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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend early this morning, then drove to the team facility and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager, this according to the Kansas City Police Department.
Police Capt. David Lindaman says that Belcher and his girlfriend -- who had just given birth to the couple's child three months earlier -- began arguing around 7:00 AM local time.
Lindaman says Belcher shot the woman multiple times and she was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Police say Belcher left the scene and drove to the stadium where he was confronted by team personnel, including GM Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel. According to police, they tried to keep Belcher from committing additional acts of violence.
Just as police arrived on the scene, they heard a gunshot and discovered Belcher had shot himself in the head. Cops say before firing the shot, Belcher thanked Pioli and Crennel for all they had done for him.
The coaches told police they never felt as if they were in danger.
Belcher had been with the Chiefs for four seasons after being undrafted out of the University of Maine.
The Chiefs host the Carolina Panthers tomorrow and the game will be going forward as planned. A team spokesman says Crennel plans to coach.
Kansas City Chiefs Chairman & CEO Clark Hunt released a statement saying, "The entire Chiefs family is deeply saddened by today's events, and our collective hearts are heavy with sympathy, thoughts and prayers for the families and friends affected by this unthinkable tragedy. We sincerely appreciate the expressions of sympathy and support we have received from so many in the Kansas City and NFL communities, and ask for continued prayers for the loved ones of those impacted."
Jovan Allen Belcher (July 24, 1987 – December 1, 2012?[1]) was an American football linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played collegiately with the Maine Black Bears. He played defensive end during his junior and senior years, after switching to the position from outside linebacker where he played as sophomore and freshman. Channel 5 news in Kansas City are reporting Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before shooting and killing his girlfriend. He then drove to the Chiefs stadium where he shot and killed 5 teammates before turning the gun on himself outside the stadium and being confronted by coaches including Romeo Crenel.--- From Wiki
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I never believe anything on Wikipedia....even though they are right sometimes........last report here in KC is the GF is in the hospital in critical condition, not dead......but the original report was two ead....so I will go with that myself.....
you put out a story like this but not know his name?Why would you post it with out a name but your readers know the name.
I am a 'huge, huge' Chiefs fan..... Wow, what the heck is going on in this world? Just goes 2 show.... Some money, rockstar gfriend? Does not equal happiness....
Really gutless. Kill your girlfriend who is the mother of your child and then shoot yourself in front of coaches at the practice facility. smh . Prayers to the family and friends.
It's always a stupid idea to feel the need to take someone with you with your own stupid decision.
Of course deaths of all kinds are tragic, but "taking someone with you" is really quite stupid of him.
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Asked whether bin Laden had expressed "almost the same" sentiments that Kerry did during an appearance on Schieffer's "Face the Nation" broadcast in December, the CBS anchorman told WABC Radio's Mark Simone: "Well, he did. That's exactly right."
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In his message, bin Laden also complained that the U.S. was terrorizing Iraqi innocents, saying that "the oppressive measures adopted by the U.S. Army and its agents" show "there is no difference between this criminality and Saddam's criminality, as it has reached the degree of raping women and taking them as hostages instead of their husbands."
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"This motor's getting old, just like myself," he said as he yanked on a belt to jumpstart the sewing machine. "It needs a little help."
A layer of straw bits and dust coats every surface, nook and cranny of the shop, including a rotary dial telephone on which Shaffer takes orders. In cold weather, he digs coal from a seam on his property to burn in the potbellied stove that warms his workplace.
To make each broom, Shaffer feeds a pine handle into the mouth of the tying machine and threads wire from a spool into a hole in the handle. He steps on a pedal to start the machine, which turns the handle and winds the wire around it. He deftly shapes a handful of broom bristles around the base, turns the handle, tightening the wire to hold the bristles in place. He repeats the process until a round broom base, similar to the classic witches' broom, takes shape. Then he adds bristles to two opposing sides to form a "shoulder."
Shaffer also makes mops, in a less complicated process that requires only the tying machine.
After the broom's base is shaped, he stands it on end, stamps it to shake out any loose bristles and trims the strays. He carries the broom to the sewing machine. A hook beside the machine holds a skein of yellow thread from which he pulls a length and wraps it around the broom several times. As the machine creaks into action, he feeds the broom through an opening where two wicked-looking industrial needles punch through either side to grab the thread and bind it. Each broom is bound with five rows.
"I've only had one accident," he said. "The needle went through one of my fingers and into another." The scars remain, but his hands are nimble and relatively free of arthritis. "If they hurt, I just pull on them to stretch them out and they're fine."
Shaffer has no plans to retire. He never left his broom-making job, except for the occasional vacation at a quiet beach in North Carolina. Large, out-of-state broom manufacturers offered him jobs in the 1960s, but he didn't want to move his wife and their three sons who were active in school and sports.
Today, he spends his days in the workshop along Davis Creek, just a mile from the hollow where he grew up. One of his sons lives next door, and his granddaughter, 12, hangs out with him. When she was younger, she sat on a special chair he built for her with a view of the machines, and watched him work.
"I make brooms because I love it," he said. "If I'm bothered with something, I get at the machine and work and within half an hour, I'm in another world."
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Cholesterol and Ergosterol Influence Nystatin Surface Aggregation: Relation to Pore Formation Biophysical Journal, Volume 87, Issue 5, 1 November 2004, Pages 3264-3276 Ana Coutinho, Liana Silva, Alexander Fedorov and Manuel Prieto Abstract Nystatin interaction with liposomes mimicking fungal and mammalian membranes (ergosterol- and cholesterol-containing 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) large unilamellar vesicles, respectively) was studied by fluorescence spectroscopy. The activity of this antibiotic was also measured using a pyranine fluorescence detected K+/H+ exchange assay. Nystatin mean fluorescence lifetime varied with the antibiotic concentration and ergosterol content (0–30mol%) of the lipid vesicles. It sharply increased from 5 to 37ns upon reaching 100 molecules per liposome, reporting nystatin oligomerization in the membrane. Concomitantly, spectral alterations typical of excitonic coupling were detected and there was a pronounced increase in the initial rate of pore formation by nystatin. These findings suggest that nystatin exerts its antibiotic activity via a two-stage mechanism: at low antibiotic concentrations, surface-adsorbed monomeric antibiotic molecules perturb the lipid packing, changing the permeability properties of the ergosterol-rich liposomes. Upon reaching a critical threshold, nystatin mode of action switches to the classical model of transmembrane aqueous channel formation. In the presence of cholesterol-containing POPC liposomes, neither nystatin spectroscopic properties, nor the kinetics of K+ efflux varied with the antibiotic concentration suggesting that in this case the first stage of antibiotic mode of action always prevails or the assemblies formed by nystatin and cholesterol are very loose. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (243 kb) |
Improved Antifungal Polyene Macrolides via Engineering of the Nystatin Biosynthetic Genes in Streptomyces noursei Chemistry & Biology, Volume 15, Issue 11, 24 November 2008, Pages 1198-1206 Trygve Brautaset, Håvard Sletta, Aina Nedal, Sven Even F. Borgos, Kristin F. Degnes, Ingrid Bakke, Olga Volokhan, Olga N. Sekurova, Ivan D. Treshalin, Elena P. Mirchink, Alexander Dikiy, Trond E. Ellingsen and Sergey B. Zotchev Summary Seven polyene macrolides with alterations in the polyol region and exocyclic carboxy group were obtained via genetic engineering of the nystatin biosynthesis genes in Streptomyces noursei. In vitro analyses of the compounds for antifungal and hemolytic activities indicated that combinations of several mutations caused additive improvements in their activity-toxicity properties. The two best analogs selected on the basis of in vitro data were tested for acute toxicity and antifungal activity in a mouse model. Both analogs were shown to be effective against disseminated candidosis, while being considerably less toxic than amphotericin B. To our knowledge, this is the first report on polyene macrolides with improved in vivo pharmacological properties obtained by genetic engineering. These results indicate that the engineered nystatin analogs can be further developed into antifungal drugs for human use. Summary | Full Text | PDF (372 kb) |
Biosynthesis of the polyene antifungal antibiotic nystatin in Streptomyces noursei ATCC 11455: analysis of the gene cluster and deduction of the biosynthetic pathway Chemistry & Biology, Volume 7, Issue 6, 1 June 2000, Pages 395-403 Trygve Brautaset, Olga N Sekurova, Håvard Sletta, Trond E Ellingsen, Arne R Strøm, Svein Valla and Sergey B Zotchev Summary Background: The polyene macrolide antibiotic nystatin produced by Streptomyces noursei ATCC 11455 is an important antifungal agent. The nystatin molecule contains a polyketide moiety represented by a 38-membered macrolactone ring to which the deoxysugar mycosamine is attached. Molecular cloning and characterization of the genes governing the nystatin biosynthesis is of considerable interest because this information can be used for the generation of new antifungal antibiotics.Results: A DNA region of 123,580 base pairs from the S. noursei ATCC 11455 genome was isolated, sequenced and shown by gene disruption to be involved in nystatin biosynthesis. Analysis of the DNA sequence resulted in identification of six genes encoding a modular polyketide synthase (PKS), genes for thioesterase, deoxysugar biosynthesis, modification, transport and regulatory proteins. One of the PKS-encoding genes, nysC, was found to encode the largest (11,096 amino acids long) modular PKS described to date. Analysis of the deduced gene products allowed us to propose a model for the nystatin biosynthetic pathway in S. noursei.Conclusions: A complete set of genes responsible for the biosynthesis of the antifungal polyene antibiotic nystatin in S. noursei ATCC 11455 has been cloned and analyzed. This represents the first example of the complete DNA sequence analysis of a polyene antibiotic biosynthetic gene cluster. Manipulation of the genes identified within the cluster may potentially lead to the generation of novel polyketides and yield improvements in the production strains. Summary | Full Text | PDF (129 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 5, 3061-3078, 1 May 2003
Ana Coutinho*, † and Manuel Prieto*, ,
* Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituto Superior Técnico, P-1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
† Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, F.C.U.L., P-1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Nystatin is a membrane-active polyene antibiotic that is thought to kill fungal cells by forming ion-permeable channels. In this report we have investigated nystatin interaction with phosphatidylcholine liposomes of different sizes (large and small unilamellar vesicles) by time-resolved fluorescence measurements. Our data show that the fluorescence emission decay kinetics of the antibiotic interacting with gel-phase 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine vesicles is controlled by the mean number of membrane-bound antibiotic molecules per liposome, 〈A〉. The transition from a monomeric to an oligomeric state of the antibiotic, which is associated with a sharp increase in nystatin mean fluorescence lifetime from ∼7–10 to 35ns, begins to occur at a critical concentration of 10 nystatin molecules per lipid vesicle. To gain further information about the transverse location (degree of penetration) of the membrane-bound antibiotic molecules, the spin-labeled fatty acids (5- and 16-doxyl stearic acids) were used in depth-dependent fluorescence quenching experiments. The results obtained show that monomeric nystatin is anchored at the phospholipid/water interface and suggest that nystatin oligomerization is accompanied by its insertion into the membrane. Globally, the experimental data was quantitatively described by a cooperative partition model which assumes that monomeric nystatin molecules partition into the lipid bilayer surface and reversibly assemble into aggregates of 6±2 antibiotic molecules.


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It was December 12, I was finalizing our plans for Christmas dinner, and I asked Michael, "What kind of pie would you like for Christmas day? Anything special?"
Michael raised his eyebrows and gazed at the ceiling as he racked his brain.
"Mincemeat pie," he finally said.
Normally I would have responded politely with something like, "Really? Why mincemeat pie?" But the residual levels of HGT hormones from pregnancy and the lack of sleep during the postpartum recuperation period caused me to momentarily lose control over my inner monologue. "Mincemeat pie? You've got to be kidding me."
"Why? What's wrong with mincemeat pie?"
I was silent for a few moments. What's not wrong with mincemeat pie? I had never met one I liked, and I know that many other people feel the same way about mincemeat pie as they do about fruit cake. Don't get me wrong, I do like meat pies such as turkey or chicken pot pie, and I even enjoyed some take away pie made from kangaroo (which tasted like venison) while in Australia. I just couldn't picture myself making a mincemeat pie and actually enjoying it. But I had asked and that's what he wanted, so I was determined to do some research and figure out the best way to make one. We set a few ground rules:
- This would be a minced fruit pie, no meat.
- This would be a scratch pie, no canned filling.
Some mincemeat trivia: Traditional British mincemeat was popular from medieval times through the Victorian era, and was made from ground meat, dried fruits, and spices. The concoction was often soaked in alcohol (brandy, whiskey, or rum) for up to 30 days, likely as a preservative. Most modern mincemeat pies really don't have meat anymore, except for the Amish variety.
I read probably thirty mince pie recipes before settling on this one, although in the end we weren't exactly strict about ingredients. The original recipe calls for candied ginger and currants, but we're not too fond of candied ginger and Michael couldn't find currants in any of the grocery stores within a 5 mile radius of our house, so I substituted golden raisins. I made the pie on Christmas Eve and I had to admit that the filling tasted pretty good, and the house smelled wonderful while the pie was baking. Now I was intrigued and looked forward to tasting the pie the next day. Everyone proclaimed the pie to be delicious, even my two picky preschool-age boys—"Mommy, this pie is dewicious!"—and Michael's mom asked me to post the recipe on the website so that she could make it for our shut-in aunt.
So I can admit that I was wrong and post this recipe for a pie that we think is very simple and absolutely delicious.
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Adapted from a recipe at Whole Foods Market.
Makes 1 (9-inch) pie.
large saucepan
pie plate
one batch prepared double crust pie dough
4 apples, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch (1 cm) cubes (I used Empire apples.)
1/3 cup golden raisins (33 g)
1/3 cup sultanas or currants (50 g)
1/3 cup (33 g) dried cranberries (I like the unsweetened kind from Trader Joe's.)
1 orange, zested and juiced
pinch of sea salt
1/2 cup (55 g) packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup (120 mil) plus 2 tablespoons apple cider, divided
2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour (I use Wondra or Pillsbury Shake and Blend.)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
cinnamon sugar
1. Preheat oven to 400° F/200° C.
2. Combine the apples, raisins, sultanas, and cranberries in a large saucepan. Add the orange zest and juice to the apple mixture. Stir in the salt, brown sugar and 1/2 cup apple juice. Bring the mixture to a boil then reduce heat to simmer for 7 to 10 minutes or until apples are tender.
3. Combine the remaining 2 tablespoons apple cider with the flour. When the apples are tender, stir flour mixture in and cook, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens, about a minute or two. Remove from heat.
4. Stir in the cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ground ginger. Pour the mixture into prepared pie crust. Top with the other crust. Flute the edges. Make 3 slits in the top of the pie to allow steam to escape and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. (You may also slice the second crust into a lattice crust top, if you prefer.)
5. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly hot. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Use apple brandy (Calvados or similar) instead of apple cider for mixing with the flour.
Use part Grand Marnier + part orange juice.
[An original post from Andrea Meyers: making life delicious. All images and text copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.]
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This was my May project for Susan Khaljes couture camp……I thought I would really challenge myself by not only tailoring it before I got there but also quilting the remainder of the jacket and underlining it all in ice wool….
Its kind of cool as its incredibly warm, has a french jacket vibe and is incredibly decadent inside but all has a well tailored trench look….love it!!
If anyone is interested here is the link for the making of this from start to finish…..
Chanel wool boucle, silk charmeuse and ice wool for underlining
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What a fabulous, fantastic coat! All the work you've put into it was absolutely worth it!
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