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Stop and go: How the cell deals with transcriptional roadblocks
Gene transcription is central to cell function, as it converts the information stored in the DNA into RNA molecules of defined sequence, which then program protein synthesis. The enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is responsible for this genetic readout, but is prone to transcriptional arrest.
The biochemist Professor Patrick Cramer, Director of LMU's Genzentrum, and his research associate Dr. Alan Cheung have now shown for the first time and captured on film -- what happens when Pol II arrests at a "roadblock". They were even able to observe how transcript is reactivated. Reactivation of arrested transcriptional complexes is a normal part of the readout process, and is therefore of fundamental significance in all cells. Indeed, as Patrick Cramer points out, "It is also utilized to regulate gene activity in stem and tumor cells." (Nature online, 23 February 2011)
According to Patrick Cramer, "DNA itself is a silent molecule". It takes the enzyme RNA polymerase II to bring it to life. Pol II is the molecular machine that transcribes the genetic information encoded in the DNA into molecules of messenger RNA (mRNA). These in turn act as blueprints for the synthesis of proteins, whose structures are specified by the nucleotide sequences of the mRNAs. Since proteins, which include enzymes like Pol II, carry out most functions in cells, the process of transcription is essential for life.
Transcription is highly complex and easily perturbed. Misincorporated nucleotides and other errors are quite frequent and can cause the enzyme to arrest. In such a case, Pol II often moves in retrograde, sliding a short distance in the opposite direction along the DNA, so that the defect can be repaired. As soon as such proofreading takes place, the enzyme restarts. Sometimes, however, the enzyme moves too far backwards, and the RNA it has just synthesized gets jammed in a binding pocket.
This brings the transcription process to a complete halt, and Pol II then requires the transcription factor TFIIS to get it moving again. TFIIS alters the shape of the active center of the enzyme, so that the tangled stretch of RNA can be excised, and transcription then resumes, with Pol II synthesizing that segment again. Cramer and Cheung have dissected the mechanism of blockade and reactivation in molecular detail -- and recorded it on film.
Among other insights, it emerged that TFIIS not only displaces the trapped segment of mRNA, it also facilitates its excision. "This process occurs in all cells all the time, and is essential for their survival", says Cramer. "In addition, in higher organisms, it is utilized to regulate gene activity, particularly in stem cells and tumor cells. Pol II performs a central function in cells, and is therefore the focus of my research. My approach is increasingly influenced by systems biology, and aims to elucidate the transcriptional network of the cell and describe it in molecular and mechanistic terms".
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Doctors dropped from Ireland probe of woman who died after being denied abortion
DUBLINThe Irish government removed three doctors Tuesday from its investigation into the death of an ailing woman who was denied an abortion in an Irish hospital, a case that has exposed Ireland to worldwide criticism.
Prime Minister Enda Kenny told lawmakers he hoped the move - barely 24 hours after Ireland unveiled the seven-member panel - would allow the woman's widower to support the probe into why Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist, died Oct. 28 while hospitalized in Galway.
Kenny's U-turn came hours after her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, said he would refuse to talk to the investigators and would not consent to their viewing his wife's medical records because three of the Galway hospital's senior doctors had been appointed as investigators.
Kenny said that the three doctors would be replaced by other officials "who have no connection at all with University Hospital Galway. In that sense the investigation will be completely and utterly independent."
"A man's wife has died. Nothing will bring her back," Kenny said. "But it is important for our country, for our people, for the family, for everybody concerned to ascertain the truth of what happened here. And this investigation can hopefully do that with the cooperation of Mr. Halappanavar."
Halappanavar did not immediately respond to the prime minister's reversal. He previously also faulted the Irish probe on several points, because it would not be a public inquiry involving witnesses testifying under oath.
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One of the most prominent Latin-born performers of the pop era, singer/guitarist José Feliciano was born September 10, 1945, in Lares, Puerto Rico; the victim of congenital glaucoma, he was left permanently blind at birth. Five years later, he and his family moved to New York City's Spanish Harlem area; there Feliciano began learning the accordion, later taking up the guitar and making his first public appearance at the Bronx's El Teatro Puerto Rico at the age of nine. While in high school he became a fixture of the Greenwich Village coffeehouse circuit, eventually quitting school in 1962 in order to accept a permanent gig in Detroit; a contract with RCA followed a performance at New York's Gerde's Folk City, and within two years he appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. After bowing with the 1964 novelty single "Everybody Do the Click," he issued his flamenco-flavored debut LP The Voice and Guitar of Jose Feliciano, trailed early the next year by The Fantastic Feliciano.
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1. Put the played version of the mod in the Title in Brackets, like [4.9.8] oder [5.0.0], this helps by letting other players know which version they need in order to watch. This hasn't been a big issue for a while as no patches have been released, but now this might change so it's really a nice touch to be informative here
2. BK has various additions, which I bet will come back around even IF a new patch breaks them for a while (Afrika Addon for example). So plese specify if you have been playing with any of these enabled, as replays from addons won't work without them
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Calendar: JUNETEENTH: A Root (Route) Memory
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In celebration of "Juneteenth," PAMM collaborates with National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to host a screening of Papa Machete and H-2 Worker. A conversation between documentary filmmaker Stephanie Black; writer, musician, and filmmaker Jason Fitzroy Jeffers; Rhea L. Combs, supervisory curator of photography and film and the director of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA) at NMAAHC; and Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D., Museum Curator at NMAAHC will follow the screenings, touching upon questions of identity, colorism, labor, and geography's impact upon people across the African Diaspora.
The celebration of "Juneteenth" originated on June 19, 1865, when the enslaved people of Texas finally learned about their freedom—two years and six months after President Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation." Across the Diaspora, questions of identity, colorism, labor, and geography continue to impact people of African descent. This program offers a lens, from both an historical as well as a contemporary perspective, through which we can view how resistance, persistence, and self-determination have been the key to survival for people of African descent, and the basis for their achievements above and beyond geographical borders and external expectations. - Guest curator, Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking Film Series on behalf of NMAACH
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Papa Machete | 2014, Directed by Jonathan David Kane
Two hundred years ago, the slaves of Haiti defeated Napoleon's armies in the historic revolution of 1791-1804. One of their weapons was the very tool they used to work the land: the machete. Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art through the practice and life of a farmer named Alfred Avril. The short film documents his proud devotion to his heritage in the face of increased globalization, and his efforts to keep this mysterious art alive.
H-2 Worker | 1990, Directed by Stephanie Black
A controversial expose of the travesty of justice that takes place around the shores of Florida's Lake Okeechobee. There, for six months a year, over 10,000 Caribbean men are brought to hand-harvest sugarcane for American corporations under a temporary "H-2" guest worker visa.
About the speakers
Stephanie Black is a documentary filmmaker whose credits include the award-winning feature documentaries: LIFE AND DEBT (2001) on the impact international organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank, and current globalization policies have on the economies of developing nations such as Jamaica, W.I.; and H-2 WORKER (1990) about the ten thousand Caribbean men brought to Florida each year to harvest sugarcane for American corporations under a temporary "H-2" guest worker visa. H-2 WORKER won both the Best Documentary and Best Cinematography awards at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, and was the U.S. selection for the Critics Week at Cannes. AFRICA UNITE (2008) documents Bob Marley's 60th birthday celebration held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recognizing his lifelong dream for African unity. Black's television credits include a documentary on Whitney Houston for Lifetime TV (2012) and reality show "Being Bobby Brown" (2005) for Bravo TV, in addition to over 80 segments for Sesame Street, children's shorts for Nickelodeon, PBS's Zoom, and Cartoon Network's Big Bag series. She has produced and directed numerous music videos as well as a 30-minute documentary on the making of the Bob Marley tribute album, MAKING OF CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, etc. Black has taught documentary filmmaking at The School of Visual Arts, New York University and Y/FVA in New York City. Learn more about Black's films here.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a writer, musician, and filmmaker from Barbados who is based in Miami. Since 2001, Fitzroy Jeffers has written about everything from crime and politics to arts and entertainment for many of South Florida's major publications including The Miami Herald and Ocean Drive. In 2013, he assembled a crew of filmmakers to travel to Haiti to document one of the few remaining practitioners of the esoteric revolutionary martial art of Haitian machete fencing. The self-produced short film Papa Machete has been met with an outpouring of major press coverage from the likes of Gawker, the Associated Press and others. In 2014, Fitzroy Jeffers and his team mounted a successful Kickstarter campaign through which they raised money to build enough a new house for Alfred Avril, the Haitian farmer and fencing master who is the subject of Papa Machete, as his tiny home was damaged in the 2010 earthquake. Papa Machete world premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Fitzroy Jeffers's work in all of these fields is conducted through the Caribbean artist collective Third Horizon, which he recently founded to recognize the work of avant-garde Caribbean filmmakers, musicians, writers and artists who challenge popular notions of what Caribbean creativity encompasses. In 2014, Third Horizon was awarded funding by the Knight Foundation—one of the leading arts funding institutions in the United States—to stage the Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival in Miami in 2016. For more information, please visit: jasonfitzroy.com/ papamachete.com/ thirdhorizonmedia.com
Michelle Materre, guest curator for NMAAHC, is the founder, host, and producer of the critically-acclaimed Creatively Speaking Film Series. Creatively Speaking has been a premiere forum for presenting works by and about women and people of color for twenty-two years. Materre's professional background spans more than thirty years' experience as film producer, writer, arts administrator, distribution/marketing specialist, film programmer, and college professor. In February 2015, Creatively Speaking co-presented the unprecedented film series "Tell It Like it Is: Black Independents in NYC 1968-1986", with The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which was awarded the Film Heritage Award by the National Society of Film Critics. This year, another program she co-curated with BAMcinématek staff, One Way or Another: Black Women Filmmakers 1970-1991 received two amazing acknowledgements in the same month. First, Richard Brody, of The New Yorker Magazine, listed the program as "The Best Repertory Series of 2017" in his "Best Movies of 2017" end of year publication. In addition, the National Society of Film Critics honored us again with the "Film Heritage" Award of 2017 for this new program. She continues to hold a position as associate professor of media studies and film at The New School where she has been teaching since 2001, and is currently the Director of the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students. Materre is a current member of the Board of Directors of Women Make Movies, and a former member of the board of New York Women in Film and Television.
Rhea L. Combs is supervisory curator of photography and film and the director of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Combs' exhibitions and projects at NMAAHC include, Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture; Represent: Hip Hop Photography, Everyday Beauty: Images from the permanent Photography and Film Collection; Through the African American Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection of NMAAHC and Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College. Combs's essays have appeared in the museum's photography book series, Double Exposure, the Public Historian, numerous anthologies, academic journals, and exhibition catalogues on topics on African American female filmmakers, popular culture, photography and visual aesthetics. Combs has delivered lectures nationally and internationally on the power of the image, the history of African American image-makers, and black cinema.
Combs holds a PhD in American Studies with a concentration in Film History and African American Studies from Emory University; an MA from Cornell University; and a BA from Howard University. Prior to joining the museum, Combs was a photography curator at the advertising firm Weiden+Kennedy in Portland, Ore. Combs has curated film exhibitions for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the National Black Programming Consortium in New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, UK. She also worked as an assistant curator at Spelman Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, and as a public programs educator at the Chicago Historical Museum. She has taught courses on visual culture, film, pluralism, race and gender at Chicago State University, Lewis & Clark College, and Emory University.
Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D. is a Museum Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with interests and expertise in African American and Afro-Caribbean diaspora material and expressive culture and black immigrant American communities. She is the curator of the Cultural Expressions inaugural exhibition and co-curator of A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture inaugural exhibit for the NMAAHC. She began her museum career in 2004 as the Folklife Curator at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, where she researched and presented programs and exhibitions on Miami's multi-ethnic communities. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, she was the Chief Curator at HistoryMiami Museum from 2008 to 2013, where she curated, among others, the exhibitions Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami, Haitian Community Arts, and Black Freedom in Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Miami, an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in English and Afro American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.


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Recoil Games creative director Burt Kane puts a lot of himself into his work, and that's partly the reason why Rochard's title character is so different from your usual video game heroes. He's no black-ops guy. He doesn't come armed with enough weapons for a small army. He's no ladies man by any standards.
In this sci-fi adventure, John Rochard is a blue-collar guy working for an astro mining company. Unfortunately, his crew has had no luck in finding the elusive mineral turbinium. In fact, they're doing so poorly that they could be shut down at any moment, but things change once they stumble upon an alien structure buried in one of the asteroids they're digging through.
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On the one hand this invites to a very active, lively driving style, on the other hand, grip and safety are certainly given. // he Meta AM 29 was surprisingly quiet
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – After a search that lasted for more than 10 hours, Volusia County deputies say they arrested a convicted sexual predator in New Smyrna Beach late Wednesday.
Luis Alberto Hernandez DeJesus, 31, was in handcuffs and broke free from deputies, taking off running before jumping into the river behind the Mullinax Ford dealership on North Dixie Freeway at 2 p.m.
Deputies were trying to arrest DeJesus on charges of moving without notifying authorities of his new address when he escaped.
The manhunt for Dejesus was scaled down late Wednesday night but deputies say he was found and arrested just after 11 o'clock.
According to deputies two tipsters help them locate DeJesus. At 10:30 p.m. a caller reported seeing a man who looked suspicious running without a shirt and with his hands close in front of him. Deputies later attributed that to his handcuffs.
Deputies converged on the area near Blackbeard's Inn on North Dixie Freeway, but DeJesus had made it a little further, they said. Another tipster reported him running along railroad tracks. Investigators found DeJesus along the railroad tracks at 10th Street in Edgewater, about 4 miles from where he initially escaped.
A deputy was injured in the initial escape, suffering cuts and bruises, but the Sheriff's Office says the injuries are not life threatening.
DeJesus moved into the New Smyrna Beach area from North Florida and hadn't checked in and registered with the sheriff's office, according to investigators. State law says registered sex offenders must report moves and register within 48 hours of setting up a residence.
State records indicate DeJesus was convicted of having sex with a minor between 12 and 15. He's also been convicted of failing to register properly before.
DeJesus should face a Volusia County judge for his first appearance Thursday afternoon.


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Expats Paris Entrepreneurs' Breakfast: We're sharing our Event Marketing Strategy.
After sharing our Social Media Marketing strategy for (almost) free, I'm thrilled to announce that we're now planning to share our Event Marketing strategy and it's going to be (almost) free as well.
Our recent workshops on Social Media Marketing strategy were divided into three parts and our members attended the ones they preferred the most.
Based on our company culture that consists of "developing the art of listening as a way to learn and sharing whenever we receive", these workshops opened doors for us to more speaking gigs in different universities and chambers of commerce in Paris.
They enhanced our reach and created huge opportunities that have helped us to promote our brand and community but also to reflect on what we can do to improve ourselves as a community based company but also improve our product features.
Expats Paris, as a community, has a lot of events.
Events are both a product and marketing strategy for us.
In these upcoming series of workshops (as a marketing strategy), we'll share everything we've been able to learn and build on events not as a product but, as a way to promote our Brand and community.
When we started using events as a marketing tool two years ago, we told ourselves that we had the right to make mistakes, to ask forgiveness rather than permission, and to always test everything we could.
What is event Marketing anyway ? We've learned that this is basically a type of marketing that goes through a process of developing a themed/niche exhibit, party, display, or presentation to promote a product, service, cause, and for Expats Paris (for instance) leveraging in-person engagement.
Some of our events occur online and others offline, and we take part in events as participants, hosts, or sponsors.
When we started, we knew that event Marketing would be important for us but didn't know where to start.
In today's buyer-empowered world, even if we're an active online community, we know how imperative it is to seize every opportunity to build relationships, generate goodwill, and earn the trust of prospective community members, buyers and friends.
The modern business person or consumer wants more than just a pitch when evaluating a community (especially an online one like ours).
For Expats Paris, events have offered a unique opportunity to interact with brands, to give a firsthand sense of our community's focus, perspective, and personality.
So, event marketing is now an integral part of our outreach strategy.
Why did we choose to use event Marketing ? What are the mistakes we made? What are challenges we faced? What have we achieved and where are we heading?
I'm happy, once again, to share this strategy with any entrepreneur out there.
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News from the American Windsurfing Tour is that an official tour opening party will be going down at Pauwela Cannery. Over to the AWT:
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ED DAMER, Sudan — Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.
Here in the bone-dry desert, where desiccated donkey carcasses line the road, huge green fields suddenly materialize. Beans. Wheat. Sorghum. Melons. Peanuts. Pumpkins. Eggplant. It is all grown here, part of an ambitious government plan for Sudanese self-sufficiency, creating giant mechanized farms that rise out of the sand like mirages.
But how much of this bonanza is getting back to the hungry Sudanese, like the 2.5 million driven into camps in Darfur? And why is a country that exports so many of its own crops receiving more free food than anywhere else in the world, especially when the Sudanese government is blamed for creating the crisis in the first place?
African countries that rely on donated food usually cannot produce enough on their own. Somalia, Ethiopia, Niger and Zimbabwe are all recent examples of how war, natural disasters or gross mismanagement can cut deep into food production, pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation.
But here in Sudan, there seem to be plenty of calories to go around. The country is already growing wheat for Saudi Arabia, sorghum for camels in the United Arab Emirates and vine-ripened tomatoes for the Jordanian Army. Now the government is plowing $5 billion into new agribusiness projects, many of them to produce food for export.
Take sorghum, a staple of the Sudanese diet, typically eaten in flat, spongy bread. Last year, the United States government, as part of its response to the emergency in Darfur, shipped in 283,000 tons of sorghum, at high cost, from as far away as Houston. Oddly enough, that is about the same amount that Sudan exported, according to United Nations officials. This year, Sudanese companies, including many that are linked to the government in Khartoum, are on track to ship out twice that amount, even as the United Nations is being forced to cut rations to Darfur.
Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College and an outspoken activist who has written frequently on the Darfur crisis, called this anomaly "one of the least reported and most scandalous features of the Khartoum regime's domestic policies." It was emblematic, he said, of the Sudanese government's strategy to manipulate "national wealth and power to further enrich itself and its cronies, while the marginalized regions of the country suffer from terrible poverty."
Aid groups gave up long ago on the Sudanese government helping the people of Darfur. After all, the nation's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been accused of masterminding genocide in Darfur. United Nations officials have said that if they do not bring food into the region, the government surely will not.
That leaves the United Nations and Western aid groups feeding more than three million Darfurians. But the lifeline is fraying. Security is deteriorating. Aid trucks are getting hijacked nearly every day and deliveries are being made less and less frequently. The result: less food and soaring malnutrition rates, particularly among children.
On top of this is the broader problem of trying to find affordable grains on the world market when prices are higher than they have been in decades. United Nations officials in Sudan say that the fact that they have to import some of the same commodities that Sudan not only produces but exports is a source of constant frustration.
"Sudan could be self-sufficient," said Kenro Oshidari, the director of the United Nations World Food Program in Sudan. "It does have the potential to be the breadbasket of Africa."
Sudanese officials say that is precisely their goal, and they deny that Sudanese agribusiness is being built at the expense of their own people. They reject accusations that they are neglecting far-flung areas like Darfur, much less waging a war of hunger and deprivation against them.
Instead, Sudanese officials say they are simply trying to build up their economy. They say they know what it is like to be vilified, having been squeezed by American sanctions for more than a decade. And it could get worse, with Mr. Bashir facing genocide charges at the International Criminal Court in connection with the massacres in Darfur.
"Sanctions are never far from our mind," said Al-Amin Dafa Allah, chairman of the National Assembly's agricultural committee. "We're trying to minimize our reliance on the outside."
In fact, part of the reason relief agencies bring their own food into Sudan stems from the American policy of giving crops, not money, as foreign aid.
Many European countries, by contrast, just give the World Food Program cash, which can be used to buy food locally. Last year, the program bought 117,000 tons of Sudanese sorghum. United Nations officials said they would like to buy more, but they had had run-ins with Sudanese suppliers who could make more money with exports.
"We don't get discounts," said Emilia Casella, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program.
Sudanese officials say they want to sell more crops to the United Nations, but lost in this discussion about buying and selling food is whether the Sudanese government should be donating food to its own needy people.
For now, Sudanese officials seem more interested in doing business with their new partners in the Middle East. Sudan is the largest country in Africa, nearly one million square miles. It has 208 million acres of arable land, with less than a quarter being cultivated. The Sudanese government is striking deals left and right with Arab countries just across the Red Sea: the Arab countries bring the money, the soil scientists and the $200,000 tractors. Sudan supplies the land.
"Our country is small and dry and mountainous," said Man Shuqwara, the Jordanian director of a Jordanian-run farm in northern Sudan that grows wheat, beans, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, oranges and bananas. "By logic we would come to Sudan."
The same logic is attracting big money from Saudi Arabia. About an hour's drive north of the Jordanian farm, near the town of Ed Damer, is a huge new $200 million project to grow wheat in what now looks like a 10-mile-wide sandbox. Some of the wheat will stay in Sudan; some will be shipped to Saudi Arabia. A fleet of new John Deere tractors is already lined up for harvest time. A worker on the farm whispered that the tractors had been sneaked into Sudan through Saudi Arabia because of the American trade sanctions.
Sudan's overall economic strategy is to diversify from oil, which it began exporting in 1999, and to focus more closely on the traditional engine of the country's economy — agriculture. More than 80 percent of the work force is engaged in raising animals or farming of one sort or another.
"Our sesame oil is the best in the world," said Mr. Al-Amin, the agriculture committee chairman. "And it's organic!"
But make no mistake about it: much of Sudan is still a blazing hot, cruelly barren landscape, with specterlike figures in impossibly white gowns tramping through the dust.
But at certain nodes, especially along the Nile River, this country is as green and lush as Florida. It boasts three crucial ingredients for growing things: land, labor and, most important, water.
The Nile and its tributaries flow more than 2,000 miles across Sudan, bringing the silt-rich water right to the fields. The British colonial government was the first to capitalize on this in a big way, building a dam in 1925 on the Blue Nile, one of the two main sources of the Nile River, and a network of canals. Today, that project, called the Gezira Scheme, has thousands of miles of canals irrigating nearly 2.5 million acres of farms. The genius is that it is all done by gravity, which means water flows from the dam through capillaries of canals to seedlings in the field, all without using a watt of electricity.
"We have water 24-7," said Siddig Eissa Ahmed, the director of the Gezira Scheme, which is government-run, like much of Sudanese agribusiness.
The dark side of all this development is displacement. The conflict in Darfur, in western Sudan, is largely about grazing rights and watering holes — and the government's brutal counterinsurgency policies in response to an armed rebellion. So far, the most ambitious agricultural projects have avoided the area altogether, and instead are concentrated in the central and northern parts of the country.
Even so, development in Sudan often means uprooting other rural subsistence farmers for large-scale commercial projects, said Alex de Waal, a Sudan scholar at the Social Science Research Council in New York.
"Smallholder food production goes down, commercial food production goes up, and food relief serves as a subsidy to this transformation, keeping the displaced alive," he said.
The Sudanese government is widely blamed for running many of the displaced people in Darfur off their farms, making them reliant on handouts. Still, the government has been slow to feed them.
The last time the government gave the World Food Program any food for Darfur was in 2006. It was 22,000 tons of Sudanese-grown sorghum. It was a fraction of what the people needed, United Nations officials said, and some of the grain was rancid and infested with weevils.
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Talk:Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology
Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that Metropolitan Zizioulas is quoted in the opening line of this article? Vasiliki
No. He is both one of the leading Orthodox theologians of our day, but also one who has written a good deal on ecclesiology and primary. --Fr Lev 00:12, April 13, 2009 (UTC)
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The trend of manicuring the nails with artistic and colorful designs is rising in popularity with every passing day. The practice of using a nail stamper for transferring images from a stamp plate directly onto the nails which started as a fad not a very long time ago has now become an established trend. The technique of stamping any type of art design or image on the nails is a simple one that can be easily mastered. One just needs a set of tools for embossing the designs on the fingernails on a DIY basis thereby doing away with the need to go to a manicuring salon. CICI&SISI is a Hong Kong-based company that has been dedicatedly designing, producing and marketing nail art tools including image plates, stamping tools, and acrylic storage accessories since the last 10 years.
The headquarters of CICI&SISI is in Hong Kong and later on in 2013, the nail art tool manufacturing company established offices in San Jose, CA, USA and Shenzhen City, China. Following the incorporation of two overseas offices CICI&SISI started manufacturing and canvassing its image plates, stampers, brushes, storage packs and cases under the registered trademark of 'CICI & SISI'. The enterprise right from the day it started operating, has diverted resources and employed highly skilled professionals for carrying out R&D work with the sole objective of commercially releasing new products frequently without compromising on quality. Consequently, the firm's products continue to be as popular as they were previously and its customer base is burgeoning day by day.
CICI&SISI is a specialist when it comes to fabricating nail plates. One just needs to log into the official site of the concern to see the different themes of acrylic and layered plates at a glance. The prospective buyer or customer can browse through the themes before selecting one or more of image plates. The themes include 'wedding season', 'spring', 'Olympic', 'Indian Style', 'Plaid', 'Ocean', 'Love', 'Japan', Halloween', 'Islamic', 'Greek', 'Geometry', 'Fairytale', 'Egypt', 'Easter', 'Christmas' , 'Chinese Opera', 'Children's Park', 'Blue & White', 'April's Fools' Day, and 'Africa'. Each and every acrylic plate is durable, portable, soft to touch, and retains its newness even after repeated cleanings. The translucency of the acrylic material enables the user to see through the plate's printed lines.
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Schwab Retirement Business Services announced on Wednesday that it has launched a suite of retirement tools to help advisors increase productivity and build skills in their 401(k) plans.
The suite is the result of a partnership with fi360 and The Retirement Advisor University (TRAU) at UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education.
The suite is a customized version of fi360's toolkit, which provides analytical, management and reporting features to advisors working on 401(k) plans. Schwab's toolkit allows advisors to manage client records, set up automatic updates, document and track investments, test asset allocations, generate proposals, and comply with 408(b)(2) fee disclosure rules.
"For all our advisors, this provides a great deal of technological efficiency," Debbie Pritchard, vice president of retirement business services for Schwab, told AdvisorOne. Integrating the toolkit allows advisors to prepopulate ongoing data on a quarterly basis, she added, saving them time because they don't have to enter it by hand.
Advisors on the Schwab Retirement Center platform are eligible for a discounted licensing fee to use the fi360 toolkit.
Schwab has been working with fi360 for about a year now, Pritchard said. "We're excited because the toolkit is state-of-the-art technology," she said. "What's special about this partnership is it encompasses the toolkit and educational opportunities."
As part of its partnership with fi360, Schwab also offers discounted access to the organization's Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) designation. About 60 of Schwab's advisors have gone through that program, Pritchard said.
Future projects with fi360 include fine-tuning information for advisors on the 408(b)(2) rule, which took effect July 1, to add to the program.
Through TRAU, advisors can earn a Certified 401(k) Professional (C(k)P) designation. Advisors recommended by Schwab to complete the program can receive a scholarship. The C(k)P designation is a one-year program available to advisors with extensive retirement plan management experience. Pritchard anticipates eight scholarships will be made available to advisors this year, and three or four advisors have already been nominated.
"The demand for advisors to take on a greater fiduciary role" is increasing, Pritchard said. "This is an opportunity for us to continue to help advisors provide really good service to plan sponsors."


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Baltimore County recently mailed bills for its new stormwater fees, and the Social Security Administration faces a charge of more than $35,000 for its Woodlawn headquarters.
But it's unclear if the agency will pay a penny.
"At this time we have not determined whether it will be appropriate to remit payment for those assessments," spokeswoman Dorothy J. Clark said. "We will study the issue and come to a decision in the near future."
The uncertainty reflects a broader murkiness on whether federal agencies will pay the new state-mandated fee. Derided by some as a "rain tax," the fees are meant to pay for pollution-reducing improvements and are generally based on a property's amount of paved or hard surfaces.
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman said Friday that the question of federal payments is "a moving target," adding, "We're trying to seek clarification on the issue."
The county is home to two large federal properties: the Naval Academy and Fort Meade, which houses the National Security Agency. Officials at Fort Meade and the Navy office that oversees the academy's facilities did not respond to questions about stormwater fees.
A 2011 federal law sponsored by U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin would seem to have settled the matter. It says that the federal government must pay all "reasonable" stormwater fees, and he has said the measure "holds polluters financially accountable for the pollution that they cause, including Uncle Sam."
And while the state General Assembly exempted local and state government when it approved the stormwater fee law last year, it did not give the federal government a pass.
Yet it's not so simple, says Maryland Association of Counties lobbyist Les Knapp. "There is a policy at the federal level to honor local stormwater fees, but there is an out — federal agencies do not have to pay the fee if the state government exempts itself from paying the fee," he said.
Sure enough, he said: "Federal agencies have maintained that they do not have to pay the fee." Officials in Montgomery County, which has had a stormwater fee for several years, say federal agencies haven't yet paid any fees there.
Last week a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, which acts as landlord for many federal properties, said the agency "expects to pay such assessments … once we have determined that they meet the requirements" of the Cardin law.
Del. Maggie McIntosh, a Baltimore Democrat, said she expects the O'Malley administration to include funds in next year's state budget to cover stormwater fee payments to the counties for any state properties not already required to control their runoff.
She acknowledged some federal agencies are apparently refusing to pay as long as the state doesn't. "If we can get the state to pay, that will help us when we go to collect from the feds," she said.
Like Baltimore County, Baltimore City and Howard County plan to charge fees on federal properties.
Harford County officials say they will bill most federal sites, including an Army tank testing facility and Postal Service land. But county spokesman Ben Lloyd said the county doesn't think it can collect from Aberdeen Proving Ground because it has its own federal stormwater discharge permit.
Noting that the new fees stem from federal mandates, Lloyd said it would be "ironic" for the U.S. government to assert a blanket exemption, "especially given the strain that these requirements place on our taxpaying citizens and businesses trying to stay afloat in this economy."
Sun reporter Timothy B. Wheeler contributed to this article.


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French Door Blinds & French Door Window Treatments
- Consider door shape and position of handles
- Pick shallow treatments that hang close to the door
- 1" wood blinds and roller shades are ideal
- Hold down brackets are good for regularly shut shades
- Choose cordless for a sleek look and easy control
French doors have decorative handles that could interfere with the operation of door blinds or shades, so you'll want to choose a window treatment that is not very deep with an outside mount. If you plan on regularly raising and lowering your shade, go cordless to avoid getting cords tangled up on the door handle while also increasing child and pet safety. If you plan on leaving the shade down, you should select the hold down brackets when customizing your blind. These are installed on the door to keep the bottom of the shade in place.


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National Corn Growers Association Chairman Ron Litterer and other leaders in agricultural economics talked about the impact of the current economic crisis on the farming sector in a webinar last week, held by AgriMarketing magazine. In his remarks, Litterer discussed the impact of the crisis on demand for corn and the higher input costs growers face.
"Even before this crisis hit, growers have been faced with higher operating capital requirements due to rising input costs and marketing strategies," Litterer says. "Analysts are concerned about the impact of the crisis on demand for corn. With higher production and lower demand, pricing can affect margins."
As examples, Litterer cites how costs for fertilizer and cash rent for land have skyrocketed along with corn prices. Only in some areas have costs come down to a more manageable level, such as diesel fuel.
Other speakers represented Wells Fargo Bank, the USDA, Farmer Mac, the American Bankers Association and Brock Associates. The bankers reported that due to the three prior years of profitability, credit for agricultural producers should be adequate. However, they reported that because of the higher risks associated with agriculture, including the increasing extremely volatile grain markets and much larger operating costs, they and bank regulators will be more closely examining their portfolio. More highly leveraged agricultural producers – or those determined "at risk" – will probably have to pay more for credit.
More than 600 people and organizations listened to or viewed the webinar. Click here to view or download the presentation.


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"Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath, because there are lots more injuries during those activities."Why don't the pedestrians wear helmets? Apparently, per mile traveled, they're as likely to take a blow to the head as a cyclist.
Anyway, the problem is that there are these great bike-sharing systems, like we have here in Madison with B-Cycle. You pay a daily or annual fee to access the system, and then you can get a bike out of a station on one city corner, bike somewhere you want to go downtown, and just stick the thing into another station, where it's automatically locked in.
It's very quick and easy, especially if they have a lot of stations near places you like to go. But the ease is ruined if you need a helmet. So all these efforts all these years to get people to feel they must have a helmet are at odds with the new bike-share agenda. When the overeager agendas of environmentalism and safety collide, somebody's going to get hurt.
The linked NYT article is attempting to dictate the winner: environmentalism (i.e., bike sharing systems and the no-helmet approach). Amusingly, the main argument is: Europe! In Europe!, you won't hear any fretting about helmets.


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The Cabinet Committee on Security recently resisted the temptation to field the army to fight the Maoists.
The decades-long insurgency has engulfed 230 odd districts and has manifested adequate consolidation lately. The killing of 76 policemen on April 6 at Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, followed by the derailment of the Jnaneswari Express that left 150 dead and the killing of 27 CRPF troopers on June 29, are indicators of the degree of senseless violence they are ready to inflict.
These attacks are also proof of the movement taking a terrorist turn, with the killing of innocent civilians not being a taboo anymore.
However, before we field the armed forces there is reason to take stock of the differences between the Maoist movement and the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir where the army has also been deployed in strength for decades.
The Maoist problem is India's first fully home-grown insurgency. The problem is rooted in our inept administration and rank corruption that has denied the benefits of growth to a huge swath of our population, who continue to live in poverty.
In contrast, the Jammu and Kashmir problem is a proxy war, covertly and overtly supported by Pakistan. It falls in the category of State-sponsored terrorism.
Also, in sharp contrast to the Maoist-affected interiors where poverty, deprivation and hunger stalk every village, the streets of Srinagar hardly have an impoverished man.
The basic drivers of the Maoist insurgency are politico-economic-social, in essence. Its fuel mix includes our class-ridden social structure that refuses to confer social acceptance and dignity to all. The Maoists' promise of a class-less society offers a world of hope to people who have all along been discriminated on grounds of caste and creed. It has no fundamentalist influence.
In Kashmir, the movement has gone far beyond being fuelled by the demands of independence or merger with Pakistan. Today, it is an extension of fundamental Islamist militancy, with its commitment to the Islamist Caliphate at the end of the road.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the lead militant organisation in Kashmir, is a proponent of this convoluted philosophy.
The Maoist problem encompasses multiple states. The spread of the area affected by insurgency is far larger. Lack of political consensus has eroded the quality of response. Absence of co-ordination between states has allowed freedom of movement to the terrorists. Intelligence sharing mechanisms are yet to be put in place.
In Jammu and Kashmir there was broad consensus amongst mainstream political parties for deployment of armed forces. The concept of a joint command of forces combating the terrorists was put into effect in Jammu and Kashmir leading to synergy between the state police and the central armed forces.
In Jammu and Kashmir, in spite of the borders being guarded rather heavily, the rugged mountainous jungle terrain allows induction of weapons by the infiltrators. Though heavy weaponry is difficult to ferry from across the borders, there is no dearth of personal weapons of the best quality like the AK-47.
The Maoists depend primarily on looted old and obsolete armouries of police forces. Of course there are more AK-47s now, but it still is a far cry from what is available in the valley.
The current strength of the Maoist cadre is estimated variously between 10,000 and 30,000. Even if the figure of 10,000 be accepted, it is far in excess of 3,000 odd terrorists that we faced in Jammu and Kashmir when insurgency was at its peak.
Gaining an upper hand over the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir forced us to deploy over 250,000 men. It has taken us close to 20 years to control the insurgency and bring it down to the level at which it even now simmers.
However, the weaponry of the Maoists being poorer, their combat capability may not be as good. They make up for it in terms of numbers, though. The pros and cons put together, the Maoist problem will also suck in more and more of an already stretched army, if deployed.
In Jammu and Kashmir we legislated the Armed Forces Special Powers Act for applicability in the state. In Maoist areas there is no such legislation operative.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the army initiated a huge perception management operation to win the hearts and minds of the people. The operation's major plank has been Sadbhavna, essentially a civic action programme responsive to the aspirations of the people. In remote areas the armed forces assisted the villagers in improving their quality of life and bringing succour during natural calamities like the snow tsunami and earthquake of 2005.
The fact of change in perceptions is most vividly obvious in the study undertaken by Robert Bradrock, a scholar from King's College, London, which concludes that only two percent people in Jammu and Kashmir favour merger with Pakistan, today.
In contrast, no major perception management initiatives have been launched in Maoist areas. Even if developmental funds that have now been earmarked are put to use, a task difficult as such with the government's writ not extending to the interiors, it is doubtful whether an inept and corrupt administration will allow the benefits to reach those who are its professed recipients.
The differences between the two insurgencies are gapingly wide. In addition, we have to realise that this is going to be the nature of tasks for the police and paramilitary forces, tomorrow. There is no choice they have but to upgrade to standards so that they remain relevant in the emerging environment.
We have had decades to realise these basic truths when the Maoist insurgency was gradually gathering strength. However, the police leadership failed to prepare its forces for the inevitable; an absolute lack of strategic vision. The preparations might as well start today, unfortunately, by paying the price against the Maoists.
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Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities typically reserved for its higher end hardware.
The Quantum NDX-8d network-attached storage (NAS) appliance can reduce storage requirements by up to 90%, according to the company.
Quantum also announced the RDX 8000 removable disk library, also with up to 8TB of capacity. For offsite disaster recovery protection, the NDX can replicate data to a second NDX appliance or move data offsite with the RDX 8000's removable hard drives.
The NDX-8d NAS appliance incorporates Quanum's DXi array deduplication software, which typically offers a 20:1 deduplication ratio, meaning that the software typically removes 20 copies for every one original file. For example, if an email with an attachment is sent to a group of employees, each email the employee received will be backed up, creating multiple copies of the same data. Deduplication eliminates those copies and instead creates a pointer to the one original attachment for everyone to view.
"Customers tell us that data protection for small businesses and workgroups is overly complex," Rob Clark, senior vice president of Quantum's Disk and Tape Data Protection Group, said in a statement.
The NDX-8 comes in two models: the NDX-8 and NDX-8d (the d stands for deduplication). Both arrays are powered by an Intel Core i3 3.3Ghz processor and have 4GB of RAM, 8TB of capacity and have Quantum's Datastor Shield software. That software provides agentless client backup, meaning that there is no software to install on the clients being protected.
The NDX-8 sells for $4,029 and the NDX-8d retails for $5,139.
The NDX line uses the Windows Storage Server operating system, allowing users to install Windows-based applications like Microsoft Exchange directly on the box. In addition, the NDX-8 and NDX-8d integrate seamlessly for data replication.
The RDX 8000 Removable Disk Library comes with up to eight removable disk-drive slots, enabling users to take data offsite to an archive. The cartridges comes in capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB. In 2012, a 1.5TB RDX cartridge is expected to ship, which will increase the maximum capacity of the RDX 8000 by 50% to 12TB.
The RDX 8000 is available with Quantum Datastor Shield deduplication software. Compared to tape or non-deduplicated disk, it allows users to create approximately two-thirds fewer cartridges, Quantum said.
The RDX 8000 with data deduplication is $4,999, and $3,889 without it. NDX appliances come in either tower or 1U rack configurations, and both product lines are available from Quantum's worldwide resellers and distribution channels.
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