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About six months ago, shortly before I joined the cast here at Shapely Prose, MTV contacted me through a friend I'd guest-blogged for. They said they were doing an episode of their docu-drama show True Life called "I'm Happy to be Fat," and that they were looking for "healthy people who are happy and content with their body in spite of the societal expectations." Now, I'm old enough that when I watched MTV, I was watching The State and Beavis and Butthead and 120 Minutes. (Sweet Machine's immediate reaction when I told her about the whole thing was "You're gonna be on TRL!!") So I was not, in fact, in any way interested in being involved — but the show itself looked all right, and had even won awards from organizations like GLAAD. I talked to them, and was really long on politics and short on pathos, and thankfully they never called back.
That was pretty much a blip in my life, but it made me perk up my ears when I found out that Joy Nash was going to do the show instead. Joy is my age and my size and owns some of my skirts, but the similarity ends there — she's many times more dynamic and charismatic, and more interested in being on TV. I was feeling confident, having seen all the accolades True Life was getting from oppressed groups, that they were interested in presenting an accurate picture of fat acceptance. I thought Joy would be a perfect face.
A few months later, I read this post, wherein Joy describes MTV's attempts to fabricate and misrepresent drama between her and her parents:
I told the truth. I told my mom that when it came down to it, I believed that she would disown me before she'd accept certain things about my life. I told her for the first time, that I was sleeping with my boyfriend and that I didn't think all gays were going to hell, and wonder of wonders: my mother's head didn't explode…
And then, 2 days later, I started to feel sick. The show is called "I'm Happy to be Fat." Not, "My Parent's Evangelical Absolutism is Crushing Our Relationship." There is NO way that whole encounter is going to come off as anything other than 6 minutes of boo-hooing about how my mom used to hide cookies from me sometimes. It was seriously violating to think of all that complicated emotion being hacked up and boiled down to something so totally trivial and untrue.
Not only was Joy worried about MTV using the footage with her parents to make the point they wanted, but the new producers seemed invested in manufacturing high-stress situations that they hoped would bring out Joy's hidden insecurities:
I was suddenly inundated with emails from some new guy with a bunch of amazing ideas. "How about you put together a program for high-school students in 2 weeks and present it with your mom?" "How about you write 40 more minutes of solo material and have it memorized and ready to perform for industry professionals in 7 days? " "How about you throw a gigantic party for everyone you know, rent a film projector and get some kegs, all on your own dime??"
This is all just by way of introduction, to say that I would at one point have been saddened and disappointed by the show I watched on MTV tonight. But I wasn't, because I was prepared. I knew that True Life was operating on a simple principle of entertainment: happy people make bad TV. Sure, the show was called "I'm Happy Being Fat," but happy doesn't play. If you don't want people switching to Futurama, you need a little friction. And if it's not happening on its own, you give it a push.
Having read all this, I assume that you, in turn, will be unsurprised to learn that the drama came off as completely manufactured, either by producers pushing from offscreen or by misleading editing or simply by the fact that everything looks more momentous when it's on TV — if you're on television for being fat, it's going to look like you're not finding true love because of your weight, instead of because finding true love takes a fuck of a long time and a lot of luck. (This was by far the thing that struck me the most about the show. Everyone's experiences were so normal — looking for love, having incomplete confidence as a college student, worrying that people are only interested in you for sex. It was only in the context of a show about being fat that they started looking like Fat People Problems.) It also won't come as a shock that at times you could practically see the off-camera prompting ("do you really think she looks good at this weight? Really? Okay, well what about her health? It's unhealthy to be overweight. Now tell her that"). Nor will it stagger you that one of the subjects of the show was presenting her idea for a body acceptance club to the college senate, and another was throwing a huge party, presumably on his own dime. Sound familiar?
But my disappointment in the show isn't really the failure as documentary — it's the complete squandering of a great opportunity. True Life would have you believe that it's valuable television, not just another My Big Fat Greek Sweet Sixteen or whatever trash they're playing on MTV now. But there was absolutely nothing challenging or boundary-breaking about this show. All three participants were measured on the basis of their attractiveness to men — Sharonda felt that she got more male attention when fat, Roxie fretted about approaching a cute guy, Mikey was presented as worrying that he was simply a fetish for chubby chasers (though I didn't see this at all, since the second half shows him organizing a local "chub and chaser" club). Two of the three were immediately shown eating fast food or fried food or donuts — the other one was never shown eating at all, presumably because she eats like any other college student, which nobody would ever buy as a realistic depiction of fatty eating habits. "Concern about health" took a front seat in one of the stories; another aimed to show that a confident size activist was secretly an insecure mess because she was only twice as self-possessed as any other college student, instead of three times. Nothing that might make a fatphobe think twice, or even once.
I'm not going to walk you through the whole show, but consider these indicative endings:
- Sharonda, who thought she was hotter when heavier, got a talking-to from her doctor about her blood pressure (139/83), and decided to embark on a weight-loss program. No mention of HAES, of course. The Dragnet-style wrap-up: "Sharonda is now eating less and working out five times a week. She's already lost seven pounds and looking forward to meeting her goal of 250 by the summer." Yeah, let us know how that works out for you, Sharonda. (To be fair, Sharonda had gained a great deal of weight recently, so she may have shot up above her setpoint. But I still hope she finds a way to feel as good about her new exercise program as she does about her new body, instead of focusing on weight loss that may or may not happen. Or, failing that, that she finds an exercise program she CAN feel good about.)
- Mikey, who loved the attention he got from chubby chasers but hadn't found The One, founded a local club for fat guys and their admirers. Since the kick-off party, 20 people joined, but Mikey still hadn't found true love. This is because he's fat, because a thin person would surely have gotten married by now, as much as several months later, if he had 20 people to choose from!
- Roxie's size acceptance club got approved, although the vetting process was nerve-wracking for her, surely because she was fat and not because the student senate was asking her difficult questions which she answered with aplomb. So far, 25 people have joined. She asked Patrick out and he said yes. But they still haven't gone on a date! So she loses, right?
"But FJ," you say, "aren't you being a little oversensitive?" A little, maybe. They do show men hitting on Sharonda, guys enthusiastically buying Mikey's pinup calendar, and Roxie speaking confidently to her peers. And I was totes rooting for the tough smart girl to start her club, and for the handsome gay guy to find love, and for the feisty fashionista to… have her friends and family stop being prompted to berate her about her health. But they also, for instance, pull out pre-commercial teasers where Sharonda cries or Roxie says "that was so embarrassing" ("that," we later find out, was successfully asking Patrick out). And the show's introduction doesn't talk about the tough smart girl, the handsome gay guy, and the feisty fashionista — it talks about the secret insecurities, the fetishism, and the diabeetus. The effect is to create a context in which the potentially revolutionary elements — the buff dude who's heavy into Mikey, for instance, or Roxie's new group's triumphant parade — are made to look faintly ridiculous. Pretty radical, MTV!
That's television for you, of course. I knew it was going to go down that way, and so did Joy, and so did the other bloggers who were approached and who turned TRL down. But it's not just television — it's also a metonymy for being fat in America. Contentment doesn't play — you're only a valuable figure if you radiate angst, if you worry about your health, if you think you can't find love. You redeem yourself when you pillory yourself; if you refuse, then by god they'll make you give in or they'll cast you aside. You earn your right to be fat and visible when you act — or are unwittingly presented — as a figure of fat self-hatred. Insisting on being visible and fat without the flagellation? Well, then you're a dishonest, paranoid douchebag.
What all this means is that nobody's going to give us a platform. Martin Luther King Day, which it was until half an hour ago, is a great time to remind you all of Gandhi's characterization of the progress of activism: first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. But at no point do they hand you a microphone and let you speak freely and unedited. We have to seize every real opportunity we have to get our point across, because if we leave it in someone else's hands, it's going to get deliberately muddled and fucked up. That might mean commenting here or on a smorgasbord of other blogs, or starting your own blog, or going to BFB's Think Tank and talking about what you can do out in the world. It might mean animation or art, or video without the middleman meddling of producers and editors — Joy's original Fat Rant has garnered over a million views and 75 video responses. Don't forget Lindsay's activism forums, like I keep doing because I suck. Nobody's going to hand us a soapbox — we'll have to cobble one together from scrap lumber. But once we're on it, who's going to knock us off?
ETA: Here's the grain of salt to take my post with: fatblogger vesta44 liked the show. I must grant that I went in expecting to be disappointed, and it certainly could have been a lot worse. But oh, it could have been a lot better.


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We offer every employee of Monsoon Accessorize a competitive employment package, which includes a generous staff discount across all three brands, up to 26 days holiday, pension and lots more. We actively encourage and support our people to drive their own development, be innovative and achieve their goals.

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This kit replaces the failure prone GM rear frame engine cradle nuts. The factory floating nuts are held in place with thin steel cages that tend to rust and fail leaving the floating nuts loose to spin.
Tools needed: A high speed air or electric die grinder with a thin cut off wheel. Welder to reweld the flaps once these have been installed.
Note on welding the flaps: I talked to Ed parks at the Fiero Factory in Alabama. He told me they do not weld the flaps. They just bend them back up. The frame in that area already has openings in the frame. The best way is to weld the flaps once you install the floating cradle nuts but welding them closed is optional according to Ed Parks. I would suggest welding them closed.
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After showings from EA and Microsoft comes the second third-party press conference from Ubisoft, soon to be followed by Sony later on.
We can expect new Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3 footage, a possible Splinter Cell reveal, some Vita game announcements, and the official reveal for Rayman Legends.
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00:22We'll be back for Sony's conference at 2am. Join us then.
00:21Well that was interesting. Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed, ZombiU, a ton of Wii U games to look forward to, not to mention Rayman Legends. A strong showing by Ubisoft.
00:20Definitely one to watch (if you'll excuse the pun), Watch Dogs is a fitting conclusion to Ubisoft's presentation.
00:19Now you're tracking Pearce, charged with protecting him as he escapes through the city. Big ovation for this one, biggest we've heard all night.
00:18Joseph DeMarco is toast. An act with severe consequences, not that Aiden cares!
00:17He can use his hacking skills to screw with traffic too, but has to rely on good old-fashioned firepower to deal with some goons.
00:15Intriguing premise, Aiden can get intel on everybody by hacking their electronic devices. He listens in to a phone conversation between his target and a woman at the gallery, before violently assaulting security.
00:13He jams everybody's phones to gain entry to an art museum. He's after a man called DeMarco, and he's less than impressed with the arty types at the gallery.
00:12It's set on the gritty streets of Chicago. As Aiden stalks the streets, he casts his digital shadow everywhere.
00:10He's a violent man apparently, and he's looking to expose somebody to the world.
00:09Watch Dogs is the name of the game. As Aiden Pearce, the city becomes your weapon. We're about to see some open-world action gameplay.
00:07Hardcore porn, online shopping - it's all part of the same network and somebody is going to hack it.
00:07Who controls the computers? You are no longer an individual. They're watching us...we're starting to panic.
00:06CEO Yves Guillemot introduces a new IP. The trailer is showing now, looks like some good old-fashioned conspiracy fun.
00:04Some stats now for popular Ubisoft games. 85,000 levels have been created for Trials Evolution. 36 countries play The Settlers Online. Unfortunately, we missed the rest writing this.
00:02You can register now for the beta. We'll give you the web address later.
00:01Tense finale, looked like the girls were going to win that one with some well placed rocket attacks, but alas.
00:01The girls are coming back. It looks like a fun mode, these are some hardcore players.
00:00The one just defeated the three, some nice rail gun action.
23:59But the solo player gets a rail gun...it didn't help against those rockets though.
23:59Bit like Blockbusters this, 3-on-1 isn't fair!
23:58Lots of e-sports legends are about to showcase Shootmania's Elite mode. It's a three-on-three battle mode, but it plays as a 3-on-1 game during different rounds.
23:55Shootmania is announced by Toby. Toby and Aisha are about to square off in a multiplayer battle...actually they're letting the developers play for them.
23:53We're moving on to e-sports now. Toby is out for this...he's an enthusiastic chap.
23:52It's not just the Brits that are on Connor's hit list, you'll be fighting enemies on both sides of the revolution over a 30-year period.
23:51Behind enemy lines, Connor uses explosives to create a diversion. The crazy fool is only taking on the entire army! Huge round of applause for that, and not surprising.
23:49Connor chases down a soldier attempting to flee, he uses the trees to get in range and swoops down for the kill. We're really impressed with what we've seen so far.
23:48We're on horseback now, but not for long, it's back to the trees and into battle.
23:46This looks fantastic. He was delivering meat to a trader as part of a mission. Now he's after a chap called Silas.
23:45Making his way through the trees as he stalks his dinner, Connor shows off his archery skills.
23:43Francois Pelland takes the stage. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin will feature in the final product. I think we're about to see some gameplay.
23:42He takes out the entire British legion almost single-handedly. What a badass!
23:41Having just been decimated by zombies in ZombiU, the British are about to fall foul of Connor Kenway, the game's new assassin.
23:39It's time for Assassin's Creed 3 now. Ubisoft takes us back in time - "this is a revolution," says Aisha.
23:39Wii U games listed: Rabbids Land, Your Shape, Just Dance 4 and Sports Connection. Ubisoft loves the Wii U. Should be releasing at launch. We were half hoping they'd tell us when that would be.
23:38ZombiU is the name, and that was one hell of a trailer. London-based presumably, we'll find out soon enough, but it looks good, although zombie-based trailers have let us down before.
23:36'God Save The Queen' is playing for those who have no sound, only with a twist, a bloody twist!
23:35Very patriotic...sort of.
23:34The next Wii U game is one for the adults. It's exclusive to the Wii U and we're about to see a trailer.
23:33This gets better!
23:33They're showing off what sounds like rhythm action platform gameplay. It sounds very catchy and looks highly addictive.
23:31It supports up to five players, and you can even use your Wii remotes, consider us sold!
23:31Each controller has specific actions, it helps to create an infinite amount of combos. There's some nice flitting between the foreground and background, not to mention touchscreen and traditional controller actions.
23:29They're showing off Murphy, a brand new co-op character.
23:29Rayman Legends is next. This is hotly anticipated by us. We're going to see lots of crazy Wii U ideas coming our way.
23:28Marvel Avengers: Battle For Earth. It's coming to Wii U too! This fall.
23:27Wolverine is doing battle with Venom, Spider Man and Magneto are having a pop at each other too.
23:26The greatest super heroes of all time assemble for a new game (wonder what this could be?). "Girl wood number three," remarks Aisha.
23:25This trailer is much more cinematic than earlier, but no less impressive.
23:23The game's director is talking to Toby. It's the biggest Splinter Cell ever made. Spy vs. Mercs is confirmed, alongside a co-op mode.
23:22Splinter Cell: Blacklist is up next. This is the second time we've seen this one today.
23:21"How much freedom is there in Far Cry 3?" Lots according to Ubisoft.
23:21Some nice interactivity between fans and developers.
23:20It's all gone a little weird now. Jason enters a strange dreamlike state - you could say that he's facing his insanity.
23:18Lots of violence and bad language. Jason's got a bounty on his head, which is a tempting amount of cash even to a tiger!
23:17Jason uses a bow and arrow to take out a guard, before sensibly switching to a rifle when they start coming after him.
23:15Now we're greeted by some stunning gameplay footage. We love the tropical island location. The guard with a knife through the throat isn't quite so fond of it though.
23:13Far Cry 3 coming up next. Producer Dan Haye introduces us to a rather raunchy trailer!
23:11Aisha Tyler is hosting. She's doing a bit of back and forth with Toby Tyler...whoever that is?
23:09That's Just Dance 4 folks! The number one dance game brand in the world by all accounts.
23:08Usher vs. Flo Rida...I'm giving it to Flo Rida!
23:07Both Wild Wild West and Maneater play to the crowd before Flo Rida shows up with some bling!
23:05Jolted awake with some applause and a live performance!
23:04...still waiting!
23:01...or not.
23:00Take your seats folks, this one's about to begin!
22:59Lots of chatter and some music, but no images.
22:51We're still hunting down a few trailers and gameplay demonstrations from earlier. What's been the most impressive thing you've seen so far?
22:51Lots of stories coming out of E3 already. Why not check out our complete E3 coverage?
22:49Not sure exactly what to expect from this one, but you can be sure that some of it will be lost in translation...aka expect a few spelling mistakes!
22:48So here we are. Two down, two to go (for today). Next up is Ubisoft.


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rdkeister necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 52 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
We need a new logo and new website design. We will pick the logo winner as quickly as possible to give the front running website designers something to work with. All submissions will be sent to client throughout the day and daily feedback will be given.
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Major target market is families with young children. Secondary markets include adult theme and corporate parties.Â
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Parties, catering, invitations, party favors, cakes, face painting, misc entertainmentÂ
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 Home, About Us, Our Services, Photo Gallery, Contact UsÂ
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-        Home page design is very open – will want some content, but not too wordy. Site visitor should quickly understand the nature and purpose of the business. Possiblities may include a stock photo or stock photo slide show as a centerpiece image.  Â
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Filmmaker Casey Neistat filmed a pretty funny PSA-type video about the dangers of texting and walking at the same time for the NY Times. It hilariously analyses the pitfalls of the text-and-walk which includes being rude, blind spots and the sheer danger of it all.
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The ice at the North Pole is melting. The earth could be up to four degrees Celsius warmer by the end of the 21st century. The weather is acting weird, in a way that it didn´t, when we were kids. Some scientists believe we are entering the sixth period of species mass extinction.
No matter which way you look at it, the world is in bad shape. And there is no doubt that we are responsible for that. Or, to be more precise, our modern, consumist, comfortable-life-seeking lifestyle, fueled by a capitalist business model.
Now, having a comfortable life, where your basic needs are being met and you have time for some fun and self-realization as well, does not have to be a bad thing. Indeed, it could be a very good thing, as long as you live your life in an environmentally sustainable way, where you don´t take more from the planet than you give back to it.
However, as we all know, that is not the way it usually works in capitalist economies. In such economies, products may enhance the selfish life quality of humans as a race, but very often end up hurting the planet as a whole, in terms of CO2 emissions and harmful impacts on other species and their ecosystems.
Enjoying the flexibility of a car in your everyday life. Buying cheap airline tickets to Thailand for your summer holiday. Enjoying meet every day of the week. Eating fruits that come from halfway across the world. All of these things enhance your quality of life. But they have a cost to the planet that is much higher than the price you yourself paid.
Of course, in recent years and decades, there has been a heightened consumer interest in the environment and an increased market space for companies offering environmentally sustainable products. However, the speed of this process is much too slow to counter climate change.
For example, despite the growth in renewable industries, global fossil fuel generated energy consumption remains at roughly 80 to 85 %. Furthermore, renewable energy, despite the fairy tale story line told through mainstream media, is far from a perfect solution. This energy method still has undeniable environmental drawbacks, especially in terms of destruction of natural habitats and the need for rare earth minerals.
So the tough truth is that the planet cannot handle the current human lifestyle for much longer – and that technological advances won´t save us either. So, given this, we only have one significant card left to play – a reduction in our consumption, individually and globally.
Now, can we do this through capitalism? In short, no. Capitalism is a competitive, inherently selfish system, where people are forced to do things that benefit themselves, no matter the consequences to the greater good. Businesses, that need to make money, cannot learn consumers to consume less.
So how do we reduce consumption then? Well, what I believe is needed is a mental transformation, where humans see themselves and nature as part of one overarching system, and don´t just view nature as something to be exploited. That way we will start making responsible and environmentally sustainable choices, that benefits the planet as much as man.
Such a transformation can only happen by drawing people closer to nature. Spending more time in nature and with animals. To some extent growing your own food. Witnessing firsthand the adverse environmental effects of current business and energy practices. Those are some realistic ways to grow a more environmentally sustainable mindset.
Does this mean that capitalism does not have any role to play in the future? No, it does not. But it does mean that we need to develop an alternative model for the good life. And a model that can hold the capitalist activity that always will exist up to the same, environmentally sustainable standards.
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A survey published recently by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics revealed that, as of May this year, 42 percent of employees in Taiwan earned monthly salaries of less than NT$30,000. The true situation may be even worse, because the term "employees" includes several tens of thousands of Taiwanese who work in China — whose monthly salaries tend to be higher than those in Taiwan — so the proportion of working poor among people employed in Taiwan is probably much higher than 42 percent.
The question is: Why are there so many "working poor"?
"Because of the effects of the global financial crisis" — this is the stock response from government officials. However, the situation is not so grim in neighboring countries, although they were all hit by the same financial tsunami. Taiwan's opposition parties and media commentators all blame the incompetence of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his administration, but it was not during Ma's presidency that salaries stopped growing — they have been at a standstill since 2000. It is just that the problem has become even worse under the Ma government. If you are looking for the real reasons for this, the following figures are to provide an answer.
The first point is that, whereas Taiwanese manufacturers did 12.24 percent of their manufacturing overseas in 1999, that figure grew to 46.23 percent by 2007, with 90.9 percent of offshore production done in China. By last year, the figure had climbed to 50.52 percent, with 92.7 percent of production abroad concentrated in China. After Taiwan's first handover of government power from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2000, the administration of then-DPP president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) abandoned his KMT predecessor, former president Lee Teng-hui's (李登輝) "no haste, be patient" policy with regard to investment in China, allowing Taiwanese manufacturers to quickly move their operations across the Taiwan Strait. This relaxation of Taiwan's cross-strait policies led to an exodus of manufacturers on a scale that no other country has ever seen.
Second, it is true that moving production lines overseas got Taiwanese manufacturers out of a tight spot as regards competitiveness. This is confirmed by operating profits for listed Taiwanese companies growing 200 percent between 1998 and last year, while their net profits after tax shot up 400 percent. However, the threat of factory closures locally left workers with no choice but to put up with a situation in which their real wages fell and their employers could demand anything they wanted of them. From that time on, workers' share of GDP has been falling steadily, from about 50 percent of GDP 10 years ago to a record low of 44.5 percent in 2010. Ironically, Taiwan's low wages are one of the reasons why the country is listed among the world's most competitive economies in the International Institute for Management Development's world competitiveness rankings.
The third point is that while Taiwanese manufacturers have spent more than a decade chasing cheap labor in China, they have paid scant attention to research, development and innovation. The overall value-added rate for the Taiwanese manufacturing industry as a whole slid from 26.3 percent in 2000 to 21.3 percent in 2010 — the biggest drop in Asia. This has canceled out any competitive edge arising from the low wages paid to workers in Taiwan and as companies' competitiveness falls, wages cannot go up.


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Focus: package/nuc/swarm, breed, etc.
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Regards, Barry
I am 100% in favor of buying nucs/starter hives from a local source if at all possible.
When you first get your hive you need to know that an empty hive will get no bees. It must have been previously used, or have at least some honey in it to get wild bees to move in. Place a jar of open honey in front of the empty hive, and leave the opening to the large size. If you have a telescoping cover, put the lid on the telescope lip to allow the bees a better entrance to the stores. If you have a plywood lid, put a stick under it to prop it up. The hive should be humid inside but not moist, and warm. All my bees are wild bees. They are a bit agressive but they really produce.
I tryed the honey in a jar once... Robbers took it including ants, other bees beside honey bees, and honey bees. Again, one never knows what they will do. If it worked for you... great! Never did for me back in the 60's and 70's.
To get bees to move in, one the best things that works for me is a frame of drawn empty brood comb. For best success, I have left a dead out hive that staved over winter in its location, and come swarm season, the bees move right in.
Oh ya, don't leave them out if the temps are above 80, like in the summer. Wax moths will get in them and you will lose every single frame.
I put my name on a swarm retrieval list at the local bee supply store, which gets calls from the local 911 system. I got started with bees this way, getting swarms from trees and such. Was easy and rewarding. I found swarms are a good way to start as we don't have africanized bees here yet, the swarms come from hives that have over wintered already so are in good shape. Some of my best bees came from swarms.
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Yeah...what honeyman said. Especially with so many new beekeepers, it's best to order early and get your bees reserved. I'd rather end up with an extra package and have to nuc for a while or scramble to buy a hive body then to get all set up with equipment and have no bees to hive.
"My wife always wanted girls. Just not thousands and thousands of them......"
nuc are an excellent way to start.... definitely superior to a package and much easier to transport than a full size hive.
prior to acquiring check about with any local bee keepers to see if there is a particular strain of bees that works best for your area. if you plan to keep the bees close to populate areas make certain that gentleness takes on a significant place in the selection criterion.
I like the nuc idea and started w/ that. Costwise and timewise it seemed to be best(ie 5 frames w/ drawn foundation already). I didnt get any honey out of it yet this year and my swarms have just about caught up with it too. The nuc was Minn Hygenics, they headbut alot but are fairly nice. I'll do it again but want to try another strain like Italians or ? I waited too long for my local guy that had nucs but where very very late so I went w/ another guy off Craiglist and got the Minn Hyg in June
On another note I might buy pkg bee's if I have a weak hive after this winter to strengthen it up.
Then there is the "split" thats yet another ewway to get bee's right?
...and I have to agree, but there is absolutely no bigger thrill that hiving your first package. Do it just one time, and be done with it, and from then on, get nucs, but you ain't lived if you've never hived a package of 13,000 confused defenseless female worker bees.
Also do this: Don't wear gloves or a suit when you hive them. But DO wear a veil. When you hive packages, the bees are not in a defensive posture. Bees will fly all around you, land on you crawl all over you, but will rarely sting you. If you do get stung (make sure you're not allergic to bee venom!!!!), it will only be 5 or less stings.
The rush of having 300-600 honeybees crawling all over your hands and bare arms is like no other. People look at you like you're crazy, but you know what's in the mind of a honeybee.
The thrill of hiving a package matches the time you woke up Christmas morning as a kid and got that special Christmas gift.
Last year, first year, we go a package of Italians from Georgia (I think). They were great! My wife always used a vail but I rarely wore much more than a baseball cap to keep them out of my hair. I only got stung once when I accidentally squished one with my finger.
My main question is, I've heard Russians are a little hotter but, how much hotter? I would like to get some nuks from a local guy, but he only has Russians. He says they're pretty mild but I've never handled Ruskies before.
For a beginer any bee thats gentle would be fine, Italians would be what I would suggest, they are a high maintainence bee but a few hives are easily managable.
Putting your name into the fire dept. and pest control companies in your are for swarm removale is another way to start. it's not a garentee that you'd get a swarm call and if you did you might pick up more than you bargained for ( disease, ill tempered bees, ect) though most of this stuff is treatable.
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Along with getting bees, figure out where you will get replacement queens, because you WILL eventually need to get a queen. Maybe next week, maybe next year, but don't wait until you're queenless and then start a panicked search.
Find a local queen producer, or ask nearby beeks for recommendations, but determine in advance who you're gonna call.
If you're buying, get nucs. They're already ahead of the game with comb built, brood, and stores. They're more stable. Local is always a good thing as long as it's quality. Swarms are always good, because they are free. To me that makes them even more beautiful, cuz I'm tight.
I've read all of your tips on how to start. I'll take notes of these all since I'm still on my experimental stage. Thank you very much.
I sent emails to local universities that provide beekeeping studies, asking if anyone had hive to donate...and was rewarded with a nice double deep hive with an Italian queen that was registered and had been inspected within the last month!
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Hey guys, 2013 will be my first year keeping bees and I'm wondering if anyone out there knows of a good source for package bees in my area. I'm located in the south central Missouri Ozarks. If not in the immediate vicinity are there any sources in the region that are better than others. I've looked over the list of bee suppliers but I really don't know where to start. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Joe
Is there anything more exciting than ordering that 1st package of bees, waiting for months in anticipation building equipment and reading and watching video's, getting that early morning panic call from post office on a cold April morning, rushing to the post office and being a little kid for few hours before you shake your 1st 13,000 bees into your new hive??
I'm all about nucs but everyone should start with a package!


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And perhaps we should all realize that there are certain things the U.S., for all its military power, cannot do. One is to reshape the nature of people of radically different traditions and values.Quoted in David M. Toczek's 2001 book, The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam (p. 122 of the 2007 paperback edition).
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As fashionable as it is to repeat this mantra ad nauseam, it glosses over a painfully obvious point: wars have historically been one of the most important elements in process of cultural change. Arguably they are the symptom of disputed cultural change more than the cause, but either way wars have been critical to the process and tend to have a lasting influence over those cultures as well.ReplyDelete
Not arguing for a neocon crusade - just looking for a little nuance and perspective.
wars have historically been one of the most important elements in process of cultural change. Arguably they are the symptom of disputed cultural change more than the causeReplyDelete
Yes, wars influence culture. Of course, it's also painfully obvious that the mechanism for this influence is typically conquest. And I'm not sure anyone's terrible interested in the U.S. getting into that game again.
The context in which the editorial was written, though, was frustrations about the ineffectiveness of the U.S. advisory effort in dramatically improving ARVN combat performance or RVN governance writ large. Viewed in this light, your commentary has a ring of protesting too much.
it's also painfully obvious that the mechanism for this influence is typically conquest.ReplyDelete
Not sure that's accurate, but it would be a very long discussion better had over Scotch than a blog.
As for the context - makes a huge difference to the meaning of the quote. I still think it's far too categorical. But equally problematic is the idea that our 'difference' per se that is the stumbling block. Aside from distinguishing between the the failures of our institutional responses versus the intrinsic feasibility of the task, the idea that the unbridgeable cultural divide between locals and outsiders was the critical stumbling block kind of ignores that the GVN apparently couldn't get the local politics right either despite being part of that culture. Same goes for any government facing an insurgency.
My concern is this: not only does declaring cultural difference the root of the problem let us off the hook for our institutional failings, it excuses us from engaging with the complexity of regional and subnational politics outside the context of counterinsurgency. And since there's a long track record of our national security policy going awry by ignoring that complexity, I think dismissing it as beyond our understanding or influence is dangerous. That's not suggest there are no boundaries to the realm of the possible, but neither rational actor models nor cultural stereotypes have served us well. Figuring out what is possible at a cost we're willing to bear should be the challenge.
I agree, of course, that this is somewhat glib and oversimplifying. Again, though, I'd suggest that you might be slightly misunderstanding the point; I read this observation as "the U.S. is incapable of influencing its partner government to undertake necessary reforms and/or enact effective policies," not as "the U.S. can't understand Vietnamese people and thus can't get them to stop fighting."ReplyDelete
Cultural differences are significant, but even more significant (to me) is our general inability to recognize that the political incentives and decision calculus of other actors differ from our own. Culture can be one influence on this, but it's certainly not the only one.
In any event, I don't have any huge disagreement with your last paragraph. I'd simply note that I think we've failed to adequately grapple with the additional complexity involved in working through proxies, particularly when we're given to emphasize other governance/conduct priorities that may compete with the suppression of insurgents and cessation of conflict.
I could not possibly agree with you more strongly on this point. A huge, systematic failing. Even worse, I've yet to see any evidence that we're serious about reshaping our own institutions to be better at it - we put institutional form ahead of strategic function (SCRATs, SOICs, and DISCC notwithstanding).ReplyDelete
And speaking of substituting cliches for insight: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/opinion/a-widening-war-in-mali.html?hp&_r=0ReplyDelete
Not to mention: they misspelled Mauritania.ReplyDelete
The context of the quote (as it's given above) matters. But putting aside the context for a moment, can one imagine the Wall St. Journal saying this now, in any context? I rarely read the WSJ, but my guess would be no.ReplyDelete


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I was researching at Allen County Public Library in Ft Wayne, Indiana last week Thursday and Friday. Such a wonderful genealogical resource with very helpful librarians.
A good friend was with me. I worked on my some of my challenging ancestors; she spent the time extending her mother's family a couple more generations -- much to her joy.
The night before we went, she talked on the phone to a relative who had mentioned, "you know, there was a murder in the family." She called and got as many details as she could: year, names, place, etc.
Unfortunately the place was "Indian Territory," the last name was correct, the first name wasn't, the year was correct.
"Indian Territory" is a rather big territory to look in for someone.
When we got back to her home Friday night, I got to thinking: if there was a murder, there's likely a newspaper story about it. Off to GenealogyBank.com. On the second try with a search of
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With these articles my friend not only has a description of the tragic murder in Burlingame, Kansas on 28 March 1887 of Ella Ruilison Gould by her husband Frank Gould leaving 3 young children parent-less, but she has many clues to use to trace the mother back in the family.
For years I've tried to climb numerous "brick walls" as I've worked on my family history -- many of my challenges are my women ancestors. I've met many wonderful, helpful genealogists, town clerks, historians, and societies along the way. Some of the names I'm working on: DAKIN, WORTHINGTON, SEARING, RICHARDSON, DeLOSS/LOSS, COPELAND, HARVEY, WRIGHT, EVANS, HELSTEN, SMITH (Conn.), HEARTY, ROBBERT, BOGART, NYE, BLODGETT & COBB.
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OTTAWA - The NDP wants the government's omnibus budget bill broken up to allow more detailed scrutiny.
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Finance critic Peggy Nash called the bill a "Trojan Horse."
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