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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's purge of some dissident Republican congressmen from key committees may continue as he seeks to tighten control over his unruly caucus ahead of difficult votes on "fiscal cliff" issues.
House Republican lawmakers said on Wednesday that in addition to the four conservatives who were stripped of their committee assignments earlier this week, other unnamed lawmakers were warned that their votes need to be more in line with party leadership and committee chairmen.
In effect, these congressmen are not "team players" working constructively with committee colleagues and leadership, Representative Pat Tiberi, a close Republican ally of Boehner from his home state of Ohio, told Reuters. Gone are the days when a lawmaker could expect "to stay on a committee forever," Tiberi said.
"This is not golf. This is baseball. You're part of a team," he added.
The move after a November election in which Republicans ceded seats but maintained a majority, signals a stronger hand from Boehner, who took the speaker's gavel two years ago and has repeatedly struggled to get his caucus behind him.
It's too soon to tell if the discharges are a temporary, tactical move by Republican leadership to get a deficit reduction deal passed or a more fundamental shift that reflects the waning influence of the more extreme Tea Party movement, which lost several vocal members in November's elections.
Regardless, the threat of further committee reassignments could make House Republicans think twice about breaking party ranks to vote against any deal that Boehner forges with President Barack Obama to avoid the year-end $600 billion fiscal cliff of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts.
Boehner has already offered revenue increases as part of a replacement plan, which conservatives have denounced as a tax hike that they have pledged to avoid. Obama is holding firm on raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, and persuading a majority of Republicans to back such a deal would be difficult at best.
"The message was that there may be more punishment coming. We are watching your votes," said Representative Tim Huelskamp, a Republican from Kansas who lost his assignments on the House Budget and Agriculture committees.
While Boehner has struggled over the past two years with Tea Party-backed freshmen opposing his most important fiscal initiatives, he now needs to also closely watch the party's more moderate wing.
A number of lawmakers in recent days have voiced agreement with Representative Tom Cole's recommendation that Republicans give in to Obama's demands to let the top two tax rates rise in order to gain more leverage over other areas of the fiscal cliff, including cuts to government health care programs.
Boehner and other House Republican leaders have not spoken publicly about the decisions, which lawmakers say were made by the House Republican Steering Committee in a closed-door hearing.
In fact, Representative Justin Amash, who according to Republican aides lost his Budget committee seat, said on his Facebook page that he has not received "a single call, email or text from Republican leadership" regarding the decision.
"I look forward to hearing from my party's leadership why my principled, conservative voting record offends them. That's sure to be a lively and entertaining conversation," wrote Amash, a congressman from Michigan who is among those who has voted against Boehner most often.
Conservative lawmakers, bloggers and pundits denounced the purge as an attack on their values and independence. Even conservative Tea Party icon Sarah Palin jumped into the criticism on her Facebook page, telling Republican leaders, "don't go wobbly on us."
"We send good conservatives to D.C. to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate, and yet when they stay true to their word the permanent political class in their own party punishes them," Palin wrote. "This won't be forgotten come 2014."
The reassignments were hardly aimed at conservatives, however, as many of the House's most hardline anti-tax members kept their posts, including Budget Committee Chairman and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
But Huelskamp and Amash, both starting second terms in January, were the only Republicans to vote in the Budget Committee against Ryan's budget plan earlier this year, saying it did not cut spending deeply enough. On the House floor, they both voted against the debt limit deal, extending a payroll tax break and a stopgap measure to keep the government funded into March 2013.
Also removed from the House Financial Services Committee were Walter Jones from North Carolina, a longtime dissident who has voted against Boehner more than any Republican, as well as David Schweikert of Arizona.
A Boehner spokesman, Michael Steel, declined to provide any further detail on the decision, saying only, "The Steering Committee makes decisions on a variety of factors."
The effort to boost committee effectiveness, however, could backfire on Boehner by making some members more defiant as they try to safeguard the interests of their constituents.
Voting with leadership, particularly on a fiscal cliff deal that raises taxes, would go against the wishes of voters in many conservatives' districts, said Representative Trent Franks of Arizona.
"When we punish people for voting their conscience, when the votes are in line with the Republican platform, we weaken our caucus," Franks said.
Jones, who said he expects to keep his senior post on the House Armed Services Committee, said that "intimidation" would not work on him, because he will not defy his constituents.
"They say, we put you there, we helped you get a voting card and we want you to remember we the people, not we the leadership," he said.
Amash was equally defiant, again via Facebook: "If they think kicking me off of a committee will lead me to abandon my principles or stifle my bipartisan work toward a balanced budget, I have a message for them: You're dead wrong."
Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Karey Wutkowski and Lisa Shumaker


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CHICAGO — Illinois wind farms now supply 5 percent of the electricity used by Chicago residents and small businesses who participate in a new aggregation program, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said Tuesday, lauding what environmentalists say could serve as a model for other communities.
Hundreds of Illinois cities and towns have adopted aggregation, which allows them to bundle residential and small business customers to buy cheaper electricity in bulk from smaller suppliers. Chicago last year chose Integrys Energy Services to supply electricity to customers in an effort to save money and to ease pollution by eliminating coal-based power.
The other 95 percent of electricity supplied by Integrys comes from natural gas.
Commonwealth Edison still is responsible for delivering electricity and fixing outages, although customers can opt out of aggregation and get their power from ComEd or another supplier.
Chicago officials said more than 750,000 residential and business customers have saved almost $21 million since the program took effect in February.
An Illinois Institute of Technology study released Tuesday concluded that by turning away from coal-fired power, Chicago has reduced its carbon emissions by 16 percent and its emissions of gases that contribute to acid rain and ozone depletion by 98 percent.
"By supporting Illinois wind farms and eliminating coal from the city's portfolio, Chicagoans will build a cleaner, healthier environment for our children," Emanuel said in a written statement.
Sierra Club Illinois Director Jack Darin said he knows of no other Illinois city that has a coal-free aggregation deal, but he hopes others follow Chicago's lead.
"Chicago has shown a new path forward away from coal and toward new energy," he said, adding that central Illinois cities could use a similar approach to obtain local wind-energy sources. He said that, over time, he hopes communities move away from all fossil fuels, including natural gas, "but we're moving there one step at a time."
"It's a great innovation that I hope can be imitated and improved upon," Darin said of Chicago's program.
Chicago officials said it was important that the city buy power from within the state and that they will consider increasing the wind power supply when the current Integrys contract ends next June. The city has an option to extend the contract through May 2015.

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SanDisk and Billboard Focus on U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Markets, Recognize Mobile Convergence, Music Portability Trends
MILPITAS, Calif., and NEW YORK, April 2, 2008- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the proven leader in flash memory, today announced a sponsorship in association with the Billboard Latin Music Conference and Awards from April 6-10 in Hollywood, Florida. This sponsorship demonstrates SanDisk's commitment to two important marketing initiatives - increased focus on the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, as well as the company's "Wake Up Your Phone" education campaign. "Wake Up Your Phone" is focused on informing mobile phone users how they can capture their experiences and take their music with them by expanding the storage capacity of their mobile phones.
In addition to involvement with the event itself, SanDisk will be distributing SanDisk microSD™ cards to press and participants at the conference and awards ceremony with pre-loaded information about the event. This will give attendees the ability to use their mobile phones to capture photos or video at the Billboard Latin Music Conference and Awards or have the capacity to add new tracks from featured artists. Roughly the size of a fingernail, a microSD card, depending on capacity, allows music lovers to carry thousands of songs, videos and photos in their mobile phone and easily transport content to a PC, PDA and even an automobile.
David Bullitt, Marketing Manager for Latin America at SanDisk's Mobile Consumer Solutions Division, said, "The U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets are very important to our overall mobile memory card marketing initiatives at SanDisk. We selected this particular event because of its importance within the Latin community, as well as the fact that Billboard truly understands mobile convergence - where people are increasingly using their mobile phones as more than just a calling device. SanDisk's goal is to help people to 'Wake Up Their Phones' by using a SanDisk memory card, and this type of event allows the company to communicate that message in a creative way."
"This year's Billboard Latin Music Conference is all about exploring the new way of doing business, so it is extremely fitting that SanDisk Corporation is an in association sponsor of the event," said Leila Cobo, Billboard's Executive Director of Content & Programming for Latin Music & Entertainment. "From ringtones to video, understanding and utilizing mobile technology is crucial for any artist or company that wants to succeed in the Latin music business, and we're thrilled that SanDisk will be giving our attendees the opportunity to experience the true power of mobile entertainment through its microSD cards."
To increase awareness for this and other global marketing efforts, as well as overall mobile phone slot education, SanDisk launched www.wakeupyourphone.com.
About the Billboard Latin Music Conference and Awards
The 19th annual Billboard Latin Music Conference, which takes place from April 6-10, is the single most important Latin music industry event in the world. Bringing together today's top Latin music executives, artists, managers, sponsors and press, it features four full days of programming, showcases, educational sessions, parties and networking events. Week highlights include the Billboard Bash, a pre-awards extravaganza featuring live performances by top acts, a full day of programming dedicated to Latin radio, and the Superstar Q&A with Enrique Iglesias, conducted by Billboard's Leila Cobo.
The week is capped off by The Billboard Latin Music Awards, which will honor the biggest and brightest stars in the industry on Thursday, April 10th. From the dazzling red carpet to stunning performances by the No.1 artists on the charts, this is the Latin music awards show that truly reflects the best in the marketplace.
The Billboard Latin Music Conference & Awards is part of Billboard's long-standing editorial commitment to Latin music coverage. Billboard magazine publishes weekly charts and an expanded weekly Latin music section as well as special stand sections four times a year which provide even more in-depth coverage. To register or for the full schedule of events, please visit www.billboardevents.com.
About Billboard
Now in its 114th year, Billboard is the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends. Billboard is the flagship property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Books, and Billboard Licensing & Events. Billboard's many strategic partners include Microsoft, Reuters, Sirius Satellite Radio, Telemundo, Univision Radio, ABC Radio Networks, Azteca America and Billboard sister companies Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. These partnerships leverage Billboard's proprietary data, charts and information resources to develop broadcast entertainment, digital and mobile platforms and contextual commerce applications that expand Billboard's franchise and consumer reach. Billboard is published by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/media.asp
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Wake Up Your Phone mark and logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. microSD is a trademark. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, our products may not perform as expected, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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Conference centre in India provided with 350 Revoluto microphone units
In October 2010 India will be the site of the Commonwealth Games which take place every 4 years. For this reason the new NDMC conference centre in New Delhi, India was built and opened in July 2010.
The auditorium was equipped with the wired MCS-Digital conference system consisting of 350 Revoluto MCS-D 3121 H microphone units. The tables were manufactured with appropriate holes in the tables to integrate the microphone units. The H version comes with cable connections at the bottom that allow a discreet installation without the cables being visible.
Redundant System Design
The system design was done based on the requirement to get the highest reliability possible. This is realized by the redundant cabling between the control unit and all microphones on the floor and on the stage. With this system design the failure of one unit has no effect on the operation of the conference system. Even the replacement of a faulty unit is possible without affecting the running conference system.
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|Identify Mouse Antibody Subtypes Reliably — New Mouse Immunoglobulin Isotyping Kit
|Fluorogenic pH Sensors for Live Cell Analyses — pHrodo™ Red Labeling Kit and pHrodo™ Red Avidin
|New Recombinant Antibodies — Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) ABfinity™ Antibodies
|Investigate p70S6 Kinase Up-regulation — New Phospho-p70S6 Kinase [pT421/pS424] Recombinant Oligoclonal Antibody
|Easy, Reliable Cell Counting of 120 Different Cell Types and Counting — Countess® Automated Cell Counter
- On the Web — Introducing the FLoid™ Cell Imaging Station
- Imaging Corner — Live HeLa Cell Imaging
- From the Bench — Understanding Shiga Toxin–Induced Autophagy
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The Invitrogen™ Mouse Immunoglobulin Isotyping ELISA Kit enables rapid identification of mouse immunoglobulin isotypes IgG (G1, G2a, G2b, G3), IgA, and IgM from purified antibodies, secreted antibodies from hybridomas, transfected cell culture supernatants, and ascites fluid. The kit is designed for experimental flexibility and contains reagents for 96 tests of each immunoglobulin isotype.
what it offers
- Reliability—rigorous quality validation helps ensure specificity of isotype determination
- Flexibility—antibodies are provided in separate solutions so that you can design your plate plan as needed
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how it works
The Mouse Immunoglobulin Isotyping Kit uses a solid-phase ELISA format. The mouse immunoglobulins (Ig) are classified based on their heavy (IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, IgA, IgM, IgD, and IgE) and light (kappa (κ) and lambda (λ)) chains. The kit contains six separate monoclonal capture antibody solutions recognizing the specific isotypes (IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, IgM, and IgA). You can coat wells of your assay plate with any of the solutions to meet your specific experimental needs. After coating wells with the supplied capture antibodies and blocking the plate, simultaneously add your experimental samples or controls, and biotinylated detector antibodies (either κ or λ), to the wells. Wash the plate, add streptavidin-HRP, wash again, and add the chromogenic substrate. Finally, add the stop solution and read the plates at 450 nm to obtain your results.
- Learn More About the Mouse Immunoglobulin Isotyping ELISA Kit
Suggested 96-well plate plan. Colored wells indicate expected positive signals using the control mix. Note: Each vial of control in the kit contains IgG1(κ), IgG2a(λ), IgG2b(κ), IgG3(λ), IgA(κ), and IgM(κ) antibodies.
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The popular pHrodo™ dye, a fluorogenic pH sensor for endocytosis in live-cell studies, is now offered in two additional formats: as a microscale antibody/protein labeling kit, and as an avidin conjugate for use with any biotinylated target. pHrodo™ dye exhibits pH-sensitive red fluorescence that increases in intensity with increasing acidity. pHrodo™ dye is essentially dark in the extracellular environment but exhibits bright red fluorescence at pH 5–7 as it undergoes endocytosis. Although we call the dye pHrodo™ Red, these products contain the same pHrodo™ dye as our pHrodo™, SE; pHrodo™ dextran; and pHrodo™ BioParticles® for phagocytosis.
what they offer
- Flexibility to create your own probes for phagocytosis and endocytosis investigations
- Compatibility to multiplex with green dyes such as GFP, fluo-4, and calcein
- Designed and tested for imaging, flow cytometry, and HTS/HCS (microplate) applications
how they work
pHrodo™ Red Avidin and the pHrodo™ Red Microscale Labeling Kit offer a rapid means to make any material, including proteins, peptides, viruses and small molecules a pHrodo™ Red conjugate. The labeling kit includes reagents for 3 labeling reactions of 20–100 µg protein with excellent recovery, and can also be used for labeling viruses. Alternatively pHrodo™ Red Avidin can be used to create bioconjugates using the easy, high-affinity avidin–biotin interaction. Use pHrodo™ Red Avidin when a biotinylated target already exists.
- Learn More About Invitrogen™ pHrodo™ Indicators for Endocytosis and Phagocytosis
pHrodo™ dye is ideal for detecting changes in pH. (A) pHrodo™ dye exhibits pH-sensitive fluorescence. (B) Endocytic vesicles undergo acidification during the maturation process.
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|1 kit
|pHrodo™ Red Avidin
|1 mg
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Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is phosphorylated at serine 935 in brain tissue and is implicated in familial Parkinson's disease. When LRRK2 is phosphorylated at serine 935, the 14-3-3 protein binds specifically, and this may be an important mechanism in regulating dopamine physiology.
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ABfinity™ recombinant monoclonal and oligoclonal antibodies offer consistent results, minimizing the need to revalidate working antibody dilutions for your experiments each time you order.
how they work
ABfinity™ antibodies are manufactured by transfecting mammalian cells with high-level expression vectors containing immunogen-specific heavy- and light-chain antibody cDNA. This production process offers consistent lot-to-lot antibody performance.
Our LRRK2 phosphoserine 935 ABfinity™ Recombinant Rabbit Antibodies are validated for western blotting and ELISA applications.
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Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) ABfinity™ Antibody performance.
Indirect ELISA was performed using the indicated concentrations of LRRK2 phosphoserine 935 [pS935] Rabbit Recombinant Oligoclonal Antibody (Cat. No. 710097) to detect phospho-LRRK2 peptide coated onto the plate. A nonlinear regression analysis was performed (4 PL), and LOD and LOQ for the antibody were determined to be 450 pg/mL and 1,370 pg/mL, respectively.
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|LRRK2 [pS935] ABfinity™ Recombinant Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody – Purified
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Investigate p70S6 Kinase Up-regulation—New Phospho–p70S6 Kinase [pT421/pS424] Recombinant Oligoclonal Antibody
what they are
The ribosomal p70S6 kinase is known for its role in modulating cell-cycle progression, cell size, and cell survival. Activated p70S6 kinase is phosphorylated at threonine 421 and serine 424, and higher phosphorylation levels are associated with neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease.
what they offer
ABfinity™ recombinant monoclonal and oligoclonal antibodies offer consistent results, minimizing the need to revalidate working antibody dilutions for your experiments each time you order.
how it works
ABfinity™ antibodies are manufactured by transfecting mammalian cells with high-level expression vectors containing immunogen-specific heavy- and light-chain antibody cDNA. This production process offers consistent lot-to-lot antibody performance.
Phosphorylated p70S6 Kinase [pT421/pS424] Recombinant Rabbit Oligoclonal is validated for western blotting, ELISA, and immunocytochemistry.
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Immunocytochemistry analysis using the new Phospho-p70S6 Kinase Recombinant Antibody.
HeLa cells were incubated with p70S6 Kinase [pT421/pS424] Rabbit Recombinant Oligoclonal Antibody and detected using Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (A11008) (green). DAPI was used to stain the nucleus, and actin was visualized using Alexa Fluor® 594 phalloidin (red). (A, B) Composite image of cells showing cytoplasmic and nuclear localization of phosphorylated p70S6K. (C) Competition with the phospho-p70S6K [pT421/pS424] peptide.
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CellLight® reagents are ready-to-use BacMam viral particles containing fluorescent protein constructs targeted to specific subcellular structures. They are simple and effective tools for introducing targeted intracellular fluorescent labels into living cells. Simply add the CellLight® reagent to your cells, incubate overnight, and you're ready to image your cells.
- Efficient transduction of mammalian cells, including "difficult" cells such as primary and stem cells
- Robust expression and sustained cellular function of fluorescent proteins for highly specific labeling
- Easily study dynamic changes, colocalization, and signaling events in living cells
- Compatible with fixed-cell staining and high-content analysis
In a recent study, Gasparian et al. published results that help elucidate the mode of action of a class of small molecules, curaxins, that have the potential to be useful in cancer therapy (Sci Transl Med 3, 95ra74 (2011)). They found that this newly identified class of anti-cancer compounds exhibits activity in mice at levels that are not toxic or genotoxic—an unusual property for DNA-targeted chemotherapeutics. In addition, they show that these compounds "simultaneously activate p53 and inhibit NF-κB", proteins that are dysregulated in many malignant tumor types. CellLight® Histone 2B-RFP, BacMam 2.0 was used in this study to help show that curaxins cause functional inactivation of the FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription) complex by causing one of its two subunits, structure-specific recognition protein 1 (SSRP1), to become tightly associated with chromatin.
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Have confidence in your cell counts with the Countess® Automated Cell Counter, which has been referenced in over 100 peer-reviewed publications representing over 120 different cell types from 18 species. The Countess® Automated Cell Counter is a benchtop instrument that offers easy and accurate cell and viability counts in as little as 30 seconds. This image-based cell counting instrument eliminates the tedium and subjectivity of manual cell counting and minimizes subjective judgments that can lead to errors. By offering accurate cell count, cell size, and cell viability data, the Countess® instrument aids in improving downstream results, which translates to fewer experimental repeats needed due to subjective errors. To supplement the peer-reviewed publications, we have generated several technical and application notes covering topics such as counting blood, primary cells, and stem cells.
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|Live HeLa cell imaging. Live HeLa cells were transduced with CellLight® Plasma Membrane-GFP, BacMam 2.0 construct (green) and wheat germ agglutinin, Alexa Fluor® 594 conjugate (red), both targeting the plasma membrane. The cells were then counterstained with Hoechst 33342 dye (blue) to label nuclei, and imaged live.
Lee MS, Cherla RP et al. (2011) Cell Microbiol 13:11479-96
There have have been several outbreaks of deadly Escherichia coli in the last few years; the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists six such events in 2010 and 2011, with the sources of contamination covering a wide range of food products that include beef, lettuce, cheese, and nuts. Shiga toxins produced by certain strains of E. coli and Shigella dysenteriae are responsible for the severe illness and death that can result when humans become infected with these bacteria. It is hoped that research aimed at better understanding the effect of shiga toxins on host cells will help identify strategies for effective treatment and/or prevention of illness. To that end, scientists at the Texas A&M Health Science Center and colleagues recently compared intracellular trafficking and autophagosome formation of shiga toxin in toxin-sensitive and toxin-resistant cells. They were particularly interested in understanding whether autophagy in response to shiga toxin is a protective mechanism or whether it contributes to apoptosis. They found that shiga toxin was translocated to different cell compartments in toxin-sensitive and -resistant cells. In addition, they report that both cell types exhibited autophagosome formation. They determined that "proteolytic cleavage of Atg5 and Beclin-1 plays pivotal roles in switching non-cytotoxic autophagy to cell death signalling."
- Gibco® cell culture media and sera were used in this study
- Premo™ Autophagy Sensors were used for detection of autophagy
- Alexa Fluor® 488 and 594 dye–labeled shiga toxin fragments were used to investigate intracellular trafficking


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Political Roundtable: Frank Stasio hosts a roundtable conversation on the political news of the day. Guests include Mike Munger, chair of the political science department at Duke University; Ed Cone, opinion columnist at the Greensboro News and Record and author of the weblog EdCone.com; and Kerra Bolton, reporter with the Asheville Citizen-Times. Listener Call-In. (32:00)
Fall Foliage in NC: Host Frank Stasio asks Gary Walker, professor of biology at Appalachian State University, his predictions for this year's fall colors. (5:00)
The Tempest: Host Frank Stasio speaks with composer and librettist Lee Hoiby. Hoiby's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is being performed by The Long Leaf Opera, and opens at The Carolina Theater in Durham on Thursday, Sept. 30. (7:00)
Essay: When President George Bush and Senator John Kerry face the TV cameras tonight there will surely be plenty of talk about God, morality and doing the right thing. Writer Michael Chitwood wonders if the candidates truly know of what they speak. (3:00)


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The Difference Between New Zealand & Australia Holidays
Many people speak of going on holiday to Australia OR New Zealand - but do people really know the differences between the two, and the different holidays?
Despite their close proximity, Australia and New Zealand couldn't be more different in what they have to offer travellers, and it's this juxtaposition that really makes a trip down under a truly unforgettable experience. While Australia caters to the side of you that enjoys a bit of pampering, a bit of luxury and a bit of relaxation, New Zealand caters to the side that's keen and eager, the side that's energetic and lively, the side that wants to do things that push the boundaries a little. Spend some time in both places, and you've got the recipe for the ultimate holiday.
One of the main reasons people choose to take a holiday in Australia is because of the unbelievably beautiful weather and the stunning, picture-perfect golden beaches. Almost every coastal region in Australia boasts glorious sands, so deciding where to go can be tricky, but Broome in Western Australia is a place that really stands out amongst all others. If you want to book a holiday to Austrlia, Barrhead Travel Australia offers some great deals. Broome's Cable Beach, stretching for 13 miles around the coastline, won't disappoint, and the area has plenty to do for when you need to take a break from the heat of the midday sun, such as visiting the local pearl farm, or sampling the goods at Broome's one and only brewery.
While New Zealand can also be proud of it's beaches, it's the extreme sports on offer here that really draws the crowds. If you can name it, you can do it in New Zealand. Ever fancied standing in a metal cage, just feet away from one of the most dangerous predatory creatures in the world? Head to Kaikoura on the South Island for plenty of shark cage diving opportunities. Similarly, if you've got the desire to don a helmet and crawl through tiny tunnels through the stunning New Zealand mountains and cliffs, spend some time in Te Anau where you can tour the Aurora Caves.
Of course, there are some similarities between Australia and New Zealand, and one of these similarities is food. Both countries offer amazing, mouth watering cuisine that you simply can't get anywhere else. In the coastal towns and cities, you'll find some the freshest seafood you've ever tasted in your life, but you'll also find dishes containing crocodile, kangaroo, and emu on many menus as restaurants make good use of native meats. Despite the British influences, these countries are a world apart from Europe, especially in terms of the laid back way of life and chilled out pace. It's a holiday worth taking!
Interested in booking a holiday? Head over to http://www.barrheadtravel.co.uk/


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You can import data to a Directory Server suffix in the following ways:
Initialize a suffix from an LDIF file. This operation deletes the current data in the suffix and replaces it with the contents of the LDIF file.
Use an LDIF file to perform bulk ldapadd, ldapmodify, or ldapdelete operations. This allows you to add, modify, and delete entries in bulk in any suffix of the directory.
The offline import (dsadm import) does not remove the changelog as the changelog data may still be in the suffix. At server start, replication decides if the changelog needs to be kept or not. Online import (dsconf import) decides straight away if changelog needs to be recreated or not.
The following table shows the differences between initializing a suffix and adding, modifying, and deleting entries in bulk.Table 2–1 Comparison of Initializing a Suffix and Importing Data in Bulk
Domain of Comparison
Initializing Suffixes
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Overwrites content
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LDAP operations
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Response to server failure
Atomic (all changes are lost after a failure)
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If server is local and stopped:
dsadm import
If server is remote and running:
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ldapmodify -B
Note –
Bulk import using the ldapmodify -B command erases the existing entries under the target suffix.
Initializing a suffix overwrites the existing data in a suffix with the contents of an LDIF file that contains only entries for addition.
You must be authenticated as the Directory Manager or an Administrator to initialize a suffix.
When the server is running, only the Directory Manager and Administrators can import an LDIF file that contains a root entry. For security reasons, only these users have access to the root entry of a suffix, for example, dc=example,dc=com.
Before restoring suffixes involved in replication agreements, read Restoring Replicated Suffixes.
All LDIF files that you import must use UTF-8 character-set encoding.
When initializing a suffix, the LDIF file must contain the root entry and all directory tree nodes of the corresponding suffix.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Use one of the following commands to initialize the suffix from an LDIF file, that is, import the contents of a database to an LDIF file.
These commands overwrite the data in your suffix.
If your server is local and stopped, type:
$ dsadm import instance-path LDIF-file suffix-DN
The following example uses the dsadm import command to import two LDIF files into a single suffix:
$ dsadm import /local/dsInst /local/file/example/demo1.ldif \ /local/file/example/demo2.ldif dc=example,dc=com
If your server is running (local or remote), type:
$ dsconf import -h host -p port LDIF-file suffix-DN
The following example imports an LDIF file using dsconf import. You do not need root privileges to run the command, but you must authenticate as a user with root permissions, such as the Directory Manager.
$ dsconf import -h host1 -p 1389 /local/file/example/demo1.ldif \ ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
When using the dsconf command, the dse.ldif file must be available to the host running the server.
For more information, see the dsadm(1M) and dsconf(1M)man pages.
Examples that use command-line tools depend on sample data residing under the dc=example,dc=com suffix of your directory.
You can set up part of the data that is required by creating a dc=example,dc=com suffix. You can then populate the suffix with entries from the install-path/dsee7/resources/ldif/Example.ldif file.
Create a new Directory Server instance and start the instance.
$ dsadm create -p port -P SSL-port instance-path $ dsadm start instance-path
Read the Example.ldif file to find bind passwords needed in the examples.
Create suffix and load the Example.ldif content into the directory by using the following commands:
$ dsconf create-suffix -h localhost -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com $ dsconf import -h localhost -p 1389 \ install-path/dsee7/resources/ldif/Example.ldif dc=example,dc=com
For more information, see To Create a Directory Server Instance.
Generate test data for examples by using the makeldif(1) command, as shown in the next step, and the following template:
define suffix=dc=example,dc=com define maildomain=example.com branch: ou=test,[suffix] subordinateTemplate: person:100 template: person rdnAttr: uid objectclass: top objectclass: person objectclass: organizationalPerson objectclass: inetOrgPerson givenName: <first> sn: <last> cn: {givenName} {sn} initials: {givenName:1}{sn:1} employeeNumber: <sequential> uid: test{employeeNumber} mail: {uid}@[maildomain] userPassword: auth{employeeNumber}{employeeNumber} telephoneNumber: <random> description: This is the description for {cn}.
Create a test.template file and copy the template content, as shown above, into it. Use commands such as the following to generate the data in test.ldif and to load the content into the directory.
The test.template file must be created in the install-path/dsee7/dsrk/bin/example_files directory.
$ cd install-path/dsee7/dsrk/bin/example_files $ ../makeldif -t test.template -o test.ldif Processing complete. 101 total entries written. $ ../ldapmodify -a -c -D uid=hmiller,dc=example,dc=com -w - -f test.ldif Enter bind password: …
If you read Example.ldif, you see that the password for hmiller is hillock.
This step is specific to the zip installation because the makeldif command is available only in the zip distribution.
When you perform an ldapmodify operation, you are able to add, modify, or delete entries in bulk. Entries are specified in an LDIF file that contains update statements to modify or delete existing entries. This operation does not erase entries that already exist.
The changed entries may target any suffix that is managed by your Directory Server. As with any other operation that adds entries, the server will index all new entries as they are imported.
The ldapmodify command will import an LDIF file through LDAP and perform all operations that the file contains. Using this command you can modify data in all directory suffixes at the same time.
Before restoring suffixes involved in replication agreements, see Restoring Replicated Suffixes.
All LDIF files that you import must use UTF-8 character-set encoding.
When importing an LDIF file, parent entries must either exist in the directory or be added first from the file.
Add, modify, or delete from an LDIF file in bulk.
$ ldapmodify -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - -B baseDN -f LDIF-file
The following example performs an import using the ldapmodify command. You do not need root privileges to run this command, but you must authenticate as a user with root permissions, such as cn=Directory Manager or cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config. The last parameter specifies the name of the LDIF file to import.
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RICHMOND, VA. - Old Dominion University senior forward Rasheed Wright (Greensboro, NC.) as named Player of the Week by the Colonial Athletic Association. Wright averaged 17.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals as ODU (6-6/3-1) moved atop the league standings after defeating UNC Wilmington, 67-57 and William and Mary, 76-64.
The 6-5, 210 pounder scored a team-high 15 points and made three steals as ODU snapped UNC Wilmington's 10-game home court winning streak. He shared team high scoring honors with 20 points and grabbed eight boards against William and Mary. For the week, Wright shot .571 from the floor, including 5-of-9 from three-point range, and was 14-17 at the free throw line. Wright now has 982 career points.
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General John Allen has told associates he became entangled in Petraeus' scandal a few months ago, The Wall Street Journal reports.
He received an anonymous email from Paula Broadwell, Petraeus' biographer and mistress, regarding Jill Kelley, the woman who ended up reporting Broadwell's anonymous emails to the FBI, starting the investigation that revealed the Petraeus adultery scandal.
The email to Gen. Allen was later traced to Broadwell by the FBI investigation.
It was written under the pseudonym "KelleyPatrol," and called Kelley a "seductress," warning Gen. Allen against getting involved in a relationship with her, according to a WSJ source.
Gen. Allen then told Kelley that he had received the note about her, and that's the email that investigators are focusing on, according to CBS News.
Gen. Allen is now under investigation for up to 30,000 pages of "potentially inappropriate" emails with Kelley. He is currently the commander in charge of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and he denies that he had an inappropriate relationship with Kelley, or that he shared any confidential information.
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SAN JOSE — A dispute between the Earthquakes and their most ardent supporters has escalated after management revoked the 1906 Ultras' rights to display banners at home games.
In response, the fans who sit behind the north goal at Buck Shaw Stadium were silent Saturday night throughout San Jose's 2-0 victory over Chivas USA. The Ultras usually sing, chant and pound drums for all 90 minutes of home games.
They vow to remain silent until the team lifts the sanctions, including one issued Friday that indefinitely revoked the Ultras' rights to display homemade banners, known as tifa.
The latest conflict between the Major League Soccer team and the 200-strong Ultras comes a year before the Earthquakes plan to open a new stadium. At a time the team is trying to build a strong fan base to help fill the new 18,000-seat stadium, management is struggling with a minority of passionate supporters who bring a European flavor to games that's not seen in other U.S. sports leagues.
As MLS officials promote a family friendly environment, they have tried to keep a leash on supporters groups to prevent the seeds of hooliganism from sprouting. Most soccer teams have special supporter sections in their stands.
Although independent, the Ultras have an arrangement with the Quakes to sit together, unfurl banners and sing and chant.
"It's the unique part of our culture of soccer," Quakes president Dave Kaval said Monday. "It's a differentiator."
Aside from some lewd chants, questionable banners and drunkenness, the Quakes have had few problems with their fans in the five-plus seasons since they have re-entered MLS.
The current issue has been building since the Ultras were placed on indefinite probation in April after a melee in Portland in which police reported a group of about a dozen men, many wearing Earthquakes scarves to cover their faces, jumped on the hood and smashed the windshield of the car of a Timbers fan on the way to the game at Jeld Wen Field. The driver also told police someone opened his door and punched him.
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Marcia said some Ultras are considering asking for refunds for season tickets to the new stadium.


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How do you say "cheers" in Japanese? Coca-Cola wants to know.
The company is launching a new alcoholic drink in Japan. Chu-Hi, a popular beverage there, is made from a distilled beverage called shōchū, sparkling water and flavoring.
"This is unique in our history," Jorge Garduño, president of Coca-Cola's Japan business unit, said in a post on the company's website. "Coca-Cola has always focused entirely on non-alcoholic beverages and this is a modest experiment for a specific slice of our market."
Scott Leith, a spokesman for the company, said that the new boozy drink will not be coming to the U.S.
He declined to say when it would hit store shelves in Japan or what the new beverage would cost.
New Coke flavors coming to the US
But American consumers will have a chance to try new Coke flavors, including "Georgia Peach" and "California Raspberry."
Coca-Cola is looking to dip into their flavor expansion market, hoping to align themselves with a new generation of soda drinkers with a wide variety of flavors & tastes.
This is the company's first change to its flavors since Vanilla Coke debuted in 2002. The drinks will be available in stores nationwide with the 12 oz. glass bottles in single or four-packs.
Coca-Cola tests many new products in Japan
The Atlanta-based beverage maker often rolls out edgy drinks in Japan. Last spring, for example, it debuted Coca-Cola Plus, which contains fiber.
"The Japan business unit launches an average of 100 new products a year, and many times more are put to the test behind the scenes," said Garduño. "Experimentation is almost like a day-to-day ritual here."
This isn't Coca-Cola's first foray into alcohol. Before company founder John Pemberton created what ultimately became the Coca Cola consumed today, he developed a coca wine, which was made with French wine and cocaine. Temperance laws at the time ultimately got him to swap out the alcohol part of his concoction.
In 1977, Coca-Cola got back into the wine business, but ultimately sold that division, called Wine Spectrum, to Seagram & Sons in 1983, according to Leith.
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Critical thinking is one of the buzzwords we hear these days in academia. We often see in the mission statements of higher education institutions and learning goals of college courses that cultivating students' critical thinking skills is a primary aim. As much as the perception of good writing is embedded in the histories of ideologies, pedagogies, and epistemologies on which any literacy practices are based, the practice of critical thinking is deeply situated within specific disciplinary fields. The term "critical" originated from the Greek meaning of "discerning", "separating", or "differentiating" (Farrell, 2001). But many international students may associate the idea of being critical with some sort of negativity, such as criticizing someone, and have difficulty understanding their professors' comments on their papers that their writing is not "critical" enough. Students who grew up in a collective society have difficulty differentiating their own opinions from others and are not very comfortable critiquing the perspectives of famous scholars and professors.
As the practice of critical thinking has become an important topic in academia, the ways in which critical thinking are conceptualized and taught both in and outside the classroom have received a great amount of attention from researchers and instructors in a wide range of disciplines. Some argue that thinking and reasoning skills can be taught as if they are generalizable and transferrable skills—skills that the students can learn and apply to other literacy contexts (Davidson, 1998; Gieve, 1998; Hawkins, 1998). Some argue that critical thinking is not an autonomous, cognitive skill that can be learned out of context; domain knowledge and domain practice are essential for critical thinking practice both inside and outside the classroom (Atkinson, 1997; Pennycook, 1999; Willingham, 2007).
Although the procedures may change in each class, an activity that is often used for students' critical thinking skills training in a writing class is a visual thinking strategies exercise (Min, 2013). An instructor brings visual illustrations (e.g. pictures, posters, advertisements, artifacts, etc.) to class and leads students to interpret what is going on in the images. As students come up with a variety of responses, the instructor asks them to compare their interpretations with those of other students and discuss why each person's interpretation of the same image is unique. The instructor leads them to realize that there are multiple perspectives on an issue and each issue has its own sets of support and evidence.
This kind of critical thinking skills training can be very different from critical thinking training in Engineering or in Business Administration; domain knowledge and domain practice are essential for critical thinking training both inside the classroom and beyond the classroom. The socially-situated nature of critical thinking practice is clearly reflected in the statement that critical thinking is "a type of thought that even 3-year-olds can engage in—and even trained scientists can fail in" (Willingham, 2007, p. 10). Thus, it is very important for faculty to explain the meaning of being "critical" and provide models of good papers that illustrate "critical thinking and critical analysis" for the specific assignment, especially when they work with international undergraduate students.
Atkinson, D. (1997). A critical approach to critical thinking in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 31(1), 71-94.
Davidson, B. (1998). A case for critical thinking in the English language classroom. TESOL Quarerly, 32(1), 119-123.
Farrell, T.S.C. (2001). Critical friendships: colleagues helping each other develop. English Language Teaching Journal, 55, 368-374.
Gieve, S. (1998). A reader reacts: Comments on Dwight Atkinson's "A Critical Approach to Critical Thinking in TESOL." TESOL Quarerly, 32(1), 123-129.
Hawkins, M. (1998). Apprenticing nonnative speakers to new discourse communities. TESOL Quarerly, 32(1), 129-132.
Min, Y. K. (2012). Image of critical thinking skills training in a college writing program, National Teaching and Learning Forum, 22(1), 5-7.
Pennycook, A. (1999). Introduction: Critical approaches to TESOL, TESOL Quarterly, 33(3), 329-348.
Willingham, D. (2007). Critical thinking: Why is it so hard to teach?. American Educator, Summer, 8-19.
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Hey everyone :) After 10 years of being aquarium free, i decided to go for a cichlid tank again because i loved having my cichlid tank so much when i was younger.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what the best mid sized cichlids are as far as color and personality that would be great. The first two i bought for my cichlid community were a albino tiger oscar and a salvini. The salvini was an impulse buy as i was staring at tanks at my LFS and had never seen one before... once the google images popped up for adult salvinis i had an employee bag one up for me.
At this point I am thinking an electric blue jack dempsey based on some of the research I have done, or maybe a blue acara. Is there anything close to a miniature fiestae? Anything colorful that would go well with these two?
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It's not exactly beating swords into plowshares, but drone technology used in warfare could one day fight weeds and disease that threaten crops.
Unmanned helicopters have been surveying small cotton and peanut plots at Moultrie's Sunbelt Agriculture Exposition this summer. Images from the craft can spot potential problems, saving farmers a lot of walking through the fields, says a team leading the trials.
In the future, larger aircraft could spray insecticides and other chemicals, treating small areas of crops to ward off larger infestations.
"This has so much potential," Glen Harris, a University of Georgia extension cotton agronomist working on the team. "I'm excited to see what the rest of the flights will reveal."
The military has led the development of flying drones, and law enforcement is adapting them to civilian use. Unmanned aircraft are finding business uses, as well, though the Federal Aviation Administration is still writing rules governing their commercial use.
The South Georgia team has drawn attention and support from agricultural and aviation agencies, as well as Guided Systems Technologies of Stockbridge, Ga., which built the helicopters. Middle Georgia State College's aviation campus has conducted the flights over five-acre plots of cotton and peanuts.
John Beasley, a UGA peanut agronomist on the team, said the drones can assess a large field that would take hours to scout by foot - and do it better. That's especially powerful given far fewer peanut producers in the state - about 4,000 to 4,500 - who manage roughly the same number of crops as was once cultivated by 14,000 farmers.
"Imagine the man hours it's going to save. Imagine the preciseness we can have," said Beasley. "What I like is the preciseness."
The 25-pound helicopter used in the Moultrie trials and its systems would cost $60,000 to $80,000, making it cost prohibitive to most smaller producers. But Eric Corban, founder and owner of Guided Systems Technologies, said the price will come down with time.
Alan Mauldin writes for The Moultrie Observer.


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Graduation season is upon us, and with it comes the irony of those who cannot spell congratulating those who have (hopefully) learned to do so. In writing.
I suppose it would be easier if "graduation" and "congratulations" didn't sound so much alike. As it is, we end up with a lot of Franken-style mash-ups:
Admit it: Now you want to see a cake that says "Congradulations Gratuates" as much as I do. Well, I don't have one. (Yet.) But I do have some more fun manglings:
After a while you start to see the same mistakes over and over again. There's the "Something's Missing...":
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – In a battle of high-powered offenses the pitchers ruled, as No. 21 Georgia College (30-14) edged Erskine College (26-19) 4-3 at John Kurtz Field Friday night. Senior righty Eric Pettepher (Gordon, Ga.) went the distance for his second complete-game victory of the season.
"It's the goal you keep shooting for, but to be honest you're happy with seven or eight good innings," said Pettepher postgame. "When the ninth rolls around and coach thinks you have it, you go out there and keep fighting."
Pettepher (5-3) scattered eight hits and three runs over nine innings, fanning six. The righty shut down nine batters in a row at one point.
GC put up two in the first on a Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.) home run, taking a 2-1 lead. Erskine answered right back with a two-run shot of their own, off the bat of centerfielder Chase Corn. The game remained 3-2 until the fourth, when Pirkle doubled and was brought home on a Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) single for a 3-3 tie.
The go-ahead run was a Travis Echols (Lawrenceville, Ga.) blast to left in the seventh. Pirkle finished 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs.
Erskine reliever Andrew Guest (6-3) took the loss, throwing the seventh and deciding inning. Corn finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run.
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Christine Brennan says it's time for the New York Jets to just play Tim Tebow and see what he can do
The histrionics in New York over Tim Tebow and the Jets are utterly predictable, entirely childish and eminently solvable.
A 3-6 team that is tied for last place in the AFC East finds itself in complete disarray in the Big Apple. It should come as no surprise that this team is coached by Rex Ryan, the NFL's master of self-induced chaos.
TEBOW RIPPED: Teammates take shots at QB
Mark Sanchez, his beleaguered starting quarterback, has the league's lowest completion percentage and tends to throw passes to the wrong team when he nears the goal line. Tebow, his backup, has the name recognition of Justin Bieber. Unfortunately, he might have his arm as well.
Nonetheless, a season that appears well on its way to becoming a lost cause is crying out for one simple solution:
Play Tebow more.
Not every down. Not even every series. He doesn't have to start. Sanchez can keep that honor, for whatever it's worth. But Ryan should put Tebow in the game more often. A team has about 12 possessions in a typical NFL contest, so let him play a fourth or a third of them.
REX ANGRY: Anonymous critics cowards
What do the Jets have to lose, other than another game?
For all his football faults, real and imagined, Tebow is hardly a loser. Just the opposite, actually. He won big in college. When given the chance, he won big last year in Denver with the Broncos. In fact, he won one more playoff game last season than Ryan's Jets did.
If, against all odds, Tebow does what Tebow has been known to do and somehow helps pull out a victory this week against the 3-5-1 St. Louis Rams, the Jets would quiet some of their critics, if only for a few minutes, and would have stopped their three-game losing streak. They might have settled for a short-term solution for a long-term problem, but they still would have a much-needed victory.
SANCHEZ: Among few Jets who defend Tebow
If Tebow is as "terrible" on Sunday as his anonymous teammates are claiming he is in practice the rest of the week, then everyone in New York -- including owner Woody Johnson, who apparently is the one who wanted Tebow with the Jets -- will know he's really not the answer. The Jets can then move into the next phase of their existence, which will be trying to explain what in the world they were thinking when they traded for him in March.
Whatever happens, the more Tebow plays, the more the Jets get answers and the closer everyone in New York is to finding out just how long he'll be a Jet. If Tebow doesn't play and Sanchez keeps losing, the agony and anonymity only will continue.
There's another option for the Jets, the equivalent of kicking the can down the road for another week or two. Because the AFC is so mediocre this season, the Jets are not yet completely out of the playoff picture. (If the season ended today, the 6-3 Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts would be the wild-card teams.) So, if they must, the Jets could go with Sanchez until the playoffs are totally out of reach, then give Tebow his legitimate shot, even starting him at that point.
WEEK 11 STAFF PICKS: Can the Jets beat the Rams on the road?
This isn't happy news for the Jets and their fans, but, this season, satisfaction might not come in victories but in finding out whether Tebow is theirs for a while, or once again moving on.
For this, Jets executives have no one but themselves to blame. They brought on this circus. Of course they did; chaos is what the Jets do best under Ryan. In the past three seasons, this team has given us the news of Brett Favre's alleged X-rated texts to Jets employee Jenn Sterger, the Hard Knocks HBO show, the practice-field and locker-room harassment of TV reporter Ines Sainz and now, Tebow and the anonymous comments in the tabloids.
"They had these issues in the locker room last year," said former Jets coach Herm Edwards, an ESPN analyst. "That's why they brought Tim Tebow in. And once you get players talking and they're not putting their names on it, it becomes even bigger. Now Rex has to deal with this."
What did the Jets think would happen when one of the nation's most famous and beloved professional athletes arrived to back up Sanchez in the fishbowl that is New York sports? It's actually a bit of a surprise that it took until mid-November for more than a dozen players and team personnel to anonymously rip Tebow in the New York Daily News. He should be pleased it didn't happen in September.
Even if it's Johnson's fault that Tebow came to New York, this is Ryan's team to run, and he needs to do a far better job of controlling it than he's doing at the moment. Ryan angrily chastised his players Wednesday, calling their comments "a cowardly thing." Problem is, those quotes are completely consistent with the other Jets' misbehavior that has occurred on his watch.


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Why go mountaineering with a guide?
Heading off into the mountains with a guide is a good idea for many reasons - not just safety, but also for the great company, and how much you'll learn!
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Why go with a guide?
Taking off into the hills with a guide costs money, so there has to be some good reasons why increasing numbers of outdoor enthusiasts are choosing to go with a guide.
Obviously going with a guide who has a lot more experience in the outdoors than you, and who is able to recognise dangers you may not even be aware of, is going to increase the safety of your trip.
Failure to recognise early warning signs with the weather is one of the key factors in outdoor accidents.
While a guide is no guarantee that you won't encounter bad weather, he/she will have made sure that you are properly equipped in case the weather does turn bad; and in the rare case that it gets so bad you can't reach your destination, he/she will be able to cater for an emergency bivouac.
Normally an experienced guide would make his own interpretation of the weather signs and avoid being out in extreme conditions that might require a bivouac.
Many accidents have happened when trampers above the snowline have attempted to cross a harmless-looking snow slope.
If they had been taught simple techniques of how to place their feet, how to use crampons, how to self-arrest, even without an ice-axe, they could have avoided a fatal slip.
Also, harmless-looking snow slopes can hide crevasses. A professional mountain guide can teach you safe route selection, how to rope up and travel across a glacier safely.
He/she will also belay you if the slope is steep and there's any chance of a dangerous fall.
In any situation where there has been an accumulation of snow, whether tramping, climbing or backcountry skiing, you can rely on your mountain guide to identify potential avalanche hazard.
The New Zealand Mountain Guides Association, puts experienced climbers through a rigorous training and assessment scheme over a period of five years.
When fully qualified these professionals have international accreditation.
Service and Facilities
These days of instant communication everything moves faster, with so much more being crammed into the "normal" working day.
Business professionals especially have minimal time for planning and organising a holiday, so why not have a quick look on the internet and send an e-mail to some guiding companies to see what they come up with.
The response is fast with everything organised at a glance: equipment, food, transport, accommodation all provided, and the guide of course.
At the click of a button you'll also be provided with info on public transport to the venue and pre- and post-tour accommodation. Your jaunt into the hills can actually be a holiday!
Guided Walks also have their own private hut facilities, which means you don't have to compete with the general public for bunk/cooking/living space, you can be assured of nice clean facilities, and you'll have a gourmet meal cooked for you. The hut will be heated too, with drying facilities.
Find it hard to coordinate with busy friends to get away? Then if you go on a guided trip you're guaranteed of good company, interesting and stimulating company too.
On a recent trip over Ball Pass with Alpine Recreation, the 8-member party consisted of a Norwegian, an Israeli, a Belgian, a Dutchman, two New Zealanders, a Briton and a Canadian, not to mention the equally interesting mix of professions from an osteopath/acupuncturist to farmers.
The company of the guide(s) is not to be underestimated either. Mountain guides have a wide background of outdoor adventures, not always restricted to climbing, both in New Zealand and overseas.
Their anecdotes can entertain clients all evening.
Guides will not only share with you some of the exciting things that have happened in their lives, they'll also impart worthwhile knowledge that goes beyond the safety-related essentials. For example, if you're interested in flora and fauna they'll identify and draw your attention to species you may not have noticed. The story of how the top fell off Aoraki/Mt. Cook never fails to arouse interest, and the reasons behind it. These guides are attuned to their environment, live and work in it daily. Their enthusiasm for their surroundings is infectious.
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This year, a poster networking exchange session will be offered to enable interactive discussions for research and implementation strategies related to green chemistry. We are inviting posters from anyone involved in research, safer formulations, new product development and implementation, decision-making tools, or technical assistance. Ideally, posters will make a connection between green chemistry expertise and business needs in product development in safer chemistry.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday named James Stock to the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Stock has been chief economist for the council since 2012. He was previously an economist at Harvard University and a member of the committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research that dates the start and end of recessions.
Stock's appointment brings the three-member panel to full strength, joining Chairman Alan Krueger and Katherine Abraham. He does not require Senate confirmation.
Stock's areas of research are forecasting trends in the broad economy, monetary policy, and recent changes in the U.S. business cycle. He is the author of a textbook on economic measurement.
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