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I've heard lot's of people say that learning kanji is a waste of time, or that the Japanese should switch over to only using hiragana. Ignoring how horribly ethnocentric that is, I thought it would be fun for us to find ways to point out that there are worse things that Kanji out there, or how Kanji is really awesome (which I've come to find is totally true.)
As a starter, I recommend you all take a look at this Sign Writing This is the written form of American Sign Language. I'm fluent in the language, and even I can't make heads or tails of it. There's a reason no one uses it.
See? There are worse things to learn than Kanji, we could all be learning Sign Writing.
Wow. Can anyone write that? Is it a typing only thing?
Why would a deaf person want to read sign language exactly? Surely they could just read normal text instead?
cool!! that looks wicked!!!
@thecite: it does say on the site but...
it's a way of writing the movements of the signs, so anyone can learn or expand their vocabulary by reading the sign writing, it can preserve signed theatre, etc.
presumably it also maps much better onto the multi-modal features of the brain we all use when reading than normal writing too, so probably it feels more natural to someone reading it who can't hear. The letters we use represent sounds in our minds. A language that represents movements to someone who can't hear will be able to make use of neural networks related to watching visual movements in the same way presumably. (or for those who can hear but are fluent in sign language too.)
thecite wrote:
Why would a deaf person want to read sign language exactly? Surely they could just read normal text instead?
Uh? They would want to read sign language because, well, it's their language! This is kinda like saying "The Welsh shouldn't read Welsh, they should read English like everybody else."
Anyway, SignWriting is just weird. It was designed by a dancer, not a linguist! I've heard people say that it's "popular", but I've never found any hard facts supporting this.
IceCream wrote:
presumably it also maps much better onto the multi-modal features of the brain we all use when reading than normal writing too
What does "multi-modal" mean?
Last edited by cntrational (2011 April 01, 4:56 am)
multi-modal generally means using more than one sense. (e.g. sound and vision).
In the brain, on a given stimulus, there might be some neurons that respond preferentially to sound, some that respond preferentially to sight, and some that are multi-modal... they respond to both.
When we read, neurons that deal with both (or maybe even in some cases those that respond preferentially to sound) will also fire. So it's possible that with sign writing, neurons that respond preferentially to movement will also fire.
It's a kind of synesthesia, if you want to call it that... one that we train to work. We "see" letters as "sounds".
Do you mean switch over to Romaji? I've read one or two arguments for that. I can't imagine why anybody would make an argument for using hiragana only. They're both impossibly hard to read, so that's probably the best reason to keep kanji.
Uh. Okay. I don't see how SignWriting would map better with the "multi-modal features of the brain".
Who is making these exceptionally silly arguments that Japanese should get rid of kanji or switch to romaji? I can't imagine anyone with any sort of familiarity with the language holding those opinions. Kanji are not a burden to the language. They are the thing that makes it possible to discern shades of granular meaning in a language more prone to homophones than other languages. To get rid of kanji is to say you want a whole lot more misunderstanding, and to get rid of hiragana is to not understand the Japanese sound system at all.
It's interesting that people don't understand the history of the Japanese language, and that the system of hiragana/katakana/kanji was specifically a choice imposed on the language because it made the most sense to do it like that.
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erlog wrote:
Who is making these exceptionally silly arguments that Japanese should get rid of kanji or switch to romaji?
I'm just a pragmatist so I don't actually make the arguments that often; there's no political will or popular support so major writing reform isn't going to happen any time soon. Doesn't mean it would be a bad idea, though.
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Uh. Okay. I don't see how SignWriting would map better with the "multi-modal features of the brain".
perhaps if nest0r sees this thread he could explain a lot better than i can... (or tell me if i'm wrong) my knowledge of this stuff isn't incredibly solid yet, i only know the outlines.
But, in general, when a hearing person reads words, (lets say for simplicity) parts of the brain that are usually used for hearing are also used when reading.
For a deaf person, the word as a whole means something, and perhaps parts of the brain that are usually used in signing (movement, proprioceptive information, etc) also come to be used for the word as a whole. But the individual letters don't "sound like" anything the way they do for us.
But with sign writing, each individual component of the sign represents a particular action. The sign as a whole will represent a set of movements, proprioceptive information, etc.
Since there can be a direct mapping of one to the other (movement + proprioceptive information < -> symbol), i would imagine it could be a lot quicker to learn for natively signing people, because it directly allows for the brain to use multi-modality reading, rather than the indirect way it would for letters.
Kanji is, of course, different, and probably easier in some ways for deaf people, i imagine...
EDIT: i'm not trying to make a comment about that particular sign writing, perhaps there's better ones if that one was made by someone who doesn't really know about language...?
EDIT2: probably kanji is still better than sign writing anyway, because it maps directly to concepts instead anyway...
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erlog wrote:
Who is making these exceptionally silly arguments that Japanese should get rid of kanji or switch to romaji? I can't imagine anyone with any sort of familiarity with the language holding those opinions.
well, it's mostly been japanese people...starting somewhat officially about a century ago? ;-)
(Taking a much longer term view, I suppose some view getting rid of kanji as a return to the indigenous language. There are a few um ... interesting websites promoting not just kana use, but also the replacement of chinese compounds with words of Japanese origin, whenever possible. To them, it's all about pure Japanese sounds...)
Edit: you added-
erlog wrote:
It's interesting that people don't understand the history of the Japanese language, and that the system of hiragana/katakana/kanji was specifically a choice imposed on the language because it made the most sense to do it like that.
I'm not sure many would describe the history in those terms.
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erlog wrote:
Who is making these exceptionally silly arguments that Japanese should get rid of kanji or switch to romaji?
The case has been made various times in modern history, I think the Japanese government was considering it after WWII. I agree that if Japanese lost the kanji it would be a wreck, you'd have to introduce spacing, the 同音語 would drive you nuts, and it would just be a lot more difficult to learn the language in general, not to mention you'd rob all the fun out of the language.
Thora wrote:
here are a few um ... interesting websites promoting not just kana use, but also the replacement of chinese compounds with words of Japanese origin, whenever possible. To them, it's all about pure Japanese sounds...)
Could you link me up with a few of those sites please? Sounds interesting.
I believe SignWriting could be thought of as a logographic system with certain advantages for deaf learners over an orthography and teaching system more heavily based on grapheme to phoneme mapping.
Also, as complete languages unto themselves, it makes sense for sign languages to have their own scripts in addition to preexisting orthographies. In fact, I imagine it could serve as a useful bridge.
As for kanji, I believe I've successfully argued elsewhere the scientific basis and logical rationale for why all languages ought to follow Japanese (but more systematic) in utilizing mixed logographic/phonographic writing systems. Humans are best suited for multimodal processing. It's high time English incorporated kanji. I think the world is ready!
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I wasn't saying "who in history would have ever thought..." since I don't doubt that it's been considered before in Japan for reasons of nationalism like when they decided to strip all the English loan words out of baseball vocabulary during WW2.
I was saying who, in 2011, who has done any sort of critical thinking about the Japanese language would ever think that getting rid of kanji would be helpful? It was meant to be slightly rhetorical because, I'll just come right out and say it, it is a profoundly stupid position to take.
There was a reason they were used to begin with, and it was because the Japanese didn't have a writing system. They imported Chinese characters for both the purpose of phonetics and meaning, there was a battle back and forth over how to use them, but then it eventually evolved that they could have the best of both worlds with the hiragana/katakana/kanji system. It's an extremely elegant solution, and is far more pragmatic and useful than using just kanji or just hiragana.
You can discover for yourself how frustrating it would be. Go take a news story, and then convert it to romaji or hiragana only. Words you used to be able to read at a glance are now an absolute chore to parse, and all shades of meaning now must be discerned entirely through context.
A great example of the profound usefulness of kanji just happened for me in this thread. I had never encountered the word 同意語 before, but thanks to the existence of kanji I was able to guess its meaning with 100% accuracy. I was also able to guess its reading well enough that I could type it on the first try using the IME. If it had just been written as どういご then, for certain, I would have had to look it up.
And by "familiar with the language" I did not necessarily mean "speaks the language." Most Japanese are just as ignorant about the origins/structure/grammar of their own language as most English speakers are. By "familiar with the language" I meant from a structural and linguistic standpoint. In my opinion, to make the case that kanji should be dropped from Japanese is to flat out admit you know zero about linguistics.
I know I'm coming off as a tremendous jerk right now, but I just don't see how there's any argument against the pragmatic case for kanji that caused it to be used in the first place, avoided it's disappearance even during times of war with China, and has caused it to persist into the modern day. If that right there isn't proof of its usefulness then I don't really know what is.
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nest0r wrote:
It's high time English incorporated kanji. I think the world is ready!
Ooh, yes please. Once upon a time I used to mix in kanji in place of Heisig keywords as a sort of short hand, it was always a pleasure to read. That add-on "Characterizer" did pretty much the same thing, unfortunately they never incorporated RTK3...
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thecite wrote:
Could you link me up with a few of those sites please? Sounds interesting.
Here are two pages from the 「日本語ルネッサンス運動」 site:
「漢字」は「Chinese character」である
If you scroll down a bit on the カナモジカイ site, you can try your hand at reading mixed-kana Japanese (with kanji readings in katakana). oh joy
But you know....come to think of it.... I suspect some the hardcore-kanji-vocab-SRS-folks here might end up suppressing a few 10,000s of those words in favour of a few nice soft yamato kotoba when they finally decide to try speaking... haha ;-)
What's the connection between wanting a high vocabulary and delaying speaking?
To OP:
Kanji makes a lot of sense once you know it, but one of the arguments against it I imagine is that it takes longer to learn than less complex writing systems. If Japan officially adopted the roman alphabet, homonyms could still be disambiguated by some other means, such as a few alternate spellings for different phonemes, as in english, or using diacritic marks. Vietnamese used to be written in Kanji and was romanised using diacritics to distinguish different tones. Or failing that, further simplifications could made to kanji to reduce redundant radicals, standardise use of phonetic radicals, reduce the number of strokes etc. It seems quite obvious to me that if anyone were tasked now with creating a new writing system for the japanese language from scratch that would ultimately result in a much simpler system than is currently in place. The Japanese writing system is as it is because of historical reasons. The reason it hasn't been scrapped and replaced probably has more to do with the fact it would be a massive pain in the arse to do so rather than any inherent superiority of the current system.
Thanks to erlog and thecite's comments, I got curious and went off and did a little research into exactly why Japanese uses kanji. My Japanese vocabulary is still a bit limited, so I hadn't realized that Japanese has more homophones than many other languages (although it makes sense when you realize it's a function of the available sounds). I'd always thought that going with just hiragana would make life so much easier - prompted by my frustration with becoming a functional illiterate as soon as I touch the ground in Japan - but I can see now why that might not be the case.
And I have to agree with erlog's comment about knowing what words mean even if I've never encountered them before. 同意語 is only the latest example for me - I knew what it meant right away, even though I had no idea how to pronounce it.
Thanks for giving me one more comeback, next time I'm asked "Why are you studying this?"
Thora wrote:
Taking a much longer term view, I suppose some view getting rid of kanji as a return to the indigenous language. There are a few um ... interesting websites promoting not just kana use, but also the replacement of chinese compounds with words of Japanese origin, whenever possible. To them, it's all about pure Japanese sounds...)
Wasn't something like this done in North Korea? I wonder how that turned out and to what extent it affected mutual intelligibility between the North and the South. I also wonder if there are any good resources on North Korean anywhere outside North Korea.
This also reminds me of Anglish, but I cannot tell whether those people are being serious or not. Liberal Democratic Party=Freebeing-Folkmightish Mootband
Well, it's a touchy subject and one we've debated on much in the past. Some of us feel that logically and scientifically, kanji is highly useful for its iconic nature and semantic content, both in learning the language it's used in and in general as possessing attributes that mesh with the way the brain and mind learn and use language. Others cite outdated linguistic and pedagogical concepts to disparage kanji, not without cause, as popular science lags behind and tools and strategies for learning are currently underused also, so it's easy to see how a dominant speech-based view of language and concern with laborious methods of achieving literacy can form an endogeneity trap of sorts. ;p Then there's the troubling political elements that cast a pall over the proceedings and make for murky waters, and meanwhile ethnocentric, even bigoted pundits, and ideologues variously spew the occasional ignorant gibberish and get the hackles rising.
Meanwhile, there was one last piece of the puzzle missing from my theorizing, that I'm happy to say I'm finding corroborative research on as we speak, but I've long since been satisfied with how everything else panned out and no longer feel the impassioned need to argue the topic. Instead I content myself with self-congratulatory summaries.
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If you look at the Korean language, they more or less got rid of hanja (kanji). There
are many homophones in Korean as well, but they still manage. Korean high schoolers learn 1800 hanja, but it is more like learning etymology to them. There is also a chauvinistic movement (mainly in North Korea) that seeks to eliminate Sino-Korean compounds from the language to substitute with purely Korean words. That's a tall order since about 60% of Korean words are in fact Sino-Korean.
The Vietnamese used to write their language with kanji, too. Got rid of it following the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Vietnam by a French jesuit, Alexandre de Rhodes (1591 - 1660).
I guess this debate about kanji or not is moot when one learns them with a method as efficient as Heisig's. Then the advantages of using kanji become evident and the cost of learning then becomes much lower. It is amazing to me that the method is not more widely recognized, and even made fun of by many (e.g. Tae Kim).
To me, part of the mystique of Japanese lies in its difficult writing scheme - at least to the non-Heisigers... Let's pray that their high school education system will not become a joke like it is in the West and that they will have to drop kanji because youngsters simply cannot find the time and the will to learn them. I live in Quebec, and youngsters are simply unable to write in proper French. Apparently the language is too hard.
Kanji aren't necessarily all that much more semantic than syllables in English or any other language written with the Roman alphabet. The syllables in English words carry semantic information too. If a japanese word has a sanzui in it we can guess it has a liquid related meaning, but to do that, we have to first know the meaning of the sanzui radical. Likewise we can guess at the meaning of English words containing 'aqua', 'hydro' or 'marine'. We recognise these word fragments as carrying meaning in their own right.
Why is 同音語 more guessable that homo(same)phone(sound)?
There are valid arguments on both sides of the debate. It really just comes down to an individual's assessment of the advantages/disadvantages and the feasibility of reform.
Also, I think those in favour of reducing or abolishing kanji were more concerned with general literacy, the burden on students and Japan's communication with the world, than any nationalistic desire to shake off Chinese influences. They wanted to switch to romaji after all.
btw, advocates of script reform include respected linguists - Japanese and non-Japanese, past and present. I think Japanese people also have more knowledge of their language than you assume. I'd expect the evolution of the writing system is covered in the basic school curriculum.
To me, it's a really interesting topic because it involves such a wide range of issues: cognition, equality, technology, education reform, literature, art, history, politics, etc. I somehow doubt that many of the authors who've tackled the subject ... and all people who might disagree with you... are "ignorant", lack "critical thinking" skills and hold "profoundly stupid" positions on a non-issue. lol


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IT IS with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of editor-in-chief Nanette Guadalquiver to be one of the Lifestyle columnists of this paper. I am not new in the field since I was formerly one of the writers of the XL weekly news magazine. I long to put the things in my mind into writing once again. The invitation from Sun.Star Bacolod came at the right time as I am scheduled to leave the government service to the younger generation within the year.
I love information advocacy in the real sense of the word. It runs in my veins. My 17 years in broadcasting with farmers, mothers, youth and the general public as my clients is worth the joy I feel as a government extension worker.
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My "Gardening Tips," a segment in the radio magazine Kapanimalay is scheduled every Thursday morning, from 11 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. over DYVS. I thank the Lord for positive feedbacks that warm my heart. It is what matters when we do things in order to inform, right? A saying always comes to mind every time I get a positive reaction for the program. It says, "Our greatest achievements are those that benefit others."
I was in the field doing extension work for almost five years as farm management technologist, supervising and teaching more than 100 farmers under the Masagana 99 Program. That was for me a fruitful experience. I lived with farmers as ordered by the management and after a year, my foster parents said, "Don't bring rice anymore." Why was that? Maybe because their produce increased after a year of my supervision.
Doing things the right way is the key to development. I was then designated as the report officer on the fifth year of my employment under the Bureau of Agricultural Extension. Why again? It was the former report officer's statement that I did things right as far as reporting was concerned. That was after my supervisor's declaration in our meeting, "Edna's report is realistic." Being a report officer was another hallmark of my government service. It was during that time that an Agricultural Profile data base was realized in the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA).
My most enjoyable years of service in the government was when I was designated as the public information officer way back in 1995, then as the farmcaster in 1996. Eventually, with the rise of Techno Gabay Program, Farmers' Information and Technology Services (Fits) Centers were established around the province. The first was that of the OPA in which I was the technology service specialist from 2006-2009. Technical assistance to clients and agri-tourism coordination are part of my job among others at present. Later, I was designated Fits manager.
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MASSENA - A dugout-style canoe that is at least 142 years old will be lent to the Akwesasne Historical Center by the town of Massena.
Town Historian Mary Ellen Cassleman said the canoe, which has been stored in the basement of the Massena Museum since 1996, was discovered during a landslide near the Carey Cross Road in 1972.
Prior to coming to Massena, she said the canoe had been on display at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton.
The museum recently undertook an effort to discover exactly how old the canoe was and while the answer they received left them with a range of 160 years, Ms. Cassleman said it is nice to finally have some answers.
According to a carbon-dating expert from Canada, the canoe originates back to 1675 to 1872 or what Ms. Cassleman referred to as post-contact.
A pre-contact canoe would have dated back much earlier prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America.
"He feels it's definitely not a Boy Scout project or pig trough as some people have suggested," Ms. Cassleman said, referring to the expert, who she said could not determine how it was made.
"They couldn't determine how it was made, whether it was bone or stone," she said.
Museum Board President Joseph Macaulay said he, as well as the other museum board members, feel lending the canoe to the Akwesasne Historical Center is the right thing to do.
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Councilman Albert N. Nicola agreed.
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CUMBERLAND — Nick Zammarelli spent all game looking for his pitch – the one he could drive.
After seeing a steady diet of off-speed and breaking pitches from Cumberland pitcher Eric Murray – in succession, Zammarelli's previous three at-bats saw him strike out swinging, pop up to shortstop and pop up on the first pitch to second – the Lincoln junior was determined to sit dead-red, i.e. wait for Murray to make a mistake and come after him with a fastball. It was the top of the seventh inning of what was a 1-1 game when Zammarelli dug in against Murray, the Lions featuring two runners aboard.
As if on cue, Zammarelli got a fastball. No doubt, his eyes lit up as the pitch drew closer, an offering that Murray wanted to make sure tailed away from the left-handed hitter.
Instead it caught too much of the outside corner.
The ever vigilant Zammarelli slashed at what proved to be the final pitch Murray would throw, sending it down the left-field line for a two-run double that went a long way in the Lions' come-from-behind 3-2 win at the Clippers' expense Wednesday afternoon at Tucker Field. Zammarelli's two-out clutch knock – one that came on the first pitch of his fourth turn – vaulted Lincoln to a 3-1 lead as Cumberland got one back in the home half of the seventh.
"I was definitely sitting on his fastball. I didn't want to chase any junk like I had been in the previous at-bats," said Zammarelli, who has verbally committed to North Carolina's Elon University. "I knew (Murray) was pitching me away the whole game so I was looking to drive one the other way. Luckily I got a low, outside fastball that I was able to take down the line."
While it was a fantastic finish for Lincoln – one that lefty Joe Yankee punctuated by nailing down the final three outs en route to tossing a complete game three-hitter – it was pure heartbreak for Cumberland. The Clippers were one out away from nailing down their fifth straight win, one that would have set up an intriguing showdown with unbeaten La Salle Academy Friday morning.
Instead, Cumberland head coach Paul Murphy was only left to wonder what could have been had the defense behind Murray not commit four errors over the first two innings. The miscues – "bad errors" as Murray pointed out – didn't come back to haunt the home team in the sense that the Lions capitalized on them. Simply put, the dropped flies and balls going the wickets resulted in Murray throwing more pitches, ones that no doubt would have come in handy the deeper the senior progressed into his outing.
"Those take a toll on a pitcher," said Murphy, his club now 4-2 in Division I-North. "Those four errors, he probably had to throw 20 extra pitches."
For the longest time it appeared that the Clippers would make the one run they pushed across in the third inning stand up. Junior Jacob Keefe scampered to the plate after Yankee was off target on a fastball, resulting in a wild pitch with one down. The play loomed even larger as the Clipper hitter in the batter's box (Ryan Harris) lined to center with Greg Joubert following with a swinging strikeout.
Featuring pinpoint control and a sneaky fastball that he located well, Murray took a two-hit shutout into the seventh. At one point the righty retired seven straight Lions on his way to finishing with four strikeouts and one walk. A complete-game effort sprinkled with a gaggle of goose eggs seemed waiting in the wings as Murray set down the first two Lincoln hitters in the seventh, but that's when momentum changed hands.
Lincoln's rally started in modest fashion with John Guarino legging out an infield single. His work did not go unnoticed by his teammates.
"That was clutch, especially from a sophomore," remarked Zammarelli. "Hopefully that will boost his confidence moving forward."
Still breathing, Lincoln kept the line moving as No. 9 hitter Jeff Sheehan singled on the first pitch. Jumping all over the first pitch proved to be contagious with the next hitter, Kyle Jackson, finding the gap in left-center field to score Guarino with the tying run.
That set the stage for Zammarelli and he did not miss his chance. Lincoln entered Wednesday having dropped its previous three games, two by three runs and one by two. To finally snag a close one, the accomplishment was not lost on the star of the game.
"Confidence-wise, this one was big for us," Zammarelli said after the Lions improved to two up and four down in league action. "We have a lot of young guys on the team and they have a lot of passion, which is good to see."
Another key elder statesman on Lincoln is Yankee, who struck out the side in the top of the first. The southpaw issued consecutive free passes to begin the last of the seventh, one of which came around to score on a single by Joe Fine. With the tying and go-ahead runners aboard, Yankee got pinch hitter Dylan Boisclair to flail for the game's final out.
The punchout served as Yankee's seventh to go along with five walks.
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PAWTUCKET – Lately, much attention has been paid to the hitting exploits of Bryce Brentz – deservedly so, too.
The outfield prospect carried a .471 postseason average into Game Two of the Governors' Cup Championship Series, a figure buoyed by a little bit of everything from two home runs to two doubles to five runs batted in.
There's another facet of Brentz' game – call it a dying art among today's up-and-coming ballplayers – that has been on full display during Pawtucket's playoff run. In fact, his ability to create just enough disruption on the basepaths via hard-charging slides helped influence the outcome of two games in the PawSox' favor.
During the seventh inning of Game Two of the Scranton series, Brentz went from first-to-third on a groundball single through the right side. Sliding feet first into the bag just as the throw was arriving from right field, Brentz threw up a brick wall that impeded Yankees third baseman Kevin Russo from getting an accurate read on the incoming toss.
Quickly realizing that the ball had gotten past Russo, Brentz quickly rose to his feet and hurried toward the plate. His heads-up smarts proved quite timely as Brentz scored the go-ahead in what amounted to a 3-2 Pawtucket final.
"You're not trying to hurt the player; just make sure you play the game the right way, which is full tilt and 100 percent," Brentz stated Wednesday. "Sliding is just something you can do that eventually it becomes second nature."
Fast forward to Game One of the finals against the Knights, as Brentz once again made his presence felt by getting down and dirty. After tripling to lead off the fourth inning, Brentz broke for home following a grounder in the direction Charlotte third baseman Brent Moral. Granted, Moral's toss was a little off-line and low, but it was still ahead of Brentz as Charlotte catcher Josh Phegley waited to apply the tag.
Once more, Brentz utilized the feet-first approach. This time, he jarred the ball loose from Phegley's mitt, the end result a run and a 4-2 advantage for the PawSox.
"From their standpoint, it wasn't as strong a throw as you'd like to see," said PawSox manager Arnie Beyeler following Tuesday's game. "Fortunately with a good, hard slide, it makes it tough on the catcher to pick the ball, make a play and hold on to it."
Besides having the gene and making deft use of it, Brentz credits the limited time he spent with Ryan Kalish while the outfielder rehabbed with Double-A Portland earlier this season, the brief spell consisting all of three games.
"Watching Kalish play, you can't help but want to go all out," said Beyeler.
Even though Beyeler is still in the early stages of seeing Brentz on an every-day basis, the skipper noted that his all-out style resembles that of past players he's coached.
"He plays like (Josh) Reddick and Kalish, guys who can run a little bit and are aggressive on the bases," was the comparison Beyeler drew. "Bryce has put himself into some good positions by playing the game hard."
Steven Wright throws what PawSox pitching coach Rich Sauveur calls "a heavier knuckleball." So how does one manage to add a little zip to a pitch known for its fluttering tendencies?
"He's got more arm speed," was the quick-to-the-point answer Sauveur provided about Wright, who got the PawSox off on the right foot in series opener with seven strong innings against Charlotte. "The key with Wright is making sure he stays back and on top of the ball. If you don't, the ball's going to be up."
Working with a butterfly specialist isn't new territory for Sauveur, not after relying on the pitch at times during his pro career and rescuing Charlie Zink's career in 2008, when the pitcher captured International League Pitcher of the Year honors. Sauveur also understands the importance the catcher plays, hence why he plans to encourage Dan Butler to seek out Red Sox bullpen catcher Gary Tuck during spring training next year.
"Gary helped out (Jarrod Saltalamacchia) a ton in prepping him to work with (Tim) Wakefield," said Sauveur. "There are no other bits of advice you can give (catchers entrusted with knuckleball pitchers) other than to be comfortable and stay relaxed, which you only acquire through extra work."
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By Roberta Mason
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The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee held its 32nd Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Program on Sunday, Jan. 17. The annual event was a glorious occasion.
The Crockett Alternative School Auditorium was packed with enthusiasm believers of the "Dream" of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The speaker was the re
nowned Art Hall, of San Antonio. Hall, among other achievements, was the 2008 Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate.
Hall is a graduate of Harvard University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
In the tradition of all the MLK speakers that have appeared here, he had an incredible message. He spoke on the Kings With Crowns and Dings Without Crowns.
First the Houston county native son identified his roots in Houston County. Then he presented so me background information on himself.
During his junior year at Harvard he did his internship in Ecuador. There, for the first time he saw first hand, "throwaway" children.
These are children 3-4 years old that live on the streets. Their parents have abandoned them. No adult is assuming responsibility for their growth and development. These children are living without adult supervision for their very lives.
He told very sad stories about his experiences in observing these children.
Then he moved on to our respoonsibility as inheritance of the "Dream." He stated statistics about the number of people that vote in elections. He said people should vote to show their gratitude for the sacrifice that Dr. King made.
His children grew up without a father, and his wife lived her entire life without a husband because Dr. King gave up his life, so people could enjoy the privileges that they now take for granted.
One of the ways to express gratitude is to vote on election day.
He closed by quoting Dr. King's last public speech, "The I have been to the Mountaintop" speech. He said when he was a youth; the speech was playing on the radio. His father stopped to listen to the speech he had heard countless times. He saw a tear running down his father's cheek.
He knew this was a major speech.
Dr. King instinctively knew he was going to die.
Hall received a standing ovation and thunderous applause for his speech.
Miss Mason, founder and chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee presented Hall a plaque.
Hall was the fourth speaker in a series of Houston County Native Sons to speak at the program.
Dr. James Wilson, the son of the late Bessie Ball Wilson and the nephew of Lois and Floyd Ball was the first to speak in 2007.
In 2008 Dr. Nelson Daniels, the son of Mae Belle Daniels and the late Bill Daniels spoke.
Last year, Donald Ards, the brother of community leaders Cather Ards Woods and Pearle Fobbs spoke.
The MLK committee e said they were pleased to bring home native sons to speak at the special program.
Other participants on the program included the Reverend Bill Reece of the Bethanna Baptist Church of Flynn as master of ceremonies.
Verna Harris, pianist, played both the national Anthem and the Negro National Anthem.
C.J. Wheeler, a sophomore at Crockett High School, led the pledge to the flag.
The Reverend Earl Harris gave the invocation. Houston County judge Lonnie Hunt welcomed the assembled and introduced county officials.
Greetings were brought by District Attorney Donna Kaspar, County Clerk Bridget Lamb, County Court at Law Judge Sarah Clark, and county Attorney Daphne Session.
Della Newman introduced the committee, Miss mason led the litany and Brittany Colter, a junior at Crockett High School, sang "Falling in Love With Jesus is the Best Thing I Ever Did" and Darius Kitchen introduced his longtime friend Hall.
The program ended with the prayer of dedication by Reverend Jim T. Ainsworth.
The hostesses were Sheryl McKnight Bean, Patricia Gipson and Bobbie Hickman.
The MLK committee was glad to see the United States flags placed around the courthouse square and businesses to observe the national holiday.
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Using LANL GFP to find Soluble Domains in Proteins
The motivation behind inventing a fast reliable system for identifying the individual soluble domains in proteins was guided by the following facts:
LANL's solution is to use our highly evolved version of GFP to approach this problem differently. Waldo has designed a system which is based on a library of fragmented genes that are then expressed (Fig. 1, # 1 and #2). Using a version of our GFP to determine solubility, the resulting proteins from the library can then be rapidly screened to find those that are soluble (Fig. 1, #3).
Our process involved four different steps that takes approximately seven business days to go from gene sequence(s) to identified soluble domains. This turnaround time is unbelievable considering the amount of time and effort other processes require to discover the same information. The four individual steps are described in great detail below.
Step 1 (Library size ≥107)
The first step of the LANL process is the fragmentation of a gene or genes of interest. Keep in mind, with the assistance of robotics, this process could easily be scaled to full genome analysis.
The first step of our process is to take a set of genes or ORFs and fragment them using any number of methods such as restriction enzyme treatment (e.g. DNAse) or mechanically disrupting them with shearing forces (Fig 2, #2). If the size is known of the gene or set of genes, the gene fragments are run on an agarose gel and the fragments of the correct size can be cut out and taken into the next step of the process for focused study.
Step 2
Fragments are then blunt cloned and screened. However, since >95% of expressed proteins are not in the native frame and likely have a stop codon (Fig. 3, #1), the DNA fragments are cloned into the LANL ORF selector before spending valuable time and effort on the GFP screen. Using the LANL ORF selector, the test fragment is inserted between two halves of dihydrofolate reductase enzyme (DHFR)
to determine which inserts are out-of-frame (Fig. 3).
If the inserted fragment is out of frame, it is likely to have one or more stop codons, so the second half of DHFR selection gene will not be expressed. The result is that when the host E. coli cells are plated on a low concentration of trimethoprim, the clones with out-of-frame constructs cannot survive. Clones without stop codons (the fragment is in-frame) can produce DHFR to metabolize trimethoprim and survive (Fig. 4, image 2). These plasmids are then recovered and investigated further (Fig. 4, image 3, the plasmids with green inserts).
Keep in mind, in this step solubility has not been determined yet. This step simply removes those DNA fragments which do not encode authentic protein domains.
Step 3 (Library size approx. 105)
Once the collection of fragments that are known to express viable protein domains is identified, the in-frame inserts can then be cloned into LANL's in vivo Split GFP system to determine which in-frame, expressed domains are soluble (Fig. 4, #1). The Split GFP constructs are transformed and grown in E. coli and single colonies are screened by plating on agar plates. First, expression of the S11-tagged protein is induced, followed by induction of the GFP detector fragment (S1-10)(Fig. 5, left).
Under these conditions, brighter the clones indicate that the S11-tagged, soluble protein is interacting with the S1-10 detector fragment and fluorescence is being produced. The brightest clones are then picked from the agar plates and grown in 96 well liquid cultures. By inducing only the AnTET promoter in the 96-well plate cultures, only the S11-tagged protein is expressed. The cells are lysed, and the soluble and insoluble protein products quantified by adding (not inducing the expression of) the in vitro S1-10 detector fragment.
Briefly, the Split GFP system is based on fragmenting a highly modified GFP into two separate, soluble pieces: GFP strand 11 (S11), also known as the "tether" of "tag" and GFP strands 1-10 (S1-10), known as the "detector fragment" (Fig. 6).
First, the S11 tagged protein domain is expressed using AnTET induction. Then the S1-10 detector fragment is expressed using IPTG induction. If the expressed domain is soluble, it will allow the S11 "tether" to interact with the larger GFP fragment, S1-10. The interaction of S11 and S1-10 allows GFP to fluoresce (Fig. 6).
The beauty of the LANL GFP system is that there is no need to reclone the construct to quantify expression. To express the S11 tag alone, one simply adds only AnTET which induces expression of the S-11 tagged protein and the S1-10 can be added as an in vitro reagent!
Step 4 (Library size 102)
In the final step of LANL's process, clones of interest are selected from the 96-well plate used in Step 3 and are sequenced (Fig. 7, # 1). At LANL, typically the entire 96-well plate is sequenced so that the position of all the fragment clones can be mapped to the parent gene.
In silico, the sequence of the gene fragments are aligned onto the full parent gene and color coded by solubility. At LANL, we use the color scheme, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-bluish white, where the red side of the spectrum identifies the least soluble domains.). This makes finding the experimental domain boundaries very clear and makes it easy to identify compact members of the groups (a.k.a the minimal tiling path) which are subcloned for scale up (Fig. 7, #2). For crystallographic applications, the clone is subcloned without the S11 tag, or the tag can be included as a way to track purification, and then cleaved off.
Crystallizing a 2200 aa protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
If the intent is to crystallize the identified soluble domains as we did with a 2200 aa protein called ssPC, LANL recommends selecting multiple compact versions of each soluble domain to increase the probability of finding crystallizable, diffracting constructs (Typical yields 15-30 mg/l, concentrate to >40 mg/ml). Figure 8 shows an SDS gel of some of the most compact (smallest in set) soluble fragments or soluble domains representing the 6 predicted domains of ppSC, subcloned into a pET N-terminal 6HIS vector. Soluble (S), insoluble pellet fraction (P) of E. coli lysates.
One of the advantages of having a dense sampling of fragment position and solubility is that it is easy to identify the boundaries of a domain. As fragments get progressively shorter, they become soluble near the boundary domains, then suddenly become less soluble as the fragments are further truncated. This makes it easier to select a small subset of compact clones for detailed study. Shown in Fig. 9 are some compact 'double domain' constructs containing the KR+ACP domains of the large polyketide synthetase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb). The protein is nicely monodisperse by gel filtration chromatography and runs as a monomer without significant aggregation at >10 mg/ml.
Compact clones are less likely to contain disordered ends, and having several choices near a given boundary size increases the chance that at least one will crystallize and give diffraction-quality crystals. The split GFP domain trapping protocol readily identifies two sets of fragments, one focusing on a larger version of the ER-containing domain from ca. 1480-1755, and another more compact version focusing down to amino acids 1558-1750. This fragment crystallized and is very similar to the previously published construct Shapiro et. al used to solve the structure (1PQW). (Fig. 10)
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It's hard to test and adjust the values in QL because:
- enabling it restricts the server to premium only
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contrary, changing "flag throw strength" doesn't make it unranked.
The default is 0.25 for ctf, but for some reason 0.5 for 1-flag ctf.
It should be >320 so flag carrier can throw the flag in front of him while moving forward, with the restrictions in start-a-match I'd use 400. Or change it so flag would take vector sum of throw speed and player speed.


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Big 194
Friday November 4th, 2011, the first day of nine days of bow hunting in west central Illinois proved very fruitful. My morning hunt was a good one, with several small bucks chasing does and a big eight point that I rattled in only to have him hang up at fifty yards.
After a quick lunch and fresh shower I decided to change stands to take better advantage of the movement I had seen in the a.m. I climbed into my stand at 1:30 p.m. and it did not take long for the activity to start. Right away I had does feeding in the cut corn. At 3:25 I heard deer coming through the brush in the CRP behind me. As I slowly turned, a 2 ½ year old eight point was chasing a hot doe and she stopped 15 yards from my stand. Unaware of my presence, the doe turned and ran back in the direction she had come from. As I was watching the chase, I looked beyond the eight point and doe and could see two big "shooters" in a lower hay field beyond them also watching the action.
The doe trotted back toward me, with the 8 point in tow. The two shooters decided to join the chase and were staggered apart following. That is when things got interesting. The doe trotted by at 25 yards with the 8 point following close. One of the two shooters, a 160 class ten point was following about ten seconds behind. Already at full draw with my 72 pound Mathews Z7, I tried to stop him with a couple of progressively louder mouth grunts, but he stayed steady on the trail of the doe, stopping at the top of a small hill in the CRP 60 yards from me. Staying at full draw, I waited a few second for the third buck to enter the picture. When he didn't, still at full draw I took a peek around my tree in the direction they came from. Standing in the CRP 60 yards away was the third and biggest buck. I couldn't help but notice the mass and proportions of this buck. He was a giant! My shooting form is with a bent elbow, so when I turned my torso to look, I relaxed slightl y and the string went forward. Fortunately the arrow stayed on, and the big buck intent on watching the progress of the other deer didn't even flinch. Then he started coming.
I brought my Z7 to full draw again. The big buck decided to leave the trail of the other deer as he swung out around some willows. At that moment, I thought there would never be a shot opportunity. Just as I thought that, he came around the willows and picked up another trail that eventually paralleled the route the other deer had taken. Just as I started to mouth grunt and stop him, he stopped on his own almost perfectly broadside at 38 yards. I quickly estimated the yardage, settled the pin behind his shoulder and squeezed the release. The Montec 100 tipped Easton ACC found its mark and the monster buck went ten yards and stood. The thought crossed my mind about a fifty yard follow up shot, but I feared he might bolt from adrenalin after a second hit. Then his back legs started getting wobbly and he stumbled to the ground.
In the past, having harvested quite a few bucks over 140 inches, a few over 150 with my best being 173 inches, I knew this one was in a different class! Still sitting in the stand while I calmed myself, I texted my three buddies hunting other areas of the property and told them I had shot a 180 plus buck.
The buck has 15 scoreable points and 194 total inches of antler green, making it by far my personal best buck ever. Family members and friends have asked me if I look for something bigger now, and my comment is; " No, I just go back to looking for 140 inch plus deer." I thought when I arrowed my 173 inch buck in 2005 that it was my "buck of a lifetime". Now in 2011 I have a 194 inch buck. I wonder if this is my "buck of a lifetime"? For now yes, but only time in the stand will tell.
I had shot a Mathews LX for quite a few years since it first hit the market, and really was quite content to continue hunting with it. My wife surprised me with a new Z7 for Christmas 2010 from Blythes Sports in Griffith Indiana, and cash to accessorize the bow. I outfitted it with a Down Force rest, a Mathews two piece quiver, Axion sight and Axion stabilizer. A great setup! I quickly fell in love with the smoothness, quietness and overall shootability of my Mathews Z7. I strongly feel that choosing the right equipment and having confidence in it has gone a long way in the bow hunting success I have enjoyed. Thank you Mathews!
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