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Birth: Feb. 17, 1851
William Z. Hutchinson (1851-1911) was a 19th-century Michigan apiarist and author. He founded the Bee-keepers' Review in 1888, and served as its editor over the remainder of his life. Hutchinson was an enthusiastic proponent of producing comb honey.
The Production of Comb Honey: As Practiced And Advised pp. 45. Flint, MI: Globe Print. House (1887).
Successful Bee Keeping pp. 16. Jamestown NY: W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. (1897).
Advanced Bee-Culture: Its Methods and Management pp. 90. Bee-Keepers' Review: Flint MI (1902).
Source: http://beekeeping.wikia.com/wiki/William_Z._Hutchinson
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Nikolai Viktorovich Nasonov (Feb. 14 1855 ~ Feb. 11, 1939)
Nikolai Nasonov is best known among beekeepers for the Nasonov gland in honeybees which is named after Nasonov who was first to described it in 1883.…
"The scent organ of a worker honeybee lies on the dorsal surface of the abdomen, at the front edge of the last abdominal segment. It consists of several hundred gland cells. The Nasonov gland was named after the Russian scientist who first described it, in 1883. (Honeybee Democracy By Thomas D. Seeley 2010)
Nasonov pheromone are emitted by the worker bees and used for orientation. Known as the "come and join us" scent. Bees use the pheromone to find the entrance to their colony or hive, and they release them on flowers so other bees know which flowers have nectar. Nasonov pheromone in synthetic form should be 2:1 ratio of citral and geraniol. It consists of glandular cells which secrete pheromone through c. 600 ducts into a groove between the 6th and 7th tergite. Honeybees release this pheromone for attracting other bees to join the swarm, to mark the entrance to the hive, to mark a source of water while foraging.
Nikolai Nasonov was a Soviet zoologist. Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1906; corresponding member, 1897). He was born in Moscow, Feb. 14 1855. In 1879, Nasonov graduated from the University of Moscow. From 1889 to 1906 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw. From 1906 to 1921 he was director of the Zoological Museum, and from 1921 to 1931 he was director of the Laboratory of Experimental Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His principal works were on the morphology, taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography, ecology, and embryology of insects, crustaceans, Turbellaria, and some vertebrates, such as mountain sheep and the ostrich. In 1911, Nasonov organized the publication of the comprehensive work Fauna of Russia and the Neighboring Countries, subsequently called Fauna of the USSR. Twenty-five books of this work were published under his editorship. In 1916 on Nasonov's initiative, a commission was created in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to study Lake Baikal and to organize the Baikal Biological Station (now the Institute of Limnology of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). Nasonov was a prolific author producing works in four languages but was not a honeybee specialist nor did he have a knowledge about pheromones. Nikolai Nasonov died in Moscow Feb. 11, 1939
PORTRAIT Nikolai Victrovich Nasonov
Насонов Николай Викторович
http://isaran.ru/?q=ru%2Fperson&guid=0D918887-F320-DA69-70D1-98CEE1735EFA
Nasonov, Nikolai Viktorovich
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Nasonov,+Nikolai+Viktorovich
Honeybee Democracy, by Thomas D. Seeley
circa. 2012 page 185
Pheromones of the Honeybee Colony
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK200983/
Nasonov, Nikolai Viktorovich (1855-1939)
http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Nasonov,_Nikolai_Viktorovich_(1855-1939)
Miscellaneous References
Nasonov, N. V. 1889. Contribution to the natural history of the ants primarily of Russia. 1. Contribution to the ant fauna of Russia. Izv. Imp. Obshch. Lyubit. Estestvozn. Antropol. Etnogr. Imp. Mosk. Univ. 58: 1-78 PDF
http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/c/c6/Nasonov_N_1889.pdf
N. E. McIndoo, PH.D. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 66 No. 2 (Apr. – Aug. 1914), pp. 542-555
" It is reported that Nassonoff first described the morphology of the scent-producing organ of the honey bee. His original work in Russian cannot be had here , but according to Zoubareff (1883), nassonoff did not describe the structure of this organ as seen by the writer, and he suggested that the gland cells of the organ produce perspiration.
Nasonov pheromone are emitted by the worker bees and used for orientation. Discovered by Nasonov, Nikolai Viktorovich (1883) from Russia. Known as the "come and join us" scent. Nasonov includes a number of different terpenoids including geraniol, nerolic acid, citral and geranic acid. Bees use these to find the entrance to their colony or hive, and they release them on flowers so other bees know which flowers have nectar.Nasonov pheromone in synthetic form should be 2:1 ratio of citral and geraniol (Born Feb. 14 (26), 1855, in Moscow; died there Feb. 11, 1939. Soviet zoologist. Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1906; corresponding member, 1897). It consists of glandular cells which secrete pheromone through c. 600 ducts into a groove between the 6th and 7th tergite.Honeybees release this pheromone for attracting other bees to join the swarm,to mark the entrance to the hive, to mark a source of water while foraging.
Nikolai Victrovich Nasonov ( N. V. Nassonov) 1855 – 1939
Dr. Nasonov studied taxonomy and distribution of various groups of invertebrates. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the URSS. He visited Japan (June-July, 1928) for the study of freshwater microturbellarians. For his scientific activities and the publication list, see the following paper.
Académie des Sciences de l'Union des Républiques Soviétiques Socialistes, 1937. À l'Académicien N. Nassonov pour le Quatrevingtième Anniversaire de sa Naissance et le Soixantième Anniversaire de Son Activité Scientifique. Cover page and prefatory portrait + pp.13-32. http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=jd-51438.In-en
Literature (a selection):
Nassonov, N. V., 1924. K faune Turbellaria Rhabdocoelida Kryma. Izves. Akad. Nauk, SSSR, 18: 35-46.
Nassonov, N. V., 1925. Die Turbellarienfauna des Leningrader Gouvernements. 1-2. Izves. Akad. Nauk, 20: 817-836, 869-883.
Nassonov, N. V., 1927. Über eine neue Familie Multipenatidae (Alloeocoela) aus dem Japanischen Meer mit einem aberranten Bau der Fortpflanzungsorgane. Izves. Akad. Nauk, 1927: 865-874.
Nassonov, N. V., 1929. Zur Fauna der Turbellaria Rhabdocoelida der japanischen Susswasserbecken. Doklady Akad. Nauk, SSSR, 1929: 423-428.
Nassonov, N. V., 1932. Zur Morphologie der Turbellaria Rhabdocoelida des Japanischen Meeres. Trudy Laborat. Exper. Zool. Morfol. Zhivotnykh. Akad. Nauk, II: 1-115 + Taf. I-VIII.
Source: Historical Honey Bee Articles – Beekeeping History
Happy Birthday Charles Henry Turner by Ron Miksha
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Charles Henry Turner (February 3, 1867 – February 14, 1923)
Here's an excellent post by Ron Miksha of badbeekeeping blog recognizing a bee scientist who went unrecognized in his own time. Thanks Ron for bringing many of us up to speed.
You probably know that Karl von Frisch figured out how honey bees use their waggle-dance to communicate. He won the Nobel Prize for that and for other studies of bee behaviour. I think it was well-deserved and his experiments withstood criticism and independent confirmation. His discovery was intuitive and required hundreds of replicated experiments conducted over years of work in personally risky circumstances in Nazi Germany. But there is another scientist who came close to figuring out many of the things which brought von Frisch fame. The other scientist did his experiments in America, decades earlier. But he's mostly unknown, largely forgotten.
Read entire article at: The Man Who Discovered that Bees Can Think — Bad Beekeeping Blog
Lorenzo Langstroth's Birthday
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A Toast to Langstroth
This year, beekeepers are celebrating the 208th year anniversary of "the Father of American Beekeeping." Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was born Christmas Day, December 25, 1810 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. L. L. Langstroth developed the modern hive after exploring existing hives including the pre-cursor to the top bar hive. Francis Huber invented the Leaf Hive in 1789 in Switzerland. The leaf hive had movable solid frames that touched making the box like top bar hives. The leaf hive was examined like pages in a book.
(photo: In 2010 the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild began a wonderful Christmas tradition. They gather each year at 106 South Front Street, Philadelphia; the birthplace of Lorenzo L. Langstroth on Christmas Day, which is also Langstroth's birthday, for a Champagne / mead toast to Langstroth.) A Toast to Langstroth)
In the summer of 1851 Langstroth developed the hive that is still used today and the "bee space." Langstroth patented the first movable frame hive on October 5, 1852. Henry Bourquin, a fellow beekeeper and Philadelphia cabinetmaker, made Langstroth's first hives. Langstroth hives encourage rapid inspection without enraging the bees. Weak colonies can be strengthened. Strong colonies can increase space. Queens are quickly replaced. Diseases, pests and parasites can be quickly determined and remedied. Inspection by removable frames is now required in the United States. Langstroth also began using queen excluders to confine eggs to the lower boxes. Removable frames encouraged honey extraction without destroying the comb. Honey comb requires 7 to 14 pounds of honey for every pound of beeswax. Besides increased honey production, the beehive no longer had to be killed to remove the honey.
Langstroth published "The Hive and the Honey-Bee" in 1853 still in print today after 40 editions. Langstroth died October 6, 1895 while preaching a sermon on the love of God at the Wayne Avenue Presbyterian church in Dayton. L. L. Langstroth is buried at Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. Langstroth's epitaph reads —
INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF REV. L.L. LANGSTROTH, "FATHER OF AMERICAN BEEKEEPING," BY HIS AFFECTIONATE BENEFICIARIES WHO, IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE SERVICES RENDERED BY HIS PERSISTENT AND PAINSTAKING OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS WITH THE HONEY BEE, HIS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HIVE, AND THE LITERARY ABILITY SHOWN IN THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR BOOK ON THE SUBJECT OF BEEKEEPING IN THE UNITED STATES, GRATEFULLY ERECT THIS MONUMENT.
Ebook: The Hive and the Honey Bee
Audio recording: The Hive and the Honey Bee
Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson
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Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson – Born Dec. 10, 1830
By Emily Dickinson
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry
Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To vanquish other blooms.
His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
A team of archaeologists is rediscovering just how extensive Emily Dickinson's garden was. Historical evidence shows Emily Dickinson's Garden contained an abundance of blooming flowers. Archaeologists recently uncovered portions of a pathway leading to nineteenth-century flower and vegetable beds.Emily Dickinson – was an American poet born in Amherst, Massachusetts. (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) ~ during her lifetime she "was known more widely as a gardener, perhaps, than as a poet". Emily Dickinson's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, remembered "carpets of lily-of-the-valley and pansies, platoons of sweetpeas, hyacinths, enough in May to give all the bees of summer dyspepsia. There were ribbons of peony hedges and drifts of daffodils in season, marigolds to distraction—a butterfly utopia" Archaeology – Remnants of Emily Dickinson's Gardens Sought
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS—Emily Dickinson is known today as one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century, but in her lifetime she may have been more renowned for her gardening. At her family estate, she helped to tend an orchard, a greenhouse, and an expanse of flower and vegetable gardens. The size of these gardens was dramatically decreased in the decades after Dickinson died in 1886, but now a team of archaeologists is searching for their remnants. Last summer, they uncovered portions of a pathway leading to nineteenth-century flower and vegetable beds. "If we can follow out the historic path to its end, then theoretically we would find the location of past gardens," Kerry Lynch of Archaeological Services at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told the New York Times. If they do locate these gardens, the archaeologists hope to find seeds or other botanical evidence dating back to when Dickinson was alive.
Archaeology – Remnants of Emily Dickinson's Gardens Sought
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4458-160513-massachusetts-dickinson-gardens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
Happy Birthday Karl von Frisch
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By (Figure design: J. Tautz and M. Kleinhenz, Beegroup Würzburg.) – Chittka L: Dances as Windows into Insect Perception. PLoS Biol 2/7/2004: e216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020216, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1374858
Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.[2][3]
His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory, described in his 1927 book Aus dem Leben der Bienen (translated into English as The Dancing Bees), was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Only much later was it shown to be an accurate theoretical analysis.[4]
The "waggle dance" is used to relay information about more distant food sources. In order to do this, the dancing bee moves forward a certain distance on the vertically hanging honeycomb in the hive, then traces a half circle to return to her starting point, whereupon the dance begins again. On the straight stretch, the bee "waggles" with her posterior. The direction of the straight stretch contains the information about the direction of the food source, the angle between the straight stretch and the vertical being precisely the angle which the direction of flight has to the position of the sun. The distance to the food source is relayed by the time taken to traverse the straight stretch, one second indicating a distance of approximately one kilometer (so the speed of the dance is inversely related to the actual distance). The other bees take in the information by keeping in close contact with the dancing bee and reconstructing its movements. They also receive information via their sense of smell about what is to be found at the food source (type of food, pollen, propolis, water) as well as its specific characteristics. The orientation functions so well that the bees can find a food source with the help of the waggle dance even if there are hindrances they must detour around like an intervening mountain.
As to a sense of hearing, Frisch could not identify this perceptive faculty, but it was assumed that vibrations could be sensed and used for communication during the waggle dance. Confirmation was later provided by Dr. Jürgen Tautz, a bee researcher at Würzburg University's Biocenter.[11]
Online Book: The Dancing Bees by Karl von Frisch
Happy Birthday Everett Franklin Phillips
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Born November 14th, 1878
Died August 21st, 1951
From The Hive and the Honey Bee Book Collection at Cornell:
In 1925, a Cornell professor of apiculture named Everett Franklin Phillips set out to create a major repository of literature on bees and beekeeping. He envisioned this library as an "accessible storehouse of our knowledge of bees and beekeeping." By 1926, Phillips had persuaded over 223 people from twenty-nine states and twenty-six foreign countries to donate thousands of books and pamphlets, and the E.F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Cornell was born.
Perhaps Phillips' biggest coup was his ingenious plan for raising the money necessary for creating the library's endowment: he convinced hundreds of New York state beekeepers to set aside one of their hives for the library. When a hive had raised $50 from honey sales, the beekeeper's obligation was completed.
Seventy-five years after beekeepers helped Phillips create one of the world's finest collections of books and journals in beekeeping, a new generation of apiculturalists is leading efforts to digitize major parts of that collection. The idea for The Hive and the Honeybee emerged following the 2002 conference of the Eastern Apiculture Society, which was held on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca . In the years since then, individual beekeepers and beekeeping organizations from around the country have contributed funding to make some of the greatest works from American authors on beekeeping available via the Internet. With this generous support, collaborating staff from the University of Delaware, Mississippi State University, Mary Washington College, the Finger Lakes Beekeeping Association, and Mann Library at Cornell University launched The Hive and the Honeybee site in the spring of 2004, offering to the public the full text of ten rare books from the Phillips Collection, chosen by a team of scholars for their historical importance and usefulness to beekeepers today.
Ongoing giving by American beekeepers has continued to expand the collection, and we are proud to announce that the Hive and the Honeybee today consists of the full text of over thirty books from the Phillips library as well as the first forty volumes of a landmark American publication, the American Bee Journal, an influential English language beekeeping journal read by scholars and practicing beekeepers and still being published today.
We hope that eventually The Hive and the Honeybee will contain every major pre-1925 beekeeping work in the English language. The texts in this digital collection are fully searchable, and will also become part of the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA).
How fitting E.F. Phillips would find that beekeepers are again playing a central role in realizing a major new development for the Phillips collection. And how thrilled he and his original beekeeping collaborators would be to see the internet make a storehouse of beekeeping knowledge accessible to the world today.
Mann Library would like to extend special thanks to the Eastern Apiculture Society and Mike Griggs for providing the initial inspiration and funding to create The Hive and the Honeybee online library. We are equally grateful to the many generous beekeeping associations, extension agencies, and individuals across the United States –from Florida to Maine and New York to Washington State –who have provided funding for the continued development of this digital collection.
A downloadable bookmark showing the website address for The Hive and the Honeybee collection is available for desktop printing. To make a gift toward The Hive and the Honeybee please make your check payable to Cornell University and mail to Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY 14850 . To find out more about supporting this growing collection, please contact Eveline Ferretti, Albert R. Mann Library (tel.: (607) 254-4993; email: ef15@cornell.edu).
Digital Books Available at: http://bees.library.cornell.edu/b/bees/browse.html
E,. F. Phillips Obituary: https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/45/6/1124/2205462/Everett-Franklin-Phillips-1878-1951?redirectedFrom=PDF
A Metaphysical Life by Bad Beekeeping Blog
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Happy Birthday Richard Taylor.
Richard Taylor (November 5, 1919 – October 30, 2003), born in Charlotte, Michigan, was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally known beekeeper.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of my beekeeper-heroes, Professor Richard Taylor. He was an early champion of the round comb honey system, a commercial beekeeper with just 300 hives, and he was a philosopher who wrote the book on metaphysics. Really, he wrote the book on metaphysics – for decades, his college text Metaphysics introduced first-year philosophy students to the most fundamental aspect of reality – the nature of cosmology and the existence of all things.
Although his sport of philosophy was speculative, unprovable, and abstract to the highest degree, Richard Taylor was as common and down-to-earth as it's possible to become. I will write about his philosophy and how it shaped his politics, but first, let's celebrate his beekeeping.
Read the complete article at: A Metaphysical Life — Bad Beekeeping Blog
Happy Birthday John S. Harbison, early Californian Beekeeper, Inventor, Author
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Today is John S. Harbison's Birthday.
1857 – Made the first shipment of bees into California, Introducing commercial beekeeping into California, laying the foundation for the industry in that state.
1857 – Invented the section honey box.
1859 – Invented the Harbison, or California hive.
1860 – Authored the book; 'An Improved System of Propagating the Honey Bee'
1861 – Authored the book; 'The Beekeeper's Directory'
1873 – The firm of Clark & Harbison shipped the first car load of honey across the continent from California.
John S. Harbison September 29, 1826
There is no product of San Diego County that has done more to spread abroad her fame, than her honey. It has acquired a reputation in the markets of the world of the highest character. It is well known to the agriculturist that a section capable of producing such honey must possess superior advantages of soil and climate, and, as a result, the attention of a class of people has been directed hither who might have been influenced by the ordinary reports of the wonderful fertility of the country. Certainly, the man who was the pioneer in making known the fact that San Diego County was an apiarian paradise, is entitled to be classed as a public benefactor. It is concerning him that this sketch is written.
John S. Harbison was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1826. He comes of a sterling American stock, and can trace his lineage back through several generations. His grandfather, John Harbison, and his grandmother, Massey Harbison, were among the first settlers of Western Pennsylvania, locating near the town of Freeport, twenty-eight miles above Pittsburgh, on the Alleghany River, where the first grist-mill in that region of country was built and operated by his grandfather. In those days that part of the country was subject to many Indian outbreaks, and the Harbisons experienced their full share of the trials and sufferings incident to a life on the frontier. His grandfather acquired fame as an Indian fighter, and participated in numerous engagements in repelling the frequent murderous raids made on the settlers by the treacherous tribes of Indians inhabiting the country from the Alleghany Mountains on the east, Lakes Erie and Michigan on the north and west, and the Ohio River on the south; arid as a volunteer soldier, took part in the several expeditions led by St. Clair and Wayne, which subsequently resulted in quelling all the Indian disturbances. Mr. Harbison's grandfather on his mother's side, William Curry, was a chief armorer in the Continental service, and was one of the memorable minute men of the Revolution, who were a picked body of men that could be relied upon under any circumstances and were detailed to execute the most hazardous and important undertakings. He fought in eight battles in that memorable struggle, and was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware on that stormy Christmas night and defeated the astonished Hessians encamped at Trenton.
The youth and early manhood of John S. Harbison were passed upon a farm, but in 1854, having an attack of the gold fever, he made up his mind to come to California. In October of that year he sailed from New York on the steamship Northern Light, via Nicaraugua, connecting on this side with the Sierra Nevada, which had taken the place of the Yankee Blade, the latter having been wrecked just after leaving San Francisco. He arrived in San Francisco November 20, and immediately started for the mining camp known as Campo Seco, in Amador County. Here he found that gold mining was not all his imagination had pictured, he worked hard and received very meager returns. Considerably discouraged he left the mines in a few weeks, and went down to Sacramento. Glad to turn his hand to anything, he secured work in the Sutterville saw-mill, where he stayed several months. In the meantime Harbison h id made up his mind he would give-up the avocations for which he had little taste, and devote himself to something with which he was acquainted. He sent home to Pennsylvania for a general assortment of seeds, and a small invoice of fruit trees. He received the first consignment in February, and secured ground in the town of Sutterville, near Sacramento City, where he started the first nursery of fruit and shade trees in the Sacramento Valley. During the fall and winter of 1855, and again in the fall of 1856, he made large importations of the choicest fruit trees from the most celebrated nurseries in the East. From these importations was started that great series of orchards which line the banks of the Sacramento River and adjacent country.
In May, 1857, he returned to his Eastern home, and began preparations for shipping a quantity of bees to California. He finally started from New York with sixty-seven colonies, and landed them safely Sacramento, after a journey of about four weeks. This venture was so popular that he went East again the next fill, and obtained a second supply of bees, which also were safely brought to this State. He continued the business of nurseryman and apiarist near Sacramento until February, 1874, when he removed with his family to San Diego, where he has resided ever since.
Mr. H. has had some trouble with fruit-raisers, and the result was a conflagration of a whole apiary. Apiaries are usually burned by saturating each hive with kerosene, and then applying the torch; but in the case above, the hives were placed together and burned.
In the fall of 1869, Mr. Harbison formed a partnership with Mr. R. G. Clark, for the purpose of introducing and keeping bees in San Diego County. They prepared a choice selection of one hundred and ten hives of bees from Mr. Harbison's apiaries at Sacramento, and shipped them by the steamer Orizaba, which landed in San Diego on the morning of November 28, 1869. Mr. Clark remained in charge of the bees, making all the explorations for the most suitable ranges for the location of apiaries and production of honey. Other importations were made by the firm, and the partnership was continued for the period of four years, at the end of which time a division of the apiaries and effects was made. Mr. Clark soon after disposed of his apiaries, purchasing land in the El Cajon Valley, where he established the first raisin vineyard in the county.
The great success attending the enterprise of Messrs. Clark and Harbison, and the world-wide fame of their San Diego County honey, very soon attracted the notice of bee-keepers and farmers of all parts of the States, and as a result, many were induced to come here, who took up public lands, established homes, and commenced the business of beekeeping and tilling of the soil.
In December, 1857, Mr. Harbison invented the section honey box, an invention which has done more for the advancement of honey production than any other discovery in bee-keeping. For this he was granted a patent, January 4, 1859. At the California State Fair, held at Marysville, in September, 1858, Mr. Harbison exhibited the first section box honey.
In 1873 the firm of Clark & Harbison shipped the first car load of honey across the continent from California. Mr. Harbison was awarded a medal and diploma for his exhibit of San Diego County honey at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876. Besides his labors as a practical horticulturist, a farmer and apiarist, Mr. Harbison has found time to contribute occasionally to current literature on those subjects with which he is familiar, and is the author of a book of four hundred and forty pages, entitled, "Bee Keepers' Directory," it treats of bee culture in all its departments and is a recognized authority on the subject of which it treats. Although it was published in 1861, it is still considered the most practical work of the kind ever issued.
Mr. Harbison was married to Mary J. White, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1865. The result of the union is one son, who died in infancy, and two daughters, both 6f whom are living.
Image The City and County of San Diego: Illustrated and Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, Page 157, 1888
The ABC of Bee Culture, A. I. Root, 1903 page 415
Additional information here: http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/1969/october/harbisonimages/
Happy Birthday Dr. Elton James Dyce
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July 15, 1900 — February 23, 1976
Dyce was best known for his process for controlling the crystallization and fermentation of honey leading to the popular creamed honey. His process is used throughout the world in all major honey-producing countries.
Professor Emeritus E. J. Dyce served as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of apiculture in the University's Department of Entomology for twenty-three years. He had retired on December 31, 1965. A native of Ontario, Dyce served as demonstrator, lecturer, and professor of apiculture at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, now Guelph University, from 1924 to 1940. He was the first manager of the Finger Lakes Honey Producers Cooperative in Groton, New York, between 1940 and 1942; in that position he worked to develop a wide market for New York State honey.
Dr. Dyce was born and raised in Meaford, Ontario. He obtained his B.S.A. from Ontario Agricultural College in 1923. He earned his M.S. degree at McGill University where he was a Macdonald scholar. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Cornell under the direction of Professor E.F. Phillips.
The Dyce Process
Dr. E. J. Dyce, then professor of Apiculture at Guelph University and later Professor of Apiculture at Cornell University, developed the first practical process for making a granulated honey in 1928. Dyce later patented the process and in Canada gave the patent rights to the Province of Ontario. In the United States the rights were given to Cornell University. Much of the money earned in the United States was invested and the income is still used to support research on bees and honey at Cornell. The patent has now expired and anyone may manufacture and market the product.
Some Facts About Granulation And Fermentation
When Dyce began his studies there was little known about honey granulation and fermentation. He was aware that all natural honeys contain yeast. When the moisture content of the honey is somewhat above 19 percent, these yeast cells grow, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol. The yeasts found in honey are not the same as those used to make alcoholic beverages or bread but belong to the genus zygosaccharomyces. However, carbon dioxide may be produced in such quantity in fermenting honey as to burst the drums or containers in which the honey is packed. The foul odor produced by fermentation makes the honey unmarketable. If it is not damaged too badly it may be used as bee food.
When honey granulates a small amount of the water in honey is taken into the sugar crystals. However, the quantity of water so contained is not proportional to the amount of water in the honey. Thus one may have a jar, drum or container of partially crystallized honey in which the liquid fraction has a moisture content higher than that of the original honey. When this occurs the honey may ferment. Dyce recognized that if he was to control the granulation of honey he must first pasteurize the product. Any seed crystals he added must also be made from honey, which had been pasteurized.
Dyce found that the optimum temperature for honey granulation is 57' F. There has been much conflict about this question in the literature. Many people were of the opinion that a fluctuating temperature speeded up granulation; Dyce showed this was not true. Most granulated honeys will have a firm texture six to 14 days after the introduction of seed crystals if held at the proper temperature. In commercial practice rooms used for holding honey the process of crystallizing are held within 10'F. of the optimum temperature.
Pasteurization of honey destroys the nuclei on which crystals might grow. Dyce found he could introduce previously granulated honey, that which had been ground and the crystals broken, into honey to be crystallized.
These crystals are called starters. When five percent of a ground, finely granulated honey was introduced into newly pasteurized honey there is a sufficient quantity of seed to produce a high quality, finely crystallized honey. In commercial practice most firms use eight to ten percent starter; under ideal conditions less may be used. An important factor is that the seed crystals must not be warmed too long and thereby caused to melt partially.
Dyce processed honey
Dark, strong flavored honeys have a lighter color and milder flavor when made into a finely granulated honey; this fact has led some packers to use less than desirable honey in making granulated honey. Honeys used to make granulated honey should be of table quality. The optimum moisture content is 17 ½ to 18 percent; in the northern states 18 percent in winter and 17 ½ percent in summer; in the southern states 17 ½ percent is used throughout the year. The moisture content of a crystallized honey has a great effect on its hardness and therefore its spreadability. Honeys which have a higher or lower moisture content will be too hard or too soft and will not spread properly when spread at room temperature. The first step then is the selection and blending of honeys of proper color and moisture contents.
Honeys to be processed by the Dyce process need not be filtered. In fact, filtering removes certain of the natural elements present in honey, especially pollen. The honey should be heated to about 125'F at which temperature it should be carefully strained. Dyce recommended the honey next be rapidly heated to 150'F and then cooled rapidly. This temperature is sufficiently high to kill the yeast present. Prof. G.F. Townsend of Guelph University showed that yeasts in honey were killed if it was held at 160'F for one minute or 140'F for 30 minutes or some equivalent combination of time and temperature between these two extremes. In commercial practice e there is time involved between heating and cooling the honey, which also has an effect on yeasts. If the honey in a bulk tank is heated to 150'F and then cooled, even under optimum conditions, it will have heated enough to kill any yeast cells present.
The Starter Crystals
For a starter one uses granulated honey, which has been previously made by the Dyce process. It is not satisfactory to take previously granulated honey from the grocer's shelf to be used as seed since the high Temperature at which this honey is held in a store will have started to melt the crystal nuclei present. One method of obtaining a yeast-free, finely granulated honey to use as a starter is to grind with a mortar and pestle a small amount of coarsely crystallized honey that had been heated (pasteurized) previously. The honey must be ground very finely and preferably at a temperature in the vicinity of 57'F as the crystals may melt at higher temperatures. The honey into which the crystal nuclei are introduced must also be cooled before the starter is added. Most of the grinders used for starter for Dyce crystallized honey are homemade or modifications of meat or food grinders on the market.
Air and Crystallized Honey
Honey which is in the process of granulating and which is held at lower than room temperatures is viscous. Often a number of air bubbles are incorporated into it in the process of cooling and/or adding the seed. These small air bubbles may rise to the surface of the product and give it a white frothy appearance. This white froth may be avoided by allowing the honey to settle a few hours before it is packed, or packing and cooling the honey rapidly so the air bubbles are incorporated into the final product. The air has no objectionable effect on the flavor.
Granulated honey in glass may pull away from the glass. The honey may assume a white froth-like appearance between the honey and the inside of the glass. Customers usually do not realize what has happened and may think the honey has spoiled or become moldy. (Mold cannot grow on or in honey.) It is for this reason that granulated honey is usually packed in tubs or glass jars with labels that wrap completely around the container.
Stack Heat
The seed crystals are usually added to the cooling honey when the temperature has reached about 75'F. It is very difficult to force honey to flow at lower temperatures. This temperature is higher than desired but if it is not held too long little damage is done. However, when cases of newly packed, crystallized honey are placed on pallets or trucks the cases must be carefully spaced so that air can flow between and around the cases. If this is not done the stack of newly packed jars will retain heat. This heat could have an adverse effect on seed crystals and cause them to be less effective as crystal nuclei.
Properly made granulated honey has a long shelf life, longer than most liquid honey. Honey packers have observed that they may make and hold granulated honey for long periods of time, much longer than they would have stored packed, liquid honey. Granulated honey made and held under controlled conditions retains its fine texture, color, appearance and taste. There is probably a wider market for honey in this form than is now being exploited.
Crystallized Honey By Roger A. Morse
Cornell University Memorial Statement
Patent Application and Description of Creamed Honey Process
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Birth: April 14th, 1846
Death: June 3rd, 1918
Gilbert M. Doolittle (1846-1918) was a 19th-century apiarist and author considered to be the father of commercial queen rearing. His book Scientific Queen-Rearing: As Practically Applied (Thomas G. Newman: Chicago, 1888) was reissued over several editions.
Doolittle also wrote several brochures on beekeeping, and submitted regular articles to Gleanings in Bee Culture over many years. His involvement coincided with a great expansion of beekeeping knowledge in the United States.
Scientific Queen-Rearing: As Practically Applied pp. 169. Chicago: Newman & Son (1889).
Description of the Hive I Use, and My Management of Bees pp. 15. Chicago: Newman & Son (1900).
Management of Out-Apiaries pp. 36. (4th ed.) Medina, Ohio: A. I. Root (1913).
Source: http://beekeeping.wikia.com/wiki/Gilbert_M._Doolittle
From the Online Books Page: Online books by Gilbert M. Doolittle:
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Management of out-apiaries… (Medina, Ohio, The A.I. Root co., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Scientific queen-rearing as practically applied; being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways. (Chicago, G.W. York & Co., 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Scientific queen-rearing as practically applied; being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways. (Chicago, Thomas G. Newman & Son, 1889), also by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU. (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Scientific queen-rearing as practically applied : being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways / (Chicago : George W. York, 1899), also by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU. (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Scientific queen-rearing as practically applied; being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways. (Hamilton, Ill. : American Bee Jr. ;, 1915), also by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU. (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: Scientific queen-rearing, practically applied, being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways : for the amateur and veteran in bee-keeping / (Chicago : G. W. York, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: A year's work in an out-apiary, or, An average of 114 1/2 pounds of honey per colony in a poor season, and how it was done / (Medina, Ohio : A.I. Root, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: A year's work in an out-apiary, or, an average of 114 1/2 pounds of honey per colony, in a poor season, and how it was done / (Medina, Ohio : A.I. Root, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-1918: A year's work in an out-apiary, or an average of 114 1/2 pounds of honey per colony in a poor season, and how it was done. / (Medina, Ohio, A.I. Root, 1909), also by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU. (page images at HathiTrust)
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Emily Blunt's 2018 Oscars Look Serves Mary Poppins Realness In The Sweetest Way
By Ariana Marsh
While it makes sense that award show nominees are typically the ones in the spotlight, one of the presenters for this year's most important event has stolen it. Emily Blunt's 2018 Oscars look is so good that it deserves a golden statuette of its own. Although the actress isn't up for any awards herself tonight, her performance in 2016's The Girl on the Train was so riveting and raw that it will remain burned into people's memories for years to come. This includes members of the Academy, who asked Blunt to do an immense honor of presenting an award.
Although Blunt didn't win an Oscar for her performance in the epic movie, she could have. Based on the book of the same name (which is absolutely worth a read if you haven't picked it up yet), the film was frustrating, confusing, alarming, and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful — everything a good thriller should be. And it was all of those things thanks to Blunt's bone-chilling performance.
The actress was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Girl on the Train at the 2017 British Academy of Film and Television Awards, and although she didn't win, her look was to die for. Blunt was dressed in the Alexander McQueen dress of my dreams, which featured a structured bodice embroidered with colorful plants, from which a skirt made of countless ruffles fell. It was elegant and edgy all in one and was certainly a look to remember.
As if any look could top this one, Blunt's look at the 2018 Oscars will absolutely send you into a frenzy. She walked the carpet wearing a confection sweeter than a spoonful of sugar, and the crowd went wild.
The Victorian neckline channeled the prim and proper Disney icon, while the Tiffany blue-tinged grey tulle gave a sweet softness to the look. The delicate appliqué framed her torso while the bow-like sleeves served us Cinderella-esque vibes.
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The delicate, crystal blue of her elongated chandelier earrings definitely brought out the oceanic hue of her eyes.
On one hand, she wore her wedding ring and a tear-drop ring that matched her stunning earrings.
In her other hand, she carried a gorgeous spotted clutch that matched the fabric of her dress. She also sported a giant ring with a silver band and a blue gem.
Her soft and subtle makeup look also embodied an angelic grace worthy of Mary Poppins herself. Laura Mercier Celebrity Makeup Artist Ambassador Jenn Streicher created this look using none other than red carpet-friendly Laura Mercier cosmetic products. After prepping Blunt's skin with Vichy Mineralizing Thermal Water ($14; vichyusa.com) and Vichy Mineral 89 Hyaluronic Acid Face Moisturizer ($29.50; vichyusa.com), Streicher moved on to executing the makeup.
On Blunt's eyes, Streicher used Laura Mercier Eye Basics in Flax ($28; lauramercier.com) to prime the lid for all night long wear. Then, she smoked out the Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour in Fog ($29; lauramercier.com) from the lashline to the crease, which Streicher said "brought out the color of her dress in a subtle way." To pop the look, she also used the Laura Mercier Eye Color in Ginger, Cashmere, and Topaz ($25; lauramercier.com). She also used the Laura Mercier Cavair Stick Eye Colours in Rosegold and Cocoa ($29; lauramercier.com) to highlight and add definition to the eye, respectively.
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If you weren't excited for the Mary Poppins remake before, then you should certainly be now. Blunt is definitely making the sun shine bright with this look, and she's sure to do so in the movie as well.

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Paul Berton: The story of the teenagers trapped in a watery cave in Thailand is not just harrowing — it is made for TV.
The boys were not yet out of danger, one rescuer had already perished, and already, I'm sure, magazine articles were underway, books being written, movie rights being negotiated.
And yet, you can almost hear a Hollywood screenwriter say, "maybe we could throw in some mysterious creature with glowing green eyes lurking in the shallows?"
But the story so far is still in the purview of journalists, thank goodness. Some are no doubt sensationalizing it (as if that was needed), but most recognize it for what it is: A story of human tragedy and potential triumph where the stakes are high and the outcome uncertain.
A story of human survival and heroism, of a community coming together, of a daring rescue.
And as with so many others, a story to put our own lives in perspective.
While sitting in Toronto traffic this week for three hours, I counted myself lucky: "At least I'm not in that cave."
For me, that is one of the great side benefits of learning about the world through journalism. It makes our daily miseries and trials pale in comparison to those faced by others around the globe, whether they are ravaged by war in Syria, unjustly imprisoned in Russia, victims of violence in Honduras or starving in South Sudan.
Poverty, inequity, injustice and violence persist here, of course, and we must work to alleviate them, but there is almost always someone somewhere else in straits more dire.
And while it is that perspective that makes me appreciate journalism, and life itself, it is not really the reason we do this.
Sure, good journalism connects us to our communities, both our neighbours next door and our neighbours around the world. Good journalism should give us the information we need to navigate our lives, improve ourselves, our families and friends.
But above all, journalism should prod us to improve our communities, whether it's our neighbourhood, our city, our country or the world at large — and provide a map for doing so.
Simply by helping people become more informed, it is usually doing just that.
Most of us couldn't really help those boys in the cave this week, except maybe pray and hope for the best. But we can help others closer to us, and we can do it relatively easily.
We can be better informed. We can listen honestly to all sides of an argument. We can be more aware of issues and happenings around us. We can look to the future. We can get involved. We can volunteer. We can vote.
Look carefully and you'll see beyond the noise and the paparazzi and the sound bites. That's what good journalism is all about.


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Governor, Attorney General reject federal Department of Energy's proposed changes to Hanford cleanup plan
Plan lacks specificity, accountability and enforceability
OLYMPIA…Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced the state is rejecting the U.S. Department of Energy's March 31, 2014 proposal to amend the 2010 consent decree governing the retrieval and treatment of high-level radioactive and chemically hazardous waste at Hanford.
"Energy's proposal lacks sufficient specificity, accountability and enforceability," Inslee said. "An acceptable path forward must be aggressive but realistic and must give the state confidence that tank waste retrieval and treatment will be completed as soon as possible."
"The people of our region made a significant sacrifice for our nation when the US selected the Hanford site to produce plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II," Ferguson said. "Today's announcement should serve as notice to Energy that we are considering taking the next legal step as early as next week."
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice today, attorneys for Washington state formally rejected the federal Department of Energy's proposal and detailed the state's concerns. While the state's and federal government's proposed paths forward for cleanup include some similarity, such as in the sequence for beginning various operations of the Waste Treatment Plant, in its letter, the state rejects the lack of specific, accountable and enforceable deadlines in Energy's proposal.
The state announced its proposed amendments at a news conference on March 31 and is expecting to receive a letter of response from the Departments of Energy and Justice today.
If the federal Department of Energy rejects the state's proposed amendments, the state may consider triggering dispute resolution, which initiates a 40-day process of good faith negotiation required under the 2010 Consent Decree. If an agreement is not reached, the state may then ask a federal court to issue an order directing Energy to implement the state's plan.
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5 Personal-Sport Technologies to Help You Get Stronger, Faster and Better
The statistical revolution is changing the way pro sports are played and watched, but it's also changing what we know about athletes. Weekend warriors can now receive performance feedback to help them train smarter and get stronger.
By Jeremy Repanich
The statistical revolution is changing the way pro sports are played and watched, but it's also changing what we know about athletes. By measuring g-forces, breathing patterns, adrenaline and plenty more aspects of athletes and their equipment, these sports technologies go far beyond the old 40-yard dash in measuring a player's prowess. And they're not just for professional athletes: Weekend warriors can now receive performance feedback to help them train smarter and get stronger. All you need is a smartphone and plenty of willpower.
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Under Armour E39
At the NFL's yearly cattle call called the Combine, scouts poke, prod and measure the country's top college football players before the draft. Prospects go through a battery of tests that include a 40-yard dash, shuttle run, standing long jump and vertical leap. This year, Under Armour's E39 augmented the scouts' stopwatches and measuring tapes by tracking players' heart and breathing rates and acceleration.
The E39 is a shirt with heart- and breathing-rate sensors built in, which connect to what Under Armour calls a "bug." The bug is a modular unit that plugs into the front of the shirt to process data from the sensors along with a triaxial accelerometer. Measuring acceleration along vertical, lateral and sagittal planes (the sagittal divides your body into left and right parts, cutting right down the middle of the nose), the bug measures g-forces and can detect imbalances between right and left sides of the body.
Just as body-fat percentage gives a better picture of health than weight alone, the ability to quantify g-forces during acceleration and monitor aerobic recovery provides a more comprehensive athletic analysis than simply clocking a player's 40-yard-dash time. Kevin Haley, Under Armour's vice president of innovation, says that with the E39, scouts at the Combine could quantify not only how fast a player runs, but how quickly they recover aerobically and how much power they generate.
Consider 2011 Heisman Trophy winner and overall No. 1 NFL draft pick, Auburn University quarterback Cam Newton. At the Combine he ran a 4.59-second 40-yard dash—far from the best time. But the six foot four, 248-pound QB generated an eye-popping 9.48 g's when he accelerated out of the blocks. To put that in perspective, many of the top players at the Combine logged about 6 g's of force in the 40. That power is an important trait for coaches and athletes to know, track and build upon, because it has on-field implications. "When you see other QBs hit by a SEC linebacker, they go backward, but when Cam hits one of them, the linebacker goes backward," Haley says.
Under Armour teamed with Zephyr to develop the technology because the company had a track record of developing reliable biofeedback gear. "The U.S. Special Forces uses them, so we know their tech works," Haley says. The E39 bug can connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to smartphones, Macs and PCs to log, analyze and share data. The bug also removes from the shirt and can plug into other shirts or link to a computer or charger. Haley says Under Armour is still working on an accurate ground speed measure for the E39 technology, because GPS didn't provide sufficiently accurate readings when used inside. For now the company is letting some college teams like Auburn and Maryland use E39 during training for this year's football season and getting more feedback from athletes and trainers before they make the product available to the public in the second half of 2012.
iBike Dash+Power
Cycling has a long history of attaching computers to bikes to monitor a rider's performance. The original editions from three decades ago merely clocked speed, which is a crude measurement of effort from the rider, but better than no info at all. The next innovation measured heart rate, trying to get closer to understanding a cyclist's exertion. Twenty years ago, riders began to receive a more precise measurement of their overall effort from computers that measured power in watts. Still, for the average rider, fitting a bike with sensors was an expensive proposition. But now Velocomp has taken advantage of the ubiquity of digital devices to offer a more affordable option—its iBike Dash+Power, a computer that mounts to a bike and uses an iPhone or iPod Touch as a display.
The iBike Dash shows riders their cadence, distance, time, map and weather, and can display workout stats like bikes at the gym do. You can upload all that information to a Mac or PC, and use iBike's free software to chart and analyze the ride.
To create an inexpensive way to measure a rider's power output, Velocomp looked to Newton's third law of motion, according to CEO John Hamann. "The conventional measurement of force and power is to put strain gauges on the rear wheel, pedal or cranks," he says. "Those cost thousands of dollars, and they work very well, but they all work on the theory of applied force." So instead of creating a sensor that measured applied force, Velocomp created one that measured the forces opposing the cyclist, because Newton's law asserts that the applied and opposing will be equal (equal and opposite reactions.). For iBike, Velocomp combined a wind port, accelerometers to measure hill slope and bike acceleration, and a processor to compile those forces. "We just have a small computer head and we're using sensors that are produced by the tens of millions and put into Nintendo Wiis and automotive applications," Hamann says. "So we have very high quality with very low cost."
Combine that data with the iPhone's user-friendly interface, Hamann says, and you've got useful data riders can relate to immediately. "If I can tell how hard I am working then I can learn how to train my body better," Hamann says. "And I'll learn how to manage my body better so I don't overdo it, but also so I don't leave effort on the table."
Nokia Push Snowboarding
At this year's U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships in Vermont, Nokia let the American public use its data-tracking project, Push Snowboarding, for the first time. So as the world's best snowboarders competed in the half pipe and slope-style events, amateurs could use Push to see a breakdown of their run on a Nokia phone app.
Before their runs, riders slapped sensors on themselves and their boards, including a heart monitor strap around their chest, an accelerometer on their board to measure rotation, pressure sensors beneath their feet to measure time off the ground and a wristband to measure galvanic skin response to measure "rush." When you get a fright or a surge of adrenaline, your body reacts by sweating, even if it's just a small amount. The wristband has two metal sensors that can measure the conductivity of your skin. So when you get a rush and sweat, the sensors can detect it immediately. All of this data is beamed via Bluetooth to the phone zipped into your pocket, which, with its GPS feature, also measures your speed. Push Snowboarding also tapped into the snowboarding ethos by taking a democratized approach to athlete-tracking technology. The app is open-source, and rider data goes up on Nokia's website. So if you want to adapt the app for you, the code is there to play with.
If it weren't blatantly obvious from speed, airtime and rate of spin that pro snowboarders are in a different league than the rest of us, the Nokia team discovered another difference in the data. "What we've found is that amateur riders tend to think about what they're about to do, and their rush score goes up as they're about to do it and it goes up as they do it, because they get a fright," Push's Stuart Wells says. "Pro riders are calm until they land something big and they get a rush because they've landed it—it's kind of a measurement of a rider's experience." We got to slap some sensors on Popular Mechanics' assistant photo editor and avid snowboarder Michele Ervin and send her barreling down the mountain. You can see the speed and rush scores part of the app at work in the video.
Unfortunately, Push is still in the prototype phase of its development, so Wells couldn't say when sensors like the ones riders used at the U.S. Open would be available for sale to the public.
Pukas and Technalia Surfsens Project
Across the Atlantic, Spanish surfing company Pukas and applied research company Technalia have teamed up to make surfing safe for statistics. They outfitted a board with a gyroscope, accelerometer, pressure sensors, GPS, compass and strain gauges to measure flex in the board. Then these sensors send their readings to a Technalia-designed software interface to analyze the data recorded.
In this first incarnation of the technology, the companies are gathering data with the purpose of improving surfboard design. They're letting some of the best surfers in the world ride the integrated board to see how changes in flexibility, torque and shape affect rider performance. The feedback should also help riders understand their strengths and weaknesses not just through feel and instinct, but also with data like speed, spin rate and board verticality.
And while most of the other technologies on our list are primarily concerned with smarter training ahead of competition, the two companies' ambition is to make the tech part of surfing competitions themselves. They hope judges could use data from the board to evaluate surfers' turns and tricks in competition—perhaps making the Surfsens technology as integral to surfing as the electronic line-calling system Hawk-Eye is to tennis.
In 2003, the company that would become Contour existed only as a business plan in a University of Washington entrepreneurship competition. Marc Barros and Jason Green were two UW business students, but they were also avid skiers who had the idea to create durable, easy-to-use, hands-free video cameras that people could use on the slopes. The pair took third in the competition, and with the $20,000 in seed money they won their company was born.
Eight years later, Barros and Greene are working with a 1080p HD camera for their system. It's impact-resistant, encased in a brushed-aluminum water-resistant body. The rails are made of plastic and fiberglass to hold up to cold temperatures. There's also a waterproof case available that allows camera use while wakeboarding, kayaking or surfing. While there are stabilizers in the camera to steady the shot, "stabilization relies heavily on your body as a dampener," Barros says. "You'd be surprised how much your neck and body absorbs vibration."
What really sets the camera apart is the GPS sensor inside that creates a track on the .mov file it records. So when editing videos in Contour's software, users can display location, speed and elevation as part of the movie. That data can be saved to compare against future performance or shared for races against a friend. "We want people to show their friends what they've done," Barros says. "To have that emotional connection of 'let me show you.'"
The cameras are finding traction in the sports world beyond friends sharing clips of mountain biking. During this year's University of Washington spring football game, the Huskies' quarterback Keith Price wore a camera so when reviewing game film later, coaches could see what he saw as he drove the offense down the field. And the Huskies aren't alone. College football stalwart Notre Dame also has a set of cameras, using new technology to make the Irish quarterbacks' practices more productive.
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We had so much fun this weekend and I thought I'd share all the fun we had. Our friends came into town on Friday and wanted to see the City of Pittsburgh for the first time. They surprised me with homemade wine, Godiva Chocolates, toys and treats for Jake and Maggie, custom painted coasters each having a different painted design, and a beautiful vase from Kate Spade! I LOVE Kate Spade!! I was so touched and excited that I literally forgot to take pictures to share with you!! So sorry!! Friday night Thomas and I took them to Church Brew Works for dinner. What fun if you love historic places; a 100 year old church turned restaurant and brewery!! Our plan was to have breakfast the next morning at our house and then drive into town. I made a delicious French Toast casserole with French vanilla cream cheese icing. We first visited the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, had lunch at the Hofbrauhaus, and toured the Andy Warhol Museum for our last stop. That night we met more friends for dinner at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto for dinner.
"Rainy and cold outside but Thomas and I enjoyed ourselves"
Phipps Conservatory commemorates their 125th anniversary in 2018 including inspiring seasonal flower shows, glass sculptures, community events, public programs and groundbreaking green innovation.
The Andy Warhol Museum tells the story of Andy Warhol in 7 floors of pencil drawings, paintings, and movie clips. The museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the largest museum in the North America dedicated to a single artist.
We joked that this was a day of firsts. It was an experience for all of us and we enjoyed our time together. If you live in Pittsburgh or are planning a trip, check out the links I provided above to help you with planning. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of our food! By the time I remembered to take the pictures, our plates were empty! But I will say, all of our meals were delicious! Next time we visit these restaurants, I promise I'll take pictures :-).
One of my favorite things to do is try new restaurants. There is just something about planning a date night out! I want to share with you those destinations and pass along all the deliciousness!


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Q: How do I append a list to a file in vim? I want to append a list of strings to a file in VimL
Here is my workaround code:
let lines = ["line1\n", "line2\n", "line3\n"]
call writefile(lines, "/tmp/tmpfile")
call system("cat /tmp/tmpfile >> file_to_append_to")

Any way to append to the file directly in vim?
There should be, but I can't find anything

A: Try using readfile()+writefile().
If you are using Vim 7.3.150+, (or if you are absolutely sure that file in question ends with \n):
function AppendToFile(file, lines)
    call writefile(readfile(a:file)+a:lines, a:file)
endfunction

For Vim older than 7.3.150:
" lines must be a list without trailing newlines.
function AppendToFile(file, lines)
    call writefile(readfile(a:file, 'b')+a:lines, a:file, 'b')
endfunction

" Version working with file *possibly* containing trailing newline
function AppendToFile(file, lines)
    let fcontents=readfile(a:file, 'b')
    if !empty(fcontents) && empty(fcontents[-1])
        call remove(fcontents, -1)
    endif
    call writefile(fcontents+a:lines, a:file, 'b')
endfunction

A: The write command can be used to append the entire current buffer to a file:
:write >> append_file.txt

You can limit it to range of lines in current buffer if you want.  E.g., this would append lines 1 through 8 to end of append_file.txt:
:1,8write >> append_file.txt

A: Vim 7.4.503 added support for appending to a file with writefile using the "a" flag :
:call writefile(["foo"], "event.log", "a")

From :h writefile:
writefile({list}, {fname} [, {flags}])
    Write |List| {list} to file {fname}.  Each list item is
    separated with a NL.  Each list item must be a String or
    Number.

    When {flags} contains "a" then append mode is used, lines are
    appended to the file:
        :call writefile(["foo"], "event.log", "a")
        :call writefile(["bar"], "event.log", "a")

A: This may be useful, but it appends content to current file.
Create an array removing \n from each field.
:let lines = ["line1", "line2", "line3"]

And append at the end to current file:
:call append( line('$'), lines )

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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1972 > November 1972 Decisions > G.R. No. L-35384 November 28, 1972 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ANGELITO MATIAS, ET AL.:
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ANGELITO MATIAS, ET AL., Defendants, ANGELITO MATIAS and AGUSTIN DESCALSO, Defendants-Appellants.
Office of the Solicitor General for Plaintiff-Appellee.
David C. Canta, for Defendants-Appellants.
CONCEPCION, J.:
This case is before the Court for automatic review of a decision of the Court of First Instance of Davao del Norte convicting defendants Angelito Matias and Agustin Descalso of the crime of murder and sentencing them to the extreme penalty, with the corresponding accessory penalties, to indemnify the heirs of Hilario Luzano in the sum of P12,000, and to pay the costs.
It is alleged in the information herein that said defendants and one Manuel Armobit, who has not been apprehended, as yet, have committed the crime of murder, in —
"That on or about October 14, 1971, in the Municipality of Sto. Tomas, Province of Davao del Norte, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, the above-mentioned accused, with treachery and evident premeditation, with intent to kill and armed with a dagger, conspiring and confederating with Manuel Armobit who is still at large and mutually helping with one another, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously attack, assault and stab one HILARIO LUZANO, thereby inflicting upon him wounds which caused his death and further causing actual, moral and compensatory damage to the offended party or parties or heirs of the victim.
"That commission of the foregoing offense is attended by the aggravating circumstances of recidivism with respect to accused Angelito Matias."cralaw virtua1aw library
The record shows that when the case was called for arraignment and trial, on June 8, 1972, the following proceedings took place:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"INTERPRETER:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
(Calling the case) — Crim. Case No. 653, The People of the Philippines versus Angelito Matias, Angelito Descalso and Manuel Armobit, for Murder — for Arraignment.
"COURT:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
Appearances.
"FISCAL CASIA:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
Appearing for the prosecution, Your Honor.
"ATTY. PANGILAN:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
Respectfully appearing for the accused, Your Honor, as counsel de officio.
The accused are ready for arraignment, Your Honor.
(To the Interpreter) — Arraign the accused.
(Accused Angelito Matias and Agustin Descalso were arraigned.).
The accused, Your Honor, pleaded guilty.
The accused, Your Honor, through counsel, invoked the mitigating circumstances of spontaneous plea of guilty.
What is the recommendation of the Fiscal?
If Your Honor please. At the time of the commission of Murder, Your Honor, the two accused were serving sentence by virtue of the final judgment which was imposed upon them. There is, therefore, Your Honor, the presence of the special aggravating circumstances of quasi-recidivism under Article 160 of the Revised Penal Code. Under this provision of the Revised Penal Code, the accused should be imposed (sentenced to) the maximum of the penalty and the special aggravating circumstance cannot he offset by any mitigating circumstance.
In view of this, Your Honor, I am respectfully recommending the death penalty on each of the two accused. The penalty of Murder is from reclusion temporal in its maximum period to death, Your Honor.
The decision is reserved to give the Court an opportunity to study the penalty to be imposed on the accused. However, it is observed that there is no allegation in the information that the crime was committed while the two accused were still serving sentence by virtue of a final judgment, and if that is so alleged in the information, in accordance with Article 160 of the Revised Penal Code, the maximum penalty should, therefore, be imposed Unfortunately, the Information fails to allege that, and, therefore, the Court cannot take that into consideration."cralaw virtua1aw library
Thereafter, or on June 22, 1972, the lower court rendered the appealed decision stating that, on October 14, 1971, said defendants were prisoners in the Kapalong Sub-Colony, Davao Penal Colony, together with another prisoner, their co-accused Manuel Armobit, who managed to escape and is still at large; that they met Hilario Luzano, a prisoner trustee, somewhere within the penal colony; that Armobit, who seemed to have a grudge against Luzano, began to assault him with a knife; that, according to an affidavit of defendant Angelito Matias, his co-defendant Agustin Descalso helped Armobit by smashing the face of Luzano with a stone; that, according to an affidavit of Descalso, it was not he, but Matias, who, together with Armobit, stabbed Luzano several times; that, in fact, the dead body of Luzano, with several fatal stab wounds, was found, in a banana plantation; that the three (3) prisoners escaped from the compound after the commission of the crime; and that Matias and Descalso were recaptured in Davao City on October 16, 1971.
It would seem that the foregoing statement of facts by His Honor, the Trial Judge, was based upon the affidavits of defendants Matias and Descalso, attached to the record of the case. The lower court, likewise, adverted to the fact that, although the complaint filed by the prison authorities with the municipal court of Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte, alleged that the defendants had committed the crime charged while serving sentenced by virtue of a final judgment, aside from acting with treachery and taking advantage of superior strength, as well as with evident premeditation, the information failed to mention the first circumstance and merely alleged recidivism, insofar only as Matias is concerned.
Said court, likewise, took into account the prison records of the accused, which, according to the decision aforementioned, showed the following:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"1. Angelito Matias, convicted by the Court of First Instance of Bataan and Davao del Norte of the crime of Robbery with Violence and Evasion of Service of Sentence in Criminal Cases Nos. 6019 and 10928, respectively, and was sentenced to suffer a prison term of from One (1) year, Seven (7) months and Sixteen (16) days to Four (4) years, Two (2) months and One (1) day, and another definite prison term of Two (2) years, Four (4) months and One (1) day commencing on August 18, 1966.
"2. Agustin Descalso, convicted by the Court of First Instance of Manila and Rizal of the crime of Homicide, Murder, and Double Frustrated Murder in Criminal Cases Nos. 88852, 88851, 35640 and was sentenced to an aggregate Ten (10) years, Four (4) months and One (1) day to Twenty-Two (22) years, Eight (8) months and Two (2) days with P3,500.00 indemnity; another prison term of Reclusion Perpetua with P6,000.00 indemnity; and another prison term of from Six (6) years and One (1) day to Fourteen (14) years, Eight (8) months and One (1) day with P7,000.00 indemnity, commencing on December 8, 1961."cralaw virtua1aw library
In a manifestation filed by the Solicitor General, on November 14, 1972, said official recommended that the decision aforementioned be set aside and that the case be remanded to the lower court for new trial, upon the authority of several decisions of this Court, 1 there being nothing in the record to indicate that the meaning of the charges preferred against the defendants had been adequately explained to them and that they were reasonably posted on the import of the plea of guilty entered by them. Said official, likewise, pointed out the fact that the aforementioned affidavits and prison records of the defendants had not been offered, much less admitted, in evidence against them. Yet, they were considered in the imposition of the penalty above referred to.
Said recommendation of the Solicitor General is well taken. As We had occasion to point out recently 2 :jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
". . . it does not appear . . . from the record . . . that the defendants had understood clearly and fully the allegations of the above-quoted information and the implications of their plea of guilty thereto . . . considering the paucity of the record before Us, We are not satisfied that the defendants had a good grasp of the meaning of the allegations in the information against them, as well as the full import of their plea of guilty, and that the Trial Judge was justified in not adhering to the established practice of taking some evidence to be sure, not only that the accused had committed the crime charged in the manner and under the conditions stated in the information, but, also, that the Supreme Court, in the exercise of its duty to review automatically decisions imposing the death penalty, would have sufficient data on record to be reasonably certain about the property of the imposition of said penalty . . ."cralaw virtua1aw library
WHEREFORE, the decision of the trial court should be, as it is hereby set aside, and the case remanded thereto for further proceedings, in accordance with law and consistently with the views herein expressed, without special pronouncement as to costs. It is so ordered.
Makalintal, Zaldivar, Castro, Fernando, Teehankee, Barredo, Makasiar, Antonio and Esguerra, JJ., concur.
1. People v. Apduhan, L-19491, Aug. 30, 1968; People v. Flores, L-32692, July 30, 1971 citing People v. Solacito, L-29209, Aug. 25, 1969; US v. Talbanos, 6 Phil. 541; US v. Rota, 9 Phil. 426; US v. Agcaoli, 31 Phil. 91; People v. Estebia, L-26868, July 29, 1971, citing People v. Bulalake, 106 Phil. 770; and People v. Espina, L-33028, June 30, 1972.
2. People v. Baylosis, L-34014, Sept. 8, 1972.


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Scottville woman struck by truck after jumping out of vehicle.
AMBER TOWNSHIP — A 55-year-old Scottville woman was struck by a pick-up truck Monday night in the 3400 block of Johnson Road, east of Dennis Road. According to law enforcement personnel on the scene, the woman had jumped out of a parked 1996 Dodge Neon car, into the path of a 1994 Dodge Dakota pickup truck.
The Neon was being towed by a 2002 Dodge Dakota pick-up. The Neon's wheels had apparently been frozen, and efforts were being made to unfreeze the wheels by towing the car with a strap. The two vehicles had initially been traveling eastbound. Then, the driver of the 2002 Dakota stopped and unstrapped the vehicles, and turned around, facing east in the westbound lane, beside the Neon.
The driver of the 2002 Dakota then noticed a vehicle heading east from Dennis Road on Johnson Road and attempted to signal the approaching vehicle by flashing the high beam headlights. The 50-year-old Amber Township man driving the approaching vehicle, a 1994 Dodge Dakota pickup truck, slowed down, according to law enforcement on scene, to approximately 25 or 30 mph and attempted to drive around the two vehicles on the south right-of-way/ditch. At that point, the 55-year-old occupant of the Neon, jumped out of the car, into the right-of-way/ditch, and into the path of the on-coming pickup.
The woman was transported by Life EMS ambulance to Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital and then later by helicopter to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital. She had apparently suffered injuries to the head, neck, and ribs. She was initially tended to by off-duty EMS personnel who live in the area. Non of the others involved were injured. Alcohol was not believed to be a factor.
Responding to the scene were Michigan State Police, Mason County Sheriff's Office, Scottville Fire Department, Ludington Fire Department, and Life EMS.


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Publisher Andy Hunter to visit Port Townsend campus in July
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Andy Hunter is the Publisher & COO of Catapult, the Publisher of Literary Hub, and co-founding Chairman of Electric Literature, Hunter and his teams at each organization are exploring literary culture, supporting digital innovation in storytelling, and expanding the community of writers, readers, and publishers.
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Camille Dungy to join the Port Townsend residency in July
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Award-winning poet and writer, Camille T. Dungy, will be joining the Port Townsend residency this summer. She will be giving a public reading on July 15th in the evening, with a workshop the next morning open to current Goddard MFAW students and alumni. Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with this 2019 Guggenheim Fellow!
Dungy's debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History. (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. Her other poetry collections are Smith Blue (Southern Illinois UP, 2011), finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), winner of the American Book Award, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), finalist for PEN the Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (Persea, 2009), and served as assistant editor on Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, 100 Best African American Poems, nearly 30 other anthologies, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, VQR, Guernica, and Poets.org. Other honors include two Northern California Book Awards, a California Book Award silver medal, two NAACP Image Award nominations, two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and fellowships from the NEA in both poetry and prose. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. She lives in Fort Collins, CO with her husband and child.
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Poet Claudia Rankine to deliver 2017 commencement keynote
A photo of poet Claudia Rankine sitting on a couch.
By: Daniel DeVries
Nationally-renowned poet Claudia Rankine, a recipient of the 2016 MacArthur "Genius" Award, will deliver the keynote address at Colgate's 196th commencement Sunday, May 21, in Sanford Field House.
Rankine, the Frederick Iseman Professor of poetry at Yale University, is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; two plays, including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.
Citizen, her bestselling book, received the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award for poetry.
"This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person, forcing the reader — regardless of identity — to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Renisha McBride," NPR said when Citizen was selected as a Best Book of 2014.
Rankine's other works include Nothing in Nature is Private and The End of the Alphabet, and she co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. Her work is also included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present; Best American Poetry 2001; Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century; and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry.
The Baccalaureate speaker for the Class of 2017 will be the Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart, associate rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., where she is the founder of the Center for the Study of Faith in Justice.
Fisher-Stewart spent 20 years working as a police officer for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department before moving to the clergy, and she is known for her work focused on race, social justice, inequality, and policing. She has degrees from the University of Maryland, American University, the University of the District of Columbia, the Wesley Theological Seminary, and she is the author of Community Policing Explained: A Guide for Local Governments.
Rankine and Fisher-Stewart will receive honorary doctorate degrees during the ceremony, as will:
Professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur, Lightman's research in astrophysics has concerned black holes, relativity theory, radiative processes, and the dynamics of stars. He has written six novels, several collections of essays, a book-length narrative poem, several books on science, and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's, the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Salon.
Nell Painter
Princeton University Edwards Professor of American history emerita
Painter is an artist, educator, and historian who has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Antiquarian Society. Painter earned a doctorate in history from Harvard University and an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including the exhibition She Said, She Said: Art and Inspiration in the Work of Nell Painter and Lucille Fornasieri Gold, at the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2014.
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Toys 'R' Us Coming Back?
There may be new life for Toys 'R' Us. The iconic toy story that went out of business last year, may be making a comeback. It was sad for all of us Toys 'R' Us kids when the famous toy store went out of business. Now there may be a glimmer of hope that it will be coming back under a new name.
According to News 10 ABC, just one year after going out of business, a new company has come forward to take over as the parent company. Tru Kids Inc., said Monday that they will take over many of the Toys 'R' Us brands like Babies 'R' Us and even the mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe.
The former chief merchandising officer of Toys 'R' Us is now the president of Tru Kids Inc. which is headquartered in Parsippanny, NJ.
Don't get too excited, though, right now there are only plans to open seventy stores in other countries. There are details to open U.S. stores but they haven't finalized them yet. The new company is exploring options of opening stores, pop-ups and partnerships.
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Displays featuring online beauty gurus hit stores the last few months as CoverGirl launched a new influencer program featuring nine social stars on in-store displays.
To help consumers shop the looks they love on social media more easily. In addition, larger brands are finally getting the picture that real people can relate most to the people we see in our favorite social media apps. By working with the influencers to create specific makeup looks using CoverGirl products and featuring how-to posts on their social feeds, the brand was able to "bridge the gap between online content and offline commerce," said Laura Brinker, vp, influencer marketing, consumer beauty at Coty.
Earlier on around Sept. 8, the Federal Trade Commission revealed that it had settled a case against influencers who had failed to properly make consumers aware of their relationships with brands and issued a warning to others. "Influencers should be aware that they're violating the law if they don't clearly disclose their material connections to brands," said Maureen Ohlhausen, acting chairman of the FTC, in a video posted on Twitter.
Unlike one-off collaborations, these deeper, longer-term, more engaged relationships give brands the time to work with influencers to make sure each post is transparent and meets the FTC's requirements while also creating content that will get influencers' fans interested in buying their products.
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