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Locals in Iceland like to meet for a coffee and a chat. They also don't mind having a drink or two in an evening. Hence, the centre of Reykjavik is well supplied with cafes and bars. The main shopping street is Laugavegur and you can't go very far without hitting one of the excellent, usually quirky cafes or bars.
Make sure you look up and down the cross-streets as you go, not because the cars pose any threat – Icelanders are astoundingly courteous to pedestrians – but because looking up the hill you will often catch a glimpse of the beautiful Hallgrimskirkja, the fabulous church perched on top of the hill, which can be seen from all over the city. Looking the other way, down the hill, you see the sea and, when it's not raining, snowing or hailing, you can see across the water to rugged snow capped peaks.
If it is raining, snowing or hailing, as I'm afraid Iceland is wont to do, then even more reason to take refuge in a café or bar. Sandholt Bakari is a personal favorite – oh the cakes and pastries! Another good place is the bookshop up the hill between Laugavegur and the church; Eymundsson has English language books as well as Icelandic, with lots of Icelandic fiction in translation, plus books of Icelandic history, photos and the famous sagas.
Bars tend to fill up later in the evening and many often have music: live or DJed. Boston is a recommendation of mine. If you feel like grabbing a bottle of wine to have a quiet night in be warned – the licensing laws in Iceland are quite strict and alcohol is only sold in specialized stores with quite limited hours; for example, they are closed on Sundays.
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The researchers in organ transplant at Northwestern Medicine conduct their work through the Comprehensive Transplant Center. Learn more about all neurological research and opportunities for collaboration via Feinberg site's research section.
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The Comprehensive Transplant Center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine offers multiple fellowships. Learn more about our work via the Feinberg center site's education section.
The Comprehensive Transplant Center does not have a residency program. For more information on related residency programs, please see residency information on the Department of Surgery or Department of Medicine Feinberg sites.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital, along with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is dedicated to research and learning. We believe clinical trials play a vital role in testing new treatments to determine whether they have potential benefits for patients, and we participate in a wide range of clinical trials.
Find information on clinical trials at Northwestern related to organ transplant via the Feinberg Comprehensive Transplant Center site's clinical trial information.
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Clinical trials are closely controlled, scientific research studies involving patients and volunteers. These trials are not considered treatments for a particular disease or condition. One goal of clinical trials is to learn more about diseases and potential treatments or cures to help patients now and in the future. Though participants may not benefit directly from being part of the trial, they will receive additional care while participating, and this care may result in being treated more quickly for any medical needs related to the condition being studied. They may also notice an improved quality of life. And, many participants have reported that being a part of something bigger than they are, helping others, is important to them as well.


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Just nice way to say Fu*k you
Whateva Dude...you aint got sh*t on me
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short for: what ever.
well' what eva! no big.
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Whateva - This is my United States of
And then officer Leroy came up to me and was like, "Hey I thought I told you..." and I'm like, "Yeah, whateva!"
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When you want to tell someone to go fuck themself, it's best to be censored about it and say "Whateva"
When my supervisor is totally frustraing me and I want to tell her to go "fuck" herself, I prefer to say "Whateva" so that she don't fire my ass.
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when one tells the TRUTH more or less yet it gives the appearance of being ELABORATE LIES.jerks
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the cool hip way to say "whatever"; the evolved more sophisticated way to say "whatever"; more nonchalant than "whatever"; almost as if it were "whatever's" older cooler sister that gets more guys than "whatever".
Whateva, I don't even care that my mom just died.
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Tyler Junior College has three credited vocal ensembles and two non-credited ensembles that split from the Concert Choir, making it one of the larger junior college choral programs in the state. The TJC ensembles have performed all over the world including Austria, Germany, Japan, and in many USA states including Hawaii.
Applied Voice
Applied voice lessons are one on one lessons with a TJC vocal faculty member. During a typical lesson, time is spent improving vocal technique, learning songs in English, Italian, French, German, and sometimes Spanish or Latin, as well as the emotional aspects of performing. Lessons are classical in nature, increasing volume, range, breath control, agility, posture, etc.
Applied lessons are recommended for those students who read music, have sung in a choir in high school, or have a good understanding of how to sing. Those students interested in voice lessons who may not have as much experience are encouraged to consider Class Voice for a semester, before attempting Applied lessons. For additional information, please contact Jeanie Oxler at email@example.com or (903) 510-2202.
Concert Choir is the largest non-auditioned mixed vocal ensemble and is open to any student regardless of their major. This choir performs a balanced and wide range of choral literature from classics, spirituals, and contemporary musical selections. Past performances include appearances with the Vienna Boys Choir in Austria (2006) and GRAMMY-winning artist Cynthia Clawson in 2010. The concert choir is conducted by Dr. James Henderson.
Harmony & Understanding is an auditioned premier show choir founded in 1970. Harmony's repertoire ranges from standard classic-pop and Broadway music to modern day hits. Each performance includes high powered, energy driven singing and dancing. Performances are staged professionally and are adaptable to small community venues as well as larger performance halls. Harmony is in demand across the East Texas community and beyond. The group performs annual Pops Concert w/TJC Jazz Ensemble in the fall and Broadway Blast in the spring. Auditions are held in March and April. Harmony & Understanding is led by Andrea Trent.
Chamber Singers is a highly competitive auditioned group of mixed voices that performs a cappella choral literature. Most musical selections are from the Renaissance period with an emphasis on Madrigal performances of the 16th and 17th century. Some contemporary music written in the madrigal style are also performed at on campus concerts. The Chamber Singers are led by Dr. James Henderson.
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Fouch, who will be playing in her fifth U.S. Open, was qualifying medalist last week in a 36-hole sectional at White Columns Country Club in Milton, Ga.
The fifth-year pro out of Michigan State and a regular on the LPGA Tour shot rounds of 75 and 69 for a 144 total to take medalist honors in the qualifier.
Kueny, who recently completed her final year of eligibility at Michigan State by being named a second-team All-American, shot rounds of 70 and 75 for a 145 total in the sectional last week at Twin Orchard Country Club in Long Grove, Ill.
The Big Ten Conference's golfer of the year ended up in a three-way tie for medalist honors, and will be playing in her first U.S. Open. She entered the qualifier as an amateur, but could declare professional status.
This year's U.S. Open is scheduled for July 5-11 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. Sectional qualifying, held at various sites around the country the last two weeks, ends today.
Fouch first played in the Open in 2003, and has been part of the field each year since 2007, her first full year on the LPGA Tour. Her best finish is a tie for 63rd in '07.
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We've seen some early looks at the 'Year of the Dragon' KD IV and the wild Nerf edition has certainly been making plenty of noise lately, but Kevin Durant, himself, recently hinted at another upcoming colorway of his fourth signature shoe that might just outdo them both. Here we get our first look at the 'Weatherman' KD IV, a nod to Kevin's childhood aspirations of becoming a meteorologist. As you can see, the shoe features a colored graphic design inspired by the wavy color-coded weather patterns that you would see on the screen during your daily local weather report. No official word yet on a release for these, but hopefully, we can expect them to hit shelves some time in 2012. Check out the pics and let us know how they stack up against the Nerfs and YOTD's based on this early look. via MoreUptempo on NT.
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wow, thats all i can say.... not sure why, but i was expecting something that looked like the sky during a rain storm, like shades of blue
I like the Nerfs way better..but these are the next best. These are still a sweet looking shoe.
...K.D.s and LeBRONs kicks seem to be the HEADLINERS for NIKE BASKETBALL,so far.The K.D.s have the advantage in OVER-ALL LOOKS,but i think the LeBRONs are better in the PERFORMANCE category.
ehhhh. these are okay i guess i had too high of expectaions for these. Nerfs are still my favorite Nike basketball release this year.
pretty disappointed tbh...expecting something spectacular after kd himself hyping these up over the nerfs. such an awesome idea too...too bad the execution was nothing like i imagined :(
Idk about these...
My first thought was 'Africa' but I can see the 'Weatherman' connection too.
more like rasta.not feeling these
For $100 I'd rock em.
Pressurized highs with green air quality, so I expect every one stay inside put on a bob marley. This is mary jane signing off. Breathe in, breathe out
Nerfs>Weatherman's. YOTWD>Weatherman. Thunder road> Weatherman. Just my opinion but I don't care for these.
Ew. I want to see the All-Copper Anodized KDIV that's supposedly dropping for Christmas...
Like the idea, not so much the execution
they're trying too hard to compete with kobe's and lebon's shoes
Better than the yotd but nerfs still win the KD IV battle so far
Don't get kd's comment these are not even in the same category a the nerfs.
cause it freaking cost twice as much, of course it's got more technologies in it
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The program for the tenth annual Minority Rights & Indigenous Peoples Summer School, hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, has now been finalised and can be viewed at http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=17.
Registration will close on June 1st, so please register soon to ensure a place.
The course will take place from June 13-17, 2011 on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, a charming small city on Ireland's west coast, well known for its traditional Irish music, pubs and beaches. This highly acclaimed course gives an overview of the legal, political and philosophical issues pertaining to international human rights law and its relationship to minority rights and the rights of indigenous peoples.
The theme of this year's summer school is Minorities and Religion.
Religion has a fraught relationship with minority and human rights standards, being perceived at once as a right and a cause of the denial of rights. This year's school highlights religion in contemporary minority rights discourse, focussing on issues such as: religious minorities, religion and international institutions, Islam in Europe, caste, indigenous peoples and spiritual beliefs, women and religion, genocide and defamation of religion.
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A 34-year-old West Ferry Street man is held on first-degree assault and weapons charged for allegedly stabbing a man ten times with a six-inch blade knife after an argument in his house in the 400 block of West Ferry late Sunday afternoon. Willie N. Henley was arrested about 4:24 p.m. after the victim was rushed to ECMC for treatment of six stabbing wounds in his back, two in his chest and two slashes to his left arm. Henley was found hiding in a dark room in his basement and his allegedly bloody clothing and boots were seized as evidence, according to a police report.


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Here comes another episode of the Scion AV All-Purpose Show, this time featuring Ty Dolla Sign, Vic Mensa, Deniro Farrar, Weedeater, Pins of Light, Kenny Hoyle, Problem and Nik Dudokovic. You can count on host Prince Paul and the Ill Out Crew to let you know what's been happening in the world of Scion AV.
First up, a triple-header of hip-hop artists who come by the studio to talk to Prince Paul. A very live Ty Dolla Sign lets him know that he not only sings, raps and produces, but he also plays the instruments on his tracks himself—except for anything brass. Then Vic Mensa details the hip-hop hazard of getting approached more by dudes than girls. Finally Deniro Farrar talks about how he found his sound, telling Paul, "If the music sounds dark, than my life's dark."
Next Sal Barbier meets with the bands at the Scion Rock Show. Weedeather gets expectedly weird and Pins of Light talk about listening to podcasts about Bitcoins in the van, which we guess is pretty weird, too.
For the My iQ segment, Levi Maestro heads down to San Diego to play a game of SKATE with Kenny Hoyle.
Prince Paul then goes onsite to the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn to speak with Compton rapper Problem before his performance at Scion Open Mic, getting the info on who he likes to work with.
Finally, Slick Rick Rivera journeys to the Scion AV Installation space in Los Angeles to speak with Nik Dudokovic and learn all about his exhibit "The Secret Clubhouse." Broken fingers are discussed.
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Oilcloth Box Bag
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Keep all your toiletries organized with this Oilcloth Box Bag. You can make a sturdy zippered bag from oilcloth or laminated cotton with this bag sewing tutorial. You'll love this cute bag that's perfect for traveling.
- Oilcloth (or laminated cotton)
- Zipper (length depends on how long your rectangle is)
You need to decided how big you want your box bag. For this tutorial I used a rectangle that was 12" x 18". My finished box bag is approx. 3.5" tall x 5" wide x 8" long. I also used a 14" zipper.
Cut your oilcloth to your desired size - you will want a rectangle.
Take your zipper and place your oilcloth (the shorter measurement) right side down on top of your zipper.
Sew along edge as shown below. I used my walking foot for the whole project. If you want to use your zipper foot, you will need to put a piece of painter's tape on the bottom so it doesn't stick to the oilcloth. I've found the walking foot is perfect for this and you can just move your needle to the desired position.
Turn oilcloth over and using your finger, crease oilcloth down at seam.
Place remaining edge of oilcloth face down on the other side of the zipper. Sew along edge as shown.
Turn oilcloth wrong side out. You will have a tube at this point.
Open the zipper up about halfway and then lay the tube flat, with the zipper in the middle. You want to have the oilcloth right sides together.
You are going to sew the two open ends closed using a 1/2" seam allowance. I like to stitch the line a few times for extra stability especially where the zipper is.
Trim all threads and a little of the seam allowance (I used pinking shears).
Repeat on other side.
Now you will take your rectangle and mark a little square in each corner. This is going to "box" your bag. Depending on the size of your rectangle, you may want a smaller square. I used a 1.5" square for each of my corners.
Draw the square using a ruler and pencil and then use your scissors to cut out each corner. Repeat for all four corners.
Take your cut corners and sandwich them together so they are flat and line up. You may have to fiddle with it a little so they line up together.
Hold them flat with your fingers - you can use a pin of you want to but it will leave a hole in the oilcloth so I just did one at a time and held them closed with my finger.
Sew along each edge using a 1/4" seam allowance. Trim threads and a little of the seam allowance.
Repeat on all 4 corners.
Turn right side out, push corners out to make your box shape and you are done!
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Tech MonopoliesSubmitted by prophead on 22 April, 2009 - 12:40
I read a post at eWeek.com by Jim Rapoza titled Apple Trumps Microsoft, Google as Tech Monopolist, in which he claims the "biggest" tech monopolist is Apple. Based on the criteria he uses to come to reach this conclusion, I more or less agree with him.
Being a monopoly is not in and of itself evil. It's the "greed is good" business practices that monopolies often use that are.


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In Brief: Pennsylvania clerk loses bid against gay marriage
Pennsylvania clerk loses bid against gay marriage
WASHINGTON -- Actions concerning two states favored advocates for same-sex marriage Wednesday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Schuylkill County Orphans' Court Clerk Theresa Santai-Gaffney to stop gay marriages in Pennsylvania. The clerk can appeal to another justice.
Gov. Tom Corbett's administration decided not to appeal a federal judge's May 20 decision striking down the state ban. The clerk then tried to intervene. The federal judge and a federal appellate court rebuffed her, prompting her appeal to the Supreme Court.
In Colorado, a judge ruled the state's 2006 voter-approved ban on gay marriage violates state and federal constitutions. The ruling was immediately put on hold pending appeal.
500 Memphis police officers call off sick in 'Blue Flu'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Faced with major changes to their health insurance benefits, more than 500 Memphis police officers have called in sick for the second consecutive day.
They are protesting cuts aimed at helping buttress the city's pension program.
City leaders have said public safety has not been compromised due to what's being called the "Blue Flu." Still, the state has offered to dispatch Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers if needed.
House testimony suggests different Benghazi attackers
WASHINGTON -- Newly revealed testimony from top military commanders suggests the perpetrators of a second, dawn attack on a CIA complex were different from those who penetrated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, the evening before.
Two House committees -- Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform -- conducted hours of interviews with nine military officers. The panels posted about 1,100 pages of testimony Wednesday.
Retired Gen. Carter Ham told Congress in closed-door testimony that the second attack on Sept. 11, 2012, showed clear military training.
Estimated million gallons of saltwater leaks into bay
MANDAREE, N.D. -- About 1 million gallons of saltwater spilled into a North Dakota bay, causing some environmental damage but sparing a nearby lake that provides drinking water for an American Indian reservation, company and tribe officials said Wednesday.
A tribal official said an underground pipeline near Mandaree leaked about 24,000 barrels of brine into Bear Den Bay, a tributary to Lake Sakakawea.
Saltwater is an unwanted byproduct of oil and natural gas drilling that can be 20 times saltier than ocean water.
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PATERSON, N.J. -- Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old in the deadly shooting of a 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet while riding a scooter in a New Jersey neighborhood.
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Mystic Seaport's 32nd Annual Symposium "MUSIC OF THE SEA"
Sponsored by Mystic Seaport Museum, The United States Coast Guard Academy, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point
We are seeking proposals for papers in History, Folklore, Literature, Ethnomusicology, or other appropriate disciplines that address any aspect of music or verse of the sea or inland waters from the Age of Sail through the present day. The two-day symposium is part of a three-day event whose focus celebrates the lives and work of sailors through musical performance.
The Friday, June 10, session will be held at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and the Saturday session, June 11, at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut.
Topics of interest have included: shipboard work songs, songs of maritime or other occupational trades, songs of rivers and lakes, seafaring cultures and cultural change, ethnicity and ethnic influences, cultural exchanges, ballad and broadside traditions, technology, regional interests, the use of sea music in literature, and popular culture.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE is March 18, 2011. Audiovisually illustrated presentations are welcome.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal.
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Stuck under a pile of my own grading, but I have a question for you: do you think the final comment on an essay is an essential piece of the puzzle?
I comment expensively throughout essays, because I've always felt it's more useful for students to have concrete feedback, where I say, "Hey, this thing you are doing RIGHT HERE is good/bad/effective/ineffective." I write a lot. I have a particular felt-tip pen I like for marking (in orange or in lime green), and I will use up one pen per round of essays. No shortage of qualitative feedback, is what I'm saying. Students always comment on how much they like and appreciate my in-esssay feedback, and students who read it and work with it do tend to improve. I'm insecure about 90% of my life as a teacher, but my commenting is solid.
I also use a mini-rubric that I learned in grad school on all essays: TOGS, which stands for thought, organization, grammar, style. Students get a mark for each piece of that puzzle and then an overall mark.
Here's my confession: I think my final comments are worthless. Either I rehash the commentary in the paper or I have nothing else to add. I realized last time around that almost every essay starts with "You have good ideas, but…" or "This is an interesting essay…" So I told myself I would nix the final comment, and encourage students to pay attention to the far more useful comments within the text.
Except, I can't. I can't stop writing these meaningless at worst and repetitive at best comments at the end of student papers. I'm not convinced of the pedagogy of these final comments, and I know students only improve if they engage with the in-essay questions and comments. So what the hell is my deal? When did I get married to the final comment? And why is it that even when we think our pedagogical choices through and feel like we have sound reasons for the choices we make, it remains so hard to let go of the received wisdom of all the teachers who have taught us before?
With the drop date approaching, it's time to have a series of difficult conversations with students, ranging from "you need to pick things up a little if you want to do well" to "you can't possibly pass." I always find this hard, because as a student I was basically always mortified to discover that my professors knew I existed. But I've gotten good feedback from these conversations, too — and the percentage of floundering students who have no earthly idea that they aren't doing well, let alone failing, is astounding to me. How much hand-holding is too much, of course, is the age old question — and if I advise them too well, and all the failing students drop, will that make my grades look artificially high?
Nothing is without questions at this stage in my career, I am learning.
I'm finding that realistic expectations and perceptions are a real difficulty for my students. Trying to explain that a B- is not in fact a bad mark, but instead demonstrates just above satisfactory competency in the material, is really difficult. There are grade inflation problems everywhere, of course, that make it really difficult to keep C meaning satisfactory, B meaning good, and A meaning excellent. And preparation is a problem. Students who coasted through their high school English classes with creative projects and oral presentations are stunned to get to post-secondary school and discover that they have no idea of how to approach formal essay writing. And it takes a lot out of a person to be the gatekeeper in the first-year literature class saying that yes, your ideas are good, but no, that's not quite enough.
I internalize too much of their own anguish — that's part of it. When does that wear off?
Everyone is familiar with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her stage model of coping with grief popularly known as the five stages of grief. What you may not know is that Kübler-Ross actually developed her theory as a graduate student, basing her conception of the process of loss on the experiences one goes through over a grading weekend.
In coping with grading, it's important for graduate students and young professors to know that they are not alone and that this process takes time. Not everyone goes through every stage or processes the reality of grading in this order, but everyone experiences some version of at least two of these steps.
Denial. At this stage, the instructor is unwilling to acknowledge the size of the task ahead of him or her. An instructor in denial may be heard to say things like, "It's not really that many essays, when you think about it." An instructor in denial will grossly overestimate his or her potential assignment-per-hour output. Denial at the syllabus-creation stage of course development can lead to tears. Denial can also manifest itself as avoidance, where grading is put aside in favour of vastly more important activities like cleaning the fridge, baking, working out, or writing elaborate blog posts about the stages of grading.
Anger. Usually anger begins once the instructor starts grading. The first few papers are likely to excite the grader, but as a steady stream of errors trickles in, the instructor may become disillusioned. Commonly heard at this stage: "But we covered this in class! A lot!" "Wait, what does this even mean?" "Redundant! This is redundant!" Instructors at this stage of the process are likely to have unnecessarily large reactions to relatively small frustrations; for example, in one case an instructor screamed into a pillow upon discovering that every student in the class was still using "they" as a singular pronoun.
Bargaining. This stage usually begins as an earnest attempt to buckle down and grade. The instructor might say, "If I grade five papers, I can watch one episode of House," or, "For every page I grade, I get to eat a piece of candy." This process starts well, but as the instructor progresses the amount of work required to achieve the reward generally becomes smaller and smaller, until the instructor is checking Facebook after every sentence he or she grades.
Depression. At some point in a marking weekend, the instructor will come to realize that in spite of his or her best intentions, the papers won't be marked in time for the next class. For the idealistic young instructor, this is also usually the moment he or she realizes that the assignments themselves are not particularly strong. These realizations can lead to feelings of failure, spiralling into reality TV watchathons or video game blitzes instead of grading. Ultimately, though, recognizing one's limitations is a healthy part of the process that leads directly to the final stage.
Acceptance/Resignation. At some point, the instructor comes to term with the reality that the papers must be graded. This reality is usually acknowledged the afternoon before the instructor wishes to return the papers, leading to an all-night grading blitz. At some point and by some miracle, however, it all gets done, and the instructor is primed and ready to start to the process over again when the next major assignment comes in.
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- The U.S. has been arming rebel forces in Syria and may be helping train them in Jordan. Now some of those same groups are threatening to invade Israel.
Two years of Syrian civil war have killed 70,000 as the fighting threatens to spill over into surrounding countries including Israel. The situation will be a top issue for President Obama on his upcoming trip to the Jewish nation.
"Syria is deteriorating from any point of view…The organs of the regime are totally dysfunctional and the large areas are today a prey for all the militias," Middle East expert Dr. Mordechair Kedar said.
While the West agrees President Bashar Assad's Iranian and Shite-backed regime must go, the Sunni-backed opposition and Jihadis could be just as bad.
"Both are vicious. Both are abusing human rights. Both are abusing women because this is the culture of the Middle East," Kedar said.
The fighting within Syria has reached all the way to Israel's borders. Syrian army and rebel forces have been fighting for control over Moshav Alonei Habashan, a village with a population of 290 people.
"It's Israel's closest community to Syria... only about half a mile from the border," Amir Duvdenai, a local therapeuic horseback riding teaching said. "We hear bombs. We hear like snipers. We hear them all the time… Two times shells were found in the moshav but actually the life is going on. We have to continue."
Rebel forces recently kidnapped 21 U.N. peacekeepers, holding them for three days in the village. While they were released unharmed, their 40-year mission is in shambles.
Several countries have withdrawn their troops and others may follow, potentially leaving a dangerous area in chaos.
Jihadis also released an Internet video blaming Assad and his father before him for not firing a single shot on the Golan Heights in 40 years.
Kedar warned that won't be all.
"After they take care of Assad in Syria, they will go to take out Nasrallah from his hole in the ground and to kill him and this will be on the way to Jerusalem to liberate Jerusalem from the Zionists and the Jews," he said.
The Golan Heights sits just 40 miles from Damascus. Israel took the strategic plateau during the 1967 Six-Day War and it's been Israel's quietest border for nearly four decades.
But resident Chen Mordechai, a veteran of three Israeli wars, said that could be changing.
"They'll infiltrate. They'll carry out a terror attack. It's a question of time because there's no leader, there's no authority, no law there. Everyone is doing what's in his own head," he said.
So, while Israel wants to maintain quiet along the border, the chaos in Syria forces Israel to be ready for war.
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Need your expert advises on a small issue. The scenario goes like this
There's a vendor who manufactures the product after the order is placed by us. The vendor then directly ships to a subcontractor for some additional work and once the processing is done, the subcontractor ships directly to our end customer. The goods are not received by us physically at any point of time. We invoice the end customer upon goods receipt.
Could you guys kindly propose a method to track the above process on SAP in accurately keeping stock records to aid accurate invoicing.
Thanks in advance!
You can use the standard third-party sales scenario, it will partially solve your problem. You will not be able to keep track of the stock & invoicing process between your vendor and its subcontractor, but it could be a starting point to find a way to accuratelly cover the process. If needed, you will find a lot of documentation on the third-party sales scenario - SAP Help or scn, as here
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Thank you Horatiu, just to clarify. We pay the subcontractor and the vendor directly. The only relationship between then is the vendor delivering stocks directly to subcontractor bypassing our DC.
Depends on if you place a PO on the sub-contract vendor or if that element is handled by the first vendor.
If you place a PO on both vendors, then set the sub-contract vendor as the delivery address (item delivery address tab) on the first PO and select the SC vendor tick box. The second PO is standard sub-contract.
Thank you for the reply Nick. both PO's should be raised by us. If this is the case can we connect the dots from vendor to customer via subcontractor??
What would if be if you would make both PO's as third-party? :-) The subcontractor would be your client for a HALB... but it will also be your vendor for the FERT... theoretically, it is possible and everything would be traceable, or not?
I think so. You need a BoM for the final component, that specifies the component produced by vendor 1 as a required component. A Sales Order for end component will then produce a requirement on the sub-contract vendor 2 (which is different to how I stated it originally) and also a requisition (after MRP) to procure the initial component from vendor 1 for direct delivery into stock at SC vendor i.e. at vendor 2. Provided your lead times are right all falls in place.
You obviously also need your SC BoM etc.
Here's the process flow:
PO 1 to the supplier: Place a normal purchase order for the manufactured goods. In the delivery address tab, mark the SC vendor check box and put in your subcontractor vendor number. When the supplier has shipped goods to the subcontractor, do the GR. On GR of this PO, stock will come to subcontractor stock. Do your Invoice as usual. Process flow complete.
Create a sales order for the final end product to the customer. Use item category TADS (this is available in EHP6). TADS is a combination of third party and subcontracting flows. This sales order will create a subcontracting PR (instead of normal PR). Have you usual subcontracting data/setup ready. The delivery address will be customer address, same as third party.
Convert this subcontracting PR to a PO. We'll call this PO 2. Component stock is already available in you subcontractor stock as a result of GR against PO 1, so PGI is not needed. You can monitor this in ME2O or ME2ON.
When you subcontractor ships the goods to the customer, and sends you a pack list, component consumption advice and invoice, do a GR against PO 2. Its a statistical GR and records the fact that goods have been sent to customer. Do you MIRO to pay off the subcontractor. Subcontracting process flow complete.
Now invoice the customer against the sales order. Sales process complete.
This is a standard way and you have traceability all the way through and at each stage.
Your Scenario has two parts:
1- PO for Components ( which are to be shipped directly to the Subcontractor) .
Here in your PO Line Item, under delivery address tab, you need to specify the subcontracting vendor code and also tick "SC vendor".
At time of MIGO, system will automatically post this to Subcontractors stocks with Mvt typ 101-O.
2nd PartL : 3rd party subcontracting (for the Main Header material) :
This is a new functionality available in Ecc 6.0 EHP5, for which you have to activate a Business function in LOG_MM_OM_2: Third-Party Order Processing for Subcontracting (New) ( RELNMM_605_LOGMMOM2_DS ).
you can find more info here on http://www.consolut.com/en/s/sap-ides-access/d/s/doc/YP-RELNMM_605_LOGMMOM2_DS .
You need to activate a business function, and create new Item category assignments in Sales .(Saurav has described the steps in the above post well)
Please note that in this process, a Goods receipt (although statistical) is Mandatory for the consumption of the components at the vendor location.
There is also a Document on SDN wiki, by someone who has mapped "direct subcontracting" process in earlier SAP versions by configuration alone : http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0dbde93-6fa4-2c10-edb9-e477fa85b232?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&45518063861198
You can do it on purchase order using delivery address tab.
But for customer you have to do PGI.
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He adds that the proposed new map is the result of having to add new parliamentary seats."It's not an easy matter of adding six seats. The Okanagan Kootenay's did not grow as much to get a new seat, that's part of the issue of why we're re-jigging the boundaries"A public hearing on the proposed changes will be held on October 9th in Penticton at the Lakeside Resort.
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Quebec radio host Joël Legendre announced this week that he and his husband will be having twins, with the help of a surrogate and the government of Quebec's subsidized in vitro fertilization program.
The question of whether or not a couple formed of two gay men should have access to the program should not be up for debate. A government cannot, of course, refuse services to citizens based on their sexual orientation. Legendre is unquestionably entitled to this entitlement for as long as it's available, and I wish he and his husband the best of luck.
It does, however, highlight the controversial program once again. How it came to be is highly questionable.
in 2008, TV producer and host Julie Snyder, wife of Quebecor Media baron and new PQ MNA Pierre Karl Péladeau, took it upon herself to be a champion for couples with fertility problems. She saw her baby lobby as a win-win: "More little Quebecers, more little taxpayers," she told a National Assembly committee. She noted that her family could, obviously, afford the costly treatments, but most Quebecers could not. At $15,000 per cycle, Snyder indeed pointed to an unfortunate inequality.
Though she was well-intentioned, it was a mistake for the Liberal government of the time to cave in, spending over $30-million on the program because a celebrity said it was the right thing to do (naturally, it ended up costing closer to $70-million annually because Quebec). The perception is that the program was implemented to placate an influential Quebec couple.
Today, couples with fertility issues can get In vitro treatment at no cost, thanks in part to Snyder's campaign; also, naturally, covered by Medicare is the cost of treating premature infants, which is estimated at roughly $5,000 per day (complications and multiple births are more common with parents who conceive In vitro). It's a financially and emotionally draining process with no guarantee of success; these couples have my utmost sympathy.
Quebec should continue to offer parents struggling with fertility issues appropriate treatment for the root causes where possible and social services for support. However, the government subsidization of In vitro fertilization is expensive, eerily intrusive and suggests there is an urgent need to grow the tax base; a flashback to the creepy introduction of "baby bonuses."
Though Canada is blessed with the second-largest landmass of any nation on earth, the rest of the world is severely overpopulated. About 18,000 children die every day because of this, and the poverty and sickness that results. The humans who aren't poor and starving are consuming the planet's resources at an unsustainable rate; it is irresponsible for any government to act with such fervor and desperation in an apparent attempt to boost its population, as Snyder had suggested.
If Quebec is so desperate for new future taxpayers (it should be more concerned with saving money by re-engineering the Quebec model), I would suggest an international adoption initiative could be a much less costly alternative - not to mention less risky for the eager parents-to-be and a relief, however marginal, for underdeveloped nations struggling with overpopulation.
A Montreal couple I know recently had twins after receiving In vitro treatments. Both were born prematurely with complications, and one died after nine agonizing days of life. It's heartbreaking. But parents need to be aware of the risks when they undergo a procedure where the desired outcome is not obtained two-thirds of the time. And when a pregnancy results, there is still an increased risk of complications when compared to natural births.
The risk may be worth the reward for some would-be parents and that is their prerogative, but as a matter of policy, Quebec's In vitro program is simply not worth the investment or the anguish.
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What Rick had to say about this candid shot (which was taken Oct 16, 2010 at a wedding at The Olde Mill Inn & Spa in Toronto)
I was doing some detail shots for the bride when I heard someone shout out, "What stinks?"
My bride Jenn turns around and sure enough it's her little guy Joel.
Anyways, Jenn being the great mother she is, hopped right in and even though she was all but ready (no dress yet) she still got her hands dirty and changed Joel into a new diaper.
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During the summer, I interned at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The internship was actually divided between two locations on campus, the Woodson Research Center (WRC) and the Digital Media Commons (DMC). The first part of the internship was conducted at the WRC, Rice's special collections library, where the Rice U. Audio-Visual Collection is housed. This collection contains 41 boxes (approximately 900 items) full of material ranging from Shellac Discs to 500 GB Hard Drives. Most of the material, however, was on videotape. After an initial visual inspection of the items in the collection, I created a box-level log which indicated what formats were in each box. I also rated each item in terms of its age and obsolescence. Finally, I listed some recommendations for the archive regarding storage.
Next, I moved on to the DMC where the digitization of certain formats occurs. The DMC is equipped to digitize VHS tapes, audiocassette tapes, floppy disks, vinyl record albums, and DVCam videotapes. After selecting a sample of 36 items from the collection, I began digitizing them. This process began by researching into the best possible digital file format that Rice could use to create a digital master file. At the same time, I also had to determine what kind of software the DMC used and what kind of digital file they could create. Based on the DMC's use of Final Cut Pro, it was determined that an interim master digital file would be created using a QuickTime wrapper. However, this is only intended to be used until such time that Rice University is able to fully support the JPEG2000/MXF format.
Finally, we will create derivative files which will be used for user access. This part of the project is not yet underway. Also, I am in the process of contacting vendors who can digitize the material that is unable to be done in-house, as well as clean the VHS tapes which contain mold.


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A reveler dressed as a character from the movie Avatar poses for a photo at the 'Ceu na Terra' block party during Carnival celebration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.. Rio de Janeiro's over-the-top Carnival is the highlight of the year for many local residents.
An ice climber makes his way up Frankenstein Cliff in Hart's Location, N.H. A deep freeze is crossing through New England keeping the ice in good condition for the sport.
Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum employees and volunteers piece together a urethane casting of a 65 million year-old Triceratops that arrived in seven pieces. The dinosaur was discovered in the 1960's in the Eastern Badlands of Montana and will become a permanent exhibit at the new museum slated to open in the spring in Winchester, Va.
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THE Oppenheimer family on Monday announced a R1bn endowment to their memorial trust, to be spent on funding the education of promising individuals in South Africa.
This is the largest endowment since the trust was founded in 1958. The injection means the trust will have about R2bn in it by the beginning of next year.
Mary Slack, the chairwoman and a trustee of the trust and daughter of the late mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer, said the trust would develop a strategy next year and start spending the money.
"This is a large amount of money for the trust. Since my family sold its stake in De Beers, we have wanted to get more involved in spending on education," Ms Slack said.
In the past, the trust had given money for bursaries to promising pupils needing to go to primary school, secondary school or university. It had started to show more interest in postgraduate studies recently.
"In the past we put money into underprivileged schools and the like, but we have moved towards individuals," Ms Slack said. "It just became quite expensive. Many private schools already have mixed demographics in terms of the people attending them now so we are looking to focus on furthering specific people more than groups."
She said the trust might consider funding Master of Business Administration degrees for the first time. O verseas education was being looked at. "We recognise how expensive it is to study overseas," she said.
Responding to the announcement, businessman Bobby Godsell, a trustee, said: "The additional resources now available will make the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust one of South Africa's largest and most prestigious public benefit organisations. It will be possible to provide increased funding to many existing programmes as well as extend our reach in education and related fields, and the board will be discussing strategy to chart a new path.
"On behalf of the trustees, I would like to express our enormous appreciation to the Oppenheimers for this large and significant donation, which clearly underscores the family's commitment not only to improving the quality of education but also to finding solutions to some of SA's many challenges," he said.


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Coldest Air So Far
Freeze Warnings Tonight
It's a quick step outside today as the chilliest air of the season settles in for the weekend. Frost on the pumpkin this morning with a start in the low 30s inland and upper 30s lakeside. A mix of sun and clouds today as highs hold to about 49. Breezy northwest winds will keep the chill around.
Winds diminish and skies clear tonight allowing temperatures to fall fast. Freeze Warnings in place for Sheboygan, Dodge, Washington, Fond du Lac and Jefferson counties overnight. Elsewhere, a Frost Advisory will go into effect.
A touch warmer for your Sunday with more sunshine and low 50s. It's a windy warmup for Monday as we get back into the 60s.
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An unfortunate condition that may befall one's schlong, whereby said penis has been inserted into a "not so fresh" vagina, particularly one with a fishy odor. The result is a schlong that, when removed post-coitus, smells of seafood.
My girlfriend and I boned after playing tennis and I got the worst Schlong John Silver!
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This week, I will be giving away a free copy of Lynn Anderson's new book, Talking Back to God: Speaking Your Heart to God Through the Psalms.
This is a book that Lynn Anderson has been living, long before he even wrote the first page. Through the years, I have had the opportunity to catch a glimpse as to how the Psalms have impacted Lynn Anderson's life and consequently his teaching and mentoring. The book is also a wonderful opportunity to step into the life of a man who has walked with Jesus for many years and yet who is still very intentional about his own growth.
This is a helpful book for anyone who wants to be intentional about prayer and in one's own use of the Psalms. Lynn Anderson's book is a guide to personal prayer. It is also a book that gives practical help in using these Psalms for one's own spiritual formation.
The book is both practical, inspirational and can be a helpful guide. I think you will be glad you read this book.
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The Cool Schoolby Glenn O'Brien
Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America--the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever. To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien creates an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor: transgressive, raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious.
How To Be a Manby Glenn O'Brien Jean-Philippe Delhomme
The ultimate sartorial and etiquette guide, from the ultimate life and style guru. By turns witty, sardonic, and always insightful, Glenn O'Brien's advice column has been a must-read for several generations of men (and their spouses and girlfriends). Having cut his teeth as a contributor at Andy Warhol's Interview in its heyday, O'Brien sharpened them as the creative director of advertising at the hip department store Barneys New York for ten years before starting his advice column at Details magazine in 1996. Eventually his column, "The Style Guy," migrated to its permanent home at GQ magazine, where O'Brien dispenses well-honed knowledge on matters ranging from how to throw a cocktail party (a diverse guest list is a must), putting together a wardrobe for a trip to Bermuda (pack more clothes for less dressing), or when it is appropriate to wear flip-flops in public (never). How To Be a Man is the culmination of O'Brien's thirty years of accumulated style and etiquette wisdom, distilled through his gimlet eye and droll prose. With over forty chapters on style and fashion (and the difference), on dandies and dudes, grooming and decorating, on how to dress age-appropriately and how to age gracefully, this guide is the new essential read for men of all ages.From the Hardcover edition.
The Style Guyby Glenn O'Brien
"Style isn't fashion.Fashion is about what everybody's doing, what everybody's wearing.Style is about what you're doing, what you're wearing."As the no-nonsense columnist for Details magazine, Glenn O'Brien has helped thousands of guys naturally develop their own unique sense of style. Now he can help you. Here is practical, down-to-earth advice on dress, manners, sex, grooming, and dating--including cigar and cell-phone etiquette, tips on ordering wine in restaurants, and the cold, hard facts on cutoff jeans, ribbed tank tops, black shoes with white socks, and the age-old conundrum: boxers or briefs. What's the difference between a ticket pocket and a fob pocket? A raconteur and a loudmouth?Does slipping a maitre d' a tip like they do in the movies get you a better table? How do you tell your date that she has spinach in her teeth?What's the best thing to say to someone when you've prematurely ejaculated?What do you wear with a brown suit?If guys (and their girlfriends) are wondering about it, then O'Brien has the answers. Having style was never so easy!From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as "Investment that is made to acquire a lasting interest in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor, the investor's purpose being to have an effective voice in the management of the enterprise." In practice, this translates to an equity holding of 10 percent or more in the foreign firm.
Use direct investment in a sentence
You need to try and figure out if the direct investment of your time and resources will end up paying off.
The investor made a direct investment into the company that he had much admiration for and wanted to help succeed in becoming a profitable business.
I realized that we were making a direct investment and that it was sort of a gamble, but it was a necessary one.


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BesselJ(0, x)+GAMMA(Psi)-sqrt(abs(omega))
Did it work, as the style guide suggests it would? No.
Now I'll try pasting into the popup that appears when clicking the "Maple Math" button in this mapleprimes editor. That didn't work, as the Insert and Cancel buttons on the popup stopped working as soon as I pasted in. I had to kill the popup.
Now I'll try entering markup tags, in the Mapleprime's editor's default mode (and not yet in the "Edit HTML Source" mode.
<maple>BesselJ(0, x)+GAMMA(Psi)-sqrt(abs(omega))</maple>
Now, as a last resort, I'll enter HTML editing mode in this Editor, and I'll put the "maple" start and finish markup tags in by hand.
None of all this produced 2D Math, at the time of my writing this. So may I ask, who has had success at this, and how?
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Alan Borg writes: The generosity of Valerie Eliot (obituary, November 12) in memory of her husband could sometimes take surprising forms. When my predecessor as Director of the V&A, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, appeared on Desert Island Discs she chose as her one book Four Quartets. The next day she was contacted by Valerie who said that as no other castaway had ever chosen any of Eliot's work she would like to support the work of the V&A. She did so and the relationship with the museum continued during my time as Director. One of the major campaigns that I


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(v) To have sexual intercourse. The knock refers to the man's hips hitting the woman's ass, which produces a slapping sound. The motion literally knocks her boots (buttocks).
"Bring your friend, I likes you two's I'll knock the boots, the sneakers and the house shoes." - Digital Underground (Flowing on the D-line)
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Knockin' boots is an old western term for having sex. Derived from both he and she stripping down and slipping their boots under the bed which sometimes made a "knocking" noise. Sometimes the boots are/were left on during sex and the boots would knock during all the action.
I think I got drip dick from knocking boots with that hussie Ellie May.
dari Bill Dailey Jumat, 22 September 2006
i was knocking boots with your mom
dari Sean Rabu, 15 Oktober 2003
doing the nasty
dari jlapplepie Kamis, 30 Januari 2003
Clashing clogs, Bashing birkenstocks, lashing laces, hitting heels, etc.
There are many ways to say smashing shoes, but knocking boots is the most popular by far.
Also unrelated is the topic of fucking.
There are many ways to say smashing shoes, but knocking boots is the most popular by far.
Also unrelated is the topic of fucking.
"The surest way to prove we're still alive
Knocking boots till we die"
- Devo
Knocking boots till we die"
- Devo
dari Fatty wob Jumat, 05 Februari 2016
The act of knocking two boots together, usually leather, for cleaning purposes or to test the strength
Why are you knocking boots?
They have mud on them.
They have mud on them.
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Cullen Jenkins saw Andy Reid in the hallway of the NovaCare Complex minutes after Reid's news conference Wednesday. One of the topics Reid discussed was a televised shouting match between him and Jenkins during Monday's preseason game against the Patriots.
Jenkins apologized to Reid - the third time he did so - and Reid told Jenkins, "They're coming to get you now."
Sure enough, Jenkins was by his locker to explain what happened and why.
"I'm usually an easygoing person," Jenkins said. "At game days, I get a little more emotional. I was just with a lot of emotions going at the time, game day and stuff. I didn't grab control of them like I should have."


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A PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY 7-year-old black girl presented with a 3-year history of slowly enlarging, painless, bilateral cervical, submandibular, and submental lymphadenopathy. She was asymptomatic except for occasional bouts of fever (temperature to 38.9°C) occurring every 2 to 3 weeks. There was no history of night sweats, weight loss, dysphagia, airway embarrassment, arthralgias, or rash.
Physical examination revealed an active and wellappearing afebrile girl with large, bilateral, nontender lymph node conglomerates in the anterior and posterior cervical chains and submandibular areas (Figure 1). Mild bilateral superior blepharoedema was also noted. No lymphadenopathy was detected by palpation in other regions, and results of the remainder of the examination were normal. A chest roentgenogram and complete blood cell count were normal, and the result of an intradermal purified protein derivative test (Mantoux) was negative. However, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate was prolonged at 54 mm/h (normal, <20 mm/h), and quantitative serum IgA and IgG
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Stanford University School of Medicine researchers, working with Cell BioSciences, have developed a nanofluidic proteomic immunoassay that measures protein charge, similar to immunoblots, mass spectrometry, or flow cytometry. But unlike these platforms, this approach can measure the amount of individual isoforms, specifically, phosphorylated molecules.
"We have developed a nanoscale device for protein measurement, which I believe could be useful for clinical analysis," says Dean W. Felsher, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Critical oncogenic transformations involving the activation of the signal-related kinases ERK-1 and ERK-2 can now be followed with ease. "The fact that we measure nanoquantities with accuracy means that we can interrogate proteomic profiles in clinical patients, by drawing tiny needle aspirates from tumors over the course of time," he explains.
"This allows us to observe the evolution of tumor cells and their response to therapy from a baseline of the normal tissue as a standard of comparison."
According to Dr. Felsher, 20 cells is a large enough sample to obtain a detailed description. The technology is easy to automate, which allows the inclusion of hundreds of assays. Contrasting this technology platform with proteomic analysis using microarrays, Dr. Felsher notes that the latter is not yet workable for revealing reliable markers.
"Microarray studies are not always consistent, and what works in one person's hands doesn't always appear to work for another investigator," he argues. "This means that reliable clinical assays may not be as easily developed using this approach."
Dr. Felsher and his group published a description of this technology in Nature Medicine. "We demonstrated that we could take a set of human lymphomas and distinguish them from both normal tissue and other tumor types. We can quantify changes in total protein, protein activation, and relative abundance of specific phospho-isoforms from leukemia and lymphoma patients receiving targeted therapy. Even with very small numbers of cells, we are able to show that the results are consistent, and our sample is a random profile of the tumor."
"Aberrations in alternative splicing may generate much of the variation we see in cancer cells," says Gilbert Omenn, Ph.D., director of the center for computational medicine and bioinformatics at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Dr. Omenn and his colleague, Rajasree Menon, are using this variability as a key to new biomarker identification.
It is becoming evident that splice variants play a significant role in the properties of cancer cells, including initiation, progression, cell motility, invasiveness, and metastasis. "Of course, one could spend a lifetime fully characterizing the consequences of variation in a single protein by classical biochemical methods," says Dr. Omenn.
Alternative splicing occurs through multiple mechanisms when the exons or coding regions of the DNA transcribe mRNA, generating initiation sites and connecting exons in protein products. Their translation into protein can result in numerous protein isoforms, and these isoforms may reflect a diseased or cancerous state.
Regulatory elements within the DNA are responsible for selecting different alternatives; thus the splice variants are tempting targets for exploitation as biomarkers.
Despite the many questions raised by these observations, splice variation in tumor material has not been widely studied. Cancer cells are known for their tremendous variability, which allows them to grow rapidly, metastasize, and develop resistance to anticancer drugs.
Dr. Omenn and his collaborators used mass spec data to interrogate a custom-built database of all potential mRNA sequences to find alternative splice variants. When they compared normal and malignant mammary gland tissue from a mouse model of Her2/Neu human breast cancers, they identified a vast number (608) of splice variant proteins, of which peptides from 216 were found only in the tumor sample.
"These novel and known alternative splice isoforms are detectable both in tumor specimens and in plasma and represent potential biomarker candidates," Dr. Omenn adds.
Dr. Omenn's observations and those of his colleague Lewis Cantley, Ph.D., have also shed light on the origins of the classic Warburg effect, the shift to anaerobic glycolysis in tumor cells. The novel splice variant M2, of muscle pyruvate kinase, is observed in embryonic and tumor tissue. It is associated with this shift, the result of the expression of a peptide splice variant sequence.
It is remarkable how many different areas of the life sciences are tied into the phenomenon of splice variation. The changes in the genetic material can be much greater than point mutations, which have been traditionally considered to be the prime source of genetic variability.
"We now have powerful methods available to uncover a whole new category of variation," Dr. Omenn says. "High-throughput RNA sequencing and proteomics will be complementary in discovery studies of splice variants."
Splice variation may play an important role in rapid evolutionary changes, of the sort discussed by Susumu Ohno and Stephen J. Gould decades ago. They, and other evolutionary biologists, argued that gene duplication, combined with rapid variability, could fuel major evolutionary jumps.
At the time, the molecular mechanisms of variation were poorly understood, but today the tools are available to rigorously evaluate the role of splice variation and other contributors to evolutionary change.
"Biomarkers derived from studies of splice variants, could, in the future, be exploited both for diagnosis and prognosis and for drug targeting of biological networks, in situations such as the Her-2/Neu breast cancers," Dr. Omenn says.
K. John Morrow Jr., Ph.D. ([email protected]), is president of Newport Biotech and a contributing editor for GEN. Web: www.newportbiotech.com.
K. John Morrow Jr., Ph.D. ([email protected]), is president of Newport Biotech and a contributing editor for GEN. Web: www.newportbiotech.com.
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