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    Help understanding android app permissions

    That permission is usually for apps that need to keep the screen on. For example a video player would be pretty useless if the screen went to sleep every two minutes. Paul Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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    small wine bottles for mead

    Thanks everyone. Lots of helpful leads to follow up. Sent from my Hudl HT7S3 using Tapatalk
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    small wine bottles for mead

    Can anyone point me to a supplier of clear glass half size wine bottles (350 or 375 ml)? I have my first couple of batches in demijohns and will need to bottle them eventually. I don't expect to drink it in great quantities so half bottles would be best. Thanks, Paul
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    3d printing and beekeeping

    I have a 3d printer. I build myself a MENDELMAX last year. I used to keep stabbing my fingers on the sharp pins on my "crown of thorns" thingy for queen marking. I printed a holder for the crown of thorns - a ring with a little hole for each of the pins. No more spiked fingers! I am seriously...
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    Observation hive questions

    MrGrumpy - thank you for a very helpful response to my questions. It says you are "New Bee" with no hives. I don't believe it. richardbees - I am aware they are difficult. I was asking the questions I do not know the answer to, not the ones I do know - to paraphrase Rumsfeld, the known...
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    New from Leics

    Hello and welcome from Hinckley. Get involved with the LRBKA - a friendly and helpful bunch in my experience. I did the training course at Walton which must be fairly close to you. Paul
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    Observation hive questions

    Does anyone out there have experience of observation hives. I am making a five frame observation hive that we be used to show bees to the public at an event at the end of July and have a couple of questions. It is in a flat configuration with the frames stacked vertically between two 10 mm thick...
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    Starting a jenter cycle

    Why? Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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    Great Tits feeding their young on my bees.

    He live in France! Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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    Bee sting desensitisation course

    The docs on my desensitization course recommend taking a ceterizine tablet before the injection to minimize the local symptoms - itching and swelling. They told me it will make no difference at all to anaphylaxis. Another doctor (the wife!) told me that the "non-drowsy" antihistamines are not...
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    Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV

    Who would have guessed? http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanoparticles-loaded-with-bee-venom-kill-hiv Paul Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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    Bee sting desensitisation course

    www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13671/58194/58194.pdf Just considering deaths prevented: "£18,070,000 per QALY gained compared with an adrenaline auto-injector plus high-dose antihistamine and advice." Taking into consideration quality of life: "The Committee noted that in these analyses the...
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    Bee sting desensitisation course

    Wow, I knew it must be expensive - 50 outpatients appointments - but I have never heard an actual figure. I have spoken to my doctors and also read as much of the research literature as I can find and the success of the venom immunotherapy (VIT) is commonly quoted as greater than 90%. My...
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    Bee sting desensitisation course

    In the Leicester clinic they simply won't let you leave before the hour is up no matter how busy it is. If you have any symptoms apart from local redness, swelling, itching they keep you even longer. Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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    Bee sting desensitisation course

    You must make sure you tell them about that reaction next week. That is definitely a systemic response the doctors will want to know about. I bet they keep you on the same dose next week. They did for me when I just had a bit of tingling in my lip at about the same dose as you. I just got...
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