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The Lampre team has suspended Italian rider Michele Scarponi, winner of the 2011 Tour of Italy, for contacts with controversial doctor Michele Ferrari, banned for life following a US doping investigation.
"We have followed our internal medical procedure and Michele has been suspended by the team doctor Carlo Guardascione," Lampre's press attache told cyclingnews.com.
"The suspension started on October 25, when Michele published a statement acknowledging having a medical test with Ferrari present.
"We will not impose a definitive punishment until the end of the disciplinary procedure."
Earlier on Tuesday the Gazzetta dello Sport reported that Scarponi made a statement to magistrates at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) who are investigating doping - CONI in 2002 banned Italian athletes from having any contact with Ferrari.
It replicated the one he had made last week as reported by the same newspaper.
"The truth is: in September 2010, on my own initiative, I carried out an episodic test, divided into two parts on two different days, in the presence of Dr Ferrari.
In further comments he said: "I was convinced Dr Ferrari was not the subject of any ban (on contact with athletes) and so I acted in good faith ... I have myself accepted the disciplinary procedure and have myself asked to clarify my position as quickly as possible in the interests of my team."
Scarponi, who was suspended for 18 months in 2007 following the Operation Puerto scandal, now faces further censure for meeting Ferrari.
CONI has already handed a three-month ban to Filippo Pozzato in a similar case - though prosecutors had called for a one-year ban.
Ferrari was handed a lifetime ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for his role in what it termed as the biggest doping programme in sporting history as it destroyed the sporting reputation of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, now stripped of his titles.
An ongoing probe into an elaborate doping network run by Ferrari has reportedly allowed investigators to simultaneously discover a world of shady business dealings and money laundering spread across several European countries.
Gazzetta dello Sport last week said the probe into the "Ferrari System" had opened a "Pandora's box" of illicit dealings worth millions involving cyclists, sports agents, and bank managers.
According to the report Scarponi was heard, on September 27, 2010, discussing doping methods thanks to a bug placed on a campervan used by the Italian doctor to test and advise athletes near a motorway exit in northern Italy.
Scarponi, who had finished fourth overall in the Giro d'Italia that year, is alleged to have told Ferrari "I could have won the Giro", to which Ferrari allegedly replied: "If you had a bag of blood."
Scarponi, now with the Lampre team, won the Giro d'Italia a year later.
While admitting meeting Ferrari he claims the Gazzetta report contained "false claims on which I have to take a stand to protect my image and the reputation of my sponsors".


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The March 28 USDA Prospective Plantings report stated 2013 corn plantings at 97.282 million acres, which represented a 0.1% annual increase. Pre-report estimates averaged 97.33 million, within a range extending from 95.7 to 98.5 million acres. The quarterly Grain Stocks report stated March 1 U.S. corn stocks at 5.399 billion bushels, which easily topped the average forecast at 5.013 billion (range 4.885-5.248). The stocks report caused traders to forget the acreage data. May corn plunged its 40.0-cent daily limit to $6.9525/bushel in response, while December dropped 42.5 cents to $5.385.
The Prospective Plantings report stated 2013 U.S. soybean plantings at 77.126 million acres, which represented a 0.1% annual decline. Pre-report estimates averaged 78.39 million, within a range extending from 77.0 to 79.70 million acres, so this result seemed bullish. However, the quarterly Grain Stocks report stated March 1 U.S. soybean stocks at 0.999 billion bushels, which greatly exceeded the average forecast at 0.935 billion (range 0.905-0.984). This bearish news superseded the acreage result. May soybeans had dived 49.0 cents to $14.0475/bushel by the end of the day, while May soyoil plunged 0.71 cents to 50.11 cents/pound, while May meal crashed $18.6 to $404.6/ton.
The USDA stated total U.S. wheat acreage at 56.44 million acres, which virtually matched average expectations at 56.414 million. Winter wheat acres came in at 41.988 million [forecast average at 41.79 million; range 41.20-43.00], so that figure seemed bearish for nearby wheat futures. Spring wheat acreage other than durum was stated at 12.701 million acres [forecast average at 12.45 million; range 11.91-13.80], which seemed bearish for deferred futures as well. Wheat stocks at 1.234 also topped forecasts, thereby seeming quite bearish as well. May CBOT wheat futures plummeted 45.75 cents to $6.8775/bushel at their Thursday close, while May KCBT wheat sank 47.25 cents to $7.2675, and May MGE futures lost 32.75 cents to $7.8025.
Cattle futures surged after wire services reported that cash cattle prices had risen strongly Thursday. Not only is this seen as good news for late March, it seems bullish for April price prospects as well, especially if grocers accelerate their beef purchases after Easter. April cattle jumped 1.55 cents to 128.90 cents/pound in late Thursday-morning trading, while August surged 1.17 cents to 125.20. Meanwhile, April through January feeder cattle futures spiked their daily 3.0-cent limit. April ended the day at 143.40, while August settled at 152.25.
CME lean hog futures rose modestly Thursday. Bulls likely added positions in response to strength spilling over from the cattle pit and from fresh talk of rising cash values. However, traders were clearly unwilling to become very aggressive in the market before the 2:00 PM CDT release of the quarterly USDA Hogs & Pigs report. That seemed bearish for the spring and summer contracts upon the opening next Monday. April hogs rose 0.52 cents to 80.60 cents/pound around midsession Wednesday, while June gained 0.40 cents to 91.07.

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By Stephen Millies
New York
Published May 15, 2008 9:45 PM
Courageous parents whose children had been killed by cops went to the Manhattan office of New York Gov. David Patterson on Mother's Day, May 11. They demanded justice at a news conference organized by the Justice Committee and Parents Against Police Brutality.
Supporters joined these parents in wearing bloodstained shirts with the names of police victims. Some brought pictures. Everyone demanded justice for Sean Bell.
Parents whose children are murdered by police "never have a happy Mother's Day," said Martha Laureano, a leader of the Justice Committee.
In a letter to the governor, these parents called for "a special prosecutor for victims of police abuse and violence." They want the New York Police Department to leave Juanita Young alone.
Young has never stopped fighting for justice for her son, Malcolm Ferguson, and all victims of police terror. She went to the press conference along with the other parents.
Ferguson was unarmed when he was killed at point-blank range by police officer Louis Rivera on March 1, 2000, in the Bronx. Five days before his death Ferguson had been arrested for protesting the acquittal of the four cops who shot Amadou Diallo 41 times.
Last year a civil court jury determined Officer Rivera was "100 percent responsible" for Ferguson's death and awarded Young over $10 million. The Bronx district attorney is appealing the just verdict and refuses to reopen the criminal case against this cop. Police continue to threaten and abuse Young and her family.
Young is currently facing criminal charges of assaulting police who invaded her home. They claim the legally blind mother threw a box of cake mix at them.
Margarita Rosario also came to the governor's office. Her son, Anthony Rosario, was shot 14 times and her nephew, Hilton Vega, eight times on March 12, 1995. Both were lying down when they were killed by former bodyguards for ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Neither cop was ever charged.
Allene Person came for her 19-year-old son, Timur Person, who was killed by police on Dec. 13, 2006, in the Bronx, while his hands were in the air. Four police bullets were pumped into his body.
Joann Mickins came for her son, Corey Mickins, who was shot a dozen times in his favorite Harlem restaurant by plainclothes officers on March 13, 2007. Police claim Corey Mickins had a gun, yet there were no fingerprints on the alleged weapon.
Loretta Cerbelli came for her son, Kevin Cerbelli, who was killed inside the 110th Precinct station house in Elmhurst, Queens, on Oct. 25, 1998. "While my son was on the ground, they shot him in the back," said Loretta Cerbelli.
Nicholas Heyward Sr. came for his 13-year-old son, Nicholas Heyward Jr. The young honor student was killed by a housing police officer while playing "cops and robbers" in Brooklyn's Gowanus Houses on Sept. 27, 1994.
Altagracia Mayi came for her son, Manny Mayi Jr., a Queens College honor student. Manny was chased 16 blocks through Corona, Queens, by a white lynch mob before being killed on March 29, 1991. None of the members of this racist gang was ever indicted; instead, one was later admitted to the police academy.
Doris Busch Boskey sent a letter to the event on behalf of her son, Gidone (Gary) Busch. Busch was shot 12 times by cops in Brooklyn on Aug. 30, 1999, despite witnesses who said he didn't pose a threat to anyone.
None of these killer cops or lynchers was ever prosecuted.
Young told the crowd, "Either we bury this system or we bury our kids." No justice, no peace!
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Just as they are remembered by their mothers so too must we sketch their names in our hearts and minds. POC cannot pretend that we live in a system where justice is equally applied. There are those that would tell us that our bodies do not matter, and it is up to us to assert our worth and our value. It is beyond an affront that we continue to be murdered, beaten, and abused by those that are charged with protecting society. Who is going to protect us from them?
Even as I teach my son to approach a police officer if he is in danger, in the back of my mind I wonder how long I can issue that advice. As he ages he will no longer be viewed as an innocent child. Based on his race and gender, society will view him as threat regardless of his intent. How many will cross the street when they see him coming, grabbing their wallets or their purses? How many will assume that he comes from poverty, or a disfunctional home? How many will ascribe the baser traits of human civilization to him, despite the goodness of his soul?
As a mother I raise my voice in solidarity with those mothers who have lost a child to police violence. Tonight as I embrace my child I will think of the mothers whose arms ache to hold their children. Until these officers are brought to justice how can the soul be still?


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Boneheads in Lake Forest has been bought by California Fish Grill.
Morgan Smith, who co-founded Boneheads in 2007, said the fast-casual seafood restaurant "fell victim to the recession." Initially, Smith planned to expand Boneheads to 24 restaurants. But when the recession hit, he and his partners couldn't get funding.
Though the Lake Forest location enjoyed a loyal following, Smith said it wasn't enough to keep the restaurant afloat amid soaring food prices. California Fish Grill is expected to close escrow with Boneheads in mid-March, Smith said. Address: 23704 El Toro Road, Lake Forest.
A standout feature of Orange County dining is the presence of restaurants on the local piers. But recently diners lost Ruby's Diner in Seal Beach and Newport Pier Grill & Sushi in Newport Beach. No word yet on replacements for the pier restaurants. In Newport Beach, repairs are being made to the empty building, a city official said. (Note: Roosters Cafe at Corona del Mar State Beach is closed for the winter. It will reopen in the spring or summer.)
Other recent closures
Kimera in Irvine closed Feb. 25.
"Kimera could not come to an agreement with the landlord on the lease," a representative for the restaurant said in a prepared statement
La Brique joins a string of closures in Huntington Beach in recent weeks. The restaurant closed after the new year. Last year, the Huntington Beach restaurant revamped the menu under Harry Estrada, a classically trained chef from Le Cordon Bleu. Mario's Fiesta Maya in Huntington Beach closed in mid-January after operating for 18 years, according to the restaurant's Facebook page. It is unclear why it closed. Baguetier Bakery in downtown Surf City also closed, confirms pastry chef Joel Reno. "We very much enjoyed Huntington Beach. And thanks to everyone," he said.
The El Pollo Loco in Irvine at the Woodbury Town Center closed Jan. 9 "due to slow development of the area," the chain said.
Open less than a year, Menchie's Frozen Yogurt and Metropolitain Crepes in Orange have closed. A juice bar is expected to replace the crepe shop in Old Towne Orange.
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6 AcornsLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
6 acorns there, have a look
3 from them my mother took.
2 were yellow, 1 was blue,
The other 3 I didn't think, just threw.
But when I was older one day
home I came to have a stay.
To my surprise there they were
all 6 of them, there they are.
The 3 I threw were colored red
But in my delight came some dread,
they weren't in proper line I'd had.
Let's give them names to make it easier.
Name Color Size
A = Yellow = Small
B = Red = Small
C = Blue = Medium
D = Red = Medium
E = Yellow = Medium
F = Red = Large
I'll give clues for you to find the answer
1)The smallest is always found between two mediums.
2)The order starts and finishes with a red colored acorn.
3)The blue acorn can be found in the 4th position.
4)Red is not found beside its own.
What order are they in?
AnswerThe correct order is as follows:
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What's that You Said?Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Here are some well-known expressions rewritten into "Cliff-ese". For those of you who don't know what that means, he was a very wordy person on the TV show "Cheers" and never used a small word where a larger one would work. Try to figure out the phrases in simpler terms.
1. To place a primitive agricultural conveyance in a position anterior to the animal Equus caballus.
2. It requires a number of people greater than one to perform a terpsichorean series of low dips and twisting steps on the toes.
3. To accumulate an excess of temperature beneath a circular, tight-fitting clothing component.
4. Emanating from a culinary vessel into a site of pyrogenic activity.
Answer1. Putting the cart before the horse.
2. It takes two to tango.
3. Get hot under the collar.
4. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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What Is the Role of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in the Management of Ovarian Cancer?
What Is the Role of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in the Management of Ovarian Cancer?
Conventional therapy for advanced-stage ovarian cancer—ie, aggressive cytoreductive surgery followed by aggressive chemotherapy—was established more than 3 decades ago [Editor's note: See Dr. Schwartz's article, "Cytoreductive Surgery in the Management of Ovarian Cancer," in last month's issue of ONCOLOGY]. Since that time, no prospective randomized trials have been reported to confirm the efficacy of this treatment strategy. Recent large retrospective studies have demonstrated that the greatest survival benefit is accrued to those who have no gross disease left after the initial surgical cytoreduction. This represents only 23% of stage III patients and 8% of stage IV patients.[1,2] Alternative strategies for patients who do not appear to be surgically cytoreducible to no macroscopic residual disease need to be identified.
One such strategy—chemotherapy administered prior to aggressive surgical cytoreduction, ie, neoadjuvant chemotherapy—is now being evaluated in three prospective randomized trials. Retrospective reports utilizing neoadjuvant chemotherapy suggest that a major benefit to this approach is a significantly higher rate of surgical cytoreduction to no visible disease. Additional benefits include a patient in a better nutritional state preoperatively than with conventional treatment. Surgery performed following neoadjuvant chemotherapy is routinely shorter in time, associated with less blood loss, shorter intensive care unit stays and shorter hospitalizations.
Survival data suggest no difference in the progression-free or overall survival for stage III disease patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy or conventional therapy. Some reports suggest improved survival with stage IV patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy compared with conventional therapy.
This article will review the current status of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for the management of women with advanced-stage ovarian cancer.
History of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy as used in this article refers to the administration of chemotherapy for advanced-stage ovarian cancer prior to attempted surgical cytoreduction. This approach was first used at Yale University in 1979.[3] The diagnosis of ovarian cancer was based on a computed tomography (CT) scan consistent with advanced-stage ovarian cancer and cytology consistent with a nonmucinous epithelial ovarian cancer.[4]
The initial approach used at Yale University was to reserve neoadjuvant chemotherapy for women who were medically impaired such that their performance status would not allow them to undergo aggressive cytoreductive surgery. A decade after its use in that regard, it was recognized that there were ovarian cancer patients who, by CT criteria, were unlikely to be optimally surgically cytoreduced.[5] Those patients were then offered neoadjuvant chemotherapy as the initial step in the management of their disease.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone is insufficient for the initial treatment of advanced-stage ovarian cancer[5]—it is only one event in the treatment course. Aggressive cytoreductive surgery is the necessary next step. Surgeons who are unprepared for aggressive cytoreductive surgery should not be performing the surgery following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Such surgery should be done by a gynecologic oncologist prepared to do radical surgery necessary to remove all gross disease present following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Today, it is believed that the major value of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is in preparing patients for aggressive cytoreductive surgery so that those patients can be optimally cytoreduced.[6]
Patient Selection for Cytoreductive Surgery
Many attempts have been made to identify the patients unlikely to be optimally surgically cytoreduced. Diagnostic imaging has been employed. In 1993, Nelson et al published the Yale criteria for when patients are unlikely to be optimally cytoreduced.[7] These criteria included a preoperative CT scan revealing the presence of an omental cake extending to the spleen, the diaphragm coated by cancer that extends to the liver serosa, greater than 2-cm lesions in the suprarenal para-aortic lymph nodes and in the portahepatis, parenchymal liver disease, pulmonary metastases, and enlarged pericardial lymph nodes. Since that time, numerous studies have been reported, some of which support the "Nelson criteria" and others that fail to support these criteria.[8-12]
A presurgical serum CA-125 level had been proposed as a means of identifying which patients could not be optimally surgically cytoreduced.[13-16] In the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center experience prior to the year 2000, patients whose serum CA-125 values were less than 500 U/mL could be optimally cytoreduced in 75% of cases, whereas those who had CA-125 values over 500 U/mL could not be optimally cytoreduced in 78% of cases.[13] Since the year 2000, the gynecologic oncologists at that institution have employed a more radical approach to the surgical management of ovarian cancer.[17] In their most recently reported experience, the serum CA-125 level no longer reflects their ability to optimally cytoreduce the patient. A similar observation had been made by the Yale investigators.[18]
Because of the failure of either diagnostic imaging or serum CA-125 levels to consistently reflect the likelihood of suboptimally cytoreducing patients, laparoscopy has been utilized, to attempt to identify which patients can be optimally cytoreduced.[19-21] Currently, cytoreduction scores are being evaluated by physicians who are performing laparoscopy on their patients to identify those likely to be optimally cytoreduced. An attempt to use microarray techniques to identify advanced-stage ovarian cancer patients who might be optimally cytoreduced had a predictive accuracy of 72.7%, supporting the hypothesis that optimal surgical cytoreduction is due, at least in part, to biologic characteristics of the cancer.[22] At present, there is no absolute way to identify which patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer will or will not be able to be optimally cytoreduced at the time of their initial operation.
What the Literature Suggests About Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Gynecologic oncologists have broadly accepted the concept that all patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer must initially be aggressively operated on to optimally surgically cytoreduce the cancer and then receive platinum-based combination chemotherapy. Any change to this approach should only be done under dire circumstances, such as extremely advanced disease in a patient with a very poor performance status or in a situation where change in treatment would significantly improve survival.
The currently available published data suggests that for most series, patients with stage IIIC disease do as well with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by aggressive cytoreductive surgery as they do with conventional treatment. However, it is routine in these retrospective, nonrandomized series that patients with the most advanced disease and the least likelihood to be optimally cytoreduced received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, whereas those with the least advanced disease and best chances to be optimally surgically cytoreduced underwent surgery first. For stage IV disease, there is retrospective evidence that patients do better with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.


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Topic: Recommendations for best cc centers
My mom, who is 70, has cc with mets. I discovered a lot of clinical trials from Mass General, etc. Can anyone recommend which center(s) I should try to get her into first? I've seen that The Mayo Clinic also has a good approach. But every hospital say they are the best.


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2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS550
The 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS550 is one of the sleekest car designs on the road. You might mistake it for a big drop of liquid mercury flowing down the highway. Mercedes-Benz did an excellent job maintaining a low, nicely curved roof and molding the rear fenders into its sides. If you don't want people stopping to admire your car, the CLS550 is not for you.
As an update of one of Mercedes-Benz's big sedans, the CLS550 sports a new engine making its way down the lineup of all Mercedes-Benz 550-designated cars, a direct-injection V-8 with twin turbos. This engine, and a new seven-speed automatic, combine for surprisingly good fuel economy. The car also comes standard with an air suspension, giving it one of the most comfortable rides around.
Mercedes-Benz has done a lot of work on driver assistance electronics, and the CLS550 serves as a showcase for these innovative technologies. The cabin tech suite features very good navigation and stereo, but in this area the company doesn't push the envelope. Mercedes-Benz shies away from the kind of application integration currently coming into vogue.
Luxury ride, sound
Two things make the CLS550 a luxury ride par excellence: its air suspension and the Harman Kardon 14-speaker surround-sound system. Although it's over $70 grand, you won't find a car at this price with a better ride. Bumps and rough asphalt are beneath the notice of the CLS550. If the princess who famously felt a pea underneath 20 mattresses were to ride in the CLS550, she would drift off into a deep sleep.
The CLS550 does not lack for audio sources.
Add to that extremely comfortable ride the beautifully detailed music produced by the Harman Kardon audio system. From its speakers, you can easily hear every percussive snap and guitar string strum. Horns and vocals come through with incredibly rich quality. High notes from this system can get too shrill, and sustained trumpet notes can become painful. Bass, however, is very well-controlled.
The stereo allows about every audio source you could want. Mercedes-Benz adds Bluetooth audio streaming to its roster, which also includes iPod integration, the car's own hard drive, and HD Radio. There is even a PC card slot, an odd little anachronism. But Mercedes-Benz has not jumped on the app bandwagon yet, so there is no Pandora or Internet radio integration.
At this level of luxury, heated and cooled power seats with memory settings are, of course, standard. And available for the driver is a massage seat with active bolstering. This massage function uses air pockets in the seat, which are not as effective as rollers, but still quite decadent.
Adaptive cruise control matches the speed of slower traffic ahead.
Further enhancing the driving experience is a nice set of assistance features. Mercedes-Benz for some time has offered adaptive cruise control, which adjusts the car's speed to match that of traffic ahead. This system works very well, letting you drive for many miles in light to moderate traffic without touching the gas or brake pedals. We have even seen it bring the car to a complete stop as traffic ahead stopped.
A blind-spot detection feature lights up a red triangle in the side mirrors, to warn of cars to the sides of the CLS550. That triangle flashes and a warning tone sounds if you activate the turn signal. In the CLS550 Mercedes-Benz also offers its night vision feature, which turns the instrument cluster into a longer view of the road ahead than you can see unaided.
And new for the CLS550 is a lane departure warning and drift prevention system. This system tracks the lane lines, showing an icon in the instrument cluster when it is active. If you drift over a lane line without signaling or actively steering, it vibrates the wheel and sounds a warning tone. Continue to drift and it slightly brakes the offside wheels, causing the car to arrest the drift. When it activates, it feels as if the car is quickly rotating back into the lane, with enough movement to wake up dozing drivers.
Optional LED headlights follow the angle of the steering wheel.
CNET's car came equipped with LED headlights, part of a $4,390 package that also includes an iPod interface. These headlights projected well-defined bright beams similar to HID headlights. They track with the steering angle, lighting up corners.
Turbo lag
The CLS550's air suspension can be switched to Sport mode, which stiffens the suspension a bit. But the car still feels heavy and leans in hard cornering. The air suspension is not as good for sport driving as magnetic suspension systems, which can constantly adjust the stiffness at each wheel in response to the road and driving conditions.


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What do you bench?
How many times have you heard that question? I hate that question. I have a torn right rotator cuff and bench presses really aggravate that injury. So, on the rare occasion that I do a bench press, I never go over 225. The amazing thing is that people THINK I can bench press a lot, because they think I look like a guy that can bench a lot.
Here is my secret... and it is not bodybuilding, unless you are thinking of bodybuilding from 80 years ago. In fact, it wasn't until some time in the 1950s that lifters started doing flat "press-ups" on a bench. Yet, without bench presses, lifters had huge shoulders, triceps, brachialis, and pectoral muscles. The secret is that you have to look back to the time when John Grimek built up his physique.
I am going to give you three exercises, that need to be added into your barbell routine, as well as one really great "Chest" workout.
Straight Arm Barbell Pullovers
The photo at the top is a photo of John Grimek, from when he worked for Mark Berry, estimated to have been taken in 1934. John is doing my favorite upper body exercise, the straight arm pullover. I did hundreds of these as a teenager, on the swim team. In fact, I did them with a Milo Barbell that looked very similar to the one Grimek used in that shot, which I think is somewhat key to that exercise. Don't worry, you don't have to buy a whole new barbell, just use smaller plates, so that the bar starts closer to the ground. Use something like 25 pound, or even 10 pound plates. It will extend your range of motion. Yes, it is harder to perform and you won't be able to use as much weight, but the benefits will be worth it with this alternate variation.
Before Bench Presses Workout
Stretch & Warm-up with Indian Clubs and/or Speed Bag Work
Clean & Standing Barbell Push 5 x 5
Clean & Front Squat 5 x 5
Straight Arm Pullover 3 x 10
Dumbbell (or Kettlebell) Crucifix Hold 3 x 3
Dips 3 x 10
If it is nice outside add in half a dozen 100 yard sprints. You will be shocked at how well they work in with this routine. In high school, I would do this routine in the morning and then head off to the pool for morning swim, which was only 45 minutes, but felt great.
All the best,
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CYPRESS, Texas - A man has been accused of strangling his 6-week-old daughter.
Michael Mancillas, 22, has been charged with injury to a child.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said the 6-week-old was taken to Texas Children's Hospital on Oct. 25. She had suffered old and new subdural brain bleeds, lacerations to the back of her throat, bruising around her neck and a tear to her soft palate, doctors said.
The girl's mother said that when she left the house that morning, her daughter was fine. She later received a phone call from her husband, who told her to "come home and take care of your baby," police said.
The mother went home and found the baby was limp and gurgling with blood coming from her mouth, investigators said. Deputies said she told them that Mancillas told her that the baby woke up that way.
Detectives said Mancillas told them that he had not had much sleep in the past three days and was irritated. He said he went to feed the baby but didn't have a nipple for the bottle, so we took the baby to a bathroom to get a nipple. As he washed the nipple, a "huge wave of exhaustion" came over him, deputies said Mancillas told them.
Deputies said that Mancillas told them that when he took the baby back to the bedroom, he opened the door and a cat tried to get out. He pushed the cat with his foot and the baby began to squirm, detectives said Mancillas told them.
Investigators said Mancillas told them that the baby fell head-first down a staircase and that her neck was fully hyper-extended during the fall. According to court documents, Mancillas told investigators that he lunged to catch the baby and put his full body weight on the girl's neck. Mancillas said he might have picked his daughter up by her neck, deputies said.
According to court documents, the girl's injuries were not caused by an accident and were caused by strangulation and something being forced into the girl's mouth.
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BRADFORD head coach Dave George saluted the "bit of genius'' from Melksham fly-half Simon Foster that condemned his side to a first defeat in nine league matches.
Foster's last-gasp drop goal knocked the home side off the top of the table as Melksham returned to action for the first time in more than a month with victory.
George admitted complacency from the home side had played its part in Melksham taking a 10-0 lead at half time, but he had few complaints about Foster's winning moment.
"The drop goal into the wind was quite outstanding and he took it superbly well because you wouldn't have put money on him in that wind,'' said George.
"The lads were a bit upset afterwards but Melksham are a dogged side and they tackled really well. I felt we could have gone a bit wider at times but it's always a good derby against them.'' "It was a very close contest and it shows how close this division is.
"I can see the top four or five changing every week up until the end of the season.''
With high winds at their backs and on a saturated pitch Melksham made the most of the wind advantage, kicking for territory and putting the early pressure on Bradford.
Attacking in their 22, Foster floated a mis-pass to Dave Dyke out on the wing who ran in the first unconverted try against the stretched defence.
The game settled into a series of attacks from both teams, with Bradford's Dan Bright missing a penalty.
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Bradford pounded away time and again but were thwarted by the robust Melksham defence, although Bright tied the scores with a successful penalty.
With time running out, though, Melksham drove into Bradford territory and scrum-half Hurn fired the ball out to Foster to land a superb drop goal in the dying seconds.
Melksham captain Callum Hurn said; "I was very proud of the team performance and how well we played after a four-week lay-off.
"The forwards put in a huge amount of work at the rucks and mauls in tough conditions.
"A strong Bradford side came back at us in the second half; we defended well and took the game with a well-executed drop goal by Simon.
"Taking into account the weather conditions, it was a great team effort and an enjoyable game.''
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After looking for the best way to handle some "multi threading", writing some of my own code, I actually happened upon a nice little class, one I'll be sharing in full once I have fixed it's obvious mistakes.
The guy who wrote this took excellent care with his multi threading portion, its absolutely beautiful, except he could have gone farther with it. He even wrote in some sh_mop classes to help out, which unfortunately are lacking, here's where I'm at with the alterations so far on his shared memory class:
private $shmId;
private $readCache = NULL;
public function __construct() {
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$data[$key] = $value;
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public function getAll() {
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I added in the getAll() function, as well as removed an exception that would break the script if a key wasn't created yet, it now returns false and the developer can handle how we would like.
What I'm running into with this approach, is that because he reads the whole section of shared memory, makes the change to the whole array and then places the whole thing back in, we have some clashing between processes hitting at the same time. The more threads the more you notice. I wouldn't expect a perfect system except when it comes to the end of the scripts, I have a benchmark class which returns each threads current status, but some seam to be "incomplete" because their data was overwritten at the same time.
Another issue here is that line 7 has a static size for the shared memory,initially he had it set to 100 bytes, which isnt room for much of anything. The bigger it gets though, the higher the overhead. I'm thinking of adding in some sort of function to destroy the shared memory and then recreate with a larger one when needed.
I think it might be worth it to create separate sectors for each thread to write to to avoid clashing. What are your thoughts on both of these situations?
So for your first issue, it sounds like you need to implement a locking technique, which is typical for any shared system. Just like you need to implement locking when dealing with files, locking with shared memory would be a requirement to stop the clashing. I'd likely follow the pattern used by 'apt' on debian based systems. Create a file/indicator when the shared memory is being accessed, and remove it when done. You would check the existence of said indicator/file, if it doesn't exist, create it, access your memory, remove the indicator/file. If the indicator/file exists, wait, check again, wait (and so on) until the existence isn't found, create the indicator/file, access the memory, remove the indicator/file.
As for your static size, I think you have the right idea there, to dynamically increase it as necessary. Be sure to increase it more than its immediate necessity is (to help performance). Example: Let's say you have 100 bytes to start with and you are now at 98 bytes used. The next 4 bytes come in, meaning you need 102 bytes, but only have 100 currently reserved. Setup a new 130 bytes, transfer over the existing 98 and add the new 4 bytes so you have 102 out of 130 bytes used (I've used a 30% rule in the past, increasing the bytes by 30 percent on each growth, with the thought, as the data gets larger and larger the expectation is the data being sent is increasing larger and larger too). From what I recall from my C++ dynamic memory allocation courses, grabbing and allocating memory can be expensive if done often, it is best to give room for growth (but not too much where you are taking more than what you will actually need -- making you look resource intensive).
Lastly, I'd allow yourself the ability to pass in the initial size. There may be times you know your original dataset is going to be 300 bytes, why reserve 100 just to increase it immediately to 300 or 400 when you write to it?
Not being funny here, but aren't there tools out there that are better than php for multithreading? Doesn't ruby handle multithreading properly?
Yes there are better languages for multi threading.
Over the last few weeks though, after trying other languages with the mongodriver (my main tool as of late) PHP crushes everyone. Java and Python were both under half the ops per second PHP was at when using the most basic mongo operations.
PHP has a lot of issues, no doubt, but I'm realizing that if PHP had true multi threading capability, it would be used ALOT more. I think you'd start seeing more project like nanoweb, heavily integrated with your own site. When messing with pcntl fork, I realized there was actually some potential if the right libraries were given to us.
EDIT: If PHP had multithreading capability as well as some other aspects of its language cleaned up... it would be used a lot more. My point is that the single thread that it does run on, performs suprisingly well, and I want to start expanding on that because that seems to be the gateway language for a lot of people these days.
I was thinking of using a static buffer amount, but I like the idea of a percentage when increasing allocated memory. I'll set an optional argument to pre allocate a larger amount of memory than default.
I had kicked around was of creating a lock on memory, but I'm not sure that's what is needed in my case, as all of my processes are writing to the same area as fast as they can. Perhaps the ability to set a mode:
Mode 1) Space is shared, use memory locking (default)Mode 2) Space is shared, no memory lockingMode 3) Separate memory space per each thread, each thread writes to its own space without locking, microtime(true) is applied to each var. When reading, all threads spaces are read and then the most recently timestamped var is returned.
Now I wonder for mode 1, how should I handle locked memory exceptions? Immediately retry? I feel like that might lead to problems.
FYI: Original authors blog post and git project: http://www.typo3-media.com/blog/multithreating-in-php.html | https://github.com/danielpoe/Threadi
But I plan on putting this thing on steroids
Before getting into requirements for each mode, can you explain the bold emphasis more? If each process is using the same shared memory, then each process writing as fast as they can will indeed need locking so they don't step on each others toes (process 1 already requested bytes 4-6, but process 3 also grabbed them and now whoever finishes last wins. They become race conditions and that isn't good. Now if they have separate memory locations, this entire point is moot, as they shouldn't be crossing over unless each process can spin its own threads within its memory allocation too (then you have race conditions again).
Okay, now that, I have that out of the way, locking and waiting for a lock to clear are acceptable approaches that other languages use. There are two things you need to keep in mind when implementing locking however, 1) if an error (exception) occurs, clear the LOCK!, don't let it hold up everybody else because it failed. 2) Be consistent, lock immediately when placed inside a setter operation, and unlock as SOON as you can. Also consider if dirty reads are acceptable or not (if not, then you may need to lock getters too to ensure you get the latest data).


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MILES Storey is not bothered by seeing his name in headlines, as the young striker learns to deal with the local spotlight focusing on his embryonic career.
After progressing through the youth-team set-up at the County Ground, Storey broke into manager Paolo Di Canio's matchday squads earlier this season and then burst to the forefront of Robins-related conversation with a goal at Stevenage, two strikes against Aston Villa in the Capital One Cup and an England Under 19 summons last month.
Di Canio was upset that the 18-year-old was dominating stories across the Swindon media, stressing that the "hype" would do little to help his forward's development.
Storey recognises that he has a long way to go before he becomes the rounded footballer he craves to be, however, and he emphasised that he has no problem dealing with the limelight.
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"I'll just carry on playing my football and trying to improve. I don't really mind it to be fair, I'l have a little read and some people give me a bit of stick on Twitter but you're always going to get that.
"People are always going to try to shoot you down.
"I try to have a bit of banter with it."
Since the clash with Villa, Di Canio has used Storey sparingly in League One, handing the youngster a combined total of just 73 minutes in the games leading up to now.
However, Storey revealed that the Italian continues to impart his advice to him in public and he is trying to use that knowledge and experience to better himself as a player.
"He's just been saying to work hard in training and listen to his advice, which I know I've got to do anyway," he said.
"I haven't really done anything in the game yet. I've still got a lot to learn. There's a lot of games to come in the season and I just want to try hard in training and improve, because there are a lot of areas I need to improve.
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There was a body pump class that lasted a long time, but it always changed. The instructor was a very smart person and liked to throw puzzles at the students. About 15 minutes into the class, one kid asked how much time there was left in the class. He said: "Right now? Oh, I'd say seven." The kid was confused and knew the instructor was never going to tell anybody.
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When the first student asked, 15 minutes in, the instructor said "Seven". 15 times 7 is 105, the amount of time left in the class.
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1) Just because it tends to get so hysterical (and I don't mean funny, though it can be that, too) here, I wondered in the comments last night, at 1-1, were you willing to say this was a good effort or if it sucked from head to toe, had the Rangers lost the breakaway contest. I mean, based on that silly competition after the game was over, would you have judged the Rangers' performance any differently had the breakaway contest gone the other way? Be honest. …
2) … Because I didn't think it was as good as the Monday win over Jumbo Shrimp Joe and the Softie Sharks. But it was probably still the second best performance of the season … and by the way, now three of a possibe four from the Mighties, two from the Canuckleheads, two from the Jumbo Shrimp Soft Sharks. Kinda like last year when the Rangers found a way to win so many against the best teams in the league.
3) How about that play by Ryan McDonagh in the OT, when he carried deep and Brandon Dubinsky couldn't handle his drop pass, and McMonster stepped on the gas and used those great wheels to get back and help break up the Mighties' rush? I don't care if he missed the net from five feet out. This kid shows you something every night.
4) And speaking of that, I'm glad somebody asked, and Tortorella talked about the top four D and how important they are with the No. 1 out indefinitely. And when Dan (Block Ness) Girardi took one off the eyebrow, did you just for a minute or two, wonder what happens if he ever goes down for more than a couple of shifts? And can you believe, one year and 11 games later, that that's how you/we/they regard Girardi? Nobody was surprised he came back as quickly as he did from that messy cut. And you had to be happy for Jeff Woywitka getting that goal. Seems like a guy teammates like.
5) Marian Gaborik scores in the shootout despite the 2-for-19 career record that Tortorella recited and certainly knew before choosing him for the breakaway contest after the game ended. Good for Gaborik. He deserved the chance to be a hero. It did make me wonder a little what might have happened if he had the chance to win the shootout to put the Rangers in the playoffs in Philly two springs ago, instead of Olli Jokinen. Not that Gaborik deserved that chance that day.
6) I'm also thinking that when Gaborik is going like this — and he was terrific again last night — maybe he doesn't need a playmaking center as much as he needs another finisher on his line. Because the D backs off him, and he creates a lot of rebound chances, and he's also a very good passer. Just sayin'.
7) I thought Brad Richards made a couple of lousy plays … but I'm not blaming him for the turnover in traffic in the slot that led to the Mighties' goal.
8) Teemu Selanne sure made it look easy with his breakaway contest goal after the game ended. Such smooth, quick hands.
9) Erik Christensen … once again, keeps his spot because these single Bettman Bonus Points are so important when they add them all up in April.
10) The Rangers didn't announce the Anton Stralman signing (reported at one year, $900G), so something might be up. If you're asking what's up, or if you're asking where he fits on the organizational depth chart, or anything else about him, I have two words for you: No idea.
11) Henrik Lundqvist literally exhaled when he talked about getting that first shootout win because, let's face it, he's more important than Christensen or anybody else in the breakaway contest. Only he's also more important than anybody else in the first 60, and the 4-on-4 sudden death. How good was Jonas Hiller down the other end? My God, was that glove something special? And Can you even imagine having a first line as good as the Mighties, and Teemu Selanne on the second line?
12) That OT was exactly what the NHL had in mind when it decided to go to 4-on-4, with a point already in the bank. Frantic stuff.
13) Andre (Bel Biv) Deveaux sure handled himself pretty well against big moustache-less Ivy Leaguer George Parros, didn't he? Though I don't see the sense of that fight at that point in the game. The Rangers just scored, Parros — as smart and decent a man as he may be — is a goon looking to give his team a spark on the road. I think you decline that needless pre-arranged, staged fight.
14) We Want Avery! The chant doesn't get nearly as loud when the Rangers aren't losing, does it? And I even heard a few boos every time people tried to get an Avery chant going. I think Avery's going to be under a lot of pressure to perform right away, and consistently. But I also think he likes that pressure. … and one more thing that I don't think I've ever really said about Avery: He's a very, very bright guy. He knows the deal. He knows all the deals.
15) Speaking of needless penalties … I thought that for the first time all season the referees called it at a reasonable level, where a tiny touch or tug didn't result in a power play. That is, until the Michael Del Zotto penalty call. Pansification.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- A trip to Duke University a year ago to help Peyton Manning work his way back from neck surgery turned out to be just as beneficial for his longtime offensive coordinator Tom Moore.
Knee problems had forced the highly respected coach into retirement, although he doesn't like the word. And as Moore tells it, when Duke coach David Cutcliffe saw all the pain the old coach was dealing with, he said, "We've got to do something about that."
A visit to the top specialist in the field at Duke University led to surgery to replace both knees, one last April, the other in August.
"It's like a new world," Moore said on Friday. "All of a sudden, you're pain-free, you've got all your energy back, you've got your quality of life back and it's a new world for me."
Five weeks helping the Tennessee Titans convinced the 74-year-old coach he was ready to return to the work he loves.
"Don't worry about my chronological age," he said, "because I feel like I'm about 50 now. So when Bruce (Arians) gave me this opportunity, I jumped on it. I've still got a lot of coaching to do. I love coaching. You know, I've lived a dream. To be able to continue to coach, it's a privilege."
Bruce Arians, hired to replace the fired Ken Whisenhunt in Arizona after going 9-3 as interim head coach in Indianapolis last season while Chuck Pagano was treated for leukemia, said he saw Moore "bouncing around" a hotel in Jacksonville last season and told him "If I've got a job, you've got a job, no matter where that might be."
Moore and Arians worked together for three years in Indianapolis, tutoring the young Manning, before Arians left to climb the coaching ladder, eventually becoming offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh. Arians returned to the Colts as offensive coordinator last season.
Moore stayed at Indy and oversaw the development of one of the game's most prolific offenses and one of its greatest quarterbacks.
Moore will enter his 35th year as an NFL assistant. Among active coaches, only Dick LeBeau (40) and Wade Phillips (36) have been around longer.
"I really can't put into words what it means to have this gentleman sit next to me," Arians said at Friday's news conference. "He forgot more football than most people in this league know. His knowledge of offense and the way he can simplify it -- I've been around a longtime myself, but nobody can teach it better than he can."
Moore, who will carry the title assistant head coach/offense, said he wanted to make sure he was physically able to give it his all in Arizona.
"I wanted to make sure I could do it justice because I believe in professionalism," Moore said. "I wasn't going to take a job unless I could give it 120 percent total commitment, because people deserve it, the players deserve it, the organization deserves it and certainly Bruce deserves it, so here I am."
The challenge is a big one. Arizona's offense was the worst in the NFL last season. The offensive line has struggled and there is no sure-fire candidate to take over at quarterback.
Moore, who said he learned most of what he knows about football working 13 years for Chuck Knoll, said a coach should not try to force players to fit his system.
"You don't come in with preconceived ideas and say `Hey, I'm Tom Moore and this is what we're going to do," he said.
Instead, he said, coaches must build around the strengths of the players, quarterback or otherwise.
"You've got to do what your players can do," he said, "find out what they can do, what they're the best at, find out what their strengths are and then make sure you take advantage of their strengths and maximize them. As a coach, your job is to make sure you give your players a chance to be the very best they can be."
He and Arians are in the midst of identifying those strengths in their early days in Arizona.
"Everything in the passing game starts with protection," he said. "That's the biggest thing. There's all kinds of pass patterns, millions of pass patterns and all good pass patterns. But the biggest single thing you've got to work on initially and first and get established each week is your pass protection."
Well, the Cardinals were 0 for 15 in third down conversions in a 7-6 loss to the New York Jets. And quarterback Kevin Kolb was sacked 17 times in consecutive games before being lost for the season with a rib injury.
Moore was asked if he could fathom that stat.
"That's history," he said. "I don't deal in the past."
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Hi All,
Now that several folk have reported seeing B. hypnorum queens about, I thought it might be useful to start a new thread on B. hyp for 2013.
Also to admit that I did a sneaky thing yesterday.
I captured a 'hyp' queen that was sunning, by popping her in a ventilated 35mm Film Cassette tub.
(This is my usual bee-capture container, but anything else of similar size with an easy-on lid would be OK too.)
I kept the tub containing her in my pocket, to keep her warm.
Got home, looked out a BirdBox with the remains of an old Blue Tit nest in it. (And a 'hyp' colony was in the box in 2011.)
I topped the box up with some dry chopped grass& moss mixture.
I added a small feeder with some sugar syrup in it (over in a corner). (Approx = volumes dry granulated sugar and water, 1:1) Just about 2-3 ml used.
Then I put the box up in a sheltered place on a vibration free substrate (brick wall) where if a colongy does get started, the bee activity will not be a nuisance.
Then I popped the 'hyp' queen in to the box and immediately bunged up the entrance.
(For this I use a Rolled-up piece of Scouring pad.)
I left the bung in place for about an hour, then removed it - and watched.
By then it was ~1600.
To my surprise and delight, I didn't see the queen leave !
So, I'm hoping she will stay/has stayed, and maybe will try to start a colony.
I'll keep you posted ! Clive
This is the sort of technique that any BB-addict should find easy, so others might like to try - assuming that B. hypnorum is common in your area.
BUT please do not capture queens that have pollen-loads on their back legs, because they will already have started a nest.
More news on the above experiment - that queen buzzed off.
Another installed.
Box now in use !
The B. hyp queen was put into the box on 14/4/13 late afternoon.
On 16/4 my wife spotted a BBQ walking around on the soil in our small greenhouse, so called me to investigate.
It was another B. hyp queen, so I popped her into a cassette tub for safe keeping.
That evening, when fully dark, and using red light from a torch I re-opened the nest box and checked to see if the queen was still there.
(Red light allowed me to see inside the box, but any bee would not be able to see me and fly out - bees don't see red.)
No sign of her.
So I added some more syrup to the feeder dish, then took the lid off the cassette tub and dropped the 'greenhouse' B. hyp queen into the nest box. Took two photos, then quietly withdrew leaving the bee there, but with the entrance to the nestbox open - but fully dark for about 6-7 hours .
I then left all alone for 7 days.
Yesterday evening I prepared to inspect the box by red light again, but didn't need to !
When I touched the box in preparation to opening the catch and lifting the lid, the vibration alone caused an audible buzz to come from the box - which told me that the box had been adopted by a bumblebee queen - and that a colony was being established !
What luck !
I now need to watch the box and try to see who lives there: but in theory it should be my second 'greenhouse' B. hyp queen
I'll keep you informed of progress.
I have a few photos available to help folk understand some of the details.
PS. In the last few days i've seen several B hyp queens around in the area. One was nest-searching along the wall beneath the nest box this afternoon: but didn't find, or investigate the nestbox.
Another update - and probably sad news.
At 14 days I went to the nest box well after dark and tried listening for a reaction to me touching the nest box, then gently joggling it.
Result, not a sound - so either the queen has absconded and left the box, or else was lying low and not reacting !
Time will tell, so I will wait to see if we get any workers coming out of the box in 3 - 4 weeks time.
I'll keep you posted ! Clive
1st active B. hypnorum colony this year !
This morning I saw my first BB colony, and 1st workers of the year.
A very dark B. hypnorum colony with regular flights to / from the nest and yellow pollen going in.
A few minutes between flights, so the colony must be quite small; and no sign of any drone activity yet.
They are using an airbrick to access what must be the roof-space above a ground floor extension in High Wycombe.
Southerly aspect.
Plenty of seasonal spring flowers about, from Dandelion at ground level to Apple and Sycamore trees flowerig too.
NB. This is a fully wild colony and totally separate from my own attempts to get a queen to accept a nest box by putting her into it. It is the other side of the Wycombe valley to my garden and around 1 km away.
Has anybody else seen any B. hypnorum BB nest activity / flights yet this year ?
Interesting reading Clive
We have been monitoring a Tree Bumblebee for a few weeks now. Unusually we hadn't cleared out one of the next boxes from last year that had been abandoned after it was near completion and this looks like being the home for a new resident. She has been entering and leaving the nest box quiet often, a few of times laden with pollen. It's hard to say what's happening below the nest as she seems to create holes and disappear down inside the nest. She will also cover the holes over.
Will try hard to post updates as often as possible.
I am absolutely thrilled to be able to say that I have a tree BB (B hypnorum) nest in a compost bin on my allotment. I've never had a BB nest before.
The story so far. A few weeks ago I found a large queen in the bin when I lifted the lid but she very quickly flew away. She took me by surprise and I was not quick enough to look at her properly.
Several days later I had seen a queen entering my round plastic bin from the base but she was far too quick for me to get a photograph or even look at her properly. She was there and gone too quickly. On several visits to the allotment I saw nothing, even on warm days when it was not windy and chilly.
On Saturday 18th May I carefully lifted the lid and found 3 workers busy around a pile of moss scrapings/law mowings from the lawn I had previously put in the bin. This pile of moss/grass is approximately 3 feet from the base of the bin, so they have a long climb up to the nest. The lid of the bin will remain on the bin now until the autumn with dire warnings issued to anyone who may even contemplates lifting the lid.
On Sunday, yesterday, I again visited but, even though it was a lovely warm sunny day, I saw no sign of activity.
Now two questions please -
1. If we have a hot summer or even a "normal" summer the inside of the plastic compost bin will get very hot - will the nest be able to survive that heat with no ventilation?
2. I would like to register this nest with the BBCT but have been unable to find this facility although I am sure it is there somewhere on the website. Directions would be appreciated.
Sparrow - Sue
Hi Sparrow, Congratulations !
As far as I know, B. hypnorum nests so close to the ground are relatively unusual.
I've known of one in a loose Compost Heap contained in a wire-mesh cage.
And the year before last someone near me had a hypnorum colony that had it's home at about ground level in a densely twigged Winter Jasmine climber, but I never did manage to get a picture of the location with a bee about to enter - they were too darned quick !
My son had a B. terrestris / lucorum colony living in a plastic compster similar to yours, and they were entering via the trap door area.
It will be interesting to see if your colony attracts Drone Nest Surveillance.
Bumblebees can walk a considerable distance along the ground to get to their nest. My record for this was again a B. terrestris / lucorum colony that were walking the whole length of a garage to get to their nest in a bundle of dusters at the far back. This must have been 15 - 20 feet from the door !
Hi All,
Just a note to say that in the last few days I spotted a B. hypnorum worker foraging on Apple Blossom.
There have also been workers of terrestris/lucorum and hortorum and pratorum.
Also still queens of B. pascuorum.
This info also posted in to First BBs of 2013.
Thank you Clive for your informative reply.
Unfortunately I have seen no activity around the compost bin since I found the bees in the bin last Saturday. I will give it another week and if I have still seen nothing I might take a peep inside - or should I leave well alone.
Sparrow - Sue
Hi All,
Sparrow, I can imagine your bin cordoned off with red and white tape and 'no entry' signs. I hope you spot activity again. We found that only the queen was entering and leaving our nest and apart from what looked like some re-building, moving things around and digging holes through the old nest there was little activity. We sometimes waited a couple of hours to see any signs of life at all! We just left ours and a couple of weeks ago she entered laden with pollen, popped down one of her holes and came out around 20 minuets later with nothing to fly out the nest and return with more later ... she had to be doing something under that nest with the pollen.
Yesterday, 22nd May, we noticed she had been joined by we think at least two workers though it was hard to say as we never saw more than her and two workers at any one time.
We are tempted to take a live peek inside like yourself but are reluctant and wouldn't disturb any wildlife usually but the camera inside the box is now a little out of focus for some reason (the nest is looking a bit more 'fluffed up towards the camera) and it would be good to re-focus so that we can get some still and video images. With that in mind we have the same question, should we open the lid to re-focus the camera or leave well alone?
Fascinating reading
A rather detailed message for Ron.
Firstly, I think it is wonderful that you have a B. hypnorum colony in a Nest box fitted with a camera !
Secondly, some info related to your need to re-focus the camera :-
A B. hypnorum colony can be "rather defensive" about their nest.
(We humans sometimes perceive this as 'aggressive' - if we don't know better.)
So if you are going to re-focus the camera, I would do it as soon as you can, because then you'll have the number of bees being "defensive" as small as possible.
Some sensible precautions: (These now modified to include cuff-cover of wrist area!)
1. Work quickly and in darkness at night, when the bees won't be flying / able to fly.
2. Wear a sweatshirt or suchlike with long sleeves and tight fitting cuffs.
3. Wear rubber gloves - the thin surgical type ones, or thicker domestic washing-up gloves, will give you confidence. They will stop bees grabbing hold of you very easily: but stings might penetrate them.
Make sure that the gloves fit right up to and over the cuffs !
4. Don't allow any of your breath to reach the bees, because this will irritate them. So exhale sideways out of the corner of your mouth.
5. In the dark, a very useful technique is to work using a red-only light source - like a Rear Cycle light.
Bees can't see red light at all well, so tend to stay still - but might run about if agitated.
I presume that if you focus the camera under red light, then it will probably work in focus OK with the full visible spectrum, but if necessary you might need to tweak the focus to allow for a red / white light focus difference. If you have to use white light, keep the operation as time-short as possible.
You may have to re-focus several times over the duration of the nest, since the total volume of the nest comb itself is likely to expand significantly with time.
A convenient source of red light is a cycle rear light - preferably of the LED type, but old-fashioned tungsten filament rear lights work fine behind the red plastic cover of the light.
To learn more in general about B. hypnorum, you might like to take a look at an article I wrote recently for a magazine called BeeCraft. We've got a copy of it on the BBCT website in the About Bees area under FAQs Moving Bees. Here's a direct link: http://bumblebeeconservation.org/images/uploads/Bee_Craft_May_2013,_Bombus_hypnorum.pdf
Finally, a request:
Might it be possible to record some of what you see, so that others may take a look too ?
I hope this helps - and good luck ! Yours Clive
PS. Above advice is given in good faith, but without legal liability.
PPS. If you take a look at YouTube, and search for Bombus hypnorum nest, there are a few short videos there already.
Thanks for your informative and helpful reply Clive, very much appreciated.
Regarding your 'Some sensible precautions' list. I agree with all. LED red light is no problem or I think our head torches have red filters but will check later. I also thought that when it was a bit cooler too as there is less activity when it's cooler, something we seem to be getting a lot of this year.
The camera is one of a few we have fitted in bird nest boxes. In fact they were due for an overall at the end of last year with new higher specification cameras fitted at the same time as the annual clean out but I wasn't to well so that never got done. The upside though was the old nest has now been used by B. hypnorum so every cloud has a silver lining.
Regarding the FAQs Moving Bees link I had read that but have now downloaded the file to print when I've finished this post.
Regarding your request to share what we are seeing. Yes this was the plan, but with the camera now being out of focus I have a feeling folk will think they need to get their eyes tested! I'll post a link(s) here as soon as we can 'see' clearly with pleasure.
Many thanks Clive
Hi All
Update. Following Clive's detailed advice on entering the nest box to re-focus the camera we gave it a try on at about 11pm Saturday night. Armed with Red light, and a sponge to block the nest box entry/exit hole I successfully placed the sponge in place. Monitoring the camera from inside I got the message on the radio 'all clear'. I'm still trying to work out why it was me on the front line and my good wife sat in the light and warm doing the monitoring?!
Left it for about a ¼ of an hour and went back to gently undo the catch locking the lid down on the box. Woops, I was very gentle but I could hear the buzzing at the same time as I got the message 'there are loads all coming to the top of the nest'. I made sure the latch was firmly locked and retreated.
½ hour later I went back and gingerly retrieved the sponge, no movement, peering inside the hole I could see spiders web which looked like that may be playing part of the problem to the 'focus' issue. A very thin stick and very carefully I managed to get the web to wrap round the stick and carefully pull it out. That seemed to solve most of the problem so now our buzzy friends are not quiet so blurred now!
Up until then it only ever looked like there were about 3 or 4 workers in there and the queen. Clearly that isn't the case as we guessed that we could see at least a dozen in my failed attempt to undo the catch. As you can imagine we are very pleased.
Okay, I mentioned in an earlier post that we were supposed to be upgrading the cameras etc. last year but didn't manage it. Yesterday I sat and tried to work out a way of getting some software that we used until last year to function in modern browsers so that we could share what we are seeing. This morning I managed to find a way to fix it hopefully until the nest is finished with. I apologise for the slight out of focus view, I did try, 'onest guv, but anyone that would like to take a look here's a direct link: http://www.dolphi.co.uk/webcams/cam1.htm
I hope that link works, if not copy and paste to your browser.
Hi Sparrow
Just wondering if you have any news from your compost bin? I meant to ask on my last post but forgot :(
Another update - and probably sad news.
At 14 days I went to the nest box well after dark and tried listening for a reaction to me touching the nest box, then gently joggling it.
Result, not a sound - so either the queen has absconded and left the box, or else was lying low and not reacting !
Time will tell, so I will wait to see if we get any workers coming out of the box in 3 - 4 weeks time.
I'll keep you posted ! Clive
An exciting update at 26/5/13.
Today I took a few minutes to watch for bee flight from a re-homed colony I've given an exit tunnel opposite the Bird Box where I'd tried to persuade that B. hypnorum queen to set up home.
To my utter astonishment I saw a bee fly into the nearby airspace then head into the Bird Box I'd introduced the B. hypnorum queen to on 16/4/13 !
So, over the intervening 40 days (~6 weeks) I've not seen any of the queen's foraging flights or those of her early workers - which says something about how difficult it is to spot a low level of activity at a bumblebee nest.
(In the above case, I've watched for activity several times a day while walking past this area.)
Note: No sign of any drone nest surveillance yet, the colony is still very small and the season too early !
Another update - info as at 12/6/13.
The colony has died out.
Over the last few days I've watched the above bird box for flight activity on several 15 minute sessions and seen nothing happening - and there should have been if the colony was progressing normally. Checking the box more physically at night time by giving the box a tap/bang also produced no reaction (buzzing sound, or bees issuing to see me off).
Eventually, I needed to collect and re-locate another bird-box colony from a property a few miles away; and wanted to re-locate it to the wall close to the suspected died-out box.
So I have taken down the box.
There is some disturbance in the nest material, where bees must have been going in and out, but no sign of anything alive. They must have died out.
The re-located (new) colony is doing well in it's new home, but no sign of any Drone Nest Surveillance activity yet. Clive


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