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This Tuesday photo shows a newly purchased queen bee, shown marked with white paint on her back in a queen cage, near Langley, Wash. Worker bees eventually will eat a piece of candy placed as a cork on the back of the cage so the queen can be released for egg laying. Queens can live more than five years but their vitality declines with age. (AP photo)
Spring is busy time for bees and their keepers
By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Spring is the busiest time of year for bees and their beekeepers. Queens begin laying their eggs, scouts head out of the hive to find food to replenish diminished stocks, and the rest of the workers shoulder the load in raising more brood. For beekeepers, late summer and autumn are the primary harvest periods for honey, while winter provides a pause for equipment cleaning and repair. Spring is all about honeybee regeneration, said Jeffrey Harris, a research professor with the Mississippi State University Extension Service. “Bees are seasonal animals that depend upon flowers,” Harris said. “You can’t grow brood without pollen, and there’s only a discreet amount of time available for blooming.” Beekeeping seasons vary in length according to climate, of course. That ranges from about 10 weeks in Alaska to 11 months or more along the Gulf of Mexico. “The seasons are shorter in Alaska but you can make more honey per colony,” Harris said. “Things bloom hard and daylight runs about 20 hours per day. Down here (Mississippi), it’s greatly different. We have a little winter lasting about two weeks.” Overwintering honeybee colonies in hives is tricky but not unworkable. The key to high wintering success is ensuring that the bees are healthy at the beginning of the cold season and have enough nutrition to carry them over. Beekeepers face colony mortality because of diseasecarrying mites, moisture building up in the hives and extreme cold. Few plants will bloom outdoors in singledigit temperatures, and their absence triggers starvation. “If bees are to starve, it’s generally in February and March,” Hollis said. “We don’t start to see much flowering down here until March. “Beekeepers need to provide artificial syrup and candy (pollen patties) to sustain and help them with the ups and downs of weather in the early spring.” The four types of bees most commonly seen in North America are wild bees, bumblebees, Mason bees and honeybees. Honeybees are among the first of the bee species to become active each year, said Andony Melathopoulos, a bee specialist with Oregon State University Extension. “Unlike all the other bees in the U.S., they winter as a colony so they can jump into action as soon as it gets warm” — approximately 55 degrees Fahrenheit, he said. “In the middle of the winter, all the rest of the bees are in See Garden p. 2D
This April 12 photo taken near Langley, Wash., shows a beekeeper shaking a new colony of honeybees into a hive to replace wintertime losses. Shipping boxes are sold by weight. Three pound boxes, like the one shown here, contain some 10,000 honeybees. (AP photo)
This February image above provided by Resource Furniture shows the floorplan of The Open House, the 1,000 square foot concept home on display in the National Building Museum exhibition “Making Room: Housing for a Changing America” in Washington, D.C. In this “nighttime” view, the wall beds are open in each living space and the acoustic partition wall systems are closed. Below, the photo at left, provided by Resource Furniture and Clei, shows a “daytime” interior view of The Open House, while the photo at right shows a “nighttime” interior view with the Hufcor motorized partition walls closed. (AP photos)
Exhibit focuses on homes that adapt and change with us
By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press Most housing is designed for nuclear families, but most U.S. households don’t meet that description. That’s why flexible floor plans — and innovations including moveable walls, smart technology, multi-
functional furniture and space-saving features — are the future, according to a new exhibit, “Making Room: Housing for a Changing America,” at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum’s curator, Chrysanthe Broikos, says
only about 20 percent of households today are nuclear families, so housing and zoning rules need to adapt to keep pace with demographic changes. In addition to interiors, the exhibit highlights a number of studies on housing, and information about what’s
going on around the country in new development and zoning. “We’re trying to say ‘Hey, what are the other 80 percent of households doing?” Broikos says. The exhibit features an See Floorplan p. 2D
US home building rose slightly in March, led by apartments By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. builders broke ground on more apartment buildings last month, pushing up overall home construction 1.9 percent. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that housing starts rose in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.32 million, driven by a big 16 percent gain in apartment buildings. Single-family home construction slipped 3.7 percent. Home construction has grown steadily since the housing crash bottomed out in 2012 and has emerged as a potential source of long-term economic growth. The pace of homebuilding is still below its long-run average of about 1.5 million houses and apartments a year. And millennials are increasingly moving out on their own and seeking to buy homes. “It is still a case of demand outpacing supply in the housing sector, which bodes well for construction,” See Homes p. 2D
In this Feb. 26 file photo, work continues on a new development in Fair Lawn, N.J. On Tuesday the Commerce Department reported U.S. home construction in March increased slightly. (AP photo)
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Film in the works features Astoria’s Flavel House By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — A film crew is in Astoria this week and the historic Flavel House has a starring role. It’s a first for the stately Victorian, the former home of bar pilot and entrepreneur Capt. George Flavel. The house-turnedmuseum was covered in scaffolding in the 1980s and barely appeared in the 1985 cult classic “The Goonies,” which was shot in several locations on the North Coast and still draws hundreds, if not thousands, of fans to Astoria each year. The house is a character in its own right in the film in the works now, complete with creeping, crawling vines pinned in place by set dressers. “The Mortuary Collection,” directed by Ryan Spindell, is a “Gothic horror anthology film,” according to a Kickstarter fundraising page for the project. While some of the plans have changed since the Kickstarter page was created, the film will be a collection of stories. Think “The Twilight Zone.” It’s a small production with a crew of around 40 people, according to producer Justin Ross. If it succeeds, the film will join the ranks of other films that used Oregon — and Astoria, specifically — as both a backdrop and an inspiration. Not only is the Clatsop County Historical Society allowing the crew to use rooms inside the Flavel House, moving furniture around from room to room, a number of artifacts from the society’s collection are on loan as props, things like medical equipment and medicine bottles. It’s a big undertaking for a small staff to take on. “Our curator’s main mission is to catalogue and take care of our artifacts and this is certainly pushing the comfort zone of a curator,” said McAndrew Burns, executive director of the historical society. “It’s the biggest artifact we have,” added Sam Rascoe, the historical society’s director of marketing. “And it’s irreplaceable,” Burns said. “There were questions like ‘Can we paint the walls?’ Well, no, you can’t because these are the original colors . and the
In this April 20, 2003, file photo, this turn-of-the-century Victorian house, built for banker, real estate magnate and pioneer river bar pilot Capt. George Flavel in the 1880s, which is now the Flavel House Museum, sits on a steep hillside overlooking Astoria, Ore. A film crew is in Astoria this week and the historic Flavel House has a starring role. (AP photo) woodwork has never been touched.” But the historical society also operates the Oregon Film Museum out of the historic Clatsop County Jail just next door to the Flavel House. So Burns and Rascoe love that not only is a film shooting in Oregon, it’s shooting in Astoria, at one of the city’s most recognizable historic landmarks. “It would probably be easier for us not to participate,” Burns said. “Probably it would be easier for them just to build a set, but, you know, it wouldn’t be real.” MOVING DAY To accommodate the crew, museum staff and film crew will move furniture around — in the large music room on the ground floor almost everything, including a piano, will be shuffled around — stashing pieces that won’t be used as props around corners, in hallways, in other rooms, and even up in the tower. It’s somewhat in keeping with history: the Flavels first moved into the house in April 1886. “So it’s moving day,” Burns said. “It’s just we’re interpreting moving day from 1886.”
The Flavel House, in pristine condition and with its massive rooms, high ceilings and wide hallways, was an ideal workspace for a film crew. Oregon offers incentives for companies that film in the state, including rebates for using Oregon-based goods and services, but producers of “The Mortuary Collection” have also credited Rascoe with selling them on Astoria. Rascoe took location scouts and producers on a tour of the city, showing off a variety of potential locations, not just historical society properties. They now plan to film at spots across Astoria and Clatsop County. “One of the things we recognize is just like a visitor doesn’t come to town for one thing, a film company’s not going to come here just to film in the Flavel House,” Burns said. “And, you know, rising waters.” Ross said the company has looked around Clatsop County for some of its crew, even bringing in high school students to prepare sets. Calls have gone out locally for film crew candidates and even for old cars.
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some form of dormancy, either in the ground or in hollow stems.” Gardeners can make their properties more hospitable by choosing plants attractive to bees, massing them in broad strips or swaths, and selecting those that flower successively, starting in early spring, Melathopoulos said. “People should be aware that many plants with gorgeous blooms don’t always attract pollinators,” he said. “A hybrid tea rose has really no benefit to pollinators. So look out for plants that pollinators visit
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“Open House” designed by Italian architect Pierluigi Colombo, co-founder of the design firm Clei, to show how a flexible space can adapt to accommodate three different living arrangements. Initially set up to house four imaginary roommates (two singles and a couple), the space was then transformed to house an imaginary multigenerational family. At the end of May, the space will be reconfigured again to house an imaginary retired couple, and will include a rental apartment. The show, which opened Nov. 18, runs through Sept. 16. Although The Open House is only 1,000 square feet, it feels much larger — and allows for flexibility — because all the beds fold up to become walls, sofas or tables, and it features acoustically sound motorized moving wall systems made by the Wisconsin-based Hufcor company, long known for making the bigger moving walls used in gyms and ballrooms. “A floor plan should not just be a picture in time. It should be adaptable,” says Lisa Blecker, marketing di-
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said Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets. The construction of single-family homes typically has more economic impact than apartment building, because it employs more people. Analysts were disappointed by the drop-off in that category. Still, single-family home construction is up 5.2 percent compared with a year earlier. The overall construction of houses and apartments rose nearly 11 percent in March from a year earlier, the government said. Builders are struggling with conflicting trends in the housing market. There is a severe shortage of existing homes, which has pushed up prices in cities around the country. The number of existing homes available for sale in February plunged 8.1 percent from a year ago. That’s lifting demand for new homes.
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when strolling around your neighborhood.” “The best policy is to plant a variety of bee-attractive flowers, ones with different shapes and colors, that bloom at different times of the year,” Melathopoulos said. Online: For more about enhancing pollinators in urban landscapes, download this publication from Michigan State University Extension: http://msue.anr.msu.edu/uploads/236/78920/ProtectPollinatorsInLandscape_Final-HigherRes.pdf You can contact Dean Fosdick at deanfosdick@netscape.net
rector at Resource Furniture, whose multifunctional furnishings are featured in the exhibit. “The big takeaway is that if you’re planning to renovate or reconfigure your home, it’s essential to think about the long term and opportunities for flexibility in years to come,” she says. “The makeup of a household is fluid and, more than ever, home layouts, wall configurations and furnishings need to keep up with those changes.” The beauty of the home set up in the exhibit is that it can accommodate multiple household configurations without moving bathrooms or the kitchen. “And the kitchen has been carefully designed to work well for children, millennials, older people and someone in a wheelchair,” Blecker says. The kitchen in the exhibit features adjustable-height counters for wheelchair accessibility. Pull-down cabinet fittings, which allow high shelves to be pulled down to almost counter height, save people from having to stand on stools to reach upper shelves. Bathrooms are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and sinks
are mounted separately from the vanity so a wheelchair can be accommodated without redoing the plumbing. “We will always need single-family homes and apartments that are designed to accommodate a nuclear family,” says Sarah Watson, deputy director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, which helped organize the exhibit. “But today, the majority of our households are comprised of singles living alone, multi-generational families, and adults sharing their homes with roommates. Our population is also aging rapidly and will need new housing options that can support aging-in-place with diminished physical or cognitive abilities.” Dan Soliman, director of the AARP Foundation, a major funder of the exhibit, says that one-fifth of U.S. adults will be 65 or older by 2030, “and a recent AARP study found that almost 90 percent of people want to continue living in their own home for as long as possible.” “We need more designs like this one to meet the needs of individuals and families through all stages of their life,” he says.
At the same time, mortgage rates have risen steadily in the past year. The average 30-year fixed rate rose to 4.42 percent last week, up from an average as low as 3.78 percent in early September last year, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. Builders have also complained that a shortage of construction workers and the limited availability of land has hindered new building. Homebuilders remain confident despite the cross-currents, though there are some hints of concern. A measure of builders’ optimism, the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo
builder sentiment index fell one point in April to 69, the fourth consecutive month of decline. Any reading above 50 indicates more builders see sales conditions as good rather than poor. On a regional basis, housing starts ticked up on the Northeast and surged in the Midwest. They fell slightly in the South and West. Building permits, an indicator of future construction, also rose last month, increasing 2.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.35 million. Permits were also lifted by apartment buildings, which jumped nearly 23 percent. Single-family home permits fell 5.5 percent.
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