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Congratulations to the winners in The Artist's Magazine's 2009 All-Media Online Competition. These artists' works stood out among the 2,570 entries we received and represent a wide range of styles, sensibilities and artistic outlooks.
One grand prize winner was selected, along with one first place winner and three honorable mentions in each of the seven categories. The grand prize winner will receive $500, a subscription to The Artist's Magazine and $100 worth of North Light Books. The seven first place winners receive $100, subscriptions to The Artist's Magazine and $100 worth of North Light Books. Honorable mentions receive subscriptions to The Artist's Magazine and $50 worth of North Light Books.
Information about our other current competitions is available here.
Kate Sammons, Wapwallopen, PA
Self Portrait with Hermes (charcoal, 26×32)
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- Acrylic
- Watercolor
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Harlow (oil, 48×36)
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Deb Grisé, Penetanguishene, ON
The Apple Orchard (oil, 24×24)
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Oleg Radvan, Sunny Isles Beach, FL
The Pilot of Dreams (oil, 36×36)
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Dianne Rodwell, Raleigh, NC
Snake Mountain Snake (oil, 12.5×12.5)
First Place: Roger Lane, Brisbane, Australia
Strahan (acrylic, 35.5×35.5)
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Chris Beck, Los Altos, CA
Fe Fi Faux Fowl (acrylic, 30×30)
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Sally Cooper, Parkland, FL
Tango in Blue (acrylic, 48×48)
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Drew Fagan, Gualala, CA
Cirque Désolé (acrylic, 36×24)
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Thick of Thorns (watercolor, 20×26.5)
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Elizabeth Concannon, St. Louis, MO
Platform (watercolor, 22×30)
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Helen Gotlib, Ann Arbor, MI
Sarah (with pillow and chair) (Conté crayon, pen, ink and
gouache, 27×30)
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Annette Ragone Hall, Salisbury, NC
Life Glow IV (watercolor and pastel pencil, 20×28)
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Tulips (pastel, 36×26)
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Phil Bates, Myrtle Creek, OR
California Morning (pastel, 12×12)
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Margaret Dyer, Carrollton, GA
Doris (pastel, 19×24)
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Evalynne McDougall, Coldstream, BC
Molly (pastel, 28.5×18.5)
Mixed media and collage
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Hidden City (mixed media, 37×37)
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Marina Hanacek, Toronto, ON
Elements of Guentersburgs Park (mixed media, 18×24)
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Marie Lynch, Wilton, CT
Seal 001 (mixed media, 14×18)
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Lisa Stroud, Cary, NC
I Will Not Draw as I am Told (mixed media, 30×20)
Graphite, charcoal and colored pencil
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First Light (colored pencil, 14×11)
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Joshua Joseph Diliberto, Middleton, WI
Deanna Theresa Wilken (Long December) (graphite, 8×10)
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Betty Hendrix, Whispering Pines, NC
Pie in the Sky (colored pencil, 11.5×15.5)
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Dawn McKelvy, Magnolia, TX
Elysian (charcoal, 24×18)
Digital Art
First Place: M. Blair Ligon, Raleigh, NC
Napoleon's Arrival (digital)
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Colin Burke, Algonquin, IL
3 (digital)
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Dottie Kaufmann, Winter Garden, FL
Candirella (digital)
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Bud Smallwood, Saugus, MA
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FOX Beat: 'Steve Jobs' director Danny Boyle
The much anticipated movie Steve Jobs opens in theaters Friday. FOX 5's Kevin McCarthy sits down with director Danny Boyle for a look at how he brought the founder of Microsoft to the big screen.
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Tactile Finance is rolling out a new feature for its Pro product for mortgage loan officers, a screen-sharing function which lets them remotely show and explain to their clients the benefits of different loan scenarios.
Tactile Finance Pro lets the loan officer cover such topics as amortization schedules, points, equity and fees as well as show the client the benefits or drawbacks of such activities as opting for an adjustable rate mortgage or refinancing. This new feature allows this demonstration to take place with the borrower in one location and the loan officer in another.
There are products on the market such as Go ToMeeting which allow for screen sharing. There are drawbacks to those technologies, noted Nicole Hamilton, CEO of the New York-based company, until recently known as Feel My Money.
It can be difficult for customers to use an installation-type product seamlessly, especially if time is of the essence, she pointed out.
Users of Tactile Finance Pro can now send the client a link via email. First the loan officer clicks the share screen tab, then copies the link and contacts the consumer.
The screen share function uses SSL technology, as does Go ToMeeting. However, consumers might not be savvy enough to use and install the needed software to use with Go To Meeting, she said, adding Tactile's staff sometimes get frustrated when issues crop up with the Go To Meeting system.
This program takes away all those layers so the loan officer can work easily with the customer, Hamilton said.
With this system, unlike Go ToMeeting, only the browser tab which applies is shown to the customer not the entire screen. Go ToMeeting displays every item on the leader's screen.
This function was developed, Hamilton explained, in response to a midsize bank in its testing group. It had been using Go ToMeeting to do a demo and bank commented that it would great to have something like that in Tactile Finance for the loan officer to show the screen to the customer.
The screen sharing function helps to further the reach of Tactile Finance Pro, which looks to create transparency and help users build relationships with their clients, leading to greater trust in the process, higher client satisfaction and increased referrals.
It allows the loan officer to answer quickly and effectively hundreds of questions their customers might have during the loan process.
Things become easier to explain to customers because Tactile Finance Pro has "dynamic graphs" which update as scenarios are changed, Hamilton said.
"Because many mortgage conversations occur over the phone, Pro screen sharing allows a higher quality customer experience, similar to if you were sitting right alongside your customer," she said.
Hamilton added that loan officers who use Pro report a 50% reduction in the time they spend talking to clients explaining the various options and offers.
"It is a different level of transparency you can have with your customer when they are looking at these products," she said. It takes something hard and complex to explain to the customer and makes it precise.


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Hi Julie-Ann ! Basically, kinesiology is the study of the body in motion, so it plays a big part in sports and exercise, however it also goes into other lesser known aspects of human motion, like designing light switches that are easier for the older population to use. This is actually a case that one of my professors went into in one of my classes - it was discovered that senior citizens were having trouble manipulating their light switches with joint problems that occur in the elderly, so kinesiologists decided to develop switches that were easier to use. That is how the big, flat wide light switches in homes built today came to be, versus the smaller protruding stick switch used as recently as 10-15 years ago. They weren't developed as an "up-grade" for home buyers, but as efficiency tactics for the elderly.
That is just a quick view of kinesiology - or the study of the body in motion. I have decided to take your advice and write a hub about it and will shed a little light on the subject to anyone else wishing to know more !! Thanks Julie-Ann !! Paige
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The reason I asked this question is because I'm having horrible side effects .. dizzines which turned into a vertigo attack nausea body ace.. I have to return to work in a few days and I am not able to with these side effects unless I stop the meds
I'm taking both antibiotics metronidazole & cirofloxacin can I take it for 7 says instead of 10?
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I had same problems and I stopped it. Next time she prescribed penicillin. To this day I am messed up with a weakening of my muscles. Also my neck hurts at times where it's hard to let up. My doctor will not prescient it to me. I am taking cranberry pills and this is to prevent it. There us also a product called ellure I am going to try. Best to prevent a UTI than to have to go through CIPRO. Good luck.
I, too, am taking Cranberry capsules. I will not take any super antibiotics. I will only take an antibiotic that is specific for the bacteria so I wait for the lab results. The Urgent Care Center push Cipro and Macrobid. The last time I had a UTI my GP prescribed Sulfatrim.
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Qantas gives up on capacity fight as economic realities bite
Struggling airline Qantas has seemingly given up on its 65 per cent market share target, announcing no growth in capacity to start next financial year.
In part due to the extended Easter-Anzac Day holiday period for many people last month, Qantas posted demand growth of just 0.4 per cent, below its capacity growth of 2 per cent.
That led revenue seat factor, a key measure of airline profitability, to fall 1.2 percentage points to 76.4 per cent.
The same story is reflected in the airline's financial year-to-date numbers, with capacity up 1 per cent but demand down 1.5 per cent, resulting in a 1.9 percentage point fall in revenue seat factor to 77.8 per cent.
Qantas says both its domestic and international yields were down for the financial year to date due to capacity growth from competitors, with Australian economic weakness compounding problems domestically.
In light of those domestic economic headwinds, Qantas says it has revised down its capacity for the first three months of next financial year.
The airline will now add no extra capacity to its total domestic services (across Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar) for the start of 2014-15.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce had previously maintained a commitment to match capacity growth from rivals, namely Virgin, to maintain its share of the domestic aviation market at 65 per cent.
However, many analysts would be pleased by a move away from a strict target, with former Qantas chief economist Tony Webber previously telling the ABC that this strategy was doing more damage to the airline's bottom line than the actions of its main competitor Virgin.
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I think I just fell in love. Osprey's premium women's daypack, the Mira AG, is fit, beautiful and clever as hell.
If you live in one of those places where it'd be kind to call the weather mercurial, you can appreciate the need to pack impermeables, extra food and burly down mittens — even on warm, sunny days when you're only planning on spending a few hours in the wild.
If you happen to reside inside some sort of naturally climate-controlled bubble, you're probably scratching your head and going, "WTF?" Either way, your hikes require sufficient water, so let's start there.
Dehydration headaches and I are acquainted with vexing intimacy. Despite my best efforts, they're always sneaking up behind me and whacking me over the head with the force of 6,000 Namibian desert horses. Just about the only way I've found to successfully fend them off is the constant ingestion of liquid.
Osprey's Mira AG 34 ($175) is equipped for all of the above. It comes with a 2.5-liter reservoir, which fits into its own dedicated pocket and has enough space in its eight other compartments for layers and headlamps aplenty.
The 34-liter pack also claims to be able to hold 10 to 30 pounds comfortably.
I loaded mine up with 20 pounds of provisions and thanks to Osprey's AG (Anti-Gravity) suspension, my shoulders were spared the hardship that some other packs inflict when busting with supplies of questionable utility.
The Mira itself is also refreshingly light, weighing 2.67 to 2.78 pounds.
Mira's Biostretch mesh harness, back panel and hip belt are not only breathable, they're made specifically for women and they provide a contoured fit and vast range of motion.
Clambering over rocks and fallen trees (and frequently swatting at many-legged and winged creatures) was easy and comfortable, and the pack felt secure the entire time.
I'm going to be completely honest (and geeky) and tell you that of all of the crazy, high-tech features that Osprey has bestowed upon the Mira, my favorite is the magnet that clips the reservoir's mouthpiece to the sternum strap.
It's not just that magnet, though. It's all of the tiny luxuries that could have easily been surrendered in the name of economy. With an integrated rain cover, the aforementioned hydration reservoir, a Stow-On-The-Go trekking pole attachment, helmet attachment loop, blinker light attachment, ergonomic zipper pulls and a pocket where you can stow your sunnies or phone without worrying about scratches, Osprey has made this pack a pleasure to haul. On top of that, it's quite elegant.
Of course, since it's constructed of 2100 High Tenacity Nylon, it's also tough as nails – just like you.
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Leslee spotted a tulip on Commonwealth Avenue near Fairfield that wasn't going to let the construction debris dumped on top of it stop it from blooming.
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Deike III, George H. and White, William B. 1961. Preliminary Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of Wind Cave, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. 34 p.
The geology of Wind Cave is complex and different in many respects from limestone caves of other areas. Limitations on time and lack of suitable cave maps prevented the staff from obtaining a complete picture of the geology, but sufficient groundwork has been laid for a number of detailed studies in the future. Since this work is of a preliminary nature, no attempt will be made here to fit the data into the framework of existing literature or to draw detailed conclusions. The sections of this report list many of the observations made. In general, we have attempted to build from the excellent earlier report by Tullis and Gries (1938).


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Fostering gifted education from the inside out.
Our Mission:
To provide students who are gifted an authentic educational experience that:
Our Philosophy:
Perspectives on giftedness: How are we different?
Gifted students not only think differently from most others, they also feel differently. They were born with a heightened awareness of and sensitivity to their surroundings, as well as enhanced cognitive ability. This heightened awareness can lead to isolation. "Why don't I fit in? Why do I feel things so deeply? What's wrong with me? Who is there to turn to who really understands?" Our students need others who understand and empathize with their complex lives, their need for meaning, and their difficulties living in a world in which they often feel alien.
At Westmount, we look at giftedness "from the inside out." What does this mean for us? It means we strive to first know and honour who our students are before we can help them become the best they can be.
It means we know our kids are often not in sync with society. Why? Most people think in terms of simple cause and effect. The gifted tend to be more aware of interdependence. Our students see cause and effect as many pebbles thrown in a pond, which may look like chaos but in fact follows a logical pattern and structure. Our students tend to be highly aware of themselves and others, which can make them unusually concerned for others and critical of themselves. They see shades of grey - the overlap, exception and contradiction. No wonder our students are at times out of step in the world.
From this perspective, giftedness is not equated only to high academic achievement. Giftedness is how you are wired, not what you produce. At Westmount, we encourage students to choose to demonstrate their abilities in their individual ways. When students are not achieving what we believe is their potential, we work to understand the gap and help them bridge it, modeling perseverance, resilience and respect. From our perspective, achievement is the outcome, not the starting point. And that makes all the difference.
(Gifted 101, Silverman, 2013; Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child, Neville et al., 2013)
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Volleyball is an interesting sport with quick actions and lots of jumping movements. Even though volleyball and basketball can be called as similar games, the requirements for volleyball shoes are different however. The best shoe should provide you stability and support while giving you the feeling that you are playing barefoot.
The best sole for volleyball shoes must be made of rubber and gum rubber composite. This will give the much needed traction for indoor playing surfaces. The mid sole is responsible for absorbing the shock of jumping and landing. Usually, high quality volleyball shoes are made of foam made from molded EVA or sheet. Sometimes, air, gel or liquid is also added to the mid sole to enhance shock-absorbing properties and to provide further cushioning.
Suede and mesh upper are very common with volleyball shoes. This will enhance airflow and improve the breathability of the shoe. It is also useful in making the shoes lighter in weight. Leather or synthetic leather is also used along with mesh for increased ankle support.
Even if you have the best volleyball shoes, you should ensure that you must replace the shoes periodically. Sometimes, the bottom sole may not show any significant wear, but the mid sole takes up all the shock. Ideally, you should buy volleyball shoes once in every 3-4 months if you play 3 times a week. SportsWorldNY carries numerous styles of volleyball shoes for men and women in a wide variety of sizes.


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Bread is part of every family world wide, every area its prepared with a definite variation. Parathas\Chapati in Indian Sub-continent, Pita in center east, Ciabatta from Italy, Baguette from France , Bing from China and Rye bread from Russia are a number of the breads world wide.
Whereas giving your child first strong foods you'll be able to have some enjoyable together. Try to train your baby about totally different fruits and vegetables. You can do it while your baby is eating- explain to him or she what fruit or vegetable is given. It is good to be function model for your child. Present that you just eat meals which you prepared. Your baby will start doing the same as a result of it learns by mimicking. Give to your baby ingesting water,. Supply it to each meal.
Nevertheless, as usage becomes more mainstream, we're listening to more and more about artificial sweeteners and none of it is good. A number of latest research have shown that the synthetic sweeteners idiot the body into considering it is consuming sugar, probably slowing metabolism and likewise confuse the body's satiety, so people who devour artificial sweeteners truly eat greater than those who eat sugar.
Place the zucchini and yellow squash briefly on a plate. If there may be a lot oil left in the pan, you may wish to take away a few of it. Then place a single layer of zucchini and/or squash on the bottom of the pan. Scoop about half of the onion mixture on top of the squash mixture. Place about half of the cottage cheese combination on top of that, and then repeat all three layers once more. Bake at 350 for about 35 minutes.
This is not your typical bread guide! The recipe checklist This cookbook is by the authors of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It is a hardcover ebook with a yummy looking mud jacket. The cookbook has 324 pages and ten chapters. The chapters embrace Introduction, Components, Gear, Suggestions and Techniques, The Master Recipe, Complete Grain Breads, Breads with Hidden Fruits and Greens, Flatbreads & Pizza, Gluten Free Breads and Pastries and Enriched Breads and Pastries from Wholesome Components.


text: All FBM tempering machines (with the exception of the tabletop Aura) can be outfitted with an enrober belt. Standard belt width for the Prima, Compatta, Chocolab, and ProXima is 180mm and come in two sections. Standard belt width for the Unica is 180mm. Can be upgraded to 250mm Standard belt width for the Maestria is 300mm. Standard belt width for the MTR60 is 400mm, can be upgraded to 600mm and 1 meter. All belts come standard with entry section, pre-bottomer, double-curtain veil, net beater, air blower, and detailer rod. Other customizations include extended entry section, extended take-off belt, and more.


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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Downtown streets closed early Saturday morning while hundreds of peopled gathered to march in the 28th annual Chuy's Children Giving to Children Parade.
Every year the parade brings together businesses, organizations and police officers in support of Operation Blue Santa.
During the Chuy's Children Giving to Children Parade unwrapped-new toys are collected for Operation Blue Santa, which are handed out to Austin-area kids during the holidays.
This year APD hopes to serve thousands of families by providing toys and food.
Operation Blue Santa began in 1972 with charitable donations by the Austin Police Department, Austin Fire Department and other area business. Fifteen years later Chuys Restaurant joined in to sponsor the annual parade.
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Happy "Day After" St. Patrick's Day! Hopefully you're feeling GREAT today! LOL 🙂
Here are some crazy facts. We sure do love the day!
1 – 56% of us had plans to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year!
2 – 83% of those celebrating will wear green. How much green did you see ?
3 – Across the world, we'll drank 13 million pints of Guinness! WHAT?
4 – We also ate 70% more cabbage this week than normal. Not sure I get this.
5 – If you can imagine, St. Patrick's Day is just the 4th most popular drinking holiday. Top 3? New Year's, Christmas, and the Fourth of July
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New Black Panther Leader Malik Shabazz Predicts Violence at the GOP Convention
Hillary Clinton has no clue.
If you have a problem with that statement, feel free to watch the video below.
She talked to Bill O'Reilly last night about the
truck terrorist attack in Nice, France.
She went on for minutes and said absolutely nothing.
It was boring. Even for her.
She droned on about how we need to "work together" and improve intelligence-sharing between countries without answering Bill-O's questions.
And she didn't say anything that's going to lead people to believe that she's serious about the war on terror.
In fact, she really didn't say anything at all.
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I often find it hard to believe when a recipe claims that it's "the best", especially when it comes to chocolate cakes. I have tried and tested at least a hundred different chocolate cake recipes and none ever delivers the ultra thick but still moist on it's own with a soft crumb, without the help of any soaks. It was till a point I thought maybe I was just baking it all wrong and I just can't execute American styled desserts. And then today happened…
I was determined to bake an old-fashioned, heavy, thick double-stacked chocolate cake. Not because I love chocolate cakes but I just had to test and challenge myself and make sure I wasn't incapable of it. Anyone who knows me know I hardly bake such cakes. It's already hard seeing me make a whole gateau or entremet that doesn't involve an insert, a cremeux or a mousse. That being said, I was extremely pleased with the outcome. Thick it was, moist it was, soft it was. It was absolutely to die for! Of course I couldn't even finish a slice but that's fine because that'll just make my neighbours' bellies sing.
It was hard executing this to be honest. Not because of the techniques but because, I really suck at making rustic cakes. It has its own beautiful imperfect and raw charm but my hands were just itching to smooth it out and pipe something on it, to make it more refined. I had to constantly remind myself that it wasn't French pâtisserie, "so just plonk on some ganache here and there and you're done! No more touch ups!"
Just a quick question. Is there anyone out there who is as messy as I am whenever it comes to dealing with chocolate?? Whether it's a cake or just tempering chocolate, I'm always brown head to toe. I even bought a brown apron just for chocolate work. Not good, big no-no in the labo.
That being said nothing's gonna come between me and chocolate ♥
Reading the recipe, I found it so incredibly easy to put the sponge together that I opted to do it without the use of a mixer. Of course you could and your life would be a hell lot easier. But when it's that simple, the kind you combine the wet ingredients together and the dry together and mix them all up, I prefer to just go by hand because I figured that when it's such easy mixing, the downfall of it would be overmixing it that would make the cake go dry and hard. When you do it by hand you feel the batter and everything is aways mixed till "just right". Besides, it really wasn't hard doing it by hand at all. Plus you safe on washing. + bonus!
If you have two 8-inch springform pans this will be a cinch. Just make one massive recipe and pop both pans into the oven. I only had one so I painstakingly made one after another. Waaay more time-consuming.
And because I had to wait for the cake to cool down before I could get the cake pan for my second cake, I found myself cooking a piece of salmon while waiting. And then my kitchen smelt like salmon and chocolate. It smelt weird. So guys, never cook salmon and bake a chocolate cake at the same time.
Layering it, crumb coating it, frosting it.
I couldn't find my turntable. It was excruciating frosting this evenly without one! I was turning the serving plate and mind you this is one heavy cake.
This ganache is beautiful in the sense that it has a lovely shine and brilliance when you leave it to stand. The bothersome thing about it is that it's very temperamental especially since it's getting cold out. It splits very easily that I had to keep heating and controlling the temperature of it and then emulsifying it all over again bah. But all worth it in the end. :)
I was nervous cutting it.
ooOooOOoo. Just look at that exceptional moist and soft crumb, holy smokes!
You are a mighty one. "Move over, P.S Café."
Have it for tea, dinner, lunch, breakfast, I don't really care! It deserves to be consumed at any time of day.
Even Mr. Frenchie likes it.
I can finally say I found and made the most superb chocolate cake. This one's a keeper, I promise.
All-american double-stacked Chocolate Cake:
(adapted from Ina Garten & Epicurious)
For the cake: (makes one 8-inch pan)
flour – 145g
brown sugar tightly packed – 245g
cocoa powder – 40g
baking soda – 1 teaspoon
baking powder – 1/2 teaspoon
salt – 1/2 teaspoon
buttermilk (I mixed sour cream and milk) – 135g
vanilla extract – 1/2 teaspoon
eggs (extra-large) – 1 no.
hazelnut oil – 1/4 cup
hot freshly brewed coffee – 1/2 cup
For the ganache frosting:
64% chocolate (chopped) – 400g
70% chocolate (chopped) – 281g
cream – 340g
corn syrup – 48g
butter (cubed) – 85g
For the cake:
Preheat the oven to 180C.
Oil and flour the 8-inch cake pan and line the bottom with a circular parchment paper cut-out.
In a clean bowl, sift and combine all the dry ingredients together.
In a separate bowl, mix the oil, buttermilk, egg and vanilla together.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry folding it gently until well incorporated. The batter should be pretty thick and sticky.
Drizzle in the hot espresso and fold in until just combined. If there are any flour lumps at the bottom of the bowl, use a whisk and whisk quickly (but not too much!) to break it up.
Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until a knife comes out just clean. It should still be slightly damp. Do not overcook it or it will lose its moisture.
Leave to cool in the pan for 30 minutes and then unmould it. Leave it to cool down in the freezer till completely cold.
Repeat this process for the second cake.
For the ganache:
Chop the chocolate till very fine pieces as the ratio of cream to chocolate is much lesser. Place in a medium plastic bowl.
Heat the cream and corn syrup until it boils. Remove from heat and pour half the mixture into the chopped chocolate. Leave it to stand for 2 minutes and then using a spatula, stir until well emulsified. Add the remaining of the cream and leave to stand again and then stir until all the chocolate has melted completely.
Add in the butter and using an immersion blender, blend it in. At this point the ganache should be thick, emulsified and glossy. It is ready to be used.
If not using instantly, clingwrap and leave it in a slightly warm place to maintain it's temperature.
Using a serrated knife, cut the tops off each of the cake evenly so that you are left with two thick but leveled cakes.
With one cake placed on a serving plate and on turntable, dollop on the ganache and spread an even layer of about 1-cm in thickness, turning the turn tables as you go along.
Place the second cake cut side down onto the ganache and align it properly. Using a flat spatula, begin crumb coating it until you have an even layer and the cake looks straight. Leave it in the freezer for the it firm up. At this stage you can check that your ganache is still smooth and not splitting. If it is splitting slightly, heat it up in the microwave and use a whisk and whisk vigorously till emulsified again.
Remove the cake from the freezer and begin blotting on and swirling ganache over the cake. Since it's meant to be rustic it doesn't have to be perfect. However if you do opt to have it slightly more refined, you can spread another clean smooth layer of ganache over the crumb coat and pipe some designs.
Serve at room temperature with a drizzle of chocolate sauce and vanilla ice-cream.
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The province of Ilocos is not only world famous for its heritage houses and cobblestoned road but also because of its people, food and falls!
Way back in 2008, I had a chance to visit Ilocos with my classmate. I had a kalesa tour in Vigan and was brought to different parts of Ilocos Sur by my classmate's family who happened to be based in Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur.
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The majestic landscape somewhat gives me a sense of calm. It is only a few minutes walk from where our hired trikes parked. I really thought it would be very difficult for a person with disability like me. I am a ruptured brain aneurysm survivor and my sense of balance is really off. But it was worth the journey. When we reached the falls and upon seeing the view up close and personal, I have to admit that these kind of beauty is what I really missed from my 5-year hiatus. The view from the nipa hut where we sat was really breathtaking!
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The Perfect Love Song
Premise: a series of short stories inspired by you tube videos of Penelope and Derek.
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The minute he stepped foot back inside the BAU there was just one place he wanted to go and just one person he wanted to see. Their latest case had been a week spent in California dealing with a sadist child molester and killer. Every second of working it had wore at him till he was now nothing more than a bunch of frayed, raw, exposed nerves.
Even though there was a distance between them as of late he didn't let that concern in his brain overrule the need in his heart. He walked straight to her computer lab, knocked once on the door and said "Baby girl." He went inside with a half grin on his lips.
The room was dark. His heart sunk. She had gone home already.
"Hey," Reid asked him as Derek headed back into the bull pen "when does your flight leave for Chicago?"
"Seven am tomorrow."
"Have a good trip."
"Yeah, thanks," he said, his jaw tense.
He should be glad they were getting a few days off-so close to Christmas too- and that he'd be able to see his family around the holidays but at that moment his body was just too wore down, his mind too weary, and his pain too severe to get excited about the trip.
He'd rather be here with Penelope. She had a way of making his lousy moods fade away in an instant. When he was near her there was never anything so bad that she couldn't make it better for him.
But she would be busy during their off time. She'd probably spend every minute of it with Lynch.
That train of thought would only put Derek in a decidedly worst mood so he pushed it out of his head.
Rubbing the back of his neck, he headed down the hall and approached the door of his own office. A room that daily had come to mean to him that he was more divided from the people he cared about and more isolated than ever. His ambition told him he belonged in this office but his heart told him he should run from it because it was only keeping him more lonely than anything.
Maybe he shouldn't put that on his job. It was how he acted since the promotion-trying to be more aloof and professional- that left him feeling cold inside. He was trying to prove himself in that position but he often wondered if the position was worth the cost.
A sigh escaped his lips as he got nearer to his office. He noticed a desk lamp was on- because there was some light escaping under the door. With a raised eyebrow he opened the door.
Immediately a laugh bubbled up in his chest and escaped his lips. Penelope was sitting in his chair, wearing a Santa hat, and on his desk was a small lighted plush Christmas tree.
He asked her "What are you up to, silly girl?"
"You haven't done a thing to decorate for the holidays around here so I took it upon myself."
She rose from the seat and walked around the desk. His eyes took in her figure, as he always did, loving the way she looked and the way he felt when he looked at her. She turned him on in ways that no other woman could ever hope to do.
Penelope pushed a button on the Christmas tree and it played Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Derek let out another laugh. This is just what he needed. "Strauss will think I'm really mature if she sees that."
"Well its just us here right now, handsome. Tell me you don't find it absolutely adorable."
"I love it. Thank you, baby girl."
She headed for the door. "Merry Christmas."
Watching her leave, and feeling a panic bubble up in him that their time together was already over and he wouldn't be seeing her again for days, he said to her "Slow your roll."
She froze and then turned around.
He smiled and asked her "Aren't you gonna give me a kiss goodbye, sweetness? I'm leaving for my Mom's in the morning." Derek pointed to his cheek.
Penelope smiled softly, slowly made her way back to him, he bent slightly and her lips brushed his cheek. Then he pulled her into a hug while saying "You know you're my salvation, right?"
Her eyes searched his. "Still?"
"Always. My salvation, my sanity, my solace...." he just shook his head, not able to put it all into words. "Don't ever give up on me, baby girl."
"As mad as I ever get at you, handsome, I don't think I could ever get so mad that I'd turn my back on you when you need me." She eased back more and pointed over her shoulder with her thumb. "I should get home."
"Have a good Christmas, sexy mama."
"You too, my love."
After she was gone he sat on the edge of his desk and pressed the button to make the tree play the song. A smile curved over his lips.
God, he loved that woman. She made everything in his world better. It had been crazy to think of taking that job in New York, just because he couldn't put up with seeing her with Lynch another damn day. Derek had been wrong and he realized it before he ever accepted the position. He could handle seeing her with Lynch. He could handle anything it took to keep her in his life.
Just as long as he had his baby girl he would be all right. The rest of the world could fall apart around him but with her there....joking, flirting, smiling, hugging him and keeping him strong...it would never get so bad that he would think about leaving it all behind again.
Penelope was his home and Derek didn't plan to ever let that change.
Story inspired by the song Welcome Home. Sung by Stan Van Samang. You tube mvid by SaraVanWijick.
Author Note- I've just stared watching this show last month but I fell in love with these characters so bear with me if I should happen to get some things wrong. I adore this pairing so much that I want to write for them, as I go back now and watch all the seasons I've missed. I want the characterizations right so let me know what isn't ringing true, in a nice way, and I'll work to make it better in the next story. False characterizations aren't acceptable to me. I know I shouldn't dabble in a fandom I just discovered but Pen and Derek are too perfect for words and I need to play with them.
I've already written a few more one shots that are more romantic in nature.
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The Accountant is an action film starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, and Anna Kendrick. That sentence alone should already have you frantically searching Fandango for tickets to screenings at your local theater. Thankfully, The Accountant has much more than the star-power of its cast list going for it.
Directed by Gavin O' Connor, The Accountant follows a genius accountant who manages the records of dangerous criminal organizations. This accountant is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and an amazing gunman, skills he uses to survive encounters with his dangerous clientele.
It seems like a pretty standard action movie, right? We've already seen the "regular Joe is actually a badass with an incredible set of skills" plot time and time again. However, there is one detail about The Accountant that we definitely haven't seen that much before; the accountant in question, Christian Wolff, is an autistic savant.
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More specifically, Wolff is a mathematics savant. This means that he's exceptionally great at math, but has issues with certain things that other people do naturally. He's a bit anti-social, awkward, and has a hard time connecting with the people around him.
Before seeing The Accountant, I wasn't expecting it to spend too much time on his condition, but I'm very glad they did. That's because for all the action scenes, for all the epic shootouts and jump-cut fight scenes, The Accountant also does a great job displayng autism. At least, it does in my opinion.
As a full disclaimer, I should let you know that I am not an expert on autism. I'm not even going to pretend to know what it's like to have a form of it. However, I have been around autism before, and while that still doesn't mean I know everything about it, it does help me appreciate how well The Accountant treated it.
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I know what you're thinking, "How does an action movie like The Accountant feature a good representation of autism"? It delivers a simple, but powerful, message: just because someone's different, doesn't mean they're incapable.
At a young age, Christian Wolff had a fear of loud noises and bright lights, freaking out whenever he encounters them. This causes his parents to seek professional help for their troubled child. However, while Wolff did have trouble with certain things, he was an expert at math, counting, and puzzle-solving — as evidenced by a scene where he solves a Muhammad Ali jigsaw puzzle upside down.
What's more, as he gets older, he trains himself to get over his fear of loud noises and bright lights, to the point where he's using a loud, anti-aircraft sniper rifle to take out his targets!
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While the character of Christian Wolff may seem very unrealistic, what with his Batman-like combat skills, he represents a very real idea; that autistic children are much smarter than we believe them to be.
As the movie basically states, we have a certain way of defining "normal" and "intelligent". Autistic people may be different, but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of doing incredible things.
The Accountant has the same message as another favorite film of mine, Rain Man. This movie also featured an autistic savant who was exceptional at mathematics. Like Rain Main, the representation of autism in The Accountant is spot-on.
This may be due to the fact that Ben Affleck prepared for the role by researching real cases of autism. When speaking to the Chicago Sun Times, director Gavin O'Connor talked about how he made sure that Affleck was well-prepared to accurately portray an autistic savant.
"Because it was such an opportunity to play something this fresh and new, I needed him to be as authentic as possible. So, to that end, I met with a lot of people and did a lot of research and read a lot of material so that I could deliver a portrayal that was as realistic and plausible as possible."
Most films do their best to accurately represent the autistic community, but The Accountant has one of the best portrayals in my opinion. Why? Because it displays the level of intelligence in autistic people.
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The Accountant is a non-stop, fast-paced action film. But what really separates it from other films in the same genre is the message behind it. I highly recommend checking out The Accountant when it comes out in theaters this Friday!
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The appointment arrives. This is a Labrador that has a big problem. The right ear is blown up like a little balloon. It happened overnight. "Is it a tumor" the owner queries?
I have the patient in the room . This is a dog that has had no history of ear problems before. She is 3 years old and has had some big changes since her exam a year ago. The ear indeed looks like a little pillow but in fact it is a pocket with the ear flap of blood, a hematoma. The ear canals are both dry, odorous and have excessive gray waxy debris. The ears look "old" so to speak .
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The owner mentioned the dog has been on the same food for 2 years. That doesn't make a difference. Allergies generally don't reveal themselves until the dog is 3 years or older. I believe this is in-line with the end of their full growth and time for the immune system to start deciding "what it likes and doesn't like" on a repeated basis.
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August 21st, 2005, 10:04 PM #1Certificate problem
Maybe the reason some of us are seeing low G returns this month is because their site certificate (???) is not up to date. I just checked my site on an AOL browser and noticed G ads have been "omitted" because their site's cert. is not current. Hmmmmmmmm ... I also get this warning in my Fire Fox browser when I check my G stats. Has been happening for several days.
If my site is an indication, 60% or more of my visitors are AOL users. This would explain low click and payment rates this month. Anyone else notice these cert. warnings?
August 21st, 2005, 10:42 PM #2
BTW ... it's the "safety" certificate. :-)
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Rexanne, AdSense is rocking for me this month, but if you're seeing a problem you might want to write their support people and let them know. You sure it's on their end that there's a problem?
August 21st, 2005, 11:11 PM #4
Yep. Their "safety certificate" is expired or something. Coming up on FireFox browser when I log in to check stats and noticed it on an AOL browser just today. AOL is blocking the ads because of a certificate issue. I've noticed the cert. thing on FireFox all week.
Adsense was doing OK for me all month before Friday, then it dropped like a lead weight.
I do notice that most of my visitors are from AOL. Might be because of that cert thing that my revenue has fallen off.
August 21st, 2005, 11:26 PM #5
Just checked other pages in my site on an AOL browser and found that "due to MY security settings, "certain site cookies" have been blocked, including an Amazon and Yahoo cookie. I haven't changed settings on my AOL account nor have I upgraded to their latest version so no idea why that's starting to happen but it doesn't bode well for AM. You all might want to check your sites on an AOL browser. A small blotch with an eye and a red violation flag appears on the bottom right corner of the page. Clicking on it explains which cookies were disabled. Unfortunately, many many people are hooked up to the Internet via AOL. Something to watch!
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Lebron James is arguably the best player in the NBA. Why won't the Cleveland Cavaliers give him a legit #2 guy. I'm not a hater, all of the Cavaliers players are pretty good and I hope they play forever and make alot of money, but honestly Ben Wallace and Delonte West are not going to help Lebron win a NBA title. I know Lebron has had enough and regardless of what the Cavaliers do from this point on, he will be in New York, New York in 2010. You can bet on that!
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-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes ^
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart ^
-DarchetypeVersion=1.1 ^
-DgroupId=foo ^
-DartifactId=bar ^
-Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT ^
We are now ready to get started. Let's jump into our project:
> cd bar
Let's integrate Flyway and H2 into our new
pom.xml and configure Flyway so it can successfully connect to H2:
<project ...> ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId> <artifactId>flyway-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>4.2.0</version> <configuration> <url>jdbc:h2:file:./target/foobar</url> <user>sa</user> </configuration> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.h2database</groupId> <artifactId>h2</artifactId> <version>1.4.191</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
We create the migration directory
Followed by a first migration called
create table PERSON ( ID int not null, NAME varchar(100) not null );
It's now time to execute Flyway to migrate our database:
bar> mvn flyway:migrate
If all went well, you should see the following output:
[INFO] Creating Metadata table: "PUBLIC"."schema_version" [INFO] Current version of schema "PUBLIC": << Empty Schema >> [INFO] Migrating schema "PUBLIC" to version 1 - Create person table [INFO] Successfully applied 1 migration to schema "PUBLIC" (execution time 00:00.062s).
If we now add a second migration called
insert into PERSON (ID, NAME) values (1, 'Axel'); insert into PERSON (ID, NAME) values (2, 'Mr. Foo'); insert into PERSON (ID, NAME) values (3, 'Ms. Bar');
and execute it by issuing:
bar> mvn flyway:migrate
We now get:
[INFO] Current version of schema "PUBLIC": 1 [INFO] Migrating schema "PUBLIC" to version 2 - Add people [INFO] Successfully applied 1 migration to schema "PUBLIC" (execution time 00:00.090s).
In this brief tutorial we saw how to
These migrations were then successfully found and executed.


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See below for guidelines concerning proper antibody storage and centrifugation:
• After receiving your antibody,centrifuge for 3 minutes at 12000rpm and 4℃. Remove and open the tube lid for aliquoting and dissolution before storing (if the antibody volume is more than 50uL, extend the centrifugation time to 5 minutes to guarantee the reclamation of all antibodies and recombinant protein).
• For long-term storage of most antibodies, -20℃ is recommended.
• Prolong antibody activity by avoiding freeze / thaw cycles as much as possible. You may also reduce the possibility of contamination caused by taking antibody from same vial several times by avoiding aliquoting.
• To preserve your antibody, aliquoted amounts should be just enough for one experiment and no less than 10ul each. Antibody concentration may be influenced by evaporation and adsorption to the vial wall if the aliquoted amount is less than 10ul.
• If thawed antibody isn't used up all at once, store the rest of the antibody liquid at 4℃ to avoid refreezing.
• Antibody working liquid should be made up and used in one day. Do not store for more than one day at 4℃.
• Always avoid storing antibodies in an automatic defrost refrigerator/freezer. Automatic defrost cycles cause dramatic changes in the interior temperature of these freezers. If storage in this kind of freezer is absolutely necessary, place the antibody near the center of the refrigerator, because the highest temperature fluctuations occur near the door and walls of the freezer.
• Most antibodies' activity will not be adversely influenced when stored at 4℃ for 1 - 2 weeks.
• If antibodies are to be used within 1 - 2 weeks, the recommended storage temperature is 4℃. Make sure to avoid freeze/thaw cycles.
• The best long-term storage temperature should be -20℃. Kindly refer to your antibodies' specifications for proper storage procedures.
• Ascites should be frozen upon reception. Ascites contain proteases which will be degraded if stored at 4℃ for a long period time.
• General shipping can take up to 2 weeks at 4℃ if need be and the antibody should not lose any of it's effectiveness.
• Transportation with dry ice should be avoided because this will cause another freeze/thaw cycle.
a.For enzyme-linked antibodies:
Always store at 4℃. Avoid freezing,or enzyme activity will decrease.
b.For coupling antibodies:
Must be stored in brown tubes or silver paper, in order to avoid light exposure. Fluorescent antibodies in particular are very sensitive to light, and all experiments involving fluorescent antibodies should be conducted in the dark.
c.For igg3 isotype control antibodies:
Always store at 4℃. Avoid freeze/thaw cycles, which will easily cause the antibody to polymerize.
Specific band confirmation:
Refer to the Predicted MW: most antibody's detected results are within a 10-15% margin of the Predicted MW. Please refer to the data on the Uniprot website, http://www.uniprot.org/, for the Predicted MW.The possible reasons that the detected MW has differed from the predicted MW:
1.The target protein has modification sites, i.e. a glycosylation.
2.The target protein has combined with another molecule, i.e. another protein.
3.The target protein has been cleaved.
4.There are a few special proteins that are known to show poorly on Western blots such as ubiquitin.
5.Di-polymer or polymer.
LAMP1 has both a 47kDa and 120kDa band. They are both considered specific bands.
After visiting the Uniprot website, http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P11279 , the predicted MW is 45kDa.
This target has many glycosylation sites as shown on the Uniprot website.
The detected MW therefore will be larger than the predicted band because of these modifications. You can look at other companies' testing results for confirmation. We look at ABcam's and Cell Signaling's results as examples below.
Our two specific bands were confirmed on numerous other sites so this offers further confirmation of the results.
Please see the testing results of ATG5 for reference. This can be found in the diagram to the right.
The predicted Molecular weight of ATG5 is 32kDa. ATG5 doesn't undergo glycosylation, however, the ATG5 protein can combine with ATG12 to form a stable protein complex.
According to this information, we can conclude that the MW of the detected band is ATG5+ATG12. We can refer to other companies' testing results, as shown on the left.Taking these data into consideration, the 55kDa detected band of ATG5 is the specific band.
Please see test result of LTF protein as follow, the predicted MW is 78kDa, but our test result is around 50kDa:
We have questions about the test result and we could not find the relevant data on Uniprot website, however, we found the LTF protein was reported that it could be hydrolyzed into two bands, 50kDa and 30kDa. So the detected band of LTF is the specific band(This protein has 2 isoforms produced by alternative promoter usage. The human LTF can be isolated two fragments, an N-terminal tryptic fragment having an Mr of 30 kDa and a C-terminal tryptic fragment having an Mr of 50 kDa by a mild tryptic digest(PMID:3790094))。
We use a preservative called thiomersal, NaN3. Many other companies like Abcam and PTG use this preservative as well.
NaN3 functions as a microbe inhibitor.
Those antibodies that contain NaN3 are primarily used for WB, IHC, IF, IP, and FC. Those without preservative are able to be added to certain cell culture experiments. For example, CD3 and CD28 are expected to stimulate the activation of T-lymphocytes.
The NaN3 must not be added to the HRP-secondary antibody. It has an effect on both the activity of the HRP-secondary antibody and will inhibit the coloration.
ABclonal's primary antibodies usually contain trace amounts of NaN3. The NaN3 will usually be washed away in a standard WB experiment before the secondary antibody is loaded so the preservative will not effect the later results.Please Note: review the information of the TBS and PBS to be used as these solutions tend to contain NaN3 and may therefore cause poor results.
To conclude: the NaN3 maintains the stability of the antibody by inhibiting microbial growth. Those antibodies with preservatives must not be used to "study biological function" and/or the "research of living cells". They must not be used directly with HRP-secondary antibodies either. Other than these specific cases, the NaN3 has been shown to have little to no effect on experiments.
It typically takes between fifteen and seventeen weeks to produce a custom antibody. Our protocol is as follows: Cloning -> Expression -> Immunization -> Affinity Purification -> Testing.
Cloning: We select the expression vector template according to the project report. We sequence the clones to confirm the expression vector. This process takes about two weeks to complete. The customer has the option to provide their own template (15+uL) and sequencing results. This may save some time.
Expression: we use a prokaryotic species to induce expression of our sought-after vector. This will take two weeks.The customer has the option to provide the expression vector and reference chart to save some time.
Immunization: It takes 68 days to run our immunization protocol. Our rabbits undergo four immunizations, with the final round proving to be instrumental in developing top-notch antibodies. The customer has the option to test the anti-serum after the third immunization for their purposes if he/she is under time constraints.
Affinity purification: Our custom antibodies are almost always at a concentration greater than 1.0mg/mL. When diluted 1:1000, the antibody will be able to detect 10ng of antigen. This process will take about three weeks.
Testing: It will take about 3 weeks to test the antibody. And then about 10 days to purify it.If the customer wants, we are able to send the test sample to him/her for endogenous testing. We are able to run antigen testing at the same time.
Our custom antibody is guaranteed to detect the antigen. When the antibody has been developed by the expression protocol, it can be diluted at 1:1000 and can detect 10ng of antigen. When the antibody has been developed using the peptide protocol, it can be diluted at 1:1000 in Dot-Blot and can detect 100ng of antigen.
Note: There are a few antigens that may not be detectable due to inherent properties.
Note: Due to the variability in endogenous testing, we cannot guarantee this result. We will, however, share the risk. If the endogenous testing fails and ABclonal is unable to troubleshoot the problems successfully after reviewing the data and collaborating with the lab members, we will only charge 50%!
After analyzing our more than 5 years of custom antibody project data, the probability of successful endogenous detection using the expression route is 70-80% while for peptide route is 60-70%.


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I absolutely love what Gwyneth Jones does with her blog, The Daring Librarian. The verve she shares with other professionals has even spilled over into what she shares with her students (see The Daring School Library). Her At-a-Glance Cartoon Tutorials add new appeal to those must-have but often ignored cheat sheets we hand out to teachers and students. What she does transcends tech connectedness. Through graphics and style she connects with a studentss where they are now! I have played with the idea of migrating my own school site into WordPress and wiki formats and her success inspires.
On a side note, I hope to convince our marketing teacher to use Gwyneth as an example of "branding" and marketing oneself. He's been frustrated with the same-old-same-old activities where students "advertise" products already released and already branded. What a powerful exercise this would be. Check out Gwyneth's branding adventure here.


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Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.
In "Soil Not Oil", bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Bold and visionary, Shiva reveals how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
Condemning industrial agriculture and industrial biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm.What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood.
Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production Shiva outlines our remaining options: a market-centred short-term escape for the privileged, which will deepen the crisis for the poor and marginalized, or a people-centred fossil-fuel-free future, which will offer a decent living for all.
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Critique of U.S. Education Department
February 2, 1996
Many policy analysts believe the federal Education Department -- which has grown at three times the rate of all other government programs except entitlements in the past 16 years -- was created by President Carter as a political payoff to the teachers' unions.
Even some leading Democrats in Congress at the time of its creation voted for the department with misgivings. One described it as "a back room deal, born out of squalid politics," and predicted it would "meddle in everything."
- Since its birth in 1979, the Department of Education's expenditures have increased from $12.4 billion annually to $32.9 billion last year.
- In the past five years, the number of bureaucrats it employs has risen from 4,596 to 5,100.
- The programs it administers have increased from 155 to more than 240 in over five years.
- Yet from 1970 to 1992, Student Aptitude Test Scores rose only just over one percent -- while per pupil spending rose 35 percent, adjusted for inflation.
Despite promises by supporters that creating the department would reduce bureaucracy and red tape, it has only grown. General Accounting Office audits:
- Have warned of long-standing management problems, impaired organizational capacity, and managers ill-equipped to carry out their responsibilities.
- They also found that 30 other agencies spend $27 billion on 308 "duplicative and overlapping" education programs.
Last year, the American School Board Journal asked its readers -- mostly school board members -- if the Department should be abolished. Nearly two-thirds said yes.
Source: Editorial, "Protecting Education?" Investor's Business Daily, February 2, 1996.
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From individual casualties to mass slaughter, the 'solution' is killing us
The people who run the world simply want to get back to the way things were, writes Gene Kerrigan
Most of the time, the slaughter of jobs is pretty much invisible. A few workers let go here and there, a small shop or an office closes and half a dozen or more families are in trouble. The statistics are shocking -- 4.4 per cent unemployment in 2007 soared to 14.7 per cent now. For comparison, in the US, Mr Obama is in trouble because unemployment remains at 9 per cent. The UK rate is lower than that, and Japan -- in economic trouble for years, and with massive debts -- is at less than 5 per cent.
When something like a Dell or an MBNA happens here, a whole town is devastated -- and it's then the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth is seen at national level.
Last week, MBNA's Carrick-on-Shannon workers were left dangling. The area has about 4,500 people, 700 work for MBNA. The business is for sale -- perhaps as a going concern, perhaps as a loan book that can be instantly transferred electronically to the distant back office of some other company. The facts behind the MBNA distress are fairly simple. The parent company, Bank of America, was for many years an insatiable monster, snacking on other big companies, at home and abroad. When it slugged down the MBNA credit card business in 2005, it appeared to be on a never-ending course of expansion.
With entrepreneurial timing, its highly paid geniuses swallowed Countryside Financial in January 2008, taking a huge chunk of the US mortgage market, just as the fraudulent mortgage time bomb exploded at the heart of the international credit system. It's now become apparent even to the highly paid geniuses that this is no passing recession -- the stormy waters will not recede for a long, long time. Bank of America was bailed out by the US government, recovered and is now consolidating its interests. Goodbye MBNA.
The media often makes too much of workplace openings and closures. That's the way the system works -- capital takes on the labour it needs and dispenses with it as it sees fit. Government regulation and trade union pressure can make this process somewhat less savage than it used to be, but such shape-shifting companies operate on principles that would be familiar in Charles Dickens's day.
In short, there isn't much the Government can do about monsters such as Bank of America -- except put the IDA to work, servicing such entities as MBNA. In this case, they'll act as unpaid consultants to the company, in the hope of selling off at least some of the Irish arm as a going concern.
In theory, the Government could use the domestic economy to soften the pain. We used to have over €20bn in reserve, but they blew that on zombie banks. Fashionable austerity policies have sabotaged domestic-based growth.
Recently, economist James Galbraith, from the University of Texas, made a speech about the importance of understanding that the global crisis isn't simply a recession, it's a breakdown of the financial system. His argument is that illegality wasn't a sideshow in the crisis, it's part of the complex credit machinery created by the financial geniuses over the past three decades. "Fraud was not a bug in the system, it was a feature." And there's no getting out of the crisis without wholesale reform of that machinery. "There is no national policy solution and no financial market solution."
Unfortunately, the people who run the world simply want to get back to the way things were, and to do so at the least cost to themselves. This requires ignoring the systemic nature of the crisis, and concentrating on "solutions" that transfer the cost of the crisis to others.
(Or, as James Galbraith put it: "Those who failed most miserably to forewarn against the financial crisis have, as a consequence, regained their voices as scourges of deficits and public debt.")
Last week, economist Nouriel Roubini, from New York University, who justifiably won credit for having warned against the coming collapse, spoke of the austerity policies being followed around the world.
"In the last two or three years. . . we've had a massive redistribution of income from labour to capital, from wages to profits, and the inequality of income has increased."
So? "You cannot keep on shifting income from labour to capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That's what has happened. We thought that markets worked. They're not working."
Instead of looking the crisis in its frightening eye, and acting accordingly, our leaders regularly tell us it's almost beaten -- then, the stock markets plunge again or an MBNA teeters on the brink. Their "solution" is killing us.
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Plymouth Argyle have signed Akos Buzsaky on a permanent basis.Plymouth Argyle have signed Akos Buzsaky on a permanent basis after he impressed on loan.
The Hungarian midfielder spent four months on loan at Plymouth and impressed Pilgrims boss Bobby Williamson.
Plymouth moved to agreed an undisclosed fee with Porto for Buzsaky's signature and the 23-year-old has inked a three-year deal at Home Park.
"I'm pleased to get Akos. There has been a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes to make sure we got him," Williamson told the club's official website.
"It has been a great effort by the directors and the chief executive.
"He brings us something different. He's certainly more offensive, than defensive; he can create; he does things off the cuff; he improvises. That's great.
"Hopefully, next season, he will have learned from this season that he doesn't have to do something special every time he receives the ball.
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"Hollywood died on me as soon as I got here. Welles said that, not me, but damn if he didn't nail it, you know?"
Sam Bateman came to Hollywood to settle a score, but amidst the sunny and 75, his plans went astray. Everything changed the day he drank in the intoxicating legend of Meyer Holden, the greatest screenwriter Hollywood has ever known, the one who pulled a Salinger and walked away. Holden now tacks pseudonyms onto his works and buries them in the bottomless sea of spec that is Hollywood's development process. They're out there for anyone to find—but at what cost? In his quest, Bateman severs all ties and sinks into a maddening world of bad writing and flawed screenplays. Paranoid and obsessive, the belligerent savant encounters an eccentric cast of characters—each with an agenda—in his search for the one writer in Hollywood who does not want to be found.
Phil Brody's The Holden Age of Hollywood is at once a detective novel, an unexpected love story, and a provocative exposé of a broken industry. With dark humor and incisive commentary, the novel immerses readers in a neo-noir quest to attain the Hollywood dream, integrity intact.
Author Phil Brody discusses his novel, The Holden Age of Hollywood, with moderator Scott Allen Perry, offers candid advice to those "doing time" in Hollywood, and brings two chapters to life with the help of actors Meg Cionni and Rich Varga.


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JIM DUFFY, the new Morton manager, had to leave behind his assistant at Clyde, Chic Charnley, as he did not want to ask him to give up his job.
"It would have been unfair to ask Chic to join me," Duffy admitted. "He has a full-time job apart from working at Clyde on a part-time basis and such is the nature of football I could not ask him to give that up. He was very much part of the success that Clyde enjoyed last season however I will be working with the existing backroom team at Cappielow."
Meanwhile, Clyde insisted they will not rush into appointing a replacement for Duffy, but Ian McCall and Allan Moore have already been linked with the post.
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