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Arcata, first known as Union, was settled in the spring of 1850 as a supply center for the interior mining districts. The townsite at the foot of Fickle Hill was selected by the Union Company and subdivided into blocks and lots. Timber resources sustained the development of Arcata through the 19th century and into the mid-twentieth century. A public water system and fire department came along in 1884, followed by the Arcata Union newspaper in 1886, electricity in 1895, railroad connections with San Francisco in 1914, the establishment of Humboldt State Normal School (now Humboldt State University) in 1914, and the Redwood Highway in 1925. By 1930 Arcata's population had reached 1,700 and was growing.
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RENO, Nev. – In a paper published today in Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons. They suggest that a similar effect could occur in humans and other species.
"This is the first research to show a transgenerational effect of antibiotics," David Zeh, chair of the Department of Biology in the College of Science, said. "Tetracycline has a significant detrimental effect on male reproductive function and sperm viability of pseudoscorpions – reducing viability by up to 25 percent – and now we know that effect is passed on to the next generation. We didn't see the effect in subsequent generations."
The research involved a three-generation study of the pseudoscorpion, Cordylochernes scorpioides, a small scorpion-like arachnid. To control for genetic influences, in the first generation, brothers and sisters from each of 21 broods were either treated with weekly doses of tetracycline from birth to adulthood or were reared as untreated controls. Subsequent generations were not treated with tetracycline. The antibiotic had no effect on male or female body size, sperm number or female reproduction, they found.
In the article, lead author and assistant biology professor Jeanne Zeh surmises that tetracycline may induce epigenetic changes in male reproductive tissues that may be passed to sons — changes that do not alter the sequence of DNA but rather alter the way genes are expressed.
The broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline is commonly used in animal production, antimicrobial therapy, and for curing arthropods infected with bacterial endosymbionts such as Wolbachia. Despite more than six decades of therapeutic and agricultural use that has resulted in the evolution of widespread bacterial resistance, tetracycline is still commonly used as an additive in animal feed and as an accessible antimicrobial therapy in developing countries.
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Student Activism, 1969-1973. "Relevance" in the classroom, a key demand in the student rhetoric of the sixties, conjures images of gradeless classes, courses on consciousness, and open classrooms. In the Ex College, "relevance" in the classroom was funneled into an explosion of peer-led classes and courses on contemporary political issues. Its flexibility and openness made it an ideal place to absorb students' political activity and demand for academic alternatives. The university's African American Studies and Women's Studies programs were started in the Experimental College during this period, as was one of its most successful innovations, Explorations, a student-led seminar program that combines advising and academics for entering students, initiated in 1972.
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[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Katy Perry[/lastfm] looked great at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday. She showed up wearing a fun little dress that matched her hair along with a pink studded leather jacket. There was also something very prominent popping out of the front of her dress…
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Brilliant, I hope more people put this kind of stuff into their mods. It's the best thing you can do since source itself can't handle any proper destruction.
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Brilliant, I hope more people put this kind of stuff into their mods. It's the best thing you can do since source itself can't handle any proper destruction.
Wait, this doesn't make sence, this is a mod for a game that has yet to be released? Sure it's smart to work before the game's release since you have access to the original engine but I'm sure you are aware of the fact that their UT3 engine is diffirent from the original one.
I assume that you are going to release it as an UT3 mod for now just to get some feedback going?
Eitherway, it looks great.
Holy crap, you can even have line battles?
Wow, I really need to thank my aunt for buying me this game many years ago. I still have it on disc. I've got to try this mod!
I wonder why there are no gameplay videos..
You must excuse my language but HOLY **** THAT IS AWESOME!
Great news, yet again I thought this mod was dead. Good thing I was wrong.
I'm just a bit sceptical against the whole native american thing and why do the brits have the natives on their side? Doesn't make sence..
It was released two days before the Team Fortress 2 pre-order beta. So.. not so much. People played it like hell and when the TF2 beta kicked in everybody abandoned it.
I must say, it's still a great mod. Could have had a larger playerbase if they didn't release it so close to the release of TF2.
Oh well that's good news. Just figured that since ut3 barely has any players (even with the free weekend going) I assumed that I would only be running around alone. Also I am aware of the fact that it has just gone live but for some reason I didn't think of that as a cause to the low amount of downloads.
Eitherway, I'm downloading this now.
Looks good but there are only two downloads so far so no point in getting this mod right now, or so it seems.
Looks good but there is simply too much blood on the last picture. Not because it's disgusting or anything (BRING ON THE GOOORE!) but it just looks ridiculous. Tone it down just a bit.
Absolutely fantastic. Most professionally looking mod that I have ever seen. The new vgui looks great, my only complaint is that the characters in the selection screen are all T-posed. Might wanna change that since it looks rather odd.
Also, you guys have more acheivments then any other game on steam. (As far as I know.)
Can't wait for this one. MOTY!
Looks pretty good. I like the models that you've made.
Can't wait for this one!
Ok so I've tried the mod now, it's pretty fun, the animations are a bit odd but they'll do for now. I find it rather odd that this is a coop mod.. yet you cannot play online.
Hopefully I'll be able to start the mod this time around.
I got 8! I love my i7!
I do believe that something is terribly wrong with the movie player on moddb.. or so it seems.
The staff might want to have a look at this.
(Just click the link and it will lead you to the image) I'd love to watch this moddb spotlight and some other things but no videos work for me, at all. I'm using Firefox, I doubt that Noscript has anything to do with this since I have allowed Moddb etc.
Oh god yes! Even though this will be the first beta my expectations are sky high. The original Renegade was a masterpiece so I'm hoping that this mod is good.
No offence but why should people play this instead of Counter-Strike?
Wow, this looks great! I thought SMOD died a long time ago. Good to see that I was wrong.
I just wish you'd add multiplayer support so you can coop with your friends.
My download speed is fantastic, I thank you all for improving this wonderful website and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next!
Downloading as we speak, look great!
I still can't understand why there is a huge lack of players.
Amazing, best UT3 mod so far!
Keep going and this mod will be great. The uzi looks good aswell.
Also, remove the filter rape from the logo and it will be much better.
Looks great, downloading it as we speak.
Looks great but I can't get the damn thing to launch.
I really want to see this mod come togheter, I hope the devs will somehow try to revive it. I know you can! Now do it!
This looks amazing. Can't wait for this one!
One thing though, the snow should be a bit less dense since at the moment it obscures the players view a bit too much.
I can't wait to play this mod. It's going to be amazing.
Also, it's quite funny, not even Valve managed to get players to see eachothers flashlights. Or well.. too lazy to do it. Great job guys! Done some great progress lately!


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SEPANG, April 7, 2011 (AFP) - McLaren driver Jenson Button expects his car's new Pirelli tyres to be decisive in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, after they held up well at the opening race of the season a fortnight ago.
But the 2009 world champion warned that the higher temperatures in Sepang will pose a much sterner examination of the tyres than in Melbourne's season opener.
"It's a lot hotter and it's a very tough circuit, for the cars, the drivers and especially for the four things that are touching the road -- the tyres." the British driver said.
"So I think we are going to see a very different race and mostly because of the tyres in the hot temperatures. It's a lot more demanding and a lot tougher on the tyres. It brings another element into it, which is good I think."
Button, who finished sixth in Melbourne after receiving a drive-through penalty, said he was delighted with the performance of his car after a dismal winter of testing and hopes that fine-tuning will help him stay within touching distance of lead rivals Red Bull.
"We have some upgrades here which will sort of fine-tune the package we have and give us more lap time and hopefully better consistency," he said. "But there is a lot more that will come into play here in Sepang."
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Kantor column: Brainstorming is effective
Brainstorming is an effective method for generating innovative solutions to difficult problems by having a group of people focus on a particular issue.
The goal is producing as many creative or unusual ideas and solutions as possible. When properly facilitated, a brainstorming session becomes a no-holds barred, nonjudgmental eruption of ideas, tactics, concepts, strategies, options, issues, and random musings.
When there are no limits or boundaries regarding what thoughts or ideas can be expressed (except for criticism of other ideas) this creates an environment that encourages spontaneous, unconventional "out-of-the-box" thinking — and minimizes limiting beliefs or preconceptions that can get in the way of true creative thinking.
Once the brainstorming session has ended, then the ideas can be analyzed and the best solutions can be explored either using further brainstorming or other conventional problem solving methods.
The facilitator sets the stage, and keeps the session focused.
The facilitator should start the brainstorming session by initially defining or stating the problem/situation that needs to be solved or addressed. A time limit should be set (45 minutes is the maximum recommended per session) and the facilitator should encourage an enthusiastic, uncritical attitude among brainstormers.
Record every idea: One participant should be designated as the note keeper, writing ideas on a board for all to see while the brainstorming session progresses.
Fun is a Must!: Brainstorming participants should be encouraged to speak freely and have fun in the process. Encouraging participants to come with as many ideas as possible, from the simple and practical to the wild and imaginative.
Ideas Only Please – No evaluation: Participants must be reminded from time to time not to evaluate or criticize during the brainstorming session. Criticism leads to participants being unable to risk creativity and keeps some members from presenting ideas for fear the idea will be criticized.
Piggy-Backing is a Good Thing: Brainstorming participants should not only be encouraged to come up with new ideas, but also to "spark off" from other people's ideas and help develop or expand on those ideas.
Pre and Post-Session brainstorming: Encourage individuals to brainstorm on their own, using a group merely for warming-up first. Groups can ask individual members to brainstorm in private before and after a group session. This can help the team members to enter the session with a wider range of possibilities. The solutions can later be developed and enhanced by the group member's brainstorming session.
Individual and group brainstorming can be mixed, perhaps by defining a problem, and then letting team members initially come up with a wide range of possibly shallow solutions. These solutions could then be enhanced and developed by group brainstorming.
The payoff could be great; this calculated risk of bringing people together to share information could not only provide solutions, but give a boost to teamwork and communication within your organization.
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The Electronic Household Energy Automated Technology (eHEAT) software will help EAP and WAP service providers manage data and streamline program functions. The eHEAT software is an integrated system consolidating the business processes under EAP and WAP into a robust web application. The new system will be used to provide program and administrative services to eligible state citizen and will help:
Streamline the payment process
Share necessary customer information with partners
Share information and reports regarding program activity and outcomes
Prioritize the neediest households
Improve analysis and planning capabilities tools
Develop tools to measure the consistency and effectiveness of programs
The eHEAT software is a web-based, real time system, so applications will be entered directly onto the system as they are processed. Each step of the application processing will happen centrally. The software will maintain a record of these steps.
Applications will be available for DOC to send to MAPS (the Minnesota Accounting and Procurement System) for payment when the service provider has given it a status of "payable."
EAP 2005 will start on Oct. 1, 2004; applications will be mailed in early August. The DOC will send each agency its file of names and addresses as available on CLIPR to be checked or verified before applications are mailed. Applications will be mailed on a schedule by application type and by agency. The schedule will be available to service providers by the first week of June.
The eHEAT software will accept a location address and a mailing address for each application as well as a name and phone number for a "primary contact" person who is different from the applicant, for example an adult child who wants notification of an award.
EAP is a dynamic program and the eHEAT software has been designed to address a multitude of possible changes that may be necessary throughout the year. Involving agency representatives in the planning process assures that issues like this get addressed. Just about everything related to entering an application can be changed or updated.
Changes such as a wrong vendor number can be changed easily before payment is made. After a payment is made, the refund process will go into effect.
There will also be a process for reviewing files before they are made "Payable." Payable is a status that tells the Fiscal people in the Department of Commerce to send the payment request to the Department of Finance for payment.
The eHEAT software will allow for closing or terminating a file, in the case of a household moving out of state or if a single household is deceased. The software also includes a transfer process for easily working between agencies to transfer households that have moved. The paper file will still have to be sent to the new agency, though.
The process will be user friendly but secure; Service Providers will decide which system users should be able to view certain information, and which ones can enter or change it.
Rollover applications will be available. The decision not to have rollover applications would be a program decision, not an eHEAT decision. On a date determined by the State, the "rollover" will occur so that the records for the next year can be entered, records for the current year are available, and records for the past two or three years can be viewed.
The main reason for rollovers is to reduce the burden of completing an application for households with no or minimal, inconsequential changes. If some agencies have a need to start over with "fresh" data, that issue should be discussed fully with their Field Representatives. The reasons for providing pre-applications for all households in a service area would have to justify adding the application burden to the agency's rollover applicants.
All information that is currently on the 2002, 2003 and 2004 CLIPR's will be rolled over into the eHEAT software. Additionally, some additional data exists that is available locally but not on the CLIPR; if it is determined that the information is needed, a transfer process for 2004 data only will be developed.
Energy Assistance data is and will be protected under Minnesota Data Privacy laws. Availability of household data to state staff will be about the same as it is now under the CLIPR. Energy Assistance, Weatherization and select fiscal staff will have view-only access to application data with eHEAT. Service Providers will have access to application information and the data assigned to their agency, with the ability to assign levels of authority within the software. Vendors will have access only to certain data about their customers, also with the ability to assign levels of authority within the software. These changes will require that the data sharing permissions included on the application be revised.
eHEAT will send the award letters as well as most other written communication needed with households about their applications. There is some flexibility for agencies to assume responsibility for letters about incomplete applications.
eHEAT will need to migrate legacy data for the new system. Agencies will help cleanse data to prepare for migration. The data types are: Household (3 Years), Consumption, Vendor Information, and Contractor. EAP and WAP information for the current year and the past two years (2002-2004) will be rolled over into the new system from the CLIPR. Additionally, some additional data exists that is available locally but not on the CLIPR; if it is determined that the information is needed, a transfer process for 2004 data only will be developed.
The eHEAT data will be used in much the same way that CLIPR data used now: to serve households, to monitor agencies, to report to the funding sources, and to evaluate programs. Service providers will have access to many reports on the system, as well as the ability to download information and create their own reports. Service providers will have read access to all application data and write access only to the data assigned to their agency, with the ability to assign levels of authority access within the software. Vendors will have access to certain data about their customers.
Because all reports are contained within the same central system, local reports can be accessed at any time. Most of the information will be available by service provider area just by clicking a tab or a button. A few reports, such as the EAP Weekly, will include statewide data.
Click on the question to view the answer.
eHEAT will not track down any payments. This will remain a policy/monitoring activity. Vendor monitoring will continue to be a responsibility of the Service Provider. Vendors will still be responsible for assuring that the payment is assigned to the correct account and for notifying the agency when there is a problem. In the case of a refund because of incorrect name, the agency will follow up. The Service Provider will be notified of the situation through the Work Queue or by email.
There is always a fine line to walk between consistency and allowing enough flexibility to serve households fairly and effectively. eHEAT is attempting to walk that line. Many of the concerns expressed in the MADD reports related to how policy was applied locally. The eHEAT software will not control many of those situations.
A centralized system can improve the uniformity of processes and policies. It is true that EAP has shared a common data system and so has unified many of its processes in the past, and the new eHEAT software should enhance this ability. For WAP there will be some new processes that will create consistencies in program policy.
Additionally, the eHEAT software should improve monitoring and measuring which will improve the state's ability to evaluate program activity and provide assistance to correct inconsistencies.
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As part of their latest round of updates announced for the new Google Analytics interface, Google snuck in the announcement that the old Analytics interface will be "sunset" starting in January 2012.
So if you are still wedded to the old version (and a lot of people are!) you have less than 7 weeks before it comes to an end. Together with the old interface, some other functionality will stop, such as the emailed reports created in the old interface. This was one of the additions to the new interface, the ability to create emailed reports, as this was one of the major missing functionalities. It was obviously an important benchmark for the Google Analytics team too, as the announcement of this (and PDF export) has coincided with the sunset announcement.
Reading through the comments on the Google Analytics Blog, a lot of the readers are recommending extra functionality that doesn't exist in the new version. There are some concerns about bugs and stability issues in the new interface, but personally I haven't experienced anything amiss in the stability of the new interface. The main thing that I miss is the percentage increase/decrease display. It is a lot clearer to a client if you can tell them they have a 70.4% increase in traffic rather than an increase from 14588 visits to 24865 visits. At the moment I have to go to a calculator, a spreadsheet or the ever-useful percentagecalculator.net to get the figure I need, which seems a ridiculous extra step to find information that used to stare me in the face.
If you have not tried the new interface yet, now is probably the time to get used to it, before you get forced into it in January next year. Click that little red "New Version" label in the top bar. Oh and if you've got any emailed reports then change those over as otherwise they will disappear into oblivion come the new year. The new interface has been available to all users since April 2011 and does have some great new functionality like Real Time Reporting, Page Load Speed and Social Media reporting. You can also now link Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools to get search impressions data into Analytics.


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The victim was transported by air to Shands Hospital from Flagler Hospital.
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Steampunk Society Invades the Pfister
20 Nov, 2012
by Jenna Kashou
Just in case you had any preconceived notions about the Pfister clientele, allow me to challenge those. First, watch this slideshow:
These are steampunkers. What is a steampunker? Good question – I was also unaware of this counterculture until the Steampunk Society Milwaukee held their first Maker's Fair last Saturday at the Pfister, organized in part by the gregarious Timothy Westbrook, Pfister's Artist in Residence.
The group emulates the culture and costumes of the late nineteenth century and Victorian era. There is also a fascination with sci-fi elements and gadgets. Most people I talked with couldn't exactly explain what a steampunker was, but described what drew them in.
Allizarin Crimson a.k.a. Kristin Poehls is a new member whose goal was to make just one sale at the fair. Jim Best has been involved for two years and started going to events something to do in his free time. For him, it was something more productive to do than playing video games. He uses old watch pieces to create pins and jewelry.
Clinger, adorned in a metal top hat and metal tie, calls it "A classy looking way to rebel." He rode 10 miles to get to the Pfister on his ordinary bicycle. It's his primary mode of transportation when the weather is agreeable. Anna Rodriguez sees it as a way to express herself. She loves the creative element and the costuming that goes along with it.
Bridget Sharon started the society in Milwaukee after seeing many of the same people from Milwaukee at the Chicago events. "I saw a lot of potential in it," she said. "We used to do 'invasions' where we'd all decide to go someplace and show up in costume. Now, we hold monthly events to get together and grab drinks or socialize." There are no requirements to be a member. Events attract anywhere from 20-40 people, but there must have been at least 100 steampunkers at the Maker's Fair.
Bridget encourages everyone to check out a Steampunk Society gathering. I agree, you have to see this for yourself. For more information, click here.
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Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called 'scale of craving', an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse are the factors most commonly involved in people falling back into the habit.
Ana Lpez, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), tells SINC that the objectives of the new study were: "To understand the factors linked to treatment outcomes, in order to help people get the right kind of treatment, reduce their chances of abandoning the treatment, ensure they stop using drugs and don't fall back into the habit".
The study, published in the Spanish journal Psicologa Conductual, analyses the significant factors (sociodemographic, psychopathological and patterns of drug and other substance abuse) involved in patients continuing to use cocaine two years after having requested treatment.
A high score on the 'scale of craving' (which measures the level of anxiety or desire to take drugs) at the start of the treatment, an antisocial personality type, and having previously taken heroin at some point previously in life are the main factors involved in falling back into cocaine abuse. For this reason, "it is crucial to first evaluate the person's consumption history and personality type", explains the researcher.
The researchers analysed a sample of 38 people (35 men and 3 women, with an average age of 31), who sought treatment for problems related to abuse of this substance in drug treatment centres in Galicia, in northern Spain, studying them at the start of their therapy and then two years later.
The study shows that impulsiveness and the desire for new sensations are also factors involved with substance abuse. "It's no surprise that people who have tri
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China is the largest exporter of fur in the world, yet has no animal welfare laws in place. This means that animals are not protected by law and can legally and publicly be abused and tortured.
According to the Winnipeg Humane Society, most of the animals are killed by being strung up by their hind legs or neck with a thin metal wire. A worker then stabs them in the groin or stomach and waits for them to bleed to death. Some farms or factories will bludgeon animals to death, suffocate them or use a hose to pour water down their throats until they drown. More often than not, other tightly confined animals are forced to watch and wait.
The Star recently sent a reporter to China, and here's what he witnessed:
On every third day of the lunar month Shangcun doubles in size — expanding into an enormous open-air marketplace where vans park in long rows from 6 a.m. till noon and small vendors sell furs, mostly to Chinese manufacturers.
In one corner of the market animals are killed. Women snatch the live animals by their back legs then smash their heads on the hard ground, or strike them over the head with a bamboo pole. The animals are stripped of their fur, which is stretched over wide wooden paddles.
Much of the fur for sale in China comes from dogs and cats. Animal rights activists say some of the fur comes from stolen pets, animals gathered and transported cruelly and then slaughtered inhumanely.
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Garments made from dog and cat fur are sold in markets and stores, as well as on China's version of eBay, called taobao.com — often as jackets or vests but also as fashion accessories, trinkets and trims, even as cat-fur car seat upholstery and dog-pelt mattress covers.
Mona Lung, a Beijing-based project officer for the animal rights group ACTAsia, estimates two million cats and dogs are slaughtered each year in China.
Once the flesh has been removed, cat and dog pelts are stitched together into large, uniform sheets of fur. They are separated by colour, pattern, texture and the length of the fur. Sometimes they are sheared or dyed to make them more fashionable.
Two million cats and dogs slaughtered annually is tragic enough, but it also turns out that 60 per cent of all fur garments that enter Canada come from China, trade worth about $12 million annually. Unlike the U.S., the E.U., and Australia, which have laws that ban importing cat and dog fur, Canada has no restrictions on fur imports, except for endangered species.
Lesley Fox, spokeswoman for the Vancouver-based Association for the Protection of Fur Bearing Animals, wants Canada to bring its laws in line with the United States, which requires all fur be labeled.
Several Canadian politicians have presented bills aimed at banning dog and cat fur but so far, the Canadian government has declined to change the current legislation. This could be because Canada has an unholy alliance with China: China is the last major buyer of Canadian seal, while in exchange Canada takes all that dog and cat fur.
This would not be happening if China had stringent animal protection laws. If you agree that China needs to introduce an animal protection law, please click here to sign our petition.
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Signed and Noted :0 :0 ??? Fur to Canada !!!
It seems to me that there should be a petition urging Canada not to accept the dog/cat fur from China. I will not knowingly buy real fur of any kind. If I want something furry, I prefer fake over real.
I agree, we have to stop this kind of manipulation by the Chinese; and we need to develop a nationwide backbone to say no to this kind of abuse. Education is the key.
Canada needs to get their shit together and ban fur from China. If there's no one to buy, the practice will stop. I'm horrified to read how these beautiful animals are slaughtered, with the other terrified animals watching. It makes me sick to my stomach. I'll never visit China, that's for damn sure.
This is so Disgusting. We don't need to be doing business or borrowing money from those leaders in China.
I signed this petition nearly a year ago.........any progress that may have been made in that time has been too slow and allowed too many animals to die because of arrogant a$$hole humans. We need to push harder for the rights of these animals.
Makes me ashamed to be a human.
Gladly signed and shared. According to this story, the Canadian government has declined to change the current legislation because China is still the buyer of Canadian Seal products. This is sad and disgusting. Will these people ever wake up to the evil these animals endure. I doubt it, when there's a dollar involved try getting people's attention. Then, to hope China would implement stringent animal protection laws, that's almost funny if this situation wasn't so sad!
I have for years staged a boycott against imports from Canada.
Just the other day in a shopping trip, my husband picked up maple syrup. He checked to see if it was made in Canada, it was, he put it back on the shelf and we gladly paid more for the maple syrup from Vermont. I feel the same about China. However, with products from China it's a little harder since they practically own America! There's one thing for sure, if they wait on me to buy a fur, hell will freeze over.
No voice, no protection, no where to run but into the fire those poor animals. So sad, so very sad. I don't by furs anyway but I want this to stop as well.
I absolutely hate stories like this, and it's hard to believe that atrocities like this still go on. Civilized? I think not! Can we skin the homo sapiens responsible for all of this pain and suffering and sell their hides as synthetic leather? Just the ones responsible for this...
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21st February 2003
Undercover Infective - Cracking the Code of a Quiet Killer
False-colour image of Tropheryma whipplei in which the genome is represented by the yellow-coloured regions. [Dr Axel von Herbay]
If you wanted to make sure you could hide while living amongst your enemies, what would you do? Learn to be a master of disguise and change your disguise frequently. Establish a seemingly intimate relationship with them. And not kill too many.
That is exactly the classic strategy that enables a tiny bacterial cell to cause mayhem in the human body. Tropheryma whipplei is a master of disguise that inveigles a way into the enemy territory, settles down among the unsuspecting host trying, first and foremost, to survive and multiply and occasionally breaking out to cause illness.
But now some of agent T. whipplei's secrets have been stripped bare by researchers working at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire, and colleagues in the UK, the US and Germany and it is hoped this will help explain how other pathogens survive and proliferate.
In a landmark publication in the Lancet (22 February 2003), they reveal the mechanisms by which Tropheryma whipplei hides from our defences. In this one project, the number of known genes in this enigmatic organism has grown from a handful to 784.
Although T. whipplei appears to cause only few cases of disease and has a particularly small genome, it is a remarkable lesson in how nature can work to mould organisms to their environments and how rapid change might occur. T. whipplei carries a set of DNA sequences unlike anything previously seen in bacterial genomes from which it appears to select 'new' regions that it weaves into the genes that encode its outer coating.
Dr Stephen Bentley, who led the team at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said, "This really is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Within this amazingly small genome, it has packed a sophisticated array of tools to escape our defence mechanisms. It's an incredibly adept operator which can tell us a great deal about bacteria and their evolution."
As well as a shimmering, changing set of proteins encoded by its own genome, T. whipplei also appears to cloak itself in membranes stripped from the host cells, further reducing its appearance as a foreign invader.
Dr David Relman, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and of Medicine at Stanford University, said, "Unlike its closest known relatives which are soil-oriented organisms, T. whipplei has chosen a lifestyle that is based upon an intimate relationship with humans. This relationship is also characterized by bacterial dependence on host, long-term bacterial persistence, and an unusual blunted host response. For nearly 100 years this organism and its host relationship have remained poorly understood. In revealing its genetic blueprint we learn a great deal about the particular strategy chosen by T. whipplei for establishing this kind of relationship, and why it has been so difficult to cultivate in the absence of human cells, as well as novel mechanisms for generating genetic variability and unexpected features of actinomycete evolution."
Even with the genome sequence, and a prediction of all the proteins it can make, T. whipplei still remains somewhat of an enigma. It is not known how it is spread it is not even known how many cases of disease it causes. Whipple's disease is marked by the vaguest of signs weight loss, diarrhoea and abdominal pain: the organism lives in the lining of the gut.
Advanced cases may die from heart disease or neurologic disease, which may occur up to 20 years later. Diagnosis remains difficult, but the genome sequence will make an array of new diagnostic tools available. Treatment once diagnosed is usually very effective, although relapses years later are quite common. Bizarrely, there is an 8:1 ratio of male:female infections.
Dr Axel von Herbay, Professor of Pathology at the University of Heidelberg, said, "T. whipplei is an almost uncharted species in biology. We know so little. It thrives in humans with only a few proteins; it changes its appearance with amazing frequency; it hides from us in humans and in test tubes. The genome sequence is our finest microscope to study this remarkable organism."
The organism can be only poorly grown in the test tube it took longer to grow the bacteria needed for the genome project than it did to sequence and analyse the genome itself. Even then it needs help T. whipplei can be grown only associated with human cells in the test tube.
The genome consists of 925,938 base-pairs containing a predicted 784 genes: five percent of the genome is composed of repeated DNA sequences, used to boost variation. Most bacterial genomes are 3-4 times as large, code for perhaps 3000 genes, and contain almost no repetitive DNA.
T. whipplei lacks the genes for many core functions such as a major energy-generating system (the TCA cycle) and synthesis of key amino acids (arginine, tryptophan, histidine). It must scavenge many vital compounds from the environment.
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which receives the majority of its funding from the Wellcome Trust, is one of the world's leading genome sequencing centres. Both the Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust have been at the forefront of efforts to keep sequence data in the public domain. The Institute employs nearly 600 people in the purpose-built campus at Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK. AS well as being a leading partner in the Human Genome Project sequencing one-third of the human genome sequence the Institute participates in national and international projects to sequence the genomes of disease-causing organisms. Currently it is sequencing or analysing the genomes of some 40 organisms.
Stanford University Medical Center integrates research, medical education and patient care at its three institutions - Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. For more information, please visit the Web site of the medical center's Office of News and Public Affairs at http://mednews.stanford.edu.
The School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham constitutes one of the larger university-based Bioscience research institutions in the country with a teaching staff in excess of 60. The School was awarded 5 in the recent Research Assesment Exercise. Research activities span from biophysics to ecology.
The Department of Pathology at the University of Heidelberg.
About T. whipplei
Originally described in 1907 by George H Whipple, Whipple's disease remained without a cause for 50 years, when rod-shaped bacteria were seen for the first time in 1961 by electron microscopy. However, these could not, until very recently, be grown in culture. Diagnosis remained very difficult until the advent of DNA-based methods in the 1990s.
The causative organism is Tropheryma whipplei, closely related to no known organism, but placed in the same group (Actinobacteria) as the organisms that cause TB and leprosy and the soil-dwelling microbe, Streptomyces coelicolor, all of which have been sequenced at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Clinically, patients present most often with intestinal symptoms: diarrhoea, abdominal pain and weight loss, as well as swollen lymph nodes and arthritis. The disease is regarded as invariably fatal without treatment: the disease progresses to involve, typically, the central nervous system or the heart. Treatment with antibiotics is usually effective in the early stages. Even with treatment, relapses are common.
The mode of spread is unknown, but assumed to be oral, given the residence of the organism primarily in the gut. The highest concentrations of organisms are found in the lining of the small intestine. It is still unclear whether a proportion of the healthy population may carry/carries the organism.
An electron micrograph image of Tropheryma whipplei is available here courtesy of Dr von Herbay.
- The Lancet website http://www.thelancet.com/
- Sanger Institute T. whipplei pages http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/T_whipplei/
- The Wellcome Trust website http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Whipple's Disease Online http://www.WhipplesDisease.net/
- 'Bug of the Month' at Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto http://microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca/bug/TW/tw-mm.shtml
- Dr Relman's lab website http://relman.stanford.edu/
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