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I installed a new package on April 27th. I am planning on opening the hive on Saturday to check for brood, etc. I am new to honey bees.
I am seeing this on the front porch of the hive. The bees are removing it form the hive and I have no idea what it is. Can someone give me some guidance?


text: Was wondering what everyone thought about using a polyurethane type coating for the hives? Would it be harmful to the bees if I coated the hives with a coating like that? Was looking for something more durable and moisture resistant to cover my hives. And also like the look of a natural wood surface.

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Bright Unique Flat in City Center
Size90 m²
Floor No.
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- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
- Family/child friendly
- Dishwasher
- Baby cot
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Well-equipped, newly refurbished and spacious apartment in the central and peaceful embassy district of Copenhagen. The apartment is a typical Copenhagen flat, and will give you the feel of real Copenhagen living.
The apartment is in total 90 square meters, it has a large sleeping room with a king-size dux bed 220x220, a baby basket and a junior bed. Besides that, there´s a big living room with 2 single beds, open kitchen with dishwasher and a bathroom with a bathtub.
The area is very green and shows of Copenhagen's nice features of being a capital but also a very green city. From this flat you will enter right into the old streets of this European city. Right next to the flat is the small park "Østre Anlæg", were the local Copenhageners love to enjoy weekends, and in one end of this park is the beautiful art museum: "The State's museum for Art".
This location is also only 2 min. from "Østerport train Station", and within walking distance from the inner city / "Kgs. Nytorv", where the Danish opera and many bars and restaurants can be found.
If you arrive by car, it´s possible to park in front of the apartment but there is a parking meter.
Hope to see you soon!
House rulesNo smoking
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 186 HKD per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
The apartment is very large and clean, it is strategically located 5 minutes walk from the station Osterport, Ms Marianne is very friendly and takes care of the apartment. All services were functioning and functional. Also recommended for families. And 'situated in very quiet and peaceful.
L'appartamento è molto grande e pulito, si trova in posizione strategica a 5 min a piedi dalla stazione di Osterport, La sig.ra Marianne è molto gentile e tiene con cura l'appartamento. Tutti i servizi erano funzionanti e funzionali. Consigliato anche per famiglie. E' collocato in quartiere molto tranquillo e silenzioso.
We have 4 pers. the apartment occupied; everything wonderful: comfortable, spacious, clean, quiet, centrally located. Special thanks to Marianne for their friendliness, helpfulness and the trust placed in us.
Wir haben mit 4 Pers. das Apartement belegt; alles wunderbar: gemütlich, geräumig, sauber, ruhig, zentral gelegen. Unser besonderer Dank gilt Marianne
für ihre Freundlichkeit, Hilfsbereitschaft und das uns entgegengebrachte Vertrauen.
Excellent apartment in a great location. Marianne met us and was very helpful. The apartment was spacious and quirky with very creative use of space and design. We loved the neighbourhood and found it to be very peaceful although only one stop on the train from Copenhagen centre. I did have my purse taken whilst shopping in the city centre so be warned. The Danes are the loveliest people I have come across in my travels but there are lots of visitors as in any city and extreme care should be taken in keeping purse/money safe. I will be taking my own advice in future! Having said all that we enjoyed our stay which was made all the better because of Marrianne's lovely apartment.
A cozy and colorful experience. Marianne is a friendly and engaging host and we were well received. The apartment has many cozy with exciting Ingo Maurer lamps. The neighborhood is quiet and peaceful with a short distance to the Metro and commuter trains, Nyboder center and Copenhagen. We would clearly like to take this opportunity again!
En hyggelig og farverig oplevelse. Marianne er en venlig og spændende vært, og vi blev godt modtaget. Lejligheden har mange hyggelige med spændende Ingo Maurer lamper. Kvarteret er stille og fredfyldt med kort afstand til Metro og S-tog, Nyboder, centrum og Østerbro.
Vi vil klart gerne benytte lejligheden igen!!
Very nice apartment. Very central, close to the train station with direct trains Osterport from the airport and very quick access to all city tours. Despite this apartment is very quiet. It is located below the ground floor, as many apartments and shops in Copenhagen. Very bright and gay. A very pleasant stay.
Appartement très sympathique. Très central, tout proche de la gare Osterport avec des trains directs depuis l'aéroport et un accès très rapide pour toutes les visites en ville. Malgré cela l'appartement est très calme. Il est situé en contrebas du rez de chaussée, comme beaucoup d'appartements et de magasins à Copenhague. Très lumineux et gai. Un séjour très agréable.
Lovely apartment with an amazing host-Marianne couldn't have been a more hospitable host. We can't wait to come back!
We were 2 mature married couple who enjoyed a few days in Copenhagen, based in Marianne's lejligehed. We were happy with the facilities, and will probably another time searching the same time.
Vi var 2 modne ægtepar der nød et par dage i Kbh. med udgangspunkt i Mariannes lejligehed. Vi var tilfredse med faciliteterne, og vil formentlig en anden gang søge samme lejlighed.
Hello, the contact was very friendly, the location of the apartment so adventurous, there was a distinguishing forget "heart with two big B" to install. Due to the nice neighbor, this could be solved. The apartment is in fact very nicely (not only by the designer lamps) and especially clean. Small criticism is to express for: - TV aerial cable was ripped out (not tragic news wanted to see) - toilet flush did not work! - Letting a leaking shower bath, which made for a wet floor in front of the sink! Location just great, about 5 minutes walk to the train station Osterport from where it super frequented by bus and train continued Conclusion: Prima stay, recommended for repair of defects in the bathroom very, happy again
der Kontakt war sehr freundlich, das Auffinden vom Apartment von daher abenteuerlich, da das Erkennungsmerkmal "Herz mit zwei großen B" vergessen wurde anzubringen.
Aufgrund der netten Nachbarin konnte dies gelöst werden.
Die Wohnung ist in der Tat sehr nett eingerichtet (nicht nur durch die Designerlampen) und vor allem sauber.
Kleine Kritik ist zu äussern für:
- TV Antennenkabel war raus gerissen (nicht tragisch, wollten Nachrichten sehen)
- Toilettenspülung ging nicht!
- Ablauf der Dusch- badewanne undicht, was für einen nassen Boden vor dem Waschbecken sorgte!
Lage einfach prima, ca. 5 Gehwegminuten zum Bahnhof Osterport, von wo aus es mit Bus und Bahn super frequentiert weiter ging
Fazit: Prima Aufenthalt, bei Reparatur der Defekte im Bad sehr zu empfehlen, gerne wieder
We arrived to a chilly Copenhagen Thursday night. But the reception we got in the apartment, was both warm and wonderful. The host was on the trip, but the apartment was set on all the lights, and it was wonderful jazz music from the radio. And we have just said that the apartment was bright. Large and spacious, lovely lamps and things you do not see elsewhere. It was also laid down diode light in the floor in the hallway by the toilet - COOL!! All in all, a great stay. No doubt we'll be back again :-)
Vi kom til et kjølig København torsdag kveld. Men den velkomsten vi fikk i leiligheten, var både varm og flott. Verten var på tur, men i leiligheten var det satt på alle lys, og det var herlig jazzmusikk fra radioen. Og vi må bare få sagt at den leiligheten var knall. Stor og romslig, og herlige lamper og ting du ikke ser andre steder. Det var også lagt ned diodelys i gulvet i gangen ved toalettet - KULT!!!! Alt i alt, et supert opphold. Ikke noe tvil om at vi skal tilbake igjen :-)
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I don't beleive Sandra Bullock was ever a porn star. She started her career from Speed. Or at least Speed got her to be "Sandra Bullock". I've always liked her, maybe because of Speed, but she's never really made any good movies since Speed. Even Speed 2 was disastrous!
I'm pretty sure though she never did any porn.
The only porn star I know that turned actress is Traci Lords.
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My first colony has made it through the winter (thus far). I put a candy board in early January as insurance.
The temps are finally warm as our snow pack is melting away (upper peninsula of MI). I have not inspected hive other than looking in the top briefly and noticed that the cluster is in top hive body under candy board.
Current status:
> Day temps between 45 F and 65 F, night temps between 30 F and 45 F.
> The candy board still has some candy on it.
> The colony is in the top of 2 hive bodies (HB) (Deeps) with entrance reducer in.
> the workers have been actively flying out through upper entrances on warm days.
Questions for the experienced beekeepers:
1) Can/should I start feeding with 1:1 sugar solution?
2) Is there an issue with leaving candy board on and feeding with sugar solution?
3A) Should I reverse hive bodies (HB) putting empty (now bottom) HB to top and put HB with colony on bottom?
3B) Or should I consolidate and remove bottom HB and put feeder on top of HB with colony and add second deep as colony expands?


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Teen apparently mistaken for burglar is shot & killed by stepfather
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs police say a 14-year-old girl has died after she was shot by her stepfather.
It happened at a home in the 4000 block of Ascendant Drive, near North Carefree Circle and Peterson Road.
Police were originally called to the home to investigate a burglary just before 6 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. The caller told dispatchers the burglar was shot. A little over a minute later, dispatch reports the sad news it wasn't a burglar. When police arrived, they found the 14-year-old suffering from life-threatening injuries. She died at a hospital.
Police and the District Attorney's Office are investigating.
Jani Harvey lives across the street from the family. She heard the gunshots early Monday morning.
"I heard three bangs," said Harvey. "I assumed it was someone hitting on a car or a garage door or something like that."
She said the noise was startling.
"I thought it was strange, and I thought it was an odd hour for it to be going on. It's kind of a quiet neighborhood," said Harvey.
Directly next door, Mary Zesiewicz was awakened by police knocking on her door.
"They were making sure everyone was o.k." Zesiewicz said.
After she went to work, Zesiewicz learned why police were so concerned after a phone call from her son.
"He goes Mom, they removed bullets from our wall...it's a very, very scary feeling," Zesiewicz said.
A KRDO NewsChannel 13 team is covering this investigation and will provide updates throughout the day on KRDO.com, KRDO NewsChannel 13 and KRDO NewsRadio 105.5 FM, 1240 AM.


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Captivating Colors in the Green Mountains
Cooper Hill Inn • East Dover, VT
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The Digs
Nestled on the picturesque eastern slopes of the Green Mountains, Cooper Hill Inn boasts panoramic views that stretch 100 miles to the east. Originally a farmhouse built in 1797, today the inn is a cozy colonial home with ten distinctly furnished rooms. Pamper your palate each morning with a hearty New England breakfast before donning an apron and learning a thing or two during an Asian cooking class. Later, you can laze on the porch before indulging in a number of outdoor activities near the inn, from hiking and snowshoeing to antiquing and horseback riding.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Lets face it, User Groups need speakers and while its great to have the experts in the industry like Andy Leonard, Buck Woody, or Joe Webb come to your user group, if you get one of them once a year, you are doing good. One of the most interesting sessions at our local user group in the last two years, at least to me, was actually given by one of the members of our own group, Andreas Etelkozi on Data Scrambling, scrambling the data inside of a database to remove personally identifying information and the ability to correlate what belongs to who in reality(ie. Joe Woody, Buck Leonard, or Andy Webb in the resulting data). What made the session so interesting to me was the fact that it was just something that Andreas does as a normal part of his work, and he was sharing that information with the group.
I did my first presentation on SQL Server just under eighteen months ago to a group in Orlando about running SQL Server virtualized on VMware ESX, and lessons learned from two years being virtualized. This is actually where I first met Jorge Segarra (Blog/Twitter) who also is a member of the Tampa Bay SQL User Group. I was later invited to present the same session a month or two later at the Tampa SQL Server User Group, and I've been presenting from time to time since then. I've presented to as little as six people and to over two hundred last month at PASS Summit, my first time speaking at a major conference event.
But I don't know what to/have anything to talk about….
RUBBISH!! Let me first dispel the idea that you don't know enough to put together a session. Some of the most popular sessions at local events have been the TSQL 101 sessions that cover how to write a proper SELECT statement, JOIN two tables together, use ISNULL and COALESCE, or aggregate data with GROUP BY. The key here is "If you present it, they will come…" It doesn't necessarily matter what you are presenting, or that you don't know everything about the subject, the odds are that you are going to cover things that most people don't know or think about in their day to day work, and perhaps that information will help them at some point later on.
Need some ideas for topics, what are you currently working on, or even better, what are you interested in knowing more about? If you just solved a problem with SQL Server at work, think about how nice it would have been if someone had presented about that problem and how to overcome it before you had to deal with the problem. I sometimes present about trending or common problems I see from the forums, or in question and answer sessions at our user group. Other times I will pick a topic to present that I want to learn more about myself. Why, because it motivates me to learn the materials, and while I am building my presentation I am fortifying my own learning about the topic. Then I'll actually present the material at an event, and get feedback on the material. I've had people pull me to the side and correct mistakes I made after my session, and I've had people openly challenge things in the middle of a session as well. I've also had people mention specific points in the presentation where I might have covered another topic as well. I learn from every presentation that I do, and I am learning to become a better presenter as well.
Someone else already presented that…
SO WHAT!!! Someone already wrote this blog post too. You are still reading this one, and people will still want to listen to your presentation. Ever hear a joke before, and then hear it again? Is it any less funny the second time because you knew the punch line? Not for me it isn't. I still laugh my behind off when the punch line comes if it is a good joke. What if you miss an important part of the joke? Does that matter? Sometimes, but people rarely miss the meat of the joke, and you would be hard pressed to miss the meat of the material giving a presentation. What's really great though is every now and then you meet someone who is retelling that same old joke, but they add in a new twist, a funny gesture, some good visuals and it becomes even more funny. The same thing goes with presenting the same materials, you might just create an example that solidifies the material and really makes the subject come to life.
I won't compare to Experts like Andy, Joe, or Buck…
NEITHER WILL I!! Lets face it, some people really have it when it comes to presentation skills. However, if you talk to any of these guys, they will tell you that they aren't anything special. (Ok, so Buck is special, but it is a different kind of special. Write down those who are special.) Have you ever actually talked to some of the big names in the SQL Server community? People tend to put them on a pedestal all the time, and I tend to do it myself, but in reality they are just like you and me, normal people. However, what you will find is that most of the experts are very focused on what they are an expert in. Paul Randal doesn't answer SSIS package development questions and Andy Leonard doesn't answer complex problems with CHECKDB for a reason. Andy is a SSIS expert and Paul is a CHECKDB and storage engine expert. If you are presenting on a storage engine topic, chances are that Paul Randal knows more, but I can't imagine that he would ever interrupt your session unless you offered up some really, really bad advice that would be damaging to someone's system. The same goes for Andy Leonard, and Buck Woody, though Buck might interrupt your session with members from his audience by telling them that you were buying the beer at the end of the event (true story).
So now that I took away all of your reasons to not present, pick a topic, open up Outlook, compose a new message, address it to a user group leader and find out when the next opening to speak is at the user group. Then build your presentation. Don't know where to start with that, take a look at Joe Webb's SimpleTalk article Creating Technical Presentations (see I told you someone else already wrote this blog post, but you'll still read his too). Don't let you stop yourself from sharing great information with your fellow community members.
Well said.
Also, if you're travelling somewhere, find a group and present there too. You might find it a better option than hanging around a hotel if you're away on business, and if you're in holiday you can meet some locals who will happily recommend local attractions and give tips about the area in exchange for your SSRS tips (or whatever you preach on).
Good post, Jonathan. And Rob makes a good point about trying to speak when you travel. There is never a shortage of opportunities.
Another point - don't limit yourself to your local area. You can present "virtually" these days with a variety of software - there's always a small user group out there that would be willing to set up a projector and some speakers, and let you go at it.
Great post!
Inspirational blog post, Jon... Thanks.
For month after month, it seems, our group has had presenters from large local corporations giving generalized presentations on how they handle data and certain challenges, but they have been more on the "general" side than the "meaty" side.
I think we need some more down-and-dirty presentations. When Brad McGehee presented at the group earlier this year, he went over how to interpret query plans... it was Query Plan 101, but everyone in the room was riveted, and I was surprised at some of the questions that were asked (and questions by Brad to the group that were not answered as well)... it seemed that most people in the room had never looked at a query plan before.
It was the same when Peter Myers did a presentation on Data Mining (also earlier this year)... there were ooohs and aaahhs in the group from people who had never seen SSAS before.
Perhaps I'll have a talk with the coordinator of our group and see if we can do some "getting back to basics" and see if I can put together some ideas for a presentation or two.
Great post to try motivating people on the fence to present at their local user group! Here here! All your reasons are great and people can work through them!
Good post Jon. Everyone has to start somewhere, and local user's groups are a good place. Another alternative is doing a "Lunch and Learn" at your own company.
Good one Jonathan. After reading your post, I am sending a draft to our group leader and see if my attempt will materialize in the next year.
I remember the Peter Myers session and this is where I met you in person for the first time. Look forward to your sessions as well in the next year.
For readers, Paul Randal's primer on public speaking also is must read. http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Public-speaking-about-SQL-Server-A-Primer.aspx
Great post....nice shout outs to Andreas and Jorge!
Excellent post Jonathan.... certainly inspired me!
Guess, the next step for me... get off my lazy behind... wipe the dust off my drawing board and come up with a zanny topic and find a UG to speak at. Perfecto!!!
Damn! Really nice inspirational post.. I love the content.. Great Jonathan.. Sure many speakers will turn on after reading your post :)


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Wojciech Braszczok is the cop who is charged with assault and riot charges relating to the attack on Alexian Lien and his family which went viral.
Detective Samir Gonsalves has been named by The Daily News as one of the NYPD officers who rode with bikers who are accused of assaulting Aleixan Lien.
Craig Wright of Canarsie, Brooklyn is the newest biker to be arrested on assault charges relating to the Range Rover attack on Alexian Lien that went viral.
An undercover NYPD officer was arrested and charged for his role in the biker gang attack on Alexian Lien and his family.
Sergio Consuegra has been named as the good Samaritan who helped saved Alexian Lien and his family from Hollywood Stuntz bikers seen in the road rage video that went viral last week.
Kevin Bresloff, 37, took the helmet-camera footage that became a viral road rage video.
Reginald Chance has been named as the "most vicious" of the bikers who allegedly attacked Alexian Lien in the road rage attack video that went viral.
Alexian Lien's wife says her family was "placed in grave danger."
Alexian Lien was beaten up by a biker mob after running over one of its members. Graphic photos.
Jeremiah Mieses is in a coma after a viral road rage video showed him getting run over on his motorcycle after an altercation on New York's West Side Highway. Graphic photos.
The Hollywood Stuntz gang was at the center of the road rage incident that sparked a powerful viral video.
Jeremiah Mieses is in a coma after being struck by a Range Rover while riding his motorcycle in the infamous road range incident depicted in a viral video this week.
He's the man behind the wheel of the Range Rover in the road rage video that is gripping the nation.
Christopher Cruz has been arrested and charged in relation to the Range Rover/biker attack that happened on the Westside Highway in Manhattan.
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text: Let me introduce myself...this is my first year beekeeping. I have two hives. UPS killed 2 shipments of bees, so my packages didn't arrive until the beginning of June. I'm way behind and enjoying the process regardless. I was able to finally add a second deep hive body yesterday...hooray bees! I am so happy to have found this forum, I have a lot to learn!


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The Challenge of Pitching Nicaragua as the Next Paradise
Rivas, Nicaragua
On a recent Tuesday morning, three of the U.S.'s most influential travel agents were hiking on a cliff-side trail overlooking the Pacific Ocean, gazing at the pristine beaches below and watching a group of howler monkeys in a nearby tree. Leading them were executives of Mukul, a not-quite-open 37-room $40 million luxury resort. The scenic tour was just the beginning salvo in a three-night, all-expenses-paid trip organized by the hotel to convince the travel agents to promote the property to their wealthy clients.
Nicaragua Seeks Luxury Travelers
With its 24-hour butler service, lavish spa and a golf course created by the celebrated Scottish designer David McLay Kidd, it would seem an easy sell. But there is one complication. The resort is in Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the hemisphere, one with a war-torn history—and a place where none of the agents had ever sent a client, or been themselves.
"I was thinking about Ortega, Sandinistas," said Rina Anoussi, president of the Travel Business in New York, whose clients include art-world and entertainment celebrities. "I'm trying to absorb what kind of people I can sell this to—people with illicit love affairs? No one will see you."
What transforms a country from tourism pariah to hot destination for wealthy travelers? First, you need a place for opulence-seeking people to stay. Last week, one of Nicaragua's richest men, Carlos Pellas, opened Mukul, the country's first full-fledged luxury hotel. Nicaragua, with its charming colonial city of Granada, active volcanoes and reliable Pacific waves, is already popular among backpackers and surfers. And it is a new favorite among travel writers. But Mukul will be courting the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton crowd, with rates beginning at $500 per night.
Each guest room is housed in its own private building with a deck or patio—many with nap-ready hammocks—and pool. Accommodations cascade down a steep hillside to a long, broad beach that sometimes hosts egg-laying sea turtles. Guests also have access to two additional beaches nearby.
Mukul, a 2½ hour drive—or a 20-minute helicopter ride—from the international airport in Managua, is part of a 1,670-acre project, called Guacalito de la Isla, that will also eventually include 600 residences as well as a larger hotel. To address its remoteness, plans are in the works to build a private airstrip nearby that will accommodate small jets.
The resort aims to be a "spark to make this country a destination for tourism," said Mr. Pellas during a sunset cocktail party with hotel executives and the travel agents, a Padron cigar in one hand, Flor de Caña rum drink in the other. (His company, Pellas Group, owns the liquor brand.) "Nicaragua is blessed with extraordinary beauty, but you can't [attract luxury travelers] without an anchor, a world-class place." Mr. Pellas' business interests also include banking, sugar, auto dealerships, real estate and liquor.
Nicaragua hopes to follow in the footsteps of other spots—think Vietnam, Colombia and Croatia—that have overcome difficult histories and made the transition to upscale hot-spot. Its Central American neighbors Costa Rica and Panama are attracting luxury-resort developers. Trump Hotel Collection recently opened a property outside Panama City, while Marriott International Inc.'s Ritz-Carlton is planning to open a hotel and residential complex there in 2014.
"We need people who are going to come and spend money. We can't wait 20 years," said Mario Salinas, Nicaragua's Minister of Tourism. Some 1.2 million international tourists visited Nicaragua in 2012 (about a quarter of them from North America), up 51% since 2008. In Costa Rica, visitors spent an average of $118 a day in 2011, while tourists in Nicaragua lay out, on average, $43.
The government plans to spend $6.6 million on tourism marketing in 2013, up from $1.8 million in 2009.
"You don't wake up with the kids and say, 'Nicaragua or Disney ?'" said Carlos Hernandez, chief executive of Pellas Development Co., the Pellas Group's real-estate arm.
So, last fall, Mukul hired Kurtz-Ahlers & Associates LLC, one of a handful of companies that specializes in promoting luxury properties to the travel industry. The company began its efforts by calling on travel agencies around the world and featuring Mukul in its newsletter that goes to 50,000 travel agents and consumers.
JoAnn Kurtz-Ahlers, the company's president, then handpicked three travel agents to be the first to visit the property. "We wanted to bring in agents that other agents respect and follow," she said. Besides Ms. Annousi, whose business is an affiliate of Tzell Travel Group, she chose Anne Morgan Scully, president of McCabe World Travel in McLean, Va., whose company is part of Virtuoso, a group of high-end agencies. She also invited Felix Brambilla, president of Overseas Travel International in Miami, a firm that acts as the U.S. arm for 2,000 international travel agencies.
On a hot, blue-sky afternoon last month, the three were touring Mukul's spa, which occupies six buildings, some with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean below. Each has a theme such as "healing hut" and "crystal temple energy." The agents were snapping photos with their BlackBerrys and iPhones, sending them to colleagues back home and posting them to Facebook . "The detail and art in each one of them is impressive," said Mr. Brambilla.
There are serious challenges to being the first luxury property in a developing country. "I had to spend all day at customs explaining what a Vichy shower was," said Jorge Campos, director of Guacalito de la Isla, of the multi-spray spa gadget. And it took more than 40 meetings with various government officials before he was able to get the correct permits to import all the spa products, which include the exclusive Phytomer line from France. Mukul gets its fruits and vegetables from Costa Rica because supply can be erratic in Nicaragua.
To train employees, many of whom were unemployed or subsistence farmers in impoverished neighboring villages, Mukul built its own hotel school. "They didn't know how to do a coffee, how to hold a tray," said Claudia Silva, director of sales and marketing. Guacalito de la Isla is also building its own recycling center, partly in an attempt to clean up the garbage-strewn communities that line the road leading to pristine Mukul. (A popular joke is that Nicaragua's national flower is the plastic bag.)
The agents weren't shy about making their own recommendations. "We hated the bread," said Ms. Morgan Scully, who also advocated for more food choices. Since then, Mukul has hired a new baker and an additional chef and has expanded the menu.
Once back in the U.S., the agents began figuring out how to position Mukul and which clients might be game to try it. It is for "people who are looking for a sense of adventure. It is almost a little bit naughty to go," says Ms. Morgan Scully. And with a nightly rate that includes breakfast, lunch, airport transportation and most drinks until 5 p.m., it "screams value, value, value," she says. Ms. Anoussi says she sees it as a possible add-on to a trip to Costa Rica.
Mr. Brambilla says he plans to encourage short stays of four to five nights, emphasizing what is available at the resort. "Mukul is this perfect environment, but then the rest of the country is extremely raw," he says. So he won't initially be highlighting Mukul's home country. "If you label it as Nicaragua at first, you are giving yourself an extra challenge."
Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version misspelled the country of Colombia as Columbia.


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February 27, 1972
Sydney, AU
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Since I've Been Loving You, Celebration Day, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, Tangerine, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love (medley incl. Let That Boy Boogie, Hello Mary Lou, Let's Have a Party, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Going Down Slow), Communication Breakdown, Organ solo ~ Thank You.
While in town, the band attends a press party and conducts interviews for radio and television. Footage from this concert and the press party is featured on the official dvd, released in 2003.
Click here to view the 1972 Australian tour programme
Sound System:
Showco Sound System
Jands (Additional) System
2 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
2 x JBL 4550 c/w 2 x JBL K130
2 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
2 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
2 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
8 x JBL 2402
12 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers
Press Report: The Led Zeppelin concert at the showgrounds last Sunday must rate as one of the best ever held in Sydney - but, if the crowd had not stormed the fences, it could have been the worst.
The official attendence figure was 27,000 but senior police officers at the concert estimated the crowd at "at least 30,000". According to showground officials the three stands used last Sunday have a maximum capacity of 25,000 - so whatever way you look at it the ground was dangerously overcrowded.
Despite the fact that there were no seats left at mid-day and no standing room by 1.30pm., people were still coming through the gates at 2.30pm. The overcrowding that existed before the fences were stormed must never be allowed to occur again because next time someone could be killed in the crush. Once capacity is reached the gates should be closed. David D. Bryant The Sun-Herald, 5 March 1972, p. 109.
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Concert description
Plant laid down some ground rules: "Now listen! We've already come across the one problem we were told about. Now, there's been a lot of mistakes about this thing, but we don';t want to make any mistakes and neither do you, alright? So don't come past this barrier, otherwise ythere's gonna be some shit. And why don't you sit down ... and if it rains, we're gonna have to stop. That's a fact, it'll blow up! Take a seat!" Black Dog is played with fury and impact and is one of the greatest versions I've ever heard. The bowing solo in Dazed And Confused, warmly received, is a delightful novelty to the provincial punters and this is another great version of this song. Rock And Roll is delivered with swaggering fury. Plant reaches the notes the ear expects. Whole Lotta Love and its rock medley, including a fully-realized, instrumental version of The Rover, heard years before its official release, is a truly awesome!


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Huset School to celebrate 100th birthday July 25
The Cass County Historical Society will host a 100th birthday party for Huset School from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the school, located next to the Cass County Museum.
The event is free and open to the public. It will include teacher and student portrayals beginning at 1 p.m. along with a sing-along with the pump organ. There will be a spelling bee. Cake and lemonade will be served.
The one-room schoolhouse originally served the pioneer community of Boy River until 1937. The school features a wood-burning stove. The school was relocated next to the Cass County Museum in 1968.


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That was actually going to be my next question. Use the .311 bullet in the .308 case. A friend of mine loads .308 by the truck full, I'll ask him to make me up a few hundred.
As far as pressure, the heavy M72 barrel should be strong enough I think. My old G3 had less meat at the chamber and did it all day long.
On the other hand the Romanian RPK I have has a chamber diameter of .905 and the Green Mountain M76 barrel has a OD of .907. That is good bite and add a barrel pin it should be great. RPK furniture on that with a PSL receiver might be nifty.
But back to the Yugo M72, I believe I will go the route of the .308 with the .311 projectiles.


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I would leave the feeder in the yard and brake out the bbgun.
I got this as a E-mail from a friend.
It's funny, but it makes a lot of sense.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung
it on my back porch and filled
it with seed. What a beauty of
a bird feeder it is, as I filled it
lovingly with seed. Within a
week we had hundreds of birds
taking advantage of the
continuous flow of free and
easily accessible food.
But then the birds started
building nests in the boards
of the patio, above the table,
and next to the barbecue.
Then came the poop. It was
everywhere: on the patio tile,
the chairs, the table ..
Then some of the birds
turned mean. They would
dive bomb me and try to
peck me even though I had
fed them out of my own
And others birds were
boisterous and loud. They
sat on the feeder and
squawked and screamed at
all hours of the day and night
and demanded that I fill it
when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even
sit on my own back porch
anymore. So I took down the
bird feeder and in three days
the birds were gone. I cleaned
up their mess and took down
the many nests they had built
all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like
it used to be.... quiet, serene
and no one demanding their
rights to a free meal.
Now let's see........
Our government gives out
free food, subsidized housing,
free medical care, and free
education and allows anyone
born here to be an automatic
Then the illegals came by the
tens of thousands. Suddenly
our taxes went up to pay for
free services; small apartments
are housing 5 families; you
have to wait 6 hours to be seen
by an emergency room doctor;
your child's 2nd grade class is
behind other schools because
over half the class doesn't speak
Corn Flakes now come in a
bilingual box; I have to
'press one' to hear my bank
talk to me in English, and
people waving flags other
than 'Our own' are
squawking and screaming
in the streets, demanding
more rights and free liberties.
Just my opinion, but maybe
it's time for the government
to take down the bird feeder.
If you agree, pass it on, if not,
continue cleaning up the poop!
I would leave the feeder in the yard and brake out the bbgun.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
Too true! The country aka liberal birds are squawking for "change". If they elect Osama . . . we'll have one of these "visitors" as our president. The "change" we'll see will not be a welcome one. I have a hard time accepting that there are enough stupid people in this country these days that would even consider electing this joker, but it looks like there are many out there that are for him.
Now I'm not a McCain supporter either. I'd rather see Ron Paul, but as usual our choice comes down to the lesser of two evils.
Not to mention the *&#$^ squirrels.


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Man sentenced for DWI wreck that killed two people
ONSLOW COUNTY - A man was sentenced Monday to at least 12 years and 7 months in prison, for a drunk-driving wreck that killed two people.
An Onslow County judge ordered 28-year-old Christopher Cash to spend between 12 years and 7 months to 19 years and 5 months behind bars. He was found guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of death by motor vehicle, two counts of felonious hit and run, serious injury by motor vehicle, driving while impaired, reckless driving and driving while license revoked.
Cash was originally charged with second-degree murder for the wreck on Pony Farm Road, just after midnight on January 2012. Kevin Embler, 24, and Jerry Jackson, 49, were ejected about 40 feet from Cash's Volkswagen Jetta. They were pronounced dead at the scene. In addition, two other people were injured.
During closing arguments, the prosecuting attorneys said there were enough evidence to place Cash behind the wheel of the car at the time of the crash. The defense attorney raised reasonable doubt as to who was actually driving.
Several witnesses testified Friday, including Trooper T.R. Silance, one of the first responding law enforcement officers. A detective who organized a photo-lineup for an eyewitness to identify the suspect. The witness positively identified Cash with 90 to 100 percent certainty.
Christopher Cash's younger brother, 26-year-old Jeffrey, also testified against him Thursday, saying Christopher was responsible for the deadly wreck.
Other witnesses called to the stand: EMS responder Marcie Roney and Medical Examiner William Kelly.
One piece of evidence that caught the attention of the entire courtroom was surveillance footage of a Wilco gas station, where Jeff said the group stopped moments before the accident.
The video showed Christopher Cash going into the convenience store to buy more beer. In the background, the Jetta somehow drove away.
Defense Attorney Stuart Popkin and the Cash family insisted it was Jeffrey who was driving when the crash happened, using the surveillance video as supporting evidence.
But the prosecuting side maintained that Christopher Cash was behind the wheel.
Brian O'Hara, a deaf man who lives near where the accident happened, testified Wednesday as an eyewitness with the help of a sign language interpreter.
O'Hara said when he was driving on Pony Farm Road after work, he saw glimmering light and realized it was glass. As he approached the wreck scene, he saw two bodies: one face down in the road and another in a ditch.
O'Hara said when he came closer to the wrecked car, he saw Christopher Cash and his fiance, Chauntelle Wann, inside the car. Christopher's brother, Jeffrey, was outside the car, according to O'Hara.
O'Hara said he first pulled Wann out of the car, then Christopher Cash. He mentioned later in his testimony that he and Wann had exchanged numbers a couple of weeks later when he saw her working at a local Wilco, where O'Hara often frequented. O'Hara said that during one texting conversation, Wann had told him that Christopher Cash was the driver of the car.
O'Hara later testified that he saw Christopher Cash leave the scene in a cab. He said he tried to alert responding deputies at the scene of the accident, but it was difficult for him to communicate with them because of his hearing and speech impairment.
As O'Hara delivered his several-hour long testimony, Christopher Cash sat in silence, leaning back and forth in his chair, looking back at his family.
"It's a little tense," said State Trooper T.R. Silance. "Obviously hoping for all the evidence that you've prepared for the past year, is able to be enough to convince the jury that indeed the person you have charged is guilty of the crime and have that verdict."
Silance was among the first to respond to the scene. In his 11 years as a trooper, he said he hasn't seen anything quite like this.
"This is the first case I've had that actually has the degree of a murder trial," Silance said. "I've had several death cases, but never one that's been as intense as this and as much involved, as with gathering evidence, gathering witnesses, and trying to prove your case."
Silance said this is deemed a murder trial because Christopher Cash had been charged with DWI before.
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Activity note: Please bring your National Park Pass if you have one and a refillable water bottle.
Dinner: 5:15 pm - Transfer to Dixie State University for a delicious banquet buffet dinner.
Evening: Following dinner have a brief welcome orientation and overview of our daily activities and itinerary.
Breakfast: 6:30 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast buffet at the College Inn which includes hard boiled eggs, hot oatmeal, cereal, fruit, yogurt, pastries, toast, coffee, tea, milk & juice.
Morning: Depart for field trip to Snow Canyon State Park for a welcome walk and introduction to area geology. Walk with instructor on the nature trails among the red sandstone formations. At Snow Canyon State Park you can explore the natural beauty with scenery of red rock cliffs, rolling mounds of petrified sand dunes and lava (basalt) rock formations.
Lunch: Lunch at Trailblazer Cafe. Choose between food stations to include fresh salad bar, home cooking, pizza, asian grill, and BBQ grill.
Afternoon: Welcome to St. George with local expert. Learn about the area's human history and take tour to restored pioneer buildings.
Dinner: 5:30-6:30 pm - Enjoy a Grand Buffet at Chuck-A-Rama. Choose from a variety of fresh salads, homemade dinner rolls, barbecue ribs, baked or fried chicken, roast beef, sliced turkey breast, mashed potatoes & gravy, peas, green beans, corn, scones, assorted beverages. Save room for dessert, apple pie, cakes, cobbler, brownies, and soft serve ice cream or yogurt.
Evening: 7:30 pm - Hotel Classroom - Learn about the ecology, geology, flora & fauna of Zion & Bryce Canyon National Park.
Breakfast: 6:30 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast buffet at the College Inn which includes hard boiled eggs, hot oatmeal, cereal, fruit, yogurt, pastries, toast, coffee, tea, milk & juice.
Morning: 8:15 am - Check-out and depart for Zion National Park. Our instructor and group leader go with you as you walk among the rock canyons and formations. Incredible scenery of red rock cliffs, riparian areas and more.
Lunch: Box lunch on the trail.
Afternoon: Continue walking and exploring Zion Canyon. Travel to the east side of Zion through the tunnels, view Checkerboard Mesa and continue to Bryce. (Travel time from Zion to Bryce is about 1 hour 15 minutes.) Arrive Bryce, get checked into hotel and relax a little before dinner.
Dinner: 6:00 - 7:00 pm - Buffet Dinner at Ruby's Cowboy Buffet & Steak Room including BBQ Beef & Pork Ribs, Baked Chicken, Asian Orange Chicken, Baked Pollock, Cornbread, Soup & Salad.
Evening: Free Time.
Breakfast: 7:00 - 8:00 am - Breakfast at Ruby's Cowboy Buffet which includes fresh fruit, yogurt, assorted baked goods, cereal, scrambled eggs, french toast, oatmeal, smoked bacon, sausage, breakfast potatoes, coffee, and assorted teas, juice and milk.
Morning: Get out and explore the unique formations Bryce is famous for! Hike among the hoodoos and formations along the Queens Garden and Navajo Loop Trail.
Lunch: Lunch at Wild West Retreat to include BBQ pork sandwich, Dutch Oven potatoes, Dutch Oven baked beans, Coleslaw, Lemonade, and Brownie Sundae for dessert.
Afternoon: Travel scenic Highway 12 through a portion of the Grand Staircase to Anasazi State Park where we will view native American Ruins and learn about the area human history. Continue on Hwy 12 to Torrey, Utah and check into the hotel. Hwy 12 offers incredible scenery and it has been said that this route contains the most interesting and greatest concentration of diverse geology in the world.
Dinner: Dinner at local restaurant.
Evening: Free Time
Breakfast: 7:00 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Morning: Depart and travel to Capitol Reef National Park for field trip and walks. A bold river flowing through a towering canyon, huge white domes topped by a brilliant blue sky, green beauty in a vast desert, seemingly mysterious formations carved by whimsical forces - all this is Capitol Reef! Enjoy discovering the unique beauty of this park.
Lunch: Box lunch on the trail.
Afternoon: Continue exploring the Park. More hikes/walks to see the natural beauty, petroglyphs, cultural and human history of the area.
Dinner: 6:00 - 7:00 pm - Dinner at the Rim Rock Restaurant. Choose between Utah Mountain Trout pan-seared in browned butter and topped with pine nuts, sage and regional herbs, or Rim Rock Chicken slow roasted with honey herb glaze, or Sergio Leone's Pesto Fettuccine with roma tomatoes, portobello mushrooms, and asparagus sautéed in pesto and white wine.
Evening: 7:30 pm - Area History Lecture.
Breakfast: 7:00 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Morning: 8:15 am - Depart and travel through Capitol Reef. Arrive at the John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River. This is a wonderful museum that captures the spirit of this great and determined explorer. This is a fitting introduction as we approach the Colorado River area that he first mapped and explored in such an exciting and adventurous fashion. Imagine venturing into the unknown and traveling down the mighty Colorado River on boats unsure of what is around the next bend or if you are headed for great rapids or large waterfalls that would leave you plunging to your death. The names of places and the initial geologic mapping of the areas we travel were created by John Wesley Powell, his traveling companions and their explorations.
Lunch: Lunch at the Tamarisk Restaurant in Green River. Sample their delicious soup and salad bar, fresh fruit, roasted chicken, fish, and enchiladas, topped off with homemade lemon or apple cobbler.
Afternoon: Travel to Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park to view a variety of unusual rock formations along with deeply eroded canyons interspersed with sheer-sided mesas. You can see nearly 100 miles in any direction and the Colorado River below. Travel and check into the hotel in Moab.
Dinner: Dinner on your own.
Evening: Free time to relax or explore downtown Moab.
Breakfast: 7:00 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast at the hotel.
Morning: 8:15 am - Depart and travel to Arches National Park which contains more than 2,000 natural stone arches along with red rock canyons, spires, fins and balanced rocks!
Lunch: Box lunch on the trail.
Afternoon: Continue exploring as we hike Double Arch, Park Avenue, Delicate Arch Overlook and "The Windows" trails.
Dinner: Dinner on your own.
Evening: Free Time
Breakfast: 7:00 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast at the hotel.
Morning: 8:15 am - Check out of hotel and travel to Blanding and Edge of the Cedars Museum. This is ranked one of the best museums in the Southwest. Enjoy a docent led presentation and some time to browse and learn on your own about the Native American history with artifacts, pottery and ruins.
Lunch: Lunch at Goulding's Stagecoach Dining Room in Monument Valley which offers a spectacular, panoramic view of one of Mother Nature's unique creations. Located at the site of many of the classic western movies, enjoy a meal overlooking the historic Goulding's Trading Post and the same vista that John Wayne, John Ford and Henry Fonda made famous. The dining room is staffed by local Navajos (Dine') so you'll have the chance to experience the grace and culture of this Southwestern Native American people while enjoying a choice of a traditional Navajo Taco with Navajo Fry Bread, Beef Stew, soup & salad bar, or Club Sandwich.
Afternoon: Enjoy the Monument Valley Visitor Center. The informational displays at the new Visitor Center allows park visitors to learn more about Navajo culture, tradition, language and history from the perspective of the Navajo people. The exhibit displays are a combination of pictorial information, interactive media and actual artifacts. Some of these displays include Navajo philosophy, the Treaty of 1868 "Long Walk" and a Navajo Code Talkers exhibit. Other exhibits will show the Navajo Nation Governmental structure, history of uranium mining and the legacy of films. Continue on to Lake Powell and check into hotel.
Dinner: Plated dinner at Lake Powell Resort.
Evening: Free Time
Breakfast: 6:00 - 7:00 am - Breakfast Buffet at Lake Powell Resort which includes fresh fruit, yogurt, pancakes, french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, cereal, assorted pastries, coffee, tea, and juice.
Morning: 7:00 am - Anchors away, as we cruise to Rainbow Bridge National Monument, one of the Natural Wonders of the World! Cruise aboard a large boat with professional captain, an enclosed lower level with seating and large windows, bathrooms and an upper open air level with seating and areas to stand and enjoy the scenery.
Lunch: Box Lunch on board the boat.
Afternoon: Return from Lake Powell Cruise for some free time. 5:00 pm - Depart for a Navajo Village special presentation! This is a fascinating glimpse into the Navajo culture and traditions. Presented by Navajo Tribe members.
Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
Evening: Free time.
Breakfast: 6:30 - 7:30 am - Breakfast Buffet at Lake Powell Resort which includes fresh fruit, yogurt, pancakes, french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, cereal, assorted pastries, coffee, tea, and juice.
Morning: 8:00 am - Check out and depart for Antelope Slot Canyon, the most photographed slot canyon in the Southwest US! Embark on a guided exploration of Upper Antelope Canyon. The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." Upper Antelope is at about 4,000 feet elevation and the canyon walls rise 120 feet above the streambed. Located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.
Lunch: Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon: Visit the Grandstaircase Escalante Visitors Center, then return to St. George, Utah.
Dinner: 5:30 - 6:30 pm - Enjoy a closing dinner at Dixie State University's banquet room.
Evening: Enjoy a recap of the scenic beauty you were able to see and experience this week!
Breakfast: 6:30 - 8:00 am - Continental breakfast buffet at the College Inn which includes hard boiled eggs, hot oatmeal, cereal, fruit, yogurt, pastries, toast, coffee, tea, milk & juice.
Morning: Depart following breakfast.


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APNZ compiles The Sporting Week in Numbers
400,000 - Shane Cameron's boxing future might be a little cloudy after his defeat to Danny Green this week but his bank account is looking healthy. The fight was budgeted to sell around 25,000 pay per views in New Zealand and, assuming it went close to that, the Cameron camp will have banked about $400,000.
0.05 - Players and fans are outraged after league bosses outlined plans to ban shoulder charges from the game. Studies show, however, they made up only 0.05 per cent of the 142,355 tackles in this year's competition.
393 - In cricket, the only currency is runs and Peter Fulton has scored plenty this season. The 31-year-old is making a case for an international recall after scoring 393 at an average of 98.25 in his last four innings with knocks of 102, 108, 79 and 104.
2623 - He's getting closer after a recent form revival but it is still 2623 days since Michael Campbell last won a trophy.
Campbell finished eighth at the Hong Kong Open after leading heading into the final round and came on the back of his third place at last month's Portugal Masters.
21 - There are plenty of cases of players in all sports whose lights extinguish before their time. It's hoped Sam Harrison is not one of them, even though the 21-year-old has been left out of next year's 25-strong national women's hockey squad after a disappointing Olympics.
989,318 - Marina Erakovic needs a little more loose change to become the first New Zealand tennis player since Brett Steven in the mid-1990s to bank US$1 million in career earnings. The 24-year-old has won US$989,318 since turning professional in 2006.
62 - The New Zealand cricketers are in a dark place at the moment after slumping to their fifth-straight defeat. One area is hurting them badly - over the course of the five defeats in the West Indies, India and now Sri Lanka, 62 of the 100 New Zealand wickets have been taken by spinners.
8 - Since owner Roman Abramovich took over Chelsea in 2003, he has burned through eight managers. Rafa Benitez is the latest to take the poisoned chalice but at least Abramovich is learning and signed the Spaniard until the end of the season only.
138 - Grinnell College basketball side's game plan? Get the ball to Jack Taylor. The 22-year-old this week scored 138 points in his side's 179-104 victory over the Faith Baptist Bible College, sinking 52 shots from 108 attempts.
482 - The Black Caps need to trawl through a few scoreboards to find the last time they posted 482 runs in an innings, let alone a day, as the Aussie cricketers did against South Africa on the first day of the second test in Adelaide on Thursday - New Zealand made 495-7 declared against Zimbabwe in January. Michael Clarke (224), David Warner (119) and Michael Hussey (103) were all in the runs.


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Physician-scientist Nai-Kong Cheung focuses on engineering of antibodies and immune cells to treat solid tumors in children. We spoke to him in 2003.
In pediatric oncology, we face a particular kind of challenge. When treating a child with a cancer such as neuroblastoma, which originates from primitive cells of the sympathetic nervous system, we have to deal with the immediate threat of the disease, but then we also have to consider the long-term effects of the treatment — these patients have their whole lives ahead of them. What we call a "success" is a qualified statement. Some neuroblastoma tumors are metastatic and require intensive treatments; others are less threatening and can actually disappear or remain unchanged with minimal or no treatment.
Four years before I joined the Center in 1987, I began to devote my professional life, from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside, to the treatment of neuroblastoma. For two decades, I have witnessed the heavy toll on children and families affected by this cancer. Our priority is to identify the 50 percent of patients who do not need cytotoxic treatment such as radiation or chemotherapy, while for the other 50 percent, to design treatments that are not only more effective, but also more specific.
With the help of sophisticated imaging and the tools of molecular pathology, our neuroblastoma team can now, with 95 percent certainty, identify those patients whose tumors do not need cytotoxic therapy and achieve a greater than 90 percent survival rate. This is a substantial improvement compared to a decade ago, and we are excited by a worldwide effort to validate these approaches in large clinical trials.
Sparing children unnecessary therapy is always a blessing, since treatment-related issues (medical cost, out-of-pocket expenses, time away from work, issues with other children in the family, and marital problems) can cripple even the strongest family. However, the five percent of patients whose tumors only masquerade as low-risk is a constant reminder that further understanding of tumor biology is necessary. We are hopeful that mapping the genetic makeup of these tumors will eventually eliminate these uncertainties and allow more accurate classifications and treatment choices.
For the other 50 percent of neuroblastoma patients, those who do need aggressive therapy, we have also made substantial progress in recent years. For more than a decade, we have utilized monoclonal antibodies to deliver therapy more selectively to these tumors. We take advantage of the ability of these antibodies to activate white cells and complement proteins, as well as to carry radioisotopes to deliver radiation to kill tumor cells.
We continue to optimize the combination of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and immunotherapy for high-risk metastatic neuroblastoma. More recently, we demonstrated that the combination of monoclonal antibody 3F8 plus GM-CSF (granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor) is highly effective in destroying residual tumor cells in the bone marrow. While an antibody alone can prolong survival for high-risk patients in their first or second remission, the addition of GM-CSF can further improve their odds.
Back in the laboratory, we continue to explore methods to increase the effectiveness and selectivity of antibody-based treatment strategies. For example, we have identified beta-glucan derived from barley as a potential enhancer of antibody action against human tumors.
We have also genetically engineered monoclonal antibodies to improve their therapeutic ratio using a "two-step" targeting strategy, utilizing a fusion protein called scFv-streptavidin that has two binding sites, one for the tumor and the second for a small molecule to carry therapeutic agents such as radioisotopes, drugs, or biologics. We hope to test these scFv fusion proteins in the clinic in the very near future.
Because more than ten percent of treated patients return to us with isolated tumors in the brain or the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid, we are developing more effective methods to treat or to prevent such occurrences. By injecting antibodies or antibody conjugates directly into the fluid, we can kill tumor cells that hide there and thus escape chemotherapy. In early clinical studies, there were few serious side effects and some patients have lived longer than expected.
In an effort to further increase the selectivity and efficacy of such an approach, David Scheinberg and I, both members of Memorial Sloan Kettering's new Experimental Therapeutics Center, have teamed up to investigate the use of "nanogenerators" carried by antibodies to kill tumor cells circulating in the cerebrospinal fluid. This method has great potential, and it is a good example of how Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers work together.
We continue to bridge our laboratory findings to the clinic, constructing new treatment protocols and offering hope for families whose children have unusually aggressive tumors. Besides monoclonal antibodies and new chemotherapeutic agents, we are testing new classes of drugs, such as arsenic trioxide. We are encouraged by its potential clinical benefit and the relatively mild side effects.
When I left my home in Hong Kong to attend college and eventually medical school in the United States, I embarked on a journey of hope for a healthier world. Seeing children and their families stricken by neuroblastoma is heart-wrenching. Together, these special people and a large team of health professionals at Memorial Hospital will continue to orchestrate a "Symphony of Hope," the theme of our recent neuroblastoma survivors reunion celebration.


text: There is a scrub jay in my apiary that waits for the bees to return and then swoops down on them and devours them for a snack or feeds it to her baby. Does anyone know of any deterrents? I tried hanging CDs in the trees and moving them around every day, so the bird would be surprised, but that didn't work. Any other ideas? Thanks.


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Even though we frequently make noise about being in a paperless world, the reality is that no matter how many newspapers you subscribe to digitally, how many magazines you've replaced with apps or how many letters you've eliminated thanks to e-mail, most people still need to print — even at home. If you have kids, there's a good chance your printer sees heavy use. Between homework assignments, digital photos, art or craft projects, to-do lists, birthday invitations and everything else kids need to have a physical copy of, a decent color printer is still a necessity in many homes.
Brother recently sent one of its HL-3045 CN color laser printers for review. This is a basic model, intended to make color laser printing affordable: wired connectivity (USB or Ethernet), printer-only (no scanning or fax) and no direct printing from a USB stick or PictBridge-enabled camera. MSRP is $269.99, but street prices are under $200. The target demographic is small-office or work-from-home situations, and it would also be useful as a general purpose home printer.
One quick clarification: This printer uses an LED engine to draw images on the drum instead of a laser — it's the same basic principle, so I am going to continue to refer to it as a laser printer primarily to distinguish in from inkjet, the primary competing technology for home printer use.
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I hate my jacket! It is some cooler than my Kelleys 25 pch cotton jacket. However, the zippers are a pain in the patuska! First you have to hope you can get the front of the jacket zipped because it has fuzz to interfere, a very stiff heavy duty zipper. Then flip up the hood, find the right side of the hood zipper, struggle to get it all the way around. Then find the left side of hood zipper bring it all the way around past the right side, all the while fighting the velcro fastener that keeps the bees out. Always light your smoker before donning the jacket because it's material will melt from heat. I really have no problem with the quality of the product, just the design.
Does anyone make a simple pullover design with the hood attached? I can inspect one hive in the time it takes me to don the PM jacket. I really don't think it is worth the effort for the small amount of breeze that you feel in the vented jacket. I would buy a vented slipover jacket but I'm fed up with zippers!!! Oh, and I have been stung thru the PM jacket, but never thru the cotton jacket, go figure. The design I like is @ www.kelleybees.com. Item #25pch.


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Hollywood meets history
While in Tuskegee, several of the actors were taken to tour the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site and given a personal glimpse into the history they portrayed in the film. National Park Service rangers gave personalized tours of the university's campus and the restored Hangar No. 1 at Moton Field, the facility where the airmen were trained.
"It's surreal. So much of our research into "Red Tails" centered at this place … a brilliant way to end that journey," Oyelowo said about visiting the site after making the film.
Before its closure in 1946, Moton Field had two aircraft hangers, a control tower and several buildings for administration and maintenance. Hangar No. 1 was restored in 2008 and now houses a museum, replicas of vintage planes, a war room and interactive information displays about the Tuskegee Airmen.
"It's beautiful … looks like it was made today," Parker said when he entered the hangar.
During their visit, Kelley and Wilds recognized the vintage parachute rigging hanging from the ceiling of the hangar and got a lesson about what the real airmen experienced. The parachutes brought back memories of being on the set with the heavy and cumbersome packs hanging from their backs and hitting them in the legs as they walked.
"The airmen would actually get bruises on the backs of their legs from those," explained Deanna Mitchell, the site manager.
Several Tuskegee Airmen such as Col. Herbert Carter, Booker Conley and Wilbur Mason were present throughout the premiere weekend. They shared stories of their experiences and met with the film's cast. Kelley said the heritage of the Tuskegee Airmen has always been very close to him.
"It's like paying tribute to some grandfathers," said about visiting the historic site and meeting the real airmen.
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text: Thinking about ditching my truck, combo of the 0% + incentives, and the fact that post lifter replacement my truck has developed some noises at different RPM's that has yet after multiple trips to the dealer to be rectified/identified. Also don't like that the motor was tore down for the work with just over 20,000km's on it. Plays in the back of my mind that the head gasket will go just out of warranty. Anyway im just thinking replacing truck with a SLE ot LT Crew 4x4, but somewhat concerned with the power compromise and towing capacity drop that comes with the crews, 5500 for the 4.8 and 6000 with the 5.3 with 3.08 rear. So anyone who had a 5.3 switch to a 4.8? regrets? thanks


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text: #1 your not a pest. The gun your looking at list new for $500.00 on the Ruger web site. So at a gun show you might get it for about $425 to $450. I would say $300 is a fair price if it is what you want. They are a fine hunting and plinking revolver.Here's a link to their page on them. Good luck.


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Movie of the Month: The Hunger Games
Is Hunger Games worth all the hype? Stephen Rebello and director Gary Ross think so.
Director: Gary Ross
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Hollywood hopes The Hunger Games erupts into the next Twilight-size money machine. Based on the first of Suzanne Collins's trilogy of best-sellers, the flick is set in a dog-eat-dog dystopia in which a teenage girl must compete against 23 other kids in a brutal fight for survival—all televised as must-see entertainment. The much-anticipated adaptation stars Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Lenny Kravitz. "It's harrowing, riveting, terrifying material, but there's also emotional depth," says director Gary Ross. "Shooting scenes such as a girl sent through a burning forest or one we filmed vertically at the height of a 150-foot tree was really compelling. It all hinged on Jennifer Lawrence, who is a freak of nature. She floored me. If audiences get the sense that they're walking in her shoes and they care about her character as much as they did in the book, that's the measure of success."


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The US Supreme Court has ruled that a California law banning the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors was unconstitutional and a violation of free speech protections.
The law defines a violent videogame as one that depicts "killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being," though it does not prevent a parent or guardian from purchasing a game for their child.
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The first of this semester's music
faculty recitals at Hope College will be held on Sunday,
Jan. 28, at 4 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The program will include the world premiere
performance of Scott Harding's "Duo Conertante for Clarinet
and Bassoon," performed by Kristin Ward, clarinet, and
Steven Ward, bassoon.
The recital will also include Lev Kogan's
"'Chabad' Hassidic Suite," performed by Thom Working, horn,
and Roberta Kraft, piano. Deborah Craioveanu, viola, and
Joan Conway, piano, will perform "Capriccio in C Minor for
Viola, Op.posth." and "Elegie, Op. 30" by Henri Vieuxtemps.
Eugene Bozza's "Aria" will be performed by Ryan
Janus, alto saxophone, and Charles Aschbrenner, piano.
Elizabeth La Grande, mezzo-soprano, and Sheryl Lott
Richardson, piano, will combine for Francesco Paolo Tosti's
"Three Songs," while Luigi Hugues' "Grand Concerto Fantasy,
Op. 5" will be performed by Rebecca Van De Walker, flute,
Julie Sooy, flute, and Jennifer Wolfe, piano.
The Faculty Recital Series will continue on
Sunday, Feb. 18, and Sunday, March 11, at 4 p.m. in Wichers
Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located along the former
12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.
Additional information may be obtained by calling the
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Federal judge rules ObamaCare is unconstitutional in its entirety
posted at 4:23 pm on January 31, 2011 by Allahpundit
A nice win, if only because it's fun to watch the left sweat, but as we've discussed before, these lower-court decisions are virtually meaningless. There's no question that the Supreme Court will eventually take this matter up, and given how profound the constitutional objection to the mandate is, there's no chance that they'll let "deference" to lower-court rulings shape their opinion on the matter. What we're doing with these district court rulings — which now stand evenly split on ObamaCare, two finding it constitutional and two not — is going through the procedural motions until the Supremes get down to business. The only bit of significance these decisions might have is that they may move the Overton window of possible outcomes in Anthony Kennedy's mind. After O-Care was passed, I remember some constitutional law experts citing the Court's liberal Commerce Clause jurisprudence and claiming that they'd probably uphold it on something like an 8-1 vote. That seems impossible now; I'd bet 6-3 at worst, with a very fair chance of a 5-4 win for conservatives. The more anti-ObamaCare lower court rulings there are, the more political cover Kennedy has to vote with the conservative wing of the Court if he's so inclined. If.
Here's a PDF of the opinion. The judge, Roger Vinson, is a Reagan appointee who didn't hide his skepticism about the law during oral arguments, so the baseline ruling isn't surprising. A fun hypothetical about the government's power to force citizens to buy things they don't want to:
Or what if two of the purported "unique" factors [of the health-care market] — inevitable participation coupled with cost-shifting — are present? For example, virtually no one can opt out of the housing market (broadly defined) and a majority of people will at some point buy a home. The vast majority of those homes will be financed with a mortgage, a large number of which (particularly in difficult economic times, as we have seen most recently) will go into default, thereby cost-shifting billions of dollars to third parties and the federal government. Should Congress thus have power under the Commerce Clause to preemptively regulate and require individuals above a certain income level to purchase a home financed with a mortgage (and secured with mortgage guaranty insurance) in order to add stability to the housing and financial markets (and to guard against the possibility of future cost-shifting because of a defaulted mortgage), on the theory that most everyone is currently, or inevitably one day will be, active in the housing market?
The left will scoff at the supposed absurdity of his example, but there's nothing absurd about it. This sort of sweeping power to compel purchases to achieve a public good is precisely what's at stake in the mandate.
What is a bit surprising is that Vinson went further and held that the mandate isn't "severable" from the rest of the law — which means that the whole law is unconstitutional, not just the part that requires people to buy insurance. That's unusual insofar as courts like to be modest when striking down statutes; if they can find a section of it unconstitutional while preserving the rest of it, they'll do so out of respect for the democratic branches that enacted it. In this case, however, as we've been told by Democrats many times, you can't have universal health care unless you force people to pay for it. Cutting the mandate out of O-Care and keeping the rest of the scheme intact would create a nightmare scenario in which people avoid buying insurance until they get sick, with insurers required to accept them by the new rules governing preexisting conditions. Before long, that cost burden would drive most insurers into bankruptcy, with the golden age of a public option or single-payer soon to follow.
Which is to say, if you're going to kill this beast, you'd better kill all of it. Vinson on severability:
In the final analysis, this Act has been analogized to a finely crafted watch, and that seems to fit. It has approximately 450 separate pieces, but one essential piece (the individual mandate) is defective and must be removed. It cannot function as originally designed. There are simply too many moving parts in the Act and too many provisions dependent (directly and indirectly) on the individual mandate and other health insurance provisions — which, as noted, were the chief engines that drove the entire legislative effort — for me to try and dissect out the proper from the improper, and the able-to-stand-alone from the unable-to-stand-alone. Such a quasi-legislative undertaking would be particularly inappropriate in light of the fact that any statute that might conceivably be left over after this analysis is complete would plainly not serve Congress' main purpose and primary objective in passing the Act. The statute is, after all, called "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," not "The Abstinence Education and Bone Marrow Density Testing Act." The Act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker.
If Congress intends to implement health care reform — and there would appear to be widespread agreement across the political spectrum that reform is needed — it should do a comprehensive examination of the Act and make a legislative determination as to which of its hundreds of provisions and sections will work as intended without the individual mandate, and which will not. It is Congress that should consider and decide these quintessentially legislative questions, and not the courts…
Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void. This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications. At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed in this country, it is hard to invalidate and strike down a statute titled "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
A fun fact about ObamaCare: Unlike virtually every other federal statute, it contains no "severabililty clause" at the end requesting that if any part of it should be held unconstitutional in court, the rest should be preserved as good law. Vinson actually mentions that fact in the opinion and notes that an earlier draft of the law did contain such a clause, suggesting that it was deliberately dropped because even Congress agrees that you can't sever any one part from such an elaborate scheme. The truth, however, may be more prosaic: According to a Democratic aide who spoke to the Times back in November, the clause was omitted because of … an "oversight." Oops!
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Green was the order of the evening last night when football
-- the world version -- returned to Fenway Park for the first time in 42 years.
Not just because the basepaths had been turfed over as part of the pitch, or
because the Green Monster was looking down on the proceedings, but because the
two European sides taking part in the contest -- Glasgow's Celtic FC and
Lisbon's Sporting Clube de Portugal -- both have green as their predominant team
color. In fact, they have almost identical shirts, with green and white
horizontal stripes. It's an unusual strip -- apart from South Africa's Bloemfontein Celtic FC (modeled
after the Glasgow
side), they're the only prominent club teams to wear it.
It made for a confusing atmosphere outside the park in the hours
before kickoff. Whether it's the Sox against the Yankees, the Celtics against
the Lakers, or Manchester United versus Manchester City, you don't expect to
have to look twice to tell the supporters apart. But here those green and white
hoops were everywhere. A good eye would detect that Sporting's green is a
little darker than Celtic's kelly shade, but the easiest way to distinguish
them was the sponsor: TMN (a mobile communications company) for Sporting,
Carling for Celtic.
There were, of course, fashion variations. The Celtic
away/goalkeeper closet includes a green-and-black vertically striped number,
all-green and all-yellow jerseys, and the ever-popular one with bands of black
and nausea-at-noon chartreuse. Every Celtic shirt I saw was newer than the
1991-'92 model with the orange "Peoples Ford" logo that I was wearing. (It did
get an appreciative thumbs up from one fellow fan.) And I could have seen more
if there had been any for sale at the Yawkey Way shops. One fan explained that
Nike -- Celtic's equipment sponsor - hadn't licensed Fenway sales, with the idea
that fans would buy their gear at Niketown. Wouldn't it be easier to bring the
merchandise to the fans?
Sporting supporters also sported the dark red of the Portuguese
national side, often with Cristiano Ronaldo's name on the back, and wrapped in
a Portuguese flag. If you didn't come as a fan of either of the competing
teams, you wore what you had: Man U, Liverpool (a lot of these), Newcastle,
Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Juventus, Italy, Argentina,
LA Galaxy (always emblazoned with Beckham), New England Revolution (not many of
those, and no Brazil at all that I saw). If you didn't have a football shirt,
you wore your Chicago Blackhawks jersey, or your Curt Schilling Red Sox
uniform. Some Irish Celtic fans wore county Gaelic football/hurling shirts:
Ciarraí, Ard Mhacha.
The last time football was played at Fenway, in 1968, Brazilian
club Santos defeated the Boston Breakers 7-1. That match drew 18,000
spectators, most of them there to see Pelé (who was only 27 and still in his
prime). The announced attendance for last night's match was 32,162 -- with not a
single household name in sight. The same evening, a Wayne Rooney-less Man U
drew 44,000 fans to their clash with MSL newbies the Philadelphia Union. The
Revolution, meanwhile, have averaged just under 12,000 for their eight home
games this season.
You can't underestimate the importance of the European
connection. Ireland's
football clubs are not worldbeaters, so many Irish fans have adopted Celtic,
whose colors reflect their tie to the Emerald Isle. (Some even wear Celtic
shirts while watching the Irish national team.) That brought the Boston Irish
into play -- and indeed, Irish men and women from all over. Inside Fenway I
found a banner replicating the Irish Tricolor with "The Bayou Bhoys - New
Orleans Celtic Supporters Club" on it and a couple of alligators in Celtic shirts.
Stephen Patterson told me that 10 of them had come up from the Crescent City
just for the match, and that they'd been to watch Celtic all over the world. Sporting
are only the third most successful club in Portugal, after Benfica and Porto, but
they obviously don't lack for support in the US.
Inside, it quickly became clear that, European football
sophistication notwithstanding, people were also here for the Fenway
experience. That meant an endless parade of tall young men obstructing your
view as they went up and down the aisles hawking Coke and water and lemonade
and pizza and hot dogs and Cracker Jack and kettle corn and ice cream. On the
field, you can get sent off if you handle the ball; in the stands, however,
you'll want both hands in top form to carry those pint cups of beer. (In the
course of the entire evening I didn't see a single person, man or women,
carrying just one.) And fancy footwork is just as important when negotiating
those shallow Fenway steps as it is on the pitch -- you don't want to stumble
and spill your beer over the folks sitting on the aisle. (I was, in fact,
sitting on the aisle, and I had to dodge flying brew on two occasions.) "Sweet
Caroline" got played at halftime, and the Fenway faithful sang along. "Sarah,
Will You Marry Me?" (only one Sarah in that 32,162?) showed up on the big video
screen. "Dirty Water" greeted the winners after the game.
Oh yes, the game. The first question was how they'd lay out the
pitch -- shortened from the usual 110 yards to 98, it stretched from about third
base at one end to the bleachers at the other (you could still see the
basepaths underneath). Then, which side would get to wear their home strip?
That turned out to be Celtic (coin toss); Sporting settled for all-black with
green trim. Next was whether each set of supporters would have its own section.
Didn't look like it -- there were certainly both in my area. Maybe that
explained the lack of singing. You'd hardly know the sides had kicked off: there
was no roar, only an uncertain buzz, as if we'd all had our vuvuzelas
confiscated and didn't know what to do. The first half was a scrappy affair,
with neither midfield in ascendance and just a few quick breaks to prevent the
keepers -- Lukasz Zaluska for Celtic and Rui Patrício for Sporting -- from
nodding off. There was some confusion in the 34th minute: referee Mike Kennedy
ran across the pitch and appeared to show Celtic striker Marc-Antoine Fortuné a
yellow card, whereupon Fortuné immediately went off in favor of Paul McGowan.
That prompted some end-to-end action: Georgios Samaras shot wide with just
Patrício to beat, and then Carlos Saleiro rounded Zaluska only to see his shot
cleared by Glenn Loovens.
The second half brought an entirely new Sporting 11, some hard
tackling from Celtic (with the attendant yellow cards), the kind of overhit
crosses we got our fill of during the World Cup, and beer after beer after
beer, even though signs had said sales would be cut off 10 minutes into the
half. The intensity on the pitch didn't translate to the stands: in the 60th
minute, the wave started to go round, and a few minutes later, the dreaded
"Olé, olé, olé, olé" was heard throughout the land. In the 71th minute,
Samaras, who had been Celtic's most industrious player, broke the deadlock,
falling over Daniel Carriço's outstretched leg in the box and drawing a dubious
penalty. (He must have been taking notes when Italy's Fabio Grosso did the same
against Australia in World Cup 2006.) Kennedy pointed to the spot without
hesitation, and Samaras rolled the ball in as Vitor Golas went the wrong way.
Ten minutes later, with Sporting piling on the pressure and winning corner
after corner, a cross found Diogo Salomão unmarked in front of Zaluska, and
though Salomão's header went off the crossbar, Helder Postiga, who had just
come on as a substitute, had an open net into which to nod the rebound.


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Re: st: Using 2 stage Heckmen Sample Selection with Lags in STATA
"Seema Bhatia" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Using 2 stage Heckmen Sample Selection with Lags in STATA
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:18:45 +0100
There are loads of papers that are critical of the methodology (i could give
you a few more criticisms) but in the absence of better techniques and more
complete data, this is one the most feasible ways of analysing trade in
partial equilibrium settings!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Nichols" <email@example.com>
To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:53 PM
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> Seema--
> Just googled "standard gravity model" and found a bunch of papers
> criticizing it, e.g.
> http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/webstaf/ceesb/gravityweb.pdf
> who makes another good point--if you are considering importing from
> country i, the distance from you to country i is less important than
> the distance relative to other potential exporters, since the relative
> distance is what measures the effective "price" of trade between you
> and country i.
> On 8/2/07, Austin Nichols <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Seema--
>> I am not familiar with the "standard gravity model" though I suspect
>> it models trade as a function of the reciprocal of the square of
>> distance along an ellipsoid between the centroids of two countries,
>> among other things. This seems inappropriate for various reasons
>> (even if using production- or population-weighted centroids, the
>> relevant distance is not as the crow flies--e.g. contiguity is likely
>> more important, as are topographical features, and historical
>> relationships/religion/language/etc. even more important) though if
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text: Today's troubleshooters use many tools, from simple handheld meters that measure resistance and voltage to sophisticated recording oscilloscopes that capture fast transients. Ever watch veteran electrical troubleshooters in action? If not, you should: It'ssomething to see. Years of experience coupled with intelligent "hunches" seem to guide their investigation. To help you in your troubleshooting