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Opening Hives
On this page, I show some typical colony inspections and routine seasonal manipulations with pictures that complement the book. First a few preliminaries.
The combs of a top-bar hive are arranged in a row like slices of bread in a loaf as shown in the hive below. The beekeeper can open the hive from either end and look through the combs, but you cannot pull up a comb in the middle of the hive first without working your way to it. By the way, good old hive 99 shown below was built in the late 1980's and spent about ten years in the fields of North Carolina where her bees pollinated cucumbers, watermelons, and cantaloupes, then went on to do other service in my bee operation. Now I am using number 99 as a demonstration hive.
Below is a pair of hives on a stand. The stand is at a comfortable working height for me. Other beekeepers can build stands to their heights, keeping in mind the stands rest on bricks. I made most of these stands in the late 1980's out of scrap wood and nails spilled on the floor of the hardware stores and sold at a discount. I build my equipment, hives included, to last 20 years or more, which is another way to lower costs. The metal covers shelter everything below giving long life to the wood.
The stand also provides storage room under the large hives. Here we have a one-foot nuc housing a spare queen (the little red hive to the left). That hive does not need a metal cover since it is already sheltered. Out in an apiary, far from home, a spare queen is the perfect solution upon finding a large queenless colony or one with a failing queen. I make these nucs up in the spring with the very detailed procedures given in my book, and of course especially for top-bar hives. Some nucs I leave in the out-apiaries, others I use to start colonies, and still others are for mating queens (see below). The empty nuc box, also under the hives, is for colony inspections as we will see.
Because of a past experiment, the bees fly from the pair of hives in opposite directions. Usually I have the open entrances in the same direction. The large hive on the right has its entrances open on this side with bees on the front of the hive. The other hive (on the left) has its flight entrances open on the other side out of view. In full view on the left hive are its rear entrances blocked with bits of sponges. I cut a complete set of entrances in each end on most longer hives (there are a few technical exceptions for scientific research). The reasons for two sets of entrances are described in the book, but one reason is, interestingly enough, to reduce repainting the hives.
With top-bar hives, the entrance location sets the placement of the brood and honey. I place my entrances at the end of the hive. The bees put the brood nest close to the entrances with most of the honey to the rear of the hive as diagrammed below. This arrangement, the brood nest next to the entrances, allows extremely efficient colony inspections. For example, even in the main nectar flow when hive weights are very heavy, I can open the hive at the front and go right in the brood nest without lifting the honey. The transition from brood to honey can be variable so I use a queen excluder to set the maximum size of the of the brood nest. Solid honeycombs do not always act as a queen barrier. My book details the construction and use of queen excluders in top-bar hives.
With the metal cover off the hive, we are ready to open it starting with the first top bar next to the entrances. Beside the hive is an empty nuc box to hold some of the first-removed top-bar combs. There is also bee a smoker. I always have a smoker at the ready when inspecting colonies. (One needs to learn how to keep it lit and how to use a minimum of smoke to keep the bees calm while looking through the hive. A veteran beekeeper can give those instructions.)
After a couple of small puffs of smoke, I have removed some top-bar combs and placed them upside-down to show the bee coverage. Subtle things are working here to make the bee work easier. The entrance holes do far more than just let the bees go in and out. With top-bar hive beekeeping, one becomes much more intimate with the comb building habits of bees since there are no sheets of foundation forcing the bees from their natural instincts. Unless the hive becomes crowded, bees refrain from building comb near entrances, a little-known fact. So the first top bar typically has a small comb and is easy to remove. The result: the entrances also let the beekeeper in the hive. If the first comb gets too big, I just move it to the back of the hive or use it to make up another colony. Furthermore, the entrances are mounting ports for other equipment like "plug on" syrup feeders, where one can feed a strong colony without opening the hive. And the entrances along with the alighting board serve to attach a pollen trap. Yes, pollen traps for top-bar hives. Moreover, the upper entrances also help ventilate the hive in winter. All the details are in my book, but for now appreciate that top-bar hive entrances are not just holes. Rather they are multifunctional "ports" strategically placed on the hive to achieve several goals to fully embrace keeping bees in a horizontal hive design.
Another subtle but important design is that my top bars hang over the edge of the hive, not cut even with the sides of the hive. Once the comb attachments are cut (easy to do and explained in the book), I reach under the overhanging ends and easily lift up the top bar on my finger tips. My comb handling is done mostly on my finger tips where the combs naturally remain vertical (as they should). The close-up picture on the left below shows the overhang from a front corner of the hive. The picture on the right below shows how I hold a top-bar comb on my finger tips.
In the next picture, I have put the combs in the nuc box, set them aside, and removed a brood comb. In August the brood nest is getting smaller. I raise my own queens (from varroa resistant stock, which does not need chemical treatments), and this stock also responds to the summertime marginal foraging conditions by a decrease in brood rearing (called season sense). A mild sumac nectar flow has started (no comb production) so the bees just fill the empty brood cells with the unripe sumac honey. I had removed the first top-bar comb next to the entrances earlier in the summer and the bees did not rebuild it, leaving an easy way into the hive and clustering space for the bees right behind the entrances.
The next picture shows the hive inspection from above with the top bars described by the text, starting from the front (entrance end) of the hive. The first few top bars removed go in the nuc box to make a working space, a gap separating the inspected combs from those not yet removed. This is a easy, natural, and logical way to look through a colony, seeing the combs in order from the front to the back of the hive. What to look for, how to manage the colony through the season, and the numerous special management topics to help beekeepers flourish are detailed in the book.
Now putting this all together, standing upright (the hive stand) without lifting heavy honey stores (due to the entrance placement), I can easily open hives (entrance placement again) and check the brood combs handling the top bars on my fingertips (from the top-bar overhang). So when I need to work through some 80 top-bar hives in a day, working alone, all these factors make the work flow smoothly along with the precise surgical use of smoke applied at the right time and in the correct amount. This kind of beekeeping is quite pleasant even when working many hives.
Now let's look at some brood combs, The one on the left is upside-down over the working space. Once combs are strong enough (as defined in the book), they can rest on their top bars freeing up one's hands (provided there is no wind that might blow them over). The comb on the right is in a special collapsible holder for photography (note the hinges at the bases). Both combs have good solid sealed brood patterns. The left one has a fairly good honey band. The right one lacks a sealed honey band, but the colony is in a spring nectar flow, and there is no concern for starvation.
The next pair of brood comb pictures shows a pattern of emerging brood. The queen begins egg laying from the center of the comb to the edges. The left comb is empty in the center where the bees have emerged. The right comb has older larvae, appearing white, the next brood generation. A ring of sealed brood is around the larvae, which is the previous brood generation as yet to emerge. A pollen band surrounds some of the brood. With practice one can "read" brood combs, even their subtle details, and gain an understanding of what is happening in the hive. Notice my combs are straight to their top bars. Straight combs are interchangeable among my colonies for efficient bee management (no crooked comb problems or combs melting from overheating).
The next pictures show bees on the combs. With proper handling, the combs lifted out with the bees are hardly disturbed, which makes finding the queen much easier. In the right picture, I am checking queen cell cups (the arrows), which are typically built along the edges of the comb. To see if the queen cell cups are empty or if they contain eggs or young larvae, I have pushed back the cell walls so I can quickly see into the cells. Inverting the comb is a convenient way to free up my hands and closely check the comb. Also notice that only the bees on the removed comb and in the immediate inspection area are exposed. The rest of the colony is essentially undisturbed.
Making nucs is routine work in the spring. I give detailed procedures in the book for making them. Below I am making queen mating nucs, which are smaller nucs than a typical nuc for starting a full-size colony. Each one-foot nuc box has a center partition dividing the hive body into two compartments, one for each mating nuc. Each mating nuc can hold three top bars, but I usually just let it be a two-comb colony with the third top bar having just a small comb or no comb to make it easy to open the little hive. The book has a chapter on modifying queen production equipment to top-bar hives for either small scale production with no grafting or large scale by grafting. Also there are procedures on package bee production with top-bar hives, which can go with queen production. In the lowest nuc box on the right, the partition is seen separating the first installed combs of the two nucs. I work from the tailgate of the truck since its height is similar to the height of the stands.
The mating nucs are finished and ready to be loaded in the truck. I sweep off the pine pollen, which has settled on the top-bars in the spring with the whisk broom, so the tape will stick. The tape keeps the top bars in place during the drive to another location. I move the hives so the bees cannot go back to their old hive locations. If the bees will accept the queen cells, I attach them to the combs of the nucs now, rather than wait a day. If attached correctly, the queen cells will not fall out of the combs during the drive. How to do all of that is in my book. The sponges are acceptable to block mating nuc entrances on cool spring days for fairly short trips, but sponges not recommended during summer heat. My homemade toolbox (arrow) has all kinds of beekeeping tools when working our-apiaries, a mobile solution center.
To learn a complete system of beekeeping for top-bar hive beekeeping, please go back to the Welcome page to order the book. I hope you enjoyed looking over the pictures, and that they were instructive. I'll add more pictures later. Kind Regards, Dr. W. A. Mangum, WAM.


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Andy Pettitte still hasn't made a decision as to whether he'll play next year or retire, but Brian Cashman is very hopeful that he'll return and thinks that it will happen.
"I talked to Andy a few days after we got eliminated," Cashman told Chad Jennings of the Journal News. "In that conversation, he was going to take his family away, his son was playing in a tournament. He just said he's going to take some time, talk to his family. It wasn't going to take long. I didn't ask how long 'long' was, but he'll call me. I'm not going to push him. He'll let me know when he's made a final decision about whatever he's choosing to do.
"I hope he plays. I believe that it's in his blood that he wants to play. I believe that, but it doesn't guarantee anything. But I think he wants to play, and I'm hoping he'll call and tell me that."
Pettitte, who came out of retirement this year and pitched to a 2.87 ERA, a 8.2 K/9 and a 2.5 BB/9, dropped hints throughout the season that this wasn't going to be his last year. He's also gone through this same exact practice three times already, twice he came back and once he retired — this process has sounded and felt much more like the two times he came back than the one time he retired. It seems likely he will return.
Pettitte earned just a prorated portion of his $2.5 contract he had this year. Even after missing a little more than two months on the DL, he'll likely expect a raise. The only reason he agreed to such a small amount last offseason was because his decision to return came at the last minute after the Yankees had already signed Hiroki Kuroda. They want to re-sign both this offseason, but they no longer have the 'we're up to our budget' excuse.

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The capital is regularly hit by extended bouts of choking, acrid smog, with heavy industries and car use both among the key culprits.
Under the scheme cars with odd and even licence plates will be banned from the city's roads on alternate days whenever serious air pollution persists for three consecutive days, Xinhua said.
The plan was approved on Wednesday and is set to be implemented by Beijing city authorities, the official news agency reported.
More than a quarter of Beijing's 20 million people own a car, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.
Residents have greeted previous odd-even car bans with mixed reactions, with some arguing that the measure should be made permanent and others contending the city's public transportation infrastructure is insufficient to make up for the increase in use brought about by the ban.
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Thinking of getting these because, well my girlfriend is Finnish and unlike their neighbours the Swedos, Finns don't really do fashion. There are not many clothing brands at all, and even less that don't also make ropes and stuff. Karhu apparently created the first trainers ever.
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Not mad about the colour tbh - reckon the black leather ones are better..
Yeah I saw the black leather, clicked on those first but they seem a bit clowny. I'm not even sure if they're the exact same shape because they look weird at the front. I think I need to see some for real but their store locator isn't working.
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a bit unsure whether will the shirt go with the rest? also, shirt tucked in or not?
I need some new shoes to go with my jeans (I usually just wear slim fit jeans and have done so for the past few years). However, I can't make up my mind though as to what to buy next. Ideally I would like either dark brown or black...
Also, my feet are size 11. What would go best with slim fit jeans?
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pt29 - Don't knock camel chinos just because they're "bog standard"; chinos and denim is a tried and tested look.
That said, if you're looking for an alternative, try a dark navy pair, preferably in a substantial twill with a washed finish. Other colours can work too; dark red is a trendy choice and khaki green suits the outdoorsy appeal of the shirt.
The way to make the denim/camel look fly is to go back to basics; the perfect, preppy pair of beige chinos in a straight or slim fit and a denim shirt that fits perfectly. It may be a simple look, but it's gold if you get it right. It seems to me that most people seem to rock this look with the top button done up. To me, that makes no sense; with rugged casual pieces like denim shirts, an undone button or two and rolled up sleeves looks perfect.
C Turbinado: Navy chinos, denim shirt and brown suede shoes? Solid. Tie the shoes in with a plaited or otherwise casual leather belt in a close colour, tuck the shirt in or don't simply depending on what looks best to you in the mirror, and you're sorted.
Like Eating Glass (like that song btw): I assume this encompasses blue jeans? Unless we're talking about a substantial pair of boots, I'm firmly of the belief that black leather shoes with blue jeans should be avoided. Most styles in brown leather, though, should be fine.
I must admit that I'm the same. I don't like black leather shoes with jeans either. It looks weird, but I'm not sure about what style to actually buy to match up with my jeans.
I've got a few different pairs of blue jeans (indigo, resin rinse etc) so I was looking for something new to go with them. I also have black jeans. I've got some brown chukka boots but they're a little old now!


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The Mets beat the Giants 5-4 this afternoon in what could only be described as a comedy of errors and I hereby do dub Terry Collins the Clown Prince.
Mike Pelfrey was awesome and was still dealing after eight innings, but with the Mets up 4-1 Collins made the foolish decision to pull the right-hander in favor of the Mets new quasi-closer Frank Francisco. Big mistake!
Francisco struggled yet again and allowed the tying runs to get on base in the ninth after two singles and a walk. His day was done.
Enter Tim Byrdak who got the lefty out and was immediately replaced by Jon Rauch who induced a shallow popup that should have ended the threat and win the game, but Kirk Nieuwenhuis misplayed it and the ball dropped in between him and Ruben Tejada and the Giants tied the game! Ouch!
LUCKILY – We came back thanks to some shenanigans by the Giants defense…
Lucas Duda singled and Ruben Tejada walked and suddenly it's 2 on and 1 out. Then pinch hitter Justin Turner hit a no-doubt-about-it, double-play ball but Aubrey Huff (who was playing 2B?) forgot to cover and Turner beat out the throw.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis is up next and hits a grounder to first – Brandon Belt throws home to get Scott Hairstonat home for the first out, but catcher Buster Posey threw wide to first base and the ball sailed into the outfield after he was clipped by Hairston on his slide. Game over… Mets Win!
Did Terry Collins screw this game up and owe Bruce Bochy a steak dinner for moving Aubrey Huff to second base in the ninth and saving his ass?
Why in the world would you pull Pelfrey who was in a grove and had only thrown 102 pitches?
Anyway, great game by Ruben Tejada who was yanked out of the leadoff spot but went 2-3 with three RBIs and drew a crucial walk in the Mets ninth inning.
Nice job by Scott Hairston on a great hook slide the forced Posey to make the off balance throw which went onto the outfield.
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Gillian Birk and Kate Burke, Staples softball: Combined to throw a five-inning no-hitter with five strikeouts in a 16-0 win over New Fairfield.
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Kevin Hickey, Fairfield Ludlowe baseball: Pitched a complete-game, two-hitter with seven strikeouts in a 2-0 win over Hamden.
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Hi,I still use the kernel from thiemo since I never manage to recompile a working kernel, and I am still working on the same SGI O2. The machine is an up to date Debian Sarge.
Now I have a problem with NFS, SGI as nfs client works well, while I cannot share any directory from the SGI.
When I start the nsf-kernel-server I see this error: Dec 9 08:14:14 sgi nfsd[1921]: nfssvc: No such deviceIs this related to the option used for compiling the kernel? Any idea on what to do?
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PS3 Pulse Generator V2 with Source Code is Now Available
Yesterday JaicraB shared a PS3 Hypervisor 3.15 he dumped via Parallel/LPT1 Port with XorHack along with a redump done for comparison purposes and the PS3 Pulse Generator code.
red8316 has also posted a Dump Comparison from 010 Hex Editor in TXT and CSV formats for those interested.
Today JaicraB has updated his blog again with PS3 Pulse Generator V2- compiled and with source code included.
Download: PS3 Pulse Generator V2 with Source Code
To quote, roughly translated: The pulse generator which was put very little refined and theoretically ill-posed. I really worked, but it is true that there was always the first. So I miss a second version, more refined and controlled by cycles. Because in cycles? Each computer is different, CPU, BUS, etc etc.
That is why every computer will have its own cycle which is ascertained to start from the smallest to find it. ;) In my case is 3, MSDOS running under a VMware virtual machine.
1. Keep off the PC LPT1. (At system start the strain is normally enabled.)
2. Now the pulse is generated through the numbers: 1 to 9.
3. Start always at least 1 in 25 attempts. If you notice that the generator does not affect the PS3 continue for the number 2 another 25 attempts.
4. Once the Exploit run, salis of the program by pressing any key and remember the number of cycles that worked well for you next time.
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04-01-2010 #2alexiit Guest
So what does this mean to the average joe?
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It's just an update which varies the length of the pulse for those who want to use the less expensive Parallel/LPT1 Port method to trigger the pulse required for the PS3 Exploit.
What this means is it could take less attempts to get the glitch triggered, basically making things faster/easier for those doing it is all.
04-02-2010 #4ModderFokker Guest
Good news that theyre still developing this stuff... too bad my soldering skills SUCK
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04-02-2010 #6proskopina Guest
same here soldering is my big problem!! i'll wait for something more easy!!!
04-02-2010 #7ricopicouk Guest
I'm not great at soldering, I can solder most things and succesfully did the JTAG x360 mod, however it seams like sony just make their soldering points extra small, the PS2 modchip was a nightmare to install.
Its almost like sony don't want you to solder to their motherboards they provide?! I have not opened my PS3 fat, but totally intend to do this mod once a pcb is built by a team or whatever.
04-02-2010 #8TUHTA Guest
Still cant understand on how to run this program in msdos? I ran it pefrectly already but how to run this .exe programm??
well... i didnt start msdos via Vmaware (don't understand on how to do it!)
Somebody who get it please help me.. how to start msdos via Vmware and how to run GENNSPS3.exe on it?
Edit: I solved everything already... and can't install xorloser toolkit, and tried on compiled exploit just ran GENNPS3.exe on my Win XP and nothing happened i think it must be ran on MSDOS...
04-02-2010 #9DENEGRAO Guest
dude i know that what i will ask is nothing about the topic, but... in the pic 1, i saw the way you stick the heatsink/cooler is different from the original way, looks like much better this way.. can u say how you make it? (some photo will be nice too hehe.
Ps: Nice job your doing!
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1. Setup VM to boot from the MSDOS CD/Floppy/ISO.
2. After the machine as booted exit the setup program (F3).
3. Type fdisk and create a partition and make it active.
4. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO.
5. After the machine as booted exit the setup program (F3).
6. Type format c: /q /s
7. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO.
8. The setup program will now allow you to install MSDOS.
9. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO.
10. Select option 2 to install the CDRom drivers.
You can now boot MSDOS from the harddisk.


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The Times
24 May 2016
The poet and music archivist Hamish Henderson was well known in Edinburgh bars and academic circles, but a documentary sheds new light on the unusually rich life of a talented, very fondly remembered polymath.
Glasgow-based film maker Robbie Fraser was hired by producer Alasdair MacCuish, and together they assembled friends, family and colleagues of Henderson to share memories of the man who created a folk revival in Scotland. Their documentary Hamish premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in February, and will be screened across Scotland from 3rd June.
"When pitching a film, you have to boil it down into one logline," says Fraser. "It was a real challenge for Hamish because his life had so many strands, and he meant so many things to so many people. We settled on seven incarnations of Hamish Henderson in the end – the orphan, soldier, politician, poet, drinker, lover and 'remembrancer'."
Born an illegitimate child in Blairgowrie, Perthshire in 1919, Henderson's mother died when he was young. As a scholarship pupil at at the prestigious Dulwich College in London, he quickly learned how to make himself belong in many different situations, a skill that served him equally well interrogating POWs as Captain of the Intelligence Corps during World War II, as gathering folk song recordings from shepherds, "tinkers" and musicians around Scotland.
Henderson died in 2002, aged 82. "I'm one of the few people in Scotland it seems who never met him," jokes Fraser. "And I really wish I had."
"Making the film, I was careful only to speak with people who knew him personally. What comes across again and again was this tremendously open-hearted, magnetic man. He liked recognising talent in people, enabling them, giving a voice to the voiceless. Hamish believed in love as this primal force in the universe. That doesn't mean he was weak or hippy dippy though; whatever he did, he went at it with vigour, with everything he had."
As a pacifist witnessing the rise of fascism in Germany during the 30s, Henderson decided to become a fighter, and used the six European languages he spoke to gain information as a military interrogator.
"He was fluent in German and would figure out which part of Germany or Austria the prisoners were from, then often sing to them in German to get them onside,' explains Fraser.
"He treated them very well, and found music very disarming. There are so many echoes with what he did during the War and the techniques he used later on, to gain people's trust when collecting ballads from travellers."
Poet Alec Finlay, who describes Henderson as his mentor, is one of several talking heads in the documentary. Finlay was Henderson's neighbour when he lived near the Meadows in Edinburgh, and began doing odd jobs for him. Their friendship, in the last decade of Henderson's life, led to Finlay editing and publishing Henderson's essays and letters which at the time were, "a bunch of photocopies piled in the corner of his kitchen."
"I was in awe of him, and felt privileged to see that quiet side of Hamish. Lots of people knew 'Sandy Bells Hamish'; his whisky drinking, ceilidh loving, Rabelaisian side," says Finlay, namechecking the Edinburgh pub that became a favourite of Henderson and colleagues from the nearby School of Scottish Studies.
"Most people would come to his house with a bottle, but we never drank together, I went round to listen and learn. He was giving me an education, I was helping shape his life into retrospective order."
Finlay remembers one occasion when he helped Henderson and his "gammy hips" into the bath, then listened as he recited one of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies in perfect German.
Although famously passionate about Scottish traditional and working class culture, and an outspoken advocate for Scottish home rule, Henderson was a fervent internationalist, who befriended Communist Italian partisans during the War and adapted folk songs in solidarity for South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. He was also an early campaigner for gay rights, CND and the opening of a Scottish parliament.
"Hamish would have loved 2014," says Finlay. "He always saw Scotland as a rich, diverse country that mixes art, music, intelligence and debate – he was a foundational figure in that respect. He recognised that confidence and change in Scotland is primarily led by culture, and was a key figure in that. He loved young people, celebratory people, people with energy, and watching Scotland reach a higher level of conversation and intelligence, that's something he'd have really enjoyed."
Although Henderson's life was up made of several very diverse phases, Finlay believes he made something exciting happen in all of them.
"This amazing thread ran through his life; war poet, heroic leader, folk revivalist, mentor – he somehow fulfilled an incredible potential in each of those eras. What he's left behind now is 'the Hamish effect'. You meet hundreds of people who were changed by him."
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It's thirty years later, and Norman Bates is back in PSYCHO II, hitting Blu-ray courtesy of Shout! Factory's "Scream Factory" collector's edition line.
Twenty-two years after being institutionalized for the murders of Marion Crane, Detective Arbogast, and at least five other people, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has been deemed "restored to sanity". Despite the virulent objections of Marion's sister Lila Loomis (Vera Miles, THE SEARCHERS), Norman's psychiatrist Dr. Raymond (Robert Loggia, SCARFACE) assures him that he is cured. Norman returns to home with a job working as a short-order cook – courtesy of forgiveness-minded waitress Emma Spool (Claudia Bryar, PAT BARRETT & BILLY THE KID) – where he meets hapless Mary Samuels (Meg Tilly, THE GIRL IN A SWING) whose boyfriend throws her out of their apartment. Norman invites Mary back to the hotel – which is being maintained by sleaze-ball Warren Toomey (Dennis Franz, DRESSED TO KILL) – but sends her up to the house when he (rather than mother) disapproves of the promiscuous clientele. Norman fires Toomey who makes himself a nuisance and rehashes Norman's past to Mary (and anyone else who will listen). Then someone starts leaving Norman notes from "mother" that no one else sees and phone calls no one else hears. If that wasn't enough to have people suspecting that Norman is going off his rocker, a hysterical teenager claims that her boyfriend was murdered in the Bates house. Norman starts to believe that his mother – his real mother, that is – is responsible for the strange goings-on. The police find no evidence of a crime, and the sheriff (Hugh Gillin, PAPER MOON) start to suspect something fishier (than a madman running around in his mother's clothes with a butcher knife). Mary is not so easily scared off, and she too begins to suspect that there is someone else in the house besides herself and Norman, and not the "someone" she thinks…
A sequel to one of Alfred Hitchcock's most revered suspense films – especially one twenty-two years later – seemed like sacrilege; but apparently more to cineastes than Universal Studios, who okayed the project for the cable market until international reception of the sequel's announcement proved overwhelming. Australian director Richard Franklin had been offered the project on the strength of his very Hitchcockian films PATRICK and ROAD GAMES, but he was more than merely a fan of Hitchcock. Franklin had attended film school at University of Southern California, had screened retrospectives of Hitchcock's work there, and had befriended the director and been on-set for TOPAZ and FAMILY PLOT. He worked closely on the script with actor-turned-director Tom Holland (who later directed FRIGHT NIGHT), meticulously storyboarding sequences to quote not just the camerawork and editing of PSYCHO but Hitchcock's entire oeuvre. The lighting of cinematographer Dean Cundey (HALLOWEEN) is appropriately moody, but he and Franklin hold back audacious camera movements until later in the film, including a wonderful crane shot that moves from an attic set down the exterior or the real house thanks to a traveling matte created by Albert Whitlock (CAT PEOPLE) to seamlessly mask the transition. Jerry Goldsmith's score isn't as effective as Bernard Hermann's original for the scare scenes, but it warmly embodies the sense of melancholy that is emphasized in this film's characterization of Norman. Henri-Georges Clouzot had beat Hitchcock to the screenplay rights for Pierre Boileau's and Thomas Narcejac's "Celle qui n'était plus" and the resulting film LES DIABOLIQUES influenced Hitchcock's approach to PSYCHO; and it's plot could be said to been at least a partial influence on PSYCHO II, although perhaps the least satisfying thing about the film is the ultimate explanation (although the capper is blackly humorous as it is shocking). Whether PSYCHO II was a worthy follow-up to PSYCHO, or if it even should have had a follow-up (Robert Bloch's sequel novel took a very different approach) is still debatable, but it's still a neatly diverting thriller.
Perkins was apparently reticent to return to the role of Norman Bates, having been typecast in such roles in genre projects like the Curtis Harrington's TV movie HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALAN and had parodied himself in the 1976 Saturday Night Live sketch "The Norman Bates School of Motel Management" (which you can learn at home "in the privacy of your own shower"). He slips back into character here; and our sympathy towards him even before we realize that what is really going on reminds us that the Norman half of his character was always sympathetic (providing more interest after Janet Leigh's character exited the picture than Miles' or John Gavin's characters). PSYCHO II and PSYCHO III, however, lead to more films exploiting his most famous role including Ken Russell's CRIMES OF PASSION, Gerard Kikoine's THE EDGE OF SANITY (a Ken Russell/Jess Franco-esque take on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in which experiments with cocaine turn repressed Jekyll into Jack the Ripper-esque "Jack Hyde"), the German Ruth Rendell adaptation A DEMON IN MY VIEW, as well as the made-for-TV PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING (in which Henry Thomas played a younger version of Norman in flashbacks) and a 1990 Oatmeal Crisp commercial ("Look mother, I'm eating my oatmeal"). Fresh-faced Tilly remains sympathetic enough throughout the plot to keep us guessing as certain plot twists are revealed while others continue their circuitous development, while Miles' has more of a "special guest star" role with limited screen time but a spectacular exit.
Since PSYCHO II was produced with television in mind – see the commentary – the film has always looked pretty good on cropped TV and VHS releases (even Universal's 1992 remastered laserdisc was fullscreen). When the film was first released on DVD, it was via Goodtimes Home Video and their early arrangement with Universal. That release was a good-looking fullscreen transfer with a Dolby Digital 2.0 surround rendering of the Dolby Stereo soundtrack. Universal subsequently reissued the film in 2005 with an anamorphic transfer and a 4.0 encoding of the matrix Dolby Stereo mix with the trailer as the only extra (this version was later reissued in a two-disc set with PSYCHO III and the made-for-cable PSYCHO IV in 2007). I'm not sure if Scream Factory's 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC-encoded 1.85:1 disc is a brand new transfer, but the enhanced resolution does occasionally look less cinematic and more TV-movie in close-ups. It also does reveal the face of Perkins' double in the opening shower scene (wow, I've just realized that not only have I not seen PSYCHO on Blu-ray yet, I haven't even seen it on DVD so I can't tell you if I saw this on any digital transfers of the first film), as well as the increase in grain during the mid-pan optical transition from the original footage to the recreation of the pan from the bathroom to the motel room window for the opening credits. The transfer is also clear enough that the clouds of Albert Whitlock's traveling matte in the final shot can actually be seen passing "through" Perkins silhouette. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 version of the film's Dolby Stereo track is more of an upmix, but the 2.0 track does a perfectly good job of rendering the track which depends on detailed natural sounds (like the slide of silverware in the drawer when Norman yanks it open to get a knife when he suspects someone else is in the house) to unsettle rather than jolt (in fact, the stereo sound doesn't actually make itself known until Hermann's shower theme comes in during the remixed version of the sequence that opens the film). Optional English subtitles are also included.
Screenwriter Tom Holland (FRIGHT NIGHT) is on hand for a lively audio commentary hosted by Robert V. Galluzzo (director of THE PSYCHO LEGACY). Among the surprising revelations – at least for those of us who haven't seen THE PSYCHO LEGACY – is that PSYCHO II was intended as a cable film and not considered for theatrical release until late in the shoot thanks to international reaction to the film's announcement (presumably the producers kept foreign theatrical release in mind since the film doesn't look at all cropped at 1.85:1), and that Christopher Walken was considered for the lead if Perkins did not sign on. Carrie Fisher, Meg Ryan, Kathleen Turner were considered for the Mary role, and producer Hilton A. Green also suggested Jamie Lee Curtis but she had just made HALLOWEEN II (not to mention PROM NIGHT and TERROR TRAIN). The Bates house – which had been part of the Universal tours since the sixties and had popped up in episodes of THRILLER, NIGHT GALLERY, THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, and a number of other TV series and films (including the 1981 Chevy Chase comedy MODERN PROBLEMS) – had to be relocated to another part of the lot since more standing sets from other films had been erected around it, and the motel had to be rebuilt from production designer Henry Bumstead's original plans since it had been torn down long ago (the new motel along with the original house have shown up in other TV series and feature films since). Holland points out Franklin's cameo, his own, as well as the aforementioned Hitchcock one buried in the art direction, and the small supporting bit by actor/boyhood friend Chris Hendrie (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) with whom he had seen the original film on the big screen as a kid. He also speaks briefly of his previous script for THE BEAST WITHIN for American International as well as his immediate follow-up to PSYCHO II with Richard Franklin: CLOAK AND DAGGER, although there is little discussion of his Holland's other genre credits which also included the script for the TV movie THE INITIATION OF SARAH and SCREAM FOR HELP as well as his directorial efforts FRIGHT NIGHT, CHILD'S PLAY, and THINNER among others (he also mentions that he wrote the original script for JOHN CARTER which was recently produced by Disney with a different script and notoriously tanked at the box office).
Aside from the new commentary, the rest of the extras are rather disappointing. The film can also be audited with another alternate track featuring a handful of vintage audio interviews with Anthony Perkins, Alfred Hitchcock himself (archival material), Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and Richard Franklin that can be heard over the first fifteen minutes of the film. One of these interviews actually capitalizes on the "controversy" of whether there is any nudity in the shower scene – with Janet Leigh insisting that there is the illusion of nudity through montage while Franklin discusses the revealing shots (which reportedly got by the censors because Hitchcock said they used an adolescent male double) – urging viewers to see for themselves by going to see PSYCHO II. The featurette labeled "Cast and Crew Interviews (35:20)" is actually the film's original electronic press kit, which is pretty much a series of endlessly recycling sound-bytes from Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh (the oft-quoted one about how she was afraid to take a shower after seeing the finished version of the murder scene), Vera Miles, and Richard Franklin promoting different aspects of the film with variations in the selected clips from PSYCHO II and the original film. It's an interesting archival extra, but not very illuminating at all. Also included are two trailers for the film (3:42), four TV Spots (2:00), and a stills gallery. (Eric Cotenas)


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Eid-ul-Adha Speech 2011
Dear brothers in Islam:
Prophet Muhammad, advised us, to perform good deeds, and to give to charity, in obedience to Allah.
During the Hajj, of Prophet Muhammad, he gave a great speech. Among what he said was: "O people, I have given you 2 things, which protect you from going astray, the Quran and my Sharia^. Always remember, that Muslims are brothers, to one another, and that it is unlawful, for one to take anything, from his brother, without his permission, and do not be, unjust to one another, and after I die, do not kill one another, like the kuffar do.
Dear brothers in Islam, slaughtering ( أضحية) a lamb, cow or camel; is Sunnah Mu'akkadah, for those who are able to do so, and is best to do, after the Eid prayer and the khutba.
This was the habit, of Prophet Ibrahim, who had a dream, that he was slaughtering, his son, Isma^el. Ibrahim knew that this was an order, from Allah.
When prophet Ibrahim was alone with his son, on the way to Makkah, he asked his son what means: in my dream, I saw myself slaughtering you, so what do you have to say?
Isma^il replied: Oh father, do what you have been ordered, and by the will of Allah, you will find me patient. Oh father, if you want to slaughter me, then tie me, so that none of my blood, sprays you, because the pain of death is strong and I will shake under this pain. Sharpen your knife, so it is faster, in slaughtering me; do it in a way that you cannot see my face, or that I do not see the knife, if you go to my mother, give her my salam.
Prophet Ibrahim told him: You are helping me, to do what Allah ordered.
Prophet Ibrahim tied Isma^il down. He made sure not to look at Isma^il's face, and put the knife at his neck.
At this point, Angel Jibreel told prophet Ibrahim: Oh Ibrahim, you have carried out, the orders of Allah. Take this lamb, instead of your son.
Instead of Isma^il, a large lamb from Paradise, was slaughtered.
Dear Brothers, on this great occasion of Eid, it is important that you do the following:
· Visit your relatives, give charity to the poor
· Visit the cemetery to recite verses of Qur'an for dead Muslims and pray to Allah for them.
· When you see your Muslim brothers, say to them: "may Allah accept, our good deeds"
Brothers in Islam, we ask you to donate some money; for a church that we have bought in Melbourne, which we are going to make it into a Masjid.
In the end, we ask Allah to bless us on this day, and Allah Knows best.


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In this continuation from Part One I share my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise.
How did this start?
There were a lot of really great people contributing to the community in Tableau's early years. I've already mentioned Jonathan Drummey and Richard Leeke. Others I recall include Alex Kerin, Andy Cotgreave, James Baker, and Russell Christopher.
But there's one person in particular that I think set the tone and established the precedent for discovering and sharing Tableau knowledge.
Meet Joe Mako
At the 2011 customer conference in Las Vegas, Tableau singled out Joe Mako for responding to an unfathomable number of Tableau forum posts that directly helped hundreds and indirectly helped thousands of people.
And what prompted Tableau to do this? This is a great example of the community raising its voice and recognizing contributions of one of its own. Several people, including Matt Shoemaker, Richard Leeke, Dan Murray, Mel Stephenson, Tim Costello, and Tom Brown, petitioned Tableau, urging the company to recognize Joe for his incredible contributions.
This citing by Tableau led to the creation of the Tableau Zen Master program.
For the first two years of the program Tableau used the following Venn diagram to show the confluence of skills and temperament that comprise a Zen Master:
Here's what I think would be the appropriate diagram for Joe:
Anyone who has been on a screen sharing call with Joe (and there are probably hundreds of people who have availed themselves of Joe's generosity) can attest to stunning, fully-fleshed solutions emerging from Joe's brain.
I've spent enough time with Joe to realize it isn't just Robin Williams-like brilliance but Bruce Lee-type discipline Joe has applied to really understanding Tableau.
Joe is also remarkably kind and reassuring, offering a soothing, Mr. Rogers-like "don't worry, we'll figure this out together" encouragement whenever I've been stuck and needed help.
The only downside of a screen sharing session with Joe is that you get off the phone and think that "jeez, this guy is smarter than I am, more disciplined than I am, and … he's nicer than I am" (and I'm a very nice guy.)
We are very lucky to have him in our community.
How did these seeds produce so much fruit?
How did the contributions of Joe and a handful of others lead to such a large, rich community?
I can't speak for others, but my contributing stemmed from a desire to repay those people (especially Joe) that had given me so much help.
The problem was that I could not pay these people back directly as there was not much I had to offer them, save appreciation and gratitude.*
But I could give back to the community as a whole. In my case I don't attempt to answer forum posts in near real time. This skill is best left to folks like Shawn Wallwork, Mathew Lutton, Grayson Deal, Joe Oppelt, Noah Salvaterra, Joshua Milligan, KK Molugu, and many others that do an amazing job. I give back through pro bono work and blog posts. Specifically, in addition to helping out non-profit organizations I try to publish a useful "here's how you do this" blog post at least once a month. The posts can take hours to write, but that's a small price to pay for what the community gives me in return (and I will confess that they do generate interest in my work).
If you are like me you rely on this community to help and inspire you. I, for one, love having the safety net of knowing that there are literally dozens of great minds that I can tap for help and inspiration.
I've already told you what I do to contribute to the community. In Part Three of this series I'll provide ideas on what others can to ensure the community thrives.
* Note: Expressing appreciation and gratitude are essential to the community. I'll discuss this more in Part Three of this series.
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Beautifully put, Steve. At the conference this year I told Joe that I believe he is responsible for the temperament of the Tableau Community. He set the tone which has allowed everyone to feel safe enough to join in. I hope that he realized how important this was to me personally and to so many others. It's a rare occurrence in Tech where self-aggrandizement (BS) and Machiavellian competition usually reign.
Thank-you for writing so much on this. It's important that there be more of this type of gratitude and humility expressed on the web. It's an honor to have met you, friend.
Great posts, Steve. I've been using Tableau now for around 5 years, and was one of those who availed himself of Joe's (and others') generosity during my peak learning curve. Allowing this community to thrive (which, as you mentioned, Tableau Public aided spectacularly) is a big part of what sets Tableau apart. There are countless companies who are trying to copy Tableau's functionality, and undoubtedly some will not only achieve that but surpass it, but it will be very, very difficult to re-create the community that's been built around this tool.
Thanks for your contributions to this community as well. I've read all of your posts, and have seen them referenced on numerous internal training calls, particularly your posts on survey data. Really good stuff.
Always appreciate your articles. Always helpful info.
Sometimes when I'm in a pinch, under pressure, facing a deadline, having someone watch over my shoulder watching me make sausage, not quite remembering how to do something, feeling inadequate, or even just a bit grumpy, I think to myself:
"What would Joe Mako do?"
and things get better.
Kelly is right. Joe was the keystone around which the Tableau community grew and took shape, and provided the fertile ground in which so many of the other Tableau luminaries took root and flourished.


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5The Telegraph reports today that what had been reported as the warmest October on record turns out to be not even in the top 50% of warmest! How would such a discrepancy occur? Can you say "data manipulation?"
Originally, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen reported that while many of us had experienced unusual cold in October, areas of Russia were 10 degrees above average. However, when reviewed by a couple of official "deniers," it was determined that GISS merely copied September's information across into October for the Russian readings!
Oops, our mistake….or maybe not!
Instead of admitting their mistake, GISS said, "Oh no, um, that wasn't it. There was unusual warmth in the Arctic!" The problem with this is that the Arctic has been cooling so fast that the ice (remember all the screams about the melting ice this spring?) that was melting and about to flood Florida off the map, has been reforming so fast that it is now 30% larger than last year at this time.
Again, our mistake….um nope!
I'll just cut and paste this because it is the epitome of truth being stranger than fiction:
Another of his (Dr. Hansen's) close allies is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who recently startled a university audience in Australia by claiming that global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever, in front of a graph showing them rising sharply in the past decade. In fact, as many of his audience were aware, they have not been rising in recent years and since 2007 have dropped.
Dr Pachauri, a former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science, may believe what Dr Hansen tells him. But whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world's governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought. (emphasis mine)
Huh, What? A railroad engineer? This guy is only smart enough to drive a vehicle on a track? We've got a person who's only qualified to drive the Jungle Cruise at DisneyWorld telling us that man is ruining the earth?
I was thinking the other day, when I heard that Al Gore had turned down the offer to be "Global Warming Czar" from Barack Obama, "Why would he do that?" Honestly, if the guy is as concerned as Gore claims to be about global warming, why not take the role that would undoubtedly set direction and precedent for at the the US and possibly the world?
Yeah, I thought about it for about 5 seconds and the answer was obvious. If Al became the Czar he'd actually have to answer questions, come up with facts, be subject to scrutiny. On top of that, he wouldn't be able to charge ridiculous amounts of money as the "Johnny Appleseed" of global warming! No, none of that would do. Why would Gore want to subject himself to all of that when with the election of Barack Obama, he got another four year lease on fleecing of the gullible public.


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Here are just 10 thoughts you can question yourself to find out if you really know Jesus:
1) If I found out about Jesus through my friends or through people who have evangelized to me, most probably I don't know Jesus yet (Romans 10:10)
2) If I believe Jesus won't accept me just because of the screwed past I had, or just because I've backslidden, most probably I don't know Jesus well (1 John 2:1)
3) If I think Jesus chooses perfectionist and qualified to come into His service, most likely I need to check out who Jesus really is (1 Corinthians 1:26-31)
4) If I believe miracles are of the past - I don't believe that Jesus can work a miracle in my life, most probably I need to know the Power of God (1 John 14:12)
5) If I don't know the voice of Jesus - if I cannot distinguish between the voice of the enemy and the voice of God, most probably I don't know Jesus well yet (John 10:27)
6) If I doubt God's intentions and plans for my life, and I believe my plan is the better plan, most probably I don't really know Jesus (Jeremiah 29:11)
7) If I tend to worry about things - even the slightest things, most probably I'm not placing my full trust in Jesus yet (Matthew 6:34)
8) If I think Jesus purposefully wants to make me suffer in situations just because I've sinned against Him, most probably I don't know Jesus well (2 Corinthians 4:17)
9) If I think Jesus condemns me when I sinned against Him, most probably I don't know the character of Jesus that well (John 3:17)
10) If I'm giving Jesus all the praise at good times and blaming Him in all bad situations, most probably I don't know Jesus well enough (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
When I really know Jesus, these situations shouldn't be a part of a play in my life. When I really know Jesus, I recognise who Jesus is, and I don't misunderstand Him at all. Hard times shouldn't distort the Jesus I knew. When I really know Jesus, there should be a relationship between me and Him, and the relationship shouldn't just be on the surface; I will have a desire to get deeper and closer into His presence, until I can distinctively recognise His voice. Even the people around will call you blessed because the Lord's favour is upon your life!
You see, I can go to Google and search, "Who is Jesus?" I can find out 1000, or even infinite facts about Jesus. I can sit in church every Sunday and have the word of God preached to me. I can take up some bible courses or become a bible scholar myself. I can memorise the entire bible and quote from scripture to scripture. But, in the end, I only know about Jesus; I don't know Jesus at all - know the difference!
For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
Hebrews 4:2 (NIV)
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
John 1:12-13 (NIV)
I cannot know a friend well unless I step into a relationship with him or her. Same here, I need to step into a relationship with Jesus to know Him, and this requires faith on my part.
Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.
Mark 4:20 (NIV)
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.
James 4:7-8 (NIV)
For those who already have a relationship with Jesus, good for you! But if all those 10 situations are a playing a part in your life, maybe you need to go closer to God through the word, for the word is God and He is the word (John 1:1). If you really know Jesus, you will really know the heartbeat of Christ, and neither the devil nor anyone can take away the truth you know about Jesus.
Is the Jesus you know the Jesus you should know? Do you just know about Jesus, or do you really know Jesus? It's time to know Jesus for yourself, if you haven't.


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In wake of heavy rush during summer, railways will run summer special trains on different routes. These trains will ply to New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Gorakhpur, Udhampur and Pune.
NCR public relations officer Manzar Karrar said, "During summer many passengers fail to get berths due to rush in the trains. Therefore, we are plying various summer specials to cater to large number of passengers."
In the Mumbai direction, 10 trains will pass through North Central Railway region. These trains are
04115/04116 Allahabad-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) special,
01051/01052 Gorakhpur-LTT special,
01055/01056 Varanasi-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus special and
01057/01058 Muzaffarpur-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus.
Other trains going towards Mumbai are
03061/03062 Howrah-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus,
01027/01028 Varanasi-CST,
01047/01048 Gorakhpur-CST,
05031/05032 Gorakhpur-LTT and
01019/01020 Lucknow-LTT.
These trains will run from April till June.
In the New Delhi direction, two summer special trains will run. These are
03125/03126 Kolkata-Delhi and 03685/03686 Gaya-Delhi.
Train numbers 03125/03126 Kolkata-Delhi will ply from April 16 till June 26 while train numbers 03685/03686 Gaya-Delhi will ply from April 5 till June 29. These trains will move via Kolkata, Asansol, Gaya, Mughalsarai, Mirzapur, Allahabad, Kanpur, Aligarh and Delhi route.
Two trains will go in the Pune direction. These are 05024/05023 Gorakhpur-Pune special and 01453/01454 Gorakhpur-Pune special. The former train will halt at Kanpur, Pokaraiya, Urai, Jhansi and Lalitpur and ply from April 6 till June 28 while the latter train will halt at Manikpur, Chheoki and Mirzapur under North Central railway region and will run from April 6 till June 24.
Train number 09051/09052 Valsad-Varansai will ply from April 6 till June 22 and halt at Manikpur, Chheoki amd Mirzapur under NCR region. Train numbers 04012/04011 Nizamuddin-Sai Nagar Shirdi will run from April 6 till June 29. It will halt at Mathura, Agra, Gwalior and Jhansi stations of NCR. Train numbers 09409/09410 Ahmedabad-Patna will run from April 6 till June 29.
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I know that May is National Hamburger Month and National BBQ Month, but artificial foodie holidays be damned… I'm in the mood for pizza! So, when it comes to pizza, we all know that Miami is not New York, and that's perfectly fine. I get it, people looooove NY pizza. There's something in the water, yada yada yada. But, how about a little diversity, foks? I've said it before and I'll say it again, that's what makes Miami's food scene so great: diversity in food. Including, you guessed it, pizza. That's why I've but together a quick round-up of some of my recent Miami favorites – from a classic Cuban pizza joint to a a couple of new Neapolitan outposts to, yes, a NYC-style hipster hangout. Bet you can't get that combo in the Five Boroughs, can you?


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Thursday, October 10, 2013
So on my Friday I hit a grocery store on the way home, I didn't find the foods I thought I would find, but still this stop caused me to miss traffic (I count this as a win!!) I called back a friend on the drive home, she had stopped by my house and dropped of some squash and noticed that my Annabelle (aka Annie) was missing....
Well Miss Annie is afraid of the world, new house offers a great hidey spot for a fearful dog, so I didn't think too much of this till I got home and I only had one dog greeting me..
I ended my call and started calling for my Annie and after opening my gate she showed up. Yes I felt this was odd, but I figured she had been in the back of the lot chasing an interesting smell as I was over an hour late from my normal time home. I was just happy that she wasn't out and at large as she would never ever let anyone but me approach her.
I went inside and then I unloaded the groceries, changed clothes, did work dishes etc. I was home for at least 20 minutes and then I noticed that Jake had run towards the back of the house and then outside (via the many windows). Color me surprised!! I walked towards the back doors (yes I have two back doors and they are not visible from the main house) and I thought oops the door wasn't closed all the way by me and the winds had blown it open. This was not the case!!
The door was jimmied open, yes I called the police immediately (they arrived quickly) and they agreed that the door was jimmied open, the odd thing was that nothing, absolutely nothing was missing or moved!! They thought it might have been meant for another house.
My property management company has an awesome handyman and he fixed my door, winterized my cooler and on top of that he fixed my bathroom faucet!!
I do have to say that I did have another tech come out to set up the heater and he was extremely creepy, made my skin crawl!! I was saved further conversation by a co-worker stopping by and creepy guy left in a hurry, this is after 2 hours of trying to dodge talking to him!! Yes all doors and windows are locked and due to the break in I am still on extra patrol with PD.
When I first moved into this rental there was some duck tape on the busted in door stating to not use the dead bolt, I removed the tape and determined that the dead bolt worked, but follower of rules that I am, I didn't use this dead bolt. Yes this is the door that was pried open.
Looking back I think this was a message posted by the previous tenant (family member that use to live here who is now deceased) who was related to home owners. I am hoping that the intruder didn't know that they were deceased and after discovering that the home had a new tenet they just left or the dogs scared them off. Knowing my dogs I vote for the first option!! FYI I am the first person to rent this property. I live in a small town and I am very comfortable with the local police department and yes I feel very secure!!
I am hoping that this is a mistake and that they are a friend of the previous tenant. Though if the dogs scared them off, well that would be great too!
Pups on the job.....
On a high/good note I am 10 pounds down!! Yes this is awesome, yes I am happy!!
with me and have a great day!!!!!
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That is really scary! I hope you haven't had any problems since this incident?
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So glad your doggie was found. But creepy with the intruder. Hopefully there is a reasonable explanation. So glad nothing was taken.
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I am still creeped out hearing this again, but glad you are seeing the full half of that glass! And glad the dogs are alright!!
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Yikes! Very scary. I'm glad it turned out well. Does your job give you an "in" with the local police? I hope so!
Please give the pups some love from me. I'm glad they are OK and I vote for them scaring off the intruder(s)! Maureen would have licked them to death. Ha!
Sending lost of hugs!
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Wow! Congrats on losing that 10 pounds. Just wanted to agree with you that having multiple dogs can give you a feeling of safety. I've got 9 right now, all sizes, and they sleep all over the house. No one could break in without being greeted by a snarling dog. With more to follow with the first bark. Hope you have a great day too, Linda
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on your weight loss, glad all turned out okay!
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Glad all is well!! Congrats on the weight loss!!
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Wow you are very lucky, I'd be careful I mean you don't know what scared that person away and if he'll come back. When I was single my apartment got broken into and the cops told me they usually come back for stuff they couldn't get the first time which really shocked me.
I'm glad you have two alert dogs to make you aware of anything going on during the night, be safe!!!!!!!!!
AND......... congrats on the 10 lbs!
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Happy that all turned out well. It is good to have fur babies around they are such a
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New exam schedule for Holy Cross, St. Peter
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School bus cancellations have led to rescheduled exams for Catholic high school students, the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board reports.
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