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"County Council tweaks Strategic Leadership Plan"
Question: If the plan is "Strategic," why does it need to be "tweaked?"
If it needs to be "tweaked," shouldn't it be called the Strategic-ish Leadership Plan?
Just wondering.
R.D. Little
Los Alamos
Thank you for the article acknowledging our 18th year in business. We are honored to have earned the business and friendship of so many Los Alamos County home-buyers and sellers.
I am truly fortunate to work with a crew of 13 outstanding Realtors and two amazing office administrators who are so deeply involved in our community.
Together we have over 164 years of combined Realtor experience and over 264 years of combined Los Alamos residency!
We are deeply committed to this community. As individuals and as an office, we support the United Way, Gordon's Concerts, the YMCA, Kiwanis, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Los Alamos County Council, the Los Alamos Medical Center, PEEC, Leadership Los Alamos, UNM-LA, LAPS, the Los Alamos Historic Society and a number of County Boards and Commissions.
We are your neighbors and friends, and have worked to sell over 1,984 homes in the last 10 years — just over 72 percent of all homes sold in Los Alamos and White Rock.
We love Los Alamos, and look forward to 18 more years of serving you.
Thanks again for the write-up.
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Saying goodbye
to Santaniello's
After more than 20 years serving the Los Alamos and surrounding communities, Santaniello's Plumbing and Heating, LLC is announcing that they are closing their business.
Pat and Lori Santaniello wish to thank all their loyal customers who have helped their business thrive in this beautiful town. They have seen many changes in Los Alamos and are proud to have supported the community and to have helped rebuild after the Cerro Grande fire.
Pat and Lori are looking forward to moving to their new home and relocating their business to Texas to be closer to family and watching Pat slow down after all those years of plumbing.
Thank you Los Alamos for blessing us while we have lived here in Los Alamos.
I recently flew New Mexico Airlines from Los Alamos to Albuquerque and it was a wonderful experience.
The pilots were courteous, the service was great and convenient and the views were spectacular.
Please consider flying and supporting New Mexico Airlines.
Save time and money considering gas, parking, hotel and food fees. Parking at the Los Alamos airport is free. The flight is $49, tax included, with a flying time of 20 minutes, right up to the back door of the Albuquerque International Sunport.
It was the best plane trip I have had in a while.
Annette Fox
Los Alamos
At the county council working session on Tuesday night much of the discussion addressed two widely diverse viewpoints. Some speakers addressed the goal of having public art attract visitors and visitor dollars.
Alternatively, some spoke to the question of how public art might serve the local community, entertaining us and our children, educating us about our history and perhaps even providing fodder for thought.
It was clear that many citizens have invested many hours working on how to best achieve those goals.
I would like to encourage members of the county council and Art in Public Places Board, while they further debate how to allocate the limited funds available for public art, to consider the very generous offer on the part of Ed Grothus' family.
For those who have forgotten, before he passed away Ed Grothus commissioned a dramatic large-scale stone sculpture. The work consists of two white granite obelisks standing on black granite bases and topped with black granite spheres. The assembled obelisks would stand almost 40 feet tall.
Inscribed on the bases in 15 languages is text condemning the nuclear weapons defense work that has been done here at the lab in the decades since 1943. Many in the community find the inscribed message decidedly offensive.
Accolades and kudos should be awarded to Bertha Romero and Gina Garcia of the Smart Set.
When a client/friend who lives alone failed to appear for an appointment and didn't answer her phone, they were concerned enough to call 911. The client had suffered a stroke. Because of their concern, the client received the medical attention needed to avert more serious damage from the stroke. Thank you Bertha and Gina.
Joy Drake
Los Alamos
eterans of Foreign Wars will conduct a commemorative program to honor the Veterans of the United States. The program will be at the VFW building on Deacon Street and is open to the public.
Other community groups will be represented and several speakers and appropriate patriotic programs will be represented.
If your parents are unable to attend this program, I would suggest you take this opportunity to talk to your children about Veterans Day and explain to them what a veteran is and why it is important to know about this federal holiday.
A person who receives and honorable discharge from the military or someone who was killed on active duty is considered a veteran.
Today, we will honor all of these men and women plus all the veterans who participated in previous wars and conflicts in the past.
The military gave us freedom of speech, assembly, religion and the press. These freedoms are part of our American heritage and some of the reasons why our country is great.
Nov. 11 should be more than just another day off. It should be a day of remembrance of what the veterans did for our country and why freedom is so important especially in today's complicated conflicting world.
Remember freedom is not free. The veterans paid the price and did more than just their share to preserve our great nation.
We would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the many, many people and organizations, who have reached out to us in the aftermath of our barn fire and the loss of our beloved mare Sparkling Moonshine.
Our family has received more hugs and casseroles and physical labor assistance and financial generosity than we can begin to count, and we just want to let everyone know how much we appreciate your kindness.
Los Alamos County's Police and Fire Departments rapid response helped save the other horses, and keep the fire from spreading. Los Alamos Parks Department and Solid Waste were on the job right from the start and we are so grateful for the help in clearing the lot. Community Development, Parks, Utilities and Public Works are helping prepare for the daunting task of rebuilding.
The Los Alamos Stable Owners Association, Los Alamos Pony Club, 4-H, Pajarito Riding Club, Pet Pangaea, the "Tractor Brigade" and so many others have reached out with aid in the form of temporary housing for our other horses, replacement equipment, hay and grain.
We can't begin to list the individuals, you know who you are, but your hugs and phone calls and actual presence and continued support has been a lifesaver. We couldn't ask for better friends.
As the seasons turn to fall, many of us here in New Mexico typically head to Bandelier National Monument before the cold rolls in. However, as a result of the government shutdown, our national parks, wildlife refuges and national forests all across New Mexico are closed to any and all visitors.
Bandelier National Monument typically sees a flood of visitors in October who come to experience the beauty of its cliff dwellings, or spend a last night under the stars. Last year in October alone more than 125,000 people visited New Mexico's national parks. This year they will arrive greeted by closed gates and empty ranger stations.
What's worse is a majority of personnel from the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture are temporarily out of work, halting many of our nation's critical clean air and clean water programs. Despite this lack of environmental oversight, most public lands and waters remain open to oil, gas, and mining operations, further threatening their well-being.
Having the doors close on "America's best idea" is bad enough, but keeping our public lands and parks open to private mining and gas drilling companies who are polluting these treasured landscapes in spite of these closures is truly deplorable.
ashington and Thomas Jefferson:
You established a wonderful experiment when you set up our nation as a Republic, and it worked well for about 200 years. But then elected officials got greedy and appropriated all sorts of perks for themselves.
They voted lifetime pensions for themselves after they leave office. They exempted themselves from laws and regulations that they didn't like. They, including the President, refused to enforce laws that were voted on by the people, and made new laws without going through the legislative process. They didn't do what was best for our country, but only what was best for their re-election campaigns.
When voters tried to remove corrupt officials from office, they discovered that hard-working honest citizens couldn't get elected unless they were lawyers and/or had tremendous amounts of cash on hand, and/or were backed by corrupt individuals or organizations who had tremendous amounts of cash on hand.
In almost every case, the person who wins an election is the one who spends the most money on his/her campaign. A lot of it goes into ads, which deceive the people and distort the issues.
You would be amazed at how our country as a whole has turned its back on the God of the universe and on the solid biblical principles upon which you founded this nation.
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Every week I will demonstrate an example of poor English where a different word is used from the one intended. Sometimes this creates a grammatically incorrect sentence. Unfortunately, the mistake is usually so pervasive that we all do it and such errors are usually made by those who should know better – journalists working for national or global media outlets such as newspapers and television.
Who's / Whose
This is one we should all know, one that we would have learnt in school yet it seems that some people confuse them, I have seen both used interchangeably and even I have to stop and think sometimes about which one I should use.
Who's – this is a contraction, usually of "who is", but sometimes also for "who has" as in… "who's had the last slice of bread?"
Whose – Is the possessive form of the word "who" (this is probably where some of the confusion lies). It goes before a noun
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- If you write a sentence and cannot substitute all over words (except the subject of the sentence) for "To whom does this NOUN belong?" then you have chosen the wrong one


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Christian Bergman readies for Rockies rehab stint, but he's not a starter option
Christian Bergman, who pitched into the late days of spring training as a candidate for the Rockies starting rotation, will return soon to Coors Field. But still not as a starter.
Bergman, who's been out since June 29 with right shoulder inflammation, will start a minor-league rehab assignment Tuesday at Triple-A Albuquerque. He'll get two rehab outings: the first at three innings or 45 pitches; the second at four innings or 60 pitches.
Aaron Laffey is Albuquerque's scheduled starter Tuesday. The Rockies still need a starter to pitch that day against the Cubs in Chicago. Colorado manager Walt Weiss said he's not ready to announce that arm.
Bergman, though, will return to a reliever role when he returns to Colorado.
"I see him going back to the bullpen," Weiss said. "There may be opportunities to start here and there, when we need a spot start."
Bergman on Saturday threw a 35-pitch bullpen session to live hitters.
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He threw fastballs at a regular velocity with no pain, Bergman said.
"I was letting them go with no problem," he said. "I was getting it up there pretty good. I was monitoring it, though, because it was kind of rapid fire. That's a little different than a game. At the same time, you have a little bit of adrenaline with a hitter."


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Existence of and decay to equilibrium of the filament end density along the leading edge of the lamellipodium
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A model for the dynamics of actin filament ends along the leading edge of the lamellipodium is analyzed. It contains accounts of nucleation by branching, of deactivation by capping, and of lateral flow along the leading edge by polymerization. A nonlinearity arises from a Michaelis–Menten type modeling of the branching process. For branching rates large enough compared to capping rates, the existence and stability of nontrivial steady states is investigated. The main result is exponential convergence to nontrivial steady states, proven by investigating the decay of an appropriate Lyapunov functional.
KeywordsLamellipodium Actin Lyapunov function
Mathematics Subject Classification35F61 35B35 35B32 35B09 35Q92 92C37
1 Introduction
The lamellipodium is a thin protrusion, developing when biological cells spread on flat surfaces. It is supported by a roughly two-dimensional meshwork of protein filaments, created by polymerization of actin (Small et al. 2002). In steadily protruding lamellipodia, the meshwork exhibits two dominant directions, approximately symmetric to the leading edge of the lamellipodium (Vinzenz et al. 2012), and can thus be approximated by two distinct families of filaments. The meshwork is a very dynamic structure, driven by the polymerization of the filaments abutting the leading edge, but also by the nucleation of new filaments via branching away from old filaments, close to their growing ends. This is responsible for the two-direction structure with the angle between the two families approximately equal to the branching angle. Finally, capping of filaments plays a role, whence filaments become blocked, stop to polymerize, and subsequentially lose contact to the leading edge.
A complete model therefore needs to describe the positions of filaments and of the leading edge. The authors have been involved in the formulation of such a modeling framework, the filament based lamellipodium model (FBLM) (Manhart et al. 2015; Oelz and Schmeiser 2010), which includes descriptions of filament bending, cross-linking, and adhesion to the substrate, as well as a number of other relevant mechanisms. The present work is concerned with a submodel describing branching and capping, and where the lateral flow speed along the leading edge will be considered as given. As a further model simplification, the lateral flow speed of both filament families will be assumed equal at each point on the leading edge. Concerning the geometry, two different situations will be considered: for cells surrounded by a lamellipodium, the leading edge is described as a one-dimensional interval with a periodicity assumption, where the two ends are identified. This situation applies mostly to stationary spreading cells and has been observed in several types of cells, such as fish keratocytes (Yam et al. 2007), mouse fibroblasts (Symons and Mitchison 1991) or T cells (Hui et al. 2012). It is important to note, that even in a situation where the cell is not moving, the lamellipodium is still very dynamic and filaments are being constantly turned over (Yam et al. 2007; Symons and Mitchison 1991). Apart from that, random fluctuations between protrusion and retraction can be observed in some cell types (Ryan et al. 2012). During the transition from a stationary to a moving cell, the rear lamellipodium typically disappears, however the periodic boundary condition would be valid up until this topological change. For a steadily moving cell, like the crawling fish keratocyte with a crescent-like shape and a lamellipodium only along the outer rim, the leading edge is represented by an interval with zero lateral inflow of filaments (see details below).
The branching process requires the Arp2/3 protein complex connecting the old and the new filament at the branch point (Svitkina and Borisy 1999). The assumptions that the availability of Arp2/3 is limiting and that the Arp2/3 dynamics is fast compared to the branching dynamics results in a Michaelis–Menten type model, similar to the one already formulated in Grimm et al. (2003). Capping is described as a simple Poisson process.
The main question of this work is: does the mathematical model describe a stable distribution of filament ends? The answer is a conditional yes with the rather obvious condition that the branching rate has to be big enough compared to the capping rate. Otherwise the filament end population dies out.
The rest of this paper is structured as follows: In Sect. 2 the derivation of the model is described. This has already been explained in the context of the full FBLM in Manhart et al. (2015), but it is also included here for the sake of completeness. In Sect. 3 an existence, uniqueness, and boundedness result is proven. It is also shown that it is enough to initially have a small amount of filament ends of only one family, to make the densities of both families positive everywhere within finite time. The short Sect. 4 is concerned with the proof of the simple result that the end distributions converge to zero, when the branching rate is too small compared to the capping rate. In Sect. 5 existence results for non-trivial stationary states are proven. There are several kinds of results. First, it is shown that a transcritical bifurcation away from the zero steady state occurs, when the ratio between the branching rate and the capping rate exceeds a critical value. This local result is extended in two special situations: In the case of the periodic leading edge, existence of a nontrivial steady state is proven also far from the bifurcation point, if the lateral flow speed is almost constant. The same result holds for the mathematically more difficult case of a leading edge with zero lateral inflow, if the lateral flow speed is constant. Finally in Sect. 6 it is shown that for every nonvanishing initial distribution the solution converges exponentially to the nontrivial steady state, if it exists.
2 Derivation and nondimensionalisation of the model
A model very similar to the one considered here has been formulated in Grimm et al. (2003). We shall follow the derivation given in Manhart et al. (2015) in the framework of the FBLM.
3 Existence, uniqueness, and positivity of solutions
Definition 1
Proposition 1
Remark 1
It is straightforward to show by differentiation of the equations that for smooth initial data \(u_0,v_0\in {\mathcal {C}}^\infty (\mathbb {T}^1)\) for (PBC), and \(u_0\in {\mathcal {C}}^\infty _0((0,1])\), \(v_0\in {\mathcal {C}}^\infty _0([0,1))\) for (DBC), and for smooth lateral flow speed \(c\in {\mathcal {C}}^\infty ([0,1])\), the solution satisfies \(u,v\in {\mathcal {C}}^\infty ([0,1]\times [0,\infty ))\). Some results of the following sections are based on computations with the strong forms (1) or (7) of the differential equations. These can be justified by uniform smooth approximations of \(u_0,v_0,c\), and subsequent removal of the smoothing.
The (obvious) non-negativity and Lipschitz continuity of \(R_{U,V}\) in terms of \((U,V)\in [0,\infty )^2\), as well as the bound \(R_{U,V}\le \alpha /\underline{\beta }\) will be sufficient for carrying out the proof.
One expects that if the initial conditions \((u_0(x), v_0(x))\) are positive [except at the boundaries for (DBC)], the same holds for the solution (u(x, t), v(x, t)) for all \(t\ge 0\). In fact a much stronger result is true: it is enough to have positivity of the initial data on some interval for only one family; after finite time both families will be positive everywhere [except at the boundaries for (DBC)]. The reason for this is that, although the initial mass is reduced by capping while it is transported across the domain, it remains positive. This mass, however, will trigger the creation of new filaments of the other family through the branching term. This new mass will be transported in the opposite direction and will itself cause the creation of mass of the first family. As long as the lateral flow speed c(x) is bounded from below, this process happens in finite time.
Proposition 2
The equivalent result for (U, V) will be proved. Assumption (14) and the continuity of the initial data imply the existence of an interval \([X_1,X_2]\subset [0,1]\) of positive length and of \(m>0\), such that one of the initial densities, w.l.o.g. \(U_0\), satisfies \(U_0 \ge m\) in \([X_1,X_2]\).
The mild formulations given in Definition 1 show that, whenever a U-characteristic (with velocity C) passes through a region where V is positive, U is positive along this characteristic in and after (timewise) this region, and vice versa (\(U\leftrightarrow V\), \(C\leftrightarrow -C\)). Also U is positive everywhere along a U-characteristic after a point on the characteristic, where it is positive (again the same for V).
These observations reduce the proof to a geometric problem (see Fig. 2), where we alternate between using the equations for U and for V. The first step is the observation that by the above property of the initial data, U is positive in the strip \(\mathcal {S}_0\), defined by \(X_1< X-Ct < X_2\) (light gray shading in Fig. 2). This implies, as the second step, that V is positive there and along all V-characteristics starting in this strip, i.e. also in the region \(\mathcal {S}_1\) bounded by \(X=0\), \(X-Ct=X_1\), \(X+Ct=X_1\), \(X+Ct=2-X_1\) (gray shading in Fig. 2). The third step is to draw again U characteristics, now starting in \(\mathcal {S}_1\), which adds a triangle \(\mathcal {S}_2\) (dark gray shading in Fig. 2) above \(\mathcal {S}_1\), where \(U>0\). Straightforward continuation shows that for \(t\ge T_*=(1-X_1)/C+1/C\), U and V are positive for \(0<X<1\). Positivity on the boundary, except for \(U(0,t)=V(1,t)=0\) in the (DBC) case, is achieved at any time after \(T_*\), implying that the result of the proposition holds with any \(T>2/C\ge T_*\). \(\square \)
4 When capping exceeds branching
The dimensionless parameter \(\alpha \) is the ratio between the branching and the capping rate. If it is too small, it can be expected that u and v tend to zero as \(t\rightarrow \infty \). Note that, on the other hand, Proposition 2 holds for all \(\alpha >0\). This means that even if we start with initial conditions, which are zero everywhere and are only positive for one family in a small interval, the solutions first become positive everywhere before they decay to zero.
Proposition 3
The results of the following sections show that the bound on \(\alpha \) is sharp for (PBC), but not for (DBC), where decay to zero can be expected also for \(1\le \alpha < \alpha _0\) with the bifurcation value \(\alpha _0\).
5 Existence of nontrivial steady states
5.1 Bifurcation from the zero solution
A bifurcation value \(\alpha _0\) for the ratio \(\alpha \) between the branching rate and the capping rate will be computed, where a nontrivial steady state branches off the zero solution. By repeating the computation in the proof of Proposition 3 for the steady state problem, proving that for \(\alpha <1\) it has only the zero solution. Therefore we expect \(\alpha _0\ge 1\), with the zero solution being the stable equilibrium for \(\alpha \le \alpha _0\) and with a second steady state existing for \(\alpha >\alpha _0\), whence the zero solution is unstable and the new steady state is the stable equilibrium.
By inspection it is obvious that for (PBC) \(\alpha _0=1\) holds with \(({\tilde{U}},{\tilde{V}}) := (1,1) \in \mathcal {N}({\mathcal {L}}_1)\). Straightforward computations show that the null space is one-dimensional.
For both types of boundary conditions, infinite increasing sequences of bifurcation values exist. However, for all bifurcation values larger than \(\alpha _0\), the null spaces, and therefore the bifurcating solutions, consist of functions with changing signs, which are irrelevant for our application and have no chance to be the long-time limit of non-negative solutions.
Proposition 4
Lemma 1
5.2 Periodic boundary conditions: almost constant lateral flow speed
Proposition 5
Remark 2
Note the uniformity of the result in terms of \(\alpha \in [\alpha ^*,\infty )\). In particular the upper bound \(\varepsilon _0\) for \(\varepsilon \) and the constant C in the error estimate are independent from \(\alpha \rightarrow \infty \). There is some subtlety to the situation as \(\alpha \rightarrow 1\), since the matrix \((e^{-M(\alpha )} - \mathbb {I})^{-1}\) blows up in this limit. However the limiting right hand sides being proportional to the vector (1, 1) [see (23), (24)] satisfy the solvability conditions for \(\alpha =1\), so that a bounded passage to the limit can be expected. We do not carry out this limit in detail, since it is roughly equivalent to the bifurcation analysis above.
5.3 Dirichlet boundary conditions: constant lateral flow speed
Proposition 6
Let \(\alpha >\alpha _0\) as defined by (16), (17) and let \(c(x)=\,\)const. Then the equation (1) together with (DBC) has a non-trivial stationary solution.
Remark 3
Uniqueness of the steady state is equivalent to strict monotonicity of \(I(E_0,\alpha )\) as a function of \(E_0\). This will be proved indirectly by the decay result of the next section.
6 Stability of nontrivial steady states
For proving exponential convergence to nontrivial steady states, we need to strengthen the result of Proposition 2. Note that the following result is sharp in terms of the values of the parameter \(\alpha \), proving uniform-in-time bounds away from zero for all parameter values above the bifurcation value, where the zero solution loses its stability.
Lemma 2
Theorem 1
7 Discussion
In this paper we derived, discussed and analyzed a mathematical model for the density of actin filament ends along the leading edge of a lamellipodium, a submodel of the filament based lamellipodium model (FBLM) (Manhart et al. 2015, 2016; Oelz and Schmeiser 2010). The main modeling assumption is that the actin network can be described by two families of filaments that point to the left and to the right respectively. This is supported by the observation that the angle distribution of filaments with respect to the leading edge has two prominent peaks at \(\pm 35^\circ \) (Winkler et al. 2012; Maly and Borisy 2001). The equations for the two families consist of a transport term describing the movement of filaments to the left and right by lateral flow, which is a consequence of actin polymerization and the angle of the filaments with respect to the leading edge, i.e., the geometry of the lamellipodium. In this work the lateral flow is assumed to be given, however in the full FBLM it is implicitly determined by the full dynamics of the system. The creation and degradation of the filaments are described by branching and capping processes, consistent with the biological knowledge available (Machesky and Insall 1998; Mullins et al. 1998; Svitkina and Borisy 1999; Weeds and Maciver 1993).
We assume here that once activated, Arp2 / 3 is quickly incorporated into the branches of nearby actin filaments. In Grimm et al. (2003) this local scenario of how the availability of Arp2 / 3 effects the branching rate, has been compared to a global one, in which activated Arp2 / 3 spreads evenly along the leading edge before being incorporated into branches. The local model gave much better agreement with biological measurements of the barbed end distribution (i.e., a rather flat distribution with steep drops at the sides, see below). It should also be noted that the model of this paper and the local model of Grimm et al. (2003) differ in the nature of the nonlinearity in the branching term: in Grimm et al. (2003) it is proportional to \(v/(u+v)\) and \(u/(u+v)\) for the left and right moving family respectively, whilst ours is proportional to \(v/(1+u+v)\) and \(u/(1+u+v)\) respectively. This implies that if locally e.g. u is zero, its branching rate is constant and independent of the number of filaments of the other family, whilst in our model it will be proportional to \(v/(1+v)\). The different shape also has a big impact on the mathematical analysis of the models.
The mathematical description of actin polymerization and in particular modeling of branching and capping events has received a lot of attention. Whilst the model presented in this paper acts only along the membrane, there exist also several models in 2D (e.g., in Maly and Borisy (2001) an emphasis is put on the angle between the filaments and the membrane) and 3D (e.g., in Atilgan et al. (2005) and Schmeiser and Winkler (2015) the interplay between geometry and actin polymerization has been examined).
The description of the filament end density is complemented by two types of biologically interesting boundary conditions: periodic boundary conditions describe cells, which are surrounded by a lamellipodium. This situation typically appears for stationary, or almost stationary cells. Dirichlet boundary conditions, i.e. zero influx of right moving filaments at the left, and left moving filaments at the right, are appropriate when referring to cells, where the lamellipodium is located only on one side. Examples for both cases are several types of fibroblasts (see Small et al. 2002; Yam et al. 2007; Mogilner and Keren 2009 an references therein). The best studied cell type for both situations, however, are keratocytes due to their persistent movement and regular shape (Small et al. 1995; Vallotton et al. 2005).
The mathematical analysis presented shows, that if the branching rate is small compared to the capping rate, in particular if \(\alpha =\kappa _\text {br}/ \kappa _\text {cap}<1\), the densities of both filaments will converge to zero. On the other hand if \(\alpha \) is large enough, the model will converge exponentially to a stable, non-zero density distribution. This is biologically very relevant, since for the cell types under discussion, especially keratocytes, the actin distributions observed were often very stable over time. This suggests that the actin distribution obtained are determined by the cell's internal biochemical state and will return to its original shape after perturbations. Comparing this to moving keratocytes, where most data is available, the parameter values available in literature, suggest \(\kappa _\text {br}\) to be of the order of tens of \(\mu m/s\) and \(\kappa _\text {cap}\) to be of the order of tenths to a few \(\mu m/s\) (see Grimm et al. 2003; Pollard et al. 2000), i.e., these cells are always in the regime leading to stable, non-zero filament densities. As to the shape of the distribution itself, Fig. 5 shows the outcome of a simulation of the model using Dirichlet boundary conditions and a constant lateral flow rate (see the caption of Fig. 5 for parameter values). The (non-scaled) lateral flow speed has been chosen to be consistent with the lateral flow of a filament having an angle of \(35^\circ \) with the leading edge in a cell moving at \(15\,\upmu \mathrm{m}\)/min, a typical speed for keratocytes (Small et al. 1995). The distribution depicted shows qualitative agreement with density distributions measured along the leading edge which were reported in Grimm et al. (2003), i.e., a rather flat distribution with a steep drop at the sides. It should be noted that also other, less flat density distributions have been observed (Keren et al. 2008), which are also reproducible with our model. Future experimental results, both in terms of determining rate constants and measuring barbed end densities, are necessary to help further validate the model.
The positivity result presented in Proposition 2 suggests a mechanism of how a cell can recreate a full lamellipodium from a small number of filaments, a situation which has been observed experimentally, for example in the context of intracellular wound healing (Vinzenz et al. 2012).
Mathematically the stability result of Theorem 1 answers the question of long-term behavior, however under the premise that a non-trivial steady state exists. This was only proven for constant lateral flow [for (PBC) and (DBC)] and for almost constant lateral flow speed [for (PBC)]. For both types of boundary condition the existence of a non-trivial steady state larger than and near the bifurcation value \(\alpha _0\) is a consequence of the bifurcation results of Proposition 4. Even though the existence of non-trivial steady states for all \(\alpha >\alpha _0\) and non-constant lateral flow is likely, it remains to be proven. Finally, also the expected (exponential) convergence to zero for Dirichlet boundary conditions for \(\alpha \in [1, \alpha _0]\) is left for future work.
Open access funding provided by University of Vienna. This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the doctoral school Dissipation and Dispersion in Nonlinear PDEs (Project W1245) as well as the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (Project LS13/029). The authors are grateful to J. Vic Small for many hours of discussions and for the permission to use the drawing in Fig. 1.
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In the first shipment you are given two skeins of yarn, one red and one white and instructions on how to put two scarfs together using either crochet or knitting. This is the white one which is called a "Ruffled Scarf" it was actually not only easy to make I was able to put it together pretty quickly. The stunning little girl modeling my scarf is my daughter who is 9 whom I call "Shortie".
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(New Zealand 1970 - Present)
In music magazine Hot Licks (no.19 1975) Mark Williams explained his easy-going, working relationship with Alan Galbraith, his HMV producer:
"Alan sent up a whole lot of material and I had a listen through them and picked out which ones I wanted to do and which ones I didn't. And the ones I didn't want to do we did."
Already, at the age of 21, Williams was intent on leaving the country. "I don't want to stay in New Zealand much longer, basically because I want to learn a lot." Williams had found that being a "star" in his homeland was not all fun. His version of "glam" – he has since called "drag" – "The reaction was either absolute adoration or total disgust. Complete opposites. I was very scared of what it created. That's one of the reasons I left New Zealand, because it was just too scary."
When RipItUp spoke to Williams in 1977, Alan Galbraith, the record producer had taken on the role of manager and reiterated the need to move on – "If we're going to stay in these pubs much longer, we're all going to die." Galbraith was critical of NZ talent managers, "All they are is booking agents." The producer is probably referring to old school managers like Lew Pryme who discovered Williams playing in Dargaville band Face. After booking Face, Pryme encouraged Williams to leave the band and appear as a resident singer on the 1974 TV pop show Free Ride.
Williams did not record another album until Life After Dark in 1981. The CBS album made no impact on either side of the Tasman.
In 1990 Williams returned to the charts on both sides of the Tasman with the single 'Show No Mercy' for Albert Productions, under the direction of Vanda & Young. The single was released under both his band's name Boy Rocking and his own name, reaching the chart position of No.9 in both countries, and was chosen to launch the 1990 Rugby League Grand Final. The single gave him unprecedented national exposure and went platinum.
Mark then released the LP 'ZNZ' in the same year as a follow up to his first Australian album 'Life After Dark', the albums being released 10 years apart. The album reached number 44 on the National Australian Charts and a second single, "Fix of Love"/"Your Love", was released but didn't fare as well, reaching number 37. A third and final single, "Spell Is Broken"/"Fool No More", failed to chart.
During the 1990s Williams would combine trips home to see family with a booking at Auckland's Sky City Casino bar, fronting a band that included funky bass player Max Stowers. The singer would perform his hits but also excelled on Stevie Wonder's 'Master Blaster (Jammin')', Bob Marley's 'Is This Love?' and Aretha Franklin's live arrangement of 'Love The One You're With'. [extract from Audio Culture]
Since 2005 Williams has been the lead singer for Todd Hunter's reformed Dragon touring both Australia and New Zealand.
The Vanda & Young Connection
The Vanda and Young hit machine had enough energy left for one last hurrah. It was 1990 and Harry and George had a batch of songs ready to go, including one called "Show No Mercy", which they had earmarked as a single. All it needed was the right voice.
Auckland-born singer Mark Williams once had a No. 1 hit with a Vanda/Young song way back in the 1970s. "Yesterday was Just the Beginning of My Life" is considered a classic in New Zealand to this day. The 1980s were relatively quiet for Mark, who was living and working in Australia and providing backing vocals for Renee Geyer, Tim Finn, Jenny Morris and lan Moss. His claim to fame during this period was as the voice behind the theme for the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away.
A second album, 'Mind Over Matter', was released in 1992. As they had done with John Paul Young years earlier, Vanda and Young encouraged Williams to contribute some songs to this album. The Vanda/Young single, "We Can Dream", was inspired by the Rodney King race riots in Los Angeles. Disdain for world leaders had been a regular theme in their songs over the years: "The leaders all will one day understand, and they oughta understand."
Williams found Vanda and Young to be hard taskmasters but great teachers: "They pitched the songs so high for me that I used to get terrible headaches. Then I had to go and do it live! It was all very driving, very high and very hard. They encouraged me to write and taught me what you have to do to stay in the industry." [extract from 'Vanda & Young:Inside Australia's Hit Factory' by John Tait, 2010 p200-201]
This post consists of FLACs and MP3's (320kps) ripped from CD and includes full album artwork. Note that the vinyl release of this album is somewhat rare and I have yet to sight a copy. As a bonus I have also included the 'extended' version of "Show No Mercy" which was also ripped from CD.
Although not my favourite NZ artist and still respect Mark for his achievements and consider this album to be his best release.
One interesting fact that I discovered while researching this post is that Mark Williams sang the theme to Home And Away (Aussie TV series), along with Karen Boddington, released in 1989.
See below
01 Show No Mercy 4:21
02 Fix Of Love 3:44
03 Spell Is Broken 4:07
04 Heavy Woman 4:12
05 Good Thing 4:12
06 Love Electric 3:45
07 Shanghai Lily 4:34
08 You're So Cool 3:04
09 Feel For The Night 4:01
10 Fool No More 3:32
11 Show No Mercy (Extended Version) 7:39
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This classic SF novel was first published in 1953 and is still in print, a testimony to John Wyndham's ability to create pleasantly chilling scenarios. His calm, matter-of-fact tone is perfect for relating catastrophic events.
In this book, ETs have arrived on earth and taken up residence in the deepest parts of the ocean. Soon ships begin disappearing, then coastal raids take place. Finally the glaciers and ice-caps start melting. London floods and Parliament is forced to relocate. Compounding the problem are inept governments, misguided newspapers, and befuddled scientists.
Through it all a husband-and-wife team working for the English Broadcasting Company provide a sane and steady perspective, especially when society begins falling apart. Their breezy and intelligent conversation helps carry the book through the slow buildup to disaster.
Wyndham's books are the equivalent of cosy English murder mysteries, perfect for summer reading.
1965 CBC radio adaptation (downloadable)
Kraken book sculpture
Kraken Rum
More Tales of a Ruined Earth
The Last Man by Mary Shelley 1826
The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel 1901
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart 1949
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 1951
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 1959
Davy by Edgar Pangborn 1964
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban 1980
The Postman by David Brin 1985
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2003
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006
A few that I've particularly enjoyed:
Daybreak - 2250 AD by Andre Norton 1952
On the Beach by Nevil Shute 1957
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. 1960
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard 1962
Ariel by Steven R. Boyett 1983
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson 1985
Cloud Master by David Mitchell 2004


text: This is weird... I have begun tagging all my new movies with MetaX as I add them to iTunes. Now on some movies, tv's "My Movies" listing shows several copies of the same movie. In other words, after adding my rip of Ratatouille into iTunes, the tv list shows "Ratatouille" 10 times! Some movies only appear once in the list, while others are duplicated. I can't figure this out. Never happened before I started using MetaX. Anyone else have this issue? Is MetaX to blame, or just a coincidence?


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Whether singing along softly, cruising quietly in the car, or lulling to sleepy slumber, this is the perfect way to share your music with your little one.
Familiar baby sounds like vibraphones and music boxes are paired with a full medley of rich, classical instruments including strings, woodwinds, pianos, harps and soft percussion. Together, these instrumental arrangements create gentle textures that are calming and enjoyable to ears of any age!


text: What happens to people displaced from countries that don't exist? Those displaced from ISIS- or Donetsk People's Republic (DNR)-controlled territories have had to confront this very question. They are, as a technical matter, categorized as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) rather than refugees, due to international non-recognition of the states from which they have been displaced; and as such, these individuals have been particularly affected by the lack of consensus on how to deal with IDPs. The experiences of individuals displaced during now-frozen conflicts following the fall of communist regimes in the Balkans and Caucasus suggest that they are unlikely to enjoy many of the legal protections afforded to refugees. The combination of a weak international legal regime to govern IDPs and de jure states' political disincentives to integrate them suggests that they will not enjoy such protections until either a legally binding IDP regime is developed or the frozen conflicts become resolved.


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We saw THE SHAPE OF WATER tonight. This fine film is the overall-best del Toro film I've ever seen. His films are always rewarding but this one is the best-balanced, the best paced, the most effective. It only cost 20 mil to make and it's in limited release right now but it'll be a success for him and will get many award nominations. Sally Hawkins is superb in this as the mute girl who encounters a strange creature trapped in a secret govt lab–a creature which, yes, was probably in part inspired by the Creature from the Black Lagoon. And there is a line in the film that seems an homage to that movie. But this isn't some kind of sequel concept or reboot of Creature from the BL. This is a branch, an offshoot, a volunteer growth with a life of its own. It is its own movie. It's not at all dependent on that film. It's a way better film too (though actually the C from the BL is a damned good movie of its kind).
THE SHAPE OF WATER shows us once more that an auteur with a good vision is always way better than a lot of creatures from the green-fixated studio–always better than a movie under significant studio control. del Toro co-wrote and directed and it's a seamless vision. There are a couple of dream sequences, in a sense, and a surreal quality that never is too heavy handed. There's just enough of it…I don't want to say too much because it'd risk spoilers. There are surprises in the story, and there are things that probably play out the way you thought they would, but this film has no shortage of suspense, you'll probably never feel bored. Unless of course you have no goddamn heart…I'll just finish by saying that sometimes I thought of the French movie Amelie, oddly enough, but it reminds me more of the better Tim Burton films except this does human feeling, suffering, romance, far better than Burton could. Oh and actually all the actors in this are really, really good.


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On Sunday, May 13, 2018, guest pastor Joselo Mercado preached the message "God is Our Refuge" from Psalm 46 as a short break from our current series, re:creation. Below are a few discussion questions for Community Group or personal study this week. To listen to the message again, visit our Audio Resources page.
Discussion Questions:
1. How is God calling you to radically trust in Him? What are your life's problems? How can we look above our problems to the Lord?
2. What is the difference between lamenting and complaining? Are you ever tempted to complain? What truths from this Psalm do you need to hunker down on in your heart?
3. Are you tempted to craft "worse-case-scenarios" in your mind when facing trouble? Is this glorifying to God? Why not?
4. How have you seen the nearness of God in difficult times in your life or in the lives of others you are close to? Is that nearness present even when you can emotionally "feel" it?
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The label's cofounder has invited Fumiya Tanaka and Spacetravel to spin at Closer.
Fri, 19 May 2017
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Ricardo Villalobos, Zip and DBX are among the acts billed for the August session.
Tue, 24 May 2016
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The likes of Dasha Rush, Robert Hood and Daniel Bell will also perform at the three-day July event.
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Off to Detroit this weekend? Check out our picks for the best of what goes on outside Hart Plaza.
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The ISNISNT party next weekend will also feature sets from Heartthrob and Jason Kendig.
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The Canadian festival has Andy Stott, Rrose, James Holden and more playing its "back to the roots" 16th edition.
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The Berlin-based expat will return to his native shores for seven gigs this month and early next.
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Mangoes 'good for the heart'
EATING mango is good for the heart and stomach of older women, according to a new study. Researchers found that two servings of mango a day had beneficial effects on systolic blood pressure among healthy post-menopausal women.
Mangos can improve heart health
Eating mangoes helped relax blood vessels in as little as two hours, according to the study.
And some of the participants showed favourable changes in the production of breath methane, an indication of the potential influence on gut fermentation.
Lead researcher Doctor Robert Hackman, of the University of California, Davis, said: "This is the first study to demonstrate positive vascular effects of mango intake in humans.
"Our results build on previous animal and cell studies that point to the potential benefits of mangoes to promote health."
Mangoes contain a mix of polyphenols – including mangiferin, quercetin, gallotannins, and gallic acid – that have been the focus of previous investigations exploring the potential health-protecting properties of the fruit.
For the new study, 24 healthy postmenopausal women consumed 330 grams (two servings) of mango daily for 14 days.
The honey mango, or Ataulfo, was chosen for the study due to the high concentration of polyphenols in it.
After 14 days of eating mango, the study participants resumed their normal daily diet but eliminated mango intake for 13 days.
Measurements were taken during each visit, including heart rate and blood pressure, blood samples and breath samples, which are increasingly used in nutrition studies to evaluate gut health status.
"Our results build on previous animal and cell studies that point to the potential benefits of mangoes to promote health."
At the start of the study, blood pressure was not significantly different between the study visits.
But once mango was consumed, systolic blood pressure was significantly lower two hours afterwards.
Pulse pressure was also significantly reduced two hours after eating mango, according to the researchers.
Systolic blood pressure - the upper number in blood pressure readings - indicates how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls when the heart beats.
Pulse pressure is the difference between systolic and diastolic (bottom number) in blood pressure readings. Pulse pressure can be used as an indicator of heart health.
Mangos have been shown to improve heart health
Breath levels of hydrogen and methane were measured, which reflect the amount of those gases that were produced due to microbial fermentation in the intestinal tract.
Dr Hackman said some study participants produced hydrogen, some produced methane, and others produced both gases or neither of them.
Six of the 24 participants produced methane, and of these six, three shown significant reduction after eating mango.
The researchers concluded that mangoes may be a heart-healthy fruit that may help play a role in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The research, which was supported in part by funds from the National Mango Board in the US, was presented at the American Society for Nutrition's annual meeting, Nutrition 2018, in Boston.


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The Hesperia Trojans capped off a winning season with a national championship title.
On Nov. 26, four Trojan football teams played in the National Youth Football Championships in Las Vegas. A merged team of 10- to 13-year-olds made up of five members of the Trojans' Pee Wee team and 18 members of Jr. Pee Wee team went on to beat the undefeated Sacramento Cougars 18-7, clinching the national title.
"They did a lot of work to get to where they got," said Trojans public relations director Marisol Ramaro. "If you saw those (Sacramento) kids, you'd say there was no way they could beat them."
The all-star team included Brett Brammer, Charles Buckingham, Jake Campbell, Gabriel Cervantes, Johnathan Garcia, Eddie Gleason, Joseph Griffin, Gabriel Hernandez, Hunter Hughes, Jordan Lewis-Green, Ian Martinez, Yasid Marin, Gabriel Mariscal, Rocco Mastandrea, Michael Mendoza, Noah Metzger, Adrian Penagos, Christian Romero, Andrew Ross, Joseph Vicario, Isaac Wilson, Steven Valencia and Justin Villalobos.
They were coached by head coach Robert Brammer and assistant coaches Todd Espindola, Saul Romero and Joe Vicario, assisted by team athletic directors Carol Flodter, Jamie Hughes and Melody Miller.
For more information about the Trojans, visit HesperiaTrojans.com.
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clock watcher
an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
any person who watches the time closely, as in expectation of some news or event.
Origin of clock watcher
First recorded in 1885–90
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Every calendar has two New Year's. The first comes on December 31 with an over-hyped night of long cab rides, middle-shelf booze and questionable choices. It virtually always ends in disappointment.
Then there's August 31, the night before school starts again.
Let's be honest here, you don't have to be a student or a parent to feel the thrill of a new school year. It's almost an ingrained tic, a muscle memory. No matter how many years ago you graduated, each fall still feels like a chance to start anew.
Of course, if you are in school, then there's no "almost" about it. The new semester is here and it's time to start gearing up for campus life again.
Marketers haven't missed this opportunity. Every store seems to run a back-to-school sale in late summer, recognizing the obvious academic need for secondhand kayaks and lessons on the banjolin. You can do without most of the stuff that ads and on-campus kiosks hawk (and absolutely should do without the credit card offers), but there are a few tech offerings that will make the coming school year a lot easier.
Here are five:
E-Book Readers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single college student in possession of a syllabus must be in want of a textbook. And it is a truth also universally acknowledged that those textbooks will cost a bloody fortune.
The price of college textbooks has soared over the past few decades, far outpacing inflation or even the rising costs of tuition. According to one study by the American Enterprise Institute, between 1978 and 2013 the price of textbooks went up by 812%. By now, the College Board estimates that a student will spend over $1,200 per year for textbooks and supplies and, let's be honest, $600 per semester is fairly conservative when individual books can cost several hundred dollars apiece.
This is where the rise of the e-book comes in.
While e-books have numerous drawbacks, such as the fact that you can't take notes in them, they do come with one whopping advantage: they're cheap. Or, at least, they can be. Many digital textbooks cut costs way down, saving students potentially hundreds of dollars per semester.
And, as an added bonus, you won't have to carry 40 pounds of paper anymore. Goodbye, scoliosis.
Portable Charger
Gone are the days when one charge could give you a day's worth of cell phone life. Of course, gone too are the days when your cell phone only operated for phone calls. Today's smart phone is an all-in-one data and media center with battery life that reflects that.
That's no big problem when you're sweating it out in an office, if the phone starts to run low there's always an outlet on hand. When humping it across campus on your back-to-back day, though? If you're lucky maybe you can duck into a Starbucks and find that one table near the outlet, grabbing as much charge as you can while downing a five minute latte.
Realistically, though, your phone will probably die before you get to find out who made Tay-Swift do what. (Full disclosure: this will remain unclear regardless of battery life.)
So solve the problem before it starts. Portable batteries are now commonplace, from the inexpensive keychain models to bricks that will hold their charges for weeks. Grab one, throw it in your bag and be glad you've got it the next time you're between classes and with a phone flashing that angry "10%."
One Cup Coffee Maker
For most college students, one of two things will be true. You will either live in the dorms, dependent on the whims of the cafeteria for all food and beverage, or you will live on your own, dependent on the whims of your own skill for all food and beverage.
Rarely in college does this end well. You see, campus cafeterias tend to drop the ball when it comes to providing round-the-clock access. And the less said about the diet a college student provides for himself, the better.
Here, admittedly, this writer may be showing his own experience, which includes spending undergraduate winters hanging a bucket from the dormitory window as a form of makeshift refrigeration. (Michigan can deliver in a big way.) This, while possibly less than ideal, was certainly an evolution over Plan A, which was to cram hot pockets between the screen and window during heat waves in hopes of discovering a free convection oven.
Nevertheless, as a college student it's generally best not to overestimate your own skills in the kitchen, just as it's best never to underestimate your own need for caffeine.
Enter the solution: the one cup coffee maker.
You will never want for coffee again and never have to worry about fiddling with things like a French press or pour-over. Simply grab a tub of Folgers and a couple of Ikea mugs and you'll have a functionally endless supply of coffee. Perfect for all-nighters.
Noise Cancelling Headphones
Dorms are noisy. This is a fact of nature and no force on heaven or Earth can change that. Cheap student apartments are noisy. This is a fact of campus landlords and only graduating and getting a decent job can get you out of that.
Roommates and neighbors alike can make a terrible racket.
Now, roommates are one of the best parts of school. Wandering into the dorm living room, flopping on the couch and watching bad TV, you'll never have that many friends around again. After all, it's easy to grab a window-cooked hot pocket and watch Most Extreme Challenge with someone just because they're there and it's on.
But once everyone lives in his own apartments scattered across the city? No one takes the subway for 45 minutes just to watch a dubbed Japanese game show.
So, yes, roommates are great… but sometimes you really do need to get back to work. That's where noise cancelling headphones will come in. Avoid picking a fight or getting chased out of your own home by your roommate's X-Box. Just throw these on and get back to work.
It's the best of all worlds.
A Printer
Enjoy these moments, youth of today, because rarely will you ever again hand something in on printed paper. The world is going paperless, and by and large, it's a good thing.
That's not to say everything should switch to pixels. Books and notebooks deserve pages to turn, electronic textbooks notwithstanding. Some pictures belong on your wall in the real world. And there'll always be something about the feel of a printed newspaper in your hands.
All of those reams and reams of paper that get wasted on memos, notes and other at-the-moment communications though? They rarely have a shelf life of more than fifteen minutes and the world is better off putting them in digital form.
Most of your professors will not have caught up with this however. Many, if not most, will want you to turn work in on printed hard copy and not entirely out of affectation either. Work is generally easier to mark up and comment in printed form, and right now all of your work is intended for markup and comment.
So grab a printer. It will make life far easier than trying to sprint across campus to the computer lab before class. Then, honestly, sell it on Craigslist for a six pack of domestic beer at graduation.
The Pilot G2 Gel Pen, Blue Ink, .05 mm
This is the finest pen in the world: .05 mm is the ideal size and writing in blue ink will make your notes pop over black. Trust us. This is exactly the pen you want. No more, no less. (Look hard, though… the.05 mm can be tough to find in blue.)
Now, why do you want a really good pen?
Because laptops are a terrible way to take notes.
One of the most common debates in modern higher education is whether laptops help or hurt student performance, and early evidence is that they substantially harm to student performance. One small study from Northwestern University found that students who take notes by hand outperform their laptop-carrying colleagues by a full four percentage points.
It's not just time spent on Facebook or playing Tetris (although that certainly doesn't help). Transcribing notes by hand requires you to slow down and think about the words as they happen. The slower, more physical act of handwriting requires mental energy that transcribing notes by keyboard does not. A fully engaged student on a keyboard may capture more the professor's words, but he will miss most of the meaning.
Don't do that. Buy a stack of notebooks with your school's emblem on the cover and get as many Pilot G2 .05's as you can carry. It's the best study tip you'll find online.


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5 Stars Excellent
4 Stars Very Good
3 Stars Good
2 Stars Fair
1 Star Poor
|(Da Le) Yaleo
|Love of My Life, featuring Dave Matthews
|Put Your Lights On, featuring Everlast
|Africa Bamba
|Smooth, featuring Rob Thomas
|Do You Like The Way, featuring Lauryn Hill & Cee-Lo
|Maria Maria, featuring The Product G&B
|Corazon Espinado, featuring Mana
|Wishing It Was, featuring Eagle-Eye Cherry
|El Farol
|The Calling, featuring Eric Clapton
|Celebration Day, (unlisted bonus track)
|Carlos Santana, Guitar
|Chester Thompson, Keyboards
|Raul Rekow, Congas
|Karl Perazzo, Timbales
|Tony Lindsay, Vocals
|Benny Rietveld, Bass
|Rodney Holmes, Drums
He did it! Carlos managed to pull together popular artists from diverse genres to record an album that is elegant, spicy and robust while maintaining the refined level of musicianship which Santana fans have come to expect. Guest artists include Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Cee-Lo, Everlast, Wyclef Jean, Mana, Eric Clapton and Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas.
Santana and Rob Thomas Performing The Grammy Winning
Song of the Year
The lively and danceable Yaleo delivers both uplifting vocals and an exceptional instrumental performance. Veteran keyboard man Chester Thompson contributes a rousing and jazzy piano solo and Carlos fires off hundreds of notes on guitar in a style, which harkens back to "Flame Sky" from 1972's Welcome. The Mandrill style horns add the finishing touch. Santana performed Yaleo on national television in June at the ALMA awards.
Do You Like the Way features hip-hop artist Lauryn Hill and singer Cee-Lo. This song is comprised of two distinct parts, which compliment each other and flow together well. In part one Hill delivers a positive and encouraging message in Fugees hip-hop style, but it is Cee-Lo 's soulful work on the second half of this track that embraces and holds the listener. Carlos' work on this piece is masterfully low key, preserving and enhancing the soulful mood.
Santana Timbale Player, Karl Perazzo
Appearing on Supernatural is Carlos' longtime friend and fellow guitar guru Eric Clapton. At this year's Grammy Awards in February, Clapton, who was seated in the front row, could see and hear everything. He was so excited about Carlos's appearance with Lauren Hill that following the show he approached Carlos and asked to be a part of Carlos' next project. That project of course was Supernatural and the song on which Clapton collaborated is The Calling.
Santana and Dave Matthews Performing "Love of My Life"
on VH1's Hard Rock Live
The Calling is a mid-tempo number, which serves as the perfect vehicle for Carlos and Eric to showcase their guitar chops. More specifically, their blues guitar chops. For the first two and a half minutes there is no rhythm section, just Carlos and Eric trading licks. These two masters had very little time to rehearse together. Clapton showed up at the studio with his legendary "strat" in tow ready to jam with Carlos.
The last time I heard Clapton and Santana together on record was on Clapton's, Crossroads, when Santana joined Clapton and his band live onstage to jam on "Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad"? This reunion was long overdue.
In California "Smooth" is burning up the airwaves. On one Friday in early July the DJ at the Zone, 100.5 FM in Sacramento stated that in one hour the station received 25 requests for "Smooth". "Smooth" features two highly stylized voices, that of Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 and that of Carlos on guitar. Carlos' voice on guitar is instantly recognizable on this one. The instrumental portion of this song is high-powered vintage Santana complete with hot percussion. Rob Thomas is more than up to the task. His delivery would interest listeners even if they didn't understand English; it's that appealing and interesting.
Santana Conga Player Raul Rekow
My personal favorite is Wishing it Was, featuring vocalist Eagle-Eye Cherry. The music has a definite Latin swing to it, with Carlos seamlessly weaving in and out and around Eagle-Eye Cherry's delicate vocal delivery. For this song the subtle vocal approach is perfect, coming across a very cool.
The giant Billboard above the Tower Record on Broadway in Sacramento signals the return of Santana to commercial success. That success, by the way, didn't happen by accident. From it's inception Supernatural had the support of music industry heavy weight Clive Davis of Arista Records. In the spring of 1998 Clive Davis of Arista Records was encouraged to come and listen to some of the new things Santana was working on. He immediately liked what he heard and Santana was signed to Arista with the goal of creating a record would bring Santana's music back to the airwaves.
Mission accomplished, Supernatural is already certified multi platinum, with sales exceeding 10 million since in the Summer of 1999. Supernatural is impressive and cohesive despite it's varied components. Certain to win many new converts, while satisfying longtime followers. Five Stars. GG
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In the previous two blogs, we see that a nominal game (i.e. player who makes the last move wins) can be defined as G=(GL|GR) where GL (R resp.) is the set of possible configurations after L (R resp.) makes the first move.
Indeed, we can add two nominal games G=(GL|GR) and G'=(G'L|G'R) together and form a new nominal game. Symbolically, it is
where the sum is defined recursively.
What does it mean exactly? Indeed, we simply put the two games side by side, and at each step, the player can make a move on either game.
What is the effect on the games?
Suppose both G and G' are games that the second player wins.
If the first player moves on G, then the second player moves on G; if the first player moves on G', then the second player also moves on G'. The second player is still the second winner on both G and G' and therefore he wins on both games. In other words, G+G' is still a second player's game.
Suppose both G and G' are games that L (R resp.) wins.
It is trivial that L (R resp.) is still the winner.
Suppose both G and G' are games that the first player wins.
It is a bit more complicated. Consider the following two games:
- G(n) consists of a board with n pieces on it. Two players in term takes a piece from the board. The player who takes the last piece wins.
- G'(n) consists of a board with n piece on it. Two players in term can take arbitrary number (possibly all) of pieces from the board. The player who takes the last piece wins.
G(1)+G(1)=G(2), so the sum of two first player's games can be a second player's game.
G(1)+G'(2) is, however, a first player's game. At the very first move, the first player will take away a piece from G'(2) and the new configuration is G(2) with himself as the second player. Therefore, he wins.
Can you figure out the remaining four cases?


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So my contractor came down with pneumonia and was in the hospital for a week. He was making great progress, and now i know why, at the expense of his health.
Either way, before the pause in the construction, we were just starting the painting, and the tiles. Let me say that picking out colors was more arduous than i expected.
Here are a couple pics i took a few weeks ago, after a snow storm.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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So, today I want to look at the arguments object, again using MDN as my reference.
First of all, note that this is an object, not a function, so no arguments() stuff. Second, it's an object, NOT an array. That's important to remember when using it as well. If you're not clear on the difference, you should review the concept of an array versus an object.
Now, the arguments OBJECT is available within all FUNCTIONS. You can use it to refer to any function's arguments. Now, each entry in the object is referred to like so:
You actually use the word arguments to make this work. Let's say your function is like this:
You would NOT use stuff[0] to refer to the first argument.
You can also, according to MDN, set the value of an argument, like so:
arguments[0] = "this is the value of the 1st argument";
You can also use the length property on the arguments object:
var howLongIsIt = arguments.length;
Now, the idea here is that we don't know how many arguments the function is receiving – there could be one, there could be 10. the arguments object lets us access them all. Now, to do stuff with these arguments, we need to convert the arguments OBJECT to a real ARRAY (remember, I mentioned above that they were NOT the same thing!). To do this, MDN suggests:
var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
The slice function is another "built-in" function in JavaScript that takes part of an array and copies it into another array. We'll talk more about that another time. For now, just go with it and accept that it works.
So, let's say we have a bunch of items that we want to combine into one array. MDN gives the following as an example:
"red", "orange", "blue"
Here's the function to do so:
Let's unpack that. First of all, we're using the function myConcat to make all this happen, and passing it a bunch of items as "separator" instead of as the red, orange, etc.
Next, we use the suggestion from MDN to create an array called args.
Then we use the join function to glue all the items in separator into the array called args, and return that array.
What is our output? Well, it's:
red, orange, blue
And that's the arguments object in action!


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Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans was arrested in South Carolina Saturday evening for disturbing the peace. Evans, 21, was booked into the Horry County jail and then released an hour later. The reality show follows four teenagers struggling with motherhood.
The arrest was made after the Teen Mom 2 reality TV star was reportedly arguing with her boyfriend, Nathan Griffith. The boyfriend allegedly said she locked him out of a house in North Myrtle Beach. Evans' tweet about the incident afterwards said her neighbor was probably calling the cops just to get a story. However, the police returned a second time, after Griffith had climbed into a window of the home and Evans barricaded herself in the bathroom. The police would have left if Evans had not been cursing at them, but they arrested her for disturbing the peace.
This is not the Teen Mom 2 star's only run-in with the law. In 2012, Evans and an ex-boyfriend were arrested on drug and abuse charges after she failed to follow a protective order for domestic violence. Prior to this incident, she had been charged with cyber stalking a previous boss. In 2011, she was arrested for fighting with a woman in a nightclub, an incident that was caught on videotape.
Back in April, Evans was charged with heroin possession and domestic violence in Caswell Beach, N.C. The police was called to her residence after she had a fight with her then-husband Courtland Rogers. During their fight, the Teen Mom 2 star assaulted Rogers with a piece of furniture and he struck her on the neck and head. She was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Evans is currently pregnant with her second child by boyfriend Nathan Griffith, which she announced just weeks ago. Her son, four-year-old Jace, lives with Evans' mother, Barbara, to whom she pays child support. Jace's father is Andrew Lewis. Griffith himself has a two-year-old daughter but he does not have custody of her.
In a recent interview with MTV, Evans said she's been dealing with persistent morning sickness during her pregnancy but is happy about the impending birth. This birth signifies a major turn in her life: ""Now I'm in a stable relationship and I have my own place, my own car, a job…I can pay my bills. I'm just happy with my life right now."
Teen Pregnancy
Teenagers are more likely to dabble in dangerous sexual practices. For example, in a survey of high school students in 2011, nearly 40percent had not used a condom the last time they had sex. Nearly 77 percent had not used birth control or Depo-Provera the last time they had sex, and approximately 15 percent of students had had sex with four or more people in their lifetimes. Those statistics sound like huge numbers, but what was once called an epidemic in America, the teen pregnancy rate, has actually gone down.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website indicates in the year 2011, the births of approximately 330,000 babies were born to mothers between the ages of 15 and 19, a "record low" for mothers in this age group. The reasons for this birth decline are possibly due to more use of birth control and less sexual activity.
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text: Jessica Biel looked incredible in Chanel at last night's Museum of Modern Art 2013 Film Benefit: A Tribute to Tilda Swinton. The all white, the shoulder piece hardware! And as for her eye makeup, is that green I see on the lower lid?? I just knew it. The universe was warning me that it was coming back – I was digging through my old makeup this past weekend and found my blue liner I used to be obsessed with. Doing it. Love the subtle pastel pink lips, as well.


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via Times Free Press
The 1970s saw an emergence of mixing the blues, Southern rock, soul and funk into a natural and impressive sound. Bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Marshall Tucker Band flirted with this sound at times, while groups like The Allman Brothers Band embraced the sound and perfected it.
Over the years, many bands have attempted to pick up the torch and keep it going, and groups like Widespread Panic and the Tedeschi Trucks Band were successful. However, many found it difficult to set themselves apart from imitating their influences and never made their own signature mark on this sound.
So far, The Marcus King Band is not having that problem.
Based out of Greenville, South Carolina, 20-year-old Marcus King leads his young band with his soulful vocals and soaring guitar chops. It doesn't hurt that he has put together a six-piece band of very talented musicians. And it definitely doesn't hurt that the group caught the ear of fellow Southern rock musician Warren Haynes early on, releasing their debut album, Soul Insight, on his label Evil Teen Records. In 2016, Haynes continued to take the band under his wing as he produced their brand-new self-titled album, which was just released Oct. 7. If their powerful single Ain't Nothin' Wrong with That is any indication, the future seems bright for this young band. They have already been named to a few upcoming festivals for the spring and summer, but before that, they will be making their return to the Revelry Room at the Chattanooga Choo Choo on Friday, Jan. 6. This is a great opportunity to see this band up close before they catapult to the next level.
And the setting seems only natural.
New Music Playlist:
Thespian Espionage by The Marcus King Band
These Words by The Lemon Twigs
Rican Beach by Hurray For The Riff Raff
Blow Me Away by Steep Canyon Rangers
Hideaway by Randy Steele
Baby Boy by Childish Gambino
Follow the Leader by Foxygen
Run The Night by Lera Lynn
On Hold by The xx
Shine by Mondo Cozmo
Loose Ends by Jagwar Ma
Foolin' by Andrew Combs
Ladies Don't Play Guitar by Tennis
Time For Love by Mayer Hawthorne
Never Really Mine by Liz Longley
Right on Time by Tedeschi Trucks Band