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Every response here is a good one for your situation as I see it. Good thing about beekeeping is that it's bigger than any one know-it-all.
Every response here is a good one for your situation as I see it. Good thing about beekeeping is that it's bigger than any one know-it-all.
People get advised to do things all the time. I get tons of calls over dead queens every year because " i was advised to......"
A lot of advice messes up bees!!!!!! Whats the proof its effective to do this?
Not saying spraying wont help but does anyone have a link to a double blinded study showing doing so is an effective way to get bees to draw comb? Not sure the anecdotal evidence is even there in and of itself!!
Its almost like the currently continuing bogus theory that top bar hive will somehow cure the CCD problem... Unproven as far as I know.
Over the years I must have put on 100,000 new frames. Wax. Plastic, Aluminium... all over the board. The only thing that gets them going is a flow........ Nothing else.
It may be nectar ( the better option) or someone feeding but nothing activates the wax glands but a flow.
Yes there are ways you can mess things up... Wrongly placed or timed excluder use as well as new frames placed in the wrong location in the hive will mess with the bees storage of nectar. without a picture of the setup my guess its a matter of no flow above all else.
In this case a chat regarding local flows with a handful of 10 year plus beeks within 30 miles of trotter would be the best spent time invested in moving this years learning curve forward....
Over time trott will be able to anticipate when and how hard the flow will be based on a numerous data inputs of historical data gleaned over time. Most locations need about a ten year history of use to produce a good guess.
Looking for bees to draw new frames just because you put them on is wishful thinking at best. If the conditions are not right its not happening.
If I drove around bee yards in California and saw supers stacked up 3 deep right now I would .With our drought there is no way its going to happen so why put them on. History says syrup purchases would be more prudent than money spent on gas tossing supers on and off in a year like exists currently.
Same could be said of anywhere else I could keep bees. All beekeeping is as local when it comes to flows.... Super placement is commensurate.
I absolutely could not get my bees to draw plastic foundation. So mid-flow, out of frustration, I put my super between my brood boxed splitting the brood nest.
The bees did not appreciate it but that entire super was drawn in a week. I then pulled it, shook the bees enough to make sure the queen was not in it.
I put a queen excluder on. Then put the super on top of the hive. I let the bees have a top entrance. The drones that hatched in the super didn't fair well but the rest were fine. I left the super alone until all were brood had emerged.
The bees filled that super fast. I then used every other frame as seed for the super above it. The bees draw frames between drawn frames fast. So, once you have some going, you don't have to mess with the brood nest again.
That is just my experience born of frustration. I'm sure I did it all wrong but it worked well.
Started 9/13, building slowly, not trying the no treatment anymore
If you have it.....? It was advised to me to roll some extra wax on new frames and that can help get them started drawing the wax out. Feeding is key also with one to one syrup. If it is a first year hive I am with the feed and more feed advice. Then next year provided the bees make it through winter or even if they don't... next year all that pretty drawn comb will be ready for the bees to use and things will happen quicker. Patience is also important. The first five days the bees may be just sealing and cleaning the hive and getting organized. They will work on it as time proceeds. I notice that the bees seem slow sometimes and then they make quite a bit of progress in a short period of time so that is part of what is so cool about beekeeping. The bees and flows and weather keep things uncertain. Sometimes it goes well. Sometimes it goes extremely well and sometimes the bees dwindle and die too. Experience comes in waves and the variables seem limitless to me. I have been checking mine weekly or bi weekly and some are drawing the wax much quicker than others. Good Luck with your bees!
Experienced beekeeper with an obnoxious attitude toward people with less experience - there are too many generous and patient people here to bother putting up with this nonsense. Like I said, best bet is to just put him on ignore.
Good luck with your problem by the way, sounds like you are getting good advice from others.
I thought about not responding to this thread. The correct answer (yes you are being impatient and the bees will draw the super when they have a need to) has been given.
I was bothered by the "I request that you NOT respond to anything I post." statement.
After an hour of chopping weeds while covered with black flies I think I can make a civil post.
Not too long ago, I would have been embarrassed to post a basic question without trying to research it outside of BeeSource. BeeSource was a source of information and was primarily used after other avenues had been pursued.
But BeeSource evolves and questions such as that posed by the OP are the new normal. Do I like it? Not particularly but I don't pay the bills to keep BeeSource running so my opinion doesn't count for much.
There are many ways to learn about keeping bees. Maybe it is a generational thing but I'm not comfortable with the Internet being the first place information is sought. Why? It is hard to discern who speaks wisely and who blows smoke. (In other words not all of the information posted is reliable.) The Internet CAN be a valuable information source, but so are books, magazines, clubs, classes, mentors, etc. I have seen too many people dive into beekeeping without to my way of thinking adequate preparation that expect to be bailed out of their problems by the BeeSource community. That frustrates me.
It is easy enough to move on if you don't like a question. I have read several books etc. etc. and find the op's question pretty relevant to my (in)experience and not easily answered in books. Let the newly experienced beeks answer such questions.
Andrew dewey,
I think my response to his post was very much called for. His post was the one that was out of line. You are saying pretty much the same exact thing that he said, however, his much shorter post was riddled with insults and arrogance. I do not agree with you at all, but I don't feel insulted and I don't feel the need to lash out at you. That being said. You are assuming that I did not pick up any books at all, and just jumped in head first and stuck a bunch of bees in a box. I read a few books cover to cover and have a few more that I use as a reference. It is also assumed (I think) that I put a honey super on because I want honaaaaay! not true. I put the super on because the second brood chamber filled fast and I read in one of my books about "honey bound". I was fearful that was possible if I did not act. I do not expect to taste any honey from this hobby for at least another year (except for the lil sneak taste that"s in bur comb ).
You are correct about the generation comment in regards to the internet. I love the internet for information. I think many people of the younger generations should use it as an endless pot of information (not for social media, and video games). I also know how to get my info from the internet. As you mentioned, there can be a lot of misinformation out there. You have to read several opinions to ensure you are getting good information. That is why the forum is a great place to get info. It is knowledge and info that is based on personal experiences and in different regions. Do I use the forum more than books? guilty. The books can get really frustrating. They seem to teach you the basics and than you buy some more, and it's like the exact same book you read with a different title. I can't even find information there on how to do a split. I read in the history here and there is tons of info on that and when the time comes for that, I will be hitting the search feature and taking notes. I wish I can bring myself to attend a bee group meeting. I joined one, but I do not attend meetings. I suffer from social anxiety. Large groups of new people make me very uncomfortable and have actually experienced panic attacks at larger venues. The meetings are just not for me.
I think I understand your frustration, but unfortunately(and I think you know this), it is not going to change. Some people love information and this place makes it very easy to get that information. It is all in one place, It is organized, It covers all topics from many different "authors", and the extreme vast majority of you folks are some very kind, and smart individuals. Why would I not want to come here? The only thing I can suggest to you is, if you see a very rudimentary question in the subject line of a post, maybe don't click on it. The subject lines should be very clear as to what the post is about.
I have to ask you. Since the books that I am reading seem to have informational holes in them, can you recommend a really good book that you find to have a lot of information? You, know, your go to book. I will seriously buy it based on your recommendation. thank you, and I hope you have a very enjoyable summer.
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I personally think the poster fits in this category. Nothing against you personally Todd as I would have said the same thing to anyone else.
I hope that Todd prints a copy of this whole thread and then rereads ( revisits) it in about 7 year after placing it in between some page of one of the about 10 good bee books he will have purchased and devoured.
If he does I'm positive he will come away with a new found appreciation for what I and others have written. Sans my sarcasm in line 1 of post 4 he might want to reread all the lines of 2-5 and consider what they say and recommend while he thinks about them.
Todd.....You can trust me I am not on your rear just because you are new. There is a longtime beekeeper on here who advised me on the phone he had done something with his bees that was just plain STUPID. I laid all into him also cause he knew better than to do what he did. If I had done the same thing I would have expected a response of calling the men carrying the white jackets from him.
You would be best served to tail someone who has many years of experience in your local area. A few days spent with him or her will outdo all the BS info in a heartbeat.
The books on my desk now that I am reading/rereading are: Attracting Native Pollinators, Honey Plants of North America, Grant Gillard's Sustainable Beekeeping, Bee-Sentials, Contemporary Queen Rearing, and Honeybee Democracy.
My "go-to" book is Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, 2nd Edition, by Dewey M. Caron and Lawrence John Connor. The 2nd Edition is much better than the first.
Thank you Andrew!
I will look at all of those books and consider buying one or more. I think I can hold off on the queen rearing one for a bit lol. Thank you for your time and I look forward to any future interactions we may have.
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Do all these phone callers you get put up with the TV show "House" communication method? I bet not.
A more considerate response would have avoided what has become just a plain stupid dialog.
Simple as that.
You know, Beesource in an invaluable resource and community. "COMMUNITY" A lot of the times it is as much about the interaction as it is the information. When someone is new, sometimes the questions are more of a dialog than looking for an actual "answer". Sure we can google pretty much anything, but then we don't get the benefit of the expanded discussions that we see here on Beesource. If the question is simple, then the answer is simple. You guys have wasted more of your time being rude than it would have taken to be magnanimous and just answer the question... geez. Talk about crotchety old beekeepers; go spend some time with your bees. Don't you guys remember the magic of being a new beekeeper? You can't hardly wait to discuss something bee related with anyone, no matter how simple. Lets try not to take the shine off any sooner than necessary.
Rant off.
So the way I see it is that you need Flow (or feed) at least one just completed brood cycle and a decently strong hive to have them pull wax at fast rates. The reason that swarms pull wax quickly is that they are topped off with nowhere to store it. At least this is my understanding from reading.
So while the question and answewr may be simple, the processes behind the reasons are not as strightforward as one might think.
The OP is impatient, not in trouble. Our spring flow here has slowed down quite a bit, from a monster to a steady but fairly slow supply of clover and the end of the basswoods (which are not common here anyway). During the flow my bees filled three shallows on a hive with nectar and were starting to cap it in a week, so a full shallow super drawn and filled in a week on a huge flow is rather likely. I've had a swarm draw and fill four frames of foundation in two days (big swarm, small box), and the descendants of that hive have put up 140 lbs of honey for me so far this year.
On the original question, they will NOT draw out foundation unless they need more space to raise brood or store nectar or syrup. The foundation will not harbor pests, and the weather is good now, so just leave it on. Watch the bees at the entrance -- if they are flying like crazy and hauling in lots of pollen and nectar, they will move up soon. If only a few bees are flying and they aren't pulling in lots of pollen, it might be time to feed if you want that box drawn.
At this point, you need to talk to some local people and find out what if any summer flow you get and what the fall flow is like. If you have minor amounts of nectar available the rest of the summer, you will need to decided what amount of stores you want them to have for the winter and feed until you get there. Depending on when winter arrives for you, you can probably wait until August or September and feed 2:1 to get them up to weight if they aren't there yet. No need to panic this early in the year!
One more thought -- if you have a large amount of capped brood in the bottom boxes, you will shortly have a large increase in the number of bees in the hive, and they will be young bees who's jobs include drawing foundation out into comb. When that brood emerges, you will find a lot more bees up in that super drawing wax.
thank you for your response. Thank you also for picking up on the fact that my impatience is not derived from greed for honey, but exactly as you stated. I was panicking about getting them stores built up for winter and hoping that if this hive created a surplus, it would go to my newest hives for their surplus as well (very lofty goal, i know).
From what I learned last year, it seems that the golden rod in the fall is huge here. I never even paid attention to the golden rod or even knew what it was until last year when I started beekeeping. when you drive around here in the fall, all you see is fields of gold, and highways lined with it.
Oh and yes, I have tons of capped brood in the brood boxes. some of the frames are capped top to bottom (wood to wood). another reason why I did panic about space and population. A lot of my troubles are my own anxiety levels boiling lol. And its nice to have posters such as yourself to remind me to calm down and drop the hive tool lol. thanks man, I appreciate your time and your response.
This is a little off-topic but not much. Last year in August, we harvested the single honey supers above the 3 hives we have. Took them off, harvested, put them back on the same day. All comb was drawn and wet still with honey. Reason being, all the goldenrod was starting to bloom. And there was a LOT of it around here.
NONE, repeat NONE, of the hives stored any additional honey in those supers. Was I late harvesting them and putting them back on? Similar to OP, I must not yet fully understand a "flow"...
Last edited by rweaver7777; 06-09-2014 at 08:38 AM.
The typical cause of bees not drawing comb is undrawn foundation over a queen excluder. If you are expecting bees to draw foundation when there is nothing on the other side of the queen excluder except undrawn foundation, you will likely be disappointed.
Assuming you don't have it over an excluder, then there probably isn't a flow. Bees draw comb when they need a place to store nectar and there is no where available.
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Efficiency products will proliferate, for better or worse.
Recently an acquaintance of mine, who shall remain nameless, gave a diamond engagement ring to his girlfriend. She joyfully accepted the ring. But soon her joy turned to disgust when she learned that her lovely "diamond" actually was a cubic zirconium.
Last I heard, she'd broken off the engagement and was dating her ex-fiancé's former boss. So it goes.
This incident got me thinking. What the hapless suitor failed to appreciate—aside from the importance of honesty and integrity—is that an engagement ring isn't just a sparkly crystal clamped onto a piece of metal; it's an idea. A diamond ring, offered on bended knee, is a gesture, a symbol, and something more. It's a meme: a cultural archetype that takes on a life of its own, as it's transmitted from person to person, from generation to generation.
The idea of being "green" also is a meme, and that's both good news and bad news. It's good news because memes grow and evolve to suit their survival in human culture. This suggests green values will continue growing as long as they find fertile ground in our culture. Richard Dawkins, who fathered meme theory in 1976, wrote, "Given the right conditions, replicators [including both genes and memes] automatically band together to create systems, or machines, that carry them around and work to favour their continued replication." 1
The green meme 2 is bad news for the same reason. Memes grow and evolve to suit their own survival—irrespective of logical considerations like economics and common sense. That means we can't really control the green meme. The best we can do is to understand it better than my lonely friend understood the concept of an engagement ring.
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In practical terms, a fake diamond serves the same essential purpose as a real one— i.e., to sparkle and look pretty. In a perfect world, the decision to buy a low-cost cubic zirconium instead of an expensive diamond might be considered a sign of economic wisdom. But in our world it represents, at best, cheapness. Only a real diamond projects prestige and permanence.
The same thing is true for efficiency-related products. The most obvious example is the Toyota Prius, which has succeeded because a large number of car buyers perceive it as attractive, intriguing, prestigious … in a word, "cool." Granted, it's a geeky kind of cool—the green kind! Every Prius driver I know is proud of the vehicle, and is eager to brag about its fuel economy (48 mpg in the city/45 on the highway). But that pride is about more than just fuel economy; Prius buyers line up to pay a premium for the perception that their $23,000 car is greener than the next driver's car.
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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 172479, 8 pages
Soluble Form of Canine Transferrin Receptor Inhibits Canine Parvovirus Infection In Vitro and In Vivo
1Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baodiing 071001, China
2Hebei Engineering and Technology Research Center of Veterinary Biological Products, North China Research Center of Animal Epidemic Pathogen Biology, China Agriculture Ministry, Baoding 071001, China
3Laboratory of Virology, College of Animal Science, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066600, China
4Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
5Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
6Department of Biotechnology, College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Received 18 April 2013; Accepted 25 July 2013
Academic Editor: Lucia Lopalco
Copyright © 2013 Jiexia Wen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jiexia Wen, Sumin Pan, Shuang Liang, et al., "Soluble Form of Canine Transferrin Receptor Inhibits Canine Parvovirus Infection In Vitro and In Vivo," BioMed Research International, vol. 2013, Article ID 172479, 8 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/172479


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When Chris Klinke and a group of fellow mountaineers started up K2, they knew the risks of climbing the second highest, and possibly most dangerous, mountain in the world. He didn't know he'd be present for one of the deadliest days in mountaineering, during which 11 climbers would die.
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Wi-Lan, AstraZeneca, FootAsylum: Intellectual Property
Wi-Lan Inc. (WIN), the patent holder that suffered a setback last week when Apple Inc. won an infringement trial, said it will explore "strategic alternatives" including a possible sale of the company.
Wi-Lan will consider changes to dividend policy or other forms of return of capital, as well as "the acquisition or disposition of assets, joint ventures, the sale of the company, alternative operating models or continuing with the current business plan," it said yesterday in a statement.
The Ottawa-based company has lost 21 percent since Apple won a patent-infringement trial on Oct. 23 and fended off a demand for $248 million in royalties for wireless technology used in mobile devices. Wi-Lan holds about 3,000 patents and relies on royalty payments for all of its sales.
"The company strongly believes in its current business strategy but does not believe that its current share price accurately reflects its strong balance sheet, the value of its signed license agreements, its business prospects or the residual value of its broad intellectual property portfolio," it said.
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Canaccord Genuity is serving as financial adviser to Wi-Lan, and Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP is serving as legal adviser, the company said. Wi-Lan hasn't set a timetable for completing the review initiated by the board, it said.
The infringement case is Wi-Lan Inc. v. HTC Corp. (2498), 2:11-cv-00068, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas (Marshall).
Nokia Wins U.K. Lawsuit Against HTC Over Phone Network Patent
Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) won a London lawsuit against Taiwanese phonemaker HTC Corp. over patent rights concerning the transmission of data over mobile networks.
Judge Richard Arnold said that HTC products had infringed Nokia's patent EP 0 998 024. Nokia said in a statement it would seek compensation and an injunction against the sale of HTC products in the U.K.
Nokia, the Finnish company selling its handset business to Microsoft Corp., has filed more than 50 lawsuits in Europe, Japan and the U.S. in its patent fight with HTC.
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AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) won an appeals court ruling that will give it a new chance to block generic versions of the inhaled asthma medicine Pulmicort Respules.
A trial judge used an erroneous interpretation to determine that patent 7,524,834 covering the use of the drug wasn't infringed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said. The appeals court did uphold the judge's ruling patent 6,598,603, covering the drug itself, is invalid.
The case is AstraZeneca Plc v. Breath Ltd., 13-1352, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The lower-court case is AstraZeneca Plc v. Watson Laboratories Inc., 1:11-cv-03626, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Camden).
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FootAsylum Tells U.K. Clothing Store It must Change Its Name
FootAsylum Ltd., a shoe retailer, told a clothing shop in the U.K.'s Derby that it must change its name or face trademark actions, the Derby Telegraph reported.
The Heywood, U.K.-based shoe chain objects to the name of Asylum, an independent clothing shop in Derby's Westfield (WDC) shopping center, according to the newspaper.
Rob Smedley, who manages Asylum, said the 20-month-old store will have to pay about 15,000 British pounds ($24,000) if it doesn't prevail against FootAsylum in a trademark challenge, according to the Telegraph.
IP counsel Aaron Wood, of Derby's Swindell & Pearson Ltd., told the Telegraph that Asylum has its own valuable IP rights, building up a "big following" long before FootAsylum tried to argue that its trademark was infringed.
Lewmar Fails to Win Dismissal of Trademark Infringement Suit
Lewmar Ltd., the U.K.-based marine equipment supplier, failed to persuade a federal court to dismiss a trademark case brought by a Connecticut inventor.
The suit, filed in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, in December 2009, is related to the design of the One Touch handle for a winch used to control lines on large sailboats. Donald J. Steiner, the Norwalk, Connecticut-based inventor, and his Dax Labs LLC created the handle in the early 21st century and patented it in 2006.
After it was sued for trademark infringement, Lewmar asked the court to declare it didn't infringe patent 7,114,705, which covers the winch handle, and that it didn't violate a covenant of good faith and fair dealing between the company and the inventor for the manufacture of the handle.
In a ruling handed down Oct. 22, U.S. District judge Dominic J. Squatrito said he wouldn't address the non-infringement request because the inventor had not filed patent infringement charges. And he said that the inventor and his company did present a case for bad-faith dealings.
The inventor alleged a number of material breaches of the agreement between himself and Lewmar, and Judge Squatrito said there was evidence in support of the allegations in addition to internal Lewmar e-mails that could support a finding of bad faith.
According to court papers, in one e-mail Lewmar said that it had the opportunity to "kill off" the Dax handle, and describing how it "got around the Steiner patent for the Lite Touch."
The case is Steiner v. Lewmar Inc., 3:09-cv-01976, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut (New Haven).
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Apple Ordered to Pay $16.5 Million French Copyright Tax on IPads
Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by the Paris Civil Court to pay 12 million Euros ($16.5 million) to IP rights holders as a tax on its iPad sales, AppleInsider reported.
The payment is for France's "copie privee" tax levied from March 2012 to December 2012 against devices that can present copyrighted material, and it is intended to compensate content owners for the unauthorized use of their material, according to AppleInsider.
Cupertino, California-based Apple has said that the law mandating this payment may not accurately relate to the ratio of legal to illegal copies used on the devices, and because user studies weren't conducted before the law requiring the payment was passed, AppleInsider reported.
France's Council of State is reviewing the tablet rate sales for the copie privee tax, according to AppleInsider.
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Market abuse
Commodities traders question EU's insider trading regime
Esma guidance on Mar leaves market in the dark, say critics – particularly for hedges
European energy regulators step up market surveillance
Despite quality concerns, monitoring of Remit trade data is under way, officials say
Barclays opens up forex desks to last-look lawsuit
Agreement will help investors pursue other market-makers
New EU market abuse rules worry energy traders
Ban on insider trading in commodities seen as "very tricky"
Market-makers encouraged to review last look
After $150 million fine for Barclays, more legal action could follow
Regulators fine Barclays $150m over last look
Barclays' penalty for forex-related misconduct is now $635 million
Sefs brand market abuse enforcement role 'a non-starter'
CFTC signals softening on position limits monitoring, however
Surveillance of EU energy markets set to increase
Officials hope to catch cross-market schemes by monitoring Remit data
Ferc manipulation cases put limits on US power traders
Costly fines deter firms from employing cross-market strategies
Clearer rules could encourage market abuse, says FCA
UK regulator says it won't provide a "road map" for avoidance
Energy scarcity warrants tough response to market abuse
Regulators must take energy market manipulation seriously, argues Kaminski
UK's FCA warns fund groups over market abuse controls
Most asset managers lack strong safeguards
Energy traders shun trade surveillance, survey finds
Result comes despite tougher rules on market manipulation and abuse
Market manipulation won't be stopped by Socrates or Spinoza
Graduates must be warned of the serious risks of market abuse
Will billion-dollar fines skew op risk for years to come?
Huge losses will affect risk modelling and capital calculation
Neverending story: Why Libor scandal will last for years yet
Complex investigations and delays in trials over index rigging
Energy trading firms must be whiter than white
Allegations of manipulation are particularly bad for energy trading firms, which should respond by holding themselves to higher standards
Acer investigated 10 potential breaches of Remit in 2012
Acer probed 10 cases under Remit in 2012, agency says, in report that sheds light on the development of monitoring regime
Remit insider trading rules continue to confuse energy traders
Despite coming into force in December 2011, Remit insider trading rules continue to raise questions among energy traders
European regulators get to grips with Remit monitoring
By mid-2014, the Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency is expected to see European energy market participants reporting masses of information about their trading activity to regulators. How do regulators intend to use this data…
Ferc targets power market gaming with JP Morgan fine
Record $410 million settlement demonstrates zero-tolerance approach towards exploitation of market design flaws
Firms seen upping surveillance and self-reporting after Ferc fines
Ferc penalties against Barclays and other banks expected to bolster compliance with market manipulation rules
Uneconomic trading, market manipulation and baseball
Regulators, including the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are aggressively targeting uneconomic trading in a crackdown on potential market manipulation. Such moves have striking parallels in the history of baseball - some of which might prove…
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Former Missions Earn Monthly MLB Honors
By Bakersfield Blaze | January 24, 2013 7:47 AM ET
San Antonio - Former San Antonio Missions Chase Headley and Adrian Beltre were named the National and American League Players of the Month respectively for September.
Headley hit .324 (33-for-102) with a league-tying nine home runs and a Major League-best 30 in September while collecting 66 total bases, scoring 21 runs and registering a .647 slugging percentage. Headley, who also won the award in August, drove in 24 percent of San Diego's runs in the month (30 of 125). He currently leads the National League and ranks third in the Majors with 113 RBI. Headley joins Ken Caminiti and Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn as the only other Padres to win the award on multiple occasions.
The 28-year old native of Fountain, CO was the 2007 Texas League Player of the Year while guiding San Antonio to the team's 11th championship. Headley played 121 games for the Missions while hitting a league-best .330 (143-for-433) with 20 homers and 78 RBI. He also led the circuit in on-base percentage (.437) and slugging (.580) while ranking third in doubles (38) and extra-base hits (63), tied for fourth in hits, HR and RBI and fifth in runs scored (82). Headley was named to the Texas League Mid- and Post-Season All-Star teams and was a Baseball America Double-A All-Star.
Beltre hit .337 (33-for-98) for the Rangers in September with three doubles, a triple, 11 home runs, 19 RBI and 19 runs scored. The 33-year old native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic led the American League in total bases (71) and slugging (.724) and was second in homers and eighth in average. Beltre currently ranks second in the league in total bases (336) and fourth in hitting (.318) and slugging (.560).
Beltre hit .321 (79-for-246) in 64 games for San Antonio in 1998 with 21 doubles, two triples, 13 home runs, 56 RBI, 49 runs scored and 20 stolen bases before being promoted to the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24. He was selected to represent the National League in the Double-A All-Star Game but could not attend due to his call-up.
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There's a lot going on in Alias. A lot of double-crossing. By double agents. It's not clear who's good and who's bad. Or if the good people know they're working for bad people. Or if the bad people know there are good people working for them. It's just too complicated to consider becoming involved midway through the second season.
That's what I thought, anyway. I'd tried before. I'd spent a couple of lonely Monday nights grappling with the amazing double - triple - life of CIA agent/SD-6 agent/grad student Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner), but I couldn't even figure out who was on whose side, or on both sides, or why.
Sydney was a very talented spy, I knew that. I could tell from the way the other characters looked awe-struck as they watched her feats via an earring-cam or some other suitably stylish device. But that's about as far as I got. So I enlisted a friend, an Alias fan from the beginning, to help me crack it.
There's no getting around the fact that the Alias premise is complicated. Sydney works for the CIA. She also worked undercover in SD-6, an evil organisation bent on world domination. SD-6 had no idea that Sydney was a double agent, just as it didn't know that another of its team, Sydney's father Jack (Victor Garber), was also working for the goodies.
Currently, though, the collapse of SD-6 has Sydney one-out with its former boss, Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), who, unbeknown to Sydney, orchestrated SD-6's downfall through Sydney's hands to further his own evil agenda. Confused yet? Add to Sydney's mix a burgeoning romance with her CIA minder Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan), a roommate and best friend (Merrin Dungey) who has been killed and replaced by a genetic clone, and a double-agent mother (Lena Olin) in federal custody for selling out the US to the Russians during the Cold War, and you have almost more drama than one girl can handle.
But Alias is less convoluted than it appears. Mostly it relies more on the familiar episodic structure of series television than it does on complex, long-term storylines. Each episode follows a fairly standard story arc: Sydney confronts a problem, an incredibly daring and dangerous mission is planned to solve it, and Sydney does her job. Her missions are rarely more than short, sharp music-video/action sequences with a beginning, middle and end.
For example, SD-6 is composed of 12 cells, which call themselves "The Alliance". The Alliance's central computer server is kept on an aeroplane that is constantly airborne and presided over by a fat, lecherous old Frenchman. Sydney's job is to get on board and crack the code for the Alliance's computer network. So she goes undercover as a call girl, and we see her strutting seductively towards the Frenchman wearing nothing but lingerie and thwacking a riding crop.
Did I not mention that another element of Alias is the constant quest to get Sydney in as many outrageous or revealing "undercover" outfits as possible? So after she appears in the black garter belt, in slow motion and with pumping AC/DC underneath, the Frenchman decides he prefers red, so we get the same sequence again with Sydney in a different, but equally revealing red ensemble.
Each episode seems to feature a similar moment; we get Sydney climbing out of a pool, dripping wet in a blue bikini. Or we see her dressed as a member of the Russian military; or in a blonde wig; or in the now-famous figure-hugging electric-blue PVC dress. Strangely, a baseball cap is usually sufficient disguise for her partners.
But that's all part of the fun, another example of a show playing with its audience in a style that has become a hallmark of contemporary series television. The witches of Charmed have differently themed outfits each week, characters have swapped bodies in Buffy, and even Friends gets the occasional laugh out of Monica in a fat suit. They may have little to do with the narrative, but we tolerate the slow-motion Sydney sequences and the countless costume changes because they are part of the Alias experience.
So don't be afraid of Alias. The episodes usually stand alone as a tight, taut hour of action and drama. If you need background you can visit abc.go.com/primetime/alias or, better still, find yourself an Alias fan.
Alias screens on Mondays at 8.30pm on Channel Seven.
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Phyllis Agatha Blake
Phyllis Agatha Blake, a Rockaway resident, died September 21. She was 75.
Blake, a financial account representative, was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. She was a member of Agape Church of God, where she taught Sunday school and served as a member of the choir.
Blake is survived by her children, Jacqueline, Keith, Homer and Clinton (Jr.); son-in-law, Alton; daughter-inlaw, Jan; grandchildren, Tiffany, Simone, Cinque, Zora, Stephanie, Jamal, Sophia and Dominique; siblings, Ena, Dulcie, Ruby, Barry and Perline; sisters-in-law, Pauline, Millicent, Miriam and Violet; brothers-inlaw, Hugh and Gayle; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the Jeremiah C. Gaffney's Funeral Home. Visitation and service were held at Agape Church of God, in Springfield Gardens. Interment was at Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington.


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From her home in Topeka, Kansas, subscriber Betty May shares her recipe for quick-to-cook jambalaya. "Unlike some versions, this one doesn't have to simmer for hours," she notes. "Folks who like their food a bit spicy are sure to enjoy it. Jalapeno and cayenne pepper add some zip to the shrimp and chicken."
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- 1/2 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3/4 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 celery rib, chopped
- 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 cups cooked long grain rice
- In a large Dutch oven or saucepan, saute the chicken, onion, green pepper, celery, jalapenos and garlic in oil until chicken is no longer pink. Add the tomatoes, water, thyme, salt, pepper and cayenne; bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Add shrimp; simmer 6-8 minutes longer or until shrimp turn pink. Stir in rice. Yield: 6 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Originally published as Jambalaya in Light & Tasty December/January 2003, p56
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"This was good but it didn't have much kick. I had to add creole seasoning to taste to give it more flavor. I also added smoked sausage to give it a little more flavor."
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"Very good but I ended up adding more jalepenos and cayenne pepper to add more heat."
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Engineering Capstone Design Conference
Senior Engineering and Engineering Technology Projects
Join us to learn about the future of engineering! These presentations represent the culmination of a project based on extensive research and design.
- 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
- 8:30 a.m. - Featured Speaker: David P. Wirick General Manager ArcelorMittal Steelton LLC - Wirick has been in his current position since 2007, heading one of the top rail-producing facilities in North America. The Steelton plant is part of the Long Carbon North America division of ArcelorMittal, a global steel manufacturer. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's in business and is a registered professional engineer.
- 9:00 a.m. - Student Presentations
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Capstone Project Titles 2013
- Bio-Diesel Processing Plant
- 3D Laser Scanner
- Harley Bobber
- The Wild Banshee
- Utility Rat Rod
- Beverage Brewing System
- Logarithmic Spiral Trebuchet
- Hover Craft
- Educational Solar Panel System
- Repulsive Attractive Bi-directional Inductance Drive
- Fluid Level Process Trainer
- HVAC Automated Cold Trap for TRANE
- Gas to Electric Motorcycle Conversion
- The Spokeless Bicycle
- PLC Controlled Conveyor System
- Enhancing Stair Climbing in Crutches
- Standing Assisted Wheelchair
- Shopping Cart Dryer
- Voice Operated Refrigerator Opener
- Autonomous Control Drone UAV
- Boat Leveling Sensor
- Electronic Window-Tint Control
- Energy Harvesting
- Hot Tub Occupancy Sensor
- Quad-rotor UAV
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The Case of the Missing Microbes
We tend to think that illness is caused by something. Chemicals trigger cancer. Viruses create colds. Poor diets give us heart disease. But what if much of what ails us in the 21st century isn't caused by a presence but an absence. That's the idea behind a recent book that takes wellness in a whole new direction.
An Epidemic of Absence, by Moises Valasquez-Manoff, looks at the theory known as the Hygiene Hypothesis. I've discussed this idea before, and it's not without its controversies. Trying to convince people that arch nemeses like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and worms keep us healthy is a tough sell. But I suspect that if everyone read this book, it'd get a whole lot easier.
Velasquez-Manoff weaves hundreds of threads together to make a convincing argument that while medical advances like vaccines and antibiotics have erased much human suffering, they've also erased the vast communities of microbes and other organisms that once inhabited our gut, our skin, and nearly every place in between. And that means trouble because these may not have been enemies but ancient evolutionary friends whose presence keeps our immune systems primed and allergies, asthma, inflammation, bowel disease, cancer and maybe even things like autism and multiple sclerosis away.
It's a fascinating if heretical notion. Is our hyperbolic obsession with cleanliness as evidenced by the insatiable demand for antibiotics and antibacterial products, really killing us? The wealth of evidence Valasquez-Manoff collects here strongly suggests that it is.
It starts with this: Healthy people carry 100 trillion bacteria on and inside themselves. For every one human cell in your body, there are 10 bacteria cells. We are and have always been walking Petri dishes. But since the mid-1800s, better sanitary and medical arts have increasingly sterilized life and removed from our tissues not only the 150 or so bacteria that can threaten our health but thousands of other species as well.
At the same time, cases of immune disorders, allergies, inflammatory diseases and other conditions have mysteriously skyrocketed. It's more than a little odd and here's something odder: The cleaner and more modern the country, the higher the rates of these illnesses. The "dirtiest" among us, those who live in close proximity to soil, animals, and each other, like farmers and tribal peoples, suffer much less if at all from such things.
Clearly something's going on, and this book and all the scientists whose work has contributed to it appear to have found it, because when you add up everything we know, as Velasquez-Manoff does, you end up with a compelling case that the biggest victims in humanity's ongoing war against pathogens are ourselves.
This makes this a book for every nightstand, and the good news is that it's delightfully readable. There's a bit of a detective story quality to it as Valasquez-Manoff breezily explores an attention-getting series of fascinating who-done-its. More importantly, the ideas here are likely the first wave of a coming medical revolution. What you'll learn may help someone you know.
In the end, the message is simple: we ourselves are ecosystems, and just as in nature, these environments within rely on a delicate balance we've unknowingly thrown off. It's time to respect the worlds inside us and the creatures that inhabit them. As we've learned, to cut one strand in the web of life is to cut many. This book shows us those strands exist inside our own bodies as well and tells us it's time to reconnect them.


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Egypt army operation nets militants in Sinai-sources
* Violence has grown in Sinai since Mubarak overthrow
* Egypt says some militants hail from Gaza
* Four suspects caught close to strategic gas pipeline
By Marwa Awad
CAIRO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - An army crackdown on armed groups in Egypt's lawless north Sinai has netted four Islamist militants as they prepared to blow up a gas pipeline in the city of el-Arish, security sources said on Tuesday.
The military operation -- dubbed Operation Eagle -- began this week with the aim of quelling an increase in attacks on security forces in Sinai since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising in February.
Sinai's population has a history of resentment towards officials from Cairo, who have struggled to stamp their authority on the desert region bordering Israel.
Those efforts have been hampered partly because of limits on any military build-up there agreed under the 1979 Camp David accord between the two neighbours.
An intelligence official said the initial investigation that prompted Operation Eagle had linked the four militants to an assault on a police station in el-Arish on July 30 in which an army officer, two policemen and three civilians died. Continued...


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Is loving sex all that it's cracked up to be? Or is it the province of bad movies like Love Story (1970) or another sixties classic A Man and a Woman (1966). One of the nice things about a film like Richard Linklater's Before Midnight (2013) is that it shies away from loving sex.
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Hatching my Grass Nature egg =)
Hatching my Grass Nature egg =)
Arnie, will you please hatch my Psychic Mystery Egg?
Breaker a Female Paras
Dae a Male Wynaut
Since Shredder, my Shedinja, is now Level 100 I have earned an Elite Slot thanks to it.
I would like to pick up an Enigma Egg please. Thanks.
Hatch my Fighting Pound Egg, please
Picking up my female Paras, thanks.
Picking up a steel core egg.
Leesan a Male Mankey
lol, again xD anyway, picking up the Mankey, thanks
Picking up a Ghost Mystery Egg thankya ^-^
Picking up a Ground Core egg
Let's see if my luck can get anywhere...
Picking up a Steel Core Egg
Mr. Egg Man Arneh, could ya please hatch my Enigma egg?
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Hatching a steel core egg.
thed a Female Finneon
centin a Male Nosepass
I believe you overlooked the hatching of my flying storm egg, Arn?
Perap a female caterpie
Picking up a Steel Core Egg please. <3
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Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life! Contact us, or contact another local humane society, animal shelter or SPCA.
We are are a small South Florida rescue organization based in the Fort Lauderdale area and dedicated to the well-being of lost, abandoned, and unwanted animals. We do not have a shelter, so our rescues live within our own private foster homes where we provide temporary, safe refuge. Living in a home environment provides unique advantages. Unlike shelter or kennel living, fostering in a home environment allows the personal evaluation of each dog for behavior and temperament issues. Generally, we know how our dogs react to other animals, children or strangers. This allows us to find the best possible, permanent home match for each dog's size and needs. Purebreed Rescue relies exclusively on private donations to provide food, shelter and medical care, including the sterilization of pets that we rescue.
Purebreed Rescue of South Florida:
-receives no funding from any government entity or animal charity
-relies solely on private donations
-is an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff
If you are interested in adopting one of our animals, you MUST follow these steps. (1) You MUST first complete and submit an online application. (2) If your application is approved and we believe the pet is a perfect match for you, we will contact within one week to make an appointment for you to meet the animal that interests you at its foster home in Fort Lauderdale area. (3) In the event that we do not respond to your to your application submittal within one week, we have either dissapproved your application or found a better match for the pet. (4) If you application is approved and you are contacted, and if all goes well after meeting the pet, we will then conduct a home visit. (5) Generally several days later you will be able to pick up the animal. At that time you will be expected to bring a leash and harness for your pet.
The donation fee for each animal varies, but generally is $150 and up, unless otherwise noted. Some of our animals are long-term rescues, which utilizes greater sums of money for medical care, food and housing. In order to defer a portion of this added expense, we attempt to receive a higher donation fee for our more desirable adoptable animals.
Due to the necessity of a home visit, we only adopt locally. Because we are locatated in Fort Lauderdale, we usually limit adoptions to Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach Counties. Occasionally, exceptions will be made.
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Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life! What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder? When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes. So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.


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Would you like some summery cocktails for your Fourth of July festivities, crafted by an award-winning mixologist? Thought so. Enter Jeff Bell, who competed in and won the United States Bartenders' Guild and DIAGEO World Class Bartender of the Year title—which is the world's largest international cocktail competition—and he's going on to compete against 49 other mixologists from around the world July 4 to July 9 for the global title.
When he's not, you know, winning major awards (or being, as you can see from his picture, super-cute) he's a mixologist at PDT (Please Don't Tell), New York City's most secretive speakeasy.
Before he took off for his next competition, I stopped by PDT (Finding it was hard: It's located behind a hidden door inside of a telephone booth!) to test out Jeff's superior cocktails (Spoiler alert: They're amazing). And below, here are the recipes for you to make at home!
Lion's Den
*Ingredients:*1 ounce Tequila Don Julio Reposado
3/4 tablespoon yellow Chartreuse
3/4 tablespoon fresh lime juice
3/4 tablespoon agave syrup
1/2 of a Shishito pepper
Togarashi salt, to rim glass
Ideal Serving Glass: Coupe Glass
1 ounce Bulleit Rye 1/4 ounce Italian Amaro 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon raspberry preserves 1 dash chocolate bitters Lemon wheel for garnish
Ideal Serving Glass: Coupe Glass
Jan Collins
3/4 ounce Ketel One vodka 1/4 ounce orange liqueur 1/2 ounce club soda for top 3/4 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce simple syrup Orange wheel for garnish
Ideal Serving Glass: Collins Glass
Platanos en Mole Old-Fashioned
1 ounce Zacapa Rum 23 1/4 tablespoon banana liqueur 6 dashes chocolate bitters Ground chili for garnish
Ideal Serving Glass: Coupe Glass
Astoria Bianco
1 1/4 ounces Tanqueray gin 1/2 ounce Italian vermouth 1 dash orange bitters Orange twist for garnish
Ideal Serving Glass: Coupe Glass