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i'm not so far from hood river. a little over an hour. i take it your family transplanted? :) do you have a library around so that you could read some books before you buy? i'm thinking that there might be some written by folks in your country that might have info that would help you. also, you have noticed that there is a section here for Australian beekeepers. there are quite a few on this board. we live vicariously through them during our winter. :-).with luck, you'll find someone not to far from you who can give you good local info.
G'day, and welcome to Beemasters!Depending on your circumstance, your financial state, and how much you like to make stuff will depend on what you do.If you want them pretty bad, I'd recommend buying a package or hive. If you are a cheapskate like me, you might want to work on building something first, but if you are on your own, swarms are going to be an unreliable way to get the bees.I'd strongly recommend getting in contact with a local beekeeper, often you can buy used equipment or hives from them for cheaper than a from a company, not to mention having a local source of information and answers when you need it most.Rick
Hi Romani, I read with interest your comment about Dubbo or near Dubbo. My home turf, hey the old beek you referred to in your post, was that Bob Higgins??He worked out of a shed near Maryvale. which is just out of Wellington (NSW).CheersSteve


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A distinctive winter knit hat was a key clue for police who tracked down the man they say robbed two convenience stores in Cohoes over the past couple of weeks.
Vito Tricarico, 28, of Cohoes is charged with robberies at both the Sirajco Market at 199 Columbia St. on Christmas Eve and then the Remsen Street Market at 200 Remsen St. on Wednesday, January 8, police said. He is charged with burglary, robbery, petit larceny and one count of criminal mischief. Police have not described just what the hat looked like.
In the case on Dec. 24, 2013, authorities say that at 4:29 p.m. the clerk reported a man wearing a "distinctive winter knit hat" came into the store, went behind the counter and grabbed $150 out of the cash register and then ran off and got into a gray pick-up truck.
In the case on Jan. 8, police say that at 10:19 p.m. police got a call of a strong-armed robbery where the clerk said "a lone bandit entered the store wearing dark clothing and a dark winter hat" and asked the clerk for change. Once the register was open, the man tried to grab cash and struggled with the clerk but got away with the entire register's drawer holding about $500.
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hi, I'm finally going to start painting my ESB helmet and i've never used an airbrush. Has anyone got any tips.???
I was going to use one like this: Revell Starter Class Spray Gun With 200ml Air Power Can - Hobbycraft | Craft Shop, Art Supplies
I'm using Humbrol Acrylic paint pots, so do I water them down a bit when mixing or do i go straight through the airbrush.?
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In the history of humanity, those who believe in the righteousness of their cause invariably wind up doing more damage to their supporters than to the enemy. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers have waged war incessantly for over twenty years, but they are now being crushed by overwhelming forces of the government. As the Sri Lanka army cuts into Tiger defenses thousands of innocent Tamils are caught in the cross fire. Artillery pounds the Tigers who will not allow their own people to escape. The International Red Cross reports there are hundreds, if not thousands of civilians being killed or wounded because they can not leave the last piece of territory under control of the Tamil Tigers.
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A low horizon, watery foreground, and cluster of structures on a riverbank are typical of van Ruysdael's limpid compositions. He used thin washes of paint on a light ground to record the landscape and waterways around Haarlem, where he lived, and from his travels throughout the Netherlands. Fine draftsmanship and acute observation of nature characterized his rendering of the leafy foliage in the trees that animate this river scene. Here the body of water leads to the horizon, while the ferryboat plays the dual role of balancing the composition with the cluster of trees at the right and adding information about everyday life in Holland. By the 1640s, the artist commanded a vocabulary of natural effects and genre elements which, in the absence of preserved sketchbooks, he seems to have reproduced from habit and from memory. The grey tonality, placement of boats, and the inclusion of a church spire in this painting subtly distinguish it from other works from this period, including a closely related River Landscape in the collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.


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Annette, holy smokin' cadoodalhoppers!!! I have been enlightened. I have always thought that the popsicle sticks that the people here talked about were held horizontally somehow along the bottom of the top bar. Now I am getting a picture that the popsicle stick is standing up vertically from the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame, in the centre of that frame, eeks!!! You see, that is my issue with understanding certain concepts. Thank goodness I have never tried to use popsicle sticks on my foundationless frames!!! Have a most wonderful and awesome day and life, great health wishes to us all. Cindi
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This was done with a spray can? I think it looks good, I'm ordering my fs soon and I think this is the way I'm going to weather mine. If you have any more tips let me know.
Looks sharp!:thumbsup
Great job. I think it looks good as is but if you ever feel you did too much you can throw it in the washer with some detergent and it should reduce the effect. I did mine the same way. Charcoal also works great for a less permanent effect. :thumbsup
I used black, and three different browns (tan/med/dark) and randomly alternated layers sprating from between 2&4 feet away.
Thanks guys for the comments and support I'm glad it worked out. Hopefully it can help some other people out too. Yes jc, it was all done with one flat black spray can in about 30 minutes. I don't have any tips except to do light mists at about a foot away so you can slowly build up to what you like.
So would I want to do the same thing to the flak vest and neck seal?
I'm thinking of doing a very light grey-brown overall dye job, just to tint the flak vest everywhere before applying any local weathering in particular areas, creases, folds, seam lines, etc. The stark white that the flak vests come in is definitely too bright, IMHO.
Good idea, I think I'll hit up Raf to get his opinion on this.
Looks great man.....Ive been doing my jumpsuit, and flak vest.....and alot of other weathering like this since '09 lol I use krylon black primer though. It has that greyish sooty look. Works l;ike a charm and only takes a few minutes.
I did my flak vest as well, but less than the heavy parts on the bottoms of the legs on the jumpsuit. I also did it a little without the armor on, and then did it with the armor on it as to weather the vest and armor at the same time. I think it worked out great. I get ALOT of positive comments on my Fett. I honestly think alot of it has to do with the weathering. A flak vest thats too light grey just doesnt look right. I tried to keep the tone even to the lighter parts on the jumpsuit. When i was a kid i didnt even realize he had a vest...actually until i really started researching as an adult, i never realized the vest was there or a different color. When i look at reference pics now..they look very close in "weathering tone" if you will. Especially on ESB. A little less on ROTJ, but still similar. Good weathering is very important on the Fett man IMO.
You be the judge!
oh man I was about to start on one of Caroles master pieces and I have never been so nervous... Keep that advice coming
Don't do what I did! :cry
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DD only "plays" with mature sound dogs so they will teach him. It is hard to find a pup that is compatible in strength and play style without any of them getting hurt somehow.
I practiced the same routine with WD and all he got initially from the older dogs was a stern "no, you cannot do that to me!". The result was that, when he was just over a year old he became the teacher dog to several youngsters and smaller dogs. I was very surprised at that level of "wisdom" at that young of an age.
The alpha idea is antiquated and outdated. Playing with other dogs is not going to impact your dog seeing YOU as a leader. If the play is controlled and supervised, that's good. If it's a free-for-all with dogs that are not good with puppies, etc... chances are, there are things outside of that play time that are going to lead your pup to not see you as the "leader" anyways.
And the "overly submissive thing"... having a dog on the submissive side isn't a bad thing, for a pet owner. Submissive and fearful do not mean the same thing, nor do dominant and confident. Much of whether or not your dog will be more on the submissive side is hard-wired in their temperament, and then refined with socialization- and either way, learning the "ropes" from older dogs is beneficial.
A stable, social older dog is a boon to a puppy owner. Where you run into problems is, as jocoyn said, overwhelming the puppy with dogs that are not good with puppies, or a lot of dogs. It should be supervised.
Older dogs are wonderful provided they have a good gentle temperament with puppies. I would do one on one and not a bunch of dogs at the same time.
The whole alpha thing is another long discussion........
well I typed up a nice long reply but the forum took a poo on me.
No, in short. He has only met older dogs under close supervision from us and our trainer. He is 3.5 months Thursday. He does play with our son's dog, a jack Russell mix.
Should new pups play with older dogs?
Hi everyone! First time owner, bringing my puppy home in 11 days! Super excited .. but heres the thing.. so are all my dog owner friends.
Now I've been doing as much research as I can on everything i can find (literally... pretty much all i do these days haha). I understand the importance of socialization and have done a lot of reading.. but a common thing i see is to not allow your puppy to play with older dogs. Ive read that you should allow your puppy to be around older dogs and be comfortable with them but not necessarily "play". Here are some reasons I've seen:
1. Can teach your dog to be overly submissive
2. Your puppy submitting to an "alpha"/older dog can potentially increase the time it takes for your puppy to see YOU as the alpha instead.
3. Puppies may be going through a fear stage and can learn to be afraid of larger or older dogs if the play time doesnt go well.
There are some other things i saw here and there.. but what do you guys think? All my friends have already started lining up to see my GSD and are about as excited as i am for him to finally come home. Would it be okay to start setting up play dates with older dogs (anywhere from 1-3 years old)? I figure if i do meet older dogs, i would just be sure to supervise and make sure everything is safe.. but mainly concerned about any potential long term affects to personality. Anyways thanks for any opinions or info!
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I'm in my first week of having my pup (he'll be 9 weeks tomorrow) so I don't have the experience others might have. What I can say is do a lot of research on this site about crate training, potty training, etc. This site has GREAT information! I did a ton of research before getting Rambo. The first few days are tough. Only because my husband and I have gotten no sleep. He whines for about 5 minutes and goes to sleep in his crate but every so often he's up needing to go potty.
I always keep an eye on him because when he starts sniffing around the floor I know he has to go outside, so I take him to the door and I say "let's go potty!" and when we get outside i say "go potty" and when he pees outside I treat him like a king! Treats, attention, play, etc. So far he's getting the hang of it.
The breeder I got him from was already crate training him so it might be different for you. He's never had an accident in his crate.
As far as the exercise goes, I take him for a short walk (not run!) at night before bed just so he gets tired. I really tire him out the hour before he goes to sleep. That means playing fetch, running around the house with him, and more. It helps him sleep longer.
To be honest though if you get a good schedule going you should be fine! Rambo gets up in the AM, plays and eats and then he sleeps for about 2 hours. And that goes on throughout the day.
PLENTY of toys! Nyla bones, ropes, squeaky toys, and balls. Tennis balls that is
I would suggest no rawhide bones or pig ears. I've read they can be extremely harmful.
Hope I gave some good advice! I'm new to all of this too I've had puppies before but never actually on my own. They were always my parent's puppies.
Good luck and congrats on your new addition! You'll have fun with her
Also! Post pictures when you get her!
Make sure you understand crate training and have room beside your bed for the crate.
Mentally wrap your mind around --> http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...s-puppies.html
Also, start looking for a good puppy class so you can join ASAP and start up the training/socialization that helps with.
Soon to get GSD puppy! Tips and advice please?
Hey all, my sister will be getting a female german shepherd (3 and a half months) in a few days. We have a 3 year old maltese as well. The maltese (f) is hyper all the time and can get feisty if provoked.
1) Would like any advice which would help the two get along and how to introduce them to each other.
2) Any tips for the first week or month, or anything that we need to pay extra attention to? She will get her daily exercise, looked after thoroughly, and other things a puppy needs although how much exercise would be overdoing it for a GSD puppy?
I have read the FAQs but still would like to have any advice from first hand owners and take care of anything i have may missed out to make sure the puppy is fine, as i know GSDs aren't like most dogs
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In cultures where demons and witches are perceived as real, fairy tales may merge into legendary narratives, where the context is perceived by teller and hearers as having historical actuality. However, unlike legends and epics they usually do not contain more than superficial references to religion and actual places, people, and events; they take place once upon a time rather than in actual times.
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Canisius College head coach Dave Smith announced on Thursday the addition of Tyler Walsh to the Griffs staff as Director of Hockey Operations. Walsh, who spent the last three years at the University of Maine, will coordinate the program's video efforts, manage all aspects of travel and assist with the team's community outreach programs and fundraising.
"I'm excited to add Tyler to our already outstanding staff," Smith said. "Tyler has grown up around the game of hockey and was an important piece at Maine the past three years. His passion and commitment to learning and sharing his experiences will make our program better."
Walsh joins Canisius after spending the last three seasons as a student assistant coach and video coordinator at Maine. With the Black Bears, Walsh was responsible for scouting opposing teams, video breakdown and assisting the coaching staff at both practice and with the overall day-to-day operation.
In addition, Walsh served as video coordinator for USA Hockey at the 2012 U16 and U17 Select Festival in Rochester, N.Y. He has also served as an on-ice instructor at both Maine and Michigan State summer camps, while working as an assistant coach for Holt High School in Holt, Mich.
Walsh earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Maine in 2013.


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Shot myself a mallard I'm proud of on the last day and I'm looking to throw him up on my wall. What place do you suggest in town? I got one quote and it was for $450. Seems a little steep. Any help would be great. Glad I found this forum, to bad at the end of the season!
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By 2011, IBM expects the number of mobile phone users to hit ONE Billion.
IBM will be investing $100M over the next 5 years in mobile computing efforts - emerging market mobility, mobile enterprise enablement, enterprise to end-user mobile experience, etc.. (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-to-Invest-100-Million-in-prnews-15546580.html?.v=1)
"For the 83 percent of the world that does not have easy access to the Web via PCs, IBM is helping mobile phone users become more productive. In these locations, there is a dearth of skills, such as technological and language literacy; a lack of infrastructure, such as reliable electrical power; as well as limited availability of smartphones.
IBM Research has established a pilot program in southern India that allows people, including farmers, repairmen, small business owners, and consumers, to post, retrieve or exchange timely information via voice on cellphones. Content -- such as weather and ocean conditions, grain prices, advertisements, bus schedules, news, class schedules, product catalogues, health information and available services appointments -- is created and updated by entrepreneurs and municipalities."So what does this mean to collaborating smarter? Well for starters, anytime anywhere access and interaction with people, information sources, content...


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by pgrnpacer, Dec 15, 2009.
Stuck's point guard experiment on ice? Looks like Stuck may be sliding back to the 2 now since Rip may be injured again. This time the hamstring. Detroit Pistons' health woes continue as Richard Hamilton injures hamstring
Re: Stuck's point guard experiment on ice? Rip's trade value is dropping with every injury...if he is this fragile..who's going to take him with his salary?? Bynum was actually dressed yesterday, so we may see him tonight if the frozen bananas don't work on Rips' hammy
I still can't figure out what you guys see in Stuckey playing the 3 that would ever make it a viable solution to ANY problem. Nevermind the fact that when the few times he WAS told to guard a SF for spot minutes he racked up fouls faster than 2012. He gets posted and fouls. He gets shot over. Besides that, when he gets a minute or two against the likes of Caramello or Durant, they still get around him. He's a bad option at the 1, he's a reasonably good option at the 2, but he's even worse at the 3 spot than either of the afore mentioned positions. I just don't get it. He's not equipped to play SF for any meaningful stretch of time in a game.
Re: Stuck's point guard experiment on ice? Hopefully his wife will tell him to man up and play so he won't be out so long this time. It didn't dawn on me until I tuned into the game last night that the Hou v Det game last year at The Palace was when Curry gave his infamous "They good" sideline interview. Looking back, he probably never recovered from that.
Re: Stuck's point guard experiment on ice? As Houston reached 50 points in the first half mark last night, I realized it was that same game at the Palace last year when the Rockets scored 50 with like 7 or 8 minutes TO GO in the first half, and concluded that it was going to be a long rough road.
Actually, that's not that far fetched. Q played CV at the 4 and Max at the 5 for a few stretches in some games and it worked out pretty good combined with the triple guard attack. Granted you can't do that against bigger teams like Orlando or LA, but it certainly is a solid option.
Sounds like I am not the only one to notice CV's post presence. Appreciating Charlie Villanueva: Perfect in the Post? | Detroit Bad Boys Time to run the offense through Charlie. High percentage shots from a 6'11" post player with a soft touch and several moves as opposed to Stucky running head-on in to players 5+ inches above him and trying to force something in the hoop. Don't get me wrong. I love Detroit's famed guard play which has been a staple of our 3 championships. I take pride in it. But CV could be that low post threat we need to turn our game plan around and head in a new direction. ....if only he was quick enough to defend other PF's....I say stick him at the 5 and let him tear it up! (Ben Wallace subs in for stretches to get stops and to spell CV) Put Daye and Summers at SF. Max and JJ at PF.
I meant people saying that he can't play point. Don't know why I didn't specify, that just created confusion. I doubt anyone actually thinks he can't ball. Give the guy some time though at the point, he is learning, I have no problem giving him this season and next to see if he can figure it out.
well something pop in my head what if joeD trades stuck, who are we gonna get? Or was there other teams that had called the Pistons front office to check if stuck is available? I am just curious on what prize are we gonna get to shop stuckey on other teams.....so please help me out...seriously its really frustrating.....
Brandon Jennings? (edit: Got you CJ!)
How about Brandon Jennings? Sir.
That would be a good one though...I dunno if the bucks management will allow that to happen...But yeah Im not gonna argue...getting jennings will do for me...
And Sir, one might argue that nothing was helped by Rip deciding to play all on his own and neglecting to inform any of his colleagues who might have been able to prepare for his return had they only known.
If I remember correctly it was sometime around the middle of the season last year that a Ramon Sessions torched us and all of a sudden everyone on this forum wanted to swap Stuckey for Sessions. People still interested in that?
NOPE! But I would love to do a deal that sends Rip to Minn, Sessions + Filler (Brian Cardinal's expiring) to LAClips, and Baron to Detroit, I'd do it in a heartbeat, and I think Minn and LA would too.
WTB....lol! The WoW inferences expound! Everytime I log on I see one. What the heck is going on? Just when I think I've gotten away the strangest places pull me back in!
Are you calling this place strange?
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I was there on Friday night and then Saturday night... I wasn't there for the show... had to work.
IMG_3725 by andyfl32, on Flickr
Here is one that I found of me driving down the street.
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I just saw yours and there was a blacked out passat with black wheels with just springs on it.
Yeah next year I will be there for sure for the show....
I'll try and get those pictures of the different heights tomorrow and answer the question about ride quality and stuff along with going air but just quickly I test fitted my old wheels today. I know they are 17s, which are too small, but they are 9" wide and et24 so now I know I have room to play with on the next set of wheels. Enjoy.
that is just silly low. I actually like the blue.
If your looking to sell the wheels I just saw this guys post looking for those wheels. AutoThisWorld
is the guys name
how was the drive down to sowo?
nice build
What setup do you have?
My set up is bagyard bomber front struts, bagyard classic rears, Accuair E-level management, 5-gallon tank, Koni yellow shocks, and dual 400 vivair compressors.
*Just as a FYI for anyone wanting to go air. If you use bagyard bomber front struts(I don't know about the clearance of airlift XLs) there is a plate at the bottom of the bag. It decreases the room you have for higher offset wheels and bigger tires. My wheels now are 19x8.5 et45, 225/40 tires and I have to run a spacer. If I just put the wheel on the car, the tire will be touching the plate. The factory 17s will fit without a spacer but the tire is really close to the plate.*
How is the ride?
From the stock ride it is completely different. The stock ride was very soft and comfy, with the air ride it is a tad bit rougher but no biggie for me. I mean lowering your car usually will make the ride a bit stiffer so just keep that in mind.
Any pics of it all the way up?
Here's the pics:
All the way up
Ride height
All the way down
Just for fun
Wow, the car looks killer man!!!
Im really thinking of selling my brownie and get a B7 TDI.
Damn, loving yours!
Did you post on AirSociety ?
Looks sweet!!
Every time i see the white wheels i like them even more!
I've posted up the GTI but I haven't post this car yet. I'll snap some shots of the management and post up soon
its so sick ! i really want air on my wagon. !
i really like your car and the new passats
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I have been weighing the idea of getting on of these for a while. Must say this makes me want to get a B7 Passat TDI, but after doing some more thinking I think I am going to just stay in the JSW game for now.
P.S. Your car is hot. I love those wheels just iffy on the center caps being silver, but love the wheels anyway. Also not bashing but I think the TDI badge on the car is crocked.
Nice car, I am jealous
Oh and I removed the tdi badge, as it looked pretty much out of place so the rear is all clean.
Not much to update. I got my foglights from Bud that need to be installed. Oh and I picked up these....
I got bored today so I installed my fogs that I bought awhile ago. They still need to be wired up but nice change to the looks.
and here's my current ride height.
do you suggest I use the D cups like in the mk5/6 rears? or not needed
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Ok here's a scoop guys, Rudolph developed a drinking habit (that red nose isn't magic...) so Santa had to switch to a Eurovan diesel for deliveries. Unfortunately it's pretty cold around the north pole and Santa has no electricity to plug his van in. Save your car the deception when she finds that out on the faithful morning and order from www.ctsturbo.com , we ship everyday, worldwide and no matter the weather!Dear Santa,
this Christmas I would like the followings:
CTS liscense plate fram
Building a 600HP hardware package for a MK5 R32.
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nice kit, did a few upgrades to my recently purchased 01 TT, disappointed that i can't get a REAL cold air intake down in the fenderwell like the carbino i had on my jetta, does your kit allow enough room to get a 3" pipe with the air filter in the drivers side area where one of the twin factory coolers was
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would this kit provide efficient cooling for 400whp?
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Heres a couple shots of Larrys open wheel racer, Larry has shoe horned a AEB 1.8T motor into this beast and installed a a few choice CTS components No videos yet, but this thing looks pretty badass Nice work Larry!
Aarons MK1 TT is equipped with the CTS TT225Q GT3071R big turbo kit, CTS TT225Q FMIC kit, Integrated Engineering street/strip cams, Integrated Engineering forged 144x20mm connecting rods, Eurodyne Maestro 7, JE forged 9.25:1CR pistons, Supertech valvetrain, Clutch Masters FX400 clutch/flywheel kit, BFI stage 2 engine mounts. This should make for a fun trip to the dyno!
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Many of you will have used the very useful Hugh Wallis Batch Number site over the past few years. It was a great site which was so helpful to so many family historians. Sadly it now has many problems due to the change in how the new family search website is constructed.
However there is a good entry on the familysearch blog which might help researchers. The site starts …..
The Hugh Wallis web site has been a popular and effective online utility tool for researchers to find relevant data on all ancestral connections found in FamilySearch extraction batches of vital and parish records of birth/christenings and marriages. Due to changes in the FamilySearch.org system, the web site became disabled and out of service until recently. Now, some batches do not appear in Batch Number searches.
The Hugh Wallis site is still there, but isn't working 100% so if you are having troubles go and read the Familysearch blog and all may (or may not !) become clear.


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Convergence insufficiency occurs when your eyes don't work together while you're trying to focus on a nearby object. When you read or look at a close object, your eyes need to turn inward together (converge) to focus. This gives you binocular vision, enabling you to see a single image.
Convergence insufficiency can cause difficulty with reading. This may make parents or teachers suspect that a child has a learning disability, instead of an eye disorder.
Treatments for convergence insufficiency are usually effective.
Not everyone with convergence insufficiency experiences symptoms. Signs and symptoms occur while you're reading or doing other close work and may include:
If you or your child experiences signs and symptoms of convergence insufficiency or has problems reading, consult an eye care professional, such as an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. A technician called an orthoptist may help with the evaluation and treatment.
Convergence insufficiency results from misalignment of the eyes when focusing on nearby objects. The exact cause isn't known, but the misalignment involves the muscles that move the eye. Typically, one eye drifts outward when you're focusing on a nearby word or object.
Difficulties with reading and concentrating can adversely affect a child's learning. Convergence insufficiency typically isn't detected in routine eye exams or school-based vision screenings. A child with the condition may be evaluated for learning disabilities because of his or her reading troubles.
Convergence insufficiency may not be detected during a routine eye exam. To diagnose the condition, your eye doctor may do the following:
Treatment options for convergence insufficiency include:
Studies show that vision therapy at a doctor's office is more effective than doing eye exercises or computer-assisted therapy at home. Other aspects to consider before choosing a treatment are cost and convenience.
You will likely see improvement in your symptoms after four weeks of doing exercises or computer-assisted therapy. Treatment can offer long-standing relief of the symptoms of convergence insufficiency. But symptoms may come back:
Another round of treatment will usually help.
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text: I'm sitting here on a Sunday night, there's not much on TV, so I figured I'd start a random thread about one of my favorite things in the world... LUXURY fashion! A place to discuss fashion, labels, the Luxury Department Stores/Malls, etc. My favorite labels are pretty much primarily Italian... what can I say... yes I'm a label whore! In my closet is Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Prada, Versace and I think Armani? I live for Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci primarily, those are my two weaknesses. Being that Alberta isn't exactly known as a fashion haven, especially in the city where I am. If ever I want to get my fix, I head to Holt Renfrew in downtown Calgary. It's absolutely stunning. Four floors of the best! I went there before I started my most recent job and spent $680 on a Burberry Polo, Dolce polo and wallet... but what can I say, it was a moment of weakness! Thank goodness mama was with me or I probably would have spent about double that! Holts in Calgary is my absolute kryptonite. I love the Holts in Calgary and Vancouver, the one in Edmonton is too small and not nearly enough space, but they did just recently start carrying Dolce and Gabbana so points for that! I've also been lucky to shop and purchase Gucci at their Sloane Street Flagship location in London (the Dolce & Gabbana men's store near there rather disappointed me) as well as on the Champs-Élysées at Avenue Montaigne when I went to London and Paris in 2011. That was like a like a little slice of heaven on earth for me. I also picked up some D&G at their Rue du Rivoli boutique near the Louvre. I've also been to Rodeo Drive twice in Beverly Hills (both times before I was an out gay man and knew what any of those stores were) and the Beverly Center, but it is nowhere near like it is today. Once I have some funds that allow for it again, I will definitely be going back in a few years hopefully. Crystals at City Center in Vegas looks like it could do major damage to my VISA as well. Seattle has a great Gucci boutique as well as the Flagship Nordstrom which is all sorts of amazing. I bought my mom a Louis Vuitton purse when I was there as well (back in 2010) but she only brings it out for special occasions. Of course, New York City is on my bucket list. Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman's... I can only imagine the kind of trouble i would get into there! What about fellow FSUers? Do any of you have any weaknesses for fashion/labels/department stores? Any wild stories?


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NPR's On the Media targets dual conspiracy-theory peddlers Dobbs for birther wingnuttery, Betsy McCaughey for "euthanasia canard"
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James Fallows remarks on McCaughey's constant media presence, despite persistent falsehoods: "Seems to be almost no extremity of being proven wrong which disqualifies" her from media appearances on health care.
BOB GARFIELD (host): Hey, what if we were governed by a sinister foreigner masquerading as a native-born American, a real-life Manchurian Candidate advancing a perverse plan to cull the population of the elderly? That's either the plot for a bad Hollywood thriller, or this week in the wingnutosphere.
UNKNOWN WOMAN [audio clip]: I want to know, why are you people ignoring his birth certificate? [shouting and cheering] He is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya.
GARFIELD: That's from a YouTube video of a Delaware town hall meeting with Congressman Mike Castle, a video that has flown all over the Internet and cable news, fomenting right-wing rage over an impostor in the White House. Of course, the president has long since provided his birth certificate and contemporaneous Honolulu newspapers back in 1961 announcing his bouncing baby birth. But that's not good enough for the "birthers," as they've come to be called. Some of them are fringe loonies; some of them are member of Congress, such as the 11 Republican co-sponsors of a bill that would require future presidential candidates to present a U.S. birth certificate in order to run. And some of them are CNN's Lou Dobbs.
DOBBS [audio clip]: A lot of questions remaining, and seemingly the questions won't go away because they haven't been dealt with.
GARFIELD: So demonstrably false is this rumor that even some of the most caustic media voices on the right have tried to squelch it, among them Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, and columnists Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. Still, with at least one poll showing that 58 percent of Republicans are not certain of the president's citizenship, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was at pains to deal with the birthers this week.
GIBBS [audio clip]: The president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 50th state of the greatest country on the face of the Earth. There are 10,000 more important issues for people in this country to discuss.
GARFIELD: Chief among those 10,000 issues is health care reform. But if Gibbs somehow believed the gravity of that matter guaranteed honest debate, he was sadly mistaken. It, too, was mired this week in a trumped-up controversy over nonexistent provision in the White House plan. Here on Fred Thompson's radio show is supposed health care expert Betsy McCaughey.
McCAUGHEY [audio clip]: One of the most shocking things I found in this bill -- and there were many -- is on Page 425, where the Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner.
GARFIELD: Whoa. The Feds culling the population of those burdensome elderly? That is shocking. Also, utterly untrue. The bill would simply allow seniors who do wish for professional advice on end-of-life issues, from will writing to hospice care, to get the government to pick up the tab. Yet, the euthanasia canard was parroted by House Republican leader John Boehner and at least referenced by Fox News, CNN, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
That's interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that Betsy McCaughey is the same person caught in a series of lies back in 1994, when she helped torpedo the Clinton health care initiative by claiming, falsely, that the plan would forbid citizens from obtaining private medical care. But of course, that was before the Internet and the proliferation of 24-hour cable news.
Which is why writer James Fallows, who was in the forefront of debunking McCaughey's claims 15 years ago, predicted on this program in May that nowadays, in a world of blogs and fact-checkers, McCaughey wouldn't do so well. Fallows joins us once again. Jim, welcome back.
FALLOWS: Bob, thank you. I'm sorry I'm sick this time, but I'll do my best.
GARFIELD: All right, smart guy. What do you have to say for yourself?
FALLOWS: I think to compare this with 15 years ago, you do see a difference in the ecology of the news. Part of it, I think, involves Betsy McCaughey herself, because this is now the third time she's gone out on a limb with something that just isn't true. But if you compare this with 15 years ago, where it took a long time -- in fact, beyond the life span of the Hillary-Bill Clinton health care proposal -- to sort of come to grips with what was wrong with what she was saying, now there's been almost an instant feedback loop. And I think the difference is, while the Limbaughs and the Fred Thompsons and even a few Republicans in the House are repeating this latest claim, it doesn't have the gravitas that her original one erroneously did have. And so I think there's something about the woman herself, but I think even more about the kind of instant feedback loop, which is the good side of the Internet news cycle now.
GARFIELD: OK, fair enough. But I have to observe that the president was concerned enough about this disinformation that he felt the need to address an AARP town hall meeting to assure seniors that there are no federal plans to force them to euthanize themselves.
FALLOWS: I think that illustrates a different phenomenon of the Internet age which is not so good. This same president also has to deal -- or at least his team does -- with the so-called "birther" claims, that he was born in Kenya or someplace. And so just as the Internet has made it possible for such mainstream organs as exist to do faster fact-checking, it also allows these kind of independent ecosystems of factual belief to persist.
So, I'm sure that just as the birthers will be there all the way along, I'm sure that there'll be hearty reception for some of the latest claims that Ms. McCaughey has made. And they have to be dealt with, but somehow it's different to have a question the president has to deal with than sort of mainstream conventional wisdom believing it.
GARFIELD: So, there's another issue here, a media issue of being in the Rolodex. Once you're in the Rolodex of TV producers, especially of cable news, it's kind of hard to get dislodged from it. CNN, which, as recently as February, was debunking McCaughey's claims, recently had her on the air to talk about health care reform and identified her as a, quote, "longtime expert in public health."
FALLOWS: This is the sort of thing -- and I say this jokingly -- which makes me yearn for my days back in the Chinese-controlled state media when I was living there. There is a built-in problem with nonstop talk news. Number one, you need to fill every show, and guests are cheap. Number two, you need to quote-unquote "balance" every show. So, if you have some guy from the National Institutes of Health or the AMA, you need somebody on the other side, and there seems to be almost no extremity of being proven wrong which disqualifies you from that role.
GARFIELD: Every time I turn on cable news, I expect to see the boy who cried wolf to weigh in on, you know, the sheep situation.
FALLOWS: That's a great example, because you could have an expert from the National Institute of Wolf Studies saying, "Well, as far as we can tell, there aren't any wolves." And then you get the boy who cried wolf, and it makes for an interesting cable discussion.
So, yeah, and I think that one has to look for the good as well as the depressing in the evolving nature of the news. And I do maintain there is an element of good in the ability for faster detection of simple falsehood. That was hard to do in the '90s; it's easier to do now. But there's all this other stuff we have to worry about, too.
GARFIELD: All right. Jim, as always, thanks for joining us, and take care of your throat.
FALLOWS: Thanks very much, Bob.
GARFIELD: James Fallows writes for The Atlantic and is author of Postcards From Tomorrow's Square: Reports From China.
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I've stumbled onto a boat I want to look at locally. It's a Ducker by Outlaw Marine. It's supposed to be a 13' fiberglass boat that looks symmetrical on both ends with molded in handles fore and aft. Has a 2X4 out one side to be used as a trolling motor mount.
I'd like to grad it as a layout boat and throw some blind doors on it. Looks to be perfect for what I want.
But Google and other search engines don't return too much. Just a handful of pics. Which makes me a bit apprehensive.....if it was such a Kick Ass design, why are there so few around.
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My son and I got a few the first couple days then we have been chaseing turkeys ever since.
So I was wondering if they are still hitting? Still Shallow? Trolling or jigging? What colors?
Yeah , yeah I know cyber scouting. It's not like I'm asking where?????
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Well It was only 30 deg today when I left the shop. The car started right maybe 2-3 rev of the starter and it was running. Gotta love the mini starter.
Once the motor was warmed up I noted that the AFR was about .5 richer than it had been. I think what is happening is that the vac adv is setting the mixture off sooner and more optimum. This allows less throttle pedal (opening) and puts the throttle blades in a different location on the transfer slot...and a different AFR. What ever ...the car ran just great. I drove about 30 miles the long way to the breakfast and there was no lean surge like there was a couple weeks ago. After breakfast..couple hours it still was only 30 deg but the car started right up. I drove around a little then stopped and slowed the idle down a couple hundred rpm. Now the blades are tight in the bores so that's as far as I can go.
It's amazing that a simple change like this can smooth things out. I'm glad I elected to only change the vac adv then go after other items.
Next on the list is to richen up the idle feed restrictions one step (4 jets) to tweek the just off idle mixture. I think it needs to be a little closer to 14.7 rather than the 15.6-15.8 that it is right now. I'll try and do that tomorrow then later in the week I have a good 100 mile trip planned to check mpg for the last time this year.
Interesting read. thanks
Well I got the adjustable vac adv installed today. No fiasco like last time. I dropped the dist right in and hit the original timing right on the money. BTW I don't care what the initial is as long as it doesn't kick back against the starter. I just set the timing at about 2500 rpm and let initial fall where it may.
I preadjusted the vac adv to what I thought might be about 12 degrees. Again right guess.
So I have 34 deg at 1900 rpm centrifugal plus 12 deg vac at 10 inches vac. I measured the vac adv with the motor running and used a small hand vac pump. works nice.
The idle speed picked up 200 rpm so I need to slow this down tomorrow. The idle vac went from 9-10 in to 14-15 in and it is very smooth. In gear it went from 750-800 to almost 1000 so again I'll slow it down a little tomorrow after I take it for a nice cold weather cruise. The AFR did not change but I don't count this untill I get a good 1/2 hour drive. We'll see the final results tomorrow but it sure looks encouraging.
I have very lean jets and transition mix so we'll see how just changing the vac adv affects running and the tune up since I changed nothing else.
I also noted that the exhaust smell was much less. At least it didn't stink up the shop like it did before the change.
|Pull the cap and mark the rotor in relation with the distributor housing. Pull the distributor out, and restab it in a different position. Just be sure the rotor doesnt come out of adjustment from your mark on the distributor housing. It will slightly when you put it back in but then turn it till your mark lines up again. Your timing will remain the same.
1. Limit the mechanical advance to 10*. (which means I need to find and buy 10* bushings because the lowest mine came with are the 18* bushings that are already in.)
2. Find a spring combo (maybe 1 light and 1 medium) that will make the mechanical advance not even start until 1100, and advance fully by 2500?
2. Replace my primary plates with non-drilled ones.
3. Set initial timing to 26*.
4. Do a mixture screw adjustment and get the car to idle at about 900.
5. Hook the vacuum advance back up to ported and adjust the can to not give more than 10-12 degrees.
One question though. At 18* advanced my vacuum can is ALMOST touching my intake manifold. I don't think I will be able to turn the dizzy any more advanced. I'm not an expert on distributors, but can I just move each spark plug wire counter-clockwise?
|I had a very similar problem with a lopey cam, low vacuum, stalling and surging issues. Played around with different mech springs and ported to full manifold vacuum, different initial timing etc. etc. and never got rid of my headaches until locking out my distributor at 36 degrees which was suggested to me on these forums. Thank you Fbird! My cam is not very streetable but definitaly liveable now! I run my vacuum advance on ported and use a kill switch to help wing my hot motor over with no kickback issues. Now that my initial timing is higher it made dialing my carb in a lot easier and gave me better vacuum for my power brakes. Maybe this can help.
@oldbogie, Yea, I've about had it with this thumpr. If I knew what it was I probably would have said no when my builder offered it to me.
I've been considering swapping cams this income tax, but I have no clue how to pic a cam that's gonna make it so I gain as much NORMAL drivability as possible without losing any power, because as annoying as that thumpr is, the car does get up and go.
9 inches of vacuum speaks to a really large cam which the smallest Thumper is at 279/297, it has nothing useful under 2000 RPM which your gearing doesn't help. It has a lot of overlap and pretty late closing intake. The late closing intake drives really hard on the compression ratio. This cam needs a pile of compression to pick up the bottom end, today's premium fuels have a hard time supporting this. Need to know the compression to say much more about this. On top of that aluminum heads want at least a full ratio higher compression because they pull the heat out of the burn so fast. A band aid to this would be to run the coolant temp up to 200-220.
A stock bottom end portends crappy piston design, before I comment, what's in there? This needs a lot of squish/quench that means a flat top or D dish piston that closes to .040 inch and maybe with this cam .035 inch of the head. So this brings in the next question of what is the deck clearance and how thick is the head gasket?
The 9 inches of vacuum makes the use of vacuum advance more useless than not. You're either going to have to pick up the static to 25-28 degrees or get the centrifugal to come in a lot sooner. Maybe all in by 1500-1800 RPM. What about an MSD multi strike control box, this is way more important than a billet distributor unless youre going to use the distributor to hold the garage roof up or something like that. back when we had points pushing on the shaft with several pounds of force we needed billet distributors and everything was a casting with bushings, today the thing spins a wheel to make micro gauss magnetic fields in a transistor and suddenly we need billet aluminum housings and roller bearings to operate what that uses the energy of an iPod.
Advancing the cam another 4 degrees may help this a lot.
The Thumper has a radical split between the intake and exhaust durations, it's like its designed for an engine with cast iron exhaust manifolds that connect to a Y pipe and factory single exhaust. With headers and good flowing duals this is way too much exhaust timing especially if using a decent aftermarket or ported head. If you have a decent exhaust I can guarantee this thing is over scavenging the cylinders and you'll go broke before you can put enough gasoline in to overcome this bad habit.
All in at 6-9hg. with 10* advance.
Sounds good, and I found this...
But I'm not sure if it's the right canister for my dizzy. Should I go for that or just get an adjustable one from the parts store?
You might also be able to help yourself with a different vacuum advance mechanism. Lars over at Corvette-Restorations.com has put together a very large list of GM canisters and their intended performance parameters. I don't know how to copy and paste a link yet on my iPad, but if you'll try a Google search for "GM vacuum advance specifications" it'll lead you there.
|That is interesting, I always wondered if those were able to change the range and the travel with one screw, seems like it is mostly just the travel. That is a pretty good range though 4"hg to 9"hg
I just got an Accel adjustable vac adv unit for GM points style dist.
I have not installed it yet but I have some numbers.
Acv atarts at about 4-5 in hg and is all in at 9-10 in hg. regardless of the adjusted travel. The adjuster limits travel or deg advance. Also becaust it compresses or relaxes the spring it changes the start and finish point.........however this is very small. Looks like about 1-2 in on either end of travel. I doesn't match the supplied instruction graph except for shap of the curve. In other words it is a bit faster adv at less vac.
For those that need vac at low speed with low manifold vac it seems to be the ticket.
Hopefully i can get this installed this week end and test it. I plan on starting at the halffway point and go from there.
$26 from Orelieys
yes the range is set with an allen key via a set screw through the hose nipple opening, some have it some dont, I think the size is 3/32 or there abouts.
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Personally, I don't understand the concept of homeopathic medicine. But this makes me wonder why the AVMA feels so threatened. First RAW diets, now homeopathic. What's next? Is homeopathic medicine doing harm to animals? If so, how? And where is the proof of that? Or is it much like human medicine in that keeping people sick is a business. I'm sure that statement will cause it's own argument but there are many doctors that I've had that discussion with and they agree that the money in pharmaceuticals is in keeping people on the medicines, not curing them.
As I said before, I work in an area where homeopathic and eastern medicine is the largely accepted want. Therefor, we do see MANY clients that want to go the more natural route over medications. And we see patient's die that IF treated medically, maybe they could of lived? But maybe not? So it's hard to say for sure. We CAN'T say for sure. But I always tell people, when they ask me if their animal would get better without the medication, "MAYBE. We can't say for sure. But it is a lot more likely that your animal will get better WITH the medication."
Like the aspiration pneumonia case where the owner kept trying to wean his dog off antibiotics to see if the dog's immune system would compensate and kept asking us about natural supplements, despite us giving him clear deadlines as to medication use and rechecks. 6 months later and his dog STILL has aspiration pneumonia, if not slightly WORSE and now harder to treat because antibiotic resistance has built up. And keep in mind, we weren't just throwing random antibiotics at him. We had done a tracheal wash and cultured the bacteria, we KNEW what was growing and what antibiotics would treat it.
Then you have the flip side, patients with a very poor prognosis and you don't even really recommend medical treatment anymore because you know the animal isn't going to make it. But the owner's keep pushing because they haven't tried such and such natural remedy yet that cured their great great grandfather of some common cold 100 years ago. And now the animal is just suffering and probably should be euthanized, but you can never tell a client that because no one can make that choice for them. Of course, this happens with medicine as well.
THOSE are ways homeopathic medicine can and do hurt patients.
There is the other side of course, over-vaccinating and recommending prescription diets for EVERYTHING and throwing broad-spectrum antibiotics at every litter abscess, therefor causing antibiotic resistance to build up. The medical world isn't perfect. But I've never seen it out to intentionally harm your pet or keep them sick. And maybe I'm just lucky because I work with board certified specialists and NOT run of the mill general practice doctors.
Haven't read the article yet - I'm at work and in-house patients are due for rounds. But I will say in general we tend to "laugh" at some homeopathic vets, because many can just be ridiculous. Medicine is not the plague. It SAVES lives. I've seen more pets die because their owner's DIDN'T medicate (I work in a town very noted for it's... homeopathic tendencies, to say it nicely. Where by law you do not OWN your animal, you are their LEGAL GUARDIAN. And where you get a second-hand high from just walking outside. That kind of small mountain town, lol).
Not to say anything wrong with more natural means. Most of my colleagues shun me because I feed raw and do the bare-minimum when it comes to vaccinating and other medications. At the same time, I do what it takes to save my patient's, and there are many homeopathic vets that leave medical treatment to the last - and cause fatal problems.
I think there are great homeopathic vets. And I think there are not so great one's.... I would like to work with one at some point to obtain some more "natural" medical knowledge, because I think it DOES have it's place. I was taught by a technician that SWEARS on raw diets for diabetic cats. says she's taken 3 off insulin after switching them to raw. THAT is an accomplishment, for sure.
I'll read the article when I have a moment, maybe comment more if need be.
BTW, I do NOT stand by AVMA's stand against raw feeding.
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Not threatened, I didn't read it as such. As CC said, it's one thing to do holistic but another entirely to use homeopathy where it quite probably will not work, and time's a-wastin' when you could be getting legit help for your dog.
That's how I read it...and as a parent as well as dog owner, I wholly agree with that stance.
I've said it before, but I'll say it here, one of the things that really scares me is that dogs metabolize some things very differently than humans- tea tree oil is a good example - what's healthy for humans can kill a dog, or cat.
It is just responsible for the AVMA to have a stance where homeopathy is concerned. At least, when pets die because of it, they can say "hey, we tried to warn you".
|Personally, I don't understand the concept of homeopathic medicine. But this makes me wonder why the AVMA feels so threatened. First RAW diets, now homeopathic. What's next? Is homeopathic medicine doing harm to animals? If so, how? And where is the proof of that? Or is it much like human medicine in that keeping people sick is a business. I'm sure that statement will cause it's own argument but there are many doctors that I've had that discussion with and they agree that the money in pharmaceuticals is in keeping people on the medicines, not curing them.
The AHVMA has come up with their own "white" paper to rebut the AVMA
I am all for holistic approach to veterinary medicine but personally, homeopathy (using tinctures so diluted they are basically indistinguishable from water or whatever the base was) is not something I can get behind, as there is no proof/real science behind it.
That said, if people want to use it I say go right ahead, it's your dog.
|Merck donated 4.5 million to the AVMA
AVMA's at it agian!!
If you go to homeopathic vet or believe pet owners should be able to choose if they want to, you should read this.http://http://healthypets.mercola.co...c-therapy.aspx
I would like to hear feedback on this issue...
EDIT: O.K. the link isn't working. If you want to see the article and video, just go to healthypets.mercola.com and click on pets and scroll down 'till you see "Current Pet News"
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I know there has been a lot of discussion about bee plants but I am wondering about a few plants I am completely unfamiliar with. I am sure they are not for large foraging areas like phacelia or buckwheat would be but they are attractive to me for having in my garden. All of these are from Heronswood Nursery's catalog - they have great and unusual stuff! First is Chocolate cosmos (Cosmos astrosanguineus) - the catalog claims it is perennial - not that is self sows but that it actually comes back as a perennial clump. True?
Next we've got Melianthus major which they are also calling Honey Bush. From my internet search it appears to be a South African native. While several sites mention it attracts bees and several mention that the plant itself is poisonous, only one mentions nectar/honey and that claims the honey is black and considered toxic. Anyone know this plant?
Finally - I adore Hellebores especially since they bloom so very early - sometimes in Feb! Anyone know if the bees will work them? Obviously I am not planting fields of them but it would be nice for them to have something little to work between the heaths/heathers and the maples and these might fit the bill?