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The Beach House at Sombrero in Marathon
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
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vacation rental description
Overlooking Sombrero Beach and Sister's Creek, this 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Pool Home is a great vacation destination.
Oceanviews, pool and dockage at the house with the addition of a great oceanfront beach just steps away! The living, dining and kitchen areas are located in the center of the home with cathedral ceilings and sliding glass window walls front and back bringing the views outside in. A well equipped kitchen with a breakfast bar adds to the seating for dining or a quick bite. The living area is spacious with lots of seating and a flat panal TV. The fireplace is not operational.
A bedroom and bath are located at each end of the home for two master suites, one with a King size bed and private bath the other with 2 Queen size beds and private bath. Both baths have a double sink vanity and tile shower.
The oceanside of the living room opens to a patio which overlooks the pool and beach with fabulous views ! The canalside doors open to a screen porch with a glimp of the beach and ocean, the canal and adjacent garden.
The freshwater pool is tucked in a courtyard patio with an abundance of landscaping for privacy and can be heated (optional) in the winter weeks. Great protected dockage on the canal leads quickly to Sister's Creek and then a quick run out to the Ocean or up the Creek through Boot Key Harbor opening to the 7-mile bridge.
Cable TV in the living room and each bedroom. Central A/C. Washer/Dryer. Gas grill, Fish cleaning table for the fisherman. For those who must work on vacation the home has WiFi internet service.
City Lic# PLR2012-00054
Just steps away is Sombrero Beach, one of the Key's lovliest beaches and only a handful of homes can offer these views!
This home is on a week rental minimum.
The calendar is not active. Please Contact me for availability, more information, photos and a visual tour of the property.
house rental amenities
Walk to the Beach
Bedrooms: 2 Baths: 2
Bedding: King, Queen, Queen
Screen Porch
Central A/C
Washer Dryer
Linens and Towels are included
Gas Grill
Bait Freezer
Fish Cleaning Table
activities and attractions in Marathon The Florida Keys
Marathon and the Middle Keys offers shops and services including two grocery stores, Publix and Winn Dixie, 2 drug stores, CVS and Walgreen's, a KMART and many other shops, bait and tackle stores, gifts shops and a wide selection of restaurants all within a few miles drive.
Like beaches? Sombrero Beach is located right accross the street! Coco Plum Beach is about 4 miles away. Bahia Honda State Park is about a 20 minute drive south.
Other attractions: The Dolphin Research Center is located on Grassy Key and is always a fun spot to stop in for their tours or schedule a swim with the dolphin. The Natural History Museum at Crane Point provides a look at Keys history, sea life, touch tanks for kids and nature walks through the Hammock (also a great gift store).
Key West is a great day trip and about 1.25 hours south.
Boat rental companies are available in the Middle Keys and most of them will let you keep the boat at your dock for the week (some will even deliver and pick up the boat!).
Other Activities in the Middle Keys:
*Boat Rentals
*Bike Riding
*Jet Skiing
*Scuba Diving
*Restaurants & Shops
... all located very nearby!
vacation rental rates
Winter/Summer Rate: $2200 per week
Holidays: $2400 (Holiday includes the 4th of July Week. This home offers a prime location for viewing the City of Marathon fireworks display!)
Lobster Weeks: $2500
Fall discount: $1800 per week (after Labor day to Dec. 1 excluding Thanksgiving week)
Pool Heat is optional and an additional $150 plus tax
All rates are plus a $25 booking fee, $100 cleaning fee, 12.5% sales tax and refundable $500 reservation/security deposit.


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Throughout 2006, Linux and open source continued their march toward the mainstream of enterprise software. Perhaps no one event exemplified this trend more than Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss in April. With JBoss's Java technologies under its wing, Red Hat is no longer merely a Linux vendor; it's become an open source powerhouse, able to offer its customers a complete application software stack.
The year's successes for open source did not come without conflict, however. The roster of companies involved in open source now reads like a list of the world's largest enterprise software vendors. For once, key open source projects are backed with real dollars, but there's also an unfortunate downside. With the stakes so high for the industry at large, developers and users of open source software are often left to wonder, "Who are my real friends?"
Take Oracle, for example. A frequent contributor to the Linux kernel, Oracle has positioned the open source OS as a key platform for its database and applications software. And yet, in October the company announced it would provide cut-rate enterprise support for Red Hat Linux, a move seemingly calculated to undermine the leading Linux vendor's core business.
Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems, though a longstanding opponent of Linux in the enterprise, has continued to move aggressively toward an open source model for all of its own software offerings. Jaws hit the floor in November when Sun announced it would license its crown jewels, the Java language platform, under the GNU GPL (General Public License). This was no lip service to open source. This was the real thing.
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VIDEO: Senator Schumer refuses to talk about Anthony Weiner
On Face the Nation Saturday morning, host Bob Schieffer tried to get Senator Charles Schumer to talk about his former protegé, Anthony Weiner—to no avail, as the Senator stood firm in his refusal to touch the topic.
As Schieffer began his question, the senator listened intently, frowning, but at the mention of Weiner's name, Schumer smiled.
In his question on "this New York mayor's race," the pundit referred to Weiner as the former congressman "who left the Congress in disgrace after he published some rather suggestive pictures of himself."
Schieffer asked if Schumer would support Weiner, to which a suddenly smiling Schumer replied,"I'm not commenting on the mayor's race or on Anthony Weiner's race."
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Vertical align button in different height <li's>
I have a listing made with a unsorted list in three columns. Every <li> is holding an image, a <h2>, a <p> and a form holding a button. What I would like to accomplish is that the <h2's> are neatly lined up under the images and the same for the buttons at the bottom of each <li>. But because not all images have the same height neither the <h2> nor the images are lined as you can see here. Is there a way that I have all <h2's> and the buttons in the different colums lined up?
Thank you in advance.Good artists copy, great artists steal (Pablo Picasso - 1934)
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It can be done easily by using a table row philosophy but then you have to dis-associate the text from the images and contain each in a new row which isn't semantically very good.
There are some things you can do if you want to keep things logical but you may have to make compromises in some way.
You could for example align the text neatly but that would mean the top of the images would be uneven as you would simply vertically-align them to the bottom (using inline-block instead of floats). This just changes the uneven aspect to the top of the images rather than the text.
You also have to consider whether the text under the image is going to run to two lines and that would again mess up the alignment unless they were all in separate cells and rows as mentioned firstly.
So what else can you do?
1)You could set min-heights for the elements so that that they line up and then control your data to be within those limits.
2) Assuming your text under the image is only one line you could create some padding-top above the image and absolutely place the image into the padding and that would mean the text would line up but you would need to keep the images within those constraints (or hide the overflow).
.list_item{ position:relative; padding-top:210px;/* arbitrary height */ } .list_item img{ position:absolute; top:0; left:0; right:0; display:block; margin:auto; }
4) The flexible box model allows for things like this but support is minimal at the moment so I would wait unless you have a fall-back for other browsers.
The easiest solution would be as shown in Number 2 above but of course does not allow for full flexibility.
Years ago I did a few examples that might be of interest but they possibly need updating.
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Hi Paul. I will go for the second option. Although in the example are all portrait images, most of the images from other categories are landscape so the second option gives me enough flexibility. Thanks a lotGood artists copy, great artists steal (Pablo Picasso - 1934)


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Argentina finally did something with their domination of the first half, with Esteban Cambiosso cleaning up a loose ball that had come out into the six-yard box after an impressive run by Lionel Messi in the 41st minute. Up until the score, the United States had done a decent job of hanging in there despite Argentina controlling possession and at times seeming to toy with their opponents.
On the goal, Messi took the ball to the touchline and cut it back through Carlos Bocanegra's legs. Tim Howard was able to stop the initial shot, but the rebound came back out to Cambiosso who scored the goal from point-blank range.
For the most part, the U.S. has been restricted to counter-strike opportunities and has been unable to mount any sustained pressure. Messi has made several impressive runs through the U.S. defense and only the goalkeeping of Howard has kept the score as close as it is at halftime. Argentina has outshot the U.S. 8-2, and put four of their shots on target.


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Anderson police said a man was arrested in connection with the sexual assault of an 11-year-old.
Lt. Tony Tilley with the Anderson Police Department said the incident happened in late August and following their investigation, Bryant Earle was arrested Wednesday.
Earle, 28, was charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor second degree.
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Last March, in a town outside the Aviano Air Base in Italy, a group of seven friends and acquaintances went out to a USO concert and drinks at the base club. They ended up at the home of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, and one of the friends was invited by Wilkersons wife to spend the night in a guest room.
The guest, a 49-year-old physicians assistant, woke up around 3 a.m. to find Wilkerson in bed next to her, fondling her breasts and vagina. It might have turned even worse, had Wilkersons wife not flicked on the guest room light. But the woman was kicked out of the house.
In November, an all-male military jury found Wilkerson guilty of aggravated sexual assault. The jury of four colonels and one lieutenant colonel sentenced Wilkerson to a year in jail and dismissed him from the Air Force. But last month, Third Air Force commander Lt. Gen Craig Franklin overturned the jurys verdict and reinstated Wilkerson.
Franklin, who hadnt attended the trial, said he believed Wilkersons guilt had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the publication Stars & Stripes. In fact, Franklin didnt have to have a reason for his decision. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, granted by Congress, commanders have a convening authority that allows them to reduce punishments or dismiss charges for any or no reason.
Last week, in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill called for a review of the case and questioned the sensibility of convening authority. I question now whether that unit where that man returns to, whether theres any chance a woman who is sexually assaulted in that unit would ever say a word, said McCaskill, a former prosecutor.
Thats true not only for Wilkersons Air Force unit, but for women in general. The military has long been plagued with leniency surrounding sexual assaults and the subsequent chilling effect that has on women who might report them. In recent years, the branches have made strides in self-awareness on the issue, including the Air Force, which over the past three years has identified 62 recruits assaulted by drill instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
The Wilkerson verdict, too, had been hailed as an illustration that the culture surrounding military sexual assaults was changing. That verdicts dismissal, however, sends a message to sexual assault victims that the military justice system is still tilted against them, especially when the accused holds a powerful rank, as Wilkerson does.
McCaskill, along with fellow Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, have called for a review of convening authority and the Wilkerson case in a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. California Rep. Jackie Speier is planning on introducing a bill Tuesday that would prevent commanders from lessening such sentences or overturning verdicts.
Defenders of convening authority have long held that commanders know best how to keep order and administer discipline. Clearly, that discretion can be abused, and Congress is right to take a hard look at it, not only for future rape victims, but for a military that apparently still struggles to police itself.
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The Bulldogs used their trademark rushing attack to roll up 408 yards on the ground behind their offensive line and spectacular performances by Kai Thomas and Caleb May. Thomas rushed for 213 yards on 13 carries with two touchdowns, as well as scoring a touchdown on a 95-yard punt return. May ended the night with 181 all-purpose yards, running for 104 yards with two touchdowns, while throwing for 79 yards and a touchdown. Deangelo Pendleton also had a great night, grabbing two passes for 79 yards and a touchdown, while returning a 97-yard kick return for a score.
Defensively, Cade Stone and Stonie Phillips led the team with 6 tackles, with Stone also recording a tackle for a loss. Joel Parrish racked up 4 tackles, two quarterback sacks and two tackles for a loss for the Bulldogs, as well as recovering two Childersburg fumbles.
"Childersburg took some aspects of our gameplan away from us early in the contest, but we told our kids to keep focused and that things would open up for us," Dora coach Johnny Wright said. "The punt return by Kai to put us up by two scores helped get us back on track and the runs by both him and Caleb behind our offensive line kept the momentum in our favor. Childersburg is a young team who came ready to fight and they play in an extremely competitive region and you can tell it in what they bring into the contest. It's a big win for us to come out victorious in this first round of the playoffs so we can shift our focus on round two."
Dora didn't waste an opportunity to score early in the opening quarter. On the initial series of the game, Parrish recovered a Tiger fumble, leading to a 6-play, 40-yard drive, as May found the endzone from 16 yards out — giving the Bulldogs the 7-0 lead.
Childersburg drove the ball on the following series before being forced to punt by a key stop by the Dora defense. On the punt, Thomas fielded the ball and eluded tackles for the 95-yard return to extend the Bulldogs' lead to 14-0.
After stopping Childersburg on the ensuing series, May found Pendleton on a 76-yard touchdown strike to give Dora a 21-0 scoring edge.
Two injuries in the second quarter would force a one-hour delay while emergency medical personnel attended to the players. Neither team scored as play resumed, with Dora still in the lead at halftime, 21-0.
Dora received the kickoff to begin the third quarter and found the endzone after a 67-yard, 6-play drive, with Thomas scoring on a 19-yard run — pushing the Bulldogs' lead to 28-0.
After holding the Tigers to a punt on the next series, Thomas would score his second rushing touchdown of the night on a 76-yard run, pulling Dora further ahead, 35-0.
Childersburg would score their first points of the game midway through the quarter on a 59-yard, 6-play drive to cut the lead to 35-7.
Dora answered with a 9-play, 71-yard drive, with DeMarcus Kirk scoring on a 1-yard run for a 42-7 edge.
May would scramble for 53 yards to begin the fourth quarter for his second rushing touchdown of the night, with the Bulldogs going up 49-14.
The Tigers would score on a 93-yard drive in the final minutes of the game to draw closer, 49-21. On the kickoff, Pendleton would electrify the home crowd on a 97-yard return for the Bulldogs' final score of the night, giving Dora the 56-27 victory following one final touchdown by Childersburg in the last minute of play.
With the victory over the Tigers, Dora will host the Tallassee Tigers (9-2, 6-1) in second-round playoff action next Friday night. Tallassee edged Clarke County 17-14 in their playoff opener.
"Tallassee is a very well-coached team. Mike Battles has done a superb job there and we will have to play at our very best against them next week," Wright said. "We're thrilled to still be in the playoffs and we look forward to another great matchup."


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By Maureen Hayden
Thousands of Hoosier adults who didn't graduate from high school have turned to the GED to get the credential they need to go to work or college, but the State of Indiana — like states across the nation — is rethinking its value.
The state is looking at alternatives to the General Education Development test, which has been the standard way to earn a high school equivalency diploma since 1942. State officials are looking at other tests that qualify people for equivalency credentials and measure college- and career-readiness.
Prompting the move is the rising cost of the test and the takeover of the national GED program by a new for-profit company that is redesigning the test to bring it into alignment with the Common Core State Standards driving other changes in education.
The new GED test to be rolled out in 2014 will be both more expensive to take and tougher to pass. State officials are hoping the combination will prompt more people thinking about earning a GED to act.
"If you've been waiting for that moment of inspiration, let this be it," said Jackie Dowd, deputy commissioner of policy, education, and training at the state Department of Workforce Development. The department oversees the GED testing program in Indiana, as part of the Indiana Adult Education program that helps adults earn the credentials needed to get into the workforce.
Last year, more than 15,000 Indiana residents took the GED test and 77 percent passed it. But there are many more who are eligible: More than 780,000 adults living in Indiana don't have a high school degree or its equivalency. That's about one in six adults.
Created during the early years of World War II as a way to help veterans finish their high school degrees and get back into the civilian workforce, the GED test has been the only high school equivalency program recognized by every state. But, as Dowd said, "Those days are over."
The search for alternatives to the GED came last year, after the sole provider of the GED test, the non-profit American Council on Education, partnered with a for-profit company, Pearson PLC, which publishes education-test materials. With the partnership, came the agreement to revamp the GED to make it all computer-based and to bring it in line with the Common Core standards that have been adopted by 45 states, including Indiana.
The cost to take the GED test with pencil and paper is $70. The new computer-based test is $120.
Dowd said Indiana, along with other a number of other states, is looking at alternatives to the GED test that may be less expensive for the test-taker but gets the same goal: Identifying what the test-taker knows about standard subject areas including math, science, and social studies.
Any new test would likely also incorporate the Common Core standards, a set of academic guidelines that states have agreed on for what high school students should know by the time they graduate.
More information about the Indiana Adult Education program, and the assistance available to help adults earn their GED, is online at www.in.gov/dwd/adulted.htm.


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Role of Liver-Enriched Transcription Factors in Differentiation of Human ES Cells
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The liver is the largest internal organ in the body and is essential for bodily function. It metabolizes the food we eat and the drugs we take and detoxifies foreign compounds that we are exposed to. It produces proteins that circulate in the blood that carry lipids, vitamins and hormones, as well as enzymes that help our blood clot. The liver has a legendary capacity to regenerate and repair itself but many times it cannot. Excess alcohol, exposure to chemicals and viral infections can all cause the liver to become permanently diseased and fail to carry out its essential functions. Liver failure results in more than 40,000 deaths annually in the United States. Currently, the only viable treatment for liver failure is liver transplantation. However, liver transplantation as a treatment can be problematic due to a shortage of available donor organs (particularly in the U.S.), risk of rejection and complications due to chronic treatment with immunosuppressants. An alternative approach for treating acute and chronic liver failure is hepatocyte transplantation therapy. Hepatocytes are cells in the liver that carry out liver functions. Hepatocyte transplantation has several advantages over whole organ transplantation but is still limited by a reliable source of hepatocytes. Hepatocytes are also important for drug testing. Before a drug can be tested in humans it must undergo pharmacokinetic and toxicological tests in the liver. In the past, these tests were done in animals (usually rats, mice or dogs) but we now know that there are many important differences between humans and other mammals so it is preferred to test drugs in human systems in vitro (i.e., in a petri dish) before they are given to humans. These in vitro or cell-based assays also save the lives of millions of animals that in the past had to be used for this testing. To do perform the in vitro testing, pharmaceutical companies typically buy freshly isolated human hepatocytes from organ donors who die in accidents. However, this supply of hepatocytes, like that for treating liver failure, is erratic, not well controlled and extremely expensive. Both of these problems – a shortage of hepatocytes to treat liver disease as well as to use in pharmaco-tox testing – can be solved using human embryonic stem (ES) cell technology. ES cells are cells that have the capacity to regenerate themselves (i.e., "proliferate") as well as to turn into any other cell type in the body under the proper conditions (i.e., "differentiate"). Hepatocytes are among the cell types that researchers have been able to derive from human ES cells, however much more work needs to be done in this area. In this proposal, we will establish an optimized protocol to differentiate human ES cells into hepatocytes. These hepatocytes can be used as a reliable, controlled source of material to treat liver disease as well as to test new drugs for treating other diseases.
Statement of Benefit to California:
California will benefit in many ways from this research. It has been estimated that it requires hundreds of millions of dollars and at least 10 years for a single new compound to reach the marketplace as a new drug. There are many hurdles that contribute to this long lag time and costly process. One of the main hurdles is toxicological testing. In order for pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs to treat diseases they must first test them to determine whether the drug is toxic to human cells and how it will be metabolized in the human body. The current gold standard for toxicological testing are primary human hepatocytes. Pharmaceutical companies spend over $4 billion per year on drug testing using human hepatocytes. This need for human hepatocytes is greatly increasing as companies are automating the drug discovery process using high throughput screens done by robots. Between that automation and the human genome sequence that is now available, the number of new drug candidates is increasingly exponentially. That means that the need for human hepatocytes to test these drugs on before they can be tried in humans is also increasing greatly. The problem is that the supply of human hepatocytes is very limited and is not well controlled since it must rely on organ donors who typically die in accidents. There are several companies that sell human hepatocytes for drug testing, and research, but none of these major companies are based in California. This proposal aims to develop a viable, renewable source of human hepatocytes using embryonic stem cells. Companies will then buy their hepatocytes from California, bringing large amounts of revenue into the state.
Review Summary:
SYNOPSIS: The long-term goal of the proposed research is to establish human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived human hepatocytes as a research tool and a therapeutic option for treatment of liver failure. The first Aim is to develop an optimized protocol for the differentiation in vitro of hESCs to hepatocytes by monitoring the appearance and persistence of liver-enriched transcription factors known to control the metabolic functions of mature hepatocytes. The efficacy of a published differentiation protocol will be more thoroughly examined by microarray expression analyses, cellular morphology, detection of multiple hepatic markers, and analysis of spliced isoforms for HNF4alpha and other HNFs. The second Aim will generate derivative hESC lines bearing transgenic reporters to mark and thereby track the effectiveness of hepatocyte development and differentiated functions in mouse transplant models. INNOVATION & SIGNIFICANCE: Others have presented evidence that hESCs can be encouraged toward an hepatic phenotype in vitro. A concerted effort to optimize the production of differentiated hepatocytes using rigorous criteria for differentiated functions is timely. The innovation in this proposal is the insight into hepatic transcriptional regulators to define precise criteria to monitor the course of in vitro differentiation and to set specific molecular goals for in vitro differentiation protocols. The demand for liver-donors for transplantation hepatocytes far exceeds availability. An effective strategy for large-scale production of functional hepatocytes from hESCs would be an exceedingly valuable therapeutic resource for a wide variety of liver diseases. A replenishable source of homogeneous human hepatocytes also would be extremely useful to test drugs for toxicity and pharmacokinetics, prerequisites for clinical trials. One of the reviewers thought that generation and analysis of hepatocytes from hESC is a therapeutically important goal but otherwise, the application lacks innovation. STRENGTHS: Both reviewers agreed that a strength is the significant prior experience of the Principal Investigator (PI) in analyzing transcription factors regulating hepatocyte differentiation. The PI is an established investigator with extensive experience with transcription factors controlling liver function, which will help guide the development of more effective differentiation protocols. The PI has become well-trained in embryonic stem cell technology at the Pasteur Institute, a WiCell workshop and the 2005 ISSCR meeting, and has recruited the collaboration of a new Assistant Professor with training and a publication record documenting extensive expertise with hESCs. WEAKNESSES: Although organ-specific spliced isoforms of hepatic transcription factors likely have important distinctive biological functions, it is as yet unclear that they play central roles for ESC differentiation. The goals emphasize characterization of two ESC lines and data mining. The more specific aspects of the experimental plan are narrowly focused on a single spliced isoform of one liver-enriched factor rather than on a more general strategy to coax the differentiation of hESCs toward an hepatic phenotype. This implies a greater interest in the biology of HNF4alpha than developing the technology to create hepatocytes from hESCs. HNF4alpha1/4 as well as other endoderm and liver markers appear to be expressed in primitive endoderm as well, and may confuse the use of some markers to follow the formation of definitive endoderm and hepatocytes. A plan is needed that considers this complication and includes markers for visceral/primitive endoderm. Although this could be a useful project, it is not clear what particular insights will make this attempt different or more effective than previous ones. A number of concerns about the transgenic lines of Aim 2 remain. Targeted integration in hESCs has been technologically difficult, and specific insights into this technical problem are not presented. Because precise recapitulation of correct developmental expression by the transgenes may be crucial, it is important to know beforehand the gene regions that contain all critical developmental information for the albumin, P1, P2, HNF4a1, HNF4a7 promoters and, if possible, a plan to confirm their regulatory potential in vivo. Inserting liver-specific transgenes in a locus (ENVY) expressed ubiquitously may eliminate the desired hepatocyte specificity of these engineered markers. Because transgenes of differentiation markers would only track differentiated hepatic ESCs in mice models, a second ubiquitously expressed transgene would be needed to test the efficiency and overall developmental potential of lines. Some specific concerns are: (1) Optimization of existing protocols for differentiation of ESC into hepatocytes are poorly articulated. Transgenic constructs generated in aim 2 should be used as convenient reporters in testing optimization parameters. (2) Experiments in aim 2 are largely descriptive and it remains unclear if they will yield clear and important insight into molecular pathways regulating human hepatocyte differentiation. The D'Amour protocol for generating definitive endoderm might be an excellent starting point. DISCUSSION: There was no further discussion following the reviewers' comments


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Gotta blame Sternberg and Co for not properly tapping into the local corporations/businesses like the rest of the teams. According to Rays Index, the fans are there like any team and would be 15th in the league if they got the usual corp support that other teams got.BTW, last night's game, well attended for a Tues game against a team with unknowns (Ariz).Rays gave away a lot of tickets to Burst Pass holders like myself - don't know how many people took advantage of that.
What is your point? I was wrong? Ok. You win. I was wrong.
17k .....Tuesday's game I received free ticket as a STH....artificially inflated attendance numbers.Saturday's game was filled with USF students - thousands - it was USF night or something- not sure if the got free or heavily discounted tix. They also gave out a free Joe Maddon toy that are going for $50 on Ebay - so I think that that brought in a lot of extra people......artificially inflated numbers.Not sure what happened today, I couldn't go (Sold tix stubhub). - but wouldn't be surprised it there was a giveaway - that's right, backpacks were given to the kids.Having the 2012 MLB Champs helped, too.
I noticed the Tampa Bay Times had a Buy 2 Get 2 Free deal -other than USF's support, this is really the first "corp" that I've seen supporting the team - they do have several banks that sponsor sections, but the Rays have a crappy amount of corp support in tix sales and if they get anywhere what other teams receive, they're #15 (midpack) on attendance.What a difference (home field advantage) the team has when 30k show up to support. The atmosphere is very electric.


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2010 French Open – Nick's Picks – Women's Singles Round 1
Jelena Jankovic (SRB) vs. Alicia Molik (AUS)
Jankovic comes into the tournament ranked #4 in the world and is playing extremely well. She reached the finals in Rome and then was a quarterfinalist in Madrid. She is working with IMG Bollettieri Tennis Director Chip Brooks and they have a great relationship which seems to have really helped her game. She was a semifinalist at the French Open in 2007 and 2008 and reached the fourth round last year.
Molik is a 29-year old veteran who comes into the French ranked #95 in the world. She is only 14-12 on the year and she hasn't had great results at Roland Garros in the past. A win against Jankovic right now would certainly be a big boost for her confidence.
Molik is 4-2 against Jankovic but the last two times they played Jankovic won in straight sets. Jankovic came back home to the Academy this year and I've been a lot of time with her working on her game. She is really enjoying playing again which is the biggest key for her. She has one of the best two-handed backhands on the tour, her movement makes her extremely dangerous but she just needs to keep her attitude positive and not worry about her opponents. I think she will win this match, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her make a deep run here.
Nick's Pick – Jankovic in 2 sets
Venus Williams (USA) vs. Patty Schnyder (SUI)\
Venus comes in as the #2 ranked player in the world in both singles and doubles and she already has two titles on the year. She has a remarkable 26-4 record in 2010 and just reached the finals of Madrid earlier this month. Simply stated: Watch out for Venus!
The 31-year old Schnyder is a former top-ten player who is now ranked #61 in the world. She has had good success at the French Open, reaching the quarters twice and the fourth round five other times. Her best days may be behind her, but she can still compete with the top women when she is on her game.
Venus is 10-0 against Schnyder and just beat her a couple of weeks ago on the clay in Rome in straight sets. Venus clearly knows how to beat Schnyder, but she cannot come into this match over confident. Schnyder is a tricky lefty who hits with a lot of spin, moves well and understands how to win on clay. What she lacks is a weapon to hurt Venus. I have to give the edge to Venus is basically every category, but if Venus starts making too many unforced errors on the forehand and double faults a couple of times this match could get interesting.
Nick's Pick – V. Williams in 2 sets
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THE MARK: Since the second intifada, fewer Israeli citizens have had the opportunity to interact with Palestinians living in the occupied territories, and to witness first hand how they live, as you do. How can the Israeli public come to understand the realities of Palestinian life under Israeli rule?
AMIRA HASS: It is not so rare for Israelis to see how impossible it is to live under foreign rule, and a ruthless rule. There are many Israelis, in fact, who do see: activists for Checkpoint Watch and Breaking the Silence, women activists who monitor the military courts, and the people who go every week to demonstrate against the occupation vis-à-vis the army at the security wall in several villages in the West Bank. There are many other people who can understand, as well – those who have never been in Gaza to see the reality directly, but who have imagined how impossible it is to live under this blockade.
Sure, this group is a minority, made up only of hundreds – or maybe some thousands – of Israelis, but I'm not [alone]; there are many who witness and oppose.
It's one thing that I live and that I see, but this is not the only way to come to know how Palestinians are living under Israeli occupation. What we need from most Israelis is one second of imagination in which they see themselves living like Palestinians – just one second where they realize that this is not a life that they would want to live.
THE MARK: What is it going to take to make Israelis take that leap of imagination, and to make the necessary, dramatic changes come about?
HASS: A change would mean the recognition that this path is not sustainable – the path of taking over the land, concentrating the Palestinians in small enclaves, restricting their freedom of movement, not recognizing their equal rights for water in the country, and so on.
Any Jewish individual anywhere else in the world can become an Israeli citizen within a day or two. Stanley Fischer was never a citizen of Israel, but when they wanted him to become the governor of the Bank of Israel, he acquired Israeli citizenship within two days. Jews around the world have this right, even if they were never born in Israel. Yet Palestinians do not have the right – even if they were born in Israel – to return there as citizens or residents.
Those of us who oppose the occupation have tried many strategies to undo these attitudes: We've tried using reason, morality, ethics, and historical examples, all with the aim of saying to the average Israeli, "We have to stop this." But the Israeli society and government have done nothing to end it.
So far, we have failed to bring any change from within. Maybe a change could come if the Palestinians were to change their strategy and tactics – I don't know.
THE MARK: What role do you see the diaspora communities, such as the Jewish community in Canada, playing in the future?
If Israel continues to act like this, it endangers its own existence – not just as an empire, but as a Jewish community. However, even if the Jewish communities outside of Israel began to understand this, I don't think it would be enough.
Western governments have a vested interest in Israeli policy, because it fits the current U.S. policies and interests in the region. Otherwise, the U.S. would have stopped this long ago.
Jewish communities need to pressure their governments to cease support for this path that Israel is on. It has to be a huge change – one that we don't see happening now. The longer the current path continues, the more precarious it becomes, and, consequently, the shorter the existence of the Jewish community in Israel will be.
THE MARK: You spoke at the Luminato panel in Toronto on "rewriting the narrative of the Middle East" about the Holocaust and the Occupation being two sides of the same coin. Can you explain what you meant by that?
HASS: This is a historical reality that I am analyzing. The historiography of Israel is complicated – much more so than other colonial experiences. Zionism grew up in the time of colonialism. Zionism, indeed, thought about bringing Europeans to what they saw as unsettled land. When they saw that it was settled, they immediately minimized the people who lived there, and did not regard them as "a people" with wishes, and with rights. The indigenous people disappeared from any calculation. So, from that point of view, Zionism was colonialist.
But, at the same time, it was a reaction to the persecution of Jews in Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. It was one of the answers to this persecution, but it was not the answer that attracted the majority of European Jews. We know that, before the Holocaust, the majority of Jews sought other solutions to the abhorrent anti-Semitism: Many emigrated, and many fought for equality within socialist, liberal, or communist movements. It was the Holocaust that made Zionism the movement of the majority.
Many of the Holocaust survivors arrived in Israel because they couldn't reach other countries. The absurdity is that the U.S., Australia, Canada, and all these other countries were not open for those refugees – they closed their doors. It is this important history that I'm always communicating to the Palestinians. I tell them, "You cannot recognize Israel only within the context of colonialist movements, thinking, and theories. It must also be acknowledged that Israel is a product of this European history, the rise of Nazism that targeted the Jews." That's why Israel cannot be dismantled like other colonial states. This is not Algeria, Kenya, or India, which is something the Palestinians have to realize.
Zionism is an anachronism of the colonialist movement, but it is also a product of this particular European history of Nazism, which cannot be seen only in terms of empathy or sorrow for the Palestinians. The Holocaust is a substantial occurrence in history – in the philosophy of humankind – and the Jews were the principal victims of it.
People say, "So why do the Palestinians have to suffer?" Of course, they do not. But when we examine history, the difference between Zionism in Palestine and the white entity in Canada is that in Canada, everyone is a settler. Are we going to ask all the white settlers to leave? Will we not ask them only because the settling and elimination of many indigenous groups in the Americas occurred 200 or 300 years ago? It is because Zionism is anachronistic that the Palestinians were not wiped out like they were in the Americas and elsewhere. This is one positive, looking forward – that there are still the Palestinian people.
THE MARK: Where does that leave Israel now?
HASS: We have to look to the future. The Holocaust gave Israeli Jews a credit to establish a colony, and to have rights and legitimacy in this land. But this credit is being lost – wasted by Israeli policies that don't strive for a future that is fair for Palestinians.
Twenty years ago, the Palestinians recognized Israel's legitimacy during the Oslo Accords. They recognized that the Israeli society is a vivid society, and they agreed to live with us in a compromise that was very unfair to them. They accepted the terms for the sake of the future, in order to end this misery. And Israel rejected the Palestinian readiness, which is why we are losing our credit.
THE MARK: You are currently here in Toronto, which is home to a rich and vibrant Jewish culture and a community that identifies very strongly and proudly with Israel. As an Israeli citizen who has dedicated her life to reporting on, and fighting against, the occupation, what is your message to those that feel so deeply that Israel is under threat and must be defended?
HASS: In a way, I am sorry for them. It's a shocking departure, or deviation, from a very recent history of Jewishness. To be so blind to oppression and repression looks to me to be very contradictory to what it means to be Jewish. I have been raised, as a Jew, to know that wrongdoing is something that we Jews should come out against. So, when I see this blindness, it really makes me sorry.


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Los's Two Bits on the Game
Hey all...just didn't anyone to think I was a fair-weather Packer fan, so sorry for not coming on to receive my dose of smack last night. I got back home about 10 last night, after fighting the traffic on Hwy 29 (by the way, any Minnesotans who whine about getting ticketed by Wisconsin police? Sorry, looks like they were justified). Saw bed, aimed for pillow, assume I hit it because that's where I woke up.
Anyway, I wanted to congratulate you guys on your win. I probably could come up with a bunch of stuff to whine about, but I won't do it too much, because we just didn't come to play. You guys deserved the win, and got it.
My thoughts:
1) I will stop short of saying you "beat" us. You deserved to win, and we deserved to lose. But you guys gave us numerous opportunities to get back in the game, and we just didn't take advantage of any of them. We gave you numerous chances to take the game, and you took nearly every one of them. I'm NOT doing the "you didn't win, we beat ourselves" thing. You did win. I wish we had taken you up on your opportunites to let us back in.
2) I predicted the first team to score 14 unanswered points would win. It came true. I kept praying for an incredible comeback. Almost, but not quite.
3) I was in the stadium two hours before gametime. I remember telling my buddy that I was concerned about the lack of electricity in the stadium. I've been to nearly every playoff game at Lambeau since the early 90's, and it felt like a preseason game. The warmups were ho-hum, and even the tailgating felt calm.
4) I'm including a good pictures in the photo album of all the Vikings doing warmups, except Randy, who was waltzing around mid-field, not participating.
5) Favre's over-the-line throw. Inexplicable. Honestly, the difference in the ball game. His head wasn't in this game. While I'm sure you're all gloating over his ineptitude, I remember his Jacksonville performance, and then connecting that his wife had her first dose of chemotherapy the week before.
If you have ever known anyone who's gone through this, you know that the worst of the chemo hits you a little under a week later. I really think that while Brett can overcome his father's death (what can you do about it, anyway?), its harder to deal with watching your wife suffering, then leaving her to go play football.
Maybe an excuse. I don't know.
6) As a high school wide receiver (okay, a wing back), I am usually harder on the receivers on interceptions than the quarterback. Obviously, Favre wasn't in the game, but two of the interceptions (one to Walker, one to Chatman), both receivers gave up on the routes. Walker, who may have been hurt at the time, seemed to fade upfield and slow down, not seeming aware the ball was in the air. Chatman, who is about Carroll's height, seemed to be falling away from the ball as it was intercepted.
This frustrates me, because when a group of receivers can be motivated by Papa Favre's death, or Ferguson's injury, and then go out and not drop ANYTHING, why can't they do that every week?
7) Officiating; I can whine about this a little bit, and I don't think many of you are in any position to tell me to can it, as I did listen to you when you complained about the Steele recovery. I recognize, however, the officiating didn't lose the game for us.
However, there were two plays early on that seemed to be good challenge plays (I haven't watched the game on TV yet, so I'm going by my sitting in the stands), in which a whistle had blown, negating an chance for a challenge. That's frustrating. Also, the TD drive that put the game away was in part thanks to two cheap calls on the midget CB, who I don't think earned one of them for sure. I was sitting right on that sideline, looking up, and watched him going for the ball the whole way.
Again, I haven't seen the tape, so I might be wrong. But, if you were complaining about a couple calls going against you in the first game, you sure have no place to complain now. I wonder if you guys are as indignant about officiating when you win as you are when you lose? :-)
8 ) Moss's butt. I was sitting in the south endzone and got a good view of Moss's butt. I would have taken a picture, but I didn't have a wide-angle lens.
Obviously, I could whine and complain about this, but I won't. As many of you said, this is "Randy being Randy", and I really don't expect anything professional from him anymore. The only thing I would ask is that you no longer say that Moss is not in the same mold as Chad Johnson and Terrell Owens. He's there.
9) I also predicted that the Packers would win if they played to win, and didn't play "not to lose". Listening to Nick Barnett last night, he said their "Strategy" in the first half was to come in, lay back, and see what the Vikings would do. In the second half, they decided to attack and go out swinging. I don't think you guys scored in the third quarter at all.
So, my prediction came true. We went into a prevent defense on the first drive and we lost.
10) Sickening feelings. Seeing Tice up close, winning this game, made me sick. The bad thing for you guys is that this win, regardless of what happens next week, saved his job. Now, you're stuck with him for quite a while.
And that, to me, is what you have to look out for. I'm guessing more of you are just happy you've beaten the Packers, demoralized them, vindicated yourselves. Maybe even a "Who cares what happens next week, I'm happy". Trouble is, I have a suspicion that's what Tice and company are thinking, too.
11) The future. We indeed may be heading for a downslide. This game was critical in how Sherman and Favre will be affected by their futures.
I think this is the end for Favre. It's very sad, and in a lot of ways, I hope I'm wrong. But he's never had a losing season. I'd hate to see him come back and have one. I don't know if this team has a lot of direction right now, and I'd rather have Favre going out on a losing note than a losing season.
But this game does guarantee one thing. No matter the records, the Packers will come to play the Vikes, week in and week out. We may still be vying for the division championship, or, to be honest, we both may fall into the cellar, though you guys have a lot more young talent. Thank goodness you still have Tice and will never be able to put it all together. :-)
So, all in all, a terrible game to be at. Congrats again. Try not to embarass the NFC North against the Eagles, please.Have you ever seen a race of turtles, and they all go the wrong way instead of towards the finish line?
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Are your finger tips sore, Los?
I will not apologize because the Vikes won (wow), but I am sorry that a good guy like you has to feel the pain we have felt way to many times over the years!
You are a good fan to the NFL and to the Pack! I hope that Favre does retire, and doesn't come back if he can not do the things that he used to be able to do!
In the 3rd quarter though we did not take advantage of the opportunities that the Pack gaves us and we could have blown the game out! 3 turn overs in the 3rd quarter and we did not take advantage of any of them and we could have easily gone up by 21 or 28 points!
Even tho we lost the first 2 games, I am gald that it was us that won and sent your team home, sorry Los!What we've got here is failure to communicate.
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No prob...I would happily trade back the Lambeau regular season win for a win yesterday. This was the one that really counted.Have you ever seen a race of turtles, and they all go the wrong way instead of towards the finish line?
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4) I'm including a good pictures in the photo album of all the Vikings doing warmups, except Randy, who was waltzing around mid-field, not participating.
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All credit to you Los for coming and offering congratulations after the game. No-one lies to see their team beat, especially when they can only get to see a handful live - speak from experience there !
Good point about the calls on the 'midget CB' - this was raised in the TV studio here both for that game and the other playoff games this weekend. The onus seems to be on that rule being enforced even more than we may have seen during the regular season.
The question on Favre is a good one - what is the initial feeling amongst GB fans on this, especially as a lot gave him a hard time early in the season when things were bad for you.
Hopefully we can keep this good feeling going until at least Wednesday before we start to think about the Eagles gameTime spent annoying a Packer fan is never time wasted...
01-10-2005, 02:06 PM #6Del Rio Guest
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I hope your not refering to the two crucial holding penalties by Carrol. Because those my friend were indeed penalties no doubt about it.
Brett Favre often has games like that. He gets flustered and wings it. No excuses he sucked bad yesterday. And he has had moments like that in the past as well.
Although we wont hear much about it I credit our D they played great and had a good deal of pressure on him.
I think the main difference in the game was you guys were shell shocked. We came in and smacked your team in the mouth and you guys weren't expecting the step child to hit back. Well when we do hit we hit hard.
That game was a total blowout. We won on all sides of the ball.
I did enjoy reading your thoughts as usual.
You're a class act, Los!
You're a class act Los, I hope you post here more often!0fc1de3e4ff7ffe42e40bba70cebd90c
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And that, to me, is what you have to look out for. I'm guessing more of you are just happy you've beaten the Packers, demoralized them, vindicated yourselves. Maybe even a "Who cares what happens next week, I'm happy". Trouble is, I have a suspicion that's what Tice and company are thinking, too.
So, all in all, a terrible game to be at. Congrats again. Try not to embarass the NFC North against the Eagles, please.
I am not just happy about the Packer game, I am looking forward to next week. It is more like we are caught in the spur of the moment but I think that even though we lost to you guys 2 times this year, in the back of our minds we have wanted to have a rematch with the Eagles since week 2. I honestly at the that time wanted the rematch to take place in MN but now after everything that happened, I am just gald we get to play them anywhere. It has only been like 20 hours since the win and that is behind me. The only thing that concerns me is the Eagles and the chance to play them again and the wish that we will be able to hear them say "well it would have been different if we had TO on the field."
About the officiating, you are right, I didn't see it. It was a little tickey-tack but the rules are rules he was holding on after 5 yds. I didn't see the Vikings getting away with it and the pack being called for it. The Vikes just weren't doing it.
01-10-2005, 02:35 PM #9Del Rio Guest
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He was all over him both times after the 5 yards the jersey was being yanked away from his body a clear signal to the refs that he was holding. This has been a problem all year for this guy so no this wasn't a magicaly delicious mess up by the refs.
He was trying to be physical and after the jam you could see the WR had the edge and in order to gain ground and re position himself he grabed jersey arm whatever he needed to grab and he got caught.
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Los, my only regret about winning this game is that you, and a couple of other cool Pack fans on this site, ended their season in disappointment. But hey, not all is lost. There's always room on the Purple and Gold bandwagon.
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PHILADEPHIA -- Phillies broadcasters will shuffle the radio booth because TBS and FOX are broadcasting the postseason on TV.
Phillies radio announcers Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen will broadcast the first through third and seventh through ninth innings. Tom McCarthy, who does play-by-play on TV, will work the fourth through sixth innings. Chris Wheeler and Gary Matthews, who provide color commentary on TV, will alternate days in the booth with the McCarthy.
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Phillies pitching coach Rich Dubee said left-hander J.C. Romero, who left Sunday's season finale against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field because of a lower back problem, is OK and ready to pitch. ... Right-hander Kyle Kendrick, who was left off the National League Division Series roster when the Phils decided to carry just 10 pitchers, will try to stay sharp throwing in the bullpen while traveling with the team. ... Philadelphia entered Game 1 having won the first game in its last six postseason series. The Phils have not lost Game 1 since the 2007 NLDS against the Rockies.
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