IWD - Beginner Beekeeping with the Ladies
by Flow Hive March 10, 2021
We had a special livestream today, as Mirabai and Bianca took over presenting duties in honour of International Women's Day. They carried out a hive inspection, while lots of helpful tips and tidbits of bee knowledge. They unstuck a glued-on queen excluder, got some beautiful close-up shots of bees and brood, found some small hive beetles and even repaired a brood frame. Hope you enjoy it.
Mirabai:
Hey everyone. We're here at the Flow office today. Cedar's away today, so the girls have taken over - Bianca and myself, Mirabai. We both work here for Flow Hive, Cedar is actually also my brother. And to celebrate International Women's Day, we decided to take over and spend our day with our favourite ladies. So we're basically just going to do a brood inspection, but more of a beginner level. We're just going to basically share with you our love of what goes on in a beehive, all the different roles, what all the ladies get up to. So I'm going to smoke the entrance.
Bianca:
Let's put our hoods on.
I'll just get the smoker going, a few cool puffs of smoke at the entrance. And then I'm going to pop it down there, so the returning foragers get a little whiff of smoke. So yes, beesuits on. As you'll notice, Bianca and I are both going gloveless. We are experienced beekeepers and we prefer to work gloveless. But I definitely have them here, just in case the hive was to get a bit aggressive. But if you're new to beekeeping, it really does help to feel very safe and secure. So we recommend being well suited-up. Also, some people are severely allergic to bees, so you need to be careful of that.
Should we get in here? So we're taking off the roof and we're going to just remove the Flow super. We're not going to actually take off the roof of this Flow super.
Maybe we should talk about what this is. This is the hive tool. This is an Australian version. And this is great for prying pot boxes and scraping up brood comb. But this is a particularly handy tip. And also if you pull off this back window, it acts as a great handle. So let's go. Do you want to get that side?
So should we go above the queen excluder? So we're just trying to break all the sticky propolis. Well, I think that excluder is going to want to come with us today, then go to the back. And now Bianca's going to lift it off. And I'm just gonna keep that queen excluder down and you're okay to lift on your own?
Yeah, but it's still stuck. Okay, still stuck. The bees have propolised it up.
If you lift it towards you, tilt it towards you, I can hold the queen excluder down. Rock it that way.
No, drop it down. So sticky. I think it's going to come off with the excluder. They've gotten so, so sticky and glued it up.
I see. So what's happened is some of the brood frames actually stuck to the queen excluder and they've propolised it so strongly to the queen excluder.
They're a bit upset. So I'm going to smoke. I want this smoke to just mask the guard bee pheromone. Well, the pheromone that they let off when they sting. So it calms them down.
So this hive probably hasn't had an inspection for a while. Hence why you see all this burr comb they've built, it's really gummed up. Sorry, girls.
Whats the difference between burr comb and propolis?
Well, it's often a mixture. This looks like more wax to me than propolis. So burr comb, they kind of just join up any bits they can't get to often. Then you'll see the darker colour over here is more of a propolis, which is like wax and kind of tree resin. You can see here. Let's lift this off.
So we always check under the queen excluder, just in case she was up there running around, but she isn't. If you're worried that you can't see her or you're not comfortable seeing her, you can rest that on the entrance here, like with your inner cover so that if she was on the excluder, she could run back into the hive. Because when she's in laying mode it's not very easy for her to fly.
This here is brace comb. It's just where the bees are holding the frames in place. And it's good to just scrape it out a bit before you're pulling out the frame. And I like to keep all this rather than throw it away or chuck it back in the hive because it's good practice to avoid leaving wax lying around spreading pathogens.
And you can add this to your supplies for making honeybee wraps later. Or candles or something like that. We're just cleaning up, which will make it a bit easier next time we open the hive as well. You never quiet nor what you're going to get with bees.
I also like to do this to avoid squishing bees when we put the queen excluder back on. Because you can imagine bees could get stuck in here. It's quite impossible to avoid that. But you also have to remember that bees encapsulate the whole hive with their propolis and wax because they like to keep it clean and keep away all the bad bacteria. So keep in mind that they do that for a reason. So it's good to support them with their choices.
Lifting out frames
Alright, I have to bust out the macro lens here because we've got some cute action happening. So you can see here that we've got little bees here, lapping up a little bit of nectar.
Alright, I'm going to take out the first frame. So with my hive tool, I'm just prying it apart like that, breaking the wax and propolis in there. And then I'm getting this pointy end and leveraging off the next frame. Lifting it up with my right hand, using the other side, putting it up there. So then I can put my hive tool down, lifting the frame with two hands. What can you see on that side?
We've got lots of bee bread on this side actually. We've got a lady with some nice white light pollen there. See if I can get a close up of that. Oh, and some orange pollen as well.
So all the different colours of pollen are reflective of all the different flower sources. And one lady bee forager will only attend the same flower in her flight, and then she'll come back to the same spot in the hive and deposit it in the same little section. So that's how you get all those different colours and it's a sign of diversity with all the rainbow of colours, which is awesome.
Yeah. They need a nice diverse range of pollen. So when you look at a comb like this, what you're looking at is, probably more than 95% of these are worker bees, which are female. These are the little worker bees.
See this slightly bigger one, that's a drone. And he's a male bee and in a hive of maybe 50,000 bees, there'll be a few hundred drones. More in the springtime, less in the winter, autumn months, they get kicked out.
The worker bees are the ones that do all the roles in the hive. Basically, they raise the brood, they're the nurses, they make the wax.
They're the foragers, feeders, cleaners…
They live for about six weeks and about half their life is spent as a house bee and the other half is spent as a field bee. And so when they're in the house, they're nursing, they're making royal jelly, making wax, building comb and all those wonderful things. They're incredibly hard workers.
I'm gonna give a little bit more smoke. Typically on the edge, like we saw there, we had pollen and a bit of honey stores. The makeup of a hive usually is that the brood will be in this central section. And then on the outer edges, you'll get more pollen stores and bee bread and honey stores. And the drones are usually around the edges as well. So the heart of the hive, the brood is in the middle.
And if you have any questions, Trace is here, but she's not mic'd up today. So she has to come close so that we can hear.
And I might just throw in, Fred Dunn's just joined us. He's a little concerned because he can see you've both got rings on. He's worried that if you get stung, your finger can swell and you might not be able to get your ring off. -That can result in circulation being cut off.
Fragile comb
Just be careful that one's quite fragile, and the frame is actually broken. Oh, well don't tip it.
It's not too fresh comb, but this is very fragile. So this is a great example of when a brood frame breaks. So so what we can do, we don't have any elastic bands. What would we do right now is repair that. So what's happened is this bit here of the brood frame, the two staples in there are coming out. This is a bit of a disaster, not yet, but it could be. But we need to go get elastic bands to keep that in place. So if it did fall, it's actually supported and it wouldn't collapse in the hive and actually kill bees or potentially the queen.
We could just put that to the edge there and be really, really gentle with it. And then we'll come back and we'll rubber band and show you how to fix that.
Sweet. This is a great hive to inspect, so many obstacles, which is awesome for beginners.
Which is great because you never know what you're going to get when you open a beehive.
And so, see we've got all gentle, calm movements. And the bees are really, really friendly, happy with us. So it's mindful to be slow and gentle.
Yup. So here you're seeing capped worker brood. So the female bees, they spin a little cocoon in the worker brood. So you can say it's like opaque. Here's an example of capped honey. This one is a more translucent capping. The capping can also be quite white as well. So yeah, this is capped honey, and this is capped brood. It looks very different. And as you learn, you'll recognise what looks like what. You can see down here, we've got some nectar being stored. You can kind of see that glossy sheen.
Same on this side.
Same on that side. And I wonder if we can see eggs or young larvae in there? No, I don't really see any, but we should have a look at the next frame. Maybe I should spray some smoke to get those bees out of the way.
Alright, so we're getting to the centre of the hive now. We're keeping an eye out for the queen. That's a lovely brood pattern. I've got this beautiful moist wall-to-wall of worker brood. How's it look on that side?
Yeah. It's like almost half on this side of perfectly capped brood here and then the other half looks to be nectar.
And you'll see the way that Bianca moved that frame, we're working with foundationless frames. Do you want to show it again? So she looked at one side and then to look at the other side, because we don't have wire or foundation, she rotates it away from herself and then flips it, and then you can look at the other side. And then flip it back. So that's how you need to work when you're working with foundationless.
There's a bit of brace comb. Bianca is just cutting that brace comb so it doesn't rip the frame as she lifts it up and then just slowly lifting it up.
Brood inspection
Lots more nectar. It's interesting, their pattern of brood. They've just covered half of the frame, like perfectly half. And nectar on the other side.
You can see here's a kind of band of honey, and then the brood generally will be here. And often in between there you'll have some bee bread, which you do here. There's a bit of pollen and bee bread around the edges of the brood.
I can see larvae on this side. You can tell that this comb is quite fresh because it is quite a light. So this was a swarm that was caught, I believe like about two months ago or less, maybe four to six weeks ago. So you need to be really gentle with the frame and particularly because it's foundationless because it is very fragile.
I can see a little larvae on this side, but I imagine it'd be quite difficult to see with the camera, but in this bottom corner down there, all the cells point upwards.
Oh yeah, they're really, really tiny. You can just see at the bottom of that cell.
You can see they're in a pool of royal jelly, which is really a sign of a healthy hive, plenty of forage about. And notice that every time I put the frame back in the hive, it's going in exactly the same order.
Still keeping an eye out for our queen, we haven't spotted her yet. We may have missed her.
So here we've got a freshly hatched worker bee. See how she's like she's white and furry and fluffy and really new. And then the first role they do is they clean the cells. So they clean and then they become nurses where they nurse and feed the brood.
A little fun fact is that a developing larva will be visited 10,000 times in a day from a worker bee!
It's crazy! And don't they grow to like 1500 times their size in like five days or something crazy? So that little egg hatches, and then the larva develops so incredibly quickly. Tough job being a nurse bee.
Tough being a worker bee. She will die in the field working. She's going to only live for about 42 days in her life. And that is working every single day. And then the drone bees, who don't have a stinger, their only objective in life is to mate with the queen. They just hang about all day and get fed by the worker bees. And they'll go to a drone congregation in the afternoon.
Here she is, her majesty. She's run off. Oh, there she is. Oh, she's jumped around the other side.
Yeah, there she is in the middle.
I'm holding the frame over the hive becauseI don't want her to drop off suddenly.
She's big, juicy! She's a runner.
She looks good. Sometimes they run away from the light. They don't like the bright light.
I'm going to be really careful. Cause I know that she's on this frame when I'm putting this frame back in and I would hate to roll our queen. Cause this hive seems to be doing really well.
Do you want to do that last frame? So this is likely to be honey, this last one. Then we'll go back.
There's a bit of burr comb, brace comb on that end. I'm just going to scrape it down. And this one is heavier.
So honey is always heavier than brood.
The queen's on this one now. She's run over.
She was like, "ah, I'm outta here, you guys, please!"
She's in the bottom left. Oh, now she's going to the other side. Yep.
She's a runner.
Oh she is too.
So from her behaviour, I would put that frame back. She's getting a bit runny. She's possibly a bit annoyed that we're sticking her in daylight. So we don't want it to jump or fly. So pop it back.
Brood frame repair
Another little trick that I actually learned from Mira, is when you return a frame to a hive, put them all together. So then at the end you just have to do one single motion backwards, without risking killing any more bees. Cause you've already popped all the frames here.
Yeah, I love that one too. Well that was taught to me by a beekeeper in Germany. So there's such a lovely tradition of passing on that knowledge.
And now we just taught a whole bunch of people!
So this frame, what we'll have to do, we'll have to eventually replace this frame and it does have a few bits of broods. So what I would be inclined to do is keep it on the outside. So eventually over time, this brood will make its way this way over cycles of brood development. And so the plan is that this frame will actually become honey. And then that is safe to take out of the hive.
So when we return this other frame, we'll put it here rather than here and we'll put this frame on the outside. So then with the intention to actually replace this frame, because hopefully it'll be full of honey.
And then we can eat yummy honeycomb.
This is still going to be super tricky to try. And if it's not, we can always shake the bees off and take it. But actually, it's got quite a bit of brood in it. I've got the elastic bands around my wrist.
Okay. I'll hold it and we'll try it and fix that.
And so I'll put this frame now. Yeah.
So see how that's popped up. The staple that was holding in place, which is not quite holding and when we pulled it up, it came loose. So I rest that in there. I'm just going to push that down and see if I can put it back in place.
That would be handy. The new comb is super fragile.
I'll hold it here so that you can get in there with the elastic band around the frame. And we're just giving them a bit more support, holding that comb while they fix the big crack that happened when we lifted it. Maybe one on the end.
It's amazing that the bees will actually chew this elastic band and dispose of it outside the hive. So if you see strange material coming out of the hive, it looks like spaghetti.
Just right on the end there, I think. So that looks safe at least for now. Yeah. That looks heaps better. You can see that it cracked along there and the bees are actually already cleaning and joining that crack back up again.
We could even take that honey frame, but we won't today cause it's still nectar. So in a bit, I would be inclined to, when that's capped with honey that's ripe for consumption, then we could take that honey. As long as there's enough honey upstairs in the Flow super.
What lens are you using Mirabai?
I use two different lenses, but the lens I'm using today is a prime macro lens from a company called Moment. I'll show you here. So it's a lens that clips onto the case. Just twists off like this. And most likely when I'm filming bees, I'll almost always use the slow-motion setting on the Apple app. And so let's see if we can get a nice shot of a little bee here doing something cool. There's also another company called Ztylus that do a a type of lens that flips out on the back, which I have on one of my other phones. But I find this lens that nicest. See, I can see all the little hairs all over her body. Oh, that's so cute.
Can you harvest honeycomb from the Flow Hive? If you take some of the honeycomb, would you just put an empty frame back?
The intention for this was just to manage this frame. You generally would never take honeycomb out of the brood box. That's just a general rule because this is their space and it's relative to how much honey stores you need at the time of year in your location, what honeycomb you take can take out. But with the Flow, you can have a Hybrid Flow super, which allows you to harvest honeycomb and Flow honey from the one super. So that's a great option, but from here generally, no.
But you can. So that's with every two beekeepers, there's three opinions. So this is yet another example. Well, yes, in times of excess, in times of strong nectar flow where the colony storing lots of excess honey, definitely. And sometimes they can get honey bound. If there is a frame on the edge that is capped, you can remove that honey.
But like Bianca said, you know, this is their space. So you wouldn't want to be taking honey stores from their brood box late in the season. So you really need to get to know your local season and the biggest part of being a beekeeper is learning how to manage this space and these bees to give them what they need to thrive. And then they can store excess honey in your super. And if you're lucky, you get to have some sweet bonus of the honey reward, but actually the beekeeping part of it is the most rewarding and fascinating part actually.
The bees are so calm. What type of bees are they?
They're obviously Apis mellifera, which is the European honeybee. But then in Australia where we are, we've got different strains of that, such as Caucasian, Carniolan and ligustica - which is Italian. And I think the Italians are generally more orange. I believe these ones are potentially Caucasian, but they could be a blend.
Yeah. I would say, in our apiary here it's probably a bit of a blend. We do try and keep quite docile bees, because we've got neighbours. We don't want to have aggressive bees, but also, you know, part of working with the bees is listening to them. You know, when we were first trying to get that super off, when we lifted some of the brood frames you could hear the noise they made, they got angry and annoyed. And then we use that bit of extra smoke that calmed them down and we just sort of let them sit a bit.
But yes, some bees are incredibly aggressive, especially in parts of America where there's Africanized strains. I have done some beekeeping in a full suit and filming once with Africanized bees, gloves, everything. And there were about 50 bees pinging off my face constantly. So they do vary wherever you go. So never assume that a hive is going to be gentle. But we know these hives well, we work with these hives a lot.
And they feed a lot on the way you are your energy in the hive. If you've got erratic, sharp movements, they respond to that, they're like "eh, get away from us!" But if you're gentle and calm on a nice sunny day, they're generally always so kind and sweet.
That's true. And you and I both have to kind of be very conscious of our movements when you're working without gloves. And I know Fred said, we've got rings, what if we get stung? I don't actually swell very bad.
I've been stung hundreds of times, but it doesn't really bother me, I just don't react anymore. But that can go the other way for some people. So yeah, you've just got to be really careful, safety first. It's inevitable to get stung and you can't expect not to get stung if you go gloveless.
And if you do have a cranky hive, can you do anything about it?
You can requeen. When a hive gets, some people call it a hot hive. When a hive is consistently being very aggressive over a number of like times or inspections, then the beekeeper can often choose to requeen. So you find the queen in that hive and remove her and then introduce a new queen from a queen breeder that breeds good genetics. Hygienic, docile, honey-producing bees hopefully.
Hive beetles
So that's all looking great and they've started filling the super. We could have a peek in one of the Flow Frames once we put that back on.
Oh, look, small hive beetles. There's one, there's one I just squashed. So the bees can't actually kill them, but they do try. They herd them into areas like this on the top where they make these little propolis kind of cages almost. And they keep them up there to kind of manage them.
They keep them in that little area and then that prevents the hive beetle females from laying eggs in the comb, which is what actually causes the most damage. That's what causes a slime out, which is where a colony will eventually abscond, the queen may be lost and you lose your colony toa slime out. And it's gross to clean up.
The best defence against the hive beetle is just a really strong colony, so they can manage it themselves. Also utilising the tray with oil, so the bees will actually push the beetle through the grate. And then the way the beekeeper can manage that from the outside is just replacing this oil. Look, we've already got some dead ones.
So the hive beetles fall into the oil and drown. So that helps your colony manage. So everything we do is to kind of help and assist our colony function the best it can.
Well, we can see that there's no honey yet on the ends, but there's lots of bees up there. So they have started working the Flow Frames.
And I could feel it, it was super heavy.
So you lifted it up before and it definitely has some honey stores happening in there. So just like a regular brood frame, you lift one end with the hook on your J-tool and then always take the window off. And you can actually, there's another lever point just under the Flow Frame here. Also, you can lever onto the Flow Frame there. So now I've loosened that up. Oh yeah. Instantly feel that this frame is almost full of honey. Wow.
So this is all capped honey, this is uncapped honey. See its nectar glistening on its way to being capped. The bees will start in the centre of the hive and work their way out. So it may look empty on this side, but if you open it up, you will actually find that that's actually full of honey. But I wouldn't actually harvest this yet.
No, it's not quite there, but it's pretty close.
Why wouldn't you harvest it yet?
Because, say for example, if you only put your key in this far, honey could be pushed out of these uncapped cells here. And that is a nectar, it's not quite honey. So it's still got a too-high moisture content, which means that your honey could potentially go bad before you'd like. Where if you harvested perfectly capped honey, that's perfectly ripe honey that the bees have withdrawn the right amount of moisture around 18 to 20%, depending on the nectar source. And that means you've got perfectly ripe honey generally means that it will last forever.
So if you harvest too early and there's too much water content, then your honey starts to ferment?
Yeah that's right. You could feed it back to your bees, but not in this context where they've got plenty of honey.
You can see there's a nectar flow on, the bees are doing great, the brood is doing well. We've got all stages of bees and they're storing excess honey. If the nectar flow continues, it won't be long until this hive is ready to harvest.
How much honey stores do you need to leave in the hive for winter?
It's interesting here. We actually, through the summer months can often have this sort of rainy, wet weather where we don't actually get that strong nectar flow. And then during the winter, especially down at my brother Cedar's place, we actually get a winter flow happening. And so we really don't have what you would call winter here in the Northern rivers. We're in a subtropical climate. So we are really fortunate in terms of keeping bees that we don't get those winter months, which lots of you do.
I was living in Germany for the last few years and keeping bees and wintering them. And I learned a lot about you know, you do really need to make sure you build up your honey stores for winter because when they ball down in winter, they eat those honey stores and they vibrate their wing muscles, disengaging the wings to keep the hive warm.
So they're called heater bees. And those bees go to the outside of the ball to keep the rest of the colony warm. And they take turns, kind of in rosters, they work to the outside. And so they need those honey stores to stay alive.
I'd like to talk about this. So here, we've got an arc in the middle where it's uncapped. This is generally because the bees leave this spot in preparation for the queen to lay. Because the queens actually naturally lay in a sphere shape in the centre of the hive as that's the warmest area. So then by default, the bees actually leave this space waiting for the queen to lay eggs, just in case. She can't because there's a queen excluder in there to prevent her from laying up here. But then the bees will still sometimes do this. I find it that it depends on the colony.
But so this is actually another reason just to be super safe before you harvest, to actually have a look inside your super, to know which frame is ready for harvesting. Because if you did, for example, put your whole key down this at the one time and harvest it, that could actually cause a bit of leaking through that uncapped arc, which is a bit dangerous. But it's always a good idea when harvesting to harvest incrementally and slowly. So for example, put your key in a third of the way down, turn, wait for that to slow down and then put it down another third. Just to manage the honey a bit more and prevent any harm for the bees.
Do you always check the super before harvesting, or do you just look through the end window?
As a beginner beekeeper, yes, 100%.
Because you have to learn to know your bees and you have to learn to know the season and the times when the nectar is abundant.
And as an experienced beekeeper, you can actually gauge a lot more of that from just looking at the front of your hive and understanding the activity at the front, which is indicative of the inside. Yeah. But for me, it's just with experience. You don't have to, but as a beginner, it's just really good to be super careful because you can't assume anything really. There's so much to learn in beekeeping and every colony is different. Every location is different, subjective to climate, flowers available, so many variables. So that's why you can't have one answer for everyone. So your answers for your colony could be completely different to someone who you've spoken to what their recommendations are. So it's about your own personal learning journey and learning from others in order to make the correct decisions for your colony.
Do you recommend people doing beekeeping courses and joining clubs? What is the best way to learn if you don't have a mentor?
Yeah, so a mentor is the best, most effective and efficient way I find, because that is local to your beehive and experience. But if not, then your local bee club or association is probably the next best place, because you've got experienced beekeepers there. And you're also learning with other beginner beekeepers. So you can, you can learn from them and it's a very inclusive environment where you can learn from others. But you do get a lot of different opinions from all different beekeepers, which is the culture of the industry. I like to blend everything, so online learning with clubs, face-to-face support. Because it's quite daunting to open up a hive and know what you're actually looking at.
But we have TheBeekeeper.org, which is a great online resource. It's not just beginner beekeeping, but also has experts from around the world to share their knowledge. So definitely check that out.
Fanning pheromones
And so I wanted to show you, this bee here is fanning. And I think we can see she has the end of her abdomen tilted down and she's actually fanning with a nasonov pheromone. So the gland is releasing a pheromone and she's fanning into the air telling her fellow bees, this is home, come back here because we've opened them. Oh. And she just stopped. And you can kind of see it from this angle better. Just on the end of the abdomen there.
So do they share the same pheromone? I guess they would because they're from the same queen.
Yeah. I think they all keep up the same pheromone.
And that's how they identify themselves to the guard bees. The lady guards at the front, they'll actually sniff all the bees coming in. And if they smell a bit funny, or not familiar, they'll actually wrestle them and tell them to go away. That's the guard bee's job. Another female role, to protect the hive.
How long before the super will be ready to harvest?
It just really depends if there's still a strong nectar flow going on. It's not hugely strong at the moment. So I would say probably a number of weeks. So my friend's colony, which is just about 30 minutes drive from here, she's been harvesting and in two weeks the frames have been full again.
So they've been on a really strong nectar flow. So it all depends. You know, it's about the health of the colony, the nectar flow that's around, the time of year. So this, they could run out of nectar flow and just stop filling it.
But yeah, it's about what's flowering. So, you know, I had frames replenishing in about a week in the start of spring and now they've totally slowed down. I haven't harvested for about six weeks, and that's just seven kilometres down the road.So it's very local.
You've just got to open your eyes and look for what's flowering and the biggest resources for flowers are big flowering trees. And sometimes the flowers can be so small that you don't even notice that a tree is flowering, like a big gum. But as you're a beekeeper, you start to observe and look at these things, you start noticing different things.
That's one of the cool things, you walk around looking up at what's flowering, what's available for your bees.
And you want to do the waggle dance to tell them where it is!
Anyway, so yeah. Thanks, hope you learned something, and it was fun taking over.
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Screenprint port of a man. The portrait shows him in quarter profile. It is in black ink in a loose, sketchy style.
Screenprint portrait of a man. The portrait shows him in full profile. It is in black ink in a loose, sketchy style.
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Part XXII (22) of Banks' Florilegium containing 23 colour prints relating to New Zealand, printed from the original copperplate engravings in 1986 by Alecto Historical Editions in association with The British Museum (Natural History). The prints illustrate plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in "H.M.S. Endeavour" (1768-1771). The specimens were gathered and classified by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.C., P.R.S., and Dr Daniel Solander, F.R.S., and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson.
"Banks' Florilegium: Part XXI, New Zealand (plates 424-446)"
Part XXI (21) of Banks' Florilegium containing 23 colour prints relating to New Zealand, printed from the original copperplate engravings in 1986 by Alecto Historical Editions in association with The British Museum (Natural History). The prints illustrate plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in "H.M.S. Endeavour" (1768-1771). The specimens were gathered and classified by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.C., P.R.S., and Dr Daniel Solander, F.R.S., and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson.
"Titoki"
Woodcut print depicting the Titoki (Alectryon excelsus) plant with leaves and berries enclosed in capsules. Rendered in green, ochre, black and red paint.
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Colour woodblock print by John Lysaght Moore titled "Poroporo" 19/ up to 500. Depicts the purple flower and three fingered leaves of the Poroporo plant.
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"Self portrait"
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Bust portrait of a man with dark hair and wearing a white t-shirt. Blue background.
Bust portrait of a man with black hair and wearing a black t-shirt. Predominantly white background.


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Scott Weiland 'Painful' Final Interview Revealed: 'He Started Chain Reaction Of Deaths'
Gilles LeBlanc has published a new article on A Journal of Musical Things about preparing for what would end up being late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland's final interview before his last performance at Toronto's Adelaide Hall on December 1, 2015. Weiland died two days later on December 3rd in Bloomington, Minnesota from a drug overdose. Monday was the 3-year anniversary of Weiland's death.
"The story of how I was jerked around at the time waiting for confirmation, only to give up and head home albeit not before sending off my '10 Questions' for him isn't what's important. Yes he had his share of demons, but Weiland was a supreme talent that rock music is poorer for because of his absence. Maybe all this time later I'll finally be able to make it through watching all 5+ minutes of his answers; it's been too eerily painful up until now…"
Gilles also tweeted that Weiland's death was the start of a 'chain reaction' of rock deaths over the last few years that also included Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington.
"I've always said Weiland had the distinction of starting the chain reaction of before-their-time artist deaths :("
Frea-ky. I've always said Weiland had the distinction of starting the chain reaction of before-their-time artist deaths 🙁
— Gilles LeBlanc (@ROCKthusiast) December 3, 2018
Nice graphic – I can't believe it's been three years already, although my experience w/ Weiland was a bit different than most people's: https://t.co/bUqUEla7Bp
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On Stage: Brickman brings 'Gift of Christmas' to Keswick
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By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Jim Brickman Jim Brickman's music always has a warm, soothing quality. His current tour might just be his warmest, most familiar ever. It's a holiday tour that includes both Christmas music and songs from his vast catalogue "The Gift of Christmas" is the name of Brickman's current tour. Brickman will bring his "The Gift of Christmas" to...
On Stage: Jim Brickman's music is soothing to the soul
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By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Jim Brickman Jim Brickman's music always has a warm, soothing quality – a sound that has endeared him to fans for nearly three decades. This weekend will be a busy weekend for Brickman, who is one of the best-selling solo pianists of our time with more than 20 Number One albums and more than 40 Top 20 radio singles in Billboard Magazine. First up...
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By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times The Illusionists Magicians seem to be omnipresent and magic shows pop up on entertainment calendars on a regular basis. Some of the shows make you shake your head in amazement – not at the complexity of the act but rather that venues would even book the act. There are some good shows featuring magic acts but it's safe to say that they all pale in comparison...


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ETCP ANNOUNCES ELECTRICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
The Entertainment Technician Certification Program Council announces the appointment of Electrical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). These individuals, all highly respected in their field, have agreed to volunteer considerable time to the development of the industry's first electrical certification. Selected for their breadth and depth of knowledge, the SMEs will work closely with the Council's selected psychometric services provider, Applied Measurement Professionals (AMP), to develop the examinations.
The SMEs are: Rick Baxter, Eric Bouchard, Jeanette Farmer, Ian Foulds, David Hatch, John Huntington, Tony Giovannetti, Dave Loftin, Jim Maloney, Alan Rowe, Nancy Shaw, and Ken Vannice.
The SMEs' first task is to develop a job task analysis survey which will be sent to hundreds of entertainment electricians in the U.S. and Canada. The results of this survey will be used to determine the content areas of the examination. The next step in the test development process will be to write the examination questions, which will take place over a series of meetings to be held through the first half of 2006.
Call for Entertainment Electricians to Participate in Survey Job analysis is the foundation upon which to build a viable and rigorous certification examination. The job analysis will focus on analyzing electrical tasks based on importance, time spent and consequence of error.
A survey regarding this job analysis will be developed this fall by the appointed SMEs with the help of AMP. The survey will be administered by email in December 2005. ETCP needs your help to ensure that the examination reflects the job requirements. Your judgments will assist the SMEs in developing the examination specifications. If you are an experienced entertainment electrician and are interested in participating, please email Katie Geraghty, ETCP Certification Director at kgeraghty@esta.org with your:
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The first electrical examination will be held at the 2006 LDI tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. Candidate handbooks and applications for the electrical examination will be available in March 2006.
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Best royal pictures of the week: Royal soccer games, Queen Rania's visit to Belgium and more
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From Queen Rania of Jordan's visit to Belgium, to Prince Albert II of Monaco's soccer skills in a charity match, see what your favorite royals have been up to.
Click through our gallery to see this week's best royal moments.
Doing his bit for charity Prince Albert of Monaco donned his soccer kit for the 24th World Stars football match at Stade Louis II, Monaco.
Prince William and Kate Middleton attended their first ever joint appearance at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party. The Duchess recycled the outfit that she wore to Prince George's christening in 2013.
Queen Elizabeth looked resplendent in light blue coat as she attended the royal garden party alongside her husband Prince Philip.
Queen Maxima of The Netherlands looked beautiful in a dark blue lace dress and a wide-brimmed blue hat, as she baptized the cruise ship MS Koningsdam.
A family affair. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and wife Crown Princess Mette-Marit took their children Ingrid Alexandra and Sverre Magnus to the Opening of The Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park in Oslo.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway were captivated by a orange fox sculpture as they walked round the Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park.
A royal welcome! Queen Silvia of Sweden was taken aback by the warm reception she received by local children as she arrived at the plenary hall in Duesseldorf, Germany.
Bloomin lovely! Queen Elizabeth was captured through a gap in a floral exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. The floral image of the Queen was created specifically for the royal show.
Pulling out his jazziest golf trousers, Mike Tindall took to the golf course to take part in the Celebrity Golf Classic 2016 in Sutton Coldfield.
Supportive wife! Zara Phillips joined her husband on the second day of the Pro-Am golf tournament.
The mom-of-one kept it casual for the golf tournament, dressing down in jeans, a green coat and beige flats.
Sports fans King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain watched on as Barcelona beat Seville to take home the Copa del Rey trophy, at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid.
Consoling a Crystal Palace soccer player after his team lost the FA cup final to Manchester United, Prince William shook hands with the losing team and presented them with their runners-up medals.
A sombre event. Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium arrived at the Royal Palace in Brussels for a remembrance service. The ceremony was to honor those who lost their lives in the Belgium bombings that happened on May 22.
The Duchess of Cambridge was in high spirits as she arrived in Portsmouth to visit the headquarters of 1851 Trust to learn about projects inspiring young people to take up sailing.
Not one to shy away from a challenge, Kate changed into appropriate sports wear before taking to the seas during her day in Portsmouth. Getting on to a test boat, the Duchess quickly took control and steered the boat out on the race course, set up for the upcoming Americas Cup world series even in July.
An invitation to the palace. Queen Elizabeth presented Oliver Knussen with The Queen's Medal for Music during an audience at her London residence.
Queen Rania of Jordan and Queen Mathilde of Belgium received beautiful bouquets of flowers from children as they arrived at the Town Hall in Bruges, Belgium.
Take the wheel! King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands took control of a tractor during a visit to a farm to see the latest technological developments in the dutch agricultural sector.
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Trump Administration Waives Shipping Restriction For Puerto Rico
By Jeff Brady
Published September 28, 2017 at 6:34 AM PDT
A container ship is seen docked at the port of San Juan as people deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on Monday in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has temporarily waived a U.S. shipping restriction for Puerto Rico known as the Jones Act.
Under the law, only U.S.-flagged ships are allowed to move goods between any U.S. ports. Now foreign-flagged vessels also will be able to move shipments from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico and between ports there. The move is intended to boost the delivery of much-needed relief supplies after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. territory last week.
The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration thanked President Trump in a tweet:
Jones Act waived for Puerto Rico. Thank you, @POTUS. https://t.co/BA5Y4Ic1A4
— PRFAA (@PRFAA) September 28, 2017
That was in response to an announcement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders:
At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately.
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) September 28, 2017
NPR's Planet Money examined the Jones Act and says the 90-year-old law applies only to shipping, not other forms of transportation:
"If you want to send a bunch of oranges by truck from Florida to Baltimore, no one cares who made the truck. Or if you want to fly computer chips across the country, it's fine if the plane is made in France. But if you want to send cargo by ship, according to the Jones Act, the ship has to be American made."
The law applies to all U.S. ports and has been a frequent source of tension between the U.S. maritime industry and its customers. That's because using domestic ships usually costs more than foreign-flagged vessels.
This spring, the Trump administration sided with the oil industry in withdrawing an Obama-era proposal that required companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to use more U.S. ships and crews.
The domestic shipping industry argues the Jones Act is needed to preserve U.S. shipping jobs and for national security. Shipping industry lobbyist Darrell Conner told Planet Money that U.S. commercial ships could be conscripted into military service if needed.
In signing a 10-day waiver that covers all products being shipped to Puerto Rico, Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Elaine Duke side-stepped that controversy. She said the waiver is needed to help the territory after it suffered hits from both Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
"It is intended to ensure we have enough fuel and commodities to support lifesaving efforts, respond to the storm, and restore critical services and critical infrastructure operations in the wake of these devastating storms," Duke said.
The U.S. has issued similar temporary waivers in the past, including one earlier this month as demand for gasoline outpaced supply ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Jeff Brady
Jeff Brady is a National Desk Correspondent based in Philadelphia, where he covers energy issues and climate change. Brady helped establish NPR's environment and energy collaborative which brings together NPR and Member station reporters from across the country to cover the big stories involving the natural world.


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DiMarzio Releases Super Distortion 7 and Super Distortion 8 Pickups
DiMarzio has announced the release of Super Distortion 7 and Super Distortion 8 humbucking pickups for seven- and eight-string electric guitars.
The world's most popular high-output pickup is now available for seven- and eight-string guitars, with all of the sound and power that made the six-string version our best-selling pickup of all time. The Super Distortion 7 and Super Distortion 8 have an outstanding combination of tone and high output voltage that works with a very broad range of musical styles and sounds, from very clean to complete overdrive.
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Monday, January 20, 2020 21:09
Chilean Vice Minister of Trade Rodrigo Yáñez has said his Vietnam visit aims to further boost the Vietnam – Chile ties and expand cooperation within the framework of the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) signed in 2011, especially in investment and services.
Indonesia ready to confront EU over palm oil discrimination
Indonesia is already prepared to confront the European Union (EU) over the discriminatory policies on palm oil of Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) and Delegated Regulation EU before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
RoK seeks stronger ties with ASEAN to accelerate RCEP
The Republic of Korea (RoK) will spare no efforts to help conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the end of this year by forging deeper ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as the country strives to revitalise its ailing exports, said the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on January 7.
First Vietnam-Australia economic partnership meeting held
Friday, November 29, 2019 17:50
The first Vietnam-Australia Economic Partnership Meeting (EPM) was held in Adelaide city of Australia on November 29 under the co-chair of Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Chi Dung and Australian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham.
Vietnam, Ghana hope to foster trade, business relations
Thursday, November 28, 2019 18:39
A forum was held in Hanoi on November 28 to seek ways to enhance trade and business partnerships between Vietnam and Ghana.
RoK, Cambodia to launch feasibility study on FTA
Monday, November 25, 2019 15:16
The Republic of Korea (RoK) and Cambodia have agreed to launch a joint feasibility study on their potential free trade agreement (FTA) in a move to promote economic ties and expand exchanges, the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on November 25.
Singapore wants to connect power network with neighbouring countries
Wong Kim Yin, CEO of SP Group, a state-owned power grid operator of Singapore, has said his group wants to build more connections to neighbouring countries to tap their greater potential for renewable energy.
Indonesia, Singapore agree to soon complete bilateral trade deal
Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to speed up the finalisation of the bilateral trade agreement, said the two countries' ministers in the latest statement.
Vietnam Industry White Paper 2019 released
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Vietnam, South Africa enhance economic, trade links
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 16:09
The Vietnam – South African joint trade sub-committee convened the fourth session in Hanoi on October 16 to seek ways to bolster bilateral economic and trade partnerships.
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Singapore, Australia begin talks on digital economy pact
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MoIT targets contraband, counterfeit goods sold online
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Indonesia aims to finalise negotiations for major trade deals in 2019
Thursday, September 05, 2019 15:26
The Indonesian Government targeted completing negotiations on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Indonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IK-CEPA), and Indonesia-Taiwan Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (IT-ECA) by 2019-end.
Australia expands work and holiday marker visa programme for Vietnam
Saturday, August 24, 2019 18:18
Australia has expanded the number of Work and Holiday Maker visa places available to Vietnamese people, upping the annual intake from 200 to 1,500 a year from September 2, according to the Department of Home Affairs' media release on August 23.
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GSK opens 130 million USD facilities in Singapore
Saturday, July 06, 2019 18:49
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of the UK unveiled new, fully automated continuous manufacturing facilities worth a total of 130 million SGD (95.61 million USD) in Singapore on July 5.
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Teorema 007: Cenotaph, in the shape of a pyramid, 1780–1790, 39 _ 61.3cm, Ink and wash, Etienne-Louis Boullée
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With a similar penchant for drawing illusion as Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullée built little but as an educator, theoretician and illustrator, he was a dominant figure in neoclassical visionary/revolutionary architecture.
Boullée's father was the Parisian architect, Louis-Claude Boullée, who encouraged his son's education in architecture and drawing. Continuing his education in 1746, he studied with Boffrand, Lebon, and Le Geay, where he learned the architecture of the French classical tradition. Over the next several years (1768 to 1779) he designed numerous houses such as Pernon, Thun, Brunoy, and Alexandre, and he built or rebuilt Château Tassé at Chaville, Château Chauvri at Montmorency, and Château de Péreux at Nogent-sur-Marne, all in the proximity of Paris. Later in life, Boullée became a member of the Institut de France and was nominated a Professor of the Ecole Centrales (Kaufmann, 1955).
As discussed in the introduction, Boullée, along with Ledoux and Lequeu, have been united under the title of visionary/revolutionary architects. They were attracted to theoretical arguments, which they displayed in their fantastic and monumental illustrations utilizing geometric shape and symbolism. Boullée's fantasy images demonstrate massive, dynamic forms, substantially larger and more impressive than the monuments of Greece and Rome (Kaufmann, 1955).
This drawing portrays a starkly simple pyramid with two unadorned columns, all bathed in stormy modeled light. Although all architectural illustration envisions the future, Boullée's fantasy consciously moves beyond the realm of possibility into a simplicity and scale unrelated to function or technology. Fantasy as a concept evokes the magical and suggests an extended associative capacity, whimsical invention, divination, and the expansive qualities of pure possibility. The art historian David Summers writes that during the Renaissance, fantasia was related in meaning to invenzione. Although similar to the term 'invention,' its original meaning derives from a technical term from rhetoric. Invenzione was primary in the five-part division of rhetoric and consisted of '…the finding out or selection of topics to be treated, or arguments to be used' (Gordon, 1975, p. 82). Although viewed from a later period, Boullée represents an interesting connection between creative inspiration and the development of argument. The fantasies were intended for his architectural treatise Architecture, Essai sur l'art, begun in 1780.
In this essay, he wrote about what funerary monuments or cenotaphs meant to him: 'I cannot conceive of anything more melancholy than a monument consisting of a flat surface, bare and unadorned, made of a light-absorbent material, absolutely stripped of detail, its decorations consisting of a play of shadows, outlined by still deeper shadows'.
Boullée employed the atmospheric qualities of the wash to create dramatic lighting effects, giving grandeur to the otherwise simple pyramid. He may have been attempting to persuade viewers of his beliefs, subconsciously convincing them of the sketch's possibilities, and of the argument as a theoretical position for architecture. Concerning the use of pyramids as a conscious choice for a theoretical discussion, he said 'I have given the Pyramid the proportions of an equilateral triangle because it is perfect regularity that gives form its beauty'. The choice of the mystical shape of the pyramid for his cenotaph obviously connects it to the great society of the Egyptians, encouraging a comparison to the monumentality of his architectural ideals. The character of the atmospheric effect also 'proves' his theory by means of emotional seduction and positions this sketch as a powerful instrument of persuasion.
From Kendra Schank Smith, Architects Drawings, Architectural Press, Oxford, 2005
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French Navy selects Thales to provide TLS for all its simulators
5 November 2015	(Last Updated November 5th, 2015 18:30)
The French Navy has awarded a six-year contract to Thales Group to provide through-life support (TLS) for its simulators.
The contract, which would be carried out with the Navy's fleet support department (SSF), covers 41 simulators at six naval facilities in France.
According to Thales, the simulators cover a wide range of operations and all deployment contexts, starting from shipboard system maintenance to surface vessel crew training and also firing simulators for the mistral missile, 12.7mm and 20mm guns and other weapons.
Crews of all French Navy surface vessels, including its multimission frigates and air defence frigates will receive training with the help of these simulators.
"Crews of all French Navy surface vessels, including its multimission frigates and air defence frigates will receive training with the help of these simulators."
The simulators are also used to train the crews of the Navy's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
Covering simulators delivered from the 1990s until today, the new TLS contract is expected to bolster Thales's position in training and simulation for naval customers.
In January, Thales secured a contract from the Joint Armaments Cooperation Organisation (OCCAr) to upgrade the fire control system for anti-air missiles integrated on the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
As part of the contract awarded on behalf of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), Thales installed new equipment on the carrier.
Image: A member of crew training. Photo: courtesy of Thales Group.
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A Manic Monday Quiz.
May 25, 2015 May 25, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests	A4, americans, area code, beer, boss, by area, call, cat, Citrix, city, cloud computing, coffee, Crete, daughter, drink, earth, eat, education, Entertainment, Equatorial, escape, Fart Proudly, feathers and wax, Florida, flying, Founding Fathers, Founding Fathers of the United States of America, general knowledge, Geography, geometry, Greek Mythology, Gulf Stream, history, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Cossack, Humboldt, instrument, International A4, Kennedy Space Center, Kit Kat, largest area, largest country, letter, link, literature, Manic Monday, math, mathematics, maths, milk, multiplayer board game, music, musician, nationality, nature, paper format, percentage, prairie wolf, professional boxing, questions, quiz, quizzes, Random, Reversi, Richard Clayderman, right-angled triangle, Russians, salary, science, scientific, Shakespeare, Shakespearian, sinking of the Bismark, size of population, somewhere to go, South America, spirits, sport, stormy weather, survey, survived, tea, technology, test, tests, The Harbor City, too close to the Sun, tragedy, UK, underwater, United States, Unsinkable Sam, volcanoes, Walk Like An Egyptian, weight divisions, Wet Willie, wings, work
A manic Monday quiz it is indeed.
Twenty questions covering the usual wide range of subjects, so hopefully there will be one or two that you find easy and one or two that you find a lot more difficult.
But remember, as always if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: According to a survey conducted by Citrix, what percentage of people thought that stormy weather affects cloud computing?
a) 1% b) 15% c) 51% d) 85%
Q. 2: What city is known as 'The Harbor City' ?
Q. 3: What is another name for the prairie wolf?
Q. 4: If your boss cuts your salary by 10% but offers to let you work 10% more to make up for it, should you accept?
Q. 5: Six men are widely accepted to be the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. What were their names? (You get a point for each correctly named and a bonus point if can correctly name all six.)
Q. 6: A follow-up question to # 5, which one of these Founding Fathers once wrote a scientific piece called 'Fart Proudly' ?
Q. 7: What percentage of the Earth's volcanoes are underwater?
a) 10 % b) 30 % c) 50 % d) 70 % e) 90 %
Q. 8: In Greek mythology who attempted to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax, but flew too close to the Sun and perished when the wax melted?
Q. 9: And when we're on the subject of flying, what area code would you use if you wanted to call the Kennedy Space Center in Florida?
Q. 10: What do you call the three sides of a right-angled triangle? (Hint, you get zero points for answering 'A', 'B' and 'C'.)
Q. 11: This one is the name of a famous Shakespeare tragedy and a multiplayer board game based on the popular game Reversi. What is it?
Q. 12: What nationality is the famous musician Richard Clayderman and what instrument is associated with him? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 13: 'Equatorial', 'Gulf Stream' and 'Humboldt' are names give to what?
Q. 14: Russians consume about 6 times as much what as Americans?
a) milk b) coffee c) tea d) beer e) spirits
Q. 15: Which paper format has the largest area, the 'International A4' as used for example in the UK or the 'Letter' format used in the United States?
Q. 16: There are seven main weight divisions used in professional boxing, what are they? (You get a point for each one you can name correctly and three bonus points if you get all seven correct.)
Q. 17: What is the link between something to eat, something to drink, somewhere to go and something to call your daughter?
Q. 18: What was the name of the cat that survived the sinking of the Bismark, HMS Cossack and HMS Ark Royal?
a) Kit Kat b) Wet Willie c) Unsinkable Sam
Q. 19: What is the largest country in South America (a) by area and (b) by size of population? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 20: Who had a 'Manic Monday' and went on to 'Walk Like An Egyptian' ?
A. 1: Unbelievably the correct answer is c) 51%.
A. 2: Sydney, Australia.
A. 3: Coyote.
A. 4: You should NOT accept the offer. This is a percentage question. For example, if you made $10 per hour, a 10% cut in your salary would leave you with $9 per hour. Adding 10% back would only be 10% of $9, or 90 cents so you would end up with only $9.90.
A. 5: The six men are widely accepted to be the Founding Fathers of the United States of America are George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
A. 6: Benjamin Franklin wrote a scientific piece called Fart Proudly. It was all about farts.
A. 7: The correct answer is e) 90% of all volcanoes are underwater.
A. 8: Icarus.
A. 9: The telephone area code for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is '321' which imitates the countdown before liftoff. It was assigned to the area, instead of suburban Chicago in November 1999 after a successful petition led by local resident Robert Osband. Try it out, call the Kennedy Space Center on (321) 867-5000.
A. 10: They are called 'opposite', 'adjacent' and 'hypotenuse'.
A. 11: Othello.
A. 12: Richard Clayderman is French and he is a pianist.
A. 13: Ocean currents.
A. 14: The correct answer is c) tea, Russians also consume about 6 times as much tea as Americans.
A. 15: A4 has the largest area. (A4 is 210 mm (8.25") wide and 297 mm (11.75") long or 62,370 m2, and US Letter is 216 mm (8.5") wide by 279 mm (11") long or 60,264 m2.)
A. 16: Although modern additions have been added, the seven main weight divisions used in professional boxing are 'Flyweight', 'Bantamweight', 'Featherweight', 'Lightweight', 'Welterweight', 'Middleweight' and 'Heavyweight'.
A. 17: Margarita.
A. 18: The correct answer is c) Unsinkable Sam.
A. 19: The correct answers are (a) Brazil with an area of 8,514,877 Km2, and (b) Brazil with a population of more than 195.5 million.
A. 20: The Bangles.
Gullibility test kit – send $19.99 now!
April 16, 2015 April 12, 2015 fasab comedy, Humour, Language, Puns	$20, a matter of time, amusing, an affair, anagram, bad jokes, bed, body, cat, ceiling, Comedy, computer, counting, driving, Einstein, Entertainment, exaggerations, facebook, facebook timeline, funny, Gullibility, gullible, horses, Humor, Humour, joining Facebook, jokes, laptop, million percent, mud flaps, muscles, no life, problems, pun, puns, pussy, remembering, shower, silly jokes, spine, stable relationships, stupid, suicide note, terrified of thunder and lightning, the other way around, theory of relativity, thigh, times like these, upstairs, wife, window cleaner, word play, word plays
Gullible or not now is your chance to look at this week's selection of word plays, better known as puns.
As usual they come with choice….
Enjoy or endure!!
I have four problems in life:
I was driving along the other day,
when a bloke stopped me and said,
"Your back mud flaps have fallen off."
I said, "Can't do much about it now,
I'll just carry on rear guard less."
Stable relationships
are for horses
My friend told me that after years of doubt,
he is now convinced my wife is having an affair.
"We've gone and moved 250 miles away," he told me.
"And we've still got the same window cleaner."
It's times like these, when I'm sat
in bed with my computer on my knee,
that I really wish I'd bought a laptop.
I think I may have a shower.
Just checked, yes I do, it's upstairs.
I just found $20 hanging from my ceiling.
It was a suicide note.
Exaggerations went up
by a million percent last year.
If Einstein hadn't come up with
the Theory of Relativity,
someone else would have.
It was only a matter of time.
My cat is absolutely terrified
of thunder and lightening.
The pussy.
What part of my body is as long as your thigh,
contains over 120 muscles,
and is an anagram of "pensi"?
No, you're completely wrong.
The correct answer is my spine.
According to my facebook timeline,
I had no life before joining Facebook in 2012.
I believe it to be the other way around.
April Fools Day, So Let's Have A Look At Some Fools!
April 1, 2015 April 1, 2015 fasab Bloopers, Humour	7-11, airline peanuts, amusing, appliance, April Fool's Day, bag of cat biscuits, biscuits, bowl, box of pills, by mouth, can of black pepper, capsule, car manual, cat, close doors, Comedy, Defrost, Dial soap, eat, Entertainment, espresso kettle, fools, funny, get out, get out of car, Humor, Humour, idiots, instruction, instructions, lock doors, microwave popcorn, Misc, morons, muffin, on/off switch, open door, open mouth, packet, plastic wrapper, soap, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, Swann frozen dinner, usage known, Warning Labels, warnings, Wrapper
It's April Fool's Day and what more appropriate post than to have our final look (for now) at the fools who need warning labels on everything and the fools who write the warnings.
Enjoy the stupidity.
"Remove the plastic wrapper."
The first instruction on a
bag of microwave popcorn;
BUT to see the instructions,
one first has to remove the plastic
wrapper and unfold the pouch.
"Take one capsule by mouth
three times daily until gone."
On a box of pills.
"Open packet. Eat contents."
Instructions on a packet of airline peanuts.
"Remove wrapper,
open mouth,
insert muffin,
Instructions on the packaging
for a muffin at a 7-11.
"Use like regular soap."
On a bar of Dial soap.
"Instructions: usage known."
Instructions on a can of black pepper.
"Serving suggestion: Defrost."
On a Swann frozen dinner.
"Simply pour the biscuits into a bowl and
allow the cat to eat when it wants."
On a bag of cat biscuits.
"In order to get out of car,
open door, get out, lock doors,
and then close doors."
In a car manual.
"The appliance is switched on by setting
the on/off switch to the 'on' position."
Instructions for an espresso kettle.
A Conversation With The Cat.
August 13, 2014 August 9, 2014 fasab cats, comedy, Humour, Pets, Photos	amusing, animals, camera, cat, chat, Comedy, conversation, Entertainment, foto, fotos, funny, Humor, Humour, joke, Misc, Miscellaneous, Pets, photo, photography, photos, Random, sofa, taking photographs, telling jokes
I was walking through the house
the other day with my camera
when I spotted the cat lying on a sofa.
"Hi there." I said. "Whatya doin?"
"Just chilling out here on the sofa,'" she said.
"I have a joke for you," I said.
So I told her a joke.
It must have been a good one,
my how she laughed.
Then I asked,
"Mind if I take your photo?"
"Oh no, no way," she replied.
"I haven't combed my fur or anything."
Are You Up For A Challenge? – It's The Monday Quiz.
January 13, 2014 January 13, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests	1963, abolished, actor, Alfred Hitchcock, Alps, amendments, America, Arab, assassinated, Australia, Camp David, Captain Briggs, Carthegian, Cary Grant, cat, character name, clothing line, Dallas, directed, director, education, Entertainment, facts, France, Fred Flintstone, general, general knowledge, Geography, history, Irish novelist, Israeli, IT company, Jurassic Park, killed, Magnum, Magnum PI, milk bottles, movie, movies, music, New Zealand, no new taxes, poet, politics, Pony Express, porch, Presidential retreat, questions, quiz, quizzes, Read my lips, rival gang, Rubik cube, Sony, St Valentines day, Statue of Liberty, television, television series, test, tests, the Netherlands, The Serpent of the Nile, US, US Constitution, videocassette tape recorder system, War
Quite a mixture of questions today.
Some are easy, some are difficult, and some should be easy but I have a feeling they may turn out to be quite difficult too!
As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please, NO cheating.
Q. 1: You've seen it hundreds if not thousands of times, so how many milk bottles are standing on the porch when Fred Flintstone puts out the cat?
Q. 2: Who was assassinated in Dallas on 24 November 1963?
Q. 3: Who was known as 'The Serpent of the Nile'?
Q. 4: How many amendments have their been to the US Constitution?
Q. 5: For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?
Q. 6: What was abolished by France in 1981, The Netherlands in 1982, Australia in 1985 and New Zealand in 1989?
Q. 7: How many colored squares are on a Rubik cube?
Q. 8: A famous Irish novelist and poet, he was born in 1882 and died in 1941, who was he?
Q. 9: Who directed the movie 'Jurassic Park'?
Q. 10: What famous IT company launched a clothing line in 1986?
Q. 11: Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?
Q. 12: For how many years did the famous 'Pony Express' operate in America?
Q. 13: On what date in 1883 did France officially present the Statue of Liberty to the US?
Q. 14: Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock had one of the most celebrated and successful collaborations of any actor/director pair in history. Name as many of their movies as you can (and you get a point for each correct answer).
Q. 15: Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St Valentines day 1929?
Q. 16: Who or what is the Presidential retreat 'Camp David' named after?
Q. 17: Who said "Read my lips, no new taxes"?
Q. 18: What was the name of the domestic videocassette tape recorder system introduced by Sony in 1975?
Q. 19: Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?
Q. 20: In the long running hit television series 'Magnum P.I.', what was the character name of the ex-British Army Officer who looked after the estate in which Magnum lives?
A. 1: One. (You should have known that!)
A. 2: Lee Harvey Oswald.
A. 3: Cleopatra.
A. 4: 27.
A. 5: He Was The Captain Of The Marie Celeste.
A. 6: The Death Penalty.
A. 7: 54 (A cube has 6 sides and there are 9 colored squares per side.)
A. 8: James Joyce.
A. 9: Steven Spielberg.
A. 10: Apple.
A. 11: Hannibal.
A. 12: The 'Pony Express' only lasted a single year before the transcontinental telegraph made the route obsolete.
A. 13: 4th July.
A. 14: Cary Grant appeared in 4 Hitchcock movies, 'Suspicion' in 1941; 'Notorious' in 1946; 'To Catch A Thief' in 1955; and 'North By North-West' in 1959.
A. 15: Al Capone.
A. 16: Presidential retreat Camp David is named after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson.
A. 17: George Bush.
A. 18: Betamax.
A. 19: The Yom Kippur war.
Q. 20: In the long running hit television series 'Magnum P.I.', what was the character name of the ex-British Army Officer who looked after the estate in which Magnum lived?
A. 20: Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, but 'Higgins' will get you a point.
Twenty More Questions – But Have You Twenty More Answers?
September 30, 2013 September 27, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests	1960s, 1970s, aboriginal expression, American Pie, amusing, animal, Axel, Beatles, Billie Jean King, biscuits, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, camel, cat, composers, cookies, cultures, currants, different languages, Don McLean, Earth sounds, education, educational, English version, Entertainment, epic, extremely cold evening, female tennis player, first rotary engine, French cartoon skunk, German engineer, golden record, Google, Grand Slam titles, Grand Slam winners, Great White shark, greetings, Grey wolf, Grizzly bear, gypsy song, hit song, Hollywood, ice hockey puck, Incitatus, invented, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Killer whale, leftys, Lutz, Margaret Smith Court, Martina Navratilova, melancholic, Melanesia, Misc, Miscellaneous, Morgan Freeman, most expensive movie, movie, music, Name, Netherlands, November, Once upon a time there was a tavern, one hit, Pact of Steel, Pancho Gonzales, Polynesia, prison drama, query, questions, quiz, quizzes, quotation marks, record, Rod Laver, Roman Senator, Russian, scientific name, search, song title, spacecraft, spain, sport, Stalingrad, starring role, steamboat, Steffi Graf, Steven King, test, tests, treat, Tsaritsyn, Ursus arctos horribilis, US band, Voyager 1
Time to test yourself with the weekly fasab quiz.
Another twenty random questions, with the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below.
But please, NO cheating!
Good luck and enjoy.
Q. 1: Which epic Hollywood film was the most expensive movie made during the 1960s?
Q. 2: Polynesia means 'many islands'. What does Melanesia mean?
Q. 3: Which Beatles song title is mentioned in Don McLean's hit song 'American Pie'?
Q. 4: Which female tennis player won a record 62 Grand Slam titles?
a) Billie Jean King
b) Steffi Graf
c) Martina Navratilova
d) Margaret Smith Court
Q. 5: What was unusual about the Roman Senator Incitatus?
Q. 6: What two countries signed the so called 'Pact of Steel' on May 22, 1939?
Q. 7: Who travels from Spain to the Netherlands by steamboat in late November?
Q. 8: In what prison drama movie, based on a Steven King book, does Morgan Freeman play a starring role?
Q. 9: The scientific name for which animal is 'Ursus arctos horribilis'?
a) Grizzly bear
b) Great White shark
c) Grey wolf
d) Killer whale
Q. 10: What was the name of the German engineer who invented the first rotary engine?
Q. 11: Formerly called 'Tsaritsyn' and then 'Stalingrad', what is it called today?
Q. 12: Lutz, Axel and Camel are terms associated with what sport?
Q. 13: What is the name for a treat with currants squashed between two thin, oblong biscuits/cookies?
Q. 14: Name the French cartoon skunk that is madly in love with a reluctant cat?
Q. 15: What is an ice hockey puck made from?
Q. 16: On the Voyager 1 spacecraft there is a golden record with greetings in different languages and a collection of various Earth sounds. There is also a 90 minute recording of music from many cultures. Which two composers appear the most on this record?
Q. 17: The name of which popular US band from the 1970s is an aboriginal expression used to describe an extremely cold evening?
Q. 18: Which four of the following seven Grand Slam winners were leftys?
a) Rod Laver
b) Jimmy Connors
c) Bjorn Borg
d) John McEnroe
e) Martina Navratilova
f) Boris Becker
g) Pancho Gonzales
Q. 19: What is the name for a Google search query consisting of exactly two words (actual words found in a dictionary) without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit?
Q. 20: Which catchy hit song beginning with the words "Once upon a time there was a tavern" is an English version of a melancholic Russian gypsy song?
A. 1: Cleopatra
A. 2: Black islands
A. 3: Helter Skelter ("Helter Skelter in the summer swelter")
A. 4: d) Margaret Smith Court
A. 5: Incitatus was a horse.
A. 6: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
A. 7: Sinterklaas / Santa Claus / St. Nicholas
A. 8: The Shawshank Redemption
A. 9: a) Grizzly bear
A. 10: Wankel (the Wankel Rotary engine)
Q. 11: Formerly called Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, what is it called today?
A. 11: Volgograd
A. 12: Figure skating
A. 13: Garibaldi
A. 14: Pepe le Pew
A. 15: Rubber
A. 16: Bach and Beethoven
A. 17: Three Dog Night.
A. 18: a) Rod Laver
A. 19: A 'Googlewhack'. Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site.
A. 20: Those Were The Days
Further Furry Fun!
May 25, 2013 fasab cats, comedy, dogs, Humour, Pets, Photos, Unusual	amusing, animal friends, animal photos, cat, cats, celebrity apprentice, Comedy, dog, dogs, Entertainment, fish, foto, fotos, funny, funny animal photos, funny photos, Humor, Humour, lil john, Misc, Miscellaneous, pet, Pets, photo, photograph, photographs, photos, Random, squirrel
I feel a bit of a Sunday Sermon coming on, if I get the time to write it.
But for today something a lot lighter and hopefully amusing.
It's a second helping of our animal friends. They are fun.
Is it just me, or does this little feller look like Lil John recently on Celebrity Apprentice?


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Free First Wednesday | UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - All Day | Cost: FREE
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden | 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA
Enjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Wednesday of every month month from 9 am to 5 pm year round.
Established in 1890, the Garden, which is open to the public year round, has over 13,000 different kinds of plants from around the world, cultivated by region in naturalistic landscapes over its 34 acres.
Parking is limited. No admission after 4:30 pm. Docent-led tours for groups are not available on Free Wednesdays.
Closed: The first Tuesday of every month, Thanksgiving Day, December 24 and 25, December 31, January 1, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day
– Updated 6/3/19 – Event info last checked via website
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Categories: Art & Museums, East Bay
Venue: UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
Address: 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA