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June is a good time around here to harvest the first of the year's honey. When I first started beekeeping it took me a long time of observation to understand our seasons from the bee's perspective. Pretty much as March rolls around we'll begin to see the bees buzzing on the first flower blossoms that appear. By April they are in full flight and are bringing in honey at an alarming rate, so we give them some time to replenish the stored honey they used all winter and then we put on supers. Supers are smaller boxes that are meant for honey storage rather than for brood (eggs and baby bees). As long as the brood boxes are not overly filled and crowded, then the bees will only put honey in the super boxes and will keep the brood down in the boxes below. This is convenient for the beekeeper who can easily pull off a super and have nothing but honey inside. We tend to give the hives all of April and May to fill up as many supers as they can. Once June comes, the supers are usually filled and all that's left is for the bees to cap them. The bees know just how to preserve honey so that it will last indefinitely. They pack the honey into the wax cells or honey comb and then they fan their wings inside the hive to evaporate the water that is in it. Once they have evaporated enough water, then they place a thin layer of wax over the top of the cell and the honey that is inside is perfectly preserved! When they have capped all of the frames in the super, then it is time for the beekeeper to harvest honey. Now, it's very important that you always leave your bees with plenty of honey for themselves, but by adding more supers to the hive and expanding the room they have to live and work, they will continue to make more honey than they need. It is only this excess honey that we take so that our hives are never in jeopardy. We'll put the empty supers back on the hives once we're done taking the honey and the bees will continue to fill up supers through out the summer, but at a much slower pace since the heat tends to slow them down. In the fall when things cool off a bit there is one more big push for them to make honey and this can often result in a second honey harvest or, if nothing more, it is a good time for the hive to really store up on their winter food.
There are many different ways to harvest your honey, but the process that we use is the most basic, doesn't require special equipment, and is generally best for the backyard beekeeper who doesn't do much. On the morning we harvest honey we take an empty super box over to the hives and put it in a cookie sheet pan to keep it off the dirt. We also get a piece of cardboard or plywood to use like a lid. We then go to the first hive, take off their lid, and remove one frame of capped honey from the super at a time. Each time we use a bee brush, which is just a soft bristle brush that if used gently won't injure the bees, to brush off any bees that are on the honey frame. When the frame is clear we bring it to the empty super box. One frame at a time we empty the super that is on the hive and fill up the super we brought over that morning. It's important to cover the super of the honey you are taking otherwise the bees will just fly right back in there. When the super on the hive is empty, then we can use that empty box to fill up with frames from the next hive. We generally have two or three supers at a time to harvest, so if this is the case, we use a two wheel dolly to roll the stack of supers inside the garage. Inevitably there will be a bee or two that follows so we leave the garage door cracked just a bit for them to escape.
Once we have the honey inside, it's important that you harvest it immediately or else wax moths will find it and hatch out and destroy it. Some people use an extractor to spin the honey out of the frame, but we don't have one so we use the crush and strain method. With this method you will lose your wax comb and this requires more work on the part of the bees next year to make comb, but extractors are expensive for just a small honey harvest. Our process involves taking one frame of honey inside the kitchen at a time. Here we use a heated knife, which is one luxury we bought to make the job easier! You plug the knife in and it heats up which makes the wax melt. We hold the frame vertically over a 5 gallon bucket (resting it on a slat of wood if necessary) and use the heated knife to slice off the wax cappings. This is not really necessary with the crush and strain method. You could just cut out all of the honey comb, but I like to keep the capping wax separate from the main comb wax. The main comb wax starts with store bought foundation, but the layer of wax cappings is directly from my bees and is pure and white. Maybe I'm over paranoid, but I save capping wax for things like lip balm and salve that I use on my skin. The main comb wax, which I don't know exactly where it comes from, is used in candles.
When I have the cappings cut off a frame and in the bucket, then I move the frame over to a big roasting pan. Here I use a sharp kitchen knife to cut all of the comb out of the wooden frame. I do one frame at a time to try to keep the honey drips to a minimum. Honey is sticky stuff and always ends up everywhere no matter how hard I try to contain it! Once all the frames are done and all the comb is in the roasting pans, then I use a potato masher and just mash up all of the comb. When you crush the wax comb, the honey is released out and if you keep mashing soon you will end up with a slurry of honey and wax. The next part is to strain the wax out. You can buy filters and bags to use as strainers or use multiple layers of cheese cloth. I bought a fine mesh nylon bag so I can use it over and over again. I fill the bag with the wax/honey slurry and then hang it up so that it can drip into a bowl with a pour spout. It takes a while, but soon most of the honey will drip out and what's in the bowl is pretty clear. The crush and strain method won't produce as clear of honey as an extractor because it is pretty difficult to strain all of the wax and pollen out, but these little bits have health benefits as well so I don't mind them. Once the bag is strained, the wax that is left inside is rendered for candles. The honey that is in the bowl is poured into mason jars and stored away.
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I render my capping wax and comb wax separately and label them so that I know what's what later on, but the process is the same for both of them. I bought a cheap non-stick saucepan to dedicate just to wax because I never can get a pot clean after melting wax in it! I put the wax bits in the pot and just about cover them with water. Then I heat it until the wax melts. As the mixture cools, the left over honey and any debris will melt out and sink down into the water as the wax rises to the top. Once cooled, the wax hardens on top of the water and you can just lift it out. There is often a layer of sludge on the bottom of the hardened wax, but it usually washes off under cool water. Sometimes I don't feel like the wax has come out pure enough and in this case I will remelt just the wax without any water and then strain it through several layers of cheese cloth into a paper cup. This is always very messy! Once the wax hardens, then you can just rip the paper cup off and you are left with a block of wax.
After a day of honey harvesting and wax rendering there is always a LOT of clean up and I'm glad that we only have to do it twice a year. The good part is that we have honey to last all year and lots of wax for making all kinds of neat things. We love our bees and are always so grateful for the delicious honey they give us!
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Thank you so much for this post! I dream of one day having bees. I talked to a guy that has a hive on his roof and all he told me was "Good luck, It's expensive, a lot of work, and chances are your hive will collapse." After a brief conversation, I came away very discouraged. Thank you for showing bee keeping in a positive light. I can tell you really enjoy your bees. It just goes to show, as with everything in life, "You get out what you put in" If it's a hassle to you and you don't enjoy what your doing, your results will directly reflect your attitude and effort. Thank you for reviving the dream!
Lisa - What a shame that you once felt discouraged. I have seen people keep bees in the conventional way and I might also think that it's a lot of work and too expensive if I followed that approach. Most people are constantly treating their bees with medication or preventative traps and things in order to keep pests and disease at bay. We keep our bees very naturally and never treat them with anything, so it makes our beekeeping chores MUCH easier. I've found that the bees are better off as well since the strongest survive. As far as losing hives...it happens, but if you keep the perspective of letting the bees share your land and you are simply the landlord who sometimes accepts a payment of honey, then you take the pressure off yourself and the bees and it makes for a happy relationship. I do hope your dream has been revived because beekeeping is an incredibly fun hobby!
Thanks Daisy, I'm not going to give up on my dream. I'm not one to let a grumpy gus rain on my parade! Someone suggested I use attractant and try to lure a wild swarm. Once I save enough egg money to purchase my hive I think I'll try this. For now, I keep saving, learning, and dreaming!
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Gummi shot glasses are shown here, but the same idea could be applied to chocolate with or without various jams as filling, or other candies (gummi-types are recommended). You can also use this mold/tray to make awesome chocolate cake shots.
Note: If you're underage and feel like getting drunk, don't - if you do, don't blame me.
Also Note: The mold used here is from thinkgeek.com - it's intended for making ice shot glasses which are awesome, but not as tasty as gummies.
And one more note: If your finished shot glasses are a little on the sticky side, try a (very) light dusting of corn starch, and make sure to keep them cool if you can. Both will help cut down on the stick-factor.
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On the other hand, by utiliizing your Instructable, my Fred mold & my gummies, I will create a vastly similar product at less than 1/4 of their cost!
- Filling a large container with corn starch and inverting a shot glass into it in several places (open side down). Then fill these spaces with the melted gummies.
- As you mentioned, placing a small plastic cup (lightly oiled) inside of a larger cup and taping the two together along the rim.
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I was also thinking to maybe spray the mold with pam before pouring in the gummy bears, but idk... PLEASE HELP!!
Just as a note, I had to totally invert the mold (as pictured in the picture in step 3) in order to unmold them (they don't just slip out). If you pull on them as gently as possible with the mold inverted you should be able to get them unmolded without any major issues.
I inverted mine also, the outside of the shot glass was perfectly fine, the only issue I had was the inside of the mold itself ( like where the alcohol would go normally ).
I will try this again tonight with cooking spray. I really hope this works. I was soooo excited about this...
Also, any other ideas as far as what I can melt and put into the mold to use?
Vat19 has consistently sent me things that were completely globbed or broken, and they do nothing to support the customer in terms of their products' quality being poor. While I would hope this isn't how they treat everybody, it is my personal report.
Besides, why buy it when you can make it yourself! :)
These would also be great to put ice cream or candy in, at kids' parties. my kids would love them!
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I had a client the other day insist that I no longer send work that is in div's, but tables only. It is a client I get semi-regular work from that hosts a myriad of aging websites that make 2008 look hip sometimes.
I'm kind of on the fence about what my approach is going to be here. Convincing them of the value of newer design fundamentals is not an option at this point as I've been over it.
My initial reaction was "uhh... really?" followed by wanting to just not bother any longer. But I think I'm just going to take on more work until I'm just "too busy" for those projects.
Has anyone else run across that? Curious what they did and how it turned out.Does your client have to edit the webpages often on his own? If so, he's probably not sure how to work with divs. I've never run across that before because typically the people I design for don't really know a lot about web design and they're not editing their own sites either.Have you asked the client why specifically they want to use tables and not divs? It might be best to do that first, and then try to counter a specific argument the client has for using tables instead of giving them broad reason why they should use divs. Best of luck with it!
My general rule is that if the client acts like they know more than you do about web design/development, they are probably not worth your time.@theacefes I don't honestly know how much they modify it, but that very well could be a good reason. And you are probably correct on your last comment lol
@ryanMTD yes, which was confusing because it's like asking someone from the past. As far as he knows, the the most dominant, widely used and progressive technology out there =D I suppose if someone didn't have any experience with it, they would see it as confusing as hell. But then again you have to be able to accept that it could possibly be more powerful if learned. That just isn't going to happen :PHahah not trying to sound disrespectful of course. But usually the reason someone hires me to do a website is because they lack the technical know how to do it themselves.


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We've taken everything that's good from Lightning Pool and raised the bar. The Lightning Pool table is back with a major upgrade. Lightning Pool 2 has 20 new tables, hundreds of levels and new spin control for even better ball handling. Take your pool skills to the Ice Hockey rink, the pinball table and the golf links. Avoid the lava, use x-ray vision and go into space. Are you good enough to take on the lightning? Welcome to Lightning Pool 2, home to 20 of the trickiest pool tables in the game world. Whether it's sinking balls of stone, breaking the reds free, avoiding the ghosts or clearing the crapiest table ever you will be challenged at every point. Unlimited play, you own the game 20 new tables with hundreds of levels Spin control for those special shots Full-screen play Track your progress as you unlock the tables No quibble 7 day money back guarantee
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Government Declaration by Foreign Minister Dr. Ursula Plassnik
Madam President, Mr. Federal Chancellor, Mr. Deputy Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since yesterday we have a common currency on both sides of the Karawanken Mountains. On behalf of the Austrian Federal Government I was in Slovenia yesterday where I participated in the formal celebrations. I must say I am proud of our partner, our neighbour Slovenia; after all, this introduction of the euro to Slovenia has been preceded by a difficult development which Slovenia has mastered successfully and within record time.
Yesterday also marked the 15th anniversary of the recognition of Slovenia's sovereignty by Austria and the European Union. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a day on which we really felt the force of European unification at work!
I am addressing our young friends who are watching the presentation of this government programme from the gallery. On page 158 of the government programme you will find the information that the era of the Iron Curtain is to be studied academically and then presented in museums. This was my suggestion, for I think it is a privilege to be able to live in a Europe where the dismantling of the Iron Curtain is the subject of a historical exhibit in a museum. It is for the very same reason that the core concern of this Federal Government is the work on Europe's reunification, the active shaping of the European peace project in our generation. That is also what our neighbourhood policy consists in, that is what practical foreign policy is all about.
Tomorrow I shall travel to Serbia. Serbia's parliamentary elections are scheduled for 21 January. We want to and shall support Serbia on its path to Europe. We shall not compromise with regard to the requirements posed by the European Union, but I am completely sure, ladies and gentlemen, that one day - in the not too distant future - Serbia, like Slovenia, will be a member of the European Union and will also become a member state of the Eurozone. It is this day that we have to work towards.
The Balkans will continue to be a priority of Austria's European and foreign policy. It is imperative to present the perspective of accession in a credible way that people in the Balkans can believe in.
A few remarks on Turkey: In our government programme we have stated the objective of a step-by-step procedure, with the first goal being a tailor-made Turkish-European Community. We have also stipulated that there will be a referendum in the event that this negotiating process, which will be a lengthy one, should lead to the prospect of accession.
The basic philosophy of the European and foreign policy part of this coalition agreement is that Europe should be perceived as an opportunity. And I am convinced that if the Social Democratic Party and the Austrian People's Party work together to raise awareness of this fact, the acceptance of European unification will increase among all Austrians.
We want to co-shape Europe in a pro-active and legitimate manner. We shall participate in all policy areas of the European Union, and we shall contribute to ensuring that Europe remains a continent of confidence, not one that is driven by its fears.xxx We shall safeguard and further develop the European model of life with all its components; with its distinctive social components, but also with components of sustainability, multiplicity and cultural diversity. And we shall do this together: our efforts will be based on teamwork in the same way as foreign policy and European policy are based on teamwork.
We shall work on the Constitution and support the German Presidency. We need clear basic rules. We cannot face the elections to the European Parliament in 2009 without having achieved clarity as regards these rules.
The European Union will also be supported by us as a global partner. From this rostrum let me address the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who knows Austria well: Mr. Secretary-General, you can continue to count on Austria as a reliable, committed, pro-active partner of the United Nations.
The world community is facing big challenges. The Middle East will be a regional priority of this work for the world community, for the European Union, and also for Austria; after all, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for an impetus, and this impetus should come from the European Union. We are working on this. We have a lot of confidence on both sides, it is now imperative to use this capital and create the preconditions for a two-state solution.
Just a few words on international cultural policy and development cooperation. In these fields we shall focus special attention on women. In this coalition agreement we have laid down that every single project of Austria's development cooperation programme is checked for its compliance with the interests and concerns of women.
We shall continue our close cooperation with the economy, and we shall rename the "Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs" as the "Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs" to reflect the continued development of a broader awareness.
Ladies and gentlemen, Austria's foreign policy and European policy will be neither red nor black: it will be red-white-red.
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Foundation: Coach Steve Spagnuolo has a pretty solid foundation to work with in his re-building process. Monster running back Steven Jackson is locked up to a long-term deal and he is and will be the focal point of this offense. The Rams have a nice young receiving corps led by Donnie Avery, though I feel they lack a true number one receiver. Left tackle Jason Smith was the 2nd overall pick in the draft in 2009 and has played solid as a rookie. He should and will be the anchor of the offensive line for years to come. Center Jason Brown was a great addition to this team this past off-season and he hasn't disappointed.
Defensive end Chris Long is a great talent, but he can't do it on his own on the line. They need to improve upon that defensive line if they want to properly utilize Chris Long and his talents. Middle linebacker James Laurinaitis proved to be a steal in the second round of the draft as he is a great leader and a great talent. Safety O.J. Atogwe is a true ball hawk whom the Rams need to sign to a long-term deal this upcoming off-season. It would be a devastating blow if they couldn't re-sign Atogwe, but there is no reason to believe they won't. Usually when a team is re-building, they focus on six key positions to build from. A franchise quarterback, one offensive playmaker, a dominate left tackle, a disruptive pass rusher, a leader at middle linebacker, and a play-making safety. The Rams have all of those except for the franchise quarterback which is the most important. That is what leads me to believe that quarterback is the Rams greatest area of concern in the upcoming off-season.
Off-season Needs: QB, WR, TE, RT, G, DE, DT, OLB, CB, S
Quarterback: Current Status - Marc Bulger is under contract through 2013, but he is not the answer at quarterback for the re-building Rams. I'd let him walk with his guaranteed $27 million, or I would keep him another year as a mentor/backup. Kyle Boller's contract runs out at the end of the season and he is as good as gone, as he will never be a starting quarterback in the NFL, he should try the UFL like J.P. Losman.
Possible Future – As it currently stands now, the Rams would be picking 1st overall in the draft. They seem to be locked in to selecting a quarterback with that pick. I'd go with Jimmy Clausen of Notre Dame with that pick. Clausen appears to be the most polished of the top quarterbacks coming out. Sam Bradford would be a major risk with the 1st overall pick due to his shoulder injury and because of the fact he doesn't play under center. Jake Locker is another option, but he doesn't play under center and is not a proven winner.
Current NFL Quarterbacks who might be considered and should available next off-season include: Brady Quinn, Derek Anderson, Brodie Croyle, Kyle Orton, Tarvaris Jackson, David Carr, Michael Vick and Jason Campbell. The most likely candidate from that list would be Brady Quinn, but the fact that they would have to trade for him, leads me to believe they won't go with any players currently in the league. In my opinion, Brady Quinn is not an NFL starter, so he wouldn't help this franchise, nor would Vick. Coach Spagnuolo needs to put his stamp on this team, by selecting a franchise quarterback in the 1st round of the 2010 draft, who can also be the new face of the franchise.
Other needs: The Rams need to continue to build through drafting wisely and signing free agents who fit Coach Spagnuolo's schemes. They need a big target with solid hands at the receiver position, but without an established quarterback it might be hard to lure free agents such as, Miles Austin, Brandon Marshall, Braylon Edwards and Vincent Jackson to St. Louis. That being said, the draft looks to be the way to acquire a receiver. Brandon LaFell from LSU would be a great option if he slides in to the second round and Arrelious Benn from Illinois is another option but doesn't have consistent hands. Golden Tate from Notre Dame would be interesting if the Rams pick Clausen, but Tate has a similar skill set to Donnie Avery. The offensive tackle position appears to be deep with talent for the 2010 draft. The Rams could select one in the second round by grabbing Trent Williams of Oklahoma, Anthony Davis of Rutgers, Jason Fox of the U, or Ciron Black of LSU. All are solid talents that could play right tackle for the Rams if they decide to let Alex Barron go, which appears to be the way they are leaning. Defensive line is pretty deep in the draft too, so you can bet they will take one in the first couple of rounds.
Spagnuolo always had a deep defensive line unit with the New York Giants and I believe he will build the Rams the same way with interchangeable players. Barry Cofield and Fred Robbins are both free agents and could come to St. Louis as they know and are comfortable in Spagnuolo's defense. The Rams need two outside linebackers but I doubt it will be a high priority, since middle linebacker is set in stone and that is a bigger key to his defense. Cornerback is a need as well but it doesn't appear to be a deep draft class at that position. They might address corner during free agency but nothing stares out at me currently. I listed safety as a need, which is only if the Rams can't re-sign O.J. Atogwe. I see him re-signing with the team though.


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Have to rep you for that, as I ended up drafting him Kessel stepped up, no doubt. Lupul was also a big part of his success. |
You bet that I a bought into Kessel, for all the right reasons. I did not trade for him because I thought he would blow past 80 points every year on his own. I try to read into the whole team trend that goes with the package, and it comes down to Burke. Kessel was his starting move and it is a long game. Every team wants a guy that puts away 70-80 points every year. Burke is greedy and he wants a few more of them studs, like every team. For the sake of Leaf fans and to the benefit of Kessel, I hope Burke is right, and he seems to know a little bit about hockey. I know, we are talking about the Leafs. That is the team that Kessel plays for, and considering the odds he is doing mighty fine. Not much of a fantasy gamble, just don't overpay.
At 25, Kessel should be part and parcel of any upcoming playoff run by the Leafs and am thinking Burke will want that sooner than later. The questions become, how many studs does Kessel need to have around him before he breaks PPG, and how long will it take Burke to get there? I play this video regularly just to remind myself why there are Leaf fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ2fImgCmLo
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Now that we know we have a season and we know how long it will be, what do you guys think Kessel can do? I'm totally on the fence with him because in my league I almost have to keep a second goaltender (Halak) due to their scarcity, but I'm having a really hard time tossing Kessel back into the draft. It's possible I'll be able to pick him out again, but I have my doubts. Thoughts? Think he can match or improve on last season's pace?
12-team H2H Semi Keeper (keep 6) skater cats (7): G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, GWG goalie cats (4): W, GAA, SV%, SHO 6 keepers bolded ------------------------- C(2) - S. Crosby, E. Malkin (W), S. Ott (W) W(4) - A. Ovechkin, D. Brown, M. Ryder, B. Saad D(4) - K. Yandle, D. Phaneuf, M. Green, R. Josi G(2) - MA. Fleury, J. Halak, T. Vokoun, V. Fasth, J. Allen, R. Lehner IR - E. Karlsson (D) Next year's draft picks (1-6 are keepers): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 17 |
In a 12 team league there should still be some goalie options to explore. Halak I like less them usual in a short season, as his value takes a hit with a very servicable Brian Elliott. In a short season a work horse goalie has even more value than a full season, and Halak as good as he is, won't be that big work horse this coming season. |
Not sure I agree with your assessment of how "work horse goalies will be used this season". With so many games crammed into such a short period of time, I think teams will be forced to split time more, and that's exactly what St. Louis does already. I think he will get 60% of St. Louis' games, or more. Not worse than last season. Teams that typically roll with their #1 much more will have to play their backups more because there will be so many more back-to back games, and games otherwise very close together that leave little time for starters to rest/mend little nagging things. Especially teams that can trust their #2 to play well. I think Biron will get a higher percentage of starts for the Rangers. Bernier for the Kings. Hedberg for the Devils. Enroth for the Sabres. Vokoun with the Penguins. Florida will probably rotate like St. Louis. Tampa, Ottawa, Washington, Chicago, Dallas, Edmonton, Minnesota, San Jose - all have solid backups. You're probably right about a few teams though (Nashville, Montreal, Carolina, Vancouver - if Luongo is traded, Toronto - if they get Luongo, others). Because fewer teams will be able to (or forced to) run the season with their #1, less guys will be racking up the highest % of starts.
12-team H2H Semi Keeper (keep 6) skater cats (7): G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, GWG goalie cats (4): W, GAA, SV%, SHO 6 keepers bolded ------------------------- C(2) - S. Crosby, E. Malkin (W), S. Ott (W) W(4) - A. Ovechkin, D. Brown, M. Ryder, B. Saad D(4) - K. Yandle, D. Phaneuf, M. Green, R. Josi G(2) - MA. Fleury, J. Halak, T. Vokoun, V. Fasth, J. Allen, R. Lehner IR - E. Karlsson (D) Next year's draft picks (1-6 are keepers): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 17 |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Marcus Green blocked a late field goal attempt and Montel Harris scored two touchdowns to lead Temple to a 37-28 victory over South Florida in a Big East Conference matchup on Saturday.
The game marked Temple's re-entry into the Big East after the Owls were kicked out of the conference in 2004.
Temple snapped a two-game losing skid with the victory, improving to 2-2 overall and 1-0 in the Big East. After South Florida opened the season with a pair of victories, the loss was the Bulls' fourth-straight defeat, dropping them to 2-4 overall and 0-2 in the conference.
"I thought our kids were scratching, and fighting and clawing and not relenting, and had two losses against two good football teams, and our kids never blinked," Temple coach Steve Addazio said. "This is a great win for our program. It's an emotional win. It's Temple back in the Big East Conference, our first Big East game making a statement that our program is headed in the right direction and we'll be a valued member in this conference."
Harris, a transfer from Boston College, erupted for a season-best 133 yards on 24 carries and two fourth-quarter touchdowns.
Temple's Chris Coyer was a very efficient 16 for 20 for 167 yards, throwing for one touchdown and scoring the first TD of the game on a 24-yard run on the Owls' first possession.
"It was a great team effort, and my offensive line opened up some holes, but it was a great team win, and it was in the back of my mind that I wasn't able to show people how good I could play," said Harris, who had been hampered by a hamstring injury that limited him to 15 carries for 35 yards in two games. "I think this says we're not just a team everyone can run over. I would say I think this week I felt my leg getting back to normal."
South Florida was in position to take the lead late in the fourth quarter. But on third-and-one at the Temple 23, with around 1:30 left to play, Demetri Murray went wide and was pulled down by Temple linebacker Tyler Matakevich, a true freshman who had a team-high 15 tackles, for a five-yard loss.
That forced Bulls' kicker Maikon Bonani to try a 45-yard field goal, which was batted down by Green and picked up by Anthony Robey, who advanced the ball to the South Florida 35. Harris closed a strong day by taking a handoff 35 yards for a touchdown on the following play to seal Temple's victory with 1:03 left.
"We had an inside play called initially," said South Florida coach Skip Holtz, whose quarterback, B.J. Daniels, had limited mobility due to a sore ankle. "We had some success running up the middle, we just didn't execute it. It wasn't the play call at all. It was the execution. We played a great game and we're all hurting a little bit. But I've yet to see anyone throw their arms up and put their heads in the sand. I think there's a lot left to play." Continued...
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text: Belfast Music Week Sea Sessions Date: 23/05/2013 Comments Five of Northern Ireland's best acts to perform at Sea Sessions in County Donegal this June Belfast Music Week comes to Sea Sessions, Europe's best surf, skate and music festival, on Saturday, June 22, 2013 with a line-up featuring five of Northern Ireland's finest artists – Rams' Pocket Radio, Axis Of, VerseChorusVerse, Robyn G Shiels and Our Krypton Son.November 11 – 17 this year will see the third annual Belfast Music Week. It features live music performances, workshops, seminars and networking events, and includes over 250 events in 70 venues across the city. It's a chance to see legends and breaking talent, and to appreciate the ongoing success stories in a musical city that continues to make us proud.Belfast Music Week is delighted to bring a flavour of the city's fertile music scene to Sea Sessions in Bundoran, County Donegal, with not-to-be-missed performances from five extremely talented acts.Rams' Pocket Radio is the alias of Peter McCauley, a Lisburn-born singer, songwriter and pianist whose passionate pop runs the gamut from barrelling, energetic piano-rock to tender balladry, and always with an ear for the unusual. Following a series of EPs and tours with Snow Patrol, Darwin Deez and Foy Vance, expect to hear songs taken from his highly anticipated debut album.Tony Wright is all about passion. He brought it to his role as guitarist for post-rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar and now he brings it to solo project VerseChorusVerse – an outlet for passionate folk-rock songwriting in the vein of Bruce Springsteen and Frank Turner. Expect to hear big-hearted songs from a big-hearted man.Hailing from Kilrea in County Derry, Robyn G Shiels brings a uniquely eerie, gothic approach to finger-picking folk, with beautifully crafted, honest songs peering into the dark side of life. Following a series of EPs over the last couple of years, he is soon to release the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed debut album, A Lifetime Of Midnights. It's no accident that Shiels was crowned Best Solo Artist at the Northern Ireland Music Awards in 2011, ahead of the likes of Duke Special and Foy Vance.Our Krypton Son's 2012 debut album marked the arrival of a genuine talent. The alias of Derryman Chris McConaghy, the self-titled record presented 11 songs of seriously accomplished songwriting that echoed the likes of Richard Hawley, Nick Cave and John Grant. Prepare to be moved, as Chris and his band open the Belfast Music Week showcase at Sea Sessions.Belfast City Council's Belfast Music Week began in 2010 as a spontaneous response from the local music community to the arrival of MTV. It was such an inspiring project that it has become an annual event, which last year contributed over £2 million to the local economy hosting 250 events across 70 venues in the city, with an attendance of over 40,000. Belfast Music Week celebrates Northern Ireland's musical heritage, while offering a platform for emerging new talent.One of the discoveries from last year's event was Soak, who recently signed to Universal Music Publishing. The event programme involves rock, alternative, classical, traditional, and dance culture and sees gigs popping up in the most unexpected places, from the Victorian Palm House in Botanic Gardens to the Europa Bus Station. Aside from live music performances, there are workshops, seminars, networking events, and film screenings. Comments


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Monday, April 16, 2012
Potato Pancake (Gahmja Jeon)
2 potatoes
Small handful of chopped Chinese leeks (optional)
1 chili pepper, thinly sliced
1 T flour
1. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a fine grater.
2. Put the grated potatoes in a strainer and let the water drain out.
3. Add the Chinese leeks, pepper slices, and flour. Mix around.
4. Heat some oil in a non stick frying pan and put a scoop of the potato mix in. You can adjust the size of the pancake to your liking. Use a spatula to spread it out and make a nice flat circle.
5. When the bottom is golden brown, flip it. Cook the other side until it is the same color.
Enjoy with a dipping sauce. We use soy sauce, rice vinegar, and red chili powder.
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- kero said...
my mouth watered looking at this. so simple! must make some now!
- April 16, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Sasha said...
i love potato pancakes and this one looks especially tasty with that dipping sauce. it seems perfect for an April that is acting like autumn.
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- Collections said...
wow this looks SO good.
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Yum, this looks delicious! I need to make this and my other two favorite jeon, bindaetteok and dongtaejeon!
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Looks yum, and so simple to make :-)
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mmmmm i love is potato!!!very good.
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This looks awesome and I bet it smells fantastic while it is cooking! OK, I just tried persimmons for the first time and I'm not sure what to do with them. They now have frozen Korean persimmons at Trader Joe's. Do you eat them or cook with them? If you cook with them, are there any recipes you can share? Thank you!
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i want this!
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My halmoni used to make me this. I miss her...
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YUM! just made this and LOVED it-- are there other things you can put in it aside from the onions and pepper?
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Lack of CEO engagement in employee health
Friday, May 10th, 2013I have strongly believed that CEOs should make employee health a high priority and have been bewildered when they delegate that responsibility to their Benefits departments. I successfully created a culture of health at Pitney Bowes, but relatively few CEOs have followed my path.
However, some smart and rational CEOs, whose scarcest resource is time, believe that they can deliver shareholder value by putting their priorities elsewhere. Their reasoning may be as follows:
- Traditional population health improvement programs have not worked in large organizations; and
- The best path to reduced healthcare costs may be to reduce U.S. employee headcount.
Few employees use wellness, disease management, and care management programs. Since employers usually pay a vendor fee for these programs over their entire population, they generally fail to produce a population-level economic return. Why do so few employees use them? The most obvious reason is that the vendors have no incentive to maximize participation, since it increases their costs and reduces profitability.
However, these programs fail to draw widespread participation even when employers and vendors aggressively market them. Understanding why is critical to improving population health.
Most people only use wellness programs when they can be fit into their daily life routines. Moreover, many employees consider mandatory wellness program participation to be an unwarranted intrusion on their private lives, and a bad example of the "nanny state." How can employers get buy-in from all those who should use the programs?
First, employers need to educate employees that increased healthcare spending reduces the amounts available for salary increases and other cash-based benefits. They also need to explain that uncontrollable labor costs make a wide range of headcount reduction strategies more economically viable. What are CEOs who do not attend to improving population health doing instead?
Unfortunately for already insecure employees, one answer is that they are aggressively looking for ways to reduce U.S. headcount. How are they doing it?
- They will substitute technology for labor wherever possible. Automated voice response systems replace human operators. Robots instead of people move physical items. Heavy equipment replaces construction workers in moving dirt. We will also see an evolution toward the eventual penetration of self-driving automobiles, which will eliminate jobs for millions of truck, bus, taxicab and limousine drivers.
- More tasks will be offloaded to offshore workers in low labor cost markets.
- More tasks will be outsourced to more technologically efficient and enabled third party administrative services.
- More tasks will be done by contract workers of short duration, employees who are being tested in a 30-90 days "probation" period, or even unpaid interns. Companies also refer more work to teams of undergraduate or graduate students who will trade compensation for school credit.
- Businesses create more customer self-service opportunities, as airlines have done for over two decades in creating automated reservations systems, and, more recently, automated systems for securing boarding passes. Retailers will expand customer-managed checkout processes. Even restaurants will move slowly, but surely, toward more automated ordering and food pick-up systems.
- Big data analytic systems will replace highly skilled human tasks, such as Amazon.com and Netflix have employed in building recommendation systems for book and movie acquirers. Even law firms are now authorized to use technology to sort documents for responding to certain government document production requests, saving client money and lawyer labor.
- Healthcare will move from face-to-face human interactions to technology that automates physical examination, and non-invasive self-administered biometric monitoring will reduce the need for more skilled healthcare professionals.
However, CEOs are employing two other strategies as well for reducing healthcare cost burdens:
- Companies locate facilities in areas with better-educated and healthier populations, and lower healthcare costs. They require higher levels of education for each job and benefit from the fact that higher educational attainment correlates with better health.
- Finally, they substitute part-time employees for full-time employees to reduce the population for which they have healthcare benefit responsibility.
However, after they exhaust all low-hanging fruit that enables them to avoid having to improve employee health, they will realize that, for the core of their stable, mission-critical, full-time U.S. workforce, they will need a robust population health and healthcare cost management strategy.
For that population, they will need to reinforce a culture of health inside an organization by executing on strategies and tactics that improve health. They can change the daily environment in which employees function, either directly at work, or using their influence, indirectly in the community and at home. Well-respected public health researchers like Sir Michael Marmot and Dr. Anthony Iton, (the author of a wonderful study called Death by Unnatural Causes, when he was the Public Health Director for Alameda County Californida) have demonstrated that 85-90% of what determines our health happens outside the healthcare system. Our daily living environment drives our health outcomes much more than access to high quality healthcare.
The recently released State of Oregon study on its Medicaid population, demonstrated that while those citizens on Medicaid had easier access to healthcare and avoided financial ruin, they had no better health-related outcomes than those not participating in the Medicaid program and the total amounts spent on their healthcare were not lower.
How can an employer alter the daily working environment of employees to make it better?
- Make healthier foods and beverages and lower portions of them more affordable and accessible than junk food, although employees are less likely to rebel if they retain the choice to eat less healthy foods.
- Make all facilities tobacco free.
- Create facility plans and work processes, which induce more walking during the day. Eliminate desktop printers, reduce the number of private offices, and create attractive stairways in place of elevators to induce walking.
- Have fewer meetings of shorter duration to reduce forced sitting down, since prolonged sitting is one of the least healthy activities in which we engage every day.
- Have more ergonomically friendly furniture and furnishings and LED lighting in all workspaces.
Even if employers do not particularly care about the per-employee cost of healthcare, under ObamaCare, the non-deductible 40% excise tax, sometimes called the "Cadillac tax." is based on the per-employee cost, not the total healthcare cost budget. That tax will hit all employers who fail to manage their per employee healthcare costs below $10,200 in 2018.
ObamaCare has many conceptual flaws, but if it forces employers who have the best ability to influence employee health and healthcare cost management, to tackle the problem, it will have at least that as a positive, if unintended, outcome.


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The federal government is promising that the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station will not lengthen response time to marine distress calls or put lives in danger. But those expected to bear the additional burden say the government never asked for their input.
In a conference call from Ottawa with media Friday, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Deputy Commissioner Jody Thomas said that the right "mix of resources" would be able to respond to the needs of boaters. It would also save the government $900,000 per year.
"This will not affect the level of safety of boaters in the Vancouver Harbour area," she said.
That mix of resources may include vessels from the Vancouver Police Department's Marine division, a new inshore Coast Guard boat, and vessels of opportunity—nearby pleasure boaters who are legally required to respond to distress calls. Thomas said such vessels are frequently the first responders to imperiled mariners.
The closure doesn't sit well with Mike Cotter, the general manager of the Jericho Sailing Centre.
Cotter worries that Jericho's volunteer rescue team will be tasked with situations that go beyond its level of experience. Their 40 volunteers can't replace experienced Coast Guard personnel, he said.
"Our whole purpose is to take care of the people that we generate out there so we're not a burden on the Coast Guard," he said. "Now not having a Coast Guard here is going to put an undue burden on our rescue team. "
Jericho has 3,500 members and caters to close to 9,000 "landlubbers" a year, said Cotter. But despite being the biggest sailing centre in Canada, Cotter heard about the closure like most Vancouverites—through the media.
"There was no consultation, even the port was not consulted. None of the marine police, the City of Vancouver, the RCMP, all the other Coast Guard Auxiliaries working in the area, nobody was consulted."
Thomas said that the Department of National Defence was contacted about the closure, but would not confirm whether Metro Vancouver agencies expected to partner had been notified prior to the announcement.
The inshore boat proposal doesn't hold water either, said Cotter. The proposed vessel—an inflatable craft with an outboard motor—couldn't match the response times of the 30-foot cutter stationed at the Kits base.
That ship, he said, can reach the waters between Point Grey and Point Atkinson in around 10 minutes, has firefighting capabilities and can hold 16 injured people comfortably. It's also manned by Coast Guard staff, who are trained as paramedics—unlike officers in the VPD's Marine Division.
Thomas maintained that response times would not be affected.
Mayor Gregor Robertson will ask council next Tuesday to send a letter to the federal government asking it to keep the station running. Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs said the city could not fill the gap left by the federal government.
"We are not in a position to step up and start taking on federal responsibilities," he said. "We wouldn't be able to take on search and rescue any more than we'd be able take on icebreaking."
Cotter, who has been at Jericho for 25 years, remains confident that the government will reverse its decision. He said the station burned down in 1991, and was rebuilt despite the government's initial decision not to replace it.
"The reaction is similar to what we're seeing today," he said. "The cornerstone of that decision was the response time to the First Narrows. It's like deja vu all over again, but I think ultimately they'll keep it open."
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gamerDNA is a shell of what it was. Crispy Gamer acquired them, and then they did nothing with it. All employees are gone, except a sysadmin that keep it afloat part-time, and people working for Crispy Gamer selling ad space.
Founders? Gone. Community managers? Gone. New features? Never. Just say'in. I wish it wasn't true. We worked too hard to make this happen, but it seems a flop at this point. If there is an admin reading this (which there isn't) feel free to comment or kill this thread. |


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