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The G8 retreat from Chicago to Camp David brings a new tactical dilemma to Occupy. Do we carry on with the old model, locating contested space and establishing a physical encampment? Or do we sojourn into an uncharted vector of resistance where symbolic space is transient, fluid and less-significant? Here's the view of Occupier Sean Nolan. Have a read and weigh in.
After months of gestation, confusion, internal conflict, regrouping and rethinking, the Occupy movement has come through the winter, in my mind at least, for the better. Those of us who are focused on changing the way that this country's "elected" (or shall I say, bought and paid for) officials do business are more focused than a diamond cutting laser. Those of us who are focused on making a true American Spring are prepared.
As many of you now may very well know, the G8 meeting in Chicago that was scheduled for the 18th of May, has been moved to Camp David, a secure military compound guarded by US Marines that houses the President for private formal or informal occasions. Now let me be clear, the G8 is a meeting between the eight most powerful leaders in the world to discuss "key issues" facing the geopolitical sphere. There is a G12 meeting, a G20, and so on.
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Eastern Washington and Montana appeared destined to another marathon match before the Eagles made quick work of the fourth set to defeat the Grizzlies 25-22, 27-29, 26-24, 25-13 in a Big Sky Conference volleyball match on Saturday evening (Sept. 27).
Hayley Hills once again had an outstanding offensive performance, as her kill total of 28 is the most recorded by a Big Sky player so far in 2008. Hills now also has the second-highest sum, 26, which she did in a 3-2 win at Weber State on Sept. 18.
The Eagles had an outstanding hitting percentage, as the team hit at a .301 clip (72-23-163), its highest average of the season. Three players hit .400 or higher: Chenoa Coviare (.476, 13-3-21), Ashley Hamilton (.471, 9-1-17) and Hills (.458, 28-6-48).
"That's good (the .301 team hitting percentage)," head coach Miles Kydd said. "I need to give the players a lot of credit. This is probably the best match we have played this year."
Mandy Daniels had 31 digs, tied for the third-highest sum by a Big Sky player in 2008 and two off of her career high (she had 33 against Sacramento State on Sept. 16, 2007).
Hills had 15 digs, tying her season high (also had 15 versus Washington State on Sept. 6 and Idaho State on Sept. 20).
Ashley Hamilton contributed 47 assists, the second-most by an Eagle this year (she had 59 at Weber State on Sept. 18). Chenoa Coviare set the team pace in blocks with five.
After the teams played the second-longest match in NCAA Division I history last year in Cheney – a 30-26, 35-37, 40-38, 22-30, 17-15 EWU win – two of tonight's first three sets also saw extended play.
The Eagles were up 20-14 in the opening set before Montana rallied to cut the lead to one at 22-21 with a 7-2 run. At that point, Eastern Washington closed play with three of the final four points, the last one coming courtesy of a Hayley Hills kill.
In the second stanza, Eastern Washington turned the tables by turning a 20-15 Montana edge into a 23-21 advantage on the strength of an impressive 8-1 run. Unfortunately for EWU, the Grizzlies would respond and pull out a dramatic 29-27 win to tie the match at one set apiece.
Eastern had a 19-15 advantage in the third set, but Montana would tie the set 22-22 and then rally from two EWU set points at 24-22 to cause a 24-all stalemate. At that point, however, Eastern Washington posted the final two tallies on the scoreboard to prevail 26-24.
"I have to give a lot of credit to Amanda Yausie coming in off the bench," Kydd said. "We were down when she came in and, when she left, we were up by two points, so it was a big deal for her. I think she got us past the third set win there."
The fourth set, however, saw the Eagles pull away and keep a significant advantage throughout, as EWU led 12-6 and 19-11 in that stanza. Hills also put this set away, ending the contest with three straight kills.
The Eagles now hit the road and will take on Northern Colorado at 6 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday (Oct. 2). The Bears are 8-3, 2-1 in Big Sky play, after sweeping Sacramento State tonight.

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Call him Juanito Appleseed. David Torres Flores came all the way from Mexico to plant a seed in the Salinas Valley that he hopes will grow into a love of mathematics among local children.
Instilling the idea that math is fun and should be a part of daily life starts in preschool and kindergarten, said Flores, a graduate student from Guanajuato.
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I just read interesting articles in Nature Biotechnology and ProteoMonitor discussing the possibility of adding a proteomics component to the ENCODE project (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements). They discuss the advantages (e.g. knowing if variants affect protein levels or function) and the disadvantages (e.g. proteomics may not be a mature enough technology for this integration).
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The Union Street Players raise the curtain on their final production of the season this week. "Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat" opens Friday. Auditions for the performance were held way back in August. Director Pat Moriarty says that he was excited about the opportunity to put on this show, because its a performance he really enjoys. Tickets are available at unionstreetplayers.com.
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The Gore biophysics laboratory uses microbial populations to experimentally probe fundamental ideas in theoretical ecology and evolutionary systems biology.
Behavior of populations before collapse – Natural populations can collapse suddenly in deteriorating environmental conditions, and recovery after such a collapse can be exceedingly difficult. Theory predicts that in principle changes in the fluctuations of the population size can be used to anticipate an impending "tipping point" leading to population collapse. Our group has used laboratory yeast populations to experimentally measure these theoretically predicted early warning indicators based on critical slowing down (Dai et al, Science (2012)). More recently, the group demonstrated that there is a spatial analogue to the standard time-based indicator. Isolated populations near a tipping point experience an increase in "recovery time" following a perturbation, whereas spatially extended populations near a tipping point experience an increase in a "recovery length" near a boundary between regions of different quality (Dai et al, Nature (2013)). The laboratory is now exploring how these early warning indicators behave in more complicated situations, including populations with genetic heterogeneity and in multi-species ecosystems.
Evolution of cooperation – The conditions required for the initiation and maintenance of cooperative behaviors is a classic problem in evolutionary biology. How can cooperators survive when they can be taken advantage of by "cheaters"? As a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow here at MIT, Jeff used sucrose metabolism in yeast as a model system to study the evolution of cooperation (Gore et al, Nature (2009)). The normal "cooperative" cells secrete the enzyme that breaks down sucrose, whereas cells lacking the gene encoding this enzyme act as cheaters because they do not contribute to breaking down this shared resource. Jeff found that the cooperators can survive even in the presence of cheaters because the cooperators capture a small fraction (~1%) of the sugar they create before it is shared, thus making the interaction what game theorists call a snowdrift game (as compared to the standard model of cooperation known as the prisoner's dilemma, in which cooperation goes extinct in these simple well-mixed conditions). The laboratory has used this model system to demonstrate that both spatial expansion and competition between species can favor cooperation (Datta et al, PNAS (2013); Celiker and Gore, Molecular Systems Biology (2013))). We have also found that the evolutionary dynamics between cooperator and cheater interact in a feedback loop with changes in the population size to determine how populations respond to environmental deterioration (Sanchez and Gore, PLOS Biology (2013)). More recently, the laboratory has explored the evolutionary consequences of the cooperative inactivation of antibiotics by bacteria (Yurtsev et al, Molecular Systems Biology (2013); Artemova et al, submitted (2013)).
Rugged fitness landscapes and the reversibility of evolution – The fitness effect of a mutation often depends upon the presence or absence of other mutations in the genome. This genetic epistasis leads to "rugged fitness landscapes" that may constrain the path of evolution. Using a publicly available dataset of the growth rate of millions of double gene knockouts in yeast, the group found a surprisingly weak scaling of the epistatic interactions with the strength of mutations (Velenich and Gore, Genome Biology (2013)). The laboratory has also measured the fitness landscapes corresponding to different versions of an antibiotic resistance gene in two different antibiotics to explore the reversibility of evolution worked to quantify the magnitude of these effects and has also used these ideas to explore the reversibility of evolution in the context of molecular changes in an enzyme (Tan et al, Phys Rev Lett (2012)). In an intriguing parallel to thermodynamics, the lab has also found that slowly switching between environments increases the reversibility of evolution for small populations (Tan et al, Evolution (2012)).
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Jeff joined the MIT Physics Department as an Assistant Professor in January 2010 after spending the previous three years in the Department as a Pappalardo Fellow working with Alexander van Oudenaarden. With the support of a Hertz Graduate Fellowship, in 2005 he received his PhD from the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His graduate research in single-molecule biophysics was done in the laboratory of Carlos Bustamante, focusing on the study of twist and torque in single molecules of DNA. Jeff is excited to be in the Physics Department here at MIT, particularly since this is where he studied as an undergraduate in the late '90s.
Awards and Honors
- Named 2013 Allen Distinguished Investigator
- Recipient of 2012 NIH New Innovators Award [1, 2]
- Named 2011 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
- Recipient of 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Mentor Award
- Recipient of 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship
- Recipient of 2011 NSF CAREER Award
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- Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations, Lei Dai, Kirill Korolev, and Jeff Gore, Nature 496, 355 - 358 (2013).
- Feedback between population and evolutionary dynamics determines the fate of social microbial populations, Alvaro Sanchez and Jeff Gore, PLOS Biology 336, 1175 - 1177 (2013).
- Generic indicators for loss of resilience near a tipping point leading to population collapse, Lei Dai, Daan Vorselen, Kirill Korolev, and Jeff Gore, Science 336, 1175 - 1177 (2012).
- Hidden randomness between fitness landscapes limits reverse evolution, Longzhi Tan, Stephen Serene, Hui Xiao Chao, and Jeff Gore, Phys Rev Lett (2012).
- Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast, Jeff Gore, Hyun Youk, and Alexander van Oudenaarden, Nature 459, 253 - 256 (2009).
- The yin and yang of nature [News & Views], Jeff Gore and Alexander van Oudenaarden, Nature 457, 271 - 272 (2009).
- DNA overwinds when stretched, Jeff Gore et al, Nature 442, 836 - 839 (2006)
- Mechanochemical analysis of DNA gyrase using rotor bead tracking, Jeff Gore et al, Nature 439, 100 - 104 (2006).
- Structural transitions and elasticity from torque measurements on DNA, Zev Bryant et al, Nature 424, 338 (2003).
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2001-2002 Operating Budget - Refinement of the budget continues. The administration expects to present a proposed budget to the Business Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees in early June.
A-133 Audit for period June 30, 1997 through June 30, 1998 - The University is in receipt of the U.S. Department of Education's program determination letter (PDL) for the findings concerning Title III and Upward Bound, cited in the audit report. No further action on any of the reported findings is required of the University. However, the Department has requested that in the next audit, the auditors review two findings for compliance.
Internal Capital Projects - The Physical Plant office has compiled a substantial list of internal capital projects, which must be completed. The office has been instructed to prioritize the list, indicating those projects which must be completed in the summer of 2001. Barring an emergency, the prioritized list will constitute the work order for the department over the summer.
Technology - Implementation of the POISE upgrade continues. The project will be implemented in three separate stages: (1) admissions and alumni/development, (2) registration, billing and housing, and (3) financial aid.
The next stages in the SAP project are curriculum development and formation of a lab in Dickey Hall.
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WORTHINGTON – With the last date for city residents to put tree debris out on the curb now past, the Worthington City Council Tuesday turned to scheduling the annual spring clean-up dates for the week of June 17 through June 21. Public Works Director Jim Eulberg coordinated the dates with Eric Joens of Schaap Sanitation, and said residents can start placing items on the curb June 10.
Tree debris removal is on track to come in at just over $900,000, but the city opted to move forward with more aggressive tree trimming and stump grinding, hoping to gain reimbursement from the state's portion of the disaster funds. The cost for the additional trimming was capped at $100,000, and grinding will be addressed at a council meeting down the road.
In other council business, the donation of two benches was accepted from the Don and Rita Hanson family to be placed on the west end of Centennial Park. A donation of trail signs and bike racks was also accepted from the Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP). The council also accepted a donation of a raised-bed garden at the Center for Active Living, which will be paid for with a SHIP grant. Labor will be provided.
A temporary on-sale liquor license for wine and beer sales during the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta was also approved.
WORTHINGTON - The Worthington Economic Development Authority (EDA) established asking prices for city-owned property during a closed session Tuesday after receiving an appraisal for industrial and commercial lots on Highway 59 and 20 available lots in the Bioscience Industrial Park. The per acre value for the industrial land was set at $57,350, The price for the commercial land north of the Event Center was set at $250,000. Across the highway, the price for an eight-acre plot of land was set at $400,000, while a 3.2 acres plot was $250,000 and a 3.9 acre plot $275,000.
ASHTON, Iowa — An Ashton, Iowa man faces animal neglect charges after the Osceola County Sheriff's Office paid him a visit. The sheriff's office reports they filed charges against 38-year-old Cory Gene Osterbuhr of Ashton on Saturday. According to authorities, Osterbuhr allegedly had 15 horses and 3 dogs that were neglected.
The sheriff's office reports they started the investigation after receiving an anonymous Text-A-Tip. The Sibley Veterinary Clinic assisted with the investigation.
The Osceola County Sheriff's Office reports that they have received over 90 anonymous Text-A-Tips since implementing the program in 2008.
JACKSON - A local wind energy developer announced Tuesday its intent to bring a major new wind farm project to Jackson County.
Geronimo Energy, which first developed the nearby 20-megawatt Odin Wind Farm and previously proposed a not-yet-constructed 20-megawatt South Fork Wind Farm in Ewington and Round Lake townships, asked for and received a county government letter of support for a new project 10 times that size — roughly equivalent to EDF Renewable Energy's Lakefield Wind Project and more than half of Iberdrola Renewables' combined Trimont, Elm Creek and Elm Creek II wind projects.
According to project Manager Jordan Burmeister, Geronimo's new Odell Wind Farm has the potential for 200 megawatts of wind energy production from as many as 119 turbines spread over 35,000 acres, with almost half of that in Jackson County, almost half in Cottonwood County and some spillover into Martin and Watonwan counties.
MINNESOTA - Two programs that help restore wetlands in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota have received federal grants worth a total of $3.4 million. Ducks Unlimited received $2.4 million for three projects designed to maintain wetlands and prairies in all three states. Pheasants Forever was awarded $1 million to restore prairie and wetland habitat in parts of southwest Minnesota. The program benefits both aquatic and grassland birds.
The money was awarded through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act.
MINNESOTA - Two groups who have been leading the campaign against Minnesota's wolf hunting season lost another battle in court Tuesday. The Minnesota Court of Appeals dismissed a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Howling for Wolves that aims to undo rules that allowed for the state's wolf hunting and trapping season. The judges claimed the groups lacked sufficient legal standing to challenge the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' rules.
State lawmakers authorized the first-ever state managed wolf hunt last year shortly after wolves came off the list for federal protection. The DNR and wolf biologists have maintained that the hunt helps manage the population and has no impact on the long-term viability of wolves in the state.
Hunters and trappers killed 413 wolves during the season and another 298 were killed for predator control.
There was a little push by local lawmakers to reinstate a five-year moratorium on wolf hunting during the most recent legislative session, but the bill never made it farther than committee approval.
In February, The Humane Society of the United States filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of the Interior, that aims to restore protections for gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
MOORHEAD - Less than half of the 1,300 union workers locked out of American Crystal Sugar for 20 months returned to their jobs on Tuesday. About 400 workers went back to work after the union ratified Crystal's longstanding contract offer last month. Members had rejected the labor deal four previous votes.
About 650 union workers retired or moved on to different jobs, according to the Moorhead-based co-op.
American Crystal is the nation's largest sugar beet processor, with four Minnesota plants in Moorhead, Crookston, East Grand Forks and Chaska.
MINNESOTA – In a message to supporters released this morning, embattled Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced she would not run for re-election next year.
The high-profile congresswoman had a narrow re-election last year and is under federal investigation for her 2012 presidential campaign. A recent poll found that a rematch with her 2012 Democratic challenger, Jim Graves, was a dead heat.
In a video message, which included her personal list of what she believes she accomplished during her eight years in Washington, she said supporters could "rest assured" that neither of those challenges influenced her decisions. Bachmann said she would consider any future path, "if it can help save and protect our great nation for future generations."
Bachmann's announcement will set off a political scramble in the Republican-leaning Sixth Congressional District.
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This is really hard to admit, and I'd probably much rather keep it to myself, but I need to get it out of me and out there in some way.
Two years ago, I was 150 pounds, the lowest body weight I've ever been. Now, I'm 220 pounds, right where... Read more
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I've been dealing with a slightly severe case of patellar tendinitis (aka jumper's knee) for about 4 weeks so far. When my knee started to hurt so bad that I almost wanted to cry on my ordinary walk home, it was time to go to the doctor. He pres... Read more
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I finally emptied my damn suitcase!
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My success today is remmebering to step on the scale this morning and losing 5 pounds! Yipee!
What's even more important about this is that I did it with practically no calorie counting! Does this mean that calorie counting is useless? Abso... Read more
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Haven't done this in awhile... but I felt like it was right to start it up again.
My daily success for today was running around the block around my complex without stopping!
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So, I had a friend with a bit of a cold over yesterday and today I'm debating whether I'm getting sick or if I just had a really bad night's sleep last night. Either way, I wasn't in much of a condition for my walking/jogging intervals today (di... Read more
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Two weeks of practically nonstop, intense (for me!) exercise that resulted in a 2-hour nap today reminded me of something I seem to have completely forgotten:
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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See, I have a big thing about the number 5 and my exercise minutes. I hate for the amount of time I exercised to not be divisible by 5. I don't really know why, but other numbers just look... sloppy, I guess. Because of this, I will usually exer... Read more
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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Yup! I'm two decades old today! The festivities themselves didn't start off so well, though. My boyfriend and I stayed up late so we could do the thing so special we could only do it on my birthday (play Mario Party, he can't stand it), when I g... Read more
Sunday, February 07, 2010
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I saw this on a fellow Sparker's blog and it looked like fun! So here I go!
A is for Age: 19, I'll be 20 very soon though!
B is for Booze: Not a drinker. I've tried wine a few times, but it's just nasty to me.
C is for Career: Non... Read more
Friday, February 05, 2010
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So it's come to this once again. I'm in a house surrounded by sick people. I'm washing my hands like crazy and I sanitized all the doorknobs, but I'm still gonna need luck. Lots of luck. Wish me luck!
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Windows 7's resampling sucks, How can it be improved?
Windows 7's resampling sucks, How can it be improved?
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Playback over WASAPI must match the sample rate of the output device. Thus applications must supply their own resampling if the playback rate does not match. Most applications don't do this but just employ MME or DirectSound, which provide transparent resampling for non-matching rates.
Since some of my content is 44.1 kHz and some 48 kHz I used to set the output rate to 192 kHz so that all audio had to be upsampled. With good software resampling and a cheap onboard codec this could, in theory, even improve the overall result. But the opposite was true. Today I couldn't longer ignore the impression that the resampled output sounded somewhat muffled and did some measurements.
You can view the result here. The upsampled output (44.1 -> 192 kHz) suffers from quite a HF roll-off in comparison to pure 44.1 kHz output.
In Windows XP the SRC quality could be adjusted. I can't find anything comparable in Windows 7. Does anyone know more?
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Not sure if this is related, but Microsoft have confirmed that there is a bug in the sample rate converter in Windows 7. They also confirmed that the bug is not present in XP.
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Following a seven-game road trip, the Binghamton Mets returned to NYSEG Stadium still waiting for their offense to arrive.
Akron Aeros flame-throwing right-hander Danny Salazar burned through the B-Mets lineup, leaving several frustrated hitters in his wake with a nine-strikeout outing. The B-Mets were shut out for the second time this season and the second straight time at home in a 4-0 loss Friday night.
Salazar (1-3) lit up the radar gun at speeds as high as 98 mph on his way to his first victory of the season, avenging an Opening Day loss to the B-Mets in Akron. ...


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The old historic hotel of El Paso is known as the Gardner Hotel. This hotel is much different from the other hotels that you will see in the city. But just because this is known as the old historic hotel of El Paso that does not mean it is not up to date with the current standards of hotels.
One of the great things about this old historic hotel is that it is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now that might not sound like something since most hotels are like that. But most of those hotels are big national chains. This one is not. This hotel has its own charm and history that has been handed down from generation to generation. So it is great that a hotel like this can provide you assistance at any time in the day.
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If you would like to know more about the old historic hotel of El Paso, contact us here at the Gardner Hotel. We are located 311 E Franklin Ave. Our phone number is 915.532.3661.


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Voters seem to love that all three branches of our national government play a brutal game of Survivor where somebody gets voted off the island -- rather than do the job they were hired to do.
The fact is that we are piling up debt that will rapidly kill the country and leave our kids trying to recover what we destroyed. Are you guys ready for 'Grandpa, why did you do this to me?"
How long will it take for China and Japan to own the rest of America? In five more years we will have a national debt of at least 20 trillion dollars broke no middle class millionaires and billionaires controlling 95% of remaining wealth.
Before Republican start whining about Democrats spending habits, let's not forget that Reagan raised the debt ceiling 17 times during his administration.
"The fact is that we are piling up debt that will rapidly kill the country and leave our kids trying to recover what we destroyed. Are you guys ready for 'Grandpa, why did you do this to me?""
This isnt a fact. This is an opinion, and its rooted in ignorance.
"How long will it take for China and Japan to own the rest of America?"
Owning our government's debt and owning America are two VASTLY different things. If you are truely concerned about others "Owning America" you sould be paying attention to things like public infrastructure being SOLD to soverign wealth funds, not our debt. Most of our debt is held by Americans.
"broke no middle class millionaires and billionaires controlling 95% of remaining wealth"
THIS is the really relevant issue. When your economy grows primarily through consumption, the above is a recipie for stagnation because most people dont have money to spend. The rich are net savers, so they just dont make up the consumption. This is a FAR bigger problem than debt.
What the GOP needs to do is pass a law that will allow the President to exceed the limit for the sole purpose of paying the interest on the national debt as it comes due. That would take the possibility of a default on the national debt off the table, and enable them to pressure the President to cut the budget without threatening a default on the national debt.
ANYTHING the Republicans do that might be (mis) represented or spun as a "government shutdown" such as not passing an unanimous debt ceiling increase with no cuts or strings attached will hurt in Nov. election. Understandably, they would like to get something in return. Unfortunately, the public is not concerned enough about this matter to make any changes at this point, at least. Thus, Republicans do not yet have the votes to make meaningful budget changes. Until they do, they should just pass and leave ( Get out of Washington D.C. early after the vote).
Every time the Republicans in Congress try to use the Debt Ceiling as a negotiating opportunity on wider budget or policy issues they lose the P.R. battle ( get the blame). So, the stupidest thing Republicans could possibly do this year is give the Democrats any kind of talking-point about the debt ceiling to use against them in the Nov. elections. If they do that, then there will be no doubt about this Congress at all having a below average I.Q. ( < 100 ). Stupid people should not vote, but neither should they run.
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Have you read Candace Simar's Abercrombie Trail series yet? Simar, the author of this Minnesota-based historical fiction series about Norwegian immgrants, will be visiting the Moorhead Library on Thursday, January 17th at 7 p.m. to talk about her newest novel, Blooming Prairie. Check out this video from Lakeland Public Television for a sneak peak of what to expect:
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Researchers at HP's labs in India are showing off a prototype for an intelligent set-top box that could bring Internet browsing and web-based TV to the millions of Indian residents. The Vayu Internet Device (VInD) lets people receive Internet content on even basic TV sets and manage all screen operations using a basic TV remote control. The device has been designed with the premise that most Indians can't afford a computer, the Internet access, and services that a PC could provide.


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Eight days of punishing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and a barrage of Hamas rocket fire on Israel ended inconclusively. While Israel said it inflicted heavy damage on the militants, Gaza's Hamas rulers claimed that Israel's decision not to send ground troops into the territory, as it had four years ago, was a sign of a new Hamas deterrent power.
"Resistance fighters changed the rules of the game with the occupation (Israel), upset its calculations," Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, who had attended the rally, said later in a televised speech. "The option of invading Gaza after this victory is gone and will never return."
At the same time, Haniyeh urged Gaza fighters to respect the truce and to "guard this deal as long as Israel respects it."
The mood in Israel was mixed. Some were grateful that quiet had been restored without a ground operation that could have cost the lives of more soldiers. Others - particularly those in southern Israel hit by rockets over the past 13 years - thought the operation was abandoned too quickly.
Thousands of Israeli soldiers who had been sent to the border during the fighting withdrew Thursday, the military said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the offensive's aims of halting Gaza rocket fire and weakening Hamas were achieved. "I know there are citizens who were expecting a harsher response," he said, adding that Israel is prepared to act if the cease-fire is violated.
Despite the tough talk, the cease-fire raised hopes of a new era between Israel and Hamas. The two sides are now to negotiate a deal that would end years of Gaza rocket fire on Israel and open the borders of the blockaded Palestinian territory. Talks are supposed to begin sometime after a 24-hour period that began with the cease-fire late Wednesday.
However, the vague language in the agreement and deep hostility between the combatants made it far from certain that the bloodshed would end or that either side will get everything it wants. Israel seeks an end to weapons smuggling into Gaza, while Hamas wants a complete lifting of the border blockade imposed in 2007, after the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
Israel launched the offensive Nov. 14 to halt renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Israeli cities, unleashing some 1,500 airstrikes on Hamas-linked targets, while Hamas and other Gaza militant groups showered Israel with just as many rockets.
The eight days of fighting killed 161 Palestinians, including 71 civilians. Six Israelis, two soldiers and four civilians, were killed and dozens others wounded by rockets fired from Gaza into residential neighborhoods. One of the Israeli soldiers died Thursday after being wounded in a rocket attack the day before against southern Israel.
Israel also destroyed key symbols of Hamas power, such as the prime minister's office, along with rocket launching sites and Gaza police stations.
Gazans celebrated the truce after a night of revelry.
"Today is different, the morning coffee tastes different and I feel we are off to a new start," said Ashraf Diaa, a 38-year-old engineer from Gaza City.
Hundreds of masked Hamas fighters, who had slipped out of sight during the offensive, appeared in public for the first time Thursday during a funeral for five of their comrades. The armed men displayed grenade launchers and assault rifles mounted atop more than 100 brand-new pickup trucks.
The latest round of fighting brought the Islamists unprecedented political recognition. During the past week, Gaza became a magnet for visiting foreign ministers from Turkey and several Arab states - a sharp contrast to Hamas' isolation in the past.
Israel and the United States, even while formally sticking to a policy of shunning Hamas, also acknowledged the militant group's central role by engaging in indirect negotiations with them. Israel and the West consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak defended his decision not to launch a ground offensive. Barak was also defense minister during Israel's previous major military campaign against Hamas four years ago, which drew widespread international criticism and claims of war crimes.
"You don't get into military adventures on a whim, and certainly not based on the mood of the public, which can turn the first time an armored personnel carrier rolls over or an explosive device is detonated against forces on the ground," he told Israel Army Radio.
"The world's mood also can turn," he said, referring to warnings by the U.S. and Israel's other Western allies of the high cost of a ground offensive.
President Barack Obama had personally lobbied Netanyahu to avoid a ground offensive and give the cease-fire a chance.
Egypt, meanwhile, emerged as the pivotal mediator, raising its stature as a regional power.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will now have to assume a more direct role as a referee between Israel and Hamas, at a time when he faces many domestic challenges, including reviving a faltering economy.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and the head of the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group Ramadan Shalah met with Egypt's intelligence chief Thursday as the follow-up talks geared up.
Reaching a deal on a new border arrangement for Gaza would require major concessions from both sides.
Hamas wants both Israel and Egypt to lift all border restrictions.
In 2007, Israel and Morsi's pro-Western predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, sealed the territory, banning virtually all travel and trade. Israel eased its restriction somewhat in 2010 in response to international pressure, allowing Gazans to import consumer goods, while barring virtually all exports and travel. Gaza's battered economy recovered slightly, but the ban on exports prevented it from bouncing back fully.
After Mubarak's fall last year, Egypt eased travel through its Rafah crossing with Gaza. However, Morsi has rebuffed Hamas demands to allow full trade ties with Gaza, in part because of fears this would give an opening to Israel to "dump" Gaza onto Egypt and deepen the split between Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestinians hope the West Bank and Gaza, which lie on opposite sides of Israel, will one day make up the bulk of a Palestinian state. Israel has barred most travel between them during the past decade and closer ties between Egypt and Gaza could exacerbate the division.
Egypt is unlikely to implement major changes at the Rafah crossing, said a senior member of a Palestinian Islamic faction involved in the truce talks in Cairo.
Israel, meanwhile, wants Egypt to halt weapons smuggling across its Sinai region into Gaza, through smuggling tunnels under the border.
Hamas has been able to significantly boost its arsenal in the past four years, largely with weapons from Iran, according to Mashaal, who thanked Tehran for its support late Wednesday.
The Palestinian negotiator said Iran sent Russian-made anti-tank missiles to Gaza after the last Israeli offensive, and claimed that these weapons helped deter Israel from launching a ground offensive. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the details of the closed-door meetings with reporters.
As part of the cease-fire, Israel received U.S. pledges to help curb arms shipments to Gaza.
The fighting gave a major boost to Hamas' popularity, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, where the Islamists' internationally backed rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, oversees a self-rule government.
Abbas, the leading Palestinian proponent of non-violence and negotiations with Israel, was forced to watch from the sidelines as his bitter rivals scored political points by using rocket fire on Israel as leverage.
A senior Abbas aide, Nabil Shaath, stood alongside Hamas leaders during Gaza City's victory rally Thursday. Despite the symbolism, it was not clear whether the two sides would be able to mend their rift.
With the cease-fire over, Israel turned its attention to the West Bank, arresting 55 suspected militants in an overnight sweep. Defense officials said the suspects were involved in pro-Hamas unrest during the military operation and possible involvement in the bus bombing in Tel Aviv just hours before the cease-fire took hold.
Meanwhile, Gazans worked to restore normalcy. Men swept streets and bulldozers removed debris and fallen trees, remnants of the airstrikes. Shoppers crowded outdoor markets to stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables. During the night, gunmen fired into the air in joy, and one man was killed and three wounded by the random celebratory fire, a health official said.
"We are back to business," said Iyad Radwan, a 23-year-old employee in a Gaza City window repair shop that had received 60 orders by mid-morning to fix damage. "Now it's time for rebuilding."
In southern Israel, schools remained closed as the region slowly came back to life.
In the hard-hit border town of Sderot, which has suffered years of rocket fire, few people were outdoors and most businesses remained closed. Businesses were reopening in Ashkelon, but the coastal city suffered from shortages of supplies and staffers who had fled.
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As a genuine, regional initiative from the African continent, the Sahara Wind Project was granted support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Wind measurements and energy intensive synergetic processes are currently being tested at Morocco and Mauritania's Universities in partnership with local industries. Complementary to Morocco's integrated Wind Energy Program launched in 2010, the technical terms of references for assessing the optimal transfer of the Sahara Wind farm network on the basis of a 5 GW HVDC line - have already been established with ONE, the Moroccan public electric utility operating the local grid infrastructures.
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|Regulation of the selective uptake of high density lipoprotein-associated cholesteryl esters by human fibroblasts and Hep G2 hepatoma cells.
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|PMID: 2846735 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|We have previously shown that the liver and steroidogenic tissues of rats in vivo and a wider range of cells in vitro, including human cells, selectively take up high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesteryl esters without parallel uptake of HDL particles. This process is regulated in tissues of rats and in cultured rat cells according to their cholesterol status. In the present study, we examined regulation of HDL selective uptake in cultured human fibroblasts and Hep G2 hepatoma cells. The cholesterol content of these cells was modified by a 20-hr incubation with either low density lipoprotein (LDL) or free cholesterol. Uptake of HDL components was examined in a subsequent 4-6-hr assay using intracellularly trapped tracers: 125I-labeled N-methyl-tyramine-cellobiose-apoA-I (125I-NMTC-apoA-I) to trace apoA-I, and [3H]cholesteryl oleyl ether to trace cholesteryl esters. In the case of fibroblasts, pretreatment with either LDL or free cholesterol resulted in decreased selective uptake (total [3H]cholesteryl ether uptake minus that due to particle uptake as measured by 125I-NMTC-apoA-I). In contrast, HDL particle uptake increased with either form of cholesterol loading. The amount of HDL that was reversibly cell-associated (bound) was increased by prior exposure to free cholesterol, but was decreased by prior exposure to LDL. In the case of Hep G2 cells, exposure to free cholesterol only slightly increased HDL particle uptake; selective uptake decreased after both forms of cholesterol loading, and reversibly bound HDL increased after exposure to free cholesterol, but either did not change or decreased after exposure to LDL. It was excluded that either LDL carried over into the HDL uptake assay or that products secreted by the cultured cells influenced these results. Thus, selective uptake by cells of both hepatic and extrahepatic origin was down-regulated by cholesterol loading, under which conditions HDL particle uptake increased. Total HDL binding was not directly correlated with either the rate of selective uptake or the rate of HDL particle uptake or the cholesterol status of the cells, suggesting more than one type of HDL binding site.
|F Rinninger; R C Pittman
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|Title: Journal of lipid research Volume: 29 ISSN: 0022-2275 ISO Abbreviation: J. Lipid Res. Publication Date: 1988 Sep
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|Created Date: 1988-12-20 Completed Date: 1988-12-20 Revised Date: 2007-11-14
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 1179-94 Citation Subset: IM
|Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
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The majority of the seeds have progressed safely through the opening two days of the Swiss Open with an excellent field present in Basel even with the loss of it's Super Series tag for the 2011.
Jan O Jorgensen is the top seed this week and has safely progressed his opening two rounds without the loss of a game to Ville Lang and Christian Lind Thomsen to reach the last 16. His 3rd round opponent is Kazushi Yamada who is in excellent form since his victory over Taufik Hidayat last week in the All Englands. Also in this half of the draw is Park Sung Hwan who has been the pick of the players in his opening two rounds, with a pair of impressive victories for the 4th seed. Viktor Axelsen almost defeated the 16th seeded Hans-Kristian Vittinghus to reach the 3rd round, only for Vittinghus to battle back in the 3rd game to win the all-Danish match up.
Joachim Persson had shown a return to form in recent months but the manner of his defeat to Lee Hyun Il is a worrying sign to the 11th seed as he crashed out tamely in the second round, losing 21-10, 21-9 in just 21 minutes. 2nd seed Simon Santoso has been nothing but impressive in reaching the last 16 with two victory with the loss of just 42 points to date. Spain's Pablo Abian is the pick of the unseeded Europeans left in the draw with a pair of good victories taking him to the last 16 where he will play Muhammad Hashim, the 9th seeded Malaysian.
Saina Nehwal didn't have to wait long to get another shot to defeat Eriko Hirose as the pair meet in the 3rd round this week, with both players coming through their opening matches in two games. Juliane Schenk is Newhal's main rival in the other half of the draw and has a tough second round match against Bae Sueng Hee of Korea. Ella Diehl is the biggest casualty of the opening round, with the 5th seed losing to Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying 21-9, 21-19. There is another Spanish story this week, this time with the European junior champion Carolina Marin who has progressed through qualifying and has reached the second round with a two game win over Nicole Grether.
Boe and Mogensen have continued in the form that won them their first All England title to set up a second round match against Bosch and Ridder of Holland in the second round. The strength of the men's doubles draw is very high, with Lee and Jung also playing this week and progressing to the second round with a three game win over Endo and Hayakawa of Japan. Ko and Yoo of Korea are the second seeds this week and are into the last 16 after winning their all-Korean first round match against Kim and Kim.
Top seeded Cheng and Chien are hoping that the lack of Chinese pairings in the women's doubles will improve their chances of success in Basel this week and have started with a two game victory in their opening round to set up a 2nd round match against Japan's Misaki and Takahashi. The 2nd seeds this week are Jauhari and Polii who take on England's White and Wallwork in the second round. The European challengers this week will be the 5th seeded Rytter Juhl and Pedersen, who take on Wang and Wang of America after their opening round triumph.
Lee Yong Dae is partnered up with a new female this week as the Korean squad try to find their best partnerships ahead of the Olympic qualification for London, Ha Jung Eun is partnering Lee Yong Dae this week and the 8th seeds start has been impressive, winning 21-10, 21-8 in their opening round match to set up a second round match against Valiyaveetil and Gutta of India. Chen and Cheng of Chinese Taipei are the top seeds this week and take on the Japanese pair of Ikeda and Shiota in round 2 after both won their opening round matches in two games. The main rival from the bottom half comes in the form of the 2nd seeded Wallwork and Robertson of England who defeated Kazuno and Takahashi in their opening round match to progress into the last 16.
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BYOD has been a perennial buzzword and we finally saw broad adoption of it last year with Gartner going so far as to predict a shift in BYOD policy from personal decision to company mandate by 2017. In conjunction with that adoption came growing pains—straining archaic enterprise infrastructure, services and policies as companies struggled to accommodate the new demands and dangers of managing an increasingly mobile workforce.
Now mobile has gone from an optional feature in the enterprise to a necessity for effective collaboration. Dramatic market shifts this year will drive the rise of the "mobile collaboration hub"—a user-centric platform under which document sharing, team collaboration, enterprise social networks, mobile device management and eventually intelligent, context awareness is housed.
With that in mind, here four key trends that will push the mobile workplace towards true productivity anytime, anywhere in 2014.
1. A shift from personal to team productivity: Many companies have allowed employees to bring their own devices but are reluctant to allow the full mobile access needed for teams to collaborate from wherever they may be.
However, true business value from worker mobility can't rely solely on individual workers and there are still major barriers preventing team-wide mobile collaboration and productivity. Barriers like the rise of rogue IT and insecure consumer content sharing apps leave company data in a dangerous place as employees choose productivity over strict adherence.
In fact, our report, "The High Cost of Mobile Business Users' Rogue IT Practices" found that 41%of workers have used an unauthorized cloud service despite the fact that upwards of 87% were well aware that their company had a policy strictly forbidding their actions. Thankfully, now that such perils are well known, and tools that provide secure team-wide mobile collaboration are available, this will be the year where companies can move from individual productivity to enterprise mobile team collaboration.
2. The evolution of ecosystems: Companies will also demand cross-ecosystem functionality in their collaboration platforms. As more vendors begin pushing their collaboration tools to be mobile-ready, the expectation is that similar announcements will surface to meet the demands of today's hyper-connected enterprise and mobile worker. The major move will be towards consolidating a host of apps into a single, user-centric interface so that mobile collaboration can take place under one contextually consistent roof.
3. Consumer breakthroughs driving mobile enterprise developments: Solutions like Dropbox for cloud services will drive companies to come up with user-friendly, enterprise-grade alternatives. Consumer apps cause extreme anxiety for large companies with sensitive data, but are so readily available and intuitive to the average worker that employees often can't resist. To combat this desire, consumer-like functionality will increasingly pop up in mobile enterprise apps and include the use of sensors along with near field communication (NFC) for exchanging business information.
4. The push for context to overcome the enterprise information glut: The mobile information glut will continue to worsen, and we will not see good consumer solutions this year. Pockets of products are good for reducing niche overload, but the flood of emails and social media updates will not subside. While companies and end users alike will advocate for change, only when contextual awareness becomes interoperable between cloud services will we see some relief. Context will become important for mobile apps, but the practical limitations on context such as how to cross-reference data will stall change.
Acknowledgement will become action as the growth of BYOD and mobility in the workplace will continue to rise. Companies stand to gain massive worker productivity through collaboration, but only if they solve the problems of shifting from personal to team productivity, creating cross-ecosystem functionality, fending off the allure of consumer appss and beginning a path toward consistent context. If enterprises can address these concerns, they will reap the benefits of anytime, anywhere mobile productivity and collaboration.


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Humanism is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion. Affirming the dignity of each human being, it supports liberty and opportunity consonant with social and planetary responsibility. Free of theism and other supernatural beliefs, humanism thus derives the goals of life from human need and interest rather than from theological or ideological abstractions, and asserts that humanity must take responsibility for its own destiny.
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I was in attendance at the June 10 City Council meeting. Sad to say it was a day of infamy. The City Council overrode the MPC to allow Larkin Development to continue developing property heretofore reserved for the future extension of Highway 3132 to the Port of Caddo-Bossier.
Because most citizens were unable to attend due to work, I will save you many pages of lawyer-speak to point out just a few things revealed in the meeting.
One gentleman revealed that two companies at the port send 1,000 trucks per month down this stretch. This is not counting the traveling trucks or the ones which will service ...


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Wind energy is considered as one of the most traditionally used forms of alternative green energy. Our application of wind energy went through an evolution through time, from simple sails for propulsion and navigation, to wind turbines that generate electricity for modern residential areas and communities.
Like any other type of energy, it also has its own advantages and disadvantages. Knowing these pros and cons is essential in helping us understand the true potential of wind energy, and if it would be strategically and economically viable for us to use it in a certain area or application.
Pros of Wind Turbines for the home
The principal foundation for most of the advantages of wind energy lies in the fact that it is a source of energy derived directly from the fluid kinetic energy of air, in much the same way as how hydroelectric energy depends on the kinetic energy given by flowing water.
Other basic advantages of wind turbines for the home are as follows:
- The energy generation process of wind turbines is 100% emission-free. This makes wind energy one of the greenest and cleanest kinds of energy that we can harness.
- Wind energy is completely renewable. Unlike biofuels that largely depend on harvestable crops and agricultural infrastructure, wind energy can simply be harvested indefinitely. The energy yield of wind turbines is potentially infinite.
- Operation can go on even if it is night or day. The greatest disadvantage of solar photovoltaic energy is that the panels could only operate when the sunshine is bright. Wind turbines however can keep on working even at night, and in fact, may work even better amidst some atmospheric phenomena such as storms.
- Wind turbines for the home usually occupy a smaller amount of space than standard power plants or solar arrays. You only need a few turbines placed at a technical distance from one another, and the land underneath and in between can still be used for other productive purposes.
Fundamentally, even if wind energy can be harnessed day or night, we are actually only capable of successfully harnessing it at optimal levels. This is the basic disadvantage of wind turbines for the home, as it would mean that there would always be a definite limit on its actual and practical efficiency.
Other related disadvantages of wind energy are:
- Wind is an unpredictable element. Even if wind turbines for the home can operate at night, if wind speeds are too low, it would not be able to generate the required amount of electric energy. This also means that wind turbine installations are impossible for some areas.
- The overall efficiency (economic and energy generation) of today's wind turbines is still low compared to nuclear and fossil fuel energy. Wind energy technology today is currently still far from the level of grid parity.
- Noises created by the wind turbine for the home can be disturbing to wildlife and to the people living in near the structures. The low frequency sounds that the rotating blades create might be the source of this problem.
- Birds might accidentally be killed by wind turbine blades. Although the occurrences are relatively rare, there are still quite a number of incidences each year. Because of this possibility, wrong wind turbine placement could ironically make it harmful to the environment.
Other pros and cons of wind energy are already somewhat generic in all of the other green energy sources. For example, while multiple installations are possible for renewable energy systems, widening the area used for the installation (wind turbines for the home in this case) could eventually have a negative impact on the environment.
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OHIODUCKA5 wrote:Locked&Loaded wrote:OHIODUCKA5 wrote:Locked&Loaded wrote:OHIODUCKA5 wrote:jaysweet3 wrote:The divers were all up in this place last weekend. I only had a cheep set of field glasses, but we had the mixed bag. There was a heard of about two thousand; cans, redhead, bluebill, and I'm sure ring neck. All coming and going throughout the day.
I will kill a Can this year if I have to go to the ends of Lake Erie to do it
Come out west between mid Oct and mid Nov and we'll kill a few cans.
Don't toy with my emotions
I generally kill half a dozen or so every year. They are here in huge numbers for a limited time each season, usually only about 4 or 5 weeks and then they are gone. The ones I kill very, very rarely decoy in, but rather pass right over the decoys going mach 3. Fun stuff.
I want one bad
Here is a common mixed bag type of shoot we get here in Oct-Nov. What all can ya see in that pile?


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[991] Recurrent Chromosomal Aberrations in Specialized Stromal Tumors of the Prostate Detected by Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization
Chin-Chen Pan, Jonathan I Epstein. Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
Background: Specialized stromal tumors of the prostate encompass stromal sarcoma and stromal tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP). These are neoplasms with unique local morbidity and malignant potential. However, the molecular signature associated with stromal sarcoma and STUMP has not been unraveled. The study was conducted to detect the chromosomal imbalances in stromal sarcoma and STUMP by using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH).
Design: The study consisted of 2 cases of stromal nodule, 7 cases of STUMP (4 degenerative type, 1 hypercellular type, 2 myxoid type) and 4 cases of stromal sarcoma including a distant metastasis developed metachronously after a primary stromal sarcoma of the prostate. DNA was extracted from the representative paraffin-embedded formalin-fixed specimens and was submitted for aCGH.
Results: All stromal sarcomas and 6 of 7 STUMP revealed chromosomal aberrations. One myxoid type of STUMP and the 2 stromal nodules showed normal chromosome copy numbers. Overall, the most common alteration was loss of chromosome 13 (9 cases), followed by loss of chromosome 14 (8 cases) and loss of chromosome 10q (6 cases). Sporadic losses were found in chromosomes 16, 20p (each 3 cases) and 4q, 5, 6, 9, 11 (each 2 cases), and gains on chromosomes 19 and 21 (each 2 cases). Except one stromal sarcoma which showed a distinct chromosomal profile, other stromal sarcomas showed a similar pattern to those of STUMP.
Conclusions: Stromal sarcoma and STUMP shared similar profiles of chromosomal imbalances (mainly losses of chromosomes 10p, 13 and 14). From a molecular genetic perspective, the recurrent chromosomal alterations support the concept of specialized stromal tumors of the prostate as a distinctive tumor entity.
Category: Genitourinary (including renal tumors)
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HETTY'S SONG, The Death of the Skylark has now joined my two previously published books -- The Sotweed Smuggler and Dear Mama, Love Sarah -- in print.
Now it's your choice. Either e-book Kindle or soft cover Print.
See reviews posted on Amazon.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
The Gulf Coast (Houston) has precious few really blue days. Summer
is so humid, the clouds heavy and the blues paled, but when the humidity
drops and the temps sit nicely in the 70's and 80's, we enjoy some of the
bluest skies you'll ever see.
We know not to expect the multi-red and orange colored leaves
of New England, frosty Colorado mountain peaks rising in the distance,
or rushing water gurgling over round river rocks. As the season
develops, seldom do we have snowflakes larger than the barest of
imagination, and the thinnest skin of ice sends motorists
skidding and school children home. Anemic snowmen are few
and far between.
But we do have marvelous weeds. Lady Bird Johnson would
cringe at this description, but in our yards we sometimes forget
that some of these nature-provided wonders are bonafide wild
For my memory-challenged Alz husband Bob to press
in a remembrance book, we gathered nine different yard flowers:
flame-red hammili, deep pink knock-out roses, multicolored
yellow, orange, pink and blue "squirrel-planted" lantana,
rosy-red impatiens, a tiny yellow (no name) flower dodging the mower,
lavender wandering jew, rustic red shrimp plant, iridescent purple
bougainvillea, and blue white-mouth dayflowers. A large yellow and
purple globe droops from the banana trees, and a strange yellow
elongated bloom hides within the large cut leaves of the
philodendron plant shadowing the pond. New this year are
entire fields of goldenrod along the neighboring road to the highway.
So I have a pretty picture for you. Imagine the cloud-free blue,
blue sky, a field of golden goldenrod and a smattering of the
blue dayflower, the latter a small orchid shaped bloom the color
of the sky. Tallow tree leaf disks are the closest to turn to autumn
colors and float midst the leaves and seed pods that have fallen
from the mimosa tree into the koi pond providing a playground
for skirtering and swishing orange koi gasping for air and playing
peek-a-boo under the leaves. Blue dragonflies, sometimes coupled
into twos, dip and flutter between the overgrown arrow root
water plants. Across the fence, a pecan or two thump to the
ground arousing two scurrying squirrels under the watch of a
mockingbird and scolded by a blue jay.
Now add a soft lounge pillow, a generous application of
mosquito repellant, a good book, and a glass of chardonnay --
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Alzheimer's victims need to keep their mind occupied,
otherwise you can't imagine the mischief they can and
will get into.
will get into.
Throughout the disease's progression, some of the mind
stays in the real world. Problem is, we don't know
which part. A bored, agitated patient is more than unpleasant
to handle, so its worth the effort to try to keep
them active at least in the first couple of developmental
stages. Don't look for perfection--just busy hands.
So far, I've had some limited luck with
1) Pasting family pictures in picture albums.
2) Organizing a coin collection (This has limitations if
they think they can get rich by selling
the coins.)
3) Keeping a calendar of appointments/activities
4) Playing Scrabble with himself (spelling doesn't count)
5) Writing short stories (or a few lines) about what he
sees in pictures.
6) Looking at bird and flower books, to use with
adult coloring books (Avail through
Any other ideas???
Saturday, August 16, 2014
After a hiatus from writing for six months tending to the early
medical needs of my husband, I'm settling in and blocking
time for writing. I've missed my friends at my writers' group,
book clubs and stitchery group.
I' M EXCITED -- I'm ten chapters in a new project and
my muse is going wild. Some writers hate the research part of
writing a novel, others get started and can't quit gathering stories,
events and ideas. (I'm in the latter group.)
The title of my new story is "THE TIDEWATCHERS" (circa 1760)
which begins with a young lad's experience in Wales watching his
Quaker mother tied to a stake in the bay at low tide and drowning
with other persecuted Quakers when the high tide rolled in. The vicar,
who ordered the persecution, becomes the boy's enemy and his
retaliation and misery lead him to runaway to London to become
a member of a body snatchers gang servicing cadavers to the famous
London medical community. To avoid prison, he indentures himself,
coming to America to become a Baptist minister settling in Kentucky.
Through thick and thin, he has one friend, his dog, Vundermutt.
Thought I would share some interesting items my research turned up.
· The death by tidal drowning began in early Egypt,
spreading across Europe and Great Britain for the
persecution of non-conformist religious
believers. (Most often Mennonites and Quakers).
· Barber-surgeons were medical practitioners who
picked lice from a person's head, trimmed and
shaved beards, extracted teeth, performed
minor surgical procedures and bloodletting.
· A barber pole (the red and white striped symbol
for barbering as we know it) was symbolic:
The 1780 barber poles had a brass ball at its top
where leeches were kept, and a basin at the bottom
to receive the patient's blood. The pole itself was
used for the patient to grip during bloodletting to
bulge the location of the veins. The red and white
strips represented the bloodied and clean bandages
which were washed and hung to dry outside the shop.
The wind twisted the bandages together creating
the spiral patterns we see today on barber poles.
(Ref: Wonders and Marvels.com)
· The town of Stoke on Trent was actually a
combination of six communities banded together for
mutual interests and trade.
The Town of Towcester was one of the oldest Roman
towns and was noted then as now for the manufacture
of china and dinnerware. Go to any
department store and likely the origin of the
companies displaying china was Towcester, England.
· For several generations, body snatching was an
accepted and profitable business for medical and anatomy
schools. However the practice became corrupted by gangs,
and body snatching from ill-repute hospitals and graves
became subject to arrest and deportation. Accusations
of murder in order to harvest a dead body was quite
If any of my readers have information or interests during this
time period, I'd love to correspond with you.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
ALZHEIMERS -- A Demon on a Scooter
Four years ago when my husband, Bob,
lost his mobility to drive a car, he found the
thrill of driving at our local Randall's
store: The in-store scooter! His second
favorite hobby was eating so what better
match than going grocery shopping on a
The Randall's store is on the way to
the YMCA where I exercise during
the week, so it was a natural for Bob to be dropped off while I went to exercise and then I picked him back up on my
way home. He soon became friends with the Randall's
Store personnel--Max and Martho who would see him
coming and get his scooter ready, Pam and Jan who checked
him out often chiding him cheerfully on groceries not on
his sugar-free diet. If he forgot his pin number for his debit
card, it was no problem for Pam and Jan to process a credit.
Other employees who'd find him lost helped him on his way.
Another signature attraction was the "coffee bar" where he'd
get his cinnamon latte (and frequently sneak a sweet treat.) He
was "Bob" to everyone and they all seemed to know when he
was in their store.
Soon an hour was not enough, particularly after he patronized
the coffee bar. Without much difficulty, he could spend two or
three hours in the store. Going to Randalls was the highlight of
his week.
As his Alzheimers advanced, he no longer read labels nor
stayed true to his grocery list. I began to be there before he
checked out, and re-shelve items not sugar-free and/or not
needed. When this became excessive, I would stay with him,
splitting the list and meeting him at the check-out counter.
There came a time when he could no longer read labels or
"find" the items on the list. Sometimes "sweets" were the only
items in his basket. My returning items to the shelves began to
bring on bursts of Alzheimer's temper, and he wandered the
store at random on the scooter.
Although his continuation of going to Randalls is tenuous at best,
I cannot express adequately my disappointment that this phase
of his life is ending.
The kindness of strangers is not lost in America. Whether offering
to help load groceries or reaching for an items from the shelf,
many good and sensitive people helped make his "job" possible
for over three years.
To Randalls (Karl, its manager), Jan, Pam, Max and Martho
and all the others--a mere thank you is not enough. I hope
they know what a contribution they made to an elderly gentlemen
who loved to shop!
Saturday, July 26, 2014
REVIEWERS have found HETTY'S SONG, The Death of the Skylark
to be a captivating heart-felt story of a young girl making the journey
from despair to triumph.
late Victorian era when women's options were limited,
particularly Hetty's because her family's religious
background was very male dominated. Hetty's desire
to sing dominates the story line. She escapes her
stringent background & makes her way to the big city
& fame. Along the way she has many challenges.
The story line runs full circle & she is a survivor.
From start to finish, I couldn't put the book down."
to be a captivating heart-felt story of a young girl making the journey
from despair to triumph.
late Victorian era when women's options were limited,
particularly Hetty's because her family's religious
background was very male dominated. Hetty's desire
to sing dominates the story line. She escapes her
stringent background & makes her way to the big city
& fame. Along the way she has many challenges.
The story line runs full circle & she is a survivor.
From start to finish, I couldn't put the book down."
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
PILGER, NEBRASKA, Small Town, Big Memories
The town of Pilger, a small village near Humbug Creek, in
Stanton County was largely destroyed on the afternoon of
June 16, 2014. However, the memories of Pilger and of my family
roots can never be destroyed by a tornado. Growing up in
Nebraska, tornados were a rather common threat, but often
limited to small, open farm areas. But wind storms came each
summer. As a child, I remember the heaviness of a searing,
hot afternoon, the dead ominous silence while leadened storm
clouds formed and turned black,and the hurried escape to the
outside cave before the circling wind tore down trees in our
cottonwood grove. On one occasion in the late 1940's, the
neighboring town of Winside was hit especially hard and I
remember seeing bathtubs in the field and stalks of corn penetrating
clear through telephone poles.
summer. As a child, I remember the heaviness of a searing,
hot afternoon, the dead ominous silence while leadened storm
clouds formed and turned black,and the hurried escape to the
outside cave before the circling wind tore down trees in our
cottonwood grove. On one occasion in the late 1940's, the
neighboring town of Winside was hit especially hard and I
remember seeing bathtubs in the field and stalks of corn penetrating
clear through telephone poles.
Pilger is special to me. It is where my grandfather and
great grandfather are buried. It is where on Decoration Day
(yes, that's what we used to call Memorial Day), my extended
family drove from Wayne and gathered in the Pilger
Cemetery placing on their graves large red peonies and multicolored
bearded irises, which we worried would bloom in time
for the occasion. While older folks placed their memorials
and remembered, my cousins and I roamed the graveyard,
tangling sky-blue buffalo beans into long strings of necklaces.
My great grandfather, Cephas Ellis, farmed near Humbug
Creek, but loved best fishing in the Missouri River. It was
here, he, a converted Quaker, carried on his own lay ministry
and earned the affectionate title, Father Ellis. It was here
Gr Grandma baked those so-good cookies and believed that
God intervened and saved her husband from a broken ice floe
in the Missouri River when bringing their son's family from Iowa
to Nebraska during an especially frigid January.
Grandpa Charlie Ellis owned a livery barn, a gathering place
for boasting, carrying on local gossip, and hearing the latest
news. Now, you have to understand, Charlie (I was old enough
to remember him) was a special Charlie--a bronco rider, and
teller of great stories when the Indians inhabited the great prairies.
He wouldn't have been Grandpa if he didn't fish at Two-Bit
lake and crank home-made ice cream. He made for my sister and
me a special fishing pole from a broomstick, eye screws,
me a special fishing pole from a broomstick, eye screws,
and an old reel to use during our annual fishing trips to
Park Rapids and Bemidji Minnesota lakes. There was something
special about this fishing pole--it attracted bullheads better than
my brother's store-bought pole. Grandpa with loving patience
and with copper twisted above his forearm to take the pain from
rheumatism, cared for my grandmother through years of debilitating
illness. He was a man of good humor and extraordinary kindness.
Over the years, there have been many coincidences where I have
been reminded of my Nebraska roots. In the 1960's my husband
and I moved cross country to Delaware. As it turned out, our new
next door neighbors were from Stanton, Nebraska. Although I'd found
extensive Quaker records of Ellis's, during my early genealogy research
I was at a brick wall needing to discover the identity of my great
grandfather. My brother returning home to Broken Bow happened to
stop by the Pilger cemetery where he found Cephas Ellis RIP waiting
to be discovered.
My brother, celebrating his 84th birthday this year, has lived most of
his adult life in Broken Bow. My Nebraska nieces and nephews frequent
Facebook and generously share their families and activities. The Pilger
Centennial Book published in 1987 has been a genealogist's dream.
The church organist in Sugar Land Methodist is from the same area in
Nebraska. And wherever Nebraskans congregate, the by-gone feats
of Saint Tom Osborn and the return of good fortune for the Big Red
Nebraska football team is to be forever hoped for.
Nebraska. And wherever Nebraskans congregate, the by-gone feats
of Saint Tom Osborn and the return of good fortune for the Big Red
Nebraska football team is to be forever hoped for.
My thoughts, prayers, and best wishes for the victims of the Pilger tornado
are in my heart. God Bless!
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