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Five Brookfield East athletes sign letters of intent
Two football players, two tracksters, one kicker sign with Midwestern schools
Nine Brookfield athletes - including five from Brookfield East - signed letters of intent with five different colleges Feb. 6, the official signing day.
Here is a closer look at each one and their accomplishments.
Trenton Daniels was a four-year letter winner in track and field and a key contributor to East's 2011 and 2012 state track and field championships. He signed his national letter of intent to compete at the University of Minnesota.
Daniels placed fifth in 2011 and fourth in 2012 in the 400-meter dash at the state meet. He also was a state place-winner in both the 1600 and 3200 relays at the 2012 state meet. Daniels ran a personal-best time last year of 1 minute, 53.59 seconds in the 800.
Alec James, a talented defensive end, signed his National Letter of Intent to play football at Wisconsin. James is one of the most decorated athletes in Brookfield East history and helped football to its greatest three-year run of success ever, including an undefeated Conference Championship last fall.
Some of his awards include being All-Conference, All-Region, All-Suburban and All-Waukesha County. He was the Greater Metro Conference Defensive Lineman of the Year twice; Player of the Year for the Journal Sentinel, Waukesha Freeman and Now Community Newspapers; All State two years in a row and was selected the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association State Defensive Player of the Year.
James was also elected MVP and Captain by his teammates, played in the U.S. Marine National All Star Game in Los Angeles and will play in the WFCA All Star Game this summer.
Brad Johnson was a four-year letter winner and key contributor to 2011 and 2012 state championship track and field teams. Johnson signed a national letter of intent to compete in track and field at the University of Minnesota.
Johnson is the reigning state champion in the 800 run and was also a state place winner last year in both the 1600 and 3200 relays. His time of 1:51.43 in the 800 currently stands as the fourth best all-time in Wisconsin history.
Brian Smith will be attending the University of Minnesota to play football after an outstanding career, playing an integral part of an undefeated Conference Champion and three straight playoff teams. Smith achieved many honors including All-Conference, All-Region, All-Suburban and All-Waukesha County.
He was selected Defensive Back of the Year by the Greater Metro Conference coaches and was a first-team All-State player at Defensive Back. Smith will also play in the WFCA All-Star Game this summer. Smith was a rare two-way starter that will be sorely missed on both sides of the ball.
Jackie Wandt, a senior midfielder, signed her letter of intent to play soccer at Northern Illinois University next year. A four-year starter on a team that has qualified for the sectional finals in two of the last three years, Wandt followed her Honorable Mention freshman season with second-team all-conference recognition her sophomore year. She was injured for much of her junior.
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The goal is to transform the underpass into an “inviting gateway” linking Pier 6 of Brooklyn Bridge Park and the shops on Atlantic Avenue. Over the years, the underpass has become an eyesore, dissuading pedestrian use.
In a statement released by the Atlantic Avenue BID the need for this beautification was made known. “The park is a destination but going there requires visitors to traverse a dirty and unpleasant underpass,” read a statement from the Atlantic Avenue BID. “This grant will facilitate a much better connection between Atlantic Avenue's diverse mix of retail and this distinctive park.”
With the help of New York City's Department of Small Business Services and Deputy Mayor Robert Steele, Atlantic Avenue BID was granted the $75,000 in seed money to get the project rolling. However, Josef Szende, executive director of the BID, said that the money is significant but not enough for the whole project.
Szende said that he was hopeful the rest of the funding could come from Councilman Steve Levin's participatory budgeting process. Under this program, community members nominate specific projects they think deserve $1 million in discretionary funding.
The BID is wasting little time, as they are already working to put together a proposal that includes lighting, way-finding signs, artwork and interactive experiences. While these plans are a blueprint, Szende said that nothing is set in stone yet because the BID will continue to seek public approval for all aspects of the project.
Helping the BID will be the Design Trust for Public Space, which will manage a participatory design process that will arrive at a “ready-to-build” design by the end of 2013.
“The project will be a game changer for Atlantic Avenue, sparking interest to walk all the way down the avenue and connect all of our destination shopping and dining with this destination park,” said Szende.
“It is also a quality of life issue for us,” said one resident of Brooklyn Bridge Park Condominiums, “the local residents who currently walk through a disgusting corridor to move back and forth between a fantastic waterfront park and an energetic and developing commercial area.”
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Film – 9Thursday, 3rd December, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This visually stunning animated movie runs with the post-apocalyptic cliché of man-overrun-by-machines. After a war that ends all biological life all that’s left is a handful of numbered, sentient rag-dolls and a brutal prowling villain. We follow the titular character 9 on his adventure to the film’s unsatisfactory conclusion.
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Director Shane Acker
Starring Christopher Plummer, Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly
In the most literal sense, Shane Acker’s 9 is worth seeing. Beautifully animated, the film never lacks in the eye-candy department, stunning us with its gorgeous visuals throughout. And while at times it comes off as intelligent and emotionally honest, this after-the-Armageddon study of human nature quickly collapses under its own garbled ideas and rushed ending.
Running with the post-apocalyptic cliché of man-overrun-by-machines (those bloody machines…), after a war that ends all biological life, all that’s left is a handful of numbered, sentient rag-dolls and a brutal prowling villain. We follow the titular character (Wood) as he falls into being and turns out to be a rebel hellbent on seeking truth and adventure. While his fellow, uh, countrydolls would prefer the secure sanctuary of a beautifully-rendered cathedral, 9 risks their existence to find very meaning behind it.
Developed from an animated short, the original spin on a cliché undoubtedly made for a great mini-movie. But in its expanded form, 9 picks up some rot that fades its solid story and cohesive message out of transmission. Through its end-of-the-world fog and charred-everything smog, the tone changes so often that we’re unsure as to whether we’re watching the philosophical explorations of an adult sci-fi feature, or the basic black-and-white themes of an animated kids flick.
On the one hand, we have the clear-cut dolls: lovable and hateable, the characters are a joy to watch, dividing that line between believably wholesome and suitably sinister. On the other, it’s when the reason behind their simplistic nature is revealed (in the film’s only master stroke) that things take a turn for the PG-13-worse – the smattering of death involved is dealt with in such a frank and brutal manner that if Acker had made a decision either way, it would be all the better for it.
But if confusion was already riding high, it all comes crashing to a complete letdown in its rushed, all-singing, all-dancing ending. With an equal measure of mixed ideology and lack of explanation, the conclusion comes off more like a tacked-on video-game cinematic than anything the film had resembled for the past 75 minutes. You left wondering what exactly you’ve watched: every scene looked amazing and the story was so full of promise, but there’s a hole in its soul that leaves a nagging sense of disappointment.
Cool review. I plan to see this definitely. Would look better on the big screen *hint*
Ah shame, it looked so full of promise but I may give this one a miss (at the cinema anyways, could still be an option for rainy day film, complete with duvet and a hot cuppa)
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Washington, PA 15301
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Starting at: $25,495.
It's super low, with a roof height of only 50.6 inches, or .8 inches lower than that Porsche Cayman. The coefficient of drag is a sleek 0.29. But where it seems lowest is at the hood, with its 17-inch wheels jammed up inside wheelwells that rise above the hood. You see this especially from the inside, making the nose of the car look square, when viewed through the windshield. Sideview, the car's only distinction is those humps over the fenders. The wheels have many sharp spokes, some black and some alloy.
The nose looks like its designer knocked it out in an afternoon. Not that it's ugly, because it isn't; it's just simple, almost cookie-cutter. Big hexagon mouth, corners trimmed. HID headlamps are sharp triangles pointing toward the grille, like pizza slices smoothed out so they don't look like pizza slices.. Pseudo whats? Granted, they look good from a distance, but when you touch them, the rubbery plastic nearly falls off in your hand. There are plastic pretend air intakes at the corners of the front fascia, surrounding the foglamps on the BRZ Limited, but standing alone and making a statement (this car is cheap) on the (oxymoronic) standard Premium..
But you can forget the voice command part. Even a Subaru rep couldn't get the nav to get within about 2000 miles of where we wanted to go. You say "Washington" and it hears "Florida." What else is new. In our experience, almost all of them are like that. You say you want pizza and it sends you out for barbecue. Although recently a Chrysler 300 we drove got it right.
We like the rugged fabric seats; they have an appropriate look and feel, not a cut-rate cloth feel. The bolstering is good and tight; maybe too tight, as very broad backs won't fit. The three-spoke steering wheel is leather-wrapped with red stitching, and looks cool. So do the alloy pedals, including the dead pedal that's very functional and great to have in a car like this.
Gauge-wise, there's a big tachometer in the center, with a small shift light on the left side of the dash; not the best place but better than nothing. The speedo to the left isn't very easy to read, but no matter; there's a digital display with your numbers in the middle of the tach, good to go by. Better, in fact. The easy-to-read orange digital display actually makes the speedometer unnecessary.
The standard screen is small, 6.5 inches, but big enough for the space, and its information and images are arranged in a tidy manner. Small buttons, touch screen, easy to reach.
Climate controls are three simple knobs. Two cupholders behind the leather-wrapped shift lever, no center console, decent glovebox, easy door handles and window buttons, good left armrest for cruising on the freeway, although it's low so you end up gripping the steering wheel down at about 7 o'clock., we're glad they're there, they're better than none at all. They work for kids. Small kids. The specs say there's 29.9 inches of rear legroom; really? That's more than two feet, sounds like a lot. But with the front seats in a reasonable driving position, we looked back and saw zero inches of rear legroom. If you want a sports car with real room in the back for passengers, get a Mazda RX-8..
Sam Moses filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after his test drive of the BRZ in the Pacific Northwest.
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THE COOLEST SMALL TOWNS IN THE U.S.A.
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Les Bourgeois Bistro(Mark Katzman/Ferguson & Katzman)
In 1986, a stretch of the Katy Railroad was shut down, and Rocheport appeared to be doomed. But 10 years later, the Katy was reincarnated as the longest rails-to-trails conversion in the U.S.A. Each year, 350,000 hikers and bikers pass through Rocheport--in central Missouri, just west of Columbia--on the 225-mile, crushed-limestone path.
Several new businesses have popped up to cater to them, including the four-room Amber House Bed & Breakfast, a Queen Anne replica. The B&B is owned by Mary Schlueter, a chef who moved from Phoenix a year ago (705 Third St., 573/698-2028, amberhousebb.com, from $135).
Unlike many nearby towns, Rocheport's restaurants skew more toward haute cuisine than to meat and potatoes: Abigail's, for one, serves sumac-rubbed veal chops (206 Central St., 573/698-3000, veal chops $18). Les Bourgeois Bistro's signature dish is smoked duck breast (12847 W. Hwy. BB, 573/698-2300, duck breast $18). Les Bourgeois is also a family-run winery, where a patio looks out on the beautiful Missouri River.
As much as Rocheport's new residents are investing in its future, they don't want to change certain things--the ash trees, the 19th-century houses, the chickens that literally cross the road. "My life is about as perfect as life can be," says Linda Johnson, owner of Shabby Tabby Antiques & Gifts (505 Second St., 573/698-2109). "It's like going on vacation every time you come home."
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on February 3, 2011 - 12:01 AM
I look out to the sky
The raindrops make it look like the window's crying
I close my eyes
I imagine a rainbow
I open my eyes but the window still cries
I want to change the weather
I want to go out and play
I look out at the sky
It's like a gray sheet of paper covering the sky
I open the door and go outside
A raindrop lands on me
But I cannot speak
Because I seek a bright rainbow
All over me
I laugh and I smile
Cause I'm covered in colors
The colors feel nice and silky
I look up
The sky looks like a sheet of blue ice
It's clear with no cloud in sight
The color fades away
But it's still inside of me
'til this very day
Happiness
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on November 15, 2012 - 12:01 PM
Since ice on Lake Erie in February no longer is a sure thing, organizers of the Labatt Blue Buffalo Pond Hockey Tournament’s sixth annual event have planned accordingly, with several contingencies.
For starters, all games will be scheduled for one day – Feb. 9 – if there’s enough ice at Erie Basin Marina. The tournament will begin at 8:30 a.m., and play will continue under the lights until 9 p.m. Prior tournaments had scheduled games throughout weekends.
If ice or weather conditions aren’t safe that day, Feb. 10 will be the makeup day.
“It’s no secret that we have had a lot of issues with weather over the years,” Lisa Texido, associate brand manager for Labatt Blue, announced Thursday in a news conference. “Shifting to one day will allow us to have the best chance to amend plans or make up games on the additional day.”
Plans also call for a street hockey tournament, if pond hockey is canceled because of the weather or lack of ice, as happened last February.
Another new feature isn’t weather-related: Teams can register during a two-week period that begins at noon today, with participants in the respective divisions being chosen through a lottery. The event typically sells out in minutes, and the lottery system will give teams ample time to register for a chance to compete in 2013, Texido said.
“It’s something that players have been recommending,” Texido said.
Ninety-six teams with seven-player rosters will be accepted to compete across 12 divisions. Registration, at $250 per team, runs from today through Nov. 30 at. Players can find out Dec. 7 if their teams have been selected to compete.
Preparations by Buffalo’s Parks and Recreation Department also are complete.
“The planning has already ended,” said Deputy Commissioner Andy Rabb. “The biggest factor, of course, is the ice.”
Once ice forms, crews will monitor its depth as the day of the tournament draws near, he said.
In order for the tournament to be played in the marina, the ice must reach a depth of 10 to 12 inches at least one week before the event, according to Texido.
The action won’t be limited to the ice. There will be a large, heated tent; live music; a disc jockey; and plenty of beer produced by the sponsor.
“It’s become a real celebration of winter in the City of Buffalo,” Mayor Byron W. Brown said. “We are certainly looking forward to our hockey fix in Buffalo.”
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on January 14, 2013 - 6:43 AM
After about six months of looking, Richard Mallek and his wife, Susan, are ready to close on their first home, a three-bedroom sanctuary with old Florida charm in Boynton Beach, Fla.
Before the couple began their search last summer,. So we buckled down, cutting back on going out to dinner and for drinks.”
First-time buyers like the Malleks gradually are playing a larger role in rejuvenating the housing market. First-timers boost demand, which allows existing homeowners to sell and move up to bigger properties.
For the 12-month period ending in June 2012, 39 percent of sales nationwide involved first-time buyers, compared with 37 percent a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Five years ago, in the middle of the housing bust, first-time buyers had a glut of properties to choose from, little competition and plenty of leverage when it came time to submitting offers.
Not anymore. The housing inventory is down sharply, investors are pouring money back into real estate, and sellers are eager to accept those cash deals.
Brokers insist that buyers get pre-approved for a specific amount of money before starting their search.
When a home in their price range hits the market, they should plan to see it that day – on their lunch break, if necessary – and offer full price or above in many cases.
Here are other strategies that first-time buyers can use to their advantage:
• Broaden the search, even just a little. Many first-time buyers target a specific city, but the lack of inventory limits options, agents say.
Buyers “have to be flexible and compromise,” Broward County, Fla., agent Chip Rowand said.
• Don’t automatically settle for a Federal Housing Administration mortgage. Many first-time buyers lean toward FHA loans because of the low down payments – just 3.5 percent of the purchase price.
But in today’s market, sellers fielding multiple offers prefer cash or conventional loans, which usually don’t have as many restrictions as FHA, said Stephen B. McWilliam, president of Greater Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Realtors.
For clients who need financing, McWilliam recommends conventional loans that require just 5 percent down. They’ll be viewed by sellers as more financially stable and even save money on mortgage insurance costs, he said.
• Seek a lender that can process the loan quickly. McWilliam said some big banks won’t sign off on mortgages for eight to 12 weeks – too long for most impatient sellers.
wConsider working with a community bank or a local mortgage banker, which typically don’t have as much bureaucracy.
“If we have to do it in eight business days, we will,” said Jim Flood, regional manager of Supreme Lending in Plantation, Fla.
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on February 11, 2013 - 10:50 AM
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Security was heightened at four Ken-Ton District schools Monday, after a report to police about a man seen with a handgun at a nearby gas station who was overheard saying, “It’s time to lock and load,” police and school officials said.
Hoover Elementary and Middle schools, Lindbergh Elementary and Kenmore West High were all in lockdown. There was nothing to suggest a specific threat against schools or children, but school officials acted out of an abundance of caution.
Town of Tonawanda Police Lt. Nick Bado said police got a call about 7:20 a.m. from a person who said he was at the Mobil-Tim Hortons at Highland Parkway and Colvin Boulevard when a man cut through the lot on foot. The witness said the man was in his 60s or 70s, had a white beard and was wearing a gray shirt, jeans and a baseball cap. He appeared to be carrying a black handgun and said: “It’s time to lock and load.” A letter was sent home to parents of students from the locked down schools.
A letter was sent home to parents of the locked out schools to explain the situation. Click here to read the text of the letter.
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This April 19, 2005 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI greeting the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica moments after being elected, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis/FILE)
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New Orleans Home / City Guides Home / Bullz-Eye Home
Famous for its historic French Quarter, renowned for its jazz heritage and for its fabulous Cajun cuisine, the "Big Easy" is also a golfer's paradise. Every season is golf season on these breathtaking layouts featuring moss-draped oaks, towering southern pines, cypress lagoons and enough sand to offer a challenging day for all levels of golfers.
Hidden Oaks Golf Course
Hidden Oaks boasts a challenging 18-hole championship layout that covers 6,761 yards of picturesque landscape. Par is 72, and with plenty of water, Hidden Oaks brings out the best of your shot-making skills. Address: 200 Oak Dr., Braithewaite, LA. Call 504-682-2685 for more information.
Lakewood Country Club
Nestled between century-old oak and cypress trees, Lakewood Country Club has hosted 26 PGA Tour Events and is located less than four miles from downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter. The 18-hole championship golf course is a challenging par 72 layout, measuring over 7,000 yards from the championship tees and perfect for golfers of all skill levels. Address: 4801 General DeGaulle Dr., New Orleans, LA 70131. Call 504-393-2610 for more information.
English Turn
This Jack Nicklaus designed Par 72 championship golf course presents a unique challenge to golfers of any level. Water comes into play on every hole, as giant sand and waste bunkers guard many holes, and numerous grass depressions and mounds line the sculptured fairways. Huge tiered greens challenge putting strokes. Address: One Clubhouse Dr., New Orleans, LA 70131. Call 504-392-2200 for more information.
Eastover Country Club
With a course that's challenging and fun for beginners and professionals alike, the Eastover is a great course for the money, featuring a well-designed course with a challenging track and well-guarded greens. Address: 5690 Eastover Dr., New Orleans, LA. Call 504-245-7347 for more information.
City Park
Four 18-hole golf courses make up this exceptional golf complex. Located just 10 minutes from downtown, the Championship West Course offers wide tree-lined fairways that lead to large Bermuda greens. Plenty of bunkers and lagoons dot the East and North Courses as centuries-old oaks and beautiful cypress and pines enhance the terrain. Address: One Palm Dr., New Orleans, LA 70124. Call 504-482-4888 for more information.
Oak Harbor
Located 15 minutes from New Orleans, this course is a worthy adversary to even scratch golfers, but it plays a manageable 6,261 yards from the regular men's tees. Sound strategy is always a premium on this championship layout. Danger lurks in the form of water that comes into play on 12 of the holes. Service is the best around the area on this green. Address: 201 Oak Harbor Blvd., Slidell, LA 70458. Call 985-646-0110 for more information.
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Four seek supervisor post in Guilford [email protected] candidates are vying for one open seat in the Guilford Township Supervisors race. Republicans Chris A. Bender, Ted Bittinger, Mark A. Bumbaugh and Donald C. Clapper are running in the May 21 election to secure the open, six-year term. There are no...
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Hello fellow Burdastyle members,
Following our highly successful company launch and the ensuing press coverage we received, we have decided to offer an Early Bird Discount of 25$ (Canadian dollars) on any first purchase at the g.moda store, to those who sign on to our website before the online store goes live (around the end of September).
Signing on costs you nothing, and there is no commitment to buy. We also commit to never sharing your email with anyone else without your permission.
In addition to our outfits, of which you can see a glimpse at either our blog site or via the newspaper coverage we received, we will have a version of our pre-launch gift on sale within a few weeks of the store’s opening. This unusual accessory is a tote bag that transforms into a hat-and-scarf combination within the overall “g-zip look”! The hat-and-scarf/tote bag was a highly popular item at our launch – several people known to “never wear hats” were seen disappearing round the corner with one in their hands!
We plan to treat our community of subscribers well, and will continue to offer discounts on g.moda products regularly to this group. So come and join us now, for a different experience of online shopping. 9, 2011, 12.18 AMby gedwoods
Note that our online boutique will be open for business as of October 25th, 2011 – the new site will replace the current site. This is your last chance to benefit from the Early Bird Special, and to obtain a 25$ discount on your first purchase at g.moda’s online store. Note that our 3-piece outfits will be selling for a price ranging from about 115$ Canadian to about 140$, while our recommended 5-piece ensembles will be selling in the range of 190$-230$. Hence a 25$ discount is a significant sum on your final purchase!
Oct 25, 2011, 04.54 AMby gedwoods
Our early bird discount is now over, with the opening of our online boutique. Thanks to those who responded – your encouragement for my fledgeling enterprise has been extremely helpful in the days leading up to the opening of the online store. This may be the end of the early bird discount, but there will be other discount campaigns as we progress!
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Registering your art or theme camp helps us organize Burning Flipside. It ensures that you get the space you need! The deadline for registering art installations and theme camps is April 1st.
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ME? A Couch Potato? (My N.E.A.T. Step Experiment Part 1)
Last month, I finally bought a Fitbit. I say finally because I’d been hearing about the FitBit (and similar activitiy tracking devices like the BodyBugg) from my friends, readers and Inner Circle members for the past few years. My curiosity was eventually piqued enough to spring for the $99 bucks and try it out myself.
The FitBit is a pedometer — a little electronic gadget – that slips in your pocket or clips on your clothes and tracks how many steps you take every day.
Why would I want to keep track of how many steps I take in a day? Why would you? That’s what today’s post is about.
There are two reasons why I decided to experiment with a pedometer. One is because of all the research I’ve done on the importance of NEAT – Non exercise activity thermogenesis.
NEAT is all the calories you burn each day from activity, not counting your formal training. Even if you train very hard for an hour every single day – that’s only 1 out of 24 hours. What about your activity level the other 23 hours of the day? All that activity – walking, physical work at your job, doing the dishes, vacuuming, yard work, even the tiny little things like changing posture and fidgeting – adds up a heck of a lot more than most people realize. They simply don’t notice it because it may be a little bit here and a little bit there.
Someone with a physical job has a very high level of NEAT. Someone with a desk job who then hits the couch at night after work has a very low level of NEAT (this is often the difference between a person who is overweight and a person who is underweight, who ironically call themselves endomorph or ectomorph, respectively…but more on that in an upcoming article). Walking is, by far, the largest component of NEAT.
Most people don’t know what NEAT is, or they do know what it is and they ignore it because they figure it’s not a “real workout” — it’s just miscellaneous activity throughout the day, so it couldn’t possibly matter, right? After all, you keep hearing about how intense weight training and high intensity interval training (HIIT) are the real keys to fat loss don’t you? Well, indeed, workouts like progressive weight training and HIIT cardio are the most efficient way to spend a limited amount of formal training time, but plenty of research shows that ignoring or downplaying the importance of NEAT would be a grave mistake.
Two of the top experts in this area are Dr. James Levine of the Mayo clinic and Dr James Hill of the University of Colorado. Both have written books and conducted studies showing that obese people are profoundly more sedentary than lean people. “They move 2.5 hours less per day than lean people, which means they burn roughly 350 fewer calories per day,” said Dr. Levine.
Dr. Hill suggests that even taking enough extra steps each day to burn 100 more calories could make a difference over time (if all else remains equal – which it often does not – but that will have to be the subject of another post). The valid point is, a small increase in NEAT, including a small increase in extra steps taken each day, if done every day, above and beyond what was done before, could help millions of people lose weight and keep it off.
That leads me to the second reason I wanted to experiment with a pedometer and upping my NEAT through taking more steps. About six years ago, there was a major change in my lifestyle. After nearly 15 years in the fitness business as a personal trainer and health club manager, I left that side of the industry and went fully self-employed as a full-time writer, researcher and internet publisher. I continued coaching people, but I did it virtually through my inner circle member’s-only forum, as well as writing books and articles like this one.
Although there was some desk-bound office work involved in managing health clubs, for years I had spent a large chunk of my time on my feet out on the gym floor, training clients and maintaining the clubs. Suddenly, literally overnight, my new job had me glued to a chair 10-12 hours a day (and more hours than that when working on important projects).
That may not seem like a big deal for a person like me, who is in the gym training hard 5 days a week doing both weights and cardio, except for one thing: In addition to reading up on NEAT, I also came across the research showing how detrimental it is to your health, fitness and weight control endeavors to sit for long periods of time.
You’ve probably seen the headlines about the metabolic and ill health risks of too much sitting yourself, but the new twist that emerged in the studies just a few years ago is that too much sitting time is an independent risk factor for obesity and metabolic health problems separate and distinct from getting too little exercise.
For years, studies by NASA have shown the serious metabolic consequences of extreme muscular unloading and there have recently been some interesting parallels drawn between studies on zero gravity and prolonged sitting. The loss of local muscle stimulation from sitting suppresses skeletal lipoprotein lipase activity and glucose uptake, while the mere act of standing involves isometric contraction of the postural (anti gravity) muscles. In the past, standing still would have been lumped in with sedentary behavior, but now scientists are even saying that sitting and standing are different. Sitting is worse.
But again, why should I care about this stuff? How does this apply to ME? I pump iron in the gym 5 days a week, with nearly the same type of intensity as I did in my bodybuilding competition days and if I want to get leaner, I crank up the cardio sessions. I’m burning more than enough calories that, when combined with my diet, I have no difficulty getting as lean as I want to be – even to this day after I made this shift in my lifestyle to a desk job as a writer.
Well, I started to care when I also read the research that said you could meet the optimal guidelines for physical activity, but if you also sit for long periods, there could still be negative consequences that are not un-done by your formal workouts. Researchers even coined a name for this – “The active couch potato.”
Imagine my surprise when it dawned on me – ME of all people – that I was the textbook definition of active couch potato: hard workouts in the gym, easily totaling 5 or more hours of training per week – and then almost the entire rest of my life glued to a chair, sitting in front of the computer. Even if I hadn’t seen or felt any detriment yet, I didn’t like the thought of being any kind of couch potato (desk potato?), and I didn’t want to wait and see what a decade (or two) of sitting 90% of the day might bring later on.
This combination of my reading up on NEAT and the effects of prolonged sitting, combined with recommendations from friends, prompted me to purchase the pedometer.
My goal was to measure for the first time ever, how much I was actually walking each day, if and how this would affect my activity level, how it might be valuable as a feedback or motivation tool and also, whether this might have any real application for me – as a bodybuilder and fitness professional – with regards to improving my results or perhaps staying leaner all year round just by taking some extra steps every day. That ought to interest you too because it flies in the face of everything you’ve been hearing about “training MUST be high in intensity or it’s a waste of time.”
Be sure to look for part 2 later this week to see my “product review” of the device (did it work? Did it accurately track the steps and calories burned, etc), hear about my actual step counts and to find out what I discovered from my little experiment (so far) and how my findings might help you get healthier, get leaner and stay lean.
Until then, be sure to check out my previous articles on NEAT and the “active couch potato.”
Related articles:
NEAT tricks for burning more fat:
The active couch potato:
Recommended reading: For some fascinating additional information on N.E.A.T. (non exercise activity thermogenesis) and the importance of high activity levels and step counts (including the reason why the Amish can eat pie, gravy and lots of carbs and still stay thin), be sure to check out The Body Fat Solution (Avery/Penguin Books, NYC), chapter 7 in particular:
The Body Fat Solution By Tom Venuto (hardcover)
The Body Fat Solution by Tom Venuto (kindle)
Scott
I’m looking forward to reading your product review, Tom. I’m contemplating getting one of these Fidbits as well.
I have also become an “active couch potato” over the past few years after having had a physically demanding job, as well as just spending more time on my feet in general.
I think the feedback from something like this would motivate me a great deal to boost N.E.A.T. as well as serve as a sobering reminder of how anemic my activity level has become, unless I make a conscious effort to walk more. It looks like it would be a great tool to have at your disposal
Fat Loss York
walking is a great way to burn calories which doesn’t cost anything. It can give you a great sense of satisfaction when you see how many steps you have taken during the day and how many calories you have burned.
Nico
Hi Tom
Looking forward to the review. I personally feel that a low NEAT level is one of my challenges. Sitting at a desk and long travel period is clearly not healthy.
When I was close to my ideal weight I had a job where my office was located about 100 meter away from the main admin building at an incline. I walked and sometimes ran up and down this patch 15 to 20 times a day. Over a period of two years at that job I lost over 30 kg of weight. It was combined with squash and some weight training as well over the period though. But my diet was by no means perfect at the mine. I had a beer or two every day. Ate many chocolates over weekends when I was bored. I honestly think my calorie intake during those days were double or close to double it is now.
I them moved to the city still kept fat low for a year or so. Slowly the fat came back over a period of 10 years. Family and work demands made me less active. I eat well and still get to play squash and the occasional weight session but yet I can’t get the fat back to those early levels. I hardly drink beer, maybe one or two a month now. I firmly believe that it is the NEAT factor that slowly but surly made it happen. I am by no means unfit or unhealthy. I can play a very hard squash game for 45 minutes without resting between sets and I weigh a 135 KG.
We recently moved into a new building and I now climb the stairs for 4 floors to add some NEAT but I still find myself sitting for 10 to 12 hours a day. Yesterday was a good example. Left home at 7am, at office at 8am, sat for 9 hours straight concentrating, missed lunch and drove home and arrived there at 19:30.
I think the fact that I sometime don’t realize the time that passes is to my detriment and I have to find a way to break myself away from my desk for that 10 minutes every hour and do something that adds to my NEAT.
Looking forward to your part 2 feedback and advise.
Regards
Nico
Pamela Sheedy
Great article on the fitbit Tom and great advice for people, keep up the great work.
Cheers,
Pam
Monique Hawkins
Hey Tom, I too, have a job where I sit a good portion of the day. I track my steps and eating with the Bodybugg program. Devices like this don’t lie! Sometimes I have thought I had plenty of steps when in reality, I was below by 10,000 daily step goal. I would highly recommend anyone purchase what you did or something like a Bodybugg. It really will help achieve your fitness goals.
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Interesting and informative post. Thank you for your effort. Tom, What motivated you to call this blog “My N.E.A.T. Step Experiment (Part 1)”, not that the title does not go with the content, I am just wondering. I appreciate you sharing this with the rest of us Tom.
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I bought a fitbit as well and it works like a charm, just saying :p
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As a moderator on the Beesource bee forum, I hear these questions often, so I thought I would address them here. I will try to add more from time to time.
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I've been handling queens off and on since 1974. Since I started rearing queens in 2004 I've been handling hundreds of them a year. I've never been stung by a queen.
Jay Smith, a beekeeper who reared thousands of queens a year for decades, said he was only stung by one once and he said she stung him right where he had squished a queen earlier and he though she thought it was a queen.
Can they? Yes. Will they? Extremely doubtful. The few people who I've met who say they've been stung by a queen say it didn't hurt as bad as a worker.
With the queen laying 1,000 to 3,000 eggs a day and bees living about six
weeks, there are ALWAYS some dead bees in front of the hive. Often you don't
see them because they are in the weeds or grass. A LOT of dead bees (piles of
them) might be cause for concern because it may be a sign of pesticide
poisoning or some other problem. But some are normal.
This question seems to come up a lot. The question is usually something like "should I put 9 or 10 frames in my supers?" or "should I put 9 or 10 frames in my brood boxes?"
My answer for the brood boxes is that I put 11 in. At least in a ten frame box. I shave the ends down in order to do this and I do it because it's the spacing the bees use if you let them. But 10 will do. They should be tightly together in the center, and not spaced out evenly. They are already further apart than the bees would prefer and spacing them any further usually results in burr comb or even an extra comb in between the frames. The theory of doing 9 in the brood box is that there will be more cluster space, less swarming and less rolling of bees. The reality, in my experience, is that it requires more bees to keep the brood warm, the surface of the combs is more irregular and this causes more rolling of the bees when removing frames. This irregularity is due to the fact that honey storage comb can vary in thickness but brood comb is always the same thickness. The results are that where they have honey and you have 9 frames, they have extra room to fill and they fill it with honey. If they have brood then it is not as fat as the honey. I tried 9 frames in the brood nest and was not impressed. I now have eight frame boxes and I have 9 frames in them (which requires shaving the end bars down). At 11 in a ten-frame box you get very flat consistent comb and you get smaller cell size more easily.
My answer for the supers is that ONCE THEY ARE DRAWN you can put 9 or even 8 in the ten frame supers with good effect as the combs will just be thicker. But when it's bare foundation, the bees will often mess up the comb if you space it more than ten. Ten frames of bare foundation should always be tightly together in the middle of either a super or a brood box in order to prevent the bees from attempting to build a comb between the foundations instead of on them. With eight frame boxes you can do seven drawn combs or even six.
A related issue is messed up combs.
Some of this is genetics. Some bees build straight parallel combs no matter what you do. Some will burr things up every which way no matter what you do. But there are things you can do to stack the deck.
Some of it is giving them the freedom to mess it up. Push all the frames tightly together. Those spacers on the frames are there for a reason. Use them. Do not space the frames evenly in the box. When you have undrawn foundation, do NOT space less frames in a box. Bees, if they don't like your foundation (and they never do really) and if you give them the room (by spacing the combs more than 1 3/8" apart) will try to build a comb between two frames rather than build it on your foundation. So pushing it together makes the space between the foundations small enough to discourage this, as it's not enough room for a brood comb.
Some of it is that they don't like you deciding their cell sizes etc. They will build their own comb with much more enthusiasm than they will build foundation. So they try to avoid building on the foundation. One solution is to stop using foundation and go foundationless. Another is to get foundation that is closer to what they wanted to build. 5.4mm standard foundation is much larger than typical natural worker brood comb. 4.9mm is closer.
They usually don't like plastic much. The solution to getting them to draw it is to give it to them when they need to draw comb. Don't give them wax foundation mixed with plastic foundation or they will ignore the plastic and draw the wax. Buy the wax coated plastic so they will accept it better. Spray some syrup on it or syrup with essential oils like Honey Bee Healthy, to cover the smell of the plastic. Once they've licked it clean they tend to accept it better.
Sometimes they will still mess it up.
Used equipment has been a controversial subject for more than a century. AFB (American Foulbrood) is still an issue but used to be an even bigger issue. The only real concern about used equipment is AFB. AFB spores live virtually forever (longer than us anyway) and infected equipment is probably one of the contributing factors to getting AFB. Many people with AFB just burn the equipment. Some scorch it. Some boil it in lye. Some "fry" it in paraffin and gum rosin.
So the issue usually is that you have at your disposal (either free or cheap) used equipment. Cleaning up from mice isn't too complicated. Just leave it out in the rain until it smells ok. Cleaning up from wax moths is just cutting out the webs (which are hard for the bees to remove) and scraping off the cocoons. If combs are dry and brittle, let the bees fix them, they will be fine. If they are dusty, the bees will clean them up. The real risk is AFB. If you have old brood comb, I would look for scale in the bottom of the cells which would indicate AFB. If there is scale, you'll have to take the threat of AFB pretty serious. Some would just burn at that point. So, assuming you find no scale then what do you do? I can't tell you what to do as it is always a risk and if you get AFB I don't want you blaming me. But I'll tell you what I do. I've always gotten mine from sources I believed to be honest, usually very cheap or free and just used the equipment with nothing done to it. I've never gotten AFB in my hives.
Now that I'm dipping my equipment, I would dip any used equipment, since I have the wherewithal.
The problem with answering this question is that it will depend on your
location. There is a big difference in the issues faced by a beekeeper in South
Georgia or Southern California, compared to one in Northern Minnesota or
Anchorage Alaska.
So I can only give a generalization and call on my own experience in the
middle of the country. I'm in Southeast Nebraska and used to be in Western
Nebraska and the front range of the Rockies. So this advice is pretty useful
in that range of climates.
Reduce the space. There is no reason to have extra empty space in a hive in
the winter in the North. Any box that is empty combs or foundation I would
pull off for the winter.
Block the mice. Mice can devastate a hive. Make sure if you have bottom
entrances that you have mouseguards on. A piece of #4 hardware cloth works
well for this.
Remove excluders. If you use excluders they need to be off before winter
sets in. A queen can get stuck on the other side of the excluder and die in
cold weather.
Make sure you have some kind of top entrance. I like all top entrances and
no bottom entrances, but regardless you need at least a small one for release
of moist air so you don't get condensation on the lid and so the bees can get
out when the snow is deep or there are too many dead bees on the bottom board.
Commonly people ask if the heat won't all escape. Heat is seldom the issue it's
the condensation dripping on the bees that usually kills bees in winter.
Make sure they have enough stores. In my part of the country with Italian
bees you need the hive to weigh about 150 pounds for good insurance for the
winter. They probably will get by on 100 pounds, but they could also burn
through that in the spring rearing brood and come up short. Any less than
100 pounds would worry me a lot. The time to feed is when the weather is
still warm as they won't take syrup after it gets cold. Once you hit the
target weight there is no need to feed anymore. Usually a 150 pound hive
around here is two deep ten frame boxes, or three medium ten frame boxes or
four medium eight frame boxes, mostly full of honey.
I have only wrapped once and was not favorably impressed, but if it's the norm
for beekeepers where you live you might want to consider it. The normal wrap
is 15# roofing felt as it provides some heat gain on sunny days. I found this
sealed in too much moisture. Other wraps are wax impregnated cardboard that
leaves an airspace around the hive. This seems like a wiser choice for the
moisture issue.
Avoid the temptation to think that heating a normal strong hive is helpful.
It's really not. Thick insulation is not either. Don't move them indoors,
they need to fly. Don't pile bales of straw around as it will just attract
the mice. A wind break is nice if you can provide one.
According to Brother Adam he had bees he knew flew five miles or more to
gather Heather nectar. According to Huber, he marked workers, took them
different distances and released them and looked for them to turn back up at
the hive. He said they always found their way back when they
were 1 1/2 miles from the hive, but
past that they didn't. He also says, and it makes sense, that it would depend
on the foraging available. It also seems to vary by bee size. Brother Adam
says his native Apis Mellifera mellifera, which were smaller, flew the five
miles to get the Heather, but the Italians he replaced them with, which were
larger, would not. Dee Lusby says her small cell bees, after regression,
came back with totally different pollens than before and that based on the
blooms and the spread of flora that depend on pollination she's confident that
the small cell bees forage much further than the large cell bees. This
would be consistent with Brother Adam's observations.
I don't think anyone really knows. They fly to DCAs (Drone Congregation Areas)
and there are certain topographical clues they look for as well as pheromone
trails in order to find one. DCAs are usually at a place where a tree row
meets a tree row. The research seems to show that drones fly to the nearest
DCA. The location, being dependant on the terrain and the amount of other
hives nearby, the distance is hard to predict. Most of the scientists,
however, say they fly, on the average, a shorter distance than the queens.
As with many questions with bees, it's such a variable thing to start with;
it's hard to say. According to Jay Smith, who tried an island for his mating
yard, and he says the queens flew at least as far as two miles. Some estimates
I've seen are as much as four or five miles. But I've also heard beekeepers
who say they've seen matings (as evidenced by drone comets and the queen
returning to the mating nuc) that occurred right in the beeyard.
The problem with this question is it assumes the bees will stay on the 1 acre.
They will forage the surrounding 8,000 acres.
This is a difficult question to have a distinct answer to. Even in a given
place it varies from year to year depending on the nectar flow which depends
on the timing of the rain and the early and late frosts. In a place with
really good forage (like the middle of 8,000 acres of sweet clover) it may be
almost impossible to have too many hives there during a flow. But in general
most rural locations in areas where there are the typical farm crops of corn,
beans, alfalfa etc. about 20 hives in one place is usually the economic
threshold where after that the competition will cost you honey. Try
increasing the number of hives gradually until you see too much competition
and honey crops decreasing.
The standard answer is two. I'll say two to four. Less than two and you
don't have resources to resolve typical beekeeping issues like queenlessness,
suspected queenlessness, laying workers etc. More than four is a bit much for
a beginning beekeeper to keep up with.
Some years 200 pounds. Some years they will eat 200 pounds of sugar and
make nothing. Most likely, most years it will be somewhere in between. It
is impossible to say.
"Where should I put my hive?" The problem is there isn't a simple answer.
But in a list of decreasing importance I would pick these criteria with a willingness to sacrifice the less important ones altogether if they don't work out:
Safety. It's essential to have the hive where they are not a threat to animals who are chained or penned up and can't flee if they are attacked, or where they are likely to be a threat to passerbys who don't know there are hives there. If the hive is going to be close to a path that people walk you need to have a fence or something to get the bees up over the people's heads. For the safety of the bees they should be where cattle won't rub on them and knock them over, horses won't knock them over and bears can't get to them.
Convenient access. It's essential to have the hive where the beekeeper
can drive right up to it. Carrying full supers that could weigh from 90 pounds
(deep) down to 48 pounds (eight frame medium) any distance is too much work.
The same for bringing beekeeping equipment and feed to the hives. You may have
to feed as much as 50 pounds or more of syrup to each hive and carrying it any
distance is not practical. Also you will learn a lot more about bees with a
hive in your backyard than a hive 20 miles away at a friend's house. Also a
yard a mile or two from home will get much better care than one 60 miles from
Good forage. If you have a lot of options, then go for a place with lots of forage. Sweet clover, alfalfa being grown for seed, tulip poplars etc. can make the difference between bumper crops of 200 pounds or more of honey per hive and barely scraping a living. But keep in mind the bees will not only be foraging the space you own, they will be foraging the 8,000 acres around the hives.
Not in your way. I think it's important the hive does not interfere with anyone's life much. In other words, don't put it right next to a well used path where, in a dearth and in a bad mood, the bees may harass or sting someone or anywhere else where you are likely to wish they weren't there.
Full sun. I find hives in full sun have fewer problems with diseases and pests and make more honey. All things being equal, I'd go for full sun. The only advantage to putting them in the shade is that you get to work them in the shade.
Out of the wind. It's nice to have them where the cold winter wind doesn't blow on them so hard and the wind is less likely to blow them over or blow off the lids. This isn't my number one requirement, but if a place is available that has a windbreak it's nice. This usually precludes putting them at the very top of a hill.
Not in a low-lying area. I don't care if they are somewhere in the middle, but I'd rather not have them where the dew and the fog and the cold settle and I really don't want them where I have to move them if there's a threat of a flood.
If you live in a very hot climate, mid afternoon shade might be a nice to have, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
In the end, bees are very adaptable. They really don't care, so make sure it's convenient for you, and if it's not too hard to provide, try to meet some of the other criteria. It's doubtful you'll have a place that meets all of the criteria listed above.
Beekeepers always seems to want to know what to plant for their bees. Just
make sure you understand that your bees will not just work the flowers on your land. They will be foraging a 2 mile radius which is 8,000 acres. It's difficult, unless you own that 8,000 acres, to plant enough to make a crop. But it's not hard to plant things that will fill out the year for the bees. The times of need in the hives is early (February to April), late (September to the killing frost) and during drought (which is usually mid summer around here and requires plants that will bloom when there is little rain). So I would focus on plants to fill those gaps. A variety of honey plants in general will tend to fill more gaps than focusing on only one or two plants. It certainly doesn't hurt to plant some sweet clover (both yellow and white as they bloom at different times) and some white Dutch clover and some birdsfoot trefoil and some borage and some anise hyssop and some tulip poplars and some black locust, but these don't tend to fill those early and late gaps, but do tend to make some honey and MAY fill a gap. Early plants that provide pollen are red maples, pussy willows, elms, crocuses, redbud, wild plums, choke cherries and other fruit trees. Dandelions are always good to have around. You can pick the dried heads from people whose lawns are full of them. Just pluck them and put them in a grocery sack and take them home and scatter them. Chicory and goldenrod often bloom in a drought and will bloom usually from about July until a killing frost. Asters are a good late blooming plant. The main thing to keep in mind, though, is that you're just trying to fill the gaps, not trying to create a crop.
The use of queen excluders has been controversial among beekeepers since the
early days of their existence. I quit using them very early in my beekeeping.
The bees did not want to go through them and they did not want to work the supers on the other side of them. They seemed very unnatural and constraining to me. I think they are handy to have around for things like queen rearing or a desperate attempt to find a queen, but I don't commonly use them.
The reasoning for using them:
The queen will be easier to find if I can narrow down the area I have to look. But I find the area I have to look is pretty narrow. I seldom find her other than where the highest concentration of bees is and that usually narrows it to a few frames. But this is a good reason if you need to find the queen often. In queen rearing this can be once a week or so and a queen excluder can save you some time.
Preventing brood in the supers. The only reasons I've seen a queen lay in the supers are, that she ran out of room in the brood nest, therefore she would have swarmed if she couldn't, or she wanted room to lay drones and there is no drone comb in the brood nest. If you don't want brood in the supers, give them some drone comb in the brood nest and you will have made great strides in this regard. Also, if you use all the same size box, you'll have no problem IF she lays in the "supers" putting those frames back down in the brood nest, and if you use no chemicals, you can steal a frame of honey from there to fill out your super.
If you want to use them
If you want to use an excluder, remember you have to get the bees going through it. Using all the same sized boxes, again, will help in this regard as you can put a couple of frames of open brood above the excluder (being careful not to get the queen of course) and get them going through the excluder. When they are working the super you can put them back down in the brood nest. Another option (especially if you don't have the same sized boxes) is to leave out the excluder until they are working the first super and then put it in (again making sure the queen is below it and the drones have a way out the top somewhere).
"Beginning beekeepers should not attempt to use queen excluders to prevent brood in supers. However they probably should have one excluder on hand to use as an aide in either finding the queen or restricting her access to frames that the beekeeper must want to move elsewhere" -The How-To-Do-It book of Beekeeping, Richard Taylor
The question comes up all the time on beekeeping forums: "Are my bees
queenless?" The symptoms leading to this question vary greatly and the
time of year for the question varies greatly, but it is a very important
question to get an answer to and is sometimes remarkably more complex that
it appears.
The most likely cause for the question is a lack of eggs and brood. Many
beginning beekeepers couldn't find a queen if you marked, her, clipped her
and put her on one frame for them to find her, and even an experienced
beekeeper in a well populated hive on a given day may have trouble finding
one. So not seeing her doesn't prove anything. Not seeing eggs and brood is
an important clue, but it doesn't mean that there is not a queen. It means
there is not a laying queen and has not been one for a while. But there very
well may be a virgin queen that is not laying yet..
The problem is if the new queen flew out to mate and didn't make it back, and the hive is truly queenless, the hive looks the same. No eggs, no brood, not even any capped brood. So how do you answer the question? You give them a frame of brood with eggs and see what they do. If you have a queen cell in a couple of days, then they are queenless. You can either get a queen for them or let them raise that one.
Another problem is when you find a few eggs and a few larvae and they are very scattered. This is sometimes due to laying workers but the bees have still kept up with removing the drone eggs from the worker cells, except for a few. But what if it's a new queen that is just starting to lay? Usually she will lay in a patch and not scattered all over. Laying workers require a lot more effort to deal with.".
Another clue that there probably is a queen who is about to start laying, is to look for a patch of empty cells surrounded by nectar, in the cluster, where they have cleared a spot for her to lay.
A grouchy hive is often a sign they are queenless or a lethargic hive. But you still need to look for eggs and larvae.
The bottom line is that queenlessness is difficult to diagnose definitively. A combination of several of these symptoms (lack of eggs and brood, queenless roar, lethargy or anger) tends to convince me. But only one or two, I give them a frame of open brood with eggs and see what happens.
Of course this illustrates why you need more than one hive.
There are several questions to do with this. One is "how often should I requeen?" Beekeepers have many opinions on this ranging from twice a year to never. I tend to let them requeen themselves, but then I have a handle on swarming and I do requeen if they are too defensive or are not doing well.
The second question is "how do I requeen?" This may involve several questions such as "what do I do if I can't find the old queen?" or "how do I know they will accept the new queen?"
I have not had good luck releasing a queen if they have a queen. About the only way to do this is if you raise your own queens and you introduce a cell or a virgin queen with a lot of smoke to cover her appearance in the hive. That way it is more likely to be perceived as a supersedure by the bees. Otherwise you need to remove the old queen in order to introduce a new laying queen. If you absolutely can't find the old queen and you absolutely think you need to introduce the new one, I'd use a push in cage. All in all it's the most reliable method anyway.
A standard candy release usually works fine if there aren't any complications (such as laying workers, angry hive, already rejected a queen, been queenless a long time, can't find the old queen etc.). This is where you uncork the candy end of the cage, (or in the case of the California cages, you add the plastic tube that has the candy in it) and you put the cage in the hive and wait for the bees to eat the candy and release the queen. It is advantageous to acceptance to release the attendants in the queen cage, but if you are a beginner you may find that intimidating. A Queen Muff (from Brushy Mt.) will help much in this as you can do all of your manipulations in a situation where the queen can't fly off on you. If you catch the queen and put her head in the cage she will usually run back in.
This is the most reliable release for a laying queen. The concept of this is to give the queen some newly emerged attendants, who will accept her since they have never had any other queen, some food and a place to lay. Once she is a laying queen with attendants the hive will usually accept her without protest.
Making a Push In Cage
Most people make these about 4 inches square (10 cm). I prefer to make them bigger. The larger they are the easier it is to get some honey (so she doesn't starve) some open cells (so she has a place to lay) and some emerging brood (so she has attendants). I like mine about 5 by 10 inches (12.5cm by 25cm). Cut some #8 hardware cloth (8 wires to an inch or 1/8" wire cloth) 6 1/2" by 11 1/2" (about 16cm by 29cm). Pull off the first three wires all the way around leaving 3/8" wires sticking out with no cross wires. This is to push into the comb so that the bees can't get under easily. Now come in 3/4" from the corners (three more wires) and make a cut 3/4" in (3 more wires) on all four corners. It really doesn't matter from which direction, but you're going to fold it around the corner. Fold the 3/4" edge over. A board or the sharp edge of a table is helpful in doing this. Fold the 3/4" corners over. You now have a box with no bottom that is 3/4 inch tall and 5 by 10 inches.
Using a Push in Cage
Find a comb with emerging brood. This comb is bees who are fuzzy and struggling to get out of a cell they have just chewed open. A bee with its head sticking out of a cell is emerging brood. A bee with its behind sticking out of a cell is a nurse bee feeding a larvae or a house bee cleaning a cell. Shake (if the comb is strong enough) or brush all of the bees off of the comb. Release the queen on one side of the comb where there is emerging brood and some open honey. Put the cage over her so that it has both honey and emerging brood in it. Some open cells are nice too. Push the cage into the comb. It should stick up about 3/8" above the comb to make room for the queen to move around. Make room in the hive for this frame plus the 3/8". Some will have enough space and some will have to have a frame removed, but you need to have the frame with the push in cage and then 3/8" space between the cage and the comb on the next frame so that bees have access to the cage to meet the queen and feed them if they like. Come back in four days and release the queen by removing the cage.
If you need to keep queens that come in cages with attendants and candy, you can minimize the stress by keeping them in a cool (like 70 F) dark (like a closet) quiet (like a closet or the basement) place and give them a drop of water everyday so they can digest the candy and they will usually keep for a couple of weeks if they weren't too stressed to start with and the attendants are healthy. Give them a drop as soon as you receive them and one a day after that. If the candy looks like it will run out, you might have to give them a drop of honey and a drop of water every day. If all the attendants are dead they will need new attendants.
Obviously if there was a "right" answer, there would only be one kind of foundation. The reason there is not is that beekeepers have different preferences and different philosophies and different experiences.
Let's get a little terminology out of the way. With wax, about the only thicknesses I see available now are "Medium Brood", "Surplus" and "Thin Surplus". "Medium Brood" does NOT mean it goes in medium frames. It means it is of medium thickness. Surplus is thin and "Thin Surplus" is even thinner. Surplus is for comb honey.
Brood foundation.
The thing the bees like the most, is no foundation. Foundationless frames are the best accepted, and the most natural. They have many advantages from the Varroa control of smaller cells, to being able to cut out queen cells from a comb without worrying about hitting a wire or having plastic in the middle of the comb stop you.
The thing the bees like next, is wax foundation. They can rework it to what they want. But the closer it is to what they want the better it will be accepted. I'd say, with unregressed ("normal") bees 5.1mm would be the best accepted, as that seems to be what they want to build. Dadant sells this. 4.9mm would be next and 5.4mm last. But I want the 4.9mm for the Varroa control aspect. So one aspect of foundation is the material (wax or plastic) and another is the size of the cell.
The other issue with wax foundation is reinforcement. DuraComb and DuraGilt have a smooth plastic core. This works well until the bees strip the wax off to use somewhere else or the wax moths eat down to the plastic. Then the bees won't rebuild on the plastic. Wires are often used in wax foundation. Some foundation comes with vertical wires in it and people use it as is. Some comes with none and some people wire it with horizontal wires. The wires slow down the process of the foundation sagging.
The material the bees seem to like the least and the beekeepers seem to like the most is plastic. The wax moths can't destroy the foundation (although they CAN destroy the comb). The bees can't rework the size very easily. Sizes of plastic vary from 5.4mm down to 4.95mm. It is available as sheets of plastic foundation or fully molded frames with foundation.
Fully drawn comb is also available in plastic. PermaComb (5.0mm equivalent cell size) is available in mediums and Honey Super Cell (4.9mm equivalent cell size) is available in deeps.
Foundation for supers.
The fully drawn comb is certainly an advantage here (once the bees have accepted and used it) as the bees have only to store the nectar and don't have to build any comb. The wax moths can't touch it nor can the small hive beetles.
The various plastic frames and plastic foundation are the same as the ones available for brood, with the additional use by some of drone comb (easier to extract) and Honey Super Cell's 6.0mm cell size with a fake egg in the bottom of the cell. The fake egg supposedly fools the queen so she won't lay in it. The 6.0mm also discourages the queen as it's not quite a drone size (6.6mm) nor a worker size (4.4mm to 5.4mm) so she doesn't like to lay in it.
For comb honey, there is surplus and thin surplus. This is so the comb honey will be easy to chew and not have a thick core in the middle. It is available from most manufactures. Walter T. Kelley has it in 7/11 which, again, is a size the queen doesn't like to lay in so you can forgo the excluder and not get brood in the supers.
Kinds of frames.
There are different kinds of frames and many of the foundations were planned to be used in one or the other of them. You can usually adapt either way, but you may want to take this into account when ordering frames and when ordering foundations.
Top bars come in grooved, wedge, and split (split is available from Walter T. Kelley). The grooved are usually used with plastic or with a wax tube fastener. I prefer them to the wedge. I can attach a lot more foundation a lot more reliably (so that it doesn't fall out) with a wax tube fastener than a wedge. The wedge type has a cleat that breaks off and is nailed into the frame to hold the foundation. The split is usually used for comb honey. The foundation is just dropped down into the split onto a solid bottom bar and put in the hive without nailing at all.
Bottom bars come in split, grooved and solid. I prefer solid, as the wax moths won't get into them. But your foundation may not fit with a solid bottom bar (depending on what you buy). The split ones are not very strong and always seem to break the first time I try to clean them up and put new foundation in them. Grooved are usually used for plastic so that the plastic foundation snaps into the frame.
Plastic one-piece frames. These eliminate all the issues, other than acceptance and cutting out queen cells. No frames to build. The foundation obviously fits since it's already in there. If you buy Mann Lake PF-120s (medium depth) or PF-100s (deep depth) they are 4.95mm cell size so you get the advantage of small cell. They are cheap (in large lots they are $1 each last I saw). There is no wiring to do and they are well accepted by the bees.
An inner cover was invented to create an air space to cut down on condensation on the cover. The original ones were made of cloth but over time the wooden ones took over. In the North the problem with winter is condensation and most of that is on the lid. The warm moist air from the cluster hits the cold lid, condenses and drips down on the cluster. An inner cover was designed to prevent this. Over the years, many other uses have been found for them. You can put an inverted jar over the hole to feed. You can put wet (just harvested and extracted) supers over them to get the bees to clean them up. You can put a porter bee escape in the hole to get the bees out of a super (I've never had much luck with this). You can double screen the hole and use it between a nuc above and a hive below in the spring or fall to help the nuc stay warm. (This has not worked well for me in the winter due to condensation).
Can I not use an inner cover?
If you use migratory covers, you won't need one and probably don't want one. If you use a telescopic cover it will keep the cover from getting glued down with propolis. It's difficult to remove a telescopic cover that is propolized down to the box with no inner cover as there is no where to get your hive tool in to pry it apart. If you have a telescopic cover, I recommend you use the inner cover. If you live in the north and want to use migratory covers, make sure there is some kind of top entrance (you can cut a notch in the cover to make one. See Brushy Mt. migratory covers for an example) and put some Styrofoam on top of the lid with a brick on top of the Styrofoam. The Styrofoam will keep the lid from being as cold and the vent at the top (through the notch) will allow the moist air out.
Smells are always best investigated. They are very subjective and therefore it's best for you to see it for yourself to associate that smell with that occurrence. The most common smell that people get worried about is the smell of goldenrod honey ripening. This happens sometimes between summer and fall. To me, it smells like old gym socks. Some people say it smells like butterscotch. Most people think it smells sour.
Some people hate the taste of goldenrod honey. Once it's ripe, though, it does not smell like gym socks anymore and, in my opinion, is quite tasty. But I like strong flavored honey. Some people will pay a premium. I hardly ever get any, though, as I leave it for the bees for winter feed unless they get a bumper crop.
If you smell the smell of rotting meat, I would investigate. Sometimes you have piles of dead bees from a pesticide kill or robbing. Sometimes you have a brood disease. It's worth investigating to see what the cause is.
All of them. Read every beekeeping book you can get your hands on. But my favorites are the old ABC XYZ of Bee Culture, Langstroth's Hive and the Honey Bee and the ones that I've posted on my classic bee books page. In addition if you're past all the beekeeping books and want to know even more, all of Eva Crane's books are fascinating.
For a beginner's book for beekeeping, Backyard Beekeeping by Kim Flottom is very good and simple.
There has been much speculation by beekeepers for many centuries on this. I suppose at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century there was probably the most agreement. Italians were pretty much what everyone wanted. Now there are just as many who want Carniolans or Caucasians or Buckfasts or Russians. I see more variation from hive to hive than race to race. I'd say the best breeds of bees are the ones that are surviving around you. That's what I'm raising.
But if you want to buy some queens, the issues are how well they do in your climate (for instance Italians are probably better adapted to the South and Carniolans are better adapted to the North), and health (hygienic behavior, tracheal mite resistance, Varroa mite resistance etc.).
Another panicked posting several times a year will involve a lot of bees flying. This is usually interpreted by the new beekeeper as either a swarm or robbing. A swarm does put a lot of bees in the air, but in this case they are just hovering around the hive. If the bees seem happy and organized and not frantic and fighting on the landing board, and especially if it's short-lived and on a sunny afternoon, then it's probably just young bees orienting for the first time. Look for signs of wrestling or fighting on the landing board to rule out robbing. If there are no signs of robbing, this is the sign of a healthy hive. If the hovering bees seem to be leaving a trail of bees as they fly off, then it's probably a swarm gathering in one of your trees.
Typically beekeepers call this bearding because it often looks like the hive has a beard. Causes are heat, congestion and lack of ventilation. Make sure they have room and ventilation and don't worry about it.
Bees bearding is like people sweating. It's what bees do when they are hot.
It's good to cover the bases and then accept it. If you were sweating you'd take what steps were reasonable (turn on the fan, open the window, take off your sweater, drink lots of water) and then you'd accept that it's just hot.
With the bees, make sure they have top and bottom ventilation, (open the bottom entrance, remove the tray if you have a SBB, prop open the top box, slide a super back to make a gap) make sure they have enough room (put supers on as needed) and don't worry about it. Bearding is not proof they are about to swarm. It's proof they are hot. I think lack of ventilation contributes to an "overcrowding swarm" but it's not the only cause and it's nothing to be concerned about if you've taken care of the bees having ventilation and room.
A few times a year some new beekeeper wants to know what the bees are doing line dancing (rhythmically swaying) on the landing board. This is called "washboarding" and actually no one knows why they do it, but they do. Personally I think it's a social dance. Perhaps even a thanksgiving dance.
The problem with an electric one is that the bees will find themselves fighting the ventilator. The bees have a very efficient cooling system already. I think you're much better off to just give them some ventilation top and bottom and let them control it.
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Caught Off Camera: Chris Matthews Courts Tom DeLay (click on 2nd above)
censure
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The last time W. began wringing his hands about our addiction to oil — in the State of the Union address — the vice president was dismissive about the notion of sacrifice afterward. And the energy secretary clarified the president's words, saying they shouldn't be taken literally and that the idea of replacing Middle East oil imports with alternative fuels was "purely an example." Even if W. shows up on TV in a gray cardigan, it's patently preposterous for the Republicans to make this argument, after selling us on the idea that it's our manifest destiny to get into giant cars and go to giant Wal-Marts and giant Targets and buy more giant bags of stuff. Now they're telling us to squeeze into tiny electric cars and compete for precious drips of oil with the Chinese and Indians who are swimming in enough of our dollars to afford cars.
The U.S. could have begun developing alternative fuels 30 years ago if Dick Cheney hadn't helped scuttle an ambitious plan in the Ford administration..........
Right now, forensic analysis seems to say that the U.S. trade position is worse, not better, than it looks. And the answer to the question, "Why haven't we paid a price for our trade deficit?" is, just you wait.
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Odom, now a Yale professor and Hudson Institute senior fellow, was director of the sprawling NSA (which monitors all communications) from 1985-88 under Reagan, and previously was Zbigniew Brzezinski’s assistant under Carter. His latest 2004 book is America’s Inadvertent Empire.
Even if the invasion had gone well, Odom says it wouldn’t have mattered: “The invasion wasn’t in our interests, it was in Iran’s interest, Al Qaida’s interest. Seeing America invade must have made Iranian leaders ecstatic. Iran’s hostility to Saddam was hard to exaggerate.. Iraq is now open to Al Qaida, which it never was before- it’s easier for terrorists to kill Americans there than in the US.. Neither our leaders or the mainstream media recognize the perversity of key US policies now begetting outcomes they were designed to prevent… 3 years later the US is bogged down in Iraq, pretending a Constitution has been put in place, while the civil war rages, Iran meddles, and Al Qaida swells its ranks with new recruits.. We have lost our capacity to lead and are in a state of crisis- diplomatic and military.”
Odom believes in an immediate phased withdrawal. “There isn’t anything we can do by staying there longer that will make this come out better. Every day we stay in, it gets worse and the price gets higher.” He decried the “sophomoric and silly” titled war on terrorism. , ‘Catholic Christian IRA hitmen’?
The hypocrisy is deeper than this. By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism- in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.”...
- when this attack comes -- either as a stand-alone "knock-out blow" or as the precursor to a full-scale, regime-changing invasion, like the earlier aggression in Iraq -- there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no congressional hearings, no public debate. The already-issued orders governing the operation put the decision solely in the hands of the president. He picks up the phone, he says, "Go," and in 12 hours' time, up to 1 million Iranians will be dead.
Mr. Bush's approval at only 33 percent. According to the polling firm Survey USA, there are only four states in which significantly more people approve of Mr. Bush's performance than disapprove: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska. If we define red states as states where the public supports Mr. Bush, Red America now has a smaller population than New York City. The proximate causes of Mr. Bush's plunge in the polls are familiar: the heck of a job he did responding to Katrina, the prescription drug debacle and, above all, the quagmire in Iraq.
But focusing too much on these proximate causes makes Mr. Bush's political fall from grace seem like an accident, or the result of specific missteps. That gets things backward. In fact, Mr. Bush's temporarily sky-high approval ratings were the aberration; the public never supported his real policy agenda....That's not a prediction for the midterm elections. The Democrats will almost surely make gains, but the electoral system is rigged against them. The fewer than eight million residents of what's left of Red America are represented by eight U.S. senators; the more than eight million residents of New York City have to share two senators with the rest of New York State..... But even if the Republicans hang on to their ability to stonewall, it's hard to see how they can resurrect their agenda.... --more.
...Some would prefer, when explaining American actions overseas, to point a finger at the domestic "energy lobby." Others might blame the influence of Wilsonian idealism, or imperial practices left over from the cold war. But that a powerful Israel lobby exists could hardly be denied by anyone who knows how Washington works. Its core is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, its penumbra a variety of national Jewish organizations. Does the Israel Lobby affect our foreign policy choices? Of course — that is one of its goals. And it has been rather successful: Israel is the largest recipient of American foreign aid and American responses to Israeli behavior have been overwhelmingly uncritical or supportive....
The essay and the issues it raises for American foreign policy have been prominently dissected and discussed overseas. In America, however, it's been another story: virtual silence in the mainstream media. Why? There are several plausible explanations. One is that a relatively obscure academic paper is of little concern to general-interest readers. Another is that claims about disproportionate Jewish public influence are hardly original — and debate over them inevitably attracts interest from the political extremes. And then there is the view that Washington is anyway awash in "lobbies" of this sort, pressuring policymakers and distorting their choices. Each. How are we to explain the fact that it is in Israel itself that the uncomfortable issues raised by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt have been most thoroughly aired?...
The damage that is done by America's fear of anti-Semitism when discussing Israel is threefold. It is bad for Jews: anti-Semitism is real enough (I know something about it, growing up Jewish in 1950's Britain), but for just that reason it should not be confused with political criticisms of Israel or its American supporters. It is bad for Israel: by guaranteeing it unconditional support, Americans encourage Israel to act heedless of consequences. The Israeli journalist Tom Segev described the Mearsheimer-Walt essay as "arrogant" but also acknowledged ruefully: "They are right. Had the United States saved Israel from itself, life today would be better ...the Israel Lobby in the United States harms Israel's true interests." BUT above all, self-censorship is bad for the United States itself. Americans are denying themselves participation in a fast-moving international conversation. Daniel Levy (a former Israeli peace negotiator) wrote in Haaretz that the Mearsheimer-Walt essay should be a wake-up call, a reminder of the damage the Israel lobby is doing to both nations...
*"Lower prices to consumers" assumes that lower wage costs are passed on to the consumer, which they are not, for various reasons, one being the wages and retirement packages being given to CEOs. --Politex
--more, [Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld]... -.". Lee Raymond [.
But the fake research works for its sponsors, partly because it gets picked up by right-wing pundits, but mainly because it plays perfectly into the he-said-she-said conventions of "balanced" journalism. A 2003 study, by Maxwell Boykoff and Jules Boykoff, of reporting on global warming in major newspapers found that a majority of reports gave the skeptics — a few dozen people, many if not most receiving direct or indirect financial support from Exxon Mobil — roughly the same amount of attention as the scientific consensus, supported by thousands of independent researchers....
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- felt in your wallet immediately. If you buy the same item on a credit card, unless you are using accrual accounting, it is disguised until the bill arrives. The U.S. government has been running up bills -- notably the promises of pensions and health-care benefits for military veterans and millions of other retirees -- without putting the obligations on the books.
That is what is really scary about the financial report. It contains page after page of graphs showing the probable future course of income and expenditures for Social Security and Medicare. In each chart, the dotted line for spending climbs far faster than the solid line for revenue. Beginning a decade from now, the shortfalls explode in what Cooper calls "a perfect storm" of fiscal ruin.."
Walker, who has been traveling the country trying to spread the alarm, said flatly that if the tax cuts now in effect are made permanent, as President Bush is requesting, and spending continues to rise at the current rate, "the system blows up. More than half our debt is now financed by foreign countries, and they will exact a price." Digging out of this mess "will take 20 years," Walker said, but the first step is simply to reassert the budget controls -- spending caps and a "pay-go" rule that requires offsets for any new tax cuts or spending increases.
The Republicans who let those lapse in 2002 refused once again this year to put them back in the budget resolution....:...
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George Whitty, Nyack, N.Y.: To what extent do you believe Iran's declared plans to open an oil exchange denominated in euros this spring factors into the Bush administration's plans for war there? And to what extent do you believe that Iraq's efforts in a.....
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"The president believes the leaking of classified information is a very serious matter," Scott McClellan said. ." And thank goodness we have a White House that gets that distinction. Democrats who don't, he sniffed, are guilty of "crass politics."....
--more aren't saying, "Gosh, I'd like to go to Missouri, but...too.
...Now - now I know George Bush says Jesus Christ changed his heart. But believe me, Dick Cheney changed it back....
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When the Bush Administration keeps hauling out its "we-didn't-know-nothin'" spin -- about Katrina, 9/11, Iraq, torture -- in effect they're using incompetence as their defense. How can you try to censure or impeach us, they're saying, when we didn't know what was happening, what to do or how to do it?
Their incompetence by this time has been well-documented and par for the Bush course. But, as the evidence demonstrates, in each of those cases they knew a lot more than they let on, having received adequate warnings of the scenarios that were about to unfold.
They knew the levees might well be breached in New Orleans and did nothing; more than 1000 died. They knew a major al Qaida attack was coming in late-Summer 2001, probably by air and aimed at icon American targets in New York and Washington, and did nothing; nearly 3000 died. They knew their own advisers had alerted them that Saddam had no WMD and no connection to the 9/11 attacks, but they went ahead anyway and lied the Congress and American people into Iraq; tens of thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians have died and are continuing to do so. They knew, because they had approved the "harsh" interrogation methods, that tortures were being carried out on prisoners in U.S. care, but they did nothing (until photos leaked to the press); more than 100 detainees have died, and many thousands more have been brutalized and/or humiliated. They knew that eavesdropping on American citizens was illegal without court-sanctioned warrants, but they went ahead anyway, convinced nobody would ever learn of their law-breaking.
All of that is reprehensible, and will be added to the list of charges for the eventual impeachment hearings of Bush and Cheney, and/or to the criminal trials of those two and their subordinates. But what I propose to talk about here are not specifics of the high crimes, misdemeanors and thorough-going bunglings. To do that is to focus on the trees while ignoring the forest; we need to go deeper and find out who planted the seeds....
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Tom's speech was jam-packed with some gems.
His withdrawal he blamed on the Dems.
It seems Streisand and Moore
Forced him out the House door.
Has the Bugman been sniffing his che...'
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Last month Mr. Falwell issued a statement explaining that, in his view, Jews can't go to heaven unless they convert to Christianity.... [and John McCain] accordingly.....Working Americans have always known this simple equation: More workers, lower wages. Fewer workers, higher wages.....
-offs. Then put the CEO of that corporation in prison for two or more years for violating the law against hiring illegal workers.......
Got it? You can also imprison the corporate official who actually hired the illegal and, just to make sure, put some Betty Sue Billups—housewife, preferably one with blond? --Molly Ivins
Dead Family: Children of Abraham: U.S. Troops Raid Iraqi House
What happened in the village of Abu Sifa, in the rural Al-Isahaqi district north of Baghdad, on figures (women, according to the villagers), and five children – all of them apparently under the age of five, one as young as seven months – were pulled from the rubble of the house and laid out for burial beneath the bright, blank desert sky....
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IQMS EnterpriseIQ Manufacturing ERP Review
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Every contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team:
Document your business plan. It’s hard to build a business without a plan, just like it’s hard to build a house without a blueprint. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor.
Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples.
Set realistic milestones and achieve some. You can’t measure results if you don’t have a yardstick. On the other hand, if your objectives are off the chart, you look bad when you set them, and you look even worse when you miss them. Only written milestones are credible.
Traction means that you have achieved one or more significant milestones, which will give you credibility with investors. Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Only real results count.
Attract a well-rounded team. A great business often starts with one person, but it doesn’t end there. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.
A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). A team of friends and family that work for free on weekends is not likely to impress investors, unless they ARE your investors.
Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.
Investors are likely to make a few phone calls, so make sure these people really have taken the time and commitment to work with you, and know your business. Ideally, they will have links to distributors you need, or even be investors in your company as well.
Ship a minimum product now. For a true scientist, the product is never good enough, so it’s never done. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. It will be wrong, so count on iterating, but you learn something each time, and that is traction.
By using a laser focused approach for the first iteration, you may actually produce something and get a customer without funding. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.
Get a real customer and real revenue. If you give away your product or service to the first 10 customers, that’s a good learning experience, but it’s not real traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Sell one.
Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.
Register some intellectual property. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress.
Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.”
Letters of intent or endorsement. If it’s too early for real customers, a Letter of Intent (LOI) or a written endorsement from a potential big customer is good traction to show potential investors. These show you have the ability to make the connections you need.
Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility.
Show personal investment. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If you haven’t risked anything or used funds effectively, investors won’t let you risk theirs.
A related issue is your apparent commitment to the project. If your startup is an evening hobby for you and some friends, and they all have a full-time day job elsewhere, don’t expect investors to get excited.
Become a visible expert. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. This is traction that will impress investors, and get you customers.
Other ways to be visible include writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and issuing press releases which are related to the market need rather than the product you are producing. These efforts should be started well before you are ready for funding.
Your objective is to build a business that marches with power and purpose past its goals and objectives. Both your team and potential investors are watching, and if all they see and feel is words and work without progress, it’s easy to conclude that your startup is still a dream and a prayer.
Marty Zwilling
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Now that Apple's (AAPL) stock has crashed more than 35% from its peak, most Wall Street analysts are frantically cutting their estimates and reducing their price targets.
Most of them still rate the stock a "buy" so it's not as though everyone has given up and thrown in the towel.
This herd-like analyst behavior often frustrates critics, who complain that Wall Street analysts usually miss big turning points like Apple's.
In the case of Apple, though, a couple of Wall Street analysts were out in front of the stock's collapse. One of them has now upgraded it again, arguing that investors have actually become too negative about the company.
Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research recently upgraded Apple from Neutral to Buy.
Piecyk argues that investors have gotten way too pessimistic about Apple, with some even suggesting that it's the next BlackBerry (BBRY).
To be clear: Piecyk's not sounding the "all clear."
Piecyk thinks Apple will have a lousy first quarter, and will then issue "guidance" for the second quarter that is far below analysts' current estimates. That's bad news, obviously, and some investors will no doubt be startled and disappointed by it. But Piecyk thinks that most institutional investors have already factored this news into their assessments of the stock. And he thinks that, once expectations are reduced, the Apple news will be better from there.
Apple will release a cheap iPhone this year, Piecyk predicts. Apple might also even release an iPhone with a bigger screen. Piecyk also believes that even if these two products have much lower profit margins than Apple's current premium iPhone, Apple's overall profit margin won't drop too much.
Apple's profit margin is currently so high that, even if the margin drops a few points, the company will still coin money.
Piecyk thinks Apple's earnings per share will be flat to down this year versus last year. But the tens of billions of dollars of new revenue that Apple could generate from a cheaper and bigger iPhone should drive earnings growth next year, even at a lower profit margin. Wall Street will likely start to focus on that growth, Piecyk thinks, by the middle of this year.
Watch my discussion with Walt Piecyk here >
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It will be a taken as a major bullish signal on natural gas.
Earlier this month, Exxon made a presentation on how the natural-gas era was set to begin.
They were serious.
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But while "Ball Four" brought the clubhouse and the off-the-field lives of players to the fans, "Moneyball" opened the door to the front office for everybody to see.
But more importantly, Lewis helped popularize a growing trend in baseball.
The gap in baseball is widening between the haves and the have-nots. Those running teams outside of New York, Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles could either accept their fate as second-class citizens in an Evil Empire, or they could try and find a sling and a rock and take their best shot at the Goliaths.
But considering the popularity of "Moneyball," it is still a highly misunderstood book. And nearly a decade after its release, several myths still linger.
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Our colleague Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has been chronicling the latest comments from investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who has described college spending as a gigantic bubble, and who is of the belief that a lot of people who currently go to college actually shouldn't waste the time.
There are some interesting questions there, but we'll stay out of this one.
What's more interesting is why Thiel & co. are making this argument.
The answer is pretty simple: Intellectual rebelliousness.
The education system offers a gigantic fat pitch for anyone who wants to carve out a niche. This is because a) the wisdom of education is taken for granted by just about everyone and b) because there really are problems with the system, and it's not hard to find inefficiencies. Thus it's really easy to make a ton of hay on this subject.
It's not that different from being a contrarian investor, simultaneously identifying some area that everyone loves and is rife with problems.
This isn't just conjecture. Look at the people who gravitate towards the anti-higher ed stance. Peter Thiel is a gay Ann Coulter fan, who is a big backer of the paleo-Catholic magazine First Things. He's obviously got a knack for standing athwart stereotypes. Being anti-higher ed in Silicon Valley (where a lot of people have big ideas about saving the world through knowledge) fits in perfectly.
Other people on the anti-higher ed bandwagon show similar characteristics. CNBC's John Carney attended multiple Ivy League schools, but has made a name as an intellectual rebel, and so this position is a natural fit. (It should be noted that Thiel has a JD from Stanford).
Or even take Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, who is married and religious (which anyone can see from following him on Twitter) but likes to write articles called How To Cheat On Your Wife.
Another one is James Altucher, a fantastic writer and intellectual thinker, who says he won't send his daughter to college. One column on the subject starts off with the line: "Somehow I went wrong as a father." which he can't possibly believe. Obviously he gets a lot of delight in making other parents gasp.
The debate over college as an investment has some interesting facets that are worth pondering. However, as in most discussions, people who take a certain side mainly do so to project a certain image of themselves, and to be seen in a certain light. The anti-higher education people sense an opportunity -- because the conventional wisdom on this subject is so consistent -- to cultivate a stance that is both easy to defend and on the surface extremely rebellious.
Want to go to college? Here's our guide to the best universities in the country >
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News alert: Payton, Loomis and Williams suspended by NFL
For his involvement in the New Orleans Saints' bounty program, coach Sean Payton has been suspended for one season without pay by the NFL, the league has announced. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis has been suspended for eight games. Former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who has since been hired as defensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams, has been suspended indefinitely. The team has also been fined $500,000 and will have to give up its second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 NFL Drafts. In addition, Saints assistant head coach Joe Vitt has been suspended without pay for the first six games of the 2012 season. Payton's suspension will begin April 1. The NFL revealed earlier this month the findings of a lengthy investigation into a Saints bounty program that gave thousands of dollars in payoffs to players in exchange for hits that knocked opponents out of games. The program, administered by Williams, reached its height in 2009, the season the Saints won the Super Bowl. Read Daily Report PM for additional details.
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Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Faced with criticism that companies didn’t use proceeds of a 2004 tax holiday to create jobs directly, advocates for repeating the policy are emphasizing the indirect economic effects of repatriating more than $1 trillion.
Whether the money is used for hiring or stock buybacks, “I would much rather have their foreign earnings here rather than in, say, France,” said Kenneth Kies, a tax lobbyist at the Federal Policy Group in Washington whose clients include Microsoft Corp. and Pfizer Inc.
Those companies, along with Apple Inc., Google Inc., and Qualcomm Inc., are part of a coalition urging Congress to temporarily reduce the tax rate on profits held overseas. They want a repeat of a 2004 law that let companies pay 5.25 percent, instead of 35 percent, when they bring that cash to the U.S.
A flurry of studies and legislative activity over the past few weeks has brought increased attention to the proposed repatriation tax break. Lawmakers from both parties are trying to position the repatriation holiday as a tonic for the ailing economy. The proposal hasn’t advanced in Congress because of Democratic opposition, concerns about its cost to the government and the experience after the 2004 holiday.
Opponents, including Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, have complained that companies used the proceeds of the 2004 holiday to buy back stock instead of creating jobs. He released a report Oct. 10 showing that the 15 corporations that brought back the most money after the 2004 holiday cut a combined total of almost 21,000 jobs.
‘Embarrassing Failure’
“It’s very clearly understood that it failed, and beyond that, it was an embarrassing failure,” said Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington group that advocates for low- income families.
Such criticism misses the point, Representative James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, told reporters yesterday.
“To say that over $300 billion came back into the American economy and it had no impact is difficult to swallow,” he said. “What they’re trying to target specifically is that did people spend it the way we wanted them to spend it.”
Laura D’Andrea Tyson, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, released a study yesterday estimating that a repatriation tax break would cause companies to bring home $1 trillion, add between $178 billion and $336 billion to the gross domestic product and generate as many as 2.5 million jobs. A study done for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in September showed higher growth and job-creation projections.
Investment Argument
“Anything we can do to encourage investment and consumption spending is a positive in terms of bringing the economy closer to its capacity,” she said.
Tyson is on the board of directors of Eastman Kodak Co., a member of the coalition of companies seeking the repatriation holiday. She released the study in conjunction with the New America Foundation, a Washington group that studies policies affecting the information-age economy. The chairman of its board of directors is Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google.
Marr questioned whether shareholders would increase their consumption significantly if stock prices increased because of corporate buybacks.
“This argument comes because their main argument has so utterly failed,” he said.
‘Wet Puppy’
Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California, said the companies seeking a repatriation holiday often portray their offshore profits “as a wet puppy” waiting to be let back in the house.
That’s untrue, he said, because companies’ assets outside the U.S. are often held in dollar-denominated securities.
“The money, in fact, to that extent, is already in the United States economy,” he said. “The route is a little bit indirect.”
Kenneth Serwin, Tyson’s co-author of the repatriation study, said the indirect route isn’t as influential in the economy as higher stock prices spurred by buybacks. Increased consumption by shareholders will spur economic growth, he said.
As the economic argument among experts continues, the legislative path for a repatriation holiday remains uncertain.
Companies are trying hard. The coalition and its members have more than 160 lobbyists working on the issue, including at least 60 who worked for a sitting member of the House or Senate, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
Bipartisan Proposal
On Oct. 6, Senators Kay Hagan, a North Carolina Democrat, and John McCain, an Arizona Republican, released a bill that would set a maximum tax rate of 8.75 percent with a rate as low as 5.25 percent for companies that expand their payrolls by at least 10 percent.
Within the next week, Senators Charles Schumer and Mark Kirk will unveil legislation that would institute a tax holiday for repatriated offshore profits and dedicate the proceeds to infrastructure investment, Kirk said in an interview earlier this week.
The Illinois Republican, who has been working with New York’s Schumer, who is the third-ranking Senate Democrat, to craft the legislation, said he is trying to win support from other Republicans.
‘Big Picture’ Debate
Kirk said he and Schumer want their proposal to fit into the “big picture” debate over jobs and the federal budget, adding that they hoped it was something the so-called supercommittee charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in budgetary savings might consider.
“It clearly would add to the Treasury and the cash flow of the United States,” he said.
The Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for tax legislation in Congress, disagrees. A repeat of the 2004 holiday would cost the government $78.7 billion in forgone revenue over the next decade, in part because companies would continue shifting profits overseas and holding them there in anticipation of another tax holiday, the panel said.
That revenue estimate has dampened support for the proposal, as has the Obama administration’s opposition to a stand-along holiday. Furthermore, Republicans such as Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, have said they prefer addressing offshore profits as part of a broader overhaul of the tax code.
--With assistance from Kathleen Hunter, Steven Sloan and Andrew Zajac
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Area residents fill sand bags ahead of Tropical Storm Isaac in St. Pete Beach on Sunday. Photographer: Edward Linsmier/Getty Images.
“When you see the storm hitting in the Gulf right as you’re nominating your candidate for president, rightly, it’s going to draw the nation’s attention away, and so it’s going to be very hard to compete with that,” Republican strategist Alex Castellanos said in an interview.
“If the nation is hurting, it can be a bit unseemly to be celebrating a political accomplishment of picking a nominee,” he said.
The day after Republican Party officials announced they would scrap Monday’s official schedule because of Isaac, they joined Romney campaign advisers in downplaying the chances that the storm could dilute the narrative they plan to present on the stage at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
“Our primary concern is not just the safety of the folks here but the folks around the country. But, that said, there are millions of Americans that are tuning in because they want to hear from and about Mitt Romney,” said Sean Spicer, the party’s communications director. “They’re looking forward to this and so are we.”
Russ Schriefer, a senior Romney strategist, told reporters on a conference call yesterday that despite the weather, the key messages will still come through, including today’s planned theme of, “President Obama’s failed leadership, not serving the American people.”
That subject, he said, “is something we can talk about in each one of these areas, and we will continue to do that and drive that message.”
Without being able to predict the weather, he added, the plan is still to hold convention events Tuesday through Thursday.
Still, the storm is threatening to eat into the already limited hours of free television time dedicated to Romney’s elevation at a moment when many Americans traditionally are just tuning in to the presidential contest. Instead of three solid nights of convention coverage, viewers may be treated to a steady stream of images of wind-lashed palm trees, torrential rains and rising waters.
Sam Feist, the Washington bureau chief for CNN, said while the cable network hasn’t shifted any staff covering the convention out of Tampa for storm coverage, it plans to juxtapose the weather story with the political one.
“You’ll see us mixing both stories together, because they’re both connected, and you’ll see us covering both,” Feist said in an interview. “We certainly can walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Other television networks may redeploy reporters from the party in Tampa to potential strikes in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Fox was planning to position five reporters along the Gulf Coast, including at least one who was assigned to convention coverage in Tampa, according to a network spokeswoman.
NBC was considering moving reporters away from the convention to better cover the storm. “It’s a moment-by-moment decision,” said spokeswoman Erika Masonhall.
Messages on Twitter about the tropical storm were outnumbering Republican National Convention-related missives 20- to-1 yesterday, said Adam Sharp, the social networking service’s Washington-based manager of government and political partnerships who has set up shop at the convention site.
There were some power outages in South Florida, where Florida Keys residents were bracing for winds of up to 65 mph, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Bryan Koon said.
Florida Governor Rick Scott urged delegates staying along the beach in Tampa Bay to remain in their hotels today because of potential bridge closures and roads flooding. Tampa was expected to get about six inches of rain today, winds of about 40 mph and storm surges of about three feet, Koon said.
Obama returned from Camp David yesterday and had no public events scheduled for today, though he was set to begin a two-day college tour on Tuesday in Iowa and Colorado reaching out to younger voters.
Even as aides cautioned they weren’t looking to politicize Isaac, the White House managed to work a mention of the rained- on party into its official readout of Obama’s storm briefing today. Obama, according to the briefing, told Scott, “to let him know if there are any unmet needs or additional resources the administration could provide, including in support of efforts to ensure the safety of those visiting the state for the Republican National Convention.”
Democratic strategists said there was an opportunity to showcase presidential leadership and provide a contrast with Romney.
“While this does not seem to be a crisis yet, the lesson of Katrina is not lost on anyone,” said Steve Elmendorf, a strategist for the party. “Natural disasters are an important time for any political leader to take charge and show concern and action.”
It’s not the first time Republicans have had to reshuffle their convention plans because nature intervened. Four years ago, the first night of the party convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, was canceled by Republican officials worried that a gathering storm, Hurricane Gustav, might remind voters of the botched response to Hurricane Katrina three years before.
The 2008 convention “worked out very well and, frankly, I think the same thing will happen here,” said Steve Duprey, a New Hampshire Republican national committeeman who advised Senator John McCain of Arizona, who accepted the nomination at the Minnesota convention. “They’ll have to condense the message, so some of your outlying speakers may get canceled.”
It’s been 40 years since Republicans held a national convention in Florida, and some now wonder how long it will be before the party returns.
While many delegates are still planning to head to Tampa, Gulf Coast governors can’t all say the same: Scott canceled three days of his convention activities; Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal is reconsidering his plans; and Mississippi’s Phil Bryant stayed home.
To contact the reporters on this story: Julie Hirschfeld Davis in Tampa, Florida at [email protected]; Michael C. Bender in Tampa, Florida at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jeanne Cummings at [email protected]
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Basic instructions for doing this with your baby, roll out a small piece (the size of your baby's hand) of Model Magic onto a portable surface. Strap your baby into their highchair! :) Stretch out their little fingers, put the base of their palm into the clay and then press each finger in quickly. You may need a video or other distraction to get the job done! If you mess up, roll it up and start again. It's very forgiving!
Age range: I did this with my 6 month old for his hand. I did his feet when he was an infant.
Now for the Big Boy one!
I was inspired when I saw a great one on Pinterest from Mommy Mucho! Here is our version:
Post contains affiliate links: Model Magic is made by Crayola. Should be in most major craft stores. One bag 4 ounce bag (about $3.99) should make about 4+ ornaments.
Kristen is the blogger behind Busy Kids = Happy Mom, a site dedicated to fun, practical, and purposeful activities to do with your kids. Follow Kristen on Facebook, Pinterest, and Busy Kids = Happy Mom.
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How big is the bag of model magic that your purchased? Thank you! Great project!
Hi Ashley! I just got the 4oz size and it made several (great gifts!).... they also sell bags that have 6 individually wrapped ones too. Love this stuff!
Thanks so much!!
This is SUPER cute! I've seen the handprint, but never the snowman like that - What a fun idea! I am your newest liker. I'd love for you to follow me back, if you want to =-) I also wanted to invite you to linkup at my TGIF LInky Party -
Beth =-)
These are awesome! Do you think acrylic paint would work well, with a mod podge protective layer over? Im thinking upside down hand for my dd (3) to make santa (hat being thumb, fingers being beard) and foot prints for reindeer from my baby twin boys. But paint would cover a lot better than sharpies, and ive never had any luck with salt dough :(
@Archives of Five - I think you could try acrylic paint. Why not? This is fun to play with and very forgiving.
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Juliette Lewis and Terry Richardson allegedly took photographs of themselves having sex, and these pictures provide fairly compelling evidence that the “allegedly” in that sentence should be an “actually.” Why would Juliette Lewis, a famous actress, allow herself to be photographed in such a fashion by Terry Richardson, a famous sleazeball? Who the fuck knows. Anyway, these are the frankly rather acrobatic results. They are (obviously obviously obviously) NSFW.
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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Trip Planning Forum :: End to End route
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05/10/2012 10:22AM
Thanks. I have been on the east side of this route on South Fowl Lake along the border lakes. I will check my maps for the west side.
FLRocky
05/09/2012 08:02PM
Interested in making the BWCA end-to-end the first leg in a triathlon with bike leg from MN to WA on the Northern Tier Route and a hiking leg around Rainier on The Wonderland Trail.
Any end-to-end suggested routes?
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The Border Route from South Fowl Lake on the east to Crane Lake at the west end would make the most sense. You could also reverse the route to take advantage of prevailing winds.
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Hi all,
A common problem (and obsessive issue) for many BJJ/No gi grapplers is determining what weight class they want to compete in. I myself have this issue and have looked at several articles from respectable names in the game whom have very different opinions on the subject.
I weigh 77kg without the gi (79kg roughly with the gi) but could make the 76kg lightweight category if i made some consistent lifestyle changes- i.e dieting/ methods of training.
Does it even make a difference? What are the pro's and cons for going down a weight or fighting in the middle of a weight class but being your natural weight? Has anyone on this forum had similar thoughts/issues on the same subject?
Cheers
Firebird
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Hang on a minute here, is this the same mongo that's even posting now ?
Hang on a minute here, is this the same mongo that's even posting now ?
sick of the bullshit !
The fact you break your phoney shite speak and start speaking in a normal manner makes your trolling even shitter, I didnt think that was even possible.
Smell my beans. You want to taste my beans don't you. Yes, yes you do.
Completely agree with SpartanFT on this one. GCG are not even in the slightest bitter about the decision that ACC took with regards to ACC stopping GCG from training the 1.5 hours a week in their cage. After all, they have grown extensively and have to ensure the best steps are taken to cover such a large premises with a very large number of members coming through the doors. Only appreciation is felt from myself and others about how open the Spartans lads/ACC have been to us and how we continue to all grow together. Hopefully we can learn from each other and continue to improve in the sport that we all have the same interest for. Leon on the other hand is a complete knob jockey that is ruining what could be a good forum. The only love he seems to have is sitting at him computer talking utter pish. Trolling takes very little skill and shows that he is a coward, I suggest that people just ignore him and he will go away...Anyway.........
I dont really understand MC Blackbelts beef to be fair, why isnt dave clark by no means a purple belt. have you coached him, do you have the knowledge to know this. you know fuck all, you are fuck all. because you are a fucking no body, you have no name NOR no real identity.
Last time I checked this was a scottish forum, and scottish people are proud people and dont hide behind false names and spread untrue statements, Mark turner has stated who he is and smashed your whole thread to pieces. I believe people respect him for that.
You my friend are gaining no respect. I wish you well in your quest for calling shit how shit is, maybe spend less time on googling stuff and more time in the gym. you might get promoted to your next belt.
The RED BELT OF BEING AN ABSOLUTE BELLEND!!!
im outtie.......
I'm guessing the Spartans lads think Leon is someone from GCG. I hope that isn't the case. I have my doubts seeing as GCG has been slagged off by Leon as well. And guys in our club hate this whole episode - and have been pretty vocal in airing their views on it.
Ultimately, I'm pretty disappointed at all those who have responded to Leon and fed a truly abysmal troll. He should have been left to rot and die. And it's frustrating that he hasn't been deleted from the forum, as he's part of the reason this place has gone downhill.
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This Independence Day marks the 236th year since 56 courageous men signed the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, these Founding Fathers embodied the spirit of what is now known as American Exceptionalism. A City Upon A Hill, produced by Citizens United, explores the concept of American Exceptionalism from its origin [Read More]
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Toyota Canada is launching a voluntary safety campaign affecting approximately 103,932 of certain 2009/2010 Toyota Corolla and Matrix vehicles sold in Canada.
Toyota says it has determined that there is a possibility that ice could accumulate gradually near the suction port for the brake vacuum under certain repeated environmental (below -30C over a sustained period of days and/or weeks) and unique driving conditions (high speed, distance, continued idling) resulting in a heavy brake feel, although brakes will continue to function.
In the interest of customer satisfaction, Toyota says it will be asking consumers affected by this campaign to bring their vehicles to their local Toyota dealer where the campaign repairs will be done at no expense to the customer.
For more information, contact Toyota Canada at 1-888-TOYOTA-8.
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Now they are happy to call it home.
Bowen’s path to Gordon County began when he followed his true interest in finance to Edward Jones, where he had been a long-time client. With years of experience in accounting, Bowen became a financial advisor for Edward Jones. He opened an office in Wilmington, N.C.
“We loved North Carolina but we wanted to be closer to home, but not necessarily in our hometown (in Alabama.) That’s how we found out about Calhoun. Initially I asked, on behalf of another advisor, if there were any openings in Alabama. This is when I found out about a couple of openings we had in Georgia and we had enjoyed living in Georgia back in the 90’s,” recalled Bowen. “The company flew me to Rome to see the area and mentioned that I also take a look at Calhoun. I came up here and knew I’d like it.”
“I saw that they were building a new school in Sonoraville and that Gordon County was right between Chattanooga and Atlanta, so the location is great,” he said.
“Really the selling point was how friendly people seemed. I was driving around on my own trying to find Red Bud Road when I stopped in at the Chamber of Commerce to ask for directions and that is when I first met Ruby Crump,” Bowen said.
“Now if you know her, you love her. She was really nice and introduced me to everyone in the building. That stuck with me and made me feel like this would be a great place to live and a great community to raise my kids in.”
“I told my wife how everyone was so nice and I’ve since told the staff and volunteers at the Chamber how much of a positive influence they can have,” he said.
“Also, my fraternity pledge boss of all things, was from Calhoun, Chuck Ruth. I told him I was considering moving to Rome and he had a lot of great things to say about Calhoun and particularly both the city and county school systems. Another one of my good friends from high school and college, Phillip Cofield, who has lived in Calhoun for the past 15 years, spoke highly of the people here as well,” he said.
By the time Bowen made his second trip to Calhoun, he’d accepted the position as Financial Advisor for the area and had a place to call home with his wife Melisha and sons Austin and Dylan soon to follow.
Bowen’s actions speak as loud as his words. In eight years he has shown his love and support for the community. He has been involved with the Chamber of Commerce as Past Immediate Chair, Vice Chair and at present Executive Committee Board member.
He holds the County wide Post on the Gordon County Board of Education and he is Advisory council for the County’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter and Junior Achievement.
“Dewayne is a very good man, and holds my utmost respect and admiration,” said his wife Melisha Bowen. “Over the years, I have learned so much from him. I have enjoyed watching Dewayne teach our boys the importance of having good character and being ethical. He is very dependable, fair and always stands up for what he believes in. I am so proud of him and his accomplishments,” she said.
“I’ve enjoyed being a part of the Chamber. One of my favorite things is getting to know people,” said Bowen.
“I like to work and enjoy my job very much. We (Edward Jones) provide financial advice and guidance to about 450 families in the North West Georgia region, and are looking to grow with people looking to better plan for retirement, save for college or lower their tax bill.”
“I am honored to work for great clients and I really count many as personal friends as well. Really my passion is helping people with decisions that create a better life and help them reach a variety of goals. I love meeting people before they retire, being with them when they retire, helping them send their kids to college, etc. It feels good to interact with clients and create working friendships,” he said.
“The need is there to provide people with financial advice they can trust. I love being able to do that and I really enjoy coming to work every day.”
As a school board member: “I like going over to the schools and seeing how I can help the kids. I have kids in the system and I feel like that makes me more approachable. I like helping kids explore career possibilities as well, mostly those I know through my own sons. Just like every person, I owe a lot to teachers who worked extra hard to help and inspire me. And as a Board of Education member I want to find ways to help teachers and the staff now who have been working hard with less pay over the past few years. Several members of my family are teachers, so I think it’s one of the most noblest of professions,” he said.
“It’s different in the private sector - budgets, taxpayer money vs. profits - very different.”
“I came onto the Board during a time of financial crisis I know, but I still hope to bring to the school board a different perspective on accountability and transparency, so that we utilize our resources in ways for the students and taxpayers that we all can be proud of.”
Bowen’s strengths as an advisor and friend are just a few of the traits that make him a great father, according to his sons. “My father is an intelligent man. He always pushes me towards success as much as he possibly can. He tries his best to lead me in the right direction,” said his son Austin Bowen.
Bowen’s son Dylan said of his father, “My dad is a great example of a man with unwavering moral values.”
“I don’t play golf or hunt, but I like spending as much time as I can with my two sons and my wife. We have always been together wherever we go, so it’s a little unusual for my wife and I, now, as our boys are getting older and more independent. My wife and I love to travel. We sacrifice other material things such as new cars and such so we can save and put back to enjoy big vacations. This summer we’re going to Switzerland. And in the past few years we’ve visited Hawaii, Huntington Beach, Calif., Yellowstone, St. Thomas Island and have gone on a couple of cruises,” he said. I have three older sisters and my parents are still married after nearly 60 years. I’m happy that my wife and I are close to all 11 of our nephews and nieces, and we enjoy visiting with them as well. It is important to stay healthy and exercise and I do those things with varying degrees of success. I workout at the gym, play basketball with a group weekly, and my wife and I enjoy riding bikes in the area and an occasional 5k run,” he said.
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Recently, California Closets Twin Cities transformed Twin Cities Live hosts, Elizabeth Ries and John Hanson's cluttered dressing room. You can view photos of the transformation and watch Elizabeth and John's reactions at our Facebook Page:
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We were ecstatic to be featured again on January 5, 2012! Our local franchise owner, Michelle Skjei, took viewers on a tour throughout her home, and inside of her California Closets. Lots of great storage and organization ideas for your home for the New Year! View them here.
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If you told me that we'd get to start our NIT run with our two best big men either limited or out, I'd sigh heavily and start having flashbacks through years of Cal fandom. In a truly unfortunate turn of events, our lone senior found his season come to a cruel end from a dislocated shoulder suffered in practice. No problem. Harper will just have to pick up the slack, right? Um...Harper spent all day vomiting and had to receive several IV's throughout the day. He's going to play, but looks like the walking dead. Can I get an "doh?"
It would have been easy for our Cal Bears to be disheartened and to go quietly into the night. We all know the season has already been success and who could fault us for losing with two of our best players unable to play at full strength?
On the other hand, we could use the adversity as a rallying point and use a "rabid" home crowd to play out of our minds! Who's with me!?!?!
1st Half:
Cal came out in zone. Smart move considering the depth issues and might have been the plan all along because we have trouble matching up with their quicker guards. It was clear from the start that Jorge didn't get the memo about our depth chart woes. Or maybe he got it and just didn't care. Between Jorge's driving brilliance and Crabbe's sniping from 3, the Bears quickly ran out to a 19-8 lead. Solomon and Bak Bak were doing a great job early on controlling the glass. Then Solomon took an elbow to the nose and had to sit. Ole Miss took advantage and went on an 8-3 run using several offensive boards to prolong their possessions. It became clear that it would be a contest between Ole Miss' streaky 3-point shooting and Cal's determination. Kamp started strong, but looked like he wore down and didn't show the same lift or agility around the basket. Similarly, Jorge kept making hustle plays, but his jumper started to look really flat. To stop Jorge and Smith from penetrating, Ole Miss went exclusively zone. They were almost playing a bit of a matchup with someone always jumping out at Crabbe while leaving Smith open on the perimeter. Although Smith hit one jumper, he wasn't able to make them pay. The guys were battling, but it looked Ole Miss' superior depth started to wear us down.
The good: Great energy to start. We rode Jorge's aggression and Crabbe's 3 point shooting to a slim 41-39 lead at half.
The bad: Even though 3-pt shooting is what Ole Miss does, our zone got tired and started giving up easier looks. Warren and Graham were as advertised from deep.
The ugly: When Solomon was out of the game, we gave up too many offensive boards. In particular, our wings and guards were getting beaten to the long rebounds.
2nd Half:
I'm not sure what magical adjustments Monty could make at halftime. Our post game simply didn't have the same threat with MSF out and with Kamp being clearly impaired. At this point in the season, it's not so much knowing where to go on defense and how to run the sets on offense - it was more about having the legs and stamina to get it done. Jorge and Kamp led the way out of the gates along with a revamped defense that forced several early turnovers. In a surprising move, Monty decided to go man and it seemed to confuse the Ole Miss offense for a time. Cal was able to build a slim 6 pt lead behind a bucket and free throws from...Bak Bak? But our momentum stalled around some curious non-calls, and Ole Miss rallied behind a 3 from Warren and a Henry free throw. We regained the lead using great defense to force turnovers and some nifty passing on the offensive end. Then, Solomon had to go out with an unknown leg injury...and Cal fans everywhere felt that familiar knot start deep in our collective guts. But just when it seemed the tide had turned, the mighty Bak Bak got himself dunked on and managed to make it such a posterized moment that he drew a technical on an Ole Miss player for taunting. Brilliant! Crabbe shook off a cold streak to nail a 3, a free throw, and then a leaner to give Cal a 10 point lead, 68-58, with 5:36 to play. But then fatigue and injury took their toll. The Bears slowly gave away their lead through a combination of turnovers and missed free throws. Ole Miss rode Chris Warren's scoring to cut it to 73-72 with 44.7 to go. Kamp answered with a clutch baseline jumper off a nice look from Emerson Murray. A quick drive netted two free throws for Henry...Uh oh. Could Cal win a free throw shooting contest? No way. So, Jorge decided to put the game away. After calmly nailing two free throws to regain our three point lead, he locked up Chris Warren and knocked the ball away. Henry picked up the loose ball, but his desperation heave was off line. And the Bears have won!!!
The ugly: It feels like a quibble, but we left a lot of points at the free throw line.
The bad: As the guys got tired, we forced a few early shots and made some sloppy turnovers that helped get them back in the game.
The good: We won! We finally closed out a game by putting our best defensive player on their star scorer. As great as Jorge was all game, the game ball goes to Harper Kamp for shaking off the flu (hospitalized for multiple IVs?!) and a rough 1st half to be our rock in the 2nd half.
Final thoughts:
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised anymore. This team is tough. Boot-leather tough. Decade-old beef jerky tough. @Desmond Bishop twitter-verse tough. Our guys fought through injuries, fatigue, and illness to pull one out against a dangerous SEC team. With Ole Miss streaky 3-point shooting and Warren's individual brilliance, you knew that no lead was safe. But we got just enough scoring from Allen Crabbe, hustle plays from Jorge, and clutch baskets from not-quite-dead-yet Harper Kamp. And you can't overlook the contributions of Robert Thurman, Bak Bak, and Emerson Murray for being able to give our starters a breather. If heart were justly rewarded, we wouldn't face a quick two-day turnaround against a #1 seed on the road. But you know what? I wouldn't want to play us. Let's go annex Colorado. Go Bears!
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Who was your player of the game?
HIP, HIP - JORGE! (87 votes)
ZOMBIE KAMP! (32 votes)
CRABBE - FEAST! (12 votes)
SOLO!!! (4 votes)
The training staff...especially whoever spiked Kamp's IV at half. (17 votes)
152 total votes
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June 2012 Press Releases
Ed Robertiello Named Senior Portfolio Manager of Absolute Return StrategiesJune 26, 2012
CalPERS Takes Ownership Interest in North America Real Estate AdvisorJune 26, 2012
CalPERS Names Douglas Hoffner to Top Post for Operations and TechnologyJune 19, 2012
CalPERS Distributes More than $19 Million in Medicare Retiree Drug SubsidiesJune 18, 2012
CalPERS Committee Recommends 2013 Health Benefits RatesJune 12, 2012
CalPERS CIO Joe Dear Elected Chair of SEC Investor Advisory CommitteeJune 12, 2012
Dated: 06-26-2012
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Light as a feather and no panty lines! I was told by a friend that these are the number 1 panties for 'no-lines'....and it is TRUE!!! Feather light, fits fine and they are hardly noticeable!! January 19, 2012
Yuck Threw them out after the first try on. Can nobody make underwear that doesn't cause monster panty lines? January 29, 2012
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excellent flattering slim fit shirt to show off a tight bod... this shirt is great for alot of reasons. first, wonderful fit -- if you've got a lean and lithe to athletic build (but not a crazy muscle build), this gives you a very nice and striking silhouette. it *shows* people you have a good bod. second, it's nice that the material has a bit of stretch / lycra to it, that makes it much more comfy as you move around and do your every day thing. you don't want a shirt that is so trim, it is constricting and uncomfy! third, it is (relatively) no iron. so it generally keeps it shape and appearance and you still look nice and sharp after a days wear. these are very good shirt, i just bought 3 because especially when there's a site-wide sale here (there always is for any major holiday), they are a steal. my one criticism is, you have to be quite careful how you wash these. do it on a gentle cycle, don't put it in the dryer even though it says you can do it on ie low heat. just line dry it or something. first, that keeps it less wrinkled. (even tho it says no-iron, that's not really true. you have to lightly go over it for it to look crisp and good again, but it is certainly less ironing that you'd have to do on a 100% cotton shirt). the other reason to avoid the dryer is, when my first shirt of these went it, it came out and the collar had puckered -- there were all these dimples and bumps and ridges. same was true of the cuffs. there was no way to iron / press these out. my little knowledge of fabrics is that the material is fused to some type of lining for shape, and these layers are connected by fabric adhesive / glue. that glue bubbles up or comes undone if it gets too hot, and hence the material puckers as it separates. there might be another reason for the material crimpling (and not being able to be fixed!), but based on my fashion experience, that's what causes it. (i btw returned the messed up shirt to the ck store - they exchanged it no questions asked). i just wash these very gentle and hang dry, touch up with a light iron, and that's definitely a better way to handle 'em! anyway a very good shirt. makes you look good if you have the bod for it! December 2, 2012
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Best Dress Shirt I Have Yet to Encounter This shirt is the best fit I for a natural athletic build that I have found. The quality of the fabric, the design, and the proportions are excellent. I have rarely found a shirt that when fitting my moderately broad shoulders is not too wide for my normal 34 waist, since many button-down shirts are made to accommodate a larger male waist or straight torso. The width of the sleeve is also the appropriate width, unlike the bulk found in many dress shirts. Additionally, being non-iron, it has not wrinkled. I have bought six of these shirts (Three white for the office, one black, one midnight blue, and one mineral/lavender), and anticipate buying more if CK were to manufacture some with much less vibrant color; softer, more subtle, dilute tones. The colors are, however, more intense than those portrayed on your monitor. November 4, 2012
Nice shirt.. fit, material, quality, and color on this line of CK shirts are great.... It's rare for a day to go by when I'm not complimented when wearing one of my body fit ck shirts. the cut of the body fit style is done perfectly.... I think I have every color at this point August 7, 2012
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A pioneering transplant doctor has taken over the running of Addenbrooke’s – and set his sights on turning it around in the coming year.
Dr Keith McNeil spoke to the News just hours after he took on the role of chief executive at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust about his plans to transform the trust, which had been failing to meet treatment standards for months.
It has been without a permanent chief executive since last June – Karen Castille has been interim chief executive.
Dr McNeil, a cardiac and respiratory specialist, aims to get the hospital “functioning correctly from the ground up by giving the staff resources to provide high-level patient care”.
He said: “This means not only technical care but being caring and compassionate. That transforms good health care into great health care. Those resources are not only money but time, proper education, leadership and training.”
Dr McNeil, who led the team for Australia’s first heart-lung-liver transplant, came to Addenbrooke’s from his native Australia, where he led Metro North Hospital Service in Brisbane.
He previously spent seven years at Papworth and Addenbrooke’s – the latter five years as a cardio-pulmonary transplant and respiratory physician and director of the pulmonary vascular disease unit.
During this time he was pivotal in establishing the UK’s centre for pulmonary endarterectomy at Papworth – in which blood vessels of the lungs are cleared of clots and scar material.
The father-of-three said he wanted to work closely with researchers to address problems within the hospital.
He said: “What I would like to see is a really seamless entity in terms of the academic science health partnership.
“The challenge is translating that work in the clinic but we have got to go one step further and as researchers to look at the problems we are facing in the hospital.
“So rather than translating science into medicine – bench to bedside – we are looking to go from the bedside to the bench and back to the bedside.”
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A conman has been attempting to steal bank details from residents in Essex by posing as a police officer.
The male suspect is known to call people at random and tell them their bank details have been found in the possession of criminals.
In an attempt to verify he is a genuine officer he gives the name, Sgt James Hackett – no such officer exists – and invites his victim to call him back urgently on the non-emergency police 101 number.
One victim who called to find out more became suspicious when there was no ring tone and no extension number given. He hung up immediately but another victim was tricked into giving details.
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England are confident key spinner Graeme Swann will be fit for next week's first Investec Test against South Africa, following a cortisone injection and necessary rest for his sore bowling elbow.
The 33-year-old has an apparently chronic problem in his right elbow and has already undergone surgery on the joint in the past. But coach Andy Flower expects both Swann and seamer Tim Bresnan - also rested from the final match of England's 4-0 NatWest Series victory over Australia on Tuesday because of an elbow niggle - to be ready to face South Africa on July 19.
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Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers
- Readership: Latin language
- Level: graduate students, undergraduate students
Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers are aimed at students moving on to genuine, unsimplified Latin prose and poetry after completing an introductory Latin course. Each volume will focus on a single author or topic, and will contain a useful introduction, detailed notes providing a lot of help with grammar, expression and translation, a full vocabulary, and passages of appreciation to make the selections come alive as literature. The aim of the series is to enhance students' perception and enjoyment of the stories while helping them to translate and appreciate unsimplified Latin.
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Viewfinder Problem (Jim Robinson — 03/22/2013)
The view finder on the HD CX700 and the 760 would not hold the focus setting for your individual eye when pushed back into the storage position. Did Sony fix this on the HDR PJ 790v or any other comparable models??reply to this comment
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If it involves any type of residential landscape design, commercial landscape design, construction, masonry, landscape maintenance or organic lawn or garden care, Camilla can keep your property looking its best.
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Camps on this page offer fine arts as an activity or a focus.
Your child's enthusiasm for the fine arts will almost certainly be incubated at one of these camps. As you browse the art camp listings below, be sure to note whether the camp offers a specific focus on art training or it merely presents art as one of many camp activities. While many are summer camps only, note that some camps offer year round programs. A March break art camp is a great way to encourage your child's creativity during the doldrums of spring break.
Fine arts camps can feature a variety of program focuses including sculpture and painting, as well as multi-media and other newer forms of art. Kids are allowed to indulge their love of art but will also participate in other typical camp activities.
Check out fine art camps from across Canada and the northern United States.
Arrowhead Camp
A summer camp in the Muskokas with a ratio of 1:3 counselors to campers. A variety of camp programs include kayaking, arts and more.
Day & OvernightTraditionalArts/Dance/Music
GTA PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES : TEEN CAMPS
Campers will learn key photography principles and practice during daily field trips, studio shoots and much more!
Day CampArts/Dance/Music
Camp Wabikon
Overnight coed summer camp dedicated to the ideals of leadership and friendship, with wilderness trips and a variety of sports activities.
OvernightTraditionalArts/Dance/Music
Centauri Summer Arts Camp
A sleepover camp with a focus on arts including computer, creative writing, dance and music recording, along with sports and other activities.
Day & OvernightArts/Dance/MusicArts/Dance/Music
Digital Media Academy
Accredited by Stanford University, DMA is "The Summer Digital Art and Technology Camp for Kids and Teens!"
Day & OvernightComputer/Education/ScienceArts/Dance/Music
No Strings Theatre
A multi-faceted arts day camp ideal for families from thoroughout the GTA. Programs include dance, music, theatre arts and vocal training.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
A drama camp put on by the world-renowned theatre in a picturesque small town Ontario setting. Features creative writing and dance also.
OvernightArts/Dance/Music
The Second City Training Centre
Explore the fundamentals of improvisation and sketch comedy at the Toronto Second City Youth and Teen camps.
Allegro Academy of Music and Art
This Thornhill, Ontario summer music camp offers daily music classes in kindermusik, drama and arts, along with math, reading, language and fun kids games.
Art Gallery of Ontario Art Camps
Summer camp and March Break camp with an innovative arts-based program in different media, close to downtown Toronto.
Art Works Art School
A community based summer camp whose mandate is to introduce adults, teens and children to the enriching world of art.
ArtVenture Summer & March Break McMichael Art Camps
Kids' art camp where kids can get creative: summer camp and March break camps are offered. Located in Vaughn, north of Toronto.
Avenue Road Arts School
Arts camp focuses on drama, visual arts and music. Offers summer camp and March Break programs, along with year round classes.
Canada's Academy of Stage and Studio Arts
This unique kids art camp in Toronto's west end uses the facilities of Kingsway College School, including an outdoor amphitheatre, visual arts studio and more.
Children's Arts Theatre School
This Mississauga theatre arts program offers age specific programs, with training in writing, improvisation, storytelling, creative dance and other performing arts.
Classical Music Conservatory
Here at CMC, you will be among friends and families where you will learn, discover, explore, and fall in love with music.
Dance-n-Arts
DANCE, ACT, SING AND PLAY. The leader in Arts Day Camps since 1964, ages 5-14 Years. Camps are held in two locations, Etobicoke and North York.
Design Exchange (DX)
Conveniently located in the heart of Toronto, the former Toronto Stock Exchange building offers a unique and inspiring setting for these creative camp sessions.
Designher Co. + Studio For Movement Camp
Projects include high-quality fashion accessories, jewelry design & more! Movement activities include creative dance and yoga.Camps available for PA Days, March, Passover, Christmas and Summer Break.
Durham Summer Camps
Oshawa's top camp for kids and teens. Offering a diverse range of programs including: music, rock camp, moviemaking, design, animation, video game development, arts, sewing and more.
Explore Culture and Arts in Clearview
Chinese language and culture, cooking, calligraphy, drawing, creative crafts, lion dance, Chinese paper cutting, drama, French, outdoor field trips and regular picnic lunches at a water splash pad.
Girls of Destiny
We teach girls that they matter; we help them appreciate and value themselves while developing life skills such as Leadership, Personal Development and Etiquette.
Great Big Theatre Company
With over 30 locations throughout Ontario, this summer camp offers one week sessions focusing mainly on theatre arts, with some music.
Guitar Workshop Plus
The ultimate experience in music education! Locations in Ontario and BC offering day and overnight music and performance programs.
Day & OvernightArts/Dance/Music
Harbourfront Centre Camps
Summer camps and March Break camps offering a variety of specializations including sports, arts, leadership and much more.
Harmony Arts Academy Musical Theatre Camp
Kids aged 6 - 12 can spend a week exploring the exciting world of musical theatre! This day-camp merges classes in: singing, acting, dancing, costume making, prop and set design.
Hawthorn Summer Camp
This summer camp is put on by Hawthorn School for Girls, in the Don Mills area of Toronto.
Interprovincial Music Camp
Interprovincial Music Camp programs include orchestra, band, musical theatre, jazz, rock, songwriting and event production.
Let It Be Music
Let It Be Music respects the individual learning styles of each student. Let It Be Music services are available all year long in the comfort of pupils' homes or at a private studio.
Living Arts Centre Summer Camps
Ideal for GTA families looking for summer camp, March Break or single day programs throughout the year, with music, arts, dance, more.
LONG BAY CAMP - Arts By The Lake
This unique overnight camp in Eastern Ontario offers a focus on arts but also includes sports like soccer and volleyball and much more.
Oakville Galleries
Oakville Galleries' art classes and camps teach a dynamic range of traditional and contemporary art activities that encourage children to explore the furthest reaches of their imaginations.
Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts
Dance, music, theatre arts and health and fitness are all on the bill at this camp for kids striving to be a triple threat and build understanding and love of performing.
Ryerson Theatre School Summer Camp
This summer acting camp, put on by Ryerson University, allows children to explore the world of theatre arts and performance, expanding their creative potential.
SimplySmart Summer Camp (SSSC)
SimplySmart summer camp has a large variety of camps that the kids will love from arts, dance, science, martial arts, tennis and the list goes on and on.
Studio 24 sing | dance | act
Studio 24 offers remarkable “must do” March Break/Summer Dance & Musical Theater Camp experiences. Let your child explore acting, singing and dance.
Studio PAVAS
Offers various arts camps in art, muisc, drama and dance as well as vocal training. Year-round including summer and March Break camps.
The Circus Academy (formerly The Centre of Gravity)
A great childhood experience! Activities include the basics of juggling, stilt walking, tumbling, clowning and aerial acrobatics.
Day CampArts/Dance/MusicSports
Toronto Music Camp
At the Toronto Music Camp, children from ages 7-17 can participate in several different summer music camps. Rock Camp, Drum Camp, Vocal Camp, Singer/Songwriter Camp, Junior Camp and more.
Young Actors Camp
Choose from a variety of programs with celebrity guests: film and TV acting, comedy and improv, GLEE camp or directing.
Young People's Theatre/YPT
This theatre arts (drama and acting) camp also teaches creative writing and public speaking, with year round programs in North York, Etobicoke and Toronto.
Victoria International Ballet Academy
One of the GTA's top Ballet Academies with classes for professional dancers and camps for kids and teens at every level.
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VICTORIA — Former New Democrat premier Ujjal Dosanjh says the ethnic vote-winning debate that has hammered the B.C. Liberals and forced them to issue numerous apologies is nauseating, sanctimonious and holier-than-thou.
Dosanjh, who was also a former federal Liberal cabinet minister, says the only real problem with the leaked B.C. Liberal ethnic strategy is its calls to co-ordinate operations between taxpayer funded government workers and B.C. Liberal Party operatives when it comes to courting ethnic voters.
Otherwise, Dosanjh says the scandal that has forced Clark’s former deputy chief of staff and her multiculturalism minister to resign and prompted an internal review is much ado about nothing.
Dosanjh says all political parties — the Liberals, New Democrats and federal Conservatives — engage in what he calls pandering for votes, and this pandering heats up as elections near.
In 1999, Dosanjh, known for his strong views in B.C.’s politically active Sikh community, became Canada’s first Indo-Canadian politician to lead a political party when he succeeded former NDP premier Glen Clark.
Dosanjh says he completely opposes political parties issuing apologies to multicultural groups for historical injustices, calling them phoney.
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EDMONTON (Alberta)
THE FESTIVAL CITY OF EDMONTON
Edmonton is located at the center of Alberta and is the province's capital city. The North Saskatchewan River dominates its landscape and goes through the center of the city. It has a very dry climate and there were 812,201 people living in Edmonton in 2011, the majority of which are white. Most of the populace are of European descent and come from families who were originally from England, Scotland, Germany, and Ireland. More than one-half of the population is Christians, most of whom are Protestants.
Edmonton is considered one of the most important regions for the country's petroleum industry. In fact, it was referred to as the oil capital of Canada during the 1940s. Although the energy sector is a major part of Edmonton's income, the city also has the reputation of being the most economically diverse in Canada. Many Edmontonians have jobs in the industrial sector with employers like Telus, IBM, Intuit Canada and Canadian Western Bank. The city is also one of the top centers for research and education in the country. Private sectors and the government are currently sponsoring research initiatives in the city.
HOW IT BEGAN
Although Edmonton was founded earlier on, the area's population and its economy received a boost with the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th century. The railway made it easy for people from areas such as Eastern Canada, the United States and Europe to take advantage of Edmonton's fertile and affordable land. The area was also one of the stopping points for Klondikers, people who are going to the Klondike region in the northwestern territory of the Yukon to prospect for gold. This influx of people contributed to Edmonton's reputation as a commercial and agricultural area even in the early 1900s.
Edmonton merged with Strathcona in 1912, making the city expand to the southern region of the North Saskatchewan River but the city's economy and population declined before the start of World War I. From the 1920s to the 1930s, however, the city saw its commercial prospects rise again, especially with development of Edmonton as a major component for the construction of the Alaska-Canada Highway.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT...
╣Edmonton International Fringe Theater Festival. This is an event celebrated in Edmonton every August and is considered the largest festival of its kind in North America. It features various live performances in theaters and other venues throughout the city. This is one of the largest among the 30+ festivals that get celebrated in Edmonton throughout the year.
╣John Janzen Nature Center. It showcases the natural wonders of Edmonton with permanent displays of insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles. It also features interactive exhibits, self-guided tours and hiking trails where you can encounter various wildlife.
╣Valley Zoo. It has the reputation of being an intimate zoo. It houses over 100 species of exotic and native animals, as opposed to the thousands that can be found in bigger zoos. This also means that visitors can have a closer contact with wild animals than usual. The zoo opened its doors to the public in 1959 with plans to unveil renovations and expansions in 2012.
╣Muttart Conservatory. It is hard to mistake this botanical garden because of its four giant pyramid-shaped greenhouses. It is situated in the rich North Saskatchewan River Valley and is already considered as one of the city's major landmarks. The conservatory features hundreds of plant species that grow in desert-like environments as well as tropical and temperate climates.
╣Telus World of Science (formerly the Odyssium). It is one of the Edmonton's premier landmarks located at the city's Woodcroft area. It features a planetarium and an observatory as well as a wide variety of themed science exhibits and galleries. The center attracts thousands of tourists throughout the year since its launch in 1984.
╣Rexall Place (formerly the Skyreach Center). This is an indoor arena located on the northern side of the city's Northlands area. The arena is home for the hockey teams Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Oil Kings, as well as the Edmonton Rush national lacrosse team. It currently has the seating capacity of around 17,000.
╣Northlands Park (formerly Northlands Spectrum). It is located at the city's Northlands area and is considered as one of the province's premiere horse racing facility. It also houses restaurants and a gaming room filled with slot machines.
╣Old Strathcona. It is a district located at the south part in Edmonton's central area. It is considered as the city's main entertainment and arts area. It is actually one of the province's premier historic sites and is made up of five blocks of shops, bars and restaurants. It also has many of the city's theaters and venues for live performances.
╣West Edmonton Mall. It is the biggest mall in North America and is rank five in the entire world. It has more than 800 shops with a wide variety of goods and services and has a parking lot for over 20,000 vehicles. It services thousands of shoppers every day and can average to more than 28 million visitors a year.
╣World Waterpark. It is located in West Edmonton Mall and is the world's biggest indoor amusement park meant for water sports and games. It features one of the biggest indoor wave generators in the world. It also has a wide variety of water slides and a very high tower meant for rock climbing and bungee jumping over water.
╣Elk Island National Park. This area is actually an hour's ride away from Edmonton and is situated in the Beaverhills area. It features a wide range of landscapes typical of the ecosystem found in the northern prairies. It also hosts a variety of plants and wildlife. The park is open 24/7 throughout the year.
TOURISTS SHOULD KNOW
Edmonton has bus services operated by Greyhound Canada and Red Arrow. For people who would like to drive their own vehicle, there are car rental companies have branch offices throughout the city and at the city airport.
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