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Danville woman dies in crash outside Healdsburg
Original post made on Feb 17, 2008
Kelly Jean Bianchi, 38, was identified as the driver of the black 2000 Land Rover Discovery that officers believe veered off Bailhache Avenue east of Village Avenue about two miles east of the Healdsburg city limits sometime before 2 a.m., according to reports.
The accident spot is on a two-lane road that goes through dense woods; it appeared the vehicle failed to negotiate a sharp right turn and went off the roadway, officials said. It wasn't certain Tuesday how long the Land Rover had been there before police were called about 2 a.m., police said.
Heather Liautaud of Redwood City, who rode on the Land Rover's passenger's side, sustained major injuries in the accident including broken ribs, lacerations and abrasions. She was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment. She is believed to be Bianchi's mother, officers said.
Both Bianchi and Liautaud were wearing their seatbelts, police said.
This is the first fatality for the CHP for the new year, said officials, and they are investigating if the accident was caused by alcohol or speeding.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 6, 2006, 12:00 AM
a resident of Danville
on Feb 17, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Kelly was my mother and she was a very kind and considerate person. She would NEVER GET DRUNK!!!!!!!! I loved her so much and I knew he r better than any1
a resident of another community
on Feb 18, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Dear Ms. Bianchi,
Thank you for celebrating your mother and her place in your life.
There are no answers to your loss, but I would hope that you will celebrate memories of your mother. No one knows us better than our mothers and I would suggest that your mother celebrates you at this moment and for all your life. She died far too young and her energy will be with you for many years to come.
Best wishes for a caring stranger,

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text: so last run with my buddy mrmerv i busted up my bulkheads and chassis top plate. Darn curbs. Anyway i got those parts today but i did some mods the brakes yup and issue reason i hit that curb so i took some notes from here and made the dual system also cleaned the slot the block goes in that pushes the pads and added fuel line in place of spring on linkage. much better response but once i hit them they tended to stay closed a little so what i did was took and idea off the throttle linkage. i got a spring and the connector that tightens to the linkage and put it on the brake linkage to pull the brakes open when theyre not applied. this works great im probably not the first to do this but i havnt posted in a while so thought id share.....Hi im Dustin and addicted to nitro...anyway you guys have great ideas and i get alot of help from here thanks fellas.


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I am about to put out my hive in a couple of weeks and I was wandering if I should put my hive on cinder blocks or not it will be on a 2 by 4 but should I place the 2 by 4 on cinder blocks or not.
Also I am placing my hive next to another established hive will that be a problem for my new hive or not.
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Located in Japantown, Kimpton Buchanan Hotel is within a mile (2 km) of popular sights such as Louise Davies Symphony Hall and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This 131-room, 3.5-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a fitness center. Also close to this San Francisco hotel are University of San Francisco and Lombard Street.
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Wireless Internet access is complimentary with membership, as are newspapers in the lobby. There is a meeting room on site with a seating capacity of 10. In addition to a business center, this hotel offers dry cleaning and luggage storage.
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Kimpton Buchanan Hotel offers 131 air-conditioned accommodations with iPod docking stations and video-game consoles. 37-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels and pay movies. Refrigerators and coffee/tea makers are provided. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
This San Francisco hotel provides wireless Internet access for a surcharge. Business-friendly amenities include desks and complimentary newspapers, as well as phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include safes and irons/ironing boards. Housekeeping is provided daily.
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Mum's Restaurant and Bar - Specializing in Shabu-Shabu - thinly sliced meet and vegetables cooked at the table in an iron hot pot and served with the restaurant's dipping sauces. "Shabu-Shabu" means "swish-swish" in Japanese, referring to the sound of the meat cooking in hot water. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time ends at 11:00 PM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25 per night.
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Pets allowed (no fees)
Group bookings of 5 or more rooms cannot be accommodated via this website.
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- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 28 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.99 per stay (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 38.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per night
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Terry, I'm absolutely floored...not only by the fact that you added all the little extra details seen on the AOSW belt that I asked for, but that you were able to produce this belt so fast. Easily one of the going to be one of the best parts of my Boba.
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Another fine belt there Terry!
Great work, again, bruv.
Fantastic job!
Terry, these are just getting better and better buddy.......finding it hard to resist.
Sorry it took so long to post when I got these, but Terry, the quality is absolutely out of this world. I'll be sure to post up a full progress thread when I weather it SE style.


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David Horovitz is the editor of The Jerusalem Report and a frequent commentator on Israeli current affairs for BBC television, CNN and NPR. He has written for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and is the author of A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel. He also edited and cowrote a biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom, Friend, which won the National Jewish Book award for nonfiction. He often lectures in the United States on Israel and the Middle East. Born in London, he emigrated to Israel in 1983 and lives in Jerusalem with his American-born wife, Lisa, and their three children.


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How is Manningham missed? Randle is doing more than Manningham did at the same position.
Nicks' woes, or the #1 WR position are the issue here and Manningham never had that role.
manningham was just like randle. once randle finally grasps this offense he'll probably leave in FA.
amazing that it takes years to learn an offense... maybe it's time to change/simplify the offense a little? maybe?
I would have preferred they had kept Hixon. Better route runner BY FAR, good hands. Effective inside or outside
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
Manningham has played 2 games for SF this year, right about the same amount he played as a Giant, him and Nicks can't stay healthy.
Forget the Past, Live for the Future!
I think the poor pass blocking hurts our air attack more than anything else.


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The new sight looks great! Thanks Barry! Boy am I glad we're back up and running! Withdrawals were terrible.
The new sight looks great! Thanks Barry! Boy am I glad we're back up and running! Withdrawals were terrible.
Bullseye Bill in The Scenic Flint Hills , KS
I never knew I was hooked that bad!! Thanks Barry , looks nice.. and is fast too!
something must be done about the time though shows 2.15am at 9.15 pm! and my last visit to be on 01-01-1970!! oops I was born in 1975!!
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Ya, I think I was checking to see if we were back up at least 6 or 7 times a day.
You have heard of this place called "outside", haven't you?
Its got lunar eclipses, beehives, all sorts of neat stuff.
Gosh with the new paint and all the fixin' up the place sure looks pretty.... but what us folks with lopped off genes need to know is.. how fast will this baby run?
site looks very nice barry... you could have dropped the 'Senior Member' thingee.... on most days I do not need to be reminded of my age.
the time (clock) is all wrong....what's with that?
the posted time seems to be jumping around quite a bit.
Thanks for all the hard work to get the site up and running. I can't believe how fast it is too. I never knew my dial-up could move this fast.
To Barry on the successful launch of your upgraded Beesource website. I look forward to all the additional new features and plans you have up your sleeve! It sure is nice to have a "real" discussion board running on a "real" database!
Thanks Barry, this will be fun!
Hi all. If you go to User CP you can set the time zone. The default is GMT.
Jim Fischer wrote:"You have heard of this place called "outside", haven't you?
Its got lunar eclipses, beehives, all sorts of neat stuff."
It's also got snow and ice and 50 mph wind and 0 degree temps! That's when I "need" my Beesource fix!
New site looks great!
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. -Henry David Thoreau
Hi Guys,
For time problems, edit your user profile under the "User CP".
Talk about addiction! Admin got a really nasty note from a guy who accused the owner of stealing members funds for the new software which doesn't work, and telling lies about the migration time. And this guy isn't even a beesource member!
I can't connect using the new domain site location. I think they have to send someone out to climb the pole and physically rewire the box on top of the mountain :>)
So glad to have the edit button........kinda like the wayback machine.
Has anyone else noticed the green light after members name? I think it indicates user online. The absence of color indicating not hot. Perhaps........
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Between losing my password (system crash and total restore) and not knowing the site was changing...wow, I was at a total loss. So glad everything is good again! TY
you need to go into your profile and tell it what timezone your in
the default is GMT
Apparently I last visited 37 years ago!
The Barefoot Beekeeper http://www.biobees.com
>I can't connect using the new domain site location.
it looks to me like beesource.com works but www.beesource.com still points to the old site
probably a DNS thing
>Apparently I last visited 37 years ago!
a lot of computer systems figure dates counting from 1970 which was 37 years ago. are you sure it didn't say your last visit was 37 years in the future
Holy BB change Batman! Looks awesome! My question is, how did I last visit in 1970 when to my knowledge I wasn't born till 1986?
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Over indulging in unknown drugs, and not remembering anything that happened during the period of taking the unknown substance.
The last thing Andrew remembered last night was when he drove passed Jiffy Lube around 5 o'clock. He must have been Pulling a Girk, wow he must be very stupid.
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My friend, Thomas P B King (Pick)
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Pick and I were both Lieutenant platoon leaders in 2-8 Cav. Because we operated separately I didn't get to know him that well until an in-country standdown in Feb '71. We discussed it and decided to walk to the Long Bien Air Force base to make a Mars call back home to our wives. When we got there we both decided to make "commercial" calls in lieu of the free Mars calls. Pick went first and talked for what seemed like an eternity. I followed him with a short call to my wife Carole to coordinate our R and R vacation that would start the next week. When I got out of the booth I said to Pick that I couldn't believe how much he must have spent on his call. I shall never forget his response...."Dave, it might be the last time I ever talk to her...". We continued to walk back to the battalion area and Pick talked about his trip to RVN (I think it was his original flight over but it may have been after a CONUS leave). Seems that friends of he and his wife had a party the night before his flight. They presented Pick with a packet including plane tickets to Canada and instructions about where to stay, etc. He said his wife wanted him to do it but he just could not. He talked about his family and what being in the military meant to him. Well, I spent that night with the battalion and left for Camp Alpha and R & R the next day. Evidently, about the time I started my R&R Pick walked into an ambush that resulted in his death. I spent years and years after that trying to find either Pick's wife or his parents. One day at work about ten years ago (1996 or 1997) I got a hit on the internet and called a number in Florida. It took a few minutes to convince his parents that I knew Pick and just wanted to share information, pictures, etc., with them. I wrote a long letter to them including a couple pictures of Pick and me in the jungle. Pick was a West Point grad and I hope to visit his grave there some day. He was a good soldier and like so many others died too early.
His Wall inscription reads: Thomas P B King.
His Wall inscription reads: Thomas P B King.
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The rules of conflict reporting are changing
On the icy-cold morning of February 22, 2012, Marie Colvin, a 58-year-old Irish-American reporter, was killed by the blast of a rocket in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, Syria.
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New York, April 2, 2012--A prominent Syrian videographer who ran the media center in Baba Amr where two foreign journalists were killed in February has been detained since Wednesday, according to news reports.
Ali Mahmoud Othman was initially held at a military intelligence unit in Aleppo and is believed to have been tortured, Paul Conroy, a photographer for The Sunday Times, said in an interview with the U.K.'s Channel 4. Activists were cited in news reports giving the same information. Conroy and other reports said Othman was transferred to Damascus over the weekend.
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Friendly 2 room apartment Bremen
Size40 m²
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- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Lockable room
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
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Accommodation summary
|Liegnitzstr, 28237 Bremen, Germany
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we offer a fully furnished apartment for temporary or long term stays in Bremen. The apartment is located in a "old bremish" house from 1905, in the Bremen City borough Gröpelingen.
Our modern and spacious, apartment benefits from a fully fitted kitchen with incorporated appliances and all cooking untensils.
The bright living room provides a convenient "home from home" atmosphere and is fully furnsihed with a sofa, armchair, dining table, addtional chairs, high-speed WiFi internet access and flat screen television with optional laptop connection. Additonally you may find our broad selection of (german and international) books and board games, to complete your convenient stay.
The comfortable bedroom offers a double bed (140x200). The couch in the living room can be pulled out to provide additional bedding. For our younger guests a fold travel cot and high chair is reserved.
In walking distance (3 mins) you will find the shopping center "Waterfront" with various shops and fast food restautrants such as Primark, Pizza Hut and a 3D cinema.
Ideally located at the banks of the river Weser, you can relax at the waterfront beach club and enjoy the maritime atmosphere or take a ferry to the City of Bremen or Bremerhaven.
Just around the corner of the apartment you may also find the tram stop. From here within easy reach you could either vistit the close by city centre or all the wonderful places of interest Bremen and its surroundings have to offer. (HB City centre → 15 min. / Airport → 36 min. / Central Station → 22 min).
2 rooms (40 sqm), kitchen, bathroom, balcony, 1st floor
Flat-screen television
Towels included
Bed linen included
Double bed and sofa bed
Dining table
Kitchen (E-oven, refrigerator, dishes, pots / pans, toaster, microwave, coffee maker and more.)
Shopping center "Waterfront"
3D Cinema
Weser river
"Pier 2" entertainment venue with concerts and much more.
Swimming pool and ice rink
Tram: Line 3 (stop "Use Akschen") - HB City min directly → 15th / Airport → 36 min. / Central Station → 22 min
Weser-ferry: Bremen City (15 min.), Weser Stadium, Bremerhaven and much more ....
For enquiries, please contact us...
Greetings from Bremen!
House rulesPlease do not smoke in the flat (on balcony allowed).
CheckIn from 2 pm / CheckOut : till 11 am
|Price for > 2 guests
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Reviews of this property
Everything was great, nice apartment with good transport links and friendly uncomplicated hosts. Booking worked perfectly although this happened very spontaneously by us. We can recommend the apartment.
War alles super, schöne Wohnung mit guter Verkehrsanbindung und freundlichen unkomplizierten Gastgebern. Buchung hat problemlos funktioniert obwohl diese durch uns sehr spontan geschah. Wir können das Appartement weiterempfehlen.
We had an amazing stay in the apartment! The rooms were very clean en everything we needed was there. There were enough towels and kitchen and tableware. The weather was great, so we sat on the balcony most of the time. Public transportation in very nearby and the tram goes regulary.
We would definitely recommend this apartment!
It was really a very nice apartment! All very relaxed, thanks to Annett and Peter.
Es war wirklich ein sehr freundliches Appartement!!! Alles sehr entspannt; danke an Annett und Peter.
It was a beautiful and nice stay. They have thought of everything, there was nothing missing. Should we again travel to Bremen then we spend the night again in the apartment. It was very nice
Es war ein schöner und netter aufenthalt. Die haben an alles gedacht es hat an nichts gefehlt. Sollten wir nochmal nach Bremen reisen dann übernachten wir auch wieder in dem Appartement. Es war sehr schön
Super apartment, perfect for 2
Very clean, well decorated and you feel immediately at ease.
Tram right outside the door, to the Waterfront (shopping, eating, etc.) you only have to cross the street and for bookworms is also directly adjacent to the city library.
In short Optimal! :-)
Always gladly again * thumbs up *
Super Wohnung, perfekt für 2.
Sehr sauber, gut eingerichtet und man fühlt sich sofort wohl.
Straßenbahn direkt vor der Tür, zum Waterfront ( Shoppen, essen, etc. ) muss man nur auf die andere Straßenseite und für Bücherwürmer ist auch direkt anliegend die Stadtbibliothek.
Kurz gesagt Optimal !! :-)
Immer wieder gerne *Daumen hoch*
Clean, sufficiently equiped and well located near public transport facilities.....Shops nearby. Friendly host and all the information you need, can be found in the appartment. The curtains in the bedroom however need looking after: too much light in the bedroom, even in winter because of the Christmas decoration in front of the house.
Everything was pleasant, nice support, happy to be back
Alles war angenehm, nette Betreuung, komme gerne wieder
Hi Annett & Peter. Your apartment is great, everything is fine and simple, every time again! ! DANKE.Grüße from Bavaria Jonny
Hallo Annett&Peter. Euer Wohnung ist super, alles in Ordnung und unkompliziert, jeder Zeit wieder ! ! DANKE.Grüße aus Bayern Jonny
The agreement with the hosts worked fine and the location was ideal for us. The tram takes you quickly to the center. The existing information material was very helpful and the apartment was everything available, what you need for a short break.
Die Absprache mit den Gastgebern hat prima geklappt und die Lage war für uns optimal. Mit der Straßenbahn kommt man schnell ins Zentrum . Das vorhandene Infomaterial war sehr hilfreich und in der Wohnung war alles vorhanden, was man für einen Kurzurlaub benötigt.
It was very nice in Bremen. Annett & Peter are very friendly. It all worked to our satisfaction. The apartment is small but nice, very clean and chic style. There is everything you need. We always like to come resist.
Es war sehr schön in Bremen. Annett & Peter sind sehr freundlich. Es hat alles zu unsere zufriedenheit funktioniert. Die Wohnung ist klein aber fein, sehr sauber und schick eingerichtet. Es gibt alles was man braucht. Wir kommen immer wider gern.
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On Tuesday night i ended up with the win32\cryptor virus on my PC where it closed down everything on it, i have since then managed to get the internet back after running MBAM and clearing all noticable viruses, but when running it in Safe Mode i noticed that i am now not the Administrator even thow when run in normal mode it says i am.
Is it possible to fix this? and can i get my files back, as i have some pictures of centermental value i would love to get back. when i run a scan i can still see the files for these but cant get to them.


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 17, 2005 – Konami Digital Entertainment - America, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced new details about Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence ™ for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system . Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence ™ is the newest game in the highly-acclaimed Metal Gear Solid series, created by the world-renowned developer Hideo Kojima. It features the complete smash-hit action game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ™ , which has sold more than 3,600,000 units worldwide, as well as all-new game modes such as robust online multiplayer gameplay , new duel mode, different camera perspectives, a demo theater mode and the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake games.
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The inclusion of online modes in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence has been a long-awaited and much requested feature from fans of the Metal Gear Solid series. In the online mode, players will be able to battle with up to eight people in five different missions including, "Sneaking Mission," "Capture Mission," "Rescue Mission," "Death Match," and "Team Death Match."
Stages from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will appear in Subsistence as well as stages created specifically for the online portion of the gam e. Some of the new original stages are " Small Forest ," "Killhouse," "Downtown," "Abolition Factory," and others to be announced.
The realistic combat elements from Metal Gear Solid such as the CQC (close quarter combat) system, intrusion, and shooting will also be faithfully reproduced in the online mod e. The player will also be able to select their team from the "Ocelot unit," "GRU," or "KGB" and participate in the online mod e. In addition, the player with the best stats will be able to choose Ocelot and other major characters from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater as their playable character. All this online functionality will be provided without any fe e.
The Metal Gear Solid series continues to evolve with outstanding gameplay, new online modes, and other new features in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistenc e . Please visit Kojima Productions official Web site for more information: www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/
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The complete game of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater , which has sold 3.6 million units worldwide, is in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistenc e . The game has also added the option of a "Third Person View Camera" for every stage of the gam e. This wider field of vision and complete freedom of movement brings an incredible sense of realism to the gam e. Gamers will have an easier time spotting enemies on-screen and preparing for their next stealth maneuver.
MSX 2 versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
The original games that were the genesis of the Metal Gear series are brought to the PlayStation 2. These games continue the storyline which started in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater . This is also the first time that these games have been released in North America .
Snake vs. Ape
Snake and the Apes from Ape Escape ™ are back again for some more action stages.
Duel Mode
Mode that is unlocked when Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is completed. Players can select any boss to duel.
Demo Theatre
Mode that is unlocked when Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is completed. Choose any camouflage and face paint and watch the in-game movies. Some of the scenes with Eva may change in the "Peep Mode"!!
Online Mode
In the online mode, players will be able to battle with up to eight people in five different missions including, "Sneaking Mission," "Capture Mission," "Rescue Mission," "Death Match," and "Team Death Match."
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Sneaking Mission
One player will take the part of Snake in this online mod e. Snake will be the victor if that player manages to procure something that is guarded by the other players.
Team Death Match
Players are divided into teams to play a "vs." game within a set time limit. The team with the most remaining life tickets will be declared the victor.
Death Match
This is a Battle Royal type of match where it is a free-for-all. The rules can be set-up such that there is a time limit with the winner being the one with the most kills.
Capture Mission
Players are divided into teams to capture a certain object and deliver it back to their bas e. Players will be able to re-spawn at the starting point.
Rescue Mission
Teams will be divided into two with one side being the defender of the certain object, while the other team will try to destroy it. The defenders will try to deliver the object to a certain location. The rules differ here in that the players that are killed cannot re-spawn and will turn into ghosts. (see screenshot to left)
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U.S. World Cup match ruined by ref
Original post made by soccer fan, University South, on Jun 17, 2006
He completely ruined the U.S./Italy game, ejecting three players and leaving the U.S. with only 8 field players and Italy with 9 for most of the second half. While these ejections came from fouls, only the Italian player deserved ejection...for punching McBride. A good referee would have done everything possible to avoid ejections in a game this important...like talking with the players involved. This guy was a joke.
Any other comments on World Cup?
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jun 18, 2006 at 10:09 am
Don't know much about soccer but that ref looked like a joke to me too.
Some of the red flags for were for things that didn't even look like fouls to my uneducated eye. And is he the guy that disallowed the goal by Italy? That looked like a wrong call too.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Jun 18, 2006 at 10:55 am
The reason the goal was disallowed was because the player who shot it in was clearly off-side.
a resident of Stanford
on Jun 18, 2006 at 1:04 pm
well its good thqat yur uneducated eye can see that those red cards wasnt right.....but that goal that was tooken away becuz the guy was clearly offsides and yur uneducated eye would never see that..so leave it to people who r educated to see if the game if fair or not.
a resident of another community
on Jun 18, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Early in the game, one of the Italian players made a slide tackle from behind. This should have been an automatic red card, but was not. When the U.S. had a player ejected for a slide tackle from the side, it was clear that it was a foul, but did not justify a card. The player was going for the ball, was positioned in front of the Italian player, and (I couldn't tell from the replay) he may have even touched the ball before making contact. Regardless, this shows unequal treatment from the ref.
Later, I saw a handball in the penalty area by the Italians that was not called. This was very clear.
I also saw a foul with a clear goal scoring opportunity that should have resulted in a red card per Law 12, but did not.
I watched the game in a bar at NY Kennedy with tons of Italians. They argued with me about everything and I argued back on all points. It was fun. I've played at a high level, was a HS ref, and coach youth soccer. I could quote the soccer laws and they didn't have a clue. It was infuriating for them to see a U.S. team taking it to their national team. It was unerving for them to encounter U.S. fans as spirited, vocal, and knowledgeable as they were.
The bottom line is none of this will matter if we beat Ghana and advance.
At least we didn't get screwed as badly as the French against Korea.
Face it, we will never get equal treatment in international play. But, watching the kids coming up through select (traveling) and ODP, it's not going to matter. These kids are amazing. The next cup, or maybe the one after, will see us become the dominate power for the duration. As it stands, we just showed that nine Americans can match or even outplay ten Italians. We will dominate.
a resident of another community
on Jun 18, 2006 at 2:53 pm
From Web Link
"Two minutes into the second half, U.S. defender Eddie Pope got his second yellow card of the game for a tackle in which he got the ball first, but still took down an Italian."
If Pope got the ball first (jeers to ABC for blowing the replay), that's no foul. Period.
a resident of another community
on Jun 18, 2006 at 4:16 pm
US tactics were to foul ther way through the game. They simply could not even try to play football against this team. US tried that against Czechs look what happened 0 -3 Italy are a notch up from them !!
The referee was right to send all 3 playefs off a draw will not be good enough as i fancy Ghana to win easily arriverderchi US.
a resident of another community
on Jun 18, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Italy showed the only way they will win a cup is by buying the ref. If they are lucky enough to play Brazil they will be crushed 4-0, with an honest ref.
Would be great to see the Czechs beat Italy 4-0, but the Czech team that played Ghana and will play Italy is a different team than the one with Koller that scored 2 goals on the US in the 1st half.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 18, 2006 at 9:26 pm
US tactics were to foul ther way through the game. They simply could not even try to play football against this team. US tried that against Czechs look what happened 0 -3 Italy are a notch up from them !!
The referee was right to send all 3 playefs off a draw will not be good enough as i fancy Ghana to win easily arriverderchi US.
That's interesting. The game I saw the US was dominating the Americans up until they tried to knock out our striker.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Jun 18, 2006 at 9:35 pm
if you think Fifa was going to let the americans bully an european soccer team on european soil, you are a little silly. it's soccer. it's europe. maybe you don't know that Fifa is headquartered in europe...or probably what fifa stands for. homecourt matters in the NBA and all kinds of american sports, and it matters in world cup soccer too.
a resident of another community
on Jun 18, 2006 at 10:37 pm
a resident of another community
on Jun 19, 2006 at 1:16 am
So if you were Uruguayan you'd be able to calm the players down in Italian? The referee can probably speak English, but then you'd complain that he was only talking to the American players, disadvantaging the Italians.
Here's a wacky thought. What about the PLAYERS realising the importance of the game and behaving themselves? If people know now that the referee was suspanded in 2002, they could have found out before the game and acted accordingly.
a resident of another community
on Jun 19, 2006 at 6:07 am
The whole US soccer team should have been shown a red card for their shameful, amateur play. This was the worst display of soccer I have ever seen. The US players were only tackling the Italians and never winning the ball. Their tactic was too disrupt the smooth flowing play of the Italians by using cheap shots. This is what happens when a team of inferior skill meets a team like Italy. Granted, the elbow by DeRossi was uncalled for, but I can only imagine his frustration at continually being tripped up by the American hacks. The US should forget about playing the beautiful game and stick with American Football, since they obviously do not know the difference!
a resident of another community
on Jun 19, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Anyone who can say that the Americans played fairly was obviously watching from another planet. All they did was stop what could've been a good game every five minutes. They played dirty and should get off their high horse. This is not war it's soccer and if they cant even be fair in what is known as the BEAUTIFUL game, then they don't deserve to be part of it. They should stick to basketball and baseball and leave soccer to people who know how to play fairly.
a resident of University South
on Jun 19, 2006 at 4:03 pm
The Red Card for De Rossi was warranted. The slide tackle by Mastroneni was also warranted. Anyone who plays the game knows that a doube footed slide tackle studs up is just as dirty as an elbow to the face. Pope's second yellow was also deserved. Yes the referee did miss some calls but his expulsions and cautions were correct.
a resident of another community
on Jun 20, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Do those players get to play the next game?
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 20, 2006 at 2:38 pm
no. if you get a red game you have to sit the next match out.
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Volume One, 'Australian Timber Manual' published by the Victorian Sawmillers Association in 1967. Contents are divided into the following sections: species, uses and products, engineering, seasoning, service life, miscellaneous, glossary.
Used by Foresta Timber Mills Proprietary Limited (FTM). Foresta Timber Mills was established in 3 August 1940 by Oscar Leshnitzer, who arrived in Australia in 1939 as a refugee from Germany. The mill was located at the North Fitzroy railway siding behind the old Brunswick Oval.
Oscar Leshnitzer (changed to Lesh) previously lived in Gliewitz, a town in the Upper Silesia region of Germany. The town is close to Kracow in present day Poland. Oscar operated a substantial timber and coal enterprise in the region but was forced to make an exchange with the Nazis: his business for his freedom. Oscar's son Gunter joined the family business after he migrated from Switzerland where he had been studying a PhD in Economics at Zurich University.
FTM was the natural continuation of Oscar's previous activities in Germany. It was established mostly with capital he brought to Australia. Oscar and Gunter negotiated contracts with the Victorian Government for logging rights in the Central (Nudgee) and Western (Cann River) Victoria. The company also purchased timber from elsewhere in Victoria and interstate. Most of the timber was processed where it was logged, then transported to Fitzroy and cut to length for customer orders. FTM sold many types of timber that were mainly used for housing. This included pine and other softwoods and hardwoods.
FTM was sold to Alstergren Holdings Limited in 1971. Alstergren was acquired by Timber Holdings Limited in 1977, who were subsequently acquired by Pyneboard Pty Limited (1988), who finally were acquired by the present-day CSR.
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Cover is clear plastic over wood grained printed paper, and 4 rings.
This publication provides detailed information about the uses and products suitable for Australian timbers. An important part of the historical significance of this item is its provenance. Oscar Leshnitzer fled Germany as a refugee in 1939. This manual was used in his Melbourne timber mill, and is part of the story of his successful business as a European migrant and refugee to Australia. This item, together with the timber moisture meter also from the same mill, is part of Australian migration history and is also very closely associated with the post World War II housing and construction boom.
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The noise of contraction could help to diagnose disease
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The simple act of bending a knee requires the coordination of more strings than a symphony orchestra. Each muscle cell is made up of many tiny filaments of proteins. When a muscle contracts, these fibers change shape and slide past one another, creating vibrations.
"It's like plucking a string, and the sound can tell you about the elastic properties of the muscle," says Karim Sabra, a mechanical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Sabra is measuring the noise from healthy muscles in the hope that this baseline information could be used in the future to help diagnose muscular diseases or injuries.
It's possible to hear muscular noise for yourself. If you place your thumbs gently over your ear openings so they completely cover your ear canals, then with your elbows raised tighten your hands into fists, you will hear a sound that resembles distant rolling thunder, which becomes louder the tighter the fist is made. This phenomenon was first described in the late 1600s. Leg muscle sounds were first observed in the 1800s.
During contraction, the overall volume of a muscle fiber stays the same. So in order to shorten, the fiber has to expand in width. The muscles become harder during this process. "Sound travels faster through stiffer muscles, and slower through softer ones," explains Sabra.
For about a century, scientists have measured the sound that travels through muscles from an outside source, when they are induced to contract by electrical stimulation. Recently doctors have also used ultrasound and magnetic resonance as sound sources. "But muscles signal by themselves when they contract and generate these vibrations," Sabra says. Such passive, random noise is used to make measurements in other fields, such as seismology, mechanical engineering and oceanography.
While Sabra was working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he got the idea to apply the same kind of passive noise detection to muscles. He and his Scripps colleagues placed 16 sensors, each about a half an inch apart, on the skin along the side of the thigh of a healthy male volunteer. They attached increasing amounts of weight to the man's ankle, gradually ramping up the contraction in the thigh muscle.
The team measured the vibration from the muscle contraction at each sensor. They used only the high-frequency part of the noise, as this was the clearest part of the signal. The noise propagates throughout the leg, but by correlating several seconds of signal from each sensor, they were able to extract the portion of the waveform that traveled down the leg, from sensor to sensor. The time lapse for the signal to reach each sensor allowed them to construct the path of the signal and the speed of the wave. Because sound speed is related to muscle stiffness, they were able then to profile the muscle's characteristics as it contracted under different loads.
Sabra's current research goal is to provide a baseline for healthy muscle. The frequency of the vibrations depends on the size of the muscle, so a large library is needed to characterize the body. He is also studying different sensor patterns to better understand how the vibration propagates, and he is looking at other muscles in the biceps and calf.
One advantage of this passive measurement is that it does not require any radiation exposure for the patient, as is the case with procedures such as computed axial tomography. And the sensors Sabra uses are much less expensive than, say, an MRI machine. In addition, Sabra points out that it's possible for measurements made from an external source, applied to just one area, to give somewhat arbitrary readings based on their location. Natural sounds are distributed evenly, so they may provide for more comprehensive analysis.
If the technique works, it could be used to monitor muscle degeneration in Parkinson's disease patients, for instance, or perhaps even provide an aid for early diagnosis. Sabra expects that the intensity of the noise spectra will change in Parkinson's sufferers.
In orthopedics, the method may be helpful in tracking muscles that are recovering from injury, for instance to ensure that physical therapy is having the desired effect.
"The type of fiber is also linked to the noise," says Sabra. "There are slow fibers and fast fibers, so this is a noninvasive way of tracking fiber composition." Such information could be useful to athletes training for specific sports, such as cycling or marathon running.—Fenella Saunders
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Venezuelan Judge Fanny Yasmina Becerra ordered the arrest of journalist Gustavo Azócar on July 29, 2009, stating that he violated the conditions of his 2006 parole on charges of illegal acquisition of wealth and fraud by publicly commenting on his case. Táchira state authorities took Azócar into custody at 10:30 p.m., and drove him to a local prison, according to local news reports.
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I captured a swarm last evening, the biggest swarm I have ever seen up close and personal in 40 years of being a beekeeper?
I also never collected a swarm this late in the season. We have a ton of golden rod and asters and other wildflowers right now. Our Normal first frost is Oct 15th.
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Great pictures! You are master of macros! Gorgeous her Majesty. I wish to meet mine. Unfortunately, I never was introduced to "my" "her Majesty"! So, I even do not know if she is yellow or dark...
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foundationless deeps! Really cool! I never tried... very good pictures! Try my approach - it does not require to change picture-size. It will appeared as an thubnail, like mines above.
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starter strip - (1) grove filled with wax or (2) wedge (1" strip), no wax;
frame (no foundation):
- complete standard medium frame with 1 or 2 starter strip;
- standard medium frame without bottom bar with 1 or 2 starter strip;
- truncated medium frame without bottom bar and side bars (essentially only top bar) with 1 or 2 starter strip;
I tried all of them in non-systemic way. My impression is that girls do equally well on all of them - I did not see noticeable difference in drawing speed or quality of the comb (straight). My impression is that position of the frame in the box (and position of the box, top etc) plays more important role than frame's design. Also, if you noticed, all frames have zero cross-comb. I attribute it to the management - empty frame is always between two drawn frames and I remove frames as soon as honey is cupped - if frame with cupped honey stays in the hive for while, girls started "house renovation" and make weird things with the comb. But, it is happened only (in my case) when full frame sits in the hive for a few months. All these true only for honey-part of the hive. The nest part - is a mess!
Серёжа, Sergey
First picture at the top - just top part of the standard frame; at the bottom - frame without bottom bar. I was using particle board for starting strip, no wax. Alternatively, I just filled up the groove with melted wax. Both methods works fine to my bees. Right now, most of my frames have wax in the grove since it is easier to me.
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Bees dictates what to do. I have two beehives. One is 6 mediums tall and growing... another just happened to be experimental. First, I was trying to convert them into Kenyan horizontal beehive. For this I build adapter from Lang to KTBH. They refuse to expand into KTBH, become crowded in Langs part and heavily swarmed (beautiful swarm). I would call it "absconded". The rest suffered trying to establish a new queen... Finally, after 2 month of non-existence, they established a new queen and start growing (within initial Lang deep). I offered to them additional box - they ignored it! They are in complete denial to expand vertically! So, I spend the whole weekend making for them a horizontal hive - basically the box of the size of two Langs deeps putting together. Sort of compromise between Lang and TBH. So, today we had moved into nice two-bedroom apartment. I had chance to take a few pictures. Note that all frames are foundationless. I also did not find any single cross-comb or other comb imperfection.
Серёжа, Sergey
hey Sergey great pics almost makes me want to move to California for the year round forage. When the bees place wax over a cell they are capping it, thus you have a capped frame of honey. Couple of your posts referred to cupped cells and it took me awhile since you were consistant in referring to them this way thought it was something new...
Great job long live the queen!
Many thanks for your comments. It is quite confusing here in California without seasons. Especially to me, from Russia. It is so interesting - large vertical hive is all about making more honey. The horizontal one (see story above) is full of brood and not much honey - just some around the brood and may be one full frame of honey... I hope they have enough to eat and feed babies. Two hives - two totally different personalities!
Good luck with your bees!
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I removed very old frames from my beehive. These frames used to have a brood. They are foundationless and stayed in the hive for at least 3 years (to my knowledge) - cells are 5.0-5.1 mm. I feel that dark comb is too "dark" and add a few pictures of my beehives place. The animal- is a "wild" cat, gift from Switzerland - was intensively searched on both borders. Persimmons are so bright and optimistic!
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I did inspection of my horizontal double-Lang hive (see picture above). It looks like, girls are doing very well. They made a few beautiful bars of honey - I was not able to take a picture because the comb is so huge, I was afraid it could break. In the future, I probably need to replace bars on some sort of frame for security. There are bunch of brood. I took only one picture.
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Very nice looking frame Sergey! I will have to post a picture of an add on to my frame perch that holds a frame up for photography. You might like the idea, and it is simple to build. I will try and remember to do that tonight.
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Since my girls are very active these days (SoCal), I decided to check with them to see if they have enough space in their 5-story apartment building. Apparently, from the last inspection 3-4 weeks ago, they managed to fill up 2 mediums. I steal one frame with beautiful honey to give them a little more space. Only 2 frames are completely empty. Most of the frames are at least 70% drawn comb with mostly uncapped honey. As usual, I am posting some pictures of my foundationless frames. This time I had an experiment - 2 month ago, I gave girls an empty box with top bars only - it is nearly full now. All comb is straight and there is very little cross-comb. Middle picture shows the top bar with honey comb in the Lang. I find that older combs (started earlier and completed now) sometime attached to the bottom - I have to be careful with this. I also made a holder for the frames to hold them outside the hive - it is massive, but works well for now. Girls behaved well this time. Next time it would be a winter harvest. Thanks for visiting this page. Good luck with your bees! Sergey
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I put the pictures and explanation in the photo section, link below. Drop me a note if you have any questions. It is sized for deeps or medium supers, just adjust the lengths as needed for your size frames.
Update, I do have the tall uprights bent in slightly to hold the frame ears tight enough so they do not slip out.
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Some fresh honeycomb from the vertical beehive (see above), 11-20-2012. Note that this is just "top bar". The honeycomb were stored in the container before taking a picture, thus - some damage to the beautiful honeycomb (on the left). I apologize for that.
I measured also the cell size - it is 6.4 mm, huge! It looks like, when they start honeycomb from foundationless, they always made a huge cells, but it is not drone's cells - it is for honey. It is my understanding that when comb is completed, they remodel it to accommodate the brood. I never was able to catch this moment... my brood cells are 5-5.1 mm. It is just mystery to me how they "shrink" the cells.
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Occupy nuc! 11-21-2012
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Frame with brood is from my horizontal hive, it is blooming.
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May I ask what invert sugar is? I have not done much dry feeding, and I am wondering what is meant by "invert sugar".
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Is this recipe for invert sugar (scroll down a little) any good for bees? Cream of Tartar and Citric acid are easily obtainable.
Research on using Cream of tarter and Citric acid to make invert sugar and feeding it to bees has shown it shortens the lives of the bees. It still seems to be a popular thing to do though...
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Not trying to start any arguments, just curious what's the justification of using invert sugar if it's detrimental to bee longevity.
Ma'am your doing fine. Please ignore the congenitally righteous who know what is best for us all. Every single one of my colonies have Mountain camp sugar on them including strong ones that might not need it. You see I have plans to keep bees in the spring and one can't do that unless one has bees. Rational people keep bees to produce honey and it is not a crime to take some. By numbers, the vast majority of bees in the blinkin country each May were raised on man supplied feed! Doesn't sound all that lethal to me. Would it be better if the bees had honey? Of course. But if they ain't go it--don't sweat it--and feed them what you have.
Melanie, no worries
Dont take his statement personally. We all understand that there are issues that are out of the beekeepers control, such as the weather. You are correct, that doesn't make you a bad beekeeper. By feeding your bees, that makes you a smart beekeeper. Your hive that you help get through winter can be split into 2 or more hives in the spring, and then you may be able to get more than 1 crop of honey off of your hives, if every thing goes right.
Most beekeepers feed their bees, whether it is emergency feeding in the winter, or stimulative feeding in the spring, feeding is feeding. We are putting food resources into the hive, when the bees didnt collect it themselves. I think that Andrew was more likely aiming his comment at those folks that take every drop of honey off in the fall, and then dont know why they dont have any bees alive come spring time.
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>What's the advantage of using invert sugar if it has this side-effect? Longer shelf life? Less available water? Is it simply that shortening the lives of (longer-lived) winter bees doesn't have the impact that it would have on spring/summer bees?
Bees prefer invert sugar. Invert sugar crystallizes less. Bees have to invert sugar that is not inverted by making enzymes. The research on shortening their lives is fairly recent (the last couple of decades maybe, but it's been around at least a decade) and not commonly known. People are slow to change. (not all a bad thing)
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
I don't think Andrew was scolding anyone but rather giving good advice. Hives should go into winter with twenty pounds of feed over the minimum required for your location. That is the emergency feed provided early so there is no winter stress to the colony or beekeeper.
This is obviously going to be hard for a newbie to determine since they don't have the experience of past winters to draw from.
Cold regions need 60-90 pounds of feed.
Temporate regions need 30-60 lbs.
Warm regions need 15-30 lbs.
Now if in some years the minimum plus 20 lbs. is still not enough then emergency feeding is the right thing to do.
A little off topic, but what is the analogy between lbs and pounds?
LB is shorthand for a pound. I have often been curious about the origin of this, I will have to research it.
"lbs" is an abbreviation for "pounds". No idea why it not something like "pds".
EDIT: here's why ...
.The form lb is actually an abbreviation of the Latin word libra, which could mean a pound, itself a shortened form of the full expression, libra pondo, "pound weight". The second word of this phrase, by the way, is the origin of the English pound.
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Forgive me for keeping an older thread alive but I feel compelled to offer this message:
If your bees are starving or in danger of starving there is nothing wrong with feeding them - and the Mountain Camp Method is a perfectly good way to do so.
What I was talking about earlier is more a criticism of the mind set that says you have to feed bees in the winter time.
It is my belief, and practice, that hives adequately prepared for winter will generally NOT require emergency winter feeding.
As much as anything this is really a case of all bee keeping being local. It was -8 F at my house the other night and I have no intention of unstrapping and unwrapping the hives now to feed. Even if it is needed. If I did my job in the fall they won't need it, and if they are starving now after proper fall preparation I don't want their genetics in my bee yards. Following what I think is good advice from Beekeepers I respect, I no longer just heft hives to gauge stores in the fall. I inspect the hive and see what the stores situation is. Every hive gets put on a scale to see if the total weight is where I want it to be, and supplemental feed is provided to get the hives up to the desired weight (as needed.) While some experienced beekeepers can judge winter stores by heft, I can't, and I believe it is a disservice to new beekeepers to teach them hefting as the sole method of determining adequate stores.
When I check the hives and start to get ready for spring in the Apiary in February or March I tend to feed commercially prepared fondant instead of straight sugar, if stores seem iffy. It is not a given that each hive will get Fondant. My bees have plenty of natural pollen available to them both in the fall and early spring so I don't feed pollen substitute.
It may seem controversial to hold this view, but for me in my location (Coastal Downeast Maine) it works.
My bees are not pets and I do not treat them as such. They are stock. I prefer them live.
Will my practices work for all beekeepers in all locations? I highly doubt it. But I see nothing wrong with the basic strategy.
Fall flow? What's that? I'm beginning to wonder if a spring flow is even in the cards.
That is the flow between mite build up and hive collapse.


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From Joey Ramone to Tupac Shakur, rock and roll to rap and hip-hop, the iconic shoe of choice has been the Converse All Star. You can never go wrong with all black Converse, a cool look if ever there was one, whether you're on the guitar or the mic, the drums or the turntables. Whether you're into hightops, lowtops or midtops, canvas or leather Converse, your feet are covered at Famous Footwear. Take a look through our selection of Converse All Stars for men, available in styles that have been classics for decades, as well as new prints and materials to keep your style completely fresh.
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