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Dam Ngak Dzo, Treasury of Pith Instructions
Dzongsar Institute, Chauntra,
Himachal Pradesh, India
17 November 2012 - 27 January 2013
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche will bestow the Dam Ngak Dzo, Treasury of Pith Instructions, the first of five treasuries compiled and structured by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye in the 1800s.
The Dam Ngak Dzo contains the most important teachings of the eight main practicing lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. In order to maintain the vitality of these lineages Jamgon Kongtrul collected the most important of their pith instructions in this Treasury.
These eight teachings are Kadampa teachings, Lamdre (the path with its result) teachings, Marpa Kagyu teachings, Shangpa Kagyu teachings, Shije (pacification) and its branch of Chod teachings, Six Branch Vajrayoga teachings (Jordruk), Three Indestructible Realities, Service and Attainment (Dorje Sumgyi Nyendrub) and other minor teachings, and Dzogchen teachings. Each set of teachings is complete within itself.
Although the Nyingma teachings comes first in the volumes, when Jamgon Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro passed on these teachings they started with the Kadampa teachings since these lay the foundation of Bodhicitta and gave the Dzogchen teachings of the Nyingmapa as the last part. Khyentse Rinpoche will follow this tradition. In the spirit of Rime, the Dam Ngak Dzo is about authentic teachings that are practiced; it is not about religious sects.
Useful information on Dam Ngak Dzo can be found on the Tsadra Foundation - Dam Ngak Dzo website. This link takes you directly to Ringu Tulku's contents of the Dam Ngak Dzo teaching. The book 'Rime Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great' translated by Venerable Ringu Tulku, and the book 'Jamgon Kongtrul - Treasury of Knowledge - Esoteric Instructions' translated and annotated by Sarah Harding, a member of the Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group and a fellow with the Tsadra Foundation, are two other excellent resources.
The Dam Ngak Dzo transmission is open to everyone. There will be simultaneous English translation, and possibly Chinese translation also. Bring an FM radio to receive the translation.
Registration is not required to attend the teachings, however a permit (PAP) to enter Chauntra, a restricted area, is required by all foreign nationals.
More details about the process of applying for a Protected Area Permit are available in this document here.
* This beautiful original painting of Jamgon Kongtrul is courtesy of Cynthia Moku, artist.
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As Hollywood films slow to a trickle in Connecticut, many express regret
GREENWICH --There's still snow on the ground outside the Greenwich Civic Center, but here in the building's old gymnasium it's as hot as Hollywood.
"I'm trying to get Debbie and Dustin in one shot," says Dee Fargo, giddily pointing her smartphone's camera toward a large film set.
Nearby, movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Debra Winger are reciting lines before a collection of lights, cameras and some 200 youth actors -- including Fargo's 13-year-old son, who's playing an extra. It's a key scene in the forthcoming movie "Boychoir," in which a troubled Texas teen gets rescued in the ranks of a prestigious Princeton, N.J., choral group.
Between takes, Hoffman glances Fargo's way, causing her to practically swoon. But she can still only see Winger's back. "C'mon, c'mon, chickey. Walk towards me," she says.
Instead, she reels in a perturbed production staffer. "No photographs!" the man snaps.
Come spring, when "Boychoir" wraps up its filming here, there will be one less chance to catch Hollywood stars on Connecticut turf. Since the state last summer put a two-year hold on a 30-percent tax credit for feature films -- in hopes of bolstering the state's TV and digital media sectors instead -- requests by movie producers to operate here have plummeted, state officials say.
To be sure, "Boychoir" won't be the last act. Nine other movies were cleared for tax credits before the program was edited out of the state budget that began last July 1, but have yet to film. Still, several of those projects will probably never get through fundraising, and others are by comparison low-budget affairs and feature lesser-known talent. The result: Until the moratorium for feature-film tax credits ends in July 2015 -- assuming state officials let it -- the prospect of having Dustin Hoffman step onto a film set near you likely won't be a coming attraction.
Desired effect?
"The phone isn't ringing right now," says George Norfleet, director of the Department of Economic and Community Development's office for film, TV and digital media, when asked to gauge the film industry's interest level in Connecticut. "The legislation has achieved its effect."
That's been fine for the likes of Stamford-based WWE and Bristol-based ESPN, which have both capitalized on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's preference for the small screen by expanding their digital offerings. Yet for many on the set of "Boychoir" -- where staffers are generally clad in plaid shirts, blue jeans and earpieces; and can be found scrambling around the set with microphones and cameras, barking orders like so many skinny football coaches -- there's a sense that Connecticut has given them the boot.
"Now I have to drive all the way to Brooklyn," says Jon Franklin, a 52-year-old medic from Stratford, who in recent years has found steady work treating injuries on Connecticut film sets. With big projects here on the wane, he's taken a job on the set of HBO's "The Knick," which forces him to drive 160 miles round trip each day -- enduring traffic, tolls and more frequent gasoline fill-ups. With a hint of wistfulness, he describes losing his familiar 25-mile trip to Stamford. "I'd like to see the tax credit come back," he says.
Works drops off
So would Will Sepulveda, who operates the "EW Crafty" food-and-beverage service stand with his wife, Eva. Their Portchester, N.Y.-based company has spent a dozen years keeping movie stars, production staff and extras hydrated and fed. Last year, they labored at two movie sets in Connecticut, among other places in the tri-state area, and barely had a day off. This year, Sepulveda had no steady work until "Boychoir" began filming on Feb. 24.
"I hadn't done anything," he says, using his cellphone to call up EW Crafty's resume on the Internet Movie Database. With obvious pride, he scrolls through all 12 feature films his company has serviced in Connecticut -- from "Reservation Road," which filmed in 2007 and starred Joaquin Phoenix, to "And So It Goes," which filmed last summer and starred Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton.
Slumping on a wood table in the center's hallway, as a half-dozen teenage actors swarm his station, Sepulveda shakes his head. "Down to every bottle of water, I have to buy everything in Connecticut," he says. "Who says this isn't bringing money to the state?"
For one thing, politicians are -- or at least they argued last summer that films don't bring enough of it. In defending the move, prominent Republicans and Democrats alike argued that TV and digital media outlets are more likely to create permanent jobs here and actually build infrastructure. By contrast, feature films often entail crews parachuting into the state for just weeks at a time, they said. Indeed, such films have brought the state $504 million in revenue since 2006, according to the DECD, while TV and digital outlets have brought in $997 million.
Of course, not everything is easily priced. And luring out-of-state talent, if only for a few days, has its own currency.
American Boychoir
On the Greenwich Civic Center film set, as a couple dozen teenage boys in sports coats and khakis climb onto a set of low bleachers, an elderly Greenwich woman watching from a doorway expresses dismay. The boys, she's learned, have been bused up this morning from New Jersey.
"Why'd they have to go to Princeton to find a choir of boys in blue jackets?" she asks, declining to share her name with a reporter. "We have several private schools in this town with wonderful boys' choirs of their own."
Once the students of the prestigious American Boychoir School start singing, though, the woman's face lights up. It lights up even more when Dustin Hoffman himself strolls past, causing the woman to reach back in her memory to the actor's 1967 film "The Graduate."
"Yoo hoo!" she calls out, as Hoffman prepares for what could be one of his final takes in Connecticut for at least a while. "Where's Mrs. Robinson?"
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I have a Model 12 without a busboard for more than a year now.
I never succeeded in finding a card cage and bus board for this computer.
At last I decided to build one myself.
At first I found someone who sells the bus connectors as a start.
There was no schematic available of the board, but with studying
the Model II and Model 6000 schematics I found all I need for this job.
Asking Pascal to draw the gerbers, he was in for help and is drawing them now.
The project exists of a PCB with 3 bus slots and two flatcables with 40 wires each
to connect to the motherboard. The termination of the lines is done.
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In this mode K1, K2, K3 follow the connector on the motherboard, the video card stays on his place.
There will be a second option, see this picture.
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How far is the project.
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Accidentally in Love
So she said "What's the problem baby?" What's the problem? I don't know Well, maybe I'm in love I think about it every time I think about it Can't stop thinking 'bout it Hello- My name is Jacob Black. It was Jacob Black, for animals do not own names. I have a story. But you won't like it, for it is sad and I have heard that people are fond of happy stories nowadays. Sometimes I wonder what life would have been life if I had never met her. But I quickly dispel that thought because life without love is not worth living. Technically, I should not have ever loved her. She was a daughter of my Enemy and a child of Once Loved. Yet, I did love her and it is too late to change any of that. I think I am dying. I place my pen to the paper one last time...
Chapter 7 is UP! This story used to be call 'Fire to Ashes'
Okay this story was once called, "Fire to Ashes" Please review! Only 14 people have reviewed yet, It did make me sad:( The plot is this- Jacob meets Bella's Child who he falls in love with. She dosn't love him though:( But when she does fall in love with him some one else come's in. Someone who loves her. Someone who will stop at nothing too get what he wants. Can he survive it all?
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"Alice?" A inquisitive voice echoed though the
dense forest. "Alice, where are you?"
The girl, Alice, giggled and ignored it. She spun into trees, light footfalls barely crinkled the leafs beneath her. Autumn leaves were fell around her, a whirlwind of colors. A rain sat alight on her nose before being washed away by other. She wrinkled her nose, a musty smell of dander and mold drifted toward her. Alice took no notice of it, the smell was just another smell in such a place. Scampering up a hefty-sized oak, she gazed at the world around her. The sights, the sounds! It was like one who was blind, then saw the light of day for the first time. It was like that, for Alice had heard all to much about the place. The town of Forks was just like what her mother described, the green that was almost over-rated, the rain that tinkled down her back. Alice perched perilously, wind threatening to tear her to the ground like so many leaves before her. She wobbled once, then sprung from the branch ran into the forest. Laughing, twisting and turning, tree after tree, only to be dodged at the last moment, spinning though out the woods.
"Ahh-!"Only the smallest shout managed to escaped before a coarse hand enclosed her mouth. The new rough hand wormed it's way around her neck,
"Hush, you worm-bitten parasite!" The violent whisper was as rough as the hands.Alice struggled with the hand, squirming and twisting. When the hold did not loosen, she became worried. What if all her mothers legends had been true? What if there were werewolves in this forest? Should she be happy, or sad?
"I'm no vampire!" He twirled Alice around with one easy twist of the hand.
"Impossible! No human is this strong!""No!," She strode to cover the nervousness that leaked out. "Look at my eyes! If I'm a vampire, then how come are my eyes green!"
I studied her emerald eyes. They were the deepest green, flecks of gold and brown speckled them. I reeled back, shocked. She looked too much like Bella. Her heart-shaped face, that deep brown hair, but she had something that Bella never had. An air, a sense of confidents.
"What?" The girl swished her hair defiantly, grapping my wrist. "No, Alice. And what is your name, pup, before I kill you?"
I began to phase, though I didn't mean too. Alice would have killed me in a second, but the sight of her bronze highlights amongst the chocolate brown hair reminded me why I was so irritated at the world. I saw red and a tingle ripped down my spine. I felt the skin being pushed under as hair became to spring up. In almost a second there was no Jacob Black, only a wolf. I wrapped my jaws around her neck before Alice could run. Her strong arms pressed against my head, trying to push me away. I tighten my grip, teeth puncturing her skin. Warm, hot blood poured down my throat. I threw her down, casting her aside.
"You bleed!"
"Really! How did you know that humans bleed! Did this tip you off?" With saying these words Alice wiped her hand down the long gash, throwing the blood at me. Alice stood up and ran. That was her plan anyway, after standing up her leg collapsed beneath her. A vampire that bleeds? Is it even possible? She had to be a vampire, no humans had such pale skin, such strength!
"No! Alice! What are you doing to her!?!" The voice was so familiar… I slowly turned. To see the shocked face of Edward Cullen. I was well aware that my jaw had dropped. I could feel it scrapping the ground floor. Edward ran over to the limp girl. He bent down a kissed Alice on the neck lightly. I froze, was he sucking out her life-blood as I watched? Was he kissing her? Does that mean he left Bella? Reached down into a small pouch by the tick's side. Edward took the contents in his hands and began to spread them on the frail girl.
"Damn, that itches!" Alice had sat up, massaging her leg. Making sure they were no other cut on her, Edward turned towards me. He held his palms upright, as if approaching a criminal.
"Look, wolf. We mean you no harm." This was not Edward! He was too young, his voice too boyish. His hair wasn't as red, his eyes not entierly gold.
"Ha!" The girl laughed, "Not anymore!"
"Please excuse her, she has a bit of a temper." Alice yelped again, and the boy leaned down to help her. I took the opportunity to examine Alice closer. I stared back into her eyes and then the world stopped. Nothing else mattered. She was gravity, pulling me in. She was perfect.She had pale skin, pale enough to be mistaken for a vampire. Her hair had more gold in it then I had noticed before. She was wearing a cream-colored skirt, a small pink poodle at one side. The poodle had a leash that wound up her thigh and onto a manila silk blouse which ruffled in the wind. I think I had remembered seeing another outfit like this in an old movie. A poodle skirt it was called.
"Shoot!" Alice had one side of the skirt in her hand. A long rip extended up the side. "Now I'm going to have to take it back to Peter's and I know he will have a waiting list the length of Hell!"
I blinked at her blankly. Peter's? "You are part of the Quiluete pack?" The boy asked me.
"What's it to you?" I studied him warily.
"Could you give this to Jacob White?" The boy held out a note.
"Jacob Green!" Alice yelled in."It was Jacob Green."
"I'm sure it was White."
"Black!" I cut in.
"What?" They asked in chorus. "Black, my name is Jacob Black"
"You're Jacob Black?" The boy sounded incredulous.
"That explains a lot!" Her laugh was harsh.
"Alice..." He reprimanded her. He twisted my way, "Sorry, we haven't even been properly introduced yet! I'm Jacob and this is my twin, Alice Cullen."
"Cullen?'" Bella's children? Mabye they were the Blonds kids? Please?
"Bella's you're mother?"
"Yes, Edwards our father." I grimmiced. Ouch.
"Sis..." He began to walk away, "Sorry, we will be leaving now."
"Wait a moment!" But they were gone. I sat on the ground and opened the note,
Jacob ,
You may have imprinted, you may hate me with
all my heart but I need to see you. Edward
argees that you should come and visit, I
have sent this letter with my children,
Alice and Jacob. We named Jacob after you.
Please try not to attack them, they are only
half-vampire. I am a vampire now, but
please come! You will always be my best
friend, no matter how you stink,
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text: Sure, the 2008 Chevy Malibu's selling better than the last model, but it's still an orgasm of mid-size mediocrity like everything else in the class of cars that include the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and the Ford Fusion. Sure, the Nissan Maxima may be somewhat sporty, but nobody's going to confuse it with a GT-R anytime soon. But, it looks as though the latest car-star to hit the big screen in the next Transformers movie's going to be none other than the General's budget brand's middling mediocregasm. True, this Malibu's decked out in all sorts of fancy Chinese characters, so we're expecting it to play less of a transforming role and more of a background role as Transformers 2 begins filming in Bethlehem, PA. But whatever, let's not take too much away from this be-stickered new Malibu. We're sure he's already feeling envious of his Chevy brother picking up all that hot robogasmic action, no sense in beating his already battered self-esteem any further. One more shot of the not-so-much-transforming 2008 Chevrolet Malibu after the jump.


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Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years
When scientists struggle with a problem for over a decade, few of them think, "I know! I'll ask computer gamers to help." That, however, is exactly what Firas Khatib from the University of Washington did. The result: he and his legion of gaming co-authors have cracked a longstanding problem in AIDS research that scientists have puzzled over for years. It took them three weeks.
Khatib's recruits played Foldit, a programme that reframes fiendish scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game. It taps into the collective problem-solving skills of tens of thousands of people, most of whom have little or no background in science. Here's what I wrote about Foldit last year:
The goal of the game is to work out the three-dimensional structures of different proteins. Proteins are feats of biological origami; they consist of long chains of amino acids that fold into very specific and complicated shapes. These shapes can reveal how proteins work, but solving them is fiendishly challenging. To do it, scientists typically need to grow crystals of purified protein before bouncing X-rays off them.
Foldit takes a different approach, using the collective efforts of causal gamers to do the hard work. And its best players can outperform software designed to do the same job. Best of all, you don't need a PhD to play Foldit. Barely an eighth of the players work in science, and two-thirds of the top scorers have no biochemistry experience beyond high school. The controls are intuitive; tutorial levels introduce the game's mechanics; colourful visuals provide hints; and the interface is explained in simple language. While protein scientists concern themselves with "rotating alpha-helices" and "fixing degrees of freedom", Foldit players simply 'tweak', 'freeze', 'wiggle' and 'shake' their on-screen shapes.
Foldit's success relies on the fact that it doesn't shallowly flirt with interactivity – it's a true game. Its creator Seth Cooper designed it to "attract the widest possible audience… and encourage prolonged engagement". It's competitive: players are scored based on the stability of the structures they end up with and a leader board shows how they rank against other gamers. There's also a social side: gamers can chat on online forums, work in groups to solve puzzles and share solutions on a wiki. And just like real game development, everything was tuned according to feedback from the players. Tools were added and refined, the difficulty of the tutorials was tweaked to stop frustrated beginners from leaving, and puzzles were matched to the skills of the players.
There's the thrill of contributing to genuine scientific research, but that motivates less than half of the community. The rest do it for the achievement, the social aspects and largely, because the game was fun and immersive.
Foldit's origins lie within Rosetta, a piece of software designed to solve protein structures by simulating and testing thousands of different folds. Rosetta is an example of ' distributed computing', where volunteers run the program on their home computers when they don't need it. They effectively donate their computing power to speed up the laborious task of solving protein structures. But the volunteers wanted to use their biological computers – their brains – as well as their man-made ones. They suggested an interactive version of the programme and in May 2008, they got their wish with Foldit.
Last year, Cooper showed that Foldit's gamers were better than the Rosetta programme at solving many protein structures. They used a wide range of strategies, they could pick the best places to begin, and they were better at long-term planning. Human intuition trumped mechanical number-crunching.
This year, Khatib wanted to see if the Foldit community could solve fresh problems. He entered the players into a twice-yearly contest called CASP (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction), where structural biologists from all over the world compete to predict the structures of proteins that have almost been solved. They get the best predictions from Rosetta to begin with. Then, they're on their own.
Khatib's gamers, bearing names such as Foldit Contenders Group and Foldit Void Crushers Group, had varying degrees of success in the contest. In many of the categories, they did reasonably well but they couldn't match the best groups. They weren't as good at using the structures of similar proteins to tweak the ones they were working on. They could also head down dead ends if they started at the wrong place. In one case, their strategy of refining their starting structures to the best possible degree led to one of the "most spectacular successes" in the contest. But mostly, they focused too heavily on tweaking already imperfect solutions that other teams achieved better results by making large-scale changes.
Learning from that lesson, Khatib stepped in himself. He agitated the initial protein structures in many random ways, to create a wide variety of terrible answers that the gamers could then refine. In their attempts, they came up with the best-ranked answer to the most difficult challenge in the competition.
It was a success, and more would follow. After the competition, the players solved an even more important problem. They discovered the structure of a protein belonging to the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV), a close relative of HIV that causes AIDS in monkeys.
These viruses create many of their proteins in one big block. They need to be cut apart, and the viruses use a scissor enzyme –a protease – to do that. Many scientists are trying to find drugs that disable the proteases. If they don't work, the virus is hobbled – it's like a mechanic that cannot remove any of her tools from their box.
To disable M-PMV's protease, we need to know exactly what it looks like. Like real scissors, the proteases come in two halves that need to lock together in order to work. If we knew where the halves joined together, we could create drugs that prevent them from uniting. But until now, scientists have only been able to discern the structure of the two halves together. They have spent more than ten years trying to solve structure of a single isolated half, without any success.
The Foldit players had no such problems. They came up with several answers, one of which was almost close to perfect. In a few days, Khatib had refined their solution to deduce the protein's final structure, and he has already spotted features that could make attractive targets for new drugs.
"This is the first instance that we are aware of in which online gamers solved a longstanding scientific problem," writes Khatib. "These results indicate the potential for integrating video games into the real-world scientific process: the ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."
Update: Stephen Curry, who works on protein structures, had this to say about the paper: "Credit where it's due: this is certainly an innovative approach to the problem of determining crystal structures of proteins. And I do like the idea of 'citizen science'. Although it's probably questionable how much science the gamers are understanding, the involvement in this sort of research, even if it is just at the level of playing a game, is undoubtedly a good thing."
Curry also points out that a structure for this protein was published in 2003 using a different method called nuclear magnetic resonance. Khatib says that this is "quite inaccurate" and that people have struggled to use it to progress any further, but Curry says that they don't say much about the differences between the old and new structures.
Likewise, Khatib doesn't mention how closely related the M-PMV protease and the HIV ones are. "This information is crucial for deciding whether a structure of M-PMV protease is going to be any use as a template for the design of novel classes of drug targeted to HIV protease. If I had reviewed this paper, I would have asked for that information to be included because it is needed to make sense of observed differences in structure," he says.
Reference: Khatib, DiMaio, Foldit Contenders Group, Foldit Void Crushers Group, Cooper, Kazmierczyk, Gilski, Krzywda, Zabranska, Pichova, Thompson, Popović, Jaskolski & Baker. 2011. Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119
More on Foldit: Foldit – tapping the wisdom of computer gamers to solve tough scientific puzzles
Comments (29)
Just like in Stargate Universe when Eli solved the puzzle for the 9th chevron.
Very nice work, but considering that so many citizen scientists contributed to the solution of the puzzle, I would have expected the journal to make the paper freely available so that many more citizen scientists would have been able to read it. A pity.
nature and "freely available" in one thought always cause a great disturbance in The Force.
Chris: Just what I thought!
Interesting article but the author next time needs to hire an editor. Painful to read. I suggest this brilliant science editor: http://www.soniafulop.com/
This is cool news. The human brain is an amazing machine. It is truly in-credible that both the human brain and the simple molecules of these viruses can be so complex and developed by so many perfect accidents all the time over billions and trillions of years.
I realize it's voluntary, but it sounds awfully much like Matrix to me. Are any of these gamers going to be compensatedweeded–and if the big pharm. companies start using the results?
Very unlikely.
None of the gamers even received credit in the Nature paper despite their input being central to the eventual refinement of the structure.
The gamers ought to be given credit in the nature article, even if only mentioned by their gaming handles. To do otherwise is unscholarly and a borderline crime in academia.
If only problems like the economy, etc. could be solved this way. We need to find ways like this to keep utilizing the collective brain power of vast numbers of people… That's the key to the future.
Many of the problems with the economy have multiple solutions–it's not a matter of figuring out how to fix them. Rather, the issue lies in getting different parties to agree to a common solution, and then putting that plan into effect.
I agree, though, that collective brainpower is the most effective method of solving large-scale problems.
Reminds me a lot of reCAPTCHA! Great idea with beautiful execution!
I have to agree with Ed. The teams were listed by name as well as the varying degrees of success they performed at. If individual acknowledgements are what people feel are missing, it's possible that the entire list of participants would span pages much more numerous than the article itself. Unless it's a special printed edition for that specific event, I don't see any publisher doing that. As for the outstanding individuals who volunteered to take part, I assume it would have been made clear what they would and would not receive for their participation. To volunteer for something and then to be somehow shortchanged or overlooked while your efforts are being utilized doesn't make sense to me. I've worked with lots of volunteers and they generally don't take that stance unless someone else is able to put the idea in their head.
Now if Firas Khatib from the University of Washington would suggest that the business and Polly-sci departments put together a game, Washington Tycoon, we could turn our country around based on citizen-wide, gamer-play.
Just think, no more congress or any need for the fed or any other gov. organizational structure. Just feed the gamers their parameters and let them/us rock!
Run an entire country, AN ECONOMY Man!….the nuclear football, taxation, war, federal and state issues, the postal service, roads, bridges, transportation, foreign policy, CIA, FBI………WOW!!! Turn it over to the people through a game!
Awesome idea!!!
Watch TED video of Jane McGonigal talking about this very use of games… http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
I wonder if the same approach can be applied to high-temperature superconductor -problems? Same kind of optimization algorthms exists for these problems. Adding some human intelligence in the form of Fold It , might present new avenues for researchers to follow.
Yeah … Khatib doesn't really mention that the structure for HIV protease is already known and that structures of protease inhibitors docking with HIV protease has already been published. I love the fact that he exploits HIV hype to promote his own "research". It should be stressed that gamers, although brilliantly, only completed the last mile. Solving protein structures is a little harder than shooting down rockets, dear author.
(PS: Dear, Khatib: How about solving the structures of PrP^c and PrP^sc? )
Too many people are simply writing this off to either "online gaming" or "crowd sourcing." What you also might want to consider, is that this particular group of Foldit players are "naturally talented puzzle/problem solvers", that are fascinated by science. And in this case, this particular group of puzzle solvers seem to be fascinated by structural & molecular biology – not just any science, but specifically, structural/molecular biology!BRAVO to Foldit and this group of puzzle solvers!! What a GREAT story!! Sadly however, it illustrates how many of us are in the wrong role!! "The experts" have been working on this problem for a decade, and the "puzzle solvers" solved the puzzle in 3 WEEKS!!!While I'm confident that "the experts" are very bright and talented, they are clearly NOT "naturally talented puzzle solvers." Either that,, or they're not naturally fascinated by structural/molecular biology… Without knowing them, of course I have no idea if "the experts" should even be in this field, but one could argue that some of them certainly don't seem to be in the right role.. And what about these particular puzzle solvers… What are they doing for work? What fields are they in? What are they naturally most fascinated by? And, are they leveraging their natural talent every day to help solve similar problems? My argument is; when you marry one's Top Natural Talent with their Greatest Natural Fascination, it can lead to great discoveries – In every area of endeavor! Using Einstein as an example, he used his considerable math talent to answer his own most profound questions about space and time. All "The Greats" focused their Top Natural Talent on their Greatest Natural Fascination, to help change the world, and you can to! So let's raise the bar for ourselves and one another; Get in the right role in the right industry to do YOUR BEST WORK! Find your Top Natural Talent and put it to work on your Greatest Natural Fascination!
Fascinating. I have imagined that game can use the computing power of the players' computers but this is a new approach to solving scientific problems.
@greg kellerman, "Now if Firas Khatib from the University of Washington would suggest that the business and Polly-sci departments put together a game, Washington Tycoon, we could turn our country around based on citizen-wide, gamer-play."
We already have that framework in place. It's called "Capitalism".
Unfortunately, the players in another group called "Government" has imposed so many restrictions, taxes and other disincentives on the "Capitalism" group that its citizen-wide creative activities have been stifled, with the economy suffering as a direct result.
It doesn't help that the "Government" group thinks that their function is not to promote the economy, but to support a third group, the "Drones", whose members believe that they deserve life-long support simply for voting some of their more vocal members into the "Government" group, rather than participating in the "Capitalism" group.
Hardly the place to attempt to disguise a right wing diatribe as gaming comment. A more legitimate suggestion would be a game that incentivizes all three corners of our democratic system — capitalism, government, and social justice, to obtain the best possible outcome for all three layers of society: the poor and homeless, the working class, and the wealthy. Now that would be a game worth playing.
@Kim, Im glad you brought up the issue of compensation and credit. Even if it did end up getting dismissed.
It is something that needs to be addressed at some point. We live in a society that believes that "value creators" have the right to profit from that, and this type of "game" does seem to be an exploit of that. Perhaps it will need to be addressed with the gamers, not the people exploiting their gaming, but it should be addressed at some point in some way.
Our economic system is already one that favors heavily those who are adept at exploiting the talent, work, and innovation of others, rather than those who are talented, hard working or innovative, and as a species we do need to ask ourselves if its wise to set up systems that favor exploitation over talent.
We are playing the game of natural selection, after all, and clearly, the exploitative are "winning" on a global scale. Im not sure thats in humanitys best interests in the long run.
I think if gamers want credit for contributing to science then gamers should go to school, get a degree, and do the hard work of becoming a scientist just as every other scientist does. Nobody is stopping them from doing this.
well done! reminds me of an episode on south park. as for the naysayers, complainers and the like: perhaps they should use their time solving problems rather than critiquing those who already have.
Whether or not the structure had already been solved using NMR, this is an interesting method for finding solutions to a fairly complex problem. I appreciate the novelty of its approach, and in fact I feel the full implications have not even been brought to light. Consider this; in order to convince people to work on this problem, a dedicated game had to be created that provided adequate gratification to each player (whether they had the slightest interest in the scientific implications or not), a series of tutorials to train the player how to make modifications to the proteins structure in a way that would yield stable final products, and then unleash the newly trained user on some already solved, more complicated problems to verify that they had properly learned to solve this type of problem. From there, they finally got the opportunity to work on new problems which had not been fully solved previously. This procedure is remarkably similar to another type of problem solving strategy— one that is neither a brute force computational method, nor a sheep herding exercise for gamers. What I'm talking about is using neural networks (which require some sort of fitness function for feedback on their solutions, training data to use so they can adjust to create the proper outputs, and then can be finally used to solve complicated non-linear problems such as these) instead of a collection of gamers with some free time on their hands. Neural networks can be trained specifically for one task, do not need to be convinced of the importance of a problem (or gimmicked into being involved with video game tropes). Furthermore, they can work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and only at the cost of computing power. So, I suppose the main question is what size and depth of a neural network is needed to solve such complicated protein folding problems and therefore how much computational resources would each network require. It's possible though that such problems could more efficiently be solved by a mass of such networks than by the methods described in this paper.
Also, in response to some people saying that the gamers should get more credit or that the gamers seem to be more skilled at solving problems than the scientists in charge, one thing to consider is the fact that someone had to figure out the rules for the game and then create it before the gamers could even touch it. If all it took to be a researcher was to be skilled at solving brightly colored puzzles on a computer screen then it wouldn't require 4 years of bachelor work and 6 years of PhD work (plus post-doc and all that good stuff). That's not to say they aren't skilled, it's just that there are many many other cogs that make this machine work than the final step of brute forcing solutions.
Thus, this could be a god sign that everything has a solution and this game could be a basis in solving scientific problems. Thanks for bringing this wonderful ideas.


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Fajula Rodriguez, a freshman from Olot, Spain, helped McPherson (Kan.) to a 4-0 week with dominant wins over Kansas Wesleyan (9-0), Ottawa (Kan.) (8-1), Central Christian (Kan.) (9-0) and Southwestern (Kan.) (9-0). Fajula Rodriguez went 2-0 at No. 2 singles, defeating Dylon Neal of Central Christian (6-4, 6-3) and Jordan Tompkins of Southwestern (6-0, 6-0). The freshman also stepped up at No. 1 singles, going 2-0 by besting Leo Mendez of Kansas Wesleyan (6-1, 6-0) and fellow freshman Matthew Barlow of Ottawa (6-1, 7-6). Fajula Rodriguez and partner Rafael Bulnes went 4-0 on the week at No. 1 doubles, cruising to wins over the top duos from Kansas Wesleyan (8-0), Ottawa (8-0), Central Christian (8-2) and Southwestern (8-1). Fajula Rodriguez and Bulnes are currently ranked as the No. 13 doubles tandem in the NAIA by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
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2014 Men's Tennis Players of the Week
Week 1 (March 19): Andy Struble, Aquinas (Mich.)
Week 2 (March 26): Antonio Manuel Marcelo, Cumberland (Tenn.)
Week 3 (April 2): Simon Felix, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Week 4 (April 9): Joshua Barnard, Westmont (Calif.)
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Adjusting the antenna
Aiding and abetting a known felon
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Arguing with Henry Longfellow
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Beat the stick
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Beef tips stroking off
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Box with Richard
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Building upper-body strength
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Butter the corn
Calling down for more mayo
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Distributing free literature
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Five knuckle shuffle
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Romeo and himself
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Safest sex
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Secret handshake
Self abuse
Self-induced penile regurgitation
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Spending your Christmas bonus
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Squeezing the happy lumberjack
Stewing in your own juices
Stinky pinky
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Strip-mining with the spaghetti man
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Stroke the mole
Stroke the one-eyed burping gecko
Stroke the satin-headed serpent
Stroke your poker
Stroke your Twinkie
Strumming the one-string harp
Take matters into your own hands
Take part in population control
Take the fifth
Take the monster for a one-armed ride
Taking a few practice shots
Taking a load off
Talk quietly to yourself
Tame the shrew
Taunt the one-eyed weasel
Teaching the Cyclops the lambada
Tease the weenie
Tenderize the tube steak
Tending to your own affairs
Test your batteries
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Thump your thong
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Tickle the taco
Tipping off the inspector
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Toss the turkey
Toss yogurt
Tug the slug
Twang the wire
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Unloading the gun
Unpacking the moving van
Varnish the flagpole
Varnishing the banister
Visiting with Papa Smurf
Wake the dead
Walk the dog
Walk the plank
Walking a mile in Mr. Wiggly's shoes
Wallowing in self pity
Wank with the one-eyed wonder weasel
Wash the meat
Wax the Buick
Wax the carrot
Wax the dolphin
Waxin' n' Milkin'
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Whack the weasel
Whack Willy
Whip the dummy
Whip the one-eyed trouser snake
Whip the one-eyed worm
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Whip the wire
Whip up some sour cream
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Whittle the stick
Wiggling your walrus
Windsurf on Mount Baldy
Wonk your conker
Work things out
Working at your own speed
Working late at the office
Working up a foamy lather
Working without Annette
Wrestle the dragon
Wrestle the eel
Wrestling with the bald champ
Wring out your rope
Wrist aerobics
Yank the crank
Yank the yo-yo
Yank your plank
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But this comic, I am pleased to say, has so many other flaws that I am happy to overlook the same tired old "woman breaking up with dude" thing that I'm so sick of. The problem is the joke here, if you want to call it that, is such a tired old gag that I hardly believe Randall stooped to it. The one that jumps to mind is Krusty The Clown trying and failing to look like he's appearing in a puff of smoke in Treehouse of Horror 9, story 2. Youtube is being uncooperative but it's there somewhere, I tell you. And it's close to this.
Moving on: Even if the window had opened, the man doesn't even try to run. He just stands there, kind of floats backwards with these wiggly lines (where do I remember those from?), and then he kind of calmly tries the window, fails, and stands there. I was at least expecting to see the awkward moment afterward but we don't get to see the consequences so it feels like only part of the story.
There's also no energy. Besides the third panel, there's hardly any movement and it's all careful and slow. This situation completely calls for hectic energy and being insane but it's just not there.
On so many levels, this comic disappoints.
extremely late update: Also, it turns out the Simpsons did it - the fortune teller at the very end of Lisa's Wedding also drops some kind of smoke device, but when the smoke clears, she's still sitting there, looking tremendously awkward. Guess it's kind of an obvious joke, huh?


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On noting that a husband's chummy female colleague is single:
Believe it or not, we single women are not perpetually on the prowl for other women's husbands.
If a spouse's co-worker is crossing boundaries, then she's crossing boundaries, whether she is married, single, in a polygamous relationship, dating around, dating a box turtle, or whatever.
That she is single is beside the point, and to assume the risk level goes up, because she's single is an insult to single people. Just had to get that off my (voluptuous, Jessica Rabbit-esque, husband-stealing) chest.
On protecting young children from germs:
I still watch little kids with shock and awe when they do my favorite urky thing -- running their hands all the way along any handrail, escalator rail, wall, row o' spittoons that they encounter at hand-running level, in any of our planet's finest sinkholes, then on faces, PBJ's, etc. And no one ever got cholera in my household, astonishingly.
My second-favorite "watch what happens" involves those rope-line things in banks, pharmacies, airports, etc. I believe I've seen maybe one or two little girls who don't swing on 'em (20 percent?) but that's OK, the other girls and 130 percent of little boys will: unfasten them, try to do gymnastics on them, refasten them, and if it is your own child, knock over the one closest to the person in the air-cast who is waiting for his pain-pill script. Onto said person.
On one of the many fantastic reasons to get over yourself by the time your children reach adulthood:
My sister was the first grandchild and therefore golden, and I was the disappointing second girl. My parents were adamant that two children was the limit barring any accident, so there was never a grandson to carry on the family name and it was my fault for being born the wrong sex.
I give great credit to my parents, my mom especially, for teaching me to respect my grandmother but to see the ridiculousness in her attitude, understand it was her problem not mine, and not take her rejection to heart. My grandmother was a very difficult person in many ways, and while we were not cut off completely, the visits were infrequent and often short.
As we got older, my sister became more aware of the favoritism and she often would get more incensed about it than I did, and it spoiled the good relationship they had.
My grandmother has been dead many years now but it still saddens me to think how her bitterness drove a wedge between her and her only two grandchildren, and how lonely she must have been.
-- Anonymous
On relatives who blow off your kids:
We all tend to be very protective of our kids, rightly so. But I always told my kids that not everyone will like them and they will not like everyone, that's life, and they need to attempt to be polite. I would just caution parents not to influence their children to think ill of absentee relatives, and to just lighten up a bit.
-- Been-There-Done-That Mom


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Curious George "Trader George/One in a Million Chameleon" Trader George - George has a new hobby - collecting interestingly shaped sticks with his squeaky, rolling cart. When he encounters Allie selling fresh apple cider, he trades his cart for a gallon, but later regrets his decision. He offers to trade a jar of sauerkraut to Allie in return for the cart, but Allie already traded it to Vicki. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Thump/Squirreled Away" Thump - Nick is trying to make his mother a surprise lunch, but she keeps coming into the kitchen! If only there was a way for him to know when she was coming. The Cat takes Nick and Sally to meet his friend Twitch the rabbit. Twitch and her bunnies teach Nick and Sally how to stop, look and listen for danger. D
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Super Why! "Hansel and Gretel: A Healthy Adventure" The team convinces a witch to trade her gingerbread house for something delicious and nutritious.G
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Dinosaur Train "The Earthquake/Nursery Car" Mom takes the kids on a playdate with Tank Triceratops to the desert, where they meet a distant relative of Tank's, an early Ceratopsian named Penelope Protoceratops. The Conductor points out that Penelope lives in a part of the world that gets a lot of earthquakes, and sure enough, the kids experience their first quake with Penelope. Mom and the Conductor have prepared the kids with excellent advice about what to do in an earthquake, so everyone does fine. D
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Sesame Street "Tribute to Number Seven" Today is the number seven day on Sesame Street! Rosita, Abby, and Zoe begin singing about the number seven as they count seven dancing chickens. Next, Maria does the number seven rumba. As the seven celebration continues, a sniffling letter "S" arrives. D
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Sid The Science Kid "The Itchy Tag" Sid notices that the tag in his shirt is really itchy, and he wonders why it isn't soft like the rest of his shirt. At school, Sid and his friends explore and learn about the different textures around them: smooth, soft, bumpy and itchy.like his shirt tag!. D
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WordWorld "A String's The Thing/J-J-Jelly" A String's the Thing - After Duck accidentally turns on Frog's new cake frosting machine, the WordFriends must find the right "ing" word to stop it from covering WordWorld in delicious frosting. J-J-Jelly - Pig asks Bear and Sheep to help him make jars for the jelly pumping from his jelly machine. However, when they aren't able to make jars fast enough, the kitchen quickly begins filling up with the purple, oozy treat! Only by working together are the friends able to find a way to contain all of the jiggling jelly. D
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Caillou "Sounds and Music!" When Caillou visits Clementine, he is impressed to see Billy practicing on a Tuba. Soon, Billy's marching band mates arrive to practice. Clementine and Caillou wish they could join in too. D
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Barney & Friends "Best In Show and the Chase" Best in Show: When the kids decide to have a Dog Show to show off their pets, BJ feels a little left out. He doesn't have a dog, and he sure wishes he did! A friend from the park shares her dog with BJ so he can join in the fun. Everyone has a great time and realizes that all of their dogs are winners! Educational theme: Sharing. D
1:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Thump/Squirreled Away" Thump - Nick is trying to make his mother a surprise lunch, but she keeps coming into the kitchen! If only there was a way for him to know when she was coming. The Cat takes Nick and Sally to meet his friend Twitch the rabbit. Twitch and her bunnies teach Nick and Sally how to stop, look and listen for danger. D
1:30 pm
Zoboomafoo "Green Creatures" Zoboo realizes that plants and trees are as alive as all the creatures he meets in Animal Junction. The Kratt Brothers teach the lemur that plants grow well if they get good soil, lots of sunlight and enough water.G
2:00 pm
Curious George "Trader George/One in a Million Chameleon" Trader George - George has a new hobby - collecting interestingly shaped sticks with his squeaky, rolling cart. When he encounters Allie selling fresh apple cider, he trades his cart for a gallon, but later regrets his decision. He offers to trade a jar of sauerkraut to Allie in return for the cart, but Allie already traded it to Vicki. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "The Dog Did It/Martha Out West" The Dog Did It - Martha shares the Great Oral History of Dogs with Helen, TD, and Truman. According to Martha, dogs gave humans lots of stuff: fire, philosophy, physics, art, and even language. Could this explain why Shakespeare's hero is named Hamlet? Vocabulary: (E) primitive, civilization, prehistor(y)(ic), ancient, philosopher, origin (I) stone(s), fire, cave(man)(boy)(girl)(dog) (kids), history. D
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The Electric Company "Jules Quest" Jessica discovers an ancient scroll that leads her on a scavenger hunt throughout the neighborhood. Will the scroll lead Jessica to hidden treasure. or an even bigger surprise?. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Cherish Is The Word/Granny's Intuition" Cherish is the Word - It's Valentines Day! All of the kids at school are making special valentines to share with their special friends. But when Victoria Best runs off with all of the cards, will she ruin Valentine's Day for everyone? It's up to WordGirl to swoop in and save the day. Granny's Intuition - According to the local news Granny May seems to be figuring out who's been committing the latest crime sprees that are sweeping the city. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" Chris and Martin are on a mission to discover why walrus look so weird, but discover that Zach Varmitech has kidnapped a herd to mine precious pearls for Donita Donata's fashion line. The Wild Kratts team must use the walrus features against Zach to save the creatures and return them to their Arctic domain. Science Concepts: Suction. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "The Snelfu Snafu (Pt. 2)" The CyberSquad must find a way to bring Motherboard back to power and oust Hacker. Their friend Slider's invention "the Syncolator" is the answer - but some of the expensive parts are missing and they have limited funds. This is the biggest challenge the kids have ever faced, and if they fail now, Motherboard will be lost forever!. D
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "How Much Frosting Can You Bear?" Grandma Ruffman takes over today's show. Her friends Fig and Tucker's person is getting married, so she calls upon Ruff and the FETCHers to help her with the wedding gifts! She sends Rubye and Jay to meet up with some experts at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center to engineer a bear-proof picnic basket for the couple. Meanwhile Shreya, Emmie, Marc, and Marco bake the bride and groom's actual wedding cake!. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report The market's on a five day slide. A top analyst explains to NBR Co-Anchor Tom Hudson what he thinks is behind the move. Alcoa kicks off earnings season. D
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Lark Rise to Candleford This final episode of the series, finds Caroline Arless (Dawn French) out of debtor's prison and returning to Lark Rise, to the consternation of her family; Alf especially feels he must continue to put his life on hold to protect his younger siblings. Gabriel finishes work on his steam-powered seed planter, and farmers are soon clamoring to buy his invention. Dorcas fears the machine's success might take Gabriel away from Candleford.G
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Titanic with Len Goodman Once a welder for the company that built the ship, the "Dancing With the Stars" judge examines the impact of the sinking on the thousands of affected families. He reveals tales from among the handpicked men who helped build the ship and then died with her, and the ship's band. He uncovers the stories of 700 emigrants on board, and descendants of wealthy ancestors who survived the tragedy, only to pay for their lives with their reputations.G
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Saving The Titanic With an ensemble cast and based on eyewitness accounts, this historical drama seeks to tell what happened in the engine and boiler rooms after the collision through the story of nine men from the engineering crew. These men fight to hold back the sea and keep the ship's power systems running even as they learn that all is lost.G
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Frontline "Nuclear Aftershocks" In the nearly one year since the devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, the world has been re-examining nuclear power. FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien visits one emerging battleground - the controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan.G
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TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology senior Julian Strickland (Indianapolis/Pike) and freshman Collin Wojcik (Schererville/Andrean) combined for 60 points with career-high scoring efforts to lead the Fightin' Engineers past John Carroll University 85-80 in men's basketball action on Saturday.
Strickland scored a career-high 36 points on 11-20 from the field and 12-13 from the free throw line to lead the offensive attack. He added seven rebounds, four assists, four steals and two blocked shots in the victory. The game marked Strickland's fourth 30-point game this season.
Wojcik poured in 24 points on 7-11 from the field and 8-9 on the foul line in his first double-figure scoring game. He added four rebounds in 19 minutes of play.
Rose-Hulman rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit by shooting 52% from the field and hitting 26-31 free throws in the contest to improve to 7-3 on the season.
Other key contributors for the Engineers included junior Jimmy Miller (Indianapolis/North Central) with seven points and nine rebounds; and junior Michael Hallstein (Hopedale, Ill./Olympia) witjh six points and five rebounds.
John Carroll dropped to 6-2 overall despite a strong offensive performance. Simon Kucharewicz led the Blue Steaks with 20 points, 16 rebounds and three blocked shots. David Hendrickson added 16 points and a team-high four steals.
The two teams battled to a 24-24 tie midway through the first half, before John Carroll scored eight straight points to take a 32-24 lead on a three-pointer by Hendrickson at the 6:28 mark. The lead reached double figures at 41-30 on a three-point play by Kucharewicz, and the Blue Streaks kept the lead at 45-34 at the half.
Rose-Hulman relied on a 6-0 run early in the second half to close within 50-46 on four points from Hallstein and two free throws by Strickland. John Carroll maintained the lead and pushed the edge to eight points again at 57-49 after two more free throws by Kucharewicz at the 12:28 mark.
The Fightin' Engineers answered with a run of their own to close within 65-64 at the 9:03 mark after baskets from senior Alec Houpt (Chesterton) and freshman Wade Stallings (Indianapolis/North Central). John Carroll regained another four-point lead at 69-65, before a Wojcik three-pointer made the deficit 69-68 with 6:24 left.
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10 Ways to Lose Your Nursing License
3. Diversion of Drugs
Slipping yourself, or someone you know, drugs on the side is a serious offense, punishable by revocation of your license and jail time. If your aging father has taken all of his pain meds, leave it to his doctors to prescribe more or up his dosage. It's not worth risking your career to boost someone else's addiction, no matter who it is.
Getting your license revoked is the least of your worries in this case. Diverting drugs with intention to sell, or actually selling prescription drugs, can get you thrown in jail for many years. Even if you are strapped for cash, don't do it!
4. Providing a False Copy of License
Although rare, this does occur. Nurses who have a suspended license may provide an employer with a fake license, thinking that once their suspension is up it won't matter. It does matter, though – especially if your employer finds out. The license you may have will be revoked, or, if you don't have a license, you will not be allowed to ever apply for a license.
5. Mail Fraud
Mail fraud encompasses many felonies. Broadly speaking, mail fraud involves using the postal service to unlawfully obtain money or valuables, impersonate someone other than yourself, or stealing someone else's mail. There are many kind of mail fraud including work-from-home scams, solicitation disguised as an invoice, and online auction fraud. Mail fraud may not be directly related to nursing, but it can directly affect your career if you are convicted. Mail fraud is yet another way you can lose your license.
6. Falsifying Patient Records
Maybe you had been working 12 hours and were too tired to complete that patient record. Maybe you gave your patient a little extra morphine to help him get through the night, but you didn't record it. Whatever the case, falsifying patient records is grounds for license revocation. In the best-case scenario, your falsified record gets you in trouble, but doesn't affect anyone else. Worst-case scenario? Something happens to your patient.
7. Unprofessional Conduct
This broad term allows state boards to be subjective in judging why a nurse might get his license revoked. "Unprofessional conduct" can range from using inappropriate language around colleagues and patients to having an affair with a superior. Although it seems obvious, many nurses fail to understand why their conduct may be called into question. The level of professionalism in the nursing field is of the utmost importance, and employers won't take kindly to those few nurses who exhibit inappropriate behavior of any sort. First-time offenders may only be reprimanded or suspended temporarily, but keep it up and you may be out of a job before you know it.


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Lyles emerging as team around him takes off
DENVER -- Jordan Lyles chooses his words carefully. He grew up in the Astros organization, and although he was traded to the Rockies last winter, he still has plenty of friends in Houston.
Lyles is not looking to offend any of them. There, however, is no denying that the Lyles who has taken the mound for Colorado so far this season may be pitching the way he always has, but there is a lot of difference in the results.View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- Jordan Lyles chooses his words carefully. He grew up in the Astros organization, and although he was traded to the Rockies last winter, he still has plenty of friends in Houston.
Lyles is not looking to offend any of them. There, however, is no denying that the Lyles who has taken the mound for Colorado so far this season may be pitching the way he always has, but there is a lot of difference in the results.View Full Game Coverage
Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has hit against Lyles the past three years. Now he's fielding behind him. Is there a difference?
"He'd be the one who could answer that best," Tulowitzki said. "Could be he's older. Could be it's a better team."
The Rockies are a pretty good team right now. They have equaled the second best start in franchise history (20-14), and they have done it despite starting pitchers Brett Anderson and Tyler Chatwood being on the disabled list, and Jhoulys Chacin having been activated only long enough to have made his season debut on Sunday.
A big part of that is because Lyles, who wasn't on Colorado's 25-man Opening Day roster, has pitched unlike he did at any point in his three years in Houston.
That was never more evident than the Rockies' 8-2 victory against the Texas Rangers at Coors Field on Monday night. Lyles threw 105 pitches, the most by any Colorado pitcher this season, before departing after Adrian Beltre's leadoff single in the ninth. His final line was eight innings, seven hits and two runs.
And that was against a lineup that wasn't a lot different than Lyles faced in his three years in Houston, where he was 0-5 with a 9.82 ERA in six career starts against the Rangers for the Astros. He had faced seven of the eight hitters in Texas' starting lineup, and six of them had a .333 career average against him.
"There are so many different scenarios," Lyles said when asked why the reversal of fortunes. "I'm with a different team."
It's a lot different team.
The Rockies have an offense that is averaging a best-in-baseball 5.7 runs per game -- 7.4 per game at Coors Field. And they have a defense that has a .987 fielding percentage, behind only Cincinnati in the NL, and leads the Majors with 41 double plays, including four on Monday night.
It's a scenario that is perfect for Lyles, whose strength is a sinker, and who has, as Colorado manager Walt Weiss explained, "a very talented arm."
And it was that arm, not Lyles' career 14-29 win-loss record and 5.35 ERA over the three previous seasons in Houston that had the Rockies make sure they got the 23-year-old, along with outfielder Brandon Barnes, from the Astros in the offseason trade for center fielder Dexter Fowler.
"When you get an opportunity to get an arm like this, at this age, you take it," said Weiss. "There's a whole lot of reason to like the kid, even though he had his struggles at a young age."
There's no sign of a hangover in Colorado from the nightmares in Houston, where Lyles never had a winning record in three seasons and never had an ERA below 5.09.
Lyles is now 4-0 with a 2.62 ERA in seven starts for the Rockies, and more impressively, he is 3-0 with a 0.83 ERA in three starts at Coors Field.
"I'm making better pitches with guys in scoring position," said Lyles. "I haven't been too good at that in the past. I don't know the reason, but I'm better this year."
A lot better. Lyles had given up a .321 average with runners in scoring positions during his days with the Astros. Hitters are 5-for-24 against him in that situation this year, a .208 average.
Why? More confidence makes a pitcher more aggressive in the strike zone.
"It is still the same stuff," said Lyles. "I'm not an overpowering guy. It's been the same game plan."
And then came the admission.
"A major reason is the other guys in here," Lyles said. "I have to do my part, and don't have to do any more. This is a talented club. They do the rest. This offense is nice to pitch behind, and the infield defense is one of the best in the National League. Every night they make special plays.
"I saw that in Spring Training. I just have to get guys to hit the ball on the ground. Those infielders do the rest."
And it hasn't changed in the regular season.
Lyles has done his job, and the players behind him in the field are making sure he enjoys the benefits.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Cherryville bushfire contained
Investigations are underway and residents are returning home as the bushfire near Cherryville in the Adelaide Hills is brought under control
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5:30pm CFS update
The SA Country Fire Service have contained the fire in the Cherryville area, and fire investigations are underway.
Firefighters are still on the scene but authorities say no further fire spread is expected.
A community meeting will be held tonight at the Uraidla Hall, Greenhill Road to update residents impacted by the fire.
A Bushfire Advice is now current for the area.
2:30pm CFS update
CFS Incident Controller Mark Thomason said the crews were currently experiencing calm conditions in the Cherryville area, with overcast conditions and lifting humidity reducing fire behaviour.
Mawson Road was about to be reopened to residents.
The fire threat to Cherryville has reduced.
"We have to be cautious that a number of the control lines operate off of dirt fire tracks or dozer tracks that we have put in, so a small amount of rain will make those tracks very slippery."
Mr Thomason said the CFS had a window of time between now and when the heavier rain arrived to bring the fire under control.
One structure was being impacted by embers, with the majority of structures no longer threatened.
With calm conditions being experienced, Mr Thomason said the CFS was watching conditions ahead of the change, but did not expect any further potential for the fire to break out.
SA Power Network crews were being allowed back into the area to re-establish power to approximately 200 residents who had lost supply during the fire.
A Watch and Act alert remains for residents in the area.
12:30pm update - Power Outages
SA Power networks reports around 200 customers are currently without power in the Cherryville area due to the bushfire.
Areas affected include Basket Range and Marble Hill.
Power will remain cut to areas until it is safe for crews to access and repair equipment.
See the CFS map of the bushfire footprint issued this morning here.
11:30am update
The CFS has issued the following Watch and Act alert for the Cherryville bushfire:
The Cherryville fire is burning near the township of Cherryville and continues to burn in inaccessible and difficult terrain.
Property owners between fire track 18 and 19 (south of Cherryville) need to be aware the fire may reach their property.
The township of Cherryville may be also be impacted from the South over the coming hours.
People in the areas of Blockers Road, Merchants Road, Hunters Road and Lobethal Road need to be aware that as fire conditions worsen through today, the fire may threaten those locations.
There are several road closures around this fire stopping all access to the area.
The general public are advised to avoid the area.
All other residents near this fire need to remain aware as conditions are continuously changing and need to activate their Bushfire Survival Plan.
Listen to 891 ABC Adelaide for further details on the fire, or visit the CFS Website.
10:30am CFS update
CFS State Coordinator Yvette Dowling said the Cherryville bushfire has now spread to cover 650 hectares.
"Overnight the fire fighters have had to deal with erratic fire behaviour due to the gully winds."
250 fire fighters and four water bombers would attack the fire today.
To the north, the fire has been stopped on Big Range Road.
To the east, the fire has been held at Mawson Road, with spotting experienced to the south overnight but held near Lobethal Road.
To the west, the main focus was in the north-western side of the fire, with water bombers concentrating on an area near Fernhurst Road and Big Range Road.
"At the moment the fire continues to burn in inaccessible terrain, so property owners to the south of Cherryville need to be aware of their situation and make sure they are activating their Bushfire Survival Plan."
The CFS will hold a community meeting at midday at the Uraidla Town Hall to update local residents.
An Emergency Relief Shelter is operating at the Uraidla Hall today.
10:00am update
The CFS have reissued the 7:45am Watch and Act alert with notice to travellers in the area that many roads have now been closed and non-essential vehicles to the fire fronts will be turned away.
As of 9:30am this morning, Mount Lofty weather station was recording northerly winds at 15 km/h with gusts up to 30 km/h.
The Buckland Park weather radar showed a band of cloud from Ceduna to Port Lincoln slowly moving across the state.
9:00am update
CFS Incident Controller Mark Thomason said the CFS helicopter and water bombers had been active on the bushfire this morning, with crews placing several control lines and back burns in the area while conditions were still suitable.
Mr Thomason said the CFS's current area of concerns were around Cherryville, with burns being placed on Fernhurst Road and Fernhurst Lane and around the western flanks of the fire.
"The peak fire danger will be around midday, so we anticipate some escapes or spotovers around that time."
High temperatures, low humidity and high winds will make conditions difficult for the crews.
Mr Thomason said he had received reports of several sheds being burnt out last night near Mawsons Road, but no homes, and the CFS was yet to confirm damages.
One house was destroyed yesterday on Blockers Road.
7:45am update
The CFS have issued a Watch and Act alert for the Cherryville area, as the bushfire continues to burn within 300m of the township.
Property owners south of Cherryville, between fire track 18 and 19, are warned that the fire may reach their properties.
Cherryville may be impacted from the south in coming hours.
Residents in Blockers Road, Merchants Road, Hunters Road and Lobethal Road are warned that fire conditions may worsen during the day.
The CFS advises that people in the area must remain aware as conditions are changing and they need to activate Bushfire Survival Plans.
An edge of the fire is also approaching the Montacute Conservation Park.
South Australia Police have closed several areas near the fire ground and are requesting that the general public stays away from the area.
A full list of road closures can be found on the SAPOL website.
Listen to 891 ABC Adelaide or check the CFS website.
The Bureau of Meteorology has forecasted northerly winds at 25-35 km/h for the area this morning, easing through the afternoon ahead of a WNW change.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Coat the bottom and sides of a 2 1/2 quart souffle dish with 2 tablespoons butter, sprinkle bottom and sides evenly with 1/2 cup sugar. Tap out excess sugar; reserve sugar for later use.
In a medium saucepan, melt the remaining 4 tablespoons butter. Stir in flour and cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture begins to bubble. Add milk, orange liqueur, melted chocolates, and salt. Cook over medium-low heat until mixture thickens, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and allow mixture to cool for 10 minutes. Whisk in beaten egg yolks and vanilla.
In a large bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add reserved sugar, beating until stiff. Fold whites into chocolate mixture. Gently spoon mixture into prepared souffle dish. Place souffle dish in a baking pan. Fill pan with 1-inch warm water. Bake for 55 minutes. Serve immediately with Chocolate Sauce.
Melt butter and chocolate in the microwave or in a double boiler. Add cocoa, sugar, cream, and salt. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add vanilla and orange liqueur.