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We invite participation by scholars outside the United States at the 36th annual Appalachian Studies Conference organized by the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) to be held on the campus of Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone, NC, March 22-24, 2013. In support of ASA's and ASU's internationalization initiatives, the conference's program committee has extended the CFP deadline for scholars working outside the United States to Friday, November 9, 2012.
Boone is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina about two hours from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. A Wide Area Map and Driving Directions may be found at http://maps.appstate.edu/wide-area-map/. The conference program committee will coordinate transportation from and back to the Charlotte airport for international presenters in need of transportation assistance.
This year's conference theme is "Communities in Action, Landscapes in Change." We encourage innovative proposals that explore all types of communities across the Appalachian Mountain region--historical, contemporary, and imagined ones--and the landscapes and environmental spaces that impact, and are impacted by, those communities.
Formats might include:
* individual scholarly research papers
* formed sessions
* poster sessions presenting scholarly research OR documenting community work
* panels and community presentations
* performance or sharing of films, documentaries, videos, poetry, music, plays, art, and writing
* roundtable conversations on contemporary issues, e.g. activism in the region,professional development, or a newcomer's orientation to Appalachian studies
Proposals by scholars working outside the United States must be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than November 9, 2012. The CFP closed on October 12 for scholars inside the United States.
Submit your proposal (approx. 250 words) within the text of your email AND as a single-spaced Word attachment. Please use the following e-mail subject line format: [individual or group] proposal on [subject area]: [topic]. For example, "individual proposal on literature: Ron Rash's female characters." Inquiries only should be sent to Katherine Ledford or Kathy Olson at their university e-mail addresses listed above. Proposals only should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please choose ONE of these subjects when creating the subject line for your proposal:
• Environment/Ecology
• Natural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Education
• Health/Medical
• Literature
• History
• Religion
• Music
• Communities
• Identity/Diversity
• Women and Gender Studies
• Folklore/Folkways
• Foodways
• Visual Art/Craft
• Tourism/Development
• Economic Development/Poverty
• Politics/Government
• Labor/Organizing
• Coal/Natural Gas
• Urban Appalachians/Out-Migration
• Performance [use for a reading or screening]
The following information is required in your proposal:
1. Proposal category: Individual paper/presentation OR group session.
2. Type of Presentation: Paper, Poster/Exhibit, Panel/Roundtable, Film, Reading, or Workshop.
3. Subject: Selected from list above. Choose one subject only, please.
4. Contact information: Name(s), email address(es), and affiliation(s), if any, of ALL participants and a 1-2-sentence biographical sketch of each participant.
5. Title of your individual paper/presentation OR session. Individual papers/presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes. If you are proposing a session, include the title of each paper/presentation in the session.
6. Abstract: A single-spaced abstract of 250 words describing your individual paper/presentation or session in the body of your e-mail AND attached as a Word file. For a session, please submit an abstract from each presenter after the abstract describing the whole session.
7. Media: Equipment needs.
8. Volunteering to convene: Would you be willing to serve as the convener for a session other than your own? Duties include beginning and ending the session on time, ensuring equal time for each presenter, and preserving time for questions and comments.
All presenters must register for the conference and pay the registration fee of $130 ($80 for students), which also covers membership in the Appalachian Studies Association for one year and a one-year subscription to the Journal of Appalachian Studies. To register online, visit www.appalachianstudies.org. A limited number of registration scholarships will be available beginning December 1. Late, incomplete, mailed, or faxed submissions cannot be accepted. Submitting a proposal does not guarantee presentation at the conference. Applicants will be notified by November 16, 2012 of the program committee's decision.


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RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Jordan HamiltonPosted by rtmsf on June 11th, 2011
Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 23, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David Stern in the first round that night. There won't be any particular order to the list, but you can scroll back through all the finished profiles by clicking here.
Player Name: Jordan Hamilton
School: Texas
Height/Weight: 6'8/224 lbs.
NBA Position: Small Forward
Projected Draft Range: Mid-First Round
Overview: Hamilton came to Texas as a five-star recruit out of Compton's Dominguez High, a school that has produced such basketball luminaries as Dennis Johnson, Cedric Ceballos, Tayshaun Prince, Tyson Chandler and Brandon Jennings, to name just a few. Even back at Dominguez, Hamilton was regarded as a fearsome offensive player, capable of scoring from all over the court, albeit with a tendency to force up wild shots. In his first season in Austin, he lived up to his reputation as a uninhibited gunner – as well as his reputation as an uninterested defender – as the Longhorns limped home to an early NCAA exit. However, as a sophomore, Hamilton took great strides to shore up some of those problems, improving his shot selection drastically (while still taking 33% of his team's shots while on the floor), and as a result, increasing his field goal percentage by three percentage points and his three-point percentage by two, up to 44% and 38.5% respectively. Along the way, he also yanked down 7.7 rebounds per game and handed out 2.1 assists per game. However, his defense still rates no higher than awful and, while a great shooter with almost unlimited range, he isn't much of an offensive threat off of the dribble and is prone to turning the ball over too much. Nevertheless, while Hamilton still has a ways to go to make the most of his talent, he is a terrific athlete with the size and strength to become a prodigious scorer at the next level. And given the improvement he showed from his freshman year to his sophomore campaign, he seems to be the type of guy who will put in the necessary work to make the most of his skills.
Will Translate to the NBA: While shot selection has been a question mark at times, the actual shot is Hamilton's main strength. He's got great form, a quick release, range out to well beyond the NBA three-point line and the ever-loving desire to show off that form at a moment's notice. If Hamilton's got his feet set, his shot has a very good chance of going in. But better yet, he's a great shotmaker when he's not perfectly set and does a great job of making shots that look at first glance to be out of control, a trait that will come in handy when the 24-second clock is waning in the NBA.

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WARREN - The Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board and Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention will hold an anti-drug and crime march from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Those participating are asked to meet at the parking lot beside Trumbull Memorial Hospital on Laird Avenue S.E.
The group wants to send a message of change and is asking law enforcement, government officials, health officials, neighborhood groups and others to join.


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Supporting Organizations
The UW Botanic Gardens depends on the generous time and financial support of many dedicated volunteers and supporting organizations.
The Arboretum Foundation was established in 1935 to raise money to support the Washington Park Arboretum. Today the Foundation focuses on raising funds, promoting volunteerism, and advocating at the local and state level on issues that affect the Arboretum. In recent years, their fundraising has been focused on the K-8 Education Program and the Arborist and Tree Care Program. In addition, they, along with the City have provided all of the funding for the creation of the new Pacific Connections Garden. Donations to support the Arboretum may be given to either the UW Botanic Gardens or the Arboretum Foundation.
The Northwest Horticultural Society was founded in 1966 to support the establishment of the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) at the University of Washington, the first academic program in the United States to focus on using plants to maintain and enhance the urban environment. The Society is a major financial supporter of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the CUH. NHS annually grants scholarships to students in horticulture at the University of Washington and supports projects that benefit horticulture in the Northwest. The Northwest Horticultural Society Hall at CUH provides a meeting spaces for lectures, conferences and social events supporting UWBG in its vision of acting as a hub for plant science, information, teaching, and stewardship.
Other important organizations with which we have partnerships include:
- Seattle Garden Club
- Miller Charitable Foundation
- Washington State University Extension Master Gardener Program
- King County Master Gardener Foundation
- Seattle Public Utilities
- Many horticultural groups who regularly hold membership meeting in our facilities
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As a sports fan I don't know that there's anything that makes me feel as good as watching the New England Patriots lose. I think I might even prefer it to watching my team win, which is a really perverse thing to say.
There's a moral righteousness that comes from cheering against the Pats, a feeling as though the game of football itself is standing behind you every time Brady is sacked or the cameras pan to the sideline to show Belichick scowling with displeasure at a botched fake punt .
You know somewhere inside that anytime the Patriots are losing, the game of football is winning.
The most articulate description of this phenomenon was given on ESPN's Page 2 column by Patrick Hruby immediately after the Pats Super Bowl loss in 2008 :
In this glorious moment, when words seem so inadequate to express the joy all non-frontrunning sports fans feel, the first thing that comes to mind is this: We are all Giants. We are all New Yorkers, just as surely as JFK declared himself to be a Berliner in 1963. How can we not feel profound brotherhood with Eli Manning, with Tom Coughlin and all the others to whom we owe both the sight of little Billy Belichick sprinting off the field in an ungracious, you-took-my-Legos huff and our collective freedom from the Boston Globe's "19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots?"Everything Hruby said still applies to the Patriots of 2010. Their serious, hyper-competitive attitude looked appropriately ridiculous as their season was ended by a bunch of fun loving New Yorkers who celebrated their victory by running around with their arms out like children imitating the flight of planes. Once again the youthful spirit of play was affirmed in a way it only can be when it comes from a New England defeat.
February 3, 2008, marks the ushering in of a new age that seems so far from the promise of another historic day, Feb. 2, 2008 [the Patriots still undefeated, Tom Brady still upright], and a somewhat historic season, 2007-08, which we thought might conclude with a New England title and Belichick publishing "The Passive-Aggressive Manager's Handbook to Grumpy, Self-Serious Perfection in Football and Life." The first decade of the new century instead reminds us that games are worth playing, that odds primarily exist to enrich bookies, that America's preeminent advertising platform can still deliver a compelling sports experience and that Boston fans can now add 18-1* to Bill Buckner and Bucky F'n Dent.
In their ruthless professionalism and obsession with offensive metrics, in their ends-justify-any-means subterfuge and Only-Sing-When-You're-Winning single-mindedness, the Patriots embodied the most disturbing, dehumanizing aspect of modern athletics: Transforming play into work. In the long term, this attitude is untenable, because football is really nothing more than a complicated version of 5-year-olds chasing a soccer ball around a park, falling into each other and having a good time. It is the gap-toothed smile of Michael Strahan, crusty Coughlin enjoying a Gatorade bath. Joylessness, even under the pretext of competitiveness or dressed up in an extra-colorful Patriots hoodie, is never a force that can make sports worth watching or caring about. That is why today we are all Giants.


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TRAVERSE CITY, MI — Cyber attacks originating in Eastern Europe wreaked havoc on local government servers in Traverse City this summer, and hackers used a software hole to send thousands of cloaked emails and repeatedly crash the site.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that the attacks started in August and repeatedly crashed the site with distributed denial of service attacks, using coordinated botnet or "zombie" computers.
"We got hit because, one, our software version was not current, and two, because the server we were on was a low-grade server," Makala Vitous, assistant city manager, told the newspaper.
The person who previously maintained the city website left earlier this year and the position wasn't filled due to budget constraints. The city has spent nearly $4,000 so far to repair the system holes and update to safer servers.


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SALEM - Alice Fitch, of 999 Jennings Avenue, Salem, Ohio passed to Glory on May 1, 2012, at the age of ninety-seven. She was born Mary Alice Heisman on July 7, 1914, the daughter of George Edward Heisman and Lula Mary (Wachtel) Heisman, of Gettysburg, Ohio.
She grew up during the Great Depression and worked her way through Miami University (of Ohio) from which she graduated in 1935 with a degree in education. She taught school for several years. She worked as a housewife and fully supported her husband's law practice and civic leadership.
She married Attorney Alfred LeVan Fitch at Gettysburg, Ohio, October 8, 1939, after meeting him in the Miami University symphony where both were members. She and Al relocated to Salem. They are survived by four children: Rev. John E. Fitch (Krista Hovis) of Loudonville, Ohio, Sarah Fitch Robinson (Atty. Ian Robinson) of Salem, Dr. Frank Fitch, Ph.D. (Karen Kauffman) of Oxford, Ohio, and Al Fitch (Jean Mitchell) of Salem.
She has seventeen grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren, including the following: Through her son John James Fitch (father of Brandon Fitch), Col. Thomas Fitch, US Air Force, (father of Madeline and Meredith), Christina Fitch, M.LS, Sarah C. Fitch, Rachael Stoner,(mother of Isaac, Lydia, Josiah, and Ethan), Sgt. Jesse Braswell, and Peter Braswell.
Through her daughter, Sarah Danton Fitch, CPA (father of Cassaundra (Cassi), Michael, and Joshua Fitch), Dr. David Fitch, D.O., (father of David R. and Nathan Fitch), Atty. Whitman Robinson (father of Leia Robinson).
Through her son, Frank Amy Schulze (mother of Elizabeth, Erica, and Charles J. Schulze), Leah Fitch, and Laura Fitch.
Through her son Al Mrkanda Fitch (father of Madhuri, Vrini, and Krishna Prema), Jahnavi Kopecky (mother of Abhi, Nitai, and Murli), Radha Fitch, and Krsnaa Fitch.
Alice was active in the Salem community, local charities, and clubs. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Salem for more than seventy years, a member of its Women's Circle, Haviland Choir, a contributor of music with her flute playing, a Sunday School teacher, and helped with the Youth Club program. She was a long-time member of the local chapter of Church Women United, the League of Women Voters, A.I.D., and Berlin Yacht Club.
Alice's interests included playing her flute and piano, reading, poetry, and bird watching. She and her husband took several cruises with chartered sailboats. She and her friends played music weekly. Alice was the hub or focal point of her extended family. She meticulously kept a book with names and addresses of all the family members and she kept the family united down through the years through her leadership with great hospitality in her historic Salem home.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Atty. Alfred L. Fitch, her brothers, Lt. Frank Heisman, US Army Air Corps, of Oxford, Ohio and Frederick Heisman and his daughters Susie and Betty-Mae of Midland, Michigan, her sister, Margaret Brewer of Redlands, California, and her niece, Prof. Rebecca Bobelle of Santa Monica, California.
Friends may show their respects at calling hours Thursday, May 3, from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Arbaugh, Pearce, Greenisen Funeral Home, 1617 East State Street, Salem, Ohio. Additional calling hours will be held on Friday from 3:00 ~ 4:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 436 East Second Street, Salem, Ohio, with funeral services to follow starting at 4:00 p.m. Burial will be at Lisbon Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church or MVI Hospice, 2350 East State Street Salem, Ohio.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 22, 2013
Tuscaloosa Realtor Named to National Committee
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2013) - The National Association of Realtors® has appointed Beth Spradley of Tuscaloosa, Alabama to its 2014 Resort and Second Home Real Estate Committee. Spradley is a Realtor® with Capital Real Estate, a locally-owned real estate brokerage.
The NAR Resort and Second Home Committee is comprised of 38 members that are instrumental in monitoring legislative and regulatory issues and trends affecting resort and vacation markets. The Committee also promotes educational and marketing opportunities that enable Resort and Second Home Specialists to be more successful in their unique business niche.
"I am pleased to represent Alabama and to serve my fellow Realtors® ," said Spradley, who has family ties to the Tuscaloosa area that date back to the naming of land plats . "This is a wonderful opportunity to learn and share expertise on a national level." Tuscaloosa and West Alabama provide many opportunities for second home ownership, including college football and sports game day housing, fishing and hunting land, and lake and recreational property.
Spradley is a seasoned real estate professional, with 12 years' experience, and has been awarded by the Council of Residential Specialists for marketing campaigns for residential home sales. The Council of Residential Specialists, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors® , represents approximately 3% of top Realtors® who are qualified on education and experience.
The National Association of Realtors® , "The Voice for Real Estate," is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
Contact Information:
Beth Spradley
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705 27th Avenue
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Georne Landen Dann's career as a playwright started in 1931 when "In Beauty it is Finished"—his play of miscegenation, made Australians sit up and stare. Never before had such a beguilingly innocent looking young Australian playwright shocked the public's morals like this. Here was an apparently shy, clean-living youth—"a keen-eyed, clean-limbed and good—looking young Australian, such as grace our beaches, tennis courts and playing fields"1—daring to uncover a way of life and an aspect of society which the public could, as yet, only regard as an insult to their fair country, George Dann was too far ahead of his time of course. It was not until Fountains Beyond, his next play dealing with aboriginals was produced eleven years later that the public realised how right he had been in revealing a social issue that they had for too long been prudishly ignoring.
In many ways, George Dann continued to be ahead of his time, not only with his specifically social plays, but with other plays as well. In 1939, long before Caroline Chisholm had pained the reputation of a national heroine that she has today, Dann recognized her as one and wrote the first dramatic portrayal of her as such.
In techniques too, Dann has not always waited for someone else to set the example. In the Rhaphsody of "Oh! The Brave Music!" he experimented with a deliberate confusion of art and reality which involves the audience as an active participator in the play. His radio play, "The Orange Grove", innovatively presents reality from the point of view of an eccentric old lady, by making liberal use of verse, sound effects and letting the natural elements have speaking parts.
Most of the plays which George Dann has written have won or gained places in competitions. His achievements range from the glory of first prize for "No Incense Rising" in the nation-wide Dramatists' Club of Australia competition which was judged in London (1938), to first place in the more modest Queensland Eisteddfod for "The Days of Roses" (1934), Most of his plays have been produced many times in Australia, Fountains Beyond made it to London, and also to Wales where it won an eisteddfod (1950), and "The Orange Grove" has been broadcast in Canada, Forty-five years after "In Beauty it is Finished" won first prize in the Brisbane Repertory Society competition, Dann is still writing plays, and still gaining places in drama competitions. In 1975, "Rainbows Die At Sunset" came second in a competition in Newcastle in which Romeril's The Floating World, and Jennifer Compton's "No Man's Land" shared first prize.2
This thesis attempts to examine the important plays which Goorge Dann has written over that forty-five year period. The first chapter deals with a group of plays in which a theme obviously close to Dann's heart is worked out. The theme of trying to escape from an island is dealt with so poignantly by Georqe Dann that it must have sprung from a real struggle he was having within himself. It may echo his efforts to break away from the monotony of everyday life as a draftsman in the Brisbane City Council to his present satisfying and idyllic life as a full-time writer, nature-lover, and traveller.
The second chapter follows another theme—that of the half-caste's dilemma—through a different group of plays. This group is more concerned, with social issues than with personal issues. The third chapter deals with a diverse collection of plays in which Dann's ability to tackle a variety of subjects is illustrated.
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Roles of the President
Chief of Party
Role President Obama played when he gave a speech at a fundrasier for a Democratic candidate for Senate.
Chief Legislator
Role President Obama played when he called on Congress to pass a New Health Care Bill.
Chief of State
The role the president plays when they make a Thanksgiving Day proclamation to the entire nation.
Commander in Chief
The role President Obama played when he ordered 30.000 new troops into Afghanistan.
Chief Diplomat
The role President Obama would play if he signed a treaty with Karzai and the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan (a guy can dream, right!).


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Three fact sheets on Air Quality, Tunnel Ventilation, and Vibration were prepared in September 2016 to provide information on key issues related to the B&P Tunnel Project. The fact sheets are available here.
The Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel is a two-track railroad tunnel underneath central Baltimore City. The tunnel opened in 1873 and is located between the West Baltimore MARC Station and Pennsylvania Station along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC). This section of the NEC is used by Amtrak and Maryland's MARC Commuter Rail passenger trains, as well as Norfolk Southern Railway freight trains. The B&P Tunnel is owned by Amtrak and should not be confused with the Howard Street Tunnel, which is owned by CSX and used solely by CSX freight trains.
Working to improve rail service, reliability and address a longstanding bottleneck along Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor (NEC), the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Amtrak are advancing an engineering and environmental study to examine various improvements to the 141-year-old Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland. MDOT was awarded a grant from FRA to complete the study as part of the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) Program. As part of the study, FRA will lead development of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in close coordination with MDOT, the public, and other stakeholders.
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Jacqueline Thomas and Gregory E. Cherry Jr. were married at 3 p.m. May 25 in Faith Missionary Baptist Church, Buffalo. Guests gathered for a reception at Hearthstone Manor, Depew. Elder Benjamin McCullough of Faith Missionary Baptist Church heard the couple's vows. The bride's parents are Frank and Michelle Thomas of Buffalo. The bridegroom's parents are Gregory E. Cherry Sr. and Christine Cherry of Buffalo. The bride is a graduate of The Park School of Buffalo. She is currently enrolled in a graphic design program at Full Sail University. The groom is a graduate of Hutchinson Central Technical High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer information and technology from SUNY Buffalo State. Gregory is a developer 2 at Algonquin Studios. After a trip to Toronto, the couple will make their home in Buffalo.


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WABC has said it will cut its signal at midnight tonight if Cablevision Systems refuses to pay for its programming. who is to blame depends on which side of the dispute is asked.
The blackout would begin just hours before ABC's telecast of tomorrow's Academy Awards ceremony and would affect 3 million Cablevision subscribers in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
If you are a Cablevision subscriber and need to watch ABC, there is the unlikely option of getting a new cable or satellite provider on short notice or pulling out the old rabbit ears -- but in this digital age a converter box is needed to watch broadcasts.


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A man is in trouble with the law after telling his girlfriend he was going to beat and shoot her, shoot up their apartment and take away their child, officials said.
Alexis Santos threatened his girlfriend around noon Wednesday in their apartment in the 1000 block of Mechanic Street in Bethlehem, officials said.
The victim's brother heard Santos making the threat, officials added.
Santos, 18, was arraigned early Friday morning on a charge of making terroristic threats and committed to the Northampton County Prison on $10,000 bail, according to court documents.
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Swearing age-old oath, Obama steps into 2nd term
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama was sworn in for four more years Sunday in a simple ceremony at the White House, embarking on a second-term quest to restore a still-shaky economy and combat terrorists overseas while swearing an age-old oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution.
"I did it," a smiling president said to his daughter Sasha seconds after following Chief Justice John Roberts in reciting the oath of office. First lady Michelle Obama and the couple's other daughter, Malia, were among relatives who bore witness.
The quiet moments were prelude to today's public inaugural events when Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol before a crowd expected to reach into the hundreds of thousands and a television audience counted in the millions.
The trappings were in place -- the flag-draped stands ready outside the Capitol and the tables set inside for a traditional lunch with lawmakers. Across town, a specially made reviewing stand rested outside the White House gates for the president and guests to watch the traditional parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
A crowd of perhaps 800,000 was forecast, less than the million-plus that thronged to the nation's capital four years ago to witness the inauguration of the first black president in American history.
The weather forecast was encouraging. High temperatures were predicted for the lower 40s during the day, with scattered snow showers during the evening, when two inaugural balls closed out the official proceedings.
The 44th chief executive is only the 17th to win re-election, and his second-term goals are ambitious for a country where sharp political differences have produced gridlocked government in recent years. In Washington, tourists strolled leisurely on an unseasonably warm day.
"I'm very proud of him and what he's trying to do for immigration, women's rights, what they call 'Obamacare,' and concerns for the middle class," said Patricia Merritt, a retired educator from San Antonio, in town with her daughter and granddaughter to see the inauguration and parade as well as historic sites. "I think he's more disrespected than any other president," she added, referring to his critics.
Sean Payton, an operations analyst from Highland Ranch, Colo., said he hoped to hear "a nice eloquent speech that makes people feel good about being an American."


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Hotels in Southeast Jacksonville
Ramada Jacksonville Hotel and Conference Center3130 Hartley Road, Jacksonville 3.0 out of 5.0
Situated in Jacksonville, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Mandarin Museum, Mandarin Park, and The Avenues. Westside Regional Park is 7.9 mi (12.6 km) ...
Red Roof Inn Jacksonville - Southpoint6969 Lenoir Avenue E, Jacksonville 2.0 out of 5.0
Situated in Jacksonville, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Saint Vincent's Medical Center Southside, St. Johns Town Center, and The Avenues. Dog Wood Park ...
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Jacksonville8737 Baymeadows Rd, Jacksonville 3.0 out of 5.0
Situated in the business district, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Saint Vincent's Medical Center Southside, The Avenues, and Dog Wood Park of Jacksonville. ...
Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel10605 Deerwood Park Blvd, Jacksonville 3.5 out of 5.0
This family-friendly Jacksonville hotel is located in the business district, within 3 mi (5 km) of St. Johns Town Center and University of North Florida. Morocco ...
Embassy Suites Jacksonville Baymeadows9300 Baymeadows Rd, Jacksonville 3.5 out of 5.0
Situated in the business district, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Saint Vincent's Medical Center Southside, The Avenues, and St. Johns Town Center. Dog ...
Baymont Inn and Suites Jacksonville7030 Bonneval Road, Jacksonville 2.5 out of 5.0
Situated in Jacksonville, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Saint Vincent's Medical Center Southside, St. Johns Town Center, and The Avenues. Dog Wood Park ...
Best Western Hotel JTB/Southpoint4660 Salisbury Road, Jacksonville 3.0 out of 5.0
White-sand beaches are only 13 miles from this Jacksonville hotel; downtown, EverBank Field, the Landing, and the Prime Osbourne Convention Center are within ...
Aloft Jacksonville Tapestry Park4812 Deer Lake Drive, Jacksonville 3.0 out of 5.0
Located in the heart of Jacksonville, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of St. Johns Town Center, Saint Vincent's Medical Center Southside, and Hands on Children's ...
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Jacksonville SE- Med Ctr Area4791 Windsor Commons Ct, Jacksonville 2.5 out of 5.0
This smoke-free Holiday Inn hotel is a 5-mile courtesy shuttle ride from The Mayo Clinic; St. Johns Town Center shopping is within 5 miles and Jacksonville-area ...
Red Lion Jacksonville4700 Salisbury Rd, Jacksonville 3.5 out of 5.0
This hotel in the Southpoint Corporate Park is just off I-95 and Butler Blvd, 6 miles from downtown and 10 miles from ocean beaches.
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BUCYRUS - Ohio Department of Natural Resources is planning a dedication ceremony and grand opening at 10 a.m. Monday at the 33-acre Daughmer Prairie Savannah, 786 Marion-Melmore Road, Bucyrus.
ODNR Director James Zehringer and Glenn Cobb, deputy director and chief of parks, are to preside.
The savannah is one mile north of SR 294 on Marion-Melmore Road.
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A view of the Daughmer Prairie Savannah.
According to information from the Crawford Park District, the savannah is the largest and best preserved remnant of unplowed, deep soil prairies and savannahs that were present at the easternmost extension of America's prairie heartland. Once covering 192,000 acres in Crawford, Wyandot and Marion counties, the Sandusky Plains have been reduced to fewer than 75 acres.
Daughmer contains the largest and best preserved remnant, a Bur Oak Savannah.
When French explorers came upon our grasslands, they called them prairies, the French word for "meadows." After explorers, hunters, trappers and soldiers traveled through dense forests of beech, maple, ash and elm, they found open sky and a vast grassland dotted with scattered oaks and hickories.
The land was purchased by ODNR in January 2011 using funds donated by conservation-minded taxpayers. It was formerly in the White family for more than 160 years. The Daughmer name honors Hazel White Daughmer, who built her home on a corner of the savannah and prized the environment she owned.
Factors that contributed to the prairie's preservation included its agricultural use. It was most often used to graze sheep. Although some of the native plants were eliminated by the grazing, the overall effect was positive. Another factor that assisted prairie habitat preservation was fire. Whether sparked by lightning strikes or set by Native Americans to corral game, fires helped prairie plants regenerate and killed tree saplings.
In addition to the bur oak savannah, the preserve contains other plant communities.
This habitat includes mesic prairie, wet prairie, sedge meadow, bluejoint swales and prairie pothole marshes. Stands of big bluestem and little bluestem grasses occupy the dry prairie. Species such as prairie cord grass can be found in the wet areas. Daughmer is home to state threatened species including Bicknell's sedge, wheat sedge and flat-stemmed spike-rush.
The preserve is to be managed by the Crawford Park District, which was heavily involved in the preservation.


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This is the chorus of Kaïssa's song "To Ndje," in which she sings of her longing for Africa and the hope to someday return to her homeland of Cameroon. The song envelopes the listener and she conveys the message with such emotion that we are on the journey with her, a spellbinding singer heralded as the New Voice of Africa.
When an original voice rises up, music lovers are moved to listen. Now Kaïssa is the one motivating a fast-growing audience, connecting through soaring vocal talents and the irresistible African-inspired rhythms of her songs. A child of the culturally rich Republic of Cameroon, Kaïssa's passion for music was fueled by the romance of Paris, where her family relocated when she was still young. Kaissa's vocal ability began to turn heads in studios throughout the City of Lights, and when the opportunity to join French multi-media artist CharlElie Couture's European tour arose, Kaïssa stepped on the bus and never looked on the bus and never looked back.Read more
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Grants spur changes at two city schools
Officials at East High School and Strong Vincent High School say they've seen some progress in the first year and a half of their three-year School Improvement Grants.
The $7.5 million committed in the two schools has helped buy new technology, provided additional teacher training and launched new programs.
Even so, both of the schools will have a difficult time showing they've improved standardized test scores -- the ultimate goal of the funding.
Both of the schools were awarded grants to improve education in 2011 after missing benchmarks on Pennsylvania System of School Assessment math and reading tests for several years. The grants are funded by the federal government and awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
East High School actually saw reading scores dip in the first year of its grant, dropping from 39.9 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced in reading in 2011 to 23.6 percent in 2012. Math scores increased from 22.9 percent scoring proficient or advanced in 2011 to 28.8 in 2012.
Strong Vincent High School also saw mixed results in its first year. Reading scores improved from 53.6 percent scoring proficient or advanced in 2011 to 60.5 in 2012. Math scores, however, dropped from 39.6 scoring proficient or advanced in 39.6 percent in 2011 to 35.4 percent in 2012.
The target called for under the federal No Child Left Behind law for 2012 was 78 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced in math and 81 scoring proficient or advanced in reading.
East High School will receive $4.5 million over the three years of the grant. So far, the money has been used to expand teacher training, buy new technology and implement new behavior programs. The grant paid for five teachers and four support staff employees to handle student behavioral problems.
Jim Smith, principal at the 1,025-student school, said he believes things are moving in the right direction at his school.
"I think it's going very well," Smith said. "The money has given us the opportunity to explore different things. Our main goal is to get the school's culture under control. Then it becomes, 'how do we raise the bar academically?'"
School officials are tracking attendance, tardiness, suspensions and the number of behavioral incidents at the school. Students have improved in each category compared to the 2010-11 school year, the last year before the school received the grant.
Through January of the current school year there have been 639 suspensions and 9,626 tardies to school, and the attendance rate has been 87 percent.
During at the same time period in the 2010-11 school year, there were 742 suspensions and 12,641 tardies, and the attendance rate was 83 percent. The school was lauded by state officials for its work in reducing behavior problems after the first year of the grant.
The funding also allowed East administrators to make that school the first in the state to install new audio and video to amplify and record lessons in each of the school's classrooms.
Each room is equipped with a camera controlled by an Apple iPad, and the teachers wear microphones that channel their voice through four speakers. Students are also given a handheld microphone to use when they are called on to speak.
School officials said this new system allows teachers to easily instruct without having to contend with classroom noise, and it also gives them the ability to record their lessons and make them available to students online.
John Dahlstrand, director of federal programs for the district, said the new equipment opens the door for teachers to prerecord lessons that could be played in class when they know they will be absent.
But even with all the new opportunities the technology presents, the idea that administrators could be remotely observing did lead to some anxiety for teachers.
Bob Merski, vice president of the Erie Education Association, said the teachers' union wants to make sure the new equipment is used in the right way.
"When the technology enhancements were presented to us everyone was on board," Merski said. "But there were two big things we were looking for: We wanted to make sure it was optional for teachers and they kept some professional autonomy, and we didn't want to see the district use this as Big Brother."
The union and district officials reached an agreement that remote observations of classrooms can't be used for teacher evaluations. Merski said teachers can consent to having specific lessons recorded and used for evaluations if they choose.
"As long as the district complies with the agreement -- and they seem to have been -- it will be business as usual at East," Merski said.
Dennis Carner, a social studies teacher at East, considers himself an early adopter of the technology, and he looks forward to using it for things like a "flipped classroom" -- where students view a lecture at home then discuss the lessons in class. The new technology will also allow teachers to offer quick assessments of students and digitally track how many students know certain things so teachers can adjust their lessons on the fly.
"This summer, there will be a lot of brainstorming on how to make the best use of this," Carner said.
School officials at Strong Vincent say they're also seeing some gains at their school, although some changes didn't go into effect until the start of the current school year.
That school's $3 million School Improvement Grant helped fund two new computer labs, which school officials hope to eventually make available to parents and the larger community. The grant also funded the purchase of several carts of laptop computers, so teachers can turn their own classrooms into a computer lab when appropriate.
"This really shows that with the right resources, we can do really good things," said Bill Kuhar, a technology coach at Strong Vincent.
Sherry Prater, principal at the 696-student school, said the school has also been working on a new behavioral support program that required more time to implement than at East.
Teachers spent the first year of the grant training for the schoolwide positive behavior support program, which is recommended at the state level and is designed to identify behavioral "miscues" and stop problems before they grow out of hand.
Strong Vincent officials did not have much data on their behavioral improvements. But Peter Wojciechowski, a teacher assigned to collect data for the grant at Strong Vincent, said student use of "inappropriate language," which is identified as a problem behavior, decreased over the course of the current year from 404 instances in September to 225 in February.
Erie schools Superintendent Jay Badams said he's impressed by the work being done at both schools. He said he's particularly happy that the grants allowed the district to hold on to several teachers as instruction coaches.
The grant covered seven math and reading instruction coaches, along with several more behavior specialists and truancy officers and employees to deal with the new technology at the schools. Badams said those positions wouldn't exist without the additional funding.
With just over a year remaining on the two grants, Kim Olszewski, coordinator of the SIG grants for the Erie School District, said she believes the two schools are making real progress even if it is hard to quantify.
"I think the two SIG teams have been innovative," Olszewski said. "Both seem to be making cultural changes at the schools. And without this funding, there is no way we could do the things they're doing."
SEAN McCRACKEN can be reached at 870-1714 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmccracken.


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Maralinga Tjarutja
|Maralinga Tjarutja
South Australia
Location of the Maralinga Tjarutja Council
|105 (2006)[1]
|• Density
|0.001/km2 (0.0026/sq mi)
|102,863.6 km2 (39,715.9 sq mi)
|Council seat
|Ceduna (outside Council area)
|Eyre and Western[2]
|State electorate(s)
|Federal Division(s)
|Maralinga Tjarutja
The Maralinga Tjarutja is the Indigenous Australian corporation representing the Traditional Owners of the remote western areas of South Australia known as the Maralinga Tjarutja lands. They are a Southern Pitjantjatjara people.
The lands of the Maralinga Tjarutja bear their own name. These lands, in South Australia's remote west, comprise Maralinga Tjaruta, one of the four regions local government areas of South Australia classified an Aboriginal Council (AC) and not incorporated within a local government area. The State of South Australia is the only jurisdiction in Australia which has large areas of unincorporated land (not included within a local government area) and much of it is occupied by remote Aboriginal communities. The area measures 102,863.6 km2 (39,715.9 sq mi),[3] making it the largest privately owned area of South Australia by area (followed by Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara to the north, which is nearly as large), with a population of only 105,[1] all in the community of Oak Valley.
Many Maralinga people were still living traditionally in their lands when the first British nuclear test took place in 1953. These Aboriginal people had not been forewarned the nuclear blasts were going to take place. They later reported hearing a great thunderous 'bang' and huge, oily, black clouds covering the lands, after the blast.
The Maralinga people were then not allowed to occupy or pass through their lands throughout the rest of the 1950s and 1960s because of the British nuclear tests. The Maralinga Tjarutja land was handed back to the Maralinga people from January 1985 under legislation passed by both houses of the South Australian Parliament in December 1984 and proclaimed in January 1985. Some Maralinga people resettled on the land in the early 1990s and named the main community Oak Valley Community. Many Maralinga people did not return to the land, and claims that the fallout from the blasts and caused blindness, illness and death have not been compensated by the British or Australian governments.[citation needed] Similarly, it was afterwards claimed that veterans who were in Maralinga at the time of the blasts and in the 'clean up' afterwards were exposed to high levels of radiation and fallout which resulted in illness and death, and those veterans and their families have never been compensated.[citation needed]
In 2003 South Australian Premier Mike Rann and Education Minister Trish White opened a new school at Oak Valley replacing what had been described as the "worst school in Australia".[4] In May 2004, following the passage of special legislation, Premier Rann handed back title to 21,000 square kilometres of land to the Maralinga Tjarutja and Pila Nguru people. The land, 1000 km Northwest of Adelaide and abutting the Western Australia border, was called the Unnamed Conservation Park. It is now known as Mamungari Conservation Park. It includes the Serpentine Lakes and was the largest land return since Premier John Bannon's hand over of Maralinga lands in 1984. At the 2004 ceremony Premier Rann said the return of the land fulfilled a promise he made in 1991 when he was Aboriginal Affairs Minister after he passed legislation to return lands including the sacred Ooldea area (which also included the site of Daisy Bates' mission camp) to the Maralinga Tjarutja people.[5]
Maralinga Tjarutja Council[edit]
The Maralinga Tjarutja Council is an incorporated body constituted by the traditional owners (Yalata and Maralinga people) to administer the lands granted to them under the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA).[6] The head office is at: 43 McKenzie Street, Ceduna. Dr Archie Barton AM was the Administrator until 2006, and was involved in the campaign in 1982-1984 on behalf of the Yalata and Maralinga people for land rights to the Maralinga Tjarutja lands.
The Maralinga Tjarutja and the Pila Nguru (or Spinifex people) also jointly own and administer the 21,357.85 km² Mamungari Conservation Park, which area is contained in the area total for the council area. Emu Field is now part of the council area, too, while the 3,300 km² Maralinga area is still a roughly square shaped enclave within the council area.
The land surveyed and known as Section 400 was returned to Traditional Ownership in 2007. This land includes the area of land occupied by the Maralinga Township and the areas in which atomic tests were carried out by the British and Australian governments.
The final part of the 1782 square kilometre former nuclear test site was returned in 2014[7]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b [1] census.abs.gov.au, National Regional Profile: Maralinga Tjarutja (AC) (Local Government Area). 2010.
- ^ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ [2] census.abs.gov.au, National Regional Profile: Maralinga Tjarutja (AC) (Local Government Area). 2010.
- ^ ABC News May 4 2003 "Maralinga Students Welcome New School"[3]
- ^ The Age 25 August 2004, "Maralinga Handover Prompts Celebration"
- ^ Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 at austlii.edu.au retrieved 21 May 2013
- ^ (5 November 2014), Homeland ceded to traditional owners, Sydney Morning Herald, p. 11
External links[edit]
- Maralinga Tjarutja
- Emma Pedler (2002-08-22). "Returning the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands". Statewide Afternoons, ABC South Australia.
- Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) project:
- Maralinga Tjarutja Council
- Southern Pitjantjatjara People
- Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc
- Pitjantjatjara people (Anangu Pitjantjatjara)
- Oak Valley (Maralinga) Inc.
- Maralinga Piling Trust (1994 - )
- Strategy for Aboriginal Managed Lands in South Australia (2000 - ) (SAMLISA)
- Hansard extract from South Australian House of Assembly, 15 October 2003, of Second Reading Speech on co-management of the unnamed conservation park
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Political columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan, of The Daily Beast, spoke at Haverford last Friday night in a talk sponsored by the Haverford College Speakers Committee.
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Sullivan made some of his more subversive views clear in the opening lines of his speech, declaring that he wanted "to come out tonight as a Christian, to come out tonight as a conservative, and in a less controversial way, to come out as a homosexual."
Playing off the stereotypically liberal views of his college audience, Sullivan garnered a roomful of laughs before his topic turned more serious.
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Gap penalty
The gap penalty is a scoring system used in bioinformatics for aligning a small portion of genetic code, more accurately, fragmented genetic sequence, also termed, reads against a reference genetic sequence (e.g. The Human Genome). The biological process of protein synthesis namely, transcription and translation or DNA replication can produce errors resulting in mutations in the final nucleic acid sequence. Therefore, in order to make more accurate decisions in aligning reads, mutations are annotated as gaps in the sequence. Gaps are penalised via various Gap Penalty scoring methods. Gaps in a DNA sequence result from either insertions or deletions in the sequence, sometimes referred to as indels. Insertions or deletions occur due to single mutations, unbalanced crossover in meiosis, slipped strand mispairing in the replication process and chromosomal translocation.[1] In alignments gaps are represented as contiguous dashes on a protein/DNA sequence alignment.[2] The scoring that occurs in Gap Penalty allows for the optimisation of sequence alignment in order to obtain the best alignment possible based on the information available. The three main types of gap penalties are constant, linear and affine gap penalty.[3]
The notion of a gap in an alignment is important in many biological applications, since the insertions or deletions comprise an entire sub-sequence and often occur from a single mutational event.[4] Furthermore, single mutational events can create gaps of different sizes. Therefore, when scoring, the gaps need to be scored as a whole when aligning two sequences of DNA. Considering multiple gaps in a sequence as a larger single gap will reduce the assignment of a high cost to the mutations. For instance, two protein sequences may be relatively similar however, may differ at certain intervals as one protein may have a different subunit compared to the other. Representing these differing sub-sequences as gaps will allow us to treat these cases as "good matches" even though there are long consecutive runs with indel operations in the sequence. Therefore, using a good gap penalty model will avoid low scores in alignments and improve the chances of finding a true alignment.[4]
Gap Penalty applications can be applied outside biological cases. For instance, gap penalty is used in the diff function in Unix to compute the minimal difference between two files. Other applications include spell checking, plagiarism detection and speech recognition in software algorithms to name a few.
- 1 Types
- 2 Applications
- 3 Comparing time complexities
- 4 Assigning Gap Penalty Values
- 5 Challenges
- 6 References
This is the simplest type of gap penalty: a fixed negative score is given to every gap, regardless of the its length.[4][5]
Compared to the constant gap penalty, the linear gap penalty takes into account the length (L) of each insertion/deletion in the gap. Therefore, if the penalty for each inserted/deleted element is B and the length of the gap L; the total gap penalty would be the product of the two BL.[6] This method favors shorter gaps, with total score decreasing with each additional gap.
The most widely used gap penalty function is the affine gap penalty. The affine gap penalty combines the components in both the constant and linear gap penalty, taking the form A+(B⋅L). This introduces new terms, A is known as the gap opening penalty, B the gap extension penalty and L the length of the gap. Gap opening refers to the cost required to open a gap of any length, and gap extension the cost to extend the length of an existing gap by 1.[7] Often it is unclear as to what the values A and B should be as it differs according to purpose. In general, if the interest is to find closely related matches (e.g. removal of vector sequence during genome sequencing), a higher gap penalty should be used to reduce gap openings. On the other hand, gap penalty should be lowered when interested in finding a more distant match.[6] The relationship between A and B also have an effect on gap size. If the size of the gap was important, a small A and large B (more costly to extend gap) is used and vice versa.
Using the affine gap penalty requires the assigning of fixed penalty values for both opening and extending a gap. This can be too rigid for use in a biological context.[8]
The logarithmic gap takes the form G(L) = A + ClnL and was proposed as studies had shown the distribution of indel sizes obey a power law.[9] Another proposed issue with the use of affine gaps is the favoritism of aligning sequences with shorter gaps. Logarithmic gap penalty was invented to modify the affine gap so that long gaps are desirable.[8] However, in contrast to this, it has been found that using logarithmatic models had produced poor alignments when compared to affine models.[9]
Profile-based variable gap penalties[edit]
Profile–profile alignment algorithms are powerful tools for detecting protein homology relationships with improved alignment accuracy.[10] Profile-profile alignments are based on the statistical indel frequency profiles from multiple sequence alignments generated by PSI-BLAST searches.[10] Rather than using substitution matrices to measure the similarity of amino acid pairs, profile–profile alignment methods require a profile-based scoring function to measure the similarity of profile vector pairs.[10] Profile-profile alignments employ gap penalty functions. The gap information is usually used in the form of indel frequency profiles, which is more specific for the sequences to be aligned. ClustalW and MAFFT adopted this kind of gap penalty determination for their multiple sequence alignments.[10] Alignment accuracies can be improved using this model, especially for proteins with low sequence identity. Some profile–profile alignment algorithms also run the secondary structure information as one term in their scoring functions, which improves alignment accuracy.[10]
Global alignment[edit]
A global alignment performs an end-to-end alignment of the query sequence with the reference sequence. Ideally, this alignment technique is most suitable for closely related sequences of similar lengths. The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is a dynamic programming technique used to conduct global alignment. Essentially, the algorithm divides the problem into a set of sub-problems, than uses the results of the sub-problems to reconstruct a solution to the original query.[11]
General steps to perform a global alignment:[12][edit]
- Create a scoring matrix
- Fill in the scoring matrix - the matrix is filled with the maximum score possible starting in the top left corner and subsequently filling in the neighboring cells (left, right and diagonal).
- Trace back - trace back starting from the lowest right hand cell and choosing the minimal score trace to find the best alignment.
procedure Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm
S[i,j] =
min { S[i-1, j-1] if match
S[i-1, j-1] + 1 if mismatch
S[i-1, j] + 1
S[i, j-1] + 1
end procedure
Semi-global alignment[edit]
The use of semi-global alignment exists to find a particular match within a large sequence. An example includes seeking promoters within a DNA sequence. Unlike global alignment, it compromises of no end gaps in one or both sequences. If the end gaps are penalized in one sequence 1 but not in sequence 2, it produces an alignment that contains sequence 1 within sequence 2.
Local alignment[edit]
A local sequence alignment matches a contiguous sub-section of one sequence with a contiguous sub-section of another.[13] The Smith-Waterman algorithm is motivated by giving scores for matches and mismatches. Matches increase the overall score of an alignment whereas mismatches decrease the score. A good alignment then has a positive score and a poor alignment has a negative score. The local algorithm finds an alignment with the highest score by considering only alignments that score positives and picking the best one from those. The algorithm is a Dynamic programming algorithm. When comparing proteins, one uses a similarity matrix which assigns a score to each possible residue. The score should be positive for similar residues and negative for dissimilar residues pair. Gaps are usually penalized using a linear gap function that assigns an initial penalty for a gap opening, and an additional penalty for gap extensions, increasing the gap length.
Scoring matrix[edit]
Substitution matrices such as BLOSUM are used for sequence alignment of proteins.[14] A Substitution matrix assigns a score for aligning any possible pair of residues.[14] In general, different substitution matrices are tailored to detecting similarities among sequences that are diverged by differing degrees. A single matrix may be reasonably efficient over a relatively broad range of evolutionary change.[14] The BLOSUM-62 matrix is one of the best substitution matrices for detecting weak protein similarities.[14] BLOSUM matrices with high numbers are designed for comparing closely related sequences, while those with low numbers are designed for comparing distant related sequences. For example, BLOSUM-80 is used for alignments that are more similar in sequence, and BLOSUM-45 is used for alignments that have diverged from each other.[14] For particularly long and weak alignments, the BLOSUM-45 matrix may provide the best results. Short alignments are more easily detected using a matrix with a higher "relative entropy" than that of BLOSUM-62. The BLOSUM series does not include any matrices with relative entropies suitable for the shortest queries.[14]
During DNA Replication, the replication machinery is prone to making two types of errors while duplicating the DNA. These two replication errors are insertions and deletions of single DNA bases from the DNA strand (indels).[15] Indels can have severe biological consequences by causing mutations in the DNA strand that could result in the inactivation or over activation of the target protein. For example, if a one or two nucleotide indel occurs in a coding sequence the result will be a shift in the reading frame, or a frameshift mutation that may render the protein inactive.[15] The biological consequences of indels are often deleterious and are frequently associated with human pathologies such as cancer. However, not all indels are frameshift mutations. If indels occur in trinucleotides, the result is an extension of the protein sequence that may also have implications on protein function.[15]
Comparing time complexities[edit]
The use of alignment in computational biology often involves sequences of varying lengths. It is important to pick a model that would efficiently run at a known input size. The time taken to run the algorithm is known as the time complexity.
|Constant gap penalty
|Affine gap penalty
|Convex gap penalty
|O(mn lg(m+n))
Assigning Gap Penalty Values[edit]
Gap penalty values are designed to reduce the score when an alignment has been disturbed by indels. The value should be small enough to allow a previously accumulated alignment to continue with an insertion in one of the sequences but should not be so large that this previous alignment score is removed completely. There are two strategies when assigning values to gaps:
- Keep the score similar regardless of gap length. Allow a constant overall gap penalty regardless of gap length. Therefore, assign no gap extension penalty and only penalize the sequence when there is a gap open. This will penalize a large gap by the same extent as a small gap.[16]
- Make the score become larger as a linear function of gap length. Have a larger gap opening penalty followed by a gap extension penalty that is smaller than the gap open penalty. This will penalize several small gaps by the same extent as 1 large gap.[16]
There are a few challenges when it comes to working with gaps. When working with popular algorithms there seems to be little theoretical basis for the form of the gap penalty functions.[17] Consequently, for any alignment situation gap placement must be empirically determined.[17] Also, pairwise alignment gap penalties, such as the affine gap penalty, are often implemented independent of the amino acid types in the inserted or deleted fragment or at the broken ends, despite evidence that specific residue types are preferred in gap regions.[17] Finally, alignment of sequences implies alignment of the corresponding structures, but the relationships between structural features of gaps in proteins and their corresponding sequences are only imperfectly known. Because of this incorporating structural information into gap penalties is difficult to do.[17] Some algorithms use predicted or actual structural information to bias the placement of gaps. However, only a minority of sequences have known structures, and most alignment problems involve sequences of unknown secondary and tertiary structure.[17]
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- ^ "Glossary - Constant Gap Penalty". Rosalind. Rosalind Team. 12 Aug 2014. Retrieved 12 Aug 2014.
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- ^ "Global Alignment with Scoring Matrix and Affine Gap Penalty". Rosalind. Rosalind Team. 2/7/2012. Retrieved 2014-09-12. Check date values in:
- ^ a b Sung, Wing-Kin (2011). Algorithms in Bioinformatics : A Practical Introduction. CRC Press. pp. 42–47. ISBN 1420070347.
- ^ a b Cartwright, Reed (5/12/2006). "Logarithmic gap costs decrease alignment accuracy". BMC Bioinformatics. 7: 527. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-527. Retrieved 2014-09-10. Check date values in:
- ^ a b c d e Wang C, Yan RX, Wang XF, Si JN, Zhang Z (12 October 2011). "Comparison of linear gap penalties and profile-based variable gap penalties in profile-profile alignments". Comput Biol Chem. 35 (5): 308–318. doi:10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2011.07.006. PMID 22000802.
- ^ Lesk, Arthur M (2013-07-26). "bioinformatics". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
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- ^ Vingron, M.; Waterman, M. S. (1994). "Sequence alignment and penalty choice. Review of concepts, case studies and implications". Journal of Molecular Biology. 235 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80006-3. PMID 8289235.
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- ^ a b c Garcia-Diaz, Miguel (2006). "Mechanism of a genetic glissando: structural biology of indel mutations". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 31 (4): 206–214. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2006.02.004.
- ^ a b "About Gaps In Sequence Alignments". EMBL-EBI. Archived from the original on June 20, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
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Further reading[edit]
- Taylor WR, Munro RE (1997). "Multiple sequence threading: conditional gap placement". Fold Des. 2 (4): S33–9. doi:10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00061-8.
- Taylor WR (1996). "A non-local gap-penalty for profile alignment". Bull Math Biol. 58 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1007/BF02458279. PMID 8819751.
- Vingron M, Waterman MS (1994). "Sequence alignment and penalty choice. Review of concepts, case studies and implications". J Mol Biol. 235 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80006-3. PMID 8289235.
- Panjukov VV (1993). "Finding steady alignments: similarity and distance". Comput Appl Biosci. 9 (3): 285–90. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/9.3.285. PMID 8324629.
- Alexandrov NN (1992). "Local multiple alignment by consensus matrix". Comput Appl Biosci. 8 (4): 339–45. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/8.4.339. PMID 1498689.
- Hein J (1989). "A new method that simultaneously aligns and reconstructs ancestral sequences for any number of homologous sequences, when the phylogeny is given" (PDF). Mol Biol Evol. 6 (6): 649–68. PMID 2488477.
- Henneke CM (1989). "A multiple sequence alignment algorithm for homologous proteins using secondary structure information and optionally keying alignments to functionally important sites". Comput Appl Biosci. 5 (2): 141–50. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/5.2.141. PMID 2751764.
- Reich JG, Drabsch H, Daumler A (1984). "On the statistical assessment of similarities in DNA sequences". Nucleic Acids Res. 12 (13): 5529–43. doi:10.1093/nar/12.13.5529. PMC 318937. PMID 6462914.


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Peter Palese, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology of Icahn School of Medicine, was elected to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in research.
Dr. Palese has made landmark contributions that have significantly advanced understanding of and ability to combat viruses. Election to the National Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist. He joins an eminent group of 1,843 scientists and engineers who are members of the National Academy, including 60 who were elected in 2000.
Dr. Palese is an international leader in the study of viruses that cause respiratory disease in humans. His emphasis has been on viruses that use RNA rather than DNA as their genetic material. This group includes influenza, corona and parainfluenza viruses. His research to understand the structure and function of these viruses, how they interact with host cells and how they reproduce, has led and continues to lead to the development of antiviral compounds and vaccines.
A major achievement of his was the establishment of the genetic maps for influenza A, B, and C viruses. These maps allowed researchers for the first time to investigate which viral genes code for which proteins. In addition, they made possible the study — on a molecular level — of the contribution of specific influenza virus genes to the virulence of the virus. The methods he and his colleagues developed for mapping the genetic material of RNA viruses have subsequently been used by other investigators to study other RNA viruses, including reo- and rotaviruses.
Dr. Palese also developed the first method to genetically manipulate negative-strand RNA viruses. Thus for the first time researchers could change these viruses both for research to determine the function of genes and for the development of viral strains for use as vaccines. Efforts are underway in Dr. Palese's laboratory and in many others to use and further develop this technique for influenza and other viruses, including measles, respiratory syncytial and parainfluenza viruses. The work Dr. Palese has done on the mechanisms of replication of influenza viruses has revealed potential targets for antiviral compounds that would block reproduction and therefore destroy the virus. His discoveries in this area laid the foundation for research that eventually led to production of antivirals that were recently approved by the FDA. Today, in collaboration with colleagues at Icahn School of Medicine, Dr. Palese's research focuses on the development of novel vaccines against influenza and other respiratory viruses that are made from genetically engineered viruses. It is expected that such vaccines will offer improved protection and longer lasting immunity. He is also investigating how respiratory viruses interact with the host cell. The ultimate goal of this research is the development of new antiviral compounds.
Dr. Palese has served as Chair of the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine since 1987. The Department has a thriving research program with numerous ongoing studies of both RNA and DNA containing viruses with special emphasis on herpes and influenza viruses. Other investigators in the Department are revealing the mechanisms of immune response to pathogens and investigating oncogenes to discover how they make cells cancerous.


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Otters select Strome with OHL's No. 2 pick
Dylan Strome, a natural center, quickly offered to play wing for the Erie Otters next season. Strome, the Otters' top pick (No. 2 overall) in the OHL Priority Selection on Saturday, gladly would move aside to play on a line alongside Connor McDavid.
"He's a special, special player," Strome said of McDavid, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 OHL draft and the league's rookie of the year.
Strome, 16, a native of Mississauga, Ontario, had 65 goals and 143 points in 60 minor midget games with the Toronto Marlboros this season. He also hails from a great hockey family.
Ryan Strome, his older brother, recently completed a four-year OHL career with 105 goals and 295 points in 225 games. Strome, the New York Islanders' first-round pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, now plays for the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
Dylan Strome played with McDavid, a Marlboros alumnus, in minor hockey and in the Allstate All-Canadian Mentorship Program last July. He knows he could benefit from teaming up with McDavid.
"There's not many people in the world that can do what he does with the puck and without the puck," Strome said. "I'm totally 100 percent OK with playing the wing. To play with Connor McDavid would be a tremendous honor."
The 6-foot 2-inch, 170-pound Strome has been called a bigger version of his brother.
"Once he fills into his body, he can be a pretty dominant player," Ryan Strome said. Dylan Strome also has been called a forward with size and playmaking ability in the mold of San Jose Sharks center Joe Thornton. Given those attributes, Dylan Strome could make a solid complement to the highly skilled McDavid.
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Sherry Bassin, Otters managing partner and general manager, said he has spoken with Dylan Strome about playing the wing next season.
But for now, Bassin said, "We're going to let him come in here and earn his spurs. We're not promising him anything, and he doesn't want to be (promised anything). We know what he can do, and we know what he can grow into."
Strome won six Greater Toronto Hockey League championships and two Ontario Hockey Federation titles with the Marlboros in the past seven seasons. He returned from an injury to score the winning goal in the OHL Cup semifinals this season, and then played the next day in a title-game loss.
"He's a winner," said Bassin, who later in the draft addressed a defense that finished 19th in the 20-team league with 312 goals against by selecting defensemen Jesse Saban and Cole Mayo in the second and third rounds, respectively.
Saban, a 6-foot 3-inch, 205-pound captain of the Toronto Red Wings, had heard Sarnia or Saginaw might take him in the third or fourth rounds. But the Lindsay, Ontario, native was happy to join the Otters, since he became a fan of the team after meeting McDavid at school last year. The 5-foot 11-inch, 193-pound Mayo was a key two-way player on an Elgin-Middlesex Chiefs club that featured No. 1 pick Travis Konecny (Ottawa) and No. 5 pick Lawson Crouse (Kingston). Bassin had Mayo rated higher in the draft.
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- Notes: Bassin said coach Kris Knoblauch provided the staff with an outline of the type of prospects he wanted. "A lot of leadership kids," Bassin said. ... Bassin selected center Trent Fox, younger brother of Otters forward Dane Fox, in the fifth round. He had 15 goals and 28 points in 27 games with the London Knights Gold this season. He also grew from 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 3 inches this season. ... Sixth-round pick Sean Kohler scored two goals in the Oakville Rangers' title-game win in the OHL Cup. ... Sean Day, the 15-year-old defenseman who gained exceptional player status from Hockey Canada and early entry into the draft, was chosen fourth overall by Mississauga. He was the first of four OHL players with exceptional status not to be chosen No. 1. McDavid, Aaron Ekblad (Barrie, 2011) and John Tavares (Oshawa, 2005) were picked first overall. ... Windsor chose Millcreek Township native Dan Miller with the first pick of the 12th round. His older brother, Nate, was the Otters' ninth-round pick in 2011.
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