Colony Collapse Syndrome: are we feeling it begin for us?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, August 30, 2024 14:46
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I have to admit that I get frustrated with people wanting things nownownownownownow. Makes one long for the old days before computers, fax machines and high speed printers........but then again I am glad we no londer have carbon paper and IBM selectrics!
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I have a lovely 53 rear projection tv with a convergence problem - free to good home!
(not really they would kill me)
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Quote:I'll take it; a screwdriver and a little patience can fix that.
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
I have a lovely 53 rear projection tv with a convergence problem
Red, blue and green Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:I'll take it; a screwdriver and a little patience can fix that.
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
I have a lovely 53 rear projection tv with a convergence problem
Red, blue and green Chrisisall
According to the tv repiar dude $250 to pick it up and return it plus another $500 will fix it.
sore eyed from watching the "little" tv FMF
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Quote:If it's a convergence problem, it's basically aiming the lenses so they all shoot in the same direction- no rocket science there. If it's a more technical problem, I'd understand.
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
According to the tv repiar dude $250 to pick it up and return it plus another $500 will fix it.
Get a twelve year old to open it up and have a look.
Mr Fix It Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:If it's a convergence problem, it's basically aiming the lenses so they all shoot in the same direction- no rocket science there. If it's a more technical problem, I'd understand.
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
According to the tv repiar dude $250 to pick it up and return it plus another $500 will fix it.
Get a twelve year old to open it up and have a look.
Mr Fix It Chrisisall
The 12 year old is too expensive. The problem is that the tv will not allow me to realign the little crossess. I pushy the button - no notink
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Quote:It's open-heart time, my dear. Gotta do it manually.
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
The problem is that the tv will not allow me to realign the little crossess. I pushy the button - no notink
Watch-y the shock Chrisisall
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Hey FMF.....
Don't get that thing fixed at that price. If you can get somebody you know who knows a bit about them who will do it cheap, by all means.
If you're willing to spend that much on your viewing pleasure in the near future, may I suggest this TV:
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Hitachi-51-CRT-Projection-HD-Monitor-51
F59/sem/rpsm/oid/148043/catOid/-12867/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
It's only 51" to your 53", but it's beautiful. I've had mine since April and haven't had a single problem with it. Hitachi makes a killer TV. They also have a 57" model that's relativley cheap. The normal price for the 51" now is 999.99. When I bought mine last year I got it on sale at Circuit City for 899.99. I also saw that they had it on sale on Black Friday for $699.99, so if you have a little patience, you can get a great TV for a steal. I'd recommend checking Amazon, wannasavealot.com and Overstock.com too because I've seen better prices for these TV's online on occasion.
BTW.... If you go that route don't listen to the site when they say it only weighs 155lbs. I had free shipping because of my credit card but it was going to take 2 weeks for them to ship it. I picked it up with my brother and a U-Haul the day after I ordered it and we nearly killed ourselves getting it up to the second floor. Wasn't until I read the manual later that I found out it really weighs 309 lbs.
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A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in the collapse of honey bee colonies across the United StatesQuote:
Yeah, we keep f*cking with Mother nature and pretty soon she'll f*ck us over but good.
Colony collapse disorder has killed millions of bees -- up to 90 percent of colonies in some U.S. beekeeping operations -- imperiling the crops largely dependent upon bees for pollination, such as oranges, blueberries, apples and almonds...
Signs of colony collapse disorder were first reported in the United States in 2004, the same year American beekeepers started importing bees from Australia.
The disorder is marked by hives left with a queen, a few newly hatched adults and plenty of food, but the worker bees responsible for pollination gone. The virus identified in the healthy Australian bees is Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) -- named that because it was discovered by Hebrew University researchers.
Although worker bees in colony collapse disorder vanish, bees infected with IAPV die close to the hive, after developing shivering wings and paralysis. For some reason, the Australian bees seem to be resistant to IAPV and do not come down with symptoms.
Scientists used genetic analyses of bees collected over the past three years and found that IAPV was present in bees that had come from colony collapse disorder hives 96 percent of the time.
www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/06/bee.disorder/index.html
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