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I checked a hive in my outyard that I put 10F wax shallows on. The super was half drawn out but completely empty. I mean clean. I always see something going into newly drawn comb. I keep going back to a thing one of the old timers at the club said: if they aint putting up honey during the flow you got foul brood
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Sheryl Crow performed at the Million Women March in Washington DC yesterday. It looks like it was cold.
A very rare photo of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Toni Braxton cuddling up to Babyface.
Uma Thurman at the premiere of Nymphomaniac.
Emmy Rossum was there. Throw down a red carpet and Emmy Rossum will be there five minutes later.
Gillian Anderson is back in New York and was there.
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I don't know what there is to complain about. Apple has great customer service. If you want a computer that day, then go to the store and buy one... or call them up and ask "if I order this today, when will I get it?". They aren't going to lie to you.
URLs are Universal Resource Locators. Needlessly using query strings that break when you send a URL to a person on another computer (or another web browser on the same computer) is probably not a good idea if you're doing web development.
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WWD Beauty Biz - The simple life
Kiehl's alum Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, a veteran of furniture design company Vitra, have had a great partnership for over 10 years, so becoming partners in business felt like a natural step. Their skin and hair care company, Malin & Goetz, which launches this month in its own store in New York's Chelsea, is a manifestation of the couple's shared aesthetic: clean, simple and effective. "People live such complicated lives," says Goetz. "We wanted our products to be very simple and beautiful, which is a fusion of our two worlds--design and product." With straightforward graphics and fragrance-and dye-free formulations, the 11-item line is designed to appeal to a variety of consumers, male and female. "It was important that the products said, 'You can use the same thing, you can shop together'" says Malin. So what makes Malin & Goetz different from other unisex brands? "We wanted to do something modern and advanced but simple at the same time," says Malin. "There's nothing traditional about what we're doing." The line ranges in price from $12 for a lip balm to $45 for a facial moisturizer and will be sold in C.O. Bigelow Apothecary, Studio at Fred Segal and Liberty London come February. First-year sales are expected to hit $500,000 to $700,000.


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KINK: Interview with Director Christina Voros
We chat with Christina Voros about BDSM, the Kink Armory in San Francisco & what it was like to pull back the iron curtain on one of the most alternative porn sites around in her new film Kink premiering at Sundance.
Like something straight out of fiction, the beautiful antiquated Armory and Arsenal, once home to the San Francisco National Guard, sits across from a Middle America-looking gas station. The Armory was built to resemble a Moorish castle sometime in 1914 and has since been used for everything from San Francisco's primary sports venue in the '40s to the inside of several spaceships in the film Star Wars, as well as the odd stint as rehearsal space for a local opera company throughout the '90s. But for most of the last 40-some years it sat vacant until BDSM pornography company Kink.com purchased it in its entirety for $14.5 million in 2006.
Since then, its high brick walls have kept out the murmurs of irate neighbors, concerned citizens and those who just didn't understand the culture that surrounds BDSM and have become home to one of the most lucrative alternative pornography stops on the web. It didn't take long for someone in Hollywood to notice the company, which stuck out like a sore thumb in San Francisco suburbia, either. After starring in the 2012 indie film About Cherry, James Franco contacted his friend and cinematographer Christina Voros to see if she'd want to shoot a documentary about the life of those who work at Kink after shooting several of the films scenes at The Armory.
"It's always really important to me to have some sort of chemistry with my subjects when I'm doing doc work or something about the process of what I'm following that really speaks to me. So when he first brought up The Armory, I grizzled and thought, 'I don't know if I have anything to say'; I sort of passed judgment on the subject," explained Voros, who was hours away from jumping onto a plane to screen the premiere of her now finished film Kink. Eventually Franco persuaded her to take a meeting at The Armory, where she found herself immediately fascinated. "The people that I met were really bright and really funny and really driven and very creative and incredibly relatable. I found myself fixated on how somebody ends up in that world as a director; what drives someone to become a director in pornography? I walked away from that first meeting knowing that there was an incredible story there that a lot of people don't see and don't expect to relate to and thought it would be fascinating to take this sort of foreign world and make it relatable."
The film began production soon after and lasted for about four weeks. The first hurdle Voros and her team faced was establishing trust with the workers at Kink, as many had been left with a sour taste when it came to outside cameras after another production team tried to do a reality series on the goings-on at Kink that had left workers feeling misrepresented. Fortunately, employees were quickly put at ease by the team. "For two of the weeks, we had three cameras going eight to ten hours a day, five days a week. We had a lot of footage. There are a lot of movies that could've been made, I think, from this film, but I'm really happy with the one we ended up with."
Voros and her crew were immediately charmed by the diverse group of people that worked for the company. Camera crews dispersed into three teams following the directors, who each have a total of three shoots a week with two to six models working up to eight-hour days.
Two directors who come up frequently in the film are Princess Donna, who is also a performer for the site as well as a BDSM educator, and Maitresse Madeline, an actress, dominatrix and BDSM/Fetish Director. "Madeline and Donna do pornography from two opposite ends of the spectrum. Donna does primarily female submissive stuff and Madeline does primarily male submissive stuff, and so it was really interesting watching the differences and their directing styles and the way their personalities and their personas on set were similar and different. There's this real palpable sense that they each feel that they are creating something that is ultimately helpful, that is ultimately valuable, whether that's in allowing people who have the same fetishes and desires that they themselves have wrestled with having at a certain point in their life and being part of an organization that doesn't normalize it, necessarily, but allows it and allows it to exist in a safe, sane and consensual universe."
After spending that much time in the halls and sets of Kink, it was obvious that Voros, whose previous beliefs about pornography had been drawn from fictional representations like the fallen starlet trope or Boogie Nights, had a different opinion of the profession than when she began. "I got really excited for this film as we started making it, coming to terms with my own judgments about that industry and coming to terms with some very stereotypical worldview contradictions about that industry that is so incredibly widely consumed and yet people still for the most part look down on the people that make it. There's this assumption that a porn star has to be this fallen little lady or someone who wanted to make it in Hollywood but didn't quite make it out. It's really interesting and refreshing to meet people who are like, 'No, I really love what I do! And I do it not because I have dark seedy reasons for doing it; I do it because this is an active choice I have made to pursue this in my life.' There's naturally the flip side, I'm sure there's a lot of people doing porn who would rather be doing mainstream cinema, but there are exceptions, and the instances of those exceptions are things that I don't think ever really crossed my mind."
And for a girl who has yet to read Fifty Shades of Grey, she understands the social importance of the erotic novel and what it has done for her film. "My mom knows what a safe word is, you know? That was not the case 12 months ago," she joked. "But I feel that I should read that book because I'm very grateful for its existence in terms of having a stage for a film like this to potentially reach a much greater audience than it would have even a year ago. In a world that is tossing certain BDSM terms around at all, not to mention more frequently, it's interesting and important to let them see what that really is for the people for whom it is a reality."
Despite the current rise in BDSM interest, the film will obviously be highly talked about as pornography, and the culture that surrounds BDSM is still eschewed in society. "I don't think this film is necessarily for every single person in the world. I think that the characters really find a way into your heart to a certain degree, so even if it's not a world that you can relate to, there are people that you can because it's human. It's a humanity that's omnipresent. I think that there are a lot more people who think they might be interested in seeing this movie now that wouldn't be a year ago.
Although she is not the first to ever pull back the iron curtain of the world of BDSM for mainstream, she does now have a better knowledge than she did coming in. Voros admitted that upon arriving in San Francisco she picked herself up a copy of S&M 101. But after completing the project and having it ready to go for its first screening, the major misconception she felt many people had about what happens at the Armory was quite simple, really: people just don't understand what BDSM is.
"Pornography is a fantasy. BDSM is a fantasy. I think for someone watching it for the first time the impression is that someone is being abused. That the person who is whipped or chained or being choked or slapped or flogged is out of their control and something bad is happening to this person and there must be something wrong. Even if it's assumed that they're consenting to it, there must be something wrong with them to want this. I don't know if this is the norm in the industry, but Kink.com films not only the scenes, but interviews before and after with the actors/actresses as well. Part of this sort of mirrors the actual negotiation process in BDSM play where there's this very clear dialogue beforehand of what is permissible and what isn't, what the safe word is, and understand that 'you can slap my face but don't call me bitch,' you know? People don't understand what BDSM is, and so the notion of the submissive being ultimately the one calling the shots is hard to get your head around unless you've really been educated."
Kink premiered at Sundance this past Saturday and will be screening for the rest of the week. More information on the film can be found at sundance.org.


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The Clicker stopped for a moment. It scanned the area, and turned away. Everyone held their breath. In the field below, two Clickers rummaged in a hole for something to eat. One of them pulled out a groundhog and began pulling it apart. The other joined in and quickly devoured the poor creature. Terry looked at Jordan, head cocked, and used hand gestures to signal him to run. Jordan shook his head, and motioned for the group to stay put. A bang ran out through the field. Another, and then headlights cut through the darkness. An engine roared, and broke the silence.
"Oh **bleep**." Trevor murmered. His eyes were wide, scanning. Without light, the night seemed like a black void, nothing anywhere until it was right upon you. He pointed, at the vehicle. A small carrier, probably a beat up sports car, ate up ground fast.
A spotlight flickered, the illuminated the hill like a summer's day. The group ducked, getting as low as they could. The car sped past them spewing dirt their way. The vehicle had a makeshift gun emplacement on the roof, and the driver stopped, and the gunner opened fire, mulching the Infected into nothing more than a spaghetti like substance. The screams filled their ears, competing with the gunshots. Jordan waved his hand, and the group left the small hole. They ran down the remainder of the hill and made an all out sprint towards their camp. There would be no way the Infected or the gang would hear them while they were fighting.
"Don't stop! Keep running!" Terry yelled, gasping between breaths. He wasn't the greates, or most fit of the bunch, but he sure as hell didn't give up easily.
A coupe of minutes of minutes later, the firing ceased, and the group slowed to a jog and kneeled in the grass. They huffed and puffed, grasping for fresh air. The night was cool, and their lungs filled with the icy sting of exhaustion and cold. Trevor looked back through his scope.
"I don't see any lights now. Do you think they moved on?"
"I dunno. We should keep movng."
"No Jordan, we should wait til sunrise, it'll be safer." Terry rubbed his throat and coughed.
"Getting a cold?" Jordan asked.
"No, just had a sore throat the last couple of days. It's nothing."
"Down, get down!" Trevor laid flat, and the rest beside him. "They're coming back."
The vehicle drove slowly towards the group, spotlight moving back and fourth. They definately were searching for them. The motor stopped, and two men, heavily armed, got out and aimed.
"Stand the f*** up. And do it slowly." One of them barked.
The group gingerly got up, leaving the rifles in the long grass.
"Fork over the ammo and any supplies you've got."
Jordan reached into his pocket and pulled out a ration bar. "Here, that's it for me."
Terry handed over a couple of rifle magazines and a spare scope. Tevor gave them his map and a canteen. Michael pulled out a swithblade and a wrench.
"What about the kid. What has he got?"
Terry shot back. "He hasn't got any f***ing thing."
The driver of the car called out; "Search the kid, or shoot him."
The two men walked over to Sam, and gunbutted Jordan in the face. The other aimed his rifle at Terry, Trevor and Michael. "Don't f***ing move a muscle."
Sam almost fell back from the weight of the gun stock striking Jordan. He looked up into the shadowy figure's face. Fear gripped his face, and he started to shake. The soldiers must have been ex-military. The way they moved, what they wore. Their gear screamed Marines. Maybe they just killed them, or scavaneged some corpses. Jordan stood up, and braced himself on Trevor's shoulder. He winced as he wiped the blood from his mouth and nose. One of the soldiers unholstered his pistol and waved it menacingly.
"You do realise if I discharge this, you'll all be dead. I won't even have to shoot you, the infected will do it for me." He smiled. "Go for it. Try to reach for those rifles."
A voice from their earpiece was static and muffled.
The two guards slowly backed up to the vehicle. The driver got out and walked infront of the headlights. It cast an erie silohouette. He didn't look human standing there. In reality he looked like something straight out of hell.
"If you don't want to become plant food, I suggest you bring us all your supplies from your camp, and meet us at The Crossing. And yes, we know about your camp. I hope the children will be okay. You have forty-eight hours. It's in your best interest to deliver all the supplies." He returned to the vehicle. "And you better not think of using those rifles at your feet."
The hatch closed and the engine roared to life.
This entry is an idea, as we don't know excalty how the Infected will act. The Last of Us is all about human relationships. My idea is simple; The Infected act like Runners when they first get infected(like they should, as it's the first stage) but retain some form of humanity with the first couple of months. Like in an interview with Adam Sessler and Neil Druckmann,(I'm paraprhasing) like a cold makes you sneeze, the infection makes you attack other people, and you can't help it. This makes me belive that there are some human characteristics right away, but as the infection spreads and continues to turn the host, they lose the characteristics that made them human. They are fully aware of what is going on, and what they are doing, but they have no control over it whatsoever. And it's painful.
A bright light filled my eyes. A new location. Wait, I wasn't here when I went to sleep. I tried to get up, but a sharp pain struck my neck. I rubbed it, but it didn't help. What I wouldn't give for Advil now. I held my neck stiffly as I stood slowly. One hand on my knee, brace myself. Argh. My neck. Right at the base of my skull. I blinked rapidly, and my vision came to focus. I took a couple of steps forward, but my balance was flawed. I steadied myself, arms out to the sides, like a kid playing ariplane. One step. Good. Second step, better. It was like learning how to walk all over. Something sprayed on my face, and burned my eyes. I looked up, and an overturned gas truck was perched on an overpass, waiting to pounce like lion stalking it's prey. I wiped my face, and it felt hot. Scorching. My eyes started to burn with an intensity like no other. My hands looked funny. Somewhat purple, somewhat red. Veins seemed prominant, too. It started to feel like a fire was running through my viens, starting in my fingers, and licking at my nerves. I need some alcohal and bandages, that'll fix me up. I took a couple more steps, but couldn't keep my balance. I fell down in a mudhole, looking at the sky. I laid there for what must have been an hour when I heard a noise. I tried to lean my head back, but that pain struck my neck again. I waited, and decided not to call for help. Maybe it was someone coming to finish me off, or maybe it was an infected. Maybe who, or what it was wouldn't see me.The gang life was once a means of survival, but there were a lot of people who wanted you dead; Military, survivors, other gangs..even your own. A couple of minutes passed, and a Runner walked over to me. He looked right at me. His eyes were a bright orange. He must have become infected a few weeks ago. His skin looked almost grey, and his arms like a bark. I thought it was the end, I would surely be devoured. Instead, he reached for my hand, and pulled me to my feet. A dozen or so Runners hovered around, keeping their distance, lurking within the shadows. Their eyes creating a stark contrast against the blackness around them. The Runner stared at me, and said: " Welcome, brother."
Back at the camp, Sal and Mariusz huddled around the fire. The group had split to get Jordan and Sam, something Mariusz was against. He was an older, gruff man, easily seventy years old, but never acted like it. The few children with them huddled together behind an overturned car.
"Maruisz," Sal asked, under his breath. "Maybe we should radio them, see if they're okay?"
"No. If they are out there, let them burn for their mistakes. I told them not to go off on resuce missions this late."
"You're one cold sum-**bleep**, you know that?"
"It's how you survive out here. It always comes down to you and you alone. Don't trust anybody, and never expose your backside." Mariusz reached into his rucksack. He removed a small object and gingerly unwrapped it. He broke a piece off and handed it to Sal. "Here. A piece of the Old World. It's the last one I've found, so savor it."
"Holy **bleep**. A chocolate bar. I never thought I'd smell that again, or taste it!" Sal lobbed the tiny piece into his mouth and chewed enthusiastically. "Mmmm. Nothing better. Aren't you going to eat your half?"
Maruisz shook his head. " No. I'm saving it for the kids. They've never known the taste of chocolate before. How cold am I now, Sal?"
They both laughed. It was never the big moments that stuck with you. The plague had ravaged the planet, and took away everything that they had, so they kept the little things. The moments to laugh, or get a full nights sleep. Toilet paper. The things everyone took for granted.
Let's just say Ellie is infected, and Joel is supposed to be bringing her to Lab of sorts, maybe thats not the case. Maybe Joel has done this before, where if someone gets infected within the quarantine, he brings them far away so they can't hurt others. Maybe Ellie doesn't show signs of turning and Joel is skeptical, but when, or if it does happen, it hurts Joel so much because Ellie reminded him of his daughter, and they created a bond while travelling together.
The Last of Us
Jordan strolled around, not payin much attention to anything. In a time before, he lived in Canada, far from anyone here. When the pandemic struck, he lost everything very fast. A tough choice, he left his band of survivors to roam free in search of new colonies or groups that he could unite or help. His goal was simple, to stay alive long enough to see if there was anyone else out there, anyone at all.
The quarantine zones were a lot different than he thought. The military were a cruel and cold bunch, not the stark contrast from the gangs that most wanderers though. Along his travels he came across a young couple, in their twenties. The young girl was pregnant, and almost due. Her husband had taken her out of their quarantine zone in search of a new place to live when it was overrun from infected. He brought them as far as Ontario, Canada before they split. A small group took them in in an old bombed out shopping center.
Jordan grinned. He remembered when the days long ago were filled with children playing in the streets, towns bustling and people being generally happy. The sun felt warm on his back. It's rays cast long shadows on the ground. Fall was ending rapidly. The first snow would be upon them within weeks, and would make living outside a hell like no other. LIttle food and much less water in the winter months, with no heat. But less active gangs, too.
He wandered along a dirt path for a while, until he realized he had gone too far. It was not ordinary for anyone, especially someone alone to walk the paths at this hour. The sun was setting and it was almost an hour back to the camp. As he turned to walk back, he saw a shadowy figure in the foilage. It startled him, so he half ran a couple of meters, and looked over his shoulder. A quick glance was all he needed. Runners.
They had been following him. Although none had been this close to the camps in a long time. Something was changing. Maybe they were desperate. Maybe they just got smarter. Whatever the case, Jordan knew he had little time to act. Out running one was no easy task, but a pride, that was suicide. Only the unwary, or the stupid, died that way. Their moans sent chills up his spine, almost freezing him in place. He reached for his flare gun and ran.
The Runners kept on chasing, gaining ground with each step. Jordan fired his flare and counted the seconds until it burst. Surely someone from the camp would see it. The sun had almost set, but it`s light still flickered, making it hard to see the flare.
"C'mon. Someone see the **bleep** thing." He gasped for air. It was a long time since he had this much exercise. It wasn't everyday you could get a workout anymore.
He looked back again, but this time, there were a dozen runners, and they were close.
"**bleep**." He pushed himself harder, remembering how he used to. "Rraagh!" Jordan started to make ground, and noticed something up ahead. A body, a small body. A child's body. One of them must have follwed him out.
As he got closer, it looked like Sam. He was only eight, but already had he demonstrated the desire to flourish in this world. "Sam! Sam, run!" Jordan yelled. Sam looked up with a fear in his eyes that Jordan had not seen for a lifetime. Never had he witnessed something quite like the Infected before, let alone a dozen human like monsters chasing someone down for a snack. Sam stood up, frozen in fear. Jordan was about a hundred meters away when he heard a gunshot, then two, then three. The regular hunters from the camp ran up the hill, aimed, and fired again. Most times, that would have sent Runners feeling, but not this time. This time it was different.
Jordan ran and scooped Sam up. The hunters covered them while Jordan navigated the steep terrain behind the slope. It was mostly rock and dirt, but occasionally there was an old sign, or a door. Something that Jordan hated seeing more than bodies. It was a terrible memory from a distant time when no one had to worry about being turned into monsters, like something from a nightmare.
After what seemed like an hour, the firing had stopped. There was still a ways to go before camp was in sight, and the sky had finally darkened.
"Jordan, what the hell are you doing out here? You know you ain't suppose to be."
"Sorry, Trevor, I didn't mean to. It's just been really rough these last couple of days."
Trevor grasped Jordan's shoulder. "I know, it has been for all of us."
"Guys, heads down, quiet." Terry sat perched on a small ledge, rifle in hand, motioned for the group to get down. "There's some movement out there. Looks like a couple of Clickers."
Sam started to cry. Jordan put his hand over his mouth. "Shhh. Not a word little buddy. We'll all be home soon. Don't you worry. "
"Someone shut that kid up. I don't feel like being Clicker food." Terry whispered. He gave Jordan that look that said he was borderline psychopathic, waiting for a little thing to make him snap and go on a killing spree.
Above them, a Clicker stood listening. The gunshots must have peaked their attention. Trevor looked at Jordan and motioned up, putting his finger to his lips. Terry looked back, slowly turning as to not make a sound. He crawled beside Terry and Michael. It was a waiting game now. They either made a run for it, or would become the Infected when they swarmed the hill. Almost an hour away from camp, these were not options any of them liked.
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The crunch of debris and stone echoed off the walls. Up ahead, The Bastion, the haven for any survivors not wanting military control over their survival. Joel exhaled, grabbed his rucksack strap, and motioned Ellie to follow him. The way down to the street was a delicate maze of crumbling building, decayed vegetation and bodies.
"Joel," Ellie whispered. "Are you going to stay with me when we get there?"
Joel's face hardened. "I...I can't, Ellie. I have to go back to Boston."
"Why? What's left there, other than those **bleep** who tried to kill us?"
Joel ceased to tense up. His shoulders slackened and he hung his head low. "C'mon, Ellie. Just follow me."
They pair made their way down to a defilade of a once quaint coffee shop. The roof had collapsed long ago and whatever it once had been was lost to time. Joel peered through a shattered window. The pitter patter of rain slowly rose over the area. The sky darkened and the wind became a cool whip across their faces.
"Great." Joel murmured.
"It's just rain, Joel. It feels so nice, too." Ellie stood up and let the drops collect into a canteen.
"The road is gonna be mud now." He let out an aggravated growl. "It ain't gonna be easy to walk up to the front door. Why don't we just wait it out here?"
"I'm fine with that. I'm tired anyway." Ellie dropped her rucksack on the floor and removed her sleeping bag.
Joel grabbed a couple of tables and moved them by Ellie. "This'll keep you dry. Try and get some sleep. I'll keep watch." He smiled at her as best he could.
Ellie could see something was troubling him, or hurting him. She smiled back. "Thanks, Joel." She closed her eyes.
Joel sat up, back against the wall watching her. He buried his face into his heads and began to sob.
When Ellie woke up, Joel wasn't to be seen. She stretched.
"Joel? Joel where are you?" Ellie began to panic. Not once since they've been together had he not called back if he wasn't around. She walked over to the entrance. The room had broken off from the main floor and constant shifting had made it rise half a story.
Ellie jumped and turned around. Joel was standing there, sweating heavily and looked in severe pain.
"C' mon...ugh..Ellie." He winced. "Leave everything here. We need to get to The Bastion."
"Joel, what happened?"
"Move, Ellie! Urgh. Now!"
He pushed Ellie out of the doorway, and he jumped down after her. The Bastion was only a couple hundred feet away. Armed guards patrolled the entrances and along the walls.
Ellie and Joel made an all out sprint for the colossal iron doors that separated The Bastion from the rest of the world. Closer and closer they came, faster and faster they ran. Finally, it would be over. No more running, no more, hiding, just living.
Ellie went flying into the air and landed abruptly a couple of feet forward. Joel stopped dead in his tracks.
"Ellie! Ellie!" He roared.
Another shot rang out.
Bmph. Blood spurted from Joel's shoulder. "Mph."
He turned around and opened fire.
"You **bleep**!" He looked back. Ellie was trying to stand. "No, no."
He ran towards her and scooped her up into his arms. The pain was excruciating. His arm felt like it was going to fall off.
"Help! Help, me!" Joel screamed.
The guards opened the gate and several soldiers ran out to get Joel and Ellie.
Joel felt something hard and cold it his lower back, and he fell. Ellie rolled out of his arms.
He blacked out.
When Joel opened his eyes, he didn't know where he was. The smell was different. Sanitary. The walls where he was were clean, bright and intact. His clothes were different. Soft, fresh, comfortable. He tried to sit up, but a sharp pain shot through his legs.
"Joel, Joel! you're awake!" Ellie ran to his side. She looked older, not like Ellie he knew. "Joel, we did it. We made it. Finally, we're safe." She hugged him.
Joel hugged her back. "Oh, Ellie. I'm so sorry."
Ellie looked surprised. "Sorry for what?"
"For letting that happen to you." Joel started to well up. "I'm sorry I put you through all that."
Tears were streaming down Ellie's face. "It's okay, Joel. Everything's okay now."
"Where are we, by the way?"
"The Bastion. You've been out for some time. The doctor said you were in a coma, and he didn't know if you would make it."
"How'd you survive? I saw you get shot?"
"You saved me, Joel. You saved me just like you always do." Ellie hugged him again.
Joel hugged back. "I'll never let anything bad happen to you. I promise."
Re: Story time
Re: Story time[ Edited ]
*Joel slams his fist down on a table..after getting beaten up by gangsta Tess...then Bill walks into the room*
Bill > "Hey man, let me guess...Tess kicked yo a** again?"
Joel> "Yeah, how ya guess?"
Bill> "Well, I figure the screams saying, "please Tish don't hit me again, kind of gave it away. *laughs*
*Joel frowns*
Bill> "Hey Joel, don't be like that. Here, this will help ease your mind. *pulls out a joint*
Joel> "Bill, where you find that? If we get caught with that, we're both gonna be executed."
Bill> "I won't tell, if you won't. Here take a puff. *both men blaze on the joint...then Ellie enters the room*
Ellie> "What the f**ck you two b**ches doing? And what's that aweful smell?"
Bill>"Gone back to bed kid, this is grownfolks business!"
Ellie>"Shut yo fatas* up and let me take a hit of that sh*t! *ellie stanches the joint from bill and takes a puff, and imediately starts coughing*
Ellie> "What kind of godd*mn inferior bulls*it is this? I smoke far better sh*t during school recess! Where you get this?"
Bill> "From area 14. Why you ask?"
Joel>"Bill you idiot! Area 14 is quarantined off zone due to infection!" *joel grabs what's left of the joint and tears it open to see, green mushroom-like pollets mixed up with the marijuana dried leaves."
*Joel, Bill, and Ellie started coughing and puking on the ground....two days later, the cordycep fungus had ravished our three heroes....The End.
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dh0rmazine wrote:
That was awesome. Love these fan stories.
your sig kind of confused me at first though. They hug and then, click click. Boom. lol.
Haha it's supposed to be from The Hives, tick tick boom.
I'm glad you like it though. I was hoping I'd get more replies to it. I really enjoy writing. Maybe I'll do a short story once or twice a week until The Last of Us is released. Yeah, I think I'll do that.
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FUIVT0PLAY wrote:
dh0rmazine wrote:
That was awesome. Love these fan stories.
your sig kind of confused me at first though. They hug and then, click click. Boom. lol.
Haha it's supposed to be from The Hives, tick tick boom.
I'm glad you like it though. I was hoping I'd get more replies to it. I really enjoy writing. Maybe I'll do a short story once or twice a week until The Last of Us is released. Yeah, I think I'll do that.
Looking forward to it!
These fan fics, cosplays, art and vids are really helping pass the time until release!
Re: Story time
dh0rmazine wrote:
FUIVT0PLAY wrote:
dh0rmazine wrote:
That was awesome. Love these fan stories.
your sig kind of confused me at first though. They hug and then, click click. Boom. lol.
Haha it's supposed to be from The Hives, tick tick boom.
I'm glad you like it though. I was hoping I'd get more replies to it. I really enjoy writing. Maybe I'll do a short story once or twice a week until The Last of Us is released. Yeah, I think I'll do that.
Looking forward to it!
These fan fics, cosplays, art and vids are really helping pass the time until release!
Well, I've got another one. It is still Tuesday, so it's the beginning of the week, and one for friday the end of the week. Or Saturday.
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loakum wrote:
*Joel slams his fist down on a table..after getting beaten up by gangsta Tess...then Bill walks into the room*
Bill > "Hey man, let me guess...Tess kicked yo a** again?"
Joel> "Yeah, how ya guess?"
Bill> "Well, I figure the screams saying, "please Tish don't hit me again, kind of gave it away. *laughs*
*Joel frowns*
Bill> "Hey Joel, don't be like that. Here, this will help ease your mind. *pulls out a joint*
Joel> "Bill, where you find that? If we get caught with that, we're both gonna be executed."
Bill> "I won't tell, if you won't. Here take a puff. *both men blaze on the joint...then Ellie enters the room*
Ellie> "What the f**ck you two b**ches doing? And what's that aweful smell?"
Bill>"Gone back to bed kid, this is grownfolks business!"
Ellie>"Shut yo fatas* up and let me take a hit of that sh*t! *ellie stanches the joint from bill and takes a puff, and imediately starts coughing*
Ellie> "What kind of godd*mn inferior bulls*it is this? I smoke far better sh*t during school recess! Where you get this?"
Bill> "From area 14. Why you ask?"
Joel>"Bill you idiot! Area 14 is quarantined off zone due to infection!" *joel grabs what's left of the joint and tears it open to see, green mushroom-like pollets mixed up with the marijuana dried leaves."
*Joel, Bill, and Ellie started coughing and puking on the ground....two days later, the cordycep fungus had ravished our three heroes....The End.
*...a low rider rides slowly through the barren deserted streets. music can be heard very louldly..the song, "Pistol Grip Pump" by volume 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jstb6yvIKNg can be heard blasting out the bose speakers.
It's Tess in the driver's seat, as she pulls to a stop. She got a tip it was a band of 5 survivers here who sold Bill some cordycep infected weed, that infected Joel, Ellie, and Bill....she had to kill all 3 of her friends.
Tess is ready to ride up and get revenge on these fools, for doing the deed.*
*Tess cocks and loads her double glots..she's ready to make her move...*
Tess > "Hey fool! Break yo-self!" *she put fo slugs in the poor bast*rds temple, before he even had a chance to respond*
*the other 4 men run in a panic..but Tess easily shoots down three of them . She hits the forth man in his leg, and she drops her glot..and walks over her wounded crawling foe..*
Tess > "Riverside mothaf*cka!"
*tess pulls out a nickle plated 45 and blasts the guys face clear off. Tess then pulls out a cigarette, and takes a puff...she then re-enters her low-rider, and drive off.* The End.


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SANS GPEN Self-Study alternative ?
I've become quite interested in Pen Testing lately.
I've got a couple of questions on the topic. Any advice greatly appreciated:
- I hold no GIAC certification at present, would you say going straight for GPEN is
an adequate/realistic choice?
I appreciate that taking GSEC/GCIH first would be very helpful.
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Something to get me started until I source funding for a SANS boot-camp.
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text: I have on a couple of occasions this year found dead workers in a Capped cell instead of a failed queen. At first I thought it was my grafting, but the past two times it has been swarm cells that had the worker in them ( not supercedures). Is this a nutrition issue etc? Who else has seen this?


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Brian Hayes
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of
More. Chris Anderson. xiv + 238 pp. Hyperion, 2006. $24.95.
If a book about the demise of the best seller becomes a best seller,
does that undermine the book's credibility?
Chris Anderson's thesis in The Long Tail is that we have
left behind the age when blockbuster movies, top-40 songs and
prime-time network television shows determined tastes and habits. No
longer do we all read the same books and magazines or listen to the
same radio station. Although hits and best sellers still exist, they
do not dominate the market or the culture as they once did. It's
gotten harder to sell a million copies of one thing but easier to
sell one copy each of a million things. "The mass market is
turning into a mass of niches," Anderson writes. And yet, for
all that, Anderson's own book is not a niche item. Within a few
weeks of its publication, the title climbed into the top 100 books
in the sales rankings tabulated by Amazon.com. (As it happens,
Amazon sales rankings have a prominent place in this narrative; I'll
return to them below.)
Anderson argues that commerce has long been ruled by a mentality of
scarcity: Physical and economic constraints have limited the variety
of goods that could be made available. In the music department of a
Wal-Mart, he counted the CDs on display and found only about 4,500
titles. A supermarket might stock 30,000 items, a large bookstore
perhaps 100,000. Even in these "big box" stores, shelf
space is a scarce and expensive resource. "Today, the average
cost of carrying a single DVD in a movie rental store is $22 a year.
Only the most popular titles rent often enough to make that back
(there's a reason why they call it 'Blockbuster')."
Technology is now breaking this bottleneck; there are improved
efficiencies in manufacturing, warehousing and shipping, but the key
innovation, of course, is the Internet. For online retailers,
inventory costs are dramatically lower. Adding one title no longer
means evicting another; there's room for everything. The bookstore
at the mall may offer 100,000 titles, but Amazon lists 3.7 million.
Contrast the 4,500 CDs at Wal-Mart with 1.5 million songs available
through the online music service Rhapsody. A Blockbuster store might
stock 3,000 DVDs, compared with 55,000 offered by Netflix. "For
the first time in history," Anderson writes, "hits and
niches are on equal economic footing, both just entries in a
database called up on demand." We have arrived in a
"paradise of choice."
But there is a subtlety in this calculus. Are those online retailers
broader, or are they just bigger? Consider a hypothetical bookstore
where the manager will carry any book that sells at least one copy a
year. Now suppose we scale up this store by a factor of 10; the new
store—call it Beyond the Borders—has 10 times as many
customers, 10 times the shelf space and 10 times the total sales. If
the manager maintains the same one-copy-a-year threshold, many more
books will qualify for a place on the shelves. Should this expanded
store be considered part of Anderson's "long tail"
phenomenon? It's true that the larger store offers more variety; on
the other hand, the overall shape of the sales curve is unchanged.
If Harry Potter outsells Harold Pinter 100-to-1 in the smaller
store, the ratio will remain the same in the larger one. There has
been no shift in the tastes or preferences of the customers; it's
just that there are more customers. This broadening of the market is
an interesting development, but it hardly looks like a major social
and economic transformation.
Anderson maintains that the changes he is describing are
not just an effect of size—that the sales curve for
Amazon or iTunes is not simply scaled up but also different in
shape, reflecting a wider spectrum of interests. "There are
still hits and niches, but the hits are relatively less popular and
the niches relatively more so." In other words, the tail is not
only longer but also fatter. (Look out, Harry Potter: Harold Pinter
is gaining on you.) Unfortunately, quantitative evidence supporting
this proposition is hard to come by. And Anderson gives short shrift
to some of the most interesting evidence he has at hand—which
takes us back to those Amazon sales rankings.
The Long Tail began not as a book but as a magazine article
in Wired (where Anderson is editor in chief), and then it
took on a second life as a blog at the Web site longtail.com. A major topic of discussion both
in the article and on the blog was analysis of the ranking that
Amazon assigns to every book in its online listings, with hourly
updates. Authors obsess over these numbers but can never be quite
sure what they mean. When I last checked, The Long Tail was
ranked No. 240. Does that mean it outsold all but 239 other books in
the preceding hour, or does the rank represent cumulative sales over
some longer period? More important, what does the ranking reveal
about the actual number of copies sold? Amazon won't tell, and so
others have tried to calibrate the rankings by "reverse
engineering." One technique is to place orders for a title and
observe the effect on the ranking. For a book languishing near rank
600,000, buying five copies boosted the ranking to 4,467, though
only briefly.
The point of this exercise is to discern the shape of the Amazon
sales curve: the number of copies sold as a function of ranking. In
the Wired article, Anderson concluded that 57 percent of
book sales at Amazon.com come from titles ranked beyond
100,000. This estimate suggested that the tail is
extraordinarily long and fat, providing an outlet for a vast
assortment of works that in years gone by would never have found
readers. After the article appeared, however, skeptics challenged
the 57-percent figure; even Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon,
disputed it. There followed a lively and thoughtful exchange of
ideas at longtail.com.Relying largely on the work of Morris
Rosenthal of Foner Books, Anderson eventually revised his estimate,
suggesting that titles ranked beyond 100,000 account for between a
fourth and a third of all books sold by Amazon.
Reading the spirited discussions at longtail.com gave me high
expectations for the book version of The Long Tail. I was
disappointed to discover that almost none of the ingenious
"forensic economics" has survived the journey from blog to
book. The main text carries just the bland assertion that
"about a quarter of Amazon's book sales come from outside its
top 100,000 titles." An endnote gives a perfunctory account of
where this number came from but offers no quantitative clue to what
it means. And the meaning is not at all obvious. Anderson emphasizes
that the titles beyond rank 100,000 would not be found in a typical
bookstore, but that fact alone doesn't prove that sales have
migrated from the "short head" to the long tail. As noted
above, some lengthening of the tail could be expected simply because
Amazon is the biggest bookstore ever. To show that the tail is
fatter as well as longer—that buyers have abandoned Potter for
Pinter—we need to look at the mathematical form of the sales curve.
Regrettably, Anderson is not at his best when it comes to presenting
mathematical concepts. He puts off discussing the matter at all
until halfway through the book, then explains that the sales curve
is a power law, which he defines as "a curve where a small
number of things occur with high amplitude (read: sales) and a large
number of things occur with low amplitude. A few things sell a lot
and a lot of things sell a little." This statement isn't wrong,
but it's singularly unhelpful. It applies equally well to any other
plausible function for describing the sales curve, such as an
exponential or a log-normal distribution. These alternative
distributions are not mentioned in the main text, although they do
turn up in an endnote. The note confuses matters further by
suggesting that a power law is a kind of exponential. (It's not. In
one case x is raised to a power; in the other, x
is the power something is raised to.)
Does it really matter whether the sales curve is a power law or
something else? If "long tail" is just a buzzword, perhaps
not. But the term does have a specific meaning in statistics, where
it refers to a distribution with infinite variance; what this comes
down to, roughly speaking, is that in a long-tailed distribution
even the most improbable events will probably happen. Unbounded
variance is crucial to generating the endless variety of
"niches" that Anderson celebrates. Only a power-law
distribution has this property; more specifically, the distribution
must be such that the abundance of the xth-ranked item is
proportional to 1/x α, with α
greater than 0 but less than 2. Determining whether or not these
criteria are satisfied by a given data set (such as the
reverse-engineered Amazon sales figures) can be a delicate
undertaking, and estimating the numerical value of α is even
harder. Anderson chooses not to pursue the question. And so,
strangely enough, in The Long Tail we never really learn
whether the tail is long.
Even if the mathematical underpinnings are lacking, though, Anderson
may well be right about the waning influence of the hit parade and
the greater scope for ideas without mass-market appeal. I hope so. I
also hope he is not too disappointed that his own book has failed to
escape the short head and find a suitable niche out in the long tail.
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I was his biggest critic but I think Jim has suffered long enough......the guy led us to a SB spot.......he cannot HC a team like Jacksonville or Kansas City??????????? give me a break, his alter ego Norv Turner keeps getting chance after chance......whats up with that?
And if KC were to hire him he should give Tiki a shot next year


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Last year was my first year beekeeping, and my very strong hive was dead when I opened it for the first time this season today. I'm attaching a picture of the bottom screen of the hive. It looked like the bees died in place, and most fell to the bottom. What is all this yellowish white stuff?? The second picture is what the cells looked like. I thought maybe chalkbrood, but it doesn't seem to fit quite right. Someone said maybe the stuff was crystallized honey, and that maybe the bees froze... here in Kansas? The bottom of the hive had only the open wire screen, no bottom board... Did I do something wrong?
The second hive just had no bees inside, empty cells, but quite a few dead ones laying around the entrance. None of the yellowish stuff like the first hive.
The third hive seems to be doing fairly well.
Would appreciate any thoughts...
Can't seem to get pictures to attach.


text: Has anyone out there tried to lower the rear of their Tahoe for an even, flat look? The difference between the front and rear wheel openings is 2 inches, the back being 2 inches higher than the front. I saw Eibach pro-fit coils to lower the back by 1 1/2 to 2 inches. That should be the ideal if I wanted the wheels to look the same in the wheel wells, front to back. Has anyone tried this? Does it necessitate a front end re-alignment? Does it have any positive effects other than looks, i.e. cornering, fuel economy? Are there other springs that are better? I already have front and rear Eibach sway bars. I am not trying to lower it to the ground. It is a Z71, and I take it off road and go camping with it. Lowering it 2 inches in the rear does not appear to effect the ground clearance??


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Friends of mall shooting victim devastated
Brianna Benlolo was a Sand Creek High School graduate.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Friends of one of the victims in Saturday's mall shooting in Maryland are remembering Brianna Benlolo.
Benlolo graduated from Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs in 2010. Her high school friends said they were shocked to learn about her death. They described her as bubbly, outgoing and kind to everyone.
Saturday morning (01/25/14) was like any other work day for Brianna Benlolo until 11:15 a.m. when the busy Maryland mall became a terrifying scene. A gunman walked into the mall where Brianna worked and shot and killed her and her co-worker, 25-year-old Tyler Johnson.
Police identified the shooter as Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19. Officers said Aguilar shot and killed himself inside the mall. Investigators are still trying to figure out whether he even knew the victims.
"I was shocked instantly. The fact that someone's negligence took away someone's daughter, took away our friend, took away someone's mother, it was just heartbreaking," said Brianna's friend Alex Hamilton.
Hamilton said Brianna was the student everyone wanted to be friends with in high school.
"We just had this joke where I thought her last name was so funny, where I would go, 'Brianna Benlolo!' and she'd go, 'Alex Hamilton!'"
Benlolo's high school friends kept in touch, but said they wish they could have one more day with Brianna.
"I just couldn't believe someone so beautiful was taken so soon. She didn't deserve it. Just because someone couldn't control themselves, it didn't need to happen," said Brianna's friend Alyssa Gagnon in tears.
"I wouldn't think in a million years that one of my good friends who now lives 1,800 miles away would be a victim in a terrible tragedy like this," said Hamilton.
The two friends are planning a memorial for Benlolo, hoping to reunite the Sand Creek High School Class of 2010 to remember their classmate.


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Sony Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM
Further readings for the Sony Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM
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In part 2 of our review of the best lenses for the Sony A99 II, we look at the performance of zoom lenses. More versatile than fixed focal length primes, zoom lenses offer the convenience of multiple focal lengths in a single lens. Image quality isn't quite as good on a zoom compared to a prime, however, with generally lower lens metric scores recorded in our tests, although some zooms come pretty close.
In addition to revamping the premium-quality Zeiss-branded Vario-Sonnar 16-35mm f2.8 ZA SSM, Sony took the opportunity to do the same with its 24-70mm f2.8 sibling. Read on to find out how well this updated lens performs.
Following the recent reviews of the Canon mount and modified Nikon (AE) models we've now turned our attention to the Sony Alpha and Pentax K mount versions of the ultra-high speed Samyang 24mm f1.4 prime. Read on to find out how well the Samyang performs and if that or a rival model is the best choice for Sony and Pentax users.
As an moderately priced full-frame high-speed standard zoom, the Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 seems like a promising option to the far pricier offerings from the camera makers. Read on to find out how well it performs.
Following our recommendations for the flagship Sony SLT-A99, we've had the opportunity to assess the firm's semi-professional 24-Mpix DT (APS-C) format model - the SLT-A77 - with a sizeable collection of Sony and third-party prime and zoom models to assess image quality. Read onto find out which of these models perform best when paired with the camera.
After evaluating the performance characteristics of lenses mounted on full-frame models such as Nikon D800 and D600, as well as the Canon EOS 5D Mk III, we've now had the opportunity to analyze a range of lenses on the Sony SLT-A99. In this concise report, we'll see how well the combination of Sony's high-end image sensor and the latest Alpha mount lenses perform.
This G-series lens, equivalent to the L-series by Canon or DA-series by Pentax, could be placed along the lines of a Konica Minolta 35 mm f/1.4 G. This 35mm lens is fast, with its 1.4 aperture. It has a perfect wide angle for a full frame camera such as a Sony A900 or a Sony A850, this lens is a good 50mm equivalent mounted on a APS-C camera (like an A350, or the latest A580 and SLT A55). A brief review is available here...
Added by Uffe | December 18 , 2013
Scores are completely useless
The scores on this site are completely useless, all the other testsites gave this lens a top score, but here it is rated even less than mediocre, so either the rest of the world are wrong or your reviews are complete garbage....
Added by ageha | January 29 , 2013
Different transmission on A900 and A850?!?
Are you serious about that test result?


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Workday, Splunk, Tableau, ServiceNow, FireEye: Where is Support? Asks Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley software analyst Keith Weiss today asks how much farther some of the high flyers in enterprise and cloud computing software such as FireEye (FEYE), Splunk (SPLK), Workday (WDAY), ServiceNow (NOW), and Tableau Software (DATA) may have to go after falling sharply in the past few weeks.
Weiss offers that judging by past multiples of sales for software names, the downside could be anywhere from 15% to 50% below current levels.
FireEye stock is up 17% this year but down 17% in the last month; Workday is down almost 4% this year and a little over 12% the last month; ServiceNow is off 5% for the year and almost 12% in the last month; Tableau is up a fraction of a percent for the year, and down almost 9% in the last month; and Splunk is down almost 9% this year and a little over 12% the last month.
What's the floor for these stocks? he asks.
These five names are the highest-multiple stocks among the software names he tracks.
Weiss, who has an Overweight rating on shares of ServiceNow, but Equal Weight ratings on all the rest, notes that "With the sharp correction in high growth software names over the last year, several high fliers have now come below our base case valuations: SPLK now 24% below, WDAY 22%, DATA 18%, FEYE 11%."
Weiss notes that the names still have multiples of enterprise value to sales still well above average for the group, though it has narrowed:
The analysis looks at the highest five multiples at the end of each month, the current top five are: WDAY, FEYE, SPLK, DATA and NOW. The average since 2002 has been 8.7X, while the average between 2002 and 2011 was 7.5X. After peaking at 22.8x at the end of February, the average multiple of the top five has pulled back by 22% [to 17.8 times]
Weiss notes that these companies perhaps should be rewarded with a higher-than-average multiple:
The bull case argument would begin with the idea that the high fliers in software today represent the leaders in a massive structural shift underway in enterprise IT. Shifts in spending towards cloud computing (WDAY, NOW) and towards Big Data (SPLK, DATA). One can find support for this argument looking at the average growth expectations for the top software EV/Sales multiples vs. the average over the prior 10 years. Today, the high fliers are expected to grow ~48% over the next twelve months vs. an average forward growth expectation of 24% from '02-11 for the top five EV/sales multiples.
Weiss writes that you can either model the reversion to the mean multiple, or else give a "growth-adjusted multiple," and get very different outcomes for valuation:
If one doesn't buy into the argument this time is different, then we've got a ways to go – another 50% to the 10 year average of 8.7X. However, it's difficult to discount how strong the growth profile of these top software vendors is today, and we do think the structural changes are real and happening. On a growth adjusted basis, from '02-'11 the EV/Sales/Growth multiple averaged 0.32. Using that growth adjusted multiple against the current growth expectation would suggest a 15.2X EV/Sales multiple – or another 15% downside.
Lastly, using a discounted cash flow model suggests the stocks were actually properly priced back at the peak multiple: "That would be the real bull case – one should actually be paying 3X as much for a group of 48% growers than you paid for a group of 24% growers. Or going back to our average EV/Sales multiples – that 22.8X peak would have actually been correctly priced."


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Occupying the "between space" in power distribution
Last month, we looked at branch-circuit requirements in Art. 210. The next logical step up from the branch circuit is the feeder circuit. Thus, Art. 215, which provides the requirements for sizing and installing feeders (see What's a Feeder? on page 62), follows Art. 210. At first glance, the difference in length between Art. 215 and Art. 210 may seem puzzling why have a separate Article just for


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Recently did a full hive inspection, swapping frames between two hives and doing some condensing to get ready for winter.
Today I noticed a lot of hovering bees and suspected robbing. In my doings, I popped the cover and pried up the pollen patties that have been sitting on the inner cover. And beetle larvae was crawling under the patties! I squished all the larvae, took out the old patties and threw those in the garbage, but now I'm thinking - where were the beetles? I didn't see any beetles.
In my inspection a few days ago, nothing was amiss. The frames all looked good, honey capped and uncapped looked good. I've never had an infestation of anything before.
Now what should I do? Monitor the inner cover every day? Open the hive back up and look for any beetles or any damage, frequently? It should get to freezing here soon, but I read the beetles just hide in the warmth of the cluster.
So now what? Could it be the beetles/larvae were just happy to have pollen patties and that's as far as it will go?


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Video: Convention devoted to women celebrates Ted Kennedy unironically
posted at 9:41 pm on September 4, 2012 by Allahpundit
I won't run through the usual litany of misdeeds. If you don't already know them by heart, you'll commit them to memory eventually when you finally tire of liberals screeching at you for "hating women" while holding this guy up as a secular saint. (Chappaquiddick material is abundant online, but this post will get you up to speed on another legendary incident.) I've got to say, in all sincerity: I appreciate their brazenness in building a convention around the theme of a "war on women" while not only inviting Bill Clinton to be a headline speaker but having a video tribute to Teddy to start things off. They're all but admitting that their pretense of moral superiority really is just a pose taken for political effect. If John Edwards had walked out onstage to a standing ovation after this clip ended, it would have been one of the most honest moments in recent convention history. Alas, a missed opportunity.
The clip was introduced, by the way, by Joseph Kennedy III, who's looking to replace Barney Frank. At the moment America has no Kennedys in Congress and, well, that simply won't do in a dynastic country that values hereditary aristocracy like ours does, so good luck with your political career, Joe.
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For their new album, The Head and the Heart put in the hard work
The Head and the Heart's eponymous first album was, by all measures, very successful. The self-released record landed the band on Conan and the Late Show with David Letterman, was 2010's top-selling album of the year at Sonic Boom Records, and was eventually picked up and re-released by Sub Pop. But if you ask singer and guitarist John Russell, it wasn't that big a deal.
"What's funny is, I don't feel like the first record did that well...I mean, I guess it did." he explains with a laugh.
But it's "Let's Be Still," which was released yesterday and is their first full-length studio release in four years, that Russell and the band, which includes Josiah Johnson, Charity Rose Thielen, Kenny Hensley, Tyler Williams, and Chris Zasche, are focusing on now.
"We were all really excited; I feel like we represented ourselves well. We put out the record we wanted to put out," he noted, which is impressive, considering they recorded it at break-neck speed after years spent touring the U.S. and Europe.
"We just sort of moved into the studio -- we were there from January until May -- and we'd record a couple of weeks at a time. We'd work from about 11:00 in the morning until about 2:00 the next morning. We didn't have a lot of time, so we had to work a lot."
And if the album sounds more collaborative, it's because it is. This is the first time the band has produced together as a group.
"A lot of the writing was on and off the road, and it wasn't really until last fall that, as a full band, we were able to work together. That was really different for us. " Russell explains.
Formed in 2009 in Ballard, The Head and the Heart handily found a place in Seattle's burgeoning music community, playing with other local acts like Death Cab for Cutie and even Dave Matthews. And, says, Russell, they probably wouldn't have been able to do that somewhere else.
"I don't think this band would have been the same band if it had come out of Chicago or New York. You just can't get away with the same things," he says.
"There are so many venues, there's just a great infrastructure for the music scene. It just thrives there. I think somehow that city just did a really good job of attracting people who were interested in those things, and then supporting those people."
The support seems to have done the band right -- despite the years between album releases, The Head and the Heart has only been growing in popularity, playing festivals and venues across the country, both together and as soloists. And tonight, they'll play Letterman again, before heading out on another huge tour. Then in December, they'll be back in Seattle playing 107.7 The END's Deck the Hall Ball, alongside Phoenix and Vampire Weekend.
But, says Russell, they hope to make it back to the city for "a proper show" in a venue that's a little less giant.
"We'll definitely be back next year. We want to make sure we make it back."
The Head and the Heart will be performing tonight on The Late Show with Dave Letterman. "Let's Be Still" is available through The Head and the Heart's website. You can also stream it on SoundCloud. Tomorrow, the band will be participating in a Reddit AMA. For more information, visit their website.


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OSEP is issuing letters to each of the states visited to inform them of the review results. In each state, OSEP reviewed both the Part C and Part B systems. OSEP's responses will be included on the Web as they are issued.
This page also contains the link to the most recent monitoring reports from over 35 states and territories.
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text: At least Giants lose to a very good team... and almost win. My Cowboys struggle and lose to a really bad Cardinals team. Jason Garrett really stunk it up with his play calling and decision making last night! You guys might just roll into Dallas next week and put us away! No faith in my team anymore but what can I do... I'm a die hard CB fan!


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#31 Wed 25 May 05 7:02pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
:P Hello Jamie
I love to cook and your recipes have really helped me to free up from rigid rules and get some freedon and creativity into my cooking.
I think the work you have done with the school lunches is great and about time!
I got teased as a student 20 years ago for my wholemeal bread sandwiches full of salad and humus and now my six year old daughter has come home and announced she won't eat brown bread anymore because the kids at school were teasing her. She is the only child who goes with salad and brown bread and got picked on because she didn't have dairylea lunchables or loads of junk in her packed lunch.
I only hope that your message went out to those parents who really need to hear it and not just to us who wholeheartedly agree with you already.
I really love the site
Thank you!
#32 Wed 25 May 05 7:09pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hello Jamie, love your show. I've been married to a Brit for 5 years now...My husband really like it when you make brittish food. Is there such a thing....mmmmmm. Good luck in all you futur project...Good luck in teaching kids how to eat...
#33 Wed 25 May 05 8:56pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
here's a spanish fan of yours, jamie!
i simply LOVE your recipes, way of cooking and your enthousiasm in trying to change people's eating habits for the better! i recently heard of your campaign for better school food and no need to say i totally agree with you! (i still remember in horror the bad food we were served in my school and can't believe they haven't changed a bit... you'd think it would be otherwise, spanish cooking being so versatile!)
i hope i'll get to swap nice ideas for cooking with all these cooking lovers around the world!
keep up the good work, and lots of hugs 2 everyone!
#34 Wed 25 May 05 9:43pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hi Jamie,
Me and my partner have a reservation at your restaurant on 13th June, will you be there? We got engaged a month ago in Barcelona and since being back, lifes been non stop, so my lovely Fiance has booked us up for dome of your food. My father in law to be has just bought me one of your books, as I'm forever cooking, and If your in that eveing, I was wondering if you would sign it for me?
Well, hope to see you there. Take care on your travels.
#35 Wed 25 May 05 10:52pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hello, everybody. ^_^ My name is Aradia, I'm 19 and I'm from Brazil. 8)
I have never in my hole life tried to cook any meal (x.X), so I'm quite fond of Jamie's shows - Here in Brazil we have quite a lot of them, as well as Nigella's and many others. xP
As I can see, there's nobody from Brazil in here... So here I am, lol... ^_^
I remeber when Mr Oliver taught how to make a caipirinha, a traditional drink from Brazil - I laughed a lot because I have never expected to see an English cook drinking a caipirinha, something that I've known for all my life, hahahahaha... ^_~
Well, that's all... Kisses and hugs from Brasil!!
Aradia n_n
#36 Wed 25 May 05 11:31pm
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- Member since Wed 25 May 05
Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hi Jamie..
i´m kinda new here...
i just started watching your show in brasil a few months ago..
and I just love it...
i try not miss a single one....
keep going like that ...
ps. do you have a brother as cute as you??lol
#37 Thu 26 May 05 8:24am
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
I have just joined today. And man you rock. I have watched every show that you have been on and i love to watch you cook. Your cook books have tought me how to cook some of the most fantasic meals, and i thankyou. I have also been to your resturant 15 in London and it's fantastic. I had the best meal of my life there, and i had such a brilliant time.
Your school dinners program was great and you try so hard even when things are getting you down.
Keep up the good work
#38 Thu 26 May 05 10:01am
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
I just joined ur forum today and I want to tell you, you are amazing!!! i love The Naked Chef. i watch it everytime.
i like the way you cook your food. it's so simply that anyone can try and cook it.
Keep up the good work!!!
Hope you can feature a filipino dish sometimes..
God bless!
You rock!!
#39 Thu 26 May 05 3:26pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hi Jamie, and everyone who loves to cook and have fun!
Jamie, my mother and I are great fans of you and your cooking and we enjoy watching your shows and reading your cookbook. I also admire your proactive stance in improving the school lunches. I went to school in London a few years during elementary school - I wish you were there then! We, in Japan, have so much to learn from you. Keep up the great work !
I look forward to learning a lot thru this forum and picking the creative minds of all who enjoy the art of healthy and fun cooking !
Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu. (=yours cordially in Japanese)
#40 Thu 26 May 05 6:46pm
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Re: Welcome to the forums!
Hello Jamie,
I always watch you show on TV. I would like to congratule you for the excelent show and for your talent.
I live in Brazil and if you have a chance come to visit us. by the way ... do you know any brazilian dish ? They are very nice ...
Best Regards,
Edgar Gomes


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st: cointegration, johans command
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:40:27 +0200
I'm trying to use the command johans for cointegration but I fail to
understand how to get the estimated cointegrated relations (it is apparently
not given as a non optional output, but I can't find which option would supply
them). I tried to get them next through the vececm command but I couldn't
If someone uses regularly the command, I would be very grateful for your
help. Would you give any piece of advice for the choice of lags?
Bonus question : if cointegration rank is above 2, do I have to check that
both elasticities to long-run equations are negative in my estimated models?
I must confess that I have a hard time interpretating when there is more
than one cointegrated equation.
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3rd year, very bad over wintering. Went into last fall with 9 hives. Only two appear to have made it. One strong, one not so much.
The nine hives broke down like this.
Four new packages
One swarm catch
Two splits, from the first year.
Two original packages from the first year.
Of the two that survived one was one of the splits which I actually re-queened with a Beeweaver queen and one was a carnie which raised it's own queen from the original 1st year package.
I went thru all of the hives today and found two conditions. Either there were simply no bees to speak of in the entire hive or there was what seemed to be a relatively healthy cluster. In every hive that died except for one there appeared to be plenty of both pollen and honey. Several boxes were still very difficult to pick up they were so full of honey.
I did not see any obvious signs of problems. No disease I could see in the brood or obvious buildup of mites, granted I'm still a complete novice when figuring out disease. Almost all hives that died out had small amounts of brood and the cells looked fairly normal. Bottom board slide outs were all relatively clean and did not show large amounts of mites. No signs of mold, high humidity etc. The odd cases where the ones where there were literally only a handful of bees, less then a hundred in a couple cases.
I now face two problems. First figuring out what the problem is and how to avoid it next time around and two...what the heck do I do with all the equipment, honey, frames etc.
Don't want them eaten up by wax moths and I don't have enough surviving hives or packages coming in to use all the left overs....or a freezer big enough to hold 180 frames plus all the other honey supers in the shed :-)


text: I have been a Chevy owner my entire life and will never change. I have owned my 2005 1500HD 6.0L crew cab now for about 4 years. Previously to that I had a 1992 Silverado and I love both these trucks. My 92 was an amazing truck, just before I bought my 05 my 92 rolled over 400,000km with no major problems. The only thing I ever did to that truck was regular maintence and changed the rad. I am located in central Alberta and work in the oil patch so it is expected to drive a truck and I would settle for nothing less than a Silverado.


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Beware the crawling freckle
The first report of a black-legged tick (deer tick) out and feeding in Minnesota this year came April 6, said David Neitzel, a specialist on tick- and mosquito-borne illnesses for the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).
These tiny ticks, which can be as small as a freckle, are carriers of several illnesses, and Cass and Crow Wing are two of the state's counties that are at highest risk of diseases like Lyme, human anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and powassan.
Neitzel said that rather than hindering the tick population, chances are the thick layer of snow the area received this winter provided insulation for the ticks, which winter in rotting leaf litter on the forest floor.
"When the snow melts and the ground temps get around 50 degrees, the ticks start moving," Neitzel said.
The only sort of winter that would reduce the tick population would be one with little snow and extremely cold temperatures, he said.
The height of tick season, Neitzel said, is mid-May to mid-July. This is the time when primarily nymphs are out feeding. Nymphs are ticks in an early stage of life.
"They're extremely small, one millimeter in length, and because of that people are bitten and don't even know," Neitzel said.
Neitzel said that one in five nymphs carries Lyme disease, while one in three adult black-legged ticks carries the disease.
"The risks are fairly high. If you have three ticks, there's a good chance one is infected," Neitzel said. However, in order for Lyme disease to be transmitted from the tick, the tick has to be attached for a day or two. This is the case with most tick-borne illnesses, Neitzel said.
Except for powassan. While it's one of the more rare tick-borne illnesses, Neitzel said there is evidence this disease, because it's a virus rather than a bacteria, could be transmitted within 20 minutes of a tick biting in.
While there were only 11 reported cases of powassan in Minnesota in 2011 (the latest data MDH has), one of them resulted in death in Cass County, said Lynne Jaycox, a public health nurse for Crow Wing County.
Incidents of powassan, babesiosis and anaplasmosis were all up in 2011, Jaycox said.
"One of our main messages is that we have a lot more than just Lyme disease out there, and the same ticks that transmit Lyme can transmit agents of four others that we know of," Neitzel said. "Crow Wing County has been at the heart of our tick-borne disease area since we learned about tick-borne diseases in the 1980s."
Since then, high risk areas have spread north to Cass County.
The risk of tick bites is greatest in the woods.
"Even at the heart of a high-risk area, if you get right in town, ticks are going to be pretty rare," Neitzel said.
Ticks don't jump or drop from trees; they live on the ground and crawl upward to bite. For that reason, Neitzel suggested that people focus prevention on the lower half of their bodies.
Jamie Richter, public nurse for Cass County, said oftentimes early symptoms of tick-borne illness include the bull's-eye rash, redness at the site of the bite, headache, fever, chills, fatigue and simply not feeling well.
Richter stressed the importance of preventing all vector-borne diseases, not just those from ticks. Mosquitoes also pose a threat because of West Nile virus. While the incidents of West Nile are much lower than those of tick-borne illness, the risk is still there.
Richter, Neitzel and Jaycox all said it's important people protect themselves by checking for ticks often and using a repellant with DEET at up to 30 percent or with permethrin.
Permethrin should be sprayed on clothing. Neitzel said the permethrin stays on clothing through two or three washes and will kill the ticks it contacts.
Jaycox said that when someone gets a tick, the best practice for removal is not with Vaseline or burning, as some might think, but simply with a tweezers, grabbing close to the head and pulling back slowly and steadily. Then, she said, apply a little antibiotic ointment.


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May 12, 2013 - May 16, 2013, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany
The adaptation of the current energy system towards reducing the fossil fuel dependence and minimizing its impact on climate, environment and health remains the global challenge of today. New materials will contribute towards this goal, for instance by improving the energy efficiency of industrial production and reduction of household energy use (e.g., through fuel cells, catalysis, reduced friction losses), and by offering solutions to deal with waste and emissions.
Learn and contribute to the central question: "How will materials shape the supply and utilization of energy in the future?"
At the 2nd International Conference on Materials for Energy, May 12-16, 2013 in Karlsruhe, Germany, a multi-disciplinary group of international researchers and scholars will meet to discuss recent results and developments in all areas of materials for energy applications.
The conference programme covers current topics and recent progress in the science and technology of energy and new materials. All aspects of materials for energy production and conversion, energy storage, energy transport, and energy saving will be addressed. A total of five plenary lectures, 208 lectures and more than 220 posters will provide an excellent overview of recent developments in the above areas. The lecture programme will be complemented by two poster sessions, an industrial exhibition and a panel discussion.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Karlsruhe!
Jim DeYoreo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland/USA
Maximilian Fleischer, Siemens AG, Munich/D
Horst Hahn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/D
Cynthia A. Volkert, University of Göttingen/D
Nae-Lih Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei/RC
Jim DeYoreo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland/USA
Maximilian Fleischer, Siemens AG, Munich/D
Horst Hahn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/D
Cynthia A. Volkert, University of Göttingen/D
Nae-Lih Wu, National Taiwan University/RC
Niels Christiansen, Topsøe Fuel Cell, Lyngby/DK
John B. Hansen, Haldor Topsøe A/S, Lyngby/DK
Frank Tietz, Forschungszentrum Jülich/D
Yaniv Gelbstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva/IL
Thomas Mayer, TU Darmstadt/D
Roberto Rinaldi, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr/D
Damien Féron, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette/F
Karl Maile, University of Stuttgart/D
Christian Jooß, University of Göttingen/D
Roel van de Krol, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH/D
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Last Modified: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:23 PM
By Warren Arceneaux / American Press
A big win tonight at rival Sulphur will not only add to the fast start of Barbe's girls basketball team, but will put the Bucs atop the District 3-5A standings.
The Tors, the lone unbeaten team in district, will host the Bucs at 6 p.m.
Barbe head coach Kelly Durio said the game is a big one for her program.
"We are excited about this. It is a rare opportunity for this program, a chance to move into first," Durio said. "It is exciting. It is going to be tough to go over there and get a win on the road, but we are excited about the challenge."
Barbe is 14-5 overall and 2-1 in district play, with the lone loss coming by one point at Carencro last week.
The Tors (16-3, 4-0) have won their three district games by an average of 25 points behind a balanced attack led by Hannah Cupit and Becca Brooks.
"Everything about them is impressive. They are very fundamentally sound, they play hard from start to finish and Coach (Helen) LeFevre is going to have them prepared for what we might show them," Durio said of Sulphur. "She does a terrific job and they are great competitors."
Durio said there is plenty she likes about her team as well.
"This team does a good job of playing together," she said. "You never know who is going to score for us. I really like our group, they work hard. They have not played together before but are starting to click. I like their intensity and fight."
Durio said seniors Sarah Grevemberg, Courtney Jicks and Melissa Shadoin have emerged as team leaders.
"Courtney has been our defensive leader, Melissa's finishing has been good," she said. "Sarah is an offensive threat and can also make things happen on defense. She brings a lot to the game. They work well together and are unselfish."
• NOTES: Lacassine's games at Midland, originally scheduled for tonight, were postponed and will be rescheduled. Iowa's games at Notre Dame were postponed until Sunday, with the girls game starting at 3 p.m. and the boys game following. Crowley at South Beauregard was also moved to Saturday, with the girls game starting at 4 p.m., followed by the boys.