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LOCKPORT – North Tonawanda Clerk-Treasurer Scott P. Kiedrowski and Lockport business owner Kevin J. McCabe were appointed Tuesday to fill vacant seats on the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency board of directors.
They succeed Henry M. Sloma, who resigned last week, and Joseph C Frain, who resigned last fall. The appointments were made in a vote by the County Legislature.
Kiedrowski is a veteran political figure, having served as county Republican election commissioner before winning city office.
McCabe, the longtime former chairman of the City of Lockport Zoning Board of Appeals, is owner of American Concrete of Western New York. Last week, he was named to an alternate seat on the Town of Lockport Zoning Board of Appeals.


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Call it clutch, or winning time, but when the game is on the line, theres something special that separates the great teams from the rest.
Dutch Fork was relentless in its offensive attack, pushing Wando as close to the edge as any team has in the Warriors playoff run this season. But in the final minutes of the game, in front of their home crowd with the season hanging in the balance, the Warriors wouldnt be denied.
Wando knocked off Dutch Fork, 70-64, in the third round of the Class 4A playoffs Tuesday to advance to the Lower State title game for just the third time in school history.
Theyre a great team, but we were just a little bit better in the end and that just what it was, Wando head coach David Eaton said. We showed a lot of toughness to get this win tonight.
Wando won its first two playoff games by 21 points. It didnt lead by more than four points in the second half Tuesday until the final seconds of the game. Dutch Fork rained in 12 threes, eight in the second half. It held a lead three times in the third quarter and was a point away from tying the game with two minutes to play in the fourth before Wando went on a 10-5 run to seal the win.
Just a day after being named to the S.C. Basketball Coaches Association All-state team, Warriors sophomore forward Jamez Rogers lived up to his billing with a game-high 27 points. He scored eight in the fourth quarter, including an emphatic two-hand dunk at the buzzer that nearly blew the roof off of Wandos Chop House.
Its so easy to give up when a team is hot like that on your home floor, but Im so proud of my guys for the way they played, Eaton said. Jamez comes out here and plays one of his best games of the year in the biggest game of the year. Its unbelievable.
Jordan Davis hit five threes to lead Dutch Fork with 19 points. Matthew Pegram scored 17 points and was a huge presence in the post for Wando. Andrew Glover and Amp Moore both added seven points for the Warriors.
Wando finishes the season a perfect 11-0 at home and now travels to Florence Saturday to try and accomplish what no other Wando basketball team has ever done, win a Lower State championship. Region VI champion Sumter (17-5) awaits after defeating Goose Creek, 45-37, Tuesday.
Well welcome anybody, Eaton said. Its fun playing people you dont know. This team has a different mental approach. Theyre so serious about winning. Hot or cold, theyre confident they always have a chance to win. This team is destined for great things and they deserve it.
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Workers at Sleep Tite Pajama Factory socialize at the company picnic. Shown (from left) are Olivia Stadler, Megan Gwirtz, Emma Studer and Wyatt Kisor.
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The cast also includes Kirsten McCarthy as Babe; Graham Lewis as Hasler; Brittany Hushour as Gladys; Joey Baxter as Hines; Haley McCarthy as Mabel; Amy Rietschlin as Mae; Erin Dye as Poopsie; Denver Wright as Pops; and Wyatt Kisor as Joe.
Additional chorus members are Yali Sandino, Chelsea Ramey, Abby Von Stein, Megan Gwirtz, Olivia Stadler, Joe Ross, Zach Hiler and Emma Studer.
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The Montrose Star, a biweekly newspaper serving the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, celebrated its third anniversary Wednesday night at F Bar, 202 Tuam. (It's also distributed in Galveston, Austin and San Antonio.) There were "delicious bites and fabulous door prizes." Publisher Laura Villagran is also the founder and CEO of Gay Yellow Pages, which produces annual directories for 43 major cities in both the U.S. and abroad.
The party was immediately followed by the premiere of "Drag Houston," a documentary chronicling Houston's drag scene. Filmmaker Rich Lux put it together over three months, and said his goal was "to show people that drag in Houston is alive. And to show that drag is truly an art form."
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Barbara started self-publishing her open-hearted autobiographical 'Barbaraal' comix in 1996. In November, 1998, Barbara was in virtually all Dutch media when her comic book anthology 'Barbaraal Tot Op Het Bot' was published in traditional book format by the literary editor Nijgh & Van Ditmar. Since then, the publisher has released more collections, such as 'Je Geld of je Leven' (2003), 'Nu we hier toch zijn' (2005) and 'Dan maak je maar zin' (2009).
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 11:26 PM
I want it as well. Time will tell though.
"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 11:27 PM
anyone els gunna miss kicking the s*** out of the Blue Jackets every season??
Posted 25 February 2013 - 12:15 AM
anyone els gunna miss kicking the s*** out of the Blue Jackets every season??
Uh, no.
Can't wait to read the "Phoenix: I still think it's a hockey market" chapter of Gary Bettman's autobiography. I'm guessing it's going to be chapter 11.
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Posted 25 February 2013 - 12:34 AM
Florida will be the Columbus replacement; Boston will be the Blues and Toronto will be the Hawks (rivalry-speaking)
I'm predicting that we'll see the other 7 division opponents 5 times each season (35 games), which leaves 47 games remaining for the 22 other teams, enough for a home and home with every other out-of-division opponent.
Or you could do 4 games against the other 7 division opponents (28 games), 3 games against the 8 teams of the other eastern division (24 games), 30 games against the remaining 14 teams, enough for a home and home with the West fellas.
The playoff format they came up with, before it got turned down, was the top 4 teams of each division will make the playoffs (1st and 2nd rounds are inter-division), then the 3rd round will be against the winner of the other Eastern division, and the Finals will be East vs West.
Also the wild card may be placed as well.
Edited by irishock, 25 February 2013 - 02:06 AM.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 01:02 AM
Seems like the Hawks fans aren't too happy about it
"No Detroit?
This is absolute bull ****. Figures once they start to suck they get off easy.
**** this."
"Detroit and Chicago are division rivals in every sport. Of course this genius proposal suggests to end the most played rivalry in the NHL. Dumb"
"Chicago v Detriot is one of the oldest rivalries in sports and they have played against each other more times then any teams in the NHL you don't mess with that for TV."
Posted 25 February 2013 - 01:11 AM
Posted 25 February 2013 - 03:50 AM
Getting away from their fans and Chelsea Dagger alone makes me love this realignment idea.
Not all, but unfortunately many Chicago sports fans can be complete a$$holes...If ya don't believe me - just show up in your Red Wings jersey at the United Center the next time the 2 rivals meet.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 09:58 AM
Not all, but unfortunately many Chicago sports fans can be complete a$$holes...If ya don't believe me - just show up in your Red Wings jersey at the United Center the next time the 2 rivals meet.
I do it every year....and its as pleasant as you say it is. My wife and I were walking to our seats a couple years ago before the game started and as we moved into our row, we were greeted with "f*** You, f*** You, f*** You."
Drives me nuts that I'll never be able to take my daughter there simply because I won't expose her to an environment like that.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:22 AM
I want realignment badly, but (a) I'm not getting too excited about any one plan, given what happened to the 2011 plan; and (b) I'm not sure I like a lot of the proposals that put us in with a bunch of "Eastern" teams.
The argument that the Red Wings shouldn't be in the "West" has merit, but if you look at a map of the franchises, so do the arguments that would keep us there. I'm also privy to another angle on this debate, living in Minnesota. Wild fans here are convinced that they have it the worst in the league right now (well, except for Winnipeg's temporary arrangement) because they are a Central timezone team that exclusively plays teams in Pacific/Mountain timezones. They also rack up a ton of travel heading out to Vancouver, and 3 of their 4 division opponents are Canadian, which probably causes more issues with customs, etc.
On the other hand, look at a map of the U.S., and Minnesota is basically dead in the middle of it. Detroit, meanwhile has a ton of in-conference games with a three-hour time difference, and a large amount of travel. Those games are as late as 10:30pm starts in the D, whereas the latest a Wild game can start is 9:30pm.
I liked the original realignment proposal because kept us in with Midwest teams like Chicago and Minnesota, and would prevent us from ending up on the West Coast for the first two rounds of the playoffs. Anybody over the age of 25 probably recalls all those playoff series against San Jose, Anaheim, and Los Angeles in the 90's/early 2000's, those late starts were pretty brutal (and they frequently went to overtime).
But as much tradition as Montreal, Toronto, and Boston have, I just don't feel a strong connection to playing those teams as a Wings fan. Granted, nobody really wants to have a "rivalry" with towns like Columbus or Nashville, but that argument would apply to any team equally. Long story short, I'm not so sure that I do want to trade CHI, MIN, and STL for BOS, TOR, and MTL
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:25 AM
anyone els gunna miss kicking the s*** out of the Blue Jackets every season??
You mean, like we are doing this season?
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Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:42 AM
If being put in a division/conference with Toronto, Montreal and Boston, I would be happy with it. Although I would definately miss Chicago and St. Louis. We've had some memorable games and playoff series over the years. Since we'll play 44 games against teams outside of our division, and if we play each team inside 5 times, maybe with the extra 3 games we could use those against "old" divison teams. I guess now we'll see if Columbus and Nashville can make on their own. And with the realignment, I may even get my season tickets again.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:58 AM
Long story short, I'm not so sure that I do want to trade CHI, MIN, and STL for BOS, TOR, and MTL
I can see your point. We've been rivals and division opponents for 30 years(Except of course the time Minnesota moved to Dallas). The Norris Division years were great, but being in my 50s, I can also remember being in a division with Montreal in the late 70s. I'm kind of torn myself, but for me, getting away from Columbus and Nashville is a good thing. The history of the Detroit franchise was used to get them started, now it's time for them to sink or swim on their own.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:15 AM
Updated my map from last year with the new proposed realignment, for people who (like me) like to see the proposal in Google Maps form...
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Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:21 AM
Looks fine on that map. Might somehow block the amount of injuries we get annually. There must be some secret medical club at the Wings that kicks ass, and that's why the players are injured all the time.
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Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:27 AM
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:40 AM
I'd much rather keep Chicago San Jose Vancouver and Colorado than lose them and gain Boston and Montreal. Thats really all I'd look forward to seeing in this promotion. Tampa Bay is ok I guess, buffalo is pretty meh, and Toronto doesn't do anything for me.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:57 AM
Meh. I like the idea, but we lose one boring opponent and gain two. I hate being force fed manufactured rivalries. That's all divisions do. But oh well.
They also keep travel in check. That's a big one for the owners and players.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 12:01 PM
I'm actually liking this a lot. Thanks Jedi for posting that map.
Posted 25 February 2013 - 01:13 PM
The saying used to go..."where is the best place to get tickets to a Wings game"? answer..."United Center".
I love now that the Hawks have a good team that everyone forgets their history...no broadcast TV...the Eric Daze and Alexei Zhamnov years...they were named Worst Franchise in Sports by ESPN in 2004, they straight up sucked from 1998 to recently when they got all those great lottery draft picks. Like Pittsburgh as well.
Red Wing history is not always spectacular either, but that was late 70's, early 80's. And now they say. Oh, now that they aren't that good, they run to the other conference? I guess they are tired of being a doormat for the last 20 years. We helped them get those Top 3 picks. You're welcome.
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Thanks for nabbing the IE guys for an interview, Charles!
By the way, here's some markup and CSS that doesn't work right in IE 8 RC1 in EmulateIE7 mode but works in IE 6, IE 7, IE 8 beta 2, and IE 8 RC1 in IE 8 strict mode.
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When people think about famous images of sunflowers, one artist tends to come to mind: Vincent van Gogh. His two series of still-life paintings devoted to sunflowers completed in the late 1800s have become synonymous with van Gogh's name and technique.
Although not quite as famous as van Gogh's paintings there are an increasing number of pieces of art devoted to sunflowers in Yolo County, Calif. Known for the bright yellow flowers, Yolo County, home to NAMI Yolo, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, chose the sunflower as a bold symbol of hope for people living with mental illness. (Those who have studied van Gogh's life and art believe that he lived with bipolar disorder.)
The Sunflower Art Competition, held by NAMI Yolo was co-founded by Melissa Lyans and Leslie Carroll. The annual competition has continued to grow in popularity since it was first held in 2003 and just celebrated its tenth anniversary. This year it showcased over 500 submissions. Contestants submit artwork that is chosen to appear on NAMI Yolo "Seeds of Hope" sunflower packets which NAMI Yolo sells to raise funds for mental illness awareness.
All ages are encouraged to participate, especially school-aged children. The local schools incorporate learning units about mental health issues to educate the children while also learning about art. A memorial award is given by NAMI Yolo each year to a local teacher who exemplified teaching about mental health. This year, the William Albrecht Mental Health Education Award was granted to Sue Darst, a second grade teacher at Patwin Elementary in Davis, Calif. Darst, who had several students diagnosed with mental illness in her class, educated her students on how to self-monitor their emotions and express themselves through art.
NAMI Yolo showcases all submissions at the Sunflower Art Reception where winners in each of the different categories are chosen as well as the winning design. Co-creator of the competition, Melissa Lyans explains how the art reception has grown over the years: "We used to only have a one day reception to showcase the art, now we have a three week viewing period at the Davis Art Center; it really is spectacular to see all the artwork together."
A prize of $100 goes to the artwork selected for the NAMI Yolo sunflower seed packet. This year's winner was Marjan Kluepfel. Kluefpul's design was a quilt square that incorporated the sunflower with a blue background.
The sunflower seeds are then used by residents of Yolo County as part of a competition to grow the tallest sunflower. Last year's winning sunflower was 18 feet tall.
With the increased participation the competition has received every year, NAMI Yolo hopes that as people, especially children, become educated about mental health, this education will reduce misconceptions and prejudices that result in the stigmatization of mental illness which leads to delays in much-needed treatment. Lyans comments, "Every year we get someone who is so glad they participated because they are concerned about loved ones and want to help raise awareness."
NAMI Yolo's mission to make the wider community aware of mental health resources and issues is succeeding with events like the Sunflower Art Competition. Their competition helps people of all ages get involved in NAMI's mission of building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI Yolo hopes that the next time someone sees a sunflower they think of a symbol of hope for people living with a mental illness.


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I am frightened. Everyday I see so much indifference, selfishness, and greed in this world and I see my beautiful bright little girl with her kind heart and sweet soul in the very middle of it. Sometimes I wonder, what have I done? Bringing her to this awful place. I am not sure how to help her to be good and kind yet strong and tough all at once. I am trying to show her all of the love and beauty that is here, to remember that there is still a little good to be had and to be made. I am not sure I have faith in our world anymore, but I will always try to have faith in her.


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The new Metropolitan is a strict monk, very straight person, dedicated his life to the ministry of the Lord. He had handed over his family properties to the Church and started Mt. Moria Ashram there. At Keekozhur, Metropolitan founded Mar Gregorian Study center to inspire the youngsters of the church to learn more on spirituality.


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CHARLES TOWN - Frederick Mayer is not a man of large stature, but the strength of his handshake and the height of his real-life tall tales show otherwise.
Rolling a piece of hard candy around in his mouth, Mayer allowed entry to the split-level home he built in the 1970s in order to share stories of his service during World War II. As he sat down on a modern-style couch beneath the picture window of his living room, Mayer said he would answer any questions that were asked.
And there are many questions to be asked of a Jewish spy who aided in the thwarting of German resupply into Italy and negotiated the peaceful surrender at Innsbruck.
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Frederick Mayer, of Charles Town, was a spy for the United States during World War II. He is set to be honored for his service at 1:30 p.m. today at the Charles Town Community Library, located at 200 E. Washington St. in Charles Town.
Born in Freiburg, Germany in 1921, Mayer is the second son in a family of six. While he spent much of his life growing up in the Black Forest, Mayer would go on to provide the United States military with extraordinarily valuable work in the effort to defeat Adolf Hitler during WWII.
Mayer said Germany was like any other place before the Nazis rose to power - pleasant, and people didn't make distinctions between citizens, as they did after 1933.
"We didn't know there was a difference between Jews and non-Jews," Mayer said. "We went to school, joined the athletic fields and participated in everything."
Things changed for Mayer and his family once Hitler rose to power, Mayer said. On the cusp of youth, Mayer and his siblings were no longer permitted to use public swimming pools. Mayer in particular faced discrimination when traveling with the ski club-he and other Jewish members were no longer allowed to stay at resorts to which they traveled.
"Everything was restricted to us," Mayer said.
Once it became clear that things in Germany were not going to improve, the Mayer family prepared to immigrate to the United States, a decision in which Mayer's mother was "most influential." Mayer's father, an officer in the German Army during World War I, thought his military experience might keep them out of harm's way.
"She told my dad, '...I wouldn't trust them to accept anyone,'" Mayer said. "She was right."
As the family sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City, Mayer said they received news Hitler had invaded Austria. The year was 1938.
It would be four more years before Mayer embarked on the adventure that would bring him mild acclaim as a spy during the second world war.
Mayer attempted to enlist in the military the day after Pearl Harbor, but was rejected because he was an enemy alien - the citizen of a country with which the U.S. was at war. While Mayer was frustrated by this, he said he understood why the U.S. saw the policy as "a necessity."
"After all, there were others who had immigrated and were not Jews," Mayer said.
A year later, Mayer was enlisted in the 81st Infantry Division, but spent most of his time thereafter looking for something else to do. Mayer went on to become an Army Ranger and then a part of the Office of Strategic Services - a U.S. intelligence agency during WWII.
It was during his time in OSS that Mayer would commit the acts that made him a legend.
Mayer spent much of his time trying to challenge himself within the confines of his infantry division. While serving in Italy, he and four other soldiers approached a superior officer about doing something other than "just sitting around and reading."
The next day, Mayer, along with Hans Wynberg and Franz Weber, were transferred in order to begin Operation Greenup. The men's mission was to find out how weapons were getting into Italy, since aerial photographs showed bridges had been blown up, Mayer said.
"I found out that the Germans had built movable bridges, which during the day they had put into tunnels and took only out at night when trains were supposed to pass," Mayer said.
More than 25 trains carrying a complete resupply would be destroyed by the United States Air Force, thanks to Mayer's intelligence gathering. He also forwarded information regarding Hitler's location, as well as Italian leader Benito Mussolini's whereabouts.
While Mayer's work seems the stuff of storybooks, he speaks of his service casually, as if he was simply doing what was required of him. Mayer was even captured by the Gestapo while posing as a French technician. He also negotiated the peaceful surrender of Innsbruck, the Austrian village in which he, Wynberg and Weber operated.
Nazis tortured him relentlessly, but Mayer never spoke of his colleagues, Weber and Wynberg. Mayer didn't worry about dying during this time, he said.
"I always figured you can only die once," Mayer said. "I wasn't worried about it."
Mayer's desire to enter the war was a combination of patriotism and dislike for the German government, he said. He added it was not the people as a whole who were the problem, pointing out that people cooperated due to fear of the Gestapo. While he was captured, Mayer said his comrades told him a church service to which the entire village came had been arranged to pray for his safe return.
"How can you hate everybody?" Mayer asked. "You can't. There are some good people."
Even when Mayer was given the opportunity to confront the German officer who had so severely beaten him, he said he couldn't bring himself to deliver the same treatment.
"He said, 'Do anything you want with me, but please don't hurt my family.' I looked at him and said, 'What the hell do you think we are? Nazis?'" Mayer recounted.
"I walked out," Mayer said. "It disgusted me to see that our people would beat him up the way he was beaten up."
While Mayer lived and made history, he remains a modest man who doesn't normally accept interview requests. When he returned from his three months in Europe, Mayer said it was "back to normal as if nothing happened."
"The war was over," he said.
Now 92 years old, Mayer has called Jefferson County his home since his retirement in 1977. After the war, Mayer returned to a job he left at General Motors and later traveled the world as a power plant supervisor for Voice of America, which was part of the U.S. Intelligence Agency.
Mayer, who goes by the name Fred, answered the telephone twice during the interview - the first time to speak with his daughter; the second, to speak with his girlfriend of 15 years, Virginia. The two met while volunteering with Meals on Wheels, which Mayer does every Monday.
Mayer is set to be honored for his service at 1:30 p.m. today at the Charles Town Community Library, located at 200 E. Washington St. in Charles Town.
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, www.twitter.com/rmolendaJN.


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quote: The reason the PS3 is so good at folding is because the Cell is a number-crunching beast. It's much more well suited to folding than gaming (at least until game programmers get the hang of coding for it).
quote: The 360 could compete if a F@H client was developed to run on the GPU, but if comparisons to desktop GPUs are any indicator, it still wouldn't be quite as fast as the PS3.


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New Distinguished Junior Member Applications Now Available from Holstein Association USA
Holstein Association USA's 2013 Distinguished Junior Member (DJM) and Young Distinguished Junior Member (YDJM) applications are now available at www.holsteinusa.com/juniors. These awards recognize the most accomplished members of the National Junior Holstein Association, the highest honor given by the Association to youth. Entry materials must be postmarked by March 1, 2013, to be eligible.
Following recommendations from the Junior Advisory Committee, which were approved by the board of directors, applications for both the DJM and YDJM contests have been significantly revamped. Those familiar with the contest in previous years should make note of the changes before working on 2013 applications. Many sections were combined or shortened, reducing the total length of the required entry portfolio. A mission statement was also established for the award, by the Junior Advisory Committee:
"Holstein Association USA's Distinguished Junior Member (DJM) recognition is designed to reward youth who demonstrate a firsthand working knowledge of the dairy industry, participate in Registered Holstein®, dairy and other activities, be role models for other youth and good spokespeople for the dairy industry."
To help explain the changes and answer any questions youth or youth leaders may have about the application, Holstein Association USA will be hosting an informational webinar on Friday, August 17, at 1 p.m. Eastern. To register for the webinar, visit http://bit.ly/DJMWebinar.
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The great Larry Hagman is gone, and it's hard to imagine anyone filling the boots of J.R. Ewing.
But surely some titan of this city, some symbol of its power and influence is needed now for Dallas – the show that is – to move on.
Producers and writers on the TNT program must have sensed it too. So they reached out to none other than Mayor Mike Rawlings.
This morning, before he convened the City Council meeting, the mayor slipped out to film an episode of Dallas.
When confronted on the subject, he was tight-lipped about the nature of his role.
"J.R.'s died. I don't know if you knew that," was about all he'd say.
He did let on that it's a speaking role, although he isn't sure when it will air.
Here's my guess. We know that the mayor was asked to speak at Hagman's funeral service. It wouldn't surprise me if he were also asked to speak at J.R.'s.
But why should that be the end? If you ask me, Rawlings looks a lot like the long-lost Ewing cousin that we somehow never met in the 80s. Mike Ewing was busy running an ad agency downtown while the rest of the family squabbled at Southfork.
Now, with J.R. gone, Mike has been called back to Ewing Oil. First order of business – some leases on city land.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - The day known as Thanksgiving is largely attributed to a gift from Native American Indians, dating back to the Pilgrims. A day when two cultures united to share a feast harvested from the bounty of the land.
I know. You are so over it. Cheer up! Do not open your fridge and groan at the sight of the turkey carcass half-carved because your husband was too plowed to finish the job. Help is at hand and it is the Indians to the rescue once again, giving us an answer to what to do with the leftover bird.
This time, the Indians raise our palettes to another level with a sweet and savory turkey curry. Fairly easy to prepare, the aroma while simmering is guaranteed to stimulate the appetite you swore you would never have again after Thursday's blow out.
Turkey Curry
2 apples; cored, pared and sliced
1 green pepper, chopped
2 onions, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tbls. olive oil
2 tbls. flour
1 tbls. curry powder
1 /2 tsp. salt
1 / 2 tsp. marjoram
1 / 2 thyme
1 cup chicken broth
1 /2 cup white wine
1 lemon, juice and grated rind
1 / 2 cup seedless raisins
2 whole cloves
2 cups diced, cold, cooked turkey
Saute apples and onions in olive oil and garlic in large skillet until onions are limp. Sprinkle flour, curry powder and all seasonings over onion/apple/pepper mixture in skillet, mixing well and stirring constantly over medium heat for five minutes. Next add chicken broth, wine, lemon juice and rind, raisins and cloves.
Let all this simmer for 20-30 minutes over low heat. Now add the turkey and coconut and heat for 15 minutes. Just before serving add sour cream, mixing it well into the curry. Serve with steamed rice and Major Grey's Mango Chutney (my fav', the best, and I have tried dozens) available at Safeway and Save Mart.


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Nov 1, 2012
Brazil's bold infrastructure push has been heralded as a game changer. Investors, however, may balk at low yields and risks that remain hard to evaluate
But the market may prove less attractive to foreign
investors than the hype would suggest.
Law 12,431, which finally passed in an amended version as
law 12,715 on September 17, was greeted with enthusiasm. It
provides tax breaks to investors when they invest in debentures
with tenors over four years.
The amendments are well written and addressed the doubts of
investors over liabilities for non-compliance with government
conditions on tax exemptions, for example, says Marcelo
Leitão, head of debt capital markets at the São
Paulo office of Portuguese bank Banco Caixa Geral.
"This is an important event. A series of issuers has been
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Windows Phone 8 critical errors look just like the ones on a desktop PC
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Believe it or not, the images you are about to see haven't been Photoshopped. These are real error messages displayed on Windows Phone 8 devices – an HTC Windows Phone 8X and a Nokia Lumia 920, in this case. Interestingly, they are identical to the error screens that pop-up in desktop versions of the Windows operating system whenever something goes seriously wrong...
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7. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Ah..., good to see that the Blue Screen of Death is alive and well. I wonder if MS has a design patent for that?
9. TheLibertine (Posts: 484; Member since: 15 Jan 2012)
Actually, that is lame. The screen the Windows users sees most is unchanged for years! Where is the point upgrading?
39. Sangeet (Posts: 232; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
what are you talking about?? Upgrading an error screen?? LAME.
10. MeoCao (unregistered)
lol on PC MS couldn't care less how things look
2. yowanvista (Posts: 340; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
Never had a kernel panic on Android.. Oh well..
8. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
But Android doesn't have the Blue Screen of Death.... For that matter, neither does iOS. Only MS.
13. yowanvista (Posts: 340; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
The Linux kernel used in Android actually has something similar
28. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Now that I think about it....I have never seen it on any Android phone I had. I have rooted almost every phone I had, some I installed ROMs on. I see force closes....but not this.
35. jdep1 (banned) (Posts: 26; Member since: 06 Nov 2012)
Don't forget windows phones are not that easy to hack. On Android almost all devices have been hacked, rooted, ROMs have been made, clockmod & so on.. The guys getting errors like that on there wp8 devices are not afraid of bricking even thought they know there might not be a fix if they brick.
41. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
I also just thought of this...
Ppl talk about Android phones and rebooting. Maybe instead of a kernel panic message...the phone just reboots. Similar to iOS not showing force close messages....it just freezes and eventually gets back to the home screen.
I have had Android phones in the past reboot after a specific situation. My RAZR Maxx HD rarely reboots. My Droid X1 did it on a weekly basis...lol.
52. miles16852 (Posts: 241; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
'Don't forget windows phones are not that easy to hack.'
LOL!!! whatever!! ANYTHING IS EASY if you know how.... and there is always someone who knows! so your stupid saying is totally irrelevant, NULL AND VOID!!
3. wendygarett (unregistered)
Hehehehehehe, jailbreak fail!!! :D
32. -SEUL8TR- (Posts: 113; Member since: 13 Jan 2013)
Also this phone and OS won't be selling well.
51. miles16852 (Posts: 241; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
your so right, windows mobile never really did that well anyway, and wont do well now either,, windows mobile does not belong on a cell phone, and soon will die once again! truth hurts! dont need GATES JUNK on a cell phone
4. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Sure. I'll just find my Windows installation disk, put it in a blender, blend it, then spill whatever comes out into the micro-USB port. There, problem fixed.
5. easymomo (Posts: 91; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
Now let's wait for the first Virus and Worms targeting Windows phones. Microsoft is an expert with security flaws. I wonder how the phones will handle the viruses, worms and malwares affecting the desktop version.
11. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
That is an interesting question. Ordinarily, I would argue MS has protection by virtue of its low market opportunity (hackers like inviting targets with huge installed base). But this exposure tends to invalidate the low market opportunity argument. Sounds like MS has some problems to contend with.
6. B3BLW29 (Posts: 238; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
Bwahahahahaha insert disk ok but where??? ROFL
Too much copy pasting of code :D
12. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
SD card slot? But those with no removable storage would seem to be a bit screwed, though.
All may not be lost for RIM and BB10.
15. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
if rim lands a good product they will secure their 3rd spot
18. MeoCao (unregistered)
He refers to another bug where WP users are prompted to "insert disk and restart the COMPUTER" ROFL
14. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 987; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Oh dear, Microsoft. :)
16. Mallouette (Posts: 10; Member since: 23 Dec 2012)
So that's why Windows 8 shares its kernel to Windows Phone 8 so developers of this platform can easily port applications. They had the same process whenever an error occurs.
17. B3BLW29 (Posts: 238; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
It seems MS has taken "similar UI and Similar features across all devices" concept too seriously :P
19. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Do they throw their once famous BIGBOOBS error also -- 0X81680085 error code?
25. GALAXY-STORM (Posts: 328; Member since: 13 Oct 2012)
You meant 0xB16B00B5
29. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Yes typically M$ error codes are mosrtly crpto-numeric code so i put it so on purpose but the correct one is your version :)
20. Shino (banned) (Posts: 196; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
Well, believe it or not, at Handroid the crytical errors look just the same as these in WP, but without any text - only the black screen! OH, THE IRONY! :)
21. wendygarett (unregistered)
It's not error, it's called bricked :p
44. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Might be half right. I'm assuming Android was coded to just reboot the phone....and not show an error message.
Fanboyism is a disease.....
22. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
Fake! Look the capacitive buttons on the Lumia 920 they are not even light up. And the user tried to jailbreak the phone or something, and if it is true, only proofs that the phone has the same core of the desktop version
23. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
looks purely photo taking of desktop display the drive path doesnt even look Legit
24. kainy (Posts: 165; Member since: 10 Aug 2011)
Well, fortunately we cannot see such an error JUST like that... :)
36. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Yeah. You see black screens and shut offs.
26. bluescreen (Posts: 154; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
uh hello to the writer of this article but believe it or not microsoft did develop the windows phone 8 software hence the name so why wouldnt it look like the error messages u see on a pc? good lord....*face palm*
27. nlbates66 (Posts: 328; Member since: 15 Aug 2012)
the black screen ones are right, however I believe that they don't show the blue screen error that the writer has put in the article thumbnail.
30. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
Wow some people here don't get it. Just like majority of Android users don't know what Open and rooting mean, majority of Windows users will never see these screens. It built on the NT kernal. Why would this surprise anyone that the error messages are the same or similar? I'm sure if Androids base code started on a computer with a cd rom we'd see something similar. Remember the early versions of Android had stolen code in it that didn't get removed. Stop jumping to conclusions.
34. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Youre saying to stop jumping to conclusions yet.
45. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
If you think I'm jumping to conclusions you clearly don't understande my comment. I'm assuming you are thinking that I mean the average user will see Android base code. They wont and I thought I made that perfectly clear in my comment.
43. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
1. The majority of Windows users on desktops might see that screen ....driver and hardware issues can cause that message.
2. You were doing fine until you got to Android and stolen code. Whatever code you were refering to would have never been seen by a regular user, even most root and ROM users would never have seen it. I think only actual coders woulda seen it.
And was it actually established that it was stolen? I cant remember...if thats the case...how in the world did they win the Oracle case?
That still doesnt excuse a desktop error message showing up on a mobile phone. The general public might go to their phone carrier asking for the WP install disc for their phone....
46. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
1. Desktop? I thought we were talking about phones.
2. I wasn't using the stolen code example as an example of what normal users would see. I was using more of an example of things that exist in the OS that would never be seen by Joe the Plumber.
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Once again.....THEY WILL NEVER SEE THIS ERROR!
48. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
You said Windows users....not desktop or mobile. You didnt even say Windows Phone...
Are you saying a kernel panic can only happen on WP or any mobile phone by tinkering with the OS? I dont really know....I know on desktops it can happen due to hardware or driver issues. Could an sd card error cause this? What about a charging cord issue?
50. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
Ima let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time. All Time!
31. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
You android/apple clowns can spread all the fud in the world, it still won't stop the wave of ordinary phone users that are about to dump android/IOS in favour of Windows Phone and Blackberry 10.
33. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Jelous much? Its weird how youre "predicting" the future. Android and Windows are too different. Many people wont switch because Android is open. There are many people that like Android and it runs good.
The problems people have had is on the phones themselves, like the Droid Bionic for example. My Razr was stable as hell. My friends Bionic always had issues.
37. -SEUL8TR- (Posts: 113; Member since: 13 Jan 2013)
Keep dreaming this will never happen, if it has been 8 years for WP they still are not preferred buy publics.
42. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
You mean like how the orig iPhone was a joke...that nobody would switch to that from the old Win Mo, Palm and BB? You mean like how Android was garbage...and nobody would switch to that from the old Win Mo, Palm and BB?
If ppl were gonna dump Android or the iPhone in droves...it woulda already happened by now. WP has been out since what 2010? Its 2013...The only way for ppl to dump the iPhone and Android in droves is if they both started sucking royally....and that doesnt look like its gonna happen anytine soon.
Why do some ppl feel one product must fail for another so succeed? Do you think Android or iOS is failing? They are both succeeding. Good luck to WP and BB tho..
53. miles16852 (Posts: 241; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
you mean the TINY wave of clowns of ordinary phone users that make the mistake of going to wp8! LOL! BB has has moutains of success compared to window mobile period,, windows phone will be dead sooner then you think, just like it did years ago, its like beating a DEAD HORSE!
38. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
this is what you get when you mess with the hardware or firmware of your windows phone device AKA hacking. the normal user will not see this. therefore nothing to see here in this article. move along.
47. garz_pa (Posts: 154; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
LOL. installations disc.
49. jsdechavez (Posts: 731; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
I'm not surprised. It's Windows 8 lite.


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Belinda Stoll crossed the finish line and accepted her medal from a race volunteer. Stoll pulled a silver Mylar blanket around her shoulders and turned away from the wind. Then she looked back down Franklin Street and the memory came rushing back.
"It just overcame me," Stoll said after running the half-marathon Sunday morning in the streets of Buffalo. "I was standing there by myself, crying. My husband came up and thought I was hurt."
Stoll realized she had been in that exact position on April 15, seconds after finishing the Boston Marathon in 3:54. Happy and exhausted, wrapped in a Mylar blanket, she was looking down Boylston Street when the unthinkable happened.
"I could almost picture it," Stoll said. "Boom … then boom."
Six weeks after Boston, the memory was still there. For some, it was more visceral than others. But everyone who came to the Buffalo Marathon carried it with them, and felt the running community's resolve to carry on despite it.
Road races will never be quite the same after Boston, when terrorist bombs killed three bystanders and injured 264 others. But one thing never changes. When runners gather to experience running's fundamental joy, it is always a communal celebration.
The running community dedicated the Buffalo race to the Boston victims. Many wore temporary tattoos with the words "Boston Strong." The ones who had competed in Boston shared stories along the 26.2 miles.
Family members and citizens lined the route, exhorting the runners. Some held flowers to present to loved ones after the race. Parents carried children in their arms or pushed babies in strollers.
Security was as tight as it can be at a massive outdoor urban event. The police were ubiquitous, standing guard on horses and in helicopters and on foot, doing everything in their power to ensure the horrific events of April 15 would not be repeated.
The bombers killed three innocent people that day, including an 8-year-old boy. But they could never squash the spirit of marathon runners, who share a common obsession and laugh in the face of physical danger every time they compete.
"It's supposed to be a beautiful occasion," said Tom Kraus of Buffalo, a physical therapist and triathlete who ran a 3:12. "The marathon day, the race, is a celebration of good training."
Reaching the finish must be an exhilarating thing. So you can imagine what it was like to have that postrace joy shattered by bombs. Chuck Farrow, of Lowell, Mass., was reaching for his medal in Boston after finishing in just over 4 hours, when the first bomb went off.
"It was a shame trying to explain it to the kids," said Farrow, 52, who has young daughters. "They don't understand. They didn't want me to run marathons anymore. They think there's some correlation between the bombs and actually running."
Farrow was undeterred. He came to Buffalo, accompanied by family and friends, to run his first marathon after Boston. He finished in 3:33, a personal record by five minutes. His girls were here to share the moment.
There were fears, of course, in Boston's immediate aftermath. People wondered if marathons were a target. There was a sense of vulnerability. Joy Jackson and Dawn Meyer, friends from Hamburg, were getting ready to train for the half-marathon when they heard the news on April 15.
"I don't think you realized the impact at first, until you went home and watched TV and read the articles," said Meyer, an elementary teacher in the Frontier district. "Then you realized what really happened, the magnitude of it. I think my kids were more upset than I was."
"There's no fear now," said Jackson, a registered dietician. "You do think about people who suffered a tragedy. But I honestly didn't think about it during the race."
"It makes it feel special for me," Meyer said. "You feel like you're running for everybody. A lot of runners run for themselves. It feels like you're running for the running community."
Most felt a higher sense of purpose Sunday. Jodie Rich was afraid to come at first. But how could she stay away? Her sister, Mary Lou Owczarczak, was running her first half-marathon, one year after being diagnosed with breast cancer. So "Louie" was representing two communities.
"I'm running for the survivors and all the Boston people," Owczarczak said. "Knowing the feeling at the end of the line, I can't imagine what they went through, having to stop and all that craziness. My legs are on fire right now. My first time ever, 13.1 miles! It felt stunning, stunning."
"Ohhh!" she said, looking toward the barrier surrounding the finish area. "My boys brought flowers!"
Michelle Jeitler, of Marietta, Ohio, said her husband failed to qualify for Boston. When she saw reports of the bombing, she broke down crying, imagining what might have been. She went on Facebook to recruit people to "run/walk" the half-marathon in Buffalo to honor the victims in Boston.
"I wanted to give back to them and say, 'You're important to us,' " said Jeitler, who competed in a red "Boston Strong" shirt. She did the half-marathon with Sue Adrian of Williamsville and Melissa Brown of Skaneateles. Her husband ran the full marathon.
Running is an essentially solitary endeavor, but also a family affair. Mike Neff Jr., a Buffalo native who works in investment management in Portland, Maine, finished in 3:17, a personal best. He and his dad, Mike Sr., who finished over an hour later, were both running a sixth marathon.
Neff said a race is a "sacred place" where families can reunite. He grieved for the running community while training for Buffalo.
"I mean, the little boy who died," Neff said, his voice breaking. "His name was Martin Richard. I thought a lot about him during my training. It gave me a big push. He went to see his father run that day."
Dan Finkel said he thought about the Boston victims during the hard moments Sunday. Finkel, a Grand Island native who lives in Boston, finished in 3:47. He never reached the line on April 15. He was about 400 yards from the finish when the bombs went off.
Finkel remembers passing a police officer when the first bomb went off. The cop wore a look that said something terrible had occurred. Then the second bomb hit. Within seconds, people were running past him, shaken and crying. Then the police ordered the runners to get out of there.
"I do get to go back," said Finkel, 37, a researcher at MIT. "They invited everybody back who didn't finish. One of the real cool things today was, I had quite a few conversations with people about Boston. It was ever-present throughout the day."
He'll be back in Buffalo next year, too. Finkel said he'll spread the word about his hometown marathon. He called it a "perfect day," a well-run race that made him feel an even closer bond with runners.
"I'm a slow guy in the back," he said. "Everybody's cheering for you and it's great. It's terrible what happened in Boston, but it's kind of inspired and cool how the community has reacted to it."
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World-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies are visited by up to six million visitors per year. In addition to the vast permanent collection, the museum's special exhibitions, displays and events are all designed to advance understanding of the collection and cultures they represent.
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Submerged under the sea for over a thousand years, two lost cities of ancient Egypt were recently rediscovered. Their story is told for the first time in this blockbuster exhibition.
Vanished beneath the waters of the Mediterranean, the lost cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus lay at the mouth of the Nile. Named after the Greek hero Heracles, Thonis-Heracleion was one of Egypt's most important commercial centres for trade with the Mediterranean world and, with Canopus, was a major centre for the worship of the Egyptian gods. Their amazing discovery is transforming our understanding of the deep connections between the great ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece.
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This small display celebrates the traditions associated with love, courtship and marriage in Iran and neighbouring regions.
'A heart without love is a body without a soul. A soul lives forever because of love.' So wrote the Persian poet, scholar and mystic, Jami (1414–1492), on love – of all subjects, perhaps the most universal to humankind. In Persianate culture, the theme of love has permeated literature, art and music for thousands of years.
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The display will focus on several key financial concepts through history, including taxation, globalisation, inflation, assets, banking and debt. Financial terminology has always featured in idioms and everyday sayings, giving the impression that these concepts are somehow modern inventions. The display instead reveals that many micro and macroeconomic concepts and functions are actually rooted in history – from debt in Roman Egypt to inflation in revolutionary France.
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Mammalian cell-based production systems are gaining increasing importance in the manufacture of biotherapeutics. The major advantage of mammalian cell expression platforms over bacteria and yeast is their ability to produce complex proteins and, when using human cell lines in particular, to add the correct post-translational modifications to these proteins.
Examples for such cell lines are the well-known Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, human embryonal kidney (HEK) cells, and Cevec's more recently developed human amniocyte cell line CAP.
However, generating a mammalian production cell clone can be a time-consuming and laborious process, as high producers are usually rare among the population of stably expressing cells. Various sophisticated screening devices have been developed to overcome the labor-intensive clone-selection process.
Here we describe protocols for CAP cells allowing generation and identification of high-expressing single-cell clones without additional laboratory equipment within a short timeframe, using serum-free chemically defined culture conditions.
Moreover, the presented procedures enable the screening of hundreds to thousands of clones with significantly reduced labor investment, identifying high producers without the need for additional gene-amplification steps.
To identify the high producers as efficiently as possible, we compared different approaches. To this end, CAP cells were transfected with an expression plasmid for recombinant human alpha-1 antitrypsin (rhAAT) and then either bulk selected to generate a maxi-pool or 50, 100, 200, or 500 cells were seeded on a 96-well plate and subsequently subjected to antibiotic selection. The resulting mini-pools and maxi-pool were analyzed for rhAAT expression.
When 50 to 100 cells are plated per well, mini-pools with expression levels significantly above the average level are readily identified (Figure 1). Since the corresponding mini-pools consist of 2–5 clones and mini-pools form in up to 80% of the wells, this method enables the screening of up to 400 clones from a single 96-well plate.
As expected, with higher cell numbers (Figure 1C and D), all mini-pools express around the same lower expression level that is found with the maxi-pool (not shown). Moreover, slowly growing high producers in maxi-pools can easily be overgrown by low producers and thus be lost. This is prevented by the mini-pool approach.
Experiments demonstrating that the mini-pool technique actually identifies clones that are not easily found in the maxi-pools are ongoing. For CAP cells, we have determined 100 cells per well as the optimal mini-pool seeding density. As these mini-pools consist of a limited number of clonal populations, only a limited single-cell cloning program is subsequently required to generate single-cell derived production clones from the high-expressing mini-pools.
To generate single cell-derived clones, an efficient and quick procedure that can be carried out in suspension without the requirement for feeder cells or serum presents a major benefit. Although some media and supplements for serum-free single-cell cloning of CHO cells have been developed, cloning in serum containing growth medium followed by subsequent adaptation of the clone to serum-free growth, which takes typically several months, is still common practice.
With CAP cells we were able to generate a robust, serum-free, and fast protocol by using a changing media composition allowing the cells to grow in aggregates first and then shifting them to single-cell proliferation conditions (Figure 2).
The outlined strategies for the generation of highly-producing CAP cell clones have been successfully applied to a number of difficult to express glycoproteins, among them hAAT, recombinant human C1 esterase inhibitor (hC1-Inh), and, in a collaboration with Nanomi and InnoCore Technologies, recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (hHGF).
HGF is secreted as a single-chain inactive pro-HGF (82kD) with one O-glycosylation and four N-glycosylation sites and is proteolytically activated by factors present in human serum. HGF is a potent multifunctional growth factor influencing morphogenesis, organ regeneration, and cell migration. Due to its mitogenic and angiogenic properties, HGF is of great value as a therapeutic protein.
Within the public-funded EU project CARE-MI, the aim of Nanomi, InnoCore, and Coretherapix is to formulate monodisperse biodegradable microspheres as a depot for hHGF in combination with insulin-growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Microspheres are then used for the targeted delivery of these growth factors to the site of impaired perfusion caused by acute myocardial infarct in order to activate endogenous pluripotent human cardiac stem cells, inducing tissue regeneration.
This strategy could be a powerful therapeutic option for repairing damaged heart muscle, preventing chronic heart failure. To realize this project, a safe and efficient production platform for hHGF is required.
HGF has been expressed from a number of expression systems, including insect cells, HEK, and CHO cells, with rather low yields of approximately 1 mg/L up to 13 mg/L (achieved after gene-amplification) (Figure 3D).
With our stable transfection and cloning protocols, we could easily identify HGF expressing CAP single cell clones that clearly outperform the so far published mammalian expression systems (Figure 3D). Twenty-two out of 30 analyzed HGF-expressing CAP cell clones yielded more than 10 mg/L of HGF (Figure 3A).
In fedbatch processes, after 9–11 days, product titers above 60 mg/L of fully intact, glycosylated pro-HGF were reproducibly obtained (Figure 3B).
Moreover, the serum-free chemically defined culture conditions ensure that only the unprocessed single chain pro-HGF is present in the cell culture supernatants (Figure 3C). In other words, a uniform product, which is easy to purify and to activate by endogenous factors present in fetal bovine serum or human serum, is generated.
We have developed a rapid and reliable protocol for the generation of single cell clones from the human CAP cell line by limiting dilution. Since an amplification step during pool generation is unnecessary to obtain high producer single-cell-clones the timeline of 18 weeks from transfection to clone identification is particularly fast.
Utilizing the presented mini-pool screening strategy ahead of the single cell cloning process, the number of clones to be screened can be increased 100-fold without additional laboratory equipment, allowing an easy identification of the rare top producer clones.
Jens Wölfel, Ph.D., is group leader of scientific support, Silke Wissing, Ph.D., is director of cell-line development, Sabine Hertel and Susanne Kraus are research assistants, Gudrun Schiedner, Ph.D., is CSO, and Nicole Faust, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is SVP of development & services at Cevec Pharmaceuticals.
Jens Wölfel, Ph.D., is group leader of scientific support, Silke Wissing, Ph.D., is director of cell-line development, Sabine Hertel and Susanne Kraus are research assistants, Gudrun Schiedner, Ph.D., is CSO, and Nicole Faust, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is SVP of development & services at Cevec Pharmaceuticals.
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