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Burda Jacket: It's *Nearly* Finished
Front view:
Back view:
So, I'm on the home stretch, except that I also have to redo the collar because it's not sitting correctly.
Here's the proof:
When you take out some of the extra fabric inside, the collar lays better, so I guess that's what I'll be doing:
I previously had to redo some of the lining because I discovered it wasn't quite large enough when I was finishing the hem. I just made the seam allowances smaller in a couple places, like so:
The old seam allowance is glaringly obvious, but I'm not worried about it. I don't think people will be inspecting the inside of the jacket. :)
I can't lie, I will be happy when this project is over. It's taking forever!!


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A 26-year-old Maryland man, Justin K. Middleton, is facing charges after allegedly leaving a 14-month-old girl in his vehicle while gambling at Harrington Raceway and Casino.
A 26-year-old Maryland man is facing charges after allegedly leaving a 14-month-old girl in his vehicle while gambling at Harrington Raceway and Casino.
A casino patron noticed the car was running in the casino parking lot around noon on Sept. 1 and spotted the baby in a car seat behind the front passenger's seat. The patron notified a manager, who called police, and troopers responded to the scene at about 12:05 p.m., said Delaware State Police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier.
Troopers gained access into the vehicle, which was unlocked, and removed the 14-month-old girl. Fournier said she did not appear to be in distress or need medical attention.
Justin K. Middleton, of Preston, Md., responded to a page put out in the casino for the owner of the vehicle at about 1:30 p.m. He was arrested and Fournier said he initially denied leaving his daughter in the car.
He later recanted his story and told troopers he left the baby in the car while he was inside gambling, Fournier said.
The 14-month-old was turned over to a relative in the Harrington area until the mother could arrive to take custody, Fournier said.
Middleton is charged with first-degree reckless endangering, unattended motor vehicle and parking in a handicapped space. He was being held at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center on a $2,505 secured bond. A no-contact order was issued with his daughter.


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When he was a boy, Robert Royal recalls, the cotton gin was a big part of the tiny town of Midnight, Miss., not far from the Humphreys County family farm where he grew up.
"In the fall, I'd tag along with my father when he took our cotton to the gin," he says. "It was a beehive of activity, with all the trailers full of cotton, and it was both great fun and a bit scary for a youngster. My 'job' was to help my father hook and unhook trailers from his truck. I couldn't have imagined one day I'd be running the gin."
For Robert, vice president and general manager of Midnight Gin and incoming president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, becoming a ginner was something of a baptism under fire.
Following a post-college stint in the Chicago futures trading pits, he had returned to Mississippi to start a brokerage business and to farm with his father.
He remembers well the day in 2001 that Peter Hairston, president of the gin corporation, "said he wanted to begin relinquishing his responsibilities and asked me to be his replacement. Peter's a great guy, and I really couldn't say no to him.
"That was the year everybody was growing cotton," Robert says, "and I started my Midnight Gin career with the biggest crop that had ever been ginned here — 32,000 bales. On top of that, the gin manager announced that he was planning to move away, so I had to hire a new manager.
"Then we had a wet fall, which slowed ginning of that huge crop, with a lot of choke-ups and a lot of rotten seed. But I survived it, and we learned that the gin could comfortably handle that kind of volume."
Prior to the ginning season, Robert had enrolled in the summer ginning school at the USDA Cotton Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville, Miss., and later went on to complete the three-year ginner certification program.
"I learned that a ginner needs a lot of skills — from customer relations to engineering to labor management to equipment maintenance, and on and on. Add to those a knack for solving problems and a fair amount of old-fashioned horse sense."
Since that record year, cotton acreage in the area has declined, with a low point for the gin in 2010 of only 5,000 bales. The 2012 season was a bit better, with 11,200 bales.
That meant an abbreviated ginning season. "We were caught up with the early-harvested cotton by about Nov. 10, and operated on an as-needed basis after that," Robert says. "A couple of our farmers had a late crop, so we were ginning some of that cotton into late November. We ran our last bale November 26.
"This year was particularly interesting, in that we received cotton picked on all picker row configurations: 1-row, 2-row, 4-row, 5-row, 6-row, and 6-row round baler. All our farmers had good yields and good grades.
"For most of our customers, cotton is now a minor crop — probably less than half the acres as when cotton was king — and I expect acreage will be down even more next year. But we have a core of good cotton growers, we do a quality job of ginning, and we've been paying good rebates, even during the downturn.
"Although forecasts for cotton in 2013 aren't all that bright, given world stocks and lagging demand, I think we'll still have enough acreage to run the gin this year. I just want to be able to weather the downturn and still be here, ready to gin, when cotton turns back up, as it eventually will.
Loss of gins
"I'm worried more about the loss of gins in general — all those that have closed, and others that will close. If we have a big resurgence in cotton down the road, it could be difficult to rebuild the infrastructure. If we had another acreage increase on the order of what we saw in 2001, there might not be enough ginning capacity to handle it. Building a gin nowadays is an expensive undertaking."
While Midnight Gin's weathered buildings may not have the slick curbside appeal of more recent plants — it is one of Mississippi's oldest continuously operating gins — the machinery inside has been systematically upgraded, Robert says. "We have a really efficient, smooth-running plant."
The original gin, a used line shaft plant that had been moved from nearby Belzoni in the 1950s, was so slow the press operator laughingly said he could tie a bale, walk to the nearby store for a Coke, and get back before the next bale was ready to tie.
In 1966, it was torn down and replaced with the present facility. It had two Murray 120 gin stands, later converted to 142s, and even later another 142 was added.
"The Murray equipment is built like a Sherman tank — it's so sturdy and reliable, there has been no need to replace it," Robert says.
"We've added equipment to improve pre-cleaning and lint cleaning, and have made other changes to 'soup up' the operation, and we get a high level of efficiency and quality. In trial runs, we've gone as high as 43 bales per hour, but our 'normal' level is a bit over 30 bales per hour.
"A few years ago, we added another stick machine and split the flow of cotton so we could run it through two machines. We were able to find another Murray machine that was an exact match to the one we had and we had it rebuilt.
"Some years back, we also installed a Lipsey GinTech module feeder with a Keith Walking Floor, which made ginning less a batch and more a continuous flow process. And we've added sampling and wrapping machinery."
Robert keeps the gin abreast of new technology through a close association with the USDA Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville. In 2002, he began working with a Power Roll gin stand that has computerized controls.
After seeing the added efficiency, computerized controls were added to the conventional gin stands. The result, he says: "More bales per day, and more units for spreading costs."
He has also collaborated with Rick Byler at the Stoneville lab on a spray system to regulate moisture at various stages of the ginning process. "It's simple, and it has improved fiber quality," he says.
While none of Midnight Gin's customers have module-builder pickers, Robert says, "We've done some trials to see if we could handle the round modules, and we found that we can do it expeditiously without adding equipment. But, I think there would have to be a dramatic change in the cotton-grains price relationship in favor of cotton to justify these growers investing in expensive new pickers."
He gives Gin Manager James Holley, who has been there for eight years, credit for helping to make improvements to the gin plant and to keep the operation running smoothly. "Everything James has suggested has paid off," he says. When in full operation, the gin has four full-time employees and seven or eight part-time, all from the local area.
Farming family
Robert's family has been a part of agriculture in the area going back to his great-great grandfather, William Henry Ellis, who grew up in nearby Yazoo City, fought and lost a leg in the Civil War, then came back to the Midnight farm that had been given to him and his wife as a wedding present.
"My grandfather, Dr. Asa Royal Sr., was a veterinarian who later went to work for Delta and Pine Land, helping to look after their mules and other livestock. With the advent of tractors and mechanization, he wasn't needed there any more, so he and my grandmother took over the farm.
"After his death, my late father, Asa Jr., farmed here for 50-plus years. The farm probably was no more than 100 acres in my great-grandfather's day, but it has been gradually expanded over the years. I grew up on the farm and worked with my father until I went to college.
"After earning my ag economics degree at Mississippi State University, I went to Chicago and worked for ContiCommodity in the soybean trading pit. When trading began in 10-year Treasury contracts, I spent a year doing that. It later became one of the largest contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade."
After that, he returned home to Mississippi and, with a partner, started a brokerage business at nearby Belzoni.
"But, I had always wanted to farm, and my father was giving thought to retiring, so he and I farmed together until he retired. I couldn't have asked for a better mentor."
That was about the time that farm bill changes gave farmers the freedom to plant what they wanted.
"We had been growing soybeans, and [he laughs] we proved year after year that we couldn't grow soybeans on our land without irrigation — the last year we had beans, we didn't even harvest them.
"But it is good cotton ground. The following year, we planted cotton, made 2.5 bales per acre, and the farm has been all cotton ever since. It has been a consistent, reliable crop. Daddy always said, 'Cotton will pay the bills.'"
Two years ago, he installed a center pivot on some of his marginal rolling land, where landforming would be cost-prohibitive.
"I still have a lot to learn about irrigation timing," Robert says, "but it is definitely paying for itself in improved yield. I think economies of scale will be the determining factor as to whether I add more irrigation; right now, with the cotton outlook as it is, I have no aggressive plan for additional irrigation."
Nor, he says, does he expect to buy new pickers. "I'm still using a couple of Case 4-row pickers. They're tough, and they just keep going."
His 10-year cotton average is about two bales per acre. The worst year was rain-plagued 2009, with only 650 lbs., "which demonstrated for me the value of crop insurance. My banner year was 2005, just shy of 1,500 lbs. The 2012 crop was a good one, close to 2.5 bales."
The way things stand with cotton, Robert says, he has no inclination to expand his operation. "If the right acreage in the right location became available, I might consider expansion — but I'm pretty much comfortable with the present size of my operation."
He still utilizes his experience as a trader to hedge or replace positions as part of his marketing program, but says he is increasingly using options as a pricing mechanism. "I still love to follow the markets — which I can do in real time on my smart phone."
Robert and his wife, Frances, have two children: Son Elliot is a junior at Mississippi College, pursuing a business degree; his passion is flying, and he is both a commercial pilot and flight instructor. Daughter Laura Ellis is a sophomore at Manchester Academy at Yazoo City.


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A newly released quality of life survey, the largest regional study done in nearly a century, has discovered both striking similarities and differences in how African- Americans and Whites feel about living here.
Covering topics ranging from employment and mass transit to public safety and Marcellus Shale development, PittsburghTODAY's Quality of Life Survey asked 2,200 people in the greater western Pennsylvania region 120 questions covering 10 areas of study. It has also compiled an identical data set for Pittsburgh.
Jeffrey Fraser, senior editor for PittsburghTODAY, said the results are interesting in that while a majority of Blacks and Whites agree the region has few problems, among those who see major problems, the differences are stark.
"In areas where people reported a major problem, that problem disproportionally affects African-Americans," said Fraser.
These results appear when examining a variety of issues including public safety, public amenities, infrastructure, the economy and race relations.
With respect to public parks and recreational facilities, among those citing them as "poor," African-Americans did so by a 2-1 margin.
"While clear majorities of Blacks and Whites say their neighborhoods are safer than others, for those who don't, 18 percent of African-Americans said they have been victims of property crime compared to 5 percent in the non-African-American population," said Fraser. "And the number of African-Americans saying their neighborhoods had more crime than a year earlier is twice that of non-Blacks."
Again, in terms of violent crime, more than 90 percent of Blacks and Whites said they had not been victims of a violent assault, but among those who had, Blacks outpaced Whites by a 2-1 margin.
Fraser said one of the starkest differences he noted was in the area of personal finances, particularly the number of people who reported having difficulty paying for basic needs such as food, rent and utilities.
"Six times as many African-Americans answered 'always,' and 12 times as many answered 'often,'" said Fraser. "So again while it may be a small number of people overall who are really struggling, that number is overwhelmingly Black."
The same dichotomy arises again when looking at public transportation; twice as many African-Americans as Whites reported the availability of public transit was a "major problem."
And again, the same phenomenon occurs when discussing race relations in general, with twice as many African-Americans saying it is a "major problem."
The PittsburghTODAY project was first started by late Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor John Craig, and by 2005 had grown significantly. It is now a project of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research.
"It's the most comprehensive look at the region ever done," said Fraser. "It can be useful for nonprofits and policy makers, but also for journalism projects related to some of these issues (in the survey)."
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Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright
from the interesting-move... dept
In a statement released on the Kremlin's website on Thursday, Medvedev instructed the country's communications ministry to draw up amendments "aimed at allowing authors to let an unlimited number of people use their content on the basis of free licensing."This could be interesting. To be honest, I'm not sure why such things need to be baked into copyright law (as we've seen, it appears to work with it being built on top of existing copyright law -- though, some question the legality of certain CC licenses). However, what will be most interesting is to see how copyright industry lobbyists and US politicians react to this. I imagine that such a move will show up in the industry... er... I mean the USTR's annual Special 301 report as evidence as to why Russia doesn't "respect" copyright law enough.
The proposed copyright system is on a par with the initiative launched by Creative Commons, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that has created copyright licenses that allow owners to share their content for free with certain restrictions.
But would that really be true? Does building a more flexible, more modern copyright law really mean a lack of respect for copyright? Why wouldn't it mean a healthy respect for building a system that matches better with the times -- rather than the industry's kneejerk reaction to just keep ratcheting up the punishments, enforcements and coverage of copyright?


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My final identification of the subjects of the daguerreotype:
Sitting, left to right: Myron Tanner, Elizabeth Beswick Tanner, Louisa Maria Tanner Lyman. Standing: Joseph Smith Tanner.I would be happy to hear reactions to this series. Do leave a comment. If you disagree with the identification, please read through all the posts and let me know what part of the data you interpret differently and why. If you have questions about my sources, just ask, and I'd be happy to provide further citations.[2]
Analyzing this daguerreotype has been a great adventure. The existence of the picture, kindly provided to the Tanner family by way of the Church History Library by Myron Tanner descendant Claudia Rayl, together with the recent movie Treasure in Heaven, has led to a resurgence of interest in the Tanner family history. What a wonderful time for the John Tanner family.[3]
[May 29, 2014. A claim was made elsewhere that the subjects in this daguerreotype had to sit still for twenty minutes for the exposure. I'm not sure where that information came from. The following creditable source notes that by 1842, exposure time was down to as little as ten seconds. (The Daguerreotype Process.)]
Part 2: We Meet the Tanners
Part 3: What is a Daguerreotype?
Part 4: Technology Meets the Tanners
Part 5: Woman at Right
Part 6: Woman in Center
Part 7: Boy in Back — First Possibility
Part 7: Boy in Back — Additional Possibilities
Part 8: Man at Left — John Tanner?
Part 8: Man at Left — Options
Part 8: Response from CHL about Fire Damage
Part 9: Conclusion
One Final Thought on Daguerreotypes


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Nice kick off to 24 ways.
However I'm pretty sure your method for supporting IE won't work.
If I remember correctly it will write the rgb colour then attempt to write the rgba colour get confused by the "a" bit and give the element a default colour (Or so Andy Clarke tells me).
So for a h1 it will write the rgb colour, then try and write the rgba get confused and fall back to the default of black.
The easiest way around this would be to use something like modernizr.


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We might not be the world's top cheese eaters - leave that to the Greeks and the French - but Canadians do their best to indulge. Our cheddar rocks and, in 2009, Le Cendrillon, a goat cheese made by Quebec producer La Maison Alexis de Portneuf, won top honours at the World Cheese Awards. With that in mind, welcome this all-cheese edition.
1. Cheese & Agriculture Museum, Ingersoll, Ont.
Canadian cheese production began here in Oxford County in 1840. To pay homage to those days, a replica 20th-century cheese factory has been set up with exhibits focusing on those early years. It was a time when the Mammoth Cheese was made, a block weighing over 3,100 kilograms. ingersoll.ca
2. Uncle Betty's, Toronto
How about some cheese with your cheese? In what might be one of the most decadent grilled cheese sandwiches ever, this midtown diner uses white and orange cheese, tops it with mac 'n cheese, and then a generous slab of meat loaf or pulled pork. 2590 Yonge St.
3. Les Amis du Fromage, Vancouver.
There are many fab cheese shops across Canada, Toronto's Cheese Boutique and Ottawa's House of Cheese in the ByWard Market among them. But this cheesy store is pretty, offering 400 to 500 varieties, some tough to find elsewhere. buycheese.com
4. Cheese cave, toca, The Ritz-Carleton, Toronto
If you are a turophile (fancy talk for cheese lover), this is your Nirvana. On hand is an exquisite selection of mainly Canadian cheese, plus some notable imports like Manchego from Spain and Ragusano cow's milk cheese, valued at $4,000 for a 20 kg chunk. Informal tours share the highlights with guests. Ritzcarlton.com
5. Gorilla Cheese, Hamilton
In Steeltown, business execs line up next to students to get their hands on sandwiches from Canada's finest grilled cheese food truck. It just hit the streets this summer and is doing fab. Find it via Facebook and Twitter. Gorillacheese.com
6. Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival, Little Chute, Wisconsin
There's a reason why they call Wisconsin residents 'cheeseheads.' The state is the top producer of cheese in the U.S. (the largest cheese producing nation in the world). Find out why during this annual event (June) and practise now to earn a spot for the cheese curd-eating and cheese carving competitions. http: //wi-littlechute.civicplus.com/index. aspx?NID=226
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This is the grand fromage of cheese festivals with 150 nations dishing it out over three days in September. This is a serious one, so no cheeseeating contests and cheese-wedge hats. The medieval town of Bra is lovely, so show your support. www.cheese.slowfood.com/


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May godess Varamahalakshmi bless you with riches and good health.
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Dry grated coconut : 2tbsp
Dry Fruits for garnishing
1.Soak chanadal overnight. Bring to boil 4 cups of water and add a pinch of turmeric. Add chanadal when water starts to boil. Cook dal till it is soft and done. Separate dal and water. Use dal water to make rasam or sambar or soup
2.Add 1/2 cup of water to 1.5 cups of jaggery and bring to boil. Filter the solution to remove dust from jaggery. Bring to boil and continue to boil till you get a thick solution. It takes 2 minutes to reach this stage. 3.Reduce the heat and proceed to next step.
4.Add 1 tbsp of ghee and cooked dal and bring to boil. Add poppyseeds+coconut powder to it and mix well. When the resulting solution starts boiling again switch off the stove and garnish with nuts fried in 1 tbsp of ghee.
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Yes, I went to those three, often, during that time. However, I was a pretty observant kid, and I'm just surprised that I never noticed the building back then. I think that the old S&H Green Stamps store was just up the block, and we frequented that spot often. In the 80s, I lived a few blocks away, and it was definitely gone. I did watch them tear down the Coral – very sad.
Ripshin, that's not so strange. I hardly went to the Gables as a kid either. The family films played mostly at the Coral and Miracle and later at the Twin Gables during that period. The Gables was not booked for kids and it was easier to get into an R rated film downtown.
OK, the postcard above, was photographed at Ponce & Minorca, looking south. It's easy to check via Google Streetview. So, yes, the theater was gone by the time I returned to Miami in 1982. Diagonally across the street, is the Hotel St. Michel (don't know what it was back in the 30s), where I shot a student film in the early 80s. I would have remembered the old Gables sitting there. Occupying the spot now, is Wachovia – formerly whatever. I guess that the building was constructed right after they tore down the theater in 1981? Strange thing is, that as a kid in Miami from '67 – '74, I never attended a movie there.
I grew up in the Gables, near this theater. When I was thirteen I got permission to go with my friends (all of us attended 7th grade at Carver in Coconut Grove) to see a new exciting movie called 'Star Wars' in 1976. We were mesmerized, and had seen nothing like it before! One friend went back SIX times to see it! Also others such as murder-mystery 'W' (oooh, we were so scared!). I remember stopping at the popcorn counter and signs everywhere showed a big 'W' and the captions read 'WHO is W'???? (as in, who is W, the murderer.) Also, 'Earthquake' with Charlton Heston & Lorne Greene, and many many more. It was a great home-town theater with a big screen and great sound, and like BerkelyBernie's blog above this theater was just near Coral Gables Elementary School (which I attended from grade 1-6 (minus second grade when they forced us to leave Gables Elementary for 'integration', then they allowed us to come back the following year). Anyway, it was a great theater which I truly miss. I remember due to the population at the time, it was never really busy, just us neighborhood people mostly. And most people walked there from their homes or apartments. If memory serves me correctly, they eventually tore this building down and erected a tall modern building that read 'Bank of Tokyo' for many years. We were SO disheartened and not happy at all with the new addition to our beautiful town. Anyway, very happy memories at the Gables Theater. (As well as at Miracle on Miracle Mile, but Gables was MY theater.)
The long run of "WOODSTOCK" opened at the smaller Coral which was used for exclusive runs. The Gables ran the film later when it went wide.
The Gables was a large house with balcony and a very large screen,
especially after the introduction of CinemaScope in the early '50s.
Unfortunately, the 1936 "renovation" took out almost all of the original decor from the lobby and auditorium. What I remember was a
creme colored wall with a medium blue design on each wall in a sort of stepped effect starting at the rear…nothing great. Proscenium was plain, ceiling plain. Entry doors into the auditorium were sort of greyish blue as I remember with an octogan shaped frosted window in the center upper part. The exterior underwent some significant changes after the 1936 renovation. I remember the Gables from about 1947 to 1972. The large vertical sign was plaster at the end of the theatre's life, but earlier in my time it had mirror chips on the plaster on both sides of it, making the neon letters "GABLES" really glow at night. It seemed to get plainer as time went on.
I saw many classic films here during my years in the Gables. I took my much younger brother to see "Woodstock" here when there was a
tizzy about it showing in Coral Gables. An earlier post said that "Woodstock" played at the Coral? No, it was at the Gables.
I miss all the old theatres in the Gables; so glad that the Miracle Theatre survived…where I was an usher in my teens.
This photo would imply that the Coral Gables Theatre (Famous players/Lasky 1500 seats)open in 1926 indeed became the Gables in 1936.
And I saw "Wait Until Dark" there! I remember the entire audience jumping out of their seats during the scariest part.
I grew up in Coral Gables, until finishing Coral Gables Elementary in 1968. I was a school crossing guard, and, if I recall correctly, a perk was getting free movie tickets to the Gables, which was right next door. I'm sure I saw many flicks there. I recall rushing to the theater once straight after taking off my safety vest, and seeing what, to my 10 year old sensibilities, seemed a rather disturbing film ("The Honey Pot").
With Google StreetView, I recently started exploring some of my old childhood roadways, which I haven't seen in forty years. When I couldn't find the theater, I figured it was demolished. A little more searching turned up this site, confirming it was gone. Too bad…
The Gables opened in 1936 and closed in 1981. A previous Coral Gables theatre also operated on Ponce De Leon Boulevard, possibly on the site of the Coral.
Was this gone by the 80s? I don't remember it from my childhood (67 – 73 in Miami), and definitely not when I went back to attend UM.
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Oh! Thanks Al. Fancy a real-time reply about this.
JWX, the theatre near Sergios was the Twin Gables, later the Gables Triple.
It's amazing that someone should post about "Star Wars" in the context of this cinema, because I only just mentioned it to my parents, one day ago.
I was recalling that as a child (9-10), they took me to see the very first Stars Wars there, and wondered what the theatre was called.
We remembered its location (on Ponce, as we locals call the veneral Ponce De Leon Blvd.), but not the name. And here I am, reading this description like an old friend greeting another, after many years' absence.
With a child's memory, acute for some details, but strictly hazy about others, all I can contribute to the thread is that I recall that its lobby contained the very first "Asteroids" video game machine I ever saw.
It was all of a quarter to play it, and the thrill of doing so (since there was such a queue of kids to play it that afternoon!) almost eclipsed my memories and excitement of watching Stars Wars I itself.
Years later, our (private Catholic) school took us kids to see Return of the Jedi, only this time in the cinemahouse down the road on 24th street near the famed Sergio's Cuban restaurant — on the location which later became a succession of supermarkets, including Varadero, and currently, Winn Dixie.
I'm off to find that theatre now, for more shared memories. What a great site this is.
The address above is incorrect. The Gables was at 2112 Ponce de Leon.
The Gables had dressing rooms upstairs and a proper stage. It was always upstaged by the smaller but more modern Coral down the road, In spite of a tiny lobby and several run down years, it survived the adding of the Twin Gables (actually located on the Miami side) to serve the affluent Coral Gables market.
In it's last years it was also home to the ABC Florida State Theatres South Florida offices, later becoming a Plitt Theatres.
The Gables hosted the exclusive South Florida run of STAR WARS in Christmas 1977 when the movie just wouldn't go away that year.


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I began to leave this as a comment, but it grew too long and I realized that it was not really about you to begin with. It is about a trope I would like to see die, one which no amount of defining, describing, and debunking seems to be able to kill.
I do not kid myself that this will be effective in killing it either. I offer it here only in the hope that it might at least maim it a little.
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Here is what is happening. In the view of ideological leftists, the sin of privilege - particularly that of a white, heterosexual American male - can never be washed away. It is a permanent defect of your soul. It means - to ideologues - that you have no moral worth. Despite what they say, no amount of "unpacking", no amount of insight, no amount of loyal "ally work" can regain your humanity. In their eyes, your privilege means that that - now and forever - you have nothing of value to say. Your experiences are of no consequence. Your views are always empty. While you might be trotted out on occasion as part of a show-trial illustration of remorse, once that is done you need to shut up and move to the background. Once you are privileged, you are free only to agree.
This is a common misconception, I think--and I think you ought to recall here, as I do, that you admit right up front that this isn't a topic with which you are very familiar, nor even one you care to educate yourself about:
I don't really care about feminism, and I could care less what Jessica Valenti or the various WOC bloggers that are involved in this controversy think. What interests me is Hugo's attempt to add his voice to the mix, by trying to convince both sides that there is room for both in his big-tent view of feminism. And I care very much what Hugo thinks, because he is clearly a decent man, and a deep thinker.
See, that's privilege in action: The feelings of white feminist women?--Not important, not worthy of consideration. The feelings of women of color?--Not important, not worthy of consideration. The feelings of a fellow Christian white male?--So important, it's worth it to you to disregard entirely those with whom he engages. Except, of course, to misinterpret what they're trying to say in what has to be one of the most misguided "fiskings" I've seen recently on these internets. To return to your post:
In the view of ideological leftists, the sin of privilege - particularly that of a white, heterosexual American male - can never be washed away.
As a Christian feminist myself, I do understand the urge to draw parallels between original sin and privilege. They are not dissimilar at first glance, but a better metaphor here would be something more like fish in the sea, or maybe even those dumb old Palmolive dish soap commercials: White privilege is what white people are soaking in. It doesn't make sense to talk about "washing it away" anymore than it makes sense for schools of saltwater fish to "wash away" the sea.
You can't go back and erase the subjugation of indigenous peoples by whites, you can't go back and erase slavery, you can't go back and undo genocide--and neither can I, and neither can Hugo. We exist in an environment that has historically favored white people, and we can't change that history. (The present and the future, now, are another matter.)
Is this so far-fetched, so loony a concept? I don't think that it is. I think it's just acknowledging the reality of existing circumstance.
It means - to ideologues - that you have no moral worth. Despite what they say, no amount of "unpacking", no amount of insight, no amount of loyal "ally work" can regain your humanity.
This, this right here, is what I mean when I say "a common misconception"--because this is patently untrue, and yet I hear it all the time. The most recent example I can think of occurred at Brownfemipower's, where a commenter basically asked, what do you want white people to do? Kill themselves? And with regards to the book discussion that doesn't interest you, but on which you nevertheless feel perfectly entitled to comment, that same sentiment has been expressed as, what do you want white feminists to do? Refuse book deals? Stop speaking at all?
This sets up a demonstrably false dichotomy: White people must either obliterate themselves, or content themselves with eternal, subhuman, racist asshole status. Oh, the humanity (that white people are losing, boo-hoo)!
I say this is demonstrably false because the very conversation you reference, this conversation at Hugo's that was so dehumanizing to Hugo, includes arguments made by white people; you cite them frequently throughout your own post. You quote a comment left by Tom of the blog Automatic Preference; Tom is a white man. Your next blockquote is from a comment by Theriomorph; Theriomorph is a white woman. You then cite a comment by R. Mildred; by now you should not be surprised to learn that R. Mildred is a white woman. And if any one of those three white people you quoted has ever felt dehumanized by people of color, I have not heard of it.
But it does happen that the white people you quoted stand in solidarity with women of color, and this brings us to your next point, which, again, I see made by so many, so often, that I beg you not to take this personally:
Once you are privileged, you are free only to agree.
I am free to argue with a neurosurgeon about the best way to repair a cerebral aneurysm. I am free to argue with a homeless person about the best way to stay safe on the streets. I am free to argue with an astronaut about the best way to prepare for outer space travel.
I am free to argue all these topics, but it should come as no surprise when other people, every bit as free as I am, think me a jackass for doing so. I'm not a neurosurgeon, I am not homeless, and I am no astronaut. I don't actually have a shred of authority to invoke in any of these discussions.
And as a white woman, I don't have a shred of authority to invoke in any discussions of racism as it is experienced by people of color, either. If a woman of color says to me, "What you are doing right now is silencing me, what you say here is patronizing, I experience it as dismissive," I am free to argue with her, all right; but Theriomorph or Tom or R. Mildred are also free to say, "Hey, Ilyka, stop that. You're being a racist douchebag. You can do better than this."
Now if I have any sense at all, I'll listen to Tom and R. Mildred and Theriomorph when they say that--but what would be even better than that would be if I resolved to listen to the woman of color who raised that concern with me in the first place. That woman is giving me the invaluable gift of the benefit of the doubt; I owe her, not the other way around! The bare-bones minimum I can do is listen to her with humility, listen to her in love.
Yes, what would be best would be if I did not need to hear criticism of myself solely from other white people in order to understand. What would be even better would be if I saw in people of color the same humanity you so passionately defend provided it belongs to Hugo, and not to those nasty leftist ideologues about whom you have bothered to learn absolutely NOTHING.
(And, Hugo, what would be even better from you would be if you would learn to discern when the devil's whispering in your ear, and stop thanking him for doing that.)
Unsurprisingly, Sweating Through Fog, your erroneous conclusion follows naturally from your erroneous premise:
So as a privileged person, Hugo has no basis from which to persuade feminists about anything.
The problem is not that Hugo is a privileged person. The problem is not who or what Hugo IS. The problem lies (pardon the Catholicism a moment) in what Hugo has done, and in what he has failed to do. The problem is that Hugo is not listening. I will note wearily here that this is a longstanding problem, Hugo-wise; and again, one shared by pretty much every white person on the planet; and finally, one that is seldom relieved by enablers whispering, "It's hopeless, you'll never please them, you can't win, just kill yourself, Whitey."
What if, instead of white feminists closing themselves off from discourse they deem unproductive ("unproductive" appears here to be synonymous with "uncomfortable"), they eagerly assumed the roles of pupils instead of demanding always the roles of teachers?
What if white feminists tried listening?
But I forget myself! You don't care about any of that. You only care about Hugo's humanity. You know what, dude? I think Hugo's humanity is going to be just fine, if by "just fine" we mean "expansive and all-consuming to the point no one else can have any." So do not fret. Be of good cheer!


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Eva Longoria's representative denies pregnancy reports
The Desperate Housewives star has been quietly dating the New York Jets quarterback since the summer (12), and an article in America's Star magazine this week (begs01Oct12) suggests the couple's romance has taken a serious turn - and they are set to become parents.
However, Longoria's spokesperson has dismissed the baby speculation, telling TMZ.com, "Rumours of the couple being pregnant are false and absolutely not true."
The sexy Latina, who was previously married to basketball ace Tony Parker, began romancing Sanchez after ending her on/off relationship with rocker Eduardo Cruz earlier this year (12).


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#1 The October Surprise10-21-2012, 01:43 AM
The October Surprise
October 20, 2012 - 7:16 pm - by Michael Ledeen
The New York Times reports (and the White House denies) that "The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomatic effort to avert a military strike on Iran."
Two of the three assertions in that lead paragraph are demonstrably false. One-on-one negotiations have been going on for years (most recently, according to my friend "Reza Kahlili," in Doha, where, he was told, Valerie Jarrett and other American officials recently traveled for the latest talks). The only news here is that the talks would no longer be secret. And the notion that only diplomacy can avert "a military strike on Iran" is fanciful. There are at least two other ways: sanctions may compel the regime to stop its nuclear weapons program, or the Iranian people may find a way to overthrow the regime, thereby (perhaps, at least) rendering military action unnecessary.
I rather suspect that you don't have to do anything to avoid an American military strike on Iran. I can't imagine an Obama Administration authorizing a military attack. An administration that can barely bring itself to fly air cover in Libya, and can't bring itself to take any serious action in Syria, strikes me as very unlikely to unleash our armed forces against the mullahs.
As for the claim that Iran has agreed to talks, even that seems problematic, as the Times admits further down in its story: "American officials said they were uncertain whether Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had signed off on the effort." If there is no approval from the supreme leader, there is no agreement at all.
The Times' journalists–Helene Cooper and Mark Lander–then treat us to an attempt to calculate the political significance of their story, but that is as foggy as the report itself. Maybe it would help Obama claim some sort of breakthrough. On the other hand, maybe it would leave him open to the charge that Iran is using him to stall for time. Who knows? They quote America's favorite negotiator, Dennis Ross, who is of course all for the talks, and even has a negotiating strategy all ready. And they quote Nicholas Burns, who is also supportive.
This last is a bit curious, since Burns, who was Condoleezza Rice's top negotiator with the Iranians, actually believed he had negotiated a "grand bargain" with the Iranians in 2006. The Iranians would suspend nuclear enrichment and we would lift sanctions. Except that the Iranians failed to show up for the signing ceremony at the United Nations, and Rice and Burns sat in New York waiting for the Iranian airplane to take off from Tehran. Apparently Mr.Burns didn't learn the obvious lesson.
At least one element of the Times story is true: the agreement, if there actually is one, is undoubtedly " a result of intense, secret exchanges between American and Iranian officials that date almost to the beginning of President Obama's term." Indeed, there were talks between Iranian officials and a representative of the Obama campaign, even before the Inauguration. Secret talks between the two countries have been going on for decades, and I do not know of any American president from Jimmy Carter to the present who did not secretly pursue a deal with Tehran. (I participated in such talks in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration).
So what is happening? The most likely explanation is that Obama is still desperately seeking his grand bargain, the one that would validate his (and the Nobel Committee's) claim to be a talented peace maker. That deal is not available, because the Iranians don't want it. But he wants something to show for his efforts, so he settled for a big nothingburger: an agreement to talk some more.
Even if the story turns out to be true, I don't think it will help him. "We're going to talk to the Iranians!" isn't a very sexy headline.
The one (mildly) interesting feature is why the story was leaked. Did the leaker(s) think it would help the campaign? Or was the leaker trying to stop yet another embarrassing wasted effort?
Give it a few days, maybe we'll actually learn something interesting. Maybe it'll even come up in Monday's debate…
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/201...ober-surprise/Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
I thought the October Surprise is going to come courtesy of Gloria Allred?Progressivism is a bottomless pit of absurdity.
10-21-2012, 11:07 PMWoe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
Maybe some people will be gullible enough to believe this BS. Obama must really be stretching, but his loyal lapdogs, the MSM, will trumpet it as a triumph for the Annointed One. Oy!
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I really think we need to keep track of all these October surprises. Especially since we only have 9 days left in October:
Donald Trump Ready To Drop 'Gigantic' Bombshell About President Obama, Claims It Could Swing The Election
Donald Trump has announced he has a gigantic bombshell about Barack Obama and hes going to drop it Wednesday!
The billionaire real estate tycoon has said he has something huge on President Obama so huge it could swing the election.
Trump, a die hard Republican who considered running against Obama himself at one point, is planning to reveal the shocker via Twitter at some point on Wednesday, he said.
Republicans Rejected Mans Claims That Obama Sold Cocaine In College
A man claiming to be a close pal to President Obama during college made contact with Republican operatives recently, ready to go public with claims that Obama used and sold cocaine in college, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
The operatives tried to spread the story through the media and the Romney campaign, a source close to the situation told Radar.
At first he wanted to do a book, a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com about the alleged college pal. But there just wasnt enough time before the election.
Republicans Try To Stop Gloria Allred As Mitt Romney 'October Surprise' Drama Builds
The Republican party is bracing itself - and preparing to fight back - against Gloria Allred's rumored "October Surprise" on Republican presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
"We're doing too well to risk 'an Allred,' she can be stopped, but it will take action on our behalf," a GOP watchdog group blogged, asking supporters to contact Romney's campaign headquarters and the Republican National Committee.
Who knows what Trump is going to say, or if there's any truth to anything he says about Obama. If it's more birther nonsense, he's really jumping the shark. If it's Larry Sinclair's "Obama's gay" nonsense, he's a fool. Maybe he's making Dennis Rodman endorse Romney as a condition of his appearance in the all-star Celebrity Apprentice?
Same for Gloria Allred. I doubt she has anything major on Romney, although if there is any truth to Obama's charge that Romney invested in a Chinese oil company that traded with Iran, well, that could be the October Surprise. I doubt that Romney plans on spending the next two weeks defending himself on that, especially if there is a clear papertrail. I just can't see the dems trusting her with something like that. That's the kind of thing they would leak to CNN, and let them present it.
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uteptwostep wrote:I'm not arguing for him as a head coach or anything, I'm just wondering if he's the type of assistant that quietly makes a team much more effective. If Muss is fired, I'm guessing Sterner would follow him wherever he goes.
I think there is no doubt that Sterner goes if (when) Muss does. Most, if not all of the staff would go. I think during his time in Atlanta, Muss was said to be the "brains" behind Lon Kruger. Or atleast the players responded more to Musselman than to Lon. Something like that. So you just never know, is all I'm saying.


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A cooking contest memoir is not my cup of tea when it comes to reading material, but that is the sub title of The Ungarnished Truth by Ellie Mathews, a million-dollar winner of the Pillsbury Bake-Off. Since it is the book that was given to me to review for these pages, I switched my mind to an unbiased mode and began to read.
When I came to page 42 and read "I knew how to put the most basic scoop of rice, piece of fish, and green something-or-other on a dinner plate, whereas I did not know how to lose a sister," I realized that Mathews had put more than flour, sugar and butter into these pages. There is meat--and plenty of it--seasoned with a spicy mix of two former husbands and a current winning third, a bout of depression, and more family deaths in a year than any one person should ever have to cope with.
Mathews dealt with all that by cooking. "My world had spun out of control everywhere but in my kitchen. An egg was still an egg and a loaf of bread would still cut into approximately 16 slices," she wrote.
While The Ungarnished Truth is a true story about how one cook,who knows her way around a kitchen, concocted a chicken dish that convinced a panel of judges it was worth a million dollars, it is also the story of a woman who isn't afraid to reveal her own weaknesses and let us guess at her strengths.
As I am sure Ellie Mathews intended, I took with a grain of salt her not-so-subtle put-downs of those who won contests she did not. Those who scored over her in contests other than the big Bake-Off included her husband and a daughter, who was 15 years old at the time. Obviously, Mathews fosters a family of creative cooks as well as being one, but she sliced them up right along with the seasoned kitchen artists who bested her.
In this 267-page paperback, Mathews puts her tongue firmly in her cheek while certainly not holding it--a trick of the pen that deserves its own prize. She pulls no punches when she tells us of the pressure she felt to perform as Alex Trebek pronounced her the Bake-Off winner in a live televised moment.
A private person who said she truly never expected to win, Mathews felt she let the host of Jeopardy down when she failed to squeal, scream, laugh, cry or show other exuberant emotions. Instead, she writes, she noted that the cloth of Trebek's jacket felt like cashmere when she gave him the hug he had suggested her frozen form provide.
Televised interviews with Oprah and Rosie O'Donnell were eye-openers for Mathews, who was invited to be their guest. She lets us peek behind the scenes to see just how a million-dollar winner from Seattle is treated by the big stars. And when you read page 257 you will know why all the people in Oprah's audience go crazy when Oprah makes her entrance.
The expectations some people seemed to have about how a grand prize winner should behave and what she should write kept Mathews from putting her contest experience and the resulting publicity on paper until last year, 10 years after she won the Bake-Off. In a telephone interview this week from her home in Port Townsend, Mathews said she did make an attempt to write her memoir after the contest "but it was just all wrong" so she put it aside.
"It took me quite a while to absorb. I treasure privacy and value openness, and can you imagine the situations that gets me in," she said, laughing.
"But I believe as people open to each other, just in a human way, it advances us as a society," she added seriously.
"I think it's appropriate to say I'm private," she admitted, "but when you are in the writing process, I'm the one who shapes the story and decides to what degree I open up. It's a very safe way of revealing myself, rather than someone kind of yanking on me saying 'do this, do that'."
In The Ungarnished Truth /A cooking contest memoir Mathews has done her readers the honor of opening up and revealing herself so that we can see the person behind the apron. (Although I am not at all sure this professional woman wears a Betty Crocker-type apron.) She wrote the award-winning children's book The Linden Tree, has just turned in a manuscript for a young adult book, and has another memoir in the oven.
The last words of The Ungarnished Truth are words of encouragement to any one who would like to take a stab at winning a million.
"I meet people all the time who say, 'Gee, I didn't know real people ever won those things.' I'm here to tell you we do," she writes.
If you are so inclined to follow in Mathews's footsteps, check out Pillsbury Bake-Off.com for details for this year's contest, then run to the store, stock up on Pillsbury products and let the games begin!
The hardback version of The Ungarnished Truth, published by Penguin Group, came out in March 2008. This March Ellie Mathews's story will be served up in paperback, and for $15 it can be yours. More on Mathews is available on her website: elliemathews.com.
Oh. Why is this book entitled The Ungarnished Truth? The expert cook forgot to add a garnish to her contest entry.
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Something is off for a rebuild 8 to 10 months ago. Certainly not right. Readings are uneven for a new rebuild. Something you would expect to see on a 10 or 15 year old work tractor engine. Could be a faulty compression tester. Not seated properly in spark plug hole. Lack of engine rotations.Bakers51 wrote:the compression is off. #1 = 87lbs, #3 = 65lbs, #4 = 85lbs, #2 = 96lbs.
Dry compression test. Remove spark plugs. Take and record compression readings. Need at least 5 compression strokes per cylinder to achieve the highest reading. Record all readings.Bakers51 wrote:I assume a dry compression test amounts to putting 10 to 20 lbs of air into each cylinder and listening and watching the bleed off noise and time? Wet test similar?
Wet test. Add table spoon of engine oil to each cylinder. Rotate engine several revolutions to distribute oil. Take compression readings again.


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Like a mosquito on a summer evening, a bacteriophage is either feasting or in search of its next meal. But a bacteriophage isn't interested in human blood and isn't flying around your backyard. Bacteriophages — aka phages — are microscopic killers of bacteria. Wherever you find bacteria, which is nearly everywhere, you'll find phages.
A phage is a virus, and the feasting begins when, like any virus, it attaches to its bacterium host and injects its DNA. The phage DNA hijacks the bacterium's machinery and begins to reproduce itself. Soon, the bacterium is teeming with new phages that burst forth from the bacterium, destroying it. The hunt for a new victim begins.
Not long after Canadian scientist Felix d'Herelle gave a name to viruses that infect bacteria in 1917, he recognized their potential to treat disease. Using sewage, he isolated the dysentery phage and put it in solution. After he and other doctors in a Paris hospital drank a few pints to test it, they administered their phage solution to children dying from dysentery, who were cured the next day.
D'Herelle traveled across Europe and the Soviet Union with his microscopic miracles. When Alexander Fleming stumbled on penicillin in 1928, however, the world had a magic bullet for bacterial infections. Except in a few countries, the use of phages declined into oblivion.
Today, with fast evolving, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, phages are back in the spotlight. With bioinformatics tools, researchers are seeking to understand them at the level of DNA and genes.
In recent work with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center computational resources, and an important boost from PSC training, Aleisha Dobbins of Howard University and coworkers at the Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute, reported the complete genome analysis of a well-known but little understood phage. Her results — reported in the Journal of Bacteriology (April 2004) — reveal the entire DNA sequence and identify the genes of the SP6 bacteriophage.
With phages, the sheer numbers are almost scary — 10 million populate a milliliter of seawater, about 50 drops. Phages comprise the majority of organisms on the planet, and through the recycling of carbon in the oceans may be responsible for up to a quarter of the planet's energy turnover.
Electron micrograph of two SP6 virus particles, the roughly hexagonal-shaped head is about 50 nanometers in diameter.
"When people hear the word 'virus,' they think trouble," says Dobbins. "But phages kill bacteria and have no effect on humans. They can be used in addition to antibiotics. With interest in phage therapy resurfacing, it's important to do sequence analysis and map the genes of more phages."
Research in phages is also part of the effort to defeat human viral disease. Having all the genes they need to replicate themselves, phages are similar to viruses that invade humans, but easier to study because their hosts are bacteria, not humans. If researchers learn how phages assemble their protein houses, called capsids, they may develop the means to dismantle them. Without the capsid shells, both phages and human viruses are harmless bits of floating DNA.
The SP6 phage in particular attracts attention because of its host. Phages are picky parasites. Each one invades a particular bacterium, and SP6 goes after Salmonella, the nasty bacteria that dwell in raw meat and cause food poisoning. While SP6 hasn't been yet been used to treat food poisoning, it is widely used in biotechnology.
SP6's RNA polymerase, an enzyme that transcribes DNA into RNA, is commonly used in genetic technology to modify and clone the DNA sequences of bacteria. Despite wide use, SP6 had not been sequenced and most of its genes had not been identified before Dobbins' work.
As a Ph.D student working on her dissertation, Dobbins planned to focus on one of SP6's genes. Her plans became more ambitious, however, when she went to a PSC bioinformatics workshop, led by PSC scientist and sequence-analysis expert Hugh Nicholas. Through the workshop, Dobbins gained the ability to tackle the much larger project of the entire SP6 genome.
"Through this workshop," says Dobbins, "I gained knowledge of the bioinformatics tools I needed to sequence the genome. And I learned how to use software to identify the termination sequences."
From July 12 to 23, 2004, PSC hosted 19 faculty and staff from nine universities for its two-week course, "Developing Bioinformatics Programs." PSC scientists Hugh Nicholas (1st row center) and David Deerfield (2nd row right) led the course. Five interns from three universities stayed at PSC for five weeks to continue work on their research projects.
The tools of bioinformatics, which marry information science and statistics with the life sciences, allow researchers to understand biological systems like never before. But researchers need to learn about these new and rapidly improving tools. PSC's "Developing Bioinformatics Programs" course introduces faculty and graduate students from minority-serving institutions to the computational, mathematical, and biological issues of bioinformatics.
"Bioinformatics computer programs in general involve implementing a mathematical model and comparing the model with the data to see how they relate to each other," says PSC scientist Hugh Nicholas. "The most common bioinformatics task involves taking a sequence from a biologist's laboratory and comparing it to all sequences in the database looking for relationships according to a mathematical model of sequence evolution."
The two-week workshop trains faculty who plan to establish an introductory bioinformatics course at their home institution, and graduate students, such as Aleisha Dobbins, to use bioinformatics tools to complete a research project. The course is sponsored by a grant from the Minority Access to Research Careers Branch of the Branch of Division of Minority Opportunity in Research of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It grew out of a bioinformatics workshop originally developed through support from NIH's National Center for Research Resources, which also supports Tourney, PSC's sequence-analysis computer, used during the workshop and by university students in courses developed through the workshop. Tourney is available to support bioinformatics course work at any U.S. academic institution.
Nicholas introduced Dobbins to researchers at the Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute (PBI) at the University of Pittsburgh. Dobbins and PBI co-directors Roger Hendrix and Graham Hatfull decided that rather than examining one gene, it made sense to sequence and examine the entire genome. This would allow them to compare SP6 with other well-known phages and, perhaps, to draw conclusions about SP6's evolution, information that relates directly to the ability of bacteria to evolve and defeat antibiotics.
Phages and bacteria evolve in conjunction, bound together in the race to outwit one another and survive. Through this evolutionary drama, phages introduce new genes into the bacteria population. "Most human pathogens are as toxic as they are because of genes that were brought in by phages," says PBI's Hendrix. "There's a lot of interest in what this population looks like and by comparing them to each other we can start to see how the population evolved up to where it is now."
At PBI, Dobbins sequenced SP6's entire genome of over 40,000 nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. She also identified some of the genes and their order. With training from Nicholas and the PSC workshop, she used Tourney, PSC's sequence-analysis computer, to identify the terminator sequences — regions of the genome that signal RNA polymerases to stop transcribing and disconnect. With Tourney, Dobbins also compared SP6 sequences with databases of known phage gene sequences and thereby identified SP6's genes.
Dobbins identified SP6 as being part of the T7 phage family, which includes T7 and T3, two of the most well researched phages — a family relation that had been suspected, but not verified. Because of their similarities, Dobbins used a template of the T7 RNA polymerase, which is also used in genetic technology, to build a model of SP6's polymerase, the gene she hoped to examine in her original research plan.
Phages in the T7 family presumably evolved from the same ancestor as SP6, and have many similarities in sequence and gene placement. But there are many family mysteries. Through comparative analysis, Dobbins found that one sequence of genes appearing in the same place in most phages in the T7 family was in a much different place in SP6. The group is not only in a different place, but reversed in order. As with any research, answers spark new questions.
Dobbins' work will feed an ongoing discussion about phage evolution. While some believe that they evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago, others argue that similar structures arose independently, or diverged more recently.
"The evolution of bacteriophages has not totally been traced," said Dobbins. "We don't know how they have evolved or what kind of effect this phage had on bacteria. We completed the sequence and found that it had 52 genes, and of the 52, 64 percent are unique to SP6. A lot of additional work needs to be done to identify the function of those genes."


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Michael Karwan Found in Cleveland
Michael Karwan, the 19-year-old autistic man from Marlboro who has been missing for a week, was found safe in Cleveland, Ohio late Tuesday night.
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, which is handling the case, says their investigation is continuing and did not offer additional details. Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm (R), a family friend who took the lead in the search, issued a statement calling Michael's recovery a "Thanksgiving blessing."
"Thanks to the efforts of concerned citizens, countless volunteers, media coverage and prayers from the community, Michael Karwan has been located and will be reunited with his family just in time for the holidays. I am very proud of Michael's father, Walter Karwan, for his strength, faith, and perseverance throughout this trying time." read the statement according to PIX 11.
Grimm told CBS New York that Karwan was trying to check into a Cleveland hotel run by a religious organization. When they learned Karwan was missing police were called.
Karwan disappeared from his Marlboro home a week ago after an argument with his parents. There were various sightings of him in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley after it was learned he was given directions to Marlboro, New York by someone at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Grimm, a former FBI agent, led a search late Saturday night around Times Square in hopes he had gone to his favorite comic book shop.
There was concern that Karwan has not taken his medication and may have been displaying child like behavior. He did not have his cell phone with him.
The Guardian Angels got involved with the search on Monday and began organizing a search around Marlboro, Freehold and in Manhattan.
CBS New York reported Karwan may have been spotted on Eighth Avenue and West 35th Street on Monday night and near Penn Station.
Agencies involved in the search for Michael include the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, Marlboro Township Police, In addition, The NJ State Police missing Persons Unit, NJ Office of Homeland Security, NYPD Missing Persons Squad, all transit hubs for the Port Authority of NY and NJ and the NJ Transit Police, the NY State Police and the Lloyd, NY Police.
- Missing autistic teen from New Jersey found in Ohio / PIX 11
- Missing N.J. Autistic Teen Found Safe In Cleveland, Ohio / CBS New York
Patrick Lavery contributed to this report.


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Some officers have been found at fault for seven accidents
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I-Team : SAPD driving record - Thirty-eight officers have been found at fault for four or more accidents.
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Behind the I-Team: How we checked on police car crashes - Brian New talks about his I-Team investigation of public records documenting San Antonio police car crashes.
Last year San Antonio police officers drove more than 15 million miles, and most kept our streets safe. Yet, the KENS 5 I-Team found some officers may be posing danger, and we're all paying for it.
Last November, Officer David Seaton lost control of his patrol car and struck fellow officer Robert Davis as he was picking up road flares. Officer Davis' death has raised many questions about the driving record of San Antonio police officers.
"We understand there are people out there that want to hurt us, bad people that want to hurt us. Unfortunately, we are hurting ourselves by driving too fast," said SAPD spokesperson Sgt Gabe Trevino.
Over the past ten years, according to police records, San Antonio police officers have been involved in 3,497 accidents, and forty-seven percent of the time officers were found responsible.
Those accidents resulted in 413 injuries and millions of dollars in repairs and settlements.
According to police records, Officer Michael Burts has been found at fault for seven accidents in seven years, the most in the department.
Thirty-eight officers have been found at fault for four or more accidents.
"Should an officer have that many? It depends on an officer's assignment. It depends on the officer's call that he responded to. I think just to look at that number would be unfair," said Sgt. Trevino.
Ninety-percent of officer involved accidents happened when officers where on routine patrol.
Back in August, Officer Chris Masters was involved in an accident along I-410. His patrol car collided with Daniel Morales' car.
"It shot his cruiser at my car like a bullet," said Morales.
An accident review board, made up of police officers, found Officer Masters not responsible. It ruled Morales cut him off, even though Morales said that's not what happened.
While the sides disagree about who was at fault, according to police logs, less than one minute before the accident Officer Masters was driving 97 miles an hour.
Officer Masters was on routine patrol at the time. According to the department's manual, officers are not to exceed the posted speed while on routine patrol. Officer Masters was never disciplined for incident.
"Should he had been going that fast? I don't know because I wasn't on that board that reviewed the case, but they felt based upon what they saw that it was a non-chargeable," said Sgt. Trevino.
Seventy-five percent of the time when officers have been found at fault for an accident, according to police records, officers receive either a written or verbal warning. Officers are sent back to remedial training less than 15% of the time.
This year the San Antonio Police Department has placed an added emphasis on safety and driving slower during its annual in-service training.
"These cars are dangerous. Again we lose more officers from car accidents that assaults, and we stress that point to the officers," said Sgt. Trevino.
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This was to allow said followers to access the ENCOM Intranet and locate information that, it was hoped, would shed light on the disappearance of Kevin Flynn in 1989. The badge supposedly grants Group 7 clearance to the holder.
In reality, the badge is part of the Flynn Lives ARG designed to promote TRON: Legacy.
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After its creation on the Arcade Aid website, a badge recipient would use their employee ID number and the password attached to their Flynn Lives account to access the ENCOM Intranet.
Once there, the badge holder was, at one time, able to access information on various ENCOM matters, such as information on ENCOM executives like Alan Bradley and Kurt Hardington.
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The Cleveland woman who refused to stop for a city school bus served out part of her unique and humiliating punishment Tuesday morning.
However, after Judge Pinkey Carr got wind of what Hardin was doing, or not doing, during her punishment, she plans to join Hardin during her second day of punishment Wednesday.
Shena Hardin was ordered to stand at the corner of East 38th Street and Payne today and tomorrow wearing a sign that says, "Only an idiot would drive around a school bus."
Hardin never said a word during her punishment, and simply stood on the corner texting and talking on her phone. She also wore ear buds and smoked cigarette after cigarette. At one point, she blew smoke at our camera when asked a question.
The 32-year-old was caught on cell phone video driving recklessly around a Cleveland school bus full of children in September.
Witnesses say Hardin drove on the sidewalk on a daily basis to avoid waiting for the school bus on East 38th.
Fearing a potentially dangerous situation, the bus driver captured the act on cell phone. The bus driver then contacted the Third District Police before starting his route.
Officers waited for Hardin, and caught her in the act.
Hardin pleaded guilty last week. Her license was also suspended for 30 days and she must pay $250 in court costs.
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Federal agency OKs choice for green building certificationComments Email
WASHINGTON—The General Service Administration, aka the nation's landlord, is recommending for the first time that federal agencies be given a choice of green building certification systems for new construction and major renovation projects.
In a decision drawing cheers and jeers, GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini endorsed the Green Building Initiatives' Green Globes 2010 system, in addition to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design 2009.
The federal backing of a new system to verify building performance is seen as a huge victory for Portland, Ore.-based GBI. The non-profit group offers the Web-based Green Globes certification program that proponents say is a faster, cheaper and more industry-friendly alternative to LEED.
"It's certainly good news," GBI General Manager Bruce Carocci said of the GSA sanction. "It has the potential for significant impact. Business opportunities within the federal government can be opened up by this."
The GSA said it owns or leases 9,600 buildings across the country and plays a major role in the effort to reduce their energy and water use and operational costs. To this end, LEED has been used in about 1,035 federal projects totaling more than 109 million gross square feet in the last seven years.
The LEED program dates to 2000 in the U.S. Across the country there are more than 16,060 certified commercial LEED projects and 40,430 certified LEED housing units. A LEED report shows 88 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500 list are using LEED for a total of 6.4 billion square feet.
Green Globes has been used in 850 projects since roughly 2006 but it finally has a real foot in the federal door. GBI officials said they expect a ripple effect, too, into the private sector of a market projected conservatively to hit $204 billion by 2016.
"A big step has been taken in what has been the equivalent of a virtual monopoly," Carocci said.
Critics contend the big step came on the heels of a big political push funded by the plastics, chemicals and timber industries, particularly through the 18-month-old American High-Performance Building Coalition, which lobbied against LEED.
"Green Globes certainly goes easy on those industries," said Jason Grant, who sits on the Sierra Club's Forest Certification and Green Building Team. "I'd argue that its basic purpose is to create a foil."
Green Globes is creating competition, countered Carocci, and that, he said, tends to produce better programs and give taxpayers the best bang for their buck.
"The debate should be about which program has the most integrity to help produce sustainable buildings," he said.
Time for options
The winner of the debate appears to be both systems, according to the GSA, which touts its commitment to the design, construction and operation of well-performing sustainable buildings.
The agency has found its LEED-certified gold buildings reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 34 percent, consume 25 percent less energy, cost 19 percent less to operate, use 11 percent less water and experience 27 percent higher occupant satisfaction.
However, in a March 2012 study, GSA reported that Green Globes aligns at some level with slightly more of the federal requirements for new construction, while LEED was aligned more with requirements for existing buildings.
GSA is required to evaluate green building programs every five years. A robust review of dozens of systems and more than a year of public comments and written feedback went into its recommendation Oct. 25.
Until then, GSA formally had encouraged the use of only LEED to design or retrofit buildings, in part because there were few choices, according to GSA spokesman Dan Cruz.
"The market has changed since then and there are additional tools for green building certification systems," Cruz said in an email.
Becoming more of an option
Green Globes has been used by the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of State, Cruz added. Now more departments will see it as an option.
"Federal agencies have very diverse building portfolios, which range from office buildings to laboratories to hospitals to airplane hangars," Cruz said. "Agencies can choose one of the two certification systems that will best fit their portfolios."
GSA is telling agencies pursuing a green stamp to achieve at least two out of the four Green Globes, which calls for achieving 55 percent of the 1,000 points possible. Or, they should aim for LEED silver, 50-59 points of a 100-point scale. LEED ratings start with basic (40-49 points) and increase to gold (60-79 points) and platinum (80 points and above).
The plastics industry is giving the dual option a double thumbs-up, not only because it will put Green Globes on the map of more builders but because the GSA endorsed LEED 2009 and not the latest version, LEED v4, which some consider biased against vinyl and thousands of chemicals.
LEED v4 was not even part of the GSA's review, but its rollout at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, held Nov. 20-22 in Philadelphia, caused the industry some angst.
The updates include points for using building products that have environmental product declarations and for disclosing ingredients and the sources of raw materials in a product.
To Terry Peters, director of technical and industry affairs for the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. in Washington, LEED v4 encourages applicants not to use certain materials, such as fluoropolymers and PVC that go into wiring and cable.
"We're happy with the two (GSA) choices because neither of them—in their approved forms—recommend nor suggest the selection of any materials," Peters said "Some of our materials are really the best around, and we didn't want to see them disadvantaged when selections are made."
SPI is a member of the American High-Performance Building Coalition, which fought LEED and said it is pushing for sustainable building standards based on consensus and scientific data. SPI also belongs to the coalition's target and LEED's parent organization, the USGBC.
"SPI supports the aspirations of LEED. We're behind 99 percent of it. Seriously," Peters said. "But what we're hoping to do is show them that the use of our materials appropriately have no greater impact on building construction than other materials."
Happy to compete
USGBC Policy Director Lane Burt said LEED does not discourage any products or list of banned materials.
"We encourage the use of the best stuff on the market on a variety of metrics, not only the environmental impact but efficiency, production, extraction" and the health of a building's occupants, Burt said.
"We don't have language in LEED 2009 or v4 that says, "Don't use this stuff.' "That's a significant misunderstanding. There was a draft in public comment way over a year ago that gave a point if you avoided things on a list. We got a lot of feedback and shifted from a red-list approach to a green-list approach, which is back to where LEED has always been."
LEED is certifying 1.5 million square feet a day with teams of trained specialists and a network of 77 chapters and 185,000 accredited professionals and green associates. The system is considered more of a hands-on process, while Green Globes is viewed as more do-it-yourself.
Burt is ready to go to head-to-head.
"We're happy to compete," he said. "No other rating system has the infrastructure we've got and folks want to get the certification as a badge of achievement and for a competitive advantage. It produces better buildings. Owners want them. Tenants want to be in them. It has a real impact in the market. I think that makes the choice very clear."
The Sierra Club's Grant agreed. Burt said he thinks LEED v4 will be popular, too, despite the controversy around credits for life-cycle analysis of materials, product transparency and picking products that haven't been extracted in a way that's environmentally destructive.
"In general, what it rewards is higher levels of transparency than existed in the past about what chemicals are found in significant quantities in building products," he said.
"Apparently the chemical and plastics industry is willing to invest a lot to prevent the truth from coming out," according to Grant.
"The concerns around proprietary technology are understandable, but so too are concerns about chemicals that may be carcinogenic or mutagenic or endocrine disruptors."
Looking ahead
Kevin Stover, a commercial programs consultant with GBI, said Green Globes offers a practical, objective assessment of materials.
Applicants can use a life-cycle assessment that considers embodied energy, global-warming potential and effects on land, air and water. Or, there's a multiple-attribute approach that evaluates either EPDs or life-cycle assessments based on the International Organization for Standardization.
"We've taken all the bias out," Stover said. "It's all based on standard testing and evaluation procedures."
Green Globes is carving out a niche with "very flexible" protocols, he added. Applicants get online guidance in the beginning, an on-site assessment at the end, a lot of support and interaction in between.
"It's not a black box," Stover said. "You don't send your stuff in and wait or have to go through a rigid communication process. Our clients pick up the phone or shoot an email to the assessor and vice-versa. It's common-sense communication."
Professional judgment is applied to new projects and existing buildings with the idea that performance reigns, Stover said.
He also boasts that Green Globes is the first commercial building rating system based on guidelines of the American National Standards Institute.
"Our criteria are weighted according to their environmental impact or environmental benefit," Stover said.
"A lot of that was drawn up by our ANSI technical committee. They reviewed the weightings and adjusted them accordingly. Then we brought them over to the new tool to make sure things balance out. That makes for a more accurate assessment."
Coupled with the GSA endorsement, Carocci anticipates Green Globes will do better with private-sector builders, even the ones who say they don't follow what the U.S. government does.
"I've talked to a number of people who have said, "Yes it does make a difference. We appreciate the fact this (review) happens once every five years, and the government goes through quite a process,' " Carocci said. "So they do respect the results of that."
A lot is at stake. The green building market is estimated at $96 billion to $140 billion this year and projected to grow to $204 billion to $248 billion by 2016, according to the Dodge 2013 Green Outlook by McGraw Hill Construction, cited a June LEED report.