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From: OrinWells <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] MRCA calculations
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:26:57 -0800
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At 11:44 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, John F. Chandler wrote:
>Your tabulation didn't line up on my screen, but you seem to have two
>one-step differences. That means D=2. You have L=26. If you are
>willing to use p=0.002, then the median time to MRCA is 2.69/(2x26x.002) =
OK, but here are the facts which just don't line up with the common
thinking on this sort of thing.
Subject A is the brother of Subject B. Their father differed from both of
them by one mutation, each on a different marker. The subjects passed
these mutations on to their sons. What are the odds that two sons of a
single individual would each have a mutation on different markers? One of
the above also had a mutation at another site, Y-GATA-A10, where they
picked up a double reading (13/14). This mutation/anomaly was NOT passed
on to his sons. This sort of thing is not supposed to happen according to
the tidy rules.
I have a major discomfort with the "standard" assumptions being made as
though mutation rates will always play by some nice tidy
scientific/mathematical rules. They don't seem to.
In one of our baseline families we have what amounts to 43
transmissions. According to the tidy theory that should work out to
.002x43x26 = 2.23 mutations. We experienced exactly 1.
In another family with 37 transmissions theory says .002x37x26 = 1.94. We
had no mutations.
In other families we did experience more mutations. But the point is I
question that you can apply the "average" theoretical mutation rate against
any two individuals and really hope that it is going to give you accurate
results. It may be a good "rule of thumb" but in any given instance it
probably is not really correct.
I have not had time to really take all the 160 samples we have (discarding
those who just don't fit anywhere) and have a look at how many mutations
were experienced over the lot versus unique transmissions. Eventually I
will do this just for the curiosity factor. But I already know it will
skew one way or another by the families where no mutations were encountered
and those where several were encountered. To lump a family with a
relatively high rate of mutation with one with a low rate of mutation seems
to me to be wrong science. I believe there may be some other
influences. They may be genetic or environmental but seem to impact one
family over another and thus cause the "average" mutation rate to be
overstated in one case and understated in another.
Also, on an unrelated but interesting subject. We have encountered
possibly a rate of 5% of our participants where alleged descendants of
specific families revealed a probable non-paternal event or adoption. We
have not been able to trace any of these to their origins yet so we don't
know which we are looking at. But I would guess if the average number of
generations involved is actually 10 we may be looking at a 0.5% rate rather
than 5%. In most lines it is clear there were no instances of this over
the time period under consideration. In other cases there may well have
been more than one - no way to tell about this. In other instances, we
already knew from the genealogy that an out of wedlock birth took place.
Orin R. Wells
Wells Family Research Association
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Kent, Washington 98064-5427
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Sydney, July 20 (IANS) Neanderthals were more sophisticated than they have been credited with. This has been corroborated by the first ever evidence that suggests they cooked plants for food and used them as medicines.
The research provides the first molecular evidence from Neanderthal remains for inhalation of wood-fire smoke and oil shale, and ingestion of a range of cooked plant foods. It also includes the first evidence for the use of medicinal plants by Neanderthals.
Neanderthals are hominids in the same genus as modern humans - Homo - who became extinct between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago, the journal Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature reports.
Using remains of five Neanderthal men from the El Sidron site in northern Spain, researchers led by Les Copeland, professor at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, analysed material trapped in dental calculus (form of hardened dental plaque).
The team found evidence of both food plants and medicinal plants on their teeth.
"Our results are really surprising, as Neanderthals had been thought to be predominantly meat-eaters. Just over the past several years there has been evidence of more plants in Neanderthal diets," Copeland said.
"It now looks like they had broader diets than we'd thought and our results show they even appear to be using plants for medicinal purposes," Copeland added, according to a Sydney statement.
The team, including researchers from Spain, the UK and Australia, found starch granules and carbohydrate markers in the samples, which indicate that these Neanderthals ate starchy foods like tubers, roots, nuts, cereals and grasses, Copeland said.
"What's really astounding is we also found evidence for plant compounds such azulenes and coumarins which may have came from plants such as yarrow and chamomile. These bitter plants have little nutritional value and aren't very tasty, but can be used for medication."
"It looks like Neanderthals were using plants in a more sophisticated fashion than we'd given them credit for," Copeland said.
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Segregation of Saturated Chain Lipids in Pulmonary Surfactant Filmsand Bilayers Biophysical Journal, Volume 82, Issue 4, 1 April 2002, Pages 2041-2051 Kaushik Nag, Jin-Si Pao, Robert R. Harbottle, Fred Possmayer, Nils O. Petersen and Luis A. Bagatolli Abstract The physical properties of organized system (bilayers and monolayers at the air water interface) composed of bovine lipid extract surfactant (BLES) were studied using correlated experimental techniques. 6-Dodecanoyl-2-dimethylamino-naphthalene (LAURDAN)-labeled giant unilamelar vesicles (mean diameter ∼30μm) composed of BLES were observed at different temperatures using two-photon fluorescence microscopy. As the temperature was decreased, dark domains (gel-like) appeared at physiological temperature (37°C) on the surface of BLES giant unilamelar vesicles. The LAURDAN two-photon fluorescent images show that the gel-like domains span the lipid bilayer. Quantitative analysis of the LAURDAN generalized polarization function suggests the presence of a gel/fluid phase coexistence between 37°C to 20°C with low compositional and energetic differences between the coexisting phases. Interestingly, the microscopic scenario of the phase coexistence observed below 20°C shows different domain's shape compared with that observed between 37°C to 20°C, suggesting the coexistence of two ordered but differently organized lipid phases on the bilayer. Epifluorescence microscopy studies of BLES monomolecular films doped with small amounts of fluorescent lipids showed the appearance and growth of dark domains (liquid condensed) dispersed in a fluorescent phase (liquid expanded) with shapes and sizes similar to those observed in BLES giant unilamelar vesicles. Our study suggests that bovine surfactant lipids can organize into discrete phases in monolayers or bilayers with equivalent temperature dependencies and may occur at physiological temperatures and surface pressures equivalent to those at the lung interface. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (947 kb) |
Direct Visualization of Lipid Domains in Human Skin Stratum Corneum's Lipid Membranes: Effect of pH and Temperature Biophysical Journal, Volume 93, Issue 9, 1 November 2007, Pages 3142-3155 I. Plasencia, L. Norlén and L.A. Bagatolli Abstract The main function of skin is to serve as a physical barrier between the body and the environment. This barrier capacity is in turn a function of the physical state and structural organization of the stratum corneum extracellular lipid matrix. This lipid matrix is essentially composed of very long chain saturated ceramides, cholesterol, and free fatty acids. Three unsolved key questions are i), whether the stratum corneum extracellular lipid matrix is constituted by a single gel phase or by coexisting crystalline (solid) domains; ii), whether a separate liquid crystalline phase is present; and iii), whether pH has a direct effect on the lipid matrix phase behavior. In this work the lateral structure of membranes composed of lipids extracted from human skin stratum corneum was studied in a broad temperature range (10°C–90°C) using different techniques such as differential scanning calorimetry, fluorescence spectroscopy, and two-photon excitation and laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy. Here we show that hydrated bilayers of human skin stratum corneum lipids express a giant sponge-like morphology with dimensions corresponding to the global three-dimensional morphology of the stratum corneum extracellular space. These structures can be directly visualized using the aforementioned fluorescence microscopy techniques. At skin physiological temperatures (28°C–32°C), the phase state of these hydrated bilayers correspond microscopically (radial resolution limit 300nm) to a single gel phase at pH 7, coexistence of different gel phases between pH 5 and 6, and no fluid phase at any pH. This observation suggests that the local pH in the stratum corneum may control the physical properties of the extracellular lipid matrix by regulating membrane lateral structure and stability. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (704 kb) |
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T. Parasassi, M. Di Stefano, M. Loiero, G. Ravagnan and E. Gratton
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Coexisting gel and liquid-crystalline phospholipid phase domains can be observed in synthetic phospholipid vesicles during the transition from one phase to the other and, in vesicles of mixed phospholipids, at intermediate temperatures between the transitions of the different phospholipids. The presence of cholesterol perturbs the dynamic properties of both phases to such an extent as to prevent the detection of coexisting phases. 6-Lauroyl-2-dimethylaminopahthalene (Laurdan) fluorescence offers the unique advantage of well resolvable spectral parameters in the two phospholipid phases that can be used for the detection and quantitation of coexisting gel and liquid-crystalline domains. From Laurdan fluorescence excitation and emission spectra, the generalized polarization spectra and values were calculated. By the generalized polarization phospholipid phase domain coexistence can be detected, and each phase can be quantitated. In the same phospholipid vesicles where without cholesterol domain coexistence can be detected, above 15 mol% and, remarkably, at physiological cholesterol concentrations, > or = 30 mol%, no separate Laurdan fluorescence signals characteristic of distinct domains can be observed. Consequences of our results on the possible size and dynamics of phospholipid phase domains and their biological relevance are discussed.


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Helen Klein Ross "Parrotfish"
Selected by Alan Michael Parker
Editors' Choices
Helen Klein Ross "The Seahorse Husband"
Eric Darby "End of an Era"
Gerry LaFemina "Railroad Sunset"
Michael Meyerhofer Two Selections
Amy Newman Untitled
Yael Schonfeld "Eggs into Olives"
Diane Seuss "Brilliantly Alone"
Eliot Khalil Wilson Two Selections
2009 (v. XXX, nos. 1 & 2)
First Place
Parker, Alan Michael "Fifteen Ways to Think About the Italian Opera"
Selected by David Shumate
Editors' Choices
Boyles, Kelli Two Pieces
Brunton, Jaime "My Life as Roland Barthes (compétence/expertise)"
Davidson, Ashley "Unplug Your Heart Like a Toaster"
Day, Cherie Hunter "Postcard from a Natural Disaster"
Garcia, Richard "Former Lovers"
Golding, Ian "Extinct Birds of North America"
Mamikunian, Nina "the Dictionary Comes in Cake Boxes"
Parker, Alan Michael "Nineteen Baby Anteaters in a Japanese Zoo"
Thompson, Jennie "Blindfold"
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First Place
Teitman, Ryan. "The Cabinet of Things Swallowed
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Conrad, J.L. "Meanwhile"
Parker, Alan Michael. Two Selections
Thomas, David M. "Rapture"
Varallo, Anthony. "The Pinball Speaks"
Wilkins, Joe. "William T. Phillips"
2007 (v. XXVIII, no. 1)
First Place
Salesses, Matthew. "How to Be a Conqueror"
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Editors' Choices
Day, Cherie Hunter. "Mud Season"
Griffith, Kevin. "Bar-of-the-Month Club"
Michel, Lincoln. Two Selections
Russell, Benjamin. "Bird Brain"
Pearson, Rachel. Two Selections
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Kartsonis, Ariana-Sophia. "Fish-Eye"
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Editors' Choices
Kartsonis, Ariana-Sophia. "Dear Rainer Maria Rilke"
Leising, Gary. "Dolphinese"
Rosser, J. Allyn. "Quick Little Tete-a-Tete With My Sould at the Car Wash"
Wilson, Eliot Khalil. "Chuck Norris"
First Place
Solomon, Jennifer Hodl. "Ten Thousand Lovers"
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Editors' Choices
Carlson, Ron. "The Great Open-Mouth Anti-Sadness"
Day, Cherie Hunter. "In Vivo"
Freeland, Charles. "Deviled Ham and a Picture of Jesus"
Scarry, Siobhan. "Walker Evans Meets His Subject (Grave, 1936)"
Schmeidler, Lynn. "An Instinct for Survival"
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Klein Ross, Helen. "The Chicken"
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McGookey, Kathleen. "No Comfort"
Scarry, Siobhan. "St. John's Parish, Bronx"
Shumate, David. "Mannequins"
Turner, Alison. "Homo Sapiens"
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Cokinos, Christopher. "Blue False Indigo"
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Editors' Choices
Perrier, Sarah. "Rattle Bones"
Scarry, Siobhan. "By Water"
Singer, Margot. "As Dawn Splits"
Woody, Chad. "The Ringing Payphone"
First Place
Smith, Maggie. "Unclassified Stars"
Selected by Alberto Rios
Editors' Choices
Johns, Wayne. "The Multiverse"
Vigderman, Patricia. "Eggs"
Woody, Chad. "The Wood-Stove"
First Place
Kasper, Catherine. ""Etymology of Ytterbium"
Selected by Michael Martone
Editors' Choices
Green, Alex. Two Selections
Kasper, Catherine. "J'Abab's Cosmic Gown"
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. "Gulabjamoon Jar"
Pearson, Lisa. "Paradise Is Not Useless Though No One Lives There Now (Hortis Deliciarum)"
Shumate, David. "Hero"Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award
2009 (v. XXX nos. 1 & 2)
First Place
Haberkern, Jill. "The Downstairs Family"
Selected by Robert Olen Butler
Editors' Choices
Kocz, Nick "More of the Same"
Martin, Jeff "Steeled"
First Place
Stearns, Michael. "Paint Boy"
Selected by Kim Edwards
First Place
Brininstool, Andrew. "Peppermint Schnapps"
Selected by Anthony Doerr
Editors' Choices
Batt, Matthew "Power Ballad of West Allis"
Hollars, B.J. "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
First Place
Madden, David & Adam Peterson. "The Single Father"
Selected by Aimee Bender
Editors' Choice
Underwood, Tanya. "The Circus of the Black Hole"
First Place
Varble, Valery. "Bat"
Selected by Steve Almond
Editors' Choices
Goldfaden, Josh. "Disorder Destroyers"
Taylor, M. Glenn. "The Story of a Hateful Man"
First Place
Yu, Charles. "Class Three Superhero"
Selected by Jean Thompson
Editors' Choice
Chapman, J.D. "Amanuensis"
First Place
Guerra, Michael. "Taco Night at the Jon Neimelmeier Memorial Drive-in"
Selected by Stuart Dybek
Editors' Choices
Davis, Michael. "Death and Texas"
Wilson, Andrew J. "Victor in the Club"
First Place (4-way tie--only the selections by Malkus and Parsons were printed)
Doud, Sally. "Lela and the Swan"
Malkus, Leland. "When the Wind Stopped Blowing in the Town of Saudade"
Ober, Damien. "The Number Goff, the State of Templeton, Somewhere in America--or--
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Parsons, Alexander. "Thunderbird"
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First Place
Smith, Dominic. "The Hazelbrook Herald"
Selected by Peter Ho Davies
Editors' Choice
Ochsner, Gina. "Last Words of the Mynah Bird"
First Place
Tabor, Mary L. "To Swim?"
Selected by Melanie Rae Thon
First Place
Beaulieu, Nancy. "Venus de Milo"
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2009 (v. XXX, nos. 1 & 2)
First Place
Davis, Kimberly "Alchemy"
Selected by Carl Dennis
Editors' Choices
Pratt, Gretchen Steele "Epithalamion"
Thayer, Casey "Our Order of the Lonely-Hearted"
First Place
Robbins, Joshua. "Against Forgiveness"
Selected by Larissa Szporluk
Editors' Choices
Bertram, Lillian. "Account of Apparitions"
Bode-Lang, Katherine. "When the Weather Fails Us"
Gamble, Hanna. "For I Will Consider My Houseplant Magda"
McKee, L. "A Finite Piece of Furniture-Sized Light"
Thibodeau, Gigi. "Ouija Board Rules"
First Place
Walpert, Bryan. "Thank You, Persia"
Selected by David Kirby
Editors' Choices
Barker, Wendy. "Why I Dread Teaching The Sun Also Rises"
Bode-Lang, Katherine. "Lament for Pluto"
Notess, Hannah Faith. "The Multitude"
Teitman, Ryan. "The Cartographer Revises His Premise"
First Place
Meyerhofer, Michael. "Ode to Dogs"
Selected by Rafael Campo
Editors' Choices
Journey, Anna. "Ars Poetica"
Winrock, Cori A. "[Bias 1]"
First Place
Auchter, Amanda. "Alfred Eistenstaedt Holding His VJ Day Negative With Two Hands, 1945"
Selected by Virgil Suárez
Editors' Choices
Ballard, Teresa. "What a Strange Machine"
Fawson, Shawn. "Servant of the Inarticulate"
Glaser, Elton. "Prayer From the Back Pew"
Journey, Anna. "Elegy: After Filling Out Egg Donation Forms"
First Place
Everett, Nancy Taylor. "Glossolalia"
Selected by Michelle Boisseau
Editors' Choices
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Smith, Maggie. "Ohio"
First Place
Stallings, Andy. "Elegy With the Striking of a Single Note on Piano"
Selected by Bob Hicok
Editors' Choice
Balma, Kathleen. "An Amnesiac's Letter to Herself"
First Place
Samyn, Mary Ann. "Under It"
Selected by Kathy Fagan
Editors' Choice
Meek, Sandra. "On the Modifications of Clouds"
First Place
Purpura, Lia. "Sudden House"
Selected by Timothy Liu
Editors' Choice
Gray, Kate. "On September 12, I Can't Stop"
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Irwin, Mark. "A Vase of Clouds for My Father"
Selected by Allison Joseph
Editors' Choices
Blaiklock, Stephen N. "Lost Herodotus"
Gundy, Jeff. "Second Morning Song from Oneonta"
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Jacobstein, Roy. "Swale"
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From Variety.com:
Sean Penn and Robert Pattinson are circling Fox 2000's "Water for Elephants," with Reese Witherspoon already attached to star and Francis Lawrence attached to direct.
Film is based on the best-selling historical tome of the same name by Sara Gruen. Scribe Richard LaGravenese will adapt for the bigscreen.
Gil Netter, Erwin Stoff and Andrew Tennenbaum are producing.
Studio wouldn't confirm details of the project.
Set during the Great Depression, Gruen's book tells the story of a Cornell Unviersity veterinary student who leaves his studies after his parents are killed, and joins up with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, working as a vet for the circus.You can get more info about Water for Elephants HERE.
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Gerardo Valero sees the potential for a good remake in "Escape from New York."
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There is this. The conjurer Ricky Jay is in London appearing in a documentary for the BBC. A journalist for the Guardian is sent to interview him over lunch. Driving to the restaurant, they lose their way, arrive an hour late, and are given the only available table.
The doc is about Jay and the legendary figures who have inspired him since he became, at 15, the youngest magician to ever appear on TV. So he says. You always add "so he says." He'd spoken of many things, including a 19th-century trick that has defied all explanation. She asked him for more detail. It involved a magician producing coins from under a hat on his table, and then something else.
They had just been seated at the empty table. Ricky Jay propped his menu on the table in front of him. At the end of his story, he raised the menu and revealed a foot-square block of ice, already melting into a puddle. That sounds impossible, but it's what the interviewer says she saw.
Well? It's a trick, right? I agree. I don't believe in magic. But how was it possibly performed? "Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay" is a documentary about the famed magician, card manipulator and actor and the people he has learned from in life and history, including the Great Slydini and a bright 15-year-old who is his current protégé.
I first became aware of Jay in David Mamet's directorial debut, "House of Games" (1987), where he played a man sitting in on a poker game. Jay effortlessly stole the scene from the others. This was a man who knew something. He had additional information. He saw through you. Even in a labyrinthine puzzle thriller, he knew the way through. He didn't go for effect. He was amused at your assumptions.
This film is a doc about the young man's devilment. He seems perfectly happy — ecstatic, even — seated at a table in front of a three-sided mirror and practicing card moves over and over and over again. As a kid, he learned moves from his grandfather. He moved away from home in his early teens.
There's a film of his stage show, "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants," devoted largely to his career and his collection of countless books, posters, programs, photographs, props and memories from magicians. It's of interest primarily to people who like that kind of stuff. I do, up to a point. What I find even more fascinating is Jay's ability to lose himself in it.
He always holds a card you don't see. After his show in Chicago I went backstage and said how happy I was to meet him.
"Oh, this isn't the first time we've met," he informed me. "We met at the University of Illinois. You ran a piece by me in that little magazine you started."
He named it. He had the title correct. Even I had forgotten it.
"Of course," he said, "I didn't sign it with this name."
"How did you sign it?"
"That you will never know."
Nor will I. Or whether he really did. Or whether he attended Illinois, which is not listed in any of his biographical material. And the block of ice is nearly melted by now.
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San Diego's Fireworks Display Goes Off All at Once & It's SPECTACULAR (VIDEOS)
Some people are calling this a firework fail, but I'm calling it a boom feat. During the Big Bay Boom Fourth of July celebration in San Diego, there was a technical glitch in the ignition timing, and all the fireworks went off at once. Now called the Big Bay Bust, one of the nation's biggest fireworks display seemed like just a loud flash in the pan; instead of lasting around 15 minutes, it lasted around 15 seconds. The 2012 fireworks display was hyped as the biggest and the most intense in its 12-year run, but hundreds of thousands of spectators were left miffed when it was over and done with before you could even say OOOOH, AHHHH.
Thankfully, no one was hurt, and double thankfully, someone caught it all on video.
Officials for the Big Bay Boom have apologized, but really, I don't think there's anything to be sorry for. Hasn't it been everyone's dream to set all the fireworks off at once? Hasn't everyone eyed that big box of firecrackers they bought from the roadside stand and considered just lighting the whole bitch on fire, without even bothering to unwrap it?
The Big Bay Bust answered an age-old question for pyromaniacs and the casual fireworks lovers -- we now know what it's like to set them off all at once. It's bright, it's loud, it's not a little unlike a boat exploding, and it's quick.
Let me offer a thank you to the city of San Diego for "flubbing" their fireworks. Many of us can die happy now knowing what happens when there's one fuse and hundreds of celebratory explosives. God bless America.
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We were at the park ready to go- 10 minutes until show time, then off in the distance came one heck of a light show provided by mother nature! They had to cancel the show and tell everyone to leave- we spent the rest of the evening trying to get out of the parking lot during a giant storm!
They rescheduled for tonight. :-)
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July 5, 2012 at 1:20 PMWho is mother nature, but the natural man's mother? Even the Virgin Mary kept all these sayings to herself, in her heart & the heart of man is wicked *Luke 2:51* 1st Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. - -- Nonmember comment from
July 5, 2012 at 1:49 PMBe honest America, when the Declaration of Independence was written, who were those people with the rights to America's freedom? What nationality were they, what color of skin? They were Cain's lineage (John 8:44) Esau's nation of people, white / red full of blood in the face. No man of color had rights, neither women. The evilness of earthly churches brought us all together, but the world is not one Lord Jesus Christ, the star of Jacob. The state of Israel, false god king David call himself Lord, the star of David. True believers are reading in Revelation 21:12 heritage is tribal, culture makes the world forget God, who art thou Esau. Remember, Abraham never took a wife from Canaan, reading Genesis 24:37. Synagogue / temple fakes are exposed in John 8:39. -
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Emptiness and order. Spaces that are clean, vacant and found. Stepping into a studio with the willingness to dance and make dances. Longing for studio time, wanting to step into more emptiness to empty.
There is nothing like what a quiet, bare studio can bring. Making the time for myself to go and work by myself in the clearing to see what emerges. Blocking off the time on my calender. Knowing I could be doing work. Knowing the stepping into a studio is the work.
I'm going to the studio more and more often lately for a studio practice. And boy, oh, boy - what an opening it has been to carve out the time. Going to the space with my notebook, dance pants and water, and walking into the room continues to feel like visiting a sanctuary - my sanctuary.
Where is the negative space in your life? Where is the clear, white opening that has yet to be filled with something known and defined? Where is the blank canvas, the white page? And how often do you spend time trying to fill it?
These are questions I've been asking myself lately. Negative spaces are so powerful. They hold so much, albeit unseen and unheard. And I've come to realize that negative spaces are not just the canvas or blank page waiting to be filled. Negative spaces are also the future, an unknown time, a crack in the wall that has yet to crack, a gap in the rocks on the shore that has yet to gap, for it waits for more water to find hollow.
Dear One, I want you to know this: Allow your life to open up so you have more negative spaces, in your days, nights, months, weeks. Be careful with over-scheduling your schedule and knowing what you're doing with each moment of your life. Know your inner muse thrives on your ability to empty and empty some more. Know that you cannot have space and time until you commit the violent act of creating it for yourself. Yes, deciding to create space and time as an artist can be a type of violence, for you are destroying known things to get to the unknown, you are subtracting some of reality to make room for dreams and making art - necessary intangibles, to be sure.
For me, this continual clearing has become vital. And I think it might be a vital thing for you, too, if you let it be. When I looked up the word empty in the thesaurus I found words like: lacking, devoid, destitute, wanting, waste. So many negative implications in these words. When did emptiness become a bad thing? Why does negative space need to be filled the minute it is determined to be negative? Why is negative space called negative space?
I was fortunate to attend Cyndi Lee's Road to Om Yoga teacher training this past weekend. (I'll write more about it here later.) She talked a lot about 'the gap' in our practice and awareness. The gap being the space or moment when nothing happens and you don't know what you want to have happen. Expectation is dropped. Things go silent. You wait and wonder. After spending three days with her, I feel in my body how important these gaps are. How powerful they are. How they are positives, not negatives.
I've become a restless gap-hunter. Now, I go to the studio looking for gaps, letting the water of my movement flood the space for hour upon hour. And maybe, if I'm lucky, I have some shell of a treasure to take home to prove to people that I'm still hunting, but not in vain.
Be a restless gap-hunter. Go looking for not-looking. Go searching for no search. Open your mouth and hollow.


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Small Collection 12 [December 1, 2004]
White, J. R.
Papers; 1965
1 Folder
All materials in this collection are on deposit from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and may not be copied without written permission from the BGEA. Any researcher who wishes to request permission must get the required form from the Archives staff. It is the responsibility of the researcher to fill out the form and send it to the BGEA.
Baptist minister; chairman of the executive committee for the 1965 Billy Graham Greater Montgomery Crusade for Christ.
Scope and Content
Photocopies of correspondence, press releases, forms, minutes, audit statements, clippings and other materials related to White's involvement in Billy Graham's 1965 evangelistic campaign in Montgomery, Alabama.
The materials for this collection were deposited at the Center in September 1975 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.


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Tuesday's primary elections yielded great results for the LGBT community in Florida and Wisconsin. Voters in Madison chose openly gay Mark Pocan to lead the Democratic party to victory in November. A member of the Wisconsin State Assembly since 1998, Pocan currently represents the 78th legislative district which was once represented by Tammy Baldwin. Poised to become the first openly gay United States Senator, Baldwin faces off with former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson in November.
Further south, in Miami Beach, voters elected David Richardson to the Florida house. As the first openly gay lawmaker in Florida history, Richardson's win is particularly remarkable—he'll represent the district once home to noted fruit pie lover Anita Bryant.
Meanwhile, in the liberal bastion known as New York City, the openly gay City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, remains the clear frontrunner in the forthcoming 2013 mayoral race. According to Quinnipiac, 29 percent of Democrats favor Quinn to succeed her buddy Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 84 percent of those surveyed said the candidates's sexual orientation would not affect their choice. However, it should mentioned that 34 percent picked somebody named "Undecided," whomever that is.
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[[Film/KingArthur King Arthur]] is a 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Franzoni, produced by JerryBruckheimer and released by Creator/TouchstonePictures. It stars Clive Owen as the title character, IoanGruffudd as Lancelot, and KeiraKnightley as Guinevere.
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can head for Rome, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, Dagonet and Gawain to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain needs a king--someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into a new age. Under the guidance of Merlin, a former enemy, and the beautiful, courageous Guinevere by his side, Arthur will have to find the strength within himself to change the course of history.
!!Provides Examples Of:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Saxons
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The movie's claim to be the [[{{Demythtification}} true story]] behind the King Arthur legends is best taken with a grain of salt.
** It's based on the theory that the "real King Arthur" was a Roman officer named Artorius Castus who may have led cavalry in Britain. The real Artorius in question lived during the 2nd century AD while this is set in 467 AD, and it's not even certain whether he even set foot in Britain. The movie acknowledges the gap by making the current Arthur a descendant of the original Artorius, but it's yet another assumption that his name was passed down in Britain. The real Artorius is buried in Croatia.
** The movie combines this theory (sometimes called the "Sarmatian hypothesis" after the troops that Artorius supposedly led, who were from Sarmatia - a region including modern Ukraine, the Balkans and southern Russia) with the "traditional origin" of the Arthurian legend where he leads the British against the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Historically, the British did oppose the Anglo-Saxons under a leader named Ambrosius Aurelianus, who becomes Arthur's uncle Aurelius in the legends.
** The exact date of 467 AD causes more problems. The Romans actually left Britain in 410. [[HistoricalDomainCharacter The real Cerdic and Cynric]] arrived in Britain around 495. The bishop Germanius was also a real person and he went to Britain twice, the last time being 447. The climactic battle is called the "Battle of Badon Hill". There was a real Battle of Mount Badon, where the British defeated the Saxons (and legend says the British were led by Arthur), but it's dated to between 490 to 516.
** Cerdic and Cynric did not die in the real battle of Badon, and may not even have participated since there was more than one group of Anglo-Saxons expanding in Britain.
** While Pelagius was indeed a British cleric who was branded a heretic he was not executed, only exiled. His teaching was not about political freedom (inspiring the movie's Arthur that all men are free and equal, hence the Round Table) but about religious doctrine which we don't need to get into here. Also he died decades before 467 AD.
** AnachronismStew abounds also. Apart from the far-too-early trebuchets, there are also swords held together with screw heads.
** The Saxons also use crossbows as their signature weapon. While crossbows already existed during the Roman Empire, they didn't become widespread until centuries later.
** Another common anachronism in Arthurian adaptations is the usage of plate armor, despite this film's attempts to ground the legend in history.
** While Arthur gets his name rendered into Artorius, the rest of the characters keep the traditional spellings of their names. This is because...
** The knights used in the movie are almost all inventions of the Arthurian romances from France and elsewhere with no roots in Welsh mythology and thus relations to possible British history, except Tristan and Gawain who are those guys InNameOnly. (Period-appropriate versions of those names would be Drustan and Gwalchmai.) So you have characters who are supposedly Eastern European with French names.
** The movie calls the Picts "Woads" for apparently no reason except RuleOfCool.
** Cerdic stops a Saxon warrior from raping a woman because he claims it would dilute their "pure German blood". As genetic studies show, the British and the Anglo-Saxons had no problem interbreeding, and this seems to be added in for the sake of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. Historians note Cerdic's own name is Celtic, not Germanic, which may suggest he himself had mixed heritage.
* AscendedExtra: Dagonet. He was normally portrayed on the Arthurian mythos as a buffoon and a coward. He's quite obscure in the mythos itself with its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Few nowadays outside of scholars would have heard of his name if not for the movie.
* BandOfBrothers: Of course
* BashBrothers: Bors and Dagonet.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Cerdic
* BloodKnight: Cerdic and Tristan.
* BoisterousBruiser: Bors
* BrokenPedestal: Rome to Arthur when he learns Pelagius has been branded a heretic and executed
* CombatAestheticist: Tristan. In the opening battle, his kill count via swordplay isn't as high as the rest of the knights, but his execution doesn't leave him a bloody mess, out of breathe, and his slashes and stabs are clean and smooth. Tristan's sword and bow are uniquely far-eastern (Tibetian?) as well.
* CorruptChurch: But of course.
* {{Demythtification}}: Or so they try.
* DualWielding: Lancelot
* ExternalRetcon: By ways of LiteraryAgentHypothesis.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Subverted. When the Woads ambush Arthur and his knights they shoot arrows at them and no one gets hit. Merlin had ordered not to harm them.
* {{Fingore}}: In one scene Arthur has to fix Guinevere's dislocated fingers.
* FriendToAllChildren: Dagonet.
* TheFundamentalist: Marius and his priests/inquisitors
* GentleGiant: Dagonet.
* HeroicSacrifice: Dagonet and Lancelot
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arthur and Lancelot
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Bishop Germanius, who is actually a saint, and the Saxon chiefs Cerdic and Cynric. Cerdic was the leader of the West Saxons and is considered the founder of the English kingdom of Wessex.
* IHaveNoSon: Played with. Cerdic disowns his son for his failure. But still keeps him back when sending in the remains of his troops into an obvious trap.
* TheLastThingYouEverSee: When Arthur meets Cerdic before the battle.
--> '''Arthur:''' I came to see your face so that I alone may find you on the battlefield. And it will be good of you to mark my face, Saxon, for the next time you see it, it will be the last thing you see on this earth.
* LoveTriangle: Lancelot, Guinevere and Arthur. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Maybe.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Bishop Germanus.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The knights are supposedly Sarmatian; the Sarmatians were from southern Europe. They all seemed to pretty much go for nondescript English accents, with the exception of Mads Mikkelsen (Danish), who plays Tristan, and never sounds anything BUT Danish.
* RedOniBlueOni: Bors' Red to Dagonet's Blue.
* SacrificialLion: Dagonet. It's the first on-screen indicator that not all the knights will survive till the end.
* TheStarscream: Cynric
* SuspiciouslySmallArmy: Arthur holds an entire fort with a mighty force of six men. Fortunately they get backup later on.
* TakingYouWithMe: Lancelot and Cynric.
* ThisMeansWarpaint: The Woads wear blue face and body paint (woad) in battle, a practice they take their name from.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Gawain and Gallahad.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Lancelot kills Cynric like this, even as he is on the verge of death himself.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Or so they claim.
* [[WarriorPrince Warrior Princess]]: Guinevere
* WeddingsForEveryone
* WorthyOpponent: After meeting Arthur, Cerdic mutters "Finally, a man worth killing."
* WouldHitAGirl: Cynric. Then again, they're in the middle of a big battle.
* {{Xenafication}}: Guinevere.


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If the Mariner's and the Japanese really liked each other, Maybe Mr. Nintendo should have just not let the plane take off. WE all know that they will be below .500 again this year. Ichiro would finally be happy he could wear his fedora and be at long last home. Heck we could always implode the stadium like we did 10 years ago! We have experience imploding things. LOL
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- Malles Manotaa, a premium business class budget serviced apartments located in business hub near Panagal Park, amidst T.Nagar, Nungambakkam, and Kodambakkam. Malles Manotaa ensures exquisite privacy, and comfort. Malles Manotaa promises an exclusive stay giving 24hr room service, quality food and ultimate privacy to its customers. Bloomed in the centre location giving access to various commercial establishments. With 24hr internet connectivity, conference halls and terrace garden makes it an ultimate destination for the corporates at an affordable price. Malles Manotaa provides the best service to ensure quality. ... more less
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He loves leather, she loves luaus, but they have one thing in common—their undying love for chardonnay (and each other). Wine Wear's set of bottle covers features an unlikely pair of drinking buddies—perfect for gifting to your favorite odd couple or displaying at your next bikini-biker bash.
Includes 2 wine covers: 1 biker in head-to-toe black and 1 colorfully clad hula girl. One size. Fits most standard (750ml) wine bottles.


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By Anu Passary | Nov 04, 2012 07:22 AM EST
On Friday, Nov. 2, Samsung announced that it had sold 3 million units of its Galaxy Note 2 phablet, a follow-up to the Galaxy Note. The Galaxy Note was announced in August at the IFA 2012 event in Berlin and released in South Korea in September, followed by other countries in October.
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"Samsung said Friday it has sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II smartphones in a little over a month after its launch, as the company vies to keep its lead over rivals during the crucial holiday quarter," reported The Associated Press.
The Galaxy Note 2 looks poised to surpass the 10 million sales figure of the original Galaxy Note, especially with the holiday season around the corner. The Galaxy Note 2 has hit the impressive3 million mark in a little over a month (37 days to be precise). By comparison, its predecessor, the Galaxy Note managed to notch up 3 million in three months. What's more, the Galaxy Note 2 has also outgunned the Galaxy S2, which needed 55 days to touch the 3 million mark.
"Released 37 days in the end of September, at the launch of the first 'Galaxy Note Ⅱ' global cumulative sales 3,000,000 (supply) has been achieved," revealed SamsungTomorrow (translated).
Even though naysayers were skeptical of the niche 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 2's success, Samsung's IT and Mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun had noted that the phablet would double the sales of the Galaxy Note. The 3 million landmark in a little over a month augurs well for the Galaxy Note 2's consumer market success.
"It means the new product category we pioneered has successfully established itself among global consumers at last," Samsung said in a statement.
Additionally, per an IDC report, Samsung was the global smartphone market leader in Q3 2012 with 56.3 million sales, which were double of Apple's 26.9 million iPhone sales. With the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3 as its heavyweights, Samsung would be hoping that it can thwart competition from new offerings from rivals like Apple, Nokia, HTC et al and maintain its dominance in the smartphone market in Q4 2012 as well.
With the Galaxy Note 2 slated to launch on AT&T and Verizon, two of the biggest U.S. carriers, in November, the phablet seems to be on track to surpass the Galaxy Note's 10 million sales mark with ease.
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text: Hi, I decided that I am going to quit smoking today. I have an electronic. Cigarette that I have been using and I hope that's ok. Once I get used to it then I will quit that too but it helps me from grabbing a cigarette for now. I started smoking a year ago. Im 27. It started when I was at a party on the weekend and I tried one of my friends and I liked the feeling it gave me so I kept asking for more. Then finally bought my own and I would smoke when I was super stressed out or fighting with my bf and I also liked how I it reduced my appetite. When I smoke I'm hardly ever hungry which is a plus lol. But I want to quit bc I don't want to pay for cigarettes anymore and I seem to always get sick a lot more since smoking like colds. Plus my family doesn't know that I smoke. My mom is coming to visit me in October and I want to be totally smoke free by then. They already suspect that I smoke and I just keep denying it. Bc I don't want them to know. Lol. My roommate smokes so it's hard to quit when I'm around her. But I'm just going to use my electronic cigarette and not buy any new packs. I have had 3 today in the morning but no more.