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The study compared the activity levels of 1,442 Home Depot Inc.'s employees who participated in the retailer's 12-week "Move to Improve" program with a control group.
The control group took health risk appraisals designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and received monthly newsletters describing the health benefits of physical activity.
The study group was divided into teams and was asked to set both personal and team goals that included weekly increases in the frequency of 10-minute exercise breaks and in the number of pedometer steps. Senior managers endorsed the program and encouraged middle managers to support employee participation, and participants received small incentives for meeting goals. The program also incorporated environmental prompts, such as signs posted in high-traffic areas throughout the work sites that encouraged physical activity.
By the sixth week of the study, 51 percent of the study group participants logged at least five 30-minute moderate exercise sessions or two to three 20-minute vigorous exercise sessions weekly, compared with only 25 percent of the control group. Moreover, study group participants sustained that level of activity through the end of the 12-week study, with few dropouts, according to the study's lead author, Rod Dishman, a professor of exercise science at the University of Georgia.
"The biggest pleasant surprise was the steady and sustained progress," he said in a statement.
"Move to Improve: A Randomized Workplace Trial to Increase Physical Activity" will be published in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and is available to subscribers at www.ajpm-online.net.
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Some of the innovative programs at Windsor Elementary include the Estimation Station, where children learn how to get a sense of numbers by estimating how many objects are in a jar. Windsor in the Spotlight focuses on the arts, helping children excel in chorus, drama and dance.
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Oklahoma football recruiting: Florida cornerback Gary Simon picks the Sooners
One of the pieces of suspense for OU's recruiting class entering signing day was taken care of pretty quickly when St. Petersburg (Fla.) Gibbs cornerback Gary Simon chose the Sooners on Wednesday morning.
Simon (6-foot-1, 177 pounds) chose Oklahoma over Iowa State and Arkansas.
The Sooners' interest in Simon came late, with Mike Stoops making him a target after his arrival.
A Sooners class that looked thin on defense a week ago has evened out with the recent additions of Zack Sanchez, a cornerback who had been committed to Baylor, and Michael Onuoha, the Edmond Santa Fe defensive end who chose the Sooners over Missouri on Tuesday night.
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Class 2A boys state basketball notebook: Talihina a big surprise in 2A
Talihina enters the state basketball tournament unranked and overlooked.
"We were the No. 3 seed in our district," Talihina coach Darian Dickson said.
The Golden Tigers have gone 13-2 in their last 15 games and knocked off two top-10 teams, Wewoka and Oktaha, in the regional tournament.
Talihina (19-10) defeated Preston, 62-50, in the area tournament finals to advance to the state tourney for the fifth time in six years.
Dickson, in his first year as the head boys' coach at Talihina, said the club has overachieved.
"We have shocked a lot of people in Le Flore County," he said.
Talihina won the state championship two years ago led by Taggart Lockhart, who was the Most Valuable Player in the tournament.
His younger brother, Alan Lockhart, is a sophomore on this year's team and is averaging 15.1 points and 7.4 rebounds per game.
Senior Clark Austin is the club's leading scorer, averaging 19.1 points per game.
Chouteau is another unranked team that advanced to the state tournament in Class 2A boys.
The Wildcats knocked off No. 1 Northeast in the area consolation finals, 62-40, after losing to the Vikings the previous week in the regional finals.
Chouteau coach Travis Wheeler said the Wildcats were much better prepared for Northeast's press in the rematch.
"Anytime you are seeing No. 1, you can't simulate that kind of pressure in practice," he said. "It wasn't an issue (in the rematch) because we were ready for it."
Chouteau, which lost to Talihina in the state tournament quarterfinals two years ago, has four players averaging double figures in scoring.
"It's a different guy every night," Wheeler said. "Some nights it's all four of them."
Chouteau (19-8) has won 13 of its last 14 games.
Konawa has won eight in a row and 13 of its last 14 to advance to the state tournament for the first time in almost 20 years.
The Tigers have been bolstered by the return of 5-9 senior point guard Alex Yellowfish, who returned from a knee injury.
Yellowfish, who played just eight games last season because of a knee injury, hurt his other knee at a summer football camp. He returned to the Konawa lineup in late January.
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I didn't want to like Hearthstone. On the one hand it's a virtual card game. On the other hand, it's World of Warcraft themed, and I ended my World of Warcraft addiction years ago. So I'm not exactly comfortable in telling you that it's really, really good, and is currently vying for my attention with Dota 2 whenever I get a spare hour. Hearthstone has one advantage over Dota 2 in the battle for my free time, though: it's really quick to play.
The easiest way to describe it is to say that it's a vastly simplified, far faster-paced version of Magic: The Gathering. You have a deck of 30 cards. Every turn you draw one at random, and automatically gain a mana crystal – Hearthstone's equivalent of "Land"; these are what power your spells and minions. In short: the first turn you can play cards that require one mana. The second turn, you can play cards that require up to two. The third turn, you can play cards that require up to three… and so on, right up to ten.
Making it faster still is that there's no "tapping" of cards; while you can only use a mana crystal once per turn, and while your minions can only attack once a turn, they're free to attack every single turn without this preventing them from doing other things like blocking. For that matter, even blocking is faster because you can't choose which minions block. The attacker has the choice of what gets hit, and the only real caveats are that minions with Taunt have to be killed first, and minions with Stealth can't be targeted until they've already attacked.
Which probably sounds very complicated, because games like this are difficult to explain in text, but it really isn't. All you really need to know is "whittle down the other hero's health to 0, bearing in mind that you can also attack his minions, and if any of his minions have Taunt you have to kill them first." Other than that, you play minions and cast spells.
World of Warcraft players (and, to a lesser extent, those familiar with Warcraft through other products) have a bit of an advantage, insofar as the characters and heroes work as you'd expect. There are nine "heroes" – Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Warrior, Druid, Hunter, Warlock, Mage, Rogue – each of which have a special ability, and each of which can build a deck out of both neutral cards (available to everyone) and hero-specific cards.
Priests, for instance, are annoyingly capable of healing themselves and their minions back up, and you just know they'll have Power Word: Shield and Holy Nova and the like, all of which work like you'd expect. Rogues can unleash terrifying amounts of burst damage or simply Assassinate your minions, instantly killing them no matter their health. Warlocks can sacrifice their life for more cards and summon a wide variety of Warlock-specific minions. Mages can dish out direct damage, Polymorph your strongest minions into sheep, or set up Counterspells to ruin your plans. Again: everyone works just like you'd expect.
I'm not quite certain of the balance just yet, and the speed of play kinda makes it feel like (very literal) luck of the draw plays far too big a part in how games go – if you get several hugely unlucky draws in a row, or if your opponent gains any real momentum and your deck refuses to give you something screen-clearing, then you're probably screwed. In Magic, the game was usually slow enough that you could safely waste a few turns early on. Not so, here: on several occasions, I've won and there has been nothing my opponent could possibly have done. Other times I've lost and have thought back to what I did wrong, and drawn a blank. I suppose this is part of the deck-building, though: you tweak and refine continually so that you don't wind up in those situations. I'll also temper this by pointing out that I'm still not very good, so maybe I'm just whining.
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On the plus side, games are so short that it almost doesn't matter. You play for 5-10 minutes. You lose. You queue up for another game. You play for 5-10 minutes. You win. You queue up for another game. You… and then it's 5am. Unless you come across one of the (thankfully few) complete arseholes who get so annoyed at you winning that they'll force you to wait out the entire turn timer every round after they realise they're likely to lose, until you finally win.
For that matter, having played it for a week since I wrote most of this preview, there's certainly a degree of tactical depth. Let's take a couple of really cheap cards – the Hunter's Timber Wolf minion (costs 1 mana, has 1 attack and 1 health, gives +1 attack to all other Beast cards while it's in play) and the Elven Archer (costs 1 mana, has 1 attack and 1 health, can deal 1 free damage to any target on the turn you summon it). I've seen a lot of people summon both of these in the first round of the game. Hell, I did it myself. This is not a smart thing to do, because both cards are unbelievably strong for what they cost.
Yes, sure, you can summon a Timber Wolf and inflict 1 damage on your opponent before they can get out a minion with Taunt. Alternatively, you can use it as a cheap card that gives +1 to every Beast card you have – and if you're playing as a Hunter, that's a lot of them. Play it at the start, you might inflict a couple of damage before your opponent kills it. Play it later on and you might give an attack buff to a load of your minions, which might help you destroy a card that's about to kill you/break through a high-health Taunting enemy/give another card enough attack damage that it'll kill anything that goes for it. The same goes for the Elven Archer: you can inflict a couple of damage at the start, or use it to instantly deal 1 damage when your opponent isn't expecting it. Kill a high-damage, low-health minion that's hiding behind various minions with Taunt. Use it to eke out one more point of damage on a minion that has far too much health. But don't, whatever you do, just waste them at the start of the match.
Anyway.What makes Hearthstone even more entertaining than your average card game – other than the pace and simplicity, which are a nice change – is everything surrounding it. Other than the Practice mode which lets you pit your decks against AI opponents, there's the Play button (which automatically matches you up against someone who is supposedly of equivalent skill) and the Arena mode, which has you play with a deck you build semi-randomly. Win lots and get prizes. Lose three times, and the deck is permanently retired.
There are also daily quests for rewards, like killing a certain number of minions or dealing a certain amount of damage to enemy heroes. These get you gold, which gives you more entries into Arena mode or the opportunity to buy a booster pack of cards, and it's just one giant feedback loop that makes you play more and more.
Better still, playing against other people isn't stressful thanks to one ingenious touch: you can't talk to them. The most you can do is right-click on your hero's portrait to say a few basic things – a greeting, a threat, an apology, a "Well played." That's it. Which means that there's no LOLLL NOOOOOOB bullshit. At worst, you'll get silence; at best, matches end with a "Well played" and a "Sorry" as the other person crushes you.
So Hearthstone is a simple-to-learn card game that's well polished, varied, draws off knowledge that a few million people already have ingrained into them, is fun to play, is welcoming, and is frighteningly compelling. We're doomed.
Nice to see Blizzard can still do something well, had really been wondering about them (long term) after disappointing fans with D3 release, continuing significant wow slide, and sale of company again.
Too bad you forget to mention the expansion of starcraft II which was a pretty good piece blizz released.
So i got a beta key.
The game is nice and fun… until i just got bored as hell.
That was at day 2 of playing.
Haven't had that problem, truthfully – I'm still playing it now, not least because it's very easy to fire it up for a game whenever I have 10 minutes to spare. I *am* getting more and more frustrated with the matchmaking and the balance, though.
I might have been a bit too simple on my comment.
I did had fun. I will go back to play it every now and then, but this wont be a game i will be playing "seriously", if that makes any sense…
I'm not a huge fan of micro transactions, although have used them in the past, but in Hearthstone, i feel that not a single thing in me would ever consider shoving money in it. Ever.
And yes, one can just go in, play a game or two, and get out.
At the moment I'd laaaaaargely agree with you, I think. I keep finding myself firing it up each day to see whatever my new mission is and to play a game while waiting for something; it's a very good game for killing 20 minutes, and it's pretty compelling. I also really like the Arena mode, in terms of building a semi-random deck and playing it with three "lives" for bigger rewards. That's a neat function, and I'm generally saving my in-game cash up for that (as it's got a 150 gold entry fee each time).
The more I play, though, the more worried I'm getting about the balance. I'm not sure the basic card mechanics are quite right for a "serious" game, and I don't know that they're something that can be fixed without serious work. I can forgive the matchmaking for now with the limited player base, but it's still no fun getting matched up against someone with an insane number of epic-level cards that break the game wide open unless you're similarly equipped.
Funny enough i just got a second beta key on a different mail.
I'm not that lucky, so Blizz is probably just throwing keys away 🙂
I found it a bit too simple after playing MTG but that's just me, also I've hard some people moaning its "play to win" though I don't know that myself
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Greenwood Christian Academy will play for its first boys basketball sectional championship tonight, but the Cougars think they cleared their biggest psychological hurdle in Wednesday night's first-round win.
They played aggressively and without worries in Friday night's Class A Edinburgh Sectional semifinal, racing to a 19-0 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looking back in a 77-52 win against Lutheran.
Greenwood Christian (17-5) will face Waldron at 7:30 p.m. tonight for the championship and the right to play in the Martinsville Regional on March 15. The Cougars defeated the Mohawks 60-47 during a Feb. 7 regular-season matchup at Greenwood Christian.
Greenwood Christian had lost at home to Lutheran 40-33 on Dec. 14 but dominated virtually every facet of Friday's game. The Cougars never let the Saints (10-11) draw closer than the 19-2 margin, with 6:42 remaining in the first half, when Lutheran finally scored its first basket.
Greenwood Christian led by as many as 33 before both teams emptied their benches in the game's final minutes.
"This was definitely the best game we've played all year," said Cougar senior guard Lucas Peters, who scored 18 points, grabbed six rebounds and helped contain Lutheran's one-two scoring punch of Malcom Donley and Beau Braham. "We've been so nervous every year coming into the sectional.
"Once we finally got the win (Wednesday), we were ready to open the floodgates."
The Cougars defeated Southwestern (Shelby) 68-57 in a first-round game Wednesday.
Greenwood Christian shot 7 of 13 in the first quarter and 26 of 50 overall (52 percent), while Lutheran missed all 11 of its first-quarter field-goal attempts. The Saints shot 30.6 percent overall (19 of 62) and just 5 of 27 from 3-point range (18.5 percent).
The Cougars, meanwhile, hit 10 of 19 from behind the arc (52.6 percent).
"We played more free and didn't worry as much about having to win," Greenwood Christian coach Jamie Satre said. "After we got past Wednesday's game and finally got a sectional win, we took a deep breath at practice. We knew Lutheran's two best players were (Donley) and (Barham), and we focused on stopping them.
"Jacob Stephenson did a great job on (Barham), and Peters did a good job of staying in his stance."
Donley scored 10 points for Lutheran but hit just 4 of 16 from the floor. Barham scored six points and shot 2 of 10, with all of his field-goal tries coming from 3-point range. Cole Ballard led the Saints with 12 points.
Morgan Booher led the Cougars with 20 points and also grabbed seven rebounds. Tad Thompson scored 10 points off the bench for Greenwood Chrisitan, and didn't miss a shot (3 of 3 from the floor, 2 of 2 from the free-throw line, two 3-pointers). Stephenson added eight points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
The Cougars have less than 24 hours to celebrate their first trip to a sectional title game, but they seemed to grasp its meaning. A large and enthusiastic Greenwood Christian contingent cheered the team on and rushed the floor after the final buzzer sounded as if they had won a title.
"This is a big step for our program, but (a championship) is our final goal," Peters said.


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As European governments investigate reports about apparent CIA "black sites" maintained by the United States to hold suspected terrorists, Camp Bondsteel has come under great scrutiny. Prisoners were locked up for months in the Kosovo military camp without trial in conditions similar to those at Guantanamo. Alvaro Gil Robles, Human Rights Commissioner for the Council of Europe, tells SPIEGEL ONLINE what he saw at the camp in 2002 and reveals that Germany knew all about it.
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Can you give us some more detail?
Robles: The prisoners were housed in little wooden huts, some alone, others in pairs or threes. Each hut was surrounded with barbed wire, and guards were patrolling between them. Around all of this was a high wall with watchtowers.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How many prisoners were there? What nationalities were they?
Robles: At the time of my visit, there were 15 prisoners. Most of them were Kosovo Albanians or Serbs, and there were four or five North Africans. Some of them wore beards and read the Koran.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What did you do?
Robles: This prison was under the command of the Nato KFOR troops, the "Kosovo Force". What interested me initially, back then, was under what legal basis KFOR was allowed to lock up prisoners outside of the normal judiciary proceedings. Because these people had been arrested directly by the army, they had not had any recourse to the judicial system. They had no lawyers. There was no appeals process. There weren't even exact orders about how long they were to be kept prisoner. I wrote in my report: this is no longer acceptable. We must introduce democratic standards, based on the rule of law. And since then, that has happened.
Robles on Camp Bondsteel: Conditions were reminiscent of Guantanamo.
Robles: I wrote all the details of what I saw in my report for the Council of Europe. It was not discussed by the Council at all, but it was published on the Internet. I have also spoken openly about it many times since then, but there was not as much interest back then as there has been recently.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Americans have emphatically denied any responsibility for the prison camp in Kosovo. They say it was not a CIA establishment, but one belonging to the Nato KFOR troops. Is that true?
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Europeans, the German authorities too? They knew of the conditions there?
Robles: Yes, certainly. It was known that people were being held prisoner there, in those completely unsatisfactory conditions: without sufficient tangible evidence against them, without the guarantees that come with the rule of law. None of it was secret.
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Transitioning from football player to wrestler to baseball left fielder is anything but a seamless endeavor.
Austin Wethington simply makes it appear that way.
The Indian Creek senior is a throwback in the most complimentary and old-school manner, a three-sport athlete who on late-summer and autumn Friday evenings takes enormous pride in being needed on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
"I love playing both offense and defense. It doesn't matter as long as I'm playing football," said the 6-1, 200-pound Wethington, who counts H-back and linebacker as his own personal double-duty. "I don't even like coming off the field, but everyone needs a break every once in a while."
As the Class 3A Braves (1-1) prepare for tonight's home game against unbeaten Class A No. 8 Eastern Hancock, Wethington ranks third on the team in tackles with 13 and leads the way in quarterback sacks with two.
He's also intercepted a pass and forced a fumble.
His wrestling instincts surely help. After all, Wethington as a junior last winter placed third in the 182-pound weight class for Indian Creek at the Mooresville Sectional. He went on to finish sixth at the regional the following week for a final record of 27-10.
As a junior he took fourth in the sectional at 160 pounds.
But it's football that especially gets Wethington's adrenalin going. Offense. Defense. Special teams. Pregame coin-flip. Doesn't matter.
In Indian Creek's season-opening 47-0 blowout of Knightstown, he produced five solo tackles. Wethington followed that performance with seven solos, a pick, two sacks and a pair of receptions for 22 yards in last week's 33-28 loss to Greenwood.
Rest assured, Wethington works for every bit of statistical data he collects.
"Austin is one of those football players everybody loves because he does the dirty work and never complains. He's one of those 9-to-5 guys who leads by example and is easy to coach," Braves coach Mike Gillin said. "If I had about 15 of him I would have a pretty doggone good football team."
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Brown Penny - Poem by William Butler Yeats
I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'
And then, 'I am old enough';
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
'Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.'
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
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lovely, lovely poem. i heard it first from christopher plummer in Must Love Dogs. (Report) Reply
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'Brown Penny' is performed/read aloud in the new movie Must Love Dogs. It is recited by the father at a family gathering, but he seemed to intend it specifically for his daughter (the main character) who was searching for love (with much frustration) .
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Miley has posted a photo of herself on her Instagram today, which is nothing new, but in the this particular photo it looks like Miley Cyrus is smoking a blunt while wearing a rap music jacket, with the smoke so think its covering her face.
For all of you that don't know what a blunt is, a blunt is marijuana wrapped in a cigar paper and you smoke it, it is similar to a big "joint".
You might say now Egg how do we know that Miley is smoking a blunt and this isn't just a cigar, or a cigarette, well I would reply" take note of how Miley is holding the "cigar/blunt", this isn't how people smoke cigars, this is the classic joint/blunt grip, it could be featured in a snoopdog video clip", all jokes aside apart from the way Miley is holding the "cigar/blunt", the smoke is also very white and thick which is a common attribute of canibus smoke, and its not like Miley has been secret about smoking marijuana in the past; In 2013 at the MTV EMAs she pulled out a joint and smoked it as she left the stage.


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This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, May 11, 2015:
Once perceived to be invincible, government bureaucrats issuing decrees and mandates from on high are being exposed for what really are: Wizards of Oz. It was Tom Woods' book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century that let the genie out of the bottle.
All Woods did was explain how the founders intended for the states to be the last line of defense against federal overreach. It put in place the Bill of Rights which contains the Tenth Amendment:


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Dr. Betty Jean Gaffney
Professor, Florida State University, 1996-present
B.S. 1961 (Chemistry), Stanford
Ph.D. 1966 (Chemistry), Stanford
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship 1966, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan
Varian Assoc. Postdoctoral Fellowship 1967
Research Associate, Stanford 1968-1973
NIH Research Career Development Award, 1975-80
Assistant Professor to Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1974-1996.
Fellow of the Biophysical Society, 2009.
Graduate Faculty Status
Curriculum Vitae
List of Publications
Research and Professional Interests:
A. Overview
I have been fascinated with "reading the biological lipid code" throughout my career. The code extends from physical properties of lipid arrays all the way to enzymes that use membrane components as substrates- both of which render cell membranes dynamic. The goal is to find the messages in these dynamics. I contributed to chemical synthesis of nitroxide spin labels at the beginning of my career and applied EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectroscopy to reveal the lifetime of lipid conformations in synthetic lipid bilayers, during a post-doc period in H.M. McConnell's lab. Early in my faculty career at Johns Hopkins, I pursued similar studies culminating in discovery (and naming) of the "sub-transition" that occurs between low temperature phases of saturated lipid bilayers (1) and in synthesis of spin-labeled, bifunctional crosslinking reagents (2). Membrane components are constantly remodeled to signal the state of a cell, and to maintain fluidity. In the early 1980s (pre-cloning), the lipid remodeling lipoxygenases (LOX) were available in abundance only from soybeans and animal reticulocytes. While I proposed to examine, by EPR, how the non-heme iron center in LOX responds to lipid substrate binding, without a structure of the active site, this was a black box. I improved LOX purification and initiated a project with crystallographers J. Boyington and M. Amzel. By 1993, we published (Science) the inaugural structure of the 100 kDa soybean lipoxygenase. Happily, it has become the prototype of the lipoxygenase fold (PF00305). Like other non-heme iron enzymes, EPR spectra of ferric LOX have several forms (3). In order to account quantitatively for overlapping line shapes, in depth reevaluation of simulating spin 5/2 EPR spectra was made, with quantum chemist, Harris Silverstone (4). These themes can all be found in my present studies that examine the ways lipoxygenases interact with unsaturated lipids.
1. S. C. Chen, J. M. Sturtevant and B. J. Gaffney (1980) "Scanning Calorimetric Evidence for a Third Phase Transition in Phosphatidylcholine Bilayers", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 77: 5060-5063. PMC349995
2. B. J. Gaffney, G. L. Willingham and R. S. Schepp (1983) "Synthesis and Membrane Interactions of Spin Label Bifunctional Reagents", Biochemistry, 22: 881-892. PMID: 6301528.
3. B.J. Gaffney (1996) "Lipoxygenases: Structural Principles and Spectroscopy" Annu. Revs. Biophys. Biomol. Struct., 25:.431-59. PMID: 8800477.
4. B. J. Gaffney and H. J. Silverstone (1993) "Simulation of the EMR Spectra of High Spin Iron in Proteins", in Biological Magnetic Resonance, Vol. 13: EMR of Paramagnetic Molecules, L.J. Berliner and J. Reuben, Eds, Plenum N.Y., pp 1-57. PMC2860145.
B. Contributions in more detail
1. Structure and Mechanism of Lipoxygenase
Two types of lipoxygenase were known early on: 5-LOX and 15-LOX, the numbers referring to the carbon bearing –OOH in products from arachidonic acid. Pathways to mediators of inflammation differ for the two products. We solved the 15-LOX structure, others showed 5-LOX had the same overall protein fold and iron center. Finding determinates of specificity guides our recent studies. By advanced pulsed EPR (ACERT resource, Cornell), we determined the location and dynamics of a lipid, spin labeled on the head group, in complex with soybean LOX (a). Trilateration between five site-directed spin labels, and to the substrate
Fig 1 Cyan ellipse: distribution of head group locations outside blue helices. Iron center: rust, red (water).
analog, revealed the head group on the surface of the protein, near one proposed portal to the active site (Figure 1). EPR in my lab also showed the head group moving fairly freely, consistent with a spread of distance determinations. We earlier had computationally docked linoleic acid into 15- LOX (b, d) with the polar end emerging from the protein as found in (a). Evidence that a turn of pi-helix in a LOX surface helix contributes flexibility when substrate binds resulted from further spin labeling (c). Constructs, from which over 40 spin labeled 15-LOXs (soybean) were derived, are deposited with Addgene (https://www.addgene.org/Betty_Gaffney/).
a. B.J. Gaffney, M.D. Bradshaw, S. Frausto, F. Wu, J.H. Freed and P. Borbat. (2012) "Locating a lipid at the portal to the lipoxygenase active site" Biophys. J., 103: 2134-2144. PMC3512035.
b. G. Coffa, A.N. Imber, B.C. Maguire, G. Laxmikanthan, C. Schneider, B.J. Gaffney, and A.R. Brash (2005) "On the Relationships of Substrate Orientation, Hydrogen Abstraction and Product Stereochemistry in Single and Double Dioxygenations by Soybean Lipoxygenase-1 and Its Ala542Gly Mutant", J. Biol. Chem. 280: 38756-38766. PMC1351262.
c. M.D. Bradshaw and B.J. Gaffney (2014) "Fluctuations of an exposed pi-helix involved in lipoxygenase substrate recognition" Biochemistry, 53: 5102-5110. PMC4131896.
d. B.J. Gaffney (2014) "Connecting Lipoxygenase Function to Structure by EPR" Accounts of Chemical Research, 47: 3588-3595. PMC 4270396.
2. Continued Support of Crystallography Projects on Lipoxygenase (LOX)
A flurry of papers with JC Boyington and LM Amzel followed our first LOX structure paper in Science (a). Later, I contributed dockings of substrate to a crystallography study by Howard Grimes and Chul-Hee Kang of 4 isoforms in soybean (b). It has been difficult to obtain LOX structures with a polyunsaturated lipid bound, because oxygen is a co-substrate. But a group in Barcelona crystallized the exported LOX of P. aeruginosa, and found a phospholipid acyl chain (non-substrate) in the active site. I looked at EPR spectra of the iron (ferric) center in this bacterial lipoxygenase. The spectrum is almost identical with one of the two spectra exhibited by soybean LOX (c). This identifies the ligand geometry of more rhombic symmetry as that associated with substrate binding. How the ROOH gets to the iron center, when another lipid is already bound, remains a puzzle.
a. J.C. Boyington, B. J. Gaffney, and L.M. Amzel (1993) "The Three-Dimensional Structure of an Arachidonic Acid 15-Lipoxygenase", Science, 260: 1482-1486. PMID 8502991.
b. B. Youn, G.E. Sellhorn, R.J. Mirchel, B.J. Gaffney, H.D. Grimes, C.H. Kang (2006) "Crystal Structures of Vegetative Soybean Lipoxygenase VLX-B and VLX-D, and comparisons with seed isoforms, LOX-1 and LOX-3" PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 65: 1008-1020. PMID 17022084.
c. A. Garreta, S. Val-Moraes, Q. García-Fernández, M. Busquets, C. Juan, A. Oliver, A. Ortiz, B.J. Gaffney, I. Fita, À. Manresa and X. Carpena (2013) "Structure and Interaction with Phospholipids of a Prokaryotic Lipoxygenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa", FASEB J, 27: 4811–4821. PMID: 23985801.
3. Metalloprotein EPR Spectroscopy at Higher Magnetic Fields
At Florida State, I have compared the EPR spectra from a variety of metalloproteins at frequencies 9.4 and 94 GHz. The higher frequency is particularly suitable for manganese and copper (a-c). From EPR, the metal center in manganese lipoxygenase is predicted to be similar to that in the iron enzymes (a). Also, 94 GHz spectra of catalase and iron and copper transferrins were measured and analyzed by simulations (b, c).
a. B.J. Gaffney, C. Su and E.H. Oliw (2001) "Assignment of EPR Transitions in a Manganese-Containing Lipoxygenase and Prediction of Local Structure" Appl. Magn. Res., 21: 411-422. PMID 16518455.
b. B.J. Gaffney, B.C. Maguire, R.T. Weber and G.G. Maresch (1999) "Disorder at Metal Sites in Proteins: a High Frequency EMR Study" Appl. Magn. Res., 16: 207-222.
c. B.J. Gaffney (2009) "High Resolution EPR of Mononuclear Iron Proteins", Chapter 6 in Biological Magnetic Resonance, Vol 28. High Resolution EPR: Applications to Metalloenzymes and Metals in Medicine, G. Hanson and L.J. Berliner eds., Springer Pub., pp. 233-268. PMID 20428459.
4. Quantitative Assignment of EPR Transitions in Iron Proteins
My lab has examined EPR of several non-heme iron proteins, including phenylalanine hydroxylase (a, b), transferrins (b, c), and lipoxygenase (d). Quantitative evaluation of the low-temperature EPR spectra of these is intriguing and complex because the energy level separations are similar to the microwave energy applied, in X-band EPR. The complexity of manganese lipoxygenase EPR spectra at X-band is illustrated in this figure (from ref 1d above).
a. L.M. Bloom, S.J. Benkovic and B.J. Gaffney (1986) "Characterization of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase", Biochemistry 25: 4204-4210. PMID 3019383.
b. A.S. Yang and B.J. Gaffney (1987) "Determination of Relative Spin Concentration in Some High-Spin Ferric Proteins Using E/D-Distribution in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Simulations" Biophys. J., 51: 55-67. PMID 3026504.
c. B.J. Gaffney and H.J. Silverstone (1998) "Simulation Methods for Looping Transitions" J. Magn. Res., 134: 57-66. PMID 9740731.
d. B.J. Gaffney, D.V. Mavrophilipos and K.S. Doctor (1993) "Access of Ligands to the Ferric Center in Lipoxygenase-1" Biophys. J., 64: 773-783. PMID 8386016.
In early studies of lipid membrane structure (1970s), it was unclear if real biological membranes and lipid model bilayers had similar properties. I showed that the abnormal appearance of transformed fibroblasts does NOT indicate a global change in lipid properties from their normal counterparts, as determined with spin labeled fatty acids (a). On the other hand, mobility of phospholipid spin labels in the close-packed membranes of Sindbis virus changes dramatically when the E1/E2 proteins are removed by proteolysis (b). The existence of patches of membrane with specialized physical properties was foreshadowed by these landmark papers.
a. B.J. Gaffney (1975) "Fatty Acid Chain Flexibility in the Membranes of Normal and Transformed Fibroblasts", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 72: 664-668. PMID 164663.
b. B.M. Sefton and B. J. Gaffney (1974) "Effect of the Viral Proteins on Fluidity of the Membrane Lipids in Sindbis Virus", Journal of Molecular Biology, 90: 343-358. PMID4375723.
A List of my publications can be found at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/betty.gaffney.1/bibliography/40434843/public/?sort=date&direction=ascendingSelected Publications:
Wu, F. Y., and B. J. Gaffney. 2006. Dynamic behavior of fatty acid spin labels within a binding site of soybean Lipoxygenase-1. Biochemistry 45:12510-12518. PMID: 17029406.
Gaffney, B. J. 2009. EPR of mononuclear iron proteins. Pages 233-268 in Biological Magnetic Resonance, Vol 28. High Resolution EPR: Applications to Metalloenzymes and Metals in Medicine, G. Hanson and L. J. Berliner, eds. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-64655-6. See Figure 9 in color.
Gaffney, B. J., M. D. Bradshaw, S. Frausto, F. Wu, J. H. Freed, and P. Borbat. 2012. Locating a lipid at the portal to the lipoxygenase active site. Biophysical Journal 103:2134-2144. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512035.
Gaffney, B.J. 2014. "Connecting Lipoxygenase Function to Structure by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance" Accounts of Chemical Research 47: 3588-3595. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ar500290r.


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Maria Antonia is the President of the group and works in food sales (empanadas, Paraguayan soup, croquettes). She works day after day, starting very early in the morning, which is when she prepares her food. She says that she helps her family through her work, and that is how they get ahead. Her dream is to be able to have her own business location, so that she may offer her customers more comfort.
She is requesting the loan to purchase sugar, flour, eggs, oil, meat, and other ingredients, so that she can continue to prepare the food she sells. She is grateful that she and her friends are being given this kind of opportunity.
Maria Antonia es la Presidenta del grupo, trabaja en la venta de comestibles (empanadas, sopa paraguaya, croquetas), trabaja día a día desde muy tempranas horas cuando prepara sus comidas. Cuenta que por medio de su trabajo ayuda a su familia y así salen adelante. Su sueño es poder tener un local, propio y así ofrecer mayor comodidad a sus clientes.
Ella solicita el crédito para la compra de azúcar, harina, huevo, aceite, carne y demás insumos para seguir preparando los alimentos que vende. Agradece que ella y sus amigas estén recibiendo una oportunidad como esta.
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A government crackdown on illegal foreign workers in Saudi Arabia has disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of people and made it harder for some businesses to operate. But ultimately it may create a stronger, more diverse economy.
Thousands of foreigners - over 200,000, according to an unnamed passports department official quoted by the al-Hayat daily last week - have been deported from the country over the past few months.
People stopped going to work at some businesses in major cities such as Riyadh for fear of being caught by government inspectors. Parents at some private schools said there were unscheduled holidays because teachers were staying home.
The turmoil was so great that last Saturday, King Abdullah ordered a three-month suspension of the crackdown, to give foreigners time to sort out their papers. Many people remain fearful of trouble with authorities when inspections resume.
Some businessmen in Saudi Arabia complain privately that the government should have launched its campaign more carefully, coordinating closely with companies to reduce their uncertainty over staffing levels.
The crackdown is likely to have an economic impact far beyond the country's borders, since foreign workers from south and southeast Asia remit billions of dollars home to their families every year.
But within Saudi Arabia, the economic costs are likely to be outweighed in the long run by the benefits of reducing excess manpower, creating upward pressure on local wages and moving Saudi citizens into private sector employment, analysts said.
"Most of the illegal labour is unskilled labour, extra labour that in fact creates inefficiency in the economy. So these people are more than the economy needs," said Abdulwahab abu-Dahesh, a Saudi economist.
"Proper policies to reduce inefficiencies will create more competitiveness in the economy."
Since its 1970s oil boom, Saudi Arabia has imported growing numbers of foreign workers for its energy, construction and service industries. In many cases, Saudi citizens have not been willing to perform the strenuous jobs or accept such low wages.
There were almost 6 million foreigners in a total workforce of nearly 11 million people in 2012, according to official data. The number of illegal foreign workers has been estimated by analysts at an additional 1 or 2 million, conceivably more.
The remittances sent abroad by these foreigners have averaged $18 billion a year over the past decade, or 6.2 percent of gross domestic product, making the kingdom the world's second biggest source of such money flows after the United States, the International Monetary Fund said in a September study.
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New censorship law adds twist for libraries operating WiFi
June Pinnell-Stephens highlighted on the PNLA list a story from CNET about a new censorship bill. The bill would reportedly impose financial liability on operators of open WiFi connections relative to inappropriate images that users might display. For libraries offering wireless service to patrons this may require either a re-think or possibly a shutdown.
Or civil disobedience!
Or civil disobedience!
Most libraries not willing to break rules
As such I would not expect much civil disobedience.
Sounds like it applies to ISPs, not customers.
Well, after reading the initial article (and the follow-up one from the Congressman), it seems like the language is vague enough that libraries *could* be pulled under this because by providing wifi we are becoming an isp. With any luck this legislation will see some language overhaul if it gets to or through the Senate.


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his State of the Union address on
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, President George W. Bush told American citizens
that one of his big goals is to improve fuel efficiency and reduce
the nation's dependency on foreign energy.
To back up the President's goal, the Department
of Energy announced it will spend $17 million toward new projects
to boost fuel efficiency, such as improving hybrid vehicle technologies
and encouraging widespread use of them.
In 2006, American consumers felt the pain of high foreign oil
prices on their wallets—with crude oil prices at a high of about $67
per barrel that summer, many consumers were paying over $3 per gallon
of gasoline. With Americans paying more at the pump for daily duties,
such as driving to work or transporting goods, less money was leftover
to buy other goods and services. The result was a sluggish economy.
For now, one of our primary suppliers, Saudi Arabia, has vowed
to keep their price of oil to around $50 per barrel, putting gasoline
rates at about $2 per gallon. Regardless of the short-term price fix,
however, the nation will need to continue its push for greater fuel
efficiency, reduced consumption, and higher domestic energy production.
But gasoline is not the only fuel the United States relies
on to keep the nation running. During this week's lesson, you
will learn about how the nation's fuel economy works—what
fuels we rely on, where they are produced, what factors affect
energy economics—and
think about what changes can lead to energy independence. You will
also get some tips on how to save money at the gas pump.
Visit the
Energy Information
Administration (EIA) to begin with Energy
Basics 101. Review the Basic Data by Fuel, and use the
handy Btu chart on the Energy
Conversions page to convert all of the units into Btus for
comparison. Create a pie
chart comparing the percentage of U.S. production to consumption for
each fuel type, and additional charts showing imports
and exports.
Click the graphic labeled, U.S. Primary
Energy Consumption by Source and Sector, to examine which fuels Americans
rely on for which types of energy uses. Create a pie chart illustrating
the percentages by source and sector. Check the site's Glossary for
definitions of key terms, like
Btu (British thermal units).
study the history of Energy
in the United States, 1603-2000. As you read through this
overview, print out or copy the various graphs and charts for later
discussion. Start with the Introduction,
and then look at how the nation's Total
Energy production and consumption changed over the years.
Continue by learning more about Petroleum, Natural
Coal, Electricity, Nuclear,
and Renewable energies.
Also, review the Environmental
Indicators of the costs accrued by energy production and use,
including carbon monoxide, and look at the U.S.
Outlook as of 2001. How exactly are these projections calculated?
Identify the factors that influence these projections. Using the historical
graphs for reference, discuss with classmates how a change in one or
more of the factors can shift these projections.
If you have time, explore one more of the expanded energy
source sections from the EIA home
page for more information about each of them.
Next, break down the nation's energy production and consumption
further by examining the EIA's State
Energy Profiles. Use the map's tabs to get an overview of energy
Distribution, along with locations of Refineries, Power
Plants, Coal
Mines, and Renewables. Click your state's name in the list
below the map to learn some quick facts and further details about
energy source sites, prices, etc. Convert prices for each energy source
to cents per Btu (or per thousand Btu) for easier comparisons. How
does your state compare to the national averages?
Coordinate with classmates to research
all 50 states as a group. Summarize
your findings, using graphs or charts, as appropriate; share and
discuss. What factors influence what source is used the most by each
state? In what ways did energy development over the state's history
relate to other economic, social, or technological developments there?
students are either being driven around in someone else's car, driving
their own cars, or will be driving in the near future. So, how does
the fuel economy affect you? Whether you own or use someone else's
vehicle, you need to pay at the pump to go anywhere.
Learn more about
what affects gasoline prices in the EIA's Gasoline
and Diesel Fuel Update section. Review the gas pump charts
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1You can either put Wood Shavings or plant your own grass.
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Everybody considers Shenmue ''FREE'' even the makers, but to me it seems like an action RPG because the battle system you control the fighting which is just like Legend Of Mana/Secret Of Mana.
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The story is fantastic, your father has been killed and your looking to avenge his death, but with no idea whatsoever you have to walk around looking for clues.Which gives you the realistic feel that you don't find in other RPGs... here and these are the reasons:
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