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A group of scientists report the creation of the first genetically modified rats using Sangamo Biosciences zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology. The rats had permanent, heritable gene mutations, which paves the way for the development of novel genetically modified animal models of human disease, according to the researchers. "Until now, rat geneticists lacked a viable technique for knocking out, or mutating, specific genes to understand their function," states Howard Jacob, Ph.D., director of the human and molecular genetics center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "This study demonstrates that ZFN technology bypasses the current need to conduct cumbersome experiments involving nuclear transfer or embryonic stem cells and allows rapid creation of new animal models."
The study appeared in the July 24 issue of Science and is titled "Knockout Rats via Embryo Microinjection of Zinc Finger Nucleases." Besides investigators from the Medical College of Wisconsin and Sangamo, the research team included scientists from Sigma-Aldrich, Open Monoclonal Technology, and INSERM.
They used ZFNs to knock out an inserted reporter gene and two native rat genes without causing measurable effects on other genes. Importantly, offspring of the ZFN-mutated rats also carried the modifications, demonstrating the genetic changes were permanent and heritable. Together, these results demonstrate the ability to deliver engineered ZFNs into early-stage embryos and generate heritable, knockout mutations in a whole organism. ZFNs are engineered proteins that induce double strand breaks at specific sites in an organism's DNA. Such double-strand breaks stimulate the cell's natural DNA-repair pathways and can result in site-specific changes in the DNA sequence. ZFNs have reportedly been used to knock out specific genes in fruit flies, worms, cultured human cells, and zebrafish embryos. They are also currently in clinical trials for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Sigma-Aldrich, the sole source of commercial zinc finger nucleases for the research community, markets Sangamo's ZFN technology through its CompoZr™ line of products and services.
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excellent session with much code. perfect!
This learning session is just perfect, can't believe so much was accomplished in so little time. Thanks Nick for the wonderful video which was very informative.
Thanks for the informative session. Are there more to come?!?
great speech, are you sure you are not from UK!
Thanks all - I am glad you enjoyed the session and will ensure future TechEd sessions I give include similar levels of code
@AbuHelweh - yep pretty sure I am not from the UK
I have the source for this demo available here - http://www.nickharris.net/2012/06/building-connected-windows-8-apps-with-windows-azure/ note that you will need to provide your own sql + storage account keys or use the storage emulator and sql express
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on September 12, 2012 - 10:06 PM
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WASHINGTON - More than twice as many people in the Buffalo region and nationwide receive food stamps today compared with a decade ago, and in a roundabout way, that's the reason upstate New York farmers and the rest of the country found themselves Wednesday marching on the Capitol.
The huge growth in the food stamp program has prompted House Republicans to demand that funding for it be cut, and that demand has stymied congressional efforts to pass a new five-year Farm Bill to replace the one that expires on Sept. 30.
As a result, advocates for the poor and many of the nation's farmers are equally upset.
"All of a sudden some people would not be able to put food on the table" under the cuts proposed by the House GOP, said Dale Zuchlewski, executive director of the Homeless Alliance of Western New York.
"I think because the Farm Bill covers crop insurance, the grape growers are very concerned," said Charlene M. Ryder of Dunkirk, a consultant working for the state grape industry.
House Republicans insist, though, that food stamps may have to face the chopping block.
"The reality is that we're dealing with a $60 trillion national debt," said Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning. "No one wants to make, I don't want to make these cuts. But at the end of the day, we need to start living within our means."
Reed said he is amenable to compromise on the issue and that he wants deserving poor people to be protected.
Others look at the food stamp program and see waste."We're giving it for junk food, and we're giving it to go to McDonald's, and it's got to stop," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in June during a Senate debate on the issue. "It's doubled in the last 10 years. We do not have an endless supply of money."
There are reasons for the program's growth.
In the past four years, 65 percent of the growth in spending on the program can be blamed on the weak economy, the Congressional Budget Office said in a recent report. About 20 percent of the increase stems from higher benefits included in the 2009 stimulus bill, while the rest is tied to other factors.
A bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee would tighten eligibility requirements and cut spending on food stamps by $1.6 billion a year. But with many Republicans wanting even deeper cuts, the House leadership has refused to bring the bill to the floor.
Meanwhile, the Senate has passed a Farm Bill that cuts about $400 million a year from food stamps. That's too much, according to Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., but it's far less than the House bill.
The cuts in the House bill would be "devastating," she said. "It would harm so many children, seniors and veterans. Those are the largest groups that now access food stamps."
The Obama administration projects that 3 million people would lose their food stamp benefits under the House GOP proposal. That translates to about 11,500 people in the Buffalo Niagara region, where 180,343 people received food stamps in June.
Ironically, the food stamp program will go on even if Sept. 30 passes without Congress enacting a Farm Bill.
That's because food stamp spending is authorized separately.
What's threatened by the Sept. 30 deadline is almost every other farm program, causing concern among those at Gillibrand's annual New York Farm Day Wednesday.
The talk in Congress is that the existing Farm Bill will be extended temporarily, but farmers prefer a full five-year extension, said David Beaudreau Jr., a lobbyist for the National Grape Cooperative Association, which includes Welch's, the venerable grape products producer with roots in Chautauqua County.
For farmers, "there's a problem planning for next year" with all the uncertainty surrounding the Farm Bill, Beaudreau said.
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BEDINGTON - It was Sept. 2, 1945. Aboard the USS GOSS, a young Navy serviceman and World War II veteran, Richard D. Pill, was about to witness history. With just one pair of binoculars to share among them, Pill and his fellow shipmates took turns fixing their gaze on Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme allied commander of the Southwest Pacific theater.
MacArthur was aboard the USS Missouri that day surrounded by world dignitaries, servicemen and representatives of the defeated empire of Japan.
A little over two weeks earlier, Japanese Emperor Hirohito had announced Japan's surrender following the devastation wrought by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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USS Destroyer Escort Goss (DE 444) was 300 feet in length and was commissioned on Aug. 26,1944.
Aboard the Missouri, with a few strokes of a pen, it was official. World War II was finally over.
"It was a relief. The whole world was relieved," said Pill, a Morgantown native who moved to Berkeley County 22 years ago. "Very few of us are still living that got to see that surrender in person. Very few of us. I don't know that I can still count 10 that were there."
Pill, who was in the Pacific during invasions like those of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, is not one to brag, however. Like most surviving World War II veterans, he is humble and prefers to call himself a patriot rather than a hero.
Pill enlisted into the service in February 1944 at the age of 17 after convincing his parents to sign him up. For Pill, it was not just a chance to serve his county, but a chance at a better life. The area where Pill grew up was still reeling from the last throws of the Great Depression.
"If I didn't enlist, I was going anyway. I wanted to get in because there were no jobs or anything. This is nothing compared to the way it used to be. What took the depression over was the war," Pill said.
Pill estimated that 96 percent of boys who graduated from high school either joined the service or were drafted. In the end he didn't have much choice, but he was glad to have the opportunity to serve.
"Everybody was going and it was worldwide. It was a great, great war. I'm telling you. It was a big one," Pill said. "Young people can't understand how serious that war was. It was blacked out in Morgantown and blacked out right here, too."
After enlisting, he was sent to Parkersburg and then Great Lakes, Ill., for training. After just four weeks and five days he was sent to Norfolk, Va., where he was assigned to a ship.
During general quarters, Pill was among the gun crews responsible for manning one of the ship's 20mm guns. That ship, brand new and just commissioned in Brooklyn, N.Y., was a destroyer escort built by the Navy primarily as a submarine chaser. Its speed would allow it to escort larger ships in the Pacific fleet.
After departing New York, Pill escorted a convoy to England before turning back for Hawaii. Once leaving the safety of Hawaiian waters, all bets were off.
"From then on it was all fighting for us," Pill said. "Once you got into action out there we just went from one place to the other."
The first battle Pill's ship saw was during the invasion of the Philippines at Luzon and Corregidor. The air was thick with Japanese fighter planes and bombers, he said. The first action the men of the USS GOSS saw was when they encountered dreaded Kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers who turned fighter planes into guided missiles during attacks of Allied vessels.
"We are getting ready to invade and here comes a Kamikaze plane. Now they told us about them, but nobody had ever seen any. Nobody," Pill said.
At the time, Pill's ship was escorting an aircraft carrier called the Ommaney Bay when the Kamikaze pilot appeared out of the sky. Frantic orders to shoot it down were given, but it was already too late.
"We couldn't hit it. It was coming in too fast and he dove into that Ommaney Bay," Pill said. "It was a big ship, a big aircraft carrier, and it killed 600 to 700 people. It went down in 7,000 feet of water right there in the first action I ever saw."
As the sun set and darkness enveloped the ocean, the badly damaged, sinking ship still burned.
"It was burning all night ... we'd look over like that and here was a silhouette trying to stay up, and it was burning," Pill said.
The ocean would finally claim the ship after Navy ships fired six torpedoes to force it to finally sink.
From the Philippines, the USS GOSS would sail to what Pill called "the bad one," Iwo Jima. For 30 days before the invasion, Allied ships, including the GOSS, bombarded the volcanic island in an attempt to soften up Japanese defenses for the Marines landing on the island.
"What we didn't know and what nobody knew at the time was down beneath Iwo Jima were 20,000 Japanese that lived there for years and years. Iwo Jima means Sulfur Island, and it looked a piece of sulfur, too. It was ugly," Pill said.
When Marines first landed, Pill said things at first seemed to be going OK. What were thought to be holdouts were burned out of their hiding spots in caves by soldiers armed with flamethrowers.
"What happened was we thought that was all that was in there, but here come more and more. It's unbelievable. It was 9,000 casualties of our Marines and 20,000 of theirs. It was tough," Pill said. "It was really heartbreaking to see."
When the horrendous fighting was finally over - lasting more than a month - and the island was successfully captured, Pill's ship moved on. It was a relief, but for Pill the worst still was yet to come.
Pill calls it "the big one," the battle of Okinawa, which was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific war. The battle lasted more than 80 days from April to June 1945.
"Now, I'm lucky to be here. My guys were, too," Pill said. "People don't realize today, but they lost more ships and men, the Navy did, at Okinawa then they did at Pearl Harbor. It was tremendous."
With the battle over, all that remained between the Allies and victory was the mainland of Japan. Such an invasion, however, was expected to make past battles like Iwo Jima and Okinawa look like a cakewalk. Casualties on both sides were expected to be high.
Pill's ship was part of the preparations for the invasion, escorting ships and large tankers into the battle group formations. The armada was bigger than anything Pill said he had ever seen before.
"We knew it was going get bad. We were going to get hurt bad and so were they because the bombers had already bombed the heck out of Japan. It was devastating," Pill said.
Then, in August 1945, a signalman aboard Pill's ship made a surprising announcement. He said the war soon was going to be over. At first, Pill and his fellow sailors took such a notion with a grain of salt. The signalman was a big talker and had been known to make up stories, Pill said.
"He comes down there and he says, 'They dropped a boom, a big boom.' He was from down south you see," Pill said. "He said, 'It's a tremendous bomb, bigger than any bomb that's ever been dropped.'"
Not long after, the captain of the ship announced that he had just heard the atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.
"The captain said all he knew was they dropped one, and President Truman said if you don't give up we are going to drop another one up there, and they didn't give up," Pill said.
Finally, after the second bomb was dropped three days later over the city of Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered. Pill would later see pictures of the devastation left by the two bombs.
"It was devastating. It was just like one hour Martinsburg's there, the next hour there's no Martinsburg," Pill said.
With the war over, Pill would spend the next six to seven months in Japan during the post-war Allied occupation before earning the right to return home. He returned to Morgantown at the age 20.
After the war, he went to work for Dupont in Morgantown and later traveled to Galveston, Texas and managed a small recreation park. He later enrolled at West Virginia University in 1947 and spent two years studying engineering. While attending the university, he got a job in research on the campus and spent the next 27 as a chemical engineer making gasoline out of coal until his retirement.
Today he lives on a spacious farm near Bedington with his wife of 61 years.
"We don't call each other heroes. The guys like myself, we call each other patriots," Pill said. "We didn't brag about that. We were just comrades, that's all. You did your duty."
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Not All Nanodisk Magnetic Vortices Are Created Equally
Magnetic vortices - hurricanes of magnetism only a few atoms across - have been found to form asymmetrically in ferromagnetic nanodisks. This finding contradicts previous beliefs and poses challenges to using magnetic vortices in random access memory (RAM) data storage systems. Read more...Contact: Mi-Young Im
A New Route to Nanoscale Conducting Channels in Insulating Oxides
Building on the recent discovery of a highly mobile two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between two insulating oxides, researchers can now generate and control a two-dimensional gas state on bare insulating oxide surfaces, a capability that may speed the future of oxide electronics. Read more...
Also in July, ALS staff were on hand to answer questions at a display of 35 facility posters at SRI 2012 in Lyon, France. The exhibit, produced by lightsources.org organizers at ESRF, attracted more than 350 visitors during the course of the meeting, many of whom took the opportunity to fill out a questionnaire about how the organization can better serve the light source community. A new lightsources.org web site, reflecting many of the suggestions, will debut later this fall.
Users and staff who would like to take ALS media and brochures to scientific meetings should contact the ALS Communications Group.
The ALS User Meeting will be held October 8-10, 2012. Please consider nominating a deserving colleague for a User Meeting Award. There are two new aspects of the awards for 2012. First, there will be a monetary prize for each award. Funds for this are currently being raised from the ALS exhibitor community. The amount is not yet finalized but will be at least $1500 per award. Second, a policy for roll-over of unsuccessful nominations is being instituted. Nominations will remain active for three years, with nominators being allowed to update their nomination prior to each competition. There are three awards, and the forms are all available on the User Meeting Awards Web page.
David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS
David Shirley was a Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Director of LBNL from 1980 to 1989. He was instrumental in building the ALS. He is now retired from the lab.
Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS
Klaus Halbach was a senior staff scientist at LBNL who pioneered the development of undulators using permanent magnets, and other innovations in accelerator physics Even though he retired from LBNL in 1991, he remained active in lab projects and student training until his death in 2000.
Tim Renner User Services Award for Outstanding Support to the ALS User Community
Tim Renner was a beamline scientist at the ALS who died at an early age, and who during his career touched everyone that knew him with his caring attitude to others and his larger-than-life personality. This award recognizes individuals, across the ALS organization, that have made outstanding contributions to the ALS user community.
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It's official that Weaver/Poje have been added to the World team.
But today's Skate Canada announcement is confusing. Seems that SC has retained a little wiggle room as to whether W/P will compete in London???
Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje added to Skate Canadas World Team Roster
Kaitlyn underwent a successful surgery and the team is back on the ice in training mode, said Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada High Performance Director. "We will continue to monitor their progress over the next few weeks to determine their readiness for the world championships."
They will join Tessa Virtue, 22, London, Ont., and Scott Moir, 24, Ilderton, Ont., and Piper Gilles, 20, Toronto, Ont., Paul Poirier, 21, Unionville, Ont., as Canadas three entries in the ice dance division.
ETA, irrelevant fact-check:
Skate Canada has the wrong ages for V/M, who are 23 and 25, respectively. http://skatecanada.ca/Profile/tabid/...&strlanguage=E


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Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit issued a ruling in the Minnesota childcare provider's lawsuit challenging a state law designed to forcibly unionize them. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement in the wake of today's ruling:
"We disagree with the court's limited ruling holding that the childcare providers' lawsuit is not ripe until a unionization election is requested. However, we are encouraged that the court's reasoning further legitimizes the personal homecare providers' lawsuit filed earlier this week.
"The court's ruling today means that the homecare providers' suit is indeed ripe for review because those providers are under imminent threat of unionization, with the unionization election starting tomorrow.
"No homecare personal or childcare provider should be forced to associate with a state's hand-picked political representative. Jennifer Parrish and other Minnesota childcare providers intend to refile their lawsuit if and when AFSCME union officials push to force childcare providers into union ranks."
Both groups of providers are receiving free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.


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Logitech Bluetooth Music Receiver
Forget the aux cord -- this Logitech Bluetooth Music Receiver is the easiest way to stream audio from your smartphone or laptop.
Yamaha RX-V481
The Yamaha RX-V481 checks most of the must-have feature boxes, and still delivers excellent sound quality for a mid-price receiver.
Pioneer VSX-831
The Pioneer VSX-831's plethora of features, excellent ease-of-use and fine sound quality make it one of the better AV receivers for the money.
Marantz SR5011
Marantz's new SR5011 receiver offers a raft of features including immersive surround support and eight HDMI ports.
Sony STR-DN1070
Lack of Atmos is more than eclipsed by excellent sound quality, making the Sony STR-DN1070 one of the best receivers at this price.
Denon AVR-S920W
Denon has announced two new receivers for 2016 -- the AVR-S720W and the AVR-S920W -- which offer a wide selection of connectivity, but sadly, not the company's own HEOS multiroom system.
Yamaha RX-V381
Yamaha has announced its first 2016 receiver, the RX-V381, which offers four HDMI inputs with 4K support and Bluetooth streaming.
Pioneer Elite VSX-LX101
Pioneer has announced that its 2016 Elite receivers will include next-generation surround technologies Dolby Atmos and DTS:X in addition to Google Cast.
Onkyo TX-NR656
Onkyo has announced its 2016 range of receivers, which include features such as Dolby Atmos, Google Cast and the company's first multiroom system.
Harman Kardon AVR1610S
The Harman Kardon AVR 1610S is a decent AV receiver, but it pales in comparison to plenty of far better alternatives at the same price.


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on September 14, 2012 - 12:09 AM
, updated September 14, 2012 at 10:01 AM
The principals and assistant principals newly appointed this school year in the Buffalo Public Schools were introduced to the School Board this week.
The new principals are:
. Contann Dabney, at Early Childhood Center 17, who had been an assistant principal at Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence
. Denisca Thompson, at Dr. Charles R. Drew Science Magnet 59, who had been an assistant principal at Leonardo da Vinci High School
. Todd Miklas, at Lorraine Elementary, who had been an assistant principal at Frank A. Sedita Elementary
. Carlos Alvarez, at Bennett High School, who had been an assistant principal there. Alvarez is acting principal, filling the vacancy left by David Mauricio's appointment as a community superintendent.
The interview process this year involved three rounds of interviews. One round required candidates to watch a videotape of someone teaching a lesson, then write an essay explaining what they would tell the teacher to help improve instruction. The final round of interviews was with Brown.
The new assistant principals are: DeMario Strickland at Sedita; Deborah McCarthy at Hamlin Park School; Carol Smith at Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy; Cameron Hall as acting assistant principal at Wright; Deanna Schmitt at Harvey Austin School; Jonathan Welka at Performing Arts; Greg Lodinsky at da Vinci; and Daniel Zack at Hutchinson-Central Technical High School.
Appointed temporary assistant principals were Kathy Bethel at BUILD Academy and Daniel Bass at Bennett. Brian Lorentz was appointed deputy director of human resources.
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Tuesday February 5th: Rocket Skis
There is a ski maker in Jackson that will give you all of the technical superiority of a great ski, coupled with some amazing graphic design work. Rocket Skis is the only custom ski maker in the Mount Washington Valley and from the way they handle, to the way they look, with a pair of Rocket Skis, your sticks are sure to be a hit on the slopes.
Plus, we all know someone who plays the guitar or the piano but there is a man in Concord who is creating and playing instruments that you've probably never heard of before. David Kontak has always had a love for music and that's one of the reasons he's turned his creative energy into making one-of-a-kind musical instruments that you will have to see and hear to believe.
And on Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: Life Saving Service.
For more information on tonight's stories:
Rocket Skis
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The Stetson men's soccer team returns home for a single game this weekend, hosting Mercer at the Athletic Training Center on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Last season's runner-up in the Atlantic Sun Conference, Mercer (3-10-1) has gotten out to a slow start in league play, holding a record of just 1-2-1. The Bears began with a win at home against USC Upstate, but then lost to ETSU and Jacksonville before playing to a scoreless draw at FGCU this past Thursday.
Stetson, meanwhile, picked up its first point of A-Sun play last weekend, playing to a scoreless draw at USC Upstate with a depleted lineup. The Hatters will look to get back on track with two home contests after falling to ETSU by a score of 3-0 their last time out.
Sunday's contest will have general admission tickets priced at $5 for adults and $4 for seniors and students. All home soccer matches are free to Stetson students, faculty, and staff with a Stetson University ID. For more information call (386) 738-HATS.
The match can also be watched live on HatterVision with Ryan Rouse on the call. Live Stats on GoHatters.com, the @StetsonMSoccer Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.
• Stetson holds a 20-11-2 advantage over Mercer in the storied series between the two teams, which began back in 1985.
• Last season Mercer defeated Stetson 1-0 in Macon, Ga. on a goal by Josh Shutter.
• Stetson earned its first Atlantic Sun Conference point of the season on Oct. 11, playing to a 0-0 draw at USC Upstate.
• The Hatters have scored eight goals in 2013. Evan Jimmo, Gianluca Carbone, Chase Rodgers, JJ Bostic, Dwight Lodge, Justin Shirah, and Raffaele Centofanti have all scored for Stetson.
• Rodgers and Centofanti lead Stetson with four points on the season. Rodgers has scored two goals, while Centofanti has scored one goal and recorded two assists.
• Stetson hasn't scored since its 2-1 loss at home to Northern Kentucky.
• Senior Andreas Schnabl's shutout against UMass Lowell was the 13th of his career, which is a school record.
• Schnabl's eight saves against Grand Canyon tied a career best (Also 8 at FIU on 9/9/11). It tied for the most since Logan Potter's 13 vs. Lipscomb on 10/9/09.


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quote: Outside of the immediate area around Chernobyl, no one received a radiation dose that was any way, shape, or form harmful.
quote: if you have any info on contamination in Belarus or Ukraine, to please pass it my way
quote: Russian officials sending the army men remove some things near the reactor area, and instead of masks they only had a piece of cloth to filter the air
quote: I attended graduate school in Moscow, not that long after the Chernobyl incident, actually.
quote: that's the problem with isotypes like cesium-137


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The Complaint largely ignores the significant competition from established providers such as Verizon Wireless and Sprint, innovative upstarts such as MetroPCS and Leap/Cricket, and strong regional providers like US Cellular and Cellular South, among others. The Department does not and cannot explain how, in the face of all of these aggressive rivals, the combined AT&T/T-Mobile will have any ability or incentive to restrict output, raise prices, or slow innovation. Nor can it explain how T-Mobile, the only major carrier to have actually lost subscribers in a robustly growing market, provides a unique competitive constraint on AT&T.
Blocking this transaction will not help T-Mobile or its customers, but the transfer of T-Mobile's network capacity and infrastructure to AT&T, a healthy competitor, will enhance competition for all, now and in the future.
Defendants respond that significant efficiencies more than outweigh any anticompetitive effect from this merger. Defendants further respond that Plaintiff's own Horizontal Merger Guidelines make clear that cost savings and other efficiencies can "reduce … the merged firm's incentive to elevate prices," "make coordination less likely," and more generally "reverse the merger's potential to harm customers." Defendants further respond that it is Plaintiff's burden to prove that, on balance, in light of all the evidence, including the competitive, efficiency-enhancing effects, the net effect of the transaction is to substantially lessen competition.
[C]ustomers' insatiable and growing demand for wireless data is placing unprecedented strains on AT&T's network and is impairing its ability to continue to meet explosive mobile broadband demands... Without this merger, AT&T will continue to experience capacity constraints, millions of customers will be deprived of faster and higher quality service, and innovation and infrastructure will be stunted.
Defendants further respond that characterization of AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint as the "Big Four" is misleading in this context, because, as the FCC has recently found in its Fifteenth Report on the state of competition in the mobile services marketplace, more than 90% of U.S. consumers have at least five wireless providers to choose from. Defendants otherwise deny the allegations in this paragraph.
quote: I was refering to harm as the positive test result, and I could have (and probably should have) said non-positive, but i thought you'd get it. obviously not, my bad. You're still mincing words. If your Logic 101 says that "ATT states no significant harm" is equal to "ATT admits harm" then your class is flawed. Out of all of ATT's comments and arguments for the betterment of consumers, you take one and twist it to make them "leave the door open to perhaps-maybe-possibly cause marginal-but-perhaps-insignificant harm to consumers" I'm not here to argue words, i'm just saying that your headline is very misleading.
quote: I don't own ATT stock or T-mobile stock, and I definitely dont' work for either company. I'm just an observer here.
quote: Good for them! The fact remains that they have choices! They don't have to use GSM here or there! It's just convenient. I'm sure you don't think it's our government's job to regulate our companies to use forein standards for convenience sake. (or maybe you do) Then verizon wouldn't even exist... at least in the same capacity. Everyone would have to use GSM? no. that's retarded.
quote: T-mobile's owners should get the say in who purchases them. As long as the sale is legal. Saying that there are other possible buyers that maybe won't pay as much, but that would be better anyway is definitely not free-market. Whatever, maybe you're not a free-market person.
quote: Again, this is a qualified indefinite, so it indicates both a partial-negative and partial-positive are possible outcomes -- the headline points to the negative one simply because it's an interesting admission.Again, remember too that AT&T is arbitrarily defining what it thinks to be "significant". It does not including its definition of significant harm vs. minor/slight harm in the document....
quote: That's like saying you have a choice between walking or riding your car. Yes there's choices, but one choice is much less convenient than the other, since it's a different kind of product.So yes, AT&T does, in a sense, own a monopoly.
quote: Not denying a possible negative is not the same as admitting a possible negative.


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Margie Elaine �Nanny� Berry died Sunday, April 1, 2012, at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango. She was 92.
Mrs. Berry was born Dec. 8, 1919, to Samuel Laffayette Reynolds and Cynthia Ann Smith in Roanoke, Texas. After attending one year of school in Roanoke, she attended elementary, junior high and high school at Robert E. Lee School in Denton, Texas.
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On Wednesday, it was confirmed that longtime couple Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are expecting their first child together. Not much more about the superstar baby is known, but that hasn't stopped the Web from going wild with conjecture. Ellen DeGeneres was one of the first celebrities to Tweet out a congratulations to the parents-to-be. The sunny host had nothing but nice things to say about Gosling's future gosling.
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Customizable datapath integrated lock unit
Jääskeläinen, Pekka; Salminen, Erno; Esko, Otto; Takala, Jarmo
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Issue date: 2011
Citation: Jääskeläinen, Pekka; Salminen, Erno; Esko, Otto; Takala, Jarmo 2011. Customizable Datapath Integrated Lock Unit . 2011 International Symposium on System on Chip SoC, Tampere, Finland, October 31 - November 2, 2011 Piscataway, NJ, IEEE . 29-33.
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Multicore Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors (MCASIP) offer an interesting alternative for implementing parallel applications in MPSoCs. Flexible MCASIP architecture templates allow matching the instruction and task level parallelism provided by the processor to the requirements of the application at hand. The processing throughput provided by shared memory (SM) multicores is commonly limited by the SM bandwidth. Synchronizing the execution of multiple threads using lock variables residing in the SM further adds to the bottleneck. In this paper we present a technique to reduce the SM contention in the case of MCASIPs where application-specific hardware customization can be used. The proposed solution is to use customized Datapath Integrated Lock Units (DILU) that enable the implementation of light weight synchronization primitives which minimize SM traffic. The paper presents an experiment with a 48-core MCASIP which shows that the SM impact of the proposed fast barrier based on DILU in comparison to a basic SM polling one is up to 64% smaller. The size of the DILU hardware is negligible.
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Admission Requirements of the U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools, published by the American Association of Dental Schools, 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2212.
Medical School Admission Requirements, published by the Association of American Medical Colleges, Dept. 66, Washington, D.C. 20055.
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Tajh Boyd, Jadeveon Clowney and Sammy Watkins acknowledged as three of the best players in college football isn't much of a surprise.
Vic Beasley on the national radar for defensive players is more of a head-turner.
With 76 players named to the Maxwell Award Preseason Watch List, the trifecta of Palmetto State standouts has plenty of company.
Both the Clemson quarterback, Boyd, and wide receiver, Watkins, were on the 2012 preseason list, along with departed wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and running back Andre Ellington. Clowney, a South Carolina defensive end, was also acknowledged in July 2012, right next to then-tailback Marcus Lattimore.
Boyd is one of six 2012 Maxwell semifinalists back on the 2013 list, joined by three quarterbacks (Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel, Alabama's AJ McCarron and Ohio State's Braxton Miller), Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas and USC wide receiver Marqise Lee.
Boyd is the reigning ACC Player of the Year, and Watkins was national freshman of the year in 2011 before a relative sophomore slump last year.
Clowney is the Gamecocks' lone player named to the Maxwell list, but as the presumptive defensive player of the year favorite, he's one of the biggest names to file away for the Maxwell Football Club's top trophy.
Defending national champion Alabama has four players on the list: McCarron, tailback T.J. Yeldon, receiver Amari Cooper and linebacker C.J. Mosley. Texas A&M and Arizona State each have three representatives; Clemson is one of 13 schools with two players on the radar, joined in the ACC only by Miami (QB Stephen Morris, RB Duke Johnson.)
The ACC has eight players on the list; joining the Clemson and Miami representatives are Maryland receiver Stefon Diggs, North Carolina quarterback Bryn Renner, Syracuse tailback Jerome Smith and Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas.
The SEC's 16 hopefuls narrowly edged the Pac-12's 15 to lead the nation. Georgia and Mississippi State also place multiple players in contention, and nine out of the league's 14 schools are represented.
Mid-majors are finding their diamonds in the rough earning more preseason recognition, with 18 players from non-automatic BCS qualifiers getting some love.
Beasley is a breakout candidate on defense, one of ten ACC players on the Bednarik Watch List. The Tigers' junior defensive end led the team last year with eight sacks, ranking fourth in the league.
Clowney is one of three Bednarik semifinalists from 2012 back on the list, joining Mosley and Arizona State defensive tackle Will Sutton.
2012 ACC Champion Florida State has three Bednarik representatives, but no Maxwell profiles. Alabama and Florida also have a trio of Bednarik candidates.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o swept the Maxwell and Bednarik awards last season, the first player ever to do so. He was the first defender to win the Maxwell Award in 32 years.
Members of the National College Football Awards Association will continue to roll out preseason watch lists for individual positions over the course of the next two weeks.


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JOHNSTOWN - When the Penn Cambria boys basketball team opened up its District 6 Class AA quarterfinal game with Ligonier Valley on Saturday with a 13-2 run, there was little concern that the Panthers hadn't played for 10 days.
But that concern crept closer and closer to PC coach Jim Ronan when the Rams cut that lead to just two points later in the first quarter.
"This is the time of year where if you make that one mistake, it could be the last one of your season," Ronan said. "When they're making the run there, I'm not going to lie, I was nervous. But I just told the kids we have to keep wearing them down."
And that's exactly what the Panthers did, dominating the 10th-seeded Rams in the fourth quarter, 21-15, on their way to a 64-54 victory at Richland High School. At times trailing in the third quarter, the Panthers narrowly slid into the final frame with a four-point lead.
And that's when senior forward A.J. Leahey took over.
"In that fourth quarter, that's when the great players take over," said Ronan. "That's when [Leahey] got hot for us."
Leahey recorded two early 3-point field goals, a bucket in the paint and five free throws in the fourth quarter, adding to his game-high 25 points.
"We didn't handle the pressure," Ligonier Valley coach John Berger said. "We reverted back to maybe making some unforced some errors. But hey, I'm proud of my team. My hat's off to Penn Cambria. Man, are they a good team."
But second-seeded Penn Cambria may not have been in the position to regain the lead in the third and extend it in the fourth if not for the first-half play of Mack Behe, who led all scorers with 10 points at the intermission.
"That's been the recipe for our success all year long - when we have multiple guys scoring points," Ronan said. "We don't want to rely on A.J. to score 35 points, because we're not often successful with that. Mack hit some huge shots for us early."
"Our offense obviously runs through A.J. and he was having a hard time," Behe said. "It's important that other people step up and try to keep us in the game. I'm just fortunate I had a good first half. I was just glad to chip in."
Behe, who finished with 12 points, was the only other Panther in double figures, despite scoring only one bucket in the final 16 minutes.
Ligonier Valley (15-8) was led by Jordan Jones' 17-points, followed by Zach Yeskey with 14 points, and Alec Bloom with 12.
Penn Cambria (18-4) goes on to play the sixth-seeded Bishop McCort Crushers in the district semifinals Tuesday night at a location yet to be determined.
LIGONIER VALLEY (54): Bloom 4 2-2 12, Waugh 0 0-0 0, Fennell 2 0-0 4, Yeskey 5 2-4 14, Jones 6 5-6 17, Tennant 2 0-1 4, Tutino 1 0-0 3, Jablunovsky 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 9-13 54.
PENN CAMBRIA (64): Behe 5 2-2 12, Keagy 4 0-1 8, Lawhead 3 1-2 7, Leahey 8 5-10 25, J. Mardula 1 2-2 4, Tsikalas 2 0-0 4, Schwaderer 1 0-0 2, Hite 0 0-0 0, M. Mardula 0 2-2 2. Totals: 23 12-19 64.
Ligonier Valley14 15 10 15 - 54
Penn Cambria20 11 12 21 - 64
3-point field goals: Ligonier Valley 5 (Bloom 2, Yeskey 2, Tutino); Penn Cambria 4 (Leahey 4).
Records: Ligonier Valley (15-8); Penn Cambria (18-4).


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4 cups fresh basil, packed and chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Magical Blogorail Blue: The Days In The Park Never-Miss!
22 comments:
- BhappyLove said...
Ah the beloved Tiki Room. It's not my must hit every time but in the last few years I've checked it out more and learned to appreciate it. First I have to say that getting a dole whip is one of my favorite things to do when its warm or even just mild outside (I have been known to have one on a cold day too). When we come with other families with kiddos we try to take a breather with them here. But on my last "big family" trip out to the park in November I discovered something that gives me even more of an appreciation of it. It was pretty cold and we were shutting the park down and my boyfriend's niece let us know in her little voice that she wanted to go into the tiki room. They had already closed up and we were walking down main street. We had to say no (I hate saying no to her. She's so sweet and cute!). So as we were walking out of the park in her little voice I started to hear little noises. Then it got a little louder. I figured out where the noises were coming from and I was holding it's hand. The little noises turned out to be her singing the Tiki Room songs. Cutest thing I have ever heard or seen. They come out next week so I can't wait to see and hear her running around the park with us. I hope you are having a fantastic week!
- June 10, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- Beth Green said...
GREAT post!! Sad to say we skipped this attraction when we were out there last year since we had done it at WDW. We tried to hit the things that were not found at WDW first and we ran out of time. :(
1- what's the difference in a dole whip soft serve and float? (never had one...)
2- can maynard be found at the haunted mansion too?? I think I saw a DL special on TV or read somewhere that talked about him being at the HM... or is that someone else??
- June 10, 2011 at 5:30 AM
- Amanda said...
That is great that you are close enough to be able to go to Disneyland so many times a week! I have never been, but if I ever make it out there - I will definitely check it out!
- June 10, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- DebºoºS said...
Thanks for a great review, very descriptive. You're so fortunate to be able to get to the park several times a week. The Tiki Room is now on my must-do list.
DL or WDW - Gotta have a Dole Whip!
- June 10, 2011 at 7:25 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Such a cute story, Bhappy! Thanks so much for sharing! :)
I'm glad that the Tiki Room is kind of growing on you. I was much the same way at first, but it grew on me and now I love it to death. There's just something about it. :)
- June 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Thanks Beth!
Sad you skipped it. It's a classic but if you've seen the classic version before it's at least understandable.
The soft serve is just the dessert itself in a cup, the float is the soft serve in a cup of pineapple juice, like a float. ;)
Maynard works all over the place so it's probably. I've never seen him at the Mansion myself, but we see him at Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln a lot too. We think he's at his best at the Tiki Room, but he's pretty awesome just on his own. :)
- June 10, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Thanks Amanda!
Yes, it's pretty darn cool that we live so close. We're definitely blessed to be able to go as often as we do.
Hope you make it out some day! :)
- June 10, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Thanks Deb!
The several times a week doesn't always often, but more often than not we try to get out there, especially with my kids :)
Glad it's now on your list, and yes, a Dole Whip is a must, wherever you are! :)
- June 10, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Heidi said...
I'm envious that you live close enough to visit that often. Wow! You're my hero!
And the Dole Whip Floats - those things are to die for!
- June 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Days In The Park said...
It's definitely wonderful to be able to do it, Heidi. Not sure I should attain hero status, though - LOL. We live a half hour from The Parks so it's pretty easy to do, and most of my friends here are Passholders too so we're all there frequently. It was more by chance than design - marry a Southern California girl who already lives close to The Resort and that's what happens :)
And yes, Dole Whips are to die for! :)
- June 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Disney on Wheels said...
Great review! I love the Enchanted Tiki Room, I even liked the Under New Management, but I am so happy they are bringing the original back to WDW. And, fingers crossed, I hope to experience it at Disneyland in 2013! :o)
- June 10, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- BruceWDW said...
I'm really looking forward to the new (or is it old) Tiki room on our next visit. Adventureland is always a great set of visits for our family.
- June 10, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Crystal and Bryan - canadisney.com said...
We did Disney's World Tiki Room for the first time last year, and are very excited to see the "original" version this year now that they're scrapping the "Under New Management" theme!
- June 10, 2011 at 6:18 PM
- yestheyareallmine said...
I love the original Tiki Room!
I am not sure if you remember me. I am Casey and I blogged at Disney DreamFinder. I was ill and stopped writing. Well, I am slowly coming back and have a new blog. You can find me at http://yestheyrallmine.com I will be back reading yours now and can't wait to get caught up!
- June 10, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- Days In The Park said...
Thanks Melissa!
Yeah, we hear that that's the general consensus about "Under New Management". ;)
And here's to hoping you get to experience it in 2013 too! :)
- June 11, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Thanks Bruce!
We love Adventureland as well :)
- June 11, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Hey Crystal and Bryan. Thanks for stopping by!
Nothing ever beats the original, does it? :)
- June 11, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Days In The Park said...
Of course I remember you Casey! We missed you around here! :)
So glad you're back and can't wait for you to get caught up, either. We've been busy around here! ;)
- June 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- ChevyBurnz said...
Its a classic attraction that holds great nostalgia, that feels timeless every time you enter the Enchanted Tiki Room! I personally like the Tiki atmosphere, which is why its poised in the upper part of my must do list.
Great article!
- June 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Days In The Park said...
Thank for stopping by Eric!
It's awesome to see that so many other people love, or want to love, the Tiki Room too. So glad to know we're not the only ones that consider it a must do! :)
- June 13, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Jason Tucker said...
Don't we all loop nice :)
What a great night!
- November 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- Days In The Park said...
We sure did, Jason. It was an awesome night :)
- November 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM


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I love blueberries and buy them year round - fresh, canned or frozen - but have never grown them.
I intend to remedy this in the spring with a container planting right outside the back door.
Blueberries need an acidic soil. Because our area soil is not naturally low in pH, it is necessary to use additives such as those marketed for azaleas. I always keep that on hand to maintain the blue coloring in my hydrangea.
Blood meal, cottonseed meal and peat moss also are effective in lowering the pH to the necessary 4.0-5.0 mark.
The best way to manage the soil is to fill a container, and I plan to use the large pot that used to be my water pot. It has no drainage at the moment, but if I leave the plastic container in the ground to experience the expected freeze and thaw cycles, it probably will crack and create its own drainage system.
There are three main types of blueberry bushes, although hybrids with the advantages of each are being developed. Highbush is the most suitable for our zone, rather than lowbush or rabbiteye.
Blueberries need a climate with cold winters, mild summers and some humidity with adequate rainfall.
The bushes are shallow rooted, and it is recommended to plant two different varieties for cross pollination, although the highbush is supposed to be self-pollinating. This would also give a longer fruiting season.
Use a couple of inches of mulch to keep the soil moist.
Much like buying asparagus plants, it is good to look for 2- or 3-year-old plants because they do not bear fruit until the third season and take another few years until the harvest is plentiful.
I would like to hear from people who grow blueberries successfully in Seneca County and have advice to share.
Here are a couple of tips for the kitchen.
The skins may be tough, so put the berries in a pan with a little water and bring them slowly to the boil, then rinse and dry before use. And to prevent the berries from falling to the bottom of the pan or muffin papers, be sure they are dry and sprinkle with a little flour.
Rinsing also prevents that off-putting gray color that sometimes spoils the look of the muffins.
Here is a recipe I like. It can be baked in a loaf pan, cake tins or muffin cups. I don't know the source of the recipe; I have used and adapted it over the years and it is not written down.
I like it because I always have the ingredients on hand and do not have to run to the store for buttermilk or yogurt or the like.
Cream together a stick of softened butter and a cup of sugar. Add 2 eggs and half a cup of milk. Mix in a cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and some lemon flavoring.
This can be grated lemon zest or dried or fresh leaves of lemon balm and a few drops of lemon juice.
Stir in up to 2 cups of rinsed blueberries. You can top the batter with a mixture of brown sugar and butter for a crunchy topping, and then bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. This yields 12 muffins.
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