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User: freddys r, Dec 9, 2013
I have had a bout a half dozen Incipio Feather cases for BlackBerry phones, Galaxy S3 phone and, currently, on my Playbook. They are thin, great feel to the touch and, also, Incipio has the best warranty on the planet.. if it breaks - chances are 99 they will replace it - if not broken by abuse..
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User: cbvinh -, Oct 23, 2011
I ordered this hard shell case for the specific reason that its "ultralight" and it is indeed that. Its like adding another layer of the same matte finish to your Playbook to protect its original matte finish. You get the same tactile feel and no-slip assurance.
The cutouts for the ports are perfectly placed but due to the slight increase in thickness (1 mm) by adding the case, the power on/off, volume +/-, and play/pause are a bit less accessible. Reaching around from the back for the buttons solves this problem.
The addition of the screen protector was a welcome surprise for me since I didnt expect it. (I guess I should have read the CB review here more carefully.) When you apply it, make absolutely sure that there are no dust particles on the screen. I took my time to clean the screen but about three dust particles ended up on the screen and created bubble spots that I could not rid of. The stickiness of the adhesive side was just enough to make them hard to remove once they stuck. Unlike the BoxWave screen protectors Ive used in the past, you cannot just rinse this screen protector with water and try again. I basically ruined it. My fault. I just wanted to warn purchasers that the screen protector installation is a one shot deal.
Also, DO NOT use the included cleaning cloth to prepare for the screen protector installation! It leaves a lot of fabric debris onto the screen!
Overall, this case protects the body of the Playbook as I hoped. The screen protector is a nice welcome, but its installation should be done super carefully.
|Decent minimalistic hard shell
User: Flo U, Dec 12, 2011
A classic case (no pun intended) of form over function. This case fits like a glove and all the cutouts are well done. The exception is the top cutout -- the design gets in the way only slightly to push the top power and volume buttons. I really liked the look and feel of the case. I was surprised to see that the case does not cover most of the left and right sides, but it does cover the corners.
Now lets talk about the corners. I had a chance to give this case an inadvertent drop test. My PB+case fell from a 2 high nightstand onto a hardwood floor. It hit the floor on the upper-right corner where the headphone port is. A 1/2" piece of the corner flew off, taking a 1/4" piece of plastic from the actual PB with it. I would have been ok if just the case was damaged, but now my PB is dinged too. For that I gotta take off 2 stars.
Not a bad case if youre looking for a sleek fit. The PB with the case still fits inside the original neoprene sleeve that comes with it. If youre looking for more protection all around, I would take a look at the Silicrylic case.


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Bellator Kickboxing Announced, Kicking Off on April 16th
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Today in Texas, Bellator finally announced what we've known for quite a while now: Bellator will be running professional kickboxing shows. The first event will be piggybacked onto the Oktagon/Bellator event in Italy, much like we've speculated. The names that Coker introduced at the press event today were Kevin Ross, Joe Schilling, Keri Melendez, Raymond Daniels and Anastasia Yankova. These will most likely be the banner fighters for the promotion moving forward.
Many have noted that Schilling is fighting on the upcoming GLORY card, but there have been some weird contractual issues between Schilling and GLORY, I wouldn't be shocked if this was simply finishing things out.
Carlo di Blasi was there to discuss rules, regulations and promotional impact worldwide. This event will air immediately after the Bellator event does, meaning that Spike and Bellator are putting their all into making this event seem huge.
So this is finally happening. After almost a year of rumors and false starts, Scott Coker's kickboxing organization is finally happening.


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"By Clerics Studios" offers this modern studio apartment equipped with all the home comforts including flat-screen TV and an integrated sound system with an iPhone connection. It features a cosy living space with a double bed, wall-mounted TV and a dining area for 2.
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The Livraria Lello is located in the immediate area and is recognized as one of the most beautiful bookshops in the world. Guests will find a lovely selection of traditional bars and restaurants nearby.
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The studio has everything you need for a comfortable stay, but located in an area something hidden, something foreign to the host as of course.
O estúdio tem tudo o que é preciso para uma estadia confortável, porém localiza-se numa zona algo escondida, facto alheio ao anfitrião como é claro.
Very new and just for two people, is no longer needed. Very central.
Muy nuevo y justo para dos personas, no se necesita más. Muy céntrico.
Excellent location, walking distance to everything! The room a little 'small but for the money we spent and the position I think there are only eguali..l'appartamento we needed as a base! 4 flights of stairs have been rewarded by the view of the city! Recommended!
Ottima posizione, a due passi da tutto! La camera un po' piccola ma per quello che abbiamo speso e per la posizione penso non ci siano eguali..l'appartamento ci serviva solo come punto d'appoggio! 4 piani di scale sono stati ripagati dalla vista sulla città! Consigliato!
We have felt very comfortable in the studio, it was well equipped, the central location was really great!
Wir haben uns sehr wohl im Studio gefühlt, es war gut ausgestattet, die zentrale Lage war wirklich super!
It's a very nice, clean and well-equipped studio, located in the historical center of Porto. (- it couldn't be better!) Mario and the ladies were kind and helpful, thank you for that. We had an excellent time here and we definitely recommend this apartement.
The studio is small, but never mind; everything was perfect: it is very well equipped, clean and the decoration is beautiful. Mario and his colleague are nice and helpful. We're so happy about staying at such a place!
An unforgettable experience, the site was well located, clean and charming. The person who received us explained everything perfectly in addition to various suggestions and recommendations of places to see, eat, etc. I have no more to say to anyone who is interested in visiting Oporto is one of the best opcciones to stay.
Una experiencia inolvidable, el sitio estaba bien situado, limpio y con mucho encanto. La persona que nos recibio nos explico todo perfectamente ademas de varias sugerencias y recomendaciones de sitios para ver, comer, etc. No me queda mas que decir que cualquier persona que este interesada en visitar Oporto esta es una de las mejores opcciones para alojarse.
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Good reception with information about the city and its surroundings. Perfect room in the heart of Porto. Modern decor, amenities such as coffee maker, two burner stove and microwave. Even coffee and tea were supplied. Even a bottle of port with two glasses stood ready. Very clean and cozy. You do not expect it when you walk into the street ..... To be repeated and highly recommended.
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very nice view, sweet room (small but as expected on the pictures), very centrally located. Cleanness could be improved (esp. bed), that is the only thing I have to criticise.
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Will AI create mindlike machines, or will it show how much a mindless machine can do?
Brian Hayes
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the capacity to learn from experience. Early results were promising. Computers were programmed to play checkers and chess, to prove theorems in geometry, to solve analogy puzzles from IQ tests, to recognize letters of the alphabet. Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers, declared in 1961: "We are on the threshold of an era that will be strongly influenced, and quite possibly dominated, by intelligent problem-solving machines."
Fifty years later, problem-solving machines are a familiar presence in daily life. Computer programs suggest the best route through cross-town traffic, recommend movies you might like to see, recognize faces in photographs, transcribe your voicemail messages and translate documents from one language to another. As for checkers and chess, computers are not merely good players; they are unbeatable. Even on the television quiz show Jeopardy, the best human contestants were trounced by a computer.
In spite of these achievements, the status of artificial intelligence remains unsettled. We have many clever gadgets, but it's not at all clear they add up to a "thinking machine." Their methods and inner mechanisms seem nothing like human mental processes. Perhaps we should not be bragging about how smart our machines have become; rather, we should marvel at how much those machines accomplish without any genuine intelligence.
It is not only critics from outside the field who express such qualms about the direction of AI. Fifteen years ago Minsky told an interviewer: "The bottom line is that we really haven't progressed too far toward a truly intelligent machine. We have collections of dumb specialists in small domains; the true majesty of general intelligence still awaits our attack." At a recent mathematics meeting I heard Minsky offer a similar assessment, lamenting the neglect of the field's deepest long-range goals. His comments prompted me to look back at the early literature of artificial intelligence, and then survey some of the recent accomplishments. Has AI strayed from the true path, or has it found a better way forward?
At the outset, research in artificial intelligence was the project of a very small community. An inaugural conference in 1956 had just 10 participants. They included Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University); Minsky, who had just begun his career at MIT; and John McCarthy, who left MIT to start a new laboratory at Stanford. A major share of the early work in AI was done by these four individuals and their students.
It was a small community, but big enough for schisms and factional strife. One early conflict pitted "the neats" against "the scruffies." The neats emphasized the role of deductive logic; the scruffies embraced other modes of problem-solving, such as analogy, metaphor and reasoning from example. McCarthy was a neat, Minsky a scruffy.
An even older and deeper rift divides the "symbolic" and the "connectionist" approaches to artificial intelligence. Are the basic atoms of thought ideas, propositions and other such abstractions? Or is thought something that emerges from patterns of activity in neural networks? In other words, is the proper object of study the mind or the brain?
If an artificial intelligence needs a brain, maybe it also needs a body, with sensors that connect it to the physical world; thus AI becomes a branch of robotics. Still another faction argues that if a machine is to think, it must have something to think about, and so the first priority is encoding knowledge in computer-digestible form.
A backdrop to all of these diverging views within the AI community is a long-running philosophical debate over whether artificial intelligence is possible at all. Some skeptics hold that human thought is inherently nonalgorithmic, and so a deterministic machine cannot reproduce everything that happens in the brain. (It's the kind of dispute that ends not with the resolution of the issue but with the exhaustion of the participants.)
Through the 1970s, most AI projects were small, proof-of-concept studies. The scale of the enterprise began to change in the 1980s with the popularity of "expert systems," which applied AI principles to narrow domains such as medical diagnosis or mineral prospecting. This brief flurry of entrepreneurial activity was followed by a longer period of retrenchment known as "the AI winter."
The present era must be the AI spring, for there has been an extraordinary revival of interest. Last year Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun were teaching an introductory AI course at Stanford and opened it to free enrollment over the Internet. They attracted 160,000 online students (though "only" 23,000 successfully completed the course). The revival comes with a new computational toolkit and a new attitude: Intelligent machines are no longer just a dream for the future but a practical technology we can exploit here and now. I'm going to illustrate these changes with three examples of AI then and now: machines that play games (in particular checkers), machines that translate languages and machines that answer questions.
The game of checkers was the subject of one of the earliest success stories in AI. Arthur L. Samuel of IBM started work on a checkers-playing program in the early 1950s and returned to the project several times over the next 20 years. The program was noteworthy not only for playing reasonably well—quite early on, it began beating its creator—but also for learning the game in much the same way that people do. It played against various opponents (including itself!) and drew lessons from its own wins and losses.
Samuel explained the program's operation in terms of goals and subgoals. The overall goal was to reach a winning position, where the opponent has no legal move. The program identified subgoals that would mark progress toward the goal. Experienced players pointed out that the program's main weakness was the lack of any sustained strategy or "deep objective."
The subsequent history of computer checkers is dominated by the work of Jonathan Schaeffer and his colleagues at the University of Alberta. In 1989 they began work on a program called Chinook, which quickly became a player of world-champion caliber. It played twice against Marion Tinsley, who was the preeminent human checkers player of the era. (Tinsley won every tournament he entered from 1950 to 1994.) In a 1992 match, Tinsley defeated Chinook 4–2 with 33 draws. A rematch two years later ended prematurely when Tinsley withdrew because of illness. The six games played up to that point had all been draws, and Chinook became champion by forfeit. Tinsley died a few months later, so there was never a final showdown over the board.
Chinook's approach to the game was quite unlike that of Samuel's earlier program. There was no hierarchy of goals and subgoals, and no attempt to imitate the strategic thinking of human players. Chinook's strength lay entirely in capacious memory and rapid computation. At the time of the second Tinsley match, the program was searching sequences of moves to a minimum depth of 19 plies. (A ply is a move by one side or the other.) Chinook had a library of 60,000 opening positions and an endgame database with precomputed outcomes for every position with eight or fewer pieces on the board. There are 443,748,401,247 such positions.
More recently, Schaeffer and his colleagues have gone on from creating strong checkers players to solving the game altogether. After a series of computations that ended in 2007, they declared that checkers is "weakly solved." The weak solution identifies a provably optimal line of play from the starting position to the end—which turns out to be a draw. Neither player can improve his or her (or its) outcome by departing from this canonical sequence of moves. (A "strong" solution would give the correct line of play from any legally reachable board position.) By the time this proof was completed, the endgame database encompassed all positions with 10 or fewer pieces (almost 40 trillion of them).
Schaeffer notes that his checkers-playing program doesn't need to know much about checkers:
Perhaps the biggest contribution of applying AI technology to developing game-playing programs was the realization that a search-intensive ("brute-force") approach could produce high-quality performance using minimal application-dependent knowledge.
There is room here for a devil's advocate to offer a counterargument. Winning isn't everything, and playing the game without understanding it is not the most obvious route to wisdom. When Samuel began his work on checkers, his aim was not just to create an invincible opponent but to learn something about how people play games—indeed, to learn something about learning itself. Progress toward these broader goals could have influence beyond the world of board games.
But this position is difficult to defend. It turns out that brute-force methods like those of Chinook have been highly productive in a variety of other areas. They are not just tricks for winning games; Schaeffer cites bioinformatics and optimization among other application areas. The anthropocentric scheme, taking human thought patterns as the model for computer programs, has been less fruitful so far.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams introduces the Babel Fish: "If you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language." Here in our little corner of the galaxy, Babel Fish is the name of a web service (part of Yahoo) that also performs translation, though it's limited to languages from Planet Earth. Google and Microsoft offer similar services. Depending on your needs and expectations, the quality of the results can seem either amazing or risible.
Efforts to build a translation machine were already under way in the 1950s. The simplest of the early schemes was essentially an automated bilingual dictionary: The machine would read each word in the source text, look it up in the dictionary, and return the corresponding word or words in the target language. The failure of this approach is sometimes dramatized with the tale of the English→ Russian→ English translation that began with "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" and ended with "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten." John Hutchins, in a history of machine translation, thoroughly debunks that story, but the fact remains that word-by-word dictionary lookup was eventually dismissed as useless.
Later programs worked with higher-level linguistic structures—phrases and sentences rather than individual words. In the early 1970s Yorick Wilks, who was then at Stanford, built an English-to-French translation program that explicitly tried to reproduce some of the mental processes of a human translator. The program would read a sentence, break it into component phrases, try to assign meanings to the words based on their local context, and then generate corresponding phrases in the target language.
Wilks's project never got beyond the prototype stage, but another translation system with roots in the same era is still in wide use and under active development. SYSTRAN, founded in 1968 by Peter Toma, now powers the Babel Fish service. It began as a dictionary-based system but now has a complex structure with many modules.
In recent years a quite different approach to machine translation has attracted more interest and enthusiasm. The idea is to ignore the entire hierarchy of syntactic and semantic structures—the nouns and verbs, the subjects and predicates, even the definitions of words—and simply tabulate correlations between words in a large collection of bilingual texts. The early work on this statistical approach to translation was done by Peter F. Brown and his colleagues at IBM, who had already applied analogous ideas to problems of speech recognition. The method is now the basis of translation services from both Google and Microsoft.
Deliberately ignoring everything we know about grammar and meaning would seem to be a step backward. However, all the information encoded in grammar rules and dictionary definitions is implicitly present in a large collection of texts; after all, that's where the grammarians and the lexicographers get it from in the first place. Where do the bilingual texts come from? Government bodies that publish official documents in two or more languages, such as Canada and the European Union, have been an important source.
Suppose you have a large corpus of parallel documents in French and English, broken down into pairs of matched sentences. With this resource in hand, you are asked to provide an English translation of the French proverb Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide. Here is one way to begin: Take each word of the proverb, find all the French sentences in the corpus that include this word, retrieve the corresponding English sentences, and look for words that appear in these sentences with unusually high frequency. In some cases the outcome of this process will be easy to interpret. If a French sentence includes the word chat, the English version is very likely to mention cat. Other cases could be equivocal. The French craint might be strongly correlated with several English words, such as fears, dreads and afraid. And occasionally it might happen that no word stands out clearly. By taking all the English words identified in this way, and perhaps applying a threshold rule of some kind, you can come up with a list of words that have a good chance of appearing in the translation.
Now the task is to put the selected words in order, and thus make an English sentence out of them. This too can be done by a probabilistic process, guided by the relative frequencies of short sequences of words (n-grams) in English text. The likeliest arrangement of the words is taken as the translation.
In practice, statistical translation programs are not quite as crude and simple-minded as the algorithm presented here. In particular, the ordering of the English words is done by an alignment process that starts with the French sequence and allows for insertions, deletions and transpositions. Still, the entire translation is done in total ignorance of meaning and grammatical structure. It seems a bit of a miracle when something sensible comes out. For Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide, Google Translate suggests: A scalded cat fears cold water. My high school French teacher would have given full credit for that answer.
This numerical or statistical approach to translation seems utterly alien to the human experience of language. As in the case of game-playing, I am tempted to protest that the computer has solved the problem but missed the point. Surely a human translator works at a higher level, seeking not just statistical correlations but an equivalence of meaning and perhaps also of mood and tone. In the case at hand, the artful translator might render a proverb with another proverb: Once burned, twice shy. That kind of deft linkage between languages seems beyond the reach of programs that merely shuffle symbols.
But are human readers really so different from the computer plodding through its database of sentences? How do people learn all those nuanced meanings of thousands of words and the elaborate rules for putting them together in well-formed sentences? We don't do it by consulting dictionaries and grammar books. Starting as young children, we absorb this knowledge from exposure to language itself; we listen and talk, then later we read and write. For the lucky polyglots among us, these activities go on in multiple languages at once, with fluid interchange between them. In other words, we infer syntax and semantics from a corpus of texts, just as the statistical translator does. Most likely the mental process underlying the acquisition of language involves no explicit calculation of probabilities of n-grams, but it also requires no dictionary definitions or memorized conjugations of verbs. In spirit at least, our experience of language seems closer to statistical inference than to rule-based deduction.
My final example comes from an area of AI where algorithmic ingenuity and high-performance computing have yet to triumph fully. The task is to answer questions formulated in ordinary language.
In a sense, we already have an extraordinary question-answering technology: Web search engines such as Google and Bing put the world at our fingertips. For the most part, however, search engines don't actually answer questions; they provide pointers to documents that might or might not supply an answer. To put it another way, search engines are equipped to answer only one type of question: "Which documents on the Web mention X?," where X is the set of keywords you type into the search box. The questions people really want to ask are much more varied.
One early experiment in question answering was a program called Baseball, written at MIT circa 1960 by Bert F. Green Jr. and three colleagues. The program was able to understand and answer questions such as "Who did the Red Sox lose to on July 5, 1960?" This was an impressive feat at the time, but the domain of discourse was very small (a single season of professional baseball games) and the form of the queries was also highly constrained. You couldn't ask, for example, "Which team won the most games?"
For a glimpse of current research on question answering we can turn to the splendidly named KnowItAll project of Oren Etzioni and his colleagues at the University of Washington. Several programs written by the Etzioni group address questions of the "Who did what to whom?" variety, extracting answers from a large collection of texts (including a snapshot of the Web supplied by Google). There's a demo at openie.cs.washington.edu. Instead of matching simple keywords, the KnowItAll programs employ a template of the form X ~ Y, where X and Y are generally noun phrases of some kind and "~" is a relation between them, as in "John loves Mary." If you leave one element of the template blank, the system attempts to fill in all appropriate values from the database of texts. For example, the query "___ defeated the Red Sox" elicits a list of 59 entries. (But "___ defeated the Red Sox on July 5, 1960" comes up empty.)
KnowItAll is still a research project, but a few other question-answering systems have been released into the wild. True Knowledge parses natural-language queries and tries to find answers in a hand-crafted semantic database. Ask.com combines question answering with conventional keyword Web searching. Apple offers the Siri service on the latest iPhone. Wolfram Alpha specializes in quantitative and mathematical subjects. I have tried all of these services except Siri; on the whole, unfortunately, the experience has been more frustrating than satisfying.
A bright spot on the question-answering horizon is Watson, the system created by David Ferrucci and a team from IBM and Carnegie Mellon to compete on Jeopardy. The winning performance was dazzling. On the other hand, even after reading Ferrucci's explanation of Watson's inner architecture, I don't really understand how it works. In particular I don't know how much of its success came from semantic analysis and how much from shallower keyword matching or statistical techniques. When Watson responded correctly to the clue "Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day," was it reasoning about the properties of 12-hour clocks in a 24-hour world? Or did it stumble upon the phrase "right twice a day" in a list of riddles that amuse eight-year-olds?
Writing in Nature last year, Etzioni remarked, "The main obstacle to the paradigm shift from information retrieval to question answering seems to be a curious lack of ambition and imagination." I disagree. I think the main obstacle is that keyword search, though roundabout and imprecise, has proved to be a remarkably effective way to discover stuff. In the case of my baseball question, Google led me straight to the answer: On July 5, 1960, the Red Sox lost to the Orioles, 9 to 4. Once again, shallow methods that look only at the superficial structure of a problem seem to be outperforming deeper analysis.
Edward A. Feigenbaum, a veteran of AI's first-generation, has declared that "computational intelligence is the manifest destiny of computer science." The slogan "manifest destiny" once expressed the sea-to-shining-sea territorial ambitions of the young United States. Feigenbaum, by analogy, is telling us there's no stopping AI until it reaches the level of human intelligence. (And then why stop there?)
Feigenbaum's declaration reiterates Minsky's prophecy from 50 years ago. They may both be proved right, one of these days. In the meantime, I see a different kind of territorial aggrandizement going on. AI is expanding into turf that once belonged to other specialities. It looks like the destiny of artificial intelligence may be to assimilate all the rest of applied computer science.
I came to appreciate how much the field has broadened as I was reading Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, a recent textbook by Stuart Russell and Norvig. (The third edition came out in 2010.) It's a splendid book, and I recommend it not just for students of AI but for anyone seriously interested in computer science. And that's the point: Many of the ideas and methods introduced here would be quite at home in a text on algorithm design or optimization theory. Some of the more traditional AI themes are scarcely mentioned.
Russell and Norvig give a brief history of AI, where recent developments are introduced under the rubric "AI adopts the scientific method." This characterization seems a bit heavy-handed. Are we to conclude that previous generations were unscientific, toiling in benighted pursuit of cognitive phlogiston? The book's subtitle, "A Modern Approach," reinforces this impression. I'm sure the intent is not to be dismissive or scornful; it's just that the questions that animated AI research in its first decades no longer seem so urgent or central. But that's not because those questions have all been answered.
Meanwhile, the brash new style of AI plunges ahead. The roaring success of all those "shallow" methods—such as treating natural language as a sequence of n-grams—is something I find both exciting and perplexing. Exciting because these are algorithms we can implement and programs we can run; AI becomes a technology rather than a daydream. Perplexing because the shallow methods weren't supposed to work, and now we have to explain their unreasonable effectiveness. Perhaps this is how we'll get back to those deeper questions that Minsky warns we are neglecting.
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Beatrice "Bea" Larson
Formerly of Pine River
Beatrice "Bea" Nigellia Larson, 102, the daughter of Frank and Della Mae (Wood) Teicher, was born Jan. 18, 1911, at Wabasso, Minn. She passed away Monday, April 22, 2013, at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, Red Oak, Iowa, at the age of 102 years, 3 months and 4 days.
Throughout her childhood, Bea was raised in Wabasso, Minn., Montana and then Pine River, Minn. She attended school at Pine River and then worked at the local grocery stores and area resort. Bea was united in marriage to Marshall R. Larson on Nov. 3, 1940, at Pine River. She and Marshall lived in Pine River until 1942, when they moved to a farm at Grand River, Iowa. In 1945, they moved to a farm south of Stanton, Iowa, then to Pillager, Minn., and in 1947, returned to Pine River where she helped care for her sister.
While in Pine River, Bea and Marshall owned and operated a gas station and restaurant. They sold their businesses in 1953 to purchase a dairy farm west of Pine River. Having fixed up their farm, they sold it and purchased a farm at Brooten, Minn. In 1962, they sold their farm at Brooten after remodeling it and moved to be near family in Willmar, Minn., and then to Red Oak in 1969.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Red Oak. Bea was a great cook, having cooked for their farm workers for many years. She also enjoyed bowling and treasured her family dearly.
Bea was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Marshall, on Oct. 25, 1992; sister, Bernice Teicher; and granddaughter, Theresa Larson.
Bea is survived by two sons, Richard Larson and wife Audrey of Red Oak, Iowa, and Marshall Larson Jr. of Foley, Minn.; two grandchildren, Laura Cross and husband Kyle of Red Oak, and Tamera Sutton and husband Jeff of Red Oak; seven great-grandchildren, Kyra, Daniel, Mitchell, Brooke, Heather, Holly and Trevor; and great-great-granddaughter, Haylee Nigella; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
May God bless her memory and give strength to those who mourn.
Funeral service was at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013, at First United Methodist Church, Red Oak, Iowa. Burial is in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak. The Rev. Fred Pilecki officiated. Visitation with the family was Thursday evening from 7-8 p.m. at Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home. Memorials preferred to First United Methodist Church.
Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.sldfuneralhome.com.
Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.


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PUEBLO, Colo. - An apparent case of mistaken identity led to a police standoff in Pueblo Tuesday afternoon.
Police were called to a home in the 2600 block of Sprague Avenue after someone called to report that a wanted man was there.
The caller identified the wanted person as Roy Gonzales, who is accused of throwing his girlfriend out of a moving car last weekend.
When officers arrived and knocked on the door, no one answered. Police obtained a warrant and the SWAT team was called.
While officers waited for SWAT, a man named Geoffrey Archuleta came out of the home and gave himself up to police. Archuleta was wanted for failure to appear on a traffic violation. A second man remained inside the home.
When SWAT officers arrived, they tried to make contact with the man who was still inside.
After brief negotiations, the man surrendered without incident. He was identified as Ray Gonzales, not Roy Gonzales as initially though.
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Saturday will be a different kind of ladies' night at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland. At 8 pm, the Maine Rebels — Maine's only semi-professional football team, a member of the International Women's Football League — will face the New Jersey Justice, in their first home game of the season.
The team's motto is: "Real Women . . . Playing Real Football . . . It's the Real Deal" — and yes, that means that there's full-contact tackling involved.
"You feel like you've been in a car accident at the end of every game," admits quarterback Brooke Harris, 37, who used to play for the state's other female football team, the Maine Freeze. (The Maine Rebels roster is the result of merging the Southern Maine Rebels with the Freeze, a development that happened last year.) But while Harris, a Portland resident, admits that she has "absolutely no idea" how she got so deeply involved with women's football, she's discovered an affinity for it. "I remember the first time I hit someone well," she says, "and that it felt amazing."
With 24 players, many of whom boast previous playing experience, Rebels co-owner Gloria Verrill hopes to have a successful season. She points to the team camaraderie as one of the Rebels' biggest strengths, one that helps new players get acclimated.
"Watching it on TV, it looks so easy," says Verrill, who works during the day as a math teacher at Lake Region High School. But once a player takes to the field, "it's physically and intellectually challenging. A lot of rookies are overwhelmed at first."
Diana Duff, a mom from Cumberland, is in her first year as a Rebel. "I was really nervous the first time I was going to get hit. But I think when your adrenaline's pumping, it hurts less," she says (by phone from a physical therapist's office, where she was having work done on a pulled muscle in her calf). "I'm bruised all over. But it's been great."
Players pay $1000 to be on the Rebels (a fundraising program is available to help those who can't pay out of pocket); they get a free gym membership and other small perks in addition to the oft-cited empowering intangibles. They've been practicing together since January at the Expo Center, the University of New England, and on the field, under the supervision of coach Monty Ellison and a few assistant coaches (also male). They lost their first game of the season, against the highly ranked New England Intensity, last week (28-0).
Over the course of their eight-game season, the team is hoping to capitalize not only on the novelty of women tackling women, but on a more generalized sports fever that seems to be spreading through the state.
Last week, executives from state government, minor-league sports teams, and local businesses met to discuss "the business of sports" — including the possible creation of a Maine Sports Commission that would coordinate statewide sports marketing, solicit sponsorship for sports events, and bid to bring big-name tournaments to Maine. Department of Economic and Community Development commissioner Thaxter Trafton says such a commission would "without question help the state of Maine in more than one way," namely by bringing tourism dollars to the state (Pat Eltman of the state's Department of Tourism also supports the idea).
The real momentum, though, is coming not from the government but from the private side, says University of Southern Maine sports management professor Jo Williams. She says a commission would "drive economic development through sports, and bring in people from all over the country." She, Barbara Whitten of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland, Brian Corcoran of the Shamrock Sports Group, and several others plan to meet next week to draw up a more specific plan.Tickets to Rebels games are $8; kids 12 and under get in free. Season passes are $20 (there are four home games). Learn more at southernmainerebels.com.
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ND has shamed themselves with this performance.. They basically were the final chance we had to make us believe whoever played bama at the end of the season would actually have a chance unless they were in SEC..
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I think all of the 3 DL have played pretty well. Nix especially is dominant.
Teo has missed some tackles but really the DBs have been just awful.
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Renegade Chef: The beer season opener
Rumor has it old man winter finally got the hint, and like that annoying, over-staying second-cousin, left in a tizzy. Sorry if we appeared to be a little rude, your frigidness, but just look at the chaos you've caused by insisting on such a late check-out.
Sure, we had a nice season with plenty of snow, or "white gold," as the chamber of commerce likes to call it. Thanks a lot for that, I mean it. But even though sufficient snowfall, a relatively rare occurrence over the past decade, brought a welcome boost to our winter economy, its reluctance to leave may have cost us in the long run.
In fact, I'm willing to bet some of the area golf resorts would have gladly given their spring proceeds to charity rather than have all those stubborn piles of white gold hang around until, gee, about five minutes ago. Ditto for the fishing industry, where trolling motors were more useful as ice augers during the recent walleye opener.
In addition to the financial woes associated to a lingering winter, I am curious to know some of the other consequences of an unbalanced season.
Are the fish confused? Did they wonder why they didn't get their usual quota of free lures on opening day?
Are the ducks and geese still settling in after a long layover in Des Moines? Have the loons forgotten their calling?
Are golf scores higher and are golfers crabbier? Do the dandelions whimper rather than roar?
Can the corn seedlings my nephew started in his living room last February, and now represent an indoor cornfield, be successfully transplanted?
If winter lasted so long, why are the spring fires so quick to start? Why are the ticks so quick to bite?
While I contemplate these things, I think I'll rake the lawn until I get thirsty. Beer season is a little late this year. Thanks a lot, winter.


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One time, I was driving home from work in it...and i never drove it to work...it had just started to rain. and i didnt **** around with it in the rain, so im taking it easy....
Come to one of my turns off the main road, there's a red light...im jsut feathering the gas, start turning, and as if i had slammed the pedal; BWWWOOOOOMMMMP!!!!....it got a little happy, started sliding sideways, and im heading right toward a curb. all i could think about was "OMG if anything happens to this car, MY DAD IS GOING TO HAVE ME MURDERED!!!!(cant do it himself....a man with a name like his lol)
they caught right as i tapped the curb. just the rubber.
how sad is it that i was genuinely afraid to hit a ******* curb lmao
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
I hope to one day take care of my Fathers 1981 Camero Z28
Different colors but you get the idea, he also used to drag race it at English town so it's got a NOS hookup and almost every performance part is Edelbrock.
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That is a sexy car.
Mood: WOOF!
If Rudy posts pictures on here, they are all intentional. She forced me to say these things.
I think Moke might be gay..
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Hilmar Cheese believes in a multifaceted approach to sustainabilityHilmar Cheese recently was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the Corporate Communications category by the Central Valley (California) Public Relations Organization. The 50-foot-long exhibit at the plant's visitor center in Hilmar, Calif., is colorful, interactive, and engages multiple senses. It educates children (ages 7 and older) and adults about milk, dairy in the diet, processing of cheese and whey, and the sustainability of the entire process. While an attractive display gives quality face-time to consumers, it is the story behind the exhibit wall that is the true award-winner. Hilmar has made a conscious effort to promote sustainability and execute it in its facility.
The sustainability of any organization relies on many factors. In its recently completed 2010 Sustainability Report, Hilmar Cheese focuses on water resources, its employees, its community, and education.
70 percent of the water used in its California facility is recycled water
45,000 hours are spent on training its growing number of employees
7,000 pounds of cheese is donated to local food banks and hunger-relief organizations
15,000 students participate in its educational programs in addition to countless people who stop at the Visitor Center (video link).
A commitment to community and sustainability
The Hilmar Cheese facility is located just off a major highway in Central California. Yet, it is surrounded by farmland and a thriving agriculturally dependant community. They recycle and reuse cardboard, shipping containers, and plastics with the goal of zero waste. They work with suppliers to continually improve the packaging and transportation efficiencies to reduce waste where possible.
Hilmar partnered with the University of California at Davis to help build a new milk processing lab. Developing new technologies and educating the next generation benefits the industry and all consumers. Long-term employment at Hilmar is commonplace, as you can see in the report. Hours of training and emphasis on safety are key contributors to Hilmar's "people sustainability."
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Size170 m²
Floor No.1
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Pool
- Towels
- Baby cot
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
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The accommodation consists of two floors (160 m2). Three of the bedrooms are located on the first floor, one of them counts with two single beds, and the others are equipped with a double bed. None of the bedrooms have air conditioning but we are pleased to supply fans upon request – please ask before. There are two bathrooms, one of them with shower cabin and the other one with bath tub.
The house has a rural and rustic atmosphere. Sit down and relax; the living area offers you a comfortable sofa to read a good book, watch television (Satellite TV) or just take a nap. Of course the living area also counts with a chimney for chilly nights. The dining area shares space with the living room. There is a table with seats for up to six people. The independent kitchen is fully equipped. There are enough parking spaces for up to 3 cars in front of the house, but they are not covered. Pets are welcome!
For your garden parties there is a BBQ and a table with seats on the terrace. Take a refreshing dip in the pool or just relax while your children are playing in the garden. The lawn has a size of about 50m2. The private pool has a size of 9 meters x 4 meters. Sure you will enjoy sunbathing by the pool on one of the sunloungers - the perfect place for all the sun lovers, who are searching for a quiet and private place to enjoy the Majorcan sun. From the terrace you will enjoy nice views over the countryside up to the mountains.
The plot has 1500 m2 and has been used for decades for agricultural purposes. The former owners were farmers and still you can see some remainders of this activity. Close to the house you will find sheeps, rabbits, hens, etc and a wide variety of trees, mostly almond trees.
About 2.5 kilometers far from the house, you will find the city of Inca. There you will find gas stations, a hospital, pharmacies, lots of restaurants and shops, supermarkets, etc.
When you leave Inca heading to Lluc you will pass by Selva and afterwards go into a valley, there lays the village of Caimari. There you will find some bars with a good atmosphere, especially during the night from the 16th to the 17th of august (during these dates take place the annual celebrations of the village). The town is famous for its good olive oil, which is elaborated there. At the olive mill "La Tafona" you can see all the process of making olive oil; furthermore they have a good restaurant.
The next beaches are situated in Puerto de Pollença and Puerto de Alcúdia. You will reach them in less than half an hour. In the west of the island you will find the magnificent mountain range of the Serra de Tramuntana with lots of nice spots. Very famous is the small bay "La Calobra".
NOTE: The rental of this property is based on the Spanish Law on Urban Leases (29/1994, 24th November). According this law the property is available for seasonal renting. However, the contract does not offer any tourist service. It is only for the use and enjoyment of the property.
Airport: 36 Km
Inca (restaurants, bank, doctor, ATM…): 2.5 Km
Beach: 34 Km
Train station: 2.9 Km
House rulesCheck-in: 4 pm
Check-out: 10 am
Very late check-in (from 24 pm) has an extra cost of 50 €
damage deposit: 300 EUR (will be returned cash on your departure day)
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A very great, detailed and tastefully furnished Finca. Nice owner, great stay. Many Thanks
Eine sehr tolle, detailreiche und geschmackvoll eingerichtete Finca. Nette Vermieter, toller Aufenthalt. Vielen Dank
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Very nice hotel, well equipped and quiet, but not far to the center of Cala Ratjada and the sandy beach of Cala Agulla and Cala Gat. Overall, everything is as described. We could complain about anything negative during our stay and this property will definitely recommend it.
Sehr schöne Unterkunft, super ausgestattet und ruhig gelegen, jedoch nicht weit bis ins Zentrum von Cala Ratjada sowie zum Sandstrand Cala Agulla und der Bucht Cala Gat. Insgesamt ist alles wie beschrieben. Wir konnten bei unserem Aufenthalt nichts negatives bemängeln und werden diese Unterkunft definitv weiterempfehlen.
Nice place to stay, centrally located.
A shower had only cold water and air conditioning
was defective.
Schöne Unterkunft,zentral gelegen.
Eine Dusche hatte nur kaltes Wasser und eine Klimaanlage
war defekt.
Very nice, well-kept house / garden. Ideal for families with children as the property is completely closed. There is a very large stone slabs space - ideal for playing. The house is situated in a cul de sac. Parking is moderately present. The neighbors friendly and quiet. The place is relaxed, very clean !!! and there are many Spanish citizens. A couple of very good restaurants, a grocery store with fresh fish / meat counter, hardware store, tobacco shop are available in town.
Sehr schönes, gepflegtes Haus/Garten. Ideal für Familien mit Kindern, da das Grundstück komplett geschlossen ist. Es gibt einen sehr grossen Steinplatten Platz - ideal zum Spielen. Das Haus liegt in einer Sackgasse. Parkplätze sind massig vorhanden. Die Nachbarn freundlich und ruhig. Der Ort ist entspannt, sehr sauber!!! und es gibt viele spanische Einwohner. Ein paar sehr gute Restaurants, ein Supermarkt mit Frisch-Fisch/Fleisch-Theke, Haushaltswarenladen, Tabakgeschäft sind im Ort vorhanden.
Very nice accommodation and property if you're looking pure relaxation. We loved it because it was exactly what we were looking for. But if you want every evening enjoy the nightlife, it is too far from it.
Sehr schöne Unterkunft und Anwesen wenn man die pure Entspannung sucht . Uns hat es super gefallen , weil es genau das war was Wir gesucht haben . Möchte man allerdings jeden Abend sich ins Nachtleben stürzen , liegt es zu weit ab davon .
Top, bathroom in need of improvement
Top, Badezimmer verbesserungswürdig
Hi first,
Thanks for the almost perfect Majorca stay (unfortunately 1day little sun, but otherwise 100% super :-)). The team of Silvia & Sabrina were very friendly and helpful. The Finca really great, everything clean and tidy and very nice, the owner is very accommodating and friendly. Think this property will once again be our home.
Only the last address specified by Wimdu itself was wrong, but a quick call to the team of Silvia and Sabrina and whoosh everything was ok.
Hallo erst Mal,
vielen Dank für den nahezu perfekten Mallorcaaufenthalt (leider 1Tag nur wenig Sonne, doch sonst 100% super :-) ). Das Team von Silvia & Sabrina waren sehr freundlich und hilfbereit. Die Finca echt super, alles sauber und ordentlich und sehr schön, der Besitzer sehr zuvorkommend und freundlich. Denke diese Finca wird wieder einmal unser Domizil werden.
Einzig die letzte Adressangabe von Wimdu selbst war falsch, doch ein kurzer Anruf beim Team von Silvia und Sabrina und schwups war alles wieder ok.
Very nice hotel with large grounds and pool. Hosts very friendly. Indealer starting point for excursions. Super description, so that we can find the accommodation. Has everything worked out great. Many Thanks!
Sehr schöne Unterkunft mit großem Grundstück und Pool. Gastgeber sehr freundlich. Indealer Ausgangsort für Exkursionen. Super Beschreibung, damit wir die Unterkunft finden. Hat alles super geklappt. Vielen Dank!
Fantastic house, centrally located on Mallorca! Super well maintained and fine owners who immediately make you feel at home. The kitchen was stocked with some groceries so you can first recover from the flight. Home is also very suitable for small children.
Fantastisch huis, centraal gelegen op Mallorca! Super goed onderhouden en fijne eigenaren die meteen zorgen dat je thuis voelt. De keuken was al gevuld met wat boodschappen zodat je eerst even kunt bijkomen van de vlucht. Huis is ook zeer geschikt voor kleine kindjes.
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Originally Posted by nycsportzfan
I would tend to agree ... we just don't trade generally speaking.
It drives me crazy that they dont.
Originally Posted by TuckandRolle
Already heard reports Mathieu won't make it past 3rd round, but 2nd more likely.
I see him listed as a 6th round prospect.
That and we don't tend to like undersized corners (5'9) or people with off the field issues. If he's still there in the latter rounds, I could see the Giants taking the gamble (Reese usually has one project pick a year).
Originally Posted by Redeyejedi
It drives me crazy that they dont.
I wasn't so bothered by it in the past. I think it will really start to bug me if we carry that line of thought into the new CBA though. Draft day trading is going to be nuts this year (if last year was any indication).
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Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
Developer: Insomniac Games
Platform: PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system
Genre: Action
Players: 1-2 Players (console), 2-8 (Online, via Broadband Connection)
Peripherals: DUALSHOCK®2 analog controller, memory card (8MB)
(for PlayStation 2), Network Adaptor (Ethernet/Modem) (for PlayStation 2) or a network-ready PlayStation 2 system, USB Headset (for PlayStation 2, sold separately) or SOCOM headset
Launch Date: Fall 2005
Target Age: 13 +
Rating: "RP" for Rating Pending
Insomniac Games, creator of the seven million worldwide unit-selling Ratchet & Clank franchise, has developed a new, more dramatic and sophisticated adventure featuring the popular duo in Ratchet: Deadlocked™ . The team's fourth installment in the critically acclaimed series is slated to continue to innovate the series by incorporating co-op gameplay throughout both single-player and multiplayer story modes, as well as squad-based functionality.
In the latest installment, Ratchet and Clank are captured while investigating the disappearance of several famous heroes. The two discover that the missing heroes (including themselves) have been abducted by a deranged media mogul named Gleeman Vox, who intends to use them as contestants on an underground reality combat show.
It doesn't take Vox long to realize that Ratchet is the most promising contestant the show has ever seen. Vox subjects Ratchet to a series of deadly battles and elaborate games of death, much to the delight of the show's enormous audience. To keep himself and his friends alive, Ratchet has no choice but to participate in the games and keep driving up the show's ratings with spectacular victories – at least until he can figure out a way to break free from Vox's control and the explosive Deadlock collar around his neck.
Ratchet: Deadlocked features co-op gameplay both throughout single-player and multiplayer story mode.
Squad-based gameplay allows players to demolish the competition by commandeering their allied bots through critical and strategic battles. Each allied bot will have its own distinct personality, and a customization feature allows players to change body parts and textures.
A new weapons system provides players the ability to choose the way their weapon powers up (effects capabilities and functionality), allowing for thousands of mod combinations.
The game features non-linear gameplay, allowing players to not have to complete levels in chronological order to achieve success.
Featuring a new mission-structure approach, players will be rewarded with a constant progression of items such as weapons, armor and health.
With much of the combat taking place in battlefields and arenas, gameplay will be more tournament sports-oriented.
All single-player levels will also be available to players for the multiplayer game.


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Katie L. Burke
In this roundup, Katie Burke summarizes notable recent items about
scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in the free
electronic newsletter Sigma Xi SmartBrief. Online: https://www.smartbrief.com/sigmaxi/index.jsp
Global Map of Forest Changes
A publicly available, high-resolution map of forest cover—created by researchers at the University of Maryland, working with the Google Earth Engine—provides a powerful tool for forest researchers and environmental policy makers. The project was possible because the Landsat program opened its database of satellite imagery five years ago. The Maryland team knit together 654,178 Landsat images to show all the world's forests at a resolution of just 30 meters; it covers the period from 1999 to 2012 and will be updated annually going forward. The map's fine detail, combined with its broad spatial and temporal scope, will support local monitoring, regional comparisons of forest changes, and global measures of total forestation. By using Google Earth's cloud computing resources, the researchers were able to complete their data processing, which would have taken 15 years on a single computer, in days.
Hansen, M. C., et al. High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change. Science 342:850 (November 15)
Smart Material Has Memory
A new metal crystal, composed of zinc, gold, and copper, can efficiently switch back and forth between different arrangements of atoms depending on its temperature. It belongs to a family of smart materials called martensites. These materials are able to "remember" their previous shape and return to it after they are deformed, but previously developed versions accrued stresses during their shape changes and eventually degraded. A team from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, came up with the improved martensite, which is much more resilient. They cite a wide variety of potential applications, including efficient batteries, solar panels that change angle with the Sun's arc, and quieter jet engines.
Song, Y., X. Chen, V. Dabade, T. W. Shield, and R. D. James. Enhanced reversibility and unusual microstructure of a phase-transforming material. Nature 502:85 (October 3)
New Theory of Higgsogenesis
The discovery of the Higgs boson has inspired a new theory, called Higgsogenesis, that could account for both the existence of dark matter and the extreme rarity of antimatter. The Standard Model of physics predicts that every particle has an antiparticle, and the Higgs is no exception. According to Higgsogenesis, an asymmetry between the Higgs boson and its antiparticle could have triggered a corresponding asymmetry between matter and antimatter, explaining why matter dominates the universe. The Higgs boson could also link with dark matter, accounting for its observed abundance. Higgsogenesis predicts the existence of an undiscovered particle associated with those connections. When the Large Hadron Collider restarts in 2015 it could search for such particles by looking for missing energy when Higgs bosons decay.
Servant, G., and S. Tulin. Baryogenesis and dark matter through a Higgs asymmetry. Physical Review Letters 111:151601 (October 11)
Flowering Plants Arose Earlier
The earliest fossil traces of flowering plants were discovered in northern Switzerland—in strata 100 million years older than the time when such plants were long thought to have evolved. Six distinct pollen grain types were identified in sediment dated to the middle Triassic period, 245 million years ago. Previously, the earliest known flowering plant pollen grains were from the Early Cretaceous, around 150 million years back. The huge gap between those two sets of evidence leaves many questions about what happened in between. Further, the number of pollen types in the Swiss sample suggests that flowering plants were already rather diverse, implying they must have arisen even earlier. In terms of abundance, number of species, and extent, flowering plants are the most successful of all plants. No biologist yet understands how their phenomenal radiation took place.
Hochuli, P. A., and S. Feist-Burkhardt. Angiosperm-like pollen and Afropollis from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of the Germanic Basin (Northern Switzerland). Frontiers in Plant Science 4:1 (October 1)
Infertile Woman Gives Birth
A novel procedure allowed a 29-year-old woman to naturally conceive a baby boy, even though she had a fertility disorder that previously would have left her with egg donation as her only option. Approximately 1 percent of women of reproductive age share this disorder, called premature ovarian failure, in which eggs do not mature properly because of a faulty cell-signaling pathway. To treat it, a medical research team removed the ovaries of 27 test subjects and stimulated follicle growth in the lab; they then reattached the ovarian tissue to the patients' Fallopian tubes. Once an egg had matured, it was retrieved for in vitro fertilization. The new technique, called in vitro activation, produced follicle growth in 13 of the women, and mature eggs were retrieved from 5 of them. In addition to the one who already gave birth, another one of those five women is now pregnant. Millions of others could potentially benefit from the new treatment, but the researchers were criticized in the journal Nature for "clumsy" techniques and for rushing in vitro activation to human trials.
Kawamura, K., et al. Hippo signaling disruption and Akt stimulation of ovarian follicles for infertility treatment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 110:17474 (October 22)
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2014/1/in-the-news-49/1
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What happens when flat, smooth foundation is used? Does it work, or do the bees really need the hexagonal indentations to build upon?
What happens when flat, smooth foundation is used? Does it work, or do the bees really need the hexagonal indentations to build upon?
not sure where these ideas come from?
Not sure what they would do with a flat sheet of wax. I suspect they need the indentions to get started drawing it out at all.
If you want to let them draw out the comb with the sizes they want to build, you can just use a starter strip of foundation. That is a topic all to itself, and there are many threads about that on Beesource, if you are interested.
If you are just starting out, my personal opinion is that you should start with wax foundation.
It would be cheap and easy to make - just curious what would happen.
I'm in my second year, and just did my first harvest. So, I have some wax. I like the idea of foundationless frames and will explore that, but I figured that if I could easily make flat foundation, and it would work, then it would save the girls some work!
Through 120 Million years of evolution the bees have been getting along just fine, the last 100 years humans have come along wanting to fix what is not broken, and lend Nature a hand. I am not sure this will play out well in the end.
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I believe M Bush tried that. I believe that his conclusion was bee preference was. foundationless, embossed foundation. smooth foundation then the plastics at the lower end. I have also considered it but will not go with it for that reason.
Old Guy in Alabama
They will work it, but slowly. It is much faster to let them build foundationless. You are doing them no favors.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Try it and find out. Learn thru doing. Then let us know. I have no idea. But I can't imagine the work it took to come up w/ foundation mills and the milling process if there weren't some great advantage over a flat sheet of wax or no fouyndation at all.
Mark Berninghausen
Boldly go where others have gone before to rediscover old knowledge lost to modern man.
I used to do that myself sorta. When I worked at Colonial Williamsburg as an 18th Century Pit Sawyer and Carpenter. Using the tools of the times teaches one something which books just don't quite get across. The feel for something, the experiencing of it. I applaud your initiative. Don't forget to report your findings. So others can learn too.
Mark Berninghausen
Cheaper and easier to let them do all the work. Reuse your wax as candles.
> "Try it and find out. Learn thru doing. Then let us know."
> "Thanks, sqkcrk. I think I will try it - my curiosity usually makes me explore widely!"
You will probably have to set up an observation hive to come to an accurate conclusion that bees "reuse wax" in any form. So far I haven't read anything that they do; at least not to build fresh new comb in any useful amount.
> "If the bees are watched closely during the height of the honey harvest, or if at other times a colony of bees is fed heavily on sugar syrup for three days during warm weather, there will be found toward the end of the second or the third day little pearly discs of wax, somewhat resembling fish scales, protruding from between the rings of the under side of the body of the bee. These when examined with a magnifier reveal little wax scales of rare beauty. Sometimes these scales come so fast that they fall on the bottom-board and may be scraped up in considerable quantities, seeming for some reason not to have been wanted."<
> http://www.beesource.com/resources/e...about-beeswax/ But that was published in 1923.
> http://www.beesource.com/point-of-vi...of-honey-comb/
The whole process of wax secretion, collecting the scales with their legs, transferring it to their mouthparts, masticating it and forming it to make comb is instinctive. As far as flat foundation, I think the base of the cells is the most important crucial step for comb building because it provides for building cells on both sides. They will build burr comb for drone brood and honey on the flat surface of the top bars and other places, but the cells are always aligned horizontal with the plane of the surface; never vertical to it.
Last edited by Oldbee; 05-28-2012 at 08:20 AM.
Using a slim bit on the top of the frame would provide an excellent starter for foundationless drawing.
If they will draw off the junk plastic they can do it on the flat wax sheet.
I made this experiment last season ,very easy to make the sheets ,and the bees did use them ,but very slow even compared vith store bourght foundation.
I suspeckt they simply vere to smooth, maybe scatching up the surface would help.
I never made further investigations in this, because i "discovered" that a frame with a paintstick or just the frame ,was so much easyer and my bees fill out a frame very fast (12"*10" framesize).
I think if you had a roller that would work the wax it would make the wax softer and that I think is why they don't like the sheets so well, but it also may be other issues. I don't see any reason to use them since they draw comb perfectly well and much faster without them...
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
The main issue I've seen with flat sheets (from pics and vids) is bees start working in different spots and with no guide it just creates a mess when they try to come together and they've always been uneven or just clumps of random cells started here and there.


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We're still capturing swarms and performing extractions. (If its us or raid, we'll collect them even this late in the season). When I box a small colony, I give them a brood board with honey and brood to get started. But until they're settled in their new home, they seem to be unable to defend against ants.
I stopped using sidefeeders (I've renamed them Ant magnets) and went to entryway feeders, but the ants simply shifted their attetion to the comb. I built a platform with 4X4 legs and put tanglefoot around them , but the ants just keep sending troops until they can just walk over their dead to get to the box. I placed ant traps that have helped a little, but I want them all dead. I don't want to use powder that can be tracked into the hive and kill off my bees or contaminate their honey.
Is there anything on the market for this? A home remedy? Any ideas would be appreciated.


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FONTANA - Retail giant Walmart has filed preliminary plans for two Supercenters that would employ 600 people and bring much needed sales tax revenues to a city hardhit by the demise of redevelopment agencies and other state budgetary moves.
This early site plans are the beginning stages of a long process that could easily extend into 2016 - and beyond, city officials say.
"This is a very preliminary stage of submitting plans for review. Every city has its own process. Some cities take longer than others," said Delia Garcia, media director for Walmart West.
Walmart can complete construction of a Supercenter about a year after receiving all approvals, she said, adding that Walmart opens 125 Supercenters every year.
Don Williams, Fontana's community development director, said Walmart's initial preliminary application is "incomplete" and won't be evaluated until more information is provided.
The City Council will likely be briefed about Walmart's early next year, Williams said.
The 300 jobs in each of the two Fontana Walmart Supercenters would be "mostly fulltime" with "comprehensive and affordable" health insurance for both full- and parttime employees, Garcia said.
"We look forward to serving Fontana customers and offering one-stop convenience and affordable and convenient shopping," she said.
The plans call for one store to be located south of the 210 Freeway at Sierra Avenue.
The second store on Fontana's south side, is planned south of Interstate 10, near the intersection of Sierra and Slover avenues.
Recognizing that many people have objections to Walmarts - especially Supercenters - Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren said the two stores offer both sales tax and jobs to a Fontana community hit hard by recession and a city hurt by state grabs of its funding - including redevelopment.
And Fontana is losing tax dollars from residents driving to other cities for Walmart shopping.
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Walmart has been having informal discussions with the city for a while, and has purchased the land where they plan to build, she said.
The Supercenter at the southside location would be a 194,538-square-foot building on a 22-acre site with 869 parking spaces.
There would be three "outparcel" developments detached from the Walmart, which would contain a mixture of fast food, sit-down restarants and retail.
The Supercenter at the northside location would be 196,042 square feet on 27.4 acres, with 862 parking spaces.
The plans submitted by Walmart include seven "outparcel" developments to include a gas station, food and retail.
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Josh Withers was deeply disappointed that 'JG chose to hold an election on the day the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752'. Because Malcolm Turnbull was deeply disappointed that the PM chose to fire a long range shot into the Jewish community's plans for Yom Kippur. Leading to a very weird and kind of meshuggina bingle over whether observant Jews would be more put out than usual because every election day is held on Sabbath… and… and…
Oh God… Just. Make. It. Stop.
Or, as the venerable Dr Yobbo insisted, "Twitter I will need your full list of current/projected hash-tags for muting every trace of this pissant f…ing Australian election campaign". (I note he tweeted that in Full Yobbo mode, rather than as New Zealand's official representative to the Twunterverse, which is what he is all this week. God help them).
The initial reaction to the Orange Roughy's election news was all Veruca Salt. An online nation of spoiled little rich kids whining about having too much democracy and not enough of Wonka's tasty squirrel nuts.
If anybody had anything to complain about it's the press gallery, who might now have to do some real work rather than filing five months worth of election date speculation stories which could be cut and pasted from every election that ever there was before.
Indeed, before we get into this campaign, and we won't, not really, until the writs are filed, perhaps we of the media could make a pledge not to make the whole thing so effing tedious and pointless as the last time and the time before that and the time before that and whatever and ever amen.
A lot of what's awful about politics is your fault. Yes, you the punters, for not taking your civic responsibilities seriously enough. But it's our fault in the media when we don't give you the information to do that, instead serving up inanities like yesterday's epic derp about Gillard's 'hipster glasses', or treating seriously the brain farts of people like Turnbull when he's punking us with tweets about Yom Kippur. These trivialities shouldn't be reported. They should be mocked, and for the most part they are, but not by us. You have to turn to Josh Withers or Doc Yobbo for that.
Instead we're reporting the faff. And doing it at great trouble and expense, dispatching hundreds of reporters and producers and camera guys and soundos hither and yon to get eight or nine seconds of vision of Tony Abbott shoveling mud in a hi-vis waist coat, or Gillard tooling around in an Abrams tank and hipster glasses.
(Yes, yes I know that last one hasn't happened yet, but it will. Because of its defence cuts, the ALP has a serious national security problem this time around. Or rather, a serious national security image problem. So let the word go forth from this time and this place that this government stands ready to make any sacrifice and to pay any price in the defence of this realm by putting Hipster Jules into a tank or jet fighter for as long as it takes to get enough photos to make the whole tedious defence image problem thingy go away).
But here's the thing. We don't have to eff it up the way we do every bloody election. And by 'we' I do mean the media. We don't have to buy into the parties' micro-management of our responsibilities. There are any number of things we can do to get around that. As a first example some of the best, most in depth policy analysis is not being done on the Op Ed pages of our newspapers. It's to be found in the widely unread blogs of amateurs and obsessives who devote years of study to particular areas, and in the specialist online press which has long buried the mainstream media's coverage of their particular areas. They don't have a lock on specialist coverage, of course. Away from the Op Ed pages the mainstream media is more than capable of kicking arse. For instance, Fairfax's Asher Moses can write you a scarifying NBN story at whatever length you want. But he can't be everywhere. And he doesn't need to, because the tech media in Australia are more than capable of demolishing anything Conroy or … God… who is the Opposition communications spokesnut?
Anyway, point proved, right there. I shouldn't be writing about the NBN. Nor should Laurie Oakes or Annabel Crabb or anyone like them in anything other than the most general sense. They have other skills they should be applying to other things. There are people with much gnarlier more granular knowledge than us who will be doing the grunt work on policy detail and they should be getting a wider audience than they do. Rather than bitching and moaning about the bottom feeders on the web stealing all our best stuff we should seriously think about stealing theirs. Or, here's a radical suggestion, even paying them for it.
There's no reason we shouldn't be drawing on that resource rather than expecting the world from a couple of dozen gallery journos who are experts in nothing other than being Gallery journos. And there's no reason to turn to the Gallery to explain things that specialist in house reporters are much better suited to cover. Quick example, here's the same issues you've just been reading about getting a thorough working over at the Politically Homeless blog.
If we did this though, if we opted out of the supervised play days of conventional political reporting, would you even care? Or would you find something to whine about then too?


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I'd like to make a sweet elderberry mead.
I plan on using Shramm's sweet show mead recipe:
15 lbs honey
2 tsp nutrient
2 tsp energizer
water to 5 gal
Instead of Lalvin d-47 I have White Labs WLP720 and will make a 1 liter starter
I will ferment until bubbles slow and then rack on to fruit
Here's where I need some Help.
I have about 10 lbs frozen elderberries,de-stemmed.How much should I use?
I have heard about the "elderberry scum" that is imposible to remove.Some say caused by unripe fruit,others claim its from the bits of stem left on the berries.Any comments?
And that leads to the next question:
What form should the fruit be in? At first I was thinking mashed in a strainer bag but I do have a squeezo juicer with a berry screen.If I used just the juice,would that be better?I have used this method with raspberries with good results.
Is this enough honey to make a sweet mead?Original recipe calls for 15-18 lbs.Alcohol tolerence of WLP720 is 15%I think. I do not plan on using any sulphites.I would like some sweetness but still be able to appreciate the tartness of the elderberry.I am on unfamiliar ground here.
With this much honey,the OG will be quite high,off the scale of my brewwing hydrometer.Will I have a problem getting the fermentation going if I put all the honey in at once or should I start with less honey and then add more as fermentation slows?
This is kind of an afterthought:
In CT we have 2 flows.Late spring-early summer,a lighter honey and fall,Goldenrod and aster,a dark and flavorful honey.I could use either.