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Who'd have thought it. With plenty of rain this spring we thought this would be a great honey-producing season. But something went wrong and many local beekeepers got little or no honey at all. That's us. Every time we checked to see if we had frames of 90% capped honey -- no dice! We blamed the poor bees, but since many beekeepers are in the same boat, it had to be something else.
We should have guessed that bees coming to the hummingbird feeder was a sign there wasn't enough nectar out there for gathering. Why would a sensible bee choose weak sugar water over the sweetness from clover or other wildflowers?
At any rate, our three hives thrived in terms of producing bees, but were non-starters in the honey production department. We had NO frames for the honey harvest and now are feeding the bees to make sure they have enough to eat in the coming fall and winter. That's important since they don't have the stores necessary to get them through.
Oh well, maybe next season will be better.
In the meantime, here's the Beekeepers' Lament.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Bad Bee Season!
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Labels: backyard beekeeping, beekeepers' lament, beekeeping
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Our Latest Adventure....
|A visit to the Rte 11 potato chip factory -- They weren't cooking, but nobody complained -- too busy munching!
|Wading in the Shenandoah and skipping & throwing rocks - big splashes!
|Not as many restaurants as the big city, but country pizza got good ratings!
|Bet you didn't know there are dinosaurs in Shenandoah County!
|Making some new friends. (Actually, these geese were less than friendly!)
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Labels: Fresh Air Fund, Shenandoah Valley, summer fun
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text: In Texas at the Three Rivers school district board meeting paddling has been approved as corporal punishment for when a student misbehaves. Corporal punishment is defined as the deliberate infliction of physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping, or any other physical force used as a means of discipline. Students whose parents have provided written and verbal consent will receive one paddling for an infraction when they misbehave at school. At the beginning of the upcoming school year parents decide whether to opt in or out.

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If you've ever stepped inside Pinecone + Chickadee on Free Street, it's probably no surprise to you that owner Amy Teh is as cool as the curated collection within her store. After all, where else can you find artwork from Kris Johnsen, tees from Ferdinand, stuffed animal yetis and an 80's synthesizer all under one roof? It's my go-to place for finding practical yet perfectly quirky gifts.
Thanks so much Amy! Did you miss our last shopkeeper survey? Check it out here. If you have a shop that wants to be profiled, let us know on twitter!


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- To enable people within the criminal justice system to recognise that it is possible to make their own decisions to move away from offending and to re-establish their citizenship within their own community.
- To offer policy makers and others who devise, design and commission services and programmes intended to reduce offending and reoffending in Scotland feedback derived from the direct personal experiences of the people for whom these services are intended.
- We are building good practice models for peer mentoring within the criminal justice system and into communities.
- We set up local groups where opportunity and need coincide and build local teams through a consultative process involving individuals and relevant interested parties.
- We provide the means by which people with personal experience of the criminal justice system can share their knowledge with policy makers, service commissioners and providers.
- We collaborate with academic research to bring theory closer to effective practice and to understand how to evidence our effectiveness.
- The social rehabilitation of people with a criminal record.
- The reduction of discrimination against law abiding people with a criminal record to increase their opportunities to become contributing citizens.
- The reduction of demands on services provided within criminal justice and other social services for people and families affected by offending, imprisonment and community punishments.
- The reduction of the cost to the nation of imprisonment.
Positive Prison? Positive Futures… is registered as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) – registered no: SC043426 in September 2012.


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Chagas disease affects more than 10 million people in the world and 50,000 of those live in South America. It is crucial that the disease is identified early, but until now this has been almost impossible. New research at the MUHC has made significant progress though and the results were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
The American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is transmitted to humans via the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected insect (the "kissing bug") and it is not unusual for our students to come across cases in the hospitals. Symptoms are variable, but as the disease progresses serious chronic symptoms can appear, such as heart disease and malformation of the intestines. Most people affected may remain without symptoms for years, making diagnosis difficult. It can also transmitted from mother to unborn child and be passed on for as many as four generations without symptoms. "In other words, a person born in North America by a mother who was infected can transmit the disease to offspring without having travelled," says Dr. Ndao, Laboratory Director of the National Reference Center for Parasitology (NRCP) of the Research Institute.
The researchers have created a screening technique that identifies common biological markers between the interaction of host (humans) and the parasite. They found that in 99% of cases, the parasites left very specific markers. 'It's as if the parasite left his own signature in the infected person, which could help to diagnose Chagas disease" says Dr. Ndao.
"The use of these biomarkers is a revolution in diagnostic confidence and protection of possible contamination of blood banks," says Dr. Ndao "Moreover, these biomarkers have potential therapeutic effects of paving the way for the development of vaccines for Chagas, which could be extended to other parasitic diseases."


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Release Details
Date/Time: August 4th, 2017 at 9:00 pm ET (1:00am GMT)
Outage: Up to 6 hours
Products & Features
Macro Recording and Playback
Until now automated testing in AMP has been limited to static pages. With the macro recording and playback feature you can now more fully test pages behind a login, dynamic sites, and single-page sites. Simply record one or more scripts in which you interact with a web page (e.g., login to an application) using the Macro Recording feature in Access Assistant. Then, when creating an automated test in AMP, select the macros that should be run before their associated page is tested. Read more about this feature in the Macro Recording articles.
Thank you to all of our customers who gave us feedback and helped us with the design for this long-awaited feature.
ACCESS Assistant Preview Modes
Manual testing can be labor-intensive, but Preview Modes will change that. Preview modes allow testers to easily navigate through relevant information about a page, without viewing the source code, For example, view all heading elements on the page and their heading level to easily determine whether headings are being used appropriately. Read more about Preview Modes.
Thumbnail Capture
Earlier versions of the Access Assistant toolbar did not yet include automatic thumbnail capture of modules. In this most recent version of Access Assistant thumbnails will automatically be captured when the associated module is captured – whether the module is a full page or a node.
iFrame Testing
Users are now able to test the contents of an iFrame by capturing the iFrame as a module with Access Assistant. When this is done, the contents of the iFrame will be tested and included in the module test results.
For more details on features and defect resolutions included in this release, review the attached Detailed Release Notes: