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lol, you're turible
thoughts on Cruz?
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Wants his money, too, but he wants the Giants.
Ya gotta love it when a guy ends up on his childhood favorite team. The best of all worlds.
I do wonder how he ended up with Condon for a cup of coffee? Did Condon have any negotiations with the Giants and Cruz wasn't happy with him, either... Or, he just didn't think of JayZ at first, and realized he'd be happier with him?
Seems like the Z man is the up and coming desireable agent?
Just stay healthy, Victor, and have a nice career as a Giant.
Jay Z as an agent sounds ridiculous to me.
Call me a hater.
Russell Simmons he ain't.
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You guys like the schedule? I'm thinking 15-1
Lol. Just don't wonder too far from the stadium. It's not like philly though you should be able to cheer for the giants without some drunk 25 year old trying to fist fight one of your kids
interesting schedule, more interesting is the Boys' schedule...
I seriously hope our OLine and 2ndary get improved.
Yes, I still want at least one other athletic Backer and I hope we can handle the read options and stretch plays that we're sure to face: I remain adamant that our biggest, glaring, weakness is our non-existent run-stopping followed by sagging pass-rush effectiveness.
Outside that the NYK are under-dogs in view of all things Boston and especially after the tragic events from earlier in the week. (My heart and prayers to all affected)
The NYY are getting by and the season's young so I'm not panicking or complaining...yet.
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The ammo deal on RGUNS.com looks pretty good. NICE IMI ammo all sharp and shiny. So, I broke down and ordered up a couple of more cases.
The ammo deal on RGUNS.com looks pretty good. NICE IMI ammo all sharp and shiny. So, I broke down and ordered up a couple of more cases.
I have a few ammo can's but not nearly enuff, but shipping is what keeps me from mail ordering them.
sometimes at the local shows they have a nice supply but the price varies show to show and some seem way over priced!
I like the .30's better than the .50's I think, I only have about 2 of each and a cpl .223 cans.
I'm visiting my baby brother and his family for the holidays in SE Idaho. Just down the road is the Army Surplus Center, so I may be grabbing a few ammo cans and whatever supplies I find useful at a decent price.
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When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
If you are thinking about stocking up on anything, January is getting here really fast. I would not worry about shipping. Just stock it up. I am seeing stuff like WOLF 9mm & 7.62X38 not available any more some places on the net. If you can grab it, do it.
I have a couple of 9mm cases, some .22Cal Magnum and some .32cal inbound now I hope? Next month, it won't be available either.
Mags are all gone now if not at double in price.
AR parts are a thing of the past unless you buy from a gouger at double price now.
AK parts are GONE!
UZI parts are GONE!
If you can get what you need and can find it, get it NOW! It WILL NOT be available next month.
I'll second that. I just looked it up in the publications for ammo storage ashore for Navy and Marine Corps and it states that most ammo is designed to withstand temps between 130 and 160 for short periods of time. I further researched smokeless powder, and found that if it has been exposed to temps above 105 for more than 500 cumulative hours, it should be suspect until lot testing can be done to see if there is any degradation of the ammo.
is there any problems if the ammo is around or below freezing temps?
~ Czolgosz, Leon (1873-1902)
"I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime."
Freezing won't hurt it, though performance can drop off the colder the ammo is when used.
Moisture MIGHT hurt ammo, keep any frozen ammo sealed until it reached ambient temperatures to avoid condensation issues.
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
I know that even modern weapons will fail and seize in sub freezing temps. There are numerous accounts of weapons failures and breaches freezing shut and the soldiers urinating on the rifles to free them up(doesnt seem like a good idea to me either) during the battle of the bulge. SO IF the weapon is being operated in the same temps as the ammo is being stored(freezing or below) the user may be screwed either way?


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THE MEASURE OF MANHATTAN: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor. Marguerite Holloway. xii + 372 pp. W. W. Norton, 2013. $26.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.
John Randel Jr.'s farm maps of Manhattan Island look both gorgeous and absurd. As works of cartographic art, they are masterpieces: When the 92 sheets are fitted together, they are 50 feet long, forming the largest known map of Manhattan. The maps show the smallest elevation details, reflecting Randel's painstaking survey work. They have lovely hill shading; property lines washed in soft blues, greens, yellows, and pinks; and planimetric views of houses and barns. The primary goal of the survey and maps was to describe a new grid outline for the city's streets and avenues.
Settled on top of his detailed views of early 19th-century Manhattan (barns, streams, marshes, and hills), Randel's envisioned Manhattan of the future seems like a joke. On the map, perfectly regular new streets and avenues run right over barns, hospitals, hills, and existing roads alike. At the western edge of the island, Twelfth Avenue cuts through bits of the Hudson River coastline, sometimes running into the water before emerging back on land. On the northeast end, Fifth and Sixth Avenues trail off into the water of the Harlem River, as if the idea of the grid is so ethereal that the roads themselves might just float. Of course, the real joke is that the future Randel's maps propose has in fact come to be and has shaped the city for generations of New Yorkers.
Marguerite Holloway's The Measure of Manhattan is the first major biography of Randel, a master cartographer whose long career included a wide range of innovations, frustrations, and lawsuits. The book intertwines his life story with a narrative about a group of present-day geographers and ecologists working to reconstruct the ecology of Manhattan Island as it existed before European settlement. Holloway's fondness for digression bogs down parts of her story. However, the subplots and minor characters she introduces usefully highlight the failures, messiness, and complexity of surveying and geographic data. Largely because of this attention to detail, The Measure of Manhattan is a refreshing tour through the personal and professional realities of surveying in the early 19th century and today.
In 1806 New York City's Common Council embarked on a major project: surveying the public and private lands on the island of Manhattan and organizing them into an orderly grid. Randel got the job after the council's first choice, Swiss-born surveyor Ferdinand Hassler, became ill. At the time, large parts of the island were still hilly, and the landscape was dotted with wetlands and marshes—not the easiest landscape to survey. In fact, previous surveys were riddled with inaccuracies. Randel was obsessed with precision, and to make his survey of Manhattan more accurate he spent between $2,400 and $3,000 of his own money (the equivalent of about $50,000 today) to have field instruments custom-made from his own designs. Devised to be more robust than other instruments available at the time, Randel's custom equipment included an improved theodolite and several measuring rods, one of which was 50 feet long and designed like a suspension bridge.
Although he possessed great technical skill, Randel had a knack for making bad professional decisions. In 1817 he declined an offer to work as chief engineer on the eastern third of the Erie Canal. Realizing he might have missed an important career opportunity, he undertook a campaign on behalf of Albany city leaders, making the innovative argument that the canal should run through a four-mile underground tunnel, following the model of the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England. His ideas—first disseminated through anonymous letters signed "Friend of the Canal" and later through a self-published 72-page pamphlet—were largely ignored.
As we follow Randel's canal digging (and later his visionary proposals for an elevated railway to extend down Broadway), Holloway does a marvelous job of conveying the man's brilliance and zeal for accuracy. We also get the sense that he was creating a reputation for stubbornness, even litigation, that would alienate him from his colleagues and ultimately lead him to financial ruin.
Randel remains an important figure for surveyors and geographers. His work established the grid system for New York City streets, which has had a powerful influence on that city's development. Trudging through the marshes with his workers as they carried stone markers from site to site, Randel literally imposed the grid on the landscape of Manhattan. As Holloway notes, the grid was not actually his idea. (One legend has it the Common Council came to the idea after seeing the shadow a sieve cast on top of a map of the island.) But Randel's work may have helped bring the grid plan into reality, and landowners infuriated by it also used his map and survey to document what they would lose.
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my favorite is salamanders hooked through the tail, i like leopard frogs too, but the sallamanders have a tough skin and they are hard to get off the hook seem to work the best for me in rivers/creeks
Hands down cut shad or carp for me.
Grasshoppers and Junebugs
I use a old method my grandpappy taught me!shhh!dont tell nobody!
Take a 5gall bucket fill it with maize,then run it full of water,put a lid on it let it set in the sun a couple weeks,it will turn soured,and extra stinky!cut old plastic milk jugs,or any container,scoop it full of old stink maize and freeze it,take frozen containers fishin in a cooler,not the same one with the beer!when you get to your spot,bust the frozen clumps of maize out of the container and throw them out in the water as far as you can,when they melt the maize spreads out!This will bring all the eatin cats to the spot where the maize is at.After that put on a chunk of liver and hang on!When you clean um you can see thier bellys stuffed with old stinky maize.Well the cats out of the bag now!lol HAPPY FISHING!
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2.Fresh Mackerel, great for bigger cats(Can catchEndless amounts of macks out on the local piers)
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i would have to say whats always worked for me is cut large sardines in about 1 inch strips
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It was'nt listed but I like cut mackeral, next I think would be chubs!!!!:wink:
I'm gonna have to agree with Doug cause growing up in Cali all my life that was the main bait that you could 90% of the time guarantee that you will come home with some channel cats. But now sense Im in the Midwest I would have to say Don's Catfish Bait.
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When the company is listed, which is expected to happen next month, annual director fees will increase from $49,000 per year to $85,000 for each director, an increase of just over 73 per cent.
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WATSONVILLE -- Dozens of workers and their supporters gathered outside Salud Para La Gente's headquarters on Aviation Way for a candlelight vigil Monday as the nonprofit health agency's board of directors met to discuss service cuts and layoffs.
Inside, dozens more crowded a hallway and reception area adjacent to the conference room where the board met.
Salud is grappling with what leaders say is a $200,000 monthly shortfall due to changes in Medi-Cal reimbursements for services to seniors and for adult dental care. The board is considering eliminating Elderday, which provides medical treatment, meals and therapy to more than 80 seniors each weekday at a facility in Santa Cruz, and slashing services and staff in Salud's dental department.
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Councilman Daniel Dodge called Elderday a "lifesaver," and the dental clinic "the access to dental care in our community."
Petra Liliane Rensi, a member of the Elderday staff, talked of her elderly and frail patients and pleaded with the board to save the center.
"Every single one of the staff, we know their stories," she said. "Sure, we're concerned about our jobs, but we'll figure it out. They can't work it out. We need to think of them."
Matt Nathanson is regional vice president for Service Employees International Union Local 521, which represents 160 Salud workers. In 2014, he said, when federal health care reform kicks in, Salud will be desperate to find staff to serve an anticipated increase in Medi-Cal patients.
"It's crazy to let go of trained health care professionals now," Nathanson said.
Giang Nguyen, Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency director, advised the board to establish a committee of stakeholders to help find solutions.
"We want to partner with Dr. (Zettie) Page, (the chief executive officer), with all of you, to look at the issue together," she said.
Outside, the crowd kept vigil, standing in the dark parking lot beneath the conference room windows. Vanessa Munoz, a medical assistant, suggested furloughs as a possible solution instead of layoffs.
Dental assistant Mariela Mendoza Rodriguez said she's worried about losing a job she's held at Salud for the past five years.
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Any input on this placement would be appreciated.... This Spring I plan to place my first hives, 2 of them, in my wooded back yard. It is primarily mature Red Pine. The canopy is high and sparse so it lets a lot of dappled sunshine through. The site is on a hillside but is the best spot with natural windbreaks on the north and west sides. I'd move it just 30 feet to a flatter spot but it would be in view of the neighbors driveway. The neighbors house is over 100 yards away with enough cover so that the hives won't be obvious. However, me standing out there in a bee veil and puffing a smoker might draw a little attention. So the site on the slope offers a more natural blind. Finally, there are lot's of small ponds and other water sources around but the nearest one is probably the neighbors in ground pool. Can I offer a water source more tempting and satisfying to my bees than the neigbors pool? How much of a nuisance could they be at the pool?
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Work colleague had a tree knocked over during storm as to where he found that it had honey bees in it that he didnt know was there and said they were mine for the taking. The colony was now obviously horizontal instead of vertical so I developed a two stage extraction. First day, I screened the entrances up well and took a lucky guess as to how far away from the entrance to cut to make a top and bottom. The plan was to cut the section of tree out that housed the bees, remove the screens, and sit it up straight and let the bees gather them selves for a couple days. Then come back, rescreen early in the morning before any foragers began to leave and haul the entire log home, bees and all.
Good news first, the log is sitting verticle behind my barn with live bees freely foraging and rebuilding a colony.
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I made my candles using 100% pure beeswax. The other day I left them in direct sunlight (I know, my bad) and they developed a terrible burnt rubber smell. I've only ever heard of sunlight fading the colour of candles, but never heard that it would give them this smell.
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a lot of people seem to be saying langstroth makes substantially more honey than top bars, but are there any studies that show one way or another?
a lot of people seem to be saying langstroth makes substantially more honey than top bars, but are there any studies that show one way or another?
Yes I found two pretty quickly: http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/medwelljou...08/310-315.pdf is from a study in Nigeria and http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/pubF...Rethinking.pdf is from a Kenyan study (focusing on comparing Langs with KTBH).
Cheers, Thomas.
Read critically when researching hive types, particularly top bar hives. The "kenya" top bar hive was popularized by aid workers in Africa looking for ways to enable local people with no money or significant machinery to keep bees and generate food and income. Scrap lumber (or in fact, reeds, straw, brush, etc) can be used with simple hand tools to make hives that cost little or no money and enable adequate handling of bees.
Top bar hives have been around since the early Greeks at least, going on 3000 years now, but that is NOT to say they are a better option for beekeeping. Very early civilizations didn't have power tools, and the amount of work required to make wooden hives and frames made them unobtainable for beekeepers. Little enough evidence of significant amounts of furniture of that level exists, let alone farm equipment.
Top bar hives, as my buddy who got all excited about them found out, can be a real pain. Crush and strain is the only significant way to remove honey, the combs are fragile even when hardened with use, and it's much more difficult to re-arrange the hive since you can only go sideways. They can also work well, but for real production, you are going to need to extract -- all that comb that gets turned into wax cakes every time you crush and strain gets re-used in Langstroth hives. Huge increase in honey right there, probably a couple shallow frames per box every time.
There are many other systems in use around the world for keeping bees, but all the successful ones use full frames of some sort. Only a Langstroth type system with separate stackable boxes will allow the beekeeper to keep piling on the supers as long as the bees want to fill them, all the rest require removing honey on a regular basis if you want a big crop.
I see the separate boxes as the most advantageous part of the system -- need more room? Add a box of frames. Want to feed, just put a hivetop feeder on and the bees have instant access to gallons of syrup. Hard to do on a top bar hive, since it's not really a top bar hive once you start adding things over the bars....
You can successfully keep bees in top bar hives. Bees are quite adaptable. However, as many people will tell you, for a large number of hives there is a strong tendency to use Langstroths. No one has come up with a significantly better design after more than 100 years, I suspect, other than dimensions, there won't be.
It takes different management for Top Bar Hives than Langstroth hives. If both were managed optimally for the Top Bar Hive, then the Top Bar Hive would make more honey...
My choice of a top bar vs langstront would be on how you need to be able to manage it. If you are building your own top bar hive, then you have little invested in the equipment. Especially if you can make it from free scrap lumber. Moses Quimby always insisted that you could not be very productive in making honey if you spend all your money on equipment. He was one of the most successful honey producers in the US and he was only using box hives up until the laws forced him into inventing his own movable comb hive (a simplifed leaf hive with no hinges). The point is if you are keeping your costs down your profits go up. If your hives cost nothing, you make more money. And that is the point of making more honey isn't it?
Personally I have a few top bar hives in my backyard. They are easy to get to and check on. I have none in my outyards because they require more frequent checking. My outyards, and most of my home yard are eight frame medium Langstroths because they require less frequent manipulations. In the outyards I can pile on the supers at the start of the flow and not come back until fall. I can't do that with top bar hives and if I don't check them until fall they will have swarmed three times and not made much honey.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
have you measured honey production on your langs vs tbh?
>have you measured honey production on your langs vs tbh?
No. I really think it's irrelevant. What is relevant is how much money and time I invest to get how much honey... but I do find Langstroths better for outyards in that regard as I don't have to make frequent trips. Again, if they were in my backyard, and I built them from scrap lumber, I think the top bar hives might be better if I had the time to spend to build them and check them more often. It's not how much honey you get per hive, it's how much honey you get for your money and labor that matters and that will depend a lot on how far away your hives are, how handy you are with woodworking, how much free lumber you can get etc.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
How do you keep brood out of the honey comb areas?
I use no excluder in any of my Langstroth hives. It works the same. The bees are not looking to put brood scattered everywhere. What is a "honey comb area" other than the place the bees put the honey?
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
[QUOTE=Michael Bush) It's not how much honey you get per hive, it's how much honey you get for your money and labor that matters [/QUOTE]
And how much money you get for your honey!
The cost of the equipment or the price I sell my honey for does not determine my hive production but will affect my profit.
So how much production can nada expect from a TBH compared to a Langstroth hive. Those who run TBH's should have some idea what they typically harvest in a year.
It seems like a simple question to answer, but it isn't. To me, the top bar hive is too new to western beekeeping to have a lot of answers for what it's full potential is.
As Mike Bush says, they are cheaper to build, but they are more expensive in terms of time to manage.
Most people I have seen using tbh's (including myself - I have 5 of them) are not using them with a focus on maximum production. I have removed as much as 25 or 30lbs out of mine, but have never come close to taking the majority of what they have. This year, I didn't take anything from them.
After three seasons running them, I would say that if you want to maximize production, you need to start removing honey early enough in the season that they are still building comb. It's the same as with a langstroth, except that you can't just add space - you have to remove stores to make room, and you have to do so when they're still going to use the resources to make more comb - and not just plug everything up and swarm.
If I were pushing for maximum yield, I would likely take a comb or two of honey at a time beginning in July and probably take it as close to where the brood nest begins as possible, so there is a lot of bee density and they're most likely to quickly rebuild comb there. I might do that two to four times beginning in July and going until September, when I would estimate their stores for winter and perhaps take any surplus then. It would be best if you could just store the removed combs and do all the crushing and straining at one time - and would allow you to add some of it back to weak hives if you wanted.
In my own world, I would maintain a big chest freezer for storage during the season. But that would only work for a handful of hives.
This is only an estimation based on a few years of working them - The fact is, there haven't been enough people (who contribute to these forums) trying to push the production limits of the tbh to really have it figured.
Bottom line for me is that in order to answer the question of how the two hive types compare, the two have to be run and managed for the same reasons, by equally competent beekeepers. And generally they're not.
Most people who want to make a lot of honey will put their time and energy into langstroths. People in developing regions who are using tbh's for production generally don't have the means that the western world has to through at really push them - and as the paper suggests, most of the people using them there are beginners, or people with less than 5 years experience.
I think that holds true here as well.
How's Les Crowder doing with them? What has he found?
I don't see where Michael said they are cheaper to build. He said a TBH can be made from scrap lumber. So can a Langstroth/vertical hive. I make both. The costs and time are almost the same for both. So the cost of one design vs. the other is really equal. And, therefore not really a decision making factor. (I'm not speaking for Michael! this is my experience only).
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I think it comes down to two things: #1. the bees; a lousy producer is a lousy producer no matter what type of hive they are in. #2 location. A TBH on 100 acres of blooming basswood will produce far more honey than a Lang on 100 acres of sand dunes.
I rate both these things equally. A good bee will not produce much in a lousy location, and a poor bee will not produce much in the best location.
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If the literature is correct, the bees can construct enough comb out of 1 pound of wax to store 25 lbs of honey. This is based on African beekeepers who maximixe for wax (tbh style). it is also commonly held that bees consume 8 pounds of honey for every pound of wax they produce. That means that any crush and strain operation will lose 8 pounds of honey for every 25 they store.
So a lang that produces 100 lbs of surplus would only produce 68 pounds of surplus in a TBH. Just round it out, a crush and strain operation can only produce about 2/3rd as much surplus honey a system that re-uses drawn comb.
Ask almost any keeper (almost, because we are beekeepers and can never reach agreement) and they will say "Drawn comb is like gold". There is a reason for this saying.
A tbh is a much simpler design with far fewer parts. How do you find the two the same in cost and time? Are you building frames?
How can building a typical tbh with 30 (or so) bars - 40 or 50 pieces of wood, and no frame assembly be the same as a typical lang with two deeps and a medium or 5 mediums, requiring anywhere between from 160 to 250 (or so) pieces of wood and all that assembly - be "the same"?
Man, if you can tell me a way to make langstroth gear in the same time and material cost as a top bar hive, I'm all for it.
>I don't see where Michael said they are cheaper to build. He said a TBH can be made from scrap lumber. So can a Langstroth/vertical hive. I make both.
It's easier to find the right size for Langstroth (as the pieces tend to be smaller) but requrires more skill than most people have in woodworking. So most buy their Langstroth equipment.
As far as combs, it's not the honey cost of secreting the wax to build the comb, it's the TIME lost during a flow when there is no where to store the nectar. Drawn comb will make a lot more honey expecially in a short heavy flow, than when they have to draw the comb. This is probably the biggest loss in production in a typical top bar hive. But you can extract a top bar comb if it's older and you can figure out how to fit it in your particular extractor. It is not hard to do them in a tangential and even a radial could work.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
I've seen a video of someone extracting from a top bar on YouTube. It was a two frame extractor, but there is no reason it wouldn't work on larger extractors.
I think that Top Bars are good for a hobby, but for production you would need langs. For me the fun is "messing with the bees" and having a few hives in the back yard were I can spend a few minutes every few days is easy. Its also fun for me to make the hives, which I can do with top bars, but I don't have the equipment to make langs. If the hives were an hour a way it would be a bit of a problem.
I use simple designs for all of the parts. I find that as the designs get more complicated, the differences are greater between the different hive styles.
I have both vertical hives (Lang or Warre designs) and horizontal hives (Top bar or with Frames). So I am not advocating one design over another.
For me, once I have the design templates for a hive created, putting the wood together and building the hive is pretty much the same no matter what type of hive I'm building. I feel like I'm just building different shaped boxes. I still have to pay attention to measurements and joints and all those details, no matter what style of hive I am making.
The only thing I don't make is frames. They are just way too cheap to buy compared to the time I would have to spend to make them. Topbars are easier to make, of course.
Jeffrey Maddox
In my two years of experience, my first year Lang gave me more honey than my wintered TBHs. My two TBHs didn't seem to want to move past the two foot mark in the hive and would swarm. Last year I bought a nuc and put it in a Lang and got some honey off of it in it's first year. That sold me. Both of my TBHs have died this winter and I will not repopulate them. I will put their comb into a Lang and put the comb to use. I may leave a comb or two in the TBHs and use as a swarm trap. Who knows maybe I will get lucky!
Not Michael Bush. My name is Dan. Sorry for the confusion.
Dan, what is the dimensions of your top bar hives. Width of the bars, depth and width at the bottom. Just curious.


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In 2012 we more than doubled the land around the technical school and acquired a house on that land. We improved the house and now use it as a dormitory for some of our grade school graduates who live too far away to ride bikes to the local high school. We are developing the land around the school as intensive organic gardens to provide food for both our technical students and the dormitory residents.
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A majority of Technology company CEOs plan to change their strategy for managing talent over the next twelve months. Why? Because they are realizing that the talent they have today may not be the right talent to help them beat the challenges of tomorrow.
The business risks associated with the talent gap in technology are compounded by macro trends disrupting where and how work gets done, what companies offer, how they make decisions, and how they go to market.
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Unto us a Child is Born! is a bright, rhythmical version of an old chant-like tune, Puer Nobis Nascitur, from a collection published in 1582 called Piae Cantiones (from which we find find carols like In Dulci Jubilo). I have played with the rhythms, the words and the harmonization. I think it turned out rather joyous . . . more »
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. . . which really turned into an original lyrical text back in 2004. I have subtitled this song "a Christmas fantasy" because the events described almost certainly did not happen the way they do in this song, but its great fun! I used this 'translation' in my children's Christmas songbook, "O Sing a Song of Bethlehem," and then again when I arranged the piece for The Utah Premiere Brass and Timpanogos Chorale (performed at their Christmas concert in 2005). I've been thinking about arranging a version for carolers for years, once again, my 365 Days of Christmas Project gave me the impetus to finally get it done. I'm providing it in 2 keys . . . more »


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You can't use vuln tester, metaexploit etc. Anybody has full list?
If you can't use vuln tester then how could you find holes? And second question is sometime bruteforse cracking take time like hours or sometime days so how it going to work? If my machine is not enough powerful .. Sorry I'm
asking stupid question but these question really does matter for me. Hopeing good answer.


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Stan sent me a picture of your new AR15 very nice
She can have my AR-15. Damn. Hot. I would even start doing 4 push ups a day, brush my teeth, and quit drinking beer for a day for her.
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ProjectGuns is working on a few other guns for me. I will pick them all up when done.
Still cant figure out if I have to leave that damn red tag on the front.
I hope my warrant has expired in Boca Raton. Hate to drive all the way down there for nothing.
4th, I went to the post office and the wanted posters have been taken down. to be on the safe side, wear sun glasses when you come.
the red tag is like the one on your matress, if you take it off there is a $20,000.00 fine,
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Discussion in 'April 2008' started by Dlev59, Mar 30, 2008.
Can i get props for that? LOL j/k
Yeah, I guess you called it. Jarvis and Theo both started, but they only played 26 minutes combined. Both Amir and AA played more than that, 30 and 34. AA actually played more than anyone else.
Bench takes cares of business Pistons 94- Twolves 90 Who said this was a meaningless game?? The allstars may have not cared, but the [strike]scubs [/strike] zoo crew came thru. I thinking that if we had played Billups, Rip and Sheed, we may have lost this one This win may have been bigger than the win over the Cavs, as the Pistons overcame a 21 point second qtr deficit with Stuckey having his breakout game showing what the Pistons faithful have to look forward to come playoff time and more importantly into the next decade. Not big on assists, but he did hit the key shots and the clutch FT's, going 12-13 at the line including 10 straight at one point. Career high 27 points Tay played long enough to keep things in order and Dice got his usual double digit rebounds, but Flip basically went with all of his team with everyone scoring except Hunter. Chiek Samb suited up with Rip's face mask and provided some nice miutes in the second qtr to help the Pistons get back in the game. DonJuan Dixon resurfaced from his injury to score some key buckets in the 2nd qtr. But it was Stuckey, Fabio, AA, Tay and Amir in there in the end when it counted to steal and seal the victory over the lottery boundTwolves... I didn't see any shots of McHale on camera, but I know he was p'ed off.
Samb and AJ led the Pistons in +- at 14, but Samb was only in for five and a half minutes, while AJ played nearly 30. Impressive.
And, conversely, Joe D. was one happy camper.
TWolves are in a race for ping pong balls. Winning games doesn't help this cause.
27 points for Stuckey, many of them clutch in this 94-90 win. 12-13 at the line, and about 7-14. One triple made. He got to the basket several times, looking pretty spectacular on occasion. He made several outside shots. Looked good playing D on their star too. Billups did not play, so Stuckey got the start. He did almost all his damage in the 2nd half. We were down 21 in this game early. Not because Sheed, Billups, and Rip did not play. But because of who we did let play. Like Hayes. How about Dyess and Theo paired up to start the game. Not that these two are bad players, but the game was moving way too fast for them. But hey, quick guys got to play plenty later in the game. (We started Stuckey, Hayes, Tay, Theo, Dyess. A very slow unit matched up with a very high energy Minnesota team.) Like Afflalo. He came on and started playing some really nice D. Like Samb and Amir, who held the middle so well for the 2nd half of the 2nd quarter that Minnesota barely scored at all. (Like 2 points or so.) Jason Maxiell. Well, he proved kind of short here and there, but at least he gets to all the plays. We sealed the deal with the following unit out there: Stuckey, Afflalo, Tay, Amir, JMAX. Now thats some high quality players. Back to that 2nd quarter. Herrmann was in the game too as we got right back into the game. He did not look great on D, but he was hustling all over the place. Somehow he was effective. He had quite a shot go in, a one handed floater from the baseline. He made a three. I think he ended up with about 11 or 13 for the game. Not bad. He certainly impressed more than Hayes. (Although in Hayes defense, Herrmann got to play with the highly active Samb and Amir backing him up, rather than the slow pair of Dyess and Theo that Hayes was saddled with.) Dixon was also in there, and although his defense did not look too great, it was good enough for us to have that major defensive stand. And he scored some hoops. That was mostly a unit of Stuckey at point, Afflalo and Dixon coming in and out of the game at shooting guard, Herrmann, Amir, Samb. Samb helped the comeback with a made 17 footer. (We got it back to within 5 at the half. Theo looked ok, but slow for this game for transition D. Stuckey hit him with an assist that he converted into a made hook shot. He does seem to be able to recover back to the basket well after showing. Tay started out by missing so many shots I thought he was on Minny's payroll. But he ended up with a pretty good game in points and assists before it was done. They say he anchored the 2nd unit guys out there. Well, maybe, but maybe they did not need an anchor down. I say, Tay could have sat this one out, and we would have still won it by simply putting Amir in to start at small forward. Dyess hit an outside shot, got inside for a score. Otherwise just poor D and some bricks laid. He was in there during a bit of a run though mid-third quarter after we got Amir Johnson into the game to replace Theo. Amir played plenty. A spectacular block. Some not so spectacular. A steal. Lots of getting to their shooter before they could do anything. Some offensive rebound putbacks. And suprisingly, Amir and Samb, these two supposed light weights, sure held their own tonight. Kind of surprised not to see Samb play more in the 2nd half. Oh, thats right, they are trying to play Theo into shape. Samb can, and should, play. I see there is some doubt about this strategy to let the bench play. It is the right way to go. Our four key guys on the bench, Stuckey, Maxiell, Amir, and Afflalo, need floor time majorly. Samb needs time too. Theo needs to get played into shape. (Hunter too, though him playing tonight hurt us pretty bad.) Dixon? I like Dixon. I have friends who think I am nuts for ever saying anything good about the guy. I have followed him all year. Not a bad player, for an emergency guard. We simply have four guys who are better. One thing still not done, although maybe we saw a start tonight, getting a replacement for Hayes in the rotation. Herrmann did look a lot better than Hayes in this game. GO PISTONS!!!!!
With a game like that, time to switch to those Flip Avatars..........
TWolves are worst in the league with now 15 games lost in the 4th qtr after having a lead.
I don't know if that's accurate. Didn't they win something like 7 of their last 12 before this game? 7-5 is not great in the West, but it's playoff material in the East. Generally speaking, I don't see how players care about the lottery. Who knows if they will be around next season? Why should I tank, risking my chances of getting good money, simply to help my current franchise get a better pick? Players that would purposely tank for the team either have incredibly good job security or are just dumb.
I know, but sometimes you want to beat the reallllllll good teams and after you blow a big lead to some inconsistent scrubs, you are upset for a few minutes...until you go look at the standings again and
Biggest regular season win in the entire Flip era, IMO. Impressive and here's why I really like it: "president of basketball operations Joe Dumars told Saunders that it might be a good idea to get some of his weary veteran starters some rest." Detroit will be tough for the Celtics to beat if the bench plays a significant role. Keep playing them. Keep the starters sharp but rested. MAYBE there IS hope.
You`re trying to be funny aren`t you????
I'm not sure if Minny scored while Samb was in the game. I think they got fouled a few times, but missed all the FT's.
Well we know Riley is tanking, playing d-leagures and 10 day contract guys. So far the Heat are four games ahead of the Sonics and six or so ahead of menphis and Minny for the right to have the most ping pong balls. Riles knows that #1's can lead to Championships as the Lakers took Magic #1 in 79 and Worthy #1 in 82 and he rode it to 5 rings in the eighties.....
And Spurs got Duncan which led to a few ships as well. ... and Orlando got O'Neal.
That was a lot of fun to watch wasn't it? Good to see the young guys feel responsible for the outcome. You can tell that Stuckey is a gamer.
It became fun somewhere in the middle of the 2nd quarter. Until than it was worse than Miami game - pure garbage.
Yeah, the 1st quarter was stale. But that's understandable. Very impressive comeback considering the game had no real meaning for us. It wasn't easy either as Minny kept pulling away.
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You can also read what we think about Windows 8.1 as well as everything about the Windows 8.1 RT-powered, Nvidia Tegra 4-based Surface 2.
The Surface Pro is now on sale in two versions, a somewhat lean 64GB version and a more usable 128GB variant.
We've been waiting quite a while for a tablet like this - and not just since it was announced in 2012. If you ever saw a Windows tablet PC and wanted one that was done properly, you've been waiting years for Surface Pro with full Windows 8.
What's more, it's now a steal - discounted prices that went into effect in early August are here for good, at least in the U.S., with the Surface Pro, Touch Cover and Surface RT all seeing some slices. What's more, there appear to be price cuts going into effect globally, with the Microsoft UK and Australia websites showing discounted pricing for Surface and accessories.
In the US, for example, a $100 Surface Pro price drop is in effect, meaning a 64GB Windows 8 machine starts at $799. Touch Covers are now $40 off, giving them a new starting point of $79, and a Limited Edition Touch Cover will cost $89.
Surface Pro looks like Surface RT, with the same distinctive look and the same full-size USB port - but it tweaks the iconic kickstand and the clever magnetic connectors for power and the two tear-off keyboards (Type Cover and Touch Cover both work interchangeably with Surface Pro and RT).
It improves on the 10.6-inch touchscreen of the Surface RT with higher resolution and a digital pen you can use to scribble notes on the screen (and snap into the power port for carrying around), but it still has some of the darkest blacks you'll find on any screen.
It's a PC, but it's still a tablet. Do you want it? Depends on what you really want.
If you've seen the Surface RT in the flesh, the Surface Pro looks utterly familiar. The same VaporMg coating over the same sturdy but sleek metal body, the same gently curved corners and wide black bezel, the same subtle Windows logo on the front.
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Honey soda pop made with yeast caused some problems with a few members of my family, we needed a way to carbonate the honey soda pop and eliminate the use of yeast. We wanted an easier and safer way to make the soda. I had no desire to have big tanks of co2 and hoses in the kitchen.
My wife and I were in a Kitchen store at a mall and saw a Sodastream machine sitting on the shelf, the machine uses co2 to carbonate the one litre bottles of water screwed onto the machine, then you are supposed to use their pre mixed drink concentrate to make your soda to your taste.
I believe that the co2 will carbonate 60 litres of soda then you need to replace the co2 tank.
Anyhow I thought that this would be just the thing for us to try. We had no interest in purchasing the sodastream premix flavors, we wanted it for honey soda drinks.
The machine works quite well, fill a liter bottle that is provided with the machine (2 bottles come with the machine) up to the full line with cold water and then screw bottle onto the machine, push a button several times until the machine buzzes-then release the pressure and unscrew the bottle. This bottle is now carbonated.
Add a half cup of your honey and a half teaspoon of your favorite extract (root beer, orange, cream soda etc.) and screw on lid, shake this as vigorously as you can to mix the honey and flavoring into the cold carbonated water.
Shake some more:)
I personally think that this is a better quality product than using the yeast to cause fermentation and much more user friendly--however there is always a down side, it is more costly this way.


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