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"Aliens Cause Global Warming" is a rather interesting speech given by Michael Crichton which may have you thinking hard about your opinions on such things as global warming and the danger of secondhand smoke.
We often base our own views on controversial subjects on our understanding of what most experts think, but this sort of reasoning is fallacious, even if we don't have a real alternative.
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Oh yeah? Says who?
I admittedly have mixed feelings about Crichton - I wrote the screenplay for his movie, "Congo," which was largely discarded in favor of a piece of garbage that barely deserved to be called a movie.
That aside, he makes some very valid points, with evidence to support them, regarding the political misuse of scientific data. But then, after laying down case after case, he lumps in global warming and the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, via guilt by association.
This year alone, the polar ice cap lost a record amount of ice, due to melting, hardly a misuse of scientific data. He further states, "The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith." and in doing so, he maintains that because of the faith factor, it has become a religion. I maintain that that belief, rather than being a matter of faith, is a matter of probabilities - the highly unlikelihood that in this vast universe, filled with an untold number of planets, this unremarkable little planet should possess the only forms of life.
They did a much better job with my script for Jurassic Park.
BTW, was it Crichton who rejected or changed your script? If not, I'm not sure why it was worth mentioning, unless you just wanted us to know that. It's an interesting fact, I suppose.
As for intelligent life (or even primitive life), I think it highly unlikely we'll find even primitive life in our solar system. Beyond our solar system, even if the probabilities favor it, I doubt if we'll ever know. Given the vast distances, there won't be any sort of dialog. UNLESS, of course, they show up on our doorstep. But that's unlikely for the same reasons it's unlikely we'll ever be at their doorstep.
There's no doubt that there's unprecedented melting going on (in terms of recorded history). That's a fact. What causes it is still conjecture. Also, even if it is a fact, can we really stop it or will we have to adapt?
If you're up on the arguments by the proponents of climate change, are you equally up on the arguments of the doubters, such as you might find here.
I mentioned it because it gave me reason to doubt Crichton's judgement in some matters.
I didn't say we'd ever take long showers with intelligent alien lifeforms, only that probilities imply they must exist.
Will we have to adapt? Considering that at one time, there was a great, shallow inland ocean that covered most of the mid-western US, my way of adapting is training to tread water.
RE: proponents v. doubters - I try to keep abreast as much as I can, as to what is going on, via global warming, as I have descendants to whom I'll be leaving my world. Other than that, my plate is so full at the moment, that I have little time for anything else. I get most of my global warming info here: http://atheistuniverse.net/group/science/forum
Thank you for the link to Atheist Universe. I hadn't heard of that site before and am now just waiting for a mod to approve my joining so I can start posting there too. I am new here too, and enjoying this site very much as well. :)
Kat, Atheist Universe is not quite as active as this site, in terms of consistent posting, but it is loaded with fascinating scientific information that its administrators actively seek out and present. By becoming a member and subscribing to email alerts, you'll be notified when articles are posted by "Doone" and "Adrianne," some of which you may find useful to rehash here.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change concluded in a very detailed and exhaustive report over many years that the probability of man-made global warming is 90% or above. All of the data shows a clear correlation between human carbon emissions and warming of the planet. There is loads of evidence to show this, so it is more than conjecture. You might like this siite.
The question is, as a race, can we afford to adopt the position that mankind is not contributing to the global melting phenomena. If we decide to immediately take measures to substantially lessen our impact on the environment it might make a HUGE difference for generations down the road. There would be no short term benefits necessarily but our great great grandchildren might be thankful we decided to act now.
The problem I have with being "up on the arguments of doubters" is that said arguments are consistently based on bad sources, misquotes (i.e. dishonest arguments from authority), strange ways of interpreting data (i.e. cherry picking 10 year periods to show temperatures dropping) and other false premises.
Its interesting that the site you linked refers to Climategate. It should be obvious by the fact that the so-called Climategate event involved the spreading by right-wing conspiracy nutters nothing but leaked one-liners and pieces of e-mails rather than the entire e-mails in their full contexts... that the people propagating it had no actual interest in the truth. The guy in this youtube link reiterates this point, but also provides some examples of the actual e-mail bodies that were cherry picked from.
Here is another example; an actual scientist rips into a so called "skeptical" scientific organization by demonstrating fatal flaws in its reports and claims from the organization which were spread by Lord Christopher Monckton.
Should be noted that potholer54 is actually science journalist Peter Hadfield, and not just some random YouTube crank.
Thanks for pointing that out. I find his logic (i.e. be skeptical towards people who give you out of context quotes) and information (in context quotes w/ sources) speak for themselves.
A study out this week attempts to probe why attitudes on climate risks by some segments of the public don't track the science all that well. Along the way, it basically debunks one simplistic assumption: that climate skeptics, for want of a better term, just don't understand the data — or perhaps even science.
Quite the contrary: In the new survey, the most science literate skeptics were also those individuals who were most likely to dig in their heels and reject a consensus view on climate risks. (Science Digest)
The people who doubt the current climate orthodoxy aren't necessarily idiots. There are cultural and attitudinal roots to much of the doubt having nothing to do with self-delusion but rather with values.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and Hollywood celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor returned to hospital on Tuesday after she began vomiting blood, her spokesman said.
The star of 1950s films "Moulin Rouge" and "Lili" was in the hospital last month to have her leg amputated because of a gangrene infection. She had hip replacement surgery in July.
Gabor, 93, began spitting up blood in the morning, and her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, called for an ambulance to take her to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles, said John Blanchette, a spokesman for Gabor.
The actress, who has been a fixture on Hollywood's social scene for decades, is due to turn 94 on Sunday.
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Let's rock!
Aliens till now remains in my top top movies of all time.
I can watch it multiple times and still not get bored of it.
I've even watched the overly long extended one (which I don't recommend watching more that once)
But what made me love Aliens the most is Pvt. Vasquez .. man she rocks!
Remember Avatar? (of course you do) .. I believe, Rodriguez role is mirror-ed after Vasquez.
Well I don't think only Avatar ..a few more ms macho side kick must have originated from Vasquez cause basically the lady kick ass! Kick Major Xenomorph ass!
And let's not forget her iconic Let's Rock!!!! moment...pwroarr! (this was spoof in one of the Aladdin animated movie ...really funny!)
But my fav moment of all is during her final fight with a Xenomorph ..dude ..I mean the lady went one on one with one of the Aliens up close! ..if her character is still alive I bet she can use that as a major selling point in her resume
RIP Vasquez ..you rock!
Monday, August 18, 2014
Why I love the movies # 5
Let's rock!
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Why I love the movies # 4
I watched the movie Serenity first before tackling Firefly Season 1 (the only season). Was intrigued with this band of misfits when I watched Serenity. With abundance of action sequence, crazy witty dialogue that only Whedon can think of and amazing graphics make this a memorable movie experience for me.
But what stood out the most is River Tam , played by the amazing Summer Glau ...miss Glau is such a kick ass action tv (unfortunately) heroine ... she should be in more featured films! Check out the video to understand...the last fight scene was mesmerizing and really well shot.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Why I love the movies # 3
Do not watch this epic scene if you have not watched Invasion of the Body Snatches 1978.
Both Veronica Cartwright ( am a fan!) and Donald Sutherland were marvelous in this scene .. I gotta watch this film again to see if it ages well
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Why I love the movies # 2
Let me start by saying I got this idea from my fav movie website Joblo ..so this is not an original idea for a blog post and I don't care...but credit must be given.
So # 2 is one of my childhood fav , Goonies .. am a BIG fan of Chunk and Data and recently I bought a Data figurine ..it was hard to choose from the 4 Goonies but Data won in the end...however Chunk still won by having the best scene in The Goonies.
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I normally love to imitate scenes from my favorite movies but I dare not imitate this ... enjoy
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Monday, July 14, 2014
Why I love the Movies #1
Am in a bad spot recently , felt so annoyed bout lot of stuff and a good friend suggested to update the blog cause she spots tumbleweeds in it :P ...so here I am back again.
Not gonna be writing any reviews just posting as often as I can bout why I love the movies.
Wanted the first entry to be bout my fav comic movie but earlier I read bout Monty Python and the Holy Grail and automatically brought me to this scene .. I remember laughing at the scene out loud with a bunch of friends...till this day...sometimes I used the same expression and line "I don't know that! - bridge of death dude...so here Enjoy! I know I just did..AGAIN!
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
X-Men Days of Future Past - "Storm ...Scott ...Jean... remember these names"
|tq mix fm .. I really really want this
And it paid off, DOFP is an awesome flick! I love it... Mr Singer came swooping in and clean up the mess that was made in X-Men Last Stand ...and I tell you he really did fix it! But first lets go to the characters, cause one main reason I love X-men and comic book flicks is cause of the characters...
Prof X Young : McAvoy did great! ...he was the main star in this flick. I've once said Patrick Stewart is born to play Prof X ...well now ...dude can pass the torch cause McAvoy ruled! I also liked that Prof X is put in a spotlight more this time around cause really people nowadays fail to realize that X-Men is Prof X...w/o prof there is no X-men ...even the comics Prof X is rarely mentioned before he was killed off 2 years back during Avengers vs X-men stint....yes Prof X is dead (again!) in the comics
Prof X Old : Hey I love Patrick Stewart as Prof X, he can do wrong in my opinion .. his best scene was his interaction with young Prof ...watch out for that scene cause I teared up a bit during that scene..eh!
Magneto Young : He was menacing! Now that's the Magneto we come to love
Magneto Old : He did not do much this time around but every screen time he had counts
Wolverine : Wolverine is still Wolverine nuff said
Mystique : wow oh wow ... they really gave her a lot to do...to tell you the truth in the comics I never really liked Mystique, specially during my the early years I collected comic...I find her lame. But she has grown A LOT both in comics and movies. I loved Rebecca Romijn as Mystique and thought Jen Law was just too cute to play Mystique ..but my my how I have changed my mind now. It'll be perfect if god can combine Ms Romijn good looks and Jen Laws acting capability to play Mystique..hehe
Beast : He's less fluffy looking now! yay!
Storm : She did not do much this time around ...YES! now go recast her for the next movie.
Kitty : Kitty now has something like a time traveling powers, whoopeedo. This is one of the things that I did not like about DOFP , Kitty's sudden emergence of time traveling powers. What's that got to do with her phasing powers? It'll be easier to just bring in Illyana a teleporter AND time traveler AND sorceress to do that mambo jumbo stuff...oh well you can't win em all. Oh but Ellen Page did good as Kitty.
Trask : Singer should have focus on Trask a bit more. Dinklage is a great actor and can really play a pissed off dude whenever he gets the chance ( ref the last weeks ep of Game of Thrones)
Iceman : he was there ..that's it
Colossus : eh dude is so stiff but whatever
Blink! : I love you Blink! I was always intrigue with this character since I saw her in 1994 and when I started reading Exiles I was impressed with this lady. She has an interesting power and look in the comics which conveyed really really well to the big screen. And how Singer used the character's power was impressive! very well thought out (I guess that's why they didn't use Ilyana for the time traveling thingy)
|Illyana Rasputin aka Magik
Quicksilver : The look aside, Quicksilver was aweeeeeeeesome. I was skeptic at first but after watching DOFP, I was glad to be proven wrong. Dude even had one of the best scene in the flick, watch out for his scene (and again this shows how Singer really know how to use his mutant characters)
Bishop : He did okay, when they showcase his powers...that was cool...other than that...he's barely memorable
Sunspot + Warpath : both are actually the power house of their own respective team (New Mutants and X-Force) and not my favs in the comics ..so I didn't give em much thought. Oh but Warpath looks was really spot on with the X-Force costume he had.
Stryker : Was ok
Havok + Ink + Toad + Some Mutant : Kinda sad Havok wasn't showcased much in this flick but as long as he's there I'm ok I guess (Havok is one of my fav btw) as for Ink .. cool but Toad ...yeeeshhh bring back Ray Park! oh another thing ...chronology wise ..it does not make sense how Toad is in this flick. As for the other mutant...who the heck is that?!!!? I'm still confuse on that one.
Now back to the movie, again Mr Singer did good! He used most of the characters correctly as he did in X-Men and X2 it all seems well thought out, specially Blink's (LOVE YOU) character during the fight. That was really well coordinated.
Singer also brought back the importance of having Prof X around. Logan at one point said to young Prof X to promise that he will keep on creating the X-men whatever the outcome of their impending fight. "Storm ...Scott....Jean...remember these names" ...and yes I shed another tear then...damnit!
Which brings me to the next item I love bout the flick...the monologues..the speech of hope ..they were really well written..some are simple...like that "Storm..Scott..." plea from Wolverine ..but it strike a nerve to this one X-fan here.
And then there's the ending...I really really thank Mr Singer for that excellent ending which made me wanna jump out of my chair twice! screaming like a schoolgirl ...there is justice after all...
So yeah...go ahead people..I urge you...watch it, it a good one ... 9/10
p/s : I saw this flick twice! back to back (no joke)
|THANK YOU for coming back and saving the franchise
Scenes to look out for
*anything with Blink
*young Prof X and old Prof X exchange
*Quicksilver freeing Magneto
*near the end
*after credit scene (you have to wait until the credit ends unfortunately)
*cameos from other medium :)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Days of the year with the highest pollen counts also tend to see a greater number of emergency room visits for people with asthma, according to a new study.
The main pollen culprits tied to the increase in hospital visits came from oaks and grasses, whose levels spike in the spring.
"For people who have an allergy component to their asthma, using the tools of pollen surveillance and public health warning systems...can help with behavioral management of symptoms for people who are affected by these diseases," said Lyndsey Darrow, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health.
This might include staying indoors on days when pollen concentrations are elevated.
Darrow said it's been known that pollen can exacerbate individuals' asthma symptoms, but little was known about what this means on a population-wide scale.
She and her colleagues analyzed pollen count data collected from 1993 to 2004 from a monitoring site in Atlanta.
They analyzed daily levels of pollen for five groups of plants: oaks, grasses, ragweed, pines, other evergreens, such as juniper and cypress, and another group of trees including birch and hazelnut.
Darrow's group compared the daily levels of pollen to the number of emergency department visits at 41 hospitals in the greater Atlanta area.
During the study period there were more than 400,000 ER visits related to asthma or wheeze.
The researchers found that days when oak and grass pollen levels were elevated, there were more ER visits.
For instance, days that were in the 95th percentile or above for grass pollen levels were tied to a nearly 10 percent increased risk of ER visits, compared to days that had average or below levels of pollen.
Days with such high pollen counts occurred about six times a year, and a 10 percent increase in trips to the ER meant about 16 extra visitors per day.
Similarly, days in the 95th percentile for oak pollen levels were tied to a nearly 15 percent increased risk in visits to the ER.
Dr. Sunit Jariwala, an assistant professor at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said that given the more than 25 million asthmatics in the U.S., a 10 to 15 percent increased risk of going to the hospital is important.
"Just from the sheer scale of things it's quite significant," said Jariwala, who was not involved in the study.
ER visits vary widely in cost, but are at least several hundred dollars.
Surprisingly, the researchers did not find any link between ragweed - which causes allergies for many people - and increased ER visits.
Darrow said the plant might still have an influence on asthmatics' symptoms, but "it was difficult to distinguish between ragweed and the back-to-school effect of asthma."
Asthma symptoms tend to ramp up when kids return to the classroom and there's a rise in colds and other viruses that can exacerbate the condition, she told Reuters Health.
The authors note in their study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology that the effect of pollen on asthma might change as climate shifts alter pollen production.
Darrow said it's not clear yet what those changes might be.
One study has found that the ragweed season is already longer than it was nearly two decades ago. (See Reuters report of February 21, 2011: reut.rs/hlQBbv.)
As for the impact of current pollen levels, Jariwala said Darrow's results are likely to be an underestimate of the full impact of pollen on asthma symptoms, because the researchers only tallied emergency department visits.
"A fraction (of people affected) are actually seen" in the ER, he told Reuters Health.
Some people might suffer through it without seeking medical help, and others might go their family physician instead.
"There's all different levels of severity," agreed Darrow. "It's only the tip of the iceberg."
SOURCE: bit.ly/QeoWQ8 The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online July 30, 2012.


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Some researchers suspect that at the root of CFIDS and FM may actually be a primary sleep disorder. This idea is supported by the findings of a Canadian researcher who studied the effects of non-REM sleep deprivation on a group of medical students. Over a period of several nights, each time the students were going into non-REM phase they would be deliberately disturbed. The result was that in a few days they developed all the classic symptoms of CFIDS and FM.
Research has shown that the sleep medications currently available, while they may help you sleep, do not help with the disturbance of the non-REM phase. What can you do to support your body's need for good quality sleep? There are several issues you can address.
1. "Night People." I know that many people consider themselves "night people", going to bed in the early morning hours and sleeping later into the day. You may feel that you just can't get to sleep before 1 a.m., or your body just doesn't "want" to go to sleep earlier.Or perhaps you have operated this way for a number of years even before you got sick.
While this pattern may seem natural to you, it is a learned habit and is not a natural part of your body's metabolic functioning. The body's physiology and neurochemistry are designed to be responsive to the natural cycles of nature, including daylight and darkness. Your pineal gland, which regulates your hormonal system and is involved in the release of melatonin, is very sensitive to daylight and darkness.
Of course you can override your body's natural functioning to some degree with learned habits. However, you can help it restore harmony if you will come back into a more natural timing of your sleep pattern. This means establishing your bedtime around 10:00.
If you are currently in the habit of staying up much later, you can gradually move your bed time up by getting up a few minutes earlier each morning progressively for several days. This will make it easier to go to bed sooner until gradually you reach your target of a 10:00 bedtime.
2. "My mind won't quiet down." The body may be ready to sleep, but as you know, you can't sleep if your mind is speeding. It's clear that the disease process of CFIDS affects the neurological system and this may contribute to the speeding and agitated mind you experience at bed time.There are several ways you can work with this.
First is to eliminate all stimulants from your diet ‹ particularly caffeine (coffee, chocolate, black tea) even in the morning. Such stimulants take a long time to be detoxed and eliminated from your body, and their effects can linger far longer than they might in a normal healthy person.
Second, finish your evening meal by 6 or 6:30 p.m., so your body's digestive processes can be at rest when you go to bed. If you need to alter your eating pattern earlier in the day to establish this, then work backwards accordingly.
Third, do not watch television in the evening. The whole purpose of television is to stimulate your neurological system as much as possible with bright flashing colors, sharp noises, compelling emotional images, etc. (In fact,you would do your neurological system a big favor to eliminate TV all together.)Let the evening hours be restful and non stimulating so you can more easily calm the mind for sleep.
Fourth, when your mind is speeding and you can't get to sleep, give it a focus. This can be in the form of the repetition of a comforting word orphrase with each breath. For example, on the in-breath you may think to yourself "Breathing in", and on the out-breath, "Breathing out." Any word or phrase you prefer will do. The point is that you keep gently returning the mind to a comfortable, nonstimulating focus whenever you notice that it has wandered into stimulating thought.
This mental focus process can go on as long as necessary. It is far preferable to do this than to allow the mind to become caught up in worry about the consequences of not sleeping. You are allowing the body to rest, and you are not stimulating the mind further with worrisome thoughts. Any degree of rest that you are capable of on a given night is a contribution to your healing.


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Dynabeads Goat anti-Mouse IgG in combination with primary mouse IgG antibodies are ideal for depletion or positive isolation of cells from different species (e.g. human, rat) depending on the specificity of the primary antibody. Cells can be directly isolated from any sample such as whole blood, bone marrow, MNC suspensions or tissue digests.
Principle of Isolation
The primary mouse IgG antibody is either added to the cell sample (indirect technique) or pre-coated onto the beads (direct technique) prior to cell isolation. Dynabeads are then mixed with the cell sample in a tube. The Dynabeads will bind to the target cells during a short incubation, and then the bead-bound cells are separated by a magnet.
- Positive isolation – discard the supernatant and use the bead-bound cells for downstream applications (e.g. molecular analysis or cell culture).
- Depletion – discard the bead-bound cells and use the remaining, untouched cells for any application.
Description of Materials
Dynabeads Goat anti-Mouse IgG are uniform, superparamagnetic polystyrene beads (4.5 μm diameter) coated with polyclonal goat anti-mouse IgG antibodies. The antibody coated onto Dynabeads recognises the heavy chain of most mouse IgG subclasses and is Fc-reactive. Cross-reactivity to human antibodies is minimal.
Materials Supplied
- 5 mL Dynabeads Goat anti-Mouse IgG
- 4 x 108 beads/mL in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, containing 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.02% sodium azide (NaN³).
This product will process up to 2 x 10 9 cells
Additional Materials Required
Materials that are not included, but are needed to perform the entire protocol:
- Mouse IgG antibodies.
- Magnet: (Dynal MPC™) - MPC-S for 20 μl to 2 mL samples, MPC-L for 1-8 mL samples, MPC-15 for 1-15 mL samples and MPC-50 for 15-50 mL samples.
- Mixer allowing both tilting and rotation.
- Buffer 1: PBS (without Ca2+ and Mg2+) w/0.1% BSA and 2 mM EDTA, pH 7.4.
Dynabeads Washing Procedure
Dynabeads should be washed before use.
- Resuspend the Dynabeads in the vial.
- Transfer the desired volume of Dynabeads to a tube.
- Add the same volume of Buffer 1, or at least 1 mL, and mix.
- Place the tube in a magnet for 1 min and discard the supernatant.
- Remove the tube from the magnet and resuspend the washed Dynabeads in the same volume of Buffer 1 a the initial volume of Dynabeads (step 2).
Sample Preparation
Cells can be directly isolated from any sample such as whole blood, bone marrow, MNC or tissue digests. Please visit www.lifetechnologies.com/samplepreparation and follow our QuickLinks for recommended sample preparation procedures.
Critical Steps for Cell Isolation
Use a mixer that provides tilting and rotation of the tubes to ensure Dynabeads do not settle at the bottom of the tube.
- When incubating Dynabeads and cells, the incubation temperature must be 2 - 8°C to reduce phagocytic activity and other metabolic processes.
- Never use less than 25 μl (1 x 107) Dynabeads per mL cell sample and at least 4 Dynabeads per target cell
Table 1: Volume of Dynabeads added per mL of cell sample. The volumes can be scaled up as required.
|Positive isolation
|Sample volume (1 x 107 cells/mL*)
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target cells
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* If the concentration of cells is increased or the target cell concentration exceeds 2.5 x 106, the Dynabeads volume must be increased accordingly. Cell concentration can be up to 1 x 108cells per mL
Cell Isolation - Indirect Technique
Labeling Cells with Mouse IgG Antibodies
Use approximately 1 μg of primary antibody (mouse IgG) per 106 target cells.
- Recommended cell concentration: 1 x 107 cells/mL.
- Add primary antibody to the cell suspension and mix.
- Incubate for 10 min at 2-8°C.
- Wash the cells by adding 2 mL Buffer 1 per 1 x 107 cells and centrifuge at 300 x g for 8 min. Discard the supernatant.
- Resuspend the cells in Buffer 1 at 1 x 107 cells per mL.
- Proceed to Isolation or Depletion of Cells.
Isolation or Depletion of Cells
- Add Dynabeads to the prepared sample according to Table 1.
- Incubate for 20 min (positive isolation) or 30 min (depletion) at 2 - 8°C with gentle tilting and rotation.
- Double the volume with Buffer 1 to limit trapping of unbound cells (optional).
- Place the tube in a magnet for 2 min.
- Depletion: Transfer the supernatant containing the unbound cells to a fresh tube for further experiments.
- Positive isolation: Discard the supernatant and gently wash the bead-bound cells 4 times, using the following procedure:
i) Add 1 mL Buffer 1 per 1 x 107 Dynabeads.
ii) Place the tube in the magnet for 1 min and discard the supernatant.
- Resuspend the cells in buffer/medium for downstream application.
Pre-coating Dynabeads
- Use 0.5 – 1.5 μg of primary antibody (mouse IgG) per 25 μl (1 x 107) Dynabeads. It is necessary to titrate the amount of antibody.
- Transfer washed Dynabeads to a tube.
- Add mouse IgG antibodies.
- Incubate for ≥ 30 minutes at 2-8°C with gentle tilting and rotation.
- Place the tube in a magnet for 1 min and discard the supernatant.
- Wash the beads twice using 2 mL of Buffer 1.
- Remove the tube from the magnet and resuspend the Dynabeads in the same volume Buffer 1 as the initial volume of Dynabeads.
Isolation or Depletion of Cells
- Add the pre-coated Dynabeads to the cells according to Table 1.
- Incubate for 20 min (positive isolation) or 30 min (depletion) at 2 - 8°C with gentle tilting and rotation.
- Double the volume with Buffer 1 to limit trapping of unbound cells (optional).
- Place the tube in a magnet for 2 min.
- Depletion: Transfer the supernatant containing the unbound cells to a fresh tube for further experiments.
- Positive isolation: Discard the supernatant and gently wash the bead-bound cells 4 times, using the following procedure: 7
- Resuspend the cells in buffer/medium for downstream application.
Indirect versus Direct Technique
Use the indirect technique when:
- A cocktail of mouse monoclonal antibodies is used.
- Very high depletion efficiency is needed.
- The affinities of mouse antibodies are low.
- The cells express low number of target antigens.
- The direct technique gives unsatisfactory purity.
The direct technique may be used if:
- The affinity of the primary antibody is high.
- The cells express a high number of target antigens.
- A stock preparation of primary coated Dynabeads is desired.
Antibody selection
The choice of primary antibody is the most important factor for successful cell isolation. Note that some antibodies may show reduced antigen-binding efficiency when coated onto beads (direct technique), even though the antibody shows good results in other immunological assays.
Labeling Cells with Mouse IgM Antibodies
- To avoid non-specific binding of cells (e.g. monocytes, B cells), add aggregated IgG to block Fc receptors prior to adding the primary antibodies.
- Excess antibody must be removed by washing before cell isolation.
Isolation and Depletion of Target Cells
- Remove density gradient media (e.g. Ficoll): Wash cells prior to adding mouse IgG antibodies or Dynabeads.
- Remove soluble factors in serum: Serum may contain soluble factors (e.g. antibodies or cell surface antigens), which can interfere with the cell isolation protocol. Washing the cells once may reduce this interference.
Invitrogen Dynal AS complies with the Quality System Standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003.
This product is stable until the expiry date stated on the label when stored unopened at 2-8°C. Store opened vials at 2-8°C and avoid bacterial contamination. Keep Dynabeads in liquid suspension during storage and all handling steps, as drying will result in reduced performance. Resuspend well before use.
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This product is for research use only. Not intended for any animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use unless otherwise stated. Follow appropriate laboratory guidelines. This product contains 0.02% sodium azide as a preservative, which is cytotoxic.
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DENVER — If he wants, Peyton Manning can use all that time at home to crank up the DVD player and watch the highlights.
What a set he put together for himself and his acrobatic receivers on Sunday.
Manning and the Denver Broncos wrapped up home-field advantage through the AFC playoffs with a predictable 38-3 runaway over the Kansas City Chiefs — a win punctuated by a pair of touchdown passes as nifty as any of the 37 Manning threw this year for his new team, which closed the regular season on an 11-game win streak.
Touchdown No. 1 was a ball slightly overthrown to Eric Decker. He brought the ball into his helmet with his left hand, had it pinball against his facemask twice, then cradled it with both hands as he was falling to the ground.
Touchdown No. 2 was thrown high to Demaryius Thomas, who leaped in the back of the end zone, snatched it with his right hand and got his feet down inside the line.
That score made it 28-3 and the celebration was on. The only trip the Broncos (13-3) will have to make on their road to a championship would be to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. They'll open the playoffs at home the weekend of Jan. 12-13.
Coach John Fox, in search of his second trip to the Super Bowl, won his 100th career game. Thomas and linebacker Wesley Woodyard congratulated him with a big splash of orange Gatorade at the end.
Manning, in search of his fifth MVP award and, yes, a second Super Bowl title, finished 23 for 29 for 304 yards, three scores and a 144.8 passer rating. Those stats easily could've been padded had he played the fourth quarter.
But there was no need for that for a quarterback, and a team, with much bigger things in front of them.
Thanks to Houston's 28-16 loss to Indianapolis in a game that ended before the Broncos kicked off, Denver will be the top seed in the conference for the sixth time. The Broncos made the Super Bowl four of the previous five times.
This marked the 73rd three-touchdown game for Manning, surpassing the record held by Brett Favre. Manning closed the regular season with 4,659 yards, only 41 short of his career high.
Jamaal Charles ran for 53 yards for the Chiefs (2-14), who finished with a total of 119 yards of offense and wrapped up the first pick in next year's draft.
Coach Romeo Crennel watched the game from the sideline, leaning on a crutch, after having his knee drained of fluid earlier in the week. Many in Kansas City expect him to be unemployed soon.
Though the Chiefs gave the Broncos as tough a tussle as anyone during their winning streak — in a 17-9 loss last month — this wasn't expected to be much of a game. It wasn't.
Leave it to Manning to ramp up the degree of difficulty.
Last week in an equally easy win against the Browns, he threw a pair of touchdown passes — one to Decker, one to Thomas — that the receivers snatched out of nearly perfect coverage. Manning said he was happy with those plays because he put the passes where only the receivers could catch them, and they did.
This time, he almost threw both balls out of everyone's range.
Decker's one-hand-to-helmet grab late in the second quarter was a 16-yard TD that gave Denver a 21-3 lead. It highlighted a seven-catch, 76-yard, two-touchdown day for the third-year receiver. It almost certainly would've been the top highlight had it not been for the Manning-to-Thomas connection on the first drive of the third quarter.
That 13-yard score had shades of Montana-to-Clark: thrown high in the back of the end zone where only the 6-foot-3 receiver could catch it. He saw the ball coming, situated himself for the leap, jumped high and grabbed the ball with his right hand, cradling it into his body. Thomas finished with seven catches for 122 yards.


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"Charlyn is very dynamic athletically," Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "When you first see her play, the first thing you notice is her jumping ability. She is very explosive.
"She is going to be a good fit for us. I am very excited because of the way she plays."
Ursell, a sophomore, has entered Lipscomb as a student for the spring semester and will practice with the team. She will be given the opportunity to take over the starting right side role left vacant due to Erin Pierce exhausting her eligibility.
Ursell played in 119 sets for Arkansas State this past season as an outside hitter. She made 258 kills, an average of 2.17 per set. She made 67 blocks (seven blocked shots, 60 block assists) and posted a .162 hitting percentage.
As a freshman she played in 23 sets in 12 matches. She was credited with 38 kills and a .225 hitting percentage.
"In her time at Arkansas State she did some great stuff statistically," Rosenthal said. "She understands what our program is all about here. She wants to be a part of that."
She likes being a part of a team and helping to bring her teammates together and keeping their excitement level high while bey are on the court.
"I like the emotional part of it," Ursell said. "I want to keep my teammates excited. I want to keep them from getting down."
Ursell was home-schooled her final three years of high school. She played volleyball with outstanding club teams in both her hometown of Houston, Texas and Chicago. She made six trips to national tournaments as a club player. In 2006, playing for the Sports Performance Volleyball Club in Aurora, Ill., she led the team to the National Championship in the open division of the Junior Olympics..
She also played for the Texas Tornadoes in Houston. As a senior she played for Advantage Volleyball in Houston.
"She comes from a very strong club background," Rosenthal said. "The thing to note about her is that she played club volleyball six year sand every year she went to the national tournament in Junior Olympics."
Ursell thinks that blocking is the key to being an effective right side.
"The big role is blocking the other team's big outside hitter," Ursell said. "It also depends on what happens when the setter passes it is usually the right side's role to set the ball. You get a little bit of everything on the right side."
Ursell had several reasons to want to be a part of the Lady Bisons, the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season and tournament champion. She was impressed by the Lady Bisons players as well as Rosenthal and his assistant coach, Samantha Sullivan.
"Brandon really does a lot for the girls," Ursell said. :"If music helps them practice better then they can have music during practice. Other coaches seem to tune you out and don't really listen to your opinions."
Rosenthal expects Ursell to bring a high intensity level to practice. Pierce and Amy Trykowski are the top losses for the Lady Bisons.
"There is definitely a hole to be filled at the right side," Rosenthal said. "I think Charlyn is going to have every opportunity to make that position hers.
"Bringing in an experienced player to an already experienced team is exciting. It is going to add more competition."
Ursell has already impressed Rosenthal without making a play on the court. The transfer process often has to be completed quickly and Ursell was diligent in making sure that everything was in order.
"That was a great sign for me," Rosenthal said. "Our program is very detail-oriented. I don't need a lot of excuses. I just need players to do what I ask them to do. Her diligence is something I am impressed with."
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Trump wants to shut down news firms that criticize him
WASHINGTON, U.S. - U.S. President Donald Trump landed himself in another controversy, suggesting on Wednesday that news organizations that he disagrees with be shut down.
Trump's latest statement was, by far, the President's worst criticism against critical news reports that he called "frankly disgusting."
Trump's statements alarmed free-speech advocates who compared the tactics to intimidation efforts by the Nixon administration.
Trump seemed to have been reacting to an NBC News report that he had pushed senior aides in July for a major expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
It was this report that reportedly prompted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to refer to Trump as a "moron" after the meeting at the Pentagon.
Trump took to Twitter, calling the report "pure fiction made up to demean" him and questioned whether networks that report "Fake News" should be stripped of their broadcasting licenses.
Incidentally, the Federal Communications Commission licenses individual stations and affiliates, not networks.
Trump declared on Twitter, "Bad for the country!"
Then, responding to questions from reporters in the Oval Office, Trump denied expressing a desire for more nuclear weapons and again criticized NBC.
Trump said, "It's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it."
The President added that he was not calling for limits to be imposed on the media, but he said that "the press should speak more honestly."
He added, "I mean, I've seen tremendously dishonest press. It's not even a question of distortion. . . . And then they have their sources that don't exist."
On Wednesday night, Trump reiterated his call for possibly challenging networks' licenses over their news coverage.
He left a message on Twitter and said, "Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!"
His close aides suggest Trump is frustrated over his stalled legislative agenda and political troubles.
Commenting on the ongoing investigations into his campaign's ties to Russia, last week, Trump suggested that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate news outlets over "fake news."
Then, days later, he expressed anger at late-night television hosts over their "unfunny anti-Trump" material.
He proposed bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, a rule phased out in 1987.
The rule required broadcasters to provide "equal time" for divergent political views on certain issues.
First Amendment advocates criticised the president over his remarks and called them an assault on the Constitution.
Michael Copps, who served as chairman of the FCC in 2009 under President Barack Obama said in a statement, "I think it's dangerous and has a chilling effect. I worry not just about somebody like NBC, which has a lot of resources to defend themselves, but especially about small, independent broadcasters who express opinions but do not have resources to do battle with the president."
However, later in the day, legal experts called the president's threat against NBC empty.
They noted that the FCC does not grant licenses to networks.
They further added that it is rare for individual stations' licenses to be stripped over political concerns or for other reasons.
Meanwhile, in response to Trump's tweet, Jessica Rosenworcel, a member of the FCC, wrote on Twitter, "Not how it works."
The tweet was linked to an FCC report on how stations are regulated.
Andrew Schwartzman, a media law specialist at the Georgetown University Law Center said, "Obviously, when a public official, much less the president, threatens media outlets with any kind of legal proceedings, it is a cause for grave concern as a First Amendment matter. But as a practical matter there is no possible legal jeopardy for Comcast (NBC owner) television licenses."
According to the NBC report, Trump's reaction over the nuclear stockpile came after senior advisers showed the President information charting its steady decline in numbers since the 1960s during the meeting at the Pentagon in July.
Trump is said to have expressed a desire to expand the arsenal by up to 10 times its current size.
NBC has not formally responded to Trump's attacks on the network.
Courtney Kube, a national security reporter for the network, said in a tweet, "NBC News didn't report Trump 'called for' more nucs. On the contrary, we reported Trump said he wanted more but no one took it as an order."
Further, Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said Trump's attacks risk "outrage fatigue."
He, however, added, "A call to challenge the licenses of news organizations for doing their jobs is genuinely shocking. This is the language of an autocrat, not the elected leader of a democracy."


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Dogs won't be allowed on Volusia County Beaches after all.
The Volusia County Council said no Thursday to a proposal to temporarily allow leashed dogs on the beaches. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports discussion about the issue touched on parasites, bites and possible confrontations between dog owners and people who would rather visit a dog-free beach.
Earlier in January, the council agreed to draft a test ordinance to allow leashed dogs on beaches for up to three months. On Thursday, they heard from the county's health department, federal officials and residents before ditching the proposal.
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Alice Goffman Award Statement
The ASA Dissertation Award honors the best PhD dissertation for a calendar year from among those submitted by advisors and mentors. The winner of this year's award is Alice Goffman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mitchell Duneier served as her dissertation advisor with Viviana Zelizer, Paul Dimaggio, Devah Pager, and Cornel West rounding out her committee at Princeton University.
Drawing on intensive fieldwork with unemployed young men in Philadelphia, Goffman's thesis gives us a view of mass incarceration from the ground. It is a close up account of the profound impact that the prison boom and the war on drugs are having on everyday life in the American ghetto.
Goffman's thesis focuses on a group of loosely connected young men who spend their days enmeshed in one aspect of the criminal justice system or another: entangled in court cases, probation and parole sentences, living in halfway houses and on house arrest. They frequently have low level warrants out for their arrest, mostly for technical violations of their probation or parole, for failure to show up to court, or for unpaid fines. The thesis first describes the sophisticated tracking techniques that a growing number of special police units now deploy to make their arrest quotas. Then it takes the reader into the world of young men living with a liminal legal status, in their words, "on the run". Goffman explains how boys learn to successfully spot and hide from undercover police; how they come to see their mothers' homes as last-known addresses, and their closest kin as potential informants. By the time they reach adulthood, young men recognize that the activities and relations that should help them constitute a respectable, law-abiding identity -- going to work, attending the birth of a child, or maintaining a stable and public daily routine – function instead as a net of entrapment. Staying out of jail requires secrecy and unpredictability -- strategies deeply at odds with any effort to be responsible fathers, spouses, or workers.
After bringing the reader deep into the lives of young men "dipping and dodging" the police, the thesis switches gears, taking on the perspective of these young men's mothers, girlfriends, and neighbors. Through first-hand accounts of early morning raids and lengthy interrogations, Goffman documents the sustained pressure the police place on female family members to inform. As the police destroy their homes and threaten to take their children away, women are forced to choose between their own security and their partner or son's freedom. In painful detail we learn how familial and romantic relationships unravel in suspicion and betrayal.
Yet for all this, Goffman's thesis never depicts men and women as hapless victims, immobilized in webs of control. Some of the most interesting parts of the dissertation involve the creative ways that residents use the police and the courts for their own purposes, in ways the authorities never intended. For young men with few employment prospects, warrants become a ready excuse for failures in the labor market. The bail office becomes an alternative banking system, and even jail occasionally serves as a safe haven when the streets become too dangerous. In anger and frustration, women harness the threat of the police to control and punish the men in their lives. They also organize meaningful routines around court dates, bail payments, and jail visiting hours. An entire branch of the informal economy has developed to supply the goods and services that legally compromised people seek to evade the authorities, and local residents are earning extra cash hawking everything from clean urine to fake documents.
In the penultimate chapter Goffman shows how the threat of prison has come to permeate the social fabric of the community, creating a moral framework through which residents carve out their identities, negotiate right from wrong, and demonstrate their attachment to one another. Her dissertation ends with the suggestion that granting a legally precarious status to large numbers of young men – far more than ever go to prison and return home with criminal convictions -- amounts to a denial of basic citizenship rights for a large segment of the country's African American poor. Goffman makes a convincing case that the systems of policing and surveillance currently deployed in American ghettos are not producing the disciplined subjects as one might expect in some prison-like panopticon, but rather a community of suspects and fugitives who are living underground, in fear of capture and confinement.
This year's thesis is not only a major contribution to the study of U.S. poverty and racial inequality, but a landmark contribution to urban ethnography. It should serve to inspire another generation of sociologists to see the value of long range, respectful, and observant participation in everyday life.


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The invitation to Tuesday night's special screening of Alexander Payne's new movie, "Nebraska," came from Will Forte, whose surprise casting provides just one of the film's many unexpected pleasures.
And Forte was taking his hosting duties seriously, welcoming friends and guests to United Talent Agency's pristine screening room, offering a few introductory remarks ("Oh ... I was told you were allowed to record it ... wait, now I'm being told ...") and even directing people to the bathroom during a pleasant, low-key reception following the film.
"It's such a privilege just being part of something like this, I'm happy to do whatever I can," Forte told me between accepting compliments from well-wishers. "Where's your car? You need your car pulled up to the front?"
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"Nebraska" focuses on Woody Grant, an elderly man (Bruce Dern) convinced he has won a $1 million sweepstakes prize from a mass-market mailer. His wife (June Squibb) dismisses the idea, so Woody decides -- again and again and again -- to walk from his home in Billings, Mont., to Lincoln, Neb., to claim the prize. Finally, Woody's warmhearted son, David (Forte), agrees to drive him to Lincoln. Along the way, they stop in the small Nebraska town where Woody grew up and much of his family still lives.
It's an outstanding movie, ranking with Payne's ("The Descendants," "Sideways") best work. Talking to Payne in Cannes, where the wide-screen, black-and-white film premiered in May, Times film critic Kenneth Turan called it a "tart-tongued screwball comedy with unexpected poignancy and warmth." And that feeling sneaks up on you, building its power from the way the movie upends the audience's expectations for its characters.
"When I first read it, I was surprised at almost every turn," said Squibb, who attended the event Tuesday night with Forte, Dern and the movie's producers, Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger. "At first, I thought my character would just be a nag, you know? But then it just slowly reveals who she is and what she has been through. And it does that with every character. It's just beautiful."
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Following the screening, Forte spent a fair amount of time huddled with his onetime "Saturday Night Live" costar Jason Sudeikis, who was there with wife Olivia Wilde, and a host of other comedy all-stars including Ed Helms, Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.
Forte had just seen Sudeikis and Wilde three weeks ago at Seth Meyers' wedding. (Hold on ... we thought Meyers married this guy. "That was annulled," Forte joked.) Knowing Forte and his potential to dig deeper as a dramatic actor still didn't quite prepare his friends for the strength of his work in "Nebraska."
An appreciative Forte preferred to shine a light on his costars -- and not just Dern and Squibb, but the countless extras Payne and his longtime casting director collaborator, John Jackson, found to play Woody's family and the residents of his hometown.
"One guy came from community theater, while some had never acted a day in their lives," Forte said. "And they just nailed every line and emotion. These people really add to the fabric of the movie and make it something special."
Payne, Dern and Squibb will bring "Nebraska" to the New York Film Festival on Oct. 8. It opens in theaters Nov. 15.
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Saturday, Feb. 6, marked my eighth anniversary with Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.
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Kristen Stewart is famous for changing into her casual attire after gracing the red carpet and it was no different for the star after the NYC attending the NYC screening of Eclipse. Showing off her new locks in a plait updo Kristen changed into a legging/tee combo.
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WYTHEVILLE -- Grayson County battled George Wythe to the end last Friday night before losing the opening game of the Region C Division 2 playoffs, 21-14 at Pendleton Field.
It was the first time the Blue Devils had advanced to the playoffs since 2007 and ironically it was against George Wythe.
The Blue Devils fought from behind twice to tie the game at 7 and 14.
The Maroons (7-3) got on the scoreboard on their opening drive.
After returning the opening kickoff to its own 31, the Maroons tried a running play but the runner was nailed in the backfield by Darren Anderson for a 4-yard loss.
George Wythe got good yardage on two long pass plays and on first down from the 27, Isaac Young broke through the Blue Devil defense for a 20-yard touchdown run with less than two minutes ticked of the clock in the opening quarter. The kick was good and the Maroons led 7-0.
After forcing a Blue Devil punt, the Maroons put together another good drive only to have it stopped at the Blue Devil 34 by a good defensive effort and failing to convert a fourth-down play.
The Blue Devils marched down field behind the running of quarterback Ethan Hash and running backs Xavier Rodriguez and Anderson.
The big play of the drive came on a 27-yard pass completion from Hash to Mikey Rodgers good to the 6-yard-line.
Rodriguez picked up five yards on first down and Hash carried it into the end zone on the next play. A kick by Mario Ruiz tied the score at 7.
George Wythe intercepted a Hash pass and set up another touchdown, returning the ball to the Blue Devil 6. Young scored his second touchdown of the game on a 5-yard run.
Grayson County tied the score with 6:06 left in the third period when Eric Harvey hauled in a Hash pass for a 62-yard touchdown. Ruiz kicked the extra point to tie the score at 14.
Young scored what turned out to be the winning touchdown with 2:30 to play in the third period.
Grayson had a game-tying touchdown called back in the fourth because of an illegal block in the back.
The Blue Devils had one last-ditch scoring drive that stalled at the Maroon 20 with 2:37 to play.
The Grayson defense forced a Maroon fumble with less than a minute to play. After a first down incomplete pass, the Blue Devils fumbled inside the 10 and the Maroons recovered and ran the clock out.
Blue Devil coach Brett McPherson said both teams battled hard for the win but the Maroons pulled it off.
"I'm proud of the kids for having a good season and making the playoffs," McPherson said. "We had our chances tonight but they didn't work out."
McPherson said Rodriguez injured his foot in the first half and this hampered the running game.
Grayson County..... 7 0 7 0––14
George Wythe........ 7 7 7 0––21
First quarter
GW–Young 20 run (Hawks kick) 10:10
GC–Hash 1 run (Ruiz kick) 0:30
Second quarter
GW–Young 5 run (Hawks kick) 7:52
Third quarter
GC–Harvey 62 pass from Hash (Ruiz kick) 6:06
GW–Young 20 run (Hawks kick) 2:30
First downs 13 12
Rushes-yards 31-67 46-247
Yards passing 151 61
Comp-Att-Int 6-20-2 3-7-0
Return yards 49 69
Punts-average 4-19.0 3-36.6
Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-1
Penalties-yards 5-35 6-52
RUSHING—Grayson County, Rodriguez 9-34, Hash 14-32, Anderson 6-15, Watson 1-(-9). George Wythe, Young 13-104, Hall 11-99, Tolley 11-46, Castenon 3-15, Price 2-3, Willis 5-(-20).
PASSING–Grayson County, Hash 6-20-1-111, Rodriguez 0-1-0-0. George Wythe, Willis 3-7-0-61.
RECEIVING–Grayson County, Harvey 4-113, Mk.Rodgers 1-26. George Wythe, Lester 1-32, Tolley 1-15, Calfee 1-14.
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Arias key witness feels social media's heat
For three days this week, a domestic violence expert witness named Alyce LaViolette held her own against prosecutor Juan Martinez in the Jodi Arias murder case in Maricopa County Superior Court. But LaViolette was annihilated in cyberspace. VPC
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For three days this week, a domestic violence expert witness named Alyce LaViolette held her own against prosecutor Juan Martinez in the Jodi Arias murder case in Maricopa County Superior Court.
But LaViolette was annhilated in cyberspace.
The Arias case is an international phenomenon, reduced to a parable of good and evil when relayed in 140-character posts. Travis Alexander, the secret lover she killed in 2008, has become a cause celebre. Arias has become a pariah, and everyone associated with her is considered evil by thousands in the social-media audience.
LaViolette took the stand March 26, hired by the defense to persuade the jury that Arias was a victim of domestic abuse by Alexander.
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The tweets and other social media posts began appearing by the next week. "You can show your disgust with LaViolette," they began, and they posted her office phone number and her website, and they suggested that people write negative reviews of her bestselling book on Amazon.com.
As of Tuesday, there were more than 500 of them, panning the book and calling LaViolette a fraud and a disgrace.
People also were calling the organizations that had booked her for speaking engagements, trying to persuade them to fire her.
And on a day when she and Martinez bickered over the meaning of stalking, someone had obviously followed her to dinner and later posted photos of her dining with Arias's defense attorney Jennifer Willmott and one of her legal staff. The posted photo was accompanied by comments implying that somehow, defense attorneys are not allowed to communicate with the experts they hire.
The barrage of cyberstalking was the subject of lengthy meetings in a judge's chambers on Monday. It sent LaViolette to the emergency room last weekend.
Legal observers are not certain if it constitutes witness tampering, slander, or just an expression of free speech.
"It's the electronic version of a lynch mob," said retired Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fields.
But it is probably a taste of a future to come.
Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer and professor of journalism at Columbia University, said he had never seen anything like the attack on LaViolette.
"This is a logical extension of witness intimidation, taken to an extreme conclusion," he said.
But he believes we will see it again.
"I imagine this is going to be standard operating procedure in prominent cases," he said.
Jodi Arias, 32, admits killing Alexander, 30, but she claims she did so in self-defense. He was found in June 2008 in the shower of his Mesa home, with nearly 30 stab wounds, a bullet in the head and a slit throat.
The case evidence has played out in digital format, from steamy photos and an X-rated phone-sex call recorded on a mobile phone to hundreds of text messages, instant messages, e-mails, MySpace pages and blog posts.
It has spawned a social media sub-cult of followers who chronicle the trial on Twitter and Facebook pages, with pages that support Alexander or condemn Arias. Martinez has been raised to folk-hero status, frequently photo-shopped with photos of Alexander to make it look as if the two are standing arm in arm. Tweets fly every day during trial, exchanging conspiracy theories, mostly praising Martinez and damning the Arias defense team. Some of it lapses into obscenity, such as the tweeter who uses a screen-grab photo of Arias' nether regions as an Avatar.
The social-media subcult has not been content to merely watch the trial. It has decided to take part.
LaViolette, 65, has worked as a counselor and psychotherapist for battered women since 1978. She has founded programs in domestic abuse, written books about the subject, given speeches at conferences and testified as an expert witness in trials.
During her testimony in the Arias trial, she described domestic abuse, and then walked the jury through why she felt that Arias had been controlled, manipulated, and physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Alexander. Martinez fought her bitterly, questioning her theories and her credentials, trying to make her crack and bumble as he had done to earlier witnesses. LaViolette, who spent a career counseling aggressive people, did not back down.
Since Martinez began cross-examining LaViolette late last week, the two have traded insults like a pair of boxers throwing kidney punches in the clinch. The slugfest was a stalemate, and trial watchers saw what they wanted to see: Martinez bobbing and weaving with rapid-fire questions that he demanded be answered by yes or no; LaViolette standing her ground and occasionally stinging Martinez with jabs like, "If you were in my group, Mr. Martinez, I would ask you to take a time out."
The cyber cult took up the Twitter suggestions to harass LaViolette.
"Shame on you Alyce!!! I hope Jodi gets the death penalty and you watch your career flush down the toilet," a person named Carol wrote as a review to LaViolette's book, It Could Happen To Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay.
"She looks like Harry Potter's grandmother and I am sure that she has a crush on Jodi Arias because why else would she lie for that skank killer!" wrote C. Pride"Mommyof5."
They have attacked other segments of her career.
"I've been contacted by numerous people asking that she be removed from our speaker's list," said Rick Kenworthy of ABIP Training in Los Angeles, an organization that provides training for abuse counselors.
One of LaViolette's friends, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said that LaViolette was getting countless angry phone calls and e-mails at her own office in Long Beach, at least one of which was serious enough that her colleagues contacted police.
The friend said that the stress of the harassment had driven LaViolette to the emergency room last weekend for anxiety attacks and palpitation.
In Arizona it is a felony to tamper with or influence a witness.
"I think it's an effort to dissuade the witness from testifying free of outside influence," David Derickson, a former Superior Court judge who now practices law, said of the attacks on LaViolette.
But what can be done, especially if it's coming from other states, even other countries?
Fields, the retired judge said, "If it's just the general public and there's no intention (by the prosecution), then there's nothing to be done about it."
Derickson also wondered if it constituted slander.
"They're trying to destroy her reputation," he said.
Fields thought one solution would be to turn off the TV cameras. "I think we're going to have to revisit the policy of televised trials," he said.
But David Bodney,a First Amendment attorney who represents The Arizona Republic, balked at that idea.
"I think it's entirely unfair to blame camera coverage for a group of persons who are expressing their views," he said. "The court has the authority to take steps to protect that witness from threats and other misconduct."