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Nov. 27, 2015, 2:15 PM
- Gold prices fell to their lowest level in more than five years today, heading towards $1,000/oz. as funds liquidate positions on rising expectations of Fed interest rate hikes next month.
- Gold fell as much as 2% to hit a low of $1,052/oz. before settling 1.3% lower at $1,056.20/oz. on Comex following six straight weeks of losses, while silver also slipped more than 1% to approach six year lows; conversely, the dollar hit an eight-month high.
- Gold and silver mutual funds and ETFs suffered $1B in outflows in the week ended Nov. 25, the most in 17 weeks, according to BofA Merrill chief investment strategist Micheal Harnett.
- With November's jobs report coming next Friday, "next week is going to be pivotal" for the gold market, says Julius Baer analyst Carsten Menke, who also cautions that a reversal in sentiment was unlikely.
- ETFs: GLD, SLV, GDX, NUGT, IAU, AGQ, GGN, PSLV, DUST, SIL, PHYS, USLV, SIVR, SGOL, ZSL, UGL, GLDX, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, SLVO, GLDI, SGDM, DSLV, ASA, OUNZ, SLVP, DGL, DBS, DGZ, RING, DGLD, PSAU, USV, TGLDX, GEUR, UBG, GYEN
Nov. 27, 2015, 5:29 AM
- Gold is hovering close to its lowest level in nearly six years, weakened by strength in the dollar, expectations of a U.S. rate hike next month and news of lower gold imports into China.
- If the decline holds, the yellow metal will record its sixth consecutive week of losses, the longest such streak since August.
- Bullion for immediate delivery -0.6% at $1,063.30.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Nov. 23, 2015, 5:28 AM
- Crude continued to drop further on Monday, as part of a wider decline in commodity prices and renewed concerns of oversupply with OPEC likely to ramp up output at its next meeting on Dec. 4.
- "Oil prices may drop to as low as the mid-$20s a barrel unless OPEC takes action to stabilize the market," Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino declared.
- The slump is also heavily biting into industrial and precious metals: Copper is now below $4,500 a metric ton for the first time since 2009, nickel lost more than 5% to its lowest level since 2003, zinc is down 4.2%, and gold is 0.7% lower at $1069 an ounce.
- Crude futures -3% to $40.63/bbl.
- ETFs: GLD, USO, OIL, IAU, UCO, PHYS, UWTI, SCO, SGOL, BNO, DBO, UGL, DWTI, DGP, GTU, GLL, JJC, DTO, UGLD, DZZ, USL, GLDI, COPX, OUNZ, CU, DGL, DNO, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, JJN, OLO, SZO, GEUR, CPER, UBG, GYEN, OLEM, NINI, CUPM, QGLDX
Nov. 20, 2015, 10:41 AM
- A Fed interest rate hike in December could knock back the price of gold to ~$1,000/oz., Gold Fields (GFI -3.1%) CEO Nick Holland tells Creamer Media after the company's share price soared 29% in Johannesburg for its best single day of trading since 1999.
- The uncertainty around a rate increase has played havoc with the gold price in recent weeks, but Holland says long-term fundamentals for gold remain positive, based on projections of inadequate supply; "It doesn't matter what we do now as an industry, a supply fall-off is inevitable," the CEO says.
- "Is it three years of pain, four years, five years? We don't know, but we're in a long-term business and we can't take decisions for one year," Holland said after GFI reported improved Q3 earnings and higher net cash flow to cut net debt to 1.4x EBITDA.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, UBG
Nov. 17, 2015, 12:24 PM
- With equity investors back to the business of buying low and selling high, the Fed prepped for a rate hike, and dollar strength continuing, the gold bid is disappearing.
- A 1.5% decline today to $1,066 per ounce has brought the yellow metal to its lowest level in six years. GLD -1.4%
- Gold is lower by 18% since an early 2015 rally took it all the way past $1,300 per ounce.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Nov. 16, 2015, 9:52 AM
- The month isn't over yet, and outflows from precious metals ETFS have already topped $1B, according to Bloomberg. The funds haven't seen net outflows for a full month since July (when they lost $1.6B). Net inflows from August to September were a relative trickle.
- Unsurprisingly, the outflows have occurred amid a promise of tighter monetary policy, a stronger dollar, and a sizable decline in the price of gold.
- It's not just the yellow metal: Platinum futures are down for 12 straight sessions - their longest losing streak since 2002. Palladium prices fell 12% last week, the largest weekly decline in four years. Sliver has been in the red for four straight weeks.
- ETFs: AGQ, USLV, PALL, PPLT, ZSL, UGL, DGP, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, DSLV, DGL, DBS, DGZ, PTM, DGLD, DBP, PGM, USV, JJP, UBG, BLNG
Nov. 12, 2015, 9:59 AM
- Down nearly 1% on the session just minutes ago, gold has recouped all of the days losses and more in the space of a few bars, now up 0.1% to $1,086 per ounce. GLD +0.15%
- The move comes amid sloppy action in stocks - with futures moving from near flat to about half a percent lower just ahead of the open. In early action, the S&P 500 is down by 0.5%, the Nasdaq by 0.6%, and DJIA by 0.8%.
- Earlier, Mario Draghi promised more QE, if needed, and the Fed's Jim Bullard promised a rate hike. In her opening remarks at a conference, Janet Yellen doesn't touch on the subject.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Oct. 29, 2015, 9:38 AM
- The timing of session endings makes it seem like gold is lower by 2% today, but the entirety of that decline occurred in the minutes following the release of the FOMC's policy statement at 2 ET yesterday.
- The Fed left ZIRP in place at this month's meeting, but gave no indication it's backing off a rate hike at the next get-together in six weeks.
- Gold fell from over $1,175 per ounce to under $1,155 after the statement. It since has tried to muster a bounce, but that failed. The current price is $1,153.
- Previously: Stocks and gold lower, yields and dollar higher after FOMC (Oct. 28)
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
- The action in silver (SLV -1.6%) is nearly identical.
- ETFs: SLV, AGQ, PSLV, USLV, SIVR, ZSL, SLVO, DSLV, DBS, USV
Oct. 28, 2015, 2:18 PM
- The FOMC did the expected and left ZIRP in place for at least another six weeks, but markets for now are reading something hawkish into the news.
- Up modestly ahead of the release, stocks have now turned lower, and gold has given up its session gains.
- The 10-year Treasury yield has tacked on another three basis points, now up six bps for the day at 2.10%, and the dollar has gone from unchanged to up 0.55%.
- ETFs: SPY, SH, TBT, TLT, SSO, SDS, VOO, UUP, IVV, UPRO, SPXU, TMV, SPXL, RSP, SPXS, UDN, UGL, TBF, DGP, GLL, UGLD, RWL, EDV, EPS, DZZ, TMF, TTT, VFINX, ZROZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, TLH, SBND, VGLT, UBT, BXUB, FORX, DLBS, USDU, TLO, SPLX, UBG, SFLA, BXUC, TENZ, LBND, SPUU, DLBL, TYBS, VUSTX, LLSP, RYARX
Oct. 23, 2015, 7:42 AM
- The PBOC just cut rates across the board, along with the reserve requirement ratio for banks, sending U.S. stock index futures sharply higher.
- Also moving is gold - flat before the news, and now up 1.1% to $1,179. Flat as well ahead of the news, oil is up 0.7% to $45.71 per barrel.
- Modestly lower a few minutes ago, the dollar (UUP, UDN) is now a bit higher on the session.
- The 10-year Treasury yield has jumped five basis points to 2.08%. TLT -0.9% premarket
- ETFs: GLD, USO, OIL, IAU, UCO, PHYS, UWTI, SCO, SGOL, BNO, DBO, UGL, DWTI, DGP, GTU, GLL, DTO, UGA, UGLD, DZZ, USL, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DNO, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, UHN, OLO, SZO, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, OLEM, QGLDX
Oct. 22, 2015, 11:18 AM
- A rip may not be the best term to describe the move, but gold has poked its head to $1,170 per ounce after dipping below $1K in late July and early August.
- Though down slightly on the year, the yellow metal is doing a heck of a lot better than pretty much every other commodity.
- The move higher of late, says Goldman, is due to reduced expectations for Fed rate hikes and sizable increases in Chinese official purchases in Q3. Still, Goldman's base case is for a December Fed boost of 25 basis points followed by another 100 basis points next year. The timing may be in question, but highr real rates generally aren't good for gold.
- "A plausible range of scenarios all imply lower gold prices," concludes the team.
- Gold is flat on today's session.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Oct. 22, 2015, 3:34 AM
- Gold has recaptured its shine in recent months, but that doesn't change the cloudy outlook for the precious metal over the longer-term, warns Goldman Sachs, which sees prices falling to $1,000 in 12 months as the Fed normalizes monetary policy.
- The yellow metal has rallied almost 8% since mid-July reflecting a reduction in expectations for a U.S. rate hike in 2015, a spike in global equity market volatility and lower U.S. long-term real rates. It's currently trading at $1,168 an ounce.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Oct. 15, 2015, 4:14 AM
- Gold prices held overnight gains and are heading higher for a fifth day, as a weaker dollar and soft U.S. economic figures add to expectations the Fed will delay a rate hike in 2015.
- Investors are now looking ahead to U.S. data on consumer prices for further indications on the direction of interest rates.
- Analysts expect the headline CPI to fall by 0.2% for the month, but anticipate that the core reading will inch up 0.1% from its level in August.
- Gold +0.5% to $1,185.60 per ounce.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Oct. 14, 2015, 2:26 PM
- Gold settles at three-and-a-half month highs, rallying $14.50 (+1.2%) to $1180/oz., as soft U.S. economic data and concerns over deflationary pressures in China add to expectations the Fed will delay any interest rate increases.
- Gold is gaining more ground in electronic trading after the Fed Beige Book release.
- The yellow metal's eighth gain in nine sessions has sent the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD +1.5%) past its 200-day moving average, and gold miners have ripped higher, as evidenced by this month's 18% gain in the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX +5.6%).
- Top mining stocks including Barrick Gold (ABX +7.9%), Goldcorp (GG +8.5%), Kinross Gold (KGC +8.3%), Gold Fields (GFI +5.4%), Newmont Mining (NEM +5.4%), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM +5.7%), Silver Wheaton (SLW +6.8%), Yamana Gold (AUY +6.7%), Franco Nevada (FNV +5%), Randgold (GOLD +4.8%) and AngloGold (AU +5.6%) are all sharply higher.
- Other ETFs: NUGT, AGQ, GGN, DUST, SIL, USLV, ZSL, UGL, GLDX, DGP, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, SLVO, GLDI, SGDM, DSLV, ASA, SLVP, DGL, DBS, DGZ, RING, DGLD, PSAU, USV, TGLDX, GEUR, UBG, GYEN
Oct. 14, 2015, 3:46 AM
- Hitting fresh three-month highs, Gold is extending gains to a fourth straight session, bolstered by a weaker dollar, concerns about earnings season and a delay to a Fed rate hike.
- Weak China data today, along with yesterday's comments from Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo, have investors further doubting a rate increase in 2015.
- The yellow metal is now up 0.8% to $1,175.10 an ounce - its highest level since July 6.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
Oct. 12, 2015, 4:24 AM
- Gold has climbed to a seven-week high bolstered by a weaker dollar and continuing expectations the Fed won't hike interest rates in 2015.
- "Markets are continuing to price in doubt about a Fed rate hike in December despite Vice Chairman Fischer's weekend comments," said Ric Spooner, chief analyst at CMC Markets.
- The yellow metal gained as much as 0.9% to $1,166.80 an ounce, the highest since August 24, following a 1.6% advance in the previous session.
- ETFs: GLD, IAU, PHYS, SGOL, UGL, DGP, GTU, GLL, UGLD, DZZ, GLDI, OUNZ, DGL, DGZ, DGLD, AGOL, GEUR, UBG, GYEN, QGLDX
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Kanye West is addressing anti-Semitic accusations following controversial comments he made in a recent radio interview.
Last month, Kim Kardashian's other half said during an interview with Power 105 while talking about President Barack Obama, "Black people don't have the same level of connections as Jewish people. Black people don't have the same connection as oil people."
After the interview, Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman called out West, saying, "This is classic anti-Semitism. There it goes again, the age-old canard that Jews are all-powerful and control the levers of power in government. As a celebrity with a wide following, Kanye West should know better."
Now, the 36-year-old rapper is finally addressing the controversy.
"I really don't like that people, in all the interviews I've been doing lately or recently, there's so much motivation, inspiration and insight, and what they'll do is they'll just take this one sound bite that sounds the most awkward in a way," West told Chicago's B96 this week.
"Also, I think there was another statement," West said, referencing the anti-Semitic comments, adding, "I thought that I was giving a compliment, but if anything, it came off more ignorant. When I said this comment about Jews having money and blacks not having money, I think that it was kind of like an ignorant compliment. I think it was an ignorant compliment."
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Camp Mariposas (Camp Butterflies) received a $500 MPCA grant to support the camp, which is based on Peace Corps' Camp GLOW. The camp took place during the first week of March 2014 and 24 women from three different communities were able to participate. Participants attended workshops and training on leadership and empowerment, building and maintaining healthy relationships, reproductive health, education opportunities and goal-setting among others. Upon return to their communities, the young women worked together to start community clubs to further educate their communities and teach what they learned during the camp. For more information and updates, please visit facebook.com/campmariposas.
In May 2013, MPCA donated $500 to volunteer Tim Filipa (a volunteer from Fort Atkinson) and his project to build a new library for his school in Vanuatu. Tim has since completed his Peace Corps service and has emailed us an update on the work that was done for the project. See his email below:
Dear Milwaukee Peace Corps Association:
I am writing to thank you for your important contribution to the new library at Brenwei Primary School on the island of Malekula. After starting construction in October 2012, I am pleased to say that the building has been completed and the library was opened to the public on November 25, 2013.
Everyone at Brenwei School is very excited and proud of this new addition to the community and are thankful for your vital contribution. Thanks to your help, this library, the first in school or community history, is likely the largest library in the entire province and one of the largest in all of Vanuatu. With your help the students and staff now have access to a variety of books and educational resources that few schools in the country have.
Thank you very much.
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The Milwaukee Peace Corps Association is pleased to offer the Sargent Shriver Award for Community Service and Volunteerism. The annual award was created in 2011 by the MPCA in honor of Sargent Shriver, founding director of the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1966. The award recognizes Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in southeast Wisconsin who have demonstrated a commitment to community service and improving their community through volunteer work.
This year's award will be presented to Milwaukee County Treasurer, Dan Diliberti. Diliberti and his wife, Ann, served in the Peace Corps in Chile from 1969-71, where they helped build houses and community centers. They followed that by volunteering with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in 1972, working for community organizations on Milwaukee's south side. This award is the latest for him in a long list of honors, awards and citations from neighborhood organizations, councils, business clubs, and state and local government recognizing his enduring commitment to volunteerism and public service.
Before his election as Milwaukee County Treasurer in 2005, Diliberti represented Milwaukee's 8th District for 12 years, serving as Chair of the Parks, Finance and Intergovernmental Relations committees, and Vice-Chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. He has also served on the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (1994-2004); as staff member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors (1984-1991); Director of the Inner City Development Project – South (1980-1983); and Director of Campus and Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) (1977-1979).
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The International Learning Center, a program of Neighborhood House of Milwaukee, would like to thank the Milwaukee Peace Corps Association for its donation of $500.00. This funding enabled us to take three field trips. This support helped with the following outcomes:
On February 7, 126 adult participants and 7 preschoolers went to the Mitchell Park Domes. Learners enjoyed seeing familiar plants from their homes in Africa and Southeast Asia. Most participants had never visited the Domes before, so this was an opportunity for them to learn about a place they can bring their families in Milwaukee.
On March 4, 56 adult participants and 3 children and preschool went to Neighborhood House's maple sugar farm in Ashipun, WI. Neighborhood House's outdoor educators helped the participants through the process of tapping the trees, collecting sap, making it into syrup, and of course eating it! They also hiked and enjoyed sledding in the woods.
On March 30, 111 adult participants and 12 preschoolers went to the Central Milwaukee Public Library. They toured the library and learned about the check-out process. The preschoolers played in the puppet theater, climbed in the play tower and listened to the instructor read books.
Dear MPCA,
I want to report that your grant to the Liberian Assistance Program (LAP) has been spent! We regret that it took us so long to complete the project you funded. As you may recall, you gave LAP $300 in the fall of 2009 to build chairs for the new Barack Obama school that we are building and supporting in Cow Field, Liberia.
We had expected the project to be completed earlier, but the principal suggested we delay building the desks until he had the doors and windows on the school, so he could secure the desks safely in the building. That sounded sensible to us. Now, more than 100 desks have been completed (each desk costs $15 for the materials and construction that is done in the village). The remainder of the desks will be built in the next few months. I am enclosing photos of some of the desks with children sitting in them, plus a couple of photos of the school.
In addition to your grant, we also received funding for the desks from the Friends of Liberia and the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of WI-Madison.
We had hoped the school would open last fall, but we delayed it to the fall of 2011, since our principal wanted everything to be in place before opening the doors. The building was completed in March, but we are still in the midst of furnishing it with textbooks, the rest of the desks, a water pump, etc.
The president of the Friends of Liberia visited the principal and the school just last month and was impressed with the progress and gave us some good suggestions for moving ahead.
We feel very fortunate to be working with the principal, Jessie Kekula, a student of mine when I served in the Peace Corps in Liberia in 1964-66. We also feel fortunate to have two members of our advisory committee living in Monrovia, Liberia - Lyn and Jim Gray, former Peace Corps volunteers in Liberia. As the school has been built, Lyn goes over the expenses with Jessie, after each $2,000 has been spent.
Again, we very much appreciate your help with the desks. If anyone in your group expects to travel to Liberia, we would hope he or she might stop to see the Barack Obama School in Cow Field, just outside of Monrovia. I think you would feel proud to be a part of this project, completed by a former student of a Peace Corps volunteer.
Judy Reed, Chair, Liberian Assistance Program
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Nibrin, also known as NBN or Nbs1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the NBN gene.[1][2][3]
Nibrin is a protein associated with the repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) which pose serious damage to a genome. It is a 754 amino acid protein identified as a member of the NBS1/hMre11/RAD50(N/M/R, more commonly referred to as MRN) double strand DNA break repair complex.[4] This complex recognizes DNA damage and rapidly relocates to DSB sites and forms nuclear foci. It also has a role in regulation of N/M/R (MRN) protein complex activity which includes end-processing of both physiological and mutagenic DNA double strand breaks (DSBs).[5]
Cellular response to DSBs[edit]
Cellular response is performed by damage sensors, effectors of lesion repair and signal transduction. The central role is carried out by ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) by activating the DSB signaling cascade, phosphorylating downstream substrates such as histone H2AX and NBS1. NBS1 relocates to DSB sites by interaction of FHA/BRCT domains with phosphorylated histone H2AX. Once it interacts with nibrin c-terminal hMre11-binding domain, hMre11 and hRad50 relocate from the cytoplasm to the nucleus then to sites of DSBs. They finally relocate to N/M/R where they form the foci at the site of damage.[6]
Double strand breaks (DSBs)[edit]
DSBs occur during V(D)J recombination during early B and T cell development. This is at the point when the cells of the immune system are developing and the DSBs effect the development of lymphoid cells. DSBs also occur in immunoglobulin class switch in mature B cells.[5] More frequently, however, DSBs are caused by mutagenic agents like radiomimetic chemicals and ionizing radiation(IR).
DSB mutations[edit]
As mentioned, DSBs cause extreme damage to DNA. Mutations that cause defective repair of DSBs tend to accumulate un-repaired DSBs. One such mutation is associated with Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), a radiation hyper-sensitive disease.[7] It is a rare inherited autosomal recessive condition of chrosomal instability. It has been linked to mutations within exons 6-10 in the NBS1 gene which results in a truncated protein.[5] Characteristics of NBS include microcephaly, cranial characteristics, growth retardation, impaired sexual maturation, immunodeficiency/recurring infections and a predisposition to cancer. This predisposition to cancer may be linked to the DSBs occurring at the development of lymphoid cells.
Two adult siblings, both heterozygous for two particular NBS1 nonsense mutations displayed cellular sensitivity to radiation, chromosome instability and fertility defects, but not the developmental defects that are typically found in other NBS patients.[8] These individuals appear to be primarily defective in homologous recombination, a process that accurately repairs double-strand breaks, both in somatic cells and during meiosis.
Orthologs of NBS1 have been studied in mice[9] and the plant arabidopsis.[10] NBS1 mutant mice display cellular radiation sensitivity and female mice are sterile due to oogenesis failure.[9] Studies of NBS1 mutants in Arabidopsis revealed that NBS1 has a role in recombination during early stages of meiosis.[10]
NBS1 over-expression in cancer[edit]
NBS1 has a role in microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) repair of double strand breaks. It is one of 6 enzymes required for this error prone DNA repair pathway.[11] NBS1 is over-expressed in some prostate cancers,[12] in head and neck cancer,[13] and in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity.[14]
Cancers are very often deficient in expression of one or more DNA repair genes, but over-expression of a DNA repair gene is less usual in cancer. For instance, at least 36 DNA repair enzymes, when mutationally defective in germ line cells, cause increased risk of cancer (hereditary cancer syndromes).[15] (Also see DNA repair-deficiency disorder.) Similarly, at least 12 DNA repair genes have frequently been found to be epigenetically repressed in one or more cancers.[15] (See also Epigenetically reduced DNA repair and cancer.) Ordinarily, deficient expression of a DNA repair enzyme results in increased un-repaired DNA damages which, through replication errors (translesion synthesis), lead to mutations and cancer. However, NBS1 mediated MMEJ repair is highly inaccurate, so in this case, over-expression, rather than under-expression, apparently leads to cancer.
Nibrin has been shown to interact with:
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- ^ Varon R, Vissinga C, Platzer M, Cerosaletti KM, Chrzanowska KH, Saar K, Beckmann G, Seemanová E, Cooper PR, Nowak NJ, Stumm M, Weemaes CM, Gatti RA, Wilson RK, Digweed M, Rosenthal A, Sperling K, Concannon P, Reis A (May 1998). "Nibrin, a novel DNA double-strand break repair protein, is mutated in Nijmegen breakage syndrome". Cell 93 (3): 467–76. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81174-5. PMID 9590180.
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- ^ Molecular Biology
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- ^ a b Waterworth WM, Altun C, Armstrong SJ, Roberts N, Dean PJ, Young K, Weil CF, Bray CM, West CE (2007). "NBS1 is involved in DNA repair and plays a synergistic role with ATM in mediating meiotic homologous recombination in plants". Plant J. 52 (1): 41–52. doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03220.x. PMID 17672843.
- ^ Sharma S, Javadekar SM, Pandey M, Srivastava M, Kumari R, Raghavan SC (2015). "Homology and enzymatic requirements of microhomology-dependent alternative end joining". Cell Death Dis 6: e1697. doi:10.1038/cddis.2015.58. PMC 4385936. PMID 25789972.
- ^ Berlin A, Lalonde E, Sykes J, Zafarana G, Chu KC, Ramnarine VR, Ishkanian A, Sendorek DH, Pasic I, Lam WL, Jurisica I, van der Kwast T, Milosevic M, Boutros PC, Bristow RG (2014). "NBN gain is predictive for adverse outcome following image-guided radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer". Oncotarget 5 (22): 11081–90. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2404. PMC 4294365. PMID 25415046.
- ^ Yang MH, Chiang WC, Chou TY, Chang SY, Chen PM, Teng SC, Wu KJ (2006). "Increased NBS1 expression is a marker of aggressive head and neck cancer and overexpression of NBS1 contributes to transformation". Clin. Cancer Res. 12 (2): 507–15. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-1231. PMID 16428493.
- ^ Hsu DS, Chang SY, Liu CJ, Tzeng CH, Wu KJ, Kao JY, Yang MH (2010). "Identification of increased NBS1 expression as a prognostic marker of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity". Cancer Sci. 101 (4): 1029–37. doi:10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01471.x. PMID 20175780.
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- ^ Kobayashi J, Tauchi H, Sakamoto S, Nakamura A, Morishima K, Matsuura S, Kobayashi T, Tamai K, Tanimoto K, Komatsu K (October 2002). "NBS1 localizes to gamma-H2AX foci through interaction with the FHA/BRCT domain". Curr. Biol. 12 (21): 1846–51. doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01259-9. PMID 12419185.
- ^ a b Cerosaletti KM, Concannon P (June 2003). "Nibrin forkhead-associated domain and breast cancer C-terminal domain are both required for nuclear focus formation and phosphorylation". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (24): 21944–51. doi:10.1074/jbc.M211689200. PMID 12679336.
- ^ a b Trujillo KM, Yuan SS, Lee EY, Sung P (August 1998). "Nuclease activities in a complex of human recombination and DNA repair factors Rad50, Mre11, and p95". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (34): 21447–50. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.34.21447. PMID 9705271.
- ^ Matsuzaki K, Shinohara A, Shinohara M (May 2008). "Forkhead-associated domain of yeast Xrs2, a homolog of human Nbs1, promotes nonhomologous end joining through interaction with a ligase IV partner protein, Lif1". Genetics 179 (1): 213–25. doi:10.1534/genetics.107.079236. PMC 2390601. PMID 18458108.
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Further reading[edit]
- Kobayashi J, Antoccia A, Tauchi H, Matsuura S, Komatsu K (2005). "NBS1 and its functional role in the DNA damage response.". DNA Repair (Amst.) 3 (8–9): 855–61. doi:10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.03.023. PMID 15279770.
- Digweed M, Sperling K (2005). "Nijmegen breakage syndrome: clinical manifestation of defective response to DNA double-strand breaks". DNA Repair (Amst.) 3 (8–9): 1207–17. doi:10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.03.004. PMID 15279809.
- Matsuura S, Kobayashi J, Tauchi H, Komatsu K (2004). "Nijmegen breakage syndrome and DNA double strand break repair by NBS1 complex". Adv. Biophys. 38: 65–80. doi:10.1016/S0065-227X(04)80076-5. PMID 15493328.
- Zhang Y, Zhou J, Lim CU (2006). "The role of NBS1 in DNA double strand break repair, telomere stability, and cell cycle checkpoint control". Cell Res. 16 (1): 45–54. doi:10.1038/sj.cr.7310007. PMID 16467875.
External links[edit]
- GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome
- nibrin protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)


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When it comes to getting a job or doing business, social media and other forms of electronic communication are great networking tools, however, there will never be a substitute for communicating face-to-face.
In 2013, 68 million business professionals attended business-to-business exhibitions, according to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (www.CEIR.org). And it's no wonder that this industry contributes more than $79.3 billion directly to the gross domestic product in attendee and exhibitor spending.
All working professionals stand to gain from attending exhibitions and events as buyers, exhibitors, or simply as general attendees. Whether you're at a major trade show looking for candidates to help expand your business, or you're a job seeker attending a local business conference, exhibitions bring the right audiences together.
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Be Prepared
Learn about event attendees and engage with them online in advance so that when you meet in person, you're simply continuing the dialogue. Trade show organizers often provide planning resources, like mobile apps and scheduling tools that make these conversations easier.
It is helpful to create a list of whom you plan to connect with beforehand and what you want to get out of your experience.
Are you starting a business? See if the event features a startup session. Most events have space on the exhibit floor dedicated to startups as well. Are you interested in expanding your professional skills set? Look into the education sessions available.
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You may no longer be in school, but that's no excuse to discontinue career training or your education. Take advantage of workshops, seminars and the other opportunities to expand your skills and earn new certifications that exhibitions and events provide. At the very least, such experiences can provide an opening with key contacts.
Whether you're the top boss or looking to get hired, exhibitions and events can be a great time and money investment.


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What a lovely contrast between the red and blue!
Beautiful! I think your version is a million times better than the original stock. You can just feel the emotion emanating from this piece. Great Job!
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sooo cool. Love her wet, stringy hair.
great colors, i love this
simply awesome!! nuff said!!!
Beautiful colours - it looks like the blue is breaking out of her... thank you for sharing this wonderful drawing of hers!
Wonderful details!
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Amazing as always! You are the best
Awasome the contrasts are great
very good coloring
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mate, .... wow
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Reduction of Use of Petroleum Energy Resources by Conversion of Waste Cooking Oils into Diesel FuelEPA Grant Number: SU831885
Title: Reduction of Use of Petroleum Energy Resources by Conversion of Waste Cooking Oils into Diesel Fuel
Investigators: Perez, J. M. , Lloyd, W. A. , Nedwick, R.
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
EPA Project Officer: Nolt-Helms, Cynthia
Project Period: September 30, 2004 through May 31, 2005
Project Amount: $10,000
RFA: P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet (2004) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Nanotechnology , P3 Challenge Area - Energy , Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development , P3 Awards , Sustainability
This project has a dual objective of providing hands-on experience to undergraduate engineering students and producing biodiesel fuel from a used cooking oil feedstock. The project consists of three phases: Phase I - process development and construction of a pilot plant; Phase 2 - engine performance and emission reduction studies; and Phase 3 - commercialization of a self sustaining facility for some 200 pieces of campus equipment currently fueled with petroleum diesel fuel. Twelve students are involved in the project for elective and design credit. They are divided into three groups: research and development, manufacturing, and business groups.Objective:
Biodiesel is an alkyl ester similar in energy content to petro-diesel but more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Biodiesel reduces diesel engine out emissions of potentially carcinogenic particulate matter as defined by EPA. Our preliminary evaluations have shown a 25% particulate reduction. The project goal is to develop an alternative energy source to fossil fuels and produce a fuel which is made from a renewable source-used cooking oils. Initially, our pilot plant will be a batch process, but the research group will attempt to design an innovative continuous process. The project has available to it several hundred gallons of used cooking oil per week from nine campus sites and several local restaurants. The research ultimately will lead to more efficient conversion of used cooking oil to biodiesel that will give farmers, truckers, and diesel automobile owners a cleaner burning alternative to petro-diesel. The project has a long range goal of converting the campus green.Approach:
Samples of feedstock will be obtained from local sources for experimentation. The samples vary in the type of vegetable oil: corn, peanut, soybean, and canola oil. To carry out this project, small-scale experiments will be conducted in a bench scale mixer to examine product yield, product quality, and potential problems. Next, a pilot plant will be designed and constructed to convert the used cooking oil to a 20–30 gallon scale. A base-catalyzed process has been chosen for simplicity and reliability. To insure the biodiesel fuel meets ASTM specifications, gas chromatography, infrared, mass spectrometry, viscosity, density, and flash point analyses will be used. Phase II of the project will involve evaluation of the product in laboratory diesel engines in the Combustion Laboratory in our Energy Institute, Fuel Science Department. Phase III will involve commercialization.
The research group will develop a high yield process for use in the pilot plant. The process will produce a biodiesel fuel that meets current ASTM biodiesel fuel specification. The group will also explore uses for the glycerin byproduct. A primary goal of the research group is to establish the safety procedures for the process. Ideas for a continuous process will be explored.
The manufacturing group will obtain "factory" space, design and construct the pilot plant. The pilot plant will be tested and safety checked prior to processing the first 20 gallon batch of used cooking oils.Expected Results:
The business group will obtain information on local sources of used cooking oils and advertise the biodiesel fuel produced. Costs of production, global climate effects, energy use cycle, emissions and energy savings will be calculated. The results will show how the use of biodiesel fuel leads to a cleaner environment and a sustainable fuel source.Publications and Presentations:
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global climate, green chemistry, clean technologies, innovative technologies, manufacturing, conservation, transportation, waste reduction, agriculture, engineering, RFA, Scientific Discipline, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, TREATMENT/CONTROL, Sustainable Industry/Business, POLLUTION PREVENTION, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Environmental Chemistry, Sustainable Environment, Energy, Technology, Technology for Sustainable Environment, Chemicals Management, Environmental Engineering, waste to fuel conversion, energy conservation, waste cooking oils, alternative to petroleum diesel fuel, renewable fuel production, emission controls, biotechnology, energy efficiency, ethanol, alternative fuel, biodiesel fuel, waste cooking oil, alternative energy source, environmentally benign alternative, biofuel, green chemistry, renewable energy
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[i am back. to blogging, that is. i am not sure who reads me, but i know why i write. i write to clear my mental chatter. i write to rationalize my emotional ambiguities. mainly, this is where i spoil my randomness, lest i drive people around me insane by how i could go from here to there without warning.]
i like sports. well, ok — i like watching but i watch with such conviction, i scare myself a little sometimes and impress the initiated. my love for sports (wow, i say it like i actually play one… ) occurs in what i call phases. once, i was on a tennis phase — i was ready to profess my love for carlos moya and pete sampras. when i lived with my cousin who was into golf, all it took was a little 'explanation' from him, and i found myself spending a few extra minutes on a golf coverage when i channel surfed. basketball is a phase that never really goes away. although i watch the PBA and the NBA only when my teams are playing, i do keep up with the team standings and keep an opinion on trades and other controversies. (go, celtics!) i have also probably seen all of manny pacquiao's fights — including that fight in an open area in thailand, when manny was hardly a star, but definitely already impressive.
and now, the UFC. i am thoroughly entertained by it. and no, i am not one of those bandwagon fans that cheer for the favorite or the more attractive fighter. (because it's embarrassing) don't get me started, but i actually know my favorites. i remember my late mom getting so worked up whenever i watched MMA matches. she found it violent and feared that i was secretly blood-thirsty. rawr!
so anyway, the beautiful Georges St-Pierre gave Josh Koscheck a beating yesterday. aren't men just an interesting lot? they trash talk and beat each other up in their skimpy trunks. then someone wins, of course — and they hug and kiss each other, whisper praises into each other's ear, and sing each other more praises on the microphone as if they had not just each tried to mangle the other person minutes before that.
but really. sometimes, men are just the coolest. now i still wouldn't want to be one, but there are a couple of things girls can actually learn from them and from mixed martial arts. i can not, for the love of me, imagine two girls going at it, and then hug and pat each other's back for a catfight well-done. and when women talk nasty — they mean it. they aren't just hyping it up; they are seriously out to ruin your reputation and your life.
if i try a little harder, i may even say that the UFC may be an interesting commentary on how life is supposed to be. you know, like here, the fighters pick men their own size. in the real world, a lot of people win over others who did not even have a shot to begin with. and they dare call themselves great.
the better fighters try to beat the opponents in their own game. they're deliberate, and studious. life is like that. there is some level of pleasure in beating people where they believe themselves to be good at.
i wish life allowed us to tap out. you know, just tap out when you think you've had enough and save yourself from more hurt. for anyone who understands, it isn't cowardice because it's all part of the game. it's a lifesaver at your beckoning.
and when cain velasquez knocked out half-man-half-concrete brock lesnar — i think it showed how, sometimes, there's a way to beat the scary.
so do i watch the UFC to bask in all this art imitating life? nah. i'm all for the throw downs and watching the loud mouths get submitted. and it doesn't hurt that kenny florian is too cute.


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MacGyver Feature in the Works
New Line has hired Jason Richman to pen a feature adaptation of MACGYVER, reports RISKY BUSINESS. The ABC series, starring Richard Dean Anderson, followed the adventures of a secret agent who knew just how to get out of any sticky situation with some resourceful thinking. The show ran from 1985 to 1992.
Raffaella De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis and series creator Lee Zlotoff are the producers. Dino De Laurentiis is the exec producer.
Richman wrote uncredited takes on BLACK HAWK DOWN and RUSH HOUR 3 and penned Chris Rock's BAD COMPANY and a BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 draft.


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Liz Clarke of the WASHINGTON POST has a piece Sunday on the influence of sports blogs on fans, noting that "in the arena of sports, the arbiter of what matters is increasingly shifting from the mainstream media to the freewheeling realm of the blogosphere, where impassioned fans opine about the playing field's heroes, villains and controversies of the day."
Kathleen Hessert of Sports Media Challenge, a Charlotte-based marketing company, tells the WP that, "More and more, the fans are setting the agenda now. They're rattling the cages and saying, 'Hey, I have as much to say about this — and have as much invested in my sport — as any media person. And my opinion is just as valid as the mainstream media's.'"
Clarke adds that Hessert's company "keys on the 10 or 15 most influential sports blogs, whose membership shifts but typically includes such powerhouses as Deadspin and SportsbyBrooks, and produces a list of the five biggest topics each week."
We're thrilled to be mentioned by the Washington Post and in the company of Deadspin, but we know we don't deserve such profound accolades.
If we had any influence, Joe Theismann would be hosting SportsCenter every night, Brady Quinn would have Myspace, the Pittsburgh Steelers would get the credit they so richly deserve for the marketing masterstroke that is Steely McBeam, and Colin "Shrutebag" Cowherd would finally embrace his inner woman:


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China Tunes Out TV Commercials
Posted on Nov 29, 2011
In the spirit of fostering a more "socialist culture," the Chinese government is banning commercials that interrupt television dramas. Judging by this BBC report, China's TV executives seem much more concerned with lost revenue than with government interference.
First they come for the commercials, then they come for the billboards, then they come for the free perfume samples. —PZS
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Nigel Pearson, Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft
As mentioned briefly in chapter 1, "Hallowing the Compass", the Traditional Crafter is sometimes referred to in a specialist way as a "Hedge Rider". This is an old Anglo-Saxon term referring to the fact that the Witch spends much of their magical time and work beyond the boundaries of what we usually refer to as "normality". Much of the Crafters work involves entering worlds and realms that the average person has never dreamt of, let alone visited and the "Hedge" referred to is the symbolic barrier between this world and those others. The reasons for journeying to these other worlds are various; it may be that another realm is a better vantage point from which to cast a spell or make a charm (and we have touched upon entering light trance in the previous chapter). It may be that the Crafter wishes to meet with various spirits or deities, native denizens of those other worlds, the better to further their knowledge or abilities. It may also be that they can obtain added energy or insight by visiting different realms, or it just might be that a better understanding of this world in which we all live can be achieved, by viewing it from a different angle or vantage point. The reasons are many and will probably vary with the individual, but the fact remains that entering different levels or areas of reality - working in trance or "Entering the Twilyte" as it is sometimes called - is a major part of the Traditional Crafter's work.
Knock it the fuck off, Wiccans.
Lee Morgan, A Deed Without a Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft
It could easily be said that one of the major differences between the modern revival referred to as 'Traditional Witchcraft' and the other modern revival known as 'Wicca', is that Traditional Witchcraft draws on 'folkloric material' and is largely 'shamanic' whereas Wicca is more of a fusion of Western Occult ceremonial and natural magic traditions. Whilst the term 'shamanic' is hotly debated both within scholarly and witchcraft circles it does at least seem clear that the term is cautiously embraced by the most influential scholars on the topic, the work of such people as Ginzburg and Wilby, texts that have greatly influenced the revival and self conception of 'Traditional Witchcraft' (especially Ginzburg but I anticipate the same for Wilby's work as it becomes disseminated and assimilated into the occult group consciousness).
The exposition of the 'shamanic' dimension that Ginzburg worked so hard to establish in his books is what saves the study of the trial records from the excesses of 'Murrayism'. And the realisation that these testimonies were often to things encountered during spirit flight rather than in normative waking consciousness helps to make sense of the elements of the seeming impossible that occur in them. Emma Wilby took this work still further via a detailed comparison between the maleficium practiced during spirit flight by a witch like Isobel Gowdie and the 'dark shamans' of the Amazon Basin.
I believe that to properly navigate the 'deep myth' of witchcraft, and unearth the legacy of its occult wisdom we need to understand its shamanic substrata. But we need to understand the term 'shamanic' or perhaps even better 'ecstatic' in terms of a latent but universal potential within human nature, rather than strictly in sociological or anthropological terms. An 'ecstatic' is a type of mystic who leaves or transcends the flesh in powerful visions and has congress with another world. But a 'shaman' is one who uses this ability to perform a service for their community. We can see as we go along that many of these witches from the past fell into the latter category and that nearly all of them at least fell into the former.
Whilst the state of ecstasy is usually described as 'transcending the flesh' it is important to note that the witches' ecstatic vision grows out of the flesh as a plant does from soil. There may be visions of flying through the air, or going in through doors underground, but right from the beginning it will help us in our journey if we understand how rooted in biological experience vision is. Intensely sensual experiences (sensual as in 'of the senses') are involved in reaching trance for most people. Drumming, dance, sexual intercourse, imbibing helper plants and even being 'lifted' by spirits, all produce intense sensations and chemical releases in the body. Understanding these responses and how the bodily experience of our ancestors might have differed from our own can only help us in finding the keys to our own ecstasis. It will help us to remember the old maxim 'as above so below, as within so without', for it shows us a world where microcosm mirrors macrocosm.
Thus when we try to re-imagine a shamanic universe with an Upperworld above a Middleworld all around us and an Underworld below it is easier to get in touch with if we are aware that they also exist inside our bodies. Whilst the Underworld and Upperworld also exist outside of us, and reach beyond us we are each connected to them and reflect the structure of the universe. What all this means is that an ecstatic path is both a path of the body and of transcending the body, it is not a matter of either/or, but of both.
The Upperworld is reflected in our heads and the Underworld deep in out guts and pelvis, we each are made up of the substance of stars and of the dirt and water we drink daily and thus no part of the cosmos is foreign to us. We are part of the earth, our consciousness grows out of our flesh, and yet there is that within us that goes beyond it and joins the cosmos. It is to this mystery that I allude when I speak of 'shamanic' or 'ecstatic' witchcraft.
Speaking of Doc Shiels…
And this picture below that I see people posting on Tumblr frequently was taken by Shiels and is a group of witches (one of whom is one of his daughters) attempting to conjure up the Owlman in Mawnan Woods, Cornwall.
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This page holds basic exercises designed to prepare a magical student for visionary work. It also contains (once uploaded) basic visions to work with regardless of what type of magic you are learning. Visionary magic is a skill that uses the mind to move into different realms, communicate with various beings and to move your consciousness in to different things like rocks, animals, trees, etc. It is a form of magic that is used in formal ritual/ temple style magic as well as in more nature orientated folk/shamanic magic: It is a core skill that can be applied to any form of magic.
I'll show you some "threefold return", motherfucker!
Peter Grey, author of Apocalyptic Witchcraft
How tame we have become. How polite about our witchcraft. In our desire to harm none we have become harmless.
We have bargained to get a seat at the table of the great faiths to whom we remain anathema. How much compromise have we made in our private practice for the mighty freedom of being able to wear pewter pentagrams in public, at school, in our places of employment. How much have the elders sold us out, genuflecting to the academy, the establishment, the tabloid press. In return for this bargain we have gained precisely nothing. The supposed freedoms we have been granted are empty. Late capitalist culture simply does not care what our fantasy dress up life is like as long as we work our zero hour contracts, carry our mobile phones and keep consuming. The reason that social services are not taking your children away is that nobody believes in the existence of the witch. We have mistaken social and economic change for the result of our own advocacy. Marching in lock-step with what used to be called mainstream, but is now mono-culture, we have disenchanted ourselves, handed over our teeth and claws and bristling luxuriant furs. I will not be part of this process, because to do so is to be complicit with the very forces that are destroying all life on earth. It is time for Witchcraft not to choose, but to remember which side it is on in this struggle.
Lee Morgan, A Deed Without a Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft
i assume owen is the one that looks like klaus nomi
lmao yes
he would be pleased to hear that tbh
he's so funny when he does his makeup. he used to be my roommate before him and his husband moved to Oakland and he does his makeup the same exact way every time but it takes him like 3 hours. He used to DJ at my favorite club here and he was always late because it took him so damn long to do his makeup.
Peter Paddon, A Grimoire for Modern Cunningfolk
Many Traditional Crafters have an interesting relationship with dragons. Some see them as archetypes, some as being similar to the Gods, and some see them as living mythical beasts, in a very literal way. It is certainly true that myths and legends involving dragons are central to many of the traditional cultures from which British Witchcraft derives. In Sumerian and Babylonian mythology we have Tiamat, the Mother of Dragons, and even in the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries we can find the dragon tucked away – take a good look at the figure of Ptah found in the tomb of Tutankhamen, and you will see the markings of feathered wings wrapped around His mummiform body. Ptah, the Great Architect, and one of the oldest gods in the Egyptian pantheon, is a dragon.
But for us in Briar Rose, the dragon is a very personal thing, because we see drakes to a certain extent as "all of the above", but most importantly, we see the drake as part of our own make-up. Just as Orion Foxwood teaches that we have three selves, the Dream Walker, Surface Walker, and Star Walker, so in our kind of crafting we work with three aspects of self, the Drake, the Initiate, and the Crown.
For us, the Drake is the Underworld component of our being, the Shadow form from which we gain our power. So awakening the Dragon is an important part of our development,


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NFL Updates: Brady, Manning will face off again
Tom Brady has beaten Peyton Manning-led teams 10 of 14 times when the two have gone head to head. They'll meet again Sunday in the AFC Championship Game at Denver, where the New England Patriots will attempt to make their sixth Super Bowl appearance (and win their fourth) with Brady at the helm.
Brady told the "Dennis & Callahan Show" on WEEI sports radio in Boston today a win in Denver would be as satisfying a victory as he's ever had, calling his team the underdog.
"I think we've overcome a lot of things, a lot of injuries, and we've had some amazing comebacks to get to this situation where we finished the regular season 12-4 with a lot of players filling some big roles over the course of the year," Brady said. "And then having really played our best football the last three weeks, and now to get a chance to go play one of the best teams in the league, it's everything you could ask for. This is what football is all about."
New England overcame a 24-point deficit to beat the Broncos in Foxboro, Mass., earlier this year.
"This game is going to come down to who plays the best, and we'll be able to take some things that we did when we played and study them and prepare for them, but we'll have different things to do, they'll have different things to do," he said. "Their team is different than when they played us, and we're pretty different than when we played them."
Brady and San Francisco starting center Jon Goodwin are the only two Wolverines left standing, though former Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh coaches the 49ers and Mario Manningham in on San Fran's injured reserve. Here's how the former Wolverines in the NFL fared in playoff action.