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*UPDATED* The Uncharted 3™ "Bad Lip Reading" Contest[ Edited ]
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take cut scenes from the Uncharted games and replace the audio with your own. Re-cut and re-dub to create the most awesome, most ridiculous Uncharted fan film ever.
To Enter the Contest
- Choose one of the three videos that are attached to the thread (at the very bottom of this post, right click/"save link as")
- Create an original Uncharted-based video with audio of your very own and upload it to Youtube.
- Reply to this contest thread with your video embedded in your post
- Post your entry in this thread before April 30th, 2013 12:00pm PST
The Rules of the Road:
- All entries have to follow the forum Rules of Conduct. Entries violating the Rules of Conduct will be removed.
- No team efforts are allowed, only one user per contest entry.
- Older videos created before the start of this contest will not be accepted.
- Users can submit multiple entries.
- You must have a valid mailing address attached to your Playstation Network Account---so we can mail you your prize if you win.
- Members from Naughty Dog and the Playstation Forum Mods will judge the contest for 48 hours after it ends on the April 30th, 2013 12:00pm PST.
- Winners will be announced on May 3rd in this thread
- The first 10 Users to post legitimate contest entries in this thread will be awarded Uncharted keychains.
- 3rd place will receive a Naughty Dog T-shirt and downloadable content for Uncharted 3.
- 2nd Place will be awarded with a Naughty Dog T-shirt, downloadable content for Uncharted 3 and an autographed The Last of Us™ poster.
- The 1st Place Grand Prize is a Naughty Dog T-shirt, downloadable content for Uncharted 3, an autographed The Last of Us™ poster, and an autographed copy of The Last of Us™ for the Playstation 3.
The contest starts now!!!!
*keep your eyes peeled for updates!*
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By participating in UNCHARTED™ Bad Lip Reading Contest (the "Promotion"), each entrant (or his or her parent or legal guardian if the entrant is under the age of majority in his or her state of residence) unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC ("Sponsor"), which shall be final and binding in all respects. Sponsor is responsible for the collection and scoring of entries and the overall administration of the Promotion. Entrants should look solely to Sponsor with any questions, comments or problems related to the Promotion.
- ELIGIBILITY: The Promotion is only open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, age 13 or older at time of entry with a valid PlayStation®Network ID (individually "Entrant", collectively "Entrants"). Entrant must have access to a PS3™ system and have a valid PlayStation Network ID. Employees of Sponsor and its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related companies, agencies, and the judging panel and immediate families (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in the same household, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter, win or vote. Void in Puerto Rico, all U.S. territories and possessions and overseas military installations and where prohibited or restricted by law
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- TIMING: The Promotion begins April 1, 2013 at 12:00PM, Pacific Standard Time ("PST") and ends on April 30, 2013 at 12:00PM PST (the "Promotion Period").
- HOW TO ENTER: Internet access, a valid YouTube account and a valid PlayStation®Network ID ("PSN ID") are required to enter this Promotion.
a) To enter, during the Promotion Period, log into the forum at http://community.us.playstation.com/ with your Sign-In ID and password. Navigate to "UNCHARTED™ Bad Lip Reading Contest under "Featured Topics" and choose a video attached.
b) Choose one of the three approved videos and using any audio or video equipment at your disposal, record your voice over of the cut-scene. Make sure the volume is turned down and record your own audio.
c) Upload your video to YouTube by logging on to YouTube and clicking on "Upload".
d) Log into the forum with your Sign-In ID and password. Navigate to "UNCHARTED™ Bad Lip Reading Contest" ("Thread") under "Featured Threads".
e) Embed your video in the Contest Thread on PlayStation Community Forum http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/UNCHARTED-3-Drake- s-Deception/bd-p/24818 by clicking reply, "Insert a video" and "post" ("Entry")
f) Upload the Entry to the Thread.
g) Your Entry must be received by Sponsor by April 30, 2013 at 12:00PM PST.
- JUDGING: The following factors will be used to judge each Entry by Sponsor's representatives in the PlayStation Blog forums: 60% Creativity and 40% Humor ("Judging Criteria"). Judging will begin on May 3, 2013 around 12:00PM PST. Sponsor's representatives will score each qualifying Entry based on the Judging Criteria. The Entry that receives the highest score will win the Grand Prize. The Entry that receives the second highest score will win Second Prize. The Entry that receives the third highest score will win Third Prize and the next ten highest scoring entries will each win a Naughty Dog keychain. Entrants are subject to verification that they are qualified participants as defined by these rules.
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Trawnza wrote:
it's fine for me, but please let me know if anyone else is having issues.
DAG - have you tried saving them to your computer?
I did not: I just clicked on them.
I'll try that right now.
*EDIT* Yes, right clicking and saying "Save Link As" let me play the video correctly. However, the audio on the first clip seems to be behind.
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What's your playback using?
MPC-HC and VLC both play them for me. So, too, WMP. It's a pretty low bitrate AVC file, so you'll need an h.264 decoder.
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Re: The Uncharted 3™ "Bad Lip Reading" Contest
Da_Almighty_Guy wrote:
Trawnza wrote:
it's fine for me, but please let me know if anyone else is having issues.
DAG - have you tried saving them to your computer?
I did not: I just clicked on them.
I'll try that right now.
*EDIT* Yes, right clicking and saying "Save Link As" let me play the video correctly. However, the audio on the first clip seems to be behind.
Thanks for letting me know. Maybe that's ok since the goal is to replace the audio?
I'll fix it as soon as I can
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One last question:
Unicorn--Justice wrote:
Re-cut and re-dub to create the most awesome, most ridiculous Uncharted fan film ever.
Does this mean that we can use multiple parts of the videos several times? Also, can we edit the video to create new effects? I'm just curious.
A shorter version: does the video have to remain unedited and we simply add our own voices to it?


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The June 2006 cover article, "The Cost of E-Waste," nicely spells out the burden local governments face in addressing the issue of electronic waste. However, in focusing on traditional solid waste management practices, the article misses an important tool available to local and state governments for managing e-waste.
That tool is product stewardship: a management strategy where whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing its environmental impact throughout all stages of its life cycle. Typically, the greatest responsibility lies with whomever has the most ability to affect the product's lifecycle environmental impact.
When governments began providing solid waste services some 100 years ago, the impetus was protecting public health. The residential waste stream was largely ash, sawdust, and oyster shells. Products—bottles, rags, old shoes—composed only 7.5% of that stream. The remainder at that time—organics, or biowaste—comprised 20% of the waste stream. (Visit www.productpolicy.org/resources.)
By the end of the 20th century, the proportion of manufactured products in the waste stream had grown to 75%. Local rate payers grew accustomed to covering all disposal costs associated with these products'costs. Manufacturers were left in the fortunate position of only having to recoup their costs for production and marketing. From the perspective of a manufacturer's bottom line, disposal costs are an externality that need not be dealt with.
More to the point, public agency responsibility for disposing of household products now extends to a whole range of products—such as electronics that contain toxic materials and require special handling—that pose a real burden on society when disposed. These products are a growing percentage of our garbage.
"The Cost of E-Waste" article does a great job of describing the current situation in which local governments feel the pressure to collect electronics, but see little upside in doing so. No one doubts that local and state governments have an important role to play in managing the electronic waste stream. But the "cost of e-waste" is also about "who pays?"
Recently passed product stewardship laws in the states of Washington and Maine—and the law of the land in Australia, Japan, Europe, and growing parts of Canada—are making manufacturers much more responsible for paying and arranging for the environmentally safe collection, transport, processing, and recycling of e-waste. This provides a free-market incentive for manufacturers to make products that are less toxic, managed more efficiently (read: less expensively), and perhaps even longer-lived.

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As a parent, you already know that soccer is one of the most popular sports of younger athletes. On any given weekend you'll find teams of kids on the field kicking and heading soccer balls. If you have a young daughter that plays soccer, you may be surprised to learn that she is more likely to suffer a concussion than her high school counterpart.
Researchers found that pre-teen and early teen girls are very vulnerable to concussions and many play through their injury instead of seeking medical attention.
Although awareness has increased about sports related concussions, little research has been done on middle school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.
In a new study, Schiff and her colleagues evaluated 351 soccer players from 2008 to 2012, between the ages of 11 and 14. Researchers found 59 concussions. A concussion is defined as a traumatic injury to the brain after a blow, shaking or spinning. In the study, the girls' symptoms included headache, dizziness, drowsiness and concentration problems.
High school or college women's soccer reported fewer injuries than the middle school students.
Experts recommend those who have a concussion be evaluated by a doctor or other health care professional trained in the injury, but Schiff found that ''56 percent were never evaluated." Experts also advise that players not return to practice or games until symptoms disappear, but 58 percent of the players in the study continued to play even with symptoms persisting, she said.
In this study, the researchers randomly selected 33 of 72 elite teams from four youth soccer clubs in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. Players reported injuries and symptoms.
Researchers noted that players colliding with each other caused half of the concussions and 30 percent were from heading the ball. Heading involves hitting the ball with the forehead to redirect the ball during play. While heading was a major contributor to concussions, Schiff thinks it's unrealistic to think that it will be banned. "It's part of the soccer sport," she said.
However, it was found to result in concussion 23 times more often in a game than in practice. One suggestion, she said, is to teach middle school athletes heading in practice but tell them not to do it in games until they are older. The researchers speculate that younger players' less mature brains and weaker neck muscles, along with poorer heading technique, may contribute to the number of concussions.
In 2009, the Zackery Lystedt law was passed in Washington State requiring athletes under the age of 18 be removed from play when they are suspected of sustaining a concussion. Since the study began earlier than 2009, the law wouldn't have affected some of the girls.
Concussions aren't a surprise in the game of soccer. It can be a rough and tumble sport. Players, parents and coaches need to pay attention to the symptoms associated with concussions and make sure that athletes are removed from the game and diagnosed and treated as soon as possible.
Sources: Kathleen Doheny, http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2014/01/20/concussions-common-in-middle-school-girls-playing-soccer-study


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Creme du Belem
Trip Start Apr 10, 2009
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Got to go.
By the way, the museum paintings look bad, because they are clandestine pics. Museums in Spain dont allow picture taking.


text: I recently put a 5 speed standard in my truck. The donor truck was undrivable so I was never fully aware of the functionality of the setup I was getting, but I took a chance. Anyways, the oil was nice and clean in both tranny and transfer case and the Tcase appeared to have been freshly rebuilt, so I bolted the setup in and threw new oil in both. Now, the setup works fine but with one fairly large dilemma. When I run in 2H, the transfer case will occasionally grind like when you force something into gear, and sometimes it will drop out into neutral. The Tcase will run perfectly fine in both 4L and 4H, however. As a temporary remedy, I have been running in 4H with no front drive shaft. Here's the situation: I need the truck to have working 4x4 so I can get out in the field, but I cannot afford to send it to a shop right now and I won't have the time to drop the Tcase myself for another two weeks. This is my ONLY truck at the moment. So I was wondering, what sort of trouble would I be getting in to if I manually engaged and disengaged the front axle solenoid via switch, and just ran the TCase in 4H all the time? The front drive-shaft would always be spinning, but with the open differential it shouldn't be under much load, and I can then engage 4x4 via the solenoid that locks the axleshaft. ( My mind tells me it should work and it shouldn't put too much stress on things ) This would only be temporary. Thoughts? ( TCase is NP241, tranny is NV4500, truck is a half ton with 3/4 ton axles. )


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Instead she gave a nod to the emotional aspects through brief glimpses executed via a very awkward continual back and forth flashback scheme (imagine the first scene of Titanic with the flashback from the elderly Rose recurring over and over throughout the movie while contributing very little to the plot). The dementia aspects while sad were mostly a distraction, and we saw only the barest glimpses of the emotional life of they younger Thatcher and her family.
She gave a nod to the "straight history" element as well, but again, it was so chopped up by the returns to the present, and so sparse on detail that the results were very superficial. You could learn significantly more about Thatcher's life by reading the Wikipedia entry.
Finally, the political element of her life was perhaps the most poorly and insultingly treated. The director seems to have thought it sufficient to note that she was very controversial, imply that she was single-handedly responsible for everything from a decade of mass riots to winning a war, and then fill in all the gaps with emotional filler about how hard it was to be the first female head of party and Prime Minister. Granted that is a significant matter and worth being treated, but it wasn't treated so much as exploited to make up for a very thin story otherwise.
The whole thing was just trite and relatively boring. There was no forward momentum (the flashback mechanism saw to that) and there was no substantive character development. In a comic book movie that's a faux pas. In a biopic it's a fatal flaw, a failure. It's sad to say, but I think that despite great plot material and a great cast (particularly Streep of course) the movie is just a flop due to poor execution and lack of skill and imagination on the director's part. (I note that she was also at least minimally involved in an ABBA concert film. That probably explains a lot.)


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My Husband's favorite cake. Our Daughter usually makes him one for his birthday.It has been years since I made him one. Not my favorite, I do like the idea of using crushed pineapple. I need to tell her about that.
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My Husband's favorite cake. Our Daughter usually makes him one for his birthday.It has been years since I made him one. Not my favorite, I do like the idea of using crushed pineapple. I need to tell her about that.
Another Phyllis
This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
I have never had mine stick. I use the pineapple rings with a maraschino cherry in the middle of each but that should not matter. More butter in the pan? Yum!! Maybe invert after just 5 minutes. Interesting quandary.
I use crushed pineapple too. That way you don't get cheated out of a bite without pineapple. I have also made individual ones in muffin pans.
I turn my pan over about 8 minutes after it is baked and I make sure it has plenty of melted butter with the brown sugar before adding the cake mix to the cake pan.
My hubby's favorite as well as our kids.
When dating my hubby, I would bake him pineapple upside down cake. And we've been married 47 years!
There are so many wonderful ideas here, thank you all for the help.
I am confident that my next pineapple upside down cake will be better than the last. Of course, the 2 cakes I made on Sunday are already gone. How do 4 people eat 2 cakes in 3 days?
I can't wait to try your suggestions, thanks again.
"Be brave enough to be who you really are.
If you think the cake might stick in pan, try turning over and while warm place a moist towel on the pan. It works for me.
Maybe when you melt the butter in the pan it mixes with the Pam. Try melting butter separately (microwave) and then pour it into the sprayed pan?
But, what do I know. I don't really like it and have never made one! But you guys are really making me hungry!
I drain the pineapple juice and use it for the liquid in the cake mix (plus water to make it the right amount.)
I also use the cast iron pan to make mine. I also add pecan or walnuts to the pineapple and brown sugar. I turn it as soon as I can handle the hot pan and it works great. I like the idea of using the baking paper. Good idea.
"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern ... It will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that ...one stitch at a time, taken patiently."
*Oliver Wendell Holms
i dont use the pam just the butter and turn it over as soon as you can while it is still hot .. mine has never stuck.. that is all i can think of.. they are yummy....


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How to Avoid Superbugs While Travelling
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New reports of superbugs like MRSA and C. Difficile being rife in hotel rooms could scare you away from travelling altogether. What a shame! Should you be worried? Or are there ways you can protect yourself?


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Holiday mail deadlines near for packages to troops
CAMP LEJUEUNE - The deadline to send troops care packages in time for the holidays is fast approaching. Camp Lejeune post office officials said those planning on mailing care packages to troops overseas should do so by Dec. 3.
That's the deadline for the cost-effective Standard Mail option.
"When you get that care package, it's golden," said Gunnery Sergeant Torrence Glover. Glover has worked at the Camp Lejeune Post Office, located 1770 Mchugh Blvd, for over a decade. "Bringing that morale to that Marine, that Sailor, making them feel good when they come to the Post Office ... it makes us feel good."
Glover said the deadline using the Priority Mail option is Dec. 10. Gloves, who said arrival by Christmas is not guaranteed for either option, urges family and friends to send packages to troops as soon as possible.
"Since I spent a year in Afghanistan," said Cpl. Katherine Solano, "I was gone for all of the holidays." While deployed, Solano said she and her unit received packages from family and friends, organizations like the USO,and also perfect strangers. "Not to sound cliche but i was like a kid at Christmas."
Solano said the most valuable things she received while serving overseas was handwritten letters. "The fact that someone would take the time to hand write a letter," she said, "meant more to me than anything else."
Post Office officials said alcohol, flammable, and hazardous materials cannot be shipped overseas.
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With digitized text from five million books, one is never at a loss for words
Brian Hayes
Reading about these experiments gave me the itch to try running some of my own. And it turns out that many interesting questions can be investigated with little effort and no cost using the Google Ngram Viewer (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com). The protocol for this service is simple: Type in a comma-separated series of n-grams, and get back a graph showing their frequency as a function of time. The frequencies are normalized to adjust for linguistic inflation—the expansion of the language as more books are published each year. The normalized frequency is the number of occurrences of an n-gram in a given year divided by the sum of all n-gram occurrences recorded in that year.
Shown at right is the Ngram Viewer's output in response to a simple query—a list of six nouns. Interpreted with care, a chart like this one might tell us something about the shifting fortunes of scientific disciplines—but the careful interpretation is crucial. This is a popularity contest among words, not among the concepts they denote. From the graph it would appear that Biology did not exist before about 1840—and that's close to the truth if we're speaking of the word itself. But the science of living things goes back further.
The curves have some curious features that I can't explain, such as synchronized humps in about 1815 and 1875. Was there a real (but short-lived) upsurge in publishing books on the sciences in those years? Or are we seeing some artifact of librarianship or the selection process? The geology curve appears to have a persistent oscillation with a period of roughly 20 years. What, if anything, is that about?
The same query words without the initial capital letters yield somewhat different results. So do the corresponding agent nouns—astronomer, biologist, and so forth.
The Ngram Viewer can become an absorbing (and time-consuming) entertainment. You might even turn it into a party game: One player draws the graph, the others try to guess the query. But less-frivolous applications are also within reach. Here's one possibility: With well-crafted queries, it might be possible to gauge the penetration of various foreign languages into English publications (or vice versa). From a very small sample, I get the impression that the frequency of German words in English text sagged during the World Wars, whereas Russian peaked in the Cold War.
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Gadget Geek's Guide to School Tech
Sure, they'll give you a list of books needed for your courses, but these gadgets will prove their importance on your sloppy first year of adulthood.
You may feel as anxious as you did when you first started grade school, but your first year in college is nothing to worry about. There are no owner's manuals, no lists to check off when it comes to starting post-secondary education. Sure, you'll get a list of books needed for your courses, but these gadgets will prove their importance on your sloppy first year of adulthood.
Washable Keyboard
Losing your computer to a fallen beer or mixed drink is especially hard to explain to your teachers when asking for an extension on papers. The Logitech Washable Keyboard looks like a normal keyboard, and its slim design and standard USB connection won't give away your dirty little secret. You're able to wash it off in a sink, and for only 40 dollars it's great even if you're not a wild party animal and prefer spending hours on Reddit eating Cheetos. Buy here.
Belkin WeMo
We advise saving up some money and purchasing two or three Belkin WeMos to hook up your important electrical accessories safely. Basically, the WeMo serves as your own personal Smart House. Whatever you plug into the WeMo can be turned off from your iPhone wherever you may be. Forget a sandwich grilling in your Foreman grill? Hopefully you have it plugged in to a WeMo so you can turn it off from class. If you really can't afford one of these, may we suggest some house insurance? Buy here.
VIZIO's Active Noise Canceling High Definition Home Theater Headphones
So you don't get along with your new roommate. You do your dishes; he stacks them under his bed. You can spend a night engulfed in an epic Battlefield 3 mission, and he's at his desk playing quarters over Skype. Your patience is wearing and it's only been a couple of days. What you need is a good pair of noise-canceling headphones. You can go for the flashy Beats by Dre headphones, which are still selling at full retail value, or get VIZIO's HD home theater headphones for a fraction of the price. They come with a wireless iPod docking pad where the headphones can rest when you're not using them and are able to connect to a home audio system, television or iPod. Perfect for all-night gaming! Buy here.
Google Nexus 7
Gone are the days of spiral ring notebooks and ballpoint pens; the next generation of tablets has arrived, and they are affordable. The one that has caught our eye is the Google Nexus 7. It's perfect for jotting your notes down in class with Google Docs, reading any required books you may have in English class and recording lectures with its built-in microphone. Of course there's also the best Google Play and Android apps and games that you can download onto your Nexus 7, but just keep that to yourself — you're more likely to sell the idea of getting one of these if it's strictly for school. Buy here.


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It has a very strong smell and its a little scabrous. Clean good, but dries skin and fast wipe off.
Nice soap, smell is not strong
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I bought this for the pine scent but it does not smell strongly at all, so I will probably not buy again due to the high price. But, it is a good quality soap, and the natural fiber box contains flower seeds, so you can plant the box and grow flowers from it if you want. Also, the oatmeal fiber in this soap is sharp and hard so it is rather scratchy after consistent use, probably too scratchy.
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Bright Apartment in Józsefváros
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Sophisticated and bright, the apartment includes a double bedroom and a living room with a double sofa bed. The kitchen is equipped to prepare tasty meals which can be enjoyed seated on the pretty balcony.
The largest functioning synagogue in Europe, Dohány Street Synagogue is a 15-minute walk away. Named in honour of the first King of Hungary, St. Stephen's Basilica is a 15-minute bus journey away.
A popular hangout spot known for its range of tasty restaurants and lively nightclubs, Liszt Ferenc Square is a great spot for guests looking to enjoy a pleasant evening with friends or family.
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Excellent accommodation and centrally located. This apartment on Kiraly Utca is only two blocks from the Opera stop on the M1 line, and a slightly longer walk to Deak Ter, where you can catch the M1, M2 and M3 underground lines as well as many buses and trams. This is a "studio" apartment which will accommodate one person or couple. The apartment is on the third floor, with no elevator, so not ideal for someone with mobility issues. Kitchen and bathroom are well appointed. As others have mentioned, no soap is provided, but there is a small Spar grocery store next door, and a more extensive Spar store on Klauzel Ter, only a couple of blocks away. One minor issue that the property owner needs to remedy is that there are some septic smells in the bathroom, and the stoppers in both the sink and bidet were broken, so it was difficult to block the smells coming up through the pipes. These are easy repairs, so hopefully the property owner will fix them soon. Wi-Fi worked great, all the time, and there were many channels (mainly Italian and Hungarian) on the cable TV. Very convenient to the opera house and operetta theater, and lots of bars and restaurants nearby.
Very nice and confortable flat in excellent position.
The flat was really comfortable and located in a perfect spot close to the city center and city transportation.
It is bigger than it looks in the photo and was very warm and cosy.
Matteo was also very helpful and thank to him our trip was really successful.
I would totally recommend this place for anyone!
We spent 4 nigths in Matteo's appartment and it was a very nice time. Everything very clean and tidy and a cozy appartment. The location was perfect in the middle of the center of Pest, and in a street (Kiraly) with much nightlife. I would definitely come back there if I happen to go to Budapest again. Thankyou!
Apartment well maintained, same as described on Wimdu page. Very clean and warm place, situated at calm area. Host Matteo is a very nice and helpful guy..."Do not hesitate to contact me anytime" - thats his motto :) Highly recommend !
Super flat, close to 24/24 tram line, ruin pubs and the city.
Don't get scared of the building itself, it is old and looks a bit weird, but the flat has everyrhing you need and is nicely renovated.
Contact wirh the host was also perfect!
Very convenient location with lots of nearby restaurants and easy access to public transport. A little street noise at night, but the building is quiet. The apartment was clean and nicely furnished but only large enough for 1 or 2 people. 4th floor with no elevator. Bring your own soaps and shampoo. Thanks for a lovely stay!
The apartment is conveniently located in the centre of Budapest, a few minutes walk from Deak Ferenc Ter. Convenient for most attractions. There are plenty of nice bars and restaurants in the area. The apartment itself is very comfortable and tastefully decorated. It is spotlessly clean and has all the amenities you might require, cooker, equipped kitchen, refrigerator, free wifi, TV (mostly Hungarian and Italian channels).
Things to be aware of. It is a studio apartment so will only accommodate 1 or 2 people comfortably and it is on the third floor and there is no elevator.
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Its a contact miticide
Its a contact miticide
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
Hop Guard does have a place in my treatment schedule. You need to realize that it will not kill mites in capped brood cells. When the queen is laying, something like 90% of the mites present in a hive are in brood cells, from what I remember. Therefore, if you treat with HG during this period, 90% of your mites will survive. This is why you need multi-week treatments when the queen is laying.
However, if you treat in late fall or early spring you will have better results.
MY EXPERIENCE is that I had quite a large mite drop when I gave my hive a knockdown treatment before winter.
their information says nothing about making three successive applications...it appears Mann Lake is the one recommending the three successive applications. Here is a thread from a year+ ago here on Beesource discussing the "progressive application" of Hopguard.... Progressive Hopguard Treatment
I have used it for two full treatments,one in the fall of 2011 and again last fall.I was pleased with the results both times.I judged my results by sticky board counts both before and after treatment.
A typical result was 6-12 mites before treatment and anywhere from 56 -246 the first morning after the first treatment with numbers dwindling over the next three days.Second treatment yielded far less mites and the third treatment could just as well have been skipped as the mite count was down to almost nothing.Our fall (October) temps are in the 80's most days with nights in the 60-70 degree range.There is always plenty of brood present at that time.
FWIW I had low mite counts this spring but put on grease patties anyway.There was almost no mite drop,3-8,from the patties.I still have not gotten around to doing a sugar roll to double check.
Take away from this is;try it.If it works for you use it.If not move on to something else.It's obvious from the postings that some of us get good results and some do not.
I've had excellent results using with Hopguard. The key has been pointed out many times. Three successive applications. I have had absolute success using it in this way. I've been using it at the end of summer when I pull my supers for the last 2 years. It has worked as well as anything I've tried. If I was treating a few hives I would continue using it but last year I treated 30 hives and it was expensive. 4 strips per hive X 3 treatments = 12 strips. Multiply that times 30 and it is not a cheap way to go. This year I'll be running around 50 hives and have no intention on using Hopguard for that reason alone.
In my opinion it works really well as long as you understand that it will not help with capped brood (hence the multiple treatments).
It doesn't kill by volatile emissions it kills by contact, the bees have to spread it around. It does not kill mites in brood.
After studying the company's own data I was left unsure if one treatment was enough with brood present, the question was not properly answered on their site. So I emailed them & got an answer that dodged the question. So I emailed them back and got another answer that avoided the question. I was considering importing the product for re-sale so sent them more emails explicitly asking my question but no matter what, could not get a straight answer. They either did not know (unlikely), or were fudging.
So what's left is to read any reports on beesource. Many report a big mite drop so presumably it can work. Will one treatment do a whole brood cycle? Not according to the findings of most who have used it. Depending on the strength of the hive the cardboard soaked in the product is chewed out in a few days, then mite drop falls dramatically. So a repeat application weekly for a minimum of one brood cycle would seem nessecary.
That's the best I can figure it, based on info and lack of info from the company, and info from beesource members.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
So, other than taking the amt of brood into consideration are there other ways to improve the performance of a contact mitacide like hop guard?
Since '09-75H-T-Z6b
Well what I thought was a slow release gel. Or more complex, an auto dispenser.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
As I recall there was an individual on here who was going to try to recreate the basic hop guard formula as a byproduct of brewing beer. Apparently it would not be very difficult or expensive to manufacture with readily available ingredients. I did use it on 2 hives last year and it was very effective, and the bees were not adversely affected. Purchasing it as a powder you could mix up and dip your own cardboard strips in would seem to be ideal. It is not available to purchase here but my Dad lives in Florida so I shipped it there.
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
Riskybizz, you say the ingredient in the Hopguard is a byproduct of brewing beer, do you know for sure if you have to brew beer to get it, or can it be made outside of brewing beer? John
gone2seed, I'm getting a bit off topic here, but I know that some eo's are very potent. Which three do you use?
Is Florida still allowing Hopguard sales?
It kind of makes you want to add hops to sugar syrup and see what happens doesnt it?
Edit-beta acids are the aroma producers in hops.
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Not Michael Bush. My name is Dan. Sorry for the confusion.
That said, beta acids usually occur in significantly lower concentrations than alphas (as that is not what most hops have been bred for), and I'm not sure how much you'd need to have an effective treatment. My guess is that the people marketing this are doing solvent extractions on a massive scale and then pulling off the solvent (probably at low temp, high vacuum) to get a pretty pure and pretty concentrated product. Your chances of getting enough product at home (without boiling/concentrating it for a long time, and maybe harming the compounds in the process) are likely pretty small.
I could be wrong, and often am.
I am not a brewer but I do recall reading somewhere that it was going to be attempted. I'll try to find the info again. Wouldn't a nice fine spray mist of hops (beta acids) and sugar water be a nifty way to inspect your hives in the spring.
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
This is good reading...
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
Riskybizz, after reading that article I really think that there is quite a bit of potential here with Hopguard with virtually no effect on bees or queen. I have also heard that it is safe enough to be used with supers on, although being cautious as I am, I wouldn't use it except in near broodless periods of late winter or late fall. I think that the company who makes it will probably tweak things with the ingredients and method of delivery a couple times before they settle on something that works the best. Hopefully, the stuff will get much cheaper in the future as more people use it. John
It's fairly safe for the bees except the ones that get slimed with product, they die and the stuff won't rinse off easily. I did my best to pull my queen before applying just so I wouldn't slime her on accident. The strips are drippy when you put them in. My bees reacted aggressively to adding the product to the hive and got very flighty as soon as I put the strip over the box to drop it in. It seemed to icnrease grooming behavior as well. I used it twice, 3 weeks each time. I don't have a sbb so I couldn't measure drop, but I didn't notice much reduction in mite load or dwv pressure. First treatment was in August, the second in October. The hive has barely survived the winter as I also did an OA treatment in November. Very similar to what Michael B saw in his hopguard treated hives. Population was strong in November, then noticed a huge decrease in cluster size the first cold snap, hive had a deep of honey over a a backfilled brood nest witih a bottom box of pollen.
Looking at some of the older threads on Hopguard to find what the product is called from the brewery, it's Potassium Based Isomerized Kettle Extract (PIKE)
JRG13, the messiness of installing the product is something that maybe needs to be addressed by the company, I certainly would be afraid of having the stuff drip all over the queen, which is a distinct possibility seeing as how you insert them over a couple different frames in the middle of each brood box.
Not having a sbb with a sticky board would make it hard to say whether or not the Hopguard treatments helped or not, the dwv wouldn't improve anyway due to the treatment not affecting the infested brood. Maybe you still had alot of brood rearing going on when you treated, therefore most of the mites would be in the brood. John


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Louisville shows its versatility in bruising win at Cincinnati
Removing team names and national rankings from a resume more often than not is the best way to evaluate a team on merit. Heading into this weekend's play, a certain highly-ranked, much-respected team was just 3-4 against the RPI top-50, with just one of the wins and all of the losses coming to teams inside the top-35. For the entire year, that lack of a truly signature win has been a giant stain on the overall body of work.
On Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati, Louisville finally set itself to scrubbing that stain away.
In a game that looked more like the old Big East than the new American Athletic Conference, the Cardinals and Bearcats slugged away on one another, with Russ Smith landing the final counterpunch with just 2.4 seconds remaining, giving Louisville a huge 58-57 win.
Smith struggled from the floor all game, finishing just 3-of-10, including 1-of-4 from behind the arc. It was Montrezl Harrell who put the Cardinals on his back offensively, scoring 21 points and pulling down 10 rebounds, his sixth double-double in 14 conference games. Louisville now has that signature win it can point to, and it got it on the road against a team that is 18th in RPI and 22nd on kenpom.com.
What had to be most encouraging for Rick Pitino and the Cardinals was the way in which they beat Cincinnati. It's little secret that the Cardinals like to use their defense get out in transition. Among teams in the top-eight conferences on KenPom (Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, ACC, Pac-12, SEC, AAC, Atlantic 10), the Cardinals are 20th in adjusted tempo. Before Saturday, they hadn't won a game in which they scored fewer than 69 points. As such, teams will do whatever they can to force Louisville to have to play consistent half-court offense, and Cincinnati is built to do just that, regardless of opponent.
How did the Cardinals manage to win a game despite scoring just 58 points, their lowest output of the season? By playing some of the best half-court defense any team has played in one single game this year. They held Cincinnati to 28.6-percent shooting, including 5-of-20 from long range. Sean Kilpatrick, the conference's leading scorer and potential player of the year, was 9-of-26 from the floor. In essence, Louisville beat Cincinnati at its own game. The Cardinals now trail the Bearcats by just half a game in the AAC standings with two weeks left in the season, but they also likely have the tougher remaining schedule. After hosting lowly Temple next week, the Cardinals finish the season with games at Memphis, at Southern Methodist, and home against Connecticut. Cincinnati heads to Storrs to take on the Huskies next week, then wraps up by hosting Memphis and traveling to Rutgers. A sweep of the regular season and conference tournament championships would definitely land either of these teams on the 3-line for the NCAA tournament, at worst.


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Location: Dairy Forage ResearchTitle: High partial feed conversion efficiency appears to be a persistent trait associated with reduction in selected measures of methane emissions in dairy cattle) Author
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Submitted to: International Conference on Greenhouse Gasses and Animal Agriculture
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/4/2013
Publication Date: 6/23/2013
Citation: Arndt, C., Wattiaux, M.A., Powell, J.M., Aguerre, M.J. 2013. High partial feed conversion efficiency appears to be a persistent trait associated with reduction in selected measures of methane emissions in dairy cattle. International Conference on Greenhouse Gasses and Animal Agriculture. 7(2):516. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: In the United States enteric methane (CH4) contributes approximately 21% of all anthropogenic CH4 emissions. Alongside dietary manipulations, exploiting among-animal variation in feed conversion efficiency (FCE) may offer possible CH4 mitigation strategies. This experiment was designed to evaluate the medium-term persistency of FCE and related measures, and to determine the relationship between CH4 emission and selected measures of digestive and metabolic functions among cows with high and low partial FCE for milk [pFCEmk, kg milk/kg dry matter intake (DMI)]. The study was conducted at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, USA. First, only cows with more than 100 days in milk were pre-selected (n=140). Then, pFCEmk was used as a criterion to select 16 cows, grouped into eight pairs (high and low pFCEmk). All cows were fed the same standard diet: 28.2% corn silage, 26.7% alfalfa silage, 23.2% high moisture corn, 7.1% distillers' dried grains, 3.6% soybean meal, 8.8% roasted soybeans, and 2.4% vitamins and minerals on a dry matter (DM) basis. During a four-day CH4 emission measurement period (collected on two pair at a time, as cows were placed individually in one of four air-flow-controlled chambers), total mixed ration, feed refusals, and milk samples were collected daily, with total fecal collection conducted for the first three days, to measure digested organic matter intake and digested neutral detergent fiber intake (DNDFI). The relative difference between the low and high pFCEmk cow groups persisted over the duration of the study. The high pFCEmk cows had higher energy expenditures but were more efficient for total energy expenditure in milk, body weight gain, and maintenance per unit of feed DM and digestible organic matter consumed. Contrary to preliminary results, pFCEmk had no effect on daily CH4 emission in this trial. However, similar CH4/DNDFI warrants further investigation to evaluate if DNDFI could be used as a reliable predictor of CH4 emissions across a range of diets. Further research should focus also on the relationship between pFCEmk and CH4 emission, and the possibility of genetic selection of cows for greater energy efficiency and lower CH4 emissions.


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2013: The city government of Detroit, Michigan, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, exceeding the $4 billion filing by Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2011. Detroit is also the largest city by population in the U.S. history to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, more than twice as large as Stockton, California, which filed in 2012. [ + - ]
2011: The command of NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. Gen. David Petraeus (pictured) to U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John R. Allen. [ + - ]
2008: Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" is released in theaters. The critically acclaimed film went on to make more than $1 billion worldwide and earn eight Oscar nominations, including a posthumous Best Supporting Actor win for Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker. [ + - ]
2005: Eric Rudolph is sentenced in Birmingham, Alabama, to two consecutive life terms without parole for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer. [ + - ]
2005: The iTunes Music Store reaches 500 million songs sold. [ + - ]
1995: On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it would devastate the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee. [ + - ]
1994: A federal judge rules that the NBA salary cap and draft rights do not violate antitrust laws. [ + - ]
1994: Crayola introduces scented crayons in 16 varieties. All but three of these were replaced within a year because parents complained children were eating the crayons. [ + - ]
1992: Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry outside Houston's New Jersey residence. [ + - ]
1989: "My Sister Sam" actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, is shot to death at her Los Angeles home by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo. The killing prompted California in 1990 to pass the nation's first anti-stalking law. [ + - ]
1988: German singer-songwriter, musician, fashion model and actress Nico, known for her collaboration on The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," and her work as a solo artist from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, dies at age 49 as a result of injuries suffered in a cycling accident while vacationing in Ibiza, Spain. Nico, who was born Christa Päffgen, also had roles in several films, including a cameo in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (pictured) and Andy Warhol's "Chelsea Girls." [ + - ]
1988: A California appeals court upholds a lower court's decision to dismiss a case against Ozzy Osbourne and CBS Records over a teenager who allegedly killed himself after listening to Ozzy's "Suicide Solution" in 1984. [ + - ]
1986: An expedition led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the U.S. Navy releases video showing Titanic's sunken remains for the first time. The video was filmed by Angus, an unmanned camera sled that was towed across the Titanic. [ + - ]
1986: The movie sequel "Aliens," starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen, and directed by James Cameron, is released. It was No. 1 at the North American box office for four consecutive weeks, grossing $85.1 million . [ + - ]
1984: Walter F. Mondale wins the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. [ + - ]
1984: Prince's single "Let's Go Crazy" is released. The song, the opening track to both the album and the movie "Purple Rain," would become Prince's second No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. [ + - ]
1980: Actress Kristen Bell, best known for the TV series "Veronica Mars" and movies such as "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Couples Retreat" and "When in Rome," is born in Huntington Woods, Michigan. [ + - ]
1976: 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Comaneci, who's seen here in 1977, won three gold medals in Montreal and five total in her career. [ + - ]
1969: After a party on Martha's Vineyard's Chappaquiddick Island, Sen. Ted Kennedy drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. On July 25, Kennedy would plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a suspended sentence of two months in jail. [ + - ]
1968: The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California. [ + - ]
1967: Actor Vin Diesel, best known for movies like "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx," is born under the birth name Mark Sinclair Vincent in New York City. [ + - ]
1966: Rock musician and singer-songwriter Bobby Fuller (second from left), best known for his singles "I Fought the Law" and "Love's Made a Fool of You," recorded with his mid-1960s group the Bobby Fuller Four, is found dead at age 23 in an automobile parked outside his Hollywood apartment. His death was first ruled a suicide, but three months later, the medical examiner changed the cause of death to "accidental asphyxiation." [ + - ]
1960: Baseball's National League votes to add the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45s, which would become the Houston Astros when the team moved into the Astrodome in 1965, for the 1962 season. [ + - ]
1959: Bill Wright becomes the first black golfer to win a championship conducted by the United States Golf Association with his victory at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at the Wellshire Golf Course in Denver. [ + - ]
1957: Golfer Nick Faldo is born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. Considered a top player of his era, Faldo was ranked No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking for a total of 97 weeks and counts six major championships among his 40 career professional wins: three Open Championships (1987, 1990, 1992) and three Masters (1989, 1990, 1996). [ + - ]
1953: Elvis Presley records "My Happiness" as a gift for his mother. It was his first recording. [ + - ]
1950: Billionaire and business magnate Richard Branson is born in London, England. [ + - ]
1947: President S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president. [ + - ]
1941: Martha Reeves, the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas, is born in Eufaula, Alabama. During her time with the band, they scored more than a dozen hit singles, including "Nowhere to Run," "Jimmy Mack" and "Dancing In The Street." Reeves is seen here during a 2011 show in Stockholm, Sweden. [ + - ]
1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. [ + - ]
1940: Baseball player and manager Joe Torre is born in Brooklyn, New York. A nine-time All-Star as a player from 1960 to 1977, he is better known for leading the New York Yankees to four World Series titles as a manager in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014. [ + - ]
1937: Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, who would become a countercultural figure known for his own brand of reporting he termed "Gonzo" journalism, is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Thompson is best known for his work for Rolling Stone magazine and the books "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" and "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs." He was also well known for his eccentric behavior, lifelong use of alcohol and illegal drugs and his love of firearms. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at the age of 67 on Feb. 20, 2005. [ + - ]
1936: The first Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rolls out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago. [ + - ]
1929: Figure skater Dick Button, who performed the first triple jump in international competition to claim his second consecutive men's figure skating Olympic title at the 1952 Winter Olympics, Besides his other Olympic gold medal from 1948, is born in Englewood, New Jersey. Button was also a five-time world champion from 1948 to 1952 and remains the only man to have won two Olympic gold medals in men's figure skating. [ + - ]
1927: Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics sets a major-league baseball record by getting his 4,000th career hit, doubling off former teammate Sam Gibson of the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field. He would go on to hit a total of 4,191 before retiring in 1928, a record that would stand until Pete Rose surpassed it in September 1985. [ + - ]
1925: Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto "Mein Kampf." [ + - ]
1921: Astronaut and politician John Glenn is born in Cambridge, Ohio. A member of the "Mercury Seven" group of first American astronauts, he became the first American to orbit the Earth on Feb. 20, 1962. He also represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 1974 to 1999. [ + - ]
1918: Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, is born in Mvezo, South Africa. Mandela served 27 years of a life sentence after being convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state. Upon his release in 1990, he joined negotiations with President F. W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he became South Africa's first black president. The winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, he declined to seek re-election and instead became an elder statesman and focused on charitable efforts. He died at age 95 on Dec. 5, 2013. [ + - ]
1913: Actor and comedian Richard "Red" Skelton, best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971 and as host of the television program "The Red Skelton Show," is born in Vincennes, Indiana. He died from pneumonia at the age of 84 on Sept. 17, 1997. [ + - ]
1911: Actor Hume Cronyn, known for movies such as "The Seventh Cross" and "Cocoon," is born in London, Ontario, Canada. Cronyn died at age 91 on June 15, 2003. [ + - ]
1909: Singer and actress Harriet Nelson, best known for her role on the long-running sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" alongside her real-life family, is born Peggy Louise Snyder in Des Moines, Iowa. She died of congestive heart failure at age 85 on Oct. 2, 1994. [ + - ]
1897: Cap Anson becomes the first professional baseball player to get 3,000 hits. However, in that total were 60 walks, which during the 1887 season were counted as hits. Those hits were counted at first, removed by Major League Baseball, then restored again in 2001. [ + - ]
1895: George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes, who would go onto be one of America's most well known gangsters during the Prohibition era, is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Fifty-nine years later Barnes would also die on his birthday, from a heart attack suffered while serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for a July 1933 kidnapping. [ + - ]
1870: The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility. [ + - ]
1863: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner in South Carolina in what became known as the Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island. [ + - ]
1817: English novelist Jane Austen, known for works of romantic fiction like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," dies at age 41 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Austen had begun feeling ill in early 1816 and the cause of her death has been posthumously guessed at as Addison's disease, Hodgkin's lymphoma or bovine tuberculosis. [ + - ]
1792: John Paul Jones, the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution, dies of interstitial nephritis at age 45 in Paris, France. He is credited for the taunting reply "I have not yet begun to fight!" [ + - ]
1610: Italian artist Caravaggio, whose work had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting, dies of a fever at age 38 in Porto Ercole, Tuscany. [ + - ]
1290: King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England. Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be more than 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656. [ + - ]


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The DS2416's mixer provides the power of the industry standard Yamaha 02R digital mixer - and much,...
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A recent discovery of a dinosaur fossil hidden in a museum in China has scientists trying to solve a hair-raising mystery: Did the earliest dinos have fuzz on their bodies? And if they did, was that fuzz an early type of feather?
The dinosaur that started scientists talking has been named Tianyulong confuciusi. It lived between 144 million and 99 million years ago. It's a lot smaller than the massive Tyrannosaurus rex. The fossil is of a dino that was a little less than three feet long, with sharp, fang-like teeth. Scientists say the creature walked on two legs and had a tail. No one is sure what it ate. The fossil has three patches of stiff, hair-like fuzz on its body and tail. Some dino experts think the fuzz might have been early feathers. These patches are about 1.5 inches to 2 inches long.
Branching Out
Scientists already know that some dinos, called theropods, had feathers. These dinos walked on two legs. They ate meat and were the early ancestors of birds. (The giant T. rex was a theropod.) But what's unusual about the China fossil is that it isn't a theropod. Instead it is a member of another branch of the dinosaur family. (Dinosaurs divided into two branches more than 235 million years ago.)
If Tianyulong had feathers, it might mean that feathers cropped up in dinos much earlier than scientists had thought. Feathers may have started to grow on some dinosaurs before the branches split. Then, scientists say, the theropods may have kept their feathers. But other dinos may have lost their feathers during millions of years of evolution.
Not everyone agrees with this idea. Lawrence Witmer of Ohio University said no one can be sure that Tianyulong's fuzzy patches really are early feathers. It's possible, Witmer says, that the patches are some sort of tissue that may have been inside the dinosaur.
"Little Tianyulong has made an already confusing picture of feather origins even fuzzier," noted Witmer. One thing is certain, however: Dino experts say they'll be looking more closely at any new fossils they dig up as they search for clues to when dinosaurs started growing feathers.


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but honestly when i say the Title of your Thread I thought it was going to be be along the Lines of not wanting to blow the Karma we have had from 07 and 11 with these teams where we lose during regular season and beat em in playoffs. We had lost twice to dallas in 07 and knocked em out in first round, were blew out by GB in 2nd game of that year and beat em in nfccg and lost to NE in that epic final reg game of that season only to come back and beat them in SB. in 2011 we lost to both GB and SF and returned the favor in playoffs. That way we had that underdog revenge factor the 2nd time around with something to prove rather then the other way around. Now i know we finally broke that with our win over NE in Reg season last yr and then still beating them in SB. Not sure now i feel about this as i know 3-3 would not knock us out of the playoffs by anymeans but with the 0-2 div start and the tightly packed nfce, the tough upcoming schedule we need all the wins we can get right now...
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
***Stat provided by "Schloss22"***
In the days of Lawrence Taylor we did defer because our defense would stop them cold
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
I think its just the way TC does things. If you win the toss you take he ball 1st because your offense is supposed to move the ball and score and when it's the defenses chance they are supposed to stop the other team. I get the feeling thats how he coaches and doesn't try to over think. Let the units do heir job and it will end in a victory. It makes sense actually. That's why he is a 2 time Super Bowl winning coach.
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SKATE 3 features a deep roster of the world's greatest skaters including several Thrasher Skater of the Year winners.
Andrew Reynolds
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Posted: June 10, 2015
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in partnership with Born This Way Foundation (founded by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta) are launching a national campaign, the Emotion Revolution, to learn more about how high school students currently feel in school, how they hope to feel, and what is needed to bridge the gap. The goal is to push our nation's education system toward creating the best possible learning environments through evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL).
The campaign is launching with an anonymous, nationwide ... Continue ReadingPosted in Response
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May 15-June 15 is Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. This year's theme is Everyone Can Play a Role! Learn the facts about tics and Tourette syndrome (TS), and how you can play a role to stop bullying of children with TS.
Bullying doesn't just happen to the smallest kid in the class. Children who bully others target those who seem to be less powerful or not as strong. Children who bully others also often target children who seem 'different.' Children with TS are often seen as ... Continue ReadingPosted in Risk Factors
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Bullying is tough on all kids. A few years back, I had to deal with a situation in a middle school that exemplifies this. There was a young lady who had been called terrible names on the bus for more than a month. As her frustration and humiliation became too much, she came to school with a stick and assaulted the young man who was bullying her. As a result, not only did the young man who was bullying her have consequences, ... Continue ReadingPosted in Prevention
Posted: May 15, 2015
Bullying remains a serious issue for students and their families, and efforts to reduce bullying concern policy makers, administrators, and educators. According to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, "As schools become safer, students are better able to thrive academically and socially. The Department, along with our federal partners and others, has been deeply involved in the fight against bullying in our nation's schools." This is why we are so pleased to share that, after remaining virtually unchanged for close to a decade, new data indicate that the prevalence of bullying is at a record low.
According to the U.S. ... Continue ReadingPosted in Prevention
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It was time for everyone in my 6th grade class to line up in the school gym for our annual weight/height measurements by the school nurse. My stomach was already churning, because, if past experiences taught me anything, I would need to brace for the bullying that would ensue after my weight was called out within earshot of my classmates.
Sure enough, after my weight was announced, I heard laughing and whispers. In both the halls and classrooms, I was called names like "whale," "heavy ... Continue ReadingPosted in Risk Factors


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Cosplay wise I've still been kinda MIA. Busy with other things. :/
Still trying to finish my trade with Sean and I finally finished Bob's winter school uniform- because that thing has been sitting unfinished in my closet for over a year. Pathetically enough I've made that skirt four times now and the top three times. How is it that the easiest things seem to give me the most trouble? And how is any of this a sane hobby? Really, sometimes I wonder.


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Report on Successful K–12 STEM Education (Continued From the Sept. 22 OVAE Connection)
Successful K–12 STEM Education, a report prepared for the National research council, provides several criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of K–12 STEM education. One of these is to consider different types of schools and programs that focus on STEM—given the fact that STEM-focused schools "are often viewed as the best route to achieve desired STEM outcomes." The committee that prepared the report was interested in finding evidence that a specific type of STEM model or school, on average, is more successful at producing strong student achievement outcomes than are other approaches. Generally speaking, "schools of interest are typically characterized by specific attention to STEM disciplines, often for a targeted population, such as highly talented students or students from underserved groups." Giving specific attention to STEM subjects "frequently manifests itself in a rigorous curriculum that deepens STEM learning over time, more instructional time devoted to STEM, more resources available to teach STEM, and teachers who are more prepared to teach in the STEM disciplines."
Three broad categories of STEM-focused schools were identified by the committee that are thought to have particular potential to meet the overarching goals for STEM education in the United States. These three categories are: (1) selective STEM schools, (2) inclusive STEM schools, and (3) schools with STEM-focused career and technical education (CTE). The committee's investigation of these models led it to conclude that each of these types "has strengths and weaknesses and poses a unique set of challenges associated with implementation." The committee found it challenging to attempt to specify which of these three approaches achieves the highest success "because success is defined in many ways and can occur in many different types of schools and settings, with many different populations of students." The committee found it especially difficult to ascertain the extent to which the various outcomes and other attributes of a particular approach can be attributed to any specific curriculum or practice the school or program employs or the extent to which they are related to the population of students in the school. There was, for example, no evidence regarding whether STEM students in selective schools would have "been just as likely to pursue a STEM major or related career or make significant contributions to technology or science if they had attended another type of school." Given this uncertainty, the committee presented a set of findings qualified by significant limitations along with a description of the school types to which these findings applied. Subsequent columns of OVAE Connection will consider more fully selective STEM schools, inclusive STEM schools, and schools and programs providing STEM-focused CTE.
Community College Grants for Workforce Development and Job Training Announced
On Sept. 26, 2011, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter announced nearly $500 million in Community College Career Training Initiative grants. The grants are for targeted job training and workforce development for workers who are changing careers because they lost their jobs when the industry in which they worked was eliminated or consolidated The awards constitute the first portion of a $2 billion four-year investment designed, in conjunction with the president's American Jobs Act, to provide support for hiring and re-employment services. Every state will receive at least $2.5 million and as much as nearly $25 million for community college career training programs . States without a winning submission in this round are being contacted by the program's administrators to develop a qualifying initiative that will immediately provide $2.5 million.
These grants support partnerships between community colleges and employers to develop programs that provide pathways to good jobs by, for example, building instructional programs that meet specific industry needs; strengthening technology-enabled learning; and allowing students and workers to access free learning materials online. Every community college grantee has at least one employer partner who is a sponsor with available jobs and who needs workers trained to fill those jobs.
Digital Promise National Center Launched to Advance Technologies to Transform Teaching and Learning
The White House and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently announced the launch of Digital Promise, a new national center created by Congress with bipartisan support to advance technologies to transform teaching and learning. Digital Promise will receive startup funds from the Department of Education as well as the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The center will be overseen by a board made up of prominent leaders in education and technology.
Digital Promise will work with educators and researchers, technology firms, and entrepreneurs on: 1) identifying breakthrough technologies by partnering with technology firms and researchers to map the R&D landscape and identify opportunities for similar breakthroughs in learning; 2) learning faster what is working and what is not by working with researchers and entrepreneurs to develop new approaches for rapidly evaluating new products; and 3) transforming the market for learning technologies by working with school districts to create demand that drives private sector investment in innovation. The intent is that Americans across all regions and backgrounds can benefit from them.
To learn more about the new center, please access the Digital Promise Website. For additional information on the initiative, please access the White House Fact Sheet.


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Is there any disadvantage for planning my wood for nuc boxes prior to building (using rabbet joints).Guy approached me today about building 50 nuc boxes for his nonprofit bee club. I told him I have a stack of box parts now and it would be a while before I clear it enough to get the planer out. He said rough cut is fine, no hand holds, assembled-cheap.
I wondered if there was any disadvantage to running rough cut (other than more paint to cover the outside).
I have no SHB in this cold rainy area.
It would be a one off run.
Do you guys attach the bottoms?
Plans? I would assume I would need to add some width since my wood would be close to 1 1/16 minimum.


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Well, isn't this iron-ic: Putting iron into ocean waters to stimulate the uptake of carbon dioxide—a geoengineering scheme that's been investigated for its potential to help combat global warming—may have unintended consequences that could limit its effectiveness, if not render it counterproductive.
A recent study published this month in the journal, Nature Communications, found that the outer shells of diatoms, a widespread type of algae, contain much higher levels of iron than previously documented.
They could act to "hog" iron in sea water, leaving less of it for other types of algae, according to Julia Diaz, a study co-author and researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
The idea behind ocean fertilization is relatively simple: put iron into the ocean, and let the algae bloom. This purposeful introduction of nutrients is, in theory, supposed to increase marine food production and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. After the bloom, the algae die and take their carbon with them to the bottom of the ocean, where it may remain for eons, not adding to the greenhouse effect.
But it's a bit more complicated than that, according to Diaz. The study looked at the levels of iron in diatoms collected from the Southern Ocean, finding significant and surprising levels of the metal. Diatoms have been found to be more plentiful after ocean fertilization experiments, meaning they could be taking up this excess iron.
"If that's the case, that makes that iron unavailable to other organisms," Diaz tells TakePart. "And those other organisms may be more capable of drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
While it's a bit of a stretch to suggest the ocean fertilization may release carbon dioxide in certain circumstances, it's not impossible. The ocean relies on a balance of phytoplankton, tiny-plant like cells that harness carbon dioxide, and bacteria than can eat these plants and release the gas.
Nobody knows exactly how ocean fertilization may affect this balance in the future. This study suggests that diatoms' ability to "hog" the carbon dioxide is one more complicating factor.
"It's not clear what the long-term effects of iron fertilization would be," Diaz says. "We don't know what to expect. It could be dangerous—it might not do what we want it to do."
Government-backed programs have tested ocean fertilization a handful of times in the past. Like most geoengineering solutions, it's generally regarded by scientists as unpredictable, and unwise to be implemented without further testing, if at all.
Last summer, a group dumped one hundred metric tons of iron dust into the ocean off the coast of British Columbia. The action led to an algae bloom, and prompted international backlash and condemnation against them for using an unproven method on an already fragile ocean.
The CEO of the company that conducted the "experiment," the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation, was fired last month. But the company said that it still supports the concept for its potential to feed salmon and sequester carbon.
Are you sold on the potential benefits of ocean fertilization, or do you think it's too experimental? Let us know in the Comments.
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