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Wynn Macau: Time to Play Catch Up
Wynn Resorts (WYNN) has had a good year so far, Wynn Macau (1128.HK) not so much. That should begin to change, JPMorgan analysts Kenneth Fong and Daisy Lu wrote in a note yesterday.
This chart shows the return from Wynn Resorts versus Wynn Macau.
Through April 22, Wynn resorts has gained 14.1%, to Wynn Macau's 3.3% There's little reason for Wynn Macau to lag so much--at least not fundamental ones--Fong and Lu say. The reason: Wynn Resorts gets about 75% of its EBITDA from Wynn Macau, and historically they've tracked each other pretty closely. They write:
We believe the recent divergence could leave room for a valuation catch up for Wynn Macau (Figures 1 & 2). Investment implication: Buy Wynn Macau for 1) undemanding valuation, 2) gradually improving 1Q operating trend and 3) on the downside a solid 6% dividend yield as support. We think the upcoming result and dividend (ex-date on May 22) will be a catalyst.
The casino companies with Macau exposure are scheduled to release earnings during the new few weeks. Wynn Resorts is scheduled to report on May 6, according to Yahoo!, Las Vegas Sands (LVS) is scheduled to release on April 25, and MGM Resorts International (MGM) for May 3.
Wynn Resorts has gained 0.2% to 128.70 today, Las Vegas Sands has jumped 0.9% to $53.88 and MGM has surged 1.7% to $12.54. Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL) has gained 0.6% to $23.19. Wynn Macau dropped 1.4% in Hong Kong today.


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A genus of peppers, which contain capsaicin which creates the burning sensation on your toungue and in your mouth... So the stuff that makes them hot while the Red Savina Habanero is the hottest pepper in the world and tops the Heat Scale for peppers at around 350,000-580,000 Scoville Units the scale used measure the heat of peppers(Jalepeno Peppers range from 2,500 - 5,000 Scoville Units as a reference) Pure capsicum(capsaicin) tops this scale far above the hottest peppers sitting atop the scoville heat scale at 10,000,000 units it is inedible for most people and they now use it to make the world's hottest hot sauces which people usually will buy to say they own it while never actually eating it most of these hot sauces will have instructions and on them reading "CAUTION Not to be directly ingested only to be used as an ingredient in cooking" and so forth, so you can guess that it is quite hot, spicy, and dangerous.
The world's hottest sauce I know of is made by Dave's Gourmet, it's called "The Source" made from diluted Capsicum(capsaicin), sitting around 7.5 million scoville units on the heat scale. Go try some yourself, if I ever get a chance maybe I will
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Tsongas: I won't take ObamaCare because I have better options
posted at 8:48 am on August 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA) manages to answer the question that Keith Ellison (D-MN) and the rest of her Obama-care supporting colleagues in both the House and Senate have avoided. The crowd, however, didn't like the response very much, and lets Tsongas know it. At about the four-minute mark, one of Tsongas' peons constitutents asks Tsongas whether she will commit to adopting ObamaCare for her own coverage and give up her so-called "Cadillac" or "gold-played" Congressional coverage, and that's when Tsongas suddenly becomes concerned with protecting choice (via the boss):
CONSTITUENT: My question to you, Congresswoman Tsongas, is that if this is such a great plan, why did you opt out of it when you took the vote [loud applause, standing ovation]?
TSONGAS: People often say why don't the American people have what those of us in Congress have. [Audience erupts] Let me explain what I have. Let me explain what I have. What I have is a tremendous array — you know, last year when I went to a discussion — what I have is a tremendous array of choices. And I made a choice based on what I was willing to pay for and what made sense in terms of coverage for me and my family. [Audience shouts out: "We want choice! We want choice!] This is essentially what we are creating for the American people. We are creating greater choice.
[Smattering of applause overwhelmed by boos.]
No, Representative Tsongas, you're not creating choice. You're restricting choice, both explicitly and implicitly. The ObamaCare bill explicitly forces private insurers into conformity in dictating coverages in order to qualify under state "exchanges", which greatly reduces choice and will almost certainly wipe out at least some existing private plans. Implicitly, the public option will undercut private insurers and give businesses a chance to opt out of providing coverage at all — which means as many as 83 million Americans will lose their insurance in the first ten years. Thanks to the rules set up by ObamaCare, those people will have no choice at all but to take the public option.
But who won't have to worry about losing their insurance? Congress, of course. They get to set the rules to ensure that ObamaCare applies to us but not to them. Reminds one of royalty does it not? That's why the Tea Parties have become so popular these days, and one of many reasons why ObamaCare offends the sensibilities of Americans.
This axiom applies: Beware the cook who won't eat his own food. Perhaps the best way to make that clear to Tsongas is to get her out of Congress and make sure she loses that Congressional coverage as fast as possible.
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I went to pick some avocados the other day and found a swam in the tree. I shook them into a box and was a happy camper. There was a blade of comb in the center of the cluster. Is it normal for a swarm to build comb while clustered in a tree?
I went to pick some avocados the other day and found a swam in the tree. I shook them into a box and was a happy camper. There was a blade of comb in the center of the cluster. Is it normal for a swarm to build comb while clustered in a tree?
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I haven't seen a full fledged comb with an active swarm, but I have seen where they have started to draw out cells on a spa and on branches, I guess if the swarm is in the same place long enough it feels the need to get things started.
Coyote Creek Bees
I was under the impression that they normally would not build comb while outside a structure but that Africanized Honey Bees would. We don't yet have AHB here in South Carolina.
Saw one here in Il last year 100ft up a pine, they had 5 combs and a thriving hive. It was a drought year for us and they did fine. Someone finally cut them down in early august.
This is an open air hive or exposed hive. Regular honey bees here in MI. There was about seven combs the size of a volleyball.
We have seen some like that here. We wondered if the swarm got caught out by bad weather and stayed there long enough to stop looking for another spot......?
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If bees of a certain age have are gorged with honey (which bees do in preparation to swarm) and have no where to put it, they will begin to secrete wax as it is metabolized.
Bees being bees, if the swarm's scouts take a while to find a new hive space, they put that wax to constructive use.
If you look closely at the surface a swarms was on, you will often find little white flecks of wax attached to it.
We get external hives in trees quite often here in Louisiana. I noticed that if a swarm around here stays in one place for more than a couple days they start building comb. Makes for a real easy cut out. I will be removing an external hive from an oak tree in the next couple of weeks. Ill try to get pics of it as they really are a sight to see.
I've got pics, how do I post
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A couple was gone to Florida for 6weeks. When they got back they called me. I have pics but don't know how to post
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I found 2 last year. One in a blueberry bush the size of a softball, the other (the one in the photo) 40 ft up in an oak tree. I guess the scouts never found a suitable home and the swarm setup housekeeping.
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Click on the insert image link, then click basic uploader, click choose file, click (or double click) on your pic, then click upload file.
Try it.
How do I attach pic
Is there a kid around? lol
My kid had to show me. She did it so fast the first time, I made her show me in slo mo the second time.
Thank your daughter for me Beeman.Not all that hard once you get a kid to show ya. Thanks again
She said "your welcome" Ken. Nice pics BTW. Easy hive!
Wish they were all that easy last year.


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Sunday's Enfusion Tournament Could Determine Kickboxing's Best 85kg Fighter
- Written by Rian Scalia
Enfusion 3: "Trial of the Gladiators" takes place this Sunday, December 2 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event features the end of the third season of the Enfusion reality show, ending in a one night, four man tournament at 85kg.
85kg is not a very established weight class in kickboxing. It's Showtime had utilized it a bit, with Sahak Parparyan being their last champion at the weight, along with Jason Wilnis. Overall though, the division lacks the uniformity of fights and fighters being all in one place that help to evaluate the landscape of it. Many fans don't even follow this division or know many of the fighters in it. We don't really have a grasp on who the top ten are or maybe even who the top fighter is. Generally, we think of Sahak Parparyan as the premier fighter when we think of this division due to his features on It's Showtime.
The Enfusion tournament this weekend will help us further get a grasp on the standings of the 85kg division. Among the tournament participants is Sahak Parparyan himself. On the other side of the bracket is former opponent of Sahak and potential star Andrew Tate. The rest of the tournament is rounded out by Ritchie Hocking of Scotland and Franci Grajs of Slovenia, who are both not very well known but definitely highly capable fighters. Hocking and Grajs are the interesting variables of the tournament, as they have not been featured amongst the likes of those who are considered to be some of the best in the division like Sahak and Tate.
The tournament also has the potential for a big rematch, between Sahak Parparyan and Andrew Tate. Their first fight was very close, with Sahak taking a decision win over five rounds. However, Grajs and Hocking should not be overlooked based on what I've seen of them. Tate fights Hocking and Grajs fights Sahak, so an upset in the semi finals would immediately add a new name into the fray of the 85kg division. Even impressive performances in defeat can advance fighters' careers.
It's always good for kickboxing when lesser known fighters like Ritchie Hocking and Franci Grajs are thrown right into the mix. Any time new talent that can hang with the best are discovered, it only adds depth and creates a better division. Think of Sanny Dahlbeck or Davit Kiria, who before being featured in Glory this year were not very well known and now have built fanbases and hype based off of their performances. Even Andrew Tate was not very well known coming into his fight with Sahak Parparyan, and now I would consider him one of the best fighters in the division.
Enfusion 3: "Trial of the Gladiators" will be live on Fight Network in North America and on Orange Sport in Europe. Full fight card here.


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"'We want a conservative nominee because that's our best chance of winning. Look at the races in the last 30 years, we nominated a moderate: [John] McCain, [Bob] Dole, Gerald Ford. When George [H.W.] Bush ran for re-election back in 1992, after raising taxes and increasing spending. They all ran as moderates. We all lost,' Santorum said.
"'Every time we've run as a conservative, we've won,' the candidate continued. 'Why? Because Americans want a choice. If it's a difference between somebody, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, you know what, this country is going to probably going to stick with the person they know. We need to have a sharp contrast. Someone who paints a very different vision for America.'"
"'I have the perfect candidate — Jeb Bush. But he's not running,' former George W. Bush chief of staff Andy Card told Charlie Rose on CBS on Wednesday, echoing the sentiments of many in his party.
"'What Democrat would not worry about a popular leader from a critical state who sounds pretty moderate and can rescue the GOP from its anti-Latino death grip?' asked former Bill Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry, who said he's yet to find a Democratic elder who thinks the GOP is truly 'unhinged' enough to consider ditching Romney for Bush…
"'Don't buy the bulls—- about us not being worried about Jeb,' added a veteran Democratic operative. 'He's a tough matchup even if his last name is Bush.'"
"But beyond being one of Poppy's boys, the actual Jeb Bush would have another problem as a candidate. The party has marched inexorably to the right in a way that leaves him decidedly out of step…
"When a Republican says he 'used to be a conservative,' he means he doesn't much like the party's rightward lurch. Are angry primary voters who have given Rick Santorum a series of victories (and a near-miss in Mitt Romney's home state of Michigan) going to flock to a candidate who talks like that?
"Then there is Bush's somewhat moderate approach to immigration. Jeb is fluent in Spanish and married to a Mexican-born woman; that would seem an ideal profile for a party that badly needs to attract Hispanics. But Jeb opposed Arizona's harsh law cracking down on those here illegally and similar efforts in other states."
"Let's be honest, the marriage between the Republican Party and the tea party has always been a marriage of convenience — and an uncomfortable marriage of convenience at best. Unfortunately, this marriage is no longer working and it is time for both sides to move on. Call it irreconcilable differences…
"Moderate talking heads like David Brooks and David Frum, along with their ideological soul mates on the Hill, attacked the tea party as 'radical' and ridiculed tea party activists as politically naïve.
"Both the moderate and the conservative establishment types feared that the dirty, unwashed masses of the tea party might actually change how things are done in Washington — leaving them and their K Street buddies out of power and out of work…
"Now, unfortunately, the tea party is seen as just another Republican Party interest group. Another interest group to be used for fundraising and to turn out votes on Election Day, and then to be ignored when the politicians get back to doing the work of Washington."
"'We spend a lot of time talking about other countries, particularly the Middle East and places where there's a lot of religious excessive demand,' Mr. Kerry said. 'But here in our own country, we have our own fundamentalists and we have our own excesses of demand today, and expectation with respect to towing the line.'…
"'Why are we stuck? Why is this the way it is? Why does Olympia Snowe leave? Why are we gridlocked?' he asked rhetorically. 'Well, I'll tell you in very simple terms; certain people in the leadership of the United States Congress have made a decision that their primary objective is not fixing the economy, it is defeating this president. And they have decided to do everything possible to gridlock everything in order that we all look bad and then people throw everybody out and they'll come into power.'…
"'It's the most depressingly small minded, venal unpatriotic thing I've ever seen in my life,' he said."
"In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good. That is not happening today and, frankly, I do not see it happening in the near future.
"For change to occur, our leaders must understand that there is not only strength in compromise, courage in conciliation and honor in consensus-building — but also a political reward for following these tenets. That reward will be real only if the people demonstrate their desire for politicians to come together after the planks in their respective party platforms do not prevail.
"I certainly don't have all the answers, and reversing the corrosive trend of winner-take-all politics will take time. But as I enter a new chapter in my life, I see a critical need to engender public support for the political center, for our democracy to flourish and to find solutions that unite rather than divide us.
"I do not believe that, in the near term, the Senate can correct itself from within. It is by nature a political entity and, therefore, there must be a benefit to working across the aisle."
"Among the biases of the mainstream political media, the most absurd is the adoration of the 'moderate.' When Maine's Olympia Snowe, the most liberal Senate Republican, announced her retirement Tuesday, it sparked an avalanche of lamentation and praise of this 'dying breed' of moderate…
"New York Times columnist David Brooks blames the Tea Partiers and other grassroots conservatives ('wingers,' he calls them) for making the GOP "more and more insular, more and more rigid" and being too intolerant of compromise. Someone should show Brooks the GOP presidential field. The ever-changing policy views of front-runner Mitt Romney can be derided in many ways, but never as 'rigid.' Nor can the mercurial Newt Gingrich be pinned down as unbending…
"Moderates are as guilty as anyone of being intolerant when faced with conflicts within the GOP. Frum blasted as 'Unpatriotic' those conservatives who failed to support George W. Bush's ill-considered invasion of Iraq, and urged all conservatives to "turn [their] backs" on these heretics. Brooks himself draws some pretty rigid boundaries of permissible dissent, excoriating as 'nihilists' those who opposed the unprecedented and unfair Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008…
"Frum's attempted purges, Specter's naked self-preservation, and Tauzin's and Bayh's self-enrichment show moderates are no more tolerant or altruistic than the 'wingers' Brooks fears. Moderates in both parties may be a dying breed, but maybe not one worth saving."
"In the real world, Republican members of Congress who scoffed at ideology spent decades cutting corrupt deals, buying votes with pork barrel spending, and expanding government to unsustainable levels while sweeping our nation's long-term problems under the rug.
"Traditionally, Republicans would complain about big government while collaborating with Democrats to augment its size and scope. Yet last year, the House of Representatives passed the first serious plan to reform entitlements and balance the long-term budget, with all but four Republicans voting for Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal…
"If it were up to Obama and 'responsible' moderates, the debt ceiling would have been raised without much fanfare, like business as usual. But the Tea Party protesters forced the issue, and that's the only reason Obama has budget savings to tout.
"Despite how the fairy tale goes, in reality the backslapping Republican moderates are the ones who helped bring this nation to the brink of financial ruin. And only bold and principled conservative leadership can save us."
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Price: Tickets to the Chathams range from $754 to $1230 return for an adult.
Class: Just the one. On the way back to Auckland the front six or so rows of seats had been removed to make way for boxes of live crayfish - a major export of the island.
On time? The two-hour-and-15-minute flight was actually a full 24 hours late. The day before we were due to take off, passengers received a call from the travel agent to advise there was a 24-hour delay and the reason was unknown.
My seat: Anywhere I wanted. The advantage of flying Air Chathams is you can sit where you please.
Fellow passengers: The plane was mostly transporting a tour group to the Chathams. All good people.
Entertainment: Sparse, just the book that I brought with me and the amazing view out the window. One of the highlights was not having to suffer through Air New Zealand's Hobbit safety video.
Food and drink: Heading out we were given a sealed plastic container of water but on the way back to Auckland there was a sandwich, water and a cup of tea.
Luggage: 20kg allowance for your main bag and an extra 5kg for hand luggage. Air Chathams put my fishing rod on at no extra cost.
The airport experience: Air Chathams is like a black-ops mission to Iraq.
There is no listing on the boards and one airport staff member couldn't tell me where the plane was departing from.
On the island, Inia William Tuuta airport is situated on land gifted to the Chathams by the local Tuuta family.
It is a building next to tarmac and is currently undergoing a renovation.
Would I fly this again? If I want to go back to the Chathams (which I do) then I have little choice.


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blue crabs is where after you suck on someones toes because you have a foot fetish and they have a fungal infection on there toenail the fungal starts to grow in your teeth on your tongue
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Roald Hoffmann
We are remembered by our exaggerations. So at a recent reunion of my former research-group members, several recalled my saying "When you see a standard deviation in an x-ray crystal structure, multiply it by pi [π, 3.141...], or if the structure is done by friends, by e [2.718...]."
I was talking about structures of molecules—details of their geometry, also of a particularly fruitful way to gain knowledge of these structures. And of the error estimates in such studies.
There is no more basic enterprise in chemistry than the determination of the geometrical structure of a molecule. Such a determination, when it is well done, ends speculation and provides us with the starting point for understanding every physical, chemical and biological property of the molecule. Indeed, the chemical sciences (only modestly imperialistic, I take them to range from materials science through molecular biology) are what they are today largely as the result of careful structure determination. We'd be still waiting in ignorance if we believed the hype of various microscopies. A few very accurate structures have come to us through ingenious use of electron diffraction and various spectroscopies. But the vast majority of what we know about shapes and metric detail of molecules and extended materials derives from studies of the diffraction of x rays by single crystals of molecules, a technique popularly called "x-ray crystallography."
The molecules in a crystal are not in a vacuum. They are in the solid state because of intermolecular forces—variously called van der Waals, dispersion or crystal-packing forces. Easy to parameterize in approximate calculations, excruciatingly hard to compute a priori, the intermolecular forces are weakly attractive at long distances, but have a repulsive hard core. The tiny attractions add up and make the molecules condense. And, because molecules are to a degree flexible, the intermolecular forces affect distances and angles in every molecule in the crystal by a small step dance of pushing and pulling on each other. Something is gained overall—otherwise the crystal would not form. But crystallization may take place at the cost of a small change in a bond distance or an angle relative to the unencumbered gas-phase structure. There are no tugs on a molecule sailing through outer space.
These weak intermolecular forces are behind my skeptical exclamation. Let me elaborate, and then tell a story of how the very same forces that cause the substantial chemical variance in the structure of a molecule can be used to get valuable information about chemical dynamics, namely the motion of molecules in the course of reaction. Indeed, there is an anniversary to mark—it is nearly 25 years since a pair of landmark papers showed us, with astonishing clarity, that this was possible.
Crystallographic studies are usually done very carefully, although sufficient mistakes of a certain basic type (so-called space-group assignment) are made to provoke one distinguished crystallographer to publish a dreaded article per year replete with his colleague's errors. The crystal structures are carried out by people perhaps more aware of systematic and random error (that "standard deviation") than almost any subculture of our science. So why do I malign their labors?
Actually I don't malign them. I am a voracious consumer of crystal structures—I value them, I treasure them. It's just that the deviations I need and love are not the standard deviations they provide. I want "chemical" estimates of uncertainty: They give me experimental variances.
The standard deviation of a geometrical parameter in a crystallographic structure determination—be it a unit-cell coordinate, a distance, a bond angle—is the square root of a variance, the latter usually denoted σ2 owing to a multitude of experimental uncertainties.
These are accounted for usually quite well by the careful experimentalist, though I wonder today—when the variances are spewed out in an inkling by a computer—whether they are really given as much serious consideration as to origins as they were decades ago.
In my years of molecular voyeurism, I saw the crystal structures get better, and the standard deviations sink, for good data sets to the 0.002 angstrom (Å) [1 Å = 10–8 centimeters] level for organic-molecule distances. But it was also clear to me that ± 0.002Å made no chemical sense. For I saw in some of the structures (technically those with several molecules in the asymmetric unit) molecules that were chemically identical yet whose relevant matching distances or angles differed by much more than the listed standard deviations, because of the intermolecular forces at play. In fact after a while I began to look for these cases. Or to get an estimate of a chemical standard deviation I focused on the part of the crystal structure that was least interesting—that phenyl group in a triphenylphosphine ligand (hundreds of them, and they should be very much alike). And I saw big deviations.
So that's the reason for my flippant π and e factor. What I also record here is a missed opportunity on my part—the information was on hand, and I just quipped. Antonio Martín and A. Guy Orpen of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom did what needed to be done (and didn't get their idea from me, either). In what is certain to be a classic paper, in 1996 they showed from an examination of thousands of metal-complex structures that crystal-packing forces cause standard deviations of the order of 0.01 to 0.02Å in ligand distances. So, as it turns out, my π was too conservative!
The very same crystal-packing forces, which in a given crystal structure make for more chemical uncertainty than the standard deviations lull you into believing, also teach us so much more than what we imagined we could learn from a static structure. For a group of structures, judiciously chosen, can reveal the geometric changes that a flexible molecule undergoes and even the course of atomic motions in reaction.
There is a time to praise. I recall so vividly the impact made in this context by two 1973 papers, and I celebrate here their untarnished silver anniversary. In the first Hans-Beat Bürgi, Jack Dunitz and Eli Shefter of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich took six structures of reasonably complex organic molecules (perhaps only one of them, notorious methadone, widely known) containing within one and the same molecule an amine (R3N) and a carbonyl group (RR'C=O). These are relatively placid organic functionalities, but they also interact; indeed a ubiquitous organic reaction, a so-called nucleophilic addition of an amine to a carbonyl group, is shown in Figure 2. In solution further steps follow, but the reaction is (and was in 1973) thought to begin as indicated.
Bürgi, Dunitz and Shefter's six molecules all had the requisite amine and carbonyl in the same molecule. I show only one of the six, the aforementioned methadone (Figure 3). The six molecules are very different, and the packing forces acting on them differ too. Intramolecular flexibility (influenced by strain and conformational restrictions in a given molecule) and variable intermolecular pressures (those packing differences) conspire—no, by beautiful chance, just happen—to "freeze in" the molecules in different points along a reaction pathway. By design, labor and with much luck, the static molecular structures may trace out the way a chemical reaction proceeds, dynamically.
Many more points have been added to this curve, but I choose to show the six molecules that Bürgi, Dunitz and Shefter plotted on one graph, the fixed carbonyl group pointing to 4 o'clock (Figure 4). See the amine approaching at top? Oh say, can you see the RR' groups on the C of the carbonyl swing down as the amine approaches? We did see, by the x-ray's strong light! The Bürgi, Dunitz and Shefter paper was a true revelation.
A few months later in 1973, Earl L. Muetterties and Lloyd J. Guggenberger, then at du Pont de Nemours's Central Research Department, looked at a seemingly very different problem. Inorganic molecules in which five ligands are bonded to a central atom can assume a variety of geometries. Most common is a trigonal bipyramid (Figure 5, left). At the time one also had a few square pyramids (Figure 5, right) and a straggling of weird structures not one, not the other.
As drawn the two extreme geometries look very different. They're actually pretty close to each other, as R. Stephen Berry at the University of Chicago recognized some time before. A special slight motion of the ligands, named the Berry pseudorotation, takes one into the other. Now look at the crystal structures of seven molecules plotted by Muetterties and Guggenberger (Figure 6).
Cut them out, mount them on cards, flip the cards—you have a movie of the Berry pseudorotation. All that certainty a crystal-clear consequence, as was the beautiful path for nucleophilic addition discovered by Bürgi, Dunitz and Shefter, of the same totality of small forces that make us feel that measured distances might be substantially less certain than indicated.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/crystal-cloudy-crystal-clear/1
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Unique in their beliefs, motivations and strategies, explore the lives of four families preparing for the end of the world as we know it. From bunkers to fortified off-the-grid locations, these doomsday preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of lifes uncertainties. And with our experts assessment, they will find out their chances of survival if their worst fears became a reality.
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A massive earthquake occurred off the coast of northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small tsunami. The wave of sea water forced evacuations along the country's entire Pacific coast. The quake was one of several to hit the region over the past two weeks.
Tuesday's magnitude 8.2 quake struck 61 miles northwest of Iquique, Chile, a northern coastal city with a population of 200,000 people. Tremors were felt 290 miles away in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. The shaking in La Paz was the equivalent of a 4.5 magnitude tremor, authorities there said. The earthquake also set off tsunami warnings in Hawaii, thousands of miles away.
Earthquake Effects
The quake began at 8:46 p.m. local time and set off landslides that blocked roads, knocked out power for thousands of people, damaged an airport, and started fires that destroyed several businesses. Authorities reported a total of six deaths. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declared a state of emergency and was reviewing damage in Iquique.
The country appeared to get through the incident mostly unharmed. Thousands of people moved inland as waves measuring more than six feet struck coastal cities. The mandatory evacuation order lasted nearly 10 hours. While the tsunami lifted some fishing boats onto city streets and sunk others, it otherwise caused no major damage.
Most of the mining industry in Chile—the world's leading copper producer—is located in the northern regions. So far, none of the top mining companies in the area appears to have been affected.
In Iquique, about 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison. Security officials were sent to the city to protect it from looting and several dozen prisoners were quickly captured. Hundreds of soldiers were also sent to the quake zone. "We have taken action to ensure public order in the case of Iquique," Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo said, "so that the armed forces and police can coordinate and provide tranquility and security to the residents."
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Shoe Bench from Entertainment Center
Materials: Ikea TV stand, circular saw, safety glasses, 21×47" OSB, foam mattress pad, 1.5 yards of fabric, staples and stapler, carpet grip pad
Description: 1. Gather materials.
Foam – most foam works – I bought a full size 1" foam mattress pad off amazon for ~$20.
TV Stand – search Craigslist for "IKEA TV stand" or "IKEA entertainment center" – Solid wood units will provide the best strength.
OSB – any board (MDF, OSB, plywood) 1/2" or thicker that matches the dimensions of the TV stand top should be sufficient.
1.5 yards of fabric runs ~$10 (use a coupon!)
1. Cut foam and support board to TV stand top dimension, with scissors and circular saw respectively. Using a straight edge to mark lines with a sharpie help. Check for squareness.
2. Place fabric, foam, and board upside down on top of TV stand. Pull fabric around and cut off any excess fabric that wraps past the edge of the board by 3-4 inches.
3. Add a heavy weight (150lb helper in my case) on top of the board to compress the foam. This will assist in creating a tight/nice looking fabric surface.
4. Staple the fabric every 2-3 inches. Try a few different techniques for folding the corners (think wrapping paper and go from there).
5. Add carpet grip between TV stand and board. Enjoy.
Estimated completion time with right materials/tools: 30-60 minutes
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Piri Weepu reckons he has brought his A-frame and a reformed attitude for his second campaign with the Blues.
As one of the smattering of experienced players left after last year's botched season, Weepu is motivated to drive the side John Kirwan is developing for the Super 15.
"We probably did not help the younger boys as much as we should have," Weepu admitted about last season.
This time he and Rene Ranger were the only experienced backs to guide and lead the rest around the field.
Weepu rejoins the fray at halfback tomorrow when the Blues have their final trial match against the Highlanders in Queenstown.
"I am more motivated and have done a lot more outside camp to be in better nick," he said, to make sure he wasn't "20 times behind the boys".
Weepu wanted to play a much greater role than he did last season.
Coach Kirwan has leant on Weepu for more input as he searches for the keys to team unity and success before the side's opening away match on February 23 against the Hurricanes.
"Outstanding would be one word; great leadership, great guidance of the young guys, great input into what we have been doing as a team," Kirwan said of his senior halfback.
He was impressed with Weepu's contributions to the Blues since his return from All Black duty.
Lock Anthony Boric had his first full contact session yesterday since the operation to repair discs in his neck last year. He hit rucks and made tackles without any discomfort and was likely to be reintroduced to match play in a game for the development group in a fortnight.
Kirwan acknowledged that set pieces remained a challenge for the Blues, especially the scrum, with Keven Mealamu still on leave and Tony Woodcock transferring to the Highlanders.
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SNDK: Goldman Ups Target to $52 on Tight NAND Supply
Goldman Sach's James Schneider this morning reiterates a Buy rating on shares of flash memory chip SanDisk (SNDK), and raises his price target to $52 from $45, writing that an improvement in NAND prices over the summer can persist the rest of this year and into next, given supply cuts and upside to demand.
Without changing any estimates, Schneider writes that SanDisk's gross margin can go higher with "lean supply and a positive product mix shift," and notes that the shares are "highly correlated with gross margin trends."
Among the factors that Schneider cites are "push-outs" at several NAND makers, constraining supply:
After a significant oversupply situation in 1Q12 and 2Q12, a number of NAND vendors have either cut wafer capacity or pushed out new capacity additions. Samsung took 70k WSPM in NAND capacity offline at its Austin fab in July and converted it to logic. Hynix pushed out further capacity expansion until 2013 or beyond (relative to the 40k wafer capacity it originally anticipated). Toshiba temporarily cut 30% of its NAND production for a 2-3 month period. Nearly all other suppliers (including Micron and SanDisk) pushed out further capacity expansion until 2013 or later. Based on our own industry checks as well as on public commentary from several major NAND vendors, we do not expect any meaningful capacity additions from major NAND vendors through mid-2013. Depressed margins overall in the industry will act to keep new capacity from entering the industry through "mid-2013," Schneider thinks.
As far as demand, NAND demand, which has cooled, has settled into a "steady" 40% "bit growth" pattern that is sustainable with present capacity, he thinks.
Schneider also sees upside, however, to demand if solid-state drives using NAND catch on in PCs this year, helped by new technology Samsung Electronics (005930KS) is developing:
Samsung recently announced a consumer SSD based on three-bit-per-cell (or TLC) NAND, which has a substantial (20%-30%) cost-per-bit advantage over MLC. Importantly […] The biggest barrier to SSD adoption in the client market has been cost, and we think TLC SSDs could drive meaningfully higher SSD adoption by lowering the costs of primary SSD storage and narrowing the price gap relative to HDDs.
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|Sestiere Santa Croce, 30135 Venezia, 意大利
The recently renovated apartment is sun-lit and comfortable. It features a spacious double bedroom with plenty of storage space, and a living room with a double sofa bed and a dining area.
The new kitchen provides modern appliances such as an oven, a gas stove and a dishwasher. The tiled bathroom has a shower.
Bed linen and towels are provided, as well as laundry facilities. WiFi internet can be provided by request.
The vibrant Santa Croce District hosts many attractions including the Frari Basilica and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco Church. Rialto Bridge, Piazzale Roma Square and the outdoor cafes of Santa Margherita Square can all be reached within 15 minutes' walk.
For Marco Polo International Airport, the Orange Line of the Alilaguna Shuttle Boat leaves from the nearby San Stae Vaporetto Stop.
住宿规定Please note that the building does not have an elevator and the apartment is located on the 3rd floor.
Pets are allowed on a case-by-case basis.
Wi-Fi can be provided by request.
Guests should contact the host at least one week in advance (or straight after booking confirmation for last-minute bookings) to organize check-in times and to provide a mobile phone number.
For check-in between 7am and 8pm, the host can welcome guests at the nearby Vaporetto Water Taxi Stop.
A €50 fee is required for check-in between 8pm and 1am.
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The apartment exceeded our expectation and it was perfect for my husband's 70th birthday family celebration. It was very spacious and well equipped for 7 people. The views were incredible - it must have the best view in Venice and we enjoyed every minute of our stay.The location is perfect too, very central and yet private. Our host Barbara and her colleague Valentina were extremely helpful and nice. We shall definitely return.
What a fantastic apartment! The position overlooking the Grand Canal, with balconies looking out opposite the Rialto Market is simply sublime to watch Venice go about its business. 5 mins walk to the water taxi stops of Ca D'or or Rialto. It is also a huge apartment in size. Easily sleeps 7 comfortably (and could be 8 if the single room had a double bed in it). Fully equipped,everything we needed, also has good Wi-Fi. Booking and service by Barbara and Valentina were superb - great information prior to arrival, met on arrival and talked through everything, restaurant recommendations, location etc. As others have mentioned there is some noise from the bar below and the dock itself as its used to load/unload, but Venice is a city and this is to be expected, so bring some earplugs if you are a light sleeper and you will be fine - it didn't bother us. Again, superb location, wonderful apartment, great service - we will be back!
Lovely view and perfect position - however, very noisy, next to a bar which at the weekend played music till 3am and on other nights cleared bottles and rubbish at 5am!
Organisation on arrival was very poor - arrangements made with Barbara had not been passed on to local staff and caused unnecessary hassle.
On departure the staff member checking the apartment was very abrupt and rude, wanting to fine us for leaving bagged rubbish, stating that instructions were clear in our written guide - which was actually in Italian!
The apartment was in an excellent position, easy to walk to all districts in Venice, being situated very close to the Accademia Bridge over the Grand Canal. It was also a few doors down from an excellent restaurant; expensive but the quality of food was superb and service friendly and efficient. We enjoyed the view from the living room balcony which looked out onto a quiet canal and gave us a flavour of working Venice as opposed to Tourism. We were a bit concerned at the state of the floor in the main room which was wooden and some of the squares were collapsing which meant being very conscious of them when walking around. We were also disappointed in the lack of cooking facilities; there was only a hob with two hot plates, no grill or oven which was a pity for us as we eat a lot of fish and were looking forward to buying some from the famous fish market in Venice. However the representatives were friendly and helpful and sorted out water taxis for our return to the airport. We did enjoy our stay in Venice and couldn't have asked for a better location.
Jan Appleby September 2015
Amazing location, excellent accommodation.
The flat is excellent and the view is extraordinary!
Lovely living room, comfortable rooms and good space in the kitchen.
I do recommend this property for you vacancy!
The location is fantastic. The balconies look right out over the Grand Canal, with views of the Rialto Bridge. It is a spacious apartment, and its living and dining rooms look out on the Grand Canal. We spent much time on the balconies enjoying the life of the canal - gondolas, vapoettos, and all of the working boats that are really the "trucks" of Venice. The Grand Canal is vibrant and alive -- a truly fabulous place to be. Plus, the apartment is located on a back street far away from the crowds of Rialto, and there is a wonderful small restaurant called "Taverna al Remer" right next door. The kitchen was good, and we cooked all our breakfasts and one dinner there.
If I could, I'd rate it 4.5 stars (not 5) for a minor reason which may or may not matter for others. The apartment easily accommodated the 7 of us, it did not have enough of the essential supplies (toilet paper, trash bags, bath soap and dishwasher detergent), so we had to spend time shopping for them. Overall, we'd love to return to this wonderful apartment. Given its location, it is a true bargain, and a gem.
Met on time by Venetian Lorenza - very helpul and professional - flat has wonderful views of Rio del Megio (Campiello opposite was painted by very famous 19th American artist). Great facilities close by in Campo Giovanni del Orio - supermarket and cafes/restaurants (Il refolo by the Church serves one of the best Francia Cortas), wine shops - all good. Air conditioning ice-cold if required.
Shower has mobile head and adequate. Evenings can be noisy due to to "concerts" (I'm being kind) in the Campo. Very beautiful part of Venice. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay. George and Denise
Well, we probably expected a little bit too much for this apartment. But the price suggested perfection, which was not in every aspect the case.
Positive: the kitchen is really good equipped, good tools (even one spatula from Rösle) and the china, cooking pots, cooking knifes and cutlery are in shape and of high standard. There is a booklet about the renovation of the apt., which shows very well how intensive and costly the renovation was.
Neutral: the pictures in Wimdu give a impression that the apt. is bigger as it really is. But it is lovely decorated and the pictures are showing the reality.Room upstairs is very small, but the bathroom is nice.
Not so positive: the television gets its signals from Hotbird satellite, with loads of arab - religious - XXX related channels, but Rai 1 for example one does not get. This was really more than a pitty during the World Cup Finals and has to be changed big time. 90% of the channels are scrambled/ pay TV channels. The rest: see above.
There is no Wireless Lan installed and the apt. does not have a terrace with a view over the city. There are other apt. here in Wimdu which have that and we missed it a lot! Regarding the price per night for this apt. I think at least wireless lan with a reasonable speed is an absolute must. After asking we got W-Lan from Barbara with 3G speed. Normally this is NOT included in the daily fee.
We did not have hot water the first night, but next day by noon Barbara fixed it. But it is the fact that one third of our stay we did not have hot water!
Resumé: really nice apt., which is not really a bargain with need of improvement in details. Therefore "only" 4 stars.
We were in Venice for the Easter-week 2014.
We stayed in a well situated Apartment, close to several nearby good restaurants and shoppingplaces. The Apartment is situated in an autentic part of Venice. The Apartment is spacy and cosy with a lovely roof-terrace. We were 6 adults and enough room for everybody.
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"We are hearing late-first round is now a possibility."
Nooooooooooo, I want us to draft him in the 2nd
If you ask me in the end the Giants will draft BPA at 19, more likely a high value player sliding all the way to Reese's lap.
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'Walking for Change' brings awareness to homelessness
BOZEMAN, Mont. - It's been said that you can't know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. And on Saturday, Bozemanites walked over four miles to get a better understanding of what it's like to be homeless.
Dozens turned out to HRDC's first ever Walking for Change, where locals walked the route the area's homeless walk every day. They stopped at places like the Warming Center and transitional Amos House to learn about homelessness.
Walkers said it opened their eyes to an aspect of the community they didn't fully know about.
"The facilities that I've heard of over the years, I didn't know where most of them were," said Bozeman resident Barbara Turner. "Some were new to me that I didn't realize, so it was a good education for me."
Others, like Daniel Becton, said they were impressed with the "HRDC and the Food Bank's commitment, to not just providing immediate service but changing the culture of how we think about poverty."
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FAMnerd is an iPhone app that can be used for both Natural Family Planning (NFP) and the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM).
The main difference between NFP and FAM is that NFP doesn't allow for the use of barrier methods of birth control (like condoms and diaphragms) during the fertile phase, and FAM does. NFP is generally used by folks who don't agree with the use of contraception, particularly Catholics. FAM doesn't have any religious affiliation.
Wherever you choose to stand on barrier methods, FAMnerd will work for you. FAMnerd allows you to record intercourse on your chart, and choose whether it was protected (like with a barrier method), or unprotected. FAMnerd includes charting rules that will work with both FAM and NFP, and allows you to choose the rules that best meet your needs.
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Results of a nutrient addition bioassay to determine whether phosphorus or nitrogen was limiting phytoplankton (algae, plants) growth in Cutler Reservoir, Utah. Water was collected from two parts of the reservoir and separated into flasks. Some flasks received additions of phosphorus (phosphate), others nitrogen (ammonium nitrate), others both nutrients, and the Controls received nothing. After a 4-day incubation in the laboaratory it is clear that the phytoplankton in north Cutler Reservoir were limited by nitrogen, whereas those in the south needed both nitrogen and phosphorus to stimulate growth. Chlorophyll a analyses confirmed the visual impression of the responses.
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Equal parts New England elegance and Green Mountain tranquility, Manchester Village has been charming visitors since the 19th century. Stately old homes and antique shops grace the village's lovely streets, where women with parasols and men in stovepipe hats once whiled away lazy afternoons on wide verandas or walking along downtown's marble sidewalks. In fact, Honest Abe's wife and son spent their summers in Manchester, leading Robert to later build his own Lincoln family estate, Hildene, in the town. Those looking to swap history for hijinks can hike, bike, or drive up nearby Mount Equinox before exploring the Battenkill River by canoe. And, if finding a fantastic deal strikes your interest, excellent outlet shopping is just minutes away.
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This recently renovated condo is located on Washington Avenue in the heart of South Beach. It is two blocks away from the beach, famous Ocean Drive and beautiful Lincoln Road. Fine dining and night clubs are a short walk away.
Express bus runs every half an hour from miami international airport and stops one block from this location (only $2.35 each way).
This is a perfect choice for vacation rental in South Beach. This neighborhood is recognized for the sizzling nightlife and unique art deco architecture.
This immaculate second floor unit consits of a queen size bed, a full size sofa bed which sleeps two comfortably, a big armoire for clothing and storage, DVD, and 40" flat screen TV. The modern kitchen with granite counter tops and european style cabinetry includes stainless steel appliances, microwave, toaster, coffee machine, blender, cooking utensils, plates, silverware, glasses, wine glasses, coffee cups. There is also vacuum, iron and ironing board for your convenience. Cable TV and free wireless internet are also available. Linens and towels are provided as well. Washer and dryer in the building.
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As spring approaches, I am thinking about storms. How much weight do you use on top of your hives? Do hives blow over? Is it necessary to fasten the supers together, until they are propolized?
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As spring approaches, I am thinking about storms. How much weight do you use on top of your hives? Do hives blow over? Is it necessary to fasten the supers together, until they are propolized?
Dave W
i think a brick is probably good,i've had a few lids blow off', but none with bricks on them yet.
I've had several whole hives blow over in the wind. I've had lids blow off with three or four bricks on them. Mine all have one concrete block on the lid. It's heavy, but it doesn't blow off. Of course that kind of wind only comes along two or three times a year.
I am tired of the weight though, and am considering using screen door hooks and eyes to hold them on instead. It works better on a migratory cover or any cover that is flush with the sides.
[This message has been edited by Michael Bush (edited March 05, 2003).]
I use ratchet tie down straps. You get them in lengths from 10' long straps to 18' long straps. You can put as much pressures from top to bottom as you like. I strap mine from top to bottom with the strap going around the actuall hive stand. The hive cannot blow over.
The straps cost anywhere from $10 to $18. They generally come 4 to a pack. I have different colors to help aid in keeping track of my hives. They generally come in yellow, green, blue and red.
We have many stone walls in my area that have been hear for...........???? a long long time. I just use large stones from these. Just don't like to shuck out cash for everything its tough enough to make beekeeping profitable. You what you got.
Thanx to everyone for the info.
I like the hook-and-eye idea. For my single (maybe 2) hive(s), I dont think cost would be a problem.
CLAYTON - It saddens me to learn how you weight your hives. I hope you remove the stones w/ respect, and replace them when your finished.
I recommend if you use the hook and eye method you use careful measurments to put the hooks on the lid in the very center of the length of the lid and in the same location up and down. Then you put the eyes also in the very center and where they are snug. That way if you move a lid or a box to a different hive it will still fit. A few extra screw eyes (cheaper than the pairs of hooks and eyes) around will handle when you add a super or take one off. I've also considered the cinch latches like the old trunks or guitar cases have, but they are more expensive than the hooks and eyes.
If concerned about winds you might also give some consideration on placement of hives. If you have areas accessible that are in natural windbreaks that will help reduce the wind problem, also help the bees fly in a more protected area. I use a single brick and have never had a problem. All depends on where you are in this country and the strength of the winds.
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I should be knocking on wood, in four years I have never weighted down or had a top blow off.
I guess I never gave it much thought other than seeing it in the reference books.
I think that I will solve that problem before it becomes one. The best solution for me would be to make bungee cords that will go over the top from handle to handle. No heavy weight to heft, no hooks to snag, and no measureing for eye holes. Bungees can be made for less than a buck too.
Thanks for giving me the idea!
I've never had a top to blow off either,but be sure you set it on something solid.I've had them to fall over,had one today,luckly I found it in time,they can sure get top heavy when you go 3& 4 high..
3 or 4 high? Mine end up 6 or 7 high. Or are you just counting supers? I end up with four or five supers on top of two deep brood boxes. You end up trying to take down a sixty or so pound super on your tip toes.
We get winds that take some of the shingles off the roof a couple of times a year here. No problem blowing off a cover. Occasionally it blows down the several whole hives. What a mess! And worse it's always during a rain storm and always in the dark.
Dave W.,
I like the hook-and-eye idea. For my single (maybe 2) hive(s), I dont think cost would be a problem.
Increase the #'s and cost starts to become much more of a concern.
CLAYTON - It saddens me to learn how you weight your hives. I hope you remove the stones w/ respect, and replace them when your finished.
I rather thought some one would say this. But you shouldn't be saddened because of me. I actually use rocks from areas where skidders (logging here) have trashed out nice stones walls. There is no way to repair so I pick up the stones and give them a home on top of hives. Crown Point (where I live), and Ticonderoga have some very old stone walls from the roots of our country going right back to Revolutionary War and French and Indian War period. I just try to pick up the mess and put some to use to adorn the top of colonies.
i've become adept in scrounging really nice hardwood pallets,the make nice sturdy bases,big enough that grass doesn't clog the entrance,and provide a better place for leaning frames or sitting smokers or hive tools.if you ask, alot of businesses don't care if you take them.
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CLAYTON - You are right! Today, I checked the price (at Lowes) for some 1-1/2 solid brass, hook-n-eyes. They was two per pkg and cost $1.97. A dollar (simple math) per hook.
Using two hooks per three bodies, top cover, base, and four honey supers does get expensive ($17.73+tax).
SORRY! I misjudged you. I should have known that anyone who is a beekeeper, whould do the right thing when placing a rock on there hive.
Dave W
MICHAEL - You are right! They were half the price of brass. As you know, brass will not rust. I thought the small hooks would be hard to paint, but the plated steel might be the best buy.
[This message has been edited by Dave W (edited March 07, 2003).]
The galvinized screen door hooks are usually much cheaper than the brass ones.
Sounds like my ratchet tie down straps are not too bad. You can get four for 12.95. That would be 3.23 per hive. The stones are definately cheaper, but you have enough heavy things to lift already without adding to your troubles.


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Anyone built their own custom cappings spinner that can chime in and give a bit of advice?
I've got an older Maxant 4-frame tangential extractor (series 1600, model 4), just ordered a new 1400P to increase the volume of extraction I can do.
I'm debating what to do with the 4-frame tangential. I'm thinking of building a cappings spinner.
Option A) Make some bags to fit in the current frame baskets using nylon filter material. Minimal expense, keeps the extractor intact. Filling the bags and loading into the baskets could be a PITA. Part of me says to try this, since it's a pretty cheap option that won't cost me much to try. (Just need to get someone to sew the bags for me, possibly reinforce the Maxant baskets with some stainless mesh so the bags don't blow out the sides)
Option B) Make a cappings spinner basket, solid stainless bottom, perforated stainless sides. Does one need a "blade" assembly like the Maxant cappings spinners have? Not really sure how effective they are at chopping up cappings, since the blades spin with the basket. I wouldn't plan on uncapping directly into the tank... although I guess I could...
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If you're flummoxed by the dizzying breadth of our rock scene, a good place to start deflummoxing might be the trifecta of Band in Boston podcasts. For two years, Andy Guthrie and Jen Kelley have posted regular servings of new local tracks ("Band in Boston"), exclusive semi-acoustic performances ("The Flophouse Sessions"), and live show recordings ("Boston Bootlegs"). Hundreds of bands (and gigabytes) later, they've become the Web's most comprehensive source for Boston rock — so you may only be slightly less flummoxed. This week, they take over P.A.'s Lounge with a six-day residency. Checkwww.paslounge.com for the complete line-ups; meanwhile, here's a sampling of highlights.
The Woodrow Wilsons, "Decomposition Song" | August 18
"I hope I hope that those/Who bury me let me decompose. . . . " It might not sound like the most uplifting song, but JP's Woodrow Wilsons (members of the hyper-prolific Whitehaus collective) are full of pleasant surprises. Their mix of horns, mandolins, and countrified harmony makes kicking the bucket sound like an absolute hoot.The Beasts of England, "Broken Bone" | August 19
Who'da thunk that Quincy could sound so drunk and dirty? Okay, well, maybe a lot of people — but it's nice to have empirical evidence. The Beasts are new on the scene, but their howlingly fuck-all approach to gritty, stripped-down garage should ensconce them in the hearts and iPods of rock folk all over town.
Mr. Sister, "Wisconsin Is Colder Than Russia" | August 20
Amelia Emmet is pricking up a lot of ears with her outings as Mr. Sister. She has a voice that takes the warble and snarl of Joanna Newsom and retrofits it with PJ Harvey's throaty yowl. Often collaborating with Mike Fiore of Faces on Film and Elio Deluca of Keys to the Streets of Fear, Emmet in her entire scant repertoire has charm, and potential, to spare.The Soft Drugs, "I Need Space" | August 23
Once-departed local favorite (and former Pedro the Lioner) TW Walsh has returned to Boston and conjured the Soft Drugs. If you're not one of those ridiculous persons who doesn't like Tom Petty, you'll enjoy the Drugs' rootsy (but thoroughly modern) rocksplosions. Please enjoy responsibly.
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As part of a national effort to highlight the contributions of charter schools, senior U.S. Department of Education officials will celebrate National Charter Schools Week, May 1 to May 7, by visiting charter schools around the country.
The following events have been scheduled in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement to celebrate National Charter Schools Week:
Washington, DC
Monday, May 2 at 2:00 p.m. EDT
National Kickoff Event Celebrating National Charter Schools Week MS Word (35K)
Nina S. Rees, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Innovation and Improvement, will unveil the 2005 National Charter Schools Week Presidential Proclamation at Thurgood Marshall Academy. U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and State Senator Teresa Lubbers (R-IN) are scheduled to be in attendance.
Bronx, NY
Monday, May 2 at 12:30 p.m. EDT
Margaret Spellings, U.S. Department of Education Secretary, will tour the KIPP Academy to present the National Charter Schools Week Presidential Proclamation to KIPP Founders Michael Feinberg and Dave Levin. Invitations will also be extended to a local congressional delegation and Mayor Bloomberg.
Woodland Hills, CA
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John Hager, Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, will tour CHIME Charter Elementary School. Harry Hellenbrand, Provost and Vice President of California State University Northridge; Philip Rusche, Dean of the School of Education at California State University Northridge; and Laura San Giacomo, Co-Founder, Parent, and Actress.
Denver, CO
Monday, May 2 at 8:40 a.m. MDT
Sally Stroup, Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education, will tour the Denver School of Science and Technology.
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, May 2 at 8:45 a.m. EDT
Carolyn Snowbarger, Director of the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, will tour Mastery Charter High School.
Dearborn, MI
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Darla Marburger, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, will tour Henry Ford Academy. Freddie Scott of the Detroit Lions is scheduled to join her.
Chicago, IL
Wednesday, May 2 at 9:00 a.m. CDT
Jackie Jackson, Director of Student Achievement and School Accountability, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, will tour and give remarks at Noble Street Charter School.
San Diego, CA
Monday, May 2 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
Christina Culver, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, will tour High Tech High. Steven Hayes, former LA Ram and Founder of "Athletes for Education;" Leon White, former San Diego Charger; Karl Wilson, former San Diego Charger; Lonnie Mitchell, former Los Angeles Ram and Caprice Young, President and Chief Executive Director of the California Charter School Association, are scheduled to join her.
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Tuesday, May 3 at 9:00 a.m. PDT
Susan Patrick, Director, Office of Educational Technology, will tour Gateway High School.
Wednesday, May 4 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
Michael Petrilli, Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, will tour City Arts and Technology High School.
Boston, MA
Wednesday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m. EDT
Susan Sclafani, Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will present the President's National Charter Schools Week Proclamation to Honorary Co-Chair of National Charter Schools Week, Governor Mitt Romney, at the Massachusetts Association of Charter Schools' evening gala for charter school students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
Thursday, May 5 at 8:30 a.m. EDT
Susan Sclafani, Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will tour and give remarks at the Media and Technology Charter High School.
Greenville, SC
Thursday, May 5 at 10:00 a.m. EDT
Carolyn Snowbarger, Director of the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, will tour Greenville Technical High School and give remarks at the school site. U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Education Advisor for Governor Mark Sanford, Carmeka Bosket, are scheduled to join her.
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