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The International Trade Commission, an obscure administrative body that has become an increasingly popular venue for patent disputes, has sided with Apple in its fight against Motorola Mobility.
The Google subsidiary filed a complaint with the ITC in 2010 alleging that Apple had violated 18 Motorola patents. The company asked the panel to ban iPhone imports. After siding with Apple on other patents earlier in the process, the ITC rejected Motorola's final remaining patent in a Monday ruling.
Monday's decision focused on Patent No. 6,246,862, "Sensor controlled user interface for portable communication device." It covers the concept of using a proximity sensor to automatically disable a device's touchscreen. This technique is used by the iPhone and other modern smart phones to avoid accidental input when the user puts the phone to his or her face to make a phone call. The ITC concluded that the concept was too obvious to merit patent protection.
The fight at the ITC is just one front in the sprawling patent battle between Apple and Motorola. Federal judges have thrown out lawsuits between the firms in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. The companies are also fighting over patents in Germany, where Apple won a sales ban on some Motorola products last September.
A Google spokesman told Bloomberg that the company was "evaluating our options." Apple had no comment.

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News Release 2011-2 | January 14, 2011
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Hosts Workshops in Fort Myers, Florida
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host workshops for directors of nationally chartered community banks and federal savings associations in Fort Myers, Florida, at the Marriott Sanibel Harbor Hotel, February 15-16, 2011.
The workshops provide practical information that expands bank directors' skills and understanding of issues facing their banks. The workshops cover compliance risk ("Compliance Risk: What Directors Need To Know") on February 15, and credit risk ("Credit Risk: A Director's Focus") on February 16.
Workshops will be held on consecutive days and cost $65 each. Individuals may register for one or both of the workshops. Attendees receive pre-course reading and course materials, an OCC telephone seminar CD, a community bank supervision handbook, other supervisory material, a continental breakfast, and lunch. Workshops are limited to the first 35 registrants and are geared primarily to outside directors of national community banks and federal savings associations with assets of less than $1 billion. Management directors may also find the workshops beneficial.
For information or to register online, visit https://www.occ.gov/about/occ-for-you/bankers/bankers-education/index-bankers-education.html or call (336) 451-0557.
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The City of Iowa City no doubt has a "strategic plan." These documents usually contain a mixture of goals and methods to achieve those goals. Furthermore, they are flexible, which means that they must be updated every few years despite the chorus of groans that can be heard from the naysayers and skeptics who actually have to do the work.
To make sure that everything is up to date in Iowa City, and the strategic plan actually conforms to city policy, the city council should add a goal: "We will insure that every young person in Iowa City has a criminal record."
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The Board of Supervisors' public input session on jail/courthouse "needs" and "other issues affecting law enforcement, jail population and court services":
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Video recording of the public forum on jail alternatives we held on April 23rd, 2013:


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September 4, 2010 in Genre | Tags: birthday, blog, business, check, digital, ephemera, genre, genres, greeting card, internet, text message, wiki | Leave a comment
Today I was thinking, I need to do more than one genre a day. Today was my birthday, so many of my pictures are birthday related :-).
From the business category, my 3 cent check from Ahold for the check genre:
From the Ephemera category, some of my birthday cards for the greeting card genre:
And several from the Internet or Digital category:
A text from my brother with the "Happy Birthday" song (it must have taken him an hour to type that!) for the text message genre:
This should look familiar for the blog genre!
The OLPC Wiki for the wiki genre:
Looking at these digital genres, I wonder what new ones will be added by next year at this time. Tomorrow I will probably collect the rest of the digital genre and then I will list them all together so you can see if you agree or disagree with the list I found.
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Library of Congress summary: A biting vilification of the Confederacy, representing it as a government in league with Satan. From left to right are: "Mr. Mob Law Chief Justice," a well-armed ruffian carrying a pot of tar; Secretary of State Robert Toombs raising a staff with a "Letter of Marque" (a governmental authorization to seize subjects or property of foreign state, here a reference to Georgia's January seizure of federal Fort Pulaski and the Augusta arsenal); CSA President Jefferson Davis, wearing saber and spurs. Vice President Alexander Stephens holds forward a list of "The Fundamental Principles of our Government," including treason, rebellion, murder, robbery, incendiarism, and theft. Behind the group, on horseback, is Confederate general Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, commander of forces at the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The delegation is received by Satan and two demonic attendants, who sit in a large cave at right. One attendant has over his shoulder a gallows from which hangs a corpse; the other holds a pitchfork. Satan holds a crown and scepter for Davis in his right hand, while in his left hand he hides a noose behind his back. He greets the Confederates, "Truly! Fit representatives of our Realm." Over his head flies a banner with the palmetto of South Carolina and six stars. A large snake curls round its staff.
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Hi. I wanted to change from linux (Sabayon) to BSD (preferably DesktopBSD), but would like to know.
1) Does it support my wireless card (rtl8187b), and which howto would get it going?
2) reading through the ubuntu forums (used to use it, b4 going to sabayon) I found this two questions by a user called Ptero-4:
And it quite picked my curiosity and decided to ask them here.
1) I don't think it's supported. There are hints on mailing lists that it might be, but there's nothing definite. Somebody else might be able to help you along. There's the NDIS framework that you might be able to use with a Windows driver to get it working.
2) I find both of those posts preposterous and outrageous. Ubuntu and any other Linux has much the same, but a few distributions hide the text. The last question isn't even worth answering. It's absolutely stupid that the blubbering idiot picked that question to ask. There's some common sense involved in the naming process. Oh, I don't know, maybe the letters actually stand for something. Those two questions aren't even worth anyone's curiosity. By the way, stay away from Ubuntu Forums. There's a lot of misinformation there.
3) Why did you choose DesktopBSD? I've always used vanilla FreeBSD. I love the flexibility.
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For #1.
No, relevant searches show no native driver exists for the aforementioned chipset.. a Linux driver exists but that won't be useful in this situation.
For #2.
A1) BSD != Linux, hiding the "kernel text" would be counterproductive.. BSD is Unix, changing it into something else is not useful at all.
A2) To distinguish between file systems? What an entirely pointless question to ask.
Sorry. I asked the second because I have seen quite a few users in several linux distros (there were even two in the old bsdforums before it died out) asking about it and some even said (dunno if it is true, not surprising though) that it´s Microsoft shoke-holding major developers so as to shape the development of the diferent *NIX systems in such a way that they become less attractive to new users to the point that they´re (supposedly) no longer a threat to microsoft dominance in the computing world (wouldn ´t be surprising considering their anticompetitive moves regarding illegal software integration and the illegal way they have to drive rivals into bankrupcy).
P.D: Is not that I believe in it, just that I had to do an essay about Microsoft illegal bussiness practices the last semester at college and learned quite a lot while preparing it.
Q2: Has that person ever heard of acronyms? If not, they should not be around computers in any way shape or forms.
Q1: Uh, maybe because people want to know what's going on, instead of just seeing some stupid graphic that hangs with no indication of what worked and what didn't?
What a waste of time that was. Remind me to never visit the Ubuntu Forums again.
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I also forgot. The reason for wanting the boot/shutdown splash thingie is that sometimes other ppl in my family (all of them computer illiterates to the nth) want to use my computer and if it happens to be off, chances are they´ll freak out when they see the kernel text messages going on (they´re used to winxp´s boot screen and any type of text based boot screen makes them think the computer is broken). I say that because a few years ago (back when linux was at kernel 2.2 and linux devs had the "we hate graphical bootscreens" attitude) I installed linux in the family computer (didn´t have a computer for myself) next to the OEM preloaded win98 and one specially bad day my older sister turned the thing on and didn´t select "DOS" in lilo, she came running all freaked out thinking that I had broken the computer, and later that day I realized to my surprise that she booted into linux and got scared of the text based boot process. I had been trying to get a nice OS with fully graphical boot and shutdown process just to keep this from happening again (and no, teaching them how it works is not an option, for reasons I can´t grasp they just can´t learn anything related to Opensource software at all (they can´t even learn how to use firefox for christ sake, trying to get them to learn BSD is IMO pretty much impossible)).
Also, a question (a bit OT I guess) is there any issue with Ubuntu, or is just the forums (I´m not member in them, but I have visited a few times and it seems pretty much similar to other linux fora I have visited, and even the old bsdforums (R.I.P))?
If you are inherently opposed to a text based operating system, an OS which, for all purposes started out as a system designed for text processing... Why use it at all?
You could make your own bitmap image (or use someone elses) and use it as a splash screen when you boot. It's easy enough to do anyways.
2) I don't think anyone was referring to Ubuntu, as in the distribution; I certainly wasn't. It's just that Ubuntu and any variant thereof has a tendency to attract most newcomers to Unix. Eventually, those people start to think that they're kings of Unix and begin to help other people out, but in fact, they know next to nothing about Unix. So, while Ubuntu maybe a respectable distribution in its own right, the vast majority of users are not as experienced as they pretend to be on that forum. That creates a pretty pitiful environment of support for any true newcomer because they're likely to be misled. And now, it's not like any other Linux forum. LQ and Fedoraforums have tons of qualified, experienced people participating in discussions and helping out. The fact that a nearly 5 page thread did not have a single answer to the original question and that another long thread tried to prove that it's ok to run a GUI on a server anytime shows you how pathetic Ubuntu forums really is. Please stay as far away from there as possible. Come here; most people here could give you advice on almost any Unix variant there is, so there's really no need for you to even go there.
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On the topic of file system "names"... all you had to do is to refer them to names of other file systems...
ntfs, fat8, fat16, fat32, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs...
I think I found ufs, ffs, zfs, hfs more consistent... the other one's seem to be so random.
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The newest quarterly status report was just released yesterday, and contains info about ongoing work on the graphical bootloader, including screenshots, see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader
We definitely need this. Some people just can't handle bootloadres/text boot loaders. One day I asked my girlfriend to grab some files off my desktop when she was home, and she called later to tell me she hadn't got them because every time she booted, she got a weird error message.
What she was seeing was GAG (http://gag.sourceforge.net).
And she didn't even wait 10 seconds for it to auto-boot the OS before powering it down!
FreeBSD addict since 4.2-RELEASE.
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Ahhh how hard is it to just ignore the boot up text!! That's insane!! If one doesn't know what the test is about then just leave it there...
She sells C shells by the seashore.
I stay there precisely because there is tons of bad advice being given there and I wanted to try to balance it, and throw in some accurate information. I have actually had arguments over there over things that are widely accepted as fact. Sadly, Ubuntu is becoming like a religion to some, and the n00bs think they can instantly be web developers and admins, and then do things like run a professional web site on a dynamic DNS provider and argue with me that there is nothing wrong with that. Some days, it's really a challenge but I do it mainly to help people and keep my Linux skills up. I have 108 thank yous so far so I must be doing something right
Some of you know I had started a thread here on the striking changes in the Linux community. I don't think it's a good thing, and I see the same thing starting to happen in the BSDs. I don't think *BSD was intended for desktop use, at least not with a GUI. If you want to do it, yeah that's fine but it's *purpose* is to run servers (which it does VERY well). I dunno, when I come here and see n00bs asking if BSD supports their wireless card I have to think they just don't get it. </rant off>
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Also, an update. Installed BSD, but had to roll back to Sabayon x86 because the win98 driver (only one that works with this POS rtl8187b internal card) doesn´t seem to work in ndisulator (dunno why) and I need wifi (since my ISP gave us a wifi-only DSL modem). Ohh well at least it´s gentoo based, so I won´t be missing the ports system as badly.
BTW: I´m planning to resurrect an old Mac PPC that I´m gonna use to do my torrenting and background downloads. I´m gonna stick FreeBSD on it (it´s a fairly old Mac so compatibility isn´t going to be an issue).
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Some good news.
Sabayon finally took the 2.6.27 kernel which gives me native support for the dreaded rtl8187b card. But now it got me a little question to ask. Can the linux compat stuff in freebsd somehow tunnel the in-kernel rtl8187b driver so that I get wifi off BSD through the linux kernel?
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MONTREAL — Three days after the small town of Lac-Mégantic was decimated by a runaway train, new questions are surfacing about how a 10,000-tonne vehicle was able to break loose and careen down 11 kilometres of track, seemingly unhindered.
Late Sunday, the company that owned the doomed train — Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway — issued a statement that singled out a failure of the train's air brakes as a possible culprit.
"One fact that has emerged is (that) the locomotive of the oil train parked at Nantes station was shut down subsequent to the departure of the engineer who had handled the train from Farnham, which may have resulted in the release of air brakes on the locomotive that was holding the train in place."
It's not clear what caused that engine shutdown, but a small fire that erupted in one of the locomotives around 11:30 p.m. Friday might have been to blame. That first fire was quickly extinguished, authorities have confirmed, but sometime later, the train slowly began to roll downhill toward the town of 6,000 residents. It picked up speed, then derailed and exploded at approximately 1:30 a.m.
According to several rail switchmen and engineers contacted by The Gazette on Monday, the company's explanation involving the air brakes simply doesn't make sense.
A train's air brakes rely on a system of pressure valves and storage tanks to function, but they should never be used to maintain a train at rest over an extended period of time. According to retired engineer Paul-André Larose, when the engines are shut off, air gradually begins to leak out of the system, like a balloon with a tiny puncture, and eventually the breaks disengage.
"The air brake system is a beautiful concept, but you have to know its limitations," said Larose, who lives in Toronto.
That's where the manually engaged "hand brakes" come in. Even if the air brakes on the MMA train had stopped working, explained veteran rail worker Don Beyer, a backup series of hand brakes should have been engaged, and they should have been enough to keep the train stationary.
"You set (hand brakes) to prevent the train from rolling," said Beyer, who has more than 30 years of experience and works as a switchman in a busy rail yard in Missouri.
Each MMA locomotive and tank car was equipped with a hand brake. If the conductor was planning to leave the train unmanned for even a brief period, both Beyer and Larose say, he should have manually "tied" as many of these hand brakes as he thought would be needed, using a wheel crank located at the back of each car. He should then have gone back to the front of the train, disengaged the air brakes and waited to see if the train moved.
Larose noted that even if the huge vehicle didn't start to slide on its own, the conductor should have tried to push the train forward by activating the engine (applying enough horsepower to simulate a strong gust of wind, for example). No movement would have meant the train was securely rooted to the track.
Transport Canada's rules governing train travel specifically outline this procedure, which Beyer referred to as a "securement test." Section 112 of the Canadian Railway Operating Rules stipulates that "when equipment is left at any point, a sufficient number of hand brakes must be applied to prevent it from moving. ... Before relying on the retarding force of the hand brakes, whether leaving equipment or riding equipment to rest, the effectiveness of the hand brakes must be tested."
MMA officials confirmed to The Gazette that hand brakes were engaged on all five of the train's locomotive cars, but it's unclear how many of the 72 tanker cars, each carrying tens of thousands of litres of crude oil, had their hand brakes activated. It's also unclear whether the securement test was performed. If it wasn't, and the hand brakes couldn't hold the train, then that could explain how it was able to begin rolling toward Lac-Mégantic.
In an interview with The Gazette on Monday, MMA chairman Ed Burkhardt said he believes the locomotive was tampered with.
But according to Rob Smith, national legislative director with Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, the possibility of vandals releasing the manual brakes is slim.
"It's not as easy as it might seem. You would have to know what you're doing," he said.
Larose noted that when it comes to performing safety checks, "choosing the path of least resistance" can lead to deadly results.
"The corporate world has thrown away all the expertise we had on the railway. And now we wonder why we're having accidents," he added. "Until there's an accident, they don't really think about these things."
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CLARIFICATION: In a previous version of this story, The Gazette reported that the hand brakes on the MMA tank cars were located at the top of each tank. The wheels activating the hand brakes were, in fact, located at the back of the tanks.


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BackgroundSince 2003, the Books Council of Wales has been responsible for schemes formerly administered by the Arts Council of Wales in support of literary publishing in Wales in English as well as in Welsh. In addition, from 2004/05 onwards, it has received additional funds from the Welsh Assembly Government to extend its support for English-language publishing into new areas, with the emphasis on supporting a wider range of books. The Books Council of Wales is now the main source of subsidy for English-language publishing in Wales.What is eligible for support? The Books Council of Wales provides publishing grants for literary books and magazines in English; it also contributes to the cost of marketing initiatives, the employment of editorial and marketing staff and of advances or fees for the authors and/or illustrators of books aimed at as wide an audience as possible. See Summary of Grants Available for Publishing in English.Who may apply for a grant?In general, only publishers in Wales are eligible to receive funding. (Publishers outside Wales may be eligible for an Individual Literary Book Grant (ILBG) where the book is of significant Welsh interest, and where the publisher can demonstrate that no other funding is available to them.) Publishers must have established lists or sound plans for establishing a relevant programme, and the ability to sell their output throughout Wales and beyond. Authors may not apply for grants from the Books Council of Wales. See Information for Authors.The Books Council of Wales also administers grant schemes for booksellers. See Information for Booksellers.How does the application procedure work?Publishing grants are allocated twice a year by the English-Language Publishing Grants Panel. The Panel usually meets in February and July. Deadlines for applications are announced in advance. Grants are not usually awarded more than two years in advance of the planned publication date. For further information, see individual scheme guidelines. Does the Books Council of Wales offer loans or grants in support of profitable projects?In general, publishing grants are made towards expected deficits. The Books Council of Wales does not offer loans. However, a number of schemes are now targeted at more popular publishing projects, the profits of which will be re-invested in publishing Welsh Books in English. See, in particular, the Advances/Fees to Authors and Illustrators scheme the Marketing Grants scheme for English-language books.Is the Books Council of Wales the only source of funding for publishers?The following bodies also administer some schemes to which publishers may apply:Arts Council of WalesGrants for training, international exchange (through its agency, Wales Arts International), cross-artform activity, participatory projects, cultural diversity and some other areas, but not for production costs associated with publishing.Wales Literature ExchangeGrants for outward translation of Welsh literature, from English and Welsh. WLA does not fund translation into Welsh.Grants and other support are also available for small businesses generally. See How can I become a publisher? below.Does the Books Council of Wales offer support to publishers other than through its grant schemes? All publishers in Wales may make use of the Welsh Books Council's editing, marketing, design, wholesaling and distribution services. Click here for full details.How can I become a publisher?The Publishers' Association and the Independent Publishers Guild offer information (much of it free of charge) and services to those who wish to establish and develop their business or to pursue a career in the publishing trade. Cultural Enterprise offers business advice to cultural and artistic groups and companies in Wales. Information about grants, training and other forms of support for small businesses is available at www.businessconnect.org.uk.
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Turning life's lemons into lemonade is a neat feat. But turning oranges into a juicy branding concept for your practice—now that's original. And financial planner Dana Anspach has done it.
"I was having breakfast at a place that serves fresh-squeezed juice and watching oranges roll into the juicing machine. 'Wow,' I thought, 'I wonder how much more juice they get out of each orange than I do by hand-squeezing.'"
"That's when I got the branding [idea]: The right retirement planning decisions can help you get more 'juice' into your cup," says Anspach, founder and principal of Sensible Money, an RIA in Scottsdale, Arizona. The four-person firm manages assets of about $40 million.
"Start Squeezin'" is the FA's catchy mantra, especially for clients stepping into the retirement-income planning arena. This stage, she impresses upon them, demands a different type of investing compared to the saving phase. Typically, extra "juice" gets tossed out in high taxes, excess fees and "incorrect planning assumptions." To boost assets, Anspach helps clients make that juice flow in the opposite direction.
The advisor, 41, who custodies with Charles Schwab, has focused on retirement-income planning since 2003, the year she realized that "people can't afford to make mistakes when they hit a certain age. I became passionate about that market segment," says Anspach, a CFP who also holds the Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) designation.
For four years, she has written the online About.com column, "Money Over 55"; and this spring, her first book, Control Your Retirement Destiny (Apress), is to be published. A graduate of the University of Florida with a B.S. in marketing, Anspach clearly boasts a creative bent for building brand awareness. But the fee-only planner is more substance than mere style.
"There's a purity of giving fee-only financial advice, and for me you do not step outside that," she says. "You often make less money that way. But I can't sit in front of a [prospect] and promise a 10% return a year. Advisors do that all the time. It makes it incredibly challenging for those of us who are telling the truth."
An advisor for 17 years, she started as a commissioned broker, including a stint at Merrill Lynch, but soon discovered she was far more entrepreneur than employee.
"I'm not a good employee—I'm stubborn and independent," says the candid advisor, an in-demand speaker at groups such as the Retirement Income Industry Association, Government Finance Officers Association of Arizona, and Fortune 500 companies like Medtronic.
Taking a holistic approach in designing plans and constructing tax-efficient investments, she surprises clients by using Social Security benefits as what she calls "a longevity hedge."
"Without pushing anything, Dana lets the client make the decisions. But she lays everything out in a way that leads up to where she thinks you need to be," says Mike Smith, 62, a client in Akron, Ohio. "She has the patience of Job."
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, bred in St. Louis and St. Cloud, Fla., Anspach, as a 10-year-old, passed the time on long car trips by solving compound-interest problems on her father's calculator—much to the delight of dad Glenn, who holds a master's in math.
"I guess," she says, with a laugh, "I was destined to be a financial planner."
But destiny didn't barge in right away. Aspiring to an advertising agency career, Anspach, however, found slim pickings in Grand Junction, Colo., where she and her then-husband moved right after college. She settled for selling ad space door-to-door for the marketing and publishing firm R.L. Polk, and moonlighted as an aerobics instructor.
Enter: destiny. One Polk client was an FA at brokerage Waddell & Reed; and his friendly, astute financial planning advice piqued Anspach's interest. Soon she was a Waddell advisor trainee.
Four years later, in 1999, the Merrill Lynch job came along—and with it, a turning point.
"My naïve perspective was that I was going to a firm with a much more unbiased approach because they had a wide selection of product," she recalls. But "Merrill Lynch has a culture of sales—and that culture wasn't for me."
Warned one day by a high-ranking local manager: "No matter how much you do here, it will never be enough!" Anspach felt for sure that she was on the wrong planet. Eight months after joining, she resigned from the wirehouse.
Relocating to Arizona weeks later, her career started to cook. In Phoenix, she joined a CPA firm, Hopkins Parker, and began building a financial services practice within it. After five years, she bought the practice and merged it with a firm that a friend had launched, Wealth Management Solutions. In 2011, she went solo with Sensible Money.
Anspach's About.com column serves as a marketing tool, and the content can be as provocative as it is informative. Intro to one recent piece: "I'm probably going to get some hate mail for posting this article." The article: "10 Things Your Financial Advisor Might Not Be Telling You." No. 7: "Social Security Can Make More Money for You Than They Can."
One thing Anspach will readily tell you is that financial advisory isn't selling. The biggest mistake FAs make, she says, is "leading with product solutions instead of a planning process. When you're with a broker-dealer, often you're not exposed to some of the non-product solutions that we should be talking about."
The FA, who is divorced, owns three motocross dirt bikes that she vroom-vrooms around on in the desert.
"My mind is clear when I'm riding. You're very much in the now," she says. "The cactus and mountains are just gorgeous."
A bad wreck six years ago wasn't so gorgeous. Thrown over the motorcycle's handlebars, she hit a rock chest-first, suffering a pulmonary embolism and broken wrist. A chest protector—crushed in the crash—probably saved her.
Six months later, she thought she was ready to try again.
"My hands were shaking," she recalls. "But a friend who was with me said that if I got back out there, I'd be okay. And I was. We rode 50 miles."


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Of course, one thing that all the people interviewed in the Vanity Fair article share is that they never acknowledge any personal responsibility for causing the mess in Iraq. They never apologize. Instead they are anxious to say that they are not to be blamed for this mess. So scapegoats must be found.
Rumsfeld is turning out to be everyone's favorite target and the knives are definitely out for him, fueled by the ringing endorsement that Bush gave him and Cheney last week, a move that stunned those who perhaps thought the Iraq policy might be salvaged with someone new as Secretary of Defense.
Kenneth "Cakewalk" Adelman is one of those disillusioned by his former hero. He had expected great things from Rumsfeld but now says: "I'm very, very fond of him, but I'm crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don't know. He certainly fooled me."
The Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times released a joint editorial on Saturday, November 4, 2006 under the headline "Time for Rumsfeld to go" in which it argues that the current military leadership has lost faith in him. The editorial ends:
Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with
Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.
This is not about the midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7, the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth:
Donald Rumsfeld must go.
Rumsfeld, with his strutting, his overbearing language and demeanor, and his browbeating of anyone who might deign to challenge him, epitomized the know-it-all arrogance of this administration and is fully deserving of criticism, But this editorial is quite an extraordinary and disturbing development for a democracy. Although these newspapers are not part of the military, they seem confident that they are expressing the sentiments of the current military leadership. When the current military people quasi-publicly criticize the defense secretary, this undermines the principle of civilian control of the military. It does not rise to the level of a coup but is disturbing nonetheless. More than anything, this illustrates how dangerously out of balance the whole government has been brought to by the Iraq war.
Other former war supporters interviewed in the Vanity Fair article are also gloomy about the possible outcome of the war. Eliot Cohen, director of the strategic-studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and member of the Defense Policy Board, says: "I wouldn't be surprised if what we end up drifting toward is some sort of withdrawal on some sort of timetable and leaving the place in a pretty ghastly mess."
Frank Gaffney, an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan and founder of the Center for Security Policy, delivers perhaps the unkindest cut of all: "[Bush] doesn't in fact seem to be a man of principle who's steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course. He talks about it, but the policy doesn't track with the rhetoric, and that's what creates the incoherence that causes us problems around the world and at home."
Bush's appeal to many voters has been that he is a man of principle who knows what he believes and acts on those beliefs. To be accused by his erstwhile friends of being weak and confused must hurt.
Richard Perle wants everyone to understand that none of the current mess is the fault of the neoconservatives. He says: "Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war." (my emphasis)
Meanwhile infamous Iranian exile Ahmed Chalabi, now living in London, has emerged from the shadows and blames Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon, the Americans, anybody. This is the same Chalabi who regaled gullible and now disgraced New York Times reporter Judith Miller with stories about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs provided by Iraqi "defectors" who turned out to be frauds. She then published those stories on the front pages of that paper, and the Administration then completed that incestuous cycle by using those same stories to argue that there was independent proof that Iraq had WMDs.
An article in Editor and Publisher excerpts an article by reporter Dexter Filkins that just appeared in the New York Times, giving us Chalabi's own revisionist history:
Now, in an interview in his London home, Chalabi, betraying what Filkins calls "a touch of bitterness," declares, "The real culprit in all this is Wolfowitz," the former assistant secretary of defense, whom he still considers a friend. "They chickened out. The Pentagon guys chickened out. . .The Americans screwed it up. . .America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy."
Chalabi has nothing to say about his leaks to Judith Miller of The New York Times, but Filkins does recall her famous email from 2003 when she boasted that Chalabi had "provided most of the front-page exclusives on WMD to our paper."
David Kay, the weapons inspector, weighs in on Wolfowitz: "He was a true believer. He thought he had the evidence. That came from the defectors. They came from Chalabi."
. . .
Chalabi counters views that he was the catalyst [for the war], saying that it was Bush officials who "came to us and asked, 'Can you help us find something on Saddam?'"
Chalabi, after doing all that he did to provide the US with arguments to go to war, now "claims that he warned the Bush people that various Iraqi informants were unreliable, only to hear the Americans say, referring to the source, "This guy is the mother lode." Chalabi, of all people asks, "Can you believe that on such a basis the United States would go to war?"
These people are a real piece of work. After feeding each other stories that they all wanted to believe, and foisting them on a gullible American public through an equally gullible media, they now express amazement that anyone would have taken the case for war seriously.
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This is the second time students have sold casino tickets for their trip. The school sponsored a bus trip this past summer, which saw minimal participation. Jason Lafreniere, seventh grade special education teacher and trip organizer, said he hopes to see a better turn out this time around.
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Yep, its been 5 years of blogging. From the bicycle film festivals, to the alleycats, the critical mass, to the Bike Kills…
5 years strong and much more to come.
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This lead me to find this video of prep work for the race:
2009 Idiotarod: Team Remus and Romulus from Gothamist on Vimeo.
made by: NFGTV which had this video on their website: (does this guy look familiar)
(I know, How is this related to Kevin Bacon?)


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National Shooting Sports Foundation postpones summit until June 2014
NEWTOWN -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation is rescheduling its summit set for June until next year, according to a statement Monday.
"We have postponed the Shooting Sports Summit so we can fully focus our resources on the legislative and regulatory challenges our industry is facing," said Chris Dolnack, NSSF senior president and chief marketing officer, in the statement. "We remain committed to working with our Task Force 20/20 partner organizations to increase hunting and recreational shooting participation by 20 percent by the end of 2014."
The Shooting Sports Summit, scheduled for June 10-12 in Springfield, Mass., has been postponed to June 9-11, 2014.


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Problem: When applying Windows auditing permissions at the root of a NetAPP CIFS share (\\NetApp\Share), you receive an 'Access Denied' error for every file and folder contained in that particular share's snapshot folder (\\NetApp\Share\~snapshot).
Discussion: The snapshot folder, which is a hidden folder in Windows (\\NetApp\Share\~snapshot\), is a read-only file on the NetApp Filer. Even if you grant yourself full permissions in Windows, you will still receive an "Access denied" error for files & folders within the snapshot directory. You can also grant your windows domain account full access on the filer, but you will continue to get the Access denied errors. The only way around this is to hide the snapshot folder from WIndows using the Filer's command line interface.
My environment is WIndows Server 2012R2 with Netwrix Auditor 7.1 (build 329), NetApp 8.0.5 in 7-Mode.
Solution: From your filer, turn off showing the snapshot folder by logging into your filer(s) as root, and using the the "options cifs.show_snapshot" commands (see example below) to toggle the feature on or off. You can use the command "options cif.show_snapshot" to display its current status, and add the variables 'on' or 'off' at the end of the command to change whether or not the snapshot folder is displayed in Windows. When you toggle it, the command will not provide you any output/feedback, and will just return you to the prompt. You must perform this operation on any partner filers as well for it to work.
Start Putty Session and login as root:
login as:root
firstname.lastname@example.com's password:**************
NetApp> options cifs.show_snapshot
cifs.show_snapshot on
NetApp>options cifs.show_snapshot off
NetApp>options cifs.show_snapshot
cifs.show_snapshot off


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Patients with stage II melanoma have cancer that is 1 to 2 millimeters with ulceration or greater than 2 mm with or without ulceration. Stage II melanoma has spread to the lower part of the inner layer of skin (dermis), but not into the tissue below the dermis or into nearby lymph nodes. Ulceration refers to the microscopic presence of continuous epidermis in the tissue overlying the melanoma and is an important prognostic factor for stage II melanoma. The following is a general overview of the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. Each person with melanoma is different, and the specific characteristics of your condition will determine how it is managed. The information on this Web site is intended to help educate you about treatment options and to facilitate a shared decision-making process with your treating physician.
The following is a general overview of treatment for stage II melanoma. Multi-modality treatment, which utilizes two or more treatment techniques, is increasingly recognized as an important approach for improving a patient's chance of cure or prolonging survival. In some cases, participation in a clinical trial utilizing new, innovative therapies may provide the most promising treatment. Circumstances unique to each patient's situation may influence how these general treatment principles are applied. The potential benefits of multi-modality care, participation in a clinical trial, or standard treatment must be carefully balanced with the potential risks. The information on this website is intended to help educate patients about their treatment options and to facilitate a mutual or shared decision-making process with their treating cancer physician.
Surgical Treatment of Stage II Melanoma
Patients with primary cutaneous melanoma with a thickness of 1 millimeter or more historically were reported to have a 60% to 70% chance of survival 5 years after surgery. These statistics represent data that came from the era prior to sentinel lymph node biopsy. In other words, some of the patients thought to have stage II melanoma actually had more advanced disease involving the lymph nodes. Today it is recognized that one of the most important aspects of the management of stage II melanoma is adequate assessment for cancer involvement of local lymph nodes. Both the American Joint Committee on Cancer and the World Health Organization recommend a sentinel lymph node biopsy as a staging procedure for patients with a primary melanoma greater than 1 mm.
The surgical treatment of stage II melanoma typically involves a single procedure in which a local excision of the cancer is performed as well as a SLN biopsy. During a SLN biopsy, a physician injects a tracer (radioactive isotope and/or blue dye) into the area of the primary tumor. The tracer, which is taken up by the lymph system, identifies the so-called "sentinel lymph node", which is the first lymph node that could be potentially involved with melanoma. Lymphatic mapping can be performed prior to surgery to aid the physician in determining which lymph node group is the primary drainage basin for any particular area of skin and it can also be used on the day of surgery to identify which lymph node is the "sentinel" lymph node.
Once the SLN has been identified, the physician removes the SLN through a small incision and then a pathologist examines the SLN under the microscope to detect whether or not there is any evidence of melanoma cells. Patients who have a positive sentinel node (tumor identified) are counseled to undergo removal of all the lymph nodes in the region, while patients who have a negative sentinel node do not undergo further surgery. Approximately 15% of patients undergoing SLN biopsy have a positive SLN (pathologically stage III).
Most surgeons recommend a surgical margin (healthy tissue surrounding the cancer) of 2 centimeters (almost 1 inch). The need for skin grafting occurs in approximately 10% of patients who undergo a 2-cm-wide local excision. Clinical trials have demonstrated that larger surgical margins are no more effective and require skin grafting in a higher fraction of patients (up to 50%). In one large study, patients with melanoma of 1-4 millimeters were randomized to receive surgery with 2-centimeter or 4-centimeter margins. The overall local recurrence rate was 3.8%, with no difference between the two groups. The incidence of skin grafting was 10% for the patients with 2-centimeter surgical margins and 45% for patients with 4-centimeter surgical margins.
Adjuvant Treatment of Stage II Melanoma
Despite undergoing sentinel lymph node evaluations that are negative, some patients with stage II melanoma are at increased risk for having small amounts of cancer that have not been detected. Undetectable areas of cancer are often referred to as micrometastases. The presence of micrometastases causes cancer recurrence following treatment with surgery alone. Patients with thick melanomas (> 4 mm) who have evidence of ulceration are considered at high risk for recurrence. The delivery of cancer treatment aimed at killing micrometastases following local treatment with surgery is referred to as "adjuvant" therapy.
Alpha interferon is a biologic therapy that stimulates the immune system and is the only agent currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as adjuvant therapy in patients with high-risk melanoma. Clinical studies evaluating adjuvant interferon following surgery generally show that interferon therapy decreases cancer recurrences and improves survival compared to surgery alone. In one randomized clinical trial in the US, only 60% of patients with stage II melanoma receiving alpha interferon (three times a week for 12 weeks) developed recurrent melanoma, compared to 72% of patients not receiving alpha interferon. The average duration of survival for patients receiving alpha interferon was 4.1 years, compared to only 2.7 years for patients not receiving alpha interferon.
French and Austrian trials appear to support these results. In the French trial, patients with melanomas larger than 1.5 millimeters treated with alpha interferon after surgery experienced a recurrence rate of 32%, compared to 44% in the patients not treated with interferon. In the Austrian trial, patients without clinical evidence of nodal involvement (no lymph node dissection) received surgery plus adjuvant alpha interferon or surgery only. Twenty-four percent of patients treated with alpha interferon developed recurrences, compared to 36% of patients treated with surgery only. The majority of relapses in both groups were local and/or regional.
Questions to ask your physician
The main questions to ask your physician relate to staging to determine whether there is involvement of lymph nodes and whether or not the risk of a recurrence warrants treatment with interferon or participation in a clinical trial evaluating adjuvant therapy.
Strategies to Improve Treatment
The development of more effective cancer treatments requires that new and innovative therapies be evaluated with cancer patients. Clinical trials are studies that evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs or treatment strategies. Future progress in the treatment of stage II melanoma will result from the continued evaluation of new treatments in clinical trials. Participation in a clinical trial may offer patients access to better treatments and advance the existing knowledge about treatment of this cancer. Patients who are interested in participating in a clinical trial should discuss the risks and benefits of clinical trials with their physician. Areas of active investigation aimed at improving the treatment of stage II melanoma include the following:
Alpha Interferon: Alpha interferon is a biologic therapy that stimulates the immune system and is the only agent currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for adjuvant therapy of melanoma. Several recent studies have evaluated alpha interferon in patients with melanoma, with results indicating that high doses of alpha interferon are more beneficial than low or moderate doses. Research is ongoing to determine the role of alpha interferon in the treatment of melanoma. At this time, alpha interferon in higher doses appears to be the most beneficial option; however, other doses and schedules of alpha interferon are being evaluated.
Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy has not been extensively evaluated as adjuvant therapy for patients with stage I-III melanoma. Chemotherapy in combination with biologic agents is being evaluated in more advanced disease, and if successful, will be evaluated in earlier stages of melanoma.
Vaccines: One strategy for stimulating the immune system to attack cancer cells is the use of vaccines. Cancer cells often display certain small proteins and/or carbohydrates (antigens) on their surface that are not displayed by healthy cells. Vaccines are often comprised of these specific antigens, which can be taken directly from the patient's cancer cells, other patient's cells or produced in a laboratory. If these antigens are injected into the patient, the immune system recognizes them as "foreign" and will attack the cancer cells displaying the antigens. Researchers are now evaluating various strategies to enhance the immune response against the injected antigens, including combining the patient's own immune cells with the specific antigens in a laboratory prior to injection.
Currently, no vaccine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug administration for the treatment or prevention of melanoma. Melanoma vaccines have demonstrated anti-cancer activity in some patients, but this benefit has typically been limited to the minority of patients who generate a measurable immune response following vaccination. Generally, vaccines are made from crude mixtures of whole cells or cell products from removed melanomas, with or without other immune stimulating agents. They are usually produced locally in small quantities, not easily shipped and cannot be tested in large clinical trials. More recently, synthetic or semi-synthetic vaccines have been produced that can be tested in large-scale clinical trials.
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Yes, everything you say can be used against you in the age of Youtube, as Bruce Mehlman and Alex Vogel say in this piece.
But let's not foget that Youtube and political videos can still be fun. Like this spoof of the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debate.
When the guy wearing the Barack Obama pin asks his Clinton-supporting friend if she knows the meaning of honesty, the says, "Yes I do my arrogant friend and we all appreciate Obama and his honesty, especially about his groovy cocaine use."
There's about 3 minutes of this.


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Jan van Eyck's aim in painting the Crucifixion panel of the diptych in New York's Metro-politan Museum of Art was to portray the drama of the Passion "exactly as it happened." Indeed, he achieved a startling degree of realism in the spatial and temporal relationships repre-sented, and the setting, the figures, and the interaction between the latter are all treated with meticulous truthfulness. To create this world which imitates empirical reality but also main-tains something of an autonomous, nonreferential existence, the artist used a specific type of composition, that of the "populous calvary."
This genre, as Hans Belting and Dagmar Eichberger have shown in their groundbreaking work on van Eyck, is marked by features of pictorial narration. The present article points out that these features in The Crucifixion merely constitute a narrative framework for many of the painting's special characteristics, in particular its instantaneous, snapshot-like quality, derived from the open yet fragmentary handling of space. Their origins lie in Italian painting of the first half of the 14th century. An important source of the narrative element may be the little-known Crucifixion panel attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti in the Museo Stibbert, Florence, while the earliest example of the element of eventfulness and immediacy may be Duccio's Entry into Jerusalem from the main altar of the cathedral of Siena.
The tondo, one of the most popular formats for devotional painting and sculpture in Quattrocento Florence, reflected specific religious and cultural ideas, in particular humanism and its veneration of the circle. The documentary material presented here contains clues not only as to the origins of the tondo but also regarding the meanings it held in the Renaissance. This synthetic study opens with an examination of the philological background of the word "tondo", and goes on to discuss various inventories in detail, including those of the Medici family and the Magistralo dei Pupilli, as well as commission and payment documents, and artists' inventories. In the final analysis, an astonishing correlation exists between the documents and the physical evidence. The author also assesses both written records and works of art to determine where tondi would have been placed.
Michelangelo's Brutus is usually considered the source and catalyst of the subsequent dif-fusion of the ciassicizing portrait bust in Italy. Yet there already existed a tradition in northern Italy, particularly in Padua and Venice, of making all'antica busts. The author argues that the Roman bust was revived in Padua by an interrelated group of antiquarians for reasons far re-moved from the desire to ape Michelangelo.
Moreover, the traditional dating of the Brutus to 1539-40 is shown to be highly suspect. Although it is not known when Michelangelo began the work, its current appearance dates from the mid-1550s at the earliest, long after the classicizing bust had appeared in Florence and Venice.
The focus is on the meaning of one symbolic detail in A Maid Asleep by Johannes Vermeer, and the resulting implications for the artist's relationship to contemporary genre painters. In the center of the painting, the near edge of an open door is interrupted by what appears to be the ring of a key. Visual and literary sources of the period link keys with domestic responsibility, duty, and fidelity, implying the privilege of access and closely associated with housewives and housemaids. Keys also had a sexual connotation, alluding either to lustful behavior or to female virginity.
Most modern studies of Caravaggio's critical fortunes during his lifetime and in the dec-ades following his death have highlighted the negative reactions to his work, which was accused of allegedly displaying poor invenzione, being overly dependent on the model, and lacking in disegno and decorum. Yet the important fact that the artist's contemporaries lav-ished praise on his innovative use of color has been largely overlooked. Within this current of positive criticism his colore was credited with verisimilitude and imaginativeness, and consequently regarded as worthy of imitation.
Ut Pictura Non Poesis: Lord Shaftesbury's "Ridiculous Anticipation of Metamorphosis" and the Two Versions of Diana and Actaeon by Paolo de Matteis
A comparison of the two versions of Diana and Actaeon by Paolo de Matteis illustrates how in the second version the painter abandoned his "poetic" interpretation of the myth for a "dramatic" one in conformity with Lord Shaftesbury's theoretical views.
Shaftesbury believed that the history painter should follow a "rule of consistency" preclud-ing the temporal metalepsis exhibited, for example, in the many paintings of the Diana and Actaeon story showing the latter's "horns already sprouted" even before "the goddess ... has thrown her cast."
The article provides external evidence for dating the paintings, and shows that, in attempt-ing to adapt literary theory to painting, Shaftesbury failed to heed his own advice knowing, as one learns from his notes, that ut pictura non poesis.
Lorenzo Bartolini Interpreted Through Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is clear from both his work and his writings that the Tuscan sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777–1850) favored the respectful imitation of nature over neoclassical idealism. Since the last decade of his life, his approach has been commonly interpreted within the framework of Realism. This article shows the influence on Bartolini of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose ideas the artist came in contact with during his studies in Paris in 1799–1807, and three years later when he worked for Duchess Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi in Lucca. Several major works by Bartolini owe a significant debt to Rousseau and in particular his 1762 novel of moral devel-opment and sensibility, Émile: ou De 1'éducation.
In surveying the humanistic implications of the Greek and Roman myths that have pro-vided subject matter for twentieth-century art, the article shows how modern artists have interpreted the myths through their own personal experience. Among their motivations for turn-ing to mythology is the attempt to suggest that the world is a continuum of unchanged human experience.
Also explored is the influence on the artists of earlier artistic, literary, philosophical, and psychological interpretations. The focus is on the myths most frequently seen as bearing humanistic meaning: Prometheus, Venus, Apollo, Dionysos, Orpheus, Oedipus, and Odysseus, and the Minotaur.
Leonardo da Vinci's dream of a nibbio, or kite, a rapacious carrion bird, opening his mouth with its tail while he lay in the cradle, has been the subject of several psychoanalytical studies. The article is the first atempt to evaluate the dream within the larger context of the artist's interest in dreams and fantasies, as well as in bestiaries and fables. Many emblematic descriptions of kites wewre in Leonardo's possession, suggesting that the bird held personal significance for him. Some of the virtues symbolized by the kite, such as self-restraint and moderation, crop up in other contents, for example in the Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine (Czartoryski Collection, Kraków), and in his fables involving monkeys. Like the nibbio dream, these instances can be understood as Leonardo's reminders to himself of the need to exercise restraint in order to continue undistracted in his mission as a guide of art.


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A home-made bomb left a 17-year old in the northern village of Boerakker with serious head injuries. The boy in hospital on Saturday morning.
In the eastern town of Hardewijk, a 13-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after being hit by illegal fireworks on a campsite. He too died shortly afterwards. Police are hunting down the man who set off the device.
On the whole, the authorities say New Year celebrations passed off relatively peacefully. Minor incidents were reported in the big cities, though.
In The Hague, for instance, two police officers were injured in clashes with youths throwing fireworks. Forty cars were set on fire, almost double the number from last year. Several arrests were made.
In Amsterdam, around 50 people were arrested, mainly for public disorder offences. Firemen in the capital put out nearly 200 fires in underground waste bins, considerably more than last year too.
In Rotterdam, a bakery went up in flames and several adjacent homes were evacuated. A fire gutted a farm in Friesland and killed dozens of cows.


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Thermal Cycler Engineering
Our re-design is based upon the Open PCR system originally designed by Josh Perfetto and Tito Jankowski.
System Design
While the system proved to be useful in previous experiments, many setbacks occurred due to the physical restraints of the device. The overall design had many advantages (i.e. low cost, portable, simple assembly) but small parts of the system needed adjustments in order to operate on an acceptable level. Troubles we encountered included a long wait time for the system to cool to the necessary temperatures, difficulty opening the latch for the lid, and the restrictive sample size.
Key Features
The key features involved with the newly designed PCR machine can be easily renovated at a low cost to immensely improve the quality. No new pieces will need to be added to the design, just a few altercations to the machine's current design. A few extra holes drilled into the housing block can reduce the number of trials by maximizing the amount of DNA samples in each trial with a few simple incisions. Simple slots can be cut through the wooden walls for added ventilation to prevent over heating. And finally, the old lid was a hassle. There are many other ways to secure the vials in the housing block all while providing easy access to open when needed.
The best feature about our improvements to the PCR machine is the unchanged design from the original machine. Each improved piece can individually replace certain parts of the device without altering the original design. For example, a few slits can be excised from the walls of the machine. Extra DNA holes can be drilled in the current housing block so more samples can be read during one simple trial. As stated earlier, a magnetic hinge securely protects the DNA samples while the test is in progress, and can also be easily opened when minimal pressure is applied to open the lid. Instruction to use the PCR machine is as simple as its original design, all while maximizing efficiency.
1. Obtain a computer and PCR machine.
2. Download the Open PCR software onto the computer.
3. Connect the laptop and PCR machine using a USB cable.
4. Open the Open PCR program and create a new experiment.
5. In the options menu select 30 number of cycles and the specific temperatures.
6. Obtain PCR test tubes and label them. Put on a lab coat and gloves.
7. Using the pipet, transfer the DNA into the PCR test tubes.
8. Add a micropipette tip to the micropipette.
9. Add the primers to the PCR test tubes, making sure to change out the micropipette every time.
10. Then, place the samples (which include the positive and negative controls) into the Open PCR machine.
11. From the laptop, start the program so the DNA amplification can start.
DNA Measurement Protocol
2. Obtain a new set of test tubes and label them appropriately.
3. Using a fresh pipet, transfer the samples to the new test tubes.
4. Using a fresh pipet every time, add SYBR Green and the Calf Thymus.
5. Set up the flourometer as follows.
5a. Remove all contents from the black box.
5b. After removing the lid, flip the box upside down.
5c. One side of the box will detach. Fold this side up and create a cave like opening (as seen above).
5d. Place the Fluorometer device within the upside down box.
5e. Lastly, place the smartphone in the black stand with the camera facing into the box.
6. Place the Standardized Mat with Measurements inside the box with the contents on top of it. This ensures that all the tools stay the same distances, allowing for less error and more uniformed results.
7. Using a fresh pipet, add a drop of the sample and a drop of water to the hydrophobic glass slide.
8. Place this on the fluorometer, making sure the drop is aligned with the light source.
9. Turn off surrounding lights, then turn on the device and record the results.
10. Take a picture of the drop with the light passing through it with the smartphone. Repeat this for all samples.
11. Once all the pictures are taken, they must be uploaded into ImageJ as follows:
11a. Obtain a computer and install the ImageJ software.
11b. After taking the pictures needed, connect the smartphone to the computer with a USB cable.
11c. Once connected, open the folder containing the smartphone (found in My Computer or Devices).
11d. Create a folder on the desktop (this will be used to temporarily store the pictures).
11e. Copy and paste the pictures form the smartphone folder (DCIM) to the desktop one.
11f. Open the ImageJ software and click File and the Open.
11g. From this Open menu, select the preferred picture from the folder on the desktop containing the pictures. This will transfer the data into ImageJ
Research and Development
Background on Disease Markers
The two diseases we decided to analyze are Alzheimer's and Anencephaly. Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia that affects the brain by gradually deteriorating an individual's brain function, leading to memory loss and impairing cognitive skills. The gene responsible for Alzheimer's is labeled PSEN1 and a mutation in this gene can cause toxic protein to build up in the brain leading to symptoms described above. The gene is found on chromosome 14 and the SNP reference number for this gene is rs63751320. The sequence for SNP is GCTCATCTTGGCTGTGATTTCAGTAT[A/C]TGGTAAAACCCAAGACTGATAATTT. For more information on this gene can be found on this link. [1]
The SNP associated with Meckel syndrome is rs121918202, the gene sequence for this SNP is
Alzheimer- Alleles: [A/C]
Forward Primer:5'CGTGGCTCATCTTGGCTGTGATTT3'
Reverse Primer:3'CCCGACACTAACCTCGTCTAACAT5'
The disease allele, in this case C, will give a PCR product because the PCR detects the specific allele difference or mutation and gives a positive reading. Since the PCR detects the specific allele mutation, a non-disease allele will not produce a product.
Anencephaly : Alleles: [C/T]
Forward Primer: TAATATGTAATTTTATTTTCATTTTAGCTG
Reverse Primer: GTTAATTTTCTAAATCATTAATTCTATCCT
The disease allele, in this case T, will give a PCR product because the PCR detects the specific allele difference or mutation and gives a positive reading. Since the PCR detects the specific allele mutation, a non-disease allele will not produce a product.
Bayes Analysis of Anencephaly P(A│B)= (P(B│A)P(A))/P(B)
Where P(A|B) is the probability that Meckel syndrome will occur given a positive PCR test result (a T present instead of a C in the SNP), P(B|A) is the probability that a Meckel fetus will test positive for the disease, P(A) is the probability of having the Meckel syndrome mutation, and P(B) is the probability of people without the Meckel mutation that yield positive results.