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Santiago J.A., Potashkin J.A. (2014) System-based approaches to decode the molecular links in Parkinson's disease and diabetes. Neurobiol Dis. 2014 Apr 6. pii: S0969-9961(14)00080-1. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.03.019. [Epub ahead of print]
Seidl S.E., Santiago J.A., Bilyk H., Potashkin J.A. (2014) The emerging role of nutrition in Parkinson's disease. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014 Mar 7;6:36.
Santiago, J.A. and Potashkin, J.A. (2014) A Network Approach to Diagnostic Biomarkers in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Movement Disorders, 29:550-5.
Santiago, J.A. and Potashkin, J.A. (2013) Integrative network analysis unveils convergent molecular pathways in Parkinson's disease and diabetes, PLoS One, 8:e83940.
Santiago, J.A., Scherzer, C. R., Harvard Biomarker Study, and Potashkin, J.A. (2013) Specific splice variants are associated with Parkinson's disease, Movement Disorders, 28:1724-7.
Santiago J.A., Potashkin J.A. (2013) Shared dysregulated pathways lead to Parkinson's disease and diabetes. Trends Mol Med. 19:176-86.
Potashkin J.A, Santiago J.A., Ravina B.M., Watts A., Leontovich A.A. (2013) Biosignatures for Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders patients. PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43595.
Seidl S.E., and Potashkin J.A. (2011) The promise of neuroprotective agents in Parkinson's disease. Front Neurol. 2:68.
Wentz-Hunter K.K. and Potashkin J.A. (2011) The Role of miRNAs as Key Regulators in the Neoplastic Microenvironment. Mol Biol Int. 2011:839872.
Potashkin J.A., Blume SR, Runkle NK. (2010) Limitations of animal models of Parkinson's disease. Parkinsons Dis. 2011:658083.
Wu, J.Y. and Potashkin, J.A. (2009) Alternative splicing in the nervous system. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, (L.R. Squire, Editor). Oxford: Academic Press. 1:245-251.
Zhou L., Qi X., Potashkin J.A., Abdul-Karim F.W. and Gorodeski G.I. (2008) Micro-RNAs miR-186 and miR-150 downregulate expression of the pro-apoptotic purinergic P2X7 receptor by activation of instability sites at the 3'-untranslated region of the gene that decrease steady-state levels of the transcript. J. Biol. Chem. 283:28274-28286.
Meredith, G.E., Totterdell S., Potashkin J.A. and Surmeier D.J. (2008) Modeling PD pathogenesis in mice: advantages of a chronic MPTP protocol. Parkinsonism Relat. Disord. 14 Suppl 2:S112-115.
Potashkin J.A., Kang U.J., Loomis P.A., Jodelka F.M., Ding Y. and Meredith G.E. (2007) MPTP administration in mice changes the ratio of splice isoforms of fosB and rgs9. Brain Res. 1182:1-10.
Marinescu V., Loomis P.A., Ehmann S., Beales M. and Potashkin J.A. (2007) Regulation of retention of FosB intron 4 by PTB. PLoS ONE. 2007 Sep 5;2(9):e828.
Li X., Qi X., Zhou L., Catera D., Rote N.S., Potashkin J., Abdul-Karim F.W. and Gorodeski G.I. (2007) Decreased expression of P2X7 in endometrial epithelial pre-cancerous and cancer cells. Gynecol. Oncol. 106:233-243.
Alibhai I.N., Green T.A., Potashkin J.A. and Nestler E.J. (2007) Regulation of fosB and DeltafosB mRNA expression: in vivo and in vitro studies. Brain Res. 1143:22-33.
Potashkin J.A. and Meredith G.E. (2006) The role of oxidative stress in the dysregulation of gene expression and protein metabolism in neurodegenerative disease. Antioxid. Redox. Signal. 8:144-151.
Wood, V., ... Potashkin, J., ... and Nurse, P. (2002) The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nature 21:871-880.
Ochotorena, I.L., Hirata D., Kominami K., Potashkin J., Sahin F., Wentz-Hunter K., Gould K.L., Sato K., Yoshida Y., Vardy L., and Toda T. (2001) Conserved Wat1/Pop3 WD-repeat protein of fission yeast secures genome stability through microtubule integrity and may be involved in mRNA maturation. J. Cell Sci. 114:2911-2920.
Käufer, N.F. and Potashkin, J. (2000) Analysis of the splicing machinery in fission yeast: a comparison with budding yeast and mammals. Nucl. Acids Res. 28:3003-3010.
Mayes, A.E., Potashkin, J. and Beggs, J. (2000) Splicing of pre-mRNA introns. In The Frontiers in Molecular Biology Series: The Yeast Nucleus, Eds. P. Fantes and J. D. Beggs, IRL Press, Oxford.
Beales, M., Flay, N., McKinney, R., Habara, Y., Ohshima, Y. Tani, T., and Potashkin, J. (2000) Mutations in the large subunit of U2AF disrupt pre-mRNA splicing, cell cycle progression and nuclear structure. Yeast 16:1001-10013.
Potashkin, J., Kim, D., Fons, M., Humphrey, T. and Frendewey, D. (1998) Cell division cycle defects associated with fission yeast pre-mRNA splicing mutants. Curr. Genet. 34:153-163.
Gozani, O., Potashkin, J. and Reed, R. (1998) Recruitment of U2 snRNP to the branchpoint sequence via direct interactions with U2AF. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18:4752-4760.
Potashkin J., Wentz-Hunter K. and Callaci, J. (1996) BTF3 is evolutionarily conserved in fission yeast. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1308:182-184.
McKinney, R., Wentz-Hunter, K., Schmidt, H., and Potashkin, J. (1997)Molecular characterization of a novel fission yeast gene spUAP2 that interacts with the splicing factor spU2AF59. Curr. Genet. 32:323-330.
Wentz-Hunter, K. and Potashkin, J. (1996) The small subunit of the splicing factor U2AF is conserved in fission yeast. Nucl. Acids Res. 24:1849-1854.
Wentz-Hunter, K. and Potashkin, J. (1995) The evolutionary conservation of the splicing apparatus between fission yeast and man. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series 33:226-228.
Potashkin, J., Naik, K. and Wentz-Hunter, K. (1993) U2AF homolog required for splicing in vivo. Science 262:573-575.
Potashkin, J.A., Derby R.J. and Spector D.L. (1990) Differential distribution of factors involved in pre-mRNA processing in the yeast cell nucleus. Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:3524-3534.
Frendewey D., Barta I., Gillespie M. and Potashkin J. (1990) Schizosaccharomyces U6 genes have a sequence within their introns that matches the B box consensus of tRNA internal promoters. Nucleic Acids Res.18:2025-2032.
Potashkin J. and Frendewey D. (1990)A mutation in a single gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe affects the expression of several snRNAs and causes defects in RNA processing. EMBO J. 9:525-534.
Potashkin J. and Frendewey D. (1989) Splicing of the U6 RNA precursor is impaired in fission yeast pre-mRNA splicing mutants. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:7821-7831.
Potashkin J., Li R., and Frendewey D. (1989) Pre-mRNA splicing mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. EMBO J. 8:551-559.
Potashkin J.A. and Beach D.H. (1988) Multiple phosphorylated forms of the product of the fission yeast cell division cycle gene cdc2+. Curr. Genet. 14:235-240.
Draetta G., Brizuela L., Potashkin J. and Beach D. (1987) Identification of p34 and p13, human homologs of the cell cycle regulators of fission yeast encoded by cdc2+ and suc1+. Cell. 50:319-325.
Potashkin J.A. and Huberman J.A. (1986) Characterization of DNA sequences associated with residual nuclei of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Exp. Cell Res. 165:29-40.
Potashkin J.A., Zeigel R.F. and Huberman J.A. (1984) Isolation and initial characterization of residual nuclear structures from yeast. Exp. Cell Res. 153:374-388.
Potashkin J.A. and Schlegel R.A. (1980) A possible mechanism by which SV40 T-antigen stimulates rRNA synthesis. Cell Biol. Int. Rep. 4:399-406.
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JWoww BLASTS TMZ over Lil Kim Joke Articleby Tyler Johnson at . Updated at . Comments
JWoww may be eight months pregnant, but she's clearly still someone you don't want to mess with.
Yesterday, TMZ published photos of JWoww along with a story about Lil Kim. It was an attempt at humor by the popular celebrity news site, but JWoww certainly isn't laughing.
The former Jersey Shore star posted a photo of herself flipping off the camera along with a caption that reads, "@TMZ for making fun of someone 8 months pregnant and her makeup!"
"Keep sucking that d--k on the street corner!"
Though she's kept a relatively low profile since the series that made her famous came to an end, Jenni has been back in the news recently as a result of her impending motherhood.
JWoww suffered a pregnancy scare in April that nearly caused her to miscarry.
So it's safe to say the public will likely side with the struggling mom-to-be in this war of words.
Perhaps TMZ was unaware of the difficult nature of Jenni's pregnancy (unlikely), or perhaps the idea of likening her to Lil Kim was just to funny to pass up.
Either way, mocking a pregnant woman's appearance is not a good look for the website.
JWoww later wrote on her website that she regretted the angry tweet, not because her feelings about TMZ had changed, but because she had allowed the site to make her feel "insecure" and question her hair and makeup choices.
She concluded, "Kiss my ass TMZ and every other hater."
can't blame Jenni for getting upset at that distasteful comparison she's due in about six weeks and very hormonal as most pregnant women are and looks nothing like lil Kim who is 4ft 11in while Jenni is 5ft 7in nearly a foot taller but they're both expecting their first child with their respective fiancé's MR Papers and Roger Matthews respectively and there's a twelve year age gap between them Lil Kim turns 40 July 11th while J-Woow turned 28 on February 27th meaning she shares a birthday with academy award winning screen legends Joanne GT Woodward-Newman and dame Elizabeth Rosmond Taylor they were born 2/27/1930 and 2/27/1932 respectively. both are expecting a girl sometime in June-July
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President Barack Obama says he's hearing from business owners across the country who are voluntarily paying their workers more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says those actions show that change comes to Washington, not from it.
Congressional Republicans are resisting Obama's pleas to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Obama recorded the address in Washington before leaving Friday for a weekend in Florida.
In the Republican address, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman says Obama's proposed 2015 budget taxes too much and spends too much.
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In case you haven't heard Congress is about as popular as an enema! Eighty three percent of likely voters think Congress is doing a lousy job, and rightfully so.
They spend too much time finding fault with each other and far too little time solving problems.
A recent Gallop Poll showed Republican, Democrat and Independent voters all agree the country's biggest problem is government not Obamacare, Benghazi or Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq.
Independents and Democrats rank the economy the 2nd biggest problem. Republicans listed it third. Republicans say healthcare is the second biggest problem but Democrats and Independents rank it 4th.
Democrats and Independents rank unemployment third republicans rank it 5th. So irrespective of party. Voters seem to agree on the top 3 or 4 issues.
We pay congress $174,000 a year plus huge perks. For that kind of money, they should listen to the people who elected them and solve some problems.
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And the Light Shineth in Darkness: Texas-based painter Calvin Davis is up-front about the agenda behind his series of gorgeously detailed paintings. Exhibited as And the Light Shineth in Darkness, the pictures are designed so "people will come away from it with a greater desire to seek God in His Word," he explains. Don't worry--the Biblical Arts Center has a strictly no-laying-on-of-hands policy, and Davis himself doesn't stalk the premises with an emergency baptism kit. What makes the show impressive, besides the extraordinary grace of the brushwork, is the artist's recognition of the power of allegory--sort of the truth behind the lie. It's a subtle, persuasive power all these dreary fundamentalist activists would do well to adopt. The exhibit runs through June 23 at the Biblical Arts Center, 7500 Park Lane. It's free. For more information call 691-4661.
Kiss of the Spider Woman: Those who still yearn for the exclusive glamour of the footlights should know that venerable institution Broadway is kept (barely) alive on the kind of revivals that regularly grace the schedules of community theaters. (Witness the newest multimillion-dollar reanimation of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum.) Kiss of the Spider Woman is a revival of sorts, an exotic musical version of a middling feature film that won Oscars. Chita Rivera, the New York production's original star (and a 1994 Tony Award winner), has joined the national tour. Performances happen Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. through May 12 at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Tickets are $13-$48. Call 373-8000.
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Tales From the Mist: Mexico-based writer-director Abraham Oceransky has made it his mission to combine the aesthetic and dramatic sensibilities of two cultures that don't often mix--Latin-American and Japanese. The Latino stage is often broad and brimming with passion, while Japanese productions are subdued, but beyond that distinction the two share much thematic territory--specifically, obsessions with fate, honor, and betrayal. Tales From the Mist is Oceransky's latest collaboration with Teatro Dallas, a haunted look at the repercussions of a violent act committed under cover of midnight mist. Performances happen Wednesday-Saturday at 8:15 p.m. through June 8 at Teatro Dallas, 2204 Commerce. Tickets are $12. (Wednesdays are "pay what you can.") For information call 741-6833.
Conte de Loyo Flamenco Theatre: Conte de Loyo has performed flamenco dance to huge festival crowds and tiny theater audiences all over the world, always with the integrity of the medium held uppermost in her mind. But Dallas is her home base, the city she really wants to entertain and educate. The Conto de Loyo Flamenco Theatre presents its latest offering, Fuego Y Alma. Subtitled An Evening of Flamenco Dance, the show includes a matinee designed for kids. Performances are May 10 at 8 p.m. and May 11 at 1 and 8 p.m. at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther. Tickets are $5-$18. Call 871-2787.
Sports, Words, City: An Evening with Sportswriters: No doubt about it, Dallas is one of the top sports cities in America. Indeed, fans are so passionate here that our fair city has suffered from a kind of homogenized-cheerleading approach to the craft of sportswriting: Too many people are too afraid to alienate readers with blunt coverage of their favorite teams. Wordspace presents an evening by three North Texas-based, nationally renowned sportswriters who've been anything but timid--and sometimes suffered for it. Sports Illustrated contributor Jennifer Briggs (formerly of the Observer) discusses being a gal in a boy's club; Mike Shropshire of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram compares the raucous '70s to the prim, proper (on the surface) '90s; and Steve Pate of the Star-Telegram and the New York Post discusses regional differences. The evening kicks off at 8 p.m. at Paperbacks Plus, 6115 La Vista. The event is $5. For more information call 942-7012.
Tommy Chong and the Amazing Jonathon: Tommy Chong is the antithesis of the "baked potato" cliche that surrounds pot smokers--an ultraprolific writer-actor-director-musician-stand-up-comic. But he does smoke pot. Regularly. And he continues to incorporate the topic of pot-smoking--along with politics, sex, and pop culture--into his live material, although he refuses to outright advocate it the way Cheech and Chong did by example during the mid-'70s height of their popularity. Chong comes to Dallas for three performances with the Amazing Jonathon, a prop comic who's sort of a cross between Laugh-In and the Friday the 13th film series. Performances happen May 10 at 8 p.m. and May 11 at 7 and 10 p.m. at the Arts District Theater next to the Meyerson Symphony Center. Call 373-8000.
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Sandalwood is an great school with great teachers. If I have a question, they respond immediately. They are geared to guide and help all students.
I LOVE Sandalwood the teacher care about the children ..my kids went to this school for 4 years and they got transferred cause we moved n i hate there new school .. im thinking about moving back so that my other kids can go LOVE LOVE LOVE sandalwood elem
Awesome, Awesome Awesome!!...My children are very well educated at Sandalwood Elementary School. They are very attentive to the students. My son is now in the 5th grade (7th year at the school, k-4 to 5th). He is ranked among the top students across Maryland academically. He is in GT and will go to Deep Creak Middle School in 2011-12. He will be placed in the Magnet program there. The foundation was definitely Sandalwood! My daughter is in the 2nd grade and excels there as well. If you look hard enough you will find fault with anything...or anyone. (I personally think the negative reviews come from uninvolved parents or students who may be unruly to begin with) This school is as good as any and I'm PROUD to say my children go to this school ! You will not regret sending your child here.
I go to Sandalwood Elementary School and I believe that it is a very bad school!! I have gone here in since before kindergarten and am in 5th grade now! 7 years! The learning is not on my learning level and I feel that I need to go to a better school! When I was in first grade My teacher was very mean to me and I will stick with the mean words she said to me all my life! I think they should hire better teachers or all children sould transfer to other schools! The best grade is the grade that I am in, 5th grade, because of the (finally) challenging work and nice, affective, fun teachers! To me, and a lot of children my first teacher was the best.Thank you for Listening! Student
I agree with the parent who posted on March 30, 2009. My son attended Sandalwood from pre-k to grade 3 and never had spelling words. When I asked his 3rd grade teacher about it she said they don't do spelling in her class. I was never happy with the learning material at Sandalwood and felt I needed to teach him so much more at home as a parent. Luckily we have transfered to private school and he is getting proper education.
This school is the worse. My son is in the first grade and doesn't have spelling words or math tests. He transfered from another school and I wish that he was able to stay where he is at. I have to give my son word and math so he can continue to be on the correct learning level.
This school is really dedicated to their students. The administrative staff are always hands on with their students. They are willing to help your children in every way possible.
I am overall satisfied with this school. My daughter is now in the 4th grade. She has been attending this school since PreK. My daughter is and has always been in GT as well as the GT reading and math classes. She has never had any problems with not getting along with other students. Children will be children and like the real world, everyone will not 'Mesh' well together due to our environment, etc. The teachers are easy to talk to, the principal and the entire administration seems to be very involved with the students. Don't allow a few 'bad apples' (which are everywhere) to extract what the main focus is. Quality Education... Hope to see more parents volunteering at the school and attend more meetings... Lets not decry, TOGETHER, we can make a change...
The test scores are misleading and do not represent the low standard of the school. There is good staff but the 'pool' of students attending are not desirable friends for my children. They have a 'focus room' for children that are unable to be sent home for suspendable offensenses due to the lack of discipline at home.
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Tyler, the Creator Reveals Tour Dates
Tyler, the Creator is among the artists who is slated to appear at SXSW this week.
Tyler, the Creator is scheduled to appear at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week (March 14) before heading out on a string of tour dates that run through July.
The Odd Future rapper is set to perform at the House of Blues in Dallas March 15.
In June, the Los Angeles artist will perform a string of dates on the East Coast, including June 3 at The Orange Peel in Ashville, North Carolina and June 8 at the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York.
In July, he is slated to perform in Amsterdam and London.
Below are Tyler, the Creator's tour dates.
Mar 12-14 — Austin, TX (SXSW)
Mar 15 — Dallas, TX (House of Blues)
Mar 17 — Orlando, FL (The Plaza Live)
Mar 18 — Tampa, FL (The Ritz Ybor)
Mar 19 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Revolution)
Mar 21 — Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
Mar 22 — New Orleans, LA (Buku Music + Art Project)
Apr 5 — Pomona, CA (Fox Theater)
Apr 24 — Boulder, CO (Fox Theater)
May 22 — Boise, ID (Revolution Center)
May 23 — Portland, OR (Roseland Theater)
May 24 — George, WA (Sasquatch! Music Festival)
May 25 — Shakopee, MN (Soundset 2014)
Jun 3 — Asheville, NC (The Orange Peel)
Jun 4 — Pittsburgh, PA (Stage AE- Indoor)
Jun 6 — Boston, MA (House of Blues)
Jun 8 — New York, NY (Governors Ball Music Festival)
Jun 9 — Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
Jun 11 — Philadelphia, PA (Theatre of the Living Arts)
Jul 22 — Amsterdam, NL (Paradiso)
Jul 23 — London, UK (Forum)
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rate for invalid assay runs. This will be a relatively small price to pay when considered the predicted return.
1. Krause SO. Validation of analytical methods for biopharmaceuticals—A guide to risk-based validation and implementation
strategies. PDA/DHI Publishing. Bethesda, MD; 2007 Apr.
2. US Food and Drug Administration. Guidance for Industry (CDER/CVM/ORA, US FDA). PAT—A framework for innovative pharmaceutical
development, manufacturing, and quality assurance. Rockville, MD; 2004 Sep.
3. International Conference on Harmonisation. Q8, Pharmaceutical development. Geneva,Switzerland; 2005 Nov.
4. International Conference on Harmonisation. Q9, Quality risk management. Geneva,Switzerland; 2005 Nov.
5. International Conference on Harmonisation. Q10, Pharmaceutical quality system, draft consensus guideline. Geneva,Switzerland;
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``I went out there and said, 'Get this guy out and we win the game,''' Torre said Sunday night after the Yankees held on to beat the Red Sox 4-3 and cut Boston's lead in the AL East to 4 1/2 games. ``I was just trying to break the mood a little - and mine, too. Then, my job was to sit there and get nervous like everybody else.''
Derek Jeter hit a three-run homer off Curt Schilling to break an eighth-inning tie, and Rivera got Ortiz to pop up with the bases loaded to end the game and the Yankees beat the Red Sox for the sixth time in seven games. Boston's magic number to clinch the division is nine, but New York won the season series 10-8 - the first tiebreaker, should the teams finish the season with the same record.
``We're cool,'' Ortiz said. ``Nobody's feeling pressure around here.''
The Yankees, who lead Detroit in the AL wild-card standings by 2 1/2 games, have won nine of 11 overall.
``We still have our fate in our hands,'' Torre said. ``We can't look for help.''
Schilling (8-8) outlasted Roger Clemens but couldn't beat Jeter, who drove a 2-2 splitter over the Green Monster to give the Yankees a 4-1 lead. Joba Chamberlain held on with help from Rivera's 28th save, even as the Red Sox cut the deficit to one run and loaded the bases in the ninth.
Jeter is batting .441 with runners in scoring position and two outs - the best mark in the majors.
``It's an honor to watch the best clutch hitter in history do his thing, and the best closer in history do his thing,'' said Roger Clemens, who in his first start since Sept. 3 dueled Schilling to a 1-1 tie before leaving after six innings. ``Jeter is one of the reasons that I got up off the couch and came back.''
Chamberlain (2-0) allowed one run and two hits, striking out three to earn the victory despite giving up the first earned run of his career - and Mike Lowell's third hit of the night - a solo homer that made it 4-2.
Rivera allowed Julio Lugo's two-out RBI double in the ninth, then hit Jacoby Ellsbury with a pitch and walked Dustin Pedroia. Ortiz popped up a 2-2 pitch into shallow center field, and a backpedaling Jeter made the catch before pumping his fist.
``It kind of seems appropriate that when we play them it should come down to something like that,'' Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. ``We gave ourselves a chance. We came up short, but we'll take that spot again with David batting.''
Schilling allowed four runs and six hits, striking out two in 7 2-3 innings to fall to 0-3 in his past four starts.
The Red Sox right-hander gave up Robinson Cano's homer to lead off the fifth, then retired 10 straight batters before putting runners on second and third in the eighth. Jeter fell behind 1-2 before giving the Yankees the lead and chasing Schilling from the game.
``I missed horribly in probably the most crucial situation in the game. I can't do that,'' Schilling said. ``This is an incredibly painful way to learn a lesson that you already know. So many things I could have done there, and I did it as wrong as I could do it.''
Matching up for the first time since Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, Schilling and Clemens dueled to a 1-all tie through 6 1/2 innings before Chamberlain relieved Clemens to start the seventh. Chamberlain had not allowed an earned run in 17 2-3 innings over 13 appearances before Lowell connected.
The 45-year-old Clemens, coming back from a blister on his foot and ligament damage to his right elbow, allowed one unearned run, two hits and three walks. He struck out four - all in a row in the third and fourth innings.
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When the initial American immigrants came across Donner Pass, they were guided by a local Native American chief who continually reassured them by saying "trokay," a phrase meaning "all will be well." From this "trokay" the immigrants came to call their guide "Chief Truckee" who eventually became the namesake for the historic and charming town of Truckee, CA, nestled by the shore of Donner Lake and just minutes from Lake Tahoe. More than 150 years later our family welcomes you to Trokay Chalet, our dream cabin conveniently located in Truckee's Tahoe Donner district. Here, you can relax, be refreshed and know that "all will be well."
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• Down a further half flight of steps, the lower level is "the apartment" — its own self-contained living quarters, complete with its own outside entrance with everything you need for a great vacation — including privacy.
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• 'The Apartment' also has a full bath for completely self-contained living.
• Trokay Chalet has everything you need for a memorable vacation including DIRECTV, land-line phone and high-speed wireless internet, all included.
• All our guests may use our complimentary guest cards to take advantage of Tahoe Donner's wealth of amenities many of which are available only to members and their guests. These include a private beach club at Donner Lake with passes that allow you and your family to relax lakeside, go paddleboating, canoeing, sailing, or swimming. You can also enjoy tennis and Tahoe Donner's sparkling tennis facilities or golf at its renowned golf-course, take a dip in our community pool.
And don't miss the chance to hike or ride on Tahoe Donner's 40 miles of private trails with breathtaking views of the Sierras. From a trailhead less than a mile up the road from the chalet you can access Tahoe Donner's extensive trail system, which connects you to the Donner Rim Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail.
We regret that we cannot accommodate pets (our family loves them but one family member has severe dog and cat allergies) or smoking at the chalet.
Unlike many 'by owner' rentals, we utilize an in-town professional service and maintenance company that is available to answer your calls and address any problems you may have, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And in the unlikely event they can't assist you with a question, we are always available as well. You get the best of both worlds; personalized property management and design of your rental experience with an owner's touch-- along with in-town help and service for any unexpected issues that might arise.
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Jeremy and Anna live in Silicon Valley and have four young children-- three boys and a girl. Jeremy is a researcher at Stanford and Anna is a physician working in San Francisco. We both grew up on the East Coast but fell in love with the West Coast — and Truckee and the Tahoe region in particular.
Jeremy C. purchased this house in 2013
Why Jeremy C. chose Tahoe Donner
We had vacationed in Tahoe Donner for years and always loved the location, which we think is the best in the Tahoe area. We enjoy Tahoe Donner's great amenities and its setting in the historic town of Truckee (for our money the best place in the Tahoe area). As our kids grew older we wanted to have our own place to make family memories, teach them to ski, and enjoy the beautiful Sierras. We also wanted a place big enough to where the entire extended family could stay comfortably. And this place fits the bill. In addition to the beautiful natural setting there are tons of great shops and restaurants nearby (many of whom deliver to the home when we don't feel like cooking!) We can have our whole family + our parents and my aunt and uncle up to stay with a layout that gives everyone a chance to be together-- but have privacy when we need it.
What makes this house unique
We fell in love with this place at first sight. We saw this home the day it came on the market and put an offer on it that day. And a good thing too, since we had to beat out another family who did the same thing. It has a wonderful layout that combines great privacy with the ability to congregate. The mountain views from the family room, the deck, and the hot tub are great (and hard to capture on film!). It's got all of the vacation home toys you want (pool table, hot tub, foosball, air hockey) combined with easy winter access in a flat driveway. It's got a great location in Mid-Tahoe Donner — not down so low that you are dealing with lots of through traffic nor up so high that it takes you a long time to get to town. It's a 'Goldilocks' home. Just right.
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Pronunciation: /ˌbävärˈwä /
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A dessert containing gelatin and whipped cream, served cold.
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- So crêpes and bavaroises will probably not initiate any thoughts of emigration, but Belgians do have one great flag waver in this category: Callebaut chocolate.
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Free postcoders bang on Ordnance Survey door
The co-founder of a UK postcode lookup service that was forced to shut down after the Royal Mail threatened the website with legal action in October last year, is calling on the developer community to consult with the government on Ordnance Survey mapping data. Harry Metcalfe, who launched ErnestMarples.com with Richard Pope in …
Interesting business model
Your customers using a post-code makes it much cheaper and easier for you to deliver mail.
So you charge them for the post-code data !
I think I'll try that. It will cost you £6000 for the phone number of our sales dept. that shoudl make us millions of £.
Of course the PO is a monopoly, and it's not like there is any alternate way of sending mail or instantly messaging someone than by printing them out and putting a stamp on them
Not only is the PO not a monopoly, they are forced to sell their services to their competitors at below cost. Other providers pay RM less for the "last mile" than it actually costs them to deliver, and RM are locked into this pricing by the government. The reason for this is simple; nobody would have been interested in bidding for the rights to compete with RM had they been forced to pay a fair price for the RM services that they use.
The problem being that Nulabour see everything as being a way of making money, so they want to privatise by the back door every bit of the public sector that they can and then charge the operators for the franchise. Of course they have to get companies interested first so the franchise fees start off low and then creep up.
It's the reason that our public transport system is by far the most expensive in Europe. In other countries public transport is subsidised by the government, in this country the government is subsidised by public transport. Operators are expected to pay the government a hefty fee in order to operate. Which is why east coast mainline services keeps changing hands. Nobody can manage to operate at a profit once the franchising fee is taken into account. And they call themselves a labour government?
Not only do the competitors get the last mile at below cost RM also deal with returns for free.
So, let's say a company called shittylink decided to collect a whole bunch of mail (the easy and profitable part) they then take the post to RM, who sort it and deliver it (the last mile) if the mail is marked undeliverable by the occupant and put back into a post box then it gets picked up sorted and returned not to shittylink, but the actual sender. In any normal B2B relationship the stuff would be dumped back on to shittylink as (in my opinion they are) the sender of the mail.
There would at least be some recompense for this sort of thing occurring.
I don't really understand where things which are national services get privatised in order to compete, I've not seen it work for anything.
Since British Telecom went has service improved? Not as far as I can tell, the service it once supplied has developed a new Delhi accent.
Same for electricity, gas and railways.
I suppose the counter argument could be the NHS, but I think that there's a certain amount of movement towards privatisation which has buggered that up too, people can choose which hospital they want to be treated at etc. The whole NHS database setup is likely to be a sweetener paid for by taxpayers companies wouldn't have to come along and do any administration work they could just charge for healthcare and make profits, ultimately "competition" in these sorts of things is an illusion, profits go up as a result of standards decreasing. For some reason there HAS to be constant growth of profits, the profits don't have to be consistent, they have to grow, otherwise you're losing money apparently, I never understood the maths there.
Competition on the railways? I know I won't travel from Cambridge to London to go to work, instead I'll go on a different network... doesn't really work.
Competition for RM? Nope, no such thing.
The data is valuable
Why would the governement ever make this data freely available when it is making millions for the post office already and will contribute to the value of an inevitable future Post Office privatisation?
If a punter wants to find a UK post codethey only need to it into google earth.
>The data is valuable
@when it is making millions for the post office already
Because the income from the PAF is tiny compared to the extra costs of processing un-postcoded mail.
It's like having an extra fee in a shop for having the correct change!
You can't do a reverse lookup
An extra fee?
Actually the opposite is true. Buy a copy of the PAF database, use it to put your mail into walksort order and Royal Mail give you BIG discounts on your postal costs. Of course, you need send a lot of mail to make it worthwhile.
BTW, I've never worked for Royal Mail, but I did work for a utility and used the PAF all the time.
What Britain needs
Is the US attitude toward these things: they're paid for by the people, hence they're not even copyright. Indeed, the US GPO (Government Printing Office) has, over the decades, published documents on an astonishing variety of subjects. Examples: hairy math relating to the quantum mechanical analysis of molecular spectra, as prepared by the boffins of the National Bureau of Standards; recipes as used in government cafeterias devised by home economists in the Department of Agriculture; and the design of restraints for large animals, also thanks to the Dept. of Agriculture.
And to cap it all off, the prices charged by the GPO are only nominal.
The US is a far from perfect country (like all the others) but at least it gives the people back _something_ for their money.
AFAIK the US doesn't even have a decent equivalent to the postcode system.
Although we only normally see the standard 5-digit zip code, which equates to a town/city, there is an option four digits which identify small areas within the postal region.
Almost identical, in fact, to our UK postcode.
07030 = Hoboken, New Jersey
07030-5861 = 333 River Street, Hoboken. Apartments 533 - 602
07030-5862 = 333 River Street, Hoboken. Apartments 603 - 645
And the lookup service on the USPS website is unlimited and free.
Typical ignorance
Err, FAIL, it's called a zip code.
20500-0003 (the zip code, usually shortened to the first 5)
The US DOES have a postcode equivalent
The US has ZIP code. It's basically the number of the nearest post office. They've now done ZIP+4, too.
Eh? - What?
Then you don't know much.... In the US we have the postal ZIP code:
5 digits gets you the general neighborhood within the city.
4 additional digits gets you the exact address to the building.
For instance Beverly Hills, CA has 5 ZIP codes 90209-90213 while the real Beverly Hills High School (not the Torrance stand-in for the TV series 90210 based on the ZIP code) has a direct ZIP code of:
Every address in the US has a 9 digit direct ZIP code - and yes, that means each ZIP code doesn't have more than 9999 addresses.
Even better, all the info is owned by the people, for the people; not by the queen, for the queen.
I know that the UK's postcodes are impressively accurate (often down to a couple of buildings), whereas our ZIP codes are much larger, but ZIP + 4 should be pretty darn close (of course, no one seems to remember the last 4 numbers).
Cheers from across the pond.
I mean you've heard of Beverly Hills 90210 right, did you think they just made the number up?! They also seemed to have developed a phone number system that uses less digits to address more people, possibly they're not all called George W Bush...
Ever heard of ZIP codes?
A full U.S. ZIP code for a given address is nine digits, not just the five that you see in, for example, Beverly Hills 90210, and is considerably more accurate than a U.K. postcode. A U.K. postcode is typically shared by dozens of addresses. When I lived in California, my 9-digit ZIP covered four apartments that shared a single stairwell. Lots of properties have unique 9-digit ZIPs. Further, the US Postal Service has a 12 digit Barcode standard based on the 9-digit ZIP code and 2 additional bits of resolution plus a check digit which guarantees to resolve to a single mailbox. More than you ever needed to know here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code
The alternative
I guess the people could use thier collective power and refuse to use post codes and develop our own free alternative that we can stick on letters...
Post codes - the pub system
Right at the Red Lion, down to the Queen's Head then left, carry on until you can see The Kebab and Calculator, look right and it's the one with the blue Cortina on bricks in the driveway.
Coat: mine's the one with a few metric tonnes of undelivered mail in the pocket
Government has to pay for it
Just to clarify -- I did say that Government should pay for the data to be maintained. I do understand that it costs money.
I just don't think that it costs much compared to the added value it would have by being free for all uses.
Not a money spinner?
Sorry but £25m for doing nothing is a pretty good money-spinner if you ask me. Doesn't matter how much you make overall, £25m for doing naff all is good business sense.
OK then...
...if you think maintaing the PAF involves doing sweet FA I'm sure that RM would be happy to outsource the work to you at a nominal fee. What shall we call it then, one person, 37 hour week, minimum wage?
That's turnover
£25m turnover, not profit. Profit was approx 1.8m.
Their licence prevents them from making more than 10% profit from PAF annually.
i will take that job
how meny new post codes are created each day ?
so how meny field would you have to input ?
not a bloody lot so yeah i will take that job
@i will take that job
Good! That comes with the development and maintenance of a database (hosted on a mainframe) plus a spatial database (and associated front-end, hosted on some Win2k servers) that contains the spatial location of all addresses that make up the postcode, because obviously it'd be a bit useless if said postcode couldn't help you to identify where the mail should be delivered.
Then when you allocate a new postcode (e.g. to a new housing development in the middle of nowhere), you first need to ensure that you associate it with the most sensible delivery office (not always easy if you happen to allocate on the limit between 2 or more DO) and then you need to update the delivery route information to take into account that new postcode. Oh yeah and make sure that when you allocate a new postcode to a mail delivery round it fits in with the way that round is done: no use adding a mostly pedestrian area to a round done in a van or to add an area that requires several miles of driving to a round done on foot with a trolley.
So if you can do it all yourself for the same annual wages as an average postman, I'm sure RM would love to hear from you.
The difficulty is not in coming up with the combination of 5 to 7 letters and digits that make a postcode, it's in managing all the related information because postcodes are so central to everything RM do.
Once you've worked out how to do all this, don't forget to factor in the cost of hosting the server kit mentioned above, making sure that the whole system is resilient, includes disaster recovery and is snappy enough because those databases get quite a few hits.
See that's why in IT we always cringe when someone says "how difficult can that be?" after 2 seconds spent looking at the problem.
Disclaimer: I've worked on that spatial database above so my opinion may be biased.
...there's the ongoing maintenance. For example test mails are sent out to business postcodes in order to test that the business is still active. If the test fails the postcode is deleted from the PAF. If a new business moves into the building a new postcode may be allocated. And so on.
It actually costs quite a bit to maintain, and it doesn't just benefit RM. It benefits anybody using the postal service - use the postcode and get faster delivery. How often do private individuals need to access the PAF? If I'm posting something and I don't have a postcode then I ask the recipient for their postcode.
Oddly enough a quick straw poll round the office has revealed that the reason many people access the PAF has nothing to do with post. It's to get postcodes for their sat navs, apparently because they don't want to have to put a full address into the sat nav. So private use of the PAF is not benefitting RM in any way, but helping sat nav users. Why shouldn't the sat nav users pay?
Many people consider that it would be reasonable to roll PAF funding into the cost of a stamp, or charges to the other mail collectors. I don't agree. Why should people using the postal service pay for the maintenance of the PAF when it is so heavilly used by sat nav users.
Many sat navs can't find my house, they always seem to put it on a parallel street presumably because there are only a few yards between the streets and they map the postcode to a grid reference or similar. It always makes me smile when some courier has to ring me because his sat nav has landed him on the wrong street and he's too dumb read a map.
A change in sight?
Well since post codes were first used in UK in 1959 (thank you Wikipedia) the system was designed to make visual mail sorting easier in the first place, it is reasonably straightforward to remember the postal towns by the first two letters (KT=Kingston, MK=Milton Keynes, etc.) for purposes of redistribution. So when the item gets to it's local distribution centre then the sub post-office (KT1, KT2, etc.) is easy to remember for local delivery people, then down to street level (KT1 1AA, 1AB, etc.) individual on-foot deliverers will know where that is. By then of course they could just use the rest of the normal address (22, Acacia Avenue, etc.).
But, in 1959 there was no clever computers that could actually read the letters and do the sorting for you (as is done now for the vast majority of mail) so in a way, the current system in UK is outdated and could be replaced by an eight digit grid reference accurate to within 10m, and a house number. Andn you can get those quite easily from Ordnance Survey...
Oh, hang on a minute...
most of that work is just a benefit to the Royal Mail delivery service though, so they should pay to sort out the logistics problems of what posty to send where.
Postcode DB in .NL is free
Its free in the Netherlands ... www.postcode.nl
Already free for personal use
Two different markets here:
a) 'personal' (or small business) users who just want the ability to find a postcode for an individual address - Royal Mail and several other web sites already provide lookup capabilities on their web sites. It's usually limited to 10 goes per day in order to prevent its use by;
b) bulk mailers (large businesses) who need to address lots of items every day and automatically generate full address from house number + postcode. There are commercial programs available for this purpose and the companies that produce them buy the raw data from Royal Mail (plus electoral registers and others).
Its also free in the UK
From the Royal Mail website. It is just not free for commercial users who use it mainly for speeding up order processing over the phone/web and for anti-fraud purposes.
I'm the one who doesn't think everything in the world should be free, being as I have a job and all that....Shall I get my coat?
I don't think everything should be free
Just stuff that I've already paid for
Not sure who said it
but another commenter on a related article put it quite well - something along the lines of that if the PAF doesn't pay for itself in terms of operational efficiencies within RM, then it's pointless. The extra income from selling access to the database should therefore in theory simply be a supplement rather than something necessary to the operation of RM.
In that sense, it's less "money for nothing" and more "money for doing what you were doing anyway".
One thing I don't really like the idea of is that if RM do actually open it up, their competitors who previously had to pay them for the postcode data get it for free. That's a double whammy for RM's competitiveness.
The main reason that the RM charge businesses for access to the PAF is fairly simple. Much of the use of the PAF is nothing to do with posting things.
How often have you been asked for your house number and postcode? This is magically resolved to a full address by accessing the PAF. Even if the reason for this was to mail order something to be delivered by RM the use of the PAF does not in anyway benefit RM it's just to speed up the business process. The same thing would be achieved by asking for your full address, but it would take longer.
Likewise couriers who have no relationship with RM will often use the PAF in order to validate an address. Or they may use it to plan their own delivery routes.
In these cases why should RM foot the bill?
And as for private individuals accessing the PAF. WTF would you want to do that for? I can't think of a single reason.
The new freetards
So these people want to give away something that presumably my taxes have are already paying the upkeep on. Any clawing back of this upkeep is welcome - even if it means I have to fund the posties by 20m less. Regardless of whether its peanuts or not tell them to stick it!
These are just a different stripe of freetards right? If the Govt is able to monetise their data - and for change there are no privacy implications then fair play to them.
The point is the Royal Mail have to maintain the PAF regardless of whether they sell it as it is obviously used by them anyway.
Dutch thinking is good
Britain should do more to emulate the Dutch. Chocolate sprinkles, Coffee Shops, Red Lights and free Postcode data for all.
My vote goes to the candidate who wears a pair of clogs whilst smoking a doobee, both of which are not criminal acts if done in the Netherlands.
Dutch thinking is good, not sure about yours
Pray tell, where is it a criminal act to wear clogs?
Royal Dutch
Free postcodes are only tolerated in The Netherlands, they're still illegal.
Oh damn, there I go again mixing up postcodes and soft drugs.
>Government has to pay for it
Which of course means you and I have to pay for it... I didn't realise you Register folks were so keen on increased public spending...
Blow the postcode
How about all that Ordnance Survey mapping data? Now that's something I want...
Right, postcode lookups are free to individuals, but if you want to make money off it then you have to pay. I personally see nothing wrong with this. It's commercially useful information.
What I do see something wrong with is some businessman trying to hoodwink private individuals into becoming some sort of pressure campaign to help him get something for nothing.
RM are getting shafted by the government, their own staff, and the competition. Seems to me we used to have a perfectly functional mail service, but this shambles of an attempt at privatisation has fucked it up beyond all recognition.
Used to be if you said "it must be lost in the post" it was nothing more than a barefaced lie you'd come out with for not having paid your gas bill on time. Can't we just go back to that please?
commercial use
Everything where there's a clear commercial use, which tends to be the stuff that is most obviously useful, has all been put behind fees,"
Hence the word commercial in the above statement. It has value therefore it is chargeable.
Postcodes are optional on letters - you don't need one to have your post handled by the postie. They even deliver mail addressed in the form "the red roofed house behind the pub that used to be the White Hart in the middle of Barchester"
If you need a postcode to address a letter where you have the street and house number already, you go to royalmail.co.uk and it gives you it for free.
What people are after is the geographical match of postcode to a point so you can work out things that are 10 miles from a given postcode.
I know the people behind ernestmarples.com bang on about the community services but so far as I recall one of their sites was to tell you where your nearest pharmac y was - which nhs.uk does very effectively as well as giving opening hours, phone numbers and maps. But I digress
I think went up to £25m in 2007/20008
well, if that's all it did for those millenia, i say put the dog down.
They are still abusing a monopoly
This data, which certainly the Post Office have spent time and effort maintaining, is valuable for just one reason: everybody uses it. It's only selling point is that it's a database that the public have learnt off by heart.
Imagine the alternative: Google gives every street in the UK a Googlecode, and starts a price war with the PO over access costs. Then MS will want to give you a Bing-zip to get a piece of the action. Next, the GNU Free Street Index Database, which will fragment into rival factions. Before long, the punter will need to remember half a dozen of the blessed things, so no-one will bother and we'll be back to square one.
In other words - the PO have only come to have this valuable bit of IP in their hands because, when it was originally developed, they had monopoly power. It is not reasonable that they should tilt the playing field by charging other delivery services to use it; that's clearly not in the interests of the public.
Why are postcodes any harder to maintain and distribute than, say, DNS records?
Census is a nominal fee, why not postcodes?
I got the entire 2001 UK census on a pile of DVDs/CDs (15 or so of them) for 125 quid about four years ago
There's a huge quantity of data in that lot (including quite a bit of 2001 postcode data)
Once purchased I'm free to give (most of) it to whoever I want - guess which bit I can't give away :)
Why, therefore, are the postcode data sets such as PAF and GridLink treated differently seems a very valid question for UK PLC to me.
18 001 years
Well from 2007/20008 Royal mail only make £25m.
Wow they are not making much money then as it works out at £1388 a year.
(Unless I have typo 2)
The simple thing to do would be to develop an API with a key tied to an account/domain and have volume pricing. Could be done like minutes for mobiles - either buy x amount of lookups per month on a contract or pay as you go.
Obviously upto 10 or so lookups per day should be free, to allow for personal use etc.
Also with this system, charities and non profit orgs could get a key that allows more lookups for free
What a pity, Postcodes are free in Canada.
Why doesn't someone start a web site so everyone can donate their Postcodes. Maybe a few enterprising types can purloin commercial lists of Postcodes and donate them to the common good.
One thing, make sure the domain name ends in something other than .UK so it is out of the reach of Randy Mandy whose long-term job prospects don't look too good. :)
Last time I checked, the PAF was created at a time when RM was wholly public owned. That's you and me. So when do we get our payout ?
Isn't there already an open source mechanism for finding location? Latitude and Longitude can be converted to location very easily; postcodes can be converted to lat/long via google maps; GPS devices can output your location in lat/long.
If locations are given in lat long, then working out how far things are from each other becomes easy.
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Our Town meetings continued Thursday evening, giving people who live near downtown a chance to talk to members of local government.
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Issues voiced Thursday included increasing affordable housing, skilled labor jobs, litter control, a wish for a public park in the neighborhoods, and traffic.
"We're really glad that the city is having these meetings and allowing us to give our input," said said Kelly Ceppa, a Martha Jefferson neighborhood resident. "The issues that concern the neighbors the most is intersections."
Ceppa said St. Clair and Hazel Street has been a continuing problem.
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Neighbors and council discussed, among other possible solutions, police monitoring stop sign violations at problem intersections.
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