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The 700 MHz Band is an important swathe of spectrum available for both commercial wireless and public safety communications. The Band consists of 108 megahertz of spectrum running from 698-806 MHz and was freed up as a result of the Digital Television Transition. The location of the 700 MHz Band -- just above the remaining TV broadcast channels -- gives it excellent propagation characteristics. This allows the 700 MHz signals to penetrate buildings and walls easily and to cover larger geographic areas with less infrastructure (relative to frequencies in higher bands).
In 2008, the FCC auctioned licenses to use portions of the 700 MHz Band for commercial purposes. Mobile wireless service providers have since begun using this spectrum to offer mobile broadband services for smartphones, tablets, laptop computers, and other mobile devices.
On February 22, 2012, the U.S Congress enacted the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Recovery Act of 2012 (Spectrum Act) which:
Directed the Commission to allocate the D-Block (758-763 MHz / 788-793 MHz) to public safety for use in a nationwide broadband network; and
Formed the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce. FirstNet is charged with responsibilities for deploying and operating the nationwide public safety broadband network and will hold the license for both the existing public safety broadband spectrum (763-769 MHz/793-799 MHz) and the reallocated D Block.
Allocated up to $7 billion dollars to FirstNet to construct this nationwide public safety broadband network.
The following figure depicts spectrum allocated for public safety in the 700 MHz band after enactment of the Spectrum Act.
700 MHz Band Plan for Public Safety Services
Narrowband Segment (769-775/799-805 MHz)
The Narrowband segment consists of 1920 6.25 kHz-wide channels operating as 960 pairs. Subject to compliance with spectrum usage efficiency requirements, licensees may combine two to four contiguous narrowband channels (6.25 kHz) to form 12.5 kHz and 25 kHz bandwidth channels. These channels are allocated into seven distinct groups and are governed by rules which are codified at 47 C.F.R. Part 90, Subpart R.
Narrowband Interoperability Channels: 128 6.25 kHz-wide channels (64 pairs) designated for interoperability use, including data Interoperability channels, calling Interoperability channels, and trunking Interoperability channels. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(1). Administration of these channels occurs at the state level either by a State Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) or an equivalent agency. Link: https://www.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/700-MHz/interoperability.html
General Use Channels: 1232 6.25 kHz-wide channels (616 pairs) designated for general use subject to Commission approved regional planning committee regional plans. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(6).
General Use (Former Reserve Channels): 96 6.25 kHz-wide channels (48 pairs) designated in October 2014 for general use subject to Commission approved regional planning committee regional plans. Public safety incumbents relocating from the 470-512 MHz band (T-Band) in the urban areas specified in Sections 90.303 and 90.305 of the Commission's rules have priority access to these channels. Outside the urban areas specified in Sections 90.303 and 90.305 of the Commission's rules, no more than eight 12.5 kHz-wide channel pairs may be designated for temporary deployable mobile trunked infrastructure (F2BT) that could be transported into an incident area to assist with emergency response and recovery. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(2).
State Channels: 384 channels (192 pairs) directly licensed to each state, territory, district and possession. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(5).
Air-Ground Channels: 32 6.25 kHz-wide channels (16 pairs) reserved for air-ground communications to be used by low-altitude aircraft and ground based stations. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(7).
Narrowband Low Power Channels: 36 channels 6.25 kHz-wide (18 pairs) designated for low power use for on-scene incident response purposes using mobiles and portables. These channels are subject to regional planning. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(3).
Narrowband Low Power Itinerant: 12 6.25 kHz-wide channels (6 pairs) designated for low power use for on-scene incident response purposes using mobiles and portables. These channels are not subject to regional plans. See 47 C.F.R. § 90.531(b)(4).
Applications for the 700 MHz Public Safety General Use channels must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate Regional Planning Committee within the area of proposed operation, prior to submission to a FCC certified public safety frequency coordinator. See https://www.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/coord.html. For more information on how to apply for and obtain RPC approval for 700 MHz General Use spectrum in your area, see https://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/700-MHz/regional-planning.html. An interactive map of 700 MHz RPC regions is also available at http://publicsafety.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/700-MHz/rpc-map.htm.
700 MHz Regional Planning
The general use channels and some of the narrowband low power channels are subject to regional planning. There are 55 Regional Planning Committees (RPCs), whose task is to create a plan for General Use in their area is used and submit it to the FCC. The Regional Planning page includes information on regional maps and plans, regional planning committees, and the latest information on regional planning committee meetings. Link: https://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/public-safety-spectrum/700-MHz/regional-planning.html
Public Safety/Private Partnership for Broadband
A key element of the 700 MHz public safety spectrum is the establishment of a framework for a 700 MHz Public Safety/Private Partnership between the licensee for one of the commercial spectrum blocks and the licensee for the public safety broadband spectrum.
700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Network
In a Second Report and Order released in 2007, the Commission devised a public-private partnership framework for the development of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network in the 700 MHz Public Safety Band. Under this framework, a ten megahertz block (763-768/793-798 MHz) was allocated for public safety broadband services and licensed on a nationwide basis to a Public Safety Broadband Licensee. An adjacent 10 megahertz allocation, the D Block (758-763/788-793 MHz), was designated for commercial auction under terms that would have required the eventual licensee to develop a shared wireless broadband network in the twenty megahertz of spectrum associated with both licenses.
The auction held in early 2008, however, failed to produce a winning bid for the D Block. In a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Third Further Notice of Rulemaking, the Commission sought comment on the best path forward for the D Block and the envisioned nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network in light of this outcome.
Since then, the Commission adopted an order (Waiver Order) in May 2010 granting conditional waivers to twenty-one public safety jurisdictions to pursue early deployment of statewide or regional public safety broadband networks. The Waiver Order imposed, among other conditions, the requirement that these networks deploy the Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadband technology platform. In a December 2010 order, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, in consultation with the Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC), adopted further interoperability requirements for these early deployments.
On January 26, 2011, the Commission adopted a Third Report and Order and Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in this proceeding. In the Third Report and Order, the Commission codified the requirement that 700 MHz public safety broadband network operators adopt 3GPP Release 8 (LTE) or higher as a common technology platform. In the Fourth Further Notice, the Commission considered and proposed additional requirements to further promote and enable nationwide interoperability among public safety broadband networks operating in the 700 MHz band. The issues addressed in the Fourth Further Notice remain pending.


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Famed the world over since the 1940s when traders and entrepreneurs from India and Iran pitched their stalls in this area, the Dubai Gold Market in Deira (also known simply as the Gold Souk) is a major reason why many people opt for Dubai for their holiday.
With its enormous collection of shops, its remarkable variety of goods and its exceptionally reasonable prices, the Dubai Gold Market is the ultimate destination for jewellery lovers. Window upon window is crammed with bracelets, necklaces, rings, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and more, making the Gold Souk one of the most popular tourist stops in the Middle East. In particular, it looks spectacular at night.
Some estimates have it that approximately 10 tonnes of gold is present at any given moment in the Dubai Gold Market. Barter hard, and remember that gold is sold by weight (look in the papers for the daily international price if you want to get serious about it), so it's only really the craftsmanship you'll be able to bargain down.
Not surprisingly, security is taken seriously at the Dubai Gold Market, and all operations are strictly monitored. However, pickpocketing can occasionally be a problem, so be careful in crowds.
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But Michelangelo persevered. His early sculptures caught the attention of Florence's great ruler, Lorenzo de' Medici, who invited the boy to be educated with his own sons. Soon after, Michelangelo was astonishing people with the lifelike creations he wrested from marble--from the heartbreaking Pieta he sculpted when he was only twenty-five to the majestic David that brought him acclaim as the greatest sculptor in Italy.
Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone--from family members to his demanding patrons--took advantage and let him down. His long and difficult association with Pope Julius II yielded his greatest masterpiece, the radiant paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and his most disastrous undertaking, the monumental tomb that caused the artist frustration and heartache for forty years.
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PlayBook: Don't Feed The Sports Writers
The NBA is instituting absurd and ineffective penalties for floppers plus our Week Five NFL picks.
The overt stupidity of the NBA was a topic I thought I had exhausted a long time ago, but it seems Commissioner Stern is bound and determined to keep the columnists fed, fat-dripping and drooling over whatever toxic spew trickles down from the league office to fester on the floor of the NBA.
This week we'll feed on "flopping," a terminal if not crippling illness supposedly infecting the brain stem and spinal columns of otherwise high-functioning adults and allegedly imported into the NBA by a diseased rabble of soccer-watching Europeans. It seems flopping, the act of exaggerating injury or force to draw a foul, has grown wild and rampant, unfettered by the leagues' 'high ideals' of literal gun-toting sportsmanship and fair play or by a sense of decency on the part of the players.
"But not anymore," says Stu Jackson, the NBA's esteemed Vice President of Tom Foolery and Technical Fouls, sounding eerily, in both inflection and tone, like Big Dave Stern: "Flops have no place in our game - they either fool referees into calling undeserved fouls or fool fans into thinking the referees missed a foul call."
Well geez, thanks for the vote of confidence, Stu. Did you hear what Stu just said? Stu thinks you're stupid and worse, he thinks the league hired-and-paid refs are too. In fact, Stu is so confident in our stupidity that he's going take it upstairs and put it in the hands of significantly smarter people, basketball people, people he trusts who won't be confused by the complexities of our game…
Stu says flopping is "any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause the referees to call a foul on another player," a definition, while well-intentioned, that is so vague and unilateral that it would seem to encompass and account for 95 percent of all contested hard drives to the basket. Players will first be warned and then fined, in increasing increments of $5,000, for every following flop-like infraction. The fines max out at 6 or $30,000 at which time the player will likely be suspended.
And sure as rain and death and taxes, all flopping will cease. Surely, these millionaires will be deterred by the penny-pinching tactics of a s(S)tern Oligarchy. And it's highly unlikely that any public displays of dissension will arise to make mountains out of molehills; after-the-fact sanctions being doled out to immature and premature prima donnas by invisible voices in the video room. No, that should sit well, that shouldn't draw any more attention to a problem that's barely a problem.
And it sure is a hands-on, practical approach to the situation: suspended sentences that in no way restrict or limit the physical action of flopping on the floor. Teams in critical game situations, say a Game 7 with seconds to play separated by a single point, surely won't risk a couple thousand dollars to win an NBA title. How would they sleep at night, nestled up nice and tight to their Championship ring?
Not well I'd imagine. But thank God we've got the smart folks at NBA to sort all this out for us simple people; believe me, we're all just barely following along.
This Week's Lines:
Atlanta (-3) over Washington
What makes Vegas think a defense that currently ranks 31st against the pass can get by on three points against a team that projects as the number one rated pass attack in the league?
San Diego (+3.5) over New Orleans
Remember when the Chargers let Drew Brees walk in what was at once a mistake and a huge vote of confidence in Philip Rivers? He'll want to prove them right, albeit 7 years later.
Chicago (-4.5) over Jacksonville
This could get a lot higher…
Houston (-8) over New York
The good news for the Jets is that the mutiny can start early this year and maybe the New York sporting press can get all the badgering out of their system early so we don't have to hear about it for a another full offseason.
Green Bay (-7) over Indianapolis
Green Bay currently sits in the top five for sacks and leads the leagues in assists meaning more than one guy is getting through O-line to the playmaker. Given Indianapolis' O-line we wouldn't be surprised to see Aaron Rodgers inexplicably in there but it spells bad news for Indy.
San Francisco (-9.5) over Buffalo
San Fran is a team that likes to sit back and let teams beat themselves. Buffalo is certainly inclined to do that.
Seattle (+3) over Carolina
I'm not really sold on Seattle as a team but Carolina's offensive isn't lateral enough to take on the 'Hawks; throwing the hopelessly downfield usually works in Seattle's favor.
Cincinnati (-3) over Miami
Here's to not buying that this is the real Reggie Bush.
Quick Slants:
Baltimore (-6) over Kansas City, Minnesota (-5.5) over Tennessee, Denver (+6.5) over New England, Philadelphia (+3.5) over Pittsburgh, Cleveland (+8.5) over New York.
Last Week: 7-6
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Chloe's Dress: Embellished Lace Gown
Victoria's Dress: Satin Silk gown (Wardrobe altered the dress and removed the bows)
Sharon's Dress: Basix (Thanks Stacy for the link!)
Kelly's Dress: Lace Contrast Waist Gown
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Beautiful !!!!
How many times do you have to use this word? 30 times or more? Have turned off because I find it so irritating!!!
#2 Thu 15 Nov 12 8:59pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
I know how that can be. I don't at all mind Jamie saying "beautiful" but I can't stand Giada di Laurentis! She says the word "nice" over and over again.
nice and cripsy
nice and golden
nice and soft
nice and warm
nice and melted
It never ends. It is a bit funny though isn't it, we're all just people at the end of the day and as long as he's not calling people names, using profanity or talking gibberish then I'd say no harm done. Don't let one word turn you off from some fantastic food.
#3 Thu 15 Nov 12 10:50pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
Welcome to the forum CarolynFord
I have to be honest and say that it never really bothers me when a presenter keeps using the same word to describe things . I think most people tend to use limited words to discribe things. Hence Giada Di Laurentis continually using the word 'nice' .
#4 Thu 15 Nov 12 11:05pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
Probably one post to mention that one single word is irritating
#5 Fri 16 Nov 12 3:41pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
Darn! I never noticed it before and now I will . . .
#6 Fri 16 Nov 12 4:44pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
#7 Fri 16 Nov 12 9:25pm
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Re: Beautiful !!!!
Lovely! I tend to use that a lot! But then again, nobody listens anyway. At times I use luvly, but ... whatever!
#8 Sat 17 Nov 12 11:19am
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Beautiful, crackin'...I'm chuffed with that!
Jamie's normal linguistics make him a joy to watch.
You can tell he's not reading some cue cards.
And thank you very much that he doesn't do what most cooking show cooks do at the end of recipe...take a taste "mmmmmmm that's soooo good..." with their best drool face on
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Health Beat: Pioneering treatment relieves pelvic pain
TROY, Mich. - Millions suffer from urological problems. They try traditional treatments like sacral nerve stimulation to treat their pelvic or urinary pain, fecal or urinary incontinence, but still the problem persists.
A Michigan doctor, however, has pioneered a treatment that could be the solution these patients are searching for.
"For months, my daughter and I went from doctor to doctor to doctor," said Donna Pelto.
"Right away, we knew something was wrong. We just didn't know what," said Becky Petrie, Pelto's daughter.
Pelto, however, knew how to describe her debilitating pain.
"You get your charcoal briquettes to the point where they're red and they're hot, and then stick them up in between your legs. That's what it feels like," Pelto explained.
Beaumont urologist Dr. Kenneth Peters pioneered an outpatient procedure that would relieve her pain.
"We've developed a way to place the electrode at the pudendal, which is a nerve that comes further deeper into the pelvis," said Peters, chairman of urology, director of Beaumont Women's Urology Center, Beaumont Health System.
An electrical pulse generator is connected to the electrode and implanted in the patient's buttock.
"It is a pacemaker for the nerves that control a lot of functions of the pelvis such as the bladder, the bowel, and the pelvic floor," Peters said.
The device sends a signal to the brain to ignore abnormal signals that cause bowel and urinary issues, or pelvic pain like Pelto's. The level of relief is remotely controlled by the patient.
Since receiving the treatment, Pelto said she feels a major difference.
"Every patient I see for the first time, I tell them they're going to be better because I believe it 100 percent," Peters said.
This procedure is not to be seen as a cure, but it is successful nearly 85 percent of the time in providing at least a 50 percent relief in symptoms.
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Predictions, anyone??
Predictions, anyone??
Last edited by SubRosa; 02-02-2011 at 02:21 PM.
I'm just going to predict the top three.
1) Kozuka
2) Takahashi
3) Reynolds, Sawyer, Abbott, Mroz, Mahbahnoozadeh, Hanyu, Ten, Rippon.. could be any of them or maybe one of the Chinese guys, I don't know much about them. I think it's safe to say Kozuka and Takahashi are kinda in a league of their own and Kozuka's been doing better than Takahashi lately.
1) Ando
2) Asada
3) Suzuki, Czisny, or Phaneuf
I don't think Rachael and Mirai will medal since they haven't been skating their best lately. You never know though.
1) Pang/Tong
2) Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
3) Yankowskas/Coughlin
..but don't count out Lawrence/Swiegers, Takahashi/Tran, Denney/Barrett, Evora/Ladwig, and Duhamel/Radford.. lol I've listed almost everybody there as potentially winning a medal, I just realized.
1) Davis/White
2) Virtue/Moir (if they're there)
3) Crone/Poirier or Shibutanis
If Virtue and Moir aren't there, I think C/P and the Shibutanis will take the silver and bronze, but I'm not sure in what order. I want Weaver and Poje to win a medal too, but the Shibutanis have been skating really well.
I can't predict. My prediction has jinxed my favorites before. What I want to say is that this time 4CC is like a world championship without Patrick Chan. Go everybody!
I simply can't predict...I have too many favourites...( Oh, poor me )
How close? The question is not with Davis/White win, but how close will Virtue/Moir be? Not only the season away from competition, but the SD levels playing such a significant role. It took D/W nearly half a season to get really comfortable with them. Do V/M have a leg up (no pun intended) seeing their skate-mates, or do they suffer more by not being out there? How close will the Shibs vs Crone/Poirier vs Weaver/Poje be? Both W/P and the Shibs had their season best skates at Nationals. Both have one victory over the other. Both got their silver medal in part due to a missing team at Nationals (V/M and S/B). But it definitely feels like the Shibs are on a more dramatic upswing. Do Chock/Zuerlein have enough to keep it close? Will Shpilband/Zoueva be allowed to leave the Kiss n Cry during the ice dance competition?
1. Davis/White
2. Virtue/Moir
3. Crone/Poirier
4. Shibutanis
5. Weaver/Poje
Can Rippon and Abbott demonstrate why they should've been named to the Worlds team? Can Reynolds land his ninety-thousand quads and remind us he could be a force for the rest of the decade? Can Sawyer take his Nationals momentum and turn it into something real internationally? Can Takahashi right the ship and actually be the world champion we all believe him to be? Will Kozuka sneak through the chaos and state for the world: "Watch out!!" Can Hanyu make his next generation statement?
1. Kozuka
2. Takahashi
3. Abbott
4. Reynolds
5. Rippon
Asada or Ando? Who will the Japanese federation choose? Does anyone suspect that so clearly supporting Ando over Asada at Japanese Nationals will come back to bite them in the posterior? Can Phaneuf make a statement? Can Suzuki charm us?
1. Asada
2. Czisny
3. Ando
4. Phaneuf
5. Suzuki
Once more, unto the breach, Pang and Tong. One more chance to skate like the reigning world champions you are. One more chance to demonstrate that you should indeed be on the podium. Not here. At worlds. Because S/S are revitalized. K/S have the season's best program. And V/T are hungry after lesser partners and are working hard to devour the figure skating world whole. Nothing less than a 20 point victory will do.
1. Pang/Tong
2. Moore-Towers/Moscowitch
3. Yankowskas/Coughlin
4. Evora/Ladwig
5. Duhamel/Radford
- completely agree with Pairs. Only question is whether or not Lawrence/Sweigers will factor in somehow. They didn't have a great freeskate at Nationals, but otherwise would have been closer to MT/M.
- Ladies is probably right on as well. To be honest, haven't paid too much attention to ladies. Czisny could win if she has 2 clean skates.
- I really think the Men's event is wide open. It all depends who can skate clean. Reynolds will be looking for respect by putting down 2 great programs. If he does, he can be great and medal, but I think the Japanese (perhaps both) will win.
For dance, Davis and White and Virtue and Moir will definitely finish 1 and 2. We just don't know what order. I think V/M are simply superb technically, and have the edge over D/W in the best of times. This is not the best of seasons for V/M, so we just won't know until we see them. These 2 teams are light years ahead of the competition at 4CC. For 3, 4, and 5, any of the 3 teams could medal. Based on Nationals results, Shibutani's would win. C/P and W/P were virtually tied at Nationals. It was so close. C/P may be champions, but I think most of the world see V/M as the #1 Canadian Team. Internationally, C/P and V/M have also been very close. If every team skate clean and has PB, which I hope they do, then I'm not sure how everything will fall for #3, #4, #5.
Every time one of these prediction threads come up , I feel I just can't wrap my brain around the situation. I'm going - On the one hand... But on the other hand..all the while feeling like an octopus , and there still aren't enough hands to cover all the possibilities...Then along comes pogue with one of his sets of questions , and it helps me to focus..somewhat.
I think it will be too close to predict between D/W and V/M for the same reasons NorthernDancers laid out. Since the beginning of the GP , when the GW marks seemed to be all over the place , Z/S 's teams seem to have gotten a good handle on what the judges are looking for. So V/M will have known very well what adjustments to make , and there's nothing questionable about their music. So I'm betting the one place where any sizeable gap could be opened up would be the FD . D/W have been skating really well , but I don't think they've quite made the Tango their own , which could lessen their advantage .
#3-#5 Oh,boy !..here, my preferences take over..I've felt all season that the only advantage C/P have had over W/P has been in the the FD program...and I suspect that's mainly a matter of taste. I've never been a fan of W/P's program, but I don't think C/P's program necessarily has more content. It has the Dean signature and the Dean rep. But his programs have not always swept judging panels away, and C/P don't bring any extra emotional oomph to it , while there's no question W/P can sell a program. But..here come the Shibs. They've been getting very good levels , and of the three couples , their programs are the most perfectly suited to them . Their expression cannot be faulted ,IMO, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them vault past both C/P and W/P at this competition. I don't say it's a sure thing, but I think it's a real possibility. ( Of all the programs we've seen this year ,P/B and Sh/Sh are the two sets of programs that have stood out to me as being perfect for the skaters )
I don't think C/Z can keep it close .
I think pogue's pairs picks could be pretty good, but I don't know if Y/C's emotional impact will be as strong outside of NA..and I confess I have a fond hope of Takahashi / Tran shaking things up and maybe sneaking on to the podium ( they're very polished and appealing ).
Still lost with the Ladies and Men..I do think it will be between Dai and Taka for the men, with a slight preference on my part for Dai..and beyond that ..??? ( a roll of the dice )... I hope to see Asada come back, but realize she's bravely tackled a project that may not be attainable in a year.. I hope for Alyssa, Cynthia, Akiko..pretty much equally..so I guess the upside is, I'll be pretty difficult to disappoint.
I don't know what to say about Miki ( I don't want to go into a Morozov rant) I feel at best, neutral about her .
Last edited by colleen o'neill; 02-04-2011 at 02:35 PM.
I can't believe how many top competitors are going to be a 4CC this year!
It IS going to be a like a worlds before before worlds, except no Chan or Kim and the Euros of course.
The men and the ice dancers are the only ones that are fairly predictable. It's ice, but still I expect to see Daisuke and Kozuka battling for 1st and another D/W, V/M showdown. I can't wait to see V/M and see how they are doing. No predictions.
I'm still surprised that Kim Yuna didn't want to do this competition.
Ladies are hard to predict. Mao seemed on her way to getting it all back at Japanese nationals but not quite there yet. Miki is always formidable when she skates well but she's always hot or cold.
I bet Alissa is on the podium if she skates like she did at nationals.
I have a feeling Mirai and Rachael will do better than they did at nationals. I'd put Mirai on the podium if she finally skates her lights out there this year.
I wouldn't at all count Rachael out for the podium either. Let's not forget the Euro ladies are not there and Rachael is still one of the more reliable skaters out there.
Akiko is great but she's one of those who can't afford to make many mistakes if the others don't falter.
If Mirai and Alissa skate their best though, I'd put them above Akiko. Obviously, they need to be spectacular but I wouldn't even rule out Mirai or Alissa taking gold.
Let's just hope that Mirai manages to put her nationals disappointment on freeze and pours her heart into this competition. It's hard to know what her mindset will be.
I'm sure she didn't give much thought to 4CC coming into the season and thought she would be at worlds. So she can either be miserable and let her disappointment get to her or put everything she's got into finishing the season well and regaining the confidence of her coach and herself. I can only hope that Frank and Mirai are working well together.
Just please let her not mess up another spin. Hope she knows she still got loads of fans who wish her the best.
I never know what to expect from Cynthia.
None of these ladies can't be counted out though. That's what makes it so exciting
I hope Jeremy will show his stuff this competition. I'm really hoping and believing in a medal for him. Adam hopefully will keep it together too and can't be counted out.
It's impossible to predict who will falter and who won't. But if they DON'T falter than I predict, Mao and Miki/ Alissa/ Mirai on the podium. I think Alissa and Mirai can beat Miki based on spins and PCS but they can't afford mistakes.
I would predict Jeremy for the podium too if everyone is clean but I don't know how much his lack of a quad will hold him back this season. Can he beat Oda without a quad? I dunno...
Last edited by Layfan; 02-04-2011 at 04:49 PM.
Well, I can see Jeremy beating everyone with a clean skate except for Kozuka and Daisuke. It'll be interesting to see if Jeremy tries his quad. I miss him having a quad. But maybe he'll be busy trying to work out whatever kinks he had that led to his dismal nationals performance.
Yikes ! How did I forget about Mirai ? I love Mirai. Another one to wish to have a really good skate.
I really can't lose with the ladies...
Kexin Zhang from China is too young to compete here. Her listed age is 10/17/1995 which would have her as only 14 by the cutoff date of July 1st. After the whole third pair at Junior Worlds debacle, this is quite, well, suspicious.


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A high performance surround sound HTiB system featuring a 100W 5-channel A/V Receiver, 1080p-compatible HDMI with 3D and Audio Return Channel (4 in/1 out), HD Audio decoding, iPod/iPhone and Bluetooth® compatibility, 4 SCENE buttons, a 5 channel speaker package and a powerful 8" 100W Subwoofer
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Background Video Feature
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Eco-Friendly Design
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- Bluetooth (A2DP) compatibility with optional Yamaha Bluetooth® Wireless Audio Receiver YBA-10
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- Subwoofer phase select / Subwoofer out
- Initial Volume Setting and Maximum Volume Setting
- Audio Delay for adjusting Lip-Sync (0-240 ms)
- 40-station preset tuning / Auto preset tuning
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High Picture Quality
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General specifications
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Conversion Maximization - The Essential Workflow
Econsultancy's Conversion Rate Optimization Report 2012 found just 22% of almost 900 companies surveyed were happy with their conversion rates.
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some folks modding the 308s and 223 axis/edge rifle mags to hold more than stock.
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Trags Take… A method to the madness
|03.16.09 at 2:02 pm ET
It is a scientific fact.
The middle of March has become the least productive time of year in corporate America. Even in these times of economic volatility and stress where's there's more pressure to produce, you can almost bet that every office has a pool of predictions as to who is going to advance in the NCAA Men's Division I basketball championship.
And you can bet people are emailing, facebooking, texting and generally trash-talking each other's teams, star players and of course, picks.
I might as well get in on the act. So here goes.
Five teams I love in this tournament:
1. Louisville. Rick Pitino knows what this time of year is about. His team was a machine at the Big East Tournament. They won 19 of 21 games this year in the best basketball conference in the country. Any questions?
2. Memphis. Yes they play in the Memphis Athletic Conference, also known as Conference USA, where they have won an amazing 61 straight games. Only Kentucky's string of 64 versus SEC teams between 1945-50 is better. And they are on a 25-game winning streak. They ARE athletic enough to knock of No. 1 UConn in the West, if of course, they hit those pesky free throws.
3. North Carolina. Assuming Ty Lawson's toe isn't an issue, there's ZERO reason to think he and Tyler Hansbrough won't lead the Heels back to the Final Four in Detroit.
4. Villanova. These Wildcats are eight deep and it's a quality eight. That is vital at tournament time because if one or two stars are off, someone needs to pick up the slack. As long as Scottie Reynolds doesn't go 1-on-5 too often, they should advance to Boston.
5. Xavier. This team lost Josh Duncan, Drew Lavender and Stanley Burrell and everyone figured a step back was in order. All they did was reload with C.J. Anderson, B.J. Raymond and Derrick Brown. One of the most athletic teams in the tournament.
Five teams I wouldn't bank on heading to the Motor City:
1. Syracuse. Great story. Seven overtimes. Two Big East Tourney wins, including a victory in arguably the most epic (certainly not greatest) college basketball game of all time. What does that get you? A No. 3 seed in the same South bracket as Oklahoma, North Carolina and Gonzaga and 15 sets of tired legs. Don't be shocked if No. 14 Stephen F. Austin pulls the upset.
2. Wake Forest. Way too up-and-down from January on. Team looked like they were going to compete for a No. 1 seed and challenge UNC for ACC supremacy when they were ranked No. 1 early on. They lost at home to Virginia Tech when they were top-ranked and haven't been the same since.
3. Boston College. They have been truly one of the fascinating stories of the college season. Al Skinner may not receive the national coach of the year but NO ONE did more to deserve it. He took a group that was picked to finish in the lower third of the ACC and rallied them to beat unbeaten and No. 1 North Carolina. Yes, we know who they lost to just days later but they also beat Duke and should have beaten them in the ACC tourney. But the fact is, they are bracketed with Michigan State, and Louisville in the Midwest, that is if they get by red-hot USC.
4. Duke. Why the hate for the ACC, Trags? Well, if you watched Duke lose at B.C. and you watched the game on Friday night at the Georgia Dome, you realize how flawed the Blue Devils are. If you don't let Jon Scheyer kill you, you stand a really good chance of doing what VCU did in 2007.
5. Marquette. Sorry Doc Rivers. Another great early-season story. Then Dominic James broke the fifth metatarsal in his left foot. Season over. Jerel McNeal is a fabulously talented player, who can score from anywhere on the court and led a ferocious comeback against Villanova in the Big East Tournament. But there aren't enough big bodies who score to sustain him in this highly intense environment.
Trags Final Four Take:
Louisville over Memphis in one national semifinal.
Villanova over North Carolina in the other.
Trags Final Take:
Louisville over Villanova.
Also of note:
The US Basketball Writers of America announced their All-Americans on Monday:
First Team
DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh, F, 6-7, 265, So., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Stephen Curry, Davidson, G, 6-3, 185, Jr., Charlotte, N.C.
Blake Griffin, Oklahoma, F, 6-10, 251, So., Oklahoma City, Okla.
Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina, F, 6-9, 250, Sr., Poplar Bluff, Mo.
James Harden, Arizona State, G, 6-5, 218, So., Los Angeles, Calif.
Second Team
Sherron Collins, Kansas, G, 5-11, 200, Jr., Chicago, Ill.
Luke Harangody, Notre Dame, F, 6-8, 255, Jr., Schererville, Ind.
Jodie Meeks, Kentucky, G, 6-4, 208, Jr., Norcross, Ga.
Jeff Teague, Wake Forest, G, 6-2, 180, So., Indianapolis, Ind.
Hasheem Thabeet, Connecticut, C, 7-3, 263, Jr., Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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i am in my third yr of beekeeping. not a lot to tell about myself -- i have a veggie garden of heirlooms and some fruit trees and much native flora for which i am most appreciative.
this season, i pretty much left the bees alone. last two years, i checked the hives often, and i suspect i did more harm than good by cracking the hives. this year, while i monitored frequently, i did so just by watching the comings and goings of the bees at the hives, and inspected around the hives for signs of abnormalities.
i have come to this forum today because i have a burning question for which i have not found an answer in my readings or through an internet search. hope someone can help.
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By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
OK, so they're not kids.
But baseball indeed keeps us all young, doesn't it? I mean, look at those little boys all excited about the opening of the Wally Pontiff Jr. Baseball Hall of Fame at LSU's Alex Box Stadium.
Fans will be able to go inside on the day of the season opener, next Friday. The news release from LSU says fans will also be able to go inside before and during all home games.
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There's a moment of orderly silence before a football play begins. Players are in position, linemen are frozen, and anything is possible. Then, like a traffic accident, stuff begins to randomly collide. From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bones, closer to 4 seconds than 5.
One-mississippi - Joe Theismann, the Redskins quarterback takes the snap and hands-off to his running mate. Two-mississippi - it's a trick play, a flea-flicker. And the running back tosses it back to the quarterback. Three-mississippi - up 'til now the play's been defined by what the quarterback sees; it's about to be defined by what he doesn't. Four-mississippi - Lawrence Taylor is the best defensive player in the NFL. And has been from the time he walked onto the fielded as a rookie. He will also change the game of football as we know it... Legendary quarterback Joe Theismann never played another down of football.
Now, y'all would guess that more often than not, the highest paid player on an NFL team is the quarterback. And you'd be right. But what you probably don't know is that more often than not, the second highest paid player is, thanks to Lawrence Taylor, a left tackle. Because, as every housewife knows, the first check you write is for the mortgage, but the second is for the insurance. The left tackle's job is to protect the quarterback from what he can't see coming. To protect his blind side
Best part of that movie hands down.
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
Great post F, but everyone one needed help stopping Lawrence.
One thing I forgot about was how strong his hands were.
He was an incredible football player. The greatest Giant player of all time.
very cool.......
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
Too bad Taylor would have drawn about 9,000 flags a season...
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
Getting nostalgic Rosie ? I don't blame you !
The Michael Jordan of linebackers. He paved the way for players like Armstead, Strahan and young Tuck but it seems the further and further we get away from this era, young Giant fans are forgetting what Giants football is all about. 41-0 over the Vikings is Giants football, what we did to Atlanta last year is Giants football, what we did to the Pats in SB 42 is Giants football. We love defense more than offense in NY... it is what it is.
That's the real LT! Thanks for posting the video. I would love to see this team do throwbacks with those uniforms. I always liked "GIANTS" written on the helmets better than the "NY".


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Over 7000 posts, advanced member, joined March 2002. 1st post (as anonymous) was the day after Super Bowl 35
All those defences played with a base Four down linemen irrespective of stunts and coverages.
Our LBers for Super Bowl 42 were Kawika Mitchell, Antonio Pierce, Reggie Torbor, and Mathias Kiwanuka.
Our LBers for Super Bowl 46 were Chase Blackburn, Michael Boley, Jacquian Williams and Mathias Kiwanuka.
LT is my all time favorite Giant and I agree the LB position is very important, but the list above from the 2 most recent Super Bowls isn't all that impressive. I know our D has had issues at times, but 2 Super Bowls in the past 5 years is pretty damn good.
They need to shore up the middle in the run game and that is the bottom line, this team got run over period!


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Locked in a hot car: This dog's stuffed
During a very hot afternoon in the Bay of Plenty John decided to cool off by walking in the surf at Papamoa Beach. "I parked and locked my car with Rolly left seat-belted in the front passenger seat. Rolly is a very large brown Purex soft toy dog who is my travelling companion," he explains. "When I returned to my car I noticed a ticket under the front window wiper ... a message from a passing stranger who had noticed Rolly sitting in a very hot locked car with no water or food: 'Animal abuse. Shame on you!' I had a quiet chuckle and wished that I had the opportunity to have met the humorist."
Mr Spock, the agony aunt of pure logic
In 1968, a teen magazine published a letter addressed to Mr Spock of Star Trek. The unnamed teen said she felt like an outcast, as she was bi-racial and felt rejected by both races. She ended it with "I guess I'll never have any friends". Leonard Nimoy replied, speaking of Mr Spock's experience as a child of a Vulcan father and a human mother, with this. "Spock learned he could save himself from letting prejudice get him down.
He could do this by really understanding himself and knowing his own value as a person. He found he was equal to anyone who might try to put him down - equal in his own unique way. You can do this, too, if you realise the difference between popularity and true greatness. It has been said that 'popularity' is merely the crumbs of greatness. When you think of people who are truly great and have improved the world, you can see that they are people who have realised that they didn't need popularity because they knew they had something special to offer the world, no matter how small that offering seemed. And they offered it and it was accepted with peace and love. It's all in having the patience to find what you yourself have to offer the world that's really uniquely yours." (Via Buzzfeed.com)
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Hi all,
I am converting my equipment to 8 frame and I placed this particular hive in the new boxes last week. There was some capped brood at that time but not a lot. At the time I thought it was just because it is early for brood rearing. Today I checked on them and although there is plenty of honey and bees, there is no brood at all. I found the Queen, but she seems unusually small. There were a lot of queen cups in the upper box. Why is the Queen not laying? Should I try to put a frame of eggs in from another hive so they can make another queen? But there are no drones yet for mating even if I did that. Is this hive just doomed?


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Martin Luther King Jr.
UTSA community invited to join Martin Luther King Jr. March
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Jan. 3, 2007)--The UTSA Office of Institutional Diversity will lead UTSA's participation in the Martin Luther King Jr. March on Jan. 15.
UTSA students, staff and faculty are invited to join the contingent in the annual march in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The group will meet at 9 a.m. near the tennis courts at the Eastside Boys & Girls Club, 3500 Martin Luther King Drive. Beginning at 10 a.m., the march will go for three miles and end at Pittman Sullivan Park, 1101 Iowa St.
VIA Metropolitan Transit will have Park and Ride service available. For more information, visit the VIA Metropolitan Transit Web site.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
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For more information or to sign up for the march, e-mail the Office of Institutional Diversity or call (210) 458-4120.
Each year, a variety of educational, inspirational and celebratory events in San Antonio honors the revered civil rights leaders. San Antonio hosts the largest march in the United States. This year, more than 100,000 adults and children are expected to march on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
The 2006 MLK March and Commemorative Program, coordinated by the City of San Antonio MLK Commission, marks King's 77th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the national holiday in his honor. "Marching Toward the Dream " is the national theme. An events calendar will be listed at the City of San Antonio MLK Commemoration Web site.


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It's a trend that has implications for your family and your business.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
Which are there more of in the U.S. today dairy farms or people who are at least 100 years old?
According to the Census Bureau, there were 53,364 people in the U.S. in 2010 who were at least 100 years old (called centenarians) versus 53,132 licensed dairies.
That so many Americans have already reached triple digits is a reflection of the amazing ways that medicine, science and technology have turned the world upside down. But like the old Bachman Turner Overdrive song says, "You ain't seen nothing yet." The Census Bureau projects that by 2050 there will be 600,000 centenarians in the U.S.
The odds of living to 100 are better than you may think good enough, in fact, that they deserve serious consideration and perhaps some planning.
According to the Department for Work and Pensions in Great Britain, a person who is 55 years old today has a 1-in-8 chance of living to 100, and a 20-year-old has almost a 1-in-4 chance. For babies today the odds are better than 1-in-4, and for girl babies the odds are better than 1-in-3. (Females are more likely to make it to 100 than males are at every age.)
Retiring at 65 may be part of your life plan, but what about your kids? Transitioning a dairy to the next generation has never been easy; centenarian lifespans are going to complicate things tremendously. What happens, for instance, if dairy owners decide to keep working until 75, 80 or older? Living to 100 suggests that is exactly what will happen, especially if technology keeps reducing the need for strenuous physical labor.
Century-long lifespans create a high possibility of dairies having three or even four generations actively involved in the business. Will it be big enough to support all of them? Will egos and personalities mesh in harmony? Will living to 100 turn out to be a joy or a headache? It's something to think about now.
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Why I Like (George) Romney
Peter Worthington | Posted 02.07.2012 | Canada
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Apart from being impressed with what seems a class act by Mitt Romney, I have fond memories of his father, George Romney. When he was still CEO of American Motors in Detroit, I wrote him a letter about a defective door panelling in my snappy new Metropolitan convertible. A couple of weeks later, I got a message to phone the car dealer.


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Intel is not your typical surveyor of open source. As a proprietary juggernaut, Intel coming into the Hadoop distribution community further validates open source as the marketplace. Boyd Davis, VP Marketing at Intel, sat down with theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante last night to discuss Intel's big contribution plans for the Hadoop community, amongst other things. The full video is below.
Intel announced at Strata its Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution). The offering, which includes Intel Manager for Apache Hadoop software, is built from the silicon chip up, to deliver industry-leading performance and improved security features.
Davis said that Intel's main focus is on ease of deployment in Hadoop, and open source has a three-level framework:
- Interactivity and responsiveness
- Security — encryption into the file systems (Rhino)
- Reliability and enterprise quality of the stability of the platform
"We're building the silicon into Hadoop, rather than building Hadoop into the silicon," said Davis. He further elaborated that clients want a more granular level of security, and customers are very much clamoring for that now. Furthermore, he said INTEL is seeing a lot of clients demanding better security for multi-dependency data storage.
The client feedback Intel is gathering espouses a need for Bid Data latency issues to be more secure. "We are absolutely planning on building a service offering around package applications and making big data more accesible and more secure," Davis says. His company aims to drive for standardization and integration wherever possible on Big Data.
Davis identified intelligence devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) at the edge of the network as posing the biggest data safety risk. Securing data across the entire network, even reaching the edge, is going to take an integrated solution of hardware and software.
Furrier asked Davis what his to-do list in the next 6-12 months was. Data center scope, exposing APIs from their legacy items, data center optimization, and investing in the long term success of Hadoop fits into those plans. Big Data is going to be a mix of old and new tools, and Intel wants to create a platform. The goal is that its partners like SAP, SAAS, and Cisco can bring great infrastructure to the stack alongside Intel's baked-in offerings.
We'll have more great interviews from Strata throughout the week. Check our live broadcast here, and on our YouTube channel is where you'll find all of our archived segments from Strata and other great events in Big Data and the Cloud.


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Sitting in on Tufts lecturer Michael T. Fournier's course "History of Punk Rock," offered via the university's Experimental College, one can't help but think of Johnny Rotten's famous final words: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Why the hell weren't there classes like this when I was in school? Who wouldn't want to delve into a required reading list that includes Jon Savage's England's Dreaming, Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Lester Bangs's "Of Pop and Pies and Fun, a Program for Mass Liberation in the Form of a Stooges Review"? Or listen to songs by the Buzzcocks, the Dictators, and X — uploaded by the prof to the Web — for homework? Or produce a podcast, with commentary and song clips, in lieu of writing a five-page paper?
(Papers are due next week, Fournier reminds his students. Should they choose to podcast instead, it would behoove them to pay attention to file names. He'd had a hell of a time trying to upload a file for the course recently; it was only after 15 tries that he realized it included the Bad Brains song "Pay to Cum" — and Archive.org was trying to keep him from spreading pornography.)
Next up on the syllabus: the Boston scene. And on Monday night, a few stragglers ambled in to audit the class; word had filtered out about a special guest speaker, Mission of Burma's Clint Conley. "I figured rather than me blabbing about Burma, I'd have Clint come in and blab about Burma," Fournier said.
Conley's insights into his own band's early days were enlightening. ("La Peste were who we wanted to be when we grew up." They realized early on that the world at large "had no use for the kind of music we were making.") But it was his own coming of age as a music fan that the class seemed to find most interesting. In high school, he'd sneak from suburban Connecticut to Manhattan to see the New York Dolls, arriving in class the next day with sleepy eyes still smeared with makeup. During his own college days, he was a card-carrying member of the Iggy Pop fan club. Most amazing of all, he was at the Velvet Underground's first show, when they opened for the Myddle Class at New Jersey's Summit High School in 1965. He was in fifth grade then, and went to see the headliner. He remembers nothing whatsoever of the Velvets. "I'm half tempted," he says ruefully, "to pay some psychiatrist to take me back there."
Also on hand was DJ and booker Shred, who regaled the class, some of whom were born in 1988, about the halcyon hardcore days of SS Decontrol and the Freeze (both recently profiled in the documentary American Hardcore), the days when a few local bands at the Channel could easily draw 1500 kids. Shred had a couple of confessions to make. 1) Once a "Central Mass idiot" getting fucked up on acid and weed, he bought in to the Boston Crew straight-edge lifestyle almost overnight because the music was so powerful; and 2) One day, after having spent the afternoon moshing at an SSD all-ages show, he and his buddies went off to see Blue Öyster Cult and Foghat later that evening.
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I have two questions one about finding the queen, and another related to the use of a queen excluder. For reference, I use all mediums two of my hives are second year the other three new packages.
Finding the Queen
Cant do it. In general, doesnt bother me because as long as I see eggs/brood (both capped and uncapped) I know shes in there. But today I needed to find her and couldnt. My specific question was feedback on a strategy Id heard once on a podcast. Place a queen excluder under the brood boxes (first two) (Put a box or two from the upper honey supers under for this trick) and use Fisher Bee Quick and a fume board to push the bees down through the excluder the queen will be the only one left dancing. Sounded interesting anyone ever try something like this? Any thoughts?
Queen Excluder
My second year hives again, all mediums now have a fourth box on them being drawn out. The first three are almost completely drawn but I still have a couple frames (one or two in the first three boxes) untouched. My brood frames are also kind of spread out across the three boxes 2 in first box, 2 or 3 in second, 1 or 2 in third. The rest of the frames honey/pollen or again a blank in each box. Just seems to me to be inefficient (but Im not a bee). I expected and I think hear that the normal would be 6 or 7 drawn brood frames in the first, maybe balance of 2-4 in the second box, 3rd all honey. I also suspect that having more of the frames in the first two boxes used for honey and pollen may be putting pressure on the brood chamber and causing my bees to think swarm! Reversing really wouldnt do anything in this situation I need to open the brood chamber and make more room for the queen but the question is -
Would using a queen excluder help the hive manage its more limited space more efficiently? Encourage use of first two boxes for brood? Does the unlimited brood nest have them care less where the brood is as long as its center and accessible? If I decided to use an excluder, would I place it above the second medium? Is that too small of a brood chamber? (I use 10 frame boxes). Im asking because my packages are just getting started and I could go that route with them if I wanted. let them draw out the first two boxes then put an excluder on. It just seems to me that my hives both of the second year hives are laid out kind of eclectically.
Thanks - Jim