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By Thomas Gerbasi
The old adage is that revenge is a dish best served cold. Not in boxing. When a fighter is the victim of a wrongdoing, either real or imagined, there is nothing businesslike about the act of getting even. It's all personal, no matter how gentlemanly things may play out beforehand.
Take Joseph Agbeko for example. Even after taking repeated low blows from Abner Mares in their first bantamweight title fight in August while referee Russell Mora stood idly by, the Ghana native only had this to say when asked why he didn't fire back to a) get the referee's attention or b) get Mares to stop: "I didn't retaliate against him because I had to be professional and I have to obey the rules of the sport."
That's a classy tact to take, but don't expect Agbeko to stand idly by if shots start straying low again. Not a second time.
Miguel Cotto has been less courteous to Antonio Margarito following their 2008 bout, one that the junior middleweight champion from Puerto Rico believes was tainted by the same illegal hand wraps confiscated from Margarito's dressing room before a fight with Shane Mosley six months later. Cotto has even gone as far as to label the Mexican a "criminal," even with no proof of any wrongdoing.
Both Agbeko and Cotto get rematches this Saturday night, one in California, the other in New York. It's a bi-coastal quest to get a little get back, and while Agbeko has only had to wait four months to sing his redemption song, Cotto has had three long years of anticipation to attempt to avenge his first pro loss. The wait isn't what's important though; it's what follows that wait which means everything.
That feeling is one that no one but a fighter would understand. The result of a particular fight is almost always seen in black and white terms – someone wins, someone loses. Yet when there are shades of gray involved, it makes for good copy for a while, but eventually just becomes a footnote in history, if that. Not for the fighter though. A particular loss can hurt financially in the short term, physically in the long term, and emotionally forever, especially if the loss is a controversial one.
No one knows that better than former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, whose August 2009 decision loss to Juan Diaz was one of the most disputed verdicts of the year.
"I think it's really important psychologically for somebody to get back a controversial loss," said Malignaggi. "If you don't get that chance, you'll always have that something in your head, saying 'Man, I know I can beat this guy, the situation just has to be right, and the next time it will be, even though the first time it wasn't.' There are some moments when you just know you have to do it - you have to see that guy again and take care of business. I think Cotto-Margarito is definitely a perfect example of that with all the controversy with the hand wraps of Margarito. I think psychologically, if a fighter doesn't get back at that guy, I don't want to say he's gonna have something missing, but he'll definitely have that feeling of being unfulfilled, regardless of what he accomplishes."
And the key here is not just a fighter losing a bout to someone who was the better man that night. What makes things worse for fighters like Agbeko, Cotto, and Malignaggi is that they can easily look at outside forces as being the culprit in their defeat. For Agbeko it was Mora, for Cotto alleged illegal hand wraps, and Malignaggi three judges. The way some see it though, these are all cases of sour grapes.
Agbeko was wearing a cup, wasn't he?
Cotto has no proof of wrongdoing, so why is he complaining about simply being worn down and being stopped by Margarito?
Malignaggi boxed all night, so how could he expect to deserve a decision against Diaz, who moved forward for 12 rounds?
"People will always be opinionated," said Malignaggi. "Even after my first fight with Diaz, they said 'ah, if there's a rematch, Diaz will just beat him again, maybe even worse because this time he won't underestimate him.' It was the same with Agbeko-Mares, or with Cotto they say 'oh, he might be finished.' And there will always be those people that, even though you were done wrong, they don't want to believe you're better than the guy, and that drives you crazy and I couldn't get over that. From a competitor's point of view, to take that wrong and make it a right is vital to a fighter's psychological advancement."
Malignaggi was one of the lucky ones, at least this time. He not only got his immediate rematch with Diaz four months later, but he got it on neutral turf in Chicago (unlike the first bout, which was in Diaz' hometown of Houston, Texas), and he won the decision he and so many others believed he should have gotten in the first bout.
"My situation with Diaz, I just wanted a fair shake," he said. "I didn't want any advantages. I felt like they gave every advantage to Diaz, including the judges, and I just wanted a fair fight between me and him and I knew I would show I was better. Those two fights – Agbeko-Mares and Cotto-Margarito – under different circumstances you might have a different winner."
Or you might not. Mares and Margarito are no slouches in the ring, and neither are the types to look to hide behind inept refereeing or judging. So it's conceivable that they could fight Agbeko and Cotto a hundred times and win every one. But you won't convince either Agbeko or Cotto of that fact. As fighters, it's hard to accept any defeat, let alone one with a question mark above it, so until they get an opportunity to meet their tormentor again, there will be no closure. Or if there is, it's only after realizing that when it's all said and done, one fight doesn't always define a career.
Malignaggi realized that after finally giving up the ghost on his quest for a rematch with Cotto, the first man to issue him a pro defeat back in 2006 in the same building the Puerto Rican will fight Margarito in on Saturday. It wasn't an easy thing to do, but in order to move on to win a world championship and keep his career going, he had to let this quest for revenge die.
"After I lost that fight (to Cotto), I was so consumed with the fact that I could be one of the best fighters in the world, and that to do that I just had to beat this guy," said Malignaggi. "But as time went on, you start seeing that there are so many things that are out of your control in this business. You think you're just gonna go in there and fight and everything's gonna be taken care of, but there are so many land mines you've got to dodge that at a certain point, you let it go."


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Improved rice for uplands, lowlands and inbetween. Validated RNRRS Output.
This is one of 280 summaries describing key outputs from the projects run by DFID's 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Summary for Project titles: R6748: Participatory Crop Improvement in High Potential Production Systems in India and Nepal and R7542: Participatory crop improvement in high potential production systems - piloting sustainable adoption of new technologies.
Thousands of farmers in Nepal now have a choice of rice varieties to suit their particular needs, whether they farm in the uplands, lowlands or on the slopes in between. In conventional plantbreeding, new varieties developed on experimental stations can take up to 18 years to become widely used. This means that varieties suitable for a range of climates, environments and purposes just aren't available. Now that farmers are involved, the process of improving varieties is much quicker. Plus farmers' choices give them not only higher yields but other qualities they value— perhaps good quality straw, grain that cooks well, drought tolerance, or early ripening so as to allow a follow-on cash crop. Thousands of farmers are already growing the improved rice varieties and they have major potential to improve livelihoods.
The CD has the following information for this output: Description, Validation, Current Situation, Current Promotion, Impacts On Poverty, Environmental Impact. Attached PDF (20 pp.) taken from the CD.
PSP02, New technologies, new processes, new policies: tried-and-tested and ready-to-use results from DFID-funded research, Research Into Use Programme, Aylesford, Kent, UK, ISBN 978-0-9552595-6-2, p 30.


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Game of the Month: Amnesia – The Dark Descent
April's GotM is a masterpiece of atmosphere, where disturbing imagery, haunting sound effects, and an incredibly real sense of danger lurk around every corner. Amnesia – The Dark Descent offers some of the most pure survival horror gameplay ever brought to the genre. Developer Frictional Games has delivered a beautiful, immersive game that achieves great success in three major areas: emotional effect, environmental completeness, and narrative momentum.
For those who have not played it, Amnesia is a survival horror / puzzle game played from the first-person perspective. The vast majority of the gameplay consists of exploration and solving puzzles, with the occasional enemy, mostly in the form of twisted, horrible creatures that roam the castle where the game is set. Armed with nothing but a lantern, your only option for dealing with these unholy monsters is to hide from them until they pass. Light plays an interesting role in Amnesia; the darkness will keep you concealed from the horrors that seek you, but spending time in it will slowly erode your mind. Sanity is a resource that must be managed, and as it gets lower, camera movements, blur filters, and ambient sound effects all become more erratic and confused. Get too low, and the game will become very difficult to navigate. This sense of being somewhat out of control greatly adds to the feeling of fear the game attempts to foster. Hiding in a closet and listening to the sounds of a hellish creature search the room for you can be scary enough, but when your vision starts to blur, and you hear your breathing become heavier and your heart start to pound, the tension can almost be too much. It took me much longer to play this game than I expected mostly because, playing in the dark with my headphones on, I could only take so much at a time. Amnesia achieves a level of stress that is unlike anything else I've played. However, it doesn't often feel like the game is unbalanced; in fact, most of the encounters and puzzles are fairly easy, and the stress comes from story elements. This is ideal for the horror genre, which has often driven players away with overly complex puzzles.
Amnesia's environment, taking the form of a dilapidated 19th century castle, is well fleshed out, and feels very real. The vast majority of objects can be manipulated, from brooms and clothing to fallen beams and chunks of collapsed stone walls. Drawers in dressers and desks can be opened, books can be removed from bookshelves, and tables and chairs can be knocked over. Doors open with a mouse gesture, rather than just a click, lending weight to them and allowing for slow, partial opening to peek into the next area. All of these things give credibility to Amnesia's setting, and add to the game's immersion. The audio is equally well designed, ambient noises are subtle yet defined, and help to build a sense of isolation, when the sound of your footsteps seems deafening, and to then question that isolation, when you hear movement or a faint voice; is someone else here, or am I losing my mind? There is a bit of background music as well, and it complements, rather than detracts from, the experience. A nice pair of headphones will enhance this gaming experience tenfold.
The puzzles themselves don't feel artificial, for the most part. They are mostly logical and spacial quandaries, such as moving objects to form ramps, combining chemicals to make acid, or simply exploring the environment closely to find a new way through. There is little in the way of arbitrary obstacles, in contrast to the genre's most famous series, Resident Evil. In Amnesia, you will never need a rooster key. The use of obviously contrived puzzles in survival horror has always been a sticking point with me. Amnesia's natural puzzles help to keep the player immersed, and make the experience feel more believable.
Amnesia's protagonist, Daniel, has wiped his own mind clean to forget the horrors he's witnessed, and we take control when he wakes up. Through notes and diary entries found throughout the game, Daniel's former self fills in important back-story and helps to set the tone of the narrative. These bits are fully voiced monologues, and while the acting isn't the best I've ever heard, it goes a long way to establish mood. The excerpts are well written, and help to slowly reveal the story to the player. Daniel also experiences brief flashbacks of his old memory, often to help point the player in the correct direction. The camera gently pulls toward whatever the player is meant to focus on, and we hear a voiceover of a conversation about the task the player must accomplish. This sort of direction is great, because it not only keeps the player focused and helps to cut down on frustration, but provides back-story and atmosphere. In puzzle games, it's important to impart clues to the player, and as I've said before, using story elements accomplishes the goal of player guidance very well.
The game is well paced thanks to the need to ration your lantern's oil. The "survival" portion of survival horror games has always been about managing resources and inventory space, and Amnesia doesn't disappoint. Your lantern will often be running on fumes just before you find more oil, giving a hectic and panicky feeling whenever exploring new areas. The balance between the need for in-depth exploration and the sense of urgency imparted by your minimal oil supply is perfect, and pressures the player through the game.
While Amnesia – The Dark Descent does a lot of things right, there are a few glaring issues that bothered me while playing. First, the "Mementos", the notes that appear in your journal whenever a task is presented, are a bit too obvious. Some, like "Find the key for the wine cellar" or "Must find a new way out of this area" are okay, but some, like "The rope won't pull the hatch open. Something must be clogging the pulley" are way too specific, and take some of the fun of problem-solving away from the player. Games like Myst, back in the old days, expected you to take notes yourself. I still have a composition book somewhere with drawings of constellations and piano keys. I understand that it's important for the player to not feel frustrated, but the diary entries, letters and flashbacks are enough; don't assume the players can't remember things they were just told, and please, don't flash text on the screen. My only other complaint about this game is the use of the hand and tinderbox icons when you go to interact with something in the environment. LA Noire, during it's investigation sequences, used a technique where hovering over an interactive object made the main character's hand reach out towards the item. Something similar might have worked well here. We see Daniel's hand holding the lantern, why not have him bring out the tinderbox when the mouse hovers over a light fixture, or have him reach out to pick up items? I understand that this may have been a technological limitation, as animating his interactions with everything in the environment might not have been feasible, but the little hand appearing in the middle of the screen, not to mention being able to apparently hold, spin and throw objects via telepathy, breaks my immersion.
Overall, Amnesia delivers what it promises, an intensely scary experience and absolutely pure survival horror gameplay, and it does it with a disturbing, powerful narrative and an incredibly rich, deep environment. Art, sound, and gameplay design all work together seamlessly to create an absolute jewel of a game in a genre that doesn't often have the best representation. If you haven't played Amnesia yet, go do so. It's available on Steam for $20.


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Dr. Mehmet Oz's "miraculous" diet pill might not be all it cracks up to be. Recently, Dr. Oz promoted green coffee bean extract on his popular TV show, "The Dr. Oz Show," as the "number one miracle" weight loss drug that makes you shed pounds at lightning speed without diet and exercise.
However, the claims appear to be fraudulent as the extract's main research study has been formally retracted by its lead authors.
"The sponsors of the study cannot assure the validity of the data so we, Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham, are retracting the paper," the scientists posted online. This paper was originally published as an article in a 2012 issue of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy.
The Botched Study
Doubt of the validity of the study emerged when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint that the trial, funded by Applied Food Sciences Inc. and performed in India, had been tampered with on several occasions. According to the FTC, the researchers altered the weight of the participants in recording data, changed the length of the trial, and confused which subjects took the placebo and which took the extract.
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Questioning Dr. Oz
Dr. Oz also came under fire from the Senate for endorsing this hoax. As a heart surgeon with three Ivy League degrees, nine published books and a thriving television show, his word is perceived as fact by many viewers. If he mentions a product on his show, sales for that product skyrocket in a matter of days, causing some people to call this phenomenon the "Dr. Oz Effect."
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Dr. Oz did admit that he uses flowery language to engage the viewer, and sometimes presents his opinion of products rather than facts, because scientific evidence is lacking. However, many people indeed take his word for fact since he is a professional, renowned doctor. This leads some to question his ethics. At the Senate hearing, Dr. Oz said he is a "cheerleader" for his audience, but we know that enthusiasm and good television should never come before professional integrity and truly science-backed information.
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Jokes like this one
|August 12th, 2015 at 9:45:36 PM permalink
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Women and Money
Are jokes like this as common in the gay world as they are in the straight world? I am not so naive as to ask if there are gay people that exploit sex for money, but I am simply asking if the jokes are as ubiquitous ?
|August 13th, 2015 at 1:44:26 AM permalink
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there was no audio.
It is not a joke, it is a fundamental truth of the universe.
Just because a gay reacts to the female figure the same as he would react to a statue, does not alter his sense of humor or his perception of fundamental truths of the universe. His version of the video would be a seated older gay male sloughing off dollar bills to retain the interest of a handsome younger gay male.
Its like the famed "expose yourself to art" poster: the man opening his rain coat to a statue is performing a humorous act no matter what the viewer's orientation is.
|August 13th, 2015 at 7:09:04 AM permalink
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John Barrowman is a handsome actor (gay in real life) who starred in the British show, Torchwood. In his initial appearances in Doctor Who he is the object of attraction to the lead female character, and then he is revealed to be sort of omni-sexual. In one scene he kisses both a Rose and Doctor Who and he labored to kiss them both in exactly the same way.
He gradually becomes more romantic with another man which I thought was ground breaking for terrestrial TV. His partner Ianto is killed in a sad episode.
In the next season, Barrowman picks up a man in a gay bar. In some sense it was a different taboo that was broken IMHO. Although we have seen similar scenes before they usually end up with one or the other being a sociopath . In this episode, there is no sociopath, but just two people having sex with no deeper feelings.
I was struck by how often we see one nighter's depicted between straight people on TV, but they are seldom seen among gay characters.
|August 13th, 2015 at 11:14:19 AM permalink
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I wouldn't know about doctor who shows. Never watched them despite their longevity and apparent wide spread appeal.
One night stands and their aftermaths are often depicted as to heterosexuals since its so easy to have consequences: pregnancy, disease, blackmail, revenge, divorce, etc. I'm told the activity of gay males and some gay females is quite common and while it might be depicted it would be unlikely to have cinematic "legs". Police shows have often depicted assaults wherein no outright mention was made that a male victim 'walking in the park' was in a cruising area. Police shows often depict male "curb crawlers" driving slowly in female cruising areas including "baby strolls".
One silicon valley woman at a convention in las vegas got picked up by a single and ring-less plumbing firm executive for a one night stand and chose to write about the incident when he was the ring-wearing convention speaker the next morning.
Linda Fiorentino, who in real life brought down an fbi agent, played in Acting On Impulse a woman having a one night stand with both a man and another woman. the man was likeable, shy, engaged, the woman was a psychotic murderer. I suspect real life would normally have such roles reversed as in the prostitute who killed the silicon valley exec on his yacht.
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The episode of Ellen where she "comes out" aired on ABC on April 30, 1997.
Russel Davis was the creator and showrunner of British TV show Queer as Folk (1999–2000) where as a plot point one of the primary characters is a Doctor Who fan. Doctor Who had run from 1963 to 1989, and there was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996.
Russel Davis then brought to American cable (Showtime) an American version of 'Queer as Folk' for five years.
Afterwards he took on the challenge of reviving the "Doctor Who" series beginning in 2005. He decided to introduce some gay characters into the family TV show. However he envisioned a more risky show with more adult themes and increasingly explicit straight and gay sexuality. The spin offshow was called "Torchwood". Less successful, it ended it's UK run 10 July 2009 with a five part miniseries and a combined US/UK run with another miniseries which ended on 9 Sep. 2011. You can watch both shows in their entirety on Netflix.
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Among the Gay men I knew in Calif,
one night stands were their forte.
They lived for them, to have as many
as possible in their lifetimes. Even
couples living together had them.
sport. BJ's were a sport.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.


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Joyce Hovland of Tujunga, CA, passed away on Feb 4, 2011. Born on a farm in Filley, Nebraska, Oct 26, 1927, she was the sixth of seven children born to Harry and Regina Hutchison.
From the age of thirteen she attended Burbank schools and graduated from Burbank High School. She was introduced by her best friend, Ardyne Blackstone to the love of her life, Oscar Eilers Hovland (predeceased), her husband of 60 years.


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Masters Bioinformatics Capstones Page
Begun in 2003, our Masters Bioinformatics degree culminates in a yearlong project called the capstone. The project typically involves either genomics or proteomics and some combination of discovery, validation, or tools under the supervision of a core Bioinformatics faculty member and generally a faculty in another area--in biology or chemistry for example. The projects are incredibly diverse and rich in their range of topics and kinds of questions they address.
The graphic thumbnail to the left, when clicked, shows the number of completed projects upto 2006, including the faculty and unit they belong to. The remaining document here lists in chronological order of presentations (top is most recent). We invite you to peruse these presentations. Comments are welcome.
July 15th, 2009
Manasa Balasubramanian
using SMARTS to investigate chemical and biological properties of near neighbors of key compounds
Presentation @ 2pm
Chris Rosenthal
Genome Analysis and Disease Ontologies in Coral Reef Systems
Presentation @ 2:30pm
Nils Schimmelmann
Full Text Literature Mining for Gene Disease Relationships
Presentation @ 3pm
Ryan Rene
Predicting Drug-gene and Drug-disease Networks using Functional Flow
Presentation @ 3:30pm
June 10th, 2009
Vivek Krishnakumar
Presentation @ 2pm
May 22nd, 2009
Jun MaNote: Jun Ma is a cheminfo graduate.
Lipid analytical tool (LidpidAT: automated anal ysis of Lipidomic mass spectrometry data
Presentation @ 2pm
Dah Mee KoUbiquitination Sites Prediction
Presentation @ 2:30pm
Rita DesaiDISCOVERY OF EXTREMOZYMES IN METAGENOMIC SEQUENCES
Presentation @ 3pm
May 11th, 2009
Ankita SarangiPrediction of Protein function based on domain Content
Presentation @ 10:30 am
Ashwini OkeIdentification and Characterization of Regulatory Targets of Drosophila Transcription Factor hzy using Oligonucleotide Arrays
Presentation @ 11:00 am
May 1st, 2009
Kashi RevannaDeveloping Novel Web-based bioinformatics analysis tools for comparative genomics
Presentation @ 4:00 pm
Dec 5th, 2008
Hyejin YoonAutomatic Analysis of Ion Mobility Spectrometry -Mass Spectrometry (IMS-MS) Data
Presentation @ 2:30 pm
Scott BeasonA Smart Card-based Person Health Record: Conceptualization, Design, and Implementation
PresentationAug 15th, 2008
Haleh AshkiPredicting Biologically Meaningful Gene Sets from Conserved Gene Clusters using Gene Ontology Information
Presentation @ 2:00 pm
Mauli PrasadComputational Survey of Putative Bidirectional Promoters in Arabidopsis thaliana
Presentation @ 2:30 pm
Sriram RaghuramanError Model for Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing Technology
Presentation @ 3:00 pm
May 23rd, 2008
Ankita BhanVisualization and Exploration of Gene Clusters
Presentation @ 10:00 am
May 22nd, 2008
Arunima RamA Neural Network Predictor for Peptide Fragmentation in Mass Spectrometry
Presentation @ 1:30
May 16th, 2008
Michelle WynnA Computational Multi-scale Model of Neural Crest Cell Chain Migration
Presentation @ 9:30 am
Tim KelleyDiscrete Network Models in Bioinformatics
Presentation @ 11:30 am
April 25th, 2008
Meng LiExploring the Role of DNA Methylation in the Development of Drug Resistance in Ovarian Cancer Cells
Presentation @ 9:00 am
Sep 28th, 2007
Jasleen Kaur2:30 – 3:00 Presentation @ 2:30
Harini Gopalakrishnan3:00 – 3:30 Investigating mRNAs of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Presentation @ 3:00
Jade Buchanan-Carter3:30 – 4:00 Using Drosophila Melanogaster Data to Discover Disease-Related Protein Interactions in Humans Presentation @ 3:30
MAY 18th, 2007
Vijetha VemulapalliComputational Methods for Biomarker Discovery in Proteomics and Glycomics
Presentation @ 1:30
Preeti MisraComputational method to analyze tandem repeats in eukaryote genomes
Presentation @ 3:30
MAY 17th, 2007
Sharat MorthaPrediction of genes involved in influencing terrestrial and aquatic lifestyles in arthropods
Presentation @ 3:30
Sang-Gook HanDetection of Natural Selection in the Human Genome by Hidden Markov Model
Presentation @ 4:30
Aaron BuechleinAssociating Biomedical Terms: Case Study for Acetylation
Presentation @ 5:30
MAY 11th, 2007
Jang (Jason) LeeQuantitative analysis of domain interactomes
Presentation @ 2:30
April 20th, 2007
Sean BoyleInferring human protein-disease associations from protein-protein interaction networks using shortest path
Presentation @ 9:30
Pedro AlvesAdvancement in protein inference from shotgun proteomics using peptide detectibility
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Junguk HurCharacterization of transcriptional responses to environmental stress by differential location analysis
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June 8, 2006
Narmada Jayasankar
Presentation @ 10:30
April 21, 2006
Keval MehtaIndigene - Data Mining & Visualization Component
Presentation @3:00pm
Sourav RoyUnraveling the segmentation clock with bioinformatics tools and techniques
Presentation @3:30pm
April 20, 2006
Huijun WangComputational Study of the Diastereoselective Rh-Catalyzed Pauson-Khand Reaction and Data Mining
Presentation @6:30pm (Chemical Informatics)
Divya RaoProtein Interaction Network Inference Tool
Presentation @3:30pm
December 16, 2005
Jonathan NowackiDiscovery and Visualization of Germline Genes in a Mushroom with Synchronous Cellular Division
Presentation @2:30pm
Murali Mohan N Rama PodichetiInformation System for Post-translational Modifications
Presentation @3:30pm
Chris HemmerichA Study of Residue Correlation within Protein Sequences and its Application to Sequence Classification
Presentation @4:30pm
September 16, 2005
Lalitha ViswanathInterference Analyzer : tool for analyses of multi loci genetic
Presentation @9:00am
Anital DalwaniInformation System for Comparative Analysis of Legume Genomes
July 15, 2005
Hardik A. ShethMotif Discovery For Proteins Using Subsequence Clustering
Presentation @2:30pm
May 20, 2005
Sumit MiddhaDiscovery of Regulatory Elements in Drosophila Melanogaster Core Promoters
Presentation @10:00am
Vasanth SinganIntegrating Gene Expression Profiles with Gene Ontology
Presentation @11:00am
April 27, 2005
Yogita MantriStatistical Analysis for Word counting in Drosophila Core Promoters
Presentation @3:30pm
Rupali PatwardhanMotif Discovery in Protein Sequences using Messy de Bruijn Graphs
Presentation @4:00pm
Troy CampbellPaleontology Discovery System presentation
Presentation @4:30pm
December 17, 2004
Jeffery MowerPREditorredictive RNA Editor for lant Mitochondrial Genes
Presentation @1:00pm
Kiran AnnaiahProReP - Protein Results Parser v3.0: A Tool For Handling Tandem Mass Spectrometer Protein Database Search Results
Presentation @1:30pm
Natalya MuzinichDiscovery of Prokaryotic Relationships through Latent Structure
Presentation @2:00pm
Stuart YoungPredicting Deleterious Mutations
Presentation @2:30pm
September 24, 2004
Nihar ShethFrequency-based Splice Site Predictor
Raj AdhikariDiscovering Gene-Disease Association using On-line Scientific Text Abstracts.
Presentation @9:30am
Kranthi K VaralaCell Model calibration using NMR based metabonomics
Presentation @10:00am
Manish AnandEffect of polymorphisms on transcriptional regulation in mice: Preliminary study of SNPs in the promoter region of genes with strong cis-eQTL
Presentation @10:30am
July 15, 2004
Angela BurrQuality Control of Microarrays and the Importance of Human Computer Interaction
Presentation @8:30am
Paul WhiteA searchable interface as a system component for the Computerization of the IUB Herbarium
Presentation @9:00am
Yi ZouDNA Sequence Evolution in Sunflower and Lettuce
Presentation @10:30am
Xin HongThe distribution of introns in the full length cDNA
June 11, 2004
James CostelloBioKnOT: Biological Knowledge through Ontologies and TFIDF
Presentation @1:30pm
Arvind GopuA Framework for Sequence Cluster Merging
Presentation @2:00pm
Xiang (Sean) ZhouThe design and implementation of a system that integrates pathway data from KEGG and genome sequence data from NCBI
Presentation @2:30pm
May 13, 2004
Tsukahara TakumaHISPIG: A Discriminative Model Refinement Approach with Iterations for Detecting Regulatory Regions
Presentation @1:30pm
December 19, 2003
Henry Hyunil PaikSequence analysis of CpG islands reveals possible correlation between genes and their CpG island sequences
Presentation @2:00pm
Avinash KewalramaniBioFilter:An architecture for parallel deployment and dynamic chaining of standalone BioInformatics tools.
Presentation @2:30pm
August 14, 2003
Zhiping WangGuiding motif discovery by iterative pattern refinement
Presentation @10:30am
Kwangmin ChoiImproving gene function prediction using conserved gene clusters and genomic context
Presentation @11:00am
April 28, 2003
Sihui ZhaoClustering and Motif Finding in Kinases of Yeast, Worm, and Arabidopsis thaliana
Presentation @9:00am
Haifeng ZhaoDiscovery of Regulatory Motifs of Purine Biosynthetic Genes in E. coli and B. subtillis
Presentation @9:30am
Paul PooleWhole Genome Repeat Analysis Package: A Preliminary Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome
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Irfan Gunduz
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I'm still afraid. But I want it MORE!
I'm still afraid. But I want it MORE!
Searching. Struggling. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. Anyone else feel like they must be getting their masters in chaos and confusion? I couldn't feel more off track or out of touch with what I am truly meant to be doing. Well, I could. If I were homeless and alone. But still! And I know most people understand why my house looks this way. I could pull the I-have-5-kids card and most think I'm doing pretty well "under-the-circumstances." But I'm not under my circumstances. This is my life! I was called to it. And consistently feeling like I'm not accessing my full potential is irritating. I've been a broken record of whining about tendencies and self-sabatoge for nearly 13 years now. And I'm tired of it. STILL!
But I don't have to wait here to see if I'm still suffering and grouchy about being in the same shoes for the next 10 plus years, do I? No. I can choose something else.
(At this point, I'd almost choose ANY thing else.)
But it isn't as easy as just choosing something different and being new over night.
Or is it?
I want to tackle this and "cocoon up" so I can look forward to having the butterfly part of my life that much sooner.
It's time. I seriously refuse to waste another year or month spinning wheels mucking' around in this much self confusion and frustration. I am just sure I could put my energy into something way more worth while.
Lord help me, I'm going to MOVE FORWARD. A BIG step. Maybe it will be 5 baby steps put together. But it will be bigger. noticable. Good. Good changes. Better choices for me.
And just so I don't get anyone all sidetracked saying how I HAVE been changing over the years and how I've HAVE grown so much. I agree I've changed and grown. Some. But I am still sitting in a messy house with a cloudy brain feeling overwhelmed by simple day-to-day tasks. So, enough head-work. This isn't how I want to live. This is a new day and I want to grab hold like I've just been diagnosed with something. Something life changing. NO– perspective changing. I want to honor people whose lives were cut short by actually LIVING mine. In the best way possible.
And my small choices everyday are NOT adding up to that. Yet.
Watch if you like. Join me if you like. But I am going on the transformation ride of my life time. And I'm not giving up until I can only say these feelings of falling short and missing the mark are memories more than daily companions.
Here is my plan so far:
1) List my priorities in life. Get them all down and put them in order of importance.
2) Document what I do in a typical day.
3) Take a good, real look at how often throughout the day I am putting time into something other than my top priorities.
4) Reorganize my daily routines to best redirect my time toward that which has me focused on my priorities instead of distracting me from them.
Set . . .
Really. Let's do this. Anyone with me?


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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Currently emo-ing..
Lots of stuff in my mind... Still trying to sort them out... But it's almost impossible...
Like a tangled up rope without the end of the ropes..
No end, no way to untangle...
Duhh.. Sort of like cutting all into pieces...
Human is the highest form of life in the Earth.
This make human possible to do stuff that's suppose to be impossible.
Of course, this make human also become one very complicated kind of animal.
Human mind... Even if you're the greatest psychologist in the world, I'll still say you know too few about human..
Every crook and turn in our brains think different stuff, do different task..
But still, I still hope I can read human's mind...
Even if just a bit, it's still enough for me
At least I'll have a clue about what YOU are thinking..
And maybe I can understand myself more too..
I don't know myself well enough =(
Semester exam is coming soon...
Means D-I-E to me...
Damn why I wanna take science?! Super hard to study 1...
P.s I need MORE dark chocolate.. MORE!!!
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u do understand urself..is just ur abit unsure of it..ReplyDelete
dun worry, u will get over it soon...its just one of those times bah..
Sometimes in life.....you see yourself in other people...thats how u understand urself better... cheer up.. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks yea... ><ReplyDelete
must be think of me too much ah...ReplyDelete
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Me and my ex-girlfriend were in an amazing relationship, for 1 year and 3 months. There was so much love and fun and everything good! But in the past recent months, things grew a little stale where we still loved each other very much, but we never knew what to talk about. And we also got into arguements every now and then.
When she broke up with me, she said I was needy, and that I had these ocasional moodswings that would push her away. She says I stressed her out. But I changed so much for her. The only reason I always wanted to hang out with her was because she was always so busy, and if she would go so long without asking to hang out, I'd get upset because I would feel like she doesn't want to spend time with me. And I made a promise to change, and I really feel like I did. I love her soooo much. And I know she loves me too. But I feel like all she remembers are the bad times and not the good. There's too much to explain right now, but those are the basics of the situation.
It's only been a week since we broke up, but one of her friends who is also good friends with me said that my ex girlfriend moved on. I just don't believe that someone can move on from such a loving relationship in a week. She we see each other in school, we would say hi to each other and everything. And she said we would talk, but she doesn't make an effort to. She sometimes has half smiles or full smiles when she waves at me, but not much else goes on.
I just need some hope. What can I do to make her come back? I really do believe we're meant to be together. I can't imagine myself without her. I love her too much to just simply let go.
I've heard of ';No contact'; , be positive around her, always smile, give it time, and pretend like nothing is wrong. Is there anything else I should know? Maybe from a girls perspective, what would make you come back? I don't want to admit it, but I'm heartbroken, and will take any advice. Thank you so much.How do you win back your ex girlfriend, even if it seems hopeless?
move on , by what i said ';move on'; i meant meet new people specially another girls , and let her see that , at the same time stay normal and less than normal with her , dont be overwhelmed when see her. when she will see you with another girls one of 2 things will happen : being jealous and if she want serious about it she wont stand it anymore and come back to you , if she asked you later why were you doing that , tell her its only because you saw that she moved on , the second case she wont care, if that happened be sure that she never loved you . but dont be sad because its better to know now more knowing later . both ways you are a winner . believe me there is no girl or even a guy can stand seeing the one he/she love with some body else specially if it was obvious that ur having fun. another thing , she might be doing that because she wanted to teach you a lesson to be calm when she ignoring you and when she is busy , what you have to do is to get busy with some1 else, after a while tell her that youve done that to show her that what she have done hurt you , and youve done that becuase you love her , she wont understand it in another way.
good luck :)
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Recently, I had the pleasure of corresponding with Mr. Bill Kirton, Communications Director, at the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center. He has taken our Online Grant Writing Course and has had great success! All of us at Grant Central USA were so thrilled for Mr. Kirton and his organization that we wanted to share their award winning story in hopes that it inspires and empowers other organizations.
I first heard of RMEOC's achievement during what at first seemed to be a simple technical question which then quickly developed into a great success story. Through correspondence, he was kind enough to give me more details regarding their progress including being awarded a $50,000 grant from The Denver Foundation and $150,000 grant from the Piton Foundation.
"We are currently preparing grant reports for an upcoming deadline, as well as additional applications. I wanted to carefully review the excellent material you have provided and am now focused on doing that.
In 2015, we received a $50k grant from The Denver Foundation and a $150k grant from the Piton Foundation. Both of these institutions are interested in what we do because employee-ownership is a way to create and to preserve businesses in local communities and, therefore, increase local economic sustainability. Some foundations want to move from 'charity' to 'change,' in other words, they want to see their resources being used in ways that create economic sustainability.
The Denver Foundation, because of our conversations with them, are now engaged in a variety of cooperative enterprise development projects, one of which is with the leaders in the Anschutz Medical Campus complex. The campus includes The University of Colorado Medical Center, Children's Hospital, and the yet to be completed Veterans Hospital. The campus is located in a low-income area in Aurora, Colorado. The Denver Foundation effort is based on the model created in Cleveland, OH, the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative, which involves the creation of employee-owned businesses to serve the 'anchor institutions' in the surrounding area (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospital, Case Western University, etc.).
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Force Quit a Not Responding Program in Windows
Force Quit a Not Responding Program
We've all seen it, all experienced it. But what do we do when it happens to us?
Programs may stop responding for a vast variety of reasons, simple crashes, bad installations..or simply because the application is under too much stress for your computer to handle.
Once this happens and the application has hung, the best way to force quit an application is using Task Manager. A simple easily accessible program on all Windows Operating systems.
This is a very basic, but very useful task for anyone that learns it. And I think even some techs may learn a thing or two!
Using Internet Explorer as an example. I will show you how to close the program down using task manager.
So our Internet Explorer has crashed "Oh No!". Don't panic, using Task Manager we can easily resolve this problem.
How to open Task Manager:
There are many ways to open Task Manager, but the simplest way is to press the keys
CTRL + ALT + DELETE - All Together
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you may need to select "Task Manager" from the splash screen that appears. Most of the time on XP, you will be fine, unless you are connected to a domain.
Using Task Manager:
Firstly, you can try closing the application from here clicking the "End Task" button at the bottom. If this works, you are done! However....here comes the clever part....
50% of the time using the applications tab will not work, and it will make it seem that your PC is crashing more. So here's what you do next!
Click on the processes tab. In that tab you will see a process called dumprep.exe this program is scanning for errors to send to Microsoft. This slows a lot of computers to a halt. It may in the long run help the situation by giving Microsoft error reports, but mainly its just a nuisance (In my opinion).
End the process dumprep.exe and watch your computer magically return to life!
If Task Manager Wont Open
If Task Manager will not open. There is one thing you can try. The "Sleep" button on your keyboard!
Yes I know it sounds ludicrous, but if you press this, your computer will go into standby mode. Turning it back on, can bring a crashed machine back to life.
If you try this and it works, come back and let me know, as I have never seen anyone else use this method before.
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Would it not be better if you advised just to dis-able the dumprep? It's certainly easy to do. All that process does is send information to Microsoft Co, where it is immediately ignored along with the billions (that's thousand millions) of other reports sent in.
wow thanks the task manager thing was great when my laptop got stuck while viewing webcam images
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Leaders the world over, including the Secretary-General of the UN, are calling on us to make the environment and climate change priority agenda items at the G20 and G8, but the Conservatives prefer to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the views of others.
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CODEPINK Joins Pakistani March to Waziristan to Protest US Drones
WASHINGTON - On Saturday, October 6th, a delegation of 32 CODEPINK peace activists will set out on a historical march to Waziristan, where US drones have been killing so many innocent people. They will be joining political leader Imran Khan and many thousands of Pakistanis in the first-ever attempt to march to the troubled tribal areas that have been off-limits to non-residents. The group will spend the night of October 6th in Dera Ismail Khan and on October 7th the caravan will proceed to the village of Kotkai, where a massive rally is planned.
The march has already created a stir throughout the country of Pakistan, and internationally. Rumors have been swirling of possible attacks by local militants, and the US embassy has said that it cannot guarantee that drones will not strike during the march. Nonetheless, the group is determined to go ahead.
When asked why she was going to participate in this march considering the serious security risks, Dianne Budd, a medical doctor from San Francisco, answered, "Of course I'm concerned about our security, but I am even more concerned about the security of the people of Waziristan who face constant threats and terror from the drones flying above their heads twenty-four hours a day."
On Friday, the group met with about a dozen drone attack survivors who came to Islamabad to tell their stories. "I felt horrified and ashamed hearing how these drones have not only killed these people's loved ones but have disrupted their daily lives," said Chelsea Faria, 22 years old from Northampton, Massachusetts, and the youngest member of the delegation. "We were told that people are afraid to send their children to school, attend community meetings, go to weddings and funerals, because they never know when a drone might hit."
The delegation is anxious to show Pakistanis, three-fourths of whom consider America their enemy, that there are Americans who care about their lives and are determined to change US foreign policy. "We also feel this march will put significant pressure on the Obama administration to come clean about these drone attacks, to recognize how inhumane and counterproductive they are," said CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin. "We will continue to find ways to protest these barbaric assassinations until they finally end," she added.
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OLEAN, N.Y. – It wasn't a winter night inside the KOA Arena, but rather a hot and sunny weekend on the city's blacktop streets.
Regardless, the blue and gold went out and competed just the same.
Four members of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford women's basketball team – senior Ali Rinfrette (Bradford, Pa.), juniors Anna Colebert (Eldred, Pa.) and Jennifer Isenberg (Sheffield, Pa.) and freshman Bri Wells (Bradford, Pa.) – participated in the Gus Macker adult women's bracket.
The 3-on-3 streetball-style tournament was played on Delaware Avenue and North Barry Street, otherwise known as "Mackerville."
The Panthers got off to a hot start in the double-elimination tournament, claiming a win in the first game to advance in the winners bracket. A pull-up jumper from long range by Rinfrette sealed the victory for Pitt-Bradford.
Despite a strong shooting effort from Isenberg, a narrow one-point loss in the second round sent the Panthers to the losers bracket, still alive with a chance to advance to the finals.
Colebert knocked down a number of outside shots and Wells got to the rim with ease throughout game three to lead the Panthers and advance them to Sunday morning's action.
One game away from the semifinals, though, the Panthers fell in their fourth game.
Exiting the tournament with a pair of wins, the players saw a lot of positives in the way they played together.
"I thought we communicated really well out there," Isenberg said. "We talked a lot more than I was anticipating, and I think it was pretty strong for our first time playing together since last season."
The tournament served as the first time the four players have competed together, with Wells getting her first action as a Panther.
"It was great to be out here playing together, even before the school year starts," Rinfrette said. "It definitely makes us excited for November."
The Panthers will open up their 2017-18 season at the KOA Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 15 as they play host to Mansfield.
The weekend's event was the 10th Gus Macker in Olean. The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford was among the tournament's sponsors.


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June 13th – June 19th
Only managed to get in one Pixel Daily this week, will do more! c:
June 13th – June 19th
Only managed to get in one Pixel Daily this week, will do more! c:
June 6th – June 12th
Finally got back to doing Pixel Dailies. Will hopefully be doing more soon! c:
Click the image so you can see it in a bigger format. And check out the little game I made for Ludum Dare, Photagogue, where you can punch dinosaurs like this one! c:
Finished working on the Banner for The Quest for NES by Norseware. c:
20×18 #knight with a #sword and a #shield
February 1st – February 7th
Haven't done a PD in 2 months; should really be doing more. Here's a small Blue Castle Crashers Knight.
If you want more attention, then you should also be giving back to the community. So I'm starting something new called: How To Pixel. This first one's How To Pixel a Cupcake. c:
And be sure to check out the video of me drawing it here.


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Mock Orange
Do not Feed
- Common Name: Mock Orange
- Latin Name: Philadelphus coronarius
- Family Name: Hydrangeaceae
Although there are no known hazards, Mock Orange is rich in saponins. The plant can be used in soap and polishes; so probably one to avoid, but not to worry if the blossom is accidently eaten.
Do not confuse with Mexican Orange Blossom (Choisya ternata), sometimes called Mock Orange.


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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Where in the World?
Maybe it's time to say something interesting instead of wittering on about knitting and camels?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Hopeless Camels, Grumpy Sheep and Silly Birds
The reason, dear reader, is this. Every year, we teachers have to get Mary to Bethlehem. To stop us all going mad we choose a different production, but let's face it - there isn't much room for variety.
New Maternity Wing Solves Bed Crisis in Downtown Bethlehem
Fourth Wise Man Refuses To Give Gift
Breaking News: It's A Girl!
See what I mean? We haven't much option in the key characters, or in the general outline of the story.
However... enterprising musical impresarios have realised that a fresh take on a familiar story is always welcome, so for younger children, the story is often told through a minor character such as the innkeeper or a shepherd boy or through an animal. These characters invariably wander around the outskirts of Bethlehem, bumping into shepherds, wise men, etc. They usually have an endearing character trait that the children can identify with and they ultimately arrive at the stable just after the birth and their hearts are filled with joy. Last year's Reception production involved three Grumpy Sheep who became happy when they saw the Baby. This year, Reception has a dizzy Robin, who keeps falling over and bumping herself on the head. Presumably she wakes from seeing stars to see the Baby and stops being so silly.
And us? Well, here in Years 1 and 2, we have a Very Hopeless Camel, who keeps getting lost. The Wise Men are looking for the Special Baby who is born to be King and the poor old camel keeps leading them and the younger camels, all over the place. when he finally arrives at the stable, all he can see is animals, so is convinced he's failed again. Then the other camels see the Baby, tell the VHC and he instantly feels better about himself.
Cue parental applause and a big sniff from the Virgin Mary's Mum and Dad.
Watch out Mrs T, you have all this to come!
Friday, November 23, 2007
Can you hear what I hear?
A very hopeless camel, oh dear me!
He's witty and he's funny, can't be bossed,
but that very hopeless camel keeps getting lost!
Hrumph! Hrumph! Wriggle the hump!
Hrumph! Hrumph! Now do a jump!
Hrumph! Hrumph! Wriggle the hump!
And don't forget to swish the tail.
There's a hopeless camel, can't you see?
A very hopeless camel, oh dear me!
He's witty and he's funny, can't be bossed,
but that very hopeless camel keeps getting lost!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
WIP Wednesday
I've done very little since then really, I'd like to get it finished at the weekend, but work's ramped up again.
'Tis the season, and all that...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
W is for Wednesday, WIP and wee
Lilly continues from strength to strength, you wouldn't realise that on Friday I thought she was at death's door.
Today has been... interesting.
Tomorrwo we take her back to the vet's, with a urine sample.
No, seriously...
"I have two cats, the other one uses the litter tray more than Lilly, how will I...?" I asked the vet on Saturday.
"Oh, we give you this litter, it doesn't absorb the wee, so you can tip the litter tray up and pippette some out into a sample tube. Just shut her in for a while. she won't like it, but it shouldn't be too difficult."
She obviously doesn't know Lilly.
This morning, I scooped her up and took her upstairs to have her antibiotic (nicely wrapped in tuna) in our bedroom. Biscuits, water and the spare (open) litter tray were already up there. I gave her her tablet, then stood her in the admittedly smal;l amount of litter, to try to give her the idea. She glared at me, as if to say, don't interrupt me when I'm eating tuna, woman. I left her to it and shut the door on her.
Unfortunately, I was a little later home than expected. I shot upstairs and let myself into the bedroom to find...
Zip. Nada. Niente.
Apart, of course, from a very disgruntled cat who had spent ten and a half hours in my bedroom with all she needed, but decided that since it was a room she never went to the toilet in, she wasn't going to start now. She hobbled out, legs and indeed eyes crossed, made it down stairs and tried to get into the usual, enclosed litter tray. I whipped the lid off and almost took her back legs off as she was a little slower walking in than I had thought. I was hoping I could pick her up and pop her into the sample collection tray.
Oh folly.
By this time she was furious, wriggled, then stalked out of the catflap and promptly visited her usual spot to relieve herself. Grrr.
The rest of the evening has been spent juggling different litter trays.
Don't like an open tray? That's okay, I'll swap the litter round.
Sample collection litter isn't the requisite 4 cm deep? Tough, I only have a small amount.
Don't want me to watch? Ok, I'll just leave it down here for a while.
Oh no! Stella's heading for the litter tray, abort mission, abort, abort!
I have accepted defeat. I know when I am beaten.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Animal Update
I know this makes me sound like a heartless cow, but I also worry about how good I would be at injecting her with insulin every day. I find it tricky enough to worm her, let alone stab her with a needle!
As I write, she is curled up asleep on the sofa, as happy as Larry. When she is awake, her eyes are sparkling and she has snacked on tuna extensively during the afternoon. Hurrah!
And talking of animals, I went to the sorting office and picked up my Monkey package today. Thank you Monkey Pal Angela!
The box contained lots of goodies, including an amazing dishcloth with a monkey knitted into it. I've only been able to find white or ecru dishcloth cotton in the UK, but they are far more colourful in the States. What an incentive to keep my kitchen clean! There is a cool Monkey stick puppet kit (how did Angela know I have a weakness for funky foam?) a Monkey bag and some luscious Lorna's Laces in Daffodil. Again, a blinding choice in colours! the postcard shows a map of Oregon, where Angela lives. (I've just realised I could have included a postcard of Northwihc in my parcel for my Monkey Pal AJ. As it was, I forgot to include the lengthy letter I had written, like the true idiot I am. Sorry AJ!)
Inside the box were some stitch markers including a monkey one. Inside the bag were gorgeous purple Monkey socks. They feel so soft!
Thank you Angela!
Friday, November 09, 2007
I fretted all day, got home and was horrified to find that she was not where I had left her this morning, or indeed in any of her other hiding places. I was convinced she had taken herself of to die, but she suddenly appeared, walking slowly through the kitchen. I put some food down and she sniffed it, but didn't eat anything. However, she did have a drink. A huge drink.
She is now at the vets. They were running late, so she spent over 45 miutes in the box. By the time we were called in, she was much more feisty and her usual self, but the vet was concerned by her drinking. They've run some initial tests that indicate raised levels of some chemicals associated with kidnety and/or liver failure, which could also be raised as a result of an infection. We have left her overnight to be hooked up to a drip for intravenous antibiotics and fluids to rehydrate. They will also run some further blood tests.
I was due to go to London tomorrow, to see Debbie Stoller at Stitch n Bitch UK, but I won't be going now. I want to pick my baby up tomorrow and I don't want to have one of those "It'll cost more to treat her than the limit we set ourselves, what are we going to do?" type of conversations with A when I am 150 miles away.
Ho hum.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
WIP Wednesday
I've cast on some socks:
The one on the left is using some of the Fabel sock yarn I bought in Gothenburg to make some Christmas socks for my Dad, the one on the right is a plain sock pattern in Opal Rodeo from Stash (the yarn I made Eleanor's socks in in the Spring).
I've also cast on an item with interesting construction....
Anyone guess what it is from this photo?
Pondemonium and Best of Both Whirls are no different (bad knitter!)
I've also had a few finished objects since the last WIP Wednesday. The shrug and the Monkey socks have already featured,but here is one you won't have seen:
More Scar socks! I decided to cast these on on Friday for a friend's birthday yesterday,. The first came out very fast, but I hit Second Sock Syndrome a bit on Sunday (and also had my school work to do). I was quite pleased the school trip coach got a bit stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the Manchester Science Museum on Monday, gave me an extra 20 minutes in the day rather than at night!
Pattern: Scar from Sock Wars 2
Yarn: Posh Yarn Emily in "Helter Skelter"
Needles: 3.25mm DPN
Mods: kbl into picked up stitches along gusset
Cast On: Friday 2nd Nov
Cast Off: Monday 5th Nov
Saturday, November 03, 2007
I never did lie-ins as a child - not an option in a bungalow with early-bird parents and a bedroom next to the kitchen. Even now, although I sleep later at the weekend than I ever have before, it's seldom past 8.30am. A has always had a talent for lie-ins, though, so early wake up calls at the wekend do allow me that glorious time when the house is almost silent.
Today, I curled up and caught up with some podcasts and worked on some socks (and yes, C, WIP Wednesday will make a comeback soon!). At about 9.30, there was a knock on the door and the postman handed me a large box - a parcel from my Secret Pal!
Doesn't it look fab?
First up, her own blend of lavender and mint tea, transfered into a bag so the jar didn't smash.
Then, not one, not two, not three, but FOUR needle rolls! She had emailed me to say that she had managed to gt some sewing done, but wow! Four! Two for DPNS and crochet hooks, one for straights and one for circs. They are beautiful and really well finished.
Then there was sheepy stationery. I have always been a sucker for this kind of thing, and I love the fact that the shopping list pad has a magnet so it can go on the fridge - or even on the magnetic board if I get it onto the wall (hey, it's only three and half years since I decorated the kitchen - and it's not like either of us trip on it where it is learning against a cupboard....)
Little candles and a maple syrup candy maple leaf next...
...and finally some yarn that she has dyed herself - gorgeous! I love the dark green in this and I already have an idea what to make in this (it'll just join a big queue!)
But the bit that gets me is this - look at the date on the postage label:
30th October. Tuesday. This parcel took four days to get here. From the States. So far I have sent two parcels to my Secret Pal that have had to cross the Atlantic, and neither of them have arrived. The latest one only went 9 days ago and the Sock Wars socks took 11 days, so no cause for alarm yet (although parcels in the summer were only taking one week to get there. Go figure) . However, the first parcel was sent at the end of September and should have left the country before the postal strike. Is it sat in Customs waiting to be strip-searched? Did the airmail label fall off and it is currently cruising the Atlantic, sipping cocktails on the poop deck? Or even worse, is it mouldering in a British sorting office, fallen down behind a rack?
Anyway, I have needles to sort and new yarn to console me. Thank you Secret Pal, you are a star!


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I just wanted to show a few cards that I have made in the last few months. I started early this year making Christmas cards, but then I blinked and now I am running out of time with all the projects that I wanted to do for the holidays. I guess I will be starting much earlier next year to make sure that I get everything done in time. Maybe I'll start right after New Years! That should give m lots of time. What do you think?
So here are a few of the cards that I have been working on for this Christmas
Thanks for the look !
Until next time !


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Knowing when to stop antibiotic therapy
In reply: Thompson and colleagues make an important point: contradicting dogma about the need to complete an antibiotic course is risky and potentially confusing.
My article1 was not written for patients, but it attracted media interest and public comment.2,3 I did not suggest that patients stop taking antibiotics as soon as they feel better, as some assumed2 — although I suspect many do.
Clearly whether they can do so safely, depends on the indication. It would be reasonable for a patient to ask, if the doctor has not explained, whether completing the course is necessary. If, as I suspect is still common, the antibiotic was prescribed for an acute respiratory infection, it is certainly sensible to stop when symptoms improve — albeit better not to have started.
Even when there is a good indication for taking antibiotics, pack sizes often do not correspond with recommended course durations,4 and both are often based on limited evidence. Shorter courses are likely to be just as effective for many infections.5 We need more evidence and more common sense, because unnecessary or unnecessarily long antibiotic courses promote resistance.


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By Jason Devaney |
Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:06 PM
The White House provided more clarification regarding the dismissal of Rob Porter on Tuesday, saying the in-house security office had not finished its review of Porter's background investigation when he left his West Wing job last week.
On the same day FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the FBI closed its security clearance investigation for Porter in November, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced another onslaught of questions on the matter that has dominated the headlines for six days. Porter was dismissed last week after it was alleged he was verbally and physically abusive toward his two ex-wives.
"The White House Personnel Security Office, staffed by career officials, received information last year in what they considered to be the final background investigation report [on Porter] in November," Sanders said. "They had not made a final recommendation for adjudication to the White House because the process was still ongoing when Rob Porter resigned."
Sanders explained when the FBI conducts a background investigation about a White House employee, the report is sent to the White House Personnel Security Office. Officials there review the report and either send it back to the bureau for further investigation, which in Porter's case occurred last summer, or process it and make a final recommendation to the West Wing.
Sanders said she did not "know the specifics" when asked why Porter's background investigation report was sent back to the FBI last summer. Until he left the White House last Wednesday, Porter was working with an interim security clearance as President Donald Trump's staff secretary.
But it was clear the FBI had finished its investigation and had sent its final report to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue several months ago.
What is not known is whether White House chief of staff John Kelly was aware of the domestic violence allegations leveled at Porter before news of them broke last week.
Sanders said she was not aware of Kelly being involved in sending Porter's report back to the FBI last July. And when asked to definitively say Kelly did not know about the allegations until last week, Sanders said, "That's my understanding."
It has been reported Kelly may have actually known about the domestic violence allegations before they were made public.
Some rumors suggest Kelly offered to resign after the Porter story blew up and Trump might be shopping for a new chief of staff. Newsmax's John Gizzi reported Monday morning, however, it is likely Kelly will weather the storm and keep his job.
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I got Victory! Here are the cards I designed for February swap meet & this month.
The rest of the group designed these for us to put together...
this one is by Kim ~ I changed the orientaion of the one square...
This one was designed by Suna ~ I changed this one completely... I was tired by this time & spaced the lettering all wrong... no room for Paradise ~ this one makes me laugh!
This is the one Suna designed ( it is for Tracey as she was unable to attend)
I should have followed the pattern & not been a rebel!
Here is the one I created from Deb's designed using the NEW 'Dotty for you' paper pack.
It is a special line that we have for International scrapbooking Month!
Watch for more information on that to follow!
Thanks to Deb for hosting this swap ~ we had a great time ~ laughing, creating & Sharing!
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