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Corsair Vengeance™ 2000 delivers the clutter-free freedom of wireless, Dolby 7.1 surround sound technology, superior audio fidelity, and a comfortable design. Experience true wireless freedom with up to 40 feet of range and 10 hours of battery life. Dolby surround provides precise positional audio cues for an incredibly immersive gaming experience. Large 50mm audio drivers have been painstakingly tuned for tight bass response – so lows are greatly enhanced without being distorted. Noise-cancelling mic prevents background sounds from interfering with VOIP chat. Large, sound-isolating circumaural earcups have microfiber-covered memory foam earpads. Padded headband stays comfortable over long play sessions.
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Large 50mm drivers deliver audio with more detail and more realism for maximum enjoyment and a competitive edge. The tight bass response lets you experience deep, satisfying lows without distortion or overload, and voices are crisp and clear.
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The microfiber-covered memory foam earpads and padded headband let you play in comfort for hours. And if you manage to run the 10-hour battery all the way to zero, you can use the Vengeance 2000 even while it's charging.
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Package contents
Corsair Vengeance 2000 wireless Gaming Headset
Dongle (wireless USB adapter)
1.5m USB extension cable
1.5m USB charging cable
Quick Start Guide
Safety Leaflet
Warranty Card
Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz
Impedance: 32 Ohms @ 1kHz
Sensitivity: 105dB (+/-3dB)
Drivers: 50mm
USB power consumption: 500mA
Connector: USB Type A
Wireless range: up to 40 feet (12m)
Battery life: Up to 10 hours
Type: Unidirectional noise-cancelling condenser with adjustable, rotating boom
Impedance: 2.2k Ohms
Frequency Response: 100Hz to 10kHz
Sensitivity: -37dB (+/-3dB)
System requirements
PC with USB port
Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Windows XP
Internet connection (for software download)
- Product Description
- Corsair Vengeance 2000 Wireless 7.1 Gaming Headset - headset
- Product Type
- Headset - wireless - 2.4 GHz
- Localisation
- Europe
- Headphones Form Factor
- Full size
- Connectivity Technology
- Wireless - 2.4 GHz radio frequency
- Radio Frequency Range
- 2.4GHz
- Sound Output Mode
- 7.1 channel surround
- Audio Specifications
- Frequency Response 20 - 20000 Hz
- Impedance
- 32 Ohm
- Microphone
- Boom
- Microphone Operation Mode
- Uni-directional
- Microsoft Certification
- Compatible with Windows 7
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2 years warranty
- Product Type
- Headset - 2.4 GHz
- Width
- 18.3 cm
- Depth
- 9.7 cm
- Height
- 20.5 cm
- Weight
- 350 g
- Localisation
- Europe
- Headphones Form Factor
- Circumaural
- Connectivity Technology
- Wireless - 2.4 GHz radio frequency
- Available Microphone
- Yes
- Sound Output Mode
- 7.1 channel surround
- Frequency Response
- 20 - 20000 Hz
- Impedance
- 32 Ohm
- Dynamic Range
- 105 dB
- Diaphragm
- 50 mm
- Type
- Boom
- Microphone Operation Mode
- Uni-directional
- Sensitivity
- 37 dB
- Impedance
- 2.2 kOhm
- Frequency Response
- 100 - 10000 Hz
- Audio Input Details
- Uni-directional - 100 - 10000 Hz - Output Impedance 2.2 kOhm
Wireless Link
- Radio Frequency Range
- 2.4GHz
- Transmission Range
- 12 m
- Connector Type
- USB ( 4 PIN USB Type A )
- Cables Included
- USB charge cable - 1.5 m , USB extension cable - 1.5 m
- Included Accessories
- Wireless adapter
- Compatible with Windows 7
- "Compatible with Windows 7" software and devices carry Microsoft's assurance that these products have passed tests for compatibility and reliability with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
- Battery
- Headphone battery
- Run Time (Up To)
- 10 hours
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- 2 years warranty
- Service & Support Details
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Customer reviews
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Good sound, but breakable
Reviewed by Will. Review Posted 20/06/2013
Although the sound quality is good, the microphone is clear, and I could wear these comfortably for hours, the plastic construction is a problem. After just two and a half months, cracks started to appear, and eventually the headphones became unusable.
Also, when I first got them, which was six months after release (to my knowledge), there was a significant bug whereby installing the software for use with them would cause them to stop working with USB 3.0 entirely. I don't know if this has been fixed - I've been using them with USB 2.0, and no longer care since I'm returning them.
I've given it three stars instead of 1 because this product would probably be suitable for people with smaller heads that don't put as much of a strain on the band, and its sound *is* very good, especially for the price.
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August 10, 2005
It's an effort to cut down on distractions in Richmond County schools and again this year schools will be enforcing the uniform policy. But what about underprivileged students who can't afford school uniforms? Several agencies and even some of the schools have stepped in to help clothe the students.
Shirley Mosley spent all summer organizing and putting out these school uniforms. Catholic Social Services on Broad Street saw a growing demand to help underprivileged kids.
And as soon as the donations come in, the uniforms go out.
"We have the blue shorts, they have to have khaki pants and we even have the long sleeve sweatshirt for winter," Mosley said.
The thrift store is on top of making sure students are prepared. A reminder of the Richmond County uniform policy has a list of what students can wear from top to bottom.
"Most schools have red, white and blue shorts," Mosley said.
Each piece is a dollar, excluding jumpers that are $4.
Buying school uniforms for a family of three can be quite expensive, but you can get a complete uniform for as low as two dollars.
Richmond County schools are sending a strong message that uniforms will be enforced. And while they realize the hardship that some parents face, some schools have gone as far to set up uniform closets and even uniform funds.
"The schools will set them aside in a special closet for any child that may need to use them," said Mechelle Jordan.
Something Shirley can relate to, and one reason she takes pride in helping others.
"I know what it's like to have to buy and I'm out here buying as a grandmother. I know what it's like to have to buy for these kids," Mosley said.
Some Richmond County schools are even planning a uniform drive for those who can't afford to buy uniforms. Click here for a closer look at Richmond County's uniform policy for elementary and middle schools.
In Richmond County, all students from kindergarten through 8th grade are required to wear uniforms. In Aiken County, none of the public schools require uniforms. And in Columbia County, none of the schools there require uniforms. In McDuffie County, the only school requiring uniforms is the Crossroads Alternative School and no schools in Burke County require uniforms.


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STROTHER, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a volunteer firefighter in Oklahoma has died after a fight with another firefighter at the Strother Fire Department.
Seminole County Sheriff Shannon Smith says 56-year-old Dale Patterson died at OU Medical Center after the fight early Thursday.
Strother Fire Chief Nicholas Nadeau told an Oklahoma City television station that Patterson joined the department as a volunteer firefighter six years ago. He said Patterson had risen to the rank of captain and also served as the department's chaplain.
He says Patterson previously worked as a drug enforcement officer in New Mexico before moving to Oklahoma to retire.
Few details were released about the altercation, but authorities say no arrests have been made. The name of the other firefighter involved in the fight has not been released.
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Marilynn Burger carefully unwraps the pink bundle on her couch, folding the blanket outward and placing the pink teddy bear off to the side. Then she unfolds the stack of baby clothes piece by piece, holding them up to the light.
"Aren't they darling?" she asks.
The bundle is one of three that Burger delivers to the Public Health department every month to be donated to Public Health and the Nurse-Family Partnership program. She makes one bundle for a boy, one for a girl and one unisex bundle. She estimates she's been doing this for at least 20 years.
"I like to knit. That's kind of how it started," Burger said.
Burger doesn't work directly with any organization or fundraiser to put together her bundles. Most of the items come from her, thanks to her thrift store shopping skills, with occasional donations of knitted or crocheted blankets from friends and children's books from the Summit County Rotary club.
Each bundle contains a large blanket, within which is wrapped up to 20 outfits, including onesies, undershirts, sweaters, two-piece outfits, pajamas, a jacket and a snow suit, plus more blankets, crib sheets, wipes, diapers, stuffed animals and books in either English or Spanish. Most of the clothing Burger chooses will fit a baby from newborn stage up to 6 months of age.
"Because that's when, you know, you're pretty overwhelmed and you don't have stuff," she said. "The other thing is, zero to 6 months, they don't wear this stuff very long. They grow out of it so fast that, unless you save it and have four more babies, things are in such good shape."
Burger is an expert thrift store shopper and can easily list a number of thrift stores in Denver, their location and what days they have their special deals. With children and grandchildren to visit in Denver, Burger drives to the city often, though she's always conscious about what days she'll be there.
"Even my dentist and the receptionist know. If I'm making an appointment, she says, 'I know, you want to come in on Tuesday,' " Burger said with a laugh.
Burger is always on the hunt for a bargain. She has a keen eye for used clothes and makes sure to pick the choicest items for her bundles.
"Even though these are almost 100 percent used clothes, trust me, I raised three boys and I know if there's a stain on something, what will come out and what won't, so I only buy the best," she said.
Once home, she makes sure to check that there are no threadbare spots and that the snaps all work and are accounted for. In earlier years, she would replace drawstrings with much safer elastic waistbands, though now says the clothing has changed and she doesn't need to do it so much. She also removes the tags and throws the clothes in the wash.
"I figure that's a good test, if it can get washed," she said, explaining that only rarely does a piece of clothing not make it through the washing machine. "I figure, if it can't handle washing then I shouldn't be giving it to somebody."
Making sure of the quality is an important part of Burger's process.
"I have my standards. They have to be nice and they have to be cheap," she said. Because of the quick growth of young babies, most used baby clothes are hardly worn before they're too small.
"I mean, this stuff's like brand new," she said, holding up a pink jumper. "What are you going to do? Just throw it out? No. Everything that I get is just in tip-top shape. I just wouldn't feel good about giving it away if it wasn't."
The Nurse-Family Partnership program is designed to help first-time, low-income mothers deal with their pregnancy and learn about becoming a parent. The program pairs each mother with a nurse, who visits her at home several times a month until the baby is 2 years old. Summit County's program started in 2001, following guidelines from the national parent organization by providing a curriculum for new mothers to follow.
Previously, Burger worked in the Denver area Public Health department, including the Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) program. Her years in the hospitals dealing with young parents and infants have garnered a large amount of expertise when it comes to what families with newborns need.
"You just sometimes don't realize that not everybody starts at point A," she said. "That's why I think that program (Nurse-Family Partnership) is so wonderful."
It was in Denver that she started helping give away free blankets with the Church World Services organization. When she moved to Summit County in 1988, that idea stuck with her and eventually morphed into the baby bundles that she creates today.
"You know, my thought was that, at least in my generation, you always got hand-me-downs, from your cousins, from your sisters, when you had a baby. Well, I think a lot of times up here people don't have that support system; they're here by themselves," she said.
Another benefit to the bundles is that they can be used to get expecting parents more prepared for what's coming.
"Sometimes there's a disconnect. You know it's coming and you know it's there, but it's almost still unreal," Burger said. The bundle is then given to the new parents "when it can be an educational tool, not just a gift."
Over all, Burger said she enjoys making the bundles, from hunting the aisles of the thrift store to the moment she drops them off at the Public Health department.
"Oh yeah, I really do," she said.


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Vail official report: 0" as of 5 a.m.
Vail Daily field report: 1" at 9 a.m. with more continuing to fall.
Line at Chair 8: The snowflakes brought a bigger crowd in today, with 100 or so people gathered by 8:50 a.m. By 9:30 it had grown to 100 with an eight- to 10-minute wait to load.
Weather: Cloudy and lightly snowing with no wind.
Breakdown: Ski conditions are improving with every flake of snow that drops. With an inch yesterday and another this morning, the brown spots are filling in nicely. Born Free still the only run to enjoy, but look for more to open if the snow continues to drop. The scuttlebutt among the local morning crowd is Columbine will be the next run to open. Nothing from the lifties to back that up, though. But it's not just locals out there, Jason Meade from Texas was out early, looking forward to his first turns of the season. "Can't wait," he said.
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The much awaited exhibition Dalou : The Sculptor of the Republic is the first-ever monographic exhibition devoted to Jules Dalou (1838–1902). Its aim is to restore the artist to his rightful place – alongside Rude, Carpeaux and Rodin – in the extraordinary upsurge that saw French sculpture lead the world in the 19th century.
Born into a Paris family of modest means, Dalou began his career under the Second Empire (1852–1870), but saw it come to a halt with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and his participation in the Paris Commune uprising of 1871.
Driven into exile in London, he was much appreciated on the art scene there before a general amnesty allowed him to return to France in 1879. The City of Paris then commissioned his most famous work, The Triumph of the Republic: espousing the aesthetics of the Revolution, this masterpiece, now on the Place de la Nation in Paris, was the first of a long series of monuments designed by Dalou for the French capital.
At the same time, like all the recognised sculptors of the period, he provided busts and decorative works for a private clientele.
Some three hundred works will be on show at the Petit Palais: sculptures, of course, but also paintings, drawings, photographs and documentary material – for the most part never exhibited before – that add up to an unrivalled overview of Dalou's output and the evolution of his career. The majority of the sculptures come from the artist's studio collection, acquired by the City of Paris in 1905, and are rounded off by loans from public and private collections in France and elsewhere. Here we are given a fascinating insight into the different stages of producing monuments and the «studio secrets» of a 19th-century artist.
At the Musée Cognacq-Jay a second, parallel exhibition, Dalou: Focus on the 18th Century, brings together some thirty of his works freely inspired by the 18th century in France. Shown alongside pieces by such other artists as Pigalle, Lemoyne, Houdon and Clodion, they demonstrate the way Dalou, although a convinced Republican, reinterpreted the heritage of the final century of the Ancien Régime.
The exhibition accompanies the publication of the Catalogue des oeuvres de Dalou conservées au Petit Palais, edited by Amélie Simier (Paris-Musées Editions).
Curators: Cécilie CHAMPY, Conservateur du patrimoine, Amélie Simier, conservateur en chef et directrice des musées Bourdelle et Zadkine.
Curator museum Cognacq-Jay: Benjamin COUILLEAUX, conservateur du patrimoine
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Seventh stop on the 2011 North Iowa Tour!
Check In - 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Player Meeting - 9:45 a.m.
Tee Off - 10:00 a.m.
Limited to first 54 paid entries
1 Hour Lunch Break between rounds
2 Rounds of 18 holes (9 holes played 4 times)
Men will be Flighted after the 1st Round
Tournament Entry Fees:
All Men - $20
All Women - $10
Ace Fund (Optional) - $2
*Ace Funds will carry forward to next N.I.T. event if there are no Aces at this tournament.
All of the Tournaments will be FLIGHTED this year.
Instead of having Divisions for people to sign up to play in.
The Men will be Flighted into 3 Flights - Open, Advanced, & Intermediate.
The Women will just be in 1 Flight.
Flight Payouts:
Trophy for the Winner of each Flight!
Men's Flight Payouts - 40%/30%/25% of total Men's Entry Fees with 5% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
Women's Flight Payout - 90% of total Women's Entry Fees with 10% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
*Cash Payout for Men's Open Flight, Wak Pak Funny Money Payout for all other Flights.
*With this system the Men's Open Flight will actually have "Added-Cash" into their payout.
*We will payout the Top 40-45% of each Flight.
More info about the 2011 North Iowa Tour.
You can "preregister" by just letting me know that you are coming and you can pay your entry fee the morning of the tournament when you check in. You need to be there by 9:00 a.m. to pay your entry fee if you "preregistered" to secure your spot for sure. We must limit the tournament to the first 60 players. You can e-mail me if you want me to save you a spot. Or you can send me a message on DiscGolfScene.com also. This helps us to know how many to expect, and get a jump start on the registration process.


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- Mar 1:
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- Storm lashes California, residents keep wary eye for potential mudslides in southern part of the state
- Equipment problem delays BART trains in Transbay Tube
- Heavy rain prompts flooding, wind advisories in Bay Area
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- California drought: Second storm approaching, as first tapers off
- Feb 26:
- Drought-plagued Bay Area reaps much-needed rain with more coming Friday
- Livermore asks residents to reduce water use by 20 percent
- California drought: Morning rain just the beginning
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Break out the bubbly, San Francisco. This is only your second driest winter in recorded history.
A massive storm streaked the Bay Area with rain Friday, bogging down commutes from Oakland to San Jose and knocking out power to more than 55,000 PG&E customers. It also provided the parched region a symbolic victory: San Francisco will not break its 1850-51 record for driest rainfall season, according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services.
But Oakland and San Jose, two other cities for which there are extensive records, need another storm or two to escape the record books. And what turned out to be a rainy February won't go very far to alleviate drought concerns.
The storm dropped most of its moisture between midnight Thursday and dawn Friday before spinning down to Southern California, where rainfall totals and disruptions were far greater. The system caused major flooding on southbound Highway 87, stranded two cars on a downtown San Jose street and contributed to a fatal crash on Highway 24 that snarled morning traffic in Oakland.
Precipitation was heaviest at higher elevations, where winds topped 50 mph. Mount Unumhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains set the Bay Area's 24-hour high for rainfall Friday afternoon of 2.56 inches. San Jose got 0.94 inches when measured at the airport, Concord got 1.15, downtown Oakland got 0.78 and SFO got 0.63.
The 1.08 inches that fell in San Francisco brought its seasonal total to 7.92 inches. That means the record for least amount of rainfall in San Francisco remains 7.42 inches, said Null. That mark was set during California's first year of statehood.
"It's cold comfort," Fairfax resident Christina Tom tweeted regarding the record. The wetlands restoration engineer works in San Francisco. "Our aquatic ecosystems are still in a world of hurt."
Indeed, the crispy Golden State remains in the grip of a punishing drought. Even after a reasonably wet February, the Bay Area would need to see five to 10 more significant storms by the end of April for regional rain totals to hit their historic seasonal averages.
By March 1 two-thirds or more of the region's rain has typically already fallen.
"Each storm is a bucket of water to fill up the swimming pool," Null said. "But it's an awfully big swimming pool and there's not enough of the rainfall season left to go."
And while San Francisco has avoided a depressing rainfall record, San Jose and Oakland are still in the running for their own. San Jose had 4.3 inches of rain for the season as of 4 p.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The city could still break the mark for driest season of 5.77 inches in 1975-76. Those records go back to 1874.
The all-time low for rain at Oakland Museum of California is 9.57 inches, also set during the infamous drought of 1975-76, according to the weather service. The total for Oakland, where records have been kept since 1970, was 5.67 inches by Friday afternoon.
It was a dramatic day of weather in Southern California. The Upper Matilija Canyon in Ventura County had 6.81 inches of rain, the most in the state. And authorities evacuated people from 1,200 homes in the hills east of Los Angeles because ofconcerns that slopes destabilized by a recent wildfire could yield mudslides.
In Glendora, which sits beneath nearly 2,000 acres of steep mountain slopes stripped by fire, a muddy soup of debris began to fill catch basins, but homes were spared. Skip loaders scraped tons of mud off a road that funneled ooze, large rocks and other debris from a dam-like catch basin below the burn area down the steep roadway.
Andrew Geleris, 59, of Pomona, spent the night with his 87-year-old mother at her home near the catch basin. "I tried to talk her into evacuating yesterday ... but she's just stubborn." But fear of mudslides in the area failed to materialize by Friday afternoon.
Beyond traffic accidents caused by slick roads, air travel was also disrupted in the Bay Area, with San Francisco International Airport canceling 139 flights by midafternoon.
The fatal accident on Highway 24 in Oakland occurred at 4:46 a.m. just east of Interstate 580 and led at least one other person to be hospitalized with minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Nearby in downtown Oakland, truck driver Rick Lopez spent the early morning unloading refrigerated food for a sandwich shop at Broadway and 20th Street and said his commute from Sacramento to Oakland was fairly smooth. He made the trip in 90 minutes.
"The hardest part about driving is that people jump in front of the truck and cut me off," said Lopez, "and that's really dangerous when the roads are wet because I have to slam on my brakes and can skid."
In San Mateo County, heavy rain in the early morning prompted emergency officials to issue a flash-flood warning at 7:10 a.m. in several Peninsula cities. But by 7:45 a.m. the alert had been called off, and the rest of the day was calm.
"It pretty much stopped raining," said county Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt, noting no significant rain-related problems reported. "The whole county in general hasn't had any news."
Rain was more widespread in other areas of the bay and that was expected to continue with scattered showers through Saturday morning.
But that doesn't mean people should stop worrying about conserving water, said East Bay Municipal Utilities District spokeswoman Andrea Pook. Water use in the district has dropped by 4 percent since the district board asked Feb. 11 for voluntary conservation of 10 percent.
"Every drop that we save now," Pook said, "puts us in a better position when the weather dries up."
The Bay Area may see some light rain next week from storms hitting the Northwest, said National Weather Service spokesman Bob Benjamin. Long-term forecasts suggest there could be a couple storms later in March.
But at the moment, Benjamin said, "I don't see anything of real consequence in the next seven to 10 days."
The Associated Press and staff writers Karina Ioffee, Natalie Neysa Alund and Bonnie Eslinger contributed to this report.


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The kickoff party to celebrate plans for the ninth annual St. Jude Quincy to Peoria Run will be at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 11, at the Tower Pizza & Mexican, 2635 Broadway, in Quincy, Ill.
Runners representing the Quincy and Hannibal region will show their support for the patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital during the annual fund-raiser in August. The runners will begin their journey from Hannibal and Quincy on Friday, Aug. 2, and run relay-style until they reach Peoria on Saturday, Aug. 3. Upon arrival, the runners will join St. Jude runners from Memphis, Tenn., and other running groups to help kick off the 2013 St. Jude Telethon.
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Maybe it's a good thing that sweets and drinks are so expensive here.
There seems to be a stereotype that all Americans are fat, but really only about 1/20 people are dangerously fat at my school, let me remind you I live in a middle class area of Texas near Houston, (constantly called fattest city in America) so obesity while it is a problem is similar to lots of places I've been to.


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Noncompetitive inhibition and allosteric inhibition
Note: This is not a homework question. This is part of a study effort for a big test coming up soon.
What's the difference between noncompetitive inhibition and allosteric inhibition?????????
The progress I made on this problem: In Deborah Goldberg's AP Biology, "In noncompetitive inhibition, the enzyme contains more than one active site and the substrates do not resemble each other. However, when one substrate binds to one active site, the second active site is blocked and the second substrate is prevented form binding to the enzyme. Which substrate binds to the enzyme is random and a function of the concentration of each substrate." However, "Allosteric inhibition involves two active sites, one for a substrate and the other for an inhibitor. The enzyme oscillates between two conformations, one active, one inactive. When the inhibitor binds to one active site, the enzyme undergoes a conformational change, the active site for the substrate is altered, and the enzyme cannot catalyze the reaction..." Clearly, in this book, allosteric and noncompetitive inhibition sound very similar. Can someone explain to me the difference between noncompetitive inhibition and allosteric inhibition?????????????????????
All insight offered to this problem is greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.
The two terms overlap to some extent. All "non-competitive" means is that the inhibitor lowers Vmax without changing Km. You can't read much mechanism into it. The notion of competitive, non-competitive, mixed-competitive are all kinetic behaviors.
An allosteric site is a binding site distinct from the substrate binding or active site. Allosteric binders can activate as well as inhibit. Usually, there is some kind of conformational change of the protein involved. It need not alter just the conformation of the active site, though certainly allosteric effectors do such things. Sometimes (maybe even most of the time) a non-competitive inhibitor works by binding allosterically, but all you really know when you identify an inhibitor as "non-competitive" is that it reduces the active concentration of enzyme without changing the affinity of the enzyme toward substrate. But that's all you know.
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One of the most vexing issues facing tens of millions of American families at present is the exorbitant cost of higher education. Surprisingly, it didn't feature very much in last year's presidential election. Cynics might say that Democrats are reluctant to spend much time on the issue because well-paid college and university academics and administrators are among their most strident activists and generous donors. On the flip side, those same cynics might say that Republicans' blind faith in market forces and the fact that high tuitions aren't much of an issue for their wealthy base make it less important for them. With respect to both parties, the cynics would have a point.
The issue remains, however. Tuitions in the US, especially at elite private colleges and universities, have always been high, but what has happened in the past twenty years has bordered on the incomprehensible. My alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts – which thousands and thousands of Irish-Americans from throughout New England, New York and New Jersey and elsewhere have attended over the years and which remains one of America's highest ranked liberal arts colleges – is a case in point. Holy Cross is an outstanding school and I am proud to be a graduate.
Yet when I was a senior there in academic year 1995-1996, tuition, including room and board, was $26,500. In academic year 2013-2014, tuition, including room and board, will be $56,232. In less than twenty years, the annual cost of a Holy Cross education has more than doubled! And as Americans will immediately vouch, incomes certainly have not increased by that amount since the mid-1990s.
Lest any readers, fellow alumni in particular, think I am singling Holy Cross out for criticism, this trend is mirrored at just about all of the private colleges and universities in the northeast US where Irish-Americans have flocked to historically in large numbers. Moreover, while institutions like Holy Cross are in a financial position to offer many qualified students generous aid packages, others are not, and students must assume a huge debt burden to get an undergraduate degree. Either way, the cost of a private college or university education is extremely expensive in the US. Public colleges and universities are cheaper, yet aren't as prestigious in most instances and they are becoming more costly every year. Most parents in the US accept the grim reality of the situation and scrimp, save and go into debt themselves to give their children the best education they possibly can.
The many parents of high-school aged children whom I've met in Ireland are astonished when I tell them the relatively miniscule costs of higher education here. Irish students must pay an annual registration fee of just €2,500 for an undergraduate course of study. Although that figure does not cover room and board, it is a pittance compared to what American families would expect to pay for a year of higher education at either a public or private institution. On hearing these details, Irish-American parents lament that it's so much harder to afford in the US and that they can't avail of this system.
The reality, however, is that Irish universities encourage and welcome applicants from countries outside of the European Union (EU). There are seven universities – Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University College Cork, the University of Limerick and the National University of Ireland, Galway, where I teach in the law school – that span the length and breadth of this country. All the universities have their own individual strengths and attributes, as well as their own well-organized, geographically diverse alumni networks.
The fees for non-EU students, while more expensive than for EU students who have fulfilled the residency requirement (to qualify for the above rate, EU citizens must have been resident in a member state for 3 of the preceding 5 years), are much cheaper than most private colleges and universities in the US. By way of example, the annual fee for most undergraduate courses at NUI Galway for non-EU students is €12,750 ($16,580). Taking into account room, board, travel and other expenses, the annual cost of sending an American student to an Irish university is between $30,000 and $35,000.
That, of course, is substantially less than the $50,000 or more now charged by most elite private colleges and universities in the US. And when one takes into account the fact that a majority of the undergraduate degrees here take three, not four, years to complete, the final cost of an undergraduate university education in Ireland could be less than half of what it would be in the US.


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Summers Calls for U.S. Fiscal Stimulus
An unusually weak and intractable U.S. economic recovery requires another dose of fiscal stimulus to have a fighting chance of being sustained, Harvard economist Lawrence Summers said Saturday.
Mr. Summers, speaking at the American Economic Association meeting in Philadelphia, expanded on his notion that the economy is undergoing a period of "secular stagnation" where there are not enough good investment opportunities to enable full employment.
"We may be doomed to oscillation between inadequate and slow growth and bubbly, unsustainable and problem-creating growth," he said.
"Fiscal consolidation in such circumstances is a step importantly in the wrong direction." The situation requires "direct fiscal policy action," Mr. Summers added.
He suggested the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy risked creating asset bubbles and therefore could not be pushed much further to support the expansion.
"If growth is rapid but associated with financial conditions that are on their way to becoming unsustainable, that in many ways is a corroboration of the line of argument I am presenting," Mr. Summers said.
"Given current conditions, and given current savings and investment propensities, growth with sustainable finance is likely to be difficult to maintain."
Mr. Summers noted that Google searches for the term "'covenant-lite," bonds issued without protections for creditors, jumped again starting in 2012.
Instead, the government should focus on productivity-enhancing investments in infrastructure to spur spending, he said.
"To put the point in a more colloquial way: If a time when we can borrow money on currency that we can print ourselves for the long term at 3%–and the construction unemployment rate is in double digits–is not the moment to repair [New York's] Kennedy airport," he said. "When will that moment ever ever be?"


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LOS ANGELES -- After a second consecutive road loss against a Top 25 opponent, Cal's bowl prospects are on the rocks less than a month into the season.
The Golden Bears were overpowered 27-9 by No. 13 USC in their Pac-12 Conference opener in front of 83,421 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum on Saturday. Cal has started 1-3 for only the second time in 11 seasons under coach Jeff Tedford.
"I understand we're 1-3, but there's a lot of football left to be played," Tedford said. "I have a lot of confidence in the chemistry of our team."
Only once have the Bears rallied from a 1-3 start to play in a bowl game. It's a faint silver lining that Cal overcame those odds in 2003 -- Tedford's second season at Berkeley -- and went on to play in the Insight Bowl.
The Bears must win five of their final eight games to become bowl eligible.
Wide receiver Keenan Allen said the Bears' performance was discouraging but that the team isn't close to cashing in.
"It's in our hands," he said of the rest of the season.
The Bears return home Saturday to face Arizona State, and quarterback Zach Maynard said, "We're going to come out with our hair on fire. We've got to get a win and make a statement."
But if the 35-28 loss to Ohio State a week ago provided encouragement, Cal had familiar troubles against USC:
USC (3-1, 1-1 Pac-12) dominated with a running attack that produced two 100-yard rushers in a game for the first time since 2008. Penn State transfer Silas Redd ran for 158 yards, and Curtis McNeal had 115.
"I was surprised," Cal cornerback Steve Williams said. "They didn't have a running attack the previous game. But they came out and just pounded the ball."
It started with a dominant offensive line.
"I thought up front they were better than us today," Tedford conceded.
That made life easier for quarterback Matt Barkley, who shook off two first-half interceptions and threw touchdown passes of 11 and 3 yards to Marqise Lee. The Bears hoped to apply the same type of pressure on Barkley that Stanford did a week earlier in its 21-14 victory, but the USC senior never was sacked.
Cal, which totaled 512 yards at Ohio State, had just 250 and did not get into the end zone.
"Against teams like this, you can't win the game with field goals," Allen said. "We've got to get the ball in the end zone."
Cal had five chances inside USC's 20-yard line but managed only field goals of 24, 26 and 35 yards by Vincenzo D'Amato.
Maynard, coming off a sharp performance at Columbus, was sacked seven times and finished 18 of 33 for 173 yards with two interceptions. Both he and Allen said the USC pressure was such that Maynard often had to throw early, even before he could really see his target.
Tailback Brendan Bigelow, who exploded for 160 yards and two long touchdowns at Ohio State, was expected to play a bigger role. But he carried just four times for 31 yards -- all in the second half.
Bigelow said only that he planned to be ready when called.
Tedford offered no explanation for why Bigelow got just one snap in the first half, except to say, "Early in the game there wasn't really any room to run. I don't put that on the backs."
A week after rushing for 224 yards at Ohio State, the Bears netted just 77.
"That's an explosive offense," USC coach Lane Kiffin said, "and at the end of the day we won it up front."
Tedford continues to believe he has a good team, and maybe it will show in the weeks ahead.
"We've got to make enough plays to get over the hump," he said. "Two weeks in a row on the road, we didn't do that."
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Philadelphia-area Building Retrofits Could Support 23,500 Jobs: Report
Energy efficiency retrofits in Philadelphia could spur $618 million in local spending and support 23,500 area jobs, according to a recently released report conducted by Philadelphia-based Econsult Corporation and commissioned by the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy-Efficient Buildings.
The GPIC is one of the DOE's research centers called Energy Innovation Hubs. It includes 24 partner institutions from industry, academia, national laboratories, and local economic development agencies. This Energy Innovation Hub aims to demonstrate a 50% reduction in building energy use, which could transform the building retrofit industry.
The report, "The Market for Commercial Property Energy Retrofits in the Philadelphia Region," estimates that nearly half of the commercial buildings in the Greater Philadelphia region—more than 4,000 buildings with a combined 154 million square feet of space—could be good candidates for energy saving retrofits. See the Energy Blog post.


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NEW YORK -- The A's activated right-handed pitcher Ryan Cook from the disabled list Tuesday, making room for him by putting right fielder Josh Reddick on the DL.
Reddick suffered hyperextension of his right knee in a collision with the right field wall Saturday, took Sunday off and the A's determined that he'd need more time to be ready.
"He won't do any baseball work until we get home,'' manager Bob Melvin said of Reddick. The manager said Reddick had an MRI and no structural damage was in evidence.
Cook has spent most of the season on the disabled list, missing all of spring training with a right shoulder strain. He came back a week into the season and pitched in short relief from April 7-May 7 until his forearm started acting up.
He threw one inning with Class-A Stockton Saturday, after which he said his right arm "feels great, ready to go.''
Melvin said he'd work Cook, who made the 2012 All-Star team as a closer, in some lower pressure situations just to get him pack into the routine.
"The problem is every time you say that, you wind up needing to pitch in extra innings with the bases loaded,'' Melvin said with a wry smile. "But we'll try to ease him in.''
He'd missed two games with a strained calf, and it was the desire on Melvin's part to make sure the injury doesn't linger that kept Moss from playing first base, a job that went to Alberto Callaspo.
"I'm not 100 percent sure (Moss) couldn't have played in the field somewhere,'' Melvin said. "He feels a lot better today.
"As important as he is to us, we want to see how he reacts to some at-bats and actually getting out of the box and running down the line, which is the most difficult thing with those kinds of injuries.''
The 29-year-old Sizemore was hitting .265 for Triple-A Scranton, and he's expected to face left-handed starting pitching. The A's started lefty Scott Kazmir Tuesday and have another ready to go in Drew Pomeranz on Thursday.
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St. Patrick Catholic Church in Laurie will host a six-week program entitled "Catholics Returning Home" (catholicsreturninghome.org). Were you baptized Catholic, but do not or seldom come to church?
Do you attend Mass each weekend, but do not receive the Eucharist?
Would you like to know more about the Catholic Church as it is today?
No matter how long you have been away, no matter the reason, we invite you to consider renewing your relationship with the church. Join the St. Patrick Catholic Church for informal sharing, questions, and an update on the Catholic Church.
The program will begin Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 176 North Main, Laurie, in the Religious Education Center.
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Gentleman Federer a true five-star champion (Belfast Telegraph)
Roger Federer's march to greatness is relentless. The statistics say so. With his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title, he equalled the feat of the legendary Bjorn Borg.
He captured his 11th Grand Slam, again equalling Borg, and now stands just three away from the all-time record holder Pete Sampras.
He has won 34 consecutive matches on the grass courts of Wimbledon, 54 on grass in all competitions.
But statistics do not tell the whole story. Not when it comes to the grace and elegance and the sheer majesty with which Federer has dominated his sport.
BJORN BELIEF (kentucky.com)
Bjorn Borg had called Roger Federer "an orchestra," a man playing his tennis symphonies with an entire, versatile string section at the ready. And Federer required all his music and composition yesterday on Centre Court against Rafael Nadal, a human topspin machine who can hum a few shots himself.
Federer would win this final, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2, equaling Borg's modern-day record of five straight Wimbledon titles in plain view of the Swedish superstar, who was sitting approvingly above in the royal box. It was his 11th major championship overall, closing in again on the record of one of Federer's few remaining critics, Pete Sampras, who has 14.
Federer smacked the winning overhead and sank to his knees, then hung his head in exhaustion as he sat in a chair. "I was almost crying already when I was up 5-2," Federer would say. He looked like Ali after 15 rounds with Frazier. He made a gracious speech in a fresh, five-piece white ensemble.
Fifth one for the ages (The Globe and Mail)
Roger Federer got the fifth Wimbledon title in a row he so badly wanted - and with it, the benediction of the man whose record he equalled.
In an enthralling match worthy of the presence of 1976-80 Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg in the Royal Box, Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2 yesterday.
As a lob floated above him awaiting his smash on his second match point, Federer's thoughts wandered.
"Lots of images go through your mind," he said after the match, "especially on a ball like that when you have all that time. I'd already been through it when I sat down [between games] and thought 'I'm winning 5-2.' I almost started crying.
Federer Joins Elite With Wimbledon Win (forbes.com)
Locked in the toughest test of his Wimbledon reign, against his only real rival in today's game, Roger Federer summoned the strokes and resolve that allow him to chase records set by the greats of yesteryear.
And after Federer finally overcame Rafael Nadal in a five-set epic Sunday to win his fifth consecutive championship at the All England Club and 11th Grand Slam title overall, tying Bjorn Borg on both counts, guess who was waiting to greet him in a hallway off Centre Court?
Borg himself. They smiled and embraced, then chatted briefly, a tete-a-tete between the only two men in the past century to win Wimbledon five years in a row.
"To see him after the match - it was very fitting in my point of view," Federer said. "It made me a bit more proud of myself."
Federer takes the fifth with fortitude (latimes.com)
The world got an unprecedented peek at Roger Federer's guts Sunday, and it turns out they're considerable.
Hidden these last five kingly years by his celestial shots and his spiteful serves and his durable cool, they had never received a summons to contribute.
Never had Federer strayed into the fifth set of any Grand Slam final, let alone against a mobile blast furnace like Rafael Nadal. Never had he faced two bloodcurdling 15-40 games within that fifth set. Never had Bjorn Borg not so much sat as loomed in the front row of the Royal Box.
Never had Federer tried to win a fifth straight Wimbledon with, as he said, "Bjorn Borg sitting there, Jimmy Connors sitting there, John McEnroe sitting there, Boris Becker sitting there."
It's high five for Roger Federer (cybernoon.com)
Roger Federer and Venus Williams wrote their names in gold on the green grass of Wimbledon. The Swiss held the Wimbledon trophy for the fifth time in front of most cherished Wimbledon champions Kramer, Fraser, Santana, Smith, Connors, Borg, McEnroe, and Becker. Federer said that the memory of all these champions present would remain with him for a lifetime.
Both Federer and Nadal at this Wimbledon were on Mission Borg. Federer to win five Wimbledon's in a row like Borg and Nadal to win the French open and Wimbledon Grand Slams same year like Borg. For the first time Nadal became the first player to take Two sets off Federer. For 3 hrs and 44 mins Federer and Nadal battled for the Golden trophy.
Brilliant rallies, stunning court coverage, amazing accuracy in shot making, all together came like a bouquet of red roses in this historic Wimbledon finals.
Federer's Five Of A Kind (courant.com)
Roger Federer lost his temper over a line call and misplaced his magical groundstrokes for nearly two hours, but he never lost touch with his champion's heart and, in one of the most stirring Grand Slam finals in recent years, defeated rival Rafael Nadal Sunday to win a record fifth consecutive Wimbledon.
There was joy everywhere on Centre Court as Bjorn Borg, 51, the tennis icon whose record Federer matched, came down from the Royal Box at the end of this 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2 epic to present the winner's trophy.
Federer looks to surpass Sampras (grimsby.co.uk)
World number one Roger Federer on Sunday turned his sights on making more history as he equalled Bjorn Borg's record of five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles when he defeated Rafael Nadal 7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2.
He also drew level with Borg and Rod Laver on 11 Grand Slams, but now he wants to be the greatest of all time by eclipsing the feats of Pete Sampras who claimed 14 Grand Slam titles.
Federer, who with Borg watching won his first Grand Slam final in five sets, said: "It's on my mind, but it's not as if I say I have to beat this record otherwise it's no good. Pete Sampras is maybe the greatest player we've ever had so to break his record is not the easiest thing, I know that."
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unthinkable brilliance. It is still hard to comprehend.
And if I'm not mistaken, no-one has ever won four consecutive US opens. Lendl and McEnroe got 3 on the run each.
Yet another incredib
but for me, u r the greatest player of all time =)
i look up to u n cherish u =)
You are really the true champion! I really like your reaction to win the eleven grand slams that you have won. I am really proud of you! Keep to be No.1 always. You are the Best forever in the world!
Congratulation. You are wonderful!. I feel happy for you. . I hope you will succeed in your work.
Good luck for you
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Congratulation. You are wonderful!. I feel happy for you. . I hope you will succeed in your work.
Good luck for you
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A new local fright site is drawing criticism for more than just its departing owner.
A number of people expressed concern over the fact that the Wicked Warehouse, a haunted house attraction that opened Thursday at 111 W. Montgomery St. in Marietta, was owned by Lester Bowes, a registered sexually oriented offender. Although the Washington County Sheriff's Office says Bowes broke no laws, he said Tuesday he's separating himself from the venture.
Meanwhile, the content of the attraction, and an online video promoting it, are coming under fire from some who believe they promote violence toward women.
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The video features an attractive young woman running from an unseen assailant, her nose bleeding. She takes shelter in the warehouse, where she is grabbed from behind by a man in a goat mask who slams her head into a metal door then drags her into the shadows.
"I just find that video so offensive," said Molly Varner, a member of the board of directors of EVE Inc., a local domestic violence shelter and provider of services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. "It's the kind of thing that might make gullible young people think that might be the thing to do."
A call and email to the Wicked Warehouse were not returned Tuesday.
Beverly resident Amanda Beebe, 32, went through the warehouse recently with her 15-year-old daughter and her friends and said she didn't find it offensive toward women. In fact, she's letting her daughter go back.
"It was just like watching a horror movie," she said, comparing it to the "Hostel" films, which feature young men and women being tortured. "There were some guys torturing girls and girls torturing guys."
The Wicked Warehouse website, wicked-warehouse.webnode.com, describes the haunt as R-rated, due to violent content and language.
"This haunted house is not recommended for young children," the site says under its Frequently Asked Questions section. "You know your child best! Bring them at your own risk."
Beebe said the people working at the warehouse were very friendly and quick to address a possible safety hazard when her daughter's shirt got torn.
Marietta Police Chief Brett McKitrick said his office has been aware of what's going on at the warehouse. The fire department inspected the building and signed off on it. Other than some noise complaints, which officers have spoken to the owners about, they haven't had any problems.
As to the content, the chief said, "that's where it's the parents' job - if they don't want their kids to go through it ... they keep their kids from going through it."
Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. Patrice Tornes said the sheriff's office has received multiple calls about the warehouse, mostly regarding its connection to Bowes. A few have mentioned the content as well.
"The content itself, it's being publicized as R-rated for the violence that is taking place," she said. "It's not been reported to us that there's been any sexual gravity to it."
Valerie Belin, 29, of Marietta, said the music from a band performing when the attraction opened Thursday night was loud but it wasn't as bad the next evening. Her main concern was finding out that a registered sexually oriented offender was involved with the operation.
"That's a big concern," she said.
Tornes said Bowes was not breaking any laws by being involved with the Wicked Warehouse.
Bowes was convicted in 2003 on a third-degree felony charge of sexual battery after reaching a plea agreement. He was originally charged with first-degree felony rape for offenses that took place over a five-year period involving one boy who was under the age of 13.
After serving five years in prison, Bowes was released and classified as a sexually oriented offender. That means he must register in person with the sheriff's office once a year for 10 years and notify them of any changes in his address, Tornes said.
"He's always been compliant," she said. "He, on his own, suggested that he would not be in the warehouse when the tours were going on, he would be in a shirt that said 'staff' on it (not a costume)."
Bowes said Tuesday that he purposely took those steps to head off any potential problems regarding his status and the business.
"I was trying to keep everything where nobody could say anything if something happened," he said.
Bowes is listed as the registrant for the company on the Ohio Secretary of State's website, but he said paperwork is "on its way to Columbus" to change that. He said he's transferring ownership "just because so many people have put a lot of time into this thing. I don't want it to be ruined because of me."
"The town needs something to do. That's why I backed down," he said.
The Wicked Warehouse website and Facebook page have both been emphasizing the fact that Bowes is no longer involved.
Bowes said in a separate interview that the new owner and staff plan to change some of the more "offensive" rooms but keep the Halloween haunted house what it was intended to be - scary.


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10 Zen Monkeys has an interview with Gina Smith about iWoz, her book on Steve Wozniak. "Another misconception that bothered him was the idea that he and Steve Jobs had designed the Apple I and the Apple II together. The sole designer of both those computers was Steve Wozniak. The sole designer." (thx, david)


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When the cast of "Dallas" gathered to shoot next week's episode in which Larry Hagman's iconic character, J.R. Ewing, is laid to rest, some tears were shed, according to series star Patrick Duffy. But there were plenty of laughs, too.
"It turned out to be a true party -- anything but a wake," said Duffy of the episode that brings back several fan favorites. "While we were mourning J.R., we were also celebrating Larry."
Hagman had shot seven Season 2 episodes of "Dallas" before dying last November from complications of a previous bout with cancer. His death forced "Dallas" showrunner Cynthia Cidre and her writers to scramble to rework the second half of the season and plan an on-screen funeral for J.R.
Among the "Dallas" vets who returned to Southfork Ranch for Monday's swan song were Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Steve Kanaly (Ray Krebbs) and Charlene Tilton (Lucy Ewing).
"Believe me, it was like a high school reunion. Every single person fit in perfectly, and it was so wonderful to have them back," said Duffy, who plays J.R.'s brother, Bobby. "I missed people who weren't there. I wish it could have been an even bigger thing, but obviously you can't do that and maintain the integrity of the show."
"Dallas" now finds itself in the position of other shows that have had to carry on after the death of a key actor. Perhaps the most famous example is the ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter," which had to regroup in 2003 after John Ritter died of an aortic dissection.
More recently, the Starz drama "Spartacus" had to replace lead actor Andy Whitfield after the show's first season when Whitfield left the role to undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He died in 2011.
"Dallas" is in a better position to move on. Although Hagman's J.R. was the centerpiece of the original drama, he had shifted to a secondary role in the reboot as the younger generation of Ewings -- led by Josh Henderson and Jesse Metcalfe -- assumed more of the spotlight. This season, Hagman only appeared in a few brief scenes each week.
Still, for a lot of fans, J.R. epitomized "Dallas" and his presence was felt even when he was off screen. Well aware of that, Cidre and her writers devised a plot line in which the late J.R. will have an impact on ensuing episodes. The character becomes a victim of what initially looks to be a random mugging. But as is so often the case with J.R., nothing is as it appears.
"It's not just a matter of, 'He's dead. Let's move on,'" Duffy said. "The writers created an intriguing mystery that will play out. J.R. will be omnipresent."
And apparently, that's exactly the way Hagman would have wanted it.
"If Larry knew there would be a postmortem story line revolving around a whodunit that had lots of people talking about him, he'd be the happiest actor on the planet," Duffy said.
In addition to being Hagman's longtime co-star, Duffy was the late actor's best friend. He and fellow "Dallas" original Linda Gray, in fact, were at Hagman's side only hours before he died. In the weeks and months that followed, Duffy says he didn't experience an unbearable sense of mourning.
"We talked every day. We were so close that I found myself asking, 'What have I missed?'" he said. "There was nothing that went unsaid. There was nothing left undone. We were so full of each other.
"For that reason, I don't suffer. When I think of Larry I do so with a smile on my face. I think he would say the same thing if I had been the one who died."
'CARDS' SHARK: Although it was prominently mentioned in my recent story on TV binge-viewing, I haven't really paid proper homage to "House of Cards," the astonishing political drama now streaming on Netflix.
Starring two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as a scheming Beltway leader, "Cards" is a joy to behold -- a moody, stylish thriller that has a lot to say about high-level power, privilege, sex, greed and manipulation.
Netflix, of course, has attracted a lot of industry attention with this project, its first from-the-ground-up, originally produced series. Instead of releasing the show in an old-school, week-to-week format, the streaming service made all 13 episodes instantly available in early February. This has allowed big-time binge-viewers to gorge to their heart's content.
Although I haven't devoured "Cards" as quickly as some of the binge fanatics (I've got too many shows to monitor!), I have now polished off 10 episodes and suddenly feel compelled to slow down because I don't want it to end.
Much of the credit goes to Spacey, who is absolutely mesmerizing as Francis Underwood, a South Carolina congressman who, after being passed over for a Cabinet appointment, sets into motion an ambitious, methodical revenge plot that targets none other than the president.
While I love Spacey -- and the way he occasionally speaks to the camera in a stylish Southern accent to explain his process -- the supporting cast is stellar, too. Robin Wright, in particular, shines, as Underwood's shrewd, Lady Macbeth-type wife, and Corey Stoll is relentlessly magnetic as a self-destructive politician who becomes sadly beholden to Underwood.
Although, there are aspects of the show that have had me rolling my eyes -- especially the portrayal of a female journalist who exchanges sex for scoops -- I've been hooked from the start. As "The Shield" was for FX and "Mad Men" for AMC, "House of Cards" is the kind of project that boldly announces Netflix as a serious player in the high-quality drama game.
Several readers have asked if there will be more to come. I'm happy to inform them that Netflix has committed to at least one additional season of 13 episodes, so get set to binge again.
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RAVENSWOOD - In July, 2012, a ground opening was held in Ravenswood for Tudor's Biscuit World and Gino's. CEO Oshel Craigo and franchisers Gary and Bonnie Lineberry were working to put the two restaurants under one roof.
Upon the completion of the construction, the Lineberrys had a "soft sell day" on Wednesday, January 16 for invited guests. Mayor Michael Ihle was chosen to be the first person to place an order.
City Council members Judy Wiseman, Gary Cross, Mike Kelly and Jared Bloxton, and City Recorder Kathy Garret as well as former mayor Lucy Harbert were present as a show of support for the business.
Mr. Lineberry stated that although his background is in construction, he always wanted to try opening a restaurant in the community.
Said Lineberry, "I have been in construction for years, so I know how everything is supposed to go. It was frustrating at times. I have to thank Lucy (former mayor Harbert) for all of her help. She was very instrumental in helping us get Tudor's into the city. She really helped us a lot. My wife, Bonnie, and I are thrilled to finally be opening. We are very excited and look forward to having a good relationship with the community. We're happy to be part of the Tudor's family."
The official opening for the public is today, Thursday, January 17.
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Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users: It is now available in more than 70 languages, includes a Private Browsing mode, better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, the ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
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Firefox is amazing. Safari is cool, but the power of Add-ons gives Firefox the edge over all other browsers. Plus, you can use it on almost any OS. Very useful when running 3.
Firefox is slower than Camino. Use Camino is it 10 times faster than firefox and doesn't take long time starting up.
I can't resist posting a tips about this superior Firefox skin (working fine in Firefox 3.0b5+):
GrApple by Aronmax:
http://www.takebacktheweb.org/
Just installed the minefield pre-release. The interface is VERY slick, and they were nice enough to name the app something other than Firefox (MineField) so that you can just close it and open up your old version if needed. So you aren't locked into the upgrade to the beta
To enable "disabled" plugins in Minefield (Firefox 3.0b), install a the plugin "Nightly Tester Tools." Afterwards, go to your AddOn tab and click on Extensions, then click on the "Make all compatible" button on the bottom right-hand corner. Also, click on the Preferences button on the Nightly Tester Tool addon, then select "Add-ons", then disable add-on compatibility checking. Restart Firefox and enjoy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543 - Nightly Tester Tool download page.
I would use Firefox on my Mac IF it was as fast or faster than Safari. Unfortunately it isn't and takes a long time to start up.
is there an easy way to enable disabled addons on fx3?
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I love using Firefox at work on Windows machines, but it's not used as often on my macs. I tend to run Camino and Flock much more frequently. My wife swears by it though...
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Probably should spring for the 12 player version.
Telestrations is one of the few games where the more players, the better! Which is good, because this is party game for 4-8 players (or up to 12 players with the new party pack version).
This gives you the idea of thehilarity you're in for.
Telestrations, by USAopoly, is such a simple idea and so well designed, you'll wish you'd thought of it yourself. Each player gets a dry erase notebook with alternating word and picture pages, a pen, and one clue card. When the timer starts, every player draws their clue on their first page. Time is up, so hand your notebook to the player next to you. Now, everyone tries to guess the word the drawing represents on their new notebook. Time, switch again. Now, draw a picture representing this new word. This happens again and again until everyone has either drawn or written in each notebook, and everyone has gotten theirs back. Now the fun really begins, as each player goes through the drawings and guesses players have made in their notebook, leading back to the original clue.
All the stuff in the box.
Oh man, is this fun. Sure, winning is cool, and like Pictionary before it, Telestrations doesn't necessarily favor the best artist. Instead, the best communicator will win. But really, winning is only one of the ways to succeed at Telestrations. In fact, the more boldly you play, even if you can't communicate well, the better the game will be! Because it's the mistakes that lead to the best moments. Even if you're embarrassed by your art or guessing skills, get over it for this game. You're the star if you stink at either.
Oh man, so typical of this game.
That's what makes this such a great party game! In fact, if you own this game, I recommend telling the players exactly that - try your best, of course, but even if you can't draw well, don't give up! A bad, sincere drawing will be so much more fun than a successful winning drawing, or worse, someone giving up because they're self-conscious. Have confidence and know that even if you're the worst artist of the group, you're the best player in Telestrations.
Things can get interesting, dependingon the people you play with.
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I have created a configuration file and a nice clientimage for the Freecom MusicPal, a WiFi MP3 player that can be used as an alarm clock or just a normal radio to receive MP3 streams. It detects the PS3 Media Server as a media server automatically and can play shared MP3 files.
1. Close PS3 Media Server
2. Place the 'FreecomMusicPal.conf' file in the PS3 Media Server\renderers folder
3. Open the pms.jar file (for instance with WinRAR) and place the client image file 'musicpal.png' in the resources\clients\ folder
4. Start PS3 Media Server
Can someone with writing permissions include these files in the code repository as well?
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This Joint Is Jumping — Getting Comfortable in an Unstable Body
Are you addicted to crack? Cracking your joints, I mean! There were years during my 20s when I could not fathom getting through my early-morning yoga practice without popping my shoulders, low back, hips and neck. I was popping and cracking my way through the day like a one-woman band.
Usually these fast internal whacks felt great, a rush that temporarily relieved aches and pains. What I didn't know at the time was that all that cracking was not only emblematic of my body's instability, but it was accelerating my own tissue breakdown.


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STOCKTON - New Directions, an alcohol and drug awareness facility at 1981 Cherokee Road in Stockton, has been without phone service since Sunday because of a recent storm.
AT&T is working on the situation, which is widespread and scattered in nature. A service return time has not been determined.
Director Dale Benner is asking for patience in contacting New Directions until the problems are ironed out.
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1. Outreach: CompSAt I.T. Literacy Training for Public School Teachers: 00:30
In Manila and want to help out?
Check out Mark Punzalan's post:
CompSAt RnD has an I.T. outreach project entitled "I.T. Literacy Training for Public School Teachers" (what a mouthful!). This is a project with DISCS and ACED (Ateneo Center for Educational Development). Through this project, we aim to provide grade school and high school public school teachers with I.T. literacy training to help them teach their students about computers. You may not be aware of it, but a lot of public school teachers have little experience with computers, and the average Ateneo student probably knows a LOT more than they do.
We NEED volunteers for the training sessions. Training sessions will be held every Saturday from 8-12 in the morning at F-227, starting this Saturday, Dec. 10. DISCS will provide the curriculum for instruction (simple stuff like using Word, Excel, the Internet, etc.) and possibly refreshments.
We only need two volunteers every Saturday. We're sorely lacking in volunteers. If you want to help out, please contact me via email or mobile phone (see my contact details below). We will be having a meeting this Wednesday at 4:30 PM, venue TBA (probably at Faura). You can drop by even if you don't notify me, but it'd be better if you let me know beforehand. Feel free to ask your friends to help out. More volunteers are very much welcome! :-)
Thanks, and have a nice day!
Mark C. Punzalan Vice President for Research and Development The Computer Society in the Ateneo [email protected]
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Miguel Paraz wants to hear from you. Heck, _I_ want to hear from you. =)
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I am taking the December 3rd LSAT, and right now I am getting 161 on my practice tests. I have been taking 2-3 practices tests a week, reviewing the practice tests, practicing types of questions I get wrong, and working on timing. I would like to bring my score up to 168 at least. What else should I be doing? And how best should I use the days I have left? I'd appreciate any suggestions.
I took a three month prep course with Testmasters. The class ended in October, and I have been studying on my own since then. I am using their test materials.
I'm having the most problem with the logic game section. I can't seem to finish in time. I was told that logic games just take a lot of practice. but do you know of another method/ strategy?
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