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Category archive: The internet
Most emails that arrive here at BMdotcom don't grab me by the throat, but I liked this one, with its attached graphic as above.
I've often wondered how they do Chinese (?) writing with computers. Now I am wondering some more.
My computer didn't allow me to save this graphic in a different size, but my blogging software did. Odd.
The Park in question is Finsbury, the Park Theatre being near to Finsbury Park, and more to the point from my point of view, Finsbury Park tube station. I was there last night to see a friend perform at the Park Theatre, which she did very well.
That LIFE sign thing is just outside the smaller theatre space, where my friend was performing, at the top of the rest of the theatre. I do not know why it is there. Could it be that they hope that people will photo it, and then mention the Park Theatre on the internet?
I suppose the creator of this sign could also have been thinking of that old Blur tune. But that, I believe, concerns a different park.
And I'm back to trivia-mongering. Any day now, I'll be back to opinion-mongering too:
It's the first picture of these.
Engineer Thomas Selig, 28, set up his camera on a tripod 100 metres away from a cluster of female lions and cubs in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. He then retreated to a safari vehicle to take pictures with a remote control. A lioness decided to make off with his camera, and proceeded to chew it!
Lucky someone had a second camera, to show what happened to the first camera.
Actually, according to what I am now reading, a lot of people never stopped opinion-mongering.
For years I have wondered how to put videos done by others at this blog. My problem has always been that they were too big. 560 pixels wide instead of 500 pixels, which is the width here. This evening, I thought I observed that "Brexit: The Movie", as shown at Bishop Hill, was the exact same width as stuff at my blog. So, I rootled around in the source code for the Bishop's posting of Brexit, and dug up what seemed to be the relevant bit. It turned out I was wrong about the width. It was 560, same as it always seems to be, But having got this far I tried just changing the bit in the code where it said "560" to "500", and that seemed to work. The video seemed to get a bit smaller. (I changed 500 to 300 just to be sure I wasn't imagining it.) I did some more sums, which told me to change 315 to 280, and here it is, 500 pixels wide, fingers crossed:
There is some kind of EUro-metaphor or EUro-moral buried in this story, concerning believing that a straight-jacket was actually tighter and more rigid than it really was, but I'm too tired to be bothering about that.
Tomorrow, I will watch it.
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Nothing much here today, but I just did three Samizdata postings today and yesterday:
Brexit – the argument from confusion.
Dominic Frisby takes on the Edinburgh Fringe
I have always felt that the fascination with cat photos that has engulfed the internet was somehow more important than just being a matter of cat photos, engulfing the internet. Now it seems that cat photos are a threat to Islam, and must be forbidden. For me, cats means pure fun. No purpose is served. Other than the purpose (purr-puss) of having fun. And it seems that there is this crazy Sheikh who also thinks that photoing cats is pure fun also, and that this is why photoing cats should be forbidden. For him, I guess, fun is never pure. Quite the opposite.
One of my regular automatic google-searches is "face recognition", and just now this has been alerting me to all the various tricks that are coming on stream for making face recognition not work, by putting on make-up, or spectacles, and such like.
Here is my contribution to this discussion:
I know what you're thinking. Who might that be?
Exactly. Although, if you're are supercomputer, you have probably worked it out. You have a special programme which tells you to take particular interest in any faces that are trying to not be recognised.
Most of my libertarian friends think that such tech solutions are the front line of this battle. I have long assumed that the world is moving rapidly towards a state where the question of what is X doing at the moment is technologically answerable, and impossible to prevent being answered. For me, among other desirable things, libertarianism is the claim that although we can see X saying or doing something we don't approve of, we shouldn't legally prevent him or her from doing that, unless it is really, really bad.
In a world of Total Surveillance by the Big Machine, the proliferation of stupid rules and regulations with no huge moral content becomes a problem like it never used to be. I means rules about things like what you should eat or smoke or, now, say in conversation. Rules like that mean that we can all now be seen and heard breaking such rules. (Okay, maybe not now, maybe not yet, but that's where things are headed.) And that means that anyone who wants to fuck up your life or my life (for an actual real reason that has bugger all to do with the stupid rule actually being broken) can then do it. Worse, some legislative maniac might demand that anyone that the Big Machine sees breaking this or that rule that he personally is obsessed about, should be automatically fucked over, by the Big Machine, with no human intervention involved. With a big long list of exceptions, like legislators. The Big Machine can't touch them. Libertarianism has arisen, partly, because it has become ever more necessary to insist on certain principles, principles which were imposed upon the world in former times by sheer ignorance of what other people were getting up to.
The other thing people have to do is develop thicker skins, psychologically speaking I mean, because although legislative pressure is not now a problem for most people, social pressure can become a big problem, for example if you find yourself being mobbed on the internet for some innocuous thing you said or ate. Just because a million idiots on the internet are screeching that you are an idiot, that doesn't mean you are, or that if you are, it matters. When it does matter, bosses should chill, and not fire people just because the mob is screeching. I applaud, tentatively, the recent tendency to give social media mobsters a going-over, using the same methods on them that they have been using. Who is this mad bitch? What has she (it does often seem to be she) been up to lately? What is her job? Who is her boss? Etc. (In the age of cyber-bullying, I feel that I now understand witchcraft crazes better.)
Another problem is that as something easily mistaken for a state of everyone knowing everything increasingly pertains, that old illusion that everything will accordingly be centrally plannable is likely to keep rearing its very ugly head, and keep on having to be experienced as a disastrous illusion. (More libertarianism.) The point is, everyone doesn't know everything. Nothing like. We can't. Our heads aren't big enough, and even if they were, knowledge is not like that. Everyone can known anything in particular that is easy to know (like where X is just now) that they want to know and ask the Big Machine about. That's entirely different from actual omniscience.
For years I have struggled, with the graphics programme I have been using, to crop, not square (an option this programme does offer), and not to a size I specify (ditto), but to a ratio that I specify. For years, I could not do that. I repeatedly searched for such a thing, in other programmes, but evidently didn't pick the right words.
Then, in France, I couldn't remember the mere name (on such things do decisions hinge) of my regular photo-editing package, so I loaded PhotoCat, basically because it had "cat" in its name and I reckoned I could have Friday feline fun with it (ditto), to see if I could photo-edit with that, and I could, and I could do constant ratio rectangular cropping which was a most welcome surprise.
Thus are decisions made, by computer operatives. There are two rules for getting things done in the modern world. (1) Do not unleash solutions upon circumstances which are not a problem. If it doesn't help you to do something that you need to do, don't bother with it no matter how cool everyone else says it is. Cool is not a good enough reason to be faffing about with something. (Faffing about to no purpose cannot be cool, because it isn't, and because another rule is: worrying about being cool guarantees that you won't be.)
And (2): if it does help you to do just one thing that you do want to do, then, if you can afford the money, the space, the bother, whatever, use it. Then, when you are using that thing for that one essential thing, then, you can move onwards to finding out if it will do any other merely desirable things. But, lots of merely desirable things and nothing essential is not good enough.
Using anything is difficult, if you only use it occasionally, to do something merely occasionally desirable. This rule applies at all times, in all places, and no matter how "user friendly" the gizmo or programme claims itself or is claimed by other users of it to be. Occasional is bother. Always. Don't do occasional if you can avoid it.
Using anything is easy, on the other hand, if you do it regularly. This rule applies at all times, in all places, to all things, and no matter how "user hostile" enemies of the gizmo or process claim it to be. If a convoluted dance around the houses by a complicated route gets you an essential result, then dance. Convoluted will quickly become imprinted on your brain, and easy, and reinforced each time you (frequently) use it. This is how rats and ants do things. (Hurrah: other creatures!) They'll probably outlast us. Ants definitely.
The above explains why the division of labour was so epoch-making. When you concentrate entirely on a small but rather tricky part of a big process, you will do it massively better than others attempting this tricky operation only sometimes, in among all the other things they are attempting. The damn near impossible becomes routine and easy.
So, I prepared for a life of frequently PhotoCatting fixed-ratio rectangles out of my photos. Using PhotoCat for that one thing.
But then, earlier this week I was cranking up PhotoCat, prior to some fixed-ratio cropping, and it refused to load. It got to 80%, and then stuck there. Who knows why? Was this PhotoCat's fault? Was it something I was doing? Probably the latter, but that isn't the point. It didn't load. So, I went looking for alternatives, and I found one, called: PhotoPad.
And the bad news for PhotoCat is that PhotoPad also does proportional ratio cropping, and does it rather more conveniently, because PhotoPad operates on my hard disc and doesn't have to be uploaded from the www each time. Unlike PhotoCat, PhotoPad is not www based, or whatever you call it, which I prefer because you can still use it if the www is out of action. It's now all mine:
That being a snap of a rather unusual form of transport that I snapped, in France. I like how you can see what's happening there, like when they zoom in on a detail in a computer picture in NCIS or a movie or something similar. (Question. Does art lead life in computing? Does stuff like the above start out in the movies, just so absolutely everyone can get what's going on, and then migrate to real life?)
PhotoPad does something else which PhotoCat didn't do, or not for me, which is rotate much more exactly. Most photo software seems to want to offer only rotation in 1 degree increments. If they can do better, they don't volunteer the fact. But, PhotoPad does volunteer this. With PhotoPad, instead of rotating something 1 degree or 2 degrees (or 359 degrees), you can do 1.38 degrees or 1.77 degrees or 358.61 degrees. You'd be surprised, perhaps, how often that is a desirable refinement. You can do it by eye, and let the numbers take care of themselves. Terrific. Cool, even.
So. PhotoCat now offers me … nothing. So, … see above.
Just now, while checking out the PhotoCat link for this posting, I successfully cranked up PhotoCat. Whatever went wrong before has now gone away.
Too late.
So I was looking at Amusing Planet, the way you do, and looking in particular at a posting about bridges with shops on them, the way I do, and at the top of the piece, it said this:
There are four such bridges in the world.
And the pictures follow: Ponte Vecchio; Krämerbrücke, Erfurt; the Rialto in Venice; Pulteney Bridge in Bath. (The old London Bridge is, alas, no more.)
But then the bit about how there are four such bridges was crossed out, and this was added:
Update: Apparently, there are a few more. Pont des Marchands in Narbonne, France, is one example.
Narbonne? I was in Narbonne only days ago, hearing GodDaughter 2 and her pals sing the solo parts in the Mozart Requiem. Afterwards, we walked beside the river back to the car. Did I, I wonder, photo this Pont des Marchands? I do recall bridges, and I wouldn't be me if I hadn't photoed them. Here are a couple of Narbonne bridges, that I photoed then:
So, did the Pont des Marchands figure in my bridge-snapping?
Image google image google.
The Pont des Marchands looks like this:
I had already copied those two bridge pictures above into my FranceMay2016/bridges subdirectory, but in that directory, there was no sign of anything with shops on top of it. However, another look through all the pictures I took in Narbonne that evening brought me to ... this:
The bridge in the front there is the one in the left of the two bridges above. Behind that little footbridge, could that be the Pont des Marchands, seen from the other side? Got to be. Those Ms certainly look encouraging. Short answer, after only a very little more image googling: yes.
There's nothing quite like seeing something for yourself. And the next best thing is when you photo it without seeing it, and then see later that you did see it after all.
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I was photoing white vans in February 2007
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A Real (cat) Photographer
The wait continues
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My next camera?
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England crush NZ (and Surrey beat Leicester)
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Why you are wrong
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Why aren't people happier about amazing new stuff?
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I see cats
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Libeskind doing the saw cut style in Ontario
Classic Feline Friday quote from Tim Berners-Lee
Christopher Seaman on conducting
A new Morrisons is opening in Strutton Ground next Monday
Ashes Lag recovery continues
"In order to comply with Google's regulations …"
South Bank Architects?
The text of my talk for Christian Michel last night on the impact of digital photography
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Quota videos
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The next four Brian's Last Fridays (including December 27)
Quotes from there
Amazon pricing puzzle
Billy Fury Way
A fake feline photo and a faltering feline enumerator
Wedding photography (6): The Wedding and the Reception
Testing again
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Cheese or font?
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Internet connection oddities
Davies and de Bruyn get promotion for Surrey
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One World Trade Center
WWWhat a great afternoon!!!
More shiny new headquarters buildings
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Three videos from the USA that I recently watched
Release Ai Weiwei
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Let us now trash infamous men
And then give up and stay fat
And it resumes …
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Under a hundred copies
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What a difference a g makes
How technology has improved detention
Go Gordon!
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On Bernstein – and Previn
Register for your free pack and five £1-off-coupons
Multipurpose internet-connected rabbit
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Kevid Dowd video now up and watchable
God moves in mysterious ways
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Google and dongle
Second Class power
You don't wait for it – you go looking for it
Billion Monkeys liked photoing the nastiest poster!
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Yes, it appears to be system wide. My league is missing also. How about some info form Yahoo!
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'Stella wants money but I won't give into blackmail': Lord Sugar loses his 'cool' in attack on Apprentice winner who 'thought she would get pay off to avoid a tribunal'
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His volcanic boardroom rants are the reason millions have tuned in to watch eight series of The Apprentice.
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The tycoon showed yesterday why he is known as 'Britain's most belligerent boss' when he lost his cool during a bitter tribunal battle with a former winner of his show, Stella English.
Stella English, pictured arriving for the third day the tribunal, was accused by Sir Alan Sugar of being 'suspicious' and 'untrusting'
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Banging his fists on the table and jabbing his finger, he claimed the 34-year-old was 'deluded' in the hope that he might have settled the case rather than give evidence.
'I contend that I'm insulted and disappointed that I'm being paid back and having to come here and humiliate myself in front of the national media,' he said. 'But I'm here because I have principles and I'm not just going to pay off people.
'When her instructing solicitor heard my name it must have been, "Ding, ding, ding – jackpot. Oh Lord Sugar, he'll never turn up, he's never going to give evidence".
'This is a scam. This is an abuse of the tribunal system.'
Several times during the hearing the millionaire was told to keep his temper by Miss English's lawyer, Philippa Jackson. At one point, she said: 'You don't have to point your finger. Stop pointing your finger, Lord Sugar. I suggest to you that you have lost your cool in the tribunal today.'
He replied: 'I think you're deliberately trying to excite me. Better people than you have tried and you're failing miserably.'
He added: 'Well that's me. That's who I am. I've lost my cool a little bit more today than I usually do. I get very angry when people bring derisory actions against me, I'm afraid to say. I'm not going to succumb to what is tantamount to blackmail. To pay your client lots of money, with her solicitor hearing my name and seeing pound signs, hearing 'kerching' signs come up.
Stella English who described the £100,000-a-year job she was given by Lord Sugar as that of an 'overpaid lackey'
'I'm here because I believe I have no case to answer and because I trust in the tribunal system and I'm here because I believe this is a classic abuse of the tribunal system.'
Miss English is suing Lord Sugar over her failure to keep the £100,000-a-year job she was handed as a prize for winning The Apprentice in 2010.
She claims the job with his IT subsidiary Viglen turned out to be a 'sham' and said she was treated as an 'overpaid lackey'.
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'They [the media] would have it I don't give a s*** about The Apprentice, but I don't give a s*** about what the media think.' The tribunal continues.
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RTC, JKC, and FER conceived and designed the experiments. RTC, DRA, and WAC performed the experiments. RTC, JKC, DRA, WAC, and FER analyzed the data. VdCL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. RTC, JKC, and FER wrote the paper.
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The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria poses a serious threat to human health. In the case of several antibiotics, including those of the quinolone and rifamycin classes, bacteria rapidly acquire resistance through mutation of chromosomal genes during therapy. In this work, we show that preventing induction of the SOS response by interfering with the activity of the protease LexA renders pathogenic
The evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics presents a serious public-health threat, but may be inevitable because mutation is stimulated by exposure to some antibiotics. Inhibition of mutational mechanisms should slow resistance.
The worldwide emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria threatens to undo the dramatic advances in human health that were ushered in with the discovery of these drugs in the mid-1900s. Today, resistance has rendered most of the original antibiotics obsolete for many infections, mandating an increased reliance on synthetic drugs. However, bacteria also evolve resistance to these drugs, typically by acquiring chromosomal mutations [
In an initial effort to examine the role of induced mutation in the evolution of antibiotic resistance, we have focused our studies on the synthetic antibiotic ciprofloxacin. Ciprofloxacin is a member of the quinolone family of antibiotics, which is rapidly becoming the most important family of antibiotics [
To understand how mutation could be induced by ciprofloxacin, it is essential to consider how bacteria respond to the presence of the antibiotic. Previously it was suggested that ciprofloxacin-mediated DNA damage may be repaired by nucleotide excision repair (NER) or homologous recombination (HR) [
Because ciprofloxacin may induce repair pathways that involve RecA-ssDNA filament formation, the drug itself may act to induce the mutations that confer resistance. This hypothesis is consistent with observations that quinolones can be mutagenic and can induce the SOS response [
To test whether activation of the SOS response is required to induce the mutations that confer ciprofloxacin resistance during therapy, we used a neutropenic murine thigh infection model [
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We next used the same mouse model to characterize the evolution of resistance to rifampicin in vivo. Again, mice were infected with 106 cfu of either the Δ
In order to further characterize the genetic requirements of these resistance-conferring mutations, we studied bacteria in vitro. We constructed an isogenic series of mutants in the
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We next examined the mutation spectrum of the
To characterize the role of LexA cleavage and the SOS response in the evolution of resistance in vitro, we constructed a
We observed the same in vitro pre-exposure mutation rate and spectrum for the
The evolution of clinically significant resistance requires the stepwise accumulation of several mutations [
To understand how the presence of ciprofloxacin leads to LexA cleavage, we characterized a series of MG1655 strains harboring deletions of genes involved in various DNA repair pathways (
Because topoisomerase dissociation from the DNA may generate free DSBs, repair may occur by a combination of HR and DNA replication in a process generally referred to as recombination-dependent DNA replication (RDR) [
Because persistent covalently-linked topoisomerase-DNA complexes will eventually block the progression of replication forks, repair may occur by recombination-dependent fork repair, which is a variant of RDR that reestablishes a processive replication fork [
Because PriA-dependent reinitiation of DNA synthesis is important for a variety of HR models [
To characterize how LexA cleavage induces resistance, we examined the role of the three LexA-repressed polymerases, Pol II
The discovery and development of antibiotics revolutionized medicine, providing easy cures for previously untreatable diseases. However, for every significant infectious disease caused by bacteria, strains resistant to all available antibiotics have been reported [
In principle, part of the observed increase in mutation rate after exposure to ciprofloxacin could result from selection against resistant mutants during the pre-exposure growth in liquid media (thus underestimating the pre-exposure mutation rates). However, the impact of selection is unlikely to be significant, as
The data suggest that the increase in mutation rate is caused by recombination pathways that are induced to repair antibiotic-mediated DNA damage. A mechanism consistent with our results is illustrated in
In the absence of homologous sequences, free DSBs are repaired by nuclease and polymerase-dependent IR (pathway A). In the presence of a suitable homologous sequence, free DSBs may be repaired by RDR (pathway B). This involves resectioning of the DNA ends by RecBC and loading of RecA onto the ssDNA produced. These RecA-ssDNA filaments catalyze D-loop formation and repair of the DSB. This pathway may also contribute to the repair of replication forks when they encounter the free DSB. Finally, replication forks that encounter topoisomerases that are covalently-bound to the DNA are repaired by recombination-dependent fork repair (pathway C). This involves RecG-mediated fork regression and RuvC cleavage to produce DSEs where RecBC mediates RecA-ssDNA filament formation. These filaments catalyze strand invasion of a homologous sequence where PriA, and possibly Pol II, help to reestablish a processive replication fork. With sufficient accumulation of DSBs and collapsed forks, persistent RecA-ssDNA filaments induce levels of LexA cleavage sufficient to de-repress the error prone polymerases, Pol IV and Pol V, which cooperate to induce mutations (pathway D). Once resistance-conferring mutations are made, DSBs and collapsed forks cease to accumulate and RecA-filaments no longer persist. Subsequently, the cellular concentration of LexA increases, shutting down expression of the pro-mutagenic polymerases. See text for details.
In addition to IR, RDR and replication fork repair are also induced to repair DSBs in cases where the topoisomerase has dissociated from, or remains bound to, the DNA, respectively (pathways B and C,
The data suggest that the induction of substitution mutations requires the derepression of all three SOS-regulated polymerases, Pol II, Pol IV, and Pol V. While the evolution of resistance to ciprofloxacin by substitution mutation is to our knowledge the first process found to require all three of the
The key signal that links the cellular response to the antibiotic with the evolution of resistance appears to be the RecA-ssDNA filaments that are formed to facilitate the repair of antibiotic-mediated DNA damage. These RecA-ssDNA filaments also induce LexA cleavage and derepression of the mutagenic polymerases. We suggest that a similar mechanism might also serve to induce mutation and evolution in response to other antibiotics, or other forms of cellular stress, where DNA damage per se is not involved. For example, the ratio of ATP to ADP determines the level of supercoiling in the bacterial genome [
The traditional paradigms of DNA replication and mutation suggest that resistance-conferring mutations are the inevitable consequence of polymerase errors, and offer no obvious means for intervention. In stark contrast, the model described above suggests that bacteria play an active role in the mutation of their own genomes by inducing the production of proteins that facilitate mutation, including Pol IV and Pol V, as has been suggested with other forms of mutation [
Strains of
A standard mouse infection model was employed [
For each strain, five independent cultures were grown for 25 h without ciprofloxacin. Viable cell counts in these cultures were determined by plating serial dilutions onto permissive media. For assaying mutation in MG1655-derived strains, 150 μl from each culture (approximately 108 cells) was plated in duplicate on LB/agar containing 40 ng/ml ciprofloxacin. Five additional 150 μl aliquots from two cultures of each strain were also plated on the same media for use in the "survival" assay (see below). ATCC 25922-derived strains were assayed similarly with 12 ng/ml ciprofloxacin, except cultures were concentrated approximately 3-fold before plating to assay the same number of cells as in the MG1655 experiments. At 24 h intervals, visible colonies were counted, their location on the plate was marked, and they were stocked at −80 °C for later use in the reconstruction assay (see below).
Every 24 h, in parallel with the mutation assay, all visible colonies were excised from plates designated for assaying survival (see above), the remaining agar was homogenized in saline, and dilutions were plated in duplicate on LB/agar to determine the total number of viable, ciprofloxacin-sensitive cells present as a function of time, and LB/agar containing 40 ng/ml ciprofloxacin to determine if any ciprofloxacin-resistant colonies remained after excision. An experimental validation of this method is described in
We determined whether colonies isolated after plating on ciprofloxacin formed as a result of post-exposure mutation or as a result of mutation prior to exposure to the drug. Liquid cultures of permissive media were inoculated with ciprofloxacin-resistant clones stocked during the mutation assay (see above) and grown to saturation overnight. Cultures were diluted and plated in duplicate on both LB/agar, to confirm viability, and LB/agar containing 40 ng/ml ciprofloxacin, to confirm resistance. Clones that were resistant before exposure were defined as those that formed colonies on the ciprofloxacin-containing media in the same number of days in the reconstruction assay as they did in the original mutation assay. Conversely, clones that mutated after exposure to ciprofloxacin were defined as those that formed colonies at least 2 d faster in the reconstruction assay.
To further confirm our assignment of the pre- and post-exposure mutants, an alternative method was also employed. Ciprofloxacin-resistant clones isolated during the mutation assay were suspended in 1 ml of 9 mg/ml NaCl. A series of dilutions was plated onto permissive media (LB/agar) and plates were incubated at 37 °C for 24–48 h. From each set of dilution plates, a plate was chosen that contained approximately 50–300 colonies. This plate was replica-plated onto permissive and nonpermissive media (LB/agar with 40 ng/ml ciprofloxacin), and replica plates were incubated at 37 °C. Replica plates were analyzed at 24 h intervals for the appearance of colonies (
Mutation rate was defined as the number of ciprofloxacin-resistant mutants per viable cell that evolve as a function of time. We emphasize that it reflects only those mutations that both allow cells to survive and confer resistance to the drug. The mutation rate before exposure to ciprofloxacin (pre-exposure rate) was determined by fluctuation analysis and application of the
Mutation rate of
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We thank S. Rosenberg and A. Segall for helpful discussion. This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research (Award No. N00014–03-1–0126).
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On Belonging and Finding Joy
Last week we trekked to a family reunion that I've not always warmly welcomed. But then this year. We belonged.
For three days we shared meals and laughs and pool time and conversations and worries and evaluations and encouragement. Our kids played while grandmas and aunts distracted the rambunctious ones and then rocked the tired ones. We swapped remember when stories and gushed over how much all the kids have grown. We snapped photos and said we couldn't wait for next year.
This reunion, hosted as The Focus Foundation's 49ers Conference, has become a sanctuary for me. This gathering of experts and families all interconnected by the three extra chromosomes our boys share. A place where the doctors for once know more than I do about his disorder. The place where I watch my ten month old baby adore her brother's 49er friends in the same way she is smitten with Reed. Where I watch Luke embody the differences don't matter mindset. Where we benefit from the collected wisdom and experience and love of other families. The place where I see Reed, full of confidence and happiness, connect so easily with other kids. Simply, it's the one time a year we are not the odd family out. We belong.
I'll admit that first family reunion three years ago was rough. I didn't want to be there. I didn't want to have a son like this. I didn't want to meet older boys with the same disorder and feel like I was staring down my future. The second reunion was slightly less terrible but still incredibly overwhelming. I had accepted our new normal but my questions and worries still clung.
But then this third year just felt like coming home. Instead of being sad that we need to be there, I find joy in Reed's exceptionality leading us on this journey. And I surprise myself. As hard as I've fought and pushed against this story — the one I didn't pick, the one I never thought I could have survived in — now this feels like family? Like coming home? And I just laugh giddy because it feels like a triumph. To be able to say not only do I accept this story, I cherish it.
Hello Goodbye
Where — or maybe more aptly — what is home?
For four years, ten months, and eighteen days, I've been slow to come around to Lancaster County, PA, being home, with her brilliant, rolling green pastures and juxtaposed old order and emergent new.
First, the house on Ashford, where three learned to be a new kind of family. Then two cozy, maybe too small, apartments where three became four, where sons became brothers. And then a tall, square, minty green house on the most impossibly narrow city street where 100 years of old had been transformed into new and lovely, where from the smallest bedroom corner of the house, we could watch fireworks drip over the city. And finally, then, a 1950s original vintage kitchen, with too worn carpet, and a warm, sunny, soft green backyard. This house where four welcomed the fifth and we grew more. I can close my eyes — because it was just yesterday — and see my boys playing, laughing, running haphazardly around that suburban backyard, see my baby sway all full of joy in her bucket swing with just enough sunlight to hint at the strawberry in her hair.
Lancaster, where your summers aren't hot or sticky enough, I've been slow to name you home. Because home to me could only ever be that place where I rooted for 15 years. I've resisted your too cold, too white, sometimes too bleak winters. Your springs too pungent with manure smell. Your requirement that friendships start all new, all shiny, kinda scratchy, like those new, unlaundered pants, not quite worn in and comfortable, like the kind of comfortable two decades of living can bring. Lancaster, a backdrop for me, to real grief, complicated by miles and miles of distance. A place in which I was a stranger to those who had not met me and a stranger even really to myself, my new self, with my newly diagnosed son, my newly growing family.
But as we've packed, as we've shared meals and hugs and promises of visits, as we've quietly said goodbye, I've realized Lancaster has been our home. For four years,ten months, and eighteen days, Lancaster has given us deep green summers, and piles of snow for my boys to discover the thrill of sledding, and some of the freshest produce on God's green earth, and yes even friendships that have become family. People, once new, now familiar like your favorite soft, worn leather reading chair, helping me know them, know myself, know that my family was loved. Helping to read, to witness our story and us theirs. Lancaster, you have homed us. And while you may not look or feel or smell like my first home, you have run gently a quiet, deep stream of gratitude through my heart. Gratitude for who you've helped me see that I am. Gratitude for how you've embraced the messiness and complexities of us learning to be a special needs family. Gratitude for how you've expanded us, taught us how to be us, new and differently and all over again.
Happy 3rd Birthday, Lucas
Dear Luke,
Happy 3rd birthday, buddy! This morning, as we sat around the breakfast table, we shared your birthday story. Your usually dancing, hoppin', laughing self sat scarce breath and wide-eyed still as we recounted each detail of April 28, 2013. I'm not sure what you were thinking exactly but I know you were trying to understand it all, soak it in, and hear the beautiful story of how you became our second-born.
That early morning Sunday you were delivered, a good bit of dark hair circling your head, and all was well. And given our history, we exhaled thanks and peace. There's not a memory with you yet that isn't colored bright by your joy. (Mamaw pegged you right through when she nicknamed you joy to the world). Your smile, your laugh, your enthusiasm, all spread wide. God knows we needed your light and your joy in this space, in this place, in our family. Somedays I try to soak you and that joy right up into my heart.
These days my favorite thing with you is to listen in on the hour of singing, laughing, reading to yourself, and trying out new "yoda" (yoga) poses that ensues after you've gone to bed. It's you uninterrupted, you not quite ready for the day to end. And who would want a day filled with so much joy to end?
You fill these days conspiring with your brother, building towers, reading books, singing as loud as you possibly can, running races, filling cups, skipping dinner, naming preschool friends, being big brother, and reciting lines from your favorite read (The Book with No Pictures).
We love you, buddy!! Happy birthday to the happiest of three year olds.
His Diagnosis Does Define Him
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New grief needs compassion and tenderness and space to breathe, when wave after wave overwhelms and leaves you so tender and raw. Sometimes you need someone to tell you another story just to keep your head above water
When Reed was first diagnosed, some of the most healing words spoken to me were from a stranger–a genetic counselor tasked with talking to us over the phone about the life-altering condition Reed had. She told me the story I didn't know yet: Reed's diagnosis didn't define him; it simply explained some things about him. When all I could see was what felt like a death sentence, those words gave my heaving soul a different story to tell.
And that story became my mantra every time my heart tried to throw up confusion and guilt and sadness and anger — all those grief-torn emotions. Doesn't define him. Just explains some things about him. Doesn't define. Just explains. Not defining. Just illuminating.
But five years has sanded off the ragged splintering grief and given me a new story.
His diagnosis does define him, just in a way that, at first, I couldn't understand without waves of grief crashing down. Now I can acknowledge straight forward that there's not one facet of his existence that those three extra chromosomes don't touch. I don't know–and never will–a Reed without hypotonia and apraxia. The way he walks, the way he talks, the way he holds his head cocked to the left, the way his frustration sparks fierce, and just as quickly dissipates, the way his anxiety can overwhelm him–all of those are the sum of his multiplied genes, the most prominent qualities others notice about him first. His genetic disorder is one of the most profound, influencing circumstances in his life, defining much of who he is and what he does.
But here's where the story takes a new direction for me: There's more to know than what defines him. His diagnosis can't account for how he loves to laugh at his own wicked sense of humor. How he is gentle and sweet and loves holding hands and cuddling up on the couch. How he adores dogs. How he could eat bread all.day.long. How he loves to run. How he observes and he asks questions about everything. How he's a genius at hidden picture puzzles. How he loves to slide and throw rocks and blow bubbles and write the letter "e" and play hide-n-seek. How he loves his baby sister.
With Reed, we live both within the constraints of his disorder and yet beyond those borders, because there's much more to know about him.
I'll always be thankful for what that genetic counselor originally told me because her words probably saved my life a million times that first year. But sometimes as our grief changes, we need a new story, one that walks us through the present season, bringing new strength and new joy.
An Advent Reflection
All this life has me wearied. All this anger and frustration and yelling and eating that which doesn't satisfy – it's left me so over it all. I'm tired of all the brokenness. All the things always running out. I'm tired of all my brokenness and all my always running out. Sin sick as some seasoned saints might say. And even though the Christmas lights sparkle and twinkle, making artificial merriment, all the glow but no real warmth, I don't feel very festive. This doesn't feel very much like Christmas. How will I move from this weariness to Christmas joy? But as I read ancient Isaiah, those oh so familiar messiah verses pointing us to the Prince child born for Peace, I read through the surrounding words – words of darkness and destruction and weariness. The familiar, rejoicing prophecy words behold the virgin shall conceive and call his name Immanuel and unto us a child is born unto us a son is given of his peace there shall be no end are enmeshed with war, trembling, shaking, fierce anger, devouring, without compassion. In this world, light shines brightest in the dark. Light a sharp contrast to this weary and wearying world. But maybe this weariness weighing heavy makes the best anticipation for his coming, for his Christmas birth. What better place to be right now, right here, than feeling the fullness of this world's – of my – brokenness? No better vantage point to experience God with Us. Emmanuel.
Elisabeth Ansley
Our second September baby came just when expected! Exactly six days before her actual due date, Elisabeth Ansley arrived at 11:42 a.m. on Friday, September 4th, weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 20 1/4″ long.
While my last two births delivered complications, my third pregnancy was quite uncomplicated. Though of all my pregnancies this one held the most surprises: discovering I was expecting back in January was unexpected, learning that Reed and Luke would be big brothers to a little sister was delightfully surprising, and having to wait until the scheduled c-section date to meet her was unlike either of my previous pregnancies.
Just as planned on September 4th, Ben and I arrived at the hospital at 8:30 a.m. where I was quickly checked in and whisked back to pre-op. By 11 a.m. we were walking back to the operating room and 42 minutes later, with Ben holding my hand the entire time, my obstetrician delivered the loudest, most beautiful blonde haired baby girl I'd ever seen and I couldn't stop smiling. That little girl wailed and wailed and wailed, at the top of her tiny lungs, as they cleaned her up and measured her and as her daddy cut her umbilical cord. But the moment they finally placed her on my chest, she snuggled in and quieted down, as if she knew she was at home.
Her brothers are incredibly sweet with her, always wanting to know where she is and then giving her soft, sweet kisses on her head. Her daddy and I are enjoying the fleeting moments of her newborn days, as we settle into the joy (and chaos) of being a family of five!
Happy 5th Birthday, Reed!
Five years ago we were sitting in a hospital room, knowing that the day would stretch long as we waited for you. And just before 3 a.m. on September 2nd, you entered the world a tiny, red-headed version of your daddy.
And yet you are also this wonderfully intricate mash-up of me and your daddy. His looks. My freckles. His love for movies. My love to be on the go. His innate sense of direction.My quick-trigger frustration. His intensely observant nature. My blue eyes. His independence.
Most importantly, though, you're you. You are so distinctly you, in a way that I can't really wrap into words. Your generous, kind heart is such a joy to see. And your silly, always looking to make others laugh nature, brings light to so many situations. So, today, we get to say happy fifth birthday to you, a kind, generous soul that we have the privilege of raising! I'm amazed as I write the word "fifth," just marveling at how you've grown and changed and blossomed in five years. I wish you could see how much you've grown in these five years; it's quite astounding!
Your language has grown so much that your teacher can't even keep an accurate, up-to-date list of all the new words, phrases and sentences you can say. You easily count from one to five, when even just a couple of months ago 1, 2, 3 was difficult. And you've started singing; you've always loved music and now you're singing along with some of your favorites (like Let it Go and You Are My Sunshine). Your feet are growing so rapidly that we've had to size up for the second time this summer. Those bigger shoes help you run around with your brother.
We continue to pray that God will knit our hearts closer together as a family, that we will know how to shepherd your wonderfully generous heart, and that this next year will be a wonderful one for you.
Love you buddy,
Mama, Daddy, & Luke


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Edlund BDSS-16 16 lb. Baker's Dough Scale with Stainless Steel Platters, Beam, and Poise
- Stainless steel platters, beam, and poise
- FDA approved, baked epoxy finish
- 16 lb. x 0.25 oz. capacity
- 9" diameter platters
- Includes counter weight, measuring weights, and scoop
|19 3/4 Inches
|7 1/2 Inches
|9 Inches
|Plate Diameter
|9 Inches
|16 lb.
|0.25 Ounces
|Dough Scales
Customer questions about this product
- Are there any shipping restrictions for this Edlund item?
- Due to manufacturer shipping restrictions, Edlund orders will be subject to extended lead times when shipping to the following states : California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island. Please contact our Customer Solutions team prior to placing your order if you have any questions!
This Edlund BDSS-16 balance-style baker's dough scale is simple, easy-to-use, and accurate. Each 9" diameter platter is constructed from durable, 12-gauge stainless steel that's easy to clean and won't chip or rust. The beam and poise are also made from stainless steel, providing reliable durability for your bakery. Other useful features include rubber footpads for stable placement that won't scratch your tabletop, an over-sized footed plastic scoop, and a full set of measuring weights (1 lb., 2 lb., 4 lb., 8 lb.).
Readout Measurements:
16 lb. x 0.25 oz.
Overall Dimensions:
Depth: 7 1/2"
Width: 19 3/4"
Height: 9"
Because this item is not stocked in our warehouse, processing and transit times will vary. If you need your items by a certain date,
please contact us prior to placing your order. Expedited shipping availability may vary. We cannot guarantee that this item can be cancelled off of the order once it is placed.
Made in America
This item was made in the United States of America.
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INTERNATIONAL USERS: Warranty may be voided by manufacturer if this product is shipped to an international address.
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