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Ok, we are almost ready to search, but we first need to get rid of the @ sign in the middle of the sequences.
Ok, we are almost ready to search, but we first need to get rid of the @ sign in the middle of the sequences.
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'| sed 's/\([AGCT]\)@\([AGCT]\)/\1\2/' | less
In the sed command the search and the replacement patterns are enclosed in forward slashes <tt>/</tt>.
In the sed command the search and the replacement patterns are enclosed in forward slashes <tt>/</tt>.
Revision as of 14:38, 21 August 2013
This session will be more challenging if you are still new to Unix. However, it's main aim is to demonstrate that Unix is much more than an environment in which you can execute big programmes like bwa or samtools. Rather, with it's suite of text searching, extraction and manipulation programmes, it is itself a powerful tool for the many small bioinformatic tasks that you will encounter during everyday work. This module expects that you have done the steps in the Basic Unix module, i. e. it expects that you have already created certain folders and have copied the example data into your account. There are still small (hopefully not large) bugs lurking in this protocol. Please help improve it by correcting those mistakes or adding comments to the talk page. Many thanks.
Before you start
Log into your iceberg account. On the head node iceberg1, type:
$ qrsh
Then change to the directory NGS_workshop, that you created in the Basic Unix module:
$ cd NGS_workshop/Unix_module
TASK 3: I have downloaded my illumina read data. Now I want to know how many reads my sequence run has yielded.
$ zless Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz $ zcat Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz | wc -l $ man wc
gives you the number of lines in your sequence file, which is the number of reads times four for fastq format. Note, you can usually avoid uncompressing data files, which saves disk space.
TASK 4: I have a .fastq file with raw sequences from a RAD library. How can I find out how many of the reads contain the correct sequence of the remainder of the restriction site?
Let's assume you had 5bp long barcode sequences incorporated into the single-end adapters, which should show up at the beginning of each sequence read. Let's also assume that you have used the restriction enzyme SbfI for the creation of the library, which has the following recognition sequence: CCTGCAGG . So the correct remainder of the restriction site that you expect to see after the 5bp barcode is TGCAGG. First have a look at your fastq file again:
$ zless -N Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz
Each sequence record contains four lines. The actual sequences are on the 2nd, 6th, 10th, 14th, 18th line and so on. The following can give you the count:
$ zcat Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz | perl -ne 'print unless ($.-2)%4;' | grep -c "^.....TGCAGG"
This is a pipeline which first uncompresses your sequence read file and pipes it into the perl command, which extracts only the DNA sequence part of each fastq record. $. in perl stands for the current line number,
%4 returns modulo 4 of the current line number minus 2 (the modulo operator returns 0 if the result of the division is an integer and 1 otherwise. Zero is equivalent to FALSE and 1 is equivalent to TRUE). If that results in a floating point number (non-interger), then the line is not printed out. Get it?
$ zcat Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz | perl -ne'print unless ($.-2)%4;' | less
Grep searches each line from the output of the
perl command for the regular expression given in quotation marks.
^ stands for the beginning of a line. A dot stands for any single character. There are five dots, because the barcodes are all 5 base pairs long. The
-c switch makes
grep return the number of lines in which it has found the search pattern at least once.
$ man grep $ man perlrun
$ zcat Unix_tut_sequences.fastq.gz | perl -ne'print unless ($.-2)%4;' | grep "^.....TGCAGG" | less
less, type:
then hit enter.
TASK 5: I have split my reads by barcode and I have quality filtered them. Now I want to know how many reads I have left from each (barcoded) individual. How can I find that out?
$ for file in *.fq; \ do echo -n "$file " >> retained; \ cat $file | perl -ne 'print unless ($.-2)%4;' | wc -l >> retained; \ done &
$ less retained
This bash
for loop goes sequentially over each file in the current directory which has the file ending .fq. It prints that file name to the output file retained. The
>> redirection character makes sure that all output is appended to the file retained. Otherwise only the output from the last command in the loop and from the last file in the list of files would be stored in the file retained. The ampersand
& at the end of the command line sends it into the background, which means you get your command line prompt back immediately while the process is running in the background.
TASK 6: I have 30 output files from a programme, but their names are not informative. I want to insert the keyword cleaned into their names? How can I do this?
Renaming files is a very common and important task. I'll show you a simple and fast way to do that. There are as always many ways to solve a task. First, you could type 30
mv commands → that's the fastest way to rename a single file but doing that 30 times is very tedious and error prone. Second, you could use a bash for
loop as above in combination with
echo and the substitution command
sed, like this:
$ for file in *.out; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's|^\(.*\)\(\.out\)$|\1_cleaned\2|'`; done
but that's a bit tricky if you are not using
sed every day. Note the two backticks characters: one before
echo, the other right before the last semicolon. Everything in backticks will be evaluated by
bash and then replaced by it's output. So in this case it's the modified file name that is provided as second argument to the
mv command. If you want to find out what the
sed command does, take a look at the beginning of this
sed tutorial.
The best way, however, to solve the task is by downloading the perl
rename script (note, this is not the system
rename command that comes with Unix, which has very limited capabilities), put it into a directory that is in your PATH (e. g. ~/prog) and make that text file executable with
You can download Larry Wall's
rename.pl script from here with
$ cd ~/src $ wget http://tips.webdesign10.com/files/rename.pl.txt
or use firefox if you are in an interactive session.
$ mv rename.pl.txt ~/prog/rename.pl
Note, this cut/pastes and renames at the same time.
$ ll ~/prog
Let's call the programme:
You should get Permission denied. That's because we first have to tell
bash that we permit its execution:
$ chmod u+x ~/prog/rename.pl $ man chmod
u stands for user (that's you) and
x stands for executable. Let's try again:
$ rename.pl
How to make the documentation in the script file visible?
$ cd ~/prog $ pod2man rename.pl > rename.pl.1 $ mv rename.pl.1 ~/man/man1
Then look at the documentation with:
$ man rename.pl
First let's create 30 empty files to rename:
$ cd $ mkdir test $ cd test $ for i in {1..30}; do touch test_$i.out; done $ ll
$ rename.pl -nv 's/^(.+)(\.out)/$1_cleaned$2/' *.out
You already know that bash expands *.out at the end of the command line into a list of all the file names in the current directory that end with .out. So the command does the renaming on all the 30 files we created. Let's look at the stuff in single quotes.
s turns on substitution, since we are substituting old file names with new file names. The forward slashes
/ separate the search and the replacement patterns. The search pattern begins with
^, which stands for the beginning of the file name. The dot stands for any single character. The
+ means one or more of the preceding character. So
.+ will capture everything from the beginning of the file name until .out. In the second pair of brackets we needed to escape the dot with a backslash to indicate that we mean dot in its literal sense. Otherwise, it would have been interpreted as representing any single character. Anything that matches the regular expressions in the brackets will be automatically saved, so that it can be called in the replacement pattern. Everything that matches the pattern in the first pair of brackets is saved to
$1, everything that matches the pattern in the second pair of brackets is saved to
$2. Fore more on regular expressions, look up:
$ man grep $ man perlrequick
TASK 7: I have got a text file originating from a Windows or an old Mac text editor. But when I open it in
less, all lines are concatenated into one line and with repeatedly the strange ^M character in it. How can I fix this?
$ cd ~/NGS_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_7 $ ll $ cat -v text_file_from_Windows.txt
Unix has only linefeeds, the old Mac's had only carriage returns and Windows uses both characters together to represent one return character. The following will remove the carriage return from the end of lines, leaving only linefeeds:
$ tr -d '\r' < text_file_from_Windows.txt > file_from_Windows_fixed.txt $ cat -v file_from_Windows_fixed.txt $ man tr
Note, most Unix programmes print their output to STDOUT, which is the screen. If you want to save the output, it needs to be redirected into a new file. Never redirect output back into the input file, like this:
$ tr -d '\r' < text_file_from_Windows.txt > text_file_from_Windows.txt $ cat text_file_from_Windows.txt
You've just clobbered your input file.
less text_file_from_Mac.txt
The old Mac text file has just one carriage return instead of a linefeed. That's why, all lines of the file are concatenated into one line. To fix this:
$ tr '\r' '\n' < text_file_from_Mac.txt > file_from_Mac_fixed.txt $ less file_from_Mac_fixed.txt
As usual there are several ways to achieve the same result:
$ sed 's/\r/\n/g' < text_file_from_Windows.txt > \ file_from_Windows_fixed.txt $ dos2unix text_file_from_Windows.txt $ mac2unix text_file_from_Mac.txt
The last two programmes are available on iceberg, but are not by default included in a Unix system. You would have to install them yourself. Note also, that
dos2unix and
mac2unix do in place editing, i. e. the old version will be overwritten by the new version.
TASK 8: I have just mapped my reads against the reference sequences and I got a BAM file for each individual. How can I find out the proportion of reads from each individual that got mapped successfully?
Note: it seems that the
samtools view command should be able to do that with the
-f and
-c switches. However, in my trials it only returned the total number of reads in the BAM file, i .e including those that did not get mapped. Fortunately, this is a really easy Unix task. First let's have a look at the .bam file:
$ cd ~/NGS_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_8 $ samtools view alignment.bam | less
If that fits on your screen without line wrapping ... lucky bastard! If not, just turn off line wrapping in
$ samtools view alignment.bam | less -S
The second column contains a numerical flag which indicates the result of the mapping for that read. The flag 0 stands for a successful mapping of the read. So in order to get the number of reads that got mapped successfully we need to count the number of lines with zeros in their second column. Let's cut out the second column of the tab delimited .bam file:
$ samtools view alignment.bam | cut -f 2 | less $ man cut
Next, we have to sort this column numerically in order to collapse it into unique numbers:
$ samtools view alignment.bam | cut -f 2 | sort -n | uniq -c $ man sort
With the
-c switch to
uniq the output is a contingency table of the flags from column 2 that can be found in your alignment file. However, some reads with a 0 flag in the second column still have a mapping quality of 0 (don't ask me why), which is in the 5th column. So, in order to get a count of the number of reads that got mapped successfully with a mapping quality above 0, use
$ samtools view alignment.bam | awk '$2==0 && $5>0' | wc -l $ man awk
Gawk is the GNU version of
awk. Macs get only shipped with
awk. Both are almost identical except that
awk can't handle large files.
$2 stands for the content in the second column,
$5 for the fifth and
&& means logical AND.
Awk prints only those lines to output which match our conditions. We then simply count those lines.
TASK 9: I have got a big multi-fasta file with thousands of sequences. How can I extract only those fasta records whose sequences contain at least 3 consecutive repeats of the dinucleotide AG?
Believe it or not, this task can be solved with a combination of Unix commands, i. e. no programming is required. Let's approach the task step by step. First have a look at the input file:
$ cd ~/NGS_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_9 $ less multi_fasta.fa
We could just use the programme
grep to search each line of the fasta file for our pattern (i. e. 3 consecutive AG), but since
grep is line based we would lose the fasta headers and some part of the sequence in the process. So, we somehow have to get the fasta headers and their corresponding sequences on the same line.
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | less
Everything is on one line now (but don't do this with really large files as this causes the whole file to be read into memory).
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | less
Note the
g at the end of the
sed command, which stands for global. With the global option
sed does the replacement for every occurrence of a search pattern in a line, not just for the first.
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n' | less
Ok, we are almost ready to search, but we first need to get rid of the @ sign in the middle of the sequences.
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'| sed 's/\([AGCT]\)@\([AGCT]\)/\1\2/' | less
In the
sed command the search and the replacement patterns are enclosed in forward slashes /.
Anything that matches the pattern between
\( and
\) will be stored by
sed and can be called again in the replacement pattern. The square brackets
[ ] mean match any one character that is enclosed by them. In the replacement pattern
\1 stands for the base before the @ sign,
\2 stands for the base after the @ sign. Finally, let's search for the microsats:
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'| | \ sed 's/\([AGCT]\)@\([AGCT]\)/\1\2/' | egrep "@.*(AG){3,}.*@" | less
Note the use of
egrep instead of just
grep for extended regular expressions. The search pattern is enclosed in quotations marks. Our sequences are delimited by @'s on each side. The dot stands for any single character. The asterisk
* means zero or more of the preceding character. So
.* could match exactly nothing or anything else. The
{3,} means 3 or more times the preceding character. Without the brackets around AG this would only refer to the the G in AG.
Now that we have all sequences with ≥3x AG microsats, let's get them back into fasta format again:
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'| | \ sed 's/\([AGCT]\)@\([AGCT]\)/\1\2/' | egrep "@.*(AG){5,}.*@" | \ tr '@' '\n' | less
And let's get rid of empty lines:
$ tr '\n' '@' < multi_fasta.fa | sed 's/>/#>/g' | tr '#' '\n'| | \ sed 's/\([AGCT]\)@\([AGCT]\)/\1\2/' | egrep "@.*(AG){3,}.*@" | \ tr '@' '\n' | grep -v "^$" > AGAGAG.fa
grep search pattern contains the regular expression symbols for the beginning and the end of the line with nothing in between → an empty line. The
-v switch inverts the matching.
Open AGAGAG.fa in
less, and type:
and hit Enter. Each sequence should have a highlighted match.
The syntax of regular expressions for
sed and
less (which are very similar) is one of the most useful things you can learn. The most flexible regular expressions, however, are provided by Perl. Finally, let's count how many sequences are in the output file:
$ grep -c "^>" AGAGAG.fa
TASK 10: I have a large table from the output of the programme stacks containing the condensed information for each reference tag. Each column is tab delimited. The first column contains the tag ids. Another column the reference sequence for the tag. How can I create a multi-fasta file from this table with the tag ids as fasta headers?
First, convince yourself that the table is actually tab delimited:
$ cd ~/NGS_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_10 $ cat -T stacks_output.tsv | less -S
Tabs will be replaced by ^I. In which column is the Consensus sequence of each tag? We want the Catalog ID as fasta header. Let's first extract the two columns we need:
$ cut -f 1,5 stacks_output.tsv | less
The first line of the output contains the column headers of the input table. We don't want them in the fasta file. So let's remove this line:
$ cut -f 1,5 stacks_output.tsv | tail -n +2 | less $ man tail
Now let's insert a > in front of the tag ids in order to mark them as the fasta headers.
$ cut -f 1,5 tacks_output.tsv | tail -n +2 | sed 's/\(.*\)/>\1/' | less
In the
sed command
\(.*\) captures a whole line, which we call in the replacement pattern with
\1. Finally we have to replace the tab that separates each header from its sequence by a return character in order to bring each sequence on the line below its header.
$ cut -f 1,5 tacks_output.tsv | tail -n +2 | sed 's/\(.*\)/>\1/' | \ tr '\t' '\n' | less
If you're satisfied with the result, then redirect the output of
tr into an output file. But what if you also wanted the multi fasta file to be sorted by tag id?
$ cut -f 1,5 tacks_output.tsv | tail -n +2 | sort -nk 1 | \
sed 's/\(.*\)/>\1/' | tr '\t' '\n' | less
With the
sort command we turn on numerical sort with
-n and the
-k switch lets us specify on which column the sorting should be done (by default, sort would use the whole line for sorting).
TASK 11: I want to map the reads from 96 individuals against a reference sequence (e. g. partial or full reference genome or transcriptome, etc.). A mapping programme takes one of the 96 input files and tries to find locations for each read in the reference sequence. How can I parallelise this task and thus get the job done in a fraction of the time?
Note, this task makes use of a computer cluster running the job scheduler SGE. It also requires that you have the mapping programme stampy installed in a location that is in your PATH. Check this with:
$ stampy
Current hardware in the Iceberg computer cluster:
SGE allows jobs to be submitted to the cluster of 96 Sun X2200s (each with 4 CPUs and 16GB memory) 31 Sun X2200s (each with 8 CPUs and 32GB memory and Infiniband) 96 Dell C6100 nodes (with 12 CPUs and 24GB memory and Infiniband)
… that's 96 × 4 + 31 × 8 + 96 × 12 = 1,784 CPU's !!! Let's try to use up to 96 of them at the same time.
$ cd ~/Genomics_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_11 $ ll ind_seqs
There are 96 fastq files with the reads from 96 individuals in this folder. All input files contain a number from 1 to 96 in their names. Otherwise, their names are identical. We now want to map the reads from those individuals against the reference_seq. We have already prepared a so-called array job submission script for you. Let's have a look at it.
$ nano array-job.sh
The lines starting with
#$ are specific to the SGE. The first requests 2 Gigabytes of memory. the second asks for slightly less than 1 hour to complete each task of the job. Any job or task taking less than 8 hours will be submitted to the short queue by the SGE and there is almost no waiting time for this queue. The next two lines specify that you get an email when each task has been begun and ended.
-j y saves STDERR and STDOUT from each task in one file. Change those two lines appropriately:
# tell the SGE where to find your executable export PATH=/usr/local/extras/Genomics/Applications/bin:$PATH
# change into the directory where the input files are cd /home/your_login_name/NGS_workshop/Unix_module/TASK_11/ind_seqs
The important line is the following:
#$ -t 1-96
This initialises 96 task ids, which we can call in the rest of the array job submission script with $SGE_TASK_ID.
stampy \ -g ../reference_seq \ -h ../reference_seq \ -M ind_$SGE_TASK_ID.fq \ -o ind_$SGE_TASK_ID.sam
This is the actual command line that executes
stampy, our mapping programme. The
-M switch to
stampy takes the input file, the
-o switch the output file name. Submitting this array job script to the SGE scheduler is equivalent to submitting 96 different job scripts, each with an explicit number instead of $SGE_TASK_ID. After exiting
nano let's submit the job.
$ qsub array_job.sh $ Qstat
This is the end of the advanced Unix session. If you've made it until here CONGRATULATIONS !!!
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syrian rebels on Sunday released four Filipino U.N. peacekeepers they abducted last week in a dramatic incident that prompted warnings from the Philippines that the nation could pull out its contingent from the Golan Heights.
Meanwhile, a Syrian official said President Bashar Assad's troops have the right to enter the Israeli-occupied Golan whenever they wish -- a veiled threat at Israel to stay out of Syria's conflict.
Also Sunday, Damascus rejected Turkey's allegations that Syria was behind two car bombings that killed 46 people in Turkey and wounded dozens more the day before.
The four Filipinos, seized Tuesday, were apparently unharmed, but will undergo a medical checkup and stress debriefing, said Brig. Gen. Domingo Tutaan.
A statement issued by the rebel group holding the peacekeepers -- the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade -- said the four were handed over to a U.N. delegation in the border area on Sunday, but provided no other details.
The peacekeepers are part of a U.N. contingent that patrols a buffer zone between Syria and the Golan Heights, a plateau Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
It was the second abduction of Filipino peacekeepers since March, when 21 were held for three days by rebels fighting the regime of Assad.
The Philippine foreign secretary has said he would recommend withdrawing Filipinos from the peacekeeping contingent in Syria, but the final decision is up to the country's president.
Nearly 1,000 U.N. peacekeepers are patrolling the Golan Heights. Other major contributors are India and Austria. Croatia has recently withdrawn its contingent.
The buffer zone had been largely quiet for four decades, but tensions have risen there since the outbreak of the revolt in Syria more than two years ago.
In Damascus, Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told a news conference on Sunday that Syria has the right to enter the Golan Heights.
"The Golan is Syrian Arab territory and will remain so even if the Israeli army is stationed there. We have the right to go in and out of it whenever we want and however we please," he said.
His comments came in response to last week's Israeli airstrikes on Syria which Israeli officials say targeted advanced Iranian missiles intended for Hezbollah.
The strikes marked a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in the Syrian civil war and raised fears that a conflict that has repeatedly spilled over Syria's borders in the past 26 months could turn into a full-fledged regional war.
Syria has threatened to retaliate but the official response was relatively mute.
"Israel should understand that the Syrian skies are not a picnic for anyone," al-Zoubi warned, adding that Syria would retaliate.
"We are a people who do not forget to retaliate against those who commit aggression against us, and we do not forget our martyrs or those who killed them."
Assad's regime might be reluctant to open a new front against Israel with his army already stretched thin in the deadlocked fight with the rebels.
But he has a history of operating through proxies, such as the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group or radical Syrian-based Palestinian factions who can potentially launch attacks on Israel from the Golan.
The Syrian uprising escalated into a civil war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions of Syrians so far. The two sides have been largely deadlocked on the battlefield.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that closely monitors the fighting in Syria, said in a statement Sunday that more than 80,000 people -- nearly half of them civilians -- have been killed in Syria's conflict since March 2011.
The Syrian government does not release official figures for casualties in the country's civil war. In February, the U.N. estimated that around 70,000 have died.
In the latest violence in the capital, Damascus, six mortar shells struck a neighborhood causing damage and casualties, a Syrian official said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to brief reporters.
The mortars hit the predominantly Alawite district of Mazzeh 86 during morning rush hour, he said. Sunday is the first day of the work week in Syria.
Alawites, including Assad, are followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and have dominated government under Assad family rule. Rebels and regime forces have been fighting in parts of Damascus, and have fired mortars at neighborhoods seen as pro-Assad.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, confirmed that mortars struck Mazzeh 86, but said it had no immediate reports of casualties.
On the bombings in Turkey, al-Zoubi said that "no one has the right to make false accusations." He said that "this is not the behavior" of the Syrian government.
Zoubi's comments were the first official Syrian response since Saturday's blasts in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, near Syria.
The bombings left 46 people dead and marked the biggest incident of violence across the border since the start of Syria's bloody civil war, raising fears of Turkey -- once one of Syria's top allies in the region -- being pulled deeper into the conflict.
The Syrian minister alleged that Turkey is responsible "for all that happened in Syria and what happened in Turkey yesterday," accusing Istanbul of facilitating the entry of "terrorists" to Syria.
The Syrian regime routinely describes rebels fighting to topple Assad as terrorists.
"The Turkish terrorist government is responsible for transforming the border areas into ... centers for international terrorism," he said.
Al-Zoubi also launched one of the harshest personal attacks on Turkey's prime minister by a Syrian official so far, demanding that Recep Tayyip Erdogan "step down as a killer and as a butcher."
In Egypt, a senior aide to President Mohammed Morsi said in remarks published Sunday that Egypt is seeking to find a negotiated solution for the Syrian crisis that would ensure the country's territorial integrity and prevent foreign intervention.
Essam el-Haddad, a presidential assistant on foreign affairs, said Egypt is developing its regional initiative and that representatives of the Damascus regime who have "no blood on their hands" must be approved by the opposition before they can sit with them and negotiate.
El-Haddad also said Egypt is coordinating with a joint U.S.-Russia initiative to convene an international conference that would bring Syria's regime figures and the opposition to the table.
Associated Press writer Sarah el-Deeb contributed to this report from Cairo, Egypt.


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- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Year Built 2007
- Free area shuttle
- Conference space size (feet) - 5673
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Bathrobes
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Ceiling fan
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Free weekday newspaper
- Desk
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- In-room massage available
- Free toiletries
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Free wired Internet
- Down comforter
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
Tavern N'Town - Offers Key West style and cuisine for breakfast and dinner. Features an open "theater kitchen" and a tapas bar.
Blue Bar - Located poolside. Offers casual menu for lunch and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
Spa Services
Poolside massages, pedicures, manicures, and in-room massages are available.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 7 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 19.5 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 19.5 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 29.5 per day
Hotel Name
- Beachside Hotel Key West
- Hotel Marriott Key West Beachside
- Key West Beachside Hotel
- Key West Beachside Marriott
- Key West Marriott Beachside
- Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel
- Key West Marriott Hotel
- Marriott Beachside
- Marriott Beachside Hotel
- Marriott Beachside Key West
- Marriott Key West
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Photo Gallery: Amazing Movie Interiors
Draw inspiration from our favourite films!
A Wall Street swindler's New York penthouse.
A team of amateur thieves believes Arthur Shaw, played by Alan Alda, has $20 million hidden in his posh penthouse. Tower Heist's (2011) set decorator Diane Lederman researched the most luxurious penthouses in the world to learn what the wealthy were displaying in their homes, and followed suit with her choices here. Prized art, delicate textiles and statement furniture pieces elevate this loft to suit a millionaire's style.
Out on Blu-ray February 21st!
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Edward Cullen's modern abode.
In Twilight: New Moon (2009), Robert Pattinson's character lives in this minimalist rural home, designed by architect Jeff Kovel. Located in Washington state, the home is lined with expansive windows that overlook dense forests. The extended kitchen island is both practical and sculptural, while wood floors offer warmth.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
The romantic sets of Anne Hathaway's Europe.
One Day (2011) takes viewers through enviable locales in Scotland, Paris and London. Above is Emma's (Hathaway) rustic apartment in Paris' trendy 11th arrondissement, where she spends time writing her first novel. We love the unfinished floors and two-toned walls and beams. Below, Emma and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) have a lovers' quarrel in London's Floridita restaurant.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Mid-century style in a baseball film.
Toronto International Film Festival front-liner Moneyball (2011) features a few interiors with mid-century modern looks, including this scene with the irresistible Brad Pitt on a Knoll-inspired sofa (above). The wood wall panelling and modern lamps complete the effect. Below, more casual sofas line the music store in a scene with his daughter.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Woody Allen wit meets Parisian charm.
Much of this summer's top date movie, Midnight in Paris (2011), was filmed in Paris' Le Bristol hotel. Stars like Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Marilyn Monroe have also stayed in their luxurious suites. Director Woody Allen had actors Rachel McAdams and Owen Wilson contemplate their differences in a scene on this red toile-covered bed. Toile du Jouy is the hotel's signature pattern, with each room decorated in the traditional fabric and 18th century-inspired furnishings. Below is one of their spacious bathrooms (another trademark) with marble-clad walls and countertops. For a more affordable touch of luxe, cover only one wall in marble.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Urban lofts abound in this NYC drama.
We couldn't help but notice the chic Manhattan apartments in the complex drama Last Night (2011). We absolutely love Joanna's (Keira Knightley) contemporary kitchen, but you'll have to see the movie for the full effect. Here she is sitting on the floor beside her stacked bookshelves. If your own shelves are too crowded, stack books neatly on the floor like the set decorator did here. Below, Joanna teeters on infidelity with never-quite-forgotten ex Alex (Guillaume Canet). Here the heavy, masculine furniture steals the scene, and check out the fragmented table in the foreground — gorgeous!
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
See the gilded accents of the 1930s.
The King's Speech (2010) won a few Oscars, and we think it's also worthy of a set design mention. Director Tom Hooper met the challenge of creating a 1930s period piece, with interiors reflecting the grandeur and luxury of the royal palace at the time. These subdued olive green walls are the perfect backdrop to the gold moulding and elaborate sculptures. And nothing says British royalty like a gold and white tea set.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Casual entertaining on the west coast.
Lynda Reeves loves this kitchen from the set of Nancy Meyers' film It's Complicated (2009 Universal). Along with an unfinished wood dining table, there's extra seating at the antique-looking island. The industrial pendant lights are similar to those used in H&H's 2009 Princess Margaret Hospital Showhome kitchen, and add to the casual feel of the space. Open shelving below the island provides storage for pots, pans, and often-used items.
For more on Lynda's favourite movie sets, read Lynda Reeves On Nancy Meyers' Movies.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
For more island inspiration, see our Kitchen Tables As Islands photo gallery.
British charm vs. American classic.
A Nancy Meyers' rom-com, The Holiday (2006) boasts both romantic cottage style when Amanda (Cameron Diaz) travels to England, and a clean-lined California aesthetic when Iris (Kate Winslet) travels west. If you haven't seen the movie already, you'll fall in love with the quaint cottage Amanda stays in (above). Tiny, yes, but full of hard-to-find gems like this bronzed clawfoot tub and cosy stone walls. In Los Angeles, Iris wakes up in Amanda's spacious bed, with a gorgeous lavender upholstered headboard.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Discover beachy Hamptons style.
Director Nancy Meyers hits the mark with the beautiful home in Something's Gotta Give (2003). Lynda Reeves drew inspiration from this Hamptons home for the 2010 Princess Margaret Hospital lottery showhome. The kitchen — the scene for many arguments between Erica (Diane Keaton) and Harry (Jack Nicholson) — has crisp white Shaker cabinetry, a subway-tiled backsplash and an antique-looking faucet for a casual, laid-back look. In the dining room, shelving backed with beadboard is the perfect spot for Erica to display old trays and dishes, all in summery neutrals. And how about these slipcovers?! They dress up the dining room, while staying true to the soft palette of the space.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
The bustling interior of Andrew Rossi's documentary.
An engaging documentary about one of the largest newspapers in the world, Page One (2011) provides a glimpse of the New York offices where it all happens. In a open-concept space with mostly white walls, a contemporary red staircase really stands out.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Norwegian winters call for cosy interiors.
A film set in rural Norway, Anne Sewitsky's Happy, Happy (2011 Sundance winner) is a moving film about living in isolation, geographically and emotionally. The sets are cosy and inviting, and we love the wall panels that reach all the way up to the ceiling, creating a cottage feel. Woven blinds and lamps placed around the room add even more warmth.
See more amazing movie interiors in our photo gallery.
Discover laid-back California style.
Director Lisa Cholodenko depicts a casual west-coast household in The Kids Are All Right (2010). An inviting sofa in a soft neutral sets the scene for many an honest conversation, and the floral throw pillows reveal some of the characters' sense of style. Below, an awkward welcome takes place in their bright entryway with white wainscotting and warm, almost beachy walls.
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They were part of the 1997 Birthday Rides organising team which took place during Leicestershire and Rutland CTC's centenary year and have organised and helped on events not only in Leicestershire but across the East Midlands with Jean organising the catering on many occasions. In December 2011 they organised the 60th annual Leicestershire Cyclists Carol Service as part of their local Charnwood CTC's Diamond Jubilee Year.
As officials they have served as secretary and assistant secretary of Charnwood CTC for the past 21 years, are long serving members of Leicestershire and Rutland CTC committee where Keith has served as both president and chairman, and are both members of the CTC East Midlands Region committee. They represent CTC and cycling at National Forest meetings.
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If you want the Truth, but refuse to investigate it because you are afraid of pain, how will you ever discover where the Truth lies?
The Lord Buddha succeeded in realizing the Truth by thoroughly investigating everything, not by whining about everything like this useless monk now disgracing himself. Where did the Buddha ever state that reaching a true understanding requires moaning and groaning?
I didn't study many books, so perhaps I missed it. Where in the suttas does it refer to moaning and groaning?
If any of you who are well versed in the scriptures comes across a passage where it states that the Buddha extolled the merits of moaning and groaning, please point it out to me. Then I won't have to teach monks to trouble themselves about investigating pain and putting up with difficulties.
You can all just moan and groan until the Truth arises to fill the whole universe. We can then witness the appearance of wise, sagacious individuals who have succeeded in reaching magga and phala by the power of their loud moans and groans. They will be in a position to question the legitimacy, and the current relevance, of the Dhamma that Lord Buddha proclaimed over 2,500 years ago.
The Dhamma of these latter-day sages will be a new, modern Dhamma whose attainment requires no troublesome investigations.
All that's required to attain magga and phala is a chorus of moaning and groaning, a method suited to an age when people prefer to seek righteous results from unrighteous causes – a pernicious attitude consuming the whole world today.
Before long there won't be enough room on the planet to hold all these modern-day sages. I myself have an old-fashioned mentality.
I trust what the Lord Buddha taught and dare not take any shortcuts. I am afraid that, as soon as I put a foot forward, I would fall flat on my face – and die there in disgrace. That would be immensely heartbreaking for me.
I need this reminder so very often. What about you? What dost thou thinkest?


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Williams appears to be a tweener. Not fast enough to play the 3 and not big enough to play the 4. I agree with BCC, wasting a 1st rounder chasing someone else's mistake is a waste of a pick. I don't see Williams ever fitting into a team build around a power post offense. Nothing in his play so far says he can either defend or play the type of game the Pacers play. No matter where he was drafted.
He kind of reminds me of Thad Young on Philly. You're right, he doesn't fit the power post offense the starters like to run, but there's nothing wrong with coming off the bench with a change-of-pace type of player.
Also, is there anybody the Pacers would be able to draft in the 11-20 range of the draft that we think would be able to give us more value? I guess we don't really know right now.
I don't really like Thad Young either, but he is better than Williams. Young at least can score and sorta defend. The undersized 4 is fool's gold in the NBA. It may get you thru the regular season, but come playoff time, you're .
The chance to get a guy that could be a good player for a million bucks a year seems worth more than a guy that makes $5 million buck a year and produces like a minimum salary player. If I was the Washington Wizards, taking a flyer on Willams might be a good idea. But the Pacers need guys that can produce for the money. They don't have that kind of cap space to waste on a project.
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there's no urgency on the part of the Magic for several reasons, according to a source. One: after a rough 5-10 start, Orlando has gone 6-3, a burst not coincidentally launched by a soul-satisfying win over former teammate Dwight Howard and the Lakers. If Redick is moved, it will be for a younger talent and/or a draft pick and the Magic wouldn't mind staying competitive for as long as they can this season. Two: as of right now, the potential suitors aren't anywhere near making their best offer. The likeliest trade partners: Chicago, Memphis, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Utah. The Bulls were interested in Redick as a FA and Memphis supposedly expressed recent interest. I haven't heard directly that Minnesota, Milwaukee and Utah have talked to Orlando but Redick fits their systems and/or fills a need.


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- BSO Case Number: 15-1306-001262
- PIO Number: 13-7-24
- Date: June 17, 2013
- Time: 5:10 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 8140 W. McNab Rd., North Lauderdale
- Jurisdiction: North Lauderdale
- Mischma Louissaint, 34, Pompano Beach
- Unidentified
Description of Incident:
A pricey unattended cell phone proves to be too much temptation for a shopper turned thief.
It happens to all of us at some point, we leave our phones at a restaurant, a doctor's office or a grocery store. It happened to 34 year old Mischma Louissaint from Pompano Beach, on June 17th, she left her new iPhone at the customer service desk of a Publix in North Lauderdale. Only minutes later, an opportunistic thief does a double take as she spots the tempting cell phone.
The unidentified female, who appeared to be in her early 20's, was captured on surveillance video making a purchase while accompanied by an unidentified male. As they made their way out of the store, the thief noticed the phone. After some initial second thoughts she ultimately found it too good to pass up and returned to grab the iPhone with a smile on her face.
Anyone with information is asked to contact BSO Detective Roger Jean at 954-722-5800 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
***MEDIA NOTE: A clear video of the incident is available for download from our website www.sheriff.org.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. Roger Jean, D15/CID
- THIS REPORT BY: Gina Carter/PIO 7/24/13 1330
Posted At: 07/24/2013 01:20 PM
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Oil rebounded on Friday, led by the biggest surge in gasoline futures this year as a string of refinery outages stoked concerns about fuel supplies in the heart of the U.S. summer driving season.
News of unexpected glitches at two more refineries along the Atlantic coast added to a string of issues this week across North America, adding more fuel to a 15 percent surge in gasoline this month, the biggest such gain since March 2011.
The focus on fuel supplies extends a rally that kicked off in U.S. crude markets as traders braced for tightening U.S. Midwest supplies. Data this week showing higher U.S. gasoline demand and a record drop in crude stocks stoked gains, pushing U.S. crude futures to their highest since March 2012 on Thursday.
"We're hearing about a lot of refining issues and this comes as oil prices came off that 15-month high," said Phil Flynn, analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago.
"Put it all together and I think you're seeing some panic buying by the wholesalers afraid they're going to run out of supply."
The gasoline gains helped revive the rally in crude prices, which had fallen on Thursday as traders took a breather. Brent crude for August rose $1.08 to settle at $108.81 a barrel, while U.S. crude settled up $1.04 at $105.95.
Both benchmarks continued to edge up in after-settlement trading.
RBOB gasoline futures jumped more than 12 cents in intraday trading. Front-month gasoline futures hit highs of $3.1455 per gallon before settling at $3.1175.
Until Thursday, U.S. crude had been outperforming Brent for nine of 10 sessions, narrowing Brent's premium to U.S. crude <CL-LCO1=R> to a 2-1/2 year-low of $1.32 at one point before widening back out to close at $2.82.
The spread settled today little-changed at $2.86.
Rallying RBOB and U.S. crude showed signs of being overbought. Front-month RBOB reached 76 on the Relative Strength Index, while U.S. crude rose to over 71. A reading over the 70 level signals a commodity has been overbought.
With strong demand in recent weeks, buying picked up on news of refinery problems, many around gasoline-making units that have been running overtime. U.S. refinery production last week was the highest in six years, data showed.
On the Atlantic Coast, large refineries in Philadelphia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland shut or slowed gasoline units due to unexpected glitches, specialist news publisher Energy News Today Inc. reported.
Valero Energy Corp said a gasoline-producing unit at its 290,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, would begin an orderly shutdown for work on Friday. The company could not estimate the duration of the shutdown.
On Thursday, BP was shutting one of two small crude distillation units for a planned overhaul at its 405,000 barrel per day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana refinery, according to sources familiar with the refinery's operations.
Supply concerns supported Brent after a report that North Sea oil output from the main British and Norwegian streams will fall by 6.6 percent in August from July due to seasonal maintenance. On Thursday, Shell Nigeria shut its Trans Niger pipeline due to a leak.
Lingering worries that violence in Egypt could disrupt supply through the Suez canal also helped underpin prices.
These factors outweighed concern about the demand outlook in China, while the prospect of growing non-OPEC supply offset lower inventories in the United States. Non-OPEC supply is set to grow at the fastest pace in decades next year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.


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The ABCs of XML, Part 4
This article provides more of what you need to know to survive in the world of connected data by identifying a few common problems you are likely to encounter transforming XML into other formats.
By John T. Sever, President, Cascade Controls
In the final installment of this series exploring the fundamentals of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and its partner tool, XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation), I'll identify a few common problems you are likely to encounter and provide practical XSLT samples for transforming XML into other formats that may be more convenient for your purposes.
Problem 1 – Why do I get extra text in my output?
Answer: Built-in Templates. XSLT beginners often find unwanted unstructured text outside carefully designed and highly structured output. The extra text is likely the result of the XSLT processor applying a built-in template. When <xsl:apply-templates> is invoked and no matching template is found in the stylesheet, the processor invokes a default built-in template that lives inside the processor.
The primary built-in template matches any element and then calls <xsl:apply-templates> passing the current element's child elements for further processing. This template gives XSLT its automatic recursive feature for all elements that have no explicit template in the transform.
The built-in template for text nodes (text between Element Open and Close tags) copies the text to the output. This built-in template causes great confusion if you don't understand the way the processor handles unmatched nodes.
You can easily see the results of this behavior by transforming an XML document with a stylesheet that contains no templates as shown here.
The ABCs of XML: Part I
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.
There are also built-in templates for comments and processing instructions that do absolutely nothing. Built-in templates have a lower priority than all other templates. Thus, you may override a built-in template by creating your own template.
To override the built-in template for text nodes, simply include the following template in your stylesheet.
<xsl:template match="text()"/>
If you have other templates for processing text nodes, their match patterns will be more specific than this pattern and will, therefore, be matched by the XSLT processor as having higher priority than this template. Add this one-line template to a blank stylesheet and see that it produces a blank output file—a great starting point when developing new transforms.
Problem 2 – None of my templates work when the XML file includes a default namespace.
Dealing with a default namespace can be a little tricky. Because the designers of XSLT decided that terseness is of minimal importance, XSLT is verbose and explicit in most cases, but default namespaces are uncharacteristically non-explicit and can result in confusion and frustration.
Remember that all elements in an XML document must belong to a namespace. In fact, there is no way to create an XML element that is not part of any namespace. This may seem confusing if you often work with XML documents that include no namespace declarations. Document elements with no declared namespace actually belong to a default null namespace and require no special namespace modifier in match patterns or XPath expressions. A non-null default namespace is one that does not include a namespace alias prefix. The following examples will illustrate this fine point.
In this sample, RecipeElement and OtherElements are included in the default null namespace and may be matched in XSLT expressions as RecipeElement or OtherElements, respectively.
In this sample, RecipeElement and its children (OtherElements) belong to the default namespace, urn:Rockwell/MasterRecipe because the namespace does not include a prefix after xmlns. These will no longer be matched by RecipeElement and OtherElements. To match these, the namespace must be declared with a prefix in the stylesheet; for example, xmlns:rs="urn:Rockwell/MasterRecipe".
Remember the value of this attribute must exactly match the namespace as it is declared in the XML file. It is case-sensitive. This declaration includes the prefix rs that may now be used for match expressions, such as rs:RecipeElement and rs:OtherElements, respectively. Remember that because the namespace is declared as a default namespace in the XML document, all child elements inherit from this same namespace, unless explicitly overridden by use of another namespace prefix.
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A woman with a history of violence against her neighbours has been given a community sentence for a fresh assault.
Amanda Jones, 33, of Hillside Road, Low Bentham, was found guilty after trial of disorderly behaviour towards her neighbours, Paul and Rachael Johnson, and of the separate assault by beating of Mrs Johnson.
Jones, a single mother, used threatening, abusive and insulting words towards Mr and Mrs Johnson in Hillside Road on August 13, and on October 7, she spat at Mrs Johnson while she was out with her teenage daughter in Main Street, Bentham.
On Friday, Skipton magistrates heard that Jones had two previous convictions for assault against neighbours while living in Ingleton and had received a binding over order following her conduct in a bank in Lancaster.
Magistrates sentenced her to a 12-month community order with supervision and ordered her to pay a total of £400 in costs, including £50 in compensation to Mrs Johnson, and a £50 forfeit for breach of the bind over.
An application by the prosecution for a restraining order was turned down by magistrates after it was pointed out they lived in joined properties and their children played together.
In mitigation, Keith Blackwell said there had been no incident between the neighbours since October and suggested that a restraining order would be setting her up to fail.


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Topic: Lauren's MRI results.
My daughter, Kristen took a peek at Lauren's MRI results from yesterday. Lauren had shrinkage of all tumors, but one and it only increased a tiny bit. Same as the CT she had last month. Yay!! Her surgeon wanted a better look at things from an MRI. So we shall see what the future holds. Hopefully good things.
My comments, suggestions, and opinions are based on my experience as a caretaker for my daughter, Lauren and from reading anything I can get my hands on about Cholangiocarcinoma. Please consult a physician for professional guidance.


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tdown12 5 years ago
He started 11 times at SS from what I can see in 2012. Should that be added 2013?
FleaMod Admin 5 years ago
Prado falls under Rule 5 here. He is among a very small handful of players that gained/lost eligibility manually at a position in February:
ZCyclone 5 years ago
Mark Reynolds - 15 games at 3B, has 3B eligibility
Kyle Seager - 14 games started at 2B, has 2B eligibility
Michael Young - 16 games at 2B, has 2B eligibility
How are these different than Prado. What portion of Rule 5 is applied to Prado that is not applied here?
oshcrazi 5 years ago
That question definitely needs to be answered with a specific citation on why he differs from everyone else.
FleaMod Admin 5 years ago
We responded to the parties through e-mail. It won't be re-looked at this year. These changes were made in January. Prado will not be playing SS at all this year for the Braves as of now, with the others leaving the door open. It applies to the applicable above rule. It won't be addressed through the boards as our positional staff (which has a tough job doing this as well) is the one who makes these changes and can respond through e-mail at fleaflicker.com -- please contact them there for further information here. Here are some links they looked into with Prado, while the door is still open for the other players.
fangraphs.com (read the blurb on Prado)... The manual changes we made were done well before the season and applied to Prado, Victor Martinez and Matt Harvey and Cubs' prospect Javier Baez.
Again, there is nothing more we can do for you here on the forums regarding these players, but we can try and address further through e-mail.
ZCyclone 4 years ago
Prado doesn't even play for the Braves anymore (way to stay on the ball with that one) and still has the skill set to possibly cover SS for Arizona this year. Not sure if someone on FF staff got lost a league from Prado covering SS or something, but this is pretty ridiculous singling-out of a single player who met the rules set. I appreciate the quick feedback your staff gave, but am really disappointed in how this decision was made.
Here's hoping that the diamondbacks have SS injuries and Prado covers 10+ games at the position.
FleaMod Admin 4 years ago
Changes were made to him before the Towers trade (we changed three players by hand in early January (usually we always do this the first week). We don't look at case-by-case individuals thereafter unless extreme.
Those changing that apply to the rule exception are done very early in January when he was a Brave, to stay away from drafting ambiguity, or the only other exception would be a Cuban defector not even in the database at all (like Cespedes in 2012).
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My summer staycation outdoor speaker project. Part 2 -- Planning the install
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In my first post in my outdoor speaker project series I talked about the gear I'd need to get my project for adding outdoor speakers to my deck off the ground. Now I'll take a look at how I'm planning the installation.
In any home remodeling or improvement project, it's important to take some time at the beginning of the project and sketch out what you want to do. This helps you ensure that you'll have the right materials and the right tools to do the job correctly, and to plan out the work so that you can do it in the minimum amount of time. In the case of my project there are four key parts to the project. Let's take a look at each part.
Part 1 — Wiring inside the house
Inside, I'll be installing a Niles® Audio 4-post wall outlet with speaker terminals behind my stereo cabinet, which is located in a corner of the living room see image at right). This way I can easily connect or disconnect the stereo's "B" speaker outputs to the outdoor speakers with a minimum of hassle. It'll also be a lot cleaner installation than simply running lengths of speaker wire through the walls to the outside.
Part 2 — Outside wiring
Since the stereo is on the opposite side of the house, I don't want to try running the speaker wire through the walls of the house to the deck in the rear. I'll bring the wires outside at the front of the house, (below) and then run them around the side to the deck.
As you can see from the photo below, the only real obstacle along the way is the brick chimney. Here I plan on dropping the wires to ground level so they're not too obtrusive. Everywhere else I'll paint the wires after I install them so they won't be noticeable.
Part 3 — The volume control
The volume control is a key feature of the installation. I don't have to have it, but otherwise it'd be necessary to go inside each time I want to turn up (or turn down) the music. I'll mount the volume control to the right of the downspout so it's out of the way, and run the wires up to it through a length of PVC pipe that I'll paint to match the exterior of the house. In the picture below you can see the drainpipe on the corner of the house. I'll place the volume control to the right of the drainpipe, about four feet up from the surface of the deck.
Part 4 — The speakers
The roof's overhang presents the perfect place to mount the speakers. As you can see in the picture below, they'll be well protected from the elements here. Even though the speakers are built for outdoor use, I'll feel more comfortable if they have some protection from heavy rain, snow, ice, and lots of direct sunlight. At this point I'm not certain about the exact locations I'll use, but since the speakers will be the last thing I put up, I'll be able to experiment a bit with different speaker positions at the end of the job.
Next time I check in, I'll update the steps of the installation.


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Starring Twilight's Kirsten Stewart as the title character Snow White, Thor's Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, and Prometheus' Charlize Theron as the evil queen Ravenna, Snow White & the Huntsman provides moviegoers with a new look at the classic tale retold for a modern film audience who's grown up on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Twilight film series. And while Snow White & the Huntsman maybe isn't completely original, it's at least entertaining and fun.
The film's storyline is well known as are the characters: a queen longs for a daughter and is given Snow White, the fairest in all the land. Sadly, her mother dies and her father the King remarries. Her new, evil step-mother is jealous of the young princess' beauty and, following the King's death, takes over the land, declares herself ruler of all, and seeks to kill Snow White. Now this is where the various versions of the story begin to differ and Snow White & the Huntsman too differs from the other versions as the Huntsman here isn't a loyal servant of the queen, but a drunkard widower and ex-soldier who's lost everything and seeks only to live a life of solace...when he's not in a bar fight. Likewise, Snow White is seeking to simply stay alive as a prisoner of the evil queen. Of course, when the queen learns she can have immortality by consuming Snow White's life force, the young princess is marked for death, but not before making her escape into the Enchanted Forest, where few have traveled and even fewer have survived.
This new adaptation of the classic finds audiences impressed during moments featuring gorgeous special effects, brought to you by the fine folks at Mill Visual Effects Studio, and a few moments of decent character development which provide insight into the life of the Huntsman and the Evil Queen Ravenna. Unfortunately, Kristen Stewart's acting is - at best - par for the course from this somewhat popular but less skilled actress. Likewise, other cast members, including Prince William's Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), are decent at best. The best acting in the film is from Theron, who plays the Evil Queen Ravenna with a malicious, angry, and sadistic fervor which seems nearly psychotic at times.
The dwarfs of course make their appearance and provide some fun moments as well, though unfortunately their parts are less the focus in Snow White & the Huntsman. Instead, the focus of this particular version of the story is on the somewhat strange relationship between the titular characters Snow White and the Huntsman. This isn't all bad, but the pair's chemistry on scene isn't as impressive as expected and seems forced at times, confusing at others, and even somewhat disturbing near the end. Some critics have criticized the film's script and pace, but the dry acting and odd character relationships is what makes this, for me, less than I'd imagined.
As for picture and sound quality, this is one thing Universal delivers. With a gorgeous 1080p hi-def transfer which provides plenty of contrast and awe-inspiring visuals, Snow White & the Huntsman looks and sounds great. The magical kingdom come to life, the effects are beautifully captured, and the colors pop off the screen. Director Rupert Sanders' retelling takes on a mysterious, bewitching, and haunting appearance - especially the Enchanted Forest - thanks to the special effects. There's no doubt fans of the fairy tale will love the way this film looks on blu-ray. As for audio, the film's DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround sound track provides an amazing mix filled with effects which put home viewers right in the middle of the film's action. Whispering winds, screeching dragons, cawing crows, shattering knights, and flying fairies and angry axemen dynamically come through the speakers and fill the soundstage. The dialogue too is clear and present, though seems slightly less pronounced than the effects, making it sometimes difficult to hear. Otherwise, the overall audio is excellent and well done.
As for special features, the blu-ray includes two versions of the film, a 127-minute theatrical cut and a 131-minute extended edition; an audio commentary with director Rupert Sanders, visual effects supervisor Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and co-editor Neil Smith, who speak to the film's development, casting, design, and more; the U-Control Picture in Picture supplement track, which provides short snippets of background and developer information throughout the film; the Second Screen Experience, which is a more in-depth behind-the-scenes experience for fans to have on their tablet or PC with the pocket BLU app; and the fun "Around the Kingdom: 360° Set Tour," which shows viewers around the film's various sets, including "King Magnus' Courtyard," "Village Near Castle Tabor," "Duke Hammond's Castle Encampment," "Queen Raveena's Throne Room" and "Queen Raveena's Mirror Room."
Other special features include the 21-minute "A New Legend is Born," which shows director Sanders, producer Joe Roth and cast and crew talking about specific details on the film's development and production; the short 6-minute "Reinventing the Fairy Tale," which explores the film's use of the classic fairy tale archtype and the original story by the Brothers Grimm; the 23-minute "Citizens of the Kingdom," a four-part featurette which focuses on the various characters, including "Fairest of Them All: Snow White," "Deliciously Evil: Queen Ravenna," "The Huntsman" and "Motley Crew: The Dwarves." Lastly, the 13-minute "The Magic of Snow White and the Huntsman" shows how the film's special effects were brought to life.
Overall, Snow White & the Huntsman, while impressive to look at and listen to, could be seen as a less than stellar success. What it lacked in pacing and acting it made up for in special effects, costume design, and character actors. The film made money and has even caused a sequel to enter pre-production. Of course, it's also go down in history as the movie that split up Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. All that aside, Snow White & the Huntsman will - for most moviegoers - make for an easily enjoyable and fun way to spend two hours.
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Value Picks at First, Third and DH
As Spring Training games begin, Value Picks shifts its attention towards position battles—like Cleveland's hot-corner tussle—along with fantasy implications of this week's news, which saw a major injury hit a minor player and a minor injury strike a major player.
Adrian Beltre was the victim of the minor injury, as his calf strain should keep him out for 10-14 days, although Jon Heyman tweeted yesterday that it's more like a month (the Rangers have since denied this). If Beltre does end up missing a big chunk of time, Michael Young's keeper owners should be pleased.
Assuming the Rangers stick to their plan of playing Young at designated hitter, he'll lose his last valuable positional eligibility next season, the final step down for a player who fell from an elite middle infielder to a well-regarded third baseman to a substandard designated hitter. Among starting designated hitters, Young's .266 TAv ranks him dead last, while his 16 home runs and.419 SLG rank tenth; among starting third basemen, his TAv ranks 17th, his SLG, 18th and his home runs, 14th.
But Young brings value in batting average: his PECOTA-projected .283 is fourth among designated hitters and second among third basemen. His Graphical Player 2011 mini-browser shows his consistent contact rate, which means he should meet or beat that PECOTA projection. A visit from the BABIP Fairy like he had in 2009 (.351 BABIP) would help him even further, and last season's .311 was his lowest since 2002, so he could be undervalued in your draft. However, unless Beltre's out for even longer, or Young gets traded, taking Young early in a keeper draft would be a mistake.
Mike Napoli would slide into Young's designated hitter role if Beltre lingers on the bench. Napoli's .280 TAv is seventh, and his .475 SLG third, among designated hitters, but he's a much better play in your catcher slot. Giving him another 200 or so PAs, about half in Arlington, could push his home run total over 30 and his RBI over 90, making him a top-notch fantasy catcher.
Andres Blanco could receive some extra time at third, too, but he won't bring much more than hollow batting average. An excellent contact hitter (12.1 percent strikeout rate in the minors, 11 percent in the majors), he garnered a mere .070 ISO in the minors and .072 in the majors. Though he collected 61 swipes in the minors, he's one-for-nine in stolen-base opportunities in the bigs. Some of that could be lack of practice—he's only been on base 170 times in the past five seasons—but I doubt he'll get the green light anytime soon. The slight bump in PAs he might receive in Beltre's absence won't leverage his one-category help much, so you can continue to ignore Blanco.
Last week's major injury to a minor player was Nick Punto's sports hernia, which will keep him out through May. That allows another utility player to make the Cardinals' roster, but most fantasy owners are more interested in the impact on David Freese. Punto was signed partly in case Freese remains less than Tastee this year, as he did in 2010, when his skills and playing time put him on my Value Picks list, but he soon underproduced his way off again. Still, those skills haven't changed: his 19 percent strikeout rate in the minors edged upwards to 21 percent last year, while a minor-league walk rate of nearly 10 percent became a still-respectable 7.8 percent in 2010.
What didn't appear was his power. Slugging .533 in the minors, Freese froze at .404 SLG in 2010. Some of this came from a the ugly ground ball rate and slightly unlucky HR ratio in his mini-browser, and some from the bone spurs that Freese recently revealed he'd had all season long. After offseason surgery on both ankles, Freese looks healthy going into 2011, though he's expected to be held out of the Cards' Spring Training opener, pointing to a slow start, so don't judge him by his Spring Training numbers. A small power surge is possible, but don't expect him to turn into a basepath burner—he hit 12 triples and swiped 13 bags in 1661 minor-league PAs.
Punto's pain gives Freese one final chance to show fantasy owners the skills they've been banking on, and he could come cheap in your draft. He's a solid NL-only option expected to return $13 ($1 in mixed leagues) in Marc Normandin's Third Base Rankings, making him a worth a late-round or low-dollar gamble.
Last, we look at the battle for the Indians' hot corner, a fight so tepid that it's more of a minor skirmish. Jayson Nix's PECOTA-projected .239 TAv and .238/.304/.406 only looks good next to Jason Donald's .236 TAv and .235/.302/.349 slash line.
Nix does two things well: defense and lefty mashing (.228/.295/.421 career, though that 75-point OPS split flattened to just 7 points in 2010). That gives him a touch of value in a fantasy platoon, but the splits are so meager that this strategy only makes sense in deep leagues. His career strikeout rate of 23.4 percent will suppress his batting average, and his patience slipped last year to career lows, further diminishing his returns. With only one category to help you in, he's worth just $6 in AL-only leagues but is nearly worthless in standard roto, even as a starter.
Some see the punch-less Donald as having an edge on Nix. Donald came up as a shortstop, but is now seen mostly as a utility infielder, with skills to match. He turned heads after slugging .497 in Double-A, but his best SLG since then was last season's .423 in Triple-A. Donald's speed could bring 5-10 swipes, depending on how much he plays, and there's reason for slight batting average optimism, thanks to minor-league ratios of 10.3 percent walk rate and 20 percent strikeout rate, though both slipped to the major-league levels in his mini-browser. With a chance to renew his semi-prospect luster, Donald could offer AL-only owners steals with a shred of upside, but he's just as likely to drag down your batting average.
Neither Nix nor Donald may be starting at the hot corner by the end of the season, since five-star prospect Lonnie Chisenhall is coming sooner rather than later. Cleveland has already said that Chisenhall will start the season in Triple-A (hardly a surprise, since he has yet to play at that level), but he should be in the bigs later this season. Keeper owners should take note, but that call-up is too far in the uncertain future to make Chisenhall a good draft pick in standard leagues.
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This may seem like a silly question, but is there no chance that Jared Goedert could wind up with the job?
Feb 28, 2011 07:44 AM
Not a silly question at all, though I think there's too much of a crowd for him right now to be more than an outside shot. From what I've read, he's probably going to need a full season at Triple-A to prove that he can be productive and healthy. Still, his strikeout and walk rates are comparable to either Jason or Jayson, and he did hit .261/.345/.538 in 81 games with Columbus last season.
Feb 28, 2011 11:16 AM
What do you think of Chris Heisey? Can he overtake Jonny Gomes in left for Cincy or is he stuck as a 4th outfielder?
Feb 28, 2011 12:27 PM
That's a good question, but Rob McQuown handles the outfield beat for Value Picks, so I'll refer this to him.
Feb 28, 2011 12:37 PM
Mets 2B?
Feb 28, 2011 14:01 PM
Dodgers OF?
Feb 28, 2011 14:01 PM
And that'd be Rob McQuown's Wednesday column. I'll let him know about this request, too.
Feb 28, 2011 19:29 PM
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Feb 28, 2011 20:00 PM
Travis Hafner and Shelley Duncan, is this a true platoon split at DH?
Feb 28, 2011 19:45 PM
I don't follow Cleveland closely, but I can't help believing that Cord Phelps has a real live chance this spring. Kid can hit, he plays both 2B and 3B and, well, as you imply, look at his competition. Besides, his name is Cord.
Mar 01, 2011 14:43 PM
He's got the baseball name, for sure--it's not Razor Shines, but it's still good--but I don't think he's got the experience yet. He split last season at Double-A and Triple-A, so he's likely back for more seasoning. He could be a midseason callup, but I think he'll start the year in the minors.
Mar 01, 2011 19:27 PM
I am Currently in a Keeper League where we keep 2 Hitters and 2 SP. We use 6x6 Runs, HR, RBI, SB, AVG and TB. I am having trouble in drafting a 3B and wanted to run something by you. Players being kept/taken before I pick will be Longoria, Wright, Zimmerman, Youk, Arod, Beltre. So this leaves me looking at Bautista, Prado, Young, Alvarez, Sandoval, Reynolds, Aramis. I am currently very shaky on Bautista especially since I feel id have to pick him in the 1st or 2nd round. (maybe take Dunn instead) I'm not feeling too high on Young considering his situation in Texas and feel like last year could have been Prado's career year. Was thinking maybe pass up on Bautista, Young, Prado and try to scoop up either Alvarez, Sandoval or Reynolds up late? Just wondering if you agree, or have any suggestions to how I should go about this. Thanks
Mar 02, 2011 14:26 PM
This is a tough call, as I'm sure you know. I would agree that Bautista will be overvalued, whereas Sandoval and Reynolds might be undervalued, which would make your strategy make sense. But you run the risk of passing up (and losing) the other talent, of course.
Mar 02, 2011 18:20 PM
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