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The PRESIDENT pro tem. [Mr. Spann in the Chair] announced the order of the day-the consideration of the bill pending at the adjournment yesterday [S. 6] to provide for the election and appointment of Supervisors of Highways.
Mr. WHITE moved to insert "ten" instead of "eight hours" in Section 6 for a day's work.
It was agreed to.
Mr. MAGEE moved to strike out the words "and under fifty years" in Section 6. He knew no reason why a man over fifty years of age should not work on the road.
Mr. SMITH of Jay, moved to amend the amendment by inserting the words "Under sixty years of age."
Mr. DAVIDSON and Mr. HILLIGASS opposed both the amendments. Men over fifty who have been exempt should, not be again brought back to road work. "
Mr. HENRY favored the amendment.
The amendment to the amendment was rejected by yeas, 6; nays, 28.
The amendment was also rejected.
Mr. HILLIGASS made an ineffectual motion to strike out the last words in Section 6, viz.; "Although such person may be in some respects deformed."
Mr. HENRY moved to amend Section 7 by inserting the word "mule" and the words "road scraper or road scoop."
Mr. RAHM favored the mule part of the amendment inasmuch as there are but few horses or oxen in his County.
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Mr. BUNDY moved to amend Section 2 by adding a proviso preventing voting for a Road Supervisor in any other District than the one in which the voter resides.
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Mr. VAN VORHIS moved to amend by inserting $1.50 instead of $1 per day wherever it occurs in Section 10.
Mr. HENRY moved to make it $1.25.
Mr. WILLARD opposed both amendments.
Mr. RAHM did not believe in starving a man on $1 a day; $1.25 is little enough.
The amendment to the amendment [Mr. Henry's] was agreed to, and the amendment as amended was also agreed to.
On motion by Mr. VAN VORHIS $1 was made to read $1.25 in Section 11.
On motion by Mr. HENRY 25 "was inserted after the word dollar" in section 13.
Mr. HENRY moved to amend Section 15 so as to give credit for the same class of work done by inserting the words "similar extra" after the word "subsequent."
It was agreed to.
Mr. ADK1NSON moved to strike from Section 16 the words: "Unless he should deem them unreasonable, in which case he may reduce the amount"-striking out this discretion. The Supervisor with the disinterested persons are better qualified to judge in such cases than the Trustees.
Mr. MAGEE thought this feature may be unconstitutional, though favoring the amendment.
Mr. HOWARD offered a substitute by providing that appeal may be made to the Circuit Court in the question of damages.
Mr. ADKISON made the point of order that the substitute is not germane.
The PRESIDENT pro tem [Mr. Spann in the Chair] sustained the point of order.
On motion by Mr VAN VORHIS this section was referred to the Senator from Crawford [Mr. Benz] with instructions to amend as suggested by Mr. Magee. That there should be provisions made for appeals in all cases of damages under the rules of practice governing like cases.
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We brought you reviews of 129 books and 20 movies this year. Really?? Guest reviewers wrote 38 of those reviews, but I penned the rest.
If you are a regular reader, you may understandably be yearning for "faraway places with strange sounding names."
And you can see why it is difficult to pick my favorites! Plenty of the books I shared with you were classics or at least a few years old. So although I loved James Thurber and Tom Wolfe and Donald Harrington and Willa Cather and others, I am only counting NEW books here. Here's the count down to Number One:
10. A Journey Through Literary America by Tamirah Dempsey. A gorgeous photo book visiting author's home territories.
9. 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go by Susan Van Allen. Although I tend not to review this kind of book–almost a guide book–this one is delightful from beginning to end and the frosting on the cake is book recommendations from several women who write about or cook in Italy.
8. Come Again No More by Jack Todd. (Wyoming) I galloped right through this novel about life in Wyoming during the Great Depression. (Road Trip Book)
7. Dogtown by Elyssa East. (Massachusetts) Our very first road trip book turned out to be a great choice for several reasons.
6. Iran by Inge Morath. This black and white photos in this book were taken in the 1950′s, but the book was brand new in 2010.
5. Nine Lives by William Dalrymple. (India) After reading a column by Dalrymple, I was prepared not to like his writing, but this book won me over. The stories of nine holy men and women in India.
4. The Last Child by John Hart. (North Carolina) This mystery was a winner of best novel award in the Edgars, and I can see why. A road trip book.
3. February by Lisa Moore. (Newfoundland) As gloomy as a foggy winter day in her home country, the novel is based on a true event. Nevertheless the book exudes hope.
2. The Woman Who Fell From the Sky by Jennifer Steil. (Yemen) I was so fascinated by the book that I did a second post with an interview of the author.
1. The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis. (Uruguay) When I read this book back in January, I said that I had already found my favorite book of the year, and I was right. The wonderful story brings a lesser-visited South American country to life and tells the story of three generations of women. Not since Isabella Allende have I been so charmed by a south American novel.
To see a list of some of the best new books during the last quarter of the year, see my article at Wandering Educators. And if you want MORE Travel reading, World Hum listed 100 travel books earlier this year.
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LOL! Dogtown is a totally different place for an Alabamian. I'll let you google it… "Dogtown furniture" The about page on the Akins site tells the basic story. There's nothing special about the story so much as the oddity that every Alabamian within 200 miles knows where Dogtown is…even though, it's just a little crossroad community around Lookout Mountain…really, in the middle of nowhere. People literally drive hundreds of miles to Dogtown, specifically for furniture.
I was gone way too long!! It is wonderful to be back!
I want to read every one of these books. I have been voraciously reading nonfiction but no travel so I can't add any recommendations. But this list is great. I will start working through it!
I have profited from your recommendations for reading material. Once I obtained my Nook, I really went to town downloading so many of the books you had recommended throughout the past months.
There are some books on this list which I must have skipped- maybe during my brief away time. I'll have to get caught up!
I know you're not a big fan of Norah Lofts, but reading her book Black Hills ahad me thinking that's a place I'd like to explore.
Leaving aside what one may think of her politics for the moment, Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue added to my interest in Alaska, too.
Kerry would like you to read..road trip music- American northwest -
Let me know if you find a good book about Malaysia! Looking forward to 2011!
Laura B would like you to read..Ferret Giving Tree Be a secret santa to shelter ferrets! -
what a great list! i LOVED alexander lobrano's hungry for paris. that made me want to pack my bags, for sure!
wandering educators would like you to read..Foodie Finds- Avoca in Molls Gap- Co Kerry- Ireland -
I always love a good list – this is a great reference, too. I'll be checking back for books to read as we plan trips this year.


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Romney Ryan -- when -- twelve that is the GOP ticket.
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By Shawn Boles in Development, TechnologyWhen I was growing up, computers were these wonderful things that sat at the back of the classroom (usually one, or maybe two if the class was lucky). If the school was lucky, there was a "computer lab" where you could have access to the latest and greatest in government approved hardware.
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Computer Guru? What is this "Computer Guru"?
According to Wikipedia, Guru means "Teacher, in a religious or spiritual sense." And as luck would have it, I was able to get into contact with Computer Gurus throughout my life. These were the computer equivalents of the small town mechanic: you pull up for some gas and Harvey the mechanic walks around the corner. "Howdy! I heard you pull up. You've got a bit of a timing issue, and I think one of your spark plugs are bad. I can change 'em out in a few minutes, if you like." It's almost like Harvey has a supernatural connection to vehicles. He can hear issues, he can smell problems… he's one with the Motor Vehicle Force.
The same with the Computer Gurus I knew. You walked in and turned on your machine, they'd make a "Hmm" sound (in computer science, "Hmm" is similar to the Indian sacred syllable "Aum" or "Om". It's ritually chanted by a computer guru whilst contemplating your computer's connection to the Universe), type some sacred symbols into the prompt, then tell you the problem and offer to fix it. Most times they would happily fix your computer in exchange for a pizza; sometimes just getting a cup of coffee from the ever present drip dispenser could net you a small fix. And if you were truly interested in computers, you could even ask to become a follower of the Guru. You'd spend your spare time in his or her office, ask meaningful questions about the nature of the Universe, contemplate ancient tomes and user manuals, and take care of the mundane tasks of life (like formatting floppies or installing software) so the Guru could spend their time connecting with his or her latest project (generally spent looking at an arcane flowchart or design document and saying "Hmm" a lot). You knew, one day, with practice and patience, you too could become a Guru, have followers to format your floppies, and say Hmm.
However, the computer industry started changing. User interfaces became simpler, USB made the promise of true plug-and-play a near reality… the command line all but disappeared. Computers stopped being a specialized device and became a commodity. Computers were EVERYWHERE. And there was this belief that computers will become so "user friendly" that there was no need for the long learning process of the Guru.
And for the most part, this has happened. Programs are very user friendly now. There's tons of documentation, and most don't expect you to have a PhD in Computer Science to understand them. Workflows have become "point and click link" instead of "chant this esoteric string into the command prompt".
However, sometimes I really miss my Guru. For example, just this last week, my roommate's computer (which I built) started randomly crashing. There wasn't a specific program that crashed, and it didn't crash at a set time. I knew something was wrong, so I tried to diagnose. 'Course, Vista being user friendly, the computer would automatically reboot, without showing the Bluescreen, except for the subliminal hint of blue to let you know that the computer had crashed. See, blue screens have "Technical Information" (it says so right on the screen!)… and user friendly computers (1) don't crash, and (2) are NOT technical. So I was stuck with a computer that wouldn't run, and a bored Roommate who just realized he has a $1200 paperweight.
As Dr. McCoy would say, "I'm a programmer, not a hardware doctor!" Hardware issues are right outside my realm of experience. I longed for my Guru. I knew how to diagnose; I pulled hardware, changed orders of cards, swapped the memory sticks back and forth… all the standard religious rituals for modern computers. I knew that if I could but approach a Guru, tell him or her my issue, they could give me leads to check. I didn't have the money to buy all new parts at random; I had to work with what I had. I knew I had all the data for a real diagnosis… I simply wasn't able to pick out the error. Working the next day at SoftLayer, I mused about my lack of Guru leadership. At the end of the day, I turned to a coworker and said "Now I get to tinker for a few more hours on this stupid computer. I wish I knew a Computer Guru!"
My coworker smiled and asked what the problem was. I told him and he looked at the ceiling. "Hmm" he said. "Could be a power supply issue. Maybe the power coming out of the supply isn't clean and it's resetting the motherboard." Just then, another coworker walked around the corner.
"What about a power supply?" he asked. The first coworker told him the issue. "Hmm," he said, looking intently at the wall. "I bet it's a RAM issue. I bet your ram is bad. Swap it out with some good RAM and see what happens."
So I went home and crosswired some power supplies. Rebooting the machine, I finally got a bluescreen that crashed itself, locking up the computer and letting me read it. "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA" "Page Fault?" I thought. "Hmm." My roommate walked in. "What are you doing, meditating? Have you fixed it yet?"
We went to Fry's and bought some new RAM sticks. Going home, I popped 'em in and started the machine. And it worked! It's been running 6 days nonstop. My roommate was really happy. I was finally able to look up the bluescreen message up on the Internet. Sure enough, that specific error almost always pops up when there's bad ram.
So, where have all the Gurus gone? Where else? They all work at SoftLayer! Whenever I've had a software or hardware issue, or an operating system issue, I've found somebody here who knows the issue. They look at the wall, say "Hmm", sip their coffee or Monster (depending on their level of enlightenment), and give me the answer. The guys here are at one with the Network. The DC guys almost seem to be able to FEEL a power issue or a drive problem before it happens. SLales is able to think about your problems and provide a tailor made solution to help. And Development is where all the action takes place; we get to write all the behind the scenes magic.
"You must be some kind of Computer Genius!" shouts my roommate (lucky for me, he's gotten to play some Call of Duty 4, so he's already forgotten the previous week of frustration). "No, not yet." I respond. "I'm working on it, but I'm not a Guru yet."


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Participants: Bruce Yankner, Huaxi Xu, Austin Yang, Gasparini, Charles Glabe, Virginia Lee, Steve Younkin, Dean Hartley, Dominic Walsh, Janet Walsh, Gunnar Gouras, June Kinoshita
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Charles Glabe: Hi! Hey Austin!
Austin: Hi boss.
Charles Glabe: Boss?
Austin: Oh…I guess I don't work for you anymore.
Austin: Hi Virginia.
June: Hi Virginia, can you chat?
Virginia Lee: I am trying to figure out how to chat.
June: Hi Steve!
Steve Younkin: Hello everyone
Bruce: Hi Austin.
Charles Glabe: So what's all this talk about intracellular amyloid? What is it?
Virginia Lee: Charlie, you said that intracellular amyloid is garbage but does the garbage do anything?
June: Garbage can be a fertilizer.
Charles Glabe: Yes, Virginia, even garbage can be bad!
Virginia Lee: Charlie, how bad can intracellular amyloid be?
Charles Glabe: Don't know; but the range is probably from dysfunction to cell death.
Virginia Lee: Steve and Bruce, do you agree with Charlie?
Bruce: Virginia - Depends on whether it's picked up and how you store it.
Charles Glabe: Bruce, Whaddaya mean by "picked up"; Do cells cruise for amyloid?
Virginia Lee: Bruce, which is worst for the cell: The amyloid that the cell picks up or the amyloid produced by the cells?
Bruce: I mean disposed. Is lysosomal or endosomal Aβ inert or toxic?
Charles Glabe: It is both
Bruce: Perhaps - but we need data.
June: Let's bring this meeting to order. I'll throw out a question: Is there a consensus that there exist intracellular accumulations of Aβ? Gunnar, can you respond?
Gunnar Gouras: I certainly think that intraneuronal Aß42 accumulation exists.
Charles Glabe: Yes, but Aβ is only a fraction of what is actually accumulating. There is also a lot of insoluble misfolded APP and fragments of APP and I think that this confuses people who would expect that what accumulates extracellularly would be the same as what is accumulating inside.
Bruce: Charlie - do you think these APP metabolites accumulate in extracellular amyloid?
Charles Glabe: Probably for a while until they get proteolytically removed. There are some reports of APP immunoreactivity in extracellular amyloid deposits.
Steve Younkin: Charlie, are you referring to intraneuronal accumulations in the AD brain?
Charles Glabe: Yes, but most of the mechanistic data comes from culture models: cells and tissue slices.
Charles Glabe: Steve, are there two of you here?
Steve Younkin: Yes I'm here despite frequent reports to the contrary.
Virginia Lee: Charlie, do you think the extracellular accumulation of APP metabolites comes from dead cells?
Charles Glabe: Don't know. I see two possibilities: Dead cells or chronically-infected ones. I favor the latter.
Virginia Lee: Charlie, what do you mean by chronically infected ones?
Charles Glabe: They are the ones that have the intracellular amyloid that accumulates ad infinitum (apparently). What do Steve and Bruce think?
Bruce: There is certainly evidence for dead neurons within plaques which could serve as the source. But the idea that intracellular aggregates can also be actively secreted is an attractive hypothesis.
Charles Glabe: But dead neurons don't synthesize anything and the amyloid deposits are much larger than the cells.
Dominic Walsh: Perhaps the species secreted by cells are small but provide the nidus for plaque formation?
Charles Glabe: A more likely penultimate source for the amyloid: dystrophic neurites.
Bruce: I think that most of the extracellular deposition must come from extracellular Aβ, but the intracellular aggregates from dead neurons may serve as seeds.
Virginia Lee: I agree with Bruce.
Gunnar Gouras: So do I.
Charles Glabe: Could be, but what accumulates is not like what is secreted; it is mostly 42.
Bruce: I think it is important to distinguish what is secreted from what aggregates. The small Aβ42 component is disproportionately amyloidogenic.
Charles Glabe: The biochemical kinetics of Aβ assembly do not predict spontaneous amyloid growth at nanomolar concentrations. Even for Aβ 42
Dominic Walsh: Yeah, but test tube studies with synthetic peptide may be very far removed from what goes on in vivo
Charles Glabe: Sure, but it begs the question of what.
Bruce: This is a key point - how does the process get started? Peter Lansbury's seeding hypothesis addresses this question, but does not tell us what gives rise to the seeds.
Charles Glabe: I certainly think that extracellular growth can go on, but it doesn't explain all the cellular pathology like the dense granules in dystrophic neurites that are packed with APP and Aβ immunoreactivity.
Steve Younkin: I think Charlie makes a good point. That so many AD brains have Aß42 exclusively deposited is hard to reconcile with simple extracellular deposition -- or with simple extracellular growth of cellularly generated seeds.
Charles Glabe: Exactly Steve.
Charles Glabe: Only CVA [cerebrovascular amyloid] deposits look like they are diffusion based.
huaxi: I agree with both Steve and Charles
June: What form of Aβ are the dense granules composed of?
Charles Glabe: Dense granules are a little mysterious, but by IR, they seem to contain misfolded, insoluble APP and Aβ.
Bruce: Peter Lansbury's seeding hypothesis suggests that small extracellular insoluble seeds could catalyze the process but this doesn't tell us about the origin of the seeds. Certainly in vitro Aβ42 aggregates more readily. I don't think this argues for an intracellular or extracellular origin.
Bruce: Virginia, do your NT2 cells that accumulate intracellular Aβ42 secrete insoluble Aβ?
Charles Glabe: Actually, when you have mixtures of 40 and 42, they co-assemble with the same intermediate kinetics over a broad range of 40/42 ratios. Although 42 aggregates a little faster, one of the differences that gets overlooked is potentially significant for cells: Aβ 42 is much more resistant to degradation than 40; particularly in the endosomal/lysosomal system.
Bruce: What do you think is the basis for that - is it aggregation state? And is that difference observed at physiological concentrations of 42?
Dominic Walsh: Is the rate of degradation really greater for 42 than 40 or is it merely that 42 forms more readily forms degradation resistant fibrillar species
Charles Glabe: It could be the aggregation state, but simple in vitro proteinase K digestion shows that 42 is intrinsically more resistant, independent of whether it is soluble or in fibrils. The stuff that is resistant to degradation and accumulating inside cells is definitely aggregated and insoluble.
Steve Younkin: What is the "killer experiment" to determine whether intracellular Aß is important in AD. Is there one?
Charles Glabe: Human APP knockout? You said "Killer".
June: The role of intracellular Aβ being discussed seems to be as seeding material for extracellular aggregation. Does anyone think it can be toxic intracellularly?
Gouras: I think it needs to be considered as a possibility.
Bruce: I think a first step is to determine if it does anything to cells. Virginia - do your NT2 cells that accumulate intracellular 42 show increased neuronal death or degeneration? How about even chronically dysfunctional - is there any evidence?
Charles Glabe: Sure, in amyloid expressing cells the cells will just fill up with it.
Gunnar Gouras: I think it needs to be considered as a possibility.
Steve Younkin: June, it could be, but is it?
Charles Glabe: It doesn't have to be acutely toxic to be a problem.
June: Is there evidence of cells "filling up" with Aβ?
Charles Glabe: In vitro, it is easy to demonstrate cultured cells filling up with Aβ.
Gunnar Gouras: In regards to June's question a few responses ago, I do think that there is evidence for vulnerable neurons "filling up with Aβ" - see my background/discussion.
huaxi: If someone can link intracellular Aβ to tau phosphorylation and apoptosis-that would be the killer.
Charles Glabe: By the way, did you see the report by the Mandelkows in PNAS that tau is just another amyloid?
June: No, what is the Mandelkow's argument?
Charles Glabe: Tau neurofibrillary tangles have a cross beta core, just like other amyloids.
June: Is this [intracellular Aβ hypothesis] a question of choking to death on garbage, or does the garbage trigger a specific pathogenic pathway?
Charles Glabe: I favor the idea that it triggers some pathologic cell response that is common for all types of accumulating garbage, like amyloid.
June: What are those pathologic responses to amyloids?
Charles Glabe: O2 radicals,
Bruce: There is increasing evidence for activation of a variety of signal transduction cascades that mediate cell death by caspase activation. This theme has also appeared for polyglutamine repeat containing proteins.
Charles Glabe: Attempts to clear the insoluble garbage: send it to Siberia (the neurite).
June: And then what?
Charles Glabe: If clearance can't keep up with accumulation, the neuron loses (functionally and maybe literally).
June: Gunnar, do you agree with either of these scenarios, or do you think other factors are involved?
Gunnar Gouras: I would agree that accumulating intraneuronal Aß42 most likely is not a good thing. I believe that various mechanisms may be involved first in promoting intraneuronal Aß accumulation, and subsequently in causing neuronal dysfunction and cell death potentially also via tau, oxidative stress and/or apoptotic mechanisms.
June: How do amyloids result in oxidative stress?
Charles Glabe: I don't know how amyloids induce oxidative stress, but they all seem to.
Virginia Lee: One major problem in studying oxidative stress using antibodies in postmortem tissue is that you don't know whether the amyloid aggregates get modified by oxidative stress because it is sitting inside the cells for a long time or that oxidative stress is the cause of cells death
Charles Glabe: That is why we have cell culture models.
Bruce: Virginia - do you know whether your NT2 cells that accumulate intraneuronal 42 show increased oxidative stress?
Virginia Lee: Bruce, we have not done those experiments yet. But I think they are worth doing.
Virginia Lee: I think all intracellular aggregates kill cells. For example, NFTs, and Lewy bodies, although they are comprised of different proteins, i.e. tau and alpha synuclein respectively, they form beta-pleated sheet structures intracellularly and they kill cells. Therefore, I favor a similar mechanism for intracellular amyloid doing the same.
Charles Glabe: Me too. I like common themes.
Charles Glabe faints and falls over
June: Quick, throw some water on Charlie!
Bruce: I think it's more complicated than that. There is good evidence that in Huntington's disease the intraneuronal inclusions may in fact be protective not neurotoxic (Sandou et al., 1999; Klement et al., 1999). There may be toxic and non-toxic forms.
Charles Glabe: I don't buy it. Protective schmotective.
Bruce: Is Charlie still unconscious?
huaxi: In all other neurodegenerative cases, inclusions are in the cytoplasm. Aβ seems to be generated and accumulated in the secretory compartments.
Austin: Charlie and Virginia: Astrocytes and microglia can certainly accumulate much more aggregates than neurons and they are very resistant to Aβ
Virginia Lee: Austin, you may be right for amyloid. However, tau inclusions and synuclein inclusions in glial cells (e.g., oligodendrocytes and astrocytes cause them to die.
Bruce: Virginia - the MTT assay would be an easy pilot.
Virginia Lee: Yes.
Charles Glabe: The consequences are different for neurons, astros and micros. Astros and Micros can just die and then they will be replaced. Neurons cannot be replaced and they have serious work to do. That is why all these disease are primarily neurodegenerative.
June: Virginia, do the NT2 cells secrete the Aβ accumulations?
Virginia Lee: June, the NT2N cells secrete both Aβ40 and 42, but they accumulate a pool of Aβ42 in the ER that is not secreted.
Charles Glabe: Are you sure it stays in the ER? It is pretty hard to metabolically label a pool that doesn't turn over.
Virginia Lee: Charlie, I don't know exactly where it is since we have not had any luck localizing it. However, using the APPdeltaKK mutant in NT2N cells, we know that the pool of Aβ42 produced by this construct is not secreted.
Bruce: Perhaps they have to die in order to release it - analogous to the dead neuronal profiles reported at the epicenter of plaques.
Virginia Lee: June, I do believe that this pool of Aβ 42 could be quite toxic since they accumulate with age in culture. One of my hypothesis is that intracellular accumulation of Aβ42 eventually kill neurons and serve as a nidus for the secreted Aβ42 and 42 to form a classical plaque.
StephenSnyder: Gotta leave now, thanks for the insights.
Dominic Walsh: Virginia, is the accumulated Aβ that requires formic acid extraction aggregated or simply bound to carrier proteins?
Virginia Lee: Dominic: As I said to Charlie, we have not had luck localizing intracellular Aβ42 yet but we are still trying. If the material is bound to other proteins, it is bound very tightly since we have not been able to extract much of this material except with formic acid.
Dominic Walsh: I'm thinking about Alex Roher's finding that formic acid treatment appears to release Aβ from carrier proteins.
Austin: Charlie: we have been looking at the solubility of cell surface (extracellular), protease resistant 42. They are very soluble and don't aggregate on SDS-PAGE
Charles Glabe: I agree; very little if any insoluble intracellular Aβ gets secreted. There is a lot of APP that hangs out with the insoluble intracellular Aβ, but is it bound? Probably, but data would help.
June: What are the implications of these intra vs. extracellular issues when it comes to intervention strategies?
Charles Glabe: Secretase inhibitors may not be effective. Clearance of extracellular deposits a la immunization may not be beneficial.
June: We're at the end of our hour. I want to invite everyone to make a closing statement re: what next?
Gunnar Gouras: It won't be easy to provide a final answer to this issue, but I agree that we need to study this insoluble intracellular Aβ 42 more
Charles Glabe: I'm sorry that Steve Snyder left already because I would like to say that we need to put more effort into understanding intracellular amyloid. Maybe we can make a living off of this for a few more years.
Virginia Lee: Bye everybody!
June: Thanks for joining us!
hartley: Thank you for the interesting discussion!
June: It appears we are all out of words for the time being. Thank you all very much for taking part in today's discussion.


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Arizona lawmaker John Kavanagh -- who was actually born in Queens -- was recently challenged by a protester.
Kavanagh, a former Port Authority police officer, was a major force behind the controversial law which allows Arizona police officers to question people who might be in the U.S. illegally.
Quite a few folks believe this is a law which, at best, makes racial or ethnic profiling legal and, at worst, is anti-immigrant.
So, a protester asked Kavanagh, where did your people come from?
"Ireland and Germany," Kavanagh was quoted as saying. "But legally."
Perhaps a deeper, follow-up question was in order -- should Irish Americans who have been in the U.S. several generations (such as John Kavanagh) sympathize with current immigrants?
This leads us to a dirty little secret among a sizeable number of Irish Americans. For decades, many have embraced their own immigrant ties while sneering at more recent immigrants.
Is this a majority of Irish Americans? Probably not. And they should not make us forget the passionate Irish Americans who work tirelessly to make sure a new generation of immigrants enjoys the same access to opportunity that earlier immigrants had.
However, for many Irish Americans, it's not hard to find an uncle or cousin or aunt who has particularly passionate opposition to America's current immigration situation.
If you're lucky enough, you might here an anti-immigrant rant at, say, a St. Patrick's Day party. Which will get your head spinning faster than Jameson.
One line of reasoning you often hear is similar to the argument made by Kavanagh. The past waves of Irish came here legally, whereas so many of today's immigrants -- including those targeted by the controversial
Arizona law -- are here illegally.
Well, it's not hard to oppose illegal immigration. Of course, you might argue that if the immigration system were comprehensively overhauled, we might not have so many illegal immigrants in this country right now.
But back to the Irish, there is this problem -- the deeper into the past you go, it's harder and harder to say who, exactly was legal and who was not.
Even if your grandparents proudly displayed their Ellis Island papers on their living room wall next to their portrait of JFK, who's to say there wasn't an uncle or cousin or aunt somewhere who might have entered through the back door? Or, for that matter, who simply jumped the (Canadian) border?
America, after all, didn't have any sort of national immigration policy until the 1870s. Incidentally, one of the first national directives was to limit the number of Chinese laborers coming to the West.
Why? Well, for one thing, the Chinese were taking a lot of jobs that Irish immigrants had been performing.
A cynic might say that Kavanagh and those anti-Chinese Irish laborers share a motto, "I got mine, you get yours. Somewhere else!"
But the immigration debate is already rife with cynicism. Irish Americans such as Kavanagh make arguments about not only the legality of current immigrants, but the crime which they supposedly spur.
Again, no group was seen as more congenitally criminal than the Irish. But that's the past.
Today, we have laws that deal with criminals no matter where they come from. And, just as an Irish criminal was likely to be arrested by a police officer named Flanagan or O'Shaughnessy, an immigrant suspect in Arizona today should not be surprised if he is booked by a cop named Garcia or Gonzalez.
So what's the deal? Are the Irish and Mexicans inclined to criminality or law enforcement?
To answer an earlier question -- I think today's Irish Americans should see today's immigrants as the latest arrivals in a long line of folks simply seeking better lives. The Irish should, indeed, have sympathy for today's immigrants.
No, of course not the criminals or the terrorists. But then again, what would the Irish know about criminals or terrorists?
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IrishAndProud | May 20, 2010, 12:22 AM EDT
Name a racist or hypocritical thing I've said, ritmomente. Name a single, solitary thing.
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Monsoonman | May 18, 2010, 10:04 AM EDT
The Trojan Horse being used by the Irish illegals to gain citizenship is a transparent ploy. They think giving 12 million illegals US citizenship is a fair trade off for their citizenship(50K of them). Sell us right down the road to get what they want....We don't need anymore new citizens like that. Get in line and come in legally.
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ritmomente | May 17, 2010, 02:58 PM EDT
I'm not the minority nor the hard left. I see the human rights and financial benefit of documenting the undocumented. Myself, with the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform feel as though there are better, more economical ways than having to deport 12,000,000 people. I just take offense to racist remarks and hypocracy by someone who calls himself Irish.
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IrishAndProud | May 15, 2010, 04:48 AM EDT
Well MAYBE I'm offering another viewpoint besides the tiny-minority, hard-left dribble that some of these drips passing for Irish people write. I'm clearly irritating you (good!), and if you don't like dissent, perhaps you should move to Cuba or Venezuela. And no illegal 'stole' my job. Part of my work involves janitorial stuff...you know, the kind of thing people like you think only illegals will do because Americans won't. And I was doing it even BEFORE the Obama economy screwed us over.
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blablablah | May 13, 2010, 02:19 PM EDT
Irishandproud, you have waaaaaay too much time on your hands. What happened? Did an illegal immigrant steal your job? Lol. Why do you frequent this site if you continually insult the writers and disagree with the articles??
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ritmomente | May 11, 2010, 10:04 AM EDT
You can't simply just push them out.
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ritmomente | May 11, 2010, 10:03 AM EDT
After you've pushed the 12,000,000 towards either a guest worker program or on the path to citizenship. Fix the broken law.
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Monsoonman | May 11, 2010, 12:20 AM EDT
Seal all of our borders. Enforce all of our immigration laws. Use e-verify for all employees, so that the only ones working in the US are its legal citizens. Emergency healthcare to all that need it, but non US citizens to be sent home.
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ritmomente | May 10, 2010, 02:24 PM EDT
The "free education" and "free healthcare" is because of broken laws. The boder is broken because no administration has yet to fix them. Fix the laws. Enact comprehensive immigration reform.
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ritmomente | May 10, 2010, 02:22 PM EDT
No Monsoonman, you are a racist. There are a few problems with your statement about pulling the race card. 1) I am of Irish descent and was born in this country. 2) I have repeated ILIR's proposition for comprehensive immigration reform. 3) You have produced no viable solution except for wholesale deportation of what you call vermin. 4) Your language suggests that because they are swimming over or running across the desert, they are subhuman. Your statements are purely racist.
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Monsoonman | May 10, 2010, 09:58 AM EDT
I hate to break the news to you ritmonte, but you have lost all of your racist arguments. You are like Monty Pythons Black Knight who defended the bridge to his last limb, but bouncing around on his stumps, didn't know he had been trounced.
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ritmomente | May 10, 2010, 08:04 AM EDT
Irishandproud you are not pro-life at all. Pro-life means from conception to natural death. You can't just sit in your high tower and laugh while Mexicans die in the desert. If you fix the broken law, it will be easier to fix the broken fence. The cleaners called...your and Monsoonman's white hoods are ready.
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Monsoonman | May 08, 2010, 12:41 PM EDT
You've heard of the UN oil for food program? How about oil for illegals? Mexico pays us a barrel of oil per day for every illegal Mexican in our country, sounds fair to me....and it still doesn't buy them citizenship, just helps defray expenses while they are here.Same thing with Iraq, they should be paying us for getting rid of their dicktater saddam hussein, the bill is due, start sending us oil.
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snuffey | May 08, 2010, 08:25 AM EDT
The illegals are breaking our laws! What about the word Illegal that you don't under stand???
The illegals receive free medical care, a free education, welfare, all at the expense of the American tax payer
If we complain we are called racist
America can no longer afford to give Mexico a free ride!
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IrishAndProud | May 08, 2010, 12:06 AM EDT
And again, NO, ritmomente...it is NOT 'hate speech' (or 'tragically misguided') to say an illegal should be deported. And btw...being pro-life (which I am) does NOT mean allowing illegals to overrun the country, because we don't want them dying in the desert (which THEY CHOSE to cross). I would be all for giving them food, water and air conditioning...on the bus and/or plane back to Mexico (or Guatemala, or wherever).
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We've been back home now for a few days, but before we actually arrived here, on the last day of our anniversary road trip, Karen and I made a little list of stuff as we were driving. Notes about things we saw, stuff we did, people we met, etc. So without further ado, here it is… our notes from the road.
Alright, maybe not just yet… before I unleash the rest of this post I just want to say that having Karen in my life has been a miraculous thing. We are so lucky to have found each other. It's a beautiful thing to have been together for 10 years and still feel, and in fact feel more strongly, such a huge love for each other. It's also a lovely thing to be "married" to your best friend. There's no one either of us would rather hang out with, and amazingly we both feel that way and want to share everything. It's wonderful and amazing. I am beyond lucky, and I know it.
OK… here we go… some notes from the road…
2795.6 miles travelled.
"I bet this would be really pretty if the trees were leafed out"
Favorite coffee: Comet Coffee in Ann Arbor… Pour over, so good.
Favorite espresso: Jimmy's, Kensington Market location, in Toronto… Americano… Yum!
Favorite City: Portland, ME with Toronto a close second.
Favorite public transport: the Red Rocket in Toronto.
Favorite fish and chips: Susan's in Portland. A place that was once a gas station.
Favorite beach: Kennebunkport (heart rock beach).
Favorite countryside: Coast of Maine, Vermont's Green Mountains, and New Hampshire's White Mountains.
Favorite meal Tam: Montpelier at the Three Penny Taproom… chicken stew with pastry.
Favorite meal Karen: Hot Suppa! in Portland, Maine… fried chicken and sweet potatoes.
Favorite ice cream: Dot's Ice cream in Bath, Maine. Second place, for atmosphere, Jumpin' Jacks near Schenectady, NY
Favorite little town: Bath, Maine.
Favorite B&B : Mayor Lord's B&B in Meadville, PA.
Most comfy bed: Marriott in Portland Maine.
Best unexpected stop: Williamstown, MA and Williams College… Tunnel City Coffee in the town where Thomas went to school.
Favorite zen moment: marina in Portland, sitting on a bench, chatting, looking at the water, 65 degrees and sunny.
Most interesting historical spot: Fryeburg Academy in Maine and Concord Grape Belt, NY.
Favorite tourist attraction: Herb Brooks Hockey Arena and ski jumping site from 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, NY.
Biggest disappoinent: Niagara Falls… Ghetto. Should've gone to the Canadian side.
Most interesting fact: ice wine made from grapes that have gone through first freeze… sold in Canada.
Best breakfast: The Senator in Toronto… both food and atmosphere.
Most authentic eating experience: House of Gourmet in Chinatown, Toronto with it's all Asian crowd, huge menu in Chinese, and hanging meat.
Bump in the road: rental car malfunction in Albany Ny resulting in car exchange at Albany International Airport.
Best fast food: Eddie's Footlong Hot Dogs in Meadville, PA.
Noisiest hotel: The Stockdale Inn, Schenectady, NY due to wedding party.
My honey's big disappointment: not getting a green rock from Vermont.
Interesting natural wonder: rock by lighthouse at Cape Elizabeth, Maine… it looked like wood (we took some).
Life changing moment during trip: sale of Scappoose house.
Personal family moment: driving by the home in Jackson, Michigan where my great grandparents lived when my grandma was born and driving by the memorial site of the hospital where she was born.
Finding great heart rock.
"Pompous grass"
The accent of toll booth guy in N.H.
Coffee at the Bush compound in Kennebunkport (if driving by while drinking coffee counts).
Conversing with people at bed and breakfast who lived in India for a time.
States and Countries visited: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Michigan
Coffee shops visited: 14.
Number of rude people met along the way: 2. Woman at some gas station in Maine who was terse about bathroom facilities and man at rental car place in Savoy when we picked up the car for the trip.
Favorite souvenirs: raven lunatic t-shirt and huge red lobster.
First drink in three years: strawberry mojito at Hot Suppa! on our anniversary.
Signs for moose, bear, and Amish seen… No actual moose, bear or Amish spotted.
Wildlife spotted: flock of wild turkeys in Maine, sea birds.
Worst weather: Lake Placid… cold and a tad snowy.
"Ride the Red Rocket"
Laughs out loud: too many to count.
Music: 936 songs on shuffle… No repeats… Maine and Back Again Playlist. Awesomeness.
Reminiscing about 10 years together… Priceless.
On routes (Canada's much nicer version of the rest area).
Nicest person: VIA rail employee in Toronto who walked us a couple of blocks to Union Station and then to where we needed to go inside the station… We told him we wished we could've taken him home as souvenir!
Honorable mentions for nicest person: Jimmy's coffee barista who gave us free croissants, girl at on route stop who talked to us about the toll, red rocket driver, the hotel dude who pointed toward good ice cream in Schenectady, hotel guy in Portland Maine who answered our questions, rental car guy, Steve, at Albany Imternational Airport, also guy in Albany rental car park who let us store our belongings in little locked kiosk while we walked in to get our new rental car. Lots of nice people along the way.
Best hotel location: tie between Bond Place Hotel, Toronto for great access to transit and downtown, and Portland, Maine Marriott for walking proximity to old port and view of the bay.
Biggest panic moment: when my honey thought she lost her wallet in Lake Placid… It was not lost.
Second biggest panic moment: not having any money for toll to get back into U.S. over Ambassador Bridge and first ATM didn't work. Thought we might have to learn to speak French.
Frozen Lake Erie was amazing.
Largest Globe we've ever seen: Eartha at Delorme.
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How well do you know your competitors? A bit, but not enough. We've been told since Business 101 that we need to keep an eye on that competitor down the street. So you probably have a good handle on your competitors' products and services, their prices, maybe even their quality and customer service. Important bits of information one and all—but that knowledge is lacking power.
Understanding your competitors certainly has its merits, but there's really nothing you can do to change how they operate. Instead of focusing on their haves and have nots, why not focus on this: What are you doing to set yourself apart from that competitor? That you have complete control over. It's something you can focus on today and see real results tomorrow. So let's get started with five easy-to-implement tips.
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Now, I know what you're thinking. As you watch your uncle post about his latest fishing trip on Facebook, you can't help but wonder why your customers would be interested in this type of conversation with you. That requires a shift if your thinking. Think of Facebook as a business tool, not a personal one. That's why you're creating a fan page, not a personal profile page.
Once you have this fan page set up, start talking. Engage with your customers about an exciting project you are working on, talk about a new service you plan to offer. Just start talking and encourage your fans to talk back.
Authenticity is truly the name of the game when it comes to social media. Don't get paralyzed by saying the perfect thing in response to a customer's praise (or not-so-positive comment). Saying something—anything—is so much better than saying nothing at all. The more you encourage your customers to engage and carry on a conversation with you, the more you'll be able to capitalize on this tool. The benefits of positive comments from your customers are obvious; the ability to respond to negative comments quickly and sincerely is even more powerful.
One other social media sphere in which to set up shop is LinkedIn. Why? Professional print buyers are on LinkedIn, so you should be too. LinkedIn is just one more opportunity to have genuine interaction with your customers and prospects while remaining in a very business appropriate environment.
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One last tip about your conversations on social media sites: Don't worry about how many fans you have at first. That will come with time as long as you keep talking and responding.
And consider this, if your Facebook fan page only has 50 fans, but one of those fans has 400 friends, your message could hit more people than you could ever hope for within minutes. All you have to do is get that fan to respond to just one of your posts, then their entire group of friends will see the writing on your wall.
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