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If an enzyme name is shown in bold, there is experimental evidence for this enzymatic activity.
Synonyms: PTT biosynthesis, bialaphos biosynthesis
|Biosynthesis → Secondary Metabolites Biosynthesis → Antibiotic Biosynthesis
Some taxa known to possess this pathway include : Streptomyces hygroscopicus, Streptomyces hygroscopicus ATCC 21705, Streptomyces viridochromogenes, Streptomyces viridochromogenes DSM 40736
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L-phophinothricin is a non-proteinogenic amino acid that is a structural analogue of L-glutamate . As such, it is a potent inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, an enzyme central to nitrogen regulation in many bacterial and plant species [Bayer72, Lea84]. It is the active ingredient in several nonselective systemic herbicides, including Basta, Rely, Finale, Challenge and Liberty.
Phosphinothricin is currently the only known naturally occurring compound in which a C-P-C bond motif (phosphorus linked to two carbons) is found.
L-phophinothricin is produced by at least three species of actinomycetes as a component of non-ribosomally synthesized peptides. These include phosalacine, produced by Kitasatospora phosalacinea [Omura84] and bialaphos (PTT), also known as bialaphos, which is produced by some strains of Streptomyces hygroscopicus [Seto82] and Streptomyces viridochromogenes [Bayer72]. The peptides are potent antibiotics and herbicides, transported into cells via the oligopeptide transport system, and hydrolyzed intracellularly by peptidases, releasing the toxic L-phophinothricin.
Studies of bialaphos biosynthesis in either of these two organisms suggest that it involves no less than 18 discrete enzymatically catalyzed reactions, starting from the common metabolite phosphoenolpyruvate. These enzymatic steps have been linked to a chromosomal gene cluster about 35 kb in length that includes at least 24 genes that are essential for the process [Schwartz04, Blodgett05]. Most of the steps have been ellucidated, and many of the enzymes have been identified [Schwartz96, Schwartz98, Heinzelmann01, Blodgett05, Blodgett07, Cicchillo09]. The pathway includes several unusual transformations, including a C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond cleavage by the phpD-encoded dioxygenase, the formation of two phosphorus-carbon bonds by phosphoenolpyruvate phosphomutase ( ppm) and N-acetyl-demethylphophinothricin P-methyltransferase ( bcpD), and the assembley of the peptide backbone by three nonribosomal peptide sythetases, encoded by phsA, phsB and phsC.
Different iterations of the pathway have been published over the years. A major revision of the upper part of the pathway, specifically the portion from phosphonoacetaldehyde to carboxyphosphonoenolpyruvate, has been suggested in 2007 by [Blodgett07]. A role for two small thioesterase-like genes ( phpL and phpM) was proposed in 2015 [Blodgett15].
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What's the matter with Israel?! Kick out the terrorist Zoabi. Send her off to live with the terrorists she supports.
Comment by Sylvie Schapira — June 17, 2014 @ 8:43 AM
That woman needs to die in a slow, smoldering crotch fire.
Comment by Yocheved Rotenberg — June 17, 2014 @ 9:01 AM
so get rid of this bag of trash,.. impeach her and throw her out of the Knesset and out of the country. Iraq is a good place for her.
Comment by Ann Berkowitz Bar-Neder — June 17, 2014 @ 1:48 PM
everyone in the Northern Hemisphere needs to do Anger Management courses – no exceptions ps the Muslims first
Comment by Charles David Martella — June 17, 2014 @ 2:17 PM
I ask our fellow Jews in Israel & the Diaspora to Unite as "Ehad/One People" and trust in the Almighty that He will protect us. Tell the World We've had "Enough" with their false sympathies, their hatred of us.
Comment by Brian Stockman — June 17, 2014 @ 12:27 PM
That woman should be killed by lethal injection
Comment by Sharon Kochav — June 17, 2014 @ 1:05 PM
Hanien Zubi bloody woman no one likes you, off
Comment by Simone Isaak — June 17, 2014 @ 1:09 PM
People who kidnap children are worse than terrorists. They should get the most severe penalties along with their supporters.
Comment by Alan Kardon — June 17, 2014 @ 1:45 PM
Not severe enough.
Comment by Alan Kardon — June 17, 2014 @ 1:45 PM
Actually don't deport her, let her catch the rockets that her friends shoot into Israel.
Comment by Alan Kardon — June 17, 2014 @ 1:49 PM
she should go.
Comment by Lori Laird — June 17, 2014 @ 5:28 PM
Why is the likes of Zoabi still in the Govt? Democracy has boundry's or should have.Children who are taught only to hate will never have peace as long as they live.
Comment by Ida Wax — June 17, 2014 @ 3:17 PM
Comment by Nechama Dina Namirovski — June 17, 2014 @ 6:31 PM
Agree with Liberman. Zoabi's ranting could be qualified as treasure, which is, by the way, by the law of the State of Israel, could be punished by death penalty. At least she should be kicked out of Knesset. For those that will say it is not "democratic", remember how MK Meir Kachane (may Hashem avenge his blood!) was kicked out of Knesset for saying truth and love for Israel people?
Comment by Victoria Livshutz — June 17, 2014 @ 6:57 PM
He is a brave young man to have made that video which a terrorist cousin that might call for his murder.
Comment by Marsha Forman Goldfine — June 17, 2014 @ 4:28 PM
She calls her cousin a fool because he appreciates his rights in a democratic country. She is the fool for saying such a thing… she has just admitted that Israel is a democratic country and that Palestinians have rights in Israel. That he appreciates those rights make him an intelligent individual.
Comment by Jackie Rozell — June 17, 2014 @ 4:50 PM
The irony is that she is a democratically elected member of the Israel government. In what Arab country could someone be allowed such freedom of speech?
Comment by Anonymous — June 17, 2014 @ 6:25 PM
It is says in Pirkei Avot that our actions are watched & words written down; Anyone with basic knowledgeable of NDE's know we undergo a life review. We should take particular note of our actions and words at these critical moments. The words said to offend and hurt others will come back to haunt its originator many times over. We need not take joy in knowing the words used to offend us will be turned against the one who said them. Rather, feel sorry for those so blind to humanity, compassion and decency.
Comment by Donn Gross — June 17, 2014 @ 9:07 PM
What a surprise, an Arab Israeli who hates Israel.?!. The real surprise that while giving aid and comfort to the enemy,she is not prosecuted,or at least dismissed from the Knesset. Rabbi Kahane was ejected,but she stays??
Comment by Stuart Oppenheimer — June 17, 2014 @ 9:26 PM
These certainly are terrorists, do not make the excuse that they are under sufference, this is how they wish to live, in violence, hatred and killing it is all the majority of palestinians know or want to know. Do not view their lifestyles as hard-done-by, those who do not wish to live in squallor have jobs in farms, hospitals, even the Knesset – the majority are under the influence of the fanatical sector who brainwash and treat their own as chattels – yet they blame the very people who wish to help them. – Zoabi, even a rabid dog is confined!
Comment by Basha Kline — June 17, 2014 @ 11:38 PM
whats SHE doing in the Knesset ?????????…………………….get rid of her, feed her to her own !
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Mix together the ricotta cheese, 2/3rds of the mozzarella cheese, the parmesean cheese, the egg & the spices.
Fill each shell with approximately 2 Tbs of filling, and place in a single layer of a 9 x 13 baking dish. When all the shells are filled, pour the spaghetti sauce over the shells, sprinkle with the remaining cheeses.
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NASHVILLE - Vanderbilt finished off a series sweep of LSU Sunday afternoon at Hawkins Field and finish the weekend in a three-way tie atop the Southeastern Conference.
The game was tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the third when the Commodores rallied for six runs to claim the lead sending 12 men to the plate. The Dores matched a season-best with six hits during the rally with Conrad Gregor's two-run homer leading the way. The Tigers rallied for four runs in the seventh inning to close the gap to two runs before the VU bullpen responded and closed the door to finish off the victory.
Vanderbilt equaled a season-high with 20 hits on the afternoon and set a new season-high with 17 runners left on base, including the bases loaded four times. The bottom three spots in the Commodores' lineup (Gregor, Riley Reynolds and Jack Lupo) combined to go 10-for-13 with six runs scored and three RBI to pace the offense. Gregor. Lupo and Anthony Gomez led all players with four hits, a career-best for all three players. Gomez drove in three runs and Jason Esposito extended his hitting streak to 21 games with a RBI-single in the third inning. Trey Watkins led the Tigers, scoring three runs and going 2-for-3.
Taylor Hill picked up the win pitching five innings. The senior allowed three runs on six hits with four walks for his third win of the season. LSU starter Ben Alsup was pinned with the loss giving up six runs on nine hits in just 2.2 innings. Navery Moore worked around a walk and an error in the ninth to notch his ninth save of the season.
The Dores' sweep of LSU along with Florida's sweep of Alabama and South Carolina's 2-1 series victory over Mississippi State puts the three teams in a three-way tie atop the SEC standings at 14-4.
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Babies born in Baker City have been sporting purple hats lately as part of a nation campaign to educate parents and the community about normal infant crying.
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Theatre before Shakespeare
Martin Wiggins, with Catherine Richardson
A catalogue
Volume One: 1533–1566
500pp. 978 0 19 926571 8
Volume Two: 1567–1589
519pp. 978 0 19 926572 5
Oxford University Press. £85 each.
Martin Wiggins
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F or a long time, students of early modern drama have been wanting an updated version of the Annals of English Drama, 1500–1700, originally published in 1940 by Alfred Harbage, revised in 1964 by Samuel Schoenbaum, and revised again in 1989 by Sylvia Stoller Wagonheim. The Annals, presented in tabular form, allow an instant grasp of the theatrical scene in a given year – titles of plays, possible performance auspices, dates of first publication and later editions. On closer inspection, many of the dates turn out to be approximate; some information, particularly in the third edition, is inaccurate; and the information about available editions needs to be updated. Even so, it remains a valuable resource. Equally valuable, but available only in libraries, is the gigantic research project known as REED (Records of Early English Drama), which transcribes all records relating to drama and performance, region by region, and has enormously expanded knowledge of theatrical activity throughout the British Isles.
Martin Wiggins's British Drama, 1533–1642: A catalogue, of which the first two volumes have just appeared, is the Annals raised to the nth power, incorporating more recent research published in REED and elsewhere. It is not clear how many volumes there will eventually be, but, even though the Catalogue will end in 1642 rather than 1700, I should guess that there will have to be at least three more. The set will not be affordable, like the Annals, but it will eventually be available online. It is the online version that will be credited to Catherine Richardson, and presumably to the Renaissance Drama Research Group at the Shakespeare Institute, who are mentioned in the preface to the first volume but won't be acknowledged by name until they take their curtain call in the final volume. The printed edition is apparently the work of Wiggins alone, and he deserves credit for a breathtaking achievement.
Because it includes everything with a possible dramatic element – tilts, dialogues, masques, royal entries and royal welcomes – the Catalogue greatly expands the picture of dramatic activity given in the Annals, emphasizing its collaborative nature. Wiggins lists everyone involved in a production – by name, where this is known: the scenery-makers; the tire-women; the basket-makers who created many props, such as large wicker animal heads; the supplier of hobby horses; the person who provided food for those who were going to have to work through their dinner hour; the woman who looked after the boy performers while they waited in the cold for a boat to take them home after the show. He checks claims about doubling and even notes how many lines are supposed to cover each costume change. He also gives details of the early production and publication history, listing everyone known to have been present at a performance and showing, for instance, that plays popular in the English playhouses in the 1580s, like Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, were being performed by touring companies well into the seventeenth century. The Jew of Malta had a particularly long performance history, possibly extending into the period after the closing of the theatres. There isn't, in fact, much that he doesn't comment on, so there will naturally be some quibbles. I'm not sure whether the cat in Gammer Gurton's Needle (1553) should be listed as a prop rather than a character; the part as written seems almost as actor-proof as that of Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Perhaps only stuffed cats could be counted on to perform adequately, but a live fox was apparently released during the court performance of Narcissus (1572). I doubt that anyone needs to try to identify the "T. N. &c. of N" who is mentioned in the closing prayer of The Pedlar's Prophecy (1561), since "N" probably stands for "nomen [name]" and means "insert name of whoever is paying for this show".
What the books make clear is how vast an economic enterprise early modern theatre was. Though the expense of the court masque was a constant source of complaint, it was also an obvious economic stimulus: the masquers, who were the richest people involved, had to pay for making or renting their own costumes, and sometimes had to contribute to the overall cost, but the costume-makers, prop-makers, stage carpenters, craftsmen, cleaners and cooks were paid (eventually) for their part in each production. The Christmas revels of 1552–3, for example, employed twenty-five tailors for twenty-two days and eighteen nights, twenty-eight painters for nearly as long, and four basket-makers for fifteen days.
What the books make clear is how vast an economic enterprise early modern theatre was
On the other hand, royal visits were a huge expense for a town or college or for the owner of a country estate. When Elizabeth visited Bristol in 1574, the authorities spent about £1,000 simply in beautifying the city, raising the money by levying subsidies from the city wards, borrowing from trust funds and soliciting contributions from individuals. On top of that, they were expected to give a present to the ruler who had already cost them so much. What they got in return, they hoped, was good will that might work in their favour when they needed relief from a local disaster or from a national subsidy. They could also reuse at least some of what had been fashioned for the occasion; costumes were extensively remade and rented out, though the cost of storing large properties and sets seems to have been a problem.
Anyone who uses the Annals will notice just how many plays of the period are described as "lost", known only through references in letters or in expense accounts. Many were never printed. Some may have been printed under different titles. Some that turn up in booksellers' catalogues of the period were probably victims of an age that understood paper recycling much better than we do. Unless one subscribes to a Darwinian theory of theatrical history, one must sometimes wonder whether The Cruelty of a Stepmother (1578) or Crack Me This Nut (dated 1595 in the Annals) might have rivalled Macbeth and As You Like It. The great revelation of the Catalogue is that there is often just as much information about a "lost" play as about a surviving one. Moreover, although plays written for the public theatres are the form about which we know most, it is from the expense records of masques, royal entries, country house welcomes and Lord Mayor's Shows that most information can be gathered. The difficulty is that sometimes this information applies to an entire season's entertainments. Thus, for the Christmas season of 1571–2, Wiggins has to work out which of the plays on offer needed wire snakes and devils' heads with plates for eyes.
Wiggins also speculates about the plots of plays that are otherwise known only from their titles. This is easy when they are called Philoctetes (1543) or Abraham and Lot (1588), much harder when they are Barbarous Terrynne (1563) or Vallia and Antony (1578). Wiggins tries not to leave any title unquestioned. Why, he wonders, is a play of 1579 called The Four Sons of Fabius when the historical Fabius had only three? What about the play of 1576 called Tooly? Wiggins suggests that it might be "Tully" (Cicero) or, more ingeniously, that it might refer to some saint, or King Olaf of Norway, since Southwark Street, the location of St Olave's Church, was known as Tooley. Of course, this is a highly risky activity, but I think he's right in arguing that more information is better than less, and certainly better than the "inscrutable purity" that refuses to speculate at all. He can't resist having fun with some of the plot descriptions: the one for De Titi and Gisippi firmissima amicitia (c.1549) begins: "It is a dark and stormy night". Readers will enjoy finding other jokes for themselves, and will be intrigued by his statement in the introduction that the order in which otherwise undated plays are listed for each year was worked out by "a procedure too silly to be described here".
The claim that Shakespeare "found not, but created first the stage", as Dryden put it in 1679, is of course untrue, but the Catalogue enables one to see just how many forgotten predecessors there were. Unlike some Spenser scholars, Wiggins thinks that Spenser probably did write plays, as Gabriel Harvey said he did – possibly as many as nine, each dedicated to one of the Muses. The plays that Edmund Campion wrote, in Latin, for performance at the Clementinum in Prague, range from academic dialogues to the very elaborate Ambrosia (1578), which tells the life of St Ambrose with a cast of thousands and was such a huge success with the court of Emperor Rudolf II that it had to be repeated. Some other academic plays sound well worth reviving, if anyone feels like translating them. Who wouldn't like to see Bellum Grammaticale by Leonard Hutten (1581)? Its plot description starts like this: "Love, King of the Verbs, has quarrelled with Poet, King of the Nouns, at a banquet. Now Poet intends a military response and sends the pronoun He to drum up support among the prepositions and interjections". Another college play in Latin, Synedrium (c.1554), though apparently never produced, sounds equally fascinating, partly because it dramatizes the Reynard the Fox legend and partly because the author wrote an incomplete version in prose and then revised it in verse. He thus offers a rare example of a sixteenth-century writer at work, and, perhaps, of the recommended method for writing verse plays (Ben Jonson at least seems to have followed it). On the other hand, John Harrison, the master of St Paul's school, shouldn't have expected his patrons, the Mercers' Company, to enjoy the two-part Philomathes (1584 and 1586), an allegory whose main point was that the school was running down because they weren't giving it, and especially him, enough financial support.
Other unsung heroes were the devisers of royal entertainments, who, by the sound of it, had to be directors and designers as well as authors and actors. The stresses involved in these multiple tasks can be seen in the experience of Thomas Churchyard, who devised much of the Bristol entertainment for the Queen in 1574, but aroused the indignation of a local schoolmaster who felt that this should be his job. Comic schoolmasters who direct unsuccessful plays are a staple of later professional drama. Churchyard obviously had a reputation: four years later he spent three weeks in Norwich preparing a series of shows for a royal visit, only to have several of them rained off or postponed. So, according to his own account, he rewrote one overnight as a farewell to the Queen, reusing the props and costumes, and played a Water-Sprite himself. By the late 1570s, however, the professional theatre was beginning to hold its own against the well-financed amateur. Wiggins points out the significance of February 1578, when Edmund Tilney took office as Master of the Revels and when professional companies began to supply their own costumes and props instead of borrowing them from the Revels Office. The dramatists who began writing in the 1580s and 90s benefited from a professional theatre sufficiently developed and specialized to allow them to concentrate on writing.
In its print form, the Catalogue is ideal for browsing and is full of fascinating details. In the court revels of 1574–5, for some reason, all but one of the shows had titles beginning with "P". The wooden construction featured in The Knight of the Burning Rock (1579) was completed so late that its paint was still wet on the day of performance and the company (the Earl of Warwick's men) had to light a coal fire in order to dry it out. Two masques were performed in Cheapside taverns in early 1581, perhaps in competition, with costumes rented from the Revels stock. That was also the year in which James VI took dancing lessons so as to take part in a court wedding masque (he must have hated them, since he never danced at the English court).
Although there is some cross-referencing, information is repeated verbatim even across adjacent entries. However, this minor annoyance is understandable, given the requirements of a search engine which hops rather than glides among entries. The forthcoming electronic edition will allow searching for plays with (for example) pyrotechnic effects, quotations in Greek, hunting scenes, or direct address to the ruler in the audience. It will enable micro-histories of working people, like the basket-makers who made animal heads, or the tailors, painters and wiredrawers. It can follow a particular spectator's pattern of theatre attendance and the theatrical careers of amateur as well as professional actors.
The devisers of royal entertainments had to be directors and designers as well as authors and actors
Wiggins's study Drama and the Transfer of Power, meanwhile, is an example of how the catalogue's wealth of information might be exploited. Wiggins focuses on the available data about performances during ideologically contested periods – the first year of the English Reformation; the first years of Elizabeth's, James's and Charles's reigns; the closing of the theatres in 1642 – showing how those responsible for public spectacle in each regime tried for a delicate balance between exploiting the theatre for their own purposes and releasing energies that might ultimately be used equally well against them. As in the Catalogue, but in still more detail, Wiggins shows how much we can learn about shows for which there is no surviving text by piecing together information about their physical construction, the reactions of spectators and the immediate political context. The book also draws together a number of works that the Catalogue format keeps apart – as in the survey of royal entries that helps to contextualize and reconstruct the one intended for Charles I. Appendices expand on Catalogue material: the first shows in detail how Wiggins sorts out which of the twelve masques listed in the Annals for 1559 can actually have been performed, and which costumes belong to which masque. As a bonus, he also includes an edited text of a masque in the National Library of Wales, written by Sir Thomas Salusbury. It was clearly intended for performance, and, while deeply formulaic in its treatment of the hen-pecked citizen and his wife, and the madhouse with its doctor and its soothing music that is said to be the only possible cure for a sick country, it would have made an enjoyable Christmas entertainment. Its Welsh references are significant: a lunatic who wants to make himself king becomes even madder when he discovers that Wales acknowledges only one prince; a fanatical preacher is "silenced" when he gets to Wales (Wiggins thinks that this is because of the language difficulty; I think it's a reference to "silenced ministers": the author proudly states that a Puritan wouldn't have been allowed to preach in that royalist region). The author's household must have been well informed about current events, since the play is set in London, and most of its satire is on Parliament and Presbyterianism. Sir Thomas's father may have written congratulatory verses to the editors of the 1623 Shakespeare Folio. His grandfather was apparently the only person to whom Shakespeare addressed a poem (usually called "The Phoenix and Turtle").
These Shakespeare references would be out of place in both the Catalogue and the monograph, which share a desire to treat theatrical history as a collective enterprise rather than one dominated by playwrights, and by one playwright in particular. "This vast, eclectic body", Wiggins claims in the introduction to the Catalogue, "tends to be treated rather like a mountain, with Shakespeare enthroned in solitary magnificence at the peak . . . it is the only mountain where everyone starts at the top and hardly anyone gets down as far as ground level." Plays are therefore listed by title and the author's name is only one of a number of subheadings. In keeping with this shift of emphasis, the Catalogue's second volume ends in 1589, thus including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus and The Jew of Malta, but not his Edward II or The Massacre at Paris. One can't imagine a typical theatrical history splitting a playwright's work in this way. It will be interesting to see whether this enterprise will succeed in dislodging Shakespeare from his splendid isolation. He will make his entrance in the next volume.
Lois Potter is the author of Othello, 2002, part of the Shakespeare in Performance series, and the editor of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a second edition of which appeared in 2001, in the Arden Shakespeare Series.
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Now's the time to let your friends and family in on your secret! Here are our Pregnancy.org members' top ten suggestions for announcing their pregnancy over the holidays.
Now's the time to let your friends and family in on your secret! Here are our Pregnancy.org members' top ten suggestions for announcing their pregnancy over the holidays.
The flu and fever are capable of creating more damage than previously thought! See why it's important to get a flu shot if you're pregnant!
I missed my period October 2012. I figured it was because of the visitors (my cousin and his new wife) we had living with us. I figured it was her cycle messing with mine - and of course the stress that I've been going through. I should have my period the first week of the month, so this month when it didn't come I decided to take a test over the weekend. After talking to my sister (stay at home mother of 3 boys) on 11/05, she convinced me to stop at the DollarStore and pick up a home pregnancy test. I caved and did. Picked up FOUR, just to be safe.
saw my spotting yesterday 7th Nov, now am having some cramps, feeling down and tired.
It's well-known that folic acid is part of a healthy regimen for getting pregnant and during pregnancy. What isn't as well-known is that not all women metabolize folic acid in the same way. This could mean that the recommended daily dosage of 400 micrograms may not be enough for everyone.
So I'm really really pregnant. Baby is in the right spot, measuring the right size and has a heartbeat that we saw. I go back Aug 29th to hear the heartbeat, hopefully. Every twinge and ache I over analyze. I stare at the toilet paper looking for blood. It's been a whole lot of fun. However, I've had morning sickness. Like, bad. The doc put me on Zofran on Friday. I've had it for five days. Today is Wednesday, I wake up...and ..it's gone? Usually I can't wait to gobble that pill down and I even ate breakfast and I don't feel anything. Has me extremely worried.
You're either not interested in food during early pregnancy or you're beyond ravenous! When hunger strikes, go with your instincts and eat. Can you eat anything? You may not want to. Instead, eat foods that'll fill you up and nourish you and your babe at the same time!
Everyone wants to have mementos of their pregnancy. So we make belly casts, document our pregnancy with plenty of pictures, frame our ultrasounds, and get 3D, 4D ultrasounds.
Here's a new and interesting idea that might get some traction! A bar owner in Minnesota has installed a pregnancy test dispenser in his women's restroom. Women can purchase the $3 pregnancy tests with signage reading, "Think Before You Drink."
I'm pregnant again. Found out Monday, July 30, 2012. My period was due on the 29th. I have had no spotting, but I have this weird pain in the site of my ectopic pregnancy. I've had the pain since the ectopic, but it's never been enough to make me seek a doctor. It's still not enough, over the counter pain meds take care of it, but I think since I'm pregnant, I'm super duper paranoid about it.
I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. Probably just blood work and maybe a papsmear.
My emotions are all over the place. I bust into tears for every little thing.


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It doesn't matter who wwe signed. wwe writers give divas very little tv time. 2-3 min matches. not enough time. for people in seats. to get into match. that why u hear no reaction from crowd. when wwe puts divas out for quicxk 2-3 min match. if writers would give divas same amount time. let;s say mccool got in 2008-2011. or lita trish were top 2 stars in divas divison. the crowd would be more into divas. how can crowd get into match that last a few mins? it is shame was writers and wwe treat divas.
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There's been 23 armed robberies in eight days in Carteret County, and now authorities fear that same person has struck in neighboring Craven County, responsible for Tuesday night's violent holdup at the Riverdale Minimart near New Bern.
The gunman shot the clerk in the back, who was on the floor behind the counter. The victim is now recovering at the hospital. Lawmen say the gunman cleaned out the register before taking off.
Authorities are now working with the Carteret County Sheriff's Office to determine if the same person is responsible for all of the recent robberies.
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Components:duck egg blue pearls, light blue crystal rondelles, caramel pearls
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Repubs buckle. Dems Win. This is why we need new people in DC
Real U.S. Stealth-Tech Advantage: Its Assembly Lines
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Air Force had a world monopoly on radar-evading technology — and with it, a huge advantage over any rival. Several generations of stealth fighters and bombers, from the earliest F-117s to the 1990s-vintage B-2s and today's F-22s, have helped win wars, take down regimes and exert U.S. influence across the globe.
Then something happened. In an eventful two years, the United States has apparently lost its stealth monopoly to Russia, China and several other countries that have already flown their own stealth-fighter prototypes — or might soon. U.S. stealth planes are still better and far more numerous than any other country's, and will be for a long time. But they're no longer alone.
The implications could be enormous, for the United States and the world.
Or not. There's evidence that most countries are merely bluffing with their stealth-fighter plans. In that case, U.S. stealth dominance could continue … only slightly diminished.
Obama required that only these dangerous bulbs be sold after this year. (It is just your family.)
Mercury Vapor Released from Broken Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Exceed Safe Exposure Levels for Humans, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (July 6, 2011) — Once broken, a compact fluorescent light bulb continuously releases mercury vapor into the air for weeks to months, and the total amount can exceed safe human exposure levels in a poorly ventilated room, according to study results reported in Environmental Engineering Science, a peer-reviewed online only journal published monthly by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
New Force Driving Earth's Tectonic Plates
Reconstruction of the Indo-Atlantic Ocean at 63 million years, during the time of the superfast motion of India which Scripps scientists attribute to the force of the Reunion plume head. The arrows show the relative convergence rate of Africa (black arrows) and India (dark blue) relative to Eurasia before, during and after (from left to right) the period of maximum plume head force. The jagged red and brown lines northeast of India show two possible positions of the trench (the subduction zone) between India and Eurasia depending on whether the India-Eurasia collision occurred at 52 million years or 43 million years. (Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
Paul Ryan Challenges Obama to Debate: 'You Pick: When and Where?'
The U.S. Supreme Court has until Thursday to intervene before Texas is scheduled to put to death a convicted murderer and rapist from Mexico of a 16 year old girl whose execution could place the U.S. in violation of a 38-year international treaty.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday rejected Humberto Leal Garcia's bid for a 180-day stay of execution, leaving only Gov. Rick Perry and the high court standing in the way of his lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58391.html#ixzz1RN0Cgy1I
It is always the cover up that gets them
TILL MORE ON THAT ATF GUN-SMUGGLING OPERATION: Email Confirms 'Gunwalker' Known Throughout Justice Department: Attorney General Holder's credibility takes another hit.
White House staffers get raises more than double national average...
White House Staffers Got a Raise Last Year, And You Did Not
The White House released its annual salary report last week, and as usual, it's nice to work for Barack Obama: Most staffers who were there for more than a year got a salary bump. A bigger one than you did.
The last time we checked in on White House salaries, we found that an astonishing 75% of continuing staffers got raises from 2009 to 2010—a huge number given the fact that, according to compensation experts, most companies had skipped routine raises that year in reaction to the economic crisis that the White House was busy failing to solve. This time around—from 2010 to 2011—the ratio is a little less dramatic. Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146—or 54%—received raises. The average salary increase was 16%.
Double Standard and he really does not know his history.
Obama: Lincoln Built Intercontinental Railroad During Civil War
Imagine the tsunami of ink that would be spilled if Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin proclaimed that Abraham Lincoln built an intercontinental railroad during the Civil War.
Gov't running out of TP in Coney Island
Milton Friedman famously said that if you put Big Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years there would be a shortage of sand. Put it in charge of the public restrooms at Coney Island and you get this:
The city is so hard up for cash that it's rationing toilet paper in women's public restrooms — to the point where bathroom attendants are doling out a few measly squares per patron — along the world-famous Coney Island boardwalk.
Systemic Cheating by Atlanta Public School Educrats
Congratulations to Atlanta public school educrats. They may have stumbled onto the holy grail : a means to equalize not opportunity, but achievement. The discovery was made while cheating on students' behalf .
Fifty-six schools were investigated, and cheating was found in 44, or nearly 80 percent, as CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.
It's a scathing report: A decade of systemic cheating in Atlanta's school system by the adults. Dozens of educators erased wrong student answers on state standardized tests, and inserted the right ones.
In all, investigators accused 38 principals of cheating and said 82 of the 178 educators they identified as part of the scandal confessed.
At least one whistleblower has been fired for speaking up about the systemic cheating.
Happy birthday bikini!
Fast and Furious is about to break
ATF GUNRUNNING SCANDAL UPDATE: Gunwalker: The ATF's Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department. "In a blockbuster development in the Operation Fast & Furious gun-running scandal, Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson secretly testified before House and Senate investigators on July 4 with his own personal lawyer present, former United States Attorney Richard Cullen, without the knowledge of the ATF or the Department of Justice. . . . Contrary to the Justice Department's denials, according to Melson, ATF agents specifically witnessed transfers of weapons from straw purchasers to third parties without taking any further action." Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: Reader Christopher Tolley writes: "My take is that the MSM will excoriate those viciously partisan, shoot-from-the-hip, renegade Republicans, Issa and Grassley, for obtaining Melson's testimony in 'secret', and ignore the substance of what Melson actually said."
Eggs are good for you.
Eggs' Antioxidant Properties May Help Prevent Heart Disease and Cancer, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2011) — One of nature's most perfect foods may be even better for us than previously thought.
While eggs are well known to be an excellent source of proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals, researchers at the University of Alberta recently discovered they also contain antioxidant properties, which helps in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
They found the yolks contained two amino acids, tryptophan and tyrosine, which have high antioxidant properties.
After analyzing the properties, the researchers determined that two egg yolks in their raw state have almost twice as many antioxidant properties as an apple and about the same as half a serving (25 grams) of cranberries.
However, when the eggs were fried or boiled, antioxidant properties were reduced by about half, and a little more than half if the eggs were cooked in a microwave.
"It's a big reduction but it still leaves eggs equal to apples in their antioxidant value," said Wu.
Racist when Repubs pass it, ok when Dems do it
Whoa! Democrats Pass Strict Voter ID Law In Rhode Island
Opponents surprised by Chafee's signing of voter-ID bill
PROVIDENCE - The fight over Rhode Island's new voter identification law continued for three days after Governor Chafee quietly signed the legislation, with opponents saying they were led by the governor's office to believe they still had a fighting chance.
A week earlier, Democratic North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed a voter-ID bill passed by her state's Republican-controlled legislature, saying it would "unnecessarily and unfairly disenfranchise many eligible and legitimate voters."
But there was no such opposition from Chafee in Rhode Island, where Democrats overwhelmingly control the House and Senate. Democratic House Speaker Gordon D. Fox was one of the co-sponsors of the new voter-identification law, along with Democrat Jon Brien, of Woonsocket, and Republicans Joseph Trillo, of Warwick, and Doreen Costa, of North Kingstown.
Read more: http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/general_assembly_aftermath_6_07-06-11_5HP15FU_v15.38279.html#ixzz1RLqvAl1r
America's Largest Union Asks Obama: 'Where Are the Jobs?'
A top labor union echoed Republicans in their question for President Obama ahead of his Twitter town hall on Wednesday afternoon.
"Where are the jobs?" the AFL-CIO asked Obama on its Twitter page, picking up on a refrain more typical of angry Republican lawmakers than labor groups.
Americans doing what they do best.
New Technology Makes Textiles Permanently Germ-Free
Inventor Jason Locklin is surrounded by his project team; (left) Vikram Dhende, graduate student, and (right) Ian Hardin, a professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2011) — A University of Georgia researcher has invented a new technology that can inexpensively render medical linens and clothing, face masks, paper towels -- and yes, even diapers, intimate apparel and athletic wear, including smelly socks -- permanently germ-free.
One more reason to distrust the Media
Scientific reason for the munchies
Greece or California? Hard to tell anymore.
More than 1,400 state employees were paid in excess of $200,000 last year, according to compensation data made public for the first time Tuesday on Controller John Chiang's website.
Chiang, a Democrat who has received millions in campaign contributions from state employee unions, did not include workers' names even though that information is public and has been provided upon request for years.
In October, in response to the salary scandals in Bell, Chiang collected and published payroll information from California counties and cities. His staff left names out then because "it wasn't our data, [and] couldn't be verified or scrubbed for confidential information," said Jacob Roper, a spokesman for the controller.
Chiang followed the same template in posting the state payroll. Roper denied that the identities of employees were left out to avoid upsetting the politically powerful employee unions.
$838,706 paid to CA prison psychiatrist
The doctor, whose name wasn't released, had a salary range of $261,408 to $308,640 and collected a total of $838,706, according to data released by Controller John Chiang.
Forget playing the lottery--work for the state of California, the money is better.
Cheating in school...by the teachers and principals.
Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students' answer sheets.
Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.
Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children's ability to learn.
More political correctness added to California history books
The bill, passed on a party-line vote, adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as well as people with disabilities to the list of groups that schools must include in the lessons. It also would prohibit material that reflects adversely on gays.
First Harry Potter review from England.
"This is monumental cinema, awash with gorgeous tones, and carrying an ultimate message that will resonate with every viewer, young or old: there is darkness in all of us, but we can overcome it. "
Hollywood Highest Paid Women
Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, with annual salaries of $30 million (£18.6 million) each, are the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, according to a new ranking
Angelina Jolie began her relationship with Brad Pitt in the year she turned 30 Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is one of the Hollywood identities named as members of President Barack Obama's Committee on Arts and the Humanities Photo: AP
Aniston has already run into controversy over the film, after she said that it demonstrated that men are no longer a necessary ingredient in forming a family
Snoops disagrees with some of the assertions in the July 4th signers' story, which is is linked to as well.
Why California is doomed
CA legislature passes gay-history mandate as the ship sinks
1400 state employees make more than $200K.
How The Government Destroyed Our Economy
George Will explains:
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act pressured banks to relax lending standards to dispense mortgages more broadly across communities. In 1992, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston purported to identify racial discrimination in the application of traditional lending standards to those, Morgenson and Rosner write, "whose incomes, assets, or abilities to pay fell far below the traditional homeowner spectrum."
In 1994, Bill Clinton proposed increasing homeownership through a "partnership" between government and the private sector, principally orchestrated by Fannie Mae, a "government-sponsored enterprise" (GSE). It became a perfect specimen of what such "partnerships" (e.g., General Motors) usually involve: Profits are private, losses are socialized.
There was a torrent of compassion-speak: "Special care should be taken to ensure that standards are appropriate to the economic culture of urban, lower-income, and nontraditional consumers." "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor." Government having decided to dictate behavior that markets discouraged, the traditional relationship between borrowers and lenders was revised. Lenders promoted reckless borrowing, knowing they could offload risk to purchasers of bundled loans, and especially to Fannie Mae. In 1994, subprime lending was $40 billion. In 1995, almost one in five mortgages was subprime. Four years later such lending totaled $160 billion.
Indiana Jones Smiles
$22 Billion Treasure Found In Indian Temple Vault
India has been through many, many foreign invasions; the invaders often looted Hindu temples as their first order of business. This should help explain why:
Gold coins dating back to the era of the East India Company, sacks of diamonds and solid-gold idols are among the treasures that have been found in the sealed vaults of a 16th century Hindu temple, according to temple officials and news reports.
The treasure, which had been sealed for over a century, is estimated to be worth at least $22 billion – making Trivandrum's Sree Padmanabhaswamy perhaps India's richest temple.
A new record: Dead stop to 223 mph in one mile. (This car has gone 267 mph so this record will fall shortly)
This world speed record car went faster than a Space Shuttle
This heavily-modified street-legal Ford GT made history as the first car recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for standing-mile speed at 223 mph. Even cooler: they did it on the runway used for landing Space Shuttles.
The car itself is a monster, outfitted with a fully-built twin-turbo Ford GT motor running over 25 pounds of boost and producing 1,400 horsepower. The body uses a slippery aerodynamic sealant called "PerformaBond" and a custom suspension setup to squeeze every last mph out of the car, which is still technically street legal.
The Mystery of the Phantom Pyramid That Never Existed
There's nothing triangular about the Mount Teide volcano. From its base, it's the third largest volcano in the world but is pretty flat on top. So why does its shadow look like a perfect ghost pyramid rising over the horizon?
Miss America
The beauty queen who lost an incredible 110lbs to win a shot at Miss America crown
Bree Boyce, a 22-year-old singer from South Carolina, is this year's surprise Miss America hopeful after she lost an incredible 110lbs to win her state contest. Stunning photographs chart her remarkable transformation - from an overweight and awkward teenager to a self-confident and charming young woman, with a body which looks toned and healthy rather than starved.
Oil Prices Climb Back to Pre-Reserve Release Levels. "Crude raced higher Tuesday as energy bulls pushed Nymex oil back toward the $100-a-barrel mark, prices last seen before world governments said they would release crude from their reserves last month."
Note this take: "It would be like intervention in the currency markets in the 1980s. The intended purpose was to psychologically drive down prices and every time they intervened it almost expressed their desperation…it would be like putting gasoline on a burning fire."
China saves us from GW. No seriously, well almost serious…
More Climate Confusion
Nothing provokes a tantrum from the climate campaign quicker than pointing out that global temperatures flattened out after 1998, following a two-decade period of more or less steady increase of about 0.4 degrees Celsius.
Comes now the National Academy of Sciences, which yesterday published a new paper that sets out to explain "why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008." Apparently the NAS didn't get the memo from the Center for American Progress that we're not supposed to acknowledge that global warming has not happened over the last decade.
But not to worry. The NAS has it covered. As the rest of the abstract explains:
We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a period of little increase in the sum of anthropogenic and natural forcings. Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven-year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short-lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations. As such, we find that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known warming and cooling effects.
Translation: China is saving us with their soaring emissions from coal use (sulfur dioxide particles reflect solar radiation).
DailyBrisk breaks the 900,000th mark worldwide and is now in the top 250,000th websites in the US. Thank You. 14 months ago we were 7,500,000th.
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