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Milk price-fixing hides loss of purchasing power
Milk prices will not rise if the Farm Bill is not renewed. We would then pay the actual price for milk, not by artificial price-fixing. Who benefits from the fix? The farmers may get their profit via government subsidy. The purchaser "benefits" because the product is affordable, but this is through deception. The government benefits. When people have to hand over more dollars for a main staple such as milk, they want answers. Government doesn't like dissent. So this staple "stays affordable" to docile people and gives the illusion that we are fine.
This milk price-fixing is to conceal the loss of the people's purchasing power to buy goods and services. This loss is due to increasing the money supply (inflation) in our monetary system, thereby devaluing each dollar already in existence. Rising prices are a perceived symptom of inflation. This is perceived because prices actually do not rise; it is the value of the dollar going down. This is the main reason why we need to hand over more dollars to complete the same transaction as before. The fixing is the hiding of this devaluation that deceivingly steals the people's wealth and especially hurts the lower middle class, the poor and those on a fixed income. The core problem is that we do not have sound money.
People are going to say that the Farm Bill must be renewed because they cannot afford to pay $6 a gallon for milk. Blame the Federal Reserve and our elected officials who back this hybrid organization for why we cannot afford things. These people tip that first domino with the chain reaction resulting in our wealth being pilfered from us. The more money created into existence out of thin air (stimulus, fractional reserve lending, etc.), the more we will not be able to afford goods and services in the future.
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The Beach Boys release "Good Vibrations," a rebuilt London Bridge opens in the Arizona desert, a vice president resigns, and the entertainment world loses Yul Brynner, Orson Welles and Christopher Reeve, all on this day.
1977: Quarterback Joe Namath plays the last game of his National Football League career. The future Hall of Famer took a beating for the Los Angeles Rams on a cold, windy and rainy Monday night game as the Rams fell 24-23 to the Chicago Bears on the road and was through for the regular season. He retired following the season.


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Pink Trades Grammys for Mommy Time with Daughter Willow
Even though she was nominated for best pop vocal album, Pink was absent from the awards show on Sunday.
Instead, the 33-year-old singer spent the evening on Twitter, sharing her musings about the broadcast – and her busy day.
"I'm sorry honey @hartluck but every time Johnny Depp speaks with that low voice, I can't find my clothes. Oops there they are. #brrrrr," she Tweeted to her husband Carey Hart when the actor introduced Mumford & Sons.
Then, after Kelly Clarkson charmed the audience with an adorable acceptance speech for best pop vocal album, Pink offered her congratulations.
"Congrats to Kelly Clarkson for the award and that lovable speech. You made me laugh. Can't wait to hear that song with Miguel," she wrote.
While much of the music world spent the day getting primped for the Grammys, Pink shared she had spent it with her daughter, Willow.
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Huge progress has been made in many critical areas involving children's health. Yet there is still important work to be done, and most of it doesn't involve expensive new drugs or surgical procedures. Instead, it's about the basics that most of us take for granted. We have identified 5 issues that desperately need the world's attention for the sake of children and their families, and suggest some ways that you and your family can help.
In most parts of the world, we take clean running water for granted. So it's shocking to learn that:
UNICEF reports that more than 5,000 children under age 5 die each day because of diarrheal diseases, often contracted through contaminated drinking water or no access to sanitation facilities, like bathrooms with flushable toilets.
Again, the impact of this is felt keenly by children. In addition to water-related mortality, malnutrition attributed to dirty water and poor sanitation and hygiene kills another 2,350 children younger than 5 each day.
In developing countries, the task of collecting water for the household usually falls to women and children (especially girls). Often, this means hours-long walks from the home to collect the water, and may happen several times a day. This burden means the adults are not working at a paying job and the kids are not in school. And, the water collected — often from streams and ponds rather than wells — is likely dirty.
This cycle of disease, joblessness, and missed school makes the water crisis a major part of global poverty. Yet it could be one of the easiest factors to fix. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that it would cost $11.3 billion per year for global clean water and sanitation — in comparison, Americans spend about $450 billion each year to celebrate Christmas. Costs to build a new well start at less than $3,000. A well not only provides clean, safe water nearby, which allows women to work and girls to attend school, it also makes farming possible. Biosand water filtration systems for individual families cost less than $100.
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What are the three most important pieces of data a charity can hold on its supporters? A Fundraising roundtable, supported by Valldata, brought together some top fundraisers to discuss what they value most in supporter data. 'Everything', for starters.
In a pastry-laden conference room last month, Fundraising gathered with fundraisers from a range of organisations. The question that was asked seems both simple and infinite. Given that charities invest so much time and money in their CRM systems, what is the most important information that they hold? And are charities holding and using that information in a way that benefits both their organisation and their supporters?
Stefanie Pfeil, director of fundraising at the International Rescue Committee, says that basics are fundamental.
"IRC is setting up its individual giving. We get 95 per cent statutory funding," she says. "When you start from zero, and in this market where it is going online, it's boring, it's unoriginal but I'm going for correct email addresses as one of the most important pieces of information."
Email addresses alone, however, are not enough. And will they even be around in the future? Guy Upward, head of direct marketing and legacies at Royal British Legion, says that for the Facebook generation, email is rarely used to communicate. Much of it is on social media, Facebook mail system, which charities struggle to access. Others cite individuals having multiple email addresses for multiple purposes as potentially watering down the value of email.
Email is cost-effective, Pfeil says, but it's not a cure-all. "Even with an email address you still need a solid name with it. Writing to 'lollipop500@hotmail. com' isn't going to work."
NSPCC is in nearly the opposite position to IRC. With some 750,000 supporters on its database, keeping contact details up-to-date and accurate is absolutely critical.
NSPCC's Marcus Missen says: "Number one is contact data. But am I saying the bleeding obvious?
"For charities it's the question: what is contact data? Is it traditional name and address? Is it phone?" he asks. "For me, in reducing the cost of contact, email is the most cost-effective – but then it's really easy to be lost in spam filters, to be ignored and start bothering people. In reality the most effective data we can hold from our point of view is phone number.
"It's intrusive, but it's driving upgrades."
Pfeil agrees. In previous charities telephone had been a powerful tool for upgrades. "It seemed almost the only way that gave us percentages that seemed to work," she says.
Hamish Horton, chief executive of Valldata, says the perception of telephone as intrusive does not marry up with how individuals treat their own telephone numbers. For one of the NSPCC products, says Horton, there is a higher proportion of people giving their telephone number than other kinds of personal data.
Consultant Michael Naidu, however, says that as important as knowing who is on your database is knowing why they have stopped supporting.
"Cancellation reason for direct debits is critical, because the direct debit system is fundamental to all individual giving," he says. "We all talk about great supporter journeys, relationships and all of that, but actually you can tell a lot from the reason why people cancel.
"I know a lot of large charities that spend a lot of money on donor acquisition, but can't actually say why someone has cancelled their support."
Horton agrees that data, particularly regarding direct debit cancellations, is not being well used. "While it might be a very valuable piece of data, a lot of people don't do anything with it. The traditional mentality is three strikes and you're out, which is crazy because direct debits are a live transaction."
Upward, of the Royal British Legion, says that while he has limitations with his data, his ambitions are sky-high. "My answer was everything is important. What I really want to know is as much detail about that person as possible," says Upward.
"The issue with us is that there are an awful lot of ways you can interact with the Legion. You can be a staff member. There is a mythical figure of 300,000 volunteers who collect poppies during the Poppy Appeal. We've got 5,000 Poppy Appeal organisers, we've got 360,000 members, we've got 18 trustees, 2,500 branches – each one of which has a chairman, a president, a treasurer, etcetera – we've got people who go on our holidays, people who shop with us via Poppy Shop, and a bunch of people who give us £10."
Without volunteers on its database, or indeed without attributing fundraising totals to individuals sponsored, Upward feels the Legion could be missing out on opportunities.
"What I'd really like to do is get into the position where however people interact with the Legion, we have their details on the database, so at least we know who we're talking to."
Upward recalls a telephone fundraising complaint. An elderly "sharp as a button" lady received a call from a young telemarketer asking her to upgrade her gift. Listening back to the call, the Legion team found that a lack of data was behind the problem.
"She was saying 'Don't you know who I am? I am the branch chairman! I raised £50,000 for the Poppy Appeal and you want me to increase my donation by £5!? This is outrageous!'"
Had the telemarketer had the information about the woman's history, says Upward, he may not have made the conversion, "but at least both of them could have walked out of it a little better than they did".
Missen asks how many charities actually have a 'singlesupporter view'. "What we don't look at is the totality. I attrite on my regular gift, then I get a call saying 'Why have you stopped supporting us?'. No I haven't. In my consciousness I'm going to give you a legacy. I still love you, but now you're talking to me like a stranger," he says. "The challenge is how you take that backward-facing view of the totality of my support and put in my future capacity to give to drive the ask. That is a key bit that few of us are doing."
Valldata's Horton has encountered charity opposition to letting donors know just how much charities know about them. "I had a conversation with a client a few years ago. The concept was about telling donors how valuable their contribution was over a period of time. The fundraiser said there was no way they would tell a supporter anything about how valuable they've been to the charity because they might freak out and stop supporting," he says.
With regard to calculating donors' precise capacity to give, most of the fundraisers thought this was an unproven science. Pfeil says she has seen many instances when major gifts have come from supporters who would never have been picked up by wealth screening. Missen says that wealth needs to be considered alongside inclination to give too. "You've got to model those two factors. Just looking at one of them is too simplistic."
The discussion turned to the barriers that silos within organisations pose to sharing and making the most of data.
Missen suggests that once a value is assigned to something, such as volunteering or campaigning, it becomes a value to the organisation. It can be measured. "Whereas at the moment if it's too difficult you're probably messing up," he says.
But even with values assigned to different supporter acts, there needs to be top-level buy-in to ensure that supporters are treated holistically.
"An individual just wants to engage with your charity, feel good about themselves and do something for the cause," Pfeil says. "It's us who come with our internal prejudice and therefore can do a bad job in engaging people on a multi-dimensional level."
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Chatham Baroque - La Suave Melodia "One of Pittsburgh's greatest treasures" says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Chatham Baroque explores sonatas, sinfonias, toccatas, and dances of I7th- and 18th-century Italy. Includes works of Vivaldi, Tartini, Bertali and Kapsperger. Andrew Fouts (Baroque violin), Patricia Halverson (viola da gamba), Scott Pauley (theorbo and baroque guitar).11/26/2012
Assumption Church Christmas Concert Neil Stahurski conducts Pinkham's Christmas Cantata for Chorus, Brass, and Organ; Lessons & Carols, and selected Christmas arrangements featurinf the Adult & Children's Choirs. Free, offerings accepted.11/26/2012
Budapest on the Bluff: Dominantly Dohnanyi At 17, Dohnányi was championed by Johannes Brahms, but his tuneful, brilliant and heart-on-sleeve Romanticism was soon considered old-fashioned. However, today's audiences appreciate Dohnányi's sincerity, skill and emotionalism. The PSO's Gretchen Van Hoesen will be featured in his Harp Concertino. Bartók's Contrasts were commissioned by jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman. Its finale is a "Hungarian hoe-down," complete with a deliberately mistuned violin.11/26/2012
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches Jed Allen Harris directs Tony Kushner's Angels in America, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece that confronts the political and social failures surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York City. This epic story transcends the political moment by using humor, the supernatural and heartbreaking realism; wrestling with universal themes of love, loss and responsibility. As relevant today as 20 years ago, the play fights against fear and bigotry with compassion and startling theatricality.11/29/2012
Christmas Brasstacular What could be better than brass and voices at Christmas time? Join us, with school choirs from all over the region to celebrate the festive season. Sing along to your favorite tunes. Swing to a Stan Kenton Christmas. Works to include: A Christmas Festival, Frosty the Snowman, A Nutcracker Suite, the Stan Kenton Christmas book as well as traditional carols.11/29/2012
Midnight Radio: Cult Movie Classics Midnight Radio ends season 4 with a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style look at some of our favorite cult classic movies.11/29/2012
Pitt Men's Glee Club Holiday Concert Richard Teaster directs a program of a capella holiday favorites.11/30/2012
Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings Directed by Jim Pollino. A holiday spinoff from Forever Plaid, the off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross in New York in 1990 and now performed internationally. The show is a revue of the close-harmony "guy groups."11/30/2012
We Wish You a Merry Christmas These Christmas concerts abegin the season for PCC: Nov. 30, 8pm at Ingomar; Dec. 1, 8pm at Fox Chapel; and Dec. 2, 4pm at Ingomar.11/30/2012
Tchaikovsky's Fourth The concert begins with Composer of the Year Mason Bates' Mothership, commissioned and premiered by the YouTube Symphony in Sydney. Bates says this "fast-paced opener imagines the orchestra as a mothership that is 'docked' by several virtuosic soloists." Then, Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky's vibrant Symphony #4.11/30/2012
Holidays Guest Conductor Walter Morales leads traditional seasonal selections and welcomes the Butler Senior High Singers directed by Bryan Helsel. Selections will include "The Night Before Christmas," "Peace, Peace, Peace," Klezmer music, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden" suite.12/01/2012
The Americas in Concert Artistic Director Pablo Ardiles conducts Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia Suite; Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, with guitarist Marco Sartor; Arturo Marques' Danzon #2; plus bossa nova, jazz, tango, and symphonic progressive rock selections. Special guests include soprano Lilly Abreau, AquiTango, and Cello Fury. Free, but nearly "sold out."12/01/2012
SOLD OUT! Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts All performances are SOLD OUT. Listen live on Classical QED 89.3 on Friday, Dec. 7 at 8:00 pm for a live broadcast.12/01/2012
Music on the Edge: Talujon The renowned percussion ensemble returns to Pitt.12/01/2012
Symphonic Dances Music Director Lawrence Loh conducts Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Faure's Pelleas and Melisande suite, and, with soloist Noah Bendix-Balgley (PSO Concertmaster), the Mozart Violin Concerto #3. The concert is free, but tickets are required. Download them via the PYSO website.12/02/2012
Russian Rhapsody Ronald Zollman leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a n all-Russian program including Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring pianist and 2011 CMU Concerto Competition winner Mengyi Yang, Glinka's charming Valse-Fantasie, and Shostakovich's powerful Symphony #10.12/02/2012
Gift of the Magi Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church presents the Three Rivers Ringers handbell ensemble in a free performance.12/02/2012
Celebration This concert celebrates the extraordinary talent of the WSW featuring the Seton Hill University Faculty Saxophone Quartet and classic works for band by Sergei Prokofiev, Robert Jager and Jan Bach. Paul Basler's exciting "Carnival" brings this concert to a thrilling finish. Jason Worzbyt conducts.12/02/2012
World Music Festival Carpathian Music Ensemble, Gamelan, and African Music and Dance Ensemble join for an afternoon of music, dancing, and food. Free admission.12/02/2012
A Victorian Holiday The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh presents "A Victorian Holiday", under the direction of Betsy Burleigh. Travel back to the Dickens era with a jolly program of holiday favorites the whole family will enjoy, with Dickensian readings by Vance Torbert.12/02/2012
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LOCKPORT – A man who is already in state prison for a Niagara Falls business burglary has been connected by DNA evidence to three others, Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Scalzo said in Niagara County Court Monday.
Elbert Lewis Jr., 43, of Frontier Avenue, Niagara Falls, is in the state prison system's boot camp-like shock incarceration program for a November 2010 break-in at a Universal Wireless store.
He agreed to give a confirmatory DNA sample to be compared to blood found at break-ins at Niagara Chiropractic on Pine Avenue Nov. 12, 2008, and at the Great Wall Chinese restaurant Dec. 24, 2008.
A Jan. 8, 2009, burglary at a cellphone store also has been connected to Lewis, but the word came too late to be included in Monday's order by Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.


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Okay, there's this website called, "MangaFox". You can read manga that's translated in English for free. I read some yesterday and it was okay. Here's the website: http://www.mangafox.com I still want to buy manga than read it online though. >__<
Tell me, what you guys thought about "mangafox"?
i agree i'd rather read the book but this website is kinda cool. people who might not have read a series could go here to check it out before going out and buying something
i'll have to try out onemanga.com "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
that's where i watch manga too! "blood isnt enough..."
"some things are better left unknown"
one too it's for free download but it's notmuch as site for many mangas http://zamunda.net/browse.php?search=Manga&cat=32&incldead=1
Onemanga is faster but Mangafox has more titles. Hears voices in his head...probably due to his headphones.
i love onemanga
I always end up going with Onemanga cos I don't like to wait Hears voices in his head...probably due to his headphones.
yeah but mangafox has more books than onemanga. and its for free but there are some more sites where u ccan read manga such as gigamanga i think or u can watch videos on animecrazy.net
Hey thx for the info I just happened to be looking around about that yesterday lol! I look it up fpr sure!!! Human ignorance should and will be painful its only a matter of time...
at first i used to go to onemanga but i transfered to managfox because they had more books to choose from so its the best site for me....
i was looking for something like that.
It's irritating !!My birthday's in 10 days, then I'll get new manga's =)
http://manga.animea.net/browse.html "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
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Photographer to exhibit
MARTINSBURG - Works by area photographer Sandra C. Halpern are on display at The Village at Morrisons Cove through Aug. 12.
The show focuses on botanicals from many countries that Halpern has visited.
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Local photographer Sandra C. Halpern poses with some of her photographs, which are on display at The Village at Morrisons Cove through Aug. 12.
The artist has a degree in art from Stephens College in Columbia, Miss., and did graduate study at The Art Insitute of Atlanta in Georgia. Early in her career, she focused on wedding and portrait photography in Dallas, Texas.
Halpern moved to Blair County 16 years ago and began to focus on nature's beauty.
Her art was featured in the exhibition "Four Lenses-Four Views" at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art and in a two-person show at Penn State Altoona.
Visitors can view her works at The Village from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is on exhibit near the gift shop.
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BURGETTSTOWN - The Funny Or Die Presents The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival will visit First Niagara Pavilion at 5 p.m. Aug. 30. The show features Dave Chappelle, Flight of the Conchords, Al Madrigal, Demetri Martin, Chris D'Elia, Hannibal Buress, Kristen Schaal and Brody Stevens.
The 13-stop tour is Chappelle's most substantial return to stand-up since 2005.
Tickets range from $39 to $112.25 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Today. Tickets are available online at www.livenation.com or www.funnyordie.com/oddball or through Ticketmaster outlets.
Nine Inch Nails come to BJC
UNIVERSITY PARK - On Sept. 3, Columbia Records will release "Hesitation Marks," the first new music from Nine Inch Nails in five years.
The tour for the album, "Tension 2013," will visit the Bryce Jordan Center for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 19. The opening act for the show will be Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Tickets are $37, $47, 67 and $87 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster. com, Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theatre, Altoona Campus Ticket Outlet, or by calling 800-745-3000 or 866-448-7849.
Tim Conway to play AMT
LANCASTER - The American Music Theatre will host "The Tim Conway Show," starring Tim Conway and Louise DuArt, at 3 p.m. Aug. 25.
Conway is a multiple Emmy Award winner for his time on "The Carol Burnett Show. He is also known for "McHale's Navy" and such movies as "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "The Shaggy DA."
Joining Conway will be comedienne and impressionist Louise DuArt.
Tickets are $49 per person and go on sale June 29. Tickets can be purchased online at www.amtshows. com or by calling 717-397-7700 or 800-648-4102.
SAMA opens exhibition
LORETTO -When the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto unveils its latest exhibition on June 28, "Stories Joyfully Embroidered: Shaanxi Folk Textiles from Northern China," it will mark a first.
The exhibition features a collection of nearly 50 contemporary fabric banners that were originally shown at Beijing's National Museum of China in the mid-1990s.
SAMA's exhibition will mark the first time the collection has been made available to western audiences.
After its initial showing, a private collector from Pittsburgh purchased the collection and brought the works to the United States. SAMA is the first museum to show these works to American audiences.
The exhibition will remain on view through Oct. 12.
The exhibition coincides with the museum's upcoming Monuments & Masterpieces trip to China, scheduled for Oct. 3 through 13.
The trip will provide guests with an opportunity to visit some of the most popular destinations in China, such as the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, and the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum.
Additionally, SAMA's 35th annual summer Gala will feature an "Asian Fusion" theme. SAMA's largest fundraiser of the year, the event features gourmet foods, casino games, entertainment, auctions, and much more. The event is scheduled for July 20.
For information on the Monuments & Masterpieces trip or the Gala, call the museum at 472-3920.
SAMA-Loretto is located on the campus of St. Francis University. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
For more information, call the museum or visit www.sama-art.org.


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Sonos Studio will be hosting the Los Angeles premiere of ¡CUATRO! April 17th. The film takes an in-depth look at Green Day and the creative process behind their recently released trilogy of albums ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRE!. The evening also includes a Q&A with the film's Producer and Director. We are giving away 30 tickets exclusively for fanclub members to attend this special event.
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Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare bacterial lung infection.
Actinomycosis - pulmonary
Pulmonary actinomycosis is caused by certain bacteria normally found in the mouth and gastrointestinal tract, where they do not usually cause harm. Poor dental hygiene and dental abscess can increase your risk of face, jaw, and lung infections caused by these bacteria.
Alcohol abuse, having scars on the lungs (bronchiectasis), and emphysema are all associated with lung infections caused by actinomycosis.
The disease is rare in the U.S. It may occur at any age, but most patients are 30 to 60 years old. Men get this infection more often than women.
The infection usually comes on slowly. It may be weeks or months before a doctor makes a diagnosis.
Symptoms include any of the following:
Tests that may be done include:
The goal of treatment is to cure the infection. Many patients take a long time to get better. To be cured, you may need to receive the antibiotic penicillin through a vein (intravenously) for 4 to 6 weeks. Then you need to take penicillin by mouth. Some people need up to 18 months of treatment.
If you cannot take penicillin, your doctor will prescribe other antibiotics.
Surgery may be needed to drain fluid from the lungs and control the infection.
Most people get better after treatment with antibiotics.
Call your health care provider if:
Good dental hygiene may help reduce your risk of getting actinomycosis.
Brook I. Actinomycosis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 337.
Russo TA. Agents of actinomycosis. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 255.


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The act of having sex doggy style with a girl while at the same time giving her a swirly.
I wanted to bang Alice at the club so I took her to the stall and gave her a dirty loozanne.
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If you are a sports fan, Sunday is likely the best day of the week for you. Many are off from work, NFL Sunday is upon us, and there is plenty of NCAA College Football to digest from the night before.
This Sunday is especially special, as the US golfers are also battling Europe for the coveted Ryder Cup Championship. More pressure is on Woods and Co. than ever before because they are coming off an upset victory in the last cup's competition.
The problem is, there are not many places to find golf, NFL, and college updates all in one place. That's what I am here for, as I will be posting the top news from all facets of Sunday's action. Did Peyton Manning hold on against a pesky Jaguars team? Will Dustin Johnson sink that put on the back nine? Tune in here to find out.


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Visiting the GardenThe South Carolina Botanical Garden is a place where nature and culture meet. Explore display gardens, hike nature trails, visit the Geology Museum, peruse the Art Gallery, or just relax and enjoy the 295 acres of natural beauty.
Hours and Fees
The Garden is open every day, dawn to dusk, free of charge.
The Fran Hanson Discovery Center (Visitor's Center) and the Fuller Art Galleries are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, and Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm free of charge.
The Bob Campbell Geology Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, and Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Admission is free.
The Discovery Center and Museum are closed during home football games, Clemson University holidays (schedule), July 4, and hours vary during the last two weeks of December.
Please see the links on the left for more information.
Garden Etiquette
When visiting the Garden, please:Park only in designated parking lots
Remain on trails and do not trample plants
Do not pick, cut or remove any plants
Keep dogs on leashes and clean up after them
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While many domestic and foreign automakers are looking to hybrid technology to
improve fuel efficiency across their auto lines, Honda is looking towards
the tried and true: diesel engines.
It was reported last month that the next generation Honda
Accord would forgo its slow-selling and poor-performing Accord Hybrid with a
diesel variant. The oil-burning Honda Accord will feature a 2.2 liter i-CTDi Tier
2 Bin 5 diesel engine along with an ammonia-filled catalytic converter to
reduce NOx emissions.
Honda is also poised to make a new 3.5 liter V6 diesel
engine available for its larger vehicles including the Odyssey minivan, Pilot
mid-sized SUV and the Ridgeline mid-sized pickup truck. The new Tier 2 Bin 5
diesel will first be available in 2010 according to the Japanese
Nikkei newspaper.
The engine is said to be 30 percent more fuel efficient than
Honda's current 3.5 liter V6 gasoline engine (rated at 17/24, 15/20 and 15/20 respectively
in the Odyssey, Pilot and Ridgeline based on 2008 EPA estimates). The new motor
is also said to produce 20 percent less carbon dioxide as the 3.5 liter V6 gasoline
Honda's new diesels likely won't come under as much
scrutiny for failure to achieve EPA estimates as has been the case with
hybrids. Honda knows this first-hand as it recently became the target of a class-action lawsuit
regarding poor fuel economy on the Civic Hybrid.
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quote: Trade one problem for an even worse one.
quote: This can be solved with simple legislation stating that food and other items that currently depend on corn production gets first dibs on the corn supply.
quote: It took a very long time to get the energy yields of gasoline to the efficiency levels they are today.
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As you undoubtedly know, Friday is Valentine's Day. Those of you who didn't know or had forgotten (that's right, guys, I'm talkin' 'bout you!), consider yourselves lucky. You just got a two-day warning. Plenty of time to order flowers or pick out a nice gift for your special someone. Don't let it slip by and then try to appease her with the old line, "But honey, every day is Valentine's Day when I'm with you!"
My late husband used that line every year. In our 23 years together, he never got me anything for Valentine's Day. I'd say, "Well, if every day is Valentine's Day, shouldn't you be bringing me chocolates and roses every day?" Then he'd trot out the argument that Valentine's Day is a commercialized, made-up holiday, invented to sell greeting cards and such to sentimental fools like me. That excuse didn't work any better than the first one. But it did arouse my curiosity.
Who was St. Valentine, anyway? Turns out there are at least three different saints by that name; legend has it that all three were martyred on Feb. 14 of different years. Pope Gelasius I, near the end of the fifth century, declared the date to be a Christian feast day, St. Valentine's Day. Most scholars believe the Valentine he meant to honor was a third-century priest who defied Roman emperor Claudius II. Claudius, believing that single men made better soldiers, outlawed marriage for young men. The sympathetic priest continued to secretly marry young couples until he was discovered and put to death.
It wasn't until the 14th century that the day became associated with romance. Chaucer is generally credited with making the first reference in his poem "The Parliament of Fowls."
For this was on St. Valentine's Day,
When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.
From the Middle Ages to the 18th century, handwritten notes and tokens of affection were exchanged by lovers in England. By the time the practice spread to America, traditional valentines were handmade cards, decorated with lace and ribbons. The oldest valentine still in existence was written in 1415 by the Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The poem is now part of the manuscript collection at London's British Museum.
In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland of Massachusetts began selling the first mass-produced Valentine's Day cards in the United States. You know the rest of the story. According to the Greeting Card Association, 1 billion Valentine's Day cards will be sold this year. It's the second-biggest card-giving occasion of the year, behind Christmas.
Nobody sends cards on Singles Awareness Day (SAD), which is celebrated on Feb. 15. According to the website singlesawareness.com, the day was established by single folks who were fed up with the whole Valentine's Day hoopla and tired of feeling left out. So they encourage singles to proudly stand up and shout that it's OK to be single!
SAD started out as an alternative celebration on Feb. 14, but I guess sharing the day with a billion card-sending lovers turned out to be just too . . . sad. Another reason given for moving the day to the 15th was to protest the commercialization of Valentine's Day. The site suggests celebrating SAD by sending flowers to yourself or organizing a party for your single friends, although, it seems to me that sending flowers contradicts their stated anti-commercialism. The party idea sounds good, though. Other suggestions from the SAD movement include volunteering for the day, traveling, going to the movies, anything that makes you feel good and perhaps distracts you from loneliness.
Happily, although Friday will be my sixth Valentine's Day alone, loneliness has not been an issue for me. And as I told you earlier, even when my husband was alive, I never got a valentine from him. To his credit, however, he did leave me an occasional handwritten note. Never on Valentine's Day, of course. That would have ruined his argument and proved him to be more sentimental than he cared to admit.
I, on the other hand, freely admit to being sentimental. And now that I've learned about SAD, I plan to celebrate both days with dinner and dancing on my own. And chocolate. I'm definitely buying myself some chocolate. After all, every day is chocolate day.
* Kathy Collins is a performance artist, broadcaster and freelance writer whose "Sharing Mana'o" column appears every Wednesday. Her email address is email@example.com.


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A Japanese enclave within a large North American city. Used in the same manner as "Chinatown" or "Little Italy."
"You have to go to J-Town to get the best sushi."
od uživatele Fontleroy 24. září 2006
A so-called institute of learning. Basically a place to go for people who don't want to work but aren't smart enough to attend a real university. Densely populated by GAA heads and the like.
Fuck it mammy, i didn't get into queen's, i suppose i'll have to go to j town instead.
od uživatele Mick 18. duben 2005
another name for Little Tokyo (Los Angeles). Also, Japan Town or Japantown.
Let's check out the roller derby in j-town tonight. We can grab some sushi and sake bombs before the bout.
od uživatele mattb (white meat) 05. duben 2007
Nickname for Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a dying former steel-mill town with no future whatsoever. The only thing Johnstown is relatively famous for is the disastrous flood of 1889 that killed over 2,200 people.
Hopefully in 50 years J town will be DEAD.
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(noun) Any ideology, ethics or belief system practiced by a Fiedler.
Honesty is just one of my many Fiedlerisms.
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A boy fighting for his life recently discovered the power of friendship.
Travis Selinka was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had radiation therapy, causing him to lose all his hair.
After the seven weeks of radiation therapy, the bald 10-year-old was embarrassed to return to school.
"He was a little nervous about coming back only because he didn't have hair," Travis' mother Lynne Selinka said. "He was afraid what the kids would think."
His friends at El Camino Creek Elementary School were quick to pick up on Selinka's feelings. Fifteen of them went to the barber shop and shaved their heads.
"Without me even knowing it, one of the boys got together with his mother and they planned a whole thing at this barbershop," fourth grader teacher Karin Roberts said. "Since they did it, Travis hasn't worn his hat. They all just are beautiful amazing people."
"It was overwhelming and every time I think about it, it brings tears to my eyes….every one of them shaved their head for Travis," said his mother.
"I want to thank them all very much for doing that. It has made it a lot easier for me," Selinka said.
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MANSFIELD - The dream of putting a multi-plex movie theater in downtown Mansfield is not dead, but it may have changed a bit, according to the Kevin Abrams, vice chairman of the Mansfield Downtown Development Corp., a group formed three years ago to pursue that dream.
The organization was formed following a university survey of students to determine what was most important to keep them coming back to Mansfield to finish their degrees, and the No. 1 item on that wish list was a movie theater.
After the borough moved its offices into a new location on South Main Street, the State System of Higher Education purchased the property the old building was on and had it demolished.
A former funeral parlor adjacent to the property also was purchased, with the idea of somehow using it as an energy education center/movie theater complex because of the development of the natural gas industry in the region.
A $3 million matching grant was secured, and the university's Student Government Association committed $1 million to the project for 10 years or more, leaving about a $1.2 million shortfall for the estimated $6 million complex.
For the energy education center, the idea is to bring the Marcellus Shale drillers on board, with an actual center that would be a tourism draw, said County Commissioner Mark Hamilton.
"Mansfield doesn't have anything downtown to bring travelers there. This would be a way to accomplish that and possibly get energy companies on board with funding," he said.
The lack of funding is one issue, but since then some other roadblocks have presented themselves, the first being a lack of parking downtown for such a project.
Borough ordinance requires a certain number of spaces per amount of seating capacity.
More recently, the lack of available water for any new projects has come to light, throwing a bigger roadblock into place.
A water search now is on by another newly formed "water task force" to locate a new water source for the borough and rapidly developing Richmond Township.
On Thursday a group of interested members of the MDDC and representatives from the university, gas industry and other community leaders gathered to hear the latest on the plans for the complex, which has gained state attention in the form of the State System of Higher Education.
According to MDDC member Bob Strohecker, who also sits on the university's board of trustees, the state system has "a real desire to form a town-and-gown relationship with all the 14 state-owned schools, starting with Mansfield as their demonstration town-gown project."
Strohecker reminded those in attendance there is a deadline for the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant that was obtained from the state with help from state Rep. Matthew E. Baker, R-Wellsboro, and state Sen. Joseph B. Scarnati III, R-Brockway.
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You will always have the correct size of crochet hook for your projects with the Crochet Master Steel and Aluminum Crochet Hook Set. This large kit includes 16 Steel Crochet Hooks in sizes 00 through 14. There are also 8 Aluminum Crochet Hooks in sizes D through K. All these hooks come in a beautiful zip-shut case that keeps everything together. Keep the hooks secure in this case and you will never be looking for the right sized hook again. This set is perfect for the crocheter that likes all types of patterns. Whether you like to make crochet lace or a chunky sweater, this set will have the hook needed to get the project completed. Crochet Master Steel and Aluminum Crochet Hook Set is must have for every crocheter.
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As businesses strive to gain competitive advantages in their given industries, they must pay close attention to any trends that may give them an edge. It can be extremely difficult to keep up with rival firms if the business does not react quickly enough to new technologies and strategies as they develop.
Such is the case with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. Originally a relatively small movement, BYOD was gradually embraced by a large number of businesses. And as these organizations have reaped the benefits, others have followed.
The scope of this development was recently highlighted by a Cisco-sponsored study, which found that BYOD has become the standard for many organizations. However, security risks remain, suggesting more firms need to consider investing in secure file sharing solutions.
BYOD for all
The study, which surveyed 1,000 U.S employees and was conducted by TekScape, found that 90 percent of participants used their personal smartphones to perform work in the past year.
Furthermore, among those whose employers utilize BYOD, 92 percent said they use their personal smartphones for work every week, and 62 do so on a daily basis.
These high numbers indicate that BYOD has become not only accepted, but has been embraced by a diverse range of businesses in the United States. These firms gain the benefits of a more satisfied and, critically, more responsive, agile workforce. The survey found that more than two-thirds of employees participating in BYOD deployments said it was assumed that they would read work emails after work hours.
However, there are significant security tradeoffs which businesses are taking on, due to an apparent lack of sufficient concern for data protection. The study found that despite nine out of ten participants using personal devices for work, more than half of respondents do not believe their employers are ready to handle BYOD issues that may arise. Additionally, 39 percent of participants' smartphones lacked password protection measures and 52 percent indicated they have accessed unsecured WiFi networks with their personal devices.
BYOD security
These last figures should be extremely worrisome for businesses hoping to take advantage of the benefits of BYOD deployments. Without adequate security, a BYOD policy can prove more of a liability than a tool. Yet this is not a problem easily solved. One of the most detrimental aspects of BYOD is that it is far more difficult for a firm to ensure employees' devices are protected, as opposed to a corporate-issued device policy. As these adoption levels demonstrate, though, it is likely unfeasible for most firms to move away from a BYOD policy at this point.
The answer to this problem is for firms to invest in the right data protection tools for their BYOD deployments. Specifically, businesses should pursue secure file sharing solutions that are designed to provide security without posing an undue burden on employees. To be effective, these solutions must be virtually unnoticeable and automatic, ensuring that workers actually leverage the protection technology.


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MUNCIE, Ind. – Three Cardinals set career highs as the No. 13 Ball State men's volleyball team earned a win in a five-set thriller against Harvard Sunday afternoon at Worthen Arena (18-25, 26-24, 20-25, 25-19, 16-14). Senior middle attacker Matt Leske and junior outside attacker Matt Sutherland notched career highs in kills while senior setter Graham McIlvaine dished out a career high in assists.
With the win Ball State extends its winning streak to eight matches and moves to 15-5 on the season. Harvard drops to 10-8 on the year. With the win, head coach Joel Walton moves to 299 career wins.
Leske picked up a career-high in kills with 14 for a .650 attack percentage (14-1-20). The senior also picked up two aces, two digs and seven blocks. After turning in a career high in kills Saturday evening against Lees McRae, Sutherland came back on Sunday afternoon and registered 13 off a .343 clip (13-1-35). The junior was one dig shy of a double double with nine.
McIlvaine dished out a career-high 56 assists to go with five kills, two aces and nine digs. Sophomore outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski notched his second-career double double with 17 kills and 10 digs.
Senior outside attacker Kevin Owens tied his season-high in kills with nine to go with four blocks. Junior libero David Ryan Vander Meer got under a team-high 15 digs while junior outside attacker was the third Cardinal to notch nine digs.
The first set saw the Crimson hit a blistering .412 (8-4-34) while the Cardinals managed .111 (7-4-27). Four-straight points for Harvard allowed the Crimson to jump out to a quick 6-2 lead in the first set. After a Harvard service ace, Ball State called a timeout with the Crimson up 12-7. Harvard extended the lead to 19-10 off crisp attacking. The Cardinals battled back but were not able to overcome the Crimson's early lead and fell 25-18 in the first frame.
Sutherland was the difference maker in the second frame notching five kills to go with Niemczewski's four. Ball State improved its hitting in the set at .342 (16-3-38) while Harvard slowed down slightly at .382 (18-5-24). The score was tied 14 times and there were three lead changes in the set. Niemczewski tied the set at 22-all and then registered another kill to give Ball State a one-point advantage, 23-22. Coming out of the timeout, Harvard's Nick Madden got a kill followed by a kill by Sutherland. The Crimson tied things back up with a kill from DJ White followed by another kill from Sutherland. The Cardinals would win the set 26-24 after Harvard's Caleb Zimmick hit an attack out of bounds.
Leske was effective in the third set getting a kill on each of his attack attempts. Harvard was able to benefit from four attack errors and three service errors from Ball State in the set. The Crimson had its best hitting percentage of the match with a .455 clip in the set (17-2-33) to go with the Cardinals' .267 attack percentage (12-4-30).
The Cardinals continued to benefit from Leske's attacking in the fourth set with the senior notching seven kills on eight swings. Ball State earned four and a half total team blocks in the set while Harvard did not manage any blocks. The Cardinals jumped out to a 10-6 lead in the set when Harvard called its first timeout. Ball State kept the foot on the gas in the set, only committing two attack errors on the frame for a .417 attack percentage (17-2-36) to Harvard's (17-7-40). Ball State would win the fourth set, 25-19) off a kill from Owens.
In the fifth set, Niemczewski tallied six kills while Ball State won the battle of the digs (13-8). The Cardinals jumped to a 4-1 lead causing the Crimson to call an early timeout. After consecutive kills from Owens and Niemczewski, Harvard called a timeout with Ball State closing on match point at 13-11. Coming out of the timeout Harvard's Caleb Zimmick notched a kill followed by a Ball State attack error to knot the score at 13-13. A kill by Niemczewski gave Ball State a match point opportunity, but Harvard stayed in with a service error by the Cardinals. The match would end on a kill from Witmer and an attack error from Harvard.
Harvard outhit Ball State .335 (78-21-170) to .295 (63-17-156) and picked up 67 digs to BSU's 56. The Cardinals held the advantage in total team blocks (11.5-6) and aces (6-3).
Harvard was led by DJ White who had a match-high 26 kills to go with 10 digs. Nick Madden finished with 17 kills and 16 digs.
Ball State returns to action Thurs., Mar. 20 when it welcomes NJIT to Worthen Arena. The match is set to begin at 7:30 p.m.


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While social media proved downright antisocial for some when it was all over, YouTube rescued everything that might have passed you by the first time around.
A lot of it did this year for me. I didn't switch around as much as usual on election night. The reason was simple: I was much happier getting breaking news from one place – CNN – than I usually am.
The result of that, though, was that I missed "in real time" so many of the evening's more tweetworthy moments, the ones that captured the social media jokesters and troublemakers as they happened.
The reason I was so much happier watching CNN for long stretches was the brilliant performance of one CNN correspondent – John King, the fellow manning the electronic returns map and demonstrating an expertise state-by-state and county-by-county that must have taken weeks, if not months, of intense study.
Not only that, CNN's electronic map itself was both intricate and clear so that every time King was able to call a state for Romney or Obama, he was able to show us all the pertinent states and counties and their voting records in the last four elections.
King did all this screen-touching and image-changing with the virtuosity of a concert pianist playing Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata.
I am, to be frank, almost never impressed by all the fancy-schmancy hardware and software that the network news folks break out on election night. But I must confess the combination of King's astonishing command of the information and CNN's electronic map itself made for a computer-age tour de force, that, I thought, left everyone else in the dust on election night.
In a YouTube world, though, no one needs to be ignorant of all the richer absurdities and follies that tweeted their way into American consciousness. So for those in the same boat I was in, let me recommend to all:
1. Karl Rove's hissy fit. NBC made the call for Obama first at 11:12 p.m. Not long after came CBS and then Fox News, whose reporters and statisticians pride themselves on operating independently of the highly paid blunderbusses who do their political punditry.
Rove on Fox – the man once called "Bush's brain" in a past era where the phrase wasn't considered oxymoronic – wasn't happy about the Ohio call for Obama. Nor were some of the Romneyites. So Rove, on Fox's airwaves, told Chris Wallace – son of Mike and therefore always a bit of a stranger in a strange land in the Fox News ranks – that it was a premature call. Romney's Ohio numbers weren't that hapless.
That led to Election Night's Great Moment – Fox correspondent Megyn Kelly doing a semiglamorous walk-and-talk on camera all the way back to the part of the building where the statisticians and call-makers were. When she finally got there, she asked how sure of their figures they were. Very was the answer.
In the fairest and most balanced recesses of her mind at that moment, one can only guess at what she was thinking about this hallucinatory Rove-induced moment on election night. (Did she, in her mind, hear Elvis' "Suspicious Minds" as soundtrack music? I hope so.)
Because of the results – and Fox news' polemic identity for its chattering and opinioneering classes – there was a lot of attention paid to Fox News among those eager to gloat. I'm not fond of that sort of thing, but I must say I had to enjoy Slate.com's Will Oremus reporting Fox News' reaction to the Obama victory as an example of Elisabeth K�bler-Ross' "Five Stages of Grief." And over at Salon.com, critic Andrew O'Hehir's description of Charles Krauthammer was as wickedly unfair – and as wickedly funny – as anything to come out of the entire evening, even from Rove.
2. Diane Sawyer's unseemly good cheer and slurs. In the snarkier precincts of tweetworld, there were those who speculated that Sawyer, ABC's election night anchor, had weirdly giddy moments and word slurs that in someone else might have encouraged a suspicion of a bit more Grenache with dinner than usual.
On the other hand, Sawyer had just come back from a long period of somewhat arduous Sandy coverage – and if, for a second or two, we got to see a bit of genuine fatigue on the air, it seems to me the only decent question to ask is this: Given the schedule that some TV newspeople are forced to keep during the most intense news periods, why on earth don't we see indications of fatigue more often?
The fact is, these people – often the news stars themselves – keep fiendishly difficult schedules, and it is almost superhuman that we seldom, if ever, see evidence of it on the air.
3. Donald Trump vs. Brian Williams. Trump – surely one of the more unfortunate celebrities of the past 40 years – apparently loathes Obama so much that he tweeted charges of "sham" amid a fusillade of election night denial, which Williams reported on the air as symptomatic of Trump's having long since overshot the "exit to relevance." NBC political director Chuck Todd had his own election night Trump crack.
Trump, of course, likes nothing more than attention and a good feud gives him that, so the fellow retreated back to tweetland to get back at Williams.
I'm on Williams' side for his "this happened" newsman's ethic in reporting Trump's near-hysteria in the first place. At the same time, Trump's godawful reality show, "The Apprentice," actually does get ratings for NBC, so it's hard not to understand Williams' employers for contributing to Trump's entirely asinine and unnecessary celebrity in the modern world.
It does, however, lead me to wonder if the networks aren't passing up a truly great reality show – and a natural for Trump when people get tired of watching him firing people.
An old proverb goes something like this: "If you want to know what the Lord thinks of money, look at those he gives it to."
How about a weekly reality show featuring millionaires, billionaires and gazillionaires doing nothing but outlandish things, with and without their fortunes?
No more snarky potshots, just well-edited interviews presenting them in the raw, explaining themselves, their ideas and their ways of disposing of their dough, showing us the end results?
We'll call it "Camels and Needles" after St. Matthew's observation that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
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As a severe winter storm bears down on Wisconsin, plenty of residents are making a run for supplies.
Many shop owners in the Waukesha area said they had a stream of people come in well into the evening to get some last-minute supplies to keep their walkways and driveways clear.
"I'm getting some salt, I ran out last night with the little snow I got yesterday but now I need to get ready for what's coming in," resident Mark Meyer said.
Waukesha Ace Hardware owner Mark Tomchek said Christmas came early for the store as sales sky-rocketed.
"Our snow-blower sales have been brisk, our salt sales have been incredible, so we hope for the big snowfall so we can move more inventory," Tomchek said.
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One of the most indispensable techniques in all areas of the life sciences is the use of expression vectors. Cloning a gene between two restriction sites, and the expression of a protein, are almost always taken for granted—but a frequently overlooked detail is that sometimes, as a promoter is placed upstream of a multiple cloning site, several base pairs, or even restriction sites, could be appended to the 5´-untranslated region of the gene of interest. These sequences are known to influence both prokaryotic and eukaryotic translation efficiency.
Hal S. Alper, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues, recently utilized a theoretical framework to predict the effect that a multiple cloning site has on translation efficiency, and the investigators subsequently applied this concept to redesign these sites and reduce variability associated with restriction site choice. "This is the first time that a performance-based analysis of multiple cloning sites has been conducted in yeast expression systems," says Dr. Alper.
One of the most important ideas emerging from this work, recently published in Nucleic Acids Research, is that nucleotides placed between the promoter and the gene start site during cloning may shape translation efficiency, and this is a frequently overlooked aspect when using standardized expression vectors.
Moreover, the impact of the nucleotides is dependent on the promoter used, indicating an interaction in parts. "The idea in synthetic biology is building function from parts, and in some respects, the interactions between these individually characterized parts are often very context specific," emphasizes Dr. Alper.
In addition to ensuring the successful expression of a protein of interest, this concept has even more profound implications. When the same gene is cloned between two different restriction sites within the same expression vector, the resulting phenotypes might be different because protein-expression levels are different.
"This concept, therefore, becomes important not only to optimize the expression of proteins from genes cloned into different restriction sites, but also for the ability to conduct genotype-phenotype associations," explains Dr. Alper. Some of the new multiple cloning sites developed in this work are devoid of this site-to-site variation, which makes them functional and flexible multiple cloning sites for a variety of applications.
An issue of considerable concern in molecular biology is the manipulation of DNA fragments that are toxic or unstable, yet their successful cloning is essential to understand their biological function. "We recently developed a new system that enabled us to clone and express toxic genes that previously were unclonable in other expression systems," says David Mead, Ph.D., president and CEO of Lucigen.
The expression vector pJAZZ is maintained as a linear plasmid. In addition, it contains transcriptional terminators on each side of the insert to minimize interference between the cloned genes and vector sequences.
Most notable of these unclonable sequences are repetitive DNA and highly AT-rich regions. Repetitive DNA is difficult to clone because repeats often recombine out of the vector. "In a circular vector, we have some evidence as to why repetitive regions are deleted. We believe that the torsional stress that exists in a circular plasmid causes the repetitive region to recombine out during replication and transcription," explains Ronald Godiska, Ph.D., senior scientist at Lucigen.
This torsional stress is missing in the linear pJAZZ plasmid, and this ensures the stability of the repetitive DNA regions. "This is the most striking utility of the linear vector," explains Dr. Godiska, lead author of a recent study that describes the research applications of this new cloning system. Illustrating the superiority of this system for applications that involve AT-rich regions, which are also unstable, Dr. Godiska and colleagues described the cloning and sequencing of the 69% AT-rich 3.1 Mb genome of the Flavobacterium columnare Gram-negative bacterium.
Another advantage of the linear cloning vector is that it eliminates the size bias. When a DNA fragment is incorporated into a circular vector, two ligation reactions occur—an intermolecular ligation that joins an end of the insert to the vector, followed by an intramolecular ligation that circularizes the molecule.
The efficiency of circularization decreases as the sizes of the vector or insert increase. In linear vectors, the cloning involves two independent ligation events, so this size bias is eliminated. "This represents another major advantage of the pJAZZ vector, and it allowed us to easily clone DNA fragments up to 20 kb without size bias," explains Dr. Godiska.
"One of the things that we are trying to find out is whether we could use shorter homology regions between DNA fragments that undergo homologous recombination," says Kumaran Narayanan, Ph.D., senior lecturer at the Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia, and adjunct assistant professor in the department of genetics and genomic sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Homologous recombination in E. coli usually requires 40 to 50 base pairs of homology between the recombining DNA molecules to be detectable. "There is some evidence that 20 to 30 base pairs might be sufficient, and this would allow investigators to design shorter primers for recombination, facilitating more flexible changes to DNA and is more economical," explains Dr. Narayanan.
Dr. Narayanan and colleagues recently optimized an E. coli homologous recombination system for the in vivo modification of DNA substrates, and further perfected it to allow the cloning of repetitive DNA regions, a form of DNA known to be inherently unstable in a recombination environment. This recombination protocol uses a 10–20 minute induction time to minimize DNA exposure to the recombination enzyme, and is ideal for functional studies that involve highly repetitive regions, trinucleotide repeats, and homologous genes.
An additional effort in Dr. Narayanan's group focuses on generating linear chromosome vectors that have emerged as promising tools for gene delivery into cells. Dr. Narayanan and colleagues accomplished this by capping the ends of linearized DNA fragments with telomeres derived from bacteriophage N15 to provide protection from nuclease degradation and to enable DNA replication as a linear plasmid.
The investigators subsequently exemplified the strength of this technique by generating a linear 100 kb BAC that expressed the human β-globin gene in a human host cells.
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Clad in matching winter hats that looked like cupcakes, Aline Weber and Payton Blesy, both 11, excitedly explained their snow sculpture as they awaited the judging results Sunday during Winterfest at Chestnut Ridge Park.
"Blizzard," which looked like a kind of lizard, featured sticks for teeth and angry-looking eyebrows, a tail made of snow and a pattern of swirls on its sides, which the girls agreed was an inspired touch.
They walked away with third place in the "most creative" category.
"This is definitely my favorite part," Payton, of Orchard Park, said of the snow sculpture contest.
Payton read online about all of the Winterfest activities and convinced Aline, of Lancaster, to join her.
"I kept saying, it's going to be awesome," Payton said.
Apparently, a lot of people thought Winterfest was going to be awesome. The event was free, so an attendance estimate was hard to come by, but the fest drew such large crowds that the parking lot was filled and had to be closed to vehicles for 20 minutes.
The line for chili cheddar fries, hot chocolate and other concessions snaked all the way through the park casino, and the picnic tables inside were full.
Last week's string of single-digit temperatures made Sunday's 25-degree afternoon feel "like it's 50," said Troy P. Schinzel, Erie County parks commissioner.
Schinzel echoed the comments of many there that the clear skies and sunshine made for perfect conditions and, whether it was Winterfest or not, the park would have been crowded.
Nancy Farmer of Lancaster has been coming to Winterfest for years with several generations of her extended family. She warmed up inside the casino, and she brought soup and roast beef for her group.
"The weather is beautiful," she said. "It's a good day to do this."
Bob Summers II of Cheektowaga was like a lot of parents, pulling his son, 3½-year-old Bobby III, on a sled.
"We'll probably check out the bike race and snow sculptures," said Bob's wife, Kim.
Snow was everywhere, except around the snow sculpture area, where families scraped the grass to have enough for some elaborate designs.
Violet Backes, 6, was making a dragon with her toddler sister and parents.
"We're big fans of 'How to Train Your Dragon,' " said Violet's dad, Todd Backes of Orchard Park.
Mountain bikers competed in races, bowlers tried to knock down pins in the snow, and the sledding hill was filled with little kids and parents who were overheard suggesting they might need "chiropractic realignments" before the day was over.
Glenn Colton offered a concert inside the casino, and hay rides were available for $3.
Maple syrup made at the county Bureau of Forestry on Genesee Road also was for sale.
The event was organized by the county and the Orchard Park Recreation Department.
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