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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Congressional Budget Office sends death blow to ObamaCare — The Affordable Care Act, a k a ObamaCare, became law almost four years ago. It became operational last Oct. 1. Yesterday, Feb. 4, 2014, the ACA may well have been dealt its death blow.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, The PJ Tatler and Wall Street Journal
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: ObamaCare Will Push 2 Million Out of Work! And That's a Good Thing!
Scared Monkeys: Contrary to what Americans were Told ... The CBO Says Obamacare Is Slowing Growth & Will Kill …
Scott Johnson / Power Line: Theory of the new leisure class
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Nancy Pelosi Promised Obamacare Would Create 4 Million Jobs. Um, About That...
New York Times:
Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: New York Times Editorial Board Tells It Like It Is On That CBO Obamacare Report
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: NY Times: CBO Report Shows Obamacare 'Liberating' People from Fulltime Work
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine: CBO Political Dynamite: OCare Job Losses
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: NY Times Calls CBO Report Showing Obamacare Will Reduce Workforce By 2.5 Million Jobs A "Good Thing," "Liberating"...
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: In the News — Here is some stuff in the news today!
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: A Lot Of Media Outlets Botched The CBO's Obamacare Report
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare 'bailout' program, CBO says — The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday threw a potential wrench into House Republican plans to tie an elimination of ObamaCare risk corridors to the next debt-ceiling increase.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mother Jones
Wall Street Journal:
The Jobless Care Act — Congress's budget office says ObamaCare will increase unemployment. — There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama …
Discussion: Washington Post, Betsy's Page, NewsBusters, The White House, Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Dana Milbank / Washington Post: Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters: 'Mad Man' Sam Stein's Hilarious Response To Calamitous CBO/Obamacare Report
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan Fact-Checks Republicans On Obamacare Job 'Costs' — At least one Republican is setting the record straight on what the Congressional Budget Office actually said this week about Obamacare and its effect on jobs. — House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained in a Wednesday hearing …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, Gawker and No More Mister Nice Blog
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Paul Ryan has momentary lapse into truthfulness
Adam Weinstein / Gawker: Nope, Obamacare Won't Kill Two Million Full-Time Jobs
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
How the CBO Thinks Obamacare Will Kill Jobs
How the CBO Thinks Obamacare Will Kill Jobs
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Obamacare's Economic Check-Up
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic: Obamacare Is Not a Job Killer
Reihan Salam / National Review: Obamacare and the Gender Gap
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Slacking Equals Success
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Elitist lipstick on the CBO pig
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: The worst headline for Democrats this year
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: What the CBO report on Obamacare really found
Mitch Berg / Shot in the Dark: Democrats: This Is Your Mess
Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker: No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo: If people who were just working to keep health insurance don't have to work anymore …
Matt Gorman / National Republican Congressional …: The Law That Kyrsten Sinema Helped Shape Is Costing America 2 Million Jobs
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire: Five Takeaways on New Health-Care Projections
Hans Bader / OpenMarket.org: A Trillion Dollars and Two Million Jobs Lost: Obamacare Increases the Deficit After All, CBO Admits
Greg Dworkin / Daily Kos: Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Distortions of the new CBO report; Creationism vs Science
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: Conservatives push misreading of CBO report to claim Obamacare is a job-killer
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: CBO: Actually, ObamaCare is kinda' like a tax, and it's going to result in 2 million fewer workers by 2017
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn: Inconvenient facts for Obamacare
Kevin Williamson / National Review: How to Make a Country Poorer
Erik Wasson / The Hill: CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses
Geoffrey Norman / Weekly Standard: Find the Good News — The Congressional Budget Office has come …
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
CVS to stop selling cigarettes by Oct. 1 — Pharmacy chain CVS said Wednesday it will stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 locations across the United States, a move that public-health advocates hope will become a watershed and pressure other large drug store franchises to follow suit.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: CVS Caremark will halt selling cigarettes by Oct. 1
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Smoker's Ghetto Gets a Little Smaller
Matthew Yglesias / Slate: CVS Won't Sell Cigarettes Anymore
Lauren F Friedman / Business Insider: Here's Why CVS's Decision To Stop Selling Cigarettes Makes Perfect Business Sense
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes, Other Pharmacies Not So Much
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: CVS to stop selling tobacco products
Taylor Berman / Gawker: CVS Will Stop Selling Tobacco Products by October
Los Angeles Times:
CVS Caremark, No. 2 drugstore chain, will end all tobacco sales
CVS Caremark, No. 2 drugstore chain, will end all tobacco sales
Discussion: Politico, The Raw Story and Talk Radio News Service
Kyle Cheney / Politico: Walgreens still evaluating cigarette sales
Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story: Drugstore chain CVS to sacrifice $2 billion by banning cigarette, tobacco sales
Geoff Holtzman / Talk Radio News Service: CVS To Quit Selling Cigarettes
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
CVS Plans to End Sales of Tobacco Products by Oct. 1
CVS Plans to End Sales of Tobacco Products by Oct. 1
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online: Why CVS Isn't Selling Cigarettes Anymore
Steven Perlberg / Business Insider: CVS's Decision To Ban Tobacco Means Next To Nothing... For Now
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco Products
Elizabeth Landau / CNN: CVS stores to stop selling tobacco
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Sandra Fluke forgoes congressional bid to run for state Senate — President Obama and Sandra Fluke wave at a campaign event at the University of Colorado in Aurora. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press / August 8, 2012) — Democratic attorney and activist Sandra Fluke has decided …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Washington Wire: Sandra Fluke Won't Seek Waxman's Seat in Congress
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Sandra Fluke Won't Run For Congress After All
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Woman Who Can't Afford Her Own Birth Control Switches to Run for California State Senate
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Sandra Fluke Changes Mind On Congressional Bid, Will Run For California State Senate Instead...
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: SANDRA FLUKE Foregoes Congressional Bid - Will Run for State Senate Seat Instead
Andrew Johnson / National Review: Fluke Not Running for Congress
Emily Cahn / Roll Call: Sandra Fluke Decides Against Congressional Bid
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare enrollees hit snags at doctor's offices — Many consumers faced hurdles signing up for Covered California health plans. Now they're having trouble finding in-network doctors. — Maria Berumen uses a device to manage the pain from bone spurs on her spine.
Discussion: Hot Air, americanthinker.com, National Republican …, National Review and Shakesville
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: ObamaCare disincentivizes work ... by doctors
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Can't keep you doctor under Obamacare? Try simply finding a doctor in CA
Andrew Clark / National Republican Congressional …: ObamaCare Fan Admits Now She "Can't Sleep At Night" Because Of The Law
Katherine Connell / National Review: Obamacare Fan: 'Now I Can't Sleep at Night. I Can't Imagine This Is How President Obama Wanted It to Happen'
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Single-Payer Healthcare Now
Dylan Howard / RADAR:
Hurley's Ex-Lover Caught On Bombshell Audio Recording Revealing Ex-Prez's White House Sex Romps Behind Wife Hillary's Back — As Hillary Clinton prepares to run for President in 2016, RadarOnline.com has uncovered bombshell new information that could torpedo her White House dreams …
Discussion: NY Daily News, Liberaland, The Daily Caller, National Review, BuzzFeed and The Dish
Rachel Maresca / NY Daily News: Elizabeth Hurley denies reports she had affair with former President Bill Clinton
Jim Geraghty / National Review: The Soft Underbelly of Hillary Clinton's 2016 Bid
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: Obama Aides Doubt Clinton Strategy
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Clinton's Achilles Heels
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page — Reporters in 'semi-open revolt' against Andrew Rosenthal — IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse: Andrew Rosenthal, the NYT editorial page editor, "runs the show and is lazy as all get-out."
Evan McMurry / Mediaite: Observer: NY Times Staffers in 'Semi-Open Revolt' Against Editorial Section
Roger L Simon / Roger L. Simon: Seinfeld, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times: Scenes from the Culture War
J.K. Trotter / Gawker: New York Times Staffers Finally Admit How Dumb Tom Friedman Is
Eddie Scarry / TheBlaze.com: NY Times editor: there's no trouble in our newsroom
John Hinderaker / Power Line: Even the New York Times Hates the New York Times!
Tim F. / Balloon Juice: Everybody loves Tom Friedman
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues. — The New York Times finally ran a correction today of its much-criticized Chris Christie scoop: … So, other than that the story was accurate? Not quite. Evidence exists tying reporter Kate Zernike to having erred.
Discussion: americanthinker.com, ABC News, Instapundit and Hot Air
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Gov Christie will survive because his enemies are just plain 'loco'
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News: Christie Administration Out With New Memo Attempting To Move Past Bridge Scandal
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: JAMES TARANTO: 'Evidence Exists': A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Port Authority eliminates 'director' job created for Wildstein
Port Authority eliminates 'director' job created for Wildstein
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Capital New York
Jed Lewison / Daily Kos: Port Authority abolishes position created for traffic-snarling Christie aide
Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York: Cuomo and Christie push reform, unequally
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Cohen: Ask Philip Seymour Hoffman If Pot Is As Dangerous As Heroin — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Tuesday cited the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman while arguing that the federal government shouldn't treat marijuana and harder drugs like heroin equally.
Discussion: Associated Press and Mediaite
New York Times:
Four People Arrested as Part of Inquiry Into Hoffman's Death
Four People Arrested as Part of Inquiry Into Hoffman's Death
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NY Daily News: Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at 46: Mimi O'Donnell, the mother of his children, pushed actor …
Jen Chung / Gothamist: 4 Suspect Heroin Dealers Arrested As Cops Probe Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Four Arrested in Connection With Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death
Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller: Several arrested in Philip Seymour Hoffman death
Mark Memmott / NPR: Reports: 4 Arrests Linked To Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
Everything You Need to Know About the Emerging-Market Currency Collapse — Money poured into developing economies after the financial crisis, and now it's starting to pour out. How much should we worry? — Here we go again. — First, money poured into emerging markets when it looked like they offered juicy returns.
Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
Clay Aiken makes it official: He will run for Congress — RALEIGH — Singer Clay Aiken will officially announce his campaign for Congress on Wednesday, injecting a nationally known personality into what has been a quiet Democratic primary to produce a challenger to U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, QNotes, Washington Blade and Politico
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade: It's official: Aiken announces bid for Congress
Tal Kopan / Politico: Clay Aiken releases campaign video
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Clay Aiken Is Officially Running For Congress (VIDEO)
Clay Aiken Is Officially Running For Congress (VIDEO)
Evan McMurry / Mediaite: Clay Aiken Announces Run for Congress
Alicia Dennis / People.com:
Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Defends Woody Allen — Dylan Farrow's Feb. 1 open letter to The New York Times detailing sexual molestation she says she suffered at the hands of her father Woody Allen reignited a controversy that has divided their family bitterly for more than 20 years.
Discussion: Guardian, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Sky Dancing
Andrew Pulver / Guardian: Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen over child abuse accusations
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite: Moses Farrow: 'Woody Allen Did Not Molest My Sister'
Stephanie Marcus / The Huffington Post: Moses Farrow Defends Woody Allen, Denies Sister's Sexual Abuse Allegations
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jesse Ventura hiding from drones — Former wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he has gone "off the grid" in Mexico to avoid drones knowing where he is. — Ventura spoke with CNBC's "Closing Bell" from an "undisclosed location in Mexico" on Tuesday, prompting the hosts to ask him where he was and why he was there.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Verge
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Jesse Ventura: I move around in Mexico so drones can't find me
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Chris Christie's pain is Scott Walker's gain — As Chris Christie's star falls, the party is giving a second look to another brash blue-state governor who stared down unions at home: Scott Walker. — Republican strategists say no one is in a better position to get a boost …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Week and Althouse
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Scott Walker's Opening
Damon Linker / The Week: It's over: Jeb Bush will be the GOP nominee in 2016
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "Chris Christie's pain is Scott Walker's gain."
Few signs of movement on debt ceiling — House Republicans are in an increasingly tight political box on the debt limit and have no idea how they'll get out of it. — At a GOP leadership meeting Wednesday morning, top Republicans privately acknowledged that they cannot pass a debt limit bill …
Discussion: The Hill
Mike Lillis / The Hill: Hoyer backs CBC on judicial nominees
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Florida Rep Helped Fugitive Embezzlers — Sen. Robert Menendez is under federal investigation for his advocacy on behalf of two Ecuadorian bankers convicted of embezzlement. Turns out he wasn't the only prominent lawmaker accepting donations and doing favors for the brothers.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Democrat And Chronicle:
Russia won't let Chobani yogurt in Sochi for Olympics — A shipment of New York-made Greek yogurt waiting in a New Jersey airport might just go to waste. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has sent a letter to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach urging …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The World's Greatest … and CBS New York
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Schumer Wants Russia To Let U.S. Olympians Have Their Chobani Yogurt
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …: Schumer to Russians: Let Olympians Have Their Chobani (Updated)


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Fishing can be a phenomenal and fun activity for children and youngsters. Fishing can be a very fulfilling sport; you and your family can fish rather than dealing with the hectic routines of day to day life in Upland, and enjoy the outdoors. Families regularly enjoy the outside air, find out about the earth, and even create great memories. Best of all, fishing is quality time spent together talking, laughing and sitting next to each other. It can be a perfect game for little children, on the off chance that you present it emphatically. For some families, the experience of fishing with live bait, and catching fish that later become dinner, can be a memory making experience that lasts a lifetime.
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DIY Nuc Plans
Beekeeping is a very rewarding hobby, just think about all that delicious, golden honey flowing, mmm! Those of us that have been keeping bees for any time knows that you eventually need to start splitting your hives to prevent them from swarming. Another advantage of splitting is to make a new hive for another beginner to start their own apiary. Perhaps you are an adventurous type and are interested in rearing your own queens.
What ever your motivation is for slitting your hives, you will need the proper equipment to do so. One of the most important pieces of equipment you will need is the box, and that is where your nucs come in very handy. A nuc is a smaller bee box that makes it easier for a fledgling colony of bees to get a strong start. The problem is that they aren't exactly cheap, especially if you are buying several at a time.
This lens is dedicated to teaching you how to make your own nucs!
Step 1: Cutting Your Wood
Making the puzzle pieces
The first step is the most time consuming, especially if you have never done this before. Once you have made a nuc or two, it starts to become a breeze. If you study the picture carefully, it has every piece laid out on a 2' x 4' piece of plywood. Personally, I use 3/4 inch plywood from Lowe's or Home Depot. I tried 1/2 but it didn't seem to hold up on the joints nearly as well. Spend a few extra dollars for the good stuff, your bees will thank you.
Let me list out the dimensions of the pieces, just in case you can't quite read them in the picture. The parts are from left to right:
2 Front Walls - 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 (you will actually get three from the cut outs)
2 Front Tops - 9 x 2 1/2 (these become the handles of the box)
2 Side Walls - 10 1/2 x 19 3/4
1 Top - 9 x 22 3/4
1 Bottom - 9 x 24 (can be shorter if you like smaller landing areas for your bees)
Once you have cut the pieces you are ready to start your assembly. Yes, that's it, no more cutting or routing or anything else!
How to start beekeeping
Here are several books that will teach you everything you need to know about beekeeping, but don't forget, join a local beekeepers guild!
Step 2: Adding Sides
It starts looking like a box
There are several styles of putting the box together, but it really comes down to nails or screws. Nails are a bit easier to use, but the screws will last much longer. Personally, I've chosen to put a bit more effort into it and use the screws.
One word of caution if you do choose to use screws. Due to the fact that you are driving them into the end and side of a laminated piece of wood, it is strongly advised to drill a pilot hole before you actually drive your screws. This will keep the wood from cracking. It is also advisable to drive the screws or nails as straight as you possibly can so you won't have sharp objects poking out ready to impale you. Oddly enough, this tip is more for you than your bees. You will never hear your bees mumbling about the hive about pointy objects that they stubbed their toes on, but you will certainly hear about the beekeeper that ripped his jacket and let a good number of bees sneak in and sting him!
This step would be a tad easier if you had a third arm (as many tasks would) but it really isn't that bad. All you need to do at this point is to attach the sides to the OUTSIDE edges of the front and back. It is important to attach it to the outside or your nuc won't be wide enough to accommodate the five frames you need. I usually use two screws at each joint, you may want to add a third but watch out that you don't apply too much pressure and split the wood.
Step 3: Adding Handles
The handles double as the frame ledge too!
The part I love most about this design is that the handles actually double as the ledge that the frames rest on. Many other designs require that you use routers or other fancy techniques, but this is much easier.
Take the smallest pieces of the cutout and place it on the front flush with the top of the sides. It will overlap slightly with the front panel and the be flush with the outside of the side walls. Screw it in place with one screw on each side. Again, you may want to add an extra screw to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling, but one usually does the trick.
Flip the box over and repeat for the back handle and ledge.
Step 4: Attaching the bottom board
Even bees need a floor
Technically speaking, this step is optional. Sometimes you want to make a second story to a nuc that you already have going. In that case you wouldn't need a bottom board at all. It will simply set on top of the current nuc just like a normal size hive has many boxes stacked on top of each other.
If you do choose to add the bottom, flip the box over and lay the bottom board on it. You need to decide which end will be the front. The extra length of the bottom board will hang over on the front end. This will eventually become the landing pad for your bees. Once again, screw this onto the box, usually one screw on the end and two on each side.
I used to screw on the front until I started ruining my drill bits in the next step. You see, if you put the screw through the center of the front then when you drill the entrance hole you will drill right through your screw. Not a pretty site seeing your bits all chewed up. With a bit of experimentation, I discovered that it doesn't really help much to even have a screw on the front.
Step 5: Drilling holes
The bees need a door right?
The size and location of your entrance does actually matter. First, if you ask 5 different beekeepers what the right size of entrance holes is you will probably get 6 answers. I make my entrances 3/8 of an inch for three reasons: 1) it gives them plenty of room to come and go, 2) it is small enough to defend against pests and robber bees, and 3) most rodents have trouble getting through that size of a hole when seeking shelter.
As far as the location of the front entrance, be very careful when deciding where you place it! I have heard of people leaving up to an inch between the bottom board and the hole. This plan has a solid bottom board which does not give anywhere for water drainage. If you aren't careful, you could end up with an inch of bee soup in the bottom of your hive instead of honey.
I put my front entrance as close to the bottom board as possible. This allows for adequate drainage. The rear entrance is typically an inch or so under the rear handle. I leave this room just in case I need to move the box and a handful of bees have decided to hang out on the back porch. It is important that you do drill both openings, it will provide much better ventilation for the hive.
Step 6: Making the lid
The last step!
The lid is the easiest part of the entire job. Simply take the last remaining piece and screw two pieces of scrap, that you have from the cutting step, to the ends of the top piece and **poof** you have a lid. The only mistake that I have ever made in this step was not doing a test fitting before I screwed the scraps on. It is a good idea just as a sanity check to make sure that the lid will actually fit on top before you screw them down.
Bonus Step: Adding Bees!
Here comes the fun!
While it is rewarding to be able to make your own nuc boxes, it is fairly boring to watch an empty box. Go out and find a swarm or get in touch with your local beekeeping guild so you will have some little critters that call your box a home. They will love your newest creation, I promise!
What makes good nuc boxes?
When you are looking at buying or building a nuc box you should consider a few things. The box should fit snugly with the lid. The last thing you want is to have a gust of wind blow the roof off of your honey bees' house. The lid should also fit flush with the rest of the hive. If there is any bowing of the lid it can lend itself to not keeping crucial heat in during winter months. The entrance should not be too large. It doesn't take much of a space for the workers to come and go, so keep it small so rodents can't get in. It also makes it easier for the bees to protect their hive.
DIY Nuc Box
Why build your own?
The answer is quite simple, it is much cheaper. The nucs that I used to buy, not counting shipping, was about $25. The ones that I make now are $3.50. Holy savings batman!
Beekeeping can become a very expensive hobby. Many people say that there is no money in keeping bees but that isn't really true. The people that shell out tons of cash are the ones that buy overpriced equipment. If you are frugal with this hobby, it will definitely pay for itself many times over.
Nuc Box as a Bait Hive
Catching wild swarms of bees
If you are looking to expand the number of bee hives that you have, a nuc box is one of the best tools you can use. Select a wooded area that is fairly easy to get access to to place your swarm box. Put a piece of old comb in the box with a few frames and strap the box about 10 feet off the ground in a tree. A swarm is more likely to pick this box than other places because it smells like an old hive was there because of the comb and because it is up off the ground.
This method can bring you a few extra hives a year if done correctly. Hey, who doesn't like free bees!
I'd love to hear from you and your experiences making your nucs. Do you have any other plans that you have had luck with? Let me know and I will feature it for you!

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Funnyjunk Lawyer Being Mocked Mercilessly, Makes Things Worse By Trying To Shut Down The Oatmeal's Fundraiser
from the stop-digging deptAs the famous saying goes, when you are in a hole, stop digging. Someone might want to send that message to lawyer Charles Carreon, who has (legitimately) worked on some good cases in the past. However, for reasons that are confusing even his friends, he seems to be trying to respond to a big mistake by hinting at an even bigger one. As you have probably heard -- since it's all over the freaking internet -- there's a little fight going on between funny webcomic site The Oatmeal (and its creator Matthew Inman) and the not very funny aggregator of things that people claim are funny site, Funnyjunk. You can read our take on the mess, if you'd like.
The summary version is that Inman got annoyed at people posting his comics on Funnyjunk and spoke out publicly about it (to be honest, his statements seemed to be an overreaction and include lots of silly statements about "stealing" that aren't particularly accurate). However, he was clear that he had no interest in suing or using the law at all. He just wanted to speak his mind and shame the site. Funnyjunk overreacted back... and then waited a while before doubling (or perhaps tripling) down on its overreaction by hiring Carreon to send Inman a letter threatening a lawsuit on a bunch of claims, nearly all of which appear to be totally bogus (the defamation claim is the main one, which is simply ridiculous, but there's also an absolutely crazy trademark claim that seems to suggest that Inman's opinion of Funnyjunk is "false advertising"), as well as demanding $20,000. Inman then responded in true internet fashion, by posting the letter with his thoughts interspersed and (most importantly) setting up a fundraiser at IndieGogo to try to raise $20,000, not to pay off Funnyjunk, but to donate to charity. And it came included with a marginally NSFW drawing involving a mother (apparently "Funnyjunk's") and a bear. You've probably seen it by now.
Anyway, somewhere along the way the Streisand Effect took over, and the whole thing went viral. Now, as we've learned in previous Streisand Effect situations, this is the point at which the person who overreacted begins to recognize how badly they screwed up and how they've made things a lot worse. And then they apologize and grovel or something along those lines -- and we chalk up another hash mark on the big scoreboard on the internet showing how social pressure and the court of public opinion can keep excessive legal threats in check.
But, of course, there are always some people who can't stop digging. In fact, I would guess that the people who often find themselves on the wrong end of the Streisand Effect are probably slightly more prone to excessive-digging in response to said Effect, because the type of person who doesn't really know the Streisand Effect is about to hit them is likely the kind of person who doesn't realize that continuing to dig doesn't get one out of a hole.
And, here, it appears that Carreon has failed to stop digging. He spoke to MSNBC and said a few things so stupid that he might want to have someone who is more internet native act as a filter prior to talking to the press in the future about these sorts of things. Here's the big one:
He also explains that he believes Inman's fundraiser to be a violation of the terms of service of IndieGoGo, the website being used to collect donations, and has sent a request to disable the fundraising campaign. (The fundraising website has only responded with an automated message so far.)Yes. A large portion of the internet hates you... and your response is to threaten to shut down a massively successful fundraiser for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society? Really? Is that really the smartest response to the situation?
"I don't think that what I did was unreasonable," Carreon says while discussing the initial demands sent to Inman. He tells me that while this situation is unique, he is typically open to negotiation. He ended the conversation with a promise to keep me updated on how things are resolved and on whether he takes any legal action against the folks who have been harassing him since Inman's "BearLove Good Cancer Bad" fundraising campaign started.
Then there's this:
"I'm completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat -- I've never really seen it before," Carreon explains.Indeed, I don't think anyone is quite familiar with the full extent of Inman's response, but for a lawyer who plays up his connections to various internet-related lawsuits, you would think Carreon would have, perhaps, spent some time on the internet. And the internet, in general, is not a fan of bogus legal threats. There's a pretty long history of that, and it shouldn't have been that hard to predict that this threat would backfire.
Either way, as another day goes by, one hopes that Carreon's more level-headed friends will suggest that it may be time to ditch the shovel.
Filed Under: charles carreon, matthew inman, streisand effect, the oatmeal
Companies: funnyjunk, indiegogo


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Balenciaga Presents the Neo Classic Mini Bag
Cute mini bags have been included among the most statement-making spring/ summer 2015 handbag trends and we have seen various fashion designers and brands present their options for the new season. The spanking-new Balenciaga Neo Classic Mini bag is one of the most glamorous interpretations of the trend, a real arm candy that every fashioniser would dream to have. It may be small in stature, yet it possesses so much power to become a focal point in your summer looks. The comfort it provides when it comes to carrying your belongings with you as you stroll in the city is just another advantage.
Ever since being announced the new creative director of Balenciaga back in 2012, Alexander Wang has changed a lot in the DNA of the luxury fashion house, also updating the bag collection of Balenciaga. He presented his own version of the iconic Balenciaga City bag, as well as launched the Cable Shopper and the Le Dix range of bags, and all his designs have enjoyed a huge success among the brand's devoted customers and not only. The new Balenciaga Neo Classic Mini bag comes to revolutionize the street style looks of real It girls, making even the big fans of roomy handbags ditch them for these mini wonders. What we especially love about this shoulder bag is that you can enjoy the freedom of both of your hands when still managing to carry the most important things with you.
See also: 5 Timeless Bags You Can Never Get Tired Of
The rich colors used for the new Balenciaga bag ensure to add a splash of brightness to your monochrome looks, while becoming contrasting details for more colorful outfits. Available in opulent blue, black and bubblegum pink, the bag features a chain strap that lets it wear cross-body and on the shoulder, depending on your preferences.
The only thing you may not like so much about this cute little thing is its price: the Balenciaga Neo Classic Mini bag retails for $1635 and can be found online on the brand's official website. However, you can be sure of making a good investment, since this bag is versatile, trendy and chic and can be a great complementing detail for practically any outfit, at the same time giving you the title of a real It girl. Expect to see lots of famous fashion bloggers, editors and celebrities carry this bag in the new season!
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Game Wardens Arrest Men for Illegal Deer Trapping, Sale
AUSTIN, Texas — Game wardens in the Special Operations Unit of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Law Enforcement Division have arrested six men and executed two search warrants as part of Operation Texas Shuffle, a year-long investigation into the black market deer trade in Texas.
"Our focus here is stopping two main areas of criminal activity: deer being brought illegally across state lines, and wild deer being illegally laundered into deer breeding facilities," said Col. Pete Flores, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement director.
Five of the men were arrested yesterday, including William Kornegay, 42, of Eden in Concho County; James Johnson, 60, of Florence in Williamson County; and Jeff Arbogust, 48, of Austin in Travis County, Chris Sharp, 33, of Marble Falls in Burnet County; and Ronald Rogers, 39, of San Saba in San Saba County. The sixth suspect, Lance Clawson, 40, of Regency in Mills County, turned himself in this morning.
All six are alleged to have trapped, purchased or sold wild native whitetail deer. In addition, Rogers, Clawson and Kornegay are involved with permitted deer breeding facilities and are believed to have laundered wild deer into the permitted facilities. Kornegay serves as an agent for multiple licensed deer breeders. In one case, Clawson, a permitted deer breeding facility operator, allegedly darted wild deer and put them illegally into his facility.
Deer breeding is a legal and growing business in Texas, estimated by one breeder organization to be worth about $650 million per year for the state economy. It is illegal to capture or obtain wild deer and place them into breeding facilities. Breeders must obtain captive, pen-raised deer from other permitted breeders. There are currently 1,099 permitted deer breeders in Texas, holding 86,989 deer in 1,161 facilities. The vast majority of these are whitetail deer, and the rest are mule deer, the two native species in Texas.
"Money is driving the illegal trade in wild native deer," said Capt. Greg Williford with TPWD Law Enforcement Division's Special Operations Unit. "A captive-raised breeder buck can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. So, catching deer in the wild seems a lot less expensive, until you get caught."
TPWD regulates deer breeding, issuing permits and conducting periodic facility inspections as warranted. A particular concern is monitoring breeding facilities for diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease. CWD has not been detected in Texas, but it has cost tens of millions of dollars in other states. Texas borders essentially remain closed to the importation of whitetail and mule deer because of disease concerns.
Clawson and Rogers were previously apprehended Oct. 16 by Texas game wardens and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents for smuggling eight deer into Texas from Oklahoma. Such interstate smuggling is not only illegal but also poses a disease threat to native whitetail deer.
Numerous Class B misdemeanors (fines up to $2,000 and up to 180 days confinement) have been filed on all six men for violating state Trap, Transport, and Transplant regulations relating to whitetail deer. As the investigation continues, additional charges and arrests are anticipated, including possible felony charges of tampering with a government document, and possible illegal possession of tranquilizer drugs, also a felony.
Based on where the alleged offenses occurred, county attorneys in Mills, Bell, Lampasas and Concho Counties will be prosecuting the misdemeanor charges.
Anyone who observes illegal deer trapping, sale or purchase in Texas should call Operation Game Thief toll-free at (800) 792-GAME. OGT is Texas' privately funded wildlife crime stoppers hotline, operating 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. Rewards of up to $1,000 may be paid to callers (who may remain anonymous). Game wardens recommend making the call immediately when illegal activity is observed, and say it is helpful to have a description of the activity, location of the violation, physical descriptions of alleged violators, description of any vehicles and the direction of travel.
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Promoting Your Event Near Cortland, NY
I'll start with a description of what I have been doing to promote events that are part of the Classical Music Festival Series. If you have additional advise or corrections to what I've written, pass it on to me using the Contact Form and I will make changes to the list.
~1 Month Before the Event
- Get the event listed on National Public Radio station Arts Calendars at
Beforehand, you should write a short description of the event as you would like it to appear. This should be a short paragraph for the event and a second paragraph to acknowledge financial support. Save your description in a text file so that you can easily copy and paste the text into the form that is provided on each PBS website.
You should also be prepared with a photo or graphic, about 120pixels wide.
You should have a website or a phone number where people can go to get more information.
Get the event listed on local Web Calendars:
- Cortland Connection Calendar and City of Cortland Calendar using their online form
- CortlandEvents.Com : email@example.com
- CortlandMusic.Org : firstname.lastname@example.com
You should have a website or telephone number where people can go to get more information.
3 Weeks Before the Event (or more)
- Make Posters
The cheapest to make are simple text.
Full color is more expensive but attracts more attention. Be sure to keep the text clearly visible. In either case, include all the essential information: What, where, when and cost.
Check around for prices. Hint: the duplication department at TC3 is a pretty good deal. Full color copies are 50cents (or less) each for 8.5x11 or 11x17 on hard paper. (!)
2 or 3 WeekENDs Before the Event
- Put up Posters
Around Cortland, Homer, Dryden and other areas if you can. It takes a while to find out who will or will not accept posters. Most businesses in Cortland will, especially downtown businesses for a downtown event. I avoid the BIG stores, because the bulletin boards are crowded and people don't look at them. Windows and doors of convenience stores are a good bet, although some chains don't permit putting them up. I also like laudromats and smaller grocery stores. Basically, anywhere you think they might be seen.
ALWAYS ASK BEFORE PUTTING UP POSTERS. Especially the first time you're doing it. After your face becomes familiar, you can probably put posters up on community bulletin boards without asking. But always ask for anything that goes on a window. Some store owners prefer to do it themselves.
2 WeekENDs Before the Event
- Write a Press Release. The first paragraph should contain all of the essential information. You should assume that the average reader will read ONLY the first paragraph (or even only the first sentence). Don't expect people to find, for example, the TIME that the event will take place elsewhere in the article. The rest of the article should say something about the performers and about the (e.g.) music that will be performed. Don't forget to acknowledge a funding source if there is one. Also, give a website, contact phone number and email address if they are available.
Send out the press release by email. You can include a photo or two. Papers prefer higher resolution photos of 1Megabyte or more.
Here are some PRESS email addresses:
- Cortland Standard, Living and Leisure: email@example.com
- Cortland Area Tribune: email@example.com
- Dragon Chronicle (SUNY): email@example.com
- Scotsman Press: firstname.lastname@example.com
Send a notice to print calendars. This should be one or two sentences and will probably be edited further. Example:
"3PM March 30, Piano Concert at Center for the Arts, Homer. Free Admission. Info contact Jim at XXX-XXXX".
Some PRESS CALENDAR email addresses
- Ithaca Ticket: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Ithaca Times: firstname.lastname@example.com ( include "Calendar Listing" in the subject line )
- Scotsman Press (web form): www.scotsmanonline.com
- Syracuse Post Standard: firstname.lastname@example.com
Get notice on Cable Community Bulletin Board Time Warner Cable on Tompkins Street, Cortland. They have a form that you can fill out or email email@example.com
Piano Concert
4pm March 30
Center for the Arts, Homer
Free Admission
1 Week Before the Event
- Send Email reminders to people who have shown an interest in the past. If you don't have such a list, make an email sign up sheet and gather information at your next event (I need to do this myself).
- Finalize the Event Program and program notes. Be sure to include acknowledgements for funding sources.


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"Hey, Mom," my daughter says right as I'm ladling soup into bowls. "Whatcha doin'?"
"Making dinner," I say, and I holler for her brother to join us. Tonight I'm heating up Campbell's chicken soup for my kids. My daughter's is shaped like Disney princesses. My son's can has Phineas and Ferb on the label.
Yes, I'm a victim of advertising. But I'm also a mom who's hoping to serve her kids one meal they won't complain about. Wasted food is wasted money.
As I heat up the soup, I'm thinking that the concept of soup made out of princesses is pretty disgusting.
Who would want to eat Cinderella? Even if you could get past the whole cannibal thing, you would still have to think about specifics. Glass slippers don't offer a lot of ventilation. Cinderella probably has really bad foot odor that I want nothing to do with.
And what about Snow White? She might have poison residue that's not USDA-approved.
Other princesses would be a lot more palatable. I bet you could cook up a nice gumbo made of half of Princess Ariel and Princess Tiana in frog form.
Or what about a goulash of roasted Beast? That sounds tasty. Belle could market a line of dishes to go with it. Just be careful they weren't chipped.
I'd be most interested in trying the Phineas and Ferb soup. Platypus is probably a delicacy somewhere. I just hope that somebody took off Perry's fedora before they added him to the pot.
But not to nitpick, if platypuses are mammals that lay eggs, then should this really be considered a poultry-based soup, or is it more of a meat stew?
Unfortunately, my dreams for a complaint-free dinner have gotten all tangled. It turns out neither of my children like either soup. They're both used to homemade soup, instead of soup with gimmicks.
Soup that sells cartoons, and cartoons that sell soup are hard concepts for them to swallow.
Then, when dinnertime is over, I have to deal with the leftovers. Mixing the princesses into Phineas and Ferb's tri-state area seems really wrong. Is this soup still rated G? It's a good thing I don't have an older sister watching me, because she would totally bust me.
Disney princesses and Phineas and Ferb are swimming around in Tupperware right now, and it's a whole new world of soup. I call it "The Left-overs-inator."
Even Dr. Doofenshmirtz would be impressed.
Jennifer Bardsley writes at teachingmybabytoread.blog.com.


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ABC Uncovers Scandal: Electric-Car Companies Using Federal Money To Create American Jobs
ABC News has published a lengthy article on its website that misleadingly suggests taxpayers are being ripped off because a car company that got a federal loan guarantee is assembling its vehicles in Finland. The story is headlined "Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland."
In fact, the article reports that the company, Fisker Automotive, has created 100 auto-plant jobs in Delaware in addition to 500 manufacturing jobs in Finland. Fisker's founder also told ABC that his company has spent the federal money it has received on marketing, engineering, and design work done in the United States, not on the Finnish jobs.
Here are the first four paragraphs of the article:
With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.
Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland.
"There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle," the car company's founder and namesake told ABC News. "They don't exist here."
Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money so far has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive. [emphasis added]
Twenty-eight paragraphs later, readers learn that Fisker has indeed created auto-plant jobs in the U.S.:
The announcement that the plant would re-open followed a heavy lobbying push by Delaware politicians from both parties, who cited the news as a sign of industry's turnaround. In September 2009, Republican Rep. Mike Castle wrote directly to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, saying the Fisker proposal had "great merit," and urging Chu to give the company "careful consideration" for the loan.
The governor and state politicians took turns, along with Biden, to proclaim the project to cheering blue-collar workers clad in jeans, caps and jackets. They said it would produce thousands of jobs and have cars rolling off the line by next year. Fisker said he remains convinced those jobs will come. While he has hired marketing, design and engineering teams in the U.S., the auto plant jobs in Wilmington right now number about 100. [emphasis added]
Henrik Fisker explained that the Department of Energy told him that federal loan money could not be spent in Finland:
In a lengthy interview, Fisker said he apprised the Department of Energy of his decision to assemble the high-priced Karma in Finland after he could not find an American facility that could handle the work. They signed off, he said, so long as he did not spend the federal loan money in Finland -- something he says the company has taken care to avoid. He said the decision, ultimately, was to help prevent his company from following the path of Solyndra, which exhausted nearly all of its loan money on a high-tech solar manufacturing plant in Freemont, California.
"If you just start doing like what Solyndra did, making a factory in a place where it was too expensive to manufacture ... [you] obviously fail," he said. [emphasis added]
And the DOE confirmed this in a statement released Thursday night:
While the vehicles themselves are being assembled in Fisker's existing overseas facility, the Department's funding was only used for the U.S. operations. The money could not be, and was not, spent on overseas operations. The Karma also relies on an extensive network of hundreds of suppliers in more than a dozen U.S. states.
The article also suggests the Obama administration improperly loaned money to Fisker and Tesla Motors, another electric car company, because Obama donors are involved in the companies' financing:
An investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News that will air on "Good Morning America" found that the DOE's bet carries risks for taxpayers, has raised concern among industry observers and government auditors, and adds to questions about the way billions of dollars in loans for smart cars and green energy companies have been awarded. [emphasis added]
However, the article reported that both the administration and the companies denied impropriety in the awarding of the loans, and the article offered absolutely no evidence to contradict their statements:
ABC News sent questions to the White House Monday and requested an interview with the vice president. Biden was not made available, but an official in his office said "the Office of the Vice President did not encourage the Department of Energy to choose any particular company over any other but, like others in the Administration, supported the Department's loan program and the creation of car manufacturing jobs in the United States."
Energy Department officials have been steadfast that politics never entered the picture and each project was screened by professionals and secured on the merits. And executives from Tesla and Fisker said they won government support because their projects had the best shot at success. They said the involvement of well-connected figures in their companies should not suggest they attempted to use special influence to secure the loans.
[Diarmuid O'Connell, vice president of corporate and business development for Tesla Motors] said political muscle played no role in the company's award of the $465 million in loans, noting that the initial application was filed under Bush -- though landed under Obama.
Furthermore, the article makes much of the fact that Tesla has not yet reported a profit: "Tesla's SEC filings reveal the start-up has lost money every quarter." Later, it says:
Tesla has yet to turn a profit and suffered net losses in each quarter. "Since inception and through the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, we had accumulated net losses of $522.8 million," its most recent 10-K form shows.
But as the Department of Energy told ABC, investing in innovative technology is inherently risky, but necessary to stay competitive:
Energy Department officials said such loans, by their nature, are risky because the department is financing innovative, potentially game-changing technologies that could deliver long-term benefits. They said neither firm has missed a loan payment, or sought help from the department to restructure their lending agreements. [emphasis added]
The 2,700-word article closes with a fact that further diminishes the sensationalism of the headline: The cars that Tesla has made so far have been assembled in Menlo Park, California, and the company's main assembly plant is in Fremont, California:
The Roadster was produced in small quantities with the body assembled by Lotus in the United Kingdom and final assembly by the company at its facility in Menlo Park, Calif. The Model S, by contrast, will have much greater volume and be manufactured in Fremont, Calif. The company said production will begin next year.


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One look at Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth's Twitter account and it's clear why he is the DJ to represent the generation known as the Millennials. Listed as one of Rolling Stone's "50 Things Millennials Know That Gen-Xers Don't," Hemsworth is aware that his moody remixes of current hits as well as his nostalgia-clad online presence (his Twitter profile features an animation of him holding the Pokemon character Pikachu) has created a very fine demographic of followers.
"I understand why they'd say that," Hemsworth says, of his direct association to said generation group. "I think it's because of the stuff that I reference, the nostalgia; I can't seem to not bring it up on my Twitter but I'm just being myself and being goofy online and people respond to that on a personal level."
As much as Hemsworth embraces the Internet and its ability to connect him with thousands of fans in such an immediate environment, he hopes that his cartoonish personality doesn't devolve into parody. He adds, "I'm realizing there's a line and I don't want to become too cheesy."
Hemsworth, who has been known to project kooky images of classic video games and Internet memes at his live shows, admits that people who attend his show now regularly shower him with gifts such as Pokemon cards which get thrown onstage while he performs. He assures that these items are welcome but the man his label bio notes is sometimes called "The Internet Zack Morris" and "The Remix Ryan Gosling" wants to remind both his supporters and himself that he's serious. "I don't want to be Weird Al Yankovic."
And of course his musical output is nothing like Weird Al's, though it may boast just as many cultural references. Last year, Hemsworth put out two releases, his "Still Awake" EP followed by his Last Gang Records debut album, "Guilt Trips."
"I've kind of been put into this DJ work whether I wanted to or not, but I definitely come from a more rock background," Hemsworth reveals, when asked why an album matters to an Internet-paced producer like him. "I just wanted to show that I am still a part of the world that I wanted to be a part of and hopefully albums still matter, I think they do."
Another aspect of rock that Hemsworth holds on to, though he can't achieve as easily as putting out a full-length, is the idea of a concert or performance rather than a party at a club, his default venue. In fact, Hemsworth admits that the only time he's ever at the club is when he's performing, but that he craves the intimacy of a smaller gig.
"I did a live stream from my bathtub once and that was the most fun I had," he admits, adding that his ideal show would involve a certain sense of closeness as well as some candles, perhaps. "Kind of like when Nirvana did their 'MTV Unplugged' session.
"If I could find someway to make that work, that would be ideal. Huge EDM festivals are just so detached, it doesn't work in that context."
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For individuals interested in recapturing the look of retro gaming consoles played on a CRT television like the ones we grew up with, cgwg's CRT shader provides the closest approximation available for modern LCD displays. The pixel shader is purely cosmetic--nothing could impart the technical advantages of a CRT, such as negligible input lag and insanely high contrast, to an LCD--but it can go a long way to displaying old games as we remember them. Since memory and nostalgia are important to the way we perceive these games, each person will have different feelings about what looks "right" to them.
We will be using the latest (as of the time of this writing, 7/28/12) and most complete version of the shader, known as CRT-Geom. This shader allows for simulated screen curvature, rounded corners, simulation of a back-tilted screen (for arcade emulation) and many other goodies. All images are captured at 4x scale, click the thumbnails to embiggen.
This is what the shader looks like with all default parameters, also known as the 'curved' variant (cgwg chose sane values for all of the variables by default):
The first parameters, 'gamma of simulated CRT' and 'gamma of display monitor' allow the shader to determine how much gamma correction to apply to the image. CRT displays generally had higher gamma ratings than most LCD displays (2.4 for a typical CRT vs 2.2 for a typical LCD), so the shader adds 0.2 to the gamma to compensate. If you calibrate your LCD to a higher or lower gamma setting, you may wish to change the 'gamma of display monitor' to reflect your individual settings. You can also raise or lower the simulated gamma to make a darker, more saturated look:
Next, we have 'overscan.' Each CRT showed a slightly different amount of the picture, and the cut-off portion was referred to as overscan. You can modify the amount of over- or underscan by changing this variable. Setting it to (0.00,0.00) will assume you want the picture aligned exactly with the borders of the window. Setting it to a value greater than 1.0 (for example, 1.10,1.10) will cut off a large portion of the screen (approximately 10% in this example):
Increasing the overscan slightly, say, to 1.02,1.02, can cut off unsightly garbage lines at the top of the screen, which is common on NES games.
Next, we have 'aspect ratio,' which controls how much our screen curvature settings will affect the top/bottom and sides of the image. The default setting of 1.0, 0.75 means the curvature will be more pronounced on the top/bottom than on the sides, to compensate for the standard 4:3 aspect ratio. Setting it to 1.0, 1.0 will make the settings affect both sides of the screen equally, which isn't quite right in that the top/bottom actually appears more curved than the sides:
If for some reason you want only the sides straight, you can set it to 1.0, 0.5:
or 0.5, 1.0 to make only the top/bottom straight:
Next up, we have 'simulated distance from viewer to monitor.' Similar to the 'aspect ratio' setting, this exaggerates the effect of the 'tilt angle' setting that we'll be covering in just a moment. The default value of 2.0 is reasonable. Increasing the value reduces the effect of the tilt angle:
Next, we have 'radius of curvature,' which determines how curved our simulated TV tube will be. Setting the value to 2.0 reduces the curvature to something more like what I remember.
'Tilt angle' pincushions one side of the screen. To tilt the screen back, use a negative value for the second number. The default for the 'arcade tilt' variant, (0.0,-0.15), is a sane value:
After that, we come to 'cornersize,' which determines the radius of the corner arc. I think a setting of 0.03, as used in the default image, looks appropriate. Increasing the value to 0.10 makes for some silly, super-round corners:
For the last parameter in this section, we have 'cornersmooth,' which determines how sharp (sharp as in sharp/blur, not as in pointy) the corners look. The default value is 1000.0, which looks fine, but I noticed that if you set the value insanely low (i.e., 80), you get a little vignetting around the edges, which reminds me of my crummy old TVs:
The second set of options are either enabled or disabled by using 'comments,' which in this case are represented as a double-slash, like this //.
The first option is 'linear processing,' which calculates the interpolation in linear gamma:
Next, we have 'Enable screen curvature.' Pretty self-explanatory, but if you comment this line out, you'll get straight top/bottom/sides of the screen, but with the corner arcs intact (barely visible in this shot):
By commenting this out and setting 'cornersize' to 0.0, you get an idealized flat CRT tube, which is represented by the 'CRT-flat' shader variant:
The next two options work together (that is, if you uncomment one, you should comment the other). By default, the shader uses 3x oversampling of the beam profile, which makes brighter pixels bleed further into the surrounding scanlines. Here it is with the default oversampling, scaled up 400% (look closely; it's most obvious on the bright red of Mario's sleeve):
and here it is with the gaussian beam profile:
The gaussian beam profile may have better performance on some video cards.
Those are all of the options available for the standard CRT shader, but there are a few more things we can add in. The first of which is support for interlaced video. Some games did a sort of fake doubling of their vertical resolution by showing different lines of a progressive signal on alternating frames in a process known as interlacing. If handled incorrectly, you will see a ton of combing artifacts (weird horizontal lines on moving objects), as well as distorted scanlines (first image taken using this older, non-interlace-supported version):
These pictures unfortunately cannot show the jutter in the lower image that occurs from showing different lines on each alternating frame.
Next, we have support for pseudo-hires transparency--whereby games created a fake transparency effect by doubling the horizontal resolution to 512 and then covering the transparent area with thin vertical lines, which were then squished together and blurred when the CRT displayed the image--in the games that utilize it, including Jurassic Park and Kirby's Dreamland 3:
This blurring is accomplished by adding another pass to the shader that does nothing but squish the horizontal resolution from 512 to 256. Note: this variant is multipass and therefore incompatible with the official bsnes/higan GUI. Retroarch can use it just fine with bsnes-derived emulation cores, but it is incompatible with FBO/2-pass shader stacking.
Finally, to simulate the natural phosphor glow of a CRT display, cgwg created a multipass version of his CRT shader that includes a "halation" pass, which provides a soft blur that is most noticeable against a black background, such as the Nintendo logo screen in Super Mario World (it also seems to be doing some aspect ratio correction, though I'm unsure if that's intentional):
Note: Like the TV blur variant, this halation variant is multipass and thus incompatible with the official bsnes/higan GUI. It works fine with Retroarch but is incompatible with the FBO/2-pass feature.
Now, beyond the CRT display, our childhood gaming experiences were also colored by limitations of the NTSC signal standard and the lossy, analog hookups we used to connect our consoles. To capture these effects, we turn to blargg's NTSC filter, which runs on the CPU rather than the GPU and can thus be combined with our CRT shader.
The NTSC filter is available in these CPU filter packs (compatible with RetroArch but not bsnes/higan):
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The least intrusive variant of the filter is the RGB preset, which simulates a high-quality RGB connection. This variant provides NTSC color gamut correction but leaves the signal otherwise untouched:
My personal preferences, depending on the game/system: 'radius of curvature' of 2.0, cornersize of 0.03, cornersmooth of 80.0 and NTSC-Svideo. Sometimes I'll use the flat variant (especially on displays that have problems with moire patterns caused by curvature+scanlines), and I often use the halation variant when I'm on a machine with sufficient resources. I always use interlacing support, which has been incorporated into all of the latest versions, and TV blur when possible (i.e., when using Retroarch rather than the official bsnes/higan GUI).


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UC Davis began as a farm school in 1909 to teach agriculture to California residents who were leaving the state to pursue this type of education. The school is home to the "Aggies" (for their famed mascot) and is located adjacent to the City of Davis in an unincorporated part of Yolo and Solano counties. The main campus is just 15 miles from Sacramento and very close to Interstate 80.
Davis is known as a college town, giving a youthful and artsy vibe to the whole area. The "Main Quad" portion of the campus is just a 5-10 minute walk to downtown Davis and a 15-minute drive from Sacramento, creating the perfect mix of a college environment with a metropolitan area nearby.
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Romney's 4-car fantasy home
SAN DIEGO — At Mitt Romney's proposed California beach house, the cars will have their own separate elevator.
There's also a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square foot basement — a room with more floor space than the existing home's entire living quarters.
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Those are just some of the amenities planned for the massive renovation of the Romneys' home in the tony La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, according to plans on file with the city.
A project this ambitious comes with another feature you don't always find with the typical fixer-upper: its own lobbyist, hired by Romney to push the plan through the approval process.
Work on the project has not yet begun.
But it may not help Romney — whose wealth has caused him trouble connecting with average folks — to be seen building a split-level, four-vehicle garage that comes with a "car lift" to transport automobiles between floors, according to 2008 schematic plans for the renovation obtained by POLITICO that are on file with the city of San Diego.
( Also on POLITICO: Romney, not in it for the money)
The documents were provided to POLITICO by a rival campaign, but authenticated independently by POLITICO with San Diego officials.
The U.S. Secret Service, in a coordinated appeal with the Romney campaign, requested that POLITICO not publish the specific plans, complete with architectural drawings, submitted to a local agency in California as part of the approval process.
"For operational security, we'd request that you not publish the blueprints," said Ed Donovan, spokesman for the Secret Service.
POLITICO agreed to the request on security grounds.
To help facilitate the construction plans, Romney has paid San Diego attorney Matthew A. Peterson $21,500 since 2008 to lobby city officials for the renovation after dropping out of the 2008 GOP presidential primary.
The leading Republican presidential contender wants to replace the beach house with a structure more than three times larger.
The fees, doled out in four installments and detailed in municipal quarterly lobbying disclosure reports, paid for Peterson's lobbying of four city officials involved in the proposed construction of the Romneys' home in the exclusive La Jolla section of San Diego along the Pacific coast.
The San Diego Reader first reported in 2010 that Romney had paid $1,000 to a La Jolla architecture firm to lobby city officials for a coastal development permit for the seaside property. The $21,500 paid to Peterson is in addition to those fees.
The schematic plans are only a precursor to more formal proposals to renovate the 76-year-old, 3,000-square-foot beach house. They include plans for the car elevator and more than 3,600 feet of underground living space. The plans detail that 1,500 cubic yards of earth be removed from the property to facilitate the construction of the large basement.
The plans indicate Romney would retain the home's existing ocean-facing outdoor lap pool while adding an outdoor shower and a "water feature," an unclear amenity that drew the attention of San Diego officials because of questions about where the water would drain.


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Ten years ago, in the magical kingdom of Port Canaveral, Florida, Disney Cruise Line launched its first ship, the Disney Magic. She was joined by sister ship Disney Wonder in 1999 - and followed by two much bigger shios; Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy 10 years later. Since then, the four ships been traveling all over the world with many happy passengers. Over the years, the older ships have been been refurbished and made even nicer for the fun-loving families. And now, they will all live happily ever after.
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Now, back to reality.
As a "young adult," what is your first thought when you hear the word Disney (Cruise Line)? Mickey and the gang, along with all the princesses and other Disney characters, right? As a kid at heart, I was excited to be on the Disney Wonder with my mom, my brother Ethan, and my best friend Callie. Other teenagers, though, might not think they're into the Disney scene. But they should be aware that Disney has a bunch of attractions for teens who don't want to take pictures with the characters all day, or have tea with Alice in Wonderland.
Teen Amenities In the last few years, Disney has exploded its shipboard teen programs. The teen clubs reside in one of the smokestacks (don't worry, it's perfectly safe in there) and the rooms are meant to look like a cool and hip urban loft, like those found in TV shows like "Friends." There is a bar (with non-alcoholic beverages), a dance floor, DJ booth, video games, computer area, and "chill-out" area. It's definitely one of the more attractive teen areas I've seen.
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If your Disney cruise stops in Castaway Cay (all itineraries do except the Mexican Riviera), you're in for a really fun time. Castaway Cay has its own Teen Beach on the far side of the island (away from annoying little siblings and parents). It's a great place to hang out with all your new friends. For a little extra cost, you can participate in the Teen Banana Boat ride or take the Wild Side excursion, which includes bike riding, kayaking, snorkeling, and swimming as you tour the tropical island. Many water sports are also available at Castaway Cay for a small fee.
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Food Disney isn't my favorite line for food, but by no means is the food bad. There are many dining options. On all Disney cruises, you switch around between the three restaurants. Triton's (Also called Lumiere's) has an aquatic theme inspired by The Little Mermaid. Here you can enjoy seafood specialties as well as traditional cruise fare.
Another restaurant (on both ships) is Animator's Palate. This is my favorite because of the theme. It's designed to look like a Disney animator's drawing and painting palate. Throughout the meal, black and white drawings on the wall from classic Disney movies come to life - based on drawings done by the passengers during the meal. Disney animated characters come up and talk to you. All the pictures and the walls are colorful at the end of the meal. It really is quite a show for dinnertime.
Another dining option for families is Parrot Cay -- a bright, vibrant, and colorful restaurant. It's supposed to be like stepping into a Caribbean rainforest with parrots and lush tropical plants. It specializes in tropical, Caribbean-style food.
For adults, the alternative restaurant is Palo, and on the bigger ships; Remy's. Here, parents can enjoy fine Italian cuisine while looking out onto the ocean.
For those of you who like to play it casual, the Beach Blanket buffet is always open for all three meals. There is also the poolside Pinocchio's pizzeria, as well as Goofy's Doghouse, where you can get grilled items like burgers and hotdogs.
Public Facilities and Activities On sea days, there are lots of things to do aboard the Disney ships. For younger kids, there is the Mickey pool with a water slide. If you're taller than 64 inches and/or older than 14, you can't go on the slide. Luckily, I just made the age cut-off but had to slouch a bit to meet the height restriction. Right next door is the Goofy pool, where all the poolside entertainment happens. For sports lovers, there are basketball courts in the front of the ships where you can play some "b-ball" as well as other games.
The bigger shhips have the Aqua Duck, the longest water propelled ride at sea. It is a tube some 700 feet long that you ride through ona two-seater rubber raft. It is pretty wild, it even goes out over the side of the ship.
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For those who like to capture that Kodak moment, photographers around the ship take portrait pictures with backgrounds, as well as character pictures. One of our favorite pastimes was having our pictures taken in front of a white background. We would jump up right as the photographer snapped the picture, and it really looks like we're flying. Here's a tip: If you or your siblings want any character pictures, get there early. For some characters, the lines can be 15-20 minutes long.
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At night, you can see a movie on the giant screen by the Goofy pool or in the Buena Vista theater. Or you might see one of the many stage performances. There is a show every night. On our cruise, there were three shows. The first night, we saw Toy Story the Musical. This show is in its début season and it was really good. Toy Story (the movie) doesn't have any songs, so the scriptwriters added in a bunch that fit the story. The second night, we didn't attend the show, but it was called the Golden Mickeys -- It's like an old-fashioned Hollywood awards show honoring classic Disney movies and songs (with many song performances as well). The last night was the Disney Dreams show. I sailed on Disney when I was younger, when I was a Disney princess fanatic. To this day this remains my favorite cruise show. It's a musical about how dreams really do come true (cheesy, I know, but it's still great) with many performances by Disney characters.
So if you ever get your hands on some pixie dust or wish upon a star, wish for a Disney cruise. Although you might find it sappy and corny as a "too cool" teenager, it really brings out your inner child. As for me, I always enjoy feeling like a happy little kid again.
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AKRON, Ohio — Depending on who you believe Mitt Romney is either a few points behind in Ohio, or on the cusp of victory here.
If the Obama campaign's modeling is right, Romney has an uphill fight in a state that is key to victory 10 days from now. If Romney's own internal numbers are correct, the GOP nominee is roughly where he needs to be.
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( Also on POLITICO: Latest polls from across the U.S.)
Either way, there are five key ingredients required for a Romney win in a state that presents the GOP nominee's easiest and surest path to the White House. Much as the contest between President George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry hinged on specific factors in Ohio, the 2012 contest boils down to some very basic old-fashioned Ohio politics.
Below are POLITICO'S five things that, according to longtime operatives familiar with the state, must happen for Romney to capture Ohio:
1. Win the Columbus media market
It reaches 19 of Ohio's 88 counties, and Obama was the first Democrat in decades to carry the Columbus media market when he won in 2008.
Romney doesn't have much of a path to win the state without capturing this crucial territory, which includes Republican counties like Delaware but also Ohio State University, a bastion of young voters who the president is counting on to enthusiastically back him again this cycle.
( Also on POLITICO: How does the Electoral College work?)
Obama won this area by just under 3 points in 2008, and just like Romney, the president needs to sustain that edge. Both men know how important this area is — they've logged significant hours in the Columbus region since the late spring.
Obama and John McCain split the state's two other large media markets in 2008 — Cleveland went for Obama and Cincinnati for McCain.
But Columbus is the main battleground region now, and it shows. The central Ohio area has seen a glut of political ads — well more than 20,000 so far, according to media trackers — so far this cycle, far outpacing the number that aired in the 2004 presidential race.
Romney is now on par with Obama in terms of ad spending in the state, but was heavily outgunned for a long time. Romney also needed to reach parity with Obama on the airwaves not just in terms of raw dollars spent, but amount of ads. In the meantime, both Romney and Paul Ryan plan to appear in the state more than 15 times combined before election day.
2. Take back GOP-leaning suburban voters
It's not enough for Romney to be on air heavily — he also needs to tweak his sales pitch.
The GOP nominee has had to adjust his ad strategy so that it's a softer sell for women and suburban voters, including those who tend to lean Republican in a state where there's no party registration and who Obama captured in 2008 to strong effect.
( Also on POLITICO: Swing-state map)
In North Canton, Ohio on Friday night, Romney's pitch to women was part of his standard stump, but was clear nonetheless. Romney talked about school choice and education, an issue that tests well with suburban women, many of whom were on hand to hear the GOP nominee speak.
Ohio officials have been sending requests to Boston for weeks to help in this regard, particularly with women, who some polls show started swinging Romney's way after the first presidential debate.
A striking fact of the 2012 cycle has been the absence of Ann Romney in heavy rotation in advertising. Mrs. Romney appears at the end of the ads in the disclaimer photo alongside her husband, but she has not been a central focus (though she has stumped in swing states frequently for her husband).


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Colorado's Jon Embree likes how Buffaloes refocusing after loss
BOULDER — Colorado coach Jon Embree said he hasn't had to play the part of psychologist this week following the season-opening loss to in-state rival Colorado State.
That's a sign of the team's maturity, he said.
"When I met with the players on Monday, and then met with the (team's) leadership council on Monday, it was a different feeling than last year," Embree said.
"They said it was more disappointment than discouragement. We'll see on Saturday (in the home game against Sacramento State). But last year there was a lot of discouragement. There more a sense of being resigned that they 'were supposed to lose, that's how it goes.'
"When they are disappointed (instead of discouraged) about the loss, to me, it's easier to get them to bounce back when it's that mentality."


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Sunday Sweets: Winter Wonders
This week John and I have been visiting the frigid tundra of the frozen north: Williamsburg, Virginia. At one point it even dipped down to 39 degrees, so I think you'll agree we've endured what no human being should ever be subjected to.
So, in the spirit of my freezing Floridian tootsies, allow me to present some incredible icy Sweets for your New Year's Day:
By Mad Baker
We didn't see any snow this week - obviously it was just too cold - but even if we had I doubt it would've looked this delicious.
Check out the rock sugar border on this wintry beauty:
By Varrvarra
It's like an icy blast of GORGEOUS. Love it.
Speaking of gorgeous, ever heard of cake jewelry?
Well, me neither.
But that's what I've decided to call these dangling crystal whirly bits:
I'm also digging the frosted texture and spiky top tier.
Okey dokey, time for a cute fix:
Now all we need are some cute polar bears and maybe a walrus and an adorable little Eskimo or two.
Submitted by Sabrina K., made by her mom Anneke of Het Bonte Taartje
I never thought a fish skeleton could be cute. And that submerged bear on the bottom? Genius.
From the icy poles to an icy palace:
By Pipedreams
So sweet!
Now, this next one *does* have Christmas lights on it...
...but in my defense, we leave our trees up 'til after New Year's anyway. And it's awesome.
Here's what I look like when it's below 60 degrees:
Note from john- It's 12:36 am on New Year's Day and Jen just fell asleep while writing this post. It's adorable, really. We spent all day with family at Busch Gardens and she's all tuckered out. But, there are only two cakes left so if it's okay with y'all, I'll finish up.
Look! A dinosaur! In earmuffs!
By Tim G. of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes
See what I did there? It's like a pun!
This writing stuff is easy...
And so, in conclusion:
Glittery cardinals = Awesome.
I think we can all see why Jen does the writing. :)
Well, that's it for me. Just one more thing...
[kissing Jen on the forehead and whispering]
Happy New Year, baby.
And to the rest of you: have a fantastic New Year, and Wreck On!
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.