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Don D'Amato, the official historian for the City of Warwick and respected but unofficial historian of every other city and town in Rhode Island, died last Friday. D'Amato was a friend and columnist for the Warwick Beacon and the Cranston Herald. He was 80 years old on Dec. 29 of last year.
"He has been the official historian for the city since Flaherty was mayor," said current Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian. "He remained so through Charlie Donovan, Lincoln Chafee and me. That's about 25 years of service to our city."
Avedisian said D'Amato did more that tell stories about the old days but actually helped keep the city's records and archives right.
"But one of the best things he did and, I think he really enjoyed doing, was getting the history of all our churches and places of worship and communities of faith on record," said Avedisian. "He told us where we had been, what we had been doing and where we were going."
Since the paper learned of Don's passing, many people have called offering their condolences to us and to his family. His daughter, Terry Spencer, offered the most touching and consoling comfort of them all.
"Of course, he had lots of friends and people respected him as a teacher and as a historian," said Spencer. "He taught at Warwick Vets for 30 years, and then at CCRI and Johnson & Wales. He got his master's at URI and everyone respected his newspaper work."
Many more people knew him as a supportive and reliable source of strength as they struggled with their weakness. He was, as many would recognize, a good friend of Bill W.
"He was a generous friend and a great father," said Spencer. "There will be so many, many people who will miss him."
Along with her personal thoughts about her father, Spencer sent us Don's own notes for his own biography, which, once again, shows that we can, if only once more, count on Don to give us an authoritative take on history. Here is Don in his own words, with, as usual, our reserved right to add our own notes, clarifications and corrections and remove all undue modesty Don may have let into his narrative:
"My father tells me it was very cold and that there was snow and ice on the ground," D'Amato wrote many years ago.
It was also around the time that the full effects of the Great Depression were being felt in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. "My father was working as a ropemaker at the American Cord and Twine Co. and he had gone from full time to part time. My mother had been working at a candy factory in Cambridge but had stopped when pregnant with me."
The hard times forced the D'Amatos to move in with relatives. For young Don, it was the best of times.
"My aunt Evelyn, seven years older than I, used to rush home from school to play with me and my Uncle Fiore, nine years older, was idol of my life and my hero," Don recalled. "As the oldest grandson and the only infant in the family at the time, I was lavished with attention and felt safe and cherished."
Don's memories of his father as a babysitter hint at why Don wanted to be a writer.
"Once he quieted me down he would tell me these magnificent stories," wrote Don. "Some from "Arabian Nights," others from Italian folklore and many…he made up. He was a great storyteller, and soon I looked forward to the stories and even eager to see my mother leave for the movies."
It's no surprise when Don tells us he resented not being taken to the World's Fair in 1939 and no surprise to learn he liked to ride around in his uncles' cars. It was during a Sunday night drive that he learned of Pearl Harbor.
"It was a very emotional time," wrote Don. "The women were crying and the men very angry. I remember them saying that nothing would ever be the same again, and they were right."
Don remembered the time as not his proudest moments.
"I was a house angel and street devil," he confessed.
He joined a street gang, formally called the Parker A.C. (Athletic Club) but affectionately the "Parker Slobs" and became best friends with the leader of the gang and began to smoke and swear.
"I seemed to be in training to be a gangster," he confessed.
He also confessed to be a little too fond of boxing, of hurting bullies and resenting people with talents other than his.
"I must have been jealous of Ray "Muzzy" Santese, as he was an excellent piano player," wrote D'Amato. "Once I grabbed his hand and bent his fingers back. He was appalled, as he thought I would break his fingers. He pleaded for me to stop, and after awhile I did."
Don was also becoming a skillful boxer and described the peak of his boxing career as a teenager.
"I fought this tall, skinny black kid at the Copley Plaza Hotel. We fought in a real ring with a huge light over us. Very professional, I thought. Crusher Casey, a well-known wrestler, was the referee. We fought to a draw. I know I hurt him, but he was taller and had a greater reach. A combination of being hit on the head and the bright lights gave me a terrible headache. After we went out to eat and I was visibly not feeling well. My father said, 'Don, maybe you should try baseball.' I agreed, and that was the end of my boxing career."
It was the 1940s, and the term juvenile delinquent was in vogue and that was how D'Amato described himself.
"By the time I was 16, I was hanging around Jimmy's pool room and then to the Napoli for pizza and beer," wrote D'Amato, who was feeling the tug of another sensibility.
"I already had ideas that someday I would write the Great American Novel. I was an avid reader and Mr. Hughes was telling me that I could write well and should pursue a college career."
Apparently, Mr. Hughes did more than encourage him, as D'Amato entered college.
"I loved Northeastern University," wrote D'Amato. "I was amazed at how much more stimulating it was than high school. Fortunately, thanks to Mr. Hughes, I had an Edwards scholarship for poor boys of Boston and a free education if I stayed on the dean's list."
The self-proclaimed delinquent quickly realized that it took real effort to get along in academia, even for the subjects you loved, like history with a brilliant lecturer.
"Not long after he gave us a short quiz and I flunked it," he recalled. "I was amazed. One of the kids in the class told me that my problem was that I didn't take notes. I had no idea. By the end of the semester, I not only took notes but I copied them on the typewriter and went over them. The result was that I went from an F to an A in the class and my essays attracted the attention of Dr. Butts. I was on my way to being a historian. Wow."


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Orlando Magic won in the Tmac Trade
Talk about any other sports here.
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very unbiased article by Steve Kerr , http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylc=X ... &type=lgns
I agree with like 98% of what he says.
I agree with like 98% of what he says.
I'm not so sure Houston is that great a team. Sure they have two great individual talents. But their styles are completely different. Yao was killed by Francis' selfishness and need to have the ball in his hands. But McGrady is very similar in that he needs the ball in his hands to flourish. I'm just thinking that this will turn out very similarly to last years Rocket squad.
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this trade was great until they shipped mobley outta town. mann what a difference he made on that team..

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It's Iowa minus one month, and barring yet another resurrection, or something of similar improbability, it's Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here's the scorecard:
Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed. However, the brittleness he showed when confronted with the kind of informed follow-up questions that Bret Baier tossed his way Tuesday on Fox's "Special Report" — the kind of scrutiny one doesn't get in multiplayer debates — suggests that Romney may become increasingly vulnerable as the field narrows.
Moreover, Romney has profited from the temporary rise and spontaneous combustion of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain. It required no exertion on Romney's part.
Enter Gingrich, the current vessel for anti-Romney forces — and likely the final one. Gingrich's obvious weakness is a history of flip-flops, zigzags and mind changes even more extensive than Romney's — on climate change, the health care mandate, cap-and-trade, Libya, the Ryan Medicare plan, etc.
The list is long. But what distinguishes Gingrich from Romney — and mitigates these heresies in the eyes of conservatives — is that he authored a historic conservative triumph: the 1994 Republican takeover of the House after 40 years of Democratic control.
Which means that Gingrich's apostasies are seen as deviations from his conservative core — while Romney's flip-flops are seen as deviations from … nothing. Romney has no signature achievement, legislation or manifesto that identifies him as a core conservative.
So what is he? A center-right, classic Northeastern Republican who, over time, has adopted a specific, quite bold, thoroughly conservative platform.
Nevertheless, the party base, ostentatiously pursuing serial suitors-of-the-month, considers him ideologically unreliable. Hence the current ardor for Gingrich, who has his own vulnerabilities. The first is often overlooked because it is characterological rather than ideological: his own unreliability.
Take that ad Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi on global warming advocating urgent government action. He laughs it off today with "that is probably the dumbest single thing I've done in recent years. It is inexplicable."
This will not do. He was obviously thinking something. What was it?
Thinking of himself as a grand world-historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness.
Two ideologically problematic finalists: One is a man of center-right temperament who has of late adopted a conservative agenda. The other, more conservative by nature, is possessed of an unbounded need for grand display that has already led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain, and that as president would leave him in constant search of the out-of-box experience — the confoundedly brilliant Nixon-to-China flipperoo regarding his fancy of the day, be it health care, taxes, energy, foreign policy, whatever.
The second, more obvious, Gingrich vulnerability is electability. The independents and disaffected Democrats upon whom the general election will hinge will not be as forgiving as some Conservatives appear to be.
They will find it harder to overlook the fact that the man who denounces Freddie Mac to the point of suggesting that those in Congress who aided and abetted it be imprisoned, took $30,000 a month from that very same parasitic federal creation.
This is a weak Republican field with two significantly flawed front-runners contesting an immensely important election.
If Obama wins, he will take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return (which is precisely his own objective for a second term).
Every conservative has thus to ask himself two questions: Who is more likely to prevent that second term? And who, if elected, is less likely to unpleasantly surprise?
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for The Washington Post. He can be contacted at:
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A New Market in Dayton Excites and Judge Sides with Monsanto
- Beginning Feb. 1, 2014, a Winter Market will be held each Saturday at the new building constructed at Blue Mountain Station in Dayton, Washington. The Winter Market will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each Saturday in the retail area of this new 6,912 square foot building dedicated to artisan food production.
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld Monsanto Company's biotech seed patents, dealing a blow to a group attempting to ward off lawsuits by the company against farmers. The group sued Monsanto in March 2011 seeking to prohibit the company from suing them if their fields became inadvertently contaminated with its patented genetic traits for corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and other crops.
- Green America's GMO Inside campaign today launched a major push to get General Mills to drop genetically modified organisms from Honey Nut Cheerios -- the company's and the nation's No. 1 breakfast cereal. The campaign's website and Facebook page call on General Mills to remove GMOs from Honey Nut Cheerios and to use a third-party verifier to ensure that the cereal is, in fact, non-GMO.


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Hi Guys,
I'm an East Coaster coming to Seattle for work for a few days next week and I gave myself a Saturday to get outside for the day before my flight on Sunday.
(My background) Originally from New Hampshire, competitive skier growing up, been hiking my entire life and been doing a bit of mountaineering and climbing as much as I can the last 6 years in the White Mountains. Now for those of whom are blessed with your wonderful terrain out here in the Pac Northwest, the Whites in New Hampshire are the best we can do - verticals up to 4K, very few serious routes, but what we do have is the worst weather in the world (recorded -http://mountwashington.org/ ). So, I am very comfortable in the elements from my days on end above treeline at night with the wind chills hovering between -30 to -80. What I don't have is technical climbing experience on steep routes requiring a bit more skill. I'm also well versed with snow packs, avalanche training, ect as I was a competitive skier for many years and I did a fair amount of time out on Mount Hood and the Rockies for training and competitions. So I know the snow, I know the mountains, I know my gear, I'm just not experienced in a more competitive environment. I'd love some suggestions for a peak that I could bag on a day trip that's not too far from Seattle (leave Seattle Friday night, car camp, and hit the trail the following day and be done and out Saturday afternoon.) Doesn't have to be too strenuous or too easy (I'd like some nice views of the surrounding region if possible) - maybe something in the 2.5-4K vertical range, and something with some foot traffic so that I won't be totally isolated. All of this is of course pending the weather, if all else fails I'll just go ski for a day - but'd I'd rather be on foot.
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15 Braised Meat & Vegetable Dishes for Eating All Week Long
It's winter, it's cold, time is short. That's the litany of January, right? This is the time of year when braised dishes will save your supper. Braising (cooking low and slow, in a bit of liquid) is an easy method for cooking inexpensive cuts of meat and some vegetables too, and one side benefit to braised dishes is that they usually reheat very well. So make a big pot of pork shank or ragu, or cook up a big mess of Greek-style green beans or collards; they'll feed you all week long.
Here's a look at 15 favorite dishes — some with meat, and some without — that are braised to perfection.
• 1 Lemon Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto
• 2 Braised Summer Pork Shank (Adaptable For Any Season)
• 3 Slow Cooker Recipe: Peppered Beef Shank in Red Wine
• 4 Braised Beef Stroganoff with Pappardelle
• 5 How to Make Mexican Braised Beef in a Slow Cooker
• 6 Japanese Braised Pork Belly (Buta no Kakuni)
• 7 Pork Ragu with Semolina Gnocchi
• 8 Collard Greens Stew with Chorizo and Garlic
• 9 Sweet Potatoes Braised with Rosemary and Milk
• 10 Wine-Braised Cabbage
• 11 Leeks Braised with Wine and Garlic
• 12 Greek-Style Braised Green Beans
• 13 Melange of Squash Braised in Cream
• 14 Braised Escarole with Apples and Bacon
• 15 Cream-Braised Fennel a la Orangette
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A few weeks ago we gave our Facebook fans the chance to win a great Bike to Work Day package by telling us what inspired them to ride.
While the winners have already been notified, we were overwhelmed by the responses we got. Everyone gave us some great reasons for riding, but a few of our favorites really inspired us to get out and ride ourselves. From a wish to be healthier, to the freedom of the ride, to rediscovering your inner child, we hope you find your fellow cyclist's thoughts as great as we do.
Thanks to everyone who entered, and if you haven't already, go ahead and like us on Facebook to keep up on the latest at Performance, and the chance to enter for more great give-aways.
Check out some of our favorite comments…
Karen H.
I ride my bike to work every day. I am a much happier person when I ride… Burn of stress, have a little quiet time. I feel like I know a secret that other people are completely missing out on!
Matt B.
I love the freedom of a bike and being to get away from the world for a few hours. Everything looks different from a bike.
Mike P.
It's just me, the bike, my thoughts and the road.
Jackie V.
For exercise and fresh air. It's a fun way to switch things up
Kevin P.
Built in triathlon training. .outdoors. .save gas..wind in my face..destress time..justify bike cost..health..exciting roads alongside deer..
Bill J.
My 3 year old yelling "go daddy go" from the Burley behind me.
Scott W.
Freedom and peace of mind on the open road!
Bob K.
Because it makes me feel like I'm still 12.
Steven T.
Peter Sagan inspires me to ride; ripped calves inspire me to ride; the feeling of fresh air rushing in my lungs; the feeling of flying when I'm on a mountain descent; and reducing my carbon footprint on bike to work day. Biking = Inspiration!
Darren D.
My wife, kids, and career as a firefighter. Riding keeps me fit so I can do my job and make it home to my family.
John B.
Joy of being under my own power, and for my health.
Jane B.
Adventure! You never know what is around the corner!
Terry K.
The burn
Raymond J.
My kids get a chance to see their dad workings towards living healthier….plus there isn't much better then riding a trail you've never been on what an adventure
Jennifer B.
My Husband! I started riding for Bike MS as he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
Carl S.
My 9 year old son wants to ride every day with me and its great for inspiration.
Jason R.
To be healthier after beating cancer twice.
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Huggies DryNites Bed Mats 88x78 cm 7 per pack
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Huggies DryNites® BedMats a disposable absorbent sheet to protect the mattress.
Offering you and child peace of mind in case of little accidents.
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I find the new style with sticky tabs better as they don't move around the bed like the old ones. Great absorbency, nothing leaks through. I use a belt and braces system with a mat then a waterproof mattress cover underneath and then a mattress protector under that. Would highly recommend!
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My 3 year old grandson stays overnight sometimes and these are great to protect my spare bed mattress. The sticky pads always hold firm, and last from one visit to the next if he didn't have an accident that visit.
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Lawrence King Murder Remembered
This Thursday, Feb. 12 marks the first anniversary of the school shooting that tragically claimed the life of openly gay, gender nonconforming eighth-grader Lawrence King at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, CA last year.
Students are preparing to remember and honor King, who according to classmates was regularly harassed because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. King, who sometimes wore makeup to school, was brutally murdered by a male classmate. Allegedly King had asked the student to be his valentine.
Though King's death was among the most publicized hate crimes since the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, the persistent harassment that King faced at school is not unique. The "2007 National School Climate Survey" found that in the past school year, nearly nine-tenths of LGBT students (86.2%) reported being verbally harassed at school because of their sexual orientation, and two-thirds (66.5%) because of their gender expression.
The Survey found over one-fifth (22.1%) of LGBT students reported being physically assaulted at school in the past school year because of their sexual orientation, and over a tenth (14.2%) because of their gender expression.
Three in five LGBT students (60.8%) said they feel unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation, and over one third (38.4%) because of their gender expression.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network works to empower youth to fight homophobia and trans-phobia in school by training youth activists and supporting student-led Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs. GSA activists are planning events in their schools and communities to commemorate Lawrence King and raise awareness about the hostility and violence that LGBTQ students continue to face.
"In the year since Larry King's murder and the passage of Prop 8, youth activists have sharpened their focus on creating safer schools and fighting for LGBT equality," GSA Network Executive Director Carolyn Laub told Bay Times. "Too many youth still suffer harassment at school, but GSA clubs have the power to transform schools and our society." Laub added, "The vigils organized by GSA Network youth leaders will ensure Larry hasn't died in vain."
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Research will also tell you that technology has brought us into the age of glass alternatives. Acrylic fish tanks are far superior in several ways to your typical glass fish tank. Sizes of acrylic fish tanks range from countertop to very large fish tanks. Some of the benefits of these manmade fish aquariums are the fact they are extremely light, making transporting them much less of hassle. If you're making your own fish tank stand and fish aquarium as one piece, such as an old monitor or TV, you'll probably love the flexibility and ease of use of the newer types of fish tanks.
These types of fish tank are also stronger, much stronger. In fact acrylic fish tanks are not only 17x more stronger, but they are also much more flexible and almost never chip or crack. If you have kids in the house, this is a huge bonus as parents all over the world cringe every time their children come within 10 ft. of their fish tank. Knocking over any fish aquarium, regardless of the location, makes me second guess owning one myself. However, if you safely secure your fish aquarium and child proof the surrounding area it shouldn't be any more of a stressor than the closest china cabinet.
Leaks. The best glass fish tanks in the world are all prone to leaks because of the water pressure and the fact the fish tank is not one piece, meaning every adjacent piece of glass is held together by sealant. You can imagine the mess that ensues if you spring a leak in some of the large fish tanks out there. Yet another benefit of the acrylic fish aquariums are they are molecularly welded at each seam, essentially making the entire fish tank one piece and that means no leaks!
Large fish tanks might see the benefits even more. The transparency of these new fish tanks remains @ 93% regardless of the size of the fish tanks. Usually in standard large fish tanks you'd notice a green haze or film of the sides of the glass. Also, in the past you may have noticed your heating bill increase significantly as the natural temperature fluctuates. Acrylic fish tanks win here too; they insulate the water up to 20% better and that means more savings for you and more fish! But you have to be careful not to combine the wrong types of fish in your fish tank or they could all die. Consult your local pet store fish guru for more info. Also some species can't handle large fish tanks; maybe they insane because they don't know what to do with all the room.
Fish tank stands come in all shapes, sizes and colors giving fish tank shoppers even more options, or headaches, depending on how you look at it. You can choose from all-in-one fish tank stand pieces that are fully capable of supporting large fish tanks. Your fish tank stand is vitally important to both the safety of your fish tank and the functionality of your fish aquarium. The lower storage compartment of your fish tank stand doesn't have to be used solely for aquarium accessories, though that is what most fish tank owners use the area for.
If you're looking for the perfect combination of fish tank and fish tank stand, it may take some patience to find the perfect combo. However, the fish tank hobby doesn't stop there. You'll find yourself picking up random aquarium accessories every time you step foot in a PetCo. Fish feeders, filtration parts and hyrdrometers are essential aquarium accessories you can count on picking sooner than later if you've already purchased your first fish tank. Don't forget the scenery your fish will feel naked without; things like artificial corals, live rocks and other pond products.
I'm not here to talk you into or out of any particular type of fish tank. If you want to go buy 5 large fish tanks and start packing as many goldfish in each one as you can, knock yourself out. However, you plan on having a presentable fish tank and want to keep it looking impressive, take the time to do a little research on fish tanks and choose wisely. Fish aquariums can add so much to any room setting, but maintaining the large fish tanks can become expensive and time consuming. It's a great idea to want to utilize the fish tank stand as more than just storage for aquarium accessories. Fish aquariums aren't just for the rich and famous, but more for the calm and patient.


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When three writers donned lab coats to see how easy it is to create a home-made lab for genetic experiments, it tested their limits of frustration and the law.
Read part one and three of this biohacking story
It's amazing what you can buy on eBay nowadays. Scan down the main categories, past Antiques, Art, Baby and Books, Comics & Magazines, and you'll find the Business, Office & Industrial section. Click on it and you will see various subcategories, including one for Medical/Lab Equipment. This, as you'll discover, is a biohacker's dream world.
Almost everything you need to run a basic do-it-yourself biology lab is up for grabs. Need a centrifuge to separate your DNA from cellular junk? Take your pick of 20. How about a lightbox to illuminate your DNA fragments? No problem. It is the same for the scales you need to weigh minuscule amounts of chemicals; pipettes, pipette-tips, and plastic tubes to handle and dispense tiny amounts of liquids; and Bunsen burners (or, in our case, a much cheaper camping gas burner) to sterilise equipment.
Other biohackers had told us that eBay was like this, but it wasn't until we began to look for everything on our shopping list for our own lab that we believed them.
The biggest piece of machinery on the list was the PCR machine, also known as a thermocycler. It's essentially a souped-up water bath, but it enables an indispensable technique worthy of a Nobel prize. Invented by Kary Mullis in 1983, the Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR for short, amplifies genetic material quickly and reliably, creating up to one billion times the DNA you started out with. It's the technique used by forensic teams to get evidence from crime scenes, by lawyers for paternity tests, and – we hoped – by a group of German journalists to successfully carry out genetic experiments.
While chatting with one seller about some technical details, we learned he had another one that he found at his university waste tip. Twenty years ago the machine would have cost a professional lab as much as a home in the Berlin suburbs. We agreed to take it together with a power supply unit for 320 euros.
The amazing thing was that no one asked any questions during our shopping spree. True, we did receive a suspicious look from the person behind the pharmacy counter when we wanted to buy a bottle of 100% alcohol. But once we assured her that it was for genetic experiments rather than drinking, she was happy to hand over the big brown glass bottle.
We were also held up by customs when we tried to bring in a small lightbox that helps to illuminate DNA fragments. We tried several times to explain what biohacking was and how we planned to use the machine, but the customs officers didn't seem to believe that anyone would – or could – set up a genetics lab in their kitchen. Exasperated, one officer interrupted another fruitless attempt to explain what the machines did. "So, it's something for computers?" she asked. Her male colleague, clearly tired of the conversation, cited a procedure concerning items with a value of no more than 250 euros.
"Is it something electrical?" he asked. "Er... it does need electricity, yes," we replied. With that, he waved us through.
This completed our lab list: total cost, including the chemicals and biological materials needed, was 3,500 Euros and 51 cents. It's a lot of money, but splitting the cost between us, we paid less for a working lab than the cost of an Apple laptop each.
Lonesome warriors
As our partners weren't keen on using any of this stuff at home, we decided to build the lab in our office in the Schoneberg district of Berlin. We got strange looks from those in the neighbouring offices, who were used to journalist's long phone calls but not the whirrs and beeps from PCR machines or centrifuges.
Once we had the equipment assembled, the worries began. We had vague memories of the practicals we had to do in our university biology classes – some good, but mainly bad, a litany of failures and frustrations. Some of the procedures we were about to try in our improvised lab were exactly those kinds of experiments. The only difference was that this time we could not count on a supervisor or skilled colleague to help us. We had to rely on our faded memories of lab work and on internet sources to help us whenever we got stuck. We had a lot of questions. Would we be able to isolate DNA? Would we amplify genes with a machine salvaged from the trash? Would even the simplest experiments be beyond our meagre skills? Would we join the legions of people who bought a surfboard but never really rode a wave, or who bought a guitar and never got beyond "Country Roads"?
There's an open secret that every professional scientist knows about lab research. It's difficult. It's frustrating. It rarely goes right. The amount of blood, sweat and tears you put into an experiment bears little reflection on whether it will actually succeed.
We learned the hard way that lab work – especially in a DIY setting – consists of a lot of trial and error. The trials are promising, the errors devastating. You make a small mistake with the buffer solutions that keep your samples stable, and days of work can go down the drain. You misplace or accidentally contaminate a tiny drop of liquid while pipetting into a tube that's smaller than a thimble, and your experiment fails. You try different salt concentrations to make the experiment run better, you vary heat and cool cycles for your PCR machine, you test whether a little more of the DNA-copying enzyme might do the trick. You have to improvise and be patient.
Added to that, of course, there's the downside of the cheap supplies and the vintage machinery you use. It's like making a souffle in a kitchen you've never cooked in, using old utensils you've never used, and an old oven that may or may not reach the temperature required. You have the correct recipe and the ingredients but you have no idea if the souffle will rise. If it doesn't, your only option is to start again, add a bit more of an ingredient, whisk the mixture a bit more, or turn an oven dial slightly, and cross your fingers that at some point it will rise.
To make things worse, the makeshift observation room where we looked at our abject failures was the toilet in the Schoneberg office building. It was the only room without windows, which made it the only room dark enough to be able to see any traces of amplified DNA in our gels.
After days and nights of fruitless effort in our overheated office corner, not knowing where the glitch in the system was, our nerves were on edge. Nothing seemed to work. We made countless trips to and from the toilet, staring at countless blank gels, willing a band to appear that never did.
When we had been researching our venture in the United States Kay Aull, one of its pioneer biohackers, had warned us: "There's a lot that can go wrong, and you don't have colleagues who can come to the rescue and explain what your mistake was and what to do about it – you're lonesome warriors." In our case, we tried not to think of the money wasted on failed experiments, or the fact that our regular daytime jobs which paid the rent were taking a hit because the experiments had become an obsession.
Glowing triumph
But after many efforts something magical happened. Two of us were locked in a toilet in the usual fashion, both looking at a gel, like we had done a dozen times before, weakly hoping that this time we would be able to see a trace of DNA. Then it appeared: an orange band. It was pale at first, a small, rectangular glowing band that told us there was DNA within it. It had been copied a million-fold in our second-hand PCR machine saved from the tip, separated from all the other gunk by running the sample in a gel, and we could see it thanks to the "electric item" that the customs people had quizzed us about. All the effort, work, frustration and expenses of the last couple of months were forgotten in a single, triumphant moment. We had done it. We could officially say we were biohackers.
What we were staring at was DNA from a piece of fish we had bought from our local sushi restaurant. The gene is called COX1, and is found in mitochondria, the energy-converting machines found in the cells of all higher life forms. Scientists call this gene the barcode of life, as its makeup varies slightly but noticeably between species. If we had more sophisticated equipment, or were ready to pay a service laboratory, we could have deciphered the code a bit more, and seen which kind of fish it was from. Amateur scientists had done this before, for example, high-school students in New York found several cases of sushi restaurants selling mislabelled fish.
For us, though, it was enough to know that we could test what was inside our food. Our experiment was the proof of principle we had been looking for. The next step was to see what else was possible in a home lab, and so we turned to our own genes.
That's where we hit the first legal barrier. Analysing sushi doesn't contravene any laws, but analysing human genes might. Clause no. 7 of Germany's Genetic Diagnostics Law, passed in 2009, states that only physicians are allowed to do "diagnostic genetic testing". One of the law's main objectives is to protect any individual from having their personal genetic information exploited. It's not that clear cut, though. There is also the entitlement to informational self-determination, which the German constitutional court has defined as a basic right. We decided to take the value of this basic right above the letter of the law. After all, we didn't want to look into other people's genes – just our own.
After much discussion, we decided not to look at genes related to disease, agreeing this is best left to trained doctors. But there were other areas we could look at in our genome, using the same methods and principles. For example, there's one gene which, depending on what version you inherit, may make you more likely to be a good sprinter or a good long-distance runner. The gene in question is ACTN-3, or alpha-actinin-3, and it's active in skeletal muscle. Two of us had memories of our high school athletics performances – one was more of a Usain Bolt, the other more like Mo Farah. So we isolated DNA from two saliva samples. We amplified the DNA with our PCR machine. We looked around on the internet and bought an enzyme that cuts the mutated version of the gene in two places, but the normal version only once. We saw different patterns in the gel: the Usain Bolt-type of us appeared to carry the intact ACTN-3 version, whereas the Mo Farah-like runner showed the signs of a tiny, but important mutation which might give endurance runners an edge.
Security risk
So, after checking the DIY box for food analysis, we ticked the one for human genetic testing. The third step was the most serious. We wanted to explore the security and safety aspects of the biohacker movement.
Within a few days, a courier for a biotech company arrived at our office, looking a little surprised that the delivery address wasn't a working lab. He handed us a package that cost us 23.73 euros. Within it were two tubes containing DNA, whose codes spelled out the beginning and end of the gene for a powerful botanical toxin. It's usually produced by the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, but is better known as ricin. As a quarter of a milligramme is enough to kill a heavyweight boxer, it's officially a bioweapon according to the United Nations, and US counterterrorism officials fear al Qaeda members in Yemen are trying to produce bombs containing the toxin.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website: "Ricin works by getting inside the cells of a person's body and preventing the cells from making the proteins they need. Without the proteins, cells die... Death from ricin poisoning could take place within 36 to 72 hours of exposure, depending on the route of exposure (inhalation, ingestion, or injection) and the dose received."
The gene, though, is inert. It's not poisonous, it just contains the biological code to make the bad stuff. But it is on the list of potentially dangerous DNA fragments, which can only be ordered by specially registered laboratories. We did not want to produce anything dangerous, but we did want to probe how easy or hard it might be to do so – to legally obtain the required molecular ingredients for example, and to handle genes which might be the blueprint for producing something that could serve as a bioweapon. We only ordered portions of that code, the beginning of the gene, and the end. But, in theory, that's enough for a biohacker to make the whole thing.
This could be considered the first step towards bioterrorism. The most disconcerting part is that the routine is not much different from our sushi experiments. After some trial and error, some consultation of freely available web-based databases and protocols and some tinkering with our kit, we succeeded. We looked at another band glowing in a gel. This time, it was the ricin gene.
In our hands, embedded in a gel of agarose sugar, were millions of copies of a gene that contains potentially deadly information. There was nothing to stop us from trying to put the gene for one of nature's most potent toxins into bacteria to see if we could make them produce unlimited copies – clone the ricin gene in other words. It could be done in a day; cloning genes is a mundane, everyday task in professional labs worldwide, even for biohackers at home or in collectives. This wouldn't be a threat on its own – microbes may be able to produce a full ricin protein, but they can't process it in a way the castor plant does to arm the poison. On the other hand, there are protocols available to work around these hurdles. There is scientific literature showing how to produce only the toxic part of ricin and turn it into a therapeutic agent against cancer cells. But it begs the question of whether we could – in an improvised office laboratory – do the experiments needed to create a potential bioweapon?
We stopped short of trying what would be an illegal and dangerous step. We needed to reflect on what we'd learned. We succeeded not only in getting all the materials we needed, but also doing almost everything we had set out to do.
Not long after we paused our experiments the word spread through the community that the FBI planned an event with biohackers from the US as well as Europe and Asia. We requested an invite. The FBI was asking the same questions we were, questions we thought society should be asking, too. What could the future look like in terms of biotech citizen science, but also in terms of DIY-bioterror and sabotage? And how do you try to guard against threats that may not exist yet? Those are the questions we will try to answer in the third and final part of our journey into the world of biohacking.
More from this series
Becoming biohackers: Learning the game
Becoming biohackers: The long arm of the law
The full account of the authors' experiments will be published in Biohacking: Gentechnik aus der Garage (Genetic Engineering from the Garage), and an English e-book version is also planned. If you would like to comment on this article or anything else you have seen on Future, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.


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i am referring to artists like jonathan goldman, anugama, deborah van dyke, nawang khechog, xumantra and too many others to mention. they use instruments and techniques that involve overtones - usually bowls or chants. their stuff is deep and involved and - most often - not dark at all but enlightening and empowering. most think of it as new age but it is decidedly hypnotic.
After getting into this music, and listening to it for some time, I feel like it has enhanced my sense of hearing, and my awareness of the beauty of all sounds. It is amazing how the ambient listener's attuned ears will pick up on things and equate them with the strange sounds coming out of the stereo. For instance, if a plane is flying overhead, and it modulates with the sound of a truck in the distance, my ears get excited, and I feel like I'm listening to exquisite music. I feel this general awareness of sound is due in large part to listening to such obscure, adventurous music.
I don't think people who listen to ambient/electronic/minimalism/ect are smarter than anyone else, but I do believe we are capable of a deeper appriciation of art.
"I do believe we are capable of a deeper appreciation of art."Of course, Bill, you surely can't disagree that he believes this You actually think his belief is wrong/misguided.But the thesis is far from being easy to either prove ... OR disprove.
Instead of waiting for a sound at a predictable moment, you are forced to admire the sound in the exquisite moment. This sort of forces you to listen differently, with no real expectation of an outcome.
The ambient practitioners are taking Western music back into the awareness of pure sound in the moment, kind of like a zen ideal, or a general awareness of music taken out of linear thinking modes.
Actually, I believe that I am the smartest being on earth, because I listen to myself.


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- What is the Median Female Earnings?
- What is the Median Male Earnings?
- What is the Median Female Earnings (Full Time)?
- What is the Median Male Earnings (Full Time)?
- What is the Median Earnings Less Than High School?
- What is the Median Earnings High School?
- What is the Median Earnings Some College or Associates?
- What is the Median Earnings Bachelor Degree?
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- What is the Percent Earning less than $10,000?
The median earnings of Orange County, CA was $35,323 in 2016.
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This table contains data on the living wage and the percent of families with incomes below the living wage for California, its counties, regions and cities/towns. Living wage is the wage needed to cover basic family expenses (basic needs budget) plus all relevant taxes; it does not include publicly provided income or housing assistance. The percent of families below the living wage was calculated using data from the Living Wage Calculator (http://livingwage.mit.edu/) and the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. The table is part of a series of indicators in the Healthy Communities Data and Indicators Project of the Office of Health Equity (http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/HealthyCommunityIndicators.aspx). The living wage is the wage or annual income that covers the cost of the bare necessities of life for a worker and his/her family. These necessities include housing, transportation, food, childcare, health care, and payment of taxes. Low income populations and non-white race/ethnic have disproportionately lower wages, poorer housing, and higher levels of food insecurity. More information about the data table and a data dictionary can be found in the About/Attachments section.
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She was a star player of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the pioneering women's league that kept baseball alive during World War II. When the league folded after the war ended, she, like other women players of the day, packed her groundbreaking history away, along with her glove, bat and baseball uniforms.
But with the 1992 release of the hit film "A League of Their Own" about the short-lived women's league, Lavone "Pepper" Paire Davis, an All-Star catcher and gritty clutch hitter, was rediscovered, becoming a popular speaker and tireless promoter of women in professional sports.
Paire Davis, who in 1944 also co-wrote the league's official song, sung by actors and former players in the film, died Saturday at a medical facility near her home in Van Nuys, her son William Davis said. She was 88 and had suffered from respiratory ailments and other health problems in recent months, her son said.
Paire Davis was among several players who served as models for the central character played by actress Geena Davis in "A League of Their Own," which also starred Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell as fellow ballplayers and Tom Hanks as a foul-mouthed Hall of Famer who becomes the coach of one of the women's teams.
The league was launched in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley and other major league baseball owners who feared that with star men's players going off to fight in World War II, baseball would be forgotten by the fans by the time they returned.
Paire Davis, who grew up playing softball and baseball in West Los Angeles with her older brother Joe, was scouted, recruited and joined the league in 1944, when she was 19. Among only a handful of players from the West Coast, she played for 10 seasons, helping her teams, including the Racine Belles, the Grand Rapids Chicks and the Fort Wayne Daisies, win several league titles.
A versatile player who filled in at shortstop, third base and occasionally pitched in addition to her regular catching job, Paire Davis led the league in 1945 with the fewest strikeouts (six in 392 at-bats). She is tied for fourth on the league's all-time list for total runs batted in.
Although another player, Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek, was known for her slugging and fancy-fielding ability — she often did the splits to snag the ball at first base — Paire Davis was known for her aggressive catching style, strong arm and discipline at the plate.
"I was never a home run hitter," Paire Davis told the Gilroy Dispatch in 1996. "I was a contact hitter. I loved to get on with runners in scoring position. I lived for that."
The conditions for players were not easy.
"We played every night of the week, doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays, and traveled on about a 1938 school bus," she told the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 1995. "When we left Grand Rapids, Mich., at midnight, we would ride almost 400 miles to Rockford, Ill., get there at 10 or 11 in the morning — if the bus didn't break down and we didn't have to push it — get into uniform and go out and play a Sunday afternoon doubleheader."
Born in Los Angeles on May 29, 1924, Lavone Paire, known to her friends and family as "Pepper," was the younger child of Hortense and Charles Paire, who was a plumber.
She and her brother played baseball, football and other sports together on the playgrounds and streets of West L.A.
"She always said that if I had her arm, I'd be in the majors," her brother Joe, now 90, said Monday. "And she'd kid me that they always picked her first because she was the better player. And she was right."
She graduated in 1942 from University High School — a classmate was Norma Jean Baker, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe — and took classes at UCLA. But it was wartime and she also worked at Hughes Aircraft. In her spare time, she played softball — lots of it — for several Southern California women's teams.
In 1944, she joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's Minneapolis Millerettes. She was traded multiple times, and played on several championship teams.
She left baseball in 1953 to marry Robert Davis and start a family. The next year, the women's league suspended play on what was termed a temporary basis. It never resumed.
Throughout her life, Paire Davis remained a sports fan, rooting for the Dodgers, Angels and Lakers, but cheered with special passion for women's baseball, exulting when the Woman's National Adult Baseball Assn. was formed in 1994.
Paire Davis, who spent several months on the set of "A League of Their Own," stayed in touch with director Penny Marshall and several actors afterward and appeared on O'Donnell's talk show at least once, her son said.
In 2009, she published a book about her adventures in baseball, "Dirt in the Skirt."
In addition to her son and brother, her survivors include another son, Rob Davis; a daughter, Susan Gardner; four grandchildren and a great-grandson.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengence!
So it was announced by Kojima that there is a new Metal Gear game in development starring Raiden for the XBOX 360. While I don't believe he's said that it was exclusive, he did say at the press conference that it was in development for Microsoft's console.
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|2009-06-01, 23:34
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people need to lay off Raiden. and he would own Gray Fox.
|2009-06-01, 23:59
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My reaction to this is that Kojima needs to stop pretending that he won't force any of this interactive movie with game segments on us anymore after completing the last one. Seriously just stop saying it's the last one unless it actually is. I just refuse to pretend that these are still good games. The first one....that was a game. Second one....also a game. By the time the 3rd run rolled around though it was just....ugh.
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I'm....quite surprised that there was ever hate for Raiden. I never saw or heard of any (although that could be attributed to me not being a huge forums buff at the time), and I certainly can't see what was so bad about him. In fact, I like his character as much as Snake's and was a bit dissapointed when MGS4 didn't have much of him. (and naturally, has about two steps short of having a squealing fanboy breakdown the times that he did show up kicking arse as Cyborg Ninja Mk. III, lol) I'm all for this puppy here.
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At this point I would gladly support a Raiden based game over having to hear David Hayter's generic gruff delivery (honestly has there ever been a more overglorified voice actor for such a generic one note role?) and Snake's whole overwrought routine once again. If Snake is supposed to be dead or dying, please leave it that way. Though honestly I wonder why they can't just end the franchise. I mean yeah I know money and all, but if it's going to continue the way it's going they might as well just make it into a movie. And you know what, I'd probably go see it, because Metal Gear would almost certainly make for a great movie as opposed to the "game" they are trying to sell it as and that seems to be what Kojima wants anyway. I mean the whole bonus discs with the cutscenes reintegrated into one long movie should be a tipoff as to his true wishes.
Though one thing.....whoever writes the dialogue for these games needs to be replaced now as it's just gotten so utterly pretentious and nonsensical it makes me want to weep.
In case people didn't pick up on it, yeah I'm really off the Metal Gear franchise at the moment. Loved Twin Snakes and found Sons of Liberty decent, but it's really in need of a reboot in the worst way now.
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Is there anyone who played and understood both versions of any MGS game, particularly 4? How does the translation stack up?
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And he's one of the best of MGS english cast. Raiden dub is just atrocious if you compare with his japanese voice, Liquid, Solidus... All of them are nowhere near the talent of the japanese dubbers.
Not that i think MGS dub is horrible, it's fairly decent. It's only that the japanese is way better, hehe. I'm even thinking in getting the japanese version of Rising just to get rid of Raiden english dub.
About the whole game/movie, well, to be honest, i didn't get it. You liked(or at least think it's average) MGS2, when besides MGS4, he's the one with most movies and talk. I love MGS2, it's my favorite one from the series and i think most of the talk is needed for the story(except everything Rose tells you), but there's a lot of talk, much more than the 3.
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There are a lot of saints we probably haven't heard of. We're familiar with the popular ones, like Saint Patrick, Patron Saint of People Getting Drunk in His Honor, and Saint Francis of Assisi, known for his strong affection for animals. We know some of the more obscure ones, like Saint Guinefort: We're not sure about Saint Tiggywinkles, but we are in awe of his works. Tiggywinkles is the world's leading wildlife hospital. It was founded in 1978 by Les and Sue Stocker, along with their son Colin. Until 1983 the Stockers funded their work from their savings. Then in February of that year the project became a Registered Charity with the official title of The Wildlife Hospital Trust. They've helped a variety of species, including badgers, owls, swan, and deer. During the drought of 1984, they began to see more hedgehogs, and worked to raise awareness of their plight, asking people to leave out water and dog food for them. Many people started looking more closely at their local hedgehogs, and so many were brought in for treatment for injuries that the hospital opened a new shed as a Hedgehog-Only unit, and called it "St. Tiggywinkles." The hospital continues to look after all species of wildlife that are brought in, rehabilitating and releasing into the wild if possible, or keeping the animals in as natural an environment as possible at the hospital. Euthanasia is a last resort. While the hospital doesn't turn any wild animal away, avian prey, or predator Some of the animals are up for adoption. If you're looking for a weasel, stoat, or polecat or perhaps a buzzard or a badger Or a hedgehog St. Tiggywinkles is the patron saint of baby wild animals.:badger, buzzard, deer, guinefort, hedgehog, hospital, owl, polecat, rabbit, red kite, saint, st, stoat, tiggywinkles, vet, veterinarian, veterinary, weasel


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With only a few months left before the birth of undoubtedly the world's most famous foetus, big brands are cashing in on the Royal Household's expectancy. Bookies Ladbrokes have begun a new campaign for bets on the Royal Baby along with soft drink company Shloer.
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Imagine, is this is what is happening behind palace doors? Perhaps not, but its fun to think so anyway!