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SF Barnes routed Australia in 1901-2, Bob Massie famously did the same to England in 1972, Richard Ellison's outswing was instrumental in England retaining the Ashes in 1985, and Terry Alderman was such a tormentor of England's batting through the 1980s that he featured on urban graffiti. At the tailend of the Iron Lady's years, alongside a big slogan demanding "Thatcher Out!" someone had daubed "lbw Alderman".
Now swing might be decisive again. After a somewhat erratic career, Jimmy Anderson has found consistency and stability to go with his obvious potency. He has entered the list of the top 10 bowlers in the world and after seeing him demolish the West Indies in Durham with zippy swing of outlandish brilliance, you sense he may be on the verge of something meteoric. He senses it too. "I could be No 1 in the world if I keep working," he says without sounding boastful.
Anderson has always had enormous potential. There is a fluidity about his run-up and action and an explosion at the crease that promise something special. His stock delivery angles slightly into the right hander before bending wickedly away at the last moment (as opposed to other swingers like Matthew Hoggard or Stuart Broad whose away movement does not have that initial in-slant.) Directed at the right spot it is a ball loaded with wicket-taking potential. And, without any discernible change in action he can make it bend the opposite way too.
Swing is an elusive beast, a fickle animal that, even in the best practitioners, has a habit of vanishing overnight. Massie's amazing skills deserted him so suddenly he was barely ever heard of again. It plays havoc with a bowler's confidence, and Anderson has suffered sharp extremes of fortune. His sensational spell in the 2003 World Cup against Pakistan after barely half a season of first-class cricket, and a five-wicket haul on his Test debut, were followed by a sequence of pastings at the hands of the South Africans. Injuries followed, the swing hid itself away and his career stalled.
You need two things as a swing bowler. Self-belief, and a plan B. You have to convince yourself that, despite the fact that the ball is not bending round corners today, it is not your fault and it might tomorrow. In the meantime adjust your strategy. Do not keep seeking those banana deliveries starting on leg stump and ripping out off which end up as friendly leg-stump half-volleys. Pull your length back, rein in your ambition and bowl maidens. It is a hard lesson to learn for a mercurial talent – but its vital for your well being.
Anderson has learnt this lesson and incorporated these skills, importantly without any loss of venom. In fact it has made him even more dangerous. He has added persistence and nous to his special ability to be able to make the ball suddenly change direction in the air. Anderson has a rare talent. Only a handful of bowlers in history have been able to swing the new ball both ways at around 90mph – the young Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall, Dennis Lillee (occasionally) and that's about it.
What those men had, apart from natural expertise, was presence. Anderson, a naturally shy individual, has been busy acquiring it. "The first six months in the England side I probably only said about 10 words," he recalls. "The team was full of experienced Test players and it was hard to feel you properly belonged. I doubted my ability and the methods I used. I needed constant reassurance."
What did not help was having his method messed about, one of the Tasmanian bowling coach Troy Cooley's rare failings. "The real low point was at Johannesburg [in 2005.] I wasn't playing in the side and I was bowling a lot in practice and tinkering with things and when I got a game my head was everywhere thinking about stuff and I went round the park. I didn't feel good about myself."
It was not until the home series against India in 2007 that he felt he was getting somewhere. "I had gone back to my old method and found some consistency and felt I was becoming a fixture in the team. Allan Donald [England's bowling coach that year] helped me a lot. More on the mental side. He told me I should be leading the attack and I needed to be more aggressive, both with my bowling and my body language."
He noticeably upped his pace and his hostility in the series and gradually assumed, in the continual absence of Flintoff and the gradual decline of Harmison, the alpha-male role on the field. He consistently got good players out, (a classic was the three-card trick of two outswingers and an inswinger to knock over Sourav Ganguly) constantly asked questions when the pitch went flat and hassled the tailenders with feisty aggression. "It's given me a lot of confidence being the leader of the attack. I've been quite flattered by Andrew Strauss's belief in me and people telling me I'm a world-class bowler. I actually think I could be No 1 in the world if I keep working. I've definitely got the ability."
I have chatted to Anderson regularly and I have never heard him talk like this before. He is beginning to exude real self-belief. Bowling in tandem with the naturally more confident Stuart Broad has helped too. "He fields at mid-off to me and he comes across as very experienced. He bounces ideas off me as I'm walking back and I do the same to him when he's bowling. We both like a person to talk to at mid-off. It might just be you'd fancy a bouncer at him now' or something, but it's a big help." Since the arrival of Broad, Anderson has been visibly much more outgoing on the field, and his effectiveness has doubled.
"I've played against a few of the Aussies before – Ponting, Clarke, Hussey – but what I find quite exciting is I think I'm different now. They won't have faced this bowler before. I'm now thinking my inswinger can get this guy out and my outswinger can do that this and if it's not swinging I can do that. I can't wait to get on with it."
If Anderson stays fit and focused, his name might soon be accommodated in the list of Great Ashes Swingers.
Jimmy Anderson is starring in a light-hearted film for alcohol charity Drinkaware's 'Drink Less Miss Less' campaign, which is encouraging people to think about how much alcohol they're drinking at sporting events this summer. The film is being launched on Monday 6th July and to see what happens to Jimmy when an umpire gets 'caught short', go to www.drinkaware.co.uk/missless


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How exciting is this? Hollywood Florida is getting a huge Margaritaville Hotel & Resort! Currently under construction directly on the beach, the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort promises to be one of the more ambitious projects Hollywood Beach has seen in years. Sitting 17 stories and covering six acres, each of the 350 rooms will have either a view of the Atlantic Ocean or the Intercoastal Waterway.
So far the food and beverage options at Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort look causal and fun. According to the hotel's website, the planned venues include:
-Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Café
-Jimmy's Sunset Grill
-5 o'clock Somewhere Bar
-License to Chill Rooftop Bar
-Lone Palm Bar
-Changes in Attitude Bar
-Landshark Bar & Grill and boat dock (along the Intercoastal Waterway).
For those of you that like some excitement with your relaxation and dining/drinking, the property will have lots of recreational activities such as Duel Flow rides, multiple pools and beachfront cabanas. They are even planning some entertainment venues.
Retail space and a world class Spa and fitness center will also be located on the property making this a total one stop vacation spot.
As of today, the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort is planning on Summer of 2015 grand opening. We will keep you posted as we find out more and the date gets closer. I'm sure you can bet that Jimmy Buffett will be there to kick things off next year, so start planning now all you 'Parrotheads'!


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Scott discusses the Hall of Fame case of Detroit Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker. Whitaker was never given serious consideration from the Baseball Writers' Association of America, getting only 2.9 percent of the vote in 2001, his only year of eligibility. Scott figures out possible reasons the BBWAA gave him the shaft, and makes a possibly-controversial call as to whether Lou should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Lou Whitaker's Baseball Reference Page
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Today, we take a look at another controversial case for Baseball's Hall of Fame, examining the career of Atlanta Braves outfielder (with short stints in Philadelphia and Colorado) Dale Murphy. We also take a quick look at another strange career from yesteryear, evaluating Detroit Tigers hurler Virgil Trucks.
First, let's take a look at Dale Murphy. Many old-school journalists loved Dale Murphy, and many Braves fans clamored for him to be in the Hall of Fame, citing his two MVP awards and amazing six-year peak as rationales for his inclusion in Cooperstown. His detractors point to his precipitous decline, the abrupt end to his career in 1993, and his pedestrian "counting" stats. Which side is correct? Let's look at his career.
Dale Murphy was born on March 12, 1956 in Portland, Oregon. After excelling in high-school ball at Woodrow Wilson High School in Portland, the Atlanta Braves made him the fifth pick in the 1974 Rule IV Draft. He got cups of coffee in the majors as a catcher in 1976 and 1977, then had his first full season as a 22 year old in 1978.
His rookie year did not go well, posting a triple slash line of .226/.294//394, numbers that are considered so awful today sophisticated writers would be howling for his demotion to the minors. He improved quite a the following season (splitting time between catcher and first base), hitting .276/.349/.510 in 104 games, hitting 21 homers in 394 at bats.
As a 24 year old in 1980, hitting 33 homers and driving in 89 in an era when 30-homer seasons were rarer. Murphy hit .281/.378/.507 and came in 12th in MVP voting. This impressive year was followed by mediocre numbers in the strike-shortened 1981 season before Murphy's meteoric rise occurred.
Dumping the "tools of ignorance" for good, Murphy won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 1982 AND 1983. He smacked 36 homers in each year and led the league both seasons in RBI. He was the best player in the league in both seasons, but in 1983 he was otherworldly, joining the then-unheard of club of players who hit 30 homers and stole 30 bases in the same season. He was extremely durable during his peak, going over four years without missing a game and piling up Silver Slugger awards and Gold Gloves (Gold Gloves are subjective, yes.) Murphy went on to post great seasons (albeit non-MVP seasons) in 1984, 1985, and 1987 (finishing in the top-12 in MVP consideration those years) before his numbers started to fall off.
Rob Neyer wrote a Sweetspot blog post in 2009 explaining what happened next. Murphy underwent knee surgery in 1989 and was never the same player. His career, which began with so much promise as a 20 year old, was over by age 37. In that way, his career was similar to current Dodger manager Don Mattingly's; like Mattingly, Murphy had an amazing peak. His "decline phase" (seasons between ages 34 and retirement) was so precipitous that by the time he was up for election in 1998, it had been more than a decade since his last amazing season. Add that to the gaudy numbers being put up in the same time frame (70 homer seasons, anyone?) and Murphy's great 1982 and 1983 seasons pale in comparison.
For that reason, voters never seriously considered him for inclusion in the Hall of Fame. His numbers hovered between 18 and 28 percent in each of his fifteen seasons on the ballot, which unfortunately concluded this past season. Murphy will have to wait for the Veterans' Committee to put him in the Hall; I'm not holding my breath, but stranger things have happened.
Does Dale Murphy merit inclusion in Baseball's Hall of Fame? Rob Neyer says no. Stay tuned for my verdict.
Virgil Trucks links:
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(Christmas play) A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity.
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Here are three different Christmas pageants complete with music, staging directions, scenery and costume suggestions, as well as pointers about how to organize such an event. The pageants are for grades K-8, but one calls for adults and teens. A CD-ROM is included so that scripts can be edited for local use and printed out for the cast. The first pageant is a traditional Nativity play with carols; the second is an adaptation in verse in the style of medieval mystery plays; and the third is a dramatized service of lessons and carols with Eucharist.
Members of the Parachute Regiment Band are traveling around Helmand Province all Christmas day to play at Christmas services and music for carol singing. Servicemen and women serving in Afghanistan have been enjoying the festivities of Christmas Day, with a traditional dinner and lots of seasonal fun. The MOD has sent over six tonnes of festive food to Afghanistan to give our forces a taste of Christmas while on operations, including: Two tonnes of turkey; One and a half tonnes of gammon; One and a half tonnes of sprouts; 200 Kilos of cranberry sauce; 1000 iced Christmas cakes; A tonne of Christmas pudding; 15,000 mince pies; and 45,000 After Eight mints. Charity OUK4UThanks!O became SantaOs little helper as they provided 22,500 Christmas boxes to troops all over the world - containing a host of goodies bought with money donated from members of the public. The presents were unwrapped by troops serving in Afghanistan on Christmas Day. While work continued for many of the troops, most had the chance to let their hair down a little with fun and games, sports competitions, and quizzes. Church services were also held by the team of Padres to ensure the true spirit of Christmas was not forgotten. And everyone received an extra 30 minutes free time on their welfare phone card to ensure they could wish their family and friends a merry Christmas.
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I created a title slate for the christmas video which I shot for the church I attend using their program as a guide. I created the shafts of light and then animated the light and the words onto the screen.
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The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant.
None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever.
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Resistance Wire Heated Build Platform, a few notes about my own heated build platform build for the SUMPOD and a tutorial for those who are looking to build their own. It's quite a long piece because I have tried to make it as complete as possible. A couple of plans have been thrown in with some images to boot, which summarises much that have been written here, so a good place to start is with the images. I'll be using the tutorial myself to improve the performance of my own heated build platform.
The notes will be about building a 3d printer heated build platform out of 3mm window glass and nichrome wire (resistance wire). This setup is ideal for printing PLA because it sticks to window glass without the need for any kind of tape, and PLA pops off the glass easily as the platform cools at the end of printing. Window glass is good for temperatures up to 80 degrees C which may not be hot enough for ABS printing. If ABS is how you roll then oven glass or ceramic glass may be a better option than window glass. The temperature I usually set, for printing with PLA filament, is between 55 degrees C and 60 degrees C.
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A recently released study by British veterinary charity organization, PDSA, claims that pets suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a form of depression that tends to occur as days grow shorter and temperatures drop with the changing seasons. One in three of the surveyed pet owners said they see a noticeable downturn in their pet's mood during the winter months, with 50 percent saying their pets slept longer and 20 percent adding they were less active.
I don't know about your pets, but North is pretty hyper all the time. When he's not tearing around the apartment, he's sleeping... but I never paid attention to the mad dash to snoring ratio as the seasons change. What do you think – does your pet seem less energized in the winter? Share your thoughts and interpretations in comments below.


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wikiHow to Explore Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Puerto Vallarta can be explored in many ways depending on what kind of traveler you are. Do you really want to explore the Mexico side of this beach resort, or are you a traveler who enjoys your comfort zones? This will help you choose which Puerto Vallarta exploration is best for you.
1Take a free tour of the city. Puerto Vallarta offers free tours of the main tourist strip from the Malécon and south to the Romantic Zone and Los Muertos Pier. Tours are offered at 9:00 AM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. The meeting place is in front of the town's church, Our Lady of Guadalupe, at the visitors' center.
- Free Malecón Sculpture tour: The Malecón is the city's boardwalk and serves as a public gallery to dozens of sculptures lining the coast. Every Tuesday a free tour is given of the sculptures to educate visitors on the meanings of each one to the city. The tour begins on the north side of the Malecon in front of the Rosita Hotel, Puerto Vallarta's oldest hotel. Tuesdays at 9:30 AM.
2Take a surfing or paddle board lesson. Los Muertos Beach is the most popular beach section of Puerto Vallarta offering activites such as surfing, parasailing, jetski, and flyboarding. Most activities do not need reservations, you will find providers setup on the beach ready to give you an adventure of a lifetime on the water.
3Walk the Cuale Island. The Cuale River serves as an open market but also peaceful rest spot under the shade trees and swinging bridges over the rivers flowing on both sides of the island.
- If you buy from vendors on the island, you are expected to haggle for a good deal, otherwise you will be paying top dollar.
4Visit Boca de Tomatlan. This is the last beach accessible by car in the bay area. It's a great place to get away from the tourist beach, have a great seafood meal with your toes in the sand, and hike along the trails. Some cabin rentals are also available in the area for a night of something new.
- This is located about 30 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta's downtown. You can take a taxi or an economical trip south on the orange buses that leave from the Romantic Zone every 15 minutes.
5Shop in Pitillal. This is still part of Puerto Vallarta but has its own downtown that has maintained its Mexican roots and less visited by tourists. This is where the locals shop for much lower prices and many vendors selling in downtown Puerto Vallarta are buying their wares here. The area has a lively square with entertainment and great food. This is the closest real authentic Mexican town to Puerto Vallarta.
- This is not the tourist zone, you are less likely to meet an English speaker in every shop and restaurant, but that is part of the adventure.
6Eat street food. Don't be scared, street food is a tradition and should be experienced while vacationing anywhere in Mexico. You will find the street food inside the tourist zones may be much cleaner and safer than other areas because they are sensitive to the foreign perception of street food. There are also Street Food Tours that are fun.
- Look for the street food stands with a lot of people. See that the person making your food isn't also taking the money.
7Explore. Puerto Vallarta is a very safe resort town in Mexico and has been named home of the friendliest people in the world. Using common sense like not walking alone at night and not walking dark unlit roads or carrying large amounts of cash should be practices, just like it should be in every other city in the world. But get out and explore and learn something new about the Mexican culture, there is more than just the sun and beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Oil prices gained late Thursday as the rebound of US equity market bolstered investors' optimism for the economic growth of the world's largest crude-consuming nation.
The West Texas Intermediate for October delivery moved up 50 cents to settle at $46.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for October delivery increased 18 cents to close at $50.68 a barrel on the London ICE Future Exchange.
In the previous session, oil prices hiked despite government report showed that the US crude stockpiles increased last week, XInhua news agency reported.
The US crude supplies of last week climbed 4.7 million barrels to $455.4 mn, 95.9 million barrels more than one year before, according to the weekly report of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.
Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the US contract, lost 0.4 million barrels to 57.3 million barrels.
The US crude production fell 119,000 barrels to 9.219 million barrels a day that week.
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Tasktop has announced availability of Tasktop Dev 2.1. The product line previously known as Tasktop is now called Tasktop Dev as an indication of its focus on the needs of the developer. This release builds on the Eclipse Indigo release of Mylyn 3.6, includes the latest connectors, productivity features and new Agile planning support, and is a significant step forward in terms of connecting developers to both the Agile and the traditional planning process.
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The North County Fire Protection District board voted 5-0 Feb. 19 to approve a new Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Oceanside which will provide information technology services to the fire district.
The MOU will be in effect from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2016. NCFPD will pay $82,000 for the first year, or $6,833.34 per month. In subsequent years the payment amount will be increased based on the San Diego Consumer Price Index rate. NCFPD will also pay $75 per hour for specialized system enhancements, troubleshooting, or other non-routine work.
In August 2010, the NCFPD board approved an MOU with the City of Oceanside for information technology support. "It's turned out to be a very good thing," said NCFPD Fire Chief Bill Metcalf. "It's been a very good relationship for us and we get great customer service at a very cost-effective rate."
NCFPD had previously contracted with private companies for information technology support. "We're not big enough to afford our own IT department," Metcalf said.
The experience with private vendors proved unsatisfactory, not only in terms of level of service but also resulting in outdated hardware and software and the misuse of proprietary software licensing. Less than six months after the district purchased an internal network server from a private vendor for approximately $20,000, not including the vendor's charge to install and set up the server, the maximum user and services capacity were exceeded and became outdated.
The City of Oceanside has an information technology department comprised of full-time staff which can provide all-hours service. Since the city's information technology department already provided service to Oceanside's fire department, it had experience with the needs of fire department information technology such as dispatch and response-related software and hardware including computers on fire engines.
The City of Oceanside's information technology department began servicing the computers on NCFPD engines as well as at the district's fire stations and administrative offices. Oceanside information technology staff also provided support for NCFPD's printers, fax machines, telephone system, and the ncfireprotectiondistrict.org website.
"If something broke they'd come and fix it," Metcalf said.
"It's grown into a more comprehensive managing our technology need," Metcalf said. "It's turned into a very comprehensive agreement."
The original agreement called for NCFPD and City of Oceanside staff to review the arrangement after a year.
"The original agreement we weren't really sure how it would work out and how it would grow," Metcalf said.
The fire district and city agreed to continue the agreement after the first year. "As we've learned more about each other we've been able to capitalize on additional opportunities," Metcalf said.
The City of Oceanside has enhanced the fire district's information technology. The city's information technology staff fully mitigated the fire district's licensing liability to Microsoft, Adobe, Dell, and other vendors, which could have resulted in thousands of dollars in civil penalties had the situation not been settled. The city staff also provided three upgraded network servers, including installation, and also provided and installed five backup servers to add redundancy to the district's exchange server, SQL (Structured Query Language) server, and Windows file system. The city has also included the fire district in its licensing purchasing agreements, allowing the district to take advantage of bulk license rates.
The new three-year agreement utilizes some of the additional collaborative possibilities. The marquee sign at the administration building, which did not exist when the original agreement was signed, has been added to the agreement.
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on Xbox Live. The demo while not perfect indicates that Eidos has learned their lessons from the disaster that was Angel of Darkness and actually put together a very solid and very fun game. I played through the first part of the demo and it's actually a very good looking game although the model for Lara Croft looks a bit off. I'm not sure if this is an homage to the earlier games but it's a bit of a contrast to the wonderfully crafted world around her. The demo itself weighs in at a little over 630MB and features what looks to be the first level of the game. The controls are sharp and the gun combat is very nice. The only problems I had were some camera control issues and getting Lara to jump the right way on one of the chain puzzles, other than that it was a blast to play. BTW, are realistic physics puzzles ever going to get old? I'm not sure that they will for at least another year or so.
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"The Only Way To Be's Victorious-- SC#@& The Fools Who Think It's Glorious!" --Deep Purple, from "Under The Gun" on PERFECT STRANGERS.
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Got the crock pot going with tomorrow's dinner, the radio is on KNX until 19:00 hrs, and I'll be starting tonight's dinner real soon. Nearly passed out in the heat twice, but a "bi-temp" (hot to wash of the sweat and soothe the skin, chilled to bring down my core temperature) shower set things right.
Si Vis Bellum? Si Vis Morer! (You Want War? You Want Death!)
The Angel Of Death sees you coming...
and knows what you wil be offering today.
The souls of innocents, newly reaped
by a death machine of your creation.
Broken and bloodied bodies are your domain,
souless husks of the recently slain.
How and when they died matters not to you...
Somewhere, a family weeps in horrid pain,
never to see their warrior child again.
Somewhere, a spouse's heart is rent in two,
Matters not, really, how you killed them all--
be it a rifle round, or an ICBM's final fall.
In their deaths lay your proifits and praise,
You are evil beyond redemption, no hope for you.
in the blood of innocents, your bill comes due.
Heed my words, villian, upon your death knell,
For your destinty lies in the Ninth Ring Of Hell!


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Budget on the mind as lawmakers head to St. Paul
ST. PAUL — Minnesota's 201 legislators are headed to the state Capitol for the noon Tuesday beginning of their 2013 session, with by far their most important task writing a two-year budget.
There are some catches, the most unpredictable of which may be how the federal government's budget problems will affect Minnesota.
A third of the state's $60 billion all-funds budget for the current cycle comes from Washington, an amount in question as Congress and President Barack Obama prepare for another round of national debt debate.
Gov. Mark Dayton plans to release his budget plan Jan. 22, and revise it when more is known about what Obama and Congress do.
The state economist advises lawmakers to include plenty of padding in their budget, since it is impossible to predict what will happen in Washington. Legislative leaders, on the other hand, appear less concerned about the federal fiscal outcome.
"We are going to have to take that into account," House Speaker-designate Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, said, but added: "At the end of the day, the federal government always has come through with their commitments to the state, to a large degree."
Washington politicians never have faced a $16 trillion debt they need to chop down.
One of the unknowns is how continued federal budget debate will affect Americans' spending habits and businesses employment decisions. Both could force down state revenues.
Dayton and lawmakers must agree to a budget during the session required to end by May 20.
Even if the budget will be the session's focus, other issues will come up. Thissen said lawmakers can do more than one thing at once.
Among the other topics expected to rise to the top include setting up a system to buy health insurance, a response to the federal law known as Obamacare. Also on the agenda are issues as wide ranging as whether to legalize gay marriage, if a public works financing bill is needed, whether unions should be allowed for personal care attendants and home day care operators, election reform and if sand mining needs more regulation.
Raising taxes will be part of the budget debate, likely centered on Dayton's long-held belief that the rich should pay more. Sales, property and other taxes also will be debated.
The tentative congressional plan is to trim $1.2 trillion from federal programs over the next decade as part of the debt solution. Given the large percentage of the state budget coming from Congress and the White House, some is bound to disappear during the federal debt battle.
Based on a New Year's federal tax deal, "we just don't know how this is all going to work out," State Economist Tom Stinson said, prompting his recommendation to leave a big cushion in the budget to cover congressional changes.
Democrats who control the Senate and House agree a sizable budget reserve is a good idea.
"Even in a more normal time, we should add money to the reserve," said Sen. Richard Cohen, DFL-St. Paul, who will be Senate Finance Committee chairman.
For years, the Legislature has tapped the state's reserves to balance the budget.
After Dayton releases his initial proposal, House and Senate committees will begin going over the document. With a third of lawmakers new this year, that may take more time than usual since they will need to get up to speed on state spending.
"The Senate DFL has the most junior members that we have had since the 1970s," Cohen said.
While the country may reach the debt limit in March, there is no guarantee any action will be prompt. If a federal decision is delayed too much, it could bump into the state Legislature's May 20 adjournment deadline.
The state must have a budget in place by July 1, the start of a new two-year cycle, or state government will shut done, like in 2011. No one is predicting that now, especially since Democrats are in control of the governor's office, House and Senate.
Cohen said that the worst-case scenario is that federal officials take action that affects Minnesota after state lawmakers adjourn. The senator said such a move could force Minnesota legislators to return to St. Paul to change the budget.
Thissen and Cohen said a federal cut in Medicaid, called Medical Assistance in Minnesota, is their biggest concern. However, Thissen said, Obama has made a commitment to bolster health care programs for the poor and disabled, so severe Medicaid cuts are unlikely.
"In the short term, I am not overly worried," Thissen said.
Added Cohen about any new federal debt legislation: "My best guess is it won't touch anything that will impact the states."
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson is frustrated with recent Washington fiscal moves and was not as confident as Thissen and Cohen.
"They shouldn't get in a position where they are relying on us..." the western Minnesota Democrat and former state lawmaker said. "States expect us to send them money, but we are broke. You shouldn't be in a position where you are expecting money from somebody who is broke."


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Despite all the televised hoopla, there are still sports fans who find the Super Bowl an irritant or a snore. This same group is unmoved by the spectacle of professional basketball: ten tall millionaires in their underwear, jumping into the air every 24 seconds. Hockey? Hooliganism on the rocks. Left cold by winter sports, these fans survive the icy months with summer memories and seasoned expectations. Baseball is their game, of course the only game. If winter comes, can spring training be far behind?
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27 Apr Pardon the dust
Over the weekend, a small group of people on twitter got the see a preview of the new WPMUtutorials redesign. The new theme (if you pop on in from RSS) is from Elegant Themes, a premium theme club. I happened to win a free year's membership in a contest over at WP Zoom, and I have to thank both Pavel and Nick again.
Not only has the design changed, I took the opportunity to revamp the site and move the contents over to a WordPressMU install. We've set up a private (closed registration) site of our own on a smaller scale; to use as a development site, to host some smaller client sites, and to host our own individual blogs. Given we had at least 5 separate WordPress installs to take care of, it makes sense. Ron already moved his personal blog over to this WPMU install a few months back. The added bonus to that is we can now clean up some web accounts on the server too.
As a brief overview, the steps for moving things over was pretty straightforward. I had set up a working blog at wpmututes.ourhostingdomain.com (not a real domain 😉 ), uploaded the new theme, and started making my tweaks to it. The biggest thing I did was add a chunky widgetized footer. You can do the same using the linked tutorial from Leland at Theme Lab. Mostly I wanted to make sure everything looked the way I wanted it to, including changing the site name graphic in the header.
I'm completely skipping over the fact that I spent a good four hours in just *choosing* the theme I wanted to reflect the site. I do have a theme design specially made for me in PSD format, but I'm only halfway through coding it, hit a snag, and figured I'd just better go ahead with another theme and save that design for another time. (it's gorgeous: it will see the light of day at some point, but maybe on my personal blog.)
The next thing I did was import my data into the working blog. I know we all harp on the forums that the safest way to do this is via a database transfer using this handy tutorial. I wanted to double-check everything, so this time I went for upgrading the old site first so that each install was the same version. I then used the Export on the old site and the Import here on the working blog. And what do you know? It worked. I was as surprised as anyone. My official suggestion now is to try the Export/Import method if you have a small number of posts & authors. If it works; great. If not, use the database method. How to Import a single WordPress blog into WordPressMU with phpmyadmin.
Now that I had the data imported, I had a few extra things to tweak. My page titles were too long for the header, and there were too many of them. I shortened a couple of titles and widened the div container. I also rearranged it so the least popular page dropped off. (Bonus points if you can remember what it was.)
My categories were overspilling the menu bar as well. I moved some categories to be child categories for suitable parents and that fixed that. There's a lovely drop-down on the nav bar for the sub-categories.
The theme I'm using has a great options page for deciding content placement and I went with the more popular - and hopefully easier to navigate - magazine-style front page. Since category ID numbers wind up slightly different in MU, I had to go re-check what they were on the MU system and not the originating site. Another good reason to have these things in an option page and not hardcoded in the theme's files.
I also had to set up some of my widgets all over again, as an import doesn't get that. It doesn't get the list of activated plugins either. Luckily, since I had a working copy and a live site, I could work with both sites open in multiple tabs and copy / paste a lot of information. And since the sites live on the same server, I copied over the plugin files from one web account to the other via ssh. It took about a half hour to an hour to test the plugins on the new site and make sure they all worked properly.
One isn't working as expected, so the related posts area built in the theme is showing no results until I fix it.
After checking everything, I decided to to the domain switch. It doesn't matter really what order you do it in, but in my case I knew I was done on the working/new blog for a bit, so I domain mapped it to its new domain: same as the old site domain. 😀
I then logged in to my domain registrar (goDaddy) changed the nameservers back to the Godaddy parked ones, and added an A record pointing to the IP of my WPMU install. I've already got the server set up to handle any domain that comes in and direct it appropriately. I checked to make sure the TTL value of the domain records was down as low as possible, and in just over a half-hour the domain was now pointing at the new install. Yay!
For client sites with as little down time as possible, I do the DNS records first, then domain map it.
It was a good dry run to ask on twitter, as a few people immediately found a couple of issues. Since I imported on the working domain, all image links within the posts themselves were pointing to the now non-existent subdomain. Gotta love absolute links on upload. The files were still on the server, just under the wrong name. There were only a few images, so I edited the posts directly. For a lot, you can do a find and replace via SQL right on the database.
Another thing I missed was the initial "hello world!" post from when I created the working blog and the default uncategorized category. I still have to tweak that as I messed up renaming it. I had initially decided to just delete a category with a small number of posts, hopefully moving those posts to the default category, and then renaming the default to the category I deleted. That didn't work, so I'll have to go digging, as well as find those posts. It's also the reason there's an "installation2" category. 🙂 What can I say? It's a nice weekend outside and very distracting.
Otherwise, I have a short list of boring details to take care of, like handle my google analytics via plugin instead of in the theme file, and without interfering with other sites on the same install, as well as move over the links. If you see anything else wonky that I haven't mentioned above, feel free to let me know. I absolutely did not check how it looked in IE, especially IE6, since my stats show that very few of my readers use it.


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Still on the Table, for Now
The Saudi peace initiative is one of those historic events in which timing is more important than substance. The first pan-Arab proposal for full normalization with Israel was adopted on Passover 2002 - the day of the seder-night bombing at Netanya's Park Hotel, which killed 30 Israelis. The atrocity, and Israel's subsequent invasion of the West Bank, left no room for news from an Arab League summit in Beirut. And with Israel having just returned to West Bank cities it had earlier quit, an Arab plan to return Israel to the 1967 borders seemed irrelevant.
Every spring for the next six years, the Arab League reaffirmed this peace plan, the first it ever produced, but it remained on the back burner. Now, three things have suddenly brought it to center stage: Barack Obama's election as the next American president, the likelihood of Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu becoming Israel's next prime minister in February, and fear that Mahmoud Abbas' already shaky rule in the Palestinian Authority will collapse. And since Obama will be sworn in 20 days before Israel's election, he might be able to influence the outcome by publicly supporting the Saudi peace plan: Anyone who voted for Netanyahu would then know he was defying Obama.
At a meeting with her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts last July, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni termed the Saudi initiative "a historic opportunity that must not be missed." Officially, however, the Kadima-Labor government never responded to the plan. Even President Shimon Peres, who has recently spoken in its favor, showed no interest in it when he sat in the cabinet.
Five years ago, then-Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher told me he was disappointed by the Israeli peace camp's apathy toward the plan. He could not understand such apathy toward a proposal that requires an "agreed" solution to the refugee problem - wording that, according to Middle East expert Dr. Matti Steinberg, effectively gives Israel a veto on this issue. The significance of this term was also evident from the furious response of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The latter's chairman, Ramadan Shalah, told a conference in Damascus in January that the Saudi initiative was even worse than the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which laid the foundations for the Jewish state.
The Arab League's 22 members, like the 35 other Muslim countries that have adopted the plan, do not expect Israel to announce that it is leaving the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights tomorrow. Interviewed in Brussels two weeks ago, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa explained that after accepting the plan's principles, Israel would have to conduct bilateral negotiations with its neighbors to determine precise borders (territorial exchanges are possible) and security arrangements.
But if Israel prefers to keep building settlements, he warned, the Saudi initiative will be taken off the table and replaced by another idea that has gained momentum recently: a single binational state.
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ASPERMONT (Special) Services for Oleta Miller, 83, of Aspermont will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Bruce Hess officiating.
Burial will follow in Aspermont Cemetery under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
She died Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999, at an Abilene hospital.
She was born in Roswell, N.M. She was a member of First Baptist Church. She was a nurse's aide at Stonewall Memorial Hospital for 30 years.
Survivors include two daughters, Fredda Beeman of Abilene and Carol Mile of Aspermont; a sister, Lillian Pinson of Corpus Christi; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.
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" Brand: Method / Type: Body Wash / Suitable for: Body / What it does: Cleanses, "
When it comes to buying children's toiletries I just can't help myself! I love child friendly fragrances and the gentleness they provide on my really sensitive skin.
This particular product was reduced in a bargain bin type of thing in Boots for 50p and I loved what I thought was the shape of a penguin bottle (actually it's meant to be an otter lol) and when I got home and googled the product so that I could add the link on here I found out that this usually retails around the £5.00 mark! What a bargain eh and I was only upset I didn't clear the shelves of this whilst I had the chance to!
The Packaging....
Bright orange plastic and rounded in shape bottle with little 'feet' the the bottom and marks raised on the bottle to give the appearance it's an animal. On the middle of the bottle there is a light orange label on there and on that I'm told it is MethodKid Squeaky Green 3-in-1 Shampoo that is a body wash, shampoo + conditioner, that it is 99% plant derived, paediatrician tested and is hypo-allergenic. At the bottom of the bottle size is stated (295ml). On the back of the bottle I'm told a bit about the product, ingredients are listed as are contact details for MethodKid and finally there is bar-code on there. Nice enough simple packaging and the first time you use the product you simply pull out the clear 'plug' and discard that and the liquid safely stays inside as it's a bit bunged up with plastic so easy to use if using it on the kids!
A Bit About The Product According To The Back Of The Bottle....
Squeaky clean, fuzzy peach splashy fun to gently cleanse delicate skin and keep your little one soft and sweet smelling. To use: squirt, work to a lather, clean, rinse.
Me Using It....
The smell of this one really has to be sniffed at! It's flipping gorgeous! Sweet and peachy, not too sweet it seems to me to have a slight waft of coconuts to it making it rich and layered and slightly exotic to my nasal passages.
The liquid is a light peach in colour with a slightly shimmery, creamy look to it and you simply squirt a little onto you hand, scrunchy, sponge, flannel...whatever really and it lathers up great and quickly, is suitable for shaving with (adults only of course!) and it's incredibly soft, gentle and cleansing on the skin. It's a joy to use, a little goes a long way and when your finished it rinses away brilliantly and with no effort at all and leaves skin softened, healthy and clean. However the smell doesn't last on the skin almost as soon as you've dried off....it's gone sadly. However you still feel fresh and clean enough and skin is left in good condition and nicely hydrated.
Of course you can use this on hair and that was one thing I was wary of doing to be honest. I find I need decent shampoos and conditioners on my frizzy hair or it's impossible to get it looking right.... however this once again, lathered up quickly and I washed my hair through twice with it when it hurry to go out and in the shower and didn't use a separate conditioner and not only did my hair feel refreshed, look clean and smell wonderful (and that smell did last all day) my hair really was softened, smooth and easy to style.
If I had kids I would have no issue at all using this on their delicate skin. It''s cleansing and smells wonderful in use sadly though doesn't hold it's smell but to be fair it still leave the feeling of clean behind it.
For me it left my skin in a great glowing condition and is nice to use occasionally on my hair.
Not sure it's worth a fiver (ish) a bottle, but it certainly would be if that amazing fragrance would stay put and maybe even a couple quid more in my opinion lol.
I bought mine in Boots as I stated earlier but keep your eyes open for this and do look at purchasing it online at bargain prices.
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The damning report by the Public Accounts Committee criticised the Department of Health and NHS England for being unable to tell it who is accountable for "ensuring something as fundamental" as whether the NHS has enough midwives.
It said it had gathered evidence that "many maternity services are running at a loss, or at best breaking even, and that the available funding may be insufficient for trusts to employ enough midwives and consultants to provide high quality, safe care".
The cross-party group of MPs also said more than a quarter of maternity units had to close to new patients for half a day or more between April and September 2012, with one of the reasons being a lack of midwives.
Expectant mother Nikki Cornfield, waiting to give birth at St George's Hospital in Tooting, told Sky News that she agreed with some of its findings.
She said: "I think the care is excellent, let me say that first of all. The staff are brilliant and they are doing a really good job.
"But often, there just aren't enough of them. They're just busy, busy, busy.
"At one point yesterday it looked like I was going to be induced, but there wasn't sufficient staff to do it."
The report said: "Although there has been a welcome increase in midwives, there is still a national shortage of some 2,300 midwives required to meet current birth rates.
"Pressure on staff leads to low morale and nearly one-third of midwives with less than 10 years' work experience are intending to leave the profession within a year."
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said: "The vast majority of women who use NHS services to have their babies have good experiences, but outcomes and performance could still be much better.
"Despite an overall increase in the number of midwives there is still a shortage of 2,300 that are required to meet current birth rates - a truly worrying figure.
"What's more, the Department of Health and NHS England struggled to tell my committee who is accountable for ensuring something as fundamental as whether the NHS has enough midwives."
But Minister for Health and Maternity Dr Dan Poulter argued that the "NHS remains one of the safest places in the world to give birth" and added that "most women would recommend their maternity care to their friends and family".
He said: "We have reversed the historic decline in midwife numbers. There are now 1,500 more working in our NHS and we have a record 5,000 in training.
"The number of consultants working on maternity wards has gone up too. But of course there is always much more to do.
"We are investing significantly in improvements to maternity services right across the country so women have more choice and a better environment when giving birth."
The report also found that rates of stillbirth and babies dying within seven days of birth were still higher in England than other UK nations and there was too much variation in the quality of care offered by different trusts.
The MPs also called for women to be given more choice over where to give birth, with research on more than 5,000 women showing that only a quarter wanted to give birth in a hospital obstetric unit.
Nevertheless, 87% of women gave birth in this setting in 2012.
Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said: "Maternity services are many thousands of midwives short of the number needed to deliver safe, high quality care.
"The birth rate remains exceptionally high and as this and the National Audit Office report state, births are also becoming increasingly complex.
"This puts even more demands on midwives and maternity services.
"We are seeing areas such as antenatal and postnatal care in particular suffering because trusts often do not have enough midwives to provide consistent and high quality care before and after pregnancy."
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kourosh (2346) 2003-10-25 20:12
good composition. but is it natural light or flash? looks more natural.
i think if there was sufficient light you could have got a darker background by not using the flash, which would work better.
however just a raw idea, not sure if it'd work ;-)
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New Delhi: Two women of a family were sexually assaulted and a male member was beaten up by three persons while they were going to the IGI airport, police said today.
The incident took place at around 3 am on Chirag Delli BRT corridor when the family was going to the airport to see off one of the members.
They stopped the car as one of the women had to make a telephone call. Three inebriated persons came to the spot in a car and started making lewd remarks.
The male member accompanying the women was beaten up when he resisted the trio. The accused then sexually assaulted the women, police said.
Some passerby later informed police about the incident, following which the accused were arrested from a village near Chirag Dilli at around 6.30 am, said a senior police officer.


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For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
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- 20X Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS): (#9808) To prepare 1 L 1X PBS: add 50 ml 20X PBS to 950 ml dH2O, mix.
- 10X Tris Buffered Saline (TBS): (#12498) To prepare 1 L 1X TBS: add 100 ml 10X to 900 ml dH2O, mix.
- 1X SDS Sample Buffer: Blue Loading Pack (#7722) or Red Loading Pack (#7723) Prepare fresh 3X reducing loading buffer by adding 1/10 volume 30X DTT to 1 volume of 3X SDS loading buffer. Dilute to 1X with dH2O.
- 10X Tris-Glycine SDS Running Buffer: (#4050) To prepare 1 L 1X running buffer: add 100 ml 10X running buffer to 900 ml dH2O, mix.
- 10X Tris-Glycine Transfer Buffer: (#12539) To prepare 1 L 1X Transfer Buffer: add 100 ml 10X Transfer Buffer to 200 ml methanol + 700 ml dH2O, mix.
- 10X Tris Buffered Saline with Tween® 20 (TBST): (#9997) To prepare 1 L 1X TBST: add 100 ml 10X TBST to 900 ml dH2O, mix.
- Nonfat Dry Milk: (#9999).
- Blocking Buffer: 1X TBST with 5% w/v nonfat dry milk; for 150 ml, add 7.5 g nonfat dry milk to 150 ml 1X TBST and mix well.
- Wash Buffer: (#9997) 1X TBST.
- Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA): (#9998).
- Primary Antibody Dilution Buffer: 1X TBST with 5% BSA; for 20 ml, add 1.0 g BSA to 20 ml 1X TBST and mix well.
- Biotinylated Protein Ladder Detection Pack: (#7727).
- Prestained Protein Marker, Broad Range (11-190 kDa): (#13953).
- Blotting Membrane and Paper: (#12369) This protocol has been optimized for nitrocellulose membranes. Pore size 0.2 µm is generally recommended.
- Secondary Antibody Conjugated to HRP: Anti-rabbit IgG, HRP-linked Antibody (#7074).
- Detection Reagent: SignalFire™ ECL Reagent (#6883).
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A general protocol for sample preparation.
- Treat cells by adding fresh media containing regulator for desired time.
- Aspirate media from cultures; wash cells with 1X PBS; aspirate.
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- Sonicate for 10–15 sec to complete cell lysis and shear DNA (to reduce sample viscosity).
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- Microcentrifuge for 5 min.
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- Electrotransfer to nitrocellulose membrane (#12369).
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- Wash three times for 5 min each with 15 ml of TBST.
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- Incubate membrane and primary antibody (at the appropriate dilution and diluent as recommended in the product datasheet) in 10 ml primary antibody dilution buffer with gentle agitation overnight at 4°C.
- Wash three times for 5 min each with 15 ml of TBST.
- Incubate membrane with Anti-rabbit IgG, HRP-linked Antibody (#7074 at 1:2000) and anti-biotin, HRP-linked Antibody (#7075 at 1:1000–1:3000) to detect biotinylated protein markers in 10 ml of blocking buffer with gentle agitation for 1 hr at room temperature.
- Wash three times for 5 min each with 15 ml of TBST.
- Proceed with detection (Section D).
D. Detection of Proteins
Directions for Use:
- Wash membrane-bound HRP (antibody conjugate) three times for 5 minutes in TBST.
- Prepare 1X SignalFire™ ECL Reagent (#6883) by diluting one part 2X Reagent A and one part 2X Reagent B (e.g. for 10 ml, add 5 ml Reagent A and 5 ml Reagent B). Mix well.
- Incubate substrate with membrane for 1 minute, remove excess solution (membrane remains wet), wrap in plastic and expose to X-ray film.
* Avoid repeated exposure to skin.
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Western Blot Reprobing Protocol
Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
A. Solutions and Reagents
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
- Wash Buffer: Tris Buffered Saline with Tween® 20 (TBST-10X) (#9997)
- Stripping Buffer: To prepare 100 ml, mix 6.25 ml of 1M Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 10 ml of 20% SDS and 700 μl β-mercaptoethanol. Bring to 100 ml with deionized H20. Make buffer fresh just prior to use.
B. Protocol
- After film exposure, wash membrane four times for 5 min each in TBST. Best results are obtained if the membrane is not allowed to dry.
- Incubate membrane for 30 min at 50°C in stripping buffer (with slight agitation).
- Wash membrane six times for 5 min each in TBST.
- (Optional) To assure that the original signal is removed, wash membrane twice for 5 min each with 10 ml of TBST. Incubate membrane with LumiGLO® with gentle agitation for 1 min at room temperature. Drain membrane of excess developing solution. Do not let dry. Wrap in plastic wrap and expose to x-ray film.
- Wash membrane again four times for 5 min each in TBST.
- The membrane is now ready to reuse. Start detection at the "Membrane Blocking and Antibody Incubations" step in the Western Immunoblotting Protocol.
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PKG-1α (D10G2) Rabbit mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total PKG-1α protein. This antibody does not cross-react with PKG-1β.Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat
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In addition to well established roles in platelet activation and smooth muscle relaxation (3), PKG signaling is important in many biological processes including cardiac contractility, axon guidance, bone growth, contraction of intestinal smooth muscle, and erectile dysfunction (4).
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so beautiful and pleasant looking! 5/5
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very pretty and it will last much longer with the water it is getting. :)
i dont think ive ever seen a purple rose. 5♥
Excellente spider..!5/5.
Gorgeous rose, love the colour. 5♥s
This is definitely going in my Purple collection. Beautiful rose, Spider! 5 ♥s
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The Triple Constraints: A valid set of criteria to measure IS-project success?
Since the 1960's many authors accepted the triple constraints (time, cost, specification) as a standard measure of success and this still appears to be extremely important in evaluating the success of ICT projects. However, the parties involved may perceive the terms "success" or "failure" differently. A quasi-experiment (gaming) was developed to determine the measures for success used by the different parties involved in an ICT project. The results of this quasi experiment were analysed using probabilistic feature models. This research indicates that the impact of the triple constraints on the judgement of success is rather small. Other criteria, as there are user happiness and financial or commercial success are far more important.
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Soundbars seem simple on paper, but by the time you pair them with a separate subwoofer, the space savers aren't saving you nearly the space that most people would like. Yamaha has addressed those issues by creating the new YSP-1400 and YAS 152 soundbars with dual woofers and integrated amps.The YSP-1400 is a 39-3/8-inch-wide model, while the YAS-152 measures in at 47-1/4 inches and is specifically designed for 55-inch and larger TVs. From the press release:
"With the addition of the YSP-1400 and YAS-152 to our line, no other manufacturer comes close to Yamaha in offering as broad a range of surround sound bars in terms of product features, size and pricing options," said Bob Goedken, general manager, AV Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. "The YSP-1400 brings the jaw-dropping experience of a Digital Sound Projector to a whole new audience, while the wide design and big sound of the YAS-152 couldn't be better positioned to address the faster-than-expected growth of the 55-inch plus TV market."
Both bars feature Bluetooth connectivity for media streaming and app-based remote control, an IR repeater to for control, and UniVolume to ensure a consistent volume level between programs.The YSP-1400 and YAS-152, will be available in October with MSRPs of $449.95 and $349.95, respectively.
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Malda: Two cattle smuggles were shot dead by BSF personnel at Anuradhapur village in Malda district of West Bengal today.
BSF officials said a group of persons were smuggling cattle from the village near the Indo-Bangladesh border by cutting barbed wire fencing.
When the men in uniform challenged them, they fired and BSF personnel retaliated, killing two persons on the spot while others fled.
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Pure lust for....
I am currently looking for a few nice anime that has no high school teenagers as the main character.
Must involves...
-Main character (adult if possible) who loves to carnage humanity, or just violent or dark and straight forward most of the time...
-Lots of blood and gore and weirdness, if possible, but it is not a necessity.
-Demons... Mafia... or anything along the way...
-A little romance is okay, but not too often.
-Sad/flipped up ending... everyone dies except for a few?
-Can be sci-fi that has some dark and weird (gets you thinking) story behind it.
-Or simply... anything that's out of the ordinary... sick... pychotic... inhumane... just for freaks with nothing but pure lust for sex, violence, hate and death... =]
Anime that is similar to...
-Ergo Proxy
-M.D. Geist
-North star
-Cat Soup
-and so on...
Any suggestions would be much appreciated it, thanks!
Devilman Lady - hits pretty much all your points
Hellsing (2006)
Kemonozume - some romance stuff... but I'm inclined to think they're more in lust with each other than in love (never finished it for this reason)
Texhnolyze - hits all your points
Cowboy Bebop ~ If you haven't seen this just try it...:)
GITS SAC (Ghost In The Shell) ~ another nice sci fi anime...:)
"Black Lagoon" and "Black Lagoon: Second Barrage" pop instantly to mind. I can't think of another show that more closely fits your criteria...
Bartender is adult, but has no violence or gore. Lot's of cocktail recipes though.
I've watched those anime listed above.
Devilman Lady I find to be quite disappointed after watching it. Not very much gore or excitement. I expected it to be similar to Devilman.
Kemonozume is a rather interesting anime that I actually enjoyed watching and had a good laughed.
Hellsing OVA, only seen a few episodes so far and loved it. Currently looking forward for more.
Texhnolyze, still currently watching when there is time, but not as interesting as the other anime I've seen by far.
Anymore suggestions would be much appreciated. =]
Prefer anime like... Wicked City and Angel Cop... Princess Rouge.... Tatoon Master... anything good and classic would do as well. ^^
Battle Angel Alita and Elfen Lied (I assume you've already seen the anime), if you like manga. Other than that, I don't really venture into that area.
Death Note - main character starts to play god, and causes a lot of deaths along the way to become a real god. It is quite dark, but, it is one of the most intelligently setup stories out there.
I ma going to also mention, D. Gray Man, although the character is around high school level in terms of age, the story is dark enough to attract your attention.
Jin-Roh his a nice movie with most points your looking for.
LOL, I'm also picking on the suggestions here. I've never really checked out this type of anime, I guess it's about time!
Gantz, if you haven't seen it already.
gungrave. I don't know if you already watch it, but it fits your description perfectly.
I had a tough time trying to find something that hasn't already been mentioned. But after reading your first post a second time and noticing that you mention Cat Soup, I remembered Dead Leaves. It should probably be right up your alley.:eyespin:
The other anime you should definitely add to your list is Monster. A dark and serious story with main characters in their 20's, 30's, or older, a character who kills dozens of people without remorse, and only a hint of romance.
I would have mentioned Black Lagoon and Bartender as well.
Oh! And "Ray the Animation", which is kind of an offshoot of the BlackJack series... also, did I mention "Angelheart"? It's a much better done offshoot of the City Hunter series.
Maybe Yami no Matsuei?
Neon Genesis Evangelion (with the End of Evangelion ending) does seem to cover some of your points.
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BT CEO to quit in January with £1.5m payoff
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BT CEO Sir Peter Bonfield is to leave the company at the end of January.
In a statement issued today (31 October), Bonfield says that, after six years at the head of the company and with BT's restructuring process almost complete, he believes the time is right to leave.
There has been considerable pressure during the last few months from BT's institutional shareholders for the company to reshuffle its top management tier after a series of poor results.
BT's share price, which peaked at more than 1300p less than two years ago, now stands at around 340p.
Sir Christopher Bland has already taken over as chairman of BT, following the resignation of Sir Iain Vallance last May.
On leaving, Sir Peter is to get a year's salary plus a bonus and other benefits worth about £1.5m. Executive share awards could be worth another £290000.
"This is the right time to announce a change," said Sir Peter. "We have almost completed the very radical transformation programme which we started last year. A string of profitable and timely disposals, coupled with a successful rights issue, have helped us to reduce debt ahead of schedule."
BT has almost completed the demerger of its mobile division mmO2 which will start operating as a separate company on 19 November. In the last year, BT has also sold its directories business Yell for £2bn, disposed of £4.8bn worth of assets in Spain and Japan and had a £5.9bn rights issue.


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For many Maple Leafs, the bitter cold turned their cheeks as blue as their jerseys yesterday.
For Andy Wozniewski, it was nothing more than a breath of fresh air.
Called up from the Marlies to replace the injured Carlo Colaiacovo, Wozniewski gladly braved the chilly temperatures at Swansea's Rennie Park in order to participate in the Leafs' outdoor practice.
A few frozen tootsies were a small price to pay if it meant being back in the NHL again.
"I'm just going to keep it simple," said Wozniewski, who is expected to be in the Leafs lineup tonight against the Buffalo Sabres.
"I feel I'm in better shape than when I started the season up here. There should be a few less nerves too.
"At the same time I feel bad for Carlo. I saw what happened to him."
Colaiacovo is out indefinitely after suffering a concussion when he slammed into the boards in Ottawa Monday night.
Wozniewski can relate. He has gone through his own share of bad luck this season.
After playing in the season opener for the Leafs, Wozniewski was sent down to the Marlies, where he exhibited marked improvement.
But on Nov. 6, fate frowned on the rookie defenceman when a puck hit him in the face, leaving him with a fractured orbital bone and concussion-like symptoms. He did not return to the lineup until a game against Cleveland on Dec. 16.
"Thankfully I feel a lot better now," Wozniewski said. "I wouldn't say I've been frustrated; it's just a matter of playing things out."
The goal of the outdoor practice was to publicize the Leafs' partnership with Home Depot in funding improvements in facilities across the city. Among those in attendance were Toronto mayor David Miller, ex-Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive and former Maple Leafs assistant general manager Bill Watters.
Coach Pat Quinn claimed it was the first time he had participated in such an outdoor practice since the 1950s .
Asked about receiving a recent vote of confidence from Larry Tanenbaum, the chairman of the board of Maple Leaf Sports &Entertainment Ltd., Quinn shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm not even thinking about it," he said. "We just try and do what I try to do every day -- just focus on doing our jobs well."


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LONDON Toshiba Corp. has cancelled plans to sell computers that run the Windows RT operating system from Microsoft Corp. and that are based on an ARM-based processor, due to delays in getting adequate supplies of components, according to reports.
Toshiba was planning to use OMAP processors form Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas, Texas) in the design and in June TI had produced a video showing off Windows RT running on a Toshiba tablet.
Because of poor chip supply Toshiba will now focus on making machines running the alternative Microsoft operating system called Windows 8, which runs only on x86 processors, which come from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Toshiba did not say which components are in so short supply as to force the cancelling of its Windows RT product, but many leading chip companies are either fabless, or have gone fab-lite, meaning that they are all dependent on foundries for their leading-edge 28-nm silicon. In particular, most are dependent on the leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan). There has been much discussion of low yields and shortages of supply of 28-nm silicon during this year.
"Toshiba has decided not to introduce Windows RT models due to delayed components that would make a timely launch impossible," Bloomberg quoted Eric Paulsen, a U.S.-based spokesman, as saying in an emailed statement. "For the time being, Toshiba will focus on bringing Windows 8 products to market. We will continue to look into the possibility of Windows RT products in the future while monitoring market conditions," Bloomberg also quoted Paulsen as saying.
Microsoft reportedly had restricted the number of companies and chip makers who would work on the initial release of Windows RT computers and tablets. Nvidia Corp. has been working with Asustek Computer Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. while Qualcomm Inc. is chartered with supplying Dell Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Executives with both Nvidia and Qualcomm have spoken out about their inability to get enough 28-nm chips from TSMC and that the undersupply was expected to last through until the fourth quarter of 2012. Texas Instruments gave a weak outlook for 3Q12 in discussing the most recent financial results.
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Burning Alara
B1: I will find some bling by scavenging on the ship that's on the horizon.
B2: I will persuade Porcius to give the Cpt. A romantic bouquet.
B3: I will merely maim Horus with the help of Clod when I find his illicit contraband
B4: I will make a cupcake for the little pauper girl.
I1. Ask first then smash.
I2. I always have javelins in battle.
I3. When someone recognizes me, I am open to: appraisal, persuasion, command,
B1. I will not be persuaded into having a relationship with anyone in my crew.
B2. I will find a reason to transfer Porcius to the other vessel.
B3. I will keep my crew safe by stealing uniforms.
I1. I never leave my cabin without my pistols loaded.
I2. I keep my grandfathers fob watch on me at all times.
I3. I hesitate when I see someone who looks like my lost love.
B1. I will rescue Sir Jouls, knight terra, from the hold of the ship.
B2. I will brutally murder anyone who has taken pleasure from slaves on the enemy vessel.
B3. Obtain vital info to the Dianic League and deliver it.
I1. I serve my lords daughter before my lord but can never allow myself to love her.
I2. I will never show mercy or surrender in battle
I3. I am a berserker, I start combat in aggro stance.


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I'll just be posting all my ride reports here rather than a new thread every time I ride.
Last Sunday was the first ride of the year at Diamond Lake. The snow was only 20" at the snowpole but was about 4' up towards the top of Bailey. It was a good day though and the weather was perfect!


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Dallas-area home prices jumped by more than 12 percent in January from a year ago — one of the largest such increases on record, according to new data from CoreLogic Inc.
Home prices in Texas, Louisiana and Nebraska hit record highs in the first month of 2014, CoreLogic reported Tuesday.
Nationwide, prices were up 12 percent in January from 2013. Prices were 12.2 percent higher in the Dallas area.
"The last time January month-over-month and year-over-year price appreciation was this strong was at the height of the housing bubble in 2006," Dr. Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic, said in the report.
Dallas-area home prices are now growing at almost three times their traditional annual rate.
A shortage of homes on the market and the strong economy in North Texas have caused home prices to explode.
CoreLogic is predicting that nationwide prices will be up by 12.5 percent when February's numbers are counted.
"Home prices continued to march higher in January, and we expect to see more increases as the market comes out of hibernation for the spring buying season," said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic.
"Excluding distressed sales, all 50 states and the District of Columbia showed year-over-year home price appreciation for January," he said.
North Texas median home prices rose almost 10 percent in 2013 from 2012 based on sales by local real estate agents.
And after falling slightly during the recession, residential values in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are now at record levels — about 5 percent higher than before the economic downturn, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.
"Average and median prices continue upward at double-digit levels — a function of high demand and low supply of properties," said Dr. James Gaines, an economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.
"I think this year is going to be another high percentage gain year, but should start to fall in terms of rate of increase during third and fourth quarters," Gaines said.
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Issue: September 2012
Editor: Tim Darby | European Editor: Paul Callaghan | Latin America Editor: Juan Carlos Varela | Canada Editor: Gilles Touchette | Asia and Oceania Editor: Ute Krudewagen
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José Carlos Wahle, Veirano Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil
Law 12,619, enacted on April 30, contains numerous changes to regulations governing professional drivers and their respective employers. However, on July 31, after riots and road barriers set up by truck drivers, the Ministry of Labour held an emergency meeting with the labour unions and the transportation companies and decided to suspend some items of the Law for further discussion and for deliberation by the Federal Agency of Road Transportation (ANTT).Among the main innovations were the following:
While the innovations seem to be valuable improvement of work conditions to the benefit of all of society, the unions and the companies claim that the law contains significant loopholes and does not entirely correspond to their needs. On one side, the unions claim that the Brazilian roads do not have sufficient facilities designated to accommodate drivers for the new mandatory stops, which would not only result in inappropriate conditions for resting, but trucks parked by the roads could also represent risks of traffic accidents and cargo theft. On the other side, transportation companies claim that the regulations on permits need improvement.
The ANTT is revising the regulations and is gathering suggestions and recommendations from both sides. The period for suggestions for revisions is still open.
On May 7, 2012, facing numerous questions coming from workers and companies about the introduction of an extended notice period for terminations which varies based on years worked at the firm concerned, the Ministry of Labour issued Technical Note 184 to publicize its interpretation of Law 12,506 on notice periods, enacted October 11, 2011. According to the Note, the employee can only be required to continue to work for 30 days after the notice of termination, and the company must indemnify the remaining term.
While the government thus has acted to resolve an uncertainty in the law, some legal uncertainty remains because the Technical Note is not a proper regulation issued under the Law. For the avoidance of further uncertainty, Labor unions and company associations have been advised to develop a consensual approach to the issue through specifying notice practices in the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements.
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so cute wolf ! very nice
aww poor wolf is moody--thought it was a fox at first haha :p tho i luv how u colored it n the moonlight sky bg~