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It seems that Regina Spektor was almost destined to be a pop star. A strikingly pale-faced, raven-haired, blue-eyed piano player with a characterful voice, she emigrated from Russia to the Bronx with her family at the age of 9 as a political refugee.
She studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music, and went on to achieve a degree in composition, but despite these years of experience she doesn't consider herself a qualified classical musician.
"I think to call me a classical musician is an insult to classical musicians," she explains in her whimsical high-pitched voice, down the phone from New York.
"I don't have at all what it takes to be a classical musician - I have the utmost respect for their talents. But I think having listened to a lot of classical music, and having learned to love it the way that I do, it's definitely a giant part of me, and probably the biggest part of how I write and perform. But I also really love rock 'n' roll, and pop, and there's another side of me that's really connected to that."
Her fifth studio album What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, released earlier this year, captures that collision of inspirations beautifully, with many of the tracks recorded live with Spektor playing piano and singing simultaneously, with further wide-ranging instrumentation and experimentation added over the top.
The songs were not all specifically written for this album however, as the prolific Spektor has 10 years' worth of songs waiting in the wings which haven't been recorded or released, just waiting to find a home on an album.
"There's a song I want to put on every album but for whatever reason it just doesn't feel right, so I'll wait until the next record and try again, and then wait until the next record and then try again. There are some songs that have been waiting for a really long time."
She's also hesitant to try to explain where the inspiration for her wide-ranging music comes from, or even the album title - it's not that she's inarticulate on the subject, just reluctant to colour her music with explanations.
"I always have the hardest time trying to talk about it, because I like to be conceptual but not necessarily definitive. I always prefer for as much of the art to stay free of my own definition as possible, I feel like it weighs it down.
"But I can tell you I was thinking of the title long before I ever started working on the record, and long before I knew what songs would be on there.
"It's not necessarily that I had a concept, it just felt right I guess."
Many have commented on her wonderful observational ability, and her lovely viewpoint that is somehow both childlike and wise, whether it's a quirkily barbed political comment, or during a deep love ballad. Spektor feels she has no particular goal or agenda when it comes to writing songs, the ideas simply arrive.
"You're not really trying or thinking, you're just being really open and doing what feels right. We're always thinking and shaping our thoughts, and I think you're constantly making art even when you're not doing it deliberately. You might think 'oh, I came up with that so fast', but for all you know you've been working on this for years and you just didn't realise.
"Slowly but surely little things get stuck to a little idea and it grows in your subconscious, until suddenly it's just there.
"In that way I don't really believe in wasted time so much anymore" she laughs.
"Or maybe it's just my convenient way of being lazy, I don't know!"
Lazy is not the right word, but she's certainly an artist from whom talent seems to simply flow, and she appears unconcerned about ever having writer's block - for a long time she wouldn't actually write her songs down as she was creating them, confident another one would soon arrive.
"I used to forget a lot of songs" she laughs, "but I got really lucky, because I play all of my songs live, like every song I've ever written, and there would always be people that would record my shows and put them online.
"I am so grateful to them because I honestly wouldn't have had the chance to work on a lot of the songs without those recordings".
So if you're there to see her perform at the Auckland Town Hall (with support from Only Son, aka Jack Dishel, who recently became her husband), feel free to whip out your camera and record a clip or two - Spektor could be very grateful when she wants to jog her memory for the next album.
Who: Regina Spektor, Russian-born American singer-songwriter
Where and when: Auckland Town Hall, Monday December 3
Also: New album What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
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The 2 rooms feature a double bed and 2 single beds. The rooms are complete with a TV, and a private refrigerator with microwave for use. There are hardwood floors throughout the residence. The private bathroom is equipped with a shower. Breakfast is included in the accommodation, as well as free Wi-Fi throughout the rooms.
The location of this accommodation is within 400 metres of the nearest metro station (Prospect Park) as well as several bus lines, with access into the centre of Manhattan.
The neighbourhood directly around the accommodation is popular and family friendly, with various restaurants, cafes, and boutiques. The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and the Prospect Park Zoo are both less than 2 kilometres from the accommodation. The Newark International Airport and the JFK International Airport are equally a 40-minute drive from the residence.
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I nice accomodation in a quiet side street.
Two rooms with 2 single beds and one double bed (queen size)
offer a lot of place.
Linda is very friendly and helpful and her home-baked bred
with freshly squeezed orange juice, scrambled eggs, yoghurt,
marmelade etc. was delicious.
Reading the Wall Street Journal rounds off the breakfast.
The subway is 5-6 min. far away and you need approx. 30/35 min.
till Wallstreet and 40 min till Central Park.
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Home from home, great breakfast special organic delights from Linda, great hospitality, nice tree lined street. Metro nearby, yet quiet and relaxing. Good range of bars restaurants hairdressers laundrettes shops nearby. Wholehearted recommendation.
It was a pleasure to stay at Lindas house. She was a very nice and obliging host. Her excellent breakfast in her cozy kitchen was a great way to start our day.
The sleepingrooms were also comfortable. You can reach the next subway station by 5 minutes walk. There are also some stores, bars and restaurants in the surroundings.
We had a wonderful time staying at this B&B. Linda, her cat and the house felt like home. Breakfast was amazing. Plenty of room. Close to the subway. I would surely recommend this accomodation in South Slope, Brooklyn.
We have had a very pleasant stay in Brooklyn/New York at South Slope Green. As we were only two, the rooms were very comfortable and spacy. The breakfast was very delicious. The house is less than 10 minutes walk away from subway and Prospect Park, about 5 minutes walk away from supermarket and restaurants. Linda was very friendly and helpful (she organized our transport from/to the airport (JFK is about 40 minutes drive by taxi), she has a cat, which was very cosy.
Linda's B&B is located in a quiet neighborhood of Brooklyn. In the direct surroundings there are a number of nice restaurants and cafes. Also very close is the beautiful Prospect Park with botanical gardens, as well as the subway. The accommodation with two rooms is beautifully furnished and the breakfast is really enjoyable. Around the breakfast Linda creates a nice atmosphere with fine
music. She is happy to help in all matters concerning your stay in Brooklyn and with information about Manhattan. We enjoyed the week with Linda
very much and highly recommend a stay in Linda's B&B.
Excellent B&B with lots of space and freedom. Located in a quiet neighbourhood and close to subway, so you can reach most of New York easily. Linda cooked a great breakfast every morning and was a welcoming host. All in all, we really enjoyed our stay.
The B & B is an excellent solution for our family. We were 4 persons with two teenage children. The rooms were comfortable, clean and very quiet, the perfect location to reach Manhattan in about half an hour by subway (line F).
Breakfast Linda was a pleasure every morning. Again, thank you for the hospitality.
Nice and clean apartment, good location, great breakfast made by Linda. Definitely recommended!
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For a long time it was taken for granted that storing, manipulating
and transmitting information would always necessarily dissipate some
nonzero quantity of energy. Engineering prowess might lower the
energy cost somewhat, but there was a threshold level, a lower limit
we could never cross. A device that could compute without loss of
energy was seen as the information equivalent of a perpetual-motion machine.
John von Neumann, in a 1949 lecture, set the minimum price of
"an elementary act of information" at kT ln 2. In
this formula k is Boltzmann's constant, which is the
conversion factor for expressing temperature in energy units; its
numerical value is 1.4 x 10-23 joules per kelvin.
T is the absolute temperature, and ln 2 is the natural
logarithm of 2, a number that appears here because it corresponds to
one bit of information—the amount of information needed to
distinguish between two equally likely alternatives. At room
temperature (300 kelvins), kT ln 2 works out to about 3 x
10-21 joule, or 3 zeptojoules. This is a minuscule amount
of energy; Ralph C. Merkle of the Georgia Institute of Technology
estimates that it is the average kinetic energy of a single air
molecule at room temperature.
Von Neumann's pronouncement was based on a thermodynamic argument.
Consider a computation that answers a single
yes/no question, where the two possible outcomes
appear equally likely at the outset. Once the question has been
settled, we know one bit more than we did beforehand, and so the
computational process reduces the uncertainty or entropy of the
computing system by one bit. But the second law of thermodynamics
says that total entropy can never decrease, and so the reduction
inside the computer must be compensated by an entropy increase
elsewhere. Specifically, the computer must stir up at least one
bit's worth of disorder in its surroundings by expelling an amount
of heat equal to kT ln 2. Von Neumann—along with
everyone else at the time—assumed that every
"elementary act of information" has the effect of settling
at least one yes/no question, and thus it seemed
that each step in the computer's operation inevitably dissipates at
least three zeptojoules of energy.
Von Neumann's ideas on the thermodynamics of computation were widely
accepted but never formally proved. In the early 1960s Rolf Landauer
set out to supply such a proof and found that he couldn't. He
discovered that only a certain subclass of computational events have
an unavoidable three-zeptojoule cost. Ironically, these expensive
operations are not those that produce information but rather those
that destroy it, such as erasing a bit from a memory cell.
Landauer's work on the cost of forgetting was counter-intuitive, and
initially it got a frosty reception. Now the idea has been
thoroughly assimilated, and it's hard to see what the controversy
was all about. Erasing a memory cell amounts to ignoring its present
contents—which may in fact be unknown—and resetting the
cell to some standardized state (usually 0). Thus an indeterminate
bit becomes a fully specified one, and the entropy of the machine is
diminished accordingly. For this reason the corresponding amount of
heat energy (kT ln 2) has to be rejected into the
environment. The consequences are even clearer if you think about
erasing the entire memory of a computer, so that the system goes
from a random state to a highly ordered one; this is a process of
refrigeration, and so it obviously gives off heat.
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From 12-1 p.m., instructors can learn more about different offices and areas on campuses by visiting booths that will be set up in the Campus Center foyer. Division and department meetings begin at 12:30 p.m., and professional development workshops will be offered throughout the afternoon. A tour of the main campus leaves from the Campus Center foyer at 2:15 p.m.
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posted at 9:51 pm on March 25, 2010 by Allahpundit
I'd like to believe that this isn't pure vindictiveness at work, that there's an element of political strategy in it — e.g., weakening Bibi at home in order to create a more centrist coalition government, perhaps — but if I were an Israeli, I'd be so enraged that I'd want to rally behind him. So if there's a strategy, it seems awfully stupid. If you're coming late to the story about tensions between Obama and Netanyahu, read this Yossi Klein Halevi piece at TNR for background. In a nutshell, the right-wing part of Netanyahu's government announced the building of new settlements in east Jerusalem on the day Biden came to visit, which allegedly sent The One into a snit over what he considered to be an insult. Never mind that Netanyahu himself apparently didn't know about the timing of the announcement and that building in east Jerusalem, which would almost certainly remain Israeli in any peace deal, was routine. Obama wants to make a show of standing up to the Zionist entity for our Islamic "partners in peace" in the naive belief that that'll help bring about the ever elusive solution to the crisis. So here's his big show — I hope. It's possible that there's no grander strategic meaning to it at all, and that he really is just this petty.
For a head of state to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of…
After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on Jewish settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisors and "let me know if there is anything new", a US congressman who spoke to the Prime Minister said today.
"It was awful," the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting "a hazing in stages", poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House phone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received "the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea"…
Newspaper reports recounted how Mr Netanyahu looked "excessively concerned and upset" as he pulled out a flow chart to show Mr Obama how Jerusalem planning permission worked and how he could not have known of the announcement that hundreds more homes were to be built just as Mr Biden arrived in Jerusalem.
Mr Obama then suggested that Mr Netanyahu and his staff stay on at the White House to consider his proposals, so that if he changed his mind he could inform the President right away. "I'm still around," the Yediot Ahronot daily quoted Mr Obama saying. "Let me know if there is anything new."
Follow the link for the list of demands he gave Netanyahu, including "an end to Israeli building projects in east Jerusalem." He certainly is the strong horse, isn't he? Not with Iran, for whom we're preparing to water down sanctions yet again because the colossus of the age can't persuade China and Russia to agree to anything harsher. But with Israel? Strong as they come. The left will claim that he's doing it in the interests of peace, per the theory that a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians will have some sort of domino effect against Islamist regimes that exploit the Palestinian issue, but how it advances peace to force Israel into shows of weakness is beyond me. Jackson Diehl:
Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers record the president's meeting with Netanyahu; no statement was issued afterward. Netanyahu is being treated as if he were an unsavory Third World dictator, needed for strategic reasons but conspicuously held at arms length. That is something the rest of the world will be quick to notice and respond to. Just like the Palestinians, European governments cannot be more friendly to an Israeli leader than the United States. Would Britain have expelled a senior Israeli diplomat Tuesday because of a flap over forged passports if there were no daylight between Obama and Netanyahu? Maybe not…
U.S. pressure on Netanyahu will be needed if the peace process ever reaches the point where the genuinely contentious issues, like Palestinian refugees or the exact territorial tradeoffs, are on the table. But instead of waiting for that moment and pushing Netanyahu on a point where he might be vulnerable to domestic challenge, Obama picked a fight over something that virtually all Israelis agree on, and before serious discussions have even begun. As the veteran Middle East analyst Robert Malley put it to The Post's Glenn Kessler, "U.S. pressure can work, but it needs to be at the right time, on the right issue and in the right political context. The administration is ready for a fight, but it realized the issue, timing and context were wrong."
"He appears ideological — and vindictive," writes Diehl, reminding us that not all appearances are deceiving. I assume that Obama's game here is that he doesn't want to appear weak either after the insult to Biden, but it's not clear who he's aiming to impress by humiliating Netanyahu. The nuclear horse is almost all the way out of the barn on Iran, and we know how little China and Russia care about concessions to the U.S. Is there a strategy here or is it just O being O?
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Luke 8:41-9:6 Jairus had just heard the news that his daughter was dead. Can you imagine his amazement when he heard Jesus say, "Fear not, believe only?" This story has a happy ending because Jesus raised Jairus' daughter from the dead.
As we have studied earlier, fear always nullifies faith. The product of fear is unbelief. The product of faith is hope, and we all need hope. Have you heard people say, "Now don't get your hopes up, because you may be disappointed"? What a statement of unbelief this is. If we are afraid to get our hopes up because we fear that we will be disappointed, what is controlling us? Fear is controlling us.
If we knew the author and finisher of our faith a little better, we would always have our hopes up. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, and He also is the bishop of our souls. Hope is an anchor for our souls, and Jesus is our only hope. When we place our hope in Jesus instead of circumstances, we will always have our hopes up. Our hope is built on nothing else than Jesus and His righteousness. We stand on Christ our solid rock, who alone can keep us from the sinking sands of unbelief and discouragement.
I believe that Jairus was able to fear not and believe only because he kept his eyes on Jesus. He probably did not even look at his dead daughter. He looked at Jesus, and then he knew that Jesus was able to even raise his daughter from the dead.
Lord, help me to always put my hope in You. You are the author and finisher of my faith, and You do all things well.
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Preppers, Patriots and Pirates
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Now that the prospects of a second Obama administration are hitting home, the pace of a rapid deterioration are confronting all thinking Americans. The radical transformation that is centrally planned for the economy and authoritarianism administrated by the statists that are part of the most tyrannical regime in memory, is taking place before our eyes. Falling off the cliff is more like descending into the abyss of martial law contrived to eliminate the last remnants of independent citizens. Advocating for civil liberties is treated as a criminal act and the gun culture is looked upon as the preview of a terrorist cell.
Several decades ago, the label of being a survivalist painted a prepared person as odd if not deranged. Today the "prepper" is demeaned as an enemy of the state. The Obama dependency society demands that government is the dispenser of all wants and needs. The threat to the state from a prepared population has become a primary target of the New World Order minions.
So what is so perilous about the Prepper Nation? The overt resistance to arbitrary authority is a fear that any beholden bureaucrat abhors. Combating the grievous culture, which is the federal ruthless and tyrannical government, is a crucial concern of the beltway elitists. Thus, the prepared individual is a dangerous agonist that ignores, if not resists, the best-laid plans for a controlled society.
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(Dec. 2, 2005)--The Cattleman's Square parking lot at the UTSA Downtown Campus will be closed through December in order to demolish a building on the lot.
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I hived my package on Friday, late afternoon. I purchased a 3lb. package of Italians with a Russian Queen from Kelly's.
Bees looked real healthy and everything went OK. Left 5 frames out of the hive like the instructions said. I have an entrance feeder on and have the entrance reduced. I put grass in the entrance like the instructions said to. On Sat. I observed the bees(didn't open hive just watched from outside)and they're working their butts off. Grass was out of the entrance Sat. morning and they were cleaning out the hive, dead bees that were in the bottom of the package when I dumped it. Hey, it didn't say anything in the instructions about the dead bees, not many though. They even pulled out a little piece of the masonite board that fell off the package when I dumped it! Late Sat. and Sun. I've watched them making flights and hauling in pollen. They've almost emptied a quart of 1:1 sugar water.
Now for the questions. How long should I keep the hive entrance reduced? I plan on putting in the 5 frames I removed and cking on the queen on the 3rd. day. When should I add another super? Should I use another hive body or a shallow super? Should I use a baggie feeder or is the entrance the best at this time? Should I add grease patties(crisco & sugar)? Are there any treatments or monitoring I should do at this time? I learned about bees quite a while ago so all these mites are something new.
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The issues faced by professional women in today's work world will be the focus of a panel discussion at Hope College on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The discussion, titled "Women in the Workplace," will feature female professionals from a variety of disciplines. It is organized by the Office of Career Services at Hope and intended particularly for Hope students in advance of their own entry into the work force, but is open to the general public. Admission is free.
The panel participants will be Mary Barr, a nurse practitioner with Michigan Medical PC; Donna Cornwell, executive director of the Center for Women in Transition; Jill Jepsen, a professional artist and instructor at Ferris State University; Lois McAllister Mulder, a teacher with the Holland Public Schools; and Linda Milanowski, director of colors, materials and finishes at Herman Miller.
A dessert networking reception will follow the panel discussion. The Martha Miller Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street.


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Tuesday Night Movie: Marvel's The Avengers
Join us on Tuesday, October 2 at 6:00pm (note earlier start time) for MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS! Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army. Rated PG-13. 143 minutes. Free popcorn and pop! See you there!


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Very funny, thanks Karl!
One friend said to the other, What is a dilemma, actually?
He replied, Well, there's nothing better than an example to illustrate that.
Imagine that you are lying in a big bed with a beautiful naked young woman on one side and a gay man on the other.
Who are you going to turn your back on?
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand
Just an observation, but it sounds like a gay man's joke told to a straight guy.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and goverment, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first" ~ Thomas Jefferson


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During My Internship, I ...
From student teaching to undergraduate research, clinical work and internships, each semester, hundreds of Augustana students participate in experiential learning opportunities throughout the city of Sioux Falls, nationally and worldwide. We asked a number of seniors who participated in business internships this spring to share highlights from their experiences. Read their words.
Dr. Pam Homan Named Executive Director of New Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Augustana
Dr. Pam Homan has been named executive director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Augustana, a new initiative designed to build strategic partnerships with industry leaders, business heads and curators of creativity.
Dr. Jungho Kim Named Director of Orchestras
Augustana today announced that Dr. Jungho Kim has been named assistant professor of music and director of orchestras.
Not Your Average Music Camp
"For one week they're getting an immersion in music, everything from contemporary music, to music history," said Dr. Paul Schilf of the Augustana Music Department. "Research has shown that the study of music, especially at an older age, leads to a better quality of life." Learn more about the New Horizons Music Camp Held at Augustana this week.
Spring 2015 Dean's List Announced
Augustana College today announced that the following students have been named to the Dean's List for the spring semester of the 2014-2015 academic year.
Iconic GSC Dioramas to be on Display at Prehistoric Indian Village
As construction advances on Augustana's new Froiland Science Complex, three large dioramas, iconic hallmarks of the original Gilbert Science Center, were moved to their new location at the Prehistoric Indian Village in Mitchell, South Dakota, on Monday.
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Sioux Falls holds the largest concentration of Augustana alumni in the world, and it's no wonder why they stay. The job site ZipRecruiter.com recently ranked Sioux Falls as the No. 1 up-and-coming city for college graduates.
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Dr. Mike Mullin and Dr. Matthew Pehl were recognized for their commitment to teaching and research at Commencement on Saturday.
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Michael, you mention using small cell comb quite often.I went looking for it and couldn't find any in the catalogues I have.Where do you get yours?
Michael, you mention using small cell comb quite often.I went looking for it and couldn't find any in the catalogues I have.Where do you get yours?
Dadant and Brushy Mountain have it. Look a bit harder, they like to hide it.
Dadant makes it. Brushy Mt and Dadant sell it. If you are trying to regress, (get from large to small) buy the wax, not the plastic. The large bees HATE the small cell plastic. The wax they can cheat just a little for that first or second generation being raised on it and when they have naturally gotten back to normal size you can give them the plastic.
But I mostly am doing natural cells now. I make foundationless frames or I make blank starter strips and let the bees build what they want. You could just use small cell starter strips.
I gave a box of plastic to half regressed bees (they'd been on 5.1 for 3-4 weeks), and they drew it fine. I agree you're safer with wax, but it all depends on the strain, and how adaptable they are to different sizes.
Robert Brenchley
Birmingham UK
I am still waiting for one of you small cell devotees (other than Dee Lusby) to come out and say:
"SMALL CELL IS DEFINITELY THE SOLUTION TO VARROA MITES. and here's the proof" or
OK, I'm listening....Michael, Robert ???
I started the regressions two years ago late in the year and did not complete them before the mites got too bad and I used Apistan out of desperation, which did no good at all and the bees all died anyway.
The next year I used FGMO fog to try to keep the mites under control WHILE I regressed and it seemed to keep the mites down pretty well. I used Oxalic in the fall to see how things were going and it killed about 200 mites per hive total with two treatments over a few weeks. So the COMBINATION of FGMO and regressing kept the population of mites down to only about 200 total per hive.
Now I am almost entirely regressed and have not treated at all with anything since spring. I started the year with an official mite count (from the state inspector) of none. I have seen one mite in one drone cell in one hive so far.
What does this all mean? Well, if I had none when I started in the spring, maybe not so much. Maybe they have been exposed to other hives that are dying from mites, maybe they haven't.
So far it seems to be working very well, but it's been a short test of just small cell since I've only been doing JUST that since spring (March).
But it was the capping and post capping times observed in my observation hive that convinced me of it's importance.
I will, as always, keep you all posted.
I buy the wax foundation from Brushy Mountain. I put in 1 in the center then an empty frame (well with an "X" of wire) then more small cell. I push the large cell to the sides and will someday remove those.
I look at my bees really close for mites. I haven't seen any on the bees. But I haven't been into the brood sections to check. None of the drones I pick up wandering around have any mites.
I have SBBs on my hives. And I have a jillion bees.
No chemicals in my hives at all.


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i'm proud of ya'll!
i'm proud of ya'll!
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I graduated in the 70's with a technical degree, oil embargo and the economy much the same as it is today. I feel for you but if you follow your passion you will be happy. If you follow someone else's passion you will regret it regardless of how successful you become.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
"People may argue that science and technology have done a lot to hurt beekeeping, but please don't confuse gained knowledge with how people have chose to use it. (I'm not necessarily advocating wires and batteries in hives, just don't hate on research and ideas.)"
Серёжа, Sergey
Серёжа, Sergey
I believe that there is always room for improvement and that the use of science has it's value. I hope that is clear enough.
Isn't there a Scientific Beekeeping Website?
I don't know where the World would be w/ out Science. The PreHistoric Era perhaps? Certainly PreGrecoRoman Era.
Mark Berninghausen
Серёжа, Sergey
Thank you all for your kind words.
The word "broke" was a poor choice for a title as it is very vague and caused a number of different topics to arise in this thread.
Also the term beekeeping can be interpreted multiple ways as we've seen in this thread: the beekeeping industry, typical beekeeping practices, honeybees themselves, and I'm sure there were more.
I apologized early on for a bad first post that wasn't worded well, unfortunately it was too late and this mess of a thread happened.
Серёжа, Sergey
I do expect that bees will be around long after humans learn to synthesize honey from corn.
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
Can they be better? Sure. But, compared to 6 or 7 years ago when colony collapse disorder hit and hit hard and I lost 80 percent of my hives and 33% of all colonies across the Nation died in one year things are on an upward/positive trend.
I don't know what y'all are looking at. Shucks, odfrank, someone who has been on this Forum longer than many of y'all have owned bees is continually collecting more nad more swarms. Where are they coming from? Spontaneous generation?
Beekeeping isn't broke. Y'all need and attitude adjustment and more actual experience beyond your own backyard.
Rant over.
ps: check out my Wrapping Up 2012 Thread and tell me beekeeping is broken. Peace
Mark Berninghausen
Withiut reading the entire thread, Which I am interested in doing I just don't have time to right now. I will add these thoughts.
Is beekeeping broken? If in fact they could keep bees 100 years ago, produce honey and other products of the hive. What has changed about the bees to make that less possible today?
I don' think the bees has changed. Man has changed. mans goals and expectations have changed.
Look at what happens to the demand for profits when you go from a lone farmer trying to put food on a table to a business model that must support employees equipment and the other mountain of overhead involved. Yet it is still that same old bee being asked to make that sort of increase in demand.
I think it is man, his goals and his expectations that have changed. and they have become completely unreasonable.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Will some computer geek do a search and find examples of photos of apiarys in the Hudson Valley of NY showing home apiaries of 200 colonies. This was not as uncommon as youy might think. They were all over the place and across many States. Michigan comes to mind. If I knew where those early 20th century and late 19th century photos were and I could I would Post them myself.
Mark Berninghausen
A newspaper "retrospective" article:
W.L. 'LaMar' Coggshall, of Groton, is pictured here in the early 20th century with his two sons in his beeyard. / PHOTO linked from the Ithaca Journal at the link above.
And do you have a problem with icons, animated or otherwise?
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USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
On the issue of the elderly, aged or older. I clearly see in effect. IF you are insulted by my opinion that is your responsibility. I accept that I insulted only if I write with intent to insult. otherwise you are to synsative.
We are born, we then spend several years in a period of hyper learning about anything and everything we know about the world. But there is a point that we no longer learn as readily. It is now time to act upon what we know and we become more and more absorbed with the decisions and thought processes needed to act than to learn. This in effect results in an increased reluctance to change.
An example: I got my first banking account about the time Automatic Tellers came into existence. For me they where the norm and I never had any issue in using them. But for my parents. Who at that time where hardly elderly. Had some degree of reluctance and difficulty in getting used to them. While my grand parents had almost a reaction of fear at using them.
Today My grandparents are now gone and my parents are elderly. They neither one have accepted the use of a computer to much degree at all. They both have e-mail accounts and own a computer. but they know nothing about forums or any sort of public interaction of any kind. It is clear to me that they both are aware of a vulnerability they have to unknown threats.
Recency my mother has chosen to get involved in public service. this will require she has a fairly rounded ability to use a computer. It is a completely alien world to her but I am weekly giving her lessons on how to use a computer. understanding the language. understanding the difference in facebook, you tube, forums. web sites etc. I am finding that it is such a radical change in social concepts that she really does not have anything in her life experience to relate it to. She has never really communicated with pictures and video. She has never really lived in the reality of being able to copy and past verbatim something someone wrote or said. She has a very real issue with this whole trailing of of a conversation about something nobody really said anyway. Such as, did Ace really insult anyone? No someone got insulted. but now the conversation is controlled by the issue of how insulting Ace is. Net result, the sensitive little child is disrupting the conversation. Grow a pair and move on.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Earlier this year my neighbor was found dead at his computer. His browser still opened to one of the blogs he frequented. He was 95.
He was also a facebook friend.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson
I only know how to make two icons. and I have nothing against any other icons animated or otherwise.
Thank you, I knew someone could do what I can't. What do I owe you. I like to pay people to do what I can't.
Mark Berninghausen
What a different time! The guy and his kids are all dressed up....lookin' ready for church...and he's workin' his hives. Do you think they may have really been just posing for a photo....a pretty rare thing in those days?
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson


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that's what I do. Foundationless on untreated hives.
that's what I do. Foundationless on untreated hives.
Stuck in Texas. Learning Permaculture in drought, flood and strange weather. The bees are still alive.
Yes, you know me Mark.
Since I am novice in all these bee-business, I could not understand, why such a problem with commercial foundation? Just collect wax from cupping and made your own chemical-free (as much as possible) foundation! What is the problem? Home-made foundation and treatment-free are good selling points, I think. Sergey
Im really not that serious
When growing up,40's and 50's) we had a grade C milk barn. One of my jobs was to spray the backs of the cows with a hand pump fly sprayer that always leaked and the DDT or Chlorodane (sp?) would run down your arm and drip off your elbow.(some of you oldtimers know what i"m talking about.) We didn't know the dangers of it then? but i'm 74 yrs. old and in good health, (maybe i'm just lucky) I told the owner of a chemical store about this,(i was worried about an early death) he just chuckeld and said, having skin contact with DDT and Chlorodane(it had been taken off the market for years) wasn't a good thing,but that we have insecticides available to the public now that's more harmful than DDT or Chlorodane ever was?My point is, we live in a chemical driven world,some good some bad and we are (sadly) going to have to live with it.
PS. If i remember right, DDT was taken off the market because it was killing Eagles?
Ed, KA9CTT profanity is IGNORANCE made audible
you can`t fix stupid not even with duct tape
cerezha,i have a 46 yr. old daughter(a teacher) and a 41 yr. old son,(a Anesthesiologist) both in good health.My son has been in 4 Ironman contest in 4 different states, and places in the 50's, not bad out of two or three thousand entries. My daughter takes after me, fishing and a gardener, and running after her third child, a 5yr. old.
Mac, i'll have to go along with JRG13 on this one, too many mouths to feed in this old world and chemicals (sad to say) is the fast's way to mass produce crops. I truck farm 5 acres of my land and sell produce and honey at the local Farmers Market, i have to use some fungicide on some plants and insecticides as a last resort. Plants have new enemies (Japanese beetles for one) just like our bees and we have to learn to deal with them.People know me and trust me, if they ask i tell them if it was sprayed or not, and they know i don't use any chemicals (other than Fumagilin B, only when needed, and it's rare) in my hives (74 of them) They produced between 2500 to 3000 lbs. of honey and 6 med. supers of comb honey this year, even with the drought we had. This weekend is our towns Festival,(population of 1400) and it draws between 40 to 50 thousand people, Honey is all i'll have for sell and i usually sell out.
don't get me wrong, I'm not against organic, but the reality is at our current rate of growth, it's not feeding the world.
neonic pesticides actually photodegrade so wax melting does purify some pesticide contamination.
brooksbeefarm - good for you and your family. I really jealous - I wish to have such life and piece of land for all my bee/gardening/grapes projects! I think your efforts to be more natural are bringing great fruits. It is really, really great! Sergey
With the minimal amount of thin foundation (a starter strip) i use, i'm not concerned to much about eating my comb honey. The bees make 90% of new wax to draw the rest of it out, the old days when you set a hive out and the only worry was if it got weak the wax moths would take over, are gone. I remember the organic days when we would pick potatoe bugs off and tomato worms by hand,and we would get half the peach or apple and the worm got the other half, same with the ear worm on sweet corn. With chemicals we now get all of the above and the worm dies or goes somewhere elseMyself and i'm sure everyone else would love to live in the garden of Eden (i'm thinking it was organic) but man just keeps making things worse by greed and over population. Anyone have an answer.
as Sergey mentioned the wax gets photodegraded by UV light. The unmelted wax in the melter won't get cleansed much, due to its opacity to light, but the melting wax will get the full treatment. Neonic pesticides has a photodegration half life of between 4 hours -15 days depending on conditions so there I'd think with the right setup there would be significant upside beyond Sergey's quoted 10%.
Of course the above only pertains to neonicotinoids, other pesticides would react differently to solar wax melting (or possibly not at all)
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Lovely Green NEST
Size40 m²
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Lockable room
- Elevator in building
Accommodation summary
|Via Ergisto Bezzi, 00155 Roma, Italy
|Property type
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The property surrounded by a condominium garden, is located on a quiet and tranquil side of Trastevere near the famous flea Market "Porta Portese", that is held every Sunday.
This area is reach of nice and good restaurants, cafés , pubs and pizzerias. This is one of the most characteristic areas of Rome. Trastevere used to be the working class quarter, became the area of the artists. Today it is known among Romans and tourists for its night life.
Taste here the Trastevere's authentic atmosphere finding on the street the artist painting, visit it's old churches, enjoy a glass of wine in one of the many " Wineries ".
The apartment is composed by two bedrooms , equipped with white and modern furniture. In the hall there is a boiler,a microwave and everything you may need for a quick breakfast or meal at your disposal. The bathroom has a bath with shower. Bathroom is to be shared between guests of the other room. It is in a walking distance from the main street of the quarter : Viale Trastevere or Testaccio , famous area full of discos thus a meeting place of the Roman movida.
House rulesPlease just respect the apartment.
Leave thinks the way you found them.Smoking in the room is strictly forbidden. If the stay is prolonged upto 2 weeks the bed linen will be changed and an additional cleaning fee will be requested.
It is forbidden to eat the bed room.
Guests not linked to the reservation are not allowed to visit the the apartment
I offer White bed linen and towels.
Internet wifi.
Check-in: usually after 15:00.
Check-out: usually before 10:00.
cleaning fee is included in the tariff
City tax to pay cash at arrival €3.50 per night per person.
( It was increased from the 1st of September 2014 )
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Reviews of this property
The apartment was very small and could use a renovation. The curtain in the bathroom was full of mold and the bath tub was leaking. To get warm water the boiler needs to be turned on, unfortunately this information was written down anywhere.
The bed is very hard and not comfortable.
The good thing about the small apartment is the location. It is close to many restaurants and the river Tiber.
Very clean and nice Room! Good descriptions how to get to the place and great Insider Tipps!
Also a very pleaseant and quick communication!
Super offer, great value for money, clean rooms, located in the best area-well connected with public transportation, still close enough to get to all main atttactions by foot. At the same time , the neighbourhood is very quiet for a calm night rest.
Apollonia is a great hostess, providing easy and clear instructions on how to get to the appartment, as well as useful info for wine and dine activities. We appreciated very much the opportunity to leave the bags in the appartment until evening, as we had a late flight, and thus were able to use the day.
Thank you Appolonia!
Appollonia was very helpful and nice with us, she provided us with all necessary to have a good time. The rooms is cozy and confortable. The building is very quiet and well communicated. just I missed having more towels.
I found myself very well - central apartment-clean environment - recommend agiovani couples
mi sono trovato molto bene--appartamento centralissimo-ambiente pulitissimo--lo consiglio agiovani coppie
+ detailed descirption to the accomodation
+ available fridge, espresso machine
+ close to tram and a lot of restaurants
- heating did not work; instead: air conditioning -> very loud!
It's a nice appartement, very neat and clean. Just a walk away from the centre of Rome. We only had some troubles concerning the communication with the owner before our arrival. That was kind of stressfull sometimes.
we were not impressed very much. No one there to help, room too small and noisy, big bathroom with clogged sink and cold water shower. the kitchen had an electric kettle and broken small microwave. Breakfast was only God know how old cereal, NO MILK, NO COFFEE. Far away from anywhere.
The apartment is very clean and the location is outstanding!
The airco and shower were fine.
Only 1 of the 2 rooms is equipped with a kitchen, which was difficult to extract from the subscribtion.
Overall a good place to stay in Rome, low budget and OK quality.
We had a very pleasant stay in Rome. The apartment is clean and well located. Appolonia we had passed all the necessary information to find the apartment! by cons we were surprised not to be able to meet her, we thought she lived in the apartment.
Nous avons passé un très bon séjour à Rome. L'appartement est propre et bien situé. Appolonia nous avait transmis toutes les informations nécessaires pour trouver l'appartement! par contre nous avons été surprises de ne pas pouvoir la rencontrer, nous pensions qu'elle vivait dans l'appartement.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
ok, where should we have the party? i say dallas because it's in the center of the country, more or less. or we could have regional parties. any other ideas.....?
The only bad days are the ones you don't get.
Good to come by and see so many familiar faces....Happy holidays to all and hope the packages get opened timely. ALl the zones compltely confused me....LOL.
Dreamer will keep ya'll in line. ROFL
Tv was supposed to me here....oopps...LOL.....
Have fun everyone, hope the packages and pictures get posted here......
Have a holly, jolly christmas.....♥♥
"Keep Smiling, Keep shining..knowing you can always count on me....for sure.
That what friends are for...
Well I took your advice on how to find my lost Christmas: I watched Elf the Movie, It's a Wonderful Life, put out some decorations, Went to the local christmas tree farm and looked for a tree, fell in a gopher hole broke two fingers on my right hand and my left wrist, while driving myself too the hospital I listened to christmas carols on the radio, and still haven't been able to find my Christmas! trying to type this is not fun.
GOTTA LOVE THIS...all who added a Jingle.
I am Quilter Hear Me Roar...
I like that bag! My package is jingly and getting to be very tempting...but...I will resist.
Tink's Mom (My name is really Susie)
8PM EST is great for me too!
Hi Debbie nice to *see* you
Dreamer did you bribe someone at a regional sort facility?
Those who think they are in Daylight Savings Time, hate to break it to you but that is a seasonal time (and artificial ) and it is over until spring. So you are either in Eastern time (same as NY) or Central Time (same as Chicago) and further west like Colorado Mountain Time, and then Pacific time. don't know if Alaska has more zones or what Hawaii has. Japan is a different day.


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Make a Toast Inn-Style on the Brew Ridge Trail
The Mark Addy Inn • Nellysford, VA
Escape Kit
- A Two-Night Stay for Two in a Standard Room ($230), Sundays through Thursdays or Select Fridays and Saturdays
- Or, a Two-Night Stay for Two in a Deluxe Room ($275), Sundays through Thursdays or Select Fridays and Saturdays
- Daily Three-Course Breakfast for Two
- Credit Toward an In-Room Couple's Massage
- Pet-Friendly
- Combine Vouchers to Extend Stay up to Four Nights
Thomas Jefferson was known for his patriotic vision, but even our third president couldn't have found a better getaway to Escape the "paparazzi" of his time than to his former stomping grounds in Nelson County, Virginia. And now you can experience treatment fit for an executive at The Mark Addy Inn.
Declare your independence from everyone seeking your John Hancock with a two-night stay for two in a standard room (Schloss, Sundance, Rue de Monet, Mary Virginia, and Mimosa rooms) for $230, Sundays through Thursdays or select Fridays and Saturdays. Or, indulge in a comfort revolution inside a deluxe room (Tiger Lily, Elena, Kensington, Colonel, and Le Jardin rooms) for $275, Sundays through Thursdays or select Fridays and Saturdays.
The inn's old-fashioned porch (perfect for watching sunsets) is just the preamble here: You'll more than exercise your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with a three-course farm-to-table breakfast each morning from the inn's sustainable on-site farm. Pet-friendly rooms complete with animal amenities means wagging the dog is encouraged.
Hike the serene Appalachian Trail, schedule a hot air balloon ride above the rolling hills of Nelson County, or go for a horseback ride. The inn is replete with activities available to suit any party line.
Get your fill of homegrown American spirits on a jaunt along the Brew Ridge Trail—a string of six craft breweries in the surrounding area—or the Monticello Wine Trail.
Sample a cold one or two during a tour of Bold Rock Cider, which offers tastings. Escapees also enjoy discounts at Bold Rock Cider, Wild Wolf Brewing Company, and Devil's Backbone Brewery as you meander along the trail. Tours for Tunes, with its six-passenger-van available for an additional fee, is the perfect way to sip safely with daytime or evening pub crawls—simply add it to your stay upon booking.
Later in the day, ratify a relaxing getaway with presidential eats: Use a $10 dining credit toward a meal for two in The Fountain Room at the inn.
Make sure each branch of your being is equally satisfied: Take in the history and culture of Jefferson's Monticello estate or admire the student artwork at UVA's Newcomb Hall to satisfy your mind. Then, attend to your body politic with a credit toward an in-room couples' massage.
Amend your vacation rut with a trip to Charlottesville—manifest your own destiny on this week's Escape to The Mark Addy Inn.
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Mini-crossovers -- small, SUV-styled vehicles that share parts and systems with compact and subcompact cars -- could be the auto industry's next boom.
"We'll see every automobile manufacturer enter this segment with multiple vehicles for their brands," said Eric Noble, president of the CarLab, an Orange, Calif., consultant that advises automakers on product development. "We're seeing interest in it from most of our clients. It's a super-promising segment."
You may not have seen one yet, but small crossovers will be all around soon.
From the performance-oriented BMW X1 to a Honda concept vehicle based on the subcompact Fit, there's likely to be a micro-crossover for just about every taste.
"We expect a lot of growth in small and compact luxury crossovers," Buick marketing vice-president Tony DiSalle told me recently at the introduction of the brand's Encore mini-crossover. "People are right-sizing, but they don't want to walk away from luxury."
Buick, long a stodgy brand that offered little beyond traditional sedans, could be a surprising early leader. The Encore combines small size, easy parking and high fuel economy with plentiful passenger and cargo room, available all-wheel drive and the high seating position SUV owners love.
"It's part and parcel with the trend to smaller vehicles," said John Sousanis, analyst with Southfield, Mich.-based WardsAuto.
"Crossovers accounted for 25 per cent of vehicle sales in November. We've grown to love the utility of these vehicles. Getting that combination of people and cargo-carrying capability in smaller vehicles is a natural evolution."
The Encore goes on sale this month. It'll be followed mid-year by the similar-size Fiat 500L, which offers unexpected interior space and Italian charm but lacks the available all-wheel drive that's a selling point for most crossovers.
"Automakers like small crossovers because they share a lot of parts with compact or subcompact cars, but should sell for much higher prices" because of their extra room and capability, Noble said.
Add the fact that a lot of people think crossovers -- models that combine car-type structures and engineering with SUV looks -- are simply worth more than a similarly equipped sedan, and you've got a formula automakers can't resist.
Luxury brands are jumping in with both feet. BMW builds the X1 and even smaller Mini Countryman. Audi may have two little luxury crossovers coming.
"The Encore is a white-space vehicle. It has no direct competition" yet, DiSalle said. Its size and price put it almost directly between the bigger X1 and Countryman. Buick expects the Encore to appeal to young people, parents whose family just grew out of the minivan stage and early empty-nesters.
Buick also sells the Encore in China, and GM's European Opel brand just began sales of a nearly identical vehicle called the Mokka. The vehicle was conceived by product planners in the U.S. and engineered in South Korea with input from North America, Europe and China.
First orders from North American exceeded 9,000 Encores, six times what Buick expected. Opel has 45,000 orders in Europe. Chinese customers bought 6,000 in the first month and dealers have ordered 20,000 more.
Despite automakers' nearly unanimous enthusiasm for mini- and micro-crossovers, Noble cautions there's no track record to show how much buyers want them and how much they'll pay.
"These vehicles are far more profitable than small cars, but we don't know how many of them customers will buy."
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UTSA hosts lecture on liberal arts as lifetime degree
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Student Writer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
(Oct. 21, 2005)--The UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts will host Robert Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University, speaking on "Beyond Vocational Training: Liberal Arts as a Lifetime Degree" at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 in the Main Building Auditorium (0.106) on the 1604 Campus.
Patten earned master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University and has written extensively on Charles Dickens, Victorian poetry and prose, 19th century British literature and art, European fiction 1700-1900 and the history of publishing.
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Since its inception, he has been an officer of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), serving as director and then treasurer (1999-2003) and vice president (2003-2005). He will be the president of the society until 2007. Additionally, Patten was director of The Dickens Project at the University of California at Santa Cruz and director of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Patten was selected by the Phi Beta Kappa Society as one of two professors in the Couper Scholars Program, which involves making a lecture tour of a series of universities.
Established by Phi Beta Kappa in 2004, the program is named for Richard W. Couper, a longtime champion of the liberal arts and sciences who was instrumental in helping Phi Beta Kappa receive the grant. Couper is a former president of the New York Public Library and the Phi Beta Kappa Fellows.
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Large and spacious room for one or two people .... you also have to pay the second room in large apartment Cinecitta neighborhood.
Спальные места2
Ванные комнаты2
Площадь110 м²
Этаж №5(с лифтом)
- Интернет
- Кухня
- Курение разрешено
- Лифт в здании
- Закрывающаяся на ключ комната
- Балкон/терраса
- Завтрак
Краткое описание жилья
|dell 'aeroporto, 00175 roma, Италия
|Тип жилья
|Отдельная комната
|ID жилья
|Процент подтвержденных запросов брони
|Время ответа
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|Календарь обновлен
|Более, чем полгода назад
Situated in a way that allows Tuscolana shopping, which relives the cinematic atmosphere of the nearby Cinecittà.Situato in the mansion with ascensore.Ben connected by metro (15 minutes to get to downtown) and the airports of Fiumicino and Ciampino. My willingness to transfer payment from airports at home and vice versa. Very close to the University of Tor Vergata and to the same hospital.
Правила Проживанияgreater freedom, no restrictions except the normal rules of morality and civilization.
|Цена за 2 гостей
|1333 руб. за одну ночь/ дополнительная ночь
|Максимальная продложительность визита
|10 ночей
|Заезд после
|По договоренности
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For the second time I have been staying with his apartment, it was the same experience I got....you will never regret of this wonderful apartment and I consider it as my second house...Highly recommend this apartment...a FIVE STAR!!!!! I will come back again without hesitation.....God bless you Antonio!!! See you again! my friend!
For the last 5 days we have stayed, Antonio is very kind and hospitable. It was an awesome experienced. Apartment is very nice and perfectly clean all throughout. He has a lot of sense of humour and great to chat with. Well organize in minding your needs in his domain. We sometimes invite us and join him for a dinner with his traditional Italian food and absolutely gorgeous. We don't have any problem coming in and out as He gave us spare keys with the liberty to come back in anytime as we would like. Very peaceful place and highly recommended to those who wish to stay in this lovely apartment. If you are looking for a privacy and affordable place don't hesitate to take and call Antonio.
Clean room in frienly residence. Antonio is a nice and caring person, not to well speaking his foreign languages though. Kitchen and devices are at your service, sheets and towels are provided. A 10 minutes walk brings you at the Metrostation with direct lines to the most important places of interest. The neighbourhood shows the real Roman life, with cheap shops, bars and pizzerias around the corner.Transfer from/to the airport is an option, arrangements hereabout are to be made with Antonio. You won't regret your stay. Highly recommended!
The location of this room is great. Although it is not located in the center of Rome, it is very easy to reach by metro (just 10-15 minutes from Termini station). Antonio is a very nice man, and the house in which the room is situated is calm and spacious.
A big problem, however, was the bed. The bed had an extremely thin mattress (!) and just a very thin sheet as a blanket. The bed (the wooden frame underneath the mattress) broke twice... If you are looking for a goodnight sleep, I would not recommend this room.
nice apartment with big bathrooms. it was easy to take a metro form this apartment, antonio is very friendly and helpful. I forgot my iPad at his place. I was so worried, I´m so grateful that he could help me to get it back. thank you so much for that.
Very nice, and comfortable,-- liked the freedom of a nice kitchen for cooking...
Looking forward to the next time...
E'stato molto piacevole soggiornare in questa struttura.Carino ,molto accogliente ,pulito ma soprattutto molto famigliare.Antonio il proprietario è davvero molto disponibile a qualunque esigenza.Spero di poterci tornare e trovare posto...Grazie di tutto!!!Lo consiglio vivamente!!!
Antonio è stato molto disponibile, l'appartamento è confortevole, pulito e ben collegato col centro di Roma
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There's as many people in Federal prison for this heinous crime (removing a trunnion and reinstalling it) as there are for the wretched 922r violators and that would be zero!!
funny, My builder removed mine from my chinese when he did the conversion to euro style and he's still walking the street.
I don't believe there's a problem removing it for repairs if you put it back...
If you didn't get caught, you didn't get caught (but your builder is now implicated - thanks).
Sorta like speeding down the empty highway at night - if nobody sees you, you're not getting a ticket - but it's still illegal.
really? Where does it say that....
I found pictures of a bullet ramp for sale and made a copy from heavy wall 3/4 stainless steel pipe.Drilled,taped,and super glued in a x-39 Saiga.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
nobody said anything about that, don't change the subject.
show me where it says you cannot remove a serial #'d trunnion from a receiver to perfrom repairs or modifications and then reinstall it.
nobody said anything about permanent separation of the two..
In the USA the receiver is the firearm, and foreign AKs are allowed into the country w/o a serialized receiver because the serial number is riveted to the receiver (on the barrel trunnion).
If you remove the barrel trunnion from an intact receiver, you are defacing or destroying the serial number assigned to that receiver.
We've gone over this several times before here.
Once again I feel you are twisting what the law says...
I'm just asking for you to show me specifically instead of trying to scare someone..


text: Governor's budget proposes major investments in education On January 23, Governor Deval Patrick released his budget (House 1), which proposes spending $34.8 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1. This is close to a 7 percent increase over current spending. The governor's plan significantly increases funding for education, from early childhood through graduate school, and transportation. Almost every area of the budget sees additional spending over FY13, including local aid and human service programs, which were cut during the recession. To pay for his visionary budget, the governor proposes a bold plan which, when fully implemented, would raise $1.9 billion in new revenues in a way that makes the tax code more fair. The governor's budget increases the income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent, lowers the sales tax from 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent and doubles the personal exemption. (See below for details.) House 1 increases Chapter 70 – state aid for preK-12 to municipalities and regional schools – to a new high of $4.4 billion, a $226 million increase over FY13. In addition, local aid would be increased by $31 million, education grants by $13 million and efforts to help close the achievement gaps in the state's Gateway Cities by $11 million. For public higher education, the governor is recommending a $193 million increase in campus line items and scholarship aid over last year's budget, up more than 18 percent from FY13. The governor's budget establishes a commission on public higher education finance. This proposal is one of MTA's legislative priorities. The commission would be charged with examining a number of higher education issues, including the appropriate use of adjunct faculty and the ratio of adjunct to full-time faculty. House 1 increases funding for early education by $132 million for FY14, growing to a $350 million increase by FY17. This funding helps ensure that low-income families have access to high-quality early education to help prepare children for elementary school. The funding also provides more training for teachers and supports initiatives to raise the quality of early education. When fully phased in, the governor's education initiative would increase investment by close to $1 billion. Because most of the new increases in revenue would not take effect until January 2014 and the FY14 budget year begins July 1, all new revenues would not be available until the FY15 and FY16 budgets. The governor's office estimates that the proposed tax increases would increase revenue by close to $1.2 billion in FY14, $1.6 billion in FY15 and more than $1.8 billion in FY16. Below is a summary of the key elements of the budget that affect public education. For more specific information, see these budget spreadsheets. MTA President Paul Toner's statement on the governor's budget. PreK-12 Education Chapter 70 – State aid to Local School Districts The governor proposes to increase Chapter 70 funding by $226 million over FY13, an increase of more than 5 percent. This increase includes fully funding the current foundation budget, which accounts for most of the increase and is statutorily required to be funded under current law. The proposal also: Provides $25 per pupil over FY13 aid. Fully phases in the formula changes that began in the FY07 budget, which was stalled during the fiscal crisis (i.e., all districts to receive Chapter 70 funds to cover at least 17.5 percent of their foundation budget). Includes all preK students now attending public schools in district foundation budgets. Increases the cost of out-of-district placement for special education students in the foundation budget. PreK-12 Education Grant Programs House 1 proposes an increase of $13 million in preK-12 education grant programs over FY13. Programs funded at current funding levels include: Special Education Circuit Breaker – at $230 million. Regional School Transportation – at $44.5 million. Kindergarten Expansion Grants – at $23.9 million. Programs receiving increases include: Targeted Intervention in Underperforming Schools – funded at $9.7 million, a 28 percent increase over FY13. Extended Learning Time Grants – funded at $19 million, a 34 percent increase. (In future years, this program will see an increase of $70 million.) Charter School Reimbursements – funded at $80.2 million, a 13.9 percent increase. Gateway Cities Gateway Cities receive an additional $7 million. Our two dozen Gateway Cities (including Brockton, Fall River, Lawrence, Holyoke, Fitchburg and Pittsfield) are home to many ELL and low-income students. The proposals include: Programs for English Language Learners – funded at $5 million, a 66 percent increase. Student Support Counselors – a new program, funded at $3.64 million. Career Academies – funded at $1 million, a more than100 percent increase. Early Literacy Programs – a new program, funded at $575,000. Innovation Fund – a new program, funded at $1 million for FY14. Other Local Aid – Unrestricted General Government Aid (UGGA) House 1 increases funding by more than $31 million. In some communities up to 50 percent of school funding comes from local aid. Higher Education The governor proposes increasing funding for higher education by $193 million over FY13. This represents an increase of 18.5 percent. Campus Line Items – funded at an additional $77 million, an 8.4 percent increase. The amount and percentage vary by campus. Scholarship Programs – an increase of $112 million, 127 percent more than FY13. Commission on Higher Education Efficiencies and Finance – this outside section of the budget (Section 31) establishes a commission that includes an MTA representative. The goals of the commission include: Defining a sustainable model of financing for public higher education and appropriate contributions from students and families, the Commonwealth and all other sources; Examining the full range of issues affecting public higher education financing, including evaluating the appropriate adjunct faculty to full-time faculty ratio, with a review of: (i) the use of adjunct or part-time faculty as well as the pay, benefits, responsibilities of and support services provided to adjunct faculty under the current system; (ii) the number and use of full-time and tenure-track faculty across the system; (iii) the ability of the current system to attract and retain highly qualified faculty and staff; and … assessing the number of developmental students being served under the current system and at which institutions, and the adequacy of academic and related support systems in place for both the number and types of students served. (The italicized language is nearly identical to the language contained in a bill filed for the MTA, An Act Establishing a Commission on the Funding Needs for Quality Public Higher Education.) Early Education and Care The governor's budget increases funding for early education and care by $132 million over FY13, an increase of more than 26 percent. Early Education and Care will see a total increase of $350 million when funding is fully phased by FY17. Funding is increased for some current programs, and several new initiatives are funded, including: Provider Quality Investments – $30.6 million. Pre-school Initiative – $25.1 million. Infant and Toddler Initiative – $31.6 million. Quality Improvement Initiatives – $30 million. Kindergarten Readiness Assessment System – $3.2 million. The new programs are designed to increase provider quality by supporting more training for teachers and will move the state toward ensuring that all income-eligible infants, toddlers and preschool children have access to early education and care subsidies. These programs provide care for children of low-income parents who are working, disabled or in an education or job-training program. Funding cuts in recent years meant that many of these children were not able to receive a subsidy. The waiting list is now around 30,000 children statewide. Revenue Governor Patrick is proposing significant increases in revenues to pay for major investments in education, innovation and infrastructure in order to foster economic growth and to continue to make our communities good places to live. The governor's proposal is similar to one of MTA's other legislative priorities, An Act to Invest in Our Communities, because the centerpiece of the proposal is increasing the income tax rate and at the same time increasing the personal exemption to lessen the impact on low- and middle-income families. Both proposals make the tax system more fair. Governor Patrick's budget proposal is built on increasing revenue in a variety of ways. These include: Increasing the income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent (raises $2.6 billion a year). Doubling the personal exemption amount from $4,400 to $8,800 for a single filer and from $8,800 to $17,600 for married filers (reduces taxes by $1.1 billion a year). Reducing the sales tax rate from 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent (reduces taxes by $1.4 billion a year) and dedicating all sales tax revenue to transportation, the school building fund and other infrastructure. Applying the sales tax to the purchase and installation of custom-modified computer software (raises $265 million per year). Eliminating dozens of special tax breaks that reduce personal income taxes for eligible filers (raises $1.1 billion a year). Eliminating a number of special tax breaks for businesses and clarifying the corporate tax code to prevent certain kinds of tax avoidance (raises $194 million per year) Indexing the Motor Fuels Tax to inflation, which would prevent the further erosion of collections from this source. Eliminating the sales tax exemption for soda and candy (raises $53 million a year). Increasing the cigarette tax by $1 per pack, thus raising the tax to $3.51 per pack (raises $150 million a year). Updating tobacco tax laws in order to equalize tax rates on cigars and "smokeless" tobacco products with the tax rate applied to tobacco sold in the form of cigarettes (raises $16 million a year). Smokeless tobacco products include items such as chewing tobacco, snuff, and nicotine-containing breath mints and lozenges. Capping revenue lost through the Film Tax Credit at $40 million (raises $40 million a year). It appears that an additional $57 million in tax revenue mostly will come from the following sources: $27 million from enhanced tax enforcement by the Department of Revenue, using special software and processes to identify promising collection and audit opportunities. $26.2 million from the agreement the administration reached with Amazon.com for the online retailer to collect sales taxes from Massachusetts customers. $2.6 million from eliminating the exemption from the room occupancy excise tax for certain types of short-term room rentals (such as B&Bs, rental vacation homes and corporate executive temporary apartments). Governor Patrick's budget proposal also relies on $555 million in one-time revenue, including $400 million from the state's "rainy day" account, leaving the reserve fund with a balance of more than $1 billion. Employee Benefits Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) – The governor's budget provides for a 3 percent increase on the first $13,000 in pension benefits for retired state employees. Group Insurance Commission (GIC) – There were no changes in the percentage of premiums paid for active or retired member's health insurance.


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