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From: William Hurst <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Need Help In Understanding and Using the Term "SNP"
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:02:05 -0400
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Hi Ann and all,
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>.... A SNP is a spot in the genome which is known to vary in the population.
It seems to me that the SNP concept is more useful in Y-DNA than mtDNA. Finding a new Y SNP may be a cause for celebration. FTDNA starts selling it; trees have to radically revised. But in mtDNA hardly a week goes by that I don't see some coding-region mutation which I've never seen, at least in K. Sometimes I look them up on the mtDB database and they are not listed. (Unfortunately, that database is not being updated and is getting less and less useful.) Yesterday, one of my Project members got his FGS results back. He had one extra coding-region mutation that I hadn't seen. It's not listed on mtDB. My Project member had one FGS match. I invited that person to join the Project; he did. Now there are at least two people in the world with that mutation. Is that a SNP? Technically probably not. I don't care. I don't treat it differently than the next mutation which may be shared with seven Japanese sequences on GenBank.
When I started in this business or hobby or whatever, Y SNPs were considered to be Unique Event Polymorphisms (UEPs). Now some of those mutations are starting to be found in other places. That's very common in mtDNA, of course. I've tried to find mtDNA mutations which are UEPs or near-UEPs. Some of those are in the HVR; 497T, for example, which defines K1a which is about 60% of K. That HVR2 mutation is much more stable than 11914A, the coding-region mutation which defines K1a1, but which shows up elsewhere on the K tree and in many other haplogroups.
OK, now you can go back to STRs and Family Finder. Mutations are at least as interesting as cousins. They don't borrow money and you don't have to send them Birthday cards.
Bill Hurst
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Harvard University Joins Groupon Investor NEA to Finance Student Startups
Harvard University joined with New Enterprise Associates, the first outside investor in Groupon Inc. (GRPN), to start a seed-stage venture fund for financing student startups and investing on the U.S. East Coast.
The Experiment Fund, starting today in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will invest as much as $250,000 each in ventures focused on information, health care and energy technologies, according to an e-mailed statement today. The fund's size wasn't disclosed, nor were details of the participation by Harvard or New Enterprise. The university is the world's richest.
Investments will be targeted at students who studied in Cambridge, where Harvard is also based, or at technologies that were developed there. Harvard will designate faculty members from its School of Engineering & Applied Sciences to advise student entrepreneurs about the fund and related resources. The Experiment Fund will function independently of the university, according to the statement.
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Tension mounts over Zambia's food shortages
Zambia's government has come under fire over the food crisis, the worst in 10 years, with some 2.5 million people in urgent need of food aid.
Opposition politicians and women's groups have criticised its decision to reject offers of genetically modified grain, and say that people are now starving to death.
The government has reacted angrily, saying their critics are merely making political capital out of the situation.
At the weekend, an opposition politician reported that three people in his Moomba constituency, in the drought-stricken south of the country, had died because they did not have enough to eat.
On Thursday the women's movement joined the fray with a strongly-worded statement condemning the government's reaction to Zambia's food crisis.
An umbrella organisation of women's groups, the NGOCC, appealed to the government to stop its political squabbles and get on with the job of feeding people before more lives are lost.
"The government should quickly provide the needed relief food rather than refuting reports of starving people and threatening to arrest members of parliament who demand food for their areas," the group said in a statement.
On Tuesday, President Levy Mwanawasa accused Vitalis Moya of the United Party for National Development of "politicking" and trying to undermine his government.
The president said his claims that three people had died from hunger were untrue and threatened to have the MP arrested and prosecuted for breaching the peace and trying to drive Zambia into chaos.
'Enough food'
The government says it is doing its best to ensure 2.5 million Zambians receive the food aid they need and that the idea that Zambians are starving is far-fetched.
The government says that there is more than enough food to go round hungry people in Monze district, where the UPND politician claims three people died.
This has not, however, stopped villagers from looting World Food Programme warehouses full of genetically modified maize, because they are hungry, and this despite a government ban.
The government has been criticised at home and abroad for rejecting what it calls "poisonous" GM maize.
Other countries in the region have accepted the GM maize.
The WFP says another 12,000 tonnes of non-GM food began arriving in the country this week.
But this will last for only about two weeks and then there will be a gap in its feeding chain before the next food arrives in November.
It s hoped that before this food runs out a final decision will be made on whether Zambia will continue to reject GM maize.
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Budget fears for police
A candidate in the Tasmanian upper house election this week fears 150 police jobs could be cut.
Rumney candidate, Tony Mulder is a former policeman and says officers have told him Treasury has directed a 15 per cent police budget cut.
Mr Mulder says the cut will mean job losses because salaries make up 80 per cent of the police budget.
"That will have an impact on service delivery, probably result in the centralisation or the even greater centralisation of police patrolling and the loss for most regional communities of their local policing.," he said.
"You reduce the amount of services that you can deliver, the main area that would happen is patrolling would be centralised, you'd have the same amount of responsive policing but all the preventative policing that keeps our crime down that will disappear."
Mr Mulder says it is unlikely the cuts will result in an increased push for fines revenue.
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"No part of Government is going to quarantined in that sense," she said.
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Indie Trailer Sunday: Touching 'Any Day Now' Starring Alan Cumming
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November 18, 2012
Source: Apple
They made him a promise. He made them a family. This trailer is one of those that by the end of watching it, it might be hard to hold back your tears because it's so touching and looks extremely good. Any Day Now stars Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming along with "Raising Hope" star Garret Dillahunt as a gay couple who come to shelter an abandoned teenage boy with Down syndrome named Marco, played by Isaac Leyva. It looks like Alan Cumming delivers one of his best performances to date, and I hope it gets him some awards, which is I'm sure what they're hoping for, too. Give this a look - it's worth watching.
Watch the official trailer for Travis Fine's Any Day Now, in high def originally from Apple:
In the 1970s in Los Angeles, a gay couple (Alan Cumming & Garret Dillahunt) fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that has come to live under their roof.
Any Day Now was both written and directed by filmmaker/actor Travis Fine, of The Space Between and The Others previously, who co-wrote the screenplay with George Arthur Bloom (of writing work like "The Transformers" & "The Magic School Bus"). This first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, and won the Audience Award at Tribeca, as well as awards at the Seattle Film Festival and others. Music Box Films will be releasing Any Day Now in limited theaters December 14th. Visit the film's official website.
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Ray Charles really is a legend. Earlier this month, President Bush signed a bill into law that will change the name of a building near downtown to hon
President Bush has, earlier this month, signed a bill into law that will change the name of a building near downtown to honor music legend Ray Charles. The musician, who died June 10, 2004, at age 73, will have his name used to rename a post office, which later on becoming Ray Charles Post Office Building.
The post office is located near the business office and recording studio where Charles produced "Georgia on My Mind" and some of his other hits. An official renaming ceremony is scheduled next month. Also, there are plans to convert the three-story building into a Ray Charles museum. This evidently proves that Ray Charles really is a legend.


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A SPECIAL school in Horwich is set to expand and take on 16 more pupils, after plans were given the go-ahead by Bolton councillors.
The planning committee approved the scheme put forward by Lever Park School in Stocks Park Drive to extend its main building at the front and rear, and build a new teaching building and a 21-space car park.
It means the secondary school will be able to have two new classrooms, more office space for staff and extend its school hall.
Head teacher Colin Roscoe said he was delighted the plans had been approved.
Lever Park is the only special school in Bolton that accepts pupils with educational needs relating to social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Mr Roscoe said: "It means that we can meet the needs of our growing clients and children who would benefit from coming here. There's a growing demand for places, which the council recognises."
The application was opposed by local residents, who organised a petition arguing that the new single-storey building would be too close to their homes and an increase in pupils would mean more cars parking outside their homes.
At the planning meeting, Cllr Andy Morgan said he did not think the application was controversial, and that the new building would be some distance from nearby houses.
He added: "We had some objections from residents but, looking at the site and the way it falls, it will protect residents. We should get behind the school and support its aspiration to provide excellent education for those with special needs. It is a commendable application."
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Daal had been planning to move to the United States to continue his career but instead opted to move to McDiarmid Park to join Owen Coyle's side.
The 23-year-old joined Aberdeen on amateur terms last year but failed to break into the first-team at Pittodrie.
The 6ft 4in striker replaces Trinidad and Tobago international Jason Scotland, who has joined Swansea.
Saints first-team coach Sandy Stewart told the club website: "His height will do no harm, but it doesn't signal that we are intending to change the way we play.
"He likes and is comfortable with the ball on the ground and our style of football will suit him in that respect, plus he has a bit of pace as well."
Daal is a product of the youth system at Ajax and had a short spell at Utrecht before a move to Scotland in August, when he joined Aberdeen.
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Long wait for action on Orang Asli slapping case
VOXPOP 'Punishments in cases like this should be swift to deter other teachers from breaking the law. We must also ensure that nobody tries to bribe the parents again.'
Wee: Orang Asli kids slapping case referred to JPN
Lamborghini: If this is the measure of how a matter of great public interest and concern is handled, it is no wonder Malaysia's education standards have plummeted.
Such a serious case that involves violation of basic rights, with police reports made and further accusations of money being offered as a bribe to hush up the case, warrants the swift and decisive action of the government.
The public has the right to know what specific action has the authorities taken and how true are the serious allegations.
Otherwise, all parents, especially non-Muslim parents, will no longer feel safe to send our children to government schools as the same thing can happen again and there will be no assurance that the rogue teachers will be dealt with.
And Wee Ka Siong, as the deputy education minister who has promised action and yet a month later you can only give vague answers, you show yourself to be completely incompetent and a weak moral being.
Resign if you have still any trace of dignity left in you. This is disgraceful.
Laila: Why so long time to investigate the physical punishment meted out by an irresponsible teacher to young innocent kids? How about the teachers' bribery attempts to make the parents withdraw the police reports?
Punishments in cases like this should be swift to deter other teachers from breaking the law. We must also ensure that nobody tries to bribe the parents again.
It's good that Malaysiakini keeps this case alive so it does not end as NFA (no further action).
Onyourtoes: Wee, I think it would be more palatable if you could just say that the procedures to investigate the case were strictly followed but no outcome of any sort would be forthcoming for this is the land governed by the nincompoops at the moment. Please save everybody's time.
Chkiew: A minister like this probably will lose his job in 24 hours if this happens in the United States.
Pua: Ministry dumbed down education system
Righteous: This is not the teachers' doing but is purely the Ministry of Education's fault. If the system was run by actual qualified teaching professionals instead of politicians, this problem would not arise.
DontPlayGod: During the 50s and early 60s, in the Cambridge School Certificate Examinations (set by Cambridge), out of 120 students, at most one or two scored eight As, and this was considered a very big achievement then.
Now almost every Tom, Dick, and Ahmad could score 12 As. I am sure you can all judge the standard of our examinations.
Onyourtoes: Everybody knows our education standards have dropped. Why this is so and the way to get out of it are not so straightforward.
To DAP leaders Tony Pua and Ong Kian Ming, it is the dumbing down of standards to boost the number of students obtaining passes and As. So the solution is to reverse the trend, i.e. pushing up the standards in our examinations and syllabus.
Seriously I think we have to do is examine a little closer what the causes are and how we get out of our present quagmire. If you ask me, I think the syllabus and examination standard are not the issue. It is the quality of the teachers and lecturers.
If most of the teachers are half-baked, the syllabus can't be followed and examination standard can't be maintained. Of course, there are many more reasons.
Whatever: Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was only a TNB meter reader before becoming a minister so what do you expect his standards to be?
Compare that to a Singapore minister whose minimum standard is a masters from an Ivy League institution, and that is why Singapore is a developed nation.
MP admits calling for Khalid's resignation over altar debacle
Nambekei: MIC, there is no need to act out a drama. Yes, the demolition of the private shrine may be wrong but worse things had happened when MIC was in power when actual temples were demolished - did you ask former Selangor MB Mohd Khir Toyo to resign then?
Tiger; In Pakatan Rakyat, their own MPs dare to call for the resignation of their own MB. I salute their checks and balances.
Look at the Umno-BN, has any YB ever called on their ministers to quit, for example over the RM250 million cow condo issue, or PM Najib Razak and his Scorpenes' commissions, or law minister Mohd Nazri Aziz and the RM40 million 'political donation' for Sabah Umno?
James1067 : MIC is comparing a private shrine to a huge condominium approved in Batu Caves. Where were they then when they had worked hand in hand with the developers to approve that condo that the Batu Caves temple now is upset about?
Suddenly you want to champion a small cause which the Selangor government has agreed to look into. As far as Kapar MP S Manikavasagam is concerned, it is better to be dramatic over a situation rather than to use wisdom.
Don't Just Talk: MIC Youth chief T Mohan, what happened to the promises you made to the Kg Buah Pala residents if you are such a hero to the Indians in general and Hindus in particular by offering to rebuild the shrine demolished by Sepang Municipal Council (MPS)?
Don't politicise the matter, and give Khalid time to resolve it. Malaysians are not as stupid as you think as the demolition work was carried out by rogue MPS employees to smear Pakatan's image when the 13th GE is near.
Just My 2cents: I don't agree with the demolition, but I think it is MIC who should all resign en masse after the Batu Caves incident.
T Mohan, please ask Najib to call for the election. The rakyat will decide if you are a hero or zero through the ballot box.
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Black Walnut Trees
Posted: June 18, 2013
Other issues with the black walnut include tent caterpillar, fall webworm, powdery mildew as well as other diseases that cause black spots and yellowing of leaves. These problems happen throughout the growing season. However, these issues alone do not typically cause death to the tree – weakening, likely; death, not.
Transportation of lumber and firewood seem to be our biggest problem when it comes to distribution of any invasive problems, which is how Thousand Canker Disease is classified. Purchasing or gathering local firewood is necessary when trying to control invasive diseases and pests in our landscapes and forests.
However beneficial the walnut tree is, in the home landscape they not only are messy due to the nuts falling and the large leaves that fall, but because of the toxin that the tree produces. This plant does not allow other sensitive plants to the toxin to compete with it.
"The Source of Toxicity"
"Plants adversely affected by being grown near black walnut trees exhibit symptoms such as foliar yellowing, wilting, and eventually death. The causal agent is a chemical called "juglone" (5 hydroxy-1,4napthoquinone), which occurs naturally in all parts of the black walnut. Juglone has experimentally been shown to be a respiration inhibitor which deprives sensitive plants of needed energy for metabolic activity.
Since small amounts of juglone are released by live roots, particularly juglone-sensitive plants may show toxicity symptoms anywhere within the area of root growth of a black walnut tree. However, greater quantities of juglone are generally present in the area immediately under the canopy of a black walnut tree, due to greater root density and the accumulation of juglone from decaying leaves and nut hulls. Because decaying roots still release juglone, toxicity can persist for some years after a tree is removed." http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/fruits/blkwalnt.htm
What does this mean for us? Typically, homeowners are not searching out black walnut trees to grow in their yard as a shade tree. Because of their messy habit alone, we avoid this plant. However, many homes may have been built where an existing hedgerow lives, or near a stream where walnuts are flourishing. If that's the case, we need to be cautious as to what plants we place near those trees.
As you can imagine, the more sensitive a plant is to juglone, the worse it does closer to the tree. Very sensitive vegetable plants include tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, asparagus, sweet potatoes and others. Some shrubs that are sensitive include blueberries, chokeberries, cotoneaster, hydrangeas, lilacs, just to name a few. Many herbaceous plants are also considered sensitive. To see a complete list, go to http://www.mortonarb.org/tree-plant-advice/article/887/plants-tolerant-of-black-walnut-toxicity.html
The best choice is to plant things that are tolerant of the toxin. Some of these plants are serviceberry, birch, and hornbeam. Vegetables include onions, beets, squash, melons, beans and corn. For a complete list of tolerant plants visit http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/xj0039.pdf
In addition to the black walnut, other trees have shown to be alleopathic as well. A tree that is just as much of a problem as the black walnut is Butternut. Other trees that are not quite as much of a problem, but still have juglone, are English walnut and hickories. Most of these trees are not readily available on the retail market, but could be growing naturally in the landscape. Research is always the best choice when planting trees, shrubs and herbaceous material around nut trees, so check out the lists from the websites above to make good decisions about what to grow.
In nature, we need black walnut trees. The benefits they provide are far reaching, from lumber to wildlife. But in our home landscapes, plant with care. As with all trees, we want to do our homework prior to planting any species. But when choosing the black walnut, be sure you understand the needs of the tree as well as your purpose for planting it and what the results may be when enhancing the landscape around it.


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Virgin seeks clearance on Australia-US flights
VIRGIN Blue has stepped up plans to launch flights to the US by November next year by formally asking the Australian Government to renegotiate its US air transport treaty.
The airline has proposed 10 weekly services from Australia to the US.
This will require a revamp to the existing Australia-US air transport service agreement that limits airlines launching flights on the route to four flights a week.
Virgin has argued that the route will only be economically feasible for an airline operating daily services.
The carrier has placed an order for six Boeing 777s and is expected to reveal its brand name later this month. It is barred from using the Virgin name internationally and registered the business name Australia Blue Airlines in April.
In its application to the Canberra-based International Air Services Commission, Virgin Blue said the "new services will be in the public interest and will expand the travel and shipping options available in the Australia- United States market".
Virgin Blue has declined to say where in the US it plans to fly, but it is suspected it could initially target the highly prized Los Angeles route, which accounts for about 20 per cent of Qantas' overall profits. Qantas controls about 80 per cent of the direct capacity on the route, with its only competitor, United Airlines, accounting for the rest.
The airline is yet to apply to the US Department of Transport for the capacity, which some sources have claimed could be a drawn-out process.
There is speculation the US will only allow Virgin to fly 10 weekly services on the route once Australia agrees to sign an open skies agreement.
A spokeswoman for Transport Minister Mark Vaile said the Federal Government had talked to the US Government in March about Virgin's plans.
She said Mr Vaile had written to US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters "reaffirming" his support for Virgin Blue's application.
"The minister indicated the Australian Government's strong support for Virgin Blue's proposed services and the additional competition they would bring to the route with a focus on maintaining good value for consumers travelling between the US and Australia," the spokeswoman said.
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Dolls have their day: Local cult favorites the Dresden Dolls are on the rise, with a record deal and a major gig
By Joan Anderman
Boston punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls are the current poster children for nonconformists hoping to make it in the big bad music business. Pianist Amanda Palmer and drummer Brian Viglione, who formed their band following a musical mind meld at a Halloween party in 2001, have a fondness for face paint and songs about surgical blunders and a live show that merges the theatrical whimsy of Kurt Weill and the raw fury of PJ Harvey. They quickly became local cult darlings, won the WBCN Rumble in 2003, and self-released an eponymous debut CD the next year. Roadrunner Records shortly snatched them up, as did Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who invited the Dresden Dolls to join his band on a tour that stops at the Orpheum for two sold-out shows later this week. We checked in with Palmer and Viglione during one of their increasingly rare stops back home.
Q: What's the worst thing about having your career take off?
AP: The challenge for me is to let go of control. Before, it was me and Brian against the world. We did everything ourselves, gluing together CDs and answering e-mails all night and playing every show we were offered. Since we got a manager and a label and a booking agent, things have been very easy. It takes a burden off. But it's hard to not be running the show.
Q: On the flip side, you're the opening act on the Nine Inch Nails tour. Are you pinching yourselves?
BV: Yes.
AP: Ouch.
Q: Word is someone sent Trent Reznor a Dresden Dolls CD and that was that.
BV: Apparently he liked what he heard and got some strong recommendations from trusted sources about our live show. When we finally met him -- we'd never exchanged an e-mail or spoken on the phone -- we said, ''Thanks very much, and how did this happen?" He said, ''I saw your video and thought, what the [expletive] is this?" He watched our whole set from the side of the stage.
Q: Does quality of life improve on the big rock tour?
BV: We have a tour bus. It's great. We've been in a bus for the past two European tours, too. Recently we did a week tour of the Eastern Seaboard and were reminded of van living. Getting back in a van was incredibly difficult.
AP: I felt like a cat being taken to the vet.
Q: All of a sudden you're playing for big crowds in large venues. How does that change the feel and dynamic of your performance, which in the past has hinged on an intense proximity to the audience?
AP: The biggest venues we've been playing have been 2,000-seaters, and for me that feels right on the threshold of getting too impersonal. Right now it's piano and drums onstage and we play. But I'm looking forward to facing the challenge as we work on the show creatively. With my background in theater, my mind is on fire with ideas about using sets and video feed and space that's not on the stage. What it comes down to is connecting with the person in the worst seat.
Q: Speaking of your theater background, tell me about the Brigade.
AP: We invite anyone who wants to do any kind of performance or interactive art piece at any of the shows in any city [these are shows the Dresden Dolls headline, not NIN shows]. It all happens through the Net, and it's anything from living statues in the lobbies to people playing accordion in the bathroom. This one girl in Liverpool took decks and decks of playing cards and wrote messages on them and handed them out. It's very simple but very powerful.
Q: What about new material? Amanda, you don't seem the type to crank out tunes in hotel rooms.AP: It's very hard for me to be away from home. Very hard. I'm a homebody. I enjoy being on the road for lots of reasons, but there's very little privacy. To think and create and write I can't be in a room with other people.
BV: We pair up in hotel rooms.
AP: I'll notice that months have gone by and I haven't written a single song. I'm only able to do that alone in my apartment with the door locked.
Q: You're going into the studio with Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade in September to make a new album. Do you have songs for it, and a sense of your musical direction?
AP: I've been writing here and there, so there's plenty of new material. I was 25 when I met Brian, and I had a huge catalog of songs. We're still cherry-picking from that material. We've got too much material. I have a feeling it will have the same sort of eclectic, wandering feeling as the last album. I intuitively ignore genre.
Q: What does your record label, Roadrunner, think about that?
AP: As much as anyone is, they're able to understand us. But we showed up with a finished package, with a record and a video. All they had to do was get us out there. I have a feeling that when the new record comes out, we may start to feel more of the qualms of being on a major.


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Court favors plain and ordinary meaning of policy terms when insured claims policy language is ambiguous
Two of Barger & Wolen's lawyers -- Martin Rosen and Ophir Johna -- received a victory from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal earlier this week in Glassman v. Crown Life Ins. Co., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 21312 (9th Cir. 2013).
In Glassman, the plaintiff insured sued his disability insurer, Crown Life, claiming that while Crown Life had been paying his disability claim for well over two decades, it had failed to increase his benefits each year due to a cost of living adjustment rider that he had purchased with the policy. With well over 20 years of purported policy benefit increases at issue, the amount at stake exceeded $1.5 million.
Crown Life brought a motion to dismiss the action based on both policy interpretation and statute of limitation grounds.
Although the United States District Court for the Central District of California (Judge Steven V. Wilson) permitted the insured to conduct discovery, the court eventually granted Crown Life's motion to dismiss.
It ruled (as Crown Life had argued) that the language of the rider served to increase a potential residual disability benefit, but did not increase the amount of total disability benefits payable in any month. The insured appealed the district court's ruling.
On appeal, the Ninth Circuit sided with Crown Life and affirmed the district court's ruling, finding that "The language of the Rider unambiguously applies only to partial or 'residual' disability benefits, rather than total disability benefits." Id. at *1-2.
The opinion, while unpublished, is a reminder to insureds and their lawyers that simply contending that policy language is ambiguous does not make it so, and that courts will construe policy language in its plain and ordinary meaning.
To listen to the Ninth Circuit arguments, click here.


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The date for the 2011 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival has been set! Marke your calendars and save the day: this year's event will be on Saturday, October 29th, at the historic Rivoli Theatre, right here in Monmouth, Illinois. We are close to finalizing the line-up for the event – it's going to be an amazing show – we'll see you there!
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2010 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival headliner, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, took home the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for Genuins Negro Jig in last Sunday's Grammy Awards event!
In other Chocolate Drops news, Nonesuch Records spokeswoman Melissa Cusick told The Associated Press that founding member Justin Robinson has left the band. Beat boxer Adam Matta and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins are coming aboard to join Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons, she said.
Also, on Wednesday's American Idol Hollywood Week group day, one of the songs the contestants could select was Hit Em Up Style, a Blu Cantrell song that the Chocolate Drops recorded on Genuine Negro Jig and performed to an enthusiastic crowd at last year's festival.
Blues guitar great Duke Robillard will be playing at the Fat Fish Pub in Galesburg this Sunday, November 21st. Duke is a masterful guitar soloist and evangelist for the blues, called by the New York Times "a soloist of stunning force and originality." Tickets are $20 before the show and $25 at the door. Doors open at 4pm and the show will kick off at 6pm.
If you are interested in being part of a magical day of music at the historic Rivoli Theatre for the 2011 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival, please send your promotional materials in so they will reach our offices no later than January 20, 2011. The promo packs should be sent to:
Paul Schuytema
90A Public Square
Monmouth, IL 61462
If you were there, then you know!
Blues fans from all across the country packed the Rivoli Theatre on Saturday night for the 2010 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival. From 2pm until the stroke of midnight, the music and fellowship flowed in abundance. Many thanks to all the musicians, the fans, the sponsors and the volunteers – without each and every one of you, it would have been just another day of music… but this was more… this was special… a rare moment we all got to share.
Here are what some of the attendees had to say:
I have been to more than fifty blues festivals and this festival rates as the best I have attended. All of the acts individually were outstanding but the variation in musical styles made it truly special.
We drove from Madison WI for the festival and it was worth the drive! So much talent packed into one day and one place.
I thought Scott Ainslie gave about the best live performance I've ever seen – wonderful!
Thanks for the best fest yet! The music, ribs, and everything were the best ever.
I read about the festival and the small venue and decided to make the 900 mile trip. I just want to say we enjoyed all of the musicians.
Thanks to you for the fine hospitality and putting on such a great fest. -Dave Specter
Thank You, Monmouth! As a guest artist at the Deep Blue Innovators Blues festival at the Rivoli last Saturday (and a first time visitor to Monmouth) I salute you! The sense of community on stage and off was simply remarkable and something that you all can honestly brag about. – Scott Ainslie
To see pictures of the fest snapped by Doug Rankin, click here.
After months of work and months of anticipation, the 2010 Deep Blue Innovators Festival will be here this Saturday, October 23rd at the historic Rivoli Theatre.
It will be a special day of music and fellowship in the blues. Here are some highlights:
- Blues festival pre-party Friday night at Galesburg's Fat Fish Pub, featuring Little Joe McLerran
- Blues guitar workshops featuring Little Joe McLerran and Scott Ainslie at the Buchanan Center for the Arts (starting at 10am)
- Doors open at 2pm
- Demonstrations by Brian Baugh and his students: homemade Diddley Bows and Cigar Box guitars
- Try out Hahn Amplifiers custom tube amps: the Short Stack and the Signet
- Eddie B's famous ribs
- A lineup of amazing musicians: Hayes & Fleming, Little Joe McLerran, Scott Ainslie, The Dave Specter Band and the Carolina Chocolate Drops
- After-fest blues jam
We'll see you at the show!
In the summer and fall of 2005, three young black musicians, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, made the commitment to travel to Mebane, North Carolina, every Thursday night to sit in the home of old-time fiddler Joe Thompson for a musical jam session. Joe was in his 80's, a black fiddler with a short bowing style that he inherited from generations of family musicians. He had learned to play a wide ranging set of tunes sitting on the back porch with other players after a day of field work. Now he was passing those same lessons on to a new generation.
When the three students decided to form a band, they didn't have big plans. It was mostly a tribute to Joe, a chance to bring his music back out of the house again and into dance halls and public places. They called themselves The Chocolate Drops as a tip of the hat to the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, three black brothers Howard, Martin and Bogan Armstrong, who lit up the music scene in the 1930's. Honing and experimenting with Joe's repertoire, the band often coaxed their teacher out of the house to join them on stage. Joe's charisma and charm regularly stole the show.
The Chocolate Drops started playing around, rolling out the tunes wherever anyone would listen. From town squares to farmer's markets, they perfected their playing and began to win an avid following of foot-tapping, sing-along, audiences.
"Tradition is a guide, not a jailer. We play in an older tradition but we are modern musicians."—Justin Robinson
While the young Chocolate Drops were upstarts in a stable of deep tradition, they were also the link between past and future. They began to expand their repertoire, taking advantage of what Dom calls "the novelty factor" to get folks in the door and then teaching and thrilling them with traditional music that was evolving as they performed. They teased audiences with history on tunes like "Dixie", the apparent Southern anthem that musicologists suggest was stolen by the black-face minstrel Dan Emmert from the Snowden family, black Ohio musicians who missed their warm, sunny home. The "Drops" gave new energy to old tunes like John Henry and Sally Ann, adding blues songs, Gaelic acappella, and flat-footing to the show.
The band moved up through the festival circuit, from the Mt. Airy Fiddler's Convention to MerleFest. They shared the stage with their new fan, Taj Mahal, and traveled to Europe. In 2007 they appeared in Denzel Washington's film, The Great Debators and joined Garrison Keiler on Prairie Home Companion. In 2008, they received an invitation to play on the Grand Ole Opry. The Drops were the first black string band to play the Opry. Opry host, Marty Stewart, pronounced the performance a healing moment for the Opry.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops' latest disc, Genuine Negro Jig, is more revelation than revival. The old-time music that this trio of African-American musicians has been exploring for the last four years—with banjo, fiddle, guitar, snare, kazoo, jugs, and bones—offers pleasures both immediate and deep. "Trouble In Your Mind" and live-show favorite "Cornbread and Butterbeans" insist upon foot-tapping, if not a whirl around the closest dance floor, while others, like the brooding "Kissin' and Cussin'" and the more sensual "Why Don't You Do Right?," invite comfortably seated rumination. But these generations-old songs, performed with both faithfulness and modernity, also represent a significant yet near-forgotten part of American musical history.
Behind its grooves, Genuine Negro Jig harbors extraordinary tales about the role of largely unsung black musicians who, from the pre-civil war south to the mid-20th Century, composed, performed, and passed on songs such as these, from parent to child, neighbor to neighbor. The Carolina Chocolate Drops focus on the sound of the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, the foothills where both black and white families settled and where musicians from both sides of the color line shared and swapped tunes.
Rolling Stone Magazine described the Carolina Chocolate Drops' style as "dirt-floor-dance electricity". If you ask the band, that is what matters most. Yes, banjos and black string musicians first got here on slave ships, but now this is everyone's music. It's OK to mix it up and go where the spirit moves.
"We're first and foremost entertainers and musicians," Giddens emphasizes. "The other stuff enriches, deepens the experience. If you can't enjoy the music on the surface, we aren't doing our job. That's been the problem with some historical-based music. Sometimes it feels like a lesson injected rather than just something to be enjoyed. We're just pleased that we have the platform and that we can make a living playing this music. In this day and age, that's no mean feat. Everything has fallen into place so nicely. We're incredibly blessed; there is no other word for it."
"Being able to play in an old vaudeville theater really creates an amazing atmosphere since so much of this music was performed in nice houses like this," reflects Flemons. "This is for both the performers and the audience. They are transported to an earlier time just by being entertained the way that people have been entertained for over a century."
On Saturday night, be prepared to be transported back in time, yet also into the future of music, as the Carolina Chocolate Drops hit the stage of the Rivoli Theatre. In the music of the Chocolate Drops, we see what it truly means to be a Deep Blue Innovator.
For more information, please visit the Chocolate Drops website. Also, be sure to visit the Chocolate Drops artist's store on Amazon.com.
Scott Ainslie heard Virginia Bluesman and grave digger, John Jackson play a couple of songs in the middle of a Mike Seeger concert just outside of Washington, DC, at Groveton High School back in 1967. Things haven't been the same since.
Scott started playing guitar a month later and has now spent nearly forty years studying and playing traditional music, visiting and documenting senior musicians in America's old-time banjo and fiddle music, Blues and gospel traditions.
With four CDs, a teaching DVD on the guitar techniques of Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson, and a book on Johnson's music "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" (Hal Leonard, 1992) to his credit, as a performer and a teacher, Ainslie continues to present programs that are vital and entertaining. He currently makes his home in of Brattleboro, Vermont after transplanting there from North Carolina.
Ainslie's deep voice and powerful slide guitar technique command attestation and pull the listener back in time, back before amplifiers and top-40 radio, to a time when the blues was a mirror of the lives working familes lead.
"I've played house concerts and sold out 1800 seat auditoriums," reflects Ainslie, "and I'd be lying if I didn't say I'd enjoyed them both. But, if I had to choose my favorite setting, it would be something in between: a small theater whose stage has seen generations of my brothers and sisters over the years where, rather than separating the audience and the artists, the stage is a place where we come together and get to know each other. The Rivoli is one of those places. It has soul, a history, and when it's filled up with people and artists, a living presence. It is going to be a real pleasure to join the ranks of musicians and performers who have walked onto that stage."
"I spent a week with the Carolina Chocolate Drops years ago and had a ball," continues Ainslie. "We've all spent time with Joe Thompson and we have interests in Old-Time music as well as Blues. We are going to have a ball."
Ainslie will also be leading the second of two guitar workshops at the Buchanan Center for the Arts on the morning of the festival (Saturday, October 23rd, approximately 11am). Ainslie is a deeply dedicated teacher and historian and will bring his wellspring of knowledge to local musicians and blues fans.
"Back in 1967, when I began to play guitar I had no teacher," says Ainslie. "No lessons, no workshops, no TAB, no YouTube videos: just a cheap guitar and a book of folksongs with chord diagrams (many of which were wrong). I spent some time wandering in the wilderness, falling into every muddy ditch, bumping into every tree. I can spare you a good portion of that walk. Having been there, I'm a good guide. You'll still have to walk the walk, of course, but it's a big help to know which paths are dead ends and what you need to know to move forward."
"Over the past 43 years, I've built a body of knowledge about roots guitar styles and acoustic blues and slide guitar. Robert Johnson, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, Rev. Gary Davis, and Mississippi John Hurt and many other relatively unknown musicians have all shaped my understanding of this instrument, its expressive power and flexibility. Sharing that knowledge is one of the ways I honor them. It is a part of my responsibility as a link in a chain of human knowledge, culture and musical tradition."
"And whenever I need to reconnect with those first few months and years with a guitar in my hands, I simply turn it around backwards and ask my left hand to do my right hand's job and visa versa. The brain knows, but the muscle patterns necessary are discrete, handed knowledge. In a workshop, I can show your brain. You still have to develop the hand knowledge, the muscle patterns, which take time and repetition."
"The beauty of having a teacher is to have them look at your hands and how you are playing a guitar and suggest ways to expand your playing and make what you are aiming to do simpler, easier and musically more effective. I always enjoy being allowed into someone's musical life and being able to be useful. It can be difficult here in America for an artist to feel useful. When it happens, it is always a good thing."
The workshops are free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so please RSVP using the contact for on the MonmouthBlues.com site.
To learn more about Scott Ainslie, check out his website.
Hot guitarist and found member of the Nighthawks Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers will descend on the Fat Fish Pub this Thursday. Tickets are $25 at the door (opens at 4pm) and the show starts at 6pm.
Thackery comes by his six-string brilliance honestly, having learned from the very best sources. Besides Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix, Thackery cites Chicago axe master Otis Rush as a primary influence. Moreover, he learned quite a bit from playing on stage alongside such blues legends as Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson.
Thackery has been acclaimed as one of the hottest live acts around, with his jaw-dropping performances becoming the stuff of legend. As the Boston Globe put it, "Jimmy Thackery is a four-hour performer. That's not how long he plays, but how long one should travel to see him. He's a phenomenal guitarist, one of the best we've seen."
If you are coming from out of town to see the 2010 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival, then plan on having a wonderful day. Remember that there will be blues guitar workshops starting at 10am on the festival day (Saturday, October 23rd) and the fest doors open at 2pm. The fest generally runs until around midnight. If you plan on coming in on Friday or staying Saturday night, here are the best local accommodations:
- The AmericInn, Monmouth (this is where the musicians stay – if you book a room here, be sure to tell them you are here for the fest)
- Super 8, Monmouth
- Jonny's Guest House, Monmouth (a charming private house walking distance from the Rivloi)
- Best Western Prairie Inn, Galesburg
We trekked up to the IH Mississippi Valley Blues fest on July 4th and enjoyed an amazing day of live music. Standouts included Bill Sims and Mark LaVoie, playing old school Delta blues with some sweet harmonica. We also spied harmonica wizard Matthew Skoller in the audience catching the grooves.
The Shawn Kellerman Band ripped up the main stage just as folks were starting to freak about the rain. A few drops fell and the radar looked dire, but the festival was spared and Kellerman destroyed the set. We had a chance to stop by and talk with them after the show – it was Kellerman's birthday and the MVBS provided a huge cake for him.
Other standouts were Kim Massie, belting out with an amazing voice, and for the headliner, it was the Tommy Castro Band featuring Debbie Davis on guitar, Magic Dick (of J. Geils Band fame) on harp and Sista Monica on vocals. The rythm and blues revue tore up the stage and Sista Monica riveted the crowd with an amazing parformance.
All in all, another great year of music for the MVBS. Great job guys – keep the blues flowing!
The awesome Mississippi Valley Blues Festival is this weekend in LeClaire Park in Davenport. It looks to be an amazing three days of music, and I hope to see you there!
Some standout performances include 2008 Deep Blue Innovators alumni Lurrie Bell on Friday, 2010 DBI performer (and workshop leader) Little Joe McLerran on Saturday, 2009 DBI performer Shawn Kellerman on Sunday as well as Tony Castro and the Nighthawks.
For a full lineup, click here.
See this amazing, energized piano-based band on Tuesday, June 22nd at the Fat Fish Pub in Galesburg.
Bruce Katz is a legendary keyboardist (Hammond B3 and piano), and besides leading his own band is currently a member of the Gregg Allman Band. Based in Woodstock, NY, he has appeared on nearly 70 other CDs with the likes of Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Little Milton, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Hammond, David "Fathead" Newman and many, many others.
The Bruce Katz Band blurs the lines between blues, soul-jazz, rock and New Orleans inspired roots music – their trademark instrumental jams with an equal number of vocal tunes as well. The band has a trademark sound, blending the B3 organ and guitar. Bruce has been nominated for the past 3 years in a row by the Memphis based Blues Foundation for their "Piano Player of the Year" award, which is the equivalent of the "Blues Grammys".
For more information, see the Fat Fish Pub website… click here.
MonmouthBlues.com is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2010 Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival. This year's festival, to be held on Saturday, October 23rd, will be the best yet. We'll see you at the show!
Starting the festival off will be our old friends Hayes and Fleming.
Next, we'll enjoy the old-school, energized guitar mastery of Oklahoma's own Little Joe McLerran.
Blues troubadour Scott Ainslie is trekking down from Vermont and will take the stage and deliver a set of powerful slide guitar blues.
Master guitar virtuoso Dave Specter will bring his band to present a set of eclectic jazz-inspired blues.
…and headlining this year's festival will be the one and only Carolina Chocolate Drops! We're very fortunate to have this internationally-recognized group make a stop in Monmouth to thrill us with their high-energy, toe-tappin' deep roots blues. This is not to be missed!
Before the festival, we will once again have a guitar workshop, this time featuring both Little Joe McLerran and master-teacher Scott Ainslie.
Tickets will go on sale online later this month and will be available at local outlets by mid-July.


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Hackers have developed a drone that can steal the contents of your smartphone—from your location data to your shopping passwords—by exploiting your phone's attempt to find wireless networks.
The technology equipped on the drone is known as Snoopy, and it looks for mobile devices with Wi-Fi settings turned on.
"Their phone will very noisily be shouting out the name of every network it's ever connected to," Sensepost security researcher Glenn Wilkinson said. "They'll be shouting out, 'Starbucks, are you there?...McDonald's Free Wi-Fi, are you there?"
CNN Money reports:
That's when Snoopy can swoop into action (and be its most devious, even more than the cartoon dog): the drone can send back a signal pretending to be networks you've connected to in the past. Devices two feet apart could both make connections with the quadcopter, each thinking it is a different, trusted Wi-Fi network. When the phones connect to the drone, Snoopy will intercept everything they send and receive.
"Your phone connects to me and then I can see all of your traffic," Wilkinson said. That includes sites you visit, credit card details, usernames, passwords and more. The drone uses a phone's unique identification number, or MAC address, to tie the detected traffic to the device.
Read more here.
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AnimalRobot takes NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" into Grand Theft Auto V with GTAV's Rockstar Editor and Adobe Premiere. "Damn, that shit was dope." (YouTube)
AnimalRobot takes NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" into Grand Theft Auto V with GTAV's Rockstar Editor and Adobe Premiere. "Damn, that shit was dope." (YouTube)
Machinima is real-time computer graphics filmmaking. The Machinima Expo, now in its 7th season, will take place on November 23, 2014, from 9am to 4pm PT on its Ustream channel. The virtual film festival will also be embedded on its home page and its Facebook page.
The Machinima Expo grew out of the now defunct New York Machinima festival hosted by the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. Members of that group decided to take the festival to the virtual world of the internet to save money and to provide a means for the international machinima community to come together.
The Expo will be screening 68 machinima and conventionally animated films chosen from submissions made by filmmakers from all over the world. Iran, Singapore, France, Germany, Finland, Canada and the USA are just some of the countries represented.
The Expo will consist of film screenings, programming and a special awards ceremony where 3 Jury prizes and 2 Grand Jury prizes will be announced. This is the first year the Machinima Expo has included conventional animation forms along with machinima, so there will be a great variety of styles at the festival.
The Machinima Expo is a free, online festival. All you need is access to the internet and a web browser.
Hugh Hancock writes, "'Death Knight Love Story,' is a World of Warcraft-based machinima fanfilm [ed: machinima is a form of animation made using video-game engines]. It was made using full 'Avatar'-style motion capture (using the same tech as X-Men First Class), with a score composed by a BAFTA nominated composer and voiced by Hollywood stars!" Read the rest
Machinima (real-time computer graphics filmmaking) is celebrating its 17th birthday this year. Communities of filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US are using it to express ideas about politics, gender, and virtual identity, just to name a few.
The filmmakers come together once a year to share films, listen to panels of filmmakers, and hand out awards to the best films. The online event is The Machinima Expo, now in its sixth year. On November 17, 2013, from 10am to 4pm (PT), the Machinima Expo will share presentations on such subjects as "Experimental Machinima" and "The SketchUp to iClone Pipeline," along with a panel discussion featuring machinima.com founder Hugh Hancock, author of Machinima for Dummies. The Machinima Expo 6 will also be handing out three Jury prizes and a Grand Jury Prize to the most outstanding films out of the 130 films submitted this year. Read the rest
Ronaldthecock produced this Black Mesa/Michigan J Frog mashup as part of a machinima challenge on steamcommunity.com:
Let's have another Theme week. Starting sunday September 16th and running through sunday September 23rd, will be Critter week. in honor of the release of Black Mesa this friday, Make Videos of headcrabs, bullsquids, antlions, alien swarm monsters, or whatever creepy crawly you want. Put "OSFM critter week" in the Video description and post it here. There are a couple people working on rigs to make animating monsters like headcrabs easier, so keep an eye out and I'll post them here.
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Mass Effect 2
Review by golden_sailor
"Very Compelling (Possible Spoilers)"
With so much hype around a game it was sure to fail like Halo 2 and Gears 2 however Mass Effect 2 exceeds all expectations. The game play, story, graphics, virtually everything has vastly improved.
Story - 10/10 - The story is much darker. All the sidequests for your characters are dark and sad. For me Tali and Garrus's side quests were the most compelling. Garrus has greatly changed and Tali's is very moving but all the others are just as compelling and really draw you in. I just happened to invest more time with Tali and Garrus. For the main plot, it is very rich, easily drawing you in. For those who played Mass Effect 1 it hits home so much better. You get to see the consequences of your decisions in this game and how it affects the galaxy as a whole. The game is by no means a short game. Coming in two discs, there are vast amounts of things to do.
Gameplay -10/10 - The biggest change and improvement is with how you fight. The controls closely resemble Halo and Gears and seem just more natural, at least to me. Running into cover, pistol whipping, everything is simply better. The ammo/overheat system isn't at all annoying and makes combat more of a challenge. Its much closer to a shooter than the first one was. The hacking and decryption mini-games make much more sense and are better than the simple push random buttons. No more pointless driving around on empty or near empty planets. Now you scan a planet for either resources or a sidequest that isn't completely pointless.
Sound - 10/10 - Again ME2 has an awesome soundtrack rivaling Halo and Star Wars. The voice acting is spot on and amazing. Good to know that they took the job very seriously.
Graphics- 10/10 - The graphics have slightly improved from the first Mass Effect but the first ME had amazing graphics to boot so it was hard to have improved. There subtle changes though, more detail, more facial expressions, and tears (even though they look kinda fake). The are also short cinematic scenes where the graphics simply shine at their best.
Overall - 10/10 - It is difficult to see how this game could improve aside from the obvious make it even longer!!! The game is a vast improvement over the first and it is simply an amazing game with outstanding graphics, a compelling story, and awesome game play. An overall amazing game that could make you orgasm just playing. j/k maybe...
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 01/29/10
Game Release: Mass Effect 2 (US, 01/26/10)
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From: "Lancaster-Boon" <>
Subject: [DNA] DYS 710
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:32:34 +0100
So why isn't DYS710 reported as two separate repeat numbers?
From: (John Chandler)
Subject: Re: [DNA] DYS 710
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:27:02 -0500
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Bill wrote:
> What is the procedure for comparing DYS 710?
That's not established. 710 is more complex than most other markers
because it has repeats of two different sizes, two and four. A
difference that purports to be "one repeat" (of the four-base motif)
could actually be a difference of two repeats of the two-base motif.
Ordinary STR-type testing, which simply reports the length of the
marker, doesn't give you enough information to decode the marker.
You would need to sequence the PCR product every time, even if two
people seem to match.
I don't think anybody has even a good guess at the relative mutation
rates of the two motifs. Four-base STRs generally have higher rates
than two-base STRs, but there is also a dependence of rate on the
number of repeats, and there seems to be considerable variability in
both stretches.
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thousands of TCM patent herbal formulas, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (or Six
Flavor Tea Pill) is perhaps the most important of all. It treats a wide
variety of conditions, from diabetes, low adrenals and insomnia to
weakness in the knees, poor hearing and poor eyesight. One of the reasons
it is so important is that it is useful throughout life, from very young
to very old. Ā
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Please note: The descriptions below are from the Traditional Chinese and or "Folk Medicine" use of Āherbs provided for information and not intended to replace advice from a medical doctor or to replace any drugs that are FDA approved.
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six Flavor Tea Pill) treats a wide variety ofĀconditions from high cholesterol, diabetes, low adrenalsĀand insomnia to weakness in the knees, poor hearing and poor eyesight.
Its success in helping slow growing underdeveloped children get on the right track fast is only mirrored by its ability to help the frail and aging get back to a much fuller life as well.
This is the Chinese medicinal formula that is utilized when a patient has been diagnosed as having insufficient liver and kidney yin. These symptoms of yin deficiency can include a dry scalp, cracked/brittle finger nails, dry skin and/or a red tongue with little coating. If left unchecked, yin deficiency can evolve into lower back pain, foot pain, weak knees, excessive thirst, restlessness, dizziness, night sweats, burning, frequent urination, dark patches under the eyes and diabetes. It is commonly prescribed in China for diminished liver and kidney Yin due to aging, stress, or environment. Yin deficiency (In most cases) is the result of too much yang with too little yin and is characterized by feelings of excess fire/heat and diminished vital fluids.
This classic formula winds up having a similar action to the amazing single tonic herb known as He Shou Wu. When the two are combined they have an incredible action of bringing up adrenal function while helping to stop lower back pain and week painful knees especially in people over 50. Read muchĀmore about He Shou Wu here.
Research on Liu Wei Di Huang Wan:
Researches have found that Liu Wei Di Huang Wan can increase the number of T lymphocytes and regulate the production of cytokines and thus Liu Wei Di Huang Wan may adjust the immune function of our body.
Research also shows Liu Wei Di Huang Wan can increase the production of sex hormones and of adrenal cortical hormones that have anti-inflammatory function in animal studies. Moreover, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan can reduce blood sugar levels and increase the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the diabetes rat model4. SOD is a key enzyme for eliminating free radicals in the body and its enhanced function prolongs lifespan in animal studies.
This explains why it has become the standard formula for diabetes in China.
However, this is not advised to be used with many pharma drugs as the drugs can often block the natural energy Liu Wei Di Huang Wan releases and "pin it up" in the meridians causing unpredictable situations.
Western society is characterized by overly-active lifestyles, full of fire and stress - leaving little room for rest. This type of lifestyle is often associated with yin deficiency, which can be further exacerbated by chemical stimulants such as caffeine, cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol use and too little sleep. The end result is often a feeling of being "burned out", which is another way of saying that the yang/fire may be crowding out the body`s yin/fluids, which are necessary to nourish the body`s vital organs.
This formula will often lower cholesterol numbers and most always strengthen the kidneys. Research has shown a dramatic decrease of fatalities due to kidney disease by the use of this formula!
Its History as a foundation in TCM Formulas:
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan is a Traditional Chinese Medicine which was was first listed in "The Craft of Medical Treatment for Childhood Disease Patterns" (Xiao Er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue) by Dr. Qian Yi way back in the good ol` days of 1119 AD. Because of its perfect balanced effect it soon became the classical base formula for all conditions of yin deficiency (And yang deficiency if needed) especially of the liver and kidneys. When we say "base formula", we mean that it is often used as a foundation to support other more specific herbal treatments.
There are now actually hundreds of Chinese patent herbal medicines using this combo of herbs (Liu Wei Di Huang Wan) as a base in the formula while other herbs direct the energy where needed.
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six Flavor Tea Pill) is perhaps one of the best examples in the TCM wisdom of combining herbs in the 5 element system.Ā Remember, taking this formula along with the tonic herb, He Shou Wu can really get rid of lower back pain and knee pain fast in many cases and is safe for anyone.
Ingredients in Six Flavor Tea Pill:
Rehmannia glutinosa root-prep, Dioscorea opposita rhizome, Cornus officinalis fruit, Paeonia suffruticosa root-bark, Poria cocos fungus, Alisma plantago aquatica rhizome. - Chinese names: Shu di huang, Shan yao, Shan zhu yu, Mu dan pi, Fu ling, Ze xie
ĀOut of thousands of TCM patent herbal formulas, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (or Six Flavor Tea Pill) is perhaps the most important of all. It treats a wide variety of conditions, from diabetes, low adrenals and insomnia to weakness in the knees, poor hearing and poor eyesight. One of the reasons it is so important is that it is useful throughout life, from very young to very old.


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In the peaceful countryside of Alghero, in the area of Santa Caterina, is located the Agriturismo I Vigneti, a peaceful oasis of colours and perfumes, where is still possible to find the flavour of traditions and enjoy the contact with nature: a place where to detox body and mind.
Spending an holiday in the Agriturismo I Vigneti means getting closer to a dimension unfortunately forgotten by most, following nature's rhythms and full of flavours and suggestions; you can watch or participate to the farm's work with its timings and traditions or listen to the culture and farming life wisdom. You can see the important events in the farm's life happen according to seasons, grape picking, olive picking, vegetable growing and watch them develop in the final products ready to be tasted.
The strategic position of the Agriturismo offers to our guests the chance to reach in a few minutes, Alghero's centre and its surrounding territory; the wonderful beaches of the Riviera del Corallo (Punta Negra, Le Bombarde, Lazzareto, Porto Ferro, Porticciolo), the Sea Reserve of Capo Caccia-Isola Piana, all the archeological sites of the area (Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju, Domus de Janas, Villaggio Nuragico Palmavera) which are amongst the most important of their type in the Mediterranean area.
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The extent to which the phonetic system of a second language is mastered varies across individuals. The present study evaluates the pattern of individual differences in late bilinguals across different phonological processes. Fifty-five late Dutch-English bilinguals were tested on their ability to perceive a difficult L2 speech contrast (the English /\æ/-/\ε/ contrast) in three different tasks: A categorization task, a word identification task and a lexical decision task. As a group, L2 listeners were less accurate than native listeners. However, at the individual level, almost half of the L2 listeners scored within the native range in the categorization task whereas a small percentage scored within the native range in the identification and lexical decision tasks. These results show that L2 listeners\&$\#$39; performance crucially depends on the nature of the task, with higher L2 listener accuracy on an acoustic-phonetic analysis task than on tasks involving lexical processes. These findings parallel previous results for early bilinguals, where the pattern of performance was consistent with the processing hierarchy proposed by different models of speech perception. The results indicate that the analysis of patterns of non-native performance can provide important insights concerning the architecture of the speech perception system and the issue of language learnability.
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Labor is pinning its hopes of winning critical Coalition seats in regional Queensland on a preference deal with
The gamble will cost the ALP support from the Greens in crucial seats elsewhere in the state, including in Brisbane, the most marginal Coalition seat in Queensland.
Elsewhere around the country, Labor will give the Greens its Senate preferences in return for the minor party putting Labor ahead of the Coalition in all but a handful of crucial seats.
The Greens will also preference Labor ahead of the Coalition in the Senate in what it says is a bid to prevent Opposition Leader
In Queensland, Labor did a deal with Mr Katter in which the ALP would direct its Queensland Senate preferences towards Katter's Australian Party. In return, the KAP will put Labor first on its how-to-vote cards in the Coalition-held seats of Hinkler, Herbert and Flynn. It will also preference the ALP in Capricornia, where the incumbent Labor MP,
Greens, Labor relations 'strained'
One senior Labor source said the deal with the KAP in Queensland has "severely strained relations" between Labor and the Greens.
The Greens retaliated in Queensland by declining to preference Labor in the marginal Coalition seat of Brisbane, a must-win for the ALP if it is to have any chance of victory on September 7.
A JWS Research poll published in The Australian Financial Review on Saturday shows the Liberal MP for Brisbane,
Similarly, the Greens decided to issue a two-sided ticket in the Queensland seat of Longman, another marginal Coalition seat in Labor's sights.
The Greens will, however, preference Labor in the Coalition seat of Forde, where former Queensland premier
The JWS poll shows Mr van Manen holding a commanding lead.
This Senate arrangements mean South Australian Greens Senator
Senator Hanson-Young's hopes were dashed last week when fellow South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, who stands to be re-elected with more than a full quota of his own, decided to put the major parties ahead of the Greens.
After several weeks of sometimes hostile negotiations, preference deals were finalised on Saturday.
In a statement released at the weekend, the ALP said: "Labor's aim with its preference arrangements has been to deliver the best chance of winning majority government."
Last week, Mr Abbott promised to preference the Greens last everywhere, and demanded Labor do the same.
The Australian Financial Review


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4/20/2005 - Virtio Corporation, creator of Virtual Platforms for embedded software development, introduced a Linux version of its Virtual Platform technology. The Virtio Virtual Platform is a reconfigurable, functionally accurate simulator of an IC (such as a microprocessor or SoC) or of an entire circuit board containing multiple ICs.
Virtual Platforms provide a complete behavioral model of processor and peripheral hardware that development teams can use to support early software development and integration. A Virtual Platform replicates the full functionality of a development board or SoC design, allowing developers to exercise code without physical hardware.
By porting its Virtual Platform technology to the Linux operating system (OS), Virtio has opened the door to closer integration between hardware and software development efforts. "Integration issues are driving the synchronization of hardware and software development down to the RTL level," said Virtio's chief technology officer, Filip Thoen, "but typically EDA tools run under the Linux OS. This introduction marks the first time that functional models are available to the Linux community, allowing software and hardware developers to collaborate and use the same workstations."
Virtio adapted its software by replacing its use of Microsoft ATL and ActiveX with Trolltech's Qt application development framework. This allows the company to release new platforms for both Microsoft Windows- and Linux-based hosts as customers' demands dictate, according to Thoen. "The models themselves are OS-independent," said Thoen, "so once we develop a platform it will run under both OSes." The Linux version will also allow Virtio to work with EDA providers to more closely integrate Virtual Platform models with hardware design tools.
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The Linux-hosted Virtual Platform models embedded processor cores, memory and peripherals, providing developers with a framework for executing and testing code without needing access to hardware. The platform can also connect to real-world peripherals such as camera interfaces and LCDs for full system-level testing. The processor models can execute targeted binaries as well as an operating system and work with compatible debuggers such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior and ARM RealView.
Virtual Platforms also provide software developers with benefits after hardware becomes available. The models allow access to internal registers that cannot be reached in hardware implementations, giving software developers additional insight into software operation. The result is faster system debugging and integration.
Virtio's Linux-hosted Virtual Platform is immediately available starting at $3,990 for a single-user license.
About Virtio
Virtio powers dramatic gains in software development by delivering early access to fast, full-function software emulation of embedded devices. Virtio is based in Campbell, California in the U.S.A with development centers at Campbell and the Alba Centre, Livingston, Scotland. Additional information about Virtio is available at www.virtio.com.
Virtio is a trademark of Virtio Corp.
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sp_fulltext_table (Transact-SQL)
Marks or unmarks a table for full-text indexing.
This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Use CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX, ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX, and DROP FULLTEXT INDEX instead.
sp_fulltext_table [ @tabname= ] 'qualified_table_name' , [ @action= ] 'action' [ , [ @ftcat= ] 'fulltext_catalog_name' , [ @keyname= ] 'unique_index_name' ]
After a full-text index is deactivated for a particular table, the existing full-text index remains in place until the next full population; however, this index is not used because Microsoft SQL Server blocks queries on deactivated tables.
If the table is reactivated and the index is not repopulated, the old index is still available for queries against any remaining, but not new, full-text enabled columns. Data from deleted columns are matched in queries that specify an all-full-text column search.
After a table has been defined for full-text indexing, switching the full-text unique key column from one data type to another, either by changing the data type of that column or changing the full-text unique key from one column to another, without a full repopulation may cause a failure to occur during a subsequent query and returning the error message: "Conversion to type data_type failed for full-text search key value key_value." To prevent this, drop the full-text definition for this table using the drop action of sp_fulltext_table and redefine it using sp_fulltext_table and sp_fulltext_column.
The full-text key column must be defined to be 900 bytes or less. It is recommended that the size of the key column be as small as possible for performance reasons.
A. Enabling a table for full-text indexing
The following example creates full-text index metadata for the Document table of the AdventureWorks database. Cat_Desc is a full-text catalog. PK_Document_DocumentID is a unique, single-column index on Document.
USE AdventureWorks; GO EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'Production.Document', 'create', 'Cat_Desc', 'PK_Document_DocumentID'; --Add some columns EXEC sp_fulltext_column 'Production.Document','DocumentSummary','add'; -- Activate the full-text index EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'Production.Document','activate'; GO
B. Activating and propagating track changes
The following example activates and starts propagating tracked changes to the full-text index as they occur.
USE AdventureWorks; GO EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'Production.Document', 'Start_change_tracking'; EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'Production.Document', 'Start_background_updateindex'; GO
C. Removing a full-text index
This example removes the full-text index metadata for the Document table of the AdventureWorks database.
USE AdventureWorks; GO EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'Production.Document', 'drop'; GO


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2013 Roster Announced
Seven Baseball America Top-30 Prospects Highlight Squad
By Kevin Burke / Pensacola Blue Wahoos | March 30, 2013 11:34 AM ET
After a successful first season in Pensacola, the Blue Wahoos return to the Gulf Coast with high expectations in their second campaign. New manager Delino DeShields will lead the team after spending the last two seasons as the skipper for Low-A Dayton.
This year's preliminary roster features seven players ranked in the top 30 of Baseball America's annual organizational prospect rankings (rank in parentheses). Returning right-handed pitcher Kyle Lotzkar (12th) is the highest-rated prospect and is joined in the top 30 by outfielder Donald Lutz (18th), outfielder Ryan LaMarre (21st), catcher Tucker Barnhart (23rd), infield Devin Lohman (25th), and pitchers Curtis Partch (27th)and Chad Rogers (28th). Barnhart, rated the organization's best defensive catcher, is expected to be behind the plate for Opening Day with Rogers projected to be the other half of the battery.
Rogers is joined in the rotation by a strong set of starters in right-hander Tim Crabbe, southpaw Ryan Dennick, righty Daniel Renken, and Yohan Pino. Crabbe returns to Pensacola, where he started last year, after a season in which he ranked second in the farm system in strikeouts with 153.
The bullpen appears to be a strength of the 2013 Blue Wahoos, led by the aforementioned Lotzkar. Returners Drew Hayes, Chris Manno, Josh Ravin are joined by Josh Smith, Lee Hyde, and Loek Van Mil to round out the bullpen. Van Mil, a native of the Netherlands, is the tallest player in professional baseball standing at 7'1".
New hitting coach Dick Schofield will have a great mix of speed and power on his hands for the 2013 campaign, led by Lutz, who smashed 22 home runs between three levels last year. Lutz will be surrounded in the lineup by returner David Vidal and newcomers Travis Mattair and Steven Selsky, who between the four of them hit 77 homers last season.
Speed is also a big element of this team, and although Billy Hamilton advanced to Triple-A to start the campaign, Wahoos fans will still be excited to see outfielder Theo Bowe, who ranked fourth in all of Minor League Baseball with 70 steals last season. LaMarre, who stole 30 bases a year ago, returns to the outfield along with Bryson Smith. Smith hit .310 between Bakersfield and Pensacola last year.
Ray Chang and Brodie Greene join Mattair , Lohman and Vidal in the infield with Danny Vicioso splitting time with Barnhart behind the plate.
This squad is extremely experienced at the Double-A level, with all but seven members on the 25-man roster having played Double-A ball or higher before. In addition, 13 of the 25 appeared in at least one game for the Wahoos last season. This roster is still subject to change prior to Thursday's season opener.
DeShields will be joined by returning pitching coach Tom Brown who enters his seventh season in the Reds system. Schofield will lead the position players after working in the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim organization for the last two years. Charles Leddon returns as the team's athletic trainer with Frank Renner joining the team as the strength coach.
The team will arrive from Spring Training at Pensacola International Airport on Sunday, March 31 at 3:30 p.m. All fans are encouraged to welcome the team upon arrival.
The Wahoos will have Monday off before Tuesday's 1:00 p.m. practice, which is open to the public. The team will also have an open practice on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in anticipation of Thursday's opener at 7:00 p.m. against the Tennessee Smokies. Tickets for Opening Day are sold out but there are still some available for the rest of the weekend through Blue Wahoos TicketShare. Fans are encouraged to check ticket availability online frequently in the event any tickets become available.
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The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are the Double-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Wahoos open play on the 2013 season on Thursday, April 4 at beautiful Pensacola Bayfront Stadium. Group packages are available for the upcoming season including packages on the new Fireball deck in left field. Mini plans and single-game tickets are available for the 2013 season by calling (850) 934-8444 or online. Follow Pensacola Baseball at bluewahoos.com, facebook.com/PensacolaBlueWahoos, and twitter.com/BlueWahoosBBall.
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Dutra, Leo X.C., Haworth, Robert, & Taboada, Manuela B. (2011) An integrated approach to tourism planning in a developing nation : a case study from Beloi (Timor-Leste). In Dredge, Diane & Jenkins, John (Eds.) Stories of Practice : Tourism Policy and Planning. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, pp. 269-293.
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Yigitcanlar, Tan, Guaralda, Mirko, Taboada, Manuela B., & Pancholi, Surabhi (2016) Place making for knowledge generation and innovation: Planning and branding Brisbane's knowledge community precincts. Journal of Urban Technology, 23(1). (In Press)
Sampaio, Adriana V. & Taboada, Manuela B. (2016) Inscrição do gesto: A caligrafia enquanto performance através de Paulo Lachenmayer. OuvirOUver, 12(2), pp. 432-447.
Taboada, Manuela B. & Coombs, Gretchen (2014) Liminal moments : designing, thinking and learning. Design and Technology Education : an International Journal, 19(1), p. 30.
Conference Paper
Yigitcanlar, Tan, Guaralda, Mirko, & Taboada, Manuela (2014) Branding and planning urban knowledge precincts : insights from Brisbane, Australia. In Yigitcanlar, Tan, Lepik, Katri-Liis, & Krigul, Merle (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS 2014), Tallinn University and World Capital Institute, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 209-216.
Amaral, Carla, Taboada, Manuela B., & Chamorro-Koc, Marianella (2014) Design democratisation and its understandings through the meaning of the word "design" in Portuguese colonised countries. In Design with the other 90% : Cumulus Johannesburg Conference Proceedings, Greenside Design Centre and University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 162-168.
Taboada, Manuela B. & Coombs, Gretchen (2013) Liminal moments : designing, thinking and learning. In Reitan, Janne Beate, Digranes, Ingvild, & Nielsen, Liv Merete (Eds.) Design Learning for Tomorrow – Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD, Oslo, Norway.
Taboada, Manuela B., Dutra, Leo XC, Haworth, Robert, & Spence, Rebecca (2010) Engaging complexity through collaborative brand design. In Durling, David, Bousbaci, Rabah, Chen, Lin-Lin, Gauthier, Philippe, Poldma, Tiiu, Roworth-Stokes, Seymour, et al. (Eds.) Design & Complexity : DRS2010 Conference Proceedings, Design Research Society, School of Industrial Design, Université de Montréal, Montréal.
Taboada, Manuela B., Spence, Rebecca, & Haworth, Robert (2009) The social role of design on collaborative destination branding : creating a new journey, a new story for the Waterfall Way, New South Wales, Australia. In Durling , David, Rust, Chris, Chen, Lin-Lin, Ashton, Phillipa, & Friedman, Ken (Eds.) Undisciplined! Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2008, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield.
O'Loughlin, Michael, Taboada, Manuela B., & Gill, Roderic A. (2006) Catalysing design principles through the dreaming of sustainable subtropical cityscapes : the collaborative construction of new place identities. In Kennedy, Rosemary J. (Ed.) Subtropical Cities 2006 Conference : Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Urbanism in a Subtropical Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD.
Creative Work
Taboada, Manuela (2015) Translating Management Storylines: developing a visual strategy to communicate science to stakeholder community, a case for Mackay, QLD. [Design/Architectural Work]
Taboada, Manuela B. (2009) Collaborative destination branding : planning for tourism development through design in the Waterfall Way, NSW, Australia. PhD thesis, University of New England.
Taboada, Manuela B. (2004) Oceanografia UFBA : Desenvolvimento de Marca, Imagem e Identidade. Other by Creative Works, Universidade Federal da Bahia / Federal University of Bahia.