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Thanks to Rhetta and Brett McIff and their committees for the all the hard work to put this together. It was a huge success!!
To see what you missed out on, check out this video: (But don't worry, there is always next year to put together a team, or pump your business by being a sponsor. It's always the first Saturday in March.)
We were thrilled to be on all four TV stations and the front page of the
Sunday Deseret News' local section. Here is some of the coverage:
And the winners for 2012 are...
Best Cart/Costume ~ Doompity Dee (Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas)
Fastest Time ~ Kind of a Big Deal
Highest Score ~ The "Iron Will" award ~ Leprechauns
Most Enthusiastic ~ Howlin' Hillbillies
Dead Last ~ the "'Bout Time you got here!" award ~ The Bed Bugs
There was an added award this year: The Flying Chicken award ~ Splore (177 feet!)
Thank you to our sponsors this year:
City of Taylorsville
Bout Time
Little Caesars
Crown Trophy
Your support and donations make this event better!
The acts of sabotage were priceless....we are hearing reports of fake security guards, cart inspections, random surveys, flag stealing, knots in fire hoses, bribing the Mayor, and more. You all make us so proud!
For a link to all the photos, click here.
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Ferdinand ready to restore status quo
SIR ALEX FERGUSON insisted yesterday that he is not certain whether he will recall Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United's line-up against Liverpool on Monday, but the temptation appeared to grow stronger as he acknowledged that his team has struggled while the defender served an eight-month suspension for missing a drugs test.
When Ferdinand limped off the pitch away to Wolverhampton Wanderers on January 17, three days before the start of his ban, United were drawing 0-0 and on course to go two points clear at the top of the Premiership table. They also had the joint-best defensive record in the league but, without him, they kept only four clean sheets in their final 17 Premiership games of the season, finishing 15 points behind Arsenal.

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Wrecking Wreality the Wrong Way
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- wReck thiS meSS ~ Radio Patapoe 88.3 ~ Amsterdam
Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies: 352 [949*]: Rubbing Reality the Wrong Way
PTP in the ether: 88.3FM
Where purity & puerility are synonymous
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20 November 2006
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane
people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
* Nora Ephron
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
* Albert Einstein
The Grid > Philip Glass [1]
Minimum: Maximum [exc] > Hans Otte [2]
Songs With Words > Dr. Rockit
City of Pigs > Mike Ladd [3]
J Fonce > André Minvielle [3]
Can't Take You > Aka Ben Hatchelt [4]
Horse Latitiudes > Doors [5]
Everyone's Welcome > Aka Ben Hatchelt [4]
That Joey Rejection > The Breast-Fed Yak [6]
French Woman Luggage Cart > The Choir Boys with Strings [7]
In Paris, In February > Gato Libre [8]
Travelling > John Mayall [9]
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And
they live by what they hear.
Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
* Jim Harrison
Navrat / Return [text F. Garcia Lorca] > Vladimir Vaclavek [10]
Das Leben Läuft Aus > Rocket / Freudental [11]
36" High > Nick Lowe [12]
Narcotic Building Bloc > Arklight [13]
Wir Sind Hier > The Choir Boys with Strings [7]
Das Reine und Das Gute > Rocket / Freudental [11]
Hey Lawdy Mama > Minutemen [14]
Authentique > Lefdup & Lefdup [15]
Chant, Bow Chime and Horn > Robert Ruttman [16]
Teenage Dirtbag > Earl Okin [17]
Sex Symbol > Earl Okin [17]
My Room > Earl Okin [17]
* [includes WTM & pre-WTM playlists from WFMU, Radio Libertaire,
Radio Patapoe and Radio 100]
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
* Henry Miller
[1] "Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance" on Antilles vinyl, 1983.
Weirdly psychedelic for the environmentally apocalyptic.
Koyaanisqatsi in Hopi means crazy life; life in turmoil; life
disintegrating; life out of balance; a state of life that calls for
another way of living.
[2] "Orient: Accident" on Pogus <www.pogus.com>. To hear where music
went into the future long ago listen to one of the only labels that
[3] "Mouvement / Slam" on Canal 93 / Mouvement. Everything you
expected of slam poetry. Hyperbole over subtlety, cudgel over
feather, fisticuffs over massage.
[4] "Every thing is Exactly How You Left It" on Spa.rk. By now,
obscurity is its own cliched genre but it also remains an intriguing
cellular dialog between surprise and expectation.
[5] "Strange Days" on Elektra vinyl, 1967. Next year this record will
be 40 years old! Morrison was poetry for me when I was 15. Horse
Latitudes was certainly a strange piece to find on a pop/rock record.
[6] "Get Your Greasy Head off the Sham" on Birdman
<www.birdmanrecords.com>. What a crazy record. Imagine Chicken
McNuggets jammed in under the strings of Zappa's golden harp.
[7] "The Choir Boys with Strings" on PF Mentum <www.pfmentum.com>.
Yikes, no wonder the asylums are empty, they're all out performing.
Use Beefheart as a flint rock and this is the spark that flies off.
But can you start a fire with it
[8] "Nomad" on No Man's land <www.nomansland-records.de>. Japanese
post-jazz on a German label.
[9] "Back to the Roots" on Polydor vinyl. My real introduction to the
Blues. He is strangely clunkily, confessionally, long-hairedly
effective as he does what most Brit rockers did not, translate his
own rich bio into blues confessionals. He is also important as a
crossroads of many legends and greats
[10] "Ingwe" on Indies Records. Interesting label tirelessly pushes
Eastern european 'new' music with heavy emphasis on Czech Rep. Liner
notes: "The music is inspired by mythological stories of North
American indigenous people, the Inuit and old China" Ingwe is 'blue
hawk' in Xhosa of the Kalahari.
[11] "Wir Leben Wie Gespenster" on Trikont
<www..rocket-freudental.de>. Rocket in that great tradition of
rudimentary punk rock [like Trio] which simplifies everything down
about 8 notches and comes up sounding fresh, original, punk,
experimental, kinetic. Always recommended.
[12] "Pure Pop for Now People" on Columbia [Stiff] 1978[77], vinyl. I
still think this is one of the great pure pop records. Wasn't the
original title something like 'Jesus of Cool'? Didn't that get
censored in the US and didn't it force him to change the title?
There's nothing greater than whole swaths of a nation or its
government being scandalized. It makes life worth living. You have to
feel honored when the US Government gives anything attention and
[13] "Gochu" on Rank Cologne <kolmrank@...>. The band is just
beyond peach fuzz and already they've got the hang of Sonic Youth and
ESP Records post-noise improv non-jazz. Would have been the offspring
darlings of the Dadaists and/or Futurists. They have their own
myspace site, BTW. They work in that great tradition [see Pound,
Ayler, Pynchon, SY] of obscurity being the best revenge. Better than
pranks, better than punk, better than vandalism. It's poetry and it's
an iconography of iconoclastic annihilation the phoenix of feedback.
[14] "Project: Mersh" on SST vinyl, 1985. The original anti-pop speed
punk metal jazz band for people who read post-modernism; MM avoided
all the trappings of pop except death and commodified mythification.
D. Boon died. Did they pioneer the punks in baggy shorts look?
[15] Great sombre gruesome deep beats Tuvan-Gregorian bass-voiced
bottom-feeding, scraping static off horns, and a dingy kind of world
music from a world that exists everywhere in the gutters, sewage
pipes, frayed power lines of ghettos, barrios and back-hoods Imagine
some low-riders [dark glass] scraping metal, delivering Artaud from
party to party to do stand-up theatre of cruelty stunts. People laugh
[16] "1939" on Pogus <www.pogus.com>.
[17] EO comes across as a very entertaining revenge-of-the-wusses,
prying loose 21st century versions of the Loudon Wainwright III
school of humor in a Newport folk cabaret where all the drinks are
unpronounceable and colours you never even imagined.
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
* Robert Anton Wilson [RIP]
* Record collectors' shop faces the music By Robert Plummer , BBC News
After more than 30 years in business, Europe's biggest second-hand
record shop is in the throes of a huge closing-down sale.
Beanos, in the south London suburb of Croydon, sent shockwaves
through the world of music collecting when it announced in July that
it was no longer profitable and would have to shut. Founder and
proprietor David Lashmar thought he would be able to sell all his
remaining stock - more than one million items - by Christmas. But
with just a few shopping days left to go, eager punters are still
thumbing their way through tens of thousands of singles, albums and
CDs. Beanos' decline comes at a time of rapid change for the music
industry that has left ordinary consumers in a state of confusion.
Whether you're buying downloads for your iPod, brand-new CDs from a
High Street store or rare slabs of second-hand vinyl, no-one seems to
know any more what is a fair price to charge for music.
Traditional music chains such as HMV and Virgin have been forced to
lower their prices in order to compete with supermarkets, who now
account for more than a quarter of all CD sales in the UK.
"CDs were a novelty when they first came out, 14 or 15 years ago.
They were kept artificially high in price and there was a big
differential between manufacturing costs and retail costs. Gradually
a price war started and CDs became more and more affordable. Big
companies like CBS started slashing prices on their major artists.
You can buy a Springsteen or Dylan CD for £4.99 now, so why come to a
second-hand shop? That's really what started pulling the rug from
under our feet If you want to buy obscure Trojan reggae singles, you
can get them on a very good triple CD box set for a tenner, whereas
one of those Trojan singles could cost you 200 quid. So that's where
the market went for those. Whatever the genre - be it rock 'n' roll
or pop, whatever you like - people have done their research and come
out with excellent compilations, which makes it much more affordable.
That's taken the collectability out of that vinyl."
o Amsterdam's mayor Job Cohen finished second in the voting for World
Mayor 2006. Interesting guy of amazing unflappable almost zen-like
calm in a crazy city. He finished 5,000 behind the winner, the mayor
of Melbourne.
o Murders in Netherlands keeps sinking. Even though the perception
[as it seems to be worldwide] is that crime and violence are getting
worse. This is mainly due to the Internet and one's ability to see
suffering all over the world and locally in an instant. It is also
due to the nostalgic old timers who are still coming up with those
amazing bromides about how it used to be when everyone trusted each
other, nobody locked their doors and all the neighbors knew each
other and watched each other's kids. One wander through the art
and/or history museums and you immediately get a new view. People
used to be MUCH crueler - my daughter loves all those old paintings
from the times of Bosch and Breugel for instance. 16 million people
about 170 murders for 2006. 30 less than 2005, while in the 1990s
there was an avergae of 250 annually.
o Yahoo recently announced that Britney Spears is the most popular
search term for 2006. Paris Hilton ended 5th with Shakira [a
yodeler!] 3rd. But who was 2nd? Jesus? Osama? Hussein? This report
came out before the hanging of Saddam, which I guess would have been
number one event searched. But the number one event searched was
Steve Irwin's [TV croc hunter] death and the death of Anna Nicole
Smith's son. Does this say something about Yahoo users?
o While in the US doing initial filming for the yodel docu I got to
see a lot of hotel room TV and catch up with newspaper and radio
news. Being away for some 10 years it all sounds weirdly exotic to
me. And if this news story had appeared in Haiti it would have seemed
stranger than the fact that it comes from Florida. There Jeb Bush,
the governor, signed into law a measure known as the 'stand your
ground' bill lets people carry and use guns or other methods of
deadly force to defend themselves or their families in public places
like BARS! You don't have to attempt to flee first. This is an
extension of the concealed weapons act [Florida was a forerunner] and
the 'castle doctrine' [ditto] which allows citizens to defend their
homes with deadly force. They catered to the fears magnified by the
obsession with victims' rights [not that they shouldn't have them!
But they shouldn't be manipulated either to feed paranoia and gun
sales] meanwhile, Florida fries more criminals than any other and
yet Florida continues to have one of the nation's highest state crime
Notes on other Patapoe audionauts & nuts:
o Jonges v/d Vlakte [Boys from the Plains]: "De cottonpickin' Jongens
van de cottonpickin' Vlakte" play a piquant, illuminating, and
playfully irritating mix of faulty music, of near-misses, of obscure
failures, of world music that is not from this world 19.00-20.30
[Dutch time, subtract 1 hr for UK, subtract 6 hrs for US East Coast]
Mondays @ PTP
o Dr. Doo Wop is one of the most eccentric and stimulating radio
shows anywhere. Sartre, DeSade, Doo Wop and music from the gonads.
Now on Radio Patapoe on Sunday 17.00-18.00 Amsterdam time
o Solus: Minimal electro techno acid french hiphop / Thursdays 22.00
o Super Nova is a big potpourri of sounds influences and information
both local and elsewhere. Can you picture a sound? On Sundays
o Wildcat Radio: Anarchist organization presents radio as it should
be - in your ear. Saturdays 18.00-20.00.
o De Oktoskoop: Kinderen/kid/children/rugrats and other visionaries.
Sat. 11.30-13.30
o POLYPHAKE PLAPPERLAPAPP: "polyphone audioerosion featuring
occasional beatweirdniks in an plaperlappap assemblage hosted by
F.Fiasko 22:30-?? Wednesdays
o Radio Worm: Rotterdam-based radio collective presents inventive
programming to baffle all preconceptions. Midnight Sundays and in
autopilot rotation.
o HET PROGRAMMA: industrial lounge for collapsing people. Tuesdays 21:00
* Wreck This Mess-Paris @ Radio Libertaire, Paris 89.4 hosted by
Laurent Diouf 1/2 PanouPanou on Tuesdays 12:30-14:30 check
* Black Sifichi / Audiometric radio check <http://www.blacksifichi.com>
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Date Night
PIP is joining up with Kiddywampus and Samba Taste of Brazil for a Date Night in Hopkins on Friday, March 24th. Tickets for this event includes optional childcare at Kiddywampus, a drink at Samba, AND a couples' project at PIP.
They have fun, you have fun, everyone wins!
Schedule of Events (see map)
1. 5:45- Drop off kiddos at Kiddywampus
2. 6:00- Head down to Samba for a complimentary drink
3. 7:00- Make a Photo Display Board for your home at PIP
Pick up your children at Kiddywampus at 8:00
Kiddywampus Event:
Theme: Pajama Party!
Ages: 4-10 (must be pottytrained)
Price: one child $15, two $25, three + $35
Drop your children off in their pajamas to enjoy some arty fun time at Kiddywampus. They will have a dance party, make art projects, play games and enjoy story time before heading home.
*Please eat before drop off as no food will be served.
*Contact Kiddywampus with questions regarding childcare at 952.926.7871
Sip & PIP Event:
After you've dropped off your kid(s) at Kiddywampus, head to Samba Taste of Brazil for a complimentary drink. Then head to the other end of the block to PIP to create a Photo Display Board together.
Project Choices:
Photo Display Board
Experience: Beginner
Tools: Hand Miter Saw, Brad Nailer, Power Drill
Dimensions: 24" long x 8" wide x 1"deep
You Choose:
- Personalized stencil in cursive or normal font (email us your font choice and stencil wording after ordering your tickets) Stencil Examples: The Smiths, Our Family, Grandkids
- Stain color - 6 choices
- Stencil color - 4 neutral paint choices
- Where to hang or give as a gift
Giant Ruler
Price: $50 includes drinks and a one project to build together
Experience: Beginner
Tools: Carpenter's Square, Hammer
Dimensions: 6' long x 10" wide x 1"deep
You Choose:
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Rooms, services Guests looking for accommodation in Nantong are welcome to book 98 nicely furnished rooms at VoGue Hotel NanTong - Nantong. If you feel like having a meal not included in your chosen type of catering, you can always taste local dishes in the restaurant of the hotel. Car rental service is also available to help you discover all key highlights of the area. The café is an ideal location for a personal meeting and a relaxing evening talk. An exact and detailed list of equipment in the rooms and of the services provided by VoGue Hotel NanTong - Nantong you will find on the information sheet below, including any applicable additional fees.
Payment Depeding on the selected room, date and price, you may be asked to provide credit card guarantee or to pay by credit card in advance.
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The wife and I took the 6 year old to DC for five days (leaving the three younger girls in Illinois) and in between the monuments, the museums and a Strasburg/National's game we managed to eat at nine places in the DC area:
1. Tuesday night: Medaterra. Well, it was near our hotel and it was open and did I mention that it was near the hotel?? It wasn't all bad, the calimari app was pretty darn tasty and the drinks were pretty good (though w a y overpriced, which as most of you know is a DC trademark). The waitstaff was very nice and the outside dining was pretty cool. My wife had lamb chops which she gave a 4 out of ten and I had quite possibly the most ineptly prepared ribeye imaginable. Now the restaurant doesn't exactly scream STEAKHOUSE, but hey it was a special and it was ''spice-rubbed", so I thought a middle eastern spiced steak, why not?? First, it was about a quarter inch thick---who serves steaks this thin not on a bun? Second, the mysterious middle eastern spice rub appeared to be .....salt. The boy ordered the 'flatbread pizza' off of the kids menu and was later brought what appeared to be a soggy microwaved Red Baron single serve---of course the boy still wolfed it all down.
2. Lunch on Wednesday was a very pleasant surprise at the Pourhouse near the Capitol. While the place wasn't exactly surging with patrons, the "World Cup" lunch menu looked decent enough and I like the look of the place. All three of us ordered the Burger and Fries which was exceptionally well prepared. The burger was well-seasoned, juicy and served on a nice kaiser roll. The fries were a triumph: hand-cut, crispy and perfectly salty. The young man tending the place was pleasant and really made our six year old feel special. Kudos!
3. Dinner on Wednesday was also in the Woodley Park area at the little upstairs Asian place called IPOH. The drink selection is minimal as is the ambiance, but my sizzling beef platter was top-notch, my shumai app delicious and the boy's fried banana desert was "yummy". Overall not bad at all for a reasonably priced, conveniently located pan-asian restaurant.
Getting sleepy, so I'll finish up tomorrow with our trips to Sea Catch in Georgetown, Spices in Cleveland Park, Nage in DuPont Circle, M&S Grill and Gordon Biersch downtown (I know chain city) plus one more that escapes me right now.
Nage Restaurant
1600 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036
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Lambiek is a wonderful site with a Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 6,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples. Fantastic! And for my surprise I found many Brazilians illustrators there, so, it is really good. For plus, there is the History of the Dutch Comics and a virtual exposition.
In my search for "Brazil" there I discovered one of the first comic illustrators in Brazil: Angelo Agostini and a site about him.
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This bread is moist and chocolaty. It is sure to satisfy even the strongest sweet tooth and the use of whole wheat flour makes me feel (a little) less guilty about eating it for breakfast or as an afternoon treat with a cold glass of milk. The use of both cocoa and chocolate chips makes this bread decadent.
The ingredients are easy to whip together and it bakes in about an hour. The finished bread will stay fresh for a few days or can be frozen up to 3 months. I like to make a double batch so I can add one to my freezer stash.
Here is your printable!
- 1½ cups white whole wheat flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large bananas, mashed
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Pre heat oven to 350.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside. In a large bowl (I used my stand mixer), cream together butter and sugars. Add the eggs and vanilla, beating after each addition. Mix the bananas into the wet mixture. Add in the flour mixture ⅓ at a time. Do not over mix - just combine until everything is moist. Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour into a greased loaf pan. Bake 60-70 minutes, until the top is cracked and a toothpick comes out clean.
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- Cool completely. Slice and place in a gallon sized freezer bag. Remove as much air as possible and freeze for up to 3 months.
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20.109 WF Pink Team Research Proposal
TB Breath Test
Project Overview: Developing a novel biosensor device to diagnose tuberculosis infection quickly and efficiently. Our aim is to create an engineered bacterial system to detect unique volatile organic compounds in the breath of those infected with TB and produce a visible output within minutes.
Disease background
- Tuberculosis is an infectious (potentially fatal) disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 1/3 of world population is infected; in 2011 alone, 9 million new cases, and nearly 1.4 million TB-related deaths worldwide
- TB usually affects the lungs, but can also affect brain, kidneys, spine
- symptoms include coughing (blood), chest pain, weight loss, night sweats, fever, and chills
- latent vs active infection
- latent infection becomes active if immune system cannot repress bacteria's growth
- 5-10% of latent cases will become active
2 widely used current tests:
- Mantoux TB skin test injects a small amount of tuberculin into the skin
- patient must return to clinic 48/72 hours later for evaluation of injection site
- TB blood test (interferon-gamma release assay) measures immune system reaction to TB bacteria
Problem/Goals Statement:
- current TB tests (TB skin test and blood test) are invasive
- commonly used TB skin test requires a follow-up visit 48 to 72 hours after tuberculin injection - an inconvenience to both patients and doctors
- large need for administering TB tests (please see high-risk characteristics)
- false positives
- we propose the creation of a better TB detection method that will address these shortcomings through biological engineering
- to detect and concentrate the unique volatile organic compounds (VOC) released from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the breath of infected patients
- to engineer a biological system that amplifies the VOC signal, and quickly produces a visual output
Details/Method: TBD!
Predicted Outcomes: TBD!
Cambridge Pubic Health Department
- Test should be used on individuals with:
- risk of exposure to active TB (e.g. health care workers)
- immigration from TB prominent regions (Africa, Asian, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East)
- abnormal chest X-ray
- http://www.cambridgepublichealth.org/services/diseases-conditions/TB-program/index.php


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It has been published in the newspapers recently that the Federal Government of Nigeria has accepted most of the proposals of the committee set up to proffer solutions to the current Boko Haram insurgency.
Our people say that a deaf man does not require telling that a war is at hand. Boko Haram has indeed demonstrated its seriousness by the intensity and sophistication of their campaign of terror, maiming and murder of innocent citizens. They have successfully attacked police stations, banks, churches, market places, Kano city, the UN and some government establishments. And more attacks are in the offing.
The committee observed, among other things, that poverty, youth unemployment, illiteracy, existence of militias funded by politicians, among other factors, are responsible for the rise of Boko Haram especially in the North Eastern part of the country.
Strangely enough, these factors are not alien to other parts of the country. I know a couple of youths in Delta State who graduated 5 years ago and have never earned a dime from employment of any kind.
What is perhaps more puzzling is the recommendation of this committee for the Federal Government to begin negotiations with the terrorist group. The question I asked myself after reading this report was: negotiate with whom, and on what basis?
For verily negotiations can only happen after the leaders and members of the 'other camp' have been identified. In the case of Boko Haram, no one is sure about the identity of their leaders or members. They have been elusive.
Furthermore, negotiations may be possible if the demands or objectives of the opposing party are declared. One of the objectives of Boko Haram is to destroy the foundation of western education in Nigeria à la Taliban. They have also not hidden their desire to Islamise Nigeria from the Sahara to the Atlantic Ocean.
Nigeria sharply contrasts with other climes where acts of terrorism have become rooted. In Iraq, and Afghanistan for example, the resort to car and suicide bombings have been a reaction to foreign occupation of these lands. But who is occupying Nigeria? Answer: Nobody.
One can thus infer that the Boko Haram uprising has a lot to do with internal contradictions within the Nigerian polity. In other words, there is a political dimension to this menace.
One recalls that shortly after Good luck Jonathan won his party's nomination, some prominent politicians of Northern extraction who would not accept the outcome of this nomination began to threaten fire and brimstone. And shortly after Jonathan won the elections, all hell broke loose.
Is Boko Haram not indirectly acting out the political script which has been written by disgruntled politicians?
A few weeks into this uprising, some political elements who appear to represent a sectional agenda began to advise that the Federal Government of Nigeria begin negotiations with the insurgent group.
Some of them have argued, rather tamely, that if the Federal Government considered it expedient to negotiate with the militants in the Niger Delta, they should also negotiate with Boko Haram. What is good for the goose should also be good for the gander!
I posit that fundamentally, the Niger Delta militancy is different from the Bok Haram menace. Firstly, the Niger Delta militants were well known in the corridors of power, and secondly, they were able to articulate convincingly the economic reasons behind their rebellion.
I have been able to peruse the provisions of the Nigeria Constitution and my attention has been drawn to the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy. The operative words and phrases include: sovereignty, security, welfare, diversity, promotion of national integration, promotion of education etc.
In the light of the above it is fairly obvious to an informed observer that the objectives of Boko Haram are at variance with the fundamental objectives of the Nigerian State.
So on what basis is this negotiation? Is the Nigerian Government being encouraged to negotiate away the sovereignty of Nigeria? Or to agree to the idea that education (western education) is no longer relevant? Or to agree that there is no longer strength in our diversity, a diversity that finds expression in religious tolerance?
A state is what it is by virtue of its capacity to repel every threat to its existence. This is achieved by means of the instruments of violence over which it has a monopoly. Therefore, my contention is that the Nigerian state must assert its sovereignty over the entire Nigeria in an overwhelming fashion. The time to do this is now!
The State of Israel has demonstrated that a state can overcome the irritations of suicide bombings. The USA has also demonstrated that terrorists can be tracked down and their infrastructure dismantled. Turkey has been successful in containing the PKK uprising.
Nigeria must learn from the experience of these nations and develop a capacity to deal with threats posed by the likes of Boko Haram.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has a hard decision to make in the weeks ahead.
My view in this write-up is that any decision to negotiate with Boko Haram is, in every sense, a capitulation. A surrender of our national sovereignty! That is the reason why I am troubled that the Federal Government has prematurely 'accepted' most of the recommendations of the white paper submitted by this committee.
The consequence of this 'acceptance' and potential negotiation is that any group of young men equipped with a dozen AK47, will be encouraged to take up arms against our nation, in the knowledge that the Government will eventually agree to negotiate and give in to their demands. May Nigeria live long!
Boko Haram: between negotiation and capitulation


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Do you aspire to work in the C-suite? You can safely assume that top executives will require a prized package of skills: spreadsheet fluency, a strong communicator, e-mail reviewer, PowerPoint creator, calendar keeping.
But most high-level execs say they also want assistants who have the "X Factor."
Love it or hate it, high-ranking executives want employees who can read minds, anticipate needs and supply that indescribable "something" that propels an executive toward success.
Find out why style — rather than performance — is the key factor in determining who makes it to the boardroom.The Black Book of Executive Politics
Here's what execs say it takes:
Do more than asked. When Joanna Coles, editor in chief of the U.S. edition of Marie Claire, was in Paris on business, her assistant called to check in. At the time, Coles was standing on the avenue Montaigne in the rain, there were no cabs and she was late for a meeting.
"Yes, you can get me a cab!" Coles exclaimed.
She was only joking, but eight minutes later, a cab pulled up and the driver asked, "Are you Joanna Coles?"
Track down answers behind the scenes. Not long ago, Pamela Liebman, CEO of New York-based real estate firm Corcoran Group, had an important meeting and asked her then assistant Amy Roeder to bring in two cups of coffee.
Later that day, Liebman's visitor called to say, "Did you know that your assistant called my assistant earlier to ask how I take my coffee?" Liebman says, "And you know what the other assistant told Amy? 'I have no idea, my boss gets her own coffee.'"
The Black Book of Executive Politics tells you how to progress from merely competent to outstandingly effective.
Evolve with the boss. A personal assistant's tasks often cross over into the personal realm, especially as the boss gets married or has children. Linda Kaplan Thaler, founder and CEO of ad agency Kaplan Thaler, has worked with her assistant, Fran Marzano, for 26 years, even longer than Thaler has known her husband.
"I have two kids now, and my needs have evolved," says Thaler. "There are a lot of personal things I just can't get done during a day, so often it's about keeping my daughter's calendar for the year, and could you order this book from Amazon for my parents, and remind me to RSVP for this or that?"
Be ambitious about excelling in the role you're in. Execs are all too familiar with the story of the perfect assistant who leaves after she isn't promoted quickly.
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Bottom line: Be upfront about your career goals.
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- The virtues of letting your ideas get stolen — on purpose
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DAILYKENN.com -- Julius Malema leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left racist hate group, has called for violence against white farmers in his native South Africa.
Malema says whites stole land from native blacks without compensation, then slaughtered or enslaved the previous owners. In reality, whites cultivated land where no natives lived and, in so doing, turned South Africa into the continent's bread basket feeding countless millions of blacks.
According to southafricatoday.net:
Malema has failed to realize the amount of productive land in South Africa averages about forty percent and failed to address the vast amount of food-producing land already given to black farmers over the last 20 years. Malema failed to mention how many black farmers have destroyed once fertile land that now lays barren. Another point Malema forgot to mention is the thirty-two percent of land given to the nine different ethnic groups in the 1970s to create an opportunity to govern their land successfully but failed dismally. And then Malema forgot to mention that the apartheid government gave these different ethnic groups the resources to implement stable states.Read more here ►
Malema fails to tell his audience that it was not only white land that must be expropriated but the land stolen by black tribes.
Land grabbing through violent means among African cultures has happened in the past, and land reform should not be taken as an opportunity to force whites off the land. Malema should know that forcibly removing productive land from successful farmers produces famine, unemployment, crime. Malema should be aware that the northern border countries have confirmed the collapse of productivity that often occurs when violent land reform happens. Of course, anarchy will ensue when measures are taken to remove people forcibly from their property. However much Malema praises the Zimbabweans, he is forgetting the suffering and continued struggles of these people.
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* Brilliant comeback earned Arsenal 3-3 draw at Bournemouth
* Charlie Daniels gave Bournemouth a 16th-minute lead
* Callum Wilson slotted a penalty soon after to make it 2-0
* Ryan Fraser made it 3-0 after 58 minutes
* Alexis Sanchez pulled a goal back for Arsenal
* A superb Lucas Perez volley made it 3-2 with 15 minutes left
* Bournemouth captain Simon Francis was red-carded late on
* Olivier Giroud headed in a stoppage-time equaliser
* Arsenal at Swansea next, Bournemouth away to Hull
Jan 3 (Reuters) - Olivier Giroud's stoppage-time header earned Arsenal an unlikely 3-3 draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday after they had trailed 3-0 with 70 minutes on the clock.
The visitors were outplayed in the first half, going behind to a superb goal by Charlie Daniels after 16 minutes before Callum Wilson made it 2-0 from the penalty spot shortly after.
There was more urgency about Arsenal in the second half but they found themselves 3-0 down when Ryan Fraser got away with a shove on Hector Bellerin before cutting in to beat Petr Cech.
The comeback began when Alexis Sanchez headed in from close range and gathered steam when substitute Lucas Perez planted a sweetly-timed left-foot volley past keeper Artur Boruc.
Bournemouth's jitters increased when skipper Simon Francis was sent off for a clumsy tackle on Aaron Ramsey after 82 minutes.
Arsenal swarmed all over the tiring hosts in the closing stages and two minutes into stoppage time Giroud's glancing header crept inside the post to level it up.
Even then both sides had chances to win an absorbing match but Arsenal had to settle for the point that kept them in fourth place with 41 points. (Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Toby Davis)


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Fun at Firle, East Sussex
Posted 10 August 2016 by Andrew Gardner
Firle Vintage Fair is a lovely East Sussex event taking place over the weekend of August 13-14th. It's a lovely mixture - an intimate-feeling event at a beautiful venue with enough space to absorb lots of visitors. Whether you're shopping or browsing, the stalls with their selection of quality antique and vintage clothes, homeware, garden goods and linen look tempting and seem to get better every year.
The pavilion will be hosting jazz bands, dancers and other performers, and you'll be able to taste artisan Firle beers or indulge at the Champagne bar on the lawns in front of Firle Place itself - where you'll also find a wonderful collection of classic cars to look at. With traditional fairground rides, puppet shows and story telling there's plenty to keep the children entertained, while the whole family can join in with the craft workshops.
I'd strongly recommend a walk around the wider area - Firle Place itself is delightful, the village is classic Sussex and, high above it all, Firle Beacon is one of my favourite South Downs walks; it's steep though, so whether you can do that as well might depend on how much energy the kids and granny can muster!
And if you're thinking 'bother, that's just too early for our holiday in Sussex' there's still the International Horse Trials, Country Fair and Dog Festival the following weekend. While I'm delighted to say several top Sussex event riders will be absent because of a little competition in Rio, there's still an international CIC* which is sure to be well-contested. The Kennel Club dog show on Sunday 21st will include terrier and lurcher racing and a gun-dog scurry - sounds like a lot of serious fun, and with archery on the lawns, plenty of trade stands, a Wealden crafts marquee and loads of lovely food and drink, yet again there'll be something for all the family.
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The Commander of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema has launched another scathing attack on white people living in the country.
This time, the tireless campaigner of land invasion has reminded white people that they are foreigners in South Africa, stating that no land in the country "rightfully" belongs to them.
See Also: Malema Drops Another Bombshell Shortly After His Court Appearance
According to Juju, all land belongs to the indigenous people of South Africa, and so white people must stop occupying land at will – as if they are the original owners.
He reiterated EFF's commitment towards ensuring all lands are returned to the rightful owners, adding that no law or government would be able to deter or stop this mandate.
Malema bluntly stated that President Zuma isn't their main target, as widely acclaimed. He said defeating white monopoly capital is EFF's strategic position and main target.
Descending a bit, he promised that the EFF will not slaughter white people "for now", but will definitely do so if they refuse to behave like visitors.
"We will not chase white people to the sea. We will give them [a] portion. We will share the land piece by piece. And you can't own bigger than us … you are a visitor. Visitors must behave. They must know that the land belongs to people of South Africa … indigenous people of South Africa," he said.
Check out: EFF Leader J. Malema Appears In Court Today
Julius Malema was speaking outside the Newcastle Magistrate's Court KwaZulu-Natal, where he appeared for calling on black South Africans to forcefully occupy the land. His statements, which were made publicly in 2014 and June 2016 respectively, contravened the Riotous Assemblies Act.
He alleged that the Riotous Assemblies Act was sponsored by the apartheid government to suppress the blacks and barred them from expressing their dissatisfaction with white monopoly capital.


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Soon the NYSC Batch A Admission would kickoff for 2016, we have been receiving questions from students who studied overseas on how to apply:
Below is a sample question
I schooled overseas how can i participate in National Youth Service Corps:
1)The Originals and photocopies of the following documents are required for registration and mobilization of foreign-trained graduates into the National Youth Service Corps (please note that downloaded Certificates/Transcripts, Statement of result and Attestation letters are not acceptable); viz:
First University Degree or HND Certificate
Complete official Transcript of the First Degree or HND programme
Marks Sheets (for Indian Schools only)
O'level Certificate i.e WASC, GCE, SSCE, NECO, IGCE, GCSE, High School Diploma for those who schooled in USA e.t.c. Candidate must obtain credit in not less than 5 subjects (including English and Mathematics) in not more than 2 sittings.
2)Medical Doctors and Optometrists are required to produce in addition, Evidence of completion of Housemanship, Registration Certificate with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria/Optometrists Association of Nigeria, as applicable.
Pharmacists shall produce in addition, Evidence of completion of Internship and the registration certificate with Pharmacists Council of Nigeria.
Nigerian International Passport showing clearly;
Entry Visa to Country of Study
First Departure Date from Nigeria
Date of Return to Nigeria
Data page of the passport
Candidates with dual nationality are required to produce both passports for verification.
Loss Of Travelling Passport
prospective Corps Member who lost his/her passport would be required to present;
Police and Immigration reports from the country where the Passport got missing Sworn Affidavit
Evidence of stay in country of study
The above documents should contain the same information as contained in the lost passport.
Current Nigerian International Passport
For Loss Of Academic Credentials, the following is required;
Police Report
Sworn Affidavit
Confirmation letter from either the examination body (for loss of 'O' Level Certificate) or the academic institution of graduation (for loss of Degree, HND Certificate).
3)Certificates not written in English Language should be translated at the Embassy of the country of study or a University in Nigeria where the language is studied, before uploading and presentation to the NYSC. .4)Foreign-trained graduates enlisting into the Nigerian Youth Service are not obliged to choose their State of deployment.
However, married women would be deployed to the state where their husbands are domiciled provided their marriage certificate and evidence of change of name (Newspaper publication and Court Affidavit) are uploaded and attached to their forms.
Graduate of University of Education Winneba, Ghana, King Faisal University, Chad Republic and all Universities in the Republic of Benin are requested to obtain and upload letters of Evaluation from Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja before registration.
All names inconsistency on different documents must be supported with Court Affidavit and uploaded before physical verification.
Foreign-trained graduates should NOT visit NYSC Headquarters, Abuja for verification of their documents. This exercise will now be done at the Orientation Camps. They should simply print their call-up letters on-line and report at the Orientation camps in their States of deployment, but should come along with the original documents they uploaded to the camp where they will be verified.
You are expected to print your callup letter on-line but for those that did not pay they are to collect their call-up letters at NYSC NDHQ Abuja on presentation of international Travelling passport. Collection by proxy is not allowed.
You will also present your international travelling passport before you can register at the orientation camp
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Monday, September 21, 2015 by usafeaturesmedia
(Cyberwar.news) A state-sponsored Russian hacking group named "The Dukes" has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers, having allegedly conducted attacks against foreign governments and other entities over a seven-year period, the International Business Times (IBT) reported.
In a just-released white paper,[PDF] researchers from security firm Secure Labs detailed how cyberattacks were launched in support of Russian intelligence operations by using malware to infiltrate computer systems and steal data.
Targets listed in the report include government institutions and think tanks in Europe, Central Asia and the United States, as well as a Georgian NATO branch and Uganda's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
F-Secure Labs researcher Artturi Lethio, who led the investigation, said the team's findings all indicate Kremlin complicity.
"The research details the connections between the malware and tactics used in these attacks to what we understand to be Russian resources and interests," Lethio said. "These connections provide evidence that helps establish where the attacks originated from, what they were after, how they were executed and what the objectives were. And all the signs point back to Russian state-sponsorship."
As the white paper noted, The Dukes are a well-financed and technologically proficient group that has been in operation for a number of years.
"The Dukes are a well-resourced, highly dedicated and organized cyberespionage group that we believe has been working for the Russian Federation since at least 2008 to collect intelligence in support of foreign and security policy decision-making," says an executive summary of the white paper.
"The Dukes primarily target Western governments and related organizations, such as government ministries and agencies, political think tanks, and governmental subcontractors," the summary continued. "Their targets have also included the governments of members of the Commonwealth of Independent States; Asian, African, and Middle Eastern governments; organizations associated with Chechen extremism; and Russian speakers engaged in the illicit trade of controlled substances and drugs."
Specifically, the group is known to "employ a vast arsenal of malware toolsets, which we identify as MiniDuke, CosmicDuke, OnionDuke, CozyDuke, CloudDuke, SeaDuke, HammerDuke, PinchDuke, and GeminiDuke," said the summary.
"In recent years, the Dukes have engaged in apparently biannual large-scale spear-phishing campaigns against hundreds or even thousands of recipients associated with governmental institutions and affiliated organizations," it said.
IBT reported that two new variants of malware toolsets were discovered during Secure Lab's research – enough to allow researchers to link The Dukes with the attacks, and to Moscow.
"The connections identified in the report have significant international security implications, particularly for states in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus," Patrik Maldre, a junior research fellow with the International Center of Defense and Security in Estonia, told IBT. "They shed new light on how heavily Russia has invested in offensive cyber capabilities and demonstrate that those capabilities have become an important component in advancing its strategic interests."
U.S. intelligence officials have long believed that Moscow uses outside "independent" groups to conduct much of its cyber activity, in order to establish plausible deniability. U.S. intelligence officials also suspect the Chinese government of doing the same thing.
If the F-Secure Labs report is accurate, it would be some of the first concrete evidence that Moscow is officially sponsoring hacking groups to conduct espionage on competitor nations.
The white paper notes that researchers discovered The Dukes first launched cyber assaults against the West in 2009. "[T]he targets of the Dukes group during that year included organizations such as the Ministry of Defense of Georgia and the ministries of foreign affairs of Turkey and Uganda," the white paper said.
At about the same time, said researchers, The Dukes became interested in NATO and U.S. government operations.
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Universally hailed as one of the great novels of the 20th century, Walker Percy's National Book Award winning The Moviegoer is a Southern classic and a highly sought after collectible first edition. True firsts from its 1961 publication can run well into four figures. I have seen estimates of 1500-3000 copies printed, which isn't surprising considering it was Percy's first novel. I won't be buying one any time soon.
My copy of The Moviegoer is a recent trade paperback, which was fine for reading last year. I'm always on the lookout to upgrade to a hardcover, of course (you can read about the upgrade process with Go, Down Moses).
As book buying fate would have it, I came across an unexpected edition of The Moviegoer at a used bookshop while browsing through the leather books. Leather editions can be nice, particularly as eye candy on the shelf, but they generally aren't collectible in the same way a first edition might be (personally, I find Folio Society editions more interesting than the leather bound Franklin Press). This Franklin Library edition was different, however, because it was signed by Walker Percy.
This is where your smartphone comes in handy as I did a quick search on the always useful (and also dangerous) Bookfinder.com. The bookstore price, while not cheap, was relatively inexpensive to the going price. I bit. The time to buy a signed Walker Percy is when you find a signed Walker Percy. I would never see one again at that price.
A little research shows that this was part of a series from Franklin called the Signed 60, which was issued between 1977-1982, and is one of the most sought after Franklin series. The volumes were not only beautifully bound and signed, but also were newly illustrated.
How many were printed? I can't imagine too many as they had to have an author's signature for each one. There are only so many that Walker Percy is going to sit down and sign.
For someone who will never have the free cash to drop on a true first edition of The Moviegoer, this Signed 60 edition gives me a chance to own a beautiful and signed "first thus" edition. It's worth checking to see if your favorite author or novel has a similar edition that might be much more accessible than an out of reach true first.
If you're interested in Walker Percy, Rod Dreher is planning a Walker Percy Weekend in St. Francisville, Louisiana in 2014. Also see Dreher's recent article on Walker Percy and place.


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I downloaded the 2.0 preview source code, compiled it, and have a few questions:
1. When I set the SequenceAssembler as the startup project and hit F5 to debug I get the following error: XamlParseException was unhandled. 'The invocation of the constructor on type 'SequenceAssembler.ConsensusCustomView' that matches the specified
binding constraints threw an exception.' Line number '259' and line position '95'. This is in SequenceAssembly.xaml.
2. The contents of the directory SourceSamples\ReadGenerator are empty
3. Would it be possible to get a description of what is new in 2.0? The algorithms that changed (if any), the projects that were added?
4. Would it be possible to get a description of what the samples are supposed to do? Likely I am challenged by not being a biologist, maybe someone with more background in that field would know exactly what these are.
5. It looks like there is very little activity on this board, what is the current direction of the MBF team? Is there a roadmap? I watched the 2010 video tutorial where the gentleman at the end commented about the difficult road Microsoft
faces in developing this toolset (and getting the community to follow) and I was curious to hear what steps Microsoft is taking, or will take, to help build the community.
Thanks so much for your help and please let me know if there is additional information I can provide.
I was able to get #1 working. There was a problem reading the app.config file for Color data. I'm still not entirely sure what the real problem was, there are articles that there is a bug in .net 4.0 as of August 2010 but if that were the case
I wonder how this application ever worked?
And one more question...anyone know why the application is named SilverMap (Actually it is SequenceAssembler but for some reason I thought I saw silvermap and assumed silverlight)? Or is the silvermap the name of the map after performing a BLAST?
Regardless the quick workaround is to read the contents of the app.config using this code in ConsensusCustomView.xaml.cs::ReadColorScheme
config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel
handler = config.GetSection("Colors"
reader = new
colorSchemeNodes = reader.SelectNodes("//Colors/ColorScheme");
then use the code
found in ColorSchemeConfigHandler.cs to do the rest of the work.
As fas as I know SilverMap is a Silverlight control to visualize BLAST results. Find more details here
Hi Dourada,
Bitdisaster is right, the SilverMap control is a Silverlight visualization of BLAST results, and is built into the Sequence Assembler demo app.
I'll ask someone to look into why the ReadGenerator directory is empty, there should be a demo application in there that takes a DNA sequence and chops it up to generate a set of fragments similar to those that would be expected as input into a sequence
assembly - basically it is a way of generating test datasets for PaDeNa, Smith-Waterman, etc.
As for what is new in 2.0 - currently most of the changes have concerned the object model and optimizations to performance - we still have a long way to go before we are ready for the full 2.0 release, which is scheduled for the summer. A list of planned
features should be in the release notes - I'll check, and post something here if it is missing.
I'll write more later - but I would be interested in more background on you, Dourada. You say you are not a biologist, can I ask you what your interest is in MBF?
Sure thing Simon,
The company I work for is interested in merging some bioinformatic tools/analysis into their product. I am a computer science grad that worked in the software industry for the last 15 years and at the start of my career I became "assimilated",
so to speak, with Microsoft technologies. There has been the odd venture into linux/unix systems but the bulk of my work has consisted of developing with the full Microsoft stack. I have a personal interest in biology/bioinformatics but I
am certainly not a trained biologist. The more I read the more I understand I have no clue what I am doing but I enjoy it nonetheless.
That said, I read about MBF last summer, downloaded it, but was not able to apply it to anything. Now fortunately, that has changed.
My first visit, when researching a way to implement this type of analysis, led me to:
http://seqanswers.com/. If you have been thinking of developing a community you have no doubt visited the site. It seems to be a somewhat thriving community. However, it kills me the amount of time
they spend downloading/installing/compiling/configuring tools in a linux/unix environment. Granted some might find it enjoyable to work at this level, and that's totally cool, but if I were a biologist I would simply expect this toolset to
be available and functional. In my opinion that is what MBF offers, it really is a beautiful thing, in one package, that I can immediately integrate into .net code. It's the ultimate in leverage from a person that utilizes Microsoft development
I spent a couple of weeks attempting to download/install/compile/configure the tools necessary to perform some bioinformatic analysis, bwa, maq, samtools, etc. It's certainly doable but a waste of time, does not integrate well into a .net application
infrastructure, and if a researcher is doing it that's an additional waste (in my opinion) as they should be focused on their research not on learning how to manage files with a perl script (unless it provides personal satisfaction to work at
this level).
I encourage you to read through this thread if you have not already:
http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4589. My favorite part is when they start discussing better ways to create a directory structure with perl. It reminds me of software developers talking about their favorite keyboard shortcuts.
Again, these are not disparaging comments, I do not know any of the posters to this thread or belittle their effort, in fact it is a great tutorial for people starting out and I appreciated reading it very much....but seriously.....it seems like an incredible
amount of work when "all" the gentleman wanted to do was analyze some sequence data.
Anyway, so that's where we are at. I'm not sure if we will use MBF in the future or not but I can definitely see how it is a useful product. I do not know how you get more .net developers into academic labs or how you change the behavior of those
that enjoy linux/unix machines. I can tell you that if a .net developer needs to integrate bioinformatic tools in their application MBF is a no brainer.
I am happy to help and see a great future but as you said in the video (I think it was you) if you cannot create a community around this there is no reason to move forward with the project. It would be interesting to know how long it typically takes
for a community to form around a product. Maybe that time period has not elapsed?
Please let me know if you would like more information.
Oh, thanks also for your responses, I really appreciate it.
One more quick question.....if silvermap is a silverlight control does that mean we can compile MBF into a silverlight application now? Or does it still require the full .net 4 framework? I suspect it is the latter and that silvermap does not
make use of MBF functionality but thought I would ask.
Unfortunatelly you can't compile MBF for Silverlight. To many missing API's. But if you doing Siverlight and wanna talk to remote database you have go the WCF route anyway. So MBF is for Silverlight apps server side only.
Dan, your story is pretty intersting because it's the same as mine. I'm computer scientist grad as well and got stucked with bioinformatics when wrote my diploma thesis about machine learning for diagnostic systems. The frontend was a ASP.net 1.1 site with
SQL Server 2000 as data store. I was the first one who brought the "enemy" to the bioinformatics group. But over the years I could win more fellows for the .net world. But in general one is kind of lonely as Microsoft guy in the bioinformatics
world. However, I was happy when I heard about MBF and I hope the project keeps moving forward. Maybe we could chat? ping me at janDOThannemannAThotmailDOTde
Hey dourada -
Thanks so much for your input! I've taken the liberty of creating two new work items based on the two bugs you found (#1 and #2).
For #2 it would be great if you would be willing to provide a patch with the fix as you already found - thereby becoming a part of the MBF dev community right off the bat!:)
For #1, we'll have to deal with this one ourself as somehow this code must have been inadvertently missed during our contribution.
For #3, there is a high-level description of changes regarding the DevPreview for V2 on the download page itself. For the rest of the v2 effort, I'll defer to Beatriz and Simon for clarity on specifics. In general, these are our top areas of
investment for V2:
- Large Genome Assembly: in V1 MBF was intentionally capacity constrained to onboard memory. Though we had made some significant progress in the direction of de novo assembly, pairwise and multiple alignment techniques, data
virtualization was implemented in only a few cases. Our primary goal at this time is to ensure that genomes on the order of human size can be assembled on a machine of reasonable configuration.
- Genome Visualization: We are investing in a toolset which leverages both the MBF library as well as other Windows-based technologies to help in the area of genome visualization. A prototype of our efforts can be found here:
[url: http://18.104.22.168/#/GenoZoom_v1_1]. You can view the details of how this prototype was created in this video: [url:
- Analysis and Annotation: We would like to provide the addition of a few important capabilities that we were not able to get to in the V1 effort. Namely, we want to ensure that editing and annotation of sequence data is supported,
as well as support for paired-end reads, custom extensions to the BAM format, and optimizations to the sequence data reprensentation that will allow for tools related to statistical anaysis of gene mutations.
- Developer Support: We strive to make the library easier to understand, easier to debug, easier to deploy and easier to consume. We are evaluating a whole host of things that could be done here, one of which is to support Silverlight
We can't make any guarantees at this point, but hopefully this will give you a good idea of our general direction. We are compeltely open to community contributions, and would encourage anyone interested in promoting their own ideas by providing the
patches/changesets necessary to improve the platform.
For #4, there is some very thorough documentation regarding some of the sample apps (sequence assembler and the Biology Extension for Excel), the others are relatively small and contain a readme to help the user get started. The best way to get your
head wrapped around this stuff is to go ahead and install the V2 Dev Preview and exectue the tools. Some, like the Workflow samples, will requie other tools to use. If you have specific questions we can try to provide more detail where needed.
For #5, I'm sure Simon and/or Beatriz will address your question here (which is a good one!)
Hope this helps!
Yes Mike, that is a wonderful help. I appreciate all of the information. GenoZoom is very cool. I do not see the source code in the MBF2.0 release will you be releasing the code under the MBF?
We are looking at releasing the GenoZoom source, but there are some administrative hurdles we have to clear first - shouldn't be long now, though.
Regarding the building of community around MBF, this is certainly our plan - Microsoft is not full of biologists as you might imagine, and so we need community participation to make sure the project remains valuable to the biological research community.
While academia is naturally a target, the license terms of MBF are such that it is also freely available to the commercial world - and as you know, the Microsoft stack is much more prevalent there.
We certainly haven't solved the issue of community-building, and while we have taken some steps in that direction, we are still learning which approaches work most effectively. Some examples:
Overall though, I would characterize uptake as a promising start and no more; we are trying to evaluate the impact of our community-building efforts and trying new things all the time.
Finally - you speculate on how long it takes to build a community. I am sure it depends on many things, but it is my expectation that in the case of MBF we cannot expect overnight success and we will certainly be taking a leading role in driving
this forward for the foreseeable future. Community is a virtuous cycle - the more participants we have, the broader and more relevant the MBF feature set - which in turn attracts more community participants. I think v2 will certainly boost usage once
it is released in July.
Thanks Simon, that's great information, I really appreciate it.
Mike, I would be happy to make the code change to fix the problem I saw but I suspect it is not a bug and a configuration problem on my side. Unless for some odd reason the code was compiled against .net 3.5 and was moved to .net 4.0 recently, but
that would be strange as well because MBF requires .net 4.0. Have you been able to reproduce the problem? If so please let me know and I'll submit the fix.
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Yes Mike, that is a wonderful help. I appreciate all of the information. GenoZoom is very cool. I do not see the source code in the MBF2.0 release will you be releasing the code under the MBF?
TBD on source code release for GenoZoom. We are evaluting options here, but for now it's a demo prototype only.
dourada wrote:
Thanks Simon, that's great information, I really appreciate it.
Mike, I would be happy to make the code change to fix the problem I saw but I suspect it is not a bug and a configuration problem on my side. Unless for some odd reason the code was compiled against .net 3.5 and was moved to .net 4.0 recently, but
that would be strange as well because MBF requires .net 4.0. Have you been able to reproduce the problem? If so please let me know and I'll submit the fix.
OK - we'll look into this over the next available Sprint cycle. If you can provide the details of your configuration, including details about the machine and the software dependency versions loaded, it would help greatly in understading your experience.
Feel free to update the bug entered on this with the deatils so that it gets tracked appropriately. If we are able to find a solution the bug should be trackable by you as well.
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if silvermap is a silverlight control does that mean we can compile MBF into a silverlight application now? Or does it still require the full .net 4 framework?
if silvermap is a silverlight control does that mean we can compile MBF into a silverlight application now? Or does it still require the full .net 4 framework?
Our friends at Queensland University of Technology ported a subset of MBF to compile against the Silverlight runtime. Look at 38:30 in this presentation
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=142236 from James Hogan. As he explains the parts that were left out were mostly those that need the parallel extensions
in 4.0. If you must have this for your project, I can put you in touch with the QUT folks.
Dourada and Bitdisaster, you may be interested in attending our upcoming one-day MBF workshop on March 11 in Redmond, WA. This workshop will include a quick introduction to Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework, C#, and the MBF object model. Attendees will
participate in hands-on labs and write a sample application that employs the file parsers, algorithms, and web connectors in MBF. The workshop is open to everyone and registration is free of charge. For complete details and the registration link please visit:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/mbf2011/. If you have any questions don't hesitate to also contact me.
dourada wrote:
" It looks like there is very little activity on this board"
Last reply of the day, I promise, hehe. For a while the MBF project was moving away from Codeplex, at which point we founded a new community forum at
http://www.getsatisfaction.com/mbi. We are now accepting Patches via Codeplex, and therefore open to questions, suggestions, etc in both forums. Cheers! Bea.
" It looks like there is very little activity on this board"
Last reply of the day, I promise, hehe. For a while the MBF project was moving away from Codeplex, at which point we founded a new community forum at
http://www.getsatisfaction.com/mbi. We are now accepting Patches via Codeplex, and therefore open to questions, suggestions, etc in both forums. Cheers! Bea.
After downloading the latest MBF 2.0 beta source code (mbf-76446) on a different computer and witnessing the same problem with another developer we planned to fix the problem. Turns out it's not a bug at all.....it was downloading the .zip file
on windows 7 (will probably happen on other OSs too?), extracting the contents, and receiving the: 'this file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer'. The sequence assembler was not able to read from the app.config
After unblocking everything worked as expected. Not knowing if this was going to occur in other places a quick search shows how to unblock multiple files with a tool from the technet site:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897440.aspx. Run streams.exe on the source code folder before you compile and I think that will prevent the problem from happening.
If not do a build, open command prompt, change directory to the binaries\debug (or release) folder and run this: streams.exe -d *.*. That seems to work like a charm.
I do not really know what streams.exe does or if there is a better way to solve this problem but I'm doing this on a development machine. If you are doing this on something more important you might want to exercise a little more caution?
Anyway, hope this helps someone.
You can unblock the zip file before extracting and then all extracted files become unblocked as well. Also extracting with WinRar should produce unblocked files since WinRar doesn't care about this attribute on the archive.
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