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am i safe in assuming that ya'll aren't in a big hurry to shake out all your colonies onto honey super cell?
am i safe in assuming that ya'll aren't in a big hurry to shake out all your colonies onto honey super cell?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
In my case you're correct in assuming... I have no intention to regress. All I've read on small cell is that it really doesn't work. And I've had great success being treatment free on "large cell".
"If all you have is a hammer, the whole world is a nail." - A.H. Maslow
same here steven, thanks for your reply.
i would have liked for the author to have joined the discussion, but i guess he his unable or unwilling to do so. i really wanted to give the benefit of the doubt...
i guess i'll wrap up what i have to say about my take on the book.
first, i feel like the subtitle "Everything the budding beekeeper needs for a healthy, productive hive" is, well, overstated. i could give examples, but i won't out of fairness to the author.
second, although there are no direct derogatory comments to the effect, a beginner reading this book could not help but come away from it thinking that the last thing in the world they would want to be is a beekeeper who feeds, uses standard size cells, or uses any kind of treatments.
with regards to no treatments, there is a slippery slope type comment that is similar to the treatment treadmill comment made by the ex-moderator of the tfb forum on this site, discouraging any use whatsoever of any kind of treatment.
interestingly, i just discovered that mike bush suggests on his site, that one monitor for mites and consider using a noncontaminating treatment if needed during the regression process. in my view, this is the more 'practical' approach, especially for beginners.
so, while there is a lot of good information in the book, for me, the bias it contains overides the usefulness of it. jmho.
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1. I have barely been on Beesource in the last several days (I don't think I've posted anything since this thread was started). I'm not really sure what is expected of me here...I'm running a business, recovering from Lyme disease, keeping honey bottled and stocked for our holiday market (that Ramona is doing 7 days a week...from the sat after thanksgiving to the day before new years), keeping our wholesale accounts (30+) stocked, doing my best to assist a grad student who needs emergency samples from the north for a thesis, planning our curriculum for our 6 session beginners bee classes, 3 session advanced topics, 3 lectures and a possible 2 day beekeeping intensive for MIT's interterm, planning our talks for someone else's art project (a giant inflatable skep installation), planning our talks for some local bee clubs, and at least 3-4 other writing projects that i'm working on, building equipment for our bottling facility ...+ about 40 colonies of bees. I refuse to apologize for beesource taking the back burner. I don't have a job or other income. Any time I spend here is time taken away from working.
It is easy, to ask questions. It is easy to give quick answers. It is time consuming to answer any good question thoroughly....I have several posts in the "what would brother adam do..." thread that I started to work on last week that I have not had time to come back to. Note that the information I have already presented on that thread wrt VSH is not something you will find discussed in any book, in the VSH breeders forum, or anywhere else online. I am very happy that Joe chimed in on that one, as everything else you will hear about VSH (from virtually any source) is that it is the best way to breed for varroa tolerance...yet, I think hardly anyone (including those on the VSH Breeders forum understands the downsides, or even does any kind of proper test for VSH. You get all this from me because I care enough to stick my neck out and to spend valuable time explaining the details that are often otherwise left out.
2. Oldtimer, my sincere and public apology. I dropped the ball in sending you a book...my fault, my oversight, my responsibility. Thanks for the reminder, I will send one out to you on Monday inscribed with an apology.
3. The book is very much based on our own experience. At the time of writing, we were using mostly top entrances (with no bottom entrance)....we decided (from our own experience) that there were some issues with management in this kind of setup that were difficult to explain/quantify, so we recommended more standard equipment than we were actually using at the time. We regret (in hindsight) suggesting orchards as being good places for bees. At the time of our writing, we had used HSC extensively, and not ever used the PF series....we had heard about them, but were not willing to recommend something that we hadn't used. We have since used the pf frames quite a bit (we buy them wax coated as any beginner would), and like them very much. We no longer recommend HSC, as the acceptance time and brood density make it a poor second place to the pf frames.
Outside of the above specific issues, everything we recommend in the book is still what we recommend, and is based on what we are actually doing.
I don't think there are any other books that explain what bee space actually is (as opposed to giving it a measurement), that talk about the hive as a complex adaptive system, that stress the importance of microbes in the hive. I am very proud of the way we were able to stress the fundamentals while leaving room for the reader to develop their own plan based upon their own needs.
As far as bias goes...every book has biases. Some will tell you that if you don't treat your bees they will die. Our biases are based upon our own experience, and what we recommend is what we actually do.
There are plenty of resources to tell you what to treat with and how....many of those resources will tell you how "green" the "soft treatments" are (which is so far from true it is sad to see the claims repeated over and over). If you want to use treatments, you will have no problem finding resources to help you do just that.
I'm not going to recommend something I don't do. I'm not going to sugar coat (or sugar dust) my opinions....why the heck would anyone want to read a book that tells you how/why to do something the author doesn't do?
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wrt to cover subtitle, "Everything the budding beekeeper needs for a healthy, productive hive".
You have to understand that this is a book published by penguin...the worlds largest book publisher. I don't believe that any other beginning beekeeping book comes from "the publishing industry" (except the dummies book...but the dummies publisher only publishes dummies books, it is not part of a larger publishing group).
We were hired to write the book, had no say in the title or subtitle...but had almost complete freedom wrt the content of the book. The price we paid for this lack of control? Well, we were paid a reasonable advance for a first book, our book has very good distribution, and is available new from Amazon for under $11. In addition, we had very good people to deal with from conception to final editing (although editing is never perfect). So, I should feel bad that a blurb on the cover of a commercially available product is a bit overstated? Really?
many thanks dean.
that explains why i am not hearing much about hsc.
i thank you for your work and your willingness to contribute freely to the discussion here on beesource. i know there are many here including me that value your input.
in the end, each of us a personal view on how to approach beekeeping, and i absolutely respect everyone's right to their own approach.
at this point, my personal approach is somewhere between 'you better treat your bees or they will die', and 'a single use of any treatment sends you down a slippery slope'.
i am new, and trying to learn. my desire is to always be looking for ways improve my approach, and that is my motivation for raising these questions.
anyway, i do wish you every success with all your endeavors, the best of health, and a great holiday season and new year.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Barry...Why don't you just recommend the Penn State On Line Course, for $189.00 to everyone. HA!!! They won't need to read a book. That should get them started and likely catch up to the other thread. Apparently that one will never die.
Hey much thanks, I am very much looking forwards to reading this book.
Was that phrased correctly? You have 40 hives?
In my country, the VSH breeding program which has been running for 8 years now, DOES test for VSH properly. In the "wild", many hives exhibit some vsh naturally. The way we test, is to pick the caps off 400 cells and examine the contents. Most cells that had a mite move in will contain a mite family. But a few will have no adult mite, but maybe a male egg, and some feaces. This is evidence that the bees detected the mite and removed the capping, letting the mite out, after which the cell was re- sealed. This does not kill the mite, but does interupt her breeding cycle. Using this testing technique, it has been found that the general bee population in my country has a few of the best hives with up to 20% of the cells that a varroa entered, having been uncapped by the bees and the varroa mite let out and her breeding interupted. This is called 20% vsh. The hives with the best vsh % have been selectively bred from over the last 8 years, using II. We now have bees that are as good as 80% vsh. At this level, the researchers were having trouble actually finding enough mites in a hive to be able to do valid research.
The problem, thus far, is fixing the trait. Seems it's linked to many different genes not just one. They can take an 80% vsh queen, and mate it to an 80% vsh drone, but not all the progeny will be 80% vsh they will be quite a wide range.
The work has gone into a new phase where there is a 3 year plan to attempt to fix the trait (or that's my understanding of what's happening ATM).
BTW, proper vsh does not result in patchy brood, that would be hygeine, where bees toss out the larvae. The vsh we are breeding for does not involve removing the larvae, just uncapping them, then re-capping them after the mite moves out.
8 years ago when this breeding program was set up, the researchers identified several means by which bees resist mites. By doing some maths though, it was considered that trying to select for all of them at once was going to slow the program down considerably. It was 'decided it made sense to just shoot for one trait at a time. VSH was considered the easiest to reliably ID correctly, so that's what they are working on. No concrete plans are in place as to what varroa resistance mechanism to go for next, but the general thoughts are that once vsh is being reliably and usefully distributed around the country, some other mechanism will be targeted, to add to that.
The first VSH queens have been made available for sale to the public from this program, this year.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
I feel there are a few more things that have to be said here....pardon me if they come off as defensive.
That is all well and good...but from my perspective, it is hard to reconcile this with what you have posted.Originally Posted by squarepeg
If you have a legitimate and specific concern(s), I don't see why it would be unfair to the author to air them. I think it is extremely unfair to take an obvious marketing blurb from the cover of the book and say that it doesn't include absolutely everything. I can break an unbreakable comb, and I don't expect that a band called "free beer" is going to serve free beer at the concert.first, i feel like the subtitle "Everything the budding beekeeper needs for a healthy, productive hive" is, well, overstated. i could give examples, but i won't out of fairness to the author.
I just grabbed a few beekeeping books off the shelf:
On the back cover of "The Complete Guide to Beekeeping" (Morse), it says, "...Dr. Morse has covered all practical aspects of beekeeping in clear and concise language so that anyone readin ghis book should be well on his way to becoming one of the best beekeepers." _all_ practical aspects? ...really?
On the back cover of "Hive Management" (Bonney): "Hive Management offers concise, up to date information on the whole range of beekeeping tasks...." _the whole range_?
On the back cover of "Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees" (Sanford): "Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees Will Guide you through every step of beekeeping,...." _every step_?
Do you sense a theme here? That a bit of hyperbole on a cover quote is pretty much standard in the book business? That it would be absurd to critique any of these books simply because they didn't live up to promises on the cover of including absolutely everything?
Pardon me for critiquing your critique here. If there is something you think is missing, by all means say what it is.
I think you are paying us a compliment with the above.....that our thoughts are expressed clearly in our writing...the goal of any writing with a point...with something to say.second, although there are no direct derogatory comments to the effect, a beginner reading this book could not help but come away from it thinking that the last thing in the world they would want to be is a beekeeper who feeds, uses standard size cells, or uses any kind of treatments.
Yes, and I would make the same arguments supporting the "slippery slope" analogy that I have done on beesource. As long as treating remains an option for dealing with issues, treatments will be used to deal with issues. You are not treatment free if you are going to treat when you have a high mite count....because at some point, you will always have a high mite count.with regards to no treatments, there is a slippery slope type comment that is similar to the treatment treadmill comment made by the ex-moderator of the tfb forum on this site, discouraging any use whatsoever of any kind of treatment.
...more interestingly is that Mike Bush does not monitor for mites, and isn't using treatments.interestingly, i just discovered that mike bush suggests on his site, that one monitor for mites and consider using a noncontaminating treatment if needed during the regression process. in my view, this is the more 'practical' approach, especially for beginners.
...and can you name another book (besides Michael Bush's) that even considers the possibility of keeping bees without treatments? Certainly Conrad's or Chandler's....certainly not any of the more mainstream books. If we can agree that _some people_ are able to keep bees with no treatments...that it is possible to keep bees without treatments, then why are the vast bulk of beekeeping books not expressing their own bias (that your bees will die if you don't use treatments)...even though that bias is demonstrably false? Again, would you really rather read a book where the author writes about practices they don't actually follow? You really think that I should write a book that tells people to and how to treat even though I don't? ....or that only "mainstream beekeeping practices" should be included in any book?so, while there is a lot of good information in the book, for me, the bias it contains overides the usefulness of it. jmho.
With all of the above said...there is quite a bit in our book besides treatment free, no feeding and small cell....none of which you have chosen to comment on...except to say that it is all overridden by the authors bias, resulting in a useless (the opposite of useful) book.
To quote you again:
...but I shouldn't write about it?in the end, each of us a personal view on how to approach beekeeping, and i absolutely respect everyone's right to their own approach.
@Dean - of course every book has its biases - and I've no problems with critical readers pointing out those biases. I recently had the task of choosing the book to use for our bee school. Yours was one of the ones I considered, so were Kim Flottom's, Jim Tew's and others. In the end I decided to go with The Beekeeper's Handbook, 4th Edition, as the book I was most comfortable with for teaching. While we won't be teaching to the text, we suggest that students browse certain chapters ahead of each class so they'll have an idea of what we're talking about. And yes we'll point out what I'm choosing to call divergent opinions - Kim's 8 frame mediums for brood chambers for example. We'll talk about IPM and the need to understand what is happening in the colony. I think the best result of our class will be for people to start keeping bees and be very cognizant of what foreign materials they are using in their hives and why - my personal bias is the the less chemicals the better, but live bees have a way of trumping dead bees.
Small Cell will be presented as another divergent opinion.
It is what I am comfortable with for presenting to new beekeepers.
I don't want to make squarepeg feel badly...especially because he bought our book ... but I feel that I have been treated unfairly simply because I've been too busy to post for a week or so....in 4 days it went from "one of the better primers" to, essentially "useless". The way his posts evolved certainly don't inspire me to spend time talking thoughtfully about the regression process and HSC...that isn't to say that I won't discuss it, but I'm certainly not feeling inspired to do so right now.
I am all for critique....but when critique consists of a few generalities tossed around, it isn't very useful to anyone.
...perhaps....but I can't help but wonder how our book went fromI think you're over reading into a lot of the quotes you used. JMO
toit's one of the better primer's i've read, nice job dean and laurie.
in 4 days. The only thing that happened over those 4 days is that I didn't post to this thread.so, while there is a lot of good information in the book, for me, the bias it contains overides the usefulness of it. jmho.
So I think the take away here is to at least post "hi" every couple days!
Regards, Barry
...as my commercial landlord is fond of saying when someone (including me) tries to get him to do something he doesn't want to do...
"I don't work for you!"
fwiw, we had to cut the appendix of our book out in order to fit everything (we had no say over the length, other than we were able to add a few pages to the total, and replace the appendix with important text). It did, however, get typeset. There are a number of beekeeping books we recommend (Andrew, you will note that the Beekeepers Handbook is one of our favorites, although I haven't seen the newest edition).
i ready to be specific.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
but first i would like to apologize for apparantly breaching an unwritten forum etiquitte.
i didn't realize at the time, that it crosses a line when you post about someone not posting.
i'm sorry dean.
i would not have liked that either, and i will give you and everyone else on the forum the common respect from here on in that regard.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
dean, are you still willing to answer a few questions that i, a beginner, have about your book's methods on starting beekeeping with treatment free small cell bees?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
dean, my apology to you is sincere, the option to accept it or not belongs to you and you alone.
am i to infer that 'not working for you' means that you have not intention of following through with the purchasers and readers of your book?
the first question i asked was very 'specific' it had to do with putting shook out non-regressed bees on hsc. you later answered, "We no longer recommend HSC, as the acceptance time and brood density make it a poor second place to the pf frames."
so, the information i bought in your book is dated, even though book was only published two years ago.
i had already scoured your:
This is a portal to all manner of information, updates, clarifications,
videos, and an interactive forum. We hope to see you there!
but i didn't see anything there about you no longer recommending hsc frames. (not a small detail for a beginner not to be updated on). if i missed it somehow, again my apologies. my intial question was my attempt to get you to clarify here on beesource.
the appendix that got left out is a great list of resources, was i supposed get the change from hsc to pf there somewhere?
some of the other 'specifics', branched off of starting out with hsc. for example, getting the colony 'droneright' is recommended in the book, but no mention of how that is done using hsc.
there are yet other 'specifics', but i'm afraid this has turned into a p___ing contest that nobody can win, and i see no future in dragging everyone through that.
as far as the publisher's role in what was or was not included, and their choice for the subtitle, maybe that's the way it goes in the publishing world, i have no experience with that. for me, i would like to think i would back out of the deal or publish it some other way, rather than put my name to something i didn't agree with.
all of the positives i mentioned about your book are meant sincerely as well. i too am only human, and i gave the best, honest, and objective review i could.
no ill will meant from this side dean, sorry for getting on your nerves.
barry, i've decided to pursue my interest in these matters in the tfb forum, and i ask that you please close this thread.
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text: Baas has been quite average this year. Everyone saying how bad the line is don't know what they're talking about. While they haven't been the 9ers they've been more than adequate both passing and running. Beatty is having a fine season after an injury plagued 2011. Boothe has been nothing if not solid, while also providing the versatility to play centre if need be. While snee is not the player he used to be, he has rebounded quite nicely after a mediocre 2011 campaign. Locklear has been very steady in pass pro in limited action. And while everyone's boy dave diehl isn't about to go the pro bowl this year, he's been more than serviceable at RT, limiting the amount of pressure he gives up.

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Using the DSA FAL receiver as a guide, I'm jumping into the deep end and beginning mill work on this receiver casting. Let's hope I don't hit any show stoppers, but even if I do this can be a fun time waster :D I think this is going to take quite a bit of time to do and I'm going to do this in small bite-sized chunks so as not to get burned out on it. So it will probably be next year before I finish it :)
Here are my observations to start with:
The rear of my casting is warped to the left, and so to true it up I have to cut enough off that it will make the rear of the receiver too thin. Quite a warp! I'm going to compensate by cutting everything at an angle to try to even out the cutting between the front and the back. That should work but the existing starter holes will be useless as-is. Also the magazine will sit slightly crooked in comparison to the barrel. Should not affect function, it doesn't look like it will hurt anything except cosmetics.
I'm using the top "rail" as the starting point for references. There is enough meat all over that a non-warped receiver would require cuts on all surfaces both inside and out. I should therefore have enough meat left to cut all the rails and everything even after truing up the sides. It is also too long and will require cuts from both the front AND the back. Since this makes everything relative, I really don't have a GOOD starting point other than that top rail. That and the magazine well are the only two constants.
Once I true up the sides I'm going to start on the barrel threads. I looked high and low and taps for the FAL barrel threads - 1" x 16 TPI NS (national special) - are not to be found for less than $65 :( So I'm going to see if I can get 16 TPI out of my mini lathe, and if so I am going see if I can clamp the receiver on the bed in order to use a boring tool arrangement to cut the threads. That will save me 1/4 of the price of a new receiver ;) IF it doesn't look like it will work then I guess I'll just have to buy a tap and deal with it. Could probably sell it on the FAL Files once I'm done with it I suppose.
I'm scratching my head over how to get this properly assembled. I think the build order is barrel threads, locking shoulder, rails, lower. The big trick looks like it is to get the barrel threads timed correctly for a used barrel to "time" at 12 o'clock top dead center when torqued to 80-100 foot-lbs. Which from what I've read means hand-tight to about 10 o'clock. Since I doubt seriously that I'm clever enough to figure out how to properly start the barrel threads to make this time up, even if I did know where to begin, I believe the safe bet is to just cut the threads and then use the standard kit-build process of file/shim on the barrel end to get proper timing. That's the safe money for my skills :) One rotation of the barrel is about .055" from my measurements. The available shoulder sized FS from DSArms suggest that there are shoulder sizes for "all" timing needs through one rotation of the barrel. They even have custom ground lengths available, which indicates I should be able to set headspace no matter what.
So assuming I can get the threads cut, I will have a starting point from which to set the headspace.
Then after that, there's the "trivial" matter of getting the locking shoulder hole drilled. Fortunately I have two locking shoulders out of my parts stash, so I am reasoning that cutting on these locking shoulders will be easier than trying to find a really wide replacement shoulder. I'm not sure there is an absolute value for this measurement as the headspace is set based on how close the bolt sits to the barrel, so it stands to reason the different shoulder sizes are for variances in the distance "left over" from the barrel threading installation process. Assuming I will need to over-time the barrel, the locking shoulder will have to be the part that gets ground down to get proper fit. I would rather grind that locking shoulder down than find out I drilled the hole "correctly" only to find it is too far from the barrel.
Among the other areas that will be challenging are the rails. It looks as if I'm going to need to buy several small cutters for the rails. It appears that I will need a carbie woodruff-style cutter to reach into the sides to make these rails. That or make a dedicated tool from a smaller carbide cutter that is ground away leaving only a small cutting section. Either way I broke my last carbide cutter so I need to tool up again :(
For the lower receiver pivot screw, the hole is too small. So I need to cut that hole larger. Seems it would be easy to do with a dremel grinding stone. However I think the best bet would be to use a rotary table on my mill to make it pretty.
Finally, between my two SA FAL kits, I do not have an ejector block. Also the DSA FAL I have uses a less-desireable one-piece ejector. Apparently every other FAL on the planet uses a removeable ejector, which makes replacing a worn ejector a breeze. So I'm going to need to hunt down a correct ejector block and pick up a few spare ejectors. It looks like it is going to be fun trying to locate retaining pin holes correctly!
I can't for the life of me figure out where the semi-only modifications are made. These are apparently on the ejector block itself? I presume that like the VZ-58 there is a sear notch that need to be welded up for semi-only.
My plans are to use a Para "kit" from either DSA or Falcon Arms. I'm aiming for a Congo Para build (pun intended). Prices are steadily climbing and at a minimum, assuming I get my barrel timed correctly (I am assuming I won't) then I will need to buy the lower assembly package deal which includes all the US parts I will need, and a barrel.


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The case against three law enforcement officers and a private investigator involved in a Contra Costa County drug squad misconduct scandal was dropped today by the district attorney's office as the federal cases continue, attorneys said.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:49 AM
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State drops police misconduct case, lets Feds take the reins
Original post made on Feb 10, 2012
Like this commentPosted by concerned citizen
a resident of San Ramon
on Feb 10, 2012 at 12:30 pm
wow, my second post of the day.
Anyway, how much did the taxpayers spend on this little exercise? Seems a bit fishy that it's now been turned over to the feds (MUCH less local exposure and potential bad ink).
DA dropped the case to "avoid interfering with the federal case"???
Seriously? who are you trying to kid? There totally independent judicial systems (and courts). what a joke. Lombardi pled guilty, convict him and put him away, what are you doing dropping the case???


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KEY WEST: The 900 block of Caroline Street will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday as workers install a new water line to the West Marine building, city spokeswoman Alyson Crean said. The sidewalk and parking lot will be open, though.
Traffic coming from Eaton Street will be diverted at Margaret Street down James Street.


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Solomon delivers powerful lecture on Ameliorating Child Homelessness
Monday, February 25, 2013
Those statistics alone are jarring, Solomon acknowledged, but hearing a personal story of a family grappling with poverty or homelessness elicits "a different emotional response."
"As a society we've shifted too heavily to describing everything in numbers," he said. "I would like to keep the narrative there."
Solomon, author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, led a Conversation at Lesley University on Monday as part of Lesley's Child Homelessness Initiative. His book is about families dealing with differences, told through a collection of stories.
Solomon lauded Lesley for looking beyond statistics and deeply examining the issue of child homelessness, launching an ambitious initiative 18 months ago to spark a national conversation and train Lesley's graduates – future educators, psychologists, expressive therapists and social service workers – to go out into the world and help ameliorate the scourge of child homelessness.
"I had the privilege this morning of spending some time with students and faculty," Solomon reflected during the lecture, which drew a packed audience in Lesley's Marran Theater. "It's really thrilling to see so many people who are so intelligent, and have such kindness, and are so devoted to helping others."
During his talk, titled "Far from the Tree: A Conversation on Ameliorating Child Homelessness," Solomon spoke of parental love and parental rejection, and the almost magical power of unconditional support to help children endure, and even thrive, in the most challenging circumstances, including homelessness.
"The ones who are growing up with love, even if they're being displaced, are going to have an easier time than those who are thrown out of their families," said Solomon.
To illustrate this concept, he relayed some of the interviews from his book, such as the story of Clinton, a boy with dwarfism whose parents were told he would never walk or talk. During his childhood, he had 30 major surgeries, learned to walk, and became the first person in his family to go to college. When Solomon asked Clinton's mother what she did to inspire such a successful outcome, she replied, "'I loved him. That's all,'" Solomon recalled.
Solomon also spoke about the capacity to love in the face of extreme challenges, and even tragedy, like the case of the parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the shooters in the Columbine massacre, also featured in Far from the Tree. Dylan's mother told Solomon that if she had the chance to speak with her son again, she would ask him to forgive her for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head. And despite the tremendous pain parenthood ultimately caused her – and the devastation her son's actions caused for so many lives – she told Solomon that the love of her children has been the single greatest joy of her life.
In the end, however, Solomon said his message is not about all the things that go wrong, but it's how capable human beings are of loving each other and the difference that can make.
"I think the centerpiece of resilience is the ability to construct meaning out of what has happened," said Solomon.
At the conclusion of his lecture, Solomon received a standing ovation, and Lesley faculty members Janice Wall and Kenneth Miller led an inquiry session with the audience, whose members asked Solomon questions on topics ranging from identity to adoption, how to create a curriculum that enforces the capacity to love, and what students and others can do to ameliorate the problem of child homelessness.
"I think the program that exists here at Lesley is an impressive program and the structure is here for helping," said Solomon. "The concrete (ways to help are) enormously important, but so are these conversations. … If you can have a curriculum that addresses these problems, all of these things begin to make a huge, huge difference."
Solomon said child homelessness is invisible to society at large, and homeless children are a disenfranchised population who aren't able to go the ballot boxes or lobby elected officials for support. Therefore, the onus falls on people who are educated and who have a voice to fight for those children, he said.
Lesley student Leanna Ballofet, who is majoring in Child Studies and Early Childhood Education, praised Far from the Tree and Solomon's ability to articulate the way exceptionality not only gives people a unique identity, but can also bring people together.
"Solomon is a zealous believer in equity, respect, and everyone's right to find happiness in his or her own way," said Ballofet. "As students going into the helping professions … it is so crucial we hear this message, that we live this passion."
Established by Lesley University in May 2011 with support from the Schoen Family Foundation, the Child Homelessness Initiative (CHI) is a comprehensive project that aims to facilitate a national conversation on child homelessness and advances Lesley's curriculum and learning opportunities to address the rising number of children and families in the United States grappling with chronic and episodic homelessness.
Lesley's CHI is directed by Dr. Mary Coleman, former Dean of Lesley's College of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and sponsored by Lesley alumna Laurie Schoen ('86), who is co-founder of United States 4 Kids (US4Kids), an organization committed to raising awareness about the national crisis of homelessness.
See photos from Andrew Solomon's visit to Lesley.
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When it comes to a foreign accent, there's nothing sexier than the sophisticated and upscale voice of a gorgeous English actress. Rhona Mitra first brought her seductive curves to viewers in the late '90s in the hit TV show Party of Five before making her film debut with a small role in the thriller Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon. In 2000, Mitra was cast in a regular role in the U.S. medical drama Gideon's Crossing, which lasted a year.
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In 2002, Rhona let her hair down opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in his first major character movie, Ali G Indahouse, and went on to larger roles in the rom-com Sweet Home Alabama and conjoined twin comedy Stuck on You. Mitra finally got the opportunity to strut her stuff as a lead actress in the independent action thriller Highwaymen and the original Spartacus miniseries on USA.
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Mitra returned to network primetime as law associate Tara Wilson on the final season of ABC's legal drama The Practice and followed her character over to the series' successful spinoff Boston Legal opposite heavyweights James Spader and William Shatner. Mitra also found success offscreen with modeling and singing; notably, she was the face of the Tomb Raider video games as Lara Croft until Angelina Jolie took over the character with the film series.
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Mitra's career continued on both television and the big screen throughout the late 2000s with roles in Ryan Murphy's acclaimed series Nip/Tuck and the popular Underworld series of vampire-werewolf films, where she played the daughter of a vampire elder who is sacrificed after a few romps with a forbidden lover. Mitra is currently starring as the head of Section 20 in Cinemax's Strike Back.


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Secretary convenes mental health experts for roundtable series to learn more about hurricane's impact on displaced children
New booklet provides tips to help students recovering from traumatic events
October 12, 2005
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JACKSON, Miss. -- U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today convened a group of mental-health experts, teachers and schools officials for the first in a series of roundtables designed to gather information about Hurricane Katrina's on displaced students and the schools that have welcomed them. Today's meeting was the first of six roundtables to be held over the next few months in hurricane-impacted areas.
Secretary Spellings also announced the availability of a new booklet -- "Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events" -- to provide practical information and assistance for school officials, parents and others who are helping students affected by the hurricane. The booklet can be accessed at http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/recovering/index.html.
"This devastating hurricane has not only impacted students but affected teachers and school officials as well. We are developing partnerships with the community at large to help deal with this tragedy," Secretary Spellings said. "Our efforts are ongoing, our support unwavering to ensure that these children continue to receive a high quality education and that school officials have the support they need from us under these unique circumstances."
President Bush has proposed a $2.6 billion education package to assist displaced students and the schools that are serving them. Secretary Spellings is leading a number of federal education initiatives to help displaced students, including Hurricane Help for Schools-a new webpage aimed at getting additional supplies to schools serving students displaced by the hurricane.
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Made from foam rubber, I worked out the dimensions from templates supplied by TDH (wizard) thanks kindly. I've managed to shape it as best I can trying to include some 3 dimensional elements. and shape and clean it up now ready seal and paint....working on the belt, helmet and holsters at the moment.
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When it was first shown to the public as a concept at a New York hotel in January 1953 nobody expected the creamy, tail-finned Chevrolet Corvette to become a treasured automotive icon.
It went on to be one of the most successful sporting cars of all time.
After a smooth debut at the Waldorf Astoria as part of General Motors travelling "Motorama" exhibition 60 years ago, the car ran into some serious production snags.
GM had pinned its hopes on the Chevrolet Corvette which was designed by Harley Earl and originally known by its codename XP-122.
The car giant wanted to produce America's first home-grown sports cabriolet after World War II to show the nation and beyond that US engineers could compete with European sports-car manufacturers.
Until then North American makers were best-known for heavyweight limousines often referred to disparagingly as "yank tanks".
Although strapped for development cash, Earl was determined to shave weight off the Corvette. He opted for bodywork made from glass fibre.
Enthusiasts are grateful to this day for the far-sighted decision since fibreglass does not rust, ensuring that many Corvettes have survived.
The first few hundred Corvettes were bought straight from the showroom floor and customers were hungry for more. Unfortunately, fashioning the fibreglass body was more complicated than at first thought. The performance of the car also left much to be desired.
To cut costs Earl had used a six-cylinder pick-up engine of prewar design.
The unit boasted 3.8 litres of displacement but "only" 150 horsepower. The Corvette was hard pressed to top 170km/h which left it literally far behind premium European sports cars such as the Jaguar XK120.
The euphoria was short-lived and although the first six month's worth of production was sold out, only two years after introduction, the Corvette faced the axe.
New, more powerful engines were the answer and they ignited what was to become one of the quintessential US muscle cars. A V8 was offered, initially with 4.3 litres. Straightline performance went up to more than 200km/h and sales took off.
A spin in one of the original Chevy roadsters is like a trip back in time to an era when music blared out from jukeboxes and MP3 players had not been even thought of. The driver takes his place in a tiny leather seat before snapping back the softtop, adjusting his sunglasses and turning the ignition key.
The motor bursts into life before settling down to a deep, rumbling tickover. Getting under way is not so easy. The footwell is amazingly narrow and the fragile gearstick has to be carefully threaded into place.
Once first gear is engaged the Corvette surges forward.
Thanks to its low kerb weight of 1300kg and excellent roadholding the Corvette can be thrown into curves with abandon - provided the weather is dry.
Current models have all the driver assistance gizmos but the early cars have none and these can be a handful on wet roads.
Accident damage can be very costly too. A well-kept Corvette C1 is worth around $125,000.
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This is the thread to post paint/scratch templates/stencils for Boba Fett's helmet, ESB version. Let's do a separate thread for the ROTJ version.
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Hello everyone! I decided to use MAQS strips for my varroa treatment this year, and I know it says it needs to be less than 92 degrees each day to use that product. Well, where I am located in VA, it's been getting to around 70-80 or so during the day, and maybe 50's at night.
I went ahead and put the 2 required strips in each of our 3 hives yesterday. They of course were NOT happy, I always hate having to medicate, but since I have seen a few with deformed wings, I know it could be a problem. So, I put the strips in, felt really bad about it. I know with the fumes it should cause them to cluster some on the front.
2 of the hives have screened bottom boards, one does not. It's like 57 out there right now. To me, that is chilly. Looking from my deck, I don't see much activity going on down there. Hardly any at all. I know they are inside because it hasn't warmed up yet.
Do you all think them being forced to be inside their hives because of the cold, can hurt them since the strips are in there and just a day old??? I am worried they are having to stay inside because of the cold, and trying to manage with the strips. I think the strips will wear off in 7-10 days, and I did it when we are supposed to have a streak of dry weather.
Please give me your thoughts on this. I hate to use any chemicals, I did apiguard last year, and it was much warmer. We have had a really strange summer.
Thanks for any help I am worried.
Earlier this year, I lost one of my hives to wax moths. They must have came in over night, because one day I was feeding them their syrup, and 4-5 days later, I checked the hive, and all bees were gone, and it was loaded down with wax moths!!!! I was seriously disturbed after seeing that. I burned everything with that hive. I know it can be cleaned, just not taking a chance. It was scary, sickening, and those poor bees. I had no idea.
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Lisbon 57 - Central location and nightlife!
Maximální počet hostů4
Počet místností1
Velikost75 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
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- Internet/WiFi
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|Travessa das Mercês, 1200 Lisbon, Portugalsko
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It is tastefully decorated by the owner who is an architect and originality and it is a place where you will certainly feel like being part of an artistic atmosphere in Lisbon.
The apartment is 75m2 and has been renovated to include the following:
- one bedroom with a double bed (160 cm);
- a living room (cable TV, DVD and Hi-Fi) with a double sofa bed;
- a complete kitchen with all you need (washing machine, dishwasher, gas stove and oven, microwave, fridge with frozen compartment);
- a bathroom with a bathtub.
The apartment has central heating.
The building has an elevator.
We will welcome you with a bottle of wine.
Check-in Monday to Friday from 4PM (earlier if possible) to 9:30PM is free of charge, except on Portuguese public holidays.
Particular situations:
- additional 30 Euro for check-in from 9:30 PM to 00:00 AM everyday;
- additional 45 Euro for check-in from 00:00 AM to 8:30 AM everyday;
- additional 25 Euro for check-in on Week-ends and on Portuguese public holidays till 9:30 PM.
Domovní řádCheck-in and check-out:
- Check-in is after 4 PM (You can always come after 11 to leave you luggage and get the keys, but if we have someone else leaving on the same day the apartment won't be ready before 4 PM).
- Check-out is until 11 AM.
In labour days, you can leave the luggage in our office before 11AM in the day of your check-in and/or after 4PM in the day of your check-out.
Please call us 30 minutes before your arrival.
Check-in Monday to Friday from 4PM to 9:30PM is free of charge, except on Portuguese public holidays.
Particular situations:
- additional 30 Euro for check-in from 9:30 PM to 00:00 AM everyday;
- additional 45 Euro for check-in from 00:00 AM to 8:30 AM everyday;
- additional 25 Euro for check-in on Week-ends and on Portuguese public holidays till 9:30 PM.
Please note that, for security reasons, you must bring a copy of your id card or passport when you check-in.
Kindly note that a damage deposit of 150€ OR a credit card responsability term will also be asked upon arrival.
Cleaning and maintenance:
The apartment will be cleaned prior to the arrival of each tenant.
When leaving, the tenant is obliged to leave the apartment in a reasonable condition.
The tenant signing the check-in form will be liable for the correct and decent behavior of all the persons accompanying him/her, and specifically avoiding any activity that is against any law or health policy.
Don't forget that you are going to stay in residential buildings. Guests staying in one of our apartments should know that if parties or loud music are heard, or neighbors complain and/or police is called, it can result in immediate eviction. This will also result in loss of prepaid rent.
Quiet time is from 10 PM to 10 AM. We are sure that you understand that the nightly rest of other inhabitants must be respected.
Smoking is not permitted in the apartments unless stated otherwise.
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Perfect location for Bairro Alto where there is alot of restaurants, cafés and bars. Also short distance to Chiado and all transportation to go where ever you would like to go. The apparatment is big anough for 3, maybe 4 people/family. It has one big bedrom and to sleeping couches. There is a bar on the corner so there are some noises, especially in the weekends. I will absolutely recommend this appartment.
Nuestro anfitrión fue atento y simpático. Nos explicó con detalle el funcionamiento de la casa y algunos consejos sobre la visita a Lisboa. El apartamento es amplio y está bien equipado con todo lo necesario y bañera grande. El termostato tenía un pequeño problema que era necesario controlar, por lo que el último día no tuvimos agua caliente. La zona es muy céntrica y bien comunicada, con tranvías, autobuses y elevadores allí mismo. Tiene encanto con sus tiendas de diseñadores y bares, pero por la noche es muy ruidosa. Llevaros tapones para los oídos.
La ubicación es muy buena, en pleno centro de la marcha, ideal si vas a disfrutar de la noche lisboeta aunque ruidoso si vas con niños y a hacer una vida más tranquila. El apartamento es confortable y con una amplitud buena para dos personas, pero estaba algo sucio (edredón, sofá, salvamanteles, etc.), las persianas no son funcionales y las sillas no eran estables la mayoría.
Hubo problemas con el check-in ya que nos habían aprobado acceder al apartamento a primera hora de la mañana y cuando llegamos allí nos dijeron que no podíamos entrar hasta las 16h y nadie nos había avisado al respecto.
Estuvo todo en perfecto estado y fueron grandes anfritiones.
Una gran experiencia repetire.
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Great apartment in a perfect location. Highly recommended!
We had a very nice stay in an amazing apartment in an amazing city. Very good contact with the host before and during the travel.
10/10 would book again.
Although it has been some time, I remember very well that it was a great experience to stay at this appartment for some days. We even stayed longer than intended and that was no problem at all. Beautiful view when sitting on the rooftop at night or day. The slanted walls throughout the whole appartment give it a funky feeling, but is a bit inconvenient for very tall people. Would recommend this place to anyone wanting a Lisboa city experience, as it is very central and close to most sights.
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Upsides - Absolutely amazing location. Beautiful apartment. Friendly staff. Bottle of wine on arrival. Couldn't ask for a better place to stay.
Downsides - hot water service would heat up once, then shutdown and had to be reset 2 hours prior to every shower. Pillows were really flat and little. Tried to charge extra 30 euros/night when I requested a 3rd bed to be made up. Left waiting for an hour after arranging the arrival time by email and had to make an extra phone call. No hand towels in bathrooms. Had to buy more toilet paper. A partial roll in each bathroom is not sufficient for a 4 days stay for 3 people!
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Bottle Rock Geothermal Plant Repowering
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Project Status: Licensed; In Compliance Phase. Operational: October 1, 2007
Background and Plant History
On July 27, 1979, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed an Application for Certification (AFC) for the 55 megawatt (MW) Bottle Rock Geothermal Project. As a geothermal AFC, following a Notice of Intention, the project went through a nine-month licensing proceeding, including a separate Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The DWR Bottle Rock Geothermal Project (Bottle Rock) received unanimous Energy Commission certification on November 5, 1980. Bottle Rock was constructed and began operating In February 1985.
Steam supply became a critical problem for Bottle Rock and while the South Geysers area had insufficient steam to make completion of construction worthwhile, the area near Bottle Rock had too little steam for the facility to continue generation. The steam field for Bottle Rock could only produce about 15 MW instead of the licensed 55 MW capacity.
In November 1990, DWR suspended operation of the Bottle Rock project and the plant was eventually placed into cold stand-by state. In April 1993, the Energy Commission approved an amendment modifying monitoring and reporting requirements in consideration of the plant's shutdown status. More recent notices and amendments are available through links on this page.
Bottle Rock was sold in 2001 to a private party, and ownership transferred from DWR to the Bottle Rock Corporation. U.S. Renewables Group purchased the power plant in October, 2005. In 2006 Bottle Rock was sold to Bottle Rock Power, LLC.
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Cut the Bank of Canada Some Slack!
Paul Banwatt | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Bank of Canada, Canada $100 Bill, Racism, Money News, Canadian Money, Canada Bill Controversy, New Canadian Bills, Asian $100 Bills, Canada Business News
On Monday, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney apologized to those offended by the Bank's handling of the design process of its latest $100 bills. It seems to me that the Bank always had good intentions, even if terribly executed. Given the feedback, it isn't surprising that the Bank reconsidered using the image. If they had left it, they were stuck with a bill that some found offensive. It was lose-lose. My two cents? Stick to pictures of animals.


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Four Years Out: The Day a Silent Killer Stole My Mom
This may seem like an odd first entry for a blog about the everyday life of a news anchor, but I want to share with you the day that now impacts my life every, single day. It shapes me, it reminds me, it saddens me, it warns me, and I hope when you hear this story, you will also keep the warning in the back of your head. If you are a woman or there is a woman in your life, this can impact you. It is a silent killer, and its signs are not often obvious or recognized. I implore you to take a moment and listen. Let one good thing come out of my loss – that each of you know the signs that could keep you or that woman in your life alive.
Four years ago today, cancer killed my mother, Kathi. She was 52 years old. Here in the month of October, we're surrounded by pink everywhere to remind us of breast cancer – chances are you've heard of it and know how to check for it and know when to get your mammograms. I am so happy that the word is out there. It's saving lives. But the cancer that killed my mother is one you may have heard of, but there's no test to find it, the symptoms are usually mistaken (even by doctors) for something else, and, while there is a month for awareness, you probably don't know when it is and you certainly don't see teal everywhere. It's called the silent killer. It's called Ovarian Cancer.
But let me take you back to 2006 - a painful year for my family. It was the year I moved 17 hours away from my family for my next job in TV news; it was the year my parents' house burned to the ground; it was the year my mom got cancer for the second time in her life. Ovarian Cancer reared its awful, ugly, grotesque head quite quietly with my mother more than one month before Christmas. She thought she had a bladder infection and went to her OB/GYN. He agreed and sent her home with some medicine to fight a bladder infection. But my mother's symptoms did not get better, only worse. At this point, it was close to Christmas, and true to form, she didn't want to inconvenience anyone around the holidays with her medical problems. She figured she'd deal with it quietly and go back to her doctor after the holidays. But on Christmas Eve, her pain was so immense that my family insisted on the emergency room. She balked, still not wanting to ruin the holidays for anyone, but at this point she could not resist. At the hospital, tests were ordered and we would not get the results until after the New Year.
At the start of 2007, my mother was diagnosed with late Stage III Ovarian Cancer. She was 49 years old. Later that year, she was also diagnosed with Stage I Breast Cancer. It was the second time she would battle cancer in her lifetime. She was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma just after giving birth to me, her first child. Despite taking certain chemo therapies that are now banned in the U.S., she persevered and beat that cancer. My whole life, she always told me she fought like hell against that cancer because she didn't want to leave her baby girl – me. Now, 31 years later, we were facing another monster. She began chemo right away.
She never wavered, never lost her smile and never let the cancer get the best of her. Later in 2007, I became engaged, and while she battled Ovarian Cancer, she also helped me plan my wedding. When I flew home to Georgia to go wedding dress shopping with her and my sisters, my mother came along even though at times she couldn't get out of the car and come into the stores because her chemo left her so tired. But she was there, that was her. She never, ever missed a moment in our lives. She was determined to make it to my wedding, and in September of 2008, she was there as I stood under an arbor that overlooked a vineyard and was married. I learned later from her doctor that at one point that year, he wasn't sure she'd make it to my wedding because he thought they'd run out of chemo treatments. Then another door opened and another treatment was tried and worked for the time being, and my mom made it to my wedding.
It was a happy and painful year. Earlier in 2008, her cancer was deemed incurable. It would be with her for the rest of her life.
In February 2009, my family took our annual ski trip. I still look back at a group picture we took on that trip – all 15 of us standing there smiling, not one of us knowing that I was pregnant. But I was, and it made my mother so happy. Her first-born was soon to become a first-time mom. She kept fighting. She wanted to meet her grandbaby. My daughter would be her third grandchild.
In late August of 2009, I flew home to Georgia to visit my mom, knowing I would soon be too pregnant to safely fly. During my trip home, she had an oncologist appointment. I went along. He told her they tumors weren't responding to the latest chemo and they were out of options. There were no more chemo treatments left for my mommy. The doctor gave her about six weeks to live, about the time of my daughter's due date. A few days later, we met with hospice and my mom really started coming to the realization, very painfully, that it was over. It was the first time in the two and a half year battle that I saw her spirit dim, if only a little.
She decided she wanted to travel the country in an RV, so my family and I furiously began planning the trip – renting an RV, mapping out the destinations, buying tickets to things like the Grand Ole Opry and Broadway-like shows in Vegas. I flew home to Nebraska knowing I'd see my mom in a couple of weeks. My home in Omaha was one of the stops on her journey. And she made it there - I was ?? weeks pregnant. Their last night there, I had to say goodbye. It was a very hard goodbye, but my mom assured me she'd be there to meet my little girl. But as I hugged her goodbye, she touched my pregnant belly and said, "you take care of that little girl. You take really good care of that baby." It was the last time I would ever hug my mother.
I got the call from my sister on October 11, 2009 – my mom was gone at the age of 52. Doctors had said she would make it through the weekend, but I didn't fly home because I was a few days shy of 38 weeks pregnant. She made it until Sunday and then the cancer won. I HATE that it did. And I hate more in the way it won. No one should die in the painful and slow manner that my mother did, certainly not the mother who sacrificed everything for her children, who never met a person who didn't instantly like her and who was just a good person, just so good. My husband and I made arrangements to fly home to Georgia on Monday, doctor's permission slip in hand because airline police prohibits flying as pregnant as I was.
My mother died on Sunday, I flew home on Monday, I went into labor on Tuesday.
My husband and I were more than a thousand miles away from our doctor, our hospital and our house, and I was in labor at 3:30 a.m. So off to the local hospital we went in the dark of night, my husband driving my mom's SUV and not having a clue where he was going. I had to give him directions between contractions. We arrived at the hospital and didn't even know what entrance to go to. We found locked doors twice before finding the right entrance, and yeah, I floundered up to both locked doors!
We checked in and by the time we got to a room, I turned around and there was my sister, brother and cousin in the room with my husband and me and my other sister and father on the way. We had thought we'd be delivering in Omaha with just my husband and me – calm and quiet - but I guess my mom had other ideas. So there we were, in the hospital where two years earlier they had cut cancer from my mother, in the hospital where my two nieces were born, in the hospital where my delivery nurse had also been my sister's bridesmaid - there surrounded by those who love me most and the memory of one who just couldn't stay long enough to make it. I delivered Georgia Katherine Tuesday morning – two days after my mother had died. We left the hospital on Wednesday with a borrowed car seat, a bag full of borrowed baby clothes, and hearts bursting with every emotion you can possibly imagine. We arrived at my parents' house to a borrowed crib, borrowed baby supplies and relatives arriving in town with funeral clothes and baby gifts packed in their suitcases. On Friday, my daughter and I looked down on my mother in her casket, and on Saturday we buried her. It's the only time my daughter every saw her grandmother.
My mother fought hard to live long enough to meet her granddaughter and in the end, she missed the date by two days. But life doesn't stop, and it's the beauty of my daughter's life that keeps me smiling. I do wonder though, almost every day, what my daughter's missing without such a great grandmother to love her. I try to make up for it every day.
So why tell you all this? Why am I sharing a two and a half year time in my life that ended with the worst day and best day of my life happening in a two day span? I tell you this to show you just how cancer can affect one family, just ONE family. How many thousands of families are hit like this every single day, every single year? Ovarian Cancer alone is expected to kill more than 14,000 women this year. That's 14,000 more families with stories like mine, with holes in their hearts like mine, with days that will never be quite complete and are always "just missing something" like mine.
According to ovariancancer.org, a woman's lifetime risk of developing invasive ovarian cancer is 1 in 72, and a woman's lifetime risk of dying from invasive ovarian cancer is 1 in 95. While it is the 10th most common cancer among women, ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death among women, and is the deadliest of gynecologic cancers. So please, read through these symptoms of Ovarian Cancer. Learn them, know them, remember them next time something just "isn't right."
The symptoms are:
- Bloating
- Pelvic or abdominal pain
- Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
- Urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency)
See your doctor, preferably a gynecologist, if you have these symptoms more than 12 times during the course of one month and the symptoms are new or unusual for you, according to ovariancancer.org.
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CLICK HERE to go to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.
And by the way, Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month is September, and even if you don't see teal everywhere, you'll find my toenails painted that color throughout much of the year... and now you know why.
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If periodicity confers some current selective advantage, a widely
favored candidate for that benefit is "predator
satiation." Cicadas are large, noisy, clumsy and tasty (or so
I'm told). All in all, they are a bonanza for birds and other
predators. But the emerging adults appear in such enormous
numbers—often hundreds per square meter—that the feast
is more than the diners can finish. If the same mass of cicadas were
spread out in yearly cohorts one–seventeenth as large,
predators could gobble them up, year by year.
Predator satiation and timekeeping errors have the potential to
interact in interesting ways. By eliminating off–year
stragglers, predation tends to sharpen the peak of the emergence,
but of course it also diminishes the height of the peak itself. If
predation is too light, then error suppression will be ineffective
and synchronization will fail. If predation is too severe, the whole
population risks extinction. This analysis suggests the possibility
of a system stable only within a narrow range of
parameters—always a cause of skepticism, since the parameters
are unlikely to be so well–behaved in nature. To my surprise,
however, a simple model of predator satiation proved to be highly
robust. I defined the satiation threshold—the maximum number
of cicadas eaten by predators—as a fraction of the total
carrying capacity, or in other words the maximum possible cicada
population. I found that synchronization was maintained even with a
satiation threshold as low as 0.1; at the other end of the scale,
predation did not lead to immediate extinction until the threshold
was raised above 0.7.
Other aspects of the model are not so confidence–inspiring.
Having added a death rate via predation, it is necessary to include
a birth rate as well, or else the population would inevitably
dwindle away. The numerical value assigned to the birth rate is
somewhat arbitrary. The only guidance comes from field studies
showing that successful female cicadas lay a few hundred eggs.
Fortunately, the behavior of the model is not overly sensitive to
choices of birth rate within the plausible range.
A closely related issue is how to impose a limit on cicada numbers
when excess births cause the population to exceed the carrying
capacity of the environment. In formulating the computer model, I
chose to limit total population by reducing the newborn generation
as necessary. Hatchlings could survive only if there were vacancies
available for them; newborns could never displace older cohorts.
This decision was based on an observation by Karban that infant
mortality dominates cicada demography; if a cicada survives its
first two years, it will likely last to maturity.
Further experiments revealed that the capacity limit and the
strategy chosen for enforcing it can have significant effects on the
outcome of a simulation. For example, steady attrition in the nymph
population, even at a low background rate of mortality, leaves the
brood much more vulnerable to extinction. In contrast, allowing
intergenerational competition—in which newborns compete with
their elders on an equal basis for the available
resources—helps stabilize the synchronized, periodical mode of
reproduction. As a matter of fact, it is only in models with this
form of competition that I have seen synchronization arise
spontaneously from an initially random state. The other models
described here can stabilize existing periodicity but have a hard
time generating it in the first place.
The crucial role of a finite carrying capacity in cicada population
models was pointed out almost 30 years ago by Frank C. Hoppensteadt
and Joseph B. Keller, then of the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences at New York University. I had read an account of their
computer simulations before attempting my own, but only after some
direct experience did I understand the emphasis they put on carrying
capacity. The importance of intergenerational competition was
stressed by M. G. Bulmer of the University of Oxford at about the
same time.
A static population near the carrying capacity, low mortality except
at the extremes of the age range, reproduction postponed until the
last possible moment—these are characteristics of the
Magicicada way of life. I can't help noting that the same
traits will soon describe the human population. Intergenerational
conflict over resources is also conspicuous in human affairs.
Perhaps the cycles of baby booms in recent decades are signs of
incipient synchronization in human reproductive practices.
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I'm impressed! I was worried this system would be too loud but the smooth Honda V6 purrs around town and roars in the country. There is some drone at 70+/2100+rpm on the highway, but livable. The big payoff is when VTEC kicks in and my K&N starts gulping air. People see the H badge and are caught off guard - is than an Accord? Not just any Accord anymore. If you've got the V6 give this intake/exhaust upgrade a try - you won't be disappointed.


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By March they'll start popping out. The ones you see now are more southern Beeks.
By March they'll start popping out. The ones you see now are more southern Beeks.
as a buyer, i would consider risky to buy a nuc until the flow begins.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
It is certainly the weather at play here. My queen bee still producing brood since last December after the ants attack. The dandelions are still blooming but they are not interested in them. Never seen a bee on them. Rather, they go for the loquat and other pollen flowers here. I saw one bee carrying home 2 sacks full of buffy pollens today. Don't know what it is but surely not from our garden. So no drones are produce yet and we're still in the middle of this chilly winter. Certainly not in the Spring yet. So don't sell yourself short here. Because this year's weather is a bit hectic.
Oblib, what configuration are your nucs in? I have been keeping bees since 2008. I only have one yard to keep track of, but hives that have been alive in February have all lived and gone on to produce honey or splits. If you take a peek on a warm day in March and see that there is brood and stores of honey I see no reason why you couldn't sell some. Mine are mostly in 5 over 5 frame configuration.
All my nucs are mediums and are in 8 over 8 configuration. About the same space as a 5 over 5 deep.
All were flying yesterday. It is supposed to be almost 60 here on Friday and Saturday. I will be able to open them all and check for stores. I also have honey frames available to give any that are short. Assuming I have enough honey to be able to assure myself that all are plenty heavy I think I will just assume a 50% loss from here on out and advertise/sell extras from there.
Is my own fault, I got addicted to making bees and just kept on making nucs up lol. Should have spent some time finding a place to keep them. TBH it would feel pretty good to sell some and get a little return on my investment. If they sell fast then I know I can make lots more this year to sell next.(Assuming I can find a place to raise/keep them.)


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Councilman, local artist accused of assaulting...
CAÑON CITY, Colo. - Cañon City police said they arrested Councilman Michael "Colby" Katchmer Thursday night.
Katchmer was one of two men arrested after a scuffle in the 600 block of Main Street downtown just before 9 p.m. Local artist Thomas Blake Lockhart, 59, also was arrested. Both are free on bond and are scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
Katchmar and Lockhart are under investigation on charges of first-degree assault and crimes against at-risk adults. Police said the victims are Robert Martin, 70, and his wife, Margene Martin, 65.
"I'm shocked and surprised," said Mayor Tony Greer, who said he knows both men and that he's friends with Katchmar. "That's always a concern. When we're in the public eye, we do become targets. I'm kind of shocked they'd both be in a place and time where this might happen."
According to arrest documents, the suspects and the Martins were attending a wine-tasting event at Michael's on Main. The suspects were sitting at a table next to the Martins.
"The Martins asked a question about what would be the nature of mosquito control this summer in the city," said Police Chief Paul Schultz. "That started an argument between the groups."
The Martins told police that Katchmar continued to pester them and even physically blocked the door when the couple tried to leave. The said he shouted profanity at them.
Police said when the couple tried to enter their vehicle, the suspects confronted them, hit them, knocked them down and kicked Robert Martin in the face and ribs. When officers arrived responding to a report of a fight in progress, they found Margene Martin sitting in the street with the suspects standing over her.
Katchmar and Lockhart told police it was the Martins who were combative, and they were only defending themselves from the couple.
Kevin Holdridge, the restaurant's general manager, said he called 911 when he saw the argument escalating, and tried to break it up.
When police arrived, according to arrest documents, the Martins were bleeding from head injuries and Rober Martin had an egg-sized welt under his left eye. The couple received treatment at St. Thomas Moore Hospital, where doctors found hip fractures in Margene Martin.
The couple was released from the hospital and declined comment on the matter Friday.
Police said Katchmar was first given a summons by officers until they learned the hospital described Margene Martin's injuries as serious. Police later arrested Katchmar at his home.
The mayor explained why the subject of mosquitoes might lead to such a heated argument.
"I think there was some heated discussion about why we don't do more to control mosquitoes in a particular neighborhood," he said.
Greer commented on how the incident might affect Katchmar's status as a councilman.
"I'm going to reserve judgment until he has his day in court," Greer said. "I think (the Council) could ask him to step down until the matter is resolved, but I'm not sure at this point. I don't think it requires a guilty verdict to take action. Certainly, this gives us a black eye."
Greer praised Katchmar for his active role in downtown development, and Lockhart for being active in the community.
Police said there's no indication that the suspects or victims were intoxicated. The continuing investigation includes studying surveillance video from a camera inside the restaurant.


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Paradise lost - paradise found?
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I am not good at describing places, what I see when I look around me, what calls up all the feelings I am feeling now. A picture or two will give you an impression, but not more than that, for I am at a strange place, weird and wonderful, alien and friendly.
Here come the mixed feelings again.
Gwexintaba must be one of the most beautiful places I have come across on my travels though South Africa. What is beauty? More than meets the eye, it stirs the soul and you would have to be here to know what I mean.
The village is near the Magwa Falls, which are said to be beautiful also, but I couldn't tell you, I didn't get to see them.
The volunteering project is an initiative of Louis, a middle-aged Afrikaner, who came here 6 years ago, built a main building and several rondavels on what appears to be the very best spot around. Great views and a short walk from the village, maybe 20 huts, and not far from the school, which serves three or four tiny neighbouring villages.
Louis is a man with a vision for these people. His heart and soul is in it, showing them ways of supporting themselves in an environment where modern technology has not - yet - been introduced. No running water, electricity, cars - no regular doctors, no shops, life has not changed much over the ages.
Volunteers are invited to join in where they can, at school teaching, the school garden project, enjoy a day baking the traditional Xhosa bread, visit a home church service, washing clothes in a pool. Encourage the teenage boys to develop their musical skills, watch a movie with the kids on Louis' laptop (Tarzan it was, even I found it strange), have fun with the little ones while mummy fetches water. Well, that's as far as I got, for much as I loved the whole thing, Louis and I were like cats and dogs, quite amazing how in seconds, after we had just shook hands and agreed not to fight, we were at each others throats again. Astrid, the only other volunteer, a calm young christian, would tip-toe out of the room, a woman from the village winked at me, shaking her head, never mind, let go, but I couldn't.
I am not even going to get into right or wrong here, you wouldn't understand anyway, and besides, we were each equally bad
This is the second time I have got into trouble with an Afrikaner, something about them brings out the devil in me. Maybe I should work on something, not sure what - keeping my mouth shut, I guess.
Anyway, this bird has flown and now at the Jungle Monkey backpack again, at Port St Johns, all better by the way, and at a loose end.
Sooooooo, I'm here, in Africa, what would I like to do most? I'd love to be in a mokoro, watch the poler's smooth pushing, the lilies, the ripples of the water, the skies, listen to the gentle splashing, the birds, the silence - I want to go to the Okavango delta.
Leaving tomorrow, why waste time? Just hop on a bus my friend said, and that's just what I'll do:)
Shuttle to Mthatha, Translux to Johannesburg, that means sleeping on the bus, that means no sleep. Next day find a ride to Gaborone, and then onwards and upwards to peace and quiet.
Will I finally find it or will it find me?
Ach, who needs paradise, as long as it's an adventure :)
PS Won't be reachable when there and not sure of internet possibilities.....


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first of all century didn't actually make any of the parts used on the century ar-15.
they just used off the shelf parts like everybody else- nothing at all wrong with it. i have seen one or two of them --they seemed to work OK--
sure you can put a DPMS,DSA, double star, MEGA, bushmaster, AA , or whatever lower on it if you want.
if it was me i would just use the rifle as is and buy more ammo.
if it ain't broke why try fixing it? just to make some mall-ninjas happy?
just shoot the hell out of it!--LOL!


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Clocking in at a mere 22 minutes, this long-lost concert video goes by much too quickly, but fans of the Beach Boys will be delighted with the quality of the digitally mastered picture and sound, making this a worthwhile addition to any Beach Boys collection. The boys were taped live on March 14, 1964 as part of a concert that also included the Beatles and Lesley Gore. After the performances were aired on closed-circuit TV to theaters packed with screaming fans, the Beach Boys segment remained virtually unseen until it was rediscovered in 1998.
Cutaway shots provide a wonderful glimpse of what teen audiences were like during the heyday of the surfin' craze (plenty of Gidget hairdos, and a few parents in the crowd, marveling at the frenzy of it all), but it's the music that counts here, and clearly the boys were having a pretty good day. Most of the early hits are played here ("Fun, Fun, Fun," "Little Deuce Coupe," "In My Room"), and while lead vocalist Mike Love hams it up, it's fascinating to witness early indications that bandleader Brian Wilson was growing tired of live performance. He revs it up for a wacky cover of "Papa Oom Mow-Mow," though, and that makes this video a time-capsule treasure, showing the Beach Boys in their prime before Wilson retreated completely into the sanctuary of the studio.
Buddy Rich features the relentless power and unparalleled artistry of the man who was known as "The World's Greatest Drummer." This 75-minute concert, taped in Holland in 1978, showcases one of the tightest big bands in history, featuring acclaimed saxophonist Steve Marcus and other members of Buddy's "Killer Force," the group he would later call "the best band I ever had." Standout performances include "Grand Concourse," "Big Swing Face," and "Channel One Suite," which features Buddy's jaw-dropping drum solo.
Rich's temper, mercurial attitude and imposing personality are documented in secret recordings that pianist Lee Musiker made during some of his tantrums on tour buses and backstage in the early 1980s.[18] These recordings, long circulated in bootleg form, have done much to fuel the reputation of Rich's personality.
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I appreciate ur "non-phish show of the day"
you'd be surprised how many non-Phish fans there are out there
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Walker comments concern local police and fire unions
LA CROSSE, WI - When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker passed Act 10, ending collective bargaining rights for many public workers a few years ago, police and fire were exempt.
But after comments Walker made in a speech earlier this week, some worry that could soon change.
When Act 10 passed, Walker said he left police and fire out of it because he was worried it would put public safety at risk should workers go on strike.
Now that he seems open to the idea, local officials and unions in La Crosse are speaking out against it, saying the collective bargaining relationship between the city and the departments is healthy and effective.
Comments Walker made earlier this week have some worried he has plans to take away the collective bargaining rights of police and fire departments in the state.
But Walker said he doesn't actually have any plans in place.21269748
"I think that could be included in the discussion mainly because I think the people that predicted more negative outcomes in other areas in terms of public employees just didn't materialize and it's been good for the public employees at both the state and local level," said Walker. "I made an observation per a question. There's no specific proposal that I'm pushing."
It's an answer La Crosse City Councilman Doug Happel doesn't buy.
"I'm responding to my questions I have control over what I say, he has control over what he says," said Happel.
Happel is on the city's Police and Fire Commission and said there's nothing wrong with the current system.
"We have just recently settled a fire contract. In fact, the Fire Department ratified and the City Council will hopefully ratify next week. Those contracts are very good, very reasonable, providing appropriate compensation," said Happel.
Kyle Dumez with the local fire fighters union said police and fire already pay into their pensions and can't negotiate their health insurance, take away collective bargaining rights and it makes it even harder to bring experienced firefighters to the department.
"We're a little bit worried about recruitment and retention. We have some of the worst health insurance in the state and we're the lowest paid out of our comparables," said Dumez.
And because both departments are already paying in, Jim Palmer, director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said the state has no financial incentive to take away collective bargaining.
"Is kind of an unfortunate exercise in logic to say if all employees can't have bargaining rights, no one should, and I don't think that's a message that's going to resonate throughout the state," said Palmer.
While Palmer said the state doesn't have much to gain, Happel said city's would have a lot to lose.
"As you take away people's ability to in good faith collectively bargain, you run the risk that it is no longer quite as attractive a profession," said Happel.
The city of La Crosse's human resources director said in the past 15 years the city has never had to go to arbitration with the police and fire unions.
Walker points out there is no current legislation proposed that would take away collective bargaining rights of police and fire unions in the state.
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Newly appointed San Rafael City Councilwoman Kate Colin is tackling her first City Council meeting Monday by considering the adoption of a policy governing residential parking permit programs.
The council will discuss adopting the policy, which will serve as a model for residents to follow if they wish to implement a residential parking permit program in areas such as the Montecito, Dominican and Gerstle Park neighborhoods and Latham Street.
Colin, who had served on the city Planning Commission, was named to the council at a special meeting Thursday night.
A consultant was hired to look into the feasibility of implementing such a program, according to a city staff report. The consultant discovered that 1,500 residences must participate for the program to be cost neutral to the city.
Under the program, residents will be able to purchase an $85 permit each year with a one-time $150 initiation fee in order to park in their neighborhood without any time restrictions. A set number of guest passes will be available for a fee.
Parking restrictions of two to four hours will be in effect for those without permits, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., excluding city holidays. Neighborhoods wishing to participate will have to collect signatures from 67 percent of their district to get the wheels in motion. Each district will be defined by the city's Public Works Department.
Next, a parking study will be conducted to verify that more than 75 percent of the available on-street parking spaces in a district are occupied during the hours of proposed enforcement. The City Council will need to pass a resolution approving the program.
The city will only begin expending money, to purchase signs, after a majority of those living in the district buy permits from the Parking Services Department.
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