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WQ302, Reviewed May 1994
The dairy waste management systems commonly used in Missouri are the solid, liquid tank (slurry) or lagoon. Solid systems have been the traditional way to handle waste, but in the future they are expected to be used only in smaller operations (less than 100 cows).
Liquid tank systems are commonly combined with scraping and allow the maximum use of waste nutrients for crop production. These systems are often used when a lagoon is not economical due to soil types and/or geological considerations. Operations may switch from the solid system to the liquid tank system to reduce labor, to improve water quality and to fix other problems. To be viable, these systems must minimize the amount of excess water being transported to the field by tank wagons.
Lagoon systems are favored by large operations because labor and investment costs are minimized and a flushing system can be used to collect and transport waste to the lagoon. These systems normally use an irrigation system with pump, pipe and traveling gun to transport and spread the waste.
Statewide liquid tank and lagoon systems were studied because they are the most likely alternatives to upgrade dairy operations. Data collected was used to project waste management system costs associated with operations ranging in size from 100 to 1,000 cows. Because the solid system is best suited to herds of less than 100 cows, it was not analyzed.
An economic analysis based on the data collected was published in MU publication MP666, Waste Management Systems for Dairy Herds. The data in this guide was taken from that publication. Refer to it for more complete details.
Lagoon size is based on a 365-day storage capacity with 100 percent of the waste going into the lagoon, including dry cow waste but excluding calf and replacement heifer waste. Land required for spreading the effluent is based on 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre used annually by plant production.
The lagoon system is assumed to hire a custom irrigation system at $60 per hour. Other components are assumed to be owned. Other equipment includes the water storage tanks for flushing gutters and the electric pump and pipe needed to recycle water from the lagoon to the flush tanks. The estimated costs include a clay lagoon seal compacted by a sheepsfoot roller.
The irrigation system includes a traveling gun irrigator that will distribute 1 acre-inch (27,154 gallons) of effluent per hour. The custom operator provides everything except "equipment check labor." The dairy operator is responsible for properly operating equipment. A cost comparison per hour for owned and custom traveling gun irrigation systems is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1Cost per hour for owned and custom traveling gun irrigation systems.
The liquid tank system is assumed to include a cast-in-place, reinforced, in-ground, concrete storage tank with 120-day capacity, to be loaded by gravity. Above-ground tanks would need a mechanized pump for daily loading into the tank. A concrete stave silo with adequate reinforcement can be purchased for 70 percent of the cost stated in this analysis. Other storage facilities will normally cost more than the in-ground concrete tank.
The equipment cost includes an open-impeller, centrifugal chopper pump used to agitate the slurry in the tank while pumping from storage to tank wagon(s). Other equipment includes a manure scraper operated by a 40-horsepower tractor and a 3,000-gallon tank wagon pulled by a 100-horsepower tractor. The number of tank wagons varies by herd size (e.g., one wagon for 100- and 200-cow herds, but two tank wagons for 300-cow herds) to permit waste distribution within a 10-day period during the 120-day storage period.
Labor required for loading, hauling and spreading the waste assumes one person at the storage tank to operate the tractor and agitator pump to fill the tank wagons and a tractor operator for each tank wagon used to distribute waste to the fields.
Dairy waste applied to the land has an equivalent fertilizer nutrient value for the replaced commercial fertilizer and/or for the increased production of plant growth used by animals or harvested. The assumed value of the fertilizer nutrients is as follows: nitrogen, 23 cents per pound; phosphate, 22 cents per pound; potash, 14 cents per pound.
Fertilizer nutrient availability is shown in Tables 7 and 14 for the two systems, based on data in Tables 8 and 9. Less nitrogen is available from the lagoon system due to oxidation, denitrification and dilution. Figure 2 illustrates how ammonia-nitrogen loss varies with time until incorporation (Table 8). In the case of irrigated lagoon effluent, incorporation occurs if the soil is dry enough for the liquid to soak in and the application rate does not exceed the soil infiltration rate. Figure 3 shows the organic nitrogen availability versus years after application (Table 9).
Figure 2Manure ammonia-nitrogen loss versus days until incorporation.
Figure 3Manure organic nitrogen available versus years after application.
With the liquid tank system, the waste volume and concentration per cow is constant with herd size; the calculated nutrient value of the waste is a constant $63 per cow per year. With the lagoon system, the assumed annual pumpdown per cow per year decreases with herd size, therefore, the calculated nutrient value per cow per year decreases from $23 per cow per year for the 100-cow herd to $10.50 per cow per year for the 1,000-cow herd. Figure 4 compares the annual value of waste per cow for the two systems.
Figure 4Annual value of waste per cow for tank and lagoon systems.
Important cost comparisons of the two systems, using data from the tables, are presented graphically in Figures 5 to 8. From Figures 5 and 6 (or Table 3, lines 6 and 7 and Table 10, lines 6 and 7), the total investment and the investment per cow, respectively, for a lagoon system ranges from about 60 percent less than a liquid tank system for a 100-cow operation to 43 percent less for the 1,000-cow operation. Economy of scale for the liquid tank system is reached with a herd size of 500 cows.
Figure 5Total investment for tank and lagoon systems.
Figure 6Investment per cow for tank and lagoon waste systems.
Depending somewhat on herd size, the lagoon system's annual cost per cow (fixed cost plus operating cost) ranges from 55 to 60 percent less for the lagoon system than for the liquid tank system (Figures 7 and 8, or Tables 1 and 2, line 5).
Figure 7Annual costs per cow for lagoon dairy waste systems.
Figure 8Annual costs per cow for liquid tank dairy waste systems.
For details on annual fixed costs and annual operating costs, see Tables 4, 5 and 6 for the lagoon system and Tables 11, 12 and 13 for the liquid manure tank system.
From Figures 9 and 10 (or Table 1 and 2, line 8), the net annual cost per cow for a lagoon system ranges from about 59 percent less than a liquid tank system for a 100-cow operation to 35 percent less for a 500-cow operation. The net annual cost per cow accounts for the fertilizer equivalent value of the plant nutrients in the waste, if spread on the land and used by crops.
Figure 9Net annual cost per cow for lagoon dairy waste systems.
Figure 10Net annual cost per cow for liquid tank dairy waste systems.
Dairies with herds exceeding 150 cows are required to have a letter of approval from DNR in order to operate. This may cause some operations to install a new waste management system. Cost-sharing assistance may be available from the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Administration (ASCS) up to $17,500 per operation, limited to 75 percent of the average cost. (Some husband-wife operations may qualify for $35,000 cost-share.) Cost-sharing may reduce waste management costs by 20 to 30 percent for herds of 300 cows or less.
The net cost of the lagoon system ranges from $0.24 per hundredweight of milk produced by the 1,000-cow herd to $0.43 per hundredweight for the 100-cow herd. The net cost of the liquid tank system ranges from $0.39 per hundredweight of milk produced by the 1,000-cow herd to $1.04 per hundredweight for the 100-cow herd.
Even though waste from liquid tank systems are more concentrated and valuable than the waste from lagoon systems, the liquid system's net cost is from 1.5 to 2.4 times greater than the lagoon system's net cost, depending on herd size.
The liquid tank system requires 4 to 5 hours of labor per cow per year (mostly for tractor operators) compared to virtually no labor for the lagoon system (with custom irrigation).
The liquid tank system requires 5 to 10 times larger plant filter area than the lagoon system. This can be a major consideration for operations with limited acreage.
Large dairies, more than 300 cows, may benefit from purchasing a traveling gun irrigator rather than relying on a custom operator charging $60 per hour.
Data to support such a decision is presented in Tables 15, 16 and 17. Lack of available labor and management may make hiring a custom irrigation system a better choice, even for the largest of operations.
Table 1Summary of lagoon system costs
Table 2Summary of liquid manure tank system costs
Table 3Lagoon system: investment
Table 4Lagoon system: annual fixed costs as a percent of new cost
Table 5Lagoon system: total annual fixed costs
Table 6Lagoon system: annual operating costs
Table 7Lagoon system: value of waste to plant production
Table 8Manure ammonia-nitrogen loss by days until worked into the soil
Table 9Manure organic nitrogen available by year
Table 10Liquid manure tank system: investment
Table 11Liquid manure tank system: annual fixed costs as a percent of new cost
Table 12Liquid manure tank system: total annual fixed costs
Table 13Liquid manure tank system: annual operating costs
Table 14Liquid manure tank system: value of waste to plant production
Table 15Annual fixed costs expressed as percent of initial cost of irrigation system
Table 16Traveling gun system: annual fixed costs
Table 17Annual operating costs of traveling gun irrigation system
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STOC and S3IP name region's technology leaders
BINGHAMTON, NY – The New York State Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP) at Binghamton University and the Southern Tier Opportunity Coalition (STOC) honored four individuals for their efforts in promoting economic development in the Southern Tier. The recognition took place during S3IP's annual dinner on Nov. 9.
James Wilcox, senior technical staff member at IBM Corporation, was recognized as Technology Leader of the Year for his efforts in shaping the technology community through leadership in electronics packaging.
K. Srihari, distinguished professor and dean of the Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University, was recognized as Technology Innovation Mentor/Educator of the Year for his significant impact on the technology community at large.
Michael Pentaris, President and CEO of Custom Electronics, was recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year for his contributions to the growth of dynamic, high technology business in upstate New York State.
Joseph H Boyer, president of Innovation Associates, received the STOC/S3IP Lifetime Achievement in Technology Innovation award.
In addition to the awards presentation, the dinner also featured remarks by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and Assemblyman Clifford Crouch. Binghamton University's Interim Vice President for Research and S3IP Director, Bahgat Sammakia, provided an update on S3IP activities. S3IP Associate Director Mary Beth Curtin, and Diana Bendz, president, STOC, presented the technology innovation awards.
For more information, call Mary Beth Curtin, S3IP associate director, at 607-777-7270.

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Caught two swarms yesterday. This one was the easiest on I have ever caught. They just marched right in.
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Caught two swarms yesterday. This one was the easiest on I have ever caught. They just marched right in.
Nice. I wish they were all that way.
Very nice, haven't caught one like that since the mid 80's!
This was the biggest swarm I have ever caught, they filled up a deep and almost a medium. It is also the earliest time of year I have caught a swarm. I caught two yesterday almost a full month ahead of any others I have caught.
Very nice!
My first swarm catch was last spring, and the cluster completely filled a nuc box -- in fact, if the screened bottom hadn't sagged almost out (which I did not notice until I hived them a couple days later) they would not have fit. Musta been six pounds of bees.
A buddy caught one that weight 9 pounds, filled a deep.
Not that many swarms, but boy they were huge.
Mine was dead easy. They were in a shrub, so we just opened up the nuc box, pulled a couple frames, and cut the branch they were hanging on free. They flew right in, and very shortly the rest of them marched right in. Six or seven bees on the landing board fanning away, with a big cloud of them orienting as it got dark. Quite a show, the homeowners got a real kick out of it. Thankfully they were quite calm bees, and stayed that way all year.
My other swarm a friend caught for me was the opposite -- cranky all the time.
Deploying swarm traps tomorrow.
johng, What kind of bloom/flow are you having up there in JAX these days? Was that in a residential/suburban area? Right now, it's 31F with a nice thick frost -- first and hopefully LAST of the year.
IT looks like some bees are doing well in Florida if they cast a swarm that big.
Spanish needle, and Maple. I think mostly Spanish needle I have about a 20acre field full of it right down the road. We had a pretty good frost this morning so I'm sure that will put an end to the Spanish needle. It has been an unusual winter so far. It will probably slow down a little now until March.
No I watched them come out of the hive. It is still pretty full of bees and some capped swarm cells. I went a head and used some of those cells to make some splits. It is at least a month early.
I can't seem to view the pic. Is it still available?
Yes, it seems to still be working.
Here's another link.
That is what I was thinking, mild winter, no brood break.
You're going to need more boxes
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Sneaker Stormtrooper from Freehand Profit
Just spotted this over on Boing Boing and though it's not embroidery, I HAD to share…
That's some of the fabulous work of Urban Threads August featured artist, Freehand Profit. Yup, he created that whole thing out of sneakers.
Though I can't quite justify the funds to snap up this one on ebay (look honey, I bought a nerd helmet made of shoes!) you can at least snap up some of his work in embroidery format.
Awesome work from one of our very talented artists.


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This Japanese-inspired dish uses one sauce--a sweet/salt combination of mirin and miso--to make both the marinade for the scallops and the caramelized pan sauce for the noodles. A good pairing would be a simple green salad dressed with a citrus vinaigrette.
Nutrition Profile:
Heart Healthy
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Serves 4
Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 30 min.
Step 1
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook noodles, stirring occasionally, until just tender, 6 to 8 minutes or according to package directions. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.
Step 2
Meanwhile, whisk miso, mirin, vinegar, canola oil, ginger and garlic in a medium bowl. Add scallops and stir gently to coat. Let marinate for 5 minutes (scallops will begin to break down if marinated longer). Using a slotted spoon, remove the scallops, reserving the marinade for the sauce.
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When they say the title of the movie, in the movie. Doesn't always happen, as in 'Good Will Hunting'. Has been the last line, as in 'The Name of the Rose'. It has also been explained within the film, as the did in 'Broken Arrow' & 'Top Gun'. It usual means the first time they say it, but as in 'Jerry Maguire' & ''Top Gun' it is said several times. It has also been the first line, but an example escapes me at this time :-/
I love how the Title Speak is the last line in 'The Name of the Rose'.
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First, let me say I am happy we are above .500 and tied for first in the division. 0-2 in the division is not good, but the division seems to be playing below standards to start the season so we are in a decent spot with a lot of time left.
That said, when are some of these players going to stop admiring the shine on last year's ring? Yes, we are playing without some key players on D, but there is virtually zero fire or spirit. Weeden almost threw for 300 yds and dropped back 35 times without being sacked once. Some guys look to be living off what the team accomplished last year and waiting until they HAVE to turn it on the way they did with the two sb winning teams. Makes it hard to watch especially when you know they could and should be putting forth a better effort.
There are so many players just looking disinterested. 27 pts given up to the winless browns at home is not good. Needs improvement.


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Prineville man's disappearance now a criminal case
After eight months and no leads, family boosts reward to $10,000
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - The family of a Prineville man who vanished more than eight months ago has more than tripled its reward, to $10,000, for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for his disappearance, authorities said Tuesday.
Crook County sheriff's deputies have been trying to find Robert Alan Bucknell, 55, since his last known contact was in Prineville on March 20.
His 1989 Jeep Cherokee was found a few days later off Juniper Canyon Road, north of Prineville Reservoir and about 12 miles southeast of Prineville, but there was no sign of him.
Initially, sheriff's deputies said they had not suspected foul play. But Sgt. Jim Chapman said Tuesday that the sheriff's office "is actively working a criminal investigation on this case, and anyone with information is asked to contact our office" at (541) 447-6398.
Chapman said they have no firm new leads or information that point toward foul play.
"It's that we're eight months down the road, nobody has heard from him," he said. "There's some things in his life that were consistent through his life, that stopped at this point. It'd be odd to find he just decided he wanted a new life and moved on."
What of another possibility – that perhaps he fell or had some sort of medical issue or accident in the fairly rural area?
"There's nothing to suggest he was out in the woods, either," Chapman said. "It's just kind of looks to us that there's a criminal element that we're investigating."
"The parents are really hoping the reward will help motivate those who might know something to come forward, share that information with us and help in the investigation," the sergeant added.
"We have had people who offered theories" as to what may have happened, Chapman said, "and we have had people who offered some personal recollections of the last time they saw him or talked to him, or who he may have been with."
Bucknell is described as 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Those with information also can contact the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-877-876-TIPS, or use the form on the Crime Stoppers page at KTVZ.COM. You can remain anonymous, and you could be eligible for a cash reward.


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Part 1 of this series addressed geological and historical perspectives regarding uniformitarianism. Part 2 explored how uniformitarianism provides a model of understanding the earth's history from the perspective of God's providence, one of the core tenants of Christian doctrine. Here we argue that uniformitarianism simply looks at God's providence back to the beginning of time. Further, we show how every biblical interpreter and student of history uses similar uniformitarian principles.
The doctrine of God's providence underpins all of science including geology. Wayne Grudem puts it well: "God has made and continues to sustain a universe that acts in predictable ways. If a scientific experiment gives a certain result today, then we can have confidence that (if all the factors are the same) it will give the same result tomorrow and a hundred years from tomorrow." It also underpins technology. "I can be confident that gasoline will make my car run today just as it did yesterday, not simply because 'it has always worked that way,' but because God's providence sustains a universe in which created things maintain the properties with which he created them." (Grudem, p.317)
The present is the key to the past
Geologists extend this application of God's providence not just forward into the future, but backwards to the beginnings of the earth, 4.5 billion Earth-years ago. Astronomers extend this application back to the beginning of the universe, when time began, 13.7 billion Earth-years ago. These scientists assume that God uses methods of providing for his creation today that he used in the past and will continue to do so until the universe ends.
Uniformitarianism, the principle that "the present is the key to the past," allows geologists to look at how God interacts with the earth today and make assumptions about how God worked with it in the past. Based on those assumptions and actual measured evidence, we can be confident that the rules of physics and chemistry behind geology are the same today as they have been in the past, since the dawn of creation.
For example, we assume based on God's providence that the four fundamental interactions of nature – gravitation, the strong nuclear force, the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force – have not changed since time began; that the speed of light has continued to be 299,792,458 meters per second since time began; that the properties of the elements on the periodic table have not changed since time began; that the laws of thermodynamics have not changed since time began.
These physical properties all stand behind geology. For example, we assume that the properties of the atoms calcium, carbon, and oxygen have not changed since time began. When geologists see limestone rocks that contain molecules of CaCO3 (one calcium, one carbon and three oxygen atoms), they assume that this calcium carbonate molecule's properties have not changed. Thus, when geologists look at limestone today and limestone deposited in that past, they assume that the chemistry and physical properties are the same.
Or consider salt. We assume that the properties of salt, NaCl, have been the same since time began and that salt has always dissolved in water. Thus, when geologists see thick deposits of salt associated with the oil and gas fields of the world, they assume that it was not deposited by a worldwide flood, but by other mechanisms, because salt would have dissolved in water in the past as it does today.
Same principles in biblical interpretation
Every one of us, including Dr. MacArthur, believes that the "present is the key to the past" at some level when interpreting past events where we were not direct observers. We see family interactions today where parents interact in loving relationships with their children. We presume similar behavior occurred in families 2,000 Earth-years ago when we read Mark 5, in which the synagogue ruler Jairus asked Jesus to heal his daughter, or Mark 9, in which a man in the crowd asked Jesus to heal his son possessed by an evil spirit. We see storms on the Sea of Galilee today, where wind and waves whip up dangerous sailing conditions, and we assume that similarly frightening conditions occurred in the past as described in Matthew 8. We see the sun rise and sun set today and assume that it did so 2,000 Earth-years ago when Jesus himself watched.
Christian geologists are no different than biblical interpreters or historians. They just picture Jesus as God ruling and watching the sun rise and set not just 2,000 Earth-years ago, but 2 billion and more Earth-years ago. After all, Colossians 1:16 says about Jesus, "For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him."
While the extent of the use of the two types of God's providence in his creation may be debated, Dr. MacArthur mistakenly pits the two types of providence against each other when condemning uniformitarianism. Throughout time, God has worked directly by his own hand, through miracles. Mostly, he has worked indirectly, through either uniform processes or catastrophic agents. Just because an event is rare (like a catastrophic meteorite impact) doesn't necessarily make it a miracle. It may be ordinary providence, just not what we frequently see God doing in nature.
God has worked in the past using what we might consider ordinary or uniform agents. He has worked in the past using "extreme natural forces." He has also worked in the past using miracles. All of these are considered God's providence. He continues to work in all these ways today. God's hand in the present is truly the same hand that it was in the past.
Rejecting uniformitarianism means rejecting God's providence
The arguments for uniformitarianism being a dangerous and unscriptural dogma cannot be held up unless they also include arguments against the doctrine of God's providence and the continued fundamental physical and chemical properties of nature.
We do a great disservice to the person of God in ignoring parts of a key doctrine like Providence. The greatest danger is that we misunderstand God's person and God's own nature. In understanding God's activity on the earth during the past 4.5 billion Earth-years as resulting from his providence, both ordinary and extraordinary (or miracles), we learn more about God. Understanding uniformitarianism in this light gets gives us opportunities to praise God and to see God's person behind the events of the distant past. Now the great forces of nature studied in that light become the works of God's hands stemming from his relationship to his creation.


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Beautiful Apartment in Estrela Area
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The apartment is in the ground floor (equivalent to a 1st floor) and was renovated during the time I leave there. It has a living room with a sofa bed (double size bed), small table and four chairs. The kitchen is fully equipped. The bedroom has a double bed and a sofa bed for one person. The bathroom has a big and comfortable shower. There are closets in the living room and bedroom.
Personal attention. This is a family business, so is in my interest to keep you happy. And of course I am always just a phone call away if you need to speak with me.
Walking distance to Principe Real, Chiado, Bairro Alto, S. Bento Antiques Street, Santos Design District. The best area in Lisbon! You can walk down the street and catch the seaside train to Estoril and Cascais (Beach coast)
Stay in an historical area near to Design and Trend districts and go where the locals go, and you'll get a fantastic picture. Chiado's currently trendiest district, or neighborhood Bairro Alto are walking distance and offer fabulous shopping and charming cafés. This area has recently been colonized by young designers who have opened up clothing boutiques and stationery and housewares shops.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and I would gladly answer any of them. I can give you plus a lot of tips about restaurants, cafes, bars, exhibitions and hotspots. I will be happy to help you during your stay in Lisbon: recommending places of interest, lending you a guide or looking up for any information you may need.
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The appartment is super for a stay for a few days with two persons. Quiet area but with good transportation facilities in the neighbourhood.
We loved it.
Great location to visit the city, close to the traditional lisbon tram. You can park free cost on the street for who has a car. Humberto is a very friendly and helpful owner. If you go in winter the house is a bit 'cold because there is no heating, as in the great majority of accomodations in Portugal, and the electric stoves do not always make warm.
We had a very nice stay at Humberto's Appartment. The location is perfect, next to the tram station 28 and with some small supermarkets and cafés around. The appartment itself was well equipped and comfortable, pretty quiet (except for the neighbours' dog barking in the morning, but that was okay). Humberto was an excellent host, thank you!
Looking for the nicest "landlords" ever in Lisbon? You found them right here! We had an outstandingly positive experience. Humberto and family were extremely friendly, helpful and quick. In perfect English and with lots of valuable information these Lisbon habitants helped us through our difficult arrival day with the Portuguese general strike although we went someplace else in Portugal first before actually staying at their nice and very quiet apartment in Estrela towards the end of our vacation!
You will find a well-sorted supermarket within a couple walking minutes from the apartment and very close by the famous tram N° 28, the historical sightseeing tram, the"Yellow Bus" Sightseeing stop and taxi stand. We also used the Metro Station RATO which was about 10 walking minutes away. It's very easy to discover Lisbon from this apartment! You will not get lost! The whole area around the Basilica and also the park are very nice - also at night everything was ok there.
Astrid and sons from Berlin/Germany
Thiz cozy and very comfortable apartment is in a beatiful location, easy to reach, with a magnificent public garden in its proximity and well connected by public transports to the rest of the city.
The fabolous 'Tram 28 ' stops just a few steps from the house, and local restaurants provide simple but delicious food for very reasonable prices. We loved spending our holydays in this corner of Lisbon.
We enjoyed a lot our stay in Lisbon. Thank you Humberto for everything. The flat is well located near barrio alto.
Really nice apartment, well equipped and surrounded by beautiful places. Humberto and his family are very kind and cooperative. Perfect for two guests (the sofa is not very convenient for tall people).
Arrived at The airport, taxi which was more expensive than expected to get to the flat. Met Humbertos lovely and helpful wife. Got keys and she ran away. We didn´t need Sra Fernandes guidance, but she felt lika a "security" to have close by.
Well equied flat, but even the sun has some spots. Which I will write about to Sr Pinto. Something to be aware of, Plane start and land from 6 am, church starts at 7 am, neighbours dogs keep concert from 8 am. I say planes and bells no problem... but i´d love to strangle the neighbours that cant keep their dogs quiet.
Hello Claudia and Humberto,
We had a great time in Lisbon!
Your appartement was perfect for us and our little son. Also Mrs Fernanda was really friendly and helpfull.
The location of the appartement was excellent...near the beautiful Estrella Parc where we enjoyed a nice breakfast two mornings.
Thanks again!
Kind regards,
Harmke, Stijn and Otto
Very nice and quiet appartment! Very nice decorated and practical and not too warm inside. The woman downstairs, Fernandez was very friendly.
We were with two kids and the nice parc nearby with playgarden is a pluspunt!
The metro is a bit further away but a taxi in Lissabon to the center is not that expensive.
Very much recommendanded!
We enjoyed our first week in Portugal very much.
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Eli's extensive time he puts in, in the film room and working with his receivers, the audibles he makes at the line and his decision making when the pass protection is good tells me everything I need to know.
Eli's not afraid to make a mistake which is why he throws a lot of INT's. He trusts his receivers too much and tries to do too much to for the team which sometimes has a negative effect.
"Once a Giant, ALWAYS, a Giant."
For example the last game of the season, Eli throws 5 td's and when you ask fellow fans about it they say well the Eagles quit, they suck, etc. Eli Manning is truly the Rodney Dangerfiled of the NFL.
Giants fan since the early 80s
I'm not trying to argue and make excuses for Eli's play, but I think a lot of people overreacted from last year and think he totally regressed. There were some head scratching games, but ask yourself..did anyone really play all that well this year?
Not trying to make this into an Eli thread.
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Ludwick Marishane:
A bath without water
If you had to walk a mile for a jug of water every day, as millions of people do, it's unlikely you'd use that precious water to bathe. Young entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane tells the amazing, funny story of how he invented a cheap, clean and convenient solution: DryBath, the world's first bath-substituting lotion.
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ZUBER, FL- Just two years ago at this time, the oldest speedway in Florida was in serious danger of being lost. As an asphalt track, Ocala Speedway was losing fans and racers and the prognosis was anything but promising. But Mike Peters had a bold idea to put 14 inches of high quality gumbo clay over the asphalt and take Ocala Speedway back to its dirt racing roots, and today it is one of the top tracks in the state.
Mike Peters has long pondered a way to thank the racers, fans, and staff, that have helped him make Ocala Speedway into a nationally recognized success story, and this Friday night he will express his gratitude by giving the racers and fans the best show that he can. October 9th is "Fan Appreciation Night" at Ocala Speedway as all grandstand tickets will be just $8 with kids 12 and under admitted free of charge. But it is what those fans will see for just $8 that is raising eyebrows, and getting the attention of racers from three divisions.
Fan Appreciation Night features a $2000 to win Late Model race that has already attracted the top competitors, with a virtual who's who of dirt late model racing committed to being there. In addition to the late model race, Peters has added a $1000 to win Hobby Stock race and a $1000 to win Amsoil V8 Thunder Stock race as well. That is three big money races in one night, plus racing action from the Gladiator division. And not only will the fans get an awesome show, but there will be food and drink specials throughout the night, plus door prizes to the first 100 fans to enter the grandstands.
The Ocala Speedway pit gate will open at 2PM and the grandstand gate will open at 5PM. Hot Laps are scheduled for 7PM with the heats and B-mains following at 8PM. For directions or more information fans can visit www.OcalaSpeedway.com, or call the track at 352-622-9400.


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Airbus ProSky subsidiary Metron Aviation has been selected by Airservices Australia, the Australian government-owned corporation that oversees airspace management in the country, for the next phase of its Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) programme to optimize international flight operations in the nation's airspace.
The programme seeks to enable improved efficiency for international air travel to Australia by targeting an arrival time that balances air traffic demand with capacity, through engagement in global Collaborative Decision Making processes – the joint initiative to improve airport operational efficiency through increased information exchange between key stakeholders.
U.S.-based Metron Aviation will contribute its proven Concept Engineering methodology, which engages all stakeholders – including international aircraft operators, air navigation service providers, airport authorities and others in the aviation industry – in operational concept and procedure development.
This new announcement follows Airservices Australia's successful 2012 deployment of Metron Harmony – an advanced Integrated Air Traffic Flow Management (I-ATFM) system – that has improved the safety and capacity of the Australian airspace and resulted in significant savings for airline operators.
"Airservices is a global leader in the application of CDM to improve the performance for its key stakeholders and air traffic management systems," said Jim Gaughan, Metron Aviation CEO. "We are proud that we have the opportunity to assist Airservices Australia in expanding the collaborative capabilities of Metron Harmony in Australia, to include international arrivals and benefit their global stakeholders."
Metron Aviation is part of the Airbus ProSky subsidiary, which also includes the Quovadis and ATRiCS companies. ProSky is committed to working side-by-side with air navigation service providers, aircraft operators and airport authorities to build a truly collaborative system with greater capacity, better performance and environmental sustainability for all stakeholders.


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Todd B. Fellows, 44, of 178 W. Thames St., was charged Wednesday with third-degree burglary, third-degree forgery, four counts of fifth-degree larceny and sixth-degree larceny.
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Discussion in 'Ride Of The Month' started by murdog94, Oct 31, 2011.
Congrats Silverado469 on winning this months ROTM contest!!
Here is this months winner!
Congrats, but it's only November 2nd.......
congrats ............great truck / great pics !!!Brian
me thinks murdog made a typo, silverado 469 won october......
Well Congrats to 469 for October ROTM, a very good looking truck :happy:
Congrats on the win!!
Thanks guys! and thank you for all the votes!
Congradulations, All those trucks looked sharp.
Congrats! Great looking truck!
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March 25, 1970
Denver, CO US
Denver Coliseum
includes: We're Gonna Groove, I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You, Organ solo / Thank You, Moby Dick, How Many More Times (medley incl. Boogie Chillen', I Can't Be Satisfied, "Lemon Song"), Whole Lotta Love.
During the show, Plant reflects on their return to Denver: "About eighteen months ago, we played our very first ever gig in the U.S. in this coliseum and so much has happened since then. We'd like to say that we're pleased to be back."
Press Review: 11,500 Overpowered By Rock Heavyweights
Led Zeppelin played to one of the largest crowds ever assembled in the Denver Coliseum as better than 11,500 people turned out to hear England's heavyweight rock music band Wednesday night.
It was just 18 months ago, as vocalist Robert Plant noted, that Led Zeppelin made its initial US appearance at the coliseum. Its music hasn't changed significantly in the interim, but its audience has grown considerably.
Led Zeppelin's lineage runs directly back to the Yardbirds' brand of rock. It is super heavy, dense with sound, charged with tremendous energy and nearly always well executed. It is also a bit overwhelming at times, and occasionally it offers all the taste of overdone meat.
Part of cookin' is known when to turn down the flame. But it's hard to fault the group's performance. They are great showmen, as are most British musicians, which is why British rock is consistently more exciting than the American version. Rock's intellectuals have deemed such things passé – everyone's getting' back to the roots, ya know – but the showmanship can still turn on an audience.
Led Zeppelin had the crowd soaring almost from the beginning, despite problems with the sound system. The air traffic controller's slowdown caused a delay in the arrival of the Festival Group's equipment and the group never had a chance to set it up properly. Plant fought the PA system static throughout the two-hour show, but he was good-humoured about it and enough a professional to overcome the shrieking microphone.
He and guitarist Jimmy Page kept things moving, ripping off seat lines that raced note for note with Page's lightning fast guitar riffs. Page has really come into his own with Led Zeppelin. Much of his work is cliché, but he plays with such verve, it's easy to overlook the threadbare material. He does everything well, be it rhythm work, heavy blues, bits of "Bolero", long bending lines, wah wah pedal riffs, feedback or violin bow guitar. When he gets out front, there are few in his class.
Page covers so much ground, the rhythm section has little to do but provide steady underpinning. John Paul Jones runs off interesting bass patterns, as well as handing occasional keyboard pieces. John Bonham play bass-heavy drums to the obvious delight of the audience, which gave him a standing ovation at the conclusion of his inevitable drum solo.
Rock has many facets these days and Led Zeppelin is among the best in its particular area. They aren't especially inventive; their lyrics, for instance range from banal sexual innuendos to tired "you cheated, you lied" laments.
But they are skillful enough to overpower friend and foes alike with good, solid rock 'n' roll music. Eleven thousand heads bobbing in unison is proof of Led Zeppelin's worth to the world of electric music. When you turn on a discriminating audience, you know you're doing something right.
The concert was presented by Feyline Inc. [Denver Post, 3-26-70]
Press Review: Led Zeppelin Has Arrived
Led Zeppelin has made a long flight since its first trip to Denver less than a year and a half ago.
At that time, LZ, a British affair, was playing its first concert in the US. They were just getting their thing together, but it hadn't fully jelled.
Now – thousands of miles, thousands of hours of wailing together, hundreds of concerts and three record albums later – they've arrived.
The group of four gents proved it thoroughly for 11,500 happy fans, crammed into the Coliseum Wednesday night. Proved it for nearly two hours non-stop!
Even though LZ still orients its style around the blues, it's developed a group of songs which range orver a wider scope.
Although the concert seemed to move slowly from the beginning up to its peak at the end, each song was a groove in itself. Whether up tempo, medium or slow, each had its own unique sound and style of presentation.
To a great extent, this was the result of the excellent singing and guitar playing of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page respectively.
Plant has developed his own characteristic sound, a fine sense of timing and a dynamic projection style. Whether he's singing or digging the output of his compatriots, he's always moving. His gestures and body movements all contribute to the composite aural-visual expression of a seasoned performer.
Page's playing contributed substantially to his extensive reputation as being one of the handful of genuinely great rock guitarists.
He's always inventive in everything he does – whether playing an extended lead line, fills behind the vocalists, or unison or contrapuntal lines with bass man John Paul Jones.
Furthermore, he's gone beyond the efforts of most guitarists in his explotation of freaky sounds. He's also developed a skillful method of using a bow on his guitar.
Jones proved to be a competent organ player in several tunes as well as playing a driving bass in the others.
John Bonham has polished his drumming technique tremendously since he was here more than a year ago. Even though he won a standing ovation for his 20-minute drum solo. I found it lacking in interesting rhythmic features, the same as I reported after their previous concert here.
It's easy to understand why the value of LZ's performances have risen from $1,500 to $32,000 during the interm.
Barry Fey brought the Zeppelin here in the well organized presentation and the Festival provided the powerful and articulate sound system. [RockyMountain News, March 26, 1970]
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Led Zeppelin @ Denver Coliseum 3-25-1970
...I was at this concert---I will never forget it! Bonham played "MobyDick" solo for nearly an hour!
I remember difficulties with P.A. and other technical issues. The band rolled with it and put on a fabulous concert!


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Hello sons of beaches, daughters of blue skies, I'm back. What a hot summer eh?
For the first time ever I've managed to wear through two pairs of Jandals in a number of weeks. I guess they don't make 'em like they used to. I'm thinking of giving up on the trendy ones and heading back to Para Rubber. Jandals are part of our Kiwi uniform, surely they should be built to last?
My eldest son has announced his top-three actors list. I came in second after Johnny Depp, which I thought wasn't too bad. Third place was a bit of a surprise - Dick Van Dyke.
I questioned him on this but it actually makes sense. Dick's in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Night at the Museum. Plus we'd just watched Dick receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild and I remember saying at the time, "Wow, that dick's had one hell of a career."
My son actually got me thinking, at what age should our kids be devising their career? I know when I was a whipper I never even thought about work till the final school bell rang.
These days, though, the younger generation are already plotting their destiny. That's fine, I guess, as long as they don't take themselves too seriously. If you're a kid reading this, remember one thing: it's all very well pushing fast forward ... but it's much harder to rewind.
My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indiana Jones, Batman and Jack Sparrow. Yes, all three at the same time. So he basically wants to be an archaeologist who wears tights and fights crimes on pirate ships. That's pretty cool, huh?
He's really into mashing things up. None of his Lego men have their original outfits for long. He's forever swapping heads, arms and legs so I wouldn't be surprised if he grows up to be a cross-dresser.
There's nothing wrong with cross-dressing, by the way. When I first heard the term I thought it meant someone who puts their clothes on angrily. "Oh, he's dressing himself all right but he's not happy about it!"
This actually sums up my little one very well. He's never happy putting his clothes on and his undies are frequently found on his head.
By the way, I'm the only official cross-dresser in the family. I was recently photographed in a park dressed as an elderly woman. This I can assure you, though, was for work.
I found it was a real learning curve (or two). If you're at a loose end maybe you should try it. You'll be surprised with the extra level of respect you gain for the opposite sex. Just make sure you tell your partner you're doing it first, because it's one of those things that's hard to rewind!


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Welcome from Minnesota and happy quilting
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Welcome from NE Ohio.
Welcome to the board from the friendly State of Alabama. DH lived in Lake Lure for 24 years (outside of Ashville) Pretty country.
Welcome from Michigan!
Howdy & welcome from Oklahoma! Glad you're here.
Welcome from OHIO! This is the best group of quilters ever.
Being a great quilter is 5% talent and 95% pushing yourself away from the internet!
Hi, from sunny Fl.. I like the quilt shop in Mooresville. Use to make my non sewing DD take me there when we visited. Maybe that's why they moved to Greensville, N.C.. LOL
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I was gonna subscribe to one of the two bee magazines and was wondering which one it's the best.
I was gonna subscribe to one of the two bee magazines and was wondering which one it's the best.
I think you should get a copy of each and decide for yourself which one you like the best.
Mark Berninghausen
You will find interesting content in both magazines. They are complimentary. Both will send you a free issue on request. Or find someone in your local bee club who has back issues that they can't trash. I brought 3 boxes full of past issues to our bee school - they went in one or two nights.
Both have e-mail alert services. Bee Culture Editor Kim Flottum is active in EAS which may or may not mean anything to you.
I like the American Bee Journal it has some good information and the sale adds and sources of supply. There is another periodical that mentions bees but is mostly for your spinster Aunt I think.
i have been subscribing to bee culture now for 5 years i enjoy it.also looked at the bee journal but not a subscriber seem good as well good luck lol
I do both
Duh, beesource.com of course.
Mark Berninghausen
I like Both..I need all the reading material I can get for winter when there's nothing to do til spring.
Never thought of York as being remote. Long driveway?
Mark Berninghausen
I subscribed to both BC and ABJ when I started, intending to cut back to one subscription once I knew which one I liked better/found more useful. I renewed both subscriptions, and have no plans to drop either one. As Andrew said, they complement each other.
Pete. New 2013, 12 hives, zone 6a
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
If you are looking to read it on an iPad, get ABJ. The BC digital version is poorly done. The digital subscription of the ABJ is only 3 issues, so you aren't tied into it for a long time.
Adam - Zone 5A
Its actually Airville......Just like it sounds its in the middle of noWhere, Nothing but trees and farmland. 14 miles to the nearest store
And I am sure you are thankful. You could be beside a shopping center.
Mark Berninghausen
When I was new to beekeeping, I subscribed to both, and found some of the articles to be over my head. After a few years, I realized I needed to know a lot more to be a beekeeper, and not just a guy who buys packaged bees every couple of years. So I have subscribed to both again. I subscribed to the digital version of Bee Culture--it was cheaper and it's one less magazine I have to store. The one thing I don't like about the digital version of BC is that you can't download it; you must read it online. I had hoped to be able to save articles of interest digitally. I can, but it is a cumbersome process.
Hobbyist beekeeper since 2002
there is no best of anything. Just personsal opinion. the bee culture is geared toward hobby beekeepers and abj has always been for more advanced beekeepers. I would try both and see what works best for ya.
Thanks for the info guys.


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Hello fellow beekeepers,
So I'm a student/researcher/beekeeper, and I've been keeping bees for about 6 years. But along the way, I've also been starting up student run beekeeping programs at places of higher education. This gave me the idea of spreading the word, and creating College Beekeeper. It's a resource for students who want to start up beekeeping programs at their schools, and to connect to other students doing the same. Like falling dominos, it's easier to convince the administration that you're not crazy to wanna keep bees in college when they can see other places doing the same thing.
At beesource, we're hoping to get more beekeepers onboard, and hear more of your opinions/suggestions/anything. If you're college aged, and don't want to put your beekeeping on hold during the college years, perhaps you'll consider merging it with your extracurriculars, and teaching a few of your peers. If you're a beekeeper, and you're interested in helping a local school get their bee act together, let us know.
We can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, and on facebook under the same email. Also, check out our (very basic) website: https://sites.google.com/site/collegebeekeeper/.
Hopefully, we can also get a thread going here for people who are interested in more of the same.
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Completed the build up of the semi Vltor PKM receiver assembly. This thing is a beast of a stamped receiver. Used some Plinker's riveting tools that I modified and fab'd up a couple new riveting bars to fill in where Plinker could not go on the PKM. Rivets/receiver countersunk on the rear trunnion and barrel trunnion. Still need to make or buy the semi parts (modify bolt, bolt carrier and the FCG) to make this thing go boom. Here's a few photos.
Sorry Pirate, didn't drag out the tripod this time
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Usually the teams with a bunch of cap space are those devoid of talent.
The only player that we'll pretty much HAVE to give a new contract to next season will be Cruz b/c he's essentially playing on a UDFA contract right now.
Nicks I think still has one more year after this contract (usually 1st rounders sign for 5 years) and JPP I believe still has two years. They're both being payed like 1st rounders so they're not exactly going poor.
All Hail The New York Giants!!
Depending on how Barden and Randle progress this year,I believe will give the Giants there bargaining tool.If the two start to shine in this system I believe they will pay Cruz and maybe not low ball Nicks but not offer him what he believes he is worth because of his injury problems.This will give them leverage over Nicks,He probly will walk if he is not paid top receiver dollar,and as the past has shown most x Giants do not flourish in other systems.Although ther is some exception to the rule.
We aren't going to let Nicks go don't worry. Phillips may be lost next year. Osi will be gone. T2 was only gauranteed 1 million from us, all of the other money was incentives and bonuses based on performance. So we aren't wasting or losing any money on T2. Nicks and Cruz are our 2 biggest signing priorities for the next 2 years. No shot we let either go, Reese knows this.
Bennett is extremely happy in NY. We signed him for 1 year and so far I like what I see from him. He'll resign for a discount because of the fact NY suits his lifestyle very well. He is a perfect example of a player who's potential was exposed thanks to Eli.
I predict he will get somewhere in the ball park of V-Jax. He loves the organization. The only place I could see him jetsetting to is the Panthers because of his family. He's a father first.
We can't compare his career to Fitz because Fitz has put together spectacular seasons with garbage QB's AND never gets hurt. Injuries year in and year out do make a difference, no matter what anyone says.
Cruz benefited last season from defenses focusing on Nicks. He's still producing this season without him, but just like any top receiver should. If Hakeem Nicks is on the field the defense had to account for him and it just makes Eli's reads that much easier.
How many receivers have the Giants miffed on? Tim Carter, Sinorice Moss, and then going back to Joe Jurevicius, Ron Dixon, Thomas Lewis, even Ike Hilliard didn't pan out to be anything more than solid. The jury is still out on Ramses Barden, Jerrel Jernigan, and Rueben Randle though none has done anything much as of yet and they could easily be added onto that list.
Toomer, Nicks, and perhaps Manningham are only players drafted by the New York Giants to actually produce to expectations.


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Was interested in getting anyone's experience with the plastic hive dividers that you can use to create small nucs with a standard deep hive body:
Specifically was wondering with phermones from multiple queens that can pass through the built in screen was enough to cause confusion in a multi-hive deep. I have heard reports of the nucs becoming single queen units.
Also, has anyone just cut out their own dividers using luan plywood, similar to queen castles. The plastic dividers at $10 each seems a little pricy.
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Starting Position: Holding a dumbbell in your right hand, bend over to place your left knee and left hand on a bench to support your body weight. Your left hand should be directly under your shoulder and your knees should be positioned directly under your hips. Engage your abdominal / core muscles stabilize your spine. Your back should be straight and strong and your head aligned with your spine. Pull your shoulder blades down and back. Do not allow your low back to arch. Maintain these engagements throughout the exercise. Straighten your right arm (with the dumbbell) toward the floor. Do not allow your torso to rotate or your shoulder to droop toward the floor.
Upward Movement: Exhale and slowly pull the dumbbell toward your side body. Keep your arm close to the side of your body as you bend your elbow and pull the dumbbell up. Continue pulling the dumbbell upward until you are unable to lift any further without rotating your torso. Do not rotating your body or change the position of your spine throughout the lift.
Downward Movement: Inhale and gently lower the dumbbell to your starting position. Keep the back straight and strong, abdominals engaged and shoulder blades pulling down and back.
Try performing this exercise alongside a mirror to monitor any change in your back or shoulder position and check for trunk rotation.


text: For those of of you who sell honey through other vendors - what do you do when their honey crystallizes? It seems to be doing that a whole lot earlier this year. We've been taking it back and putting it in our hot box to reliquify. I can see this becoming an unworkable solution.


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A building has collapsed in Philadelphia and CNN affiliate KYW reports there are injuries.
Firefighters in Philadelphia were responding to a building collapse Monday morning, the city's fire department said.
CNN affiliate KYW reported that there were injuries.
Aerial footage of the scene showed a large pile of rubble in what appeared to be a residential area with multi-story buildings.
didn't this happen a month ago or so?
Mondays suck
Row houses were reduced to rubble when an explosion rocked a Philadelphia neighborhood Monday, sending at least eight people to hospitals.
Natural gas caused the blast, which collapsed three homes, city officials said in a statement.
Witnesses told CNN affiliate KYW that they smelled gas after the blast.
"I was sitting in the house and I heard a big bang," Mike McGraw told KYW. "The door slammed and the TV went out."
His son, Mike McGraw Jr., said he saw the buckled buildings and watched firefighters hose down a man who had been burned.
"They threw this baby out the window because the girl was on fire," he said, "and the fireman had to catch the baby."
A contractor was doing rehab work in a vacant home when it collapsed, Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne told reporters. The two adjacent houses were also destroyed, he said.
One person was in critical condition with severe burns, city officials said.
A spokesperson for Jefferson University Hospital told the CNN affiliate that seven people were being treated for minor injuries there, including a mother, a father, and a two-month-old baby who were inside the home next to the house that collapsed.
Dozens of homes remained evacuated Monday afternoon. City officials said all residents in the area had been accounted for, but fire officials were using listening devices to double check.
Aerial footage of the scene showed a large pile of rubble between two buildings, with splintered wood beams sticking out where rooms of the house once stood.
Joe Szymborski told KYW that he was lying in bed when he heard the explosion.
"I threw on my shoes, ran down there and helped three people out of the house," he said.
"It's just instinct. Anybody would do it for anybody else around here," he said. "We're all neighbors and friends."
The home where the blast occurred was a permitted construction site, city officials said. Authorities are investigating to determine what caused a gas leak in the area. Gas service on the street has been shut off, the city said.
Last month, a four-story wall of a vacant building in Philadelphia collapsed onto an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store, killing six people and injuring 13.
Authorities charged crane operator Sean Benschop, 42, with involuntary manslaughter and other related charges.
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Cute Christmas runners--just right for the season here--could get snow in Iowa this week--yikes.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Cute Christmas runners--just right for the season here--could get snow in Iowa this week--yikes.
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
Super cute table runner ideas...especially with the added touch of the gift tags.
any swap news going on, or any pictures????
I got a fun package from CJR. Other than that I've been working on finishing the small projects on my sewing table. I have also been busy all those spring projects outside. I suspect that's were everbody else is too.
"Life is mostly froth and bubble, but one thing stands as stone. Kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own." Adam Lindsey Gordon
will be working on embroidery for mil for next week. got a design, Cinderella, from imbroidery, all Disney designs 1/2 off, got cindy and my fav. cruella de vile just love those witches, kinda hate the itches (princesses) toooo goodie goodie. I find the villians fascinating, and so much fun. happy cinco de mayo everyone. got our Mexican food yesterday. beat the rush at the restaurant.
Lynnie, I too like the Disney Designs.....Will you direct me to the 1/2 off sale, please!!!
Lynnie, I'd like to know also about your Disney Designs!
its under brother designs, it's called imbroidery. I have to hunt for it also try www.brothermall.com.
the designs are still half off, the big ones are 9.99. good luck with them.


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MIDDLETOWN >> Helping local businesses, keeping a watchful eye on tax increases and reducing government redundancies are priorities for both candidates in the 33rd District House race.
Republican Callie Grippo is challenging Democrat Joe Serra for the General Assembly seat. Grippo, a newcomer to politics and a former Mrs. Connecticut, ran for the Middletown Board of Education last year because she was concerned about what was going on in the schools - and in city hall. She didn't win but now, with both her children at St. Mary School and new leaders in both city hall and at school district headquarters, her concerns have moved to the state level.
"The climate (in Connecticut) is just not business friendly," said Grippo, who says she is tired of the high taxes in the state. "I hear so much feedback from the business owners, and it is so discouraging. People want to leave Middletown."
When Grippo was driving around with her 8-year-old son, Carmine, he pointed to some local stores that had shut down and buildings that were being torn down.
"My son is not seeing development - he is seeing businesses close and buildings torn down," Grippo said. "It bothered me to the point where I wanted to find out why this was happening. Why is everyone moving out of Connecticut?"
That is one of the reasons she wanted to run for office, she said.
"I'm not a politician. I never profess to be," she said, "but I feel like my kids deserve more."
Grippo said she is also running to "bring common sense back to Connecticut and the government."
"There's a lot of people that don't understand that what happens under that gold dome in Hartford affects us every day, more than what happens in Washington," she said. "I would fight for small businesses and fight against tax increase."
And Grippo has a vested interest in supporting local business. Her husband and father-in-law own and run Grippo's Mobil in Durham, where Grippo - a former executive at The Hartford - also helps out when she is not doing contract work.
"That's our bread and butter," she said.
Grippo has a background in the insurance/risk management fields and in litigation, marketing and public relations. She worked on brokering settlements, protecting assets and conducting long-range risk planning. And she wants to use some of her skills and experience to help reduce taxes.
"We are taxing everything, absolutely everything," she said. "Who would have ever thought in a million years that we would pay more in taxes - and that our gas would be more expensive - than in Massachusetts?"
If elected, she would vote against any tax increase in the budget and would work to dedicate more resources to reduce fraud, she said. She would also work to reduce the state workforce, whether by a hiring freeze, consolidating positions or getting rid of middle managers.
"I don't sit and complain about things," she said. "I have to do what I can do. If you have enough in you to complain about it, you have enough in you to do something about it."
Serra, who has served 20 years in the state House, agrees that in order to save the state money, the efficiency, paperwork and redundancies at the state level have to be reviewed.
"(But) we can only suggest to the governor," Serra said. "The governor runs the government. We can make suggestions - we can't go in there directing the state workforce."
Born and raised in Middletown, Serra first realized he was interested in politics when he was made mayor for a day in high school.
"I like the ability to really help people - help people make the government at the local level really work for them, get them through the maze, the bureaucracy," Serra said. "I enjoy helping people; otherwise I wouldn't be doing this."
On any given day, he will get several phone calls from local residents, many of them seniors, looking for help on who to contact with specific issues, whether it be related to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation or the Department of Social Services.
"I have the ability to direct them, let them know who to contact," Serra said.
And often the complaints are about concerns that have not received a response. But thanks to Serra's 37 years at the Middletown Public Works department before he retired in 1996, he has many years of experience dealing with state government.
"I started to make contacts when working in city hall," Serra said. "I entered the state level with a little more knowledge of how the state operates than the average person."
In addition to serving on the judiciary and transportation committees, Serra is the House chairman of the aging committee, which means he has a big say in how money should be allocated for programs that affect the senior population.
"I think I bring extra knowledge to them," he said about he committees. "There are programs that I was always involved in."
As a member of the Aging in Place task force established in February, he is a proponent of coming up with services that will allow the aging population to stay in their homes as long as possible to improve their quality of life.
"It's a savings for the state. It's good for the seniors," he said. "There's an array of things we can tweak that's not going to cost the state a lot of money, and it can get done in the next session."
Serra was also the chairman of the Grandparents Visitation Rights task force that changed a state statute to give grandparents with a parent-like relationship to a grandchild a level playing field when going to court to seek visitation rights.
Serra us also a big supporter of the state's new First Five incentive program, which aggregates tax credits and subsidies for companies that promise to create at least 200 new jobs within two years in Connecticut or invest no less than $25 million and create more than 200 jobs no later than five years after the agreement is approved.
"It's a step in the right direction," Serra said. "Business needs help here in Connecticut. I supported it, and I support any tweaking that has to be done to that type of program. The biggest thing is jobs and watching the taxes, and doing whatever we can do to keep and expand business in Connecticut."
Grippo, as well, says she supports the First Five program and thinks its money well spent.
"We need to do anything we can to bring businesses to Connecticut," she said.
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What do I do to get the bees to draw more comb and store food for the winter? So far I have tried 1:1, 2:1 sugar to water (by volume), and fondant. The end comb is small and never anything stored in it. I see a lot of pollen comming in. If they don't get to more than just a brood nest they for sure won't make it thru the winter.
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Discussion in 'Performance & Fuel' started by aheisser, May 26, 2013.
replaced fuel pump on 2k silverado 4.8, works fine but noisy at times.
I've heard of noisy pumps on Suburbans, mostly the acoustics of that particular model, never heard of one being noisy on a Silverado.
Welcome to the club, it's great to have you aboard. Good luck on the fuel pump noise....... :glasses:
Welcome to the Club!!!
I moved your thread here and edited your title slightly so that you will get more response/opinions.
Sorry, I cannot help but wish you luck in getting it solved.
Welcome! :great:
Noisy? Like is it knocking around or does it just sound strange, or what?
This is what I was wondering. What kind of noise? A grinding, a rumbling, a whine?
2000 Suburban noisy fuel pump
I was recently told a constant high pitched medium loud.. whine heard on my 2000 Chevy Suburban truck was my fuel pump. It has made this noise for the last 50k miles and I have just dealt with it. I've started looking at replacing now that it is 108k mileage.. It doesn't go on or off it is just contstant
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text: Hi. I'm in Wabash Co., Illinois. I'm new to beekeeping. I've read beekeeping for dummies and backyard beekeeper. I haven't located a club or association near me, but I did contact a beekeeper who lives about 40 minutes away- So hopefully that will help with questions and support too. I Just ordered hive parts for two hives that we'll be putting together this winter. Ordering bees in January.


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"Gentle irony"
Bittersweet tales of life in Victorian India centred on the hill town of Simla. Each story of human frailty, of life under the British Raj, of the machinations of its public official, of the long suffering Indian subjects is crafted with ironic affection and polished till it glows. The attitudes are colonial and imperialist but the characters come alive as if they lived in the 21st century. Martin Jarvis narration is gentle and flawless. I will listen to this again and again
"fabric artist and quilter"
"Flashes of domesticity from a grand past"
Having just listened to a long history of the British Empire where Kipling was extensively quoted I had to listen to some Kipling. I was pleasantly surprised - these were short stories and Kipling was able to paint a picture with just a few words and you were taken back to the Hill Station of Simla in the British Raj. It was the summer seat of government but it was also where the british went to stay cool. Most of these stories were vignettes of domestic life, petty arguments, minor accomplishments but told in a way that you could taste the dust and smell the faint curry smells.
I enjoyed them and plan to find some more Kipling but it is something that would wear thin rather quickly. One can only take so much of a stiff upper lip and a solar topee.
Written with a wonderfully wry sense of humour, Plain Tales is insightful and highly amusing.
I could listen to these tales again and again!
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To get WASTED as in drunk. Comes from the welsh Wastraff amser which means waste of time, but that doesnt even matter. Pronounced : W-ass-t but all in one syllable. Usually used when very excited about getting crunkk!!! Also followed by a swift leg kick forward GET IN
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911 call of people shooting up leads to arrests
February 12, 2014
Four people were arrested near Condon Park Sunday night after a passerby reportedly saw people in a vehicle shooting up drugs.
The person called 911 at 7:45 p.m. to report seeing a vehicle in front of a house in the 500 block of Butler Street, with the engine running; a passenger was injecting the driver, according to dispatch reports.
Grass Valley Police officers responded to the scene and found four people inside the vehicle, said Sgt. Clint Bates.
A search of the vehicle reportedly uncovered drug paraphernalia, a small amount of marijuana, and items used to manufacture honey oil.
One man reportedly gave a false name but was recognized by officers as Casey Don Soward, 25, of Penn Valley. Soward was arrested on suspicion of giving a false identity, and violating parole, Bates said.
A female passenger also gave a false name, but was identified as Brittany Marie Nash, 27, of Grass Valley. Nash was arrested on an outstanding warrant and was being held without bail.
The other two people in the vehicle — Kyle Gower Short, 19, and Erin Nicole Kirkham, 21 — both were arrested for having two outstanding warrants and were being held without bail.
Nash and Soward had been arrested together in October of last year, and both reportedly gave false names then as well.
Grass Valley Police officers reportedly saw two possible prowlers, a man and a woman, at Walsh and Townsend streets at about 11 p.m. and contacted the pair.
Nash reportedly gave the name of a family member, while Soward gave a completely false name. Nash reportedly had a prescription medication, for which she did not have a prescription, hidden inside a lipstick container. She has pleaded no contest to possession of a controlled substance.
Soward, reportedly had five used syringes and other drug paraphernalia, as well as a concealed knife inside his waistband.
He was subsequently convicted of a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed knife.
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Tool with a twist. A toolio is an idiot, a douche bag, a skyler... A toolio is much worse than a tool. They are like tools, only 500 times worse. These toolios are found all over the globe, and it is not rare to catch one on the way to class, work, or even the supermarket. Watch out for toolios. Nobody likes them, and if you are sucked into one of their cults, you can never return.
As Skyler skipped around in her underwear, Clare said," Oh my like total gosh, what a toolio!" Abi agreed.
by Untoolios to the Maxxx November 30, 2005
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n. One who is a tool, an individual who buys lunch with coupons, an person who drinks 3 Calvados falls of his chair and sings "Sophie Chap is my Cat" rather too loudly.
(alternative def.) One who makes a living selling wealth management solutions
(alternative def.) One who makes a living selling wealth management solutions
Loo at that guy with the Tevas and wite socks. What a Toolio !!
Hey Toolio, buy the beers before I kick you up yer backside !!
Hey Toolio, buy the beers before I kick you up yer backside !!
by Doodey E July 30, 2004
Also known as a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity @ The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
by Adam Gordon December 06, 2003
( Melbourne Australia shaolin dialect) a socially misadjusted individual that tries tooo hard to be cool.
that guy humming "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith is a real toolio.
by Mikey C-izzle July 16, 2003


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As Auckland merges to create a supercity, the Herald looks back at how Auckland has changed over the years. Click here to view the full series.
Birds were here first - millions of them. Before humans arrived the isthmus and offshore islands rang with bird song. Auckland's concrete, tarseal and grass were once a habitat of sub-tropical kauri forests,
shrublands, wetlands and rocky outcrops - an untouched bird paradise for 80 million years.
In the forests, tui, bellbirds, saddlebacks, kaka, parakeets, kokako, huia and piopio sang by day, while kiwi, kakapo, morepork and owlet-nightjars called at night. Giant moa - 170kg flightless herbivores
- browsed the trees and kiwi, weka and tiny flightless wrens searched the forest floor for insects.
Auckland's wetlands harboured takahe and fernbird, along with musk duck, flightless goose, bittern and crakes.
Lagoons and estuaries were alive with waders; lakes and ponds held ducks, grebes and shags.
Harbour coastlines and the shores of the Gulf's forested islands were havens for more species of seabird than any other country: large colonies of petrels - which shared burrows with tuatara - several species of shag, gulls, terns and herons, stilts, godwits and plovers.
Millions of years of isolation allowed this unrivalled diversity of species to evolve unmolested by mammals. The only predators were birds themselves: the giant eagle, the adzebill, goshawk, harrier
and falcon.
It took humans, and the predators they brought, just 800 years to decimate the ancient ecosystem.
Moa fell prey to the snares of early Polynesian voyagers; geese, adzebills and Haast's eagle were gone by 1400; the stiff-tailed duck, musk duck, Forbes' harrier, snipe, rail, New Zealand coot, long-billed wren, stout-legged wren and New Zealand raven followed swiftly to oblivion. Polynesians brought kuri and pacific rats; Europeans imported norway rats, pigs, cats, possums, ship rats, ferrets, stoats and weasels.
European settlers axed and burnt the forests and replaced birdland with farmland.
The laughing owl was extinct by 1914 and the huia by the mid-1920s. The last report of an endemic kokako calling in the Waitakere Ranges was in 1932.
The North Island lost 50 per cent of its native birds and these days surviving original populations cling to life in fragments of their former territories.
It was the creation of Tiritiri Matangi - Auckland's singing island sanctuary - that slowed the region's seemingly inexorable slide into avian oblivion.
In 1971 when the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park Board took over Tiri's 220 hectares of bare grass, small pockets of natural cover grew in a gully or two and a few bellbirds, tui and penguins clung on. Tiri was a microcosm of the bird-bereft mainland.
Enter John Craig, then a University of Auckland zoology lecturer who from 1975 took research students regularly to Tiri to study its few birds.
Following the island's redesignation in 1978 as a public access scientific reserve, Craig devised a scheme that sounded improbable
- to rapidly replant the island as an offshore haven for birdlife.
In the face of criticism - purists thought natural regeneration would do the job - a fast artificial reforestation began. Between 1984 and 1994, hundreds of mums, dads, kids and conservation volunteers planted more than 280,000 native trees on Tiri.
The forest burgeoned, pests were blitzed and today Tiri bursts with more than 84 species of bird, including kiwi, takahe, kokako, saddlebacks and stitchbirds, all alive and singing within sight of
the Sky Tower.
So many birds breed on Tiri they spill on to the mainland. Thanks to Tiri, Shakespeare Regional Park has good populations of kakariki, the little red-crowned parakeet previously absent for decades.
Tawharanui Open Sanctuary, north of Auckland, rings with Tiri's overspill bellbirds, also absent from the mainland for many decades.
Where Tiri led, other island schemes followed. Hauraki Gulf island eco-restorations include the Motuihe Island Restoration Project covering
the island's 179ha, 18 of which are coastal forest. Motuihe is pest-free and has kereru, tui and fantails, New Zealand dotterels,
oystercatchers, gulls and terns. In 2005, 20 saddlebacks were translocated there from Tiri.
Young, planted forest now covers most of Motuora Island's 80ha and the Motuora Restoration Society is spearheading an extensive species reintroduction plan.
Both Motutapu and Rangitoto islands are pest-free and, aided by volunteers, support healthy birdlife.
Waiheke Island's 373ha Whakanewha Regional Park opened in 2007 and has a wetland habitat supporting bittern, banded rail, spotless crake and
New Zealand dotterels.
A nationally significant population of endangered dotterels nest on a sandspit near the middle of the beach where they are protected by members of the Dotterel Guardian Charitable Trust. It members fence sand
dunes against dogs, poison and trap predators and encourage residents to bell cats.
Waiheke also has the privately owned and predator-free Fenwick Reserve where 100 bellbirds were released in May 2010.
Across Auckland's mainland and over its boundaries, eco-restoration projects are proliferating. Rivers, streams, bush pockets, wetlands, parks and reserves big and small have dedicated volunteer groups who band together at weekends to pull and fell weeds, plant natives and trap and poison the predators.
Much of this work is in Auckland's 26 regional parks, covering more than 40,000ha. ARC officers, community volunteers, the Department of Conservation, Landcare Research and Forest and Bird, have jointly established some of New Zealand's most successful conservation programmes.
Tawharanui Regional Park, a joint ARC and volunteer venture, is a 588ha mainland island model and New Zealand's first multipurpose open sanctuary.
At Tawharanui, farming, public recreation and conservation coexist behind a 2.5 km pest-proof fence which protects the tip of the peninsula from mammalian predators.
Previously banished birds reintroduced to the sanctuary include kakariki, whiteheads, robins, brown teal and North Island brown kiwi - the first known breeding kiwi on the Auckland mainland in six decades.
Bellbirds, kaka and grey-faced petrels have returned to Tawharanui and are breeding too.
Tawharanui is the blueprint for a new 555ha mainland sanctuary being created at Shakespear Regional Park on the Whangaparaoa peninsula. A 1.75 km predator-proof fence is due for completion in June 2011. It will let the public in but exclude 10 pest nasties: mice, ship rats, norway rats, weasels, stoats, ferrets, cats, possums, rabbits and hedghogs.
There is no fence around the Waitakere Ranges' standout ecorestoration
project Ark In the Park where 1100ha of largely pest-free forest are a haven of native flora and fauna including successfully re-introduced populations of whiteheads, North Island robins and stitchbirds.
Ark In The Park's mainland island status is achieved by continuous volunteer-run predator-control, based on a grid of bait stations spaced at 50 metre intervals on lines 100 metres apart. Rats, mice, possums and
mustelids are minimised allowing native birdlife to flourish.
The Ark is also protected by an 800ha buffer zone of private land where owners control pests too.
Six King Country kokako were released in the Ark in 2009 and in June 2010 two kokako from Tiri joined them.
At 20ha, Waiatarua Reserve in Meadowbank, is tiny by comparison but claims to be New Zealand's biggest urban wetland restoration project.
This huge, bird-rich stormwater treatment system - a network of drains,
weirs, bunds and sediment traps - is staunchly protected by the Waiatarua Protection Society which plants natives and controls pests.
Tahuna Torea Nature Reserve, Glendowie is a 25ha sandbank extending into the Tamaki Estuary from which dogs are banned and where shorebirds and seabirds abound. Forest and Bird volunteers conduct clean-ups, control weeds and maintain the tracks.
Forest and Bird's Tuff Crater project on the North Shore, Sustainable
Paremoremo, the Uruamo Ecological Society chaired by Tiri champion Mel Galbraith, which is establishing the Waitemata Coastal Sanctuary on Kauri Point in Birkenhead, locals caring for shorebirds at Karekare and
Omaha . . . the list goes on.
To Auckland natural environment adviser and former Tawharanui project manager Jo Ritchie, Auckland's conservation future lies in large multi-purpose sanctuaries where people can have a first-hand conservation experience while camping, swimming or surfing.
All the same, she points out, "It's never too small. It's about having stepping stones across the region. That's what [Forest and Bird's] Northwest Wildlink is all about - trying to create a natural living landscape. Every Aucklander can make a difference. Kaka move from Little Barrier, kereru fly round the region looking for food. They don't mind if the puriri they land on is fruiting in someone's backyard or in Ark In The Park. Planting natives in their backyard is as significant as being as an Ark volunteer."
Jenny Chamberlain is an Auckland writer.


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