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Mechanisms of resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica exhibiting a novel quinolone resistance phenotype
Abstract number: P1536
Caddick J.M., Lindgren M., Webber M.A., Kotilainen P., Siitonen A., Hakanen A.J., Piddock L.J.V.
Objective: To determine the mechanisms which underpin a novel quinolone resistance phenotype of Salmonella enterica isolates from Finnish patients. All isolates were susceptible to nalidixic acid but had reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin.
Methods: Six Salmonella enterica isolates, consisting of five serovars (Corvallis, Stanley, Mbandaka, Montevideo and Virginia) were acquired by Finnish patients during travel to Malaysia and Thailand. Isolates were screened for plasmid mediated quinolone resistance by plasmid extraction and by PCR of qnrA, qnrB, qnrS, aac6'-lb-Cr, qepA and oqxB. Positive qnr genotypes were compared with previously identified qnr plasmids by Southern blotting. Transfer of resistance was examined by transformation and subsequent MIC testing of transformants. Mutations in the quinolone resistance determining regions (QRDRs) of gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE were identified by PCR and DHPLC. Efflux activity was assessed by determining accumulation of the fluorescent substrate Hoescht 33342 by all isolates and compared with matched wild strains of the same serovar.
Results: Plasmid mediated quinolone resistance genes were detected in all six isolates. One isolate carried qnrA, two qnrS and three both qnrB and qnrS. aac6'-lb-Cr, qepA and oqxB were not detected. Southern blotting identified qnrS1 in Stanley, Montevideo, Virginia and both Corvallis serovars. All plasmids, when transferred into a wild-type host had increased MICs of ciprofloxacin. In addition, plasmids from Stanley, Mbandaka and Montevideo serovars conferred increased MICs of chloramphenicol and tetracycline. No mutations were detected in the QRDRs of gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE, however, two isolates possessed mutations in gyrA at codon 396 (Leu to Met). All isolates accumulated less Hoescht 33342 than wild-type suggesting increased efflux activity.
Conclusion: These data demonstrate the rise of a highly mobile genotype that confers a novel quinolone resistance phenotype, which has become widely disseminated.
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This Weekend- Show Your "Compassion"May 15th, 2012 at 4:05 pm by Erica Grow under Community
Three benevolent students at Old Saybrook High School are taking time out of their busy schedules this Saturday to hold a Can and Bottle Drive, with the goal of raising money for a local soup kitchen. This is the 3rd drive that Seniors Clay Farrell, James Blackwell, and Joe Regan have organized. They're not asking for your money- just your empty cans and bottles, which can be deposited for the $0.05 refund. Here are a few examples of redeemable items:
All the money they collect will benefit the Shoreline Soup Kitchen and Pantry. If you'd like to help, bring your empty 5-cent redeemable bottles and cans to Old Saybrook High School (directions here) on Saturday between 9:00am and 1pm. And remember, when collecting your bottles and cans for deposit, you can now add plastic water bottles to the list… which means an even bigger donation for the soup kitchen!
On Sunday May 20th, lace up your sneakers in the morning for a walking benefit, helping children with a disorder you might have never heard of. It's called Apraxia of Speech, and this condition makes it very difficult for children to speak clearly and understandably. It can be very frustrating for the child, which is why they need your help! The 2012 Walk for CAS starts at 10:00am at Osbornedale State Park in Derby (directions here). Walkers will meet at the pavilion near Pickett's Pond. Last year's walk drew a crowd of more than 350 walkers, raising about $50,000!
This walk will benefit CASANA, The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America. This organization helps provide the specialized training to speech professionals so they can help children with the Apraxia condition. Registration starts at 9am and costs $20 for adults; $10 for children. You can register ahead of time by clicking this link.
The Branford Compassion Club is an organization aimed at finding forever homes for adoptable cats and kittens, and giving feral cats the care that they deserve. They're always trying to make their facility as welcoming and comfortable as possible… both for the cats they house, and for the people who are looking to adopt. A great example is pictured below:
In order to pull off renovations like the one seen above, the Compassion Club is hoping to have a great fundraising night at their 15th Anniversary Gala, this Sunday, May 20th from 5:30 until 8:30pm, at the James Blackstone Memorial Library in the Branford town center! News 8′s own Chris Velardi is the honorary chairman of the Club; he'll be there to honor their 15th Anniversary with a toast. You'll also enjoy hors d'oeuvres, dinner, music, a cash bar, and silent auction items. Tickets are $50 and are available by emailing email@example.com. Space is running out, so get your tickets today!

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are now more than 90 confirmed cases of the rare form of fungal meningitis. The recent outbreak spans nine states and has killed at least seven people. So far no cases have been reported in Missouri. Cape Girardeau hospitals have voiced concerns for the issue but assure there is no need to worry. Southeast Health Pharmacy Director Dr. Nicole Allcock tells KZIM-KSIM they have done their due diligence. The New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts has been linked to the outbreak and has shut down operations of their spinal steroid shot that has led to the disease along with making a recall on the product. Neither Southeast Health nor Saint Francis Medical Center orders medicine through this group.
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Perhaps there's a more clever way, but the method you proposed should work. Remember that you have 18 free parameters.
To simplify things, I'd factor out a -6: A diag{0, -6, 18 }B = (-6) A diag {0, 1, -3} B. To get you started:
If you can choose (I don't know that you can, but it seems possible at first glance) combinations of a's and b's so that the resulting matrix is anything
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Methods: Forty-seven patients with GBM underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to look for association of its indices with tissue MMP-9 expression using Pearson correlation. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was performed to study the survival pattern for low-, medium-, and high-tissue MMP-9 expression and kep values.
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Oh, wow! Good blog concept. Got me thinking about an example I've noticed in my own culture: apples. When I pick up the apple, it's like any other foodstuff. As I'm eating the apple, it's a healthy snack, and obviously clean enough to consume. THE MOMENT I finish eating my apple, the remaining core becomes garbage, and I'm sorta icked out by holding it until I can throw it away.ReplyDelete
Of course, there's nothing objectively dirtier about the apple core. Heck, I could probably nibble off a few more edible scraps if I tried. But my culture conditioned me to think of apple cores as inedible garbage... so I do.
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More than accountability, we must be aware of basic rights.
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Will Wall Street and the First Amendment Collide? - 9:05 am
The lawsuit against analyst Dick Bovet brought a disturbing conundrum to bear.
It's endemic of the shifting social mood. Nobody asked questions when the screens were green. Once the wheels wobble on the wagon, everyone is quick to point a finger.
We spoke about the Blame Game in the autumn when Warren Specter, Stan O'Neal and Chuck Prince were jettisoned from their corner offices. As the buck stopped with them-quite literally-they had to shoulder the blame and go down with their ship.
What we're now seeing extends beyond accountability-it talks to civil liberties.
It speaks to the First Amendment.
If a market participant spreads false information and profits from it, he or she deserves to get the book thrown at him.
Painting the entire short side of the market as villains-and holding them accountable for horrible performance-not only damages the market machination, it challenges a fundamental premise that our country was founded on.
Gate Sniffage! - 9:47 am
- JP Morgan (JPM) opened flat in the face of a Crimson Tide. Note that in the back of your keppe--while seeing the gap to $36--and we'll circle back to it.
- Other green beans in the red sea? Hmm... Wal-Mart (WMT), consumer non-durables, Oracle (ORCL), Qualcomm (QCOM), Google (GOOG) and Continental (CAL).
- Note market breadth, which finds four red for each issue ahead on the NYSE.
- I would imagine right about now, Hoofy prolly has this song in his head.
- OK, here's the thing--the financials have been waxed and waxered before their sharp, mean reverting bounce last week. We've spoken about the next phases of the credit crisis and that's seemingly playing out in tech. THE question, I suppose, is whether the piggies still get poked on bad news despite handing over the baton.
- Or, perhaps, THE question is something that we've been asking before the wheels wobbled on the wagon. How long will the confidence in the system and perceived credibility of our policy makers last?
- Does anyone else wonder what's on Bonnie's dance card today?
- What's a bigger tell today: American Express (AXP) or Wachovia (WB)?
- While you've been sleeping, Minyanland has taught 163, 618 kids how to earn, spend, save and give. Noice.
- Hit 'em hard, Minyans--and think positive. Profitability begins within.
Red and White, Blue Suede Shoes... - 10:20 am
You can call this song, the US-O blues.
I dabbled on the dark side yesterday in the USO with the thought that big brother was gonna get crude lower by all means necessary into the election.
Well, that and the bubble stuff we've been talking about.
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Alas, I was stopped out when Texas Tea popped through the all-important $130 level.
Discipline over conviction, right?
Either way and anyway, see it slip and drip 3% lower today and respect that fact that conventional wisdom still subscribes to the fallacy that lower crude is equity positive.
It will be, until it's not... like most paradigms.
Trapper John, MD? - 11:00 am
Alrightee then, we've gotten the first--and dare I say intuitive--Snapper from the opening abyss as the financials try to put on a brave face. The most impressive action, I suppose, is from our friends from Charlotte. Wachovia (WB) messed the bed in a big, bad way and the stock rallied back to the flat line.
That--along with American Express (AXP)--remain the tells du jour in the financial complex.
My eyes are twitchin' from looking at so many different things but in the interest of Minyanship, I'll try to cover 'em in kind. Here goes:
Breadth has balanced a bit--it's actually flat for the four-letter freaks and 3:2 negative on the big board (a marked improvement).
Crude continues to struggle as I wonder to myself if I set too tight of a stop. No looking back, I know, just thinking out loud.
There is usually one "easy" trade per day. Unfortunately, we've liken seen it.
Schering-Plough (SGP) $18 is a nice and tight defined risk for those looking to nibble on the name. I'm currently eyeing some calls although I've yet to determine if that trigger should be pulled.
What's the oldest adage on Wall Street?
Good traders know how to make money, great traders know how to take a loss?
Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered?
You're only as good as your last trade?
If they can't get 'em down, they're going higher?
It's the last blurb that warrants attention as we wade into the afternoon muck.
Lunch Meat (still sans the bread) - 11:29 am
Circling back to JP Morgan (JPM), we again find that we can learn a lot just by watching. I have, so you know, taken the quick, small schnitzel as, well, trades are made to be taken.
- Len Spivak, so you know, is Minyanville's (and my) Grand Puhbah. I've known him my entire life and implicitly trust his judgment. We welcome his views with open arms.
- Take this with a grain of salt and a shake of pepper. When big companies like Continental (CAL)... or Fannie Mae (FNM)... or Wachovia (WB) have 20% swings in a day, that's not necessarily bullish regardless of direction.
- Will crude trade par ($100) before the election?
- Come on, I dare you not to smile!
- Trade, don't chase. There are two types of traders in today's market: Those that are proactive (rather than reactive) and those that are on their way out.
For more of Toddo's real-time vibes, check out a continuation of this article: Random Thoughts: Will Bulls Scream Yahoo?
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Nobel Peace Prize goes to OPCW, citing Syrian conflict
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee saying, "Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons." [more inside]
Chief of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons sacked, after intense US pressure. The whole thing was predicted a few days ago by Georges Monbiot. It seems that the succesful head of the OPCW wanted to restart UN chemical weapons inspections in Iraq. Washington has other plans in mind.
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Chicken Pecan Fettuccine
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Prep 5 mins
Cook 20 mins
A delicious chicken in cream sauce over fettuccine with pecans sprinkled on top. I got this recipe at my grocery store and it is quick (25 minutes start to finish) and luscious. I don't buy chicken cut into tenders because it is more expensive. I just use 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (5 oz size). If you don't like mushrooms feel free to leave them out. Half of my family doesn't like them so I saute them separately for those who like them. This is perfect with broccoli Italiano.
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- 2 -3 green onions, chopped finely
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons seasoning salt
- 1 1⁄4 lbs chicken tenders, cut into bite size pieces
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon roasted garlic (from jar)
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 8 ounces fettuccine pasta
- 1⁄4 cup white wine
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1⁄4 cup pecan pieces
- 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- Equipment: 1 large ziploc bag.
- Bring water to boil for pasta.
- Combine flour and seasoned salt in zip-top bag shake to mix. Add chicken and shake to coat.
- Preheat large saute pan on medium-high heat for 2-3 minutes. Add butter and swirl to coat. Add garlic and chicken; cook for 5 minutes stirring occasionally to brown.
- Stir mushrooms into chicken; cook 4 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until tender.
- Add pasta to boiling water and cook to desired doneness.
- Add wine to pan and use it to deglaze, scraping up any bits stuck to pan. Then add cream and onions. Cook 5-7 minutes, or until sauce thickens.
- Drain pasta and stir into chicken. Sprinkle with pecans and cheese; serve.
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This is very quick to put together. I did add quite a bit more wine after adding the cream since it got very thick. It was quite plain so I added a bit of cajun seasoning. Love the crunch of the pecans. IMO this would not serve 6 sauce wise. I used maybe 3 ounces of linquine and there was just enough sauce with the added wine. Made for PAC Fall 2009


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Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
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Today, I had a lunch meeting with important people from my company. While drinking from my wine glass someone cracked a joke, causing me to snort a fountain of wine all over my lap, splashing the people next to me. The horrified look on my boss's face sitting opposite me said everything. FML
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Today, I pulled a muscle in my arm from eagerly scratching off a lottery ticket. No, I didn't win anything. FML
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Today, for my birthday, the only "gift" my parents gave me was the gift of choice: I got to choose which one of them I'll be living with after their upcoming divorce. This was the first time I'd heard anything about a divorce. FML
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Who is this, and what has he done with Tony Romo?
Although the Dallas Cowboys ultimately lost against the San Diego Chargers, Romo had his third straight game without an interception. He had a similar stretch last season, but it was bookended with four-INT and two-INT performances.
The 33-year-old finished the game 27-of-37 for 244 yards and two touchdowns. It was the kind of steady Romo we have seen all season.
His completion percentage of 72.2 is 7.2 percentage points above his career average. The highest of his career is 69.5 percent in 2010, and that's when he only played six games. The fact is that—all of a sudden—Romo has become a reliable quarterback.
What's really working for Romo this year is Dez Bryant. He's never had a weapon like this in the passing game. Jason Witten and Miles Austin are steady receivers, but they don't offer the big-play ability Bryant does.
He and Romo have formed a great combination close to the end zone, via ESPN Stats & Info.
Tony Romo is now 3-for-3 targeting Dez Bryant in the end zone this season— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) September 29, 2013
Selling high is certainly something that comes to mind from a fantasy perspective. This is a guy who's thrown fewer than 10 interceptions in only two seasons as a starter, and one of them was in 2010. Romo isn't going to become a vastly different quarterback now.
Expect some regression to the mean in the coming weeks.
If you've got the Cowboys QB on your team, you might want to see what's out there on the trade market. Don't just settle for a less-than-fair deal, but you should definitely pull the trigger if another owner is willing to offer a ridiculously good deal.


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Sometimes I feel like Cleveland Browns fans are stuck in an eternal replay of the movie The Godfather Part III. Every time they think they are out, the Browns pull them back in.
It was just a few short weeks ago that fans were resigned to another losing season and the prospect of selecting a true franchise quarterback in next year's draft. Then their beloved football team rattled off three straight wins.
Could this have been the turnaround they had been waiting for?
It doesn't seem that way. With inconsistent quarterback play, a young roster and a front office with one eye to the future, it seems that this year may once again follow the path of so many others.
So what went wrong in the Browns' 31-17 loss to the Detroit Lions? Let's take a look in this week's roster grades to find out.


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A story in the current issue of Newsweek, "Donor-Conceived and Out of the Closet," is one of the first in an American news outlet to focus on children of anonymous sperm or egg donors who are searching for information about their biological parent.
Donor-conceived children - in some cases with the help of the families in which they've been raised - have been working for years to make the case that they, like adopted people in many jurisdictions, have a right to this information. As the Newsweek article points out, there is a certain amount of "hypocrisy inherent in an infertile couple's desire to have a biological child and yet deny that child's desire to know his or her biological roots."
In Canada and the UK, gamete donor anonymity and the rights of donor-conceived offspring have been widely discussed by policy makers, women's and children's advocates, documentary makers, and others. Those countries and a number of others have legislated for greater transparency, including the requirement that gamete donors cannot retain anonymity after any resulting children turn 18 years old.
In the US, however, the issue is known mostly through The Kids Are All Right and several Oprah segments showing happy reunions (but, as one of the donor-conceived people profiled in Newsweek points out, not the anguish that precedes them). The Donor Sibling Registry, established by Wendy Kramer after her own son began voicing his desire to know about his sperm donor dad, has several tens of thousands of members. Many aspects of the US fertility industry have become controversial in recent years, but the concerns and rights of donor offspring remain decidedly low-profile.
Newsweek's coverage may help to change that. So may one of the donor-conceived people the article mentions. Olivia Pratten, a Toronto-based journalist, brought a class action lawsuit arguing that it's discriminatory to prevent children conceived with third-party gametes from obtaining the identities and medical histories of their biological parents. A decision from the Supreme Court of British Columbia is expected shortly.
Other intiatives include the Anonymous Us Project, founded by Alana S. to provide a "safety zone" in which donors, parents, adoptees and donor-conceived children can share their feelings and stories. Lindsay Greenwalt's Confessions of a Cryokid blog is another growing resource. The potent combination of DNA technology and social media is challenging old attitudes. Pratten is surely correct when she says, "I'm just the tip of the iceberg."
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Whither the Sizzler?
One of the coolest toys I remember from my younger days was the Hot Wheels Sizzlers. They were the size of regular Hot Wheels cars, but were made of plastic and had electric motors (like you'd find in slot cars) and batteries that would recharge in a minute or so using The Juice Machine — a gas pump-styled charging station — or the smaller charger that would clip to your belt.
The cars and the triple-wide black tracks were all the rage when they came out in 1969, but Mattel phased them out by 1976(?) Then a few years ago (2006?) just before Christmas I saw them again in the Target toy department! Tracks, cars, chargers, the whole works! The really cool thing was that Mattel had used the original graphics for the packaging and the original tooling to make the cars & track — it was like going back in time!
But being the procrastinator that I am, I waited too long to buy that Christmas season, and the opportunity to bless the kids with one of my boyhood toys was gone. I never gave it much thought after that, but then last weekend I went into one of the local Ace Hardware stores — they usually have a decent selection of oddball toys you don't find at department stores — and there it was! One lone box with the Sizzlers Extended Eight racetrack inside!
$20.00 later, it was mine (to give to one of the boys, of course!) and I was on my way. But looking closer at the box I noticed that there's only one car and the belt-clip charger inside; what good is a racetrack if there's nobody to race against? So in the days following I started looking around for more cars. They are nowhere to be found locally. I even asked at Target, and the kid there said others had asked about them, but as far as he knew they hadn't had them since that one year a while back.
Shopping online it's possible to find them, but they don't come cheap at all; Amazon has them but they start at $20 for just the car, and go up from there, some listing for $70! I'm unsure whether that's for a 30-year-old original or one of the more recently built cars… A Google search will yield other websites that specialize in selling original Sizzlers to collectors, and some of them go for a lot of money.
So for this year, it's just the track and one car, and I'll keep an eye peeled for more Sizzlers to pop up in coming years.
One thing I did to make-do without multiple Sizzlers cars is buy a few Darda race cars; they are German-built wind-up cars that are really pretty incredible. You press down on the car and push it back & forth a few times to wind it, and when you let it go, it really flies! The cars can be purchased individually or with track packages, and the tracks are pretty incredible too, as they typically have a number of loops on them, sometimes stacked loops. And even more incredible is that these little cars can make the loops! We found out about them through a friend who babysat for us a number of years ago; she had several sets and a number of cars that her son had used, but didn't play with much anymore. We borrowed them for a while, and I think I had more fun with them than the kids!
There's only one store in Sioux Falls that sells them — Kidtopia — and thankfully they had plenty on hand. I bought one for each of the boys, knowing that the older boys will want to play too. I don't know if the Darda cars will have the endurance of the Sizzlers, but they'll have plenty of speed. Should be a fun toy mashup for Christmas!


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Panda Jenn
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Panda Jenn (real name Jennifer Morton) is a furry artist who lives in the United States. Her personal character is a panda who started out as nothing more then an online persona in 2001.
Jenn's artistic style employs cute, Disney-like character designs. Her characters are reminiscent of such 1990s television programs as Tail Spin and Animaniacs
Jenn provides artwork for The World of Vicki Fox web comic, and in 2004 her own web comic, Simply Panda Jenn, made its online debut. After only four years the comic was shelved, though, as of June, 2011, it has been completely revised and reposted. You can now visit the new and improved "Simply Panda Jenn" at pandajenn.com
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Oat groats would make my list for essential raw food ingredients. To have on hand presoaked and dehydrated nuts, seeds, and groats helps cut back on the time it takes to prepare raw food recipes. Twice this week I made blueberry cobbler in about 5 minutes, because I had presoaked and dehydrated oat groats ready for use. I'll share the cobbler recipe soon : ) Oat groats are a great source of fiber, protein, B vitamins, folic acid, calcium, and iron. (Raw Food Real World 268)
For this recipe I wanted to demonstrate how versatile raw food can be. I took the porridge recipe, added a couple extra ingredients, and dehydrated it. These did not last long around my family! Instead of using soaked oat groats, you can go ahead and make an oat flour with dehydrated oat groats. Just make the oat flour and add water to the recipe. A coffee grinder or high speed blender work great to make flour.
Raspberry Breakfast Bites
1 c coursely chopped Brazil nuts
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Combine ingredients in a food processor. Dollop onto parchment paper. Top with raspberries. Dehydrate overnight on 105〫F.
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Officials Evacuate Residents as Typhoon Approaches
Thousands of residents in the country's northeast are evacuated
Fierce Storms Claim Lives in Midwest
At least 13 people are dead after fierce storms that tore through the Midwest overnight.
Taliban Claims Responsibility to Bombing
The Taliban says the blast was to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden
Obama and Cameron Vow Military Ops will Continue
Military operations in Libya will continue until Moammar Gadhafi stops his attacks
Mississippi Pastor Urges Congregation to Trust God
A Methodist pastor in Redwood, Miss., has urged her congregation to trust God as floodwaters...
Police Raid Meth Lab at Hotel in Walla Walla
Police in raided a Walla Walla motel to get to a methamphetamine lab
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A unusually wet spring and higher than average snowpack are swelling rivers
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WA Senate Wants To Control Ed. Budgets & Principal/Teacher Relationships
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Senate wants a statewide vote on proposed policies that would alter how lawmakers manage the budget and how principals manage their teachers. Republican Sen. Steve Litzow said Sunday that leaders had decided to put the ideas to a referendum as a concession. The Senate wants three major reform bills passes as part of a final budget compromise.


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People have been lumbered with legal bills of tens of thousands of pounds despite hiring lawyers on "no win, no fee" deals, a watchdog warns today.
Nearly £1 million in compensation was ordered to be paid to clients by the Legal Ombudsman because of problems caused by the deals, amid calls for them to be scrapped.
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Sociology of Education
|Linda Renzulli
|University of Georgia, USA
The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. With nearly 15,000 members, ASA encompasses sociologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities, researchers, practitioners, and students. About 20 percent of the members work in government, business, or non-profit organizations. ASA hosts an annual meeting with more than 6,000 participants and publishes 10 professional journals and magazines.
As the national organization for sociologists, ASA, through its Executive Office, is well positioned to provide a unique set of services to its members and to promote the vitality, visibility, and diversity of the discipline. Working at the national and international levels, ASA aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.
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|Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Sociology of Education provides a forum for studies in the sociology of education and human social development. We publish research that examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development. Such research may span various levels of analysis, ranging from the individual to the structure of relations among social and educational institutions. In an increasingly complex society, important educational issues arise throughout the life cycle. The journal presents a balance of papers examining all stages and all types of education at the individual, institutional, and organizational levels. We invite contributions from all methodologies.
Manuscripts submitted to Sociology of Education (SOE) are processed electronically using SAGE Track. Authors can create an account and log in to submit a manuscript at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/soe.
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Volume 54, Issue 26, 26 June 1989
New high‐efficiency quasi‐continuous operation of a KrF(B→X) excimer lamp excited by microwave discharge54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101039View Description Hide Description
A quasi‐continuous KrF(B→X) fluorescence of >8 ms pulse duration with 100 Hz operation frequency was observed in a microwavedischarge‐pumped KrF lamp. The average KrF fluorescence power was 53 W, obtained with an intrinsic efficiency of 8.3% with a 678 W average microwave power deposition. We also obtained a peak KrF fluorescence power of 120 W with a power efficiency of 12.1%.
Optoelectronic measurement of picosecond turn‐on delay in InGaAsP laser diodes54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101040View Description Hide Description
A tandem photoconductive switch, producing nearly rectangular electrical pulses with variable duration from 25 ps to 1 ns, was used for accurate turn‐on delay measurements of a laser diode. Maximum electrical pulse amplitude was 75 V and both rise and fall times were 15 ps. The shortest delay recorded was 60 ps. The carrier lifetime at the lasing threshold was found to be 3.89 ns.
Self‐pumped phase conjugation in potassium niobate (KNbO3)54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101545View Description Hide Description
Self‐pumped phase conjugation is observed using a KNbO3 crystal. The reflectivity of an external ring phase conjugate mirror is measured as a function of temperature for 515 nm radiation. The maximum reflectivity is 26% at 124 °C. On cooling, the reflectivity decreases and vanishes completely below 62 °C. The phase conjugate nature of the retroreflected beam is illustrated. The temperature‐dependent response time is shown to be proportional to (T−56 °C)− 1.
Electro‐optic depolarization switch on y‐cut LiNbO3 proton‐exchanged channel waveguides54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101546View Description Hide Description
We report the first electro‐optic depolarization (TE guided mode to TM substrate modes) switch on y‐cut LiNbO3 proton‐exchanged channel waveguides operating at 632.8 nm. Tunability of the waveguide ordinary and extraordinary indices through thermal annealing provides an alternative way to reduce the drive voltage. An extinction ratio of 13.5 dB is achieved with 10 V applied voltage on a switch with 4 μm channel width and 3 mm electrode length. The measured capacitance of the electrode is 4.2 pF, which gives a theoretical modulation bandwidth of 1.5 GHz in a 50 Ω lumped electrode structure.
All‐optical spatial scanner54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101041View Description Hide Description
The design of a simple all‐optical spatialscanner, based on a propagating self‐focused channel incident at an oblique angle to a nonlinear dielectric interface, is illustrated using the beam propagation method. The channel asymptotics are shown to be insensitive to the shape of the incident beam profile with the latter satisfying a simple area criterion.
Coherent operation of injection‐locked monolithic surface‐emitting diode laser arrays54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101042View Description Hide Description
A row of six surface‐emitting GaAlAs laser diode arrays was locked in a coupled resonator configuration by means of interconnecting waveguides. An external master oscillator was injected into the first array in order to achieve single longitudinal mode operation and wavelength tunability. Spectral data show all six devices were locked in a single longitudinal mode, with tunable operation of over 60 Å. Far‐field fringe visibilities greater than 60% were achieved at 100 mW output powers.
Two‐dimensional array of high‐power strained quantum well lasers with λ=0.95 μm54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101020View Description Hide Description
An incoherent, two‐dimensional array of high‐power lasers operating at λ=0.95 μm is demonstrated. The laser structure consists of a single 70 Å strained In0.2Ga0.8As quantum well active region with an AlGaAs graded‐index separate confinement heterostructure, prepared by atmospheric pressureorganometallic vapor phase epitaxy. The rack‐and‐stack array contains 536 oxide‐stripe emitter elements in a 1.7 mm×1 cm area, producing approximately 200 Watts at a 60 A drive current. Under pulsed operation the external differential quantum efficiency is 40% while the power conversion efficiency reaches 16%. At high power, greater than 90% of the individual elements are lasing, with an overall spectral width Δλ∼5 mm.
High‐current formed ferrite plasma cathode54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101021View Description Hide Description
A new type of plasma cathode for x‐ray and electron beamgeneration has been demonstrated using a formed ferriteplasma source where a durable filament on the ferrite rod creates a large area of plasma surface as the electron source.Measuredanode voltage‐current relationships show the space‐charge‐limited operation with a high current density of 17 A/cm2 at 70 kV anodevoltage during 2.5 μs. This source is promising for high repetition rate operation with a long life.
Compact E parallel B type end‐loss ion mass‐resolving energy analyzer54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101022View Description Hide Description
A compact E parallel B (E∥B) type end‐loss ion mass‐resolving energy analyzer was fabricated and tested. In the analyzer, a small‐angle deflection magnet and a preaccelerator/decelerator of end‐loss ions are adopted in order to reduce the size and to expand an energy range with a sufficient energy resolution. Orbit calculations in the E∥B fields including the influence of fringe fields were made by a Monte Carlo code in which the effects of finite radius and angle of the incident ions are taken into consideration. Preliminary measurements on the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror were successfully performed and it was confirmed that the analyzer has capabilities for the spectrometer of end‐loss ions.
Dual‐mode microwave/radio frequency plasma deposition of dielectric thin films54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101566View Description Hide Description
Thin films have been deposited in a ''dual frequency mode'' plasma, in which differing amounts of radio frequency (rf, 13.56 MHz) power were applied to the substrate, while sustaining the plasma with constant microwave (2.45 GHz) power. We report results pertaining to deposition of silicon oxide and organosilicon thin films. The rf‐induced negative dc self‐bias voltage is shown to affect plasma‐chemical reactions, causing very significant changes in the deposition rate, film composition, and dielectric properties of the resulting materials. This provides a powerful new technique for producing ''tailored'' films, while preserving the important advantages of high deposition rates and low substrate temperatures.
Coarsening phenomenon of Si clusters on artificial nucleation sites54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101023View Description Hide Description
A coarsening phenomenon of Si clusters is investigated in the process of nucleation and growth. In the early stage of chemical vapor deposition, multiple fine clusters of Si are nucleated on the small portion of an artifical nucleation site. A large cluster emerges among the fine clusters and grows rapidly as the deposition proceeds. As a result, the site is occupied by only one large cluster, while the fine clusters seem to disappear. Such a phenomenon is responsible for the mechanism in which a single nucleus is selected to grow on the site.
Forces in atomic force microscopy in air and water54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101024View Description Hide Description
A new atomic force microscope, which combines a microfabricated cantilever with an optical lever detection system, now makes it possible to measure the absolute force applied by a tip on a surface. This absolute force has been measured as a function of distance (=position of the surface) in air and water over a range of 600 nm. In the absolute force versus distance curves there are two transitions from touching the surface to a total release in air caused by van der Waals interaction and surface tension. One transition is due to lifting off the surface; the other is due to lifting out of an adsorbed layer on the surface. In water there is just one transition due to lifting off the surface. There is also a transition in air and water when the totally released tip is pulled down to touch the surface as the surface and tip are brought together. Based on the force versus distance curves, we propose a procedure to set the lowest possible imaging force. It can now be as low as 10− 9 N or less in water and 10− 7 N in air.
Phase front measurements of AlGaAs 830 nm phase‐locked lasers with a real‐refractive‐index waveguide54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101025View Description Hide Description
A phase‐locked laser array with refractive‐index waveguides and emitting a low phase‐aberration beam is described. A fundamental supermode operation of an evanescent‐coupled three‐element laser array which emits up to 200 mW in a single diffraction‐limited beam is achieved. The full beam angle at the half‐power point is 3.2° in the direction of parallel to the p‐n junction. This phase aberration is less than λ/14 from 50 to 150 mW. The extremely low phase aberration (0.022λ) is measured at 50 mW.
Electrical and optical time‐of‐flight experiments in GaAs/AlAs superlattices54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101026View Description Hide Description
The dynamics of electron transport by sequential resonant and nonresonant tunneling along the growth direction of tight‐binding GaAs/AlAs superlattices is studied by electrical time‐of‐flight experiments and by time‐resolved photoluminescence. In the limit where the decay time of the photoluminescence is determined by transport (and not by recombination), we observe structures in the field dependences of both the optical and electrical response times which are related to resonances between different electronic subbands of adjacent wells. Here the time‐resolved photoluminescence and the electrical time‐of‐flight experiment provide independent tools to investigate the dynamics of the conduction processes.
Impurity aggregation at individual dislocations in GaAs observed by means of a simultaneous electron beam induced current and cathodoluminescence technique54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101027View Description Hide Description
Using simultaneous measurements of electron beam induced current and cathodoluminescence intensity it is possible to distinguish between different contributions to signal magnitude and contrast at defects. In this letter we report on the application of this technique to investigate the role of impurity aggregation and defect decoration on the recombination behavior of dislocations in GaAs. In the experiment described here we diffused copper into the crystal. We observed an increase of signal contrasts and changes in the contrast profiles. With the help of computer simulations these experimental results can be interpreted as a homogeneous decoration of dislocations, the formation of precipitates at the dislocations, and a reduced minority‐carrier diffusion length in the bulk.
Investigation of CdTe surfaces by x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101028View Description Hide Description
The influence of different CdTe substrate preheats prior to II‐VI molecular beam epitaxial growth on surface stoichiometry and oxygen contamination has been studied using x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. For 15 min preheats with temperatures ranging from 100 to 450 °C, the cadmium to tellurium ratio and the oxide overlayer thickness of (100) CdTe surfaces was determined. A preheat temperature of 200 °C is found to produce optimum stoichiometry. For lower temperatures the CdTesurface is still tellurium rich, as left after etching with bromine‐methanol. For higher temperatures, cadmiumevaporates faster than tellurium, leaving again a tellurium‐rich surface. The oxygen contamination remains nearly unchanged for temperatures below 250 °C. Oxygen starts to blow off for preheat temperatures above 250 °C, with a steep decrease between 250 and 350 °C. For preheat temperatures higher than 350 °C, the oxygen contamination drops below the detection limit.
Supersaturated substitutional Ga+ ion implanted in silicon studied by x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101029View Description Hide Description
Highly degenerate Ga‐doped Si (100) has been prepared using 4 keV liquid‐metal ion gun implantation and rapid thermal annealing, and has been studied using x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Si 2p core electron measurements provide the most direct experimental evidence of annealing‐promoted tetrahedral SiGa bonds. The Ga, as high as 10 at. % after annealing at 500 °C, was found to occupy substitutional sites close to the surface. The surface concentration decreased with increasing annealing temperature. We find that the full width at half maximum of the Si 2p core levels increases with increasing substitutional Ga concentration. This can be explained by bond‐length and bond‐angle deviations of nearby SiSi bonds caused by SiGa bond formation and the resultant net static charge variations in the silicon lattice. We discuss the binding energy shift of both the Si 2p core level and the valence‐band maximum produced by SiGa bonding.
Current oscillations at high electrical fields in the two‐dimensional electron gas in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101030View Description Hide Description
In the two‐dimensional electron gas(2DEG) of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures, we observe a new type of oscillation in the current at electric fields above 0.8 kV/cm. These oscillations have two characteristic frequencies, around 200 MHz and 2.5 GHz. We show that these oscillations arise from properties of the 2DEG and depend on both electric field and magnetic fields. They disappear abruptly when magnetic fields above 0.5 T are applied.
Examination of rapid thermal annealed GaAs using cathodoluminescence54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101031View Description Hide Description
Samples of semi‐insulating GaAs were annealed for 5–18 s at 650–950 °C using rapid thermal annealing.Cathodoluminescence was used to compare as‐received and annealed samples to determine the effect of the heat treatment.Cathodoluminescence images of the surface of samples show a change in background intensity after heating. Images of cleaved cross sections indicate that the change is not uniform throughout the thickness of the sample.
High‐efficiency indium tin oxide/indium phosphide solar cells54(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.101363View Description Hide Description
Improvements in the performance of indiumtin oxide/indium phosphide (ITO/InP) solar cells have been achieved by using dc magnetron sputter depositedn‐ITO onto an epitaxialp/p + structure grown on good quality commercial p +bulk substrates. The composition of the sputtering gas has been investigated and the highest efficiency cells resulted when the surface of the epilayer was exposed to an Ar/H2plasma before depositing the bulk of the ITO in a more typical Ar/O2plasma. With H2 processing, record efficiencies of 18.9% global, 1000 W m− 2, 25 °C (17.0% air mass zero) were achieved. Without H2 processing, the devices exhibited lower efficiencies and were unstable. Type conversion of the InP was shown to occur and was established as being associated with the ITO (possibly due to Sn donors) rather than sputter damage. These improvements in performance have resulted from the optimization of the doping, thickness, transport, and surface properties of the p‐type base, as well as from better control over the ITO deposition procedure.


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I would solve the following recurrence equation:
$ a_{n+1} = a_n + 1/(2(c+n-1))*a_{n-1} $
where c>0 is a fixed constant.
It is linear (and that's good), but there's a non constant coefficient.. There's a way to find an explicit solution?
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Tolerance is an essential ingredient in peaceful and productive coexistence of humans. It is the basis for social cohesion and, in many cases, for progress of a society. Therefore I would like you
Tolerance is a theme shown throuhgout the novel. One epic example (one that has the reader asking the pointed question: who is the true monster?) is when the Monster is hiding and meets the blind man. The conversation between them, the kindness and tolerance shown to the creature quite literally shows how mankind needs to be blind to the outward features and appearance of a person. Because the blind man cannot see the Monster, he cannot make a judgement about him and therefore is able to accept him on equal terms. It allows the Monster to show compassion and understanding in a way that others have not allowed him the decency to experience or show.


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… there are no words.Ziggy is now officially a propaganda machine.
Put 'HMO' in place of 'Government' and it's still true.
We'll schedule your relapse for July.
Dont tell me, Obama care rules ?
Yup, been that way for years.
But since it's a corporation it's OK.
Satirizing reality is "propaganda"?
good one!
Those would be the Koch gov't guidelines.
This is not reality. This is up their with Palin's 'death panels'. It highlights an uninformed paranoia.
btw: who goes to the Dr. for the common cold?
Talk about paranoia. Apparently we can't have good-natured ribbing without people obsessing in the comments over it. Reminds me of an old saying, "A hit dog will holler".
Par for the course for this government.
I work for a doctor and you would be and if you think running to the doctor for a common cold is silly, your socks will really be knocked off at some of the ridiculous things people come to see the doctors for!
Ah! The real reason Health Care is broken – people are occasionally too stupid to use it.
It has no basis in reality. It is a very sensitive topic. The 'hate' part comes from the ill informed-generally on the 'right'. To support this sentiment is to have been fully manipulated by Corporate America.
The ACA is for the good of the people. It is the 'compromise' to single payer. People are getting care for the first time in decades. I'm no 'troll'. I am, however, very grateful for the new laws.
How about not having a cold or having one only once a year.
Lets get one thing straight, the ill-informed are generally on the left. To believe that the federal government can run anything efficiently or to even believe that it is the government's job to take care of you from cradle to grave is to be completely brain-washed by George Soros & moveon.org. Try taking some personal responsibility and thinking for yourself, it will do wonders for your self-esteem!
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Gas at a glance
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Pipeline explosion kills five in Allentown
A 16-year-old girl and four-month-old boy were among five people who died as a result of a natural gas pipeline explosion in Allentown, PA. The February 16 blast leveled a pair of row houses and set fire to a block of homes. Governor Tom Corbett visited the site and said the state needs to address its aging gas, water and sewer lines. The following day, a gas pipeline explosion occurred in Columbiana County, OH. Both blasts come in the wake of the catastrophic natural gas pipeline explosion and fire that occurred in San Bruno, CA on September 9, killing eight people and destroying 38 homes.
Governor Corbett tabs 36-year-old for new energy post
PA Governor Tom Corbett has appointed Patrick Henderson to the newly created post of energy executive. As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The energy executive will be 'the person who has the ear of the governor on energy policy,' said Corbett's spokesman, Kevin Harley, 'so that there's one voice on energy issues.'" He will handle issues involving all types of energy, but said that those surrounding Marcellus Shale natural gas "will dominate the conversation." Henderson spent 14 years as an aide to state Sen. Mary Jo White, R-Venango, serving as director of the environmental resources and energy committee she has chaired for 11 years. Henderson initially served an internship with then-candidate Mary Jo White, who also let him live in her home during her first campaign, then made him a legislative aide when she was elected. "He's intensely loyal and very thorough," said White. Regarding Henderson's appointment, Kathryn Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, said: "He's someone who is reliable and trusted by many folks." Jan Jarrett, president of the advocacy group PennFuture, said, "His views tended to be very industry friendly."
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