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Sharp Cards in Haskell: Drawing Cards
Following on from my previous post on dice, in this post I'll look at the support for cards that I am going to add to the next release of my game-probability library. So, cards: to work out the probability of drawing a particular sequence of cards from a deck of cards, you first need to specify which sequences you are interested in. How might you specify this, in Haskell? Here's one way:
type DrawSpec card = (Int, [card] -> Bool)
That's the sequence length paired with a function that decides whether a given sequence of that length is one we are interested in. There are two problems with this solution, though. Firstly, it requires fixing the length of the sequence upfront; we cannot decide how many cards to continue drawing based on the ones we have drawn. Secondly, it needs to be fed all the cards it requires at once, which means we must supply it with each possible permutations of cards separately, which will be quite inefficient.
Iterative Drawing: DrawF
Both of these problems can be solved with a more iterative approach:
data DrawF card = DrawFail | Done | DrawOne (card -> DrawF card) | DrawAny (DrawF card)
So we have several options for the state of a draw: it can be successful, it can have failed, or it can need another card: DrawAny is like DrawOne . const, but can be much more efficient, as we'll see in a future post. Let's say we want to specify drawing N cards that are the same:
drawSameF :: Eq card => Int -> DrawF card drawSameF n = if n <= 0 then DrawFail else DrawOne (drawMatch (n-1)) drawMatchF :: Eq card => Int -> card -> DrawF card drawMatchF 0 _ = Done drawMatchF n tgt = DrawOne (\x -> if x == tgt then drawMatchF (n-1) tgt else DrawFail)
With these sorts of specifications, we can much more easily narrow down the possibilities. Imagine you have a deck with multiple copies of each of ten distinct cards and you want to know the chance of drawing 5 the same. You can feed all ten to this function and get ten DrawOne results, which can be thought of as ten branches in a search. Then when you feed the ten cards again to each of those branches, only one card will not cause a failure, so you will still have ten branches. And the same the next time. So you will try 10*(10+10+10+10) cards in all: 400. This compares well to the 10^5=10,000 combinations you would trawl through if considering all possible permutations.
You can use this functional-style (hence the F suffix) Draw type to describe all draws relatively easily, using some function like this at the top level to ask for the probability of achieving that draw given a collection of cards:
chance :: [card] -> DrawF card -> Rational
Expanding the draw: DrawM
But there is one slight limitation. Let's imagine that you want to return some result from the draw; for example, you may want to know what card it was that you drew many of, or you may want to return a count of cards. Currently DrawF has no way to return such a result. But we could add one by adding a value to the Done constructor:
data DrawM card a = DrawFail | Done a | DrawOne (card -> DrawM card a) | DrawAny (DrawM card a)
As you may guess by the new M suffix, and important result of this is that we can make the type a monad. The instance practically writes itself:
instance Monad (DrawM card) where return = Done (>>=) DrawFail _ = DrawFail (>>=) (Done x) k = k x (>>=) (DrawAny m) k = DrawAny (m >>= k) (>>=) (DrawOne f) k = DrawOne (\x -> f x >>= k) fail _ = DrawFail
We use the Done constructor for returning values, and we make DrawFail short-circuit the draw, ignoring anything that comes after. We push the binds for DrawOne and DrawAny inside their constructors. There are several useful helper functions we can define in this new DrawM type:
draw :: DrawM card card draw = DrawOne return drawAny :: DrawM card () drawAny = DrawAny (return ()) drawWhere :: (card -> Bool) -> DrawM card card drawWhere f = DrawOne (\x -> if f x then return x else DrawFail)
I couldn't decide whether Done or return was clearer above, so swap them mentally if that helps. The drawMatch function from earlier goes from recursion to replicate:
drawMatch :: Eq card => Int -> card -> DrawM card () drawMatch n tgt = replicateM_ n (drawWhere (== tgt))
I like the monadic interface; drawing cards is inherently a sequence of steps, so seeing it written in do-notation makes it clearer than the nested style of the earlier type.
An Example: Pontoon
As an example, we'll use Pontoon, a British variant on Blackjack. The general idea is the same as Blackjack (be closest to 21, but not over), with an added rule about five-card tricks (five cards with a total <= 21), which beat any non-Pontoon hand (Pontoon being 21 with two cards). We'll leave aside the rules on splitting a pair to keep the example short. We'll start with some quick definitions of a deck of playing cards (some Haskell that could come out of a beginner's text-book):
data Rank = Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten | Jack | Queen | King | Ace deriving (Bounded, Enum, Eq, Ord, Show, Read) data Suit = Clubs | Diamonds | Hearts | Spades deriving (Eq, Ord, Show, Read) data PlayingCard = PlayingCard {rank :: Rank, suit :: Suit} deriving (Eq, Ord, Show, Read) deck :: Cards PlayingCard deck = makeCards [PlayingCard r s | r <- [minBound .. maxBound], s <- [Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades]]
Now we can move on to the Pontoon-specific parts. First we will need a function that calculates the possible totals of a set of cards. Since aces can be low (worth 1) or high (worth 11) at the player's choice, there are potentially multiple different totals that each hand can have:
values :: [Rank] -> [Int] values [] = [0] values (Ace:xs) = concat [[1 + v, 11 + v] | v <- values xs] values (x:xs) | x `elem` [Jack, Queen, King] = map (10 +) (values xs) | otherwise = map ((fromEnum x + 2) +) (values xs)
The slightly awkward bit is the fromEnum part; since fromEnum Two == 0, we have to add 2 to get the right value. We can also define a data-type to hold the different non-bust results for a hand in Pontoon:
data Result = StuckOn Int | FiveCardTrick | Pontoon deriving (Eq, Ord, Show)
Note that the derived Ord instance will actually give a proper ordering of which hand is best: pontoon beats five-card trick beats the other results which are ordered by their numerical result (higher is better).
Pontoon Draw Strategy
The missing part is now a function to represent drawing cards in Pontoon. We'll define a function corresponding to a fairly simplistic strategy: while we haven't reached exactly 21 (or a five-card trick) with our hand, we'll keep drawing as long as we're below a constant upper limit (e.g. 15):
drawStrategy :: Int -> DrawM Rank Result drawStrategy stickMin = do firstTwo <- replicateM 2 draw if 21 `elem` values firstTwo then return Pontoon else keepGoing firstTwo where keepGoing cur | all (> 21) totals = badHand -- Bust! | length cur == 5 = return FiveCardTrick | 21 `elem` totals = return $ StuckOn 21 | any (< stickMin) totals = do {c <- draw; keepGoing (c:cur)} | otherwise = return $ StuckOn (maximum $ filter (<= 21) totals) where totals = values cur
To begin with, we draw two cards. If we can immediately achieve 21, that's Pontoon and we stop. Otherwise we consider whether to keep drawing. We then have five choices listed in order (the guards of the inner function). If every possible total is above 21, we're bust (badHand = DrawFail). If we have five cards (and aren't bust), we have a five-card trick and we stop. If we've otherwise hit 21, we have a normal 21 with either three or four cards. The final two guards cover our decision: if we're below our upper limit we keep drawing, and otherwise we stick with the best total we can manage that's 21 or under.
So that fairly neatly lays out all the possibilities involved in drawing a hand of Pontoon. Now that we have this specification, we can calculate some odds. I'll show the code and results here, but I will return to how the probabilities are calculated in my next post (to avoid this one growing too long):
main :: IO () main = do print $ to3dp <$> chanceMapOn rank deck (optional $ drawStrategy 14) print $ to3dp <$> chanceMapOn rank deck (optional $ drawStrategy 16) print $ to3dp <$> compareEvent (eventDrawOn rank deck (optional $ drawStrategy 14)) (eventDrawOn rank deck (optional $ drawStrategy 16)) where to3dp :: Rational -> String to3dp x = printf "%.3f" (fromRational x :: Double)
The optional function effectively maps successful draws into Just values and failed draws (i.e. bust) into Nothing; see the notes at the end of this post if you want more detail. This code will print three lines (which I've re-flowed below): the first will have a map from result to probability (which by that point will be a String) when we draw with less than 14, and the second will be the same when we draw with less than 16; the third will give the probability of the first strategy producing a worse, equal or better result than the second:
fromList [(Nothing,"0.086"), (Just (StuckOn 14),"0.125"), (Just (StuckOn 15),"0.122"), (Just (StuckOn 16),"0.114"), (Just (StuckOn 17),"0.110"), (Just (StuckOn 18),"0.101"), (Just (StuckOn 19),"0.095"), (Just (StuckOn 20),"0.135"), (Just (StuckOn 21),"0.050"), (Just FiveCardTrick,"0.013"), (Just Pontoon,"0.048")] fromList [(Nothing,"0.216"), (Just (StuckOn 16),"0.132"), (Just (StuckOn 17),"0.128"), (Just (StuckOn 18),"0.119"), (Just (StuckOn 19),"0.113"), (Just (StuckOn 20),"0.152"), (Just (StuckOn 21),"0.069"), (Just FiveCardTrick,"0.022"), (Just Pontoon,"0.048")] fromList [(LT,"0.485"), (EQ,"0.097"), (GT,"0.418")]
So even though we can see from the first two sections that the first strategy (drawing again when less than 14) is much less likely to leave you bust (the Nothing outcome), we can see from the third section that in general it is more likely to lose (the LT outcome) against the second strategy (drawing again when less than 16) than win (the GT outcome). That's a useful result, from what I hope is relatively readable code!
In the next post, we'll take a look at how the probabilities are calculated.
- The DrawM monad is a little reminiscent of iteratees, with all chunks being size 1. Generally, iteratees are designed to receive chunks of data as they become available. What this work does is take a DrawM item and supply with it many different possible next inputs to see what happens. I don't know if much has been done with iteratees in this vein: it is somewhat like fuzzing iteratees to see what happens with different data.
- This work looks at permutations of cards rather than combinations. Obviously looking at combinations could be much faster since there are a lot less of them (factorial in the number of cards drawn). Permutations is the more general case, and allows for testing based on the sequence of cards. In the Pontoon example, the sequencing and choice of drawing more is vital. In other scenarios, it isn't needed, and examining all permutations merely adds computational overhead: win some, lose some.
- The Pontoon example combines two aspects: one is the rules on scoring and stopping, and the other is the strategy for when to draw more. This is primarily convenience for the example: it would not be hard to alter the function to not take the stickMin parameter, and instead take a function that replaces the entire any (< stickMin) totals guard, thus parameterising the function by the user-defined strategy.
- The optional call in the example uses the Alternative instance for DrawM card, which allows choice between draws to be expressed, and is given here:
instance Alternative (DrawM card) where empty = DrawFail (<|>) DrawFail x = x (<|>) (Done x) _ = Done x (<|>) (DrawAny m) (DrawAny n) = DrawAny $ m <|> n (<|>) (DrawOne f) (DrawOne g) = DrawOne $ \x -> f x <|> g x (<|>) (DrawAny m) (DrawOne g) = DrawOne $ \x -> m <|> g x (<|>) (DrawOne f) (DrawAny n) = DrawOne $ \x -> f x <|> n -- Done or DrawFail on RHS: (<|>) (DrawAny m) n = DrawAny $ m <|> n (<|>) (DrawOne f) n = DrawOne $ \x -> f x <|> n
The top few cases are straightforward: the empty choice is to fail, choosing between failure and anything will be anything, and choosing between success and anything will be success — the docs for Alternative don't specify this, but I always take the operator to be left-biased. If we choose between DrawAny and DrawOne, we do need to know what card is next because the DrawOne needs to know. However, in all the other cases, neither side cares what the card is, so we can stick with DrawAny.


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|I think we were just out front the Hemlock just after closing trying to figure something out to do one night last year. Normally, we'd swim at a nearby hotel but tonight I remembered an abandoned hospital out at the presidio. We could get some more beer and creep around the massive old building in the dark... We made our way up the fire escape even though they'd greased it to keep people out. On the second or third floor we found a broken door window just big enough to get through. Once inside we used our cell phones for flash lights and checked out the graffiti and snuck about spooking ourselves along the way. We found some blood, a pigeon carcass, and about a half hour into the journey as we were making our way down the dark hallway our dim cell phone lights unable to peirce the black we heard something coming at us. Someone yelled something unidentifiable and a scarp of wood came to a rest off to the side of the hallway. We all froze then very quickly got the hell out of there making our way down the flights of stairs completely expecting someone to jump out at us at any moment...
Outside we were relieved. It was probably some homeless dude sleeping in there that we woke up. Who knows, but the place is spooky, so after a bike ride the other night where we passed the old hospital I got online to see if I could dig up some more info. One, it wasn't a mental hospital as I thought, and there's tons of great graffiti inside. I found a great flikr page of photos with text by Tristan Savatier. Below are his words and a sample of the great photos he took. You can see the full set on his Flickr page.
|Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH) - Presidio, San Francisco, CA
Photos by Tristan Savatier
The abandoned Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH) is located in the Presidio of San Francisco, at the north end of 15th av (see aerial photo, historical map, google-map, google earth Placemark, and bird's eye view). Built in 1931 on the site of the old U.S. Marine Hospital (1875), the 480-bed hospital, also known as building 1801, closed in 1981.
From 1981 to 1988 the hospital was used by the Defense Language Institute (DLI), except for the 6th floor southwest which was used by the now defunct Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC) for medical research and animal experiments.
The PHSH is completely abandoned since 1988. There are plans to demolish the modern aisles and transform the historical buildings into housing with construction starting in 2005, so everything you see here will be destroyed soon.
The Presidio Hospital is a really interesting place to explore, as it is very large (6 interconnected buildings, most of them 7-story), mostly intact and covered with *many* cool graffiti. It was once used as a movie set (see those Command Center Delta stencils). At night the place is rather spooky. We heard that one person gotmurdered in the PHSH in 2002.
The building in the back contains the hospital kitchen with its enormous freezers, the operating rooms and a number of X-ray machines. Many operating rooms still have floodlights and rubber tubes hanging from the ceiling. Several old X-Ray machines are rusting in place. Many of those X-ray machines and scanners were top-of-the-line multi-million dollar equipment in 1981 when the hoptital was closed, and they have just been left there, what a waste of public money!
In the eastern part of the basement, the morgue still has its freezer with six big drawers for the dead bodies, and the greenish autopsy room next door. Many rusted machines, pumps, pipes and tanks are still there.
The buildings are fenced and boarded and since 2006 it appears to be guarded 24/7. Police are often seen in the parking lot. Cleaning crews may be working in the buildings during working hours.
There is now an alarm (with infrared heat sensors) in the main stairway area and in the basement, and it notifies the U.S. Park Police when it triggers (it also makes quite a lot of noise!). Officer Pat Smith may send his dog after you and call his colleagues for backup. Remember, trespassing is illegal and can be prosecuted (if you get caught!). See California Penal Code 602 (k).
If the Park Police sees you going in or out of the PHSH, you are likely get arrested and to receive a $100 ticket. Recently Park Police confiscated Memory Cards from the digital cameras of trespassers, which I don't think they have the right to do.
And if you intend to do graffiti or cause any depredation, you should read 18 U.S.C. § 1361. I wonder if the Presidio Trust could get in trouble for destroying all this unique graffiti art when the buildings will be rehabilitated... Hmmm I guess not: Graffiti is detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the community according to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Another interesting area a few yards North is the old SF-89L Nike ground-to-air missile site from the cold war era, but that's another story!
To see more photos, click here.
To view the complete set, click here.
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Incremental: Waterhouse rises, raises County ire
8 commentsHoover February 9th, 2011 | 6:03pm
Buy fresh, buy local!Sean February 9th, 2011 | 11:06pm
"You the city tax payer are helping to pay for this". This is a non-issue that the Hook likes to keep dragging along. City taxpayers will greatly benefit in the long-term -- the tax basis for this building will be quite a bit greater than what was there before (mostly, a parking lot). Yes, the real estate tax for the property will be discounted for the first few years, but after that, collections will be much more than they would have been. Everybody wins -- the developer, the city, the tenants, downtown businesses (selling meals, goods, and services to those tenants). The paragraph in this article that describes the TIF is pretty accurate, but the line about city tax payers paying for the project is silly and sensationalistic.Politics Matters February 10th, 2011 | 2:10pm
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris also appears on the latest Politics Matters episode (a locally produced cable show with host Jan Paynter) in an interview about Charlottesville's Sister Cities: http://bit.ly/polmattersPolitics Matters February 10th, 2011 | 2:11pm
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris also appears on the latest Politics Matters episode (a locally produced cable show with host Jan Paynter) in an interview about Charlottesville's Sister Cities: http://bit.ly/polmattersmax brando February 10th, 2011 | 5:56pm
The comment from the Arblemarble Super is absurd. Why are there no "affordable housing" projects going on there, and none in existence?? Because AC only wants "higher roller" taxpayers, not the bottom of the barrel. I sa, lets send all of our homeless to the County somewhere. See how that plays at the AC courthouse and police station.Cville Eye February 12th, 2011 | 7:39pm
First, I must say, the city knows nabsolutely, absolutely nothing about economic development. In the last Comprehensive Plan it removes increasing the tax base and creating new jobs from its definition and changed it to a "question of design." I suppose that means "If you better the design of the city, they will come."
However, the county has stolen many city businesses by having a real estate tax rate that is approximately two-thirds that of the city. The city is using taxes to lure them back.
If theis particular compay was looking to move out of the region, why? Will that reason still be there five years from now when its rent goes up? What's to keep them from moving then? It happened to Buckingham County a few years ago when a tax-subsidized business packed up and left. The city also know absolutely, absolutely nothing about public-private partnerships either. Our Council has always deluded itself by thinking it can play with the big boys.Antoinette W. Roades February 13th, 2011 | 2:49pm
max brando:
Actually, Albemarle County does have some "affordable housing" projects. The latest is Treesdale Park, an 86-unit "Affordable Multifamily Rental Community" for which ground was recently broken (and all trees murdered) on Rio Road. But County residents probably won't see a successor soon because Charlottesville has lured Treesdale's developer, William Park (partner in the County with AHIP), away to partner on the Ridge-Cherry site with Southern Development. The bait? Two prime parcels of City taxpayer-owned property and Virginia Housing Development Authority Low-Income Housing Tax Credits.
This is really a property flip, of course. SD secured approval in 2009 for William Taylor Plaza, a mixed-use behemoth then already well past its sell-by date in a tanking market. SD has been trying to shed the property ever since. A mad dash began in December to flip the property to Park for a mixed-income behemoth of even more burdensome proportions than the approved SD plan in time for Park to meet a VHDA application deadline in March. (The approved plan featured 50 residential units, including studios, that would be for sale. Park's plan features 80 residential units, not including studios but including three-bedroom units, that would be for rent only.)
Last Tuesday, Planning Commissioners rejected Park's plan as "inferior." But that rejection is only advisory. So unless Charlottesville citizens/voters/taxpayers push back very hard indeed, SD's very good friends on City Council will approve Park's plan at their next meeting -- Tuesday (because of a Monday holiday) February 22nd -- then approve a new sale (for no money) contract for the two City parcels at their next meeting after that.
Comments made by Councilors and Commissioners on Tuesday suggested that neighbors who oppose Park's plan have insufficient sympathy for the plight of others. In fact, the neighborhood is already a fine and functional example of mixed-income living and low-cost housing -- an example that developed naturally. We have truly affordable housing stock. Two houses on the Ridge-Cherry block sold last year for $182,500 and $140,000. Another is for sale now at $165,000.
More to the point, basically within sight of the Ridge-Cherry site, we already have no less than 433 units of low-income rental housing. They're at Friendship Court (150), Crescent Hall (105), Midway Manor (98), South First Street (59), 715 Ridge Street (2), and in four Dogwood Housing properties (19). Then there's the nice upstairs one-bedroom apartment in a well-maintained duplex -- sunlight, front porch, backyard, dog allowed -- right across the street from my Oak Street house ($35,000 in 1987). The rent is $695, well below the Section 8 allowance for a one-bedroom, yet it's gone unrented for six months.
But we really, really need to destroy a steep-sided, wooded, creek-bisected ravine (i.e. valuable natural rain garden) and also need to invest City taxpayer-owned property to build an "inferior" mixed-income behemoth vigorously opposed by the neighbors it would burden, right? One wonders why anyone would want to invest anything in the self-destructive theoretical construct my home town has become.Aldous Snow February 14th, 2011 | 9:25am
One hopes construction on the Waterhouse does not end when it is only half finished.


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I have an OLE Control on my VB6.0 project form with Video Clip as the object. I have selected a video clip while inserting the control on the form.
When I run the application, the form and control come up and I can right click on the control resulting in choices in the pop-up display for Play, Edit and Open. If I click on Play, it plays the video clip I selected at development time as expected.
How can I write code emulate the Play, Edit and Open buttons?


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MILES THIS WEEK: Meh.
WHERE TO: Anywhere I feel like!
MOOD: See this post's title.
Today a lovely and close friend from college, who I will call Doris, called me.
"I'M LOSING MY MIND, DJ!" was the thesis of the call. You see, Doris has runner's knee, and has moved to Crazytown as a result. The conversation made me strangely emotional, as I recalled my months on the DL.
Apparently, Doris' husband (who is also — kickass! — training for the NYC marathon) essentially told her, "Calm down. It'll get better." And while, yes, the runner with a nagging but low-pain injury needs to take a chill pill and also develop a meaningful and close relationship with a physical therapist, STAT, telling them to "calm down" is about the equivalent of telling someone with ebola who is also bleeding out the eye sockets, "Walk it off, champ. It's just a sprain."
Dramatic? Yes. Overstatement? Probably. But fiddle-dee-dee. Bite your tongue. To tell the Serious Runner not to run is like…well… <violin chorus cue> telling the sea to stop roaring like a restless lion. Like telling the clouds to stop their inexorable dance across the heavens. <oboes and timpani chime in> Like telling a daisy not to bloom its beautiful face toward the sky. Like telling that little brat from across the street to stop trying to pee on your bicycle tires as you ride by. <sopranos> Like telling a foul-mouthed blogger to stop using the word "boner" so much.
Some forces, friends, can't be stopped.
So when Doris told me her worries and frustrations, I felt for her.
She said, "I see all these people with PERFECTLY GOOD KNEES not taking advantage of it!"
"I know!" I chimed in, rolling about on my bed at 11 AM.
"Like, do you know how GOOD YOU HAVE IT?"
"Dude! Like, get up off your ass already," I added, rolling over to my computer, consulting Bing image searches to compare the merits of shirtless-Prince-of-Persia-Jake-Gyllenhaal-covered-in-a-fine-layer-of-Arabian-Sand-grit versus shirtless-Gladiator-Russell-Crowe-covered-in-a-fine-layer-of-Coliseum-dirt-grit (revisionist history is SEXY, bitches!), and also whether I could survive on the sawdusty dregs from Friday's trail mix left in the baggie in my work-backpack next to my bed, or whether the strenuous trek down two flights of stairs would be necessary so that I could score a few spoonfuls of Quik (shut your godawful mouth, haters; I don't judge you for those nudie Carol Channing pics I found in your den).
See, even in light of Doris' withdrawal, I was suffering myself from a mild case of burnout. You know you need a day off when, even not-training for anything, you're running enough that your plantar fasciitis is acting up and the word "fartlek" is no longer funny and your soul hurts when you see the giant mobs of Team in Training people out on the trails because YOUR running isn't fighting disease or helping people or dutifully clogging the trails around Bethesda for the rest of the world (hey. Just saying.).
Ever since my convalescence, I had been attempting to do every run with a good old can-do gung-ho grateful-for-my-health KAPOW! sort of spirit, but Jaysus. Sometimes it feels so optimistic and perky and spunky that I want to punch myself in the face and do a self-administered swirly. So (sorry, Doris), I did the unthinkable — I took TWO STRAIGHT DAYS OFF.
I know. Easy, tiger. Soon I'll start organizing my sock drawer by size and not color WHOOOOOOA I JUST BLEW MY FREAKING MIIIIIND.
Anyway. Tomorrow is another long run. Back on the horse, back to the sweaty drippy fun. Mmmmm…..
Oh, and in other news, Madam Sixpack has a blog. In which she tackles the big life questions, about God and love and war and conflict and pain and joy and loss and suffering and…oh, no, my mistake. It's about her love of reading about throbbing, painful erections. ENJOY!


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Sweet mother of... this wave is incredible. Now, I've been waiting on images of the A-Wing pilot more than any other figure... it looks wonderful, but I think Hasbro has used some creative license there. I'd have rather they update the familiar look of the POTF2 and vintage versions:
Aside from his barely-there nightgown and translucent plastic, is it just me or is that Anakin Spirit figure a kitbash of Agen Kolar's lower body, Pilot Obi-Wan's upper body, and a new head?
KAY-BEE STANDARD RESPONSE: "All we have is 1990's 'Robocop' toys."WHICH MEANS: "Holy ******* ****, please shoot m
It seems to me that the new A-Wing pilot dovetails pretty well with the pilot in this image from the briefing scene aboard Home One in ROTJ
Hopefully Wicket & Paploo are next.
McQuarrie Han Kenobi- Maybe that's what this figure should be called.
NewForce is now taking pre-orders for this case...Scheduled to contain:1x AIRBORNE TROOPER1x MCQUARRIE VADER2x MCQUARRIE HAN SOLO (new)2x EWOK 2-PACK (new)2x ANAKIN SPIRIT (new)2x A-WING PILOT (new)2x R2-D2 IN CARGO NET (new)
I'm wondering what % of their orders get canceled?
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Doodlers in editorial positions: good news or bad?
Should cartooning types be allowed to run their own graphic novel imprints?
Fortunately, I'm not alone: for a number of years, there's been Chris Oliveros running his stellar DRAWN & QUARTERLY, and now overseas, there are two new graphic novel imprints, one called SHAMPOOING, within Delcourt Publishing, and one called BAYOU, within the prestigious Gallimard house... And their editorial directors? Respectively: Lewis Trondheim, and Joann Sfar.
D&Q continually offers must-read authors and literary graphic novels, and these two new ventures are off to exciting starts. And it sounds like BAYOU is very close to FIRST SECOND in its editorial vision.
Hey, I'm in illustrious company!


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Coast Highway lane reduction to go forward
Encinitas will push forward with plans to eliminate one northbound lane of Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia, despite new objections from the state Coastal Commission.
After hearing from 30 people — mostly bicyclists who strongly backed the lane-reduction plan because it will give them a designated bike lane — the City Council unanimously agreed late Wednesday night to proceed with the restriping between Leucadia Boulevard and La Costa Avenue.
Last week, after being contacted by project opponents, the state Coastal Commission weighed in by sending the city a letter stating that the project may now need a state Coastal Development Permit, even though construction work is already well under way.
"Reducing the number of lanes on a major coastal access route requires a coastal development permit because it changes the intensity of use of the road," state District Manager Deborah Lee wrote in the letter.
The letter notes that the city is proposing to overhaul the road in several years with a "streetscape" beautification effort, and the restriping plan should be reviewed in the context of that pending, much larger project.
On Wednesday, council members agreed to send the state a "polite" response, requesting a meeting and indicating that they don't think the project needs a state permit.
"Coastal Commission, I'm sorry, you can't just change the rules mid-game," Councilwoman Kristin Gaspar said before the council vote.
City officials said the repaving work is separate from the Highway 101 Streetscape project, which is now in the design and environmental permitting stage.
Senior city civil engineer Ed Deane said state officials typically exempt cities from coastal permit requirements if they are doing small-scale projects, such as repaving. This project doesn't "intensify" the amount of traffic on the route — that will stay the same — and it doesn't add traffic lanes, so it shouldn't trigger the permit requirement, he said.
The council approved the repaving project in October, but work has stalled because of recent rainy weather. The project includes both the northbound lane elimination and special bike signage known as "sharrows" on the southbound side of the roadway. Work is now about 80 percent complete, a new city staff report noted.
The slurry seal has been placed on the roadway, and "the only remaining work is the placement of permanent traffic control signing, striping and pavement markings," the report said.
About 100 people attended Wednesday night's meeting, and 30 spoke on the Highway 101 project. Nearly all of the speakers were cyclists who urged the council to move forward with the plans because of the bicycling safety benefits.
Judy Frankel, founder of Bike Friendly North County, said it now is "very stressful" to cycle along Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia because of the lack of bike lanes. Karl Rudnick, founder of BikeWalk Solana, called cycling on the highway "an unsafe proposition."
And Andy Hanshaw, executive director of San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, said, "Now is not the time to delay these safety measures."
Many of the cyclists told stories of being hit by vehicles, and several mentioned the 2011 death of cyclist James Swarzman, who was killed while biking along Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia.
While most of the people in the audience appeared to support the lane reduction, several longtime foes of the overall Streetscape project also addressed the council.
Leucadia resident Lynne Marr said she was grateful that the Coastal Commission had contacted the city and said the restriping project should be reviewed by the state.
"It does have traffic impacts, it does have environmental impacts," she said, later adding, "Please don't take a lane away — it affects so many motorists."
David Smith, a Los Angeles firefighter who lives in Leucadia, said he was "the awful villain" who contacted the Coastal Commission. He said he agrees that the city needs a bike lane, but said the project approval process hasn't been handled right, and the state now should review the plans.
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Yes Lexie has had her first Ballet Recital to the tune of Baby Take a Bow and man was she cute. Every Wed morning for 45 minutes Lexie and I have been taking Mommy & Me classes along with about a dozen other little 16 - 36 month old girls and their moms. It's been nice to have that time with her in the middle of the week since we started in Feb. When I signed her up I thought there is no way she'll actually learn to dance but we'll have fun which we did. But I quickly started hearing about the big dance recital and so I paid my $40 for her outfit and thought at least she'll have something cute to show for it. The date was set for Jun 28-29 (yes, she had 2 performances) and then the stage moms came out of the wood work. There were dress rehearsals, photo sessions, mom's informational meeting and I was told she needed to wear foundation, lipstick, eyeshadow, mascara and blush because she would wash out on stage. (I'm sorry but have you looked at this child's skin?) These are babies - the youngest was just 18 months so you have got to be kidding me! Luckily for all of us I think, the photo session and dress rehearsal on a different stage than where they were actually going to preform were held while we were in Mexico so I didn't need to be told by these Moms that her hair wasn't right or she didn't have enough make-up on (that's because she didn't have ANY makeup on.) I heard about one of the moms when I came back that got in a fight with another mom because her twin daughters had their hair done wrong for the pictures. It got so bad that the twins mom took her daughters and left the photo session without them being in the picture and never returned to the class. Talk about setting a terrible example of the kids.
Anyway, we returned just in time for the final class and the final dress rehearsal on Friday at the stage. I had some friends of mine come to it since they wanted $17 a seat for these tickets! Come on, this was not a Broadway show for heaven sakes. I was told to get in line at 5am so I could get decent seats for the show. If Lexie hadn't enjoyed dance class so much and liked wearing her costume I would have been done then. But she really did have fun so I kept my mouth closed (for most of the time.) She did fairly well at the dress rehearsal and of course looked adorable.
Then the day of the first performance the dance teacher decided to have some of the older dancers (that none of these girls knew) take them on stage and put them on their marks then exit stage left. Well the big girls decided to help by doing the dance on the side of the stage. So the audience say 9 very cute little girls looking off stage left. Rather frustrating. But day two was much better. Lexie did about 3/4 of the routine which was 2 minutes long and then when the audience clapped she clapped right along with them. She followed the other girls off clapping but decided to come back on stage and keep clapping with the audience who where laughing and clapping with her until one of the big girls finally came back for her. I thought it was hilarious and only wish I hadn't turned off the recorded so I could meet her back stage. So unfortunately I'd have that part on tape. But believe me when I say she was the hit of the show - all 58 numbers of it. We left after her routine to get ice cream and play in her pool. She really did have a great time and I'm glad we did it. But next year.....we'll see.


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From the moment he was six, Max wanted to die. He tried shooting himself, hanging himself and even throwing himself out of a window. But somehow, he always managed to survive. Exasperated, his parents have had him committed to a mental institution, where miraculously he's found something worth living for. Her name is Grace; she's a wild mental patient whose death wish is even stronger than Max's. But Max has a plan to save her. They're taking their marriage vows, 'til death do us part, and escaping the loony bin for the adventure of a new start. Max thinks Grace will be cured by visiting her mother, but he has to keep her alive until they get there. She tries overdosing on pills, running in front of a truck and jumping from a bridge, but luckily each time, Max comes to her rescue. Finally, he brings Grace to her mother and in a bizarre turn of events, the terminally ill oddball orders them to dig her grave. Mom says her goodbyes, but not before she tells Max and Grace that they both have something to live for--she sees a vision of their baby girl in Grace's tummy. It's more than the hope Grace and Max have been searching for; it's the wonderful beginning of a whole new life.
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Happy Yule and Merry Solstice to everyone on this beautiful sunny day! I think the Goddess went into labor early yesterday because it was so rainy and dark that I could barely see my hand in front of my face and now it so beautifully bright.
Great news is my fever broke and the rash is starting to go away and it's not as itchy or painful as it was before. Even though I still feel a little yucky, I wanted to share pictures of my Yule altar with everyone. It's not as big as I hoped to do it this year, but I'm still proud of it…
I made the yellow sun out of air dry clay and painted it, then put a ribbon through it to hang it in my room. The images of the Holly King (left) and the Oak King (right) I printed them out on cardstock like my Saint Expedite photo. The goddess statue is actually an old lotion bottle I found at the thrift store for $2 and she had a sister that I gave to my mom.
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»The Oregonian: African refugees and immigrants in Multnomah County face daunting economic odds, new report says
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»Portland Tribune: Budding startups could enable restaurants to grow food and raise fish on site, and improve solar panel efficiency
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»Christian Aniciete, University Communications, accepted national awards for University social media efforts at the Social Media Awards in Portland on May 16, and at the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators Annual Convention in Dalla
»Michael Cummings, Geology faculty, was awarded the 2013 Neil Miner Award by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) in honor of his exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth sciences. The award will be presented
»Juan Heredia, Architecture faculty, co-organized an international conference, "The Place of Theory in Contemporary Architecture Practice and Education," in Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 16-17.
»Emily Salisbury and Jody Sundt, Criminology and Criminal Justice faculty, serve as editor and associate editor of Criminal Justice and Behavior, which was recently ranked first by Google Scholar in the Criminology, Criminal Law & Policing category. The ra
»Jun Jiao, Physics professor; researcher Haian Li; and student Lester Lampert won the inaugural PSU-Wells Fargo Cleantech Challenge to develop their business, Diatomix. They tied with another PSU team and will share the $25,000 prize and professional servi
»Kevin Kecskes, Public Administration faculty, with colleague Barbara Tint and others led a civic engagement and community leadership study tour for 18 undergraduate student leaders from the Middle East and North Africa who were in Portland this summer. Th
»Susan Kirtley, English faculty, won "Best Educational/Academic Work" at the 25th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards held at Comic-Con in July. She won for her book Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass. The awards, known as the Oscars of t
»Deborah Peterson, Education faculty, was referenced in an article, "Ernesto Aguilar Brings North Portland Middle School Students to Portland State University," that appeared in the May 24 issue of The Oregonian. Peterson spoke at the event. This was her s
»Cornel Pewewardy, Native American Studies faculty, was identified as one of the most influential Native American education leaders in the nation by a recent research study published by the University of Iowa and included in the 2013 issue of the Critical
»Ken Stedman, Biology faculty, and doctoral student Geoffrey Diemer received BioMed Central's top international research trophy on July 25. They received the honor for their discovery of a hybrid virus with both RNA and DNA structures in its genetic design
»John Dash, Physics emeritus faculty, and lab assistants Joshua Solomon and Ming Zhu presented a poster on cold fusion at the 18th Annual International Conference on Cold Fusion, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., July 21-27. Their poster was judged be
»Christopher Carey, University Studies faculty, and graduate student Lena Teplitsky authored a study, "Child Sex Trafficking has been Described as Domestic Violence on Steroids," released by U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall and Sen. Ron Wyden in a Portland pr
»Ann Curry-Stevens, Social Work faculty, authored a report, "The African Immigrant and Refugee Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile," released Sept. 10. The report is a collaboration of the African Immigrant and Refugee Community in Multnoma
»Alexis Dinno, Community Health faculty, authored an article titled "Same Sex Marriage and the Perceived Assault on Opposite Sex Marriage" published in the academic journal PLOS ONE, Issue 8, No. 6, June 11, 2013.
»Sergio Palleroni, Architecture faculty, and fellow recipients of the 2011 American Institute of Architects' Latrobe Prize have released their report "Wisdom from the Field: Public Interest Architecture in Practice." Published in July, the study compiles t
»Nina Spiegel, Judaic Studies faculty, authored a book, Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine, published in June by Wayne State University Press.
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Checking In On… the Atlantic Sun ConferencePosted by EMoyer on February 18th, 2012
Eric Moyer is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic Sun Conference and Southern Conference and a contributor to the RTC SEC Microsite. You can find him on Twitter @EricDMoyer.
Reader's Take
Looking Back
- Tickets Punched: The conference's two newest programs, USC Upstate and FGCU, secured the first General Shale Brick A-Sun Championships berths recently. Eight of the 10 schools will earn spots for the event, set to begin on Wednesday, February 29. For the third straight year, Mercer will serve as host.
- High Scoring Defeats: Stetson's grasp on the eighth and final qualifying position became more tenuous as the Hatters dropped a pair of high-scoring affairs to Lipscomb (99-91) and Belmont (106-93). The Hatters have lost six games this season when scoring at least 80 points. Only one other school in the country has suffered even five such defeats (VMI).
End-of-Year Awards
Since this edition is the last "Checking In On" for the A-Sun before the end of the season, no time seemed more appropriate than now to dole out some hardware (hardware not included).
- Coach of the Year: Bob Hoffman, Mercer – In the preseason, Belmont dominated the top of the polls, garnering a combined 36 of the 39 first-place votes between the coaches and media. Hoffman's Bears reached 20 wins for just the seventh time in 106 years and did it without the star power of someone like past standouts such as James Florence, Danny Emerson or Brian Mills. Six players average between 8.1 and 11.0 points per game this season.
- Defensive Player of the Year: Isiah Brown, ETSU – Brown moved into the top 10 in A-Sun history in blocks and top 20 in rebounds. He also surpassed the 100-steal mark for his career.
- Game of the Year: While Mercer scored the only win against a BCS school (at Georgia Tech) and ETSU's Jarvis Jones buried a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer at Charlotte, the winner goes to USC Upstate taking down Belmont for the first time in program history. The Spartans rallied from 16 points down in the first half and only took the lead on a game-winning bucket by Torrey Craig with two seconds left. That win started a three-game win streak for USC Upstate against Belmont, Lipscomb and ETSU, a streak not seen in the league in six years.
- Freshman of the Year: Brett Comer, FGCU – After teaming with Austin Rivers in high school, Comer fit right in at FGCU by averaging 9.1 points and a league-leading 5.5 assists. He is on pace to be one the few freshmen in the country to record both 100 rebounds and 100 assists.
- All-Conference Team: Torrey Craig, USC Upstate (17.2 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 1.3 SPG); Jake Gollon, Mercer (10.6 PPG, 5.7 APG, 83.3 FG Pct) Kerron Johnson, Belmont (13.9 PPG, 5.4 APG, 52.5 FG Pct); Adam Pegg, Stetson (14.7 PPG, 5.5 RPG, 50.4 FG Pct); Adam Sollazzo, ETSU (15.2 PPG, 5.5 RPG, 4.5 APG)
- Player of the Year – Torrey Craig, USC Upstate. Craig reaps the benefits of the balance attacks featured at Mercer and Belmont to earn the league's top individual honor. Of course pacing the league in scoring and ranking second in rebounding didn't hurt his candidacy.
Power Rankings
- Mercer (20-7, Previous Ranking: 2): The Bears won the highly-anticipated showdown with USC Upstate on Feb. 4, then survived a tight road contest an in-state rival Kennesaw State to reach 20 victories for the seventh time in school history and for the first time since 2002-03. The regular-season title, top seed in the A-Sun Championship and the league's automatic NIT bid could be at stake when the Bears welcome Belmont in the regular-season finale.
- Belmont (20-7, Previous Ranking: 3): In improving to 12-2 in A-Sun play, the Bruins extended their streak of seasons with at least 12 league victories to nine-in-a-row. No other school can boast such an active streak, however, Kansas needs to win just one of its final five Big 12 contests to join the Bruins at eight.
- USC Upstate (17-10, Previous Ranking: 1): The Feb. 4 loss to Mercer likely ended the Spartans' dreams of an A-Sun regular-season crown. However, they are in a strong position to post the biggest turnaround in the nation. The Spartans have 12 more victories than a season ago, matching Manhattan for the biggest win improvement from 2010-11.
- FGCU (13-13, Previous Ranking: 4): The Eagles held steady in the #4 position thanks to scoring their largest victory against a league foe not named USC Upstate, a 21-point win against Lipscomb on Monday.
- ETSU (13-12, Previous Ranking: 6): The Bucs' offensive woes in losses reared their ugly heads again in recent losses at Mercer an at home against Jacksonville. In the two losses, the Bucs shot only 31.8 percent from floor (22.2 percent from 3-point arc). ETSU needs only one win or a Jacksonville loss to clinch its spot in the A-Sun Championship.
- North Florida (13-15, Previous Ranking: 7): After winning four of five to return to the .500 level, the offensive fire power left the Ospreys on their road trip to ETSU and USC Upstate. They were outscored by 20.0 points per game. The sputter came after shooting nearly 56 percent in wins against Stetson and FGCU. Like the Bucs, the Ospreys need only a win or a Dolphin loss to return to the A-Sun Championship.
- Lipscomb (12-14, Previous Ranking: 5): The Bisons suffered a major setback last week when the school kicked out Player of the Year contender and the nation's top 3-point shooter, Jordan Burgason, citing a violation of team rules. In the team's first game without him, the Bisons came within one point of matching the all-time NCAA Division I record for points in an overtime session when they scored 24 in besting Stetson on Saturday.
- Jacksonville (6-20, Previous Ranking: 9): One considered dead in the water, the Dolphins have re-entered the picture for making an sixth straight appearance in the A-Sun Championship. They have closed to within one game of Stetson by scoring big recent victories against the Hatters and at ETSU. The Dolphins close with three home games and could use their recent stingy defense (60.8 PPG) to claim that eighth spot.
- Stetson (8-18, Previous Ranking: 8): Despite increasing their scoring in league games by more than 10 points per game on last season, the Hatters, once a sure bet to return to the A-Sun Championship now hold only a one-game lead on Jacksonville and face road games at FGCU, USC Upstate and ETSU to close out the regular season. As an add on to the Hatters' bad luck when scoring at least 80 points, the rest of the country is 1407-197 when scoring at least 80 points (87.7 win percentage); the Hatters are 0-6.
- Kennesaw State (3-24, Previous Ranking: 10): The Owls' modest streak of qualifying for the A-Sun Championship in consecutive years officially ended as the Owls fell to 0-14 in league play. No A-Sun school has gone winless in league games since Campbell in 2004-05.
Looking Ahead
Here are a couple of games in the coming days for fans to keep an eye out for:
- Monday, February 20: USC Upstate at Belmont: The only A-Sun school to beat Belmont besides Lipscomb since the start of last season came on Jan. 21 at USC Upstate. The Spartans rallied from 16 down at the half to score their first-ever victory against the perennial heavyweight. Torrey Craig hit the game-winning shot with two seconds left, part of a 22-point effort. The Spartans will attempt to become just the fifth team to sweep the Bruins in the last seven years.
- Friday, February 24: North Florida at Jacksonville: With Belmont leaving for the OVC next season, the "SunTrust River City Rumble" becomes the conference's lone crosstown rival. The Dolphins have controlled the series until very recently. Beginning at last year's A-Sun Championship where the Ospreys broke an 11-game losing streak to the Dolphins, UNF has won the last two meetings. Jacksonville will need to keep winning to pass Stetson for the eighth spot in the upcoming A-Sun Championship.
- Saturday, February 25: Belmont at Mercer: This game could loom monumental of both teams postseason aspirations. With two weeks to play, the Bears and Bruins own identical 12-2 marks in league play with Belmont owning the head-to-head tiebreaker thanks to a 82-78 home victory on Dec. 3. Despite all the advantages that come to the top seeds, the loser can take solace in the fact that the top seed has won only two of the last 10 A-Sun Tournament titles.


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With the exception of former RHONY Bethenny Frankel, Andy finds the other cast members too déclassé to run in his high-powered social scene.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper threw a swanky soiree to celebrate the release of Andy's memoir, Most Talkative: Stores From the Front Lines of Pop Culture, on May 5 — but aside from Bethenny, none of the Housewives made the guest list.
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The Rolling Stones kicked off a five-date concert series in London this morning, as the self-proclaimed best band in the world's rock 'n' roll circus entered its sixth decade.
The three dates in London and two in New York have been scheduled to mark 50 years since the band first took to the stage at the Marquee Club on London's Oxford Street in 1962.
This morning an estimated 20,000-strong sell-out crowd packed into London's O2 Arena to hear Mick Jagger and company strut and swagger their way through hit after hit.
Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, along with drummer Charlie Watts, are all in their 60s and early 70s, but played for more than two hours.
The concert featured guest appearances from American R&B singer-songwriter Mary J Blige, who delivered a rousing duet with Jagger on Gimme Shelter, and guitarist Jeff Beck.
Former Rolling Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor were also back in the fold, performing with the rest of the band for the first time in 20 years.
The concerts are the culmination of a busy few months of events, rehearsals and recordings.
There has been a photo album, two new songs, a music video, a documentary film, a blitz of media appearances and a handful of warm-up gigs in Paris.
The O2 Arena was where another top band of the 1960s and 70s, Led Zeppelin, staged an eagerly awaited one-off reunion in 2007, and while the Stones have appeared together far more regularly, it is their first arena performance in six years.
But the run-up to the Stones' gigs was marked by widespread complaints from fans at ticket prices that ranged from 95 pounds ($145) to up to 950 pounds ($1,456) for a VIP seat.
Costs went far higher on secondary ticketing websites, although by Friday eBay was offering several seats to this morning's show at below face value and there were places still officially available at around 400 pounds ($613) apiece.
"Everybody all right there in the cheap seats?" Jagger asked in reference to the controversy over the price of tickets.
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The snow that fell on Greeley Wednesday came up short of expectations — much to the delight of local commuters, but much to the disappointment of local farmers needing moisture on parched soil and to provide cover for a young winter wheat crop
However, the good news for crop growers and other water users is that snowfall was abundant in the mountains, where accumulation is greatly needed to replenish low reservoirs — used heavily during this year's drought — and also to fill irrigation ditches when it melts in the spring.
Frank Cooper, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said most of the mountain areas north of I-70 reported 8-12 inches Wednesday.
The Greeley area on the other hand, Cooper said, only received about one inch — falling short of forecasts that at one time were calling for three to five inches.
Because of Wednesday's storm, roads and highways in northern Colorado were icy in spots, but conditions overall weren't too hazardous, local officials said.
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On Beesource today Michael Palmer wanted to know if anyone had heard of such a possible study in this area. The thread went off on another thread so I thought I would post it here. It is an interesting and hopeful concept.
I contacted Brian Spencer at Applied Bio-nomics, the producer of Stratiolaelaps a bug that would attack varroa mites and apparently there have been a couple of trials that have been successful. The following is a copy of part of my email exchange with himstart at the bottom and scroll up)
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I think George was putting in about 50 ml per hive. So, one bottle can do 20 hives.
From: Bill Abell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: February-20-13 4:50 PM
To: Brian Spencer
Subject: Re: [Applied Bio-nomics contact] Varroa Mites
Thank you for the information and your efforts on behalf of the honey bees. I certainly hope you will be successful. I do not use any chemicals in my 4 hives as I think it is incredibly dangerous to the bees, myself, my family and friends who get some of the honey. It is difficult to keep the hives healthy and alive because of varroa directly and indirectly through disease, killing the bees. I know that most beekeepers even if they now use chemicals would be ecstatic if you or someone came up with a natural remedy. I assume that you do not have an objection with me sharing your email with my fellow beekeepers. I believe the beekeeping community would be behind such an effort and would give you all the help we could.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Brian Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Bill
I have copied Margaret Skinner, a professor at University of Vermont, who is investigating the opportunity of doing research on the topic, and, George Scott, a researcher at SRI Inc in Ontario, Canada. George has, single handily, proceeded with this research in spite of being challenged by provincial and federal authorities, making things uncomfortable for him. I have run into similar, subtle discouragement in the past 15 years when I was trying to get trials like this one done.
As far as I am concerned, I have seen enough evidence to say that I am confident that Stratiolaelaps scimitus effectively controls the Varroa mite, without posing any risk to a hive.
But, being the one who is producing the product, I am not the one who should be objectively scrutinizing it.
There is no doubt that bee keepers need a lot of help. Honey Bees, in the US, do not fall under USDA Aphis plant protection. Because they are not native, they have always been treated as livestock falling into a group of government departments that has no interest or understanding of insects, outside of Veterinary medicine.
For me, this is just a personal thing. We make our money selling this mite to control agricultural plant pests. With the small amounts that would be used in Honey Bees, it isnt a big deal for us. So, I just want to help.
I certainly want to stay involved with the research, so, I will take a look at the forum. Perhaps George can send a link to one of his videos. This is the way that we will make progress, from the beekeepers back up the chain. I am currently researching a new formulation of the carrier that will allow us to do trials in peoples houses for Bed Bugs. If we can come up with a viable product, we may market this product, which is already being used by pet distributors to control poultry lice and phoretic mites in reptiles and tarantula, and Hermit Crabs, directly to Bee Keepers. And, we have a trial in Oregon at a Dog Kennel for Flea control going on. But, from a commercial point of view, this mite usually works in a single application, providing persistent control, so, all we are really going to be doing is taking millions of dollars away from the chemical industry, which is probably why we run into such interesting roadblocks.
From: Bill Abell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: February-20-13 1:07 PM
To: Brian Spencer
Subject: Re: [Applied Bio-nomics contact] Varroa Mites
I am just a beekeeper in Lexington, VA. I saw a forum post discussing a rumor that someone was working on this type of effort to control varroa. I am sure you can appreciate that beekeepers all over the world are interested. You can see the forum thread at https://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?278414-Possible-Mite-Control
Perhaps you could join the forum and let everyone know what is hoped for and the status. Thanks.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Brian Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
I need to know who is asking first.
I reason I am asking is that we have found considerable roadblocks doing this research. The research in Canada has been largely secret because of this. Once I know who you are, I will pass your contact info on to the researcher, who will then decide whether or not to contact you.
It is hoped that the Pennsylvania research will be out in the open, but nothing has happened yet.


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