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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
There are times he might hesitate to paint, but, in the end, he would rather take a chance than stay with a blank canvas.
Edward Rice of North Augusta is a contemporary artist best known for his vernacular architecture depictions of Georgia and South Carolina.
On Sept. 4, viewers can glimpse into Rices life when the Morris Museum of Art presents the debut of Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice, a 30-minute film produced by the museum. This premiere screening is free and will begin at 6 p.m.
Rice and filmmaker Mark Albertin will answer questions following the film, and a reception will cap off the evening.
The film will show interviews with Rice and pictures of his life and career.
At a certain point, you must have faith within and the creative drive and the physical drive to stretch the canvas, lay the composition out, make the painting, Rice said in the film.
Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice also refers to a book Rice and the Morris Museum produced in 2011. It was also the title of one of Rices exhibits.
Rices work is part of the public collection at the Morris Museum, according to a release. His art is also part of collections at the Columbia Museum of Art, the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, the Georgia Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
The Morris Museum was founded in 1985. It is the oldest museum in the country that is devoted to the art and artists of the American South, according to a release.
It is located at One Tenth St., Augusta.
For more information on Rice or this screening, visit www.edwardriceart.com or www.themorris.org or call 706-724-7501.
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All residents have access to an intranet that hosts much of the educational content and provides an engaging environment for learning. Resources available include interactive learning modules, electronic libraries of selected papers, as well as resident written notes and curricula. The intranet also hosts administrative tools including conference scheduling, slide presentations, and residency announcements.
All medical floors are equipped with mobile carts with laptops. These stations facilitate bedside rounds on all patient floors. These computers can be used to access patient data, enter orders, and view radiologic images without restricting the location of residents and are an asset during inpatient rounds.
Inpatient teams are given iPhones with the Voalte software. This software allows for secure, instant communication via text messaging or phone calls to clinical staff. In addition, RNs carry Voalte phones allowing for seamless two-way communication between housestaff and nursing.
Resident rotation schedules are posted in advance on amion.com, a comprehensive scheduling tool for residents. The front page outlines which resident or intern is on call for each particular service. Personal schedules can be downloaded to smart phones or calendar software.
All residents have access to a user-friendly state-of-the-art electronic medical record designed by MGH called CAS. This program integrates clinical results, radiologic images, and physician notes into a single program for efficient browsing of patient data.
Residents will use OnCall or LMR depending on their continuity clinic location. These programs integrate laboratory, pathology, radiology and note information in a format amenable to outpatient medical care. These programs allow the posting of electronic notes to CAS.
Residents have access to apprentice which is available both online and on smartphones. Apprentice serves as the daily team progress note, the nightly sign-out, and the teams to-do list. This integration allows one resource to contain comprehensive, but concise information about a patient and enables seamless teamwork that is crucial on inpatient rotations. By maintaining to do lists through Apprentice, all members on the team will be able to see these tasks and mark when they are completed (with real time update of the list to all other housestaff). This allows for outstanding tasks to be carried from one day to another, while allowing housestaff to share responsibility without duplicating work.
Qpid Med enables clinicians to efficiently search an entire patients medical record using key words. For instance, if a clinician wants to determine if a patient has even been known to be in atrial fibrillation, a quick search on Qpid Med will bring up all mentions of atrial fibrillation.
Residents can access specific applications remotely and securely via VPN. Mobile phones, tablet devices, and laptops can be used to access resources provided that they are encrypted/secured. mEHR is one such application that allows residents to view clinical data on a mobile device.
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I know I haven't been to the other islands yet, but there's something about Koh Samui that makes it feel like the right place to start your adventure. The streets are buzzing, the people are ridiculously friendly and the jeep safari drivers have the dirtiest laughs to set you off laughing, too. For me, the place I had to tick off the list first of all was Wat Khunaram, home to the mummified monk - this seemed suitably kooky for my blog, but also a great way to get a sense of how important Buddhism is for the people here. There are shrines on the roads as you drive along, and they're beautiful, but the sight of a miraculously well preserved monk from 1973 has to top it all. Whilst I visited on my own (and jet lagged), this was actually part of the extra tour on the second day, so it pays to read the finer details of the itinerary! On my second visit, this time with the rest of the group, I had the chance to take it all in again and noticed that the monk has several pairs of sunglasses which are swapped over regularly. Hey, even the dead manage to look cool here! The other thing that's been a real adventure for me was the animal side to the jeep safari, where we had monkeys on our shoulders and got to pose with a tiger. Later we met a banana leaf spider, which some of the girls weren't too crazy about, but maybe if a spider could fetch a coconut like the monkey had done then we'd give it a bit more of a chance! Basically I've had a great first two eye-opening days here and I'm looking forward to what Koh Samui holds next for me - whether it involves monks or monkeys. By Polly Allen Polly won a Thai Island Hopper tour in Contiki's blogging competition and will be blogging her way around three fascinating islands this month so stay tuned!
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Thanks to you, John and to Dolly of course for your continuing hospitality. Sorry to have skipped out on lunch but after viewing that Weston exhibit I just HAD to get out and make some more photographs!!! What a show. Great to see everyone again.
I just developed two sheets of film from my early morning at the Ritchie Ledges. I just love the light there at that time. I'll try to print and get them posted to the gallery this week.
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Oklahoma football: Offensive line coach James Patton won't return
Oklahoma's offensive line labored through a difficult 2012 season, during which several linemen were injured and missed games. Two senior starters — Ben Habern and Tyler Evans — were lost for the season before it began, and starting guards Bronson Irwin and Adam Shead fought through various injuries throughout the year.
Still, the OU line performed admirably for the most part, considering its attrition. After allowing six sacks in OU's first two games, opponents recorded just nine through Oklahoma's final 11 contests.
Some current Oklahoma linemen took to Twitter on Monday morning to express their appreciation for Patton.
"Going to miss Coach Patton and I wish him the best of luck," tweeted Irwin.
Senior center/guard Gabe Ikard tweeted, "Coach Patton is my favorite coach I've had. Taught me a lot about football and a lot about life. Really going to miss him."
Patton first joined Oklahoma's staff in 2006, and coached the entire offensive line for his first five seasons in Norman. Beginning last season, Bruce Kittle took over coaching tackles.
"If you messed up, he made sure you understood what you did wrong, and he was able to help correct the mistake you made," said Eric Mensik, a first-team All-Big 12 tackle in 2010.
Mensik began his OU career as a tight end, but switched positions and credits Patton for his success.
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text: Dev Your mobile design is pretty, but is it touch friendly? Plunk lets you find out August 22, 2012 10:00 AM Devindra Hardawar 0 If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. It's clear now that design is a big part of the mobile experience — heck, we dedicated an entire conference to the topic — but it's still difficult for developers to balance touch functionality with an attractive interface. The design firm Zurb intends to fix this with Plunk, a new app runs simple tests for touchscreen targets. In Plunk, you upload a mobile screen — it can be from an app, a mobile website, or anything else viewable on a mobile device — and create simple tests to make sure your users can easily touch where they need to. This Plunk test asks you to touch the flower in a cartoony image. Plunk's results page for every test lets you see just how successful visitors are in real time — in this example, it could eventually tell the designer that the flower isn't distinguished enough from the other images. The app is just the latest in many design tools from Zurb, which includes the visual feedback app Bounce and the design framework Foundation. With Plunk, designers should be able to easily see what works for mobile touch interaction. It'll be especially appealing to the responsive design movement, which is focused on creating web designs that morph to fit different device screen sizes. Front photo via Shutterstock VB's research team is studying mobile user acquisition... Chime in here, and we'll share the results.


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In 2007, BIPAI opened the first pediatric HIV care clinic in Malawi, also supported by the Abbott Fund. This original clinic has now expanded to include satellite clinics in rural areas, treating nearly 2,300 children with HIV.
To date, the Abbott Fund has provided a total of more than $28 million in grants and donated products to support the treatment of children with HIV in the developing world.
About the Abbott Fund in Tanzania
Improving hospital laboratories is the latest effort in the ongoing partnership between the Abbott Fund and the Government of Tanzania, which began in 2001. To date, the Abbott Fund has invested more than $50 million to strengthen Tanzania's health system.
In 2007, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) honored the Abbott Fund with an Award for Business Excellence for National Action for its public-private partnership with the Government of Tanzania to fight HIV/AIDS. Key results to date include:
-- At Muhimbili National Hospital, the national teaching and reference hospital for Tanzania, the Abbott Fund built a new outpatient center that serves hundreds of patients each day and integrates HIV care with other services, and renovated, automated and computerized the central pathology laboratory;
-- Trained more than 10,000 health care workers;
-- Provided HIV counseling and testing for more than 150,000 people, and donated one million rapid HIV tests to the Tanzanian national HIV testing initiative; and
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One of the metrics we use to measure impact of our solutions is the number of downloads, which have allowed us to observe some interesting trends since we started tracking them in 2009.
To support and extract the details from the upcoming Rangers flash, we are sharing a few of the graphs we are using to enable you to make your own observations and to get your feedback in terms of which are useful, not useful or other views you may find interesting. We also share INTERIM results of two solutions focused surveys we started during the MVP Summit and finish with a heads-up on the champion of champions nominations.
The following results are INTERIM and the comments are "Willy thinking aloud". When we conclude the surveys we will report back on the final results and impact, if any.
The two diagrams show the results from Triage #6 in blue n and the results from the MVP Summit in orange n. Click on the images to get a bigger, crisper view.
Personally I find it interesting is when we combine the blue n and orange n results. Agile Portfolio Planning and more transparency around effective user permission appear to be the top areas in need of guidance or an out-of-band solution.
This survey will be completed during December 2013 and will influence the triage #7 in January.
We currently have 36 solutions in our catalogue, seven of which are in service mode . Service mode implies that no updates are planned, other than fixing critical bugs. With the growing maintenance debt we are asking ourselves what we can and should be moth-balling, releasing invaluable volunteer bandwidth to other, preferably new solutions.
We asked the ALM MVPs and ALM Rangers to vote on which solution we should upgrade and which are service mode candidates. In an unscientific and instigative toss of the keyboard, I decided to draw a line to emphasise all solutions for 75% or more. I believe these should be maintained and upgraded and the rest ear marked for service mode? Thoughts? Push-back?
As expected the block buster guides are included and there are no real surprises, other than the huge interest in the ALM Rangers Treasure Map (http://aka.ms/vsartmaptoc) solution in this and the previous survey … I guess the visual, map-style and adventurous way of exploring the ALM Readiness content has been well received. As Robert Bernstein, the captain, would say: "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"!
The ALM Rangers are busy voting for their champions and as shown below some of the categories are very, very close:
You can find previous winners here: http://aka.ms/vsarunderstand
We rely on the ALM Rangers and you, from the ALM Community, to give us candid feedback to enable us to quantify the value-add and impact of our solutions.
Are you aware of a success story in which the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and/or their solutions have accelerated the adoption of Visual Studio, unblocked an engagement and/or resulted in a happy user? Please tell us about your success stories!
Two comments regarding service mode: (1) the integration platform is still useful going forward with new TFS versions. The docs were last updated for TFS 2010. While the tools work with TFS 2012 (and I assume 2013 as well) the docs feel outdated. It would be nice to see a minor refresh to this to account for newer TFS versions. (2) Is the SSDT guidance considered a completely separate project from the VS Database Guide? I think putting the VS Database Guide in service mode only makes sense if SSDT guidance is being developed to replace it.


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Hot Button: A facelift for the Liberty Bowl
Memphis City Council members approved a plan last week that calls for the University of Memphis and FedEx to help fund $9 million in improvements to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
The plan calls for the city to ask state officials to designate the fairgrounds area as a Tourism Development Zone, which would allow sales tax revenues generated in the area to be spent to pay off the bonds that will fund the improvements. If a hitch develops with that plan, the U of M is offering a $500,000 annual guarantee over 15 years that could be used to pay off the bonds. FedEx plans to cover the $2.5 million cost of constructing a new video board for the stadium.
Here are excerpts from the online comments on Kyle Veazey's story about the stadium improvement deal.
Vril wrote:
TDZ assumes there will be tourists. Somehow, I'm not seeing that happen any time soon. Memphis as a tourist destination seems pretty far-fetched. ...
Cafan wrote:
All while the (Americans with Disabilities Act) issues identified and required by the Justice Department are not addressed, again. Cost estimates are in multiples of tens of millions.
Tiger7880 wrote:
So the (AutoZone) Liberty Bowl and Southern Heritage Classic (organizations) get a pass?
Onememphis wrote:
Image what kind of city Memphis would be if Fred Smith's passion were the arts and not sports.
Willd wrote:
This is money (that) otherwise would have gone to Nashville and never to Memphis. (It was) secured in (the) legislature by Henry Turley who came up with idea (for the Tourism Development Zones) and lobbied it through. Hooray for Turley -- good citizenry.
Robert30#348835 wrote:
Really great deal for the city and the Tigers. This time make sure the scoreboard doesn't interfere with concerts being staged in the stadium. I miss those great events like the Stones, etc.
Hardbw wrote:
Has there been any discussion on giving the stadium to the U of M (and allowing) them to manage and take care of the upkeep? It would (be) innovative and it just seems no one in this administration will think outside the box.
Lifespalette54 wrote:
Of course, later we'll be told the cost is going up because the feds will demand that the ADA issues be resolved along with the upgrades. And when the "tourist tax dollars" aren't enough to cover the bond service, guess who will be on the hook?
ScarlettandRhett wrote:
Glad to see improvements coming for football for a change. All past funds have been diverted to basketball, while football floundered. We may not win the BCS the first year after joining the (Big East), but at least we have a start.
Gthom wrote:
The bowl game and (Southern Heritage Classic) getting a pass on this is a joke. I hope they turn off the video board during those games, and those two entities need to lose any voice of opinion in what happens over there.
Dlmstl wrote:
When all else is going to Hades in a handbag our feckless leaders will "give us bread and games" all the while declaring that there truly is such a thing called a "free lunch"!!! The saddest part is that they have convinced themselves too!
Hollywoodstuntdude wrote:
Thanks to FEDEX for stepping up.
RWTigerfan wrote:
... This is a good deal for all concerned. And this city should thank God for FedEx and their willingness to assist the community. They always step up and do the right thing.
TJonesMfs wrote:
There's not a penny of city tax money spent on this as a result of the TDZ and the FedEx/UM guarantee. That's the beauty of this financing plan. The TDZ keeps state sales tax here to be spent on projects here rather than going to state government in Nashville and being spent by it across Tennessee.
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here are my results; rom's original a2sd works but if you move dalvik to sd, it still causes low sound bug. my suggestion a2sd script zip works very well. does not move dalvik but shows your all sd-ext3 as your phone mem. so, no low sound bug and have a lot mem for personal apk. i tried to install as 2 options; before and after rom boot. both works fine. but, if you do set up and install a2sd script, it resets your set up except installed apps. i tried several times to be sure that is working and it is working for me. in additions rom is a bit slower but it is not as to be mentioned. every boot rom gets faster, as i had seen.
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Current next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms adopt two types of sequencing mechanisms: by synthesis or by ligation. The former is employed by 454 and Solexa systems, while the latter by SOLiD system. Although the pros and cons for each sequencing mechanism have more or less been discussed in a number of occasions, the potential obstacle imposed by palindromic sequences has not yet been addressed.
To test the effect of the palindromic region on sequencing efficacy, we clonally amplified a paired-end ditag sequence composed of a 24-bp palindromic sequence flanked by a pair of tags from the E. coli genome. We used the near homogeneous fragments produced from MmeI digestion of the amplified clone to generate a sequencing library for SOLiD 5500xl sequencer.
Results showed that, traditional ABI sequencers, which adopt sequencing-by-synthesis mechanism, were able to read through the palindromic region. However, SOLiD 5500xl was unable to do so. Instead, the palindromic region was read as miscellaneous random sequences. Moreover, readable tag sequence turned obscure ~2 bp prior to the palindromic region.
Taken together, we demonstrate that SOLiD machines, which employ sequencing-by-ligation mechanism, are unable to read through the palindromic region. On the other hand, sequencing-by-synthesis sequencers had no difficulty in doing so.
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) promises to provide robust sequencing platforms for basic biological researches as well as clinical and molecular diagnoses [1-4]. Currently, the sequencing market is dominated by 3 NGS lineages: Roche's 454, Illumina's Solexa, and Life Technologies' SOLiD. In general, the cost for 454 is much higher than the other two, but its sequence length can easily reach 400 bps, followed by the Solexa lineage and then SOLiD, which can only produce short reads up to 75 bp.
The sequencing chemistries of these three systems more or less differ. 454 uses emulsion PCR to amplify temples on beads followed by pyrosequencing with DNA polymerase [5]. Solexa lineage adopts bridge PCR to amplify temples on slide followed by colorimetric sequencing with DNA polymerase. As such, both 454 and Solexa lineages adopt "sequencing-by-synthesis" approach. On the other hand, although SOLiD systems also use emulsion PCR to amplify templates on beads, its sequencing is extended by two unique steps: first by using oligos to hybridize to the target in the single-stranded template, followed by using ligase to seal the nick between the 5' of the growing strand and the 3' of the oligo. This sequencing approach, which grows in 3' to 5' direction, is coined as "sequencing-by-ligation" mechanism. The most evident difference between sequencing-by-synthesis and sequencing-by-ligation is that the former uses DNA polymerase to incorporate complementary nucleotides to the elongating strand, while the latter uses ligase to seal the junction between the elongating strand and the newly incorporated complementary oligonucleotides. Since DNA polymerase is an essential enzyme in the cell, the former is considered as a more natural approach compared with the latter.
Potential underrepresentation of GC-rich regions have been reviewed for both sequencing-by-synthesis and sequencing-by-ligation mechanisms [6]. However, the potential obstacles imposed by palindromic regions have never been addressed. A palindromic sequence is a nucleic acid sequence that reads the same no matter from the 5' end of the sequence itself or from the 5' end of its complementary strand. It has a potential to form a hairpin structure [7]. The success of ligation has to rely on the availability of its complementary strand. Given the fact that short stretches of palindromic sequences may form hairpin structures in the single-stranded template, palindromic sequences which naturally exist in genomes or in RNA sequences (esp. mRNAs or miRNAs) may become regional obstacles for sequencing-by-ligation sequencers, causing problems in genome assembly and introducing bias in transcriptome analysis. Thus, it is an important issue to further understand the potential obstacles caused by palindromic sequences, especially for the sequencing-by-ligation mechanism.
In this article, we used centralized palindromic sequence to study the effects of a palindromic sequence on sequencing. We constructed a single clone containing a palindromic region flanked by two tag sequences (~18 bp), amplified the clone, digested with MmeI, and constructed a sequencing library from the MmeI fragments. The library was sequenced by SOLiD 5500xl sequencer. Here we report the results, indicating the incapability for a sequencing-by-ligation machine to read through the palindromic region.
Clone preparation and sequencing library construction for the palindromic library
Paired-end ditag DNA fragment of 5'-GGCAA TGGCA CCATC GCTAG TCGGA GTCTG CGCAG ACTCC GACTC CACGA CCGCT GAGGT T-3' was cloned into yT&A vector (Cat. YC013, Yeastern Biotech. Co., Ltd.) and verified by traditional Sanger sequencing using ABI PRISM® 96-capillary 3730xl DNA Analyzer (Notice that this step proved the capability of a traditional sequencing-by-synthesis method to sequence through the palindromic region). This clone contains a centralized palindromic sequence (26 bp, 5'-AGTCG GAGTC TGCGC AGACT CCGAC T-3') flanked by two tags originated from the E. coli genome: Tag1 (18 bp, 5'-GGCAA TGGCA CCATC GCT-3') and Tag2 (17 bp, 5'-CCACG ACCGC TGAGG TT-3', or 5'-AACCT CAGCG GTCGT GG-3' on the complementary strand which was sequenced by SOLiD 5500xl sequencer), making up a total length of 61 bp. The inserted DNA in yT&A vector was amplified with PCR using M13 forward (5'-GTTTT CCCAG TCACG AC-3') and reverse (5'-TCACA CAGGA AACAG CTATG AC-3') primers and EconoTaq™ PLUS GREEN 2X Master Mix (Lucigen Corp.). PCR amplified fragments were digested with MmeI, end-repaired, A-tailed and ligated with P1 and P2 sequencing adaptors to make the palindromic library for sequencing by SOLiD 5500xl. The quality and quantity of library were checked by Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer and Roche LightCycler® 480 II Real-Time PCR system according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Sequencing by SOLiD 5500xl
The fragment library prepared above was sequenced by SOLiD 5500xl for 7 ligation cycles (X 5 primers) to obtain 35 bp sequences. By using Exact Call Chemistry (ECC) module, we directly obtained nucleotide sequences, instead of colour space information.
Bioinformatics analysis
Raw sequences were processed for quality control [8]. Briefly, sequences with N, polyA, polyT, polyG, polyC, and PCR primer sequence were removed. Various quality values (QVs) were used, depending on what types of sequences we wanted to observe. Only the qualified sequences were used for analysis.
Tag sequences located at the 5' terminals were supposed to be followed by their corresponding palindromic sequences. To accommodate potential sequencing error and the effect of palindromic sequence, we aligned the leading 18 bp of each read against the tag sequences and obtained two major groups, starting with either Tag1 or Tag2 (see Figure 1). The procedure included: 1) sort the leading 18 bp; 2) count each unique reads; 3) align unique reads against the Tag1 and Tag2; and 4) count the number of reads with exact or partial tag sequences. This stepwise procedure was executed in sequential order to ensure the accuracy of sequence alignment.
Figure 1. The original construct. The construct contains a 26-bp palindromic sequence in the middle flanked by two tags originated from E. coli genome.
Results and discussion
Library construction
The original clone was a double-stranded construct containing a centralized palindromic sequence (26 bp) flanked by two tags, Tag1 (18 bp) and Tag2 (17 bp), originated from the E. coli genome, making up a total length of 61 bp (Figure 1). For testing the capability of a SOLiD machine to read through the palindromic region, a sequence length of 35 bp is long enough for our purpose, and there was no need to sequence the full construct.
Notice that the internal adaptor region is sealed by two MmeI sites (TCCGAC) each followed by an extra T previously used for stick-end ligation to E. coli genomic fragments. This extra T can be assigned to the tag region, but it was not originated from the E. coli genome.
Due to the imprecision of MmeI digestion, incubation of MmeI with PCR amplified fragments produced a near homogeneous population of MmeI fragments with a few bp variations at either end (Figure 2). However, the length variation normally does not exceed +2 bp [9], resulting in a distinguishable ~62 bp band in agarose gel. MmeI fragments excised from agarose gel was purified and used for sequencing library construction.
Figure 2. Agarose gel electrophoresis of MmeI digest. MmeI digest of E. coli amplified yT&A vector was subjected to 4% agarose gel electrophoresis. The arrow indicates the location of the MmeI fragment.
Sequencing results
As mentioned above, there was no need to sequence the full construct (total of ~62 bp) as this study was set out to test the capability of SOLiD 5500xl to read through a palindromic structure. As such, we run 7 cycles for each one of the five primers to make up a total of 35 bp sequence length. The 35 bp sequences produced by SOLiD 5500xl were expected to contain the 5' end of either tag followed a ~17 bp of the palindromic region.
The statistic numbers associated to sequence data processing are shown in Table 1. Among the qualified reads, 40.05% matched Tag1 and 31.37% matched Tag2. Notice that tag sequences with extra bases at the 5' end were excluded, causing a potential underestimation of the percentages. However, we were focusing on the readability of the palindromic region. This minor issue can be ignored.
Table 1. Library statistics
Sequence sorting and alignment revealed a clear pattern: a region of tag sequences followed by a region of random sequences failing to match the palindromic sequence (Figure 3). As such, SOLiD 5500xl failed to read through the palindromic region.
Figure 3. Quality sequence reads sorted on tag sequences. Sequences produced from SOLiD 5500xl were processed and sorted based on Tag 1 and Tag 2 sequences shown on top. Complete tag sequences are enclosed within red boxes, which are followed by the palindromic region. Bases matching to the expected tag or palindromic sequences are highlighted in red, while the unmatched bases are highlighted in black.
The incapability of SOLiD 5500xl to read through the palindromic region was further indicated by two pieces of evidence: drop in good-and-best beads ratio (Figure 4) and drop in QV (quality value) (Figure 5).
Figure 4. The decline of the good-and-best beads ratio observed during the sequencing of the palindromic library by SOLiD 5500xl. The beads quality is indicated by colour: blue for good beads, red for best beads and green for bad beads. Their percentages are shown in Y-axis. Only sequences from the good beads (blue bar) and best beads (red bar) can be used for analysis. A total of five primers (P1-5) have to be used for each sequencing run. (Notice that P6 is an ECC primer, which was not used for sequence reading.) In this study, each sequencing run lasted for 7 ligation cycles to complete the 35 bp sequence length. The positions of each two-base encoding for each primer cycle are shown within the parenthesis right behind the primer. In the library, every template comprises a tag of 17-18 bp, followed by the palindromic region of 26 bp, and then another tag (also 17-18 bp). During the first two cycles, corresponding to the tag region, the percentages of good and best beads seemed to be quite normal. The initial decline of good-and-best beads ratio was seen in P3(14, 15) and P4(13,14), and an overwhelming decline observed across all primers started from the fourth cycle when sequencing entered the palindromic region.
Figure 5. The decline in quality value observed in the palindromic library when sequenced by SOLiD 5500xl. This figure was generated by using FastQC package available online. Quality values are shown in Y-axis, while the base positions are shown in X-axis. The QV baseline was found to be 7, as retrieved directly from the sequencer.
A dramatic decline in good-and-best beads ratio was observed in the third cycle
Positions read by sequencing-by-ligation follows the unique two-base encoding pattern. As defined by the design of the oligo probes, each 2-base reading is followed by a 3-base leap (gap). To compose a complete reading, each sequencing run utilizes 5 primers (P1-5) and there is a single-base shifting between primers (Figure 4): Primer 1 reads positions (1,2) ... (6,7) ... and so on; Primer 2 reads positions (0,1)...(5,6)... and so on; Primer 3 reads positions (4,5)...(9,10)... and so on; Primer 4 reads positions (3,4)...(8,9)... and so on; Primer 5 reads positions (2,3)...(7,8)... and so on. P6, an ECC primer not for actual sequence reading, is not included.
SOLiD systems use good-and-best beads ratio as an indicator to evaluate the quality of the library. High good-and-best beads ratio implies high library quality. During the sequencing of the palindromic library, we found that the ratios of good-and-best beads for the first 2 cycles seemed quite normal, but started to decline for P3 and P4 during their third cycle, followed by a global decline during the fourth cycle (Figure 4). This result provided further evidence showing the incapability of SOLiD 5500xl sequencer for reading through the palindromic region in the library.
A gradual decline in quality value completely quenched sequence quality to the manufacturer-defined ground level at ~17th position
As indicated previously, the palindromic region starts from position 18 or 19. We noticed a gradual decline of quality value, and it completely dropped to the manufacturer-defined baseline QV 7, at position 17 - about a couple of bases before the palindromic region (Figure 5). As such, the palindromic region would disappear if the QV cutoff was set to be 8 or above. That is, the faulty/random palindromic sequences can only be seen with QV cutoff equal to or below 7.
Local double-stranded hairpin structure was supposed to result in the inaccessibility of the single-stranded template, leading to the failure in sequencing
For sequencing-by-ligation mechanism, templates need to be made in single-stranded form for oligos to hybridize. As such, single-stranded templates were generated right before every sequencing run. However, the presence of a palindromic sequence in the template is very likely to induce the formation of a double-stranded hairpin the in the single-stranded context, making the template become inaccessible (Figure 6). We believe this is the major reason causing the interruption of sequencing in the palindromic region. Schematic drawing showing the inaccessibility of template in the palindromic region. Local hairpin may form in the palindromic region, making the single-stranded template become inaccessible. Black solid line, DNA template; orange lines, oligos; black dashed lines, successful hybridization between DNA template and oligos.
Figure 6. Schematic drawing showing the inaccessibility of template in the palindromic region. Local hairpin may form in the palindromic region, making the single-stranded template become inaccessible. Black solid line, DNA template; orange lines, oligos; black dashed lines, successful hybridization between DNA template and oligos.
The original construct was also sequenced by ABI PRISM® 96-capillary 3730xl DNA Analyzer, which adopts sequencing-by-synthesis approach, indicating that palindromic sequences imposed no difficulty for the sequencing-by-synthesis sequencers. However, as indicated by our results, the SOLiD 5500xl sequencing-by-ligation sequencer was unable to read through the palindromic region presumably due to the plausible formation of hairpin structure in the palindromic region.
As such, sequencing-by-ligation-based sequencers may not be suitable for genome assembly, because palindromes of various sizes are known to present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. On the other hand, this type of sequencers may remain suitable for sequencing transcriptomes and small DNA molecules of which hairpin structures are less likely to be present. Moreover, the length of a palindrome is expected to be negatively correlated with its readability, although not in proportional.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
YFH analyzed sequence data, generated some figures, and wrote part of the manuscript. SCC prepared sequencing library, generated a few figures, and wrote part of the manuscript. YSC analyzed some sequence data. THC was in charge of sequencing. KPC directed the study, guided data analysis, and wrote the manuscript.
This research was sponsored by Academia Sinica, Taiwan ROC. We thank the Sequencing Core Facility, Scientific Instrument Center at Academia Sinica for plasmid DNA sequencing.
This article has been published as part of BMC Systems Biology Volume 6 Supplement 2, 2012: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2012). The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcsystbiol/supplements/6/S2.
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Cash mob boosts a local small shopJuly 10th, 2012, 9:00 pm by Jan Norman, small-business columnist
The latest Orange County cash mob added almost $1,000 to the local economy, reportsorganizer Lynn Seeden, publisher of Fountain Valley Living Magazine.
A group of 31 shoppers hit Party Favors & More at 18913 Magnolia St. in Fountain Valley July 7. They spent more than $725 at the shop and another $220 at East Coast Italian Deli for lunch afterward.
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©1998 Francine Rivers; (P)2008 Recorded Books
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This is not only read very well... the best! It is also such a good read. I read the book, watched the Movie from Netflix, but this was the best. I listen to a lot of books from both Audible, and from I Tunes. I put this book on the very top of the list of books I've read, or listened to. So much history, and such an inspirational work. Like nothing I've ever read. This is a book I will give as a gift to many friend both like minded and non commited Christions / believers in Christ my Lord. No matter your faith, I highly recommed this book to any reader.
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I really enjoyed this book when I read it a few years ago, so I decided to try it on Audible. I'm glad I did, I couldn't wait to listen every day! Francine Rivers is a gifted story teller and Kate Forbes did a terrific job of drawing me in.
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Retired CFO, Army wife, Mom of five, Grandma of six, two sons who served in combat, love to read books that reflect my values and faith, love mysteries, historical, military stories, and books that don't waste my time . . . if it doesn't have an ending that was worth the wait, I'm not a happy camper.
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The Last Sin Eater is one of the BEST audio books that I have ever listened to. I had never heard of a sin eater before. After listening, I had to research the custom of using sin eaters when a person died, and found that it was common in Europe during the 1800's and that early settlers to the Smoky Mountains probably carried the practice to the Appalachian Mountains for a time. As late as the early 1900's, the practice still existed in Bavaria. How amazing (and crazy) what people do to try to get rid of their sins and make their way into heaven . . . when Jesus Christ has already paid the price in full. Not only is this an incredible lesson in history, it's a wonderful generational story of family and faith. I can't recommend it enough.
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I loved this book! The narration is engaging, and pleasant to listen to! The story was great from the first to the last word.
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Excellent text. Great interpretive reading. Many memorable moments. A thoroughly engaging & clear message of forgiveness in Christ (Psa 50:23).
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Really enjoyed this book but it was hard for me to get into it at first. Miss Rivers has such a wonderful way of telling the gospel. Liked the folklore stories and how you can feel it in your heart when her words pierce your heart with the truth. Thank you for all the good reads. I am a true fan and enjoy all your books!!
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I was really looking forward to hearing this book after the good reviews. I was a bit disappointed as it was a very slow start to me. The narrator's voice bugged me initially so that may have been part of the problem. I also wasn't sure where the story was going until I was several hours in. I ended up really getting into it, though, so I'm glad I kept listening. It was worth it!
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I read this book quite a few years ago and loved it so much I considered it one of the best Christian books I had ever read, so I decided to try the Audible version. While I still loved this book in audio, I guess I have changed a lot since first reading it. I loved the raw emotional journey you go on but this time I really didn't care for the mystical aspects (Lilybet, etc.) and I also didn't like how they went about finding the truth by using dishonest means, even at the very end when they are ringing the death bell to gather everyone. None of those things ruined it for me though. It was still a heartbreaking and beautiful story that I would highly recommend.
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Freedom of information: How much would you pay for public information?
Corpus Christi has issued more than $50,000 worth of estimates in the past two years
CORPUS CHRISTI - Professor Bruce Olson did the unexpected when confronted with an estimate of nearly $7,000 for an open records request: He paid it.
Olson, chairman of the social sciences department at Del Mar College, had requested documents from the school under the Texas Public Information Act. He was looking for records of professors teaching more than the allowed 12 credit hours for summer sessions since 2004.
He received an estimate of $6,978.75 for the school to comply. The charge included time for employees to look up the information and provide copies.
Olson is not the only local resident to experience the high cost of obtaining government records, the Caller-Times discovered in a review of government billing for records requests. The newspaper requested information from 16 local government agencies about the cost estimates they issued in the past two fiscal years. (The newspaper paid less than $200 for the information.)
The highest price found was nearly $12,000 for a television station's request to the city of Corpus Christi. That request was later resolved for $8.
In Olson's case, he paid the estimate, then later received about half back because the request took fewer hours than estimated. He pressed the school with other public information requests for an accounting of the time employees spent complying with his original request.
The school eventually returned all of Olson's money.
Retired Judge Mike Westergren, who at the time was a Del Mar College attorney who handled the request, said the estimate did not require Olson to pay the full $7,000. The school simply wanted an agreement that he would pay that much if it was the final bill.
"It was just an estimate — that's all," Westergren said. "(The request) involved all these different departments. As is often the case, the estimates were just off."
At the time, Westergren was suing Olson for libel regarding another matter. The Texas Attorney General's Office public information counsel reviewed the fee and found no problems with the college's charges.
In the $12,000 case, KZTV-Channel 10 asked for copies of work orders for police vehicles for about a year and a half.
The estimate included nearly 20,000 pages of records and 541 hours of employee time to compile it. That's more than 13 weeks at 40 hours a week.
The station declined the bill and asked to view the documents, which is generally free for requesters. When the news operations/assignment manager went to City Hall to view the documents, they were available on CD. He asked for a copy of the CD and received it — for $7.96.
While local media, including television stations and the Caller-Times, frequently use the Public Information Act, members of the public do so as well. And for many of them, the charges for receiving public information are simply too high.
Figures the Caller-Times received from its requests show many people don't accept the charges from estimates. The city of Corpus Christi issued more than $50,000 worth of estimates in the past two fiscal years but collected only $9,500 from requesters.
Some of the difference may be because estimates were higher than the actual fee or some requesters asked to inspect for free. But some people drop their requests after receiving the estimates.
"I think that the way a governmental entity handles charges for public information says a lot about their overall philosophy about whether they believe in transparency and openness in government," said Keith Elkins, executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. "There are provisions in the law that the government can waive charges if they deem the information to be in the public interest. That's not just with the media but with anyone."
Under Texas law, governmental entities such as cities, schools and counties are allowed to charge for copies (usually 10 cents per page), labor (as much as $15 an hour), overhead (20 percent of labor costs) and postage.
The charges can only include copies if the records total 50 pages or fewer.
Requests that require computer programming or manipulation of data may be assessed charges for those tasks also, as well as computer time to process the request. Materials such as CDs or videotapes also cost extra.
The government must provide an estimate of charges if the request costs $40 or more, along with ways the information could be released more cheaply, such as inspections or electronically.
Requesters can file complaints with the Attorney General's Office if they feel they've been overcharged. But many simply let their requests drop.
Ann Jaime, a registered nurse who requested some contract information from the city, was shocked to receive an estimate of $5,587. She gave up on the records because she couldn't afford that.
"I'm a small business trying to survive in Corpus Christi," Jaime said.
Another woman, a retired Corpus Christi police officer, was charged $711 for her own employee records.
"I felt like it was the city's attempt to keep people from performing open records requests," said Cherie Roberts, who now lives in New Hampshire. "It's literally impossible for you to access records."
Gloria Scott of the Black Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce has complained of problems requesting records from the city. She also became fed up with charges and filed a request to find out what happens to the money she paid for other requests.
Scott wanted to know if the money goes to employees who compile records on top of their regular salaries. The city answered that labor charges are deposited into the city's general fund.
In that same request, Scott also asked for a list of people in the city's public information office, their job descriptions and policies they follow. The city estimated a $32 cost for the records.
"They say the state allows them to do it," Scott said. "The state allows — it doesn't say you have to. There's a difference between A-L-L-O-W and M-U-S-T."
The charges don't have to be in the hundreds or thousands of dollars to be prohibitive. In 2007, the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education requested the contact information for all Latino employees and students at Del Mar College. The group received a cost estimate of $65 for programming, computer and staff time.
The group's representative, Veronica Obregon, wrote to Del Mar for clarification.
"We get similar requests all the time which only require running a query, not writing a whole new program," Obregon wrote in an e-mail. "I'm also surprised the quote includes staff time since all we are asking for is basic directory information that should be readily available."
Obregon later decided to drop the request. Her organization had wanted the contact information to invite students and faculty to its annual conference in Austin.
Many smaller entities in the Coastal Bend rarely or never charge for records. Of course, they receive fewer and usually much less complex requests than large entities such as the city of Corpus Christi.
The largest amount charged by the city of Port Aransas in the past two years was $16.30 for an attorney's request.
"Our requests are now answered by e-mail or fax (for) which there is no charge," Pam Hatzenbuehler, deputy city secretary in Port Aransas, wrote in a response to the Caller-Times request.
Sometimes the small cities do receive complex or large-volume requests. In Ingleside, a resident asked for a CD containing City Council minutes from 1980 to 2008 while a certain employee was with the city, and a legal settlement with that employee.
The total bill: $3.
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Las Cofradias: A Salvadorian buffet
Extensive buffet of local dishes. They had numerous kinds of tamales, including sweet ones, pupusas, stews, yucca, an array of salads, 3 or 4 bean dishes, plantains as side dishes and desserts, fruit drinks, etc. I couldn't taste everything because there was too much of it. One of the staff that spoke English told us what everything was.
It is a casual place-- tables and benches, paper napkins. Dinner cost $11 U.S., including service charge (May 2010) and they do take credit cards.
Favorite Dish: Some of the dishes I had were delicious; some I didn't care for, but it was a good look at what the local folks are eating.
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Restaurante Las Cofradias: Salvadoran buffet
Restaurante Las Cofradias is a great place to try Cocina Típica (traditional Salvadoran cuisine). There is a delicious buffet for just $8. The soups and desserts are particularly good as are the home-made soft drinks. There are plenty of vegetarian options here, made from corn, yucca and plantain. The service is very friendly and helpful too.
Opening hours:
Mon: 4pm-11pm, Tues, Thurs, Fri & Sat: 8am-1am, Sun: 10am-11pm
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Pizza Hut: A Pizza Hut like you have never seen!
Why on earth would you travel to a country 4000 miles away and go to a Pizza Hut when there are so many great local cuisine restaurants to try? That was my thought when I went to this place 3 years ago. I have been there twice since and it has been great every time. When you pull into the parking lot you will first notice 2-3 armed and uniformed security guards in the lot...typical of ES. When you enter the immaculately clean and brightly appointed restaurant you will be greeted by one if not two great hosts that will determine your need and get you quickly to the table. All of the employees are decked out in clean,crisp attractive uniforms and every detail right down to the proper name badge is consistant throughout the restaurant. The supervisors are all wired with headsets and monitor the activity in the restaurant so that nothing fails. We have always had a birthday person in our groups and the Pizza Hut crew does a great job with singing and other props that I will not give away here! When you leave you will all get free mints.
Favorite Dish: The pizza is great... better than any Pizza Hut or for that matter any other chain pizza place that I have been to. The salad bar is bountiful and attractive particularly if you have been avoiding fresh vegetables and salad elsewhere in the country for health reasons.
Several people in our group of 19 had another Italian dishes like rigatoni and it was good
La Hóla: Great kitsch, decent food
La Hóla, a take on "The Wave" is one of the restaurants along what used to be the popular nightlife strip called La Zona Rosa. A seafood eatery, the entire upstairs of the restaurant is made to be like a Pacific beach club, complete with thatched roofs and campy seating. The menu is packed with seafood dishes, but there are also pizzas and sandwiches, and the crowd appears to come here primarily for the drinks. The staff is helpful, but if you're not there in a group ordering numerous drinks before you even hit the food, you're unlikely to get quick service.
Favorite Dish: I had the Salvadorean shrimp soup. It was tasty and served in a bread bowl, but wasn't all that memorable. The spicing was nice, and there were plenty of shrimp, but in all it just sort of tasted like a shrimp chowder.
La Pampa Argentina: A Delicious Piece of Argentina
La Pampa Argentina is another of the well-recommended restaurants in the Zona Rosa, an area of San Benito that was once the heart of nightlife in San Salvador. The restaurant presents itself as being much fancier than its price-range, which is a rather pleasing combination. The décor is tasteful without being either plain or kitschy, and the waiters here are experienced and helpful. While it is quite pleasant to spend one's time on the balcony, it is wise not to sit too close to the edge during the rainy season, as sudden thunderstorms can cause rain to come under the awning. The food is very nicely presented and portions here are on the large side, so don't over order. The meals are authentically Argentine, well spiced and served with various dipping sauces. The general lack of customers in Zona Rosa means that you are likely to be taken care of too closely, but the waiters never give the impression that you are intended to finish the meal quickly.
Favorite Dish: I had the Argentine empanadas as an appetizer, which are served with a cup of broth. These were piping hot and well-spiced. For the entrée, I had a delicious parillada that included strips of tender beef, Argentine sausage, a salad and corn on the cob. All of it was excellent, especially when accompanied by garlic bread and the various hot sauces. Finally, a decent flan for dessert made it difficult for me to make it back to the hotel quickly.
Tre Fratelli: Mediocre Italian Cuisine
Tre Fratelli is one of San Salvador's mainstays of Italian cuisine, but that doesn't mean that it is a memorable place to eat. The décor is minimally Italian, with the standard Salvadorean design of the building. The interior is dark without being romantic, in part due to the constant playing of sports on the various televisions around the room. The staff is friendly and helpful, but there really aren't all that many customers to be served. The food is not bad, but it's not good either, often lacking proper seasoning, with way too much salt to be either tasty or healthy.
Favorite Dish: I had the bocconcini salad, which did not contain bocconcini, but was drowned in enough balsamic vinegar to disinfect a major wound. The ravioli, stuffed with meat, were decent, despite a slathering of tomato sauce.
Comida Rápida
When my then-teenaged niece, a notoriously picky eater, came from the US to visit me in El Salvador for three weeks, one of my biggest concerns was figuring out how to feed her. If you, or anyone you plan to travel with, are similarly picky but love American-style fast food, fret not – San Salvador has just about everything you could hope to find. US chains McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, Subway, Domino's, Pizza Hut (especially Pizza Hut), and many others are all thick on the ground in San Salvador. Pollo Campero, home to good fried chicken, is something of a national obsession (even though the chain originated in neighboring Guatemala) and is definitely worth a visit. Biggest (that's actually the name of the restaurant) is the local competition to the various international hamburger chains; personally, I never found their burgers too appetizing, but they offer a decent breakfast. Another local chain, Nash, offers pizza and fried chicken – something for everyone. My favorite local fast food chain – Mc de Servipronto, a rogue chain of counterfeit McDonalds restaurants born out of some sort of licensing dispute back in the 1980s –has unfortunately been forced out of business after decades of lawsuits. I always enjoyed going into the Mc de Servipronto that was located on Bulevar de los Héroes, ordering their feature sandwich, the Big Mmmm (their version of the Big Mac), and reading the anti-McDonalds propaganda posted on the walls.
Pueblo Viejo: Breakfast Buffet at Pueblo Viejo
During my time as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, I usually made the three-hour bus trip to San Salvador about once a month, sometimes for work-related meetings and sometimes just to meet up with friends and/or do a little shopping. Oftentimes, my last stop in San Salvador before heading to the bus terminal and then back to my Peace Corps site would by Pueblo Viejo, a restaurant located in what was once known as MetroSur and is not just another wing of the ever-expanding MetroCentro, reputedly Central America's largest shopping mall. I've eaten dinner there a couple of times, and the food was good, but the time to visit Pueblo Viejo is definitely in the morning, when they have their all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet featuring just about every type of food that Salvadorans serve for breakfast, all excellently prepared and accompanied by coffee and a variety of fresh juices. At about $8 per person, it's certainly an expensive breakfast by local standards, but I still always feel like those are $8 well spent. Indeed, this breakfast buffet makes Pueblo Viejo one of the three restaurants in San Salvador (along with El Sopón Típico and Inka Grill) that I always look forward to returning to during each trip back to El Salvador.
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Café Miranda
Café Miranda is an old coffee farm, dating from the end of the 19th century, that has been open to public since 2001. There is a nice garden and restaurant and when the weather is good the panoramic view is supposed to be great. Unfortunately it was cloudy when we visited, but the pupusas were delicious. We had chocolate de cacao to drink and two different pupusas and it was all very good.
The restaurant is open on Wednesday - Thursday between 11.30 - 17, and on Friday - Sunday between 8 - 19.
Shakes - juicebar and cakes
Together with Nancy and Ellie I went to Shakes to taste the best fruit juices in town. They have a big varity of fresh fruit juices and you can choose to have it with water, milk or frozen. The price begins at 2 dollars (June 2009). There are also cakes.
I hade a strawberry juice with milk and it was delicious! The upstair area where we sat was also lovely with a lot of plants and fresh air (far fom the air in the centre).
Olivos Café y librería
Olivos Café is situated in the same building as the Hotel Hilton Princess and we parked the car in their garage (it was 1 dollar). At Olivos Café they serve crepes, salads, sandwiches, chicken dishes, cakes and muh more. You can sit inside with A/C or outside. We sat outside and had salmon crepes, crepes with vegetables and a soup and five beers. Everything was 27.72 dollars (June 2009). A 10% tip had been added alredy.
I had salmon crepes, also with cream chease and pesto inside. They were very good!
At Olivos café there is also a small bookstore and sometimes they arrange music events.
La Hola Beto's: Seafood Galore
Within the bustle of the city but you feel far from it in this restaurant. The restaurant is known for their mariscos. We had ceviche which was great. The menu also has dishes that are original yet traditional. The restaurant is open M-Sa 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. until midnite. They take credit cards. There is dining inside and out. Pretty good cocktails as well.
Tre Fratelli: Great service/fun
I read a few opinions on Thorn Tree Forum about this place but since it was in the heart of Zona Rosa, thought I'd ignore those opinions and try it out anyway. Service was great. The wait staff was great. The atmosphere was great. My Spanish.... not so great. But, hey, point and SMILE. I took 8 years of German... did not pay off in this country. Great wine list.
Pasta Gourmet: Ravioli and Fresh Pasta on Paseo Escalon
Pasta Gourmet its a store and a little lunch and coffe restaurant.
They sell
Fresh Ravioli, Fresh Pasta,
Tomato-, Cream-,...Sauce
Pizza, Lasaña, Focaccia Bread
Tiramisu, Cake
and a lot more
ALL HOME MADE fresh, frozen or ready-cooked
WITH A BIG QUALITY for a good Price
They offer cookery course too realy cheap and helpfully
Favorite Dish: Ravioli de Queso, Focaccia Bread (ther realy tasty), and Tomato-Olive Sauce
Meson de Goya: A school that is a restaurant
Meson de Goya is part of ITCA (Instituto Tecnologico de Centro America - http://www.itca.edu.sv), a technical institute. Future restaurateurs and hoteliers study here. My friend Hans Radlemaier (husband of my classmate Claudia Galvez) is now (year 2006) in charge of these carreers, and also of the Meson de Goya, which is good news! This restaurant is a bit off the beaten path or "in" places, as it is located inside the ITCA institute, but is on a mayor street entering Santa Tecla city, and has a fresh, verdant setting. If you have reached the mayor malls in Antiguo Cuscatlan (Multiplaza, Las Cascadas, La Gran Via), it is not that far from these... and it is virtually at the back of Merliot Mall. I like to come here when I have to lunch with someone working nearby, and we don't have time to go farther... and we have the added satisfaction of helping with the future of our people in the tourist trade. (Note: the photos are from year 2003)
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George W. Fulton Mansion
|This article relies entirely upon a single source, the National Register Information System (NRIS) database or one of its mirrors. Articles based solely on the NRIS may contain errors. (November 2013)
Fulton Mansion
The Fulton Mansion in 2006.
|Fulton Beach Rd,
Fulton, Texas, USA
|28°03′27.36″N 97°02′05.28″W / 28.0576000°N 97.0348000°WCoordinates: 28°03′27.36″N 97°02′05.28″W / 28.0576000°N 97.0348000°W
|1 acre (0.40 ha)
|1874 to 1877
|Architectural style
|Second Empire
|Governing body
|Texas Historical Commission
|NRHP Reference #
|Added to NRHP
|April 24, 1975
The George W. Fulton Mansion is located in Fulton on the Texas Gulf Coast, in the county of Aransas, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is one of the earliest Second Empire style buildings constructed in Texas and is one of the most important of the style in the Southwest United States still in existence. Colonel George Ware Fulton and Harriet Gillette Smith began building the 3.5 story structure overlooking Aransas Bay in 1874 and finished in 1877. The residence, dubbed "Oakhurst" by its owners George & Harriet, featured the most up-to-date conveniences for the time, such as indoor plumbing, central gas lighting and heating.
Felix and Gladys Boldin owned the property since the early 1960s and ran it as a tourist attraction until Felix died in 1970. Gladys sold it to the state before her death.
The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The State of Texas purchased the mansion and 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) of land in 1976 and opened the site to the public in 1983. On January 1, 2008, Fulton Mansion was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission and is now operated as the Fulton Mansion State Historic Site.
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
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Plain 14kt Yellow Gold Heart Charm Bracelet. 7.5"
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This gold bracelet makes a beautiful statement personalized or not. With a toggle clasp, a sleek finish and shining heart charm, it is a refined expression of love. Wear this bracelet to keep that special somebody close at hand! For personalization, please specify initial or monogram from drop down menu and choose either block or script font as shown. Cable chian, 14kt yellow gold bracelet. Please note that personalized items cannot be returned.
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A friend of mine who I meet up weekly with at the track has a new Jamis Sonik. His wheelset supposedly weighs 1600 gms. His American Classic rims are listed at the same weight as my Mavic Open Pros and although he has less spokes I couldn't see how his rim set could weigh 400 grams less than the ones I built up. I have the standard high flange Formulas which I consider to be functional and maybe slightly heavy but when I checked the specs a pair of Formulas weigh 250 grams more than a pair of high flange American Classics. Now I know that weight in the hub is less important for a spin up than weight in the rim but how is it even possible to manufacture a hub which is so much lighter for a given function? Aluminum is aluminum and steel axles are steel axles ... could the American Classics be defying the basic rules of physics? These things actually weigh less than some vintage premium low flange hubs I have on my road bikes.
(note - I did reduce the weight of my wheelset almost 30 grams by cutting off the excess axle width that stuck out on either side of the rear track nuts but that still leaves his hubset weighing 220 grams less than a pair of Formulas),