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WILKES-BARRE — Six city police officers were promoted Tuesday during a ceremony at City Hall, and Mayor Tom Leighton said he hopes to increase the ranks of the department to fight crime.
Leighton, with Chief Gerard Dessoye at his side, said the department now is at 75 officers, down from a one-time high of 91. Leighton said the city will advertise for civil service test applicants for police.
"Once we get those applications, we'll look at the numbers and see what we can do," the third-term mayor said.
In 2013, the city has seen many shootings and other violent crimes, including a rash of robberies. So far this year, there have been shootings that have resulted in nine homicide victims.
Contacted afterward, Charlotte Raup, coordinator of the city's Crime Watch organization said the city "absolutely needs more police." She said crime — especially violent crime — has reached an all-time high in the city.
"Safety is the number-one concern of the people," Raup said. "The city should only apply for grants for more police."
Raup said she talks to city police officers all the time and said they have been working far too many overtime hours.
"That puts a strain on them," she said. "They get burned out and stressed out."
Raup said all crime is up — burglaries, home invasions, car break-ins. She said with the recent retirements of several officers, the city should move to hire replacements as soon as possible.
Leighton and Dessoye are aware of the numbers crunch and both said they are hoping to replenish the ranks.
"We want to see how many we can hire," Leighton said. "We're looking at the numbers now so when the applications come in we will be ready to decide what to do."
Dessoye said his department is effective with 75, but with more officers it could be more effective.
"I don't know of a police chief anywhere who wouldn't want more officers in his department," Dessoye said. "And people want more police, but I realize we're expensive. People want more police until you don't pick up their garbage. It's up to the mayor to find a way to hire more police without cutting back other services."
Department workings
Leighton said the department has recently been restructured to two divisions: Operations and Investigations. He said the Operations Division, led by Cmdr. Robert Hughes, consists of several units, including patrol, records training, and emergency services. Cmdr. Joseph Coffay leads the Investigations Division, which is composed of anti-crime task force, criminal and evidence/property units.
"These individuals will play a vital role in the Operations and Investigations divisions," Dessoye said. "Their years of experience will prove to be an asset for the city of Wilkes-Barre and their respective divisions."
Leighton congratulated the six officers.
"I'd also like to compliment each of them on their years of service and look forward to them working hand-in-hand with our officers in the police department to combat crime," he said.
Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, who attended the ceremony, congratulated and commended "the Wilkes-Barre Police Department for its hard work. The city department is the most professional department I have dealt with, and I look forward to continuing to work with all of you."


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Our real heroes are found outside the sports arena
By Doug Halberstadt
Sports Columnist
This is my first column of 2013, and it would be easy to try to come up with a list of big sports stories from 2012. Or, perhaps, I could try to look ahead at what might make headlines in the coming year. I'm not going to do either.
Instead, I want to use this space to remind fans that as much as we idolize professional athletes of all sports, they are all human. They are subject to the same trials and temptations of everyday life that both you and I must battle. The only thing that separates most of us from most of them is their financial status. It's unlikely you or I have the ability to be able to afford almost anything we see. That's an issue for another column, though.
We, as fans, must learn to admire these athletes for their abilities to play the games we all grew up playing. It really shouldn't go beyond that. We'd be wise to retreat from our willingness to put these men and women up on pedestals.
I'd like to encourage everyone to refrain from automatically granting these overpaid players hero status simply because they have ultra-defined athletic skills. They may possess an inordinate amount of athletic talent and be worthy of praise for that, but at the same time, that doesn't equate to hero status.
The real heroes of our world are not found in stadiums, arenas, ice rinks or ball diamonds. You won't find them wearing colorful logoed jerseys with numbers emblazoned on their backs. I encourage you to take a closer look around you to see the real heroes.
I contend that you'll encounter them inside of school buildings, hospitals, mental health facilities, police and fire stations, barracks, ships at sea and military bases all around the world. These are the people who are truly making a difference in the lives of our neighbors and loved ones.
Granted, athletes are a source of entertainment and often provide a diversion from the mundane tasks that make up our everyday lives. That can be of some value, but they are hardly worthy of hero status.
The real hero status should be bestowed upon our service men and women, teachers, doctors, nurses, police and fire personnel. They are the ones shaping the minds of our children, caring for our sick and elderly, and perhaps even putting their lives on the line to save our lives or the lives of loved ones.
Somewhere along the way, we've gotten our priorities out of whack. We pay athletes and entertainers millions of dollars, and at the same time expect armed service members, teachers, mental health professionals, fire and policemen (women) to exist on wages that are a fraction of what a minimum salaried professional athlete takes home.
And before I conclude this column, I'd also like to raise the status of responsible parents and grandparents who are providing food, shelter and clothing and caring for their children and grandchildren. They often get overlooked as well.
As we embark on a new year, enjoy sports, entertainment and recreation, but always keep in mind the real heroes in our society. Take the time to thank a teacher, service member, a police or fireman. Extend them a handshake and a smile of gratitude. It won't fill up their bank account, but it might go a long way in making them feel appreciated. Happy New Year!
Doug Halberstadt can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Album: In a Perfect World
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In order to maintain a successful relationship with your partner, both parties need to put in an equal amount of effort. Unfortunately for singer Keri Hilson it didn't work out that way; on the Atlanta native's "official" debut single, Energy, a highly-charged Hilson explains that she has put forth way too much "oomph" and received far too little in return. Regardless, as long as this talented singer sticks with her music, relationship issues should be the last thing on her mind. With quality production assistance from Timbaland, Danja, and The Clutch on her forthcoming debut album, In A Perfect World (set for release on September 23), her career might be the best way to finally see a return on that spent energy.
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- Posted November 24, 2014
- BALLOONS Lit. Journal Call for Submissions
- Deadline info Deadline: January 31, 2015
BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ) seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, and artwork primarily for young readers aged around 10-16. BLJ is an emerging literary journal to bring the art of literature, and the creation of it, to our younger generation. We welcome submissions from people anywhere in the world and in all walks of life. For more details please visit us at: www.balloons-lit-journal.com.
- Posted November 20, 2014
- The Sonder Review, Issue Two, Is Open for Submissions!
- Deadline info Deadline: December 31, 2014
The Sonder Review is a publication of art and short fiction that strives to question, redefine, and challenge conventional viewpoints; to usurp the definition of reality and truth. Our magazine lives online and in print and is based in Upstate, NY. We believe in prose that strikes and sparks. Words raw and shuddering and unabashed. Language that drips thick and pierces deeply. We believe in storytelling that is innovative and daring, precise and oddly angled. Fiction which shows us the bizarre and magical and profound; which shows us a self we have never seen and truth we have never known. sonderreview.com
- Posted November 20, 2014
- Call for Submissions for Tech, Art & Lit Journal
- Deadline info Submissions accepted year-round.
Carbon Culture Review, a journal at the intersection of art, literature and technology, is seeking unsolicited submissions of unpublished fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, photography and visual art associated with modern technology in some way. Guidelines are available on our website at www.carbonculturereview.com. We are also seeking writers for reviews and articles. Candidates should send an email with a letter of interest and a writing sample to .
- Posted November 25, 2014
- scissors & spackle seeks unconventional & experimental work for 2015
- Deadline info Deadline: December 15, 2014
scissors & spackle welcomes the bizarre, in fact, we encourage it. Send us your poetry, flash, short stories, plays, lists, resumes, transcribed conversations. The surest path to acceptance is the element of surprise. We want your best, odd, bizarre, literary, unique, fun, solid work. We will consider most genres so long as the piece has literary undertones. Visit us at www.scissorsandspackle.net or submit at scissorsandspackle.submittable.com/submit. Submissions are open from October 1-December 15. scissors & spackle is a publication of ELJ Publications.
- Posted November 25, 2014
- The Magnolia Review First Issue Submission Call
- Deadline info Deadline: December 15, 2014
The Magnolia Review is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art. The deadline for our first issue is December 15. For submission guidelines, please visit our website for details: themagnoliareview.wordpress.com.
- Posted November 25, 2014
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- Deadline info Deadline: December 15, 2014
Calling all short story fiction writers, photographers, and visual artists! The Critical Pass Review currently is accepting short story fiction, photography, and other visual art submissions for its Fall 2014 Issue. Poetry is also welcome. To submit short stories, photographs, other visual art, and poetry through our easy-to-use (and free) online submission system, please feel free to visit us at www.criticalpassreview.com. While you're at it, feel free to check out our Spring 2014 Issue. Both new and experienced contributors are welcome to submit. Each work submitted is assessed on its own merit. We look forward to considering you work. Best regards, The Editors, The Critical Pass Review. Email:
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- Deadline info Deadline: January 10, 2015
- Posted November 25, 2014
- Two of Cups Press Seeking Moon Poems for Anthology
- Deadline info Deadline: February 14, 2015
Following the huge success of our first anthology, SMALL BATCH, Two of Cups Press is thrilled to announce its latest anthology project, this time focusing on the moon. Poems do not necessarily have to be about the moon but must reference it in some way. All styles welcome. Please send 1-3 poems within the body of an email to by February 14th, 2015. If accepted, you will be asked for a document file of your poem(s). Previously published material will be considered so please include acknowledgments. Payment is one copy of the anthology. twoofcupspress.wordpress.com/current-submission-call/
- Posted November 25, 2014
- Off the Coast Call For Submissions
- Deadline info Submissions accepted year-round.
Off the Coast, now in its 20th year, is a quarterly journal of poetry, art and reviews of poetry books. We accept submissions year-round. All styles and forms of poetry are welcome, visit our website for samples of the work we publish www.off-the-coast.com. We publish poetry from prize winners and first-timers, youth and international poets, the only criteria is that the work be well-crafted. We seek color photos and graphics for the cover and black & white images for inside the magazine. Please check our website or our submission manager for more details: offthecoast.submittable.com/Submit.
- Posted November 24, 2014
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Felled Limbs is now accepting submissions for our second reading period. We lean towards shorter works of poetic prose (well under 1000 words) that blur the line between fiction and poetry. Please read Issue #1 over at www.felledlimbs.com in order to get a better sense of what we are looking for.
- Posted November 24, 2014
- Call for Submissions: Eastern Iowa Review's Inaugural Issue
- Deadline info Deadline: February 28, 2015
The new journal of award-winning Port Yonder Press welcomes innovative nonfiction, literary fiction, innovative biographies, and both traditional and experimental art for at least one annual print issue and select online work. We love tight, smart, chiseled & relevant pieces rife with place and description. Nominating for Pushcart. www.portyonderpress.com/eastern-iowa-review.html
- Posted November 24, 2014
- Berkeley Poetry Review: Call for Submissions
- Deadline info Deadline: February 1, 2015
Submissions for our 45th issue are now open! Please read our guidelines at ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/submission-guidelines before submitting. While we accept great poetry of any kind, we are particularly interested in work that complicates prevailing conceptions of race, gender, ecology, and poetic form itself. Is your work attempting to start a dialogue? To enter into conversation? To push? Send it our way.
- Posted November 24, 2014
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- Deadline info Deadline: October 1, 2014 - February 28, 2015
A "vivarium" is an area for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. The ecosystem is simulated on a smaller scale, a microcosm with controls for environmental conditions. Humans create vivariums for both ourselves and other species. In these environments (zoos, shopping malls, universities, etc.), we breathe simulation, observe phenomena both natural and unnatural, speak in symbols, and cypher our dreams. We inhabit our own creations, thriving in the flux between the abstract and the absolute. The pacificREVIEW seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, and artwork that interrogates the ever-blurring line between "real" and "unreal" settings. sdsupacificreview.submittable.com/submit
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- Deadline info Submissions accepted year-round.
Setting Forth is a new online literary magazine in Eugene, OR. We publish fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry by writers in Oregon. We look for smart, creative and enjoyable writing that brings out the best in us. To submit your previously published or unpublished work to us, please follow our submission guidelines. We look forward to reading your work. We charge nothing, and we promise you a response within three weeks.
- Posted November 21, 2014
- General Submissions Open Now
- Deadline info Deadline: May 1, 2015
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- Posted November 21, 2014
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Chagrin River Review seeks submission of previously unpublished fiction, flash fiction, and poetry for its Spring 2015 issue. Simultaneous submissions welcome with timely notification if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Visit our website (www.chagrinriverreview.com) for detailed submission guidelines and to read our first five issues.
- Posted November 21, 2014
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- Deadline info Deadline: November 30, 2014
Duende welcomes submissions of prose, poetry, hybrid writing, and visual art. We are especially interested in collaborations between two or more writers, or between writers and visual artists. We accept submissions from writers working in English, or translating into English, from anywhere in the world. Duende aspires to represent the true beauty and diversity of the U.S. literary ecosystem. A majority of the work we publish will be from writers and artists who are queer, of color, differently abled, immigrant, working class, youth, elder, and/or otherwise from communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals. www.duendeliterary.org
- Posted November 21, 2014
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- Posted November 20, 2014
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- Posted November 20, 2014
- Petrichor Review is open for submissions through December 31
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- Posted November 19, 2014
- Posit, a journal of literature and art seeks submissions
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- Posted November 19, 2014
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- Posted November 19, 2014
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Gravel is accepting submissions of comics, graphics, art, photography, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We are publishing book reviews of newly released or forthcoming books.We are also interested in author interviews. Please don't send us previously published work. We want work that will shake us up a bit. Work that will make us question our personal beliefs. Work that three days later will make us laugh once again. Submit here: gravel.submittable.com/submit.
- Posted November 18, 2014
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- Posted November 18, 2014
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Clockhouse, a literary journal published in partnership with Goddard College, seeks submissions from emerging and established writers for its 2015 issue. Clockhouse is devoted to a variety of genres, publishing fiction, poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic work. Our 2014 issue showcases work by Elisabeth Frost, David Greenspan, Rinne Groff, Beth Kephart, Nancy Kricorian, Naomi Shihab Nye, Purvi Shah, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's interview of M. T. Anderson, among other terrific voices. Deadline is December 1, 2014. For submission guidelines, mission statement, and to submit your work, visit www.clockhouse.net.


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The view of 127 Elm St. as seen from inside Keyes Memorial Park. Milford voters will decide on September 9 at a special town meeting if they want to purchase the property. (KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS/Union Leader Correspondent)
About a dozen residents attended a public hearing Monday to learn more, and some voiced their concern about environmental situations on the site.
Money has been raised to fully purchase the land without using tax dollars.
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Marco Polo x Marco Polo - Nobody
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JustNice x Freck Billionaire - Championship Champagne
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Slick Watts x Mike Jones - Danger
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Following the news that Kidz In The Hall will be releasing their brand new album "Land Of Make Believe" we've seen promotional videos and behind the scenes footage so far. Now Kidz In The Hall and The Kid Daytona have leaked their single "Out To Lunch" which will serve as a fine apetiser for fans. The previous single Jukebox has had a massive response, and the official video was heavily rotated on MTV. You can listen to Kidz In The Hall x The Kid Daytona – Out To Lunch on the player below.
Kidz In The Hall x The Kid Daytona - Out To Lunch
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SALT LAKE CITY - The biggest copper heist in Utah memory has stripped more than six miles of wire from a stretch of Salt Lake City highway.
The Utah Department of Transportation first noticed the theft Thursday, officials said, but they don't know when exactly thieves snatched up the wire. The thieves either disguised themselves as a construction crew or worked in the middle of the night on multiple occasions to yank wire from the median of Interstate 15, said roadway lighting engineer Richard Hibbard.
"We can't keep wire in the ground to save our lives," he said, estimating that the department deals with smaller-scale thefts nearly every week. Thieves take the wire to recyclers who will pay for metal by the pound.
Officials are shocked, they say, to see a theft this big pulled off on a relatively urban and highly travelled stretch of road. Billboards dot the side of the six-lane highway that's lined with warehouses, sandy dirt and red rock.
"To say the least, this was an extremely risky operation that they pulled off here," said UDOT spokesman John Gleason, adding, "This is by far the largest single copper wire theft we've dealt with here in Utah."
The department doesn't know exactly when the theft happened because many highway lights all over the Wasatch Valley haven't been working. Routine road maintenance in the area is falling to the wayside as workers grapple to replace the missing wire and broken metal boxes.
The thieves likely used sledgehammers to smash into boxes of wires running to light poles, clipped the copper and then used cars or trucks to pull 30,000 to 35,000 feet of wire out of the ground, authorities said. The scale of the heist, they said, indicates that the thieves had sophisticated electrical know-how.
They snuffed out almost a dozen light poles along a mile of highway between 1000 North and 1800 North, toward the outer limits of Salt Lake City. The missing coiled wire will cost between $50,000 and $60,000 to replace, officials say.
UDOT spends $300,000 to $400,000 a year to replace stolen copper, officials said. To combat the thefts, the department is considering replacing the copper wire with aluminum wire, which proves less lucrative at recycling sites. But aluminum tends to short out more easily. Engineers are also working on a plan to bury light boxes along the road underground to make them harder to find.
A few years ago, "when the recession hit, it got really bad," Hibbard said, adding that the rate of thefts seemed to climb alongside unemployment rates.
With other similar cases in Utah, officials sometimes find car or bicycle tire tracks. That was the case for one recent, smaller theft about a mile south of this one.
But the department has not found such signs in this heist, said Hibbard, the lighting engineer.
"The most evidence I've seen is those beer bottles over there," he said, adding, "That's the curiosity. It seems impossible that someone didn't see something and say something."
At trade-in sites, it's hard for workers to distinguish thieves from electricians. Wire from highway lighting looks pretty much the same as demolition scrap, said Mark Lewon, president of Utah Metal Works in Salt Lake City. Electricians, he said, routinely turn in up to a few thousand pounds of copper wire.
"Unless they're wearing a sign that says they're a thief," Lewon said, there's no way to tell if the metal is stolen.
In total, the wire stolen in this heist could return between $5,200 and $9,000, according to rates offered by Lewon.
Nationwide, police report a strong link between rates of crystal methamphetamine use and theft of the wire, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. Department of Energy. Replacing the wire typically costs three times the value that thieves get for it, that same study shows.
Brett Brenner, president of the non-profit, safety-focused Electrical Safety Foundation, said thieves are putting themselves and others in danger by stealing wire.
"They're messing with some pretty sophisticated electronics most of the time," Brenner said.
The theft, he said, results in problems that can hurt and kill work crews that go out to fix the wire. And it throws off electricity grids, he said, sometimes robbing homes and hospitals of power for days.
In Montana and neighbouring Idaho, police have taken measures against copper theft such as embedding GPS devices in the wire and using them to track down thieves.
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Moreover, there are still issues to be improved for recent label-free methods, such as how to reduce false positive/negatives of the candidate peaks, how to expand scalability and how to enhance and automate data processing. AB3D (A simple label-free quantitation algorithm for Biomarker Discovery in Diagnostics and Drug discovery using LC-MS) has addressed these issues and has the capability to perform label-free quantitation using MS1 for proteomics study. Results: We developed an algorithm called AB3D, a label free peak detection and quantitative algorithm using MS1 spectral data. To test our algorithm, practical applications of AB3D for LC-MS data sets were evaluated using 3 datasets. Comparisons were then carried out between widely used software tools such as MZmine 2, MSight, SuperHirn, OpenMS and our algorithm AB3D, using the same LC-MS datasets. All quantitative results were confirmed manually, and we found that AB3D could properly identify and quantify known peptides with fewer false positives and false negatives compared to four other existing software tools using either the standard peptide mixture or the real complex biological samples of Bartonella quintana (strain JK31). Moreover, AB3D showed the best reliability by comparing the variability between two technical replicates using a complex peptide mixture of HeLa and BSA samples. For performance, the AB3D algorithm is about 1.2 - 15 times faster than the four other existing software tools. Conclusions: AB3D is a simple and fast algorithm for label-free quantitation using MS1 mass spectrometry data for large scale LC-MS data analysis with higher true positive and reasonable false positive rates. Furthermore, AB3D demonstrated the best reproducibility and is about 1.2- 15 times faster than those of existing 4 software tools. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/376 Ken Aoshima Kentaro Takahashi Masayuki Ikawa Takayuki Kimura Mitsuru Fukuda Satoshi Tanaka Howell Parry Yuichiro Fujita Akiyasu Yoshizawa Shin-ichi Utsunomiya Shigeki Kajihara Koichi Tanaka Yoshiya Oda BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:376 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0376-0 /content/figures/s12859-014-0376-0-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 376 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z PDF PhenUMA: a tool for integrating the biomedical relationships among genes and diseases Background: Several types of genetic interactions in humans can be directly or indirectly associated with the causal effects of mutations. These interactions are usually based on their co-associations to biological processes, coexistence in cellular locations, coexpression in cell lines, physical interactions and so on. In addition, pathological processes can present similar phenotypes that have mutations either in the same genomic location or in different genomic regions. Therefore, integrative resources for all of these complex interactions can help us prioritize the relationships between genes and diseases that are most deserving to be studied by researchers and physicians. Results: PhenUMA is a web application that displays biological networks using information from biomedical and biomolecular data repositories. One of its most innovative features is to combine the benefits of semantic similarity methods with the information taken from databases of genetic diseases and biological interactions. More specifically, this tool is useful in studying novel pathological relationships between functionally related genes, merging diseases into clusters that share specific phenotypes or finding diseases related to reported phenotypes. Conclusions: This framework builds, analyzes and visualizes networks based on both functional and phenotypic relationships. The integration of this information helps in the discovery of alternative pathological roles of genes, biological functions and diseases. PhenUMA represents an advancement toward the use of new technologies for genomics and personalized medicine. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/375 Rocío Rodríguez-López Armando Reyes-Palomares Francisca Sánchez-Jiménez Miguel Medina BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:375 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0375-1 /content/figures/s12859-014-0375-1-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 375 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z PDF A statistical approach for 5¿ splice site prediction using short sequence motifs and without encoding sequence data Background: Most of the approaches for splice site prediction are based on machine learning techniques. Though, these approaches provide high prediction accuracy, the window lengths used are longer in size. Hence, these approaches may not be suitable to predict the novel splice variants using the short sequence reads generated from next generation sequencing technologies. Further, machine learning techniques require numerically encoded data and produce different accuracy with different encoding procedures. Therefore, splice site prediction with short sequence motifs and without encoding sequence data became a motivation for the present study. Results: An approach for finding association among nucleotide bases in the splice site motifs is developed and used further to determine the appropriate window size. Besides, an approach for prediction of donor splice sites using sum of absolute error criterion has also been proposed. The proposed approach has been compared with commonly used approaches i.e., Maximum Entropy Modeling (MEM), Maximal Dependency Decomposition (MDD), Weighted Matrix Method (WMM) and Markov Model of first order (MM1) and was found to perform equally with MEM and MDD and better than WMM and MM1 in terms of prediction accuracy. Conclusions: The proposed prediction approach can be used in the prediction of donor splice sites with higher accuracy using short sequence motifs and hence can be used as a complementary method to the existing approaches. Based on the proposed methodology, a web server was also developed for easy prediction of donor splice sites by users and is available at http://cabgrid.res.in:8080/sspred http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/362 Prabina Meher Tanmaya Sahu Atmakuri Rao Sant Wahi BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:362 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0362-6 /content/figures/s12859-014-0362-6-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 362 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z PDF ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data Background: High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are generating vast amounts of data. Fast, flexible and memory efficient implementations are needed in order to facilitate analyses of thousands of samples simultaneously. Results: We present a multithreaded program suite called ANGSD. This program can calculate various summary statistics, and perform association mapping and population genetic analyses utilizing the full information in next generation sequencing data by working directly on the raw sequencing data or by using genotype likelihoods. Conclusions: The open source c/c++ program ANGSD is available at http://www.popgen.dk/angsd. The program is tested and validated on GNU/Linux systems. The program facilitates multiple input formats including BAM and imputed beagle genotype probability files. The program allow the user to choose between combinations of existing methods and can perform analysis that is not implemented elsewhere. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/356 Thorfinn Korneliussen Anders Albrechtsen Rasmus Nielsen BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:356 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0356-4 /content/figures/s12859-014-0356-4-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 356 2014-11-25T12:00:00Z PDF Computational approach for calculating the probability of eukaryotic translation initiation from ribo-seq data that takes into account leaky scanning Background: Ribosome profiling (ribo-seq) provides experimental data on the density of elongating or initiating ribosomes at the whole transcriptome level that can be potentially used for estimating absolute levels of translation initiation at individual Translation Initiation Sites (TISs). These absolute levels depend on the mutual organisation of TISs within individual mRNAs. For example, according to the leaky scanning model of translation initiation in eukaryotes, a strong TIS downstream of another strong TIS is unlikely to be productive, since only a few scanning ribosomes would be able to reach the downstream TIS. In order to understand the dependence of translation initiation efficiency on the surrounding nucleotide context, it is important to estimate the strength of TISs independently of their mutual organisation, i.e. to estimate with what probability a ribosome would initiate at a particular TIS. Results: We designed a simple computational approach for estimating the probabilities of ribosomes initiating at individual start codons using ribosome profiling data. The method is based on the widely accepted leaky scanning model of translation initiation in eukaryotes which postulates that scanning ribosomes may skip a start codon if the initiation context is unfavourable and continue on scanning. We tested our approach on three independent ribo-seq datasets obtained in mammalian cultured cells. Conclusions: Our results suggested that the method successfully discriminates between weak and strong TISs and that the majority of numerous non-AUG TISs reported recently are very weak. Therefore the high frequency of non-AUG TISs observed in ribosome profiling experiments is due to their proximity to mRNA 5′-ends rather than their strength. Detectable translation initiation at non-AUG codons downstream of AUG codons is comparatively infrequent. The leaky scanning method will be useful for the characterization of differences in start codon selection between tissues, developmental stages and in response to stress conditions. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/380 Audrey Michel Dmitry Andreev Pavel Baranov BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:380 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0380-4 /content/figures/s12859-014-0380-4-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 380 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z XML Bayesian neural networks for detecting epistasis in genetic association studies Background: Discovering causal genetic variants from large genetic association studies poses many difficult challenges. Assessing which genetic markers are involved in determining trait status is a computationally demanding task, especially in the presence of gene-gene interactions. Results: A non-parametric Bayesian approach in the form of a Bayesian neural network is proposed for use in analyzing genetic association studies. Demonstrations on synthetic and real data reveal they are able to efficiently and accurately determine which variants are involved in determining case-control status. By using graphics processing units (GPUs) the time needed to build these models is decreased by several orders of magnitude. In comparison with commonly used approaches for detecting interactions, Bayesian neural networks perform very well across a broad spectrum of possible genetic relationships. Conclusions: The proposed framework is shown to be a powerful method for detecting causal SNPs while being computationally efficient enough to handle large datasets. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/368 Andrew Beam Alison Motsinger-Reif Jon Doyle BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:368 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0368-0 /content/figures/s12859-014-0368-0-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 368 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z PDF A fast algorithm for determining bounds and accurate approximate p -values of the rank product statistic for replicate experiments Background: The rank product method is a powerful statistical technique for identifying differentially expressed molecules in replicated experiments. A critical issue in molecule selection is accurate calculation of the p-value of the rank product statistic to adequately address multiple testing. Both exact calculation and permutation and gamma approximations have been proposed to determine molecule-level significance. These current approaches have serious drawbacks as they are either computationally burdensome or provide inaccurate estimates in the tail of the p-value distribution. Results: We derive strict lower and upper bounds to the exact p-value along with an accurate approximation that can be used to assess the significance of the rank product statistic in a computationally fast manner. The bounds and the proposed approximation are shown to provide far better accuracy over existing approximate methods in determining tail probabilities, with the slightly conservative upper bound protecting against false positives. We illustrate the proposed method in the context of a recently published analysis on transcriptomic profiling performed in blood. Conclusions: We provide a method to determine upper bounds and accurate approximate p-values of the rank product statistic. The proposed algorithm provides an order of magnitude increase in throughput as compared with current approaches and offers the opportunity to explore new application domains with even larger multiple testing issue. The R code is published in one of the Additional files and is available at http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/726696/rankprodbounds.zip. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/367 Tom Heskes Rob Eisinga Rainer Breitling BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:367 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0367-1 /content/figures/s12859-014-0367-1-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 367 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z XML A framework for generalized subspace pattern mining in high-dimensional datasets Background: A generalized notion of biclustering involves the identification of patterns across subspaces within a data matrix. This approach is particularly well-suited to analysis of heterogeneous molecular biology datasets, such as those collected from populations of cancer patients. Different definitions of biclusters will offer different opportunities to discover information from datasets, making it pertinent to tailor the desired patterns to the intended application. This paper introduces `GABi?, a customizable framework for subspace pattern mining suited to large heterogeneous datasets. Most existing biclustering algorithms discover biclusters of only a few distinct structures. However, by enabling definition of arbitrary bicluster models, the GABi framework enables the application of biclustering to tasks for which no existing algorithm could be used. Results: First, a series of artificial datasets were constructed to represent three clearly distinct scenarios for applying biclustering. With a bicluster model created for each distinct scenario, GABi is shown to recover the correct solutions more effectively than a panel of alternative approaches, where the bicluster model may not reflect the structure of the desired solution. Secondly, the GABi framework is used to integrate clinical outcome data with an ovarian cancer DNA methylation dataset, leading to the discovery that widespread dysregulation of DNA methylation associates with poor patient prognosis, a result that has not previously been reported. This illustrates a further benefit of the flexible bicluster definition of GABi, which is that it enables incorporation of multiple sources of data, with each data source treated in a specific manner, leading to a means of intelligent integrated subspace pattern mining across multiple datasets. Conclusions: The GABi framework enables discovery of biologically relevant patterns of any specified structure from large collections of genomic data. An R implementation of the GABi framework is available through CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GABi/index.html). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/355 Edward Curry BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:355 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0355-5 /content/figures/s12859-014-0355-5-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 355 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z PDF Sequence-based identification of recombination spots using pseudo nucleic acid representation and recursive feature extraction by linear kernel SVM Background: Identification of the recombination hot/cold spots is critical for understanding the mechanism of recombination as well as the genome evolution process. However, experimental identification of recombination spots is both time-consuming and costly. Developing an accurate and automated method for reliably and quickly identifying recombination spots is thus urgently needed. Results: Here we proposed a novel approach by fusing features from pseudo nucleic acid composition (PseNAC), including NAC, n-tier NAC and pseudo dinucleotide composition (PseDNC). A recursive feature extraction by linear kernel support vector machine (SVM) was then used to rank the integrated feature vectors and extract optimal features. SVM was adopted for identifying recombination spots based on these optimal features. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, jackknife cross-validation test was employed on a benchmark dataset. The overall accuracy of this approach was 84.09%, which was higher (from 0.37% to 3.79%) than those of state-of-the-art tools. Conclusions: Comparison results suggested that linear kernel SVM is a useful vehicle for identifying recombination hot/cold spots. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/340 Liqi Li Sanjiu Yu Weidong Xiao Yongsheng Li Lan Huang Xiaoqi Zheng Shiwen Zhou Hua Yang BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:340 2014-11-20T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-340 /content/figures/1471-2105-15-340-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 340 2014-11-20T00:00:00Z XML A ratiometric-based measure of gene co-expression Background: Gene co-expression analysis has previously been based on measures that include correlation coefficients and mutual information, as well as newcomers such as MIC. These measures depend primarily on the degree of association between the RNA levels of two genes and to a lesser extent on their variability. They focus on the similarity of expression value trajectories that change in like manner across samples. However there are relationships of biological interest for which these classical measures are expected to be insensitive. These include genes whose expression levels are ratiometrically stable and genes whose variance is tightly constrained. Large-scale studies of relatively homogeneous samples, including single cell RNA-seq, are experimental settings in which such relationships might be especially pertinent. Results: We develop and implement a ratiometric approach for detecting gene associations (abbreviated RA). It is based on the coefficient of variation of the measured expression ratio of each pair of genes. We apply it to a collection of lymphoblastoid RNA-seq data from the 1000 Genomes Project Consortium, a typical sample set with high overall homogeneity. RA is a selective method, reporting in this case ~1/4 of all possible gene pairs, yet these relationships include a distilled picture of biological relationships previously found by other methods. In addition, RA reveals expression relationships that are not detected by traditional correlation and mutual information methods. We also analyze data from individual lymphoblastoid cells and show that desirable properties of the RA method extend to single-cell RNA-seq. Conclusion: We show that our ratiometric method identifies biologically significant relationships that are often missed or low-ranked by conventional association-based methods when applied to a relatively homogenous dataset. The results open new questions about the regulatory mechanisms that produce strong RA relationships. RA is scalable and potentially well suited for the analysis of thousands of bulk-RNA or single-cell transcriptomes. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/331 Anna Abelin Georgi Marinov Brian Williams Kenneth McCue Barbara Wold BMC Bioinformatics 2014, null:331 2014-11-20T00:00:00Z doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-331 /content/figures/1471-2105-15-331-toc.gif BMC Bioinformatics 1471-2105 ${item.volume} 331 2014-11-20T00:00:00Z PDF


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Via T. Malaguti, 2 - Desenzano del Garda1-877-662-6988
If you are looking for business-friendly hotels in Desenzano del Garda located near the boardwalk, check out Hotel Oliveto offering free breakfast to all its guests.
This 4-star Desenzano del Garda hotel offers dry cleaning/laundry services. If you are visiting Italy for business or on vacation, make sure to take some time to relax as you will find a fitness center and a steam room on offer. Don't forget to pack your swimwear as this hotel features an outdoor pool and an indoor pool, a great way to unwind. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink. Multilingual staff can provide tour/ticket assistance.
There is also a safety deposit box at reception for all your valuables. Wi-Fi is available for a fee. Planning a meeting? This hotel has 5 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. Other amenities include an elevator (lift), beach/pool umbrellas and a garden.
We were very comfortable at this hotel but it was described as having a jacuzzi bu...Venere Guest, United Kingdom
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Breakfast at Hotel Oliveto
A free breakfast is served each morning.
Facilities at Best Western Hotel Oliveto
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Baby sitter
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Pets accepted
- Beach umbrellas and deck loungers
- Dogs allowed
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Garden
- Gym
- Indoor swimming pool
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- Multilingual staff
- Front desk - safety deposit box
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- Free parking
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- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
- Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Check-in: after 2 PM.
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We were very comfortable at this hotel but it was described as having a jacuzzi but this was a pool jacuzzi not a tub, as is normal! We booked this hotel because they were said to have a jacuzzi but it was only operational on request & not an individual item! Offered as having only three rooms left but when we arrived Hotel all but empty! Truth is best at all times!!
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Book your business-friendly accommodation at the 76-room Hotel Oliveto. Rooms open onto balconies. Guests can kick back at the end of a busy day and enjoy 26-inch televisions with satellite channels. Corporate travelers will benefit from wireless high-speed Internet access (charges apply) as well as desks, safes and phones during their Desenzano del Garda visit.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with hair dryers. Rooms also include minibars and air conditioning.
Irons/ironing boards can be provided on request.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Telephone
- Mini bar
- Baby cots/cribs available
- Ironing facilities on request
- Hairdryer in each room
- Safe
- Desk
- Terrace/Balcony
- Satellite TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Best Western Hotel OlivetoVilla Romana - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Port of Maratona - 1.3 km / 0.8 mi
House of the Podesta - 4.6 km / 2.9 mi
Museum of Birds - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Rocca of Lonato - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Civic Tower - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Lonato Town Hall - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Piazza Martiri della Liberta - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Center Aquaria Spa and Wellness Center - 5.5 km / 3.4 mi
Church of San Pietro - 5.5 km / 3.4 mi
Costaripa Winery - 5.5 km / 3.4 mi
Scaliger Castle - 5.6 km / 3.5 mi
Sirmione Castle - 5.6 km / 3.5 mi
The closest major airports to Hotel Oliveto are:
Brescia (VBS-Gabriele D'Annuzio) - 17.6 km / 11 mi
Verona (VRN-Valerio Catullo) - 30 km / 18.6 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel Oliveto is Verona (VRN-Valerio Catullo).
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One night, Lynch finished signing 40-odd copies of Stir for investors, a glass of Spanish red steadying her hand, and headed to the bar at the Butcher Shop. She ate roast duck, with sides of chard and lentils, and a shared bottle of Sancerre rouge. Afterward, she drove the few blocks to Ginger Park, to meet up with some of her girlfriends and her husband. Petri was already holding court at the bar, flanked by Natalie van Dijk Carpenter, of the home design store Lekker, and Shannon Macklin, a chef's-apparel designer whose husband, Jefferson, is Lynch's COO. Something trance-y was playing on the sound system. Lynch sat at the end of the bar and ordered a "dirty, dirty, dirty" martini.
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- Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) (NASDAQ:WAG) today announced the appointment of Timothy McLevish as Walgreens executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will report to president and chief executive officer Greg Wasson, effective immediately, and lead all of Walgreens finance functions as the company prepares to move forward with the proposed second step of its strategic partnership with Alliance Boots.
McLevish comes to Walgreens from Kraft Foods Group, Inc., one of North America's largest consumer packaged food and beverage companies, where he most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to Kraft, he served in chief financial officer roles for Ingersoll-Rand, the diversified industrial company, and Mead Corporation, a forestry products company. McLevish also served in a leadership role at Zellerbach Paper Company, where he was vice president and general manager. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics, and also earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.
"We are pleased to welcome Tim to lead our financial operations into the next chapter of Walgreens ongoing transformation as we continue to accelerate our strategic growth drivers, expand globally with Alliance Boots and prepare to embark on our journey to create the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise," said Greg Wasson, Walgreens president and chief executive officer. "With Tim on our senior management team, Walgreens and Alliance Boots will benefit not only from his deep and rich experience in the consumer products market, but also from his experience in bringing together companies to ensure efficient, effective and profitable growth and value creation."
"It is a privilege to join such an admirable company, especially at this exciting and pivotal time as Walgreens expands to become a global enterprise," McLevish said. "I look forward to helping Greg and the team achieve the company's important mission and carry out their remarkable vision to expand health and wellbeing across America and around the world for the benefit of customers, patients, health care partners and shareholders."
McLevish succeeds Wade D. Miquelon, executive vice president, chief financial officer and president of international for Walgreens, who will continue as an advisor to assist the company with the transition as it considers the exercise of Step 2 of its strategic partnership with Alliance Boots. Miquelon also will move forward to pursue several new opportunities outside of the company.
"Wade's remarkable leadership, strategic vision and expertise played a critical role in helping Walgreens transition and transform from a 20th century American drugstore chain into a 21st century global health and wellbeing enterprise, setting the stage for a new generation of growth and value creation for all," Wasson said. "Wade has been a strong contributor as together we charted and pursued a bold new course for Walgreens globally. We know Wade can't resist a new challenge, so we thank him and wish him the very best as he moves forward with the next chapter of his outstanding career."
"It's been one of the greatest privileges and pleasures of my career to help Greg and the team to bring this iconic American company to the brink of becoming a fully global health and wellbeing enterprise to serve the world," Miquelon said. "This truly has been an incredible journey and chance to serve. Now that we are preparing to move forward with bringing together these two iconic brands, it's the right time for me to transition to new challenges and new opportunities. I know Tim will bring tremendous experience and insight to this exceptional company and continue to grow and develop an outstanding finance and accounting organization."
Miquelon joined Walgreens in June 2008 as senior vice president and chief financial officer, and was promoted to executive vice president in 2009. In 2012, following his leadership in establishing Walgreens strategic partnership with Alliance Boots in June of that year, Miquelon assumed an expanded and global leadership role as executive vice president, chief financial officer and president, international, and joined the board of Alliance Boots. As he continued to lead Walgreens finance functions as chief financial officer, Miquelon also served as Wasson's senior leader in collaborating with the Alliance Boots management team to execute the new global strategic partnership.
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STILLWATER — Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy has the symptoms of an addict. He is not in denial, nor is he ashamed. Colleagues might be contemplating an intervention
If there were a test to determine the amount of Red Bull in a person's bloodstream, would Gundy be under the legal limit? "No," a smiling Gundy said, playfully twitching his head to the right several times in rapid succession. "See? It doesn't really affect me." Where most people consume one Red Bull per day for a pick-me-up, Gundy is having his own three-a-day sessions. For Gundy, there is no crash and burn when the drink's effects dissipate. "None at all," Gundy explained. "You see, that's when you have another one." Nothing like a little taurine, caffeine, glucose and B12 to get the juices flowing. "Actually, I stick with coffee until about 11 every morning," Gundy said. Then Gundy starts his daily run with the Bull. He even has a Red Bull refrigerator in his office. Before his question-and-answer session at Media Day last Saturday, Gundy entered the interview room with a Pepsi cup in his hand. "Are we a Pepsi school or a Coke school?" Gundy asked. (OSU is a Coke school.) Someone said, "You're a Red Bull school," to which Gundy responded, "You got that right." Gundy isn't the only bullish man on campus. New Cowboys men's basketball coach Travis Ford also is stocked with a Red Bull refrigerator, and Gundy pawned Ford off as even a bigger addict. Now that he is under the watchful eye of his wife, Heather, who recently completed the family's move from Massachusetts, Ford might be battling withdrawals. Although temperatures have been in triple-digits at nearly every OSU football practice so far, you can still hear Gundy's voice piercing through the blast-furnace conditions. Gundy might be on the juice, but a quick survey revealed he's not the most hyper coach on staff. That title belongs to new co-offensive coordinator/receivers coach Trooper Taylor. "Oh, it's not even close," Gundy said, conceding the crown to Trooper, a longtime friend. "Troop is the same at 5:30 in the morning and 11:30 at night.
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