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After purging liberals from their ranks, Southern Baptist conservatives who won control of their denomination are now taking aim at each other.
The Rev. Wade Burleson, a Baptist leader from Oklahoma, says fellow conservatives who crusaded to only elect leaders who believe the Bible is literally true are carrying their campaign too far, targeting Southern Baptists who disagree with them on other issues.
These leaders, he wrote on his blog, are "following the same battle plan conservatives used to defeat liberalism," and have started a "war" for the future of the SBC.
Burleson's postings already might have cost him a leadership role in the denomination. Trustees of the Southern Baptist international missionary agency took the first step this month toward ousting him from their board, accusing him of "broken trust" for writing about a meeting on his Web site.
The seemingly minor conflict has broader significance.
Southern Baptists are trying to reverse several years of stagnation in membership growth, partly through an ad campaign called "Caring People" that is meant to soften their image. Complaints of hardball church politics would undermine that effort.
"Conservatives who loved the battles of decades past have fallen victim to a crusading mentality of bloodthirst," Burleson wrote. "Since all the liberals are gone, conservative crusaders are now killing fellow conservatives."
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Burleson first rankled the board over an obscure policy change: Trustees of the International Mission Board voted in November to bar future missionaries from using a "private prayer language," or speaking in tongues in private. Previously, missionaries were discouraged from speaking in tongues publicly, but their private prayer was not monitored.
The practice is common among Pentecostals, whose spirited brand of Christianity is spreading rapidly throughout countries where Southern Baptist missionaries work, and in the United States. Many conservative Protestants, however, reject the practice.
Still, Burleson opposed the ban on speaking in tongues privately. He viewed the move as a dangerous effort to vet conservatives for purity, and said so on his blog.
"Sadly, the Southern Baptist Convention is now moving toward a time when everyone must look the same, talk the same, act the same, believe the same on the nonessentials of the faith, or else you will be removed as 'not one of us,' " he wrote in a Dec. 10 entry.
About a month later, trustees voted him out. Delegates to the annual Southern Baptist gathering in June will decide whether to approve his removal from the board, which guides the work of more than 5,000 missionaries worldwide.
Just two years earlier, a leading Baptist conservative had warned about the very infighting that Burleson is describing. The Rev. Morris Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, said conservatives must realize they have won the battle with liberals over biblical inerrancy and should now stop fighting.
"I am concerned now that we have affirmed by vigorous endeavor that Southern Baptists are people of the Book, that we will develop a censorious, exclusivistic, intolerant spirit," he said, in a speech to the denomination's annual meeting. "If this occurs, we will be the poorer for it."
Asked recently to comment on Burleson's allegations, Chapman said in a phone interview that the convention was in transition.
"It is not uncommon for some who are accustomed to being in a crusade to have difficulty deciding when that period of time has concluded," he said.
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Posted on 02/05/2010 7:48:37 PM PST by neverdem
For those who suspect residents in places like Minnesota of embellishment when it comes to their tales of bitterly cold winter weather, consider this: even some wind turbines, it seems, cannot bear it.
Turbines, more than 100 feet tall, were installed last year in 11 Minnesota cities to provide power, and also to serve as educational symbols in a state that has mandated that a quarter of its electricity come from renewable resources by 2025.
One problem, though: The windmills, supposed to go online this winter, mostly just sat still, people in cities like North St. Paul and Chaska said, rarely if ever budging. Residents took note. Schoolchildren asked questions. Complaints accumulated.
If people see a water tower, they expect it to stand still, said Wally Wysopal, the city manager of North St. Paul. If theres a turbine, they want it to turn.
No one knows for sure why these turbines do not. Officials believe there may be several reasons, but weather is the focus of much speculation. It is not as though turbines cannot function in cold places; thousands of them work perfectly well throughout Minnesota and the Midwest, the American Wind Energy Association is quick to note.
But the 12 turbines in question, each 20 years old, spent their earlier years twirling in California...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One possible moral of the story: Don't buy old used junk from California. There is probably a reason its for sale.
Algore and his enviroloonies have some 'splainin' to do. LOL!
If you've ever driven through West Texas (north of Lubbock, towards Amarillo), you might be astounded by a couple things:
1) How many wind turbines there are, and
2) How many of them are NOT TURNING.
I'm not sure why. I'd like to know.
However, I wager that when enviros quote some big honkin' number of megawatts of wind power available in Texas, they're talking POTENTIAL. Not actual.
Food for thought. I think the whole wind power contribution to the grid is MUCH less than is touted, and not just in Minnesota.
I'm glad these morons finally admitted what these damn things are really all about. They're "educational symbols" for the "great unwashed masses". I suspected this all along.
>> Food for thought. I think the whole wind power contribution to the grid is MUCH less than is touted, and not just in Minnesota.
Is his name Pickens? Anyway, he's pushing gas now...
I can see it now. They'll install motors and heaters to keep them turning through the winter. It would make about as much sense as installing them in the first place.
If this is the same turbines that was reported on earlier in the week, they are stopped by the extreme cold. The fluid that is part of the working mechanism didn't stand up to the extreme cold in Minnesota. The contractor said it would. The city is set to sue for non-compliance to their contract. Stupid city government. Build a freaking coal fired power plant and stay warm, and run lights and machines and tools. They bought into the crap of global warming. Suffer you idiots. November 2010 we start taking our country back!
They are an eyesore and I have heard the noise they make can drive you insane. It sounds like they are a money-pit. We have plenty of oil. DRILL IT!
>> Is his name Pickens?
Heh... yeah, that's a lot of it. Maybe MOST of it. "T-Bone" also has a pipeline and water rights thing going.
>> Anyway, hes pushing gas now...
Yep. And not running wind power ads anymore either.
So sad... I'm "pushing gas" too, but unlike T. Booone, it doesn't seem to make ME any money, just makes Mrs. Tick gag now and then. If you know what I mean (and I think you do). ;-)
I've seen several wind farms out here in So. Cal., and every one of them have a percentage of non turners. I've wondered why some turn, and others immediately next to them don't.
>> We have plenty of oil. DRILL IT!
Isn't it funny? We spent thousands of years figuring out that petroleum is a darn good, efficient, cost-effective source of energy... and then, with a little pressure from the left, we FORGOT all that in a couple DECADES!
What the heck is wrong with us anyway??!?
Here are a few "educational symbols" they can use in the classroom without going outside...
I think the Good New senator from Massachusetts should spear head a project fo a wind farm out by teddys old place and call it the Ted Kennedy memorial windfarm
These windmills ARE educational.
They teach children that government is not to be trusted to make good choices.
Feelings beat out common sense every time in Liberaland.
Nothin' is wrong with "us."
But everthing is wrong with "them." :)
Why can't they just take the wind turbines to a local airport and get them de-iced (stated in my most nerve wracking, know it all, greenie-environmental voice)
Sic semper "green technology."
Sic semper "green technology."
They are inherently unreliable and require tons of maintenance to stay on-line. They just can't do what their promoters claim.
And since their contribution to power on the grid is so spotty, people running grids don't really care if they are working or not, so nobody bothers to fix them when they break.
The answer is simple, and not very interesting: Nothing works when it is cold. Anyone from the Rockies on up to Alaska will tell you that one.
Thanks for the pics.
Funny... So was I, just then...
Our problem is that we should have taken the green-weenies to the woodshed before they demonized all of our natural, God-given, resources.
Thanks for the insight. Especially the "people running grids" part. I hadn't considered that part of the equation.
And feel-good symbols that kill tens of thousands of birds annually.
Makes me wonder: Why do "Greens" hate birds?
>> Our problem is that we should have taken the green-weenies to the woodshed
Better late than never. And we can spank 'em twice as hard now to make up for lost time.
Love it!
"kill tens of thousands of birds annually"
Are you making that up, being sarcastic, or serious?
bump for later
Maybe they should just motorize the damn things in the summer, to give folks a nice cool breeze.
I've decided that the proper sendoff for Ted Kennedy will be to dig him up when the Nantucket wind farm he opposed (because it was in HIS back yard —you don't underSTAND; I can SEE it from MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!) is finished, power them all up, and blow his ashes all over the Sound.
>> Makes me wonder: Why do "Greens" hate birds?
Birds ==> Eagles ==> America ==> Tea Parties
It's simple when you view it from the right angle. :-)
>> Maybe they should just motorize the damn things in the summer, to give folks a nice cool breeze.
Twenty year old wind turbines is probably the answer to this problem, because the technology has changed considerably since these turbines were designed and built. Blade technology alone makes an enormous difference in how much wind is required to get the turbine moving in the first place, and there are many more factors that will affect technology this old, including low temperatures.
Classic example of the Law of Unintended Consequences in action in my view.
For the record, we have a large number of windfarms here in Washington and Oregon, and when you drive up the Columbia River Gorge, it is not unusual to see a significant number of wind turbines feathered, and not turning.
Any down time at all that a windfarm spends in favorable winds costs money and lots of it...
Already been decided install the heaters, and change the fluids. The only delay is that they have to hire Union Contractors to do that work.
I'm being conservative, actually. At one mountain pass -- Altamont in California -- they average almost 5,000 dead birds a year from windmills. That's just ONE mountain pass covered in windmills.
However, the numbers are all over the place. Some estimates range as high as a quarter million (I think that's high), but others think it's closer to 80,000 dead bird per year. There is a lot of politics in dead bird numbers, and I don't know who to trust.
I can say this though: tens of thousands of birds are killed every year thanks to the tree-hugger green technology. And for what reason?
Seriously: for what reason...?
Runaway prop LOL! They could not feather it.
>> tens of thousands of birds are killed every year thanks to the tree-hugger green technology And for what reason?
To avenge the pterodactyls that died to make petroleum, you right-wing nazi.
... Wait! That doesn't even make SENSE! Crap! The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming! Where's my bong...
I love Fridays!
Wait... is this Friday...?
What the heck happened to those windmills?
One company, WindTamer Corporation, developed a sophisticated wind turbine that looks like a ducted fan, automatically steers into the wind, won't harm birds (because birds see it as a solid object and will avoid it) and runs at a much higher range of wind speeds than conventional wind turbines. Sales have been strong, and with even more emphasis on wind power expect WindTamer to start scaling up the technology.
The controversial wind turbine off the coast of Massachusetts would works superbly with WindTamer turbines, mostly by eliminating the need for tall, unsightly wind turbine installations. They could assemble hundreds of WindTamer turbine towers located only 25 feet above the ground, dramatically reducing visual impact (and making it real easy to service, too).
>> Wait... is this Friday...?
Yeah, for a couple more minutes on the east coast... longer here in flyover country!
Variety of things. Structural failure. Control failure leading to overspeed causing structural failure. Hydraulic failure leading to oil fires. Icing leading to imbalances causing structural failure. Materials failures leading to loss of blade causing imbalance and destruction of machine. You name it!
It is a REALLY CRAPPY way to generate power. Disclaimer — I spent 30 years in conventional power generation burning everything under the sun to make electricity and steam (except liberals!).
We have a bunch of them around here as well and I can't for the life of me figure out how they are connected to anything. They all sit out in the middle of cornfields and I see no transmission wires, no junction boxes, no trenches. I mean surely at some point the wires need to hook into the grid through high power lines, but I certainly don't see any, anywhere. As far as I can tell these things just sit out in the field and spin.
And lots of wind to make a little power. Regardless of what "the legislature passes" I will assure you before God and mammon that they need LOTS of wind - and LOTS of expensive maintenance to turn.
They follow, you see, Newton's Law - NOT Gore's Law. Or Obama's Law. Or the democrat's "law".
At best, you're going to get 20 - 23% percent run time. More likely, 12 to 17 percent running time.
I live near I-94 in Michigan, which runs from Detroit to Chicago. We see a lot of weird stuff on the interstate.
The strangest? Two flatbeds carrying windmill blades.
The irony? One truck was attempting to make a 90-degree turn to get on the entrance ramp. It didn't make the turn. The entire bridge and ramp were shut down by a windmill blade.
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This short, wiry, pliable, zany, and beloved revue comedienne and singer is best known for her years as the female regular on "Your Show of Shows" and for her seemingly unstoppable touring in stage performances throughout the US well into her eighties. Imogene Coca was the daughter of performers and was performing herself in vaudeville from an early age. She made her Broadway debut as a chorus girl in "When You're Smiling" in 1925 when she was 17, and in 1926, she was across the river in Brooklyn performing at Werba's in "Bubbling Over." For the next three decades, Coca appeared in one revue after another, several stage musical comedies and performed her own act at such Manhattan cabarets as The Rainbow Room (first in 1937), The Silver Slipper, The Ruban Blew, and Cafe Society Uptown. It was, therefore, almost natural that when TV began to emerge as a popular art form, a singer-comedienne like Coca would be drawn to it.


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Zenith (watchmaker)
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|Georges Favre-Jacot
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Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel.[1] Zenith was purchased by LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in their watch and jewellery division. The CEO of the company is Aldo Magada, who replaced Jean-Frédéric Dufour in 2014.[2]
Zenith has a long reputation for the quality and precision of their watches. It is one of the Swiss watch manufacturers that still produce their own movements in-house.
The El Primero calibre, which was first released in 1969, though still produced today, was one of the first automatic chronograph movements and has a frequency of 36,000 alternations per hour (5 Hz). This high rate allows a resolution of 1⁄10 of a second and a potential for greater positional accuracy over the more common standard frequency of 28,800 alternations per hour (4 Hz).[3] The El Primero was honoured with a 2012 release of the El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th, limited to 1,969 pieces (in honour of the original 1969 release date), that housed the same 36,000 vph movement and a sub-dial measuring in tenths of a second to make a complete rotation every ten seconds.[4]
Georges Favre-Jacot[edit]
Favre-Jacot was born 1843 and died 1917.[5] He was an apprentice within the watch making industry whilst within his youth.[6]
Favre-Jacot at some time requested a house be built for himself at Le Locle, from the architect Le Corbusier,[7] he was also closely involved with another prominent architect, named Alphonse Laverrière. His relationship with this latter architect was the source of influence upon the Werkbund movement. The two men collaborated with a shared artistic vision on the nature of production, to the extent to which they themselves somewhat reformed the artistic situation within francophone Switzerland at the time.[6]
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- ^ "Georges Favre-Jacot". Zenith International. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ http://en.worldtempus.com/article/industry-news/zenith-aldo-magada-new-ceo-1577611
- ^ "The Stainless-Steel Zenith El Primero Chronomaster". timezone.com. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ^ "Best Watches of 2012: Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th". R.G. Holland. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
- ^ J. Birksted. Le Corbusier and the Occult. MIT Press 2009, 405 pages, ISBN 0262026481. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
- ^ a b Zenith Watches. Georges Favre-Jacot. Zenith Watches. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
- ^ A. Flint - Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 4 Nov 2014, 256 pages, ISBN 0544262220 [Retrieved 2015-07-15]
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I initial "met" Paige on Twitter back in 2013, and then I met her in person in Toronto when she was doing a postdoc at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. And now? She's working at the University of Miami. Read about Paige's transition from English graduate student to digital humanities librarian.
Like many Humanities graduate students, my decision to pursue a PhD was influenced by my undergraduate experience. What I realized was that I'd pursued a PhD because I saw being a professor as the most meaningful way of making a difference in the world, or alternately, the only way that I could make a meaningful difference in the world. There's a bit of ivory tower elitism in that perspective, but there's also a lot of patriarchal socialization: on a subconscious level, teaching in a university was the only sort of leadership role that I could imagine for myself. It wasn't that I had consciously rejected other roles as somehow inappropriate; it was that I'd been so conditioned that I'd never once imagined them for myself.
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If you are interested in learning more about Celtic Buddhism or meditation this is the event for you! There will be a talk with questions and answers. Meditation instruction is also possible for those interested. We are forming a sangha in Bangor Maine. Sister Gryphon will lead the talk. This …
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After the ping-pong balls settle, countless mock drafts will be made. Instead of making a cookie-cutter mock draft like everyone else, I will present a humorous mock draft.
Some mocks will be made by so-called experts who have a stunningly accurate rate of 5.4 percent. Oh wait, that's the free-throw shooting percentage of a blindfolded Ben Wallace shooting backwards. Never mind—that's his actual shooting percentage from the line.
It is no secret this year's draft class is very thin—so thin, in fact, that Dick Vitale wonders whether Kyrie Irving can be the first ever player taken first and second overall. Some other experts wonder whether Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert will select former WWE Champion and Cleveland native Mike "The Miz" Mizanin first overall.
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2
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In NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja 2 gamers can play through monumental events in the NARUTO storyline all while earning points toward upgrading their character's strength, defense, agility, chakra and special abilities. Players can walk the path of NARUTO in the new all-new mode, Ultimate Road that will allow them to play through all of the pivotal events in the storyline, as well as unlock an original story, as more and more pieces of the NARUTO saga unfold. More than 60 exciting missions and seven challenging mini games will push potential ninja to their limit. Players can take the role of Naruto, Sasake, Kakashi, Rock Lee, Gara, Kiba and other favorites while taking on daunting tasks like battling the sand ninja and working their way through the Chunin exam, the test to move up in the ninja ranks. Ninja in training can perfect their skills in Practice mode then put their training to the test against a friend in the VS mode. With a vast amount of unlockable features such as playable characters, movies, music, collectible cards and more NARUTO fans will be busy for ages to come
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Are you ready to become a first time homeowner? Or are you at that baby-boomer point of just wanting a fresh start with a new home? If you have the "new-house itch," you are not alone. Approximately 1.6 million American families took the financial leap in 1998. Not surprisingly, housing industry sales went through the roof.
The increase in demand for home-building created record-setting earnings for real estate and construction companies. These industries boomed as nationwide new home sales topped 5.7 million units in 1998; this total was up 13 percent from the previous year. High demand for residential construction in 1998 also drove U.S. housing prices higher - by 4.8% at year's end.
As you many suspect, multi-unit residential construction has also met with great success. The aggregate number of newly constructed rental units in the U.S. expanded by 17 percent from 1997 to 1998. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report U.S. builders constructed multifamily units at an annualized rate of 280,000 in the first nine months of 1998.
What spurred this tremendous growth in the housing market? Affordable financing played a major part in fueling an already eager consumer market. If you were loan shopping in 1998, you'll remember that, for a time, interest rates on 30-year (long-term) fixed rate mortgages reached an astounding low of 6.5 percent. Since then, thousands of Americans have been inspired to refinance existing mortgages. In fact, over half of all minted mortgages in 1998 served to retire old mortgages.
According to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), this historic downturn in rates appeared most recently in the late sixties and is only the third ever of its kind for long-term rates. At present, 30-year fixed interest rates are hovering in the 7.5-8 percent range, following two small rate hikes in the bank lending rate by the Federal Reserve Board (FED). Nevertheless, these rates are still strikingly lower than the mid-teen percentages experienced in the seventies.
Decisions over mortgage financing have plagued homeowners ever since homesteads were purchases rather than passed down within families. The central lending issue usually comes down to a choice between getting a loan with a fluctuating, or adjustable rate mortgage (ARM). ARMs have been a popular choice of home-buyers in the past (as folks hoped for lower rates to occur during the life of their mortgages). More recently, however, new buyers and many ARM holders who seek refinancing are opting for the predictability of historic low fixed rates, and they are happily locking in at low rates for the next 30 years.
Although some disagree, I anticipate the housing industry can look forward to at least another two good years. Home sales should remain at a respectable volume, although perhaps not at the extraordinary pace of 1998. While the home-owning market is expected to flourish nationwide, some states may experience a downturn in the rental side of the housing business. Rising homeownership rates, which by nature deplete the renter household market, could lead to trouble spots that lack the volume of population necessary to maintain demand in the rental market. The Texas rental market, however, is in healthy shape demographically due to the constant influx and growth of the Hispanic immigrant population, a group who tends to occupy rental units.
Falling interest rates have played a leading role in the ongoing, vigorous U.S. economy at present. Strong economic output and growth, low unemployment, and low inflation have set the stage while mortgage lenders, home-builders, apartment owners, and real estate agents played supporting roles. If the Fed leaves the economy (relatively) unfettered, the marketplace will continue to do what it does best - efficient business. In turn, the housing market and related industries in Texas and throughout the U.S. should remain solid, with continued success throughout the short term.
Texas is indeed fortunate; it is strengthened by the economy's diversity and shored up by expansion in the sectors of high-tech manufacturing and services. Texas is well positioned to support the state's housing industries as we round the millennium corner - good news for Texas families who are poised to buy, sell, refinance, or rent a home.
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Hello, I'm Liz, and I teach singing lessons in Brooklyn, New York! Brooklyn is home to one of the most vibrant arts and cultural communities in the world. In this great city, you can hear live music at BAM, take in some dance with the Mark Morris Troupe, view the beautiful nature at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, see artists creating their own open studios to display their artwork, and watch a local filmmaker shoot a movie on the streets. Brooklyn is truly a great city to foster your creative expression!
Brooklyn is comprised of several different neighborhoods, including Williamsburg, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Flatbush, and Greenpoint/Fort Greene, just to name a few. Each trendy neighborhood has its own unique cultural identity. In this article, I will give you an overview of some of the most prominent neighborhoods to give you an insight on all the wonderful opportunities a singer can take advantage of!
Williamsburg Williamsburg is a very hip part of town and is home to many local indie artists. The neighborhood is known for having many live music venues and coffeehouses that foster original music, including The Knitting Factory, Williamsburg Music Hall, and Muchmore's. Many venues host their own open mics, which are great opportunities to get comfortable presenting your own original material to a very supportive indie music audience. The Knitting Factory: http://www.knittingfactory.com/ Williamsburg Music Hall: http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/ Muchmore's: http://muchmoresnyc.com/
Park Slope A quiet and cozy neighborhood known for its diversity and for being family-friendly, Park Slope is a great place to find inspiration. Many local businesses thrive here, and I find it to be a relaxed environment to get some songwriting done, whether that be spending time in a local coffee shop or sitting in the park. It's also a short walk to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Prospect Park, and world-class music institutions, such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo In Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo, be sure to check out some outdoor festivals and fairs that take place here, including Make Music Festival, Folk Music Festival, Jam Music Festival, New York's Festival of Light, and many others. Mark these on your calendar; you won't want to miss them!
Bed-Stuy Bed-Stuy is a very diverse section and home to many young people in their twenties and thirties. With affordable rent prices, many residents here have opened up their own private recording studios, as well as set up their own rehearsal space or studio - something very appealing to singers!
Bushwick This area is known for its "hipster" community with many visual artists, actors, dancers, and filmmakers, all collaborating to create meaningful art that will make an impression on New York society. If you are really looking to network with other performers and to be a part of the community, this is the place to be. There are many workshops, open houses, jams, and art presentations here on the streets. In the neighborhood's industrial lofts, you can showcase your work, which is great for a singer/songwriter who is just starting out, looking to meet people in the indie music scene!
Flatbush Flatbush is truly a blend of all different cultures, which contributes to a very inspiring neighborhood for musicians! Singers can take in the sights and sounds of all the different cultures here to help shape and find their own cultural identity and sound. Flatbush is also home to many students, as Brooklyn College is located here, which has a great classical voice and jazz department, as well!
Greenpoint/Fort Greene A cultural oasis of Brooklyn, Greenpoint/Fort Green is home to the BRIC Arts Media Center and many other nonprofit organizations that will help you with your singing and performing career. Many performers have decided to call this place home in recent years, including Branford Marsalis, Chris Rock, Erykah Badu, and Keri Russell, to name a few. This quiet area really lets you focus on your artwork while still surrounded by such a creative atmosphere. BRIC Arts Media Center: http://bricartsmedia.org/
So, if you are a singer and are looking to hone your craft while taking singing lessons in Brooklyn, I highly recommend spending some time in each of the different neighborhoods that this city has to offer. Explore performing and writing opportunities while networking and collaborating with other musicians in Brooklyn. It is truly the ideal place to foster your creativity and grow as a singer.
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Jenna Jameson's Husband Says It's Her Fault He Got Arrested for Hitting Her
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Sandra Bullock has admitted that if she were Elin Nordegren, she wouldn't have stopped whaling on Tiger last Thanksgiving.
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The brand in particular is known for the Nike "Air Max" sole whose patent they've purchased to create styles that really push the boundaries of design to create shoes that really are the epitome of luxury, comfort and creativity.
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InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam
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[WORLD CUP 2014 COUNTDOWN] Four MLS players (Victor Bernardez, Marvin Chavez, Oscar Boniek Garciaand Jerry Bengtson) and two U.S.-bred players now playing in Europe (Roger Espinoza and Andy Najar) head the Honduras squad Colombian coach Luis Suarez named for the Catrachos' friendly against Venezuela March 5 at the Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula.
Notable absentees are Stoke City midfielder Wilson Palacios, who has only played three league games in the last two months, as well as Wisla Krakow defender Osman Chavez, who is coming off a knee injury, and Real Espana forward Carlo Costly, who is coming off an ankle injury.
MLS players with Honduran national team experience not called in were Johnny Leveron, Walter Martinezand Alexander Lopez.
Four uncapped players who have been playing well in the 2014 Torneo Clausura earned their first call-ups: goalie Luis Lopez(Real Espana) and defenders Walter Williams (Real Sociedad), Bryan Acosta (Real Espana), Henry Clark (Real Sociedad).
Honduras Roster:
GOALKEEPERS:Noel Valladares (Olimpia), Donis Escober (Olimpia), Luis Lopez (Real Espana).
DEFENDERS: Maynor Figueroa (Hull City/ENG), Victor Bernardez (San Jose Earthquakes), Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic/SCO), Juan Carlos Garcia (Wigan), Arnold Peralta (Rangers/SCO), Walter Williams (Real Sociedad), Bryan Acosta (Real Espana), Henry Clark (Real Sociedad).
MIDFIELDERS:Oscar Boniek Garcia (Houston Dynamo), Andy Najar (Anderlecht/BEL), Roger Espinoza (Wigan/ENG), Marvin Chavez (Colorado Rapids), Luis Garrido (Olimpia), Jorge Claros (Motagua), Edder Delgado (Real Espana).
FORWARDS: Jerry Palacios (Alajuelense), Jerry Bengtson (New England Revolution), Rony Martinez (Real Sociedad), Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad), Rommel Quioto (Olimpia).


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Uncompetitive inhibitors can be common in certain two-substrate–requiring enzyme classes such as dehydrogenases. This study suggests that HMTs may also have this property. [© lculig - Fotolia.com]
ASSAY & Drug Development Technologies offers a unique combination of original research and reports on the techniques and tools being used in cutting-edge drug development. The journal includes a "Literature Search and Review" column that identifies published papers of note and discusses their importance. GEN presents one article that was analyzed in the "Literature Search and Review" column, a paper published in Analytical Biochemistry titled "Detecting S-adenosyl-L-methionine-induced conformational change of a histone methyltransferase using a homogeneous time-resolved fluorescence-based binding assay." Authors of the paper are Lin Y, Fan H, Frederiksen M, Zhao K, Jiang L, Wang Z, Zhou S, Guo W, Gao J, Li S, Harrington E, Meier P, Scheufler C, Xu Y-C, Atadja P, Lu C, Li E, and Gu XJ.
A homogeneous time-resolved fluorescence (HTRF)-based binding assay has been established to measure the binding of the histone methyltransferase (HMT) G9a to its inhibitor CJP702 (a biotin analog of the known peptide–pocket inhibitor, BIX-01294). This assay was used to characterize G9a inhibitors. As expected, the peptide–pocket inhibitors decreased the G9a–CJP702 binding signal in a concentration dependent manner. In contrast, the S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)–pocket compounds, SAM and sinefungin, significantly increased the G9a–CJP702 binding signal, whereas S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) showed minimal effect. Enzyme kinetic studies showed that CJP702 is an uncompetitive inhibitor (vs. SAM) that has a strong preference for the E:SAM form of the enzyme.
Other data presented suggest that the SAM/sinefungin-induced increase in the HTRF signal is secondary to an increased E:SAM or E:sinefungin concentration. Thus, the G9a–CJP702 binding assay not only can be used to characterize the peptide–pocket inhibitors but also can detect the subtle conformational differences induced by the binding of different SAM–pocket compounds. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of using an uncompetitive inhibitor as a probe to monitor the conformational change induced by compound binding with an HTRF assay.
Choosing the right enzyme construct is an important step in assay development. Whether to use full-length or truncated variants and which posttranslational modifications to include are a few of the key questions when developing the assay. Furthermore, the order of the enzyme reaction should be understood when setting substrate and cofactor concentrations. An interesting finding for the histone methyltransferase (HMT) G9a is described in this article in which a substrate peptide binding assay was found to be sensitive to conformational changes mediated by the S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) pocket. The HMT family of enzymes all use a SAM cofactor to transfer a methyl group to either lysine or arginine of proteins. This study used a number of tool compounds, which included peptide competitive compounds.
BIX-01294 (Figure 1) is one of the first peptide-binding site inhibitors, and to construct a competitive-binding assay the authors first synthesized CJP702, a biotin analog of BIX-01294. An HTRF binding assay was enabled using a GST-tagged G9a and streptavidin-APC. Compounds known to be competitive with peptide were used to validate the assay and these compounds showed the same rank order in potency as the enzyme assay, although the IC50 values were weaker in the binding assay compared with the enzyme assay. SAM competitive compounds were then tested, but these were found to increase the HTRF signal. Reducing the concentration of GST-G9a and CJP702 from 500 nM to 60 nM and 250 nM, respectively, showed a very low basal signal, which was likely due to nonspecific interactions because this signal could not be reduced by peptide inhibitors.
However, addition of SAM or sinefungin (and analog of the enzymatic product SAH) caused a large increase in the HTRF signal. CJP702 was derived from BIX-01294, which is an uncompetitive inhibitor with respect to SAM. Therefore, the reason for increased signal upon addition of SAM to the binding assay was thought to be likely due to CJP702 also acting as an uncompetitive inhibitor, and detailed kinetic analysis confirmed this mode of inhibition for CJP702. Interestingly, SAH did not promote an increase in HTRF signal, suggesting that SAH binds to a different conformation. With this mind, the HTRF signal reports on conformational changes due to SAM-pocket binding.
The reconfigured peptide binding assay was then used to measure SAM-pocket binding compounds in a kinetic mode (Figure 2). The signal increases are due to conformational changes, which involve several steps, including binding of SAM to free enzyme, resulting in a conformational change in the enzyme allowing CJP702 binding. The rate-determining step is unknown but the t1/2 from kinetic analysis sets the lower limit on the forward rate constants at ~2.5 min. Uncompetitive inhibitors can be common in certain two-substrate–requiring enzyme classes such as dehydrogenases, and this study suggests that HMTs may also have this property.
Doug Auld, Ph.D., is affiliated with the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
Doug Auld, Ph.D., is affiliated with the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
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"Despite an overwhelming preponderance of evidence to the contrary, there continues to be some public concern that human exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation from cell phones and base stations, even at relatively low levels, can constitute a health hazard. The media seize on any report of a possible health risk based on occasional reports of biological effects being produced by RF radiation, but ignore the much larger number of studies that find nothing. This talk will review the science underlying our understanding of how RF radiation can interact with biological systems and discuss why public concern about the health risk from cell phones and base stations is irrational. The claimed connection between cell phone use and cancer will be examined, and some of the legal cases that have kept the cell phone health controversy alive. A specific interaction mechanism that will be discussed is the possibility of nonlinearity in cells and tissue that might demodulate an RF carrier.
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A baby girl was born on Saturday (January 12) onboard a plane flying from Russia to the Armenian capital. A senior flight attendant from the Armenian airline assisted the woman during a delivery. "I noticed her going towards the seats near the rear of the plane. I did not hesitate and was not ashamed and followed her to the toilet. I opened the door and told her that I was there to help her and that she should not be embarrassed if she felt unwell," said Hasmik Gevondyan, senior flight attendant on plane flying from Russian Novosibirsk to Yerevan. After the plane landed at Yerevan airport both mother and baby were taken by ambulance to a maternity hospital. The mother said she was so grateful to the flight attendant and EMT for their help, she decided to name her new-born daughter after them - luckily both had the same name. "The person who brought me here and the flight attendant said their name was Hasmik and I called her Hasmik in honor of them," said Armine Babayan. Doctors say both mother and daughter are doing fine.
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