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British grandmother sentenced to death by firing squad
January 22, 2013
A British grandmother arrested on drugs charges in Indonesia has today been sentenced to death by firing squad.
Lindsay Sandiford, a 56 year old grandmother from Teeside, was arrested earlier this year. In a judgement handed down today a panel of judges sentenced Ms Sandiford to death despite the fact that the prosecution sought only a 15 year sentence.
Lindsay only agreed to carry the suitcase following months of threats made against her family. In May she finally agreed to travel to Thailand where, convinced her son would be in danger from criminal gangs if she refused, she agreed to carry a suitcase to Bali, Indonesia. She was too scared to tell anyone, including her partner, what was happening to her until she was arrested on her arrival in Bali, after which she cooperated fully with the police.
In an expert report submitted to the District Court in Denpasar, Bali, Dr Jennifer Fleetwood concluded that Ms Sandiford's vulnerability will have made her an ideal target for drugs traffickers, noting that: "There is…evidence to suggest that a trafficker would seek someone who was vulnerable. Having reviewed extracts from Lindsay's medical records I know that Lindsay has a history of mental health issues…This may have unfortunately made her an attractive target for threats, manipulation and coercion."
Harriet McCulloch, Investigator at Reprieve, said: "Lindsay has always maintained that she only agreed to carry the package to Bali after receiving threats against the lives of her family. She is clearly not a drug king pin – she has no money to pay for a lawyer, for the travel costs of defence witnesses or even for essentials like food and water. She has cooperated fully with the Indonesian authorities but has been sentenced to death while the gang operating in the UK, Thailand and Indonesia remain free to target other vulnerable people. Lindsay must file an appeal within the next 14 days and it is vital that the British Government do everything possible to support Lindsay's appeal against the death sentence."
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1. For further information, please contact Donald Campbell or Clemency Wells in Reprieve's press office: +44 (0) 207 553 8166 / donald.campbell [AT] reprieve.org.uk / clemency.wells [AT] reprieve.org.uk or see www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/Lindsay_Sandiford_Indonesia
2. Further information on Dr Fleetwood's testimony can be found here: www.reprieve.org.uk/press/2012_12_06_lindsay_sandiford_coerced_death_penalty
3. Lindsay Sandiford is a British national who was facing three charges for drugs offences in Indonesia, two of which carry the death penalty. Lindsay had never been in trouble with the police before, but in March 2012, convinced her son would be in danger from criminal gangs if she refused, she agreed to carry a suitcase from Bangkok to Bali, Indonesia. She was stopped at the airport in Bali and taken for interrogation by customs officials. The Indonesian authorities failed to inform the British embassy that she had been arrested – in breach of their international obligations – and she was held for ten days before anyone knew what had happened. Lindsay does not speak the local language and says that, during those ten days, she was not appointed either a lawyer or a translator, and was deprived of sleep and threatened by the authorities with a gun. Since being transferred to police custody on May 28th 2012 Lindsay has had three different Indonesian lawyers, none of whom have provided her with effective legal assistance. The first lawyer appointed by the Indonesian police stole money from her and made no effort to investigate her case or represent her interests in police interrogations. She believes that he also bribed prison officials to get journalists into the prison and then tried to demand money from these journalists for access to Lindsay.
On October 4th Lindsay appeared in court without a lawyer. Her trial commenced and the indictment was read out. She faces three charges, two of which carry the death penalty. Lindsay was also unrepresented at the next hearing because she was unable to find a lawyer to assist her pro bono.
Lindsay is currently represented but her lawyer does not have the resources to properly investigate the case and to uncover the evidence that could save Lindsay's life.
4. Reprieve, a legal action charity, uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve investigates, litigates and educates, working on the frontline, to provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. Reprieve promotes the rule of law around the world, securing each person's right to a fair trial and saving lives. Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 25 years working on behalf of people facing the death penalty in the USA.
Reprieve's current casework involves representing 15 prisoners in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, assisting over 70 prisoners facing the death penalty around the world, and conducting ongoing investigations into the rendition and the secret detention of 'ghost prisoners' in the so-called 'war on terror.'
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9th International Symposium on High Temperature Metallurgical Processing
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A Statistical Analysis of Process Abnormalities in Slab Casting
An Innovative Oxygen-enriched Flash Smelting Technology for Lead Smelting and its Industrial Application
Assessment of Gas-Slag-Metal Interaction during a Converter Steelmaking Process
Carbothermic Direct Reduction of Chromite Using a Segregation Catalyst for the Production of Ferrochrome
CFD Modeling of Flow and Chemical Reactions in a Submerged Lance Copper Smelting Furnace
Characteristics and Control Technology of Fine Particulate Matter (PM) in Iron Ore Sintering
D-10: Kinetics Study on Limestone Decomposition in Early Converter Slag
D-11: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Converter Slagging and Steelmaking Process by Replacing Part of Lime With Limestone
D-12: Research of Digital Platform and Process Guidance Model in EAF Steelmaking Process
D-13: Research on Factors Affecting and Prediction Model of Silicon Content in Hot Metal of Corex
D-14: Research on the Long Life Blowpipe Liner of BF Air Supply Apparatus
D-15: Selection of Viscosity Model of Chromium-Containing Converter Slag and Investigation of the Effect of Compositions on Viscosity
D-17: Study on Grain Size and Porosity of the Produced Lime from Limestone in Early Converter Slag
D-18: Study on the Volatilization of Sb2S3 in Vacuum
D-19: The Effects of ZrO2, Y2O3 and Sc2O3 on the Properties of Mould Fluxes for High Manganese High Aluminum Steels
D-1: Atomistic Insight into Structural Role of Boron in High Temperature CaO-SiO2 Slag System
D-20: Thermodynamic Calculation on Reactivity between Slag and High Mn-high Al Steel
D-22: Viscosity of Mould Flux under Electromagnetic Field
D-23: Alumino-thermic Reduction of SrO and SrCO3
D-25: Analysis of Operational Parameters Affecting the Degree of Metalization of DRI in a Reduction Shaft of the COREX Process and Improvement Measures
D-26: Dechlorination of Zinc Oxide Dust by Microwave Rosating with RSM Optimization
D-27: Effect of TiO2 on the Viscous Behavior of High Alumina Blast Furnace Slag
D-28: Fundamental Research on the Iron Nugget Process from Carbon Composite Pellet
D-30: Influence of Coke Quality on Main Technical Indexes of Blast Furnace
D-31: Kinetic Analysis of Blast Furnace Dust Recycling with Flash Reduction Process at High Temperature
D-32: Novel Utilization Technology of Low Grade Nb-bearing Iron Concentrate from Bayan Obo Ore in China
D-33: Preparation and Characterization of Iron-coke Briquette
D-34: Preparation of Direct Reduced Iron Using Crumb Rubber Powder
D-35: Preparation of Oxidized Pellets with Chrome Ore
D-36: Research and Application of Sintering Surface Steam Spraying Technology for Energy Saving and Quality Improvement
D-37: Study on Bonding Mechanism of Sinter Grate Bar
D-38: Optimizing Iron Ore Matching for Sintering Based on High Temperature Characteristic Numbers
D-39: Mineral Composition and Microstructure Changes of Iron Ore Sinter during the Gas-Solid Reduction
D-40: Roasting Kinetics of Molybdenite Concentrates
D-41: Study on Direct Reduction of Low-grade Iron Ore-coal Mini-pellets in Coal-based Rotary Kiln
D-42: Study on Influences of Different Ti-bearing Materials on MgO-bearing Pellets Metallurgical Properties
D-43: Supergravity Separation of Pb and Sn from Waste Printed Circuit Boards
D-44: The Effect of Temperature and Additive on Transport and Transformation of P of High-phosphorus Iron Ore during Carbothermic Reduction
D-4: Effect of Temperature on Oxidation Behavior of Cr-Mo-V Steel with Different Cr Contents for High-speed Train Brake Discs
D-6: Evolution of Al-Ti-Mg-O Inclusions during Refining and Casting Process of Interstitial Free Steel
D-7: Experimental Study on Carburization of Higher Vanadium-bearing Hot Metal
D-9: Influence On The Crystallization Phase Of Mold Flux By Magnetic Fields
Degradation Mechanisms of Refractories in a Bottom Blown Copper Smelting Furnace
Development of Continuous Blast Furnace Slag Solidification Process for Coarse Aggregates
Effect of Calculation Method of CaO Addition on Liquid Phase Fluidity
Effect of Carbon Coating on Magnetite Reduction
Effect of Density Difference on Particle Segregation Behaviors at Bell-less Top Blast Furnace with Parallel-type Hopper
Effect of Modified Humic Acid (MHA) Binder on Roasting Behavior Mongolian Tumurtei Iron Concentrate Briquettes
Enhancement of Yield by Improvement of Iron Ore Sinter Strength of Weak Layer in Sinter Bed
Exergy and its Efficiency Estimations for Sponge Iron Production in a Rotary Hearth Furnace
Experimental Study on Oxidative Desulfurization and Selective Reduction of Molten Copper Slag
Fabrication Methods and Applications of Microstructured Carbon Based Liquid Copper Alloys
Growth of Iridium and Iridium Alloy Fibers from the Melt by Alloy-micro-pulling-down Method
High Temperature Dielectric Property Measurement System
High throughput Experimental Technologies for Novel Amorphous Metallic Materials Research
In-situ Observation of the Precipitation Behavior of Dy2O3 Containing Slag System
Irreversibilities in Copper Matte Smelting and Settling
Modeling of Reactive Melt Infiltration Used in the Fabrication of Si-Co/C Composites
Neural Prediction Model for Extraction of Germanium from Zinc Oxide Dust by Microwave Alkaline Roasting-water Leaching
Numerical and Experimental Study of Carbothermal Reduction of Silica in a Laboratory Thermal Plasma Reactor
Numerical Simulation of Ultrasound-Induced Cavitation Bubbling in a Calcium Ferrite Melt
On the Role of Nb on the Texture and Microstructure of a Novel As-rolled Medium Carbon Wear Resistant Slurry Pipeline Steel
Optimization Method for Iron Ore Blending Based on the Sintering Basic Characteristics of Blended Ore
Optimization of Exothermic Riser Sleeve Design Parameters
Physiochemical Properties of High Alumina Blast Furnace Slag
Pilot Scale Production of Ferrochrome with Si Wafer Kerf Loss Reductants Using 280kW Direct Current Arc Furnace
Preparation for High Activity Degree Lime and Effect on Desulfurization of Hot Metal Pretreatment
Preparation of Manganese Ferrite by Low-temperature Solid-state Synthesis under CO-CO2 Atmosphere
Preparation of Titanium Foams through Direct Electrolysis of the Sintered CaO-TiO2 in Molten Salt CaCl2
Production of Lithium-Ion Cathode Material for Automotive Batteries Using Melting Casting Process
Production of Titanium from Waste Slag
Purification of Molten Zinc Chloride-Alkali Chloride by Cementation Reaction
Pyrometallurgical Processing of Secondary Lead Material: An Industry Overlook
Recovery of Aluminium and its Compounds with Hydro and Pyrometalurgical Methods from Non-metallic Residue
Recovery of Fe-Cu Alloys from Copper Slag
Recycling SiO2 and Al2O3 from the Laterite Nickel Slag in Molten Sodium Hydroxides
Reduction Behavior of Garnierite Using Methane by Roasting-Magnetic Separation Method
Refractory Wear in a High Carbon Ferromanganese Smelting Furnace
Removal of Sulfur from Copper Dross Generated by Refining Lead
Role of Burden Distribution in Blast Furnace under Reduced Coke Consumption
Selective Recovery of P and Mn from Steelmaking Slag by Carbothermic Reduction
Simplified Process for Making Anode Copper
Simulation of Velocity Field of Molten Steel in Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking
Sintering Study of WC-Co Hardmetals Obtained from Nanocrystalline Powders
Sintering Surface Spraying Steam to Reduce NOx and Dioxin Emissions in Shougang
Solid Oxide Membrane-based Green Processing and Modeling of Silicon Production
Structural Analysis of Ge-containing Ferrous Calcium Silicate Magnesia Slag for Applications of Black Copper Smelting
Study on Direct Reduction Melting Separation-leaching Process of Disposal Rare Earth Composite Iron Ore
Sulfation Roasting of Nickel Sulfide Concentrate in the Presence of Sodium Sulfate
Supersolidus Liquid Phase Sintering of H13 Tool Steel Fabricated via Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing
Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Carbide Ceramics via Reduction of Anion-loaded Activated Carbon Precursors
The Dissolution Behavior of MgO into Molten High Titanium Slag
The Effect of Austenitizing Temperature on Hardenability, Precipitation and Mechanical Properties of Boron Bearing Cr-Mo Alloy Steel
The Use of Zirconia-based Solid Electrolytes Oxygen Sensor in High Titanium Slag
Thermodynamic Analysis of Smelting of Spent Catalysts for Recovery of Platinum Group Metals
Thermodynamic Modelling of Magnesium-Oxide, Calcium-Oxide and Strontium-Oxide Reduction Systems via Pidgeon Process
Viscosity of CaO-SiO2-based Mold Flux with CeO2 for Continuous Casting of RE Alloyed Heavy Rail Steels
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Toni and David Yarnell have recently established two annual awards at The Cooper Union: The Toni and David Yarnell Merit Award of Excellence in Architecture and The Toni and David Yarnell Merit Award of Excellence in Art. The awards will be presented each year at commencement to two graduating seniors of The Cooper Union, one from the School of Art and one from the School of Architecture. The Yarnells established these awards as their way of "giving back".
David Yarnell was born in Brooklyn and, as he says, "escaped to Manhattan" as a teenager. After graduating from Brooklyn Law School, David attended Cooper Union School of Art. Though he was at Cooper for less than one year, he describes his experience as "memorable and exhilarating. Being exposed to the creative work being done at The Cooper Union prompted me to pursue my dream of working in radio and television. "
Yarnell adds: "After Cooper, my vocational journey took me through executive positions starting with radio and then television. I held a variety of programming jobs before becoming V.P. of Programming at Metromedia and then RKO General."
Yarnell's program credits as producer include: FIRING LINE with WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY; AMERICAN MASTERS: BILLIE WILDER; NEW LOVE AMERICAN STYLE; IN CONCERT music series; DEEP IN MY HEART feature film starring ANNE BANCROFT; and other news, documentary, sports, and talk shows.
Toni Howard grew up in Los Angeles. Her career spans a successful series of jobs as a casting director for dozens of films, including TOOTSIE and THE RIGHT STUFF. Toni became a talent agent and senior V.P. with the William Morris agency in the 1980s. Her next job was as Agent and Head of Talent Department at International Creative Management or ICM. Among her clients today are Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, James Spader, Harvey Keitel, Edie Falco, Stephen Fry, Michael Caine and Michael Sheen.
Toni and David have established these two merit awards because of their deep interest in art and architecture. They believe that "setting up these annual awards for outstanding graduates who attended the School of Art and the School of Architecture is our way of sharing our good fortune with future 'stars' from an outstanding institution."
The Cooper Union is deeply gratefully to Toni and David Yarnell for supporting young artists and architects as they launch their careers.


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A Chinquapin teenager charged in a crash that killed an Onslow Memorial Hospital nurse is scheduled to face a judge in February.
BEULAVILLE � A Chinquapin teenager charged in a crash that killed an Onslow Memorial Hospital nurse is scheduled to face a judge in February.
Alex Hayes, 17, of Chinquapin, is charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle, with an added infraction of going left of center, for a crash on Dec. 11 that killed Jolene Edens, 36, of Chinquapin.
Hayes was driving a 2004 Jeep east on N.C. 111 near Beulaville at around 9 p.m. when his vehicle crossed the center line and collided with a 2000 Oldsmobile driven by Edens, who was traveling west on N.C. 111, according to Sgt. M.L. Collier of the N.C. Highway Patrol in Duplin County.
Hayes was charged in the incident on Dec. 12, but he was not served while he was in the hospital, according to Sgt. D.L. Cavanaugh of the N.C. Highway Patrol in Duplin County.
The trooper who has been handling the investigation was off duty and unavailable to comment, so it is unclear when Hayes was actually served for the offense.
�It took a while because he was in the hospital,� Cavanaugh said. �We attempted to talk to him, but the family wanted to speak to a lawyer before they spoke to us.�
Duplin County District Attorney Ernie Lee, who was unable to comment directly about the specifics of Haye�s case since it was still pending, explained that a misdemeanor death by vehicle charge is typically levied when unintentional killings are committed while a defendant operates a motor vehicle in violation of either state law or local ordinance.
�The distinguishing factor between misdemeanor death and felony death by motor vehicle as defined in General Statute 20-141.4 is whether the underlying offense that proximately caused the death of another is a driving while impaired offense,� Lee said via email.
Cavanaugh said that Hayes was charged with the misdemeanor based on evidence at the scene that indicated his vehicle went left of center.
Lee stated that misdemeanor death by motor vehicle is a Class A1 misdemeanor, and the maximum punishment varies based on previous convictions.
A Level I punishment (no prior convictions) can carry a sentence of 1-60 days. Level II (1 to 4 prior convictions) can carry a sentence of 1-75 days. A Level III (5 or more convictions) can carry a sentence of 1-150 days, all according to Lee. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Offender Search website, Hayes does not have any previous convictions.
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The 2011 Emmy Awards will be all about domestic turmoil, with favorites "Modern Family" and "The Good Wife" dominating the major categories. But overall, "Mad Men," gets the honor of garnering the most overall nominations -- 19 -- among regular television series.
The HBO miniseries, "Mildred Pierce" took 21 nominations.
"Fringe" star Joshua Jackson and Melissa McCarthy of "Mike & Molly" read the official list of nominees this morning, and the field was much more eclectic than previous years. Upstart shows like HBO's sword and sorcery epic "Game of Thrones," AMC's murder mystery "The Killing," and FX's rugged cop drama "Justified" all muscled their way in to make this year at least a little tougher to call.
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"Friday Night Lights," whose final episode will air on NBC Friday, scored a nostalgic three noms for acting and series.
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"Boardwalk Empire"
"Friday Night Lights"
"Game of Thrones"
"The Good Wife"
"Mad Men"
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Kathy Bates - "Harry's Law"
Connie Britton - "Friday Night Lights"
Mireille Enos - "The Killing"
Mariska Hargitay - "Law & Order: SVU"
Julianna Margulies - "The Good Wife"
Elizabeth Moss - 'Mad Men"
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Steve Buscemi - "Boardwalk Empire"
Kyle Chandler - "Friday Night Lights"
Michael C. Hall - "Dexter"
Jon Hamm - "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie - "House"
Timothy Olyphant - "Justified"
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Kelly Macdonald - "Boardwalk Empire"
Christina Hendricks - "Mad Men"
Michelle Forbes - "The Killing"
Archie Panjabi - "The Good Wife"
Margo Martindale - "Justified"
Christine Baranski - "The Good Wife"
Supporting Actor - Drama
John Slattery - "Mad Men"
Andre Braugher - "Men of a Certain Age"
Walt Goggins - "Justified"
Peter Dinklage - "Game of Thrones"
Josh Charles - "The Good Wife"
Alan Cummings - "The Good Wife"
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Parks and Recreation"
"The Office"
"Modern Family"
"30 Rock"
"The Big Bang Theory"
Lead Actress - Comedy
Laura Linney - "The Big C"
Edie Falco - "Nurse Jackie"
Amy Poehler - "Parks and Recreation"
Melissa McCarthy - "Mike & Molly"
Martha Plimpton - "Raising Hope"
Tina Fey - "30 Rock"
Lead Actor - Comedy
Matt LeBlanc - "Episodes"
Jim Parsons - "The Big Bang Theory"
Steve Carell - "The Office"
Johnny Galecki - "The Big Bang Theory"
Louis C.K. - "Louie"
Alec Baldwin - "30 Rock"
Supporting Actress - Comedy
Jane Lynch - "Glee"
Betty White - "Hot in Cleveland"
Julie Bowen - "Modern Family"
Kristen Wiig - "Saturday Night Live"
Jane Krakowski - "30 Rock"
Sofia Vergara - "Modern Family"
Supporting Actor - Comedy
Jon Cryer - "Two and a Half Men"
Chris Colfer - "Glee"
Jesse Tyler Ferguson - "Modern Family"
Ed O'Neill - "Modern Family"
Eric Stonestreet - "Modern Family"
Ty Burrell - "Modern Family"
Outstanding Miniseries or Movie
"Mildred Pierce"
"Downtown Abbey"
"The Kennedys"
"Cinema Verite"
"Too Big to Fail"
"The Pillars of the Earth"
Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie
Kate Winslet - "Mildred Pierce"
Elizabeth McGovern - "Downtown Abbey"
Diane Lane - "Cinema Verite"
Taraji P. Henson - "Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story"
Jean Marsh - "Upstairs Downstairs"
Lead Actor - Miniseries or Movie
Greg Kinnear - "The Kennedys"
Barry Pepper - "The Kennedys"
Edgar Ramirez - "Carlos"
William Hurt - "Too Big To Fail"
Idris Elba - "Luther"
Laurence Fishburne - "Thurgood"
Outstanding Reality - Reality Competition Program
"So You Think You Can Dance?"
"The Amazing Race"
"Project Runway"
"American Idol"
"Dancing with the Stars"
"Top Chef"
Outstanding Host - Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Jeff Probst - "Survivor"
Cat Deeley - "So You Think You Can Dance?"
Phil Keoghan - "The Amazing Race"
Tom Bergeron - "Dancing With the Stars"
Ryan Seacrest - "American Idol"
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series
"The Colbert Report"
"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"
"Saturday Night Live"
"Real Time with Bill Maher"
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
A complete list can be found on the official Emmy Awards website.


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What will blow our minds in the *next* 30 years?
Predictions are a mug's game. If they come true, you likely didn't push your thinking hard enough. If they don't come true, you risk looking like an idiot. Nonetheless, many speakers at the annual TED conference have taken the plunge and proffered thoughts of what the future might look like. The video above takes a quick spin through just some of them, with thoughts from tech pioneers including Nicholas Negroponte, Rodney Brooks, Jeff Han and Pattie Maes.
Below, we asked many of the attendees and speakers at this year's just-wrapped TED to riff off the conference's theme ("The Next Chapter") and tell us what they think might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the *next* 30 years. From funny and wry to deeply insightful, the answers will surprise you.
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The planet is covered in blue stuff, but as the old saying goes: "water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink." Globally, water needs are outstripping supply, even as potable water is being contaminated, complicating matters even further. Since we need water to survive, it's becoming a critical issue in many regions of the world, from California, where people are struggling with a drought, to Britain, which practically drowned in floods earlier this year.
Ask the average American how much water she uses, and she won't have a very good idea. A recent study took a look at perceptions of water use, looking at how much people estimate they use and comparing it against actual use. The researchers found that people underestimate their water use pretty dramatically. How much? By about 50%, as it turns out. People also have uncertain perceptions of the level of impact caused by various activities, including bathing, washing clothes, cooking, swimming, and more; in other words, despite substantial outreach campaigns from nonprofits and government agencies, many people struggle to understand water use.
Guess what? 70% of your personal water use is accounted for under your own roof, says the EPA, and of that, well…guess which household activity uses up the most water? We try not to talk about it around here, but it's flushing the toilet, which accounts for a whopping 27% of indoor water usage.
The study also shows that people don't understand the best ways to cut down on water use. Many people are under the impression that they need to change their personal habits to do right for the planet, which is definitely a step, but it's not the most efficient way to keep household water usage down. Unfortunately, many groups have promoted the individual action approach, to the exclusion of educating people about the real way to cut down on water use: revamp the plumbing.
Toilets in particular are a real problem, because many older models use significant volumes of water per flush, and they really don't need to. In regions like Europe, many people are using dual flush toilets, which allow you the option of selecting between a small or big flush, depending on the level of need. Furthermore, their toilets use less water either way, cutting down overall on household water use related to flushing the toilet.
Similar efficiency moves are important for washers and dishwashers. It's not just enough to make sure they're never run with partial loads and the right cycle is selected (although this is a good idea). It's also important to upgrade to equipment that will actually use less water, and is designed to operate as efficiently as possible. These are steps that don't involve any changes in your routine, but make a huge difference in your water usage habits.
If you still want a habit to change, though, you're in luck: stop running water and waiting for it to get hot before you wash your hands. Washing with cool water is actually more effective, and far less wasteful. Not only will you save water, you'll also cut your HVAC costs!
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4-21-10 PNC Park (Lightning Strikes Twice)
The day didn't start off on the right foot, as I was a few minutes late to batting practice. Fellow ballhawk Nick Pelescak already had seven balls by the time I entered the stadium. Amazing.
I had some work to do to catch up, as we began the week tied atop the standings of the Ballhawk League (BHL).
As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, Andrew McCutchen and Lastings Milledge have been hitting in the last group of Pirates. So, for the 10-15 minutes that we get to see the Pirates hit, at least there's some right handed semi-power hitters in the group.
I got ball #1 off the bat of Andrew McCutchen. It was a home run that landed in an empty section to my right that I ran over and grabbed.
Soon after, Lastings Milledge hit a ball onto the Rotunda that I ran up the ramp to snag as it slowly rolled down towards me. That would be it for the Pirates portion.
Luckily, the Brewers have been good to me lately. I changed into my Brewers gear.
And then would get started on a nice roll in an empty park.
"I'd better get my glove on," I thought. No less than seconds after I had my glove on my
hand, Duke delivered his second pitch of the game. Weeks hit a slicing fly ball foul, directly at me. I immediately stood up and went into ballhawk mode. I took several steps to my left and made the clean catch on the fly. It was my first foul ball since snagging my first last year on September 23, 2009.
Upon catching the ball I did a fist bump and a little bit of celebration, which must have caught the eye of Tim Neverett and Bob Walk, who commented on the catch. It was also enough to get FSN to cut back to me.
Here's the screen shot of me after catching the Week's foul ball:
And even better: The video
Someone in the Pirates brass must have seen the catch, because moments later I was approached by a Pirates representative with a mic in hand. He introduced himself, congrulated me on my catch, and explained that he would like to invite me to be on the PNC Park game show "Know Your Buccos," at the end of the second inning.
As instructed, I went over in the middle of the second and chatted with Joe Klimchak, who explained the game that I would be participating in. Basically, four 'fun' facts about a Pirate are presented, and the participant must eliminate the false answer.
When we went live, Joe introduced me, telling the crowd about the foul ball I had just snagged, and explained how I could win the fabulous prize (a $65 Pirates sweatshirt.)
I had to figure out which of the following facts were false regarding Ronny Cedeno:
I knew the Vizquel fact was probably true, given they are both Dominican. I also figured that Old School sounded like a type of movie that a man of Cedeno's age would enjoy. I was torn between the First Job and the name of his cat.
I thought it over and just thought, "Who would name their cat Meow?" "Come here Meow… that would just sound stupid." So I eliminated the cat named Meow.
After a few pressure filled seconds, it was revealed that Ronny does not have a cat named Meow, I had eliminated the false answer, and won the $65 jacket.
If you'd like to check out a video of my Know Your Buccos spot, you can check out the youtube link below.
I went back to my seat and watched the rest of the game, glove in hand.
Lightning wouldn't strike twice. Would it?
Well it did.
Andrew McCutchen came up to bat in the fifth inning.
He fouled off a pitch in the same spot as the Week's foul ball. I shot up out of my chair immediately when I saw the angle the ball took off the bat. This time, the ball was dying on me. It didn't quite reach me, as it was about a row and a half ahead of me. I reached down and got it to hit my glove and knocked it into the row directly below me. I would liken the play to a catcher smothering a ball in the dirt. The ball came to a dead stop and I picked up my second foul ball of the day. Amazing.
That's TWO foul balls in one game.
More FSN face time.
Here's some more video proof for you:
Would I go on to catch my thirteenth ball of the night? A third foul ball in the game?
It was certainly empty enough for it to happen, as the Pirates were getting blown out, and the weather had turned cold.
There's probably more fans at high school baseball games, but that's Pittsburgh on week nights for you. Low, low attendance, especially after 10PM, like it was in the picture above.
I would end the night with those two foul balls, a sweatshirt, twelve total balls snagged, and probably the best ballhawking performance of my career.
Here's today's baseballs:
Foul balls are in the lower right corner.
And the sweet spots:
And that sweat shirt:
What a night. What a two game stretch.
Game: 12 balls (10 hit, 1 thrown, 1 device)
Season: 51 balls (34 hit, 7 thrown, 6 device, 4 found)
Games: 8 games
Average: 6.38 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 2
Career: 629 balls
Streak: 104 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 12,192
2009 through 8 games: 31 (Currently I am 20 balls ahead of last year's career high season pace)


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PLEASANTON — Joe Mixon said he was in the zone.
The Freedom High football star ran for 281 yards and seven touchdowns, leading his team to a surprising 55-17 win over host Foothill on Saturday night in the first round of the North Coast Section Division I playoffs.
"I was in a zone, and when I'm in a zone you can't take me out of it," said Mixon, who is 6-foot-2 and 207 pounds with explosive speed and power.
The rout sets up an all-Bay Valley Athletic League quarterfinal matchup, with No. 10-seeded Freedom (6-5) traveling to face No. 2 Pittsburg on Friday.
Fast-improving Freedom has won three in a row since a 34-13 loss to Pittsburg on Oct. 25.
Foothill (8-3), the No. 7 seed, was held 20 points below its average by an aggressive and balanced Freedom defense. Mixon menaced the hosts knocking down passes in the secondary as well, nearly picking off two balls.
The game ended with a running clock after Freedom opened up a 48-10 lead in the third quarter.
"We're peaking at the right time," Freedom coach Kevin Hartwig said. "We played a pretty darn good football team. We got after 'em real quick and got some momentum going, and we kind of rolled with it."
Mixon, coming off a one-week suspension for an unsportsmanlike foul penalty, had a huge first half with 208 yards rushing and five touchdowns, scoring on a devastating 80-yard run with 15 seconds left in the half. He weaved through tacklers for about 20 yards before blowing past everyone, upping the lead to 34-10.
Mixon also scored on runs of 4, 19, 1, 1, 58, and 2 yards.
Hartwig said Mixon had been playing on a sore ankle the past three or four weeks. Plus, the week away appeared to heighten his resolve.
"It's just sitting out last week, I think he realized what he missed," Hartwig said of Mixon. "He had some fresh legs tonight, and he did a pretty good job."
Foothill beat Freedom 32-6 on Sept. 6, when they held Mixon in check. Not this time.
"It was a comeback game for us, and it meant a lot to us," Mixon said.
Freedom also got strong play from emerging quarterback Joe Sweeney, who passed for 163 yards, a week after a polished effort in a win over Liberty.
"It is coming together," Mixon said. "We're one team. You gotta believe. We believe in each other. Everybody needs to come hard, and we got to go to work every week."
Foothill played without two-way standout Matt Luey, who suffered an injury in a 41-14 win over Amador Valley in the teams' East Bay Athletic League finale.
Freedom two-way force Patrick Choudja had a big first half, including a sack of Kyle Kearns on a 4-yard loss and a tackle for a 1-yard loss of Cash Connolly.
Freedom 55, Foothill 17
Freedom 13 21 14 7– 55
Foothill 7 3 7 0– 17
Free — Mixon 4 run (Gonzalez kick)
Foot — Anderson 7 pass from Kearns (Rodriguez kick)
Free — Mixon 19 run (kick failed)
Free — Mixon 1 run (Gonzalez kick)
Free — Mixon 1 run (Gonzalez kick)
Foot — Rodriguez 36 FG
Free — Mixon 80 run (Gonzalez kick)
Free — Mixon 58 run (Gonzalez kick)
Free — Mixon 2 run (Gonzalez kick)
Foot — Langley 29 pass from Kearns (Rodriguez kick)
Free — Rivers 3 run (Gonzalez kick
Rushing: Free — Mixon 22-281, Rivers 13-66, Sweeney 4-5, Thompson 1-16, Johnson 2-4. Totals 45-372. Foot — Gates 4-36, Floyd 4-28, Connolly 6-8, Langley 3-5, Kearns 3-(-8). Totals 20-69. Passing: Free — Sweeney 11-15-0 161. Foot — Kearns 14-27-1 152, Hadley 1-2-1 15. Totals 16-29-2 167. Receiving: Free — Garcia 2-55, Thompson 3-68, Mixon 1-24, Allen 2-15, Sanders 2-5, Rivers 1-(-4). Totals 11-161. Foot — Anderson 6-54, Langley 5-59, Connolly 2-37, Floyd 1-15, Mercado 1-2. Totals 15-167. Fumbles/lost: Freedom — 0/0, Foothill — 1/0. Records: Foothill 8-3, Freedom 6-5.


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A passion for bees
Over there, the drone of an airplane engine; over here, the buzzing of bees. Ingo Fehr, a beekeeper at Hamburg Airport, regularly feels both pain and acute happiness on the job.
He holds his breath. The honeycomb is wedged tight and will not budge. Sweating slightly, he gives the box a shake and the honeycomb slides out. Better not drop it, that could hurt as he well knows. He's had stings on his arms, legs, face and even eye – twenty a year. Bees will chase you for hundreds of meters if they are angry. He holds the honeycomb up to the light. It looks good. After only a week, there's already a thin film of honey visible. The queen is strong, her workers are industrious. Ingo Fehr, beekeeper at Hamburg Airport, says, "Bees inspire fear and respect in many people; I feel only respect for them – I've lost my fear."
Airport beekeeper – it really is a job, and Fehr, 49, has been doing it for 17 years. The airfield is Hamburg's largest continuous green area, larger even than Ohlsdorf cemetery or the city park. You hear Fehr's bees before you see them. Buzzzzz. The sound fills the April air, occasionally interspersed with the drone of an airplane. Fehr's bees live in a meadow on the edge of a patch of woodland, 500 meters from the runway and 200 meters from the weather station. Fehr loves this place. A bird calls from a treetop, sunshine peeps through the branches. It's as though the beekeeper and I are out in the country somewhere.
Fehr raises his beekeeper's veil to sample the honey. Delicious! It tastes – he considers for a moment – very flowery, almost nutty, right? Or is that wild chamomile? What he knows for certain is that this will be a good year. The honey is dark. When the first grasses bloom in late April, that's when the bees emerge from EN the hive. Fehr harvests spring blossom honey around mid-June. The second crop, summer blossom, is ready nearly four weeks later.
But the honey is only part of the story. Bees help to monitor the air quality at the airport. The honey is tested for emissions, chemicals and germs at the Institute for Apiculture in Celle. Bees scour their search area and reflect quite precisely the area's environmental conditions. The honey has always passed the test, says Fehr. Once, the reading for chromium was a little higher than normal, but that was his fault because he had used a chrome spatula to sample the honey. There's nothing wrong with the air at the airport. Monitoring the honey complements the relevant authorities' constant air quality tests and his own on-site assessments.
In a clearing, Fehr sets fire to some egg boxes to start the smoker. The smoke dazes the bees, making them sluggish. Fehr chisels free a new honeycomb, sticky with a thick, golden layer of honey. "The bee is a truly amazing creature," Fehr trills through his veil: hardworking; ideal colony structures; the processes. The hierarchies, with a queen at the top and thousands of helpers at her service. The bees swarm around Fehr's head, buzzing loudly. He loves beekeeping, an occupation he found through love. He and his wife met in first grade and started going out at 16. Her father, a good, honest railway man with an allotment beside the tracks and a hive in the garden, taught Fehr all about bees. Be a beekeeper heart and soul or not at all – that was the lesson he impressed upon his daughter's boyfriend, who took it to heart. At Hamburg Airport, while working on his thesis in 1999, the amateur beekeeper was approached by his head of department and authorized to set up his first colony. "The project was born over a cup of coffee in the hallway," he recalls. "Crazy really, when you see the result." Eight colonies (200 000 bees) in polystyrene boxes weighted down with bricks. Other airports followed suit and today Dortmund, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Munich and Dresden all have their own beekeepers. Even the airfields in Tel Aviv and Malmö have beehives.
Fehr remained loyal to his bees, even commuting from Lübeck to look after them. Since 2014, he has been back in Hamburg on the airport payroll. Fehr's father-in-law is no longer alive, but he was when the project began to take shape, and Fehr regularly organized day passes for him. They would drive over to the hive, and watch the bees and the planes – two men out in the woods and the sunshine, silent and happy.
Whenever Fehr wants to visit his bees, he has to go through security controls. Every eight days, he shows his ID card, walks through the scanner, divests himself of keys and belt, and indulges in a brief chat. Then he climbs into his Opel Zafira and drives along the perimeter road, past the helicopter hangar, the allotments, and the tower, to the bees. "The airport has 160 000 flight movements per year – my bees can do that in a day," grins Fehr. When he dons his beekeeping gear in the morning, it's a pure, gleaming white. By the evening, the veil is yellow with pollen.
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fits in the trunk – a couple of sponges for sealing the flight hole; a hand brush to clear away the honeycombs that have been removed from the hive, the towel for mopping perspiration, and cigarettes for the break. Fehr, a ring in his ear, a queen bee tattoo on his biceps, and sporting an FC St. Pauli belt buckle, is calmness personified, a crucial requirement in this job.
But now he looks up at the briskly moving clouds. The bees don't fly in the rain, and in a thunderstorm they are aggressive. "Then, I think twice before opening the box," says Fehr. Today, the gray sky brightens and he can continue uncovering the honeycombs. "There's practically nothing here, they've been lazy," he murmurs, holding up a half-empty frame.
Fehr trained as a cook and even worked in a kitchen, but that was long ago. Today, Fehr only cooks at home, and the apiarist in him shines through – honey- crust roast, salad with honey-mustard dressing. Fehr is one of those people who has turned their hobby into a job. Watching the queen bee eat her way out of the hive makes him happy, and he is distraught when a colony doesn't survive the winter. Although Fehr spends two thirds of his time at his desk doing office work, the hands-on beekeeping is what he really enjoys.
Apiculture at the airport is often a question of math: A bee makes 40 sorties a day, visits around 4000 flowers. It takes three kilos of nectar to produce one kilo of honey, so the bees have to make 150 000 sorties and fly to roughly 15 million flowers. Last year, he harvested 440 jars of honey, which were given away to partners and customers. Not that Fehr's honey isn't good enough for the supermarket shelf; it is, in theory at least. It certainly satisfies the demands of the German beekeepers' association. A lab sample reveals the wealth of vegetation to be found at the airport: linden flower, sunflower and orchard fruit have shown up in the past. Then there's clover, blackthorn, acacia, sometimes rape, heather, forget-me-not, maple and chestnut, and even Virginia creeper. Although the honey is unique, there's just too little for commercial sale.
It's growing late down by the woods beyond the runway and the sun is fast approaching the horizon. I cannot resist one last question: Does he ever secretly take home a jar or two?
Ingo Fehr smiles slowly, saying nothing at first. Then: "I love a good slice of bread and honey."
Animals at the airport
Sheep graze in places at airports that are too narrow or too steep for a lawnmower. Gullies and embankments are no problem for a hungry herd, either, like in Hamburg or Chicago.
Oregon's Portland Airport rents goats from a company called Goat Power to keep the weeds down. You can rent a llama, too, to protect the herd from coyotes and wolves.
The cool cousins of the sniffer dogs, the Beagle Brigade in the United States, successfully sniff out meat and animal products, detecting 75 000 illegal imports per year.
In Cologne, Micki the Ferret chases wild rabbits out of their holes and into nets so that they don't lure birds of prey.
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By Nicki Goh, KF9 Senegal
Now that I am well into my second month here in Senegal, I thought it was worth sharing a little background on the MFI where I am working.
Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance was set up in 2004 by an American volunteer, John Fay, who was carrying out an economic assessment of the village of Louly Ngogom in Senegal. Following interviews with the villagers, John decided to set up a small micro-loan pilot programme to meet the demand for financial services in otherwise un-served communities. In that first year of 2004, he lent fifteen families just $30 each to purchase peanut seed and received 100% back in repayments. Since then, and with the help of Kiva – whose timely launch in late 2005 saw SEM taken on as Kiva's 4th ever partner – SEM has succeeded in providing financing to groups in nearly 40 villages.
SEM is the microfinance arm of GENSEN, the Global Ecovillage Network here in Senegal. The Global Ecovillage Network's mission, as expressed on its website includes: "contributing to the worldwide transformation toward sustainability, by supporting ecovillages, joining with like-minded partners, and expanding education and demonstration programs in sustainable living." Sustainable living as described by GEN is not only a lifestyle dedicated to the preservation of the natural environment, but also a way of life that protects the society and its traditions in an economically viable way.
As one of these "like-minded partners" SEM's policy is to finance only those clients who are members of a GEN-SEN accredited ecovillage. As such SEM would describe itself as an MFI with a very strong social mission: not only does it operate in rural areas of the country with no other access to financial services, but it is working with a network that encourages sustainable rural development
So what is an ecovillage? And what does being a member of one entail? How does this affect the kinds of business activities that the entrepreneurs can take on with the loan from SEM (and Kiva)? Does this mean that all of the business activities of SEM's clients are wonderfully eco-friendly, accepting of traditional values and socially beneficial in every possible way?
Unfortunately not. Looking through the list of SEM's clients and their business activities, I admit I was a little disappointed at first to find that this was not the case. There are of course excellent innovative exceptions of groups that are trying to protect the environment or to preserve social traditions. There's the group that makes ropes, doormats and placemats from waste plastic in their village in an attempt to clean up the area. There are groups that have invested in other worthwhile causes such as mobile libraries or health clinics to benefit entire communities or departments. But the great majority of the borrower activities tell the story of any other MFI – people operating small businesses to generate household income and to create employment for themselves, and hopefully others too. And so the hundreds of loans for petty commerce, fishing, arts and crafts or farming weren't exactly what I had been expecting and didn't fulfil all 4 of the ecovillage 'sustainability' criteria (that is to say, socially, environmentally, culturally and economically sustainable) at all. What a shame.
However, the more I thought about this, the more I started to feel guilty about judging these loans on their 'sustainability' and their supposed value to the community. Because, actually, who are we in the West to judge any the eco-friendliness of a business in the developing world when we are from societies and countries most responsible for the damage to the natural environment? The lower-risk option for these entrepreneurs is to follow well-known business models rather than to take a chance on something entirely new. And when your priority is putting food on the table or sending the kids to school – isn't that the most important consideration? As a consequence, the most economically viable business may be, in some cases, less environmentally-friendly: the disposal of waste water from cheaper, chemical tie-dyeing products, for instance, is currently not controlled and is, in fact damaging to the environment.
SEM's policy is to help those people who are affiliated to an ecovillage network, whose very existence works to undertake community projects and raise awareness of ways to improve the working way of life. And I think I agree that SEM's policy with respect to the loan programme should not seek to be too prescriptive about the kinds of business that these people should be undertaking and the exact way that they should doing it. The borrowers have the right to make the most sensible decision for their current situation and if that means prioritising financial sustainability above environmental sustainability in the short term then, really, who are we to judge?!
And there are plenty of positives to take from the idea of lending to ecovillage communities. What the villages seem to have in common is a desire to collaborate for positive action and to share ideas for better ways of living. In one village I visited a group of men and women who, thanks to GEN subsidies, have manufactured solar ovens and have started training other people from their village to use them. I have also heard of a mangrove restoration project in another village, which has been undertaken by the ecovillage committee. The subsidy and the collective action have eliminated the risk factor here: people are much more likely to involve themselves in these projects. However, my personal hope is that experience of these larger group projects will in turn encourage other small groups of borrowers to undertake training and, eventually, adopt more sustainable approaches to their own personal business activities as well. As they say here, "ndank ndank" (one step at a time!)
So, it's definitely not all environmental doom and gloom when it comes to SEM's microfinance programme. Quite the opposite: it is certainly a time for hope and change. Alongside their support for the ecovillage network members, the SEM team (supported by two contractors with climate change/ finance backgrounds) are about to launch a pilot project to provide villages with solar panels for electricity provision and energy-efficient, low smoke emission cooking equipment. They hope to offer borrowers these products in the form of a loan and expect that the technology can eventually be incorporated into SEM clients' business activities to increase efficiency, lower cost and reduce the damaging effects on the environment. With any luck this initiative will be rolling out later this year and we will soon start to see impact of cleaner technologies on the village environment and profitability.
For a small MFI, SEM definitely has big ambitions. The ecovillage network provides them with a client base which is extremely open to the need for sustainable development and, which, with the combined support of SEM and GEN, will hopefully be able to make informed decisions about the business activities that they lead in the future.
SEM Senegal now employs just 4 full-time staff members who, between them, cover the microfinance programme and manage the accounts. A team of investors and volunteers in the USA works together with the Dakar-based team to provide additional loan capital throughout the year. SEM issues less than 10 loans through Kiva per month, but is actively looking for more funding to meet an extremely high level of demand for loans throughout the country. To support more loans from SEM, check out their currently fundraising loans or, if you don't manage to find one of their 10 or so loans, join the "Supporters of Senegal" lending team to get an update when the new loans are added./>


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Anthony Drmic scored 22 points to lead Boise State to a 77-72 victory over UNLV on Saturday night.
Derrick Marks added 17 points as the Broncos (15-6, 3-4 Mountain West) led wire-to-wire.
Anthony Bennett scored 25 points and Anthony Marshall added 18 points and matched a career-high with 12 assists for UNLV (17-5, 4-3).
The Rebels trailed 73-64 after a 3-pointer by Marks with 3:34 remaining and scored the next eight points, pulling within one on a 3-pointer by Marshall with 33 seconds left. Marks and Drmic each hit two free throws in the final seven seconds.
UNLV forward Mike Moser was ejected with 4:07 remaining in the first half after receiving a flagrant 2 foul for delivering a forearm to the head of Drmic on a breakaway.
Boise State led 42-35 at halftime and boosted its advantage to 55-43 on Drmic's 3-pointer with 13:18 remaining.


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Portobello Pizzas
May 11, 2013
I love finding recipes that are not only easy and delicious, but good for you! This one does not disappoint. Another bonus is that it's a gluten-free recipe. I made a few tweaks from the original recipe, including:
– Used caramelized onions and fresh basil leaves as toppings
– Subbed turkey pepperoni (you can omit to make it a meatless dish)
– Omitted the black olives, anchovies and sausage
I served these tasty personal pizzas alongside a quinoa salad and roasted asparagus sprinkled with blue cheese.
Quick Tip: Wrap a few garlic cloves in aluminum foil (drizzled with evoo) and roast in the oven alongside the mushroom caps.


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Hi All,
I could use some advice. I noticed today that even though it is late October (unusually warm fall) there were quite a few wasps agressivley trying to enter my hives. I had reduced the entrances a few days ago to about 4 inches but the top covers were left propped open slightly for ventilation. I saw wasps also entering the hives at this top entrance. So, I have reduced the entrances further to about 1 inch and closed the top covers. I saw bees fighting with wasps and dragging them out of the hives. The other thing I noticed today was several dead bees (many are fuzzy babies) and a couple of pupae that were dragged out of one hive. The thing that makes me wonder if these deaths are a result of the wasps is that most were still in one piece when they were removed. Any thoughts? Is this common evidence of wasp damage? I could see no evidence of deformity and the mite levels aren't too bad now (although they were a fee weeks ago).
Thank you


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Reputation, Reputation, Reputation
By Maureen Dowd, November 13, 2012
As Lyndon Johnson said, the two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex.
Macbeth kills a king out of envy. Egged on by an envious Iago, Othello smothers his wife out of a crazed fear of her having sex with his lieutenant.
Now another charismatic general has shattered his life and career over sex. When you've got a name like a Greek hero, and a nickname like a luscious fruit, isn't hubris ripe to follow?
It's been a steep fall for Peaches Petraeus, once the darling of Congress and journalists, Republicans and Democrats, Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley.
Washington is suffused with schadenfreude. Yet President Obama and others felt genuinely sad to see a man so controlling about integrity and image — he warned protégés that "someone is always watching" — spin out of control on integrity and image. As Shakespeare wrote in "Othello": "Reputation, reputation, reputation."
As a West Point cadet, David Petraeus clambered up the social ladder by winning the superintendent's daughter; now he has been brought down by his camp followers clambering up the social ladder.
Even when he was the C.I.A. director, Petraeus's ego was so wrapped up in being a shiny military idol that, according to The Washington Post, he recently surprised guests at a D.C. dinner when he arrived to speak wearing his medals on the lapel of his suit jacket.
His fall started as Sophocles and turned sophomoric, a mind-boggling mélange of "From Here to Eternity," "You've Got Mail," "The Real Housewives of Centcom," and "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." It features toned arms, slinky outfits, a cat fight, titillating e-mails, a military more consumed with sex than violence, a plot with more inconceivable twists than "Homeland," and a Twitter's-delight lexicon: an "embedded" mistress named Broadwell, a biography called "All In," an other-other woman of Middle East ancestry who was a "social liaison" to the military, a shirtless F.B.I. agent crushing on the losing-her-shirt-to-debt Tampa socialite, a pair of generals helping the socialite's twin sister with a custody case, and lawyers and crisis-management experts linked to Monica Lewinsky, John Edwards and the ABC show "Scandal."
"This is The National Enquirer, " an alarmed Senator Dianne Feinstein told Wolf Blitzer of CNN. If only it were that highbrow. Now that erotic activity is entwined with the Internet, rather than closeted in hideaway Capitol offices and Oval Office pantries, it's even more likely to be a trip wire for history.
It is disturbing that an ethically sketchy, politically motivated F.B.I. agent could spark an incendiary federal investigation tunneling into private lives to help a woman he liked and later blow it up to hurt a president he didn't like.
It's also worrisome that the nation's spymaster — who had presided in a military where adultery could result in court-martial — could not have found a more clandestine manner of talking naughty to his biographer babe than a Gmail drop box, a semiprivate file-sharing system used by terrorists, teenagers and authors.
It's understandable that men accustomed to being away from their families and cloistered with other men in Muslim countries where drinking and blowing off steam are frowned upon might get used to cavorting on e-mail.
But Petraeus should have realized that the Chinese and Russians were snooping and sent Paula Broadwell an Enigma e-mail: "I would like your insights into the debate over COIN versus CT in Helmand Province. Our HVT kills are falling a little short of the mark. Let's discuss."
And Broadwell could have sent ones more like: "I've been reading Chapter 3 notes and the Galula theory of counterinsurgency confuses me. Hope you can clarify."
The scandal is a good reminder that, although John McCain and Sarah Palin urge total trust and blank checks for the generals, these guys are human beings working under extremely stressful circumstances, and their judgments are not beyond reproach.
Petraeus's Icarus flight began when he set himself above President Obama.
Accustomed to being a demigod, expert at polishing his own celebrity and swaying public opinion, Petraeus did not accept the new president's desire to head for the nearest exit ramp on Afghanistan in 2009. The general began lobbying for a surge in private sessions with reporters and undercutting the president, who was trying to make a searingly hard call.
Petraeus rolled the younger commander in chief into going ahead with a bound-to-fail surge in Afghanistan, just as, half a century earlier, the C.I.A. had rolled Jack Kennedy into going ahead with the bound-to-fail Bay of Pigs scheme. Both missions defied logic, but the untested presidents put aside their own doubts and instincts, caving to experience.
Once in Afghanistan, Petraeus welcomed prominent conservative hawks from Washington think tanks. As Greg Jaffe wrote in The Washington Post, they were "given permanent office space at his headquarters and access to military aircraft to tour the battlefield. They provided advice to field commanders that sometimes conflicted with orders the commanders were getting from their immediate bosses."
So many more American kids and Afghanistan civilians were killed and maimed in a war that went on too long. That's the real scandal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/dowd-reputation-reputation-reputation.html or http://nyti.ms/SKZwYC


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The Pentagon says it is reviewing an Esquire magazine article on a Navy SEAL's account of his role in the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden to determine whether the account disclosed any classified information.
A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Steve Warren, disclosed the inquiry on Tuesday, saying officials are trying to determine whether the SEAL, whose identity is not revealed in the Esquire article, broke any secrecy rules.
The article was published online Feb. 11.
The account is not the first to portray details of the raid. Former SEAL Matt Bissonette, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen, described the operation in his book, "No Easy Day," published last September. The Pentagon objected to what it called his unwarranted disclosures but has not announced any legal action against him.


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