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Give it to him! Let him own the results. The GOP needs to press for spending cuts constantly. Those won´t happen but at least we will be on the right side of the debate. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Too bad there is no Republican leader who can effectively counter this. The House Majority Leader is so da-- dumb that he couldn´t win a debate with a six-year old. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Its not a revenue problem, it a spending problem...Force major cuts. Make that idiot sign a budget and make the Democrats pass one. Enough is enough. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Ø´s plan for the economy can be summarized in three words: "tax the rich." Class warfare at its finest. Worst president in American history. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Best way out of the budget crisis was the most simple as well - Mack Penny Plan (descendent of Connie Mack)Simply spending baseline minus 1% every years for about 6 years, and the deficit would vanish. No politics, no constituencies, no debates. So simple that the only reason that it cannot be used the solve our fiscal problem is because the Dems (lead by obama) really do want to destroy the country.And whenever you hear any Dem say that the Republicans have no plan, that person is baldface lying. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Let the fiscal cliff happen. Most Americans were glad to see the Bush tax cuts , but were doing OK before them. If the house holds tough the dems will give in because those at the lower tax rate will be hit the hardest(dems). I would like to see across the board spending cuts also. I think in the long run it´s a winner for the pubs. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I wonder if anyone will call what´s coming The Obama Recession. Certainly not his Ministry of Truth. Certainly not the pusillanimous wussenheimer known as The Speaker. Never what´s known as the Republican "Leadership". Possibly when the economy plunges into the Obama Depression. Maybe the truth will appear in Pravda. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Let the whole bloated deal expire. Social Security and Medicare are going broke, the revenue for the payroll tax holiday has to be repaid out of general funds. Obama´s Stimulus credits for the poor simply and extensions of unemployment benefits encouraged some to live off benefits and credits rather than get another job. There are more Democrats who voted for the deal and for Sequester than GOP. Let it happen. If some are going to pay higher taxes, let all pay higher taxes. Don´t let the Democrats pick and choose who to tax. If you want to reform the tax system, everyone must agree that taxes are bad. They don´t now. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Obama, Reid & Pelosi are given a free pass by the MSM to cite huge trillion $ cuts they´ve already made.... Hello!!!! You are still spending 40% more than taking in!!!!!Can´t anyone point this out? Run a spot that shows mom living within her budget... then mom running wild without ever having a budget. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.


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INTERESTING FROM UTAH. OUR CAMP FLOYD CORRESPONDENCE. Movements of Troops and Supply Trains—The Pest of Flies—Trouble with the In-dians—Preparations for the Winter, &c. CAMP FLOYD, U.T., Friday, Sept. 3, 1858. Since my last letter, nothing save the arrival of recruits and supply trains has transpired to relieve the monotony of camp life, with little or nothing to do. Major EASTMAN arrived about a fortnight since, with several hundred recruits for the Fifth Infantry, The regiment, which was a mere skeleton hitherto, on account of the large number of discharges expiration of enlistment, is now comparatively full, averaging more than sixty men per company. The new recruits are drilled daily, and the regiment, will soon be in a high state of efficiency. Major EASTMAN commands ; the colonel, Col. LOOMIS, having been until recently on duty in Florida ; and the lieutenant-colonel, Col. WAITE, having recently left on leave of absence. Capt. ANDERSON, of the Second Dragoons, arrived on the 50th ult., with a few recruits for his regiment. His little party was all that remained of the Second Column of the reinforcements for the Utah Army af-ter reaching Fort Laramie and leaving the garrison for that post. He brings some few horses, but they are in no better condition than those that have been grazing among the hills and canons bordering upon Cedar Valley. Some seven or eight of the supply-train have ar-rived, and all of them are, ere this, on this side of Fort Laramie. The appearance of the advanced train, winding its dusty way up the Valley, was hailed fey the soldiers with many enthusiastic shouts, such as "Hurrah fellows, don't you see the grub coming." "We'll have lots of bacon now." "Hurrah for the bull train." "I hope we won't have to eat those poor bulls again this Winter." And many a joke passed sound as they recalled the exposure, scanty fare and hard work of last Winter. When I last wrote, the camp was constantly en-veloped in a dense cloud of dust, but since then a shower passing along the lofty hills above us deigned to pay us a visit, and gave the loose soil a thorough moistening, much to our relief. The great pest of one's daily life now is the host of the com-mon house-fly. I have seen them in country-kitchens in numbers that the good housewife was pleased to call "thick," but never so thick as in the tents of Camp Floyd. The soldiers and officers alike find that early rising is no inconvenience, as this little creature commences his torments immediately after daylight. Writing or napping during the day is out of the question, and great patience must be exercised in attempting to read. I am told, that great as this inconvenience is up here, down in the Dragoon and Artillery Camps, where they have their horses tied up at night, it is much greater; but they must submit to all the disadvantages of belonging "to the horse." In fact, a moderate annoyance from being attached to horse corps inflicted upon them causes us some little satisfaction, as many a weary mile have we plod-ded on foot, envying them a comfortable seat on a caisson or on horseback. Owing to the inability of the Quartermaster's De-partment to obtain the requisite amount of forage, the horses will be herded among the different valleys again this Winter, and no one looks forward to the duty of guarding the herds with any degree of plea-sure. A wandering life among these mountains, with a tent for protection against the storms of Winter, is by no means an agreeable one to contemplate; besides, great vigilance will be necessary, on account of the Indians, who are in the habit of penetrating among the settlements and driving off stock in considerable numbers. One squadron of dragoons will be kept up, in order to be ready for any emergency which may arise. Stables will be erected for them, and the horses must eat wheat, barley and oats, mixed, at $1 50 per bushel, The Indians fired upon a party of Saints, who were cutting hay in Rush Valley, a fortnight since, and Lieutenant TYLER, with one hundred mounted men, was dispatched to the valley of Serier River to find their camp, and bring in the Chiefs for a talk ; but after a trip of eight days he returned, without having found any sign. Judges ECKELS and SINCLAIR, accompanied by sev-eral friends, and escorted by Captain SMITH'S squad-ron of Dragoons, left on an official visit to Fillmore, the capital, on the 13th ult., their object being to make the necessary; arrangements for opening the Courts. There seems but little prospect for lawyers in this country, except it be in cases which arise be-tween Gentile and Saint, or between Gentiles alone, as in all their business matters the Mormons refer their disputes and differences to the Bishop, and if beyond his power to decide, to the Council of the Church. There are many cases of damages which the Gentiles, merchants and others would wish to prosecute, but they consider it ridiculous to submit them to a Mormon jury with the expectation of re-covering anything. The Mormon objection to a jury composed of wagon-masters and teamsters, and the desire to be tried by their "peers," which has been so strongly set forth in some official communications, causes those who have made some acquaintance with this people, some merriment. The wagon-masters of this Army are, as a general thing, far superior to the majority of the Saints, both in intelligence and integ-rity, and certainly, as a class, far above those usually found in the jury-box in the States ; besides, there are many Gentile merchants who would most un-doubtedly deem it an insult to be called their "peers." We have now daily communication with the city by a stage line, of which a Mr. WILLIAMS, an apos-tate, is the proprietor and manager. They make the trip each way in about seven hours. The mail con-tinues to make its time, arriving on Saturday morn-ing each week, and occasionally on Friday; but how near they will approach to the contract time when snow falls in the cañons, remains to be seen. The whole command is now busily occupied in hauling timber for, the Cantonment, to which we will soon move. The present plan is to erect adobé build-ings and cover them with boards with two inches of earth on the top. It is optional with the men whether they build these houses themselves, the adobés and lumber being furnished, or whether they will take the Sibley tent, raised upon a wall some three or four feet high. The majority elect the house—in fact there are no companies which were at Camp Scott last Winter desirous of trying a life in tents over again. By the present arrangement each officer will be allowed one room fifteen feet square. Though this is a rather lim-ited accommodation, yet I think it will be found quite as much as their present limited allowance of furni-ture will equip. Captain SIMPSON, of the Topographical Engineers, left some days since with an escort of an officer and twenty mounted men, to make a reconnoissance in the direction of Fort Bridger, through the Provo Cañon ; the object being to ascertain whether a short-er route may not be found than the present one through Echo and Emigration Cañons. The Sixth Infantry were to have left Fort Bridger for Oregon, on the 20th ult. It will be remembered that they came over the road surveyed by Lieutenant BRYAN, which they pronounce favorably upon as far as Bridger's Pass, but thence to Fort Bridger the route is only adapted to small parties, on account of the scarcity of the water and grass. Nevertheless, two companies of the Fourth Artillery have been ordered to the Cheyenne Pass, with instructions to build a post. We now have every prospect of an abundant sup-ply of subsistence stores the ensuing Winter. The restriction upon the ration was removed for the first time since last Fall, on the 1st inst. We have been abundantly supplied with the vegetables of the season by the Saints, but at enormously high prices. A sol-dier with money reminds one of a little boy with a cent—he is not satisfied until he spends it. Attempts have teen made by the Provost Marshal of the camp, to regulate the prices, and he has in many instances, where here they have refused to lower them, ordered the parties out of the camp, but they went into the cedars and there disposed of all their notions at their own prices, as we learned after they had left. Numbers of the Mormons are now seeking employment from the Government, having caught a glimpse of the coin which is beginning to circulate among them. Men who have fine farms, and can spare a month from the farm labor, seek employment in any capacity for that time in order to obtain the wherewith to purchase Winter clothing for themselves and families. The sutlers' trains have mostly now arrived in the city, and they are erecting large, commodious stores at the site of the new camp. The most of them have extensive assortments of goods, both such as are adapted to the trade in the city as well as such arti-cles in demand among the soldiers. Their prices are very high, owing to the immense cost of transporta-ion from the States—some of them having paid as much as twenty-five cents per pound freight. As for fruits, there are but few varieties grown in the Territory, and those mostly in the gardens of the Prophet and the First Presidency. A man was seen traversing the camp some days since with a small sack of apples, small and sour, for which he demanded the moderate sum of one dollar per dozen. An expedition, consisting of a squadron of dragoons and a company of infantry, are to leave this morning for Humboldt River, whence reports have been re-ceived that four men, supposed to be deserters from the army, had been killed, and that the mail from Cali-fornia had been robbed. The full particulars of the outrage have not transpired. The detachment will be commanded by Capt. HAWES, of the 2d Dragoons. Q. OUR SALT LAKE CITY CORRES-PONDENCE. Interruption of the Overland Mail Communi-cation by the Indians—Troops Ordered to Protect the Mails—Street Fights in Salt Lake City—Governor Cumming Pic-Nic-ing with the Saints, &c. GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, U. T., Saturday, Sept. 4, 1858. We regret exceedingly to learn that our present great, central, overland mail communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific, through this city, has been interrupted by the Indians. Last Saturday the conductor of the California mail, due on that day, arrived in this city without his mail, It appears that on or about the 22d of last month, as the mail party—consisting of but two men—were camping for the night at the last crossing of the Hum-boldt River, a large band of Indians suddenly came upon them and took possession of everything which they had, mules, harness, provisions and, more im-portant than all, the mail. The men escaped with their lives by hiding, at the first approach of the In-dians, in the brush along the river, and remaining concealed until their departure. They then made their way on foot to the next station, where they pro-cured animals and came on as rapidly as possible to this city. Immediately upon the receipt of this information Dr. FORNEY, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, made a requisition, through Gov. CUMMING, upon Gen. JOHN-STON for a body of troops to be sent down as soon as possible to the Humboldt River, to protect the mails and emigration from these hostile Indians. In conse-quence of which Gen. JOHNSTON, with commendable promptness, has ordered two companies of Dragoons and two of Infantry to start immediately for that por-tion of the route to California. Companies C and H, of the Second Dragoons, in command of Capt. HAWS, and a company from both the Tenth and Fifth Regi-ments of Infantry will leave the Camp to-day on this duty. It is believed that the Indians who attacked the mail were a band of the Oregon Indians who have come down and united with the "Digger" snakes on the Humboldt for the express purpose of robbing and murdering this year's emigration to California and Oregon. Superintendent FORNEY will start during the coming week to overtake the troops and visit the tribes along the Humboldt, and discover their feelings and inten-tions. We hope soon to hear of a definite settlement of accounts with these Indians, who have committed so many depredations and shocking murders for seve-ral seasons past upon the overland emigration. We are informed that Superintendent FORNEY, upon his arrival here, sent out to these same Indians a quantity of presents as a token of his goodwill towards them, among which there was sent, very inconside-rately, a considerable amount of powder and lead. It is to be regretted that it was deemed more pru-dent under the existing circumstances to send the 6th Infantry to the seat of war in Oregon by way of San Francisco instead of directly overland by the regular Oregon trail, not only in consequence of the greater length of the adopted route, but in conse-quence of the opportunity thus lost of attacking the Indians in their rear and surrounding them. As it is, the Indians now so hostile in Oregon Ter-ritory have but little to fear from the troops, for, com-ing as they do all from the coast, they have only to watch them and fight them on that side, and if in the conflict they find themselves beaten and disabled, the way is perfectly open to retreat across the mountains into the buffalo country, where they can recruit their horses, obtain fresh supplies of provisions, and pre-pare to renew their attacks upon the whites at the first opportunity. The only way to cope successfully with these Indians is to cut off their hope of retreat-ing to recruit, and thus finally conquer them, if not by force of arms alone, by famine and fatigue ; for, these Indians depending mainly upon the buffalo for their support, they feel perfectly independent and fearless of consequences, as long as they can obtain a full sup-ply it. Our city has lately been the scene of an unusual number of street fights. In one of these encounters GEORGE GRANT, brother of the late JEDEDIAH GRANT who was BRIGHAM'S second Counsellor and the Third President of the Church, received a black eye, and has since been fined $100, and bound over in the sum of $1,000 to keep the peace for one year. On the 1st inst., a negro and a mulatto in the em-ploy of Marshal DOTSON—named FRANK POSEY and ROBERT TAYLOR—got into a quarrel, which resulted in the death of the former, POSEY having stabbed TAY-LOR in the forehead, he immediately shot POSEY with a revolver, killing him instantly. Upon examination before the Justice of the Peace, TAYLOR was acquitted on the ground of justifiable homicide. On Tuesday night last, the large two-story house of Mr. NESBITT was burned to the ground. The fire originated accidentally. Fires are of such rare oc-currence here that when one does break out it forms quite an event. The houses here being all built sepa-rately and surrounded by gardens, (except on the principal business street,) there is no danger of the spread of a fire, and consequently we have no Fire Department in this city. Governor CUMMING and lady lately visited Cotton-wood Cañon—the spot on which BRIGHAM and his con-federates declared their Independence,—in company with BRIGHAM YOUNG and family, and a select company of the "Saints." The party were absent some four days on this "pic-nic," and the time was pleasantly spent in dancing, singing, speaking, &c. The United States Judges ECKLES and SINCLAIR and Secretary HARTNELL are still absent on their trip to Fillmore, where they went to appoint the times for holding the United States Courts in this Territory. They are accompanied by an escort of two companies of dragoons. Before leaving this city, Secretary HARTNELL, refused to give commissions to the members elect of the Le-gislature from this County in consequence of the illegal proceedings during the late election. This will render a new election necessary. Col. LAUDER, Superintendent of the Fort Kearney South Pass and Honey Lake wagon road, spent a few days in this city during the past week. He has succeed-ed during the Summer in constructing an excellent wagon road from the South Pass along the base of the Wind River Mountains, intersecting the old road again on Bear River. This new cut-off, besides being much shorter than the old road, is preferable in con-sequence of the more abundant and frequent supplies of water, wood and grass. It is probable that Col. LANDER will return with his party to the States this Fall, instead of attempting to Winter in the moun-tains. Chief Justice ECKLES will return to the States about the 1st of next month, he having obtained leave of absence for three months, to enable him to visit his family in Indiana. We noticed whilst out riding in this valley, recently, a phenomenon, which, we were informed, is very common in this country—namely: spouts, or columns of dust, rising from the ground as far up as the eye can reach. The one we saw was formed by a whirl-wind, which gradually caused it to rise until its sum-mit disappeared among the clouds. It appeared to be about the size, in circumference, of an ordinary hogs-head, and did not vary in diameter. About midway there was a long, graceful curve in this slender pillar, which seemed to connect the heavens and the earth. It maintained its position about five minutes, and then rapidly disappeared. These dust spouts are formed in the same manner as the water-spouts upon the ocean, although the dust, from its light character, rises more readily and to a greater height. We know not whether history gives the reason why the crooks or staffs of the shepherds, in the ancient classical periods, were bent or crooked at the ends but perhaps the shepherd-boys of Utah will furnish us with the reason. We met, a few days since, two little boys herding their flocks of sheep, each holding in his hand a perfect crook. It was the stalk of a sun-flower, stripped of its leaves and bent over by the weight of the flower, which still remained, until it resembled perfectly the representations which we have of the classical shepherd's crook. The sunflower grows like a weed throughout these valleys, and becomes a perfect nuisance to the farmer. The Indians are now busy picking the seeds of these wild flowers, which they esteem as an excel-lent article of food. A. B. C. [BY TELEGRAPH.] ST. LOUIS, Saturday, Oct. 2. The Salt Lake mail reached St. Joseph on the 25th ult., 21 days out. The Mormons were quiet and orderly at the time of departure. A violent snow storm was encountered by the train west of Laramie. The Indians on the route were quiet. The weekly Santa Fé mail left Independence on the 29th ult. H. A. SHEET, Receiver of Public Moneys, and Mr. REGISTER, were among the passengers,
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Shares of Internet retailer dive more than 5 percent in after-hours trading after big quarterly miss and warning of Q4 operating loss.
Amazon lost $274 million, or 60 cents a share in the third quarter ended September 30 on $13.81 billion in sales. Wall Street's consensus estimates were for an 8 cent-per-share loss on $13.92 billion in quarterly revenue, according to First Call. During the year-earlier period, Amazon earned $63 million, or 14 cents a share, on $10.9 billion in sales.
The quarter included a $169 million loss related to Amazon's daily deals business, LivingSocial.
This was Amazon's second consecutive quarterly disappointment after beating forecasts in the prior two quarters. Following the release of the results, shares of Amazon tumbled more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.
Investors may also have been spooked by the company's guidance for the fourth quarter. Amazon said that it expects anywhere between a $490 million loss and a $310 million profit on sales between $20.25 billion and $22.75 billion.
Amazon's earnings conference call is scheduled for 2 p.m. PT today.
"Our approach is to work hard to charge less. Sell devices near breakeven and you can pack a lot of sophisticated hardware into a very low price point," said Amazon Jeff Bezos in a prepared statement.
- North America sales, including revenue from Amazon Web Services: $7.88 billion, up 33 percent
- International: $5.92 billion, up 20 percent
- Worldwide Media sales: Up 11 percent to $4.60 billion.
- Worldwide Electronics and Other General Merchandise sales: Up 36 percent to $8.56 billion
The world's largest online retailer's spending strategy is likely to invite scrutiny on the conference call. For years, Bezos has demonstrated a preference for plowing resources into initiatives to build market share which take years to generate profits. But that seeming indifference to near-term profits drives Wall Street batty. Bezos is not backing down. In fact, he recently told the BBC that Amazon's selling the Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite e-reader at cost.
Amazon's stock, which started the year just above $175 a share, has been one of tech's strongest performers. The stock closed today at $227.55.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours with the big foam common to a lot of beers from Belgium, but it settles down to a nice mashed potatoes heap. Color is clear red-brown. Plenty of spritz in the mouth. Fairly light body with just a little sweet stickiness. Not much aroma, but a little roasted grain.
Sweet and malty with the dry aftertaste. Some yeasty bitterness but no actual hop flavor. Raisins and dried figs in the flavor with a hint of spice. Caramel and browned raisin toast. Flavor of muffin tops. Hint of molasses but the dry bready taste keeps this from being too sweet.
The foam lasts to the final sip. From the ceramic jug with swing-top closure. There were three varieties of these brews at Bev Mo in La Jolla.
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LOOK: Clear, brownish garnet, decent head
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Ceramic flip-top bottles? That is some old-school packing. All in all, we are pretty happy with this brew, clearly a benchmark for the style. Happy as well to see this brand come around again to the US, bringing back memories of some of our initial explorations into Belgian beer.
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Dark brown with a tan head that has a fine texture and long retention.
Cherry and lime lifesavers (I know how crazy that sounds), sweet malt, brown bread, raisins, cinnamon, tangerine.
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My oh my what a lovely dark Belgian ale! I poured this into a goblet and noticed the large frothy head and dark color. Nutty flavor very refreshing! I need to try the other St. Sebastiaan brews next! The ale was VERY strong but did not feel like alcohol at first and quite refreshing trappiste style beer.
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The 34-year-old confirmed over the weekend that the Blues will not be renewing his contract, ending his 12-year association with the club. This has opened the door to speculation of an impending move but the midfielder also specified his desire to see out the remainder of his contract at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard has attracted the interest of a number of clubs in the United States and is seen as an ideal replacement for the departing David Beckham. It is believed they're ready to offer Lampard a substantial wage packet in order to convince him to cross the Atlantic and embark on a new adventure.
However, the Telegraph reports that Ferguson could dash their hopes by making an offer but he would not be doing it anytime soon. Instead of forking out a fee and dealing with Chelsea, he is happy to accede to the England international's demands and wait until the summer when he would be available for a free transfer.
The United manager has always been a noted admirer of Lampard's talents and attempted to sign the player a 21-year-old when he featured for West Ham.
WIth Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs set to receive limited playing time in the coming year, the Scotsman is interested in signing a player of proven experience in order to help inspire the club's current crop of youngsters. In this vein, Lampard would provide a perfect example both on and off the pitch for the likes of Tom Cleverley, Anderson and Darren Fletcher to learn from and improve their game.
Presently, Ferguson has not made any overtures as he is currently preoccupied with the title race and has already stated that he would not be active in the January transfer market. The last player of note signed by the club during January was Anders Lindegaard with the Dane signing for the Red Devils from Aalesund in 2011.
It is expected by various sources in the British media that Ferguson will only begin negotiations with the player's representatives towards the end of the season. Unlike Chelsea, he is prepared to match Lampard's current £150,000-a-week wage and will personally play a role in convincing the midfielder to make the controversial switch.
Lampard has always been held in high regard by the United manager and the latter made a glowing assessment of the midfielder's abilities in 2009.
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Scores for every group of students have been slowly improving over the last decade. Of particular note, California's Latino students have gained 16 points in eighth-grade reading over the past 10 years, with a 7-point gain since the last assessment in 2011.
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National and State Organizations Respond to Elimination of Public Transparency on Student Academic Performance by CA Leaders
OAKLAND, CA (October 29, 2013) – As national and state organizations advocating on behalf of parents, teachers, students and communities, we believe that California's leaders are violating the rights of parents and educators to receive critical information on the academic progress of more than four million students. Governor Brown's signing of Assembly Bill 484 into law represents a dramatic step backward in public transparency for student academic results. It is also a clear violation of important federal protections for our most vulnerable student populations, including our state's approximately 1.3 million English Learners and 650,000 students with disabilities. We believe that the Obama administration's response to AB 484 is an important first step in protecting the rights of students and parents.
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Ed Trust-West Response to Proposed Effort to Limit Public Transparency on Student Academic Outcomes
OAKLAND, CA (September 9, 2013) – The Education Trust-West issued the following statement in response to AB 484 and State Board request for a federal waiver:
"The Education Trust-West strongly opposes the effort to suspend all public transparency on student, school and district performance in math, English language arts and other academic subjects proposed by the California State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and Assemblymember Susan Bonilla.


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Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 11:35 am
The following message was posted yesterday on SEMNET and is of interest to Mplus users.
SEMNET readers may be interested in a new paper:
Muthen, B. (2011). Applications of Causally Defined Direct and Indirect
Effects in Mediation Analysis using SEM in Mplus. Submitted for publication.
which is available at
together with Mplus scripts.
The paper discusses causally-defined effects for mediation analysis in an
SEM context for continuous, binary, ordinal, nominal, and count variables.
With non-continuous variables, causally-defined effects have not been
available in SEM software until now. The paper discusses maximum-likelihood and Bayesian analysis for non-normal effects, latent response variable mediators, Monte Carlo simulations for planning new studies, sensitivity analysis when violating sequential ignorability, and generalizations to continuous and categorical latent variables. Furthermore, the paper is the first to present a method for mediation with a nominal mediator. One of the illustrations is an analysis of Judea Pearl's hypothetical example with binary mediator and binary outcome that was debated on SEMNET in September.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 11:49 am
Mplus users who do mediation analysis are urged to study the paper in the previous posting. The research in this paper elaborates and extends our previous recommendations of how to report indirect and direct effects.
Some of the analyses performed in the new paper require Mplus Version 6.12 which is scheduled to be released next week.
Tom Hildebrandt
posted on Friday, January 06, 2012 - 9:40 pm
I have just read the new paper on Mediation and had a couple of basic questions.
1) How are the DE, TIE, PIE parameters interpreted for a count or negative binomial outcome? It looks as though parameters are exponentiated before being entered into these formulas from the example code in the table 51-2.
2) I am also new to the Causal Effect modeling approach, so I will go back and read some more of the introductory papers, but I wondered what the basic change to the formulas would be with say 3 or 4 treatments as opposed to two conditions.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, January 07, 2012 - 6:42 am
1) Count and negbin modeling focus on the log mean (often called the log rate), whereas the casual effect formulas consider the mean (that is, the rate). Hence the exponentiation.
2) You would do the analysis jointly for all treatments and control groups, so several dummy covariates. And then use the formulas for one treatment at a time.
Dustin Pardini
posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 9:54 am
When examining mediation using parallel process growth models, several studies have looked at the relationship between X (e.g.-tx condition) and subsequent M & Y parallel process models. However, I have not been able to locate any examples for which X & M are parallel process models and Y is a future outcome.
Do you see any inherent methodological problems for a model in which the relationship between both initial status and growth of X and its relationship with the future outcome Y is thought to be mediated by the slope of M?
If such a model is plausible, does the model presented below appear to represent an adequate means for examining such a relationship?
!Growth Model
Xint Xslp |
Mint Mslp |
Xint with Mint;
Mslp with Mint;
Xint with Xslp;
Xslp on Mint;
Mslp on Xint (a1);
Mslp on Xslp (a2);
Y on Mslp (b);
Y on Xint Xslp Mint;
Model Constraint:
new (med1 med2 );
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 2:43 pm
Such modeling seems reasonable, generally speaking.
The time ordering needs to be clear - it seems odd to have Xslp on Mint if M mediates X.
Jessica Latack
posted on Monday, October 07, 2013 - 5:57 am
Hi there,
I'm brand new to MPlus so I apologize if this is extremely basic.I am attempting to decompose several significant interactions. I have one categorical predictor (sexual victimization history) and have found that my continuous moderators (life stress and social support) significantly moderate the relationship between my predictor and outcome variables (of which I have three--all are categorical). Can I do this in Mplus?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 07, 2013 - 11:15 am
Yes, you can do this. See Example 3.18. It is more complicated than your model but you should be able to use that as a starting point.
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The European Commission has imposed a fine of 899 m Euros on Microsoft, stating that the company had demanded unreasonable prices for interface documentation for it Workgroup servers.
Commenting on the decision, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said that Microsoft had been the first company to ignore sanctions in 50 years of EU competition policy. The current fine is a consequence of a ruling made in March 2004 which ordered Microsoft to provide interface documentation to competitors on reasonable terms.
The Commission has also published a statement on Microsoft's latest announcement of freely available documentation in which it criticizes Microsoft for having made at least four similar promises in the past without keeping them.
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Our goal is to understand the mechanism for highly selective, bidirectional exchange of proteins and RNA between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking is essential for cell function, and precisely regulated during cell division, differentiation and death. Many aspects of this process are poorly understood. At the center of the transport mechanism are the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), large protein machines embedded in the nuclear envelope and the only known sites for nuclear entry and exit. We use yeast, cultured human cells, and zebrafish model systems to address three broad questions.
(1) How are NPCs assembled? At least 30 different proteins associate in a nuclear envelope pore to form an NPC. Using genetic strategies and GFP-tagged NPCs, we are identifying assembly factors and monitoring NPC dynamics in live cells.
(2) How do proteins and genetic material move through the NPC? By genetic, molecular and biochemical means, we are investigating the mechanism by which transport factors utilize NPC proteins for movement. Studies also focus on elucidating steps in mRNA export, coupling between mRNA export and translation, and roles for inositol polyphosphate signaling in regulating transport.
(3) How do inositol signaling and mRNA export molecules regulate vertebrate development and disease? Using the zebrafish model system, we have made multiple discoveries that open up entirely new areas of investigation.
These basic projects impact human disease in several ways. Proper NPC assembly is required for maintaining transport in rapidly dividing cells (e.g. cancer cells), and for cell division in higher eukaryotes. Cancer cells can also alter gene expression by perturbing nuclear transport. Furthermore, transport factors and NPC proteins are targets for viral inhibition of cell function and mediators of viral RNA export. We predict that analyzing NPC translocation and assembly mechanisms will identify targets for controlling cancer cell growth or viral pathogenesis. Of note, an essential mRNA export factor discovered in our laboratory is linked to a severe form of human motor neuron degeneration, and we are specifically investing effort to reveal this disease mechanism. Overall, our future work will continue to integrate our discoveries from the analysis of single cell machineries into the context of multicellular organism development and pathophysiology.
- Jao, LE, Wente, SR, Chen, W Efficient multiplex biallelic zebrafish genome editing using a CRISPR nuclease system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013.
- Natalizio, BJ, Wente, SR Postage for the messenger: designating routes for nuclear mRNA export. Trends Cell Biol, 2013.
- Adams, RL, Wente, SR Uncovering nuclear pore complexity with innovation. Cell, 152(6), 1218-21, 2013.
- Jao, LE, Appel, B, Wente, SR A zebrafish model of lethal congenital contracture syndrome 1 reveals Gle1 function in spinal neural precursor survival and motor axon arborization. Development, 139(7), 1316-26, 2012.
- Casey, AK, Dawson, TR, Chen, J, Friederichs, JM, Jaspersen, SL, Wente, SR Integrity and function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body depends on connections between the membrane proteins Ndc1, Rtn1, and Yop1. Genetics, 192(2), 441-55, 2012.
- Burns, LT, Wente, SR Nuclear GPS for Interchromosomal Clustering. Dev Cell, 22(6), 1119-20, 2012.
- Casey, AK, Wente, SR Nuclear transport: shifting gears in fungal nuclear and cytoplasmic organization. Curr Biol, 22(19), R846-8, 2012.
- Burns, LT, Wente, SR Trafficking to uncharted territory of the nuclear envelope. Curr Opin Cell Biol, 24(3), 341-9, 2012.
- Folkmann, AW, Noble, KN, Cole, CN, Wente, SR Dbp5, Gle1-IP6 and Nup159: a working model for mRNP export. Nucleus, 2(6), 540-8, 2011.
- Bolger, TA, Wente, SR Gle1 is a multifunctional DEAD-box protein regulator that modulates Ded1 in translation initiation. J Biol Chem, 286(46), 39750-9, 2011.
- Wente, SR Spatial and temporal impacts on a career in science. Mol Biol Cell, 22(21), 3923-5, 2011.
- Noble, KN, Tran, EJ, Alcázar-Román, AR, Hodge, CA, Cole, CN, Wente, SR The Dbp5 cycle at the nuclear pore complex during mRNA export II: nucleotide cycling and mRNP remodeling by Dbp5 are controlled by Nup159 and Gle1. Genes Dev, 25(10), 1065-77, 2011.
- Alcázar-Román, AR, Bolger, TA, Wente, SR Control of mRNA export and translation termination by inositol hexakisphosphate requires specific interaction with Gle1. J Biol Chem, 285(22), 16683-92, 2010.
- Sarmah, B, Wente, SR Inositol hexakisphosphate kinase-2 acts as an effector of the vertebrate Hedgehog pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107(46), 19921-6, 2010.
- Titus, LC, Dawson, TR, Rexer, DJ, Ryan, KJ, Wente, SR Members of the RSC chromatin-remodeling complex are required for maintaining proper nuclear envelope structure and pore complex localization. Mol Biol Cell, 21(6), 1072-87, 2010.
- Noble, KN, Wente, SR Nuclear mRNA on the move. Nat Cell Biol, 12(6), 525-7, 2010.
- Kelly, SM, Leung, SW, Apponi, LH, Bramley, AM, Tran, EJ, Chekanova, JA, Wente, SR, Corbett, AH Recognition of polyadenosine RNA by the zinc finger domain of nuclear poly(A) RNA binding protein 2 (Nab2) is required for correct mRNA 3''-end formation. J Biol Chem, 2010.
- Zheng, C, Fasken, MB, Marshall, NJ, Brockmann, C, Rubinson, ME, Wente, SR, Corbett, AH, Stewart, M Structural basis for the function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gfd1 protein in mRNA nuclear export. J Biol Chem, 285(27), 20704-15, 2010.
- Carmody, SR, Tran, EJ, Apponi, LH, Corbett, AH, Wente, SR The mitogen-activated protein kinase Slt2 regulates nuclear retention of non-heat shock mRNAs during heat shock-induced stress. Mol Cell Biol, 30(21), 5168-79, 2010.
- Wente, SR, Rout, MP The nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, 2(10), a000562, 2010.
- Sarmah, B, Wente, SR Zebrafish inositol polyphosphate kinases: new effectors of cilia and developmental signaling. Adv Enzyme Regul, 50(1), 309-23, 2010.
- Hetzer, MW, Wente, SR Border control at the nucleus: biogenesis and organization of the nuclear membrane and pore complexes. Dev Cell, 17(5), 606-16, 2009.
- Sarmah, B, Wente, SR Dual functions for the Schizosaccharomyces pombe inositol kinase Ipk1 in nuclear mRNA export and polarized cell growth. Eukaryot Cell, 8(2), 134-46, 2009.
- Dawson, TR, Lazarus, MD, Hetzer, MW, Wente, SR ER membrane-bending proteins are necessary for de novo nuclear pore formation. J Cell Biol, 184(5), 659-75, 2009.
- Terry, LJ, Wente, SR Flexible gates: dynamic topologies and functions for FG nucleoporins in nucleocytoplasmic transport. Eukaryot Cell, 8(12), 1814-27, 2009.
- Beliakova-Bethell, N, Terry, LJ, Bilanchone, V, DaSilva, R, Nagashima, K, Wente, SR, Sandmeyer, S Ty3 nuclear entry is initiated by viruslike particle docking on GLFG nucleoporins. J Virol, 83(22), 11914-25, 2009.
- Carmody, SR, Wente, SR mRNA nuclear export at a glance. J Cell Sci, 122(Pt 12), 1933-7, 2009.
- Bolger, TA, Folkmann, AW, Tran, EJ, Wente, SR The mRNA export factor Gle1 and inositol hexakisphosphate regulate distinct stages of translation. Cell, 134(4), 624-33, 2008.
- Sarmah, B, Winfrey, VP, Olson, GE, Appel, B, Wente, SR A role for the inositol kinase Ipk1 in ciliary beating and length maintenance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104(50), 19843-8, 2007.
- Terry, LJ, Shows, EB, Wente, SR Crossing the nuclear envelope: hierarchical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport. Science, 318(5855), 1412-6, 2007.
- Alcázar-Román, AR, Wente, SR Inositol polyphosphates: a new frontier for regulating gene expression. Chromosoma, 1171-13, 2007.
- Terry, LJ, Wente, SR Nuclear mRNA export requires specific FG nucleoporins for translocation through the nuclear pore complex. J Cell Biol, 178(7), 1121-32, 2007.
- Tran, EJ, Bolger, TA, Wente, SR SnapShot: nuclear transport. Cell, 131(2), 420, 2007.
- Tran, EJ, Zhou, Y, Corbett, AH, Wente, SR The DEAD-box protein Dbp5 controls mRNA export by triggering specific RNA:protein remodeling events. Mol Cell, 28(5), 850-9, 2007.
- Ryan, KJ, Zhou, Y, Wente, SR The karyopherin kap95 regulates nuclear pore complex assembly into intact nuclear envelopes in vivo. Mol Biol Cell, 18(3), 886-98, 2007.
- Tran, EJ, Wente, SR Dynamic nuclear pore complexes: life on the edge. Cell, 125(6), 1041-53, 2006.
- Alcázar-Román, AR, Tran, EJ, Guo, S, Wente, SR Inositol hexakisphosphate and Gle1 activate the DEAD-box protein Dbp5 for nuclear mRNA export. Nat Cell Biol, 8(7), 711-6, 2006.
- Miao, M, Ryan, KJ, Wente, SR The integral membrane protein Pom34p functionally links nucleoporin subcomplexes. Genetics, 172(3), 1441-57, 2006.
- Hoek, KL, Antony, P, Lowe, J, Shinners, N, Sarmah, B, Wente, SR, Wang, D, Gerstein, RM, Khan, WN Transitional B cell fate is associated with developmental stage-specific regulation of diacylglycerol and calcium signaling upon B cell receptor engagement. J Immunol, 177(8), 5405-13, 2006.
- Sarmah, B, Latimer, AJ, Appel, B, Wente, SR Inositol polyphosphates regulate zebrafish left-right asymmetry. Dev Cell, 9(1), 133-45, 2005.
- Kendirgi, F, Rexer, DJ, Alcázar-Román, AR, Onishko, HM, Wente, SR Interaction between the shuttling mRNA export factor Gle1 and the nucleoporin hCG1: a conserved mechanism in the export of Hsp70 mRNA. Mol Biol Cell, 16(9), 4304-15, 2005.
- Miller, AL, Suntharalingam, M, Johnson, SL, Audhya, A, Emr, SD, Wente, SR Cytoplasmic inositol hexakisphosphate production is sufficient for mediating the Gle1-mRNA export pathway. J Biol Chem, 279(49), 51022-32, 2004.
- Strawn, LA, Shen, T, Shulga, N, Goldfarb, DS, Wente, SR Minimal nuclear pore complexes define FG repeat domains essential for transport. Nat Cell Biol, 6(3), 197-206, 2004.
- Suntharalingam, M, Alcazar-Roman, AR, Wente, SR Nuclear export of the yeast mRNA-binding protein Nab2 is linked to a direct interaction with Gfd1 and to Gle1 function. J Biol Chem, 27935384-91, 2004.
- Rayala, HJ, Kendirgi, F, Barry, DM, Majerus, PW, Wente, SR The mRNA Export Factor Human Gle1 Interacts with the Nuclear Pore Complex Protein Nup155. Mol Cell Proteomics, 3(2), 145-155, 2004.
- Kiseleva, E, Allen, T D, Rutherford, S, Bucci, M, Wente, SR, Goldberg, MW Yeast nuclear pore complexes have a cytoplasmic ring and internal filaments. J Struct Biol, 145(3), 272-88, 2004.
- Kendirgi, F, Barry, DM, Griffis, ER, Powers, MA, Wente, SR An essential role for hGle1 nucleocytoplasmic shuttling in mRNA export. J Cell Biol, 1601029-40, 2003.
- Suntharalingam, M, Wente, SR Peering through the Pore. Nuclear Pore Complex Structure, Assembly, and Function. Dev Cell, 4775-89, 2003.
- Steger, DJ, Haswell, ES, Miller, AL, Wente, SR, OShea, EK Regulation of chromatin remodeling by inositol polyphosphates. Science, 299114-6, 2003.
- Ryan, KJ, McCaffery, JM, Wente, SR The Ran GTPase cycle is required for yeast nuclear pore complex assembly. J Cell Biol, 1601041-53, 2003.
- Bayliss, R, Littlewood, T, Strawn, LA, Wente, SR, Stewart, M GLFG and FxFG nucleoporins bind to overlapping sites on importin-beta. J Biol Chem, 27750597-606, 2002.
- Ryan, KJ, Wente, SR Isolation and characterization of new Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants perturbed in nuclear pore complex assembly. BMC Genet, 317, 2002.
- Sondermann, H, Ho, AK, Listenberger, LL, Siegers, K, Moarefi, I, Wente, SR, Hartl, FU, Young, JC Prediction of novel Bag-1 homologs based on structure/function analysis identifies Snl1p as an Hsp70 co-chaperone in S. cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem., 277(36), 33220-7, 2002.
- Chang, S-C, Miller, AL, Feng, Y, Wente, SR, Majerus, PW The human homolog of the rat inositol phosphate multikinase is an inositol 1,3,4,6-tetrakisphosphate 5-kinase. J Biol Chem, 27743836-43, 2002.
- Verbsky, JW, Wilson, MP, Kisseleva, MV, Majerus, PW, Wente, SR The synthesis of inositol hexakisphosphate: Characterization of human inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate 2-kinase. J. Biol. Chem., 277(35), 31857-62, 2002.
- Feng, Y, Wente, S R, Majerus, P W Overexpression of the inositol phosphatase SopB in human 293 cells stimulates cellular chloride influx and inhibits nuclear mRNA export. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 98(3), 875-9, 2001.
- Carvalho, J, Bertram, P G, Wente, S R, Zheng, X F Phosphorylation regulates the interaction between Gln3p and the nuclear import factor Srp1p. J Biol Chem, 276(27), 25359-65, 2001.
- Strawn, L A, Shen, T, Wente, S R The GLFG regions of Nup116p and Nup100p serve as binding sites for both Kap95p and Mex67p at the nuclear pore complex. J Biol Chem, 276(9), 6445-52, 2001.
- Odom, A. R., Stahlberg, A., Wente, S. R., York, J. D A role for nuclear inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate kinase in transcriptional control. Science, 2872026-2029, 2000.
- Ho, A K, Shen, T X, Ryan, K J, Kiseleva, E, Levy, M A, Allen, T D, Wente, S R Assembly and preferential localization of Nup116p on the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore complex by interaction with Nup82p. Mol Cell Biol, 20(15), 5736-48, 2000.
- Ives, EB, Nichols, J, Wente, SR, York, JD Biochemical and functional characterization of inositol 1,3,4,5, 6-pentakisphosphate 2-kinases. J. Biol. Chem., 27536575-83, 2000.
- Wente, S. R Gatekeepers of the nucleus. Science, 2881374-1377, 2000.
- Barry, D M, Wente, S R Nuclear transport: never-ending cycles of signals and receptors. Essays Biochem, 3689-103, 2000.
- Ryan, K and Wente, SR The nuclear pore complex: a protein machine bridging the nucleus and cytoplasm. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol., 12361-371, 2000.
- York, J. D., Odom, A. R., Murphy, R., Ives, E. B., Wente, S. R A phospholipase C-dependent inositol polyphosphate kinase pathway required for efficient messenger RNA export. Science, 28596-100, 1999.
- Bucci, M., Wente, S. R A novel fluorescence-based genetic strategy identifies mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective for nuclear pore complex assembly. Mol. Biol. Cell, 92439-2461, 1998.
- Watkins, J. L., Murphy, R., Emtage, J. L., Wente, S. R The human homologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gle1p is required for poly(A)+ RNA export. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 956779-6784, 1998.
- Ho, A. K., Raczniak, G. A., Ives, E. B., Wente, S. R The integral membrane protein snl1p is genetically linked to yeast nuclear pore complex function. Mol. Biol. Cell, 9355-373, 1998.
- Iovine, M. K., Wente, S. R A nuclear export signal in Kap95p is required for both recycling the import factor and interaction with the nucleoporin GLFG repeat regions of Nup116p and Nup100p. J. Cell Biol., 137797-811, 1997.
- Emtage, J. L., Bucci, M., Watkins, J. L., Wente, S. R Defining the essential functional regions of the nucleoporin Nup145p. J. Cell Sci., 110911-925, 1997.
- Bucci, M., Wente, S. R In vivo dynamics of nuclear pore complexes in yeast. J. Cell Biol. , 1361185-1199, 1997.
- Murphy, R., Wente, S. R An RNA-export mediator with an essential nuclear export signal. Nature, 383357-360, 1996.
- Murphy, R., Watkins, J. L., Wente, S. R GLE2, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologue of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe export factor RAE1, is required for nuclear pore complex structure and function. Mol. Biol. Cell, 71921-1937, 1996.
- Iovine, M. K., Watkins, J. L., Wente, S. R The GLFG repetitive region of the nucleoporin Nup116p interacts with Kap95p, an essential yeast nuclear import factor. J. Cell Biol. , 1311699-1713, 1995.
- Wente, S. R., Blobel, G NUP145 encodes a novel yeast glycine-leucine-phenylalanine-glycine (GLFG) nucleoporin required for nuclear envelope structure. J. Cell Biol., 125955-969, 1994.
- Rout, M P, Wente, S R Pores for thought: nuclear pore complex proteins. Trends Cell Biol, 4(10), 357-65, 1994.
- Wente, S. R., Blobel, G A temperature-sensitive NUP116 null mutant forms a nuclear envelope seal over the yeast nuclear pore complex thereby blocking nucleocytoplasmic traffic. J. Cell Biol. , 123275-284, 1993.
- Wente, S. R., Rout, M. P. , Blobel, G A new family of yeast nuclear pore complex proteins. J. Cell Biol. , 119705-723, 1992.
- Wente, S. R., Schachman, H. K Different amino acid substitutions at the same position in the nucleotide-binding site of aspartate transcarbamoylase have diverse effects on the allosteric properties of the enzyme. J. Biol. Chem., 26620833-20839, 1991.
- Wente, S. R., Rosen, O. M Insulin-receptor approaches to studying protein kinase domain. Diabetes Care, 13280-287, 1990.
- Wente, S. R., Villalba, R., Schrammm, V. L., Rosen, O. M Mn2(+)-binding properties of a recombinant protein-tyrosine kinase derived from the human insulin receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 872805-2809, 1990.
- Villalba, M., Wente, S. R., Russell, D. S., Ahn, J. C., Reichelderfer, C. F., Rosen, O. M Another version of the human insulin receptor kinase domain: expression, purification, and characterization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 867847-7852, 1989.
- Wente, S. R., Schachman, H. K Shared active sites in oligomeric enzymes: model studies with defective mutants of aspartate transcarbamoylase produced by site-directed mutagenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 8431-35, 1987.
- Robey, E. A., Wente, S. R., Markby, D. W., Flint, A., Yang, Y. R., Schachman, H. K Effect of amino acid substitutions on the catalytic and regulatory properties of aspartate transcarbamoylase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 835934-5938, 1986.


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I have never bothered to wash them out. HOWEVER, I do add a bit of water to the last bit of shampoo in the bottle when I have emptied out what will come out on it's own. I usually get the last "repeat" out of it that way.


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What is the effect of adding salt to the water when cooking pasta?
The salt adds flavor, but it also helps reduce the gelation of the starch in the pasta. The starch in food is the form of microscopic grains. When these grains come into contact with water, they will trap some of it (think cornstarch in cold water), but when the water is hot they swell up like balloons and merge with each other, and you have starch gelation. Another thing you may want to add to the pasta water is some acid (lemon or cream of tartar). Tap water in most cities is made alkaline, which increases the starch loss from the pasta to the water, making the pasta stickier. |
It means that the pasta is seasoned as it is cooked. To see if this matters to you, cook up some pasta in plain water and then some in salted water and see if you can taste the difference. |
As has been mentioned, whether you add salt or not it is for taste. Salt will decrease the amount of time to boil, but only if used in significant quantity. 80% water 20% salt will only increase the boiling point of the water 4 degrees. The same volume of straight water will take longer to boil for the simple fact there is more water. Pasta sticking is in large part due to the water itself. Most tap water is leans to the alkaline side of the chart. Adding some vinegar or lemon juice to water to raise its acidity will keep the pasta from sticking. How much? You'll have to experiment. |
Personally, I add salt to water to reduce the bubbling while the water is boiling and allows me to walk away from the pot for a minute. I hate it when the pot bubbles over and some water falls over the sides of the pot. Something about the salt changes the waters ability to create bubbles. This is just my observation. |
I guess it's like trying to sear a meat over a very high heat; the higher the temperature of the water the faster the pasta gets cook (so that it doesn't absorb too much which will expand the starch contain in the pasta) meanwhile leaving the center a a tiny white dot which creates a snap when bend. Besides that I too believe besides adding flavor to the pasta, by adding olive oil to the pasta is to avoid pasta from being stick together like a lump meanwhile stirring them to ensure equal heat is all over the pasta that is being cook. Olive oil to helps to coat the pasta which will reduce the water absorbtion and in the same time increase the water temperature even more higher. The water doesn't need to be salty like totally salty but by just adding enough salt just enough for tasting will be good enough. |
Aside from the flavor implications of adding salt, salty water has a higher boiling point than pure water, so you can cook whatever you are boiling at a higher temperature. The more salt, the higher the boiling point, up to the limit of a fully saturated solution. |
I am really surprised that there was no answer above relating to the simple fact that adding even half a teaspoon salt to the boiling water serves this purpose:
That's also why I have stopped rinsing the boiled noodles, which washes off and leaches out more vitamins down the sink-drain. If you drain noodles after boiling and don't want them to stick together, just run a Stick of butter very fast through the whole batch, which immediately improves the flavor, or put your thumb almost totally over the top of a bottle of first-pressed olive oil, and sprinkle a teaspoon or so over that batch of noodles and stir fast. I have thereby never had any problems of sticky lumps, when stored in the refrigerator, and I have preserved a better level of nutrition. |
it is actually to help the pasta absorb water.. it's done with meat chicken fish also.. |


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Saturday, July 09, 2011
The Big Picture for the Week of July 10, 2011
As a repeat theme the "worst financial crisis in 80 years" should take a long time to work through. Housing still stinks and jobs still stink. From a housing standpoint there was wild excess in terms of supply, extreme risk taking on the part of lenders and extreme risk taking on the part of home buyers both buying more house to live in than could actually be afforded and buying more homes (for speculation) than could actually be carried. While the plummeting of prices is probably over the gradual declines probably are not and there are very few signs of natural demand resuming anytime soon.
On the jobs front the US lost about 8 million jobs and only about 1/4 of the jobs lost have been replaced, so the stats tell us, but even the small retracement is dubious when population growth and underemployment are factored in. The are pockets in the economy of varying size facing structural unemployment; what portion of construction workers will never work in that field again?
Politicians do not know what to do, hopefully that is obvious, but that won't prevent them from continuing to appear to try with various "fixes" that they don't truly understand. I found it amusing that Obama singled out corporate jet owners (this has been widely talked about) and CNBC had a corporate jet executive on yesterday pointing that his industry employs 1.3 million people and increasing taxes will have an impact on that number working in this industry. Obviously the executive has his own agenda too but I think the example does isolate the on the one hand nature of these issues.
All of this negativity and we haven't even gotten to the political wrangling over the debt ceiling and the debt in general. Cullen Roche is big on jumping on anyone who says we are headed for an outcome like Greece branding them as not knowing how the US monetary system works but I am not sure that is correct. To be clear, the idea that because we control the printing press, as opposed to Greece who does not, we will not face the same outcome as Greece is completely correct. The threat is a different bad outcome than Greece's but I'm not sure that the politicians in question don't understand this so much as their constituency doesn't understand and there is some perceived political benefit to them to continue to scare their constituents.
If this seems plausible then it means that the debate is dishonest which further reduces the already microscopic odds that policy can ever help actually start to become effective.
All of this negativity and we haven't even gotten to... a lot of the other issues that make this so complex.
The above is the fundamental case for why the US is not currently an attractive investment destination. This is contradicted by the the fact that the US market has generally done quite well for more than two years now. We are not zero to the US and I'm sure we'll always have some exposure but as a repeat theme it seems only logical to seek out countries that do not have these same obstacles before them.
Simple avoidance (or maybe just underweighting) is an easy way to minimize the personal impact of large declines in the market.
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- Anonymous said...
So what to do...all cash with the dollar going down is not attractive. Gold not a productive asset. Commodities in a slowing world economy. No where to turn?
- WH said...
From today's WSJ Intelligent Investor column by Jason Zweig.
Referring to the SP500 index, he says, "The performance numbers cited above don't count dividends, which can influence returns significantly."
I was trying to make the same point several weeks ago that comparing anything's total return to the SP500 index is really a comparison out of context. I am glad that he is pointing this out again. Maybe his writings will add some credibility that I can't.
Check out his column, it is very good today. - 9:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
It's a weak recovery in the US for sure, however overseas earnings are driving the US stock market higher.
Every reason to believe this trend will continue.
http://tinyurl.com/3z9x8ay - 9:33 AM
- Kirk Kinder said...
The underlying issue is simple: Debt to GDP levels are egregious. Anon933 says the rest of the world will carry us, but other countries are increasing debt at alarming rates. China was supposedly at a healthy debt to GDP level, but we are finding billions of off balance sheet debt at the local government level.
If you believe in the Austrian school of economics at all, you know that the debt binge leads to a major hangover. That is where we are. - 10:24 AM
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Hi, This is Anshu from Blooms And Bugs, did you guys miss me? I'm back with a T-shirt pattern and tutorial for your sewing pleasure.
Here is a really fun boy print from Clothworks. Its called City Streets by Jamie Wood. When I received the fabric, the first thing that came to my mind was Raglan T-shirts. However, all the T-shirts need to have some stretch in them which is not present in cotton wovens. I kept thinking about how I could use the prints I liked so much and still have the flexibility of T-shirts. Finally I found the answer, I just need to mix in some knits and we will be good to go. So I made one Raglan Tee, and then I made some more, and I love them all.
Complexity: Beginner
Half yard City Streets Print from Clothworks ( SKU- Y0980-31)
Half yard Knit fabric in coordinating color
Pattern: Download the pdf pattern for Raglan T-shirt ( size -2T). Print on 8.5×11″ paper with no margin.
The pattern should look like this once you put the pages together.
Sewing margin : 3/8 inch
1. Cut out the pattern pieces
2. Sleeves and body are sewn together just like in peasant dresses tutorial ( look at the step 2).
3. Cut out the neckbands and cuffs for the sleeves. The rule of thumb I use is that they are two-third+1 inch of the length we need to cover and 3 inches wide.
4. Sew the shorter ends( right sides together)
5. Fold in half onto themselves.
6. Align the raw edges of the band and the sleeves, pin and sew.
7. Turn out!
8. I had also added a knit fabric band at the bottom of the first shirt I made. For that I took a 5 inch wide band about two inch shorter than the hem length and sew it at the hem in the same way as we did the cuffs and neck band. In the second shirt I just folded the hemline twice to hem it. You could do whichever way you like better but if you are planning on adding a band at the bottom, remove the bottom 2 inches from the pattern to allow for the extra length.
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