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Setting Rates for Small Home Servers
This is intended to be a clearer, more focused version of this thread, with slightly more accurate information. That thread has also become extremely unwieldy and hard to find any any useful information or discussion in it other than the first post.
CG1 has been has been nice enough to code a web based rate calculator. You can find it at the following urls:
Reece-Home Network
Multiplay UK
Note that the information in this thread is intended to be useful for server operators running servers on home servers running on broadband connections. Many will tell you that this isn't possible, or shouldn't be done, but I can assure you that it can be done, and you can run a server on a home broadband connection that runs well, and is fun. It won't be competition quality, but it should run well if it is configured properly and meets the minimum hardware requirements.
This thread is not for newbies. I don't have anything against newbies, I just don't have the energy or the inclination to write a newbies guide to setting up a Half-Life server. I am going to assume that you already know most of the basics of setting up a server. I am also assuming that you are running a dedicated server and that you are doing everything else that common sense dictates, such as not running p2p applications while you host your server, or downloading movies without appropriate qos.
Note that these suggestions are for Windows servers, not Linux servers. The hardware requirements for Linux servers are probably quite a bit less than they are for Windows. However, it should be noted that Half-Life, from what I have read, will probably run slightly better on a Windows server, than it will on a Linux server. This is not because there is anything wrong with Linux, but because HLDS hasn't been optimized properly to run at its best under Linux.
One thing I have discovered is that I can run a Linux server on the same connection, with a higher update rate. I don't know why this is. One theory is that it has to do with packet headers being handled differently on Linux and Windows server boxes, but for whatever reason, from my experience a Linux box will handle maximum update rates as much as twice as high as those that will provide good performance on a server running a Windows operating system.
Minimum hardware requirements for servers will depend on what game and mod you are running, and what mods you have installed. I have heard of Half-Life servers being run on Pentium III 600's, and even older hardware than that. I have personally run a small 12 person Half-Life 2 Deathmatch server on an Athlon 1200. The one thing I am sure of is that the hardware requirements are generally much lower than many would have you believe.
The next critical piece of the puzzle is the quality of your connection. You need to find out what your upload bandwidth is. You can generally find this information from your ISP, and you can confirm it with online bandwidth tests. The most important thing isn't necessarily how much bandwidth you have, but that your bandwidth is stable. You can test the stability of your connection by running a ping test on a reliable url, such as "www.google.com". You should run these tests at different times during the day and most especially during the "prime time" hours between 7:00pm and 10:00pm.
Which leads us to rates. Probably the biggest single mistake that server operators make is setting their various rates far too high. Many tend to think that in order for Half-Life to run well, you need to allow your clients 100 updates per second, and give your cients 20000, or higher, as a rate for bandwidth. We seem to confuse update rate with FPS, or somehow think the two are connected, so if we have a very low updaterate, the game will be choppy. Because of the way Half-Life is designed this is not the case. I have run a perfectly smooth running server with an updaterate as low as 4.
Having said all that, the most important cvars for running a lag free server are the following.
You will find these in your server.cfg file. If they aren't there, you will want to add them.
The first thing we will address is sv_maxrate. This is what controls the maximum amount of bandwidth each client can use. This rate is generally the rate that many will focus on, but it is nowhere near as critical to the performance of your server as the maximum update rate. However, it is still important, and setting it is fairly simple
The first thing you want to do before you determine your rate, is determine how many slots you should run, what your server size should be. Note also that your bandwidth requirements per client increase as your server size increases. I do not recommend a rate any lower than 8000 for a server size larger than or equal to 24, 6000 for a server size larger than or equal to 16, or 4000 for a server size larger than or equal to 12.
Note that the number your ISP gives you for your upload bandwidth will generally be in kbps (kilobits per second), or possibly in mbps (megabits per second). Half-Life and Source rates are in Bps (bytes per second). One byte is equal to eight bits. It is also a good thing to allow your connection some "head room" and not to max it out. 5% is a good number so I will multiply the available bandwidth number by .95 in all our calculations.
sv_maxrate 8000
bandwidth in kbps X .95 / 64 = recommended number of slots
sv_maxrate 6000
bandwidth in kbps X .95 / 48 = recommended number of slots
sv_maxrate 4000
bandwidth in kbps X .95 / 32 = recommended number of slots
sv_maxrate 3000
bandwidth in kbps X .95 / 24 = recommended number of slots
So if you have 1400 kbps in upload bandwidth available, and you are aiming for a sv_maxrate of 8000 you multiply 1400 by .95, then divide it by 64 to get a server size of 20. If your hardware can support it, on that connection you can run a server with 20 slots. This server should run well with an sv_maxrate of 8300 (see below for where I got this number).
Running backwards you can calculate your sv_maxrate this way.
sv_maxrate = bandwidth X 125 / server size
So if you want to run a 24 person server, and you have 1400 Kbps in bandwidth available, 1400 X 0.95 X 125 / 24 gives you an sv_maxrate of 6900 (note that this is lower than the minimum rate that I would recommend for a server of this size).
sv_minrate should always be set to 0, while sv_minupdaterate should be set high enough to prevent exploits, but low enough to not cause problems for clients playing on dialup. I would recommend 4. This will allow your dial up clients to set their update rate as low as they need to so that they can play with as little lag as possible. DIAL UP CLIENTS DO NOT CAUSE LAG, BAD SERVER SETTINGS CAUSE LAG. HIGH PING KICKERS ARE UNFAIR AND A LOAD OF CROCK! There, I feel better now.
The last thing to calculate is sv_maxupdaterate. This is the single most important server side rate setting. And this setting should be much lower than you might imagine.
The calculation that I recommend for sv_maxupdaterate is as follows:
sv_maxupdaterate = sv_maxrate / 300
So for the above sv_maxrate of 7466 you would divide that by 300 to get an sv_maxupdaterate of 24. Basically, start off with this formula, and if you are still experiencing lag spikes or high pings, adjust it downwards, one at a time, until you get stable pings that are as low as you are going to get on your server.
The formula I give for sv_maxupdaterate is very general, and in most cases it will probably give you an update rate that is lower than the highest rate your server can potentially handle. The best update rate for you will depend on your rate obviously, and also on your server size, as well as the mods you are running on your server. Generally the smaller your server size is, the higher your sv_maxupdaterate can be in relation to your server size. Also, the higher your sv_maxrate is, the higher your sv_maxupdaterate can be in relation to your server size.
For instance, this is all hypothetical, if you have a server size of 8 and a rate of 4000, your optimal sv_maxupdaterate might be 20, or 4000/200. However if your server size is 4, your optimal sv_maxupdaterate with the same rate, 4000, might be 26, or 4000/150. If you have a server size of 8 and an sv_maxrate of 8000, your optimal sv_maxupdaterate might be 53, or 8000/150.
The point is, that the only way that I know of right now to find your optimal sv_maxupdaterate, is to fill your server and see if your pings are stable and as low as they are going to be. If they are high and unstable, then adjust your sv_maxupdaterate down one at a time until your pings stabilize. If your pings are stable and as low as they are going to be, adjust upwards one at a time until they go wonky, then adjust back down to the last good rate, or perhaps two lower to allow for bandwidth fluctuations.
Its annoying, but if you can get a full server and people don't mind a few problems until you get things sorted, it won't take very long to get it right.
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I really appreciate this. I just want you to know that you have helped me tremendously in learning how to operate a perfectly working server under Windows OS, and home connection. All my problems before were only caused from bots.
I want everyone here who reads this, if you have done what Drek has said, and you are running bots but still suffer from high pings/lag after doing everything in this guide, please check with your bot settings esp. with podbot because the latest version gives me unbelievable lag.
Again, thanks Drek & CG.
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You are most welcome. It's nice to know my little novels helped someone. And yes, bots can cause problems. I used Sturmbot for several years, and it caused a lot of latency issues.
Bots take a lot of cpu time, and the more complex the a.i. for the bot, the more cpu time they will take, and it seems to me that Podbot has pretty complex a.i. And then of course there can be coding issues that can cause problems as well.
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Drek-Rant (Non essential read): Thanks much for your time and work over the years Drek, it's greatly appreciated. Now that Paulius isn't a big time icon in the HLDS world anymore, you're the last we've got. I started trying to learn how to make a server back in early 2004 when I was only about 10-11 years old, still talked in leet speak on forums (even got criticized by you for being too noob, hehe) and had little knowledge (forum account was Fatal1ty87, lost info now). You were one of the main people who got me on the course for running a working server, along with Paulius. Now I'm almost 17 and posting on your new thread, which I'm surprised you've made, now that it's so many years later and HLDS is dying.
I've been wondering for a while, why do we decrease only the maxupdaterate if we experience lag, rather than both the maxrate/maxupdaterate?
Also, sv_minrate 0 has been recommended by you/paulius for years, I'd be interested in hearing a more specific reason for the 4 minrate and if 0 is still better performance wise (excluding security)
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Before I get into this, I made a small change to the formula for sv_maxrate and corrected a couple of errors and typos, based on my answer to this post.
First off, I considered posting this in the SRCDS Windows forum, but so much still applies to HLDS, that I made the decision to post it here. In the same way that Valve continues to call it's dedicated server mailing lists the HLDS (Windows/Linux) lists, I suppose. The basic ideas apply to SRCDS as much as they do to HLDS, but some of the actual numbers will be different because the Source, Orangebox and L4D engines require more bandwidth than HLDS.
Also the Source, Orangebox and L4D engines are becoming increasingly more unfriendly to those running servers on limited bandwidth. Perhaps when 10mbps+ upload rates become the norm for broadband service in my part of the world (which will probably be sooner rather than later), I will post a thread in the SRCDS forum.
The sv_maxrate variable is pretty static. It is simply a number that takes your available bandwidth and divides it up between your clients. Unless your bandwidth is increased, there is no reason to change it. It also doesn't really matter all that much if you don't get it precisely correct, although you might want to consider leaving a little head room (ie. setting it slightly lower than the maximum you could potentially set it at).
However, the sv_maxupdaterate variable is very dependent on the game you are running, and the mods you are running on that game, as all these things have the potential to change the size of the packets being sent, and really getting it right is what will determine how smoothly your server runs. It is also much more of an art than it is a science, and the only way to get it exactly right is to adjust it with a full, active server.
There was a mistake in my post, and a typo or two, sv_minrate should always be set to 0, there is no reason to set it to anything else. As for sv_minupdaterate, I used to recommend sv_minupdaterate 0, but there are players that are using extremely low update rate settings to make them appear to move abnormally, and therefore make them harder to hit. Setting sv_minupdaterate to 4 should prevent this, while still allowing dialup users to set their rates as low as they need to maintain a reasonable quality game play experience.
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So I have a 1.5Mbps connection, have normally been running a 12 slot server with AMXX and a few plugins.
sv_maxrate 14000
sv_maxupdaterate 52
Today I tried upping the maxupdaterate, and I got to the point where it was so high, that I tried uncapping it at 0 (and then maxrate at 0), and it still worked fine with no lag spikes.
I'm running Booster 2.40 as well with this config as I've found it best for my server:
booster_show_connmsg 0
booster_autofps 200
booster_minsleepms 3
booster_force_systicrate 0
booster_cpu_enabled 0 (I have the rest of CPU cvars in cfg, took them out in post to shorten)
booster_lite_mode 3
Does this seem strange for it to be working flawless at uncapped rates?
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The only way to test when you are able to set your rates that high is to get a bunch of friends to connect to your server, all with cl_updaterate set to something very high, such as 100.
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Ah that makes sense. Thanks for your response. Yes it was a full server, was full for the longest time I'd ever seen before, so it was a great opportunity I thought. Later that day I asked if there were any server-wide lag spikes and they said a few, so it did seem to start lag spiking eventually with certain players / possibly people using mics with voicequal on 5, etc.
Going to try just 60 maxupdaterate
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Let's not forget this
http://sc.multiplay.co.uk/drekrates.php (mirror)
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Thanks for that, I've linked them in the top post again. If you wouldn't mind I'd appreciate it if you incorporated the changes I made, the major one being that I recommend leaving 5% of your bandwidth in headroom.
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Thanks for the tutorial Drek. It's really neat and helpful! I'm having a little trouble though - mainly in regards to bandwidth. I have a 25mbs/25mbs connection and I don't know if the rates can even be set this high.
My rates are as follows (10 slot server):
sv_maxrate 187500
sv_minrate 0
sv_minupdaterate 10
sv_maxupdaterate 625
I got these from a website someone linked in another thread I believe - all I had to do was just input my processor speed, RAM, and internet stats. So my question is, does this make sense/is it even possible for the rates to be that high?
Also, my server only gets 64 fps, I added (fps_max 600) in the config but it doesn't seem to really do anything.
Other commands in my server.cfg:
sys_tickrate 10000
fps_max 600
My target is as follows: "C:\Program Files\Valve\HLServer\hlds.exe" -console -game cstrike -autoupdate +port 27016 +maxplayers 10 +map de_dust2 -tickrate 10000 -pingboost 2
Any help (as always) is greatly appreciated!
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You are so far over the maximums you would need to skydive to reach them. Welcome to the new generation of cable connections. You can use CAL config for your rates if you like. Your only potential limitation is your hardware - specifically your server box and your router.
If you are using a retail home router that might well be the bottleneck for you - not in terms of bandwidth, but in terms of your router's processor and the intensity of traffic it can handle. I can't really help you with that though, that will be a matter of trial and error for you.
Looking at the current incarnation of the CPL website I'm not sure that there is a current CAL config available. I believe the rates for CS were as follows:
sv_maxrate 25000
sv_maxupdaterate 101
I think those are the maximums for HLDS (although the max for the update rate might be 100, not sure about that).
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Hi Drek, I've applied the 5% bandwidth gap to the function.
I'm looking into a formula that can take in the CPU and RAM and generate an answer rather than some step limits. I would also like it to go higher than 32 players if the hardware is very good, to demonstrate multiple servers could be run off the hardware given. Perhaps I should include an input for dual/tripple/quad/oct core systems too. Also, I'd take the player value and knock off 25% if the person is using SRCDS.
Here is currently how the script works out how many players can be handled:
CPU RAM Players 400 128 2 600 192 4 800 256 8 1000 384 12 1200 384 16 1400 512 18 1600 512 20 1800 512 24 2000 768 28 2200 768 32
I would much appreciate your any input you have on this matter, or any other input you have towards the calculator in general
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It's hard for me to offer anything concrete, other than to tell you what my experience has been. I have run a 17 slot hlds on an Athlon 1200 running Windows XP Pro, and Debian GNU/Linux. It ran very well and I ran a heavily modded 17 slot Natural Selection server on the same box, with bots, and it also ran quite well, although not perfectly.
I have run a 16 slot srcds and OrangeBox engine DOD:S server on an Athlon XP 1700+. It also ran very well, the box was running Debian GNU/Linux. However, on that same Athlon XP 1700+ I couldn't get a 16 slot Age of Chivalry server to run well. I have since switched to an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, also running Debian GNU/Linux, and a 12 slot Age of Chivalry server is running very well on it.
So far Age of Chivalry is the most demanding srcds/OrangeBox mod I have found, and Natural Selection is the most demanding hlds mod. A 32 slot Natural Selection server runs flawlessly on that same Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (only 12 slots though are human players, the rest are bots).
I know second hand that mods like Counter-Strike 1.6 will run on very old hardware. I know that back in the day they were running servers on Pentium 3 600's running Windows, and even older and slower hardware than that, although I don't know how many slots.
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While I have seen the Extended Thread, I find it fascinating that people still would like to host servers from home.
Unfortunately in Australia, Internet Traffic is expensive which is prohibitely expensive also there's been debates about the upgrade of Fibre Optics through the National Broadband Network of Australia.
The server calculator is great, but that will only work if you meet the requirements of the Hardware Machine you're intending to host.
These days Dual-Core Processors are Cheap, so there's no reason why not to buy one, but Quad-Core or better would be more ideal and in some cases better than using an Intel Xeon Itanium or AMD's Opteron processor for a more cost-effective solution.
In terms of rates, like you've mentioned we go based on the upload rate (the theoretical side of how much upload speed you'll get per sec.)
But I guess it's mainly for the people with the low end machines who can't afford to buy PC's these days, and the target audience.
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Two College of Business supporters will be honored at the event. Jim Kahan, senior executive vice president with SBC Communications and chairman of the College of Business Advisory Council, will receive the Leadership and Service Award. Ernest Bromley, president and CEO of Bromley Communications, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
"The Signature Speaker Series provides a first-class opportunity for the San Antonio community to hear from nationally recognized business leaders and to showcase UTSA and the College of Business," said COB Dean Lynda de la Vina. "We have just launched a strategic plan to raise the academic profile of the college to become one of the nation's best business schools. This complements UTSA President Ricardo Romo's mission to make UTSA Texas' next tier-one research university. We are delighted that Wachovia shares our vision and has agreed to be the title sponsor of this event."
"We are pleased to partner with the UTSA College of Business in such a meaningful way," said Mark Metcalfe, president of Wachovia's San Antonio Region. "Supporting the Signature Speaker Series is an excellent way for Wachovia to achieve its goal of becoming involved in the communities where we do business and contributing to their development as vibrant and economically thriving places for people to live, work and play."
A Taiwan native raised in San Jose, Calif., Yang co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 as the first online navigational guide to the Web. He was instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the most recognized brands on the Internet.
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The UTSA College of Business is the largest undergraduate business program in the University of Texas System and one of the 40 largest business schools in the nation. Home to the number one finance researcher in the world, the college has 6,000 enrolled students and features 37 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. UTSA's College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The college is dedicated to raising its academic profile to become one of the best business schools recognized for developing knowledge for a new world.
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Bergeron emerging as a quiet Bruins leaderWednesday, October 28th, 2009
WILMINGTON, Mass. — A highly respected hockey voice recently stressed that the leadership of both Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi as two key pieces in the recent turnaround of the Bruins. It's been those two players, along with captain Zdeno Chara, that have helped grease the wheels of Boston's resurgence, but there's also a growing measure of influence from the young voices within the dressing room.
The loss of players such as Stephane Yelle, P.J. Axelsson and Aaron Ward have no doubt left a vacancy in terms of veteran influence within the dressing room, but coach Claude Julien said he's already convinced that those important breaches have been filled. Young players are stepping up, and emerging leaders are picking their spots to help push along the direction of the club.
To hear Julien explain it, Bergeron is something akin to those old E.F. Hutton financial commercials. When Bergeron speaks, everybody listens — and that's only been amplified this season as the 24-year-old has again staked claim to his rightful place as one of the brightest spots on Boston's roster. The Bruins have taken points in four of their last five games, and young skaters such as Bergeron have everything to do with that.
"We talked about the guys we lost in the last year: the Yelles, the Axellsons, the Wards. They were pretty good presences in the dressing room, but at the same time other guys have stepped up," Julien said. "We've asked other guys to step up into those roles in the dressing room, and we had some guys that were ready to take over. It's been good and getting better, and it's a transition that needs to be made.
"There's no point in naming one or two guys. For the most part, the young guys want to do their jobs. The older guys: Z and the Ferences and the Recchis have been there for a long time and they're going to help out along the way. Bergie is a quiet leader and not necessarily the rah-rah type, but every once in a while he'll speak. When he does, they listen because he doesn't speak that often and he doesn't speak for nothing. So you expect some kind of leadership from those guys, and Marco Sturm has also been a quiet leader. He speaks when it's time to speak. What you see from them [in the media] and what we see behind closed doors might be a little different."
The old Bergeron has appeared on the ice where he's tied for tops in the team with seven points through the first 10 games, and that appears to also be shining through in Boston's new leadership structure this season.
' Don't expect Milan Lucic to begin dropping the gloves and transforming into the Incredible Looch when he returns from his broken right index finger. The hulking left winger has been working out and skating on his own, but said that it took at least "two months" for his finger to stabilize the last time he broke a knuckle/finger on his left hand.
That means Lucic won't be slipping into fight mode for a minimum of several weeks, and probably longer, after the finger is healed enough to suit up again for the B's.
"You've got to be smart about it, protect it a little bit and wait for [the finger] to solidify before you go back to everything you used to do before," Lucic said. "I definitely didn't fight right after I came back the last time, and it look a little bit before it was ready to go."
Lucic had only the one fighting major came when he rearranged Jay Harrison's facial structure in the blowout win over the Hurricanes in the B's second game of the season. It may be quite some time before his next one, and there remains the question of how much Lucic will throw down given his value to the hockey team as a top line player and his value in dollars given his newly signed long-term contract.
' There's been a lot of talk about the incoming Devils before they come into the TD Banknorth Garden Thursday night, and naturally most of the conversation centered around the trap and Martin Brodeur. Both coach and players paid tribute to the disciplined — albeit sleepy — trapping style that New Jersey has become synonymous with, and the legendary goaltender at the end of Jersey's layered defense.
B's goalie Tim Thomas called Brodeur's hybrid style the "one-legged butterfly", and said that he's taken plenty from watching the four-time Vezina Trophy winner over the years. Just don't ask Thomas if he ever watches Brodeur when he's playing against him, because the reigning Vezina Trophy winner clearly doesn't get caught up in the individual goalie matchups.
"The truth is he's a great goalie that's been fortunate enough to play with a good team in front of him for his entire career," Thomas said. "You don't win Vezinas without a good team in front of you, and the New Jersey Devils have been able to build up a strong core and keep them together the whole time through.
"If you don't have the right team to play with, then it doesn't matter what system you have. There's nothing about his style. He just stops the puck. Everybody talks about my style, but he really has his own style, too. He has a way, way different style from everybody else than I do."
How would Thomas describe Brodeur's way different style of "stopping the puck?"
"One-legged butterfly. Half-butterfly. Watch him, he goes down on his right knee all the time. He goes into the butterfly, but that isn't his first move," Thomas said. "His first move is to go down halfway and then the butterfly is his second move. If you can do it and cover [the 5-hole] up enough enough, then it's much easier to get up [tall] off one knee."


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Letter to Superintendents Offers Guidance, Funding for the Arts
Filling the Summer Gap
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindImproving Literacy Through School Libraries
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Letter to Superintendents Offers Guidance, Funding for the Arts
Secretary of Education Rod Paige recently sent a letter to the nation's superintendents reminding them that the arts are core academic subjects under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and that the law provides funding and flexibility to improve art education.
"For both the important knowledge and skills they impart and the ways in which they help students to succeed in school and in life, the arts are an important part of a complete education," Secretary Paige wrote. "The arts, perhaps more than any other subjects, help students to understand themselves and others."
Recognizing this significant role, the law, he emphasized, includes the arts as core academic subjects: "No Child Left Behind expects teachers of the arts to be highly qualified, just as it does teachers of English, math, science and history."
The letter cites research that shows the arts serve as a "critical link" to help students develop crucial thinking skills and become motivated to achieve at higher levels. It offers a summary of these and other findings, along with resources for developing arts education programs.
In addition, Secretary Paige points out in his guidance to school chiefs the funding sources available through NCLB to support the arts, including Title I funds to improve the academic achievement of the neediest students, and Title II grants to provide professional development for teachers. For example, Arizona utilized $4 million in Comprehensive School Reform (Title I, Part F) funds to support arts education at 43 schools throughout the state.
The letter is available at www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/040701.html.
Filling the Summer Gap
No Child Left Behind Reading Program Builds Student Skills, Community Partnerships to Raise Achievement
Instead of turning in their books at the end of the school year, elementary and middle school students in Gainesville, Fla., received books of their own to read over the summer as part of the No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achievers Program.
"We wanted to put books in the hands of our children, which is something this program has definitely accomplished," said Sandi Anusavice, director of curriculum for the Alachua County School District. Each student received a free book and reading log at the end of the school year. After students read 10 age-appropriate books and completed their reading log, they were eligible to receive another book.
For Jessica, a fifth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, the program has meant she now has five of her favorite books at home that can she read over and over. Of the 100 books she's read this summer, her favorite is about monsters who go into a haunted house. "They say funny things that make me laugh," she mused.
Alachua County is one of 11 sites around the country participating in the second year of the No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achievers Program for students in grades K-8. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that up to 150,000 students will participate at all the sites, which also include Springfield, Mass.; Portsmouth, N.H.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Camden, N.J.; Kansas City, Kan.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Albuquerque, N.M.; San Diego, Calif., and the state of South Dakota. Last year, the Atlanta Public Schools piloted the program, with nearly 18,000 students reading over 150,000 books.
While the Alachua County School District has sponsored summer reading programs through the local libraries in the past, the chance to participate in the Education Department-sponsored program offered new opportunities. "The addition of national and local sponsors and the prizes they brought has generated more interest," said Anusavice.
Among those opportunities was a visit by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige along with the Disney characters "Belle" and "Pierre" of the DisneyHand Reading Together program during a celebration event in July. In addition to participating in a fun, interactive program, students received a book from Belle and enjoyed a pizza party.
In his remarks, Secretary Paige said, "Reading is the cornerstone of all learning. Research shows that students often lose some of their reading skills during the summer break, so it's important to encourage children to keep up those skills."
That's the main reason the Alachua County Boys & Girls Club chose to participate in the program. "This program was a perfect fit for the summer gap in our after-school programming," said Keith Blanchard, the club's director. "We wanted to do something to prevent the summer slide when kids stop reading and learning. We also wanted the students to develop a healthy habit of reading for fun."
Kendall, a fifth-grader at Glen Springs Elementary, did most of her reading at the Boys & Girls Club this summer. She found that the requirement to read age-appropriate books meant reading chapter books. "So now I like to read," she said, "but the chapter books take a lot longer." She's now reading Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
Principal Lacy Redd of Newberry Elementary opened the rural school's media center Tuesday evenings over the summer so students and their parents could replenish their book supply and spend time reading together. The popularity of the program was evident when 50 families showed up the night of a torrential rainstorm.
"The assessment we take each September usually shows a slide of three to four months when students don't read over the summer," said Redd, noting that she hopes the value of the program will show in this year's test scores. "This Summer Reading Achievers Program has enabled us to continue what we've done all yearencourage our students to read." As a special treat, students at the school who read 10 or more books were treated to breakfast by a local restaurant.
In the first three days of school, Redd collected logs from 200 of her 440 students, with the expectation she'll receive about 100 more. While teachers and administrators throughout the county tallied their students' logs, Anusavice and her team prepared 10,000 prize bagsa bag for each of the more than half the school districts' 19,000 eligible students.
With more than 30 local sponsors, the bags were full of gift certificates and prizes. "The community response has been phenomenal," said Anusavice. In addition to prize bags for everyone who read 10 books and completed a reading log, there were prizes for the students who read the most books in each class and drawings at the local and district level for additional prizes that were provided by the program's 12 national sponsors and many local contributors.
Students who read 10 books over the summer also will receive certificates from the U.S. Department of Education, and schools with the highest percentages of participating students will be recognized.
The program is supported by a network of national sponsors, including First Book, Fisher-Price, Scholastic Inc., National PTA, Target Corporation, USA Football, Communities in Schools Inc., the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Verizon, Barnes and Noble, MeadWestvaco and Time Inc.
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindImproving Literacy Through School Libraries
School libraries are critical to meeting schools' instructional goals: they promote literacy by encouraging reading. However, based on the most recent findings in The Status of Public and Private School Library Media Centers in the United States: 1999-2000, a report from the National Center for Education Statistics, about 40 percent of public schools with library media centers did not have a full-time state-certified library media specialist. Only 32 percent of public schools with library media centers maintained a flexible schedule for class visits to the library, while just 50 percent of public school library media centers scheduled times before or after school when students could use the library independently.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program is designed to improve the literacy skills of students by providing them with access to up-to-date school library materials; technologically advanced school library media centers; and well trained, professionally certified school library media specialists. This new program is one component of the U.S. Department of Education's commitment to dramatically improve student achievement by focusing available resources, including those of school library media centers, on reading achievement.
School library media centers can contribute to improved student achievement by providing instructional materials aligned to the curriculum; by collaborating with teachers, administrators and parents; and by extending their hours of operation beyond the school day.
The Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program is a competitive one-year grant for school districts in which at least 20 percent of the students are from families with incomes below the poverty line.
Last month, the Department awarded districts across the country 92 of these grants averaging $200,000, nearly double the average amount of grants ($130,000) awarded in 2002, the year of the program's start.
For more information, visit www.ed.gov/programs/lsl.
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Tips for Parents
As states across the nation release their education report cards revealing which schools met their progress goals, parents no doubt will have a few questions about what these changes under No Child Left Behind mean to their child, school and community. Below are a few questions parents may want to consider:
- How many special education, minority, limited English proficient or economically disadvantaged students are achieving at grade level (are proficient) in either reading or mathematics?
- What percentage of students graduate from your child's high school? How many attend college?
- Does the school offer afternoon, weekend or summer school instruction for students who need extra help in reading and language arts or math?
- Does the district inform parents of the choices and options available to them under the No Child Left Behind Act?
- How many of your school's teachers meet the highly qualified teacher standards under No Child Left Behind? How many teachers hold only emergency credentials?
- Is there an explicit student disciplinary policy? How does the school inform parents when their child has misbehaved and been placed in detention, suspended or expelled?
- Has the school been identified as a "persistently dangerous school"?
A full checklist of these and more questions is available at www.ed.gov/parents/academic/involve/nclbchecklist.html.
New Resources! Just Added to FREE Web Site
The federal government's most dynamic Web site for learning resourceswww.ed.gov/freerecently added to its collection nearly 20 new online resources in science, health and social studies. The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Web site is designed to make it easy to find teaching and learning resources on subjects ranging from arts to vocational education, from more than 35 federal organizations. Updated weekly, the site includes, among recent additions:
Hubble: A View to the Edge of Space, from the National Science Foundation, offers a tour of the Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit in 1989 and looks at the path of communication between Earth and the telescope, the crew of astronomers and craftspeople who keep the Hubble running and images of the universe captured by the telescope.
Open Wide and Trek Inside, from the National Institutes of Health, examines the mouthits various purposes, types of teeth, bacteria, decay and diseasesand includes a teacher's guide for grades 1-2.
Hands on the Land, from the Bureau of Land Management, provides teacher and student materials about the Everglades ecosystem, bat habitats, rock classification, invasive species, forest carnivores, water quality in the wilderness and the use of Geographic Information Systems to map vegetation.
I Hear America Singing, from the Library of Congress, features recordings and histories of dozens of patriotic songs, including "America the Beautiful" and "The Star Spangled Banner," along with a collection of sheet music published from 1800 to 1922 that consists of 9,000 pieces.
The Achiever is published semi-monthly during the school year for parents and community leaders by the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Rod Paige, Secretary.
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Disclaimer: The Achiever contains news and information about public and private organizations for the reader's information. Inclusion does not constitute an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any products or services offered or views expressed.
Thank you for your interest in The Achiever, the U.S. Department of Education's biweekly bulletin on No Child Left Behind, the historic, bipartisan education reform law signed by President Bush in January 2002. We are delighted to hear that the newsletter is providing you with the resources needed to help you in your efforts to improve education.
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he looked good last week and if healthy noone in nfl can cover him fast tall great hands runs great route's
2015 season tbd
I'm sorry, but I need to see it before I believe it.
He said he wasn't injured...and it turned out he was, missed a few games as a result. He said that the injury wasn't bothering him, but you can clearly tell that he's lost a step and isn't battling for the ball like he's prone to do.
Prove me wrong, Nicks. We need you playing at 110%.
For a Giant fan that I personally knew: My mom. May she smile and be delighted whenever her favorite player - Victor Cruz - scores a touchdown and does his salsa dance.
Thank you mom for everything! Let's Go Giants!
He still looked a little banged up against the Bengals to me. Most of the passes he was caught were against soft coverage and was going down on initial contact. He did look better than the prior weeks though. I hope the playoff Nicks returns this weekend, if so the Packers could be in trouble.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. What did he say?
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Most posters are talking about extreme flexibility but only in terms of figure skating - not in Asian self defence movements. correct?
There is a form of flexibility that is called contortionism - being able to manipulate the joint and muscles in ways a non contortionist could not possibly do.
But skating fans seem to adore over-the-top-out-of-whack leg positions. it's really just another trick and not a skating trick but an acrobatic trick. So be it. I just wish posters would say She is so acrobatic instead of balletic.
Nothing wrong with being an acrobatic dancer. Cirque du Soleil has a bevy of both male and female acrobatic dancers who perform ballet-like. No?
A reference to post 12 above by Medusa. (I think it is part of the pelvic bone. )Originally Posted by seniorita
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here, it's the seventh structure on the left from the bottom. But there are several muscles / ligaments that begin in that area, so it's quite possible that you don't see this part of the bone in a grown muscular man. (you can feel it though on nearly everybody, except for really obese people)
its not a skating trick but what amazes people is that they can do this flexible moves while on a blade, so it makes it more spectacular than gymnastics.I think it s the combination they adore.She is so acrobatic instead of balletic
My gosh, that pic of Rohene Ward's layback is to die for. Seniorita, he's a skater from Minneapolis who is amazingly gifted but never quite made it at the top levels. He has a lot of fans on skating boards. I wish he were in SOI.
Back to that icky position that people always praise Shiz for. Here's Caroline doing the first part of it. Does anyone really think that's beautiful? (Note: I consider Caroline one of the most exquisite skaters ever.) Hard, maybe. But run for the hills!
PS re: all MM's pictures of men: notice they're all wearing black. Men have too much business going on downstairs to be doing this stuff, IMO. Rohene's was the only position I liked. Now Shawn Sawyer, that's another story. Can't wait to see him at SA. Even if he wears white. : )
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Here she is last year, in a spiral position sort of like Shizuka's. (I hope she is skating forward.)
Here is the mature Shizuka.
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his layback and himself is to die for.My gosh, that pic of Rohene Ward's layback is to die for
his bielman spiral always looked effortless unlike his bielman spin. http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4905/14zzr.jpg, http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4885/aoi03014.jpg
actually if you train in gymnastics you call the vault barrel as nickname when on young age, at least in greek it looks less scary that way.I guess barrel jumping would be the equivalent of the vault in gymnastics.
Here is Shiz's "icky" spiral (the link of Caroline you posted was a spin):
OK, mea culpa re: Zhang's I-spin pic. I can't find one of her in a Y pose. (MM, I think the pic you posted is more of an extreme classic spiral - another of her inventions? - her knee is pointed down, not up as in a Y spiral.)
To me, Yu Na can pull off that Y pose. Scroll down for a gorgeous pic.
But Shiz's legs are not as long and that clunky skate right next to her head, combined with her wider hips, make that pose unattractive, to me, in spite of her grace. She's a beautiful skater, just not for that, IMO. But I know many (if not most) fans really like it, so be my guest.
Here is Sasha.
I think the reason so many people were agog at Shizuka's version is -- OK, now let go with your hands and see if your leg stays up there.
"Pretty" is in the eye of the beholder, but as a strength move, people couldn't believe their eyes when they saw Arakawa do it at the Olympics.


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The biggest reduction in contaminants is, of course, to not dump chemicals in your hives. The best approach to minimizing contaminants, on the other hand, is to not put anything in your hives that may contain toxins that could affect the bees.
In addition, toxicity to humans for a variety of chemicals is in the microgram range.
The LD50 of many of these wax contaminants is 2ng/bee.
I am comfortable going from ng/g to ppb, etc. . The 1st paper showed amounts in the ppm range for individual contaminants.
What we need to know is how much wax (in grams) is used to coat a plastic frame (or contained in a sheet of foundation) to get an idea of how close to the LD50 you get.
I think it's pretty close per frame. I would also note that synergistic effects have been shown to occur when different pesticides are combined.
The second paper showed lower pesticide amounts and had some useful median values as well.
I suppose someone could take out a calculator once all the values are known to see how bad things can get when using wax foundation or coated plastic.
It's a useful way to compare the pesticide burden in wax foundation/wax coated plastic frames vs foundationless.
Why guess?
From the emotion being posted on this topic, I get the idea that there are a lot of people watching this thread that are losing sleep over this. To their horror they've realized that they are using plastic frames in their hives and that they have given their bees a death sentence from vast (i.e. microgram) amounts of toxic sludge found in the wax coating of their frames.
Just want to offer a sanity check here. We are talking about the thin layer of wax coating on the frames and it's level of contamination was at a concentration that was habitable to previous hives. That coating wax is minuscule compared to the actual clean wax that they will draw out on the frames over top of this and use.
How much wax is used to coat a set of 10 frames? Is it even a grams worth used to coat a full set? The actual amounts of wax that gets harvested by melting down completely drawn out frames is nothing (and thats for full drawn out comb not the wax coating).
Based on what WLC said above, that the LD50, which means that 50% of the bees will die at that concentration, is 2 nanograms per bee. That means one bee would only need 2 or 3 1000ths of a microgram to die. I don't doubt that there are various detrimental effects to the bees systems at lower dosages than that.
Another problem that I can see with wax contaminant accumulation is that as foundation is used and more contaminants are collected in that wax, then the wax is recycled for more foundation, the contaminant concentrations would logically be getting higher and higher over time. That would be an interesting study, as well.
Good discussion! I hadn't thought about a lot of these issues this critically before.
There's alot of information in both papers. They're worth looking over at least a few times.
However, I don't think that a gram or 2 of wax per plastic frame is an exageration. Also, wax foundation probably comes in at alot more than a gram per sheet.
I'd say that a sheet of wax foundation can easily have 10-100 ug of pesticides.
PS-Don't forget that the fungicides can interfere with pollen/nutrition, etc. .
Here is another thought. As a beginner would you rather be choose a method that involves picking out the right kind of foundation among dozens of choices, choosing the right size, wire or no wire, maybe getting an extractor, monitoring for diseases and then choosing a chemical treatment that may or may not work and then determining the right time to use it,
Being told just to buy all medium boxes and medium frames, coming up with a guide and then just dumping the bee's in there and basically ignoring all the the terrible things that you hear about effecting hives until fall where you simply pull out your frames, cut out the comb and strain the honey in a plastic bucket. If your hives die then your not a failure, your just removing bad genetics.
Even assuming none of this is actually true, which method sounds the most appealing?
Its the same reason people by Apple (computer) products. Simplicity is perhaps the most appealing trait that a product can have.
it is the same as WLC's a few posts above. It would be really great if you could evaluate it. To me it sounds OK and experimental part is fine with me, but I am not experienced in beekeeping, so I could not tell if any flaw in bees part of the experiment.
Again if the LD50 was based on a bees exposure to the toxin in wax, it would have killed off the original hive that had its entire comb containing the concentrated toxins well before it reached that level.
Table 4 in the second paper is a good place to look at the range of various pesticides found in wax relative to their LD50s.
There is an average of 12.4 ug of various pesticides per gram of wax.
As for how all of these various pesticides can impact a hive...
It's not just in the wax.
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I think for concentrations to get higher and higher from recycling wax it would require a much thicker amount to be applied to new plastic foundation than is. If you are only applying enough to coat the plastic, I don't see how that would ever move the dial on increasing the concentrations. Perhaps wax foundations might have more possibility of a cyclical effect?


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I had a hive that lost its queen so I bought a queen less nuc with 5 frames of brood and eggs and bees. I put two frames of brood and the existing bees in one brood box with a new marked/caged queen. I installed the other three frames of brood, eggs and bees in another brood box with another marked/caged queen. This was all done on June 29th. Yesterday I checked one hive and couldn't find a queen but the hive had lots of bees and capped honey. No eggs and not much capped brood.
This morning I checked the frames in the second hive and both marked queens were on the same frame, about 3 inches apart. The queen from the first hive found her way into the second hive. Now what do I do? I'm a first year beekeeper so I don't know how to proceed with this one. Help!


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Jackett praise for winger's response
Kenny Jackett has praised Bakary Sako's response to being left out of the team after the winger came off the bench to clinch victory against Bristol City.
Sako had been left out of the starting line-up for the last two games, but produced a lively cameo against City which culminated in an impressive third goal in the 3-1 win.
Was the winger trying to prove a point? Jackett certainly hopes so!
"I've seen no let-up in Bakary's attitude at all," says the Head Coach.
"He's shown a good attitude, responded very well and, when he got his chance, he scored a good goal.
"He also gave Adam El-Abd some problems and drove him back because El-Abd was a big personality on the pitch.
"At 2-1 the game was evenly poised and I felt he did make the difference.
"It was exactly the right type of response – making a point to me, making a point to himself, to his own team-mates and to the supporters.
"I certainly hope it was all of those things and it's the type of reaction you want when you get onto that pitch.
"You fight for the shirt and then, after that, if you get it you fight even harder to keep it.
"Bakary has never expressed to myself or to Kevin (Thelwell) or Jez (Moxey)that he dislikes it here and his demeanour and his manner and body language is anything but.
"I think he likes being here and is a good team-mate to the other lads – he has also shown a good attitude in helping Nouha (Dicko) to settle in.
"You have to continually re-prove yourself, whoever you are, and whatever you've done in the past, and the same goes for me."
Elsewhere meanwhile, Leigh Griffiths will remain in the Wolves squad unless there is any fee agreed with Celtic for his services.
Both Jackett and Celtic boss Neil Lennon have confirmed there is dialogue between the two clubs after an initial bid for the Scottish international striker was rejected.
"As it stands Leigh is in my plans – mentally he's fine and dialogue has been open which is a good thing," added Jackett.
"He's expressed his interest in Celtic publicly and for a Scottish lad the pull of a club that size is a big one.
"But he knows the deal has to be right for us and, as with any player,if they agree they then need to talk to see where they fit in.
"That's where we are at present but he certainly hasn't closed the door on Wolves at all and he will be at Boundary Park."
Jackett also confirmed Wolves are continuing to scour the market to try and add to the ranks before Friday's 11pm transfer deadline, irrespective of what happens with Griffiths.
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College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University (WVU), Morgantown, WV
Thesis: An efficient method for texture-based image retrieval
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Kandaswamy, U.; Schuckers, S.; Adjeroh, D., "Comparison of Texture Analysis Schemes Under Non-ideal Conditions" - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 20, Issue 8, 2011.
Kandaswamy, U.; Deng P.; Stevens, C.; Klyachko, V., "The role of presynaptic dynamics in processing of natural spike trains in hippocampal synapses" - Journal of Neuroscience November 24, 2010, 30(47):15904-15914
Adjeroh, D.; Banda, N.; Lee, M.C.; Kandaswamy, U., "Adaptive Edge-Oriented Video Partitioning" - EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2009, Article ID 859371, 13 pages DOI:10.1155/2009/859371
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Adjeroh D.; Kandaswamy, U., "Game-Theoretic Analysis of Network Community Structure", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), Volume 3, Number 4, December, 2007.
Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D.A.; Lee, M.C., "Efficient Texture Analysis of SAR Imagery", IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, Volume 43, Issue 9,September 2005, Page(s):2075 - 2083.
Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D.; Schmid, N., " Face Textons", June 2007. PPA#60/933,265. (Patent application submitted)
Kandaswamy, U.; " Texnomial based Comcryptor for Medical Media", June 4 2010. (Pending)
Kandaswamy, U.; Stevens, C.; Klyachko, V., "Synaptic filtering of natural spike trains in central synapses:a computational study" Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010.
Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D.; Schmid, N.; Schuckers, S., "Error Encoded PDE-Textons for Face Recognition", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, 7-8 June, Alghero, Italy, 2007 Page(s):57 - 62.
Adjeroh, D.; Kandaswamy, U.; Zhang, N.; Mukherjee, A.; Brown, M.T.; Bell, T.,""BWT-Based Efficient Shape Matching", 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, Korea, March 11 - 15, 2007.
Hanbury, A.; Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D., "Illumination-invariant Morphological Texture Classification", Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, Paris, France, 2005 Page(s): 377-386.
Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D., "Color Texture Retrieval Using the Collective Color Texture Model", SPIE Proceedings - Optics, Volume 5999, Boston, MA, 2005, Page(s): 281-288.
Kandaswamy, U.; Adjeroh, D; Lee, M.C, "An efficient method for image texture analysis", SPIE Proceedings November 2004, Vol. 5605: Page(s): 187-192.
"PDE-Textons Based Face Recognition" - Face Recognition Grand Challenge /Iris Challenge Evaluation Workshop, Mar 2006, organized by National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST).
"Efficient and Effective Texture Based Image Retrieval" - Technical University of Vienna, June 2004, organized by Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group (PRIP).
"Face Image Enhancement Under Varying Illumination " - Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/MITRE, Aug 2007, Bojan Cukic ( PI), Accepted for funding as part of existing NSF/ITR Project.
"Phase 0- Participation in the MultiBiometric Grand Challenge" - Funded by National Science Foundation I/UCRC Center for Identification Technology ; Stephanie Schuckers (PI), Natalia. Schmidt (Co-PI), B. Abidi (Co-PI), U. Kandaswamy (Co-PI), 2008, $30,000.
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You might remember the install from hell, well this turned into the summer of hell! Come 7/4 I had a ATV accident where I got crushed & while recouping I failed to think about my Bees ENOUGH. We got a drought in August that never ended. I was cocky because there is so much water on my property that I forgot FOOD! I forgot the drought meant no late nectar! Sigh it was october before I realized my error and started feeding the hive. i have a 42" hive that the bees only occupy 1/2 & the back comb is empty. I am thinking I do not have enough honey stores for our harsh winter. we have already had a cold snap where a bunch of bees died.
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In the Official Arsenal Magazine, Arsenal's first-team stars tell us about their daily routine. Read on to find out more about a day in the life of Carl Jenkinson!
What time do you usually get up in the morning?
At about half past eight.
What's your first drink of the day?
I'm boring – it's normally just a glass of water.
What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Normally a croissant, a banana and a Muller light yoghurt.
Do you read the newspaper?
Not really, no.
Before heading to training, is there anything else that you generally do?
I just wash and brush my teeth, and that's it.
How long does it take you to drive to the training ground?
About 35 minutes depending on the M25.
And what car do you drive there?
A BMW 3 Series.
Do you listen to music in the car?
I listen to the radio and my iPod – I love listening to music. If it's the radio, I usually have Kiss 100, Choice FM or Magic FM on.
Do you always travel on your own?
Yes, I do.
Are you usually one of the first to training – or one of the last?
One of the first, I reckon.
What do you keep in your locker?
Not much – just cosmetics, my trainers and my flip flops.
On the training pitches, do you have any special warm up routines?
I tend to have a good stretch before I go out, because I'm sometimes quite stiff.
What aspect of training do you enjoy the most?
I enjoy the passing drills that we do.
Which team-mate do you think is the best trainer?
I'd say Mikel Arteta – he's really professional.
After training what do you take into the shower?
Shampoo and a towel.
Who do you tend to sit with at lunch?
It depends to be honest – I'm happy to eat with whoever's about.
Do you always go straight home after training – if not where might you go?
Sometimes I go to a nice Italian restaurant in Radlett for lunch, if I'm not eating at the training ground, but I tend to go straight home.
What do you tend to do when you get home?
I usually chill out for a couple of hours, perhaps watching a bit of TV.
What time do you eat dinner?
At about half six, maybe 7pm.
Tell us three things that you might do in the evening?
Go to see my friends, go to the cinema, or just stay at home.
What's the last thing you do before going to bed?
I don't know really – probably brush my teeth.
What time do you go to bed?
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