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Surah Yusuf; (a statement about those aspects referring to the End Times)
87- My sons! Seek news of Joseph and his brother. Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace from Allah except for people who are unbelievers.'
In terms of that aspect of the verse referring to the End Times, what are we to do? We must conduct a comprehensive investigation into Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his brother (the Prophet Jesus (as)). We must research and not lose hope in Allah.
88- So when they came into his [Joseph's] presence, they said, 'Your Eminence! Hardship has hit us and our families.
There was an economic crisis at that time, in the time of the Prophet Joseph (as), that lasted for 7 years. And there is also a 7-year economic crisis now.
'Your Eminence! Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant merchandise, but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always rewards a generous giver.'
A verse of the Qur'an indicating that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will hand out goods in abundance.
89- He [Joseph] said, 'Are you aware of what you did to Joseph and his brother in ignorance?'
There are people who are also opposed to Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as) today. Do you ignorant people know what you are doing to Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as) today?
90- They said, 'Are you Joseph?' He said, 'I am indeed Joseph, and this here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us. As for those who fear Allah and are steadfast, Allah does not allow to go to waste the wage of any people who do good.'
They have difficulty in recognizing their own brother. Even though they knew him from before, knew what he looked like, they still had difficulty in recognizing him. That means that people will have doubts about Hazrat Mahdi (as), too. They will be unsure whether he is really Hazrat Mahdi (as).
He said, 'I am indeed Joseph, and this here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us.
Allah will bestow blessings on Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Prophet Jesus (as). "As for those who fear Allah and are steadfast," If they are careful over what is lawful and unlawful and are steadfast. What does steadfastness mean? It means being determined to maintain proper moral values over a long period of time. Allah does not allow to go to waste the wage of any people who do good.'
The efforts made by Hazrat Mahdi (as), the Prophet Jesus (as) and Muslims will not be in vain. They will receive their reward in this world and in the Hereafter, insha'Allah.
92- He said, 'No blame at all will fall on you.The verse suggests that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will seek no revenge. It appears that it is inappropriate to seek revenge on those who wrong one. "You have forgiveness from Allah." Here, he says something highly significant. I have forgiven you, but you have forgiveness from Allah, he says. That is the real issue. If Allah does not forgive you, then you have had it. For example, Allah tells our Prophet (saas), even if you beg for forgiveness for them 70 times, still Allah will not forgive them. It makes no difference whether people forgive. But if Allah does not forgive, then they are finished. "He is the Most Merciful of the merciful." There are some people who try to teach Allah compassion, may He forbid! They employ the devilish and foolish logic of "Why create hell? I would not have created a place like hell." That actually makes the need for hell crystal clear. From that silly talk of yours. It means you are that silly and shameless in every part of that silly and shameless life of yours. If you betray Allah, you will betray everyone. If you use impudent language against Allah, may He forbid, you will use it against everyone.
93- Go with this shirt of mine and cast it on my father's face and he will see again. Then come to me with all your families.
We can see that the presence of Hazrat Mahdi's (as) body will be good for many people's illnesses. People will also be freed from psychological illnesses, and therefore also from physical ones. Many diseases have psychological causes. Since Hazrat Mahdi (as) will cause great psychological well-being in people, as well as joy and a general feeling of rejoicing, the psychological pressure on people will also be lifted. So they will become very healthy. Eye disorders will improve. Other disorders will also improve. A wide range of illnesses will improve in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The psychological well-being in society will be reflected in people's bodies. Because stress is the main cause of headaches. Stress and depression is the cause of migraine. Since these will be eliminated in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as) people will not suffer from migraine or headaches. People can easily become ill because psychological collapse impairs their physical resistance to flu and the like. But a happy person does not easily fall sick. Tumors in the body generally stem from psychological impairments. Hernias are nervous problems and stem from severe tension and stress. Tuberculosis and that kind of thing; you see in films how unhappy people catch it, isn't that right? Because the body's resistance is impaired and the body becomes an ideal place for a virus. But Hazrat Mahdi (as) will produce such a joyful, dynamic and lively society that there will be no more disease. It will be rare for people to fall ill. The verse shows how he will help everyone. It indicates that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be compassionate and help everyone.
96- But when the bringer of the good news came, he cast it on his face and sight returned. He said, 'Did I not say to you before, I know things from Allah you do not know?'
Imparting good news in the time of the Mahdi is very important. What does our Prophet (saas) say? He tells us to spread the good news of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Those tidings will open up people's hearts. I bear glad tidings, and so do you. Everyone who loves me does. A joy comes from that. The joy of returning to Islam, of returning to faith, will produce a great vivacity in people. The story of the shirt here refers to this return to Islam. There will be a glorious awakening in all of society when our Prophet's (saas) shirt appears. That is what it refers to. There will be a huge fervor and society will be restored to material and spiritual health, insha'Allah.
100- He raised his parents up onto the throne." This shows how much love he will show for his devout parents. The throne is a symbol of the highest position bestowed on him by the state. The Prophet Joseph(as) indicates this elevated position as a compliment, seating his parents on the throne.
"The others fell prostrate in front of him." Prostration was an expression of love and respect at that time. It was later changed to bowing.
He said, 'My father, truly this is now the interpretation of the dream I had. What will the Mahdi (as) say? He will say you have seen all the other events take place.
My Lord has made it all come true. What will the Mahdi (as) say? He will say My Lord made them come true. He will say they have come about exactly.
He was kind to me. What will the Mahdi (as) say? That Allah was kind to me, insha'Allah.
Letting me out of prison. He will say that Allah released me from prison. He will give thanks to Allah. What will he say? That it was Allah Who sent him to prison and Allah who freed him. That is what the Qur'an is referring to. We see that Hazrat Mahdi 9as) will be imprisoned.
Satan had caused dissent between me and my brothers.This means that some Muslims will oppose Hazrat Mahdi (as) and there will be a falling out between them. There will be bad feeling between them. People will come to Hazrat Mahdi (as) from as far as the desert and other places. They will come and swear allegiance to Hazrat Mahdi (as) from the very furthest places.
My Lord is kind to anyone He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.
It appears that the way of the Mahdi (as) basedon very fine precautionary measures and details. There will be such a complex and detailed destiny that it will leave people breathtaken, insha'Allah.
Surat an-Naml;
The prophet Solomon's (as) heart was full of love of animals. It says;
18- Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said, 'Ants! enter your dwellings so that Solomon and his troops do not crush you unwittingly.'
The ants heed the Prophet Solomon's (as) words. He has the power to communicate with ants. Allah shows he understands the language of ants. This is a very special knowledge. There is one aspect of this that also refers to Hazrat Mahdi (as), of course. Hazrat Mahdi (as) can be seen to be full of love, right down to insects. We can see how detailed his love of animals is.
19- He [Solomon] smiled, laughing at its words,
This is also a sign of love, a sign of love of ants. That love makes him happy.
My Lord, keep me thankful for the blessing You have bestowed on me and on my parents, Allah notes his love for his parents and his gratitude.
and keep me acting rightly, pleasing You.
So, I am indebted to You for all Your right actions. O Lord, it is You Who causes me to perform these right actions. You create them, I do not do them myself. You create all positive actions and behavior, O Lord, he says. What can a person do? Does he create the image within his brain himself? Allah creates it.
and admit me, by Your mercy, among Your servants who are righteous.'
Admit me among Your devout servants. He always wants honesty. Doing good works. Goodness means honesty. Honesty is what a Muslim must concentrate on most. Allah always refers to honesty.
20- He inspected the birds and said, 'How is it that I do not see the Hoopoe? Or is it absent without leave?
We also see that the Prophet Solomon (as) regards military discipline as very important. There is an inspection. That means that inspection is important in the running of the state. And we see that djinn will be used in intelligence activities. The bird Hoopoe is a djinn in the form of a bird. Allah knows the truth, of course. A bird cannot be charged with faith, but here a bird is charged with having faith.


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Toshiba Portege Z10t is a New Take on Convertiblesby Dustin Sklavos on 5/29/2013 9:00 AM EST
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karasaj - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkEverything was great until the price. I think it's just a tad too expensive. I don't expect 800$ for something like this, but at least a starting range + available upgrades at like... 1099$? would have been very nice. Then again, they have a lot of nice features... but 1499$ just seems too high for the starting price. Reply
akmittal - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link$1499 thats why intel x86 have no future for mobile devices Reply
karasaj - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkWhat? How does this make any sense ever unless you (probably) are just trolling? Atom is already in tablets and phones. Bay trail, kabini, and temash will all be in tablets/ultraportables this year for under 300$.
then again you're probably just trolling. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkWhen you combine the high profits that MS and Intel are used to making per x86 device (especially in the 90's), you have giant corporations with bureaucratic nightmares, layers and layers of managers with ever fewer employees with real skill, and all of them in a delusion that they can have those glory days again if they just introduce this one feature that will make everyone realize they really should pay $1500 for a tablet/laptop hybrid with Windows 8 Pro. The world changed and they fail to understand why it changed, though they have some inkling of at least HOW it changed.
They're like your grandpa that refuses to acknowledge the year is not 10 years ago when he still could do things (since now he can't). He thinks you're like you were 10 years ago, he thinks everyone is. He remembers his glory days and remembers nothing BUT those glory days no matter how hard reality keeps slapping that delusion down.
The sad thing is if Intel and MS don't stop screwing around with these high profit margins they keep expecting, they're going to wind up become business-only niche players in computing devices. Now there's money to be made there, but it won't be those huge profits they're used to and Intel will certainly have to start doing a lot of fab'ing for others if they lose the consumer market they've got a lock on right now.
Then again, perhaps they both want to play out The IBM Story Part Deux: The Movie, tag-teaming the role of IBM in shifts. At least Intel is showing signs that they realize that a corporate shift is necessary with their changes to management and organization.
Ballmer at MS is so afraid of being remembered a failure of a CEO after Bill Gates that he refuses to 1) let anyone get close to the Big Chair even as potential successor and 2) acts like the guy who looks out at a crowd running by and asks, "Hey! Where is that crowd going? I need to know so I can lead them there!" Like an ADHD kid, they bounce here and there, everywhere, with no cohesive vision, just a hodgepodge of everyone else's ideas crudely and poorly stitched together as devices and platforms.
Hence, Windows 8, Surface, Skydrive, Outlook.com, Windows Phone, Xbox One, etc, etc. Reply
WeaselITB - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link"just a hodgepodge of every else's ideas crudely and poorly stitched together as devices and platforms."
Really? This is the first time in memory that Microsoft is rolling out an absolutely consistent look and feel across all their devices and applications. Office, Server, Xbox, Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone, heck even Microsoft.com .... all with a consistent user interface and consistent styling. With a company that large, change doesn't happen overnight, and so we're still in the midst of the change, but I'm very excited by what Microsoft has in store for the rest of the year (Windows Blue, Xbox One, etc.). This is by far the most cohesive that I've ever seen Microsoft, and that's a good thing. Reply
CZroe - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkI've been looking for something to replace my M11x r3 with (screen is HORRIBLE). Anything bigger than 12.1" will not fit in my motorcycle tank bag (11.6" + bezel is often too tight) and I have yet to find one in that class with IPS (even MacBook Air isn't IPS). What can I expect from the graphics? Reply
bakedpatato - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkI highly doubt it has anything but intel HD4000 graphics. Reply
CZroe - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkSo: at least as good as the current Macbook Air. I wasn't expecting it to have a dedicated gaming-class GPU. :) Reply
beginner99 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkIt's like always. Anything that seems like a good idea and actually usable in terms of a tablet is just ridiculously overpriced. I can get a good laptop and tablet for the same price while each device will be better at what it was made for. Nice gimmick for high-up managers and rich tech nerds but else? Reply
Jeff Bellin - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - linkI see you point entirely, but I like to believe that the competitive marketplace still works some of the time and I have to believe that if this is the starting price and Toshiba seems to have done a good job creating a sub-category that could be very important and for now it has it to itself, so why not price it as high as it thinks the market will bear? My hope is that competition will both force the price of this unit down (I'm guessing they have $200 of wiggle room, more as they go into higher volume production. I'm not sure if the equivalent Haswell cpu will cost more or less. Still, to focus only on price may be to ignore that this is a very attractive product. Also, recall that most business class products list for at least 20% more than their consumer brethren, less I think due to the cost of durability, more because enterprises will pay the freight. It's not at all unusual for Toshiba in particular to offer close to identical products at different price points depending on whether they are branded Portege, Tecra, etc. Reply
merikafyeah - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkTwo words: Thinkpad Helix:
It's out now, but at a really bad time; Haswell is just around the corner and is the single biggest improvement for battery life and efficiency Intel has ever achieved to date.
If the Helix had Haswell and was about $1000 cheaper it would literally be my perfect device.
(It's more than $2000 for the Core i7 model. Yikes.) Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkAgreed: a helix with Haswell seems to nail it. I even wouldn't min if the keyboard unit was a bit thicker and heavier.. and contained an HGST 5k1500 1.5 TB HDD :)
And use a 17W CPU with cTDP. This way you should be able to change between "very quiet", "normal" and "number crunching" with a single click (or so). Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNo Wacom / Active digitizer in the Helix and it (this) competes against machines such as Lenovo X230T, Dell XPS12, XT3, Fujistu Stylistic Q702, HP EliteBook 2760p, Resolve 810 etc. Corp productivity machine, vPro, pen support is a totally different market than the helix. Reply
thesavvymage - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkdamn, I'd love a tablet for business school in the fall, and seeing the digitizer support almost had me. But $1500? Hard to swallow when the surface pro costs $1000 for the same size ssd and still has the active digitizer. Not sure what would make this Toshiba model worth 50% more other than the keyboard Reply
GotThumbs - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkI just ordered two Surface Pros for my office. $1,000? Only if you choose NOT to order the 120.00 soft-touch keyboard. If you want the higher end keyboard, then its 139.00.
While 1,500 is nothing to sneeze at....I think almost ALL of the posters are overlooking what this product provides for that price. No accessories to add onto the price to be up and running with the use of a keyboard. Even Apples tablet prices jump when you start tacking on all the extra accessories you need to use the device.
Be realistic and if you think you can produce a better product for less, please do. I look forward to reading the reviews for your low price, high spec device in the future and will seriously consider buying one.
Best Wishes, Reply
GotThumbs - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkClarification. My last comment was not directed at thesavvymage, but to all those commenters bashing the product. Reply
faiakes - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link11.6" , 1920*1080 - again!?!
These things have a 1.777 ratio, which is makes practically useless in portrait mode.
What if I want to read a magazine or a comic book?
I may not go near Apple stuff but if there is one thing the iPad has done right, is exactly that: understand that reading requires more width (or height depending on the perspective). The iPad 4 has a 1.333 ratio. If it was larger than 11" I would have bought one by now, iOS be damned. Reply
althaz - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkI couldn't disagree more strongly. The 4:3 format is utterly retarded for a 9"+ tablet (it's awesome for the iPad mini though). 16:9 is WAY better (although 16:10 would be perfect).
One handed, the iPad is a little unwieldy in either mode, whilst the portrait-mode Surface is much nicer to hold (it just balances much better in one hand).
In movie-watching the iPad wastes a lot of space, defeating some of the purpose of going for a larger (than 7-8") device.
If you are reading a book you want more height, if you are working you want more width (admitedly you can't do much in the way of work on the iPad, but it's getting there in this regard). 16:9 is a HUGE advantage over the ridiculously archaic format of the iPad. It's not perfect (in my view 16:10 is perfect), but it's certainly a lot better than 4x3. In my mind that's one of the key problems with the iPad (the other being a reasonably awful operating system). Reply
faiakes - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkIf we're talking about large tablets then the waste in video viewing space is negligible as far as I'm concerned,. Also, at 9"+ (or 11"+ which I'm looking for) size you'd have trouble holding anything one handed.
Yet load a pdf on one of these 11.6" 16:9 (or worse) resolutions and seen how height you waste in portrait mode while everything has to look tiny to squeeze in the width of the publication. 16:9 limits the tablet to video consumption and constant scrolling of web pages. Reply
Visual - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI was pretty much set on getting a Helix, Haswell "around the corner" is a good reason to wait but experience tells me it will be more than a year till that actually makes its way into similar tablets. Then again, Murphy's law says if I do actually buy the IVB version, the updated one will come on the next day...
The Helix price is high, much like on this model. But if it is with 3G, GPS, 256GB SSD, 3 year warranty, better build quality, dock included etc, then it almost makes up for it. Only thing that seemed missing was keyboard backlight...
Lets hope Toshiba also load up their model with similar goodies to make up for the price. If they launch soon enough I may even buy their product instead of Lenovo's, though I'm already a bit tired of waiting. Reply
xpantz - Sunday, June 02, 2013 - linkA bit expensive perhaps.. but I would happily pay that for such a nice piece of kit.
It has almost everything except....... GPS
Handicapped and deal broken. Reply
indianpriceinfo.com - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWhere Can I Buy This Device In Indian Market. Reply

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Projects by Greenaway, Lungin and Germanika at 5th Moscow Co-Production Forum
New projects by Peter Greenaway, Pavel Lungin and Valeria Gai Germanika are among 18 feature films selected to be pitched at the fifth edition of Moscow Business Square's Co-Production Forum.
This will be the second time that Greenaway is at the Forum after presenting his project Food Of Love, based on Thomas Mann's novella Death In Venice, there last year. His pitch then won him the $40,000 (€30,000) Best Pitch award sponsored by the new Moscow production complex Glavkino.
This time the Welsh-born director will be introducing Eisenstein In Guanajuato, which recounts the time the 33-year-old Russian director fell briefly, but intensely in love in a small Mexican town while researching for the never completed picture Que viva México! in Mexico between 1929-1931.
At last year's Odessa International Film Festival, Greenaway told ScreenDaily that "99% of the financing" was in place for this project and he hoped at the time to shoot in Mexico at the end of 2012.
Meanwhile, veteran Russian director Lungin will be presenting his contemporary reworking of Alexander Pushkin's short story Queen Of Spades, which is to be produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk's Art Pictures, and Germanika, whose All Will Die, But I Will Remain screened in Cannes in 2008, will be at the Forum with her new project The Dream-God.
Some of the projects in Moscow were previously introduced to potential co-producers or financiers at some of the Co-Production Forum's partner pitching markets.
Thus, Georgian director Nana Djanelidze's Another Paradise was pitched at this Sofia Meetings this March, and Kyrgyz film-maker Marat Alykulov's comedy Lenin?! featured in the lineups of last autumn's Busan Asian Project Market and Germany's Connecting Cottbus.
Stefan Tolz's German-Georgian project Fizz – Little Shop Of Soda, to be produced by ma.ja.de's Heino Deckert and Nana Djorjadze, was presented at the When East Meets West co-production forum in Trieste in January, and St Petersburg-based producer Vitaly Eroshenya is coming from this month's pitching session in Sochi with Dito Tsintsadze's road movie Van'ka.
Full line-up
- Another Paradise, Nana Djanelidze (Georgia)
- City Of Birds, Alena Alova (Russia)
- Eisenstein In Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway (Netherlands)
- Fizz – Little Shop Of Soda, Stefan Tolz (Germany-Georgia)
- For Four Hands, Evgeny Izrailit (France-Russia-Belgium)
- From Death To Morning, Dmitry Mamulia (Russia-India)
- Lenin?!, Marat Alykulov (Kyrgyzstan-UK-France)
- Light Breeze, Andrey Tarkovsky (Russia)
- Moscow Dream, Sherwood Hu (China-Russia)
- Northbound, Ru Hasanov (Azerbaijan)
- Passing Clouds, Tatiana Korol (UK)
- Play Me, Kusturica!, Uros Tomic (Serbia)
- Queen Of Spades, Pavel Lungin (Russia)
- Stepne, Marina Vroda (Ukraine)
- The Dream-God, Valeria Gai Germanika (Russia)
- The Florist, Maria Saakyan (Russia)
- Van'ka, Dito Tsintsadze (Russia)
- You Are My Mama, Leonid Rybakov (Russia-China)
Documentary projects
- 180 Beat, Olga Darfy (Russia-France)
- Give Me Jupiter!, Vlasta Arno (Russia)
- Luckus, Giedre Zickyte (Lithuania)
- Riding Into History, Ian White (China-Russia-Germany)
- The Forest In Me, Rebecca Marshall (UK)
- The Shelter, Mari Gulbiani (Georgia)
- Where The Paradise Is, Arutyun Khachatryan (Armenia)
The 18 feature and seven documentary projects were selected by a committee of international experts comprising Laurent Danielou (Rezo Films International), Mira Staleva (Sofia Meetings), producers Guillaume de Seille (Arizona Films) and Julia Mishkinene (Vita Aktiva), Simone Baumann (German Films) and Signe Zeilich-Jensen (Holland Film Meeting).
In addition, three projects by participants from previous editions of GenerationCampus will be pitched during the Forum.
Moscow Business Square's programme will include a presentation by ANICA of the benefits of shooting in Italy, case studies of co-productions and a roundtable with producers and distributors from CIS, the Baltic states and Georgia.
The 2013 edition will also have a special focus on the film industries in Chinas and South Korea, with discussion centring on public film policy in Korea and China and on the opportunities for co-production with Russia.
Moreover, the most successful recent Korean films will be placed in the spotlight along with a presentation of Hong Kong action director Dante Lam's cop drama Moscow's Mission.
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Lee, S.J., Jang, B.C., Lee, S.W., Yang, Y.I., Suh, S.I., Park, Y.M., Oh, S., Shin, J.G., Yao, S., Chen, L. and Choi, I.H.
Notes: Many cancer cells upregulate the co-signaling molecule B7-H1, confering resistance to anti-tumor immunity. The ability of interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) to upregulate B7-H1 expression was characterized by cloning fragments of the B7-H1 promoter upstream of the firefly luciferase reporter gene in the pGL3-Basic Vector and monitoring luciferase expression using the Dual Luciferase® Reporter Assay System. Firefly luciferase measurements were normalized using Renilla luciferase (pRL-CMV Vector). Putative IRF-1 binding sites in the B7-H1 promoter were identified using the Gel Shift Assay System. RT-PCR was used to examine B7-H1 mRNA levels in interferon-γ-treated or untreated A549 cells exposed to various concentrations of IRF-1 siRNA. cDNA synthesis was performed with the ImProm-II™ Reverse Transcription System. (3451)
ImProm-II™ Reverse Transcriptase
ImProm-II™ Reverse Transcription System
pGL3-Basic Vector
pRL-CMV Vector
Wan, J., Carr, B.A., Culter, N.S., Lanza, D.L., Hines, R.N. and Yost, G.S.
Notes: The human lung cell line A549 and the human liver cell line were transiently transfected with 0.1µg of CYP2F1 reporter constructs and 0.001µg of pRL-TK Vector using FuGENE® 6 Reagent in 96-well plates. For cotransfection studies, cells were transfected with 0.1µg of the reporter construct, 0.002µg of pRL-TK plasmid, and 0.5 or 0.2µg of Sp1, Sp3 or empty expression vectors, with the total transfected DNA remaining at 0.2µg. Reporter activity was assessed using the Dual-Luciferase® Reporter Assay System.
SL-2 cells were seeded in 24-well plates and cotransfected with 0.3µg of CYP2F1 reporter plasmid and 0.3µg of pPac/Sp1, pPac/Sp2 or empty expression vector. The total amount of plasmid DNA used for each transfection was 0.9µg. The DNA and FuGENE® 6 were added at a 3:1 ratio. Activities were assessed using the Dual- Luciferase® Reporter Assay System.
The Gel Shift Assay System was used to identify Sp1-like sites in the promoter of the human CYP2F1 using EMSA (electromobility shift analysis). (4269)
FuGENE® 6 Transfection Reagent
Lee, J.H., Koo, T.H., Hwang, B.Y. and Lee, J.J.
Notes: To investigate the effect of the compound kamebakaurin (KA) on NF-κB, an NF-κB-responsive firefly luciferase vector was transfected into HeLa, Jurkat and THP-1 cells. The Luciferase Assay System was used to assay the level of NF-κB induction after treatment of cells with various concentrations of KA. To determine if KA influenced the DNA-binding activity of NF-κB, nuclear extracts of HeLa, Jurkat and THP-1 cells were prepared after preincubation with KA and stimulation of NF-κB activity. Control nuclear extracts were prepared from unstimulated p50- or RelA-overexpressed MCF-7 cells. In addition, the wildtype and DNA-binding mutant RelA and p50 (NF-κB) His-tagged proteins were translated using the TNT® Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System and subsequently purified. Using the Gel Shift Assay System, the NF-κB and AP1 oligos were tested for electromobility shifts with the prepared nuclear extracts or with purified wildtype and mutant proteins. Supershift studies using anti-p50 or anti-RelA antibodies were also performed. (3113)
AP1 Consensus Oligonucleotide
Luciferase Assay System
NF-κB Consensus Oligonucleotide
TnT® SP6 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System
TnT® SP6 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System, Trial Size
TnT® T7 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System
TnT® T7 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System, Trial Size
Wahab, N.A., Parker, S., Sraer, J.D., and Mason, R.M.
Notes: Hyperglycemia seems to be involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. The authors identify regulatory promoter elements involved in gene regulation under hyperglycemic conditions and characterize some of the signaling pathways involved. Immunocytochemistry of human mesangial cells grown under normal and high glucose conditions was performed with the Anti-ACTIVE® MAPK pAb to localize dually phosphorylated, active MAPK protein. Cells were fixed in 3.7% paraformaldehyde, permeabilized with 0.1% Triton® X-100 and stained with the Anti-ACTIVE® MAPK pAb overnight at 4°C, or for 1 hour at 37°C. Gel shift assays were performed to identify a regulatory element which appears to be responsive to glucose concentration. Gel shift assays were carried out using Promega's Gel Shift Assay System. (2394)
Anti-ACTIVE® MAPK pAb, Rabbit, (pTEpY)
Akama, K.T., Albanese, C., Pestell, R.G., and Van Eldik, L.J.
Notes: Astrocytes were transfected using Tfx™-50 Transfection Reagent at a 1:1 DNA/reagent ratio (optimal). Cells were exposed to the DNA:lipid complex for 1-2 hours. (2213)
Ruiz Ortega, M., Bustos, C., Hernandez Presa, M.A., Lorenzo, O., Plaza, J.J., Egido, J.
Notes: Promega's Gel Shift Assay System was used to perform EMSAs on cell lysates using NF-kappaB oligonucleotide probe. HeLa Nuclear Extracts were used as a positive control for NF-kappaB binding activity. (0465)
Pryhuber, G.S., Khalak, R., Zhao, Q.
Notes: The Promega NF-kappa B Consensus Oligonucleotide and HeLa Nuclear Extract were used in gel-shift experiments. (0518)
Gel Shift Binding 5X Buffer
HeLaScribe® Nuclear Extract, Gel Shift Assay Grade
Rosmarin, A.G., Luo, M., Caprio, D.G., Shang, J., Simkevich, C.P.
Notes: The Recombinant Human SP1 protein was used for gel shift assay at 1 footprint unit per assay. As directed in the Gel Shift Assay System Technical Bulletin, BSA was added to the reaction. The protein was also supershifted with an anti-SP1 antibody. (0457)
Das, K. C. , White, C. W.
Notes: Gel Shifts performed in A549 adenocarcinoma nuclear extracts using the AP1, AP2, SP1, CREB, TFIID, and NF-kappaB Consensus Oligonucleotides and the Gel Shift Assay System. (1255)
AP2 Consensus Oligonucleotide
CREB Consensus Oligonucleotide
TFIID Consensus Oligonucleotide
Raju, U., Lu, R., Noel, F., Gumin, G.J. and Tofilon, P.J.
Notes: The authors examined gel shifts of the NF-κB consensus oligonucleotide by nuclear extracts of primary rat astrocytes that were exposed to various amounts of X-rays. Supershifts were also performed. Promega's Gel Shift Assay System and NF-κB consensus oligonucleotide were used. (1523)
Mori, A., Kaminuma, O., Suko, M., Inoue, S., Ohmura, T., Hoshino, A., Asakura, Y., Miyazawa, K., Yokota, T., Okumura, Y., Ito, K., Okudaira, H.
Notes: Luciferase reporter studies were performed in antigen-specific T cell clones. Experimental constructs were prepared in the pGL2 Basic Vector and luciferase activities were monitored with the Luciferase Assay System. Nuclear extracts were then made from these T cell clones and used for gel shifts with the Gel Shift Assay System. The analysis included the use of the AP-1 Consensus Oligonucleotide, the NF-kappaB Consensus Oligonucleotide and the Oct-1 Consensus Oligonucleotide. (0661)
pGL2-Basic Vector
OCT1 Consensus Oligonucleotide
Neri, A., Chang, C.C., Lombardi, L., Salina, M., Corradini, P., Maiolo, A.T., Chaganti, R.S., Dalla Favera, R.
Notes: The Wheat Germ Extract was used to generate proteins which, in combination with the Gel Shift Assay System, were used for gel shift assays. (0651)
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card.rect.y = self.screen_rect.bottom - card.surf.get_height()
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My thought process is x is 0,100,200 etc. throughout the loop, and gets set to card.rect.x, so i am not sure why sometimes the first card x value is set at 100, and sometimes 200, when the first card should be set at 0? The cards are laid out different each time too and not sure why.
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A beautiful handcrafted cluster bracelet overflowing with shimmering glass beads in shades of honeydew green and cantaloupe creating a cascade of spring colors combined with the lush softness of pearls in this beautiful handcrafted cluster bracelet. The entire piece is then finished off with a gold plated toggle clasp and matching chain. I personally love this style of bracelet. The sound it makes when worn is soothing to the senses. Bracelet is 7.8" (20 cm) in length including clasp


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Rustic wood cake stand hand made from basswood and rustic logs. Tree slice cake stands are here! Each stand has it's own unique personality and story. The log base is specially chosen to coordinate with the proportion of the stand. Decorate your stand with your choice of flowers, moss or even cherry blossoms. The possibilities are endless. ***Dimensions: 15"-17" by 11"-12" in diameter (cake stand is oblong), 6" high. Stand does not include cake, flowers, or other decorations that may be specific to your event. Because each stand is handmade, dimensions may vary a bit.". If you're interested in other custom sizes, please email us and let us know! We can custom make many items for you.


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This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Librarian at our Rakow Research Library.
Glass breaks. But if it's strengthened by thermal tempering, it breaks less easily and more safely. By 1920, architects and European car designers wanted more and more tempered glass—and in large sheets. Glassmakers could successfully temper only one sheet in ten. There's a trick to tempering: heat
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Hendon's play-off hopes were dealt a massive, if not fatal, blow when Margate deservedly won 3–0 at Vale Farm.
The injury-ravaged Greens were low on energy and were generally outenthused by a Gate team which had nothing to play for, but certainly didn't show it.
There were four changes from the team which had won so magnificently at AFC Wimbledon in midweek, with Scotts Cousins and Shulton coming in for Tico Gavi-Mihedji and Darren Currie respectively, Casey Maclaren replacing his brother Kevin and Carl McCluskey taking over from Isaiah Rankin.
There was indication, in the first five minutes anyway, of what was about to unfold. The Greens started brightly and forced a free-kick just outside the penalty area which came to nothing.
In the seventh minute they had another set piece, but this time the ball was hacked out of defence to the right wing, where Matt Bodkin was in acres of space. He ran down the wing before delivering a ball towards the Hendon penalty area.
Berkley Laurencin, suddenly aware of the lack of defence in front of him, sprinted off his line but he was not in time to beat Tommy Murphy to the ball. The lob from Muprhy, as Laurencin challenged him, was absolutely perfect and the ball bounced just short of the line before rising into the roof of the net.
Hendon tried to hit back and after 18 minutes had a half-chance when a flick from Jack Mazzone was headed goalwards by Maclaren. The ball, however, was never going to drop enough to go under the crossbar. Instead it struck the top of it and bounced out for a goal kick.
The Greens should have drawn level in the 28th minute when a careless trip by Laurence Ball brought down Maclaren a yard inside the penalty area. The defender had been wrong-footed by the Hendon midfielder and had no argument with referee's decision.
Incredibly, this was the seventh consecutive Ryman League Premier Division match between Hendon and Margate in which the Gate had conceded a penalty. This time Jamie Busby wasn't on hand to apply the coup de grace, nor were Currie, Greg Ngoyi or Elliott Charles.
The responsibility fell to Elliott Godfrey and he will have nightmares about his attempt. It didn't have much power, and the direction wasn't much better. That said, if Simon Overland had guessed the other way Hendon would have been level. He didn't and it remained 1–0 to Margate.
Half-chances continued to come Hendon's way but they were no better than that. At the other end, Margate found Laurencin in good form and he made two excellent saves, denying Murphy and Dean Pooley – the latter a top-notch effort.
There was also the requisite injury misfortune for the Greens. Michael Peacock went off inside the opening half-hour and he was replaced by James Parker, who slotted straight in at centre-half.
Hendon started the second half quite strongly and forced a succession of corners. However, the Margate defence, well marshalled by Ball, seemed to win every key challenge and, if they didn't, there was always a team-mate close enough to deny Hendon clear goalscoring opportunities.
The Greens quickly began to take more extravagant options, such as the 25-yarder by Mazzone when McCluskey had set him up. Shulton also worked himself an opening but he got a bad bounce and his shot bobbled to Overland, who saved easily.
When Margate attacked, however, there was danger all the time. Bodkin's prompting created openings for both Murphy and Tom Bradbrook, Hendon were able to stop most of the clear opportunities. That said they did strike the top of the crossbar with one effort and a post with another.
Jerome Federico began to give Dean Hill a hard time and, more often than not, the left-back was given the security of Mark Corneille in trying to stop the tricky winger. On one occasion when there was no cover, Hill's challenge brought him a yellow card – joining Maclaren in the referee's notebook.
A few minutes after the Hill challenge, another challenge left Federico limping more and Rankin replaced him, giving the Greens two out and out strikers. But, by this time, they were two goals down and more or less out of the match.
Good work by Bodkin down the left, getting the better of Cousins, saw him get to the byeline from where he played a ball in low to Murphy. Controlling the ball on his thigh, Muphy swivelled and rifled a shot from an acute angle off the underside of the crossbar and into the net.
A cross from Dave Diedhiou was headed just over by Mazzone and Rankin was unlucky with another bounce as Hendon vainly tried to get back into the game. The game was very open, with Margate relishing the opportunities to attack on the counter, while Hendon huffed and puffed and couldn't blow the Gate house down.
Tom Davie replaced McCluskey for the final ten or so minutes and he did hit the Margate bar in the last minute of normal time. That said, Murphy was denied his hat-trick by the frame of the opposite goal.
In the third minute of stoppage time, the final nail in the Hendon coffin was driven home by Bradbook. His finish was neat but he had been given far too much space by a Hendon team which looked distinctly exhausted and somewhat unhappy with life.
Hendon: Laurencin, Diedhiou, Cousins, Wharton, Peacock (Parker 26), C Maclaren, McCluskey (Davie 81), Godfrey, Mazzone, Shulton, Federico (Rankin 71). Not used: Archer, Gavi-Mihedji.


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I got a VPS with the following specs:CPU: 4 coresRAM: 8192 MBHarddisk: 300 GB
I got direct admin installed on it (VPS Came with it) and I uploaded a site to it .. so far so good!
now the problem im facing is that the webserver is extremly slow, The website takes ages to load (www.ictaanbieding.nl)I tested it on http://www.webpagetest.org and Everything seems fine exept for First Byte Time
I have no idea what to do here, I hope you guys can help me out ! :injured:
First thing I'd personally do, is rule out any programming. Place a static simple page as your index.html or whatever your default loading page is, and run your test again. If it still takes forever and a day, then you know it is a network/server setup issue. If it takes a split second and gives you an A, then you know you need to look internally at the application/program that runs your site. Maybe it is your database connection (for example), or a poorly written section of code.
Damn, yes ofc thats a good way to test it, tested this, added a simple test index.html and no delay at all. ran the test again and it got an AIts a start but whats next?!
So now you know it isn't the server setup/configuration, but now something that is internal.
Is your database and apache setup on the same VPS or are they separate entities?
both on the same VPS,
Im running a simple opencart webshop with 8000 products, and all of them got a image (I thought that might be the issue) but even with image compression its slow
Are you using localhost as your connection string for your database? Or are you using a DNS entry? If a DNS entry, do you have a entry in your /etc/hosts file that indicates the DNS entry should be pointed to 127.0.0.1 (since they are on the same machine)?
Please note, don't point your domain name to 127.0.0.1 unless you want your site to be unreachable. If you are using mysql.domainname.com then I'd have that in your /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 (unless you need outside resources hitting it). If you need outside resources hitting it, using localhost to connect to your database.
its set to localhost
edit: would there be a benefit to point it to a dns ?
okay, now to start to rule out your opencart queries.I'd ensure slow_query_log is enabled, access your homepage and then execute mysqldumpslow to review if any of the queries are not performing very well.
If that all looks good, I'd turn my attention to any third party sites your site may be accessing, as they may be slowing it down.
slow_query_log is enabled, the logfile is empty, I dont understand how to execute mysqldumpslow to review it
When I try this in putty I get: (just by giving the command: mysqldumpslow Can't determine basedir from 'my_print_defaults mysqld' output: --bind-address=127.0.0.1
When I use the command: mysqldumpslow /home/admin/domains/ictaanbieding.nl/public_htmlIts telling me its reading mysql slow query log from /home/admin/domains/ictaanbieding.nl/public_html
again no output in te mysql-slow.log file I created in /var/log/
I think I understand how this works I ran:
[root@srv1 ~]# mysqldumpslow /var/log/mysql-slow.logOutput: Reading mysql slow query log from /var/log/mysql-slow.logCount: 1 Time=0.00s (0s) Lock=0.00s (0s) Rows=0.0 (0), 0users@0hosts
I fixed it or atleast made it load a lot faster (it was 20 seconds) its 1.834s now wich is still a big FFound a xml file, made a backup of it and deleted it as it wasnt a original opencart file. after this it speeded up!
Interesting... was the XML file being read by opencart?
Image compression? Images are already compressed. You are not attempting to compress them again, are you? I didn't see any evidence of that, but I have to ask.
Your main page has 50 requests. That is a lot, but not the root of the problem. tools.pingdom.com indicates the wait time to receive the HTML of your index page is over 20 seconds. :eek: That's some of the worst performance I have ever seen outside of a shared host I used years ago. On the first load, all of your files took a long time to be transmitted, including the images, CSS, and JS. On secondary loads, the HTML still took over 20 seconds to be received but the linked in files took less time. That seems to indicate the bottleneck is in the page generation somewhere.
Are you running any type of PHP accelerator? It looks like you are using PHP 5.3 which was released in 2009 and for which support will end in July 2014. You should consider upgrading to PHP 5.5 if your code will allow it. Significant improvements in performance have been made since 5.3. Plus, 5.5 has an available opcode cache that can help improve performance. But I don't think that will help in your situation.
For now you must simplify. Turn off output compression for starters and any other special, non-essential configuration features. If that doesn't help, you will have to start profiling your code and database queries to find where the trouble is. You have a powerful VPS. No way should it take this long to load a page.
Right after I posted this I saw the original poster's reply and tested his site again. The main HTML load time has declined from 20 seconds down to 0.723 seconds. I think the OP fixed it.
Hehe, I think you missed a post or two He found the bulk of his time due to an XML file, once that was removed, it dropped to a 1 second load time However, there is still the 50+ requests being loaded, and that may be the issue at hand now. There is also the 404 on the favicon.ico that will add time as well. Just create a blank favicon.ico (if you don't have one already, so you can get rid of the 404).
Yes it was doing something with my images, and I got 10K images so I think that just caused it to overload.its fixed now, so thats great haha thanks for your help!
You should still consider upgrading from PHP 5.3.
I'll second that. I don't think it will make a huge difference in the loading of your site, but you'll be better protected from known vulnerabilities.
true but tbh im a bit scared to upgrade, Im not that experienced and dont wanna mess things up haha. if I email you root details will ya do it ? haha
Im not sure if Opencart supports php 5.5.1
hmm the 50+ request is new for me, Ill look into this.
The upgrade looks pretty straight-forward...http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php55/


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Earth Day 2013 Craft Swap and Celebration
The Makery
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Makery is proud to present The First Annual Earth Day 2013 Craft Swap + Celebration!
We invite you to join us for an enjoyable afternoon celebration that promotes sustainable crafting and creative reuse of unwanted craft supply items.
How it works: Bring in any unwanted, unused craft items to donate to our craft swap. You'll receive a certain number of tickets, determined by the value of your donation to then use to 'purchase' other craft items! Refresh your craft supply cabinet while also keeping unwanted items out of the landfill. Any left over craft supply items will be donated to the Long Beach Depot for Creative ReUse.
In addition to the craft swap fun, we will be hosting a DIY seed-bomb station, and an Earth Day craft party + upcycled succulent planter/terrarium workshop from 1:00pm-3:00pm.
Please register via Eventbrite for either the craft swap or the craft party* We are requesting a suggested $5 donation per swap attendant but please don't let the lack of available funds stop you from attending. Contribute what you can, if you can :)
Each guest will receive a free issue of GreenCraft Magazine courtesy of Stampington & Company.
Where to Find Us:
Website: www.themakerysocal.com
Blog: http://www.themakeryblog.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/themakerysocal
Twitter: http://twitter.com/themakerysocal
The Makery is located at 423 S. Brookhurst Street STE M, just a few blocks south of the 5 fwy, Brookhurst exit. Parking is free and plentiful!
*Craft Party Ticket includes registration for the craft swap and all supplies for the workshop.
When & Where
The Makery
423 S Brookhurst St
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
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Men's Results | Women's Results
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- With predictions of not even breaking into the top six, the University of Pennsylvania men's cross country team defied the odds and placed fourth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships today at Lehigh's Goodman Course. Four of the Quakers finished in the top 50, with one finishing in the top five. With the strong performance, Penn has a chance at an at-large berth to the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.
With their best showing of the season, the men ran an average time of 30:50. No. 20 Villanova finished first, averaging 29:57, and took the top two spots of the race. Georgetown and Penn State finished in the third and fourth slots, followed by a runner from Penn and No. 15 Princeton.
The first Ivy to cross the finish line was sophomore Thomas Awad, who placed fifth overall with a time of 29:49 and punched himself a ticket to nationals. Courtney Jaworski was the last Quaker to represent Penn cross country at nationals, which was back in 2005.
Next to cross the line within the top 50 was sophomore Brendan Smith (30:41) in 24th, freshman Brendan Shearn (30:50) 26th, and Junior John Trueman (31:19) 46th. Rounding out the team's seven runners were freshman Nick Tuck (31:29) in 51st, senior Conner Paez (31:33) in 56th, and senior Conor Nickel (32:40) in 102nd.
The top two teams in each region automatically compete at the NCAA D-I Championships. The remaining 13 at-large bids are then determine through a selection process of reviewing all competition results. Once all teams have been determined, 38 additional individuals per gender are selected to compete. Of the teams that were not selected, the top four finishers are automatically selected, as long as they have finished within the region's top 25. Two additional athletes, who have finished in the regional top 25, will be selected from the remainder of the national pool as at-large individuals.
The team and individual at-large selections will be made on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 3:00 p.m. on NCAA.com.


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Guided self-service applications allow customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring any interaction with a representative of an enterprise. They can also reduce operational costs through decreased paperwork and lower call center activity. Users can be given relevant information in the context of the transactions they are trying to complete and even have real-time collaboration with a representative when required. Examples of guided self-service applications are product configurators, online banking and e-commerce.
Rich Internet applications (RIA), such as those created using Adobe Flex 2.0, are an ideal candidate for creating a guided self-service application for the web.
Adobe Flex 2.0 can simplify complex, multi-step processes in a single, dynamic interface that provides a higher level of service to customers, resulting in deeper loyalty and higher-value relationships. An RIA built using Adobe Flex can also provide in-context prompting through audio and video integration providing the real-time collaboration required by self-service applications.
While a guided self-service application is an excellent means for effectively capturing data and providing a superior user experience, a complete Enterprise solution will also require the ability to archive signed documents, provide output that can be printed and offer the ability to go offline. An RIA cannot satisfy all of these requirements on its own but it should be able to integrate easily with additional server solutions in order to gain this additional functionality.
Adobe LiveCycle products are able to produce documents that can be signed, printed, archived and filled offline by dynamically generating PDFs that can be viewed using the Adobe Reader.
A RIA created using Adobe Flex and an application created using Adobe LiveCycle can then be integrated into one complete solution.
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National Bank of Arizona (NB|AZ) announced the appointment of three prominent business leaders as new members to its Board of Directors. The distinguished members elected to join the Board include David N. Beckham, real estate developer and co-founder of Beckham Gumbin Ventures; Tracy Bame, president of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation; and Steve Christy, Vice Chair of ADOT's State Transportation Board.
The current Board made a strategic decision to elect three additional members to expand the Board for greater bandwidth, a stronger element of diversity and to broaden community representation.
"The criteria we used for selecting candidates for the Board was in keeping with the high standards of excellence we adhere to as a bank," said Keith Maio, CEO and president, National Bank of Arizona. "We appointed three leaders with an excellent reputation and the best in their field of work."
"I'm honored to serve on the NB|AZ Board with individuals of such high integrity," said incoming member, David N. Beckham. "I'm fortunate to have had long-term relationships with some of the current members of the Board, and I look forward to being a productive addition in supporting the vision of this strong financial institution."
"National Bank of Arizona is an organization that clearly is committed to being an outstanding business and community partner," said Tracy Bame. "Adding new directors that bring expanded insight and perspective to the Board is continued demonstration of this. I'm privileged and thrilled to accept the invitation to serve the bank in advancing these goals across the state in every way I can."
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The new designed FamilySearch website has been launched, apart from the completely new look to the site there has been several new facilities added. The major addition is the much debated Family Trees. The idea is that if all genealogists put their genealogy onto the FamilySearch Family Trees researchers would be able to collaborate and share information making the trees much fuller and bigger. Other additions are Fan Charts that can be viewed and printed, the ability to preserve and share family photos and Live Help which means you can contact experienced FamilySearch assistants who will with genealogy queries.
All this is great and FamilySearch is to be commended for their work which they share with all regardless of their religious beliefs. Personally I'm not sold on the idea of putting my research onto their family trees section where anyone can amend it without contact and discussion with me. However I haven't investigated the trees in depth and may well change my mind later!
I did do a test search of the trees and entered my grandmother, Eliza Bint, into the trees search and amongst the results found her with the right year of her birth and her parents were named, but no sources of where the information was found and no way of knowing how the information came to be on there. I'll be watching the site during the next few months.
The photograph section was unavailable when I checked due to overwhelming response. This section does excites me as I think it will become THE place to look for family photos. When it becomes available then I shall be taking a good look.
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EXAM results from GCSEs taken last year show a rise across schools in south Bucks.
The Department of Education published league tables showing the performance of English secondary schools in GCSEs.
And in Buckinghamshire Beaconsfield High School came top of the table.
There were 100 per cent of pupils who achieved grades A* to C in English and Maths, 100 per cent achieved five or more A* to C grades and 83 per cent achieved the English Baccalaureate, which is a performance measure.
The measure shows where pupils have secured a C grade or above across a core of academic subjects at GCSE level and enables parents and pupils to see how their school is performing. It is not compulsory.
The top non-selective school in south Bucks was Great Marlow School with 71 per cent with Grades A* to C in English and Maths followed by The Chalfonts Community College with 69 per cent.
Next was Sir William Ramsay in Hazlemere with 68 per cent and 67 per cent of pupils got five or more GCSEs graded A* to C.
Headteacher Mark Mayne said "The results are certainly testament to the dedication of our staff- both the teaching staff and associated staff, the support of parents and the determination of our young people."
He said there have been massive improvements which will continue.
The Misbourne, which has come out of special measures following the appointment of a new headteacher, got 64 per cent in English and Maths with 63 per cent getting five or more.
Princes Risborough was close behind with 63 per cent and 62 per cent. Most of the secondary modern schools all increased their percentage, besides Cressex Community School which kept a level pegging at 46 per cent.
State funded schools nationally get an average of 61.3 per cent achieving Grade A* to C in English and MAths GCSE.
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Modern artwork including paintings, sculpture, and wall hangings, modern furniture are categories expected to dominate Skinner, Inc.'s 20th century furniture and decorative arts auction Dec. 18. Key periods of 20th century design will have take center stage including silver and art pottery from the Arts & Crafts movement. The auction...
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A magnificent Lenzkirch grandfather clock crafted circa 1860, 8 feet 2 inches tall and featuring a music box that plays 15 1/2 inch discs, soared to $39,200 at an on-site auction held Nov. 6.
Seminar and appraisal event for Tiffany and other lamps to follow Fontaine's discovery auction
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Fontaine's Auction Gallery is offering a free one-day seminar and appraisal on the lamps of Tiffany and other 20th century lighting, to be held March 21, in the firm's gallery facility, located at 1485 South Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Fontaine's has been the scene of numerous auctions that featured rare and...
Art Deco and Modernism light up San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO – This year marked the 25th anniversary of California's premier event, the Art Deco and Modernism Show. More than 150 exhibitors joined the show, Dec. 5-6 at The Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.
New Calif. mall celebrates past, present and future
The doors of Glendale's historic Chazan Building opened again when the mayor of this southern California city, Frank Quintero, joined the great grandson of the original owner for a ribbon cutting ceremony this past June 18.
Estate of noted Orange County philanthropist Elizabeth Colyear Vincent at Bonhams & Butterfields in November
LOS ANGELES — Bonhams & Butterfields has announced the Nov. 8, 2009, auction of The Estate of Elizabeth Colyear Vincent, Newport Beach, Calif.
Rago to hold art pottery/deco arts double-header Sept. 25-26
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago's heralds the opening of the 2009-2010 season with a double-header auction of Roseville and Craftsman/early 20th century design.
Marburger Farm dealers focus on quality inventory
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Requiem for a restaurant: Pierce's, since 1894
ELMIRA, N.Y. – Picture a restaurant in the same location for more than 100 years, since 1894 to be exact, and run all that time by one family.
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US settles Fla. inmate medical lawsuit for $600K
Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 9:06 a.m.
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TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has settled a Florida inmate's lawsuit claiming inadequate medical care left him permanently disabled for $600,000.
Miami attorney Liah Catanese said Tuesday her client Robert Hernandez suffered from a serious hip condition that was not properly diagnosed by prisons medical personnel. The 54-year-old Hernandez was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Coleman at the time.
Evidence at a trial before a Tampa federal judge showed Hernandez could have been treated successfully with antibiotics. Instead his leg atrophied, he was unable to walk and eventually he had hip replacement surgeries that left him with a permanent limp.
Prisons officials argued that even with early diagnosis the treatment would have been the same. Still, after testimony ended, the Bureau of Prisons agreed to the settlement.
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ROME, Ga. – The Saint Leo men's lacrosse team dominated the pace of play in the second quarter to ensure a 13-5 victory over the Shorter University Hawks on Tuesday afternoon at Ben Brady Field. The win closes out the Lions' season opening road trip on a high note, and advances their record to 1-1 on the young season. With the loss, Shorter drops to 0-2.
Five players tallied two goals, while two dished out two assists on the day. Senior Matt Obermeyer led the team with four points overall, tallying two goals and two assists. Michael Mastracchio and Ryan Burke each earned three points on the afternoon with Mastracchio scoring a goal and two assists, and Burke picking up two goals and an assist of his own. Matt Weller, Miles Britton, and Eric Gendron each found the back of the net twice, while Dylan Yonts and Chad Marino placed a shot between the pipes once apiece. Greg Strobl closed out the scoring efforts for the afternoon with an assist on a Gendron goal as the Lions earned a total of 19 points.
Will Cothron took charge at the faceoff-x, dominating the stat sheet as he won 20-of-20 attempts at the line while picking up nine ground balls. Dillon Affatato won his lone faceoff attempt to help the Lions stay perfect on the day.
Defensively, sophomore Dave Moore saw a full 60 minutes of action between the pipes. The Lake Mary, Fla. native made seven saves while facing a total of 17 shots and 12 shots on goal. His counterpart, JR Wellers, set aside 20 shots while the Lions peppered him with 52 shots and 33 shots on frame.
The Hawks were led by Matt Kirstiansen and Kyle Morris, who each scored two goals. Tyler Kristiansen contributed a goal of his own to wrap up Shorter's scoring efforts on the day.
Britton got the game rolling, scoring just 58 seconds into the contest off of an assist from Obermeyer, but the Hawks answered back a shade over two minutes later to knot the score at 1-1. The Lions took matters into their own hands, and netted the next two to close out the quarter with a 3-1 lead.
The second stanza proved to be the deal maker as Saint Leo shut down Shorter and rattled off six unanswered goals to pull ahead to a 9-1 advantage at the half.
Shorter came out of the break and took advantage of two man-up opportunities to cut the lead to six, 9-3, with 5:05 to go in the period. But Britton and Weller answered back to extend Saint Leo's lead back to eight, 11-3, entering into the final quarter.
Both teams tallied two apiece in the final 15 minutes of action to close out the game with the Lions holding onto their eight point advantage.
Saint Leo dominated the shot count, 52-17, as well as held the Hawks silent on faceoffs, winning all 21 attempts. The Lions also took charge on the turf, winning 20 ground balls to Shorter's nine.
The Saint Leo men's lacrosse team returns to action on Saturday, February 22, when they host Lindenwood University. Game time against the Lions is slated for noon at Turf Stadium on University Campus.
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Drive-in: Greenville's Barnes streaking
Red Sox first-rounder hasn't allowed run in first 16 pro innings
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | April 18, 2012 10:16 AM ET
Boston's No. 13 prospect struck out nine over six shutout innings -- extending his career-starting scoreless streak to 16 frames -- in the Class A Greenville Drive's 4-2 victory Wednesday afternoon over the host Lexington Legends.
"I was able to establish my fastball early and my curveball was good again, but the key was my changeup," said Barnes, who fanned two of his final three batters and estimated he threw 65 or 66 total pitches. "I hadn't used it much the last outings, and it's a pitch I'm going to need down the road. I wanted to implement it today to see how hitters were reacting to it."
Barnes (2-0) yielded three hits -- Matt Duffy's single in the second, Justin Gominsky's double in the fourth and Tyler Burnett's single in the fifth -- and plunked one batter, but the 19th overall draftee last June picked off one of the base runners and also induced two double plays.
"Everything," Barnes said, "has been working."
As a result, major success in the Minors is quickly becoming old hat for the former University of Connecticut standout. Barnes, the reigning South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week, struck out nine Lakewood batters over five two-hit, scoreless frames in his pro debut on April 8. He followed that up with five one-hit, scoreless innings and seven K's in a no-decision opposite West Virginia on Friday.
One factor in his success: catcher and Draft classmate Blake Swihart, who has caught the starter's last two outings. Swihart, who is relatively new to full-time catching, was behind the plate for all nine innings and caught a runner attempting to steal to end the second.
"I hadn't thrown back-to-back curveballs all game and I didn't want to go fastball, so I got [Burnett] looking on a curveball, and Swihart stood up and made a great throw," Barnes said of his batterymate, who was selected seven spots after him, at 26th overall, last June. "I live with him on the road and at home, so we spend a lot of time together. He understands what I'm trying to do really well. I haven't seen him do one thing wrong behind the plate."
At the plate, Swihart kick-started the Drive's three-run rally against relievers Nathan Pettus (0-2) and Dayan Diaz in the top of the sixth. Lexington pitchers Jonas Dufek and Pettus had combined for five no-hit innings to match Barnes zero for zero, but Boston's No. 11 prospect started the sixth with a leadoff double to end the no-no and scored three batters later on Henry Ramos' line-drive, two-run single. Keury De La Cruz also produced an RBI single.
Swihart also singled and walked in five plate appearances, raising his batting average to .227 through 11 games.
"He's definitely made strides," Barnes said. "Pro ball is different than high school ball, but he's swinging well, and I'm excited to see where it takes him the rest of this season."
Greenville added its fourth run in the ninth, when David Renfroe lifted a leadoff homer. Renfroe, a right-handed hitting first baseman, now has three longballs in his first 11 games.
Lexington scored twice in the bottom of the ninth against reliever Jason Garcia to nullify a potential shutout: Zachary Johnson singled with two outs and scored on Duffy's two-run dinger.
Garcia, who pitched the game's final three innings, earned his second save.
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The 2012 Cadillac CTS sedan, coupe and wagon are treated to a noticeable update that includes a high detail grille and standard Bluetooth connectivity. A Touring Package was also introduced onto the 2012 CTS providing accentuation aiding both the sport and luxury appearance of the Cadillac. The 2012 model year sees the incorporation of a 3.6-liter V-6 powerplant on the Cadillac CTS and SRX. Generating 318 maximum horsepower with the CTS line-up, the newly retooled engine is presented as option equipment. The direct-injected, 308-horsepower engine attached to the 2012 Cadillac SRX replaces both the turbocharged 2.8-liter and 3.0-liter V-6 found in last year's version of the premium crossover utility. A change at the top of Cadillac's car line-up is expected in 2013 as the brand-new XTS takes the place of both the DTS and STS sedans. With the discontinuation of the Cadillac DTS, the Northstar V-8 engine is officially retired from the luxury brand.
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2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe
Added to the Cadillac division in 2011 as a personal luxury car, the Cadillac CTS Coupe receives an all-new 6-cylinder engine and front-end styling.
2012 Cadillac CTS Sedan
One of the most successful vehicles in the Cadillac line-up, the CTS Sedan receives an array of updates in 2012 including a Touring Package and a new V-6 engine.
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The most versatile member of the American luxury car brand's entry-level fleet, the 2012 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon wears a new front grille as well as enhanced exterior touches of a new Touring Package.
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A 556-horsepower personal luxury two-door, the supercharged 2012 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe features a minor exterior dress up to match this proud American luxury car.
2012 Cadillac CTS-V Sedan
First sold in 2004, the Cadillac CTS Sedan enters the 2012 model year with 556 horsepower, supercharged 6.2 liter V-8 and a gently modified appearance.
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Combining 556 horsepower with up to 58 cubic feet of cargo space, the 2012 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon offers the finest in American luxury, performance and even practicality.
2012 Cadillac Escalade
Remaining a unique fixture in the premium automobile crowd, the truck-based 2012 Cadillac Escalade continues to confidently show off the satisfying bravado of American luxury.
2012 Cadillac Escalade ESV
A longer version of Cadillac's full-size premium utility vehicle, the 2012 Escalade ESV model offers maximum interior passenger and cargo room.
2012 Cadillac Escalade EXT
One of the more unique concepts for luxury vehicles, the 2012 Cadillac Escalade EXT enters its tenth year in production as a fusion of supreme comfort with unusual utility.
2012 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid
Largely an uncompromised premium utility vehicle, the 2012 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid supplies top notch V-8 luxury while obtaining fuel economy over 20 miles per gallon.
2012 Cadillac SRX
Competing in the competitive luxury crossover market, the 2012 Cadillac SRX receives an increased list of standard features and a new 3.6 V-6 engine.


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Hii'm not sure if this is the right place to post
i made this blog (with java and mysql) and when i enter text and submit, this happens:
what i submit: a b c dwhat is displayed after submission and retrieve from database:a%20b%20c%20d
from where should i start in order to solve this?
using charset=iso-8859-1 in my jsp and latin-1 in mysql
i forgot to say that, if a want to post in the blog and have the text correctly output afterwards, i copy the text i input, then submit, then edit the retrieved text (the one with %20 chars added) and over it i paste the original text, submit (edit), getting it done now without any errors
the %20 is the space. If you want to get rid of that you either need to mark the spaces with a dash or underscore or take the spaces out altogether in your url. Depending upon your blog platform, it should tell you how to make "friendly urls", using your htaccess file, to display without the %20 space markers.
Shyflower: its not in the url, its in the main blog's textarea where the %20 makes its appearance
have a look here at topics with title "teste":
I looked at the link you left and didn't see any %20 markers in Google Chrome browser.
Oops... yes I did. Just a minute!
Those markers are in your source code so I imagine your blog platform's rich text editor is putting them in there. What blog platform are you using?
This can also happen when you copy paste from a Word document to a rich text editor. The easiest way to get rid of them is to change from rich text to straight html, which is something you can do in most blog platforms (at least the ones I have used).
the blog was built from scratch by me, using java and mysql, so no rich text editor or whatsoever as i said above, if i want it nice, i copy the original text, submit, then edit - paste over, submit again -> pls see the example in the link i gave above
I'm not tech oriented, but I don't think this is a MySQL problem so I'm going to move this thread again then to general application and design, which is a programming forum. Maybe someone there will be able to help you. Good luck. Sorry I couldn't help more.
site is up again sorry for the inconvenience
never mind: i partially recoded the app and now it works fine
Sorry no one could help you out. Don't give up on us! Hopefully next time we'll do better.


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The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) today presented a report on the importance of USDA's leadership in agricultural research. The Council is a diverse group of individuals appointed by the President from across the basic and applied scientific community to advise the President and the Executive Office of the President on key scientific issues.
Report to the President on Agricultural Preparedness & the Agriculture Research Enterprise, by the Council, concludes that the United States is the undisputed world leader in agricultural production today, but also cautions that U.S. agriculture also faces a number of challenges that are poised to become much more serious in the years ahead.
There is no question that the report recognizes American agriculture and USDA's leadership in agricultural science and research as critical to the efforts to ensure greater food security and a better future for everyone.
At the USDA, Research, Education, and Economics Under Secretary Dr. Catherine Woteki oversees a team of world class scientists, economists, statisticians, and support staff working to solve some of the biggest challenges facing us all – a changing climate, uncertain energy sources, rising childhood obesity rates, food insecurity around the globe – and making sure our solutions are safe and sustainable.
This new report, by an independent council of Presidentially-appointed experts, prioritizes the top scientific challenges facing agriculture and offers recommendations on how best to meet those challenges in the years ahead, with an emphasis on current practices within research universities and the USDA. USDA will carefully review the recommendations.
The full report can be viewed here.


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This article was published 27/6/2013 (1518 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Manitobans rejoice! The weather forecast for the Canada Day long weekend looks mighty fine, and it doesn't seem to matter where you live in this great province of ours.
For people sticking around the city, running to the lake or mopping up after way too much water in communities like Reston and Brandon, there's a whole lot of heat and sunshine coming, says Environment Canada.
Even the folks of Churchill could experience temperatures over 30 C this weekend.
Way down south, Winnipeggers can expect a mix of sun and cloud, a 30 per cent chance of rain today and a high of 25 C. For tonight's Winnipeg Blue Bombers' season opener at the new Investors Group Field, there is a slight risk of a thundershower and a temperature around 20 C.
On Friday, the clouds will clear late in the day, setting the stage for a gorgeous weekend. There is nothing but clear skies expected Saturday through Monday, with daytime temperatures hovering around 27 C.
The sunny days continue right through to the middle of next week.
OK, if you're getting out of town, the forecast looks just as positive.
In cottage country, there's the potential for rain today and Friday in communities on both sides of Lake Winnipeg, however, the sunshine hits on Saturday. In Gimli, look for plenty of bright, blue sky Saturday through Tuesday, with daytime highs averaging around 26 C.
It's pretty much the same thing over at Grand Beach, with sunshine and highs of 28 C expected Saturday through Monday.
In the Whiteshell region, there's some rain and clouds today and Friday on the way, but the Canada Day weekend should be spectacular, with plenty of sun and highs of 27 C.


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Self-abasement or abasement is voluntary act of self-punishment in order to atone for some real or imagined wrongdoing. It usually involves an unfavorable social comparison between the self to another person or some standard of behavior, thought or feeling. In psychology, abasement is associated with shame (rather than guilt) and it is said to involve the reduction of the subject's self esteem.
The notion of abasement was developed by H. Murray, following Freudian psychoanalysis. He suggested this act is a basic human social need to lower one's self, relative to others a person considers superior to themselves, to give power to that superior person, to know their place within a social hierarchy.[1]
Webster's Dictionary defines "self-abasement" as:
- 1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
- 2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.
Self-abasement might have a religious aspect for those seeking humility before God, perhaps in the context of a monastic or cenobitic lifestyle.
It also has a sexual and fetish aspect for those people who enjoy masochism or erotic humiliation and other related BDSM practices. Examples of self-abasement practices in this context would include self-flagellation, bondage, torture, public humiliation including online humiliation.
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- ↑ Matsumoto, D (2008). The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology.
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