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At 1:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 15, 2008, Dolphins first-year head coach Tony Sparano asked his quarterbacks coach David Lee to join him in the front of the team's plane.
The decision Sparano made next brought a formation to the NFL that, heading into 2011, is still a weapon in offenses around the league.
The Dolphins were flying back to Miami following a 31-10 loss to the Cardinals. Coming off a 1-15 season, the Dolphins already had an 0-2 record and had rushed for a combined 121 yards, even with the presence of talented RBs Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams.
"Tell me about this 'Wildcat'," Sparano asked Lee. "We need some space to run the ball in, and I think this 'Wildcat' can create some space."
"I said, 'Coach, there's no question,' " Lee told PFW, as he recounted the plane ride during which the 'Wildcat' was born in the NFL.
After three seasons with the Dolphins, Lee is returning to the college game as Ole Miss' offensive coordinator. In 2007 at Arkansas, the Razorbacks' rushing offense ranked fourth nationally under Lee, with Darren McFadden and Felix Jones taking part in the 'Wildcat.' Lee had used the formation a bit with Matt Jones in 2001 and '02, but added triple-option concepts to it with the talented backs in 2007 and then brought that to the NFL.
"(Sparano) said, 'If the ball is snapped on the ground once, I'm throwing the whole thing out.' The center can screw up. I can remember the ball hitting McFadden right in the facemask in 2006," Lee explained. "The negatives were flying through my head. I'll be darned (if) the first time we snapped it we don't score a touchdown."
With 2:39 to go in the first quarter against the Patriots the following Sunday, Brown lined up in the shotgun and took a direct snap two yards into the endzone for a score. He also threw a touchdown pass to TE Anthony Fasano out of the formation. The Dolphins won 38-13 and rushed for 216 yards.
Miami used that big win at New England to turn its fortunes around, finishing with an 11-5 record and winning the AFC East. They finished 11th in the league in rushing, with 580 yards coming out of the 'Wildcat.'
The Dolphins, Jets and Browns used the formation the most during the 2010 season, with other teams around the league just dabbling in the 'Wildcat.' Coaching changes in Cleveland and Miami might change how it's used, and Brad Smith's uncertain future with the Jets has put their use of the formation in limbo. But the 'Wildcat' doesn't appear to be going anywhere, as long as so many college teams run versions of it and players like Cam Newton enter the NFL.
The formation succeeds by confusing defenses with an unbalanced front and having a skill player take the snap. Zone reads, triple option, reverse and passing plays all can be run out of the 'Wildcat,' and Lee said that the plays don't have a huge impact on the offensive line.
"The same core plays that you would run under center, you run in the 'Wildcat'," he explained. "That was the beauty of it — you weren't changing a bunch of rules up front."
Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, who ran the 'Wildcat' at the University of Arkansas in 2006, is one of the foremost proponents of the formation. His success with it, as well as the hurry-up offense, at Springdale (Ark.) High School helped land him the offensive coordinator job at Arkansas. He still runs the 'Wildcat' at Auburn, where he directed the explosive Cam Newton-led attack for the reigning national champions. While almost any play that has a non-quarterback skill player lined up under center is considered to be the 'Wildcat,' Malzahn explained what the formation means to him.
"To me, 'Wildcat' is tackle over, unbalanced with a tight end," he said. "It is a speed sweep with a tailback, while having your 'Wildcat' guy at quarterback and your quarterback out to the 'Z' receiver.
"The idea was to get the ball to your best player, let him run behind the overloaded offensive line. You can speed sweep with your fastest guy coming in motion, and the better your 'Wildcat' guy can throw it, the more pressure you can put on the defense."
Lee emphasized that the formation's triggerman is the key to its success. When he installed it in Miami, he envisioned Williams as being the 'Wildcat' quarterback, but the team's veteran running backs had other ideas.
"Ricky said, 'No, no, I want to run across like Felix Jones.' And Ronnie said, 'I want to handle the ball.' They knew what they wanted to be if we ever went to it, and that was months before we used it," Lee said.
Lee believes the 'Wildcat' quarterback needs to be a player who can handle the ball, handle a bad snap, and have the eyes and hands to look the ball into the pocket.
"You need the right guy to do that. (Josh) Cribbs is perfect with Cleveland, and I think the Jets are doing a really good job with Brad Smith, a college quarterback," he said. "Having that kind of quarterback on your team, (Smith) can read, he can pitch and he can pass — that's when he's lethal."
Smith rushed for 212 yards and one touchdown out of the "Wildcat" last season, gaining 7.1 yards per carry, according to Pro Football Focus. He has thrown only seven career passes, completing four of them. Smith had four rushes of 20 yards or more last season.
"When you talk about the 'Wildcat' formation with Arkansas, it was two running backs. What helps us out is having a guy that's played quarterback," Smith said about the Jets' 'Wildcat.' "But there's also stuff that some NFL teams don't do, such as running the option or zone-read-type stuff."
Despite his pedigree as an accomplished college quarterback, Smith hasn't had many opportunities to show off his arm in the NFL.
"It would be nice (to throw more), but I don't really care. Whatever it is that they see in the defense that we can try and take advantage of, whether it is taking the edge or attack, I'll do it," he said.
Michael Vick, the best running quarterback in the league, doesn't operate in what you would normally consider the 'Wildcat.' Tim Tebow, on the other hand, entered games last season as a backup to run the football like he did at Florida before taking over the starting job late in the season, and if he becomes Denver's starter in 2011, you could see him running plays similarly to what he did at Florida. This year, there might be another starting quarterback running the 'Wildcat' like he did in college — No. 1 overall pick Cam Newton, who ran the formation at Auburn all the way to the Heisman Trophy and a national championship.
"If somebody was 'Wildcat' interested, Cam Newton and Tim Tebow would be the two perfect fits," Lee said. "(Newton) is such a good runner and was so accurate at Auburn. I watched that SEC championship game [a 56-17 victory over South Carolina] — the difference in the game was his accuracy."
"Cam is a great quarterback and will be successful in any system," Malzahn said. "He's the first regular quarterback that we did not exchange somebody in to run the 'Wildcat.' He's got the running back skills, but he throws it unbelievably. We started with [WR] Kodi Burns as the 'Wildcat' guy the first three games, but it just got to the point where we didn't switch anymore because we could run so well with Cam."
When Newton begins his NFL career in Carolina, defenses around the league will have seen the 'Wildcat' in one way or another for three seasons now. According to Pro Football Focus, 20 teams ran a 'Wildcat'-like play in 2010. (PFF defined a 'Wildcat' play as any play in which someone other than a quarterback lined upon in the QB position, and it did not account for running quarterbacks).
While the Jets thrived in the formation in 2010, the Dolphins' 'Wildcat' plummeted in productivity from where it was in 2008. The first year of the 'Wildcat,' the Dolphins rushed 93 times for a 6.4-yard average. It accounted for eight rushing scores and two through the air. In 2010, the Dolphins' 'Wildcat' rushed the ball 57 times for 189 yards (3.3-yard average) and only one score.
"You're seeing less and less of it after two pretty successful seasons. I think the team that's the best at it right now is the Jets," Lee said. "Once people have seen it enough times and know where the play's point of attack is going to be, they have played into it."
Shutting down the 'Wildcat' was an issue for defenses in 2008, and college defenses still struggle against the formation. NFL defenses are starting to pick up on the extra blocker and finding ways to slow it down.
"Teams try to start out with a base defense, then have a certain blitz to go with it," Malzahn said. "Most defenses are very specific on how they want to attack it. If you have a 'Wildcat' guy who can throw the football, it makes a big difference."
Lee agreed that without a legitimate passing threat in the formation, defenses have an easier time defending the 'Wildcat.'
"Your passing game is very limited. We rarely had a wide receiver in the game. Sometimes we had no quarterback," he said. "We were a little hamstrung that Ronnie wasn't a true passer. He could read the zone read, but his pitch wasn't always accurate. It's hard to pitch the ball when you're running 100 miles per hour."
Smith has noticed defenses adjusting when he, not Mark Sanchez, lines up at quarterback.
"Defenses have definitely loaded up or have a spy on the quarterback position," he said. "Our coaches do a great job of adjusting the blocking schemes to give us a chance to make a play."
The Dolphins' 'Wildcat' being bottled up by opposing defenses last season coincided with the team's inefficient play in the red zone. Miami finished 30th in the league in scoring, and some observers attributed that to the struggles in the formation it brought to the league. There are some different schools of thought as to where the 'Wildcat' is most effective.
"It's most effective in the red, tight-red areas. As a play-caller, you're less worried about the snap being on the ground or the mesh (motion) guy's timing being off," Lee said. "When you're backed up, you don't want to turn the ball over, but you don't want to be so conservative. (Former Dolphins offensive coordinator Dan) Henning believed when he crossed the 50, it's a part of his offense."
"It can work in any situation," Smith said. "Anytime you have an athletic quarterback, period. On third down (the defense is) expecting a run with the D-ends pinning their ears back. (Michael) Vick does it all the time. If they're going to give him a running lane to pick up 10 yards, he will take that instead of forcing the ball downfield. It's worked on 3rd-and-15 and it's worked on 4th-and-1."
In 2010, the Jets had one of the league's best offensive lines and boasted very good backs in Shonn Greene and LaDainian Tomlinson. L.T. has proven to be one of the game's best backs in the red zone, and Smith's 'Wildcat' skill wasn't needed. In the red zone last season, Smith had just three carries for 16 yards. In between the 40s, Smith rushed the ball 17 times for 129 yards, including a 53-yard TD.
The Browns had their red-zone bulldozer in the form of RB Peyton Hillis. Cribbs had just three carries in the red zone, rushing for nine yards. He had seven rushes for 19 yards in between the 40s.
The Jets, Browns and Dolphins ran the 'Wildcat' the most in 2010. Pro Football Focus found that a total of 212 plays were run out of the formation, with 188 of those plays being running plays that gained a 4.3-yard average. Plays involving a handoff found the most success. Miami's stats were down, but the 'Wildcat' still works.
The question remains, how often will we see it in the future? On the one hand, defenses are clearly aware of the formation, but with players like Tebow and Newton coming out of college spread offenses each year, there's reason for putting some variation of the 'Wildcat' in a team's playbook to get the most out of the player's talents. Smith believes the formation will continue and go hand-in-hand with the spread offense.
"You would have to stop calling it the 'Wildcat.' You're going to see it evolve," Smith said. "Blaine Gabbert this past year at Missouri was not much of a runner, but when the defense is so spread out, he had running lanes to take advantage of.
"You'll see a lot more offensive coaches taking advantage of schemes and spread it out, throw it, run read option or regular option."
Malzahn pointed out that the formation isn't leaving the college game anytime soon.
"I think more and more teams in college are using versions of it each year. The more it's used, the more defenses will get comfortable with it," he said. "Over the last few years it's grown and I expect it to continue to do that. Most college offenses have some version of the 'Wildcat' anyways."
With more and more college teams using it, more players will come into the NFL with the type of skills that Smith, Newton and Tebow have to keep the formation evolving in the NFL.
As for Lee, he sees the use of the 'Wildcat' decreasing over time, especially considering what happened in Miami last season. He's modest about any sense of pride he might feel as teams continue to use the formation brought to the NFL on a red-eye flight to Miami.
"You know what, I don't have much ego, I just wanted to help us win and get a rushing attack," said Lee, who rarely has spoken about introducing the formation to the NFL. "The credit really goes to Tony (Sparano) for having the guts for taking something that looks high schoolish and giving it a shot because we were struggling to run the football and maybe it would create some space. And he was exactly right."


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Less than eight hours after investigators with the Montgomery Police Department confirmed the city's 15th homicide of 2013, they identified the victim and announced an arrest in the case.
Detectives have charged 22-year-old Montgomery resident Christy Lawson with one count of murder in the death of a 19-year-old Tuesday afternoon.
The victim, Jarvas Terrell Baldwin was fatally shot in the driveway of a home in the 3800 block of Gaston Avenue in West Montgomery around 3 p.m.
Police and paramedics were called to the home where they found Baldwin suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment, but succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
An initial investigation shows that the shooting stemmed from an altercation involving a group of several individuals, according to authorities. Lawson was subsequently identified as the suspect.
Lawson was taken into custody at the scene and transported to the Montgomery County Detention Facility where she is being held on a bond of $75,000.
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A 56-year-old Kansas City man has been charged after allegedly kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a woman for two days.
Prosecutors have charged Carey J. Clark with forcible sodomy, two counts of attempted forcible rape and kidnapping charges.
The woman managed to stage a daring escape after her body was repeatedly hit with electrical charges from a stun gun, according to court documents. She was also repeatedly beaten and sexually assaulted, police said.
A neighbor told police that the victim ran to her home for help while the woman's naked body was wrapped in just a sheet.
Booker Brinkley told KCTV5 that he was inside his home and his wife was on the porch when the 48-year-old woman sprinted to their front lawn, yelling that she had been held against her will and attacked.
Brinkley said bruises and abrasions covered the woman's body.
"She was scared. She was frightened." Brinkley said. "She was draped in a sheet. I gave her one of my T-shirts."
Clark did not confess, according to court documents. Instead, he said he would not give a statement based on the advice of his attorney.
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Police were called to the 5900 block of Bales Avenue last Saturday and found a 48-year-old Kansas City woman. The woman said Clark had sodomized her, assaulted her repeatedly with a stun gun and pummeled her body. She said he held her against her will until she escaped when he left to grab a bite to eat, according to court documents.
The woman told police that on May 9 she met Clark at a night club where he asked her out on a date. The both of them then exchanged phone numbers.
The next day, Clark called the woman and told her that he would like to take her out for dinner. She agreed to the date.
Clark met the woman at her uncle's house where she got into his vehicle. On the way to the restaurant, Clark said he left his credit cards at his home, and he needed to go back and get them. Clark then invited her into his house.
Court records state once inside, he locked the door behind the both of them and struck her in the stomach. As she laid prone on the floor, Clark then kicked her in the stomach. Clark then stated, "That is what you get for being a whore. You ain't going anywhere now."
The victim told police Clark then made her take off her clothes and demanded vaginal intercourse, threatening to kill her if she didn't comply. When she refused, Clark then kicked her again. When she repeatedly refused again, Clark berated her.
Clark then used a stun gun on her repeatedly before sodomizing her, according to police. The suspect allegedly covered her mouth with duct tape.
During the attacks, Clark claimed he was a cousin of Terry Blair, a Kansas City man convicted of killing prostitutes. The suspect told her he hated "whores" as well and wanted to kill them, according to court records.
The torture continued into the following day, the woman told police. Clark was smoking PCP throughout the ordeal, the woman said.
Hungry, Clark left the house to get something to eat, the woman said. The victim said she used this opportunity to lift a window screen and make her escape. She wrapped a sheet around her naked body and ran screaming to a neighbor's house, pleading for help, according to court documents.
When officers arrived on the scene, they stated the woman appeared very weak and tired and there were bruises and red marks on her body. She had a busted lip.
The victim was then transported to an area hospital to be treated. She also consented to a rape exam. The exam found she had trauma to her anal area that required medical treatment, according to court records.
Brinkley and his wife told police that the woman told them she had escaped from Clark's house.
"I was just surprised to know that a person had been down there that long," Brinkley said.
Detectives obtained a search warrant after the woman and neighbor identified Clark's house. Authorities recovered the victim's car keys, jewelry and clothing from the home.
The items recovered matched exactly the items that the woman said she had left behind when she fled the residence, according to court records.
Clark was arrested Wednesday. A judge set his bond at $150,000 and ordered him to have no contact with the victim.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said she did not know whether Clark is related to Blair. She said the victim did nothing wrong, reported the crime to police and went to the hospital.
"She was the victim of a brutal attack," Baker said.
Police did not say whether Clark is related to Blair.
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Dallas cut Newman, who will be 34 when the 2012 season begins. In his nine years with Dallas, Newman started 131 games and recorded 112 passes defensed and 32 interceptions.
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Sep 21, 2010, 08:45 #1
Royal Mail (UK) API - Opinions?
USPS has one.
Canada Post has.
Australia Post has one.
Why doesn't Royal Mail have an API?
This bugs the hell out of me. They don't publish their prices in any useful data format, so every 6 months or so when they're updated, I need to go into my stock control system and manually update thousands of prices for half a dozen different shipping services. This is particularly irritating as I'm sure they will have a nice XML or CSV file floating around internally.
How much effort would it be to allow API access to tracking information too? They already give PayPal access to this data, so why can't they open it up? Instead we're forced to screen scrape.
Perhaps I should get a petition going?
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That sucks. Is there a particular reason your using Royal Mail? If its nothing significant perhaps consider switching to provider with better remote integration. If its a few more dollars to use another provider perhaps its worth it to spend a little extra to have access to development API.
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Actually, they do have some online forms to calculate shipping. Though its no API you could build your own service to calculate shipping using a series of http request that dynamically fill in the form and retrieve the info. Perhaps a cron could be ran every six months and run an update so you didn't have to do everything manually. Not sure if something like that possible given your situation, but may be worth a try.
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- Translation on demand by a simple RNA-based thermosensor (2011)
- Structured RNA regions are important gene control elements in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here, we show that the mRNA of a cyanobacterial heat shock gene contains a built-in thermosensor critical for photosynthetic activity under stress conditions. The exceptionally short 5´-untranslated region is comprised of a single hairpin with an internal asymmetric loop. It inhibits translation of the Synechocystis hsp17 transcript at normal growth conditions, permits translation initiation under stress conditions and shuts down Hsp17 production in the recovery phase. Point mutations that stabilized or destabilized the RNA structure deregulated reporter gene expression in vivo and ribosome binding in vitro. Introduction of such point mutations into the Synechocystis genome produced severe phenotypic defects. Reversible formation of the open and closed structure was beneficial for viability, integrity of the photosystem and oxygen evolution. Continuous production of Hsp17 was detrimental when the stress declined indicating that shutting-off heat shock protein production is an important, previously unrecognized function of RNA thermometers. We discovered a simple biosensor that strictly adjusts the cellular level of a molecular chaperone to the physiological need.
- Interplay of 'induced fit' and preorganization in the ligand induced folding of the aptamer domain of the guanine binding riboswitch (2007)
- Riboswitches are highly structured elements in the 50-untranslated regions (50-UTRs) of messenger RNA that control gene expression by specifically binding to small metabolite molecules. They consist of an aptamer domain responsible for ligand binding and an expression platform. Ligand binding in the aptamer domain leads to conformational changes in the expression platform that result in transcription termination or abolish ribosome binding. The guanine riboswitch binds with high-specificity to guanine and hypoxanthine and is among the smallest riboswitches described so far. The X-ray-structure of its aptamer domain in complex with guanine/ hypoxanthine reveals an intricate RNA-fold consisting of a three-helix junction stabilized by longrange base pairing interactions. We analyzed the conformational transitions of the aptamer domain induced by binding of hypoxanthine using highresolution NMR-spectroscopy in solution. We found that the long-range base pairing interactions are already present in the free RNA and preorganize its global fold. The ligand binding core region is lacking hydrogen bonding interactions and therefore likely to be unstructured in the absence of ligand. Mg2+-ions are not essential for ligand binding and do not change the structure of the RNA-ligand complex but stabilize the structure at elevated temperatures. We identified a mutant RNA where the long-range base pairing interactions are disrupted in the free form of the RNA but form upon ligand binding in an Mg2+-dependent fashion. The tertiary interaction motif is stable outside the riboswitch context.
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- Oral presentations Background: We selected peptide ligands for the HIV-1 packaging signal PSI by screening phage displayed peptide libraries. Peptide ligands were optimized by screening spot synthesis peptide membranes. The aim of this study is the functional characterization of these peptide ligands with respect to inhibition of HIV-1 replication. Methods: Phage displayed peptide libraries were screened with PSI-RNA structures. The Trp-rich peptide motifs were optimized for specific binding on spot synthesis peptide membranes. The best binding peptide was expressed intracellularly in fusion with RFP or linked to a protein transduction domain (PTD) for intracellular delivery. The effects on virion production were analyzed using pseudotyped lentiviral particles. Results: After positive and negative selection rounds, phages binding specifically to PSI-RNA were identified by ELISA. Peptide inserts contained conserved motifs of aromatic amino acids known to be implicated in binding of PSI-RNA by the natural Gag ligand. The filter assay identified HKWPWW as the best binding ligand for PSI-RNA, which is delivered into several cell lines by addition of a PTD. Compared to a control peptide, the HKWPWW peptide inhibited HIV-1 replication as deduced from reduced titers of culture supernatants. As HKWPWW also binds to the TAR-RNA like the natural nucleocapsid PSI-RNA ligand, the effect on Tat-TAR inhibition will also be analyzed. Currently T-cell lines are established which stably express HKWPWW as well as a control peptide, which will be infected with HIV-1 to monitor the ability of HKWPWW to inhibit wild type HIV-1 replication. Conclusion: The selection of a peptide ligand for PSI-RNA able to inhibit HIV-1 replication proves the suitability of the phage display technology for the selection of peptides binding to RNA-structures. This enables the indentification of peptides serving as leads to interfere with additional targets in the HIV-1 replication cycle.
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- Ribosomal proteins are assumed to stabilize specific RNA structures and promote compact folding of the large rRNA. The conformational dynamics of the protein between the bound and unbound state play an important role in the binding process. We have studied those dynamical changes in detail for the highly conserved complex between the ribosomal protein L11 and the GTPase region of 23S rRNA. The RNA domain is compactly folded into a well defined tertiary structure, which is further stabilized by the association with the C-terminal domain of the L11 protein (L11ctd). In addition, the N-terminal domain of L11 (L11ntd) is implicated in the binding of the natural thiazole antibiotic thiostrepton, which disrupts the elongation factor function. We have studied the conformation of the ribosomal protein and its dynamics by NMR in the unbound state, the RNA bound state and in the ternary complex with the RNA and thiostrepton. Our data reveal a rearrangement of the L11ntd, placing it closer to the RNA after binding of thiostrepton, which may prevent binding of elongation factors. We propose a model for the ternary L11–RNA–thiostrepton complex that is additionally based on interaction data and conformational information of the L11 protein. The model is consistent with earlier findings and provides an explanation for the role of L11ntd in elongation factor binding.
- NMR and MD studies of the temperature-dependent dynamics of RNA YNMG-tetraloops (2008)
- In a combined NMR/MD study, the temperature-dependent changes in the conformation of two members of the RNA YNMG-tetraloop motif (cUUCGg and uCACGg) have been investigated at temperatures of 298, 317 and 325 K. The two members have considerable different thermal stability and biological functions. In order to address these differences, the combined NMR/MD study was performed. The large temperature range represents a challenge for both, NMR relaxation analysis (consistent choice of effective bond length and CSA parameter) and all-atom MD simulation with explicit solvent (necessity to rescale the temperature). A convincing agreement of experiment and theory is found. Employing a principle component analysis of the MD trajectories, the conformational distribution of both hairpins at various temperatures is investigated. The ground state conformation and dynamics of the two tetraloops are indeed found to be very similar. Furthermore, both systems are initially destabilized by a loss of the stacking interactions between the first and the third nucleobase in the loop region. While the global fold is still preserved, this initiation of unfolding is already observed at 317 K for the uCACGg hairpin but at a significantly higher temperature for the cUUCGg hairpin.
- Metal-ion binding and metal-ion induced folding of the adenine-sensing riboswitch aptamer domain (2007)
- Divalent cations are important in the folding and stabilization of complex RNA structures. The adenine-sensing riboswitch controls the expression of mRNAs for proteins involved in purine metabolism by directly sensing intracellular adenine levels. Adenine binds with high affinity and specificity to the ligand binding or aptamer domain of the adenine-sensing riboswitch. The X-ray structure of this domain in complex with adenine revealed an intricate RNA-fold consisting of a three-helix junction stabilized by long-range base-pairing interactions and identified five binding sites for hexahydrated Mg2+-ions. Furthermore, a role for Mg2+-ions in the ligand-induced folding of this RNA was suggested. Here, we describe the interaction of divalent cations with the RNA–adenine complex in solution as studied by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. Paramagnetic line broadening, chemical shift mapping and intermolecular nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs) indicate the presence of at least three binding sites for divalent cations. Two of them are similar to those in the X-ray structure. The third site, which is important for the folding of this RNA, has not been observed previously. The ligand-free state of the RNA is conformationally heterogeneous and contains base-pairing patterns detrimental to ligand binding in the absence of Mg2+, but becomes partially pre-organized for ligand binding in the presence of Mg2+. Compared to the highly similar guanine-sensing riboswitch, the folding pathway for the adenine-sensing riboswitch aptamer domain is more complex and the influence of Mg2+ is more pronounced.


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- 5 cloves of garlic, minced
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- cayenne pepper
- green onions, diced for garnish
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- It wasn't your typical Cactus League game. This one came with subplots and a dash of international intrigue.Chone Figgins and Casey Kotchman embraced their old friends in red on Sunday, and then they went out and did everything they could to beat the Angels in their new Seattle uniforms. Like exhilarated kids let loose in a park, Figgins and Kotchman spent pretty much the entire afternoon in the familiar infield at Tempe Diablo Stadium -- with and without their gloves. They had plenty of exercise on the bases with three hits and a walk apiece while playing sparkling defense in Seattle's 12-6 decision over the three-time reigning champions of the division they share, the American League West. "This is going to be an interesting year," said Figgins, who accepted Seattle's four-year, $36 million free-agent offer following a career year as an AL All-Star in 2009. "I know how good those guys are, and it's going to be a challenge for us. I'm really looking forward to this." A substantial Japanese media crowd was treated to the first head-to-head showdown between new division rivals Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui. Neither legend disappointed. Matsui walked, singled and drove in a run with a groundout. Ichiro singled and scored, walked and lashed a two-run triple in the seventh, showing his sprinter's speed. There are those in the MLB media who think the Angels will be challenged to keep pace with the Mariners in their 19 meetings. Seattle added premier starter Cliff Lee along with Figgins, Kotchman and Milton Bradley to a cast featuring future Hall of Famers Ichiro and Ken Griffey Jr. From Angels manager Mike Scioscia's viewpoint, Ichiro and Figgins atop the order present obvious problems. Kotchman, smart and resourceful, looked comfortable slashing line drives behind them in the No. 3 spot.
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3.75/5 rDev -5.5%
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04-03-2014 23:37:04 | More by BierBliss
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12-27-2013 18:02:46 | More by cphughes
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Ri Ra has two separate identities. First, it's lunch and dinner service. During this time, Ri Ra's charm as an old world authentic Irish pub comes to life. The service is great, the food is fantastic, and the Guinness is poured perfectly at the best temperature. However, just about all the charm of Ri Ra is lost when the pub turns into a normal bar. The locals flock in, and the place becomes over-crowded with some average at best local bar band playing in the corner. Everything that makes Ri Ra great is lost when the sun goes down. Beyond the perfect pour of Guinness, the beer selection is typical fare for the average bar in the area, with a couple of Shipyard brews on tap, some Sam Adams, and maybe a few local micros tossed in for good measure. If you are visiting Portland and want to try out this legendary bar chain, I'd highly recommend dinner service with a nice, traditional Guinness.
06-23-2013 19:06:19 | More by supercodes
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
Ri Ra Irish Pub is one of our favorite places to go to whenever we make it to Portland Maine. A great Irish bar, with a great beer selection, if you want to try some of the local Maine brews, there's no better place than Ri Ra.
Ri Ra offers live music on the weekend, a great menu, and plenty of TV's to catch the game on.
Beers are served in their proper glassware. Be sure to order a Baxter Beer so you can try Baxter's cool glass that's shaped like a beer can.
There's lots of options in Portland, but be sure not to skip Ri Ra.
08-17-2012 18:01:58 | More by Larrydoherty
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
Located in an old building in the Old Port, you'd never know that this is a chain. Typical pub. Clean, with adequate seating. Nice bar.
Good rotating Irish brew and local tap selection, and plenty of cans/bottles.
Service was great. Server was actually brought over from Ireland (for atomsphere?), and she was terrific.
Food was great. Big portions. Potato cakes, Guiness stew, and fish and chips were very tasty. Great brunch menu.
Prices are very easy as well. Reasonable for pints and grub. I'd go back.
11-14-2011 14:03:36 | More by OtherShoe2
4.33/5 rDev +9.1%
I like Ri-Ra and yes, I know it's a chain ... a small chain. But the Ri-Ra in Portland is just really nice. The beer selection is decent -- Maine craft beers and seasonals as well as the expected Guinness, Smithwicks, Boddie's, Stella, etc. (sometimes Murphy's is on tap, too -- which is what I prefer).
They have Jameson's, Jamesons's 12, Bushmills, Blackbush, Bushmills single malt, Powers and Tullamore Dew as well -- all fine Irish whiskeys and much appreciated.
To me what sets Ri-Ra apart, though is the service. In my experience it has always been outstanding. Every. Single. Time. The bartenders -- no matter who is on, no matter how busy, no matter how quiet -- they are fantastic. Attentive, friendly, and professional. They're among the best I've encountered in any city in North America.
The waitstaff is good, too, in the same way. And the food is pretty darned good. (Try the Sunday brunch upstairs!)
There are three distinct rooms: the rustic country pub, the 2-level Victorian-style pub, and the upstairs dining room. The rustic country pub is my favorite and feels like many country pubs in County Clare. The Victorian pub room looks and feels exactly the the Sliken Thomas pub I visited in Kildare, Ireland and attracts a lovely looking crowd. The upstairs is my least favorite, but it has killer views of Portland Harbor (not really a pub).
I like Ri-Ra a lot. Try it!
04-09-2009 00:05:40 | More by zamboni1
3.88/5 rDev -2.3%
Ri-Ra is a chain so don't go thinking this is a real authentic "oirish" pub. There is one in Boston and one in Burlington, VT as well...however none of them have the location this one has...right on Commerical St. and righ on the water in the Old Port in Portland.
Decent food, 1/2 price burger specials on Tuesdays when I used to go. Never had a bad meal there so no complaints on that end.
Beer selection is sort of heavy on the import side...Guinness, Harp, Smithwicks etc...but they do usually have a Shipyard Seasonal, Geary's Pale as well as Allagash White.
This is not a beer bar but a pub that happens to have an ok beer selection.
Go to Trivia Night, that is awesome.
03-21-2009 02:23:38 | More by indiapaleale
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Tim Tebow set another standard in college football on Monday, becoming the first three-time Heisman finalist since Herschel Walker almost 30 years ago and just the third three-time finalist overall, along with Army's Glen Davis.
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Women athletes receive media attention during the Olympics, as in USA versus Finland, then fade from view.
Photo by Chris O'Meara/The Associated Press.
Visit the Minneapolis Star Tribune's
or pick up the paper on most days and—as with most other newspaper sports sections—you'll be hard-pressed to find news of women's sports. It's not that women aren't playing. They are, and in huge numbers. Simply put, staffers aren't assigned to cover women's sports.
At the Star Tribune, for instance, most writers are assigned to beats for men's teams at the college and pro levels. A reporter who covered women's sports regularly left the paper in 2007 and was not replaced. Another reports on home games for the WNBA Lynx during the summer but then mainly focuses on men's college hockey with an occasional story on women's college teams.
This sports beat arrangement leaves a lot of territory uncovered, including women in Olympic sports such as track and field and figure skating, and those who play tennis and golf. Women competing on a spectrum of teams for the University of Minnesota and area colleges can also be overlooked.
Rachel Blount
, who has been at the Star Tribune since 1990, is the only sports reporter and columnist without an assigned beat. The only woman at the paper who covers sports, Blount said she feels obligated to try to close the gap. "I've got to cover this niche," said Blount, who describes her newspaper's coverage of women' sports as "the worst" she's seen in her 20 years there. "Things are falling through the cracks."
Women's sports coverage is shrinking—not growing—even as more women and girls are competing in sports.
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found that between 1999 and 2009 the time given to coverage of women's sports on that network's "SportsCenter" dropped from almost nothing to a bit less than almost nothing—from slightly more than 2 percent to less than 1.5 percent. What's happened to the coverage of women's sports during the past few years at newspapers, where there have been dramatic reductions and a reshuffling of staff as well as competitive pressures from bloggers, has not been systematically studied. But I feel safe in contending that women's coverage hasn't generally increased. Of course, exceptions are likely to occur in places where a pro or college women's team has built an unusually large fan base, such as the University of Connecticut basketball team, the University of Utah gymnastics team, or the WNBA's Seattle Storm.
In the vast majority, however, it's languishing—the victim of decisions about resources that are justified by the belief that women's sports are peripheral to readers' interests. "When sports editors are in a constant reshuffling of staff, it's often women's sports beats that take a hit," said Jerry Micco, who is the assistant managing editor for sports at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and former president of the
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. "Beats are set up to cover the core interests of readers, and once you get that settled, you see who you have left and what you can cover … It's not pretty out there for newspapers when it comes to people and resources."
Following the Eyeballs
In most respects, the priorities for sports editors are nothing new. Coverage of female athletes has always been paltry, except for the occasional media sweetheart with hometown ties—such as Lynx player Lindsay Whalen or Olympian Lindsey Vonn in Minneapolis. It was once expected that coverage would increase as Title IX turned more girls and women into athletes and sports fans, but that has not happened. Instead, women's coverage remains "a luxury item," said Amy Moritz, president of the Association for Women in Sports Media and a reporter at The Buffalo News. "When there's the staff, space and resources to cover women's sports, papers will do it. When those start to erode, women's sports coverage is one of the first to get cut."
Women's sports leagues have always struggled to gain media attention. For instance, the WNBA in 2007 launched a short-lived campaign encouraging fans to write sports editors demanding more coverage; the campaign was largely ridiculed. The new Women's Professional Soccer league also gets relatively little coverage. Editors traditionally cite lack of interest by fans as a reason for their decisions, a rationale that has exasperated women's sports advocates. When asked to produce empirical evidence of this so-called "reader interest," most editors couldn't do it.
Today, things work a bit differently—though the result is much the same. Editors can produce the evidence, flawed as it might be. They can track where the eyeballs are going on the Web—and it's mostly to stories about men's professional sports or college football or basketball. Blount says that is one reason she can push stories about female athletes with her editors only "up to a point. … I've been told point-blank, 'No one is going to read that,'" she said. "The Web feeds into overkill."
The result? More writers are being assigned to men's professional teams—and those become the beats and coverage readers can count on. Blount remembers the days when the Vikings, for instance, had a single full-time writer. Now it's two, at a minimum. The editors say that they can't ignore the numbers.
The fact that fans are clicking on men's sports stories could be, at least in part, because the sports pages on most newspapers' websites offer little else. But it's hard to resist the logic that if certain stories draw traffic, posting more of those stories is a smart allocation of resources.
The problem, though, and sports editors concede this, is that in sidelining women's sports—by not carving it out as they do other beats—some terrific stories are lost. Michael Anastasi, the managing editor for sports and features at The Salt Lake Tribune and an APSE vice president, said it's incumbent on sports editors to set up beats in ways that these stories will be found. He has created two such beats to help staffers catch them: one he calls a "university beat," the other is an Olympic sports beat. He also points to the University of Utah's women's basketball team, which is a solid performer but doesn't have a large fan base. "Does that mean there aren't great stories there?" he asks. "No."
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Even with the Tribune's two beats, it's hard to find many female-focused sports stories on its website. The vacuum left by the Tribune and other local news organizations has given rise to a relatively small but vigilant army of bloggers who write about everything from women's professional basketball and soccer to barrel racing and competitive surfing. The most active blogging network is
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Cofounder Megan Hueter started Women Talk Sports with two other bloggers in February 2009. The site has gotten the attention of executives at ESPN. Traffic has been steadily climbing, and during events like the Olympics it has attracted a million page views in one month. Despite that, the traffic is paltry compared to SBNation or Deadspin. Research shows that the Web is dominated by blogs that are solely about men's sports, perhaps because most of the bloggers aren't women's sports fans.
As resources tighten and newsroom beats continue to be clustered around big-time men's sports, initiatives like Hueter's and, in newsrooms, those of reporters like Blount, may be what keeps women's sports visible—for now. A new initiative might, in time, force editors and other media producers to rethink their priorities. This year ESPN announced plans to launch
its "W" brand with a website
, a project the network touts as being about and aimed at sports-focused women.
As soon as word emerged about ESPN's plans, buzz surfaced in the blogosphere, driven primarily by skeptical female bloggers and women's sports advocates. Perhaps this isn't surprising given this network's paltry track record on coverage of female athletes. And ESPN might find that its "W" brand will flounder, as well.
There is no doubt that women's sports do have a loyal and sometimes robust following, and the fan base is growing, albeit slowly. And we know that female participation in sports has increased enormously since passage of Title IX in 1972.
The job of transforming a dedicated sliver of these much larger universes of sports fans and athletes into a profit-making enterprise in an ad-driven environment—and at a national level—is one that even ESPN might not succeed in making work. It's possible that this attempt might turn out to buttress the tired excuse of sports editors—that women's sports coverage doesn't draw enough eyeballs to justify the investment of diminishing resources.
If this is the case, it returns us to asking two key questions: Why do women's sports lag men's so much when it comes to fan interest? And despite this gender chasm, does the news media have an obligation to cover them? In newsrooms this comes down to asking whether there should be a women's sports beat if only because it is the right thing to do. My answer is yes.
Marie Hardin is associate director for research at
Penn State University's John Curley Center for Sports Journalism
. Her research focuses on issues of diversity and ethics in sports coverage.
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This is my first blog post here, please don't hate me too much for my rambling or poor writing skills.
Recently a woman name Danielle Anderson posed a question about handling hand raiser leads from Chrysler. I've never worked with Chrysler, but I assume they are the same as the GM "gift grabber" leads that I've been dealing with for years. I love them, I sell them, and I create a lot of additional sales from them. I mostly loved them because everyone else hated them, it was a great opportunity for me to reach people the other sales people would ignore.
The problem with most when they receive a lead like this is that they instantly assume they won't sell them, they only wanted the gift and gave their info as a requirement, not because there is any interest in purchasing a new…Continue
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