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In 2014, right-wing media attacked immigrants and immigration reform by pushing baseless claims, relying on debunked research, and using misleading statistics about immigrants and the impact of immigration on the United States. Here is a look back at the most absurd anti-immigrant myths of 2014.
From the January 7 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
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Fox News falsely claimed that California's new program to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants amounted to "back door to citizenship" that would increase identity theft. But the program requires a stringent background check and shares the support of law enforcement and public officials who point to studies that show the program will lead to increased safety and transparency for citizens.
Conservative media outlets amplified a misleading study from the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies, which claimed that "all net employment growth has gone to immigrants" between November 2007 and November 2014. But data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that job growth among the native-born has far outpaced job growth among immigrants during the economic recovery.
Fox News host Heather Nauert is calling a bizarre federal court opinion that found President Obama's executive action on immigration unconstitutional a "pretty simple" decision, despite the fact that even conservative legal experts have called it a stretch.
On the December 17 edition of Happening Now, Nauert turned to legal experts Robert Bianchi and Brian Claypool to discuss Judge Arthur Schwab's lower court ruling that, surprisingly, evaluated the constitutionality of the president's recent decision to exercise prosecutorial discretion and defer deportation for certain undocumented immigrants. Both Bianchi and Claypool explained that the judge's ruling had "no legal significance" and "doesn't make sense," but Nauert disagreed. Other conservative legal experts are also questioning how the judge came to this conclusion on an unrelated matter of civil immigration law, given the fact that neither party in this criminal case contested the constitutionality of Obama's executive order.
Although Nauert admitted that she is "not a lawyer," she nevertheless argued that the judge's decision "seems pretty simple":
But the ruling from Judge Schwab, who has seen his fair share of controversy with respect to his legal judgment since being appointed to the bench, wasn't quite as "simple" as Nauert insisted.
Legal experts across the political spectrum agree that the president has broad authority to exercise prosecutorial discretion when it comes to deportation proceedings, which the Supreme Court affirmed as recently as 2012. Despite right-wing media's unwillingness to accept the idea that Obama's order is lawful, immigration experts have noted that the president is not only acting "within the legal authority of the executive branch of the government of the United States" but is also authorized by federal statute to provide temporary administrative relief of this type, as presidents of both parties have done for decades.
Moreover, according to Jonathan Adler, a law professor and contributor for The Washington Post's libertarian Volokh Conspiracy blog, Judge Schwab overstepped his own authority in ruling on the constitutionality of Obama's executive order. As Adler explained, "it is quite unusual for a district court to reach this sort of constitutional issue in this sort of case":
Indeed, Judge Schwab appears to have reached out quite aggressively to engage the lawfulness of the President's actions. Based upon the procedural history recounted in the opinion, it appears the court requested briefing on the applicability of the new immigration policies on its own order. That is, the issue was not initially raised by the defendant in his own defense. As a result of the court's decision, however, the defendant now has the option of withdrawing his guilty plea and potentially seeking deferral of his deportation under the new policy.
On the merits, I understand the concerns that motivate Judge Schwab's reasoning, but I am not persuaded. First, it is important to note that the executive branch has exercised a substantial degree of discretion in implementing and enforcing immigration law for decades. Work permits have been issued in conjunction with deferred action for at least forty years. President Obama's actions are broader in scope, but not clearly different in kind from what his predecessors have done and to which Congress has acquiesced.
Adler's conservative colleagues at the Volokh Conspiracy agreed with this assessment, with law professors Ilya Somin and Orin Kerr calling it "poorly reasoned" with "serious flaws," and "exceedingly strange," respectively. Somin elaborated on how radical the opinion is, noting that "[i]f the Supreme Court were to adopt Judge Schwab's reasoning, federal law enforcement agencies would be barred from issuing general systematic guidelines about how their officials should exercise prosecutorial discretion. The exercise of discretion would then become arbitrary and capricious. Alternatively, perhaps they could still follow systematic policies, so long as those policies were not formally declared and announced to the public, as the president's order was. Neither possibility is particularly attractive, and neither is required by the Constitution."
On the other hand, Judge Schwab does have the support of Fox News host Sean Hannity, who crowed that the opinion "could've been written by me."
In 2014, right-wing media attacked immigrants and immigration reform by pushing baseless claims, relying on debunked research, and using misleading statistics about immigrants and the impact of immigration on the United States. Here is a look back at the most absurd anti-immigrant myths of 2014.
Radio host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity applauded and seemingly claimed credit for a federal judge's district court ruling in Pennsylvania that found President Obama's executive action deferring deportation for millions of undocumented family members of U.S. citizens or lawfully permanent residents to be unconstitutional.
The Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy blog reported that Judge Arthur Schwab, appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, "declared aspects of President Obama's executive actions on immigration policy unconstitutional," in a first of its kind opinion that is already being criticized for reaching beyond its scope to decide a constitutional question not before it.
Upon hearing Schwab's opinion, Sean Hannity wasted no time claiming partial credit for the decision. On the December 16 edition of The Sean Hannity Show, he said of the ruling, "I gotta tell you something, it almost could've been written by me, because he makes the very arguments that I had been making the entire time."
Hannity's guest, Jamie Dupree, agreed that the ruling "echoes a lot of the arguments that Republicans have been making about these actions over the last few weeks."
In fact, the Republican arguments, promoted incessantly by figures like Rush Limbaugh and Hannity, have been rejected as baseless by most legal experts across the political spectrum and President Obama's recent actions have ample precedent in the past executive actions of former presidents like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Right-wing media lobbed harsh criticism and conspiracy theories at Jeb Bush in response to his decision to "actively explore" a 2016 presidential bid, even urging more conservative Republicans to run against him.
The Washington Post is helping a former official from President George H.W. Bush's administration walk back his 1990 congressional testimony that Bush's executive action on immigration could have helped up to 1.5 million people and using that to decry the Obama administration's use of the figure to justify its upcoming immigration action. But the official, then-Federal Immigration Commissioner Gene McNary, was the person who introduced the 1.5 million figure, and an immigration expert's analysis of immigration numbers at the time shows that the figure is plausible.
The Washington Post editorial board is contesting the Obama administration's claim that his recent executive action on immigration is similar in scope to former President George H.W. Bush's temporary administrative relief for undocumented immigrants in 1990, which reportedly affected 1.5 million family members of legalization applicants. Calling the White House's 1.5 million figure "indefensible," the editorial also repeated the accusations of its fact checker, Glenn Kessler, who previously insisted that the figure is inflated despite contemporaneous congressional testimony to the contrary.
But now a leading immigration expert says the Post is "doubling down on a grievous error."
According to Charles Kamasaki, Executive Vice President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), author of a forthcoming book on the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 and its subsequent effects, and one of the leading experts on immigration law and policy in the country, the White House's citation of the 1.5 million estimate of those who stood to benefit from Bush's 1990 action is "completely defensible."
In a December 4 letter published on the NCLR website, Kamasaki pointed out numerous mistakes in both the substance and reasoning in both the Post's editorial and fact check, and pointed out that a "'quick and dirty' analysis" that encompasses "Kessler's own reporting" demonstrates that the White House's "1.5 million estimate of ineligible family members of IRCA's legalization applicants is valid on its face":
There's a second way of looking at this issue, which is to take the available data and see whether, independent of take-up rates, the 1.5 million estimate of ineligible family members of IRCA's legalization applicants is valid on its face. A quick analysis suggests it is eminently plausible. First, consider the number of applicants: 3.3 million people applied for IRCA's two main legalization programs, another 40,000 or so for a special Cuban-Haitian program, and perhaps 75,000 for a registry program for those who had entered prior to 1972. So we start with a base of more than 3.4 million applicants.
But these were not the only applicants potentially covered by "family fairness" in 1990. Under two major national class action lawsuits, hundreds of thousands of people claimed they had been unfairly denied the opportunity to apply for legalization because of improper eligibility rules, inaccurate information, or other reasons. The plaintiffs largely won on the merits in the lower courts, although appeals courts later denied all but a few thousand the opportunity to apply. The key point, however, is that as of 1990, when the Bush policy was announced, this litigation was still pending, and thus several hundred thousand of these class members technically were still potential applicants. Adding these potential applicants to those who had applied brings the universe of total actual and potential IRCA applicants whose ineligible family members might've been covered by family fairness into the four million range.
- Kessler's own reporting shows that 42% of IRCA applicants were married. Multiplying four million by 42% produces a total of 1.7 million spouses. But many, arguably half, likely qualified for legalization themselves, bringing the number of spouses ineligible for legalization to perhaps 840,000.
- How many kids might've been covered? Here we have very good data on the contemporary undocumented population, which we might apply to 1986-1990 in a backward fashion. The Migration Policy Institute estimated last year that of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country, there were more than 1.9 million unauthorized youth who were brought to the country by their parents. In other words, about 17% of the current undocumented population is made up of children analogous to those who would have been covered by the Bush policy. Applying this 17% figure to the estimated 5 million undocumented population as of 1986 produces a total of about 850,000 unauthorized children.
- Some number of those were likely older than 21 as of 1990; adjusting for this produces an estimated population of ineligible children of legalization applicants as of 1990 to perhaps 640,000. Still, 840,000 spouses added to 640,000 children equals 1.48 million, very close to the cited 1.5 million estimate.
Based on this "quick and dirty" analysis, there really were close to 1.5 million people eligible for relief in 1990, and it is a completely defensible number.
The Wall Street Journal is misrepresenting the legal justification for President Obama's executive actions on immigration from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) -- even falsely claiming that the OLC's opinion does not quote "specific statutory language."
On November 20, Obama announced that he would take executive action on immigration by prioritizing deportations of dangerous undocumented immigrants over the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who pass a criminal background check and register for temporary administrative relief. Right-wing media were quick to accuse Obama of lawlessness for this deferred action on deportations and to declare his order "unconstitutional," despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of legal experts agree that the president has the authority to exercise this sort of prosecutorial discretion in service of family unification.
The Wall Street Journal was no exception. Before the president issued his executive order, the Journal claimed in a November 16 editorial that the president didn't have the authority to act on immigration because his administration had not yet received a "written legal justification" from the OLC. According to the editorial, the "President should always seek legal justification for controversial actions to ensure that he is on solid constitutional ground" by asking for the OLC's guidance. The Journal ultimately concluded that "[i]t's possible" the Obama administration hadn't "sought an immigration opinion because they suspect there's little chance that even a pliant Office of Legal Counsel could find a legal justification" -- apparently unaware that Obama had already received legal advice from the OLC, Attorney General Eric Holder, and immigration experts before the Journal published its editorial.
As requested, the OLC published its official opinion on Obama's immigration proposal prior to his announcement on November 20. The opinion determined that the president had the authority to prioritize and defer some deportations over others -- but that apparently wasn't enough to appease the Journal. In a November 24 editorial, the Journal criticized the OLC's opinion: "Now that we've studied the legal memo his government used to support his order, his abuse of power looks even worse." But the editorial incorrectly claimed the opinion allowed the president to "rewrite" the law by "exempting whole categories of people and extending federal benefits that they aren't entitled to by statute." Worse, the Journal falsely claimed the memo omitted information that it actually included. From the November 24 editorial:
The problem, as the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concedes in the 33-page document, is that "the Executive cannot, under the guise of exercising enforcement discretion, attempt to effectively rewrite laws to match its policy preferences" or apply "set formulas or bright-line rules." Yet Mr. Obama is making precisely such a rewrite, by exempting whole categories of people and extending federal benefits that they aren't entitled to by statute.
By recognizing that there is no categorical exemption, the OLC is implicitly admitting that Mr. Obama is stretching prosecutorial discretion beyond legal norms.
These are the kind of errors that normally scrupulous lawyers make under deadlines or political pressure. The OLC memo reveals that the White House did not submit formal legal questions until Wednesday, Nov. 19, and the OLC drafted the opinion the same day. The details of the new program weren't complete and submitted to the Justice Department until Monday. The OLC published the memo on Thursday, Nov. 20.
We wouldn't be surprised if some West Wing minion read our editorial [from November 16] "The Missing Immigration Memo," panicked, and rushed one out. Mr. Obama's political calculation --in keeping with his lawlessness on health care, drug policy and the rest -- seems to be that he'll dispense with laws or parts of laws that displease him and dare Congress to challenge him. Republicans can and should take the dare.


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ABSTRACT: Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) hyphenated to tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS) was used for the development of an analytical method capable of simultaneous identification and quantification of 18 β-agonist compounds namely, brombuterol, chlorbrombuterol, cimaterol, cimbuterol, clenbuterol, clencyclohexerol, clenisopenterol, clenpenterol, clenproperol, hydroxymetylclenbuterol, isoxsuprine, mabuterol, mapenterol (clenbuterol-like compounds), ractopamine, ritodrine, salbutamol, salmeterol (salbutamol-like compounds) and zilpaterol in bovine urine. In compliance with the Commission Decision 2002/657/EC (CD 2002/657/EC), the method was validated applying a matrix-comprehensive in-house validation approach based on a fractional factorial design. Six experimental factors varied on two levels were selected for this purpose. The relevant validation parameters such as decision limit CCα (range, 0.24-0.51 μg L- 1) and detection capability CCβ (range, 0.27-0.71 μg L- 1), within-laboratory reproducibility (< 20%) as well as recovery (range, 92-109%) were in agreement with the performance criteria set in the CD 2002/657/EC. Overall, the proposed method enabled both screening and confirmatory detection of the β-agonist compounds in the framework of official monitoring plans.Microchemical Journal 07/2014; · 3.58 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A simple, sensitive and rapid liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method (LC-MS/MS) was developed and validated to monitor the presence of gabapentin as environmental contaminant in albumen and yolk of eggs from grazing flocks exposed to open air stored saline wastes from pharmaceutical industry. The method involved a simple liquid extraction followed by a gradient elution with formic acid 0.2 % and acetonitrile in reverse phase. ESI ionization was performed in positive ion mode. The tandem mass spectrometer was operated in multiple reaction monitoring mode. The calibration curves were linear in the concentration range from 5 to 400 ng/g for the two matrices with correlation coefficients that exceeded 0.990. The limits of quantitation were 12.0 and 14.8 ng/g in albumen and yolk, respectively. Results are discussed in light of the pharmacokinetics of gabapentin in experimentally exposed hens, accounting for the top soil intake in such free grazing animals.Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 03/2014; · 1.11 Impact Factor -
Article: Biodegradation of oxytetracycline by Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium: a mycoremediation technique.
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ABSTRACT: Oxytetracycline (OTC) is administered in high doses to livestocks and enters the environmental compartments as a consequence of animal waste disposal. As a first step in setting up a useful mycoremediation technique, an OTC lab degradation test was performed in liquid medium using the ligninolytic fungus Pleurotus ostreatus. OTC disappearance in culture medium was clearly evident as early as the third day of exposure onwards, with an almost complete removal after 14d. The drug removal was mediated by fungal absorption in the mycelia, where the OTC molecule underwent a degradation step, as demonstrated by mass spectrometry analyses. A putative degradation product, ADOTC (2-acetyl-2-decarboxamido-oxytetracycline) is proposed. Experimental conditions excluded OTC abiotic degradation; the degradation by extracellular laccase was also experimentally discarded.Journal of hazardous materials 03/2012; 215-216:227-32. · 4.33 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Oxytetracycline (OTC) is administered in high doses to livestocks and enters the environmental compartments as a consequence of animal waste disposal. As a first step in setting up a useful mycoremediation technique, an OTC lab degradation test was performed in liquid medium using the ligninolytic fungus Pleurotus ostreatus. OTC disappearance in culture medium was clearly evident as early as the third day of exposure onwards, with an almost complete removal after 14 d. The drug removal was mediated by fungal absorption in the mycelia, where the OTC molecule underwent a degradation step, as demonstrated by mass spectrometry analyses. A putative degradation product, ADOTC (2-acetyl-2-decarboxamido-oxytetracycline) is proposed. Experimental conditions excluded OTC abiotic degradation; the degradation by extracellular laccase was also experimentally discarded.Journal of Hazardous Materials 01/2012; · 4.33 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Flavomycin complex is an antibiotic banned in the European Union as an additive in feed stuffs. As a consequence, the monitoring programmes for official control within the Community require analysis of feeds for possible illegal use of flavomycin. A method for unambiguous identification and quantification of moenomycin A, the main pharmacologically active component of flamomycin complex, in several feeds by liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) is herein described for the first time. The method was developed to be used as a confirmative analytical tool for the network of Italian official control laboratories; both the singly and doubly charged molecular ions were observed as precursor ions, from which four product ions were selected for both quantitative analysis and unambiguous identification of moenomycin A. The method was in-house validated for feeds in the concentration range 0.50-30.0 microg/g, according to the Regulation 882/2004/EC requirements. Mean recoveries ranging between 83.9-94.2% and relative standard deviations <23% account for method trueness and repeatability, respectively. Moreover, other analytical performance parameters, i.e. method specificity, ruggedness, the linearity of detector response, the limit of quantification (LOQ), the limit of detection (LOD), and measurement uncertainty were evaluated and reported. The ion trap LC/ESI-MS/MS method is highly selective and reliable; high drug recovery, good reproducibility and an LOQ down to 0.10 microg/g guarantee its applicability for confirmatory purposes in the official control activity in Italy.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 03/2010; 24(7):1017-24. · 2.51 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: HPLC with fluorescence detection is considered for confirmatory analysis of group B veterinary drugs by the European Union legislation. A procedure for confirming the presence of anti-inflammatory non-steroidal drug (NSAID) residues in bovine milk by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection is herein described. The native fluorescence of nine drugs belonging to different NSAID sub-classes, namely flurbiprofen, carprofen, naproxen, vedaprofen, 5-hydroxy-flunixin, niflumic acid, mefenamic acid, meclofenamic acid and tolfenamic acid, allowed for detection in bovine milk down to 0.25-20.0 microg/kg. Confirmation of the nine NSAIDs is attained by fluorescence detection at characteristic excitation and emission wavelengths. The procedure described is simple and selective. Limits of quantification (LOQs) ranging between 0.25 and 20 microg/kg were measured; satisfactory trueness and within-laboratory reproducibility data were calculated at LOQ spiking levels, apart from 5-hydroxy-flunixin. The procedure developed is used in our laboratory for confirmation of each one of the above mentioned NSAIDs in bovine milk, to support results after HPLC quantitative analysis with UV-vis detection.Journal of Chromatography A 02/2010; 1217(17):2832-9. · 4.61 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In order to evaluate the hormetic response of the weed Lythrum salicaria to drug expo-sure we investigated the effects of the antibiotic Sulfadimethoxine by growing Lythrum plants for 28 days on culture media containing different drug concentrations (between 0.005 and 50 mg.L -1). The antibiotic was absorbed by plants and can be found in plant tis-sue. The plant response was organ-dependent: roots, cotyledons and cotyledon petioles, were always affected by a toxic effect, whilst internodes and leaves length, showed a vari-able dose-depending response, with an increased growth at the lower drug concentrations and toxic effects at the higher ones. This variable response was probably dependant on dif-ferent levels of local contamination resulting from a balance between accumulation rate and drug dilution in the increasing plant biomass. As a consequence, drug toxicity or hormetic response varied according to concentration and were different in each of the examined plant organ/tissue. Thus, even if hormesis can be considered a general plant response, each plant organ/tissue responds differently, depending on the local drug con-centration and exposure time.Dose-Response 01/2010; 8:414-427. · 1.23 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In order to evaluate the hormetic response of the weed Lythrum salicaria to drug exposure we investigated the effects of the antibiotic Sulfadimethoxine by growing Lythrum plants for 28 days on culture media containing different drug concentrations (between 0.005 and 50 mg.L(-1)). The antibiotic was absorbed by plants and can be found in plant tissue. The plant response was organ-dependent: roots, cotyledons and cotyledon petioles, were always affected by a toxic effect, whilst internodes and leaves length, showed a variable dose-depending response, with an increased growth at the lower drug concentrations and toxic effects at the higher ones. This variable response was probably dependant on different levels of local contamination resulting from a balance between accumulation rate and drug dilution in the increasing plant biomass. As a consequence, drug toxicity or hormetic response varied according to concentration and were different in each of the examined plant organ/tissue. Thus, even if hormesis can be considered a general plant response, each plant organ/tissue responds differently, depending on the local drug concentration and exposure time.Dose-Response 01/2010; 8(4):414-27. · 1.23 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A new LC-MS/MS method for the separation, identification and quantification of residues of 17alpha-estradiol (17alpha-E2) and 17beta-estradiol (17beta-E2) in bovine serum is reported. Deuterium-labelled 17beta-estradiol was used as internal standard. The method was in-house validated in accordance with European Union criteria and adopted in a proficiency study organised by the Community Reference Laboratory (CRL-RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands). The analytes were extracted from serum using acetate buffer, purified by C18 solid-phase extraction (SPE) and chromatographed on a C18 LC column. They were then ionized in a heated nebulizer (HN) interface operating in negative ion mode, where only intact deprotonated molecules, [M-H](-), were generated at m/z 271 and 274 for 17alpha/17beta-E2 and 17beta-E2-d(3), respectively. The decision limits obtained (CCalpha, i.e., critical concentration alpha) were 0.06 ng/mL and 0.03 ng/mL, respectively for 17alpha-E2 and 17beta-E2. Detection capability (CCbeta, i.e., critical concentration beta) values were 0.08 ng/mL and 0.04 ng/mL, respectively, for 17alpha-E2 and 17beta-E2. Precision, accuracy and specificity were satisfactory, recovery ranged from 86.3% to 93.2% and the method resulted sensitive for the required purposes. This method is currently in use for Official Control purposes.Journal of Chromatography B 08/2008; 871(1):135-40. · 2.69 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Bovine alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (bAAG) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) are plasmatic acceptors working as carriers by the specific and reversible binding of several drugs in vivo. We synthesized affinity columns by coupling bAAG and BSA to an activated chromatographic support through their carbohydrate moieties, to preserve protein tertiary structure and, consequently, to improve the biological activity in vitro. The bAAG and BSA affinity columns were used to study the binding of acidic and basic drugs. Moreover, a purification strategy was developed for the cleanup of drug residues from biological matrices and foods, prior to screening and/or confirmatory analysis, on the basis of the specific molecular recognition between the protein and the drug. The aim of this work was to test the potency of bAAG- and BSA-based affinity chromatography to bind some veterinary drugs and purify them in the context of the official control of animal products. The efficiency of these homemade affinity columns in minimising matrix interference and in selective cleanup of different classes of substances was reported and discussed.Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 07/2008; 391(4):1153-62. · 3.66 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The European Council Decision 2002/657/EC established that group B substances detected in foods must be identified and confirmed on the basis of their molecular structure. To this aim, we have developed a panel of methods for unambiguous determination of sixteen non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in cattle and buffalo raw milk. A multi-residue reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography method with photodiode array detection is described for quantitative screening analysis. For confirmatory purposes, two multi-residue reversed-phase ion trap liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) methods were developed: the former to identify salicylic acid, naproxen, carprofen, flurbiprofen, ibuprofen, meclofenamic acid, niflumic acid, flunixin and its metabolite 5-hydroxyflunixin in the negative ion mode; the latter to identify ketoprofen, suxibutazone, diclofenac, mefenamic acid, tolfenamic acid, phenylbutazone and its metabolite oxyphenbutazone in the positive ion mode. These drugs are representative of different subclasses of NSAIDs not chemically related. The methods were in-house validated, evaluating specificity and calculating the mean recoveries, repeatability, within-laboratory reproducibility, and limits of quantification. For all the NSAIDs, apart from salicylic acid and 5-hydroxyflunixin, mean recoveries ranging between 69.0% and 96.7% were measured. The qualitative identification of all drugs was attained by their MS/MS spectra in the concentration range studied. Similarly, at 5 microg/kg all NSAIDs, apart from flurbiprofen, were unambiguously confirmed.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 02/2008; 22(6):841-54. · 2.64 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Beta(2)-receptor adrenergic agonists as clenbuterol and analogues are illegally used as growth promoters in cattle, in Europe, as well as in other countries. Following consumption of meat or liver, intoxication cases were described, and cardiovascular toxic effects (tachycardia, hypertension) were of clinical relevance. Therefore, we investigated whether heart rate increase induced by clenbuterol could depend upon stimulation of beta(1)- and/or beta(2)-adrenergic receptors, and in which ratio. We used in vitro guinea-pig atria, a model in which beta(1)-/beta(2)-receptors ratio is similar to that found in men. In our experiments both beta(1)- and beta(2)-receptors contributed to clenbuterol-induced heart rate increase, but with a different potency. The selective beta(2)-antagonist ICI-118,551 competitively antagonized responses to clenbuterol with high affinity (pA(2) 9.47+/-0.28, SchildSlope 0.98+/-0.20 not significantly different from unity, K(B) 0.34 nM). The selective beta(1)-antagonist atenolol antagonized clenbuterol with a relatively lower affinity (pA(2)=7.59+/-0.14), the SchildSlope=1.97+/-0.33 was significantly different from unity (P<0.05). Results show that clenbuterol stimulates guinea-pig heart rate by acting chiefly on beta(2)-adrenoceptor, although responses to clenbuterol apparently are mediated by an inter-play between both beta-adrenoceptors. Further experiments are necessary to understand which beta-adrenergic antagonists are of effectiveness to counteract cardiovascular effects in case of intoxication following clenbuterol, or other beta-adrenergic stimulants.Food and Chemical Toxicology 09/2007; 45(9):1694-9. · 2.61 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The control of illegal use of clenbuterol and other beta(2)-agonist drugs as growth promoters in the European Union countries has led to outlaw practices for synthesizing new concept molecules, showing similar biological activity but not detectable by test methods usually employed to perform the official monitoring programmes. The synthesis schemes of some beta(2)-agonist compounds, formally derived from clenbuterol, were found out by Italian detective authorities. These compounds were synthesised ex novo in our laboratories: then, both their molecular structures and biological activities were characterised. In this paper, we describe different strategies for purifying some beta(2)-agonist drugs of new concept, more hydrophobic than clenbuterol. A two-step clean up procedure, prior to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis, was developed for the multi-residue determination of these beta(2)-agonists from bovine hair and urine. The purification strategy we chose was based on adsorption solid phase extraction and, subsequently, on specific molecular recognition by affinity chromatography. The affinity columns were homemade by coupling bovine alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein, a plasmatic acceptor for basic drugs, to a chromatographic support; their effectiveness for purifying new beta(2)-agonists was discussed. The data about method recoveries and repeatability were also reported.Analytica chimica acta 04/2007; 587(1):67-74. · 4.31 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The European Union regulated the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in animal production and set the official analytical controls to detect their residues in plasma, serum, and milk within the frame of national monitoring programs in each member state. In this work, a multi-residue reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector (DAD) method is described for the simultaneous determination of 13 NSAIDs in serum and plasma of farm animals. Chromatographic separation by a C12 stationary phase column with a linear gradient is able to resolve all the compounds considered: salicylic acid, ketoprofen, flurbiprofen, phenylbutazone and its metabolite (oxyphenbutazone), carprofen, ibuprofen, naproxen, niflumic acid, suxibutazone, diclofenac, mefenamic acid, and tolfenamic acid. These compounds are chosen as the most representative of the different NSAID chemical sub-classes. The DAD analysis allows the confirmation of all drugs on the basis of their own UV-vis spectrum, according to the requirements of the European Council Decision 2002/657/EC. Moreover, the method is in-house validated, evaluating mean recoveries, specificity, repeatability, and within-laboratory reproducibility as the performance parameters required by the Decision. The results of this study indicate the method is specific and repeatable, with the mean percentage recoveries of the drugs ranging between 72.5% and 104.5%. Only salicylic acid has poor recovery, with results ranging between 36.3% and 54.9%.Journal of chromatographic science 11/2006; 44(10):585-90. · 1.03 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The European Union has regulated the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in animal production and requires its member states to detect their residues in different matrices. In this work, a detailed MS and MS/MS study by ion-trap mass spectrometry of fourteen NSAIDs is described. Two multi-residue reversed-phase LC/ESI-MS/MS methods were developed, one for the determination of salicylic acid, naproxen, carprofen, flurbiprofen, ibuprofen, niflumic acid and meclofenamic acid in the negative ion mode, and the other for the determination of ketoprofen, suxibutazone, diclofenac, mefenamic acid, tolfenamic acid, phenylbutazone and its metabolite oxyphenbutazone in the positive ion mode. It was thus possible to confirm up to 14 different NSAID residues in serum and plasma samples of farmed animals, after chromatographic separation by a linear gradient. These substances were chosen as representative of different chemical subclasses of NSAIDs. The two methods were also validated in-house at three contamination levels, evaluating specificity and calculating mean recoveries, repeatability and within-laboratory reproducibility. The MS/MS product ion spectra were successfully used for the qualitative identification of all the drugs tested. All the NSAIDs, apart from salicylic acid, were recovered in high amounts, ranging between 71.6% and 100.9%.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 02/2006; 20(22):3412-20. · 2.64 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this work we present a method for confirmatory analysis of chloramphenicol (CAP) in bovine and buffalo raw milk. CAP is extracted in acetonitrile and purified by affinity chromatography on an alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AAG) column, then is identified and determined by ion-trap liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) analysis in the negative ion mode. CAP was identified at the minimum required performance limit (MRPL) of 0.30 ppb, by monitoring the [M-H]- ion and at least two product ions, meeting the qualitative and quantitative criteria set by the European Commission in Decision 2002/657/EC for confirmation of prohibited veterinary drugs. The trueness and within-day and between-day repeatability data are also reported. Moreover, the loading capacity of affinity columns towards CAP was tested. This method, based on the molecular recognition between drug and AAG during the purification step to improve sample cleanup, represents a quantitative and repeatable procedure for confirmatory analysis, and fits the requirements for the routine official control of CAP residues in raw milk.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 02/2005; 19(4):574-9. · 2.64 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In an analytical strategy, the selectivity of the steps from the extraction to the detection is a key factor to assure both reliability and forensic validity to the results. The availability of MS/MS ion trap facilities could induce the risk to maximise the relevance of MS/MS technique, despite the choice of a more selective clean-up step. In this work, we reported about the evaluation of two different purification procedures, as requisite to minimise both matrix-induced ion suppression phenomena and progressive loss of sensitivity in LC–MS/MS multi-residue beta agonists routine analysis. To this purpose, calves urine extracts from SPE C18 not endcapped (NE) and molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) columns were tested according to the following procedure: 20 blank samples were analysed and then spiked with pooled beta agonists before and after the clean-up step. Background noise and analytes signals were compared with those from pure standards injected at the same nominal spiking concentration. In such a way, both recovery factors and matrix phenomena were evaluated. Results indicate that MIPs clean-up is effective to reduce ion suppression phenomena below 10%, with no detectable loss of sensitivity after 20 runs. The same results are not achievable with conventional SPE C18, even if absolute recoveries are found to be better.Analytica Chimica Acta 01/2005; · 4.52 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The continuous turn over of β-agonists molecules, may affect the reliability of screening tests. To overcome possible false negative results, a bioassay is under development to detect the presence of new β-agonists in feeds and biological matrices and so to provide a valid tool for a multi-analyte screening method. Preliminary study were focused on the pharmacological characterisation of new β-agonists, with the aim to combine both the screening results with a toxicological evaluation about the potential health risk for consumers. The interaction of G4, G5, G6, G8 adrenergic drugs with human β1- and β2-adrenergic receptors expressed separately in membranes of human embryonic kidney cells in culture (HEK-293-Huβ1 and HEK-293-Huβ2), were studied by a receptor binding assay and results compared with those from a well-known β-adrenergic agonist (clenbuterol). The specificity of the test was assured by the use of a specific radiolabel tracer ligand ([125I]iodopindolol) as competitor.For compounds G4, G5 and G6 the affinity (IC50) for β1-adrenergic binding sites was of the same magnitude of that from clenbuterol. By contrast, G8 showed a 100-fold higher affinity. On β2-adrenergic receptors the binding affinity was similar for G4 and G6, but about 10-fold higher for G5 and G8 with respect to that from clenbuterol.Analytica Chimica Acta 01/2005; 529:53-56. · 4.52 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The use of the two macrolides antibiotics Spiramycin (S) and Tylosin (T) as growth promoters in animal feeding has been recently withdrawn in the European Union due to a concern about the outbreaks of farmacoresistance fenomena as a possible hazard for humans. For feed additives monitoring purposes, an analytical method has been developed for their extraction, purification and identification in different animal feedingstuffs (pelleted beef, pig, poultry feeds and calves milk replacer) at a minimum performance required limit (MRPL) of 1 microg g(-1) (ppm). Such limit has been established according to the lowest dosage of additives still able to elicit an appreciable growth promoting effect. Blank feeds were spiked at two concentration levels, 1.0 and 2.5 ppm in six replicates. After methanolic extraction, samples were cleaned up on SPE CN columns and extracts analysed in HPLC-UV/DAD, using a gradient elution. Detection limits, calculated as the tree time mean noise of 20 blank feeds, were 176 and 118 ng g(-1) for S and T, respectively. Results show good repeatability (CV% not exceeding the value of 15) and mean recovery in the range of 99-74% and 81-53% for S and T, respectively, at 1 ppm. When the standards were injected up to 250 ng the chromatographic method can resolve the components of analytes (Spiramycin I, II and III; Tylosin A and B) but can not resolve the components on real feed samples at the spiked levels considered. For this reason the identification and quantification of analytes on matrix were carried out considering the main compound of the drugs (Spiramycin I and Tylosin A). As a verification, the overlapping of UV spectra in the range 220-350 nm between analytical standards and the compounds in the matrix were considered.Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 11/2004; 36(2):317-25. · 2.83 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The European Union regulates the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in animal production and official national analytical monitoring programmes have been set up in each member state to detect residues of the drugs in bovine plasma. In this work, we describe the development and application of affinity chromatography for molecular recognition of NSAID in bovine plasma. Bovine serum albumin (BSA), the plasma protein which binds such drugs, was covalently bound to a polymeric support via its glycosyl moieties. Loading capacities and specificity were tested both on standard solutions and on spiked bovine plasma for nine drugs—ketoprofen, naproxen, phenylbutazone, oxyphenylbutazone, acetylsalicylic acid, salicylic acid, tolfenamic acid, diclofenac, and nimesulide—chosen as being the most representative of the different chemical sub-classes of NSAID. The BSA columns could bind up to 150 10–6 g total of a mixture of these nine NSAID, with mean recoveries ranging from 74.0% (tolfenamic acid) to 96.0% (nimesulide). HPLC separation on an RP C18 column with a linear gradient enabled resolution of the drugs; identification was achieved by coupling with photodiode array detection (DAD) operated at 240 and 280 nm. Results showed that all the compounds except acetylsalicylic acid were bound effectively by the BSA affinity columns. When plasma samples were spiked at 2.5 g mL–1 with a mixture of the NSAID the chromatographic profile and UV spectra recorded (in the range 220–350 nm) indicated the procedure was sufficiently selective for identification of the drugs at the concentrations expected according to their pharmacokinetics. No memory effects and matrix interferences were observed.Chromatographia 08/2004; 60(5):253-257. · 1.37 Impact Factor
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A graduate of the University of Edinburgh (LLB (Hons), PhD, Dip LP), Ross Anderson practises as an advocate at the Scottish bar. He previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (2003-2004), before training as a solicitor with Maclay, Murray & Spens LLP. He taught private law and corporate and financial law full-time in the School of Law from 2008 until 2012. In 2012 he was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and the Snell Visitor at BalliolCollege, Oxford.
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Anderson, R.G. (2013) Juristic persons and fundamental rights. In: Reid, E. and Visser, D. (eds.) Private Law and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home in Scotland and South Africa. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 361-390. ISBN 9780748684175
Anderson, R.G. (2012) Non-performance in sales contracts: principle, practice and harmonisation. Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, 20 (4). pp. 834-866. ISSN 0943-3929
Anderson, R.G., and Biemans, J. (2012) Reform of assignation in security: lessons from The Netherlands. Edinburgh Law Review, 16 (1). pp. 24-57. ISSN 1364-9809 (doi:10.3366/elr.2012.0082)
Anderson, R.G. (2008) Assignation. Edinburgh Legal Education Trust, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780955633201
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Columbus Welcomes Hockey's Best Players And Fans
Columbus is host to the National Hockey League All Star game this week-end. The NHL showcase will bring thousands fans and visitors to the city as well as international media attention.
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Columbus looks to both suffer and gain from new plans announced by retail giant JC Penney.
Under the plans unveiled Monday, Penney's executives say they're moving more resources toward online customers. That means over the next two years closing all 19 of the company's outlet stores, including the one on Columbus' east side, and phasing out the entire catalog operation.
Another element of the shift toward the Web means consolidating five call centers into three, but that means more jobs for the Columbus call center that now shares a building with the outlet store.
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Prior to Real Madrid's 4-0 thumping of Osasuna last month, Sergio Ramos had netted just 1 goal in 43 appearances in all competitions this season. Fast-forward to the present day and the defender has 5 in his last 6, including a brace against Bayern to cement Los Blancos' place in the Champions League final.
A year ago I was offered a chance to deploy to Afghanistan as a mentor at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy located in Qargha, out to the west of the capital city of Kabul. My job here is to mentor the Afghan female PTIs who will deliver the physical training syllabus to the female officer cadets...
Afghanistan is entering a new phase after the Afghan people went to the polls with so much enthusiasm a few days ago. Whatever the result of the election, with NATO troops continuing their withdrawal, it is clear that the burden of responsibility for the country now rests with the Afghans themselves. However, it is vital that the international community do not lose interest, and that western governments in particular do not now consider their responsibility to the Afghan people to be over.
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Reducing uncertainties in δ13C analysis of tree rings: Pooling, milling, and cellulose extraction
Article first published online: 21 SEP 2012
Copyright 1998 by the American Geophysical Union.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1984–2012)
Volume 103, Issue D16, pages 19519–19526, 27 August 1998
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1998), Reducing uncertainties in δ13C analysis of tree rings: Pooling, milling, and cellulose extraction, J. Geophys. Res., 103(D16), 19519–19526, doi:10.1029/98JD01169.
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Recent developments of on-line methods have provided another boost to the determination of stable isotope ratios in organic material. Along with a significant increase in sample throughput, the sample sizes decrease, both of which are necessary conditions to acquire long time series from limited wood amounts. In view of this new technique we reconsidered the most important factors influencing the measured isotopic signature which are (1) pooling, (2) homogeneity, and (3) cellulose extraction. In most cases, pooling (i.e., mixing wood of the same year from different trees) can be made in a simple way by mixing the whole wood available because mass-weighted and unweighted isotope measurements were the same within the error. More attention must be paid in homogenizing the sample. Theoretical considerations underpinned by experimental results suggest a fineness of 0.15 mm (115 mesh) if cellulose is extracted and 0.1 mm (165 mesh) for direct wood analysis. Many of previous studies did not achieve this fineness. We find that wood is as good a climate proxy as cellulose. This is shown by comparing correlations of wood and corresponding cellulose isotope values with meteorological data, which are identical within the uncertainty.


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We begin in Jupiter, Florida, 1952,
where a milkman enters a house where his previous delivery remains
untouched. The fancy house still has dinner set on the table, and an
elderly woman dead next to the table. As he recoils, he hears a
thumpity-thump and heads upstairs with the infalliable weapon choice
of a rolling pin to investigate. What he thumps...we don't know. But
it is rushed to the hospital and we see it's feet on a gurney being
pushed down a hallway. The left toes are painted. The right ones are
A doctor and nurse in the hospital are
looking at xrays, there's one bladder, three kidneys, two spines,
four lungs, two hearts. The doctor is trying to play it cool but the
nurse keeps staring instead of taking notes.
Enter the belle of all the American
Horror Story balls, Jessica Lange, walking down a hospital hallway.
She charms her way past a young candy stripper and gets her own
outfit to see the double spined wonder. She gives the stripper a card
for "Frauline Elsa's Cabinent of Curiosities" and says the only
by entering can she know it's secrets. I bet we hear that line again!
In the hospital room, is the thing
itself, conjoined twins. Sarah Paulson takes on this tricky role, and
it seemed the editing/effects were a little clunky. Also, after
hearing that there are 4 lungs and seeing only their heads are
separate, they looked awfully small in the ribcage. When Elsa gives
Left a drag on her cigarette, Right exhales, which would contradict
the 4 lungs. Until we're told otherwise, the two heads are Right and
Left, and we see that Right is not swayed by Elsa's initial
compliments. Left, however, is sold on the idea that someone is nice
and chatty. Elsa questions them about their sex life: two hearts but
one reproductive system.
In an open field, a young couple are
getting busy when the young man says he has a surprise back in the
car for her. While she waits laying on the picnic blanket, her tulle
playing in the wind, we meet everyone's new favorite character, who I
am calling Stabby McStabberstiens. I'm sure he has a real name but I
don't care.
Tattered suit, matted but still colored pom poms
for buttons, an oversized dusty pink rose on his three tufts of
colored, dirty hair and a huge creepy grin from a mask implanted into
his face. He bows before the confused and scared lady and offers her
fake flowers. The young man comes back and Stabby gets mad and earns
his name by, well, stabbing him. Excessively. He's clearly not heard
of the 'bros before hoes' adage.
A stereotypical diner has Elsa reading
the papers and clipping movie reviews of Marlena Dietrich. She has a
whole notebook of similar reviews, which doesn't seem obsessive at
all. She sees a slick fellow flirting with her waitress. She knows
him and interrupts by asking him to try her lighter. He tells Elsa
that they all have to move away from the field they're renting. But
Elsa has a plan. When the waitress asks her to close out her check,
Elsa says it's on the house because stars never pay.
In a lovely house, girls in dresses are
discussing their husbands' lack of sexual appetite. A woman emerges
from the back room looking happy and diseveled. The host announces
it's the next girls turn. When she gets to the room, we see the guy
from the diner, Jimmy. His fingers are melted together in twos, sorta
like the penguin's. The girl lays on the bed and he turns his
"deformity" into a "proformity." Just doing what he can to
make the world a better place.
Elsa confronts the twins, or more
accurately from Right, who silences Left mentally. But Left is eager
to talk. Sadly, she just blabbers and Elsa calls her on her just
using the plot of Gaslight. Elsa recommends they get their
story straight before the cops come.
Stabby McStabbersteins is wandering
through a house while a radio reporter talks about the 4 brutal
murder in the past two weeks. Stabby takes Corey, the 8 year old boy.
In the next scene, we find out where. He's being stored in a cage on
a bus along with another, older girl. He takes his time showing them
things, apparently trying to put them at ease but then laughs when
they ask to leave. He shakes noise makers at them and then tries
making balloon animals. When it goes askew, and the balloon pops, the
kids startle and then he just gets mad and throws balls at the cage
to scare them more. Clearly these children aren't ready for such
Right and Left are packing when Elsa
drops by to chat. Elsa has it figured out. Bette (Left) wanted to go
out to a movie and ended up killing their mom when she says no. Dot
(Right) could have stopped her, but decided to later stab Bette in
the chest. Both girls are stuck and confused as to what Elsa wants,
until Elsa explains that she simply wants them. Cue the twins walking
to the entry of the freak show; Bette feeling free and hopeful, Dot
far more weary and concerned.
Bette is sold on the 'bigger the star
the bigger the tent' life with fancy things. Dot writes in her diary
that she's not thrilled. Until she meets Jimmy Darling, who sends her
a wink. The bearded lady is Kathy Bates and she's charged with
preaching the gospel of Elsa. Elsa, she says, rescued her. More to
come later, I imagine. Dot says they aren't anyone's trained monkey
and won't perform. But Ethel explains this is the best possible
Jimmy and his friends are putting up an
ad for the Siamese sisters when a car drives by throwing crap at them
and calling them freaks. That will come back I'm sure.
Candy striper ruins Elsa's movie night
by saying she wants to leave. Elsa calmly explains that she is just
feeling the opium and can but not speak of her time here. Candy is
all "hell no! I was ravaged!" and wouldn't you know, the movie
Elsa is watching of Candy with.....pretty much everyone. "There's
nothing to be ashamed of," Elsa explains. The monsters are the
people of the little towns, she explains. They don't have souls, and
everyone is living the life they choose. Elsa is informed that the
show has sold out for the night, every single seat.
Turns out Jimmy is Ethel's son and he
wants out. But Ethel's God is Elsa. Jimmy sounds like he just wants
to live a life outside the freak show. Ethel's compromise is telling
Jimmy to get the twins to like it at the show. When a cop comes to
arrest the twins for their mother's murder, Jimmy get pissed and
impulsively stabs the guy in the throat. Dot is in TRUE WUV when he
uncuffs them. "You saved us," she said. "Now you save us," he
replies. And Dot is now a believer!
So who bought out the show? A man and
his mom. Dandy is the son and he's a weirdo, making his
On to the show! Ethel is the
announcer,showing off the line up and Dandy is so amped. But no more
so than when he sees the sisters. And then we see Elsa Mars. Her
talent? Singing on a cardboard rocket while in a periwinkle suit and
Hedwig makeup. Now I'm not sure you can make Jessica Lange ugly. But
the super tight old lady perm hair and horrid makeup come close. But
so much glitter and everyone's working together! It's like the end of
Rocky Horror, Hedwig and Rushmore. Elsa finishes her song to realize
Dandy wants to buy the Siamese Sisters.
His mother (Francis Conroy) offers 15,000 "and not another penny
unless she grows another head." Dot turns them down to Elsa's
delight. They're a family now. Dandy's mom leaves by throwing shade
on Elsa's singing. Stabby rides the carosel, all alone.
After the show, Jimmy leads the crew to
the woods and preaches about being left alone. And how if that's
can't happen, they should rise up and take the happiness they
deserve. If they want to call us monsters, we're gonna act like
monsters, he says. He looks at Dot. "And that means you, because
you're one of us now." She swoons. Then they stab the ever-loving
shit out of the cop's body as Stabby looks on from the woods. Could
this be his home?
Ethel and Elsa have confession time
where Elsa shares that her reason for bringing on the twins is so
people will come, hear her sing and then she'll become famous. She
cries and her cakey make up runs. Her hair flattens. She listens to
"Auf Weidersein." She pops her prosethic legs off. Maybe growing
up with school shooting and Iraq wars has numbed me to missing limbs,
but to me I was waiting for flippers or bird heads. She just doesn't
have anything below the knees? That's not freaky.
The future:
Is Stabby part of the crew? He wasn't
in the dance number. Elsa wants to stay and his rampant stabbings
will bring a lot of unwanted attention. Any truce they forage will be
temporary. Chiklis is apparently not Stabby, and Stabby has a name. Booooo. My love for
either is untarnished. We'll talk about each next time.
Bette's head is always to the side
which looks like a strange photoshop, not like something that she
could hold for any amount of time. Yes, I'm saying there'd be a huge
muscle strain if your second neck and head were constantly askew.
They both have bob haircuts, but Bette's is always lopsided. Just
Oh yeah, those kids are still locked in
the cage somewhere. I hope Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConeghey
show up and bust them out.
Coming up this season: Emma Roberts is
back as a freak show head hunter/possible fortune teller. Angela
Bassett is the 3 boobed hermaphrodite. Jimmy volunteers Dot to sing
and she busts out Fiona Apple's "Criminal" to the ire of Elsa.
She's going to need to kill her meal ticket. Stabby is bought/stolen
to be a private clown for Dandy, which could set up a war of the
freaks since Dandy and his mom seem to not like the "unbreakable"
family ties of the show.
Everyone is about showbiz this year.
And discrimination. And skeletons mimicking sex. And two heads, sometimes switched. And protecting your people, though I'm sure that
will fall asunder by the next episode. :) Bring it.


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I don't have an easy answer for that.
My experience has been that those who need initials after their name to say what they can do cannot prove it any other way. I don't need to see initials afer a name. I need to see design work. I have been surrounded by this my entire professional carreer.
Does Bruce Farr put any initials after his name? Does Ron Holland?. Does Doug Peterson? Does Chuck Paine? Does Yves -Martie Tanton? Does Bruce King? Does Peter Melvin? Does Juan K? Does Mark Miills? Give me a phouquing break.
What a contrast with this discussion on BD.net On that site, Mike Johns ,Troy and the rest of the heckler pack, supported the claim that no one without letters after his name should be allowed to design boats, law enforced by an army of government bureaucrats armed with piles of law books. That would exclude most of the best designers of our time, and far back in history.
I was told that if I didn't put the qualifiers at the end of my posts, I wouldn't be allowed to post here, the same way Bob got the grumpy old man title. It was not my idea. Someone else came up with it.
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Conversion of paper sludge to ethanol in a semicontinuous solids-fed reactor
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Conversion of paper sludge to ethanol was investigated with the objective of operating under conditions approaching those expected of an industrial process. Major components of the bleached Kraft sludge studied were glucan (62 wt.%, dry basis), xylan (11.5%), and minerals (17%). Complete recovery of glucose during compositional analysis required two acid hydrolysis treatments rather than one. To avoid the difficulty of mixing unreacted paper sludge, a semicontinuous solids-fed laboratory bioreactor system was developed. The system featured feeding at 12-h intervals, a residence time of 4 days, and cellulase loading of 15 to 20 FPU/g cellulose. Sludge was converted to ethanol using simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) featuring a β-glucosidase-supplemented commercial cellulase preparation and glucose fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiea. SSF was carried out for a period of 4 months in a first-generation system, resulting in an average ethanol concentration of 35 g/L. However, steady state was not achieved and operational difficulties were encountered. These difficulties were avoided in a retrofitted design that was operated for two 1-month runs, achieving steady state with good material balance closure. Run 1 with the retrofitted reactor produced 50 g/L ethanol at a cellulose conversion of 74%. Run 2 produced 42 g/L ethanol at a conversion of 92%. For run 2, the ethanol yield was 0.466 g ethanol/g glucose equivalent fermented and >94% of the xylan fed to the reactor was solubilized to a mixture of xylan oligomers and xylose.
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- Title
- Conversion of paper sludge to ethanol in a semicontinuous solids-fed reactor
- Journal
Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
Volume 26, Issue 2 , pp 93-101
- Cover Date
- 2003-12-01
- 10.1007/s00449-003-0337-x
- Print ISSN
- 1615-7591
- Online ISSN
- 1615-7605
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Keywords
- Paper sludge
- Ethanol
- Semicontinuous bioreactor
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Zhiliang Fan (1)
- Colin South (1) (2)
- Kimberly Lyford (1)
- Jeffery Munsie (1)
- Peter van Walsum (1) (3)
- Lee R. Lynd (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Program, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
- 2. ViaLactia Biosciences, Auckland, New Zealand
- 3. Department of Environmental Studies, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA


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The rector of a church which held a carol service with alternative songs condemning Israel was reportedly sent a barrage of hate mail before the service.
Reverend Simon Grigg was allegedly told he would "go to hell" in a series of hate emails sent before more than 60 of protesters demonstrated outside his church in Covent Garden last week.
The service was held by Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods (JBIG) and included readings by Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi, Baroness Jenny Tonge and Lauren Booth.
Scrolling through the archive of press releases from the Board would leave you with the impression that its main activity in recent years has been paying courtesy calls on embassies around London.
But something appears to have changed in the past few weeks.
A series of statements on assorted issues suggests that British Jewry's main representative body wants to be seen as more assertive and vocal. An organisation for which "concern" appeared to be the strongest word in its vocabulary, has now turned into "Angry, of Bloomsbury Square".
The union that sits on the official Government Group on Antisemitism and Higher Education is facing calls for its expulsion because it hosted a man who made an antisemitic speech.
The University and College Union (UCU) invited Bongani Masuku, international secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), to tour UK universities this week and to speak at an invitation-only conference last Saturday, arguing for a boycott of Israel.
On December 1, a church in central London hosted an anti-Israeli Christmas concert. On the pavement outside, a participant in this event mouthed appalling anti-Jewish sentiments, which you can see and hear on a video posted on the JC website. What did the Board of Deputies of British Jews do? Nothing.
The following day, the website of the Jerusalem Post published graphic film of a Palestinian Arab stabbing a Jewish soldier at a West Bank checkpoint. What was the reaction of the Board of Deputies? There was none.
Leading Jewish organisations have called on members of the community not to attend a demonstration against the building of a new mosque in west London. The demonstration is intended to highlight the growing influence of Islam in Europe.
The Board of Deputies and the Community Security Trust issued strongly-worded statements after the organisers, Stop the Islamisation of Europe, urged Jews to bring Israeli flags to the demonstration and march at Harrow Mosque on December 13.
Jewish groups have criticised the result of the Swiss referendum in favour of banning the building of minarets on mosques.
The referendum, called by the far-right Swiss People's Party, has been criticised by the United Nations, the Swiss government, most Swiss newspapers, the Swiss church and the Vatican.
But it was supported by 57 per cent of Swiss voters, with 20 per cent more voters turning out than expected.
The Board of Deputies and the UJIA have joined a new task force to promote greater interest in Israel's Arab citizens.
Other founding members of the group are the Pears Foundation, the Zionist Federation, the New Israel Fund and the Abraham Fund Initiatives UK.
Trevor Pears, executive chairman of the Pears Foundation and co-chair of the group with Douglas Krikler, UJIA chief executive, explained: "Our foundation has focused on this issue since the symposium we hosted on the subject in 2007. Since then, interest has grown culminating in the UK Taskforce."
Women from six faith communities have met at the Board of Deputies to discuss the challenges they face in modern Britain.
Bharti Tailor, the first woman secretary general of the Hindu Forum of Britain and Cassandra Balchin, chair of the Muslim Women's Network, were among the 50 guests, also including former Board vice-president Rosalind Preston.
Coinciding with Interfaith Week, the impetus for the event was the review paper on the role of women in the Jewish community: Connection, Continuity and Community — British Jewish Women Speak Out.
The government is to launch a charm offensive to rebuild the trust of the Jewish community in response to the anger unleashed by the Goldstone Report on Gaza.
Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis met senior representatives of the community on Tuesday to reassure them about last week's decision to abstain in the UN General Assembly on a resolution endorsing the findings of the controversial report. Judge Richard Goldstone found that Israel and Hamas should be investigated for war crimes during the conflict.
The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on the JFS admissions dispute before the end of the year.
In the court's most high-profile case since it opened last month, nine judges will decide whether Jewish schools can allocate places according to whether a child's parent is Jewish.
JFS has contested a Court of Appeal decision made on behalf of a boy who had originally been rejected because the Chief Rabbi does not recognise his mother's non-Orthodox conversion.


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