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Plavix Side Effects
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October of 1997, Plavix is currently the 6th top-selling drug in the country. It is prescribed to help prevent blood clots and reduce the risk of heart attack. The manufacturers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, marketed the drug suggesting that its use with a low-dose aspirin therapy would be more effective than aspirin therapy alone. However, studies have shown that the medication offers no benefit over other anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapies, and actually increases the risk of deadly side effects such as:
- Heart Attacks and Strokes: Though this drug is prescribed to prevent heart attacks and strokes; it is currently being investigated for actually increasing the risk of these events.
- Ulcers: Ulcers are a serious recurring side effect for patients taking this medication. An ulcer is a break in the surface of an organ, which impairs the organ's function.
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP): TTP is a blood disorder that causes blood clots to form in small vessels around the body, which may then limit blood flow to vital organs such as the brain and heart.
- Cerebral Bleeding: This drug can increase the risk of bleeding in the brain, which may be fatal.
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding: In patients with a history of stomach conditions, this medication may cause severe gastrointestinal bleeding or hemorrhaging, both of which can be fatal.
- Damaged Bone Marrow: Bone Marrow, which produces new blood cells, may be damaged by the use of this drug.
- Death
Less severe side effects of this blood clot drug include: nausea, chest pain, nosebleed, and minor allergic reactions. Because the drug interacts with blood platelet cells, it can cause serious blood-related side effects. For example, damaged bone marrow adversely affects the patient's ability to produce both red and white blood cells. Specifically, use of the medication has been linked to agranulocytosis and neutropenia, which cause low white blood cell counts. These are serious conditions because white blood cells are an important part of the immune system and protect the body from infection.
Another serious blood-related side effect is hemorrhaging (bleeding). Bleeding is a serious side effect for patients taking blood clot drugs such as this one because the drug may prevent a hemorrhage from properly clotting. Additionally, patients taking this medication have reported hemorrhaging in vital organs such as the gastrointestinal tract and brain. Signs of gastrointestinal bleeding may include low blood pressure, vomiting blood, passing blood, and bloody stools. Treatment of this condition may require hospitalization and/or a blood transfusion. According to a New England Journal of Medicine study, Plavix patients are twelve times more likely to suffer gastrointestinal hemorrhaging, brain hemorrhaging, or ulcers than patients taking a combination of aspirin and heartburn pills.
Heart Attack and Stroke
The most serious side effects linked to use of this drug are heart attack and stroke, which can ultimately result in death. A number of patients taking the medication are poor metabolizers of the drug because they carry a liver enzyme that prevents the body from activating the drug. When the drug is not activated, patients are unable to receive its health benefits and face an increased risk of heart attack and stroke because the medication is not performing its proper function of lowering heart attack and stroke risk. For patients who have already suffered a heart attack or stroke this news is particularly unsettling because there is an especially high risk that such events could reoccur.
Plavix Stroke Study
A recent study conducted by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), intended to determine whether the combination of Plavix and aspirin would be more effective than aspirin alone in preventing recurring strokes, was shut down well before completion. After all, the drug had been marketed with the reassurance that it would be more effective than aspirin therapy by itself.
The study, however, reached a different conclusion. Just a few months after the study began, the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), recommended the Plavix portion of testing be shut down due to the number of negative side effects reported from patients receiving the drug in combination with the aspirin therapy, versus those receiving solely aspirin therapy.
Results indicated that patients using the drug in tandem with aspirin were twice as likely to experience bleeding events as those receiving only aspirin. Similarly, the number of deaths reported was nearly twice as many as the group receiving only aspirin. These results support the conclusion that the use of Plavix in conjunction with aspirin for secondary stroke prevention may do more harm than good.
Plavix Lawsuits against Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb has marketed this medication as a more effective blood clot drug than aspirin; however, the medication has been linked to far more serious side effects than aspirin (i.e. ulcers, heart attack, stroke, and death). The FDA has been concerned with Bristol-Myers Squibb's claims about the drug and has required them to change the drug's warnings several times. Failure to reasonably warn consumers is a common allegation made by plaintiffs filing claims against drug manufacturers. In this case, Bristol-Myers Squibb overstated this drug's benefits while understating its dangers. More than 561 Plavix lawsuits have been filed against the drug company alleging a failure to warn. Plaintiffs also allege the drug caused serious side effects, including ten deaths. In one case, a California man took the drug over a seven-year period and experienced hemorrhage and permanent injury. One Tennessee woman taking the medication suffered three gastrointestinal hemorrhages in less than a year. In another case, a Washington man suffered a brain hemorrhage that ultimately led to his death. Even Bristol-Myers Squibb shareholders have sued the company in actions related to this drug. Specifically, the company entered into agreements with a competitor that manufactured a generic version of the medication, but it did not disclose these agreements to investors. These lawsuits were recently settled for $125 million. No settlements have yet been reached for any of the personal injury Plavix claims. If you have suffered any adverse side effects as a result of taking this drug you should contact an injury attorney as soon as possible. The statute of limitations for personal injury and product liability claims is dictated by law in any given state. If claims are not filed within the applicable statutory period, those who have been injured by the drug may be barred from ever receiving compensation for their injuries.
About Plavix Manufacturer (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Bristol-Myers Squibb was formed in 1989 through a merger between Bristol-Myers and Squibb. The company develops and manufactures biopharmaceutical products. In 2011, its top selling products were Plavix ($7.1 Billion), Abilify ($2.8 Billion), and Reyataz ($1.6 Billion). Overall, the company made $21.2 billion in sales while investing $3.8 billion into research and development.
Contact the Law Offices of d'Oliveira & Associates
If you or a loved one has been injured by Plavix, you may want to speak with an injury lawyer regarding a potential claim. An attorney familiar with the ongoing investigations of certain dangerous drugs may be able to assist you in making important personal and legal decisions. d'Oliveira & Associates is working with well-qualified attorneys across the country who are currently handling these types of cases.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (February 24, 2010) – The Rutgers women's lacrosse team (1-0) got the 2010 season started on the right note, defeating Temple 13-3 on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the RU Turf Field. The Scarlet Knights commanded a three-point lead at halftime and held the Owls without a goal in the second half to earn their second-straight win over Temple.
RU has now won four of the previous six matchups against the Owls, including last season's 16-9 defeat at Temple.
"I think we executed things really well and I think the biggest change we made from the first half to the second half is that we were finishing on our shots," said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. "We had opportunities in the first half but we were thinking one step ahead of ourselves, shooting the ball before it was on our stick, so I think we sharpened up on that in the second half and that was the difference. I thought we came out [and played] really, really hard for the first game of the year."
Freshman Lily Kalata (Nesconset, N.Y.) earned her first colligate start in goal in the Scarlet Knights' season opener, holding Temple to just three goals in the first half and scoreless in the second. The rookie posted 12 saves in her first action of the season.
The Scarlet Knights opened with a five-goal lead against the Owls, receiving scores from seniors Meghan Flanagan (Medford, N.J.) and Brooke Cantwell (Moorestown, N.J.), junior Marlena Welsh (Jarrettsville, Md.), sophomore Lindsey Watts (Hillsborough, N.J.) and freshman Stephanie Anderson (Wading River, N.Y.).
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Review - Assassin's Creed Revelations
Daniel Anderson
14 November, 2011
Ezio's story draws to a close in the latest epic chapter in the Assassin's Creed series
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations is an immense achievement
From less than auspicious beginnings in 2007, the Assassin's Creed franchise has risen in a few short years to become one of the most deservedly acclaimed series of the current era. It created its own legacy with a run of increasingly complex, expansive and impeccably crafted historical worlds for players to navigate, complete with a great sci-fi premise that binds the disparate parts of the narrative together while also giving the developers almost limitless freedom to explore new periods. But with the move to a yearly release model and the arrival of the latest entry so soon after 2010's sterling Brotherhood, has Ubisoft managed to keep the same high quality?
In short yes. Revelations brings to a close the story of Ezio Auditore, an Italian living during the Renaissance who first featured in Assassin's Creed II. He was the main protagonist in last year's Brotherhood and returns here on a quest which is intimately tied to the entire AC mythos. Ezio is in pursuit of five Masyaf keys which will unlock a library at the ancient Assassin fortress that contains secrets left behind by the legendary Altair. But the keys are also containers for memories from Altair's life, giving Ezio the chance to relive these chapters and gain new insight, while modern character Desmond is trapped in a safe mode in the latest version of the Animus while he tries to rebuild his shattered psyche.
It's easily the most complex and finely woven tale yet told in an AC game, and the finale brings the three main characters together in ways that are both unexpected and emotional, touching on the immense sacrifice necessary for a life as an assassin. Players can also partake in Desmond's Journey, voluntary mini quests which give some background on the character's early life. These sections are completely unique – told from first person and filled with voice over (
The Joycean steam of consciousness writer Darby McDevitt mentioned in our interview
), unusual architecture and even strange, Tetris-like, puzzle elements and it's just one more sign of Ubisoft's commitment to continuing to develop the feel of the series.
The main game takes place almost exclusively in Constantinople at the turn of the 16th Century, a smaller focus which is reflected by the lack of regular horse-riding or travelling outside the city walls. Rather than being restrictive, it simply feels more concentrated; you're never more than a few meters from something interesting on your mini-map, which remains littered with icons. Ezio teams up with the local Assassin's initially to seek out the Masyaf keys but soon gets caught up in a Byzantine plot to usurp the Ottoman rule.
The first notable gameplay addition is the hookblade and it changes every aspect of the game in subtle ways; from new combat options (such as the ability to flip over the back of an enemy) to the ability to ride ziplines. Fundamentally, the hookblade massively increases your exploration speed, as Ezio can leap and grab up most walls in a matter of seconds, streamlining the experience and removing one of the series' prime frustrations
Another new addition is an expanded mentoring system for new assassin's called Mediterranean Defence, giving you more cities to conquer and the ability to assign highly trained students to dens. This will decrease Templar attacks and give you the chance to partake in unique Master Assassin mission where you'll accompany your young padawan on their own quests. It's quite something to head out on a mission with someone you personally recruited and to watch them use their deadly skills. If you lose a den to Templar attack, you'll launch a mini game called Den Defence which is a basic tower defence clone that lets you assign assassin's to rooftops and construct barriers in the street below as waves of enemies try to smash through. It's a lot of fun, and the difficulty level is pitched quite high though it's possible to avoid these pitched battled with careful play.
Regular missions have more variety than ever – including the chance to
dress up as a bard and play decoy as we detailed in our preview
. The open world structure means you are rarely forced down a certain path, moving from major story missions to pottering around and rebuilding dilapidated sections of Constantinople with ease. Revelations features a few more linear sections than its predecessors, like the fiery escape across the harbour which has been trailered for months or the chase sequences which open and close the game but they rarely feel too restrictive (like some in Uncharted 3) and are paced well enough to be unobtrusive.
There were several moments during my playthrough of Revelations where I felt overwhelmed by the possibilities; by the sheer number of available missions, submissions and optional extras. By the plethora of available weaponry and armour, shops to buy and a whole romantic sub plot. Then there's the bomb crafting which you may promptly forget about – until you come up against groups of tougher foes in the last third and you'll be glad you've got something with a little more kick. The mechanics are simple – just choose your case, powder and filling – with the bombs falling into the category of offensive, distraction or obscuring. A massive explosion is certain to draw attention, so why not toss a time delayed shell filled with lamb's blood into an unsuspecting crowd and line up your target before all hell breaks loose.
Apart from the blade part of the hookblade, combat is relatively unchanged. The same block, dodge and counter gameplay is encouraged and I swear those finishing moves are more bloodthirsty than ever before. Of course, that also means they're incredibly cool, and the variety means you'll never tire of Ezio's badass flourishes as another foe expires. Counter steals are new, giving you the chance to ridicule an enemy by stealing his loose change before gutting him. Awesomely of course. Enemies are perhaps a little tougher than before, and the game has no trouble throwing a bunch of those dastardly pike wielding bastards at you with a few riflemen for extra giggles but we figure they're just asking for a face full of gunpowder. And those Janissaries which
caused me some bother in the preview code
seem to have been toned down a little here. They've still got an immense health bar but they seem a little less aggressive, and you can always call down a fellow assassin or five to stab them in the brain.
Multiplayer has also been revised, with the first significant addition being a self-contained story which places you as an elite Abstergo agent who is given the chance to prove themselves in the violent virtual playground of the Animus. Succeed and you'll learn more about the company as you level up to its highest echelons. Fail and… well they'll probably kill you. The uniquely compelling hide and go kill gameplay from Brotherhood is back and it's just as tense as ever, providing a different, more defensive and calculated flow than the headshot heavy multiplayer gamers are used to. Personally, I love it and wish more games made such a concerted effort to break the mould.
The basic game modes from before have been expanded to include a hefty 10; including two flavours of deathmatch, wanted, assassinate and CTF style modes that ask you to steal and retain artefacts and chests – both as a team and on your own. Escort charges you and your fellow killers with guarding a VIP while the frenetic Corruption mode sees one player infect everyone he can until a single agent is left standing… for a frantic game of sudden death. Abilities, perks and kill streaks also make a return and there's more variety than ever before, especially as you level up and begin to unlock new combinations to assault and confuse your foes. Hit level 30 and you can even craft your own abilities.
All this, and I haven't yet had the chance to mention the remarkable visual style of Revelations. The world of Constantinople is stunningly rendered, with each street featuring the kind of detail you don't expect in an open world game. The range of NPC character models continues to improve and the animation of the major character is superb, though those motion captured movements are starting to look a little familiar. Ezio doesn't navigate his world in as smooth a fashion as Uncharted's Nathan Drake but this world dwarf's
Naughty Dog's glorified corridors
in scope and scale.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations is an immense achievement, filled with epic moments like the exploration of massive underground city and so many optional missions and abilities that you'll never be able to use them all – case in point, I didn't even know I had parachutes until the final hour of the game! Of course, it also has its flaws – a game world of this size is prone to moments of broken mechanics and frustrating falls and for those used to regular multiplayer, you might find the more measured pace of these arenas a chore. The ending is also primed for debate as to what exactly occurs and how it feeds into the no doubt pending release of Assassin's Creed III but the regular story comes to a fitting and satisfying close as the temporal strands of the story unite for one tenuous moment.
With a challenging open world, an epic, semi-historical story, a varied and well-designed single player and unique multiplayer, Assassin's Creed: Revelations represents one of the best, most well rounded packages gamers will find this year. Coming at a time chock full of blockbuster titles, it's likely that Ubisoft's stunning adventure won't get the attention that it deserves but as of right now, it's one of my contenders for game of the year.
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lots to do and see in bend area though...i would recommend it.
We are now in NC and really like it but where we are the only US and HS for that matter is not that popular.
As far as resources/people/laws TX was the best.
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I would love to move back to St. Louis. SOOOO many nature centers there with cool stuff to do at them, alot of stuff to do for free or really cheap, museums, food, AWESOME houses....
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Also, Missouri has very homeschool friendly laws. St Louis has a huge homeschooling population that runs from school at home to ru. In my AP playgroup, almost 1/2 of us, maybe a bit more, have decided to homeschool, with many leaning towards or acitvely unschooling.
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I was reading a bit on a forum earlier and people were sooo negative. We sometimes play with the idea of moving there so would just love to see if anybody wants to share their experience. (also non-unschoolers
would love to chat with you more about the community of unschoolers in corvallis..im thinking of moving here after reading this comment stream!! my phone number is 8014491833~! Also mine and my daughters fb is Kaia Lou ..would love friend request from all you unschooling mamas!!!
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I'm actually thinking of moving to bend now!!
We just moved to Oregon and I'm LOVING IT!
we are most likely headed to bend mid-2013 :-))
washington dc !! if you live in the city limits then your homeschooling requirements are basically nothing and there is SO much to do and most of it is FREE
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Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) Cooperative Agreement
CDC's national funding strategy strengthens capacity to respond to domestic infectious disease threats
Since ELC's inception, CDC's national funding strategy has grown from assisting eight grantees with $2 million dollars to providing $90-240 million annually (2011 – 2016) to all 50 states, 8 U.S. territories, and 6 cities with the largest local health departments. In fact, the award distributed in August 2016 is the largest amount dispersed since the ELC Cooperative Agreement started. The ELC program currently covers more than 20 specific infectious disease areas and approximately 45 discrete projects. This crucial CDC investment helps strengthen an effective public health workforce, nimble surveillance systems, modern and efficient laboratory facilities, and more integrated information networks.
CDC's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement (ELC) funds all 50 state health departments, six of the nation's largest local health departments (Chicago, the District of Columbia, Houston, Los Angeles County, New York City and Philadelphia), and eight territories or U.S. affiliates, including U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. There are 64 grantees.
Public Health Impact
As Americans are increasingly affected by infections emerging anywhere in the world, finding and stopping infectious disease health threats is essential to protecting public health and saving lives. Communities across the nation benefit from the actions taken by state, local, and territorial public health departments to detect, respond, prevent, and control known and emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases. Examples of other benefits:
- Preventing future outbreaks.
- Responding more quickly to occurrences of infectious diseases.
- Executing science-based prevention and control strategies leading to decreased infectious diseases deaths and illnesses.
- Improving health outcomes, health care quality, and health equity.
Grantee Activities
State, local, and territorial public health agencies each have unique needs and priorities because of the diverse infectious disease challenges they face, their organizational capacity, geography, and populations. Often, there are unanticipated events that may require the diversion of resources to a specific emerging or re-emerging disease. To better meet essential needs and reduce delays in responsiveness, cross-cutting ELC resources are designed to address planned-for and unanticipated infectious disease threats.
The ELC oversees an array of projects that strengthen the ability of public health agencies to respond to, prevent, and control known and emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases. These include the growing threat of drug-resistant infections, foodborne disease prevention and tracking, vaccine-preventable diseases, as well as activities to reduce healthcare-associated infections.Two primary classes of ELC funding include:
Flexible or Non-disease-specific funding
tackles high-priority needs that are NOT disease-specific. Funding in this category addresses integrated, cross-cutting activities related to epidemiology, laboratory, and health information systems. Resources are awarded so grantees can:
- Strengthen epidemiological capacity:
- Ensure health departments are well-equipped with staff, surveillance systems and other tools to identify, characterize, and provide rapid, effective, and flexible response to infectious disease threats.
- Develop, execute, and evaluate public health interventions to promote early detection methods that will facilitate the timely implementation of control measures and minimize transmission of infectious diseases.
- Support a variety of epidemiological activities.
- Enhance laboratory capacity:
- Develop modern and well-equipped public health laboratories, with well-trained staff, employing high quality laboratory processes and systems that foster communication and appropriate integration between laboratory and epidemiology functions.
- Support a variety of laboratory activities
- Improve health information systems:
- Develop and enhance health information systems infrastructure in public health agencies, including public health laboratories, focusing on standards-based electronic data exchange, information systems interoperability, and enhancing and sustaining integrated surveillance information systems.
- Enhance the electronic exchange of data between public health agencies and clinical care entities, focusing on electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) and electronic case reporting (eCR)
- Increase informatics/IT capacity in public health agencies through staff, contracts, and training.
Disease-specific or Categorical funding
targets specific infectious diseases and other public health threats of importance. Examples include:
- Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria
- Waterborne diseases
- Zika virus
- Influenza (Flu)
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Fungal (mycotic) diseases
- Capacity for other emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases
- Foodborne germs and illnesses
- National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)
- Disease-specific laboratory detection and epidemiologic investigation
- Respiratory diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases
- Tickborne diseases(Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia )
- Mosquito-borne diseases (West Nile, dengue fever, chikungunya virus)
- Flea-borne diseases (plague)
- Parasitic diseases
- Prion diseases (a group of conditions that affect the nervous system in humans and animals)
Additional Background
In 1995, the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) Cooperative Agreement was established to distribute resources to domestic public health departments to strengthen the nation's infectious disease infrastructure.
In response to the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States, CDC created ELC as a key component of its national prevention strategy. In ELC's early years, the focus was on helping to build general infectious disease surveillance capacity.
As the program became more established, it expanded to include specific pathogens. In 2010, the program reached an important milestone with the passage of the Affordable Care Act that established the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF). This provided the first mandatory funding dedicated to improving the nation's public health system. The PPHF expanded national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain increasing private and public sector health care costs.
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
Viewing 11–20 out of 16,283 events
from November 17, 2013 (x) to January 20, 2018
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Bryant Park Yoga
at Upper Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Bryant Park Yoga is returning for its 13th season! Stop by the park and join a Tuesday morning or Thursday evening class.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
First Annual Beep Baseball Kids Clinic
at Al Oerter Recreation Center (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
District 75 Office of School Wellness Programs in conjunction with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and Lions Quest NYC would like to invite your students to participate…
Category: Accessible, Sports
Landmark at Socrates Sculpture Park
at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Marking Socrates Sculpture Park's 30th anniversary, the park presents Landmark, a series of artist commissions and projects that transforms the land both physically and symbolically.
Category: Accessible, Art, Waterfront
Flora/Fauna/Feathers of Richmond County
at Conference House Park Visitor Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come view original images of nature celebrating the natural environment of Staten Island.
Category: Art
Central Park Tour: Hallett Nature Sanctuary and the Pond
at Sixth Avenue and Central Park South (in Central Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Enjoy this walk through the park's smallest woodland area, open to visitors only on guided tours and limited open hours.
Category: Nature, Tours
Garden Highlights Walk
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join us for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights.
Category: Nature, Tours
Tour of Gracie Mansion
at Gracie Mansion (in Carl Schurz Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–11:50 a.m.
Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942.
Category: Art, History, Tours, Seniors
Bryant Park Juggling
at Lawn (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun.
Category: Accessible, Best for Kids
Piano in Bryant Park
at Upper Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Piano in Bryant Park is produced in partnership with the Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, Sam Ash Music Stores, Jazz Center of New York, and Music Performance Trust…
Category: Concerts, Free Summer Concerts
Gallery Tour
at Glyndor Gallery (in Wave Hill), Bronx
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Join Wave Hill's Curatorial Fellow for a tour of current exhibitions.
Category: Nature, Art, Tours
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The Super Bullpen1
Yesterday the Blue Jays signed former closer (not that it matters) Francisco Cordero. Surprsingly to some fans at only 1 year and $4.5 million Cordero's contract is the largest guaranteed free agent contract that Alex Anthopoulos has signed in his short tenure as Blue Jays General Manager. Now as the offseason is coming to a close Anthopoulos has acquired four top end relievers in Sergio Santos, Jason Frasor, Darren Oliver, and now Cordero. With the Jays having already had Casey Janssen they now have five different guys with late inning experience. To me that doesn't matter, but to the fans who believe in the flawful (Yes I made that up) save statistic, it carries a lot of weight.
Beyond that on paper the bullpen surely looks good, definitely one of the better bullpens the Jays have had in the past decade, well until we see the production of course. Collectively Sergio Santos, Darren Oliver, Francisco Cordero, Casey Janssen, Jason Frasor, Carlos Villaneuva, Litsch had a 3.23 ERA in the 2011 season. That number would rank 6th in the league, which is 15 spots higher than where the Blue Jays 3.88 bullpen ERA ranked this year. Of course that looks good, but rather than hyping up the bullpen as many are, I thought I'd take a conservative approach.
As I said before the bullpen sure looks good on paper and has pretty good depth with Joel Carreno, Chad Beck, and more, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will perform. Last offseason the Jays signed Jon Rauch and traded for Frank Francisco expecting a couple of pretty good pitchers. In 2010 the collective ERA and FIP between the two of Rauch and Francisco was 3.44 and 3.03 respectively. Only one year later at the end of the 2011 season their collective ERA and FIP was 4.20 and 4.53. The collective ERA was 0.76 points higher and the FIP was a whole 1.50 points higher. Granted some of the production loss can be attributed to injury, but injuries are just another potential issue with relief pitchers.
Now getting to this year's potential relief pitchers there is some upside, but there's also reason to be concerned.
Sergio Santos
Being a converted shortstop, despite being 27 this will only be his third year in the MLB. So far he has been effective with a 3.29 ERA, 2.97 FIP, and 31 saves if you care about that stuff. On top of that Santos raised his strike rate and lowered his walk rate in 2011. Though all that is encouraging what also happened last year is Santos' HR/FB% raised to 11.3% and his BABIP was a concerning .269. Granted these numbers could be statistical anomalies as both were more "average" in 2010. I guess the real problem here is just that there isn't a lot of data on Santos, but he does have one of the best sliders in the league and doesn't have a whole lot of innings on the arm.
Darren Oliver
Oliver at 42 is almost twice the age of Brett Lawrie, but like a fine wine has only gotten better with age. The whole thing on Oliver is that he has posted a better ERA every year for the last five years, but what is even more encouraging is the 2.77 FIP that he posted in 2011. One thing to consider is that his strikeout rate dropped last year, but so did his walk rate so it kind of balances it out. The only real knock on Oliver would be his age and how long he can sustain success, but even that is a argument with really no basis.
Francisco Cordero
Cordero on the surface looked to have a pretty good year in 2011 with a 2.45 ERA and 37 saves (Whoopee!), but just a quick look at his FanGraphs page has quite a few reasons why he wasn't very good in 2011. For starters Cordero's FIP was at 4.02 and 1.57 points higher than his ERA, which is never a good thing. Beyond that it looks like he was pretty lucky in 2011 with an unsustainably low BABIP at .214, 80 points lower than his career average and a LOB% at 82.3%, 5.4% above his career average. Finally the stuff seems to be declining as according to Pitch/FX (via FanGraphs) he lost 1.5 MPH on the Fastball velocity. All of this sums up to an interesting 2012 for Cordero, if he doesn't get lucky again, we could be looking at a long season.
Casey Janssen
Janssen had a very good 2011 and was arguably Toronto's best relief pitcher. Beyond that there isn't much need be said. The peripherals match up with the ERA, the velocity was consistent. The only real knock I see on Janssen is that from year to year he has been a bit inconsistent, but this year and previously in his career he has shown he can be a great relief pitcher. The question really is will we see that great pitcher in 2012?
Jason Frasor
Frasor was a piece of the Colby Rasmus trade at the 2011 trade deadline and now its seems the Jays only payed pennies on the dollar to re-aquire Frasor. Besides that, over his career Frasor has been as consistent as a relief pitcher not named Marian Rivera can be. He has only posted an ERA above 4.50 once and and posted the third best numbers of his career last year. I'd really like to point out something wrong with Jason Frasor, but to my knowledge there just isn't anything.
Carlos Villaneuva
Last season Villaneuva was the swingman of sorts for the Blue Jays. He filled in when the Jays needed a starter and he wasn't as bad as Jo-Jo, but that sure isn't saying much. This year with a bevy of options for the rotation Villaneuva will almost surely be in the bullpen, where he belongs. Though despite that what is concerning about Villaneuva, last year he almost cut his K% in half, which is never a good thing. Maybe it was the extra innings that caused a lack of Ks, but I'm not so sold. Villaneuva had similar production to the rest of his career, but if he doesn't start striking guys out it could be difficult to sustain success and he could add another half a point on his ERA to match his xFIP.
Jesse Litsch
I remember the days when Jesse Litsch was pitching way above his head to a sub 4.00 ERA as a starter and how the peripheral stats suggested he would regress. Now he has reached that point and stats like xFIP and SIERA suggest that he will get better and sometimes I just don't get it. If he pitches to his peripherals again he could put out some very good production and if he doesn't well then he just won't be a very good pitcher, kind of like last year.
Final Thoughts
On paper the Jays bullpen looks scary good and maybe the best they've had since the early 90s. But as we baseball fans should know bullpens are volatile and things don't always turn out the way they were "supposed" to. Notwithstanding the great bullpen that Anthopoulos built, I don't really see the value in all the money on the bullpen, when for example you could have let Joel Carreno pitch instead of Francisco Cordero and he could not have possibly been much worse. Some say that Anthopoulos is stockpiling arms for the trade deadline, but once we get to the deadline I'm sure we'll realize teams are willing to pay as much as they used to.
The reason being that in past years when a good, but not great relief pitcher went to free agency he'd likely end up being a Type B free agent, meaning the Jays could have gotten a supplemental first round pick out of him. That means that in negotiations at the deadline Alex could have always said that whatever you're offering, it better be worth more than a supplemental first round pick.
Now with the new CBA nixing the Type A and Type B free agent systems all of these good, not great relief pitchers will be worth nothing come the offseason. So rather than having the leverage of the possible pick that Anthopoulos could obtain, if he really wants something out of them, he'll have to take whatever he can get. More often than not I'm guessing the "prospect" will not be better than a supplemental first round pick, nor will it be worth half of the salary that is paid out to the reliever. If Alex Anthopoulos truly wanted a good bullpen thats fine he built one, but to suggest he's stockpiling arms seems a bit naive.
Of course we haven't seen how the market will react to the new CBA, so come July 31st I could be the one looking like the idiot. Because we all have to remember that last year Anthopoulos did trade some relief pitchers for one of the better young outfielders in the game at last year's trade deadline. At the very least this "Super Bullpen" should shush up the FAN 590 Jays Talk callers, and for both our sanity as well as Mike Wilner's I sure hope that happens.
As a side note I know the last couple posts have been kind of crapping on people's expectations, but in the next post their will be something quite a bit more optimistic so you can stay tuned for that.
Jays Bolster Bullpen by Bringing Back Frasor0
|Frasor closing for the Jays
On New Years Day the Jays traded minor league right handers Daniel Webb and Myles Jaye for relief pitcher Jason Frasor from the White Sox. On the surface the trade truly brings back a semi-true Blue Jay in the sense that Frasor has been a Jay almost his entire career save for the half a season he spent in south side Chicago. As you delve further you see how the trade helps the Jays as well as the effect that is has on Frasor.
Another plus in the trade is that the Jays only had to give away a couple lower level talents in Webb and Jaye. Webb is a 22 year old playing in A ball (so a little old for the league) and only pitched to a 5.59 ERA and 4.40 FIP. Granted the rate stats such as the 2.13 K/BB ratio are somewhat encouraging, but either way this definitely isn't a prospect that you'd see on any Blue Jays Top 10 Prospects list and likely not on any top 30 lists either.
As for Jaye, he has a little more polish and potential. He was the Blue Jays' 17th round pick in the 2010 draft, but was signed for $250,000 which is well above slot. As a deadline signee Jaye didn't play in short season ball in 2010 but in 2011 with the Bluefield Blue Jays of the Appy league he posted a 3.00 ERA and fantastic peripheral stats. Jaye may be better than Webb, but like Webb he won't be popping up on any Keith Law or Kevin Goldstein lists any time soon, well at least on the Jays side.
To go along with the very little that the Jays gave up because it was part salary relief, in Jason Frasor the Jays bring back a solid bullpen arm and a guy who has been among the most consistent relievers in the MLB over the past decade having only posted an ERA above 4.50 once in his career. As well with Frasor comes some veteran leadership that casual fans just eat up and a well known face because of all the time spent with the Jays.
In the bullpen, the role that Frasor likely fits in to is a share of the right handed setup man role with Casey Jannsen. He figures to add yet another piece to the surprisingly quick built bullpen in Toronto as so far this offseason Anthopoulos has added Sergio Santos, Darren Oliver, maybe Aaron Laffey and now Frasor to a bullpen that was in the bottom half of the league in most conventional and sabrmetric statistics.
|Frasor while with the White Sox
AA took ahold of the Andrew Friedman method and quietly built a strong bullpen much like the Tamba Bay Rays last offseason and in their pennant winning 2008 season. The Rays are often cited as an example of why you don't need to spend big bucks on the bullpen and how bullpens can be built in a year. From the looks of it Anthopoulos has taken note from a division rival and hopefully like it did for the Rays it works for the Jays.
Overall there really doesn't seem like any downside to this trade for the Jays and almost limitless upside. The prospects really don't figure to turn in to too much as they don't seem to have large amounts of promise. In the endwhat the trade boils down to is just a feel good trade for the Jays, something the Jays desperately needed after the Yu Darvish fiasco and the Prince Fielder drama. Because no one can complain about bringing back the Johnny Mac of the bullpen, Jason Frasor.
Both photos courtesy of Keith Allison and licensed under Creative Commons
Blue Jays Biggest Trade Chip?0
|Photo by Keith Allison licensed under Creative Commons
The reason I clump Francisco and Frasor together is because they too have contract similarities, as well they are two players I believe are more unlikely to be traded. The contracts of these two guys are one year each with no options at about $3.75 million a piece. Why I don't see them being traded is in Francisco's case, it seems like the Jays believe that he is and should be their closer, which I don't necessarily agree with, but whatever. As well it will be hard to trade away Frasor who has the longest tenure with the Jays of all current Blue Jays. Also the Jays need at least one solid bullpen piece to somewhat hold late leads. Even if the Jays do trade away Frasor, I know it will be a hard loss, but I think he would resign with them in the offseason.
Aaron Hill
We all know the story of Aaron Hill. The once great player, whose career seemed to have its climax in 2009, with everything after just getting worse and worse. I wrote more about this in the previous article "The Rise of One, The Fall of Another". But as I stated in that article I would welcome the trading of Hill to whatever team still believes in him. Though as I also stated I don't see that being a likely possibility. The reasons being as I stated that the Jays are weak when it comes to middle infielders, with only Hech in the higher part of the farm system. Then the fact that the 2B free agent class this year isn't great, though Anthopolous has had interest in the past in one free agent second basemen Kelly Johnson. But Johnson isn't exactly having an All-Star year either. So it leaves the Jays with the realization that if they trade Hill they won't have anything else to fill the spot other than John Macdonald who is great defensively, but isn't stellar with the bat.
Corey Patterson
Now to Corey, the former top prospect who never really panned out. The Jays saw him and gave him a shot with a minor league contract this year. Earlier in the year it didn't look bad because Patterson was performing and we were able to plug his bat into the lineup every once in a while with Snider and Bautista manning the corner outfield spots. Then Snider was demoted to AAA to "revamp" his swing. This left us with the understanding that we would have to plug either Juan or Corey into left field and we really couldn't afford Juan's catcher like figure trying to run around and attempt to adequately fill left field. So this left us with Corey Patterson, a guy who really shouldn't be a major league starter, but the Jays were almost forced to plug his bat into the lineup everyday. Though now that we have Thames and Snider in Toronto and Loewen in Vegas, we really have no need for Patterson and we can trade him away. He probably wouldn't bring much value but there is still teams who would give away a lower tier prospect for him. As was said in a Fangraphs article he could be this year's Cody Ross. Teams that may try to get Patterson includes the Diamondbacks and the Braves, both playoff contenders in need of an extra bat.
Carlos Villaneuva
Now finally to Carlos Villaneuva, a pitcher that I have heard no body really talk about in terms of trade, but a guy who is 5-1 with a 3.24 ERA should garner some interest. Especially when teams know that the Jays may be looking to shed a pitcher whether its Jo-Jo or Villaneuva. Because the Jays have 2 guys in Litsch and Drabek who could be pitching in the majors come August as well as a stocked farm system with such top prospects as Zach Stewart, Henderson Alvarez, and Deck McGuire. So shedding a guy like Villaneuva who is pitching much better than he should be according to his xFIP of 4.13 wouldn't be such a bad thing, if the team is overpaying. If the Jays could get even a C level prospect for him than that would be more than enough. As well the fact that he only makes less than a million this year helps out. Teams like Cleveland, Detroit, and Arizona.
I think that our overall biggest trade chip would have to be Carlos Villaneuva, just based on the way he has played this year and I do think that he could help a contending team such as Arizona who has been known to be looking to add smaller pieces at the deadline. Other guys who I do expect to be traded include Corey Patterson and Jon Rauch. The other guys still could get traded, but I think with the situation that those guys are in and how they both excelled early, they would be most likely to go. Though none of these trade chips will net us any top shelf picks, but they can still get some positive contributors to our farm system. Because you never know what you have in a player until you can fully evaluate him yourself and as Jose Bautista has shown, anything can happen.


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This is a discussion on Hello from Fort Knox, KY within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; Hi, I'm originally from York, PA but have now found home in the Fort Knox, KY area. Having been in the military for over 15 ...
I'm originally from York, PA but have now found home in the Fort Knox, KY area. Having been in the military for over 15 years, weapons are nothing new to me. My wife and I purchased our first pistol and weapon, S&W 99 OL (40), when we bought our first house out in town a little over 4 years ago. Since then, we have purchased many other weapons (rifles and pistols). However, I have finally convinced my wife in having me CCW since our last camping trip and having some coyotes come near our site, lol. All I had to protect us was me and the couple knives I carry when camping.
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Either the Closing Argument or the Tailgate would work quite well...both are tuckable, ride high (which is a good thing), and have a nice cant.
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Stevens was born in Georgetown, KY, the son of Washington Stevens. A slave, he had many owners until he joined the Army during the Civil War. He was present at a number of battles and was on the tugboat "Thompson" when Vicksburg was taken in 1863. At the end of the war, Stevens settled in Springfield, IL, where he lived at the corner of Fifteenth and Jefferson Streets, and worked in a lumberyard. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, and George Stevens voted for Ulysses S. Grant during the presidential election. For more see History of Sangamon County, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, by Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago); and contact the Springfield, Illinois, African American History Foundation.
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Just wanted to post some updated pics that I was finally able to upload off my camera...(internet issues)
This was a repair/ upgrade on a ROTJ Blaster I built and painted about a year ago for Jimmy Buffett...as seen here: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/showthread.php?t=15263
Unfortunately due to personnal issues I was not able to get this back to Scott in time for SDCC, I know I suck :(.....but it should be with him at Dragon-Con:thumbsup....so check it out if you get the chance.:thumbsup
I upgraded the stalk connector with an aluminum one, replaced a broken trigger with a die-cast one (no little brats breaking this sucker!!:lol), and replaced the trigger-guard with a REAL Webley trigger-guard.....and of coarse repainted it...
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Re: Scalar plot in 3D
Hi Franco,
here is an example where the z-value is color coded:
ParametricPlot3D[{{4 + (3 + Cos[v]) Sin[u], 4 + (3 + Cos[v]) Cos[u],
4 + Sin[v]}}, {u, 0, 2 Pi}, {v, 0, 2 Pi},
ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, Hue[z]]]
her another one where the distance from the origin defines the color:
ParametricPlot3D[{{4 + (3 + Cos[v]) Sin[u], 4 + (3 + Cos[v]) Cos[u],
4 + Sin[v]}}, {u, 0, 2 Pi}, {v, 0, 2 Pi},
ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, Hue[Norm[{x, y, z}]]]]
hope this helps, Daniel
Franco Milicchio wrote:
> Hi everyone! I am still struggling with my "rendering hassles" :)
> I don't really know how to implement this in Mathematica, although the idea
> is quite simple. I have a list of points in 3D, their relative scalar value,
> and I'd like to have them nicely rendered on the domain on which they are
> defined. In other words, I have sampled a scalar field on a torus, and I'd
> like to plot its value (by hue or any other color means). Simple as it is, I
> cannot figure how to obtain this!
> Basically, I know the torus' radii (rMIN and rMAX), and I have my good
> vectors:
> coords = {{x1, y1, z1}, {x2, y2, z2}, ...}
> values = {v1, v2, ...}
> Is there anyone who can help me with this? I have seen ListVectorPlot3D, but
> it won't show in the plot the domain itself (so arrows laying on a torus),
> and ineed, it requires a vector field. Although I can fake a vector field,
> I'd like something more "visually appealing"! :)
> Thanks to anyone!
> Franco


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Dave Waterhouse, of Ellesmere Port, is competing for the top title in one armed golf.
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Ok I finally had a few min to write a little about me. My name is Angi I am 34 married and a mother to 2 boys. Ages 3 (will be 4 Jan 14th) and 7 (just turned on Dec 3). My husband is a firefighter For the state of CA. I riase rare breed and hearitage Breed poultry. Here is a list of breeds I have. Cuckoo Maran known as the chocolate egger. Dark Cornish great meat bird. Welsimers another nice dark egg breed, Royal Palm turkeys, and Black Mottled turkeys, coturnix quail and indian runner ducks in 3 colors, Fawn and white, Fairy fawn and fawn in with a blue fanw drake. I also grow heirloom veggies, tomatoes and fruit all chemical free. As organic as I can get it with out being registered as with the other fields and places around I can not get organic status here. I am a certified producer and sell my produce at farmers markets and eggs and hopefully honey soon. I also sale hatching eggs on Ebay, Ovabid and used to be egg bid. But I also sale on several yahoo groups I belong to. I am a chronic pain patient. I take massave ammounts of pain meds. Including a pain patch and break through pain meds and muscle relaxers. I have TMJ in both jaw joints and have had a failed surgery on both of them. I also have fibromyalgia, restless legs, chronic fatigue, IBS and Degenerative discs in my Mid back. I am also a vet tech. And i used to be a firefighter and was a volunteer firefighter for a while. I do not have my bees yet but will be getting them in the spring from a friend. I am also getting from him a 4 frame extractor and holding tank that he is giving me. My husband has known him for years and he was one of my hubbys groomsmen at our weddings. He has also worked with him and fought fires with him. He is taking me under his wings and I will be working with him to learn. I have a wish list a mile long of what I need to buy yet. I guess that is it for now I am getting tired and my back is killing me. I ran out of meds and have a drs apt tomorrow.
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Angi, You sound like you lead a very interesting, busy life. I wish you the best at dealing with your pain. Have you considered apitherapy when you get your bees? It may help, lots of anti-inflamatory characteristics in bee venom. Of course you would want to consult with your doctor first and run it by him/her.
My wife's dad is a volunteer firefighter in New York out of Long Beach. He was on stand by if they needed his group at ground zero during that terrible time.
Cornish game hens! I don't raise any but I love to eat them, hope that doesn't offend you. I cook them in a roasting bag with vidalia sweet onions with an oriental roast chicken seasoning that I found yrs ago that gives the dish a unique, wonderful taste that I've been unable to top.
Will your hubby be helping you with the bees when you get them? I bet he will become interested if not and then he will. Its so much fun and addictive, in a good way!
Welcome aboard, JP.
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Hi Angi, welcome to the forum!!!
I've got boys the same age (and in between and younger :roll:) and they love bugs, and like to help out with the bees. The trouble is is that I'm too cheap to invest in kid-size stuff so they end up out there with winter gloves on and all wearing huge veils! Looks rather like an alien convention....
If you haven't bought your equipment yet, you may want to look at getting all 8-frame mediums with your back trouble. They are lighter and some people here use them. Not as common and harder to to find, but something to think about.
Hope you get your prescriptions filled soon and feel better....
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Angi, now that was a piece of beauty, your telling us more about yourself, officially. YOu are up to some very interesting stuff and you will bring a wealth of information to our forum about your farm, yea!!!!! You have some young men in your life, you must be very proud of these little dudes, yea!!!!
You know you will love beekeeping.....just wait until you get your first bees. This is exciting for me, and for you, it is strange, the funniest things turn my crank and the thought of more beekeepers coming into this wonderful field is just something to behold, yea!!!!
You know you have been on this forum for a while, you know that you can ask any questions that you want, never ever think that some question does not deserve a great answer, because every question asked, is one more little thing for even people who have been around bees for awhile, is one more question that reinforces the answers that come to it, sometimes the answers are even reminders for questions or learning forgotten (like me, sometimes I forget things and then it is like learning all over again when a query has a reply), yea.
JP mentioned apitherapy. You should really do some studying on this wonderful field because the by products of the bees are worth more than their weight in gold, they help many, many malades, and this is 100% true. Good luck with all your pain, and one day finding alternatives to what you need to use to help to keep your pain at bay. Beautiful day, beautiful life, beautiful of the beautiful things. Cindi
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service
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Ya I have looked into it. My friend eddy says all he wears is his veil and dosnt worry about stings. He said I should do it also because of my pain and all. He also said he has a lady that comes by and wants 100 bees a week and he cant keep filling that order. So he sends her to other places. She uses them for her self and her mother. So that is an option for making a little money as well. But what does someone charge for that kind of thing lol. I am excited to get going. I have my suit and hat and gloves and veil. I have a smoker, hive tool (cheap one I want to get the better one with the hook for helping get out the frames), A little smoker fuel, I have a bottom board, brood chamber with waxed plasticel foundations. An inner cover and telescoping cover. I still have a wish list a mile long. I am going to be getting my bees from our friend. More of my hubbys friend but he is also giving me a 4 frame extractor and a honey storage tank stainless. He uses a 50 frame one now and this one has been just sitting there for a while with no use. So I need a capping knife and scraper a capping tank and strainer bucket. As CA requires a certain level of straining. He also told me to call out local sherrif and poliece departments and the local highway patroll and let them know next year that I am willing to go and pick up Swarms. He said sometimes they will give you bee boxes to go and get them. He said to also let the extermionator places know as well. He said oh you will be up to 10 hives before you know it. Well I dont have room for 10 hives right now. Now if my other friend plants the Almond orchard then I will have a place to store the bees about 3 miles away. I know of several farmers as well and I am sure I could work something out with them for storage as well as honey. So i have allot of great info and I need to get a few more brood chambers and some supers and foundation. And also a bee brush. If I get more them one hive going I was thinking of making at liest one box a cut comb hive. My pain is a little high today it was cold and rainy as storms always make me hurt more. In Jan I have a huge poultry show in Stockton Ca to go to. I am showing my Royal Palm Turkeys and my runner Ducks. I am also selling a few things there as well as picking up a few things. I can not wait. As this time I am only going. This is my vacation. As my hubby gets to board and so does my kids. And it makes it for not a fun time when I keep having to yell and chase down the kids every 2 min.. So this will be my break. hoto if it works is of my Cuckoo Maran Cockrel Maurice.
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Angi, good, the power of the sting is power in many ways, hee, hee. I still only wear a veil when I am working with the bees, never, ever any gloves, if I do get a sting, yea!!!! more power to it!!!! I rarely get stung, but have had a few good ones where my face swelled up quite a bit. That was when I was catching a swarm and didn't have any protection on. I couldn't hold the branch that my Husband had cut (thought I was stronger), and it kind of fell and the cluster broke. The bees fell basically partly on my head. Eeeks!!! That was in my second year of beekeeping. I still remember feeling all those little feet of the bees sticking on my face as they took their grip and plunged their stinger into me. It was something that I will never forget :roll: ;) :( :) :) :) My Husband had a bee sting him right between the eyes during that year too. We were going to go to a funeral that day and he had gone to get his beer that he left up at the apiary. I was doing something with the bees that had annoyed them and he went to get his beer and one went right after him. Ha!!!! That was so funny. He saw her coming and could do nothing. Anyways, he went to the funeral looking like alien man.
He is so funny. He took the picture of me and him with our great big faces and sent an e-mail out to friends and family, with a funny little word caption saying some funny little thing about bees stings being priceless, something after the lines of the Mastercard commercial. Got a hoot and a hollar for sure. I think that I actually put this on our forum, it was good for a laugh or two, he always makes me laugh!!!! I am so in love.....oh brother, here I go again, off topic, what the blazes is wrong with me.
When you get all the rest of your stuff for the bees, Angi, do this. THis was a tip that I listened to on our forum. Sometimes instead of using the bee brush, get a great and wonderful feather from one of your birds and use beautiful feather instead of the bee brush. It is a very useful tool for me. Sometimes I don't want to brush the bees briskly and a feather has that light touch, it is one that I use all the time instead of a bee brush. When you have the need to brush the bees with a bee brush, brush them briskly, quickly, don't linger with the brush. Bees don't like to be brushed, but if you have to, quick and sharp, it will not hurt them, it is more of a flicking motion, the best that I can describe. If you can brush from the head, that way, they don't like to be brushed from the butt forward, I think that really annoys them even more. My two cents
You are getting very well set up for your bees, yea!!!! Good for you and you are making me envious with what you have. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, great health wishes. Cindi
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service
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Re: Remove cell content
Mathematica sometimes falters when dealing with (very) large documents.
This problem is likely exacerbated under low-memory conditions.
If you have not already set $HistoryLength to some low value,
then perhaps that would help. I usually use a value of 10;
if your iterative process does not rely on previous results, you might try
I hope this helps; but it may not!
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Marco Gabiccini
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> Dear all,
> I am running a cascade of optimizations using FindMinimum (basically I
> made a wrapper to FindMinimum to use it for Extended Kalman Filtering)
> and in order to keep track of the optimization progress I print some
> helpful messages (beside writing some files with the actual results). I
> end up having a long list of output cells.
> The problem comes when I try to delete all output by using the
> correspondent command in the menu (or even selecting the output cells
> and delete them manually). Mathematica freezes and sometimes it closes.
> This problem is really annoying. Of course saving the .nb file with the
> output on is not feasible (around 350 Mb of dimension).
> It there a workaround?
> Thanks,
> Marco
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Thanks everyone for the input. My reasoning on posting this was to seed the pot and get as many opinions as possible on the chemical topic. I myself would like to go totally free of additives of these kinds, but I also have to look at the other side of the coin. Man has benefited greatly through the use of such chemicals as anti-botics, additional vitamins, medicines and machines of all kinds with longer healthier lives compared to many years ago. Man has also used all of the above in many bad ways as well thus causing many of the same situations of resistance etc. From a personal viewpoint I feel that I can take the losses of bees as long as I know that I am working to develop a hardier, more resistant colony in a natural way without the use of outside additives, but I do understand and appreciate others that adopt a different approach. DennisB
It is my understanding that oxalic and formic is mechanical as well and that it burns the mouth parts of the mites and they die of starvation. This is why it has been used for decades in Europe with no resistance. I am in total agreement on the hard chemicals. I just take issue when someone groups all treatments together as "chemical" (with the exception of powdered sugar, which they will not consider a chemical even though it is).BTW, my issue is not with you, but since your the only one responding, you get the earful. :-P
It was a great report to post. Even though certain aspects of it drives me nuts. It was still a good report. I want people if they choose to go chemical free to have good reasons behind it. I want people who use chemicals to have good reasons behind their choices. I may not agree but I very much respect Finsky's POV on this matter.If you want me to give you an example of how that can go badly. I have another forum where I posted a discussion on vaccines. You would not believe how many people will not do them. Or give them to their kids and then claim religous reasons. When questioned about their research all them claim to have done research but most of them never get beyond a newspaper article. I don't want this thread to take a highjack so please if members want to discuss that go to the Coffee House. I think chemicals have their place, right now my hives are not one of them. Sincerely,Brendhancurrently on layover in Houstonat the bar with a Bass Ale and some dinner.