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A Lenda da Chama Verde (no original, Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame) é uma história em quadrinhos americana escrita por Neil Gaiman. Dentre os doze profissionais responsáveis pela arte - todos amigos pessoais de Gaiman - estão os premiados desenhistas Mark Buckingham, John Totleben e Matt Wagner e o colorista Matt Hollingsworth. Estrelada por Superman e por Hal Jordan, então um dos "Lanternas Verdes", foi originalmente concebida por Gaiman em 1988, à pedido de Mark Waid, então um dos editores da revista Action Comics Weekly, mas, por seu enredo entrar em contradição com certos elementos da continuidade fictícia das histórias dos dois personagens, ao estabelecer que ambos sabiam a identidade secreta um do outro, acabou não sendo produzida.

Em 2000, mais de dez anos depois do previsto, e superados os problemas de continuidade, Gaiman e a editora resolveram enfim publicar a história em uma edição especial, mantendo o roteiro inalterado. Na história, os dois personagens se unem após Jordan procurar Superman em busca de conselhos por estar questionando seu próprio valor como super-herói. A conversa entre os dois os leva a um museu onde encontram, em exposição, uma relíquia improvável: uma bateria energética similar à utilizada pelo próprio Lanterna Verde.

Antecedentes e contexto

Em 1986, durante três meses a revista Action Comics deixou de ser publicada, por sua relação com Superman. Entre outubro e dezembro daquele ano o único título protagonizado pelo personagem seria a minissérie The Man of Steel, escrita e desenhada por John Byrne, que fora contratado pela editora para reformular o personagem, criando inclusive uma uma nova origem, após o evento "Crise nas Infinitas Terras", responsável por desconsiderar da continuidade todas as histórias publicadas desde 1938. Seria a partir de The Man of Steel que seriam contadas as novas histórias do personagem, estabelecendo um novo cânone.

Com a conclusão da minissérie, Byrne assumiu os roteiros e a arte tanto de Action Comics quanto da revista Superman. Action ele escreveria a partir da edição 584. até a edição 599. Em 1988, após a revista atingir a histórica marca de 600 edições publicadas, a DC Comics tentaria, a partir de agosto daquele ano adotar um formato de antologia, adotado nos primórdios da publicação, lançando a revista numa periodicidade semanal. A mudança duraria até junho do ano seguinte, e compreenderia as edições 601 à #642. À época, a editora havia cancelado a revista Green Lantern Corps, e o personagem Hal Jordan, então um dos "Lanternas Verdes", passou a ter suas histórias publicadas exclusivamente em Action Comics Weekly.  Dentre os personagens que tiveram histórias curtas publicadas na revista durante este período estão, além de Superman e do Lanterna Verde, Asa Noturna, Canário Negro, [Deadman]], Falcão Negro e o Vingador Fantasma.

Produção

Em 1989 a DC Comics, insatisfeita com o resultados obtidos por Action Comics Weekly, tanto em logística quanto em vendas, decidiu encerrar o "experimento" e retornar a revista ao formato mensal de publicação anteriormente adotado.

No posfácio de A Lenda da Chama Verde, o editor Mark Waid relembra as circunstância em que se encontrava a revista como "caóticas". Por mais que a ideia de tornar Action uma antologia fosse um ótimo conceito, e tivesse gerado boas histórias, demandava um corpo editorial desproporcional para uma única revista: "continuadamente [Waid e mais de sessenta profissionais] nos víamos no olho do furacão, ajudando a coordenar, a cada semana, mais escritores, desenhistas, arte-finalistas, letristas e coloristas que a maioria das editoras empregavam num ano inteiro... tudo para a única revista de toda a linha editorial da DC que não podia ser lançada fora do prazo".

Waid contratou o escritor inglês Neil Gaiman, então desconhecido do grande público, para escrever a última edição, numa história que reunisse Jordan, uma das estrelas da revista e um dos personagens favoritos do escritor, com Superman e alguns dos personagens publicados durante aquele período. uma única história que encerrasse Action Comics Weekly definitivamente.

Gaiman inicialmente utilizaria o personagem Etrigan, mas, durante a semana em que discutiu o enredo com Waid, este lhe informou que o personagem não poderia ser incluído na história. A temática das histórias protagonizadas por Jordan à época serviriam de mote para o roteiro: uma vez que o personagem vinha enfrentando uma crise pessoal, a sua caracterização na história seria afetada por isso:

Gaiman e Waid já haviam inclusive cogitado contratar Mark Buckingham para ser um dos desenhistas, mas um dos elementos do roteiro impediu que a história fosse publicada: Jordan e Superman sabiam a identidade secreta um do outro, mas a reformulação promovida por John Byrne havia estabelecido o oposto.. Embora algumas histórias publicadas no período ignorassem a reformulação e mantivessem as caracterizações anteriores, e mesmo com a própria linha editorial de Byrne sofrendo com a falta de apoio de parte da editora em promover as mudanças realizadas com Superman [Mike Carlin]], editor do personagem, pediu à Gaiman que alterasse seu roteiro. Quando este preferiu não modificar a história, Elliot S! Maggin acabou sendo contratado para escrever um novo roteiro para a última edição e a história original, arquivada.

Lançamento

Nos anos seguintes ao arquivamento do roteiro, Gaiman se tornaria uma celebridade mundialmente, em particular pelo trabalho exercido na revista Sandman. , em 1996, a DC Comics propôs à Gaiman colecionar, num único volume encadernado, os primeiros trabalhos dele para o selo de histórias adultas Vertigo, pertencente à editora. A editora Karen Berger sugeriu que um roteiro não-aproveitado de Gaiman para a linha fosse enfim utilizado, e perguntou se Gaiman ainda tinha uma cópia desse script. Ao encontrá-lo, Gaiman recordou-se de outro roteiro: o proposto para Action Comics Weekly anos antes.

Gaiman contatou Mike Carlin, questionando se o problema de continuidade que havia vetado a história anteriormente ainda existia. Carlin afirmou não ver objeções e Gaiman entrou em contato com Bob Schreck, que assumia naquele dia as funções de editor na DC Comics. Superada a questão da continuidade fictícia, um problema real surgiria: nem Gaiman nem a DC Comics tinham arquivada uma cópia do roteiro após tantos anos. Gaiman recordou-se de ter presenteado um amigo - Brian Hibbs, proprietário da gibiteria San Francisco's Comix Experience -  com uma cópia do roteiro, mas Hibbs viu que não mais a possuía. O imbróglio só se resolveria após Hibbs contatar um amigo pessoal seu, James Barry, para quem ele havia feito uma segunda cópia do roteiro. De posse do roteiro original, Schreck passou à promover a produção da história.

Sua publicação no Brasil foi na terceira edição da revista Wizard Brasil, da editora Panini Comics,. om a peculiaridade de terem sido omitidos o prefácio escrito por Gaiman e o posfácio de Waid, presentes no original.

Características

A capa de A Lenda da Chama Verde foi feita por Frank Miller e a história possui 38 páginas, dividida em 9 (um "prelúdio", quatro "capítulos", dois "interlúdios estranhos" e um "epílogo") partes, cada uma desenhada por um artista diferente:

 Eddie Campbell é responsável pelo "prelúdio", situado em 1949 e estrelado pelos Falcões Negros;
 Mike Allred (creditado como "Michael D. Allred"), Terry Austin e Mark Buckingham são responsáveis pelo "capítulo um". Allred e Austin são, respectivamente, o desenhista e o arte-finalista da primeiras seis páginas do capítulo, enquanto Buckingham desenhou sozinho a outra metade. É durante a porção de Buckingham que a Mulher-Gato. az uma breve aparição;
 John Totleben é responsável pela arte do "capítulo dois", quando Superman e Jordan encontram-se com Deadman;
 Matt Wagner é responsável pela arte do primeiro "Strange Interlude" ("Interlúdio Estranho"), protagonizado pelo Vingador Fantasma. O título é uma referência ao personagem, que originalmente se chama "Phantom Stranger";
 Eric Shanower e Art Adams (creditado como "Arthur Adams") são responsáveis pelo "capítulo três", onde os dois protagonistas viajam ao inferno. Adams, costumeiramente um desenhista, atua como arte-finalista de Shanower;
 Jim Aparo é responsável pela arte do segundo "Strange Interlude";
 Kevin Nowlan é responsável pela arte do "capítulo quatro", quando é finalmente revelada a origem da Lanterna Verde e da Chama Verde;
 O cartunista Jason Little é responsável pela arte do "epílogo".

Com exceção das páginas desenhadas por Nowlan, que foram colorizadas pelo próprio, toda a edição, incluindo a capa, foi colorizada por Matt Hollingsworth. Todd Klein, além de atuar como letrista, contribuiu adicionalmente elaborando o logo utilizado na capa.

Enredo

Sinopse
A Lenda da Chama Verde transcorre da seguinte forma:
Durante o epílogo, situado na Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma Lanterna Verde é encontrada pelos Falcões Negros numa casamata na Europa. Quarenta anos mais tarde, Hal Jordan procura Clark Kent em Metropólis para conversar e os dois acabam indo à uma exposição num museu sobre a qual Clark tem de fazer uma reportagem. Hal avista o que parece ser a lanterna usada por Alan Scott e, ao tentar recarregar seu anel nela, provoca uma explosão, que mata ele e Superman. A alma dos dois personagens vai para, nas palavras de Deadman, "o lugar onde as pessoas vão antes de irem para onde tem que ir". Hal tenta tirá-los de lá, e acaba jogando-os no inferno. Após nova tentativa, eles retornam ao museu, mas se veem dentro da Lanterna Verde, onde se encontram com a energia que reside ali, a "Chama Verde" do título.

A energia demonstra ter consciência e revela que foi quem os trouxe ali. Ela tenta seduzir Hal Jordan e fazê-lo abandonar o poder dos Guardiões para ser seu servo, mas o Vingador Fantasma aparece, e auxilia Hal a derrotar a Chama Verde. O Vingador se apresenta aos heróis e liberta seus espíritos, retornando-os para seus corpos. O Vingador parte, levando consigo a Lanterna Verde e Hal, que viera falar com Clark sobre o heroísmo no qual estava deixando de acreditar, vai embora reanimado.

Principais personagens
 Hal Jordan: Hal, durante o período em que se situa A Lenda da Chama Verde, atuava sob a alcunha de "Lanterna Verde". Enquanto personagem, Jordan surgiu em 1959, na revista Showcase #22 e foi criado pelo roteirista John Broome como parte da reformulação promovida pelo editor Julius Schwartz para recriar os personagens do Universo DC durante o período entre 1956 e 1970 que posteriormente convencionado por estudiosos como a "Era de Prata" dos quadrinhos.. urante a "Era de Ouro" (1938-1950), um personagem completamente distinto - Alan Scott - era publicado pela editora com o mesmo codinome e, apesar de também ter um anel carregada por uma bateria como fonte de seus poderes, era um super-heróis que possuía uma origem completamente diferente, sem relação com a Tropa dos Lanternas Verdes a qual pertencia Jordan;
 Superman: Durante a década de 1950, a necessidade de se criar histórias "mais leves" frente à instituição do Comics Code Authority, uma organização americana que impôs uma série de regras que visavam impedir que as histórias influenciassem negativamente as crianças do país, seria imperiosa na caracterização do personagem: os conceitos de "bom-mocismo" começariam a ser fortemente representados. e os atos do personagem fariam com que ele fosse visto de forma pouco elogiosa como um "super-escoteiro". Amplamente considerado o mais conhecido super-herói de todos os tempos, o personagem é visto como "referência" dentre seus colegas do universo ficcional em que transcorrem suas histórias,  é procurado por Jordan para aconselhamento;
 Vingador Fantasma: Um dos personagens favoritos de Gaiman, é definido pelo autor como "alguém que não tem sua própria história, mas que entra nas histórias de outras pessoas".

Importância canônica
Por ter não ter sido rotulada como parte da linha de "histórias alternativas", situada fora da continuidade do universo fictício da editora, quando do seu lançamento, A Lenda da Chama Verde é presumidamente parte do cânone da DC Comics. Gaiman abordou a questão em sua introdução:

Na história, a "Chama Verde" releva-se uma forma de energia senciente e fica estabelecido que o anel de Alan Scott foi energizado nela, uma fonte de energia semelhante à presente no planeta Oa que foi separada deste quando da criação da Bateria Central dos Lanternas Verdes. A "Chama Verde" corresponderia à energia mística, julgada "caótica" pelos Guardiões do Universo. Expelida, ela veio à Terra e atingiu a China antiga na forma de um meteorito, o "Coração Estelar". O meteorito foi moldado por um artesão na forma de uma lanterna, a qual chegou na década de 30 às mãos de Alan Scott, o Lanterna Verde da Era de Ouro dos Quadrinhos durante um acidente de trem, salvando sua vida..

Repercussão
Eduardo Nasi, do site brasileiro "Universo HQ", avaliou a história com uma cotação de quatro (em cinco) estrelas, notando que os "bastidores" de sua publicação chegavam ser mais excepcionais que sua qualidade literária: "As oito partes da história mostram desde a descoberta da antiga bateria até uma visita dos dois heróis ao inferno. Não é algo excepcional e está longe de apresentar o poder criativo que Gaiman mostrou em Sandman, mas a origem da revista é tão rica que a torna absolutamente interessante. A começar pela idéia de fazer Superman conhecer os nove círculos (uma sugestão de Alan Moore - e, como homenagem, a visão do inferno é a mesma que o autor usou em O Monstro do Pântano)." O blogueiro Brian Cronin, em postagem publicada pelo site americano "Comic Book Resources", incluiu a história dentre as histórias cuja leitura ele recomendaria, durante a série de textos "A Year of Cool Comics". Segundo Cronin, o roteiro de A Lenda era "uma incrível jornada" e a arte da revista a tornava uma edição que precisava ser comprada. Chris Sims, também do Comic Book Resources, descreveria o roteiro como "muito bom" ao detalhar os percalços pelo qual o mesmo teve que passar para ser publicado.

Bob Rozakis, em resenha publicada no site americano "Silver Bullet Comics", também elogiaria a história, apontando que o roteiro antecipava muitos dos temas que Gaiman trabalharia em Sandman e que teria sido um fim apropriado para Action Comics Weekly. Apenas a arte do cartunista Jason Little seria considerada inapropriada por Rozakis, ainda mais se em comparação com os outros artistas da história.

Por outro lado, Graig Lemon, também para o "Silver Bullet Comics", apresentou uma crítica amplamente desfavorável, criticando tanto a arte irregular quanto o roteiro de Gaiman: "Talvez à epoca fosse [um roteiro] extraordinário, mas agora, após tantos trabalhos de qualidade, não presta. Talvez devesse ter sido atualizada para o século 21, talvez devesse ter sido desenhada por um único artista, talvez devesse ter expandida para 48 páginas e rotulada um Elseworlds. Mas não deveria ter sido lançada desta forma, pois simplesmente não vale o dinheiro gasto".

Bibliografia

Ligações externas

Lanterna Verde
Histórias de Superman
Revistas em quadrinhos de Superman
Quadrinhos Team-ups
Revistas em quadrinhos de Neil Gaiman


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Elyce Monet
President & Artistic Director
Larry Rosenberg
Constance Patrick
Rick Ward
Boardmember
Esther Henselmans
Sheila Knies
Jeanie Carroll
Vocal Performance Lead Instructor
Maneesha McClure
Creative Dance Instructor
Shana Eva
Acting Instructor
Shondra Jepperson
Guest Lead Instructor/Vocals, Acting
Danielle Glick
Asst Vocal & Acting Instructor
Elyce Monet, President & Artistic Director
Elyce Monet created Parangello Players in 1986 in Vancouver, Washington, operating Parangello Players Theater and Parangello Players Center for the Performing Arts, a school that trained thousands in Dance (ballet, jazz, ballroom, tap, HipHop) Vocal Arts (voice for stage, singing technique & performance), Acting (private and group), Arts & Crafts, Fitness Arts (tumbling, Tai Chi) Junior Modeling, Stage Combat, Musical Theater Performance, and more. There were 19 instructors at its peak. The school's final task was working with the City of Portland on a Youth At Risk project in 1995 with over 60 Middle School youth. The Theater Company produced 2 to 3 full plays (usually musicals) per year, with audiences amassing up to 2000 per run. All shows were family oriented. The Columbia Arts Center in Vancouver, Washington hosted our full length plays, while our Mystery Shows were mobile at Country Clubs and Universities throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Clark County Arts Council awarded Parangello Players annually for its community service and its role in character building, skill building and support of children through the arts.
As an artist, Elyce has personally excelled, winning awards from music associations, including Rising Star Female Entertainer of the Year, Songwriter of the Year in 1995 and 1996, and Dancer of the Year in national Las Vegas Competitions. She has written and recorded several CD projects in several styles, including country-funk, swing, and smooth jazz. After moving to California, Elyce produced "Keeping It Real: The Keys To Health & Happiness" at the Thousand Oaks Civic Auditorium where Dennis Prager, Mariel Hemingway and Robert Ferguson performed to an audience of 1800+. It was dubbed, "Cirque du Soleil meets Dancing with the Stars" and included 5 time World Champion Latin Dancers Melissa Dexter & Giacomo Steggaglia and Cirque du Soleil performer Stephan Choiniere. This V.I.P. event was sponsored by Gaiam International and Sweet Leaf Stevia.
Now in Sedona, Arizona, Elyce is happy to recreate the same models that were successful over the last 30 years by collaborating with other arts organizations and performers to bring to Sedona After-School Programs, Interactive Mystery Theater Events, and complete productions and new creative arts initiatives.
Larry Rosenberg, Vice President
Larry J. Rosenberg, PhD (in Marketing), has spanned several genres; marketing professor, business consultant and coach, management trainer, holistic healer, and show business creator and performer. He has been a Board Vice President for 6 years.
Larry's 50-year-long professional career started as an Associate Professor of Marketing at New York University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Based in Tokyo, he was the Executive Director of University of Maryland University College's International Business & Management Institute, for which he presented training programs to managers on five continents.
Larry is the Founder and CEO (Chief Entertainment Officer) of The Larry Show. This venture provides Wisdomtainment (accumulated life wisdom and creative on-stage entertainment), through one-man musical shows, creative growth workshops, motivational speaking, and life coaching. He has performed his one-man musical comedy shows more than 40 times in America, Australia and Scotland.
Larry earned a BS degree from Drexel University, and a MBA and Ph.D. degrees (in Marketing) from The Ohio State University. He has completed trainings on group dynamics, creativity, brain education, holistic healing, yoga teaching, integral philosophy, and spiritual awareness.
As a show business entrepreneur, writer and performer, Larry has been called the minister of joy, cheer-giver and poster boy of It's never too late to revitalize your life. His message is how to live an authentic and fulfilling life by healing, growing and sharing oneself in order to contribute to a world of love, joy and peace
Constance Patrick, Boardmember
Constance (Connie) Patrick is not only a member of the Parangello Players Board of Directors, she is also an instructor. After spending a number of years in Education as both a high school Instructor and Department Chair, Constance's career navigated through several industries with Best Western Hotels International, Spiegel Catalog, AARP, National Catalog Corporation, Cendant Travel, McKesson Health Solutions, California State Automobile Association, and CVS/Caremark. She honed her business acumen through customer service roles as Operations Manager, Regional Manager, and Director of Customer Service. Her expertise in Training and Development contributed successfully to managing teams and meeting annual business goals.
Strengths in business include end-user operations and operational planning, resource allocation, implementation and maintenance of "just-in-time" agents, training and facilitation, project management, customer relationship development, engagement in enterprise values and vision. She has been a key contributor to customer service mastery programs, and was an integral part of converting a contact center into a "Center of Excellence".
But Connie is also adept at the Performing Arts. An avid writer and performer of Poetry and Spoken Word, Connie is know throughout Sedona as one of the go-to talents for a host of shows of all kinds.
Constance has a B.A. in Education from Arizona State University, and advanced studies in English, Education and Psychology.
Along with her professional strengths, Constance participates in community initiatives: Habitat for Humanity, Walk for the Cure, United Way, Phoenix Children's Hospital, and annual drives to replenish local food banks. She is an actress and poet, performing often at the Sedona Hub in Sedona, Arizona. Her contributions to community earned her host companies valued recognition as Business Leader of the Year, and Governor's Business Leader of the year.
Rick Ward, Boardmember
Rick Ward has more than 25 years of Executive Leadership, Business Development and Management experience at the Corporate and Private levels. He has a proven track record of success and is considered an insightful and progressive business development professional.
Under Rick's leadership his units at emerging market startups, MCI/ Verizon, Qwest/Century Link and XO Communications Companies experienced exponential growth in market share, sales, acquisition, service and distribution. His organizations were very efficient and well managed. Their net revenue growth consistently outpaced market expectations and was often rewarded and recognized as the model for success.
Rick's transferable skills in leadership, business and market development have allowed for the same success with new business ventures such as Skytel/Blackberry, Straightshot and Ipiphany mobile Communications Companies and Alternative Energy products company, Trusheen Nano Inc. (Rain X products)
As an entrepreneur in the Art Entertainment space with BTMB Entertainment, Rick saw an opportunity to restore the lost elements of music and its basic foundation of theory. This journey to Bring The Music Back/ BTMB to a common place of the much needed and learned form of expression has opened a door to, and shined a light on the issues of our society and the need for artistic expression as the healing force of humanity. Understanding and appreciating the origins of music is paramount to its sustained art form and building a bridge between traditional music and progressive beats for a shared experience has been the driven force behind BTMB. BTMB is a full service entity for music, artist development, music and film production, distribution and music business education. BTMB artist and producers have seen their works get nominated for Grammy's, picked up as pilots or bought as concepts.
Tireless, relentless and driven by success through servitude, Rick and his wife Rochelle give of themselves to various humanities and arts based nonprofit organizations. Rick's belief is that "When YOU believe in your purpose to serve, go for it with faith and trust knowing through the spirit of service you are doing your part in making the world a better place".
Rick and Rochelle are affiliated with, members of, or board members for:
WISE Place: Rehab and shelter for battered and abused women
Cayenne Wellness Center: Sickle cell research foundation
M.A.G.I.C Inc.: Academy of the Arts
Pacific Symphony: Orchestra foundation
ASCAP/ American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers
Esther Henselmans, Boardmember
Esther Henselmans is a member of the Parangello Players Board of Directors as well as an instructor. As an artist, she will be focusing on combining forces with earth and mixed media art in order to assist youth to find their authentic selves.
Esther is known for her support of the arts in all mediums, particularly in theater, having worked for both Parangello Players and Red Earth Theater. She is a consummate administrative support as well as having expertise in donor acquisition, raffles and silent auctions. She has run two auctions for Parangello very successfully!
From the Netherlands, Esther still carries the "little dutch girl" personae and the hint of an accent that people cannot help but open up to with her big heart and interpersonal skills. She is truly a find for Parangello Players, and we are very proud to have her join the Board!
Sheila Knies, Boardmember
Sheila Knies is a licensed high school Spanish teacher with a BA Degree from SUNY at New Paltz. In addition, she studied in Spain at La Universidad de Oviedo. She received her Masters Degree in Bicultural/Bilingual Education from the University of Texas in San Antonio.
After years of studying various forms of metaphysics, she organized psychic fairs in the New York area. A strong believer in education, Sheila founded Psychic Seminar where people could not only receive psychic readings, but they could also take spiritual awakening classes and attend regular lectures. Her own psychic gift allowed her to select psychic luminaries such as Suzane Northrop, John Edward (Crossing Over), Deanna Davino, Joyce Keller and many more to work at her functions. She was considered a pioneer while hosting one of the first, if not THE first metaphysical show on cable TV. She then went on to manage Body, Mind and Spirit, American Psychic Network, Psychic Discovery Network, Crystal Psychics and 1-800-Predict psychic lines.
The entertainment world seemed to go hand in hand with her life's journey. She managed Actor's School for the Performing Arts for several years and eventually became part owner of the academy. Starting Take One Talent Agency in southern Florida was her next step. After 8 years of matching talent with casting companies, she moved to Hollywood, California and evolved into being a Casting Director herself. Though she cast several types of projects, her specialty became casting kid's commercials for several Fortune 500 companies.
Jeanie Carroll, Lead Vocal Instructor
Jeanie Carroll, known for being the K-8 Music Educator with the Sedona-Oak Creek School District for the last 17 years, has been a professional singer and musician for many years. She recently recorded the popular song Sedona Your Heart Is Mine written by composers Terrie Frankle and Fred Shinn which is available on CD & DVD on cd Baby and other websites. She has a successful DJ business called Arizona DJ Music & More! and is hired to provide music for ceremonies, receptions, parties, and corporate events. She is also a wedding officiant. Jeanie's talents are extremely diverse as she enjoys performing a wide variety of music styles. You'll find her singing barbershop harmonies with Red RockAppella, Big Band standards with Sentimental Journey, Choral Music with the Flagstaff Master Chorale as well as in popular duos and combos. Summer 2015, she performed at the St. Louis Cabaret Conference under the tutelage of Marilyn Maye and Peisha McPhee. "What an incredible experience!" She also loves acting and has appeared in several FLOC and Theatrikos productions. In November, she will a townsperson in "Brigadoon" in Flagstaff. An avid she has a degree in French with minors in Spanish and Italian and has lived and performed in France, England and all over Europe. Jeanie created the Annual International Festival Of Food & Song where her young K-5 students sing in foreign languages as Ambassadors of Peace representing various countries.
Jeanie is bringing Vocal Performance to our Arts After School Program and we are delighted to have someone of her experience and caliber working with our children!
Maneesha McClure, Creative Dance Instructor
Maneesha McClure is a world-renowned dance and transformation therapist. She has extensively trained in Expressive Dance, Therapeutic Hypnosis, Inner Child and many other therapies, including Metaphysical Reading, Metaphysical Energy, Emotional Freedom, and Subtle Body Healing. She has been on the path of meditation since 1973. For many years, Maneesha has been offering groups, classes, trainings and individual sessions in Europe, the USA, China and India with her work, Dance Energy Transformation, a life-changing process using the power of Expression of dance, self-acceptance through the heart and meditation as a therapeutic process. Maneesha lives in Sedona, Arizona, USA, and is the director of The Institute for Dancing.
Shana Eva, Acting Instructor
Shana Eva was born with a passion for the Performing Arts. By the age of three, she began her studies in various forms of expression such as creative writing, dance, cheerleading, singing and acting. As a teenager, she was captain of her competitive Hip Hop dance team and found great joy in co-creating with her peers. By 18 years old, Shana began teaching dance and acting to youth ages 5 to 15 while simultaneously working as a professional actress in the local Miami area. After several years, however, she felt it time to try her skills in the "big leagues" and relocated to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of further opportunities. Once acclimated, Shana was fortunate to find early success in the entertainment industry and continued her collegiate studies in theater and music. She regularly performed with her sketch comedy troupe, "Dirty Cues", whose viral sketches earned millions of views and a slew of media attention including, Entertainment Tonight and BuzzFeed. She continued to book roles in various films, commercials, TV shows and music videos, allowing her to work alongside such notable names as, Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), and Burt Reynolds.
Currently, Shana hosts her own Blogtalk radio show called, "Heart On Radio", where she uses her background in comedy to offer a light-hearted approach to the exploration of spiritual topics. She continues to work as an actress and film writer with several major projects in development. Shana's mission is to aid in the evolution of humanity through the creation of conscious media. She is determined to bring inclusion and diversity to mainstream media and finds it detrimental to the positive development of youth and society worldwide. Above all, she believes, as we open our hearts in love and service to others, we will unlock Heaven on Earth.
Shondra Jepperson, Acting & Vocals Instructor
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Posted on Thursday June 23rd, 2016 Monday July 4th, 2016 by admin
Mass protests against US presence in Japan
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in angry protests against the American military presence in Japan.
Meanwhile, a Russian delegation has been welcomed to Tokyo to try to break the deadlock which has blocked a formal peace treaty between Russia and Japan since the end of World War II.
It was soon after Japan's defeat in the War that America began to use Japan as a military base.
Nearly 30,000 of the 47,000 US troops stationed in Japan are on the small tropical island Okinawa. Even though they contribute to the economy, their presence there has long been resented by locals.
The anger intensified after a former US Marine was arrested in connection with the death of a local woman in May.
Last weekend, more than 65,000 people demonstrated on Okinawa against the U.S. military presence. A few days later, 7,000 people demonstrated near the parliament building in Tokyo.
The Japanese government knows the Okinawa base is unpopular but feels it has little choice to accept it. In return for its big military presence in Japan, the United States promises to protect its ally against aggression.
Recently the defence links with America were strengthened when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brought in new security laws which commit Japanese forces to defending its military allies, including the United States.
These laws, which seem to stretch the concept of pacifism enshrined in Japan's constitution, are unpopular; studies show that more than half of Japan's population is opposed to them.
However, the need for defence was reinforced by more missile launches by North Korea this week.
Japan's Defence Minister General Nakatani responded by saying the threat to Japan is intensifying.
Official media reported North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as saying "We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theatre."
In the face of such belligerence, Japan wishes to keep the peace with neighbouring countries where it can.
Japan and South Korea recently agreed to expand an emergency communication system between their defence ministries, including a new direct line between their defence ministers.
Japan is also seeking closer military ties with Vietnam, Indonesia and other nations surrounding the South China Sea.
It complicates things that South Korea, Russia and China have territorial disputes with Japan over certain islands and territory.
But with North Korea increasing the pressure and anti-American feelings running high, Japanese diplomats are working hard to prevent its neighbours from becoming enemies.
One Reply to "Mass protests against US presence in Japan"
Dave Allan says:
Monday June 27th, 2016 at 06:49 PM
As we discuss this is a complicated issue both in terms of Japan being seen as becoming more aggressive on the world stage while simultaneously trying to appease the residence of Okinawa and respond to the US's call for a "collective defense" of their homeland and US bases in Japan, Okinawa, and perhaps in the future Hawaii. Additionally, the perception of the US military member having little or no respect for the local population in Okinawa has been something that has built up over time with a much higher percentage of violent crime per capita of the Military members when compared to the local population. This fueled the initial resentment of the bases in Okinawa. This resentment has been further exacerbated by the high handed way that LDP Government in Tokyo has forced the basing on the locals in Okinawa despite repeated local votes that reject the initiative.
This initiative was agree to by both the US and Japan back in 2006, then in 2010 Secretary of State and perhaps future President, Hillary Clinton reiterated the US commitment to move and to "reduce the impact of the U.S. military presence on local inhabitants while maintaining the U.S. commitment to Japan's security". As far as the US Government is concerned this is a done deal and Tokyo needs to make it happen. The move is one of the key pieces of US Strategy in countering much of what they see as a lot of bad neighbors in Japan's part of the world. The US is not going to back away from the 2006 deal. If a Trump Presidency happens, it's possible the rapid completion of this relocation could be one of His major demands on Japan.
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Assessing the quality of neuroimaging data, be it a raw MR acquisition (fMRI run or diffusion- or T1-weighted scan) or the result of a particular image processing task (i.e. reconstructed gray or white matter surfaces) requires human visual inspection. Given the complex nature, diverse presentations, and three-dimensional anatomy of image volumes, this requires inspection in all the three planes and multiple cross-sections through each volume. Often, looking at raw data is not sufficient, especially to spot subtle errors, wherein statistical measurements (e.g. across space or time) can greatly assist in identifying the artefacts or rating their severity. For certain data (such as assessing the accuracy of cortical thickness e.g. generated by Freesurfer, or in reviewing an EPI sequence), multiple types of visualizations (such as surface-rendering of pial surface or carpet plots with specific temporal stats in fMRI) and metrics (SNR, CNR, DVARS, Euler number) need to be taken into account for proper quality control (QC). This process is time-consuming and subjected to large intra- and inter-rater variabilities. The inter-rater variability arises from the costly training and "calibration" between two or more raters using the same annotation protocol. The intra-rater variability sources from the individual rater gain in experience, but also from human errors, including inaccurate bookkeeping, fatigue, limitations of the annotation protocol/settings that hide away or obscure imaging artifacts and other defects, changes in the annotation protocol, etc.
As the datasets have bigger sample sizes and more modalities, there is a great need for developing appropriate quality annotation protocols and corresponding assistive tools. Quality control of neuroimaging data has been studied and reported in different dimensions, including developing algorithms to detect unusable scans built on more (i.e. image quality metrics) or less interpretable features that are extracted from images and through visual screening following a prescribed protocol and visualization tools. However, a common lesson learnt from previous research in multiple modalities is that the accuracy of these "automatic" methods is too low to be relied on for routine usage and that manual visual inspection is necessary.
what kind of preprocessing need be applied before review?
what are the widely accepted definition for old and recently discovered artefacts?
what are the acceptable grades of artefact severity?
what quality metrics should be used for what QC purpose?
what steps of different pipelines must be QCed?
when can we rely on automatic methods?
should we enforce QC to be a requirement for all publications (during peer-review)?
how do we reduce differences in the way QC processes are reported?
These aspects are yet to be widely and openly consulted for considerations towards defining best practices. Such open discussion and wider consultation is necessary to the development of protocols. Establishing a task force would facilitate much needed discussion and encourage wide participation.
In addition to the above discussion, there is a clear need for developing educational resources such as comprehensive manuals (covering all modalities in neuroimaging data, different approaches to QC and curation), as well as easy to use tools that integrate the educational components well with the developed manuals and protocols.
integrating manuals and educational components when possible.
Do we really need more tools? How does this compare to existing tools?There are many great tools now for preprocessing your neuroimaging data (structural, functional or diffusion), but their design and primary purpose tends to be batch processing. Some tools produce useful set of diagnostics to QC their outputs and to troubleshoot the pipeline. However, these pipelines are only a set of ways to preprocess and analyse one's data. For a given dataset, there are many ways to process and analyze it, but QC is common to them all. Hence, separating the QC tools from the processing tools could be valuable. It can also lead to the development of a more comprehensive (broader scope) and sustainable tools (not all types of QC are important for a given pipeline).
non-MR artefacts due to participant (motion etc.) are also common to them. In addition, the origin of many of the artefacts are common, and they vary in their manifestation in specific instances.
spatial alignment checks is common to all modalities e.g. against an anatomical reference, or against other volumes in the same modalities from the same session.
Is developing the tool(s) the only goal?No. In addition to building a tool to assist in quality control, we hope to contribute towards education via a comprehensive manual and regular workshops. For example, the review tool could produce examples of a particular type of artifact when requested, so a [novice] rater could be more confident about their rating. A good way to present an artifact would be to show several different variations of it, clean examples without this artifact present, some background information on the source of this artefact and how to stage it.
working with various Editors and Reviewers to utilize these versioned protocols to minimize misunderstandings of, improve and harmonize data quality.
I'd like to acknowledge the comments and help from Ben A. Inglis, Stephen C. Strother and Oscar Esteban on earlier and other versions of this document, which improved it significantly.


I once rejected the idea of putting up the Christmas tree and decorations before December 1st. That was until I met a group of ladies in an IVF support group twelve years ago. We went through it all, from pregnancy loss, and losing much-loved babies to enduring cycle after cycle with no result. Christmas felt like a mockery, a sneering group event that we weren't invited to, and we dreaded the lead-in to the festive season. Somebody suggested emblazoning our environments early (starting in October), as a way of cheering ourselves and also to state that we were all still here, surviving. To ensure we did as promised, we sent pictures to the group. The joy was contagious, and a tradition was born. Through the ensuing years, some have had a bub, others have adopted and some have reimagined their lives, bringing new dreams forth. We still all put our trees up early. My daughter loves hearing about my friends, and how we supported one another. She also loves this tradition! Hey, the earlier we start celebrating the better to a kid! Each decoration is symbolic of a time and place. Some baubles were made for us, and hold a special place in our hearts. We played Christmas carols and did karaoke. As we switched on the lights, it felt like Christmas had really begun. The frenetic energy of shopping centres and the demands and exhaustion (only adults feel), was replaced with the truth that life is to be celebrated, here and now. No matter what my friend's endured, they made sure those trees were up, and the house wrapped in tinsel and fairy lights. I think of each and every one as we fulfil this tradition, and I still post photos as evidence that we are celebrating early.
Glad you decided to do otherwise. 😊 She's beautiful.
Why not? That way you can enjoy the spirit of Christmas even more and longer!!


Mount Kenya is the largest mountain in Kenya and regarded as being more difficult than Kilimanjaro. The trek encompasses multiple terrains and a whole host of African wildlife is visible throughout the days on the mountain. Watching the sun rise over the vast African plains is a truly unforgettable experience.
Our Mount Kenya Challenge is an 11-day adventure taking place from 21st July-1st August 2019* . Raising Futures Kenya are proud to be working with Dig Deep Challenges to offer this exciting experience. Dig Deep Challenges are a highly experienced and respected challenge event company dedicated to responsible and ethical travel.
Day 1 – Departure – You'll assemble with your group at London Heathrow before jumping on your flight to Nairobi International Airport, Kenya.
Day 2 – Hello Kenya! This is where the adventure begins. You will be met at the airport by a Dig Deep Challenges representative. You will take a private bus transfer to your comfortable hotel In Karen a few miles outside of Nairobi where you will stay the night and recover from your journey.
Day 3 – Transfer to Nanyuki. After breakfast, you will get on a private bus and transfer to the town on Nanyuki in the foothills of Mount Kenya national park. You'll stay the night here and be met by your Head Guide who along with his team will be leading you up the mountain. That evening your Head Guide will give you a short briefing on what to expect on the trek before you enjoy a delicious dinner and spend the night in twin shared rooms.
Day 4 – Trek Day 1 After a good breakfast, you will be transported up to the Mt Kenya National Park Gate – watch out for the baboons emerging from the cloud forest. This day is about finding your feet with a beautiful 4-5 hour gradual ascent through the forest to your camp at 2600m. The path follows the crest of a board ridge between the Northern and Southern Naromoru valleys. The going is easy and it's a pleasant walk through the forest. The trek ends at Met Station 3000m where dinner and overnight rest will be waiting.
Day 6 Trek Day 3 – Time to acclimatise! After breakfast, you will spend a day trekking around the mountain without going further up in order to get used to the altitude. Mount Kenya is renowned for its flora and fauna and your guides will point out anything to be seen and talk about the geology of Mt Kenya. Afterwards, you will return to camp for dinner and rest.
Day 7 – Summit Day! The normal approach is to start at 2am in order to reach the summit in about 4 hours in time for sunrise at about 6.30am. You have done it! At 5199m and the African Plains rolling out as far as the eye can see, the feeling of achievement is overwhelming. After sunrise, descend down to Shipton's Camp for breakfast in about 2 hours and then walk a further 4 hours, all the way back to Old Moses Camp for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8 – Trek Day 5 All things that go up must come back down again, and that is how you'll spend the day. When you're back, you will be met by a Dig Deep Challenges staff member.
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Amsterdam, Lisbon, Porto and Prague lead hotel growth in Europe
24 April 2018 Consultancy.eu
Record tourism in Europe is providing more than enough business to satisfy hotels and the disruptive shared economy led by Airbnb. City hotspots are flourishing across the continent with Amsterdam, Lisbon, Porto and Prague enjoying the strongest growth.
Sidestepping the threat posed by Airbnb and other disruptive accommodation platforms, Europe's hotels are set to enjoy robust growth in 2018. The continent remains the globe's premier travel hotspot, so much so that in some countries the novelty of 'over-tourism' has become a business talking point.
In 2018, hotels in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Porto and Prague are set to be the EU's top performers, according to detailed reporting from PwC. The Big Four firm's 'European cities hotels forecast for 2018 and 2019' used Revenue per available room (RevPar), Average Daily Rate (ADR), and Occupancy rates as key performance metrics in assessing local growth prospects.
Portugal's second-largest city is set to furnish its hoteliers with Europe's highest growth rate in 2018. Porto has enjoyed double-digit RevPar growth for four years running. This year's projected 10.3% growth tops PwC's European rankings despite falling far short of the superb 21% RevPar growth Porto clocked up in 2017. Porto offers more than a romantic getaway. The Atlantic city is a cruise and festival giant and home to a thriving startup and tech industry scene.
Further south, in the capital Lisbon, a humming tourist economy is expected to be boosted by added interest in the Eurovision Song Contest and the Web Summit — billed as the biggest technology conference on the planet. RevPar gains of 7% are being projected this year after 2017's momentous 22% growth. Lisbon has cultivated a strong reputation on the conference circuit and will welcome around 25 new hotels in the next two years. All it needs, suggest the PwC authors, is a new airport to meet demand.
Amsterdam secured second spot on PwC's city rankings. RevPar growth is expected to reach 7.1% but the report emphasises robust ADR gains as being the primary factor behind the Dutch capital's success. Last year, more than 6.6 million tourists swept across the city's canals. In 2019, the European Medicines Agency will complete its move from London and is expected to generate 36,000 extra hotel stays per year.
Prague, a favourite of Russian tourists which also entertains a revolving door of weekend trips from western Europe, should achieve RevPar growth approaching 7%. The Czech Republic as a whole enjoys a reputation as one of Europe's safest destinations, serving it well while France, Germany and the UK endured a wave of terrorist atrocities.
When in Rome?
This top four are set to easily outperform the eight other cities assessed by PwC in RevPar growth this year. Milan and Paris play catch up with projected growth of 3.9% and 3.6% respectively. In Rome, a paltry 1.8% growth rate is expected but the home of the Vatican and Coliseum still outranks Frankfurt and Zurich where negative RevPar growth is a likely outcome.
Measured by occupancy rates, rankings for 2018 adapt slightly with London maintaining the top spot that it won in 2017. Amsterdam, Prague and Lisbon follow, with fellow high-performer Porto sitting in sixth spot. In 2019 Prague is projected to join London as the city with Europe's fullest hotels and a bustling occupancy rate of 82.3%.
PwC is not the only advisory firm conducting in-depth reports into one of Europe's most lucrative but rapidly evolving sectors. Roland Berger has drawn up its own analysis of the continent's top performing cities by overnight stays. Consultancies can expect to play a more advisory role as hotel clients struggle to get ahead of disruptive factors, particularly the emerging shared economy.
For its part, PwC offered some free advice in the report, intimating that hotels would do well to recognise new accommodation networks as a legitimate and permanent feature of the industry. Big data could prove a valuable tool in helping hotels reevaluate their understanding of what attracts guests and what turns them off.
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Every year, someone at work makes these gorgeous snowflakes, and every year we have people comment on how beautiful they are and ask how they are made. Have you ever wondered how to make a 3D Snowflake? They are so pretty and look complex, but in actuality, they are fairly easy to make.
1) If the paper you are using is not yet a perfect square, fold paper over diagonally (make a right angle triangle) and then cut the excess paper off.
You should now have a perfect square.
2) Fold the paper diagonally again, to make a right angle triangle. Fold it over again to make an isosceles triangle.
3) With a pencil and ruler, lightly draw a line about 1/4″ from the folded side of the triangle.
4) Starting on the opposite side of where you drew the line, cut a straight line perpendicular to the line you drew, and stop at the line. Do this 3 times. Then unfold into a square again.
5) Take the opposite corners of the centre "square" and curl them towards each other. Add a dab of glue on one corner and stick the other corner to it. Flip the paper over and do the same to the next opposite corners, flip and repeat, flip and repeat.
6) Repeat this process for the other 5 pieces of paper.
7) Take two completed pieces and glue them together at the bottom.
8) Glue another completed piece on. This is one half of the snowflake. Put it aside.
9) Glue the other three pieces together, as above. You should have two separate halves.
10) Staple the two sides together in the centre.
11) Now staple the sides of each piece to each other.
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Awesome! My kids would love this!
Thanks Nadine. I hope you enjoy making them together!


Yesterday we moved our first beehive to Denman College where we are 'beekeepers in residence'. We had been waiting to make sure the bees had survived the winter. On inspecting the chosen hive we found them to be very active but all up the top eating the fondant and small amount of pollen we had given them. The brood box was very light when we lifted it so they must have completely exhausted all their other stores. Thank goodness we have kept feeding them!
When we got to Denman, we were struck by how sheltered the apiary site is compared to Rosybee which is amongst a flat arable expanse. Its a lovely apiary site, nestled under tree old apple trees at the far north of the gardens. The bees have the full 20 acre garden to themselves and we are not aware of any competing hives anywhere close to their introduction should be benefitial to the local environment too.
Here we are just installing the hive. It will be very interesting to keep bees on two sites and compare the difference in the bees behaviour.
We have kept bees for three years but this is the first year that we have collected swarms. We did not advertise the fact or go out of our way to find them but there were so many swarms in our area (including a few of our own) that we just kept finding them or being told about them. We have now collected 7 in total; a couple have been kept as new colonies, one offered back to a clear 'owner' and the rest merged in with our existing stock with mixed results. The trickiness comes in two elements: 1. Capturing them from wherever they have chosen to land and 2. Then deciding what to do with them.
Until today our bees have been in their original site near our house. But yesterday, when we checked them, we found queen cells so we swung into action and today we attempted to take an artificial swarm. We are completely useless at finding the queen so our method is to move the primed queen cell and a few other frames of brood into the new hive. The frames we took where loaded with bees, which is great for the new colony, but we have to hope that the old queen was not amongst them - it was very hard to check. Then we wrapped packing tape round the new hive and drove it a mile down to Rosybee. We read a trick for persuading the foraging bees not to fly home to their old hive. Apparently you put a tree branch in front of the hive to make the look around when they fly out and say to themselves "Eh up, that wasn't there before. Oh, I see, we're in a different field. I'd better remember that and come back here". Or that is the theory at least.
We have given them sugar syrup to encourage them to draw up the wax on the new frames and now we have to wait and see if a queen emerges and mates. I dont like this stage, when the hive is queen-less but hopefully in about 2 weeks time we will know.
Update 2 days later: yesterday we took a second artificial swarm and repeated the process. It is already apparent that the first hive has retained a lot of 'flying' bees so it looks like the simple process of putting a branch across the front entrance has worked. Great!! and bang goes the myth that you cannot move bee less than 3 miles.
Last Friday the temperature touched 10 degrees so I took the chance to check on the bees. I hate beekeeping in Winter as I always worry that they are starving or being attched by something or dying of disease or, or anything....just because I cant see them and be reassured they are fine. I had noticed recently that one of the hives was lighter than the others and buzzing. In my mind I couldnt decide what that meant: was one hive cold and running out of food while the others were fine or did that mean that the noisy one was ok and the silent ones were dead!
Anyway, I went armed with fondant to top up thier food supplies but what I found was three happy hives with varying amounts of food but all with plenty. In the end I decided it was better not to give them extra food and to let them use up the hard old stores in the super so that they will have plenty of space to fill with fresh honey.
If they all make it through to spring we will have increase our hive numbers from 2 to 3.
Over the Christmas period it was so mild that the temperature rose above 10 degrees on several days so we decided we would take a peek and see how the ladies were doing. So we made our plans and just waited till the wind dropped. The plan was to check food supplies and also administer the dreaded oxalix acid- as per BBKA news advice - before they start laying and the larvae might be damaged. We ended the season with three hives but one was a merge of two that were in trouble and we knew they hadnt put away as much sugar syrup as the other two. Sure enough the hive was lighter and as soon as we lifted off the roof we could see lots of them coming out of the crown board. Apparently this is the classic sign of hungry winter bees; they leave the wamrth of the bee-ball in the brood box and search the entire hive for food. Actually they did still have some fondant but we have them another couple of blocks placed in the eke directly above the brood box.
The other two hives were behaving as you would wish; all quiet when you open the lid and hunkered down in the brood box. Hopefully all three colonies will make it through winter ok.
107 queen cells in one hive!
Last week I wrote my June hive update stating that all was now calm following the swarming madness of April. Well, that was clearly tempting fate and only a week later it has all changed again. The good news is that all three of our hives are now laying down honey again.
The bad news is that in one hive, where last week we squashed a few queen cells, this week we found one capped on (we must have missed one) and 107 new queen cells. Most were just empty cups but quite a few had larvae in.
More worryingly, we couldn't find any eggs - but we did see some very small, 3-day larvae so we are just hoping the queen hasn't vamoosed.
Anyway, even though its now July, we decided to split the hive and force an artificial swarm. There were so many bees that we think the colony can stand it and still settle before winter.
We have both parts of the split colony sugar syrup to help them draw up more wax we will check them again at the weekend so we can see if we have one, two or any queens.
queen cells hatching but after two weeks still no signs of laying in 3 out of four hives.
So, a month on from the first sight of queen cells, we finally have one new and very productive queen. On the other hives it looks fairly desperate; all the brood has hatched, the bee numbers are beginning to drop and the drones are pillaging the honey stores.
In an attempt to salvage something we have merged two of the others back together and added a frame of eggs to see if there is a maiden queen or if they start to develop queen cells. I am not sure they have time to grow a new queen from scratch we so we will also consider buying one once we see what they do.
This is definitely not as easy as it sounds in the books!
So, to recap: we had carelessly let our queen cells get too mature and our old queens swarmed off. Luckily we still had robust numbers of bees left and queen cells in each of our (now) 4 hives. On our last check we found that queen cells had hatched in 3 out of the 4 hives but even after a further 4 days couldnt see either queens or any signs of laying.
We assume that we are waiting for the queens to perform their maiden flights. From what we have read, it can take a few days for the queens to get round to this but its not very clear how long. One source said 1 to 5 days; another said 10 days and yet another said up to 5 weeks! As its already been 3 weeks since any new eggs were laid. By my reckoning the colony will die out in another 3 three so anything longer than 10 days for a maiden flight sounds risky to me.
Id love to see the maiden flight but, unfortunately, I currently work some 60 miles away and I don't think sitting in the field with my laptop, blackberry and mobile is going to happen.
To add to the fun, the last hive to hatch its queens appears to have swarmed again. We had left two queen cells (cant quite bring myself to risk only one) and we thought that risk of swarming was very low because the colony size was reduced from its previous swarm. Well, we were unlucky as our neighbour saw them go past and we have definitely lost more bee stock.
Ah well, we are learning the hard way. I hope we see eggs in at least some of the hives this weekend so we know we havnt lost them all.
R: "was that her? I don't know, she's disappeared round the back now." P: "Hold it still will you? R: "Turn it to the light. She was somewhere over there" P: "I can't see anything. Are you sure you saw her?" R: "No, but I thought I did."
We know both queens are there because they are laying fine and with each check we find fresh eggs. But all the same, without spotting them we feel like really bad beekeepers unable to achieve this mark of competence.
This year we want to try and increase our hives by using artificial swarming. All the methods talk about moving the frame with the queen on into a new brood box. Well, that means we have to find her. At the weekend we spent about 20 minutes carefully checking through every frame and failed to see any sign of them. But we did find queen cells so we will need to decide on our strategy and quick.
I did see a artificial swarming method in a publication recently where you didn't need to find the queen, but having turned the house upside-down last night hunting, I can't find it. Typical! From memory you remove the frames with capped queen cells into an extra box that you place above an additional queen excluder on top of the stack you took them from. Then allow the worker bees to sort themselves out before moving the brood box to a new site.
If any of you have any advice for artificial swarming without knowing where your queen is that would be most welcome.


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These are the apps that drain your phone's battery and storage the most
By Charlie Fripp, Komando.com
Mobile devices are exponentially more powerful than a decade ago in both battery power and capabilities. But that has resulted in more taxing apps being developed. Advanced graphics, added functionality, and improvements in coding ensure that mobile phones are utilized to their full potential.
But not all apps are created equal. While something like Twitter isn't that resource-intensive, mobile games can eat away at graphical capabilities and battery life. Tap or click here for three ways to get more life out of your iPhone or Android battery.
There is a hidden side to mobile apps, though. Several applications that seem innocuous are the biggest culprits for your phone battery draining to a minimum. It isn't always obvious, but apps that utilize many internal functions cause the most chaos.
Here's the backstory
It's nearly impossible to go through the day without using an app. A recent study suggested that 93% of mobile phone users opened a variety of apps daily. Cloud computing company pCloud set out to find the secret phone killers. The apps that drain the most battery power.
For the study, the company looked at three things:
Functions used by the app,
Battery drainage under normal use,
Whether a dark mode is available.
"By combining the results of these three factors, we were able to calculate which of the 100 most popular apps are the most demanding and crown them the ultimate phone killers," pCloud explained in its research.
The biggest culprits? Fitbit and Verizon apps. Using 14 out of the 16 available phone features, both apps scored 92.31% from pCloud's calculations. Both apps made use of high-draining functions like:
Camera for photo and video uploads
Location tracking through GPS
Wi-Fi connections
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Social media is a killer
Rather unsurprisingly, social media and dating apps are also to blame for dwindling batteries. From the top 20 apps on the list, six of those are social media-related. Given that most social media and dating apps allow for location tracking and uploading photos, it's expected.
The top 10 social media and dating apps that kill your battery are:
Facebook (82%)
Instagram (79%)
Bumble (77%)
Snapchat (77%)
Tinder (77%)
Grindr (72%)
Likke (72%)
Twitter (69%)
Houseparty (62%)
TikTok (62%)
Your memory is not what it used to be
Battery power isn't the only precious resource siphoned off by apps. Your phone's memory (storage space) can also lag due to intense requirements from applications. The app that uses the most space might surprise you. It turns out to be the app for United Airlines.
The top 10 apps that take up the most space:
"The study clearly indicates that social media apps are still one of the biggest phone killers when it comes to draining your battery. However, it also highlights that apps such as fitness or travel – which require multiple applications to run in the background – are even more demanding on our phone's battery and storage systems," pCloud concluded.
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The Public Management Evaluation Tool (PET) evaluates five "pillars" of the public policies' management cycle that are considered important for the implementation of Management for Development Results (MfDR): (i) results-based planning, (ii) results-based budgeting, (iii) public financial management (including auditing and procurement), (iv) program and project management (including the public investment system), and (v) monitoring and evaluation of public management. These pillars are broken down into components that track the maturity of institutional systems. The components are in turn composed of indicators and minimum requirements that these systems must have in an MfDR environment. All of these measures (minimum requirements, indicators, components, and pillars) are scored on a scale from 0 to 5, where a 5 indicates an ideal institutional situation.
Results of the Civil Service Development Index (CSDI), obtained from diagnostics of the institutional quality of civil service systems in 16 Latin American countries. The IDB supported the design of a methodology that evaluates critical points to assess the civil services and carried out country evaluations in 2004. Between 2011 and 2013, a second group of diagnostics second group of diagnostics were completed (with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, and in the case of Central American countries and Dominican Republic with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development –AECID- and the Central American Integration System-SICA). Scores are available for 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 (year of second and/or third measurement varies per country). During the first assessment, 93 critical points were identified; each of those fed a subsystem and an index. In 2010 the methodology was simplified to 33 critical points and the base line was recalibrated to ensure comparability. The methodology is based in the identification of critical points that feed 8 subsystems: 1. Human Resources Planning, 2. Work Organization, 3. Employment management, 4. Performance management, 5. Compensation management, 6. Development management, 7. Human and social relations management, 8. HR Function organization; and 5 indexes: 1. Efficiency, 2. Merit, 3. Structural consistency, 4. Functional capacity, and 5. Integrating capacity.


Lucky's Puzzle Carnival is a pack of 3 addictive puzzle games developed by Orbital Cows Software. Play Color Mix, Memory Search, and Unmix all for one low price! Lucky the rabbit runs a popular carnival that mystifies the crowds with its various acts.
The story is set in Venice, you will control a boat up to launch some of the coins, stars, keys and other items, the same shape of the lattice match to go, to rescue the sinking buildings of Venice city.
A creative wallpaper with text marked in bones and a display of varied scary masks. Must have for the season. Download right away.