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Craig Copland is steeped in contradictions.
He's a Toronto native who considers the U.S. government "by far the most influential, most powerful body of decision-makers on Earth."
He grew up a liberal, only to work on Republican politics today, including writing a game plan for GOP campaigns at the local, state, and federal levels called the 2012 Conservative Election Handbook.
He loves arts and culture, living part of the year in Manhattan because, as he says, "It's the center of the world for things like that," but he doesn't shy away from sports metaphors when it comes to politicking.
And his philosophy on political strategy seems like a contradiction. Despite the proliferation of campaigns shaped by social media, donations by text message, Skyped stump speeches, and political iPhone apps, Copland recommends an old-school approach to all the candidates he advises: "Host dessert parties, coffee parties, speak to every rubber-chicken Rotary meeting."
"People are far, far more influenced by a personal connection than they are by being bombarded with e-mails," he explained. "Politics is still personal."
Politics is personal indeed for Copland. Although he grew up interested in politics, Copland wasn't politically active for much of his life. Working initially as an environmental-science teacher for grades K-12 in Canada, he had few political aspirations until well into his second career, working with humanitarian-aid organizations around the world. During Copland's time with the Christian Children's Fund of Canada and Feed the Children, he was able to travel to more than 100 countries and visit all the continents but Antarctica.
Perhaps—as Copland says jokingly—he's had career attention deficit disorder. Although his work with aid groups offered him the opportunity to work with a host of different cultures, he began the shift to political consulting about two decades into his career. Copland started out as a "liberal do-gooder," he said, but his experience in developing countries convinced him that the progressive way of doing things, which he defines as government-based solutions, is not always the best way.
"I basically concluded that government-run solutions—which are, basically, take money from the taxpayer and pay people to set up solutions run and monitored by the state—really have failed. And the more traditional solutions, trying to assist individuals and families and communities to take responsibility for their own actions and to provide them with fair jobs and fair wages at market value, is what helps us achieve our goals," he said.
Haiti in particular illustrated for Copland the value of market-oriented solutions over government aid. He described securing government grants to educate and improve communities in the country as a slow struggle, a stark contrast to the rapid improvement in the region when a bottling factory opened near one of the towns where he worked. Reality reinforced the creeping suspicion that the beliefs held by the former liberal do-gooder may have been based on faulty premises.
And so, in between humanitarian trips to other nations, Copland became involved in conservative Canadian politics, serving as the president of a local conservative party apparatus in his home country and using the skills for politics he had learned while fundraising and marketing for humanitarian organizations. Copland now consults for a number of candidates running for local and state offices, mainly in the U.S., because, he says, "more-experienced candidates are more likely to win reelection than less-experienced candidates.
"It really is the down-ballot elections that are critical to building a conservative political force throughout the country," he said. This is why he wrote the 2012 Conservative Election Handbook, already in the hands of about 1,000 campaigns, he said.
The Handbook, along with Copland's website ConservaWiki.com, where conservatives can share best practices for their campaigns, are his attempt to gather into one place all the tried-and-true wisdom already amassed by conservative campaign after conservative campaign.
"When I got involved with the campaigns, I realized that people always seemed to be reinventing the wheel, and that there was no one simple manual" on running a campaign, he said. Copland is now planning another book on winning over liberals' hearts, he said.
As stated on ConservaWiki.com, the goal of these endeavors is to "elect 600,000 conservatives to public office" across America, because, as Copland says, that's the only way to win.
"Rule No. 1 of basketball or football is, you can't win if you ain't got the ball," he said.
This article appears in the June 19, 2012 edition of NJ Daily.


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The topography indirectly affects the distribution of plants and animals. As we have seen, a change in elevation means a change in temperature and precipitation, and irregular topography can create uneven distribution of snow. Well-named Snow Flat is at about the same elevation as Tuolumne Meadows, yet because it lies south of Mt. Hoffmann, it receives about twice as much snow as Tuolumne Meadows, which lies just north of the Cathedral Range. This range creates a "rain shadow" on its north side, so less precipitation falls over the meadows. The Sierra crest creates an even greater rain shadow, which explains why Mono Lake, in the table, has such a low precipitation—about 30% of the maximum figure.
Topography also affects vegetation in other ways. A north-facing slope, because it receives less sunlight than a south-facing slope, is cooler, so evaporation and transpiration on it are less. Consequently, it can support a denser stand of vegetation. This denser stand produces more litter, which results in more humus, so ground water is retained better. In one soil survey conducted by the author, about 60 percent of a soil's weight on a north-facing slope was due to water, whereas on a nearby south-facing slope, only about 5 percent was due to water. This was an extreme case, but, nevertheless, it helps one to visualize why north-facing slopes tend to be heavily forested while south-facing ones tend to be more open and sometimes brushy. At mid-elevations we see red and white firs on the shady slopes and Jeffrey pines and huckleberry oaks on the sunny ones.
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Softball players earn academic honors
HUNTINGTON -- A trio of Marshall University softball players earned Academic All-District 2 first team honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Marshall seniors Ashley Gue, Alysia Hively and Andi Williamson are standouts in the classroom as well as on the field.
Gue is a biology major from Huntington (Cabell Midland High School) with minors in chemistry and psychology and a 3.49 GPA.
Entering Saturday's games she was second in Marshall history with 104 stolen bases. She was hitting .336, the second-highest average on the team.
Hively will graduate with a double major in exercise physiology and psychology and a 3.89 GPA.
The Clay, W.Va., native was leading the Thundering Herd with nine home runs, the fourth-most this season in Conference USA. She received a C-USA Hitter of the Week award earlier in the season.
Williamson, a Harts, W.Va., product is working toward a major in PE and Health Education with a 3.69 GPA.
The Herd pitcher entered the weekend ranked second in the nation (first in C-USA) with 312 strikeouts. She also was leading the conference with a school-record 27 wins, was third in ERA (2.32) and was listed third in opposing batting average (.187).
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall's women tuned up for the C-USA Outdoor Championships with some solid performances Friday at the Ohio Open in Athens, Ohio.
The conference meet is Wednesday through Saturday at Houston.
Amanda Kennedy finished first in the shot put (38.78 meters).
Amanda Hottenstein won the hammer throw (50.18) and was third in the shot put (12.77). Bethany Drury placed fourth in the shot put (12.72).
Julia Galloway finished fourth in the 5000-meter run (19:27.79).
Celia Leonard took sixth place in the 1500-meter run (4:48.78) and Lexie McEntire was sixth in the 800 (2:24.29). Paige Govey was seventh in the 800 (2:24.87).
Only the Herd throwers and distance runners competed.
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University women's soccer will play its first match in the new stadium Aug. 23 against the Campbell Camels.
Marshall head coach Kevin Long announced the 2013 schedule.
The Thundering Herd plays its first four regular season matches in the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex being built at Fifth Avenue and 26th Street.
Other opponents in the four-match homestand are Kent State (Aug. 25), James Madison (Aug. 30) and Akron (Sept. 1).
Marshall goes to Philadelphia, Pa., to face a pair of teams that went to the NCAA tournament last season -- Sept. 6 at Temple and Sept. 8 at LaSalle.
Matches Sept. 15 at Liberty and Sept. 22 at home against Miami (Ohio) complete the non-conference schedule. Miami (Ohio) was also in the 2012 NCAA tournament.
Conference USA matches at home are against Old Dominion (Sept. 27), UAB (Sept. 29), Florida Atlantic (Oct. 18), Middle Tennessee State (Oct. 20) and Tulsa (Oct. 27).
UAB is the defending conference champion.
Aug. 10 Alumni Game-x, TBA
Aug. 14 at VMI-x, 4 p.m.
Aug. 16 at Cincinnati-x, 3 p.m.
Aug. 23 Campbell, 7 p.m.
Aug. 25 Kent State, 1 p.m.
Aug. 30 James Madison, 7 p.m.
Sept. 1 Akron, 1 p.m.
Sept. 6 at Temple, 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 8 at LaSalle, 1 p.m.
Sept. 15 at Liberty, 2 p.m.
Sept. 22 Miami (Ohio), Noon
Sept. 27 Old Dominion, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 29, UAB, 1 p.m.
Oct. 4 at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.
Oct. 6 at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.
Oct. 13 at East Carolina, 1 p.m.
Oct. 18 Florida Atlantic, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 20 Middle Tennessee St., 1 p.m.
Oct. 25 at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Oct. 27 Tulsa, 1 p.m.
Oct. 31 at Florida International, 7 p.m.
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What are Bridge Programs?
Bridge programs represent agreements between technical colleges and four-year institutions to provide a seamless transition from one institution to the other. Program participants generally may transfer after completing what amounts to a full freshman year of college-level coursework and attaining the GPA required by the academic program at the college to which they are transferring.
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- bacterial autotransporter (1)
- pattern (1)
- protein targeting (1)
- protein trafficking (1)
- sequence analysis (1)
- signal peptide (1)
- Sequential anti-cytomegalovirus response monitoring may allow prediction of cytomegalovirus reactivation after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (2012)
- Background: Reconstitution of cytomegalovirus-specific CD3+CD8+ T cells (CMV-CTLs) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is necessary to bring cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation under control. However, the parameters determining protective CMV-CTL reconstitution remain unclear to date. Design and Methods: In a prospective tri-center study, CMV-CTL reconstitution was analyzed in the peripheral blood from 278 patients during the year following HSCT using 7 commercially available tetrameric HLA-CMV epitope complexes. All patients included could be monitored with at least CMV-specific tetramer. Results: CMV-CTL reconstitution was detected in 198 patients (71%) after allogeneic HSCT. Most importantly, reconstitution with 1 CMV-CTL per µl blood between day +50 and day +75 post-HSCT discriminated between patients with and without CMV reactivation in the R+/D+ patient group, independent of the CMV-epitope recognized. In addition, CMV-CTLs expanded more daramtaically in patients experiencing only one CMV-reactivation than those without or those with multiple CMV reactivations. Monitoring using at least 2 tetramers was possible in 63% (n = 176) of the patients. The combinations of particular HLA molecules influenced the numbers of CMV-CTLs detected. The highest CMV-CTL count obtained for an individual tetramer also changed over time in 11% of these patients (n = 19) resulting in higher levels of HLA-B*0801 (IE-1) recognizing CMV-CTLs in 14 patients. Conclusions: Our results indicate that 1 CMV-CTL per µl blood between day +50 to +75 marks the beginning of an immune response against CMV in the R+/D+ group. Detection of CMV-CTL expansion thereafter indicates successful resolution of the CMV reactivation. Thus, sequential monitoring of CMV-CTL reconstitution can be used to predict patients at risk for recurrent CMV reactivation.
- DOGS: reaction-driven de novo design of bioactive compounds (2012)
- We present a computational method for the reaction-based de novo design of drug-like molecules. The software DOGS (Design of Genuine Structures) features a ligand-based strategy for automated 'in silico' assembly of potentially novel bioactive compounds. The quality of the designed compounds is assessed by a graph kernel method measuring their similarity to known bioactive reference ligands in terms of structural and pharmacophoric features. We implemented a deterministic compound construction procedure that explicitly considers compound synthesizability, based on a compilation of 25'144 readily available synthetic building blocks and 58 established reaction principles. This enables the software to suggest a synthesis route for each designed compound. Two prospective case studies are presented together with details on the algorithm and its implementation. De novo designed ligand candidates for the human histamine H4 receptor and γ-secretase were synthesized as suggested by the software. The computational approach proved to be suitable for scaffold-hopping from known ligands to novel chemotypes, and for generating bioactive molecules with drug-like properties.
- The plasmodium export element revisited (2008)
- We performed a bioinformatical analysis of protein export elements (PEXEL) in the putative proteome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. A protein family-specific conservation of physicochemical residue profiles was found for PEXEL-flanking sequence regions. We demonstrate that the family members can be clustered based on the flanking regions only and display characteristic hydrophobicity patterns. This raises the possibility that the flanking regions may contain additional information for a family-specific role of PEXEL. We further show that signal peptide cleavage results in a positional alignment of PEXEL from both proteins with, and without, a signal peptide.
- Domain organization of long signal peptides of single-pass integral membrane proteins reveals multiple functional capacity (2008)
- Targeting signals direct proteins to their extra- or intracellular destination such as the plasma membrane or cellular organelles. Here we investigated the structure and function of exceptionally long signal peptides encompassing at least 40 amino acid residues. We discovered a two-domain organization ("NtraC model") in many long signals from vertebrate precursor proteins. Accordingly, long signal peptides may contain an N-terminal domain (N-domain) and a C-terminal domain (C-domain) with different signal or targeting capabilities, separable by a presumably turn-rich transition area (tra). Individual domain functions were probed by cellular targeting experiments with fusion proteins containing parts of the long signal peptide of human membrane protein shrew-1 and secreted alkaline phosphatase as a reporter protein. As predicted, the N-domain of the fusion protein alone was shown to act as a mitochondrial targeting signal, whereas the C-domain alone functions as an export signal. Selective disruption of the transition area in the signal peptide impairs the export efficiency of the reporter protein. Altogether, the results of cellular targeting studies provide a proof-of-principle for our NtraC model and highlight the particular functional importance of the predicted transition area, which critically affects the rate of protein export. In conclusion, the NtraC approach enables the systematic detection and prediction of cryptic targeting signals present in one coherent sequence, and provides a structurally motivated basis for decoding the functional complexity of long protein targeting signals.
- Domain organization of long autotransporter signal sequences (2009)
- Bacterial autotransporters represent a diverse family of proteins that autonomously translocate across the inner membrane of Gram-negative bacteria via the Sec complex and across the outer bacterial membrane. They often possess exceptionally long N-terminal signal sequences. We analyzed 90 long signal sequences of bacterial autotransporters and members of the two-partner secretion pathway in silico and describe common domain organization found in 79 of these sequences. The domains are in agreement with previously published experimental data. Our algorithmic approach allows for the systematic identification of functionally different domains in long signal sequences. Keywords: bacterial autotransporter, sequence analysis, pattern, protein targeting, signal peptide, protein trafficking
- PhAST : pharmacophore alignment search tool (2009)
- We developed the Pharmacophore Alignment Search Tool (PhAST), a text-based technique for rapid hit and lead structure searching in large compound databases. For each molecule, a two-dimensional graph of potential pharmacophoric points (PPPs) is created, which has an identical topology as the original molecule with implicit hydrogen atoms. Each vertex is coloured by a symbol representing the corresponding PPP. The vertices of the graph are canonically labelled [1]. The symbols associated with the vertices are combined to a so-called PhAST-Sequence beginning with the vertex with the lowest canonical label. Due to the canonical labelling the created PhAST-Sequence is characteristic for each molecule. For similarity assessment, PhAST-Sequences are compared using the sequence identity in their global pairwise alignment [2]. The alignment score lies between 0 (no similarity) and 1 (identical PhAST-Sequences). In order to use global pairwise sequence alignment, a score matrix for pharmacophoric symbols was developed and gap penalties were optimized. PhAST performed comparably and sometimes superior to other similarity search tools (CATS2D [3], MOE pharmacophore quadruples [4]) in retrospective virtual screenings using the COBRA [5] collection of drugs and lead structures. Most importantly, the PhAST alignment technique allows for the computation of significance estimates that help prioritize a virtual hit list.
- Identification of Plk1 type II inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening (2009)
- Protein kinases are targets for drug development [1]. Dysregulation of kinase activity leads to various diseases [2], e.g. cancer, inflammation, diabetes [1]. Human polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1), a serine/threonine kinase, is a cancer-relevant gene and a potential drug target which attracts increasing attention in the field of cancer therapy. Plk1 is a key player in mitosis and modulates entry into mitosis and the spindle checkpoint at the meta-/anaphase transition. Plk1 overexpression is observed in various human tumors, and it is a negative prognostic factor for cancer patients [3]. The same catalytical mechanism and the same co-substrate (ATP) lead to the problem of inhibitor selectivity. A strategy to solve this problem is represented by targeting the inactive conformation of kinases [2]. Kinases undergo conformational changes between active and inactive conformation and thus an additional hydrophobic pocket is created in the inactive conformation where the surrounding amino acids are less conserved [2]. A "homology model" of the inactive conformation of Plk1 was constructed, as the crystal structure in its inactive conformation is unknown. A crystal structure of Aurora A kinase served as template structure. With this homology model a receptor-based pharmacophore search was performed using SYBYL7.3 software. The raw hits were filtered using physico-chemical properties. The resulting hits were docked using Gold3.2 software, and 13 candidates for biological testing were manually selected. Three compounds of the 13 tested exhibit anti-proliferative effects in HeLa cancer cells. The most potent inhibitor, SBE13, was further tested in various other cancer cell lines of different origins and displayed EC50 values between 12 microM and 39 microM. Cancer cells incubated with SBE13 showed induction of apoptosis, detected by PARP (Poly-Adenosyl-Ribose-Polymerase) cleavage, caspase 9 activation and DAPI staining of apoptotic nuclei.
- SBE13, a newly identified inhibitor of inactive polo-like kinase 1 (2010)
- Poster presentation at 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics: 23. CIC-Workshop Goslar, Germany. 8-10 November 2009 Protein kinases are important targets for drug development. The almost identical protein folding of kinases and the common co-substrate ATP leads to the problem of inhibitor selectivity. Type II inhibitors, targeting the inactive conformation of kinases, occupy a hydrophobic pocket with less conserved surrounding amino acids [1]. Human polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) represents a promising target for approaches to identify new therapeutic agents. Plk1 belongs to a family of highly conserved serine/threonine kinases, and is a key player in mitosis, where it modulates the spindle checkpoint at metaphase/anaphase transition. Plk1 is over-expressed in all today analyzed human tumors of different origin and serves as a negative prognostic marker in cancer patients. The newly identified inhibitor, SBE13, a vanillin derivative, targets Plk1 in its inactive conformation [2]. This leads to selectivity within the Plk family and towards Aurora A. This selectivity can be explained by docking studies of SBE13 into the binding pocket of homology models of Plk1, Plk2 and Plk3 in their inactive conformation. SBE13 showed anti-proliferative effects in cancer cell lines of different origins with EC50 values between 5 microM and 39 microM and induced apoptosis. Increasing concentrations of SBE13 result in increasing amounts of cells in G2/M phase 13 hours after double thymidin block of HeLa cells. The kinase activity of Plk1 was inhibited with an IC50 of 200 pM. Taken together, we could show that carefully designed structure-based virtual screening is well-suited to identify selective type II kinase inhibitors targeting Plk1 as potential anti-cancer therapeutics.
- Bioassays to monitor taspase1 function for the identification of pharmacogenetic inhibitors (2011)
- Background: Threonine Aspartase 1 (Taspase1) mediates cleavage of the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) protein and leukemia provoking MLL-fusions. In contrast to other proteases, the understanding of Taspase1's (patho)biological relevance and function is limited, since neither small molecule inhibitors nor cell based functional assays for Taspase1 are currently available. Methodology/Findings: Efficient cell-based assays to probe Taspase1 function in vivo are presented here. These are composed of glutathione S-transferase, autofluorescent protein variants, Taspase1 cleavage sites and rational combinations of nuclear import and export signals. The biosensors localize predominantly to the cytoplasm, whereas expression of biologically active Taspase1 but not of inactive Taspase1 mutants or of the protease Caspase3 triggers their proteolytic cleavage and nuclear accumulation. Compared to in vitro assays using recombinant components the in vivo assay was highly efficient. Employing an optimized nuclear translocation algorithm, the triple-color assay could be adapted to a high-throughput microscopy platform (Z'factor = 0.63). Automated high-content data analysis was used to screen a focused compound library, selected by an in silico pharmacophor screening approach, as well as a collection of fungal extracts. Screening identified two compounds, N-[2-[(4-amino-6-oxo-3H-pyrimidin-2-yl)sulfanyl]ethyl]benzenesulfonamideand 2-benzyltriazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, which partially inhibited Taspase1 cleavage in living cells. Additionally, the assay was exploited to probe endogenous Taspase1 in solid tumor cell models and to identify an improved consensus sequence for efficient Taspase1 cleavage. This allowed the in silico identification of novel putative Taspase1 targets. Those include the FERM Domain-Containing Protein 4B, the Tyrosine-Protein Phosphatase Zeta, and DNA Polymerase Zeta. Cleavage site recognition and proteolytic processing of these substrates were verified in the context of the biosensor. Conclusions: The assay not only allows to genetically probe Taspase1 structure function in vivo, but is also applicable for high-content screening to identify Taspase1 inhibitors. Such tools will provide novel insights into Taspase1's function and its potential therapeutic relevance.
- Inhibitors of Helicobacter pylori protease HtrA found by "virtual ligand" screening combat bacterial invasion of epithelia (2011)
- Background: The human pathogen Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a main cause for gastric inflammation and cancer. Increasing bacterial resistance against antibiotics demands for innovative strategies for therapeutic intervention. Methodology/Principal Findings: We present a method for structure-based virtual screening that is based on the comprehensive prediction of ligand binding sites on a protein model and automated construction of a ligand-receptor interaction map. Pharmacophoric features of the map are clustered and transformed in a correlation vector ('virtual ligand') for rapid virtual screening of compound databases. This computer-based technique was validated for 18 different targets of pharmaceutical interest in a retrospective screening experiment. Prospective screening for inhibitory agents was performed for the protease HtrA from the human pathogen H. pylori using a homology model of the target protein. Among 22 tested compounds six block E-cadherin cleavage by HtrA in vitro and result in reduced scattering and wound healing of gastric epithelial cells, thereby preventing bacterial infiltration of the epithelium. Conclusions/Significance: This study demonstrates that receptor-based virtual screening with a permissive ('fuzzy') pharmacophore model can help identify small bioactive agents for combating bacterial infection.


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The Single Adult Ministry here at Abilene Baptist Church has one purpose, to call every single adult to a closer personal relationship with Jesus Christ during one of the most uncertain times of their lives. Abilene strives to minister to the diverse needs and age groups found in the single adult population by assisting and encouraging single adults to answer God's call for a holy and separated life, totally committed to obedience to our Lord and Saviour on a daily basis through a variety of activities.
From individual Winter Retreats, Rafting Trips, and conferences for our Division #1 (ages 18 – 23) and Division #2 (ages 24 & up) to weekly Bible Study classes, Abilene seeks to meet each individual single adult's need for spiritual growth as well as good, clean fun and fellowship. Each month every single adult is encouraged to attend our Single Adult Assembly which occurs every second Sunday of the month at 9:30am as well as our Single's Restaurant Club immediately following the morning worship service for that day. This allows them the opportunity to meet, encourage, and minister to a variety of other single adults.
Single adults are kept up-to-date of all the upcoming activities in the Single Adult department through the use of two very important calendars: our bi-monthly Single Adult Calendar and our annual Yearly Calendar.
Facilitating spiritual growth is the primary focus of our single adult ministry here at Abilene. No "fluff & stuff" with every activity having it's own purpose. Single Adults are also encouraged to take an active role in the worship at Abilene. From the Sanctuary Choir & Orchestra to the Children's Choir program, single adults play an extremely important part in these ministries and their participation always seems to make them just a little more determined to "run the race" each day.


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