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Greetings Dear Readers,
I understand that this is a funny headline for a science blog. But unfortunately we live in very politically volatile times. Although ideally science should be kept far, far, far away from the soap opera with a trillion dollar budget that is American politics, the reality is that politics and science are very much intertwined. Without the votes of our elected officials, there would be no funding for important and revolutionary projects like RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, a true modern marvel that I recently had the privilege to see. Totally funded by the United States government, this 2.5 mile circuit has the power to heat particles to up to four trillion degrees, and then smash them together to replicate conditions right after the Big Bang. Brookhaven scientists are working very hard in hopes of discovering vast new things about the origin of our universe.
Politics not only holds power over the current state of America's scientific affairs, but also their future. For our government, local and national, has direct control over school curricula and funding. This means public officials have the power to graduate future scientists -- or not. If the schools stop taking science seriously, I can tell you for sure the students will stop too, if they haven't already. This is precisely why it is crucial that scientists everywhere keep very close track of current political trends.
But above all else, this blog encourages rational thinking by exposing irrationality wherever it exists. Unfortunately the epicenter of irrationality often radiates from a white-domed, column-lined building, where every so often, 535 people congregate to determine the future of everything.
Last night, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 3590 with a vote of 219 to 212. This marks the greatest step forward in health care reform since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. This bill will cover 32 million people who previously could not afford health insurance, ban discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, and prevent arbitrary rate hikes. The bi-partisan Congressional Budget Office conservatively estimates that this bill will save the United State over a trillion dollars.
It was a long and painful path from the moment President Obama announced his intentions to reform health care to last night's achievement. The national discussion was not a debate over critical data, economic realities and moral philosophy; it was a debate hijacked by a storm of irrationality. What should have been an open and honest discussion very quickly turned into the mass broadcasting of erroneous, fear-mongering rumors, with the other side's feeble attempts to dispel them falling on deaf ears. President Obama could have hung a giant banner outside the White House that read "HEALTH CARE REFORM WILL SAVE US $1 TRILLION!!!" And yet every time I turn on the television there is a Tea Partier or a Fox News anchor talking about how the bill will increase the national debt and drive up medical costs.
Dissent over health care reform is valid. But there is a difference between irrational dissent and rational dissent. When the opposition has to launch one of the largest disinformation campaigns ever perpetrated against the American populace, they invalidate themselves. One should never have to lie to prove a point. As a tragic result, half the population now thinks that a bill that is less progressive than what Republican governor Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts, and far less progressive than systems that work for almost everyone living in Europe and Canada, will turn this country into the Soviet States of America, with a 90 percent tax hike on all the kids to pay for it. That's not thinking scientifically.
A scientific thinker examines available data and forms a hypothesis. For the most part, the opposition to this bill tried to alter reality to fit the hypothesis they already created.
The fact that the Republican Party was almost successful in derailing this bill is not a sign of its strength but a sign of its decline. Not a single Republican in the house voted, not just for the bill, but even to debate it openly. When President Clinton proposed his plans for health care reform, there was unanimous consent to open debate. No bill in U.S. history has ever attracted this much partisan opposition to any bill. Even the 1964 Civil Rights Act had bi-partisan support. The Republicans have banded together to form one dogmatic, homogenous voting block against the Obama administration, no matter what its agenda may be. They have done so because they are desperate. The Republican Party is a cornered wolf, taking one ferocious last stand.
Firstly, let's take a look at minority voting trends. Statistically speaking, minorities tend to vote Democrat. According to population projections, it will not be long before minorities make up a majority of the American population. At a time when Republican survival depends on widening their tent, their new-found dogma has only managed to narrow it.
Secondly, the Republican base has been hijacked by former Alaska Republican governor Sarah Palin, the religious right, and the Tea Party. What this means is that rational Republicans have to distance themselves from the base of their party. They have to clarify that even though they are Republican, they are no fans of Palin or even former President George W. Bush. However, Republican candidates still have to campaign to their base if they stand a decent chance of winning primaries or drawing high turnouts for general elections.
Take Mitt Romney. He is a highly educated man who signed into Massachusetts law one of the most progressive pieces of health care legislation this country has seen. But when someone of his intellect goes on national television, as he did during the C-PAC conference, and calls Obama supporters "neo-liberal monarchs," you know he knows better. Moderate Republicans and independents are forced to take a step back, and the Democrats now have another sound bite to use against Romney in 2012.
The third sign of the decline of the Republican Party is simply that America is growing more liberal. The majority of young people vote Democratic, support gay marriage and drug legalization, and are pro-choice. We also are the generation that didn't grow up during the Cold War. Outside Tea Party and Wall Street culture, the Red Scare doesn't really exist. The word "socialism" doesn't send chills down our spines the way it did for our parents and grandparents. So we are more open minded when it comes to social programs, such as a public option.
These realities are forcing Republican strategists to use fear mongering and disinformation tactics to the point where their constituents are buying into a new reality, one that is not based on fact or reason. In this reality, even the U.S. Census, which has been constitutionally mandated since our nation's founding, has become unnecessarily controversial and called an "encroachment on our civil liberties."
These tactics are most effective and most dangerous when they are implemented in our public schools. Some of our most important elections -- and often the most overlooked -- determine who serves on our school boards. Scientists especially should be paying very close attention to school board elections. All too often, a school's science budget is the first line item to be cut, before sports. All too often, teaching widely accepted scientific theory is considered controversial. What goes into our curricula could easily determine the future of the scientific standing of the United States and how effective we will be in dealing with issues pertaining to the environment and energy independence.
There is no greater evidence of this than the recent conservative overhaul of Texas' textbooks. In what came down to a party line vote, the overhaul went so far as to significantly downplay Thomas Jefferson's role in history, simply because of his secular ideology and writings. What makes this even more frightening is that Texas is the largest buyer of textbooks in the nation. So textbook publishers must cater to the Texas curriculum to survive. Changes in Texas education affect the rest of the nation.
Grade school science is so much more than just teaching kids the periodic table or what happens when you mix vinegar and baking soda. Teaching the scientific method and habits of scientific thinking is crucial because it teaches kids to base their conclusions on data and observation. Students learn to have viewpoints that are reflective of reality -- not to have their reality reflect their viewpoints. To study the scientific method is to encourage rational thinking. When that is cut, then perhaps students will cease to question why Thomas Jefferson is no longer in their textbook.
Schools should encourage students to think scientifically and civically. What this country needs more than anything right now is a generation of young people who will grow up thinking that success is not determined by profit margin but by whether you make the world a better place for all. Last night, 219 men and women in Congress did just that. Because of the great risk they all took by voting for HR 3590, 32 million Americans finally got that breath of fresh air they so desperately needed. The passage of the health care bill will be remembered as one of the most important pieces of legislation since the Civil Rights Act and Medicare. The only thing that will prevent that is if we let the Republicans cut March 21, 2010 out of the textbooks.
Be Skeptical, Be Critical, Take Nothing On Faith.
All the best,
Jesse M. S.


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SAGERTON, TEXAS. Sagerton is on the Santa Fe Railroad at the intersection of State Highway 283 and Farm Road 1661, in southwest Haskell County. It was established in 1905 two miles east of Stonewall County and named for W. M. Sager, the townsite donor. As a shipping point for cotton, cattle, and poultry on the newly constructed Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, Sagerton achieved a modest prosperity. Beginning in 1909 the Stamford and Northwestern Railway also provided rail service for a time. Fires in 1917 and 1926 caused extensive property damage, and the town's bank, organized in 1908, failed in 1931. The population of Sagerton was 300 in 1940 and 115 in 1980 through 2000.
Robert E. Sherrill, Haskell County History (Haskell, Texas: Haskell Free Press, 1965).
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Dynamic Profiles of Cytokine/Chemokine in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The major clinical features of SARS include fever, dyspnea, lymphopenia, and a rapid progression of pulmonary infiltrates on chest radiologic images. The SARS-related deaths have resulted mainly from pulmonary complications, including progressive respiratory failure due to alveolar damage and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Pathological changes in SARS suggest that SARS sequelae such as infiltration of PMN in lung tissue, multiple organ dysfunction and ARDS have been associated with cytokines and chemokine dysregulation. Some patients still manifested lung injury at a time when the viral load was falling also supports the immune nature of the lung damage. We therefore undertook an analysis of dynamic production of cytokine/chemokines in SARS patients with an initial normal chest radiograph in order to improve understanding of disease pathogenesis and improve patient management.
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UCSB professors disappointed by climate change gathering
SANTA BARBARA — Although there was little consensus among the countries that attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month, four UC Santa Barbara environmental professors who attended were in agreement that the gathering was a disappointment at best, and a failure at worst.
"There was so much momentum on this event, and then the event imploded," said Simone Pulver, an assistant professor of environmental studies who called the conference "a train wreck."
The professors from the UCSB Bren School on Wednesday told a standing-room only group of students about their experience at the conference and why they thought it went so disastrously wrong.
Pulver said hopes were so high on this one event, yet it seemed to go so poorly, that it could be a setback to the climate change movement.
The problems of the conference were many, the professors said. It ended not with a legally binding agreement among countries to curb climate-changing gases, but instead an ambiguous agreement to try to work toward some kind of solution.
Bob Wilkinson argued that the process of having all the countries weigh in, which allows one to derail the entire process, is unworkable.
"It is very difficult in the way it is structured, and many are talking that we may need a different way to proceed," said Wilkinson, an adjunct professor. "In some ways you could argue that this was a setback."
He said there were too few delegates from nongovernmental organizations or groups that represented large groups of people.
Other problems dealt with getting past the security and into the meetings, which took up to 10 hours. Hours and days were spent arguing over one sentence. And then there was the whole issue of Climategate, which happened after a series of e-mails from top climate change scientists were stolen and released on the Web, leading to accusations that the scientists manipulated data and suppressed information. That issue played bigger in the U.S. media than it did overseas, the professors said.
But all is not lost, Pulver said.
Setbacks are bound to happen, and it's a long struggle, she said. Though the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 was never agreed to by the United States, cities across the country have independently enacted the goals of that conference. Countries may start to ramp up their own effort independent of any international agreement.
"I don't think the national stuff happens if you don't have the international effort," she said.
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There was no way the bats were going to be held down for long. Getting Jon Jay, Skip Schumaker and Matt Carpenter back didn't hurt either. Matt Adams was sent back to AAA Memphis to work his plate discipline, but I still feel he'll be back in 2013 and be the Cards 1B of the future for many years. It was good for him to get his a cup of coffee out of the way.
The day after the Cards had the no-hitter thrown against them on June 1st by Johan Santana, knuckleballer R.A. Dickey threw a complete game shutout against them. We've all always heard of the tailspin an offense can go into after facing a knuckleballer, and now I'm a believer. Including the game on June 2nd vs. Dickey, the Cards averaged 3.66 runs per game over the next 18 games. Before that, the Cards were averaging 5.26 runs per game. The Cards scored 30 runs in 3 games in this weekend series sweep against the Royals. The Cards have taken back over the lead in the NL with 5.01 runs per game.
A lot of the short attention span crowds are now calling for Lance Lynn to be put back in the bullpen. He's given up 11 ER in 10 1/3 IP over his last 2 games, and he's being compared to the Kyle McClellan of 2011. I'm not sure where the rock is these people crawl out from under at times like this, but I think they're going to be disappointed. Lynn is a starter from here on out unless he has an injury. Should he not be allowed to go into a slump at some point? I guess his ERA skyrocketing to 3.23 is cause enough for some to jump off of a cliff for a 2nd year pitcher. Nevermind his 92 K's in 92 IP or the fact that opponents are hitting .234 against him, which is best among all Cards SP's.
I'm a little confused about the decisions surrounding Jaime Garcia. Garcia has a torn labrum in his shoulder as well as a partial tear of the rotator cuff. The decision the Cards are making to shut him down and pitch after resting it is not the way to go. Labrum tears will not heal on their own. I can see why the Cards want to avoid surgery as most pitchers never come back from a torn labrum with or without surgery, but this has Mark Mulder written all over it.
Mulder had the exact same thing as Garcia, a labrum tear and a slight tear of the rotator cuff, and his career was over at 30 because of it. Really, it was over at 28 but he tried to pitch with it before and after surgery for 3 years, going 6-10 with an 8.59 ERA. Even though Mulder eventually had the surgery, he did more damage trying to pitch after resting it that resulted in a full tear and a more invasive surgery. The Cards and Garcia will be lucky if he ever pitches effectively again. I'm sure someday the shoulder surgery for labrum tears will be as routine as Tommy John surgery, but that doesn't look like it's in the near future.
Kevin Youkilis (Also referred to as the Greek God of walks from the movie "Moneyball") was traded from the Red Sox to the White Sox yesterday. That was good news for the Cardinals as the Reds appeared to be the front runners to land him until the White Sox jumped in. Outside of Joey Votto, the Reds have some plate discipline issues, and Youkilis would have helped them improve on their 9th place NL ranking in OBP (the Cards are 1st at .341 while the Reds are at .319).
Some more good news for the Cardinals is that teams are starting to hit the Reds Cuban defector closer Aroldis Chapman. Chapman's blown 4 of his last 6 games. Chapman is apparently suffering from the same syndrome as Jason Motte, throwing mainly fastballs. Chapman is the hardest thrower in the game as he can hit 103 MPH, but it doesn't matter unless you mix in another pitch or two. Let's all hope Motte is making mental notes of this when he watches Baseball Tonight or the MLB Network. Hopefully the message going through his head is if they can catch up to Chapman's fastball, they'll continue to easily catch up to his as well.
The Cards head to Miami tonight to start a 3 game series with the Marlins. Don't kick your TV when you watch the games, the Marlins stadium really does have the crazy looking thing in this picture above the left-center field wall. The Marlins have lost 15 of their last 18 games. The Cards will get lucky by missing Josh Johnson and instead will face Ricky Nolasco (6-6, 5.16 ERA), Carlos Zambrano (4-5, 4.01 ERA) and Anibal Sanchez (3-6, 3.94 ERA). Let's hope they can keep the Marlins down, and hopefully start to align the offense, SP and BP at the same time. The Marlins BP is 15th in the NL in ERA and WHIP, and their offense is 13th in OPS.


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Conyers -- Ralph Denmark has been named the head boys basketball coach at Heritage High School, athletic director Chuck Landy confirmed Saturday.
Denmark had been the assistant on the boys basketball staff at Rockdale the last five seasons and helped lead the Bulldogs to the state championship game in 2011. He was named the head coach after former Heritage head man Drew Williams resigned recently.
"Very excited about it," Denmark said.
"(Denmark) was ready for an opportunity and we feel like we were fortunate to get him," Landy said. "He's outstanding, he was ready, it was his turn to get a chance. We started looking and we were fortunate, we knew coach from years ago whenever he was the coach at Edwards. Really have a lot of respect for what Rockdale was able to do with their program. Everybody speaks really highly of him (and) we're excited to have him."
Before coming to Rockdale, Denmark was the assistant at Burke County High School in Waynesboro from 2002-04, then was assistant under current Rockdale head coach Al Williams at Conyers Middle School from 2004-06 and was the head coach at Edwards Middle School from 2006-08.
He moved, with Al Williams, to Rockdale in 2008. Now he'll go up against his good friend in one of the area's most heated rivalries.
"It's going to be a very exciting game, (Denmark being at Heritage) could kind of help boost the rivalry," Denmark said. "Al and I are great friends, we talk about it all the time."
Denmark has already started working with the Heritage basketball team during its summer workout sessions.
"We liked him a lot and we're able to fit him in teaching wise at our school. He started with our boys, they've already got their summer program underway," Landy said.
Denmark also played basketball at LaGrange College.
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Mobile aviaries give barn owls smooth transistion from captivity to the wild
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The remaining population of one of Devon's rarest birds is being boosted by the release of four young barn owls.
Earlier this year, the Barn Owl Trust received the birds from the Gower Bird Hospital via the RSPCA at West Hatch in Somerset. They were originally taken in as owlets that had fallen from the nest. The owlets were reared successfully but the RSPCA lacked the specialist facilities needed to provide each of the owls with a supported release. The Devon-based Trust agreed to release them using their purpose-built mobile aviaries and set about the task of finding release sites with volunteers to feed the birds.
Under most circumstances, barn owls are released as close as possible to the place they were found. This is because they are very site-faithful and will live in the same home range all of their lives, releasing an established bird away from its home range will significantly reduce the chances of it surviving. Because these birds were taken in as nestlings and didn't have a home range to return to, they could be released anywhere. The birds were split into two pairs and two release sites with plenty of good habitat were selected – one in the Teign Valley, west of Exeter and one in the Axe valley close to the Dorset border. The birds are currently confined in mobile aviaries and will be released as soon as the weather improves.
"These mobile aviaries are a fantastic resource," said Stuart Baker from the Barn Owl Trust. "Rather than simply letting the birds go, it is much better to release them from an aviary, where they can be supported in their transition from life in captivity to life in the wild." The problem is that most locations do not have a suitable aviary – hence the need for mobile aviaries. These are large 14-foot aviaries purpose-built onto the back of a trailer with a roof that can propped open. Stuart explained: "Using a mobile aviary allows us to use the best release method in the best place for each individual owl. Once a suitable release site has been identified, the aviary is towed to the site and parked up. The owls are then placed inside for about two weeks before the roof is opened up, allowing the birds to fly in and out. They then disperse into the countryside in search of a home range, just as they would from their parents' nest. Once the owl stops returning for food the aviary is towed away."
The Barn Owl Trust is always on the look-out for volunteers with potential release sites. "We need people who can feed the owls every night at sites with plenty of rough tussocky grassland," said Stuart, "as this is the best habitat for their main prey, the field vole. Sites also need to be at least 1km from the nearest motorway or dual-carriageway." Anyone in Devon, E Cornwall, or W Dorset who is interested in future releases should contact the Barn Owl Trust on 01364 653026 or email email@example.com


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Mud Lake Forest Community: Historical Patterns and Projections of Future Change
Aarianne L. Chandler
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Succession is the gradual changing of a community following a disturbance or the creation of a new substrate. It is a difficult process to study because a tree's life spans decades or centuries and therefore change in a community occurs over an even larger period of time. Chronosequences are sites that contain a chronological sequence of communities demonstrative of the successional changes that would occur at a single site over a longer period of time. Such sites are valuable because they make it possible to study succession on a shorter time scale. It was hypothesized that the tree community surrounding Mud Lake, a sphagnum bog in central New York, would yield such a sequence because as the bog fills in it forms a new substrate. This new substrate is then colonized as the existing community surrounding it changes. Tree species, size, and location were recorded and selected cores were taken along 8 transects radiating out from the perimeter of the bog. The data enabled zones of vegetation to be determined and the relationship between variables to be described.
Population Ecology of the Mottled Sculpin (Cottus bairdi): Population Genetics and Distribution, with Comparison to Native and Introduced Crayfish
Peter Hazelton
Faculty Spervisor: Dr. Mark Kuhlmann
Cottus bairdi is a benthic fish native to the upper Susquehanna River Basin. Sculpins share habitat (rock shelters) with the native (Cambaris bartonii, Orconectes propinquus, and Orconectes obscurus) and introduced (Orconectes rusticus) crayfish of the region. O. rusticus was introduced from the Ohio River system and has become quite dominant in the upper Susquehanna R. During the summers of 1999 and 2000, the Susquehanna River and six of its uppermost tributaries were surveyed for these five species. Sculpin density is independent of crayfish densities. However, C. bairdi density was correlated with several abiotic factors (i.e. substrate). Cambaris bartonii also was associated with larger substrate, and was found primarily in the uppermost locations of each stream. O. obscurus and O. propinquus densities were negatively correlated to one another, and thus are not often found in the same location. O. rusticus was the most abundant species sampled throughout the system; its densities were correlated to substrate and current. O. rusticus density also showed a negative relationship to the density of O. propinquus, O. obscurus and C. bartonii, thus suggesting that the rusty crayfish is invasive in this drainage and could be considered a threat to the populations of native fauna. An attempt to assess the genetic distance and gene flow between populations of the mottled sculpin was also begun using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPDs). The results from this study are as yet inconclusive.
The Lowering Effects of Chinese Green Tea on Serum Cholesterol in Mice Compared to Two Known Treatments
Jessica M. Joy
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Linda Swift
The search is on to find treatments that will decrease the risk of developing hyperlipidaemia and arteriosclerosis by lowering serum cholesterol levels with minimal side effects or precautions. Chinese Green Tea may be just what the doctor ordered. In this experiment serum blood samples were taken from mice fed a high lipid diet with thiouracil, to inhibit the natural response to the high lipid diet. The serum cholesterol levels were measured with a standard kit and the atherogenic index was calculated. The one way analysis of variance calculations showed that the Green Tea lowered the total serum cholesterol significantly in comparison to a control and to a prescribed drug. Further studies along this line could greatly benefit individuals with high cholesterol.
The Effects of PM-10 and PM-2.5 on Alveolar Macrophage Number and Morphology in Vivo
Wendy L. Magnuson
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Allen Crooker
The effects of PM-10 (particulate matter less than 10 um in diameter) and PM-2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 um in diameter) on phagocytic alveolar macrophage cell numbers and morphology were tested in vivo using mice. Four groups of two mice each were established and exposed to high PM dosages of 15 mg PM-10, 15 mg PM-2.5, 6.5 mg PM-2.5, and 0 mg PM (control) in a 1 m3 makeshift full-body inhalation exposure chamber. Mice were anesthetized following a 72 hr exposure and lungs were removed, embedded in paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin & eosin. Macrophages were counted in the alveoli and their morphology was observed. The percentage of alveoli containing macrophages and the total number of macrophages were higher in the control group than in all treated groups, though not significantly. All treated groups showed similar total macrophage numbers and similar percentages of alveoli containing macrophages. The ratio of deformed to normal macrophage cells was significantly higher in the 15 mg PM-2.5 group than in the control group.
The Research and Teaching of Polymorphisms in the Human Genome
Jonathan Palma
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Hamiliton
DNA from various individuals is more alike than different, but many regions of human chromosomes exhibit a great deal of diversity. Such variable sequences are termed "polymorphic" (meaning many forms), and these sequences are located in the estimate 95% of the human genome that does not encode proteins. I investigated the VNTR (variance number of tandem repeats) pMCT118 locus on a population of students who have access to Miller Science Building (thus simulating the size of a biology class). I hypothesized that the region that the pMCT118 locus codes for contains a significant genetic variability, which can be utilized in biology experiments for teaching and laboratory purposes. I further hypothesized that the alleles of the tested individuals would correlate with their ancestral nationalities. My hypothesis that the pMCT118 locus contains a significant genetic variability was supported because all seventeen individuals tested yielded different allelic combinations at this locus. However, I was unable to see any correlation of a particular allele for any of the nationalities. This may be due to a small sample size, or my inability to link allele combinations to specific nationalities. The ability of this experiment to identify specific alleles for nationalities as well as an individual of a population could be improved by amplifying other VNTR regions in addition to the pMCT118 locus.
An In Vivo and In Vitro Study of the Abortifacient and Labor Inducing Properties of Plumbago indica
Kathryn A. Rickershauser
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Linda Swift
Plumbago indica is a plant in the family Plumbaginaceae which is used in traditional Akha medicine to cause an abortion or aid in delivery. The abortive and labor inducing properties of Plumbago indica were compared to those of oxytocin, a clinically used labor inducing drug. Four treatment groups of three timed pregnant mice received either a dose of 32mg/kg of P. indica orally, 64mg/kg of P. indica orally , 0.1IU of oxytocin IP, or the control of physiological saline IP. The mice were treated on days 15-17 of their pregnancy and monitored for signs of labor and abortion. The weights were monitored daily, the length of pregnancy was recorded, and the number and crown to rump length of the young were measured. One way ANOVA for four populations showed that there were no significant differences between the length of pregnancy, number of births per mouse, and the crown to rump lengths between the experimental and the control groups. However the low dose group did undergo one abortion, and two maternal deaths showing that perhaps the abortifacient property of P. indica comes from its ability to poison the fetus, and in some cases the mother as well, and not from affecting the contractions of the uterus as expected. The uterus of a female rat was also removed and the effect of P. indica on the force and rate of spontaneous contractions was measured in an organ bath. Linear regression analysis showed that 89% of the variance in the rate of the contractions was due to P. indica (as the dose increased the rate decreased). There was no correlation found between the drug and the force of the contractions.
Relationship Between Localized Cellular Growth and Patterning in Salamander Limbs
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Matthew Sander
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Stan Sessions
Considerable research has been done examining the genetic basis of pattern formation in the tetrapod limb. Sonic Hedgehog has been shown to have expression restricted to the zone of polarizing activity in the limb bud. Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) have been shown to be present in various regions of the limb bud mesenchyme and epidermis. Homeobox (Hox) genes have been shown to have inter-nesting expression patterns in the tip of the limb bud. Pattern formation in vertebrate limbs is epimorphic, and so dependent on cell division, and the effects of these patterning genes should be reflected in the pattern of the dividing cells. However, the actual patterns of dividing cells in developing or regenerating limbs have not been examined. Salamanders provide ideal material for such a study because of their large cell sizes and the fact that they regenerate their limbs. I used bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) immunocytochemistry to analyze the patterns of dividing cells in the regenerating limbs of salamanders.
Factors Affecting Dominance and Aggressive Interactions Among Castrated Male Domestic Horses (Equus caballus)
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Janine Van Doren
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Mark Kuhlmann
Dominance hierarchies and aggression in feral horse (Equus caballus) populations have been well studied. Though research has extended somewhat into the organization of domestic horse populations, no studies have been done on aggression and dominance in bands consisting almost entirely of castrated males. In this study, I investigated the effects of rank, height, weight, age, age at castration and group size on rates of aggression in a population of seventeen castrated male domestic horses organized into six groups. I found that weight was the most significant predictor of rank as well as rate of aggression, but that rank was not significantly correlated with rate of aggression. Height, age, age at castration and group size all had negligible effects on rank and rate of aggression.
The Effects of Garlic Supplementation on Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats
Lindsay Ward
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Allen Crooker
Nitric Oxide (NO) is a potent vasodilator that imparts a continuous dilator tone in the maintenance of systemic blood pressure. Garlic has been found to activate nitric oxide synthase, which increases the levels of nitric oxide in the arterial cells. To assess the effect garlic has on already existing hypertension the effect of garlic supplementation on spontaneously hypertensive rats was studied. Ten spontaneously hypertensive rats were randomly assigned to two groups of five rats each. Their blood pressure was determined using the tail cuff method, and readings were taken every six days. After thirty days of garlic supplementation (100mg/ kg body weight) the differences in systolic blood pressure were analyzed. No statistical differences in their systolic blood pressure were found in the rats that were given the garlic supplementation. The NO2- and NO3- were measured in the urine samples as an index of NO production. The urine samples were incubated with E. coli nitrate reductase in phosphate ammonium buffer (pH 7.3) and the nitrate levels were measured using the Griess reagent. No reliable results were obtained from the urinalysis. Therefore further study is needed to determine if garlic activates NO in the blood leading to its antihypertensive properties.
Where Biology and Economics Meet - Valuations of Environmental Resources and Biodiversity.
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Meghan Zysik
Faculty Supervisors: Dr. Stan Sessions and Dr. Carlena Cochi-Ficano
Biodiversity loss has become a global crisis, with some experts figuring losses of 27,000 species a year. Environmental degradation is a leading cause of biodiversity loss, therefore correct assessment of the value of environmental resources is essential to making appropriate decisions concerning land management. This research looks at the methods of valuation of environmental resources and biodiversity, from both biological and economic perspectives. The Pine Lake environmental campus in West Davenport was used as a case study of current techniques. The Shannon diversity index was determined for Pine Lake utilizing past senior research projects, faculty research, and other studies. This index was then compared with national park data to put perspective on Pine Lake in a large-scale sense. This data was also used to determine a rough monetary value of the biodiversity. The value of Pine Lake from a student perspective was ascertained through conjoint analysis surveys. This enabled the students' "willingness to pay" and "willingness to accept" values for the Pine Lake environmental campus to be calculated.
Morphological Responses of Bacteria in Response to Grazing Pressure by the Protozoan Colpoda and Mosquito Larvae
Devin A. Zysling
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Mary Allen
Grazing is a major force that shapes bacterial community structure and morphology. Predator-prey interactions between bacteria and protozoans are known to affect bacterial size structure through the development of bacteria that are too large to be ingested by protists. Previous studies have demonstrated that protozoan grazing induces shifts in morphology resulting in grazing-resistant filamentous bacteria. In this study, I examined the effects of predatory grazing by the protozoan Colpodaand mosquito larvae on the morphology of the bacteria Klebsiela pneumoniae, Chromobacterium violacium, Rhodococcus rhodochrous, and Micrococcus luteus. It was found that the introduction of Colpoda caused an increase in filament formation for all four species of bacteria observed, but the abundance of grazing-resistant filamentous bacteria varied between species. The introduction of mosquito larvae did not cause any substantial increase in filament formation, suggesting that the degree of filament formation is dependent on predator size.


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Laurence Reisman: Q&A on American Muslim issues with college professor former U.S. Department of Homeland Security adviser Sahar Aziz
Muslim U.S. college professor addresses discrimination, other sensitive issues
It's relatively rare on the Treasure Coast to hear a Muslim perspective. But you'll have an opportunity Thursday when Sahar Aziz, an Egyptian-born woman who grew up in Dallas, speaks in Vero Beach and Stuart as part of Indian River State College's Distinguished Lecture Series on Current Issues.
Aziz, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security adviser, is a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center who now is an associate professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Dallas.
She answered a few questions by email this week.
Q: You argue that "Muslim women face unique forms of discrimination not adequately addressed by Muslim civil rights advocacy organizations, women's rights organizations or civil liberties advocates." Why?
A: As explained in more detail in my article, "From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality," Muslim women donning a headscarf face discrimination as "headscarved Muslim women" rather than as just as Muslims, women or a racial minority (even if the woman is in fact Anglo, she is often perceived as Middle Eastern).
As a result, they are subjected to violence commonly experienced by women, anti-Muslim discrimination in the workplace or public accommodations, and racial animus by private actors suspicious of those they perceive as Arabs or immigrants. These various causes of discriminatory behavior merge into the experiences of many Muslim women who don the headscarf thereby calling for more holistic solutions. To the extent a woman's injuries are a result of the intersection of gender, religious and racial bias, an effective advocacy strategy considers all of these factors.
Because Muslim civil rights advocacy organizations often focus solely on combating bias against Muslims, they overlook the gender bias underlying discriminatory acts against Muslim women. Similarly, American women's rights groups focus on discrimination against women with little or no regard for religious discrimination against a class of women. To make matters worse, American women's rights groups' attention to Muslim women is limited to a patronizing approach to liberating them from their purportedly oppressive male relatives in foreign countries. Rather than integrate Muslim women into their leadership to inform their strategies in combating gender bias that intersects with religious and racial bias, women's rights groups are limited by the experiences of primarily white, upper middle class women. While these women may have the best of intentions, their limited exposure to the diversity of Muslim women leads to a failure to incorporate the nuances of discrimination faced by Muslim women into the American gender rights agenda. Hence including Muslim women in leadership and defining the agenda would go a long way in protecting rights of all women in America.
Q: What do you think of the New York Police Department's efforts to create intelligence databases on Muslims and their activity as an effort to fight terrorists?
A: The NYPD's systemic spying on Muslims, mosques, Muslim-owned businesses, and Muslim college students across the East Coast is highly problematic for three reasons.
First, the NYPD has yet to put forth evidence of criminal activity or individualized suspicion that serves as the basis for such broad surveillance. Absent a nexus to criminal activity, the NYPD's surveillance program is religious and racial profiling based on a false stereotype that all Muslims are inherently prone to terrorism, collectively suspect, and deserve constant watching by the state. This communicates to the public that suspicion of Muslims en masse is legitimate and warranted, leading to discriminatory acts in employment, schools, and public spaces.
Second, the NYPD's systemic surveillance program goes far beyond its jurisdiction without an articulated investigatory purpose. The NYPD surreptitiously spied on groups in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other states in what appears to be a fishing expedition. Such overreaching by the state is precisely what the fourth and fifth amendments of the Constitution protect against. Hence if the NYPD's surveillance program is accepted by the public and the courts, it sets our nation back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the FBI's COINTELPRO investigated individuals based on their First Amendment rights of association with the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, the New Left, Martin Luther King Jr. and other controversial leaders.
Third and most important, the NYPD's exclusive focus on Muslims risks public safety because other terrorists who are not Muslim can operate undetected. Since President Barack Obama took office, anti-government militia groups and white supremacists have become more active and used violence to implement their warped ideologies. These groups possess large caches of arms that can kill hundreds of Americans in a single terrorist attack. And yet our government appears to disregard them as mere nuisances.
Such poor judgment was most glaring in the case of four Georgia men caught attempting to wage biological war against Americans as part of their anti-government ideology. Fortunately, these men were caught before they could implement their plan, however, their case evinces the real threat of terrorists who are not Muslims. All terrorists, regardless of religion or race, should be stopped before they kill innocent people.
Q: What three steps should the administration or Congress take over the next year or two to ensure the civil rights of all Americans are protected?
A: Congress should pass the End Racial Profiling Act to make it unlawful for federal agencies to profile on account of race, religion or ethnic origin absent credible witness identification of a suspect. Currently, there is no federal law that protects individuals from invidious profiling, which is both ineffective as a law enforcement tool and an affront to fundamental American values.
The state secrets privilege allows the government to obtain dismissal of civil rights cases based on national security grounds. A doctrine originally intended to protect the most sensitive state secrets has been abused to shield government wrongdoers from accountability to victims of torture, extraordinary renditions, and other civil rights violations. Accordingly, the Obama administration and future administrations should stop hiding behind the state secrets privilege in cases where plaintiffs allege violations of their constitutional rights. Similarly, Congress should act to narrow this doctrine to only the most sensitive nationals security information.
Congress should pass legislation to restore Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure. Over the past few decades, the courts have deferred to the executive branch to the extent that most warrantless government searches are lawful under broad judicially defined exceptions. Americans concerned about preserving their privacy against undue government intrusion should call on their representatives to revive the Fourth Amendment.
Q: Judging by many of the letters that this newspaper receives, many non-Muslim Americans, rightly or wrongly, feel threatened by what they hear from radical Islam. What's your take on their fears of impending terrorism, imposition of Sharia Law, etc.?
A: Most Americans have never met a Muslim or do not have a Muslim friend. Therefore, they must rely on the media and politicians to learn about Islam. Moreover, there are numerous organizations whose mission is to propagate anti-Muslim bias misrepresented as public education or national security studies. Hence many Americans' first and only impression of Muslims is the horrific Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and bad faith propaganda.
Studies show that Americans who have met a Muslim are less likely to adopt false stereotypes of Islam as a violent ideology or Muslims as prone to violence and disloyal to the United States. Thus, Muslims in America face a daunting challenge because there are only 4 million to 6 million Muslims in America.
Therefore, Americans must take it upon themselves to seek out Muslims in their communities and get to know them as fellow human beings rather than objects politicized by the media and politicians. Invite them over to dinner, visit their community centers and arrange for play dates between your children. Tolerance and humanization of people of different religions, races and ethnicities is the key to America's success in a globalized world and a stable society. We should each take the initiative to get to know each other rather than rely on politicians or pundits with divisive political agendas.
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Indian film producers sign pact to collaborate with Canadian counterparts
An agreement has been recently signed between India and Canada that would allow film producers in both countries to share resources on joint film and TV projects.
India, and its giant Bollywood film industry, from July 1 became the 54th country to have an official co-production treaty with Canada, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
The agreement would permit film producers in both countries to tap into various incentives and tax breaks offered by both the governments.
The India-Canada co-production treaty being enacted follows a diplomatic push by the ruling Conservatives in Ottawa to see a first-time film treaty help draw votes from Indo-Canadian communities in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, and the British Columbia and Ontario provincial governments subsidized Indian film award shows here in recent years.
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MSI Windbox: VESA-mounted fanless nettop
MSI have announced their rival to the ASUS Eee Box, the predictably named MSI Windbox. A 300 x 240 x 65mm slab, the fanless Windbox contains a 1.6GHz N270 Intel Atom processor, 1GB or 2GB of RAM, either 160GB or 250GB hard-drive, WiFi b/g and gigabit ethernet. While MSI demonstrated it with a desk-stand, it's actually intended to be fixed to the VESA mount on the back of a flat-panel monitor.


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Call for Workshop Proposals
The New York State Child Abuse Prevention Conference inspires and equips participants with skills and strategies to strengthen families, prevent child abuse, and ensure children's healthy development. Prevent Child Abuse New York is seeking workshop proposals that focus on developing the knowledge, expertise and skill-set needed by practitioners in today's complex environment. The conference is co-sponsored by the New York State Children and Family Trust Fund and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
We are seeking workshop proposals that focus on developing the knowledge and expertise needed by practitioners in today's complex environment. Preference is given to presentations that are highly interactive, include strategies to engage the audience, and leave participants with new skills and learning they can immediately put to use in their jobs, homes, and communities.
The deadline to submit is December 12, 2014.
- Submit Your Workshop Proposal Here: All workshop proposals must be submitted online.
- Download the Call for Workshop Proposals. This is a PDF version of the information below plus a workshop proposal checklist to assist you with the submission of your proposal
Jump To: Workshop Criteria | Presenter Benefits & Responsibilities | Workshop Topics | Submitting Your Proposal Details
Attendees include service providers representing a variety of roles, skills and education levels, as well as program supervisors and administrators from child abuse prevention and child welfare programs, advocates, parents and other caregivers. They bring diverse ideas, a passion for helping families navigate the road to resilience, and a wealth of success stories. They work in varied settings that include parenting education, family support, child abuse prevention and child protective services, intervention and treatment, early childhood education, domestic violence, health care, mental health, legal services, schools and in the home as parents.
Workshop tracks include:
- Parenting Education and Support
- Child Abuse Prevention Skills and Strategies
- Child Sexual Abuse Treatment and Prevention
- Reducing Barriers to Children's Well-Being
- Family Engagement and Involvement
- Personal and Organizational Resilience
The deadline for submission is December 12, 2014
In addition to workshops, we are also interested in institutes (two-part workshops), as well as panels and round table discussions that feature three or four presenters. Maximum number of presenters per session is four.
We expect between 350 and 450 attendees. Workshop size varies greatly depending on topic. Popular topics can draw 75 or more people, while other topics are better suited to small groups of 15 or 20; most workshops fall somewhere in between. Workshop length is 1.5 hours; institute length is 3 hours. We encourage submission of proposals at advanced levels for experienced professionals, as well proposals for less experienced professionals.
Criteria for all workshops:
- Focus on strategies, skills building and practical application.
- Include an interactive component.
- Fit one of the conference tracks listed on the previous page.
- Provide participants with "take home" handouts on key information and concepts. This is very important. Participants expect to be able to take information home with them because it helps put new learning into practice.
- If about a specific program model, focus must be on implementation/replication issues.
- Is not a sales pitch (which would, however, be welcome as a conference exhibit).
Presenter benefits and responsibilities:
- PCANY will promote workshops and presenters through mailings, e-mail, social networks, and our website.
- We are happy to waive one day's registration fee, for the day of their presentation, for workshop presenters.
- Presenters are responsible for transportation, lodging, and copies of handouts for workshop participants.
- Presenters who wish to do PowerPoint presentations are responsible for bringing their own laptops, LCD projectors and hard copies of the PowerPoint to their workshop.
Examples of workshop topics we are looking for this year include but are NOT limited to:
Track 1: Parenting Education and Support
- Strategies to build secure parent-child attachments and healthy relationships
- Parenting the difficult child or responding to children's challenging behaviors
- Parenting the child with special needs
- Brain development: The effects of trauma versus positive interaction
- Incorporating art, music or theater into work with children
- Ages and stages: child and lifespan development
Track 2: Child Abuse Prevention Skills and Strategies
- Coached visits for supervised visitation
- Effective community collaborations and partnerships
- Cross systems collaborations/integrating systems
- Working with children who have experienced trauma
- Strategies to strengthen preventive services and enhance children's safety
- Integrating the Protective Factor Framework into practice
Track 3: Child Sexual Abuse Treatment and Prevention
- Innovative strategies to prevent child sexual abuse
- Promoting healthy sexual development and sexuality
- Using trauma-informed care to help children overcome sexual abuse
- Preventing and responding to child trafficking and commercially sexually exploited youth
- Art therapy, play therapy and other creative interventions to treat sex abuse
- Engaging schools and communities in sex abuse prevention
Track 4: Reducing Barriers to Children's Well-Being
- Working with families in crisis (e.g. poverty, substance abuse or domestic violence)
- Infant/child mental health, including social and emotional development
- Reducing bullying and peer violence
- Post-partum and maternal depression
- Family Assessment Response (FAR)
Track 5: Family Engagement and Involvement
- Family engagement in CPS and preventive services
- Promoting father engagement
- Cultural competency in service provision
- Cultivating parent leaders and advocates
- Applying the Protective Factor Framework to engagement
- Growing and sustaining family engagement
Track 6: Personal and Organizational Resilience
- Successful implementation of programs and lessons learned for other programs
- Maintaining fidelity in an environment of scarcity
- Program evaluation and quality improvement
- Developing effective supervisory skills
- Improving personal facilitation skills
- Marketing and communications for non-profits
- Vicarious trauma and self care
- Strategies to enhance personal performance
- Submit Your Workshop Proposal here: All Workshop proposals must be submitted online. Make sure you have reviewed the proposal checklist from the Call for Proposals PDF before you submit your proposal online.
- You may want to prepare portions of your proposal (summary, objectives, content, methods to engage audience) in Microsoft Word (or another word processing program) before submitting it online and save the file to your computer so you have a record of what you sent.
- Supplementary materials (workshop handouts and presenter resumes) can not be submitted through the web site. Please email these materials to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Questions about your proposal should be directed to Jennifer Matrazzo at 518-445-1273.
- Mailed or faxed proposals will NOT be accepted.
- Incomplete proposals will not be accepted.
Download the Call for Workshop Proposals. This is a PDF version of the information explained above plus a workshop proposal checklist to assist you with the submission of your proposal.
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i have 2 local disks ( c and d) but c is running out of space ( 592mb free and its capacity is 13.9 mg) while d has a 92.8gb capacity and it has 82.4 gb free.. can i copy all the files in c to d??
You can move files like MP3s, JPEG, most things you have in My Documents. You can't move OS system files. You can uninstall and reinstall program files on the other partition. You must have lots of music, movies, or picture files. All those can be easily moved. You might consider an external drive or burning to optical disk. Have you tried Disk cleanup? Everything in your Recycle bin is counted as usage. One other thing, in the future change your default download path to a folder on the D drive to avoid this issue.
Only copy your documents, photos, music files etc.. Do not copy Windows files and programs that have been installed to c:\ or they will not work.
After you copy the files delete them from c:\ to free up space and do a defrag on c:\.
In the future install new programs to D:\ and store new files on that drive.
I would suggest you have someone with you that has some basic computer knowledge when you do it.
You can move some system folders. I have my Favorites, My Documents, Desktop and email on a different drive. Tweakui can help you with that.
Also Voltage's advice to install all new programs on a different drive is a good plan. You can also reinstall programs that are already on the C: drive and have them installed on a different drive. But remember to move any data, saves, etc to the new drive before deleting the old program folders and files.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!


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Puke & Snot Share Story Behind Their Nicknames
July 28, 2012 4:58 PM
DENVER (CBS4) – The Colorado Renaissance Festival has been an annual favorite for people all over the country. It's been going on for decades in Larkspur and time is running out for the final weekend this year.
Mark Seeve and John Gamoke stopped by CBS4 studios to talk about the festival. If those names don't ring a bell, maybe you'll recognize "Puke and Snot."
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While government has a legitimate and valuable role in basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research, it is a lousy venture capitalist and is largely incapable of picking winning technologies in the market.
In their article, "Lessons from the Shale Revolution," Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger suggest that the success of hydraulic fracturing validates the idea that government "investment" is a reasonable and effective way to advance technology and to outperform market actors in finding and bringing cool new things to fruition. President Obama made the same argument in his 2012 State of the Union address, giving almost complete credit for hydraulic fracturing to Uncle Sam:
The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don't have to choose between our environment and our economy. And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock–-reminding us that government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger come down unequivocally on the president's side of this argument:
In fact, virtually all subsequent commercial fracturing technologies have been built upon the basic understanding of hydraulic fracturing first demonstrated by the Department of Energy in the 1970s.
They also suggest that the same approach will foster the development of renewable energies such as wind and solar power:
Indeed, once we acknowledge the shale gas case as a government success, not a failure, it offers a powerful basis for reforming present clean energy investments and subsidies.
This argument is a direct contravention of the conventional wisdom that while government has a legitimate and valuable role in basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research, it is a lousy venture capitalist and is largely incapable of picking winning technologies in the market.
Critics of the government's claim of credit argue, in essence, that the government pulled a Ferris Bueller: They saw a parade in progress, hopped up on a float, and started singing loudly and gesturing broadly. Now, they claim credit for the entire parade. This is a fairly common practice. Quite recently, President Obama claimed credit for increased oil and gas production in the United States, despite it being blatantly obvious that the increases came from state and private, not federal, lands.
But for argument's sake, let's stipulate to the premise that hydraulic fracturing technology represents a great government success. What can we learn from this shining example?


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E60: Bangle was at BMW before 2000.
Surprised there was no mention of the start of BMW's infamous "Bangle-Era" in 2001, :p (and end of it in 2008)
"Right about now, Detroit comes to realize what Stuttgart and Tokyo learned a year or two earlier; that SUV sales aren't doubling every year."LOL! Fun fact: SUV sales actually peaked in 2000
No WRX. I still think it would have been the better choice than the T-Bird in retrospect. Perfect? No. But market changing? Oh yeah. It made sport compacts seem to pop up that much more, especially the hotter rally twins, and the Mazdaspeed moniker even.
I think Chrysler had an inkling that "the world was going to end" when they were sold to Cerebus. A company who specializes in stripping other companies of all their worth and then leaving the company (in this case, Chrysler) holding all the debt as it bails out. Should be criminal, but way back in 2007, it was still regarded as "Wall Street brilliance."
hahah a lot of good pointers here, made me laugh. hahah
Wow....10 years of happiness and pain. Goes to show that you really can't tell the future. Who know that the most powerful automaker would go through bankruptcy and back to pushing towards success.
Whats amazing to me is that GM has got away for selling horrible looking cars and trucks like they have, well their is that bankrupt thing, but come on GM give the people what they want. You got rid of your best car in the G8 and try to push bloated, ugly Traverse's and Cinder block inspired Silverado's on people, hey that may be great for soccer mom's and construction workers but as for the rest of us it don't cut it.Car models I would do away with:Impala- it compete's with no one and thats not a good thing.All of GMC - Chevy clones, they compete with each other.Traverse- at least restyle it so its not so embarassing to drive.Car models that are a must:An actual prius competitor.Use the G8 platform and add it as a high performance version Malibu and call it Chevelle Malibu.And more high performance Buicks so granny can get on down the road!
2009: bankruptcies, dead divisions, operatring losses, insane supercars, SUOTY that's a wagon, COTY that is its company's best hope, TOTY that truly leads its class, a finally descent Mustang, the return of the Camaro, BMW/Mercedes slicing into any niche possible, and the list goes on........
Well, technically since the MY2011 cars are coming out, this decade is over for MT.
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PhD (Dr. phil): 1999/2000 University of Potsdam
Language technology, corpus and computational linguistics.
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Damir Cavar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Anthony Aristar (2012) Large Mailing List Corpora: Management, Annotation and Repository. In LREC 2012 Proceedings of the workshop on Challenges in the management of large corpora.
Damir Cavar, Dunja Brozović Rončević (to appear 2012) Riznica: The Croatian Language Corpus. In Prace Filologiczne , Warsaw in 2012.
Damir Cavar, Melanie Seiss (2011) Clitic Placement, Syntactic Discontinuity, and Information Structure . In LFG Proceedings 2011. ISSN 1098-6782
Damir Cavar, Tanja Gulan, Damir Kero, Franjo Pehar, Pavle Valerjev (2011) The Scheme Natural Language Toolkit (SNLTK): NLP libraries for R6RS and Racket. In Proceedings of the 4th European Lisp Symposium, Hamburg University of Technology, pp. 58-61.
Damir Cavar (2010) On Statistical Metrics for Selection and Phrasality. In T. Hanneforth and G. Fanselow (eds.) Language and Logos . Akademie Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3050049311
Damir Cavar, Ivo-Pavao Jazbec, Siniša Runjaić (2009) Efficient Morphological Parsing with a Weighted Finite State Transducer. Informatica 33/1 , pp. 107-113. Website of the journal. ISSN: 0350-5596
Bootstrapping large text corpora with TEI XML markup and linguistic annotation. Together with Malgosia E. Cavar. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. The University of Chicago. 19th of November 2012.
Automatic Linguistic Annotation with TEI-Output. TEI 2012 Conference at Texas A&M, College Station. 9th of November 2012.
The LINGUIST List Corpus: A Large Mailing List Corpus – Management, Annotation and Repository. Together with Malgorzata E. Cavar, Helen Dry Aristar, and Anthony Aristar. TEI 2012 Conference at Texas A&M, College Station. 9th of November 2012.
The Project Gutenberg book archive as a TEI P5 XML text corpus. Together with Malgorzata E. Cavar. TEI 2012 Conference at Texas A&M, College Station. 10th of November 2012.
Dynamic Professional Content Corpora and New Technologies. Wayne State University, 19th of October 2012.
Large Mailing List Corpora: Management, Annotation and Repository. Together with Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Aristar. LREC 2012 Workshop on Challenges in the management of large corpora, Istanbul, 22nd of May, 2012.
Sprachtechnologie und Sprachdokumentation: Eine Darstellung von Projekten des Heimatinstituts der LINGUIST List. Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. 8th of May, 2012.
Bootstrapping NLP and MT Resources for under-resourced languages. Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on-. University of Hamburg, Germany, 4-5 May 2012.
On Split Islands. Presented at the Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group Meeting in the Linguistics Department at the University of Michigan. 20th of Jan. 2012. (Abstract, Handout)
Cyclicity and Opacity Effects in the Prosody of Two Different Clitic Classes in New Shtokavian Variants. (Abstract, Slides) Presented at: Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium (Program). Together with Malgorzata E. Cavar. 11th of November 2011.
Clitic Placement, Syntactic Discontinuity, and information structure . With Melanie Seiß. (Handout, Slides) LFG 2011, Hong Kong. 17th of July 2011.
The Scheme Natural Language Toolkit (S-NLTK): NLP Library for R6RS and Racket. 4 th European Lisp Symposium, Special Focus on Parallelism & Efficiency, TUHH, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, 1st of April 2011.
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Tried turning off "Emphasize own spell effects"?
Tried turning off "Emphasize own spell effects"?
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Thanks for this, OP. I am getting better at it - just LFR so far - although have trouble with the earthshake one. For the others, it's often easiest to be right next to the boss, in the middle, but this can make getting out in time a challenge.
I've found camera angle helps a lot - I gravitate towards a zoomed out, almost top down angle. This is great for all except for the earthshake one again (there's no blue line and with earthshake, a horizontal perspective is often best, as you can see the foot being raised).
That earthshaking strike is still my bugbear.
Took me longer to learn than I had wanted (mainly because some tanks just whirl him around strangely since they run and still get hit). Then I got the hang of it, and my UI bugged never giving me the button. Awesome. Yes, logs verified that I didn't get hit.
His strikes at are semi circle of 180. The only one that is 360 is his aoe fart stomp.
As a tank:
See blue slashy thing on his left move to his right hand
See blue slashy thing on his right move to his left hand
See two blue slashy things left and right? go behind him
See no slashy things? move away from him in any direction that takes the least amount of time until you are far enough away.


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The Mann best known for directing Heat has a gangster movie he needs to turn out better than Public Enemies. He's hired Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) to write the script about Chicago mobsters Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo and Sam Giancana. No studio has come on board Big Tuna yet. Mann landed Turner by paying him his seven-figure fee from his own development fund. No wonder the guy is smiling like a damn idiot.
Turner will work on Big Tuna as he preps his directorial debut on the revenge drama By Virtue Fall, in which Colin Farrell and Eric Bana are attached to star. Just keep Farrell away from the new Mann project. He'll want to grow his hair out again and spend half the film asking for Bacardi mojitos. We get it! It's Miami! (Variety)
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Louth cricketer Arran Brindle chasing World Twenty20 glory
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THERE'S no complacency in the England camp as Louth cricketer Arran Brindle and her team-mates today bid to take a step closer to ICC Women's World Twenty20 glory.
England tackle New Zealand in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bidding to make Sunday's final of the event.
New Zealand have been losing finalists every year since the tournament's inception, and England, the 2009 winners, beat them 4-0 in a series earlier this year.
Brindle, 30, is chasing a maiden Twenty20 world title following her return to the international fold.
Yesterday, the teacher was upbeat as she took part an online video chat with some of her Greenwich House Independent School students, entertaining them with details of her experiences in Sri Lanka.
But although England have been in superb form in the 20-over game, losing only once in 25 matches, Brindle isn't taking anything for granted as the Lions bid to conquer the Kiwis – and set up a final against either Australia or the West Indies.
Brindle told the Telegraph: "We are backing ourselves. If we perform to our capabilities, we know we can win this game but we are not looking beyond a very tough game against New Zealand.
"Our approach is to be positive, that's the way we play our cricket – and we go out to win every game we play.
"I've been part of a couple of world cups before and been knocked out in group stages and semi-finals, so it would be great to make it into the final and go on and win it.
"The girls did that in 2009 and know how it feels so it's a calm and confident camp that just can't wait for the game.
"But all of the last four teams in the tournament are capable of winning it, if they have a good day."
England's superb 21-match unbeaten run in T20 cricket came to end, amid a 4-1 series victory, with a last-ball defeat against the West Indies at Arundel last month.
They qualified for the semi-finals of the world showpiece as group winners after seeing off India, Pakistan and Australia.
Brindle said: "It only takes a few overs for a game to change, as that last match (the defeat) against the West Indies showed.
"Deandra Dottin (the record-holder for the fastest T20 international century) had a great innings and they won it on the last ball.
"But we are full of confidence – we've had lots of games under our belts.
"We know how to cross the line, and want to do that against New Zealand.
"It's great to be part of this squad. There's a lot of experience but still some very young individuals in the team.
"It's a great mix, with people who have already had a lot of success in their short careers and some who have been around a bit longer.
"We complement each other, on and off the field, and hopefully we can put everything into practice."
Pupils at Louth's Greenwich House relished the chance to grill Brindle and skipper Charlotte Edwards, England Women's record run-holder, about life in Sri Lanka – asking questions about the heat, money, food, language, the size of the pitch and people they've met.
Brindle added: "Most of the students take a keen interest in cricket. It was exciting for us to be able to speak and for me to be able to explain to them about the cultural differences between the two countries, and what it's like to live in other parts of the world."
Headteacher Jennifer Brindle said: "The students' enthusiasm to keep in touch with Arran whilst away is tremendous and as a school we do all we can to facilitate it.
"Being able to talk with the England players isn't something everyone is able to do, and we embrace the opportunity to encourage our students to be ambitious about what they can achieve and to give them inspiration and memories that can stay with them throughout their lives."
The school's pupils have been keeping touch with Brindle in Sri Lanka, exchanging messages and videos with their teacher.
Isobel Williams, 10, said: "It was quite amazing to be able to speak to her (Brindle) from here when she's nearly halfway across the world."
Emma Lamyman, 10, added: "We're very proud of her. She is really good at cricket and an important player in the team."
Margaret Milligan-Manby, 10, said: "She takes us outside on the playground to play cricket.
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Kuehne & Nagel is continuing its growth strategy with another acquisition in Central America. As economic slowdown keeps freight growth down in the developed world, it makes sense for K&N to focus on less exploited markets to maintain its profit growth. At the same time, the move expands the Swiss firm's worldwide network still further.
A fundamental shift in executive thinking and continued pressure on margins has meant that a company's supply chain is increasingly being seen as a strategic asset. While businesses are realizing the vital role 3PL can play within this process, logistics providers are also re-assessing their own unique position in the market. Datamonitor lead analyst Chris Morgan explains...
Enterprise expenditure on outsourced and third-party logistics (3PL) is set to experience explosive growth in emerging markets over coming years. Although 3PL providers of all sizes look set to benefit from this growth, consolidation is likely to be a key future factor as clients increase their focus on operational efficiency and seek integrated one-stop services to satisfy their business needs.
At a recent security conference in Las Vegas, demonstrations showed how easy it was to clone a passport equipped with an RFID tag. It seems this is just another indication of how easy it is to get over-enthusiastic about technology, and utilize it for inappropriate means.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - A Bonita Springs man is facing felony charges for beating his pregnant ex-girlfriend and striking her mother.
The incident began Thursday night at the home of the victim, a 6 and a half months pregnant woman. She arrived home in the 9700 block of Carolina Avenue in Bonita Springs at about 9:30 p.m. to find her ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Scott Joseph Snider, drunk, lying in the hammock in her front yard.
The victim asked Snider to leave and according to Lee County investigators he got out of the hammock and threw a bottle at her. The victim attempted to run away and call 911 when Snider attacked.
He began kicking the victim in the stomach several times according to his arrest report and also punched the victim. At that point the victim's mother tried to physically stop Snider and he attacked her.
Eventually the mother retrieved a shotgun, Snider raised his arms and said, "Kill me." The mother fired a warning shot into the air just moments before deputies arrived and Snider fled the scene.
Deputies managed to track Snider down hiding in the backyard of a nearby home. He continually resisted arrest. The scuffle with deputies resulted in Snider being treated for his injuries at an area hospital.
Snider is charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant woman, battery on the mother and resisting arrest without violence.
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