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who said it was easy? but its not impossible. if you arent allowing yourself to be a victim, there are ALWAYS options. some may be unsavory or distained, but are better then what you have currently. still no excuse.
Quoting hargonagain:FYI, just for those saying it is sooo easy to walk away from an abusive relationship, check out the story in Texas where a woman walked away from her abusive husband, he went after her, shot her 3 times, murdered all 4 of her young children and then shot himself. Not saying she cheated because the story doesn't say so, but sometimes walking away from an abuser isn't always an option!
my family (what little I had) lived 6 hours from em and we didn't really talk much (I grew up in foster care).
Quoting Anonymous:I would have to say that you have sucky family. Why wouldn't they check on you once in that year? Why couldn't you tell them to get you help if you really wanted to escape? Im glad you got out but you should really tell them to get a clue.
Quoting Anonymous:TRY living in the middle of NOWHERE without a car or phone to call someone in the middle of winter with three babies! Nearest neighbor is three miles away. No stroller to put the kids in. No family or friends to talk or turn to.This was me. It took me 1 year to get away. I only escaped because the idiot got Internet and I wrote someone for help.


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Friday, June 4, 2010
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Not too much of an exciting outfit today, as I'm in work clothes, but I did want to showcase my lovely poofy black skirt. I love this baby!! It makes me feel so pretty and girly. It may be hard to notice in the picture, but there is ribbon detailing on the overlay. So precious!
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Both options are crap. This game came down to 3rd downs on both sides of the ball. The defense stiffened in the 2nd half, but still gave up three long drives and couldn't get off the field on 3rd down and put the offense back out there. On offense, they converted 3rd downs early, but failed to do it in the 2nd half. It's combination of OL, QB, no running game, and no one getting open on those blitzes. You saw AJ get open on a hot read in the first half, but no one did that in the 2nd. A lot of the team failures that have been there all along showed up today, in part because the QB play didn't overshadow them so much. All 53 of them have work to do.
I agree .... I thought the coaches called a pretty solid game and had an excellent gameplan in place for Keenum. Then you take away the running game , playing from behind against a very good defense .... You get what we saw at the end of the game.
I'd like to throw a big heap of the blame on the coverage teams. They allowed a 57-yard kickoff return and a 26-yard punt return ....
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Biomacromolecules quite often occur naturally or in vitro as organized structures composed of subunits arranged in a symmetrical way. Such structures are readily studied by diffraction methods. The fundamental concepts concerning crystalline matter, symmetry relationships, and diffraction theory form a basic framework for understanding the principles and practice of image processing and interpretation of structural results. The main concepts, summarized here, are presented in more detailed, introductory form in excellent texts such as Eisenberg and Crothers (1979), Glusker and Trueblood (1972), Holmes and Blow (1965), and Wilson (1966). For additional references, see the reading list.
III.C.1. Definitions of Terms (compiled from Glusker & Trueblood, and Eisenberg & Crothers)
Asymmetric Unit: Part of the symmetric object from which the whole is built up by repeats. Thus, it is the smallest unit from which the object can be generated by the symmetry operations of its point group. Fig.III.3.
A crystal is a regular arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules, and is conceptually built
up by the continuing translational repetition of some structural
pattern. This pattern, or unit cell, may contain one or more molecules or a complex assembly of molecules. In three dimensions (3D), the unit cell is defined by three edge lengths a,b,c and three interaxial angles a, b, g. The different 3D crystal systems (triclinic, monoclinic, orthorhombic, tetragonal, trigonal, hexagonal and cubic) arise from the seven fundamental unit cell shapes. The simplest, triclinic, is a parallelepiped, with no restrictions on cell lengths or angles. A cubic cell has equal (a=b=c) and orthogonal (a=b=g=90°) edges.
A lattice is a mathematical formalism that defines an infinite array of imaginary points: each point in the lattice is identical to every other point. That is, the view from each point is identical with the view in the same direction from any other point. This condition is not obeyed at the boundary of a finite, but otherwise perfect crystal. The crystal structure and the crystal lattice are NOT equivalent: the structure is an array of objects whereas the lattice is an array of imaginary, infinitely small points. A 2D lattice is defined by two translations, a,b and two axes at an angle a to each other. A 3D lattice is defined by three translations, a,b,c, and three axes at angles a, b, g to each other.
Crystal lattices (2D or 3D) may be primitive, with one lattice point per unit cell, or centered, containing two or four points per cell. There are four 2D lattice systems (Table III.1) which are subdivided into a total of five 2D lattices (Fig. III.1). There are seven 3D crystal systems corresponding to the seven basic space-filling shapes that unit cells can adopt. These are subdivided into a total of fourteen, so-called Bravais lattices (Table III.2 and Fig. III.2). For example, the cubic crystal system includes three Bravais lattices: primitive (P), body centered (I), and face centered (F).
The crystal structure is built by placing a motif at every lattice point. The motif is the object that is translated, and may be asymmetric (e.g. a single polypeptide chain: Fig.III.3) or symmetric (i.e. containing two or more symmet-rically arranged subunits). The crystal structure, crystal lattice, and motif are all restricted in the symmetries they can display, but biomacromolecular assemblies themselves are not restricted in the sense that they may display additional internal (non-crystallographic) symmetry. From this emerges the corollary that an asymmetric unit of the crystal structure may itself contain a symmetrical arrangement of identical, asymmetric molecules. The following introduction to symmetry will help clarify this.
Biological objects may display symmetry about a point or along a line. An object is symmetrical if it is indistinguishable from its initial appearance when spatially manipulated. (Again, we ignore the loss of translational symmetry at the boundary of finite, crystalline objects.)
a. Symmetry operators
There are four types of symmetry operations which lead to superimposition of an object on itself: rotation, translation, reflection and inversion. A symmetry element is a geometrical entity such as a point, line, or plane about which a symmetry operation is performed. The symmetry of any object can be described by some combination of these symmetry operations. The symmetry of any aggregate or crystal of a biological molecule is only described by rotation and/or translation operations. This is because, for example, biological protein molecules mainly consist of l-amino acids, hence, reflection or inversion symmetries are not allowed.
b. Asymmetric unit
Symmetry operations give rise to other groups of atoms (the asymmetric unit) which are in equivalent, general positions. The number of equivalent general positions related by the symmetry operators equals the number of asymmetric units in the unit cell. The number of asymmetric units may be less than, equal, or greater than the number of molecules in the unit cell. If the number of asymmetric units is equal to or less than the number of molecules in the cell, than the molecule either contains no symmetry or it contains non-crystallographic symmetry (i.e. symmetry that is not contained within the allowed lattice symmetries). If the number of asymmetric units is greater than the number of molecules in the cell, than the molecules must occupy special positions and possess the appropriate symmetry element of the space group (see Sec. III.C.5.e).
c. Point groups (Symmetry about a single point)
1) Schoenflies and Herman-Mauguin point group notations
A point group is a collection of symmetry operations that define the symmetry about a point. Two systems of notations are used for point groups: i) the S or Schoenflies notation (capital letters; mainly used by spectroscopists) and ii) the H-M or Hermann-Mauguin symbol (an explicit list of the symmetry elements, commonly preferred by crystallographers).
2) Types of point group symmetry operators
The four types of symmetry about a point are rotational symmetry, mirror symmetry, inversion symmetry, and improper rotations. Each of these is described below with accompanying illustrations.
Rotational symmetry (n) : the object appears identical if rotated about an axis by a = 360/n = 2p/n degrees. The only allowed n-fold axes for crystal lattices are n = 1,2,3,4, and 6 since lattices must be space filling. Figs.III.8,9,12.
Mirror (reflection) symmetry (m): each point in the object is converted to an identical point by projecting through a mirror plane and extending an equal distance beyond this plane.Figs.III.10 and III.11
Inversion symmetry (i): each point in the object is converted to an identical point by projecting through a common center and extending an equal distance beyond this center. Objects with i symmetry are said to be centrosymmetric. Fig.III.10.
Improper rotations: rotations followed by m or i. These include the rotoinversion (n followed by i) and rotoreflection (n followed by m). The only inversion axes for crystal lattices are , , , , . Fig.III.12 and III.13.
3) Types of point groups
Cyclic, dihedral, and cubic (tetrahedral, octahedral and icosahedral) point groups define the collection of symmetry operations about a point. Klug (1969) and others (e.g. Wilson, 1966; Glusker and Trueblood, 1972; Eisenberg and Crothers, 1979; Bernal, Hamilton and Ricci, 1972) describe this and other aspects of symmetry in detail.
These contain a single n-fold axis of rotation, where n can be any positive integer and also may contain one or more planes of reflection (Fig.III.14). Point groups which contain only an n-fold axis of rotation are given the symbol n in the H-M system and Cn in the S system (C stands for cyclic). For example, the double-disk structure of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) stacked disk aggregates contains 34 subunits (polypeptide chains) arranged with C17 symmetry (S notation) (Fig.III.15). Non-biological molecules can also have mirror planes of symmetry either parallel (e.g. nm or nmm in the H-M notation or Cnv in the S notation where v stands for vertical) or perpendicular (e.g. n/m in the H-M notation or Cnh in the S notation where h stands for horizontal) to the n-fold axis of symmetry.
Dihedral point groups have axes of rotation at right angles to each other. These point groups consist of an n-fold axis perpendicular to n 2-fold axes. Most oligomeric enzymes display dihedral symmetry (Mathews and Bernhard, 1973). For example, the enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) has D4 symmetry (422 in H-M notation). The number of asymmetric units in the point group Dn is 2n, thus RuBisCO has eight asymmetric units. In this particular enzyme, each asymmetric unit contains two polypeptide chains: a large (~55 kD), catalytic subunit and a small (~15 kD) subunit whose function (regulatory?) is unknown.
The essential characteristic is four 3-fold axes arranged as the four body diagonals (lines connecting opposite corners) of a cube. The three cubic point groups that biological molecules can occupy are T (tetrahedral = 23 in H-M notation), O (octahedral = 432) and I (icosahedral = 532). The tetrahedral point group contains 12 asymmetric units. Aspartate-ß-decarboxylase is presumed to display this point group symmetry (Eisenberg and Crothers, 1979). Dihydrolipoyl transsuccinylase contains 24 asymmetric subunits arranged with octahedral (432) symmetry. There are a large number of plant, animal, and bacterial viruses, each containing 60 asymmetric units, which display icosahedral (532) symmetry (Fig.III.16). In most cases these spherical viruses contain a multiple of 60 copies of chemically identical or distinct protein or glycoprotein subunits. In those cases where the asymmetric unit contains more than one "subunit", not all subunits are equivalently arranged. Instead they occupy quasi-equivalent positions.
4) Lattice restrictions and non-crystallographic symmetry
The crystal structure, crystal lattice, and motif may only contain one-, two-, three-, four-, or six-fold rotational symmetry axes (because the crystal lattice must be space filling). However, the 34 subunits in the disc structure of TMV, for example, are arranged about a 17-fold axis of rotation (Fig.III.15). The TMV disc forms true 3D crystals and has been studied by x-ray crystallography. In the crystal, the disc occupies a general position in the unit cell, and therefore displays non-crystallographic symmetry. Many of the small, spherical viruses are icosahedral (cubic point group) and they contain symmetry elements compatible with allowed lattice symmetries, and crystallize and display crystallographic as well as non-crystallographic symmetry.
d. Translational symmetry (Symmetry along a line)
1) Repetition in one dimension
2) Screw axes
A screw axis combines translation and rotation operations to produce a structure with helical symmetry (Figs. III.18-20). Screw axes are symmetry elements of crystals that are helices with an integral number of asymmetric units per turn of the helix. An nm screw axis combines a rotation of 2p/n radians about an axis, followed by a translation of m/n of the repeat distance (unit cell edge). The screw axes found in crystals include 21,
63, and
65. A crystal lattice only accommodates an integral number of asymmetric units per turn of the helix, although this need not apply to helices in general.
Aggregates such as actin thin filaments, microtubules, and the TMV particle are helical structures which display symmetry along a line. For example, one turn of the basic helix of the TMV rod contains 16.33 protein subunits (Fig.III.21). The true repeat in the structure is, therefore, three turns of the basic helix containing 49 subunits. Most helical biological aggregates do not form 3D crystals suitable for diffraction studies, not because of strict symmetry constraints (they could occupy non-crystallographic positions), but rather as a consequence of their shape and large size.
e. Plane groups and space groups
The symmetry of a structure is described by a plane group if it is 2D or by a space group if it is 3D. All possible crystal symmetries are generated by combining all types of lattice symmetries with all types of motif symmetries. If the internal structure of the crystal is considered, additional symmetry exists due to the presence of screw axis and glide plane symmetries. This leads to 17 possible plane groups in two-dimensions and 230 space groups in three-dimensions. Thus, there are only 17 ways in which to generate a two-dimensional regular pattern from a motif associated with a two-dimensional lattice and 230 ways in which to generate a 3D regular pattern from a motif associated with a 3D lattice. Volume I of the International Tables for X-ray Crystallography (1969) provides descriptions and formulae for all the plane groups and space groups.
Only five plane groups and65 space groups are compatible with the enantiomorphic biological structures. Fig.III.6 and III.22 shows some examples of 2D plane groups. The initial stage of most X-ray crystallographic structure analyses involves the space group determination. When this is known, the number of asymmetric units in the unit cell is also known, thus it is often possible to learn the packing and number of molecules within the unit cell, and prove if the molecules are symmetric. Symmetry operations in the unit cell give rise to systematic absences in the diffraction patterns which often proves useful for determining the correct space group. The number of molecules per unit cell or per asymmetric unit is usually deduced from estimates of the molecular weight and measurements of the crystal density and unit cell volume. In many instances, image processing of electron micrographs of periodic biological specimens provides an objective means for determining or verifying these types of structural information.
Any periodic structure can be generated by placing a motif at every point of a lattice. The lattice is a rule for translation and the motif is the object that is translated. Notice that the motif does not always have to be an asymmetric object such as a right foot. In biological crystals, the motif often has the symmetry of one of the point groups or one of the screw axes. In such cases the periodic structure contains translational symmetry plus rotational (or reflection or inversion in some, mostly small biological molecules) symmetry. The periodic structure can be thought of as being built up in two steps. First a motif is generated from the asymmetric unit by the symmetry operations of the point group. Second, the structure is generated from the motif by the translational symmetry operations of the lattice:
Asymmetric unit motif structure
Glide plane symmetry (Figs. III.27-III.28) is produced by a translation followed by a mir-ror operation (or vice versa). Biological molecules do not, in general, display glide plane symme-tries because they do not exist in enantiomorphic pairs. Note, however, that biological molecules (or crystals) when viewed in two-dimensions (i.e. in projection) can display mirror symmetry.
f. Examples of symmetrical biological molecules
1) Helical symmetry
Actin filament Bacterial flagella
2) Point group symmetry
3) Plane group symmetry (two-dimensional crystals)
Bacterial cell walls (e.g. Bacillus brevis T layer)
4) Space group symmetry (3D crystals)
Table III.1. Plane lattices. (From Sherwood, p.70).
Fig. III.1. The five two-dimensional lattices. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 786)
Table III.2. The fourteen Bravais lattices. (From Sherwood, p.73).
Fig. III.2. The 14 three-dimensional Bravais lattices. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 790)
Fig. III.3. An asymmetric object. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 756)
Fig. III.4. Lattices and motifs. Each of the diagrams of FIg.III.4 may be reproduced by associating the motifs (a), (b), or (c) with the rectangular array of lattice points. (From Sherwood, p. 61)
Fig. III.5. Three two-dimensional 'crystals'. Each pattern is different, but they have the same underlying rectangular structure. (From Sherwood, p. 60)
Fig. III.6. The five two-dimensional plane groups for biological structures. The asymmetric unit is a triangle in every case; the motif is some group of triangles (1,2,3,4, or 6). (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 786)
Fig. III.7. (a) The generation of a 2D "crystal structure" from a lattice and a structural motif. The replacement of each lattice point by an apple leads to a 2D structure. There are many ways in which unit cells may be chosen in a repeating pattern. Various alternative choices are shown, each having the same area despite varying shape (note that the total content of any chosen unit cell is one apple). Infinite repetition in 2D of any one of these choices for unit cell will reproduce the entire pattern. (b) Perspective view of a triclinic lattice. To see the perspective the lattice points are joined by lines that define imaginary edges of a unit cell. One unit cell is shaded; it could have been chosen with a different shape (but the same volume), as in the 2D example in (a). (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 10)
Fig.III.8. Two-, three-, four-, five-, and six-fold rotational symmetries. (From Bernal, pp.45, 48, 50, 35, and 52)
Fig. III.9. A four-fold rotation axis, parallel to c and through the origin of a tetragonal unit cell (a=b), moves a point at x, y, z to a point at (y, -x, z) by a rotation of 90 about the axis. The sketch on the right shows four equivalent points resulting from successive rotations. (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 72)
Fig. III.10. (Left) A mirror symmetry operation. (Right) An inversion symmetry operation. (From Buerger, p. 8)
Fig. III.11. Additional examples of mirror symmetry operations. (Right) my and mx. (From Bernal, pp. 26,27, and 34)
Fig.III.12. Crystallographic rotation (a) and inversion-rotation (b) symmetry axes and their action on an asymmetric figure - a tetrahedron. (From Vainshtein, p. 67)
Fig. III.13. The operation , a two-fold rotary-inversion axis parallel to b and through the origin, converts a point at x, y, z to a point at x, -y, z. This is the result of, first, a two-fold rotation about an axis through the origin and parallel to b (x, y, z to -x, y, -z) and then an inversion about the origin (-x, y, -z to x, -y, z). This is the same as the effect of a miror plane perpendicular to the b axis. Note that a right hand has been converted to a left hand. (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 72)
Fig. III.14. Examples of cyclic point groups. (From left to right and top to bottom) 2, 2mm, 3, 3m, 4, 4mm, 6, and 6mm (From Bernal, pp. 45, and 47-53)
Fig.III.15. The TMV stacked disk structure with C17 symmetry. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p.757)
Fig. III.16. Schematic drawing of an icosahedral virus (532 symmetry) consisting of 60 hands that all have identical environments. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 767)
Translation is the symmetry operation of shifting an object a given distance, say t, in a given direction, say the x direction, as illustrated in Fig.III.17 (one-dimensional crystal of right feet). The group of feet can be superimposed on itself if it is shifted in the x direction by the translation t. In this one-dimensional crystal, each foot occupies one unit cell and the distance t is the unit cell edge of the crystal.
Fig.III.17. A one-dimensional 'crystal' of right feet. (From Bernal, p.27)
Fig. III.18. A two-fold screw axis, 21, parallel to b and through the origin, which combines both a two-fold rotatiion (x, y, z to -x, y, -z) and a translation of b/2 (-x, y, -z to -x, 1/2+y, -z). A second screw operation will convert the point -x, 1/2+y, -z to x, 1+y, z, which is the equivalent of x, y, z i the next unit cell along b. Note that the left hand is never converted to a right hand. (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 73)
Fig. III.19. Some crystallographic four-fold screw axes showing two identiy points for each. Note that the effect of 41 on a left hand is the mirror image of the effect of 43 on a right hand. The right hand has been moved slightly to make this relation obvious. (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 74)
Fig.III.20. Crystallographic screw axes and their action on an asymmetrioc tetrahedron. (From Vainshtein, p. 69)
Fig. III.21. Drawing of part of the helical structure of tobacco mosaic virus. Each shoe-shaped protein subunit is bound to three RNA nucleotides. Part of the RNA chain is shown stripped of its protein subunits in a configuration if could not maintain without them. Each turn of 16.3 protein subunits is closely related to the disk structure of Fig.III.15.. (From Eisenberg and Crothers, p. 782)
Fig. III.22. The rotational symmetry elements (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 3 and (e) 62. A single unit cell is outlined by a double set of lines. Other unit cells are shown with single lines. The asymmetric unit is shown shaded. (From Blundell and Johnson, p. 87)
Fig. III.23. Plane group symmetry P1. (From Bernal, p. 58)
Fig. III.24. Plane group symmetry P2. (From Bernal, p. 59)
Fig. III.25. Plane group symmetry Pg. (From Bernal, p. 61)
Fig. III.26. Plane group symmetry Pm. (From Bernal, p. 60)
Fig. III.27. A glide symmetry operation. (From Buerger, p. 8)
Fig. III.28. A b-glide plane normal to c and through the origin involves a translation of b/2 and areflection in a plane normal to c. It converts a point at x, y, z to one at x, y+1/2, -z. Note that left hands ARE converted to right hands, and vice versa.. (From Glusker and Trueblood, p. 74)
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animal immediately after the injection. Axoplasm of the myelinated axons contain numerous neurofilaments, microtubules,
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----Source: Scrapbook - Greenwood Gleaner / /1935
From the scrapbook of Mrs. Andrews, former librarian of the
Greenwood Public Library, Greenwood, Wisconsin
Mrs. Lorinda Hendren, nee Wright, passed away
at the Willis Peacock home, Lancaster, after a brief illness, being
at her demise 94 years, 8 months, and 25 days old.
Lorinda Wright was a twin born to John and Jane Wright in Jefferson
County, Ohio, on February 9, 1841. The family came in an early day
to northwestern Ohio, and located at McComb where she attended
school. Later she was sent to a Ladies Boarding school at Glendale,
Oct 9, 1866, ate the age of 25, she was united in marriage with
Rev. W. T. Hendren at the home of her twin sister in Mt. Vernon,
Iowa. Directly they went to Caladonia, Minnesota, where Rev.
Hendren was a Presbyterian Minister and remained there six
In 1872 Mr. Hendren was called to Neillsville where he and his wife
labored in the master's service for 19 years. a church was built
during this time and much good was done by them at Neillsville, as
well as throughout the country side organizing congregations of
which Greenwood was one, where under their guidance a church was
built which they served for 24 years.
While in Neillsville they adopted a daughter, Emma, whom they
raised to womanhood but who preceded her foster parents in death.
Because of her great love for her pastor's wife, a young mother at
her death asked Mrs. Hendren to take into her home her daughter,
Edith MacIntyre, (Mrs. Willie Peacock) and to Mrs. Hendren became
as dear as a mother to Mrs. Peacock who in turn became a faithful
and loving daughter, sparing no effort to making her happy.
When the call came to serve at Greenwood, the Hendrens and the two
girls became a very helpful ministry. Soon the little Chapel was
too small and a church of God was then erected much to the delight
of the Hendren's.
Mr. Hendren was called home March 20, 1920 while still active in
Greenwood. In 1930 Mrs. Peacock took Mrs. Hendren into her home
where she lived until she passed away. With her gentle Christian
philosophy she endeared herself to the Peacock family and they all
moved and cared for her as a dear mother and grandmother.
April 16, 1933, Mrs. Hendren became a member of the Lancaster
Presbyterian Church of which she was a truly sincere member.
At her death she leaves to mourn the Willis Peacock family, one
grand daughter, Mrs. Joyce Brown of Madison and one great grandson,
John Brown, also one sister, Mrs. Nannie Lynn and children at
McComb, Ohio, one niece, Mrs. Eva Kisinger of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
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So, yes, yesterday's, this, and the next few images I'll post were all taken in Barcelona. I flew out there last Tuesday, provided a couple of days of training for Xavier – my host for the trip – walked the entire length and breadth of Barcelona (at least that's how it seemed), burnt the top of my less than hairy head, went sailing on a catamaran, ate great food, drank great wine, and had a thoroughly wonderful time. Thanks Xavier.
As for this one: it was taken down at the port, but beyond that I can't tell you much more about the location. All being well Guillermo will stop by and tell us the exact grid reference ;-)
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Letter to Nature. Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria.
Bibby, T.S., Nield, J. and Barber, J. (2001) Letter to Nature. Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria. Nature, 412, (6848), 743-745. (doi:10.1038/35089098).
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Although iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its concentration in the aquatic ecosystems-particularly the open oceans-is sufficiently low to limit photosynthetic activity and phytoplankton growth. Cyanobacteria, a major class of phytoplankton, respond to iron deficiency by expressing the 'iron-stress-induced' gene, isiA(ref. 3). The protein encoded by this gene has an amino-acid sequence that shows significant homology with one of the chlorophyll a-binding proteins (CP43) of photosystem II (PSII). The precise function of the CP43-like protein, here called CP43', has not been elucidated, although there have been many suggestions. Here we show that CP43' associates with photosystem I (PSI) to form a complex that consists of a ring of 18 CP43' molecules around a PSI trimer. This significantly increases the size of the light-harvesting system of PSI. The utilization of a PSII-like protein as an extra antenna for PSI emphasises the flexibility of cyanobacterial light-harvesting systems, and seems to be a strategy which compensates for the lowering of phycobilisome and PSI levels in response to iron deficiency
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Date Deposited: | 23 May 2006 |
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Because my Xbox 360 finally died I decided to play some older games that have been waiting for me in a stack for some time. One of these games is Killzone (the original not the PS3 sequel). An average shooter, the game convinced me to stop playing it after about 20 minutes. Not because of the sloppy controls or the combat. No, it convinced me to not play it because I died.
Not because the game killed me in a cheap manner. My death was entirely my fault. Rather, it's where the game restarted me. About 8 minutes earlier in the game, at the beginning of the level in fact. I had gone through three major events since then and the game hadn't saved the game a single time in there.
What the bloody hell?
I absolutely don't understand why checkpoints are far apart from each other like this in some games. I remember Resistance: Fall of Man frustrating me endlessly as I replayed huge sections of the game every time I died. The recent Ninja Gaiden games make you go through multiple boss fights without saving sometimes. This is an absolutely punishing, horrible way to treat players. Furthermore, it's hurting our ability to grow the audience and get more people into gaming.
Why? Because a player's time is precious. We are all busy people in this world. We have lives, jobs, families, and responsibilities. The amount of time we can game isn't huge. Every time you make the player replay large sections of your game because you want to artificially make the game more difficult, you give them an out to quit your game and go be entertained by something else. Maybe they'll go watch TV. Maybe they'll play Guitar Hero. Or maybe they'll write an angry blog post talking about how this design is piss-poor.
Forcing players to replay large sections of your game after death is a barrier to entry for many players and a clean, easy place to opt out for most. Ask yourself this. What's more important? That the player get through 10 minutes of gameplay without dying or that the player keep playing your game? I would guess that the vast majority of the time the goal is for the latter to occur. That gets people playing and enjoying more of your game. It gets them to tell their friends or have other people try the game. If you really want to punish players for dying, why not make it only on your hardest difficulties for those players who want that sort of challenge?
We're getting better at this as an industry but still have a long way to go. The answer isn't, in my mind, let the player save anywhere. It's almost 2010. Save state should be invisible to the player. The player should never worry about if the game is saved and how to reload and which reload to use. The game should automatically do the right thing. I'm not saying we need to go the Bioshock or Prey model and remove any punishment from death. I'm saying a light slap on the wrist is sufficient. Don't kick me in the scrotum.
There are, as always, exceptions. Survival horror games would lose much of the horror if there wasn't a significant negative consequence for death. Games who's appeal is purely based around extreme challenge would also fit in as an exception. Most games, however, implement checkpoints poorly due to them being low on the rung of important things to do during development of the game. Sometimes they are the last thing to get put in. Other times, no one is checking them to make sure they aren't too far apart.
This isn't a good reason. We need to break the mold that punishes the players for playing and trying, and instead let players embrace failure not fear it. Let's start treating our players with some amount of decency and maybe they'll actually finish our games. The best part is, this is an easy to solve problem that just takes some forethought and common sense and testing to make sure you got it right.
We can do so much better. Let's start.
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I agree, encouraging the user to keep playing your game is definitely the right approach. It is a tricky thing to balance however. Where is the line drawn between too many checkpoints and too little? Bioshock and Prince of Persia are good examples of this. Both these games attempt to not punish the player for failing, yet both have been criticized for being 'too easy'.
We've changed the way we deal with player failure quite a bit in recent years. Most likely caused by an attempt to capture more casual gamers. Sometimes, this comes at the cost of the more hardcore gamers.
As we look to the future I believe we'll figure out a formula that pleases both crowds.I think this is where we can start using difficulty levels for one (and letting players CHANGE difficulty levels on the fly, not just when starting a new game).
Most players are willing to accept playing a couple minutes of a game over. 10 minutes is daunting. That's the key to me. Minimize the impact, not eliminate.I agree whole heartedly. As someone who would like to eventually get into this industry, these are the little thing in games that make or break them for me. I agree that the way Bioshock did it for a FPS was kind of wrong, I feel that a system like that was better suited for a game like Oblivion. I think that Bungie has it right about the checkpoint system. I know that if I have to start a major skirmish in say Halo ODST and I die, which I do lol, I will be right back at the thick of it ready to try again. Sometimes I do not understand why game companies do the things they do in games. I guess they are trying to just get their product out there and hope someone buys it, but seriously, how hard can it be to think about small things like checkpoints. I agree that if you want to make the game harder then the harder difficulties should allow those kinds of options. Can we really think of games like Resident Evil that would suffer from this? RE4 might of suffered from this kind of system, but RE5? That game is so far from what Resident Evil was it makes me sad sometimes. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ZOMBIES?? heh ok sorry off topic. I think that you are correct sir on how companies handle these things. Maybe they should think of things like the people buying and playing their games rather than the money they get from them? I do not know as I am not in the industry yet, but one day maybe people like me will be there to think of moments where you stopped playing because you had to restart a whole level and say "Hey Guys . . ."
ReplyDeleteI don't recall being punished by any particular game's checkpoint system but I do feel that this is one element should be included in the players choice of difficulty options. Both Volition and Rockstar learnt the value of checkpoints and used them in the DLC releases for Red Faction Guerilla and GTAIV respectively. This inclusion vastly improved the enjoyment of the game because it eliminated much of the dead time associated with the start of missions in open world games, preventing the boring repetition of driving to a battle again and again in the event of failture. I think you make a valid point with your rant :P and hope others take heed.
ReplyDeleteOne thread that often comes up in these discussions (on your twitter discourse leading up to this post, for example) is 'how far is too far?' I think this is the meta question that things like making the game too easy peel from.
For me, the sticking issue is that the purpose of a save (whether manual or automatic) is to allow the player to remake a choice. Sometimes it's a choice that leads to failure ("I jumped too early and fell down a pit") or a choice that leads to dissatisfaction ("I bought the wrong doodads and now my character looks ugly").
(Note that in this regard, a save is identical to an undo: The analogy in software is complete, and a game like Braid demonstrates this usefully.)
So, saves are bad if they do either of two things:
1) They don't roll back far enough, so the critical choice has already been made. Like that time every player has in a shooter where they save the game with a grenade under their feet; every time they load, they immediately blow up. Frustrating!
2) The game rolls back past either good choices or non-choices that the player has already made, and the player is forced to relive them. Re-enacting a winning strategy is boring, and going through a non-interactice scene is boring. Frustrating!
This is completely separate from issues of challenge: Whether I'm a hardcore and want to repeatedly have my butt kicked, or whether I'm a casual and just want to get the experience, I still don't want to do anything but face interesting, unsolved challenges.@JXs I don't know if I'd use Goldeneye as an illustration of this, but yes, checkpoints can be sparse, so long as replaying that long segment remains interesting. For example, in Hitman I rarely felt pained if I hadn't saved in a while, because I knew that I could try something completely different when I loaded. In Hitman 2, they made the levels more linear and drastically reduced the player's options, and so I was way more compulsive on the quicksave coz I didn't want to lose progress made.
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i know this was posted half a year ago but i just gamefly'd demon souls and this game is a good example. the game is hard to begin with and every time you die you start from the beginning no matter how far you gotten into the level and all the enemies respawned. i never leveled up or anything. i even tried a stronger character and could pass the first level. i played it for 3 hours.
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Movie (1990)
An ageing Los Angeles cop is determined to bring a ruthless German crime boss to justice, but after his partner is killed, he is taken off the case and assigned the job of showing a rookie detective the ropes. However, he decides to secretly continue his investigation, leaving his new sidekick with a difficult dilemma. Action thriller, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. With Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt and Lara Flynn Boyle
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Terminator, The
The Terminator is the 1984 science fiction film directed by James Cameron that stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg sent by machines from the future with the sole mission of eliminating the woman who will give birth to the leader of the future human resistance. Arnold Schwarzenegger would reprise the role in the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and as well as appear via CGI in 2009's Terminator Salvation. Terminator: Genisys is the 2015 sequel that is reportedly the first in a proposed trilogy of feature films and Schwarzenegger returns in a starring role.
The following weapons were used in the film The Terminator:
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AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide
The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) acquires an AMT Hardballer Longslide with a primitive laserlock sight (a one-off made by someone from a company that would later become SureFire) in addition to several other weapons from a gunshop shortly after his arrival from 2029. He first uses it to terminate two women from a phone book who share the name Sarah Connor. When he arrives at the real Connor's (Linda Hamilton) apartment, he is seen with it when confronting her roommate, Ginger Ventura (Bess Motta). Upon tracking Sarah to the Tech Noir nightclub, the Terminator loses this weapon when Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) intervenes in the attempted termination, at which point he switches to his IMI Uzi.
Smith & Wesson Model 15
After Kyle and Sarah are apprehended by the police later on, several officers can be seen holding Smith & Wesson Model 15s. Several officers also use S&W Model 15s when the Terminator raids the police station. A nickel-plated Model 15 is also seen being wielded by the Terminator when he runs out of ammunition for his AR-18 during the car chase at the end.
Colt Trooper
Soon after arriving in the present, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) grabs a Colt Trooper from a police officer and holds him at gunpoint while demanding to be told the current date, then flees into a nearby department store when more police arrive. In that scene, the revolver resembles more closely a Smith & Wesson model 15 'Combat Masterpiece', as the typical S&W thumbpiece can be seen - On a S&W it has to be pushed forward rather than pushed backwards to unlock the cylinder, as is the case with a Colt double-action revolver.
Ruger Security Six
In a deleted scene, a gravely wounded Lieutenant Edward Traxler (Paul Winfield) gives Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) a snubnose Ruger Security Six as he and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) escape the police station. In another deleted scene, Kyle instinctively aims this revolver at Sarah when the two get into a tense confrontation. Later, at the Tiki motel, Kyle gives it to Sarah when he leaves to buy supplies. At the end of the film, Sarah carries a full size stainless Ruger Security Six with rubber grips on her lap as she rides through the Mexican desert.
Colt Python
A Colt Python is briefly seen in the hands of a police officer that searches the patrol car that the Terminator abandoned.
Smith & Wesson Model 36
A detective is seen dropping what appears to be a Smith & Wesson Model 36 when Reese knocks him out during the Terminator's assault on the police station.
Submachine Guns
IMI Uzi
Another weapon the Terminator acquires from the Gun Shop at the start of the film is an IMI Uzi. His purchasing of this is rather unrealistic, since civilian semi-auto Uzi carbines were always sold with a 16" barrel per legal requirements. A short dummy barrel was sometimes installed to entice buyers; the gun sold here, however, is just a regular open-bolt Uzi. James Cameron mentioned in the magazine "Soldier of Fortune" that he assumed that in story terms the Terminator had converted the Uzi and the AR-18 into full auto weapons in his hotel room. The Terminator uses the Uzi mainly in the Tech Noir nightclub, when Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) interferes with his attempts to terminate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). After losing his .45, the Terminator unloads several rounds at the nightclub, killing quite a few innocent bystanders, but fails to hit Sarah, or Kyle. He loses the weapon when Kyle uses his Ithaca to blast him out of the club's window. Another Uzi with a wooden stock is very briefly seen in a flashback sequence of Kyle Reese remembering the "Skin Job" Terminator attacking his Resistance base.
The Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun is another firearm used by the Terminator. The Terminator first is seen with the shotgun in the gun store and then is one of the two weapons he uses during the assault on the police station. A SPAS-12 is also seen in the hands of a human Resistance fighter in one of the "Future War" flashbacks. The SPAS-12's top folding stock was removed by the Terminator before the attack at the police station, presumably since a Terminator would not need the stock for recoil or stability. Schwarzenegger fired the SPAS-12 with one hand, displaying the 'strength' of the Cyborg.
Ithaca 37 (Extended Magazine Tube with Sawed Off stock)
Upon arriving in present day Los Angeles, Reese (Michael Biehn) procures an Ithaca 37 shotgun from an unattended police car. In addition to having a high-capacity magazine tube, Reese saws off part of the stock to give it a pistol grip instead, making it easier to conceal under his trenchcoat. He is also seen attaching it to himself with a piece of rope (a reference is made to this in 2009's Terminator Salvation). Reese notably uses it against the Terminator in the Tech Noir nightclub shootout (knocking him back several feet, which seems even more unlikely given he is a cyborg), and the ensuing car chase after he and Sarah escape the car garage. Between acquiring the Ithaca and discharging it for the first time in the night club, Reese pumps the handle three times. First when he saws off the stock, again when he wakes up from his nightmare and for the third time just before shooting the Terminator at the night club. Not a single time is a shell ejected from the extraction port, which suggests Reese unloaded it prior to sawing off the stock, and only loaded it before he entered the night club. In a continuity error, an Ithaca without the extended mag tube is seen being held by Reese in the shootout.
Ithaca 37
Following the skirmish at the Tech Noir nightclub, the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) acquires his own Ithaca 37. The model used by the Terminator is the standard police model with a full stock, and 4-shot magazine. He keeps it with him while he stalks Kyle and Sarah in the parking garage. He then uses it to exchange fire with Kyle in the ensuing chase. During the police station massacre, a few cops can be seen with Ithaca 37s. During the shootout at the Tech Noir nightclub, Reese's Ithaca 37 turns into a 4-shot Ithaca 37 in a continuity error.
Yet another of the Terminator's guns is an Armalite AR-18 assault rifle. The gun is used with the stock removed (like the SPAS-12) and with two magazines taped together in a 'jungle style' configuration. He uses it primarily during the assault on the police station and during the car chase following the motel scene. The script refers to the rifle as an AR-18 and it is shown as such in the movie, though rather obviously a California gun store in 1984 would never sell a fully automatic rifle over the counter. The Terminator novel excuses this by stating the T-800 instead took a civilian AR-180 semi-automatic rifle and converted it to full-auto using tools stolen from a hardware store earlier in the day.
During the assault on the police station by the Terminator, several police officers head to the armory and begin passing out M16A1 rifles with 20-round magazines. Lt. Edward Traxler (Paul Winfield) is seen with an M16A1 and uses the rifle to shoot the Terminator in the back (which resulted in the Terminator turning around with his own AR-18 rifle). Detective Hal Vukovich (Lance Henriksen) opens up on the Terminator with one after finding Traxler wounded by the cyborg. The Terminator returns fire with both the AR-18 and SPAS-12.
Heckler & Koch G3A3
A number of Heckler & Koch G3 rifles can be seen in the hands of human resistance fighters responsible for guarding a human bunker in 2029, fitted with the wide handguard and the G3's proprietary bipod. This makes sense, as a 7.62mm battle rifle would be a logical choice against heavily armored enemies. A number of the G3's civilian cousin, the HK91 rifle can be seen on the gun racks at the Alamo Gun Store in 1984.
Valmet M82A
A Valmet M82A is used as Kyle Reese's plasma gun in the future war scenes. This Valmet M82A moved the front sight to the body of the rifle rather than the barrel versus the M82. An interesting trivia note is that Kyle's appearance in these scenes was the inspiration for the cover art of the first Metal Gear game.
Machine Guns
Browning M2HB
Browning M2HB heavy machine guns are seen during the future war flashback sequences.
Lahti L-39
Amongst other miscellanous weapons in the Alamo Gun Store, a WW2 Finnish-made Lahti L-39 anti-tank rifle is on display.
"General Dynamics RSB-80 plasma gun"
A heavy gun is used by the Infiltrator Terminator (Franco Columbu) upon secretly entering the Resistance's underground bunker. This rapid-fire laser cannon was identified in the Terminator novelization as the "General Dynamics RSB-80 plasma gun". The weapon has a custom barrel shroud and appears to be mocked up from either a Maxim or Vickers machine gun. A similar cannon is also seen on the sunroof of the car driven by Reese while being chased by the Aerial HK. It is interesting that prop weapon really had a muzzle flash (probably acetylene), as seen in the shots without visual effects of plasma beams, that leaked into the original teaser trailer.
See the Discussion section for some interesting and detailed non gun-related trivia on the film.
For the film's teaser trailer, an animated sequence depicts Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator holding a skillfully drawn M1911A1 instead of the AMT Hardballer Longslide. The art appears to be based on early character concepts drawn by James Cameron himself and it's possible that he drew and animated the entire sequence.
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