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While undergrads, these students brainstormed a way to light darkened homes.
As Harvard undergrads, Jessica O. Matthews, Julia Silverman and two classmates created an energy-harvesting soccer ball, one that has the ability to power up to three hours of LED light. Confronting global power issues, their invention–sOccket–enables 25% of the worlds children who don't have access to electricity, to obtain it simply by playing a game they love, soccer.


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Chris Boardman has praised the Liberal Democrats after its leader Nick Clegg pledged to turn Britain into a cycling nation in response to British Cycling's #ChooseCycling network.
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The network asked parties to allocate five per cent of Britain's transport budget to cycling and set a target for cycling to account for 10 per cent of all trips.
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"The Liberal Democrats are the only party to nail their colours to the mast and pledge to implement everything the network is asking for," said Boardman, British Cycling's policy advisor after Clegg confirmed he is 'very keen' to implement the recommendations.
"It's encouraging to hear that Nick Clegg is passionate about Britain becoming a cycling nation to rival our European neighbours.
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"The difference is that he is actually bold enough to put some numbers and targets against this aim with measures that could have a colossal impact on how people get around.
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Posted on November 24, 2010, in Uncategorized and tagged baking, cookies, waffle wednesday, waffles. Bookmark the permalink. 28 Comments.
These are my favorite non chocolate chip cookies. Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookies. Seriously amazing.
And these are the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made. Love these!
guess what?! i hung out with danica and jay today and they brought me annie's cookies! i am so full from our lunch so i haven't dug in yet. i can't wait :) she brought the rainbow sugar cookie one. be jealous. ;) i can't wait to try diana's recipe! looks like they really turned out for you. love the pup nose! hope you have a great rest of the week, love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
doh! forgot to leave my favorite cookies EVER. these are the best, best, BEST and every time i make them everyone agrees. yes, i am tooting my own horn. so?
Nice work on the dough balls! Mistakes and all they look pretty perfect to me! Most importantly, you liked them…hooray! :)
Remember your food trigger post?! These would send me on a bender for sure!! I think I need to just look at pictures of them instead of making them and turning into a dough ball :)
I'm not much of a baker but I do have a favorite cookie http://www.thekitchenwitchblog.com/?p=2804, Leah will confirm that they are divine.
I have planned (in my head) to do some holiday cookie baking, I'll keep you posted (haha get it, "posted"). Sorry bad food blogger humor.
I read your blog while blocking Archie from looking cause I just knew there would be a picture of a cute dog in there and I don't want him getting jealous. The next time you make these cookies cream the sugar and butter together with your wooden spoon. It warms the butter up in no time and provides the proper consistency to add the flour…
I made Kalin's Peanut butter oatmeal cookies day before yesterday: http://goo.gl/EpNiQ. They're all gone. :(
Happy Thanksgiving!
Yum, those look so good- I especially appreciate that you didn't hold back on the chocolate chips!
Your waffles always look so good, one day we will meet have a pyjama party then get up in the morning and have your waffles! My fav cookies:
Yes they are mine but boy are they good! x x
holy waffles & chocolate dough balls. holy moly. i'm drooling!
My grandma's choc chip cookies are my fave cookies ever but she's been gone for 10 years and so those are just a memory…
In terms of what I Can eat NOW…vegan and GF, these are my latest creation
I have been making balls and 2-bite cookies and "raw" dough balls for the blog for a couple years now so it's hard to narrow it down! But for true cookies, the link i dropped are dang tasty!
wow thy look so good,..still to find good recipe,.:-)
Sus here is the Nigerian Sesame Seed Cookie Recipe I've always brought home for Christmas! Called Zakin Ridi:
Cream together:
3/4 cup butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
2.5c. flour
1t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 c. sesame seeds
cover and let chill, preheat oven to 400F. Roll dough 1/8 inch thick, cut into desired shapes (I cut with an old german beer testing cup to make little round shapes) I usually chop red and green marachino cherries into bits and put cherry bits on top for decoration. Bake 8-10 min.
Oh my…..you asked for it…
Cookie Dough Truffles: http://kellycooks.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/cookie-dough-truffles/
Italian Lemon Cookies: http://kellycooks.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/christmas-cookies-italian-cookies/
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies: http://kellycooks.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/christmas-cookies-2008-cut-out-sugar-cookies/ with Royal Icing: http://annies-eats.com/2008/12/23/sugar-cookies-with-royal-icing/
Pittsburgh-Style Rice Krispie Treats: http://kellycooks.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/pittsburgh-style-rice-krispie-treats-butterscotch-chocolate/
Nutmeg logs. I make these every Christmas!
i don't need to know these cookie dough ball recipes exist. i really don't.
These aren't really cookies but close enough! :) I modify the recipe so it's gluten free.
Here is my favourite recipe for ginger snaps, slightly adapted from the Joy of Baking website (http://www.joyofbaking.com/Gingersnaps.html):
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup unsulphured molasses
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
Pinch of black pepper
Red and green sprinkles or raw sugar
In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the molasses, egg, and vanilla extract and beat until incorporated.
In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Add to the butter mixture and mix until well combined.
Cover and chill the batter for about 30 minutes or until firm.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, or lightly grease them.
Place about 1/2 cup sprinkles or raw sugar in a medium sized bowl. When the dough has chilled sufficiently, roll into 1 inch (2.5 cm) balls. Then roll the balls of dough into the sugar, coating them thoroughly.
Place on the baking sheet, spacing about 2 inches (5 cm) apart and, with the bottom of a glass or the palm of your hand, flatten the cookies slightly.
Bake for about 12 – 15 minutes or until the cookies feel dry and firm on top. (The longer the cookies bake, the more crisp they will be.) Cool on a wire rack.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
I was going to do an actual post for these but I went to Leonard Cohen instead. What's a girl to do?
Grandma's Molasses Cookies*
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
5 1/2 cups flour
3 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1 cup sour milk
Cream the shortening and sugar. Beat in the molasses. Mix in about one cup of flour and then all the spices. Alternate milk and flour ending with flour. Chill dough. Roll 1/4 inch thick. Scrap dough can be rerolled about twice before it becomes too tought. Bake at 375 F for 5 to 8 minutes. Remove and allow to cool before icing.
White of one egg
2 tbsp cream
Thicken with icing sugar
*This recipe is over 100 years old (which is why our actual written directions read quite differently); my mom remembers calling them "Grandma's Molasses Cookies" when she was growing up and my grandma used to have a copy written out in German which suggests it was her grandma who wrote it!
Anyway, hands down the best molasses cookies in the world (my brothers agree), and so sorry I was so late actually geting this posted.


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I feel like, of all of Hollywood's Lady Friend Duos, this might be the one I most want to grab a drink with. No offense to, say, J Law and Schumer, who I am sure are a collective hoot, but Sandy and Melissa are both a little older than I am and I feel like I could learn a lot from their collective awesome. Also, Sandra Bullock has Clooney's number in her phone for sure, and that just seems like a plus. (This may also just be a way for me to meet my favorite non-royal celebrity child, Louis Bullock, who I am on record as thinking is possibly the cutest person alive.) ALSO, Melissa brings Shaun White Hoodies and Denim with her. They're just really strong lady friend candidates, is all, and I also think you could text one of them and be like, "What are you wearing?" and they'd be like, "I don't even know."
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A recent article in the Smithsonian Magazine e-newsletter addressed how the pocket watch, and later the wristwatch, were early wearable technology items that led to significant changes in the way we live and work. Wearable technology is once again changing the world.
A recent article in the Smithsonian Magazine e-newsletter addressed how the pocket watch, and later the wristwatch, were early wearable technology items that led to significant changes in the way we live and work. Wearable technology is once again changing the world.
Affordable pocket watches weren't common until the 19th century, but when this technology became widely available, it really changed the world of business.
"Merchants desperately needed to time certain things," says Nigel Thrift, co-author of "Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800." "If you think about all the farms, those goods and crops around London, if they don't get to the city at a certain time, they're spoiled."
Trains could keep regular schedules; people could know when stores or businesses would be open and closed; science and engineering were transformed. Portable watches made it feasible to arrange to meet someone at a predetermined place and time for any reason whatsoever.
It's an accepted fact that the Internet fundamentally changed the world of commerce. Now, the availability of Internet-based information and communication on wearable devices is beginning to spawn the same kind of transformation brought on by the wearable timepiece. As stated in the Smithsonian article: "Much as wristwatch wearers developed a heightened sense of time, we'd develop a heightened sense of 'what's going on' — news of the day, invisible details of our health, the thoughts of a loved one. The watch allowed new feats of time coordination; wearables would increase social coordination."
Just as watches changed business as well as social interaction, today's wearable tech is transforming business, opening new opportunities on many fronts. Smartphones and tablet computers have already brought information — both internal and from the world via the Internet — into the hands of managers on the plant floor, sales reps out in the field, and executives at locations anywhere around the world. All of the information, alerts and analytical data in the company's information system (ERP, CRM, design/engineering systems) is available to anyone, anywhere, any time (with proper authorization, of course), so decision makers no longer have to stay in the plant to stay in touch. Likewise, external information is readily available to plant workers and office staff wherever they happen to be.
"Wearable" implies another level of convenience that extends the above information access to another level. A manufacturing employee wearing a smart device can be automatically punched in when he or she walks through the door. The system can immediately direct the worker to a specific work area where they have been assigned that day. The wearable device tracks their movement to the location, assigns a work order, triggers material delivery, displays the proper work instructions, and starts tracking the work. The employee no longer has to clock in, report activities, do paperwork or look up schedules or documentation/instructions. They can concentrate on the work at hand.
Portable technology is available now and already making a difference. When devices become more wearable — smart watches (usually tied to smartphones) and the emerging head-mounted (think Google Glass) devices — it just makes the information more convenient, and more ubiquitous (always there, always on). Wearable tech also frees up the hands, making the information access more practical while simultaneously performing other tasks.
Technology is once again changing the world. But remember that this has happened before and will likely happen again. Fifty years from now — or maybe just 20 years from now — we might be looking back at these dramatic changes and trying to remember what life was like before embedded technologies made us all a part of the Internet ourselves.
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Catch Me If You Can
A con artist tends to rely on misdirection and style to win over his unwitting marks. But Broadway audiences aren't such easy targets. And despite their best efforts, the artists behind the diverting but undercooked musical version of Catch Me if You Can don't quite pull off the big score.
The surface appearances are right: the moddish '60s set (by David Rockwell), the colorful costumes (by William Ivey Long), and the star-making turn by Aaron Tveit in the role Leonardo DiCaprio made famous in Steven Spielberg's 2002 film. With his boyish good looks, Pepsodent smile, confident stage presence, and sweet singing voice, Tveit seems perfectly suited to playing Frank Abagnale Jr., who drops out of high school to pursue improbable consecutive careers as a check forger, Pan Am pilot, pediatrician, and assistant district attorney. In the Tom Hanks role of the FBI agent pursuing Abagnale, Norbert Leo Butz seems an appropriately schlumpy bureaucrat. Butz, who won a Tony for playing a small-time swindler himself in 2005's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, gets a first-act song-and-dance showstopper, "Don't Break the Rules" — and then mostly recedes into the background.
The show's love interest (the Amy Adams role from the film) is also generally MIA until rather late in the show, though she's occasionally trotted out as foreshadowing in the first act. It's another bit of misdirection, but a smart one because it gives the adorable Kerry Butler a little more stage time. When she finally appears as nurse Brenda, Butler delivers one of the show's most memorable tunes, the lovely ballad "Fly, Fly Away."
Part of the problem with Catch Me If You Can is Terrence McNally's book, which is oddly paced and curiously structured. When Abagnale is arrested by the feds in the opening scene, he takes the opportunity to tell his own story from the beginning in the style of a '60s TV show. Why a TV show and not a Broadway play? I have no idea. Perhaps composer Marc Shaiman is just accustomed to the idiom since '60s TV factored so largely in his Tony-winning hit Hairspray.
Shaiman has also conceived the music as a pastiche of early '60s musical styles, all of them curiously pre-rock. Unfortunately, this makes the score seem even more old-fashioned than some of the musicals genuinely from that era (like the current hit revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). There's even a faux Mitch Miller who pops up for a big-bandish number — sadly, without a singalong chorus or bouncing ball to follow. Aside from a handful of standouts, most of the songs seem generic and a bit, well, square. One number even ends on a Rat Pack parody ("Look out old Frankie is home!"). Somehow I suspect that the real Abagnale, ultimate teenage rebel that he was, would more likely have aspired to be Elvis than Sinatra.
Jerry Mitchell's choreography is also a bit of a grab-bag — a little kick-line here, a little Fosse there — though it's consistently both energetic and spirited. In fact, the entire cast (which also includes Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale Sr.) seems to be working very hard to put over the material. Under the direction of Jack O'Brien, though, Catch Me If You Can moves mostly in fits and starts. The first act ends abruptly, without a big production number, and throwaway songs like "(Our) Family Tree" with Brenda and her parents tend to stop the show in its tracks. In the end, you have a rooting interest in both Frank and his cohorts on stage. You want them to get away with just about anything. But the creators of Catch Me If You Can have rigged the game against them. What should have been a fun lark of a story seems almost stodgy, like your grandmother's idea of a good time. B-
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CHICAGO (CBS) — When it comes to water meters in Chicago, churches are getting by on a wing and a prayer.
As WBBM Newsradio's Felicia Middlebrooks reports, for many years, churches and other non-profits – more than 6,000 of them – have been granted free water service from the city of Chicago.
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Now, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, they're being slowly weaned from dependency with deep discounts in their water bills.
But having to pay a new bill bills isn't the only challenge. The Sun-Times reports the churches are also having to install water meters – a costly and burdensome proposition for struggling churches.
For one example, St. Paul's Church-by-the-Lake, at 7100 N. Ashland Blvd., will have to pay $11,000 to install an underground water meter in its 98-year-old building, the Sun-Times reported.
Churches and other nonprofits have also calculated the bills they will have to pay – an exercise that has resulted in sticker shock.
Back in December, the Chicago Archdiocese said it expected a bill of around $2 million from the city.
Projected numbers were also staggering for some larger Catholic institutions. Misericordia, home to 600 developmentally disabled kids and adults, faces a $500,000 annual water bill. For Holy Name Cathedral, it will be $100,000 a year, CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reported in December.
City Water Management department officials say 400 churches still have no water meters, despite being told to install them so months ago, the newspaper reports.
The decision to end free water service for nonprofits came as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 budget. The bills will be phased in with increases over the course of four years.


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Section 14A was introduced in the Income Tax Act, 1961 by the Finance Act 2001 with retrospective effect from 1st April 1962. The intent of introducing this section was reiteration of the well settled legal principle that when an assessee incurs any expenditure in relation to income which is not liable to tax under the Act, he would ideally not be allowed the benefit of claiming such expenditure. The need for introduction of this section had arisen to negate the decision of Supreme Court in Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation vs. CIT [2000] ITR 450.
Section 14A was amended by the Finance Act 2006 wherein subsection (2) and (3) were introduced stating that the assessing officer shall determine the amount of expenditure incurred in relation to such income which is not liable to tax in accordance with the method as prescribed if the assessing officer is not satisfied with the correctness of claim of the assessee in respect of such expenditure incurred in relation to income which does not form part of taxable income or where the assessee claims that no expenditure has been incurred by him in relation to such income. Hence it is very evident that under the Income tax Act, method of computation of disallowance u/s. 14A was first sought to be provided from 1st April 2007 and not before that. However no such method was prescribed until Rule 8D was introduced in the Income Tax Rules vide Notification No. 45/2008 w.e.f. 24.03.2008.
Hence even after introduction of Section 14A until 24.03.2008, there was no mechanism in the statute to determine the quantum of expenditure that should be subject to disallowance. Arbitrary disallowances were done by the Assessing Officers which were held against the revenue by Various High Court and Tribunal Judgements. However after introduction of Rule 8D in the Income Tax Rules w.e.f. 24.03.2008, Mumbai Tribunal Special Bench in case of ITO Vs. Daga Capital Management Pvt. Ltd [2008] 26 SOT 603 has held that Rule 8D applies retrospectively in respect of pending appeals. Also the assessing officers have been applying Rule 8D in respect of pending assessments prior to A.Y. 2008 – 2009. The moot question is since no method for computing disallowances u/s. 14A was provided prior to 1st April 2007/24th March 2008, whether Rule 8D prescribed on 24th March 2008 can be applied in respect of pending assessments/appeals prior to A.Y. 2008 – 2009?
Rule 8D was introduced in the Income Tax Rules vide notification no. 45 of 2008 dtd. 24th March 2008 (The Income – Tax (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2008. The notification stated that the rules shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official gazette.
– Section 295 of the Income Tax Act gives power to the Board to make rules. Further subsection (4) of section 295 does give the power to the Board to give retrospective effect to any rule, but it also at the same time puts a restriction that no retrospective effect shall be given to any rule if it tends to prejudicially affect the interests of the assessee. In this case, if Rule 8D is applied retrospectively for pending assessments/appeals prior to A.Y. 2008 – 2009, then it might prejudicially affect the interests of the assessee. (mainly on account of third limb of the rule seeking to arbitrarily bring one half percent of the average value of the investment within the purview of Section 14A irrespective of the expenditure incurred against earning income from such investments).
– Bombay High Court in the case of Commissioner of Income Tax Vs. Mirza Ataullaha Baig and another [1993] 202 ITR 291 – BOM, had held that:
"Firstly, it is submitted that the amendment made on July 24, 1980, should be deemed to the retrospective in its operation. We find it difficult to accept this submission because the Income-tax Act itself, while conferring rule making power on the Board, has empowered the Board by making specific provision in section 295(4), to give retrospective effect to any rule. This power is subject to the only restriction that no retrospective effect should be given to any rule so as to prejudicially affect the interest of the assessee. If the Board wanted to make amendment in the rule made by it on July 24, 1980, applicable to the assessment year 1980-81, it could have made the amendments in the rules made by it on July 24, 1980, applicable to the assessment year 1980-81, it could have made the amendment Rules effective from 1st April, 1980, instead of bringing them into force "at once" thoughts from the date of notification which was July 24, 1980. The purpose of bringing the amendment into operation with immediate effect evidently was to make it known to the assessee that for the next assessment year they would be entitled to get depreciation at the rate of 40 per cent and also to enable them to compute their advance tax liability accordingly". Hence this judgement clearly indicated that in case the notification comes into effect with immediate effect or "at once", then the purpose of it is to make it known to the assessee this computation would be adopted by Assessing Officer in case of non satisfaction of the claim in future.
– Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Shri. B C Srinivas Shetty 128 ITR 294 (SC) held that the charging and the computation provision under the 1961 Act constituted an integrated code. Since no method for computing disallowance was provided prior to 1st April, 2007/24th March, 2008 as per the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of B. C. Srinivas Shetty reported in 128 ITR 294 (SC) followed in CIT vs. Infosys Technologies Ltd. 297 ITR 167 (SC) if the computational provisions fail, no liability can be fastened on the assessee.
– Mumbai Tribunal Special Bench in case of ITO Vs. Daga Capital Management Pvt. Ltd [2008] 26 SOT 603, has held that sub section (2) and (3) of section 14A provide for the procedure for disallowance u/s. 14A and hence relying on the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of CIT Vs. Sharwan Kumar Swarup & Others 210 ITR 886, it held that procedural law, generally speaking, is applicable to all pending cases since no person has vested right in the procedure and hence Rule 8D would be applicable to all pending cases.
Let's try to see what was stated in the Hon'ble Supreme Court Judgement in case of CIT Vs. Hon'ble Sharwan Kumar Swarup 210 ITR 886. Supreme Court in case of CIT Vs. Sharwan Kumar Swarup 210 ITR 886 had held that "We may now turn to the scope and content of rule 1BB. We may now turn to the scope and content of rule 1BB. The said rule merely provides a choice amongst well-known and well-settled modes of valuation. Even in the absence of rule 1BB it would not have been objectionable, nor would there be any legal impediment, to adopt the mode of valuation embodied in rule 1BB, namely, the method of capitalisation of income on a number of years' purchase value. The rule was intended to impart uniformity in valuations and to avoid vagaries and disparities resulting from application of different modes of valuation in different cases where the nature of the property is similar."
It further held that "On a consideration of the matter, we are persuaded to the view that rule 1BB is essentially a rule of evidence as to the choice of one of the well-accepted methods of valuation in respect of certain kinds of properties with a view to achieving uniformity in valuation and avoiding disparate valuations resulting from application of different methods of valuation respecting properties of a similar nature and character. The view taken by the High Courts, in our opinion, cannot be said to be erroneous".
However the method prescribed under Rule 8D is surely not the choice of one of the well accepted methods for computing expenditure incurred in relation to the income which does not form a part of total Income. In so far as first and second limbs the rule 8D are concerned, no rational minded assessee should have any qualms with the revenue. However, the real problem is the third limb of rule 8D. It seeks to bring one half percentage of the average value of investment, income from which shall not form a part of total income. Hence by no stretch of imagination, notional expenditure at the rate of 0.5% of the average value of such investments can be deemed as expenditure incurred in relation to tax free income generated from an investment in the context of section 14A. Such an mischievous provision also brings to tax those assesses who have not earned any tax free income from such investments, by artificially deeming one half percentage of such investments as expenditure in relation to tax free income??, when there is no such income as such???..
Based on the abovementioned judicial pronouncements and Rule 8D in its present form, to me it appears that this rule cannot be applied retrospectively at all.. Let's wait for the courts to decide whether Rule 8D can be applied retrospectively.


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D&C Storytellers: The Sound of My Life
Geva Theatre Center - Fielding Stage, Rochester, NY
Music can shape a life.
The Democrat and Chronicle is hosting its third 2017 D&C Storytellers Project night with a collection of true, first-person stories centered on the role music can play in defining who we are and how we express ourselves. Expect a special night of words and impromptu musical performances.
Featured Tellers:
Brenda Tremblay, WXXI classical music host
Hannah Weidner
Trevor Lake, rockabilly
Phil Marshall, guitarist and musical therapist
Angelo Rose, singer/songwriter/producer
Cynthia Benjamin, D&C Community Content Editor, gospel music
Tickets and seating are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If the event is not sold-out, tickets will be available at the door.
Advance purchase/$12
At the door/$15
This event is recommended for ages 18+ years old.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., drinks and refreshments will be available for purchase.
Geva Theatre Center recommends parking in the lot conveniently located across from the theatre to the west, on the corner of St. Mary's Place and Woodbury Boulevard.
Accessibility Note: If you require ASL Interpretation Services for this event please contact Community Engagement Editor Sheila Rayam at (585) 258-2434
For Insiders: All Democrat & Chronicle subscribers will receive a gift at the door.
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Rochester, NY 14609
June 28, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT


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Happy Days ~ Day 24 painting in Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge! My inspiration for this painting came from my friend Penny @happydaysfarm on Instagram. She is such a sweet person and lives on the most beautiful farm. I love her fluffy butt chicken posts and she has an adorable bunny, Sugar. I look forward to Sugars posts each day, too!! I admire this adorable little log cabin on her farm so you can image how excited I was when Penny said I could use her photo for reference in todays painting.
I began with a thin coat of yellow ochre acrylic paint on a 8 x 8 x 1.5 wrapped canvas. Next, I skitched the cabin, for size and location. I began layering on paint with a palette knive giving the 3 dimentional effect and lots of texture drawing you right to the adorable little cabin. This painting is for sale and is listed on my website. http://www.creativeworksoflindaclark.com/images/happy-days Thanks for following my journey! Enjoy your day, See you tomorrow!


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Accuracy In Media's Cliff Kincaid believes that President Obama is doing little to prevent Vladimir Putin from ordering Russian forces to seize more Ukrainian territory, arguing today that the president is "letting Russia carry out a slaughter" as "it's almost as if Obama is a puppet of Putin."
"Obama plays into Putin's hands by refusing to even describe the invasion of Ukraine as an invasion," Kincaid writes, despite the fact that Obama has indeed described the Russian takeover of parts of Ukraine as an "invasion."
In effect, Obama has turned his back on the millions of young men and women in Ukraine who dared to dream of freedom and independence for their country. Obama and his Western allies, including Angela Merkel of Germany, are letting Russia carry out a slaughter.
It is not on our TV screens, in the same way that the Islamic State is beheading Americans, but the lives being lost are just as real. However, the American people are being misled by Russian propaganda masquerading as "news" into thinking that there is some factual dispute over what is really happening there, and that Russia has a legitimate gripe. The impact of this campaign of disinformation and propaganda cannot be ignored.
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Russia originally invaded Ukraine in February, taking Crimea, and now it is seizing Eastern Ukraine. Still, Obama has failed to support the brave people of Ukraine against Russia with the weapons they need for their own self-defense.
The truth is that Putin is winning, lives are being lost, and Obama is doing nothing of substance to stop the Russians. Putin is winning in part as a result of brainwashing not only his own people, but the West. The constant nonsense about Nazis in Ukraine is even having an impact here.
At the same time, Obama plays into Putin's hands by refusing to even describe the invasion of Ukraine as an invasion. Our media go along with the facade, playing into Obama's (and Putin's) hands.
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Shin Megami Tensei and Other Childish Things Session 2
Things have gotten decidedly weird in Athens, Wisconsin. Last session, everyone ended up in the hospital, having come down with a slight case of coma.
The kids found themselves in the reverse world – a strange, purple tinged nightmare version of their town. Creatures made of shadow and anger attacked them, and the kids discovered great hidden depths of power inside of themselves.
The disappearances are continuing, however. The problems in Athens are very much still running loose.
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Director: Christian James
Cast: Dan Palmer, Antonia Bernath, Tamaryn Payne
By Brian M. Sammons
Zomedies (zombie comedies) seem to be the hottest thing going right now, with the UK looking to lead the way in quality flicks about laughing at the undead. First there was the amazing Shaun of the Dead, then the very good Cockneys vs. Zombies, and now, Stalled. Is this latest UK zomedy another winner or just a wiener? Well grab your favorite bathroom reading material and make sure you have plenty of toilet paper, we're about to get Stalled.
Just in case the title of this movie, or that last sentence, didn't give you a clue, the vast majority of this film take place in a single room. In this case, it's the women's restroom. Moreover, most of the time the camera never leaves a single bathroom stall. Now do you get the title? Ha, jokes!
As for the story, it's pretty simple. A maintenance man named W.C. (those in America might not get that reference) is trapped in the ladies' room one night during an office Christmas party that just so happens to take place on the start of the zombie apocalypse. The rest of the move is W.C.'s comedic attempts to escape his confines and the hungry dead. For good measure, there is another, non-dead character for W.C. to play off of, who is largely left unseen and just a voice in the darkness, but is nevertheless an very effective character in her own right.
This is a very narrowly focused zombie movie made on a tiny budget, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Not if the movie is made with skill and charm, as it is here. The plot is tightly focused on W.C. for the most part. Maybe that's because the lead actor was also the writer, so he designed it from the ground up as a showpiece for him. Usually when that's the case, the end result is a self-indulgent snooze-fest. No so here. Writer/actor Dan Palmer easily carries the movie on his shoulders, pulling off what is essentially a one man show, and never once does it become a tedious chore to sit through. He is also laugh out loud funny with great comedic timing, something that a lot of comedies seem to forget.
Now this movie is only available on DVD on this side of the Atlantic from Phase 4 Films, but don't let that stop you from getting it, all you Blu-ray snobs out there. The movie looks very good and it comes with an impressive collection of extras to sweeten the deal. There are two audio commentaries on this disc, one with director Christian James, writer/star Dan Palmer, and actor Rick Edwards and the other with producers Dan Pickering and Richard Kerrigan. There is a behind the scenes feature that runs 55 minutes that had a lot of on set and raw footage, and two scenes to story board comparisons. This means this humble little DVD has more extras and goodies on it then many larger Blu-ray discs. Way to go, Stalled.
Stalled is a fine, fun, and funny film made with tons of style and charm. If you're sick and tired of the overuse of zombies these days, well I really can't blame you there, but there are still gems of entertainment to be had from cavorting corpses if you look hard enough. This movie is one such jewel. Consider it highly recommended.


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A small seed for the future of mentally and physically disabled children
Our colleagues from Polymer Chemicals in Tianjin are always looking for good opportunities to serve the local community and society. The employees were invited to express their preferences for 2009 and the main interest was to support the young generation, particularly children in difficult and adverse circumstances, who are often discarded by society.
The Tianjin Disabled Community was consulted and they pointed our colleagues at The Intelligence Challenged School of Hongqiao District. A visit was paid to the school and after talking to the teachers and meeting the mentally and physically disabled children they had made their choice and requested support from the Community Program.
The selected school was established for intelligence challenged children, and has been providing diverse training classes. There are 114 children, ranging from 7 to 22 years old attending the school. The teachers are not only teaching general courses, but also help the children to energetically overcome their physical and mental defects through a recovering exercise system.
For some older youngsters who graduated from school, but still have not succeeded to earn a living, vocational training is provided by teaching them China-carving as well as helping them to get orders from enterprises and society.
After several visits to the school, the Polymer Chemicals employees concluded that the children are being taken very good care of. However, they found out that the school facilities are quite old and lagged behind current study needs for disabled children. Advanced equipment was needed to stimulate their sensory perception in order to reinforce their understanding and open up their minds. With the funds from the Community Program, an LCD screen was bought as well as an electronic white board, a beamer and a multi media control platform which were installed with the help of 50 volunteering employees.
At the occasion of the International Children's Day the volunteers were invited to attend a ceremony where the children made a performance for them. 'We were shocked and deeply impressed by those lovely and studious children', said Logistics Director Feng Zhongdon. 'The performances were so wonderful. We could imagine that they must have paid tremendous effort to finish such a performance, which is even not an easy task for normal children. I even got tears in my eyes when I saw them doing their best to finish the performances'.
The volunteers are convinced of the important effect these children have on others which was underlined by Ms You Yang, a technical engineer: 'In the past, I often felt annoyed with my kid when she was making a mistake or did not follow my instruction. But after participating in this activity, after getting to know these children, I realize that those mistakes should not be regarded as big problems and it should not cause me to be angry any more.'
Mr. Li Shijie participated in one of the performances with the children. When he saw that some children were nervous before the performance started, he gave them a hug and encouraged them by tapping on their shoulders. It clearly helped them feel more self-confident. His example was afterwards followed by the volunteers when they helped the children do recovering exercises and when they took them out of school to visit museums, parks, etc.
The volunteers regard their support as a small seed for a better future for the children. They sincerely hope that other people will be made aware that there exists a group of children in need of care and that it is so important to treat them the same way as their own children.


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Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Hyperion)
The pianist Emanuel Ax remarked the other day that performance quality has risen so high in his lifetime that you hardly ever encounter a sub-standard orchestra. On the evidence of this release Bergen in Norway, the rainiest city on earth, boasts a Philharmonic that could be mistaken on a dull day for one in Berlin. Playing Berlioz, grand master of the art of orchestration, Bergen come through with maximum points in all departments and a deep coherence across the spectrum. My only quibble is why the local engineers record the orchestra at a level so low that I had to adjust the volume twice upwards.
The major satisfaction here is Lawrence Power's viola interaction with the Norwegians on a meander through sun-kissed, brigand-ridden Italian terrain. Power belies his name in holding back his full blast for dramatic peaks, and all the more effective for that. Andrew Manze dances through the score with the lightest of batons at a tempo two and a half minutes faster than Toscanini's, which is going some. I boiled an egg in the time saved.
The bonuses are real treasures – Plaisir d'amour in Berlioz's orchestration (who knew?) and a Berlioz-tweaked version of Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Dance. There is no better road test of an orchestra than unfamiliar Berlioz. Bergen skip through these morsels without getting their toes wet.
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The Perfect Tabbouleh
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Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad typically made of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice. I made this tabbouleh to go with my freshly baked pitas! The Perfect Tabbouleh vegetarian, vegan, soy-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, tree nut-free, seed-free, sugar-free, shellfish-oil, fish-free, bean & legume-free Ingredients: 1 cup bulgar...


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At the beginning of every month, as part of the Insecure Writer's Support Group, I take a look at my successes (not just in writing), share the ways I hope to improve in the next month, answer the IWSG question of the month, and provide inspiration (if I have any).
March Goals (Because I didn't have April Goals)–
✓ Read a book.
✓ Finish planning D.C.
✗ Reserve a rental car for Boston. (In-laws did it.)
✓- Blog ahead and get prepared for the April A-Z blogging challenge! (My last post for the challenge was completed the day before it went live. Staying ahead just barely happened…)
Additional Successes –
✓ Politics! Participated in the Tax March, and the Science March, and sent faxes to my representatives.
✓ Hosted Easter on a budget.
✓ Continued working on my 101 in 1001 List. (26 tasks currently completed.)
✓ DuoLingo! I'm now at 12% fluent in German. (Whatever that means.)
✓ Blog follower and twitter numbers are up!
✓ I have tickets to see Trevor Noah (from The Daily Show) in October! :)
✓ Got to explore more of Boston than I've ever seen before – Chinatown, Little Italy, and the Freedom Trail!
✓ Spent time with family – birthday dinners, Easter, and seeing family we never get to see.
✓ Completed April A-Z! Meaning: I edited over 2,000 images, put together more than 20 long form blog posts, shared 4 video files (out of many), crafted my first gif images, and commented on over 200 blog posts (not including comments in response to my readers).
✓ Budget cuts. We've been slashing our grocery and restaurant budget. While we aren't doing amazing, we are definitely doing better. And that deserves celebrating. (It's the little accomplishments sometimes.)
✓ Set up a Bullet Journal to help me with blogging.
May Goals –
• read 2 books. (I'm so behind on this yearly goal!)
• put together my resumé and look for jobs.
• Continue to stay involved in politics.
• Also, keep working on my 101 in 1001 list.
• Stay positive. :)
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I can't think of anything. I research a lot of different things for different reasons, but it all depends on who you are as to whether or not you think it's "cool".
In college, I spent a lot of time researching how art in books plays into a child's learning. I was considering going into art education. I have to say that was one of the most difficult topics I have ever researched. There just isn't a lot of information available.
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In a blog post from 2013, I wrote about some ways to secure your website. A lot has changed in the last 3 years, and today, having a secure website with a SSL connection should be standard. In this blog post, I briefly explain what SSL is and why every website owner should have a SSL security certificate.
What is SSL?
Simply put, SSL ("Secure Sockets Layer") is a method of encryption that lets a website visitor use that website securely, making it much more difficult for attackers to view information that the visitor sends to the website (such as a password or a credit card number).
You can think of the connection between your web browser and a particular website as a real-time "mailman." The mailman sends letters (data) back and forth between the sender and receiver. When a website doesn't have a SSL security certificate, the equivalent would be someone writing a postcard and putting it into the mail. Anyone who handles that postcard between the sender and the receiver can easily read what is written on the postcard.
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SSL is good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). As early as 2014, Google has said that, as security is a top priority for them, they would use HTTPS as a "ranking signal" meaning that, for all else equals, a website that has a SSL security certificate would rank higher in Google search results than a website without such a security certificate.
Google Will Mark Websites That Don't Have SSL as Not Secure
Beginning next month (January 2017), Google announced that their Chrome web browser will explicitly mark websites that don't have a SSL security certificate as "Not Secure" for pages that accept passwords or credit card numbers (in the future, Google will mark all websites without a SSL security certificate as "Not Secure", regardless of whether or not personal information is transferred to said website).
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"Do you wish to fix your own home problems? Perhaps you want to save a few bucks or you simply want..."
Do you wish to fix your own home problems? Perhaps you want to save a few bucks, or you simply want to retain full control of the work done in your house. Regardless, the following advice will help you.
Use fans in your home during the summer months in order to be more energy efficient. Circulating the air around the room will make it feel cooler. This saves you money on air conditioning, too.
If a lock needs replacing, then you can either replace the entire lock, or simply replace the cylinder. The lock's cylinder is the locking mechanism in your lock. Just replace the cylinder if your only goal is to make sure your old, lost key won't work in the door anymore. If, however, you are wanting to RoughRack.com improve your home's security or change the look, you will need to replace the whole locking unit.
It is quite simple to build your own replacement window screen. You can cut a frame kit to any size of window. After that, it is a simple matter of screen attachment with cording and a cheap tool. There are some windows that will need to have a special screen, though you can always add external screens using adapters that are easy to install.
It is important to develop a plan before beginning any home improvement project. It is impossible to be cost and time efficient on home improvement projects without adequate planning, and disaster will probably be the result. Planning ahead will help the work go faster and will keep last minute costs to a minimum.
Don't decide on any major home renovations without taking a look at homes in brand new subdivisions. Styles and colors that appeal to you will be used, and give a better sense of how they look in application. By far, a better option than just the hardware store. Lots of model homes hire professional decorators to completely furnish them so they are a great place to get good ideas.
Use baby food jars for organizing your office. Screw lids onto the bottom of your cabinets or a shelf. You should place some items in the jars, including screws, nails or other small supplies you might need for your hobby. Attach the jars back to the lids so they hold in place. This saves you a ton of counter space.
Do you want to make your rooms more tranquil? Choose light colors like light green or light purple. Use cottons and linens instead of dark brocades and heavy patterns. A scented candle or potpourri on a table in your living room will provide a sense of tranquility.
Put in motion detectors around the front door of your residence. By turning the light on only when it is needed, they will save you money on your electricity bill. You can take your home's safety up a notch by installing motion detectors that cause lights to turn on when a thief is present.
Complete repairs as soon as the problem is noticed. Much of the damage that occurs to your home is the sort that you can live with and soon forget. You do not want to do this. The various parts of your house are interconnected and damage has the potential to spread very quickly. Before you know it, your little problem has snowballed out of control.
Depending on your goals, you can take the suggestions in this article and use them to do necessary repair work, give a room a whole new look, or even make major renovations to your home. The best home can be yours, you just have to get to work.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Telco Transformation - Part 7
Multi-Tenant Architectures
Trust, or rather the lack of it, is the biggest inhibitor of the adoption of cloud-based services. The fear that others can access, view or abuse our personal or business data continues to be a concern. Even as more and more services and applications move to the cloud. We just can't seem to shake the feeling, that no one will protect our data as we would. And perhaps there is a reason, after all the number of hacks and inroads into our personal data grow on a daily basis. And yet cloud applications provide customers with centralized, network‐based access to data with less overhead than is possible with a local application.One of the biggest priorities for a prospective cloud architect is creating a SaaS data architecture that is both robust and secure enough to satisfy stakeholders, while also being efficient and cost‐effective to administer and maintain. With regards to security, a number of factors must be taken into consideration when choosing or designing SaaS data architecture. For example, data architecture requires an optimal degree of isolation for security concerns.
Experienced data architects are used to considering a broad spectrum of choices when designing an architecture to meet a specific set of challenges, and cloud apps is certainly no exception. But what cloud architecture to choose for our specific security needs, and the benefits of each, is sometimes difficult to decide. In this blog I will look at the different architectural options, and the pros and cons of each. An in my next blog, we can discuss how to choose the multi-tenant approach that is right for you.
Option 1: Separate Databases
Storing tenant (user/company) data in separate databases is the simplest approach for data isolation. Compute resources and application code are generally shared between all of the tenants, but each tenant has its own set of data that remains logically isolated from data that belongs to all other tenants. Metadata associates each database with the correct tenant, and database security prevents any tenant from accidentally or maliciously accessing other tenants' data.
Giving each tenant his own database makes it easy to extend the application's data model to meet tenants' individual needs, and restoring a tenant's data from backups in the event of a failure is a relatively simple procedure. Unfortunately, this approach tends to lead to higher costs of maintenance and backup. Hardware costs are also higher than they are under alternative approaches, as the number of tenants that can be housed on a given database server is limited by the number of databases that the server can support.
Separating tenant data into individual databases is the "premium" approach (like AWS reserved instances), and the relatively high hardware and maintenance requirements and costs make it appropriate for customers that are willing to pay extra for added security and customizability. For example, customers in fields such as finance, medicine or even government records.
Option 2: Shared Database, Separate Schemas
Another approach involves housing multiple tenants in the same database, with each tenant having its own set of tables that are grouped into a schema created specifically for the tenant. These are usually developed when the customer first subscribes to the service by the provisioning subsystem creating a discrete set of tables for the tenant and associating them with the tenant's own schema.
After the schema is created, it is set as the default schema for the tenant account. A tenant account can access tables within its default schema by specifying the table name, instead of using the SchemaName.TableName convention. This way, a single set of SQL statements can be created for all tenants, which each tenant can access his own data.
Like the isolated approach, the separate‐schema approach is relatively easy to implement, and tenants can extend the data model as easily as with the separate‐database approach. This approach offers a moderate degree of logical data isolation for security‐conscious tenants, though not as much as a completely isolated system would, and can support a larger number of tenants per database server.
A significant drawback of the separate‐schema approach is that tenant data is harder to restore in the event of a failure. If each tenant has its own database, restoring a single tenant's data means simply restoring the database from the most recent backup. With a separate‐schema application, restoring the entire database would mean overwriting the data of every tenant on the same database with backup data, regardless of whether each one has experienced any loss or not. Therefore, to restore a single customer's data, the database administrator may have to restore the database to a temporary server, and then import the customer's tables into the production server—a complicated and potentially time‐ consuming task.
The separate schema approach is appropriate for applications that use a relatively small number of database tables, in the order of ~ 100 tables per tenant or less. This approach can typically accommodate more tenants per server than the separate‐database approach can, so you can offer the application at a lower cost, as long as your customers will accept having their data co‐located with that of other tenants.
Option 3: Shared Database, Shared Schema
A third approach involves using the same database and the same set of tables to host data from multiple tenants. A given table can include records from multiple tenants stored in any order; a Tenant ID is then associated with every record. Of the three approaches explained here, the shared schema approach has the lowest hardware and backup costs, because it allows you to serve the largest number of tenants per database server.
However, because multiple tenants share the same database tables, this approach may require additional development efforts to increase security, and to ensure that tenants can never access each other's data, even in the event of unexpected bugs or attacks. The procedure for restoring data for a tenant is similar to that for the shared‐schema approach, with the additional complication that individual rows in the production database must be deleted and then reinserted from the temporary database. If there are a very large number of rows in the affected tables, this can cause performance to suffer noticeably for all tenants served.
The shared‐schema approach is appropriate when it is important that the application be capable of serving a large number of tenants with a small number of servers, and prospective customers are willing to surrender data isolation in exchange for the lower costs that this approach makes possible.
So to summarize the options:
In my next blog I will discuss choosing an approach that is right for you.
Topics: containers, Telco Transformation, VMs, Cloud Design, Multi-Tenant


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Have you ever wondered why more and more people are looking into beekeeping? As our environment changes, our local wildlife becomes increasingly at risk of becoming endangered-or even worse-extinct. Many larger animals become the focus of wildlife campaigns when their numbers become low, mainly because they are hard to encounter in the first place, and also because of their sheer size. While losing any species is a tragic event that needs to be prevented at all cost, it is the smaller insects that could affect our entire ecosystem if their numbers dwindle too low. The importance of bees, for instance, relates to their crucial role in pollination.
A study from the BBC states that bees pollinate around 70 of 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world, and that honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops. Even more upsetting, if we lose the plants that bees pollinate, then we lose all the animals that eat those plants, and so on up the food chain. It would be a chain reaction that would be catastrophic.
Fortunately, there is something we can do about it, even on a local level in your own backyard! Due to reports of a declining population in the United States, beekeeping has been gaining interest in communities all across the country. Here are a few tips that might help you if you are interested in lending a hand to our busy little friends.
Well Planned Beekeeping Location
beekeeping location
Before you start your beekeeping journey, you need to be sure you have a proper place to start your colony. If you have one, a backyard is an ideal location, especially since beehives do not really need much space. The physical dimensions of a beehive are small, and the primary space-related issue is a suitable flight path for your bees. Some neighbors worry about the presence of bees in their vicinity, especially if anyone in their family is allergic.
One thing you can do to ensure your location is ideal for all parties is to have a fence. A six-foot-high fence or shrubbery can serve several purposes:
The rise of urban beekeeping is proof that beekeeping does not require a huge amount of space to be successful. With a little planning, mainly about how your bees get from and back to the hive entrance, the space requirements are not an issue for most beekeepers.
Education And Community
Another positive aspect of a rising urban beekeeping community is that everyone has more opportunity to share knowledge. The Internet is a fantastic source of information if you live in an isolated area, but much of what you learn as a beekeeper is generic and common across all beekeepers, the more valuable and essential information involves your direct surroundings. This is where a community of experienced beekeepers comes in handy.
For example, a local community can help you understand how a hive typically ebbs-and-flows throughout the year, what the local weather patterns are like, what flowers bloom and for how long, where you can find local supplies, zoning and overall legal restrictions, pest and pesticide issues, and swarm capture services.
There is also no substitute for putting in time and hard work. Being around expert beekeepers that have truly come to understand and appreciate your surrounding environment can provide you with an immense advantage if you are just getting started. As the environment changes, you will realize that beekeeping is a never-ending quest for knowledge, and it is helpful to have a community of people that can help and understand what you are undertaking.
A common misconception about beekeeping is that it does not take much time to maintain a hive. Unlike watering plants or tending to a garden, beekeeping involves an intense amount of care for a living, breathing home. Once your location is scouted out, and your hive is created, plan on checking in with your bees at least once a week.
You can expect these weekly check-ups to last about one hour per hive. We will dive into the equipment and clothing aspects later, but during weekly hive inspections, beekeepers check for healthy egg production, pest contamination, and small burrowing animals. Beetles, moths, mites, and fungus are the most dangerous predators since they sneak into a hive when beekeepers are not looking. Laying eggs or feeding off larvae, these various bee-killers can wipe out a colony, and ways to battle them are varied and plentiful. This is where a community of local beekeepers really comes in handy.
A Hive
A hive is the focal point for everything your bees need. With frequent visits, maintenance, and upkeep, you will soon feel like the hive is your home as much as it is theirs. There are many types of beehives used by beekeepers today, but the vast majority of them use one (or a mix) of three types of hives:
The Langstroth:
This hive can be identified by vertically hung frames, a bottom board entrance for the bees, boxes containing frames for brood and honey, the lowest box of the hive for the queen to lay eggs, and boxes above where honey may be stored. There is also an inner cover and top cap to provide weather protection.
The Warre:
This hive is typically characterized by a vertical top bar that is simple to build and easy to use. The cost is about one-third to one-fourth the cost of one standard ten frame Langstroth hive, and it is friendly to the bees since they can draw out their own comb.
The Top Bar:
top bar
A top-bar hive is a single-story frameless beehive in which the comb hangs from removable bars. The bars form a continuous roof over the comb, whereas the frames in most current hives allow space for bees to move up or down between boxes.
Take your time and do your research on each hive type to make sure your beehive fits your yard and is most comfortable for you and your bees.
A Smoker
Another crucial piece of equipment needed for beekeeping is a smoker. Bees need to be tamed before moving homes, hive inspections, and frame removal for honey extraction. To do so, most beekeepers use a small smoker: a small can with bellows attached where newspaper, dried leaves, and twigs ignite and get puffed into the hive. Smokers serve two purposes:
- 1Firstly, the smoke masks the pheromones that bees use to communicate with one another, specifically the "Alarm Pheromone" (think back to all the bee stings you may have had). A honey bee will emit an alarm pheromone when it is startled or injured. Any bees in the area that smell that pheromone will become more aggressive and will emit their own alarm pheromone. Within a few minutes, they can organize the whole colony against you. Having smoke handy to mask the scent ensures that even if you kill a bee or two, you will not have an army of bees coming after you.
- 2Secondly, the smoker simulates a forest fire, activating a kind of bee "fire drill". The honeybee fire safety protocol is to go into the hive and eat up lots of honey. This distracts the bees, and the large meal makes them much less motivated to inspect their surroundings.
Bee stings are, by far, the worst part of the job. While it might be difficult to avoid a bee sting outside of beekeeping, giving the right equipment, it can be very easy to avoid an accidental sting when you are tending to your colony. There are many suits for beekeepers out there, so here are a few things you can look for to help you on your search.
Hopefully, this short list helps you on your journey into beekeeping. While this guide might seem comprehensive, it is very important to check with your local community so you can see this advice in practice and get a full understanding of what it means to run a fully functioning colony. Good luck on your journey!


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SITE 2009--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
Mar 02, 2009
Ian Gibson; Roberta Weber; Karen McFerrin; Roger Carlsen; Dee Anna Willis
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 769
Analyzing Peer Feedback in a Technology-facilitated Peer Assessment
Lan Li, Bowling Green State University, United States; Xiongyi Liu, Cleveland State University, United States; Allen Steckelberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Abstract: The potential of formative peer assessment in fostering student learning is evident, but its increasing popularity in education raises questions about students' ability to conduct... More
pp. 98-105
Cultivating a Supportive ePortfolio Environment for Prospective Teachers' Reflections
Katrina Liu & Ken Zeichner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
In this paper we use activity theory as a framework to study student teachers professional development through their reflections on their ePortfolios. Activity theory seeks to understand human... More
pp. 106-110
Online Program Advisory and Assessment: Strategies and Tips
Leping Liu & Livia D'Andrea, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
To help our teacher education students complete their Master's degree programs (with emphases on Information Technology in Education, and on Educational Psychology) entirely online, we have... More
pp. 111-116
Pre-class Online Quizzing and Pedagogical Change in an Entry Level Course in Early Childhood Teacher Education
Hsiu-Lien Lu, Georgia Southern University, United States
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of pre-class online quizzing vs. traditional quizzing, to explore preservice teachers' perceptions of using the types of... More
pp. 117-122
Leaving our Silos: Collaborative Design of an Introductory Technology Course
Nancy Luke & Richard Horah, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States
This paper describes a collaborative design of a required Technology for Teachers course in which the approach to development and implementation by the collaborative team mirrored the tenets of the... More
pp. 123-125
Efolio Technologies for Digital Students
Florence Martin, University of North Carolina - Wilmington, United States; Michele Parker, Angelia Reid-Griffin, Allred Beth & Abdou Ndoye, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States
An efolio is a web-based information management system where the student builds and maintains a digital repository of artifacts, which they can use to demonstrate competence and reflect on their... More
pp. 126-129
Authentic Assessment in a Virtual World
Marge Maxwell, Nedra Atwell & Robert Smith, Western Kentucky University, United States
Assurance that learning is authentic and not assessment driven is critical; many critics say that we have far too much assessment and too many decisions are based on high stakes testing. As we... More
pp. 130-131
The Effective Implementation of Electronic Portfolios in a Computers in Education Graduate Course: Student Voices
Jeton McClinton, Jackson State University, United States
This quantitative study will investigate the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic portfolio in a Computers in Education graduate course by examining the perception of students... More
pp. 132-136
Teaching program assessment modeling and analysis to teacher educators
Susan McKelvey, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States; Matthew Stuve, Ball State University, United States
In this roundtable, we will use an integrated assessment system to demonstrate performance-based assessment solutions for teacher education programs. This will include creating standards-based,... More
pp. 137-138
Technological Scaffolding for the Assessment of Teaching Dispositions
Eunice Merideth & Eric Johnson, Drake University School of Education, United States
Abstract: This paper presents a variety of technological means that can provide scaffolding support that both teacher education programs and their candidates can use to cultivate and document... More
pp. 139-153
The Development of an Educational Program and Teaching Material in collaboration with Schools and Regional Educational Institutions
Wakio Oyanagi, Hidefumi Matsui & Akeshi Yoshida, Nara University of Education, Japan
This research aims to establish a program that develops the planning and coordinating competence in pre-service and in-service teachers, who are faced with finding a solution to school problems, in... More
pp. 154-161
INSERVICE TEACHERS and E-PORTFOLIOS
Albert Ritzhaupt, Abdou Ndoye & Michele Parker, UNC Wilmington, United States
A holistic view of ePortfolios as a system shows different stakeholders. Within the environment exists teacher preparation programs as a subsystem that is composed of administration, faculty,... More
pp. 162-167
Using MP3 Devices for Teacher Candidate Feedback
Doug Rogers & Barbara Purdum-Cassidy, Baylor University, United States
Teacher education faculty members invest countless hours providing feedback on the work of teacher candidates: lesson plans, classroom performance, candidate reflections, etc. Faculty and... More
pp. 168-171
The Impact of a Web-Based Portfolio System on a New Faculty Member
Tina Scholtes & Terry Jayroe, Mississippi State University, United States
During this roundtable session, the presenter will discuss how using an electronic portfolio system enhanced her learning curve during her first year as a new faculty member. As a beginning faculty... More
pp. 172-174
The Higher Education Technology Assessment Scale (HETAS)
Eric Seneca, Jeffrey Oscher & Robert Hancock, Southeastern Louisiana University, United States
This presentation will introduce the participants to the Higher Education Technology Assessment Scale (HETAS). The HETAS has been developed based upon the foundational K-12 work of the CEO Forum... More
p. 175
Knowledge Transference: From skill to innovation - What our student e-portfolios tell us
Colleen Sexton, Michael Gordon & Pamela Guimond, Governors State University, United States
The focus of this research is knowledge transference from an introduction to educational technology course to methods courses. Early theories on knowledge transference suggested that exposure is a ... More
pp. 176-183
Reflective Blogs as a Tool for Assessment of Student Learning
Cynthia Shabb, Pauline Stonehouse, Kathy Smart & Bonni Gourneau, University of North Dakota, United States
Graduate students were asked to create reflective blogs and podcasts in four different courses in a College of Education and Human Development as part of a qualitative study of electronic learning ... More
pp. 184-189
Education Websites: The Time Saving, Money Saving, and Environmental Saving Solution to Education
Corey Shay, Donna Cellante, George Semich & Lisa Palmieri, Robert Morris University, United States
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present an argument as to why school districts should consider eliminating paper tests and pay for school accounts on education wesites such as Quia and ... More
pp. 190-197
A Pilot Project on Professional Development for Inservice Teachers at A Graduate School Through Lesson Study on Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Collaboration with Content Area Professors and Methods Course Professors
Nozomi Shimada, Mitsunori Yatsuka & Yoshinori Higashibara, Shinshu University, Japan
College of Education at Shinshu University is one of the grantees of "Support Program for Improving Graduate School Education" funded by Japan's MEXT and JSPS. Our project facilitates inservice... More
pp. 198-202
A model for deploying and integrating program assessment systems in teacher education
Matthew Stuve, Ball State University, United States; Susan McKelvey & Jennifer Maginnis, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Institutionally motivated by the data-driven requirements of accreditation organizations, assessment has become a shaping force of instructional change in universities and professional programs.... More
pp. 203-205


text: Tangosite is offline until January 2, 2015 I am converting all the content from the old system based on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino to a bespoke mySQL/PHP application. The concertina section will be the first to go back online. It contains thousands of music scores suitable for common folk instruments but mainly arranged for one or more concertinas. The main site, tangosite.com, contained very outdated information and will be replaced with a completely new site, dedicated to and in memory of Alfredo Marcucci. I'll post all news on the development here. The new Concertina Music section is now up and running. Some parts are still missing or not working correctly. They will be fixed eventually... Michel, 13/12/2014 Links Concertina Music De Leuvense Folkbrigade (sheet music) De Leuvense Folkbrigade on Facebook Both linked places are in Dutch.