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Well we can't believe the Aussie leg of the journey has almost finished - but guess what... yes... Max made it into the Manly Daly the day before leaving Manly! (OK she admits she had been loitering outside the offices for 30 days and nights) but for her it was worth every wasted minute to gain her own 15 minutes of fame!! Sadly they didn't really listen to what she said so her occupation is wrong, and she was leaving the next day so didn't get hounded by fans - but hey ho at least she made it into print!!
Next stop was Kate's parents where we had a lovely time. We were made to feel very welcome and we were spoiled with meals out and lots of home cooking. We met Loretta (Kate's pal) again and spent the day in Newtown being ladies that lunch. Kate purchased a pair of shoes that demand respect! Trudy bought Max a super Guru outfit - with room to grow into! Trudy was touched up and Loretta purchased drugs (legal ones from the chemist)
Before leaving Hurstville we tried out the local RSL (of course), and Trudy sampled the expensive steak from Japan, can't remember the name, but it is the one they massage the cows every day and feed them beer - it was delicious and melted in her mouth, Max was impressed with the soup as well! (Couldn't afford steak for two!!)
After saying goodbye to Kate and her family we left Hurstville catching the train (which are two story!) through the City to Circular Quay
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I will be building some clip pallets here soon, but I need good plans/designs. Please share your thought and ideas. Photos are welcome! Thanks!
Hello all,
I will be building some clip pallets here soon, but I need good plans/designs. Please share your thought and ideas. Photos are welcome! Thanks!
I'll share mine!
Regards, Barry
Check out this site for plans http://www.meyerhoneyfarms.com/clips.html It looks like their using the W clips.
Also check out http://georgiabees.blogspot.com/2012...migratory.html
I personally would use the second one. I like the gap he has in the back for water run off and also the wider lip. I've had the privilege of working with the u clip pallets and it's kind of a pain to hit the clip just right. how ever a commercial beekeeper told me that when you ratchet the hives to the truck if their not tight then they end up tipping in. Also, when it comes to needing to tip the boxes back, the more room you have the better and the easier your hand and arm will fit between the back of the boxes.
I'm sure you'll find out your likes and dislikes. Good luck!
I chose to go with 'W' clips last year when I started a bunch of my hives out on pallets and here's why, maybe some of these reasons you'll be able to relate to maybe not.
The 'U' clip places the hives sitting right next to one another while the 'W' clip leaves a little room in between hives that are sitting next to one another (~1/2" I think going off of my rusty memory and my crooked eye ball). At the time I figured the added bit of space would help while performing manipulations. It's wrong of me to conjecture on this idea seeing as how I haven't tried the 'U' clips but I still stand by my original thinking cause it's late and I can't stand the thought of being wrong at 12:30 in the morning when I have to get up for work at 4:30.
This goes hand in hand with the above statement but the gap in between the colonies allows a little bit of airflow which I feel is always a plus on a 100 degree day out on the prairie (I know you know what I mean
This is based off of being a fabricator and working with a lot of metal, and I could be wrong, but I feel the 'W' clip has a lot more rigidity to it then what the 'U' clip would offer based simply off the fact of how it's bent and how they're fastened. I can't quote any tensile strength tests this is more just a feeling of looking at them and going off of experience and a "gut feeling". That, and I would really hate to be wrong at this early hour so I'm just going to assume I'm right.
The 'U' clips may make it easier to set the bottom deep back in place (just a guess) but the 'W' clips have their own little slot for each colony instead of two colonies sharing the same spot. Again, much more rigid (IMHO).
That about sums it up, if you want some photos I can shoot them to you when I get a chance. I'm trying to think of what the dimensions were that I used when Making them. I want to say 33.5"W x 44"L... I don't rightly remember. I'd run out to the garage and check with one of the pallets I have sitting there but I really don't want to throw on any clothes (there's a mental image for you all!). If I remember when I get home from work tomorrow I'll measure some up and then when I'm out and about this weekend poking around I'll try and snap some photos for you. I went with a couple of different designs when I was making mine and there are a few i definitely like more then the others.
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
Wow, David. Looks great!
W clips, We do alot of "tilting" with the w clips, the boxes don't hang up as much when tilting. When we check for strength we tilt, when we check for weight, we tilt, when we shake we tilt. So w clips and tilting go together, we also run a 4 ft pallets we leave a 3/4 inch stick out on your bee way so when you tilt the boxes foward they don't slide an nail your knee. We have about a 4'' gap on the back to back so your hand or moving tool fits easy and fast. As far as front to back tie down straps with W clips, no problems ever.
Just my $.0002 worth, good luck Ben
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I am not a pallet fan with clips. personaly I like telascoping covers much better so my pallets are a bit wider to accomodate that. wish someone made clips for that.
Here are the plans that we have researched and slightly modified:
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Is it better to use plywood for the integrated bottoms or is T&G or something else okay to use ? I seen some different construction on here and want to know how well they stand up .
Also I want to get into dipping all of my wooden equipment and I am curious if any of you dip pieces of equipment before assembly , like the pallet for instance, because I don't want to build a huge tank for dipping if I don't have to .
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Hey Ben,
3/4-inch plywood of some sort is pretty universal. As far as preservation, I used treated 1x6 stringers on the bottom and then painted everything. A completely treated pallet is pretty heavy, and for the most part the bottom stringer are what contacts the ground most, so we only use treated on the bottom. A lot of folks power wash their pallets to avoid having the department-of-whatever spend more time checking the hives/pallets at the borders, and nothing (as far as paint/applied preservatives) stands up very well to the washing process.
Here is one of the 4-ways I built:
Looks like you already know how to make pallets. Good job.
Mark Berninghausen
One point to consider is leaving some small gaps in the back corners when stapling your bee space cleats. This will allow water drainage and may become a back door on a north facing hive in winter.
Question on migratory pallets on the road.
If the pallets are loaded according to most online plans , wouldn't it be harder on the frames and bees to be sitting perpendicular to the movement of the vehicle ? I thought it was best to have them parallel to the movement ?
Or is it just because you can fit more on a truck/trailer that way ?
Ben Little <The Little Bee Farm> https://www.facebook.com/TheLittleBeeFarm
Nova Scotia Canada
Ben, If one built their pallets so combs were in line w/ the length of the trailer bed, one would have to leave space between each row of pallets. That would eat up bed space for sure. I used to do that when I used to use wearhouse pallets and bottom boards nailed onto hives. Seems to me like you lose a row or more of pallets of hives.
In line w/ the trailer bed probably is better, but it isn't like frames in the boxes really swing back and forth w/ the motion of the vehicle, taking off and stopping.
Mark Berninghausen
Use 6 way pallets. Frames usually dont moves since they are propolized.
Looks like Davidsbees knows what he is doing. Our pallets are similar. We do not screen the drainage holes, but I noticed that yours appear to be a 1 inch in diameter. Anything less than that can potentially get clogged with dead bees and debris. If it rains a lot then water can accumulate on the bottom and take days to drain. In this neck of the woods, it will rain before the pallets drain completely, hence the importance of a large drainage hole.
Ben, we have made some with 3/4 inch plywood and some with 1x6 boards. Personally I prefer the 1x6. They seems to hold up better. Often times the fork ends gouge the plywood, then it s unsightly. The 1 inch boards are a little tougher and we do not get that as much.
We do not use tongue and groove just plain boards. The problem is that with time the boards dry fully then gaps are created. This allows better drainage, room for bees to cluster under the pallet(good in summer), perhaps reducing their urge to swarm. The disadvantage comes when you want to load the bees. There could be 1 or 4 pounds of bees under each hive. Bees don't care much for being squashed between the pallet and the forks. They are definitely unpleasant to work with. It takes a good smoker guy to drive the bees back into the hives before loading.
Another disadvantage is the increased airflow created by the gaps. If you want to do a formic treatment you need to keep fumes inside the hives as long as possible before they are vented out. Those gaps work against that principle. I could not quantify how much efficiency you loose by not using plywood.
We have w clips and u clips. My guys seem to prefer working with the u clips. They say the hives don't twist of the pallet as much as the w clip. Like Keith we are forever tilting hives for weight and strength. We are going more towards u clips. I figure best keep the crew happy otherwise I might end up having to do it all by myself.
We treat the pallets after they have been assembled. Their is a plant that can pressure treat lumber or pallets.
We use U clips , and like the way they keep the boxes tight on the pallet. We are also forever tipping, no problems.
Big disadvantage, termites. They love old boxes clamped tight together!
We started wax/resin dipping our pallets, same as the boxes, makes a huge difference.


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It was faint at first, but it grows ever louder, this cry for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) today became the fourth Congressman to explicitly call for Holder to take responsibility for the lethally reckless Operation Fast and Furious and to voluntarily leave his post because of his presumed authorization of the program. Walsh's behest follows similar requests from Reps. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).
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Your Department has made an enormous error in judgment. It instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this error in judgment have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.
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The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.
Walsh's posited explanation appears to be the only plausible one. Why else would the administration authorize the program — then fail to follow up to catch the criminals the program was purportedly designed to catch? Had ATF made any kind of legitimate attempt to track the weapons — had they not allowed the guns to so completely disappear into the hands of violent criminals — it might have been believable that the administration sought to use the program to disrupt the power of Mexican drug cartels.
Yet, Walsh's explanation is not a fun one to believe. It's sickening to think anyone in the administration would really be so rash and so ideologically driven as to risk the nearly inevitable results of this program — the deaths that did, in fact, result — just to prove the point that legally purchased weapons show up at violent crime scenes, just to suggest the government ought to make it harder to legally purchase guns in the first place. It's even more terrifying to think someone as high up as Holder would be.
Walsh and the rest are brave to call for Holder's resignation — but they definitely should. Walsh isn't afraid to take the matter to the president, either.
"If [Holder] fails to [resign], I would ask that President Obama dismiss him immediately," Walsh said today.
Then again, Obama has stood by Holder through all kinds of nonsense, so no real reason exists to believe he won't stand by him now — unless F&F somehow becomes well-known enough to threaten his reelection.
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you guys are all great, but I cant stand these people on these boards these days srsly..it makes me hate giant fans...I know they are venting and I'm annoyed to but some of these threads are absurd...they are 6-3 and in first, they win next week they will be 7-3 going into a bye, with their tough schedule, thats damn good imo.
bb 62 told me way back in my beginning here not to let this place get to me its supposed to be fun /entertaining place to talk football and enjoy.....Respectful debates and such...not this calling out stuff we see these days .....Idk Pa bit of a mess here....Glad things are getting better for you on the home front
edit ...I haven't always done a good job of following his advice but I do try not to get caught up in the negativity this team will learn from today its part of the process one would think
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there are definitely considerate fans on here no doubt, but whne this Team loses, it gets nasty here. I am at a disadvantage being out of market and this Board plus the Giants podcasts/ ESPN NY podcasts, keep me going...
NFL Championships : 1927 1934 1938 1956 Super Bowl Champions: XXI XXV XLII XLVI
ugly game vs the Pits (my boss is a Steelers fan, ugh lol)
Obama back for another 4 huh? hows everyone feeling?
i may be the reason we lost though.. i watched it on my unlucky tv.. the lucky one, which is like a decade old dont work no mo
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True Single Keg Direct Draw Beer Dispenser - Black
Serve ice cold, refreshing draft beer to your customers and patrons with the True Single Keg Direct Draw Beer Dispenser (TDD-1). This unit holds one (1) half-sized keg and features a direct draw beer tap for easy serving. This dispenser has one (1) door with recessed handles and a built-in lock for security, so you won't have to worry about your keg being stolen or accidentally punctured. The exterior is made of a heavy-duty, durable laminated black vinyl to add further protection to the keg.
The interior includes a 300 series stainless steel floor with a 1/2" lip and galvanized steel walls. This helps to keep the beer further insulated and cold while also adding another extra layer of protection. The forced air refrigeration system keeps your beer cold between 33-38 degrees F, while the air vents on the sides of the refrigeration system allow for maximized air flow through the condenser, so you won't have to worry about your system overheating and breaking down. The True TDD-1 draft beer system is perfect for restaurants or bars, and is NSF approved for commercial applications.
Here's What's Included:Ships with the following: one (1) beer tower, drip tray, one (1) faucet, and one (1) faucet handle (keg not included).
Secure:The built-in lock provides a layer of security and prevents your keg from being stolen.
Beer Column:Cold air is filtered into the beer column to prevent too much foam from being dispensed.
Commercially-Approved:The NSF approval allows this unit to be used for commercial applications.
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- Model: TDD-1True Single Keg Direct Draw Beer Dispenser
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- Refrigeration system keeps temperatures between 33-38 degrees FFour (4) casters
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- All stainless steel countertopNSF approved
- 3" diameter stainless steel insulated beer columnsInput voltage: 115 V/60 Hz
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- Warranty: 3 years; 5 years compressorInterior Dimensions: 23.47" H x 19.75" W x 24.91" D
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That large scale print is perfect for the black grid, like looking at a scene through a wrought iron window or something. Too cute.
"Piecin' a quilt's like livin' a life...The Lord sends us the pieces, but we can cut 'em out and put 'em together pretty much to suit ourselves, and there's a heap more in the cuttin' and the sewin' than there is in the caliker...I've had a heap of comfort all my life making quilts, and now in my old age I wouldn't take a fortune for them." (Eliza Calvert Hall, Aunt Jane of Kentucky)
Excellent idea! This is a lovely and adorable quilt!!! The flower and butterfly quilting is perfect for it. Yup...it will be loved to tatters!!!
Totally cute and I myself would cuddle with it and love it to tatters!
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Wonderful!! Have been trying to figure out something that appeals to me using black stripes. Yours is perfect.
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Recently, and very suddenly, my brother-in-law was diagnosed with brain, lung and other cancers. Everything has taken backseat as I and other family member have been doing whatever possible to assist my sister. He passed away this evening before midnight.
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I have been fogging once a week for the last 5 weeks and got a mite count today of 40-45 using the 24 hour sticky board.
About 6 weeks ago the mite count was 12
What would you all suggest at this point add additional foggings per week or jump to something stronger? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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Voyage-Air goes to War
United States soldier, Charles Nordby, is proudly serving our country in Afghanistan. Before Charlie left for war, his fiancé Ashley and some friends organized a "fund raiser" – they all chipped in to send him off with a Voyage- Air Guitar.
His instrument of choice? The Voyage-Air VAOM-02, thanks to its rugged, compact shape and great tone. He was truly touched and moved by the gift. He called the guitar "the best gift I've ever received, other than my fiancé Ashley."
Charlie is an amazing musician: gifted with a great singing voice, as well as great guitar chops. He reports that he hasn't had a day off in four months, has had to endure below-zero weather, in addition to the stress of having to be on constant alert. And in these extreme conditions, the Voyage-Air guitar is by his side, and is holding up great!
Every day, Charlie looks to his Voyage-Air Guitar to allow him a few minutes of musical pleasure… and the feeling of being "normal." In addition to informal performances in off moments, Charlie is also giving guitar lessons to fellow soldiers. Charlie's really special: using his Voyage-Air guitar to spread the gift of music under wartime conditions. We thank Charlie. You should too.


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Yesterday we did English, so I figure today we'll humor it up with some science. Be warned though, it's Friday brain science, and all the good jokes Argon.
Don't worry, I promise only to make jokes like this... periodically.
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Using Cutwork in Colder Months
Cutwork is a fun and elegant way of using embroidery to dress up your apparel, but in these chillier winter months, it may look a bit brisk!
What if you're in love with the new Rose & Bone Cutwork collection, but are sad you have to wait till spring to use it? No worries! There's a quick design hack to get some use out of it now.
All you have to do is back it with fabric. This is very easy, and you can include it as a step right in the process to stitch your fabric right into the design! All you have to do is modify the original cutwork tutorial like so:
1) You have cut out your fabric piece and have backed it with your water soluble stabilizer
2) All your cotton lace pieces have sewn
3) Tape your chosen fabric piece behind your design, making sure it covers all open areas
4) Change your bobbin back to the regular rayon thread, and finish stitching your design
That's it! That way, when you soak your design, your cotton thread will still float effortlessly above your fabric backing, but the rest of your fabric will be stitched together snugly with the satin outlines. When you're done, just cut away the excess fabric like you would with your stabilizer.
It's that simple!
Placing fabric behind your cutwork offers all kinds of options. Add a beautiful ombre fabric for a special effect. Add a matching color fabric for a gorgeous tone-on-tone textural effect. Put organza on the back for an extra light option. If you don't want your cutwork showing off a bit of skin, or find it just too brisk an option, this is a classy way to still use your cutwork to amazing effect, no matter the season.
Want an even easier solution? Stitch your cutwork like a regular design. No need to change the bobbin or mess with xacto knives. Your elegant piece will just stitch as a lacy textured accent on anything you stitch it on, like this pillow example.
So if you're fretting the cold air, try one of these versions and keep yourself chic and toasty. Plus, don't forget, the Rose & Bone Cutwork collection is only on sale for a limited time! Go grab it now and get stitching no matter the season.


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CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) is the 2-morpholinoethyl ester of mycophenolic acid (MPA), an immunosuppressive agent; inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) inhibitor.
The chemical name for mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is 2-morpholinoethyl (E)-6-(1,3dihydro-4-hydroxy-6-methoxy-7-methyl-3-oxo-5-isobenzofuranyl)-4-methyl-4hexenoate. It has an empirical formula of C23H31NO7, a molecular weight of 433.50, and the following structural formula:
Mycophenolate mofetil is a white to off-white crystalline powder. It is slightly soluble in water (43 μg/mL at pH 7.4); the solubility increases in acidic medium (4.27 mg/mL at pH 3.6). It is freely soluble in acetone, soluble in methanol, and sparingly soluble in ethanol. The apparent partition coefficient in 1-octanol/water (pH 7.4) buffer solution is 238. The pKa values for mycophenolate mofetil are 5.6 for the morpholino group and 8.5 for the phenolic group.
Mycophenolate mofetil hydrochloride has a solubility of 65.8 mg/mL in 5% Dextrose Injection USP (D5W). The pH of the reconstituted solution is 2.4 to 4.1.
CellCept is available for oral administration as capsules containing 250 mg of mycophenolate mofetil, tablets containing 500 mg of mycophenolate mofetil, and as a powder for oral suspension, which when constituted contains 200 mg/mL mycophenolate mofetil.
Inactive ingredients in CellCept 250 mg capsules include croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, povidone (K-90) and pregelatinized starch. The capsule shells contain black iron oxide, FD&C blue #2, gelatin, red iron oxide, silicon dioxide, sodium lauryl sulfate, titanium dioxide, and yellow iron oxide.
Inactive ingredients in CellCept 500 mg tablets include black iron oxide, croscarmellose sodium, FD&C blue #2 aluminum lake, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol 400, povidone (K-90), red iron oxide, talc, and titanium dioxide; may also contain ammonium hydroxide, ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, n-butyl alcohol, propylene glycol, and shellac.
Inactive ingredients in CellCept Oral Suspension include aspartame, citric acid anhydrous, colloidal silicon dioxide, methylparaben, mixed fruit flavor, sodium citrate dihydrate, sorbitol, soybean lecithin, and xanthan gum.
CellCept Intravenous is the hydrochloride salt of mycophenolate mofetil. The chemical name for the hydrochloride salt of mycophenolate mofetil is 2-morpholinoethyl (E)-6(1,3-dihydro-4-hydroxy-6-methoxy-7-methyl-3-oxo-5-isobenzofuranyl)-4-methyl-4hexenoate hydrochloride. It has an empirical formula of C23H31NO7 HCl and a molecular weight of 469.96.
CellCept Intravenous is available as a sterile white to off-white lyophilized powder in vials containing mycophenolate mofetil hydrochloride for administration by intravenous infusion only. Each vial of CellCept Intravenous contains the equivalent of 500 mg mycophenolate mofetil as the hydrochloride salt. The inactive ingredients are polysorbate 80, 25 mg, and citric acid, 5 mg. Sodium hydroxide may have been used in the manufacture of CellCept Intravenous to adjust the pH. Reconstitution and dilution with 5% Dextrose Injection USP yields a slightly yellow solution of mycophenolate mofetil, 6 mg/mL. (For detailed method of preparation, see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
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Foxconn is showing its factory workers some love, Nokia is buying some Lumia love and tossing some hate at Apple, governments are totally into hacking, and Samsung just wants some design love. Add in the magical wonder and danger of glass-fronted Apple Stores, and it's all we could do this week to keep Mac OS Ken's Ken Ray under control without sedation.
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Apple is selling iPads faster than ever before, and it's throwing money back at investors. AT&T back tracked in court, HP investors want the PC maker to be like Apple, and iPads are sending some people to the doctor. Sort of. Mac OS Ken's Ken Ray jumps into the middle of this week's news and stirs it all up for you.
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Rooney rose to guide home Leighton Baines' cross four minutes from half-time on a raucous evening, which a Polish contingent in excess of 20,000 at times made it feel like an away day.
It was the Manchester United man's 38th England goal, and his ninth in 10 games, confirming his status as his team's talisman heading into yet another major tournament.
However, after spurning a succession of chances, both before and after Rooney's goal, to evoke memories of that awful night in 1973 when 'the clown' Jan Tomaszewski denied them, it took a captain's intervention from Gerrard two minutes from time to ensure England will take their place on the greatest stage next summer following the 2-0 success.
Manager Roy Hodgson, who lived every minute in glorious agony, leapt to the air in jubilation, becoming only the sixth Englishman to take his country into a World Cup finals.
Hodgson joins an illustrious list, including Walter Winterbottom, Sir Alf Ramsey, Ron Greenwood, Bobby Robson and Glenn Hoddle, and can now look ahead to December's draw knowing the minimum task for his tenure has been achieved.
If the Football Association thought doubling the Polish allocation to 18,000 would deter visitors from entering areas of the stadium supposed to be reserved for home fans, it was sadly mistaken. The noise following the national anthems was akin to a match in Warsaw.
Smoke from numerous red flares wafted around the ground at kick-off and every English touch was greeted with loud whistles.
If nothing else, it did sweep away any tension as the home supporters were too busy attempting to match their rivals in the stands to start panicking about the result.
It would not be England, though, if the task was not to be achieved without some degree of pain.
A defence in which the suspended Kyle Walker had been replaced by Chris Smalling lacked cohesion - or vision, for that matter - given the space Robert Lewandowski was afforded to gallop into as Poland broke from deep inside their own half.
One of Europe's most feared strikers had virtually reached the edge of the box before anyone closed in, too late to stop Lewandowski firing at goal, although Joe Hart saved easily.
If that was a scare, Poland's next opportunity was a heart-stopper.
Adrian Mierzejewski was not picked up by Andros Townsend as he broke over halfway and, when Jakub Blaszczykowski allowed the square pass to run through his legs, Lewandowski arrived, unopposed, to carry it on.
It was to Hodgson's relief the Borussia Dortmund man had been exhausted by his long surge. First he stumbled, then he dragged his shot wide, when virtually the entire stadium expected the ball to be nestling in the net.
On the bench, Hodgson was shown mouthing an expletive confirming his relief.
On his last appearance at this stadium, Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny made the mistake that gifted Birmingham their shock Carling Cup win over Arsenal.
On Tuesday night he was trying to make headlines of a different sort, saving from Townsend, Danny Welbeck twice and Rooney as England poured forward.
In addition, Smalling came agonisingly close to touching home Gerrard's free-kick, Daniel Sturridge nearly profited from some kamikaze defending in the Polish box and Townsend curled a shot against the bar that had Michael Carrick raising his arms in celebration.
With Welbeck also lashing wide after tip-toeing over a pile of prone bodies, it began to feel like one of those evenings.
But, as half-time approached, Rooney struck with a superb header.
The goal was typically English in its simplicity but due credit should be paid to Carrick, for having the vision to pick out Baines with a first-time pass, and the Everton man for the brilliance of his delivery.
Had Gary Cahill nodded Gerrard's corner in at the start of the second half, or Grzegorz Krychowiak toed the ball home when his sliding intervention left Szczesny stranded and helpless, England could have started to breathe.
Instead they were indebted to Hart's bravery as he blocked Lewandowski's delicate effort after he had nipped behind England's tiring defence.
Showing a touch of naivety you maybe would not see from Italy, the hosts pushed on.
Szczesny denied Rooney and Sturridge, before Gerrard, driving into the visitors' box like the leader he so obviously is, chipped over Szczesny to send England into raptures.Reuse content


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Info that would be helpful for 1st responders
I am in the early stages of looking at putting together an IR program, and I am being asked to put together a template for all sys admins to begin pulling together the information that they might need during an incident.
I have a few thoughts (system passwords, network diagrams, etc.), but I am wondering what other things should I add to this template.
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A well-rounded author and Verita who has been on fanfiction.net since the glory days of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians fandom, before the Sues and Stus took over. She is a very talented photographer and writer. Storm often says she's leaving, but we have yet to see her go.
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Chyna Gets Fucked On Camera!Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Check out these raunchy photos from Chyna's Sex Tape. Here, we finally catch Chyna in actual, hardcore sex. You can't deny she's a good receiver, the type who spreads it, takes it, and performs top quality, as she is told. Watch that pussy of hers spread obediently for her then boyfriend Sean Waltman to ram his big cock into. In this first photo, Chyna is giving Sean a hot blowjob, sliding her soft lips up and down his huge meatpole. In the next photo, she's the one on the receiving end of some oral loving from her man.
In this next picture. Sean looks like he's started ramming his cock in her pussy faster, getting close to spewing ropey threads of cum inside Chyna's pierced pussy. Judging by how dauntlessly wild she can be, I can imagine her letting the guy ram her without a condom and blow his load inside her tight pussy, getting her titties all a-tingle if she gets filled with cum from inside. Chyna looks hot as she writhes in ecstasy from the long fucking she's been getting, and we're lucky enough to catch it all in action! There are more pictures of hot wrestler getting fucked, just check out this gallery of Chyna nude photos.


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JUDGING EDWARD TELLER: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century. Istvan Hargittai. 575 pp. Prometheus Books, 2010. $32.
The author of Judging Edward Teller, Istvan Hargittai, is a professor of chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and was personally acquainted with Teller. Being not just a fellow scientist but also a countryman of the Hungarian-born Teller has given Hargittai advantages in writing about certain aspects of his subject's life and career. However, on the role that Teller played in a succession of defense-related controversies in the United States—including the H-bomb decision, the test-ban debate and the origins of the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")—the book is much less revealing, and even disappointing.
Judging Edward Teller focuses on three "exiles" that Teller claimed to have suffered during his lifetime. The first of these was his decision to leave Hungary at the age of 18 for Germany, where, ironically, Jews at the time seemed more likely to be able to pursue a university career. The second occurred when the Nazis came to power, and Teller had to flee, first to England and then the United States. The third and final "exile," in 1954, followed Teller's testimony at the loyalty investigation of his former Los Alamos colleague, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. When questioned as to whether he considered Oppenheimer a security risk, Teller's equivocal answer—that he "would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better, and therefore trust more"—was a case, Oppenheimer's supporters said, of thrusting a knife into the back of his onetime friend and twisting it. Whether Teller's words actually made any difference in the final outcome—the revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance and the end of his role as a key science adviser to the U.S. government—is debatable. But there is little doubt that it was a traumatic experience for Teller, and one that haunted him to the end of his days.
The strongest part of Hargittai's book is its account of Teller's contributions to the world of science. For example, the author makes understandable, even to the nonspecialist, the part that Teller played, with other colleagues, in the discovery and application of high-temperature superconductors. Likewise, Teller's subsequent brief foray into biological research—his unsuccessful hunt for the genetic code behind the DNA molecule, which virtually coincided with his involvement in the Oppenheimer affair—is an aspect of the physicist's life absent from other book-length biographies of Teller and, curiously, even from Teller's own memoir.
Another part of Hargittai's book that is new—and is based on the author's research in state archives opened since the end of the Cold War—is its account of the failed attempts by Hungary's communist government to recruit Teller as a spy. Both the FBI and the ÁVH (Hungary's state security service from 1945 to 1956) were aware that Teller had left behind relatives in the country of his birth—a fact that gave rise to fears in the United States, and hopes in Hungary, that the physicist might be blackmailed into giving up defense secrets. There is an almost humorous Cold War counterpoint in the fumbling efforts of the competing gumshoes on both sides of the iron curtain, who, like Inspector Clouseau, occasionally picked the wrong Edward Teller to shadow. (According to Hargittai, the ÁVH nonetheless concluded that Teller's testimony in the Oppenheimer case was a "'shrewd'" way of getting rid of his top competitor.)
More than half of this 575-page book is devoted to the role that Teller played in the various defense debates that occupied U.S. policy makers between the time the H-bomb decision was made in 1950 and the advent of "Star Wars" in 1983. The emphasis here is appropriate, since by any measure Teller was one of the most politically influential scientists of the 20th century. Unfortunately, this section is the weakest part of Hargittai's book.
The chapter titles of Judging Edward Teller reflect the controversies surrounding Teller's career, which will already be familiar to an American audience of a certain age: "Atomic Bomb Quest," "Fathering the Hydrogen Bomb," "Fallout and the Test Ban." But, except for a brief section explaining the science behind the so-called Teller-Ulam innovation—the conceptual breakthrough that made the H-bomb possible—there are no new facts or insights regarding those controversies. This is perhaps because of Hargittai's overreliance on two sources in telling the tale: his subject's own memoirs and a largely hagiographical, semi-authorized biography of Teller published 35 years ago by two journalists, Stanley Blumberg and Gwinn Owens. This occasionally makes for some dated, and even dubious, scholarship. For example, Hargittai repeats a questionable claim made both in Teller's memoirs and in the Blumberg-Owens biography—that Oppenheimer proposed using the H-bomb in Korea—and cites as evidence for the story a second book on Teller coauthored by Blumberg. Likewise, Hargittai's version of the creation of the second weapons lab at Livermore—"Teller could count on Lawrence as an important ally"—is exactly backward. The book's account of the Oppenheimer hearing and its aftermath is also suspect: Ward Evans's dissenting vote against revoking Oppenheimer's clearance was not a bold act of conscience on his part, but a cynical ploy by the prosecution, as was the decision by the Atomic Energy Commission to publish a transcript of the hearing; the latter was not "some administrative mix-up," as the author claims.
Hargittai's reliance on Teller to tell his own story is also curious in light of the author's own acknowledgment that Teller repeatedly changed his version of events—most notoriously, regarding the supposed paternity of the H-bomb (which Teller would either boastfully assert or angrily deny, depending on the audience and his mood), but likewise on the matter of who deserved credit for the Teller-Ulam breakthrough. (For another example of Teller's deliberately selective memory, see the footnote on page 374 of his Memoirs.)
There is a substantial literature on Teller and his scientist-contemporaries that has been published over the past decade or so and is based on primary sources. Hargittai's failure to make better use of it is puzzling. Although he cites in one footnote more than a dozen relatively recent books dealing specifically with Oppenheimer and Teller and the controversies in which they were involved, there is little evidence of the information those books contain in his narrative. Perhaps most glaringly, the 2005 book American Prometheus, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Oppenheimer that also deals extensively with Teller, receives no mention at all.
Instead, Hargittai seems to have elected to talk to other scientists who knew Teller. One was physicist Richard Garwin, who was also involved in inventing the hydrogen bomb. Garwin has contributed an afterword to Judging Edward Teller that contains the most convincing explanation yet of how the Teller-Ulam breakthrough came about. This explanation is consistent with Teller's own mea culpa in a 1993 interview with this reviewer and other historians at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Los Alamos lab.
Some important episodes in Teller's life that evidently remain mysteries to Hargittai were actually solved years ago in other books or scholarly articles. The question of whether compression by radiation-implosion—a concept crucial to a workable H-bomb—was discussed at the 1946 Los Alamos conference on the Super Bomb received an answer with the discovery of the Fuchs–von Neumann patent, which is recounted in several sources now available in the open literature. Similarly, although the contribution that the British-born physicist and Russian spy, Klaus Fuchs, made to the Soviet H-bomb project remains a matter of speculation in Hargittai's book, a copy of the H-bomb design that Fuchs gave to his Soviet control in a London pub on March 13, 1948, is reprinted in my 2002 book, Brotherhood of the Bomb.
Readers should therefore be wary of Hargittai's treatment of the political component of Teller's life. It would be difficult to argue, however, with his assertion that Teller's legacy is paradoxical—and mixed. There were, Hargittai writes, "a few Tellers." Although an "extraordinarily gifted physicist" was unquestionably among their number, Teller was also a jealous and resentful figure with an essentially "medieval" approach to human relations. Perhaps fittingly, it was "controversies and scorn—deserved and undeserved—that would form his legacy," the author concludes.
Gregg Herken is an emeritus professor of history at the University of California and is the author of Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Henry Holt, 2002).
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Internet Pharmacy -- Trust or not?
Original post made by Anonymous, Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 9, 2007
It arrived addressed from an apartment in India! On reading the fine print, Better Life Pharmacy says most of their drugs are from India. The manufacturer, at least ostensibly, is Alembic India, a reputable manufacturer. But I've read that currently the most fake drugs are coming out of India, and the one I'm taking is on the list of most often counterfieted.
Is there an affordable way to verify that the drug I have is the real thing? Has anyone had experience with Better Life Pharmacy?
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a resident of Stanford
on Apr 9, 2007 at 7:01 am
I finally tried to use an internet pharmacy also last year. What I got was clearly NOT the same thing, though packaged similarly. My own med didn't make me sleepy at all, this one did. I tried it twice to see if it was just coincidence the first time.
This one came from Argentina.
After this, I read an article that stated Internet Pharmacies "false" meds had gone from something like 5% to about 30% of all internet meds sold.
So, no more for me, unless maybe from a real pharmacy in Canada?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 9, 2007 at 7:52 am
I've had good experiences ordering from www.crossborderpharmacy.com, which is based in Canada. You can see which country your medication is being ordered from, the prices are good, and they seem to have a very good reputation.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 11, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Give your plan and your local pharmacy a chance. They can usually work out something to help. If you want to buy something foreign order a Russian Bride [or a Greek husband if you be a she]
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 11, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Hi Walter,
I have the greatest local pharmacy, the pharmacists are definitely experienced medical professionals, not pill counters. For things they can't handle, my doctor refers me sometimes to one a few towns away and one in another state. Unfortunately, this is something outside their scope.
There are drugs sold here that drug makers simply stop selling when their patents run out, but they continue to sell them elsewhere. This is different, I'm pretty sure this drug was never approved here.
There are a a surprising number of drugs commonly sold elsewhere in the world for years that never make it here because they are common, extremely cheap drugs with no huge profit potential. I used to get one of those drugs through a US pharmacy in another state who obtained it from overseas -- cost was something like $4 for 30 days of the drug, with other sundry charges like postage and compounding adding up to $45. Finally the drug came on the market here -- costs a few times that now just for the pills.
I didn't get it from overseas for a cost savings, I got it because there was no equivalent in this country. The closest thing in the same class available here had terrible side effects and didn't have the same efficacy -- the other drug worked better for my problem and had far fewer side effects.
No, unfortunately in this case, I had no avenue to get the drug through a US pharmacy. The AIDS epidemic has made for legislation allowing people here to obtain drugs from overseas that are not approved here, as long as they are approved through the equivalent government agency in the country of origin. As I said, there are a surprising number of commonly used (and typically cheap) drugs available in virtually every other country except ours. It was quite an eye opener for me.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 12, 2007 at 9:32 am
I do hope it works for you. I wonder if it is not the cost of liability insurance rather than the lack of a profit that discourages US manufacture of orphan drugs - look what happened to flu vaccine. Live long and prosper.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 12, 2007 at 11:16 am
Thanks for the good wishes.
I am sure the cost of liability insurance must factor into many decisions. Also just the cost of getting th drugs through our system. That's kind of a tragedy in itself when a drug has been widely used all over the world for so long, that there shouldn't have to be a lot of duplicated effort on our end.
Unfortunately, in some cases it appears the drug makers just don't like not being able to make $10 a pill -- I've seen several drugs which makers stopped selling (and the FDA paperwork said it was not because of adverse reactions or problems) when the patents ran out. Soon after or concurrently, makers brought out "me too" drugs that were on patent and which they could sell instead for the same profits. The off-patent drugs continued for sale, by the same makers, in other countries, including Canada -- probably because they never were making those outrageous profits there to begin with.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on May 8, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Regarding your original question re betterlifepharmacy.com, Ive used them for generic Plavix and it works just as well as the much more expensive branded version in my opinion. I always check the pharmacy has been verified by pharmacychecker.com first before I even think of ordering...that way you know the meds are legit.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 28, 2008 at 2:00 am
I had a good experience with ordering drugs online. I usually order my meds at www.internationaldrugmart.com They based both in India and UK. The they are since 1914 in the pharmacy domain. I felt to be really reliable online resource.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 15, 2008 at 7:38 am
Thanks for the tip. I am going to give International Drug Mart a try. I have had good experiences with Indian pharmacies before, and I know their prices can't be beat.
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Rotorua's largest privately owned medical centre, set up by local doctors to service the after hours needs of the community, is for sale as a fully leased investment property.
The Lakes Care Medical Centre sits on a prime corner 2945sq m central business district site at 1155 Tutanekai St and is producing total net annual rental income in excess of $400,000. The facility incorporates Rotorua's only after-hours general practitioner service. The tenants include some of the original medical practitioners as well as an after-hours pharmacy, a psychologist, Bay Audiology and a radiology practice.
The medical centre is one of three Rotorua properties for sale in Bayleys latest Total Property portfolio and is being marketed by Mark Slade and Mark Rendell of Bayleys Rotorua.
The landmark, architecturally designed building was completed in 1993 and extended in 2005/2006. Slade says the property was designed to complement the city's original architecture, with a modern take on the Tourism Rotorua building and its landmark clock tower
The complex comprises 1988sq m of lettable area made up of 12 medical and professional suites. Two of these are vacant, but Slade says their rental will be guaranteed by the vendor up until mid-2014. In the meantime, both Suite 5, offering 61sq m, and Suite 7 comprising, 186sq m, are available for lease.
The occupied tenancies are mostly on six-year lease terms with varying commencement dates and final renewal expiries running through until 2029.
"It's prime CBD real estate in a high-profile corner position with 44 on-site car parks and it's the first time the property has been put up for sale," says Slade.
"The building is modern and well maintained with good street appeal and spacious foyers and common areas. There is also room for further development."
The property will go up for auction at 1pm on Thursday, December 6 in the BNZ Partners Business Centre at 1202-1212 Amohau St in Rotorua.
Also going under the hammer at the same auction is the substantial former premises of legal firm East Brewster on the corner of Arawa St and Amohia St.
The property is being marketed by Rendell, who says the 633sq m architecturally designed building was constructed for the legal firm in the 1990s which could be reconfigured to accommodate two tenancies.
It is being sold with vacant possession but the market rental rate for the property is estimated at about $120,000. The building sits on a 1430sq m site at 1256 Arawa St with 12 on-site car parks and Rendell says it would suit either an owner-occupier wanting to take up all the space, or perhaps someone wanting to occupy some of it and lease the rest up.
"This is a very high-profile property that has a majestic and protected oak tree on the site that is believed to have been planted in the 1880s."
The third property for sale by negotiation, which is also being marketed by Rendell, is the substantial premises in Eastgate Business Park of Combined Road Traffic Services Limited which it is selling on a lease-back arrangement with an initial lease term of five years and four five-year rights of renewal.
The property at 20 Katoro Drive in the popular business park, opposite Rotorua airport, will produce initial net annual rental income of $115,000.
Combined Road Traffic Services has contracts in place with the New Zealand Transport Agency and local councils for roading projects.
Constructed in 2008 on a 3244sq m site, the building comprises a gross floor area of 487sq m plus a 30sq m canopy. It includes high-quality office space and a substantial, high stud, modern north-facing workshop with three full height roller doors and a special paint storage area.
It also has a large boundary fence, extensive yard area and ample parking for staff.


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By William Yeomans,
Fellow in Law and Government at American University
Washington College of Law
Most observers came away from the argument in NLRB v. Noel Canning last week convinced that presidential power would suffer a blow in President Obama's battle with Senate Republicans over recess appointments. They are almost certainly correct. But the case suggests three broader points. First, Republican obstruction in the Senate knows no limits. By resisting even the least controversial nominees and using obstruction of nominees with the intent to interfere with the basic functioning of government, Republicans forced the President to act. Second, the specific confrontation that led to the case could have been—and should have been—avoided by stronger leadership from the Senate majority and the White House. And, finally, the country is increasingly handicapped by a slavish reverence for the ambiguous words of the Founding Fathers. As a result, the Supreme Court is poised to wade into the middle of a political dispute between the political branches and to reject 200 years of history—during which a functional and practical understanding of the recess appointment power prevailed.
The case arose from the recess appointments of three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on January 6, 2012. The appointments were the culmination of a long stalemate over NLRB appointments that threatened to leave the NLRB without a three-member quorum to conduct business. The disabling of the NLRB had long been a dream of Republicans, who couldn't abide the forum that allowed enforcement of the rights of workers, but could never muster the votes to shut it down. To thwart the President's ability to make recess appointments, the Republican House refused to assent to the adjournment of the Senate in December 2011. Because the Constitution does not allow adjournments longer than three days without the assent of the other House, the Senate was forced to hold pro forma sessions every three days through the recess. Before doing so, it adopted a resolution stating that it would conduct no business. The President was fully justified in concluding that the Senate was unavailable to process nominations and, therefore, for all relevant purposes, was in recess.
President Obama made the appointments to keep the NLRB functioning. Notably, President Obama has made far fewer recess appointments than his predecessors. President Clinton made 139 and President George W. Bush made 171, but by January 2012 Obama had made only 32.
Recess-appointed NLRB members subsequently voted against Noel Canning, which sought to deny a pay raise in a contract negotiated with its employees. Noel Canning appealed to the D.C. Circuit, where three conservative Republican appointees ruled in its favor, issuing a stunning decision rejecting longstanding historical practice and the consistent interpretation of the recess appointment clause of the Constitution. The court held that the clause permits the president to fill vacancies only during the recess between sessions of Congress and not during the frequent intra-session recesses. It also held that he could fill only vacancies that arose during the recess. Both interpretations flew in the face of longstanding interpretation of the clause by presidents dating back to the 19th century, as well as modern opinions of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.
The language of the recess appointments clause was first called ambiguous by Thomas Jefferson. It states: "The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate . . . ." The text could be read as the D.C. Circuit read it or it could be read to mean that the President has power during the recess of the Senate (whenever the Senate is in recess) to fill up all vacancies that may happen (regardless of when they happen). The latter reading has formed the basis for hundreds of recess appointments over the past 200 years.
It is true that the original purpose of the constitutional provision was to allow the President to keep the government staffed during the long recesses common when legislators traveled by live horsepower. They generally convened, stayed in session until their business was done and left. There were no intra-session recesses and it was difficult to reconvene. By contrast, today Congress stays in session nearly year round, but leaves for frequent recesses and can return from any part of the country within hours. The President no longer needs to wait long periods before Congress is able to consider his nominees. On the other hand, in a country of over 300 million people that depends heavily on a functioning federal government, it is more important than ever for the government to be staffed.
As polarization and Senate obstruction have increased, the recess appointment power has morphed from a tool to overcome long distances and Senate absence into a tool for Presidents to overcome partisan obstruction. It has become a practical remedy for dysfunction. The jostling between the President and the Senate over the limits of the power presents a classic political dispute that the political branches are fully capable of working out without textual reinterpretation through court intervention.
Unfortunately, the Court cannot duck the issue now because scores of NLRB decisions may be at stake. The case could have been avoided, however, if Senate Democrats had moved sooner to institute rules reform that would have prevented Republicans from filibustering the NLRB appointments. Both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the President were far too slow in recognizing the full depth and harm of Republican obstruction. Because the 60-vote threshold finally has been eliminated for executive branch nominees, the outcome of this case has little immediate consequence. So long as Democrats control the Senate and the majority rules, the President will have little need to make recess appointments.
The recess appointment power was created as a practical remedy to keep the federal government functioning when the Senate couldn't act. That remains its function today, even though the reason the Senate can't act has changed. The Court should reject the formalism of the D.C. Circuit and honor the President's appointments. To do otherwise will exhibit a harmful reverence for the actions of men who over 200 years ago wrote an ambiguous provision addressing a world that no longer exists.
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Movie Review: Bully
Stephen Rebello has high praise for the controversial film "Bully," set to be released on March 30th.
Director: Lee Hirsch MPAA Rating: Unrated Studio: The Weinstien Company
Director Lee Hirsch's harrowing, empowering documentary Bully exposes the devastating consequences of ignoring our nation's epidemic of kid-on-kid terrorism. With the tragedy of gay teen suicides in the news and suicide ranking as one of the three leading causes of death in people age 15 to 24, here is a story that has long needed to be told. Emmy-winner Hirsch (Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony) somehow managed to finagle one year's unhindered access to five kids and their families that are coping with relentless physical and psychological taunting, harassment and violence on school buses and playgrounds, in gym classes and beyond. The film documents how this abuse goes largely unchallenged by politicians, parents, bus drivers, teachers, school officials and the police.
Where else can these under-siege kids possibly turn? We meet a lonely, sweet-spirited14-year-old Iowa boy named Alex who suffers death threats and becomes a human punching bag by schoolmates who consider him "weird." Then, there's a 16-year-old lesbian named Kelby who naively, but bravely, hopes to challenge widespread homophobia in Oklahoma and a 14-year-old Missouri girl named Ja'meya whom authorities threaten to imprison for life because constant school attacks provoke her into protecting herself on a school bus by brandishing a gun.
The case is made quietly and devastatingly by Hirsch's well made, clear-eyed, non-judgmental documentary that only occasionally rambles and loses focus. But its subject is so compelling and complex that Bully raises issues that demand to be heard—and dealt with. The film's brave subjects tell raw, unfiltered, heartbreaking stories, none more so than that of a gifted, beloved 11-year-old Georgia boy so emotionally tormented by bullies that he hangs himself in his bedroom closet; in the aftermath, some classmates mock him by arriving at school with nooses around their necks. That the all-pervasively insidious culture of bullying must end is obvious. With a strong grassroots movement growing, a day may be coming when there is the public and political will to finally stop looking the other way and making excuses.
"Tell me how to fix this," asks a school principal. The movie supplies no simple fixes but the urgent dialogue and controversy it may help provoke should grow louder and louder by the moment.


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By Giuseppe Muro
Arsène Wenger insists he has never questioned Samir Nasri's commitment to Arsenal and says the midfielder is available for selection against Liverpool.
The 24-year-old has been strongly linked with a move to Manchester City over the summer with media reports suggesting a deal could be completed this week.
But when asked whether he would have any hesitations about picking Nasri on Saturday, Wenger was firm in his reply.
"Not at all," he said. "One thing I don't question is the commitment of Samir Nasri to this Club.
"Every day since he has arrived here, and every day in pre-season, he has worked with a fantastic spirit in training.
"The fans will want Arsenal to play well and win the game. I think they do not make an individual case of each player in each position. They want good players and to win the football game.
"I don't see what you can reproach Samir Nasri about. His attitude in training, everybody has witnessed that he has been fantastic from the first day of pre-season."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Questions, questions and more questions.
We at HIO wish we had answers.
And maybe we do. But a full football schedule (plus Stoke City vs. surprising Tottenham) on the tube beckons, so the Commentariat can work this out.
Be nice! Both the Bear and Mr. have been pretty darn good for first-year defencemen.
• Pierre Ladouceur's game report card (Emelin and Diaz: 6.8 each)
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This will be my first winter with bees. They have done well this summer. We grow lots of berries and a large garden for them to work. I've not harvested any honey, as I want to make sure they do well.
Two large hive bodies full, and 1 1/2 honey supers full. I've fed them lots of syrup too, so they have lots of comb. I'll be making fondant to have on hand, and I ordered some bee patties. There's the problem. On the lable, it says not to put in the hive if honey supers are in place. In my reading I've not come across this issue. What have I missed? I assumed that between their honey, some fondant and patties, they would do well. I don't want to open the hive in a Kansas winter to see if they're out of honey.
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I have been very disappointed of late by the flexible nature of hive tools. I have sampled all of the best known equipment suppliers. They all bend easily both direcvtions. I asked them to test them in a vise before sending them. Some do some don't
After a full day of pulling honey the tool is shot. If you know of a truely stout standard hive tool please let me know. Please identify this problem to your supplier and insist they improve. A hive tool is our sixth finger and a broken one of either is of little use!