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Anyone else having trouble with "pregnancy brain"??? This morning I ran into the back of the car in front of me because I thought the gas pedal was the brake pedal...Friday night I must have thrown my toothbrush in the trash because that's where I found it Saturday morning. Yesterday I put the cheese and mayo in the pantry after making myself a sandwich....HELP! I feel like a total mess!! Anyone else going through this?
Pregnancy Brain??
friday i came home to a kitchen of bubbles.. used regular dishwash soap for the dishwasher!!!!!
saturday , was in the car on way to pick up my hubby at the airport , but he took his own car there and parked it.. wouldnt i see a car missing?!
im totally loosing it!
...I put the lettuce in the freezer.
I find myself doing all kinds of weird and stupid things. It like my brain has checked out for the duration.
I forgot how to use the phone in my office.... after SEVENTEEN YEARS. I know your pain girl.
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I made cookies for a super bowl party and forgot to turn the oven off! I didn't realize until the safety shutoff alarm was going off 12 hours later!! Scary!
Reading these posts have made me feel so much better! Not to mention I've enjoyed the laughs (at myself too!).
I forgot one of my other spoofs from this weekend.....I came millimeters away from wiping off my eye makeup with my very alcoholic face toner (instead of my very mild eye makeup remover). Yikes!
Yes, I've been totally spacey! My husband keeps looking at me like I'm crazy. I tell him to give me a break, it's just pregnancy brain. :) I think it's hilarious because I'm not usually like this.
Haha! I have been known to leave the stove and oven on.....pre-pregnancy!
LOL yes, this is me. I put the cereal in the fridge & the milk in the pantry. I walk around with something in my hand (like my phone) going "Where is my phone?!" In addition, I seem to have become more clumsy!
My pregobrain got me a $124 traffic ticket yesterday, first one in 8 years. Apparently, stop signs denote stopping at a specific point in the road...

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Bob Marley's Jewish Father
On what would have been Marley's 68th birthday, a look at his roots
This past August, The Scroll made the startlingly discovery that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock, was in fact halakhically Jewish. Would lightning strike twice on Bob Marley's 68th birthday?
The love affair between Jews and Bob Marley is one of the world's worst kept secrets. For some, it has to do with Marley's music as some kind of aural accompaniment for smoking pot. For others, it has to do with the attribution of Jewish wandering ("Exodus") or the defiance and prideful yearning for home ("Iron Lion Zion" and "Redemption Song") in Marley's songs. For others yet, it's
less cliché more inchoate.
So when we learned that Marley's father, Norval, from whom Marley was estranged, was the son of Ellen Broomfield, a white Jewish Syrian Jamaican (beat that!), it made some sense. Norval Marley was born in Jamaica in 1885 (although the record is disputed) and, by the time he paired up with Marley's mother Cedella, he was said to have been 60 years old. Norval Marley's relationship with Cedella didn't last long and he died of a heart attack when Marley was 12.
Does this mean we can claim Bob Marley? No, probably not. But if we did, here are some Marley tracks that I'd love to see.
"I Shot the Shochet"
"Do Worry"
"Buffalo Schleper"
"Could You Be Lourved?"
Got any others?
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Behind the scenes at Quantum of the Seas' Two70 show
By David Szondy
November 21, 2014
Earlier this month, Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas cruise ship, with its high-tech Bionic Bar and Two70 multimedia theater, set sail on its maiden voyage. Gizmag chatted on the phone with one of the key people behind the interactive performance venue Two70, Tim Magill of 5+design, for a look behind the scenes of the space and its robotic performers. Read More
Designs have been unveiled for a 320 ft (98 m) observation tower and vertical gondola ride in New Orleans. The Tricentennial Tower concept is part of plans to redevelop the World Trade Center New Orleans building. Read More
If you've already written your Christmas list for Santa, you may want to redraft it. That's because there's a new device available that lets you shoot balls of fire from your hands. Yes, like a superhero. Read More
Airbus looking at virtual reality helmets for stressed passengers
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September 24, 2014
For many people, modern air travel is so stressful and unpleasant that they'd much rather be somewhere else. In an effort to oblige them, Airbus is building on its windowless virtual reality cockpit concept with its patent application for a VR helmet that's designed to let passengers swap the discomfort of Coach for a more calming virtual experience. Read More
Microsoft announces standalone Kinect sensor for Xbox One
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August 28, 2014
After Microsoft started offering the Xbox One without the Kinect sensor earlier this year to better complete with Sony's PS4, it was only a matter of time before a standalone Kinect was released. That time has now arrived, with a standalone Kinect to be available from October 7. Read More
Popular English tourist spot Brighton will soon gain a new landmark to join its famous pier. The same team responsible for the London Eye ferris wheel has started work on a large-scale observation tower dubbed the Brighton i360. The observation tower will feature a large glass pod that offers views of up to 30 miles away (48.2 km) on a clear sunny day. Read More
Logitech recently launched its Illuminated Living-Room Keyboard K830, which is aimed at those who have a PC connected to a big screen and need a companion keyboard. Not only does it illuminate in the dark while you're watching a flick, but it also allows you to control Windows 7 or 8 from the built-in touchpad. Read on, as Gizmag reviews Logitech's living room PC companion. Read More
Back in January, French startup Keecker made a bit of a CES splash with a cute and curvy home entertainment computer capable of moving around on its own or as instructed by an app-based remote, and transforming any wall, door or ceiling into a huge projected screen. Gizmag dropped in on the company's Paris home at the weekend for a chat with CEO and Founder Pierre Lebeau, and a one-on-one with the multi-talented Keecker prototype. Read More
BugJuggler is a 70 ft tall robot that its designers claim will hurl full-size cars into the sky and catch them again in mid-air. Designed to use a diesel generator, enormous hydraulic rams, and hydraulic accumulators to allow for rapid movements, BugJuggler will not only be impressively large, but exceptionally agile for its size. Read More
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June 20, 2014
With an abundance of kid-oriented tablets and high-tech toys, children have more reasons than ever to stay fixed firmly to the couch. While the popularity of Angry Birds and Minecraft speaks volumes for video entertainment's ability to engage, the gadgets that inspire beyond the screen perhaps don't get quite the same fanfare. With this in mind, Gizmag has rounded up some top tech to help keep youngsters occupied. Read More


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New tech uses silicon glass for data storage
By Ben Coxworth
August 19, 2011
Recently we heard about the M-DISC, which can reportedly store data in a rock-like medium for up to 1,000 years. Now, scientists from the University of Southampton have announced the development of a new type of nanostructured glass technology. Not only might it have applications in fields such as microscopy, but it apparently also has the ability to optically store data forever. Read More
Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from both normal use and environmental exposure and have an average lifespan of under 10 years. A new optical disc company based in Salt Lake City called Millenniata is set to deliver a new type of optical disc that can be read on standard DVD drives but will safely store data for up to 1,000 years. Read More
Smart introduces the blisteringly fast Optimus 1.6TB SSD
By Paul Ridden
August 5, 2011
It wasn't so long ago that speed junkies were foaming at the mouth at the read/write performance offered by Intel's 510 series of SSD storage solutions. Now Smart has announced that it's managed to squeeze up to 1.6TB of solid state memory into the 2.5-inch form factor Optimus drive and leave the competition standing with a sequential read of up to 1GB/s, and write of 500MB/s. Read More
With automobiles, we're currently at a point in history where some of the advantages of electric vehicles are becoming apparent, yet the internal combustion engine still has its merits – as a result, a lot of people are buying gas/electric hybrids. Well, the LaCie CloudBox sort of represents the same thing, except for data storage. It's a hard drive, which people trust and are used to, yet it automatically backs everything up to the cloud, which seems to be the direction in which things are heading. Just think of it as a Prius for your computer. Read More
The world's most poorly organized technology tradeshow, Computex Taipei, finished on the weekend, and one of the many wonderful products lost amongst the clutter caused by the dysfunctional organization was the Kingston Wi-Drive, a rugged Flash-based portable storage solution with built-in wifi that allows three Apple device users to stream different file types simultaneously without any performance disruption. The additional 16GB (US$130) or 32GB (US$175) storage and convenient file sharing make it a perfect companion device for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Read More
The end of traditional spinning disks might have come one step closer with the release of Micron's new blazing fast solid-state drive. Although PCIe drives have been on the market for some time, none of them have ever attained the speed of this newest arrival. The RealSSD P320h is capable of 3GBps when reading, and 2GBps when writing data. Read More
With a lack of USB ports or SD card reader there's no easy way to expand the storage capacity of an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. With the iPad and iPod touch topping out at 64GB and many opting for the cheaper, lower capacity models, many users are either faced with the task of picking and choosing and switching and swapping the media files and documents they think they'll be wanting to enjoy, or looking for an app to stream media over the Internet to their device. With this latter option leaving users at the mercy of increasingly congested Wi-Fi hotspots or chewing through data over 3G or 4G networks, Seagate has just announced another solution in the form of the GoFlex Satellite that combines a 500GB portable HDD with a built in wireless streamer to let users take their entire media library with them. Read More
Russian-based design studio Art. Lebedev of Optimus keyboard fame has turned its hand to data storage with the disposable, recyclable "Flashkus" USB stick concept. Read More
Seagate unveils 1 Terabyte per platter HDD
By Gizmag Team
May 3, 2011
Seagate has set a new commercial benchmark for HDD storage by breaking the 1 TB areal density barrier. The company has announced it will bring the world's first 3.5-inch hard drive with 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter to market in its GoFlex Desk product line, with the 3 TB Barracuda XT desktop hard drive (3 x 1 TB platters) expected to hit shelves in mid-2011. Read More
SanDisk and Toshiba announce 19nm NAND flash memory
By Paul Ridden
April 24, 2011
As our use of mobile technology increases, so does our demand for more built-in device storage capacity in smaller and smaller form factors. Only a few weeks have passed since Intel began using its 25 nanometer (nm) NAND flash memory in its 320 series SSD storage solutions and just days since the company joined with Micron Technology to announce the breakthrough 20nm process technology. Now SanDisk and Toshiba have developed and fabricated NAND flash memory modules with 19nm process technology. Read More


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AOL Pays Millions in Accounting Mishap
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On Monday, America Online [1] agreed to pay $3.5 million in civil damages based on improperly accounting for advertising revenues. The case also marks the first time the Securities and Exchange Commission [2] has levied its power on a public company for capitalization matters.
The case dates back to profits in six of eight quarters during 1995 and 1996 that were listed as deferred revenue instead of associated with acquiring new customers to use company services.
Analysts say the action taken by the SEC clearly says that anyone conducting business via the Internet should prepare their financial statements in present scenarios rather than basing the reporting on the future.


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The app supports PDF reading functionality and navigation via the Contents button, embedded hyperlinks, bookmarks, markup and annotations. By "secure PDF reader" we mean that Javelin supports DRM-protected PDF files (DRMZ files) as well as standard PDF files. The DRM protection facility is created using the free Drumlin software from Drumlin Security Ltd. For DRM protected usage Android v4.1 or later on tablets or tablet-like phones only is recommended.
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Documents can be downloaded to Javelin for Android in one of three principal ways:
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(iii) the app supports a third file format, which is an xml structure for lists of documents ("catalogs"). This essentially provides a shortcut for the download procedure, as the xml file includes a description of the file and the url of the file to be downloaded, thereby simplifying the download process for the user. These xml lists can themselves be downloaded via an explicit URL download request (as per (i) above) or may be pre-loaded – a sample catalog is pre-loaded. Zipped catalog files are now supported - see documentation for details.
DRMZ files: these files are a form of PDF file that require an authorization code in order to enable them for your device. The sample catalog includes a demo file with code: abcabcabc for you to test this process. Simply tap the field for the code when prompted, type in the code provided, and press the OK button. An active G3 or WiFi connection is required for the authorization process to work, as the details are checked on our servers. For other DRMZ files downloaded to or copied to Javelin for Android, a code will be provided to you by the document publisher. Authorization codes are 9 characters (numbers and lower case letters) and are specific to individual documents. For more details please contact us: email@example.com
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Maybe a student's exercise? Or maybe dev thought "Play" Store is like "Pretend" Store. (It is a dumb and confusing name for an app market so I could understand such a mistake.) Whatever. This thing shouldn't be on Store: Its functionality is painfully limited and its usage is non-standard for Android.
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In a clinch (if both fighters are orthodox) put your left cheek against the outside of your opponents left shoulder. This acts as a guard to your chin. Cross your right arm across your body to block any hooks to your left rib. Then...
Raise your opponents left arm with your left arm and swing a right hook to the left of his body. If he takes a step back as you do it then let him have an uppercut instead. He wont have a defence against it and you should be fully covered against any counters until the very last moment when you throw the punch.
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I have a few dirty tricks but I am not suggesting they should be used, it's good to be at least familiar with them to better defend oneself.
To best utilize dirty tricks, you must know where the ref is, and use them where the ref can't see them.
1. Holding the ropes. If you get a runner along the ropes and he's escaping, you can grab the ropes and keep him from exiting. This one's hard to hide from the ref, so you'll probably get called on it. If you fake a left hook to grab the ropes, it's possible to hide it.
2. Lacing. Usually punches are thrown with the laces facing you. Turning the fist exposes the laces to your opponent. If a guy's cut, you can really open a wound by lacing it. Throw a rising left, ref on your opponent's right (hiding the punch), your palm facing him.
3. Head Butt. Many guys come into you with their heads coming straight in, ala Tyson Hollyfield. You don't have to do a billy goat at him. Let his motion into you do the damage, but always hit with the top of your forhead, the soccer line between the forhead and the flat of the head. It's the head's hardest point. It can do alot of damage, and hurts like hell. Again, do it when the ref can's see the foul.
4. Stepping on feet. It's very upsetting to one's rhythm and balance to have your foot stepped on. Runners especialy hate it. Stepping on the foot will take him out of his game for a moment; he'll likely make a motion to complain. Full attack a moment after stepping on the foot.
5. Elbows. Looping punches can be followed up with elbows. Look at the classic shot Marciano gave Jersey Joe - Rocky threw his patented looping right hand, bent his forearm slightly, and creamed him full on with an elbow. Very punishing.
6. Shoulder shots. If the ref's on your right, and your opponent is moving in with his head by your left cheek, you can throw your shoulder int his face.
7. Thumbs. Though today's gloves are such that there's little hand movement, if you can get some mobility to your thumb you can shoot it with a jab to the eye. This is a particularly nasty shot, because detatched retinas and blindness can result. Greb lost use of his eye from a thumb by Kid Graves (I believe that was the guy). 'Course, Harry was one of the (if not THE) dirtiest fighter in the game. Greb said of Kid G, "He had a better thumb than I had."
8. Body Blocking. When an opponent comes in, lean into him and bump his chest hard with your shoulder, sending him back, and attacking hard when he goes back. The ref is likely to come between, but before that you might be able to blast him with some shots, since he's likely to be out of his game for a spell.
9. Holding behind the head. Ali was a master of this. Watch his matches with Joe Frazier. Let a smaller opponent, or an opponent who keeps his head low feel your weight, over and over. It's ennervating. Scoop his right hand with your left, trap it with your arm against your side. Hold him behind his head with your hand, elbow in, and lean in and down. Do it with your friend, and you'll get a sense of the attrition that will follow repeated use of this tactic. Always, in clenches, try to make your opponent carry your weight.
10. Leg/Hip punching. A slug to the thigh or hip can cause serious damage to a runner. It's hard to run with a friggin charlie horse! The punches that hurt Ali the worst after his first fight with Frazier were the shots to his hips! The best way I know to camaflage those punches are wide weaving to the side preceding up hooks. "Accidentally" hit those vulnerable places.
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I never use dirty boxing myself, but i have come across some 'morally questionable techniques' -
Whenever your in a clinch, repeatedly rub the crown of your head against your opponent's eyebrow / cheekbone (if you have hair this should help). Aim your punches / accidental elbows into those areas and before you know it your opponent will be cut......not that I would use such underhanded tactics
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Boxers have been doing things like this for over a 100 years. How much of it you get away with depends on your ability to finesse the move and the level of enforcement by the referee. Bernard Hopkins was a master at dirty boxing and rarely had point deductions.
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We got the famous headbutt.
Pull them to the corner.
I dont know if it counts as dirty but i stick my boxing glove on the guys face push it back and throw a hook on his mandible
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wait for him to apologize and then throw a jab and a straight.
just make sure its" touch gloves tomake it official "
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when i have someone close to the ropes i use my shoulders and elbows to kinda push him to the corner or against the ropes for good, and like one guy said punch his hips if he's a runner, give a little elbow to midsection (be sneaky though) more of a push with the elbow then move cheek on his shoulder and look for good shots to the liver, or a quick uppercut left hook combo then cover again. i do this a lot must say very effective, saw duran/ frazier doing these tricks and tried learning from them. But if they do run off after just be patient, after all you just got some good shots in.
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Stepping on your opponents feet is pretty good
Also, if you're fighting inside shoulder to shoulder, you can pivot clockwise and shouder them right to the jaw.
And whoever says jabbing to the lead arm of an opponent is a dirty trick needs to do a range check
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I am for the most part a very clean fighter, however when I get fouled and the ref doesent call it after a few times I can turn it in to that kind of fight. Mentioned before elbows when tall rangey opponents try to hold me I put my forearm right in his throat, not as a strike but i put it out there from preventing him from holding on to me. Miss a left hook and turn it in to an elbow. Push their head down hard and then all of a sudden release them and they will be trying so hard to push up that they'll come up way to high and with a chin up and then throw an uppercut. Never cared for using my head that seems too dirty for me. When in a telephone booth fight grab your opponents right elbow with your left hand and pull/twist him hard and simultaneously throw a right in to the pit of his stomach so it gets extra torque. I'm not a dirty fighter but i've learned these along the way
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UWRF Receives Second Place at Regional Academic Quadrathlon
By Kendra Knutson
The UWRF team included: Adam Ward, a senior dairy science major from Arpin, Wis., Patrick Wiltzius, a senior majoring in dairy science from Ripon, Wis., Kate LeVasseur, a senior animal science major from Plover, Wis., and John Schneider, a senior majoring in animal science from Black Creek, Wis.
Animal and food science Professors Gary Onan and Sylvia Kehoe from the UWRF College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences accompanied the team to Iowa and acted as advisors.
The competition consisted of a written exam, laboratory practicum, an oral presentation and a quiz bowl. The content of the four segments of the competition dealt with all aspects of production animal agriculture, including questions and exercises concerning management of dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine, sheep, poultry and horses. Also included were the academic disciplines of animal science such as nutrition, physiology, breeding and genetics, and animal health.
Members of the team prepared in different ways for the event. Schneider noted he had not prepared extensively other than looking over some poultry and beef information. He explained that the group reviewed old class notes on the trip to Iowa.
Wiltzius admitted that he studied a few hours. "I also worked with Dr. Onan on some of the sheep subjects," said Wiltzius.
UWRF was beaten by Ohio State University in the third round, which dropped UWRF to the consolation rounds. UWRF went on to win the rest of their matches by large margins and eventually came to meet OSU again in the final rounds. Since quiz bowl is double elimination, UWRF had to beat OSU twice in order to win. The team managed to win the first round but dropped the second, which put it into its final placing of second overall.
"I was very proud of the way our team continued to focus and do well throughout the quiz bowl event," said Onan. "I think our performance in the AQ illustrates that we provide a level of animal science education at UWRF that is the equivalent to that found at any major, nationally recognized agricultural college."
Other teams in the competition included: Ohio State University (1st place), University of Illinois (3rd), Iowa State University (4th), North Dakota State University (5th), Michigan State University (6th), South Dakota State University, University of Minnesota, Kansas State University, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, University of Nebraska, Southern Illinois University, Illinois State University, and West Virginia University.
AQ member Kate LeVasseur, who will be attending vet school in the fall to become a large animal practitioner, said she enjoyed her experience on the team.
"It's just another example of the wide variety of opportunities that UWRF provides for students," said LeVasseur. "I've enjoyed my undergraduate experience here and have been able to explore my interests."
Wiltzius, who would like a career in the food safety field working on agri-terrorism and biosecurity issues, also enjoyed being part of the second place team.
"I was very excited about receiving second place," said Wiltzius, "We were the underdogs there, because we were competing against the likes of Ohio State University, University of Nebraska, Southern Illinois University, along with other big name schools."
Schneider, who sees himself as an animal nutritionist in the future, was happy with second place but also a little upset. "It was just frustrating to do so well in three categories and only get second place," said Schneider.
The Academic Quadrathlon is sponsored jointly by the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association.
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Dan Snyder Is Not a Wiesenthal Donor
He remains, however, a petulant, free speech-hating bully
JTA's Ron Kampeas has done some reporting into the Simon Wiesenthal Center's absurd charge that Washington City Paper, which has been sued by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder over a negative-but-true piece it published about him last November, was trafficking in anti-Semitic imagery in the article's cover image (see left). Turns out Snyder is not a Center donor, but did solicit their backing. I guess it is comforting to know that the Center wasn't simply prostituting its credibility out to the highest bidder. On the other hand, gthey really must believe that the image is anti-Semitic, which means they are stupider than I would have thought possible.
Washingtonians have known for some time about Snyder's evil megalomania: It's part of what made Dave McKenna's brilliant polemic against him so funny and so apt. However, as local television sports anchor Brett Haber (a Member of the Tribe, naturally) perceptively notes, Snyder's tantrums, idiotic hires and fires, and all the other things that have made the Skins one of the league's least successful teams during his ownership tenure, were ultimately "his prerogative." This goes way, way, way beyond that. His must-watch commentary is below.
Dan Snyder's Very Bad Day [Capital J]
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Enjoy free newspapers in the lobby, where you will also find a safe at reception for your valuables. Planning a meeting? This hotel has 13 meeting rooms, as well as a 24-hour business center. Other amenities include an area shuttle, dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking and laundry facilities.
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January 31st is the traditional mark of the New Year to every Chinese individual, no matter in China or abroad. This year is the year of the horse. Far away from family and friends, Chinese international students spent an unforgettable new year in the United States.
To celebrate New Year's coming and to help more Americans learn about Chinese culture, Chinese Student and Scholar Association at Indiana State University directed a celebration party on January 26th. With the students from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College as well as the Terre Haute Chinese School.
There were ancient Chinese costumes in a fashion show, Chinese traditional instruments, Chinese traditional dance, jazz, choir, vocal duet, clarinet, violin and piano performances. The celebration lasted an hour and a half, and it received high praise from the audience.
According to information from the performers, they had been preparing for that party for over a month. They started to organize the event before Christmas break. Some students even went back to China to take the necessary properties here.
Although tired, all the Chinese students enjoyed this party. Yang Wu, an international student from China at SMWC, who performed three piano accompaniments, said, " I am so happy that we can show our culture to Americans. It is also a good chance to display ourselves and help to build versatile image. More Americans can know about China and Chinese. I believe we do an excellent job."
On January 31st, a lot of Chinese individuals in Terre Haute got together in the World Gospel Church. They made dumplings, played games, sang and danced to celebrate their biggest festival.
"This is my first time to spend Chinese New Year without parents. Although it is not as good as home, I am not sad and still enjoy it with friends. It is a totally different experience. We learn a lot, and we know the love with families better. I really miss them, and I will take care of myself so that they need not to worry about me." Tao Liu, another international student said.
It is understood that Taiwan celebrates the same New Year day with China. On February 2nd, they held a big party led by the Taiwanese Student Association at ISU. They performed Taiwan-featured programs. Besides the programs, they organized some small games and also sold special Taiwanese jewelry.
There are 13 international students on our campus: 8 from China, 2 from Taiwan, 2 from South Korea and 1 from Ireland. They are all far away from home for learning and experience a totally different New Year and culture here.
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During the last years, methods for remote homology detection have grown more and more sensitive and reliable. Automatic structure prediction servers relying on these methods can generate useful 3D models even below 20% sequence identity between the protein of interest and the known structure (template). When no homologs can be found in the protein structure database (PDB), the user would need to rerun the same search at regular intervals in order to make timely use of a template once it becomes available.
PDBalert is a web-based automatic system that sends an email alert as soon as a structure with homology to a protein in the user's watch list is released to the PDB database or appears among the sequences on hold. The mail contains links to the search results and to an automatically generated 3D homology model. The sequence search is performed with the same software as used by the very sensitive and reliable remote homology detection server HHpred, which is based on pairwise comparison of Hidden Markov models.
PDBalert will accelerate the information flow from the PDB database to all those who can profit from the newly released protein structures for predicting the 3D structure or function of their proteins of interest.
With the advent of remote homology detection methods relying on the pairwise comparison of sequence profiles, automatic protein structure prediction has become reliable and sensitive enough to be of more general use[1]. For more than half of all proteins in representative genomes, at least one domain can be modelled with decent accuracy by fully automatic methods [[2]; J. Soeding, unpublished data]. When no template can be identified, the user will typically rely on keyword tracking services or regular manual checks of the PDB[3] to find out if a related structure has been released. But keyword searches will miss most of the useful templates, since paralogous proteins generally have different names while most will be sufficiently related to serve as templates for homology modelling or to generate hypotheses about possible functions.
Several freely available automatic systems have been developed to perform sequence searches periodically and to notify users about interesting hits. Earlier tools use BLAST[4] to search Swiss-Prot[5] or the non-redundant sequence database at the NCBI: Swiss-Shop[6], DBWatcher[7], BLAST Search Updater[8], and Sequence Alerting System[9]. FastAlert[10] uses FASTA[11] to search the Swiss-Prot, EMBL data library and GenBank databases. Due to the limitations of the sequence search tools, these services are mainly useful for the detection of closely related sequences. ReHAB[12] and Re-searcher[13] employ the more sensitive method PSI-BLAST[14], but they need to be installed, configured and maintained locally. DbW[15] aims to update user-supplied alignments with homologous and functionally related sequences, using the HMMer method[16] to search Swiss-Prot and TREMBL. Except for Re-searcher, these tools do not provide an option to choose the target database or search parameters, and none except Swiss-shop allows to change preferences later. Most importantly, none of these tools allows to search the PDB database and none makes use of the reliable and considerably more powerful profile-profile comparison tools.
PDBalert is a new web-based automatic system for protein homology detection, which checks the PDB database every week for templates homologous to the proteins in the users' watch lists. PDBalert performs searches with HHpred[17], a very sensitive and reliable remote homology detection server based on pairwise comparison of profile Hidden Markov models (HMMs)[18]. As soon as a homolog to a protein of interest is found in the PDB or among the sequences on-hold that will soon be released to the PDB, the user is notified with an email containing the link to the results page and to a 3D homology model.
The left part of the flow diagram in Fig. 1 illustrates the steps during and upon uploading of sequences to a user's "watch list", while the right part details the weekly procedure of checking for new hits among the newly released structures. After registering and logging in to the Bioinformatics Toolkit[19] (Fig. 1, left), users can upload protein sequences to their watch lists kept in their accounts (Fig. 2A for a screenshot). Input can be one or more independent FASTA sequences, or a multiple sequence alignment in one of ten common formats. Search parameters may be modified and are kept in a central MySQL database (Fig. 1, middle). Upon uploading a query sequence or alignment, an alignment of homologs is built by the buildali.pl script from the HHsearch package[18], which is also employed in HHpred. Next, a profile HMM is generated from the multiple alignment. The query HMM is then compared using HHsearch with HMMs representatives of all PDB structures and all sequences currently on hold (downloaded from http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/searchStatusDoSearch.do?newSearch=yes&full=true&format=SEQ webcite). Three thesholds can be specified by the user to decide when an e-mail notification should be sent (HHpred probability, sequence identity, E-value). If the query protein matches a protein in the PDB (or among the on-hold sequences) according to all three threshold criteria, the user will be notified with an e-mail (see Fig. 2B) containing a link to the results page and to a 3D homology model created by the MODELER package[20] using the HHpred alignment with the newly identified template (Fig. 2C). All results are also stored in the database for at least 6 months. They can be accessed via links in the user's watch list (Fig. 2A), which also allows to add or delete sequences and to change search parameters and threshold probabilities.
Figure 1. PDBalert flow chart (see Methods section).
Figure 2. Representative screen shots. (A) PDBalert web interface with sequence upload section and personal watch list. (B) Email alert sent when significant hit is detected. (C) HHpred Results page containing alignment to PDBalert match.
Every week, newly released PDB structures are obtained and an HMM for each of them is generated (Fig. 1, right). They are then compared with all sequences in the users' watch lists, and email notifications are sent to those users whose sequences get hits that meet the user-definable threshold criteria.
Whenever possible, users should upload sequences of single protein domains, since sensitivity increases and the false discovery is rate reduced compared to multiple domains. When PDBalert confidently predicts a domain in a longer sequence, it is therefore recommended to split the sequence at the boundaries of the discovered domain and upload the segments separately to PDBalert. In practice, it may be useful to leave some overlap of up to 30 residues between the segments when domain boundaries are not precisely known.
The web-interface of PDBalert is built on a Ruby on Rails[21] architecture on a Linux platform together with a MySQL[22] database for storing user inputs and preferences. Users do not require anything except a web-browser. PDBalert is integrated into the Bioinformatics Toolkit, a user-friendly web system of interlinked tools for protein sequence analysis and structure prediction.
The biannual CASP benchmarks[1] as well as the many studies employing state-of-the-art remote homology detection and structure prediction servers such as FFAS[23], HHpred[17], SAM-T2K[24], 3DJury[25], and I-TASSER[26] testify to the usefulness of these automatic methods. However, we believe that their full potential is far from being fully exploited. The principle reasons are that (1) innovations take time to spread; (2) most servers do not have user-friendly interfaces nor help pages; (3) Only few servers provide reliable significance estimates; (4) The servers are generally too slow to allow one to wait for the results on-line, taking hours or days to finish and discouraging usage on a regular basis. PDBalert addresses the last point in particular, by noting that most biologists and biochemists will have a fairly limited and conserved set of proteins in the focus of their attention. PDBalert saves these users the time to periodically redo searches for new templates to these proteins.
The usefulness of PDBalert is owed to a large extent to the power of its underlying remote homology detection and structure prediction protocols, borrowed from HHpred. Two fully automated versions of HHpred that use the same homology detection method as PDBalert were ranked 2nd (HHpred2, multiple template modelling) and 8th (HHpred1, single template modelling, used by PDBalert to build a model with the detected template) out of a total of 68 automatic servers in the last community-wide protein structure prediction benchmark CASP7[1], while being more than 50 times faster than the other top servers. This speed allows to offer remote homology detection and structure prediction services for an automatic recurrent search to a wider community. We hope that PDBalert will encourage many more biologists to profit from recent advances in remote homology detection and structure prediction.
Availability and requirements
• Project name: PDBalert
• Project home page: http://toolkit.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/pdbalert/ webcite
• Operating system(s): Platform independent (web service)
• Programming language: Ruby
• Licence: None (Freely available to all academic and non-academic users)
Authors' contributions
VA developed the PDBalert system, MR integrated the on-hold sequence database, AB, MR and JS coordinated the development and tested the application, JS conceived of the project, and VA and JS wrote the mansucript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
VA would like to thank the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for financing his internship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
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What is Acne?
Acne.. Everyone knows the name, most of us experience it and yet we don't know much about its cause, attributes and types, acne is a chronic disorder of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Some of the characteristics of acne include black heads, pimples, cysts, infected abscesses, and rarely scarring. Acne usually occurs during adolescence in both men and women. Acne usully starts during puberty and for obvious reaons gets worse for people with oily skin. Acne badly affects teenage boys. Only mild to moderate forms of acne occur in middle-aged women. Most commonly it can be seen at face but can occur in the neck, chest, back, shoulders, scalp, upper arms and legs. Most forms of acne are the result of heredity and hormonal problems and has nothing to do with a harmful diet or poor hygiene therefore changing diet avoiding oils etc almost never helps.
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Cyst: These are large pus-filled lesions that are usually present deep within the skin. The cysts are very painful lesions, as they are inflamed. Cysts form as a result of the contents of a comedo spilling over the surrounding skin and due to the response of the local immune system in producing pus. The cysts often leave deep scars.
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Apple portrays itself as smartphone underdog in Samsung suit opening remarksIn the opening remarks of Apple's patent infringement suit against Samsung, Apple's attorneys have attempted to portray their company as an underdog that changed the smartphone industry with the launch of the iPhone.
Had the iPhone failed, it could have ended Apple as a company, attorney Harold McElhinny said during Tuesday's opening remarks of Apple v. Samsung in San Jose, Calif. He said that Apple came into the smartphone business with "no name in the field" and "no credibility," according to Josh Lowensohn of CNet.
"On January 9, 2007, when Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller went through that presentation," McElhinny said, referencing the unveiling of the first iPhone, "they were literally betting their company."
Apple's case against Samsung centers on the belief that the smartphone and tablet markets have changed dramatically thanks to Apple. During his remarks, McElhinny showed Samsung products from 2006, before the first iPhone was unveiled, to 2011, when Apple believes Samsung's products were infringing on its patent portfolio.
Tuesday marks the start of arguments in the trail, in which both Apple and Samsung have accused the other of patent infringement. The 10-person jury was selected for the trial on Monday.
Apple illustration of Samsung phones pre- and post-iPhone. | Source: Apple trial brief
The trial has begun more than a year and a half after Apple first sued Samsung for allegedly copying the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad. The two sides took part in court-ordered negotiations intended to avoid a trial, but those talks did not result in an out-of-court settlement.
On Topic: patents
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- Apple invents adaptive eye-tracking 3D display, highly portable cellular hotspot
- Appeals court finds Samsung violated Apple's design patents, but not trade dress
- Apple assigned patent for Beats Mixr headphone design
- Apple's invisible display concept would show more than the human eye can see


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B'rel build advice
Since the B'rel was on sale, I figured I'd pick it up and try it out. So far I've come up with a semi-decent PvE/PvP build. Overall the build is designed for one massive alpha strike to instantly destroy a target. However, sometimes it works perfectly and vaporizes them almost instantly and other times it does almost no damage.
Fore weps:
Borg AP Dual Heavys x2
Borg AP DBB
Borg Quantum
Aft weps:
Borg AP turrent
(All weps are MK XII)
Deflector: KHG MK XI
Shield: KHG MK XII
Engine: KHG MK XI
Devices: Subspace Field modulator, Shields Battery
Tac consoles: MK XI AP consoles, x2 uncommon and one rare
Sci consoles: Plasmonic Leech, Impulse Capacitance Cell, Assim module.
Eng consoles: MK XI rare EPS transfer x2, MK XI Rare RCS console.
Cmdr Uni: TT 1, CRF 1, THY3, APO 3
LtCmdr Uni: TT 1, CRF 1, BO 3
Lt Uni: EP2E, RSP
Lt Uni: TB1, HE 2
Weps: 124/90
Shields: 77/60
Engines: 37/25
Aux: 47/25
Tac capt btw.
I know the B'rel is normally used as a torpedo boat, but I don't feel like grinding 120k dilithium for minor stat boosts. And I enjoy the Enhanced Battle Cloak as well as the way it looks with the KHG shields.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!


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49ers release QB Skelton
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)
The San Francisco 49ers claimed quarterback McLeod Bethel-Johnson off waivers and released journeyman backup quarterback John Skelton.
Bethel-Thompson, who was with the 49ers in training camp before the 2011 season, joined the defending NFC champions one day after getting released by the Minnesota Vikings. A native of San Francisco, Bethel-Thompson has not played in an NFL regular-season game.
Skelton was let go only seven days after signing with the 49ers. He was inactive for last Sunday's win over the Houston Texans.
Colin Kaepernick is San Francisco's starter while Colt McCoy is the backup.
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Madrid: Villarreal put the brakes on Real Madrid's revival with a 1-0 win in the Spanish League on Saturday. Teenage striker Marcos Garcia scored the lone goal after 67 minutes.
Villarreal had the best of the first half but failed to make the most of its opportunities with Matias Fernandez, Marcos Senna and Jose Enrique Sanchez all squandering good opportunities.
Real came out after the break looking a more composed side but a quick Villarreal counter-attack, against the run of play, reaped dividends midway through the second half.
Diego Forlan started the move in the midfield, with the Real defence pressed too far forward, and found Fernandez.
The Chilean striker passed the ball to his left and found 19-year-old Marcos Garcia, who kept his cool to send his left foot shot past the oncoming Iker Casillas.
Real couldn't break down Villarreal and stayed in third place in the Spanish first division although they will slip back a place if Valencia win at Real Betis today.
Atletico Madrid extended its unbeaten streak to six games but stayed in fifth place after it had to come from behind to salvage a 1-1 draw against Racing Santander.
Racing's giant Serbian striker Nicola Zigic broke the deadlock after 73 minutes when he found the net from close range after a pass from Pablo Munitis.
However, barely two minutes elapsed after Racing went ahead before Pablo Ibanez equalised, the Spanish international defender heading home a Jose Jurado free kick.
League leaders Barcelona play host to slumping Celta Vigo today, with the Galician visitors not having won in eight league games.
Barca coach Frank Rijkaard will have to tinker with his defence due to the suspension of Rafa Marquez and injury to Lilian Thuram.
Oleguer Presas is likely to be recalled to the centre of the defence to accompany Barca captain Carles Puyol while Gianluca Zambrotta should return at right back after injury.
Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United beat Portsmouth 2-1 in the fourth round of England's FA Cup.
Rooney scored on a low cross from Ryan Giggs in the 77th minute, before hitting a long-range chip into the top left corner of the goal from 25 metres six minutes later.
The results: Spanish League: Atletico Madrid 1 (Pablo 75) drew with Racing Santander 1 (Zigic 73); Villarreal 1 (Marcos 67) bt Real Madrid 0.
FA Cup: Fourth round: Barnet 0 lost to Plymouth 2 (Aljofree 67-pen, Sinclair 83); Birmingham 2 (Taylor 47, Larsson 90) lost to Reading 3 (Kitson 3, Lita 41, 82); Blackpool 1 (Evatt 52) drew with Norwich 1 (Huckerby 45); Bristol City 2 (Keogh 53, Murray 59) drew with Middlesbrough 2 (Yakubu 4, Christie 23); Crystal Palace 0 lost to Preston 2 (Nugent 46, Wilson 83); Derby 1 (Peschisolido 82) bt Bristol Rovers 0
Fulham 3 (Montella 11, McBride 39, Radzinski 54) bt Stoke 0; Ipswich 1 (Lee 64-pen) bt Swansea 0; Luton 0 lost to Blackburn 4 (Derbyshire 10, 56, McCarthy 37, Pedersen 74); Manchester United 2 (Rooney 77, 83) bt Portsmouth 1 (Kanu 87); Tottenham 3 (Keane 12, Jenas 50, Mido 76) bt Southend 1 (Eastwood 69-pen); West Ham 0 lost to Watford 1 (McNamee 42)
Italian league: Torino 2 (Abbruscato 77, 90+3) lost to Udinese 3 (Obodo 18, Barreto 32, Gyan 61); Palermo 0 lost to Lazio 3 (Rocchi 44, 79-pen, Siviglia 52). Agencies


text: Greg Ginn has decided you haven't been paying enough for SST records and has almost doubled the wholesale costs. We got in the last batch we could at the original prices. Come get them while they're still reasonable. After this a copy of Damaged on vinyl will run you $17.99 at the cheapest. You don't get anything special after the increase either. Not remastered, no new art, nothing. Smooth reunion moves. #blackflag #sstrecords #prepricegouge #1234gorecords (at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records)


text: EXCLUSIVELocated in the heart of Saint Germain des Près, rue des Saints Pères, in a beautiful old building on the 5th and last floor with elevator to the 4th floor.This superb apartment of 107m2 opens to a large entrance that serves a bright living room under a beautiful light oak frame.Two bedrooms with bathroom and shower room, a kitchen and a mezzanine office. Cave.East-west facing. Lots of storage.This charming apartment is ideally suited also for a pied à terre.Exceptional address.


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A portion of the airport boundary wall collapsed during the heavy downpour in the city on Wednesday afternoon, leaving the runway, located at some distance, vulnerable to intrusion. Airport authorities have temporarily blocked the gap with a metal sheet after clearing the debris.
Eight flights had to be diverted to neighbouring airports on account of the incident. Four aircraft were made to go around and another four were cancelled. The runway was closed intermittently several times, and once during the afternoon, it was closed for 15-20 minutes.
Sources said the densely-cluttered slums adjacent to the boundary wall of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) had hindered the task of promptly repairing the walls.
An airport official said: "Workers could not go to the other side of the wall as there was no space for it. There was hardly any space for the crane to move. This led to delay in clearing the debris."
According to local sources in Jari Mari area of Kurla where the wall collapsed, the incident took place during the afternoon. They learned about it on hearing the big noise (of the wall collapsing). Two persons are said to have been injured. But no major casualty was reported," said Kazim Sheikh, a resident of the area.
BMC officials said they first received a call at the control room with someone informing them that two persons had drowned. However, some time later they learned that a wall had collapsed.
The slums surrounding the airport have been a contentious issue since a long time with consecutive governments hesitating to remove them allegedly due to vote bank politics. The slums are a roadblock to the development of the airport.
Somitro Ray, a flyer, said: "I had come to the airport to drop my son who was to take a flight. But the rains disrupted our plans."


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You know why America is awesome? Because our founding fathers were badass. Mount Vernon, George Washington's world famous crib, is selling a rye whiskey based on gorgeous George's own recipe. That's right, the father of our country distilled his own whiskey. Really strong whiskey. It costs $95 a bottle but isn't it worth it to taste America's greatest hero's moonshine? We all know that Sam Adams was a brewer and John Hancock was a pirate but did you know that Thomas Jefferson invented mac and cheese as we know it and brought ice cream and French wine to America? Did you know that Ben Franklin liked to attend orgies in England? Well they did. I'm going to save up all my gold crowns so I can taste the sweet liquor that forged our great nation.
Sure, they weren't perfect. Washington had bad dental hyigene, John Adams was a manic depressive, and Thomas Jefferson liked to bang his slaves. OK, in general the whole slave thing was pretty crappy. But still. I'd take the founding father challenge with most any country in general badassery.