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View Our Photo GalleryBreast augmentation at our Charlotte plastic surgery practice is performed to enlarge, or augment, a patient’s existing breast size. The procedure is also referred to as breast enhancement or  use of breast implants to provide the added a volume necessary to achieve fuller breasts.
, depending on patient desires. Breast augmentation can also provide desired “cleavage” that would otherwise not be possible. Breast augmentation can also correct breasts of different sizes in order to achieve better symmetry. By can greatly enhance self-image and self-confidence. The patient satisfaction with this surgery is extremely high (over 93 percent)Erik Miles for Female breasts have historically reflected a woman’s femininity and sexuality in cultures around the world. The curvaceous feminine form has been admired throughout the centuries in art, literature, and the media. With the social emphasis that has been placed on the breasts, it is not surprising that so many women seek breast augmentation. This demand continues to increase based on statisticalThe safety and affordability of the procedure have now made it available to a much broader patient population. There is also no longer the stigma related to cosmetic procedures that existed in years past.a patient should never undergo the surgery in orderal and surgical descriptions of breast augmentation techniquearly 1900s. Early breast augmentation methods involved the injection of substances such as paraffin or silicone which was fraught with complications. Prosthetic implantation has been used since the 1950s, and the earliest silicone breast implants were first used in the 1960s. The science and surgical knowledge related to breast augmentation surgery has evolved immensely in recent decades. The technology of implant material has also changed drastically over the years. Although complications can arise with any surgical procedure, these factors have resulted in a historically low rate ofIn the United States, the FDA has currently approved the use of breast implants from three different companies (Mentor, Allergan, and Sientra).
Patient’s currently have more options than evern locations. Most patients opt for an inframammary incision which is underneath the breast, but incisions around the areola or in the axilla (underarm) are also options. Breast implants can be placed in a subpectoral position underneath the muscle or in a subglandular position above the muscle. There are also options for silicone or saline implant types. Within these breast implant types there are further options regarding implant shape and projection. Textured or smooth shell implants are further options. Dr. Erik Miles will spendess discussingwill best fulfill a patient’s goals and desires. Patients will be able to see and feel the different implants during the consultation.
The goal of breast augmentation surgery is to enlarge the size of the breasts refore every breast augmentat Dr. Miles places great importance on the surgical consultation and spends a great deal of time with patients prior to surgery. He will listen to patient’s desires regarding breast size and other concerns related to the appearance of the breasts. As and a. A patient’s medical and surgical history is thoroughly evaluated prior to surgery.
augmentation surgery.  can be performed through an inframammary incision (underneath the breast), a transaxillary incision (in the axilla or underarm area), or a periareolar incision (around the areola). Dr. Miles does not perform breast augmentation procedures through an incision around the belly button. This procedure is referred to as a TUBA, or transumbilical breast augmentation, and has not gained widespread acceptance. More predictable and satisfying results can be achieved through the other incisional approaches. Dr. Miles will discuss which incision option is most appropriate keeping in mind your desires and goals. The type of implant used, the degree of breast enlargement desired, and a patient’s prior surgical history  discussing incision location.
Patients can now Both implant types are very safe s approved saline breast implants and Either implant can be used for reconstructive purposes regardless of agsize, shape, firmness and feel of the breast. Minor asymmetries can often be corrected by using different amounts of saline on each side. Bd into the body, a slightly smaller incision can often be made as compared to a silicone implant which has a prefilled volume that cannot be adjusted. In the rare instance that a saline breast implant leaks, the sby the body and naturally expelled.
Silicone breast implants are filled with a soft, pliable silicone gel. The gel is designed to move and feel much like natural breast tissue. These implants are placed through the incision using a recently developed funnel system (Keller Funnel) that allows for a smaller incision and eliminates the requirement to physically touch the implant. This process is thought to reduce infection and capsular contracture rates. Breast asymmetries are corrected using silicone implants of different sizes. If the silicone implant ruptures or leaks, the gel is usually contained within the breast implant pocket. Because the implants feel so natural, an MRI study is sometimes recommended to assess their condition. There are currently three approved manufactures of breast implants in the United States. These companies are Mentor, Allergan, and Sientra.
Silicone and saline breast implants come in many shapes and sizes. Some are wider with less projection and some offer a higher breast profile. Textured shells are also used at times. Finally, patients can choose between round or anatomically shaped “teardrop” breast implants. The scope of implant choices is complex. The type of implants that will best suit your goals is dependent on your desires, breast anatomy, skin elasticity and body type, and can beDr. Miles. Patients can touch and feel these implants during their consultation to give them a better understanding.
After the incision is made, the breast implant pocket is created. Most of the time, the implant will be placed into a pocket under the pectoralis major muscle. This is called a submuscular position. Other times it can be placed on top of the muscle, directly behind the glandular breast tissue. This is called the subglandular position. This is also an important decision that will be made during the preoperative planning process. Incisions are closed with layers of absorbable sutre. Skin adhesive or surgical tapes are used over the incisions. The incision lines generally heal very well and will fade over time.
What are realistic expectations for a patient undergoing breast augmentation?
Breast augmentation patients are overwhelmingly very satisfied with their results. However, patients need to honestly discuss their expectations prior to surgery to avoid disappointment. The ideal implant size for a particular patient is determined not only by the patient’s desired size increase, but also depends Many patients are not suited for very large breast implants. Breast asymmetry can be greatly improved by breast augmentation, however it is unrealistic to expect a perfectly symmetrical correction. Remember that breast implants simply augment or enlarge the existing breasts. Breast augmentation also does not correct breasts that are severely drooping, or “ptotic.” Some patients will require a breast lift, or mastopexy, the optimum results. Breast lifting can sometimes be performed at the same time as the. These issuesion with Dr. Miles and he will make recommendations about how to best meet a patient’s goals.
Patients should be aware of both the benefits and risks of breast augmentation before committing to undergo the procedure. Phematoma (blood accumulation) around the implant, infection, implant malposition, and capsular contracture. All patients are given antibiotics and infections are very rare; however, an infection that does not resolve may require temporary removal of the implant. Although usually temporary, c Ts is known as the capsule. The capsule may sometimes tighten around known as a capsular contracture and can occur to varying degrees. If recommen Implant rupture is very rare, however when it occurs the implants s should be replaced. Serious complications are rare, especially if patients follow Dr. Miles’ post-surgical instructions carefully during their recovery from breast augmentationgenerally long-lastingSome women seek further surgery after a period of years to once again. Others ch in order to rejuvenate and enhance their breasts simultaneously.
Learn More about Breast Augmentation by Contacting Our Charlotte Practicest augmentation, please contact our Huntersville office, serving patients throughout the greater Charlotte area, today. You can also call our practice at (704) 896-5556t.


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Just then a cloud of dust accompanied by a tinny rattle appeared up the road from the direction of town, but we paid little attention. Aunt Lizzie brushed, and I basked.
Aunt Lizzie's hand twitched at what may have been a tangle, just for a moment. Mama smiled and nodded, and Uncle Ned took the brush. He made a tentative pass with the tips of the bristles, light as a butterfly.
“Humm,” he rumbled, and made another delicate sweep, holding the brush up and letting my hair fall from it in a thin, sun-shot curtain.
That afternoon Maybelle was positively radiant, looking somewhat like a huge poppy. Her dress was pale yellow, loose-bodiced and flounce-skirted, and she wore a floppy yellow hat. However floral she was in outward design, Maybelle was not one of my favorite people, and I ignored her while Mama and Aunt Lizzie muttered something in greeting. Uncle Ned seemed to jerk a little, and I no longer felt the brush against my scalp.
She walked quickly to the gate and stopped. She opened the gate a little, though no one had invited her in.
Suddenly uneasy, I looked from Mama to Aunt Lizzie, and saw that Uncle Ned was slumped into the corner of the swing. He had clasped his long fingers together in his lap, his head was bowed, his chin sagged into the red scarf. Aunt Lizzie, sitting stiff as a porch rail, stared straight ahead, gazing at some fixed point beyond the plowed fields.
Aunt Lizzie lifted her hand and began to brush my hair. The bristles trembled against my scalp. I placed one of my hands over Uncle Ned's prayerful clench. He looked suddenly shrunken, and his only response to my touch was to shrink even more. I sent waves of hate toward Maybelle.
I stared wide-eyed at Mama. Aunt Lizzie hesitated as I felt her eyes lock with Mama's, then she dragged the brush against my scalp. “Brush it hard, Aunt Lizzie,” I begged, and she did.
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Just like that last night, the Mets extricated themselves fromies at Veterans Stadium. Ordonez slugged his first home run since Sept. 18, 1999, and Trachsel hurled seven strong innings of five-hit ball to win his second straight start.
Trachsel hadn’t recorded back-to-back wins in the majors since June 15 last year, when he threw a complete game to beat the Angels 2-1. He beat the Marlins the start before that as a member of the Devils Rays. That’s two teams and 13 months ago.
He also won back-to-back one other time in 2000, and he did it in Triple-A Norfolk during his demotion this year. The Mets hadn’t won two straight Trachsel starts, either.
The outcome of last night’s game was in doubt until the top of the ninth, when the Mets increased a 4-3 lead with two insurance runs. It was just the third time in 30 games that the Mets scored more than four runs.
Burrell, who was 3-for-3 lifetime with three homers and two walks off Benitez, faced the Mets closer in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. Benitez, who had already fanned Travis Lee and Scott Rolen, struck out Burrell swinging to close out his 23rd save.
Trachsel (4-10) allowed solo homers to Met-killer Burrell in the second and Marlon Anderson in the seventh. Burrell’s.
After that shock, the Mets took a 3-1 lead when Joe McEwing and Edgardo Alfonzo reached with one out. McEwing singled to left, and Alfonzo hit a ball in the hole on which shortstop Jimmy Rollins couldn’t make a play. Mike Piazza then bash.
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Tsuyoshi Shinjo (4-for-4) scored an insurance run after doubling to lead off the ninth. His two-bagger actually hit the third-base bag and traveled into left. Jay Payton singled him home, and the Mets loaded the bases with one out. Ricky Bottalico came on to strike out Alfonzo. Ed Vosberg, however, walked Robin Ventura on four pitches to plate another run, and the Mets led 6-3.


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Central to InfoCoding Labs’ packet loss concealment capabilities is the introduction of its revolutionary "cascaded long term prediction" (CLTP) filters, which adapt to the multiple periodic components that constitute the polyphonic music signal at any given time, thus enabling a “divide and concur” technique that separates and predicts each individual periodic component without interference from the others, and recombines the predictions to obtain the best possible estimate of a missing portion of the music signal.
This technology is broadly applicable wherever resilience to audio data loss is required. Typical application scenarios include audio restoration and recovery from damaged media, audio communication to mobile devices and/or over unreliable networks (in various industry sectors including personal, commercial, and defense communications, health monitoring and telemedicine, and more), live and interactive applications (live broadcast with interactive participation of reporters on the scene, teleconferencing, interactive music events/concerts, and a broad spectrum of interactive gaming applications).


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Being stuck in the middle of Wisconsin wouldn’t have been so bad had I had rolling farmland or a moody hardwood forest outside my window, but I was staring at the rusty fire escape in the back of a warehouse.
We had been gone for five days and, with all due respect to Chicago, I was ready to go home.
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“Our pizza takes about an hour to cook,” our server explained. She stopped in case we decided it was too long to wait.
The place smelled fantastic.
It was a good decision. The pizza was three inches thick, and despite sharing a small pie, we took most of it back to the hotel in a take-out box.
I ate a slice of cold pizza for supper the next night as I sat on the bed watching a Cubs game.
The rest of the pizza sat untouched in our mini-fridge for the next two days, facing fierce competition from Chicago-style hot dogs and brunch at a cafe known for its stacks of five-inch pancakes.
We brought the leftover pizza when we changed hotels, intending to finish it before catching our train the next afternoon. We would have too if we hadn’t been uncomfortably full from the breakfast buffet that morning.
Still, the pizza was too good to leave in Chicago, so we found room in a suitcase. We had been eating leftovers for a few days before the trip, and our dining options at home would be limited until we could get to the supermarket. It would be nice to come back with a tasty souvenir.
Admittedly, it was another remnant. But one with a distinguished provenance.
And then our train got run over in Wisconsin.
The rusty fire escape outside my window was interesting for the first 10 minutes. But as the delay stretched beyond an hour, I started thinking about a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
Fight, I tell myself. But I was losing the battle.
After an hour and a half, I was about to remove my suitcase from the overhead rack when the train hopped forward and we were rolling again.
We finished pizza for lunch at home on a Wednesday…a handful of red peppers, a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and 90 seconds in the microwave and it was as tasty as it came out of the oven at the restaurant on Friday night. Almost.


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In image processing and photography, a color histogram is a representation of the distribution of colors in an image. For digital images, a color histogram represents the number of pixels that have colors in each of a fixed list of color ranges, that span the image's color space, the set of all possible colors.
The color histogram can be built for any kind of color space, although the term is more often used for three-dimensional spaces like RGB or HSV. For monochromatic images, the term intensity histogram may be used instead. For multi-spectral images, where each pixel is represented by an arbitrary number of measurements (for example, beyond the three measurements in RGB), the color histogram is N-dimensional, with N being the number of measurements taken. Each measurement has its own wavelength range of the light spectrum, some of which may be outside the visible spectrum.
2 Characteristics of a color histogram
3 Principles of the formation of a color histogram
5 Drawbacks and other approaches
6 Intensity histogram of continuous data
Color histograms are flexible constructs that can be built from images in various color spaces, whether RGB, rg chromaticity or any other color space of any dimension. A histogram of an image is produced first by discretization of the colors in the image into a number of bins, and counting the number of image pixels in each bin. For example, a Red–Blue chromaticity histogram can be formed by first normalizing color pixel values by dividing RGB values by R+G+B, then quantizing the normalized R and B coordinates into N bins each. A two-dimensional histogram of Red-Blue chromaticity divided into four bins (N=4) might yield a histogram that looks like this table:
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A histogram can be N-dimensional. Although harder to display, a three-dimensional color histogram for the above example could be thought of as four separate Red-Blue histograms, where each of the four histograms contains the Red-Blue values for a bin of green (0-63, 64-127, 128-191, and 192-255).
The histogram provides a compact summarization of the distribution of data in an image. The color histogram of an image is relatively invariant with translation and rotation about the viewing axis, and varies only slowly with the angle of view.[1] By comparing histograms signatures of two images and matching the color content of one image with the other, the color histogram is particularly well suited for the problem of recognizing an object of unknown position and rotation within a scene. Importantly, translation of an RGB image into the illumination invariant rg-chromaticity space allows the histogram to operate well in varying light levels.
1.What is a histogram?
A histogram is a graphical representation of the number of pixels in an image. In a more simple way to explain, a histogram is a bar graph, whose X-axis represents the tonal scale(black at the left and white at the right), and Y-axis represents the number of pixels in an image in a certain area of the tonal scale. For example, the graph of a luminance histogram shows the number of pixels for each brightness level(from black to white), and when there are more pixels, the peak at the certain luminance level is higher.
2.What is a color histogram?
A color histogram of an image represents the distribution of the composition of colors in the image. It shows different types of colors appeared and the number of pixels in each type of the colors appeared. The relation between a color histogram and a luminance histogram is that a color histogram can be also expressed as “Three Luminance Histograms”, each of which shows the brightness distribution of each individual Red/Green/Blue color channel.
Characteristics of a color histogram[edit]
A color histogram focuses only on the proportion of the number of different types of colors, regardless of the spatial location of the colors. The values of a color histogram are from statistics. They show the statistical distribution of colors and the essential tone of an image.
In general, as the color distributions of the foreground and background in an image are different, there might be a bimodal distribution in the histogram.
For the luminance histogram alone, there is no perfect histogram and in general, the histogram can tell whether it is over exposure or not, but there are times when you might think the image is over exposed by viewing the histogram; however, in reality it is not.
Principles of the formation of a color histogram[edit]
The formation of a color histogram is rather simple. From the definition above, we can simply count the number of pixels for each 256 scales in each of the 3 RGB channel, and plot them on 3 individual bar graphs.
In general, a color histogram is based on a certain color space, such as RGB or HSV. When we compute the pixels of different colors in an image, if the color space is large, then we can first divide the color space into certain numbers of small intervals. Each of the intervals is called a bin. This process is called color quantization. Then, by counting the number of pixels in each of the bins, we get the color histogram of the image.
The concrete steps of the principles can be viewed in Example 2.
Given the following image of a cat (an original version and a version that has been reduced to 256 colors for easy histogram purposes), the following data represents a color histogram in the RGB color space, using four bins. Bin 0 corresponds to intensities 0-63, bin 1 is 64-127, bin 2 is 128-191, and bin 3 is 192-255.
Color histogram of the above cat picture with x-axis being RGB and y-axis being the frequency.
A picture of a cat reduced to 256 colors in the RGB color space
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Application in camera:
Nowadays, some cameras have the ability of showing the 3 color histograms when we take photos.
We can examine clips(spikes on either the black or white side of the scale) in each of the 3 RGB color histograms. If we find one or more clipping on a channel of the 3 RGB channels, then this would result in a loss of detail for that color.
1.	We know that each of the three R, G, B channels has a range of values from 0-255(8 bit). So consider a photo that has a luminance range of 0-255.
2.	Assume the photo we take is made of 4 blocks that are adjacent to each other and we set the luminance scale for each of the 4 blocks of original photo to be 10, 100, 205, 245. Thus, the image looks like the first figure on the right.
3.	Then, we over expose the photo a little, say, the luminance scale of each block is increased by 10. Thus, the luminance scale for each of the 4 blocks of new photo is 20, 110, 215, 255. Then, the image looks like the second figure on the right.
There is not much difference between figure 8 and figure 9, all we can see is that the whole image becomes brighter(the contrast for each of the blocks remain the same).
4.	Now, we over expose the original photo again, this time the luminance scale of each block is increased by 50. Thus, the luminance scale for each of the 4 blocks of new photo is 60, 150, 255, 255. The new image now looks like the third figure on the right.
Note that the scale for last block is 255 instead of 295, for 255 is the top scale and thus the last block has clipped! When this happens, we lose the contrast of the last 2 blocks, and thus, we cannot recover the image no matter how we adjust it.
To conclude, when taking photos with a camera that displays histograms, always keep the brightest tone in the image below the largest scale 255 on the histogram in order to avoid losing details.
Drawbacks and other approaches[edit]
The main drawback of histograms for classification is that the representation is dependent of the color of the object being studied, ignoring its shape and texture. Color histograms can potentially be identical for two images with different object content which happens to share color information. Conversely, without spatial or shape information, similar objects of different color may be indistinguishable based solely on color histogram comparisons. There is no way to distinguish a red and white cup from a red and white plate. Put another way, histogram-based algorithms have no concept of a generic 'cup', and a model of a red and white cup is no use when given an otherwise identical blue and white cup. Another problem is that color histograms have high sensitivity to noisy interference such as lighting intensity changes and quantization errors. High dimensionality (bins) color histograms are also another issue. Some color histogram feature spaces often occupy more than one hundred dimensions.[2]
Some of the proposed solutions have been color histogram intersection, color constant indexing, cumulative color histogram, quadratic distance, and color correlograms. Although there are drawbacks of using histograms for indexing and classification, using color in a real-time system has several advantages. One is that color information is faster to compute compared to other invariants. It has been shown in some cases that color can be an efficient method for identifying objects of known location and appearance.
Further research into the relationship between color histogram data to the physical properties of the objects in an image has shown they can represent not only object color and illumination but relate to surface roughness and image geometry and provide an improved estimate of illumination and object color.[3]
Usually, Euclidean distance, histogram intersection, or cosine or quadratic distances are used for the calculation of image similarity ratings.[4] Any of these values do not reflect the similarity rate of two images in itself; it is useful only when used in comparison to other similar values. This is the reason that all the practical implementations of content-based image retrieval must complete computation of all images from the database, and is the main disadvantage of these implementations.
Another approach to representative color image content is two-dimensional color histogram. A two-dimensional color histogram considers the relation between the pixel pair colors (not only the lighting component).[5] A two-dimensional color histogram is a two-dimensional array. The size of each dimension is the number of colors that were used in the phase of color quantization. These arrays are treated as matrices, each element of which stores a normalized count of pixel pairs, with each color corresponding to the index of an element in each pixel neighborhood. For comparison of two-dimensional color histograms it is suggested calculating their correlation, because constructed as described above, is a random vector (in other words, a multi-dimensional random value). While creating a set of final images, the images should be arranged in decreasing order of the correlation coefficient.
The correlation coefficient may also be used for color histogram comparison. Retrieval results with correlation coefficient are better than with other metrics.[6]
Intensity histogram of continuous data[edit]
Let f ∈ L 1 ( R n ) {\displaystyle f\in L^{1}(\mathbb {R} ^{n})} (see Lebesgue space), then the cumulative histogram operator H {\displaystyle H} can be defined by:
μ {\displaystyle \mu } is the Lebesgue measure of sets. H ( f ) {\displaystyle H(f)} in turn is a real function. The (non-cumulative) histogram is defined as its derivative.
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By Kellan Olson | August 24, 2017 at 11:59 am
UPDATED: August 24, 2017 at 3:49 pm
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Robbie RayThursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Ray allowed one run (earned) in five nine against the New York Mets Thursday. He was brought off the 10-day disabled list that morning.
In his first four innings, Ray surrendered a maximum of one baserunner each inning. He hit Wilmer Flores in the bottom of the second but retired the next three batters.
His only damage came in the fourth when Cespedes hit a solo home run. Ray calmed down quickly, however, sitting down three consecutive batters after the long ball.
The threat became a bit worse in the fifth when he walked Kevin Plawecki and then Gavin Cecchini singled. The theme continued again, though, as Ray settled and once again would get the following three hitters out.
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Wining and Dining the Count
According to frequent Wooter "D. R. Acula," this wine is "even better than the blood of the innocent." We assume that's a metaphor.
As we ate, I could not help but notice that Count did not have a drink in front of him. Having finished my water, I produced from my bag a bottle of 2011 Joseph Henry Chardonnay. I offered some to the Count, but he politely declined.
I shrugged, and poured myself a glass. It was delicious, and proved a compelling companion for the salad, fish, and poultry laid out before me. While I was distracted by the crisp green apple and citrus flavors, to say nothing of the hint of pear, the Count suddenly materialized behind me. He placed his hand on my shoulder, and with terrible strength pinned me to my chair. In my terror, I nearly shrieked, but the Count suddenly relaxed his grip, having caught a closer glimpse of my bottle.
“Say, is that a 2011 Joseph Henry?” I nodded in terrified assent. “Well, I suppose I could drink … wine just this once.” And we did, and had quite the pleasant evening. We finished up our real estate dealings the next morning, and he sent me off, cheerfully babbling on about “taking London like a lost, under-dressed librarian at midnight,” “flooding Leicester square with the blood of that arthritic old dog Van Helsing,” and how "thanks to your fine wine, there'll be a place for you as a pet in my dark, predatory empire of hedonism." But other than that, really, he seemed a pleasant chap, and he certainly had excellent taste in wine.


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Having addressed most of Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s fundamental principles of interpretation, let’s now focus on their canons.
The ordinary meaning of a word is to be determined not in isolation (how would one possibly choose among the 800 separate meanings that run is said to have?) but rather from the “contextual and idiomatic clues” that surround it (e.g., home run, run on a bank, run in a stocking). (I’m borrowing the run material from a source that Scalia and Garner cite.) Those clues, Scalia and Garner maintain, are usually (but not always) sufficient to convey the meaning a word bears.


Exclusive: Former Man Utd ace urges Van de Beek to leave
Former Manchester United man Keith Gillespie has urged Donny van de Beek to leave the club this summer, telling Football FanCast that he simply hasn’t been given a chance at Old Trafford.
United spent £35m to extricate the Netherlands international from Ajax, where he had become something of a star.
In total, he mals, and he played a key role in in 2018, when they were beaten by Tottenham Hotspur.
Should Man Utd sell van de Beek?
Yes, he's not good enough.
No, he's got something to offer.
Since then, he as only completed the 90 minutes once, in the 3-2 win over Southampton in November.
He has finished the 90 minutes three times in all competitions, also doing so against Watford in the FA Cup, Brighton and Hove Albion in the EFL Cup, and Istanbul Basaksehir in the Champions League.
Gillespie does not think he has been given the opportunity to become a star at United, and has urged him to move on and find a club where he can play regularly, though he believes there will be suitors queuing around the block to snap him up.
He told FFC: “If they have to cut their losses and let him move on, I’m sure there’s plenty of clubs out there who would love Donny van de Beek, so I don’t think it’s going to be a problem in terms of clubs coming in for him, but I think he probably just needs to leave.
“It’s been very unfair on him because from the very off he hasn’t been given a chance.
“He gets the odd game here and there but it’s very difficult to get up to speed when you play one game and then you’re out for five and then you maybe come on for 30 minutes, that’s the way it’s been for him all season.”
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The Fan Legacy: Metal Gear Solid Here's hoping that they also release this fan game on PS4 on a future date. I wonder what Konami is thinking about this project. But since the developers of the project won't charge for it, it's possible Konami will leave it alone, but that's not a sure thing. The sure thing is that I'll denifitely snag this "Fan Legacy" for my laptop once it comes out next month. How about you guys?
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After July, Blogger (run by Google) will stop working with the service that supports automatic email notifications of newposts. That means that even if you've signed up for email notifications on this site (i.e., you are seeing this in your email), you won't get emails after July. I can't commit to maintaining an email list and sending out notifications, so when the emails stop, you will need to visit the website to see updates on meetings, projects, patterns, etc. Maybe set a reminder in your calendar once or twice a month to visit the website and see what's coming up.
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Is anyone else confused on the “divide for armholes” section. I always have to add another round/row in to make it work. Been baffling me for years. Is there a misprint?


Round bars? Anyone try that?
I think the idea has merit. I will be keeping my eyes open for naturally ocurring dowels of sufficient straightness and strength.
Unless you are going to use manufactured dowels, you will find very little "natural" material that is round, but not tapered, and without bumps where the knots are. Many top bar designs are such that the bees are not expected to have access to the top of the bars. You may also find it difficult to seal the top of the hive (to block access to other critters) if the top of the bars is not flat.
Make sure to also look at the FAQ section on the lower part of the page.
One concern I have about round wooden rods used as top bars, is their inherent tendency to bow under the weight of combs and bees. However, if they are 1-1/4" in diameter, or more, this shouldn't be a big concern.
I have done half round. It was the norm for a Greek Basket hive to make them round on the bottom, and I was experimenting with the concept back in the 70s. I tried round and it worked somewhat but they didn't stay as straight as when I sloped them to a point. My initial theory was that matching the slope of the cells would be best, but I found that a steeper angle actually worked better. The more distinct the edge the better, to a point of diminishing returns, of course. A 90 degree facing down (or, depending on your point of view, a 45 on each side) seems to be the point of diminishing returns.
I have a good sized grove of mature Black Bamboo. Anyone in my area is welcome to harvest a bit to try.
Thank you all. We don't have a table saw or appropriate hand planes or draw knives, and ripping bars to width or adding kerfs with a hand-held circular saw seems dangerous LOL.
As I regularly harvest willow here and the regrowth is fairly straight, it occurred to me that perhaps some of the pieces might work for bars. It seems like that might not be the best idea in the world, but I'll keep an eye out for suitable pieces and maybe use one to see what the bees do with it.
So far, for the Warre' hives, I've modified the hive interior dimensions to accommodate bars made of door stop (3/16 x 1 3/16) molding and then glue and nail corner molding to it for comb guides. For the soon-to-be-built horizontal top bar hives, we'll probably end up using 1 x 2 at whatever the dimension it comes in at the store.
...Store bought 1x2s are 3/4" x 1-1/2" in actual dimensions, so that will work well for top bars intended for honey comb. Generally brood comb bars are recommended to be a little narrower than that.
If you do want to make top bars to a specific width, it is possible to do so with a hand held circular saw with reasonable safety. It will, of course, be slower than with a table saw.
Lets say you want 16" bars 1 1/4" wide. Start with say two 8' lengths of 1x10 or 1/12. Clamp them (or screw them) to a flat surface with supporting blocks underneath the 1x10s, except no block under one end, leaving 18" unsupported. (The second board is just there to support the saw foot plate after several progressive cuts.) Then using either a rip guide attached to the saw, or a guide edge clamped to the top of the board, cut a piece 16" parallel to the long edge of the 1x10. Only cut to just past the 16" mark.
Do not crosscut the piece, leaving it attached at one end. Then cut a parallel bar, also to the 16" mark. When you have cut across the full width of the 1x10 into 16" strips, then do a crosscut to cut off those 16" strips. Now shift the supporting blocks and repeat. Not particularly fast, but workable, although you will end up with a stub end of the 1x10 that cannot be safely cut with this method. With this system, buy the longest boards you can transport to get the fewest stub ends.
Fabulous! Thanks Graham! I used to be a drafter and my machine shop grandpa was forever growling about folks in the engineering department having no sense at all. He was right, haha, and gifted in making things.
Ive read this several times and I still dont get it, One of these days you gotta do a video!
I take it as similar to making a 8 foot long fingerboard, 16 inches long, one piece at a time.
Graham, don't you have to reset the rip guide for every strip? That would drive me crazy.
Saltybee has it correct.
> Well, if you want 1.25" bars, and don't have access to a tablesaw, this is a viable, if slow, option. Note that if you use a circular saw with an adjustable rip guide attached to the saw (many saws come with that accessory), then the rip guide does not need to be reset after each cut.
If you have misplaced the included rip guide, and then are using a clamped strait-edge as a guide, then you will need to reset the straightedge after each cut.
In the long run, looking for an affordable tablesaw on Craigslist would be my choice. Note that I have not personally used this technique to make top bars. I use a tablesaw. But in a pinch, away from a tablesaw, I have used this technique to make a small number of custom width boards for non-beekeeping purposes when I had to.
Afterthought; one shallow cut down the center would give you a guide groove.


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Could Tony Stark meet his end in the next “Avengers” film?
That’s the theory coming from comic book writer Bob Layton, who wrote numerous storylines for Marvel’s “Iron Man” series, transforming the metal-clad billionaire from fringe character to one of Marvel’s most popular heroes.
Speaking with the Tampa Bay Tribune, Layton laid out his belief that star Robert Downey Jr. would be stepping away from his iconic role — permanently.
“I am only speculating, but I will guess that [Downey Jr.] is done,” Layton tells the newspaper.
Asked point-blank whether he thinks Tony Stark will perish, Layton added: s —?”
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