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So I'm fairly certain I overmanipulated my hive today, but I'd like to ask everyones' opinion on the right course of action. I've made it through several years of beekeeping but not very successful about getting honey, but I'm improving and last year while I didn't get any honey, I was able to build some drawn supers (the bees ate the honey while I was away).
So last week I had 2 supers with nectar present above my broodnest of a body and shallow, the bees had 2 superceudure cells going (one right below the "pollen box" as Walt Wright says) and I thought everything was going great so I added a box of foundation between the nest and the supers so there would be warmth and they could start drawing out more comb for this year. Well the rain came and the temps dropped tremendously over the weekend, and today I inspect and the 2 supers aren't being guarded much at all, there is no drawn comb, and the upper shallow of the brood nest is backfilled. They basically all clustered in the low temps and then the foundation made them forget they had supers up there!
So I freaked and decided I needed to do 2 things: Get the bees back in contact with the supers so I took out the box of foundation, and I quickly made a 4 frame nuc to open up the broodnest in the hopes that they won't swarm. I would add more drawn comb above the brood nest so my queen can keep laying but I ran out!
So questions are as follows:
1) Did I go overboard by building a nuc? If so, can I put the frames back in on Friday if I remove the emergency queen cells?
2) Can a supercedure cell turn swarm cell? Is there a behavior or cluster characteristic that will tell you which it is?
3) When is it appropriate to place foundation on top of the cluster?
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I see interest in how to go about making splits so I figured I would start a new thread to discuss just that.
Salty asked me how I make my splits.
So there are many different ways to make NUC splits. I will discuss 2 that I have successfully done and will also add in other thoughts based on my experience. It would be great to have others who successfully make splits chime in as well.
Basic understanding of making splits is everything is moved out of splitting yard once splitting is done. I move everything atleast 3 miles away. Well except for 2 yards and I am not going to explain why.
Method 1: Ruthlessly open up a hive and pull out all brood resting it on the hive next to me on end. I mean ALL the brood. I try to make sure all split boxes have 1 frame capped and 1 frame of open brood on it. So bottom box will have 2 frames brood, 2 frames food (1 pollen, 1 honey). The second box will be stacked on top and the same will happen with the second box. The third box will be placed on top of second box with same brood, food configuration. I forgot to mention all brood goes dead center of box! I will continue until all brood is back in the stack of boxes. Once this is done I will allow the bees to equalize inside the boxes. Meaning your nurse bees and forages will distribute themselves sort of evenly. That evening or next evening we place all the stacked boxes on a pallet so everything is 1 high. Then immediately move them to outyard/s. Next morning we cell all new splits.
***Note*** I never once mentioned about looking or finding the queen. I don't care. Everything gets a cell. Its similar to what Jim described when mentioning checking NUCs at 3 weeks and fixing those that are questionable. Again I dont care.
You can tell where your parent queens are once you check back. It will be the box that has 9 1/2 frames of brood in it.
Method 2: Shake all bees off brood and place all brood above a queen excluder for 24 to 48 hours. This will allow nurse bees to come up on brood and keep parent colony alive. I generally leave a frame of eggs or so in parent colony but not terribly concerned, if she is worth her salt she will mae up for it. Pull two frames bees and brood and place in seperate box (NUC box or full size box matters none) on a pallet in the evening. Once all pallets are filled move them to outyard/s, that night. Next morning add queen cells.
Thoughts: bees drift like alot when you tear them apart. Folks doing this for a living know that drifting means lots of foragers in a few colonies which also means those takes are at about a 30 - 50% range due to all the p^ssed off bees. Acceptance levels take a hit. So thought of taking maybe 12 pallets of doubles to outyard and making all splits as similar as above and setting them down with the bees that are on the frames and thats it. Nurse bees will be on the brood and I am thinking this will alleviate some of the mass drifting of foragers.


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I'm thinking of getting some different queens to try out.
Add a little diversity to my Italian bees.
What does everyone suggest?
Sunkist ? Hawaiian ? Cordovan ?
I'm thinking of getting some different queens to try out.
Add a little diversity to my Italian bees.
What does everyone suggest?
Sunkist ? Hawaiian ? Cordovan ?
How about Russell's Sunkist Cordovan?
Does anyone have any experience with them in Florida?
Give Miksa a call East of you in Groveland. I think he has 7 or 9 choices for you -- Russian, Buckfast, Belgian Buckfast, Carnolian VSH, Aurea (Cordovan), Italian and Karnica.
Miksa Honey Farms, 13404 Honeycomb Rd, Groveland, FL 34736, (352) 429-3447, email@example.com
What are your thoughts on the Aurea?
A quick search suggest they are gentle, quick building with large brood nest and heavy store consumers.
Do you think they are a good match for our environment?
Firstly; Cordovan is not a species or subspecies. It's only a color variation. See Glenn Apiaries website for an explanation. You can have Cordovan Italians, Cordovan Buckfast, Cordovan Anything. I've used Italians from GA, HI, FL, CA, MS, TX with good results in our climate. Russians did not work out for me. Carniolans are cold country bees. I believe the Aureas are also Italians. I've bought a bunch of cells from Dave Miksa; good bees, good people to deal with. Bob Harvey has some excellent queens and cells also and advertises on this site. Kevin Jester, Jester Bee Co.; last year had some awesome performing Cordovan Italians. I have maybe 20-30 hives with Sunkist queens, no complaints and will order a couple of their breeders this year! Most of mine are queens we raised from Glenn Apiaries breeders, specifically Hygenic Italians. I buy cells from other breeders to keep good diversity in our drone supply. Italian bees come closest to being from a climate similar to ours in FL and have always worked best for me.
Latshaw and Douglas are Cordovan breeders/rearers.
Cordovan is a recessive trait. Aurea are the Italian Cordovan.
The Cordovan genetic trait was used to study AHB at USDA ARS. The picture of the dark bee next to the light bee are Cordovan Italian and Africanized.
Thank you guys very much for your replies.
I'm getting into an area where I'm in need of education and need to proceed with caution.
I'm not unhappy with the queens I have but dont really have enough experience to judge thier performance. Much of the banter on the internet about specific queen line performance needs to be qualified and is in some ways not objective. Assessments from a keeper 3 states away that tried a few of one type of queen for one year isn't as helpful as your input.
I'm interested in the Cordovan trait as a tool to help me measure my success in introducing them. My plan is to use 2 small yards of 10 hives each ( about 1 mile apart) and requeen 5 hives each. The old hives will have all capped drone brood destroyed as they produce it. Once I have drones from the new queens I'll graft and open mate new queens. I don't want to requeen everything with something different it kind of feels like "throwing the baby out with the bath water". I like to keep my mistakes small at the risk of smaller improvements.
What do you think of my plans?
The Cordovan trait will quickly tell you when queens have been superceded or mated with dominant sub-species. The ARS study is a prime example.
Thanks for the photos.
I know the official line is " you can't tell AHB by looking at them"
That said having a Cordovan trait in my bees would give me a good idea
where my queens are mating and how much feral or outside breeding is
going on.
I have hives that have requeened themselves three times in a year and who really
know what drones they mated with? They still act like my bees but of course some
throw different colored bees.
You will have the exact same problem if you switch to all Cordovan colored queens. The only way to control the mating process, unless using instrumental insemination, is to have totally isolated yards and with all the bees, feral and managed, in FL you are not going to find an isolated location. In addition, since the Cordovan trait is recessive it goes away fast. I've had mostly normal Italian colored bees result from the Cordovan queens we've brought in. To get Cordovan colored workers the Cordovan queen must mate with Cordovan drones; since she can mate with up to 25-30 drones what are the chances she'll luck onto even one Cordovan drone, much less all the drones she mates with? Your five drone mothers in each yard just will not provide enough drones to affect the matings. BTW, studies have shown that virgins do not usually mate with drones from the same hive or drones from the same yard because the queens fly much farther in search of a suitable drone congregation area. This is nature's way of guaranteeing diversity and lessening the chance of inbreeding. You can find a suggested mating yard setup on the Russian Queen Breeder Assoc. website. Generally, the drone mothers should be spaced in several yards around the mating yard and at a 1/2-3/4 mile radius away from the mating hives.
Thinking about it more this might be a better project for early in the season next year.
The logistics will be easier if I start fresh with splits and Nucs. I just need to figure out how to get and maintain the stock I decide on so that my hives are ready to build up fast at the first hint of spring.
I think the areas I have to use are better choices than others and I will just have to try my best to saturate with drones. If I can just create a situation where the local drone population is a little better than what I have I'll be happy.
If there is anyone keeping bees very near Weeki Wachee and would like to share info shoot me a PM or email @ mnbbeck@yahoo. C o m . I think I have a fair idea what's in the area???
Maybe I'll just skip the Italian bee idea and try Russian/Primorsky queens. Can I keep a few hives in each of your yards? Hehehe!
Thanks to both of you for your suggestions
Long as you stay on the west coast you can try all the Russian(bees from Hell) you want!


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Here are my blocks 19 & 20.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Here are my 19 & 20. I have done a lot of blocks I'm not wild about, some of which may not get to be a part of the quilt when I put it together; however, I do like these two.
Very nice ;)Originally Posted by violetsfarm
I just love to see how different everyones interpretation of these blocks are. Great job everyone. Thanks for sharing ;)
I love all the blocks! Love the different color combinations! I'll post mine soon...
Now to get my scanned blocks to come on the scene:
Churn dash (wooden paddle,butterstickingtoit)
Checkerboard (one corner is different)
janRN, I love both your blocks, #20 love the contrast! #19 is so colorful! I just ripped out one side of #19 have to recut the fabric. I am so disgusted with myself and this block. I think I have a mental block or something. AnneOriginally Posted by janRN
QNS: I love love that aqua paisley!! Can you tell me where you got it? Your blocks are gorgeous!
Anne thanks for the compliments!! You all are so encouraging-I'm actually liking doing scrappy (although I agonize over matching the fabrics in each block).
My FWS blocks 19 & 20
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Located in Condado, San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino is within a few miles (5 km) of popular sights such as Puerto Rico Convention Center and Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. This 527-room, 4-star resort welcomes business and leisure travelers with 2 outdoor pools, a casino, and a restaurant. On the beach, it's also near Castillo de San Cristobal and Hiram Bithorn Stadium.
Enjoy a bite to eat at La Vista Latin Grill, the resort's onsite restaurant. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café. For your convenience, a buffet breakfast is served for a fee each morning from 7 AM to 11:30 AM.
San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino's 527 air-conditioned rooms provide balconies, refrigerators, and coffee makers. 47-inch LCD TVs come with satellite channels, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi and wired Internet. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries, and beds are dressed in premium bedding. Laptop-compatible safes, phones, and ironing boards are other standard amenities.
Guests of San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino have access to 2 outdoor pools, a casino, and a children's pool. Valet parking is available for USD 25.00 per day. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this beach resort include a 24-hour fitness center, a spa tub, and a sauna.
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San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino
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This Puerto Rico resort is within 4 km (2.5 mi) of Old San Juan and San Cristóbal Castle. The resort's 24-hour, 12,800-square-foot casino offers Caribbean stud poker, blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, and slot machines.
Guests enjoy complimentary use of the spa's fitness center and women's and men's saunas.
A 24-hour business center includes computers with high-speed Internet access (one hour complimentary per day) and rents 13-inch TV/VCR combinations.
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
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San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino offers 527 air-conditioned accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and coffee/tea makers. Rooms open to balconies. Beds feature premium bedding. 47-inch LCD televisions come with premium satellite channels. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, bathrobes, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
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Where to Eat
La Vista Latin Grill - An air-conditioned ocean-view dining room with outside terrace, it serves breakfast and dinner buffets and á la carte selections. Friday and Saturday nights offer a "Prime Rib" buffet with fresh seafood, a prime rib carvery, paella, seasonal salads and vegetables.
La Isla Beach Bar - This poolside spot with a swim-up bar serves tropical drinks, sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs, and salads for lunch. Bar service runs from late morning to early evening.
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A two-level courtyard pool complex features a 27.5-m (90-ft) spiral waterslide, a children's pool, and an activities pool measuring approximately 19.75 x 19.75 m (65 x 65 ft). The activities pool includes a swimup bar and adjacent spa tub.
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Treatments at the onsite Ocean Club Spa include body wraps, facial treatments and massage. Advanced reservations required for spa treatments.
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- A few companies are developing supersonic business jets
- Spike Aerospace has a model that will be built without windows, but will instead have flatscreens lining the cabin
- The biggest challenges to supersonic flight is cost and mitigating sonic boom
Concorde is a thing of the past, but a number of companies are racing to release the first supersonic business jet.
Aerion Corporation is working on a jet that would reach Mach 1.6 and would possibly be ready for release by 2020, while Spike Aerospace has announced plans for the S-512, a business jet that could travel at speeds of Mach 1.8 and would be available by 2018. So why has it taken nearly 50 years to revisit the concept?
According to Vik Kachoria, president and CEO of Spike Aerospace, one of the main issues that plagued the Concorde was the sonic boom -- the disruptive noise that results from the shockwaves created when an object travels faster than the speed of sound.
"At its worst, the sonic boom would sound like a loud thunder clap over your head. It would rattle windows and loosen roof tiles. It was pretty jarring. If you lived under the Concorde's flight path, you might hear it several times a day," he says.
The effect was so disturbing that most countries either banned supersonic flights, or restricted them from traveling over land. Understandably, this is an issue that the aerospace industry has needed to address in order to make supersonic flight viable.
A plane without windows?
Kachoria notes that currently, it makes more sense to develop supersonic business jets than larger commercial aircraft, because the plane's diminutive size results in a smaller boom.
While he's remained tight-lipped about many aspects of the design (some are still awaiting patent), he recently announced that the S-512 will be built without windows (except for the one the pilots see out of), a feature that will reduce drag and overall cost of the unit.
"Even at subsonic speeds, windows add a tremendous cost to the aircraft because the fuselage has to be designed to support those windows. If you eliminate all that, you create piece with less structural issues, less manufacturing costs, and less parts count," he says.
It sounds like a claustrophobe's nightmare, though Kachoria has attempted to compensate for the windowless design by installing flatscreens, which can either display the view outside, or can be used to show a movie or PowerPoint presentation -- should a conference need to take place in the air.
"It's not a new concept, but in the past we didn't have the technology -- the flatscreens, or digital cameras to capture the resolution, or the ability to stitch together cameras to create a seamless panoramic view," he says.
Overall, the saving in manufacturing means each unit will cost between $60 million to $80 million.
It's all in the wing
According to Aerion, the main detriment to producing a supersonic aircraft in the near future isn't the boom (an issue even Kachoria admits is still another 15 years or so from being fully resolved), but the cost.
"The reasons speeds haven't changed much since the 1960s has more to do with economics than technology. You just can't have supersonic travel at the rock-bottom fares most passengers prefer" says Jeff Miller, the director of communications for Aerion.
"Those constraints don't apply to business jets, so it's most likely supersonic technology will be applied there first. Even so, economy of operation is important, mainly in terms of fuel efficiency. If you can't find a way to reduce fuel consumption, you won't have a supersonic jet that will get you very far," he adds.
When the Concorde slowed down to below Mach 1, it burned though more fuel. Aerion has been researching ways to compensate this with the development of the supersonic natural laminar flow (SNLF) wing, which it has been testing in conjunction with NASA.
The wing, which is thinner and shorter than typical plane wings, has been proven to reduce friction drag by 80%, and overall airframe drag by 20%.
"The more drag, the more power required to push a wing through the air," explains Miller.
A resolution?
While work is being done on the sonic boom issue, neither Aerion nor Spike expect to release a jet before it's resolved completely. The early models will likely only be able to reach high speeds when traveling over seas.
"We don't have the sonic boom issue resolved yet," admits Kachoria, "you wouldn't be able to fly above Mach 1 between New York and Los Angeles, for instance. But between Tokyo and LA? You'd see a big time savings."


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by Vagabond, Feb 10, 2013.
perhaps. i guess they are in keeping with the boob shimmy in the sp in terms of being hideous. what is her LP music? I have watched each of her competitions through out the year, and the music has failed to stick to my memory.
What beautiful young ladies, all of them! Agnes looks so much better with her hair down. Is Gracie really so much more tiny than Agnes/Christina, or are the others in higher heels, or perhaps the camera angle?
I've always thought that if the Olympic contending skater and the Harvard gig didn't work out, Christina could do well as a model. She is so stunningly pretty. Poor thing, so few opportunities in life
Gracie Gold's sp music: Hernando's Hideaway; lp music: Life is Beautiful (Jeremy Abbott used this for his lp 2010 - 2011)
I don't see anything terrible about Gracie's music choices this season. I'm sure she will be challenged with better choreography and perhaps more interesting music choices as her skating continues to develop.
What music do Gracie's critics think she should skate to?
Yes, they all look gorgeous and relaxed in this photo. Agnes has got huge pretty eyes, and a distinctive heart-shaped face.
Yes, perhaps Agnes is wearing heels and Gracie isn't, because they appear to be about the same height on the podium at the awards ceremony in Omaha.
It's from "Life is Beautiful". I've never seen the film but I read about it. I believe it was mentioned a few times on this board that that is where the marching bit (which I can't stand) in Gracie's choreo comes from.
@aftershocks I don't have a problem with the music choices for Gracie's programs. It's really the choreography which is dreadful imo.
Pretteeee laydeeez!
Gao is going to be so as she gets older.
And I still can't get over how much Gracie looks like my dear friend Rosie. Absolute doppelgangers. She has my support for this reason.
Well, thanks to most for not taking offense to my inquiry; a few people got snippy but that was to be expected . I wasn't being passive-aggressive...I was just curious if perhaps I was missing something others were not.
As for now Gracie's skating does nothing for me but I do think her jumps are amazing when she nails them. My main thing is I really want her to be a full package skater; not just a jumping bean with a pretty face. It's obvious it's going to take her a few years to get there (assuming she can) so for now I'm just going to have to be patient and curb my annoyance with the media regarding her. The way Phil and the rest go on about her, you'd think she was this well-rounded skater and she's not yet.
I really do hope she has strong performances at worlds. The judges like her when she hits her jumps so hopefully she'll be able to control her nerves and deliver two decent skates...
That picture of all four ladies is beautiful! I wonder how close all of the girls are? From what I've seen from backstage video, Ashley and Agnes seem to be really good friends and I think Christina and Mirai are kinda close...I think Christina is also pretty close with Maia too. I'm always curious about how skaters interact with each other when they aren't competing against one another. People used to make a big fuss about Michelle vs Tara back in the day b/c they were so competitive with each other. I haven't sensed a real "rivalry" in US skating in years, though I think that's b/c the top skaters seems to flip flop and shuffle every year.
Exactly: there is no time for a rivalry to brew, and thus there isn't one.
^I would just like to add my $.02 re Gracie.
She's fast and powerful, and her jumps (when she's on) are among the best in the world. Her spins (lots of LV 4s), fw, and even her spiral have improved markedly this year. But since her elements by themselves are so good, it probably stands out even more that her choreography and interpretation are lacking. There's something pageant-y about her skating - 'OK. Smile right now. thrust your arm in the air here. Boob shimmy. check. Rockette kick, check.'
Now, I see both sides of the argument - Gracie is new to the Senior ranks and she deserves a break. For all of her inconsistencies, she's generally transitioned well into the current pressure cooker of Senior ladies. OTOH, her peers like Adelina and Liza are doing a better job of being a 'presence' on the ice outside of technical maneuvers in many ways. Someone brought up Sasha and the Kween in their teen years. So, a young skater CAN effectively do it. Maybe, Ouriashev is just a good tech coach and she needs outside help on packaging?
ITA. Gracie is not just a jumping bean. Her spins, for example, are really world class. It's even more amazing if you compare her spins now to the ones she was doing a year ago. My hope is that she will spend the summer working as hard on her choreography as she did with her spins during the previous one. If she can keep her head together, the TES score will be huge, possibly unbeatable. Now she needs to focus on the PCS. I think her team is aware of this, but we'll see.
^^Her spins are nicely centered and fast, though I would like to see her work on her extension a little more. And please, please someone make her do a classic layback! I really hate how the US ladies are getting lazy with the layback like the Russians. But then again if you can get the points without doing a classic position (which is tougher), why bother? Meh.
Who is Gracie's choreographer? It's not her coach is it? I'd like to see Gracie work with Lori, but NOT in terms of choreography. She needs to find someone else for that b/c with the exception of Carolina and Mao, Lori's choreography is pretty blah now. But Lori could teach Gracie about listening to the music, flowing with it and feeling it...that whole ooze thing.
Aside from consistency and some more mature choreography, that's all Gracie's missing at this point.
Gold's choreographer is Scott Brown. He also choreographed for Agnes Zawadzki (FS), Angela Wang (SP), and Ashley Cain this season. ETA: Brown choreographed Mariah Bell's programs before this season (I consider her one of the more naturally musical skaters).
'Life is Beautiful' is a powerful movie, very emotional. It makes me cry to watch it even as a repeat. For those who don't know, it's the story of a father who uses games to shield his young son from the horrors of the holocaust, even while in a concentration camp.
It's a real stretch for a very dramatic, expressive skater to interpret. Not sure what Team Gracie were thinking when they took it on. I wonder if she had seen it. She's not ready for that type of music.Oh well, Maybe she can watch it in London the night before her LP and it will draw some emotion from her. That would help her PCS a bit, seriously.
I think a good deal of Oksana, Sasha, Michelle, Adelina, and Liza's performance -and artistic qualities are innate imo rather than acquired. Some qualities simply can't be taught but I do think with lots of hard work one can markedly improve especially in expression, line, extension, toe point and so on.
Still, I think a simple, genuine interest in artistry can go a long way, even if a skater is not 'artistic' at the moment. It may be that he or she hasn't had any decent exposure to art?
This may sound silly but using myself as an example - I never though about Opera, but once I met my current BF and he took me to several, I got the meaning of Opera and could feel its passion coursing through me during any performance. I don't know how that would translate to a skater, but maybe not having exposure to art might hinder artistic growth. Gracie has nice extension and is very capable of good toe point and acquiring great line, so maybe she needs people around her that 'handle' her less (that's what it looks like anyway) and allow her room to 'feel' music by letting her experience it personally.
But, Worlds is in less than a month, so short term, she just needs to bring together all that she has in her arsenal at this point, hope the PCS gets carried along somewhat by a Nationals-like performance in both the SP and LP!
Personally, I'd rather not have a repeat of her Nationals SP at worlds.
erm yes. I was writing too fast. I meant to say well executed performances in the SP and LP, with the LP like at Nationals
That's very true. Look at Irina. She made improvements to her presentation but Irina was not a graceful or lyrical skater. Whenever she tried it came off looking forced and disingenuous. Eventually she gave up trying and played to her strengths which, to me, was much better than her pretending to be something she was not.
It's possible that Gracie won't be a very lyrical or expressive skater. As of now I don't see any innate artistic qualities about her. If that's the case, she and her team will have to develop a style of skating that works for her.
Well from your comments, I guess you kinda do like Gracie, really like her. Sounds as if you're frustrated with the media hyping her. Yes, better to ignore that, and indeed, practice patience. Figure skating is never a slam dunk.
From your last paragraph, sounds like you're eager for a rivalry to bloom. On-ice rivalries are great, but off the ice they're just so not necessary and IMHO, detrimental.
I do like Gracie! I never said I didn't! I'm annoyed with the hype simply b/c she's a strong jumper but not much else even though the media is hailing her like she's ready to beat the best in the world even though she hasn't really accomplished much yet. Given her high level of technical content it would suck if she never developed the artistic side of her skating. I love a balance of both and right now she's all technical. But, patience is a virtue...we'll just have to see.
I'd love a rivalry! Not the ugly side of it...I want the competitive side. The reason the ladies field is so deep in Russia and Japan right now is b/c of the level of skating at home. The competition in the US is getting tougher, but think about what the competition would be like if the girls from Russia had to compete against the US girls...
Their technical level is much more demanding which means in order to move up, those skaters have to produce the goods. We need a rivalry/competitive atmosphere like that in the US.
I think the competitive atmosphere in the US is as tough if not tougher then any other country in the world. Besides over 50 some years of being the most dominating country in Ladies skating should tell you how competitive it has been here. And to be honest Russia has never had the depth the US has. Until about 3-4 years ago the Russian Ladies were in some serious hurt. Let's see where they are in about 7-8. Same with Japan.
I just can't get over the fact that a U.S. lady hasn't medalled at worlds since 2006. Wow!
Well that's my point. I'd love the see the US return to it's former glory in terms of always having a top level world competitor. US ladies have been in a slump since 2007. The power shifted to Japan and Yu-Na Kim (S. Korea). Now we're seeing Russia producing strong skaters and they are just hitting the full-time senior level of skating. It'd be great to have a US skater who is clearly a top 3 finisher again...
Ashley has a shot at top 3 but I think it's fair to say she has to be pretty much flawless and she'll have to rely on the top ladies to make mistakes. It'd be nice to have a Mao/Carolina/Yu-Na type skater from the US again.
I think part of the problem is that US coaches were slow to adapt to the new scoring system. Plus the USFS seemed to be looking for the new Michelle Kwan instead of realizing that is never going to be another MK. I think we are finally over that now.
It's also not helped by very few US ladies during that period having clean jumps. US Ladies get clobbered by underrotations, not to mention horrible inconsistency when it comes to triple-triples (and when they hit them, they are frequently underrotated). I think we're paying for too many years of little girls learning triple jumps badly just to be able to do triples as early as possible.
For whatever it is worth......I think Gold is great, and a fine choice for the World Championships. I do, however, think her skating (jumps and spins aside) lack polish, attention to detail and sophistication. I hope that she has a team around her (a la "Ice Castles") that can help her maintain her technical edge while she "grows into" seniors.
Her chest shaking thing is a good example of "cutsie" that isn't really what she wants or needs to be projecting. She has a little journey to take.........and most of the really good skaters took the same journey. Michelle (the jumping bean) to Michelle the artiste. Sarah Huges (although I will argue about her skills) realized she had to work on her "in betweens". I think Sasha was the only skater I can think of who never had to work on her musicality or finishes. Tara was always young and appropriate, a great technician who selected programs that were appropriate and served her well as vehicles to show case her talents.
Hopefully Gracie is with or will be with people who can take her to the next level in her skating.
Also it seemed like the up and comers post Sasha and Michelle really focused on being uber flexible as opposed to technique. I can see why-Sasha was very successful under COP. But during Sasha's era of COP, the downgrades were not as severe.
Also I miss the rivalries where the ladies were not friends, giving each other fake hugs.LOL!!
That's the thing that intrigues me, I don't think Sasha, Michelle or Tara would've struggled too much under COP because urs weren't really their thing, edge problems were another story, but that's a problem for most all of the ladies even today. The only top U.S. lady that I can think of that had rotation issues was Sarah Hughes and they were quite pronounced, she would've been eaten alive were she to skate today.
I found Irina though very sloppy....At least Gracie isn't that. But I personally think there's very little connection to music on Gracie's end...I think cheerleader was kind of right on. However, I think that could change.
This being said I think you can appreciate some things about someone's skating and hope for more on the other things. Those jumps are great! The spins are good too.


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Rigby boy battles life-threatening illness, wants date with Ellen
RIGBY, Idaho - Having spent most of his life in the hospital, 7-year-old Tayt Andersen needs a heart transplant. But what he wants is to meet the woman who's been there through it all.
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He is out of the hospital for now, but Tayt is far from in the clear. He needs a new heart, and fast.
"I would love to see him date, go to college, grow up and be something, but the reality is, that's not necessarily our outlook," said Andersen.
As the holidays get closer Tayt is making his first wish.
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He wants to go to Disneyland, and he wants talk show host to be his date.
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Although Tayt does have a life-threatening condition, Andersen said one of his surgeries make him ineligible for The Make A Wish Foundation.
We talked to Primary Children's and they say that after Tayt's Fontan surgery he was no longer in an immediate life-threatening position. The surgery provided a temporary fix for his heart, but Tayt's battle will continue to be an uphill one. He has just a few years to find a new heart, as he battles his other health concerns. So "Nana Lori" is stepping up.
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Rothfuss, Joan. "Andy Warhol." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Today, Andy Warhol's name is as widely recognizable as those of Marilyn, Elvis, Jackie, Liz, Campbell's Soup, and Coke, some of his most famous subjects. For many people, the name Warhol is also synonymous with glamour, fame, hucksterism, money, and all the excesses of postwar American consumer culture. His life traces the classic American dream: he was born in Pittsburgh to working-class immigrant parents, and built a successful career in the 1950s as a New York commercial artist. He reinvented himself in the 1960s as a Pop painter and avant-garde filmmaker, then transcended the art world to become a wealthy international celebrity who was pursued by groupies and paparazzi. Warhol's work, too, transgressed categories and pushed at the boundaries that defined what art could be, ultimately transforming the aesthetic landscape through the unlikely agency of trashy, offhand films and deadpan paintings of banal subjects. Many of his works were made by committee, with the artist directing a band of cronies in the studio he called the Factory. Critic Edmund White called him a "brilliant dumbbell,"1 and he was not alone in wondering if Warhol's success was attributable to a serendipitous combination of intuition, timing, savvy, and ambition more than simply to native intelligence and talent. But the artist insisted there was no mystery. "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."2
Warhol had his first New York solo exhibition in 1962 at the Stable Gallery. The eighteen works presented gave viewers a look at what would become his signature devices: a compositional structure based on the grid, and the use of silkscreen to apply photographic imagery to his canvases. The grid had figured in his earlier pictures of airmail stamps and S&H Green Stamps, but these were "painted" using stencils cut from balsa wood or rubber stamps carved out of gum erasers. Warhol first used photo-silkscreening for Baseball (1962), a repeating grid of news photos showing Roger Maris hitting a home run. Subsequently, he relied on newspaper photos as well as celebrity head shots, advertisements, comics, and all manner of found images as sources for his pictures, and silkscreening was a quick, inexpensive, and accurate way to transfer them onto canvas. The smudges, missed alignments, and inconsistencies were always accepted, and give the works a handmade appearance despite the industrial process. There are clear connections between these works and Jasper Johns' flags, targets, and alphabet grids, and Robert Rauschenberg's embrace of newspaper imagery,3 but Warhol had found his own very modern voice by privileging mechanical techniques and serial imagery over the gestural brushwork and personal content favored by Johns and Rauschenberg.
Repetition as a condition of modern life is perhaps most pervasive in the mass media, where iconic images, faces, and slogans appear again and again and again, moving from print to television to billboards, changing scale and color, being copied, cropped, degraded, and enhanced—but always remaining the same. Warhol brilliantly exploited this monotonous barrage, lining images up so that the profusion could be understood, then freezing them in place. The melancholy, black-and-blue Sixteen Jackies (1964) quotes from the incessant television coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, after which footage of the same events (inauguration, motorcade, funeral) was repeated for weeks. The Jackie canvases followed other death and disaster series, including the Car Crashes, Suicides, Electric Chairs, and Race Riots, which were based on photos from tabloids and movie magazines. Even his Marilyns, painted after her death, might be seen as portraits of a suicide. Perhaps Warhol was attempting with these pictures to quiet his own purported fear of death through familiarity and repetition. "When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn't really have any effect," he told an interviewer in 1963.4
In 1964, when Sixteen Jackies was painted, Warhol's Factory was in full swing, populated each day with various assistants, friends, visitors, and hangers-on. Many were there to work on his films, a medium with which he was becoming increasingly involved; others helped him produce the paintings and sculptures. Some of these were on view in his second solo show at the Stable Gallery, in early 1964, which featured a profusion of grocery-carton sculptures—hand-painted and silkscreened facsimiles of boxes for Brillo soap pads, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Heinz Ketchup, and other products. Warhol stacked the boxes in towers so that the gallery resembled the back room of a supermarket, and priced them inexpensively at $200 to $400 each.5 They sold poorly, but the show was a critical success, and the boxes—quintessential Pop objects—have become an important part of a larger conversation about appropriation that begins in the 1910s with Duchamp's "readymades," includes Johns' painted bronze beer cans of 1960, and continues into the 1980s, when Richard Prince rephotographed magazine advertisements.
In 1968 Warhol was shot and nearly killed by Valerie Solanis, a sometime Factory denizen and actress who had had a bit part in one of his films. Most observers mark the event as a turning point in his work as well as his life. Post-shooting, he hired himself out as a portraitist to the rich and famous, turning out idealized likenesses based on his own Polaroids rather than the mass-media images he'd used during the previous decade. He produced new images of Marilyn, Mao, and others, but in negative (the Reversals), and began sprinkling glittery diamond dust (a powder obtained during the manufacture of industrial diamonds) on his canvases.6 Toward the end of the 1970s, he returned to self-portraiture, but the blank cool of his 1960s canvases is gone; the late self-portraits include haunting images of Warhol's disembodied head, with gaunt face and fright wig, floating on dark fields of color; expressionistic memento mori featuring a human skull; and poignant photographs of the artist in skewed drag, wearing provisional makeup and cheap wigs and looking very mortal indeed.
Finally, Warhol turned to abstraction—Warhol, whose soup cans and Marilyns had helped end the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, and whom de Kooning had accused of killing art, beauty, and even laughter.7 The Oxidation, Shadow, Rorschach, and Camouflage series of the late 1970s and 1980s approach the sublime in spite of banal sources and abject materials. The majestic, phantom Shadows were based on photographs of dramatically lit pieces of paperboard, and the Oxidations are canvases prepared with copper metallic paint on which the artist and others urinated, turning piss into cash in an alchemical revision of Action Painting.
Warhol's immense body of work includes thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, films, photographs, multiples, and books—a cornucopia whose bounty hasn't dimmed the appetite or enthusiasm of his public. Increasingly, he seems a crucial part of our focus on the proliferation of images and spectacle in contemporary culture, and the increasing overlap of art, consumption, entertainment, and information. Warhol understood long ago that the distinction among these realms would not hold. "I believe media is art," he said, and he made it so.8
Quoted in Arthur C. Danto, "The Philosopher as Andy Warhol," in Callie Angell et al., The Andy Warhol Museum (New York: D.A.P., 1994), 81. ↩
From a 1967 interview, quoted in Kynaston McShine, Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989), 457. ↩
Rauschenberg was unfamiliar with the photo-silkscreening technique when he visited Warhol's studio in September 1962. After querying Warhol about it, Rauschenberg began using it himself the following month. Warhol was dismayed, fearing that he would be accused of stealing the idea from the older, better-known artist. See Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, eds., Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1997), 561, and David Bourdon, Warhol (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), 131–132. ↩
Interview with G. R. Swenson, quoted in Bourdon, Warhol, 142. ↩
Ibid., 186. ↩
Ibid., 380. The Walker's collection includes an example of the latter: Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys (1980). ↩
Danto, "The Philosopher," 77–78. ↩
Quoted in Christoph Heinrich, Andy Warhol Photography, Candace Breitz, ed., exh. cat. (Hamburg: Hamburg Kunsthalle; Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 1999), 6. ↩
Rothfuss, Joan. "Andy Warhol." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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A multimedia artist avant la lettre, Andy Warhol was painter, printer, filmmaker, magazine founder, and all-around media star from the early 1960s until his death in 1987. The seminal progenitor of American Pop Art and purveyor of the glamorous celebrity lifestyle uttered the now-clichéd statement, "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." With this simple utterance, Warhol captured the volatile mix of desire, artifice, glamour, fickleness, and information overload that would define our celebrity-obsessed culture. His celebrated silkscreen paintings were often serialized portraits of rich, famous, and sometimes tragic figures of music, screen, and popular culture–such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and Jackie Kennedy. In his Factory of the late 1960s and early 1970s, he created "superstars" with that "It" quality that separated them from the ordinary. He made films that starred his creations, including Poor Little Rich Girl with Edie Sedgwick and Sleep with John Giorno. Taking part in all areas of the creative world, mainstream and underground, he was involved in the 1960s underground music scene with his musical protégés the Velvet Underground and was also instrumental in the success of Studio 54, the disco-era New York club that became the archetypal high-profile celebrity hangout. While helping to highlight, define, and foster America's obsession with the rich and famous, in 1969 Warhol also created a vehicle to both critique and celebrate that culture: Interview magazine. He also made a number of forays into television. Apart from appearing, as himself, in popular television series such as Love Boat, he also hosted two cable programs in the 1980s: Andy Warhol's TV and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes. The episodes included in this exhibition feature segments with artists Eleanor Antin and Yoko Ono, musicians The Ramones and Debbie Harry, and filmmaker John Waters and his star Divine, among many others. Warhol was the pioneer who paved the way for such current celebrity media outlets as E! Entertainment Television and In Style magazine. In addition, he has had an extraordinary influence on many of the artists in this exhibition.


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I've been cutting some wax foundation that I had in a box and using it for starter strips so that the bees could draw their own comb. It just dawned on me that they might just follow the cell size of the foundation I am using for starter strips instead of drawing their own size as I would like them to.
I'm wanting to regress my bees to 4.9, but the foundation I'm cutting strips off of is not.
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Not sure what is happening. I've scoured the forums looking for answers but nothing conclusive. Please help.
Here's what I've encountered in the last couple weeks
about two weeks ago I inspected the hive (Warre hive). Everything looked good. top box full of honey, middle box almost full of honey/brood, 3rd box empty, but comb is making an appearance. Bees are working hard, not too many hive beetles.
past two weeks: Very hot/humid in the day, very rainy at night. Lots and lots of bearding. It scared me at first but then i read about bearding and felt fine about it. It was fun to watch.
tropical storms picked up and we saw some flooding. My wife woke me up at 4 a.m. to tell me she "thinks the bees are under water." I took a look but didn't see the water level as a threat but when I woke up, there was a water-line above the hive entrance.
feeling terrible, i added some height to their foundation.
One day lots of bearding around 5 p.m. almost the entire front-side of the hive covered in bees, went to look at them again around 6:30, they were gone. Hopefully went back in, but did they? the temperature did not drop much if at all. Why would they go back in? did they swarm?
At that time i noticed some poop smears on the hive (see pic below).
Got freaked out. I know they are stressed. Decided that they were probably out of room and would add a box as soon as weather permitted.
A couple days later, as soon as the weather was right, I went in the hive: top box, unchanged, middle box, empty, dark comb. A few capped brood cells at the bottom, which is where we saw workers pulling pupae out of their cells. The pupae isn't chalky, or scaly, or brown, it was just soft and white. Up-close they looked like healthy brood. (but what do I know). We pulled the bottom box off and saw A LOT of dead pupae and larvae on the hive floor. (See pictures).
So i wonder: What is going on? What do I do? What did I do? Anything I can do?
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One inch makes all the difference.
We're living in an age of crippling convenience. As I stare out the 2x2 window of my editorial cell, I spy a man video taping the side of a building with a camera that's the size of a Lee Press-On Nail. As the mini film production continues, I notice that the gentleman is also on the phone - a mobile phone, no less. With all this wealth of information and entertainment literally at our fingertips (mobile phones, mobile computer and now Mobile Monitors), it seems we could easily evolve into a group of soft, long-fingered, spineless beings, good for one sole purpose: pressing the "on" button.
Well, if I am to be a sedentary editor who has his every whim electronically catered to, then I have a few provisos. I want my robotic harem stocked with fit video game playing goddesses, who can cook a mean chile relleno and properly cover my ass in Counter-Strike. I also want my replicator to be able to replicate itself so I can have one in every room of the house, and I want my PSOne portable monitors to have a larger screen size with true portability.
As far as the PSOne is concerned, Thrustmaster has become my savior…sort of. The Thrustmaster XL Screenmate answers the call for a larger screen (1 inch more diagonally), but ultimately fails to meet the demands of the gamer on the go. No recharging pack equates hallucinogenic mobility because you're always anchored to something. And the $150 price tag creates an ecstatic retailer while traumatizing your pocket book.
The XL Screenmate is a full-color TFT-LCD monitor. It attaches easily to the back of your PSOne with the help of the two included screws. One immediate and noticeable difference the XL has over the Interact Mobile Monitor is its hidden RF cord. It's just built into the hardware, so once you connect the XL to your PSOne, the RF plug is automatically inserted in the proper slot. Very easy!
Another difference is the absence of a metal stand with the XL Screenmate. This little bar allows you to view the Interact Mobile Monitor without having to attach it to your PSOne. While the Mobile Monitor stand doesn't provide the sturdiest support, it does give you an option, which the XL Screenmate does not. But yes, I know it's an incredibly small gripe.
Other than those niggling differences, Thrustmaster has brought us virtually the same monitor, shaped slightly different, with an extra inch for juvenile locker room bragging rights. You still get volume, brightness and picture controls as well as the all-too-useful headphone jack. And I can't forget the one item that makes this diamond in the rough nearly mobile - the car adapter, which draws power from your automobile's cigarette lighter. Very cool!
But the extra inch is the Screenmate's true crowning achievement. Who knew an added inch would bring such visual splendor and clarity? (There are so many jokes there, but today I will be an adult.) With this monitor, you no longer need to hover 3 inches from the display just to see what you're doing in Tony Hawk 2. The Screenmate is just what Dr. Game Geek ordered. Now if they could only figure out how to cut the cord...
In the end, the Screenmate turns out to be a great product, though the lack of PSOne portability (ie. battery pack) hurts. The color is sharp, the sound is clear and although it's not actually mobile, the enjoyment comes in spades. Too bad you still have to pay more for the screen than you do for the PSOne. Well, at least you get more viewing area for your buck.
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New maps ideas
Re: New maps ideas
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More open environments, most of the maps are too tiny and just littered with choke points
No thanks, Lakeview is bad enough, everyone takes Rifles and sits at the back of the map, bleeping stupid.
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I'd really like Suburbs and the Warf.
I think the metro is represented by the Downtown map, already. Actually, the Downtown Map seems to represent the outskirts, in general.
I also think about the flooded tunel on Salt Lake City, but even that could become kinda similar to the Downtown map, perhaps. Or the Boston's QZ, but that would prolly end up too similar to Checkpoint (supposedly Pittsburg's).
And I agree that the maps are OK in terms of 'closeness'. I wouldn't particularly wish for more open maps.
I had completely forgotten about the Capitol Building. That'd be a good one.
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We need more dynamic maps. I like how fog will consume a map, or how a blizzard rolls in mod-match.
I'd actually proposed this for UC3 before: a fight inside a building while the building has some collapsing effects (eg some floor parts fall off, the building tilts, causing most tiems to shift, etc).
Re: New maps ideas
Dynamic maps are always great. But different maps are needed like larger maps with more open spaces for Snipers.
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well the level of police, spying and information gathering on the public by the government today is totally insane and would never have been tolerated 40 years ago.
hell tricky dick was forced out over a few illegal wiretaps--
today the government is spying on the masses of communications by all its own citizens --looking for who knows what cause it is all secret.
today you can have "black ops and false flag operations" that kill us citizens by the very government dept that is supposed to prevent such crimes--and the media and the gov just looks the other way--
we are headed into a third world economy and third world government full of corruption and a third world society full of corruption and greed.
and no body seems to give a damn---
and that is the bigger shame.
if the government said "we need to arrest ALL white men of a certain age because they might become mass murders or terrorist!" and they have yet to do any such thing--
i would not bet against the media and the sheepel going right along with it.


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I can't wait for the next homestand.
I live in Houston and have been to Dodger Stadium a few times (I'm a big Dodger fan) but when I watch baseball on tv it really is hard to watch a game without hearing Vin Scully's voice. Milo Hamilton here in Houston isn't bad, but Vin Scully blows him outta the water. He has to be one of the greatest announcers ever!
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One of the most beautifull pictures of Dodger Stadium.
Question for Elvis and Lafferty Daniel, etc.
From the day it opened in 1962, the capacity of Dodger Stadium has always been listed as 56,000. Every stadium/arena in this country has had fluctuating seating capacities (+/- 1,000 or so) over the decades, and I'm not including the ones that have undergone major expansions. Chavez Ravine: 56,000, no changes, no matter what.
Even with the addition of those field level seats expanding the original field level some 10+ rows towards the diamond (and the obvious increase in capacity to the eyes), the capacity is still listed as 56,000.
Same thing with parts of the Pavilion seats closest to CF never being sold in order to increase the size of the Batter's Eye backdrop.
Is there some deed restriction, zoning law, fire law in City/County documents dating back 40+ years that states that the listed capacity must never go above 56,000? I would like to know.
I remember in South Florida when Dolphin Stadium first opened in 1987, there was some restriction (number of parking lot spaces?) that was placed leaving the stadium capacity at 73,000, with the last row of seats left uncompleted on purpose. The only exception was for the 1989 49ers-Bengals Super Bowl, where the last row was temporarily installed. Only in the early 1990's were the seats permanently installed bringing the capacity up to its present 75,000.
Another example is the UM Hurricanes new basketball arena which can hold 10,000. However, City of Coral Gables (a very wealthy and exclusive city with ridiculously strict zoning laws where the UM campus is located) limited the number of seats to 7,000 the first couple of years in order to gauge traffic impacts on the neighborhood. Part of the reason why the arena took some 8 years to build.
If you can answer the Dodger Stadium question, it will answer something I've wondered about for almost 30 years.
I remember a stadium that was built on land taken (I call it stolen) from a family that farmed there for about 100 years. I remember a stadium that opened WITHOUT any water fountains (I wonder how many LA City officials bank accounts were enriched). I remember a stadium parking lot that charged drivers for for parking when having to make a U-turn to leave because the game was sold out, and they didn't have tickets already. I remember a parking lot that was next-to-impossible to exit properly, especially if you were unfamiliar with the routing.
I won't even mention the LLLLOOONNNNGGG lines at the concession stands for over-priced food and drinks.
I cant recall where or when I read it, but I definitely do recalling reading that when Dodger Stadium was being designed & planned, Walter O'Malley insisted on the design featuring an easy way to expand the seating capacity to 80,000, should he, or future team presidents so desire. To date, no one has put that to use, most people may not even know or recall that O'Malley wanted that as a design feature.
In thinking back to my 2 or 3 visits to Dodger Stadium, (as an Anaheim resident I am both more of an Angel follower, as well as a patron of the nearby California League teams in the "Inland Empire"; Class "A" minor league ball.) as well as the many many times I have seen pictures & TV broadcasts it seems O'Malley wanted to follow the ""Ebbets Field Model", so to speak. When Ebbets Field was constructed originally the deep left field stands did not exist, They were later added as an extension of the original main grandstand. By removing the 2 outfield Pavilions at DS & extending the original structure around in a natural continuation, you could probably easily add 24,000 outfield seats, maybe more.
I am amazed that McCourt hasnt already done *something* with all that room he has between the foul poles, be it more seating, a club type restaurant with field views, attractions for the fans, something that produces revenue. I am not saying I want to see the Pavilions gone, I am a purist. But if I owned the team, I'd be as hungry for more revenue as anyone, I suspect even most purists would feel the same were they in McCourt's shoes, or those of any other club owner.


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As doctors and health professionals do a better job diagnosing childhood overweight and obesity, more children and their families find themselves in the uncomfortable position of trying to figure out what to do next. After all, strategies that may (or more often, may not) work for adults don't apply so much to kids. Think your 10-year-old would eagerly sign up to run on a treadmill for 45 minutes a day?
So what should you do when you realize that your child is obese? First, take a step back and do a quick assessment on his or her current nutrition and physical activity habits. Choosemyplate.gov has multiple tools to help make this simple. Check out the SuperTracker Food Tracker, where you insert one day's worth of food intake, and the program gives you a read on the caloric and nutritional value as well as how that day measures up. Add up your child's total minutes of physical activity on an average day. Does it total the 30-60 minutes per day at a moderate intensity most days of the week, or 210-360 minutes per week recommended by the 2005 USDA Dietary Guidelines? For previously sedentary children accustomed to television watching and video games, this may seem like a tall order. Children can start slowly with lesser amounts of exercise and still achieve significant benefits. And remember, for kids the goal is not necessarily weight loss, but rather decreased body mass index (BMI, weight in kg/ht in meters squared) (children "growing into" their weight) and ideally, a lifelong interest in physical activity.
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The most important predictor of whether a child sticks with a physical activity program is whether or not that program is fun. While adults might be willing to slave through the drudgery of a boring workout, kids will not. When helping your child become more active, keep the following in mind:
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Just like for adults, once a child loses weight, maintenance proves challenging. A few strategies to promote adherence include:
Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD, FAAP is the Senior Advisor for Healthcare Solutions for the American Council on Exercise, a board-certified pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, registered dietitian and board-certified specialist in sports dietetics, and ACE Certified Health Coach. She is the author of "Eat Your Vegetables and Other Mistakes Parents Make: Redefining How to Raise Healthy Eaters" and the textbook "Sports Nutrition for Health Professionals." She has been ACE certified since 1998.
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UPDATE: 3 residents displaced in morning apartment fire in Bristol, VA
BRISTOL,Va. - UPDATE 9:30
News 5 spoke with Bristol, VA Fire Chief J.C. Bolling and he tells us three individuals lived in the apartment building and have lost everything.
The Red Cross is assisting with the residents.
Chief Bolling tells us all three residents were home at the time of the fire, but were able to get out.
We are told it is too early yet to determine what caused the fire, but investigators were on scene this morning.
As of 9:30, Oak, Sycamore, and Solar Streets continue to be closed.
We are told the fire started at 207 Oak Street around 5:30 a.m.
No word yet what caused the fire, or if anyone was home.
We have learned Oak Street, Sycamore Street, and Solar Street have been closed.
We will continue to update you on air and online right here on WCYB.com
Bristol, Virginia firefighters are currently on the scene of an active fire near downtown Bristol.
We're told the fire is burning near the corner of Oak and Sycamore Streets and it started around 5:30 a.m.
We've learned Oak Street and Solar Street have been blocked to traffic.
We will have more information coming up on News Five This Weekend, starting at 7 a.m.


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