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Applied mathematician George Karniadakis models how diseases alter the body's circulation.
Catherine Clabby
Precisely describing how blood flows through the smallest vessels is no simple matter. Fluid dynamics comes into play, but so does particle dynamics at the level of atoms and molecules. Including every atom and molecule in a numerical model of blood circulation is not feasible, even using today's fastest computers. So applied mathematician George Karniadakis of Brown University and his colleagues have simplified. They begin on a slightly larger scale—bundling atoms and molecules into groups of 10 or more—and model blood circulation. Their technique, aided by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory, is producing new insight into the ways that diseases disrupt normal blood flow. Karniadakis spoke with American Scientist contributing editor Catherine Clabby about the work.
What are a few of the biggest challenges to modeling blood flow through vessels?
Blood is a really complex fluid with many yet-unexplored properties. Any modeling errors greatly affect simulation results. For capillaries and vessels such as arterioles and venules, which connect capillaries to arteries and veins, the difficulty is how to scale up the molecular-based modeling. So we have developed a multiscale approach to capture the effects of both the flow and the particle dynamics and to quantify their interactions. The geometric complexity of the human arterial tree is another big challenge. For large arteries, MRI scans can be used to extract and reconstruct patient- specific arterial geometries, but this is not possible at the small scale. Finally, the viscous and elastic properties of blood cells and arterial walls introduce big uncertainties.
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What is your multiscale technique, and how could it be medically useful?
We need to span a range of spatial and temporal scales so that we can numerically portray many components accurately. That includes proteins such as spectrin, which is part of the cytoskeleton of red blood cells, and fibrinogen, which is involved in blood coagulation. At the same time we need to reach up to the vessel scale, and we need to model how those two scales influence one another. There are no standard ways of doing that. But there have been some recent advances in coarse-graining molecular dynamics methods: ways to represent systems with less than all-atom resolution. These methods do a good job of modeling blood cells, plasma, proteins, and arterial walls while simplifying the computational complexity. The coarser-grain approach still requires supercomputers to carry out realistic simulations, but it makes the problem more manageable. We have used these models to explore what specific changes to blood flow occur in vessels affected by sickle cell disease, malaria, and brain aneurysms.
What have your new simulations revealed about how diseases disrupt blood flow?
One recent example is new insight into what causes painful episodes in people with sickle cell disease. Healthy red blood cells are round and flexible, and easily change shape to move through even the smallest blood vessels. Among people with sickle cell disease, blood cells can be hard, sticky, and abnormally shaped. They resemble sickles. The common wisdom has been that this distorted shape causes blood cells to get stuck in tiny vessels and block the flow of oxygenated blood. The blockages lead to severe pain, tissue damage, and sometimes fatal organ damage.
With our modeling we could explore how qualities of multiple blood cells changed by sickle cell disease affect these blockages. We concluded that a subset of red blood cells plays an important role. They do not become rigid but do become stickier because of sickle cell disease. Receptors on surfaces of these cells cause them to stick to capillary walls, narrowing the diameter of some vessels. Sickle-shaped cells then stack up behind them, creating blockages. The two work in tandem, but the sticky cells start the blockage.
What about infectious diseases—can they affect blood flow as well?
We have also quantified some of the biophysical characteristics of blood cells altered by the parasite that causes malaria. We have observed that red blood cells infected by Plasmodium falciparum are as much as 50–100 times stiffer than healthy ones. With the loss of elasticity, these cells cannot pass through capillaries, so they block them. We also are making progress in understanding how blood platelets collect on the surfaces of blood vessels in the carotid arteries and in the brain during the development of cerebral aneurysms, a risk factor for strokes.
Has it been challenging to create visualizations that capture the complexity of this research?
There are no existing tools for the kind of multiscale visualizations needed to capture simultaneously details of protein dynamics and also cell or vessel dynamics. Joseph Insley, primary software development specialist, and Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, our collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory, are pioneering multiscale visualizations. Their work helps us observe interactions between protein, cell, and vessel dynamics that we cannot extract using standard software. Such visualizations have helped us devise new numerical methods to capture variation in blood flow.
What are your wider goals for this kind of biological modeling?
Our goal is twofold. We want to fully understand, at the molecular and arterial level, all the biophysical aspects of blood flow that are affected by the diseases we currently study. And we want to develop a general computational framework that, together with laboratory microfluidic measurements, can be used to better understand effects from other diseases. Those effects include microcirculation changes associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), diabetes, and even metastatic cancer. Our ultimate objective is to develop a patient-specific, multiscale computational framework that will aid researchers and clinicians in the prognosis of hematologic disorders.
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Don't feed the trolls. Some of 'em are just bustin' at the seams to attempt to claim relevance again.
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Dolly Parton should run for president.
She's qualified. For 22 years, Parton has led a vast community based on family values and cultural traditions. It's called Dollywood, and it has far better thrill rides than most American cities. Plus, the country-music icon already has her own campaign bus, and it'll pull into Boston on Tuesday, when Parton and her big band play the Opera House behind her new Backwoods Barbie (Dolly Records).
And Parton is an inspirational speaker. "I'll never stop doing and I'll never stop dreaming," she says when we connect by phone as her bus rolls through the desert outside Las Vegas. "And I believe in putting shoes on my dreams, so if they can't fly, they can walk."
Dolly also knows business. In 1974, she refused to sign half the rights to her song "I Will Always Love You" over to Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker — a requirement for any tune to be cut by the King. According to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the megahit has generated more than $250 million.
"I knew it was one of my best songs," she says, "but it wouldn't have mattered what song Parker wanted the publishing on. That's money I'm earning for my family. I couldn't give it up. It was already a hit for me, but then after Whitney Houston recorded it and I did it two more times, once with Vince Gill, well . . . I've made gobs of money off it."
Vast riches aside, there are many reasons why Dolly should shoot for the Oval Office. She proved she was in touch with the working class with the 1980 movie and #1 smash 9 to 5. And though she might not look presidential in her mini-skirted Pocahontas get-up or the leopard-print V-scoop one-piece she wears on the cover of her new disc, the media and the public both love an underdog.
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born that way, the fourth of 12 children in a family homesteading a one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. She moved to Nashville in 1964 to seek her fortune, and she found it. Then, two decades ago, when country-radio programmers and label chiefs decided it was time for a new rock-fangled brand of the music, she and a host of other classic artists — including Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and George Jones — were dismissed from the industry. It's not exactly a rag-to-riches-to-rags story, but in the pop superstar realm, she became an underdog again.
Today, thanks to Backwoods Barbie, Dolly's enjoying the last howl.
It's not as if the irrepressibly perky 62-year-old had slipped off the radar. Parton's torch stayed fueled by her iconic status among gays, hipsters, and unironic fans, plus a series of spellbinding acoustic back-to-her-roots mountain-music albums, like 2001's Grammy-nominated Little Sparrow and 2002's Halos & Horns (both on Sugar Hill).
But Backwoods Barbie didn't simply nestle into the charts. Her first shot at reaching a mainstream audience in 17 years landed with an arrow-like "thunk" at #17 on the Billboard Top 200 pop albums and at #2 on both the indie and country charts. And Parton is relishing the triumph, with maybe just a little taste of revenge.
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Online data archives bolster confidence in science and provide a springboard for future scientists. Whose responsibility is it to curate aging data sets?
Katie L. Burke
For the data sets that form the lifeblood of research science, it is the best of times and the worst of times. Across all fields, data sets are growing rapidly because of increased computing speed and storage capacity. Yet the accessibility of that information is often deteriorating. Traditionally, the data used in the authors' analysis were reviewed and published with their journal articles. These days the raw information typically stays in the authors' care. As a result, many data sets are now inaccessible, lost, or effectively lost because the authors don't know where they are or how to retrieve them.
The problem is not lack of space to store the data. New organizations like Dryad, which opened in 2010 to provide data archiving services for researchers in ecology and evolution, offer long-term scientific data archiving, sometimes for free and sometimes for an up-front fee paid by a journal, institution, or researcher. Dryad will permanently store 10 gigabytes of data for less than $100. Journals, too, will usually store data online in appendixes or supplemental information sections accompanying the article. Researchers have been slow to adopt these new strategies, however.
What is needed are ways to encourage or require scientists to archive their data, ideally in locations that are freely available to the public, proposes Tim Vines, managing editor of the journal Molecular Ecology. "There is a growing crisis of confidence in science, both within science and more broadly. Science publication has become increasingly focused on novelty and excitement of results, rather than overwhelming solidity of results," he says. In 2011, many leading evolution journals, including Molecular Ecology, created and adopted the Joint Data Archiving Policy, which calls for authors to archive their data when their paper is published in a participating journal. With almost 1,000 data sets archived in Dryad so far, Molecular Ecology is one of the journals leading the charge for improved data availability.
Vines knows firsthand the importance of long-term data availability. A data set on morphology of fire-bellied toads (Bombina species) recorded by a naturalist in the early 1930s was instrumental to his dissertation work; it allowed him to show that hybridization between two species had been constant in a particular location for almost 60 years. "The old data allowed us to apply a very sophisticated analysis. But for many other papers about these toads, even much more recently in the 1970s and 1980s, the data were not available," Vines says. "In particular, the individual data were not available. We couldn't take the older data they had and compare it to the data we had, because all we had were the summary statistics. That really hampered our ability to make any inferences about stability of these hybrid zones."
After adopting the Joint Data Archiving Policy at Molecular Ecology, Vines and other journal publishers sought ways to make sure it was enforced. "It became clear to me that other journals with equal or slightly different archiving policies were achieving much, much lower rates of data archiving," he says. For example, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, despite a comprehensive archiving policy and a vocal stance on open access, were not achieving high rates of archiving—for example, about 12 percent of papers at PLoS One had archived data online.
In response, Vines and several colleagues launched a study of the effectiveness of different data archiving policies by assessing the proportion of published papers that archived their data. They checked 229 papers from 12 different journals that had no policy on data archiving, only suggested it, or required it. To make sure the difficulty of archiving was comparable throughout, the researchers limited their study to a set of papers that all used the same type of data, a common genetic analysis.
The results of the study, published in the FASEB Journal in January 2013, showed that a mandatory data archiving policy was much more effective than either recommending archiving or having no policy at all. More than 50 percent of papers had publicly archived data when mandated, although the variation in success was large in this group, because journals varied in enforcement. In contrast, approximately 30 percent had publicly archived data in journals with a weak policy and 20 percent in those with no policy at all. Of the four journals in the study that mandated data archiving, the two that stood out because of their especially high rates of archiving also required authors to describe the location of any publicly available data related to the paper when they described their methods.
"The differences are pretty dramatic," Vines says. "The journals that have a policy saying you must do this and make authors have a statement in the manuscript about what they have done achieve more than 90 percent archiving rates. Journals that tell you only that you should do it achieve about the same rates as having no policy whatsoever."
While Vines was working on the FASEB Journal paper, he was also struck by how information tended to vanish over time. "It's pretty easy to get data from an author one or two years after publication, but everybody knows that 10 years after publication, or 20 years after publication, it's almost impossible to get the data back," he says. "I was rooting around for references in the literature, trying to find a paper that quantified the rate at which data disappeared, and there wasn't one. I realized that this was going to be a really important piece of the puzzle. Everyone assumes that data held by authors disappear, but how fast?"
Data disappear for multiple reasons. Sometimes the contact information for the authors is out of date and current contact information cannot be found; this problem is especially pronounced for papers published prior to the rise of email. Sometimes the data-storing device was lost, damaged, or stolen. Sometimes the author has the data but does not remember where they are stored. Sometimes the data exist only on an obsolete storage device, such as a floppy disk. And sometimes the data are accessible yet unusable because the metadata—information on what the column headings mean, what the individual identifiers are, and which files contain what kind of data—have been lost.
Vines spent much of 2013 working with some of his coauthors from the FASEB Journal paper, as well as new collaborators, to quantify the rate at which scientific data become unavailable. The results are in press, and Vines is making plans for his next project: testing whether the studies are reproducible. Even when an author has provided the source data, data inconsistencies and lack of metadata can complicate whether the statistical analysis originally described can be replicated.
Vines concludes that better scientific data archiving practices have to begin with the journals that publish the results. "Journals are the only group that has real power to make data archiving happen, particularly for published papers," he says. "There's a crystal-clear, simple point at which the journal says, 'All of the data used for this study must be made available, or else this paper is not going to be typeset.'"
Journals should require authors to describe the location of their data when writing about their study methods, Vines recommends, because this approach substantially increases compliance and reduces the amount of time that a journal's staff needs to spend working out what data should be archived. Peer reviewers could then assess the authors' data archiving plans along with their assessment of the rest of the study. Vines proposes that journals include a statement in their author guidelines, which Molecular Ecology will be adopting soon, emphasizing that, all else being equal, papers that do an exemplary job of archiving their data and analysis code will be given priority for publication.
The scientific community has been slow to embrace the idea of public data archiving, as attested by a spirited debate among ecologists on Twitter over the summer. Some researchers have a sense of ownership of their data and feel that it is their right to choose with whom they share data. Nevertheless, the practical reality is that most scientists don't have the time to curate all the data they collect over their careers.
"Journals feel somewhat obliged to listen to the community," Vines acknowledges, "but I think this is a case where the greater good of the community and the reputation of science requires that journals step up and enforce data archiving at publication." —Katie L. Burke
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Laura Ackerson's remains found in Texas in 2011
KINSTON, LENOIR COUNTY - Two years after a Kinston mother's dismembered body was dumped 1,200 miles from her home, the victim's father has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her alleged killers.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Lenoir County on behalf of Rodger Ackerson, the father of 27-year-old Laura Jean Ackerson. The mother of two was reported missing from her Kinston home on July 15, 2011. Her dismembered body was found nine days later in Oyster Creek in Richmond, Texas.
The father of Ackerson's two young boys, 33-year-old Grant Ruffin Hayes, has been charged with first-degree murder. The suspect's wife, 41-year-old Amanda Perry Hayes, faces the same charge.
According to the wrongful death lawsuit against the suspects, Ackerson "suffered mental and physical anguish, including disruption of and loss of enjoyment of life, lost earnings and loss of earning capacity."
The lawsuit states that as the administrator of Laura Ackerson's estate, her father is entitled to more than $10,000 from the suspects to cover damages, interest, and other costs.
Although documents of the lawsuit do not state a motive for Ackerson's death, family members had said she was involved in a custody battle with Grant Hayes for more than a year. Hayes was granted primary custody in 2010.
Investigators said they believe Grant and Amanda Hayes killed Ackerson in North Carolina, then dismembered her and packed her body parts in coolers, before dumping them in Texas. The creek where her remains were found is near the home of Amanda Haye's sister.
Grant Hayes' trial is scheduled to begin on August 26. Amanda Hayes' trial is expected to begin in January 2014.
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Man admits murdering ex-girlfriend, 3 others inside home
He says he did it. Michael ballard has admitted to carrying out one of the most horrific crimes this area has ever seen.
Today he pleaded guilty to murdering four people last year in northampton. But his admission of guilt may not be enough to spare his own life. We'll hear from the victims' families in a moment... First wfmz's bo koltnow begins our coverage with more on what happened in court. Bo?
In court michael ballard admittedthat last june 26th he showed up up at the home of 39 year old denise merhi in northampton to kill her. He then admitted he killed denise, her father, grandfather and neighbor by stabbing them repeatedly with a knife.
Reporter: in a northampton county courtroom michael ballard pleaded guilty to four counts of murder in the first degree. Each count carries a minimum life sentence.. But could also mean the death penalty. It was last june 26th when ballard killed his girlfriend denise mehri.. Her father 6year old dennis marsh.. Merhi's grandfather 87 year old alvin marsh.. And neighbor 53 year old steven zernhelt. Ballard was caught after he crashed denise's car after the crime. In court northampton county district attorney john morganelli said the crime was premeditated... That ballard was acting as a jilted lover. On the stand.. The lead investigator testified ballard bought a knife at a pawn shop.. And that ballard consumed alcohol on the way to merhi's home. At the time of the murders ballard had been on parolefor killing an allentown man in 1991.
Ballard also admitted alcohol did not play a factor the crime.. And during sentencing he is not pleading insanity. Jury selection here in northampton county begins may 2nd. District attorney john morganelli says he is seeking the death penalty.
Dozens of the victims' family members packed the courthouse today.
They talked to 69 news about the nightmare they've enduredsince that fateful day last june. Wfmz's will lewis is at the courthouse with more on their reaction to the guilty plea.
As you can imagine a very emotional time for the family as they sat and listened to michael ballard admit he murdered denise merhi, dennis marsh, alvin marsh and steve zernhelt.
Geraldine dorwart, denise merhi's mother "i have no statements about michael. I don't even use that word."
Reporter the families of denise mehri and steven zernhelt met with northampton district attorney john morganelli a half hour before the trial started and while they may not have known the range of emotions the hour long trl would bring they did thank those that have helped them.
Geraldine dorwart, denise merhi's mother "we are truly, really honored to have some one in our state of pennsylvania, a trooper like trooper judge, and i want to say thank you to him, and a great job by morganelli."
Reporter in the courtroom close to fifty family members listen to the evidence presented. Some listened emotionless while others cried, and even one family member ran from the courtroom cursing at michael ballard after ballard finally confessed to the brutal stabbing deaths of denise merhi, alvin marsh, dennie marsh and steve zernhelt.
Jared stahler, denise merhi's cousin "it's a shame we had to go through seven months until he would plead guilty. The rest is now in god's hands.
Reporter the family will still have to go through the penalty phase for ballard's sentencing, but they know that together they will get through that as well.
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#1 Sat 12 Dec 09 2:56pm
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Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
Good Afternoon All,
This is my first post on this forum but I have been reading for a while now and hope you can all help me.
I am lu cky enough to be hosting Christmas dinner at home this year. My Sister is a veggie and for once I don't want to be cooking a veg pie with Xmas trimmings.
Could anyone recommend a good veggie Xmas dinner to replace the meat and a good veggie gravy to go with it?
Thanks all,
#2 Sat 12 Dec 09 3:35pm
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
Seems a bit tame, but my two veggie nieces love my courgettes stuffed with sage and onion rissotto. I serve it with my speciality veggie sauce: whole carrots slow roasted in butter and then pureed with cream and lots of black pepper added. It's not a gravy and it's not vegan but you will actually die of pleasure when you taste it whether you're a vegetarian or not!
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
Lots of ideas on this thread:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewto … 22&p=1
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
I love the idea of stuffed butternut squash (pumpkin) as the 'main' with the normal side veggies.
You could try Jamie's recipe
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vege … ton-squash
I also have a recipe where the butternut squash (pumpkin) is stuffed with veggies and goat's cheese, looks delicious, I haven't tried it yet. Let me know if you want it.
If I was having my veggie friends over for Christmas this year I would be making stuffed butternut squash and serving it with side veggies. I never serve gravy to my veggie friends, but I am sure there must be suitable vegetarian sauces you could make.
Just make sure your friends are not vegan, as that is much more restrictive.
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#5 Sun 13 Dec 09 11:44am
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
Thanks for your help guys - lot's of good ideas
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
MUSHROOMS are great and nutmeg suis well for Christmas....so..
either as a rich veloute(or plain) soup or a Quiche with Mushrooms...
#7 Mon 14 Dec 09 10:51am
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I would take a look at epicurious.com under the Spa menus section, there are a few veggo Spa menus there that look great, such as Picante J�cama and Roasted Carrot Salad with Creamy Basil Dressing, or the Balinese menu.
http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguide … i_supernav
#8 Mon 14 Dec 09 9:42pm
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I do agree with everyone that a stuffed squash would be delightful, but I tried making the one on this website last week and really didn't like it at all. I think if you do a stuffed squash, try to do one with a Christmassy filling, like a vegetarian stuffing (bread, butter, onions, mushrooms, celery, pine nuts, sage, thyme, etc.).
If you can find a recipe for miso gravy, that is a great vegetarian alternative to turkey or beef gravy.
Apart from that, I made these Yam, Goat Cheese and Caramelized Onion Stacks for Christmas last year and everyone went nuts over them, even the non-veggies. Might want to give it a try! The forum won't let me post a link since I've just signed up, but if you google "Thrifty Foods yam stacks" it'll come up as the first or second hit. Thrifty Foods is the grocery store that the recipe is on.
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#10 Thu 17 Dec 09 10:36pm
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Re: Vegetarian Christmas Dinner
I am not sure if your sis is a vegan or not...if so the you will have to make sure NO animal products are used. You can very easily find a vegan "meat" substitute called seitan. It is a soy based product and can copy chicken, veal even beef. Gravies are not difficult to make. Depending on what type you want you can start with a vegetable stock, add your own seasonings to mimic the other gravy, and then thicken with a slurry (flour/water mixture or cornstarch/water), or equal parts of oil and flour. If you want you can make a "cream" sauce with soy, almond or rice milk following the same directions.
How about a tofu turkey?
5 (16 ounce) packages extra firm tofu 2 tablespoons sesame oil 1 red onion, finely diced 1 1/3 cups diced celery 1 cup chopped mushrooms 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/8 cup dried sage 2 teaspoons dried thyme salt and pepper to taste 1 1/2 teaspoons dried rosemary 1/4 cup tamari 3 cups prepared herb stuffing 1/2 cup sesame oil 1/4 cup tamari 2 tablespoons miso paste 5 tablespoons orange juice 1 teaspoon honey mustard 1/2 teaspoon orange zest 3 sprigs fresh rosemary
Line a medium sized, round colander with a cheese cloth or a clean dish towel. Place the crumbled tofu in the colander. Place another cheese cloth over the top of the tofu. Place the colander over the top of a bowl to catch the liquid. Place a heavy weight on top of tofu. Refrigerate the colander, tofu and weight for 2 to 3 hours.
Make the stuffing: In a large frying pan saute onion, celery and mushrooms in 2 tablespoons of the sesame oil until tender. Add the garlic, sage, thyme, salt and pepper, rosemary and 1/4 cup of the tamari. Stir well; cook for 5 minutes. Add prepared herb stuffing and mix well. Remove from heat.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet.
Combine 1/2 cup sesame oil, 1/4 cup tamari, miso, orange juice, mustard and orange zest in a small bowl; mix well.
Remove the weight from the tofu. Hollow out the tofu so that there is one inch of tofu still lining the colander. Place the scooped out tofu in a separate bowl. Brush the tofu lining with a small amount of the miso seasoning. Scoop the stuffing into the center of the tofu shell. Place the leftover tofu on top of the stuffing and press down firmly. Turn the stuffed tofu onto the prepared cookie sheet. Putting the leftover tofu side of the "turkey" (the flat side) down. Gently press on the sides of the "turkey" to form a more oval shape. Brush the tofu turkey with 1/2 of the oil-tamari mixture. Place the sprigs of rosemary on top of the tofu. Cover the "turkey" with foil.
Bake for one hour. After one hour, remove "turkey" from the oven and remove the foil. Baste the "turkey" with the remaining tamari-oil sauce (reserving 4 tablespoons of sauce). Return "turkey" to oven and bake another hour or until the tofu turkey is golden brown. Place the tofu turkey on a serving platter, brush with the remaining tamari-oil mixture and serve hot.
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As he prepares to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, but that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yassin, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, their values and their beliefs.
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I think every one of us who have read this can relate. I usually find things when I rearrange or am not looking for them anymore.
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I think every one of us who have read this can relate. I usually find things when I rearrange or am not looking for them anymore.
that's why i hesitate to move things... i can never remember where i moved them to LOL
Here's my reason for having to reorganize my sewing room: In the past ten years, I know I've bought at least two (if not three) copies of the Yellow Brick Road pattern and I STILL can't find either one of them!!!!
Every time I straighten my sewing room, I find things I forgot I had. It's exciting to find material, markers, patterns, etc. I hope you can find what you are looking for. It can be frustrating knowing it's "hiding" somewhere "safe". haha
Oh yes, we can all relate for sure. I recently picked up the second issue of the new Quilting Quickly magazine, then I wanted to look back at the patterns in the first issue. Could I find that issue? Why, nooooo, I could not! I finally found it downstairs in my living room, stuck in between some newspaper flyers, not upstairs in the sewing room where it belongs. How did it get down there? I have no clue! :)
The Honey Bun Fairies have it and are currently playing with it. When they are done, they will put it back where you can find it. I blame everything I cannot find on fairies. There are the Scissor Fairies, the Seam Ripper Fairies, the Car Key Fairies. Those fairies can be darn annoying some days.
It is time we start making maps! I'm serious. We have an Asian medicine cabinet (was for herbal medicines that the old ways used... and some still do so today). It is perfect for keeping paper clips, small clamps, rubber bands, color pens, tapes, business cards, etc. DH made a map of the chest and put it in the top center drawer. He's so brilliant! I'm thinking that I need to do that for my sewing room. After each quilt I could check the map and not end up putting too many things in the wrong place. Most things go in the right place, but when you need that one specific thing, and can't find it......!!! Yes, I'm going to do this as soon as I get clearence from the doc to start walking more (Achilles problem operated on). See, even bum deals can result in good things happening.
How many times can you lose a book with quilting patterns in it? Well last count three times. All of my quilting books are in a single book case, so where could I have put the missing book? I know if I bought a replacement it would show up. I think this book is magic.
I lose things with such alarming regularity, my husband threatened to put a lo-jack theft deterrent device on me, or at least a panic button car alarm, for fear I would forget where I put myself! He nearly got smacked for that one, LOL, but he does have a point. How disorganized can one woman BE?? No matter how hard I try to get myself organized, it just seems to get worse ...
The biggest problem is that I am a very unorganized and messy person. I get so disgusted with myself. I try to be more organized but I swear it just never works. I organize and the next thing you know, everything is a disaster again. I about made myself nuts yesterday looking for my 3.5 inch square creative grid. I am giving up and buying a new one today. I bet as soon as I do, I find the "missing" one. Aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh
If I really want to scare myself, I watch a few episodes of Hoarders, Buried Alive. Now mind you, I am truly not even close to that but it usually works as a good smack in the face to get my mess under control.


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[quote user="deekay7685"]i love Bradshaw and he's still good. his feet has been a problem and cannot stay healthy.
Jacobs is an underachiever and his skills have diminished. he is not well liked and not as tough as he should be.
the only RB i love in the 1st round is Richardson but he's unlikely to be there for us.
LMiller has excellent size and speed but is not a willing blocker.
the top free agent RBa are RRice (Rutgers; New Rochelle product), Forte (out w/ a MCL injury) and MLynch (ok).
I'd love to get Rice but i doubt Baltimore will let him leave.
The money we could save by letting Bradshaw and Jacobs go could be spend on Rice. That's a pipe dream.
I think we'll draft a big back in the 3-4 rounds to replace Jacobs but i have no confidence Bradshaw can be reliable to stay on the field. his days in the NFL are numbered.
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Bradshaw and Jacobs do need to be replaced. I have to take issue with your characterization of Jacobs being an underachiever. He's the 4th all time rusher and that put him in some elite company.
Yes, he tends to rub some fans the wrong way with his rhetoric from time to time but he is a true GIANT. We fans tend to look at the here and now to make our judgments about players, forgetting their past performance. You have to look at the entire body of work and I think he has done well for the GIANTS.
Fact is they both are in need of replacing. Bradshaw's ankles and feet continue to be a problem and Jacobs is in the twilight of his career.


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Breathtaking lightshow launches Airbus Smarter Skies campaign ahead of ILA
A spectacular 4D projection light show transformed Berlin's Humboldt-Box into a moving and pulsating canvas to demonstrate the benefits of smarter flight in the future. The show, which launches the Future by Airbus Smarter Skies vision of air travel in 2050 and beyond, illustrates in stunning perspective how smarter aircraft operations could cut travel times, reduce emissions and lead to fewer delays.
"Our light show unveils the significant benefits of combining smarter aircraft, smarter technology and smarter skies in 2050", says Charles Champion, Executive Vice President Engineering at Airbus. "Our Smarter Skies vision is one where highly intelligent aircraft would be able to organise themselves and select the most efficient and environmentally friendly routes, making the best use of daily weather and atmospheric conditions. It is also one where aircraft might copy the best aspects of nature and fly like flocks of birds allowing them to travel more efficiently and lower their energy use."
Beginning with a single paper aeroplane launched from the balcony of the Humboldt-Box, a maze of 3D blocks depicts the barriers and obstacles created by current national air space boundaries. A map of the world scattered with pin points and bright pulsing lines of light highlights the world's busiest routes. The show then takes passengers forward in time to 2050 to demonstrate a world of flight where obstacles are removed, passenger travelling times are shortened, and where fuel use and emissions are reduced. The show closes with a fleet of Airbus concept planes flying in formation.
Charles Champion continues: "Our research for the Future by Airbus programme has shown that air passengers expect to fly more in the future, but they want to do so with fewer delays, less noise and more sustainably. The aviation industry has already committed to some of the toughest targets of any industry by pledging to cut aircraft emissions by 50% by 2050. Our Concept Plane has illustrated how aircraft design could contribute. Our Smarter Skies campaign, brought to life by this light display, demonstrates the future benefits that smart aircraft operations could bring if we work together as an industry to make them happen".
The Future by Airbus Smarter Skies vision consists of five concepts which could be implemented across all stages of an aircraft's operation. It includes aircraft launched into a continuous 'eco-climb', flying in formation using 'express skyways', 'low noise' glided approaches, low emission landing and ground operations and airports that grow their own alternative energy sources.
For more information on Future by Airbus go to thefuturebyairbus.com
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· 4D projection mapping is the process of projecting content and 3D animation onto complex structures such as buildings and stage sets. 4D has become the name that differentiates these projects from 3D stereoscopic that we see in the cinema.
· Airbus has engaged with over 1.75 million people through airshows, events and online since 2010 as part of the Future by Airbus – its vision of sustainable aviation in 2050
· Future by Airbus has seen the unveiling of its revolutionary Concept Plane and Concept Cabin. Now its latest future-gazing suggest there is potential to look beyond the aircraft, to the way in which it flies, to potentially deliver significant environmental and passenger benefits
This Future by Airbus Smarter Skies vision consists of five concepts:
Aircraft take-off in continuous 'eco-climb'
. Aircraft launched through assisted take-offs using renewably powered, propelled acceleration, allowing steeper climb from airports to minimise noise and reach efficient cruise altitudes quicker.
. As space becomes a premium and mega-cities become a reality, this approach could also minimise land use, as shorter runways could be utilised.
Aircraft in free flight and formation along 'express skyways'
. Highly intelligent aircraft would be able to "self-organise" and select the most efficient and environmentally friendly routes ("free flight"), making the optimum use of prevailing weather and atmospheric conditions.
. High frequency routes would also allow aircraft to benefit from flying in formation like birds during cruise bringing efficiency improvements due to drag reduction and lower energy use
Low-noise, free-glide approaches and landings
Aircraft allowed to take free glide approaches into airports that reduce emissions during the overall decent and reduce noise during the steeper approach as there is no need for engine thrust or air breaking.
These approaches would also reduce the landing speed earlier which would make shorter landing distances achievable (less runway needed).
Low emission ground operations
. On landing aircraft engines could be switched off sooner and runways cleared faster, ground handling emissions could be cut.
. Technology could optimise an aircraft's landing position with enough accuracy for an autonomous renewably powered taxiing carriage to be ready, so aircraft could be transported away from runways quicker, which would optimise terminal space, and remove runway and gate limitations.
Powering future aircraft and infrastructure
. The use of sustainable biofuels and other potential alternative energy sources (such as electricity, hydrogen, solar etc) will be necessary to secure supply and further reduce aviation's environmental footprint in the long term. This will allow the extensive introduction of regionally sourced renewable energy close to airports, feeding both aircraft and infrastructure requirements sustainably
- On the A380 passengers use just three litres of fuel to travel 100km – the same as a small family car. The A320neo, the fastest-selling commercial jetliner ever, will allow a 15 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. The A350 XWB will provide a 25 per cent step-change in fuel efficiency.
- The aviation industry as a whole has reduced fuel burn and emissions by 70% and noise by 75% in the last 40 years. It is now targeting total carbon neutral growth by 2020 and a 50% net CO2 emissions reduction by 2050.


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Sunny Flat in Manhattan
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Ideal for business travelers & tourists who want to experience living in New York. 15-20 minutes from Penn Station/Grand Central/Times Square/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Three blocks (about a 5 minute walk) to the 2/3 subway trains.
The apartment is in a quiet and safe neighborhood and is a very short distance from Museum Mile (the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan, Cooper-Hewitt), Central Park and Columbia University
Harlem is a multi-cultured neighborhood that is home to the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture, The Apollo Theater, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Cotton Club, Aaron Davis Hall, The Lenox Lounge, Sylvia's, The Dance Theater Of Harlem, & The Maysles Institute Film Center, The Cloisters & The Hip Hop Cultural Center.
Area amenities supermarket/grocery, pharmacy, banks/atm, restaurants, wine shop, bars & pubs etc. are within a few blocks of the apartment.
The apartment includes internet access, flat screen tv with cable, hi-fi with ipod dock, clean sheets, towels, blow drier, iron and board and coffee maker.
House rulesUnless prior arrangements has been made, only the number of persons listed on the reservation are allowed to stay in the apartment. The reservation may be denied/cancelled or an additional charge may be required if there are more guests than the number of persons listed on the reservation.
At check in you will be required to pay the security deposit in cash. The security deposit is $240. The owner/agent will do a walk-thru of the apartment with you at check-in to confirm that the apartment is in the condition that you expected. You will be provided with keys to the apartment and instructions for operating the appliances/electronics.
At check-out, a second walk-thru will be done to assess the status of the apartment and provided that there is no damage, your security deposit will be returned to you.
The apartment will be cleaned prior to your check-in and upon check-out, it is expected that you will leave the apartment in the same condition with used linen/towels in a neat pile in the bathroom and kitchen items washed and stored away. A cleaning fee of $100 will be charged if the apartment is left untidy.
The owner/agent will be available during your stay in case of emergency or to answer any additional questions which you may have.
The apartment and building was recently renovated and is in "Excellent" condition. It is expected that you will take proper care and not cause any damage.
The property is a quiet residential building with three separate apartments. While we want you to have a wonderful stay, it is expected that you will be respectful and mindful of the other tenants in the property.
Looking only for quiet, responsible and neat guests...no parties or being loud!
Thank you.
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Reviews of this property
This apartment of Simon is highly recommended. It has everything you need in a vacation (even a hair dryer is available). The apartment is actually very bright as the photos and the furniture is new. The supermarket is open to 22 clock in around 5 minutes walk away and depending on the metro lines these are removed within 5-15 minutes. Simon has also been a very friendly host one can highly recommend. Here I would like to go on vacation again :-))
Diese Ferienwohnung von Simon ist absolut zu empfehlen. Es ist alles vorhanden was man in einer Ferienwohnung braucht (auch ein Fön ist vorhanden). Die Wohnung ist tatsächlich wie auf den Fotos sehr hell und die Einrichtung ist neu. Der Supermarkt der bis 22 Uhr geöffnet hat ist in rund 5 Minuten zu Fuß zu erreichen und je nach den U-Bahn-Linien sind diese in 5-15 Minuten entfernt.
Simon ist auch ein sehr freundlicher Gastgeber gewesen den man sehr empfehlen kann. Hier würde ich gerne nochmal Urlaub machen :-))
A great, sunny week in NY is behind us. We can recommend this apartment and Simon with his friendliness and helpfulness highly. The app. is spacious and tastefully decorated, has everything you need (towels, coffee, etc.), is quiet with lovely views and has a great connection to the subway and bus system. The neighbors on the street always had a kind word left. Thank you, Simon, that we could be your guests and thank you for the delicious dates!
Eine tolle, sonnige Woche in N.Y. liegt hinter uns. Wir können dieses Appartement und Simon mit seiner Freundlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft wärmstens empfehlen. Das App. ist großzügig und geschmackvoll eingerichtet, bietet alles, was man benötigt (Handtücher, Kaffeemaschine etc.), liegt ruhig mit einer hübschen Aussicht und hat eine prima Anbindung an das Subway- und Bussystem. Auch die Nachbarn auf der Straße hatten stets ein freundliches Wort übrig. Danke, Simon, daß wir Deine Gäste sein durften und danke für die leckeren Datteln!
As described, Simon's apartment is sunny and conveniently located within a short 5 minute walk from the 125th street subway stop along the red line. Safety concerns in Harlem did not pose a problem for two small Asian girls as long as normal precautions were adhered to (i.e., don't walk around with flashy shopping bags, especially when dark). The unit itself was spacious, comfortable, well maintained, and nicely furnished. Amenities such as the coffee machine, fridge, towels and duvet were appreciated, although we didn't try out everything. Simon was very helpful and responsive to our questions. Make sure to speak with Simon about the trick with the door and confirm expected arrival and departure times for the convenience of all. Overall, we enjoyed the space and convenience of a furnished apartment so close to the subway!
The apartment has complied with the photos and the description in full. She is very quiet and yet conveniently accessible by subway and bus. In the vicinity there are good shopping. We enjoyed our stay very much and recommend the apartment you.
Die Wohnung hat den Fotos und der Beschreibung in vollem Umfang entsprochen. Sie ist sehr ruhig und trotzdem verkehrsgünstig mit U-Bahn und Bus erreichbar. In der Nähe gibt es gute Einkaufsmöglichkeiten.
Wir haben den Aufenthalt sehr genossen und empfehlen die Wohnung gerne weiter.
The apartment is quite the description and photos, he is close to the Metro and in a quiet and secure. Simon is very friendly and does everything to make their guests have a good stay. I highly recommend this apartment!
L'appartement correspond tout à fait à la description et aux photos, il est proche du métro et dans un quartier calme et sécurisé. Simon est très accueillant et fait tout pour que ses hôtes passent un bon séjour. Je conseille vivement cet appartement!
Manhattan apartment ideally located for visiting New York. Close to all amenities. Quiet and clean, there live. We highly recommend it.
Appartement idéalement situé à Manhattan pour visiter New York. Proche de toutes les commodités. Calme et propre, il y fait bon vivre. Nous recommandons vivement.
We had a fantastic 2 week stay in NY in Simon's apartment. He was very helpful settling us in with information about subways etc. The apartment is large, bright, clean, modern, nice white sheets and towels , and quiet...great kitchen and bathroom, large bedroom.. It is a short walk to the subway and only about 10 minutes subway ride to downtown NY. It is in a very safe area full of families. Loved it and will recommend it to all our friends,
Upon arrival, we were, as previously agreed, very nice taken by Simon in reception. The apartment was exactly as advertised. Just great. Simon has us pass an information pack, containing all the many tips (eg metro, how and where the waste is disposed of). Furthermore, the password for wireless use. So we did not expect and were pleasantly surprised. Likewise, Simon was through e-mail or phone always there for us. This gave us an additional good and safe feeling. Also, the return of the deposit was smooth. The apartment is more central than expected. The metro station is only a few minutes walking distance. Also, the neighborhood is great. Supermarket, bars and restaurants right next door. Conclusion: Everything was great. We would book this apartment again at any time.
Bei der Ankunft wurden wir, wie vorher abgesprochen, sehr nett von Simon in Empfang genommen. Die Wohnung war genauso wie beschrieben. Einfach toll.
Simon hat uns eine Info-Mappe übergeben, die ganze viele Tips (z.B. nächste Metrostation, wie und wo wird der Müll entsorgt) enthielt. Desweiteren auch das Passwort für die W-Lan Nutzung. Damit hatten wir nicht gerechnet und waren positiv überrascht.
Ebenso war Simon durch e-mail oder Tel. immer für uns erreichbar. Das gab uns zusätzlich ein gutes und sicheres Gefühl. Auch die Rückgabe der Kaution war problemlos. Die Wohnung liegt zentraler als gedacht. Die Metrostation ist nur wenige Minuten zu Fuß erreichbar. Auch die Nachbarschaft ist prima. Supermarkt, Bars und Restaurants gleich nebenan. Fazit: Alles super. Wir würde jederzeit wieder diese Wohnung buchen.
The Brownstone in Harlem is a very convenient and beautiful appartment, situated in a quiet street with subway and stores closeby. The appartment is clean and well maintained. We found Simon very friendly and helpful. The Red Rooster and Sylvia's are on the same block. We can absolutely recommend this appt to anyone who likes to explore NYC and hope to be back someday.
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Does anyone use Fumigillin-b in a drench method on a commercial level? If so how do you mix it?
Does anyone use Fumigillin-b in a drench method on a commercial level? If so how do you mix it?
okay, just trying to be funny here, is that like drenching a calf? Do they make tubes small enough? How many litres in the belly?
sorry could not resist, too many years cattle i guess...
i have no answer to your question...sorry
mix one 9.5 bottle to five gallons of syrup, one cup per hive.
I'm not a large commercial beekeeper but do drench my hives with Fumigillin-b. The mixing ratio that keith stated is how I do it. With my drench gun I'm able to measure amounts being applied and at the end of my gun has a broom spraying pattern.
There have been various opinions about the ideal concentration of the active ingredient in fumagillan syrup for drenching.
Some beekeepers think that an increased concentration above the recommended mixture for non-drench feeding is indicated. Others think the recommended concentration is fine.
I tend to agree with using the recommended mixture, as I really do not know the effects of forcing bees to ingest a concentrated dose.
Are there benefits to increased doses? Or are there toxic effects on the bees subjected to a heavier than normal dose?
Besides being off-label, if there is no proven benefit to using an overly concentrated solution of this expensive (and toxic) drug, why do it?
Theory? Hypothesis? The recommended levels are tested for toxicity and effectiveness. Going outside that band could be risky.
I realise that the argument can be made that with the normal application, the bees are sitting on treated syrup containing a greater total load of the drug which is consumed over a long period and this way, the bees only hold it for a short time, and the total amount of drug is less.
Consider this, though. Drugs are prescribed for a measured dose over a measured time. If taking an antibiotic, you don't just take five pills right now if the doctor says to take one a day for five days. You would possibly be quite sick and probably not get any extra benefit. Fumigillan is normally taken over time, and the drench idea is based on the idea that a quick shot gets most of the disease right off due to the forced ingestion and then subsequent doses are to hit any residual infection that may have been missed and new infection. It is a theory and depends on the true action of the drug. Apparently it works, so the theory may be correct.
With the drench all the bees get some, and right away, since they all clean one another. With normal feeding, maybe only some bees get the full dose, since they are the ones storing it, but eventually all bees get some as the syrup is consumed, so the distribution is slower and not universal or all at once. Perhaps using the standard method, most bees actually get lower doses than those involved in storing it, but over longer time spans, and that lower dose is apparently effective.
Actually, this is an arguement for not using a highly concentrated ration for dosing, since all the bees are being overdosed.
I'd go with the normal mixture, on the label. As for frequency, I don't think it is critical, but the thing to remember is that once damaged, a bee does not recover, even if new damage is prevented, so the idea is to treat over several generations, although I have heard good comments about single treatments.
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Having seen Keith's bees I would say the proof is in the pudding as they say. Medivet has been advertising a 75 fold safety margin on the dose lately.
John B Jacob www.oldsolbees.com
>>my drench gun I'm able to measure amounts being applied and at the end of my gun has a broom spraying pattern.
great idea!
One advantage of using this method for spring time treatments is this treatment totally eliminates the risk of contaminating the summer honey crop.
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
In Medivet's recent add on pg 6 of Bee Culture, Jan issue it states "Non-toxic to bees--75 fold safety margin"
I am not advocating one way or the other, although I would rather not have to use the stuff, however it would be foolhardy to let Nosema rage unchecked through an entire operation. I have stated many times that I believe we will have many alternatives to Fumagillan now that we understand it to be a fungus and not a protozoa. For starters we already have Nosevit at fraction of the cost and derived from tree bark tannins. I suspect tea tree and other fungicidal oils may hold some promise. I also hope that we can isolate Nosema tolerant stocks and actually isolate the traits involved in the bee genome.
John B Jacob www.oldsolbees.com
Thanks. I guess I did not read very well .
I understand now. Anyhow, I'm looking further into it, since there seems to be a lot of assuming going on and Steve and Adony have done the work. I expect to see them both on the 10th and 11th.
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International flights come to Edmonton from the major airports all over the U.S., and usually there are top-flight speakers. There is also some local content, though, but the famous West Edmonton Mall is nearby.
Actually, here is the agenda. I don't see the Beaverlodge crew on there, but I do see some other interesting speakers.
Last edited by Allen Dick; 01-27-2009 at 04:06 PM. Reason: Added and changed info
The reason Keith and all for drenching bees 4 times at 1 week intervals is it is the method that the Spanisish researchers have found to be effective against Nosema Ceranae (pers.comm. with Willy Baumgartner/Medivet). Apparently if you do you this and if your bees had Nosemae Cerana they no longer will have a detectable level of spores.
From a researcher:
> Based on our spring 2008 experiment using packages, where we evaluated 0.5, 1 and 2 x label doses, we saw no evidence of increased efficacy with increased dose.
I hope to be able to provide more background shortly, but this seems to indicate that when drenching, the label proportions are adequate when drenching and that using greater concentrations has no beneficial effect, except on the supplier's bottom line
Allend, these guys IMO are not increasing the dose they are giving the proper dose just using less syrup to carry it.. One 9 gram bottle is still being used to treat around 100 hives.. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Lets try and keep this simple as beekeeping is already tough enough as it is. Kenny
In my experience, beekeepers very often get confused when mixing drugs. The various weights and volumes and conversions are a minefield, and sometimes instrructions are incomplete or require assuming, and we all know about assumptions...
I have talked to beekeepers, not becessarily here, who think they need to base the mixture on so much per colony and not so much per gallon (or liter).
The conversation I am having with the researcher seems to me to indicate that there is no advantage to that, but language can be ambiguous, so I am double-checking. So far, it appears that mixing according to the label -- so much drug to so much syrup -- is adequate.
By my calculations, you would need to use one 9.5 gm bottle in 6 gallons of syrup and then treat at the rate of 1 cup per hive to be very close to the same dose. By using 5 gallons of syrup they are increasing the dosage per hive by about 18%.
9.5gm / 80 cups X 1 cup/hive = .11875 gm/hive
9.5gm / 96 cups X 1 cup/hive = .09895 gm/hive
"The UNKNOWN, huh? That would be SNORBERT ZANGOX over in Waycross."
Well, here's where the confusion comes in.
Check out http://www.drugs.com/vet/fumagilin-b...owder-can.html
I presume that by a 9.5 g jar, people mean the 1lb bottle.
Each 1 lb jar contains:Fumagillin (as bicyclohexylammonium fumagillin) 9.5 g
According to label and recommendations, one such jar goes into 100 gallons of syrup.
Water-----FUMAGILIN - B------Sugar---------To treat
165 L------454 g -------------330 kg --------100-110 package colonies or 50 wintering colonies
35 L-------96 g---------------69 kg----------22 package colonies or 12 wintering colonies
8.7 L------24 g---------------17 kg----------5-6 colonies
1.8 L------5 g----------------3.6 kg----------1 colony
For N. ceranae, the Spanish recommend 4 applications of fumagillin, each application in 250 mL of syrup in a bag placed on the top bars. Each application contains 30 mg of active ingredient for a total of 120 mg of active ingredient applied per colony. They suggest this confers control for ceranae for six months.
This is a higher concentration than the label concentration, but a lower per colony dose than 190 mg /colony for wintering and higher than 95 mg / colony for packages.
Last edited by Allen Dick; 01-28-2009 at 03:07 PM.
Allend, I too am having troubles and for me you are way confusing this issue.. Have you ever heard of the KISS method (keep it simple stupid) IMO this is where we as beekeepers should keep this instead of all the back and forth..Lets go with what works and go with the ones that truley have done well with there methods.. I am also like JBJ if you look at what Keith Jarrett has done this is all backed with facts and figures and bees to prove it.. ONce again I normally dont get involved with this type of post but it hits me right between the eyes as I am fighting the dirty bug in a big way right now.. Kenny


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Walmart Once Again Under Scrutiny
Original post made by Oliver Towne, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Sep 3, 2013
So what's next? Protests in 15 cities are scheduled for this Thursday. The timing of one of those protests is particularly important; the Large Retailer Accountability Act passed by the Washington, DC, city council to give big box store workers a living wage of $12.50 an hour was sent to Mayor Vincent Gray last week; it's still unclear if he'll stand up to Walmart and sign it. And Washington will be the site of one of Thursday's protests, as will Los Angeles, where a Walmart has been proposed in Chinatown. The plan is for significant rallies in those and a dozen other cities.
Protests like these highlight not just the below-subsistence wages paid to Walmart workers themselves, but the way the chain drives down wages at other retailers, relies on government assistance to enable its workers to get by on poverty wages, and actually kills jobs.
That's right. Walmart kills jobs. Walmart's terrible effect on the jobs economy is no secret. Numerous studies show this:
The largest, most rigorous study conducted on the subject is a peer-reviewed article from 2008. Its lead author is economist David Neumark, who is no wild-eyed liberal. (See, for example, an anti-minimum wage op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal). [...]
Using data from over 3,000 counties, their results show that when a Walmart store opens, it kills an average 150 retail jobs at the county level, with each Walmart worker replacing about 1.4 retail workers. These results are robust under a variety of models and tests.
Other highly influential studies found similar results. A 2008 peer-reviewed study that looked at Maryland concluded that Walmart's presence significantly decreased retail employment. And a 2009 study by Loyola University found that the opening of a Chicago Walmart store was "a wash," destroying as many jobs as it created: "There is no evidence that Wal-Mart sparked any significant net growth in economic activity or employment in the area," according to the report.
So Walmart is causing pain with across the board—lower wages, job loss, more need for government assistance for working people.
And it is with this growing accumulation of evidence that workers are taking to the streets in an effort to draw the public's attention to Walmart's questionable practices -- how it bleeds local communities dry of jobs, pushes smaller retailers out, and lowers the bar for how companies should treat its employees.
Well, Walmart workers are not taking this lying down. Stated one Walmart activist worker: "We have tried repeatedly to gain a hearing from Walmart's corporate office. Our efforts have been to no avail. Sometimes, after one's repeated efforts to be heard are dashed, it is time to stand up and make them listen."
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a resident of Livermore
on Sep 3, 2013 at 8:13 pm
Many Plutonians HATE WALMART and speak out against it frequently.
It's my impression that many residents are more concerned about the class and the color of the people that it draws.
Rarely is there any concern expressed for the lives of employees except that they are willing to work for low low wages. Many folks complain about the presence of latinos hanging out looking for day jobs.
It should be very interesting who posts and what they say...tee hee hee...
it's waiting...
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 3, 2013 at 8:21 pm
Many Plutonians luv to shoot from the hip at WALMART shoppers.
Many sneak in for the price and disguise their appearance with shades, wigs, and head wraps.
It's my impression that many Plutonians are primarily concerned with the cheaper prices and color/class of shoppers. Hmmmmmmmm...I guess that's why they choose to shop incognity...BUSTED!
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 3, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Correction: ...incognito...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 3, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Oliver, well-written and well-researched.
I fully expect the opening of a Walmart to have a negative effect on job growth, for one simple reason. Walmart is more efficient than its competition. It's able to get more productivity from its workforce, and it's able to drive better deals with its suppliers. Walmart passes some of this efficiency back to its customers in the form of lower prices. I'm not surprised at all at the 1.4-to-1 ratio of jobs killed when Walmart comes to town.
I'm also not surprised that studies show that Walmart does little or nothing for an area's overall economic growth. Walmart doesn't do much in terms of bringing new and innovative products or services into the marketplace. Think about it - are you going to buy more bleach just because there's now another store, a Walmart, selling it? Walmart's angle is that if you are able to save a dollar buying that bleach at your local Walmart, then you're more likely to spend that dollar while you're in the store. As a business model, it works very well.
I've been following the battle between Walmart and the cities of DC and Chicago. At issue are wages, as you pointed out. In DC, a deal was struck that permitted Walmart to invest and build six stores; subsequently, the city is considering making a demand to increase the overall wage rate to $12.50 per hour. Walmart responded by threatening to stop construction on the three stores being built. The mayor is slated to make a decision next week.
Ultimately this is a business decision for both the city of Washington DC and for Walmart. The city can demand whatever it wants, and Walmart can choose to do business under those demands, or to walk.
I do believe, however, that DC's effort to legislate higher wages is misguided. Kind of like that San Jose councilman last week that wanted to legislate what kind of drinks were to be allowed in vending machines. The DC city government has no business legislating what the wage for a set of workers should be, just as it has no business in telling a retailer how much to charge for that gallon of bleach. DC is addressing one part of the overall equation, but not the other. It believes it can legislate wages, but is smart enough to know that it can't legislate prices. It's either a free market, or it isn't.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 3, 2013 at 11:38 pm
Your idea of a "free market" is pure fiction. It is something you might have learned from a chapter in a now out-dated high school social science text, but it is not something that exists in reality. Anyone who's been associated with workplace practices knows this.
The confusion results from people like yourself thinking that an economic model -- used as an hypothetical in order to discuss hypothetical behavior -- is a reality. You can wish for it all you want, and you can voice consternation when I tell you the "free market" is real only in your head, but facts are facts.
There is no freedom in workers being compelled to either work for below subsistence wages or see their families starve. You might want to think of these workers as numbers in an hypothetical model (that you mistake for reality), but most of us know better; we've seen real people forced to work sometimes two full-time jobs while attempting to pay medical bills and keep food on the table. Believe or not, Joe, these people are real. They're not in a position -- as the fictive free market model suggests -- to simply pack up the family car and move from Pleasanton to N. Dakota, or even to attend night school in San Francisco. Many don't have cars; many can't afford to stop working in order to travel elsewhere; if you're a fast-food worker, you can't rely on a fixed work schedule upon which to sign up for classes.
About the closest thing to free markets, historically speaking, was the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, when 9 year-olds typically were forced to work the mines. They were not "free" to work the mines; they were forced to work them as a condition of survival. This may not bother you, especially since you seem to live in a universe where fictive models reduce people to abstract numbers.
Thankfully, unions agitated in order to bring about Child Labor Laws. Yes, this legislation restricted capital's ability to exploit child labor. I guess you'd bemoan these advances, yourself. I celebrate them. I celebrate numerous other intrusions into capital's past and present "freedoms" to exploit child labor, to exploit women's labor, to exclude people from the hiring process based upon their race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. When you say you think "free market" is a reality and that you regret restrictions placed upon it, you are effectively saying that you embrace the idea of forced child labor, or companies that exercise their "freedom" by only hiring white males.
The necessary restrictions that have already been placed on capital have not yet reached their full realization. When companies like Walmart continue to hire and keep workers at below poverty wages, to fire workers who voice a desire to be heard as a recognized group, to hire out subsidiary companies overseas that continue to exploit child labor, then it is obvious to most rational folks that Walmart's "freedom" is overextended. This overextension cuts against our most basic moral principles. No individual deserves to be exploited. But that is what Walmart is doing: systematically taking advantage of people's basic need to survive, and implementing a wage level that keeps them and their children impoverished.
It seems to me, if you desire to argue your point, you're going to have to argue (1) that exploitation of humans by other humans is a good thing; (2) that children being compelled to work to help support a family is just hunky-dory; (3) that companies "freedom" to pay women less, or to keep ethnic minorities out, or to discriminate against gays, are all good things. You're also going to have to argue that govts' intervention -- largely in response to organized labor's push -- such as mandatory conditions of workplace health and safety, minimum wage, nondiscrimination in hiring and promotions, are bad things.
You see, Joe, once one steps outside one's little fictionalized bubble, the very idea of "free market" becomes more than a little fantastic -- as in fantasy land.
Now, if you're who I think you are, Joe, you will likely fail to grasp some of my points and will probably willfully ignore my others. But when I write I have to at least assume I'm dealing with a rational interlocutor.
Finally, your comment about keeping politics out of capital and labor's struggles verges on being ludicrous. Because, you see, Joe, it is and always has been political. Workers today are petitioning their legislators to pass more humane labor laws; capital today has high-paid and high-skilled people lobbying to maintain capital's sustained, unfair advantage. It's all politics, Joe. This is why those who once developed the "free market" MODEL (not reality) have been virtually unanimously rejected. We no longer live in Adam Smith's 18th century mind. Reality interceded. Workers speak. In unison. Viva!
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 4, 2013 at 9:05 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
mittens and his alter-ego 'joe' must have been 'displaced', hence they ability to spend countless hours posting hit pieces against private companies that don't cave into union tactics. The tone of the topic and their comments show a desperation and hostility that typifies the union movement. While they and cholo can rant all they want about Pleasanton residents 'shooting from the hip at Walmart shoppers', all one has to do is stop by the new Walmart Neighborhood Grocery store in Pleasanton and look at the nearly full parking lot to expose their delusional claims. The fact is, their whining is motivated by union greed and they have absolutely no concern for shoppers in our town. On the contrary, they want all of us become poorer so we can support their union buddies. They know they are in the minority and their numbers continue to diminish, hence the desperate pleas...so sad and pathetic. The majority in our town aren't buying what you're trying to shove down our throats, union trolls.
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Wand found competent to stand trial for deadly fire
Preliminary hearing to be scheduled
ARGYLE, Wis. - One of the men accused of helping start a deadly Argyle fire is found competent to stand trial.
Jeremy Wand appeared in Lafayette County Circuit Court Thursday.
A doctor testified that he had talked to Wand for about an hour as part of his evaluation.
The judge asked Wand if he's competent. Wand said "yes".
Wand's defense attorney asked the judge to order a second evaluation, but Judge William Johnston denied that request saying the legal standards were met.
"(The doctor's) opinion was that he (Wand) did have and does have substantial capacity to understand the court proceedings and to assist in his defense," Johnston said.
The 18-year-old is facing multiple homicide charges. A criminal complaint said Wand helped his older brother, Armin, light the deadly fire.
The complaint said Armin told his brother he'd pay him $300 to help start the fire that killed Wand's three children and severely burned his pregnant wife.
Sharon Wand suffered severe burns and is still recovering. A surgeon with the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison is expected to release an update on her condition Friday.
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