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Kenny Jackett remains pleased with Wolves' start to his first season in charge – and maintains the club's promotion push is "in our own hands" going into a Molineux double-header.
Home games with Crewe on Boxing Day and Leyton Orient on Sunday (both 3pm) will take Wolves to the halfway point of the season and they currently sit joint top – along with Orient – despite three games without a win.
The Head Coach saw more positive signs with an impressive final half hour in coming from behind to draw at Rotherham on Saturday, and wants more of the same to ensure Wolves stay in the promotion picture heading into the New Year.
"It is very tight up there now but we are one of the sides up there with an opportunity going forward," says Jackett.
"We are pleased with that – we are not playing catch up – and it is down to ourselves now going into the Christmas period and the second half of the season.
"It is about what we do as a group and as a club that will shape our future but it is all in our hands.
"I'm very pleased that we're one of the teams involved in it.
"It is a very tight top of the division but the opportunities are there for us this Christmas."
There was more zip about Wolves' frontmen at the New York Stadium, with Jackett pleased with the contribution of Bakary Sako after substituting him at half time the previous weekend.
He is also hoping Bjorn Sigurdarson will be able to provide some added pace in getting behind opposition defences to positive effect.
"I felt Sako looked more threatening and more like his best in the second half," added Jackett.
"I really did feel he could win the game for us and that's the type of player we have in him.
"It is tough to be at your best all of the time but I felt that Sako responded in the right way.
"And I wanted to give Bjorn a chance to really see if we can get one player who can consistently run in behind.
"I think we have lacked that – some pace in our front line.
"Pace troubles defenders and there have been too many times when our build-up has been contained and in front of sides.
"Bringing some pace into the team were behind my thoughts for starting Bjorn."
Meanwhile at the other end of the pitch Jackett acknowledged the coaching staff would be analysing the goals conceded at Rotherham, a rarity in a season in which Wolves currently boast the best defensive record in Sky Bet League One.
"We are always disappointed to concede goals," he added.
"The players are saying that the first one was offside and that was the reason Scott let Dicko go.
"After that it was two headers from crosses which we are usually very good at dealing with.
"I can't be too critical defensively but we will be looking to get back to zeros and ones.
"If you do concede three it's not something that will help you regularly pick up points.
"We will analyse the goals and it's rare for us to concede three."
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The Garden Room, Grange-over-Sands, South Lakes
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|Derwen Cottage, Charney Road, LA11 6BP Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom
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The Accommodation has a lovely travertine tiled ensuite. There is also a useful dining area where you can enjoy fresh coffee and croissants in the morning by request (at no extra charge). There are drinks facilities in the room for your convenience.
The Garden Room is part of a large restored stone cottage with heaps of character. The property has spectacular panoramic views over Morecambe Bay which can be appreciated from the private gardens.
We provide an ideal base for walkers and cyclists who want to explore South Lakeland. We have a selection of bikes which can be borrowed (£5 per day)
Local Amenities:
- Within 10 minutes walk of a range of shops, cafes, restaurants, pubs, banks and the post office; and
- 5 minutes drive to a selection of traditional pubs and restaurants in Cartmel.
Nearby Attractions:
- 10 minutes walk from the Lake District National Park;
- Cartmel Priory;
- Cartmel Racecourse;
- Holker Hall;
- Fell Foot;
- Sizergh Castle;
- Lake Windermere; and
- Coniston Water.
Nearby Activities:
- Canoeing;
- Fell walking;
- Cycle touring;
- Mountain biking;
- Rock climbing;
- Sailing;
- Sky diving;
- Windsurfing.
20 mins by car from Jct 36 of the M6
Private parking is available
1 mile to Grange railway station.
25 mins by train from Lancaster (West Coast Mainline)
2 hours by train from Manchester Airport
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We enjoyed our staying with Sara and Mathew, both were very kind. It is a beauftiful view from their Veranda over the bay, the Lake District is always worth a journey.
La estancia con Sara & Matthew fue muy agradable, la habitación es acogedora y muy limpia, solo le faltaría un armario, ya que solo tiene una comoda.
En cuanto a los anfitriones, fueron muy amables, totalmente puntuales con el desayuno y al llegar nos resolvieron dudas sobre donde comer, qué ver,etc.
Además, al ser una habitación independiente de la casa, tienes total libertad.
En definitiva, totalmente recomendable.
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Re: AGAIN I ASK! IT IS IMPORTANT!
I am already involved with 'Compassion in world farming' and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Its stiil rare in GB to find organic chicken, Morrisons have a few...very white birds sold as organic why are they so white?
Tesco has near to nothing concerning organic...except three years ago when i needed to find a turkey, the last two christmas visits were decieving when hunting around for 'Compassion meats'.
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That's a shame. I guess I'm spoiled living in the place I do. I refuse to buy battery chickens when the humanely raised ones are sometimes cheaper than the others.
Was toying with the idea of getting a "heritage turkey" to raise this year. That is, one that has not been bred to have a gigantic breast so big that it cannot stand.
I think that's ridiculoulsy cruel. Someone was advertising poults at the feed store for $9 each. A bargain when you consider that they end up being about that much per pound when they have them at Thanksgiving time.
#4 Thu 02 Jun 11 11:19pm
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Tesco is not good for food, Waitrose has much better food. Good food has to be searched for. The real Meat Company does great things.We are lucky the shop we use only does free range (proper free range). Our Chickens come from France, Marrie Hott . Old School breeds as ever being the best. UK has eggs from http://www.clarencecourt.co.uk that are amazing. Again rare breed means the best. Uber trendy chef and all round good guy Mark Hix is involved , so guaranteed results, some amazing recipes to.
Well done both of you , keep spreading the word. Hugh is amazing is he not Kye. Also I read abook from USA called Eating Animals, a book evreyone should read.
#5 Fri 03 Jun 11 12:34am
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Kye, all the big supermarket chains have extensive organic ranges. The problem is demand is very high and the better-quality birds are often sold out, especially in smaller branches. Even Tesco Express petrol stations stock free-range sausages and chicken. However, for example, our local Morrisons very rarely has any free-range or organic meat left by mid-afternoon.
It is available, and it is popular. The organic/ethical movement in the UK has been high profile in recent years and people are responding.
#6 Fri 03 Jun 11 6:40am
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wish it would happen here..., organic & free range here is twice the cost...
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I joined when the show was in the UK
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One of the big suppliers here, Perdue, has started labeling their chicken as cage-free and all natural. I don't know if that means much, but it's a step in the right direction. They must realize this issue is important to consumers. I really do credit Jamie with making people more aware.
#9 Fri 03 Jun 11 3:22pm
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MsP that sounds better than 'free-range'...which means that they walk around, perhaps have a bit more space to move but what are they fed with?
These standards aren't yet upto Organic.
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I bought a great meaty organic chicken today, with thighs like a real runner. Its colour is almost yellow as it has eaten so much corn.
Date limit is 06/10 so its in the freezer until i decide how to use it. Price �6.00
Boys would like me to make another Jambalaya this week-end, so....
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Серёжа, Sergey
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Серёжа, Sergey
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Been beekeeping 5 years without chemicals, & my losses are lower than the club members who treat with chems.
Our 4 year loss average is about 19%.
without getting into everything else..
bee = cells in dogs body.
hive = single dog.
Then of course, just as the ***** mated to produce the puppy - the super-organism - the new queen must mate with a range of drones to produce her hive superorganism.
While the pup gets 50% of its genes from its mother, I reckon the example hive here shares only about 27.5% of the parent hive's genes.
And then of course many splits do not raise their own queens... so ultimately may have no genetic tie at all.
LOL - ok, sorry,... so read the multiple stars as 'the name for a female dog'
Barry, I swear I was being technically correct... not technically swearing.
Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
Two years ago I was a new beekeeper. Since then I have learned much, developed a bee allergy and been desensitized, and lost all my hives the first winter. This winter I brought through five out of five, three of which would not have made it without mite treatments. The fourth might have survived but got treated anyway, and the fifth I did not treat as it had almost no mites.
Here's my advice: Decide what kind of beekeeper you are. Are you the type, like me, who invests your heart and soul and a fair proportion of your limited financial resources into beekeeping? Or is beekeeping merely a side pursuit, like deciding to plant a few apple trees in the back yard, or getting a few chickens for fresh eggs?
If you fall in the latter group, you can go treatment-free. You will probably lose hives to mites, unless you can get bees from an established treatment-free apiary and continue their practices. Even then you might lose hives to mites, if other hives in your area are heavily infested. But it will be no huge loss, rather like if the deer munch those apple trees, and you will start again next year or decide beekeeping isn't for you.
If you fall in the first group, then I recommend doing all you can to keep your bees alive the first year or two. You can draw the line somewhere, e.g. no synthetic chemicals that leave residues in wax, but do not be afraid to treat for mites if you see that your bees have more than a few. Despite the loud proclamations of some advocates of "natural" beekeeping, using mite treatments does not make you impure, contribute to the ongoing plight of the honeybee, or generally make you a bad person. Yes, it is in the best interests of both bees and beekeepers to develop bees that can withstand mites without chemicals. But that is a long, challenging, and ongoing effort, and not one that you need to take on in your first year with bees. When you have mastered the basics and come out of winter with multiple hives, then by all means start experimenting with treatment-free approaches.
Approaches like drone trapping and powdered sugar dusting require frequent inspections and handling of the bees. This exacerbates the new beekeeper tendency to open the hive weekly or more often. Don't. It is easy to crush or drop the queen with novice hands, and frequent disturbance will decrease the already-low chances of getting honey your first year.
Formic acid, thymol, and oxalic acid are the mainstays of non-synthetic mite treatments. Commercial beekeepers use all three with good success. All can be hard on bees, but they do not leave harmful residues. Remember that bees are short-lived creatures, and the next generation will have no residual effect of the treatment but will be much better off for having lower mite loads. Count your mites in August, and treat if counts are high. Thymol and formic acid are good summer treatments. If they don't work (and they sometimes don't) or they don't work well, then follow up with oxalic in early December when the bees are broodless. Its effect is almost miraculous. If you had a heavy infestation you will see thousands of mites fall in a few days, and essentially zero thereafter.
Manage mites because you can see them. Live and let die is not a good approach if you are emotionally invested in your bees' survival. As for the other two chemicals commonly placed in hives, fumagilin and terramycin, I don't especially recommend them. Terramycin suppresses (but does not kill) the bacterium that causes American Foulbrood (AFB). AFB is nasty (infected hives should be burned, pressure-sterilized, or irradiated) but is not common. If you see AFB your first year you are either very unlucky, you purchased contaminated equipment, or your supplier has a problem. Continuous prophylactic antibiotic treatment breeds resistance and is generally a bad idea. Fumagilin used to be a reliable nosema treatment but is significantly less effective against the new, now ubiquitous strain of the disease (N. ceranae). It is expensive and toxic to humans, and while it does degrade over time it is detectable in honey at low levels if used as recommended. If you really want to follow IPM, you can send a bee sample to a lab for nosema testing and treat if you have a high spore count.
You will probably not see AFB your first year, and you may or may not see nosema, but you will see mites in every hive. If winter survival is important to you, plan to do something about mites, and be open to using stronger, more effective non-synthetics (thymol, formic acid, oxalic acid) if softer methods are not working. These chemicals are a bit nasty in high concentrations, but they are all natural components of food (thymol in thyme and oregano, formic acid in fruits, oxalic acid in rhubarb and spinach), and any low concentrations persisting in honey will be entirely non-harmful.
Michael Bush will point out that essential oils (including thymol) and acids affect the microflora of the hive and bee gut, likely to the detriment of the bee. This is true, but mites vector viruses and suck hemolymph, to the very great detriment of the bee. Imagine one or two horseshoe crab-sized parasites attached to your body. They are a factor in most hive collapses, even if not the proximate cause.
Just the advice I would give to myself if I were starting fresh with bees...
Extremely well written. Agree entirely.
I will mention to the OP that current research by Dr. Ellis at U of Nebraska is that sugar dusting will only get about 30% of the mites, and realize you're only getting the phoretic mites. Taking the time to dust every frame for a 30% drop is not worth your while at all.
Also, as Luterra wrote, count your mites. Do a real count with an alcohol wash or sugar roll (sugar rolls work because of sugar+heat). Don't just "look" at the bees to determine if you have a high mite load. You can't tell, at least not your first year.
Sure, miticides will kill mites. But they don't kill every mite in the hive, usually, and those that survive to breed up again are mites that have demonstrated some degree of resistance to the chemicals used to kill them. Rinse, repeat, and sooner or later, the miticide will stop being an effective means of control. I don't think anyone would dispute this, since it has already happened. The beekeeper who starts this kind of treatment regimen has put himself in the position of hoping that pesticide developers will come out with some new miticide that will work... before they get run out of business. I just don't see how this is a sustainable approach.
Are you familiar with Kirk Webster, a Vermont commercial beekeeper who does not treat? His hives are not any more likely to die than the hives of many other commercial beekeepers, and less likely to die than the hives of some who treat. Recently there was an article in the NY Times about the rough winter many bigtime beekeepers have had. For example, the Adees, who, it is claimed, are the biggest beekeepers in the U.S, had 55 percent losses, and another big outfit from their neck of the woods had losses approaching 80 percent.
I think that perhaps the question new beekeepers should ask themselves is: are things getting better or worse for those who follow the regimen you recommend. At least some of the evidence suggests that the trend is not promising.
As I tried to say, we need folks out there working hard to develop treatment-free bees. This is happening, as can be attested by the treatment-free board and early-adopter commercial beeks like Kirk Webster. My point is that new beekeepers with one or two hives are not going to substantially add to or detract from this overall effort, and it is therefore better to focus on keeping bees alive with all options on the table than to add the challenge of going treatment free. The typical newbie setup is a mail-order package with a mass-produced California queen, and as these have not been selected to handle mites without treatment, any attempt to go cold-turkey treatment free is likely to end in disappointment.
The very fact that you use 'infections' plural proves my point. Constantly suffering from infections and having to use artificial cures is a treadmill going nowhere.I treat ear infections with antibiotics, don't feel devastated.
The difference is that with our own children and pets we don't care if we are weakening the species or creating stronger infections. We just want to help that creature, which is why we have a nation of sick children that can't live without medicine and animals that can't live without human intervention.
I could go on and one about this subject but its something that everyone should have learned in highschool biology so I won't waste my time. These principles have been well understood for a hundred years and have been proven over and over again. Its not faith or green living or any type ideology. Its hard science and can be tested experimentally in your own home.
If you want to read an entertaining/terrifying book on exactly how badly our attempts to fight parasites have backfired I highly recommend this book, its a fast read and easy to understand for the layman.
It al depends on what your goal is. If you judge success by how large your population is we have done very well, if you judge it by how strong that population is we are in terrible condition. We are mostly fat blind and on a host of chemicals that we must take daily to maintain even this pathetic condition. The very size of our population puts us in peril as well. Most of us are one week without power away from starvation and death. Our overwintering abilities are now worse than our bees.Much easier lifestyle and we know a lot more about childbirth problems.
What you can't predict is how long these infants will live and what quality of life they will have. I bet it will not be as good.
Last edited by Aerindel; 04-01-2013 at 11:47 PM.
I'm a new beekeeper myself. I'm not going to be shocked if my colonies expire from lack of treatment. I'll surely be sad and disappointed, but I guess the upside will be comb for next year, and the learning experience of caring for the colonies as long as they last. I did try to skew the odds a little in my favor. My first hive came from a nuc I bought from a local beekeeper who has had pretty good success in keeping his hives alive. So I do have local adaptation going or me. I know not every potential beekeeper will be lucky enough to do that, but my second hive will be started from a package of small cell untreated bees (coming this week, I hope!) I'm going to make nucs from these colonies, as insurance against the likelihood that the producing hives may collapse, and try to take advantage of the ensuing brood break to keep mites from reaching critical mass. Might not work, but again, I'll be learning. I'll at least have the satisfaction of knowing that if my bees die, I didn't push them over the edge by doing something to them that created a stressor that they would never encounter in the wild.
In May, I'm setting up a couple more hives in the North Country of upstate NY. I'm getting nucs from a NY beekeeper. Again, I'm hoping for a learning experience. I've made up a number of swarm traps to put on our property, because there's pretty good indications of feral colonies in the surrounding mix of woods and old rough pasture. Again, I plan to make up some nucs, in order to import some of the local genetics into my stock.
I'm just a beginning hobbyist, with no ambition to ever run a commercial outfit. I'm too old and have too many other things to do before I kick the bucket. But there are, I discovered, things that can be done to avoid the certainty that my treatment free bees will quickly expire, and I'm doing everything I can along those lines. As an example, I'm going foundationless, (and so far my bees are drawing beautiful comb.)
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that if a new beekeeper wants to try going treatment free, maybe it would be more helpful to try to educate him in all the approaches he can take to try to keep his bees alive without treatment. With only a couple hives, he can't do much in the way of developing good genetics, other than requeening with resistant queens. But he can avoid killing off benign microflora in the hive and in the bees. (In the beginning beekeeper lecture at my club, the presenter showed us how he pours a bunch of terramycin into his hive several times a year.) He can avoid killing bees with treatments like formic acid. He can use brood breaks to knock down mite loads.
Maybe these things won't work, but at least he's learning about treatment free beekeeping, which is what he wanted to do. If he treats, then he's not learning what he wanted to learn about, and it seems like once you start treating, it's hard to get off that road.
Better to lose a few hives, and learn what you can than to regret never giving what you really wanted to do a fair shot.
Read the latest ABJ (April 2013) interview with Dennis Van Engelsdorp (Bee Informed Partnership). He states (direct quote, exactly including all caps), " YOU NEED TO TREAT FOR MITES. It's astonishing to me how many don't! There seems to be a belief that if you just don't treat colonies in your back yard that suddenly resistance will spring up. This is nonsense in my opinion."
I think Luterra's post sums it up nicely. You have to decide for yourself what approach to take. I think there's a visceral resistance to treating bees since we extract and consume honey from those boxes! Beekeepers (in general) are a more "natural" minded lot from my experience. But, at the end of the day, I think one must remain grounded in reality when devising their beekeeping management goals/protocols in their apiary. Beekeeping is a MAJOR investment, no matter how much actual cash you lay out. Time = MONEY (the older I get the more real this becomes BTW) , and I think is overlooked by most. There are also tons of hidden costs such as gas, storage space and actual apiary footprint. At the end of the day, the average beekeeper as well as package producers and queen breeder isn't going to produce or sell bees that are going to beat the mite.
The best and the brightest in beekeeping all lose hives! Treating for mites successfully without harsh chemicals is also a reality. The REAL issue is whether you're going to treat (with something) or decide to go whole hog beekeeping and produce your own replenishment stock. For large commercial operations it's a simple business decision that is easy to quantify with pencil and paper. For the backyard beekeeper, more personal. Just how much time and resources are you going to/willing to invest in this hobby/way of life/addiction?
Buy the ticket, take the ride. -H.S. Thompson
When we stared beekeeping we intended to go non-chemical too. We bought mite resistant bees, and in subsequent years mite resistant queens. We never got a hive that did not reach threshhold for mites. I have stopped using tylosin unless there is a defanit need. We have spent a lot of money buying special queens with little reward. Like Michael Bush states any treatment will alter the flora and fauna of a hive, but of the beekeepers I know, the only ones with healthy bees treat. The development of mite resistant bees is the ultimate goal, but we are not there yet. What I do not understand is why MB techniques have not been more widely accepted and proliferated.
that's the point, what i was trying to say was...if your bees are going to die due to a serious mite infestation, and related diseases. (sick). then knock down that mite population and save your bees.(treat them).
you would never medicate your kids if they are healthy.
if giving your bees some other extract or oil knocks down the mites enough for the bees to survive a harsh winter then more power to ya.
There are certain facts one can put forward to support a decision not to treat. One is that some beekeepers do not treat and their hives survive.
As an example, Michael Bush says that he no longer has problems with mites, even though they are present in his hives. If I lived in the same region as Michael, bought my bees or queens from Michael, and followed the cultural practices he does, why couldn't I expect to have the same success with mites? And far as the idea that "Time is Money," I think he would agree. He says he manages 200 hives with the same amount of time he once used to take care of a half dozen, if I remember correctly, and much of that time and effort saving comes from not doing stuff that the bee journal experts say beekeepers must do.
Well, I can't get his bees, this year anyway, and I don't live in his region, but that doesn't mean I have no other options.
Speaking of bee journals, I saw a pretty interesting article in the March Bee Culture, called _Why Treat for Varroa?_ According to the author, treating doesn't work a whole lot better than not treating, and he seems to have some data to back up this opinion. The marginal benefit of treating for Varroa was only 7 to 15 percent-- to put it another way, if you treat, you have a 7 to 15 percent survival advantage over someone who does not treat. In other words, a few more of your hives might die than his. This is an advantage that can be overcome fairly easily by a modest amount of increase. And really, how hard is it to split off a couple of nucs? If you use D. Coates' brilliant plywood nuc box plans, you can get 4 nucs out of a single sheet of plywood.
When you think about this, also consider the fact that any expert with a lick of sense will admit that over time, any particular chemical approach to mite control will become less effective. It always happens, with any pest that has a high reproductive rate, not just varroa. If you treat, you put yourself in the position of hoping that the developers can come up with something new before the current treatments become ineffective.
That's some major optimism, in the long term.
If treatment were a reliable way of keeping bees healthy, most sensible folks would do it. But the evidence suggests that it is not.


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They have been in there about two months now and have a good bit of comb. My question is, should attempt to move them into a standard bee hive? I do have a brood box, and super, and of course vail and smoker too.


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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 4:24 pm
A poverty pimping organization corrupt and bankrupt? How very surprising!
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 11, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I'm impressed with the reporting that has gone into this. Sounds like a double set of books. What a wise choice the board made in switching auditors. Good job, Pleasanton Weekly!!!!
Now the Board of the Pleasanton Unified School District needs to request a deep forensic audit with a different auditor to find out where all the Measure B money, developer fees and pass through money went.
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a resident of Dublin
on Jun 11, 2012 at 5:07 pm
With all due respect, there is no way a competent Board would not have seen the signs of this several years ago had they known what to look for and paid better attention. I recognize that most non-profit boards serve as volunteers. However, if they applied some of the same business acumen to their volunteer work as they do their profession, these types of problems would be nipped in the bud.
a resident of another community
on Jun 11, 2012 at 5:20 pm
I would certainly caution against any overly hasty rush to judgment. After all, the Foundation has been run by respectable private sector businessmen and, of course, given the Obama economy, it is impossible to overestimate all the good things that occurred during the Bush Administration. Bubbles occur. Savings and Loan (ask my brother about that!), housing, credit cards, and now student bubbles. At no point should these be blamed on our good private sector businessmen who, like my friends at Bain and I, are always after a good profit. Maybe a rule or two was bent, maybe a lie or two was told, but for heavens sake, that's what good capitalists do. (I'd elaborate further on this, but for criminy sakes, I'm running for president and so couldn't possibly be expected to be forthcoming about this, after all!)
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Jun 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm
I comment Judge Ron Hyde for taking on such a difficult fast of closing down the TVCF.
Judge Hyde, THANK YOU for all your years of service and community leadership. I for one, am confident that Judge Hyde will do his best to work with all those affected.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Did anyone actually read the article before commenting on it?
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jun 11, 2012 at 7:03 pm
I trust TVCF has sent details of its concerns about David Rice's actions to the board of the Texan non-profit that is apparently now employing him.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm
This is really tragic in the sense that non-profits have been coming under increased scrutiny for many years; this will only hurt those charitable organizations that have the best of intentions and play by the rules.
Based on the comments from this article, insurance aside, what the heck has the Board of Directors been doing since 2006-07? Have these people been paid for their position on the board, or for attending meetings? Have they received free dinners or free inclusion in charity golf tournaments? If they've received one red cent, or one single free meal, they should pay it back with interest. Maybe that would save at least one of the charitable organizations they've taken down with them.
It shouldn't be lost anyone that some of these donors had specified where their dollars were to be placed. That didn't happen and that is criminal. I can't imagine it is easy to run a small non-profit into the ground taking other non-profits with you. Where was the oversight? Why was the charity committing dollars they didn't have?
Too many unanswered questions at this point. But there is nothing more disgusting, IMO, than asking for charitable donations and then misappropriating the funds. I only hope this doesn't lead to a reduction in donations for those charities that truly deserve our support.
Three million in debt is almost three times there revenue (donors contributions). I don't think it is just future defendant Rice that has some explaining to do!
a resident of another community
on Jun 11, 2012 at 8:03 pm
As a past Board member of TVCF I can tell you that we received absolutely nothing for the time we put in. Not one red cent and certainly no freebies of any kind. When Mr. Rice had no one but the Board to answer to and had a free hand at selecting and also eliminating the Board members and officers [portion removed] .. many of us tried time and time again. When someone got too close to what was going on .. he would ask them to leave the board. He withheld and hid the financial information to the point that many resigned in complete frustration over dealing with him. I am thankful that Ron Hyde finally had the information and ability to stop what was going on. But that probably only came about because the money was gone. It is a very sad situation.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:04 pm
As we know, this happens all the time. Some years ago when my daughter was in YMCA's Indian Princesses, I heard tale of there hastily removed director was let go for embezzlement. No prosecution or heads up to his next employer. Why? They didn't want bad publicity when they are always going to the community asking for donations. Personally, I only give to soup kitchens. At least you can see people being fed there. F course doesn't guarantee someone didn't skim a bunch off the top.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I do sympathize with what the Previous Board Member posted and it does ring true throughout Pleasanton.
Unfortunately in Pleasanton in many cases whenever Board members who are volunteers and even elected by the Public start to ask hard and probing questions about financials and other potentially illegal and unethical activity, they are systematically bullied directly and indirectly, stonewalled, and information is withheld by the chief administrator and those that work under the chief administrator.
Some chief administrators impose gag orders on Board members not allowing them to ask any questions (talk about violating Freedom of Speech). The 'orchestrated litany of lies' of these people need to stop.
Hyde did the right thing by bringing it to law enforcement's attention for criminal prosecution. This wheeling and dealing and fraud rampant within Pleasanton has to stop.
Good thing that this also happened when in the summer 2009 the PUSD administrators rented office space to Tri-Valley University without telling anyone. Because it is zoned P for Public, should have gone through a "Conditional Use Permit" as a private college. Instead it was snuck in without anyone in the city being notified. It is good that the whistle was blown and Federal law enforcement was brought in.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:36 pm
It seems premature, and a rush to judgment, to accuse someone of committing a crime in one sentence when another sentence says: "I cannot find any evidence that he took any money for himself."
Also, is this really "breaking news" as the email to subscribers said?
It sounds like there is something more going on here.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Wow, your statement:
"Unfortunately in Pleasanton in many cases whenever Board members who are volunteers and even elected by the Public start to ask hard and probing questions about financials and other potentially illegal and unethical activity, they are systematically bullied directly and indirectly, stonewalled, and information is withheld by the chief administrator and those that work under the chief administrator."
What do you mean by in many cases? Are you saying accountability is a big issue in the tri-Valley? Aside from claiming these practices need to stop, I'm curious - just where does the buck stop?
The damage done goes beyond the 3 million dollars and the 25 other non-profits that may or may not be impacted by this travesty. It really cuts to the core of trust, integrity, and accountability.
It doesn't seem like anyone in this state is accountable for anything anymore. Blame the guy that is now supposedly sucking charitable donations from suckers in Texas, while nobody around here wants to take responsibility for anything.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 11, 2012 at 10:27 pm
"When Mr. Rice had no one but the Board to answer to and had a free hand at selecting and also eliminating the Board members and officers and bald faced lied to us on a regular basis it was impossible to bring this to a head .. many of us tried time and time again. When someone got too close to what was going on .. he would ask them to leave the board. He withheld and hid the financial information to the point that many resigned in complete frustration over dealing with him."
To: Previous Board Member
You say it,"When Mr. Rice had no one but the Board to answer to..." That was you. While I appreciate your honesty a board members duty includes direction, oversight for the organization, and performance evaluations of the CEO - including hiring and firing. I'm not sure when you became involved but for board members to deflect from their own responsibility is disengenous.
Why didn't you and others sound the alarm. This wasn't a one time incident. It appears this was a clear and reckless pattern of behavior that went on for many years; with a predictable outcome. We aren't talking about 25K that can't be accounted for. We are talking about millions of dollars that were promised to other organizations. This is hurtful for many organizations and many people.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 11, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Previous Board Member stated that every time someone started asking hard questions, the Board Member was eliminated.
Many times, situations happen where when Board members start asking questions about theft of funds, etc. like in this example, news stories in the press indicate that they are threatened. In this case recently, it was a school superintendent who allegedly threatened a board member over reporting theft to law enforcement.
Web Link
Many State laws out there govern boards like Davis-Stirling where if someone tries to interfere with a board member doing their due diligence duties, there are ramifications. And then there are laws like Penal Code 69, 71, and 76.
Sometimes when chief administrators have too much power, they also try to couch everything as 'confidential' so that Board members are silenced through fear. Maybe several years ago, people concerned about misappropriation of funds should have reported it to law enforcement.
A good lesson is that the power of chief adminstrators should be strictly limited rather than given unlimited powers. The Boards should be in control of the administrator, rather than the administrator being in control or the Board. And when administrators start chatting about potential issues being confidential, this is a good sign that Board members should weight the pros and cons and they should really consider picking up the phone and calling for forensic audits and law enforcement.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 11, 2012 at 11:27 pm
So true, Wow. It's dangerous to let the paid chief administrator be a voting board member. Bad governance.
It's simply a shame that nobody tried to prevent this unfortunate chain of events. Perhaps the outcome could have been different if the Board had been warned years ago by a disillusioned donor; or if TVCF's original auditors had been warned years ago by a whistleblower report; or if the Pleasanton Weekly had been urged years ago to dig a bit deeper before unconditionally endorsing TVCF in their newspaper. Perhaps some of the $3M loss could have been avoided, and perhaps the blow to local philanthropy would not have been so severe.
I'm reminded of a few lessons from recent years. The first is to always insist on transparency and accountability. The second is from Ronald Regan: "Trust but verify."
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 12, 2012 at 12:15 am
Web Link
Web Link
...are two important web links.
These two news stories show how important it is for Board members to go to law enforcement when there is evidence that funds are mishandled, or any other evidence of wrongdoing , rather than adopting the "circle the wagons mentality" so common in public entities that allow Closed sessions and in Not-For-Profits.
In this instance, an audit shows that athletic directors at two of the district's high schools used money to open bank accounts using their personal information and then wrote thousands of dollars worth of checks that no one approved.
The Board member contacted law enforcement, as he should have done when the State audit identified the issue. The Superintendent then allegedly threatened the Board member in an Executive Session after the Board member reported it to law enforcement.
It serves noone if people who commit crimes are then protected by administrators, in a cloak of confidentiality, then people go on to other positions somewhere else under a shroud of secrecy.
The Board member in this instance did the right thing. I'm glad that TVCF eventually came around to doing the right thing.
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on Jun 12, 2012 at 12:39 am
This practice may have occurred before 2006. I contacted/wrote into the Government over this man way back, however, never heard a thing and David Rice continued on with this organization. Perhaps they felt my concerns were unwarranted or that this did not fall under a specific jurisdiction (I would hope our government would send concerns to the appropriate authorities). I was w/a small non-profit and Rice promised us $1,500.00. I had to get two prominent community members to HOUND Rice for that money! [Portion removed] Others told me of similar stories, but, said they (the other small non-profits) would often give-up on collecting the promised funds. I was determined and called almost every day. With the help of two well-known community leaders I was able to get he dollars promised our little non-profit. Soon after I met a woman who was a bookkeeper or accountant for him and had quit-she just roller her eyes when his named was mentioned. No-I have not been fooled by him since that time and I have stated so to anyone who spoke of him. People have talked about him for many years-the information has been there. Yet, so many people would say "he means well" or " he is just David." I think they were conned and swindled and completely oblivious to his TRUE self. I could talk until I was blue in my face...people are SO easy to con. I think if they dig deeper they will find he took money. However, please do not hurt these small non-profits. They need help from our community now more than ever. Young children, veterans, families, seniors, faith establishments and animal charities need our support. Remember this and don't let a sweet-talking person like that run any of our non-profits again in our community. If you have a non-profit demand a full accounting from your treasurer. If donations are made and a request is also made that they go to a specific cause, scholarship or need then HONOR that request. We are supposed to be a Community of Character and make sure the people handling funds in your non-profit are above suspicion. That they always count dollars with AT LEAST one other person and that there is a full accounting of money. Many of us were suspicious of David Rice, but, it fell on deaf ears. Community people have been complaining about Rice for years and I find it hard to believe that he was able to remain in that position for as long as he did. Make sure you give to charities with better checks and balances ...and meet the people...go with your gut/intuition...don't fall for the "flashy" talk...or a bunch of "hot air." there are some great non-profits in this area and they deserve our support-thanks.
a resident of Birdland
on Jun 12, 2012 at 12:50 am
Having served as a board member for a non-profit, I know how important it is to have numerous checks and balances for the non-profit's books. As John noted, it is bad governance to have the Executive Director be a voting member of the board. It sounds as if that is what happened at TVCF, when Rice should not have had as much power as he had. That said, when you have a short-term, rotating board and a long-term ED, the governance has to be carefully crafted to avoid having the ED holding the power. New board members are at a disadvantage to the workings of the organization.
Independent bookkeepers, accountants and auditors help keep the books open to the board. Having an audit committee and more board oversight help keep an ED from acting independently. A grants committee helps direct where funds are going. Board member training and support should be paramount for anyone interested in serving in an organization. Help is out there, especially in our SF Bay area.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 12, 2012 at 1:09 am
PW Reader, I completely agree. Having an independent audit committee is key to public sector, education and non-profit accounting, but is key that the make up of these committees are people independent of the entity they are auditing who are not easily intimidated and silenced.
It is also important that Boards and citizens are empowered to speak up, and don't fall for the pile of dirty tricks so common to intimidate citizens and Board members who ask hard questions.
For example, in this instance here Web Link , a chief administrator/superintendent of a school district threatened citizens and their families who were questioning the District's fiscal practices and it was caught on tape. If you click on the link, you will see that the superintendent threatened to have his staff send a truant officer after one of the children of one of the public speakers who had spoken out against a salary raise he recently received. Charming, yes?
He also said several other colorful things such as "You can take the Democrat party and [you can guess the end]."
Boards need to make sure no one is King or Queen of the Board because they are equally accountable and make sure their chief administrator is not part of the Board and reports to the Board.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 12, 2012 at 1:24 am
To: never trusted
I love your comments and I too don't want this tragedy to denigrate the charitable work that good people are doing for the community. The worst case scenario is that people lose faith in their ability to expect charitable donations to actually benefit the causes they support, which will inevitably lead to fewer donations as we head into a very difficult period when our safety net dollars are being diverted to pay for basic services.
I do think it's important to understand exactly what happened to ensure it does NOT happen again. While it sounds like David Rice failed in his responsibility to both the donors and recipients of funds, I don't think you can limit the responsibility to just one person. The Board had to see this coming years ago. Why didn't they sound the alarm?
The Board/oversight committee failed to see what appears to have been obvious for several years. It makes me question whether or not the Board members had the financial expertise to evaluate financial reports. What about the book keeper? Charitable organizations have reporting requirements. Was anyone paying attention or was this just a feel good endeavor for all involved.
Placing all the blame on just one individual is just wrong. This was an organizational failure.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 12, 2012 at 2:04 am
There are three companies that David Rice was the head of. There is Tri-Valley Community Foundation, Tri-Valley Community Services and Youth Achievement Program LLC according to this Web Link
Maybe the Pleasanton Weekly could do some digging about these two other companies. Are they 501c3s? Did the money go to these two companies?
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on Jun 12, 2012 at 8:09 am
This is unfortunate but it is small potatoes compared to the $9.3 million that Pleasanton School District stole from taxpayers. There was no prosecution or apology from PUSD and the money has never been accounted for.
Web Link
"The cash-out refinancing -- which was ruled illegal in 2009 by then-Attorney General and now Governor Jerry Brown -- will cost nearly $9.3 million over 20 years, according to the analysis. Of that, almost $2.5 million is in interest, while nearly $6.8 million was spend on projects, although the district has not released a list of where that money was spent."
a resident of Livermore
on Jun 12, 2012 at 8:27 am
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that there may be enough said here for a libel suit.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 12, 2012 at 8:28 am
It doesn't take much to understand where the $3M really went. The first piece is the grantmoney paid by David Rice using funds earmarked for other destinations. It was [portion removed] to claim these funds as available unrestricted Foundation assets. And I suspect included in that count is their $50,000 per year "match" to the Holiday Fund since it is doubtful any anonymous TVCF donor provided those funds. The other piece was the hundreds of thousands paid annually to staff and consultants whose only talents were blowing smoke and positioning mirrors. The real mission of TVCF for the last decade has been to provide full employment to a team of inept nonprofit administrators. What a waste.
But the real shame is the opportunity missed over the last 20+ years to build a real base for our community. The Tri-Valley Community Fund was started in the 1980s by dedicated community leaders (one being Tim Hunt, who broke contact with TVCF many years ago). Think of where we all might be if an effective community foundation could have leveraged the growth and prosperity that our region has seen over all this time. With that in mind, the real loss count needs to include a $50M endowment that never came to be.
a resident of another community
on Jun 12, 2012 at 8:48 am
How unfortunate that a community group set up to do such good, could end like this. I hope that the smaller charities that were supported by this foundation will survive.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jun 12, 2012 at 9:51 am
This fraud could not have happened if the CPA (tax preparer), auditor, and treasurer were doing their jobs. Just looking at the early tax returns from 2005/2006 and the latest returns filed, should have been enough to raise red flags.
Whenever a charitable organization, or any non-profit, handles large sums of money, the board should be made up of individuals who have had professional training in fiscal responsibility. Being a respected "citizen of the community" is not a good enough qualification. Could anyone on this board even read a balance sheet?
Agree with Arnold - this was an organizational failure.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 12, 2012 at 9:54 am
Even IF tax returns were checked...WHO and WHY did this TRI-VALLEY charity send money all kinds of out of area people and groups ?
Right now at the TOP of this article, you can click go to ""MESSAGE BOARD"" and read all the initial FULL ARTICLE posting and much more IN DEPTH article with additional information, plus all the initial questions and comments. That thread is titled "" Where's the money gone ? """. That whole thread should be connected to this thread.
Check MESSAGE BOARD . . . also AROUND TOWN is less to wade through
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 12, 2012 at 9:57 am
DATE of original article posting "" Where's the money gone """ was MAY 31 .... make it faster to find.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 12, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Bill, for all positions, whether paid, or voluntary boards, or POLITICIANS at every level, it is ALWAYS better to have people who actually UNDERSTAND MONEY and how it works, UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS, and can not only READ annual reports but also UNDERSTAND them, and the causes and effects of money ! ! ! Sadly, many who alter lives ro choose people who alter lives, do not have that understanding.
It's best to check out that knowledge of money before placing them in positions of trust. Ignorance can be as damaging as false intentions.
Pleasanton Weekly staff reporter
on Jun 12, 2012 at 3:43 pm
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Would the posters named Previous Board Member and Never Trusted David Rice please contact me at my office number: 925-600-0840 ext. 121.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 12, 2012 at 4:09 pm
The 990s listed on Foundation Center have the Board Members from year to year listed so it would not be hard to find out the previous Board members who have departed the Board Web Link
2001/2002 – Richard Karn, Joan Zehnder, Tim Hunt, Thomas O'Malley, Pete Snyder, Midge Callahan, James Phillips Esq, James Lopez, Judith Barnett, Frank Berlogar, Richard Carlson, John Earthy, Rick Griggs, Daniel Hancock, Howard Hyman, Douglas Jamieson, Barbara Mertes, Kit Niemeyer, Nancy Pennell, David Romano, David Rounds, Rebecca Rozen, George Shore, Bill Vaculin, David Rice.
2003/2004/2005 – 990s say see attached list but there is no attached list
2006/2007/2008 – David Rice, George Shore, Mark Curtis, Richard Karn, John Lineweaver, Richard Loupe, Kenneth McCartney, Nancy Pennell, Erin Kvistad, Lee Adair, Kit Niemeyer, Thomas Rose
2009 – David Rice, Richard Karn, Ronald Hyde, Kenneth McCarthney, Don Lewis, Kit Niemeyer, Thomas Rose
2010 – David Rice, Ken McCartney, Ronald Hyde, Michael Santimauro, Don Lewis, Kit Niemeyer, Michele Matsumura JD, Thomas Rose
a resident of another community
on Jun 12, 2012 at 7:40 pm
I have to say for gosh sakes that its absurd to list all these upstanding members of the private sector. It is only government workers who are prone to corruption, after all. Sheesh! Think of all the value-added activities these fine men have contributed? And what has government done?
There is a lesson here. Look at the Obama administration. Waaaay over his head. Then look at my record at Bain. Need I say more? Tri-Vally should be appreciated for what it was. Good businessmen using good business practices to do what the state does all the time. Give money to poor people. I'd rather have private sector donations that let the government handle matters.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 13, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Is Alameda County DA 'on the case' ??
Why didn't somebody report it to our county Grand Jury long ago, so they could have been investigating, before tracks were likely covered. Any position of trust can be reported to Grand Jury for them to check out and move forward as needed.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 15, 2012 at 10:09 am
I heard from a reliable source that the matching funds used for the Pleasanton Weekly Holiday Program was part of the funds that were "lifted" from other non-profits without their permission. Makes sense. If they are in debt, meaning they do not have the money in their regular funds, that they had to take the money from other accounts in order to do the match. I wonder why the Weekly "investigation" left this out of the article? So I assume the money that people donated to the Holiday Funds went to the correct place but the matching was taken from other accounts without their permissions.
And how many years has the Weekly been doing this holiday fund with a match from the Tri-Valley Community Foundation? It has been many years so there are probably a couple hundred thousand dollars that were taken from other accounts without their permission (i.e., stolen), to make up the Weekly Holiday Funds over the years. I would like to hear if the Weekly will be returning those matching funds that were improperly obtained.
a resident of another community
on Jul 20, 2012 at 6:26 am
This is not a surprise, reading the financials of this organization from 2000 to current reads as a mistery of vanishing funds with an increase of liabilities and a sad depletion of its investment dollars. How could the Board not have a collective meeting on this obvious depletion of Funds without Mr. Rice. Who was really paying attention? There is no way to blame only one person, was the Board engaged with this organization? or were they just there warming a seat? Ignorance is not an excuse with the magnitude of what has occurred.
To many community citizens attempted to bring these issues to the Board. What happened, the citizens were spoken of as disgruntle neighbors of the community and were discarded as crazy!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Jan 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm
My family has been very active in the community since we moved to Pleasanton when I was 3 years old. My mom is a teacher at Amador. My dad coached little league baseball for over 15 years in Pleasanton.
6 years ago my dad suffered a massive heart attack and died while snowshoeing @ Donor Lake.
It was about 2 weeks before I was set to graduate college. As devastating as it was to my family, we realized how lucky we were to have an amazing father in our lives and that many others are not so lucky.
We created a scholarship to provide graduating high school students who've suffered through the death one or both parents/guardians and had plans to continue their education after high school. Without my dad, I never would have made it through college. I was blessed. In his honor, we were able to raise enough money over the past 6 years to provide over 18 Pleasanton students with scholarship money.
Thanks to this SCUM BAG, David Rice....There is no money for these students. I've met this scoundrel face to face and he really put on the charm. Never in a million years would I think he could be such a piece of excrement. If I ever have the opportunity to meet him again.... I assure you it would be the last. David Rice is the scum of the earth. Stealing from children, stealing from orphans, stealing from anyone. He is SCUM! I hope he gets what is coming to him.
a resident of Vintage Hills
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Chris, If the scholarship is reestablished in some way, please let the community know. I would hope former donors would be willing to re-donate.
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Who sells the bst honey producing queens? Not having much luck with the ones I have been getting here in Georgia.
Maybe if we find out who's queens did NOT work for you, we may be able to suggest ones that will. What are your priorities besides making honey? Mite resistance, etc...?
Crazy Roland
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Who have you been buying your queens off of????
I got some Georgia queens that ARE going to do me 200 lb. + this year, of course that's not an average I'm talking about, just a few boomers out of the bunch.
From a commercial point of view, I would raise my own if I lived as far south as you do. JMGI hit on part of it maybe it is not the queens maybe it is your beekeeping or the locations you are in. If you need 500+ queens a year you have to go with mass producers and sometimes it is hit and miss.
With the good weather were getting in Michigan this year 200lbs. is well within reach of my Georgian Italian queens.
We also need to know your management style, single deep, double deep, etc, frequent inspection vs. "leave em' alone"???
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Alternatively direct sow courgettes outdoors at a depth of 2cm (¾") and a distance of 90cm (36") apart. Sow 2 seeds per hole and thin out the weakest seedling per station after germination.
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By Morna Wheatley 18-02-2015
I tried these last year having previously grown the variety Atena. Soleil was extremely prolific - a ridiculous amount of courgettes grew and I have no complaints about the size of the harvest. However I did find a slightly higher rate of rotting on the plant before reaching maturity, but this may have been due to the extreme heat we had last summer. Not convinced that they have more flavour than Atena.
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By Alison Gifford 21-09-2010
I sowed one of these and planted out 1st week of June in the garden, and it's still producing loads of courgettes mid September. I dug a bucket load of horse manure into a hole before planting it and when it started fruiting, I fed it weekly with tomato food, and it's always got 5 or 6 on the go. The courgettes are firm and seem to last ages in the fridge, I'm definitely going to grow it again, along with the ball types and standard green ones.


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[Article]-ChicagoCon 2008s - World Class Security Training & Ethical Hacking Conference
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ChicagoCon 2008s from May 12 - 18, 2008 features all new keynoters, additional security boot camps, exams on-site followed by two days of ethical hacking presentations and breakout sessions. And without an exhibit hall full of sales pitches, you're free to learn from the pros, network with peers and advance your infosec career.
Westchester, IL (PRWEB) January 29, 2008 -- Presented by the ChicagoCon is positioned to become the premier security event in the industry by bringing together the biggest names in education and certification under one roof for a week of security training like no other. With boot-camp style, hands-on classroom training, the (s)pring edition of ChicagoCon will host 13 courses from May 12 - 16 featuring a cross-section of the security landscape. We will also showcase researchers and InfoSec professionals during the conference portion of the event from May 16 - 17. From the novice, to the ultimate techie to those reaching for the CISO chair... everyone interested in a career in security will find something at ChicagoCon, your one-stop shop for security training and certification.
But ChicagoCon is not just another boot camp, security conference or hacker con. It's all of those wrapped into one. By providing top instructors, well known certifications, and 2 days of presentations, this unique event adds plenty of additional value to already strained training budgets. As a bonus, daily keynote addresses by industry experts Special Agent Patrick M. Geahan (FBI Cyber Crimes Division), Ralph R. Echemendia (world renowned hacking instructor), Mike Murray (Director Neohapsis Labs) and Matthew Carpenter (SANS, Intelguardians) will be presented only to the training students. Luke McOmie of TruTV's Tiger Team will provide the opening keynote for the conference on Friday afternoon for all to enjoy.
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So the group is going berry picking...little teeny tiny berries...I try to participate but I'm not much of a berry picker so the activity is short-lived as far as I'm concerned...I quietly sneak away from the pickers and go on a hike...I'd been wanting to climb this mountain near here from which there's supposed to be a great view. Weather is decent and the first part of the hike is delightful...then I start to climb...there are some really powerful views and you feel like you're facing right down into the valley on either side (as you can see in the photos).
I sit for a while imagining these valleys forming, the lava scouring the earth and filling up this place between the two sides of mountains....this really is a place of fantasy....anyway, I notice its getting a little windier - the wind here blows like no place else I've ever been - and the path is getting narrower...but I think I must be getting to the top soon....it must be just over the next crest....but it's not and I'm still climbing and I start to feel a little vulnerable...and I'm reminded of why hikers are never supposed to go off alone...
I start using the ground cover as my attachment to the earth cause if I don't, it feels like I'm going to get blown right over the edge. I figure if I keep my body low to the ground I'm less likely to fly off....of course, although I'm feeling a bit unsettled by the wind, I'm taking control of the situation as best I can and deciding to feel safe enough to keep moving without looking down...I'm just looking at my feet...too easy to get vertigo otherwise...now I can't turn around at this point cause I'm thinking the return path off the peak has got to be more secure than this one, the approach. But where is that peak?....well finally I'm there and there's a marker on it...and I snake my way over to the marker and hold on so I don't get blown away....but I've got to say I'm not feeling great about the choice to be up here...on one hand...on the other I'm totally buzzed to be in this predicament feeling the intensity and rush of it....
Well it's time to go down now....I'm expecting this plateau on the other side...easy descent...a reward for not backing down the ascent....that's what the topo map looked like...but of course I've got this major descent before any pseudo-plateau...and that's the tricky part....still grabbing the vegetation and pretending to be confident in making my way along the trail...the wind still gusting right up the mountainside....this trail is no easier than the other...narrow path along a seemingly vertical side...but with perseverance, I eventually get to some more solid turf and a bit more out of the wind...THRILLLED to get to the "plateau" part....must've been looking at a topo map with a large contour interval cause this plateau has some serious slope....well of course I make it down....in time for another mouth watering dinner...and to view the buckets of berries that I had neglected to pick.....


text: This is cheaper than the praised 3M kit, and I know the $15 for the 3M kit isn't bad but I couldn't find it anywhere around here, and I didn't want to wait for it to ship, so I got a different kit. One made by Turtle wax. I picked it up at Walmart for $9.00 And tried it out on my Saab. I only had enough day light to do one headlight. Before: After: Left done, right not The light output is better from the restored one. This is the kit: Best $9 I've spent in awhile. I thought you guys might like to know about this stuff, and I thought it would help. Our S10 and Suburban both still have clear lights, so that's why my Saab is shown.


text: How long must the fabric have been in our stash, before "finding" it? For a recent lap quilt, I bought "extra" because I'm really good at cutting wrong, if I don't buy extra (I consider it insurance). Turns out I ended up having enough, for a second top. :p Okay, guess that really shouldn't count, since it's less than a month old. :D


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Chevron strikes oil in wells off Congo coast
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Chevron Corp. said Tuesday that it has hit oil in two wells in the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles off the coast of the Republic of Congo. The wells, in 2,600 feet of water, were drilled to about 6,000 feet, and each was tested and oil flowed, the company said in a statement. "These discoveries further demonstrate the potential of West Africa where Chevron has made significant investments to develop new energy resources," company Vice Chairman George Kirkland said.
The wells are in the Moho-Bilondo permit area. A Chevron subsidiary holds a 31.5 percent stake in the permit area and is in a partnership with Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo and Total E&P Congo. Production in Moho-Bilondo began in April 2008 and is currently producing 90,000 barrels of crude oil a day, the company said. Shares of Chevron fell 2 cents to close earlier at $94.08.


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Just four years after organizing the California Almond Growers Exchange, the cooperative pioneered almond processing and manufacturing by building a one-story shelling plant on C Street in Sacramento in 1914. It cost $5,500! Just outside the back door was the railroad track where burlap bags of almonds could be delivered from local receiving stations. After packing, the 25-pound wooden boxes of almonds could easily be loaded and shipped by rail across the country.
In 1916, more land was acquired and a warehouse was built to store almonds delivered from local districts. By 1919, a five-story concrete building was built to encompass the original building. By 1925, the plant employed 249 people.
Early almond packaging using wooden boxes in the 1920s.
By 1931, the crop had grown to 20 million pounds delivered by four thousand almond growers and sales totaled $2 million. The cooperative innovated grading, shelling and additional manufacturing processes to increase market share for the crop and grow demand. Mechanical test grading of every grower delivery was introduced in 1931 for evaluating quality and size of almonds at the Sacramento plant. Growers were also encouraged to convert to about seven key varieties versus the 70 varieties that existed. The Blue Diamond brand stamped on every package leaving the plant had become synonymous for high quality standards and excellent service. The predominant Spanish and Italian importers were taking notice of California's new almond production and processing capabilities.
Between 1915 and 1938, the main business office was located in San Francisco. For closer contact with almond growers, headquarters permanently moved to Sacramento where a two-story office building facing the plant was built in 1939.
In the post-war economy of the late 1940s, the Exchange courted ice cream, bakery and consumer markets with new products. In 1949, the six-ounce can of Blue Diamond Smokehouse almonds was first introduced and import quotas were established on nuts from abroad. This was also the era of major advances in mechanization not only in the orchard but also in the plant: electric eye sorters, faster packaging machines, new roasting and drying equipment and bulk boxes replaced sacks for grower deliveries. In the office, computers increased productivity.
In the 1950s, the Exchange added 14 concrete silos for almond storage, a fumigation system to protect stored nuts, a quality control department and a new product development laboratory. In the 1960s through the 1970s, the Exchange was selling over 40 different manufactured forms of almonds for ingredient users and California almond consumption had spread to every continent and all major countries. The Exchange opened a sales office in Japan and initiated sales in the former Soviet Union, China and India. Foil packets of Blue Diamond Smokehouse almonds were being served on many major airlines.
A deal is struck in the 1970s for Blue Diamond almonds to be served on Japan Airlines.
A trend to on-farm hulling and shelling brought new bulk meat storage facilities in Sacramento and Salida in the mid-1970s and a processing line at Salida in 1979. In the 1980s the Del Monte cannery next to the Sacramento plant was purchased for additional manufacturing, storage, a visitor's center and an office facility; and the Exchange officially changed its name to Blue Diamond Growers.
In mid-1995, Sacramento was re-confirmed as the best location for its now nearly 90 acres of plant operations. This launched a 10-year, $30 million plant improvement program that resulted in an agreement with the City of Sacramento to create an enclosed, gated Blue Diamond campus with security for a safer neighborhood. Blue Diamond streamlined nearly every aspect of its plant operations as it entered the 21st Century with billion pound crops and adopted the best new technologies to produce the safest, highest quality almonds in the world.
Blue Diamond continues to invest in state of the art technologies in 2010 and beyond as crops climb to over 1.5 billion pounds and global demand exceeds previous records. New regulations designed to enforce strict quality and food safety standards, to regulate clean air and water and assure employee safety require close attention to meeting, and even exceeding, the best manufacturing practices to satisfy ever-increasing global customer expectations.


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BillV wrote:Doesn't GIAC publish an objective bulletin for GCIH? May not be the easiest way, but you could certainly go from that and research each topic to create your own study guide. Just a thought anyway...
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text: I'll leave the milling of those silly seed shapes to someone else. I'm interested in how I can clean organic seed for market. I wish you would private message me some time with how may man hours to pounds of seeds you get. I would probably be looking at using some kind of Allis Chalmers seed cleaner... and maybe a horse drawn bundler, like for grains. Anyway... I don't know of any horse powered organic buckwheat seed producers out there. So I guess I'm on my own, to a far off corner of the market!


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Condemned inmate's former attorney makes last appeal
Former attorneys of Robert Gleason, Junior continue to appeal rulings involving the execution of the inmate.
The latest filing is against the ruling of a federal judge saying these attorneys have no authority to appeal Gleason's case against his wishes.
Attorney Jon Sheldon asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday to appoint he and other lawyers to represent Gleason. He argues the inmate was not competent when he waived his appeals.
Gleason was serving life in prison when authorities say he killed his cell mate at Wallen's Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap.
Gleason told authorities he would kill again if he was not given the death penalty.
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text: He starts shift an hour before me. He had his emergency lights on trying to catch up to a red light runner. A young girl pulled out of a parking lot after the violator car passed, not seeing him in pursuit, and pulled out in front of him. The BMW is designed to throw you over, which it did. He flew over the trunk, hitting his head on the street. His helmet saved him. There was about a 2 foot scuff on the road from his helmet. Nothing broken, but he'll be sore for few days. The bike was totaled, snapped the front forks in half, bent the front wheel.