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Accurate Assessment of Microbial Viability by Flow CytometryOne of the most fundamental applications in microbiology is the accurate assessment of culture viability and cell count. The Molecular Probes® LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit provides a novel two-color fluorescence assay that allows easy and reliable quantification of live and dead bacteria, even in a mixed population containing a range of bacterial types. When used with the new Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer, the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ kit enables rapid, sensitive viability detection. This kit can be used with multiple instrument platforms including fluorescence imaging, fluorescence spectroscopy, and flow cytometry.
Increase the Speed of Your Microbial Viability Measurement
The traditional approach to microbial viability assessment is based on plate counting, which involves dilution, spread-plating, and manual colony counting. This method is time consuming (requiring at least 24 hours before results may be interpreted) and labor intensive, and does not account for viable but unculturable microorganisms. Attempts have been made to develop other bacterial viability assays based on metabolic characteristics or membrane integrity, but often these methods only work for a limited subset of bacterial groups [1], have high levels of background fluorescence [2], or are sensitive to growth and staining conditions [3]. In contrast, the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit allows researchers to reliably distinguish and quantitate live and dead bacteria by flow cytometry within minutes.
Bright Staining of Live and Dead Bacterial Cells
The LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit contains two nucleic acid–binding dyes, SYTO® 9 and propidium iodide (PI), which are used to differentiate live from dead cells. SYTO® 9 is a cell-permeant dye that generally labels all bacteria within a population regardless of membrane integrity. In contrast, PI is a cell-impermeant stain that only crosses compromised or damaged cell membranes. When both stains are present in cells with compromised membrane, SYTO® 9 fluorescence is reduced by displacement of the stain by PI. With an appropriate mixture of the two stains, bacteria with intact cell membranes stain green; those with damaged membranes stain red.
The excitation/emission maxima for the dyes are approximately 480/500 nm (SYTO® 9) and 490/635 nm (PI), and the background remains virtually nonfluorescent (Figure 1). The two dye components in the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit have been balanced so that a 1:1 mixture provides live/dead discrimination in most applications but occasionally, the dye ratio must be adjusted for optimal discrimination. To thoroughly optimize staining, we recommend experimenting with a range of dye concentrations.
The Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer (see sidebar, next page) offers higher sensitivity with shorter acquisition times, which is especially valuable when samples are limited. When used with the Attune® cytometer, the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit enables microbial viability to be determined quickly and accurately.
Figure 1. Bright staining of E. coli cells with the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit. A culture of E. coli cells was washed and diluted to ~1 x 106 CFU/mL in 0.85% sodium chloride buffer prior to staining with SYTO® 9 and propidium iodide (PI) provided in the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit. Cells were analyzed on the Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer equipped with a 488 nm laser for SYTO® 9 and PI fluorescence excitation. Data were acquired using the standard 25 µL/min collection rate. SYTO® 9 fluorescence emission was detected in the BL1 channel (530/30 bandpass filter) and PI fluorescence emission was detected in the BL3 channel (640 longpass filter). Histogram overlays indicate the increase in fluorescence upon staining with either (left) SYTO® 9 or (right) PI. U = unstained cells; S = stained cells.
Quick and Easy Viability, No Matter What Species
The LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit has been thoroughly tested with a variety of organisms under several different conditions. Species tested include:
|Bacillus cereus
|Klebsiella pneumoniae
|Pseudomonas syringae
|Staphylococcus aureus
|Bacillus subtilis
|Micrococcus luteus
|Salmonella oranienburg
|Streptococcus pyogenes
|Clostridium perfringens
|Mycobacterium phlei
|Serratia marcescens
|Escherichia coli
|Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|Shigella sonnei
All tested species demonstrate a good correlation between the results obtained with the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit and standard plate counts (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Flow cytometry analysis of relative culture viability of gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial cultures. Bacterial cells were grown to log phase and stained with the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Viability Kit, then analyzed using the Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer equipped with a 488 nm laser for SYTO® 9 and propidium iodide (PI) excitation. Samples were run at a collection rate of 25 µL/min using a fluorescent threshold, and fluorescence emission was detected using a 530/30 bandpass filter for SYTO® 9 fluorescence and 640 longpass filter for PI fluorescence. Bacterial populations were identified using a dual-parameter scatter plot (side versus forward scatter). (A) Viability analysis of E. coli (gram-negative) cells. Both live (L) and dead (D) cells fluoresce green (SYTO® 9) but only dead cells fluoresce red (PI). Viability was calculated using the following equation: % viability = [number of live events/(number of live events + number of dead events)] x 100%. In this example, E. coli culture viability was determined to be 95.7 ± 0.5%. The bar graph shows a comparison of bacterial cell concentration determined using the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Viability Kit vs. traditional plate counts. The concentration of live cells was determined to be 6.37 ± 0.29 x 104 events/mL using the Attune® software; the plating method indicated a viable cell concentration of 6.28 ± 0.67 x 104 CFU/mL, with no significant difference in viable cell concentration observed between the two methods. (B) S. aureus (gram-positive) cells stained with the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Viability Kit. In this example, culture viability was determined to be 87.5 ± 3.3%. The bar graph shows a comparison of bacterial cell concentration determined using the LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Viability Kit vs. traditional plate counts. Bacterial cell concentration was determined to be 6.83 ± 0.25 x 104 events/mL using the Attune® software; the plating method indicated a viable cell concentration of 7.60 ± 0.72 x 104 CFU/mL, with no significant difference in viable cell concentration observed between the two methods.
Diverse Applications in Microbiology
The LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit has been used in numerous flow cytometry applications, including characterization of bacteria from different aquatic environments [4], detection of bacterial contamination [5], analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility testing [6], quantification of viable but unculturable organisms [7], and the study of vital bacterial cellular functions during solar disinfection [8]. Life Technologies offers a wide range of products specific for the study of microbiology using flow cytometry (Table 1).
Table 1. Flow Cytometry Products for Microbiology.
| Attune® Cytometer Channel(s)
(Optical Filters)
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|Bacterial viability
|LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability Kit
|BL1 and BL3 (530/30 and 640LP)
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|Bacterial viability and cell counting
|LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™ Bacterial Viability and Counting Kit
|BL1 and BL3 (530/30 and 640LP)
|1 kit
|Bacterial cell counting
|Bacteria Counting Kit, for flow cytometry
|1 kit
|Bacterial cell staining
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|20 x 50 µg
|BacLight™ Red bacterial stain, special packaging
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|SYBR® Green I nucleic acid stain
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|SYTO® BC green fluorescent nucleic acid stain, 5 mM solution in DMSO
|100 µL
|SYTO® 9 green fluorescent nucleic acid stain,
5 mM solution in DMSO
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|Determination of bacterial
gram character
|LIVE BacLight™ Bacterial Gram Stain Kit, for microscopy and quantitative assays
|BL1 and BL3 (530/30 and 640LP)
|1000 assays
|Microbial membrane potential/
microbial vitality
|BacLight™ Bacterial Membrane Potential Kit,
for flow cytometry
|BL1 and BL3 (530/30 and 640LP)
|100 assays
|Microbial metabolism
|BacLight™ RedoxSensor™ Green Vitality Kit,
for flow cytometry
|BL1 and BL3 (530/30 and 640LP)
|1 kit
|BacLight™ RedoxSensor™ CTC Vitality Kit,
for flow cytometry and microscopy
|BL1 and BL3, or VL1 (530/30 and 640LP, or 450/40)
|1 kit
The Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer
Precision and Sensitivity At All Speeds
The Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer is the first cytometer that uses ultrasonic waves—rather than hydrodynamic forces—to position cells into a single focused line along the central axis of a capillary. Acoustic focusing is largely independent of the sample input rate, enabling cells to be tightly focused at the point of laser interrogation regardless of the sample-to-sheath ratio. This, in turn, allows cell velocity to be slowed to collect more photons for high-precision analysis at unprecedented volumetric sample throughput.
The Attune® cytometer achieves sample throughput at rates over 10 times faster than other cytometers —up to 1000 µL per minute—enabling rapid detection of rare events with a reliable measure of accuracy. The Attune® cytometer is designed to collect up to 20 million events per run, and has adjustable collection rates of 25–1000 µL/min. With this technology you can control the flow rate, number of photons detected, length of your experiment, number of samples run, and more. As a result, the Attune® cytometer enables higher sensitivity when analyzing precious samples or detecting rare events.
- Learn more about the Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer.
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- Davies CM (1991) Lett Appl Microbiol 13:58–61.
- Brunius G (1980) Curr Microbiol 4:321–323.
- Berney M, Hammes F, Bosshard F et al. (2007) Appl Environ Microbiol 73: 3283–3290.
- Hoefel D, Monis PT, Grooby WL et al. (2005) Appl Environ Microbiol 71: 6479–6488.
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YamRider411 wrote:Hi guys, I'm a total noob, only had the game about a week so, I checked this out and it looks great. I do have a question though, it seems that no matter what I do to the setup I can't get rid of the "ice skate" feeling in the front end. Every time i go around a corner, especially a flat one, I feel like the bike is on ice. About half the time I end up washing out the front end.
I have watched some guys ride, even watched one of the live supercross races, which is what sold me on the game, and they look like it is no problem. You see guys plant the bike and even jump a bit crooked coming out of a corner. I know that this game takes a long time to get used to but it seems like I have to be doing something wrong.
Thanks for your help!
It really is that hard to be honest. I couldn't even go in a straight line for a couple weeks. I'm not great at setups, but I know turning up max dab speed helped me a lot with stability in corners. It can take months/years to do the kind of things the fast guys do though.

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This free app is the second in a series to be created by the American Red Cross, the nation's leader in emergency preparedness, for use on both iPhone and Android platforms. It gives instant access to local and real time information on what to do before, during and after hurricanes. Building on the Red Cross' leadership in the social media space, the app also includes a number of features that allow people to monitor personalized weather alerts in locations where family and friends reside and share information with others in their social networks who might also need it.
"We want everyone to be to be ready for hurricanes," said Maxine Margaritis, CEO, American Red Cross Utah Region. "The Red Cross Hurricane App allows people to receive and spread emergency information and to share their own status with friends and loved ones through social networks, anywhere, anytime."
The launch of the Red Cross hurricane app comes just before what is traditionally the busiest period of the Atlantic hurricane season. Features of the app include:
· One touch "I'm safe" messaging that allows users to broadcast reassurance to family and friends via social media outlets that they are out of harm's way;
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The app enables people across the country to receive alerts for locations in areas where they like to vacation or where loved ones live, giving peace of mind to travelers, people who winter in warmer climates, and those with elderly relatives or college students in coastal areas.
National Red Cross experts in health, safety, and preparedness have thoroughly reviewed and field tested the information and advice provided in this app.
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TL;DR: A glass drinking vessel filled halfway to its brim with water in a room at standard temperature and pressure at sea level on Earth is mostly empty.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
The immediate snarky answer is that it's entirely full, but only half of it is full of water; the other half is full of air.
Further snarky thought will however lead one to remember that most of the volume of a given substance is empty space, sparsely dotted with atoms jostling about within it. Further thought along that line brings to mind the supposed fact that atoms themselves are mostly empty space, so the glass is definitely mostly empty.
Still further thought, however, reminds one that the fundamental subatomic particles are all infinitesimal points, interacting with each other through forces, which forces prevent other things from occupying some volume, but still in the end, the stuff "filling" the glass is a spattering of zero-volume points interacting with each other through empty space. So really, the glass isn't just mostly empty, it's entirely empty, and so is the whole universe.
But, still further thought will lead one to remember that those forces, and the point-particles themselves, are really all just excitations in energy fields, most of which usually have a nonzero value most places you might find glasses of water, and one of which, the Higgs field, definitely has a nonzero value everywhere. So, in a sense, the glass is again entirely full, and so is the whole universe.
At this point though, it's worth considering what exactly we mean by "full" to begin with. We say the glass is full of water when, upon trying to pour more water into it, that water just ends up on the table and not in the glass. In other words, the glass is full when you can't put anything more into it. But we can definitely put a lot more into that glass than is in there right now.
To start with, yeah, we could pour more water in, and then it will be more full.
But that water is still "mostly empty space". Under normal circumstances water, like any liquid, is mostly incompressible, but
Squeeze enough more water into there hard enough and the water will eventually become solid instead of liquid, but even solids can still be compressed, you just have to squeeze even harder. Thanks to adiabatic heating the glass itself might (temporarily?) become a liquid somewhere along the way here too, I'm not sure of all the specifics of the phase diagrams of glass and water.
In any case at some point you're going to end up with a hot dense plasma of hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon long since dissociated with each other. Keep squeezing more and more "water" (hydrogen-oxygen plasma) in there and some of those atoms will start to fuse together into denser and denser elements. Keep squeezing more into the glass and eventually even the electrons will start to fuse with the protons and you'll have a "glass"(-shaped magic force field) full of nothing but neutronium.
But it's still not full! Keep squeezing more and more into that "glass" until it contains enough mass that its self-gravitation makes it impossible for anything inside of it to escape from it... and congratulations, not only if your glass finally full, but you no longer need your magic force field to contain it! Because it's a black hole now. Anything more you want to add to it, you're going to need a larger volume, and you'll automatically get one real soon now, so yeah, now it's definitely full.


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KENNESAW, Ga. � Senior righty Andrew Barnett hurled a complete-game, 7.0-inning shutout in the nightcap of Saturday�s doubleheader at Kennesaw State, keying a 3-0 win and a sweep for Gardner-Webb.
The Runnin� Bulldogs won the opener, 8-4, behind an 8.0 inning pitching effort from sophomore Hunter Smith. The two teams will wrap up the four-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Barnett (1-0) scattered seven singles in the game, struck out two and walked two in the third complete game of his career � with the other two coming last season.
Gardner-Webb (3-4) plated two runs in the top of the second to stake itself to the lead for good. Nick Triplett and Gage Parham each coaxed walks to lead off the frame, and Ryan Hodge bunted the pair into scoring position. JJ Nazzaro followed with a two-run single through the left side for the early lead.
The Runnin� Bulldogs took advantage of a pair of Kennesaw State (4-4) errors in the top of the fifth for its third and final run, as Henry Rundio reached on a fielder�s choice, moved to second on the throw and later scored when Tyler Best reached on a fielding error for the 3-0 advantage.
The Owls stranded a pair of runners in the sixth and another in the seventh to end the game.
Gardner-Webb collected four hits in the nightcap, with Scott Coleman (2-for-3) collecting a pair of those safeties. Nazzaro (1-for-3, 2 RBI) and Rundio (1-for-3, run) had the other hits for GWU.
Kennesaw State�s Nathan Harsh was tagged with the loss, despite allowing just three hits in 5.0 innings of work. He fanned five and walked three, and also hit a batter.
The Owls had seven different players collect one single apiece in the game.
KENNESAW, Ga. � Hunter Smith allowed just two runs in 8.0 innings of work and Gardner-Webb�s offense provided great support for an 8-4 win over Kennesaw State in the first game of Saturday�s doubleheader.
Gardner-Webb (2-4) rapped out a season-high 13 hits in the win and stole eight bases in the game � also a season-high. Smith (1-0) scattered seven hits and struck out three, without allowing a walk for the mound victory.
The Whiteville sophomore allowed just three singles through six shutout innings, before the Owls (4-3) put together a brief rally in the bottom of the seventh � piecing together a double and single to break up the shutout and trim Gardner-Webb�s lead to 5-1.
The Runnin� Bulldogs exploded for three runs in the top of the eighth to pull away, getting an RBI single from JJ Nazzaro, and RBI knock from Scott Johnson and a double steal that saw Johnson steal home as Henry Rundio swiped second for an 8-1 advantage.
Kennesaw State plated another run on an RBI groundout in the bottom of the eighth for an 8-2 score, but Smith worked out of the inning with a six-run lead intact. The Owls got a two-run home run from Brennan Morgan in the bottom of the ninth off of the GWU bullpen, but would get no closer � as Will Canady recovered by rolling a groundout, getting a strikeout and ending the game on a fielder�s choice.
Gardner-Webb took the lead for good in the third, getting a leadoff single from Rundio and a two-out, two-run home run to left from Brantley Smith for an early 2-0 lead. Nazzaro singled to lead off the fourth, swiped second base and scored for a 3-0 advantage on an RBI single from Scott Coleman.
Smith led off the fifth with a single and � after a sacrifice bunt moved him to second � scored on freshman Paul Trick�s single to right center. The hit was the first of Trick�s career in his first start.
Rundio�s speed proved fruitful again in the top of the seventh, as he singled, stole second and moved all the way to third on the unsuccessful throw down. Adam Tiller followed with a sacrifice fly for a 5-0 Gardner-Webb lead.
Sophomore Jacob Walker (3-for-4, run, SB) had a career-best day at the plate while playing in right field, pacing Gardner-Webb�s offensive production. Nazzaro (2-for-5, 2 runs, SB), Johnson (1-for-3, run, RBI, 3 SB), Rundio (2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 BB, 2 SB) and Smith (2-for-5, HR, 2 RBI) also had strong afternoons. Coleman, Tiller and Trick had the other hits for GWU. The three stolen bases by Johnson were a career-best.
Travis Bergen took the loss for Kennesaw State, allowing four runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings of work (six strikeouts, one walk). Kelly Hawkins went 3.2 innings in relief, but allowed four runs on four hits.
Bo Way paced the Owls� 10-hit offensive effort by going 3-for-4 with a double. Morgan went 2-for-4 with his two-run home run.


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A friendship between President Donald Trump and one of his most vocal advocates has taken an almost-Shakespearean twist.
Société Générale's Albert Edwards sees yields for the bond markets in Europe and the U.S. headed lower, despite much of eurozone debt carrying yields below 0% already and U.S. Treasury yields hanging near three-year lows.
The Russell 2000 index (RUT) which tracks companies with a median market capitalization of $784 million, remains 13% below its record high last August, while companies in the index appear mired in an earnings recession, after profits fell by double digits in the first quarter and look set to fall by 9% in the second, according to Bank of America. What's more, the debt concerns that have dogged larger companies in the S&P 500 (SPX) and Russell 1000 indexes (RUI) are growing acute in the small cap space, after debt levels reached an all-time high for the index in the first quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by RBC. Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity strategy at RBC wrote in a recent research report that "Even before the [spike in the first quarter] .
Small-cap stocks and exchange traded funds are lagging their large-cap counterparts this. Entering Wednesday, IWB was 17.2% year to date, outpacing the small-cap IWM by 510 basis points. Over the past 90 days, IWB is up 1.6% while IWM is lower by 2.7%, a chasm that's prompting some market observers to speculate that weakness in small-cap stocks is portending a broader market slump, or worse, a recession.
Recent U.S. jobs creation wasn't as great as first thought, which isn't welcome news in an economy powered by consumer spending.
Recessions are normal. So, John and Jane Doe investors should plan ahead.
Raymond James upgraded Sonos stock to the firm's highest rating, saying the stock deserves to be trading higher.
The spread between the 2-year and 10-year yield is now back above 10 basis points, and the further they get away from each other the more things might calm down. Another piece of news that might be helping: Reports in the media say Huawei will get a three-month extension from the U.S. Department of Commerce on a license that allows it to buy parts from U.S. companies. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak Friday morning.
If it feels to Wall Street investors that a period of seismic volatility has gripped markets, they aren't alone.
The big stock slide continued in late-afternoon trading as a key indicator of recession flashed warning signals of an impending recession. Banks and software firms fell sharply.
Mixed results from data releases and corporate earnings have resulted in cautious optimism if you're investing in ETFs, but the waters have muddied.
Small-cap stocks have been lagging the market in recent months. What is sure is that the S&P 500 index (SPX) has been one of the strongest market averages in recent months. Over the same three months, the Russell 2000 index (RUT) (a widely-used benchmark for the small-cap sector) lost 0.8% and the iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) lost 3.4%.
If you don't own these up-and-coming small companies in your investment portfolio yet, you could be missing out on a big opportunity for market-beating returns.
Just like clockwork, the markets are back to mid-summer roller coaster ride territory. At this point it's not like Disney's Expedition Everest, Space Mountain or Rock n' Roller Coaster, but just enough to make you feel that you are definitely on some kind of ride, and it's not exactly unpleasant, at least at this point. Since my Wednesday column ran the S&P 500 has experienced two more "volatile" days (with volatility defined as up or down at least 1%), and both have been of the positive variety.
Last week's announcement of more U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods may have undermined the prospects for small-cap stocks to rebound this year, even after a brief respite from the Federal Reserve's recent interest-rate cut. Just a day after the Fed cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, President Donald Trump vowed on Aug. 1 to impose 10% tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese goods beginning on Sept. 1.
Tariffs have been the big concern in the economy for months, but the latest stage of the trade war—an unpredictable broadening that has raised recession fears—is much more worrisome.
As has been widely discussed, small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds are trailing their large-cap rivals. Last year was a good example of that when the Russell 2000 entered a bear market before large-cap benchmarks swooned in the fourth quarter.
Proof of that might be yesterday's session, when stocks cratered despite the Fed lowering interest rates. Many investors wanted the Fed to signal the start of a prolonged rate-cutting cycle, not just a simple rate cut, but that didn't happen. At least that was the takeaway from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's press conference, though he did try to walk back initial comments that many interpreted as him saying this was a one-and-done easing.
The Fed chairman's news conference threw markets for a loop with hawkish words that did not support the Fed's dovish actions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank to a triple-digit loss in afternoon trading Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve's decision to cut its target on overnight interest rates, but the stock market's breadth remained positive, helped by strength in small-capitalization stocks. The number of advancing stock outnumbered decliners 1,540 to 1,333 on the NYSE and 1,610 to 1,331 on the Nasdaq exchange. Where breadth data showed some weakness was in the larger, more active stocks, as volume of advancing stocks represented just 45.2% of total volume on the Big Board and 36.7% of total volume on the Nasdaq. Meanwhile, the Dow fell 148 points, or 0.5%, with 25 of 30 components losing ground. Just before the Fed's rate decision, the Dow was up about 14 points. The S&P 500 gave up 0.5% and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.4%, while the Russell 2000 of small-cap stocks rose 0.4%.
Shares of smaller U.S. companies have gotten cheap over the past year, significantly lagging their large-cap counterparts, and could be poised for a turnaround following a highly anticipated interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Worries about a slowdown in economic growth have soured investor sentiment toward small-cap companies, which are more domestically focused than large-cap multinationals. Profits for small-cap companies have also been squeezed by higher input costs as a result of the U.S.-China trade war, so the group is more vulnerable to an aging business cycle.
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As I described in my last post, my filing system is based on record types and it has served me well. Give me the source citation for any document I hold, and I can put my hands on it in 30 seconds, easily. So why consider changing to some variation of a surname based system?
My system works well when I want to look at a birth certificate and I know the year of birth, or my database is open to quickly check. It doesn't work so well when I can't remember the year of birth. Not that looking up the details on my database is difficult, but it's an extra step to take.
More annoying are the times when I want to compare multiple documents, or even look at all documents, for an individual. While I can find each document easily, it takes a little longer to pull out a collection of documents and then of course I have to file them all in the right places afterwards.
In short, I rather like the idea of grabbing one (or a few, depending on the system I settle on) files and being able to see all the documents relating to whoever I'm focusing on at the time.
The other factor influencing me is discussions on some of the blogs and web sites I have seen recently. Early on in my genealogy life I tried a surname based system, with families filed according to ahnen number. I think it was the system suggested by whatever how-to book I was reading at the time. It didn't work for me. I didn't 'get' filing by surname. While there is no particular 'Aha!' moment I can identify, the combined effect of the descriptions of systems I've read has been the same. I am starting to see ways that maybe, just maybe, it could work for me.
Pages that have sparked ideas for me include (in no particular order):
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- Lisa Louise Cooke 'Family History' podcast
- Elyse Doerflinger on YouTube
- Dear Myrtle - "Finally Get Organized: Jan 2009 checklist"
- Find Your Folks - "Color genealogy filing system"
- Legacy News - "Organization"
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Is Chris Davis for Real?
At this point, in my life as a sports fan, I'm often not surprised by much.
So far this season, Chris Davis has me wondering if what I am seeing from him is for real based on his track record.
I was not sure if he could replicate what he did last season at the plate, especially towards the end coming into 2013; however, is exceeding that and a whole lot more.
His nickname among fans and the media is "Crush", based on his power at the plate, size and physique, and since Opening Day, he has been doing just that.
Last night, he willed the Orioles to their 29th win of the season as he went 4-for-4 at the plate and hit two home runs against the Washington Nationals.
The Orioles won a thriller by a score of 9-6.
Davis put on a show on his t-shirt night and made sure that the 39,000 fans who attended last night's game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards got their money's worth.
He completely upstaged Washington third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, who had three home runs on the night off Baltimore starting pitcher Chris Tillman.
I attended the game last night with family and friends. We just sat back and enjoyed a show in Charm City that got more exciting as it developed.
Right now, he is hitting everything in sight and has greatly improved his batting eye. He clearly does not strike out the same level as last season and reminds me of Barry Bonds - at the turn of this century - during the first two months of the 2013 season.
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Theft of a boat, 2 pounds of copper wire, a 12-volt battery, and 10 gallons of gasoline was reported stolen at 3 p.m. Sept. 14 in the 1400 block of Sunflower Road, Marion. The theft occurred sometime after May 12. The items stolen were valued at $1,085.
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The Hotel Rwanda star, who moonlights as War Machine in the new movie, wore a heavy, blue and red suit of armour in many of his scenes, and Cheadle admits it made for an extremely uncomfortable experience.
During an appearance on U.S. morning show Live! With Kelly and Michael on Friday (26Apr13), he said, "You feel like a turtle. It's big, it's heavy, it's constricting, you can't touch you're face, your arms don't articulate all the way. (If you get an itch) you have to go to a zen place (and) calm down because you're not scratching. I took all kinds of things (to cope with anxiety because it's) very claustrophobic."
But the 48 year old confesses he felt bad for the cleaning crew because he often relieved himself in his costume - when asked how he managed to go the bathroom, he explained, "You just go (in the suit). I don't have to clean the suit, I just have to wear the suit!"


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Warmup skate, Sept. 29th 2012. Photo courtesy of PG Marsh.
The Halifax Mooseheads have been touted as one of the country's most interesting teams to watch this season. With Nathan MacKinnon leading the charge on offense, not to mention his status as the potential first overall pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, the Moose could be the Q's President Cup Champions come spring and may just challenge for the Memorial Cup. If you have an itch to dive into the mind of MacKinnon, here's his Twitter. For that matter, you can follow Martin Frk on Twitter right here.
Thus far, the Mooseheads have started strong, posting a 3-1 record in 4 games and registering fifth among CHL teams in the BMO CHL Mastercard Top 10 Rankings. On the downside, the Moose were spanked 6-1 in front of 9,223 fans Friday night at the Metro Center by the Gatineau Olympiques. It was quite a crowd killer for the home opener. Thankfully, the Moose were forced to go right back to work the following night against the provincial rival Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, my hometown team, and a relatively easy opponent to beat up on after a bitter pill swallowing the night before. It should have been an "easier" game, but it wasn't. Red Wings' prospect Martin Frk was in the lineup, and thankfully there were no shenanigans on the same level as the exhibition game that took place in September.
Despite the efforts of Halifax's potent offense, goaltender Phillipe Trudeau of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles kept the game close. He registered 36 saves, good for the first star of the game, but the Mooseheads prevailed 3-2 in a shootout. Zachary Fucale had 20 saves for Halifax, with Luca Ciampini and Brent Andrews scoring. Bronson Beaton and Michael Clark scored for Cape Breton. All goals were scored in the first period.
Martin Frk's stat line for the night is not quite indicative of his performance or his impact on the ice. Frk assisted on Ciampini's goal, the opening goal of the game, was even in +/- for the night, had three shots, and picked up two penalty minutes for an elbowing minor in the second period. Unfortunately, my seats for this game were in Section 32 (which is as far away as the number suggests), so any photos I captured are not quality images. The long term plan is to snap some pictures with a high quality digital camera. Apologies in advance for the image quality.
Frk...playing in his own end? Photo courtesy of PG Marsh
In terms of his play in the offensive zone, I compare Frk to a shark. This guy has a keen sense of where to be in the offensive zone, and can turn a simple offensive zone rush into a dynamic opportunity. When he smells blood in the water, so to speak, he consistently finding in the right places for a scoring chance, and can make some tape to tape passes when he runs out of space himself. There was only one shot on goal on the evening that seriously threatened Trudeau in the Cape Breton net. Overall, he was a playmaker for his line on Saturday night, which should be good to hear for Red Wings' fans and management because it's already well known that he has a good shot.
Defensively speaking...Frk has a long way to go before he will be compared to two-way Red Wings like Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. In most of the shifts I witnessed, Frk was the last Moosehead player to leave the offensive zone and he rarely placed himself in the thick of a defensive effort. That isn't surprising given that his primary function is to be a potent shooter on offense, but the above photo was one of the few times Frk drifted away from the blueline toward his own net.
To be fair to Frk, and many people will argue this, the best defense is a good offense. He did pick off a couple of passes or attempts to clear centre ice by the Eagles, which was impressive. The Moosehead attack threw their weight at Trudeau all game long, but couldn't solve him after the first period.
The Moose on the attack. Photo courtesy of PG Marsh.
Unfortunately, the game wasn't all about Frk's offensive rushes and attempted playmaking. Once again I found myself scratching my head over his choices when he attempted contact with opposing players. There were two non-related hits that were not penalty worthy, but were either from behind or the side and one while the player was on their knees attempting to get back up. His penalty was a blatant elbow to the face of an Eagles. The elbowing penalty (at 7:39 of the second period) didn't result in a power play goal for the Eagles, but it wasn't a particularly disciplined play. In a way, he made up for it when fresh out of the penalty box he helped to initiate a play in the offensive zone.
The Moosehead were able to squeeze a win out of Cape Breton in front of 8,580 fans after a reality check the previous night. Marty Frk had as good a game as any other Moosehead forward, and is slowly gaining momentum lost after a disappointing exhibition game and three mediocre regular season contests. It's no secret that Frk had surgery just before the preseason began on one of his legs. His relatively slow exits from the offensive zone, including a peculiar tendency to stride twice with the same leg before gaining speed, are likely the reason for his zero goals and two assists in four games so far. Full credit to the guy, he's definitely a playmaker on the ice and when he can play without concern of injury, he will be alongside Nathan MacKinnon in the Moosehead offense.
Bonus picture from the nosebleed section. Photo courtesy of PG Marsh.
That concludes the second of many forthcoming Frkwatch entries. I'd love to read some feedback so please feel free to comment here on the blog or follow me on Twitter at @wizofozblog. Thanks for reading and as a Canadian icon used to say, keep your stick on the ice.


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The Poet's Perspective: 'Shopping' ponders retail therapy
Robin Becker, the 2010-11 Penn State laureate and professor of English and women's studies at the University, is sharing several of her poems via video during the 2010-11 academic year, aiming to engage people "in the deep pleasures of poetry -- language crafted and shaped from words, the 'ordinary' material we all use every day," to explore how and why poems move us. "The Poet's Perspective" is a weekly poetry video series scheduled to appear during the fall 2010 and spring 2011 semesters on Penn State Live and in Penn State Newswires. Prior to each poem, Becker offers her thoughts about what inspired her to write the piece, then poses a question to consider. In the text and video link of "Shopping," Becker pokes fun at a cliched pastime of wounded hearts.


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I have a laptop with an Nvidia GT520M card and I am running ubuntu 11.10. When I first installed ubuntu on my pc, I was able to use gnome3 and all was well (I suppose my laptop was using the intel card instead of the Nvidia one).
Because I wanted to develop some things in CUDA from my own machine, I started to look around on what I could do, so that I could use the discrete card just for CUDA and leave the other one to handle gnome. By installing nvidia's current drivers and bumblebee, I am now able to run programs in CUDA using optirun but my machine uses the simple version of gnome, without any effects whatsoever. Of course, when I removed nvidia's drivers, optirun couldn't run CUDA programs and stopped with :
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
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An Irish hacker has attacked Nigeria's official government website in protest of its anti-gay bill, which will jail convicted gay people for 14 years.
According to Pink News, the "hacktivist" attacked the site on Thursday night, leaving a message on Nigeria.gov.ng giving the president 72 hours to "renounce and veto this bill."
"Failure to follow our order will unleash a torrent of fury aimed directly at the direction of your administration, starting with some startling but unsurprising evidence of corruption in your ranks," the message continued.
He added: "No need to start destroying evidence. I already have it."
Service was returned to the site, which is the official website of the Nigerian government, several hours later.
The hacker, who calls himself "Paddy Hack" posted to Twitter: "I've allowed http://Nigeria.gov.ng to come back to full service for now…Don't think that I can't come and go as I please."
The attack was a continuation of an #opNigeria the hacker launched on July 1. He announced his intentions hours before hijacking the website, but Nigeria's Information Ministry's web administrators were unable to halt the attack.
"Just over two hours to launch of #OpNigeria," the attacker announced on his Twitter feed.
After the attack, the hacker denied reports that he is gay.
"So the news says that I am gay? I'm not, but it's not an insult to be called gay either," he said.
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Just answered a question from a colleague in Switzerland & I thought that it would be worth posting the answer here for posterity.
Suppose you have an SIBus with a Foreign Bus Connection or MQLink from a queue manager to the SIBus. And further suppose that you've created a Cluster Bus member that contains one messaging engine, which will host the SIBus end of the MQLink. The SIBus end of the MQLink knows the endpoint of the queue manager, and the queue manager end of the link knows the endpoint of the messaging engine, which will be configured in the CONNAME property of the WMQ sender channel.
You can configure the messaging engine to be able to failover between the servers in the WAS cluster, for high availability. As the messaging engine moves (i.e. fails over) from one server to another, it will be listening on a different host/port. This poses the question as to what you should configure for the host/port in the WMQ Sender channel's CONNAME.
There are 3 solutions to this problem, depending on which version of WMQ you are using:
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a) you could use a shared disk style HA cluster to manage the ME and its endpoint (note: this is not a nice solution, I only mention it for completeness)
b) you could install WMQ supportpac MR01 at the queue manager, which adds a channel exit to the Sender channel. You can then configure a list of the endpoints of the WAS servers and this is used to select an endpoint to use in the CONNAME when starting the channel. This has the advantage that the channel exit "remembers" the last known good endpoint, which minimises reconnect time.
2. If you are using WMQ 7.0.1 then you can configure a comma-separated list of endpoints in the CONNAME of the Sender channel. A disadvantage of this is that when you start the sender channel it always searches from the beginning of the list, trying each endpoint in turn, so there can be a slight delay before a successful connection is made. This is not significant provided you don't disconnect an idle channel to eagerly - i.e. set the DISCINT (disconnect interval) to be relatively long.
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AUSTIN – Zebra mussel larvae, known as veligers, have been confirmed in Lake Bridgeport. The news comes days after the discovery of the invasive exotic in Lewisville Lake.
A zebra mussel population is suspected in Lake Bridgeport because zebra mussel DNA was found in the fall of 2011 and 2012, and some veligers were detected this spring in plankton tows. Samples collected by the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) from Lake Bridgeport on June 6 were examined using cross polarized light microscopy and suspect veligers were detected. Dr. Bob McMahon with The University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) confirmed these results on June 17.
It is important to note that to date no settled juvenile or adult zebra mussels have been found in Lake Bridgeport to suggest a self-sustaining population. Given the high mortality rates of zebra mussel veligers it's not a guarantee that a population exists but given these results and the DNA results from the past two years it is likely that the lake is infested.
Routine monitoring by the TRWD, UTA and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will continue on the reservoir to determine if there is any growth or spread of the mussels. Also, because lakes Eagle Mountain and Worth are downstream of Lake Bridgeport they are also at risk and will continue to be monitored.
Zebra mussels can have economic and recreational impacts in Texas reservoirs. They can clog public-water intake pipes, harm boats and motors left in infested waters by covering boat hulls and clogging water-cooling systems, annoy boat-dock owners by completely covering anything left under water and can make water recreation hazardous because of their razor-sharp edges.
From the environmental perspective, zebra mussels are filter feeders, which mean they compete with baitfish such as shad for available forage. Any impact on baitfish in turn can affect their predators — game fish such as bass, striped bass and catfish. Zebra mussels are also very harmful to native mussel populations because they will colonize on their shells and essentially suffocate them.
The spread can be slowed by making sure boats that operate in zebra mussel-infested waters are not used in any other body of water until they have been cleaned, drained and dried. In addition, TPWD adopted rules regarding the transfer of zebra mussel larvae in water from lakes Texoma, Lavon, Ray Roberts and Lewisville. To comply with these rules, boaters and anglers need to drain all water from their boats (including live wells) before leaving those lakes.
TPWD and a coalition of partners have been reaching out to boaters in Texas with an advertising campaign to educate them not to transport the tiny mussels or their microscopic larvae, which are invisible to the naked eye and can stay alive inside livewells, bait buckets and other parts of the boat for up to a week. These partners include: Tarrant Regional Water District,North Texas Municipal Water District, Trinity River Authority, City of Dallas Water Utilities Department, Upper Trinity Regional Water District, Sabine River Authority, Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, San Jacinto River Authority, Brazos River Authority, City of Grapevine, City of Houston, City of Waco and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Originally from the Balkans, Poland and the former Soviet Union, zebra mussels found their way to the Americas in the 1980s via ballast water of a ship. The small invaders were first found in 1988 in Lake St. Clair, Mich., and are currently known to have infested 29 states and more than 600 lakes or reservoirs in the United States.
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The creator of the World Wide Web warned not to hand over power of his invention to the government.
Speaking last night at a lecture hosted by Sydney's University of Technology, Tim Berners-Lee said the Internet should remain independent in the same way as journalism.
"If you're going to give the government the ability to spy on people and the ability to block" websites they don't like, "you've got to have a lot of trust in that government," Berners-Lee said.
"That's not something I recommend."
Instead, the Web inventor advocated a free and open Internet.
The Internet "should be a white piece of paper," Berners-Lee said last night. "It should allow you to do anything you want on it. And it should not having anybody ... controlling it."
When Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, shut down the Internet in his country to stop revolutionaries from mobilising using social media, people around the world wondered whether their governments possessed the same power, Berners-Lee said.
"How much power are we going to give our government to block different sites?" he said.
The same question applies to governments spying on their own people, Berners-Lee said. "Some countries ... let you go to any website you like. It's just if you go to the wrong one, then they will watch you, they will hack your accounts, they will find out who your friends are, and not only will you go to jail but all your friend will go to jail, too."
Berners-Lee recently called Australia's proposed data retention laws a "really, really bad idea."
The cyber terrorists who governments want to chase will find ways to prevent attacks from being traced back to them, Berners-Lee said. But governments will capture large amounts of data about "well-meaning citizens" in their wide net searches for the criminals, he said.
That data could be used to blackmail or take over a citizen's identity, Berners-Lee said. Even if the government does not intend to use it that way, it may be dangerous to hold onto the information because it could be hacked and used by "those very serious organised criminals" who the government was "originally worrying about," he said.
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Talkin' Tech: Wireless and Routing
Defining key terms for understanding the basics of the technology that keeps your small business connected
You probably rarely think about it, but every time you receive an email from a colleague who's travelling or a request for information from a customer via your website, you have a router to thank for making that connection. Likewise, wireless routers let you access the company network from anywhere in the office, allowing you to be more productive. Routers are essential for keeping your company connected to your business partners, customers, and remote employees.
In this installment of our Talkin' Tech series, we define key terms to help you understand the basics of wireless and routing. If there's a term we didn't include that you'd like defined, please let us know!
Wireless and Routing Glossary
- 802.11n: Also referred to as "wireless-n," 802.11n is a communications standard used by wireless routers and access points that provides increased speed (up to 600Mbps in some models), range, and reliable connectivity with less interference.
- Dual-band: A router that operates in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz communication bands. Selectable dual-band routers can operate in either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz band; simultaneous dual-band routers can operate in both bands at the same time.
- Hybrid VPN: A virtual private network that supports two kinds of connection—Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
- Internet Protocol Security (IPsec): A protocol that provides secure access to a network by encrypting data traveling between an IPsec gateway installed on a router and an IPsec remote access client installed on a user's laptop or smartphone. For example, with an IPsec VPN, you can have remote access to the entire network as if you are physically connected to it.
- Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6): The next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6 provides a unique 128-bit IP address for each device that connects to the Internet. Replacing the current IPv4 protocol, IPv6 allows a total of 340 billion, billion, billion addresses.
- Wireless Router: a physical device that connects multiple wired or wireless networks together and can function as a network firewall as well as have an integrated access point for providing wireless connectivity to various wireless devices.
- Quality of Service (QoS): Provides the ability to prioritize different kinds of network traffic, such as voice and video, so that quality isn't affected by other traffic on the network.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): The most commonly used protocol for managing secure transmissions on the Internet. In a VPN environment, SSL allows users to securely access specific applications and services on the network via a web browser.
- Service Set Identifier (SSID): Also referred to as "network name," SSID is a unique 32-character identification for naming wireless networks and devices.
- Single-band: A router that operates only in the 2.4GHz communication band.
- Single WAN/Dual WAN: All wireless routers provide a single WAN port for connecting to the Internet. A dual-WAN router provides a second WAN port that will take over in the event the first WAN port fails, ensuring that connectivity to the Internet isn't disrupted. In some routers, the second WAN port can be used as a DMZ port to connect to a web server or FTP server, providing an additional layer of security to a company's LAN.
- Virtual Private Network (VPN): A connection that uses encryption and authentication to create a private tunnel for protecting your data as it traverses the Internet, allowing secure access to network assets and data at remote locations.
- Wireless access points: An intermediary device that exchanges information between wireless devices and a wireless LAN using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or other related standards.
- Wireless LAN (WLAN): a network in which a mobile user can connect to a local area network (LAN) through a wireless (radio) connection.
- Wireless LAN Controller: a hardware device that provides a single point of management for all of the access points in your network.
Stay tuned for the next installment of the Talkin' Tech series the week of August 15 when we'll take a look at the terms behind cloud computing.
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Abandoned industrial sites turned into studios, art galleries
Address: North 10th St & Kent, New York, NY 11211
Subway: Bedford Ave (L) or Nassau (G)
View of Manhattan from Bushwick Inlet park
Rough Trade Brooklyn.
Address: 80 Wythe Ave, Brookyln, NY 11249
Subway: It takes approximately 7 minutes walk from Bedford Ave (L) subway stop to Whtye hotel
Operating hours: Mon-Fri open at 4 PM and Saturday-Sunday open at 2 PM
Nice and friendly staff
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Homemade chips with onion dip is a MUST!
Indoor & Outdoor areas (Outdoor is better)
Stunning view of Manhattan and Brooklyn
Perfect place to hangout and have a drinks with friends
Nice crowd, great music, and cool vibe
Another great place in New York to watch the sunset
Amazing weather in September
The Ides indoor area
Outdoor atmosphere
Industrial view of Brooklyn
View of Manhattan from the rooftop just before sunset
Colorful murals along the street
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There're still many things to see and do in this so-called "hipster hub".


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Sen. Joe Manchin Asks MTV to 'Reconsider' New W.Va. Reality Show
(CHARLESTON, W.V.) -- Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), wants MTV to cancel its forthcoming show "Buckwild" and called its portrayal of young people in his home state "just wrong."
Set in the West Virginia capital of Charleston and nearby Sissonville, W.Va., "Buckwild" "is an authentic comedic series following an outrageous group of childhood friends from the rural foothills of West Virginia," according to the show's website.
In a letter, Manchin asked MTV president Stephen K. Friedman "to reconsider airing this show."
"Instead of showcasing the beauty of our people and our state, you preyed on young people, coaxed them into displaying shameful behavior," Manchin wrote in the letter dated Dec. 7, "and now you are profiting from it."
This is not the first time MTV has weathered criticism about its portrayal of a state's young people. "Jersey Shore," which "Buckwild" is slated to replace in the network's 10 p.m. Thursday time slot, has been criticized since its 2009 debut for its stars' drunken and promiscuous behavior.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the show "a negative for New Jersey" in 2010 and later revoked from MTV reality show's $420,000 in state tax credits, saying the show "does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens."
Manchin, who is also the former governor of the Mountain State, sang a similar tune in his letter to the MTV executive.
"This show plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of West Virginia," the letter said.
Alisa Bailey, president and CEO of the Charleston, W.Va., Convention and Visitors Bureau, called the show a setback to the economic efforts of her town and the state as a whole because it portrays West Virginia as a place unfit for doing business.
"We don't have the same economic firepower as MTV," Bailey told ABCNews.com. "This can do real economic harm as the whole world tunes in and sees what I believe are untrue stereotypes in a quasi-reality show. It's going to be a real blow to us and we're frozen as to what to do."
Though it is already drawing fire from West Virginia's junior senator, "Buckwild" has yet to even premiere. The criticism is based upon preview trailers and sneak peeks of the show, which portray its young cast engaged in such acts as mud wrestling, swimming in the bed of a dump truck and shooting a firearm at a melon.
ABCNews.com reached out to MTV Friday evening and a representative declined to comment.
However, "Buckwild" executive producer John Stevens defended the show to Entertainment Weekly, saying it actually might help change stereotypes.
"It's not like looking at a train wreck," Stevens told EW.com, "I think it's going to get people talking and it might change people's perspectives. It will be very refreshing to the MTV audience."
"Buckwild" premiers Jan. 3, 2013 at 10 p.m. on MTV.
Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio


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Quality Control
The Quality Control process is iterative, and involves at least 2 staff members.
The person whose digitization is being checked performs the first round of QC: run the QC script and make repairs, rerunning it until there are no errors; and THEN do a capture-by-capture review (images: an eyeball check; audio: an auditory check). For both types of material, check metadata item numbers against the items themselves.
Do *not* wait until you have hours of QC to do, because after the first hour, you will make mistakes. This is time consuming and very detail oriented.
After the first round of QC, when you think you have it perfect, pass it to a coworker, who will go through the same process but who will give YOU the feedback to make all the repairs. Continue this cycle until the results are perfect in the view of both team members.
QC Check
QC Script
- The script we use in QC can be found on the Share drive here: S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\qc\ filenamesAndDupes.pl
- This program will check for correct and sequential filenames per the collection number in a Scans folder and its corresponding Transcripts folder (if there is one) as well as check for duplicate filenames. It will print out a report in the "output" folder.
- If it shows errors, please rename the files accordingly and also check the metadata and trackingFiles to make sure the filename is OK in those spreadsheets. When you are done with the report file this script created, please delete it.
- After you have corrected the errors, RUN THE SCRIPT AGAIN. If the script still finds errors, correct those and run it again. Keep running the script until it does not show any more errors.
- You should be able to run this program by double clicking on it. You might need to associate the file type with Perl the first time you use it.
Visual Spot Check
Once you've run the programs and fixed any problems, please check images.
- Open every object folder with Adobe Bridge.
- Verify what you see against what's in the Metadata and the number of scans recorded on Tracking files.
- Check general image quality (cropping, alignment, colors, etc.) Watch for uneven lighting, poor lighting, over-exposure, color alteration, fuzziness, etc.
If you are working on a collection in collaboration with someone else or are working on an ongoing collection, mark the items that have been QCed on the QC tab of the Tracking Files sheet.
Pass the collection to a coworker so he or she can go through the process again (as the Second QC Check).
Second QC Check
A second person goes through the exact same steps listed above. If errors are found, the team member who did the initial capture should be informed, so he or she can fix them. Those materials should then be put through the QC cycle again. The cycle can be repeated as many times as necessary, until the Second QC Check uncovers no errors or problems.
Additional Info
Commercial QC Software
Click here to access a quick guide to settings/preferences for Adobe Bridge.


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So, the big news is that I recently fell down the garment sewing hole. I've been making ALL THE CLOTHES! I even bought myself a second hand serger and have been tackling knits. Have you seen the new Colette patterns? Colette has made two knit patterns, Mabel and Moneta and they come in plus sizes! Sweet!
I've made two versions of the Moneta so far. The first is a heavier knit. I made Version 1 exactly as per the pattern, including the lapped collar. The bodice is lined - I used a Michael Miller knit that I had left over from a skirt I made last summer. This was my first time using clear elastic to gather a skirt and I didn't much enjoy it. In making this version, I realized that I wanted to make the bodice a bit longer, but otherwise, the fit is fabulous. Also, bonus! In this knit, the dress is dressy enough to wear to work!
My second version is a lighter jersey knit. I also made this version sleeveless, but this time I omitted the collar. I also made the bodice an inch and a half longer and I think it's far more flattering. I lengthened the skirt by three inches too. I used clear elastic again to gather the skirt, even though I found it a beast to work with the first time around. I tried a different gathering method though. Colette's tutorial shows two methods and I liked method two much better gather the skirt first using basting stitches, then sew on the elastic, versus "stretch and sew."
Stay tuned for more garment sewing goodness coming your way. I have FOUR shirts to share with you! In the meantime, see you on Instagram!


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Video: 2010 IMTS: Yaskawa's two-arm robot plays Blackjack
So programming a two-armed robot to deal blackjack is a pretty nifty trick, but what practical use does it have for manufacturing? Erik Nievesfrom Yaskawa and Motoman Inc. gives Plant Engineering content manager Bob Vavra a look at how to use robotics in a variety of applications to improve manufacturing efficiency and safety during the 2010 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago.
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Dumping the euro to save Europe seems harsh – and the outcome uncertain
Opinion: A French diplomat has proposed a radical amputation to save the life of the EU
Loadsamoney: the euro seemed fine before the crisis hit but some believe it is now doomed. Photograph: Pat Langan
We can't make the euro work. We are unwilling and politically unable to complete monetary union, to mutualise debt, to create either a system of significant fiscal transfers or the political integration such a union would require. Faint signs of growth mean European Central Bank president Mario Draghi may have given the single currency a breathing space of three years or so, but it is still doomed. And the danger is that it will bring down the European Union with it.
The gloomy prognosis, I hasten to add, is not mine but that of Prof François Heisbourg, a former French diplomat and chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Geneva Centre for Security, who was in Dublin this week to talk to the Institute for International and European Affairs.
"The dream has given way to nightmare," he says in his latest book, Le Fin du Rêve Européen (The End of the European Dream). "We must face the reality that the EU itself is now threatened by the euro. The current efforts to save it are endangering the union yet further."
Breaking up the euro
His solution – seen as heresy by fellow Europhiles and federalists – is radical surgery to save the EU, an operation, he acknowledges, with all the dangers of separating Siamese twins, to cut out the "euro cancer" by preparing a complete "orderly" break-up of the euro and a return to national currencies.
The parallel, he says, is war – Europe's leaders face the choices that a general overwhelmed in battle does: to continue fighting until obliterated, to break out and at least save the bulk of the army – in this case the EU itself – or to give up the battle for lost. "You cannot create a federation to save a currency. Money has to be at the service of the political structure, not the other way around," he argues.
Perhaps in 10 years, in a different political/economic climate, when the member states really appreciate and can embrace all the political consequences of a single currency, the EU could have another go. A case of, as the French would put it, "reculer pour mieux sauter" – stepping back to get a better run . . .
But, freed of the constraints of the euro zone, not least the deflationary Stability Pact and its German-inspired stifling one-size-fits-all austerity philosophy, he believes states such as Spain and Italy could restore their competitive advantage fast through limited devaluation of their restored currencies. Such a policy if adopted in Greece, he argues, could have allowed it to avoid the worst of the crippling cuts it is currently undergoing. But it's a lottery – it could have made things even worse.
Floating currencies are by no means a panacea for growing our economies out of stagnation. While certainly cutting the price of exports and opening up opportunities for business abroad, a fall in currency values pushes up input costs, cuts living standards, fuels price rises and inflates external debt. The latter effect would be nightmarish for Ireland – a 10 per cent devaluation would push up what we owe foreigners by at least some €18 billion (this figure does not take account of non-financial assets). If a break-up produced an upward revaluation of the Irish pound our exports would be in immediate difficulty in key markets.
Moreover, the practicality of an "orderly" dismantling of the euro is deeply problematic. Heisbourg admits he is no economist and appeals to the profession to examine the idea critically, but points to the successful 1994 Brazilian replacement overnight of its national currency and to a number of smaller-scale orderly dissolutions of monetary unions including that between Ireland and the UK.
The suspicion must be that the euro would be infinitely more difficult and the danger of chaos substantially greater. And the idea presupposes a rationality in the money markets in pricing currencies in line with the real performance of their economies – Ireland's nervousness in the face of its return to the bond markets at the end of the bailout, and its belief in the need for a backstop credit facility from the EU, is precisely a reflection of a deep fear of market irrationality and the inability of small players to take on speculative waves against their currencies. Monetary sovereignty for a small economy is a largely delusionary conceit – hence the appeal of monetary union.
The danger is that Heisbourg's radical surgery would kill the patient, but his provocative analysis is an important contribution to the debate.
Most important are his warnings that the EU's preoccupation with saving the euro is contributing to the increasing marginalisation of the UK, and probably to its eventual and regrettable exit from the union, and his insistence that half a monetary union is no monetary union, or basis for the long-term survival of the euro. And that the currency will die if current procrastination over further integration continues.


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Gale Research, Feb 13, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 360 pages
An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated biographical articles on approximately 70 children's authors and artists. The series covers more than 10,000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources and photographs. Also availa is a cumulative author index, published in odd-numbered volumes.
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