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Integrating detection and quantification of genetic variation into one powerful system, Pyrosequencing with the PyroMark platform outperforms other sequence-based solutions in the analysis of targeted short DNA sequences. For analysis of methylation in epigenetic studies, Pyrosequencing generates highly reproducible quantification of methylation frequencies at individual or consecutive CpG sites (see figure " Analysis of multiple contiguous CpG sites"), and can detect and quantify even small changes in methylation levels (see figure " Linearity of methylation quantification").
For genetic testing applications, alleles of variable loci are accurately quantified, and heterozygosity is easily resolved (see figure " Analysis of a tri-allelic SNP"). For microbial identification and resistance typing, Pyrosequencing enables the concurrent analysis of multiple samples for common drug resistance mutations (see figure "Analysis of antibacterial resistance in Helicobacter pylori").
Pyrosequencing technology, which is based on the principle of sequencing by synthesis, provides quantitative data in sequence context within minutes. PyroMark Q96 ID is a fully integrated system that provides real-time sequence information and is highly suitable for detection of genetic variations, genetic quantification, and short DNA sequencing. The following products are used in combination with PyroMark Q96 ID instrument: PyroMark Q96 Vacuum Workstation, PyroMark CpG SW, PyroMark Assay Design SW, PyroMark IdentiFire SW, PyroMark Gold Q96 Reagents, and PyroMark Control Oligo. Sample preparation solutions are also supplied to enable preparation of single-stranded DNA using the PyroMark Q96 Vacuum Workstation.
Step 1: A DNA segment is amplified, and the strand to serve as the Pyrosequencing template is biotinylated. After denaturation, the biotinylated single-stranded PCR amplicon is isolated and allowed to hybridize with a sequencing primer. The hybridized primer and single-stranded template are incubated with the enzymes DNA polymerase, ATP sulfurylase, luciferase, and apyrase, as well as the substrates adenosine 5' phosphosulfate (APS) and luciferin (see figure " Principle of Pyrosequencing — step 1").
Step 2: The first deoxribonucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) is added to the reaction. DNA polymerase catalyzes the addition of the dNTP to the squencing primer, if it is complementary to the base in the template strand. Each incorporation event is accompanied by release of pyrophosphate (PPi), in a quantity equimolar to the amount of incorporated nucleotide (see figure " Principle of Pyrosequencing — step 2").
Step 3: ATP sulfurylase converts PPi to ATP in the presence of adenosine 5' phosphosulfate (APS). This ATP drives the luciferase-mediated conversion of luciferin to oxyluciferin that generates visible light in amounts that are proportional to the amount of ATP. The light produced in the luciferase-catalyzed reaction is detected by CCD sensors and seen as a peak in the raw data output (Pyrogram). The height of each peak (light signal) is proportional to the number of nucleotides incorporated (see figure " Principle of Pyrosequencing — step 3").
Step 4: Apyrase, a nucleotide-degrading enzyme, continuously degrades unincorporated nucleotides and ATP. When degradation is complete, another nucleotide is added (see figure " Principle of Pyrosequencing — step 4").
Step 5: Addition of dNTPs is performed sequentially. It should be noted that deoxyadenosine alpha-thio triphosphate (dATPαS) is used as a substitute for the natural deoxyadenosine triphosphate (dATP), since it is efficiently used by the DNA polymerase, but not recognized by the luciferase. As the process continues, the complementary DNA strand is elongated, and the nucleotide sequence is determined from the signal peaks in the Pyrogram trace (see figure " Principle of Pyrosequencing — step 5").
The versatile PyroMark Q96 ID seamlessly integrates into epigenetics and genetic analysis workflows, and complements QIAGEN's advanced technologies for sample preparation, bisulfite conversion, and PCR amplification. This highly reliable instrument enables sequence-based quantification and detection of SNPs, insertion and deletion mutations, CpG sites, as well as generation of sequence information. The streamlined workflow means that results can be achieved faster.
From PCR product to single-stranded template ready for sequencing — up to 96 samples can be prepared in parallel using the PyroMark Q96 Vacuum Workstation, in less than 15 minutes. The workstation ensures easy handling and the actual "hands-on time" is less than 5 minutes.
From PCR product to single-stranded template ready for sequencing — up to 96 samples can be prepared in parallel using the PyroMark Q96 Vacuum Workstation in less than 15 minutes. The workstation ensures easy handling, and the actual "hands-on time" is less than 5 minutes.
Prior to Pyrosequencing, a biotinylated PCR product is generated. This biotinylated PCR product is bound to Streptavidin-coated Sepharose beads, and the beads are captured with the Vacuum Tool on the Vacuum Workstation, where they are thoroughly washed and subsequently denatured, generating single-stranded DNA suitable for Pyrosequencing. This template DNA is released into the Pyrosequencing reaction plate containing the sequencing primer, and after primer annealing, the plate is placed into the PyroMark instrument. PyroMark Gold reagents contain the enzymes, nucleotides, and substrate for the Pyrosequencing reaction; these are pipetted into the dispensing cartridge, according to the volumes provided by the software, and are also placed into the instrument for the Pyrosequencing run.
Pyrosequencing is becoming increasingly important for research applications in a variety of disciplines. The PyroMark Q96 ID enables powerful and versatile analysis of genetic and epigenetic variation, whether examining drug-resistance development in pathogens, the role of epigenetic DNA methylation in gene expression regulation, genetic markers for specific phenotypes in livestock, or polymorphisms in forensic samples of mitochondrial DNA. In addition, because Pyrosequencing integrates sequence detection and quantification, the high analysis resolution can lead to new discoveries.
PyroMark Q96 ID software version 2.5 enables comprehensive analysis of your results. The recently updated software now contains four analysis modes: AQ (allele quantification), SNP (analysis of SNPs and InDels), CpG (methylation analysis), and SQA (sequence identification). These four different types of analyses can be performed on the same plate, in the same run.
PyroMark Assay Design Software 2.0 ensures easy design of PCR and sequencing primers. The assays are optimized for all PyroMark instruments.
|Overvoltage category
|52 kg (114.6 lb)
|Kits designed for this instrument
|PyroMark Q96 Tests
|Methylation analysis, allele quantification (SNP, InDels), sequence analysis
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|Samples per run (throughput)
|PyroMark Q96 ID Software 2.5 (included), PyroMark CpG SW 1.0 (supplementary), PyroMark IndentiFire SW 1.0 (supplementary), PyroMark Assay Design SW 2.0 (supplementary)
|Up to 2000 m (6500 ft)
When looking at technical literature, pulse time settings, and other information, the following table can be used to determine the QIAGEN names for former Biotage instruments.
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|PyroMark Q96 MD Automated
This software will replace the old PyroMark Q96 ID software version 1.0. The PyroMark Q96 ID software version 2.5 contains four assay setup and analysis modes which are AQ, CpG, SNP and SQA. It is based on the Pyromark Q24 application software and is a file based software (runs are not stored in an ORACLE database). It replaces the PyroMark CpG software since a CpG mode is included. There is no SNP multiplexing support and no alignment functionality (as found in software version 1.0).


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Navy IDs SEAL killed in Ariz. parachuting accident
TUCSON, Ariz. - Brett D. Shadle always had wanted to be a member of the Navy's most elite special forces unit. A year after enlisting, he made it happen and went on to become a highly decorated member of the Navy's famed SEAL Team 6.
U.S. military officials confirmed Saturday that Shadle, a 31-year-old special warfare operator chief, died Thursday when he and another SEAL collided in midair during a parachute training exercise over the rugged desert of southern Arizona.
Shadle was taken to University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, where he was pronounced dead. The other SEAL - an unidentified E-6 petty officer first class - remained in stable condition Saturday at the Tucson hospital.
Military officials said the accident was under investigation. Shadle and a fellow SEAL were practicing "routine military free-fall training" when the accident occurred Thursday afternoon, said U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Kenneth McGraw. The SEALs collided in midair and landed in separate areas.
Family members said Shadle, of Elizabethville, Pa., was stationed in Virginia. He was married and had a 2-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter.
His uncle, Donald Shadle, 67, of Elizabethville, expressed disbelief, saying his nephew had been on many overseas missions only to come back and get killed during a training exercise.
"He was always a good kid, and he always wanted to be a Navy SEAL and that's what he did," Donald Shadle said.
Shadle enlisted in the Navy in July 2000. The following year, he completed his SEAL training and was assigned to his first unit in early 2002.
Navy officials said Shadle had earned multiple Bronze Star medals with Valor and several service ribbons. While details about his deployments were secret, officials confirmed he had served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Navy's SEAL Team 6 gained international attention when it was revealed that members of the top secret unit had carried out a raid in Pakistan in 2011 in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in the world after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.
Team 6 was hit hard later that year when 22 SEALs from the special unit were killed when the helicopter they were riding in was apparently hit by an insurgent's rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan. None of those killed was part of the bin Laden raid, but their deaths marked the nation's single deadliest day of the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
Special Operations Command has a parachute testing and training facility at the Pinal Airpark northeast of Tucson, McGraw said. Training programs are operated there year-round.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ordered flags lowered to half-staff until sundown Saturday.
"His death illustrates once again the daily risks our service members face at home and abroad, whether in combat or training," she said. "I ask that Arizonans join me in praying for Chief Shadle's friends, family and fellow service members, including the second SEAL injured during Thursday's tragic accident."
Associated Press writers Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Ron Todt in Philadelphia contributed to this report.


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George Will: The price of moral grandstanding
Politics becomes amusing when liberalism becomes theatrical with high-minded gestures. Chicago's government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feeling so morally upright and financially flush that it proposes to rise above the banal business of maximizing the value of its employees' and retirees' pension fund assets. Although seven funds have cumulative unfunded liabilities of $25 billion, Chicago will sacrifice the growth of those assets to the striking of a political pose so pure it is untainted by practicality.
Emulating New York and California, two deep blue states with mammoth unfunded pension liabilities, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has hectored a $5 billion pension fund into divesting its holdings in companies that manufacture firearms. Now he is urging two large banks to deny financing to such companies "that profit from gun violence." TD Bank provides a $60 million credit line to Smith & Wesson, and Bank of America provides a $25 million line to Sturm, Ruger & Company.
Chicago's current and retired public employees might wish the city had invested more in both companies. Barack Obama, for whom Emanuel was chief of staff, has become a potent gun salesman because of suspicions that he wants to make gun ownership more difficult. Since he was inaugurated four years ago, there have been 65 million requests for background checks of gun purchasers. Four years ago, the price of Smith & Wesson stock was $2.45. Last week it was $8.76, up 258 percent. Four years ago, the price of Sturm Ruger stock was $6.46. Last week it was $51.09, up 691 percent. The Wall Street Journal reports that even before "a $1.2 billion balloon payment for pensions comes due" in 2015, "Chicago's pension funds, which are projected to run dry by the end of the decade, are scraping the bottoms of their barrels."
Nevertheless, liberals are feeling good about themselves -- the usual point of liberalism -- because New York state's public pension fund and California's fund for teachers have, The New York Times says, "frozen or divested" gun holdings, and in February Calpers, the fund for other California public employees, may join this gesture jamboree. All this is being compared to the use of divestment to pressure South Africa to dismantle apartheid in the 1980s. Well.
Apartheid was a wicked practice. Guns are legal products in America, legally sold under federal, state and local regulations. Most of the guns sold to Americans are made by Americans. Americans have a right -- a constitutional right -- to own guns, and 47 percent of American households exercise that portion of the Bill of Rights by possessing at least one firearm.
For Emanuel to say gun makers "profit from gun violence" is as sensible as saying automobile manufacturers "profit from highway carnage" -- which, by the way, kills more Americans than guns do. Emanuel, who is more intelligent than he sounds (just as many think Wagner's music is better than it sounds), must know that not one fewer gun will be made, sold or misused because Chicago is wagging its finger at banks.
Moral grandstanding, however, offers steady work and The Chronicle of Higher Education reports a new front in "the battle against climate change": "Student groups at almost 200 colleges and universities are calling on boards of trustees to divest their colleges' holdings in large fossil-fuel companies." Of course, not one share of those companies' stock will go unsold because academia is so righteous. Others will profit handsomely from such holdings and from being complicit in supplying what the world needs. Fossil fuels, the basis of modern life, supply 82 percent of U.S. energy, and it is projected that they will supply 78 percent of the global increase in energy demand between 2009 and 2035, by which time the number of cars and trucks on the planet will have doubled to 1.7 billion.
Institutions of higher education will, presumably, warn donors that their endowments will be wielded in support of the political agenda du jour, which might include divesting from any company having anything to do with corn, source of the sweetener in many of the sodas that make some people fat and New York's mayor cranky. Or anything to do with red meat, sugar, salt, trans fats, chickens not lovingly raised. ...
Liberal ethicists may decide that the only virtuous investments are in electric cars. The Obama administration says 1 million will be sold by 2015. Maybe 70,000 have been so far. Just imagine how pension funds will prosper by betting on the next 930,000.
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NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. — A small island near Buffalo has a big cat problem thanks to people who have abandoned felines there over the years.
WIVB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1n6wtNe ) that hundreds of feral and abandoned cats are believed to be on the Niagara River's Tonawanda Island.
Mike Charnock owns a marina and restaurant on the 85-acre island just north of Buffalo. He says the cats are making a mess of the island, and even have gotten onto boats at his marina.
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Adam and Blue Saffron are goat fu ckers
Just read your comments. Pathetic ramblings of an uncouth greasy haired curry eating w ogs from the sands of raypist India. Terrorising minorities.
Bunch of Paki mother fuchker goat fu ckers
What would a raypist hindoo know anything of politeness or decorum. Born out of raypes and living in caves eating chapptis of american aid you Indians are a burden on world society.
Ebola-India is a virus that came about since Modi emerged on the national political scene. Researchers believe that the Ebola virus lives in a hindu deity host that is native to the Indian continent. They continue to search for the exact deity but believe it to be Lord Shiva. Meanwhile Modi has been isolated in Nepal following his conversion to Islam with the whacking of his willy wacker.
Modi likes donkey dikk up his baboon rectum.
India is a diseased country and devouring our precious resources and not producing enough. On top of that you hindus are massacring minorities including Christians. We cannot accept that.
Hindoo dotter fukkers sliding camel dikk up their black azz.
Rupert is not happy. U stole his name u goat fu cker.
Now u must su ck Modi Indian Hindu di ck.
Sri Lankans fukked Modi's mother.
Modi was just fukked by wild hogs. Lol
Bunch of dirty Paki dogs posting tonight.
They all s u ck dog di cks
Blue Saffron eats rupert SH IT.
Modi is great leader.
Hey you troll.
U su ck Modi Indian Hindu di ck. You like
Hey troll. Spread your legs and take Modi Indian Hindu di ck up your ass.
Yes you enjoyed it last night
You eat sh it tonight. Lol
Troll su ck my monkey dirty di ck. Now!!!
A hinddoou from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible."
Doctor says, "go home, get a bucket, p iss and s hit in it for a week. Throw in dead rats and rotting fish. Put a towel over your head and sniff the fumes for three days."
Week later Hinddoou goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?"
Doctor, "you were homesick!"
Bunch of hindoo pigs on the rsype prowl tonight
I see you hide behind a woman's screen name. Lol.
So brave eh?? LMFAO
Hindoos fukking their mothers in I dia everyday.
Blue fake rupert sukks my di ck.
And drinks the hot steaming juice.
Mother fukking hindoos from India rayping their daughters per Gita Bhagavad.
Modi sukks mulla dikk
@ blue troll. Go fu ck your mother.
@9:16 troll. Go fu ck Banasy then go fu ck your father.
@Monkey Boy I just fukked your hindoo mother's black phussy in India. She smelled like schit.
@ 9:16 troll. Stick a plebiscite fork up your mommy's ass.
Kashmir shall remain as is. No plebiscite you dirty rotten Paki.
@ 9:18 Blue fake rupert.
Smear SH IT in your mother's dirty Paki hairy stinky pus y.
How do you get 100 hindoos into a car?
Throw a quarter in it.
How do you get
them out again?
Tell them Hafizz Saeeed is driving.
@ fake rupert. Go fu ck Banasy then fu ck Philip then fu ck Modi in his ass in Kashmir.


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South Korean researchers used X-rays to assess the severity of knee osteoarthritis in 660 men and women, aged 65 and older. The patients were also evaluated for the severity of their symptoms and for depression.
As expected, levels of pain were higher in patients whose X-rays showed greater joint damage. However, the researchers also found that depression was associated with an increase in pain in patients with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis, even when significant joint damage was not evident in the X-ray image.
The findings are published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Symptoms worse than X-ray shows
"Knee osteoarthritis is a common cause of pain and impairment in older adults. Often, the level of arthritic symptoms reported by patients is much more severe than what is represented by X-rays, which can make it difficult for the doctor to treat," study author Dr Tae Kyun Kim, director of the division of knee surgery and sports medicine at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital's Joint Reconstruction Center, said.
"The results of this study indicate that depression can play a major role in the way patients experience the symptoms of knee arthritis, and that even when X-rays show the arthritis is not severe, patients with depression may report significant pain," Kim said.
"The relationship between pain and depression suggests that both should be considered by physicians when treating patients with knee osteoarthritis, particularly in those with X-rays not indicating severe damage to the joint," Kim added.
Kim also noted that some patients with knee osteoarthritis still experience pain and impaired movement after undergoing knee replacement surgery.
"Sometimes pain and disability after surgery is medically unexplained, so in these patients screening for depression might be a very good option," Kim suggested.
According to the US National Institute of Mental Health, depression often goes undiagnosed in the elderly.
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Harvard Law Student, Jason Iuliano, recently posted his forthcoming article, "Killing Us Sweetly: How to Take Industry Out of the FDA" (forthcoming Journal of Food Law and Policy) on SSRN. Here's the abstract.
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For more than a century, the Food and Drug Administration has purported to protect the public health. During that time, it has actually been placing corporate profits above consumer safety. Nowhere is this corruption more evident than in the approval of artificial sweeteners. FDA leaders' close ties to the very industry they were supposed to be regulating present a startling picture. Ignoring warnings from both independent scientists and their own review panels, FDA decision makers let greed guide their actions. They approved carcinogenic sweeteners such as saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose while simultaneously banning the natural herb stevia because it would cut into industry profits. This Article proposes two reforms that can end these corrupt practices and take industry out of the FDA. By strengthening conflict of interest regulations and preventing companies from participating in safety trials, the FDA will be able to gain independence from corporate control.
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To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The Deeply Captured Situation of the Economic Crisis," ""Our Stake in Corporate Behavior," "The Policy Situation of Obesity," "The Situation of Food: The Movie," "Our Situation Is What We Eat," "Larry Lessig's Situationism," "Big Calories Come in Small Packages," "The Situation of Policy Research and Policy Outcomes," "Industry-Funded Research," "The Situation of our Food – Part I," "The Situation of Our Food – Part II," "The Situation of Our Food – Part III," and "The Situation of our Food – Part IV."
The American obesity paradox is explored at some length by Situationist Contributors, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, and David Yosifon, who devoted a sizeable article to the mistaken but dominant dispositionist attributions made regarding obesity and the actual situational sources of the epidemic, including industry capture of regulatory institutions. To access their article, entitled "Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America," click here.


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"Hi, I'm Shai," she says and gives me a hug.
As you might guess, Shailene Woodley and I have never met. The hug is just who she is. With the launch of the "Divergent" franchise on Friday, the 22-year-old Simi Valley native has a lot of people wanting to talk with her at the moment, which means a lot of hugs, but she seems pretty loose and cool about the attention.
On this day, the 5-foot-8-inch actress is wearing a limited amount of makeup, jeans, a simple white buttoned blouse with a couple of necklaces but nothing fancy. Her sandy-brown hair, long in the film, has been cut short into a pixie style.
"Divergent" is the first of Veronica Roth's hugely popular young-adult trilogy that is set in a dystopian future where society has been divided into five factions, each devoted to a particular virtue – honesty, selflessness, bravery, peacefulness and intelligence. Sixteen-year-olds choose one to devote their lives to. The story centers on Beatrice "Tris" Prior, a young woman whose tests find she is suited to three groups, making her dangerous – a "divergent" – in the eyes of the authorities.
For the role of Tris, Lionsgate was looking for someone to fit into the strong young woman mold of Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games" and Kristen Stewart of its own "Twilight" franchise. At the time, Woodley had just had her breakthrough moment in films with her performance in Alexander Payne's 2011 comedy-drama "The Descendants," her first feature. The role earned her an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe nomination and made her a hot property. And though she may not have been seen much on the big screen, Woodley already had a fan base due to a five-season run as the star of ABC Family's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
A bit reluctant to commit to a multipicture franchise deal, Woodley wanted Lawrence's take before she made a decision.
"I sent her an email," Woodley says. "I was curious. She'd gone from doing indie films to 'Hunger Games,' and I wondered if it had changed her life. She said, 'Don't do anything stupid, don't do drugs or go to Whole Foods the day the movie opens and you'll be fine. The amount of beauty and positivity that come with it will transcend any of the other complications.'?"
Woodley, you soon learn, is not your typical young Hollywood star. She eschews dressing up except when she's asked to glam it up for the red carpet, and believes in saving the Earth. She studies herbalism and practices survivalist techniques, including foraging, which she even does in the city. I ask where she gets her values.
"A lot of it was the way I was raised by my parents who are both psychologists," says the Simi Valley High School grad. "Empathy and compassion were ingrained into me in a very young age. I feel like a lot of people don't learn about those values until later in life, but I was very fortunate to have two parents who made sure that they were two very important things in my brother's and my lives."
As opposed to playing soccer or learning gymnastics, Woodley says she's wanted to be an actress since she was 5. Her parents didn't know anything about acting, but supported the idea. "They said as long as I stay the person they thought I was, had fun and did good in school, then I could keep doing it."
Unlike some youth soccer or T-ball teams, when losing sometimes gets a trophy anyway, losing auditions only teaches what rejection feels like. Woodley says she looks back now and wonders how she had that much confidence or was so strong-willed as a kid.
"I would literally be told 'no' 500, 600 times at auditions, finally get one 'yes' for a small commercial and then get told 'no' 600 more times," she says. "There must have been something at the time I did not recognize. I think that I like the challenge. I like the ability of constantly having to grow and work on a craft in order to get better, to perfect it."
In "Divergent," which also stars Kate Winslet, Tris is born into the Abnegation faction, which is for those who are selfless. She is also suited for Dauntless, meant for the soldiers/protectors, and Erudite, meant for the thinkers and scientists, like Winslet's character.
"A lot of who Tris is resonated with me," Woodley says. "When I was her age, I was going through a lot of those struggles. I had to balance being compassionate and empathetic toward my peers and also living my life for myself. She was raised in a society where she had to be selfless and then join a faction that's all about being selfish – she had to find the balance between that."
It took Woodley 13 years to get a feature film role, and that, she says, may be a good thing. If she had gotten one at a younger age, she might have given up acting. At one point she thought of going to college and studying interior design, an idea that she finds "hilarious, because it's totally not what I do now."
"Divergent," directed by Neil Burger ("Limitless"), is an action film, and Woodley said she enjoyed all the running and jumping. Before production began, she spent a month in training. During the shoot, she fell off a train and got two hernias and a black eye. She and her co-star, Theo James, also climbed a large Ferris wheel tethered to a wire.
"I did all the stuff that the insurance company would let me," she says, adding that it was important for the action to look real. "If you are shooting a gun, you want to convince the audience you can, whether or not you know how to use one."
At the moment, the actress isn't planning on shooting any other movies beyond the "Divergent" sequel "Insurgent," which likely will lens this summer. She has a couple of upcoming releases – "The Fault in Our Stars," scheduled to open June 6, about teens who fall in love after meeting in cancer support groups, and "White Bird in a Blizzard," a coming-of-age drama that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
One of the aspects Woodley found interesting about "Divergent" was, "There were so many things that are similar to today's society in the story.
"When I first read this book, I thought, 'Wow, the press isn't something that you necessarily look forward to, but it's exciting to be in a film where we can talk about it for entertainment reasons and you can talk about it for more in-depth reasons.'?"
Woodley also notes that Winslet's character, Jeanine Matthews, though Tris' antagonist, is not evil.
"She's killing people, but my character's killing people, too. If the story was told from Jeanine's point of view, I would be the antagonist, and she would be the hero. I think it's an interesting way of showing in a young-adult film that one isn't necessarily better or worse than the other. It's just differing opinions, like the Democrats and Republicans are in this country right now."
One thing the actress isn't worried about is "Divergent" getting too successful and she becoming too recognizable.
"I guess at the end of the day, I can shave my head, tattoo it and walk around and nobody would ever know."
When the interview is over, Woodley gives me another hug, because that's who she is.


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There's A War On Part 4: Just Us
[Trigger Warning for the whole series, it is all about rape and abuse in BDSM communities. This post deals with the criminal justice system and its systematic inability effectively to deal with rape and sexual abuse in general, and in a BDSM context specifically.]
When issues of abuse in BDSM communities come up, the farther one is from progressive, anti-oppression commitments, the more likely it is that lots of people will assert, essentially, "police report or it didn't happen." The more anti-oppression the crowd, the more likely that anyone raising the justice system as a solution will be greeted with a slew of stories about how bad cops and the system are and how many people just cannot go that route. On the criminal justice system as it applies to rape and abuse, feminists are kind of all over the map. Even folks who acknowledge that the overall function of the criminal justice system in the US particularly is to maintain a prison state and impose social control on poor people, people of color and other disempowered demongraphics often want the criminal justice system to function to punish abusers. Good alternatives are hard to come by, after all: barring vigilante justice there isn't much that can be done to punish rapists and abusers without some criminal justice system, and vigilante justice is a question of whose friends are scarier.
Given what we know from Predator Theory, that the lion's share of the problem is the repeat offenders, it's tempting to say that the solution is to catch them and jail them — so tempting, in fact, that I won't say that's wrong. Just that we're not in a place where we have a system that can do that fairly for lots of people. But I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about some of the ways the criminal justice system fails to do that job. The circumstances are, I think, pretty compelling, and what they amount to in my view is this: it can't be counted on as a thoroughgoing solution, and thinking people either need to write it off entirely (I'm unwilling to do that) or to talk seriously about how it is broken and how to fix it.
The General Problems
As it works on the ground, not all people are equal in the eyes of the criminal justice system. I'm not going to spill a lot of pixels to prove this. If you don't know this, we have nothing further to discuss.
At every level, the criminal justice system is a machine operated by people, and those people have more or less the prejudices of the wider culture, as well as the interests and biases of the institutions themselves. Just as there are plenty of people in the population who don't like and won't listen to women, people of color, trans folks, queer folks, sex workers, disabled people … so too there are cops and prosecutors and judges like that. Experiences with the cops vary widely. I've seen the NYPD deal with a stalking complaint by a sex worker, and I've seen a detective be wonderful and professional. But it goes the other way, too. Telling a survivor they have to report is a lot easier if you're someone who has a lot of privilege and makes the comfortable assumption that the cops serve and protect everyone equally. But the survivor may not have the same social position and may not be able to count on the system and shouldn't be pressured to take that chance.
But even assuming that everyone in the system was perfectly professional no matter who the victim is, in the US the criminal justice system comes down ultimately to the jury trial, even though in the vast majority of cases, no such thing ever actually happens. If the police and prosecutors and the judge are all entirely fair to victims of abuse who might be queer and/or trans and/or kinky and/or people of color and/or undocumented and/or doing sex work, it doesn't mean a jury would. The jury is drawn from the general population, and we all know they're always perfectly progressive, right?
That's why in Australia, a man could basically admit on the stand that he raped a sex worker, in a jurisdiction where sex work was legal, and be acquitted. That's why a bunch of boys in Orange County, California could rape an unconscious high school girl and videotape it and get a hung jury based on nothing but slandering the victim. That's why trans panic defenses sometimes reduce to manslaughter what are pretty clearly cases of premeditated murder. That's why a New York City cop can penetrate a woman who is too drunk to consent, lie about it and get caught, confess on tape, and still get a jury acquittal.
How grim is the situation for rape survivors seeking a conviction through the criminal justice system? Roughly half of rapes go unreported, the highest underreporting of any crime; when they are reported, arrests result only 25% of the time. That's a lot lower than other major crimes. It's not because they can't find the rapists: about 85% of rapes are acquaintance assaults. They know where the guys are. They just don't bring the cases. So right off the bat, knowing nothing else, if someone says, "I was raped, what are the chances that if I report, the rapist will be arrested?" the answer is, "without factoring in anything else, about one in four." So the survivor would have to go through the process of reliving and talking about it and whatever difficulties come with that, and than in all probability, it will go nowhere.
And they don't bring the cases because they can't win. Because juries. I've written about how to deal with this in a mainstream context at length and I won't repeat that discussion here. The rates across more than a decade for several countries are here (I can't say much for the provenance of the figures and some things in there are obviously some strange artifact; if I had better ones I'd use them). The US convictions as a proportion of reports is about 12%. That is on the low side for Western Europe, though there are outliers in there. The UK rates are really out of line on the low end, though, and the England and Wales rate, about half the US, has been widely discussed, though the Scotland and Northern Ireland rates are even worse. I don't have internals on this, but it almost has to be heavily skewed to the stranger attacks: they're 15% of the offenses, but they are certainly disproportionally represented in the reports, maybe in the arrests, and almost certainly in the convictions. They might be one seventh of the rapes and one half of the convictions, which means what for the chances of convicting a rapist for an acquaintance assault?
By the way: I'm still looking for a case where a white man who was famous before the alleged attack was convicted of rape (or of the statute that constitites the rape statute in the jurisdiction, not some lesser offense), of an adult woman. I can think of a handful of African-American celebrities, Mike Tyson and Dave Meggett come to mind. But the closest I can come up with for white men is Marv Albert, and he pleaded at trial to a lesser offense. Can you think of one? Celebrity white man, convicted of raping an adult woman (or the state's equivalent to rape, such as first degree sexual assault), not a lesser offense? So, if he's famous and white, there is literally no empirical evidence that it is even possible to get a conviction.
The BDSM-Specific Problems
But that's just the obstacles survivors face when they are not kinky. It gets much worse.
Let's start with this: if you tell the cops in many jurisdictions that you do BDSM, you may be giving them evidence that you've committed a crime. I'm not being facetious or hyperbolic. It's a very strange legal flux; anyone who tells you that there's a simple answer in the US or the UK is either unfamiliar with the law, or is trying to sell you something.
In the UK, the highest court ruled that men who did heavy BDSM that caused actual bodily injury were engaged in crimes, even when all participants consented. There have been two legislative changes since then and there are probably cases I don't know about so I can't say what the law is now, but it's not at all clear that heavy bottoms couldn't still be prosecuted as aiders and abetters to assault in their scenes.
In the US, it's basically also unclear. There are a number of appellate decisions in various state courts saying that in a BDSM context consent is not a defense to assault, or to battery, or to harm. There are lower court cases that add some complexity, but there's nothing definitive anywhere that I know of that anyone could cite to say "if it's consensual, hitting someone with a flogger isn't a crime." For those who really want to drill down, a much more complete review can be found at the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom's Consent Counts project page.
I'm not concerned that the police are going to bust into private play parties and start arresting people for consensual BDSM. I'm just not. Of all the cases out there, if you leave aside ones which constitute performing surgery without a medical license (for those unfamiliar, there's a case of people doing castrations that I don't have the patience to get into now), there are not any cases where the victim said the conduct was consensual. The cases in the NCSF link, at least every one since 1990, were all cases where the victim said it was nonconsensual, and where the prosecution set out to prove that. So I'm not trying to make a point about the government coming to take our riding crops away. In fact, I believe prosecutors will studiously avoid prosecuting clearly consensual BDSM in the US, because they don't want to create a test case, just as happened with sodomy laws in the 1990s up through Lawrence v. Texas — they were rarely applied because prosecutors realized that a case with sympathetic facts was likely to change the law.
The point about the legality of BDSM is that it's still marginalized. The victim not only has to deal with the social stigma, but if the victim is a kinkster, with the possible illegality of their regular play. As the facts come out, the victim may be admitting to participating in criminal assaults regularly, for fun. That's not good testimony for a complaining witness in a criminal case.
The difference between the cases of rape that get brought and those that don't are "bad facts," which means facts that will make the jury judge the victim instead of the perpetrator. And in almost all BDSM abuse cases, there are going to be "bad facts." The first bad fact is that none of them are going to fit the profile of the stranger rape, the only scenario where juries can apparently be counted on to convict. In BDSM cases, the victim will almost always have gone to a club or a party, or met up with the perpetrator, with the express intention of playing. The victim probably will have said something to that effect by email or PM or text, or said it around witnesses. The defense lawyer can always point to that and say, "see? The so-called victim consented!" You and I know that consent isn't a lightswitch, consent to being tied up isn't consent to be fucked and all that. We know that, but do juries know that? Your boss is on the jury pool. Your mail carrier, your mom, your high school principal, and the yenta in the bookkeeping department are on the jury pool: do juries know that? (Actually, my mom was awesome. And I was out to her in college. And she understood that consent was not a lightswitch. But she's dead and can't serve on any juries anymore. My mail carrier … I'm not so sure.)
All the things that make acquaintance rape cases unprosecutable in front of shitty mainstream juries — they knew each other, they had a prior relationship, there were messy personal dynamics, they intended to get together for sex, alcohol was involved — will make an appearance in a disproportionate number of BDSM rape and abuse cases. They're all the kind of cases that don't get prosecuted. (Yes, even alcohol. We all know that alcohol and BDSM go badly together. And yet people do it alllll theeeeee tiiiiiiiime. As a teetotaler, I try to recognize that my decision not to use any alcohol is a personal standard and not a standard for everyone's life or sexual conduct. But when it comes to BDSM I'm not willing to be charitable. Don't play under the influence. I judge you if you do.)
You might be thinking that you've seen — I've posted about — prosecutions in BDSM abuse cases. And I have. But the set of cases that have been prosecuted is very small, and looking at what does and doesn't produce convictions is actually really illustrative. I'll review briefly. Two that led to convictions and long sentences, and one that I believe is virtually certain to:
Bagley. The victim ended up in cardiac arrest, near death, hospitalized. The physical acts were very extreme, and there were video records. The victim has some sort of mental or learning disability, and was likely underage when the conduct started. There are allegations of death threats and killing her pets to intimidate her. The actual charges involve sex trafficking, i.e. coerced sex work. (The trial is on for September; but there are cooperating witnesses and I'm really sure of a conviction.)
Marcus. She asked to leave, and he punished her. When she left, he stalked her. The physical acts were extreme, and there were video records. The actual conviction was for trafficking.
Longoria. Ended in a hospital visit, with burns. The physical acts were extreme. Longoria had a violent criminal record. The victim testified ostensibly for the defense, but what she actually said was that he went way too far.
Two that ended in pleas to lesser offenses:
Jetton. She reported that she had a safeword but he drugged her and she was unconscious and unable to use it. He plead to a misdemeanor and got probation.
Karlson-Martini. The victim went to the hospital. She had a concussion. He gave an incredible excuse. The physical acts were high-risk; you can't safely hit a person hard with a rigid dowel the diameter of a closet pole except in a few spots. Certainly not anywhere near the head. I'm told he had priors. He pleaded to a lesser degree of assault and got time served.
One that ended in an acquittal, which is sort of a very plain-vanilla BDSM rape scenario:
Senter. The victim met Senter to play, they had played before, maybe a dozen times over several years. She said she safeworded and he ignored it. She said he admitted it and apologized. The jury acquitted.
The wildcard is an unresolved Seattle case:
Hauff. The docket seems to reflect a trial date that keeps getting kicked down the road, and I don't know what will happen. Media reports are that he negotiated and topped entirely consensual scenes with women other than the victim and acted ethically as a BDSMer on some occasions. He knew how to negotiate limits, he know what a safeword was and agreed to respect safewords with some partners. The victim wasn't someone he met through the BDSM community, though, she was a sex worker that he allegedly didn't know before he picked her up. Her account is that he threatened to kill her — fake death threats are the sort of thing you can't just spring on people IMO, you have to specifically negotiate that. She says he filled her bladder through a catheter — risky under perfect circumstances, and again, not something you spring without asking medical background questions. Improvising with medical play is a bit like improvising with high explosives — just because it might be fun doesn't mean it's ethical. Folks in the Seattle community who have talked to the press have, as far as I've seen, been uniform in condemning at least part of the alleged conduct, and I think if the victim's testimony is consistent with the media reports he belongs in jail. But I don't know that the jury will do that, and I'm afraid that they won't.
If you look at the commonalities, the strong cases are the ones with not only allegations of nonconsensual sex and torture, but also nonconsensual sex work, and the ones where the torture was documented on video. That may be for a variety of reasons: that those cases produce more evidence, that they attract federal authorities who have more resources and higher conviction rates, that people who see heavy pain are shocked, or maybe that people are just more willing to see sex work as coerced. Some of those factors are bad things. Or maybe the stronger cases are just the clearer abuse cases, where the perpetrator's refusal to let the victim go looks abusive and not consensual the whole time. But (fortunately!) few kinky folks are going to find themselves victimized in these scenarios, tortured on video for subscription websites.
The most common situations are a very mixed bag. People who negotiate to play together where one partner seriously and willfully violates boundaries can produce convictions, but in in Jetton and Karlson-Martini, even though the allegations if believed were pretty slam-dunk, the defendants pleaded to substantially reduced charges. Longoria was convicted, probably because of the fireplay and the burns, even though it appears to me that it was undisputed that it started as consensual play — the victim said the top "went way too far" and the jury accepted that as true. It's a huge win, even though the victim herself actually seemed to want an acquittal.[1] But the one that appears to me to be the most garden-variety, top-ignores-safeword scenario, was Senter, which resulted in an acquittal.
This isn't a complete data set — there are other cases. Erwin in Ohio about ten years ago, which ended in an acquittal; Eddie Ball and his two accomplices who kidnapped and nonconsensually tortured Japanese students in Spokane and then tried to blackmail them into silence were all sentenced to long prison terms; Van, a men-on-man abuse case, produced an opinion that appears through the NCSF link. People have cobbled together lists over the years but there isn't really any central clearinghouse of trial-level BDSM criminal cases that I'm aware of. Mostly they hit the news and then start to fade and sink down the memory hole.
There are all kinds of theoretical questions about creating an obligation to report, and I'll leave those all aside. Let's just look at it practically. Is reporting a sexual assault in a BDSM context likely to work? No, absent serious injuries or hospitalization, or video evidence, it's hard to conclude that it's likely to work. It's hard to conclude that it will work even for relatively privileged people within BDSM communities, let alone the sorts of folks who can't count on the cops for other reasons. So if it's not all that likely to actually produce a conviction, the notion that we should pressure victims in the the criminal justice system is busted. It's a derail, a way of throwing up a hurdle and washing hands of the allegation. Until it's fixed (if it can be), it cannot be a mandatory part of any solution and we can't count on it to save us from having to figure out how to deal with rape and abuse in BDSM communities ourselves.
[1] Longaria's victim has a child with him. Some people may think that her wishes should control, but that's not how the criminal justice system works. The criminal process is the public's representative against the defendant. Civil cases are [person] v. [person]; criminal cases are The People, or in federal court The United States, versus the defendant. Whether Longoria's victim wanted him acquitted because he's her child's father, or because she was terrified to testify against him, or for some other reason … it's not her choice. In the view of the criminal justice system, and in mine, crimes are not private matters but breaches of the social contract that we're all parties to, and I don't think that the victim should be able to just stop a prosecution. I just don't.
Hannah permalinkApril 25, 2012 5:11 am
"By the way: I'm still looking for a case where a white man who was famous before the alleged attack was convicted of rape (or of the statute that constitites the rape statute in the jurisdiction, not some lesser offense), of an adult woman."
There has just been a case in the UK where a white footballer was convicted of rape and jailed for 5 years. The prosecution successfully argued that the woman was too drunk to consent. (Another footballer was also on trial over the same incident and was found not guilty.) Since the verdict, there's been a horrible, horrible, victim-blaming backlash, with football fans actually naming the woman on twitter (which is illegal as victims' anonymity is protected by law – I think the police are taking it seriously and have said they will be making arrests).
lalouve permalinkApril 27, 2012 3:26 pm
Here (Sweden) we recently had a case two men who had repeatedly played with a woman, and then one day decided it was more covenient to ignore her safeword. She reported them for rape and they ended up convicted. I am rarely proud of my country's legal system but that was one fine moment.
May 7, 2012 6:26 pm
Can you offer some links to articles about these stories, lalouve or Hannah? They sound interesting to me. Thanks.
colorlessblue permalinkJune 7, 2012 8:10 am
Here's about Ched Evans, the footballer Hannah mentioned.
Here's an article about the very public bullying of the victim on Twitter.
And a campaign defending the victim: We believe her.
Bekka permalinkMay 9, 2012 3:51 pm
Boring technical comment: The link to this part seems to be broken in parts 5 and 6.
June 20, 2012 7:44 pm
According to both of my Violence & Discrimination Surveys (1998 and 2008), more than 90% of the kinky victims of violence or harassment don't report it to the police.
One of the biggest reasons kinky people don't report is for fear of further harassment (41%). They also fear family repercussions from being outed, as well as possibly losing their job. Both those categories were higher than fear of legal repercussions (21%). That's because the damage from being outed can be severe. To see the analysis of both surveys, go to: https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/bdsm-survey.html
Right now we're crunching the numbers to get a more accurate view of what kind of violence is happening in the BDSM community. The reported rate of domestic violence is 11%. We also need to correlate "who was the perpetrator" with incidents of sexual abuse and rape/attempted rape to find out more.
Maria permalinkJanuary 5, 2013 2:54 pm
I was sexually assaulted repeatedly by my spankers and disciplinarians. It's taken me three years to come to grips with it and decide to take legal action. I just spoke with a police officer two days ago. He had the audacity to laugh at me and say I wasn't assaulted because I was an adult, I knew right from wrong, I met these people on an adult (though not SEX) website, and I had received sexual favors hours before. Therefore it was okay force me to touch him when I had specifically said not to even let me SEE him until I was ready… and I had never given that okay. And that was just the start. But no. I wasn't assaulted. I was asking for it. I want to put this couple behind bars so badly but right now it doesn't look good.
January 7, 2013 8:11 am
I know it's not much, Maria, but since you mentioned you met on an adult website, if the people you're speaking about have FetLife profiles, you can add their accounts to the FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE). Take care of yourself.
April 29, 2014 10:19 am
"By the way: I'm still looking for a case where a white man who was famous before the alleged attack was convicted of rape (or of the statute that constitutes the rape statute in the jurisdiction, not some lesser offense), of an adult woman."
Ever since reading this post I've been keeping my eyes on the news for something that would qualify. Operation Yewtree in the UK seems to be the best bet. They just got their first conviction: Max Clifford, famous publicist, convicted of assaulting three adult women and one girl of 15. Would they have gotten a conviction without the charges involving a teenager? Impossible to say, of course. But at least it came close, and it gives me some hope. Here's the news story from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27192600 (content warning: detailed descriptions of sexual assault)
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Most collection agencies have numerous complaints filed against them with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Most consumer complaints are about inaccurate reporting, harassing phone calls, or failure to verify a debt. If a debt collector is harassing you, you may want to consider filing a complaint.
You have many consumer rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). These rights include the ability to dispute credit reporting errors and to be treated fairly and respectfully by debt collectors.
Your Rights When Dealing with ER Solutions, Inc.
ER Solutions must abide by state and federal laws in the United States. For example, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act prohibits a debt collector from using abusive, unfair, or deceptive practices. In addition, the FDCPA provides you with many rights to ensure that collection agencies don't take advantage of you. In particular:
- It is a violation of federal law for ER Solutions to report inaccurate or incomplete information about you.
- You have a legal right to request debt validation on an alleged debt. Send the collection agency a debt validation letter. By law, they have 30 days to prove to you that the debt is really yours and the total amount is accurate.
- ER Solutions may not threaten or harass you, call you repeatedly, swear at you, or publicly publish a list of debtors.
- ER Solutions must be honest about who they are and what they are attempting to do. They must notify you that they are a debt collection agency both orally and in writing.
- ER Solutions cannot threaten to have you arrested or imprisoned over unpaid debts.
Remove ER Solutions From Your Credit Report Today!
Lexington Law can assist you in disputing ER Solutions accounts. With more than 18 years of experience, they achieved over 6 million removals for their clients in 2021 alone.
If you're tired of dealing with debt collectors and want to improve your credit, consider working with a trusted credit repair company.
They have helped many people in your situation. Give them a call at (800) 220-0084 for a free credit consultation to see what they can do for you.
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