about! You know Sweden delivers pretty cool games? We are from Sweden! I've written to all the gaming sites and people here. NO ANSWERS! We get more help from Chile, that's a totally bigger country and poorer, and Italy and Germany! BUT NOT SWEDEN! It's just like the movie industry!
Anyway, my brain is about to melt and I just want to make the game. Being indie from your home without contacts really sucks if you want to reach out like the big boys.
As I always forget, this is the link to our indiegogo campaign! http://igg.me/at/franbow/x/3685996


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Diamond's inaccuracies hurt city & its employees
Original post made by Phil Plymale, another community, on Oct 4, 2006
As a 16-year Palo Alto city employee in the Public Works-Engineering division as a private-project plan reviewer, it has been my top priority to ensure that city residents receive the quality services they deserve. And as the chapter chair for Local 715 of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing city workers, I understand the need to wisely conserve taxpayers' dollars. That was a priority for the negotiations team and that's why we were able to reach fiscally sound solutions that will allow the city to continue to maintain a quality workforce.
Diamond is wrong when she says that city workers will receive a wage increase above the national average, which is 3.5 percent this year. On the contrary, because we wanted to conserve city resources, we agreed to forego a net wage increase this year. In the second year, we will only receive a net 2.5 percent increase. And in the third year, there is only a 3 percent increase. The correct conclusion should be that our wage increases are substantially below the national average.
Upon further investigation, Diamond would have noticed that under our new contract we will save the city millions in health care legacy costs. What she minimizes as "a few restrictions on only one of the city's four health plans" is no small measure. We agreed to eliminate the city's payment for a health plan that was enormously expensive and that continued to skyrocket unpredictably. This was a major effort to work cooperatively with the city to contain health care costs, including those for retirees.
Additionally, she is completely incorrect in stating that the city pays for "dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability and dependent-care-assistance programs for retirees for the rest of their lives." Only health insurance is covered for our retirees.
Unfortunately, Diamond failed to tell the complete story when she asserted that some 40 employee classifications received additional salary increases. Some of these workers are currently paid far below the median average of neighboring cities for performing similar work. Under the new contract, they will receive an increase that is still 3 percent below this median level. The proposed adjustments will not even bring these employees up to average compensation relative to our neighboring communities.
And instead of attacking the "9/80 schedule" for workers, Diamond should be supporting it. In a two-week period, an employee works eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day. The tenth day is a day off. This still totals 80 hours in the pay period-an average of 40 hours per week.
This is intended to be a creative way to save on commute and energy costs for both the city and the employee. Such schedules improve employee morale, productivity and are thus a benefit to the residents we serve. Who wins? Both the city and workers!
Had Diamond encouraged creative ways to lower workers' compensation costs for the city, she would have understood the rationale for the walking-shoe reimbursement for meter readers. These workers walk many miles a day and through all types of landscaping. As part of their uniform supplies, they need durable, well-supporting shoes. Safe shoes reduce injuries and this in turn reduces potential workers' compensation claims.
Diamond should be applauding this contract as a model for Bay Area cities. It's fiscally conservative and it ensures that residents will continue to receive quality services in our city's libraries, parks, public works, utilities department, water treatment plant and community centers.
Finally, the city currently has openings for a few positions, such as Associate Planner (need urban planning training) and Linesperson/Cable Splicer (ability to repair overhead and underground electrical systems) to name a couple.
Diamond is welcome to apply if she thinks city workers have it so good. She will, however, have to prepare herself to be constantly berated in the press as she tries to serve the community with pride.
And, apparently unlike her current job, she will be held accountable to the highest standards of accuracy and honesty in whatever work she performs on behalf of the city.
Those of us who work for the public actually get disciplined if we perform our jobs in a manner that fails to achieve these high standards.
[Published in the Palo Alto Weekly on 10/4/06. Phil Plymale has been an engineer for the City of Palo Alto for more than 16 years. He also is the chapter chair of Palo Alto Chapter of SEIU Local 715, representing a majority of the city employees.]
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 4, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Diana Diamond's and Phil Plymate's comments aside, I am constantly amazed at how an otherwise liberal community tolerates the constant put-downs and criticisms of government employees. [not: I aam not, nor am I related to in any way, any municipal government employee).
It seems there is constant chatter about how "good" civil employees have it - and how favorably their benefits compare with the private sector. We hear that public employee benefits shuold be brought down to the level of the private sector - with the latter, during the past two decades, doing everything it can to strip employees of pensions, benefits, wage increases, etc. etc. to the point where most of middle America is struggling to keep its head above water.
Why not promote an effort to use the excellence and robustness of public employee benefit packages - packages that actually entice good workers, and help maintain their presence on the job - and use those public benefit packages for the private sector to follow, as examples?
ALL workers should enjoy the benefits that our hard-working public employees get, I'm happy to contribute to their well-being. In fact, public employee benefits are better than my own. So what?
On another, related, note. If City Hall isn't doing its job, or is perceived as such by one citizen or another, might I suggest taking the argument to the _real_city bosses, our City Council, and stop bashing public employees who are good people, who come into work every day, and do their job.
I wonder how many will respond to this post by pointing out one situation or other where poor performance by a city worker has been documented, and then extend that one (or aq few) situations to the whole. Does this happen at HP? Is all of HP rotten because of the screw-ups of a few. Of course not. To suggest otherwise would be absurd.
So, naysayers about the quality of service that we receive, and how people shuold be compensated for it, please think hard before casting stones, and wishing that our public empoyees find themselves in the same sorry state as the majority of most Americans with health and retirement benefits. The latter suffer a situation that is a national disgrace.
If you want to argue for that, fine. Just keep in mind what you're arguing for.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 4, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Wish no more! If you want to be a Palo Alto city employee- march down to city hall, first floor, HR to the left and check the listings for jobs. I'm sure you are more than qualify for some postion within the city.
Talk is cheap and this "I wish I was a city employee" is getting old!
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 7, 2006 at 7:52 am
I am Palo Alto City employee, a current Palo Alto resident and native Palo Altan. As a product of this community I have found it tiresome to have my and my collegues abilities, integrity and worth continually questioned by the media and by Diana Diamond in particular.
Thank you to Phil Plymale for his adept and accurate response to the Diana's latest column.
I care deeply about this community and am personally invested in doing my best to serve it well. From my 9 years working for the City of Palo Alto I can tell you that the vast majority of city workers I have come across are equally invested and committed to serving this community well.
I agree with RWE that ALL workers in the public and private sectors deserve good benefits and good pay. It's unfortuate and unfair that workers are losing this benefits left and right in the private sector. The middle class seems to be slowly disappearing and I am thankful that I have a job which supports me sufficently to allow me to live in my hometown.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 9, 2006 at 9:55 pm
It's not surprising to me to see Ms. Diamond so effectively challenged on the thoroughness and fairness of her reporting on this labor issue, considering similar tendencies in her editorials at her previous employer. I'm recall shortcomings in her writings about teachers in particular - not just differences of opinion, but flat-out misrepresentations.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 12, 2006 at 7:20 pm
It is a national disgrace that many American workers do not have the decent benefits our city workers do. We should be proud to live in a city that at least gives adequate health benefits to workers. If Miss Diamond would actually look at their take home pay, and see how far it would go towards a Palo Alto mortgage or rent in this area, I'm sure she would change her tune. The sad fact is, that because of high housing costs, cities in this area have difficulty attracting good workers. If Palo Alto were to lose some of our long-term and well-trained employees, it would be difficult to replace them and would cost time and money to train new workers, if they could be found! This would harm all citizens. Already, many, if not most, of our police officers and paramedics cannot afford to live in the city. In an emergency, such as a major earthquake, they will take a long time to get here if not already on duty. Paying them less or cutting their benefits will only make these problems worse.
a resident of another community
on Oct 13, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I don't seem to understand why there is continued complaints about the salaries and benefits of City Employees. This is a community that City employees can't afford to live in. Many employees went a couple of years without a raise and reduction in benefits. Also a manditory furlough without pay was required.
Despite the complaints, I want to make sure that I am proud of the work that I do. I will continue to give my very best, and believe that I contribute to this community. The hours that I put in are never accounted for, because of budget cuts. Yet there are many of us that continue to make sure our programs are successful for the residents of Palo Alto.
If ever there was a way to make an employee not want to engage, it is to keep complaining that they are not allowed to earn as much as you do!


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Originally Posted by Mathman
Originally Posted by Mathman
I totally agree with this...to win on your own without 'help' the guys need quads...but i do just absolutley love the 'only' triple jumpers with beautiful choreography...and for the sake of MY enjoyment, wouldn't mind if the were quadless but exquisite (at least once a season).Originally Posted by Doggygirl
OT: DG, i'm a dog lover too!
Originally Posted by skatingfan5
haha! wierd name to call your own dog. "My son". wonder why i never caught on cause one can't envision johnny having a son right now...or anytime for that matter. well, i guess it's technically feasible, LOL.
Nicely put, Emma -Originally Posted by emma
It is always nice to see beautiful skating from a lady or a gentleman, but there was always the dispute between the difficulty of the technical versus the elegant grace of figure skating.
The Technical lovers have won with the CoP. The bigger the tricks the more points and subliminely, it affects the PCS scores. So be it for now, but someday they will get around to Mathman's suggestion of having two sets of judges - one for the tech and one for the performance. It makes sense.
And not less weird to address the coach "Krasavitza" ("Beauty").Originally Posted by gracefulswan
Me too.Originally Posted by emma
Though it seems to me it's the 3A that causes most falls. I don't have enough statictics at hand but it looks like that those few guys who have quads are rather consistent with them (except for the latest Worlds but it's a different story LOL).
But overall, I would definitely prefer a quadless but a clean and beautifully choreographed program.
I've heard lots of pet people call their pets "kids" or "son" or names like that.Originally Posted by gracefulswan
Count me in that group!! My dogs ARE my kids.Originally Posted by sk8er1964
Another point about the quad. Now that the ISU has clarified the point that a quad counts as a different jump from the corresponding triple, if you can do a quad then you can do extra triples later in the program without a Zayak violation.
For instance, if I am reading the rules correctly, you can do a quad toe - triple toe combo [/i]and[/i] a solo triple toe, whereas if you only do a triple toe - triple toe then you can't do another triple toe.
That has always been the case. Jumps that can't be repeated (that is, can only be performed twice, one of them being in combination) are the jumps of the same type, with the same amount of revolutions. This only applies to triples or quads, there's no limit for doubles.
Agreed ... and I think he might have to branch out from the unitards at some point. I actually really liked his 2004 short program costume, though I liked last year's too.Originally Posted by mmscfdcsu
New pictures at this link. Should stay up for a few days at least.
How in the world did I miss THIS the first time around in this thread???? Maybe it's time to start a Doggy Lover thred in the Cafe so we can all update each other with new dog pics, or even re-hash some old dog pics (for those of us who never tire of looking at dog pics!)Originally Posted by emma


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Kluver, an Alexandria, MN native, comes to the Marlins after serving as the Assistant General Manager of the Alexandria Beetles of the Northwoods League.
In 2011, prior to working with the Beetles, Kluver served as a General Operations intern with the Fargo/Moorhead RedHawks of the Independent Northern League.
Kluver graduated Cum Laude from Augsburg College, located in Minneapolis, with a degree in Business Management.
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"The Marlins are excited to have Mitch in Morehead City and are thrilled with the enthusiasm, work ethic, and experience he will bring to the Marlins organization, said Marlins owner Buddy Bengel.
The Marlins open the 2013 season on Tuesday May 28th, on the road against the Fayetteville SwampDogs.
The home opener is the following night, May 29th, against the Forest City Owls. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m.
The Coastal Plain League is the nation's hottest summer collegiate baseball league.
Celebrating its 17th season in 2013, the CPL features 14 teams playing North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
The CPL gives college players the chance to refine their skills with the use of wooden bats.
Players are housed with local host families for the summer and past experiences have been very positive for both players and hosts.
Furthermore, the CPL has had over 1,000 alumni drafted and 57 alums - including 2011 AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander - make their Major League debut thus far.
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I guess it just a matter of how far someone will say the reach is. It's really weird to me to hear an NFL fan not understand what the term reaching is. If you have a need position, you may have to "reach" to get a player much sooner than he would otherwise go in the draft... when that happens it is called reaching. Although that is really just in terms of how it is perceived by those outside of the organization. Teams will have their own draft value they use to decide who to pick when and if they should trade, etc.
For example, everyone said the Vikings were "reaching" when they took Christian Ponder with their first pick: Mel Kiper: "The Vikings clearly need an answer at the quarterback position, but they reached for Ponder at No. 12. They clearly believe he's their guy long-term, but the draft is about
value too. When you saw Dalton land all the way down at No. 35, you had
to wonder if Ponder could have been had later. The Rudolph pick was a
pretty solid value and Ballard could be a good defensive lineman. The
Vikings also landed some needed help at cornerback and along the
offensive line. Minnesota reached for a quarterback, in my opinion, and
like Tennessee, still doesn't know who will start the season at
quarterback. However, the Vikings rebounded nicely on Days 2 and 3.
Here's a bleacher report article I just read the other day:
Teams reach for a need all the time in the NFL draft.
if they are selecting early in the first round, we've seen numerous
occasions where teams address a need regardless of the prospects
The Minnesota Vikings were a good example of that in 2011, when they drafted Christian Ponder at No. 12 overall.
Here are three teams who I see reaching for a need in the 2012 NFL draft.....


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Discussion in 'Towing & Trailer Tech' started by Cableguy, May 9, 2007.
excellent graphics Cableguy! I can't think of much to add to that, except for maybe easy tap-in points for the turn signal lights. I'll get to that later though.
Trailer Wiring Diagrams
4 Way Systems
Flat molded connectors allow basic hookup for three lighting functions; right turn signal, left turn signal, stoplight / marker and a ground.
4 way tow vehicle side.
4 way trailer side.
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Same as 4 way system listed above but adds a extra red or black auxiliary power wire.
5 way tow vehicle side.
5 way trailer side.
6 Way Systems
Round 1 1/4" diameter metal connector allows 1 or 2 additional wiring and lighting functions such as back up lights and electric brakes.
6 way tow vehicle side.
6 way trailer side.
7 Way Systems
Round 2" diameter connector allows additional pin for auxiliary power.
7 way RV flat blade tow vehicle side.
7 way RV flat blade trailer side.
Hopefully thats all the wiring diagrams for different applications. Trailer, trailer brakes and vehicle. Although vehichle colours codes on vehicles can vary....Add on if ya got em. We appear to have lost original post about trailer wiring. Sorry for the inconveinence.
This guys seems to have some handy tips on colour codes...Vehicle side. He's got some good tips too.
Nice job cable guy. Now we don't have to explain it ever again just post a link to this..
Thanks Fiero. If you have something to add throw it in there. I can well imagine you've put a hitch or 2 on :wink:
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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by zach45, Nov 28, 2008.
of stuff i have owned or have done...
here we go..
thats it for now...
You wern't kidding when you said random. We caught one of those soft shell river turtles out where we hunt. Damndest thing walked right out of the fire pit. I couldn't believe it. That night we alos caught a desert king snake and one bull frog. The next morning we all got a limit on doves.
wow dude, thats alotta different stuff! liked all of it, except the snakes, what kind is the red 1, that thing is freeky looking!
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PENNINGTON GAP, Virginia - A police chief lands on the other side of the law, arrested and now in jail without bond. Pennington Gap Police Chief Bryan Young is facing several drug and gun charges.
News 5 learned Young was re-appointed as Chief of Pennington Gap Police back in July and he's been serving the last 15-months.
In a small town of almost 2,000 people, there's big talk. "Heard people say that the Chief got picked up," said resident Gary Fausnight.
The arrest of Pennington Gap Police Chief Bryan Young happened at the Lee County Courthouse Thursday. "It involves drug distribution, pill distribution," said Sheriff Gary Parsons.
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Sheriff Parsons says Mr. Fritz has no association with police and cannot comment on his involvement, but Sheriff Parsons is anticipating more arrests and more charges. "It's a sad day for all of us, he betrayed a trust that we owe to the public," added Sheriff Parsons.
News 5 checked with Town Mayor DR Carter, he didn't want to speak on camera but says the community's safety is top concern and there are still six full-time police officers.
Residents say this arrest is a surprise and it's awful news to hear. "He's supposed to be out here getting them, not selling and distributing them," added Fausnight.
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Some curves are so convoluted they wiggle free of the one-dimensional world and fill up space
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The illustration at right shows a later stage in the evolution of the Hilbert curve, when it has become convoluted enough that one might begin to believe it will eventually reach all points in the square. The curve was drawn by a computer program written in a recursive style that I call programming by procrastination. The philosophy behind the approach is this: Plotting all those twisty turns looks like a tedious job, so why not put it off as long as we can? Maybe we'll never have to face it.
Let us eavesdrop on a computer program named Hilbert as it mumbles to itself while trying to solve this problem:
Hmm. I'm supposed to draw a curve that fills a square. I don't know how to do that, but maybe I can cut the problem down to size. Suppose I had a subroutine that would fill a smaller square, say one-fourth as large. I could invoke that procedure on each quadrant of the main square, getting back four separate pieces of the space-filling curve. Then, if I just draw three line segments to link the four pieces into one long curve, I'll be finished!
Of course I don't actually have a subroutine for filling in a quadrant. But a quadrant of a square is itself a square. There's a program named Hilbert that's supposed to be able to draw a space-filling curve in any square. I'll just hand each of the quadrants off to Hilbert.
The strategy described in this monologue may sound like a totally pointless exercise. The Hilbert program keeps subdividing the problem but has no plan for ever actually solving it. However, this is one of those rare and wonderful occasions when procrastination pays off, and the homework assignment you lazily set aside last night is miraculously finished when you get up in the morning.
Consider the sizes of the successive subsquares in Hilbert's divide-and-conquer process. At each stage, the side length of the square is halved, and the area is reduced to one-fourth. The limiting case, if the process goes on indefinitely, is a square of zero side length and zero area. So here's the procrastinator's miracle: Tracing a curve that touches all the points inside a size-zero square is easy, because such a square is in fact a single point. Just draw it!
Practical-minded readers will object that a program running in a finite machine for a finite time will not actually reach the limiting case of squares that shrink away to zero size. I concede the point. If the recursion is halted while the squares still contain multiple points, one of those points must be chosen as a representative; the center of the square is a likely candidate. In making the illustration above, I stopped the program after seven levels of recursion, when the squares were small but certainly larger than a single point. The wiggly blue line connects the centers of 47 = 16,384 squares. Only in the mind's eye will we ever see a true, infinite space-filling curve, but a finite drawing like this one is at least a guide to the imagination.
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Friday, I went to a cutout call that turned out to be a deadout that didn't make it through the winter. Is it worth cutting and banding this empty comb into frames for later use? Is it an advantage for splits, or is it more difficult to fix up this old comb?
These bees were not sprayed and appeared to have starved.


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Jason Hardink came to Salt Lake City to fill a position that hadn't existed before. Now, it's hard to imagine the area's cultural scene without him.
In addition to his work with the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera, Hardink has been a regular performer on virtually every chamber-music series in town, from Intermezzo to the Park City Chamber Music Festival. He's been a judge and recitalist for the Gina Bachauer Foundation, played with the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble and on the Madeleine Festival, helped patrons get to know the music of Schubert and Stravinsky and, perhaps most notably, spearheaded a 2007 festival celebrating the music of Olivier Messiaen that involved many of Salt Lake City's leading arts organizations.
He's shown himself equally proficient performing the complex and colorful music of Messiaen and accompanying the King's Singers in a stirring round of "All You Need Is Love." Hardink even showed a flair for acting and singing when he portrayed Mozart in a memorable Utah Symphony presentation.
Since 2009, he also has guided the NOVA Chamber Music Series. Hardink will solo in Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Utah Symphony later in the week.
He has played solo arrangements of the piece before, but hasn't performed it with an orchestra. "It's an exciting thing to take on," said Hardink, who previously has played concertos and quasi-concertos by Beethoven, Bernstein and Messiaen with the Utah Symphony. He's struck by "Rhapsody's" subtle sophistication and noted that playing jazz isn't all that different from improvising concertos in Baroque music, as Utah Symphony music director Thierry Fischer asked him to do last month in performances of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
Utah Symphony principal pops conductor Jerry Steichen said he's excited about collaborating with Hardink. "He's such a hard-working member of the orchestra, an incredibly talented pianist," Steichen said.
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On the other hand, "it's tough putting your pieces up against Beethoven or Mozart." (Hardink has a good track record when it comes to programming new music; Andrew Norman's "The Companion Guide to Rome," which premiered at NOVA last November, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.) The Utah Symphony's Mercedes Smith will play Quaglia's Fantasy Variations for Solo Flute on Sunday's cocnert, and Matthew Nelson will perform "After Milton: Three Vignettes for B-flat Clarinet." (The Milton of the title isn't the one you might think it is, Quaglia confessed; it's modern-music icon Milton Babbitt.) Hardink hopes the short pieces will whet listeners' appetite for a larger Quaglia composition to premiere on NOVA next year.
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Do you medicate for Nosema and Foulbrood when you start a colony with a package?
I have read that some do and others are silent on medication.
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Do you medicate for Nosema and Foulbrood when you start a colony with a package?
I have read that some do and others are silent on medication.
Thanks, Don
I do not medicate for Nesema. I have never medicated for Nosema in 39 years of keeping bees. I have not medicated for Foulbrood for 38 years and only did the first year because I was scared into it by all the books.
There is an article in Bee Culture from a very experienced beekeeper about treating packages.Out of ten packages that he purchased almost all where crashing from mites there first year.
My first year I bought into all that stuff as well.Later after much reading,"some from you're site ",I decided not to treat and to start keeping nucs around.
Couldn't you just use powdered sugar while they were still in the package? Would be pretty easy at least that covers mites.
Don do you rush out and get a big shot of antibiotic because you are moving into a new house? Provide a clean house and buy bees from a trustworthy source. Western Bee gets good clean packages. They would like to sell you medication, but that does not mean the packages need them!
Most commercial package suppliers treat for nosema and foulbroods. I wouldn't worry about that....now mites might be another story.
If you wanted you could dust them with powdered sugar or spray w/oxalic acid.....of course you didn't hear that from me.
Specific to package bees:
Oxalic acid mixed in sugar as a dribble or spray can be very hard on bees when they eat it. And it can kill the bees if its too cold out.
You could do a sugar roll of 300 bees/1 cup to see were your mite are. And if it's high you could do the whole group while in the cage.
Know what the symptoms are for the diseases are and check for them.
You might want a Screen Bottom Board. You can tell allot about a hive by what in the bottom.
Good question and I am looking for answers all so. I am going to buy a few more packages in the spring and all so would like to know if a producer of packages treats for foulbrood is he suppressing it or just for prevention. How do you find out?
If he treats at all why?
treating with OA before they brood will take care of pretty much all the mites that came for the ride with the package. cheap, nearly 100% and easy on the bees
i've never bought a package. but if they come in a screened box it would be real easy to sugar dust before hiving them.
Then dump em in a big empty box and ask them to stay.....
Sounds like a plan......
Actually, I don't think the screen is very condusive to shaking mites off and you would have to remove the queen and feed can before doing so. They will have already had a massive brood break. I would not think mites should be much of a concern. Stress more so.
makes sense jb, i have no clue.
i guess it's best to buy from a reputable source, and keep an good eye on 'em.
the op was asking about antibiotics though, not sure i see the point there if they were healthy to begin with.
If a package supplier sells bees and the customer has to be concerned about Foulbrood and Nosema, they won't be in business very long. If you don't have confidence that your dealer is providing healthy bees it's time to find a new package source.
If the supplier is registered then his bees have been inspected and stamped with a clean bill of health.
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[quote user="gmen0820"][quote user="BluGiantPies"][quote user="rainierjef"][quote user="Manning2Niks"][quote user="Voldamort"][quote user="Manning2Niks"]Were gonna trade back 10 spots from an already low position just to gain a 4th?
I don't know (or care) if that trade works out with the draft spot "points", but I do know were not the Redskins.
Honestly, you wouldn't be pis sed off and be calling for Reeses head if he traded out of the first to just gain a 4?
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yeah it is.* no diss to the OP he put some work into this but a trade of the 32 garners at least 2 2nd round picks
[/quote] always feel its best to go with a low estimate lol guess that one was a little too low. Thx for the input guys next time I'll give us a bit more. I guess I just figured the thirty second is basically a second already so moving down a few spots and getting another player that I like and an extra fourth for depth BC we got a lot of free agents and spots to fill. I do appreciate all the feedback tho negative and positive. How do u guys like the players I have us selecting.[/quote]It wasn't a low estimate, it is actually a little bit under in terms of the draft board (4 points).
Don't know why people expect more from trading from 32 to 40 than a 4th round pick.[/quote]
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