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- A state on Brazil's coast, Bahia is the center of the country's Afro-Brazilian culture
- Home to percussion ensemble Olodum, famed for its work with Paul Simon
- "From the time kids here are very young, they play drums," says a top Brazilian percussionist
- Drums are at heart of the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition of Candomblé
Wander the historic streets of the Bahian capital of Salvador, and you're never far from one of the region's most moving traditions: its powerful rhythms.
Whether it's the local axe pop music powered by freight-train percussion or street musicians and blocos afro pounding out hypnotic riffs, big beats power Bahia in a way they do nowhere else in Brazil, maybe even the world.
A state on Brazil's coast, Bahia is the center of the country's Afro-Brazilian culture, and the heartbeat of that is the drum.
The state is home to percussion ensembles such as Ile Aiye and Olodum, a group of several thousand members famed for their work with Paul Simon, that make Carnival in Salvador one of the top attractions in Brazil.
Percussionist Carlinhos Brown rose from drumming on empty water bottles in the streets of a poor neighborhood in Salvador to become one of Brazil's top hit makers and artists, not to mention a judge on "The Voice Brasil."
Brown founded the mostly percussion band Timbalada, a Carnival favorite, which takes its name from the conical hand drum known as a timbal.
Brash bashers
"From the time kids here are very young, they play drums," says Gabi Guedes, one of Bahia's top percussionists.
Guedes has played with fellow Bahiano Gilberto Gil and Margareth Menezes, as well as Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, and is a member of Orkestra Rumpilezz, a 20-piece Afro-Brazilian group.
"You hear all sorts of percussion growing up, all kinds of samba, samba afro, samba de roda," says Guedes. "All this music is connected to the drum. It's in the blood. It's passed down from the grandfathers."
Like their grandfathers, Bahia's modern musicians are known for a brash style that mixes rhythms from around Brazil and the Caribbean.
The hyperkinetic music style known as axe (pronounced "AH-shay"), which blends speed-pop with fiery Afro-Brazilian percussion, has produced pop superstars such as Ivete Sangalo, Daniela Mercury and Claudia Leitte.
Samba reggae is another made-in-Bahia style that bends rhythmic traditions in a popular way.
"Bahia is a rhythmic laboratory," says Chris McGowan, co-author of "The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil" and a just-released ebook of interviews with top Brazilian artists of the MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) and bossa nova era, "The Brazilian Music Book."
"It's a place where Afro-Brazilian rhythms and the latest sounds coming from the Caribbean and elsewhere are mixed together to create new danceable hybrids," says McGowan. "Samba, ijexa, reggae, rock, merengue, lambada, soca, salsa, zouk and other styles are energetically shaken and stirred together."
Godly beats
Drums are also at the heart of the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition of Candomblé, which blends African beliefs with Catholic influences and has its origins in Salvador, where the first Candomblé terreiro (house of worship) was founded.
Candomblé is widely practiced in Bahia and has followers throughout Brazil.
In worship ceremonies, devotees commune with deities known as orixas through dance, chants, offerings and music rituals in which drumming plays a prominent role.
The beat of tall, conga-like drums, and atabaques, a conical hand drum that comes in three sizes, calls forth the deities and creates a trance-like mood for encountering the divine.
"The drum is very powerful to bring the orixas close to us," says Guedes, "and to help us worship them."
Guedes got his percussion training as a youth in the Gantois house of Candomblé, where he lived and studied with the most famous head priestess of Candomblé, Mae Menininha, celebrated in songs by pop icons Caetano Veloso and Dorival Caymmi and whose fans included the writer Jorge Amado.
Bloc parties
Candomblé also figures in another percussion-oriented tradition in Bahia, afoxe, a procession that brings Candomblé music, songs and rhythms into the streets.
Afoxe groups march to the beat of an ijexa rhythm tapped on atabaques, gongues (a double-bell agogo) and a gourd shaker familiar to African music also called afoxe.
The most famous afoxe group, the Filhos de Gandhy, began parading at Carnival in the late 1940s, inspired by the nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi.
During Carnival in Brazil, people who aren't part of their city's featured parade form their own neighborhood groups, or blocos, so everyone can get in on the celebration.
In the 1970s, a tradition of blocos afro, all Afro-Brazilian drumming groups, developed in Bahia, led by a bloco called Ile Aiye.
Over the years Ile Aiye has grown to a couple thousand members, blazing a percussion trail of thundering bass drums (surdos) and tenor drums (repiques) with powerful songs about African roots and black pride.
Today, the best-known bloco afro is Olodum, originally an all-percussion group based in the historic heart of Salvador in the Pelourinho district.
The group has recorded a number of successful albums and touched off the samba-reggae style of music so popular in Bahia and across Brazil.
If you're in Brazil and want to get closer to the real Bahian experience, the path is easy to find: Just follow the beat.


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(Feb. 7, 2005)--The UTSA Graduate Political Science Association (GPSA), the Department of Political Science and Geography, and the Institute for Law and Public Affairs will host a panel discussion on the U.S.A. Patriot Act from noon to 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11 in the Main Building Auditorium (0.104) at the UTSA 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Moderated by Richard Gambitta, chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography, the presentations and discussion on provisions of the Patriot Act will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Panelists include Mark Roomberg, assistant U.S. attorney; Patrick Fylik, ACLU San Antonio vice president and attorney; Lino Graglia, UT Austin professor of law; Fernando Colon-Navarro, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law professor and assistant dean; Jeffery Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law, St. Mary's University School of Law and Milo Colton, St. Mary's University professor of criminal justice and criminology.
According to a summary by Charles Doyle, senior specialist of the American Law Division of the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act in response to the terrorists' attacks of September 11, 2001. The act gives federal officials greater authority to track and intercept communications, both for law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering purposes.
It vests the Secretary of the Treasury with regulatory powers to combat corruption of U.S. financial institutions for foreign money laundering purposes. It seeks to further close our borders to foreign terrorists and to detain and remove those within our borders. It creates new crimes, new penalties and new procedural efficiencies for use against domestic and international terrorists.
Although it is not without safeguards, critics contend some of its provisions go too far. Although it grants many of the enhancements sought by the Department of Justice, others are concerned that it does not go far enough.
The act originated in the House and the Senate and was passed by both entities Oct. 11, 2001. After amendments, it was approved by Congress on Oct. 24 and signed by President Bush on Oct. 26.
For more information, contact James Zamarron, GPSA, at (512) 413-6080.

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Our neighbour Deu, who operates the thresher gives meashout just after midday andI follow the truck out to the farm. He arrives on time asagreed but Jai & Co arent ready forhim for some reason and there is no-one there todo the work so Deu takes his truck off to another farm and I return to the house. Bike back an hour or so later and am just in time for Deu's second coming and the threshing to begin. It doesnt take so long this year and we end up with 43 1/2 30kg sacks of sticky rice. The boiling rice is still in the fields and will stay there for alittle longer yet as it is not quite ready. When, if, it does ripen off it will be threshed by hand and should yield another few sacks.
I have to confess that I took no part in the procedure at all this year resting up for our trip next week. My knee is feeling much better but I didnt want to chance things.
I head back to the house and open up the ricehouse in preparation for its imminent arrival by pick-up.
Its nice to say, particularly for Jai who has been working hard every day, that the rice is finished with now for another year.


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So, I promise pics comming soon. But for the time being, Let me just say that I got some tangerine tigers in this tank now, as well as a 1:3 guppy population going on, 6 ottos, and 2 tiger stripe nerites and 3 tire track nerites.
Plants, I'll just post the current list once I get the pics up. I got something in here though that I've been wanting, and its sooooooo much better than I could have ever hoped for
I get to see this tank again this weekend, and really get to focus on the tanks again in another two weeks or so when I'm done with finals.
Then I should probably actually start dosing this tank with ferts, since I think I've been letting the dirt do it all alone for a little too long :P
And get more than a pair of guppies and a few ottos going.....just maybe.
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It is GREEN!
How come Han gets EVERYTHING? He is taking over TPT...
Next trim, I demand my share
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I have before and after pics of the trim, and I also got a few fish, so pics in a day or so.
Also, was nice being able to send the trimmings to h4n for a few things :P. I guess at this rate, I should have a relatively constant supply of L. 'Atlantis' and E. najas, among some other things.
Also, I should probably start thinking about dosing this tank, I've gotten pretty far without dosing (I believe due to the dirted substrate) but I shouldn't rely on that, as my 5.5 is now teaching me.
I'll be home with this tank in another week, so hopefully getting more plants and actually having fish in here at some point, which would be fantastic :P
Kind of afraid of what this thing will look like since it'd have gone 4 weeks without any trimming or anything O.o
Guess that will mean there will be some plants I'm sending around lol
I think I need to move my atlantis back in this tank, because whenever I come come back to it after not being around for 2 weeks, its shaded like, 3/4's of my tank lol.
Will probably move this back and them trim the crypts in this tank, then have Twisted in front of it (I need twisted though since my single stem did not fare well for me )
|this tank looks awesome. very very nice!
Derp, I forgot to take more recent pics, but this is the tank as I came home to it on friday, before I trimmed things and moved some stuff around and took some stuff out.
FTS. Why hello there L. Atlantis. Was not expecting you to be quiet this weedy lol. I love it :P
I'd say before the trim that this was about 50% of the tanks plantlife....
Considering I could never get L. repens to work for me....honestly is there even a need to have that? This plant is possibly one of my new favorites now.
I need to get some pics of what it looks like post trim.
One thing to note though, is that I don't think my livestock took too well to a few things, cause atm idk what is still alive aside from snails and maybe some shrimp *sigh*
I'll get a few pics up later.
Twisted kinda gave up on me though, but my other plants......I have a before and after trim pic that is pretty nice.
Once the weather gets warmer I might try my hand at shipping and selling some plants from this tank (stuff in my 75 still needs some growing before I wanna touch it and get rid of things)
Before saying anything....WHAT IS THIS?
As I believe I've mentioned before, this tank is a dirted tank, and I used a bit of topsoil to get it started, alongside organic potting soil. I guess there were some earthworms in the topsoil, but I thought I got them all out. Only thing I can think of is that some eggs hatched or something. However, what I find odd is the fact that this thing could live underwater....since this has been set up like this since december...and I found this in mid january.......
Anyways, onto the tank itself :P
I forget what's been added since my last update (these pics are everything I have up until the present from whenever my last update was) so I'll just post the stocklist again.
Current Fish/Inverts
Corydoras pygmaeus Pygmy Cory x12
Otocinclus sp. Oto x3
Neocaridina heteropoda Blue Velvet Rili x#
Physa sp. Pond Snail x#
Planorbis rubrum Ramshorn Snail x#
Current Plants
o Foreground
Hemianthus callitrichoides- Dwarf Baby Tears
Hydrocotyle tripartita H. Japan
Lobelia cardinalis Dwarf Cardinal
Echinodorus parviflorus Tropica Sword
Rotala sp. Pearl
Ammania sp. Bonsai
o Mid-ground
Rotala sp. Colorata
Sagittaria subulata - Dwarf Sag
Ludwigia sp. Atlantis
Egeria najas Narrow Leaf Elodea
o Background
Cryptocoryne wendtii - Red/Brown Crypt
Rotala sp. Mini Butterfly
Cabomba caroliniana Green Cabomba
Cabomba furcata - Red Cabomba
Nymphaea zenkeri - Red Tiger Lotus
Ludwigia inclinata var. Tornado
o None Substrate
Lagenandra meeboldii Pink (Until it is big enough to put in 75 or sell)
Microsorum pteropus Java Fern
Vesicularia montagnie Xmas Mossremoved
Subwassertang sp. Round Pellia
This showcases the one problem i have with E. najas.....its such a weed and it gets everywhere....in under a week a single stem reaches more than halfway across the tank. It also does not like to branch out unless it is really long....as shown in later pics I'm going to try and tame this beast and keep it towards the back behind the driftwood where it can do w/e it pleases.
The cabomba had to be trimmed badly...that was even BEFORE I got my co2 running....I'm going to probably end up replacing it mostly with L. 'tornado' or something else....preferably something bushy that doesn't grow super fast. The pelia looks a little silly, but I'm hoping I can get it to cover that rock fully....and maybe even eventually get it on the big rock behind that one as well. L. Atlantis is, of course, not wanting to grow straight....but man that thing stems hard for me in this tank....I'm going to have plenty of this plant around :P
Running co2 (finally). I might eventually get a different diffuser, but this is fine for now. That R. colorata is going to grow massive though, since a ton of bubbles are going directly onto this plant.....I guess that's a good thing though lol. If it grows to quickly for my liking, I'll try and replace it with R. sunset (because at least if I have that growing out of my ears I can probably find more people interested in it)
HC going to eventually start spreading. I couldn't really bother with a dry start, but I feel like it will still do well since I started with submersed plants anyways. Also, the dwarf cardinal plant seems to be doing fine. Going to get that growing nice and bushy soon I hope :P
All the Atlantis offshoots.
I like my otocinclus. But I need more....5 more would be nice :P. Although, I might just also put these 3 in my 5.5 and get some hillstream loaches for this tank instead...besides, that 5.5 has a lot of hair algae that I think the oto's might like (and I'd LOVE to get rid of)
Blue Velvet shrimp :P Getting a single berried female seems to have paid off, cause now I have a good number of these guys chillin in this tank :P. I should get more though, just for genetic diversity, and I might also wanna get a second shrimp species breeding in here as well, maybe CRS. Also, R. Butterfly should prove to be a nice plant, seems to like branching out for me as well....we shall see what this does for me.
This is where more recent stuff comes in. Looks more or less the same, but trimmed up a bit.
Moved that almond leaf off of my R. pearl and A. bonsai. Gotta let these propegate more and get a nice row of both going on. Probably going to let these move in on where the E. najas is now and move the E. najas towards the back more.
Oh hi L. atlantis offshoots. You seem to be doing swell.
Pretty much the same as the pic of this area before.
Who was interested in L. meeboldi 'Pink'? I took this bit off from the main plant in my 75 and am letting it grow up a bit in this tank since I can get it to stay more in one place than I can in my 75. From what I can tell, this plant should be a relatively quick grower, and it gets BIG. I'm definitely looking forwards to spreading this plant throughout this forum :P
My crypts are doing too well in this tank. I think I need to start thinning this out lol. This is what dirt lets you do for your plants :P I'm not even dosing anything yet on this tank.....doesn't really look like I need to lol
I cut this in half so I now have 2 stems. I hope it branches out for me and propagates well....cause I would LOVE to make a jungle out of this plant. Bonus points if it gets red tops too. When I first say this plant online, I thought it was bleh, but now that I have it myself, it does look pretty sweet. Definitely a great plant for filling in spaces with condense thick leafs.
I still gotta deal with fish for this tank, but I'm back at school now, so that will have to wait until the spring. Hopefully I can visit frank's aquarium and get some sweet nano fish :P. And hopefully I can pay for said fish via selling plants from this tank and my other tanks haha.
I'm going to replace the check valves on my co2 system as well, since I got atomic check valves from GLA recently. I also want to refill the bubble counter, since it now has water in it since it came in from the tank after the mineral oil got blown into the tank -_-
I'll keep you guys posted on this tanks progress. Hopefully this will look nicer once I can start trimming this tank up.
I'll update this later....and my 75 journal. Been re-ocupied with co2 issues so these updates have sort of taken the back burner of everything.
Also, I won't be updating this terribly often since I'm going back to school sunday, but I will update every time I sporadically decide to come home.
I should have a temporary fix for my co2 problems before I leave though, I think...
|Update later tonight, got MORE plants (and might hook up co2, or at least have everything ready so that I can just turn it on once I am ready on the other tank too).
Btw, based on my full tank shot, is my drop checker positioned currently or should it be higher?
The diffuser is going to be on the left side, but I figure it'd be better to measure the co2 away from where it is directly coming from, so that I know its spread well throughout the tank and all.
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I talked to the designer of the calicao magazine and he said it should feed rounds backward just as good as forward. He did laugh at the question too.
I talked to the designer of the calicao magazine and he said it should feed rounds backward just as good as forward. He did laugh at the question too.
Someone on theakforum.com pointed this out:
BISON-2 SMG deactivated
Might be worth checking to see if they had any spare magazines they might sell... one comment said the UK demill procedure might involve cutting the feed lips off the magazine, but that might be worked around.
If those pics are accurate it looks like the mag is untouched, looks like the barrel and bolt are the only things made useless
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The "original" Boltcutter Rivet Squeezers:
Project Pink - the Pink and Blue AK-74:
I'd read there were some patent disputes between Calico and the Russians. There might be some implementation details to squabble over, but it turns out that rifles with helical magazines were made over 130 years ago.
The Evans Repeating Rifle held 34 cartridges in the buttstock in a helical magazine, with a central rotor and guide strips. It's apparently fairly well known to the old-rifles and cowboy-action guys, but I just now learned of it.
Here's a picture of the Evans receiver/magazine unit:
The whole patent thing is something I've read about and basically they designed the Bizon mag similar to the Calico, then when they went to patent it they found the Calico design was already patented, so they redesigned! So I've read...
That's an interesting way to make the guides... a long strip that is wound into one side. Would make things easier to build! That design looks like what Calico uses.
My idea is to use an auger-style rotor to move them with a follower that is hooked onto the auger, forcing it to move when the auger rotates. Sheet metal with an ABS plastic shell. Should work, just need to find a long weekend with nothing else to do but work on it... (yeah right)
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Hmm, some new stuff from Wikipedia:
One of the Bizon's more unusual features is the magazine, which is often confused for a grenade launcher.[2] The cylinder below the barrel is in fact a 64-round helical magazine, similar to the type used in the American Calico M960 submachine gun.[2] The magazine is made from a durable glass-reinforced polyamide and mounts under the handguard in line with the barrel. This layout makes the weapon more compact and concealable. All cartridges are aligned nose forward in the Bizon magazine and cannot be loaded incorrectly.[2][3] Early magazines were fabricated from aluminium tubing and had a capacity of 67 rounds.[2] The production magazine capacity of 64 was selected as 64 is a multiple of 16, and 9x18mm Makarov rounds are packaged in boxes of 16.[2] The magazine has hooks on top of the front end that engage a pair of pins under the front sight, and the rear end of the magazine interfaces with a Kalashnikov pattern spring-loaded paddle type magazine catch/release located in front of the trigger guard.[6] Some magazines were produced with indicator holes allowing the user to verify the amount of ammunition loaded; these are spaced at 4, 24, 44 and 64-round increments.[3]
If the Wikipedia article is correct and early Bizon magazines were made from aluminum tubing, they'd probably look more like the Evans - smooth on the inside, with a helical guide strip, as opposed to the Calico's molded-in guide strips.
I could see making an aluminum mag by cutting the tube in half and tack-welding in pieces of bent aluminum. The Evans' guide strip must have been cast, as far as I can see. You can't form a strip into a helix like that, as far as I know. It has to be either cast or machined from bar stock.
Moving on to the Calico, I was looking at the pictures Coils posted of the inside of his. I haven't had the cojones to take mine apart yet... anyway, the curved guides mean it's not a simple injection molded part. The guides would keep the part from being removed from the mold since they would wrap around their forming blocks. Looking at the shape, I would guess separate loose blocks assembled into the die, then removed after the part was molded.
That's from my position of ignorance, anyway. If anyone here has any die-making experience, I'd welcome their input.


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I have 4 hives that I ordered screened bottom boards for. My question, would the hive be better off if I added a slatted rack or would it matter?
I have 4 hives that I ordered screened bottom boards for. My question, would the hive be better off if I added a slatted rack or would it matter?
Most hives are run without one. I intend to experiment a bit this year and see what I think. What the slatted rack adds is some cluster space. If you ever watched a hive on a hot night with a "bee beard" on the front of bees that were pushed out because of the heat, it gives them somewhere to go and more room to ventilate the hive.
I don't know how beneficial it is, but you can do fine without one. Whether you'd do better with one, I don't really know. It seems most popular for raising comb honey like the Ross Rounds or other things that are hard to get the bees to draw out completely and prettily.
I would say that it would depend on your reason for the screen bottom board.
If the screen bottom board is for mite control by allowing for mites to fall out of the hive. Then I would say do not use a slatted rack. The slatted rack would block the drop path and allow mites to re-attach to the next passing bee.
Half of the mites will still fall through.
i've played with slatted racks and i do think the bees like them,i think fewer mite fall through down to the screen, but maybe the bees are less stressed,crowded,damp,whatever and so it's an acceptable trade off.anyway hives with a slatted rack,in my experience seem to do a little better,i know this is nowhere near a scientific response.
how small a hole can you use in the screen
will the mites fall thru screen like the screen on your house door. 1/8 is hard to find if you want to build your own bottom boards. I dont want to buy a whole roll.
No, they won't fall through the small holes of a screen door mesh.
I believe Dadant.com sells the stuff in smaller pieces.
An idea I read somewhere (perhaps even in this Discussion group) is to use plastic mesh used for making rugs or cushions or something like that, that you can buy in a sewing/knitting supply store.
I did buy a whole roll at the hardware store. None of the lumber yards had any and several hardware stores didn't have any, but I could have bought it by the foot if I wanted. Also, some of the bee suppliers sell it but I think it's worth buying the roll and not paying the shipping. You'll use it sooner or later if you keep making bottom boards and vents for bees.
I was able to purchase 3 yards of 36" wide 1/8" hardware cloth for about $1.79 at Pleasant's Hardware here in Richmond.
I just received a new slatted rack from Betterbee, the nice part is the slats go the same direction as the frames. That might help the mite fall thing a little.
I've bought 1/8" hardware cloth at Ace Hardware.
I buy 1/8 hardware cloth or screen wire as I call it by the foot either in 3 foot width or 4 foot width. Not very expensive. At Ace Hardware. Darrell
84 lumber also carries #8 hardware.
BTW I believe #7 will also work, but I've had an easier time finding #8.
I bought my #7 at bettebee 1 800 632 3379, but you can found it at Sears Hardware if you have one close to you.


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By Adi Pavlovic
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(Nov. 29, 2005)--UTSA Hillel, a Jewish student and faculty organization, will host "Chanukah Extravaganza" from 7 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1 in Biosciences Building Room 3.03.02 on the UTSA 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Enjoy delicious Chanukah food, door prizes, traditional music and dancing, and dreidel games at the event. "Chanukah Extravaganza" is a celebration of the first night of Chanukah, which begins Dec. 25 and lasts eight days.
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"Chanukah is a time of miracles, renewed hope and rejuvenation for all of the potentials that we hold as individuals and as a society," said Rosalind Horowitz, UTSA professor of discourse and literacy studies and Hillel adviser. "The candle lights suggest sparks of new energy are possible and innovative thinking and living."
On each night of Chanukah, the menorah is lit to commemorate a miracle, which occurred after the Jews proclaimed victory over the Syrian armies in 165 B.C.E. When Jews (the Maccabbees) came to rededicate the temple, which had been defiled by the Syrians, they found only one small flask of oil with which to light the menorah, a candelabra used for worship. The flask contained enough oil for one day, yet the lamp burned for eight days, which allowed time to find a new supply of oil.
Today, Jews celebrate Chanukah (or Hanukkah) for eight days by lighting candles in a menorah every night to commemorate the eight-day miracle. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication."
For more information, call the Hillel office at (210) 458-2008.


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Hef's Movie Notes: The Departed
Violence, bloodshed, and mobsters; it's just another night at the mansion with Hugh Hefner.
Tonight: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg in Martin Scorsese's new American classic The Departed.
Though set in Boston, The Departed is actually an adaptation of a 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. Warner Bros. bought the rights for $1.75 million in 2003.
The film is about a notorious Irish mob boss Frank Costello (played by Nicholson) who plants an informant within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign an undercover cop (played by DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew.
When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the other's true identity before being found out himself.
The Nicholson character is based on James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish-American mobster in Boston who was secretly an FBI informant for more than three decades. The revelation that the FBI had long protected Bulger and his gang from prosecution caused a major scandal in Boston law enforcement.
Damon's character is based on John Connolly, the FBI agent who tipped off Bulger, allowing him to evade arrest for years. Today, Connolly is in prison for his role in Bulger's criminal activities.
DiCaprio's undercover role as a former state trooper who joins the Irish mob parallels the story of Richard Marimick, a former state trooper who later joined Bulger's gang.
DiCaprio had worked for Scorsese before—in The Gangs of New York (2002) and, more recently, in The Aviator as Howard Hughes in 2004.
Scorsese's first important film, Mean Streets (1973), starred Robert De Niro; De Niro was originally scheduled to appear The Departed, but he dropped out to work on The Good Shepherd in 2006, which he also directed and produced—an unfortunate decision. De Niro's role was then given to Martin Sheen.
Nicholson originally turned down his role in The Departed, but then Scorsese and DiCaprio ganged up on him.
He finally decided to take the part because he thought a change of pace would be good for his career after a string of comedies. Scorsese let Nicholson improvise many of his scenes because his character is supposed to be unpredictable.
In real life, Nicholson is a Lakers and Yankee fan. That's why he refused to wear a Boston Red Sox hat and wore a Yankees hat instead.
Damon's role originally went to Brad Pitt. But he dropped out to appear in Babel (2006). Pitt's company (Plan B, Inc.), co-owned by then-wife Jennifer Aniston, still co-produced the film.
Wahlberg based his role on recollections of how police behaved during the approximately 25 times he was arrested. Wahlberg got the part when Denis Leary had a scheduling conflict and couldn't accept the role. Ray Liotta was offered the part, but he, too, had other commitments.
Alec Baldwin won his role when Mel Gibson was otherwise occupied making Apocalypto (2006).
Vera Farmiga is the highest billed woman in the cast. She played George Clooney's girlfriend in Up in the Air. Scorsese chose her over better-known stars Hilary Swank and Kate Winslet.
The Departed was shot mostly in Brooklyn and Boston. New York offered a 15-percent state tax credit so the producers frequently used New York to represent Boston.
The production ran from April 25 to September 15, 2005, on a $90 million budget.
22 people are killed on screen.
The word fuck is used 23 times.
The film premiered on September 26, 2006, to rave reviews and blockbuster box office.
Kenneth Turan declared in the L.A. Times, "The Departed is almost impossible to resist…."
Variety stated: "Mixing it up with modern mobsters for the first time since Casino 11 years ago, Martin Scorsese cooks up a juicy and bloody steak of a movie in The Departed. … Pulses with energy, tangy dialogue and crackling performances from a fine cast, combining to give Warner Bros. a winning hand commercially in all markets…."
The worldwide gross was nearly $290 million, the most successful Scorsese film in history—outgrossing The Aviator by $70 million.
The Departed won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese's first Academy Award), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Wahlberg was nominated as Best Supporting Actor.
Many thought Scorsese's Oscar was long overdue. In accepting the award he said, "This is the first movie I have ever made with a plot!"
So now, Martin Scorsese's crime classic, The Departed.


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Everyone seems to have an opinion on how a bratwurst should be treated -- bathed in an onion beer bath and then grilled; parboiled, or just tossed on the grill and cooked as God intended.
But what bratwurst is truly the best? The title of World's Best Bratwurst is at stake at a sausage smack-down Saturday in Watertown.
All the big names will be there, and some lesser known wurstmachers, as well: Johnsonville, Klement's, Trig's Smokehouse, Piggly Wiggly, Glen's Market, and more.
The drama unfolds at the Watertown Airport from 1 to 7 p.m.
Judging takes place at 3 p.m., with prizes awarded in three categories: best traditional brat; best non-traditional brat, and alternative (turkey, tofu -- you get the idea).
The $5 admission gets you three sampling tickets. It's sponsored by the Watertown Tourism Council. For details, go to www.worldsbestbrats.com.
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On June 5, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and relief actors launched the annual belg assessment to evaluate the effects of seasonal agricultural production and associated humanitarian needs across Afar, Amhara, Oromiya, Somali, Tigray, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) regions. Preliminary results are expected by late June and will inform the revised 2016 Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD).
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Health Sector Resiliency (HSR) Project supports the Afghan government to foster a strengthened, reformed, and increasingly self-reliant Afghan health system. The project's technical objectives are to improve health sector governance and accountability, increase government financing for priority health services, and strengthen human resources systems and operations at the Ministry of Public Health.
In Afghanistan, treatment of childhood diarrhea has been implemented through the existing Basic Package of Health Services service delivery model since 2003. However coverage of treatment of diarrhea with Zinc/Oral Rehydration Salts remains as low as 5%, according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2010.
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peado Wrote:
addtamx Wrote:
My biggest beef with it all is the mistakes the 3rd umps make......this should not happen.....ever.
Agreed. But you can't blame DRS for that. The Jaques Kallis debacle was caused by two umpiring errors not DRS.
I too love DRS, and even when watching a game live at the stadium, DRS adds to the spectacle and level of excitement. The crowds seem to love it. I was at Cape Town for the recent test, and couldn't find one single person in the crowd who doesn't like it.
Equally I don't detect any call amongst players, umpires, media or cricket authorities (India excepted) that want to get rid of it.
Every single test match which doesn't involve India is using it, even though it is not mandatory. Surely that says it all.
Hard to disagree with that.
My only 'beef' is the time that some decisions take. The last Colombo test seemed to revolve around interminable debate in the 3rd umpires room. Not only did it leave the impression that the ultimate decision was a best guess, it actually undermined the whole pocess.
We all believe in the concept of batsmen being given the benefit (well apart from bowlers obviously) but anything debated longer than, shall we say one minute, surely goes completely against the spirit of this ethos. If you can't say after reviewing it three times then he's not out, simple as.
Post subject: Re: DRS.......Yes or No???
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peado Wrote:
Agreed. But you can't blame DRS for that. The Jaques Kallis debacle was caused by two umpiring errors not DRS.
But the DRS isn't just about the technology, it is a package of both technology and umpires. IMO if the 3rd umpire fails the DRS fails.
What did we all think of the Ross Taylor dismissal yesterday, another contentious one??
I reckon in this case the right decision was reached, but I'm not convinced he should have been given out. The only conclusive evidence was snicko, which isn't part of the DRS and didn't become available until sometime after the event.
The Taylor one also highlighted another gripe I have with the system. In a case like this it isn't about benefit of the doubt to the batsmen, it becomes benefit of doubt to the on field umpire.
If the decision was not out and Broad referred it I'm fairly certain that the DRS verdict would have been not out. I struggle with that.....are we using the technology to get correct decisions or is it a safety net for umpires??
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addtamx Wrote:
are we using the technology to get correct decisions or is it a safety net for umpires??
We are using it to get correct decisions. Which in the main it does do.
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Note: Most user interface tasks can be performed in Edge Classic or the New Edge experience. For an overview, getting started topics, and release notes specific to the New Edge experience, see the docs.
Use the analytics API to measure API program performance
This topic covers the Apigee Analytics Services API. Apigee Edge records a wide variety of operational and business data that flows across APIs. The metrics derived from this data are useful for operational monitoring and business monitoring. Using Analytics Services, you can, for example, determine which APIs are performing well or poorly, which developers are delivering the highest value traffic, and which apps are causing the most issues for your backend services.
To help access this data easily, Apigee Edge Analytics Services exposes a RESTful API. You can use this API when you need to automate certain Analytics functions, such as retrieving metrics periodically using an automation client or script. You can also use the API to build your own visualizations in the form of custom widgets that you can embed in portals or custom apps.
This topic demonstrates the RESTful Analytics API. To learn how to use Analytics in the API Edge management UI see Analytics Services overview.
Data delay interval
After API calls are made to proxies, it takes about 12 minutes for the data to appear in dashboards, custom reports, and management API calls.
Getting the number of API calls per month
If you want to see the total number of calls made to your APIs per month, see the Get API message counts SmartDocs management API.
The API must be run for each organization and each envronment. Here's the call in cURL:
curl -v "https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/organizations/{org}/environments/{environment}/stats/?select=sum(message_count)&timeRange=03/01/2016%2000:00~03/31/2016%2024:00" -u email
Dates/times are in UTC and use the following format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM, with the range separated by a tilde (~). For cURL, the %20 URL encoding is required for the space between the date and time.
This is an abbreviated version of the /stats API, which provides additional query parameters and dimension resource paths for more granular analytics reporting. For more information, see Get metrics for a dimension, as well as the information that follows.
Retrieving statistics: dimensions, metrics, and functions
Apigee Edge Analytics Services is based on the concept of 'dimensions'. A dimension is an entity that Apigee Edge automatically monitors and measures. The measurements that Analytics collects are called 'statistics'. In the API, this is abbreviated as
For this reason the base URL that you invoke to retrieve statistics for dimensions is the following:
To create a working request, substitute your organization name for the variable
{org_name}. Substitute the environment name ('test' or 'prod') for the variable
For example:
This is the base URL that you invoke get statistics. To identify the dimension, you need to add the name of the dimension as a URI variable to this base URL.
The following dimensions are supported:
For example, to get statistics for APIs:
To get statistics for developers:
To get statistics for developer apps:
You will find that if you submit one of these requests, you will get the following error:
{ "code" : "Missing select parameter", "message" : "Missing select parameter", "contexts" : [ ] }
Now you need to add a select statement to the base URL for the chosen dimension. You create the select statement using query parameters.
Query parameters define:
- Metrics: The attribute of the chosen dimension used to calculate statistics. For more information about metrics, see Analytics reference.
- Functions: The optional aggregate function run against the metric defined for the dimension. The possible values are: avg, min, max, sum.
- TimeRange: The time interval over which data should be analyzed, in the form MM/DD/YYYY%20HH:MM~MM/DD/YYYY%20HH:MM.
Notice the "%20" before "HH:MM". The TimeRange requires an URL-encoded space character before HH:MM, or a "+" character, as in: MM/DD/YYYY+HH:MM~MM/DD/YYYY+HH:MM.
Data older than six months from the current date is not accessible by default. If you want to access data older than six months, contact Apigee Support.
- Filters: The attribute used to drill-down into or sort across results.
For complete reference on these parameters, see Build custom reports.
Let's suppose that you want to get statistics across your API proxies that are deployed in the test environment. You want to find out how many request messages were received by all API proxies between 8/24/2013 and 9/25/2013. You want to find out a daily count for messages that were received. To do so, you create a select statement on the
/stats/apiproxy resource.
The example below demonstrates who you would construct a request for these statistics. The select statement defines the aggregate function
sum for the metric
message_count on the dimension
apis deployed in the
test environment. The report provides a snapshot of the request message throughput to all APIs for traffic received between 8/24/2013 and 9/25/2013:
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(message_count)&timeRange=8/24/2013%2000:00~9/25/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=day" \ -u email:password
Sample Response:
{ "environments" : [ { "dimensions" : [ { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(message_count)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1379548800000, "value" : "1100.0" } ] } ], "name" : "target-reroute" } ], "name" : "test" } ], "metaData" : { "errors" : [ ], "failedEnvs" : "[]", "notices" : [ ], "samplingRate" : "100" }
This response indicates that 1100 message were received by one API proxy called 'target-reroute' running in the test environment between 8/24/2013 and 9/25/2013, on Thursday, 19 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT.
1379548800000, is in Unix timestamp format. There are many Unix timestamp conversion tools available on the Internet that you can use to decode these timestamps.
To get statistics for other dimensions, specify a different dimension as the URI parameter. For example, you can specify the
apps dimensions to retrieve statistics for consumer apps. The following report shows the total throughput (messages received) from any apps for the specified time interval:
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/apps?"select=sum(message_count)&timeRange=01/24/2013%2000:00~09/25/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=day" \ -u email:password
{ "environments" : [ { "dimensions" : [ { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(message_count)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1365379200000, "value" : "1.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1363046400000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362441600000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362355200000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362096000000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362009600000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1361404800000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1360022400000, "value" : "0" } ] } ], "name" : "weatherapp" }, { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(message_count)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1365379200000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1365033600000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1363305600000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1363046400000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362441600000, "value" : "1.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362355200000, "value" : "1.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362096000000, "value" : "2.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1362009600000, "value" : "5.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1361404800000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1360022400000, "value" : "0" } ] } ], "name" : "thomas-app" } ], "name" : "test" } ], "metaData" : { "errors" : [ ], "failedEnvs" : "[]", "notices" : [ ], "samplingRate" : "100" } }
/apps dimension for APIs that enforce security policies (API Key or OAuth).
Using metrics
For each dimension, Analytics Services records pre-defined statistics for a set of relevant metrics. Metrics are attributes of dimensions that can be measured, such as
total_response_time and
request_size. In the examples above, you used the metric
message_count, which is one of a set of metrics supported by the
/apiproxy dimension.
Because these metrics are available out-of-the-box, they are referred to as "computed metrics" or "pre-aggregated metrics". Analytics Services provides you with a 'menu' of pre-computed metrics for each dimension. Since the metrics are already computed, you can retrieve large data sets very quickly.
Analytics Services also defines a set of dimensions that have no associated pre-computed metrics--for those dimensions, metrics are calculated on demand, when you make a request to Analytics Services.
Examples of dimensions whose statistics are computed on-demand are:
/stats/access_token: Statistics based on OAuth access tokens presented by client apps.
/stats/client_id: Statistics based on API keys presented by client apps.
/stats/client_ip: Statistics based on the IP addresses of client apps.
/stats/target_url: Statistics based on the URL of the target backend service.
/stats/request_verb: Statistics based on the HTTP verb of the request message.
In this example, you use a dynamic dimension:
target_url. Your goal is to determine how many requests to backend services result in errors. The report that you generate would be useful when communicating with the team responsible for backend services or when performing root-case analysis when an app developer reports issues when calling your APIs, and you suspect that the issue is related to failing backend services.
is_error metric defines any message that results in an HTTP
4xx or
5xx HTTP status code. The sample request below defines the dimension
target_url, the function
sum, and the metric
is_error. The response will detail how many errors were returned by all target URLs called by API proxies deployed in the 'test' environment:
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/target_url?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~9/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week" \ -u email:password
{ "environments" : [ { "dimensions" : [ { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(is_error)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1344211200000, "value" : "44.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1344816000000, "value" : "1.0" } ] } ], "name" : "https://api.company.com" }, { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(is_error)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1344211200000, "value" : "0" }, { "timestamp" : 1344816000000, "value" : "12.0" } ] } ], "name" : "http://weather.yahooapis.com" } ], "name" : "test" } ], "metaData" : { "samplingRate" : "100" }
Based on the statistics, you can see that the target URL
https://api.company.com has a total of 45 errors during the period, while
http://weather.yahooapis.com returned 12 errors during the period.
Sorting results by relative ranking
Many times when getting statistics, you only want to get results for a subset of the total set of metrics. Usually, you need to get the results for the "top 10", for example, the "top 10 slowest APIs", the "top 10 most active apps". You can do this using the
topk query parameter as part of the request.
For example you may be interested to know who your top developers are, measured by throughput, or what your worst performers (i.e., 'top slowest') target APIs are by latency.
topk (meaning 'top k' entities) enables reporting on the entities associated with the highest value for a given metric. This enables you to filter statistics for a list of entities that exemplify a particular condition. For example, to find which target URL was the most error prone over the last week, the
topk parameter is appended to the request, with a value of
In the example below
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/target_url?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~8/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week&sortby=sum(is_error)&topk=1" -u email:password
{ "environments" : [ { "dimensions" : [ { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(is_error)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1344816000000, "value" : "1.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1344211200000, "value" : "44.0" } ] } ], "name" : "https://api.company.com" } ], "name" : "test" } ], "metaData" : { "samplingRate" : "100" } }
The result of this request is a set of statistics that show that the buggiest target URL is
You can also use the
topk parameter to sort for the APIs experiencing the highest throughput. The following example retrieves statistics on the top ranked API, defined by highest throughput in the last week:
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(message_count)&timeRange=7/24/2012%2000:00~8/25/2012%2000:00&timeUnit=week&sortby=sum(message_count)&sort=DESC&topk=1" \ -u email:password
Sample Response
{ "environments" : [ { "dimensions" : [ { "metrics" : [ { "name" : "sum(message_count)", "values" : [ { "timestamp" : 1345420800000, "value" : "14.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1344816000000, "value" : "8.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1344211200000, "value" : "111.0" }, { "timestamp" : 1343606400000, "value" : "405.0" } ] } ], "name" : "weatherAPI" } ], "name" : "test" } ], "metaData" : { } }
Filtering results
For greater granularity, you can filter results to enable 'drill-down' on a dimension of interest. When using filters, you must use dynamic dimensions as filter properties. Computer metrics (
/developer_app, etc.) cannot be used as filters.
For example, let's suppose that you need to retrieve a count of errors from backend services filtered by the HTTP verb of the request. Your goal is find out how many POST and PUT requests are generating errors per backend service. To do so, you use the dimension
target_url along with the filter
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/test/stats/target_url?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~8/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week&filter=(request_verb%20in%20'POST','PUT')" \ -u email:password
Paginating results
In production environments, some request to the Analytics Services API return very large data sets. To make it easy to display large data sets in the context of a UI-based application, the API natively supports pagination.
To paginate results, use the
offset and
limit query parameters, along with the
sortby sorting parameter to ensure a consistent ordering of items.
When paginating results, it's important to sort results in a predictable way using the
sortby query parameter. Without sorting, results are returned in an unpredictable order, which defeats the purpose of pagination.
sortby value must be the same as one used in the
select query parameter. For example, if
select=sum(message_count), then
For example, the following request would be likely to return a large data set, since it retrieves metrics for all errors on all APIs in the product environment for the last week.
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/prod/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~8/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week&sortby=sum(is_error)" \ -u email:password
If your UI-based application can reasonably display 50 results per page, you can set the limit to 50. Since 0 counts as the first item, the following call returns items 0-49 in descending order (
sort=DESC is the default).
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/prod/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~8/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week&sortby=sum(is_error)&limit=50&offset=0" \ -u email:password
For the second 'page' of results, use the offset query parameter, as follows. Note that the limit and offset are identical. That's because 0 counts as the first item. With a limit of 50 and an offset of 0, items 0-49 are returned. With an offset of 50, items 50-99 are returned.
$ curl https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/environments/prod/stats/apiproxy?"select=sum(is_error)&timeRange=8/08/2013%2000:00~8/15/2013%2000:00&timeUnit=week&sortby=sum(is_error)&limit=50&offset=50" \ -u email:password
Opt in or out of daily analytics reports
In addition to the analytics available online through Apigee Edge, all organization administrators are automatically subscribed to receive daily analytics summary reports through email. You can unsubscribe (opt out) of receiving daily analytics reports through an opt out link in the actual report that is emailed to you. You can also opt in or opt out of daily summary reports using these API calls:
Opt out of receiving a daily summary report:
$ curl -u email:password https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{myorg}/stats/preferences/reports/dailysummaryreport?optin=false
Opt in to receiving a daily summary report:
$ curl -u email:password https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{myorg}/stats/preferences/reports/dailysummaryreport?optin=true
Retrieve list of users who have opted in or opted out:
$ curl -u email:password https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{myorg}/stats/preferences/reports/dailysummaryreport/users
Help or comments?
- If something's not working: Ask the Apigee Community or see Apigee Support.
- If something's wrong with the docs: Send Docs Feedback
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I have an apiary on a property with a creek and a large pond. The property owners like having the bees, but said the only downside was that so many bees use the birdbath that birds won't use it anymore. The pond is closer to the bees than the birdbath.
Is there any way to keep the bees out of the birdbath in a way that still allows birds to use it?


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I don't understand the criticisms aimed at our Woodside-Atherton Auxiliary president regarding the changes at the Allied Arts Guild. She clearly sees the problems we've had at the Allied Arts complex and she's taking the necessary steps to fix them and return us to profitability, and sizeable donations to the Children's Hospital. She's not involved the Woodside-Atherton Board in most decisions because fast, direct action has been necessary to address the many problems faced by the Allied Arts complex, and she is quite capable of doing what is necessary.
She fervently believes that meetings and conferences are the future of the Guild, and that art galleries will draw many paying patrons. Our consultants assured us that this was a winning strategy, and we just need to find the right approach to attracting such business. The old restaurant was dated and the number of guests was declining. Why keep it when a newer, more contemporary caterer or tenant could bring in more business and better serve the large meeting markets we know will come. The restaurant volunteers were given the required 60 days notice and we wish them well.
Any important decisions, such as redefining the Allied Arts Guild, necessarily would be shared with the Association of Auxiliaries and the Hospital Liaison. Because many (if not most) of those individuals have roots in the Woodside-Atherton Auxiliary (were members of our group), they fully understand the need for taking whatever actions are necessary to grow and expand the Guild property, and return it to profitability.
As our property grows to become a destination meeting complex, the validity of the tough decisions made by this strong leader of the Woodside-Atherton volunteer group will become obvious to all. The complex's neighbors will welcome having such a renowned facility as part of their community.


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Standoff ends with murder suspect taking his own life
Police say the suspect in a murder in the village of Franklin took his own life ending a standoff in Royal Oak.
Police say the suspect in a murder in the village of Franklin took his own life ending a standoff in Royal Oak.
Happy in Berkeley, CA: Trump doesn't care about what happened in Portland to two brave men who died defending two women being attacked, one wearing a jijab. Trump is soulless, selfish and egotistic and unless someone benefits his pocket book, he doesn't care. He's not an American, he and his family Jared Kaunsner are traitors, giving secrets to the Russians and collecting money from them. Trump is the one who started the anti-Muslim hatred in this country, he is as much to blame for the mad man attacking the two girls, believing they were Muslims. Trump is the cause of all the current racial problems in this country and should be removed from office for treason. Caring for brave vets who died defending someone else? Trump was a 5 time draft dodger, that's how much he cares for our country. God be with the two men and their family and love ones, they died honorably and I'm so sorry for their lost.


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Vicki Alger
In a world that's moving toward individualization in realms like the work force- telecommuting, flexible schedules- it seems antithetical to be moving in the opposite direction regarding education. And that's where common core standards will take us, in the opposite direction toward uniformity and "cookie-cutter" education. It's just not right.


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The upcoming national midterm elections are shaping up as a big Republican wave. According to most pundits, the brutal economy, disappointment in President Barack Obama, and a perceived "enthusiasm gap" between Republicans and Democrats will combine to hand victories to dozens of GOP candidates for Congress — perhaps even enough to vault them back into the majority they lost in 2006.
Although Senator Scott Brown's stunning special-election victory earlier this year ignited this wave of GOP optimism, there is reason to believe that Republican national gains might not include any of the 10 Bay State seats, all of which have been safely in Democratic hands for the past 14 years.
But if there is a seat up for grabs, it is probably in the 10th Congressional District, which runs from Quincy down the South Shore to Cape Cod, and where seven-term incumbent Bill Delahunt is retiring.
That race pits Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating, a Democrat, against Jeff Perry, a Republican state representative from East Sandwich. The district went for Brown in January, and Perry trounced former state treasurer Joe Malone in the Republican primary. Republicans say that polling shows Perry ahead of Keating, and well-positioned for victory; even many Democratic insiders are pessimistic, and unimpressed with Keating's campaign thus far.
It appears, however, that in these final weeks, the race may become less about Perry and Keating and more about how much money the national Republican and Democratic parties can pump into the embattled district.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) have both started airing television ads in the district, and are promising much more to come.
"This is one of our better pick-up opportunities in New England," says Tory Mazzola, NRCC spokesperson.
As the national ground has shifted — with some "battleground" races now almost conceded to the Republicans — this sleepy seaside district has assumed real tactical importance for both parties.
Mazzola would not confirm reports that his committee has reserved a half-million dollars in advertising time in the race, but left little doubt about what kind of ads to expect. As in contests across the country, the GOP wants to tie the local Democrat to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — who, according to polls, is currently one of the least-popular political figures in the country, and who has replaced the late senator Ted Kennedy as the opposition's demonizing face of Washington liberalism.
"We want to educate the voters of Massachusetts so they know that a vote for Bill Keating is a vote for Speaker Pelosi," Mazzola says. "Bill Keating would go to Washington and fall in line with Nancy Pelosi, just like every other Massachusetts Democrat."
Nor is there much mystery to the DCCC approach. Its current ad in the district hammers away at Perry's involvement in strip-search incidents as a police officer years ago. That story has continued to cause trouble this past week, with revelations that Perry claimed on his 2007 bar application, untruthfully, that one of the strip-search victims had been arrested.
In broad terms, the Republicans are trying to make this race a national referendum on Democrats in Washington, while Democrats are trying to make it about Perry's character.
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Manchester United Drops 4% After Ferguson's Retirement
Shares of English soccer club Manchester United (MANU) fell more than 4% in early Wednesday trades as investors reacted badly to news that 71 year-old manager Alex Ferguson is stepping down.
Ferguson has been United's manager since November 1986. During his tenure he established himself and the club as among the most successful in soccer history.
Ferguson's titles at Manchester United include 13 Premier Leagues, two UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, five FA Cups and four League Cups. Since winning the FA Cup in 1990, the club has never gone more than a season without winning a trophy.
Investor jitters may be due to the fact that in soccer, more than in US sports, financial rewards are closely tied to on-field success: Finishing in the top of four of the Premier League and qualifying for the Champions League is worth about $50 million, according to one estimate.
As The Guardian's Nick Fletcher wrote this morning:
Sir Alex Ferguson is worth $142m to Manchester United, according to the US stock market. The club's shares fell 4.75% to $17.88 in early trading when the New York market opened a few minutes ago, as investors had their first chance to react to the news of Ferguson's retirement. Despite the $142m fall the club is still worth more than $2.9bn.
Joshua Raymond, chief market strategist at City Index said: "The club must make the announcement of Ferguson's replacement quickly. Uncertainty breeds nervousness and typically results in downward pressure on share prices.
"If shareholders needed an excuse to take their profits off the table, they got it this morning. But will the news impact long term shareholders who bought into the share price on the club's commercial prospects at this stage? I don't think so. Those selling Man Utd's shares price today will do so out of fear and uncertainty."
At the latest, the stock has recovered somewhat, and is down about 2%. The Telegraph, the British newspaper which broke the news of Ferguson's retirement, is now reporting that Everton manager David Moyes will replace his fellow Scot.


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When a girl spreads her ass cheeks open for a guy to shit between, becomes a Tijuana Burrito if he proceeds to fuck her up the ass
Todd and Jills Tijuana Taco soon became a burrito after the sight of all that feces got Todd harder than a month old chalupa
by Ratheon May 01, 2007
Cleveland Steamer Plush
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
Tijuana Taco is when you take a crap and place it under a cars visor (Hence the term taco) of a very unexpecting person. So when He/She is driving and opens the visor it falls on their lap. Hopfully not causing an accident so the driver and gifter get a good Laugh from it.
by Caldorazo September 24, 2009
When during sexual intercourse a man takes lettuce, shredded cheese, and taco sauce, and then covers the woman's vagina in said ingredients. The man then proceeds to perform cunnilingus on the woman whilst eating the additional ingredients.
Joey-so what did you end up doing with sarah last night?
Ian-well she likes new things so i gave her the ole Tijuana Taco.
Ian-well she likes new things so i gave her the ole Tijuana Taco.
by babysodomizer February 17, 2008
the act of taking a taco shell and you shit in it and then jizz in it (melted cheese) and make the girl have her period on it as (taco sauce) then you share a delightful meal together.
dang i left a mess when i had my tijuana taco last night
by sir cums alot April 14, 2011
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
A Tijuana Taco is the turned-up or folded-up bill of a baseball cap being worn by anyone that is used (almost exclusively by the filthy fucking mexican) as the perfect temporary storage device for their taco when they are taking a shit.
Oh mang, i reelee got to take a cheet but eef i poot down my deeleeshees taco somebodies ees going to steels eet. Wait a meenit, i done haves to poot eet down i can juss poot eet heer on dee tops of my deesgusteen bazeball cap dat ees so conbeeneeinly locadid on my greesee, feelthee head seence i already have dee reem of my cap foldeed up like dee tijuana taco my mother teech mee to make !! ...ALL ACCENTS USED IN THIS EXAMPLE WERE TRANSLATED VERY CAREFULLY FROM ENGLISH TO BEANER BY A REAL AMERICAN OTHERWISE KNOWN AS A WHITE MAN, SO PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE THE PROPER DUMB-ASS BEANER ACCENT WHEN READING, OR, IF YOU ARE ALSO A WHITE PERSON, LIKE ME, JUST PRETEND THAT YOU ARE RETARDED.
by amandahuginlick March 10, 2010
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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For anyone who's familiar with the behind the scenes elements of sports programming on television, this is fairly monumental news. Ebersol is a giant of American television. His fingerprints are all over the broadcast history of not only the Olympics over the last 25 years, but also many of the biggest sports events on the annual calendar. NBC has a habit of holding on to the broadcast rights of major sports events for a LONG time. These include The Triple Crown races, Wimbledon (30+ yrs), The French Open (28 yrs), The US Open (golf), etc. It's no secret that the other networks would love to have their hands on any one of these events and also on Ebersol.
Since Comcast allowed such a major player to get away, one has to wonder how strong their commitment is to maintaining the broad sports presence NBC currently enjoys. After all, the only reason they bought NBC, was because GE and Universal were saddled with mounting losses and were looking to reduce their liabilities. One has to assume that Comcast wants to trim budgets wherever possible in order to protect its investment as it rebuilds. It will be interesting to see how this affects NBC/Universal Sports' commitment to broadcasting skating.


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Notice the missing tattoos from the arms.
Diane Kruger gets a little excited about
Germany beating France. Joshua Jackson just keeps waiting for the ice and guys with sticks.
Denise Richards is looking very skinny lately.
F**k. England gave Speidi back. They won't be here long because they can't make a buck here.
Jessica Simpson and the new baby bump.
Amanda Bynes said it.
Leo DiCaprio sitting around a Miami pool.


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Hi everyone,
Is it too late in the season to re-queen?
I'm a relatively new beekeeper (had my have for about 4 months) in San Francisco, CA. I just completed an inspection and it looks like the queen is gone.
My last inspection was ~2 weeks ago, and everything was fine at that point.
Today I saw:
- No queen (normally I see her right away)
- No larva in cells
- No eggs
- 3 empty queen cells (all at the top of the frame)
- Lots of bees, and lots of stored nectar/pollen
I'm tempted to let the hive do it's thing and develop a new queen, but I'm not sure.


text: Whay do chevy trucks have so many wiring issues? What happened to simple?... Anyway, read other forums , etc. Some help, but didn't work. Everything was working, then 3rd brake light went out..$LED$. Replaced, no problem. worked. 24 hrs later noticed Rt Rr brake burned out and socket discolored, fog lights out and dash button doesn't engage. Rear tail lights don't come on when headlights are turned on. Checked wiring best I could , didn' notice any bad spots. Checked fuses- all ok , all front lights work: head, park, travel lights, signals, All ok.. Fog still look ok.None burned out. Rear lights all work (switched the signal bulb with tail lite to check this. Brake is diff. bulb), none burned out except the R-R brake . Replaced this brake light, works, but stays on/no blink when car is on, guess the socket needs to be replaced. But the big problem is the fog and Rear tail lights. Would replacing the brake socket help the brake blinker? what would fix the tail lights? Thanks for the help.


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Shelly loves snow! She used to play in snow for hours and it was the funniest thing ever to watch her
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Where is my home?
Shelly loves snow! She used to play in snow for hours and it was the funniest thing ever to watch her
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Peknej clanek, ztotoznila jsem se se vsim, fakt, myslim, ze tam je napsanej kazdej neduh te nasi male(docela zakomplexovane)republiky.. :)ReplyDelete
This was an amazing post!! I was actually super curious about your homeland and it is super pretty :) - but some of the things you don't miss, do sound pretty gross!ReplyDelete
P.s I love hedgehogs. I used to have one, but it is even cooler than they just wander around where you come from!
That hedgehog is the cutest!!! Great post....love the pictures. Where is that picture of you in front of the wall w/flowers? That's a really nice one! Some of the things you mention you don't miss are common in other countries too :( In Sao Paulo, Brazil, it was very common to see human poop on the sidewalk....just sitting there, in the middle of the city! I'm used to paying for toilets, paying for water, paying for bread, etc...in a lot of other European countries as well (and the smoking!).ReplyDelete
I was only in the Czech Republic once. We stayed in Dobris (I think I've mentioned that to you before) for a music festival, but we were able to go into Prague once or twice. What an amazingly beautiful city! Wish I could go back one day....
How often do you go back?
I visited Prague when I studied abroad during college and had a wonderful time! Your description of the city is very similar to what I remember, a gorgeous, medieval city that feels like you have been transported back in time. I wasn't there long enough to experience most of the negatives. :)ReplyDelete
Very interesting comparison. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this amazing post! I loved your photos, the Czech republic looks like a beautiful country. I am hoping to go on a city break to Prague in a few weeks. Where would you recommend as the ideal location to stay in the city? Thanks, MarkReplyDelete
Thank you, everyone!ReplyDelete
@Tanya The picture was taken in Prague, near by Vysehrad subway station. Unfortunately I cannot go back too often, once a five years so far :-(
@Mark The closer to Hradcany (Prague Castle), Old Town Square or Vaclavske Namesti, the better since most of the things that you should see are within a walking distance. However, staying downtown can be quite pricey. Some people rent an apartment for cheaper, or stay in hotels on the outskirts of Prague. If you stay in Kacerov, Chodov, Smichov, Budejovicka and so, it is cheaper but very close to the subway station that only takes minutes to get downtown. Have fun!
I loved reading this. When I read the part about things you missed, it actually made me a bit misty-eyed. My entire family still lives in and around Prague, not a day goes by I don't think about them. I miss them very much (and the amazing delicious beer!).ReplyDelete
Your "things I don't miss" made me laugh. It's so true! Especially the public indecency and early beer drinking (my great grandpa, never drank water. He said it was for horses. But he lived to be 89 and was super ripped. He also chopped up tree-stumps as a hobby).
But about the depressed, bitter people. I have never seen unhappier folk, than in Prague. Outside of the city, it's a bit better. I have some family in Kacovec and some in parts of Moravia, people in smaller villages look happier, I think. They just aren't as outgoing as people here in the states.
I know many Czechs blame the communist occupation for this, but it has been so long, I don't think things will change for a while.
Great post, Elisabeth! You truly do know every corner of Prague, since you recognized that tea house in my twitter profile :-)ReplyDelete
Your list really captures everything so well. I'm dreaming of shorter working hours, small bakeries & shops, and fresh produce too. I've never had a fresh currant in my life before - would love to try one someday.
On the flip side, I totally missed the free water and noticed drugs & prostitutes in just the few days I spent in prague. I also thought the service in the restaurants was pretty bad, since tips are a very small part of their wages.
That Hedgehog picture is amazing!
Great post. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed your post :) having lived in Czech for three years, and now being married to a Czech, I can agree with a lot of your comments on both sides. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for your lovely post :)ReplyDelete
I've been travelling for last years and now I am living in New Zealand but I agree with all that you wrote.. I am also originally from Prague where I grew up :).
I've never had any experience with thieves and prostitutes etc, but I guess I was just really lucky and probably cautious - altough I can't say that because I used to walk back home at 3 am hehe. (crazy teenage years :)
Your post describes all my 'feelings' and experiences about Prague so thanks for this :). I'm writing in english so other people can understand too.
Wish you all the best! :)
So funny .. even though you listed so many horrible things, (idioti jsou vsude!), you made me so nostalgic. Praha je nadherna, no denying it -- even with all the pickpocketing and smell people pissing, hahah. Thank you for this :) xoReplyDelete


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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
Time: June 23, 2012 from 1pm to 6pm
Location: IPRC
Street: 10th and Division
City/Town: Portland, Oreogn
Website or Map: https://www.facebook.com/even…
Event Type: zine, fest
Organized By: Alex Wrekk
Latest Activity: Jun 18, 2012
Join us for a new small press and mini zine fest in the IPRC's expanded space!
Celebrate zines and community with the Portland Zine Symposium organizers at this farmer's market-like event. Amazine Fest will be hosted @ IPRC three times a year, so that you have a place to share your zines and pick up new ones every season of the year! FREE for all to attend!
For just $5 you can register for a little slice of table to sell/trade your zines. There will only 40 spots, and you'll need to fit your wares into a tabloid-sized area (11″x17″). All proceeds will go to IPRC and the Portland Zine Symposium. In addition to zines of all kinds, we'll have live music, food, beer, and yetis.
This is an awesome idea! I don't know if I can do it this month, but I totally wanna take part ion the future. All your posts got me so excited about Zine Season!


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While banging a bitch on the beach, pull out your cock roll it around in some sand and stick it back in.
"I gave some random bitch a chicken cutlet when I was at Myrtle Beach."
by Long Island August 13, 2004
The Chichen Cutlet is when you're given it to a girl on the beach, you pull out you're wet dick, slap it around in the sand, and reinsert
Suzy was quite displeased when i successfully pulled off "the chicken cutlet". She never saw it coming.
by littlemike April 24, 2009


text: Okay, I'm obviously going along with the similar threads about other skaters here, but I really have been thinking about the Shibs. Despite the mistakes at Worlds, I was sorry to see them lose so much favor with the international judges this season. Here's what I think: 1) Ditch the cutesy swing programs. Last year they were new on the senior worlds scene, they were cute as buttons and the program was endearing. This year's program seemed like a not-so-great sequel to last year's effort. 2) Being siblings, they can't do a romantic number, but I think they could pull off a really serious program (ala Duschenays). Maia strikes me as incredibly serious and mature for her age. Alex seems like much more of a goofball (which I say in the best sense), but he is a first-rate skater with gorgeous lines. They're a very talented team and I'd love to see them pursue a new creativity. I think they could pull it off.


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Smart cycling isn't all about long, slow rides at a high cadence. The key is to build power by adding intensity with the correct training sessions and clever use of gears. Runners looking to make the transition to triathlon often have a head start: a light build and legs that turnover quickly can be a great advantage in a triathlon. That's the good news.
The bad news is that if you're coming to triathlon from a running background, you might find that you don't yet have classic cycling strength in your quads.
The bike leg is the longest and most strategic part of any triathlon, so it's crucial to make the most of it. Your bike training should always include a long ride at a slower pace and lower heart rate (just like running, they're usually done at weekends). Try to also include one shorter ride per week, similar to a tempo run. Then, if you have time, you could also include a turbo session, hill session or spin class to work on intervals.
Don't forget that cycling will shorten your hamstrings and calves so you'll need to stretch them thoroughly after each bike session to keep yourself in good condition. By boosting the power to your legs, you'll be able to overtake on hills and find a second wind when your competitors are flagging, setting you up perfectly for a storming run home.
Change Gear
Choose one short ride per week where you ride in a higher gear than usual. This will build strength and power in the leg muscles and teach your body to cope with the stress of being tired.
Don't Change Gear
Climb a hill without changing gear: this is a killer workout but you'll see fast results. From time to time, make the effort not to drop down into an easier gear while you're heading up a hill. After a few sessions, you'll find that you're able to make it up the same hill in the harder gear with less effort. Try to avoid hills that are busy with traffic though.
Hill Repeats
Just as in running, try a hill rep session on your bike. Choose a long, fairly steep hill that's free of traffic. Power up it, turn around and coast down, using the downhill as active recovery. Do this eight to 12 times per session and you'll be able to tackle hills in races better than most.
Like the Wind
There's no denying it, headwinds are horrid. Annoying, frustrating and energy-sapping, riding into the wind is no fun at all, but you can turn a negative into a positive by using, not hating, a headwind. Next time you face a headwind, put your head down and purposefully ride harder. The added effort will mean you'll motor along on less windy days.
Gym'll fix itIf you have the time and resources, gym work can compliment your bike training by helping to build strength in your leg muscles. Squats and lunges (with or without free weights) are a great place to start. Ask the gym staff to demonstrate top technique and guide you in selecting the right weight.
In a spin
They're usually at dawn and involve melting into a puddle of your own sweat, but a good spinning class can make a real difference to your cycling. Make sure that you choose one where the instructor has factored in hill climbs, sprints and intervals (and avoid those who do 'press ups' on the handlebars).
Turn to Turbo
Cycling on a turbo trainer is useful when it's too dark, wet or windy to cycle outside, but you should also consider turbo training as an integral part of any cycling programme.
|Turn On Your Turbo
Try this short, effective turbo power session:
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