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At South University, Online Programs, our faculty and staff work every day to support our students' academic success. As a vital part of our community, your opinions and feedback are critical for enabling us to continue improving our support and your experience as a student.
Watch the video to learn more!
To gather your opinions, we launched the annual Priorities Survey for Online Learners (PSOL) in the Campus Common on February 24, 2014. This survey will remain open until March 24, 2014, and is designed to measure your satisfaction and identify areas for improvement.
Your feedback will be used to better shape and enhance the online experience for our students. As an outcome of past surveys, we've implemented many changes, including the following:
• Increased clarity on assignment rubrics for discussion questions in the classroom • Expanded the availability of tutoring and academic support • Improved timeliness of faculty feedback and student interactions • Launched a mobile Campus Common website and app for easier on the go access
We appreciate your time in helping us to improve the quality of your own educational experience as well as the experience of the many students who will come after you! To take your survey, access the Campus Common and click the yellow "Complete your survey today" button directly above the My Classes Dashboard. Your feedback will be completely anonymous.
Thank you again for helping us to serve you better!
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Earning your degree as a busy adult can no doubt be challenging and it can be easy to lose sight of the finish line and what exactly you're working so hard to achieve. To keep yourself focused and your eye on graduation, you need to set clear, specific and measurable goals.
Regularly writing out your goals is an important part of your success and your career. Whether it be monthly or weekly, practice goal-setting by creating a list of realistic, attainable goals and placing it somewhere you'll be able to easily see everyday.
When writing your goals, be as specific as possible. Don't write goals like "Get good grades." Write exactly what grade you plan to get in each of your classes. Your grades should only be one part of your goal planning. Think about what you hope to learn, research or accomplish. Make sure to create goals that emphasize specific things that you hope to attain.
The best goals are not only specific, but also measurable. Goals like getting a specific grade are very measurable; you simply have to check whether you are getting the grade you want to get. Learning goals, networking goals and other goals that are not tied to something tangible may be more difficult to measure. You can figure out the measurability by tying goal to achieving specific results within a set period of time. For example, you can measure whether, in the last month, you learned two new research techniques or made two new connections with colleagues in your field.
To make sure you can measure a goal, describe what the completed goal will look like. What will be different once you've achieved the goal? What, exactly, will you have accomplished? When will you have accomplished it by? Writing this out will not only give you additional insight and clarity, but can excite you about your goal.
It's important to read your goals at least once a day. By reading your goals daily, you accomplish a few things.
• You keep your goals at the front of your mind. It's too easy to get distracted and engage in behavior that is counterproductive to your goals. If you keep your goals in plain sight, you won't be able to forget what you meant to do.
• You can make sure you are achieving your goals. By reading your goals daily, you automatically check whether you are progressing towards them. If you are not progressing adequately, you can evaluate why and change your behavior and priorities as needed.
• You keep yourself excited and motivated to achieve.
If you set realistic, specific and measurable goals in education and your career, you'll be prepared to accomplish more and build the life you want for yourself!
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Greetings to my fellow veterans and students! My name is Raymond Carter, and I am the President of the Student Veterans of America (SVA) Chapter at South University. I'm writing to tell you about the importance of this club and why you should consider joining.
The SVA is designed to support active military personnel and veterans as well as their families and surrounding communities. We are a registered chapter of the national Student Veterans of America, and if you are interested in becoming a member, we would love to have you.
Together, we strive to:
• Serve the community - especially active military personnel, veterans and their families - through volunteering and fundraising events.
• Advocate for and raise awareness to the general public about issues important to active military personnel, veterans and their families.
• Provide information to veterans about their benefits as well as related governmental policies and procedures.
• Help veterans find other support groups outside South University.
• Provide a place for active military, veterans, and military dependent students at South University to meet and support each other.
From 1981-1987, I spent six years in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Field Artillery Cannoneer and served one tour of duty in a hot zone in Germany close to the border during the Cold War. My specialty was a Pan-Tel Operator on an M-110 Howitzer. Currently I am a Certified Paralegal (CPA) and now am pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Legal Studies, and I'd like to get know the rest of you at South University.
This organization is our chance to support and help one another to achieve our goals in school. Check out our Organization in Connections and join us. I look forward to meeting each of you!
Raymond Carter Chapter President of Student Veterans of America South University, Online Program
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There are many different ways to improve your health. Some people eat healthier meals, others exercise — but did you know that Valentine's Day offers a few health benefits of its own? Turns out that falling in love isn't just a good feeling, it's also good for you. Here are a few of the physical and mental health benefits that you'll gain by falling in love.
Love is Heart Smart! If you're looking for a way to boost your heart health, add a dose of love to your health routine. According to Woman's Day, human beings are social animals who have biological drives that make them want to be in a relationship. Achieving the end goal automatically boosts happiness, which in turn improves your cardiovascular health. On the other hand, those who aren't in happy relationships suffer from a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
It Keeps Away the Common Cold -- Clear away those pesky cold germs by catching the 'love bug'. Vitamin C, alicin and Zinc have all been proven to significantly boost your immune system, but experts recently discovered that being in love can help as well. People who rarely fight with their partner have stronger immune system functions than those who are in unhappy relationships.
Viva La Amor — If you want a longer life, Huffington Post says to fall in love! According to a study cited by Huffington, married couples benefited from a 15 percent lower premature death rate than those who were unmarried. It should be noted however that these are happily married couples and not quarreling lovers.
Love Can Increase Positivity— The first step to changing your life for the better is to completely transform the way you think about life. People who are pessimistic tend to have a poor outlook on life, so they lose motivation to change. However, those who are optimistic benefit from improved motivation, drive and stamina. According to Self magazine, couples who are in love can greatly affect each other's healthy choices by boosting optimism. In fact, they cited a finding by Psychology Today that states if one person in a happy relationship decides to stop smoking, the other partner was five times more likely to quit as well.
So, there you have it. Love is truly the gift that keeps on giving! This Valentine's Day gift your sweetheart with improved health, a stronger heart, a longer life and a better outlook on life by simply expressing your love. No matter how you choose to show them, know that a little love goes a long way!
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At South University, we've taken the guesswork out of online learning, starting by offering you an orientation course that can help you get going on the path to academic success. This course gives you an introduction not just to online learning, but to university learning in general!
We've carefully crafted a course that anticipates students' needs based on our many years of experience in education and on input from students like you. Whether you're new to online learning or have taken online or campus courses elsewhere, South University's orientation course provides you with a wealth of information to help you succeed.
Within the course, you'll discover a set of tools and resources that can help you to:
• Manage your time effectively and create a schedule for yourself, ensuring that your education is always a priority.
• Craft your own study space for optimal learning.
• Learn not only how online learning works, but how it can work for you.
• Make sure you have the equipment you need as well as a back-up plan just in case.
• Prepare not only for your day-to-day studies and classroom activities, but also the times in which life may interfere with your progress.
• Understand what's expected of you as a student, with a specific grading rubric for each assignment.
• Create a SMART path to graduation: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely.
Exploring a breadth of areas from academic resources to time management and study skills, you'll complete the course with not only an understanding of what's required of you as an online student– but also the confidence you need to persevere.
In addition, our supportive faculty and staff—from the tutoring center to the technical support team to the online librarian—will be there to help you every step of the way. Together, your Admissions Representative, Student Finance Counselor, and Academic Counselor will form your graduation team and assist you throughout your academic journey!
Not yet signed up for classes? Watch the classroom demo to learn more about the online classroom at South University!
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Today is Friday, July 13. Here are 5 things you need to know:
- Hot: Looks like a real warm one today. According to the National Weather Service we can expect sunny skies with a high near 92 degrees. Mostly clear tonight with a low around 66.
- Public meeting: The Disability Access Commission is meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the Recreation Department Meeting Room in the first floor of the Human Services Building.
- Japanese anime club: The is hosting a event from 2 to 3 p.m. today. The club will be viewing Japanese anime (animation) and discussing manga (Japanese comics). There will also be crafts, drawing, snacks - plus giveaways and contests.
- Music lessons: Interested in learning how to play an instrument? Burlington's is currently for students interesting in learning about their spring session that runs until August 1. Call today to schedule yours at 888.881.REAL (7325).
- Doomed colony: On this day in 1585, 108 English colonists reached Roanoke Island in what would become North Carolina. The colonists had a hard time finding food and according to reports had violent run-ins with the local natives. In 1587 a new group of 150 colonists settled in Chesapeake Bay and in July of that year a group traveled to Roanoke to gather the colonists there but they found nothing but a skeleton.

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LEWISBURG — Rebecca Rautzhan, daughter of Richard and Lauren Rautzhan, of Lewisburg, and Timothy Renno Jr., son of Timothy Sr. and Judy Renno, of Milton, were united in marriage at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at Ards Farm Market, Lewisburg, by the Rev. Paula Gustafson.
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What is it about Los Angeles that makes it prone to multicharacter, excess-minded ensembles and devoted tributes to itself disguised as critiques? Well, as we learned from Paul Haggis's ethnography-as-racial-burlesque "Crash," everyone in that city just sort of, well, crashes into each other--presumptively it's strictly a car thing, because I've had my share of sidewalk collisions while walking on New York's even more crowded streets. Perhaps the city's denizens are united by a certain, unspoken shared misery, eventually exacerbated or cleansed by some greater destructive force, as in "Short Cuts" and "Magnolia." Or is it that everyone oozes an icky superficiality that doubles as a mighty adhesive, connecting disparate people stuck in ignoble circumstances, as in "Happy Endings" or "Boogie Nights"?
Whatever the reason, director Jason Freeland feels the need to try his hand at this subgenre, tackling, in only his second feature, a sprawling study of a pack of tangentially related young people trying to make it in Los Angeles, all either exploiters or the exploited. The trick of many of these movies it that their dovetailing narratives and multiple characters give off the impression that the director is ambitious, but more often they're anything but, haphazardly jamming together half-formed tidbits of stories like ill-fitting jigsaw pieces. This is not to say that fleeting moments cannot add up to satisfying narratives - each of the marvelous single-take segments of Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," for instance, felt like fully achieved short fictions. In Freeland's case, one might wish he would venture at perfecting a single coherent narrative before trying to weave together several.
Indeed, not one of the various storylines in "Garden Party" would make for a particularly compelling standalone movie. Instead we have a boatload of types drifting into and away from each other like flotsam: April (Willa Holland), escaping from a lascivious stepfather who, like Freeland's camera, ogles her in the bathroom; she in turn lets photographer Anthony (Patrick Fischler, also known as Creepy Guy from Winkie's Diner in "Mulholland Drive") take erotic photos of her for online use; meanwhile Anthony also approaches sexually confused Nathan (Alexander Cendese), an overworked office lackey who gives a ride home to homeless twinkie indie rocker Sammy (Erik Smith), who's just trying to make it in this town while writing terrible songs called, for instance, "Garden Party," and et cetera, et cetera. Momentarily lighting up the glum proceedings is "Eyes Wide Shut"'s Vinessa Shaw, whose marijuana-growing real-estate agent Sally may be too much of an incongruous femme-fatale construct, but at least she's having obvious fun with the ridiculous role, even scraping gum off her high heels with a self-aware sultriness.
Otherwise it's minor problems and simple solutions across the board. How to bring a closet case out of his shell? Take him out dancing! (And cue the weird slow-mo close-up of tight-jeaned rumps bumping up against each other like cavorting piglets). And though you've got to seriously distrust a film that posits the signing of a record contract as a blissed-out happy ending (welcome to the industry, bud), overall "Garden Party" is mostly inoffensive fluff. Despite its meager flirtations with Los Angeles as a sexually predatory beast, there's about as much tangible danger here as in an episode of "Joey." Naturally we get a final, foreboding zoom into the Hollywood sign, a catch-all image perhaps meant to evoke the dread of rootlessness, but which only reinforces that shallow Hollywood products come in packages big and small.
[Michael Koresky is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot and the managing editor and staff writer of the Criterion Collection.]
humberthumbert | July 9, 2008 4:00 AM
Hey hey, no need to drag Altman into this mess. "Short Cuts" had nothing to do with the misguided cosmology-of-the-city fluff of the remainder of the movies you cite; L.A. was just where these people lived, and their surroundings exerted some influence on who they were. Like in Nashville.


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Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio- and video-recorded materials of real-life interactions, including domestic telephone calls, children's play, mediation sessions, police-suspect interviews, psychiatric assessments and calls to telephone helplines, this volume is the first to showcase the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of an international group of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis. Theoretically, it pushes forward the boundaries of our understanding of the relationship between conversation and gender, charting new and exciting territory. Methodologically, it offers readers a clear, practical understanding of how to analyse gender using conversation analysis, by presenting detailed demonstrations of this method in use.
Cambridge University Press; January 2011
360 pages; ISBN 9781139012188
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Ukraine has developed a program to support the Ukrainian language, while guaranteeing the protection of minority languages, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.
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Ukraine has developed a program to support the Ukrainian language, while guaranteeing the protection of minority languages, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.
"Nobody is against the Ukrainian language. Quite the contrary, we will now develop a large-scale program to support the Ukrainian language. This should be done... We should support the Ukrainian language. But we won't allow anyone to eradicate all languages of the peoples who live in Ukraine," he said in Odesa on Tuesday, while speaking with locals.
Azarov also added: "We have adopted the law [on the principles of state language policy], and now we will secure it in documents... I know that yesterday your [Odesa] City Council took a respective decision, and the regional council will soon take [a similar decision]."
As reported, Odesa City Council, at an extraordinary session on August 13, approved a resolution on the implementation of the law on the principles of state language policy in the city of Odesa, granting Russian the status of a regional language in the city.
According to the council's decision, from now on Russian could be used as a regional language in the city in office work, official documents, at schools and universities, in advertising and municipal toponymy.
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In the Donetsk region nine cable operators disabled TVi
PS At the above link, people are making comments from different parts of Ukraine, about closure of TVi in other parts of of Ukraine to this very day.
It would appear that Kolya is up to his old tricks again (ie. baffling us with bullshit). "Nobody is against the Ukrainian language. Quite the contrary, we will now develop a large-scale program to develop the Ukrainian language. But we won't allow anyone to eradicate all languages of the peoples who live in Ukraine." What program? Exactly who is out to eradicate all of the minority languages in Ukraine? Is the Ukrainian language supposed to be replaced by minority languages where those languages exceed 10% of a regional population? What constitutes a region? Is it an oblast? Is it a city? Is it a village? Is it an undefined area? Who determines or has the authority to make such a decision? All of these questions are open to vague interpretations and as such it can only mean one thing. The Government (AKA the Party of Regions) will do all of the interpretations regardless of the views of the local population. Just another example of POR styled "democracy" in action.
3. 2 million school books purchased for the younger classes , 1.9 million in Russian
Dmitry Tabachnik vidraportuvav: problems with textbooks in Russian can not be.
Tabachnik informed that almost all schools will begin its work promptly and fully ready for the start of the academic process.
Gee ?
More school School books in Russian than in Ukrainian in Ukraine !
Russification of Ukraine back in full force, Just like in Muscovy {AKA-Russian Empire / AKA - USSR} ! ! ! !
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This is an opportunity to catch Bell on his winter tour in the United States as he arrives in Portsmouth after performances in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.
Bell studied with the celebrated concert organist Kevin Bowyer, in Manchester, and Jacques van Oormerssen in Amsterdam, graduating with first class honors at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2006.
Since then he has been very busy performing both classical and contemporary organ music at a variety of venues, from cathedrals to festivals, and will soon be releasing his first recordings. Bell is currently organist and choir master at St. Michael's Chester Square in London's West End.
Bell is passionate about the organ and eager to share his knowledge with others. He teaches a number of aspiring organists at the Royal College of Organists and several other distinguished schools and is the organist for the EtonOrganworks project at Eton College.
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On Saudi ArabiaIts People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and FutureWritten by Karen Elliott House
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.
Through observation, anecdote, extensive interviews, and analysis Karen Elliot House navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped and reveals the mysterious nation that is the world's largest exporter of oil, critical to global stability, and a source of Islamic terrorists.
In her probing and sharp-eyed portrait, we see Saudi Arabia, one of the last absolute monarchies in the world, considered to be the final bulwark against revolution in the region, as threatened by multiple fissures and forces, its levers of power controlled by a handful of elderly Al Saud princes with an average age of 77 years and an extended family of some 7,000 princes. Yet at least 60 percent of the increasingly restive population they rule is under the age of 20.
The author writes that oil-rich Saudi Arabia has become a rundown welfare state. The public pays no taxes; gets free education and health care; and receives subsidized water, electricity, and energy (a gallon of gasoline is cheaper in the Kingdom than a bottle of water), with its petrodollars buying less and less loyalty. House makes clear that the royal family also uses Islam's requirement of obedience to Allah—and by extension to earthly rulers—to perpetuate Al Saud rule.
Behind the Saudi facade of order and obedience, today's Saudi youth, frustrated by social conformity, are reaching out to one another and to a wider world beyond their cloistered country. Some 50 percent of Saudi youth is on the Internet; 5.1 million Saudis are on Facebook.
To write this book, the author interviewed most of the key members of the very private royal family. She writes about King Abdullah's modest efforts to relax some of the kingdom's most oppressive social restrictions; women are now allowed to acquire photo ID cards, finally giving them an identity independent from their male guardians, and are newly able to register their own businesses but are still forbidden to drive and are barred from most jobs.
With extraordinary access to Saudis—from key religious leaders and dissident imams to women at university and impoverished widows, from government officials and political dissidents to young successful Saudis and those who chose the path of terrorism—House argues that most Saudis do not want democracy but seek change nevertheless; they want a government that provides basic services without subjecting citizens to the indignity of begging princes for handouts; a government less corrupt and more transparent in how it spends hundreds of billions of annual oil revenue; a kingdom ruled by law, not royal whim.
In House's assessment of Saudi Arabia's future, she compares the country today to the Soviet Union before Mikhail Gorbachev arrived with reform policies that proved too little too late after decades of stagnation under one aged and infirm Soviet leader after another. She discusses what the next generation of royal princes might bring and the choices the kingdom faces: continued economic and social stultification with growing risk of instability, or an opening of society to individual initiative and enterprise with the risk that this, too, undermines the Al Saud hold on power.
A riveting book—informed, authoritative, illuminating—about a country that could well be on the brink, and an in-depth examination of what all this portends for Saudi Arabia's future, and for our own.
KAREN ELLIOT HOUSE is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She studied and taught at Harvard University's Institute of Politics and was a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
House lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband, Peter R. Kann, and their children.
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SummaryFanconi anemia (FA) is a human autosomal recessive cancer susceptibility disorder characterized by cellular sensitivity to mitomycin C and ionizing radiation. Although six FA genes (for subtypes A, C, D2, E, F, and G) have been cloned, their relationship to DNA repair remains unknown. In the current study, we show that a nuclear complex containing the FANCA, FANCC, FANCF, and FANCG proteins is required for the activation of the FANCD2 protein to a monoubiquitinated isoform. In normal (non-FA) cells, FANCD2 is monoubiq-uitinated in response to DNA damage and is targeted to nuclear foci (dots). Activated FANCD2 protein colocalizes with the breast cancer susceptibility protein, BRCA1, in ionizing radiation–induced foci and in synaptonemal complexes of meiotic chromosomes. The FANCD2 protein, therefore, provides the missing link between the FA protein complex and the cellular BRCA1 repair machinery. Disruption of this pathway results in the cellular and clinical phenotype common to all FA subtypes.
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Knockdown of Zebrafish Fancd2 Causes Developmental Abnormalities via p53-Dependent Apoptosis
Developmental Cell, Volume 5, Issue 6, 1 December 2003, Pages 903-914
Ting Xi Liu, Niall G. Howlett, Min Deng, David M. Langenau, Karl Hsu, Jennifer Rhodes, John P. Kanki, Alan D. D'Andrea and A.Thomas Look
SummaryMechanisms underlying the multiple developmental defects observed in Fanconi anemia (FA) patients are not well defined. We have identified the zebrafish homolog of human FANCD2, which encodes a nuclear effector protein that is monoubiquitinated in response to DNA damage, targeting it to nuclear foci where it preserves chromosomal integrity. Fancd2-deficient zebrafish embryos develop defects similar to those found in children with FA, including shortened body length, microcephaly, and microophthalmia, which are due to extensive cellular apoptosis. Developmental defects and increased apoptosis in Fancd2-deficient zebrafish were corrected by injection of human FANCD2 or zebrafish bcl2 mRNA, or by knockdown of p53, indicating that in the absence of Fancd2, developing tissues spontaneously undergo p53-dependent apoptosis. Thus, Fancd2 is essential during embryogenesis to prevent inappropriate apoptosis in neural cells and other tissues undergoing high levels of proliferative expansion, implicating this mechanism in the congenital abnormalities observed in human infants with FA.
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Add/View Comments (0)FANCD2 Binds MCM Proteins and Controls Replisome Function upon Activation of S Phase Checkpoint Signaling
Gérald Lossaint1, Marion Larroque1, Cyril Ribeyre1, Nicole Bec4, Christian Larroque4, Chantal Décaillet2, Kerstin Gari3 and Angelos Constantinou1, ,
1 Institute of Human Genetics, UPR 1142, CNRS, 141, rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier, France
2 Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, chemin des Boveresses 155, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
3 Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
4 IRCM, INSERM U896, UM1, CRLC Val d'Aurelle-Paul Lamarque, 34298 Montpellier, France
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• A comprehensive resource of proteins recruited to stalled replication forks• FANCD2 binds the MCM2–MCM7 replicative helicase upon ATR signaling• FANCD2 controls replisome function under stressful conditions• Human primary cells depend on FANCD2 to ensure normal cell proliferation
- Proteins disabled in Fanconi anemia (FA) are necessary for the maintenance of genome stability during cell proliferation. Upon replication stress signaling by ATR, the FA core complex monoubiquitinates FANCD2 and FANCI in order to activate DNA repair. Here, we identified FANCD2 and FANCI in a proteomic screen of replisome-associated factors bound to nascent DNA in response to replication arrest. We found that FANCD2 can interact directly with minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins. ATR signaling promoted the transient association of endogenous FANCD2 with the MCM2–MCM7 replicative helicase independently of FANCD2 monoubiquitination. FANCD2 was necessary for human primary cells to restrain DNA synthesis in the presence of a reduced pool of nucleotides and prevented the accumulation of single-stranded DNA, the induction of p21, and the entry of cells into senescence. These data reveal that FANCD2 is an effector of ATR signaling implicated in a general replisome surveillance mechanism that is necessary for sustaining cell proliferation and attenuating carcinogenesis.


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The price had dropped from $149.99 to $129.99. I can fly My UM T-28 and have got everything down on it. I didn't really want this, but the brushed motor is decreasing its perforance every day, I'd like a brushless and I'm considering this since the price is sooo low now! Maybee they're going to re-release it in the E-flite Line of UMX's with AS3X. went to a monster truck show here in Nampa Idaho yesterday, and saw some RC planes flying and they had all the misros and I had my only little T-28 flying up with them. Lots of fun flying with other people, first time flying with others.
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[QUOTE=rcoconut;21066129]Found a great post by a fellow Radian Pro owner that worked PERFECT!!! http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...13&postcount=1 BUT I didn't pay attention to the right vertical fin while I was holding her over the boiling water!! The vertical fin got totalled, LOL, warped way beyond repair!! BUT, the AIL & wing tip came out perfect, not bad for my first try fixing foam!! ............
So did the right vertical fin get in the water and that's what caused the warp? Phil |
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Nah, I used a large pasta pot to boil the water, holding her inverted with the right wing over the steam the fin was getting all the heat from the side of the pot as well as a bit of the flame (had the burner on high & didn't realize there was part of the flame going up along the side of the pot!) As I'm thinking of my mistake I should've tried the wet towel/blow dryer method?? Oh well, no drama, new fin on the way so she'll be better than new with all the fixings complete. And already saw the $129 price! I'm trying to refrain from purchasing a new one......
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Am now flying on high rates and WOT, A quick question if I were to cut the wings back to the strake line what effect do you think it would have? As I like tiny planes and would like to transport it in a rucksack, bought another for £25 as he keeps crashing , would love to put the guts in an air hogs f18 as smaller is more beautiful IMHO . Any thoughts |
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and bro, Parkzone does not need Eflite, they have there own line of UM and now coming with AS3X for only 100bucks http://www.parkzone.com/Products/Def...rodID=PKZU2180 |
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The U.S. Coast Guard with little fanfare has added protections based on sexual orientation to its equal opportunity policy, prompting new calls for the Pentagon to do the same with other branches of the military.
The guidance, made public Thursday morning by the American Military Partners Association and dated Oct. 13, says "sexual orientation and genetic information" are now included as part of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination/anti-harassment policy statements within the Coast Guard. The guidance is signed at the bottom by Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp.
"We must continue to uphold our core values of Honor, Respect and Devotion to Duty which underlie our excellence in mission execution, good order and discipline, and morale," Papp writes. "Maintaining workplaces that are free from harassment and discrimination is essential to our readiness and to ensure we remain, Semper Paratus, Always Ready."
Stephen Peters, president of the American Military Partners Association, commended Papp for taking action to protect gay members of the coast guard and said the Pentagon should make similar policy for other branches of the armed forces.
"We urge the Secretary of Defense to do the same in order to ensure all uniformed service members are protected from unjust discrimination, not just those in the Coast Guard," Peters said. "While Department of Defense civilian employees are protected, the DoD has yet to add orientation to its non-discrimination policy for uniformed troops. This lack of inclusion has a direct impact on not only the service member's ability to serve openly and honestly without fear of harassment, but their spouse and family as well."
LGBT advocates have been pushing for the enactment of an explicit non-discrimination protections for gay members of the armed forces even before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Currently, service members have no recourse for anti-gay discrimination outside of their chain of command.
In response to calls for an explicit non-discrimination policy, the Pentagon has consistently said it treats all service members with respect without committing to a new policy.
Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen, a Pentagon spokesperson, responded to the renewed calls by pointing to Pentagon guidance during the process of lifting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" stating sexual orientation won't "be considered along with race, color, religion, sex, and national origin as a class under the Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) program."
Christensen added that the reason for the difference between the Coast Guard and the Pentagon is the Coast Guard isn't structured in the same way as other military services. The Coast Guard, he said, doesn't have an Inspector General system like the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
"Simply put: DoD directs discrimination cases on the basis of sexual orientation to be handled by the DoD IG system," Christensen said. "As such, DoD does not include sexual orientation as part of our Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) program."
Unlike other branches of the military, the Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security and is subject to different policy. Nonetheless, the Coast Guard often implements policy similar to the Pentagon's.
For example, after former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced at the start of this year the Pentagon would extend partner benefits for service members in same-sex relationships, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano followed immediately with a statement saying the Coast Guard would do the same.
One advocate for enacting an explicit non-discrimination policy for troops based on sexual orientation is Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning, who espoused the idea during an interview with the Washington Blade in May.
"Speaking personally, I always think it's important to have non-discrimination policies codified to include everyone," Fanning said. "The military, because it has a chain of command, has a different attitude about this and a different way to try to go about protecting airmen, sailors, soldiers, Marines — but Eric Fanning? Yes. I personally like to see these things in writing and codified."
Additionally, the Coast Guard guidance says nothing about adding gender identity to equal opportunity and anti-discrimination/anti-harassment policy statements as transgender advocates are pushing for openly transgender service in the armed forces.
Brynn Tannehill, director of advocacy for the LGBT military group SPART*A, commended the Coast Guard for adding the protections, but said the service is unable to change transgender policy because it's "modeled after that of the DoD's."
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The latest proof that the recalcitrant homophobes in the DOD are still wagging the dog under which the other four branches, the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines, are still OFFICIALLY and ARBITRARILY banning gay service members from the such protections. Too few understand that the original repeal bill included a provision for protections against discrimination in such thngs as duty assignments, performance appraisals, and promotions, but that inexplicably and indefensibly President Obama backed then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' May 2010 demand that the provision be gutted.That after Candidate Obama promised that, if elected, he would see that nondiscrimination policies would come WITH repeal, Why, more than two years since implementation has he failed to keep that promise? And why the hell are the paid leaders of Gay, Inc., still just sitting on their asses about it?


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A GREAT deal of what passes for serious political discussion these days is plain old textbook-variety fallacious reasoning. Of course, the commission of logical fallacies occurs across the political spectrum, among liberals no less than conservatives. But the art of fallacious persuasion seems to have reached new heights in the realm of that recently rejuvenated medium - talk radio. Here the voice of Rush Limbaugh holds sway.
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Rush is not unique in logical sin. Most of us commit fallacies (though not quite with Mr. Limbaugh's prolificacy). But with a weekly media audience of tens of millions (''dittoheads,'' as they are known), Limbaugh has the potential for enormous political influence. It's obviously desirable that he be held to the highest standards of reason.
In ''Logic and Mr. Limbaugh: A Dittohead's Guide to Fallacious Reasoning,'' I take Rush to task for more than a little sloppy thinking, and I try to impart a few lessons in the avoidance of logical legerdemain. Rush is not always wrong, of course. But he's not ''documented to be right 97.9 percent of the time'' (as he likes to say) either. Below, I offer a few modest examples - just for entertainment, of course.
Goring Gore
Here's Limbaugh attacking Vice President Al Gore on the environment. This example provides a nice illustration of Limbaugh's stock in trade - the ad hominem (against the person) fallacy:
''There is something intrinsically anti-American about the way [Gore] flagellates the US over its environmental policies. He writes that cultures are like families, and 'our civilization must be considered in some ways dysfunctional [because of its brutal assault on nature] ....' This from a guy who gets lost hiking in a park with the Secret Service!''
There is Limbaugh levity here. But let's not lose sight of the logical thrust of the passage. Rush is using Gore's apparent ineptitude in the woods as a means of discrediting the vice president's theory about our civilization. The argument may be represented as: Gore says our civilization must be considered dysfunctional in its treatment of the environment. But he got lost hiking in a park. Therefore, we can dismiss his view that our civilization is dysfunctional (implied).
The attack on Gore, even if true, is irrelevant to the main point - Gore's ideas and arguments about our allegedly dysfunctional civilization.
(Note well, dittoheads, that the ad hominem fallacy is not simply a personal attack, as Limbaugh seems to think. It is an attack that, even if true, is irrelevant. If I argue that Joe Smith is dishonest because he cheats on his income tax, there is a personal attack but no ad hominem fallacy. But if I try to discredit Mr. Smith's ideas about, say, reducing the deficit by saying he cheats on his wife, I commit the ad hominem fallacy.)
Animals and kindness
Rush doesn't think much of the animal-rights movement. Here he argues that animals don't have a right to kindness:
''One woman called my show to protest that animals do at least have one right: to kindness. I told her she was mistaken. Look at what they do to each other. They tear each other limb from limb.''
He is arguing that animals don't have a right to kindness because of the way they behave toward one another: Animals tear each other limb from limb. Therefore, animals do not have a right to kindness.


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I am interested personally in the idea of vintage clothing and the subcultures that adopt a certain style wholeheartedly. The idea of where style develops from at a grassroots level is something that I just find really interesting. Is it holistic or are we just reacting to carefully developed ideas in the media? We are now bombarded with information everyday from blogs (are we all just in it for the pretty pictures is there any influence?), to newspapers, magazines, music videos and the idea of fast fashion is prevalent everywhere. With regards to trends and styles that float in & out of fashion does our influence emanate from the catwalk, street fashion, celebrities, bloggers or clever marketing in the pages of Vogue to Grazia? Also on a daily basis how many people do you see that have a truly individual style?
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Sequels...some are praised as better than the original, others are regarded as failures to the franchise, or just gaming in general; but there is one thing sequels always bring us, that in which cannot deny, a new game. Throughout the years, games have either direct sequels, entirely new games in the franchise, or the biggest hit-or-miss spinoffs. Sequels are released yearly, or in the Nintendo case, once or twice every decade. The anticipation and reading of sequels to series you love, is just as exciting as getting the new game and playing it for the first few hours (presuming it is good). Regarding attitudes to sequels, let's just say fanboys cheer, haters of the series boo, and the middle ground goes "eh" and shrugs their shoulder.
While countless sequels have been made over time, I don't have the time to write the encyclopedia on freaking video game sequels, so let's start off with direct sequels. In fact, looking at this blog I can write an entire post based off the Mario Bros. series for Nintendo since he qualifies for all three, but I will throw in some well-known franchises as well.
Direct Sequels:
Everyone's favorite type of sequel, a continuation from that amazing game they just finished; only to be hit with the cold hard fact that the game is over. Today, developers try to keep these types of games alive with multiplayer or extra mission/DLC packs, but as we all know it is never the same. Direct sequels span from games (the good direct sequels): Halo, Uncharted, Legend of Zelda Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time, Mass Effect or the bad like: Devil May Cry 2, Chrono Cross, Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, and Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword or Majora's Mask.
(Side note: I didn't know where to classify Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, so I used LoZ for the direct sequel section (due to a few games actually being direct sequels, compared to FF which is always and Alternate Universe in the next section).
A problem though is sometimes the sequel isn't bad, like say Super Mario Bros 2, but that its original/predecessor is actually superior to the game. This is the case for a few games today, like Metroid Prime 2/3 or Uncharted 3, which are actually very fun and fantastic games, but the problem was the first Metroid Prime (and the second Uncharted) was so good, that it never lived up to its expectations. Another example is that of games, just not performing as well due to name's sake. Look at the New Super Mario Bros franchise or even a few Resident Evil games. Because of the recognizable names and history of having very good games, when the games don't live up to the media and/or gamer's set image for them, they fail.
All in all, though a guilty pleasure for all gamers is we want direct sequels and we usually want them right away, but at the same time better than the next. Looking from a developer perspective it is like, how can we top this game, but at the same time not stray away from what made it great? We as gamers are a greedy bunch, we want a new game, but at the same time we hate changes to a game that 90% of the times, in our eyes, ruin the game. In addition, some games aren't made to have sequels but developers get avaricious and the gaming societies becomes bitchy and boom we get a muddled over-hyped, very bad game, like Skyward Sword.
Franchise new games:
Alright so we all know Final Fantasy is a game that comes with new franchise games as well as Mario, but sometimes we look at games like Crash Bandicoot to Jak and Daxter or Spyro into Ratchet and Clank. These are the true gems and treasures of being a gamer. Sometimes developers decide to can a project, or sell the rights to characters and start an entirely new franchise. Other times, they keep the name and just make a whole new "type" (i.e. action, RPG, adventure, etc.) of game using the characters we have fallen dearly in love with. This is the biggest risk in gaming society, due to the fact of gamers, developers, and media reaching into an "unknown" area. Most of the time, developers also develop a new game type, rather than sticking to their old usual formulas. Take Super Mario 64 for instance, a complete overhaul of what he had come to know and love of Mario (i.e. Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World), but it was a change for the better. Final Fantasy takes a different approach, as the game is still a JRPG, but it brings along all new characters, new locations, and either a new way to fight altogether (see: kingdom hearts) or alterations to its previous systems (take Final Fantasy 1-9 with the ATB). All in all changes again display a risk of reward, the only difference is the greatness that developers are now able to achieve. Mario succeeded beyond belief with Super Mario 64 and later with Super Mario Galaxy, while Final Fantasy continues to disappoint with trash now known as Final Fantasy XIII. One question has always bothered me, is Halo Reach a franchise "new game" due to not having the Chief and changing some elements or is it a prequel/sequel?
Spinoffs, who doesn't know about them? From Mario Party, to Mario Kart, to Mario Golf, to Mario EVERYTHING. Spinoffs are somewhat of a dreaded thing to many gamers. While waiting for a new franchise game, we get stuck with Crash Team Racing or Donkey Konga's instead of Donkey Kong Country 4? Spinoffs are, about 95% of the time, usually those party or racing games, which get a horrible review on many game sites. I don't know if this is due to reviewers being butt hurt about their favorite character being in some game which limits their abilities, *cough Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games [which I may add is quite fun with friends] or that just wanted a new game, with their favorite character. But let's not forget the rare occasion spinoffs lead to something good, something like SUPER SMASH BROS. I know spinoffs sometimes include games like Mega Man X or Super Mario RPG, but I feel those go under the area of franchise new games section; but we'll give some due love here. When a spinoff is a hit, wow, it really hits the you and the world by storm. Heck, if it is that good it may spawn a new series on its own; in thus benefiting companies as well as gamers (take Paper Mario). Including favorite characters of different series, crossovers, mixes of gameplay or entire new gameplay, leaves a good impression on many gamers, as there are more ways to discover fun in a game with familiar icons than an entire new game. Although I think the only downfalls of spinoffs, have to be screenshots, because they really give us no clue on what to expect for this new game.
I probably could further categorize these sequels and games over time, but these are three main classes. Sequels are something that can be looked at in many lights, they are the yin and yang of everything, not just games! From franchises giving us new games with new gameplay, to new characters, to our favorite characters being featured in horrible games, a sequel is a sequel. I think one thing I always enjoyed was when characters would be featured in game as a special bonus like Mario in NBA Street or Link in Soul Caliber 2. Those kind of inclusions really are just plain out awesome and are one of those never can go wrong moments. Well, as of now we have Halo 4 to look forward to and Rayman Legends so more sequels right now means more fun.
Michael Troina writes features and reviews Nintendo games for Analog Addiciton. When hes not writing or playing games or sports, hes out at his job at the Daily Bugle taking pictures as the web-slinger we all have come to love either that or hes getting sandwich saving one world at a time. Find him anywhere with this flavors.me/michaeltroina
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