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'Boilerplate' Creator Paul Guinan on His Robot's Journey to a J.J. Abrams Film
Long before J.J. Abrams announced that he was going to be adapting the story of Boilerplate into a feature film, the adventures of the Victorian Era combat robot were catalogued in a coffee table book by Portland creators Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. Originally intended to be a character in one of Guinan's comics, Boilerplate migrated to the web in a series of historical photoshops featuring Boilerplate meeting latter day luminaries like Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt, appearing on the battlefields of famous wars, and even starring in silent films.
The images were so convincing that they fooled many people into thinking the robot was real, including literary agents and one book author who incorporated the supposedly historical character into a novel. Now, the plucky robot is headed to the big screen with one of the biggest producers in the business. In his first major interview since the announcement, Guinan talked to ComicsAlliance about the ten year journey that brought his robot to Bad Robot.
ComicsAlliance: How did "Boilerplate" originally get started?
Paul Guinan: I call "Boilerplate" a 10-year overnight success. It started out as a concept for a graphic novel, and was going to do an 8-page backup story, a little photo feature of what I wound up doing on the website, which is building a 12-inch robot figurine, photographing it, and inserting it into these vintage images. And then in the backup it would have this cute little thing about how it was based on this real robot from the turn of the century, and if you want to learn more, go to my website!
It was 2000, and the project just came out of my frustration at that time of publishers reluctant to do straight historical adventure stories. So, I realized I needed a fictional character to put into these historical stories. I began working on a Boilerplate graphic novel but the financing fell through. I think I only did about three dozen pages before it fell apart. But I had this figurine and a few photos, so I put it up on the website and just let it percolate…And over time people started to find it and started to think it was real. There was just this snowball effect, and the media started writing articles about it.ComicsAlliance: I don't know if you've condensed this down to a soundbite down yet, but what is "Boilerplate"?
Paul: That's a good question, because the difficult thing about the book is how to classify it, because most of it is real history, but you can't put it in the history section because there's this fictional robot in it. And it's not an art book, although it winds up getting racked in there. Bookstores don't know where to put it. They usually put it in the science fiction oversized section, whatever that is. Since round of news about J.J. Abrams, there is a new term; people are calling it a graphic novel/picture book hybrid, or a graphic novel picture book. So that's as close a term I guess. I like to jokingly refer to it as a graphic novel without panel borders and word balloons… Even I can't come up with a sound bite-y, simple summary. I guess the best way to describe it is that it's a coffee-table history book — with a robot.
"publishers reluctant to do straight historical adventure stories. So, I realized I needed a fictional character to put into these historical stories. I began working on a Boilerplate graphic novel but the financing fell through."
ComicsAlliance: And yet it hasn't held it back.
Paul: No, because part of that is the appeal of something that's different.
ComicsAlliance: Something you've never seen before.
Paul: Right, right, yeah that was the number one sound bite we got at the show: "I haven't seen anything like this" That means a lot to me. There's an adage, "familiarity breeds contempt." As you move into your 40s, you start to really get what that means, you start seeing the same movies and hearing the same music." For young people who are experiencing some of these movies or music for the first time oh it's brand new to them and exciting and different and it's like wow, this is a great sound and I wanna hear more of this.
ComicsAlliance: Yeah, but you don't understand the roots or the influences. It's like the first comics that I read. In retrospect, they were terrible. But to me it was all new, and I hadn't seen anything like it at the time. It might as well have been the first comic book in existence. I didn't have any sense of the history of it.
Paul: One of my favorite sort of pastimes is to play follow the influence, where I see some guy's work and go, "That's really interesting, where did he get it from?" And then I find out who he's been looking at and I go, ok where does HE get it form? I sort of trace it back and try to find either a seminal influence that's really groundbreaking, or a few cases what I call a "ground zero" where someone came out with a whole cloth, and just had that much of an imagination to begin a new form. And that's very, very rare.
ComicsAlliance: So when you say there was this snowball effect where Boilerplate was slowly discovered, how long a period of time are we talking about?
Paul: Years. All the local press picked up on it. Usually the hook was how people had fallen for it and how cute is that people believe a robot ran around in 19th century. I was somewhat encouraged by the articles so I added maybe a dozen pages with images on it. I wasn't sure exactly how to go about the next step… I didn't have any funding. I wasn't prepared to just do it on my own. I didn't have the resources. And at that time I had zero connection with anybody in the publishing industry. So I just sort of let it go.
One day my wife [Anina Bennett] calls me up on the phone and says there's another a little article about Boilerplate. This time it's a reference to the fact that Boilerplate shows up in this book by Chris Elliott, this thing called "The Shroud of the Thwacker." There was this spate of Victorian murder mystery novels that were coming out at that time — "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr, and "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larsen – and he was writing a spoof of that. And I thought wow, this is flattering. I'm gonna go over to the bookstore and check this out.
There was an acknowledgment of Chris thanking the people that helped him with the book, and it said, "You can't make up something like Boilerplate — well you can, but it's a lot easier when your brother just shows you a picture of it." I got the implication from the line that his brother was trying to find unusual, weird things from that period to include in the book and printed out a hard copy of my site and handed it to him. Chris got very excited, but to his credit, he realized okay, there's something fishy here. But he thought it was fake, but a 19th century fake. Chris didn't include Boilerplate as just a cameo appearance — the robot is the third lead. I thought, oh no, this is gonna embarrass him, it's gonna be a media thing. I'm gonna have to take him to court; I'm gonna have to deal with lawyers.
Then the paper said he was coming to town and I kept getting all this advice: don't go to the reading, don't talk to him, let your lawyers deal with it. But I at least wanted a signed copy of the book. So I went there anonymously and just got my book signed. And then the next day he called me on the phone; he'd gotten my contact information because the New York Times reporter had called him. Chris went into this big mea culpa, and it was a totally honest mistake. We decided that we hate lawyers and just worked it out ourselves over the phone. It was essentially a retroactive license, but that generated another round of press. So "The Oregonian" interviewed me and asked, what's my endgame? I described my plan to do a coffee table book, and then a local publisher, Collector's Press, called me up and says "I'm interested in this." And the best part was I didn't put together a pitch or a proposal.
At this point Anina came on board to help write the book. But then about a year into it, when we were more than halfway finished, a big distributor on the west coast folded and took down a bunch of boutique publishers like Collector's Press. So all of a sudden I've got no publisher, and I'm back to square one. I got bummed out about that and sort of put Boilerplate on a back burner. Then one day I was talking to my friend Shannon Stewart about my predicament, and he mentioned his friends at the literary agency Bakers' Mark.
The next week we met and sat down. I had printouts of material from websites, and actually at one point Bernadette goes, so where did you find this, how did you find out about this? In the middle of our first meeting, what should I say? I admitted I made it up but that I found that a lot of people enjoy being tricked as long as they are not made the fool of — that's why magic has been so popular all these centuries, people don't mind that kind of deception as long as it's not embarrassing to them. Their enthusiasm just jumped a notch because they all said, I love this premise.
And they decided they were going to go to New York and pitch it to book publishers and try and get that kind of surprise and excitement out of the editors. They got a little bidding war going on with some of the publishers and the book landed at Abrams, which I'm hugely happy with because about a third of my reference library is Abrams coffee table art books. And it fits in with the conceit that this is supposed to be real. There's no giveaway in the book, no disclaimer, nothing… They were totally willing to go along with that gag…
As the book neared it's publication date, galleys were sent to a production company in LA that's run by a woman named Deb Newmyer, head of Outlaw Pictures. She's totally connected, and could put the finished book front of anybody. She asked me, well, who should I put this in front of? They asked for a list of directors.
ComicsAlliance: They asked you for that?
Paul: Yeah. It was basically more about them getting a handle on the property and making me happy for the time being until I put my name on a piece of paper.
ComicsAlliance: What do you say when someone asks you what director you want for the film of your book?
Paul: I'm a crazy huge movie buff… Having recently seen the new Star Trek film I immediately thought of J.J. Abrams. I was very impressed with how he handled a piece of material that had a huge amount of built-in history, providing plenty of inside references, Easter eggs to the Trek fans. But for people that don't know about the show's history, the story didn't depend on that. I thought that balance was very appropriate for "Boilerplate" because if you substitute Federation history for US history and you got the same kind of problem. How do you tell a story that doesn't rely on all this background?
ComicsAlliance: It's a similar thing with comic book movies where they throw in little Kitty Pryde cameos for fans but still need to make it accessible to everyone.
Paul: Right. If you don't know who Kitty Pryde is, it's not going to interfere with anything. So Deb says, "J.J. Abrams, I've known him since he was a teenager." She put the book in front of him and he fell in love with it. We had e-mail exchanges, and a couple months ago I went down to LA to the Bad Robot offices. Their offices are very modest – a brick building that used to be a factory making typewriters. It's been refurbished, but from the outside you'd swear it's still making typewriters, and they even left the sign Olympia Typewriter Factory on the front of the building. It looks like a working creative space, not a film studio's production office. It had this real funky functional quality to it.
Everyone I met was great, down to Earth. Going through the place I saw that J.J. is really into sci-fi, obviously, but low tech, old school kind of stuff. Being there I saw Boilerplate's appeal in relationship to the kinds of things that JJ is interested in, science fiction with a old fashioned aesthetic. I thought this is just terrific, a terrific fit. During the meetings they told us that since they became interested in the book, half a dozen different people of serious ilk pitched them robot stuff, and they kept passing on it, saying, nope, we have our robot project. At the San Diego Comic-Con I had two brief meetings with J.J., and he was really enthusiastic about "Boilerplate." And he's great, he's got this kid-at-heart kind of thing, you know? In emails he'll occasionally type in all caps for emphasis, and then at the end of our meeting, as we're all getting ready to go, he goes like this. [demonstrates a fist bump]
ComicsAlliance: Now, the question is, did the fist bump explode?
Paul: No, it didn't, I wasn't going to do that. [laughs] I'm still in my forties, I think I should behave at least somewhere close to that…
ComicsAlliance: It seems like you think "Boilerplate" found the perfect home.
Paul: In a way, it did. You know, it's bizarre how every once in a while you get your first pick, you get your first choice on something. I've never gotten it for hotels in San Diego, but uh, one day… [laughter]
ComicsAlliance: [laughter] If you had to choose between the two, I would take J.J. Abrams over the Marriott.
Paul: …They wanted to announce [the movie] at one of their own trade shows, but the story about Abrams' interest just got out during Comic-Con at some point. I remember us having a couple of Hollywood people come up to us at our booth, and making oblique reference to it. Oh, I hear Paramount's interested in this. Do you know who the director is? And I said well, we can't really tell you. Reporters. They're impressive sometimes. They can put things together, and investigate stuff, and figure it out. [laughs] So something like that happened [and it leaked]. Because we were very good… very obedient about not mentioning it at the show, even if that was frustrating for us, you know? It's like, oh jeez, you know, we have this great news, and we want to tell everybody, and we can't…
ComicsAlliance: When is the movie supposed to come out?
Paul: IMDB states the film will be released in 2013, but the next "Star Trek" film is due the same year. As of now Abrams has yet to announce if he will helm the second installment. But even as a fan of the new "Star Trek" picture, I would forgive him passing on directing "Trek" so he can direct "Boilerplate."
ComicsAlliance: Abrams Books must be very excited.
Paul: Yes, yes. Even before this announcement, though, we had let our editor know in confidence that Bad Robot was interested in producing this book. But regardless, they were happy enough with the initial sales of Boilerplate [that] they had already commissioned a follow-up or sequel; we couldn't exactly do a sequel because it's a finite story, but we're taking a minor character from the book and spinning it off into his own series. So it will be the same format, premise: fictional character in a real world…
ComicsAlliance: Can you say which character yet, or is it a surprise?
Paul: Oh no, not at all. The character is Frank Reade, which was an actual dime-novel character from the late 19th century. The exciting thing for me about this is that this is a lost legacy of American science fiction. Nobody knows about this character, even hardcore robot fans, science fiction fans, have never heard of this.
ComicsAlliance: But it's real though, right?
Paul: Not a "real" real guy, but a real fictional character from a dime novel. It's a little more complicated than the Boilerplate thing in terms of how do you sell it and how do you explain it? It's gonna be a lot of fun to do because it's a truly lost legacy of American science fiction that I find very very important. Nobody knows about it so I'm very excited to bring this back to life. In the original "Frank Reade" dime novels, he's an imperialist adventurer. And actually that's one of the reasons that nobody's ever heard of these stories is that they're not only badly written, but they're pretty racist and right-wing. So it's probably for the best that the stories themselves have been lost, but the 300-odd illustrations that went along with them are just jaw-dropping, gorgeous, beautiful. In fact, actually one of the Frank Reade dime novels, I've used several of them in the "Boilerplate" book itself, as fake "Boilerplate dime novel covers. So these are actually Frank Reade, and then it would say Frank Reade Jr. instead of Campion Jr…
ComicsAlliance: That's pretty fantastic.
Paul: So these submarines and helicopter airships and weird all-terrain vehicle things, and then whatever that is, it's a snow-ship and an airplane and a submarine. So, but the only drawback is those 6 covers I can't use in the Frank Reade because they're boiler-plate covers now. So instead I riff off, as here you can see, riffing off the color scheme, the red with the green triangle and brass ports you can see on this model ship here.
ComicsAlliance: Is there a publishing date yet?
Paul: Yes. As with Boilerplate, Anina is going to co-write the book with me, and then we turn it in at the end of this year and it's released for fall 2011.
ComicsAlliance: So, the interesting thing now is that people heard about the movie option, they're not going to have that experience of picking up the book for the first time, and potentially thinking it's real.
Paul: Well, it could still happen, because you could of optioned a docudrama-ish piece, I suppose.
ComicsAlliance: I'm assuming that's not what it is?
Paul: No, although people have asked me how I would like the movie to be, and I've yet to actually sat down with J.J. and discuss in detail the storytelling and the approach of it. I did the production company did commission a treatment that was much more just a straightforward narrative adventure story, that had a few cameo appearances from history. But it was really about the adventure of the inventor, his robot, and then because they're Hollywood they felt they needed to include a villain and a love interest.
ComicsAlliance: A love interest for Boilerplate?
Paul: No, no, for the inventor. That would be too bizarre. Actually one of the things I want to make sure is maintained in the – in the movie version and was staring to get – starting to get away from itself in the treatment was Boilerplate the question of his sentience and his abilities and stuff like that, because initially on the website I first started I didn't even give his height, his vocabulary or anything like that because I didn't want to lock myself in. I didn't want to commit myself before I figured out where the story was going, what the story requirements were. But then over the years, because of the feedback I got, I recognized that that kind of cipher quality was actually a benefit… He has no character, so all the characters around him [use him as] a sounding board, or a mirror. It was in a way creating a deeper connection with the audience than anything I could have done if I had explained all the stuff. Nowhere in the book does it talk about his height, his weight – nothing. Nothing. There's a couple lines of dialogue so you get the idea that he talks, but his sentience, his abilities? No. And it's got a selection of reaction that could be very fascinating. One person actually thought he was creepy. Other people think he's adorable and cute. Some people think of him as sad. And just, it depends on where you're coming from …
ComicsAlliance: Possibly some projection.
Paul: Right. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. So I want to make sure that's part of it when we go into production with the movie. For instance, if the inventor is asking Boilerplate for advice about his love interest in the movie, the inventor will work it through himself, out loud, he'll say, "What I think of, well if I take her to the movies then – okay, I'll take her to the …" so that he sort of works it through it and then says, "Thanks for the advice." I've seen that kind of thing before on comedies, where the friend just doesn't say anything. And then the guy say, "Oh you've been a great help."
So that's the only thing that I want to try and keep in tact. And the rest of it, I'm actually looking forward to what changes they come up with as long as they benefit the piece. I remember when I was a kid, watching reruns of the Adam West "Batman" show and digging it. And then at the same time I was reading Neil Adams's "Batman" comics, highly realistic dark stuff, and I was like, "These are both valid. I like them both."
ComicsAlliance: Do you want to do more comics?
Paul: You know, that has always been my first love. I remember that was the very first thing, the very first art stuff I did as a little kid – after building blocks of cities and making little towns out of wooden blocks – was folding paper and making my first little comic drawings. That was a very, very early memory. So it's literally my first love. I haven't done any comics in five years now, or six years. that I haven't done a comic book. "Heartbreakers" was actually the last one I did. And funnily enough, that was our most successful "Heartbreakers" book, the one that Boilerplate was in. [laughs] And then I got this little plaque here for it, this Eisner Award.
ComicsAlliance: "Boilerplate" wasn't eligible to be nominated for the Eisner Award, right?
Paul: Yeah, It was bit disappointing. Boilerplate was produced by 20-year veterans of the comics industry. It starred a character that begin its life in a comic book. And in "Boilerplate" there's a whole section about comics, showing how the robot appeared in Winsor McCay strips, Alex Toth drawings, in 1970s Star*Reach comics, and graphic novels. I even give a shout-out to Phil Seuling, the unsung father of the comic convention and the direct sales market! I was trying to push the boundaries of the visual narrative, creating a novel with graphics, but the way things are defined at present, it's technically not a graphic novel.
I grew up in Chicago and there was this thing about the Second City, about how Chicago has this inferiority complex to New York. But the fact of the matter is you can't make it in Chicago as an performer, whatever, as a person working in popular arts. You have to move to L.A. or New York and then you'll go big time. So, whenever you hear about some famous actor or especially comedians, they come from Chicago. And it can be a frustrating thing that in order to find success as a graphic storyteller I had to go outside my home of the comic book industry.


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text: Hahaha.. i believe that counts twice as much. Except I'm getting a divorce haha, so my "workouts" tend to be with random people. hahaha While ordering online may actually be the cheapest option as far as pricing goes, I chose to stick to going into the store for a few reasons: 1)I needed to talk to someone who i could physically SEE knew what they were talking about, as I am already a fairly built guy and wanted to cut/lean up 2) I spend 20+ days a month stuck in the (oil)field, so shipping is the least convenient for me 3) Also becaues i spend so much time in the field (usually in small travel trailers)... my workouts are VERY limited. I'm planning to order a set of Bowflex Selectech Dumbells and a bench to drag out here with me, but as for now i just stopped at walmart and picked up a 40lb hex dumbell and stick to lots of reps.. got off subject kinda sorry, So i wanted to talk to them about how i should plan my limited workout to get the best results. 4) These guys deal with the supplements and results on a daily basis, so given all my conditions for working out, they could give me the best possible combination available. I hear you there, I am actually very surprised at what kind of results doing a buttload of reps lighter weight one arm at a time is giving me, and it actually helps to isolate the muscle i want to work out. GMTC Elite Fitness Club hahahaha.. I'm actually enjoying taking care of myself.. Getting started is the hardest part, but after that it becomes addicting and NOT working out/staying healthy just feels WRONG. And as far as the current supplements / lean mass shred cycle I am on, the guys at Complete Nutrition have hooked me up with this: Legal Limit Labs (LLL)-Oxan-VR (1,765mg anabolic testosterone enhancer X3 pills a day) LLL Hardcore Legal Series- Adrenalize (701mg energy enhancer/appetite suppressant X2 pills a day to start) The M.A.S.S. Project- Omega Shred (??mg Anti-catabolic complex/ liqui-lean muscle cutting blend X4 pills a day) ProComplete ONE - V-Core Protein Supplement shake (20g protein 8-hour absorption blend X2 a day) ***FYI*** I started on Strawberry because that all they had... it was absolutely disgusting.. made me gag everytime i took it haha. I just switched to Chocolate and it is quite tasty (well.. as tasty as a protein shake can get anyway) This is what the 60 day lean mass shred cycle consists of... and it works great from what i can see so far. Since i started the cycle i've added (at the descretion of Complete Nutrition employees): The M.A.S.S. Project - NX6 (3300mg Nitric Oxide plasma amplifier X4 pills 15 mins before workout) The M.A.S.S. Project- Blitzz (6g scoop Kre-Alkalyn/Creatine/Energizing drink mix X1 scoop 30 mins before workout) **Cherry Ice flavor is awesome** and this is a VERY light amount of Creatine. Those who have taken Nitric Oxide before know the feeling you get when it hits you, I'm gonna go ahead and say that this NX6 supplement is the best I've had as of yet (compared to Plasmajet which is no longer in production, and GNC N.O.). And adding these two things has amped my drive to workout EXTREMELY. To show how instense most of these supplements actually are, there are labels warning that any person that competes in events subject to the WADA Anti-Doping Code, should not use them lol. From what i can see, everything listed here is formulated exclusively for Complete Nutrition, which only adds to my confidence in the store. Pricetag total: $483.94 before taxes The prices are quite high, but upon talking with the sales associates (who are in all seriousness REALLY care about personal care and fitness) I have actually received about $145 of these products FREE and been given discounts, bringing my total spent at Complete to $367.91 after taxes. Not a bad deal for these (so far) awesome supplements. I do still take a good mix of daily vitamins for joint health etc. which i agree [MENTION=28925]ahmitchell1[/MENTION] is very important to health throughout the body.


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LONDON - Abby Wambach hasn't forgotten the feeling of sending Mia Hamm and the rest of the Golden Girls of American soccer home as Olympic champions in 2004.
Eight years and scores of goals later Wambach, 32, finally understands the range of emotions Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy felt in Athens.
As the United States opens the 2012 Summer Olympics today in Glasgow, Scotland, Wambach (a Hermosa Beach resident) is witnessing the rise of the player who could someday supplant her as America's next scoring maestro.
Diamond Bar native Alex Morgan will make her Olympic debut alongside Wambach while enjoying a goal-scoring tear this year. She has 17 goals and eight assists in 15 matches to field comparisons with Hamm, perhaps the country's most revered women's player.
Morgan, 22, has many roads to travel to match Hamm's 158 international goals - or Wambach's 138 scores. But she has emerged as the face of the U.S. team after first drawing attention at the World Cup last summer as the team's youngest player.
The reserve scored against France in the semifinals and again in the heart-wrenching defeat in the final.
Now Morgan is on the footsteps of stardom that only an Olympic stage can create.
"The way Alex Morgan has been playing lately not only gives her confidence, but the entire team, including myself," U.S. coach Pia Sundhage said.
Wambach appreciates the situation after being the one to usher in the next generation of women's players after Athens. The pairing with Morgan has rekindled nostalgia over the historic Olympic run in 2004 with Hamm as her partner.
"Mia and I complemented each other and I think that's what Alex and I have now," Wambach said. "I've told her time and time again that when she scores a big goal that wins us the game."
The forwards play different styles but have developed a strong bond that has inspired both.
As the years passed Wambach has become a dangerous target forward with immense accuracy in the air. Having Morgan as a sidekick only has made her more successful.
Defenses no longer can focus solely on Wambach without risking Morgan slipping into the penalty box for a good chance to score. The forward combination is but one of the striking changes Sundhage has implemented in the past year after the World Cup defeat to Japan.
While Wambach, Morgan and the other goal scorers garner the most notice, America's streak of advancing to every gold-medal match since women's soccer began at the Atlanta Games could lie with defenders.
It won't be easy in a tournament analysts say might be the strongest in history. Japan is the Olympic favorite but Brazil, France and Sweden also are strong.
Another difference from last year's World Cup is the health of stellar goalkeeper Hope Solo. She was not herself in Germany while recovering from a severe shoulder injury. But Solo is feeling at her peak heading to the London Games.
Sundhage should learn a lot about Solo and her defense against France, whose strength lies with its attacking players.
"When they get comfortable with the ball they are unpredictable, so the back four with the midfielders need to be compact and control the game," the coach said.
Sundhage welcomed the chance to open the tournament against a team the United States defeated in the World Cup semifinals last year. She prefers a known quantity to playing North Korea, also in Group G with Colombia.
The Koreans are difficult to scout because they don't play many big international matches. The United States plays North Korea in the final game of the first round July 31 in Manchester.
Wambach said she doesn't worry much about the scouting reports.
The path to another gold medal is simple to the player who missed the 2008 Olympics after breaking her leg a month beforehand.
"There is no better motivation than losing," she said of the World Cup final. "I believe this team has something to prove."


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There were lots of ladies in white at the Golden Globes last night, but not every white dress was wedding-worthy.
I love all three of these Golden Globes looks for a wedding! What do you think?
Julie and Shailene's dresses aren't exactly wedding dresses, but both gowns look an awful lot like dresses that went down the wedding runways recently.
See the full Reem Acra Spring 2012 collection on Brides.com.
See the full Marchesa Fall 2012 collection on Brides.com.
I like the illusion neckline on Shailene's dress so much better than the neckline on the wedding dress version, which seems too ... I dunno ... opaque? White? What do you think? Here's a closer look at Shailene's neckline. You can barely tell it's an illusion neckline from far away!
Would you wear any of these celebs' dresses as a wedding dress?
Julie's would look insanely awesome on a bride. *Love!*p.s. Speaking of white dresses, am I the only one who didn't love Angelina Jolie's dress? I just don't get it!
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Good deal, Droopy! Glad to help.
This is a discussion on It's getting very warm outside.....need A/C help within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; Good deal, Droopy! Glad to help....
i work in the aircon/refrigeration trade just some advice to help you guys out when fixing your car a/c
most common mistake with car air conditioning is over charging. alot of mechanics dont fully understand the basic principles of an air con system. their approach to a system that isnt working properly is there must be a leak so they top up the system. an overchaged system is just as bad if not worse then an undercharged system. the best/simplest way to charge a system is to weigh in a charge. first find out how much gas the system is designed for, second reclaim the refrigerant out of the system if there is any left in there, this requires a recaliam unit and reclaim bottle. most of you will just release it to the atmosphere. then if you had the system open to change a valve or whatever moisture would hve gotton in the system you need a vaccume pump and vac out the system for about 20 mins the longer the better you cannot over vaccume a system. then get your refrigerant cyclinder put it on some acurate digital scales and weigh in the charge. start off charging with the car off on small systems the vaccume should be enough to pull the charge in without having to run te compressor. if it doesnt fully charge run the compressor and charge a vapour into the low side of the system(some refrigerant bottles have one valve some have two, single valve bottles are usually vapour only and the dual ones usually have a red and a blue valve the blue is vapour). once thats done you should be set.
you cannot properly charge a system just using gauges and charging to a set pressure because the pressure of a system is not a constant. things like heat load in the car(people) temperature of the day affect the system pressure. you can approx charge the system using gauges but it will never be perfect. if your going to liquid charge make sure its in small squirts. soapy bubbles are a good way to find leaks.
leebo when you said you charged your system your compressor locked up, you may have liquid charged the system on the low side the compressors cant pump liquid and this can damage them very quickly.
the expansion valve and compressor seperate the high and low sides of the system the evaporator is on the low side and the condenser is on the high side.
the expansion valve is what regulates the the amount of refrigerant into the evapourator it has a small oriface inside if a system will get a block this is where it will be stopping or restricting the flow to the evapourator giving no or stuff all cooling.
some systems have safety devices in them to protect them from damage most common are low pressure and high pressure cut out switch's so if your compressor isnt running when it should this is most probably the cause.
moisture is the biggest killer it reacts with the oil and refrigerant and creates acid and starts lots of preblems.
hope all this didnt confuse i tried my best to explain it in writting. air con systems are not easy to work on without the right know how and the right tools.
if you have any q's id be more then happy to help you out.
one last thing releasing ozone depleting refrigerant into the atmosphere is illegal well in australia anyway and id bet the laws the same in america so if your gonna be releasing refrigerant dont do it in the front driveway for all the neighbous to see cause it usually incurrs big fines
cheers Mitch
Thanks for the tips, Mitch. Just FYI, I did pull a vacuum for about 30 minutes prior to charging the system. I did the removal/replacement of the expansion valve but as for drawing the vacuum and charging the system, I did that over at a Mazda dealership where the service manager (the friend of mine) helped/showed me what to do. We didn't weigh in the charge but I agree with your points about not knowing precisely how much refrigerent you have by the pressure gauges alone. We approximated based on pressure gauge readings, temperature gauge readings at the air vents, and his general experience.
You're right in that when I originally thought I might have had a leak and just shot some refrigerent in (way before I found the true failure), it was when I tipped the can upside down and watched the liquid refrigerent shoot in through a clear tube. The compressor seized immediately when I did that, and I immediately shut the AC off. It's running fine now so hopefully I didn't do any real damage.
I have a mechanical engineering background and understand a lot of the principles involved with the AC system from school years ago, I just haven't had a lot of practical, hands-on experience with AC systems so this is an enjoyable learning experience.
Thanks again for your tips.
just glad to help. the way your friend charged the system is the most common way for people who know what there doing its alot easyier but would take a life time to try to explain to someone who hasn't done it before.
very informitve post. i think i have the same problem. it there anyway to test the expansion value for malfunction?
if not, do you have a recommendation where buy the replacement?
I'm learning about AC systems but... to test an expansion valve, if it is stuck closed, then the high side pressure will be very high and the low side will be way too low. Basically, very little refrigerant will be flowing (and therefore little expanding and cooling, as well as higher pressure before the valve and lower pressure after the valve). Going off of memory, but I think that when I hooked up the gauges before replacing the failed expansion valve, I saw something around 250-300psi on the high side and 5-10psi on the low side while holding the throttle open to about 1500-2000rpm. That low side should have been more like 25-30psi and the high should have been more like 200-250psi.
I bought my part at my local dealer for around $90. Perhaps a local dealer to you will give you a break on the price.
I know this is an old post but is there any one out there that may have the pics.
they dont seem to be there any more?
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Thanks appreciate it. im having the same problem but is there a way to like test it to make sure its the expansion valve?
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Ok cool thanks for all your help man.....Its getting hotter in cali as the days go by so i need to get it fixed pretty soon.
-Thanks again
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Hi, I'm new to the forum but have been browsing for a few years - there's some great info on here! I'm hoping someone will be able to help me. My '02 WRX has about 80k on it. Last summer, I turned on the defrost and noticed a hissing-type leak noise coming from the dash area. Over the next two days, the hissing continued when the a/c was on and it lost all cooling. I put some dye in it but couldn't see a leak. Took it to the dealer who charged me $200 to tell me that I was out of freon but the vacuum test was fine and they couldn't find the leak. Recharged the system, worked for a month then leaked again. Weather turned cooler and I didn't worry about it. Summer came again and I decided to go to a different mechanic who I'd heard good things about. After several hours of soap, dye testing, etc he also couldn't find it, but confirmed that there was a strange leak somewhere because sometimes it would hold pressure, other times it wouldn't. Also thought my exp valve was bad because when it was recharged it was still acting screwy. (By the way - great pics on here, I removed the glovebox and blower to save a little mechanic labor time. The only thing I'd add is that one of the "clips" in the back holding the white plastic part to the blower motor is actually a small screw - so it takes small hands and a double jointed wrist to get that off). Mechanic was hopeful that in replacing exp valve, he would get to see more of the system and maybe find a leak. Sure enough, he found a huge hole with dye all around it in the evaporator. Ended up replacing evap, exp valve, and the TSB for thermo sensors. It worked for a over a month and I was happy when it was 95 deg that I got it fixed. Then yesterday turn on a/c and realize it's not cold. Might be coincidence, but the last time I used it was on defrost since it was raining. It's making the "hiss" kind of noise that it always makes when you first turn on a/c, but usually goes away after a second. Now the noise continues and there's no cold air. The compressor is still kicking on so I think it's in the process of leaking. Taking it back to the mechanic on Monday, but I'm at a loss. After putting over $1500 into it with the assumption that it will be fixed, I feel like I am back at ground zero and not sure how much more I can do. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Is there any way that using the defrost could cause a massive leak in the a/c system? I thought maybe if the exp valve had been bad (combined with the frosting from the TSB?), the pressure built up too much and it blew out the evaporator. But with all of those replaced, what's going on??
^^^^Sounds like you got another leak somewhere, just because you fixed it doesn't mean another leaky spot could not appear somewhere else, or even at the same spot as previously. I would put more dye in and explore the entire system for leaks. Having said that, I posted up here before becasue my system would do the same, every 3 months it would run out of steam, but I could not locate the leak anywhere. I did put about 2 cans of leak sealer into the system and while at first it improved the time between having to recharge the system, it looks like the leak has been sealed completeley since last time I had to add coolant was last year summer time, and this year its still blowing cold without adding any. Again, you can try adding some leak sealant like I did and recharge the system to see what happens, if it improves but runs out add another can and maybe if its a tiny leak it will seal itself. If not you'll probably need to tear up the system and fix it again.
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Same problem, clogged/broken expansion valve. Took car to auto shop to get system evacuated, replaced valve with non-OEM one ($16 vs $100) and took it back to get the system re-charged again. In total I saved about 300 dollars!
The replacement was not that hard, I had a hard time getting the electrical plug apart in the glove box. You have to push the tab down on the outside and it doesn't bend easily. Pretty awkward working in this part of the car, but the disassemble and reassembly is not that bad. I did not need to bend or tweak the metal connection in order to get the blower assembly out.
Thanks again, this thread helped a lot!
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Music did not disarm the fellow with the machete, but it did unite scared Americans and the Yoro tribe of Papua New Guinea in celebration afterwards. Music can only point the way towards a global community graced by understanding. We must walk there on our own.
Indonesias military buildup and East Timor-style militia activities threaten to destabilize Papua and the region.
Papua, until recently known as Irian Jaya, constitutes more than 20% of the Indonesian landmass, but has a relatively small population of just over two million (about one percent of Indonesia's population), with about 65% of that population being ethnic P
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Issa: Fast and Furious might have been a political operation to push for gun control
posted at 12:01 pm on June 25, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
The big question from last week's assertion of executive privilege by Barack Obama was what, exactly, was so troublesome that the White House couldn't have Attorney General Eric Holder release it. It certainly wasn't to protect the precedent of confidentiality of presidential advice; Obama and Holder have insisted that the President had no knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious until it made the headlines. Even the assertion of privilege attempted to skirt that issue by relying on deliberative process rather than direct presidential privilege, although it seems almost certain that deliberative process won't shield Holder and others at executive agencies. Clearly, the documents showsomethingObama finds damaging — but what is it?
Rep. Darrell Issa has headed the Congressional probe as House Oversight chair, and he told Jake Tapper yesterday that he thinks that the entire operation was political. Tapper sounded skeptical, and Issa responds by pointing to Holder's actions after the scandal broke:
TAPPER: You really think that there's a possibility that they were sending guns across the border not because they were trying to get people in the Mexican drug cartels, not because they were trying to figure out drug — I mean, gun trafficking, but because they were trying to push gun control?
ISSA: Two things quickly. First of all, this was so flawed that you can't believe they expected to actually get criminal prosecutions as a result of it. So the level of flaw — flaw — flaw, if that's a word, here is huge.
But here's the real answer as to gun control. We have e-mail from people involved in this that are talking about using what they're finding here to support the — basically assault weapons ban or greater reporting.
So chicken or egg? We don't know which came first; we probably never will. We do know that during this — this Fast and Furious operation, there were e-mails in which they're saying we can use this as part of additional reporting or things like assault weapons ban. So the people involved saw the benefit of what — what they were gathering. Whether or not that was their original purpose, we probably will never know.
And I — and I take people at their word that this started off in some way as an idea where they could get good information, they could, in fact, roll up bad guys. But after it was out of control and people are saying, we're letting too many guns walk, those kinds of e-mails occurred, we — we have people who also were being opportunists.
And, remember, Eric Holder issued a four-state reporting for long rifles and used what he had had here. Right in the middle of the scandal, he issues that for four states. They never needed this information. They never needed the reporting to get this information. These federally licensed gun dealers came to ATF and told them they had straw-buyers, told them they had suspicious buyers, and turned them on to the very people. And one of these people bought over 700 weapons, just one straw-buyer.
So it's very clear the system was working, where ATF was getting information voluntarily from licensed gun dealers. They don't need the additional reporting, but they got it anyway, and they used gun violence to the border and this operation as part of it. So I think when you look at the chicken or egg, there's proof that they certainly were opportunist.
Holder's orders might be a chicken-egg issue as well. After the scandal broke, the DoJ may have wanted a way to frame the issue as one of gun control rather than incompetence. As Issa says, the entire structure of the ATF operation was so poor that it's hard to see how anyone could have expected to get convictions in court from the results. Is that more incompetence, or an indication that the DoJ wasn't really interested in convictions? That's the big question, and one that Issa wants answered — from the documents that Obama is currently hiding behind a very weak claim of executive privilege.
Bill Whittle argued passionately that the only rational motive for Operation Fast and Furious was to push gun control, but Paul Mirengoff at Power Line is a little skeptical, too:
First, Fast and Furious does not appear to have been the brainchild of President Obama or Attorney General Holder. Rather, the program reportedly was formulated by the ATF in Phoenix in response to an edict from Washington to focus on eliminating arms trafficking networks, as opposed to capturing low-level buyers, as had occurred under traditional interdiction programs. If Fast and Furious had been the product of a conspiracy by the administration to promote gun control legislation, the program would have come from the top down, not from the bottom up.
Now, it's possible that a thorough review of documents would show that, contrary to current understanding, the plan originated in the White House or with Eric Holder. But it seems unlikely. For if this had happened, those who have been blamed for the program would likely have said they were following edicts from the highest reaches of the government.
Eric Holder's claim that he knew nothing about Fast and Furious is implausible. But this doesn't mean that he and/or the president came up with the idea. As far as I know, there is no evidence as of now that either did.
Second, Obama and Holder probably would not have believed that increased violence in Mexico could lead to tougher regulation of guns in the U.S. Americans simply don't care enough about Mexico to alter domestic policy based on what occurs there, especially when it comes to an issue as passionately and endlessly argued as gun control. Americans view violence in Mexico the way they viewed violence in Colombia – unfortunate, typical, and not our problem at any fundamental level.
I'm not so sure. First, I recall the effort by administration officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to claim that Mexican gun violence was our problem by using falsely inflated figures of American origins of drug-cartel guns. I wrote about the mythmaking in April 2009, long before the Fast and Furious scandal got exposed (and before the operation had even begun). I warned what the outcome of this claim would be at the time:
So why make up the lie? The more conspiratorial will conclude that the Obama administration wants to have a pretext for seizing weapons. Public statements like those made by Hillary Clinton certainly put pressure on the US to take some sort of action, if we're admitting to being the problem. So far, the Obama administration has not proposed a solution to this mythical problem, but we will want to keep a very close eye when they do.
I don't think Issa's suggestion is far-fetched at all. And at this point, it's incumbent on the President and his staff to release all of the documents on this deadly program so that we can find out exactly who knew what, when they knew it, and why the Obama administration responded to this supposed problem by flooding Mexico with guns they didn't bother to track.
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Hillary would have been involved heavily since it was clandestine acts of war, international mass murder, oh yeah and sedition but she didn't need to be involved in that last leg of the unholy trinity comprising F&F. She had a lackey at the meetings were F&F was discussed, I read from a link on an earlier thread I'm too lazy to hunt down.
Akzed on June 25, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Dec. 15, 2010, the day Agent Terry was murdered, ATF was leaking the names of gun shops and their owners suspected of complicity in gun running to the NYT.
You know, the same federally licensed firearms dealers who thought they were cooperating with ATF by selling guns to straw buyers under the watchful eye of los federales.
Akzed on June 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Hill60 on June 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Accomplices before and after the fact…
Akzed on June 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
I have no idea, but I do know that you guys come up with really cool names for your fake scandals. crr6 on July 10, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Del Dolemonte on June 25, 2012 at 12:27 PM
As far as getting old goes, this never does.
Akzed on June 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Fine that you don't see this as 'far-fetched at all', but there is nothing to support such a theory beyond imagining sinister motives. As is typical of how this stuff gets played out in conspiracy theories, you feel it's incumbent on Obama and the administration to to provide 'documents' that prove your suggestion false, wile you/others offer no documentation or evidence at all.
It's not to prove anything false, it's to assist in an investigation. You're "logic" would apply to police executing a search warrant.
'I have a wild speculation…prove I'm wrong.'
No. We have motive and probable cause, and we need additional information likely held by key players in our investigation. If to prove a bet I were looking for pictures of elephants in your wedding album, would you withhold it if there were no pictures of elephants, or show everyone the album to win the bet?
Thanks for cutting to the chase here. And did the Bush admin have the same objective with the gun walking that happened on their watch? Or did they just happen to essentially do the same thing for completely different reasons? verbaluce on June 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
The Bush admin's Operation Wide Receiver was done with the full cooperation of the Mexican govt, did not purposefully let guns walk but arrested those involved, involved many fewer weapons, and when guns did get lost it was shut down. So, nice try.
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perhaps mike. to me just different pieces of the puzzle all of which are required to get the overall picture.
squarepegs are notorious for questioning authority, (as did the little boy who exclaimed 'the emperor has no clothes!' ), and experiencing great harm is most helpful in advancing one up the learning curve.
no need to lose any sleep over any of this, it's just bees.


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We've had really poor experience with Silverleaf Resorts, and have requested that they terminate our timeshare agreement. Silverleaf has responded that they will not, and have threatened us with foreclosure. They have not given us any explanation of why they will not terminate our agreement, nor have they provided direct answers to the long list of specific complaints we sent them in a letter. This does not surprise us, as our entire experience with Silverleaf has been characterized by evasive and what we consider to be unethical tactics. We are exasperated and exhausted by our timeshare "ownership." We hope that our story is valuable to you, and helps you avoid the adversarial and unhappy situation that we find ourselves in.
We purchased our timeshare in July 2010, soon after our first transaction with Silverleaf. We were invited to an "owners' update meeting" in Galveston, a pleasant euphemism for being held hostage by a pack of ravenous salespeople. There were no "updates" or any useful information offered, only a prolonged and exhausting sales pitch. This was designed to wear us down and thereby extort our signatures and our money, through lengthy, repetitive and one-sided conversations and successive negotiations. After more than four hours of this, we were hustled through the signing of documents the contents of which were not disclosed. We settled on a unit at Hill Country Resort (near San Antonio, TX) after rejecting their initial offer of a timeshare at the Galveston location. They explained that the previous owner of our unit had had to give it back, due to personal hardship, and that Silverleaf had allowed them to do this out of the kindness of their hearts. Consequently, they were able to offer us a great deal. When we asked Silverleaf to extend this same courtesy to us, we were rebuffed and flat out told "no."
With this unit we would have a wide range of options for travel, they told us, especially with the membership in RCI we would receive. What we found after using RCI was that availability is limited, that the units that are available for trading are generally not the highest quality (one unit in Oregon had paper thin walls & we were totally unable to sleep), and that there are fees involved with trading or combining weeks that we were not told about. Availability of units during the "Bonus Times" we received was also overstated. The one time we were able to stay at Hill Country using Bonus Time, we didn't receive the spotless Presidential unit we'd been promised, the pool was closed and the recreation area was deserted. We have never gone back.
Silverleaf told us that our "Presidential" Hill Country unit had a great deal of trade value because it was a "destination" resort. We learned that Hill Country actually has a lower RCI trade value than our other property (Ozark Mountain Resort). We typically have to combine weeks to get what we want elsewhere. They also made a selling point of the idea of renting out our timeshare for income. We listed our unit for rent through a third party and generated no interest whatsoever. Likewise, no one is interested in buying it (why would they when you can get one for $1 on EBAY?).
Our principal salesman, Tony M., assured us he would be our personal contact at Silverleaf—that, essentially, he would provide us with concierge service. He gave us his phone number and urged us to call him with any little request, reservation, or problem. The first time we wished to take a trip, we repeatedly attempted to reach Mr. M, with no success. This, as we said, is typical—the only time we are able to talk to a Silverleaf rep is when one calls to invite us to another "update" meeting. In short, Silverleaf overpromises and under-delivers, and its customer service is wretched. The company exists solely to pry more money from owners' pockets, it seems. They have done nothing but dodge us from the start, and they are now dodging our request to cancel by threatening us with foreclosure. On that subject, we were never told about or shown our legal right to cancel during this presentation. This document was buried in our paperwork, all of which was hidden in an envelope the same color as the inside cover of our binder, which we did not even come across until we needed it for the rental company.
Please, be warned that if you enter into an agreement with Silverleaf, you may well regret it. This isn't a rant against all timeshares; we have a membership with another company that we enjoy very much. We visit their resort every year, are treated honestly, like friends and with respect, and because of that I know with certainty that Silverleaf is treating us wrong.
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Total Votes: 13
|Im getting one now for myself or as a gift.
|Im waiting for the iPad 3.
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Jeff Gamet
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The holiday shopping season is upon us, and Apple's products, including the iPad, look enticing as gifts for ourselves or others. If an iPad is in your future, are you planning on buying one now, or waiting to see if Apple releases a new model early next year?
I voted, or would have anyway, No, I Already Have One.
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Don't have one. Don't plan to buy one anytime soon.
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I already have one, but if not I would be getting one.
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As said I already have one as well. I am likewise advising people who ask me to save and wait for the iPad 3 if they are looking at the higher end iPads. Low end iPad users I have them look at a referbisbed iPads or iPad 2s depending on their personal uses (usually requires deep probing of thing they'd "like" to do).
It's all about uses. Even at the low end I don't feel the iPad is an e-Toy fit for only the holiday gifting season. If you want to do gifts for iOS devices, Apps and Gift cards are far better and more approparte. Things that help a person expand the functionality of the device… instead of getting the device itself. An iPad itself is like getting a Computer rather then a GameBoy, it's not really a toy. A toy is an stock Kindel Fire.
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Here is a link to an interesting article about beekeeping:
Here is a link to an interesting article about beekeeping:
Thanks for sharing - as it is a longish article I'm going to set aside some time to reread it.
Interesting article. But Barry the Beekeeper says a lot of very foolish things.
He seems to be one of those fanatical my way or the highway guys. He rails viciously against hobby beekeepers, and at the same time derives much of his income from selling bees to those very same ignorant bee-killing yuppies. He says that unlike hobby beekeepers, commercial beekeepers aren't killing their bees, ignoring some of the massive losses many commercial beekeepers have been having. He says that commercial and hobby beekeepers hate each other passionately. That seems to be a clear case of projecting one's personal biases on everyone else. I only know a couple of commercial beekeepers, but both are very nice, good-hearted, helpful persons. Many of the commercial beekeepers I know only through this forum are the same.Colony Collapse Disorder accounts for only a sliver of bee deaths over the past few years, and as long as one guards responsibly against known mites and viruses, Barry insists theres no reason to lose more than 2 or 3 percent of a hive each winter.
I would guess that in his mind, successful treatment free beekeepers are much like Santa Claus and flying saucers.
God save us from the Absolutely Certain.
I agree that the varroa mite has a lot to do with the health of every ones bee yard I don't want to say to much being only 4 year beekeeper .
I lost 5 strong hives last year to varroa and they all where year+ old hives all the hives I made last year are doing great and my mite load is super low. I been fogging with FGMO /4.9 cell in most my brood boxes /1 brood break / and drone frame in some hives not all/ seems to be doing well . I had 10 hives going in to spring and they all are doing well and I got a lot of honey and made 13 nucs so far and have 4 queens banked .
Last year I was seeing sick bees on the ground by this time plus I was seeing DFWV and I have seen only one bee with DFWV this year in that was in MAY and only 1. This year no dying bees in front of my hive what a great year my best one yet and I contribute that to low mite loads .
And I think some people that lose hives to varroa blame CCD
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What the heck is creative nonfiction, I wonder? But here's a quote, where Barry the Beekeeper is speaking about hobby beekeepers:
Do you understand this level of hostility?"They have no skin in the game because they don't really care about those bees," he says. "We just see all the time that who they are prevents them from being good beekeepers. If they don't think ahead, if they're procrastinators, if they're—it's almost like bee-keeping's the perfect spiritual mirror. Whatever you are, you're going to see in caricature." He takes a bite of his sandwich. "One of the chief researchers at the USDA made a comment to me that eventually hobby beekeepers will destroy bee-keeping and commercial bee-keeping and the bees."
"Do you understand this level of hostility?" rhaldridge
No, not at all. I also found his interaction with his wife illuminating and sad.The Hobbyist and C ommercial folk on this forum are not like Barry and friends.
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
I was started into beekeeping by a retired commercial beekeeper. He is a great guy, running monthly free field workshops and being very encouraging to any and all beekeepers. Still, it was an interesting article and shows the divisions that can happen. My local bee club is great and includes active participation by everyone from single hive hobbyists like me to commercial beekeepers. Love it.


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I made some thrilling new discoveries in our ephemera files: Menus! We are lucky enough to have several of them and I am now on a crusade to expand the collection. These menus give us a fascinating glimpse of culinary history and menu design in New York City's most populous borough.
Social clubs had great menus, not just for the food that was offered, but also for their artwork and general frivolity. Some menus were just that - a menu in its most common form, describing what the food for the evening would be. But this beautiful menu from the Montauk Club highlights the dishes that would be enjoyed for the Subscription Dinner to Ladies on Tuesday, March 27, 1894 with fine artwork.
This vibrant illustration--the teaset, the delicate flowers and folds of the lady's dress--is accompanied by a second menu issued the same evening, illustrated with a gentleman in matching outfit of top coat, wasitcoat, breeches, and stockings. I wish I could dress like the Montauk Club lady.
It is after my usual lunchtime, and my stomach is growling over this menu. Each course is written in French, and we start with Shinnecock Oysters from Long Island. We continue with cold and hot hors d'oeuvres, potages, (one being Clear Green Turtle soup), Kingfish, spring lamb, fancy ices, biscuits glacés, coffee and bonbons. Truly a feast!
The second menu comes from the Union League Club, which attracted wealthy Brooklyn Republican party members. This menu was created to celebrate the 99th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, the hero of the Union and the Republican party.
The menu was included in the program for the evening of February 12, 1908. After the list of dishes are pages that include portraits of the guest speakers for the evening and lines from Lincoln's speeches and letters. On the last printed page is a poem dedicated to Lincoln, and opposite, an image of Lincoln's statue in Prospect Park. The final pages of the program are reserved for autographs (although ours has none.) I have only included half of the menu here, but I think it gives a good representation of the whole. I wish menus today tempted me with lines from Shakespeare's plays and quotes from Voltaire! None is paired more perfectly than that of the Currant Jelly - Feel, masters, how I shake. - Henry IV. I see myself chomping on a cigar (which is listed on the second half of the menu) and am suddenly distracted by a crystal bowl full of quivering currant jelly.
Like the menu for the Montauk Club, this menu offers Green Turtle Soup. I am an adventurous omnivore, but I've never had the opportunity to eat turtle soup. In case anyone would like to make this recipe for their own celebration of Lincoln's birthday, I found a version of the recipe in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online. It is a little graphic in its description, giving explicit instructions on shell removal. Brooklynites seemed to like it but I will, however, skip it.
The spectacular New York Public Library Menu Collection, much of it donated by Miss Frank E. Buttolph, is housed at the New York Public Library. Here you will find not only some beautiful examples of menus, but also links to other historic menu collections around the country.
I keep menus from restaurants that I have fond memories of -- the tasting menus from Rosewater Restaurant in Park Slope; the spring menu from LouLou in Fort Greene - one from a particularly happy birthday dinner. The going away party at Clemente's Maryland Crab House in Sheepshead Bay - this celebration was twofold - my best friend was moving away to Cleveland AND it was the weekend that the final Harry Potter book came out. I brought the book with me to sneak a few pages while riding on the subway and the menu acted as my bookmark. It still smells like Old Bay seasoning.
If you have menus from Brooklyn restaurants that you would like to donate to our collection, please send them to The Brooklyn Collection, Attn: Archivist, Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238.
Hello Olivia,
I'm a librarian at the Williamsburgh branch and just discovered the interesting new Brooklyn Collection blog. I have a collection of old menus, some from the turn of the century. I also admire the colorful and detailed artwork and food descriptions. I also collect old recipe booklets, also for their wonderful illustrations.
I don't know if I have any menus from Brooklyn, but will look through my collection soon.
Thank you for bringing the ephemera collection to the attention of staff!
Judy Metzger
That's great, I never thought about this like that before.
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Google Maps expands its NYC coverage
From images of the Rockaways pre- and post-Sandy to Street View inside Central Park, Google proves just how much it hearts New York.
Wed May 29 2013
Photograph: Historypin
At the intersection of photography and cartography is Google Maps, in which anyone can virtually roam street corners and avenues with the click of an arrow. Now you can visit New York past and present from behind your keyboard via three new projects that have gone live today.
In partnership with Central Park Conservancy, Google Maps has published new Street Views (shot on camera-equipped bicycles) that follow the paths and trails of Central Park. Full-circle photography allows you to digitally tour the park, passing by plazas, ponds and pixelated bystanders.
Street View has also been expanded downtown, at the 9/11 Memorial. New photos of the north and south pools allow you walk along the black marble, and even read the names inscribed on the memorial.
Google has also teamed up with Historypin to host a pinboard of images and videos documenting the destruction wrought by Sandy in the New York area. The community-sourced project, titled "Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild," traces the visual histories of areas impacted by the storm. Clusters of geo-tagged images are scattered across a map of the coast from southern New Jersey up to Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Click on the photos hovering over Far Rockaway, for example, and images from various points in the 'hood's history will pop up—from a purple-tinted aerial view of the beach in 1974 to the trembling frame of a burned-down home after the hurricane hit in 2012.
With photos dating back to the 1840s, the project is a growing photographic timeline of the places affected by Sandy. Notable contributors like FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have already signed on to post their own photos of damage and repair. The images are rich visual touchstones of an era before the storm, the period of its dark devastation, and its hopeful future of restoration and rebuilding.


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Series VII, Oversize, 1898-2003
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Jewel's spectacular chandelier commands attention. Pick a stool under the dripping jewels and sip a champagne cocktail.
4–6 Glasshouse Street, W1, jewelpiccadilly.co.uk
The Gilbert Scott
The ornate ceilings and bell chandeliers of the Gilbert Scott transport you back to a golden era. Start with its house cocktail, the 1873: a mixture of gin, apple, rhubarb, cranberry and fizz.
Euston Road, NW1, thegilbertscott.co.uk
Purl's popular speakeasy vibe means you'll have to make a reservation. Sit in one of the cosy alcoves — framed by a mini chandelier — and talk in hushed tones.
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Le Chandelier
Le Chandelier takes a rather more minimal approach to statement lighting: sparse, striking chandeliers complement the exposed floorboards. But this Dulwich bar is friendly and fun — the spirits list is imaginative and unexpected.
161 Lordship Lane, SE22, lechandelier.co.uk
Great Northern Hotel
The dramatic chandeliers in the Art Deco bar are matched for glamour only by the classic cocktails list.
Pancras Road, N1, gnhlondon.com
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