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High Quality Frame Sliders- The OES Difference
All OES frame sliders are machined from high-quality plastic
All OES frame sliders use 6061 aluminum spacers which are pressed into the
slider. The spacer is a very critical part of any frame slider. Without the
spacer, the screw or bolt that holds the frame slider on, which is an engine
mount screw/ bolt, will never remain torqued. This inability to remain torqued
is due to the slider base deforming under the pressure of the screw or bolt.
We know of some frame slider manufacturers who recommend light torque in
combination with thread locker for their frame slider mounting screws/bolts.
Why do they do this? Because they don't use spacers. The slider base will
deform easier with the actual recommended torque specifications, so they will
recommend much lower torque, hence the need for thread locker, so the
frame slider doesn't fall off while you're riding the bike. This may seem like an
easy enough remedy, but it is not. Even if the torque applied is only 20 lb/ft,
the slider base will still deform and the frame slider will become loose. Once
this happens, vibrations due to the engine mounts being loose will lead to
failure of the screw or bolt, and the frame slider will still fall off while you're
riding the bike. So, the bottom line is, without a spacer pressed into the frame
slider, the frame slider cannot be properly mounted to the bike, and the bike
will have two less motor mounts than it had from the factory.
Then why would any manufacturer leave the spacer out? The answer is
lower production costs and manufacturing time.
Below is a picture of the base of an OES frame slider, which shows the
pressed-in 6061 spacer. At OES, we like to apply a high level of
craftsmanship, such as this, to all our products.
Below is a picture of two frame sliders. Notice the ends of each slider.
Most OES frame sliders are offered in two styles: angle cut ends (left
slider) and radius cut ends (right slider). Both slider styles will function the
same, but some customers prefer one style over the other. Although this
feature is exclusive to our website customers only, OES is the only frame
slider company that offers both styles of frame sliders.
Also, notice the finish of the frame sliders. We use specific tooling to
achieve the clean finish cuts that make OES stand out as a quality leader
in the frame slider market.
Perfect Fit
Each OES frame slider set is made specifically for one bike model. So
frame sliders designed to fit a 05-06 ZX6RR/636 will not fit the 07 ZX6R
any better than they would fit a GSXR 600. Each time the manufacturer
changes the bike design, we also design a new frame slider set to fit their
design changes. Some companies offer "universal" frame slider sets, but a
universal frame slider set is impossible.
Yeah, But Do They Work?
We've had hundreds of crashing customers over the years who have
proven the fact that our frame sliders work; we've even crashed our own
bikes (several times, I'm afraid to say!) with our sliders on them. We've
come to realize that if the bike is lowsided and slides to the edge of the
road, the slider will work quite well, and if the bike goes flipping through a
ditch or a gravel trap, the sliders can't do much for that kind of crash.
"I laid my bike down for the first time. Your frame
sliders saved my fairings. Seriously thank you!"
"Thanks to these sliders, my bike needs less than $100
in repairs after a nasty crash. Very happy to buy a replacement [slider] from you
guys, thank you."
(From one of our Yamaha FZ07 customers)
"First off, Thank you! I have used your sliders and spools on all of my bikes and
(unfortunately) have used them for their intended purpose,and on every occasion they have
SAVED MY BIKE! Most recently I high-sided at the track on my Honda 954RR and shattered
my collar bone. The good news is that my bike came out in far better shape than I did and is
still completely ride-able because my OES sliders and spools did their job perfectly. I've had
other sliders (already installed on bikes I've purchased) and not only have they not performed
as well as my OES sliders, but some have even caused damage (hanging up during a slide
and jacking up the frame and or mount). My OES sliders have performed flawlessly every time."
"Hey recently someone decide to be a dumbass and push my bike over or hit it and run
leaving me with the cost of the repair but thanks to you're quality frame sliders it is not as bad
as it could have been had I not had them installed."
"Hey guys,
I emailed you in August regarding how well your frame sliders held up in a motorcycle crash.
Unfortunately, I had another opportunity to test out your sliders about a month ago. My rear
tire slid out from underneath while I was turning. After I got up I realized there was gravel all
over the ground. Other than a few minimal scratches, my bike was completely fine. However, I
did end up breaking my leg after my bike fell on and dragged my leg along with it. The
replacement frame slider I bought after my first crash worked perfectly. It easily saved me over
$1,000 in damages again. The frame slider is shredded and bent but it did its job and
protected my bike (
is attached). I'll definitely end up ordering a replacement slider
when I am able to ride again. Thank you again for your great product."
"Good morning, everyone at OESaccessories. I am simply emailing you to give you some
feedback on my recent crash test of your 2006-2007 Yamaha R6 frame sliders. This past
Saturday, I had a car stop in front of me abruptly. I tried my best to stay in control while panic
braking, but unfortunately I high-sided my bike and had it slam on the right side. As for me, I
actually ended up flying over the bike and managed to shoulder tackle the bumper of the car
in front of me that was about 15 feet or so away. After I got up from lying on the pavement for
awhile, the first thing I did was pick up my bike. To my surprise, the only damage was to the
upper cowling. There was not a scratch anywhere else on the bike. I was so surprised
because after a 30mph high-side, I expected the whole side of my bike to be scraped up. So I
guess I just wanted to say thank you for the amazing product you sell."
"Celebration, you bet I celebrated my first low-side on my sexy 9er. Beer - confetti and a good
scrub down made for an excellent end of the track day lol.
The OES sliders and spool set saved the entire right side,(
) after washing out at DCTC on
corner #6. I love the double left corners and a quick right (#6), but after 5 hours of heavy track
time… I simply blinked and washed out to the left –awesome slide!!"
"These sliders saved my fairings when the S1000RR fell off its side stand. The factory side
stand is too upright.Thanks for a great product."
"Dropped my 2012 FJR1300 today :-( after not making sure the kickstand was all the way
down. Thank God for the extended frame slider. It broke my left mirror and cracked the upper
fairing, but the engine and the lower fairing survived! Frame slider compacted as it was
designed to do. I'm very pleased! Thanks for such a good product."
"I heard great things about your sliders on the messaging boards I'm on. Although I prayed I
would never be testing them, I unfortunately got that chance. On Friday the 13th (damn!) I
lowsided at about 25mph, I tumbled about 15 times, and the bike slid roughly 75ft. All that
happened was the bars bent, which unfortunately dented the tank, little to no plastic damage
and some minor rash on the crank case…. What could have been a horrible claim to the
insurance company, is only going to be a bruised ego and some slight banter from the fella's
when we ride! Thanks OES, I'll be ordering my replacement slider soon!"
"This slider and your rear spool saved my frame/case/swing arm in a 20mph high side. I can
send you the slider if you want to have it...bolt bent, but didn't break."
"I simply dont know how to put this besides "Thank you!" I high sided my 2007 Triumph Speed
Triple, which I have invested a ridiculous amount of money into, and your sliders (engine)
completely protected the heart of my bike. Granted my rearsets, clutch lever, stator cover, and
bar was broken/bent, but what could have been a claim to my insurance carrier and a b-line to
a higher premium, ended up costing me only a few hundred in repairs. My bike will heal up
quicker than I, but when I heal up, I cant wait to take it out again. If you want pictures, I will
have to wait until i go back to the shop and take them, but I felt like a sincere thanks was due."
"I have bought two pairs of your sliders for my '07 FJR. The right side of the first pair totally
protected my bike when it went over in a zero speed fall. I then purchased another pair right
away knowing the protection they provide. Prior to my first purchase with you, I did buy a less
expensive pair on ebay. What a difference!!! As you mention in your post, they were light
weight and cheaply designed. When I did order yours I wondered why they were so much
more in cost and now I know why. Because they work!!! I love my bike and could never see
myself putting the inferior sliders on, hoping they work, just to save a few bucks. I just wanted
to say what I think about your product and how secure I feel seeing them on the side of my
ride. Thanks again for doing it right..."
"Dumped my Speed Triple on Thursday night, just wanted to say thanks a lot. Of course
there was damage but nothing compared to what there would have been if I didn't have your
sliders on."
"I've been using your sliders on every bike I've owned since I started riding in 2003, I just
bought a brand-spanking-new ZX6 and was really glad to see that OES had full coverage for
my bike, I bought every slider that you had. I'm very glad I did. I'm writing because I just
wanted to let you know about how well your sliders performed on a pretty hairy crash at
Summit Point. I was rounding turn 7, an off-camber right-hander and lowsided at about 50.
Your sliders were long enough, which allowed me to get my right leg out from under the bike
before I hit the gravel. They were also long enough to protect all (!) of my fairings from
damage, I had the slightest scratching on one upper fairing from grass and gravel, no contact
with the track at all. The slider gave it up like it was supposed to, but didn't get torn off or
rotate under the load, she held strong and saved my bike. This was the type of crash that
ruins your frame.
Your swingarm sliders saved my exhaust, allowing the exhaust cover and the slider to take
most of the hit. Needless to say, I'm really happy about you saving me $10K.
Thank you for manufacturing a quality product, as well as offering reasonably priced
replacement parts. I will continue to use OES products and recommend them to my customers
as well as my friends. As a mechanic and wanna-be racer I appreciate the design, fit and finish
of all your products, keep up the good work."
"Just wanted to send this
so you guys can use it if you want. Your product saved me
thousands of dollars to my beloved 2009 ZX6R- not a scratch on the plastics, frame, or rims.
Just a new slider and a new foot brake pedal under $120.00 total repair. Thanks."
"I crashed my 2007 CBR600RR while going 60 mph at Calabogie Motorsports Park. When my
bike hit the grass, the tires caught and the bike flipped over pretty hard. My OES Accessories
Slider kit prevented my bike from receiving a lot of damage. My swingarm, engine cases, forks,
rotors, and rims are untouched and look like new. My OEM rearsets are not at all bent. The
only damage to my bike was a rashed bar end, a ground down frame slider, and some rash on
my track plastics. When I put my street plastics back on and cleaned the bike up, no one
could tell that it had been in a 60 mph crash. I am now placing my order for another set of OES
Accessories frame sliders (my swingarm spools and fork sliders are still in good shape). The
best part about this is the great customer service I receive through OES Accessories. They are
on top of their emails and they ship out orders really quickly. I have bought from them twice in
the past, once for the whole slider kit and once to replace a swing arm spool that fell off
because I forgot to loctite the bolt".
"I received my replacement slider for my '08 B King today. You and your product are second to
none! My bike survived a 35 mph low side crash with no significant damage other than the
ground down slider. Witnesses said the lack of damage was miraculous. I did not fare as well
but am mending rapidly. Your support service has also been exemplary."
"I purchased your sliders and recently lowsided. To my amazement, there was very little
damage done to my fairings. So little in fact, they don't HAVE to be replaced. I may just hit
them with some touch up paint and they should be good to go. Great products, thanks!"
"Just wanted to thank you for designing a good product that holds up. I am reordering these
sliders from you to replace my last set that I purchased from you last July. A couple of days
ago I dropped my R6 when I hit some black ice when turning a corner at moderate speed and
thought for sure my frame was trashed. It must have skid 20 ft or more on its side. When I
picked it up there was no damage to my frame minus some scratches on my turn signal and
bar end, but the slider was skinned half way down. The spool I had on the rear of the bike
from another vendor was completely broke off."
"Thought you'd like to know, I fitted a set of these to my FZ1 last week and crashed 3 hours
later. The sliders saved me a fortune in crash damage to my bike. Thanks for a great product."
"Thanks a lot! Your sliders saved me from a TON of repairs.. My cowlings took some scraping
but that was from a curb. Without the sliders it would have cost me around $1400 in repairs!"
"Just wanted to thank you again for the great frame sliders I bought a year or so ago. They
came in handy last night when I was on the R6 and was hit by a ford explorer. I contacted the
truck with the nose and fell on the left side. The sliders did a great job. Landing on the engine
and swingarm sliders w/o a mark that I can find on my plastics. Looks like some minor plastic
work to the nose a check of my forks and she will be on the road. I've told them to order my
replacement sliders from you when they get the insurance check. Nothing like some
inexpensive piece of mind that you can trust."
"Your frame slider worked wonderfully! There were no damages to my fairing at all!"
"Ya, was taking a left hand downhill loop turn this weekend at Mountain View in Arkansas and
my front slid on gravel a little then got traction again and threw my bike and I to the right. The
slider took a hard hit and worked beautifully."
"So my brother in-law put the B-King sliders I purchased from you into use when a coyote ran
in front of him at about 60mph. I can tell you that they did save him some money in damages. I
was VERY impressed with how much the rear spool slider saved. The damage was under
$500, and if the sliders were not there, I think the bike would be totalled."
" Just wanted let you guys know....your frame sliders on my girlfriend's bike, saved it from
major damage when the bike hit the wall at the exit of T6 at Nashville SuperSpeedway during
the STT "night" trackday on Aug. 2nd. She bought replacement sliders from you a few weeks
ago and I've got them installed again. Now I'm buying some for my 600RR streetbike."
"I am writing to describe how well OES sliders worked for me. I ride a
Suzuki B-King and low sided at 40 mph or so. The left slider wore down
about an inch but otherwise was intact. No damage was sustained to the
side of the bike except for the nob sticking out from the shifter. The
bike must have slid at least 75 yards. I was able to ride the bike
and finish my trip, which was about 400 miles.
Thanks OES!"
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Drew Sutton for Jeff Keppinger.
I still can't believe we got that much for Keppinger.
A switch-hitter that brings positive at-bats from both sides of the plate and plays 1B/SS/2B/3B, and probably could play any of the outfield spots, too. The ulitmate Utility Infielder.
In 37 games in Louisville so far:
vs. Left-handers: .341/.404/.585/.990 in about 48 PA's.
vs. Righthanders: .212/.380/.459/.838 in about 108 PA's.
Last year at AA Corpus Christi in about 686 PA's he hit .317/.408/.523/.931
Tomorrow, June 30th, is his 26th birthday. He's entering the peak of the 4 or 5 best years of his career. He's maturing very fast right now....like Dickerson did this time last season.
He's never been injured as a pro. He went to College at Baylor, so it's not like he's spent a lot of time in the minors. But, his 3000 career minor league plate appearances plus College experience makes it so that there just isn't a lot left for him to learn in the minors.
He's either ready for the Majors or he'll never be.
He's not tearing it up his last 10 games: .270/.357/.459/.816
But, his June numbers are: .272/.410/.568/.978
Not bad. When EE gets promoted, and I assume it's for Danny Richar, the next infielder I'd like to see promoted would be Sutton. By then, he will have had another 50+ PA's in Louisville, perhaps honing some more skills as he sees pitchers for the second or sometimes third time this season.
Jerry Hairston, Jr. is a career .259/.328/.371/.700 hitter. He's proving last season was a career fluke as this year he's right where he should be at .249/.307/.394/.701, nearly identical to what one could have expected from him at the beginning of the season.
But, Hairston is a veteran and an ex-Cub, two things Dusty continues to burden this team with.
I'd much rather have the younger, more energetic, and probably better defender, switch-hitter in Sutton.
I hope Walt can see this, too, and make the move.
Hairston is a commodity this team doesn't need any more. DFA him.


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Netanyahu Guides Family around the Galilee
Prime Minister leads wife and sons on Pesach trip up north.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 4/17/2014, 7:31 PM
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took his wife, Sarah, and sons, Yair and Avner, on a Pesach holiday trip to the Galilee.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is set to make a film about a Hong Kong businessman who offers cash to find a man to marry his lesbian daughter.
08:15, UK, Saturday 06 October 2012
Comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen is moving from The Dictator to The Lesbian for an upcoming film project.
The British star is to develop a movie based on the story of a Hong Kong billionaire who offered £40m to any man who married his lesbian daughter.
In September, shipping magnate Cecil Chao publicly promised the huge payout after rumours emerged that his daughter Gigi had married her long-term girlfriend in France.
He rejected the idea of a civil partnership and offered the money to any man who could successfully marry Gigi, as she "needs a good husband".
Same-sex unions are not recognised in Hong Kong.
Cohen's last film The Dictator made £109m at the box office worldwide.
His next project is said to be a 007 spoof that sees a James Bond-style spy go on the run with his football hooligan brother.
However, he will next be seen on the big screen in the adaptation of Les Miserables, as Thenardier, alongside the likes of Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.
Cohen's previous films have included Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.
The film, commonly referred to as just Borat, is a mockumentary about a Kazakhstan journalist travelling across America.
It caused controversy for poking fun at American culture, as well as sexism and racism.
It is understood The Lesbian will be made by Paramount Pictures through Cohen's own company Four By Two.
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Release Date: 2013-07-03 (Nationwide)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Rating: PG
Duration: 1hr 38min
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Man facing child sex charges sought work as baby sitter
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 4:26 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 4:26 p.m.
A Burgaw man jailed on child molestation charges last week markets himself online as a face painter and professional clown, and has posted listings on numerous websites seeking work as a baby sitter.
Cheyne Martin Potrafka, 29, is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual offense, two counts of crimes against nature and one count of indecent liberties with a child.
According to Pender County sheriff's Detective John Leatherwood, the charges involve one child under the age of 13 and the alleged crimes occurred "recently."
He declined to elaborate.
On various websites as recently as this summer, Potrafka marketed himself as an experienced baby sitter, posting pictures and writing lengthy messages to prospective parents about his skills and strengths.
One posting's headline reads, "Good male role model with child care and medical background looking for babysitting or full-time 'manny' work."
"I have been taking care of children many years through babysitting, church activities, in my own family, summer camps and the like," he writes in the posting. "I can always find something in common with any child: sports, board games, computer games, reading or just good ole imagination. I'm a professional clown, face painter and entertainer."
Potrafka goes on to say he has experience caring for special-needs children and has worked as a camp counselor at a seven-week-long, church-connected summer camp for boys. On his Facebook page, he posted pictures of children whose faces he painted at area fairs.
He also mentions a connection to the Friendly Community Baptist Church in Burgaw, where he was listed as the "games director" for the Awana youth group in 2010.
Friendly Community Baptist Church Pastor Aaron Cramer on Wednesday said Potrafka hadn't been involved with the church for about a year and a half after announcing he was leaving for a job out of state. Cramer said he learned Potrafka was back in the area when he heard about his arrest.
He said the church never had any problems with or complaints about Potrafka.
"It's unfortunate to have people connected to the church in this way," Cramer said. "His connection here was fairly minimal."
Potrafka is being held on $1.5 million bail.
Leatherwood said anyone with information on the case can call him at the Pender County Sheriff's Office at 259-0191.
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- Included (I1, I2, and I3)
GGS Color Grading Scale
Color actually refers to the absence of color in a diamond. The less yellow within the diamond, the higher on the alphabetical scale the diamond will be graded. Colorless diamonds are D-F, near colorless are G-J, faint yellow are K-M, very light yellow are N-R. S-Z are light yellow. Colorless diamonds are higher priced in the colorless to yellow or colorless to brown diamond ranges. However, many people like the warmth of a faint to light yellow or brown diamond. If that describes you, then you can find great value in that particular type of diamond.
The items in this category relate to the cut (or make) of the diamond:
- Depth Percentage: The relationship between the depth and the average diameter of a diamond.
- Table: The relationship between the table (flat, top facet) and the average diameter.
- Girdle: Describes the variance and relative width at minimum and maximum positions. The girdle is the rim that separates the top and the bottom of the diamond.
- Culet: The bottom facet of a diamond as viewed through the table.
- Polish: Refers to the quality of the surface of a diamond.
- Symmetry: General comment regarding the symmetry of the diamond.
Fluorescence describes the degree of sensitivity of a diamond to long wave ultraviolet radiation. None or blue is fine. GGS recommends that you avoid orange, yellow, and green.


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"Haunted" - Part 4
Writer: Bryan Q. Miller
Penciller: Jorge Jimenez
Inker: Jorge Jimenez
Reviewed by: Marc Pritchard
Westbound over the Atlantic Ocean, meanwhile, Bart tells Clark about the demonic creature he has been seeing while using his superspeed and how it started when he was trapped by Lex in that cage and forced to run incessantly lest he be electrocuted. Getting Clark to race him around the world, he says (see "Haunted -Part 2"), was a test to see whether Clark could also see the creature and, thus, whether he is "crazy." Clark assures him he isn't and commits to finding a way to confront the creature.
Meanwhile, Lois, convinced Lex is up to no good, is investigating an abandoned Luthorcorp industrial site (the one that held Bart five years before), which has apparently remained demolished and unreclaimed all this time. At the site, where Lois has just arrived, a cleanup crew finds some kryptonite, the smashed glass walls of Bart's old cage and some weird red, yellow and black crackling energy on the ground. One of the crew members, a man in his thirties or so, bends down to investigate and is swept into (and then right back out of) a kind of multi-colored-energy cyclone. Lois yells for somebody to call an ambulance and then rushes to help.
But the crew member is dead... and also an old man!
Story - 4: Well, we got a bunch of information in this episode, some of it baffling, a little bit of it cool, and most of it neither. Let's start with the baffling stuff and get it out of the way (it's going to take longer, anyway, trying to figure it out). Then cool stuff, then conclude. Everything else is "neither."
It's not that I think Chloe shouldn't be able to develop proficiency in her own husband's most lauded skill, but a couple of details in particular would seem to betray that this marksmanship business is not likely to be all that critical to future developments. Accordingly, if that proves to be the case, my question is why do it? Why suggest she's been spending a lot of private time firing arrows and darts into that target if nothing is going to come of it (which by nothing I mean development of her character in such a way that also develops the world and, if possible, contributes to Clark's story)? To me it seems just a half-clever way to play on the arrow motif (since Oliver is there, in which case, ok - maybe not optimal for Chloe, but I can appreciate the literary effort) while also granting Chloe a House, M.D. kind of moment (she is supposed to be brilliant, still, isn't she?) wherein an epiphany emerges from an at-best-laterally related event (that's the House part, not the second and final part coming up) in order to advance a completely unrelated plotline.
Here are the details I mentioned: (1) Oliver plainly doesn't know how good she's gotten, which suggests his role has been slight, which undermines the development's likelihood; (2) Oliver takes the bow and arrows away from her and puts them back in his Green Arrow room in this bizarrely silent sequence that fails to convey whether she had chosen to stop practicing or he didn't want her messing around with his gear... or, what?... it just sort of happens, unremarked upon by either of them while I just... well, still, what? What was that?
But, most tellingly, while this is happening (while Oliver is seemingly confiscating and storing the bow and arrows), Chloe gives voice to an extraordinary non sequitur: they had just been talking about why they haven't told anyone about the pregnancy goes from a flip remark about how they'll tell people before the child is old enough for college, to entreating Oliver just to let her "perfect her aim" with the bow, to this: "It isn't every day your doppelganger from a dead parallel earth drops by to warn you that 'The Crisis' is coming." Naturally (or, rather, unnaturally), Oliver doesn't miss a beat and is all like "Shame we can't ask her" where I'd instead be "Uh, what on either Earth 1 or 2 does that have to do with when we tell Lois and Clark about our baby???"
Because, well, what does the bit about the doppelganger and The Crisis have to do with telling people she's pregnant, or, for that matter, with her newly revealed archery abilities? You could argue it goes to her psychology or something (that she's so traumatized about this death [it's not the first time she's experienced her own death, by the way, remember] she can't bear to talk about the new life inside of her?), or maybe you could go back to whatever she saw (but we haven't been let in on) in the Helmet of Nabu (unless it's the pregnancy itself, which is where my money would go if I was any kind of gambler and there was an active wager on this... ahem), but there's nothing about this scene to suggest that Chloe is disturbed or unsettled or uneasy in any way - the way she was shown to be in issue 16 (really the last time this thread was in the narrative forefront). Very much to the contrary, the new archery ability shows us she's got herself quite under control.
(Now that I'm thinking about it, it's not possible they're going to have her become the "Arrowette" that Oliver says he'd maybe like to have one day at the end of "Detective"? A Nightwing to his Batman? Is it? Do you think? Mia would make sense. Chloe would be like jumping a shark that's actually in the middle of devouring a meal of Jaws movie posters.)
Let's also not forget that Chloe made an almost identical remark to this one, again in issue 16: "My doppelganger from a parallel Earth died right in front of me. I think I'm allowed to be a little on edge." Notice the difference? There, she connects the doppelganger dying to her behavior in the present moment, where Oliver had just noted that she sounded like the news she got from Emil (that S.T.A.R. Labs may have found a way to access the black box from Chloe-2's ship) was bad, as opposed to the good news it sounded like to him. Never mind that in both cases it plays like Chloe being rudely defensive is ok (cue the jokes about Oliver being "whipped"), here in episode 29 the distance between "when to tell people I'm pregnant" and "my doppelganger died" is so great and lazily bridged it can't possibly be serving any function other than to get the conversation/scene, by the time it's over, to The Crisis. Because who needs round characters when you have a plot? A plot, I tells ya!!!
Meanwhile, what becomes of Chloe's mad marksman skillz? The scene ends on her, having seemingly lost Green Arrow gear privileges (or maybe not), throwing a dart into the dead-center bull's-eye, which she hadn't managed with the bow, looking on at the accomplishment intently as she responds to Oliver's background lament that they can't ask dead-Chloe what The Crisis is: "What if we could?" she asks (or maybe not - whomever it is that does ask that question is out of frame, but I'm going with the implied logic and assuming it's her).
So now we have an implication of the direction in which this plotline is about to go (inter-dimensional time travel, obviously... Ha! That or, I don't know, zombie hypnosis?), but what did the archery add? This is not about whether Chloe could or could not develop the proficiency on display in this issue. It's about what having her demonstrate this proficiency, pretty much out of nowhere, does for the story. And near as I can tell, it's "Face it, House, you're amazing!" Which, you know, as far as that goes (with the egregious exception of the brutal non sequitur), it's executed well, reaching its own little climax on a silent bull's-eye (rhetorically equivalent to Bingo!, I'd say) just as she has her epiphany about The Crisis (presumably, which I find I say a lot in these reviews... must be the weekly format... ). But it's also one-dimensional, near-shark-jumpingly bad for suddenly giving Chloe evident depth in a totally new skill and in a way that has neither intra-textual precedent (that I can recall, but if there is one it would help give some shape and scope to her potential) nor, seemingly, any clear world-building utility that wouldn't be totally jumping el sharko.
Well, but then, you know - "That's so Smallville!"
Oh and, yeah - down there in the subtext, it also emasculates Ollie (cue those jokes again), the more so since he seems to be completely oblivious to it.
Some people will try to tell you it's just Smallville staying true to itself, but by at least Season 4 I was already past fed up with the series' penchant for the soap opera of constant secrets and lies upon demands for truth upon lies upon quadruple standards upon secrets. Here, Chloe and Oliver are telling a lie of omission to everyone they know, though I think if it's me I let this one pass because of the highly personal nature of the situation and because, well, it's still very early in the pregnancy and it's usually early in pregnancies that pregnancies are lost. In other words, it's not at all uncommon for women to refrain from issuing announcements of this sort until they are certain they will be carrying the pregnancy to term; however, it strikes me as conspicuously uncommon for Chloe to be this tight-lipped with Oliver. Perhaps something else is afoot here.
And it is. It's not just Chloe and Oliver not telling their friends about the pregnancy (which, like I said, yeah, I'd be the same, even though, look at it, a secret/lie is the subject of their conversation and thus right there in our faces), it's Chloe keeping something from Oliver. See again in issue 16, that scene where not long after she admits her lingering edginess at having watched Chloe-2 die, Chloe(-1) and Oliver hug and we see the scene from behind Oliver, full witnesses to the distress on Chloe's face. Now, showing us that distress in a way that also shows Oliver not seeing it is one way to say: "He doesn't know how upset she truly is." Right? Are we all together on this?
At the time, I speculated on untold Helmet of Nabu ramifications, but now that this thread is back, it seems... well, not exactly clear but clearer.
I.e., she's got a secret.
So what is it? We've speculated Helmet of Nabu - and I suggested just paragraphs ago that might have something to do with the pregnancy, which I'll say now that I think that has potential. Trauma from the Chloe-2 death can't be it because she's acknowledged it with him. What else? Because my thing is, once you establish that she's not entirely at ease, there's a difference between what she's uneasy about and why she's uneasy about whatever it is. As the audience, we don't know either of these things (again, it's not the death of Chloe-2, even if that's all we've seen her say about it - at most, surely, the Chloe-2 death is a sign for something else, whatever it is that's actually "haunting" Chloe) and, for my money, it's a more impactful mystery if we had certainty about one of them - in this case, why she's uneasy (e.g. ramifications of Nabu: pregnancy is going to miscarry?), leaving us to wonder about (in, again, the Nabu case) just what exactly she "saw" and when it's supposed to happen.
This is peculiar in a way that makes me doubt my own senses. When the matter is introduced via non sequitur, as I already explained, it's pretty much impossible for me to accept it as characterization. The artifice is simply too naked. Am I supposed to care why she keeps bringing up the experience of seeing Chloe-2 die for its own sake or accept it as evidence of post-traumatic stress? Or something else altogether? I'd like to be able to say but, even though Smallville's job - any narrative's job - is to leave me no choice, instead, here, it leaves me nothing but.
Some stuff, as I said, was cool
For instance, probably obviously (and working backwards, I guess), the final panel showing the Lexcorp guy having suddenly aged to death. That scene was well paced unto itself, not to mention well positioned at the conclusion of the chapter - Smallville has, more than once (I've charged), allowed its conclusions to be anti-climactic. This bit does a good service the other way and is an especially powerful way to introduce the speed force to, you know, the public. (Also, Hello Crisis, presumably - this time it's personal!)
The Lois scene itself feels very much like a Smallville Lois scene, so I have to give it props for that, even if it was the slightly annoying Lois who argues with whomever's around even if they are only peripherally involved in, or even aware of, whatever she's arguing about.
Everything but some of the boldfacing in the dialogue ("When LEX [hammer] tortured you for stealing LUTHORCORP SECRETS [head]." and "getting eaten by the Ghost of Christmas Speed" - the single worst Dickens subversion I've ever seen and, for that, a truly weak way to evoke "Homecoming" from Season 10 -, everything else in the flightbound recap exposition scene between Supes and Impulse does its job connecting with the past perfectly well.
And that's cool enough.
Alright, already, right? Yeah, ok. I'm much more genuinely interested in the Bart plotline than I have been in I think any other thread this whole "season." As much as I wish they were past the flashbacks at this point, still it intrigues me. I couldn't care less about almost everything else at the moment - Lex+Tess, Chloe's baby, Oliver's shrinking manhood (at Batman's, um, hands as much as Chloe's) and let's never forget the long-forgotten TELEPORTATION SUIT.
Art - 5: Yeah, I like what this Jimenez guy is doing and I hope he sticks around for a while.
Cover Art -4: Man, this new cover totally calls to mind the original Hardy Boys books - there were never any demon things, mind you, but there's something in the composition and especially in the faces. I think I have to take a point off for that. Otherwise it's more or less what I'd expect from Cat Staggs.
January 2013
Check out the Comic Index Lists for the complete list of Superman-related comics published in 2013.


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LOS ANGELES (LALATE EXCLUSIVE) – Is Kenya Moore engaged to her new boyfriend 2013, or is Kenya married already? Kenya Moore engagement and wedding confusion started moments ago. Moore on Instagram this evening shared a new picture. And in it, she flashed a stunning, massive ring on a certain finger. Immediately, fans began to wonder if Kenya Moore is engaged, married, or just wears big jewelry on her wedding finger.
Kenya Moore has yet to confirm to news if she is engaged, married, or still single. Moore tonight did her usual Friday night Ten Questions with fans. Once she was finished, she tweeted a peculiar message. "Thanks to my glam team today Mimi and Robbie for giving me life." The context of her tweet remained a mystery. With it, she added the above Instagram picture. "Is that an engagement ring?" one fan wrote. Another added "I see someone wifed".
Since last winter, RHOA engagement rings have dominated Bravo storylines. While on vacation last winter, Kandi Burruss hid her wedding finger in a series of pictures with boyfriend Todd. At the time, they were already engaged.
And in the 2013 RHOA reunion, Andy Cohen, Nene Leakes, and Kandi got involved in ring-gate. NeNe told Andy that her ring was 15 carat, representing the number of years that she and Gregg were married previously. Fans thought that Cohen set Kandi up for ring-shade, since Kandi's ring was far more simple. One fan commented at the time "U can c Kandi's envy when Andy says how big a bling u got. honey shine bright like a diamond." Someone else wrote "Does Kandi want that ring Nene Leakes has on? LOL #RHOA".
Just days ago, LALATE exclusively reported HERE that Moore sold her Los Angeles home with the help of Kyle Richards' husband. So who is Kenya Moore's boyfriend? For more click HERE.


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Meeting Globally
By Jimgris-Oracle on Sep 23, 2008
I had a nice meeting today with part of Sun's globalization team in Beijing. These guys are involved in a whole range of OpenSolaris engineering and community building operations around China -- user groups, education activities, release engineering, teaching, input methods, testing, and internationalization & localization. Great conversations. Thanks, guys.
Check out the two images above. That's a new handwriting recognition application written by Feng Zhu in g11n that will eventually make its way into OpenSolaris and offer a new way of inputing characters. The application is self-learning and makes character recognition easier. Users can define their own glyphs and mappings between glyphs and characters. Look for a source release in the Internationalization & Localization Community Group as part of the Input Method project in the coming months. Basically, you write on the screen and are presented with some characters as options. Chinese. Japanese. Korean. Sanskrit. There will be a web interface for the community to help input the thousands and thousands and thousands of characters into the database. Should be cool.
The characters in the screen shots below mean "move" in English. The second one is written more carelessly.


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Greg Carter
Case Details
Case Type: Homicide
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Case Status: OPEN
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Incident Date: 12/22/2009
Agency: Colorado Springs Police Department
City: Colorado Springs
Date of Birth: 11/21/1966
County: Denver
Date of Death: 01/06/2010
Agency Case #: 09-39159
Age: 43
Judicial District: 4th Judicial District
Gender: Male
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Race: African American
NamUs Case #: Unknown
Eyes: Brown
NCMEC Case #: Unknown
Hair: Black
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On December 23, 2009, 43 year old Greg Carter, was treated at the Memorial Hospital Emergency Room and was believed to have been assaulted and had sustained life threatening injuries. The physician who was treating Mr. Carter believed he was beaten with a glass bottle because he had removed a small piece of glass from Mr. Carters scalp. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Colorado Springs Police Department.
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Bryn Mawr College
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phone: 610-526-5065
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Department of Biology
Bryn Mawr College
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Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Biology 110 is an introductory-level course, designed to encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and ecological; Biology 111 will explore these areas of biology through a unifying theme. This year Biology B110-002 will investigate the relationship between genotype and phenotype through analysis of inheritance patterns in families and populations, examination of the regulation and decoding of genetic information that ultimately produces proteins whose structure/function dictates cellular activity, and analyses of mutations and how they affect developmental processes. We will also discuss ethical issues associated with genetic testing. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Biology 201 - Genetics
An introduction to heredity and variation, focusing on topics such as classical Mendelian genetics, linkage and recombination, chromosome abnormalities, population genetics and molecular genetics. Examples of genetic analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms, including bacteria, viruses, Drosophilaand humans. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisites: Biology 110-111 and Chemistry 103-104.
Biology 376 - Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II
This course is the second semester of Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Students will continue investigating macromolecules, molecular pathways and gene regulation through lecture, critical reading and discussion of primary literature and laboratory experimentation. Three hours of lecture, three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: Biology 201 - Genetics or Biology 375 - Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I or permission of instructor.
Biology 393 - Senior Seminar in Molecular Genetics (not offered 2014-2015)
This course focuses on topics of current interest and significance in molecular genetics, such as chromatin structure and mechanisms of gene regulation. Students critically read, present and discuss in detail primary literature relevant to the selected topic. In addition, students write, defend, and publicly present one long research paper or thesis. Three hours of class lecture and discussion per week, supplemented by frequent meetings with individual students. Prerequisites: Biology 201, Biology 376 or permission of instructor.
Biology 399 - Senior Seminar in Laboratory Investigations (taught every spring by various members of the Biology Department)
This seminar provides students with a collaborative forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas and broaden their perspective and understanding of research approaches used in various sub-disciplines of biology. There will be a focus on the presentation, interpretation and discussion of data, and communication of scientific findings to diverse audiences. In addition, students write, defend and publicly present a paper on their supervised research project. Three hours of class discussion each week. Co-requisite: enrollment in BIOL403.
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My lab focuses on understanding the mechanism of genomic imprinting. Genomic imprinting is a mammalian-specific phenomenon whereby the expression of a subset of genes depends on their parental origin. In other words, although we inherit one copy of every gene from our mothers and one copy from our fathers, there are a small number of genes for which only the maternally inherited copy is expressed and a small number for which only the paternally inherited copy is expressesd. There are two major consequences of this unusual form of gene regulation. First, mutations in imprinted genes act in a dominant, parent of origin-specific fashion since there is not a second copy whose wild-type expression can compensate for the mutation. Second, every mammal needs to have a genetic contribution from both a male and a female parent - otherwise, genes critical for normal development will not be expressed. Failure to achieve genomic imprinting can result in developmental disorders such as Beckwith-Wiedemann, Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes.
One main question in the field of genomic imprinting is: how does the cellular machinery distinguish the maternally inherited allele from the paternally inherited allele so that it knows which copy should be expressed and which copy should remain silent? The simple answer is that the maternal and paternal alleles must be marked so that they appear to be different from each other. To date, the best candidate for the imprinting mark is DNA methylation. In mammals, DNA methylation is a modification of cytosines that are present in CG dinucleotides, such that the cytosines have a methyl group covalently attached at the 5' position. This type of modification is called epigenetic because it is a modification of the DNA structure but does not alter the DNA sequence. The reason DNA methylation stands out as a candidate for the imprinting mark is that most imprinted genes are associated with a region of differential methylation - for example, the silent paternal allele of an imprinted gene may be methylated while the expressed maternal allele is unmethylated.
As mentioned above, all imprinted genes are associated with a primary region of differential DNA methylation which serves as an imprinting control region. However, the precise regulation of imprinted genes requires additional epigenetic modifications, including secondary differentially methylated regions (DMRs) and differential distribution of modified histones on the parental alleles, or copies, of imprinted genes. Secondary DMRs are regions at which differential methylation is not inherited via the gamete; rather, allele-specific methylation at secondary DMRs is acquired post-fertilization. One aspect of my research is focused on understanding when methylation is acquired during embryogenesis, and how these secondary DMRs differ from primary imprinting control regions. To do this, my lab conducts analysis of DNA methylation patterns at imprinted genes during various stages of development in the mouse. Thus far, we have analyzed the acquisition of DNA methylation at secondary DMRs associated with the imprinted genes Cdkn1c, Gtl2 and Dlk1. We have learned that Cdkn1c acquires DNA methylation on its paternal allele at a different developmental stage than Gtl2 and Dlk1, and that the DNA methylation pattern at Dlk1 continues to change during development. These results indicate that there is not a single developmental stage during which allele-specific methylation is established. More recently, we observed that the DNA methylation has an unexpected high level of asymmetry on the complementary strands of the Dlk1 gene. We are currently conducting experiments to determine if this asymmetry is unique to Dlk1 or whether it is a common feature of secondary DMRs, and to determine the biochemical basis for this asymmetry.
While it is clear that DNA methylation plays a role in regulating the expression of imprinted genes, it is also clear that differential DNA methylation cannot be the only factor distinguishing the maternal and paternal alleles from each other. Rasgrf1 is an imprinted gene at which the paternal allele is marked with DNA methylation. However, the DNA methylation pattern at Rasgrf1 does not directly correlate with its expression pattern. Rasgrf1 is an example of a tissue-specific imprinted gene: it is expressed solely from the paternally inherited copy in some tissues, such as brain, but is expressed from both the paternal and the maternal copy in other tissues, such as lung. Therefore, there must be other factors responsible for regulating the tissue-specific imprinting of this gene. Histone modification is one candidate that may be playing a role in the complex regulation of Rasgrf1. Histones are proteins that DNA wraps around in order to achieve the first level of chromosome compaction. The addition of different chemical groups, such as methyl and acetyl groups, to histone proteins affects the structure of the chromatin and the degree of DNA compaction. My lab is currently investigating the distribution of modified histones on the parental alleles of Rasgrf1in both imprinted and non-imprinted tissues in order to determine if they play a role in achieving imprinting at this gene.
There are opportunities for student research in my lab during the course of the academic year as well as in the summer.
Students conducting research with me include:
Nicole Hamagami, class of 2016
Kristian Sumner, class of 2017
image at right: 2014-2015 research team -
we do science!
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Kristian, Megan, Katia, Rachel, Carolyne & Nicole
Former research students include:
Jessica Arbon, class of 2014
Anna Arnaudo, class of 2002
Emily Bergbower, class of 2011
Alison Best, class of 2003
Paige De Rosa, class of 2014
Alyson Dymkowski, class of 2004
Carolyne Face, class of 2015
Sara Fielder, class of 2013
Alyssa Gagne, class of 2011
Jennifer Gerfen, class of 2006
Christina Harview, class of 2009
Lu Mei He, class of 2006
Aimee Heerd, class of 2014
Abby Hochman, class of 2013
Rebecca Joseph, class of 2013
Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle, class of 2009
Nelly Khaselev, class of 2011
Francesca Marangell, class of 2009
Sadie Marlow, class of 2011
Sarah McCawley, class of 2002
Kayla McDaniel, class of 2012
Lauren McNelly, class of 2012
Snehal Naik, class of 2003
Anuja Ogirala, class of 2001
Yaena Park, class of 2008
Stephanie Pollack, class of 2008
Charlotte Rahn-Lee, class of 2005
Amelie Raz, class of 2011
Sarah Schnellbacher, class of 2013
Rachel Shields, class of 2015
Geneva Stein, class of 2006
Celia Tong, Haverford College class of 2013
Katia Vlasova, class of 2015
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Gagne, A., Hochman, A., Qureshi, M., Tong, C., Arbon, J., McDaniel, K. and T.L. Davis, 2014, Analysis of DNA methylation acquisition at the imprinted Dlk1 locus reveals asymmetry at CpG dyads, Epigenetics & Chromatin 2014 7:9.
Nowak, K., Stein, G., Powell, E., He, L.M., Naik, S., Morris, J., Marlow, S. and T.L. Davis, 2011, Establishment of paternal allele-specific DNA methylation at the imprinted mouse Gtl2 locus, Epigenetics 6(8): 1012-1020.
Dockery, L., J. Gerfen, C. Harview, C. Rahn-Lee, R. Horton, Y. Park and T.L. Davis, 2009, Differential methylation persists at the mouse Rasgrf1 DMR in tissues displaying monoallelic and biallelic expression, Epigenetics 4(4): 241-247.
Bhogal, B., A. Arnaudo, A. Dymkowski, A. Best and T.L. Davis, 2004,
Methylation at mouse Cdkn1c
is acquired during post-implantation development and functions to
maintain imprinted expression, Genomics
84(6): 961-970.
Davis, T.L., G.J. Yang, J. McCarrey and M.S. Bartolomei, 2000, The H19 methylation imprint is erased and reestablished differentially on the parental alleles during male germ cell development, Human Molecular Genetics 9(19): 2885-2894.
Dawes, H.E., D.S. Berlin, D.M. Lapidus, C. Nusbaum, T.L. Davis and B.J. Meyer, 1999, SDC-2 triggers hermaphrodite sexual development and targets nematode dosage compensation machinery to X chromosomes, Science 284(5421): 1800-1804.
Davis, T.L., J.M. Trasler, S.B. Moss, G.J. Yang and M.S. Bartolomei, 1999, Acquisition of the H19 methylation imprint occurs differentially on the parental alleles during spermatogenesis, Genomics 58(1): 18-28.
Davis, T.L., K.D. Tremblay and M.S. Bartolomei, 1998, Imprinted expression and methylation of the mouse H19 gene are conserved in extraembryonic lineages, Developmental Genetics 23(2): 111-118.
Davis, T.L. and B.J. Meyer, 1997, SDC-3 coordinates the assembly of a dosage compensation complex on the nematode X chromosome, Development 124(5): 1019-1031.
Davis, T.L., D.R. Helinski, and R.C. Roberts, 1992, Transcription and autoregulation of the stabilizing functions of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 in Escherichia coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Molecular Microbiology 6(14): 1981-1994.
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The following is the abstract for a poster being presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics, August 2-7, 2015.
Analysis of hemimethylation & 5hmC content at primary and secondary DMRs associated with imprinted lociEkaterina Vlasova ('15), Megan Guntrum ('16), Jessica Arbon ('14) and Tamara L. Davis
Differential distribution of DNA methylation on the alleles of imprinted genes functions both to distinguish the alleles based on their parental origin and regulate them to achieve monoallelic expression. DNA methylation at primary differentially methylated regions (DMRs), or imprinting control regions (ICRs) is inherited from the gametes, is consistently maintained on one parental allele throughout development, and functions to modulate expression. In contrast, parent of origin-specific DNA methylation at secondary DMRs is acquired during post-fertilization development; while DNA methylation of these regions is believe to play a role in maintaining imprinted expression, they lack the stability of DNA methylation that is inherited via the gamete. Our analysis of the variable DNA methylation pattern at the mouse Dlk1 gene identified high levels of hemimethylation at individual CpG dyads. We propose that increased levels of hemimethylation at secondary DMRs contribute to the reduced DNA methylation fidelity within these regions. We further propose that increases in 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) levels may be responsible for increases in hemimethylation and decreases in DNA methylation fidelity. To test these hypotheses, we are examining CpG dyad methylation patterns and 5hmC content at both primary and secondary DMRs associated with imprinted genes. This poster will describe our recent results and current investigations.
The following is the abstract from
a paper recently published in 2014 in Epigenetics & Chromatin 2014 7:9.
Analysis of DNA methylation acquisition at the imprinted Dlk1 locus reveals asymmetry at CpG dyads.
Alyssa Gagne ('11), Abigail Hochman ('13), Mahvish Qureshi ('10), Celia Tong ('13), Jessica Arbon ('14), Kayla McDaniel ('12) and Tamara L. Davis
Background: Differential distribution of DNA methylation on the parental alleles of imprinted genes distinguishes the alleles from each other and dictates their parent of origin-specific expression patterns. While differential DNA methylation at primary imprinting control regions is inherited via the gametes, additional allele-specific DNA methylation is acquired at secondary sites during embryonic development and plays a role in the maintenance of genomic imprinting. The precise mechanisms by which this somatic DNA methylation is established at secondary sites are not well defined and may vary as methylation acquisition at these sites occurs at different times for genes in different imprinting clusters. Results: In this study, we show that there is also variability in the timing of somatic DNA methylation acquisition at multiple sites within a single imprinting cluster. Paternal allele-specific DNA methylation is initially acquired at similar stages of post-implantation development at the linked Dlk1 and Gtl2 differentially methylated regions (DMRs). In contrast, unlike the Gtl2-DMR, the maternal Dlk1-DMR acquires DNA methylation in adult tissues. Conclusions: These data suggest that the acquisition of DNA methylation across the Dlk1/Gtl2 imprinting cluster is variable. We further found that the Dlk1 differentially methylated region displays low DNA methylation fidelity, as evidenced by the presence of hemimethylation at approximately one third of the methylated CpG dyads. We hypothesize that the maintenance of DNA methylation may be less efficient at secondary differentially methylated sites than at primary imprinting control regions.
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Sunshine, Rain and Sweet Endings
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That looks like the perfect way to spend the day! What a beautiful lakehouse they have. Ahhh...maybe someday!ReplyDelete
Looks like a wonderful way to spend a summer day with friends. :)ReplyDelete
Mmmm - we both spent part of the day on the water! What a lovely time after all the hard work of the week behind you.ReplyDelete
Hi Penny! We had such a good time. Even getting wet was an adventure. So glad you could visit and thank you for the pictures since my camera got left on the dock. You will see some of the same ones when I post today.ReplyDelete
Penny.....What a beautiful lake with beautiful mountain views! The dinner she made looked delicious!~Hugs, PattiReplyDelete
The beauty of this state constantly amazes me. It has been several years since we have been to Lake Lure, but I remember just how lovely it is.ReplyDelete
I know you had a wonderful time with special friends.
What a fun time...it's a good thing you weren't way out when the storm hit! Their greeter sure has a cute waggy tail! And the food looks so wonderful...thanks for sharing your fun time...come say hi :DReplyDelete
Love how the dessert matches the dessert plate! It looks absolutely decadent and delicious!ReplyDelete
Okay, there are TWO Penny's. It really confused me because I'm thinkin', 'wait I thought this was Penny's blog.'ReplyDelete
Looks like you all had a wonderful time. I read every new post although I don't always leave comments.
Penny, you all live with such beauty. Thanks for sharing your day on the lake. ~ SarahReplyDelete
Love the garden shot below. :-)
Oh what fun and in such a beautiful setting!ReplyDelete
Lucky you!
Penny, I love lake Lure. It is so pretty and peaceful there. How lucky that your friend lives there. What great looking food. I love grilled pork tenderloin and that dessert looks divine.ReplyDelete
How wonderful that the Penny's got together!! And I am fortunate, because I have found your blog. I will do some more looking while I am here. SusanReplyDelete
It's been some time since I visited Lake Lure but it is beautiful! How lovely to get to visit the lake with a blog friend. Yum that pie looked awesome.ReplyDelete
Beautiful picture of the coming rain! The food looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous Penny! Wow!ReplyDelete
Great post.
You all look just great and I love that beautiful setting for her home! The meal is fabulous, too! Enjoy your week! ♥ReplyDelete
I have been there! It is gorgeous. I have a lot of happy memories of that trip. Thanks for reminding me!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful and perfect day except for that unexpected rain storm! Glad you enjoyed yourself after all that work you did in the garden!ReplyDelete
Was that film supposed to be set in New Hampshire or am I dreaming? Anyway, that lake is a perfectly beautiful one. It has a lot of visual interest beyond just the water and the horizon. Getting wet just adds to the memories. What a wonderful evening!ReplyDelete
Hi Penny,ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness - Lake Lure - what a beatiful spot and lovely home to visit. Is that the same Lake Lure that is in Georgia? It looks very familiar to me since I went to school for a while in Georgia and spent lots of time sailing on Lake Lure.
I love the photo of you gardening - adorable - looks like your kitchen garden is really coming along.
Have a lovely week.
Hugs and Blessings,
What a lovely visit, it's so nice to spend time with friends. So happy to see you glowing in all these pictures...:)ReplyDelete
Looks like a fun time. And the food looks delicious. Penny always cooks up something yummy; I love her blog.ReplyDelete
What a lovely visit you had. The rain on the lake just added to it! And your dinner looks like it was delicious.ReplyDelete
I love that you're working so hard on the gardening, I can relate. My hubby looks just like that when he comes in from a rough day outside. As for me, I make up the project list and direct him, it's exhausting...:) !!
Have a wonderful week.
Heidi - Heart and Home
What a great time you all had together. It is so pretty there on Lake Lure! I printed out all of Penny's recipes to try. They look delicious!!! Love & blessings from NC!ReplyDelete
Glad you had a great time. I went to Lake Lure to visit the Dream Home from HGTV located there. Very pretty place. The food looks delish.
Sweetheart, it looks like you got some serious sun there...but what a great way to get it! You both look happy and so healthy!ReplyDelete
It sounds like a wonderful evening! I'm headed over to introduce myself to "the other Penny" right now:>)ReplyDelete
I was over at Lake Lure Kitchen Cottage and saw what fun time you had including your adventure in the rain. What a lovely meal. It's so much fun to meet fellow bloggers and find you actually have so much in common.ReplyDelete
looks like you had a wonderful time! We live in NC and I have not visited Lake Lure yet but it is on my to do list. The meal looked delicious and what a sweet little dog:-)ReplyDelete
Glad you had fun!
What a fun time at a lovely place - even getting rained on and followed by that lovely meal must have been fun.......sharing time with blog friends is always great, as we know!ReplyDelete
Miss you and hopefully will see you later in the year!
Hugs - Mary
P.S. Thanks for the comments on my Africa trip - glad you're enjoying the photos.


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"Jacob put together one the best seasons by any relief pitcher in college baseball this year," Mississippi State pitching coach Butch Thompson said. "He is a deserving candidate both on and off the field and we are extremely proud to say he is a Mississippi State baseball player."
A first-team All-Southeastern Conference performer as voted on by the league's 14 head coaches, Lindgren is also a semifinalist for the 2014 Gregg Olson Award for college baseball's breakout player of the year. In addition, the southpaw was also named a finalist for the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, given annually to the top collegiate player in Mississippi.
The Bay St. Louis, Miss., native is expected to be taken in the first few rounds of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft, which begins Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m. CT live on the MLB Network. Lindgren is currently rated the 45th-best draft prospect by national scouting service Perfect Game and the 50th-best draft prospect by Baseball America.
Pitching in a conference which set a national record with 10 bids to the 2014 NCAA Tournament, Lindgren led the league in SEC-games only in ERA (0.55), opponent batting average (.114), fewest hits allowed (13), fewest runs allowed (4) and fewest earned runs allowed (2).
Lindgren finished his 2014 campaign leading the nation with 16.3 strikeouts per nine innings and ranking first among all relievers nationally with 100 total strikeouts. Currently third in the SEC in fanned batters, Lindgren joins former first-round picks Paul Maholm and Chris Stratton as the only three MSU hurlers since 2000 with 100-plus strikeouts in a season.
Overall, the lefty went 6-1 in his junior year in 26 appearances, recording team lows in ERA (0.81) and opponent batting average (.124). In his three-year career so far, Lindgren is 12-6 overall with 189 Ks and a 2.64 ERA.
The five finalists were selected from the NCBWA's 50-player mid-season watch list which was released back in April. The NCBWA's All-America Committee will select the winner, with this year's recipient to be announced Saturday morning, June 14, at a news conference at TD Ameritrade Park at 10 a.m. CT. Lindgren's teammate, Jonathan Holder, was a finalist last season.
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This past Sunday's show was the end of the month, so that meant all vinyl from my collection. My mother in law's passing was still on my mind so that explains some of the selections in the first set, especially a gorgeous track from Pedro Infante (might post that LP for Dig Deep later in the week). I spend all of the second hour paying tribute to one of my favorite musicians, Jimi Hendrix. November 27th would have been his 68th birthday, so I only went with an hour of material, next year you can be sure that we'll spend the whole two hours playing Hendrix from vinyl. One of my favorite moments in that set was being able to mess around live on air with "Third Stone From The Sun," which is recorded at 33rpm, but has some spoken "alien astronaut" dialogue you can only clearly understand at 45rpm. Just one of the many reasons I love vinyl and love being on radio. Oh, and perhaps you'll notice I was missed my usual theme song, turns out I did have it, the Dilla Donut Shop LP was just hiding it from me…oh well. Enjoy the sounds, this coming week we have a session from Belleruche!
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Playlist: 11-28-2010
{opening theme} Butterfield Blues Band – Night Child – Sometimes I Feel Like Smilin' (Elektra)
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Pedro Infante – Amor De Los Dos – Siempre En El Corazon De Mexico (Peerless)
Swan Silvertones – Savior Pass Me Not – Get Right With The Swan Silvertones (Archives Alive)
Charlie Musselwhite – Cristo Redentor – Stand Back! (Vanguard)
Magic Sam – My Love Will Never Die – West Side Soul (Delmark)
The High Society Bros. – Lessons Of Love – 7" (Timmion)
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JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound – To Love Someone – 7" (Addenda)
24 Carat Black – Best Of Good Love Gone – Gone: The Promises of Yesterday (Numero)
Syl Johnson – Anyone But You – 7" (Hi)
Toni Tornado – Nao Lhe Quero Mais – BR3 (Odeon)
Irene Reid – Just Loving You – 7" (Old Town)
Alice Coltrane – Turiya & Ramakrishna – Ptah The El Daoud (Impulse)
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Gonjasufi – Ancestors (Mark Prichard Remix) – The Caliph's Tea Party (Warp)
MRR/ADM feat. Malcolm Catto – Untitled – 10" (Self-released)
Quincy Jones – Up Against The Wall – The Lost Man Soundtrack (UNI)
J Dilla – History – Donut Shop (Stones Throw)
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Jimi Hendrix 68th Birthday Tribute:
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Like A Rolling Stone – Jimi Hendrix Experience/Otis Redding Live At Monterey (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Manic Depression – Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Spanish Castle Magic – Axis Bold As Love (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Third Stone From The Sun – Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
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Curtis Knight & the Squires feat. Jimi Hendrix – Love, Love – Flashing (Capitol)
Jimi Hendrix – Earth Blues – Rainbow Bridge (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – One Rainy Wish – Axis Bold As Love (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix – Pali Gap – Rainbow Bridge (Reprise)
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Band of Gypsies – Machine Gun – Band of Gypsies (Capitol)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary – Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
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Mamie Hebert Domangue, 81, a native and resident of Houma, died at 11:58 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Monday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home chapel, with burial in St. Francis de Sales Cemetery No. 2.
She is survived by her husband, Claude J. Domangue Sr. of Houma; one son, Claude J. Domangue Jr. and wife, Kathy, of Gray; two daughters, Gaile D. Blanchard of Houma and Joy D. Foret and husband, Curtis, of Raceland; one son-in-law, Frank Bethancourt of Gray; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank Hebert and Eunice Trahan Hebert; one daughter, Peggy D. Bethancourt; and one sister, Audrey Valure.
She was a homemaker and a parishioner of St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church.
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FULLERTON, Calif. ?- The top-ranked Arizona softball team shut out No. 8 Oklahoma on Saturday at the Kia Klassic, 4-0.
Junior pitcher Alicia Hollowell got her 14th win of the season, allowing no runs on four hits and striking out six to put her season K total at 205.
The Wildcats did all their scoring in the top of the first inning. Caitlin Lowe led off with a bunt single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Autumn Champion. Kristie Fox walked, and senior Jackie Coburn hit a three-run homer to left center off Sooners pitcher Kami Keiter, her fourth knock of the year. Shelly Schultz singled with one out and senior Jen Martinez hit a double to left center, scoring Shultz from first to give the Cats a four-run lead.
Lowe went 3-for-4 in the game, improving her team-leading season batting average to .536. Lowe is 45-for-84 on the year and has scored a team-leading 26 runs for the Cats.
Schultz, who has struggled offensively this year, had a strong game for Arizona, going 3-for-5 with three singles and a run. She also had a putout and three assists.
Arizona will continue playing at the Kia Klassic on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. PST against either No. 14 Washington or No. 21 Fresno State.