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Signs Express (Aberdeen) installed over 120 signs to help rebrand its local shopping mall The Trinity Centre.
The Aberdeen signs specialist was contacted to rebrand all the signage inside and out of the then Mall Trinity. Working to tight deadlines the team had only two weeks to complete the installation of all of the interior and exterior retail signs.
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Decoder Ring
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In technical lingo, any device/documentation/etc. which provides a mapping from one thing to another, in order to make something go from cryptic to sensible - for example, a "cheat sheet" which explained the structure of an IP packet might be called an "IP decoder ring". Typically, a "decoder ring" is compact and easy to use; with the mapping conspicuous, obvious, and in one place, and little if any other content. (The various IETF standard describing IpProtocol
constitute a decoder ring; the meaning of IP packets being buried in much other verbiage).
Also known as a "magic decoder ring" or "secret decoder ring".
Derives from the following usage in pop-culture:
In America, probably elsewhere, cereal manufacturers used prizes to sell their cereal to children. One of the "canonical prizes" is a
secret decoder ring
. A "decoder ring" usually implemented a simple
(mapping letters to numbers) with a spinning wheel containing the letter and an outer ring containing the numbers (or the other way around); I've seen both a ring on the finger where the whole thing spins, and a ring with a large top area that contains the wheel. (Technically, this allowed for up to 26 distinct Caeser ciphers.) As you might imagine, these are typically quite clumsy. The manufacturer would then include messages on the box in the given Caesar cipher, and the children would presumably have fun decoding them... except that they were typically only more marketing messages.
Some images of these things can be found at
- for instance, see the "Chex" ring.
This was lampooned in
, wherein the protagonist in the movie, an eight-year-old boy named Ralphie growing up Indiana in the 1940's, sends away for a "secret decoder ring" from a popular radio serial (Little Orphan Annie), and after anxiously waiting the typical six-to-eight weeks, decodes a secret message that says "BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE". ("Ovaltine" is a foul-tasting chocolate additive for milk that was sponsoring the radio serial; in modern times, it is advertised as being good for you due to vitamin addition, and that gee golly, it doesn't taste
bad considering how healthy it is! In other words, its marketed at parents, not kids, a sure sign that kids don't want it in our society.)
If you've never seen this movie, it's hilarious. Based on the book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" by the late Jean Shepherd. It gently skewers numerous
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text: Listening to these halfwit Republican Senators on C-Span, I just can't suppress my shock and awe that so many unthinking Republicans are duped by Karl Rove's rhetorical "talking points". None of them will stand the logical scrutiny of your average [non-Republican] eighth grader. "Fight THEM there OR fight them here?" "If we leave, THEY'LL follow us home?" First Rove wheels out a smirking Bush to hang out his latest obfuscating rhetorical shingle. If it seems to throw anyone (e.g., media toadies, see Judy Miller) off-balance, it's immediately circulated to members of Congress as the Talking Point du jour. Does anyone imagine that we're fighting a few dozen Al Quaeda terrorists in Iraq, and that as long as we keep them "fully engaged", well, darn, they'll all just have to stay there to fight us, and none can be spared to try to infiltrate the U.S.? Oh, and if we withdraw troops from Iraq, those self-same few dozen folks, rather than luxuriate in having gained themselves a country (courtesy of Bush) in which to train, recruit and proliferate, will hop on the next 747 and "carry the fight" to our shores? "Points" such as this, which cleverly sometimes seem to have a kernel of "truth" to them, are not aimed at befuddling Democrats or other thinking persons. They're cynically concocted to be parroted by Dummy Republicans. And, even after over four years of abject failure in Iraq, we still hear them. It's all the Dummies have left.


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Watch Video - Uploading Images into the HTML Editor
The Image Upload Feature Pack allows you to upload images from the user's machine to the server.
Here are some of the things you can do with the Image Upload Feature Pack:
When you have the Image Upload Feature Pack installed the following new options become enabled in the Grid builder:
Note: If you want to upload files, rather than images, File Upload Feature Pack might be better suited to your needs.
The 'Upload Image' action allows you to upload an image and then either store a link to that image in a field in the current record, or embed the image in a field in the current record.
The Upload Image action allows you to upload an image file to the server and then store the uploaded image in a field in the Grid table by reference or as an embedded object.
The screenshots below show the builder.
First part of the Image Upload Builder
Scrolled View of the Image Upload Builder
Image Field
The builder allows you to select a field in the Grid in which the uploaded image file will be stored (either by reference, or as an embedded object). Only the controls on the Grid that have a control type of 'Image' are shown in the dropdown box when you select the field.
If you select a character field (this would include a .dbf file of type Image File Reference), then the uploaded image is stored by reference (i.e. the field in the table stores the name of the image file). If you select a BLOB field (this would include the .dbf JPeg and Bitmap fields), then the uploaded image is stored as an embedded object.
VERY IMPORTANT: Be sure that you have set the Updateable property of the Image field to allow updates!
Scale Image
You can optionally scale the uploaded image before it is saved to the database. There are several scaling options. You can specify a ratio, or an absolute image size.
If you select a ratio, the dialog to define scaling will look like this:
Scale image dialog if you select the 'Ratio' option.
If you specify an absolute image size, the dialog will look like this:
This dialog allows you to specify a scaling method. The options are 'Scale width and height proportionally' and 'Scale width and height independently'. In the 'Scale width an height proportionally' case you specify a single dimension which applies to the width, height, or if you select 'Maximum dimension' it applies to either the width or the height, depending on which dimension is larger in the source image.
If you select the 'Scale width and height independently' option, then you can specify dimensions for both the height and the width.
NOTE: If you specify a BeforeSave server side event, when the event fires, the image will already have been scaled if you define a scaling option. So, if your event also scales the image, it will be scaling an already scaled image.
Allowed and Disallowed File Extensions
You can limit the types of files that the user can upload. You can either supply a list of allowed extensions, or a list of disallowed extensions.
Embedded Image Format
This property is shown if the Grid is based on a SQL database and you have selected a binary field as the image target. You must specify whether the image will be stored as a jpeg or bmp object.
Upload Folder, File exists action, and Stored filename transformation expression
If the target field is a character field, these properties are displayed:
If you are uploading to a Character Field the Builder prompts for 'Upload folder' , 'File exists action' and 'Stored filename transformation expression'
The Upload Folder is the folder on the server where the uploaded file will be stored. If you specify a relative filename, the folder is in the webroot.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you have the Security Framework turned on, be sure to set the appropriate permissions for this upload folder and the files that it contains.
The File exists action can either be 'Rename' (so that it does not overwrite an existing file in the Upload Folder) or 'Overwrite' (so that any existing file would be automatically overwritten.
The Stored filename transformation expression allows you to define an Xbasic expression to transform the actual filename of the uploaded file to a value that should be stored in the target field. When you click the smart field associated with this property, the help text gives examples. For example, you might just want to store the relative filename of the uploaded file.
Maximum file size
You can specify the maximum size of the file that the server will accept. Unfortunately, it is not possible to know what the file size of the uploaded file is until after it has been uploaded. Only after the file has been uploaded can the server check the size of the file and send back a message to the client saying that the file was too large.
Auto upload
If you check this button then as soon as the user selects a file, the upload begins. Otherwise, the user must press the Upload button.
After the image has been uploaded, you can optionally preview the image before saving it to the database. If you want to preview the image after it has been uploaded, then un-check the 'Close file select window after upload' property.
The screenshot shown below shows the File Select window with a preview of the image that was just uploaded. Notice that the window shows the image, but the image field in the Grid also shows the image that was just uploaded. If you cancel at this point, the image that is shown in the Grid will revert to its original value.
File Upload Window showing a preview of the image that was uploaded
If the 'Close file select window after upload' property is unchecked, you will see a number of options for customizing the appearance of the window in which the uploaded image can be previewed. One big advantage of previewing the uploaded image is that it allows you to change your mind and NOT save the uploaded image to the database.
If you do not preview the uploaded image, then the image is saved to the database as soon as the upload completes and the action cannot be undone.
This action exposes two server-side Xbasic events:
This event is called as soon as the uploaded file has been received by the Server. The event can abort the action.
Some of the ways in which this event can be used include:
After you have specified the name of the event, click on the hyperlink to get a sample function prototype. Copy this prototype to the clipboard, and then paste it into the Xbasic Function Declarations property of the Grid.
The function prototype shows what properties are in the 'e' object that is passed into the Xbasic function.
Notice that if you want to abort the action, set e.abort = .t. and e.abortMessage to the reason why the action was aborted. This message is displayed to the user.
Here is a sample function prototype:
function xbBeforeSave as v (e as p)
'This function is called after an image has been uploaded, but before it is saved to a field in the current record.
'The binary data that was uploaded is passed into the function. Your script can check if it is a valid image and abort if not.
'The most typical reason for defining this event handler is to scale the image before it is saved.
'The e object that is passed in contains:
'e.fileBlob - the binary data that was uploaded. Your script can manipulate this value.
'e.uploadedFilename - the filename of the file on the client computer
'In addition, e contains
'e.tmpl - the Grid definition
'e.rv - request variables
'e.rtc - a pointer variable that is passed to all server side events
'Your event can set these two properties
'e.abort - if you set this to .t., the uploaded file is not saved to the database
'e.abortMessage - message to display to user why the action was aborted.
end function
Note: While your event handler can scale the image, it is also possible to scale the image by setting the 'Scale image' property. If you want to have more control over how the image is scaled, then you should NOT define a 'Scale image' property and instead, do the scaling in the BeforeSave event.
If you want to write you own scaling functionality, you might find the a5_scale_imageBlob() function to be useful. See the Release Notes for Version 10 for more information on this function.
The OnSave event is called after the uploaded image has been processed and is ready to saved into a field in the current Grid record. A typical use of this event would be to save a thumbnail of the uploaded image at the same time that the image itself is saved in the Grid record.
After you have specified the name of the event, click on the hyperlink to get a sample function prototype. Copy this prototype to the clipboard, and then paste it into the Xbasic Function Declarations property of the Grid.
The function prototype shows what properties are in the 'e' object that is passed into the Xbasic function.
Here is a sample function prototype:
function xbOnSave as v (e as p)
'This function is called when the uploaded image data is saved to a record in the Grid.
'A possible use of this function would be to save a thumbnail of the uploaded image in another field in the current record.
'The e object that is passed in contains:
'e.tmpl - the Grid definition
'e.rv - request variables
'e.rtc - a pointer variable that is passed to all server side events
'e.__si - state information
'e.ops = misc properties that were defined in the builder for the image upload action
'e.tableType - 'SQL' or 'DBF'
'e.tempImageFilenameOnServer - temporary file in the session folder where the uploaded image was stored
'If the Grid is based on a SQL database (e.tableType = 'SQL'), then e contains:
'e.cn - a pointer to an open connection to the database
'e.args - the sql::arguments object that contains the data that was passed to the query that saved the data
'e.targetFieldType - the data type of the field in which the image is stored ('C' - character or 'B' - binary)
'e.embeddedImageFormat - in the case where the image is embedded, the format (jpg or bmp) that the image was converted to before it was stored in the table
'If the Grid is based on a DBF database (e.tableType = 'DBF'), then e contains:
'e.targetFieldType - the data type of the field in which the image is stored ('I' - image file ref, 'C' - character, 'J' - jpeg, or 'B' - bmp)
'e.tbl = tbl - pointer to the open table in which the uploaded imaged was stored - DO NOT CLOSE THIS TABLE!!.
'e.imageFilenameOnServer - if the image was linked (i.e. stored in a Character field or Image File Ref Field (dbf only)), the full filename of the image file on the server. This property if blank if the image is embedded.
'e.imageBlob - if the image is embedded, the binary image data (after it has been converted to the required type)
'e.valueStoredInField - if the image was linked (i.e. stored in a Character or Image File Ref Field (dbf only) ), the actual filename (after it has been transformed) that was stored in the character field.
end function
Important: This feature is not supported in Working Preview mode.
Watch Video - Uploading Images into the HTML Editor
If the Image Upload Feature Pack is installed, then the Field Properties dialog for a Memo field will show a new property: 'Allow image upload'.
Note: If the optional File Upload Feature Pack is installed, then the Field Properties dialog for a Memo field also shows the 'Allow file upload' property.
The 'File Upload' feature allows you to upload files (e.g. .pdf, .excel, .doc, etc.) and then put hyperlinks to these files in the HTML memo.
Image shows the Field Properties Dialog for an HTML Memo field if both the File Upload and Image Upload Feature Packs are Installed.
If 'Allow image upload' is enabled, then you must specify the folder where uploaded images are stored. You must enter a relative folder name here. The folder will be created in the webroot if it does not already exist.
If you allow image upload, then the toolbar will show a new button when you are editing the memo.
If you click the icon, the File Select window appears:
The wording and icons used in the window can be customized by clicking on the 'Image upload dialog customization' property smart field.
Image selection window
Here is how the HTML memo field might look after an image has been uploaded:


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The Surprising Irrelevance of Islamic Bankruptcy
Haider Ala Hamoudi
University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
November 10, 2011
American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, Vol. 19, p. 505, 2011
U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011
By any standard of logic, the influence of the shari'a should be far more relevant in the area of bankruptcy than it is. Understanding the sources of the broad marginalization of shari'a as it relates to modern bankruptcy law in the Muslim world tells us much about the sharply limited legal scope of Islamic revivalism as concerns economic and commercial matters and perhaps even a little bit about Islamism's limited legal ambitions more generally.
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Keywords: shari'a, Islamic law, Islamic finance, bankruptcy, Islamic bankruptcy
Date posted: November 11, 2011 ; Last revised: January 23, 2013
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The film company is considering turning Breaking Dawn into a two-part finale to the movie series, Variety reports.
Of course, there are complications to such a move. First off, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote the first three movies' scripts, hasn't begun writing. Second, director Chris Weitz, who filmed New Moon, has said he wants to quit the movie business after finishing a pet project, The Gardener.
But perhaps most critical is getting actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and the rest to come back on board – and paying them suitably staggering salaries.
On the other hand, if Harry Potter can pull it off, why not the Cullens?
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Episode 17 – The Diary of Mr Poynter
This episode Mike and Will recoil in horror from some fearsome home furnishings in 'The Diary of Mr Poynter' by M.R. James.
Big thanks to our reader for this episode, the mighty Paul Maclean (@ysdc on Twitter). You may know Paul from the 'Call of Cthulhu' RPG hub Yog-Sothoth.com and it's Lovecraftian publishing wing InnsmouthHouse.com. He is also one of the presenters of the News from Pnakotus and The Silver Lodge podcasts, both required listening for weird fiction and RPG fans!
Also big thanks to Alisdair Wood, the massively talented artist who provided us with the awesome specially-created 'Diary of Mr Poynter' artwork you can see above. You can find more exciting James-inspired artwork at Alisdair Wood's website.
Show notes:
- Rendcomb Manor, Gloucestershire (Monty's World)
While in the story Rendcomb Manor is said to be in Warwickshire, the real Rendcomb Manor is in Gloucestershire. Now home to Rendcomb College, it is not clear if James had this ancient estate in mind when he wrote the story.
- Anti-vivisection movement and the Brown Dog Affair (Wikipedia)
Miss Denton is an advocate of the Anti-vivisection moment, which was gathering momentum in the decade before this story was published.
- William Poynter, Bishop (Wikipedia)
M.R. James borrowed the name of his diarist from an English bishop who published various religious tracts during the early 19th century.
- Dr Arthur Charlett, University College Oxford (Wikisource)
Mr Poynter's diary states that the famously hirsute (and presumably fictional) Everard Charlett was of the same family as Dr Arthur Charlett, who was Master of University College Oxford for 30 years until his death in 1722.
- Thomas Hearne, Antiquarian (Wikipedia)
James mentions in the story that William Poynter argued with English antiquarian Thomas Hearne (1678 – 1735).
- Dr Robert Plot, Naturalist (Wikipedia)
Mr Poynter's diary suggests that there may be precedents for the strange death of Everard Charlett to be found in the work of Robert Plot. Plot English naturalist whose works mentioned strange natural phenomena such as the 'double sunset' at Leek in Staffordshire, a giants femur bone etc.
- Feast of St Jude and St Simon (CatholicCulture.org)
James mentions that the curtains are finally delivered on the Feast of St Jude and St Simon, the 28th October. In his book Suffolk and Norfolk M.R. James notes that stained glass images of Jude and Simon can be found in the parish church at Denton in Norfolk, although his use of this as a name for his protagonist could be a coincidence!
- Thomas Philips, Antiquarian (Wikipedia)
M.R. James mentions in the story that prior to purchase by James Denton, Mr Poynter's diary was part of the 'famous Thomas collection' of manuscripts. Thomas Philips was an antiquarian and obsessive book collector who left a collection of around 100,000 books and manuscripts at the time of his death in 1872 which were auctioned off over a number of years.
- Ghosts and Scholars postcard (Ghosts & Scholars Website)
Ghosts and Scholars are selling this rather scary bookmark featuring an image of Everard Charlett's hairy coffin!
- Shakespeare authorship question (Wikipedia)
In the story Mr Cattell makes a reference to 'Hercules and the painted cloth', which Rosemary Pardoe suggests may be a hint towards the argument/conspiracy theory that someone else may have written Shakespeare's works.
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkin Gilman (Wikipedia)
There are parallels between this story and the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by American Writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman which was published in 1892. This story was also recently examined in detail by the HPPodcraft.
- Game of Bear Story Competition (thesuffolkcoast.co.uk)
Suffolk Coast are running a competition for under 16′s to write an ending for M.R. James's unfinished story Game of Bear. Closing date is 1st November, the winner will be selected by author Susan Hill.
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Here's a picture of part of my bedroom curtain.
The position of Miss Denton is an unfortunate one – unmarried female relatives were expected to batten onto more successful family members and live at their expense. This means that she would be constantly begging for money, having none of her own; the reason she wants her nephew to buy the fabrics is very probably that he's the one holding the purse-strings, and she has only a small personal allowance.
Saint Jude, supposedly one of the Apostles, suffered historically from confusion with Judas Iscariot. I don't believe there's any particular connection between his life and his later patronage.
Another approach that occurred to me is that "Absalom's" hair might have taken on demonic characteristics of its own, and that when he died it took itself off (perhaps to hell or similar).
The effectiveness of the pattern makes this story seem in some respects very modern, with the informational/memetic aspect something one finds in Langford (the "basilisk" stories) and Stross (the Laundry). An alternative formulation might see the protagonist desperately travelling back to Bermondsey to stop the mass-production of the fabric…
Glad to find another Laundary reader! Yes, the meme theme does give it a very moderm aspect. I was also thinking of the Merchant Prince's books, with the transdimensional knot-work that can be copied and duplicated, without losing its power.
I'd never read this one, and though it sounds like kind of one of Monty's weaker stories, I also thought of several more contemporary parallels as I heard you describe it. The idea of the dangerous element being carried by the pattern/structure and subject to duplication rather than inhabiting a particular object also made me think of Langford's stories as well as the "Snow Crash" in Neal Stephenson's novel of the same name (I didn't think of the Laundry, but that too). Another more popular iteration of this idea that came to mind is that of the film the Ring, where the haunting spreads by video and can be copied from tape to tape, and even includes a drowned, hairy ghost.
I'm not suggesting a direct influence of this story, but it seems more likely that the Diary of Mr. Poynter is an early example of an especially modern take on the ghost/weird tale, where in an age of mass production and reproduction, the hauntings or other phenomena attach to mass-produced or reproducible objects, patterns, or information. While it has always been possible to copy a pattern, this sort of thing may have been more relevant in Monty's fully industrialized early 20th century, and even more so in the information age, where it's not even necessary to have a physical object, but just a transmissible bit of information, and perhaps that's why we can think of so many more contemporary takes on the theme.
Of course, this idea of a memetic aspect to the supernatural or weird is not all that different from much more ancient ideas of magic spells, where the effect can be produced by sequences of language, inscribed shapes, etc. that can be written down, and transferred from user to user like computer programs/viruses.
Earlier this week I hung some grody floral wallcovering for a client. She loved it. I hope it doesn't haunt her.
I agree the story is a pretty weak one in the cannon, and Alberich is a much better story. My take on it is that the narrative centers around a contrast between woven fibre (chintz, curtains, etc) that are part of Miss Denton's world and depict her as constrictive, and the unwoven or untangled fibre of the hair, which embodies Denton's repressed rage over his situation and his desire to be free of his aunt.
Even if that's accurate, MRJ could probably have built a much more interesting story around it. I don't care for the way the aunt just disappears.
Ah, the ghost of HPL may never leave us, eh?
I actually agree with you both on this story – it seems quite like James on autopilot, I was incredibly underwhelmed. I didn't get any sense of threat or lingering fear or even a build up. The face peeking from behind the curtains to the hairy man-thing by the chair (which I will admit did creep me the hell out) seemed very disconnected from each other. It seemed to just appear and be over, instead of putting it's monstrous foot in the door and becoming more and more prominent.
What would have helped this whole rather silly affair (goddamn haunted textiles), I think, would be the inclusion of one of the Denton's feeling hairy things where hair ought not be around the house, like going for a cup in a cabinet and feeling bristles behind it or something looking hairy, yet upon second inspection is totally normal. The curtains were supposed to be hair looking, which would have been the haunting consistent, I couldn't visualize. Maybe that was the idea, but it certainly didn't help me to understand the story. The meme aspect mentioned in previous comments above is actually quite good and damn creepy, but only a supposition – does one have to own an outright physical copy of the design or will a mental image suffice? If the former, there's an air of 'Casting the Runes', that being in possession of the thing causes it to come to you.
I liked your suggestion that the wild hair pattern was representative of Sir Everard Charlett's libertine ways, and repressed Mr. Denton was haunted by the hair because it saw in him someone who subconsciously wanted more freedom.
By having the curtain pattern joined at the top, he caused the pattern to be linked to itself, like hair coming together on the scalp (thus making it more life-like), whereas in the fabric scrap, there were no connections at the top or the bottom.
As to the mystery of Charlett's vanishing and returning hair, I'm as puzzled as you. The hair "pluck'd clean off his head" doesn't sound like the work of hair thieves. It sounds more like the hair left him of its own volition, and later returned and kept growing so that it filled his coffin two years later. But as eerie as that might be, I can think of no reason for it, certainly nothing hinted at in the story.
In re-listening to this episode I realized " joining the bands" referred to the pattern continuing in repetition– tiling, if you will. The top of one instance of the pattern's cut block joins with bottom of the next instance, creating locks of hair down the entire length of the curtain.
That seems obvious in reproducing any pattern, but doing the natural thing led to Mr Denton's sense of the curtains rippling.
There's another part of the Alberic plot that James recycled: the purchase of the book at a much cheaper price than originally thought.
After an evening of attempting to sketch the precise pattern mentioned in the text I can up with the image at http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/137 which my missus now wants to have made into an oil (table) cloth. This thing is obviously like catnip for the lasses. It goes without saying that I'm strongly against the idea.
One of the odder of his stories and not one of my favourites – although a lot of interesting themes underlying it. (Just tweeted Stephen Gray's link – he does such a nice job of illustrating the tales!)
Thanks for another intriguing episode !
I love this story.
Maybe it's the reader of the audio version I listened to, but the moment that the protagonist's mother became enraptured with the scrap of material, I got scared.
There's just a sense of elemental wrongness that permeates it, totally irrational and sinister. The stuff about "I don't think we should have had them joined up at the top" really makes it build. The comic backdrop is nice and comical, and when the ghost finally makes its appearance, well, I love how it is revealed by its stillness. It doesn't snarl or rear up at first. It just sits there, as if patiently letting the hero know how screwed he is. I love how weak it is as it tears away.
Most of all, I love that M R James was able to make a tale of terror out of something as utterly mundane as selecting a pattern for the new curtains. THAT is skill.
I've got a little theory as to why the hairy ghost didn't finish our hero off or pound at the door. I think the amplification of the hair's pattern, the feeding of the dead man's vanity, gave it strength, and allowed it to manifest as it concentrated itself together. When the hero opened the door, it couldn't really follow him because the other rooms and hallways didn't have that pattern, and it would have dissipated like a small whiff of nitrous oxide in a big open room. It also seems to follow similar rules for a ghostly manifestation as in View from a Hill and Warning to the Curious, what I think of as the Jamesian Shade.
There's another possible explanation of the "painted cloth" problem. Cattell is inclined to soft-soap the customers by making supposedly learned references which are, in fact, utterly ignorant – for example, his remark about medieval things being undervalued/lost. I suspect that he wildly misquoted The Immortal Bard to a customer more pedantic, and less tolerant, than Mr Denton. and was corrected rather sharply.
Random remarks about your podcast conversation– The Hamlet quote didn't strike me as being something James wouldn't utter because he's scientifically oriented, but rather totally the sort of thing he'd quote because he's so spiritual. If nothing else, being so close to the church can only have helped his belief that there are powers we can't see or explain.
The other thought was in regard to the conversation about how the pattern could have power as cloth but not as a photograph, for instance, rather like the mezzotint. My thought was that, like monks illuminating MSS, the people creating the artwork are pouring themselves and their creative talent into the manufacture of the object in question (probably the Dollhouse too, later). That sort of creation is more than just hand craft but as any artist would tell you it includes a little bit of one's soul. So the craftsman making the wood block with his art and his hands must have put just enough spiritual power into it to bring it to life again and give the ghost a portal. Or something. There was probably a less-pompous way to say that but it's an idea, anyway!


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"Allison James", Caucasian, 20s - 30s. Allison is an attractive, highly intelligent, and ambitious female attorney who originally grew up in the South. Allison's future seems to be bright----she is about to get married to her beloved boyfriend Patrick and her law career is taking off. She has an intellectual curiosity which simultaneously helps her and hurts her. She is a rising star in the legal world. But suddenly all her hopes come crashing down when Allison is tragically murdered. CO-STARRING ROLE
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The word "tourmaline" comes from the Sinhalese tura mali, meaning "stone of mixed colors." Shades of tourmaline cover the full spectrum and may be bicolored or multicolored.
Tourmaline is Maine's official state mineral. Of the many mineral varieties classified as tourmaline, "elbaite" is the rarest, often made into fine jewelry. Black tourmaline, or "schorl," is the most common but least valuable. Tourmaline and opal are October birthstones.
The first major tourmaline find in North America occurred in 1820. Brown University students Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes found a green crystal almost an inch long beneath an uprooted tree on Mount Mica in Paris, Maine.
The famous Hamlin Necklace contains 70 gemstones, most of them tourmalines from the 1820 Mount Mica discovery. It weighs 228 carats and is in the collection of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University.
In 1972, one of the world's largest deposits of gem tourmaline—a metric ton of pink, green, and watermelon crystals—was discovered on Plumbago Mountain in Newry, Maine. The biggest crystal was 10.6 inches high and up to 3.9 inches wide; dubbed "Jolly Green Giant," it's now in the Smithsonian's collection.
After the Plumbago Mountain discovery, Maine's Retail Jewelers Association proudly created the "Maine Tourmaline Necklace": a 24.58-carat pink tourmaline center piece with 23 additional stones and gold panned from the Swift River. Jeweler Addison Saunders of Ellsworth crafted the piece for free. The Maine Tourmaline Necklace was presented on May 25, 1977, to Governor James B. Longley; its appraised value at the time was $25,000. The necklace is kept at the Maine State Museum and is worn on special occasions by Maine's first ladies.
On September 4, 2009, just 1,000 feet from the historic 1972 find, Plumbago Mountain yielded the "Eureka Find," a cache of rare blue tourmaline, with some crystals weighing as much as 100 carats.
The mineral band in Maine runs from the Brunswick area on the coast northwest through Auburn and up through Paris and the Oxford Hills to Newry and the New Hampshire border. In recent years, however, a unique mint-green/teal tourmaline, known as SparHawk, was discovered just 28 miles north of Portland.
Maine Mineral Adventures, a roadside attraction off Route 26 in Woodstock, offers rockhound field trips to nearby mines and quarries, including Mount Mica. Or you can sift for treasures (paying by the bucket) through gravel from area mines: digmainegems.com
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Carter died Feb. 16 of brain cancer. Family, friends and former teammates are gathering for a memorial service this evening at Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens.
Carter was an 11-time All-Star, playing most of his career with the Montreal Expos and the Mets.
His single for the Mets in the '86 World Series touched off one of the most improbable rallies in baseball history. He was 57 when he died.
You can watch the funeral live tonight at 7 p.m. on CBSNewYork.com.
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Here is the Call for the 2009 Award.
EUnited Robotics acts as platform for manufacturers and system integrators of robotics in Europe. It represents the robotics industries' voice and is committed to increasing the competitiveness of European robotics and expanding their market.
Cooperation with industry benefits academic researchers byproviding real-world problems with known, often tight, constraints; and access to a realistic testbed and to the machinery expected to successfully solve the problem. Industry has experience in polishing and refining projects into something with commercial potential.
Cooperation with academics benefits industry by providing access to a wide range of highly motivated researchers with problem solving experience. Each problem to be solved can be taken to a leading expert in that field without the costs normally associated with such high-quality outside consultancy.
The EURON/erf Technology Transfer Award rewardsoutstanding innovations in robot technology and automation arising from cooperation between academic researchers and industry. The initiative can have come from either end — either industry going to a university with a problem to be solved; or a university project with real potential looking for expertese in the marketing process.
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The real work in surfing is the paddling. It requires surf specific muscles that even the Marines I teach don't have. Push ups and weights alone are clearly not enough to give you paddling stamina. It takes being in the water and burning and rebuilding the muscles.
This is one reason that you want to be paddling on a board that gives you the effective volume for your paddling strength. When you can't paddle any longer, you are through surfing for the day. You also need to paddle fast enough to catch waves not to mention beating other surfers in the line up to the wave.
I surf most every day and yet when I got a new surf board that was a little wider and a little thicker than my last short board, my paddling got easier and wave catching more dynamic.
Most surfers can be seen paddling with their head and chest up and pulling straight back with their strokes. This is the way professionals paddle. You have to be on the sweet spot of your board and if your feet are up so that your weight is just on the sweet spot, you will paddle faster.
Another very important and effective technique I have found that is also used by advanced surfers is to get up on the nose so that it is lying on the water or even just under the surface. If I lay my head down on the board, it is even better. This spot on my 6'4″ board makes paddling easier and faster.
The second advantage of this technique is that in slower smaller waves 4′ and under, it helps push the front of the board down the wave. If you see surfers catching waves you are not catching you might notice that they are on the nose or even pushing the board down the wave before they pop up.
Some professionals on bigger waves will paddle on the nose to catch the wave earlier which is an advantage on big waves and then before they pop up, slide the board up so that the are a little further back on the board. This would not be easy for most surfers.
Try paddling further forward on your board with your head down and your legs up to move the weight pressure on the board toward the nose.
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Assassin's Creed Review
Assassin's Creed should certainly be played by anyone who's got a capable PC, but don't expect to be playing something that will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time.
Once you've escaped the guards and have the required info on your target you head back to the Bureau and you're given the go-ahead to make the kill. It's here that the game is perhaps the most disappointing, as the assassinations simply aren't as diverse as I hoped they'd be. Once you make it to the sign-posted area an in-game cinematic kicks in, before you are left to take out your target. Try as I might, I simply wasn't able to make stealth kills, resulting in the guards spotting me and being on my case.
Again, once you've completed the kill and watched the target speak about his actions, you must head to the Bureau to confirm the kill - only after you've shaken off the guards and returned your social status to normal. It's then back to Maysaf to speak to your master, who gives you another target and handily upgrades your abilities and/or weapons. To begin with you're rather limited, with little more than a sword and the robe you wear, but by the end you'll be able to grab hold of ledges while falling, throw ninja-like blades and hold your own against a mob of enemies.
Combat in Assassin's Creed is something I have mixed feelings about. It's definitely not going to appeal to everyone, mainly down to the lack of skill required, but it serves its purpose and makes for great looking fights. You essentially have to rely on countering the attacks of your enemies, which when done correctly either knocks them to the ground for an easy kill or performs an instant kill in one of many bloody sequences. When you start your quest to kill the nine targets you'll be worried about taking on guards (especially the harder to kill Templars) but soon you'll be quite happy to face five or more, safe in the knowledge that you'll be able to take them all out without too many problems.
And that is the game. While you get new targets and move to new locations in each city, what you do is essentially the same. Side missions come in the form of collecting hundreds of flags littered throughout the cities and free-roaming kingdom (which you can travel through by horse), scaling all the view points, and citizens can be helped out which in turn give you allies who will block pursuing guards, to help you escape.
'While it looks utterly amazing, you're going to need one monster PC in order to get it running smoothly with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on.'
As stunning as the game looks and as enthralled as I was by the story - which really is quite intriguing if you look for all the information - the game's flaws are too hard to ignore. They mostly boil down to how the game seemingly goes out of its way to make things less fun than they should be. Escaping should be something Altair is highly skilled at, but guards are just about as agile, leaping from building to building after you. Time after time I was moments from taking shelter in some hay, in a roof garden or in the safety of a group of scholars, when a guard would spot me, and another lengthy pursuit would ensue - what should have been great fun quickly devolved into a chore.
While it looks utterly amazing, you're going to need one monster PC in order to get it running smoothly with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on. If you do have such a machine then you'll actually be playing the superior version, with the game holding a higher frame rate than on consoles and suffering from far less detail pop-up. PC gamers were treated to Crysis last year, but that in no way lessens the visual impact of Assassin's Creed. The cities have been created with a stunning amount of detail and the views while atop tall spires are truly breathtaking.
Enemy AI is terribly erratic. They can chase you for minutes, but then you can walk behind one of them in a way so obvious a normal person would be highly suspicious of, and then stealth kill them from behind. Oh, and Altair, a man who is probably one of the most deadly characters ever to appear in a video game, dies when he hits water. Although people of the time might not have been able to swim, it's still completely ridiculous.
And don't get me started on the ending. This pretty much nailed the coffin shut on the game's fate as a good but not stunning title. You'll have to experience it for yourself, but it simply didn't deliver what it should have. It left me wanting more, which Ubisoft may well see as job done, but gamers don't buy games with the hope that they're completed within the next few years; they want a conclusion straight away.
Assassin's Creed should certainly be played by anyone who's got a PC capable of getting the most out of the game's superb visuals, but don't expect to be playing something that will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time. It's ambitious and succeeds more than it fails, suggesting that one day Ubisoft Montréal will deliver the game it originally set out to make.


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KALAMAZOO, MI – While investigators allege a bullet fired from DaQuan Pritchett's gun killed Christopher Adams last week, the actions of a man Adams was with that night may have also played a role in the 19-year-old's death, according to a Kalamazoo Public Safety detective.
Detective Sheila Goodell detailed the events leading up the July 23 shooting on Mount Olivet Road in testimony Saturday to Kalamazoo County District Judge Julie K. Phillips.
After hearing the testimony, Phillips signed warrants charging Pritchett, 18, with one count each of open murder and felony use of a firearm, and Tyler Bishop, 21, with three counts each of attempted murder and felony use of a firearm.
Goodell told Phillips that Adams and Bishop were with two other people in a car on the night of July 23 when they came upon Pritchett, who was walking with two people in the 3200 block of Mount Olivet.
"Mr. Adams and the occupants in his vehicle had been disputing with these subjects who were walking and ... as they pulled up to the pedestrians, Mr. Bishop, Tyler Bishop, exited the vehicle to confront them," Goodell testified. "One of the subjects included DaQuan Pritchett and, according to witnesses, Mr. Pritchett produced a handgun and fired it in the air."
Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley said Monday that the dispute mentioned by Goodell stemmed from a drug deal in which Pritchett allegedly used $100 in counterfeit money to purchase marijuana.
The gunfire that night, according to Goodell, prompted Bishop to pull out a handgun, which he fired at Pritchett and the two people who were with Pritchett. The gunfire did not strike anyone.
Pritchett, at that point, returned fire "towards the vehicle and that bullet did indeed strike Christopher Adams," Goodell testified.
Adams was driven from the scene of the shooting, which occurred at about 9:30 p.m., to Borgess Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
His funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Life Story Funeral Home, 5975 Lovers Lane, in Portage.
Meanwhile, Pritchett was arraigned Monday in district court and is being held without bond in the Kalamazoo County Jail pending a probable cause hearing Aug. 7 before District Judge Richard A. Santoni.
When District Judge Anne E. Blatchford asked Pritchett Monday if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, he told her his mother was getting an attorney for him. He did not have an attorney listed, as of Tuesday morning.
Bishop also was arraigned Monday and is being held in the county jail on a $250,000 cash/surety bond. Bishop also is scheduled to be back in court Aug. 7 for a hearing in front of Santoni.
Bishop is being represented by Cassopolis attorney Edwin G. Johnson III. Johnson, reached by phone today, declined to comment for this report.
Rex Hall Jr. is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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To characterize the relationship between changes in renal blood flow and cardiac output induced by dopamine, hypothesizing that at low doses renal blood flow changes more than cardiac output.
Anesthetized swine had renal blood flow and cardiac output measured during either continuous dopamine infusions (2 to 8 μg/kg per minute) or bolus dosing (1 to 16 μg/kg), and increases in both were compared. Two different fluid protocols were compared using constant dopamine infusions. In the constant pulmonary capillary wedge pressure protocol, intravenous fluids were titrated to keep this parameter constant. In the other protocol, fluid therapy was held constant at 10 mL/kg per hour.
With infusions, mean increases in renal blood flow and cardiac output were relatively equal. The maximum increase was 35% at 8 μg/kg per minute under the constant pulmonary capillary wedge pressure protocol, with no significant differences (P>.1) found between the change in renal blood flow and cardiac output at any dose in either protocol. With bolus dosing, renal blood flow increased significantly more than cardiac output at 1, 4, and 8 μg/kg (P<.05).
Disproportionate increases in renal blood flow compared with cardiac output at low bolus doses show initial renal responses to be independent of cardiac output. The infusion data suggest that renal responses exhibit tachyphylaxis or that cardiac output slowly accommodates to decreased total peripheral resistance.(Arch Surg. 1995;130:864-868)
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Time to get ready to party! Nicky Hilton and a pal stopped by the Anastasia salon in Brentwood, Calif., for an eyebrow shaping. Hilton, wearing a gray tank top, skinny jeans, sandals and sunglasses, sipped a cappuccino and skimmed a few magazines while waiting for her appointment. After her eyebrows were done, Hilton had her makeup touched up by a cosmetologist, then skipped out to the Brentwood Country Mart for lunch with her friend.
On a recent visit to the Big Apple, Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Trish dined at Uncle Jack's Steakhouse on 34th Street. "They came in to have lunch after reading about the restaurant in an airline magazine," says a source. "They wanted to see what it was all about." Cyrus told staffers he loved the venue, and hoped to bring daughter Miley by the next time she was in New York. "He said Uncle Jack's will become their go-to restaurant in the city," the source added.
Keanu Reeves unwound this week with a java break at Lamill Coffee in Silver Lake, Calif. After arriving on his motorcycle, the actor and a friend scored a seat on the patio and chatted for a while over cappuccinos and cigarettes.
Emmy Rossum braved the N.Y.C. chill to grab dinner and drinks with a girlfriend at Forty Eight lounge. The duo split a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne – some celebratory bubbly, perhaps? – before ordering honey-glazed meatballs, filet mignon sliders and a hummus platter. Rossum, described as "very sweet" by a server, said she "loved the lounge" and would definitely be back soon.
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Address: Adams Hill, Clent, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 9PS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 33825) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Hagley (1.6 miles), Stourbridge Junction (2.7 miles), Blakedown (3.1 miles)
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|What is going on with this place, As far as I can tell it is only open on full moons and coronation days.
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|Always looks like it is closed, 3 entrances two of them always closed, does not look very welcoming.
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|I would give a review if the place was ever bloody open!!
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1L Bootcamp 'Networking with Practitioners' Event Draws Crowd
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Newton, MA--On January 30, 2014, Boston College Law School hosted the first "Learning and Networking with Practitioners Event" as part of its 1L Boot Camp Series. Launched this fall, the 1L Boot Camp is a joint partnership between the Law Student Association (LSA) and BC Law's Career Services Office that picks up where case law leaves off and helps prepare students for a successful career in today's legal market.
Over the course of the two-hour event, forty practitioners participated in thirteen small practice area panels. More than 165 first-year students attended the practitioner panels where they learned about areas such as criminal prosecution, intellectual property, and financial services. During the panel presentations, students had the opportunity to hear from alumni and other friends of BCLaw in senior attorney positions both in the public and the private sector. After the panels ended, the alumni joined the students at a cocktail reception where the students put their newly learned networking skills into practice.
"Working with the LSA to revamp our 1L professional development series has been an incredible opportunity," said Heather Hayes, Assistant Dean of Career Services. "I don't know of any other professionalism program that includes this kind of true partnership between the school and its student leaders. Our students recognize how important this is—and our colleagues at other schools marvel at our attendance numbers because they are off the charts for a non-mandatory series. The turnout by the alumni for this event and their response to the program was fantastic. Our alums are incredibly passionate about their experience at the school and they genuinely want to do all they can to help the students in their careers. They can't wait to come back and do it again next year!"
Stephen Bernstein '88, partner at McDermott Will & Emery and participant in the Healthcare Law Panel, agrees. "The overall program and the BC Law spirit and energy were phenomenal," he said. "It seemed clear to me that the 1Ls appreciated the program and it was a nice and active way to engage alumni."
"From figuring out how to navigate our alumni networks to creating new contacts in cities across the country, the 1L Bootcamp is helping us bring the wider and quickly transforming legal community closer to our fingertips," said first-year student Adil Ahmed. "With every person we meet, we learn more about the practice of law and form a relationship that becomes just a phone call away. I think this spirit of mentorship and camaraderie is contagious, and I find that us 1Ls are all sharing these new conversations with one another to help each other go in the direction we want to go."
The 1L Boot Camp started out as an OCI prep program for students who didn't have work experience because they came straight through from undergrad, but it grew to become a yearlong program. Jason Triplett, LSA class president, and Jasmin Ali, 3L career services student intern, were instrumental in developing the Boot Camp and reaching out to the alumni who attended.
"I wanted to teach the 1Ls everything I wish someone would have told me my first year," said Triplett. "I met with Heather Hayes on what felt like her second day on the job and began unloading ideas on her before she even had her office set up, and she was so receptive to everything. I knew right away that the LSA had a partner in the Career Services Office."
Ali and Triplett drew on their background in sales before law school, hoping they could help first-years realize that networking and interviewing are opportunities to sell the most important product they can - themselves - to employers.
"With networking there is always a certain amount of dread, but it takes practice and you have to be willing to put yourselves out there," said Ali. "That discomfort is always going to be there, but you're going to become more comfortable if you practice—and the 1L Boot Camp can give you the tools to make you more comfortable."
The 1L Boot Camp is a monthly skill-building and practice area exposure series undertaken by Triplett, Ali, and Career Services. This fall, they launched a variety of interactive programs to help students understand why they need to network and how to do it effectively, learn what works and what doesn't on resumes with a "tell all" panel of recruiters, and gain a sense of practices that peak their interest by hearing 40+ 3Ls describe their summer work experiences. The early exposure to practice areas is intended to help 1Ls make the most of their time when the practitioners came to campus in January. Each event has a different hook to make it more fun and appealing – including a 'Family Feud' match and the acting out of an "all that can go wrong" networking skit.
"This semester we are going to hold new workshops on building a student's personal brand, writing more effective cover letters, and then conclude the 2013-2014 series with Jasmin's unbelievable Interviewing Techniques presentation," said Triplett. "It's our goal to hand off the 1L Boot Camp Series to the next class of BC Law students so that it may continue to grow." Hayes reports that the next class of students has already begun volunteering to do just that.


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RNAs play an integral part in all kingdoms of life and mediate critical processes from gene regulation to genomic maintenance and protein synthesis.
RNAs also have an amazing diversity in structure and function. The importance of RNA was highlighted at the "International Conference of RNA Nanotechnology and Therapeutics." At the conference, several cutting-edge RNA technologies and emerging trends were discussed.
Scientists described how to decipher RNA secondary structure via novel mathematic approaches or via in-gel analysis following electrophoresis. Others are modifying technologies such as Illumina sequencing to probe thousands of RNAs simultaneously, or employing tandem mass spectrometry for tRNA analysis. Finally, in the arena of therapeutics, self-assembling RNA nanoparticles are being designed for diagnostics and therapeutics.
RNA processing is a critical facet driving infection by HIV. In the course of infection, HIV RNA is multiply spliced, exported from the nucleus, and translated into viral accessory proteins such as Rev (regulator of expression of viral proteins). To further assist HIV replication, Rev shuttles back into the nucleus and binds the viral Rev response element (RRE), a ~350 nucleotide RNA segment necessary for export of full-length and singly spliced mRNAs.
HIV can be divided into two subgroups. While HIV-1 is responsible for the AIDS pandemic, its cousin, HIV-2, also can cause AIDS.
"Much is known about HIV-1 and Rev1, yet comparatively little is known about Rev2 and its interactions with the homologous RRE2," said Stuart F.J. Le Grice, Ph.D., a researcher who holds senior positions at both the HIV Drug Resistance Program and the Center for Cancer Research.
"Similar to its HIV-1 counterpart, RRE2 transports HIV-2 viral RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm," Dr. Le Grice continued.
"Our goal was to determine the structure of RRE2 RNA to better understand the nucleoprotein complexes involved in this process. To do this we utilized complementary chemical and biochemical probing techniques."
Dr. Le Grice's group employed an RNA probing method that had been pioneered by Kevin Weeks, Ph.D., Kenan Distinguished Professor, department of chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The method, called SHAPE (selective 2′-hyroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension), takes data from capillary electrophoresis experiments and automates the interpretation.
"SHAPE works exceeding well as long as there is a single conformation of the RNA. When we evaluated RRE2, we found three bands in our polyacrylamide gels," said Dr. Le Grice. "One of our very talented post-docs, Sabrina Lusvarghi, Ph.D., came up with the idea to add a novel mathematical approach for determining the secondary structure of each RNA conformer."
Coupling site-directed hydroxyl radical footprinting along with SHAPE profiling did the trick. The breakthrough, according to Dr. Le Grice, occurred when the method was used to identify transitional states of the RNA. The group found that RRE2 contains five peripheral stem loops linked by adjacent four-way and three-way junctions.
"We don't know whether RNA structure changes in the context of a virus-infected cell, but do know there is a structural transition in vitro that provides a basis for the first 3D glimpses of this critical viral RNA element," said Dr. Le Grice. "Approaches such as this will contribute toward developing RNA-based therapeutics against HIV."
Delineating the secondary structure of large, multidomain RNA can be complicated when more than one structural conformer is present or when molecular multimerization occurs. "Most RNAs in vivo likely adopt alternate functional conformations involving intermolecular or intramolecular interactions," said Julia C. Kenyon Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Andrew M. L. Lever, Ph.D., who heads the division of infectious diseases at the University of Cambridge's department of medicine.
Traditionally, a variety of biochemical techniques are used to analyze RNA secondary structure, including nuclease mapping and chemical modifications. With these techniques, reactive sites are examined by primer extension or 3′ labeling with radioactive isotopes. With the SHAPE method, however, investigators take advantage of recently found compounds that acylate the ribose 2′-hydroxyl such as occurs in single-stranded regions.
Dr. Kenyon developed a novel method called in-gel SHAPE in which a mixed structural population of RNA molecules is first separated by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and then conformers are subsequently individually isolated and analyzed. "By probing the individual RNAs in a population within the gel matrix, we can determine the structure of each conformer without the need for mutagenesis or variation of refolding conditions," said Dr. Kenyon. "It's a straightforward approach, and sometimes when we present this at meetings people comment, 'Why hasn't this been done before?'"
To validate her in-gel technique, Dr. Kenyon used the well-characterized, structurally known HIV-1 trans-activation response element (TAR). "Our method provided an authentic and accurate structural analysis that was also highly reproducible. We then further examined the utility of in-gel SHAPE analysis for separating monomeric and dimeric species of HIV-1 packaging signal RNA," said Dr. Kenyon. "We found extensive differences between monomer and dimer that supported a recently proposed structural switch model of the RNA genomic dimerization and packaging."
Although current analyses are limited to RNAs of 1,000 or fewer nucleotides, the group is examining different gel matrixes to solve that challenge. "We plan on utilizing this approach in the future to study RNA/RNA interactions as well as RNA/protein interactions. It's a great way to increase throughput over traditional methods," said Dr. Kenyon.
Chemical probing is a valuable tool for inferring RNA functional secondary structures and tertiary RNA interactions. The gold standards of chemical probing are comparative sequence analysis, X-ray crystallography, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). These techniques, however, require significant investigator insight and effort. Even worse, they are not always tractable for RNAs.
"We have created a whole new platform utilizing Illumina sequencing to probe thousands of RNA molecules at once," reported Rhiju Das, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry at Stanford University. "It takes about a day and only requires a tabletop Illumina machine followed by analysis with our software package, which is called MAPseeker."
Initially, Julius B. Lucks, Ph.D., and his group at Cornell University's department of chemical and biomolecular engineering developed an experimental protocol and bioinformatics pipeline to enable highly parallel chemical mapping. "We decided to extend this to RNAs of many distinct sequences," said Dr. Das. "We also decided to advance this protocol into a MAP-seq (multiplexed accessibility probing) method in order to increase the rate at which large numbers of RNAs could be probed and to reduce bias."
The strategy allows multiple chemical reactions, such as carbodiimide base modification and acylation of the 2′-hydroxyl to be carried out in parallel. Conditions that give near-quantitative, single-stranded DNA ligation are used, and an Illumina adapter sequence is added to the reverse-transcribed DNA. "Unique sequence identifiers, placed at the 3′ ends of RNAs, are then sequestered into hairpins," said Dr. Das. "This helps prevent interference with the fold of the RNA segments." Finally, analysis is carried out with MAPseeker, an automated tool that can, according to Dr. Das, "quantify all the reactivities of the nucleotides in each RNA of every condition."
MAP-seq continues to evolve rapidly to enhance multiplexing, to probe oligonucleotides pools, and to tackle RNAs with lengths reaching into the kilobases. "Right now one limitation of the technology is size. The limit is about 100 nucleotides. That will likely be increased in the coming years," said Dr. Das.
Dr. Das also has constructed a fun, Web-based site where anyone can type in an RNA sequence and then get MAP-seq structural data through his lab's experimental pipeline. "It's really becoming quite popular," said Dr Das. "You can check it out at http://eterna.stanford.edu/web/."
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Yesterday I touched down in LA and immediately felt like I was home. After a mad summer of unexpected encounters, 'Hairspray-ing' in the hills of Aberystwyth, impromptu trips to London and some magical moments (including the biggest and brightest shooting star I've ever seen in my life), I found myself needing an escape and my oh my is LA my salvation.
Flying out Premium Economy on Virgin was the perfect start. It really is the way forward. The staff are so attentive, you are greeted with sparkling wine and juices when you first enter the plane and throughout the duration of the flight you are offered a constant flow of beverages and snacks, including 'High Tea'. The extra legroom is greatly appreciated by my 6'2 frame and the general ambience is so much more chilled. When I got to LAX, it finally hit me. I'm 21 in the US of A. This ish is cra'y. It's officially time to let loose!
Hello Hollywood & Vine
The apartment we're staying at is insane. It's in an awesome loft complex with a killer view from the roof top, that overlooks the W and Hollywood Boulevard. Already on the first day, I've been welcomed by everyone I've come across with friendly 'how you doing?'s' and genuine smiles. Although I was feeling pretty exhausted after the 10.5 hour flight, it was absolutely necessary that I celebrated Vogue Fashion's Night Out and ended up attending not one, but two events. The first was the ROOS-Shane&Shawn event marking their LA launch.
It was hosted by the beautiful Adrienne Bailon.
Full of freebies, drinks on tap and cool kids. It sort of felt like East LDN meets Berlin meets the sun and well, even more fun. After partying to some good ol' hip hop we headed on over to KILL CITY's FNO party on Melrose, which was rocking, literally. With speakers mounted outside the front of the shop, all over the interior and out back, the music was kicking, their collection was sickly slick and the vibe was west-coast-cool. Not to mention, when we were served with drinks, the guy behind the bar filled two of those American red cups to the top with Wild Turkey (Whiskey). Straight.