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Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) is trading down 82.0 points (-0.6%) at 13,124 as of Friday, May 4, 2012, 9:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 25 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 735.7 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 604 issues advancing vs. 2,064 declining with 141 unchanged. The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), which is sporting a 17-cent gain (+0.4%) bringing the stock to $39.76. Volume for Kraft Foods currently sits at 582,519 shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 8.4 million shares. Kraft Foods has a market cap of $70.35 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and food & beverage industry. Shares are up 6.3% year to date as of Thursday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.9%. Kraft Foods Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets packaged food products worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.9, equal to the average food & beverage industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. TheStreet Ratings rates Kraft Foods as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.The
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I know how to use Photoshop very well. I know how mountains, rivers and erosion work. There is no way I'm gonna do this by hand.
How can I use Fractal Terrains and/or Wilbur to flesh it out? How do I make the terrain random? How do I make a smooth transition to water (staying true to the outline)?
I would like to use Wilbur because I want to create realistic erosion and rivers. I've just gone through an awesome tutorial taking a Fractal Terrains map and using it in Wilbur to make realistic terrain.
It seems that without the random goodness of FT I am lost! But I really want to use this outline I've drawn.
I have tried a tutorial on the Wilbur creator's website. I have also tried applying fractal noise with a multiply setting - whether I'm on the right track I have no idea, because the rest of the settings are gobbledygook. I tried introducing randomness via Photoshop, the Clouds filter, but when imported to Wilbur this makes my land look like slices of bread stacked up.
Is there a tutorial that does a good job on this? Surely it's a common task (outline to realism), but what I've seen so far ends up looking ridiculous.


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Kids rule the aisles while parents tag along for the ride at Toys "R" Us. The company is one of the world's largest toy retailers despite losing its top position in the US to retailing behemoth Wal-Mart. Toys "R" Us sells its wares in more than 1,800 retail or licensed stores worldwide, as well as online. Of its 870 Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us stores in the US, the retailer operates 240 juvenile stores and more than 200 side-by-side stores, which sell both toys and juvenile products. It also runs 265 smaller Express stores for seasonal times and operates the legendary FAO Schwarz brand. Toys "R" Us is privately held by investment companies KKR and Bain Capital and real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust.
Toys "R" Us operates two business segments: Toys "R" Us Domestic and Toys "R" Us International. Its domestic segment, which generated 61% of the company's total revenue in fiscal 2015 (ended January), focuses on selling products in the core toy, juvenile (including baby), learning, and seasonal categories through about 870 stores that operate in 49 states in the US, Puerto Rico, and Guam as well as the Internet. The company's international segment brought in 39% of the company's FY2015 revenues, and peddles the same product categories through 730 operated and 210 licensed stores in 36 countries and jurisdictions and through the Internet.
The toy maker and marketer's business is supported by 18 distribution centers: 8 devoted to domestic operations and 10 focused on international operations (excluding licensed business). The company's third party logistics providers JB Hunt Transport and Performance Team Freight Systems manage the delivery of inventory from the company's distribution centers to its stores.Some of the company's subsidiaries include Toys "R" Us Properties (UK) Limited; Toys "R" US Europe, LLC; and Toys "R" Us Australia Holdings, LLC. The company also owns famed upscale toy emporium FAO Schwarz, which operates a landmark store in New York City, as well as the KB Toys brand and e-commerce site. Toys "R" Us's online offerings include Toysrus.com, Babiesrus.com, Toys.com, as well as etoys.com, which sells toys and juvenile products.Geographic Reach
Toys "R" Us operates in the US and more than 35 countries around the world. It generates 60% of its total sales from its US stores, another 11% from Europe, and 10% from Japan. The company's other major markets are in Canada, the UK, China and Southeast Asia, and Australia, which made up a combined 18% of the its total sales in 2014.Sales and MarketingThe toy retailer utilizes a variety of marketing and advertising channels to reach its target audiences. Its mass marketing programs include email marketing, national television and radio spots, direct mail, targeted magazine advertisements, catalogs/rotos, and ads in national or local newspapers. Other strategies include targeted door-to-door distribution, direct mailings to loyalty program members, and in-store marketing. Toys "R" Us's most effective piece of advertising in the United States is "The Great Big Christmas Book" promotional catalog, which is sent before the holiday selling season via direct mail, newspapers, and in its stores.Toys "R" Us spent $379 million on advertising in fiscal 2015 (ended January), compared to $433 million and $449 million in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013, respectively.
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Toys "R" Us's annual revenues have been slowly declining since 2012 due to fierce competition among larger big-box retailers. The retailer's revenue dipped by 1% to $12.36 billion in fiscal 2015 (ended January), mostly due to unfavorable foreign exchange rates tied to the stronger US dollar. Excluding foreign currency impacts, however, net sales actually increased slightly thanks to new International store openings and comparable International store sales growth of 1.8%, driven by higher action figure, seasonal outdoor product, and construction toy sales. Sales declined by nearly 2% in the US, however, as video game, portable electronic, educational electronics, creative activity products,and outdoor product sales dragged. Girls' role play products and accessories in the US, however, were a bright spot.Toys "R" Us entered the red for a second year, reporting a net loss of $292 million as high selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs continued to leave the company with razor-thin profit margins. The retailer cut its losses drastically compared to the prior year's $1 billion loss, however, mostly as it didn't face the $378 million in goodwill impairment charges and the $51 million in losses from obsolete inventory suffered in FY2014. Additionally, the company paid less in income taxes, SG&A costs, and interest expenses in FY2015. The retailer's cash levels also rebounded sharply in fiscal 2015 thanks to fewer cash losses, though operations used $476 million for the year.
As one of the last big toy retailers, Toys "R" Us is grappling with how to grow its business amid a weak selling environment for specialty retailers. The toy chain competes with Wal-Mart Stores and Target, which both lure shoppers with groceries and other basics. Furthermore, its breath of selection is being challenged by online giant Amazon.com.
To turn around its situation and set the company up for long-term profitability, the retailer in 2015 reiterated its customer convenience-oriented strategy to integrate both its online and brick-and-mortar offerings by utilizing its "In-Store Pick Up," "Ship from Store," and "Ship to Store" fulfillment channels. In recent years, it's also been using its "juvenile integration" strategy, seeking to boost sales and profits by offering customers "one-stop shopping" by building new side-by-side stores, which combine its Toys "R" Us stores and Babies "R" Us stores merchandise under one roof, and by converting existing stores to the hybrid format. The company has also been looking to improve its supply chain management, optimize its inventory mix, and upgrade its automated replenishment system to improve its inventory turnover.
Toys "R" Us's IPO, which it retracted in 2013, was meant to underscore the impressive turnaround at the once-troubled toy retailer. Indeed, under CEO Storch, the former vice chairman of Target, Toys "R" Us has made a concerted effort to clean up its stores and reduce clutter to make shopping easier and more enjoyable. Storch has also been focused on making Toys "R" Us a leaner, more efficient retailer with an emphasis on customer service. Storch has also improved relations with key manufacturers, such as Mattel and Hasbro, to ensure they keep the store's shelves lined with high-quality products.
Company Background
In March 2013, Toys "R" Us withdrew its IPO after sitting on it for almost three years. Despite an impressive turnaround as a private company under CEO Jerry Storch, the wild swings in the stock market and fear of another recession finally spurred the company to formally withdraw the offering. More fundamentally, the toy seller's sales growth had stalled and competition had increased, which ultimately conspired to doom its IPO prospects. Toys "R" Us was taken private in 2005 by a private equity group after being a public company for nearly three decades (1978 through 2005). The toy retailer first ventured overseas in 1984.
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XFX 9800GTX Review
Reviewed by: ccokeman
Reviewed on: April 1, 2008
Price: $299.99
Over the past month, Nvidia has launched its 9 series graphics cards one at a time. Each launch is eagerly awaited by the enthusiast community just to see if the expectation that something new has got to be better actually holds true. With the 9600GT, the performance improvement over its predecessor was on the order of 77% or greater in my testing. The 9800GX2 was supposed to compete with the 8800GT when in SLI mode, but the early drivers were a bit buggy and so performance should increase as the drivers mature. The one everyone has been waiting for is the 9800GTX. Specifications and comparison data have shown up on the Net in recent weeks, as well as the associated speculation and rumors about the 9800GTX's performance. At last, after a few delays, the top single GPU card in the Nvidia food chain has arrived.
The XFX 9800GTX features a GPU core clock speed of 675MHz, a shader clock of 1688MHz, 1100MHz on the 512MB of high speed GDDR3 memory, and 128 Stream processors that run at 1.69GHz. The GPU core is built on a 65nm process and has 754 million transistors packed into that small patch of silicon. Will the 9800GTX be a worthy successor to the G80 8800GTX crown? Let's find out.
Closer Look:
The box that houses the XFX 9800GTX lets you know that this is the factory hot rod. The 9 that lets you know what series this card belongs to shows some of the parts typically used to modify the engine in a car to increase performance attached to it. This says high performance all the way. The front panel lists several of the 9800GTX's specifications, such as the 675MHz core speed, its SLI capability and the fact that this card has 512MB of memory and is HDMI ready. The rear panel shows both of the capabilities of the 9800GTX; excellent gameplay and the top-of-the-line home theater capability are the highlights.
Sliding the inner box out, it is the familiar XFX/Nvidia green with the XFX logo on top. Opening this box reveals the documentation and software for this card. Under the software is where the 9800GTX is housed. Much like the XFX 9800GX2 we recently reviewed, the 9800GTX was packed tightly in a soft foam enclosure. Beside the foam is where the accessory bundle is stored. This includes the cables and adapters to get you connected.
The accessory bundle includes everything you will need to get connected, from a D-Sub to DVI adapter to the digital audio cable for the High Definition experience. Included are the S-Video cable, an S-Video to component dongle, DVI to HDMI adapter, DVI to D-Sub adapters, digital audio cable, a quick start guide, troubleshooting and tips guide and the driver and Company of Heros discs.
Now that you have seen how the card is shipped, packaged and what comes with it, I can break down the card and show it off.
Closer Look:
The XFX 9800GTX is a full size video card that is designed to be used in a x16 PCI-E 1.0 or 2.0 slot on the motherboard. The 9800GTX features a GPU clock speed of 675MHz with a memory speed of 1100MHz on a 256-bit memory interface. The card uses a dual slot cooling solution, so two slots will need to be available to use the 9800GTX. The front side shows the Hot Rod number 9 again, leading one down the thought path that this is the fastest card there is.
The available connectivity for the GTX includes two DVI ports that support Dual link DVI, as well as an S-Video port that can be used with a dedicated cable or hooked to the included S-Video to component dongle. Hot air is discharged out of the grill area, helping eliminate any chance of recycling hot air in the case. The rear of the card is open to allow cool air to flow into the fan enclosure and cool the capacitors on the way to the heatsink.
Along the top of the card are the power connections. Two 6-pin PCI-E power cables are required to power the 9800GTX. If one is not connected, the card does not function as intended. The overclcoking features are disabled when only one connection is made. XFX includes two 4-pin molex to 6-pin adapters, but that setup is less than ideal according to the literature sent with the card. The digital audio connection can be seen just to the right of the power connectors. The GTX is Tri-SLI capable and uses two bridge connections instead of the one seen on all of the other 9 series cards.
Pulling off the heatsink we can see what lies beneath the shroud. The tail end of the 9800GTX carries the voltage regulation circuits while the mid section is dominated by the GPU and memory.
The cooling solution used on the 9800GTX is a copper/aluminum composite piece. The memory goes to the main aluminum body and the GPU core has a copper base that has several heatpipes running into aluminum fins to dissipate the heat. With the fan on automatic, I never saw the high side of 70 Celsius during testing.
The GPU is lettered G92-420-A2. The core is manufactured using a 65nm process and has 754 million transistors. XFX and Nvidia have used a shim around the core to prevent damage from occurring. Probably a good thing since these cards are bound to be put under subzero cooling by the extreme crowd! The memory used is manufactured by Samsung and is rated for 1200MHz. Looks like a good bit of head room is built into the 9800GTX, at least on the memory.
You have seen the bundle and seen what the card has to offer, so let's get it installed and running.
Just putting that brand new XFX 9800GTX into your system does not guarantee that it will work as it is intended to. For that to happen, you need to configure the card using the drivers and settings to optimize the performance for your needs.
Start out by inserting the software disk into the optical drive and let the autorun feature bring up the installation GUI.The driver version on the disk is version 174.40. Once open, press enter to move on to the installation of the drivers. Choose video drivers and move forward.
Choose Windows drivers and the installation process will begin. Allow the installer to complete and you will be prompted with a message that the computer must be restarted to complete the installation. Do so to finish the installation.
Once the installation is completed, the place to configure the video card software is the Nvidia Control Panel.
With the drivers installed and the settings viewed in the control panel, it's time to move on to testing the XFX 9600GT.
Fabrication Process
65 nm
Number of Transistors
754 million
Core Clock (Including dispatch, texture units, and ROP units)
675 MHz
Shader Clock (Processor Cores)
1688 MHz
Processor Cores
Memory Clock (Clock rate / Data rate)
1100 MHz / 2200 MHz
Memory Interface
256 bit
Total Memory Bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
Memory Size
Texture Filtering Units
Texture Filtering Rate
43.2 GigaTexels/sec
HDCP Support
HDMI Support
Yes (Using DVI-to-HDMI adaptor)
2 x Dual-Link DVI-I 1 x 7-pin HDTV Out
400 MHz
Bus Technology
PCI Express 2.0
Form Factor
Dual Slot
Power Connectors
2 x 6-pin
Max Board Power
156 watts
GPU Thermal Threshold1
- Resolutions up to 2560 X 1600 allow for extreme HD gaming
- PureVideo® HD technology provides a premium HD DVD or Blu-ray movie viewing
- HybridPower™* technology offers exceptional graphics performance and power savings for everyday needs
- SLI® technology and PCIe 2.0 compatibility guarantee amazing performance scaling and ultra fast data transfers
- The perfect price and performance combination to get the most bang for your buck
At OverclockersClub.com, we use a series of benchmarks to stress the graphics card. We will use a series of newer, as well as a few more seasoned, gaming benchmarks to show how well the XFX 9800GTX compares to some of the other enthusiast video cards on the market. All driver settings and clockspeeds will be left at factory default settings on both the CPU and GPU to minimize or eliminate any variables from impacting the results. The test system used in this review is listed below. After testing the card at stock speeds, I will overclock the video card to see what kind of performance can be gained. All testing is done with the default settings in the respective control panels as well as default settings in the BIOS of the motherboard used in this test.
- Processor: Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 266x9
- Motherboard:Abit IX38 Quad GT
- Memory: Mushkin XP2 Redline 8000 2 x 2GB 5-5-5-12
- Video Card(s): XFX 9800GTX
- Power Supply: Mushkin 650watt Modular Power supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 320GB SATA
- Opticals: NEC DV5700
- O/S: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Comparison Video Cards:
- Sapphire HD 3870
- Asus EN8800GT TOP
- Asus 8800 GTS G92
- Asus 8800 GTX
Overclocked settings:
One thing the XFX 9800GTX does really well is overclock. Finding the highest GPU core and memory clocks individually results in higher clock speeds, but the idea is to find the area where the two work well together and don't crash the application and driver. 842MHz on the GPU core and 1280MHz on the memory with the shader clocks just a hair over 2100MHz results in a nice performance boost. Overclocking the GPU core while leaving the memory at the stock 1100MHz resulted in a core clock speed of 862MHz. Overclocking the memory with the GPU core clock at the stock 675MHz resulted in a memory clock speed of 1288MHz. Unfortunately, I could not manage to boost both clockspeeds to their independent maximums. But the final results are more than I was expecting after the 8800GTs that I have worked with. In many of the benchmarks, the performance increases were not huge, showing the CPU to be the bottleneck in this system. To prove this theory, I overclocked the CPU to a modest 3.0GHz just to see if a larger increase in performance resulted from the video card overclock. In 3DMark06, the score increased to 14683 with just the increase in CPU clockspeed. After the controversy surrounding the 9600GT cards being linked to the PCI-E bus clock as well as the onboard 27MHz clock, I thought I would test and see if the same thing happened with the 9800GTX. I raised the PCI-E clock to 108MHz and proceeded to increase the clockspeeds until I reached the maximum I could achieve, 816MHz on the GPU core and 1224MHz on the memory. Comparing performance at the two overclocked speeds showed performance to be almost identical with the two scenarios. In my book, the increase is an increase no matter how you look at it. If this is indeed true, it is just another tool in the overclocking toolbox that can be used.
- Video:
- Crysis
- Knights of the Sea
- Bioshock
- Call of Duty 4
- World in Conflict
- Call of Jaurez
- 3DMark 06 Professional
Crysis is a new addition to the gaming benchmark suite used at OverclockersClub.com. This game is one of the most anticipated and system intensive games to be released to the gaming community. The Crysis single player demo includes both a CPU and GPU benchmark to test the performance of the processor and video card installed in the system.
- 2x Anti-Aliasing
- Advanced settings to medium
The 9800GTX performed better than all of the cards tested in Crysis. At 1024 x 768 it performed worse overclocked than stock, on the rest of the resolutions it performed better than the baseline number.
PT Boats: Knights of the Sea is a new DX10 title that features its own proprietary graphics engine currently in development. The game is a combination of real time strategy and simulation. You have the ability to control the entire crew or just a single member. Play as the German, Russian or Allied navies and prove your mettle on the open seas.
The settings we will use are below:
- AA: x0
- Image Quality: High
- Direct X Version: 10
- All resolutions 60HZ
The 9800GTX outperforms the 8800GTX until 1920 x 1200, where each card's score is the same.
Benchmark: BioShock
BioShock is one of the newest games on the market. It is a demanding game that will make your hardware scream for mercy. This first-person shooter allows for an infinite number of weapons and modifications to provide a unique experience each time it is played.
- All settings to Maximum
- V-Sync off
The closest competition for the 9800GTX is the 8800GTS. No surprise there.
Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare is the latest successor in the Call of Duty series. This iteration of the game is fought in many of the world's hot spots with modern armaments and firepower. You can play as either a U.S. Marine or British S.A.S. trooper.
The settings used are listed below:
- Anti-aliasing: x4
- Anistropic Filtering : Max
- Texture Quality: Extra
- All settings Max
Call of Duty 4 is not kind to the GTX. It loses to the GTS in three out of four resolutions.
World In Conflict is a newly released DX10 real time strategy game that simulated the all out war that the world hopes never comes. The difference in this RTS game is that it is not the typical generate wealth and build type of game. You advance by conquering your foe.
The settings we will use are listed below:
- Graphic Detail :Very High
This game is severely CPU limited. Scores barely move from the baseline across the range of resolutions. By overclocking the CPU, significant changes in performance can be expected.
Call of Juarez is a DirectX10 First Person Shooter set in the Wild West of the late 1800s. The game is inspired in part by the movies of the Wild West genre of the seventies and eighties. The game can be played as both single player and multiplayer. The game focuses on realistic graphics and gameplay designed to take advantage of the latest video cards on the market.
The settings we will use are listed below.
- Details: High
- Shadowmap size 2048x2048
- Shadow Quality: Normal
- Anti Aliasing: MSAA 4X
It takes some serious graphics power to run this game at high settings. The 9800GTX stays just barely ahead of its predecessor in all of the resolutions.
Benchmark: Company of Heroes (Opposing Fronts)
Company of Heroes (Opposing Fronts) is the latest chapter in the Company of Heroes series. The scene is WWII. The Mission is Operation Market Garden, the first Allied attempt to break into the Third Reich. Play as the British or Germans. This real time strategy game is brought to us by Relic entertainment.
- 8x AA
- All other settings to maximum
The 9800GTX is beat by the 8800GTS at 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024. The 8800GTX was outperformed in every resolution.
3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.
- SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
- CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
- HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze
The 9800GTX outperforms the entire suite of video cards in the 3DMark06 testing, including the 768MB 8800GTX.
So is the 9800GTX the next greatest thing since sliced bread? Yes and No! In 23 out of the 32 tests run, it outperformed the entire suite of cards tested. In 28 out of 32, it outperformed the 8800GTX that it is replacing; in two tests it equaled the performance and in two it outright lost. For a card that looks every bit like a hopped up 8800GTS (G92), the performance is an increase over the previous generation hardware. The only problem is that the 8800GTS is close on its heels or ahead of it in the benchmarking. In the tests that the 9800GTX placed second, in almost all it was to the 8800GTS. Seeing as how the 9800GTX is priced between $299 and $349, the 9800 series comes in at half of the G80 GTX card's price. So you have the fact that it's priced right, better performance for the most part (28 out of 32 tests) than the G80 8800GTX, so where can you go wrong? The overclocking headroom on the XFX 9800GTX is huge, 141MHz on the GPU core and 124 MHz on the memory make increasing the performance of the 9800 a simple task. The gains from overclocking the GTX this high are not fully realized until you increase the speed of the CPU by overclocking it. With a small overclock on the CPU to 2.8GHz, an additional 17 frames per second was realized on the Knights of the Sea benchmark. The noise level on the XFX 9800GTX is nearly silent with the fan speed set to be automatically controlled. I never heard it ramp up even with repeated looping of the benchmarking tests. Instead of automatically controlling the fan speed, there is the option to manually control it via the Nvidia Control Panel as well as with Riva Tuner 2.08. While monitoring the temperatures, the loaded temperature never went above 70 Celsius, so it appears the dual slot cooling solution does the job quietly and efficiently. Cool and Quiet is a good thing when you consider the Hi-Def capabilities of the 9 series GPUs. You really don't want to hear the fan spool up and down while in the quiet parts of a movie.
If one card won't give the performance you are after, how about two, or better yet three? Tri and Quad SLI (9800GX2 x 2) are now realities. In the Nvidia 9 series of graphics cards, the 9800GTX is the only one capable of running Tri-SLI at this time. The G80 8800GTX and Ultras have the ability to be used in a Tri-SLI setup. The correct motherboard is of course required for either generation to use this option. There is one more SLI option to consider, Hybrid SLI. Hybrid power is part of Nvidia's Hybrid SLI technology. This option is available for use as a power savings feature that allows an onboard graphics processor to do the low power 2D graphics work, but then allow the one, two or three discrete graphics cards to come online for that all night fragfest. The most important part is the Hybrid Power compatible motherboard.
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RLM: When I was two and saw "Star Wars" for the first time I knew on a subconscious level that what I was watching was more like a painting than reality and I knew that I wanted to be that kind of a painter. As I grew up the desire to be the "George Lucas" producer/director type of filmmaker was matched by a desire to act because I wanted to master other art forms; I also play the cello and paint in surrealism. I chose to begin my personal sense of identity in the art world as a surrealist oil painter at a very early age (and I never stopped painting) because I considered myself an artist first in the way I would approach any project, and I continue that approach. I don't differentiate a performance as an actor from a painting or a feature film project. Each is an equal work of art and an equally interesting challenge with a unique message to communicate. My favorite aspect of art is the ideal that it can be seen as just another form of communication, yet as potentially the most intelligent, profound, and well thought-out form of communication available to humanity.
MSJ: What kind of challenges have you confronted in trying to be recognized in
RLM: The hardest part is getting focused. I have been having a lot of fun acting, right now I'm going to agencies for representation. I'm also working on a new set of oil paintings that are of perfect ocean waves on a beautiful sunny or moonlit beach which fades out into beautiful colors, like a dream. I also need to balance these projects with wrapping up the editing on my first feature film, Ingrid, which is currently on IMDB, which I wrote and directed during my senior year in college. It came out wonderfully, just the way I wanted it to at around 90 minutes running time. Could acting or painting be a distraction? I'm keen to figure out if one is. I doubt I'll be able to stop either though. I love painting because I am an inherently artistic soul and that is a way to express it even when I am alone. I also love acting because I'm very natural at it and I am a Taoist at heart, which talks about doing what comes naturally: Beauty in nature doesn't work hard to be what it is, it just is. By that rule of life acting should be high on my agenda because I'm natural in the way I take it seriously as an internal art form, and therefore I am always proud of the results. I played a supporting role in my own feature and that result was an indication that I should be branching out with acting. I also went to a respected magnet art high school and majored in acting and took a lot of classes in it, so I understand the craft and methods.
MSJ: Has all the years spent in preparing for a career in film worth it or do you believe that possibly another route might possibly bring about an easier or faster response to what you want as a filmmaker?
RLM: One route I often consider is turning some of my larger film projects, scripts, and concepts into books and publishing them and using success in that area to help leverage the projects as films. In the end, that doesn't seem like a shorter route to success.
MSJ: How have you changed since arriving in
RLM: I have had to grow up fast in many ways here in
MSJ: When you are alone and look at yourself in the mirror what and who do you see?
RLM: I see a warmth that comes from being loved by my family.
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SAN DIEGO – The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club has placed left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson on the 15-day disabled list with a fractured left index finger (retroactive to April 13). In addition, the club has recalled outfielder Corey Dickerson from Triple-A Colorado Springs. Dickerson (#6) will be available for tonight's game against the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park (8:10 p.m. MDT).
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Is U.S. Justice Broken?
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
From fingerprinting to criminal sentencing, from lawyer licensing to judicial selection, and from eminent domain to wealth transfers via class-action lawsuits, how do perverse incentives impact the law and what reforms would create a more just and efficient legal system?
Experts: David D. Friedman, Alex Kozinski, Edward J. López, David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement
Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression
Recorded: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of "Liberty for Latin America:
How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression."
Experts: Alvaro Vargas LlosaType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, History (International), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Drug War Crimes
Recorded: Thursday, May 6, 2004
Each year, the U.S. government spends over $30 billion on the drug war and arrests more than 1.5 million people on drug-related charges. Currently more than 318,000 people are behind bars in the U.S. for drug violationsmore than the number of people incarcer-ated for all crimes in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain combined. Have current drug laws deterred drug abuse and reduced crime? What are the real costs of this countrys war on drugs? Is there a link between the homicide rate and the amount of resources given to drug prohibition? Please join us as Boston University economist Jeffrey Miron (author of the major new book, Drug War Crimes) and former San Jose police chief, Joseph McNamara, examine these questions and explore real alternatives to Americas War on Drugs.
Jeffrey A. Miron
Boston University Professor of Economics and author of the new book, Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition. His articles on Drug Policy have appeared in Social Research, Boston Globe and the London Observer. He received his Ph. D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joseph D. McNamara
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. Former Chief of Police, San Jose, CA and Kansas City, MO. He has published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has been a commentator for NPR and has appeared on Meet the Press, Good Morning America, Sixty Minutes, and other programs.
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Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the War on Drugs. Dr. Nadelmann received his Ph.D. and J.D. from Harvard University and a Masters degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. His speaking and writings on drug policy have attracted international attention and appeared in Science, American Heritage, National Review, and others.
Experts: Joseph D. McNamara, Jeffrey A. Miron, Ethan A. NadelmannType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Drugs (Illicit), Government Waste/Pork, Law Enforcement
The Drug War on Trial: Two Judges Speak Out
Recorded: Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Drug abuse is a serious problem, but the "War on Drugs" shows no sign of being won and has come with a heavy price tag. Critics say that its side effects- increased taxes, increased crime and corruption here and abroad, loss of civil liberties, decreased health, prison overcrowding, discrimination against African Americans and other groups, and the diversion of resources away from other problems- are even worse for society than the drugs themselves. Many public officials share this sentiment but fear political reprisals if they speak out. However, Judges James Gray and Vaughn Walker, having witnessed the Drug War up close, believe that the time has come to testify publicly about its ill effects- and to outline bold, new approaches to the drug problem.
Experts: James P. Gray, Vaughn WalkerType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Drugs (Illicit), Law Enforcement
Guns and Violent Crime
Recorded: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
With the recent school massacre in Littleton, Colorado; the shootings of Jewish children in Los Angeles; and rampant drive-by shootings and other atrocities, what can and should be done to protect the innocent against violence in American society? Can government protect the citizenry against gun-related violence? What is the record of individual self-defense against violence in Britain and the U.S.? In this very timely Independent Policy Forum, acclaimed historian Joyce Lee Malcolm and civil rights attorney Don Kates will examine gun laws, violence, and rights.
Experts: Don B. Kates Jr., Joyce Lee MalcolmType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Culture/ Society, Gun Control, Law Enforcement
Stopping Violent Crime: New Directions for Reduction and Prevention
Recorded: Tuesday, December 3, 1996
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Arthur R. Miller, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Bruce L. Benson, Professor of Economics, Florida State University; Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Erika Holzer, bestselling author of book and major motion picture, Eye for an Eye
Wendy Kaminer, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
William I. Koch, Chairman, Koch Crime Commission
Alan J. Lizotte, Director, Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany
David B. Sentelle, Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
David J. Theroux, Founder and President, The Independent Institute
Richard L. Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General
Hubert Williams, President, Police Foundation
Marvin E. Wolfgang, Director, Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
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Violent crime continues to be a major social and economic problem in the United States and around the world. This important debate, held before an audience of 1,000 at Washburn University, features a panel of experts from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including criminal justice officials, business and civic leaders, scholars, and best-selling authors.
In a lively and challenging exchange of ideas, the program addresses why the criminal justice system has become increasingly bureaucratized and politicized, ever less responsive and ever more costly. Topics include victims rights, crime and incarceration rates, restitution, civil liberties, illicit drugs, guns, racism, policing, privatization, and sentencing.
Co-sponsored by The Independent Institute and Koch Crime Commission, this program was distributed by Central Educational Network and appeared on the Public Broadcasting System.
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Amen crump! This is not about improving Jefferson City. It is about a school board's desire to become a research tool or data point by taking an an entire high school down the academy road. Career academies really only benefit the high risk students and have been proven to demonstrate no significant improvement in academic achievement. I think it is a worthy experiment just not on a district wide basis. It further's my position that a second high school is needed. For those unfamiliar with a career academy, please google it before you provide a "yes" vote on this grand experiment.
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Single public high school eyed for JC
This whole bond issue should fall on its face. The only reason improvement of any sort is even being considered is so the school board can pass in this entire "academy" BS. Let's have our 7th graders decide what they want to be when they grow up and then force them down a path with a curriculum designed for that particular field. Nonsense.
I think the two high school scenario scares the board et al as it would create a situation of "haves" and "have-nots" in the quality of the student and the facilities in which they learn. Don't fool yourselves, this was never really an option.


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Solomon Islands Schools Affected By Teacher Strike
By Ednal R. Palmer
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Jan. 28, 2013) – Students throughout the Solomon Islands are again robbed of their rights to education as classroom doors are kept closed today.
The 2013 academic year is scheduled to start today, but teachers are resolute with their decision not to attend classes.
Thedecision to stage a nationwide strike was announced last Friday after the Government failed to respond to their demands effectively.
Only a few privately-run schools have opened their doors for classes to resume.
Concerned parent Joseph Hatugere said it is a pity parent prepared to pay up large sums of money as school fees and portion of the academic year is wasted.
"It is not only robbing students of their rights to education but also robbing parents of their hard earn money," Mr. Hatugere said.
He said most parents sympathized with teachers and refuse to lay the blame on them.
"It is not an easy task that teachers do every day. But as was evident, they are note well paid and their remuneration conditions not improved for far too long.
"Why should we expect quality education when people to execute the task were not properly compensated for the job they do?"
He said quality education which is in the Government's policy cannot come from proper facilities and or fee- free education.
"Its foundation lies on the shoulder of teachers and starts right in homes and inside classrooms."
Mr. Hatugere therefore said it is only right that the Government listen, act positively and make it prompt.
[PIR editor's note: TheTrade Dispute Panel in the Solomons has since warned all teachers to call off the strike and resume teaching, saying failure to comply would result in prosecution for breaching the laws of the Solomon Islands. The Panel claims, according to the TDP Act, teachers are restricted from carrying out any strikes. SINTA president Samson Faisi says the government is using the Panel to protect itself and "cover up their own failures."]
Teachers in Honiara are expected to stage a sit-in protest at the Solomon Islands Public Employees Union (SIPEU) ground near the High Court and the Prime Minister's office in Honiara.
Last February, cabinet approved and endorsed the payment of teachers re-leveling exercise, but has failed to allocate money for this.
Solomon Islands Teachers Association (SINTA) general secretary Johnley Hatimoana last week said teachers should not have any conscience of guilt over their decision to go on strike.
"We are not guilty of anything. It's the government that is guilty of failing to fulfill its promise to teachers," Mr. Hatimoana said.
The Government last Friday amidst the announcement of a nation-wide strike by SINTA said it had taken steps to avert the nation-wide strike and will refer the dispute to the Trade Dispute Panel.
A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet said that the Attorney General was preparing a referral to the TDP and urges all teachers to return to work.
SINTA has demanded the Government to implement the Teachers' Scheme of Service as per 2012 Teachers' Handbook in terms of re-leveling of entry points of teachers.
However SINTA advised that the re-leveling has to be addressed along with the arrears for 2012 before February 7, 2013.Solomon Star
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Dr. Patricia Arredondo, President of The Chicago School of Psychology, Chicago Campus, talks about the impact of affinity groups in the workplace.
These groups give employees an opportunity to network and learn from one another in an open setting, but they also help employers attract talent.
The UWM School of Continuing Education has its own affinity group for female engineers, called WiSE, or "Women in Science and Engineering." Female engineers from across the state present on a variety of pertinent topics, sharing their knowledge and experiences with women in the industry.
For more information on WiSE, click here. You can also find a fascinating study on the experiences of women in the engineering industry here.


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For the lamb: Whisk together 1 cup oil, the fennel seeds and thyme. Add the lamb to the marinade and let sit until ready to cook.
For the romesco sauce: Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Roast the garlic by placing the cloves on a baking sheet and drizzle a bit of olive oil on top. Roast until the garlic is soft, 20 minutes. Toast the almonds and hazelnuts in a frying pan. Remove and set aside. Pour a few tablespoons of the olive oil into a frying pan and quickly fry the bread until both sides are browned. Remove and let cool on a plate or paper towel. Saute the tomatoes in the same pan, adding oil if needed, for 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat. Once the bread is cool, add to a food processor with the nuts and tomatoes and blend. Add the roasted garlic along with the piquillo and roasted peppers and process on high for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the vinegar and pepper flakes. While the processor is running, slowly drizzle in the remaining oil. Add salt and black pepper to taste.
For cooking the lamb: Turn the oven to 450 degrees F. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large heavy ovenproof skillet over high heat. Sear the rack of lamb for 1 to 2 minutes on all sides. Set aside for a few minutes, and cover the ends of the bones with foil to prevent charring. Arrange the rack bone-side down in the skillet. Roast the lamb for 12 to 18 minutes, depending on the degree of doneness you want, checking the temperature with a meat thermometer. Let it rest for 5 to 7 minutes, loosely covered.
For the couscous: Bring the chicken stock to a boil, and then add the saffron and salt and pepper to taste. Pour the hot stock over the couscous, cover and let stand for 10 minutes prior to serving.
For the zucchini: Saute the zucchini with the garlic and salt and pepper to taste.
To serve, carve each rack between the bone into 3 pieces and arrange vertically with the romesco sauce underneath. Stack the zucchini between lamb with the couscous on the side. Garnish with garbanzo beans.
NotesThis recipe was provided by a chef, restaurant or culinary professional and may have been scaled down from a bulk recipe. The Food Network Kitchens have not it for home use and therefore cannot make any representation as to the results.


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tortorella to DeBoer: "Just shut up"
Rangers coach John Tortorella had his chance to rebut the comments from Devils' coach Peter DeBoer following the Rangers' 4-2 win last night.
DeBoer handed in a starting lineup with pugilists Eric Boulton, Ryan Carter and Cam Janssen, to which Tortorella said he felt compelled to counter with a starting line of Stu Bickel, Mike Rupp and Brandon Prust. That, of course, turned into a staged, three-on-three line brawl that resulted in 40 penalty minutes with the game just three seconds old. After the game, DeBoer said of Tortorella, "I guess in John's world you can come into our building and start your tough guys but we can't do the same in here. He's either got short-term memory loss or he's a hypocrite."
"I read it," Tortorella said of DeBoer's comment. "I think Peter needs to jog his memory as far as the starting lineups that I've put in over in their building and really, basically, just shut up. And I need to also. I think the situation last night is disrespectful to players and I think we took a backwards step. I get put in a position when he puts a lineup like that out - and I'm not sure what's going to happen if I put my top players out - so I have to answer the way I need to answer. Really, just look at the two lineups and some of the things he's done through the games here, again, I don't want to coach his team, but just shut up.
"Fighting's part of the game, that's a big part of the game," Tortorellla said. "But it doesn't need to be manufactured. In that type of game, Jersey and the Rangers, there were going to be fights. But it's really gotten old for me, the staged fights, it doesn't need to be manufactured. Nowadays in our league, if a guy gets hit hard, clean, everybody's looking to fight. Where hard checking and hard hitting is part of the game. And that crap at the beginning of the game, to try to manipulate it into it, I just don't think it's right for the game. I think there's enough of it, and there always will be and there should be. I'm certainly not one of the pacifists that think fighting should be out of the game, that's a big part of our game. But let the players decide. I just don't think coaches should be putting players in situations that basically dictates fighting."
Here are the starting lineups/consequences results from the five Rangers-Devils games (remember the visiting team must submit its starting lineup first, then the home team can react to that):
Dec. 20 at Newark, Rangers win 4-1: Rangers: Mike Rupp, Ruslan Fedotenko, Brandon Prust, Ryan McDonagh, Dan Girardi, Henrik Lundqvist; Devils: Cam Janssen, Tim Sestito, Eric Boulton, Kurtis Foster, Anton Volchenkov, Martin Broduer - Rupp and Janssen fight three seconds into the game. Brandon Dubinsky and David Clarkson fought at 1:47 of the first period.
Jan. 31 at Newark, Devils win, 4-3: Rangers: Brandon Dubinsky, Brad Richards, Ryan Callahan, Dan Girardi, Ryan McDonagh, Marty Biron; Devils: Petr Sykora, Patrik Elias, Clarkson, Adam Larsson, Bryce Salvador, Brodeur - No fights in the game
Feb. 7 at Madison Square Garden, Devils win, 1-0: Rangers: Rupp, Brian Boyle, Prust, Marc Staal, Bickel, Lundqvist; Devils: Boulton, Janssen, Jacob Josefson, Salvador, Volchenkov, Brodeur - Rupp and Janssen and Prust and Boulton fight concurrently two seconds into the game.
Feb. 27 at MSG, Rangers win 2-0: Rangers: Dubinsky, Boyle, Prust, Staal, Bickel, Lundqvist; Devils: Alexei Ponikarovsky, Dainius Zubrus, Steve Bernier, Andy Greene, Mark Fayne, Brodeur - Prust and Boulton fight at 16:52 of the second period, Clarkson and Dubinsky fight at 19:27 of the second period.
March 6 at Newark, Devils win 4-1: Rangers: Artem Anisimov, Derek Stepan, Marian Gaborik, Girardi, McDonagh, Lundqvist; Devils: Zach Parise, Adam Henrique, Ilya Kovalchuk, Greene, Fayne, Brodeur - Dubinsky and Carter fight at 3:03 of the first period, John Scott and Janssen fight at 12:32 of the first period.
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Looking at that, you can see the Rangers definitely had players in Rupp and Prust comfortable in taking care of themselves on the ice for the first game at New Jersey - though both are certainly more than just fighters as they've been effective on checking lines - while DeBoer submitted lineups with guys able to fight for the first and third games at Madison Square Garden.
Beyond sniping at his Devils counterpart and bemoaning the staged fights in the NHL, Tortorella again praised the job done by Rupp, Bickel and Prust as well as the way the rest of the team backed them up.
"How it started, it's a type of camaraderie, it's a type of backing one another up," Tortorella said. "The thing I liked about it, after everything happened early on, the rest of the team that don't have the jobs that the combatants had, filled in behind them and went to work to back them up. That was important for the club."
Prust said he was OK after going hard into the boards as he chased the puck alongside Henrique in the third period. Prust did not return to the game but told me he could have.
"We weren't close to the puck yet, we were both going to the puck," Prust said. "I might have done the same thing he did. He could have easily beat me to the puck, that's why I was trying to get position…I definitely went in awkwardly. I put my arm up to protect my neck."
As a result, Prust, said, he jammed his shoulder into the boards and still has soreness today, but it shouldn't be a problem for tomorrow's game against the Red Wings.
As for putting out the starting lineup he did, Prust said, "It was the right call by Torts."
Artem Anisimov, who has missed the last two games with a sore left shoulder, said he felt "better" after practice. He did not want to provide an update on his status for tomorrow but it seems like he'll be a game-day decision.
Today's lines:
Carl Hagelin-Brad Richards-Marian Gaborik
Brandon Dubinsky-Derek Stepan-Ryan Callahan
Artem Anisimov-Brian Boyle-Mats Zuccarello
Mike Rupp-John Mitchell-Brandon Prust
Extras: John Scott, Ruslan Fedotenko
All Rangers on the ice except for Steve Eminger (undisclosed) and Mike Sauer (concussion).
Lastly, some more Tortorella:
On battling through the Atlantic Division: "You have to look at it as far as the Eastern Conference as probably the toughest division. I think all the teams have been consistent right on through. Who knows where everything lays at the end of the season. Playing each other six times it lends for a tough schedule because the division is that strong."
On facing a non-conference foe in the Red Wings tomorrow night: "We're looking to get points. I think you can't help when it's a division game there's more of a rivalry, I think, or more of a focus. I shouldn't even say that because we're always trying to be focused. But you know it's a division game. There are no easy games in this league. Here's Detroit, they've fought it a little bit, a little banged up. But they're a well-coached really good hockey club. They'll be ready to play."
On clinching a playoff spot: "There's a ton of work to do. It's what you want to do, it's what you set out to do at the start of the season, to be one of those eight teams. But we have a lot of work to work out some kinks in our game."
On whether he plans to rest any of his players down the stretch with a playoff spot clinched: "Nope, we're getting plenty of rest."


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Each tool uses known sites differently, but what is common to all is that they use them to help distinguish true variants from false positives, which is very important to how these tools work. If you don't provide known sites, the statistical analysis of the data will be skewed, which can dramatically affect the sensitivity and reliability of the results.
In the variant calling pipeline, the only tools that do not strictly require known sites are UnifiedGenotyper and HaplotypeCaller.
If you're working on human genomes, you're in luck. We provide sets of known sites in the human genome as part of our resource bundle, and we can give you specific Best Practices recommendations on which sets to use for each tool in the variant calling pipeline. See the next section for details.
If you're working on genomes of other organisms, things may be a little harder -- but don't panic, we'll try to help as much as we can. We've started a community discussion in the forum on What are the standard resources for non-human genomes? in which we hope people with non-human genomics experience will share their knowledge.
And if it turns out that there is as yet no suitable set of known sites for your organisms, here's how to make your own for the purposes of BaseRecalibration: First, do an initial round of SNP calling on your original, unrecalibrated data. Then take the SNPs that you have the highest confidence in and use that set as the database of known SNPs by feeding it as a VCF file to the base quality score recalibrator. Finally, do a real round of SNP calling with the recalibrated data. These steps could be repeated several times until convergence. Good luck!
Some experimentation will be required to figure out the best way to find the highest confidence SNPs for use here. Perhaps one could call variants with several different calling algorithms and take the set intersection. Or perhaps one could do a very strict round of filtering and take only those variants which pass the test.
|dbSNP 129
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|Mills indels
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These tools require known indels passed with the
-known argument to function properly. We use both the following files:
This tool requires known SNPs and indels passed with the
-knownSites argument to function properly. We use all the following files:
These tools do NOT require known sites, but if SNPs are provided with the
-dbsnp argument they will use them for variant annotation. We use this file:
For VariantRecalibrator, please see the FAQ article on VQSR training sets and arguments.
This tool requires known SNPs passed with the
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Hi, I am following through the best practice pipeline and I am confused of which files I should use as the resource to run VQSR.
I have downloaded 4 files and I just want to make sure which file is which database.
1000G_omni2.5.b37.vcf.gz = omni,vcf 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.b37.vcf.gz = 1000G.vcf dbsnp_138.b37.vcf.gz = snp.vcf hapmap_3.3.b37.vcf.gz = hapmap.vcf
I am planning to unzipped them and run VQSR. Did I download the correct files? If not, could you tell me which files I need to use? Thank you.
I would like to have certain annotations applied only if the variants in the resource and the target have the same genomic change. Ex: In Cosmic the following variants are present.
12 25398284 . C G . PASS Genename=KRAS;MutationAA=p.G12A;MutationCDS=c.35G>C
12 25398284 . C A . PASS Genename=KRAS;MutationAA=p.G12V;MutationCDS=c.35G>T
12 25398284 . C T . PASS Genename=KRAS;MutationAA=p.G12D;MutationCDS=c.35G>A
However, in my VCF file I get the G12A annotation for all variants at this site even if the actual change is G12V or G12D.
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When I signed up for Laynie Browne's "At the Intersection of Teaching and Writing" course at the University of Arizona, I didn't expect to fall in love with teaching. I thought I would get a fun elective credit toward my Creative Writing degree and get to work with cute kids in the process. The course has forced me to reevaluate this notion of teaching poetry as a fun pastime, and to consider teaching as a career. I have never been so taken aback by my reaction to a college course, and I have never felt so passionately about an assignment. Working towards a residency has been extremely fulfilling, and interacting with a classroom of second graders has been nothing short of world changing. As a writer, it is so easy to forget why I do what I do. Aren't I just trying to get a degree? But, as it turns out, I am after so much more, and it took the talents of seven year old children to remind me of that.
Every time I visited Ms. Dunn's second grade classroom, I remembered why I fell in love with writing in the first place, and why it's not just work, but art that has the power to change the world, or at least my small part in it. I was astounded by the raw artistic talent that second graders possess, and the absolute confidence with which they put forth this talent into writing that is shockingly beautiful. They don't have the same inhibitions that adults have, and their writing is full of vulnerability, but also an incredible assuredness. They know their imaginations to be the truth, and I have yet to witness one of Ms. Dunn's writers second guess themselves after putting pencil to paper. What they produce is full of personality and life, a part of their limitless inner self set to words. Their confidence inspired me to find my own, and their pure delight at creating poetry helped me recreate my own love for something that was rapidly becoming just a major, a subject that I took classes in so I could earn a diploma. Because of this, I am tremendously excited to work with second graders next semester as I begin teaching, and my only worry is that I won't be able to give them as much as they will teach me.
University of Arizona's Poetry Center rises up from the ground in clean, straight lines and sharp angles, all steel and glass. It is legendary within the English Department for being home to the extensive poetry library and for the authors who come to do readings. I've been at the U of A for three years and have had the Poetry Center extolled to me in numerous classes, but never knew where it was.
It's a Saturday morning in October and I'm on my way to assist with a session of Poetry Joeys. I'm a little nervous as I walk up--for a writer, I am considered annoyingly gregarious, but in truth I am an introvert with somewhat severe social anxiety. There have been many Christmas parties and other social functions which I have bailed out on at the last minute due to impending panic. This game of 'social activity roulette' adds a sense of uncertainty to every occasion.
by Daniela Ugaz
Daniela moved to Tucson about a year and a half ago to start her MFA. Since then she's been spending some of her time writing, some of it teaching, some of it reading, organizing, scrounging up money and, without which none of the other things would be possible, napping! Life is good.
Part I.
I started working with kids when I was twenty. That was four years ago. Now that I think about it, actually, I babysat a couple times when I was in my early teens. It was a little boy. I don't remember his name anymore. I didn't like babysitting very much, I remember that. And the boy's mother stopped calling after I lied a few times, saying I couldn't, saying I had a swim meet or play practice. The next time I worked with kids I was a teaching assistant for a summer journalism workshop for "at risk" middle schoolers. Those kids were hard on me, or maybe I took it that way mistakenly. I'll never be president, one of the boys once said to me. The teacher had just said something like you can be anything you want to be, as long as you set your mind to it. I didn't know what to say to him. I liked the idea of that job more than the job itself.
What changed?
by Elizabeth Maria Falcón
I taught a Halloween lesson at Apollo Middle School last fall that centered around mood and tone. I began by reading the opening of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book:
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade
finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might
not even know you had been cut, not immediately.
by Elizabeth Maria Falcón
Teaching 5th grade this spring at Corbett, I had a tendency to over-pack my lesson plans. There were so many activities, poems, discussion topics, and other exciting things I wanted to share that it was often a challenge to finish the lessons in the sixty minute class period. So one day, I decided to simplify. I created a lesson plan that involved only reading and discussing one poem, individual writing time, and sharing time.
We started out by reading William Carlos Williams' poem, "This Is Just to Say." I asked a volunteer to read the poem aloud, then I read it aloud, then we talked about the speaker and the intended audience, the motivation behind writing the poem and the tone of the poem.
My students needed no prompting to know that this "apology" note was no apology--they loved how the last stanza of the poem rubbed in the crime:
By Nina Vega-Westhoff
A classmate one day brought in to Laynie Browne's course "At the Intersection of Writing and Teaching" the Michael Stillman poem "In Memoriam John Coltrane." The poem was exciting, an immediate encounter with repetition, rhythm, and word play. As a class, we seemed to have a collective a ha! moment with the poem--I personally felt I should have discovered this poem long before--and so it seemed an ideal literary model around which to structure a lesson. But I wasn't sure how to do so--there were so many possibilities immediately suggested and yet I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with it.
by Laynie Browne & Benjamin and Jacob Davidson
Laynie Browne is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Desires of Letters (Counterpath Press, 2010). She is Elementary Education Coordinator for the Poetry Center and is currently developing an interdisciplinary outreach program to connect scientists and writers at University of Arizona and in the greater Tucson community.
Benjamin Davidson just finished 5th grade. His hobbies include writing, fossil hunting and spending time with his pet rabbit, Bunny Bunkins.
Jacob Davidson just finished 3rd grade. He loves math, bionicles, mechanical pencils, drawing and writing adventure and science fiction stories and comics. He also likes to take apart machines.
by Glen Grunberger
Glen Grunberger worked for many years as a somewhat sane, relatively stable attorney in Austin, Texas before committing the decidely un-sane, entirely destabilizing act of moving to Tucson last summer to enroll in the University of Arizona's MFA program in Creative Writing. He has just completed his first year as a fiction writer in the program, and while he's quite certain he's no longer certain of anything, he loves being able to say he hangs out with poets. Glen is accompanied by his fearless wife Sara, who teaches biology at Cholla High School in Tucson, and their dog, Maya, who teaches them both how to be human.
Of all the lessons I taught this past spring in my residency at Corbett Elementary, one of the easiest and most fun was writing poems "by" the children's pets. I introduced poems from the book Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs[1] as a springboard for the children to channel their favorite animals' voices. The goal was to tap into the ready enthusiasm and imaginative connections kids have for their pets and write poems from the first-person perspective of the animals. The lesson turned out to be a great way to exercise the young writers' skills with personification and dialogue and to develop that most essential of writerly muscles, empathy.
by Erin Armstrong
Erin Armstrong lives in Tucson, AZ and loves the unbearable heat that the desert offers. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Arizona and is trying to tackle the short story form. Her primary interest lies in the intersection of the genres, and the creation of hybrid pieces. She has read for Sonora Review, interned at Madden Media in the editorial department, and will be working with the magazine CutThroat next fall. She recently finished teaching at Keeling Elementary as a Teaching Artist and will be working for Summer Fine Arts this summer.
I don't think anyone will disagree that television, movies, and the Internet are entities that surround our students. I recently taught two fourth grade classes at Keeling Elementary, and one of my most successful lessons was allowing students to incorporate the characters that they have come to love, through these mediums, into their writing. I found that students weren't as exposed to reading books as I had expected, but television was something in their everyday life. While my ultimate goal was to promote reading and writing, I found that referencing a medium that students were familiar with helped me encourage the act of reading and writing. Students talked about this lesson plan for weeks, and I could often use this lesson as a reference in explaining other aspects of writing. This lesson gives students the chance to explore back-story, character development, description, and if they chose to mimic the literary model (the poem) they have a chance to explore rhyme.


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Looks like Perry Fewell will be first to interview for the Giants vacant defensive coordinator post. The AP is reporting Fewell, recently let go by the Bills after finishing the season as their interim head coach, will be in Thursday. The Bears also reportedly have an interest in him, and the Bills already interviewed him for their permanent head coaching spot, although he is considered a longshot at best to return.
The rumored lineup of candidates for Bill Sheridan's old gig is staggering, with: Kirk Olivadotti, Jerry Gray, Pepper Johnson, Bob Sutton, Dick Jauron, Romeo Crennel, Jim Haslett among them. You might expect Tom Coughlin to look for a younger coach, preferably with coordinating experience, to light a fire under what became a dormant group in 2009. Fewell, 47, coached the defensive backs for Coughlin in Jacksonville from 1998 through 2002 and had been the Bills defensive coordinator for 3 1/2 years before replacing Jauron and going 3-4 as the interim head coach.