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Pity the cassowary. The flightless bird tries to lead a secretive life in the dense forests of New Guinea, but it's hardly inconspicuous. Thought to have diverged from other avian lines in the Late Cretaceous Period, the colorful animal can measure five feet tall from its helmetlike casque to its daggerlike foot spurs, and it weighs up to 125 pounds.
Now the camera-shy creature may draw even more attention, thanks to a newly discovered talent. Biologist Andrew Mack of the Wildlife Conservation Society was studying a captive specimen last year when "it made several gulping motions, possibly inflating internal air sacs. It then opened its bill wide, raised its body upward, inhaling deeply, then threw its head down between its legs and began booming."
That's right, booming. Mack's recordings, reported in the ornithological journal The Auk, show that the birds' calls approach the lower limit of human hearing, around 20 hertz. These low-frequency cries might be ideally adapted for communication over long distances, without being attenuated by surrounding vegetation.
It's been known since the 1930s, with the discovery of bat echolocation, that animals can produce pitches too high for human hearing. But the only common instances of animal infrasound—inaudibly low frequencies—were the 20 hertz songs of fin and blue whales, and these proved fiendishly hard to investigate. "It's not easy to study infrasonic communication," says Katy Payne, a research associate in the Bioacoustics Research Program in Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology. "You've got to identify and analyze sounds you cannot hear and determine their effects on other individuals at unknown distances."
It was during a zoo visit in 1984 that Payne discovered low-frequency communication among land animals. Standing near the elephant cages, she felt a throbbing in the air—she compares it to "being in a car with the windows rolled up wrong"—and recalled her experience singing in a choir near a large pipe organ, where she could barely hear the sound in the lower registers but "the pressure was huge."
She suspected that the elephants were communicating with low-frequency vocalizations, and investigation proved that the animals were indeed rumbling at between 5 and 30 hertz. Subsequent field research revealed that infrasound plays a significant role in coordinating complex elephant societies over great distances. In the evening on the Namibian savanna, with a sound-reflecting temperature inversion overhead, a loud elephant call may fill an area as large as 300 square kilometers.
Payne's infrasound discovery helped solve some longstanding pachyderm mysteries. It explained how females attract distant males during their brief estrus, and it showed how dispersed groups coordinate their movements without converging on the same scarce resources. It has also opened scientists' ears to an unsuspected channel of animal communication.
Biologist William Barklow of Framingham State College has found that hippo calls are partly infrasonic and are transmitted both above and below water. Elizabeth von Muggenthaler of North Carolina's Fauna Communications Research Institute has identified low-frequency vocalizations in okapi and giraffes, and has found intriguing twin vocalizations in Sumatran rhinos and humpback whales. Infrasound also has other uses, von Muggenthaler notes: A tiger's roar contains an 18 hertz component that induces feelings of terror in humans and can paralyze prey for up to 10 seconds.
Payne is now working with the five-year-old Elephant Listening Project, which monitors hidden forest-dwelling elephant populations in central and west Africa. Instead of counting dunghills, researchers have set up an array of microphones that record calls for three months at a time, yielding rich data about the animals' movements and communication.
How do animals make such low-frequency sounds? Elephants and tigers appear to produce their calls vocally, like human speech. Von Muggenthaler believes giraffes may use Helmholtz resonance, causing the air in their long windpipes to vibrate at a low pitch. And she notes that rhinos might use their horns to detect infrasound. "They could essentially feel the sound resonating through their skulls."
This last possibility could shed a new light on the cassowaries and their curious casques, which resemble those found in many dinosaur fossils. If the birds' crests are shown to play a role in communication, then investigators may have a clue as to how ancient casque-bearing dinosaurs interacted.
"I know there are people who think the casque might have served as a resonating chamber in dinosaurs," Mack says. "The fact that it is largely fluid-filled might argue against this. But who knows for sure?" He's working now with physicists and 3-D computer modelers to investigate the crest's response to low-frequency sound. Stay tuned.—Greg Ross
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Pete will demonstrate a variety of techniques on and off the wheel, throwing and hand-building a series of functional forms. While doing so, he likes to engage the attendees in conversation about the field of ceramics, discussing both the philosophical and practical aspects of working as a ceramic artist. In addition to the demonstration, Pete will present a short Powerpoint about his work.
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Sandy passed away on May 15, 2013, in peace at her home in Homer, Alaska, after struggling with COPD. She was born on Jan, 26, 1942, in St. Paul, Minn., to Wendell Belmont and Lauretta Francis Oddon. She graduated from Johnson High.
She moved up north to Ideal Corners, where she bartended at the Old Milwaukee Club for many years. Then moving to Alaska in 1984, first to Nome, then Sitka, Wrangell, Fairbanks, then Homer where she called home. She loved the outdoors, fishing, swimming, card playing, cooking, agate hunting, her faithful dog, Sadie, and always a good story or joke.
She is preceded in death by her parents Wendell and Lauretta and sibling, Bruce and Terry Oddson. She is survived by sister Mary Jane Johnson/Olson; brother, Jeff Oddson; daughters, Michele Jensen and Denise Reed; granddaughter, Amber Nelson and great-grandchildren, Alanna, Kresslynn and Travis; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
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Great location with lots of cafes, pubs, restaurants, clubs and easy public transport.
The apartment is located in the famous district of Kreuzberg. While Berlin was divided, this neighborhood was a border area of West Berlin, where the rents were low enough to attract artists, dropouts and immigrants. For this reason, Kreuzberg has been known ever since for its multicultural flair and alternative subculture. After the Fall of the Wall Kreuzberg is now situated in the center of the reunited city.
Night owls can enjoy the legendary `Kreuzberg nights' especially in the area around Mehringdamm, Bergmannstraße and in the Oranienstraße. In Kreuzberg you will find clubs like 'SO36', 'Watergate' or 'SchwuZ': this area has something to suit everyone's taste.
The Görlitzer Park is a beloved summer meeting place for young people. It is just around the corner.
If you want to chill out, the 'Victoriapark' is a popular relaxation area in the western part of the district. Here you will find the eponymous Kreuzberg Hill, from where you can enjoy a fantastic view. During the summer, an artificial stream flows down from the top in the form of a waterfall.
Kreuzberg is well connected to the neighboring districts through the U-Bahn lines U1, U2, U6, U7 and U8, and the S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 (circle line). U1 and U8 are within walking distance.
House rulesThe front house and the first rear building are ordinary Berliner houses.
The neighbors are very happy when it's quiet in the yard from 22 clock.
Smoking is not allowed in the guesthouse. You can smoke in the backyard.
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This flat is in a good location! It is clean, and you can easily be 7 people there. The owner is attentive. I recommend this apartment.
This is a really great place and located very well. We enjoyed our stay!
very friendly and helpful, lovely room with some nice courtyard space, thank you for having us!
The room was better than I had anticipated and the host was great at comminucating instructions and preparing for my stay. I'd definitely come and stay again here!
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As soon as you walk in, the view hits you. Amazing!
The apartment itself was super clean!
All the pots and pans, dishes and ustensils were super clean too!
Location is great too! 15 min walk to the center and just another 15 min walk to the Paris square.
And if you dont want to walk, s bahn is right across the street along with a grocery store!
No complaints at all! Loved it!
Super quiet central position. Approx. 100m Görlitzer of the subway station, no traffic noise, as the apartment is located in the rear building. Handover problems, etc., landlord has his office next door. Wireless internet is available, but mostly was pretty slow.
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Nice view. Convenient.
I recommend it.
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Students who attend prekindergarten (pre-k) are more likely to graduate from high school and score significantly higher on math and reading assessments than students who don't -- the research consistently shows this. The research also is fairly clear that students who attend full-day kindergarten have better attendance and higher grade point averages, and are more likely to be on grade level by the third grade than students who only attended a half-day program. The research is quite clear that students do best if their early childhood education experience consisted of pre-k along with full-day kindergarten.
But what if your district can't offer both? What if you have to choose between pre-k and full-day kindergarten? In a perfect world, all students would have access to high-quality pre-k and full-day kindergarten. Of course, we don't live in a perfect world of unlimited resources to provide the ideal option to all students. We live in the real world, where most districts, especially in these lean economic times, simply do not have the resources to provide both pre-k and full-day kindergarten.
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- Kumano Kodo is one of two UNESCO-listed pilgrimages
- Kumano Kodo is a network of seven pilgrimage routes and Nakahechi is the most popular
- For the big trek-averse, travelers can choose to take short hikes easily accessed by public transport
Wakayama, Japan (CNN)I knew I was going to have to climb 538 stairs to get to Kamikura Shrine in Wakayama, Japan. What I didn't know was that those steps -- leading to the lofty highlight of my Kumano Kodo pilgrimage -- would be on a 70-degree incline.
Ever tried climbing a rock face? Or the roof an A-frame house?
Run a rolling pin over your calves a few times and you'll get an idea of what I was looking at.
Already exhausted from hiking Kumano Kodo's ancient trails in the Kii Mountains -- the route starts about an hour by train from Osaka -- the only things pushing me upward were the encouraging smiles from a grandpa, a girl wearing a long maxi-dress and salarymen in stiff shirts and dress pants who walked past me as if they were taking a stroll to the grocery store.
So, was that uphill torture worth it? Of course -- what great hike isn't?
Anyway, the rest of the trail was relatively easy to get through -- the biggest obstacle was all the stops for photos.
And there is good reason for that. The views and little stops along the way make this one of the best (and possibly most overlooked) treks on the planet, a glorious march -- or in my case, occasional scramble, that includes hot springs retreats, delicious local food and rich cultural insight into a relatively unexplored part of Japan.
When I say unexplored, I mean for international travelers. Though the pilgrimage has been in operation for more than 1,000 years it remains quite off the map for most visitors to Japan who consider Kyoto or Osaka a far enough detour from the main access point of Tokyo.
And this is a good thing -- because it means a richer, more peaceful experience for those that make it to Wakayama prefecture and the Kumano Kodo. And for those that think Japan is expensive, food and accommodation prices are better than reasonable.
This guide will give you all to know to capture a truly epic adventure. And like most epic adventures, there's a bit to it.
The religious stuff
Before getting too carried away with directions and recommendations, a step back.
Kumano Kodo is the name of a hiking route made up of seven trails that snake through the Kii Mountain Range in Japan's Wakayama prefecture. As you can see by the inset map it is about 100 km south of Osaka.
It's one of only two pilgrimages in the world registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Spain's Way of St. James is the other.)
To characterize the experience solely as "a pilgrimage" doesn't do Kumano Kodo justice.
Though there is some stiff competition, Kumano Kodo just might be one of the world's top nature hikes.
The route dates back more than a thousand years, when imperials and aristocrats took weeks-long journeys from as far away as Kyoto to hit up the area's three major Buddhist/Shinto shrines, Kumano Hongu Taisha, Kumano Hayatama Taisha and Kumano Nachi Taisha.
Together, the trio of shrines is referred to as Kumano Sanzan.
Instead of a 30-day commitment (as walkers doing Way of St. James sign up for), Kumano Kodo's infrastructure makes it possible even for the exercise-averse or time poor to enjoy the area's mountains, cedar-filled forests, farms and hot springs.
If you don't have the strength, time or desire to do the entire pilgrimage -- not everyone considers walking 40-plus kilometers a holiday -- there are other ways to take in the highlights (the gallery above shows most of those).
Kumano Kodo has a good transportation network that allows hikers to bite off shorter walks by traveling to various points along the route by bus or train.
The full Kumano Kodo hiking experience takes four or five days.
Help from higher authorities
Regardless of spiritual beliefs, most visitors find it's useful to learn about the local religious culture before embarking on the Kumano Kodo experience.
Along the way, walkers encounter about 100 "oji" (subsidiary shrines of Kumano Sanzan), at which Japanese pilgrims stop and offer prayers.
The oji's purpose is to enshrine natural landmarks in the area -- be it an ancient tree or a majestic waterfall.
Here's the routine: drop a coin in the donation box in front of the shrine, ring the bell above the box, bow twice and clap twice, pray then bow once more. Got it?
"Any coin is fine, but the most common is the five-yen coin, called 'goen' in Japanese," says Brad Towle, director of Tanabe City's international tourism promotion and development department.
"It means 'good relationship' and offers hopes for a bonding with God."
Where to start
Among the seven major Kumano Kodo routes, Nakahechi, which stretches from Tanabe City in the west to Shingu in the east, is the most popular and what we are focusing on here.
Local buses run from Tanabe City's KiiTanabe train station to Takijiri-oji, the entrance of Kumano Kodo and beginning of the Nakahechi route. (Check out the "Getting around" section at the end of this article for the link to an English-language bus schedule.)
Here you'll find an information center offering details on the route, as well as free bamboo hiking sticks and a booklet to fill with stamps from various landmarks along the hike.
Bamboo stick in hand and five-yen coins in pocket, Kumano Kodo hikers usually reach the Chikatsuyu-oji mini shrine in Nakahechi on the first day. It's about 16 kilometers from the Takijiri-oji entrance and takes about six hours of walking.
The following day is a whopper -- hikers trek 26 kilometers from Chikatsuyu-oji to reach Kumano Hongu Taisha, the first main shrine on this route.
Kumano Hongu Taisha was relocated to its current location from Oyunohara after being salvaged from floods in 1889.
There's a large exhibition hall and information center nearby with an interesting mix of details on the pilgrimage.
Most pilgrims then take the 90-minute boat ride from Hongu down the Kumano-gawa river to Kumano Hayatama Taisha and Kamikura Shrine in Shingu -- the one with all those steps.
(Click on the map above for an enlarged look at all the routes.)
Hayatama Taisha enshrines a beautiful 800-year-old nagi tree; Kamikura Shrine pays tribute to a gigantic rock, Gotobiki-iwa, on top of Gongen Mountain.
Before heading to the last grand shrine of Kumano Nachi Taisha and the stunning Nachi Falls, pilgrims enjoy one of the easiest walks of the journey, which starts from Daimonzaka. (To get there, visitors can hop on one of the regular buses that pass through Shingu and get off at Daimonzaka.) This section of the hike is on a gentle slope made up of cobblestone stairs lined on both sides with gorgeous Japanese cedars.
Scenery aside, it's a great place to take in some old school cosplay action. Plenty of pilgrims head for Daimonzaka and change into traditional Heian-era kimonos from the 8th century.
"We dress up in these old kimonos once a month and walk to Kumano Nachi Taisha," a 27-year-old walker from Osaka named Sanae Takano told me as we shared a stretch of trail.
"It's the fourth time we've visited the Nachi Taisha in traditional kimonos," added her companion, Toshifumi Kurinobu. "It's how the earliest pilgrims traveled in ancient times."
Heian kimonos can be rented at the Daimonzaka Chaya teahouse by hikers who want to dress the part.
Best short route: Hosshinmon-oji to Kumano Hongu Taisha
Another easy walk is the Hosshinmon-oji to Kumano Hongu Taisha route. (See the green line on the map.)
"This walk takes about two hours through forests and farming communities," says Towle, of Tanabe City's international tourism promotion and development department. "It ends at Hongu Taisha, the grand shrine."
When I walked the route, I stopped at the Fushiogami-oji Chaya (tea shop), which is run by a group of volunteers of a local women's association.
In addition to volunteering at the shop, Matsumoto Seiko leads tours around the Hongu shrine.
"I have led 12 tours in April alone," said Matsumoto, who was born and raised in the area.
"When I was younger, I was working in Osaka. My accent from the countryside made me very conscious and shy, but since my hometown has been registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I'm so proud to introduce it to others."
In addition to tea, the shop serves shiso juice and coffee made from local hot spring water.
Up for a challenge? Try this route, tiger
Fit pilgrims will want to hit the 14.5-kilometer route between Koguchi and Nachi, which is said to be the most challenging section of the pilgrimage.
"It's a three-hour hike up the mountain from the 60-meter high village of Koguchi to 800 meters at the peak," says Towle.
"Going down the other way to Nachi is just as bad. That's why it has a nickname -- 'sore-back slope.'"
Where to stay
Chikatsuyu-oji and Kumano Hongu Taisha are the towns where most Kumano Kodo visitors crash for the night -- both offer plenty of accommodation options.
With its three historic onsen (hot spring) areas, Hongu is particularly popular.
Yunomine Onsen has a small public booth beneath the bridge and a public hot spring pool. Wataze Onsen has a public swimming pool that can be accessed for a nominal fee.
I stayed at Fuziya (rates from JPY14,700/$151 per night, including two meals), one of the two bigger ryokans (guesthouses) at the Kawayu Onsen. It's the only place where holes are dug along the river to create natural outdoor bathing areas.
Travelers with enough time might want to consider the Takahara Kiri-no-Sato (Village of Mist) rest area.
Just four kilometers from Takijiri-oji on the way to Chikatsuyu (which you'll recall is the most common first stop on the Kumano Kodo trail), the area is known for its mystic, foggy mountain scenes.
Takahara Lodge (rack rate from JPY10,444/$107, including two meals) has a scenic dining area at the terrace, which is sometimes used for concerts.
A rental house overlooking the mountains is also available (JPY6,930/$71 per night).
What to eat
The local Wakayama food is as fulfilling as the pilgrimage itself. And far less exhausting to deal with.
Booths set up by local villagers dot the trails of Kumano Kodo, each offering different local products for hikers, from homemade lunchboxes to hot tea and handicrafts.
Transactions are based on the honor system -- travelers drop the requested amount in the collection box and take the objects of their choice with them.
Restaurants in Tanabe City and Nachi Katsuura are famous for their fresh local produce.
Bonito tuna is a star, whether eaten raw or the creative soft-fried version found in Bodai, Nachi-Katsuura.
In Tanabe City, there are more than 200 restaurants cramped in a few alleys that make up Ajikoji, or Corner of Tastes.
While fish markets usually open early in the morning, the port of Tanabe City operates in the afternoon servicing local restaurants.
Shinbe is a family-run restaurant with memorable bonito tuna sashimi.
"Restaurants here mostly serve locals instead of tourists, so they must be very good and affordable at the same time," says Towle.
That said, English menus are available in many of the restaurants.
Other local specialties include umeboshi (pickled Japanese apricot), oranges and whitebait (baby sardines).
Getting there and around
From Osaka's Kansai Airport, take the JR line to Hineno Station in Wakayma prefecture, where you can transfer to an express train to head for KiiTanabe Station in Tanabe City. Local Ryujin buses run from KiiTanabe station to Takijiri-oji.
The bus will continue along major locations on the Nakahechi route from KiiTanabe Station to Hosshinmon-oji (through Kumano Hongu Taisha). More local bus information can be found here.
Accommodation and transportation can be booked in advance through Tanabe City's tourism website.
The tourism office acts as a community-based travel agent who bridges communication between local businesses -- normally run by non-English speakers -- and international travelers.
More resources can be found on Wakayama's Kumano tourism website.


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The apartment, on the third floor with elevator ( few steps to reach the elevator and few to the door) of an historic building, is bright and quiet, not reached by the city centre bustle and cheered by the merry sound of distant chimes. It is composed by an entrance, a living room with a sofa bed for 2, a table for 4 and a fully equipped kitchenette, a master bedroom with double bed and cupboard. The bathroom en suite has a stand up shower, a wash basin, wc and bidet . Towels and linens are provided.
The equipment of Campo de Fiori Suite apartment is provided with free WI-FI internet, air conditionig, heating, washing machine, dish washer, TV, hair dryer, microwave, toaster, cooker, fridge and freezer, italian coffee machine, kettle, iron and ironing board. For bookings longer than a week we offer a free house cleaning and change of linens. Free baby cot and high chair. Babysitting available.
A charming location fit to visit most of the major monuments on foot and live like a local.
House rulesPlease treat the apartment as if it were your own home.
Check-in from 14 to 21:00
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Upon arrival you will be required city tax of € 3.50 per person (up to a maximum of 10 days). This tax does not apply to children under 10 years.
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The apartment was very, very nice, super clean, big and nothing was missing. The location of the apartment is just perfect. Everything is within walking distance: Sightseeing-Monuments, Vatikan, Restaurants, Shoppingarea, supermarket. Manuela is really friendly and welcoming. she helped us a lot: organising the taxi to the airport, informations about opening hours and special offers for Museums, etc. When contacting her, she always replied within a few minutes. she made our stay perfectly easy and uncomplicated. We thank her very much for everything and wish her all the best!
The apartment was bright, very clean, spacious and very well located - perfect in everything. Manuela is a great hostess and we can highly recommend it!
The apartment was bright, well planned and located in a very nice area. Clean apartment and building and Manuela and her husband were extremely helpful and nice. Would warmly recommend the apartment.
New flat, perfect for two with a confortable bed. Perfectly located to visit Rome by walking, and near Trasvetere to have drinks the evening. These days were perfect!!
L'appartement est bien situé très proche d'une rue piétonne, du marché et de la station de bus. Les photos sont conformes à la réalité. C'est très propre, bien décoré et la literie est bonne. Manuela est charmante, elle est disponible pour des conseils dans un français impeccable. Je recommande vivement cette location.
Here we found a perfect base for our week in Rome. The italian hospitality is world famous and our hostess Manuela and her husband gave us the very best proof for it. The apartment is splendid; the location, the equipment, the tasteful interior, and very cosy to stay inside rainy days. (Yes, there are rainy days in Rome when a nice apartment with a convenient heater is of golden value!) It is central but still very quiet. Manuela's attention and care for us is surely making this place our first choice next time we visit Rome.
Manuela is a wonderful hostess!! She is always eager to help you in whatever you need and it is very easy to contact with!! The apartment is lovely, perfect location and fully equipped!! If I come back to Rome I would surely stay there again!!
Hemos pasado 7 días en el apartamento de Manuela y sólo podemos decir cosas buenas. La ubicación es excelente, el apartamento es suficientemente grande y tiene todo lo necesario: camas cómodas (incluso el sofá cama), baño completo, cocina y menaje completos, secador de pelo, etc. Nos hemos sentido como en casa. Por último, pero no menos importante, Manuela es una magnífica anfitriona. Si vuelvo a Roma (ojalá), no dudaré en alojarme de nuevo allí.
We have spent 7 days in Manuela's apartment and we can only say good things. The location is excellent, the apartment is big enough and you will find all what you need: comfortable beds (even the sofa-bed), complete bathroom, complete kitchen and tableware and kitchenware, hairdryer, etc. We have felt like home. Finally, but no less important, Manuela is a superb hostess. If I come bakc to Rome (I hope so), I will not have any doubt in stay there again.
Manuela hat uns sehr freundlich empfangen. Die kleine Wohnung liegt an sehr guter Lage und ist zweckmässig eingerichtet. Wir haben uns wohl gefühlt.
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Le quartier a beaucoup de charme ; une boulangerie et une supérette sont à proximité.
Manuela nous a accueilli très chaleureusement malgré notre retard dû à l'avion.
Si nous revenons à Rome, nous y retournerons certainement.
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Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence, nor is synthetic life the same as life with evolutionary history.
Robert L. Dorit
Trading on the multiple meanings of the word synthetic, two radically different approaches to synthetic biology have emerged, each of which embodies different assumptions about the living world and about the goals of the field.
The first of these approaches, sometimes called bottom-up or de novo, seeks to synthesize new kinds of cells from scratch. This strategy addresses a profound—literally, a fundamental—question in biology: To what extent is the history of life on this or any other planet constrained by the chemistry of the building blocks of life?
For a long time, questions about alternative unfoldings of the history of life were no more than the stuff of late-night musings at scientific meetings. But my colleagues and I knew the questions to be profound and not merely abstract. Over the past two decades, scientists have begun seriously investigating alternative chemistries and organizations for living systems on other planets. This effort has gained importance as astronomers have intensified the search for life on Mars, and as the estimate of potentially habitable planets in the Solar System and beyond continues to expand. If the only life known (that on Earth) is but one of many conceivable ways of building what is called a cell—a system capable of evolving—th
en scientists risk overlooking life forms that do not exhibit the signatures of Earthlike life.
In the past, my colleagues were confined to raising such issues without being able to address them experimentally. After all, life reflects its single common origin by relying on nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) for the preservation and transmission of information and on proteins for most of its essential molecular functions. Everything, in every cell of every organism on this planet, evolved in response to these fundamentals. There were quite literally no alternatives on Earth to study.
The lack of points of comparison did not daunt us, however. Instead, a number of labs decided to address the question by chemically synthesizing novel building blocks—modified amino acids and new nucleotides—and exploring how these new chemistries might throw open previously closed evolutionary pathways. This synthesis approach proved to be no simple undertaking: Aberra
nt amino acids and nucleotides occasionally arise spontaneously in living cells, but they are always bad news for a healthy cell because they can cause misfolding of proteins or stop replication in its tracks. As a result, multiple systems have evolved in all organisms precisely to guard against the incorporation of such novel building blocks into the cell's nucleic acids and proteins. But over the past decade, experimental imagination and persistence have enabled investigators to select variants of existing molecular machinery that can work with these new building blocks. In so doing, my colleagues have succeeded in adding new text to that Rosetta Stone of living systems, the genetic code. New or modified nucleotides expand the canonical A–T and G–C DNA pairings, thus increasing the potential number and nuance of hereditary information. For instance, two novel nucleotides, called NaM and 5SICS, have recently been shown to pair (albeit in an unusual way) within the DNA double helix and can be replicated by the cell's machinery. These novel nucleotides have novel geometries and hence differ slightly in how they pair with their counterparts across the DNA double helix. Similarly, the expansion of the amino acid vocabulary beyond the 20 or so amino acids normally encountered in living organisms, in turn, makes possible the synthesis of proteins with novel stabilities, architectures, and functions.
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I'm looking to add slatted racks to my hives....I would prefer to build them....anyone have a good plan for one (with racks running parallel with frames). Any commercial ones you really like? Any combo rack with screen bottom? Since I am going to probably build mine, I can do about anything, especially if it is an improvement to existing ones available. Is there an advantage to having them seperate?
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CBear3 wrote:If that's true, redwill would have known who a green was (the non-recruit night 2). He voted for nan yesterday. It's possible that they tried to recruit nan night 2 and failed. So he votes for him day 3 (day 2 was shaf). Seeing obhave be so determined tips the reds that she's probably another green, hence her death on night 4.
Make any sense?
Yes, but they also would have known the angel after night 1, assuming that was indeed a save. So it's possible they failed night 1 (protect), night 2 (failed to recruit vig), and succeeded night 3.
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Possible state grant for medical marijuana research
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado wants to offer seven million dollars to research the benefits of medical marijuana.
State medical leaders say they need to be ready for, what could be, a big wave of patients moving to Colorado for medical use of the drug.
In the past most cannabis research has been blocked by federal law.
But years of legalized of medical marijuana sales in Colorado can give researchers the chance to find out if it can help those with various diseases.
"I was diagnosed with chronic leukemia about six years ago. At the time the doctors recommended treatment was wait and see. I've eradicated 85% of the abnormal growth of cancer using only cannabis. 85% gone using only cannabis," explained Bob Crouse, a medical marijuana patient.
The Colorado grant could allow research on seizures, PTSD or marijuana's impact on the teen brain.
"The decision by our government in Denver and Hickenlooper to establish that fund is insightful, proactive and visionary. Why? Because we're doing the same. Hundreds of centers across the state have already invested hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars," said KC Stark, founder of the Marijuana Business Academy.
More than seven million dollars would come from medical marijuana registration fees
"That seven million dollars is nothing, there's over 600 centers here. They have invested probably up to a billion of dollars already. So it's great, it's visionary, it's kind. But it's nothing that we as Americans have not already done before him, but it is a smart idea," said Stark.
It's an idea that many think is just the beginning of a booming business in Colorado Springs
"We can create the Silicon Valley. This is a billion dollar industry and it's kicking off right now. Everyone knows, it Hickenlooper knows it. We are working with our local communities to create jobs, fill buildings, invest in our fellow Americans. Today we announced there will be a Colorado Springs first international expo. It's revolutionary," said Stark.


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Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
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A Cascading Waterfall of NectarLike a spontaneous cascade of wisdom nectar, the open and natural words of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, uncomplicated by scholarly elaboration, flow here in the tradition of the direct transmissions of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the past. Through commentary on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndrö) prayer from the treasure text of the great master Tragtung Düdjom Lingpa, insights into many central practices emerge in order to deepen understanding of the foundations of… Read More
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Natural Great Perfection
Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra SongsDzogchen is the consummate practice of Tibetan Buddhism. A pure awareness practice applicable to any circumstance and readily integrated into modern life, Dzogchen directly introduces us to the inherent freedom, purity, and perfection of being that is our true nature. Natural Great Perfection is an inspiring collection of teachings providing the deepest possible insight into the practice of the Dzogchen path. The teachings are followed by a collection of spontaneous… Read More
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Dzogchen TeachingsThis book is a rich collection of precious teachings given by the renowned Dzogchen master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu to his students around the world in order to benefit their understanding of the Dzogchen tradition and its value in the modern world. Dzogchen, or the path of Total Perfection, is the essence of Tibetan Buddhism; it is not a religion, tradition, or philosophy. As Chögyal Namkhai Norbu says, "Dzogchen is the… Read More
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Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta
A Guide to the Attainment of WisdomAn illuminating look at key aspects of Tibetan Buddhist practice--of interest to many practitioners--is presented in this practical and interesting book. Through demonstrating the interrelationship of the outer inner and secret teachings and a textual analysis of the words of four renowned Dzogchen yogis, it makes clear that the practice of Bodhichitta is a necessary aspect of every practice within Tibetan Buddhism.Unlike other books that present either the teachings of… Read More
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Being Right Here
A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled The Mirror of Clear MeaningThe treasure text of Nuden Dorje renders a very clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen the practice of nondual experience. The presentation is in the Men ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author's own realization in a manner both beautiful and deeply meaningful. Short verses show with pithy clarity how the various aspects of dzogchen fit together. The text provides both an authentic… Read More
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The Heart of Mahamudra and DzogchenMahamudra and Dzogchen are perhaps the most profound teachings within all of Tibetan Buddhism. The experience of Mahamudra, or "great symbol," is an overwhelming sense of extraordinary clarity, totally open and nondualistic. Dzogchen, or "great perfection," is the ultimate teaching according to the Nyingma tradition and also represents the pinnacle of spiritual development. These are the two paths that provide practitioners with the most skillful means to experience… Read More
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Embracing the Spiritual Path According to the Great PerfectionThe Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice known as Dzogchen (pronounced ZOG-chen) is a practical method for accessing the pristine, clear awareness that lies beneath the chatter and confusion of our daily thoughts. The Dzogchen Primer provides the keys for understanding Dzogchen and putting it into practice. Marcia Schmidt, a long-time Buddhist practitioner, has gathered here the most accessible, down-to-earth writings published on this subject and has organized… Read More
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Healing with Form, Energy, and Light
The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen
In the shamanic worldview of Tibet, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and are balanced with a program of yogic movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations. In these Dzogchen teachings the elements are… Read More
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In Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu gives instructions for developing clarity within the sleep and dream states. He goes beyond the practices of lucid dreaming that have been popularized in the West by presenting methods for guiding dream states that are part of a broader system for enhancing self-awareness called Dzogchen. In this tradition, the development of lucidity in the dream state is understood… Read More
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however, the real refs blew a few calls today, one that gave eli a pick that shouldn't have been, another PI, the block by bradshaw.
it never matters as much when the team getting blown calls against it wins. if we lost a close one, these calls would be getting scrutinized more for sure.


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Movie Review: Spring Breakers

Punky provocateur director Harmony Korine is up to all sorts of dirty, silly, stylish finger-pointing and head-shaking with Spring Breakers.

Director: Harmony Korine MPAA Rating: R Studio: Muse Productions, Division Films Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, James Franco
Punky provocateur director Harmony Korine is up to all sorts of dirty, silly, stylish finger-pointing and head-shaking with Spring Breakers, his fifth "Hey, look at me, I'm badass" pipe bomb of a movie. In Korine's first "mainstream" flick, bored silly, blank-eyed college girls gone wild (played by Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine as well as former Disney nymphets Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens) stage an armed robbery at the local fried chicken shack sporting pastel ski masks, plastic guns and hammers to stake themselves to the annual semester break beach bacchanals in Tampa. Yells Hudgens, "Give me your motherfucking money or I'm going to shoot your fucking brains out!" Oh, snap. Take that, Disney corporate!
For a while, once our cutie coeds hit the beach, it's all bikinis, bared breasts, beer busts and coke binges, but we know Korine plans to lower the boom, what with his time-shifting structure, ominous camera pans, Day-Glo colors and slo-mo overdose, all of which he appears to believe reek of "Oh, my gosh, we're going to hell in a handbasket" Major Statement when they actually reek of Film School 101. There's some funny, fantastic stuff in the movie—there's the trippy, hypnotic Benoît Debie cinematography, not to mention the pulsating, trancelike music score by EDM artist Skrillex and Cliff Martinez.
As for those constant gunshot sounds that interrupt the beats? Roaring clichés. Despite the edgy trappings, the whole movie adds up to little more than an amped-up '60s good-girls-go-bad flick. It's like Where the Boys Are meets Valley of the Dolls, and, like those now-camp classics, their heroines' pursuit of the good life, freedom, good times and a roll in the hay leads them straight to a narcissistic, untrustworthy dog. Enter James Franco as the drug and arms dealing "Alien," who bails out the young women when they've been busted for partying like it's 1999.
Franco is fantastic as a moneyed, bat-shit crazy moron who idolizes Scarface, has delusional fantasies of himself as a poet and musician and, in one of the flick's best and funniest scenes, tickles the ivories on a white piano, gargles "Everytime" by Britney Spears and sets all four girls to spinning and whirling while they're toting AK-47s. Franco, adorned with cornrows, ink and a rapper's metallic grill, is stupendous casting. He's skeevy, charismatic, bat-shit crazy and throws out hilarious, destined-to-be-quoted-to-death dialogue. Like much of the movie, Franco is showy and self-referential, but when he's lolling around in his bong and weapon-packed waterside pad, greedily sucking on a gun barrel while playing master and servant games with his new bitches, try and take your eyes off him.
His female costars are blonde, ultra white-toothed purty little things, for certain, but they're such ciphers that they're practically interchangeable. The exception is dark-haired Gomez, who plays a religious believer named, of course, Faith, a person with a past and a future. She, along with Franco in a scorching performance, makes Spring Breakers worth the trip.


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The act where two homosexuals forcefully try to convert a third individual.
Bill and Joe were carefully approaching Bob from each side of the bed. Bob, unaware, was now becoming a victim of a San Francisco Sandwich.
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When a guy and girl cum on each other and rub the cum all over each other's bodies. The girl then lays on top of the guy with the guy's penis being the pickle and the girls boobs being the meat in the sandwich and the couple can add whatever else they want in between to put their own special touch on the sandwich.
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HPQ: Bears Still Skeptical of Growth, But 'Discover' Gives Food for Thought
A couple of Street observers today took a look at the partner conference Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) held in Las Vegas this week, called "HP Discover," largely coming away with a positive view on the company, though there was a significant degree of skepticism among the mostly bearish analysts on the Street as to whether HP can return to revenue growth in 2014.
R.W. Baird's Jayson Noland reiterates a Neutral rating on HP shares, while raising his price target to $25 from $23, writing that "HP is doing a better job of aligning with high-growth themes such as Cloud, Big Data, Security, and Mobility, but we expect secularly challenged areas to remain a revenue headwind in the near-to-medium term."
Noland notes that the company touted its advantages in the server market:
Management believes Cloud & Web Services will comprise an install base of 8-10 million servers (worth $10-$20 billion) over the next 3 years, which occupies the space of 200 football fields or the length of Manhattan. HP estimated that since 2006, threats against US Government systems have risen 680%+. The company believes that by 2016, 75% of IT environments will be deployed in private / managed / public cloud models. Management highlighted Moonshot servers, which now completely power the company's website, with the equivalent of (12) 60 Watt light bulbs. HP believes it is the market leader in private cloud – 1,000+ customers and 40% of the Fortune 100 are using its converged cloud solutions and services.
He also notes HP is trying to differentiate its cloud services offering from that of Amazon.com (AMZN): "In trying to differentiate from AWS, management noted that HP's public cloud offering is focused on security and the ability to shift workloads back and forth between the private and public cloud."
Noland is surprised to hear the company talking about revenue growth in 2014 given its top line at the moment is still under pressure: "Management noted it would like to see revenue accelerate in F14 (PC and macro cited as caveats)" but "We were surprised to hear management repeat that F14 revenue growth is possible if the macro gets a little better and the PC business stabilizes."
Stifel Nicolaus's Aaron Rakers, who has a Hold rating on the shares, also was at the show. He notes that despite a lack of update on the financial front, there was "a lot to think about."
"We think presentations/discussions did positively highlight HP's improved execution and aligned portfolio depth," he writes. "With an expectation that we will continue to see improving confidence in HP's ability to execute on expense rationalization and confident comments that HP will drive operating EPS growth going forward (i.e., excluding share repo), we/investors are left to gauge the company's ability to drive revenue growth looking into F2014/beyond (vs. our/street est. at -2% yr/yr)."
Specifically, investors will have to consider the strengths of things such as HP's 3Par division, and its recently introduced "Moonshot" server products:
We think investors will be gauging: (1) HP's comments that it still believes revenue growth can occur in F2014. This is predicated on dissipating yr/yr PC declines (no growth expected, just less of a decline), the impact HP's Moonshot ramp (2014-story; expanding beyond hyper-scale), a positive inflection in storage (3PAR/converged vs. legacy), improved execution/portfolio in printers, and the pushed-out burn-off of low margin enterprise services revenue (four major accounts). (2) HP's belief that its enterprise hardware profitability is finding a bottom and will improve with continued 3PAR momentum (+82% yr/yr in F2Q13), the Moonshot ramp (higher margin vs. traditional ISS revenue), and lessening BCS declines. (3) Capital allocation, or acquisitions, will be a focus with execution toward a neutral operating net-debt position exiting F2013. HP highlighted a focus on: security, converged cloud, and tuck-ins around Project HAVEn.
ISI Group's Brian Marshall, who has a Neutral rating on the shares, writes that there was evidence that "fix and rebuild" was paying off as a strategy:
While we continue to believe "recovery and expansion" next year may be more difficult than the company anticipates, HPQ has demonstrated substantial improvements in various point product portfolios (e.g., HAVEn big data analytics platform, expanded 3PAR offerings including all-flash arrays, "IT in a Box" solution for SMB, etc.). In addition, the company is gradually seeing benefits from "nuts and bolts" organizational improvements (e.g., sales force alignment, supply chain efficiencies, pricing discipline, channel programs, etc.).
As for growth, "We continue to view this as a low-probability event contingent on a variety of many external and company-specific factors," he writes, which factors include,
PCs must stop shrinking at double-digit rates, 2) tablet/mobile efforts must see success, 3) Ink and laser printing improvements, 4) Services must stabilize, and 5) improvements in storage, networking and servers.
HP shares today are down 10 cents, or 0.4%, at $24.81.


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Центральный, оборудованы и по лучшей цене
Спальные места2
Ванные комнаты1
Площадь30 м²
Этаж №4(с лифтом)
- Кухня
- Кондиционер
- Стиральная машина/сушилка
- Лифт в здании
- Балкон/терраса
- Интернет
- Полотенца
Краткое описание жилья
|Calle de Sagasta, 28004 Madrid, Испания
|Тип жилья
|ID жилья
|Процент подтвержденных запросов брони
|Время ответа
|Несколько часов
|Календарь обновлен
Located in Sagasta Street, one of the most important and elegant streets in the center of the city, this brand-new 30sqm apartment is suitable for two people. Very bright and quiet, set on a fourth floor, it has two interior balconies, a reinforced door, a video intercom entry phone, a water heater, air conditioning, gas heating and a very fast 20 Mb WiFi internet. There is also a lift to facilitate access to the floors.
A corridor with a proper overhead luggage compartment leads to an exquisite and spacious single room with a TV set, a Blu-ray player, a high quality sofa-bed, and a large wardrobe. The kitchen is equipped with a vitroceramic cooker, an oven, a fridge, a washing machine, a dishwasher, a microwave oven, a toaster, a sandwich maker, an electric juicer, a mixer, a steam iron and an ironing board, a coffee machine and a kettle as well as with kitchenware. The bathroom is provided with an amazing and powerful, especially voluminous and air enriched air shower, cupboards, hair-dryer, soap and shower gel.
Towels and bed linen are available as well as all the necessary items to have the most comfortable stay.
It is ideally located in Sagasta Street, close to Bilbao underground station (only 25 meters away) and is becoming the favorite choice for many for staying in the city, whether on holiday or on business.
Exceptionally well communicated either by underground (lines 1 and 4) or by bus, it is within range of all the main tourist landmarks and some are even just a walk away: Gran Vía Street, Puerta del Sol, Cibeles, Museo del Prado, etc..
The area is completely safe and there are plenty of restaurants, cafés, markets and supermarkets, cinemas and all different kind of shops around, so by choosing to stay in such a suitable area, you will certainly insure yourself a convenient and very nice stay in Madrid.
Правила ПроживанияCONDITIONS:
-Checking in at a later hour than 23:00 will have an extra charge of 20€.
-No entries will be accepted after 00:00.
-At the time of booking, send the owner an e-mail greeting or presentation, indicating the reason for the trip.
-Respond to emails to facilitate the communication.
-Provide with information about the time of arrival in Madrid, at least 5 days in advance.
- 200€ will be paid on the day as a rental bond/deposit on the day of arrival. That amount will be refunded on the day the tenant will check out, after inspection shows there has not been any damage to the housing or any theft, and as long as the apartment is not in need of unusual tidying and cleaning work.
-No pets allowed.
-No smoking allowed.
-Parties and meetings are forbidden, as well as any other activity that may be disturbing to the rest of the neighborhood, or one that is noisy.
-Resting schedule is from 00:00-9:00 in the morning, and must be respected.
-Moving furnishings, household goods and any decorative element from its original position in not allowed.
-Unlawful activity and indecent behavior are forbidden.
|Цена за месяц (вплоть до 2 гостей)
|53714 руб.
|Максимальная продложительность визита
|1 месяц
|Заезд после
|Заселение до
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Perfect for walking to the most important sights in Madrid. Like Prado Museum, Reina Sofias Museum, the Royale Castle and Plaza Mayor. To have a "Menu del dia" at the square looking at all kind of happenings is nice.
This is a small but smart designed apartment. Compact living at its best. Here you have everything you need. Restaurants, shops around the corner but quiet inside. Very neat and clean. The hostess is very considerate to her guests. Gives you plenty of really good things to know about Madrid and the surroundings. This was our first trip to Madrid and we found the whole city warm, clean and friendly. The Metro was easy to take to the airport. You can pay with credit cards even here.
We warmly recommend this.
Very nice, very clean and quiet. Kitchen, bathroom and bed beautiful. All tastefully decorated. Apartment ideally located - metro station literally under the house. Very close to shops and a short walk to the charming center of Madrid. Marina was very friendly and very helpful. Her information better than a guide. Highly recommended and if you'll come back to Madrid only in this place.
Dear Marina,
You really thought about everything in the apartment. It is a very clean and lovely place to stay in, near the metro and beautiful places in Madrid. We will recommend your appartment at our friends.
Thanks for the pleasant stay in Madrid!
Kind regards from the Netherlands
Dear Marina,
Thanks again for the very pleasant stay in Madrid! You really thought about everything in the apartment. It is a very clean and lovely place to stay in, near the metro and beautiful places in Madrid. Especially your recommandations about views and restaurants were wonderfull. Wifi was very nice to keep in touch with our children at home. We will recommend your appartment at our friends.
Kind regards from holland!
Marina is very sweet and kind - providing me with a lots of tipps where to go and what to do. Easy arrangment with keys etcpp. Nice and very clean and well equipped flat in a good neighbourghhood with a gorgious cafe (café commercial) around the corner. Highly recommanded. Thanx!
We stayed in Marina's apartment for five nights and loved it. She was there to welcome us at the agreed time. We arrived before check-in time but we were welcome to go in the apartment which was very nice. Everything you might need is present in the apartment, such as kitchenware, towels, soap, a washing machine, oven etc. Decoration is nice, there is a warm atmosphere and the apartment is very clean. The sofa is comfortable and very easy to transform from couch into bed. We liked the neighbourhood which is well located to discover Madrid.
Marina: thank you for your hospitality and all the detailed information to experience Madrid in the best way!
A wonderful apartment! Really central so you can discover Madrid on foot. Marina is such a lovable person who takes a lot of time to explain you the most interesting sights nearby (we also get a selfmade map!). We enjoyed our stay so much. Thank you Marina for everything!
Marina is a very nice woman who gives a lot of interesting information.
The apartment is fully equiped. It is small but everything you need is there. Nice location. We will come back.
Madrid is a beautiful city and thanks to Marina's information we found many hidden juwels of art and architecture.
We enjoyed our stay at this apartment.
It was a clean modern and fully equipped apartment.
The location is perfect and the metrostation in nearby.
Good agreements are followed up with certainty.
We recommend this place to other visitors to the Spanish capital.
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"Everyone loves mock drafts, but the truth is they are kind of silly. Every
draft day there are millions of unforeseen scenarios and trades that alter
everything. It is nearly impossible to anticipate who will be available at a
given time.
That being said, Giants 101 recently did some very heavy research into how
the New York
Giants approach the NFL Draft and
will now use that as a projective tool for 2012.
Here is a recap of some of the many takeaways the research offered us.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (4th R) stands with top NFL prospects
from Alabama schools and Alabama coach Nick Saban (4th L) during a moment of
silence for the victims of the tornados that have devastated parts of Alabama
before the 2011 NFL football
Draft in New York
April 28, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT FOOTBALL
1. Over 71% of the time, the New York Giants draft for pass offense and defense.
Cornerback, wide receiver, and defensive end make up the lions share of their
top picks (outside of the quarterback)
2. Running back and tight end are among the least valued positions on the
Giant draft board.
Despite needs in the backfield and at tight end, the Giants aren't likely to
address those issues until later on in the draft. They are more likely to
continue to build upon premium positions such as wide receiver and pass rusher
early in the draft.
Since it is almost impossible to guess whom will be available at the 32 spot,
we here at Giants 101 were able to narrow the field based on draft
1. Vinny Curry, DE, Marshall, Nick Perry, DE, USC, Luke Kuechly,
MLB, Boston College, Jerel Worthy, DT, Michigan State, Kendall
Wright, WR, Baylor, Zach
Brown, LB, North Carolina
Here is some background on aforementioned players.
Both Perry and Curry fit nicely into the pass rush rotation from day 1 while
projecting as a possible replacement for Mathias Kiwanukaat the SAM linebacker
spot in a few seasons. Maybe even Osi Umenyira as well. If one or both of them
depart in the next 2-3 seasons, it will be absolutely necessary for the Giants
to add another elite pass rusher. There are quite a few available right now, it
would shock no one to see the Giants go after one early here.
Brown and Luke Keuchly both would go somewhat against the grain in terms of
what the Giants typically look for earlyin drafts. The team rarely jumps at
linebackers. I tend to think that the 30-36 range is the prime range for 4-3
middle linebackers in the draft now.
They are extremely undervalued now and I think the Giants would be quick to
snatch up the best player available in the defensive front 7.
Wright and maybe Georgia Tech's Stephen Hill could slip if there is a run on
another position. The Giants love offensive weapons and Eli Manning is a
quarterback in his prime, it makes sense to continue to give him said
Take absolutely nothing from Jerry Reese's endorsement of the teams
linebackers and wide receivers. He endorsed Mario Manninghamand Steve Smith in
the spring of 2009 right before he drafted Hakeem Nicks.
The rules of the NFL enhance the
value of pass rushers and wide receivers. The Giants were acute enough to notice
this a half decade ago and it paid off in the form of 2 Super Bowls.
2. Lamar
Miller, RB, Miami, Mychal Kendricks, LB, California, Marvin McNutt, WR,
Iowa, Chris
Givens, WR, Wake Forest, Nick Toon, WR, Wisconson, Brian Quick, WR,
This second round is excruciatingly difficult to get a guage on and I can
absolutely picture the Giants trading out of here. The Giants should be able to
nab any one of these guys in the early 3rd round.
With the added need for a running back, I would not be suprised if New York
looked to get a bunch of picks in he 3rd and looked for some offensive
play-makers where the value is best.
Toon, Quick, Givens, and McNutt are the most intriguing options at wide
receiver here with their skill- sets, and I'm not convinced wide receiver is not
a very nigh priority for the Giants.
3. Omar
Bolden, CB, Arizona State, Bernard
Pierce, RB, Temple, Audie Cole, MLB, North Carolina State, Jonathan
Massaquoi, DE, Troy, Trumaine Johnson, CB/S, Montana, Antonio Allen, SS, South
While it has been said that this draft is not particularly deep or talented,
I am having a tough time buying that.
Perhaps it is just the way the NFL as a whole approaches the draft now. Teams jump on
players for measurablesand pre- draft hype and quarterbacks are valued at an
absurd rate.
There are so many productive players projected to be available in the middle
rounds and Jerry Reese likes production. The Giants go after players and develop
them within a system. If they believe that a guy can work in a system, he gets
drafted simple as that.
The deeper I dig into this process the harder it makes it to pin point what
New York
will do early on. They can get a strong pass rushing prospect like Massaquoi
here in the 3rdor even a solid linebacker for some depth.
All that said, I think we see a running back a bit earlier than expected for
the Giants, a guy who projects as an NFL starter down the line. The Giants may stick with
Bradshaw now, they may like Da' RelScott, and they may even pick up a stop gap,
but frankly I am not betting on a single one of those right now.
Giants 101 went 4 rounds deep to see how the Giants valued players in the
draft during Jerry Reese's tenure, though it will be difficult to go 4 deep with
this process.
In the first 3 rounds, expect new York to continue to bolster pass offense and pass
defense. A wide receiver, a corer/safety, and a pass rusher almost surely factor
into New York's
plans. From the pass rusher perspective, keep a close eye on the ones who are
athletic enough to take some time at SAM.
Sticking with the "best player available" strategy, if a stud middle
linebacker or running back presents themselves to the Giants, I don't expect
them to pass."


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SHB are ahead of me and the hive. Need suggestions. Have removed all infected frames and hose washed them. But every day find one or two more - believe bees have given up also. Roy
SHB are ahead of me and the hive. Need suggestions. Have removed all infected frames and hose washed them. But every day find one or two more - believe bees have given up also. Roy
Hi Roy,
If the bees have given up I don't know if they can be saved. It sounds like, at this point all you can do is keep washing out the cone. I don't have it with me, but I read in last months ABJ about using different house hold products to wash out the infected cone to remove SHB eggs and larva. It will be tomarrow befor I'll have a chance to get back to the house.
Is the soil sandy around your hives? I'm in Ga. and I try to keep my hives on top of good old red clay. Another thing, I don't try to keep the fire ants away from my hives ether. I'll be glad to give up a qt. of honey to the ants if they help keep the SHB under control.
If someone doesn't post what was said in the ABJ I'll do it tomarrow.
Billy Bob
Billy Bob: appreciate your response to my SHB problem; broke down the hive this morning - washed out all frames that looked to contain SHB. Had a response that suggested reducing the hive to a neuc and let them begin again. They were so disturbed this morning that I could not find the queen. Roy
Hi Roy,
I found the artical in ABJ. It talks about using house hold products to remove SHB larva from the cone. (ABJ 2002 page 439)
They used water, vineger, oil/water mix, detergent, and bleach. As you could guess, the bleach worked the best, going back to water with the lowest mortality rate.
As far as how the bees took back to the cone after treatment. Bleach and detergent took upwards of 24 hrs. Wtaer and vineger about 2 hrs.
This is the basic part of what was said. If you want more I'll send it to you.
Have you tried closeing the entrance on the bottom board and using a 1 1/2 pvc pipe for a entrance when SHB first become a problem in a hive? The trick is to know when SHB is a problem in a hive.
I hope this helps, if not with this hive maybe the next.
Billy Bob


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Getting back into beekeeping after a long absence. Dad, kept bees, so I was always around them. I kept a few hives in the early 90's and gave up due to mites, etc. Ended up living in apartments a few years. Bought a house; Installed a package into a TBH two years ago, they absconded a few weeks later. Busy with work and never got around to getting more.
Been nursing a case of bee fever, and am ready to get some hives started. Built 5 swarm traps and put them out the end of March, nothing yet. Built a couple boxes, and have a nuc on order to be picked up on May 4.
Anyone set out traps in Southeast Texas? I have been seeing only a few foragers in my garden, 4-5 at a time. I'm in NW Houston, and bees seem scarce around here.


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|Posted: Wed Aug 16th, 2006 02:16 am
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|Based on the advice of the Samurai, we bought a Staber over a year ago. My wife does about 10 loads a week (family of 5, kids & I play sports and have a lot of clothes to wash).
So far:
1. It has been totally reliable.
2. It cleans clothes really well. It doesn't wear clothes out or damage them.
3. It uses a tiny amount of detergent.
So far, very good. I totally recommend this washer.
It does have some white deposits on the drum that I have to figure out how to remove. Doesn't seem to affect anything.
I have no connection to Staber.
I'm just still p&*sed about the Frigidaire front loader which gave us fits.
|Posted: Wed Aug 16th, 2006 03:44 am
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Samurai Appliance Repair Man
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|Konichiwa, Rob, and mucho domos for the one-year later report! Glad that it was a good one, too.
Just to add my own perspective as a Staber dealer. In the year or so that I've been distributing the Staber washer, I've only had one that had some problems and I was impressed with how quickly Staber responded to make it right by overnighting the part right out to the customer and they were washing their skivvies again the next day. No hassles, no fuss, just done. Kewl.
The Staber is a popular washer with folks who are into self-sufficient living or those who, for whatever reason, have chosen to live a simpler life off the grid. Some friends of ours who live in Vermont on almost 100 undeveloped, off-the grid acres use a Staber washer and love it; very reliable and easy on the solar-powered batteries.
This illustrates a core principle about the happy Staber owner. You gotta be a do-it-yourselfer. The washer is designed to be serviceable by the owner and the company offers excellent, free service support to owners. Staber has made it easy for you to have a low energy, low water consuming washing machine in your remote living location and be able to maintain it yourself.
If you're not a DIYer and expect to call for service, get a commercially available washer from your favorite appliance dealer. Some good ones are Whirlpool Duet, Miele, Asko and Fisher-Paykel.
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|Posted: Wed Aug 16th, 2006 03:02 pm
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Master Appliantologist
|Very intriguing. Thanks for the update.
Kind of exciting that Staber designs their machines to be serviced by the owner.
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|Posted: Thu Jun 14th, 2007 07:05 am
|4th Post
Senior Apprentice Appliantologist
|Well I have had my Staber for over 3 years now, only a couple problems. and one was our fault.
Unit was leaking water when spinning... after troubleshooting with Staber found the following... bad gasket on Plastic piece that sits on top of Stainless Hsg.
Washer would spin up and spray water around gasket onto floor.
other problem is our fault, you need to empty pockets, coins will slip between hatch and get sucked into pump. Then you have to disconnect drain hose and remove said coinage. The best way is to just tilt unit back and get it from underside.
It's a PITA to take the curved front cover off and get it back on.
Other than that, it's been a great washer, super skimpy on soap.
Has anyone tried their dryers, I am moving soon and will need a gas dryer.
|Posted: Sat Aug 2nd, 2008 06:07 pm
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Senior Apprentice Appliantologist
|Staber washer report after over two years.
This thing rocks. All the good stuff they say about reliability seem to be true.
Family of 5 with lots of laundry. We use 4000 gallons of water a month, which is a lot less than without it. Clothes cleaned well and no washer damage.
What sucks? There is a rubber waist gasket at the top where you load in the clothes. The back side of it gets slimy, even if you leave the lid open. It is easy, if messy to clean with 409 cleaner.
The front panel used to be a bitch to get on. It has bent into shape.
Worst thing that happened? Polyester underwear was thrown carelessly in and slipped in-between the revolving drum and the outer drum. It got stuck in the pump. Some water overflowed. My wife had unplugged the water-stop leak protection on the valves, which would have detected it, by accident. Solution? Pop front panel. Unhook intake hose from drum to pump. Remove undies. Reconnect.
Also, I also had to remove coins that got stuck in the pump, as well, one time.
I still don't like the cheesy plastic top, but, oh well.
Last edited on Sat Aug 2nd, 2008 06:09 pm by wweasel
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