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Left to right, Ethan Taylor helps George Adkins carry a tree.
It would be fair to say that 10-year-old Ethan Taylor is one of the youngest, most successful Christmas Tree salesmen in Johnson City.
With his gift of gab, and the great cause behind his pitch, Taylor and his fellow salesmen are looking at another sellout at the Troop 237 Christmas Tree sale at Kiwanis Park on Market Street in Johnson City.
Taylor, a recent Webelo-level Scout, struts his skills to potential buyers as they approach the lot. He shared some of his sales tactics, saying he likes to open up with asking if they're interested in buying a tree, and if so, how big of tree they might looking for. From there, Taylor can rifle off information about the tree and what makes them known as the freshest in Johnson City.
The Fraser firs they have available, Taylor will tell customers, come from Buladean, N.C., and were chopped in the last few days. To show the level of their freshness, Taylor will grab the branches, grip tightly and pull down to show that little to no bristles have fallen off.
The first day after Thanksgiving has always been the day when the Boy Scouts begin selling their trees. It's the tradition of it all that gets Ethan Taylor's father, Larry, so excited about what they've always been able to do in Johnson City.
"If it's not the day after Thanksgiving," Larry Taylor said. "I'm probably dead."
He said the Scouts have held that plot since 1959, when the sales began, and that Troop 237 has been there since the 1990s.
When the neighboring Veterans' Memorial was being planned in recent years, Larry Taylor said the committee made it a requirement that the Boy Scouts had a place to sell their trees.
Many of the customers who will come to pick out their tree have been doing so for many years. Larry Taylor said there's a lawyer who came in Friday who has had generation upon generation buying their family's trees from the lot.
When the Bryant family, consisting of Ashley and Justin and baby Ryleigh, came for, and left with, a tree, Larry Taylor said he's seen Ashley come get a tree since she was a little girl. And, she verified that she had, and that she was impressed with Ethan Taylor's selling skills. Ashley Bryant said she'd gladly get a tree and start the Christmas holiday weeks ago, but said Justin likes to keep the holidays separate and not overlap Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Ethan and his father, a recently retired military man turned teacher who's enjoying the chance to grow out a beard for the first time in a long time, are also joined by sister Mariah, 14, friend Matthew, 13, and his father, a fellow assistant Scoutmaster, George Adkins, in running the Christmas Tree lot. With a outdoor woodstove heating up cold extremities, and a camper on site, one wouldn't have to leave the spot if it weren't for the need of more trees.
The Taylors will look to sell about 250 trees, and go until just a few days before Christmas, but the money will make all the difference in the Scouts' lives. It will provide camping and hiking equipment and camp fees for scouts. This fundraiser will help them get to their big trips, which include destinations like Minnesota.
The fundraisers don't even waste the scraps that come off the trees. They turn those other branches into the cheapest and freshest wreaths in Johnson City, with an apparatus Larry Taylor made after learning the trade from someone at a North Carolina tree farm. He's passed down the skill to his son and Matthew Adkins.
With the tradition, good cause and quality product about them, Scout 237 has no problem getting rid of the trees. Taylor said they sell themselves.
One tip Larry Taylor is happy to share is a remedy to remove stick pine pitch. He says a spray of WD40 will help clear up the mess and not damage the skin.
On Okalona Road is the Ole Barn pavilion, where trees are also moving at a rapid pace. Owner Wayne Ayers said Friday was their third day of selling trees and it has been crazy, and a shortened Christmas season has customers feverishly getting their trees.
Greg and Kelly Cusack, of Johnson City, were loading up a big one from Ole Barn, as is their tradition, and, after seeing its broad side in the back of their truck, said they hope they can get it through the front door. Once in, though, the Cusacks said they have the ceiling space in their older home for the nine-footer.
Another couple, Robert Barnes and Betty Lunsford, of Elizabethton, were sharing their first Christmas together and were appreciating the qualities of a live tree versus a plastic tree.
Lunsford said she likes the real trees for the feel, for the look, and especially for the smell.


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One of my loves is mask making… the use of masks by indigenous cultures, the symbolism of masks, the masks we hide behind every day as we journey through our lives. So, for some reason, it seemed appropriate to end "Social Market for a Mirrix" with one of my mask collages utilizing one of the weavings completed during the campaign.
This collage / assemblage isn't finished yet but it will be completed in time for the final video on Monday. Once the paint is dry, I'll be able to pull the pieces together relatively quickly.
Remember this piece? The first weaving I completed in the "Social Market for a Mirrix" campaign? The piece I keep referring to as the Southwestern landscape?
One down, two more to go. Tick, tock!
I'm currently working up the left side of the weaving and starting to level it off so I can cut the weaving off the loom. I'm also trying to finish off the two remaining pieces that were completed earlier in the campaign so I can get those posted by the end of the month.
Susan left a couple of questions for me on my blog…
What tapestry books do I recommend and do I have a favorite?
The American Tapestry Alliance offers a distance learning program, Helping Hands, designed for beginning weavers who want to explore tapestry weaving with guidance and mentoring from a more experienced tapestry weaver. The details are available on the American Tapestry Alliance website.
What do I like best about the Mirrix Loom?
I really like how easy it is to warp the loom and to be able to get sufficient tension on the warp threads. The coils make it easy to keep your warp threads evenly spaced. I also like the fact that the loom has a nice solid feel to it and it doesn't wobble, shift, or slide when I'm weaving.
We're quickly approaching the end of the "Social Market for a Mirrix" campaign. Only 3 more blog posts and 2 more videos before I ride off into the Southwest sunset.
Right now the plan is to start to level the weaving off so you'll have a better idea how it would look. I'm finding myself making a lot more adjustments now, especially with the black areas. Actually, now that I'm looking at the picture and have some distance, I think I would be a lot happier with that orange section if I had separated it from the brick red with black.
Susan posted some questions on my blog I thought I would answer in today's post.
First, my disclaimer… I'm not good with "shoulds" and rules and boundaries. I tend to work in ways that suit what I'm trying to accomplish rather than doing what's "right". This is the main reason I don't try to teach. This is also one of the reasons I recommended books at the beginning of the campaign for people who want to learn tapestry weaving. So, that being said…
Why do you start weaving in different places?
Does that make uneven tension?
Do you always use the shedding device on small areas?
Do you ever use anything but plain tabby weave?
Can you add texture changing the weave and if so can the heddles be arranged to change the pattern using the shedding device?
How would it look using your fingers to lift the warp threads and change the weft pattern to add texture or break up a large pattern of color?
Can you embellish the weaving by adding some metallic thread as a highlighted area?
What about shading an area?
Just a reminder also, videos will be posted on Mondays instead of Sundays for the remainder of the campaign.
I've come to the realization I'm going to have to weave faster because I'm running out of things to say about this piece. I must just be boring your stripey socks off. Anyway, my goal at this point is to start to level the sections off so I can at least show you an area with the handspun pulled through the slits in the event I don't finish the entire weaving by February 28th. Or maybe I'll just consider it finished on the 28th no matter where I'm at in the process so I can cut it off the loom and finish the remaining steps of closing up some of the slits, incorporating the handspun yarn, and mounting it. I'll see how things progress.
In case you missed the announcement, Mirrix is offering free bead patterns for download on their website. There's a really great Valentine's Day heart pattern available that I believe is based on one of Claudia's zendoodles. I might give the image a shot at some point weaving with DMC #5 embroidery thread. But that's a project for much later in the year.
The pink and black "weaving over a weaving" is still very much a work-in-process but should be finished this week. One of the ideas that crossed my mind when I was working on it yesterday was what would happen if there were multiple layers of weaving, then areas were burnt away so you could see the underlying layers. Yep, it's just a matter of time before something goes up in flames.
As I start to look forward to how I will utilize the Mirrix Loom in my future work, I see it being a really useful tool in my mixed media / collage / assemblage projects. I've realized over the past few months that for me "traditional" tapestry weaving is very restrictive.


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Case - Pair of Pistols, Colt Deringer, 4th Model, circa 1963 Reg. No: HT 4524
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- Cased pair of Colt 4th Model rimfire Deringers, cal. .22 in., rifled round steel nickel-plated barrel 62 mm (2 1/2 inch) long. In wooden case with burnt 'COLT' framed in a circle on the lid.
Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co, Hartford, Connecticut. Serial numbers 20017N and 20018N, circa 1963,
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- Barrel hinges to right for loading. Steel nickel-plated frame with almost mint silver plating, slanted hammer characteristic of Colt No.3, 2nd model deringer, sheath trigger, white plastic birdshead grips.
Wooden case with burnt 'COLT' framed in a circle on the lid, lined on lid inside with a faux red satin with gold emblazoned Colt rampant horse logo. Cased lower lined in a faux red velvet.
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Stamped on frame L.H. side: 22 CAL. SHORT/ COLT'S P.F.A. MFG. CO. INC./ HTFD., CT., U.S.A.
Stamped on frame L.H.side: 20017N and 20018N (respectively, across the two examples)
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It looks like we are going to be seeing a lot more of Eric Northman's number one fan in the final season of True Blood. According to Deadline Tara Buck has been promoted to a series regular.
EXCLUSIVE: After recurring on HBO's True Blood for the past six seasons, Tara Buck has been upped to a regular for the vampire drama's upcoming seventh and final season. Buck made her debut as everyone's favorite blood-serving barmaid Ginger in the second half of Season 1 and has been a fixture on the show ever since. Buck, repped by Don Buchwald & Assoc. and Untitled, also has recurred on Justified and Nip/Tuck.
So expect a lot more screaming and faithful fang-banging from the hapless Ginger. The poor girl has been glamoured more times than Jason Stackhouse has had hot dinners. But will she finally get a dream date with her dream man……
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Monte Packham: Do you always have the idea of a book in your head when you take photos, or does that come later? With Election Day for example, did you think, "These are photos for the Westwood campaign, but we're going to make a book as well"?
Juergen Teller: With Westwood I just went there and did the campaign because that's what I was there to do. But in the afternoon of the shoot (it was just one day), I said to my assistant and to Vivienne and Pamela too, "Listen, this will be a book in the end." I had a pretty clear feeling it would work as a book or some kind of catalogue.
MP: Because the pictures tell a story?
JT: Yeah, there's a common-sense thread through it all. I'd never seen photos quite like them before: with Vivienne and Pamela, these opposite poles of people, this weird mix of flash and no flash, everything ugly and beautiful at the same time – a sort of mess. Or when I was doing the self-portraits with Charlotte Rampling for Marc Jacobs, I knew they'd become an exhibition or book. That's when I called her and said we should do more photos – we ended up working for six months. Whether it becomes an exhibition or a book is sort of the same thing for me: something concrete at the end of it all.
MP: In the Westwood campaign there are some shots outside, say on the beach, and some inside in the laundrette – do you work out details like those in advance or do they unfold during the shoot?
JT: Sometimes I choose locations very carefully and know exactly what I'm going to do. But with Westwood I had no idea. We had to go to Los Angeles to be with Pamela because she is America in a sense, and specifically LA. She just suggested we do it in her trailer park.
MP: She lives in a trailer park?
JT: Yeah.
MP: In a trailer?
JT: Yeah. It's her laundrette too.
MP: That's where Pamela Anderson does her laundry?
JT: Yeah, it's her laundrette. It's a kind of upmarket trailer park, but a trailer park nonetheless. The inside of the trailer is bigger than this room but it's still not huge. She lives there with her two kids, one's a teenager and the other one's eight or ten or something. They sleep in bunk beds. There's the kids' bathroom and her bathroom, her bedroom, and then one big room with the kitchen, the entrance, a bit of a terrace, and the living room. It's big enough obviously, but it's not exactly a house. She loves it. She lives there because she's building her house next door. But she likes it so much with all the neighbours and community, she's going to stay there and just use the house for parties and guests. It's right next to the beach and she's got her golf cart and the kids have their motorbikes and surfboards. That's their life.
MP: So the campaign was practically shot in her backyard?
JT: Yeah. That's how I was able to do so many pictures in so many different spots in one location. There are a lot of outfit changes so it was basically a matter of going back to the trailer after a shot, changing, and moving somewhere else – all in the radius of say Düstere Strasse. I had to improvise, as Pamela didn't want to send me pictures of where she lives up front. She just said, "Trust me, trust me, we're gonna do it here." And we did.
MP: Did Westwood herself have much input into the book?
JT: She has a graphic design department that we work with for the ads: single pages, double pages, where the logo should go and all that. We met at my studio and again at her office, and after a while I said, "Listen, I've had this meeting with Gerhard [Steidl, founder of Steidl]…" She loved the idea as she was delighted with the other book we did together, which is apparently sold out.
MP: She's a big reader herself, isn't she?
JT: She is. So she thought it'd be good to put what we've done into some kind of permanent form, not just ads in magazines. But she left the book itself up to me, whether it should be called 'Pamela and Vivienne' or 'Election Day', and so on. I passed everything by her, but otherwise it was up to me.
German publisher Steidl is one of the few remaining publishing houses to control every step of the book manufacturing process – the editing, design, typography, scanning, marketing, distribution, public relations and printing. Since 1966, Steidl books have gloriously showcased the visual and textual stories of creatives including Karl Lagerfeld, William Eggleston, Ed Ruscha and Juergen Teller. Now, the time has come for the publisher to turn the spotlight on itself. In Concentric Circles, Steidl editor Monte Packham speaks to some of their most important collaborators, as well as collating his own observations on book-making and work as an editor – a project which first began in August 2008 and took a year to complete. In this extract, Packham speaks to German photographer Juergen Teller about his book Election Day, featuring Vivienne Westwood's spring/summer 2009 advertising campaign starring Pamela Anderson.
Concentric Circles, A Chronicle of Steidl Publishers by Monte Packham is available now. Get a Life by Juergen Teller published by Steidl, featuring Vivienne Westwood's S/S10 campaign, is on sale in May.
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The story of St. Philip Parish begins in the early 1830`s when a group of Grafton families was visited by Rev. James Fitton, "the missionary of New England." The Grafton church was a mission of Christ Church in Worcester, St. Brigid in Millbury, St. Mary in Uxbridge, St. Ann in Worcester. During the 1850`s a small chapel was constructed on West Street and dedicated in 1861 to the patronage of St. Philip. The church was enlarged during the 1860`s and in 1869 became a parish by itself with the appointment of Rev. Angelus Baret as the first pastor. Through the years St. Philip has been served by sixteen pastors and more than twenty-five curates and associates. Rev. James Boyle, the second pastor, expended his enormous zeal in building the rectory and churches in the other parts of town. His successor, the compassionate and businesslike Rev. John Murphy, beautified the church and cemetery.
Among the longer serving pastors during the twentieth century were Rev. John Casey (1925-45), Rev. James Ruddy (52-68), Rev. Raymond Lange (69-77), Msgr. Richard Collette (79-85), and our present pastor, Rev. Anthony Marteka, who has served since 1985 and is leading the parishioners as they meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Since its founding, St. Philip has been the mother church of four parishes - Holy Angels in Upton, St. James in Fisherville, St. Mary in North Grafton, and Our Lady of Lourdes, formerly in East Millbury. The parish priests also tended the Grafton State Hospital.
While the "old St. Philip Church" served for well over one hundred years, it was replaced in 1977 by a new, modern building designed to better serve the needs of a growing parish. Additions through the years include outdoor statues, illuminated starburst crosses, carillon bells, and, most recently, beautiful stained glass windows. Today, as through the long history of St. Philip Church, the Pastor and parishioners work and pray together as they build for the future a parish family in the long and honored tradition of dedication to "the glory of God and the service of His people."
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Baghdad (CNN) -- The death toll from a Wednesday car bombing at a restaurant in Hilla, Iraq, has risen to 11, with 41 others wounded, an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry said Thursday.
The restaurant is known to be frequented by Iraq security forces. Hilla is about 84 kilometers (52 miles) south of Baghdad.
On Thursday, a sticky bomb attached to a civilian vehicle in western Baghdad's al-Ghazalaiya neighborhood exploded, killing the driver instantly, said the official, who asked not to be named as he is not authorized to release information to the media.
Another bomb in a parked car exploded Thursday at a newly-built security checkpoint building in the al-Mashahda area about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad, causing some damages but no injuries, the official said.
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Hear the sweet music of the D.C. Metro's own Sufjan Stevens
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Tax man by day, musician by night, 32-year-old Jason Mendelson is composing a song for every Metro station, an album for every line. The Alexandria resident apparently finds the roaring Metro trains and the stations creatively riveting — the transit rock star has compiled a full album of 12 songs entitled Volume One: Mostly Blue, that chronicles various stations along the WMATA Blue Line. Now he's partway through his second volume of music, Party Train, which will tackle the Red Line. The Tampa native refers to the project by the forthright label "MetroSongs," and although unsigned, he's just recently found a retailer to sell Mostly Blue. His song titles include "Ice Skating at the Archives," "New York Avenue Invasion," and "Electric Takoma."
The wildest fact might be that Mendelson's lived in D.C. less than a year. When hearing about Mendelson's project, I thought of the musician Sufjan Stevens, who initially made many claims about wanting to make an album dedicated to each of the 50 states. I became curious about what motivates Mendelson's DIY project about the D.C. trains and conducted a Q&A to highlight the transportation ballads he's been producing.
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TBD On Foot: What about Metro stations inspires you?
Jason Mendelson: The main goal is to increase awareness and appreciation for rapid transit. I would love to see this country really embrace green energy concepts. With that in mind, taking the Metro sure beats the heck out of all those riders driving their own cars. I suppose when you boil it down, you might even say it's really a thinly disguised environmental effort. But despite owning a Prius, I have to say I'm probably a lousy treehugger.
On Foot: Is it really so much about the stations or about the surrounding neighborhoods? In D.C., I don't always notice huge differences between the stations themselves.
Mendelson: It's usually the locations and neighborhoods. Sometimes there are unique properties to the stations that help. For example, the canopy above King Street's platform was deliberately constructed in two split parts, to preserve the fabulous view of the Washington Masonic Monument from Old Town. My wife and I recently met up with Emily Haha, who writes a Metro-related blog, www.emilyhaha.com, at the Wheaton station, to share stories and combine research. As a result of our meeting, we all learned the station in Wheaton has the longest escalator in the Western hemisphere. That certainly deserves to be in the lyrics, and may even influence the way I write the music, too.
On Foot: Tell me what your songwriting process is like with each station? Are some stations easier to conjure songs for than others?
Mendelson: Sometimes the music comes first, like on "Van Dorn Street." Sometimes the lyrics are first, as is the case with places like Federal Triangle and Eastern Market, that were super easy to write, and are basically just history lessons set to music. Rosslyn and Pentagon allowed me to stretch out and take a more impressionist type of approach. Rosslyn is a totally fictional story, but the concept is quite moving to me — lamenting the death of a lover, and regretting not appreciating her more when she was around, possibly to the point of madness, when at the end it is revealed that the guy has actually been imagining she still calls him on the phone. Pentagon, for some reason, seemed to be begging for whimsy. The initial obvious idea was to write it in 5/8 time, an unusual rhythmic meter for rock music, and that seemed to work out well. The idea of the Pentagon having a secret underground disco for top brass is hilarious to me.
On Foot: And I hear you've got a retailer now for Volume One: Mostly Blue?
Mendelson: I'm very pleased to say Action Music in Falls Church, Virginia is selling CDs for me. I buy guitars and strings there. The owner and staff are super friendly, and they have lots of cool instruments to drool over. I'm really thankful they were willing to help out.
On Foot: How's Volume Two coming along? Easier than the first? You call "Crawling Out of Crystal City" your most ambitious song so far and I'd love to hear more about why.
Mendelson: Volume Two is a little more difficult, but only because I'm busier now than I was when first moved here last October. With "Crystal City," I decided to try to write and record a song that sounded like Steely Dan. Their music is some of the most complicated you'll find in pop music, so I wanted a challenge like that. I spent several weeks listening to lots of my old Dan vinyl, reading analyses on the Internet, and carefully penning the parts to capture the sound of such a professional arrangement and production. I spent a lot more time with the drum machine than usual, adding lots of fills and keeping the bass part in mind. I added four guitar tracks, some synths, electric piano, five or six tracks of auxiliary percussion, and four-part vocal harmony. I also found that most Dan songs' lyrics cover the following themes and elements — drugs, sex, the name of some specific alcoholic drink, and a perverted twist — so I tried to include all those things.
On Foot: Of course that leads to the real question … is there a Volume 3 in mind?
Mendelson: Absolutely! I'm gonna rock until I've covered all the stations. I might even get into the Silver Line if I'm feeling nutty.
On Foot: How's the reaction to all this been?
Mendelson: Surprisingly positive. I've discovered that despite being a relatively transient area, D.C. really treasures its identity and appreciates people who are more interested in the local scene than the national one.
On Foot: Give me a sense of how you balance your day job and the music.
Mendelson: It's pretty tricky. I work in tax, so I have busy times and slow times, which turns out to help more than it hurts. Don't expect me to be playing any concerts the first two weeks of April, though!
On Foot: And can people see you playing music live anywhere?
Mendelson: I have performed MetroSongs at the Electric Maid and at Eastern Market for the Cherry Blossom Festival. I'd really love to play my MetroSongs at the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage. In addition to writing and recording MetroSongs, I play in Down Wilson, an Arlington-based party band. We play mostly modern hits, and some '80s and '90s stuff. I also play bass for DC singer/songwriter Adrian Krygowski.
Order Mendelson's first album Volume One: Mostly Blue for $5 or get the MP3s for $2.50 over at his MetroSongs website. Also consider following the project on Facebook.


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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), released in April, are the first sweeping recommendations for science instruction since 1996, and were designed to reflect the increasing need for scientific acumen in a complex, technological world. Almost three years in the making, the NGSS will supplant the National Education Science Standards created 17 years ago.
The new standards were written by 41 educators from 26 states, and are the product of a joint effort by the National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Achieve, a Washington, D.C.-based educational group, organized the project, which is state-generated, not federally funded.
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A new park and historic site will highlight a piece of the region's civil rights history.
In 1915, what was then the Town of Falls Church had proposed an ordinance that would prohibit African Americans from being in certain areas of the town after sundown, essentially meaning that they could not live in those areas.
"In the teens, this was going on all over the country," said Paul Gilbert, director of NOVA Parks, formerly known as the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. "It was really the worst period of time of the Jim Crow era."
Residents of a small black community on what is now Tinner Hill Road in Falls Church, who would have been forced out of their homes, decided to take action.
E.B. Henderson and Joseph Tinner and some of their friends held a meeting in a private home. They formed a group and then applied to become a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, itself only a few years old at that point.
It was the first rural branch of the NAACP and the first one in Virginia, as the other chapters at that time were all located in major cities. This NAACP chapter is also the ancestor, of a sort, of the current Fairfax County NAACP chapter, Gilbert said.
"The effort to oppose this ordinance was successful … which meant that they were able to continue to live in their homes," Gilbert said.
The land where Tinner's house used to be will now become a small public park and historic site operated by NOVA Parks. The half-acre site spans the line between the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County, which granted NOVA Parks a 99-year lease to the property.
The corners of the former house will be marked with stones, and a set of signs will tell the story of the site's history.
An artist is creating a sculpture for the site, Gilbert said. It will be a zigzag shape representing the ups and downs of African-American civil rights in this country.
There will also be a new picnic shelter available for formal and informal gatherings.
"It will be a really neat place to mark this unique bit of history," Gilbert said.
The new park, which will open later this year, will tie in to two other nearby projects highlighting local civil rights history, Gilbert said.
The Reserve at Tinner Hill, a new development of apartments and retail space that is expected to be complete by April 2016, will include a timeline mural that highlights the city's history, including Tinner Hill and other civil rights events.
A transit hub the city is planning two blocks away will also include signs highlighting the role of transportation in the local civil rights movement.
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Rolling off a tainted victory against Riki Fukuda at UFC 127, Calgary's Nick Ring gets a chance to show 'The Promise' isn't a lie when he turns out on June 11 at Rogers Arena against 7-1 James Head.
Head will be debuting in the UFC, coming off a decision win over Gerald Harris at Xtreme Fight Night 2 and a TKO win over Bill Albrecht before that.
Ring is 11-0 in the cage, but looked a slow and hesitant on his recent spell in The Ultimate Fighter, and showed nothing different in his surprise decision win over Fukuda – a win that few have tried to defend.
Leave aside the usual 'ring/head' innuendo for a moment, as well as the awfulness that is Ring's chosen nickname (Really? The Promise Ring?), and what this fight is is a chance (perhaps the last chance) for the canuck to prove that he's his record isn't made out of tomato cans and bad decisions.
The odd thing about Ring is, as you can see on the YouTube video below, he's a nasty Muay Thai fighter. He's also boxed a little. He should be lightning quick and dangerous as all get out on his feet… he just hasn't been for the last year or two. It's like he lost his mojo.
Also on the card: A main event title shot elimination bout between TUF coaches Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos, the return of Shane Carwin, Kenny Florian dropping to featherweight, Demian Maia putting the its on the overrated Mark Munoz, and Donald Cerrone getting his spotlight shot against Mac Danzig.
On the Canadian content end of things, Sam Stout goes up against Yves Edwards, Krzysztof Soszynski tackles aussie battler Anthony Perosh, and Jesse 'Water' Bongfeldt gets a middleweight opportunity against Chris Weidman after Court McGee had to pull out with injury.
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A big crater or a little basin? Bailly is a famous large (303 km) feature on the Moon's southwest limb that is readily seen when lighting and librations are favorable. But beyond identifying it, have you studied it? Bailly lacks a central peak, but does have a series of low hills that suggest an inner ring. In impact cratering, as the energy of impact increases beyond a level that creates craters 200-300 km wide, the central peak is transformed into a low scraggily ring of hills. Bailly is an example of the onset of such a peak-ring morphology of impact basins. Although they are fairly common on Mars and Mercury, there aren't many peak-ring basins on the Moon. Bailly is also rather old - its rim and floor are littered with many later random (and Orientale secondary) impact craters. Bailly is a an old feature, but it is not a walled-plain, nor is it a just a big, battered old crater.
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Rubona's new running water in maternity, laboratory, and consultation services helps staff to ensure more hygienic conditions for patients, helps patients practice hygiene, and provides an additional safeguard against false test results in the laboratory.
Infants delivered during and after September, 2010, will be delivered in a room with running water, a feature that is key to dealing with unforeseen complications, and guaranteeing that even routine deliveries are sanitary and salubrious. Likewise, nearly 3,000 patients seen each month will benefit from hand-washing stations in the consultation areas, central to preventing the spread of health- center-borne pathogens. Jennifer informs us that the arrival of running water into the health center has been celebrated by staff and patients alike.
Peace Corps Volunteer Emmett V. Reeb III, placed at Rubona Health Center, articulates the sentiment among the staff:
It is amazing what running water has done to help the health center at Rubona. The nurses serve the community more efficiently and with greater confidence and pride. Emmett is set to begin a new project, to build upon the successes of the current one by adding to the parts of the clinic being served by running water. We are grateful to Jennifer for starting the process.
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New Video: Keyshia Cole f/ Lil Wayne – "Enough Of No Love"
After weeks of waiting to see the full thing, Keyshia Cole finally unveiled the finished version of her "Enough of No Love" video, and it looks amazing. In a series of fashionable shots, suitcases get packed up and blown up, Keyshia goes crazy over love in a padded room and she emerges just in time to do some choreography during Weezy's verse. That old 2005, 'I should have cheated' Keyshia is back on this track:
I admit I was almost crazy
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But it's cool i'mma be a lady
She think she cute but she don't phase me
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Meanwhile, an oblique French thriller called Swimming Pool, directed by François Ozon (Under the Sand), slipped past most moviegoers in midsummer. Charlotte Rampling stars as a jittery mystery writer who installs herself in her publisher's vacation house in the south of France, hoping to stir the creative juices. Instead, she gets caught up in a mystery so dense (it involves the publisher's alluring daughter, played by Ludivine Sagnier) that the audience must try to untangle it for themselves long after the credits have rolled. As with, say, Mulholland Drive, the possibilities are endless, and happily so.
Melissa Levine: What a year for the documentary! 2003 blessed us with a host of gripping, moving and potentially life-altering films documenting critical social (and natural) events. Directors Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk brought us Lost Boys of Sudan, a heartbreaking look at exactly what America can and can't do for young, resourceless refugees from a victimized culture. Peter Nyarol Dut and Santino Majok Chuor, members of the Dinka tribe, fled Sudan as boys to avoid destruction; more than ten years later, they arrived in the United States with the hope of creating a better life. With a keen eye for the critical detail and a gracious sense of humor, the film follows the young men as they attempt not merely to negotiate a foreign culture but also to succeed in it. Equally affecting is Girlhood, directed by Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus. Simultaneously unflinching and warm, it examines the lives of two girls serving open-ended sentences at a juvenile correctional facility. Confident, intimate and compassionate, Garbus gets right up next to the girls' hearts to show us what they love, what they fear and how precisely, and terribly, they hurt. Finally, a vote for Winged Migration: You've never seen birds like this.
Jean Oppenheimer: A brutal portrait of life in the most notorious ghetto in Rio de Janeiro, City of God marries elements of Italian neo-realism with today's most sophisticated postproduction techniques to produce an in-your-face realism of visceral and dazzling power. Based on the best-selling novel, it covers three decades in the life of the favela, a former housing project turned drug- and crime-ridden slum. Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles and co-director Kátia Lund decided early on to cast the picture with actual ghetto kids; the performances are extraordinary, heartrending and so real they are frightening.
Divine Intervention looks at one of this planet's seemingly intractable geopolitical problems, the Arab-Israeli conflict. Using absurdist humor and visual inventiveness, writer-director Elia Suleiman not only decries the indignities suffered by Palestinians living under Israeli occupation but also shows how people on both sides of the political divide lose their sense of civility and even humanity when living in such circumstances. Some members of the audience may be uncomfortable with the film's more explicitly political second half, but hopefully most viewers will be able to appreciate the emotional discipline that Suleiman exercises.
Other worthy films to mention include Marooned in Iraq, Sweet Sixteen, Russian Ark and Together.
Luke Y. Thompson: Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers had been delayed since 2001 because Miramax feared that a black-hearted comedy about self-destruction on a U.S. military base would be too controversial in the post 9/11 world. They dumped it in theaters this year with minimum fanfare -- a conservative backlash would probably have served the film in better stead. Eric Weiss and Nora Maccoby crafted a screenplay that's tighter and funnier than Robert O'Connor's original novel, and Joaquin Phoenix gives a career-best performance as the anti-Sgt. Bilko. Ed Harris' bumbling colonel beats his touted Human Stain role and might just make you forget he was in Radio.
For those who like their darkness without humor, on the other hand, there was Irreversible, a nasty little musing on fate, evolution and time. Love it or hate it, few were indifferent. Composed of single-take scenes edited in reverse chronological order, the film should be of particular interest to those of you skilled at repressing emotions -- when the ostensible "voice of reason" finally loses it here, the results are brutal, and because you haven't yet seen the motivation, aren't cathartic in the least. I also recommend Northfork, May, Pieces of April, The Backyard and OT: Our Town.
Gregory Weinkauf: There's a big difference between pop malarkey and cinema, and connoisseurs of the latter may celebrate Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom). This magnificent meditation on masculine development -- and its tragic arrest -- arrives as Korea's official entry for Best Foreign Film of 2003, but there's nothing "foreign" about it, and it doesn't require Oscar's validation. Set in and around a tiny floating monastery, writer-director-editor Kim Ki-duk's masterpiece showcases insular teachings spinning the cycles of life, for better and worse. It's an ideal boy-movie complement to Whale Rider, with which it shares my top honors. Also marvelous is Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, which introduces the world to 2003's top lead actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, who strives to save fellow illegal alien Audrey Tautou from London's mean streets. In addition, I heartily recommend the refreshingly melancholic romances I Capture the Castle, Laurel Canyon, My Life Without Me and Till Human Voices Wake Us; the stunning documentaries Señorita Extraviada, Step Into Liquid and Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time; and works of genius as disparate as Monster and The Return of the King, which continue to widen the horizons of the art form.
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Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon) - Historic County of Wales
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Also known as Carnarvonshire or, in Welsh, as Sir Gaernarfon.
A maritime County bounded N. by the Irish Sea, E. by Denbighshire, S. by Cardigan Bay and Merioneth, and W. by Caernarfon Bay and the Menai Straits, which separates it from Anglesey.
Area 1961 - 364,108 acres (1,473.49 Sq.km)
Population 1961 - 121 767
Admin. Headquarters Caernarfon
Chapman code CAE
Motto: Cadernid Gwynedd (The strength of Gwynedd)
County Flower Snowdon Lily - Lloydia serotina
The surface is mountaineous. A large part of the Snowdonia National Park lies in the County including Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales (3560 ft). The Lleyn Peninsula is less mountaineous and contains many bays and sandy beaches. Bardsey Island is a major site for nesting seabirds. The River Conwy runs north along the E. boundary. Sheep rearing and tourism are the main industries, the coast being much developed for the latter.
Places of special interest:
- Bardsey Island (SH1221);
- Caernarfon Castle (SH4762);
- Conwy Castle (SH7877);
- Cricceith Castle (SH4937);
- Great Orme Tramway (SH7883);
- Gwydir Castle, nr. Llanrwst (SH7961);
- Penrhyn Castle (SH6071);
- Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed (SH7657);
- Snowdon Mountain Railway, Llanberis (SH5859);
- Ty Mawr Wybrnant (SH7752).
Principal towns
- Bangor,
- Betws-y-Coed,
- Caernarfon,
- Conwy,
- Llandudno
- Porthmadog
- Pwllheli.
See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties
The county was divided into ten hundreds based on the existing Welsh commotes: * Cymydmaen (anglicised as Commitmaen),
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- Dinllaen,
- Eifionydd (Evionydd),
- Cafflogion (Gaflogion),
- Llechwedd Isaf (...Isav),
- Llechwedd Uchaf (...Uchav),
- Nant Conwy (Nant-Conway),
- Is Gwyrfai (Isgorvai) a
- Uwch Gwyrfai (Uchgorvai).
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Rated 5 out of 5�by Kia78 VERY SEXY!! I am in love with this dress! I ordered the M/L and It fits my curves perfectly! It has great stretch. You will not be disappointed with this purchase! November 27, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5�by shorty14 self All my dresses came which i like but i was sent a color i didn't order it was suppose to be white they sent silver but overall im pleased October 15, 2014
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Most of you that know me, know that I might have an infatuation with technology. This is true but as I get older, I'm getting wiser and starting to think that this whole technology thing is just plain annoying. Let me give you a few examples that I have suffered since my return from travelling. […]
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Pain in the Technology
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
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The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Another of the interesting sites that we visited in Bangkok was called Wat Pho and its another beautiful temple on large grounds. It was pissing rain when we went so there aren't many pictures of the exterior. Its also the place where I warned Sharon to be more respectful of religious icons otherwise there would […]
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Bangkok Pictures and Photo Processing
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments
I have updated the blog entry about Bangkok with pictures and have posted 2 new picture galleries. One is of general scenes in around and Bangkok (some appear in the blog above). The other is a gallery of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The Grand Palace is something to behold, I was expected opulence but […]
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Thank you!
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Sharon and I returned back to Canada on Nov 14. We left on June 21 so we were gone for quite a while. All I can say is it's good to be home in our own house. It's not good to be home to Fall weather in Canada. I'm starting to think that all that […]
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Pictures and Post Updates
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I have started to add pictures and some additional blogs and I am back dating them so they fit into the correct timeline. To find out what the latest picture and blog posts are, please visit http://www.giraud.com. The latest updates will be just after the main picture. It would be really handy if somebody could […]
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The Reeves family and the Kelly Reeves Memorial Foundation are committed to organizations that provide for children and families. This includes local schools, local non-profit agencies and local philanthropic organizations. We are dedicated to providing funds for special projects that would enhance the community where Kelly would have lived, worked and played.
Projects that the foundation is willing to provide funding for would need to meet the following criteria:
1) Physical plant enhancements (examples include windows, roofs, carpet, flooring, etc.);
2) Departmental needs (examples include science lab, library books, technology needs, etc.);
3) Special Projects (examples include research funding, community projects, secret Santa, etc.).


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Congrats on your blog's 3rd anniversary! And on you being featured. What great accomplishments!
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:02 am
Keep the reviews coming CK. Really enjoy your blog especially when I am in Pg and can't think of what to have!!
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Friending The FBIWASHINGTON (AP) — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.
Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.
The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are already logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target's friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Among other purposes: Investigators can check suspects' alibis by comparing stories told to police with tweets sent at the same time about their whereabouts. Online photos from a suspicious spending spree — people posing with jewelry, guns or fancy cars — can link suspects or their friends to robberies or burglaries.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group, obtained the Justice Department document when it sued the agency and five others in federal court. The 33-page document underscores the importance of social networking sites to U.S. authorities. The foundation said it would publish the document on its Web site on Tuesday.
With agents going undercover, state and local police coordinate their online activities with the Secret Service, FBI and other federal agencies in a strategy known as "deconfliction" to keep out of each other's way.
"You could really mess up someone's investigation because you're investigating the same person and maybe doing things that are counterproductive to what another agency is doing," said Detective Frank Dannahey of the Rocky Hill, Conn., Police Department, a veteran of dozens of undercover cases.
A decade ago, agents kept watch over AOL and MSN chat rooms to nab sexual predators. But those text-only chat services are old-school compared with today's social media, which contain mountains of personal data, photographs, videos and audio clips — a potential treasure trove of evidence for cases of violent crime, financial fraud and much more.
The Justice Department document, part of a presentation given in August by top cybercrime officials, describes the value of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and other services to government investigators. It does not describe in detail the boundaries for using them.
"It doesn't really discuss any mechanisms for accountability or ensuring that government agents use those tools responsibly," said Marcia Hoffman, a senior attorney with the civil liberties foundation.
The group sued in Washington to force the government to disclose its policies for using social networking sites in investigations, data collection and surveillance.
Covert investigations on social-networking services are legal and governed by internal rules, according to Justice Department officials. But they would not say what those rules are.
In the face-to-face world, agents can't impersonate a suspect's spouse, child, parent or best friend. But online, behind the guise of a social-networking account, they can.
Undercover operations aren't necessary if the suspect is reckless. Federal authorities nabbed a man wanted on bank fraud charges after he started posting Facebook updates about the fun he was having in Mexico.
Maxi Sopo, a native of Cameroon living in the Seattle area, apparently slipped across the border into Mexico in a rented car last year after learning that federal agents were investigating the alleged scheme. The agents initially could find no trace of him on social media sites, and they were unable to pin down his exact location in Mexico. But they kept checking and eventually found Sopo on Facebook.
While Sopo's online profile was private, his list of friends was not. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville began going through the list and was able to learn where Sopo was living. Mexican authorities arrested Sopo in September. He is awaiting extradition to the U.S.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said the company has put together a handbook to help law enforcement officials understand "the proper ways to request information from Facebook to aid investigations."
The Justice document includes sections about its own lawyers. For government attorneys taking cases to trial, social networks are a "valuable source of info on defense witnesses," they said. "Knowledge is power. ... Research all witnesses on social networking sites."
But the government warned prosecutors to advise their own witnesses not to discuss cases on social media sites and to "think carefully about what they post."
It also cautioned federal law enforcement officials to think prudently before adding judges or defense counsel as "friends" on these services.
"Social networking and the courtroom can be a dangerous combination," the government said.


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Gelato case repair temporarily shuts down Yum
Hillsborough's Yum temporarily closes: Yum, the new crepe and gelato shop in Hillsborough, has closed temporarily.
The owners closed the shop June 7 to get their gelato case fixed. The owners were having issues with the temperature of the case, affecting the texture of the product.
They are working on replacing the equipment and are also looking to add to their menu. They plan to re-open at the end of June.
In addition to Yum, Mick and Kate Carroll also own Radius Pizzeria & Pub in Hillsborough. For information on Radius, go to the website www.radiuspizzeria.net. The Yum website is still under construction at www.yumdesserts.net.
B-Side Lounge in Carrboro: Venable Rotisserie Bistro's Drew Moore is opening a bar called The B-Side Lounge in the former DSI Comedy space behind Venable in Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro.
The bar will share a kitchen with Venable, but will offer a different menu with a focus on small plates.
The lounge will be open for late-night fare, and will also be available for private parties and events.
Renovations are underway. The opening is targeted for late summer.
Food truck rodeo in Pittsboro: A food truck rodeo will be held Saturday in Pittsboro in a parking lot across from the Pittsboro Roadhouse.
The rodeo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday. For information, go to the website http://pittsbororoadhouse.com/food-truck-rodeo-in-pittsboro/.
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Michael Bublè posted on Instagram: Overjoyed and filled with gratitude at the arrival of our son Noah Bublè. Born this morning, August 27th at 2:26 am in Vancouver, Canada
NEW YORK (AP) Michael Bublè is a father.
The pop singer posted a picture of his wife, actress Luisana Lopilato, and their son Noah on his Instagram account Tuesday. Bublè's representative confirmed the birth.
Lopilato gave birth to the couple's first child early Tuesday in Vancouver, Canada.
The 37-year-old Canadian singer and the 26-year-old Argentine actress were married in 2011. The couple met in 2009 during a South American concert tour.
Bublè is a Grammy-winning pop singer who has sold millions of albums, including "Crazy Love" and 2011's "Christmas." Lopilato made her name as a model and in Argentine sitcoms and soap operas.
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Tag Archives: cell division
New technique reveals a role for histones in cell division
Researchers have found that key aspects of cell division, such as the formation of the support structure for the envelope that surrounds the nucleus, depend on the presence of DNA-organizing proteins known as histones. More »
Friction harnessed by proteins helps organize cell division
Researchers have found that the fastener proteins that organize cell division can harness the movement around them to do their work. Movement of filaments within the structure responsible for cell division can cause some of these proteins to shuffle along the path of least resistance and into position. More »
Checkered history of mother and daughter cells explains cell cycle differences
In preparing to divide, mother and daughter cells use different gears and levers to regulate their genes. A collaboration between two geneticists and their labs now reveals that this difference in gene expression ultimately affects the protein CLN3, the levels of which certify whether a cell is ready to commit to another grueling round of cell division. The work sets a new compass point for studying how cell division may go awry in different types of cancer. More »
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A positive-feedback system ensures that cells divide
Every time a cell makes the decision to divide, it faces a formidable task: synchronizing the activity of hundreds of genes and proteins so that two daughter cells can be born. Now, Rockefeller University researchers show that a positive-feedback loop helps keep these events in sync — a finding that has eluded scientists for decades. More »
Tags: cell division, Frederick R. Cross
Dividing cells find their middle by following a protein 'contour map'
Self-organization keeps schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites in sync. It's also, according to new research, the way cells regulate the final stage of cell division. Scientists at Rockefeller University have shown that a protein-chemistry-based contour map, which helps individual proteins locate the center of their cell without direction from a "master organizer," is key to ensuring accurate division during mitosis. More »
Tags: cell division, Tarun Kapoor
Device allows scientists to control gene activity across generations of cells
A group of biophysicists at Rockefeller University has developed a new tool that can control and measure, more precisely than before, the activity of genes and proteins within single budding yeast cells as they divide and multiply. The device may yield new insight into the functioning of regulatory networks. More »
Tags: cell division, Eric Siggia
Mammalian protein plays unexpected role in cell division, and perhaps cancer
In yeast, the protein Tel2 regulates the length of telomeres, DNA sequences that protect the ends of linear chromosomes. But in humans and mice, Tel2 does nothing of the sort. Instead, researchers at Rockefeller University are the first to show that mammalian Tel2 prevents the degradation of a family of six proteins that primarily regulate cell division and proliferation, an unexpected role that may be linked to cancer. More »
Tags: cell division, telomeres, Titia de Lange
Sizing cells up: Researchers pinpoint when a cell is ready to reproduce
Like people, cells must reach a certain size before they can reproduce. A collaboration between Rockefeller University biologists, physicists and mathematicians shows how and when cells reach this size requirement, findings that provide researchers with a new quantitative framework to get to the core mechanisms involved in how a cell monitors its size. More »
Tags: cell division, Eric Siggia
Chromosomes are responsible for a critical enzyme's activation during cell division
The microtubule structures that chromosomes use to migrate to opposite ends of a cell must have impeccable timing: They need to materialize when chromosomes are present, then dissipate when they're no longer needed. Now, new research suggests that the enzyme Aurora B is the reason that the microtubules show up on time. More »
Tags: cell division, Hironori Funabiki
'Hitchhiking' chromosomes yield new theory of cell division
From the moment the cell was discovered, scientists have been dissecting the methodical, multi-step process by which they duplicate themselves. This week, Rockefeller researchers studying one component of this process — how a cell's chromosomes move in preparation for division — announce a discovery that overturns current cell-division theory. More »
Tags: cell division, DNA replication, Tarun Kapoor
Clearing jams in the copy machinery
Bacteria and humans use a number of tools to direct perhaps the most important function in cells — the accurate copying of DNA during cell division. Now, Rockefeller scientists show that one of these proteins, the beta sliding clamp, serves as a toolbelt, from which the correct proteins are retrieved to enable DNA replication in the face of DNA damage. More »
Rockefeller researchers show evidence of asymmetric cell division in mammalian skin
By orienting cell division perpendicular to the bottom layer, cells automatically create two different daughters, one that stays in the basal layer and one that differentiates. The findings may lead to a better understanding of stem cell maintenance. More »
Tags: cell division, Elaine Fuchs
Rockefeller researchers identify new role for key protein that regulates separation of DNA in dividing cells
Rockefeller University scientists have revealed a new function of a key component of the mechanism that cells use to accurately separate chromosomes when they divide. Disruptions in this process can cause diseases such as cancer. More »
Tags: cell division, DNA replication, Tarun Kapoor
Preparing for a safe split
As it prepares to divide, a human cell makes exact copies of all of its 46 chromosomes, so that the two daughter cells each can have a complete set of genetic material. The two sets must separate equally, otherwise the new cells end up with the wrong number of chromosomes. Such problems are common in cancer cells, and have been linked to several types of birth defects. More »
Tags: cell division, Hironori Funabiki
What inspires yeast cells to divide?
Often in science a novel set of experiments comes along that forces researchers to abandon old models in exchange for new ones that better fit their observations. This is the case in a new Nature report by Rockefeller University researchers, which finds that past models of cellular division in the simple yeast organism were focused on the wrong protein. More »
Tags: cell division, Frederick R. Cross
How Aging Cells Retire
As we grow older, our hair turns gray, our bones grow thin and, among other changes, our telomeres shrink. But, more than markers of the passage of time, telomeres, the tips of chromosomes, may harbor answers to the fundamental mechanisms of aging and cancer. More »
Tags: cell division, telomeres, Titia de Lange


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By Rudi WilliamsAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 1999 The predominantly Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment was honored in a 1992 Army National Guard heritage painting for its record of valor during the Korean War.
The scene depicts the regimental bayonet charge against a Chinese division near Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 2, 1951. The 65th had been ordered to seize two hills and climaxed a three-day assault by fixing bayonets and launching straight into the Chinese 149th Division. The enemy soldiers fled.
The 65th was organized in 1899, a year after the United States seized Puerto Rico from Spain. At the time, the Army considered the regiment to be "colonial troops" for the defense of the island, according to the Army Center for Military History in Washington. Its nickname, "The Borinqueneers," honors a native Puerto Rican Indian tribe.
The regiment served in Panama and France during World War II, but its record was undistinguished because, some sources say, Army commanders lacked confidence in the Puerto Ricans' willingness to fight. It took the Korean War to prove those doubts were misplaced.
After arriving at Pusan, South Korea, on Sept. 20, 1950, the outfit quickly won respect on the battlefield. Over the next three years, it participated in nine major campaigns and earning a Presidential Unit Citation, a Meritorious Unit Commendation and two Republic of Korea Unit Citations. Individual members earned four Distinguished Service Crosses and 124 Silver Stars.
The ground war in Korea was fought on some of the most mountainous terrain in the world and many of the bitterest battles occurred during the winter, when extreme cold, snow and ice dogged troops. The 65th's regimental motto, "Honor and Fidelity," exemplifies its gallant service in that difficult war.


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August 2, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas The operator of the electricity transmission grid for most of Texas says this week's freezing temperatures have pushed demand for power in the state to a new winter record.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says electricity use peaked Tuesday morning at 57,277 megawatts. The previous winter record was 57,265 megawatts on Feb. 10, 2011.
ERCOT has discontinued a conservation alert it had issued on Monday calling on customers to reduce their use of electricity. The alert came after problems with high electricity use across much of the state due to frigid temperatures were compounded by the failure of two power plants.
ERCOT spokeswoman Robbie Searcy says the electricity supply is in good shape and the system is operating normally.
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