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I've spent a lot of time over on Randy Oliver's site scientificbeekeeping.com reading about varroa and CCD. If I am understanding him correctly, CCD is caused by viruses that the bee normally has. These viruses are exploding and overwhelming colonies because of the stresses placed on the colony. One big stress is varroa.
Which reinforces my intention to use essential oils in my new colonies this spring. His notion that we should be looking at virus control instead of just mite control is new for me. I do intend to follow some of his other suggestions, including using resistant stock.What occurs to me is that if mite wounds are infected with bacteria, then the bees will need to maintain a metabolically-expensive immune response for the rest of their lives in order to keep the bacteria in check (Hain 2008).
This bacterial infection has other consequences. Yang (2005) suggests that: "The increased replication of DWV in honey bees needs two components, varroa mite parasitization and exposure to a bacterial factor. This microbial challenge may naturally exist, because bacterial colonies are found on the varroa feeding sites in some bee pupae." The suppression of bacterial infection by antibiotics may help mite-infested colonies to survive. Note that "antibiotics" may include the essential oils and propolis, rather than manmade antibiotics, the overuse of which leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
If anyone is interested, the entire article can be found here:
The entire series is also available on Dr. Oliver's site along with a lot of thought-provoking information. I'm still working my way through the links.
Last edited by Rusty Hills Farm; 12-26-2012 at 06:27 AM.
Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
I have been sending bee samples to David Wick for 6 months. compared to the first non treated, the viruses have dropped greatly and DWV is non-existant. Have been using only EO'S going on 4 years no treatment for AFB or nosema for 2.
very interesting,david. please elaborate on your method of using EO's.
"Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy" Ben Franklin
I start with a 275 gal tote add 25 gal water. I have a mix of equeal parts
Tyme oil
Tea tree
Nat wintergreen
Eucalyptus 80/85
I don't have the mix in front of me but think those are the ones I use. I take 9 oz of eo's 3 oz surficant (coco wet). Mix with 2 qt water. I blend with a hand held blender and blend till it looks like milk that is the key! I then add it to the 25 gal water then mix in 225 gal syrup with a tank mixer blending as you fill the tote. I use mixture every time I feed.
This not a recommendation to treat any pest or disease!
this is just what I do!
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These are awesome! The JPP field goal one really good. Keep em coming!
Rudy was my side chick.
Haha...it's either AB's sit down TD or Plax shooting himself?
If not one of those then it's a Giants fan who couldn't take all the late 4th quarter comebacks and decided to shoot himself in the head.
"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."
That's the famous picture of Y.A. Tittle after the Steelers kicked the crap out of him in his final season. To his credit he never missed a game that season, although we didn't win many either that year.

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Music Review: Bob Dylan's Tempest
There's no denying that Tempest is Dylan's darkest piece yet, and for a man of god, he plays a damn good devil.
With no relation to Shakespeare's final play The Tempest, Bob Dylan's 35th album Tempest is giving fellow 70-something Leonard Cohen a run for his money for best record penned by an old guy. There's no denying that Tempest is Dylan's darkest piece yet, and for a man of god, he plays a damn good devil.
"Pay in Blood," Tempest's most menacing track, has Dylan singing ominously against an up-tempo guitar and piano: "The more I take the more I give/ The more I die the more I live… I'll pay in blood, but not my own." The first single, "Soon After Midnight," paints the wickedly sweet endings of harlots, with lyrics that at first seem lovey-dovey but then turn almost into the words of a maniac à la Jack the Ripper. Is the song meant to entice women to think it's an alluring piece of music? Listening to the track throws one's mind into a tailspin, attempting to crack whether Dylan is playing the role of the pied piper or the sweet old man who catcalls you next door.
It's not a surprise that Dylan answers to no one but himself lyrically; the voice changes almost manically from one line to the next. You're never really sure if what is being sung is divination, history, sarcasm, truth or confession. The love ballad "Long and Wasted Years" has one verse that suggests a more personal subject than most of Dylan's work: "I wear dark glasses to cover my eyes/There are secrets in them that I can't disguise."
Dylan is known for playing alongside the greatest musicians, and Tempest is no exception. Produced under his alter ego Jack Frost, Dylan had the pick of the litter, equipping the album with his longtime tourmates David Hidalgo, Stu Kimball and Charlie Sexton to clang on their guitars. The bright pedal steel guitar on the first track "Duquesne Whistle" basically sets up what to expect from the rest: good old-fashioned musicianship stripped of any cockiness — not that you would be able to outshine Dylan's 71-year-old cracking vocals.
My first Bob Dylan concert was in 1998, and luckily since then I have had my fair share of front row seats to Dylan's Never Ending Tour. It's truly remarkable to think that for the past 50 years people have been able to walk out of a Dylan concert feeling like they've been born again. Just as Jack Kerouac's On the Road changed Dylan's life, Dylan's music has been shaping ours. Here's to you, Dylan, for your incredible 50 years in music.


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The 19th episode of the Custom PC podcast features the panel reacting to the latest rumours about Larrabee, and how the Pentagon might be helping Intel design a GPU, and discussing Blizzard's announcement of Diablo 3. The team also discuss instancing in MMOs and how it's a problem for Conan, a first glimpse of DirectX 11 and whether it's a good idea to revist Colonization. There's also the guess the game music competition, with a bundle of Formula 1 related prizes to be won. Also, as you can see from the picture above, we've got a smart new logo!


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Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski broke his silence on Thursday when he checked in with Mut & Merloni and provided an update on his broken left forearm.
"The arm's doing all right. Just casted it up," he said. "Got a lot of time to heal now. So, there's no hurry, no rush. Just taking it week by week and day by day, and just getting it stronger every day. So, I'm improving every week. It's the offseason now, so, no time to rush it. Get it 100 percent before camp starts."
Gronkowski broke his arm for the second time early in the playoff game against the Texans when he used the arm to brace himself while falling after an incomplete pass.
"Right when I landed obviously I was in huge pain," he said. "I knew there was something wrong right when I hit. I just wasn't sure what it was. Because sometimes you get a stinger, sometimes you get a charley horse and they go away after two minutes — they just hurt real bad, real quick for like two minutes. So, I was just hoping it was that — like a quick stinger, hitting your joint in your elbow or something where it just numbs your arm real quick. I was just hoping it was one of those. But the pain wasn't going away, obviously, and obviously it broke.
"It wasn't the way I wanted to go out. Definitely it wasn't. It is what it was. That's what happened."
Despite it being the second time the arm broke this season, Gronkowski said he doesn't feel that he came back too soon.
"I couldn't really tell you if it was healed or not. It felt good," he said. "Just going into the playoff game I felt ready, I felt confident about it. Like I said, it was just a freak accident. It didn't go the way I planned. It broke in a different spot. It just happened. Obviously I wasn't planning on that."
Gronkowski originally broke the arm in the final minutes of a 59-24 rout of the Colts on Nov. 18, while blocking on an extra point. He said there was no injury prior to that play, and he doesn't regret being on the field late in a blowout win.
"It happened on the extra point," he confirmed. "I mean, it's football. You've got to be out there. It's a team game. You've got to be out there for your team. it doesn't matter when it happened. It can happen at any time. It's just a freak accident. Just got to get it 100 percent now."
Gronkowski returned for the final game of the regular season, a meeting with the Dolphins on Dec. 30, but he clearly was not yet comfortable with the arm.
"I really wasn't that confident obviously going in, because obviously I was using one hand, as you can see," he said. "I was just getting used to it and all, just getting used to the flow of the game again, it's good to get the speed down and all that, and just getting me prepared going into the playoffs, playing in that Miami game."
Despite the fact that he was not comfortable in that game, Gronkowski said he has no regrets about returning then.
"If the doctors didn't clear me and they said it wasn't smart to play in the Miami game, then I wouldn't have," he said. "But the doctors cleared me and they said I was good to go. Obviously I want to be out there whenever I can get out there. So, right when they said I was cleared, I was definitely ready to go."
To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page [1]. For more Patriots news, visit the team page at weei.com/patriots [2].
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Northern Spain, Sydney and the west coast of the United States could inspire Auckland's development, according to civic leaders and building industry chiefs.
They were asked to pick their favourite places at last week's Project Auckland lunch and were introduced by APN News & Media's Todd McLeay as people who could stimulate debate about the city's future.
Auckland Council's chief planning officer, Roger Blakeley, spoke of his love for Spain's Guggenheim at Bilbao, designed by Canadian-born architect Frank Gehry, and he referred to the "Guggenheim effect", saying Bilbao had been transformed by the development of a single building.
A building like that would be "absolutely stunning" for Auckland's Wynyard Quarter because an iconic building was proposed for that precinct, he said.
Brett O'Reilly, chief executive of Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development, spoke highly of Boston's Kendall Square, and said he too admired Frank Gehry.
Matthew Cockram, Cooper and Company chief executive, praised Portland in the US, saying it "was about the green" and his company's Britomart restoration and revitalisation in Auckland sought to bring aspects of that here.
Kim Campbell, Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive, spoke of Sydney's vision when its Opera House was created and the vision and drive which saw that difficult project to fruition.
Dean Kimpton, Aecom managing director, picked London because it was a city which worked, he said, from a transport and IT stance which he referred to as "connectivity". Transport was Auckland's most challenging issue and he praised London's underground in particular.
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Award-Winning Journalist to Lead Mobilization Against Drug Violence in Mexico
(San Francisco, May 6) -- A prominent Mexican journalist whose son was killed
by one of the country's powerful drug gangs will lead hundreds of thousands of
people in a huge public demonstration in the central square of Mexico City this
Sunday, to call for an end to violence by both the drug cartels and government
forces trying to defeat them, which has led to 40,000 deaths in just the last
four years.
Javier Sicilia this week received the 2011 "People's Choice" Human Rights
Award from Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based non-profit, for his efforts to
weave together a broadly based social movement that is calling on all
participants in Mexico's internecine drug conflict -- from the criminals,
police, and soldiers to the bankers and political officials -- to take steps to
curtail the level of violence.
"We honor Javier Sicilia as both a bereaved father and an outraged Mexican
calling for the end of this violence", said Carleen Pickard, associate director
of Global Exchange. "His prophetic voice has become the voice of the victims of
the drug war, who are demanding dignity and human rights."
In April, seven young men -- including Sicilia's 24-year-old son Juan
Francisco -- were killed for speaking out against the drug cartels. The
well-known journalist and poet chose to make his paternal grief public, and
wrote a public letter denouncing both the politicians and the criminals as
equally culpable for the violence.
"As for you, the criminals, we have had it up to here with your violence,
your loss of honor, your cruelty, and senselessness," he wrote. "You have become
cowards Š who kill children, women, and elders without any human sense. Š [Y]our
violence has become Š sub-human, demonic, and imbecilic."
Tens of thousands of Mexicans have taken up Sicilia's call, marching in
cities large and small across the country in protests organized by a new
anti-violence coalition that includes growing numbers of what has traditionally
been a politically timid middle class.
This Sunday's mass civic mobilization has been endorsed by a wide spectrum of
Mexican organizations and civic groups, and will be echoed by marches and vigils
in many other countries on Sunday, including one organized by Global Exchange at
24th and Mission Streets in San Francisco at 12:00 noon.
In addition, Sicilia will be honored along with the two other Human Rights
Award winners -- Bolivian Ambassador to the UN Pablo Solón and American
toxicologist Wilma Subra -- at a June 1 ceremony in San Francisco. The event
will include a video presentation on each winner and acceptance speeches by Amb.
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For more information on this year's Human Rights Award winners, the June 1
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text: Hey guys and gals, having a problem with my transmission. Was driving to the store and stopped at a light. When i went to take off, my truck didn't want to go. Felt like it never downshifted from OD as i approached the light and stayed in that gear. The take off was real slow. Checked the fluid and that was good. Was reading a few posts on here stating that the fluid will smell like sh** if it was bad, and no odd smell. Drove it today and it started fine. I turned around and headed back home, and it started doing it again. Seems like it gets stuck in drive, and never shifts to over drive. I will run at 55mph, and my rmps will be at 2500. I had this problem a few years ago, and a tranny flush and filter change did the trick. Maybe the same problem? It is the original transmission and has never had work done to it, outside the fluid change. Maybe a solenoid? The transmission would usually shift hard going into second. Not real hard, but not smooth like the others shifts. When cold it would also take a while to shift to OD. So maybe a rebuild or new tranny is needed? Also, probably a stupid question but is it safe to drive when if it does not shift to OD? The manual says to just use drive when towing heavy loads so I would imagine it would be?


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Paul Sings - see Paul McDermott at Festival of Voices
21/06/2013 , 10:13 AM by Kathy Gates
Paul Sings charts Paul McDermott's life through song. If you saw him recently on Adam Hills Tonight you'll know that this promises to be a witty and entertaining night out.
To win one of five double passes create a playlist of songs, (minimum 5, maximum 10), that sum up the life of a Tasmanian you love. That might be an historical figure who inspires you, someone who lives down the road or, as in Paul's case, yourself.
Add your entry to the comments section below and I'll choose five winning playlists and feature your songs and the story of your Tasmanian hero on Breakfast in the week commencing July 1.
Paul Sings
Featuring an all-star band, the show features a selection of McDermott's original songs from his early DAAS days, through to his current TV career.
Saturday July 6, 8pm at the Federation Concert Hall.
Click here to find out more and hear Paul chat to Joel Rheinberger.
Playlist of songs for my life.......
1. I want to Break Free - Queen
2. Wired for Sound - Cliff Richard
3. Rock DJ - Robbie Williams
4. Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
5. Everybody Wants to Rule The World - Tears for Fears.
Posted by: Scott George | 21/06/2013 at 10:22 PM
Walk This Way- Aerosmith
Running up That Hill- Kate Bush
Katrina and the Waves- Walkin' On Sunshine
Walk of Life- Dire Straits
These Boots are Made for Walkin'- Nancy Sinatra
Run Baby Run - Sheryl Crow
Running Down a Dream- Tom Petty
The Distance- Cake
Run with me- The Doors
Don't You Go Walking- Divinyls- for Chrissie - legend
My songs are around the theme of community spirit and making a difference, in this case $5 million dollars of difference, and are dedicated especially to the entire Hobart Mother's Day Classic Crew, all supporters, attendees and volunteers !
Posted by: Judi Adams | 22/06/2013 at 09:32 AM
Samantha - The Village People
Samantha - Hole
I Love You, Samantha - Bing Crosby
Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha - Cliff Richard
Samantha - Kenny Ball and his Jazz men
Samantha - Theater of Tragedy
Samantha - The Mantles
Samantha - Madness
Shut up and Kiss me - Paul McDermott & Fiona Horne
MMMMMMMMMM maybe there is a theme, and my desire to see Paul once again (last time was with DAAS) Trying to send a subliminal message??!!
Sammi :)
Posted by: Samantha Morris | 27/06/2013 at 09:14 AM
Its not easy being green - Kermit the Frog
Dueling Banjos - Deliverance
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell (because you don't what you've got till it's gone)
The Futures so bright i gotta wear shades - Timbuk 3
Syrinx - Debussey (for the wood nymphs)
To celebrate all the dedicated environmentalists for the last 30 years who battled to get almost 200,000 hectares of Tasmania's old growth forests world heritage listed. Wild forests that contain the tallest flowering plants on earth. Finally this week this has happened. Wonderful wonderful news
Posted by: juniper shaw | 27/06/2013 at 10:09 AM
Playlist for life in Tasmania:
1. Here comes the Sun - The Beatles
2. Somewhere over the rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo
3. Freedom - Noiseworks
4. Opportunity - Pete Murry
5. Beautiful to me - Little Birdy
Posted by: Mel Catto | 28/06/2013 at 09:21 AM
well that was a lovely Friday surprise, looking forward to the concert and to the breaki playlist. many thanks Aunty, FOV and Ryk !
Posted by: Judi Adams | 28/06/2013 at 03:25 PM
Playlist for David Walch
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
The Rolling Stones - Mona
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or Modest Mussorgsky) - Pictures at an Exhibition
Loreena McKennitt - In the Bleak Midwinter
Martha Reeves - Wild Night
Posted by: Dave Moser | 28/06/2013 at 03:25 PM
Song for Ricky Ponting as a Biography
1. Something in the water - Brooke Fraser
As the famous beer commercial from the northern half of the state suggests, the water around where Punter was born may account for his freakish ability.
2. New Sensation - INXS
On Debut for Australia in 1995, Ricky scored 96. It was then that Australia knew that just like Ricky's favourite band, they had a 'new sensation'
3. Die Young –Ke$ha
This truly horrid and trashy song is about a wild night out, just like the night Ricky had in 1999 when he got thrown out of a Kings Cross night club after being involved in a fight. 14 years later I'm sure Ricky deeply regrets the incident. I hope in 14 years time Ke$ha regrets this song…
4. Don't stop me now – Freddie Mercury
In 2007 Ricky captained Australia to its third consecutive world cup. He went through the Caribbean tournament undefeated and nothing could stop them now.
5. The Winner Takes it All – ABBA
The Ashes is perhaps the only mark on his career. He lost a total of 3 ashes series and you could see the hurt he felt each time, just like the hurt in this song.
6. Wonderwall – Oasis
As Australians have voted this to be the best song of the last 20 years, Ricky Ponting is the best player of the last 20 years. Both the song and Ricky have, and will continue to leave, a lasting impression on society.
Posted by: Owen Tubb | 28/06/2013 at 07:46 PM
Songs for Sara Douglass, an iconic Australian academic and fantasy writer who spent her final years in beautiful Tassie....
1. Amazing - Alex Lloyd
Her mind wove together fascinating and intricate plots which kept readers hanging out for what would be on the next page, in the next book...
2. Lookin Out My Backdoor - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Her imagination was working overtime, she wrote of life like could see things that others did not.
3. Hymn to Her - The Pretenders
She danced her plots around myths and legends of goddesses and deity of old. There was often a strong female presence in her stories.
4. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Because you know at the end of her books that every little thing would be alright.
5. Beautiful Mess - Kasey Chambers
Out of some of the most unexpected plot twists would come some of the most profound events that shaped her characters and stories.
6. Patience - Guns and Roses
Shed a tear cause I'm missing you.... sadly there will be no more stories but she left her fans with a smile.
Posted by: Rebecca Lyons | 30/06/2013 at 07:32 PM
A couple of terrific entries, I love the Punter & Sara efforts, so much thought and ingenuity have gone into them, this kind of talent makes me sick!!
Posted by: Edwin | 01/07/2013 at 08:43 AM
Songs for my parents
1. working class man- Jimmy Barns
2. Take me home country roads - John Denvor ( my parent's are form a farming community and I always think of them when I hear this song)
3. go your own way- Fleetwood Mac (What wonderful people my parents are. Always there to nurture but, but letting us kids find our way in life).
4.Man on the moon- R.E.M ( can you believe ..... My parents have always taught me to have an open mind).
5.Tears of heaven - Eric clapton
Posted by: Alison Thorpe | 01/07/2013 at 09:38 PM
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Königin ElisabethHauser, Johann
Königin Elisabeth [queen Elisabeth], ca 1969
coloured pencil on paper
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Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne
Hauser, Johann (1926–1996), Czech Republic
BiographyJohann Hauser was born in Pressburg – now Bratislava – in Slovakia. The child was placed in a special school and remained illiterate. Considered to be feeble-minded, at 17 years of age he was admitted to a psychiatric institution. He was described as dreamy, impulsive and quarrelsome.
In 1949 he was transferred to the psychiatric hospital in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, where he would remain for the rest of his life. Later, he became an inmate in the Haus der Künstler (House of Artists), a place for creative work attached to the hospital. His doctor, Dr Leo Navratil, encouraged then him to draw.
Johann Hauser was inspired by the portraits of film stars, images of current events and photos of engines of war that were reproduced in illustrated magazines. In defiance of the principles of representation, proportion and perspective, he invented his own style. He drew mainly women, emphasizing their sexual attributes.
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Safe Schools
How big a problem is crime in schools nationwide?
In 2001, students ages 12 through 18 were victims of about 2 million crimes at school, including about 161,000 serious violent crimes (including rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault). Also in 2001, about 29 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 reported that someone had offered, sold or given them an illegal drug on school property.14 While overall school crime rates have declined over the last few years, violence, gangs and drugs are still present, indicating that more work needs to be done.
How can schools be made safer?
Title IV of No Child Left Behind provides support for programs to prevent violence in and around schools; to prevent the illegal use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco by young people; and to foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports academic achievement. Most of the funds are awarded to states, which, in turn, award money to districts and community-based organizations for a wide range of drug- and violence-prevention programs. These programs must address local needs as determined by objective data and be grounded in scientifically based prevention activities. They must also involve parents. The effectiveness of these programs must be measured and evaluated continuously.
What is the Gun-Free Schools Act?
The Gun-Free Schools Act requires each state that receives funds under No Child Left Behind to have in effect a state law requiring districts to expel for at least one year any student who brings a firearm to school or possesses a firearm in school. Additionally, it requires districts receiving funds under NCLB to have a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system for any student who brings a firearm or other weapon to school. These requirements not only remove potentially dangerous students from the school environment but also provide a deterrent, discouraging other students from bringing firearms to school. Over time, this has the potential to make the school environment safer by reducing the number of firearms present in schools. As teachers and students feel safe in their schools, they can focus on learning.


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After 26 years, family remains optimistic they'll find missing son
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The news of three missing women being found in Ohio has offered renewed hope for a Colorado Springs couple who has been searching for their missing son for almost 30 years.
Christopher Abeyta was taken from his crib in Colorado Springs when he was seven months old in 1986.
When Christopher's mother, Bernice Abeyta, heard about the rescue in Ohio, she was too excited to sleep. She had a renewed sense of hope.
"It does give you a lot of encouragement to know that your son also could be returning some day and we believe that he will," Bernice Abeyta said.
After 26 years, Christopher's parents still believe their son is alive.
"He was a very strong, very happy child, and I'm thinking that I don't anything would get him down really," Bernice Abeyta said.
The family says they believe they know who took him. They're frustrated and disappointed with what police have and haven't done.
"'I expected more," said Gil Abeyta, Christopher's father. "I expected that there'd be more help from police than what there is."
Gil Abeyta says police accidentally destroyed evidence and have failed to follow up on potential leads in a timely fashion. Christopher's parents, both 70, say time is running out
"Is it too late? We're almost going on 30 years? Is it going to go another 40 years or who knows what and we won't be around," Gil Abeyta said.
The family is collecting signatures to get the case before a grand jury.


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Discussion in 'Chevy Silverado Forum (GMC Sierra)' started by Stonewall42, May 14, 2013.
Is this setup too much for a 4l60e to handle?
I have something like that not sure about specifics as it was about 4 years ago but the trans should be fine as long as somebody that knows what they are doing installs it. Also while you are there replace the separator plate as the check balls tend to beat the crap out of it.
yeah that was the plan, im going to forge & upgrade everything i can, i want to be able to hook a space shuttle engine to it & be able to yank the moon out of the sky & it not be a problem XD...or at least some where around there
My buddy installed the transgo SK 4l60e series L kit in my 01 5.3 4x4 with some extra parts and valve body work. Shifts great and i did have a check ball stuck in the plate so it was good timing. Now if im on it the 1-2 shift will break the rear loose even with my fat tires and the eaton diff. When it comes time to rebuild it will get the rock hard treatment with improved hard parts like sun shell and extra cluth discs but prob wont be for a long time. I believe the kit used the corvette style springs and metal plates for the accum and servo.
I've been contemplating this mod, myself. [MENTION=54375]shibby2oo8[/MENTION], what's the shift like if you're NOT on it? I don't like harsh shifts from auto trannies, hence why I ask.
Alittle firmer but not very noticeable. Its more of a shift improver/ trans life extender type deal than just performance. There were valve body issues with some years on the 1-2 shift which is why i think its alittle firmer than oe but i love it. If i get another 4l60e truck it will get it. One thing i will say is make sure an experienced guy does it because its basically machining your valve body with a handfull of new parts. Its not noticeable if you were not looking for it unless you were getting on it.
thats legit breaking loose big tires, i plan on doing 285's & i would want that at WOT, but that is what i would want is something noticeable but not harsh at part throttle. good setup!!! but i am concerned that a shift kit might be too much with my setup, i have firmer accumulator spirngs, the servos, bigger boost valve, wide & i have heard that more clutches firms up shifts as well, makes me nervous, haha, but that is also a plan on mine is to add more clutches
I have a 2002 2500 and it has a shift kit in it. wish I knew what was done to it but the tranny was rebuilt before I bought the truck. The truck only has 265 mud tires on it, but at WOT when it slams second and I mean slams second you want to be paying attention because its coming around. The thing that I hate is how hard it slams. I'm afraid I'm going to have a drive line or worse laying in the road. When I drive it normal it shifts great, nice and fast and smooth. Just wanted to share my story of my tranny and shift kit.
@aloxdaddy99 and I were both under the impression that the servo replacement was pretty straightforward -- as in remove OEM part, replace with vette upgrade, adjust your tune if you feel like it (I would), and go on with life. Is this not so?
I know that you need to make some fluid exit ports to use the servo upgrade atleast. Im not a trans guy but usually you need to accomodate the new parts with tweeks in port sizes and springs in the valve body so everything works properly. That servo controls multiple shifts so you need to make sure it wont harm the trans. Also like i said earlier is that check ball worn down the separator plate for the 1-2 shift a new servo might lodge that ball inthere.
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NC authorities: 80 dogs seized in dog fighting operation
PASQUOTANK COUNTY (WVEC) - A two-year drug investigation in Pasquotank County uncovered a dogfighting operation and ended with 80 dogs being taken from five locations, authorities said Thursday.
"We recovered one dead animal at one property and the investigation continues," Sheriff Randy Cartwright told WVEC.com.
35-year-old Desmond B. White and 37-year-old Maurice Baum face federal drug charges after authorities searched four locations in Elizabeth City earlier this month.
During that time, 45 dogs were removed from three properties in Elizabeth City and one in Camden County, officials said. Also on February 5, items used in fighting, training dogs to fight and medical supplies to treat and enhance a dog in fighting, Sheriff Cartwright noted.
Then, 35 dogs were removed from properties in Perquimans County and Pasquotank County on February 12 and February 13.
The Humane Society of the United States has been helping with that part of the investigation.
"Aggressive investigation of allegations of animal fighting is essential to maintaining community safety and protecting dogs from such gruesome cruelty," said Chris Schindler, manager of Animal Fighting Investigations for The HSUS, "We are grateful for the leadership of the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office and all the agencies involved for their dedication to this case."
"Removing these animals and putting a stop to such cruelty goes even further to maintaining a safer community and protecting the dogs and public. This was a very large operation reaching across many state lines, effects several people and communities," Cartwright said in a news release.
Officials said many of the dogs have scaring and injuries consistent with dog fighting and an emergency shelter has been opened for their car.
The Humane Society took part in two of the raids and is financially supporting their housing and care for the next 30 days until the courts determine the custody of the dogs. This case will now be turned over to the District Attorney's Office and go to the Grand Jury for appropriate charges.
No charges have been filed in the dog fighting investigation.
HSUS says the 80 dogs will be individually evaluated for potential placement with HSUS Dogfighting Rescue Coalition placement partners. PetSmart Charities is providing the necessary food, supplies and enrichment items for the dogs.
For more information, visit WVEC.


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Hiking in Iceland
Iceland is the hiker's paradise. More than half of the country lies above 400 meters (1300 feet) and the landscape is extraordinarily diverse, with large areas covered with colorful mountains, lava fields, glaciers, hot springs, lakes, and black sands. The rugged nature has been shaped by the elements to form a majestic scenery unlike any other place in the world.
Hiking trails are as numerous as they are diverse, so trek overviews for the entire country are hard to come by. Individual trails can be examined in great detail at local tourist information centres around the country. Many mountain huts are also available for booking along known paths, allowing visitors to prolong their hikes and explore their destinations in greater detail.
During the summer months, hiking in the highlands of Iceland becomes a popular pastime. The Laugavegur trail, which runs between Landmannalaugar and Þórsmörk, is as popular a destination with locals as it is with foreign visitors, and remains one of the most extraordinary walking trails in the world. It offers a great variety of landscapes, mountains in various colors, hot springs and glaciers, rivers and lakes. The difficulty of the track depends largely on the weather conditions.
Limited accommodation is offered in six huts along the trail, subject to booking, and campsites around the trails. The roads in the highlands usually open from around mid-June or later depending on road and weather conditions and are open throughout September. The roads are only accessible with a 4x4 drive vehicles and there is a daily bus schedule into the area with various companies once the season starts. Camping in the wild is not allowed within nature reserves and not recommended in the surrounding area due to environmental reasons.
Bus info
The Laugavegur trail is one of the most extraordinary walking trails in the world.
Organized hiking tours are available for booking all around the country. Day or weekend tours are popular during wintertime, and longer tours are organized during summer. You can take an organized excursion or go hiking yourself. If you organize your trip independently, caution should be exercised at all times. Make sure you bring adequate clothing and provisions, and that someone knows where you are going. Visit www.safetravel.is for further safety information and to register your travel plan in case of an emergency.
Hiking tour operators in Iceland
Other Activities
Iceland is known as one of the best places in the world for birdwatching. A large number of birds make their home along Iceland's coast, including some of the largest colonies in the world for certain types of sea fowl. Iceland's wetlands are also a conducive habitat for many species of birds.
Due to its position on the Mid-Atlantic ridge, Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world. Its unique geological conditions make for some awe-inspiring rock formations, both beneath the surface as well as above it. Various tube caves—formed by magma flowing underneath the earth's surface after lava has solidified overhead—can safely be explored through guided excursions year-round.
Cycling in Iceland
Travelling around Iceland on two wheels is both challenging and rewarding. There is no better way to experience the beauty of Iceland than from the saddle of your bicycle. Many bike enthusiasts come to Iceland to enjoy the Ring Road, the well-known highway number 1, that runs around the country. Others choose more difficult paths into the highlands.


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Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week we talk He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Issue, Avengers Assemble and Library Wars: Love & War.
Dakster Sullivan — He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Issue #4 (of 6)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,a six-part mini-series, has been an amazing ride so far. In this series, He-Man's world is not as it should be since Skeletor went back in time and screwed with everyone's future. In each issue we see Adam (and eventually Teela), face off against one of Skeletor's henchmen and get one step closer to dealing with Skeletor himself.
This issue focuses on Teela and Adam's run in with Evil-Lyn and her Warlord, Man-At-Arms. Seeing Man-At-Arms fighting against Adam and not remembering Teela was interesting to say the least, but I could still see a sparkle of his old self trying to come through. Eventually, he, like Adam and Teela, starts to remember things of his former life, before Skeletor changed the course of history. The issue ends with a really good cliff hanger and I'm eager to see what happens next.
As far as the series goes, She-ra is absent from this world, and since I know absolutely nothing about the character, I'm not missing her. Skeletor is true to his evil roots in his dialog and his attitude towards his henchmen's failures at killing Adam.
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Another new member intro
I will start with a quick run down of how i got here. I am 2 classes away from finishing an associates in managment. About 18 months ago I was bitten by the tech bug (building little static sites for small businesses) and it has only gotten stronger. Now i am thinking about switching from my management degree to an IT degree once i get my A.S. this semester (my current school has a CNSS endorsed B.S. in info tech and security).
I started researching this IT field about a week ago after talking with a few people who are knowledgeable about this topic (for those who want to know, i found this site by googling "CNSS"...1st page results). So far i have had a hard time finding solid info from a "hands on" source.
I really just want to know what i should expect to get out of this type of work? What knowledge do you use the most (hardware, programming, neither)? Is a specific degree that focuses on info security the way to go or should i get a more general degree (computer sciences?)
And lastly, is there any way i could jump in before switching majors and try some of this kind of work at home? I have been playing with HTML, CSS, JS, and a little php for the past 18 months...will any of that carry over to this?
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Schools Provide Wraparound Student Support
A commitment to closing achievement gaps requires more than simply offering rigorous academics. All of these schools recognize that if their students are to be successful, the school community must offer a variety of supports. This understanding is summed up in the YES school motto, "Whatever it takes!"
Easily accessible adult support. At these schools, time is made for students, and adult support is easily accessible. As charters, the schools have the flexibility to more quickly allocate resources and make staffing decisions based upon student needs and school mission. For example, each of the schools provides a relatively low student-to-teacher (e.g., 22 to 1). Many schools have contracts with either full-time or part-time specialists, among them social workers, counselors, parent liaison translators, and special education resource specialists. Gateway has the full-service Learning Center that is open to any student experiencing academic difficulties, irrespective of whether the student has a diagnosed learning difference. The Learning Center provides, among other things, subject-area tutoring, an alternative exam environment, assistive technology, reading support, academic counseling, and referrals for diagnostic testing. A quarter of the student body regularly attends after-school tutoring. To explain the value of the Learning Center to funders and new staff, Gateway uses a vignette that relates how the center significantly changed the learning experience for one of Gateway's first students (see fig. 7).
Fig. 7: Gateway High School's Learning Center Vignette
Gateway High School
The Learning Center in Action -- Cynthia, Gateway Student
With her parents' support Cynthia decided to take a chance and enter the inaugural class of Gateway High School. Early in her 9th grade year along with her classmates, Cynthia was screened by the Learning Center and found to have a moderate learning disability in the area of visual processing. The Learning Center provided a year of remediation around language development, in addition to tutorial and other supports. In Cynthia's sophomore year, the Learning Center arranged a pro bono assessment through a private educational therapist, who more thoroughly described the areas of difficulty that she was experiencing. The Learning Center informed her teachers who then were able to work more effectively with Cynthia.
Gateway's commitment to Cynthia was outmatched only by Cynthia's commitment to her own academic efforts. With free tutoring provided by the Learning Center as well as regular consultation with her teachers, and armed with tools such as books-on-tape and accommodations like extended time on her SAT and AP exams, Cynthia flourished. This formerly reluctant learner and shy young woman, became president of her senior class and captain of the girls' basketball team. She would also score a perfect '5' on her Spanish AP exam. Cynthia was a Summer Search recipient and following her junior year she won a scholarship to participate in a community service-based summer program to Vietnam and Thailand. In her senior year, Cynthia won a sizable scholarship from Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic for her achievements in overcoming her obstacles to learning. Cynthia is now in her first year at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She is the first member of her family to attend college.
Tutors abound at these schools. Two of the schools have tutors in classes serving as teaching assistants, and virtually all schools provide tutors outside of class and beyond the standard school day or week as needed. At TSA, teachers themselves tutor before and after school and on weekends.
As indicated previously, tutoring plays a central role at MATCH, where two separate tutoring programs are in place. The first involves 50 undergraduate college students from Boston-area colleges and some older volunteers as well. The college students are typically strong academically and are receiving work-study financial aid from their colleges. These tutors work specifically with MATCH 10th-graders on the weekend, in 25 four-hour blocks of tutoring. Since the federal work-study law requires colleges and universities to spend 7 percent of the federal funds for their students on community jobs, not campus jobs, MATCH became a major work site for students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, and Harvard, and the colleges pay anywhere from 50 percent to 90 percent of their students' hourly wage.
The second MATCH tutoring program is known as the MATCH Corps. Begun in 2004, the 45 members are recent college graduates (up to seven years out) who have signed on for a year of service as full-time tutors. Some volunteers also spend part of their time as teaching assistants; others spend part of their time in projects assisting the school. Half of the volunteers are funded by AmeriCorps, and they also provide tutoring to two regular large Boston public high schools; the other half are privately funded. All tutors did well in college, with top AP, SAT, and American College Test (ACT) scores; all receive three full weeks of summer training before they begin. Each corps member provides six hours of daily tutoring, working with one to three students in two-hour blocks. Many stay up to three hours after the day ends, until 8 p.m., to work with struggling students; some also make appointments to work with their students on the weekend.
Many of these schools also have advisory programs to help students deal with any adolescent life issue that arises, whether academic, personal, or social. In Preuss's program, students stay with the same adviser from sixth through 12th grade. One Preuss student observes that there are never any fights among students because in their small school environment with the same adviser throughout the years, "You become family, you grow up together." At YES, students participate in the APSD (Academic, Personal and Social Development) program, a designated time set aside with an adviser to address the spectrum of nonacademic issues that are relevant to their lives. They receive counseling and support and have a safe place to talk about issues they face now or simply anticipate, such as the transition from home to college.
Some school programs include having mentors for students. At Preuss, students are matched with a mentor from the community, who makes a seven-year commitment to meet regularly with the individual student. As an example of the level of mentor dedication, one mentor started a scholarship fund when her student became a senior to ensure that financial constraints would not keep either that student or any other Preuss student from going on to college.
Family commitment. Parent and guardian involvement begins at the outset, as students and their families complete applications to enter the charter school admissions lottery. School staff then make every effort to sustain that involvement by developing strong communication between school and home through regular conferences, phone calls, and e-mails. Some send home a weekly folder with information for parents or guardians to read and with a request for parental sign-off.
Parents are considered partners at these schools, whether they are serving on the governing boards as they do at some of these schools, fundraising (e.g., TSA parents run the concession stands at the city's semipro baseball games to raise money for students to attend national competitions in music, dance, and theater), participating in parent-teacher conferences and other school meetings, keeping communication lines open with the school, expressing appreciation for hard working teachers, or motivating students through their support. At YES, expectations for all community members—teachers, parents, students—are detailed in a contract to be signed by all parties. The parent section (see fig. 8) lists many stipulations that any school staff might request of parents and guardians. For example, they ask that parents notify the school as soon as possible if a student must be absent. Because these are schools of choice, parents are generally happy to oblige with such requests. But anticipating that not all will oblige, at least one of these schools has some built-in consequences: Preuss stipulations are that if parents do not compete their volunteer hours, their student's younger siblings will not be considered for admission.
Fig. 8: YES School Contract: Parent and Guardian Commitments (Excerpt)
Parents'/Guardians' Commitments:
We fully commit to YES College Preparatory School in the following way:
** Failure to adhere to these commitments can cause my child to lose various YES College Preparatory School privileges and can lead to my child's removal from the YES College Preparatory School team.
** All YES College Preparatory School students will be reevaluated at the end of the school year and after the summer program.
In signing, we have read and agree with this contract and the Code of Student Conduct.
Parent's/Guardian's Signature: ___________________________________________
At Preuss, YES, MATCH, and TSA, some students travel more than an hour each way to get to school, some changing buses twice each way. Yet, even with such burdens on their children and, therefore, on the entire family, some parents express relief that their child need not attend his or her neighborhood school. At some of these urban schools, it is not unusual for parents to describe their neighborhood school as being "just down the street from the liquor store," or as being located in an area where drugs and violence are commonplace. Some focus group parents say they feel better knowing their children are going to school in a safe environment, even if it means long hours away from home or other demands on the family. The quality of neighborhood schools notwithstanding, focus group conversations reveal a pervasive sense of gratitude among all parents that their children are afforded the positive experiences offered by these charter schools and that, as a result, they can look to the future with greater hope for their children.
For their part, leaders of these schools listen carefully to parents and try to be responsive. For example, early in MNCS's history, its founders considered implementing a more traditional curriculum in the lower grades because some new students were struggling with the transition to project-based learning. But when they circulated a proposed course schedule, parents complained that their students had been promised project-based learning and that was what they wanted. Teachers heard the parents' concern and reconsidered. The teachers' decision was to retain project-based learning but to add more support to help struggling students make the transition. At North Star Academy, initially created as a middle school, parents' stated dissatisfaction with local high school options and desire for their children to continue having a high quality education beyond middle school, led school leaders and teachers to add a grade 9–12 program.
These schools understand the value of empowered, engaged families, not just in supporting student learning, but also in supporting the school itself. Families at these schools volunteer in every way imaginable, from raising money to painting classrooms. MATCH families participated in political lobbying, speaking before the Massachusetts legislature on behalf of charter schools.
Demystifying the college experience. As noted earlier, some of these schools aim to attract students who would be the first in their families to attend college; and, whether intentional or not, such students make up some portion of the population at all of the schools. The schools recognize that many of these students and their families will need specific information and support to help them through the getting-ready-to-go-to-college process, from preparing to take SAT or ACT exams to filling out college applications and financial aid forms.
YES provides parents with a six-session workshop series, plus each family receives a one-to one counseling session to learn more about the college process as it applies specifically to their child. At Preuss, where none of the students' parents has attended college, Saturday workshops on college financial aid and preparation for university have been considered invaluable. Most of the profiled charter schools are making specific efforts to involve parents in the process so that everyone is working together to help ensure that students go on to college.
Several of the schools provide juniors and seniors with a class that offers both information and time to research schools and scholarships, to work on college essays, and to prepare for the SAT and ACT exams. At North Star, a local law firm sponsors juniors to take SAT preparation classes online. Some schools take their students on college tours to familiarize them with the college environment. One Preuss student says that friends at other schools "just seem to be so lost in terms of the future after senior year. They do not seem to know very much about applying to college. At Preuss it is our main ambition and we are pumped up to support each other."
Several schools are making an effort to keep track of how their graduates are doing in college. The aim is to learn from the college experience of their graduates how the school might improve its own program so that future students will be increasingly better prepared for and successful in higher education. MATCH pays graduates $50 to send a copy of their college transcripts back to the school, and it has a MATCH Corps member serve as an alumni coordinator, e-mailing and otherwise communicating regularly with the graduates. In one instance, school staff learned firsthand about the success of one of the graduates: The valedictorian of YES's first graduating class is now teaching seventh-grade English at the school after completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University.


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Here is a video of my first install of bee packages I did yesterday. I think it went fairly well. I ended up putting the syrup cans in another jar. The bees have been very active and have eaten about a qt of syrup each so far.
Here is a video of my first install of bee packages I did yesterday. I think it went fairly well. I ended up putting the syrup cans in another jar. The bees have been very active and have eaten about a qt of syrup each so far.
Looks good to me. Its fun isn't it?
Those entrances feeders should be fine to start with but you may find that if you try to use them later in the year they will set off robbing. If you set an empty box on top of an inner cover you can just set the feeders inside that on the top and not have the robbing problems.
Also if it is still getting below freezing at night you may need to put some baggie feeders on the top bars, the bees have no reserve right now and if its too cold to get to the entrance feeders they could starve over a couple days if it stayed cold.
EDIT: I see now that you live in florida so never mind about the cold.
Ohh, and the drones coming back sound like B1 bombers flying by your head! They seem kinda dumb too, they didn't have the right glide slope coming in and missed the hive entrance board numerous times. They'd fly under the hive and have to come back around.
Cool! I will be installing my first 4 packages in two weeks.
Looks like you did a great job. May I suggest that you turn the cement blocks 90 degrees so that the holes are visable. The way they are now is a perfect place for mice to inhabit.
This is a video of my first hive inspection. I found the queen in this hive and it looks to be very strong(compared to my other hive). There were two supersedure cells that were partly made. I did not see any capped brood. Is this something to worry about? I'm on day 8 after installing my packages. What should I be looking for? It looked like they had stored nectar and pollen. Ohh, there was probably 7 frames drawn out already.
This is the weaker of the two. I couldn't find the queen in this one. There is only about 2.5 frames drawn out on this one. Should I be worried?
They probably moved next door. Keep looking for eggs.
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What would be the best way to transfer a Nuc to a TBH? Nuc being 3 frames (deeps) of bees and brood with two frames of food stores.
What would be the best way to transfer a Nuc to a TBH? Nuc being 3 frames (deeps) of bees and brood with two frames of food stores.
I'd say you have the direct method and the indirect methods.
The direct method is to make a frame that fits your top bar hive and cut the comb out of the deep frame and cut it to fit the top bar sized frame and tie it in.
The indirect method is to build a top bar nuc that takes your size top bars or something to go on top of the nuc and let them move up into that and put those bars in the top bar hive.
It might be handy to have some frames for the top bar hives for capturing swarms from trees and houses etc.
If you've never tied comb here is some ideas how it works.
[This message has been edited by Michael Bush (edited February 23, 2004).]
Why not just take the bottom and top off your nuc, set it inside the back end of your TBH and put the bars back on? Reduce the entrance somewhat and put the TBH where you had the nuc. (If you do not, you will lose the nuc field force.) As quickly as the bees can finish raising the brood they have in the nuc they will move up near the entrance to the TBH.
Another way would be to put a top on the nuc with a small hole (3/4 or one inch) bored in it, matching a hole in the bottom of the TBH. Close off the entrance to the nuc and set the TBH on top of the nuc. Queens do no like to lay in comb below the entrance to the hive and as quickly as the bees can build her some comb in the TBH she will be up there. Once the brood is out of the nuc the bees will clean it out.
I'm trying to start a TBH this spring. I was going to be purchasing the nuc(Ox did you get my email?)from a local (Tulsa) beekeeper. The way that he sells nucs is you bring him the container (deep sized),and he trades out five frames for for five frames. Three frames of bees and 2 of food. I don't have a nuc box so I will be taking a deep lang. I will have 5 deep frames to transfer to a TBH. My TBH will be a sloped side - 15" at the top and no deeper than 12" Was what I had in mind. Ox do you sell nucs? You are not that far from me....
This is going to be a problem of TBHs - You almost always will have to have a swarm or a package to start a new hive.
What about this idea. Some how attach the nuc to the underside of the TBH with a hole into the bottom of the TBH, and blocking the nuc entrance leaving only the TBH entrance forcing the bees to start drawing comb in the TBH and working up into the TBH? Later remove the nuc attachment and cover bottom entrance.
28: No, I don't sell anything but after learning that a fellow in Tulsa wants $75 for nucs and $25 for queens I may go in the bee business. I am going to try to split some hives and fill three TBH's and a nuc or two this spring.
Make yourself a nuc box. Cut two pieces of 2x8, notch out a corner for frame rests. Make the pieces so that they are the same depth as your lang deep PLUS 3/4 INCH. This extra 3/4 inch permits you to just nail on a bottom and drill or cut out a small entrance in the 2x piece. Then take two pieces of any kind of scrap board or plywood and make sides--just make sure that your inside length is the same as the inside length of a Lang. The top can be like the bottom. If you cut out your rabbets deep enough to leave a top bee space you can use any flat board for a top. You can make this in a couple of hours using sheet rock screws and your drill to assemble it. Go get your bees, put a piece of screen over the entrance and a strap around the hive to hold the top on and go to the house. I made three of these last week, though I had plenty of materiel and so made conventional tops and bottoms. Beats paying $26.50 plus shipping.
People put Migratory covers on top (which are just flat boards with cleats) of a hive all the time. I have trouble with enough bee space when I have PermaComb on a frame rest, so I add a spacer under my migratory covers.
I run all mediums so, for swarm boxes I often buy a deep (5 frame nuc, 8 frame box or 10 frame box), cut the frame rest rabbet deeper to 3/4" deep and cut the boards down to 7 1/4" or so and then put a flat bottom on, drill a hole for the entrance and make a migratory top. I've also made them from scratch from a 1 x 8 for the sides.
A 3/4" deep frame rest rabbet leaves you 3/8" bee space on the top which is nice especially for swarms where it's hard to get the lid back on and not squish some bees.
A three frame nuc isn't very big. Seperating that small amount of bees from brood/comb by shaking them into a tbh would probably kill them. They don't have enough bees to keep a large enough area warm. Drawing comb would be a difficult task in a temperate climate.
I would let the colony develop using standard equipment and then transfer them later in the season. It will be warmer. And more young bees will have been raised.
If a transfer must be done now. Find a way to keep the brood and comb intact.
The bees will do the best when we our management imitates what the bees do. Pick a time when the bees naturally divide by swarming. Then shake or transfer what the bees would do when swarming. At that time the colony will have the population, age distribution, food resources, warmth and the inclination.
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I am going to try to produce TBH nucs for next spring. Should be fun if nothing else
Blast from the past reading old posts. Hope this is best- responding here rather than starting a new thread. I solved this (and while my hive absconded, it was happy for half a year in my TBH) by setting my nuc in an 8 bar super on top of my TBH on a wooden built to fit open platform holding it on top of the TBH (open with other top bars sealing it in), with top bars added to the 5 nuc frames and moved downstairs before they got too big to fit in my slope sided TBH. Since I never saw that the super emptied of brood I finally made a frame to put the nuc frames in perpendicular to the TBH topbars and removed my super from the top. The queen (who I never saw after first seeing her when I bought her) prospered and eggs laid and bees comb and more honey made for a few months after that, then they absconded maybe hungry not finding the feeder I had put in the back of the hive behind a short cut dividing board.
This year I will get two nucs. One I will put straight into the open platform for perpendicular to the length of the first TBH, the other I will put straight into a straight sided TBH I built this winter. I'll be nervous I'll hurt the queens moving the frames out of the supers when I get home but will know in a few weeks if I did so when brood tapers off. Should I ask the beeman to pack the queen separate for my hour drive home?
Has anyone tried the "frankenhive" design as done on the above site? Seems to be a great way to utilize a Lang Nuc in a top bar hive (without all the hack and slash / chop and crop).


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Dear Stata users,
In my work on estimating wage equation using cross-sectional data I am using
ivreg2 command for 2-step GMM. Since the data is cross-regional I am tryig to
use cluster-robust standard errors. I have 26 clusters (regions) and 70
regressors (including industry and regional dummies). To avoid the problem of
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> possible causes - number of clusters insufficient to calculate robust
> covariance matrix singleton dummy variable (dummy with one 1 and N-1 0s or
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Last week we discussed creaky knees, this week on to cracking knuckles.
People have asked whether cracking their knuckles is bad for them, or whether it causes arthritis. It doesn't.
There have been several decent studies on the topic, and none found increased rates of joint damage or cartilage wear in people who crack their knuckles, even among habitual crackers. Given that about 20 per cent of the population regularly crack their knuckles, this is good news.
One knuckle cracker, Dr Donald Unger, used himself as a study subject. For 50 years he ran a personal experiment, cracking the knuckles of his left hand at least twice a day, but never those on his right hand. An estimated 36,000 cracks later he had no arthritis in either hand. Not scientific, but neat nonetheless and well-supported by later, more rigorous studies.
Also neat is what actually makes the sound: collapsing bubbles in the joint fluid. By pulling our finger bones apart, we're creating negative pressure between the bones. The lowered pressure causes microscopic bubbles dissolved in the joint fluid to expand into big bubbles.
A similar principle applies to uncorking a bottle of champagne. With a sudden lowering of the pressure in the bottle, dissolved gases expand, becoming visible and audible.
In the joint a similar thing happens, but the bubbles don't just pop individually and fizz like champagne in a glass. Instead the bubbles merge and form a mega-bubble in the space between the separated knuckle bones.
Eventually such an intensely low pressure is reached that joint fluid, which is normally as thick as honey, suddenly gets sucked from the edges of the joint into the low-pressure bubble space between the bones. The bubble collapses forcefully in a miniature implosion, creating the typical sound of a cracked knuckle. For the next 15 minutes or so, the knuckle is not "re-crackable". It takes that long for gases to dissolve back into the joint fluid, ready for the next go.
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Who are your readers' candidates for District 2 supervisor?
Original post made by Allied new services research, another community, on Nov 18, 2011
May we, as readers, start a survey on the Express Forum for who voters would support as a candidate for District 2 Supervisor in the June Primary 2012?
Let's list those being tested in district 2 polling:
1. H Abram Wilson, Mayor of San Ramon CA
2. Karen Stepper, Mayor of Danville CA
3. Tomi van de Brooke, former Chief of Staff for Supervisor Piepho
4. Don Perata, former leader of California State Senate
5. Candace Andersen, Vice Mayor of Danville CA
6. David Bowlby, Chairman of the Board, Contra Costa Council and Chair of Contra Costa County Municipal Advisory Committee for Alamo
Others being tested by their parties are former Mayors of Walnut Creek, Lafayette and Moraga. Regional neighborhoods are testing leading chamber and community group leaders.
May we ask that readers send their choices to you at email@example.com so you might gather results, interview potential candidates and gain insights into choices for a home page feature?
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Hal, allied news services conference board, San Francisco Bay Area corridors
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on Nov 19, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Dear Editor,
In further review, 23 names are being sampled, polled or tested with supporters as possible candidates for District 2 supervisor by political parties, regional community groups, various economic councils, chambers and corporations. News service polling of these 23 names illustrates that District 2's majority of voters do not have a current preference but do have strong opposition to many among the 23 names. For voters, it is the comparison of all 23 potential candidates to the independence, performance and service provided by Gayle Uilkema as their basis in polling responses. For all the political interests, it is seeking a candidate that actually can win a majority of votes. So far, it is difficult to find a winner among the 23 names because most are not known outside their community or have significant negatives in polling responses due to their political associations.
News polling is testing "other" as a choice and so far "other" has majority support. There is a strong likelihood that voters will write-in Gayle's name because no choice of candidate at present measures up to her contributions. One thing quite apparent today is any candidate running unopposed could lose the election to a majority of voters writing in "other" if Gayle refuses to be drafted as a "write-in candidate." It would be quite interesting if a ballot candidate is elected after losing the popular vote to "other."
Subscriber news services update
a resident of another community
on Nov 20, 2011 at 7:40 pm
WOW! You really have no idea about Uilkema do you. Why does your post not surprise me one iota.
a resident of another community
on Nov 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Dear Editor,
Thank you for sponsoring a body of work that will be referenced in the future of these campaigns. It remains a question "who are any of the candidates and how will we be served by the status quo of CCC politics going forward? Will we be served at all?
Joyous wishes at Thanksgiving.
Ralph, wondering with a knowing smile
a resident of Alamo
on Nov 21, 2011 at 4:00 pm
#1 , #2, or #5. As we get closer the right choice will surface.
a resident of another community
on Nov 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm
County Watch, errrrrr I mean Alamo Gets Justice,
I love breaking this to you but 1,2,3,4,5,6 (and anyone else that already holds elected office) knows it is most likely too late to get in a race. Real contenders definitely know this. Endorsements and campaign funds are for the most part already locked up. Thinking that "someone" will jump in at the last minute is just wishful thinking. It is one thing to talk about it and quite another to pull the trigger. In a race where it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a reasonable message out into the district, any serious contender would have declared months ago. This will be especially true in District 2.
Besides, I am sure in time you will be able to spell Supervisor VandeBrooke.
a resident of Alamo
on Nov 22, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Thanks for the heads up Mr. Manson. I'll keep that in mind.


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I bought some nduja by the 100gm, (not in its skin), and I've had it in a tub in the fridge for about 5 or six months now. I thought of it as a spice paste and assumed it would be fine to keep for a good while, but now I know it has pork in it I'm unsure about its keeping qualities. Can someone tell me just how long it will last in the fridge this way.
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Nduja is a really interesting ingredient!
I am currently working on Jamie's brand new YouTube Channel which is launching in January 2013. Could you send me a email via this forum so I can get in touch with you directly regarding how we might be able to use some of your great questions on the channel?
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'Nduja in a tub can be kept also outside of the fridge for at least 18 months as long as you don't open it. Once opened then it has to be kept in the fridge and, if you plan to eat the rest not soon, it is adviced to poor a small layer of oliveoil inside the tub to isolate the 'Nduja from the air which will keep it's fantastic taste !
I do sell a lot of variations of 'Nduja here in The Netherlands, for overseas shipments contact me through my website :-)
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by BrAinPaiNt, Nov 4, 2012.
Have at it.
Scandrick and our safeties screwed this defense tonight. Carter was LIGHTS out. I have nothing bad to say except for my first sentence.
I'm a bit confused as to where the blame Scandrick thread is, it would be large enough I think.
Hard to blame the defense outside of Scandrick on last drive. Blame rests entirely on the offense's inability to capitalize and get the ball in the end zone.
stupid thread
one drive isn't enough to blame them, they played well enough to win, as they almost always do
make a blame the offense thread
Scandrick is so sorry.
McCray? I rather have Bill Gates in at safety
Danny McCray = Alan Ball
been saying it all year.
what about give MO YaRDS CAILBORNE
who was the starting RG for the Falcons
that be Konz - and we should have never traded up for Mo Yards
Decastro an Konz should be on our team
CB Heyward
Defense didn't do a great job or a horrible job. Just pretty bad job, and benefited by the missed field goals.
Claiborne was toast tonight. Just repetitively burnt, horrible. Scandrick missed some key tackles.
You can go ahead and not post again. Claiborne was in position to intercept and Roddy got away with a bogus non-OPI call. Claiborne was 1 on 1 with Julio the WHOLE game. I'd say he did pretty well. A lot of catches JJ got were on everyone except Carr/Carter/Mo.
Paper champions, like always. Feels like I never see them get an important stop. Ever.
I thought Scandrick had actually played well all season long until the fourth quarter tonight.
Only real knock on the defense is that they're not forcing turnovers.
They're playing bend but don't break, but they're bending a lot. 2TDs and 9FGs (11 attempts) the last 2 games.
THey're doing enough to keep the team in games. But also messing up just enough to make it harder for what's already a struggling offense.
With all the problems on offense our defense should get a pass. The main problem I have with the defense is lack of turnovers.
Our defense let up over 10 yards per attempt with Julio and Roddy combining for 247 yards, and they didn't force a turnover. They didn't play poorly, but they are getting more credit in this game than they should be.
you give a Ryan 5 or 6 All Pros and they can coach the hell out of some defense.
DeMarcus Ware is the A-Rod of the Dallas Cowboys.
Like ARod he'll hit a 7th inning grandslam HR in August, but in Sept/Oct during crunch time, he's nowhere to be found.
D Where(?) was a terror....for 3 quarters- but as per usual, when he needed to come up big and be a presence, he was noWare to be found.
He'll get his sacks and Pro Bowls but the man is simply not an IMPACT crunch-time performer like some of the truly great ones.
there's something wrong with that dude's neck, I worry about him really getting hurt.
Just a side note, doesn't anyone want to talk about how the defense was unprepared once the ball was snapped...TWICE? Stupid mistakes like that could have cost us 14 points directly and that's on something as simple as pre-snap substitutions, not to mention the other stupid BS we saw tonight
The safeties and OScan sucked of course.
Overall they performed well, but can't say they didn't have part of the loss cause they couldn't get off the field with the game on the line.
I got so excited hearing how much time we were spending on situational football in the preseason and the results we've seen since are quite disappointing.


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