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Michelle Adlard (MBACP) Registered
About me
Hello my name is Michelle, I am a fully qualified (BACP) registered Counsellor and Hypnotherapist providing a Person Centred / Integrative approach, which allows my clients to work at a pace that is most comfortable for them.
I understand fully that taking the first steps to seek out counselling can be quite a daunting experience. So I try to provide a safe comfortable environment, were issues can be looked at and explored with the reassuring knowledge that it is totally confidential and you will not be judged in anyway.
We all need a little help at certain times in our lives, and I like to believe I am here to walk along side my clients as they try to resolve there problems and issues and help them to move forward with life.
I cover many different areas for example;
Domestic Violence (male and female)
Rape and Sexual Abuse (male and female)
loss and Grief
Death of a Beloved Pet
Relationship Problems
Stress Disorders
Self Harming
Self Confidence Issues
My clients are extremely important to me and I always try to give 100% to each and everyone. As I feel truely honoured to be in a position to help and empower my clients to take control and get the most out of life.
Training, qualifications & experience
Level 4 Therapeutic Counselling Diploma (ABC)
Level 3 Intermediate Counselling (CPCAB)
Level 2 Introduction to counselling (CPCAB)
Level 1 Basic counselling skills
Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy NLP, EFT, Diploma
Clinical Hypnotherapy Diploma
Certificate Loss and Grief
Certificate Bereavement
Certificate Rape and Sexual Abuse
Certificate phone line counselling
Certificate of Proficiency (BACP)
Level 3 Child Counselling Diploma
Level 3 CBT Diploma
Level 5 CBT Diploma
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Smoking Cessation advisor for past 9 years with 60-70% success rate
I work privately and I am also a School Counsellor
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Attachment disorder
- Bereavement
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug addiction
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Learning difficulties
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
- Young carers
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San Diego Happy Half Hour Podcast: Episode 99
Banh Mi in PB, a revamped restaurant in Carmel Valley, and the city's Deputy Chief Operating Officer (and big-time foodie) David Graham drops by
The Westgate Hotel
Today's episode of the Happy Half Hour is sponsored by The Westgate Hotel and their Sunset Poolside Jazz Series, hosted on the rooftop every Thursday through September 13.
In today's episode Erin Chambers Smith and Troy Johnson along with producer Archana Ram are taping from The Westgate Hotel, where we're talking restaurant openings, including Cali Banh Mi in Pacific Beach, Dolce at the Highlands' revamp, and Amplified Ale Works' upcoming East Village outpost.
Joining us is the Westgate's executive chef Fabrice Hardel. He's dishing on his spin on classic French cuisine and the menu he's created for the hotel's Jazz Series.
Our guest is David Graham, the City of San Diego's Deputy COO, who's telling us what it takes to bring businesses to fruition (he was behind the Quartyard), the state's dated regulations, and more. He also once competed in the World Food Championships and served as sous chef to his mom at cooking competitions.
Today's hot topic is about the science behind restaurant menus. A San Diego-based pizza mini-chain is mentioned in the story. Can you guess which one?
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Mira Moon
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- Premier Partial Harbor View Full Moon King Room
- Partial Harbor View Full Moon King Room
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- Times Square Shopping Mall (3-minute walk)
- Hysan Place (5-minute walk)
- Hong Kong Sogo (5-minute walk)
- Wan Chai Ferry Pier (5-minute walk)
- Causeway Bay Shopping Plaza (5-minute walk)
- Wan Chai Star Ferry Pier (5-minute walk)
- Happy Valley Race Course (5-minute walk)
- Queen Elizabeth Stadium (5-minute walk)
- Edge Gallery (5-minute walk)
Getting around
- Hong Kong (HKG-Hong Kong Intl.) - 32 min drive
- Hong Kong Causeway Bay Station - 7 min walk
- Hong Kong Wan Chai Station - 9 min walk
- Hong Kong Admiralty Station - 21 min walk
- Hong Kong Tin Hau Station - 19 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 91 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 31 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- No parking
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Porter/bellhop
- Elevator
- Garden
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Chinese
- English
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Espresso maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Pay movies
- Satellite TV channels
- IPod docking station
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
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DiningSuper Giant - This restaurant specializes in fusion cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Happy hour is offered. Reservations are required.
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Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of HKD 250.8 per person (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of HKD 880 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Recent reviews
Superb 9,0 From 175 reviews
Great experience with Mira Moon. Beautiful rooms, with lots of hi-tech features such as Bluetooth music playing over speakers throughout the room. Good service and good location.
Warm welcome started from reception staff and manager. Room condition is good, clean and tidy. Short Walking distance to the heart of shopping area, very convenient! Breakfast's food quality is healthy and fresh!
Nice room, nice hotel. However, the water pressure was patchy.
Stylish hotel, great room! We had a corner with a view of the water. Great food in the restaurants, great happy hour. This is the second time I have stayed here. Will stay again.
Clean and great location. Not a big room but acceptable in terms of HK standard.
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At 9 weeks pregnant your baby is roughly 3cm or 1 and a quarter inches long. The mouth and nose are clearly visible and the arms and legs are still growing.
Until now, your baby's frame has been of soft cartilage, but at 9 weeks this cartilage begins to turn into bone.
Likely you will notice a bit of weight gain at this stage. Your ante-natal care may not include monitoring your weight so you might want to weigh yourself regularly and make a note of it.
You may still be feeling tired and sick, try to eat as healthily as possible and keep your chin up, not long now until you'll start to feel better again.
Your gums will become softer and thicker because of hormones. They may bleed when you brush your teeth. Make sure you brush regularly to keep good oral hygiene.
I'm looking forward to this week because I get to see my midwife and that starts to make it all seem more real.
At 9 weeks pregnant, i've had some days of feeling really poorly with the sickness and the vomiting has increased to 2-3 times a day. I'm starting to think I spoke to soon when I told my nan that my sickness doesn't seem so bad this time.
To make things worse, Davo twisted his ankle at the weekend playing football and he can't walk on it. I had to take him to the hospital and they said that he has done a good job of wrecking the ligaments on both sides. He needs crutches and needs to keep it up above heart level for a few days. They said it will be weeks before he can walk on it.
This all means that rather than Davo being able to help me with housework, meals and caring for Freddy while I'm ill, I have to do all of it myself, AND do extra for him too because he can't even get himself a drink and can't drive.
Things have started looking really bleak. I am still really pleased to be pregnant, but It's all overshadowed by feeling so ill and not getting a break from anything.
I've seen my midwife now, she was really nice and was really pleased to see Freddy again. I can talk to her really easily, so I think I jabbered away a bit and probably bored her to death. She arranged an appointment for my first scan so I have that to look forward to now.
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Mendoza v. Hamzeh (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th 799. This is a SLAPP case. Plaintiff sued the defendant, an attorney, alleging civil extortion, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unfair business practices arising out of a demand letter which the defendant had sent to the plaintiff while defendant was representing a client in another dispute. The letter from the defendant threatened to report plaintiff for criminal conduct, as well as for wrongdoing to the plaintiff's customers and vendors as well, if a demand for money was not met. The defendant filed a SLAPP motion which was denied. The court of appeal affirmed the trial court's order denying the motion concluding that the defendant's demand letter constituted criminal extortion as a matter of law and it was unnecessary for the letter to allege or list specific crimes. The anti-SLAPP statute did not apply to the threat and the defendant's demand letter, and the motion was therefore properly denied.


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Already being touted as this year's biggest competitor to LOTR at the Oscars, "Cold Mountain" is one of the more successful arthouse films of late but film of the year? Hardly, and certainly nowhere near the achievement level of 'King' or other Oscar winners of late like "Chicago" or "A Beautiful Mind".
'Cold' is a very bleak and almost savage tale of frontier life during wartime with all its inherent savagery – for all intents and purposes its a far more effective movie and realistic 'western' than the recent misfire that was Ron Howard's decent but hokey "The Missing".
'Cold' is an epic, as shown by the somewhat shocking Civil War battle scene which kicks it all off, but one which is more about interpersonal relationships and the smaller things in life. There's three separate subplots as such, the main one about the fleeting and hopeful romance between the two leads whilst well acted rings false and when fulfilled isn't particularly satisfying.
Better is her separate storyline about the budding friendship/love with the blunt and fiery Zellweger who essentially starts off as the film's comic relief although is allowed to develop into something more interesting. The third is a buffed up Jude Law on his journey home which is essentially a road movie (yes its like 'Fellowship of the Ring 'or 'Apocalypse Now') with lots of little 5-10 minute vignettes involving different people he encounters – there's a dressed down celebrity cameo at every turn and it usually involves someone getting killed or chained up.
The cast all deliver great work, Kidman and Law are superb actors who whilst both do slip up on occasion, come up with believable performances who portray the weariness and difficulty of living in this world and facing the demons of their own minds and those around them.
Zellweger, although her accent is so strong that half the time she's impossible to understand, effectively pulls of a character unlike anything she's ever done before and gives this rather cold and distant story some much needed heart and warmth. Celeb cameos are also strong with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a rather naughty preacher, and Natalie Portman as a single mother trying to keep her baby alive in this turbulent time the highlights.
The production team deliver the film's look superbly, the hills, mountains and forests of Romania effectively portraying the look of 19th century North Carolina and the American mid-west in this more rugged time. Costumes, cinematography and music are all nicely poetic and fit the period.
Minghella is not afraid to show the utter carnage of the war and the nastier things in farm life (there's a LOT of animal slaughter in this, all very up close and personal). Its an emotionally draining and hard-going experience, a tough movie to sit through but a powerful one nonetheless and whilst its not the great film that it so longs to be, it is a strong journey worth taking if your prepared for it.


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Bungling robbers who held a family hostage last week during a tiger kidnapping which targeted a local bank made off with just the cashiers' floats.
Last Wednesday morning, an armed robber disguised as a postman made his way into the home of an employee of Andersonstown's Ulster Bank branch. The man called to the door claiming to need a signature for a registered letter. When the employee's sister opened the door, the robber asked for an adult and when the employee appeared, the robber produced a gun and made his way into the house.
Once over the threshold, the unmasked man was joined by a second hooded man. The pair, who claimed they were from the 'Republican Movement', tied up the employee's father and sister. The employee was then ordered to go to his branch beside the Andersonstown Leisure Centre.
The man was later forced to hand over the cash to another member of the gang at Fallswater Street.
The gang member made off with a hold-all containing the money in the direction of Iveagh Street at approximately 9.30am on Wednesday.
The alarm was raised after the money was handed over. One of the family members was taken to hospital for a check-up, but was later released.
We've been told that while the robbers were expecting a massive 'score', they managed to escape with only the contents of the cashiers' tills.
West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said those behind the crime were despicable.
"This entire family was under severe pressure," he said. "The people who carried this out terrorised this man and his family and did it for selfish gains, not to free Ireland.
"This man had to leave his home with his family under armed guard and it will take them some time to get over this.
"Tiger kidnappings put a lot of strain on businesses and families and it says a lot about this gang that they would hold their own people hostage for selfish financial gain."
Police are appealing for information and have asked anyone who witnessed any part of the incident is asked to contact detectives on 0845 600 8000.


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Survey finds most IT directors unaware of business risks
Most IT directors do not know the full business risks associated with delivering IT services, according to a survey of 178 UK...
Most IT directors do not know the full business risks associated with delivering IT services, according to a survey of 178 UK companies.
The research found high levels of ignorance and low levels of confidence among IT managers in a critical part of their job. Some 60% said they were unsure how accidents or failures resulting from changes such as IT upgrades or office moves would affect the business.
And less than 50% of respondents were confident that their staff knew which components of IT were involved in providing each IT service, according to the YouGov survey commissioned by business software supplier Managed Objects.
The findings come at a time when IT directors are under pressure to assess the risks faced by their business, including those from IT systems, to help their companies comply with corporate governance regulations.
"Change is inevitable and continuous," said Jim White, business technologist at Managed Objects. "If you introduce new users or technology, increase the size of databases, or undergo a merger and acquisition, the dependence of business on IT means that any change can bring the business down."
The problem is further compounded because IT departments are contracted to provide services comprising several components. For example, an enterprise resource planning system is composed of a network, a system server application and database connections.
"Without understanding the relationships between these components, it is impossible to tell what impact any individual change will have," said White.
Thomas Mendel, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said the scale of change occurring across most organisations makes such ignorance a serious problem. "The average £1bn-plus company deals with 5,000 to 8,000 planned [IT] changes every month," he said. "When you factor in the unplanned changes too, that is more like 10,000 changes."
An increasing number of organisations are using the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) best-practice methodology to reduce IT risk and run their departments more efficiently. Companies using ITIL include Procter & Gamble, Boeing and Barclays.
In a report published earlier this year, Forrester said ITIL, originally developed by the government 20 years ago, could help to reduce the number of problems IT directors encounter when changing IT systems.
ITIL has also been embraced by small to medium-sized offshore providers as a means to drive down costs. Because the relationships between components that make up IT services are better understood, it is possible to avoid downtime, which is costly for the business.
"The drivers [for using ITIL] are the offshore people who offer to 'do your mess for less'," said Mendel.
Key findings of the YouGov survey
Only 20% of IT directors were certain that current IT management systems helped evaluate business risk, yet more than 53% saw IT outages as one of the biggest risks a company faces.
When implementing change, only 39% of IT managers were completely confident they knew the business risks.
Following change, 72% of IT managers were not completely confident that their business had a good understanding of the new technology assets installed.
Less than 29% of IT managers were confident that management systems gave staff the knowledge required to maintain new technology effectively.


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my mom always encouraged us kids to write thank you's whenever it was appropriate [like after birthdays, Christmas, etc.], and i guess old habits really do die hard because at the ripe old age of 25 years i still love writing a simple thank you. and now that i have these little letter stamps to play around with, my love for writing/making thank you cards is starting to get a little ridiculous! it might not look like it, but i always try super hard to get all the letters straight. of course they never are, but in the end i kind of love the skiwampus-ness of it all. :)
since today is Thanksgiving Eve and since the theme of this blog post is thank you cards, i only thought it would be fitting that i tell everyone thank you! thank you to my sweet husband, my parents, my family, my husband's family, my friends, my husband's friends, my neighbors, the sweet and kind people i have met through this blog/anyone who even reads this blog, and to all the wonderful people in my life....thank you so so so much! i am feeling so blessed today.
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PIERCE, Henry Lillie, member of congress, b. in Stonghton, Mass., 23 Aug., 1825; d. in Boston, 17 Dec., 1896. He engaged in manufacturing, and as early as 1848 took an active part in organizing the "Free-soil" party in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1860-'6, and in 1860 was instrumental in getting a bill passed by both branches of the legislature removing the statutory prohibition upon the formation of militia companies composed of colored men. He was elected to congress as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Whiting, was re-elected for the next congressional term, and served from 1 Dec., 1873, till 3 March, 1877, when he declined a renomination. In the presidential election of 1884 he was prominent in organizing an independent movement in support of Cleveland, and had since taken a leading part in the effort to revise the tariff legislation and reduce the taxes on imports. He was mayor of Boston in 1872, and again in 1878. More than half a million of his large fortune was left for public objects and institutions and $200,000 presented to a poet and his family. — His brother, Edward Lillie, author, b. in Stoughton, Mass., 29 March, 1829; d. in Paris, France, 6 Sept., 1897, was graduated at Brown and at Harvard law-school, receiving the degree of LL. D. from Brown. He was a delegate to the National Republican convention in 1860. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 3d Massachusetts regiment, and served till July, 1861, when he was detailed to collect the negroes at Hampton and set them to work on the intrenchments of that town. This was the beginning of the employment of negroes on U. S. military works. In December, 1861, the secretary of the treasury despatched Mr. Pierce to Port Royal to examine into the condition of the negroes on the sea islands. In February, 1862, he returned to Washington and reported to the government, and in March was given charge of the freedmen and plantations on those islands. He took with him nearly sixty teachers and superintendents, established schools, and suggested the formation of freedmen's aid societies, by means of which great good was accomplished. In June, 1862, Mr. Pierce made his second report to the government setting forth what he had done. These reports were afterward reprinted in the "Rebellion Record," and were favorably reviewed both in Europe and the United States. The care of the negroes on the islands having been transferred to the war department, he was asked to continue in charge under its authority, but declined. He was offered the military governorship of South Carolina, but was not confirmed. He was collector of internal revenue for the 3d Massachusetts district from October, 1863, till May, 1866, district attorney in 1866-'9, secretary of the board of state charities in 1869-'74, and a member of the legislature in 1875-'6. He was a member of the Republican national conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December, 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant treasurer of the United States, but declined. In 1883 he gave to the white and colored people of St. Helena island, the scene of his former labors, a library of 800 volumes. He also originated the public library of Milton, Mass., where he had resided, and had been a trustee since its organization. He had been a lecturer at the Boston law-school since its foundation. Mr. Pierce visited Europe several times. His second visit was for the inspection of European prisons, reformatories and asylums, and the result is given in his report for 1873 as secretary of the board of state charities. Mr. Pierce was a frequent contributor to newspapers and periodicals, and published numerous articles and addresses, and "American Railroad Law" (New York, 1857); "Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner" (4 vols., Boston, 1877-'93), and "The Law of Railroads" (Boston). He also edited "Walter's American Law" (1860), and compiled "Index of the Special Railroad Laws of Massachusetts." (1874).


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The application GymPact was developed by Harvard graduates Yifan Zhang and Geoff Oberhofer and is based on idea that the fear of losing money can be the biggest motivation tool. The application uses the database of more than 40,000 gyms in the US and you can add yours is it's missing. The user chooses the frequency of workouts with minimum one workout per week for 30 minutes and the minimum amount of money to be charged in case the user missed the gym. You confirm your arrival at the gym by clicking on the button on the app, while GPS will track your location. You need to workout for at least 30 minutes, or it won't be counted as a workout.
If you don't hit the gym as often as you commited to do, the credit card automatically will fine you the amount you promised. If you stick to your fitness plan you will be rewarded with cash, which comes from those, who missed the gym.
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Amplificator Van den Hul The Excalibur
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Prezentare generala Amplificator Van den Hul The Excalibur
After The Grail SB (Phone-amplifier) and The Emerald (Pre-amplifier), the last item in our electronic equipment range: The Excalibur (Power-amplifier) is available now.
Our employee Juergen Ultee has really created a super design. The two The Excalibur mono-amplifiers were, for the first time, demonstrated during the Munich Hi-End show.
As you can see at the picture taken in the demo-room.
The 26 Kg. housing is the same as used before in The Grail SB and The Emerald.
And the dark red wooden side panels produce a very attractive visual cosmetic tough.
Some of the interesting specs are:
Completely DC coupled circuitry. To work also in warm environments, the temperature is constantly monitored and active controlled by two extremely silent air-vans. This gives a very compact design related to the produced power of minimal 100 Watt at 8 Ohm load impedance. The clipping level is 112 Watt at 8 Ohm. And at 4 Ohm load impedance, the output is 130 W. The clipping level is at 4 Ohm over 150 Watt.
The output of The Excalibur is protected against shunts of any type and any DC input.
The frequency range is limited at the input at 380 KHz.. The amplifier without input limitations is flat till over 10 MHz. This to create equal internal signal speed for both 10 Hz and 100 KHz. to maintain very precise phase relations and related spacious orientation.
Distortion:less 0,1%, 1kHz, 50W/8 Ohm, actual k2 only.
The input connectors are both balanced (33 KOhm) and unbalanced (26 KOhm).
An extra XLR connector is available to link trough to another Excalibur in case you like to work Bi-Amped, Daisy-chaining.
The power voltage needs to be specified: 120 V or 230 Volt.
For packing we use the same sturdy cases as are already used for The Grail SB and The Emerald.
Also two versions in cosmetics: The regular crème version with the dark-red side panels and also a black version with light wooden side panels. And in case your customer wants Ferrari red housing, we will supply on specification with some extra cost. The customer is KING.
Just cut from his tie the under half and mail us his choice
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Etekcity Scroll X1 (M555) High Performance Optical Gaming Mouse Review (Page 1)
Etekcity's Scroll X1 (M555) is a high performance optical gaming mouse which includes plenty of great features considering its modest asking price.
Introduction, Specifications and Pricing
Unless you are one of those people that keeps up with every whisper of what is going on in the tech world, it is highly likely that you will have never heard of Etekcity; we sure hadn't. In fact, as we look a little deeper into things, it seems that Etekcity has its hands in selling just about everything, much like a Newegg or an Amazon, just not on the same scale, yet. In a very full line of products that they offer, you will find this mouse that we are about to get up close and personal with here in just a moment.
What we were told upon receiving a few samples from them is that they are geared to sell products designed to gamers with most of the bells and whistles we have all become very used to in the last few years of mouse development. The thing is, that while they are even opting to offer high-end components included with their products, what will amaze you is the fact that Etekcity is able to offer us something worth our time to have a look at for less than a twenty dollar bill. Considering that top end gaming mice are in the realm of $80 or more, our eyes should not be the only ones widening here.
Today, we are having a go with the Etekcity Scroll X1 (also known as the M555). This mouse is designed for claw or relaxed grip users, which we fall into the latter category, so this mouse should play right into our wheelhouse. While we don't have a previous history with Etekcity, sometimes that is a good thing as we can go in eyes wide open and see just what they are offering. The reality of it all is that if they can indeed offer the Scroll X1 with the parts listed inside, it functions well and feels like it will last a while, at this sort of cost, the Scroll X1 could turn the market sideways as others realize there is someone out there looking to undercut their products by a huge margin. Of course, this is great news for consumers.
It will work with any USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port on your motherboard or laptop, and affords five feet of cable to get comfortable with on your desk. We see the DPI is adjustable, but only in the preset increments of 800, 1600, and 2400 DPI as it max. It weighs in at only 180 grams, comes with seven programmable buttons, and even offers polling rate adjustments in four stages, from 125Hz to 1000Hz. We are given the dimensions of 129mm from nose to tail, 72mm of width, and at its highest point, it stands 40mm tall. the last bits we are given is that this offers five million clicks per switch for the main two, uses 5V and 100mA of power, and it comes in black.
We also see that along with the mouse, we get a set of feet, a CD with drivers, and a manual. What we don't see, however, is that there is no mention of materials of components. The mouse is made of plastic, but the Scroll X1 even has a sleeved cable on it, terminating in a gold plated USB 2.0 connection. Inside, you will find the main switches backed by Omron switches, and the secondaries, Etekcity went with Huano switches. There is no mention of the use of the Avago ADNS A5050 optical sensor to track your movements. While there is a mention of the CD and drivers, there is no mention made about the fact that this mouse even goes as far to offer software to customize beyond the default options, and over multiple profiles.
We do know that looking for an Etekcity product, such as this Scroll X1 mouse, leads you to one of four options to buy one. You can buy them direct from Etekcity at the price of $13.98 with free shipping included for starters. You can also find this mouse listed at Amazon for $14.98, but it does not surpass the $35 minimum for free shipping. The last of the options is to venture over to eBay to try your luck there with various pricing, or as the last resort, you can leave the solitude of your house and venture over to Walmart and pick this up off the shelf for $14.98 as well, of course state taxes do apply then and will add to the total price.
So, for less than a twenty dollar note, you can have what all other companies are offering in some form or another, just that this time, you are able to do it for half the price (if not more) than most of those other solutions.
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Transfer deadline day has always known to bring drama and havoc all over the footballing nation, thats the world excluding maybe a few places who have refused to embrace the beauty of what is making today's youth dream of lavish cribs and fancy cars..However, the twist in this years' storyline had brough many to knees and leaves ones gasping for air with utter disbelief…Manchester City! Manchester City? yes, Manchester City seem to be taking the headlines from the likes of Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United. Question is will it be players as well?
So anyhoo, Manchester City Football Club has new owners. A group lead by Dr. Sulaiman Al Fahim has bought over the club from the once Thailand prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Soon after the takeover bids were made to expensive and highly rated footballer – with them managing to land the Brazilian Robinho (oh, someone has fianlly managed to outbid Roman Abramoivich..umm, interesting), and you can rest be assured come january transfer window there willbe a few bids if not buys…
So is this the new Chelsea? Will Manchester City make all the contoversial headlines with coaches being fired for not landing trophoies and their luxurious transfer packages. Is the good Dr here to take over form Roman and the new face of English football?
Well, i certainly would welcome something different other than the same ol Chelsea fans goin on about their transfer kitty. However, money has fallen into the wrong hands (no offense meant ManCity). The name of the club – there is already a Manchester Team and taking over from them is like trying to replace Sir Alex Ferguson from his position as the best ManUtd coach of all time – almost near impossible, and if possible, will take a loooong time and a looot of patience from the investors (patience seems gone with the amounts invested)…
That said though, this is welcome competition, and hopefully Hicks and Gillet will let DIC takeover Liverpool as their being stingy and lack of vision and marketing skills means they losing out on competition with the so called "big money teams". Like honestly it dosent take a genious to understand that big names you spend a lot for bring forth rewards, if not in results, then T-Shirt sales (wonder why Chelsea was already taking orders for Robinho's t-shirts?) Rememeber roman Calderon preparing to offer 70million of Christiano Ronaldo confident the money will be back in 6months from just T-Shirt sales. As for City, knowing how English fans love their football, i wonder how long it will take to get back the 32.5 million quid invested – 3months if not less?
So we have a new player in town. And guess what – their preparing a transfer kitty worth about 300 million pounds to try and lure Christiano Ronaldo, Cesc Fabregas and Torres among others. Honestly, what is this world coming to. Guess money does make the world go round!!!!
We welcome the new face of English Football, Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim.


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Starbucks Canada has long offered free music courtesy of their Pick of The Week Cards. Now they are also giving away free apps too. This week's free app is the ever popular Scrabble app!
Pick up a card in store at Starbucks and follow the directions to download your free app. The Scrabble app normally sells for $1.99 in the App Store.
While it doesn't say that you must make a purchase to pick up the App Pick of the Week, I think most people probably will. However, the Pick of the Week Cards are usually right out on the counter, but I'm guessing they will go fast this week.
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Egyptian reform leader calls on Mubarak to goPosted: Updated:
(AP) - Egypt's most prominent democracy advocate took up a bullhorn Sunday to call for President Hosni Mubarak to go, speakingto thousands of protesters who defied a third night of curfew tomass in the capital's main square. Fighter jets streaked lowoverhead and police returned to the streets as Egypt's governmenttried to show its authority over a situation spiraling out ofcontrol.
Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed ElBaradei addressed the crowds inTahrir Square, where up to 10,000 protesters gathered during theday. Even when he spoke hours after the 4 p.m. curfew, theynumbered in the thousands, including families with young children,addressing Mubarak with their chants of "Leave, leave, leave."
"You are the owners of this revolution. You are the future,"ElBaradei told supporters. "Our essential demand is the departureof the regime and the beginning of a new Egypt in which everyEgyptian lives in virtue, freedom and dignity."
In a further sign of Mubarak's teetering position, his top allythe United States called for an "orderly transition todemocracy."
Asked if Washington supports Mubarak as Egypt's leader,Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton avoided a direct answer,telling Fox News in an interview, "We have been very clear that wewant to see a transition to democracy, and we want to see the kindof steps taken that will bring that about."
Now in their sixth day, the protests have come to be centered inTahrir, or Liberation, Square, where demonstrators have camped outsince Friday despite the curfew, which officials announced would bemoved up to 3 p.m. starting Monday. Protesters have shrugged offMubarak's gestures of reform, including the sacking of his Cabinetand the appointment of a vice president and a new prime minister -both seen as figures from the heart of his regime.
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The military, which enjoys far greater support among the publicthan the police, fanned out in tanks and armored vehicles aroundthe city starting Sunday morning. At Tahrir Square, they appearedto cooperate with protesters in keeping the demonstrations orderly,and there were many scenes of affection between soldiers andprotesters, who allowed troops to use their mobile phones to callhome or offered them cigarettes.
"I am glad they are continuing to protest. God willing, he(Mubarak) will go," said one Air Force captain in uniform whodrove by the edge of the square.
One banner held by protesters summed up the dilemma facing themilitary, proclaiming, "The army must chose between Egypt andMubarak."
Minutes before the start of the curfew, at least two jets roaredover the Nile, making several passes over the square, droppinglower every time and setting off alarms in parked cars. Someprotesters clapped and waved to them while others jeered.
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But in a new interview, Kristin Scott Thomas has spoken candidly about what it is like "watching yourself get old, on a screen that hides nothing" and how she sometimes feels like "an old ragbag" next to other actresses.
The 53-year-old was speaking about her latest film, Only God Forgives, in which she stars as a "mother from hell" who exhorts her younger son, played by Ryan Gosling, to avenge the murder of his brother.
The "gory art house" production is very different from the classical, period roles usually associated with Scott Thomas since her Oscar-nominated performance in The English Patient in 1996.
Often unflatteringly lit, and in a long bleached-blonde wig, with heavy make-up and fake talons, her appearance is far from the poised beauty for which she is known.
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"When you're my age, you're invariably in a supporting role, so there's often a young woman in her twenties or early thirties who is the lead, and you're constantly put next to them," she added.
"You're watching yourself get old, on a screen that hides nothing."
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Scott Thomas hints that some of her peers have had cosmetic surgery and admits the thought has crossed her mind.
"At the Cannes Film Festival I got such a shock," she adds. "I saw lots of my contemporaries there this year, all looking so beautiful and gorgeous and healthy, and I just felt like an old ragbag next to them. I just thought, 'Maybe it's time to do something about it, like a facelift'."
She said that she had started to feel "invisible" as a result of her age. "I'm not talking about in a private setting, at a dinner party or anything.
"But when you're walking down the street, you get bumped into, people slam doors in your face – they just don't notice you. Somehow, you just vanish. It's a cliché, but men grow in gravitas as they get older, while women just disappear."
In the interview, for next week's Stella magazine, she also talks about the depression she suffered in her teens and twenties, after a childhood scarred by tragedy.
Her father, a pilot for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, died in a plane crash. Her mother remarried, but six years later Scott Thomas' stepfather – also a pilot – died in almost identical circumstances.
She said that undergoing psychoanalysis had helped. "For me that was vital in sorting out why I was so unhappy. I think it's a very useful thing to do, and the younger the better."
Scott Thomas has lived in Paris since she was 18 and her three children are based there. George, 13, is at school, Hannah, is a journalist on a French 24-hour news channel, and her older son, Joseph, is at university in Paris, reading philosophy.
But the actress – who divorced her husband of 17 years, François Olivennes, a prominent French fertility doctor, in 2008 – expects to return one day.
"I do really hanker for England right now, and I think eventually I'll move back."
In a separate Stella interview, Arianna Huffington, 63, founder of the Huffington Post website, discusses the impact on the business world of the growing number of women in senior roles.
"The first revolution was women getting the vote, the second was getting an equal place at every level of society... The third revolution is changing the world that men have designed.
"It's not sustainable. Sustainability is not just about the environment, it's personal sustainability.
"Ironically, when we succeed at making these changes, not only are we going to have a lot of grateful men because they are paying too heavy a price, but we're going to have a lot more women at the top.
"Many women currently leave the workplace because they don't want to pay the price."


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Top Ten Catchers / Fielders of Bangladesh in Test-ODI-T20 Cricket
by MairaS on August 11, 2010
in Bangladesh, Best of the Best
Top Ten Catchers / Fielders of Bangladesh in Test Cricket
Bangladesh received the test status in 2000 and ever since they have been improving, but it has not been consistent, which is why it's not considered as some major improvements. They have had a few wins, but because they have been spaced out, they are not proving as heavy wins which could change their numbers on the charts as a team.
Bangladesh needs to be more aggressive in the fielding sector, so that all the blame does not come down on fielding, as that is not the only main point.
Bangladesh is a strong team, as they have shown in their recent game against India, where at one point, it was a threat to that team. Top ten fielders of Bangladesh are:
1. Mohammad Ashraful
2. Habibul Bashar
3. Rajin Saleh
4. Imrul Kayes
5. Shahriar Nafees
6. Junaid Siddique
7. Al Sahariar
8. Nasir Hossein
9. Mashrafe Mortaza
10. Tamim Iqbal
Top Ten Catchers / Fielders of Bangladesh in ODI Cricket
One day Internationals are the actual test of cricket unlike the 20-twenty cup. This actually tests the endurance levels of its players. If someone is interested in actual play, then One Day Internationals are the way.
The fielding of Bangladesh in One Day Internationals has been good and so have their throws, which have been errorless and strong. Catching in the deep has also been fair except for a few drops, which are a part of every game and can be forgiven.
Slip fielding positioning needs to be improved in the Bangladesh team as that is one of the important positions, which requires a mentally alert player as a quick dismissal is then possible. Top ten fielders of Bangladesh in ODI are:
1. Mashrafe Mortaza
2. Mohammad Ashraful
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Mohammad Rafique
5. Habibul Bashar
6. Alok Kapali
7. Tamim Iqbal
8. Shakib Al Hasan
9. Abdur Razzak
10. Khaled Mahmud
Top Ten Catchers / Fielders of Bangladesh in T20 Cricket
Twenty-20 format is more for entertainment purpose as it doesn't really test the abilities of the players. No doubt it makes for an interesting watch, but for one who's only interested in the real game of cricket will not enjoy it as much.
Bangladesh in the recent Twenty-20 matches has shown very dismal performances, one can conclude this by their sloppy fielding on the field. Even the bowling was moderate which didn't leave any chance of winning for the team.
The mediocre fielding didn't put any pressure on the opponent team thus having them make an embarrassing exit. To make it again to the top they need to show a lot more determination. Top ten fielders of Bangladesh in T20 are:
1. Mahmudullah
2. Aftab Ahmed
3. Shakib Al Hasan
4. Farhad Reza
5. Mohammad Ashraful
6. Alok Kapali
7. Abdur Razzak
8. Tamim Iqbal
9. Jahurul Islam
10. Shahriar Nafees


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By Thomas Corhern, TTU Sports Information
MARTIN, Tenn. – UT Martin scored nine runs through the first four innings on Sunday as the Tennessee Tech softball team attempted to rally back in both ends of the doubleheader against the Skyhawks.
Tech (9-21, 0-4 Ohio Valley Conference) lost 9-4 in the opener, then dropped a 3-2 decision in the closer.
Sydney Love-Baker drove in three of Tech's four runs in the first game as she played Beth McCulley in the fifth on a single up the middle, then drove in McCulley and Alyssa Herlocker on a two-run single to left center.
Jessie Lowery had the other run-scoring hit in the contest, driving in Gabby LaSala on a single through the left side.
Leigh Ellen Thomas took the loss, allowing nine runs – seven earned – on 14 hits as she walked three and struck out one.
In game two, trailing 3-0 in the sixth, Tech chipped away as LaSala drove in McCulley on a sacrifice fly to right field, then, in the seventh, Taylor Thomas hit a solo shot to straight-away center. Tech was able to get a single from Callen Griffin, but her pinch runner, Hannah Richter, was caught at second on a fielder's choice. McCulley picked up a single through the left side to put runners on first and second, but the Skyhawks were able to close out the game with a grounder to first.
Kayla Hughes took the loss in game two, yielding three runs on four hits, walking three and striking out one.
Tech returns to action on Friday as it travels to Austin Peay for an Easter weekend doubleheader, starting at 3 p.m.


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Cry it Out
This is a type-focused project focusing on the idea of crying culture. I wanted to talk about crying as taboo in this country and create some friendly sayings to promote crying as healthy and necessary for everyone with part one. These sayings are stitched onto handkerchiefs to catch your tears. Part two focuses on the crying stigma with men and having crying being feminine and negative.


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Sean and Elaine Gates
Our second trip to SA this year. Mum's 70th and the folks golden wedding anniversary was the occasion. Most of the time was spent in and around Durban.
Managed to catch up with a few old school friends and included an unofficial 30 year high school reunion while we were there.


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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Our Winter Friends
I caught this brave little guy eating our new landscaping on Monday morning. Typically once the deer spot us watching them, they dart immediatly back into the woods. Not this little one, he let me take his picture for ten minutes as he proceeded to devour this bush. After he had a nice little feast, he proceeded to walk to the other front bed. I had to finally break down and scare him away. I knocked on the window which I thought would cause him to go running scared towards the woods. Not this deer. He just stares at me, cocks his head back and forth, and proceeds to eat another bush. I may have to try my neighbors suggestion by puttig out bars of Irish Spring Soap in our flower beds. She swears it works for them. I had to knock on the window a few more times until he finally jogged into the back yard to join this little party:
Can you see the huge doe standing on her hind leggs eating out of our bird feeder? Jeff purposely tried to tie it high enough this year due to losing two bird feeders last winter to our furry friends. Apparently they will stop at nothing.
On the baby front, I had my D&C yesterday. It was pretty uneventful and I feel absolutely fine physically. I didn't even have any cramping so I feel my doctor did a great job again, as usual. I definetly have to give him credit with everything, I do believe that he will get us to where we want to go one way or the other. We had enough tissue to get analyzed so we will know in a few weeks what caused this baby not to grow properly. Based on the test results, we may do more tests. I am scared to death and of course fear the worst that my eggs are all chromosomally abnormal. I need to keep telling myself that outcome would be rare and is more than likely just the bad timing of this specific sperm and egg. Thanks again to everyone for all your throughts and prayers, it really means a lot to read all of your wonderful comments.
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Lol at being those neighbors, but what cute furry friends you have!ReplyDelete
I'm glad to hear the process happened without further pain. Just continue to have hope and listen to the optimistic voice.
How wonderful to experience nature from your own bakyard. I love the determination of the doe eating out of the bird feeder.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your tests, you and your husband are in my prayers.
Take Care,
You have the most amazing views!
How lovely to be able to see all of the beautiful deer so close.
Enjoy the weekend and take care.
~Melissa ;)
I am glad that the D&C didn't have any complications for you. Hope you get some answers soon and just a little tip, when you get the testing back from the fetus, if you were far enough a long, they will probably tell you what the sex would have been. I did not want to know this when ours was tested but forgot to mention this to the doctor before he blurted it out to me. I know these times are tough but you are on the right road to a future healthy pregnancy. Take care! And what an awesome view!ReplyDelete
Hi Karen. Thanks for the comment on my blog. I'm glad you stopped in as I couldn't find your email address and wanted to say hi, and then remembered you had this blog.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for what you are going through, but hope you get some answers soon.
Take care -
Mary Ellen
Karen-I'm so sorry to just be learning of your news. I wish I could say something to ease your pain, but I think that my words would fail me. I'm sorry, hon. I hope your doctor finds answers from the testing. Hold onto hope for some normal eggs-remember our story. I thought the same thing, but we did make a couple of normals. ((hugs))ReplyDelete
Beautiful and burrr at the same time. Your blog is so sweet and I love the pic of your master bedroom. My style is similarReplyDelete
What a little character that little deer is! you do have a great view. I'm praying that you'll hear what you want to hear, and am so humbled by your optimism.ReplyDelete
I am so sorry to read about your loss. I am thinking of you...ReplyDelete
I love your blog - your house is beautiful!
Those deers are smarter than we give them credit for being!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you are doing alright from your D&C. You were on my mind all day. Keep positive thoughts that those eggs of yours are just great..I am!


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Playful Kiss reveals a kissing still
With the upcoming drama MBC Playful Kiss scheduled to air in less than a month, another still has been released.
On the 11th, Playful Kiss revealed a striking still of a kiss scene between Baek Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong's drama role) and Oh Hani (Jung So Min). The filming for this still took place during the past three days at a studio located in Seoul. Kim Hyun Joong, Jung So Min and the staff spent a reasonable amount of time scrutinizing every little detail for the kissing still, such as the placement of Kim Hyun Joong and Jung So Min's fingers and arms.
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The drama will air on September 1st, replacing Road No.1.
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[edit] Gene Index
The TFCat Gene Index provides browsing access to all genes with annotations in the database. The list may be re-sorted by clicking on the icon at the top of desired sorting column.
[edit] Judgements Index
The scientific literature for each reviewed candidate transcription factor was assessed by one or more qualified scientists. The reviewers applied their best judgment, based on the literature they read, to assign annotations consistent with the described experiments. In each case, the reviewer assessed a measure of confidence based on the nature of the studies performed, the control experiments performed and any conflicting results between papers. In most cases it was not feasible to review the entirety of the scientific literature for a candidate transcription factor. If you believe the confidence misrepresents the evidence, we hope you will help the community of TFCat users by providing your feedback.
[edit] Taxonomy Index
Positively judged genes were assigned to one or more functional taxa based on the evidence provided in the literature reviewed.
[edit] DBD Classification
The TFCat DNA Binding Domain classification is based on the structural classification system developed by Luscombe and Thornton (see link). The system features 7 broad protein groups and within each group are protein families reflecting subdivisions of the group. The Luscombe system allows for families to be defined based on functional and structural properties. In order to incorporate additional DNA binding proteins not supported in the original Luscombe report, we have added new structural-based families to the existing protein groups. Please read the TFCat paper for details.
[edit] Homolog Clusters
As manual curation of all possible TF candidates is challenging given the curation effort and literature evidence constraints, we endeavored to supplement our collection of TF families with predicted TFs homologs. To enable access to a list (family) of homologous TFs, we have identified and clustered candidate homologs. The specific implementation of the search procedure is described in the TFCat paper. We recognize that the prediction of homology relationships is often the basis for significant debate in some communities. The TFCat collection is freely available for those interested parties to re-assess the homology relationships and we welcome feedback about alternative groupings of genes.
[edit] Searching
To expand the data searching capabilities, we have implemented the Semantic MediaWiki tool along with the MediaWiki software. Therefore, the TFCatWiki system supports both general text searching and field tag-specific searching. For information on the Semantic Mediawiki tool, please see this link.
[edit] Quick Search
The quickest way to search for a gene page is to enter a descriptor for that gene, such as: gene id or gene symbol or a partial descriptor.
[edit] Search Forms
Search forms enable more complex custom queries. The following attributes are available for searching:
- Gene description
- Gene id
- Gene judgment
- Gene symbol
- Gene taxonomy
- Homolog cluster
- Protein group (DBD Classification group level)
- Protein family (DBD Classification family level)
Each TFCatWiki gene page lists its defined attributes and their values.
Inline Query Form
Inline queries support gene queries by (multiple) attributes (see list above) and selected values. For instruction on how to setup an inline query, see this link
Attribute Search Form
The Attribute Search Form enables gene queries by attribute name (listed above) and value.
[edit] Annotation Reviewer Guidelines
The following reviewer guidelines were provided as a reference during our annotation process.
[edit] I) Guide to Establishing Judgement and Functional (Taxonomy) Classifications
Transcription Factor: A protein that plays a nuclear role in initiating the transcription of genes. Includes DNA binding (specific or non-specific) proteins and proteins that physically interact with DNA binding proteins in DNA-containing complexes. Deliberately does not include proteins which are restricted to the cytoplasm, nor proteins which can perform their function without coming into physical contact with DNA or proteins bound to DNA.
General Guide To
Determining Transcription Regulatory Activity
Transcription factors are able to increase or decrease the rate of transcription from a native or synthetic gene promoter. Studies showing that a protein represses gene transcription should be interpreted with care. Repression demonstrated by cotransfection assays may result from competition for a DNA binding site on the reporter construct or by squelching (overexpression of the transfected protein sequesters a component essential for gene activation, resulting in decreased transcriptional activity). While the first mechanism suggests that the protein either interferes with DNA binding by other transcription factors or that it might contain a DNA binding domain that competes for regulatory sites in the promoter, neither mechanism demonstrates that the protein is an active transcriptional repressor. In addition, a protein's ability to repress transcription depends heavily on the promoter contexts: most transcriptional repressors will activate some other promoter. As a result, it's important to identify the promoter or synthetic construct that is used to demonstrate transcriptional repression.
Evidence for a protein's transcriptional activation/repression property is usually provided by transient transfection assays using either the intact protein or chimeric proteins containing deletion mutants fused to a heterologous DNA binding domain. Transactivation/transrepression may also be demonstrated using in vitro transcription assays (including studies of preinitiation complex formation or transcription elongation) or stable transfections. Microarray studies, particularly those showing an alteration in expression profiles following stable expression or knockout/knockdown of the TF are usually not good evidence. Similarly, Western blots and Northern blots and studies demonstrating protein-protein interactions with general transcription factors or coactivators may provide suggestive evidence; however, direct functional studies are preferable.
Judgement Guidelines
- TF Gene
The protein conclusively belongs in one or more of the TF functional categories listed below.
- TF Gene Candidate
There is evidence that the protein is involved in transcription regulation but its regulatory role as a transcription factor was not clearly demonstrated. This judgment may accompany functional TF category assignments. This judgement category is not to be used for homology inference.
- Probably Not a TF: No Evidence that it is a TF
After review of the available data, there is insufficient evidence or currently no indication that the protein belongs in any of the TF functional categories. This is essentially a repudiation of the original nomination of the protein.
- Not a TF: Evidence that it is not a TF
Despite the original reason for nomination, there is clear evidence that makes it highly unlikely that the protein has a transcription factor role.
- TF Evidence Conflict
There exists evidence both for and against the function of the protein, and the reviewer is unable to render a final decision due to the conflict (this is an undesirable category, and should be seldom used).
Functional Classification (Taxonomy) Guidelines
- Transcription Regulatory Activity: Heterochromatin Interaction/ Binding
The protein is a transcription factor and is also shown to co-localize with heterochromatin.
- DNA-Binding: Sequence specific
The protein binds to specific DNA sequences. This would require evidence of binding such as a transactivation assay performed using binding site mutants or as part of a one-hybrid experiment, gel shift (EMSA), DNase I or Exonuclease III footprinting, methylation protection/interference assays, UV crosslinking, Southwestern blotting, or selection/amplification experiments. In all cases, there would need to be appropriate controls showing that there are DNA sequences to which the protein will NOT bind.
- DNA-Binding: Sequence non-specific
The protein binds to DNA in general or to structural motifs such as DNA hairpins. (All sequence specific DNA binding proteins have a weak affinity for DNA in general, so this category more accurately refers to DNA binding proteins which exhibit no marked preference for subsets of sequences. Experiments for non-specific DNA binding might include transactivation assays, gel shift, UV crosslinking, chromatin IP, heparin binding, and DNA affinity chromatography techniques.
- TF Binding: TF Co-factor binding
The protein interacts (directly or indirectly within a complex) with another protein which is bound to DNA. As sequence specific DNA binding proteins often physically interact with one-another, I recommend that we exclude sequence-specific DNA binding proteins from this category. Evidence might be from 2-hybrid studies, co-immunoprecipitation (or other pull-down methods), or Southwestern blotting.
- Basal TF
A protein which contributes to the initiation of transcription, but does not primarily act in modulating the rate of transcription from one state to another. This category would include all members of the RNA polymerase complex. Could have DNA binding activity or not. Co-purifies with basal transcription machinery such as polymerase. Basal TFs are frequently required for in vitro transcription reaction.
[edit] II) Guide to PubMed and Reviewer Comments
PubMed and Reviewer Comments are a critical part of the Transcription Factor Resource. They provide concise descriptions of the functional properties of proteins listed in the database. Reviewer comments summarize evidence contained in published literature that supports the key properties of transcription factors, including their ability to bind DNA, their transactivation or transrepression potential and their ability to interact with other proteins or molecules that regulate gene transcription.
PubMed Comments are designed to be used internally in the Transcription factor resource project (but will form part of the public database - similar to the "Discussion" section of a Wiki). They contain one or more sentences describing the evidence contained in a single paper that support a particular functional property for a specific gene transcript. They should identify the technique used, whether the experiment identified the property of interest or demonstrated its absence and provide some evidence of the quality of the study. The study quality should be assessed in terms of the appropriateness of the technique as well as in terms of the technical quality of the figures (please be careful to be polite). In addition, the PubMed comments can be used to keep track of conflicting lines of evidence as well as to record results that were unclear or that need further review. In general, try to keep the Pubmed comments simple. Write straightforward sentences that discuss a single property of transcript and that clearly indicate whether this property was demonstrated convincingly or not. In addition, where possible, try to review at least two relevant papers for each gene.
Here are examples of some PubMed comments:
- GeneID: 11614 (Nuclear receptor subfamily 0, group B, member 1)
Referring to PMID: 9661652 Function: Transactivation (Strong)
Comment: Transient transfection assays performed with a chimeric gal4DBD-DAX1 fusion protein identify a transcriptional repression domain in the DAX-1 C-terminus.
- GeneID: 11614 (Nuclear receptor subfamily 0, group B, member 1)
Referring to PMID: 11053406
Function: Co-activation (Strong)
Comment: NR0B1 binds to ER-alpha and ER-beta by co-immunoprecipitation assays. Transfection assays show Nr0b1 is a corepressor of ER-alpha and ER-beta.
- GeneID: 11614 (Nuclear receptor subfamily 0, group B, member 1)
Referring to PMID: 9384387
Function: DNA-Binding: non-sequence-specific (Strong)
Comment: DAX-1 efficiently recognizes DNA hairpin structures in vitro. It binds equally efficiently to stems composed of 10 to 24 nucleotides. The binding shows no strong sequence specificity.
Reviewer Comments will be published as part of the Transcription Factor Resource. They should contain a concise summary of the functional properties of the gene transcript including a description of functional differences that exist between isoforms. Reviewer comments should indicate clearly whether or not the transcript is a transcription factor. They don't need to describe the transcript's general biologic properties (such as its role in development or normal cell physiology); however, they should provide a clear evidence-based justification of your decision.
When writing your comments, please keep the following advice in mind:
- Full sentences are easier to understand than sentence fragments.
- Use the present tense for verbs.
- Avoid complex sentence structures: simple sentences (subject verb
object) are clearer.
- Write a single sentence for each line of experimental evidence.
- Indicate clearly the technique and biologic substrate that was
used to obtain the evidence.
- Identify genes using their EntrezGene identifiers rather than by
nicknames or synonyms.
- Write descriptions to convey complete thoughts independently of
other information presented for the gene.
Here are some examples of Reviewer Comments:
- GeneID: 11634 (Autoimmune regulator (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy
candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy))
Reviewer Judgement: TF Gene
Reviewer Comment: Aire is a transcripton factor. It shows in vitro DNA binding through gel shift assays and binding to a G2N7G2 oligonucleotide library. It transactivates a reporter gene when fused to a heterologous DNA binding domain and interacts with CBP in a GST-pulldown assay. Transient transfection studies show that Aire activates transcription of the interferon-beta gene.
- GeneID: 73916 (Estrogen-related receptor beta like 1)
Reviewer Judgement: Not a TF - Evidence that it is not a TF
Reviewer Comment: The Esrrbl1 transcript displays sequence homology to members of the nuclear receptor superfamily. The proteins are not homologous and the transcript does not encode a nuclear receptor DNA binding domain.
- GeneID: 11614 (Nuclear receptor subfamily 0, group B, member 1)
Reviewer Judgement: TF Gene
Reviewer Comment: Dax-1 efficiently recognizes DNA hairpin structures in vitro and binds efficiently to stems composed of 10 to 24 nucleotides, but not to response elements with shorter stems. Dax-1 DNA binding shows no strong sequence specificity. Dax-1 represses StAR expression and consequently suppresses steroidogenesis by binding to a hairpin in the StAR promoter (transfection assay). Fusion of the DAX-1 carboxy terminus to the GAL4 DNA-binding domain (DBD) results in a protein that efficiently represses a globin promoter containing GAL4-binding site.
Taken together, the PubMed and Reviewer Comments should provide a wealth of core information to the TF community that can be extended as science progresses. Try to keep your colleagues in mind as you write them - providing useful and interesting information for a large number of Transcription Factors will help to increase the scientific impact of the Transcription Factor Resource.
[edit] Contacting Us
If you wish to provide feedback regarding the annotation data, please use our feedback tracking system available [here]. See the Feedback Tracking Help for more information and access to help.Otherwise, you may reach us at: email@example.com


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The ATP year-end World Tour Finals Championships held in London's O2 arena concluded Sunday with Roger Federer withdrawing in the final against Novak Djokovic due to a back injury that was re-aggravated during the semifinals while playing countryman Stan Wawrinka. The year-end tournament is one of the most competitive of the year, with only the top eight players in the world invited. Ultimately, the undefeated Djokovic walked away with the No. 1 ranking and a check for $2.075 million.
Federer's decision to withdraw from the ATP final may have been a strategic one with the Davis Cup finals in France less than one week away. The Swiss Davis Cup team, led by Federer and Wawrinka, will play against a dangerous French team for the title of best tennis country in the world. Had Federer competed in the ATP tournament, he might not have been healthy enough to play against the French Davis Cup team.
Despite the grueling and dramatic match between Federer and Wawrinka in the semifinals in London, the two have been elected team captains for the finals of the Davis Cup. This comes as a shock because of the "extensive discussion in the locker room later that evening between Federer and Wawrinka." Federer's former coach Paul Annacone thinks it is unlikely that there will be any tension in France.
The Davis Cup is the only tennis title missing from Federer's trophy cabinet. He has won every other title possible, including: 17 Grand Slams, 23 Masters and six Masters Cup/World Tour Finals among a total of 82 titles, plus Olympic gold and silver medals. At this point, money isn't his only motivation, it is completing his career and cementing his brand as one of the greatest champions in tennis history. Federations can pay its players for playing on the team and bonuses may be available, but it's up to each federation to decide.
Since the first tournament in 1900, the Davis Cup — also known as the World Cup of Tennis — has been won by only 13 countries. Switzerland has yet to win one, creating even more excitement for this weekend's final. It is a very unique year-long annual tournament because it is one of the only "team tournaments" in professional men's tennis. This year, Team Switzerland looks to capture their first Davis Cup title versus the nine-time champions France.


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