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>Yes, I guess this is turning into a small cell/regression post.>
Remember foundationless and small cell are two different things. Cell size will vary with foundationless (natural cell) as it does in the wild!
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They're making what they feel is needed at that time. If they're building it bigger than the majority of the brood cells, it's a good chance they're building it for uses other than brood raising. At least that seems to be the result I see from my hives. I'm still sticking to my guns in saying that mine are gradully getting smaller as I move more frames outward and upward, get rid of the old larger cell frames, and place more empty frames in the middle.
If one keeps doing this over a decent period of time and the results are positive, the net result does end up being regression - each following iteration should produce smaller average cell sizes, if done from the middle out. Maybe I'm at a different timeframe here in this area thatn some of you are. As I said in my post it's still going well here. Perhaps this 'season' may peter out soon if some of yours have, I'll just hope for now that it keeps going for a little while. Note: I'm not feeding any of these colonies.
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Keep dreaming. But PLEASE don't try to infect new beekeepers with your fantasies.
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What all individuals in a species group "wants" is to spread their genes out into the population to the maximum amount possible. In this case the individual is the hive. They can do this by swarming or by raising drones and spreading their 'seed' that way. A colony can only issue a few swarms a year, but they can issue thousands of drones that have the potential to spread their genetics around. Its all very natural and the way things work. If that has advantages to beekeepers or bees probably depends on whether or not your rearing queens and if you are aggressively culling out the genes you don't want within a 5 mile radius.
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as of march 8, they had tested 5 samples from 5 different suppliers (a very small sample). all 5 samples had fluvalinate and coumaphos. see the "maryann frazier video" on our website:
If feral colonies are successful at 5 and 5.1, what makes you think that your own colonies won't be successful at that size. I haven't treated in years, nor lost a colony to varroa in that time, and all of mine are on natural cell size. Forcing them to 4.9 sounds like the same logic that got us to 5.4. As to drawing drone, they only do a frame or so of that. You just move it out of the way and they are happy. I don't see excessive drone rearing in my hives. Mountains out of mole hills mostly.
All those big commercial guys using foundation are the same ones reporting CCD. Maybe it's the foundation?
We're all friends here. We all have opinions and aren't shy about expressing them. I come off as harsh sometimes when I don't really mean to. I just want people to think outside the box and try some new things.
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You suggested that by inserting foundationless frames in the brood nest you'd see regression over time. I don't believe it.
I suggested that you keep on dreaming.
Then you indicated that you thought my tone was angry.....'got cut off on the way to work' + a smiley face.
My comments about small cell foundation was only in explanation of why I found it troubling that the small cell folks were misleading new beeks. Didn't have a thing to do with the overall thread.
Make sense?????
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Dan, so little of what you say makes sense, but that's ok. We're pretty simple folk here. The fact that it doesn't work for you is in no way a reflection on you. I never said you sounded angry.
I'm not sure what's up with my cells. Maybe some of them are shrinking. I tried looking on a few websites, but I wasn't able to find anyone else who has run into this shrinking cell phenomenon.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I don't know what else is up, but I hope your day gets better, and soon.
>does any one have any experience with foundation less frames apposed to pre waxed foundation?
> I'm told they build faster combs on foundation less frames?
>I don't mean to hi-jack this thread, but I'd like to add a question to this. I've been told that when using foundationless frames, the frames must run Norh/South. Is this true?
I've seen no difference.
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Hey Guys,
I got a new nuc from a local Bee Keeper and started a new hive with foundation less frames. Intergrating the 5 frames with foundation. It is going rather well, I have straight combs and good attachments and they even filled a few frames with attachments on all four side. the thing is whereever I had the old foundation frames beside an empty frame, they double the thickness of the comb!
Thats particularly worse where they decided to put honey (corners and side of frames) whereas sections of brood stayed shalower.
What do I do with that? do I shave off thicker part? Remove those frames?
Looking for advice
I've had better results and gotten around that (yes I had one that way early on) by working in the foundationeless frames one at a time in the middle. The fat frame got shaved down - put it next to a drawn comb and it'll work itself out nicely.
Long story made short - shave the fat frames. Try to work them into a slot where they're beside another frame that's already drawn. They'll even them up to match pretty evenly. Scratch the cappings (if there are honey cappings) at the tops of the thin ones. Try if you can to add foundationless one at a time in the middle betweeb two drawn or mostly drawn combs (between capped is absolurtely the best, and yeilds the best results). This is the way in which I was able to get it to work the best for me. By doing this you establish the outer bounds for how wide they'll drawn the new comb. One slot for building of a foundationless comb seemed to work best for me - it focuses the bees building attention on that one frame, otherwise if you just alternate a lot of empty frames in with your drawn frames, they seem to go into the mode of spending as much effort (or even more) extending the honey cap on the drawn frames as, where they should be focusing on drawing that new frame. Add a new empty frame in the middle once a week or so, and keep your eye on what kinds of cells they're building in it. Move the older frames outward and upward as you continue this schedule.
Hope this helps.
Ok I will try that, I did it initially but that really sent the bees in a frenzy and I am not 100% comfortable yet so I figured I did something stupid LOL
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"Star Trek Into Darkness," the second installment in director J.J. Abrams's reboot of the science-fiction series, is forecast to take in $112 million in its debut, boosted by an early start in theaters this weekend.
The film, from Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures, opened yesterday, a day earlier than originally planned to maximize the film's chances in a crowded schedule. "Star Trek," targets the same young males as "Fast & Furious 6" and "The Hangover III," which open next week.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by TVMan, Nov 26, 2012.
Video of breaking down Jonathan Cooper's ability to pass protect. Good stuff.
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This is the guy I've been wanting for a while now, he's the Tyron Smith of Guard prospects. Ridiculous athleticism.
Middle of round one would be about right for this guy.
I like the punch he has. He knocks guys on the hind parts with it.
Thanks for posting the video link!
I totally agree. He is my favorite interior OLineman in this draft.
I know that people love Warmack and he is a terrific road-grader; however, Cooper's quickness is elite and he is very strong.
Cooper is probably quicker than most of the Left Tackles in college. He is an OG because he is 6'2-5/8 tall.
Also, Cooper has played Center in some games.
Me too, Love this guy
Cooper looks like a perfect fit for Calahan's scheme. Not sure if Warmack would be as good in a zone blocking system.
Smith and Cooper on the same line would be amazing. He moves so well he even reminds me of Tyron out there.
What ever happened to waiting until the middle rounds for guards? Are those days over?
I dunno? What do you think? How has that worked out for us huh?
He's growing on me as well. Might be the right choice.
Certainly not opposed to Cooper but if they want to trade back and get another pick Dallas Thomas offers more versatility and similar ability.
Sad fact is that no O lineman we have drafted outside of Free- and the jury is still out on him- has become a quality starter for us that has been drafted lower then the 2nd rd for over 15 years.
Dallas Thomas would be my next choice after Cooper.
Tennessee moved Thomas from LT in 2011 to LG in 2012; however, I don't really think that it was due to performance. I think that they want really quick Guards in their scheme.
I would rather have Warmack and have a power running game. I have never been a fan of Callahan or Zone blocking.
Those days have been over for most teams that have or want a good oline. That line of thought still runs strong in Dallas. Expect a sixth round guard from some small school to be drafted and Jerry will declare the line was addressed.
or sign two JAGS that have not performed well for other teams and say that is good enough for this year


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I don't know why I kept my second attempt quiet. I guess it was because I didn't expect to pass at all. It's been a year or longer when I did my first attempt. I just got done with college and found a job. So I thought I would just schedule the exam and see how it goes. That it would be a nice to have this cert before I start working in August.
So last weekend my exam started at precisely 4pm. I already had in my mind that if I fail I would buy some more labtime. If I fail, at least would have fun in the labs again I knew that I lacked sufficient practice for the kind of scenarios during the exam. I mean, I did practice some on distros like Metasploitable and Metasploitable 2. Though, those are way too easy and have so many ways to aquire administrative access.
Anyway, I'll tell you guys how it went. I'm almost a bit embarrassed to say that I didn't have much of a plan, or well at least not a good plan. Did some enumeration with nmap to find vulnerable services of course, scanned ALL ports etc. Like 4 hours passed before I got the first box with max points. Then 3 hours later I got the second box with max points. Then around 2 or 3 am in the morning I got a shell! Rooting this one would give me enough points to pass the exam.
Hours passed... Kept looking at the clock.. 4 am... 5 am.... Wahh? The sun is rising Again a few hours passed.. 8 am.. I tried so many things but I didn't manage to get root. I tried to sleep for a bit.. maybe if I slept like 2 or 3 hours, I would have some better focus. The problem was, I drank so many coffee and Red Bulls that I didn't manage to get one bit of sleep. I was just in bed staring at the ceiling. Thinking of rooting that box..even browsing the internet using smart phone for new strategies.
I tried closing my eyes..thinking of something else. Like how tomorrow would be a good day for fishing lol I couldn't fall in sleep. So after 2 hours of laying in bed, I decided to just continue on one of the other machines. around 10 or 11 am I managed to figure out the vulnerability. But my method wasn't allowed. I was happy at this point, because knowing the vulnerability gave me some hope, and could make me pass the exam.. Well if I managed to actually get in. Guess what? It wasn't going to happen.
With no sleep at all, I realized that at this point I'm just going at it blindly, exactly the way like I did on the first attempt for the OSCP certification. Hours passed again, and I started getting anxious because my time was running out. I gave all the other machines one more try before the clock reached 4pm again. A full day had passed, I wasn't even tired any more.
The funny thing is, somehow I managed to do a lot better than my first attempt. Was it luck? I dunno really. But I'm feeling kinda confident about my next attempt. I really got so close, and that's why I'm having mixed feelings right now. I didn't expect much, I didn't feel ready. But because I got so close, I'm feeling more disappointed than before.
After doing the exam I kept looking for local exploits for privilege escalation. And I probably found a way that would have worked. Not sure though. Tomorrow I'm going to buy 15 days of extra lab time to practice..and practice. Probably will schedule the exam a few days after that.
Just sharing my story. Now I'm going to continue reading The Web Application Hacker's Handbook (2nd edition). I'm sort of wondering what would be a good book while I'm preparing for the OSCP certification retake..
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Here's a great starter
$1399 for a reproduction air cleaner?
Lol yeah! So I should be able to sell my vintage cal custom aluminum fin valve covers for $12k right?
And the seller has sold TWO of them!!!!!
I don't see how! More bank than brains?
Those things wouldn't be up for sale if people weren't buying them.
I have a co-worker who spends his free time buying up old trash cars that are just sitting there in fields. Then he strips them and chrome-plates or powder-coats various parts that are still in good shape and sells them on e-bay. He makes as much if not more than what he does at his day job.
That's all fine and dandy, but he's asking $1400 for a $200 part tops they're all over eBay for $170-$200. Your co-worker I'm sure is asking a much more reasonable price for resto original parts
Man, I saw this thread and thought I was going to be a part of a confessional with others who can't stop hunting for bargains on CL. Speaking of which, picking up a set of brand new 35" pro comps mounted on some sweet wheels for $850 tomorrow.
Hello. I'm chuck and I'm an online bargain hunting addict....
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The food might have been alright if it wasn't for the bug crawling through it. Tried to complain and the female manager/owner yelled and me and was incredibly rude. I wont ever set foot in that place again.
These guys are just going through the motions. Ate there last night, with the following issues:
1. Food tastes canned, frozen and re-heated. Nasty greasy fried potatoes, something that was supposed to be a potato dumpling appeared to be more of the same stuffed into a mold and dumped onto the plates
2. Pricey for the type of meals and beverages served
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The overall impression is that none of the profits are going back into the business or staff.
Went expecting good german food,had ok meal that was overpriced and service was below average. i have never been to a german restaraunt that dosent have mashed potatos every day of the week. couldnt get over it when the server told me that.


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"Are you aiming to beat six hours?" asked the attractive woman on the schmick triathlon bicycle next to me as we rolled through the gorgeous countryside.
Well, no, I wasn't. I didn't know that was a time to beat. In fact, I was deliberately aiming to not beat any time whatsoever.
I'd arrived in Lake Taupo, in the middle of New Zealand's north island, in a state of blissful relaxation regarding the 160km Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge, the nation's largest annual bicycle event. I've done way too many rides stupidly in the past – racing my mates, going out too hard, then suffering to the finish line. This time would be different. I was going to sit up and enjoy the ride.
Fun and relaxation was certainly the vibe in the resort town of Lake Taupo the day before the event. In the buzzing registration area, I delved into the stalls, emerging with fistfuls of energy food, a souvenir jersey and discount woollen cycling socks for next winter (when in Kiwiland, buy wool).
By the afternoon, the main roads had been barricaded off for a street criterium. Restaurants along the course had lined the pavement with tables and chairs, and we sipped beer in bright sunshine while "real" cyclists sped past, with a strong Liv/Giant Australian team monstering the field in the women's competition. So much better than watching the rugby.
I arrived at the start line the next day at the crack of 8.30am. None of that bleary-eyed pre-dawn munching of muesli, or tricky clothing choices (freeze at first, or be overladen later?). As someone who loathes getting up early, I'd say the relaxed start time alone is worth going to Lake Taupo.
I resisted my usual desire to creep to the front of my start group as, with a ragged cheer, we joined some 8000 other cyclists on the 160km route around the lake. Of course, it helps that in a small town, there's no need to beat the weekend rush hour. The first section of the course was closed to traffic, allowing plenty of space for me to be overtaken on the first steep hill … by a bloke on a unicycle. "Let's see how you go on the downhills, Mr Clown!" I thought to myself; but, curiously, I never saw him again.
I'd had a perfunctory glance at the race profile the night before, and noted that the first half was non-stop hills, then mostly flat to the finish. With no heart rate monitor to urge my progress (I'd left the strap in Sydney), I tootled along happily, saying "gidday" to friendly faces and admiring distant snow-capped mountains. It was so picturesque that I stopped a few times to take some happy snaps.
Soon, the 90km mark had passed, the rolling hills were behind us, and a long hill led down towards the lake shore. And as I hurtled down, I watched my average speed climb. It had been ticking along at 24km/h, but quickly rose past 26km/h. Hmmm.
Maths has never been my strong suit, but a tedious calculation while chewing an energy bar told me that if I got my average speed close to 27km/h, I should do 160km in under six hours …
And so it was that I got into the handlebar drops and started punching the pace like the fool I always have been. Happily, some people treat the event as a two- or three-person relay, and I found half a dozen fresh-legged bolters who were happy to share turns on the front. Occasional glances to my left were rewarded with watery vistas, but mostly I was glancing at my average speed, which had climbed into the black. I was home and hosed!
Two words. Hatepe Hill. With 25km to go, it rises up like a wall, more than 150 vertical metres of misery. My fresher-legged compadres disappeared ahead as I winched away miserably, watching my average speed plummet like a paralysed falcon.
"Steep descent" said the sign at the top, as if that were a bad thing. A lovely speed-resurrecting slide back to the lakeside edge was tempered by the realisation that there was an hour's suffering between me and sub-six success (try saying that in a Kiwi accent). Sucking on any rear wheel I could find, I counted down the last 10 kilometres, which were meticulously marked by roadside signs (a most welcome service). The main road starting point was now the finishing straight, and I mostly resisted the urge to zip up my jersey and strike a Cavendish-esque pose as I rolled over with six minutes to spare.
Beer in hand, among thousands of people thronging the grassy amphitheatre that would soon become a rowdy prize-giving venue, I reflected on the foolishness of the day's events. What was I thinking, stopping to take pictures, chatting to other riders? Next time, it's sub 5 hours 30 minutes for sure.
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Very nice Shortrnd! So the M2 is the original mount? Sounds a bit too steep right now for me. But the substitute, MG43 is more in my range as far as price goes. I do have a question though. I would prefer a mount that was actually used in combat with the 1919 mounted to it. Is the M2 the only one that was? I was thinking of something that was authentic, but not as pricey as the M2? Any ideas?
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Was it really just two weeks ago I was singing the praises of riding in the rain?
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Hey Jill,
Is there any chance you or someone else will be reporting the story of Rainer Klaus falling to the bottom of the DNF list for the GDR?
Maybe it is better left to mystery, but if there is to be public coverage of an event, "sportscaster-style" as you put it, shouldn't it tell the whole story? Was it the section he was so worried about missing?
I know you are not the ring leader here, but maybe you could pass this comment on... DNF on the blog, a frozen leader board with a finishing time, inclusion on the results page of the GDR?
Just a random spectator
Yeah. I was just the GDR "public relations" person for 2008. I have no say in the matter and also very little knowledge of what happened.
All I know is a few different racers reported that Rainer cut the course in several spots, and based on their seperate stories, there was strong evidence that he did so delibratly - which is a automatic disqualification in GDR rules. Rainer reportedly didn't respond to a long line of e-mails, but after his name was removed from the final results on the blog (not by me), he did contact Pete and insists he played fair. So I don't believe it is a final ruling, but I am in your boat, waiting to see what happens. I feel sympathy for Rainer because he put in a great ride. But if he did intentionally cut the course - that's cheating.
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aste great with Very Greek Grilled Chicken for a low-carb meal.
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1-2 cups sliced hearts of palm
3/4 cup Kalamata olives, sliced in half
1 cup roasted red bell pepper from a jar, diced in pieces about 3/8 inch square
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1/3 cup Feta cheese
fresh ground black pepper to taste
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2 T fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp. lemon zest
1 T chopped fresh oregano (or use small amount dried oregano)
1 T chopped fresh basil (I would omit basil if I only had dried basil)
Steam beans until they are barely tender-crisp. I steamed mine ten minutes in an electric vegetable steamer. On the stove top, it would take less time. I prefer the beans quite crisp.
While beans cook, combine balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil, lemon zest, chopped fresh oregano and chopped fresh basil in food processor. Process until herbs are very finely chopped and dressing is mixed well. (I did this in the small bowl chopper attachment of my immersion blender, which worked great.)
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The alternatives are more dangerous to bees and everyone else.
The alternatives are more dangerous to bees and everyone else.
I can't sign a petition to ban a product which might be a problem for bees.
Now if I can find a petition to ban the EPA, I'd be all over it.
The UK governments position
Defra has kept evidence on neonicotinoids under open-minded scrutiny. We assess new studies as they emerge and consider how they alter the overall situation.Germany imposed a temporary ban after the corn/maize seed drilling/planter dust bee kills of 2008Following this work, we have produced an assessment of the evidence about neonicotinoids and bees. The assessment cannot exclude rare effects of neonicotinoids on bees in the field. However, it suggests that effects on bees do not occur under normal circumstances.
France banned some neonics on some crops but bee problems remained.
I think Slovenia has had a ban for quite a while.
Surely a petition should get the basic facts straight before asking people to sign.
Surely a petition should get the basic facts straight before asking people to sign.
Cam Bishop
The opposite is in fact true. Many studies have looked for a link and failed to find one.Numerous recent studies link the CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) of honeybees to the use of certain Neonicotinoid pesticides
CCD has a defined set of symptoms so ascribing any colony death to CCD is not helpful.
This study by Van Engelsdorp looked at CCD.
Over the last two winters, there have been large-scale, unexplained losses of managed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies in the United States. In the absence of a known cause, this syndrome was named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) because the main trait was a rapid loss of adult worker bees. We initiated a descriptive epizootiological study in order to better characterize CCD and compare risk factor exposure between populations afflicted by and not afflicted by CCD.
Methods and Principal Findings
Of 61 quantified variables (including adult bee physiology, pathogen loads, and pesticide levels), no single measure emerged as a most-likely cause of CCD. Bees in CCD colonies had higher pathogen loads and were co-infected with a greater number of pathogens than control populations, suggesting either an increased exposure to pathogens or a reduced resistance of bees toward pathogens. Levels of the synthetic acaricide coumaphos (used by beekeepers to control the parasitic mite Varroa destructor) were higher in control colonies than CCD-affected colonies.
This is the first comprehensive survey of CCD-affected bee populations that suggests CCD involves an interaction between pathogens and other stress factors. We present evidence that this condition is contagious or the result of exposure to a common risk factor. Potentially important areas for future hypothesis-driven research, including the possible legacy effect of mite parasitism and the role of honey bee resistance to pesticides, are highlighted.
Direct the EPA to ban the use of Neonicotinoid pesticides, until proven that it does not negatively impact honeybees.
Of course I'm concerned about CCD but I'm more concerned about pesticide use - on food, in air, on bees and other insects.
Zone 7b ~ Central Arkansas
8fr medium equipment
The danger here is that neonicotinoids will be replaced by some other pesticide family so if that happens we would need to be sure that it is less harmful to bees, pollinators, the wider environment and human health.
Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.
"Defra has kept evidence on neonicotinoids under open-minded scrutiny. We assess new studies as they emerge and consider how they alter the overall situation.
We've taken advice from the independent expert Advisory Committee on Pesticides, which has considered the evidence on several occasions. The committee advised in January 2013 that there were grounds for a review of neonicotinoid authorisations under pesticides legislation. This is being done by the HSE's Chemicals Regulation Directorate."
From what I have seen in the past this caused some bans in some areas while the investigation was under way.
"The EC has drawn up plans for a ban on the use of three neonicotinoids on a long list of crops. We're urging the Commission to make sure the measures proposed are proportionate to the risks."
I do not have links to them but I have seen several articles sine January that do state that some bans in some areas for some Nics are in effect. So far it seems these bans are pending further investigation. Maybe those investigations have been conducted and the bans are being lifted. This is just the latest comment that has been made in a list of comments.
This portion of your linked article woudl tend to confirm that.
"Following this work, we have produced an assessment of the evidence about neonicotinoids and bees. The assessment cannot exclude rare effects of neonicotinoids on bees in the field. However, it suggests that effects on bees do not occur under normal circumstances."
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
There are currently no bans on neonicotinoids in England (UK) and there never have been.
These studies on neonicotinoids do show that they negatively impact the health of honeybees which are already stressed.
CCD is a complex issue and I'm not sure anyone will ever be able to say what is THE CAUSE of it. It's like finding cure for cancer.
The following list is from EPA's website:
All of the following factors contribute to CCD:
- invasive varroa mite (a pest of honeybees);
- virus and or Nosema;
- pesticide poisoning through exposure to pesticides applied to crops or for in-hive insect or mite control;
- bee management stress;
- inadequate forage/poor nutrition and
- immune-suppressing stress on bees caused by one or a combination of factors above.
And the studies do show that each one of those factors are increased when the neonics are being used.
I was wrong about England sorry, they are just as slow as EPA. http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress2/?p=20301
All the studies are nice.. so far as mentioned tehy are inconclusive.. But whats interesting to me is I live and raise bees in the THICKEST blanket of these products.. and have never seen or had a case of CCD, nor has anyone I know with 200 miles of me.... We have mites, EFB, noseama, and we lose hives.... Yes we would love to not have any issues... but my loses are no differnt now than they were before.
Pettis and Engelsdorp found that nosema levels in individual bees increased in the lab after exposure to Imidacloprid.
He acknowledged that he was not seeing this at colony level in field studies.
Alaux also did similar work.
Are you suggesting that exposure to neonicotinoids increases problems with mites or virus?
If there is a paper which shows that, I have not seen it.
That is not what the EPA website says.
This is what it says:
They are looking at these factors. They are not claiming that they cause CCD.There have been many theories about the cause of CCD, but the researchers who are leading the effort to find out why are now focused on these factors:
increased losses due to the invasive varroa mite (a pest of honeybees);
new or emerging diseases such as Israeli Acute Paralysis virus and the gut parasite Nosema;
pesticide poisoning through exposure to pesticides applied to crops or for in-hive insect or mite control;
bee management stress;
foraging habitat modification
inadequate forage/poor nutrition and
potential immune-suppressing stress on bees caused by one or a combination of factors identified above.
Additional factors may include poor nutrition, drought, and migratory stress brought about by the increased need to move bee colonies long distances to provide pollination services.
This is what they say about bees, pesticides and CCD
Please try and be careful with what you cite and its better to provide a link so it can be verified.Dead bees don't necessarily mean CCD
Certain pesticides are harmful to bees. That's why we require instructions for protecting bees on the labels of pesticides that are known to be particularly harmful to bees. This is one of many reasons why everyone must read and follow pesticide label instructions. When most or all of the bees in a hive are killed by overexposure to a pesticide, we call that a beekill incident resulting from acute pesticide poisoning. But acute pesticide poisoning of a hive is very different from CCD and is almost always avoidable.
What would be the time period from exposer till CCD kills my bee's, Because I have a couple of hives that set beside my sweet corn field. I have use treated seed every year there. By the way I catch 2 swarms and get at least 3 meds of honey a year for the last five years. When are they going to die and the girls like that sweet corn pollen.
There is a link posted in the Dan rather report bee's in almonds. It said some class of this chemical has been used since the 1700s, If it stay in soil and leaches into other plants. Why do we still have bee's.
I heard a while back that cell phones was a part of CCD, I don't see any one trying to ban those.
"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
If this is such a problem, why are there still bees in the corn belt. I can drive west for a 800 miles and see nothing but corn . With hundreds of thousands pound of seed going in the ground every year for x amount of years. Why are there still bee's in these areas.


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Brian Hayes
The genetic code was cracked 40 years ago, and yet we still don't
fully understand it. We know enough to read individual messages,
translating from the language of nucleotide bases in DNA or RNA into
the language of amino acids in a protein molecule. The RNA language
is written in an alphabet of four letters (A, C, G, U), grouped into
words three letters long, called triplets or codons. Each of the 64
codons specifies one of 20 amino acids or else serves as a
punctuation mark signaling the end of a message. That's all there is
to the code. But a nagging question has never been put to rest: Why
this particular code, rather than some other? Given 64 codons and 20
amino acids plus a punctuation mark, there are 1083
possible genetic codes. What's so special about the one code
that—with a few minor variations—rules all life on
Planet Earth?
The canonical nonanswer to this question came from Francis Crick,
who argued that the code need not be special at all; it could be
nothing more than a "frozen accident." The assignment of
codons to amino acids might have been subject to reshuffling and
refinement in the earliest era of evolution, but further change
became impossible because the code was embedded so deeply in the
core machinery of life. A mutation that altered the codon table
would also alter the structure of every protein molecule, and thus
would almost surely be lethal. In other words, the genetic code is
the qwerty keyboard of biology—not necessarily the best
solution, but too deeply ingrained to be replaced or improved.
There has always been resistance to the frozen-accident theory. Who
wants to believe that the key to life is so arbitrary and ad
hoc? And there is evidence that the accident is not quite
frozen. Certain protozoa, bacteria and intracellular organelles
employ genetic codes slightly different from the standard one,
hinting that changes to codon assignments are not impossible after
all. And if the code is subject to change, then it must also be
subject to natural selection, which in turn suggests the possibility
of ongoing improvement. Perhaps ours is not the very best of all
possible codes, but after four billion years of evolution it ought
to be a pretty darn good one.
The urge to find something singular and superlative about the code
was already evident even before it was deciphered. For several years
before experiments began to reveal the true structure of the genetic
code, theorists were at liberty to dream up codes of their own. Some
of the proposals were so ingenious that the real code seemed a bit
disappointing. An earlier column in this series (January-February
1998) described that era of imaginary genetic engineering. But the
creative thinking did not end with the publication of the codon
table; indeed speculation seems to have been inhibited very little
by the constraints of mere fact. This sequel is meant to bring the
story up to date, covering both the biological mainstream and a few
ideas from wilder shores.
Egged on by Error
Early guesses about the nature of the code often started from an
assumption that it would maximize information density. One
conjecture had each nucleotide base spelling out three messages at
once. The concern with efficiency turned out to be misplaced;
information density is not a very high priority for most organisms.
The concept that has replaced efficiency as the great desideratum in
genetic coding is error-tolerance, or robustness. In one way or
another, the code is thought to minimize the incidence and the
consequences of errors in the transmission of genetic information,
so that meaning can be recovered even from garbled messages.
Among the many ways that genetic signals could go awry, two kinds of
errors have been singled out for attention: mistranslations and
mutations. Errors in translation disrupt the reading of the genetic
message—the flow of information from DNA to RNA and then to
protein—but they leave the DNA itself intact. Translation
errors were probably of great importance early in the history of
life, when the machinery of protein synthesis was imprecise.
Mistranslations are less frequent now, and less harmful. Each error
disables only a single protein molecule. Mutations are another
matter: They alter the DNA, the permanent genetic archive. Whereas a
translation error is like an inkblot marring one copy of a book, a
mutation is a flaw in the printing plate, reproduced in every copy.
The simplest "point" mutations substitute one nucleotide
for another at a single site on the DNA (with a corresponding change
on the opposite strand).
The idea that fault tolerance might shape the genetic code arose as
soon as biologists got their first glimpse of the codon table. The
mapping from codons to amino acids is highly degenerate: In many
cases multiple codons specify the same amino acid. But the
synonymous codons are not just scattered haphazardly across the
table; they clump together. Because of these clusters, a misreading
or mutation has a better-than-average chance of producing a new
codon that still translates into the same amino acid.
Closer examination of the table—with some knowledge of amino
acid chemistry—revealed another possible strategy for coping
with errors. When a change to a single nucleotide does not yield the
same amino acid, it nonetheless has a good chance of producing one
with similar properties. For example, all the codons with a middle
nucleotide of U correspond to amino acids that are hydrophobic, or
water-repellent, a trait governing how the chain of amino acids in a
protein molecule folds up in the aqueous environment of the cell.
Thus at least two-thirds of the time a point mutation in one of
these codons will either leave the identity of the amino acid
unchanged or will substitute another hydrophobic amino acid.
Reshuffling the Deck of Codons
As early as 1969, Cynthia Alff-Steinberger of the University of
Geneva began trying to quantify the code's resilience to error by
means of computer simulation. The basic idea was to randomly
generate a series of codes that reshuffle the codon table but retain
certain statistical properties, such as the number of codons
associated with each amino acid. Then the error-resistance of the
codes was evaluated by generating point mutations that caused amino
acid substitutions. A code scored well if the erroneous amino acids
were similar to the original ones. With the computing facilities
available in the 1960s, Alff-Steinberger was able to test only 200
variant codes. She concluded that the natural code tolerates
substitutions better than a typical random code.
A decade later J. Tze-Fei Wong of the University of Toronto
approached the same question from another angle—and reached a
different conclusion. Instead of generating many random codes, he
tried a hand-crafted solution, identifying the best substitution for
each amino acid. Wong found that the substitutions generated by the
natural code are less than half as close, on average, as the best
ones possible. This result was taken as evidence that the code has
not evolved to maximize error tolerance. But Wong did not attempt to
find a complete, self-consistent code would generate all the optimal substitutions.
Returning to studies of random codes, David Haig and Laurence D.
Hurst of the University of Oxford generated 10,000 of them in 1991,
keeping the same blocks of synonymous codons found in the natural
code but permuting the amino acids assigned to them. The result
depended strongly on what criterion was chosen to judge the
similarity of amino acids. Using a measure called polar requirement,
which indicates whether an amino acid is hydrophobic or hydrophilic,
the natural code was a stellar performer, better than all but two of
the 10,000 random permutations. But in other respects the biological
code was only mediocre; 56 percent of the random codes did a better
job of matching the electric charge of substituted amino acids.
Focusing on the encouraging result with polar requirement, Hurst and
Stephen J. Freeland (now at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County) later repeated the experiment with a sample size of 1
million random codes. Using the same evaluation rule as in the
smaller simulation, they found that 114 of the million codes gave
better substitutions than the natural code when evaluated with
respect to polar requirement. Then they refined the model. In the
earlier work, all mutations and all mistranslations were considered
equally likely, but nature is known to have certain
biases—some errors are more frequent than others. When the
algorithm was adjusted to account for the biases, the natural code
emerged superior to every random permutation with a single
exception. They published their results under the title "The
genetic code is one in a million."
But still there was the question of whether polar requirement is the
right criterion for estimating the similarity of amino acids.
Choosing the one factor that gives the best result and ignoring all
others is not an experimental protocol that will convince skeptics.
This issue was addressed in a further series of experiments by
Freeland and Hurst in collaboration with Robin D. Knight and Laura
F. Landweber of Princeton University. Rather than try to deduce
nature's criteria for comparing amino acids, they inferred it from
data on actual mutations. If two amino acids are often found
occupying the same position in variant copies of the same protein,
then it seems safe to conclude that the amino acids are
physiologically compatible. Conversely, amino acids that are never
found to occupy the same position would not be likely substitutions
in a successful genetic code. There is a circularity to this
formulation: The structure of the genetic code helps determine which
substitutions are seen most often, and then the frequencies of
substitutions serve to rank candidate genetic codes. Freeland and
his colleagues argue that they can break the cycle by choosing an
appropriate subset of the mutation data, including only proteins at
substantial evolutionary distance, which should be separated by many mutations.
Using this bootstrap criterion, Freeland and his colleagues compared
the biological code with another set of a million random variations.
The natural code emerged as the uncontested champion. They wrote of
the biological code: "...it appears at or very close to a
global optimum for error minimization: the best of all possible codes."
The idea that the genetic code is evolving under pressure to
ameliorate errors—or indeed that it is evolving at
all—has not won universal assent. Some cogent objections were
set forth as early as 1967 by Carl R. Woese of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among other points, he noted that if a
trait is actively evolving, you would expect to see some variation.
In particular he called attention to the various
"extremophiles" that live at high temperature, high salt
concentration, and so on. These organisms tend to have unusual
proteins and unusual nucleic acids, but they all have the standard
genetic code.
The few variant codes known in protozoa and organelles are thought
to be offshoots of the standard code, but there is no evidence that
the changes to the codon table offer any adaptive advantage. In
fact, Freeland, Knight, Landweber and Hurst found that the variants
are inferior or at best equal to the standard code. It seems hard to
account for these facts without retreating at least part of the way
back to the frozen-accident theory, conceding that the code was
subject to change only in a former age of miracles, which we'll
never see again in the modern world.
Another challenge to the error-reduction hypothesis is the
difficulty of showing causation in an evolutionary context. Even if
the pattern of codon assignments is consistent with such a
mechanism, the same pattern might have arisen in some other way.
Computer experiments like Alff-Steinberger's and Freeland's reveal
nothing about pathways of evolution. A program churning out a
million random genetic codes is not what you expect to see in
nature. To simulate the step-by-step process of mutation and
selection is much more demanding; after all, the biosphere has been
working at it for a few billion years. Nevertheless, models of this
kind are being attempted. Guy Sella and David H. Ardell of Stanford
University are running a simulation that includes both a nucleic
acid genotype and a protein phenotype, linked by a mutable genetic
code. They point out that change can be introduced into the genetic
code without utterly disrupting cell metabolism if there are
multiple codons for a given amino acid, and some of them fall into
disuse; these rarely used codons are then free to take on new roles.
The mechanism is analogous to the gene duplication that often
precedes evolutionary divergence of proteins: One copy of the gene
carries on the original function, allowing the other to explore new
territory. Thus degeneracy or redundancy is not just an accidental
feature of the code but is necessary to allow scope for evolution.
Code On, Codon
Solomon W. Golomb of the University of Southern California, who was
a central figure in the first round of speculations about the
genetic code, has summed up the spirit of that era: The approach
taken in those days was to ask, "How would Nature have done it,
if she were as clever as I?" Now that we know how nature has
done it, you might think that the period of freewheeling conjecture
would be over, but I am pleased to report that there is no lack of
adventurous ideas about patterns and structures in the genetic code.
Here are just a few of the ideas in circulation.
One of the themes of the earlier period was the need to find some
compelling relation between the numbers 64 and 20. And this quest
had spectacular successes: In at least two schemes, the 64 codons
could specify exactly 20 amino acids, neither more nor less. The
mathematics was so beautiful, it was hard to believe nature would
pass up an opportunity to make use of it. Pierre Béland and
T. F. H. Allen of the St. Lawrence National Institute of
Ecotoxicology in Montreal argue that nature did not miss
the opportunity. They propose a primordial genetic code in which
information was read from both strands of the DNA at once, and all
messages were palindromic, so that they could be read in either
direction. Under these conditions, meaning can be assigned to only
20 of the 64 triplets.
A double-stranded translation system may sound outlandish, and yet
there are hints that the "antisense" strand of DNA may be
more than just a placeholder. Jaromir Konecny, Michael
Schöniger and G. Ludwig Hofacker of the Technical University of
Munich point out that a rough symmetry of the genetic code creates a
kind of antigene opposite every normal gene. Wherever the sense
strand calls for a hydrophilic amino acid, the antisense strand
(read in the opposite direction) is likely to code for a hydrophobic
one. It's even possible that some of these antisense pseudogenes are
transcribed in vivo. William F. Pendergraft III and six
colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have
recently detected immunological reactions to one such antisense protein.
More generally, there is growing recognition that the genetic code
may encompass more information than just the simple mapping from
codons to amino acids. Synonymous codons may not always be
completely equivalent. It's certainly true that codon frequencies
are not random or uniform. Among the several codons that specify a
given amino acid, some may be common and some rare, and these usage
biases can vary both within and between genomes. The biases probably
help to regulate the rate of protein synthesis: If the transfer RNA
that matches a codon is rare, then transcription of genes including
that codon will be slowed. For some proteins there is evidence that
such pace-setting codons help ensure correct folding of the amino
acid chain.
Another fertile area is the search for symmetries and patterns in
the genetic code. The standard table of codon assignments derives
from the obvious representation of the triplet code as a
4×4×4 cube. Several authors, observing that 64 is equal
not only to 43 but also to 26, suggest
organizing the codon table as a six-dimensional (2x2x2x2x2x2)
hypercube. A mutation is a movement from one vertex to an adjacent
vertex in this structure. The geometry is intriguing, and there are
interesting connections with Gray codes and even with the I
Ching, but I'm not so sure that biologists will find the
concept useful.
Not every interesting idea takes the form of a paper in the
Journal of Theoretical Biology. Another quite different
geometrical interpretation of the genetic code has been presented to
the world in the form of a design for a toy. Mark White, a physician
and inventor in Bloomington, Indiana, discovered that the genetic
code can be represented succinctly on a dodecahedron (a solid whose
surface consists of 12 pentagons) or its dual the icosahedron (made
up of 20 triangles). Each face of the dodecahedron is labeled with
one of the four nucleotides, each of which appears three times. Any
grouping of three adjacent faces, read in the right order, generates
the appropriate amino acid. White has made prototypes of toys that
incorporate this design. He observes that the icosahedral model is
closely related to the very first proposal for a triplet genetic
code, the "diamond code" devised in 1955 by George Gamow.
This neatly closes the circle and takes us back to the beginning of
the story.
© Brian Hayes
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/ode-to-the-code/4
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Group advisers, leaders to learn risk management
(Jan. 26, 2009)--A new state law requires colleges and universities to educate student leaders and advisers of organizations on seven specific risk management topics each year. One adviser and four officers of each UTSA student organization are required to attend the UTSA Risk Management Symposium from noon to 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31.
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The symposium is a unique way for UTSA student organization leaders and advisers to learn about risk management and how it affects their organizations. Organization representatives will learn how to identify potential risks within their organizations, how to address the risks and obtain the necessary tools to develop a working risk management plan.
"There are many student accidents every year that can be prevented when the proper steps are taken," said Kelsey Bratcher, UTSA assistant director of student activities. "With this law, Texas is striving to reduce the number of accidents by college students and encourage safer and healthier college experiences."
Gov. Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 2639 effective Sept. 1, 2008, which requires student organization leaders and advisers across Texas to attend an annual risk management course.
"The goal is to make sure that everyone on campus knows there are some guidelines to follow before planning organization events and trips, as well as discourage hazing, drinking alcohol and other illegal activities," said Rep. John Smithee, author of the bill.
>> For details about registration and symposium details, visit the UTSA Office of Student Activities Web site.
>> For more information, contact Kelsey Bratcher at (210) 458-4160.