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In the history of the modern Olympic Games there have been many scandals but only one terrorist massacre. The 1972 Games in Munich will forever be remembered because Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes there in cold blood. But this summer when the Games reconvene in London there will be neither an official remembrance nor even a moment of silence in honor of the fallen Israelis. Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, flatly denied requests from the State of Israel and members of the United States Congress for a moment of silence at the opening ceremonies in London. The reason for this refusal is clear. Any reminder of that historic crime would offend the vast majority of member nations that participate in the Games who don't want any mention of an event that puts the Palestinians in a bad light.
This is an outrage that should not pass unnoticed by those who promote and profit from the two-week-long television program that mostly features competitions in sports few will care about during the rest of this or any other year. Rogge and his predecessors have always condemned the politicization of sports–the reason many in the Olympic movement give for choosing to forget about Munich. But the toxic mix of nationalism and athletics has always been at the heart of the Games. While the athletes who participate deserve both respect and admiration, the decision to ignore Munich is just the latest illustration of the moral bankruptcy of the Games. Though we will hear much about the "Olympic Spirit" during the endless promotion of this event, it is and always has been a gigantic fraud that has always preferred to appease tyrants and ignore crimes in the pursuit of building a global business brand.
The popularity of the Games is undeniable, and any effort to punish the IOC or even boycott the opening ceremonies over the issue of ignoring Munich is bound to fail. The people of the world want their bread and circuses, and if the prospect of honoring Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as the Olympics did in 1936, the Soviet Communism (1980) or the tyrants of Beijing (2008) could not derail the show, then it isn't likely that many will care about sweeping the memory of Munich under the rug in London this year. Though President Jimmy Carter made the Soviets pay a price for their invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 when he ordered the boycott of the Moscow Olympics — one of the few things for which one of our worst presidents deserves credit — the Games are now too big a business to be affected, let alone stopped by moral considerations.
There is a popular mythology that has grown up about the moral value of this international sports tournament that was promoted by the skillful documentaries created by the late Bud Greenspan. But though the Games can be fun, Greenspan's wide-eyed belief in the majesty of sports triumphing over intolerance and division was always pure baloney.
We cannot force the Games or the sports establishment to remember the 11 Israelis or even acknowledge their indifference to the massacre. But we can at least stop pretending there is anything happening in London this summer that has intrinsic or moral value and not simply sporting significance. The Olympics are the sports equivalent of the United Nations, a high-minded ideal that is, in practice, merely the assemblage of rogues who pervert the concept to pursue their own often scandalous objectives. Though you may like the show, the Games deserve our scorn, not our admiration.


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Crawfordsville, Ind. — Wabash College invites you to hear acclaimed author Patricia Sarrafian Ward read from her new novel, The Bullet Collection, on Thursday, December 9, at 8 p.m. in Center Hall, room 216.
The Bullet Collection tells the story of Marianna, a young girl trying desperately to combat the depression of her older sister, Alaine, who is compelled to gather the bullets and grenades, and other war objects she finds outside their house. When the family emigrates, Alaine's depression lifts, but the strain of wartime life falls on Marianna, who must confront the pasts of both her native country and her family.
Ward was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1969. She spent her childhood in the shadow of the American University of Beirut, where her father was Professor of Egyptology. She moved to the United States in 1987. Her writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Ararat, Jusoor Post-Gibran Anthology of Arab-American Writers, The Literary Review, Hanging Loose, Web Del Sol, and Epoch. The Bullet Collection is her first novel.
Ward holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan. She was the 2002 winner of the RAWI writing contest (Radius of Arab-American Writers), and has received a Henfield Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the winner of the 2004 Great Lakes College Association New Writer Award and currently lives on Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey.
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Ever since cotton farmers began drawing pictures of module-building cotton pickers on their shop floors, they've speculated about how much the new machines could save in equipment and labor costs.
Growers like Jimmy Hargett, who drew the outline of a picker that bears a resemblance to Case IH's Module Express 625 picker on the floor of his farm shop near Bells, Tenn., in 2001, and Kenneth Hood, who built his own prototype of a module-building picker on the Hood farm near Gunnison, Miss., felt the savings could be substantial.
Now they can point to a study conducted by researchers with Mississippi State University and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service that indicates growers can save from $7 to $15 per acre on harvesting and delivery costs with the John Deere 7760 and the Case IH Module Express 625 pickers.
The study, by Steve Martin, agricultural economist with Mississippi State, and Thomas D. Valco, cotton technology transfer and education coordinator with USDA's Agricultural Research Service at Stoneville, Miss., said harvesting and delivery costs ranged from $72.57 to $91.20 per acre for the module-building pickers vs. $98.46 per acre for a standard, six-row, basket picker and handling equipment. (See table.)
"Cotton pickers with on-board module builders eliminate the need for boll buggies, module builders, the tractors and labor needed to operate this machinery," the authors of the study said in a paper presented at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville, Tenn. (Both the 625 and 7760 were on display at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show.)
They also cited some intangibles in the harvesting and delivery process such as increased field efficiency due to operators having to spend less time for unloading and waiting to unload cotton in a boll buggy or module builder.
Case IH introduced its Module Express 625 in the fall of 2006 and sold a limited number of pickers for the 2007 season. Deere introduced its picker in August 2007 and was scheduled to launch its new 7760 picker for the 2008 season but has decided to delay that until 2009.
Growers who have operated the "Green" or "Red" systems say they have found the labor and equipment savings are clearly evident once you put one of the new pickers in the field.
"The Module Express allows one man to do the work of three," says Dan Kornegay, who grow 2,500 acres of cotton in Faison, N.C. "It only takes one person to pick the cotton and build the modules. I'm saving about $1,000 per day by running three fewer tractors, hiring three fewer operators and eliminating the maintenance costs of extra equipment."
Martin and Valco included a number of cost categories that might not immediately come to mind.
The study estimates the cost of production per pound of lint from harvest through ginning for a standard 6-row picker with the needed support equipment (e. g. module builders, boll buggies, tractors and labor), and the two versions of the pickers that build their own modules.
They said their analysis indicated the Red pickers had the lowest harvesting/operating costs per acre, primarily due to the lower assumed purchase price of the Red System vs. the Green.
"The Red System also had lower per acre costs delivered to the gin, primarily due to the lower assumed expenses for tarps/covers and module handling as compared to the Green System," the authors said. "Both on-board module building systems had a lower cost over the standard 6-row picker."
John Deere spokesman Barry Nelson had this to say about the results of the study by Mississippi State and USDA-ARS:
"John Deere is finalizing tests on the 7760 Cotton Picker, and we will have results once we officially introduce the picker to the retail market. It would be premature to comment on any field efficiency studies until we introduce the machine to the market place."
Martin and Valco said the Module Express 625 picks at 4 mph, about the same as a traditional six-row picker, but it builds the module at the same time it's picking, using a framework of augers to move and compress the cotton into an average 10,000-pound module, they said.
The modules are 8 feet by 8 feet by 16 feet and were reported to take about the same time to unload as to empty 10,000 pounds of cotton from a conventional basket. Modules are set on the turn row and two 16-foot modules are handled like a conventional 32-foot module when loaded on a module truck and hauled to the gin. No additional equipment is needed.
In Deere's new 7760 on board, round-module-building cotton harvester, cotton flows from the picker heads into an accumulator, then is formed into a round module, wrapped in plastic and deposited onto a transport reel without stopping. The modules weight about 5,000 pounds and are 8 feet wide by 7.5 feet in diameter.
John Deere designed the harvester to operate at a speed of 4.2 mph, which represents a 5 percent increase in normal picking speeds of 4 mph. John Deere estimates an improved field efficiency of 90 percent, compared to a conventional six-row harvester of 70 percent.
The wrap is estimated to cost about $25 per module. A special device, Cotton Module Handler, attaches to a 200-hp tractor and is used in the field to assemble the round modules into rolls of four which can be picked up with a conventional module truck and hauled to the gin. In the gin, a round module unwrapper, developed by Stover Equipment Co., is used to remove the plastic wrap prior to entering into the module feeder.
Deere officials, however, have reported savings from reducing the amount of cotton that can be lost when moisture wicks into the unprotected bottom side of a standard cotton module.
Harvesting costs for each of the systems were calculated as costs per acre with the assumption of 1,000 pounds per acre lint yield. The expenses for a standard six-row picker and support equipment were taken from the Mississippi State Budget Generator. Harvesting costs for the two module-building pickers were adapted from the standard picker information in the MSBG.
The MSBG assumes a speed of 3.6 miles per hour and a field efficiency of 70 percent, but the researchers conducting the studies altered those for the Red and Green Systems, they said.
"Our study assumes a harvest speed of 4.0 miles per hour for both the Red and Green Systems and a field efficiency of 80 percent for the Red System (includes additional down time for staging modules) and 85 percent for the Green System since the operator does not have to stop the Green machine to unload.
"Purchase prices for the new machines were estimated at $450,000 for the Red System and $498,000 for the Green System. (Information released by John Deere put the list price for the 7760 much higher than listed in the MSU-ARS study.
Martin and Valco said they assumed one person "on the ground" per two machines from the Red System to place tarps on the modules with a cost of 75 cents per bale assumed for the tarps. For the Green System a cost was included for a tractor and module handler per two machines. Wrapper cost was estimated at $15.15 per acre.
Module hauling expense in the study was based on 20,000 pounds per trip or 15 bales at $4.25 per bale or $8.50 per acre. "In this analysis, hauling expense was increased an additional 50 cents per acre for both the Red and the Green systems because of the additional time for picking up two and four modules, respectively."
The MSBG ginning cost for each of the harvesting systems was included in the analysis. "An additional expense to modify the gin module feeder for the wrap removal was added to the Green System, which was approximately $250,000 in fixed capital expenditures plus the cost of two additional employees. Fixed expenses were amortized over 20 years with an 8 percent discount rate and a 10 percent salvage value."
Growers say the labor savings can be more than just reducing costs. In some areas, finding seasonable labor to operate module builders and tractors pulling boll buggies can be difficult.
"My son was able to pick cotton by himself with the Module Express, says Edward Fiveash of Donalsonville, Ga. "We needed five less people to harvest. It was a tremendous labor saver and the machine does an excellent job of picking."
The module-building pickers allow growers to use freed-up labor for purposes other than throwing cotton back in a module builder or towing boll buggies around the field.
"It used to require all my labor and equipment," grower Mike Sturdivant of Glendora, Miss., said. "Now I'm able to use that labor for fall tillage work."
Less maintenance is another intangible cited by growers who used the module-building pickers in 2007. (Although Deere has not commercially introduced the 7760, it had a number of units in the field in 2007.)
Daryl Packet of Anderson, Texas, who custom harvests 16,000 acres of cotton, used a Module Express as one of the cotton pickers in his fleet last year and plans to move to the Module Express to reduce maintenance costs, labor needs and freight costs.
"I will have 14 fewer pieces of equipment to maintain and will need fewer employees," he said. "That means less hotel bills, less liability and less insurance. I'll also be able to truck equipment in one day and be ready to go the next. I'll be able to eliminate about eight loads of equipment every time I move to a new area."
Bill Walker of Somerville, Tenn., notes the Module Express cuts down maintenance of other equipment, as well. "This machine eliminates the need for boll buggies, module builders and the associated tractors. Anytime you get rid of equipment, you eliminate the time to maintain that equipment. That's less equipment to break and less downtime."


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In recent years, the Galaxy have used CONCACAF Champions League games to showcase some of the players who rarely get to play during the MLS regular season.
While the reserves have come through a few times, it also gives the Galaxy the luxury of bringing a guy like Landon Donovan off the bench.
No doubt Robbie Keane was the first to notice Donovan's arrival. Five minutes after Donovan took the field Tuesday, he set Keane up to work his goal-scoring magic and the duo combined again in the late going in the Galaxy's 2-0 victory over Cartagines of Costa Rica at StubHub Center.
The win gets the Galaxy off and running in Group 8 of the 2013-14 tournament featuring the top clubs of the CONCACAF region.
Keane's two goals gave him five in the last two games after his hat trick Saturday against Real Salt Lake. He has scored those five goals in a span of 123 minutes.
"You see the difference when Landon came on," Keane said. "We're in tune with each other, we know each of our runs, we know where each of us is going to be."
On each goal, it was Donovan spotting Keane downfield and hitting him with a bomb, basically connecting on two post patterns that Keane took to the house.
"He makes it easy for me," Donovan said. "I know if I put the ball in the right spot, more often than not he's going to score, and if I make the right runs, more often than not he's going to get me the ball."
Keane, along with starting forward Jose Villarreal, had been buzzing around the Cartagines defense but couldn't convert. A third of the way into the second half, Galaxy coach Bruce Arena turned to Donovan to replace Villarreal.
Taking possession at midfield, Donovan looped a long pass to Keane running down the middle. He split the defense, veered left, then sent a low left-footed shot that trickled under the right arm of goalkeeper Wardy Alfaro.
Keane's second goal, in injury time, gave him five in 11 CCL games.
"His biggest attribute is his movement. His movement's sublime," Donovan said. "You don't always see it and there's a lot of times he makes good movements on the field where he doesn't get the ball. He's very sharp, he's very active and he's always playing with the defender's mind. … If you're on the same page with him, he's going to make them pay."
The Galaxy, who resume MLS play Saturday at Vancouver, next face Isidro Metapan of El Salvador in Group 8 play at StubHub Center on Sept. 18.
Keane, along with midfielder Marcelo Sarvas and defenders Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant and Sean Franklin, was one of five regulars in the starting lineup for the Galaxy.
Villarreal opened the night at forward, with Michael Stephens, Pablo Mastroeni and Robbie Rogers at midfield and Koki Opare at central defense.
New goalkeeper Jaime Penedo, who made his MLS debut Saturday, stopped three shots, all in the first half, to pick up the shutout.
Rogers, rarely playing these days as he struggles to find the form Arena wants from him, had to leave late in the first half with a left hamstring strain and was replaced by Gyasi Zardes.
Keane had a pair of chances in the first half, but a volley from the left went just wide of the far post in the 22nd minute. In the 41st minute, he pulled down a pass from Stephens but flicked a right-footed shot just over the crossbar.
Paolo Cardozo, a former first-round draft pick by the Galaxy until he was traded to Chivas USA, had the best chance for Cartagines (1-1) after coming on as a sub in the 63rd minute.
In the 72nd minute, Randall Alvarado collected a flick pass from Pablo Herrera on the right side, He pushed a pass to Cardozo, whose shot whistled just above the crossbar.


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Obama's no maverick
(Published Oct. 8, 2008)
John McCain has a well-earned reputation for bucking his own party in the Senate, most prominently on campaign finance reform and immigration.
So McCain has tried in the campaign to draw a contrast with his Democratic opponent, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, whom McCain says always toes the Democratic party line.
McCain made the point again at the second presidential debate in Nashville. "Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue," McCain said.
Limiting our examination to Obama's four years in the U.S. Senate, it would seem that McCain is on mostly solid ground, even if his claim is one that the Obama campaign hotly disputes.
The Obama campaign cites a few examples where Obama crossed up his party, including an Obama-backed effort in the Senate in 2006 and 2007 to create an independent Office of Public Integrity to investigate congressional ethics cases.
Most Democrats voted for the new office in 2006, then a small majority opposed it in 2007, so Obama hardly could be seen as one against the crowd. And our view is that the votes Obama cites on the office cannot be called a "major issue" since the ethics office was mostly a secondary point in a much broader fight over ethics reform that most Democrats supported. Ultimately, the Senate passed a broad bill on ethics in 2007 that did not provide for the new office.
The Obama campaign also points to a vote in February 2005 in which he sided with Republicans and a narrow minority of his caucus in favor of a bill to give federal courts jurisdiction over some class action cases. The bill was opposed by Democratic allies in the plaintiffs' bar.
But this again, was hardly a vote in which Obama stood too far apart from his caucus. Eighteen Democrats supported the bill against 26 opposed. And this wasn't an issue where Obama was particularly outspoken, so it can hardly be argued that he had "taken on his party leaders" on tort reform.
Finally, the Obama campaign cites Obama's 2005 vote to confirm Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, but Senate Democrats overwhelmingly favored her confirmation. The final vote among Democrats was 32 in favor of confirmation, 12 opposed.
Congressional Quarterly each year tallies what it considers the key votes that took place in the previous 12 months. Of the 41 Senate votes tallied by CQ between 2005 and 2007, Obama sided with a majority of his caucus on 36 of them. On three, he did not vote. On one, he voted with 21 colleagues against the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, a vote that evenly divided the Democratic caucus. And last, there was the 2005 tort reform vote. CQ did not consider the Office of Public Integrity votes to be among the most important of 2006 or 2007.
None of the examples the Obama campaign provides could be seen as major issues on which Obama was at odds with his party leadership. Certainly nothing on the scale of McCain's unpopular positions on immigration and campaign finance reform, among others. McCain speaks in absolutes — Obama has "never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue" — but the record supports him. We say McCain's claim is True.


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COI Funded Project: Genomic Approaches to Assessing the Global Impact of Marine Pollution
Grant Funded: 2001
Proposed ResearchThe specific objective of the research proposed here is to address the question of whether cDNA microarrays ("gene chips") constructed with genes of one species can be used to evaluate changes in gene expression in other species, and to demonstrate the use of these chips in assessing the effects of contaminants in the ocean. This would represent a major step toward our long-term objective of defining the significance of chemical exposure in different types of animals, in marine environments around the world.
Genomic efforts have opened the door to development of tools such as microarrays to profile the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously. However, a major obstacle to employing this technology in the oceans is that currently, the development and use of gene chips is largely restricted to a select group of laboratory species for which genome sequence data has been obtained.
In the past month, zebrafish gene chips (5000+ genes) have been generated (in a collaborative venture), making this proposal possible. Use of these chips to detect broad scale gene changes in response to TCDD in zebrafish is underway. We will determine whether these chips constructed with genes from one species (zebrafish) can be validly used to assess gene expression profiles in other fish species, particularly marine fish (Fundulus heteroclitus). Subsequently, we will determine the utility of these chips in assessing the spectrum of gene changes associated with chemical exposure in the environment, targeting species and locations that are significant in coastal contaminant issues (Fundulus) and to open ocean contaminant questions (midwater fishes).
If "cross-species" use is proven, it will open the door to deploying these chips for broad scale use in assessing the status of ocean health. The results of this study could establish, finally, the basis for unprecedented assessment of chemical effects in marine systems.
Funding from the Ocean Life and Coastal Institutes would allow us to prove the concept and thus enable us to seek large scale funding from governmental and international sources.
Final ReportObjectives
The specific objectives of the research were 1) to determine whether cDNA microarrays ("gene chips") constructed with genes of one species can be used to evaluate changes in gene expression in other species, and 2) to demonstrate the use of these chips in assessing the effects of contaminants in the ocean. This would represent a major step toward our long-term objective of defining the significance of chemical exposure in different types of animals, in marine environments around the world. The results of the work accomplished indicate that, with further optimization, cross-species hyridization in microarrays should be an extremely informative tool.
Anthropogenic chemicals that are of concern to animal and human health occur worldwide, in all environments and in virtually all organisms. It is well known that the oceans are the ultimate sink for these chemicals. Concerns about these chemicals derive from results of laboratory experiments and from overt diseases including reproductive and developmental abnormalities in animals where the chemicals occur at high levels, primarily in coastal environments. For more than 25 years there have been vigorous efforts to determine the health effects of such contaminants occurring at lower levels in the world's oceans, in coastal as well as in open ocean waters. These efforts generally have been inconclusive, and have been hindered because the scope of the effort has been completely inadequate relative to the scale required to answer the questions.
The sequencing of all or large parts of the genomes of a growing number of species has opened the door to development of tools for assessing the expression of many, even all genes in a species. One such tool is the "microarray", or gene chip, which enables investigators to profile the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously. This has become a major tool for investigating the relationships between changes in health or environmental condition and changes in gene expression. Although still very young, this field of "toxicogenomics" is already making great strides in the areas of elucidating molecular mechanisms of toxicity and defining chemical-specific expression profiles. Ultimately, the goal of much of this work is the development of diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for pre-clinical, clinical, and environmental applications. DNA microarrays are the primary tool being used in such work.
A major obstacle to employing this technology in the oceans has been that there are still few species for which many gene sequences are known, and fewer still for which the entire genome is known. Up to now, the development and use of gene chips has been restricted largely to a select group of laboratory species for which genome sequence data has been obtained. As part of the research supported here, we determined whether gene chips constructed with genes from one species (zebrafish) can be used to assess gene expression in other fish species, particularly marine fish (the marsh killifish Fundulus heteroclitus).
Research Plan Undertaken
In developing the proof of concept, our approach was intended to be in three phases: Phase 1, the production of fish gene chips and demonstrating that they can reveal broad scale gene changes in response to chemicals.
Phase II, determining whether these chips constructed with genes from one species can be validly used to assess gene expression profiles in other fish species.
Phase III, determining the utility of these chips in assessing the spectrum of gene changes associated with chemical exposure in the environment, targeting species and locations where there are significant questions concerning contaminant effects, i.e., in the coastal environment (Fundulus) and the open ocean (mid-water fishes).
Phase I
Generation of fish gene arrays was completed with zebrafish (Danio rerio), a model vertebrate species for which substantial genome sequence information is available. The support from the Ocean Institutes was key in completion of these chips that were constructed as part of collaboration with a large zebrafish research group at Mass General Hospital. The chips were made with DNA pieces obtained from a zebrafish heart preparation, as the original objective for use of these chips was to assess gene changes associated with the developmental defects caused by halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons including selected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the highly toxic chemical TCDD or dioxin. The chips were used in several experiments to assess changes in gene expression in embryonic fish exposed to TCDD. A first example of a result is shown in Figure 1, (which appeared also in the proposal). The results with multiple exposures and doses have provided a strong picture of the changes caused by TCDD. (These results are summarized in the Joint Program Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Heather Handley, which was supported in part by the Institute funding.)
Phase II
The large body of DNA sequence data needed to support microarray design severely limits the number of species for which microarrays are available. Fundulus heteroclitus, the salt-marsh killifish, is a small marine fish that has been used extensively in both developmental biology and ecotoxicology. At the outset of the studies, the F. heteroclitus genome was poorly characterized. While additional DNA sequence data are now available for F. heteroclitus, for nearly all other environmentally and economically important fish species extensive sequence still are lacking. There is evidence that microarrays constructed with material specific to one species can be used to assay gene expression in closely related species. Thus, it was of interest to determine whether zebrafish microarrays might be used to study gene expression in other fish species.
To this end, we prepared labeled cDNA from both zebrafish and F. heteroclitus heart RNA, and compared the strength and patterns of hybridization to zebrafish cDNA microarrays. mRNA from Fundulus heteroclitus adult heart tissue (provided by Dr. Sibel Karchner) and total RNA from zebrafish adult heart tissue was used to generate appropriately labeled (amino-allyl post-labeled) cDNA, according to protocols developed in phase I. Single-color hybridizations to AH-001 arrays (that is, zebrafish Adult Heart first generation arrays) were performed at 55?C, with all other conditions as previously defined in Phase I.
Side-by-side visual inspection of same-species and cross-species hybridizations revealed obvious similarities in patterns of relative signal strength among features (Figure 2).
To quantify this relationship, feature (i.e. spot) intensities from 3787 features on Cy3 hybridizations were compared directly (Figure 3). In the vast majority of cases, same-species hybridization produced higher fluorescence intensity. Several hundred features with cross-species fluorescence intensities less than or equal to 2-fold higher than same-species intensities were separated from the main body of data. Each group showed moderate levels of correlation between same-species and cross-species fluorescence intensities (R² = 0.59 and 0.75).
These results suggest that, while less efficient than same-species hybridization, cross-species hybridization to zebrafish microarrays may be used to detect gene expression in fish species for which DNA arrays are not available. A general correlation between same-species and inter-species hybridization results was readily apparent upon inspection of either hybridization images or resulting numerical data.
Phase III
The phase III of the study was not completed within the time frame of the grant. However, samples of Fundulus heteroclitus were collected from coastal systems of know contaminant levels (low to high). Samples of mid-water fishes also were collected from the Northwest Atlantic. The coastal and mid-water samples are archived and will be analyzed as time and funding allows, to complete the originally proposed studies.
Further work on cross-species hybridization. Neither the results of this work nor published investigations of inter-species hybridization have adequately addressed the potential for non-specific hybridization. In the current case, significant "outliers"and only moderate support for a regression trend-line fitted to the main body of data both suggest an unexplained source of variation affecting some subset of Fundulus genes. In other studies, a high level of variation in cross-species results for 6% of arrayed human genes also suggested gene-specific artifacts. Increasing the stringency of cross-species hybridizations could decrease the variation. Further work is needed to determine an ideal hybridization temperature for use of Fundulus heteroclitus samples with zebrafish arrays. However, it is also possible that a large portion of variability is due to actual biological differences (i.e., differences in basal levels of expression of certain genes). Thus, it would be interesting to assay non-specific hybridization using individual Fundulus gene transcripts. Such work has yielded important information about specificity of arrayed cDNA probes, and might contribute to the development of general guidelines for conditions of cross-species hybridization.
In summary, the results establish the proof of concept, showing that microarrays with genes sequences from one species can be used with other species. The next step in these studies will be to employ the gene chips in hand to assess the spectrum of gene changes associated with chemical exposure in the environment.
Support from the two Ocean Institutes has opened the door to further defining the conditions for cross-species hybridization and eventually deploying these or similar chips for broad scale use in assessing the status of ocean health. That support is most gratefully acknowledged.
We also acknowledge Dr. Mark Fishman, formerly at the Mass General Hospital and now with Novartis, for collaboration in providing laboratory space and materials that made it possible for Heather Handley to produce the zebrafish arrays. That collaboration represents a very large "in-kind" contribution to this research. We acknowledge Dr. Larry Madin and particularly Mr. Erich Horgan for their collaborative assistance in obtaining samples of mid-water fishes, also a large "in-kind" contribution.


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In all his postseason comments to the media, Ned Colletti never called out the Dodgers' bullpen as an area of weakness in 2013. With the signing of former Cleveland Indians closer Chris Perez, the GM's actions have spoken louder than his words.
Perez, 28, reportedly signed a one-year deal with the Dodgers Monday, pending a physical. He started the 2013 season 17-for-19 in save opportunities with a 2.52 ERA through his first 35 2/3 innings. Then in an Aug. 5 game against the Detroit Tigers, Perez allowed four earned runs without recording an out. He would go on to allow 16 earned runs over his final 18 1/3 innings as an Indian.
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I have a large library of movie files on my server. I would like to have move posters show up when I view search the library in cover flow. Presently I don't have internet access with my server. When I did, getting posters was a simple 3 step process, 1. Get online and go to the Internet Movie Database site (IMDB), select the movie whose poster I wanted, 2. Right click on the movie file that needed a poster and select "Get info", 3. Drag the poster from IMDB to the little square in the upper left corner of the "Get" info box. And there a poster was in cover flow. Now when I use my MBP laptop at a local wi-fi hotspot and drag and drop a movie poster jpeg file from IMDB to a file on my desktop for later use, they don't work. I'll take the saved poster file, transfer it to my Mac Pro server drag it to a "Get info" box and what I get is an icon saying what kind of image file it is (jpeg or png rather then a picture.) I've verified that all the file permissions are "Read and Write", but no joy. How am I breaking these files by just saving them? Please help.
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Re: Using cover flow for a movie library.
What you're really describing in the first part is setting a custom icon for the file in question, not necessarily a poster image. When you drag from your browser you're dragging over copied pixels of a photo, which does not have an icon set because it's not a saved file. But when you drag from a file on your desktop, it's using that file's icon, not the file content.
Try opening your poster in Preview, Command + A to select all, Command + C to copy, then go back to your Get Info window, click on the icon on the top left, then Command + V to paste.
Try opening your poster in Preview, Command + A to select all, Command + C to copy, then go back to your Get Info window, click on the icon on the top left, then Command + V to paste.
I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do.
Re: Using cover flow for a movie library.
Thanks a million, I did what you wrote, and it worked like a charm.
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Braves activate Heyward
Atlanta, GA – The Atlanta Braves activated outfielder Jason Heyward from the 15-day disabled list prior to Friday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Heyward has been sidelined since undergoing an emergency appendectomy on April 22 in Denver. The 23-year-old is hitting .121 with two home runs and five RBI in 17 games this season.
To create a roster spot for Heyward, the club placed reliever Jordan Walden on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation. The right-hander is 1-1 with a 4.85 ERA in 14 games for Atlanta this season.


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Kerrybeever needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 27 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
This is a fundraiser for a school rowing club.
generally a pretty refined bunch of wine drinkers
I need a generic label that is classy, elegant and reflects that is for a rowing club. We dont wish to use our club logo, so people will still buy it to give as presents. Rowing as in the water sport that has 8s, 4s doubles etc...
Would like the label to be generic & have no people. I need the finished files to be in a photoshop format, so that I may rejig the label for the 6 different sorts of wine.
The design may have oars on it, or water...but again, I really would like an elegant label....
One possibility is if there are 2 designs, the same but with different colours to reflect a red and a white?
I only need 1 label, I can edit the rest, so you may select from ONE of these names:
The wines are called: Stroke Side Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon Catch, Pinot Noir Power 10, Finish Line Bubbly, Oarsome Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc Bow...so all names with a rowing theme - thanks!
**Im not sure that gold or silver can be printed on these labels as effectively as if it was commercial, so maybe best to not use them***


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Friday, 21 October 2011
Postcard from 1943
43 comments:
What a lovely time you all had, don't you look fab too? I'd love to do that weekend, especially the trains, I'm a sucker for all things steam train. Thanks for letting us see it all.ReplyDelete
Looks like a fabulous weekend, love the steam trains. I particularly like the black and white photo of you Hen about to board the train, you look very elegant.ReplyDelete
Jo xx
What a wonderful weekend, I love everything about it! I know I don't comment much, but I hae to tell you that I read every one of your blog posts, and some of my favorites are when you and the family go off on these period weekends. All of you look brilliant! Your son is a doll, and he looks like he thoroughly enjoys himself. Thanks for sharing your family outings with us, that gift shop turned tea room is right up my alley! Have a great day!ReplyDelete
You all look amazing! What great lot of photos, it was like being there!ReplyDelete
Perfect blog for perfect vintage life,it´s amazing ! I really would love dressing with those pretty dressess ,hats and... I love your blog.besos. Lilián.-ReplyDelete
Oh I so enjoy reading your blog posts, especially when you visit this type of event, your photos are stunning and it's so wonderful to see everyone dressed up. Thanks for sharing. xReplyDelete
You Hens are always on the go. The Munchkin is going to grow up with some fantastic memories!ReplyDelete
Have alovely half term.
You all look amazing and obviously had a great time. We look the steam railways too and go toa local 1940s (small) weekend here each year, but it is not quite up to the standard of Pickering...one day!ReplyDelete
I always love looking at your piccies from 1940;s events you have been to!ReplyDelete
I have just been looking on ebay for evacuee outfits actually. My daughter's school is having a Home Front Day and so we have to put an outfit together for her - with gasmask box, then research what they would have taken for pack lunch and put that together for the day and lastly make an item to put in the "museum" for the day. Am quite looking forward to it, but any hints would be much appreciated!! -x-
what great photos as always !ReplyDelete
what a good boy you have in the munchkin, he looks like he so enjoys your adventures !
Wow, you really do look the part!ReplyDelete
I absolutely adore your posts!!! I only wish my dear da was still with us because he would have just loved seeing you all dressed...especially your darlin boy...what fun you all have and what memories you are making for your wonderful son..I don.t know if anyone does this in the states...they should!! I may have to make a trip to merry old just for one!!!ReplyDelete
Dear Hen.. oh your post was a delight!! Did you know my husband was a railroad engineer for 30 years? He worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and then it was bought by the Union Pacific RR. So, needless to say I adore seeing your vintage trains and outfits and all. You look simply gorgeous in that outfit!! Thanks for visiting my blog and catching up - and for the very VERY sweet comments. Your blog friend from Oregon, USA.. Teresa :-)ReplyDelete
It seemed to be a wonderful weekend! Thank you so much to go with us on this yourney through time. I allways enjoy reading your blog posts, especially when you are sharing this type of events with us! Thank you so much! Kindest regardsReplyDelete
What a wonderful, fun time! Love the pics, but especially the wardrobe. Ahhh, vintage clothing.. does it get any better? Everyone looks perfect. Wish I had a reason to dress up! ;) Thanks for sharing! -TammyReplyDelete
What fun! And I really want one of those flowery wrapover pinnies - when I was small our daily used to wear one of those - she even had the black lace up shoes, too. I can just see myself skipping about in a pinny dress! You of course are looking far more chic than that - more like the employer of a pinny wearer!ReplyDelete
Pomona x
All that AND good weather- fabulous.ReplyDelete
Love the outfits.
I can remember my mum having a tippet(?) like that in her wardrobe.As a child it terrified me!A great post.I really enjoy your trips-you have such fun.Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
You're looking very glamorous in the photos - it looks like a lovely time.ReplyDelete
Is Munchkin studying WW2 and reading Carrie's War at school this year? I'm assuming that as he's just turned ten, he'll be in Year 5. If he is then I'm sure he'll be in his element and will be the font of all knowledge for his friends...and probably his teachers! x
It was really lovely to meet you and your family when you popped in for some yumminess at 'Madges Tea Room' upstairs in Reeds. Just had a read of you lovely blog, you all looked amazing, can't wait to see your 1940's purchases.
Hopefully see you again next year, hope me feet have recovered by then.
Cheryl-ann (Your waitress at Reeds) x
You all look so very authentic and handsome~ReplyDelete
Loved the guys in their RAF uniforms too.
but the tea room. Its so perfect!
Thanks so much for a delightful post
How lovely that all three of you enjoy these wonderful excursions and you all look so authentic!ReplyDelete
I live close to the Bluebell Railway, but unfortunately they don't host any vintage events. Perhaps I should have a word?!
These weekends's success really does rely on the contributions made by folks like your family. That so many folks enter into the spirit and fun of the events really seems to guarantee that a true atmosphere is achieved.ReplyDelete
I can well understand why you all are now looking forward to next autumn's train ride and stops along the way.
Such fun! I wish we had something like that here in the states. I have always loved the forties. Seems people knew how to pull together then and the fashions are so wonderful. Loved seeing all the people dressed in their finest forties clothes.ReplyDelete
I always love your posts of days out vintage style. I'm glad you mentioned vintage sizing .. when I have looked on various online sites at vintage clothing the sizes are so petite, I have never mananged to find anything in my size yet.ReplyDelete
Looks like a lovely weekend, wish I lived closer :) xReplyDelete
I thought you were in Yorkshire, Love the outfit with the fur stole, your looking very glam Hen. Weve been on that railway, it is wonderful experience. Everyone looks so well turned out, a lovely era, an olutfit not complete without hat and gloves.ReplyDelete
Your family look absolutely fabulous all dressed up!ReplyDelete
It looks like a great weekend with everyone entering into the spirit of it. (I had to google CC41)
- Anonymous22 October 2011 at 10:10
ooh I've been waiting for this post.Fabulous photos you and your family look lovely I don't know how you managed to get them all involved I am still working on my hubby. Glad you all enjoyed yourself up here in my neck of the woods I love reeds shop it one of the best shops in this area .ReplyDelete
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Great photos.Whilst I was wallowing in the fashions, many of which survived into my 1950's childhood) I suddenly saw 'my' childhood pushchair - cream with shiny mudguards over the wheels! You all look very stylish.ReplyDelete
Oh Hen, you all look fabulous, just fabulous :o)ReplyDelete
Please tell your Munchkin he can evacuate here if he'd like! ;o)
Goddness me, if a Vintage size 12 is 30.5" that must make me...erm...just a large I think! ;o)
But they did so look glamorous in those days, as you do Hen! I mean everyone just made the effort every day. And even though it was all rationed for a long time, they had such a healthy diet didn't they?
I'm looking forward to seeing your dresses.
Thankyou so much for sharing your wonderful weekend Hen.
I hope you're having a just as nice one this weekend too:o)
Take care,
Donna xx
Hi Hen,I live on the railway line and looking at your photos Im sure I saw you pass.You Look like you had a lovely day.I know the shop in pickering its one of my favorites.Love Jill xxReplyDelete
What a lovely post thanks for the mention and thanks for such wonderful photos.The event would not be the same withoutlovey folk like team Hen going to all the trouble to take part so wholeheartedly.I am sad that I cant get to the dealers as I'm at school on Friday-I am determined to try and buy an authentic outfit for next year.I have a dealer friend and she like me cannot fit into any of her amazing dresses.So diet it is....You all look amazing and frankly you should come next year because I'm sure that Munchkin will get more educational benefit and stimulus from the weekend than he would from missing a few days at school.We look forward to seeing you next year and we must make a definite date to meet and have a proper chat.We are going to do the tearoom on the Sunday too.
Lovely to see you.
Much love Anne x
Its always such a pleasure to see your photos, you all look great.ReplyDelete
Was that a whole basket of felt flowers I spied?! How glorious!! And your second dress is lovely!!ReplyDelete
Lovely photos, Hen. Its great to see you and your family all dressed up in your vintage finery.ReplyDelete
Goodness! I have just found your blog. I have long been an Anglophile. I especially like Wartime history and stories. I think I will have lots of fun reading your blog. I think NOSTALGIA drives most of us!ReplyDelete
Looks like your family and you had another great weekend, love your outfits and those steam trains. Must remember this for next year as it looks like a really great outing.ReplyDelete
Another fantastic outing! What interesting characters you came across. Everyone makes such an amazing effort to look the part, especially the Hen family. You all look stunning! XXXReplyDelete
All three of you look fantastic. What a great weekend. Terribly jealous...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 October 2011 at 17:21
I love reading your blog. Everyone is a treasure, and I especially love the period events. I wish I lived over there so I could enjoy them first hand!ReplyDelete
BTW..munchkin is just too perfect in the period clothing!
Looks wonderful, wish I could have been there again this year.ReplyDelete
Hi Hen, nice to meet you. We are not far away from the NYMR - infact we get free tickets as hubby does work for the railway. We were in Grosmont that weekend - am sure I recognise you now, looking at the photos.ReplyDelete
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In the athletic department's first year as a full NCAA Division III member, the St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) women's basketball team has received an invitation to compete in the 2012 NCAA Division III National Basketball Tournament.
"This is a monumental day for Brooklyn Athletics," said athletic director and head women's basketball coach Frank Carbone. "It's an amazing opportunity that will certainly benefit the entire St. Joseph's College community. We feel fortunate and are thrilled to be selected."
The team will face No.1 seed Amherst College (27-0) in the first round on Friday, March 2, in Amherst, MA.
The winner will face the winner of the Babson (25-2) vs. Bridgewater State (19-7) in the regional finals on Saturday, March 3rd to determine who advances to the sectional round.
The tournament berth is the first for Brooklyn Athletics, which attained full NCAA membership on September 1, 2011 – after a six-year-long process – making all 12 varsity teams eligible to qualify for the national championship tournaments.
After starting the season a disappointing 1-9, the Lady Bears finished with a 13-13 record powered by a 10-game winning streak that lasted nearly a month, their longest in eight seasons.
St. Joseph's received a pool B bid to the 64-team tournament. The pool B bid is awarded one independent team or a team who competes in a conference that does not award an automatic bid for their conference champion.
"Receiving the opportunity to compete in the NCAA tournament in our first year is something we would have never imagined when we started our NCAA journey six years ago," said Carbone.
Forty-three automatic qualifying bids are awarded to conference champions (pool A) and 20 additional bids are awarded to at-large teams (pool C) as selected by the championships committee.
This also marks the first NCAA tournament appearance in women's basketball from the Brooklyn or Long Island campuses of St. Joseph's College. The team will have their work cut out for them.
Amherst earned its third straight New England Small College Athletic Conference title and will make its fifth straight NCAA tournament appearance, capturing its first national title last year, after reaching the semifinals in 2009 and 2010. Amherst is one of four undefeated teams in the tournament and finished the season as the top-ranked team in the latest USA Today/ESPN coaches and D3Hoops.com polls.
Check back on www.SJCBears.com for additional updates, including the announcement of game times, as well as fan bus information and live coverage.


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Lawyers representing more than 5,000 victims of Haiti's cholera outbreak have presented the United Nations with a petition demanding millions of dollars in compensation and an apology.
The epidemic, which has been blamed on Nepalese peacekeepers, has killed more than 6,600 Haitians and sickened nearly half a million more since the outbreak in October of last year.
The U.S.-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (I.J.D.H.) in Haiti delivered the petition to U.N. headquarters last week and presented the U.N. mission in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH, with a copy as well.
The group says both entities are liable for the outbreak because they failed to adequately screen and treat peacekeepers arriving from countries experiencing cholera epidemics. The petition also says untreated waste from a U.N. base was dumped into a tributary of the Artibonite River - Haiti's longest and most important waterway - and that officials then failed to adequately respond to the subsequent epidemic.
I.J.D.H. attorney Brian Concannon shared details of the petition with reporters on Tuesday.
"They are asking for $50,000 for every person who has become sick and did not die, [and] $100,000 for every victim of the U.N.'s cholera that did die," he said. "In terms of action, it is asking for effective medical treatment for people who do get cholera, but more importantly building the infrastructure that you need, especially clean water and sewage, to stop the epidemic. And third, the victims are asking for acknowledgement and an apology from the United Nations."
I.J.D.H. says 5,000 petitions have been filed, but that it expects many more will be filed during the next six months.
'A confluence of circumstances'
Cholera had not been documented in Haiti for decades. It appeared several months after the January 2010 earthquake that left thousands of people homeless and living in makeshift camps. Newly arrived Nepalese peacekeepers were suspected of bringing the disease into the country because cholera is endemic in Nepal.
In December, U.N. officials said MINUSTAH and the Haitian government had conducted tests of water samples from the Nepalese base, and the waters adjacent to it, which all proved negative.
In January, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned a panel of independent experts to investigate the matter. Their report, issued in May, found that the cholera bacteria was "introduced into Haiti as a result of human activity." But the report also noted that this particular bacterial variant was not native to Haiti and "is very similar to, but not identical, to the South Asian strain" of cholera.
The panel concluded that the outbreak was caused by "a confluence of circumstances" and that it was not "the fault of, or deliberate action of, a group or individual."
But petitioners say the opposite, arguing the outbreak is attributable to the "gross negligence, recklessness and deliberate indifference for the health and lives of Haiti's citizens" by the U.N. and MINUSTAH.
U.N. Spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed receipt of the petition but would not comment on it, only stating that the U.N.'s position is that of the experts' report - a convergence of circumstances caused the outbreak.
"Our focus has to be on seeking to stop the spread and helping to treat those who have been hit with the cholera," said Nesirky.
I.J.D.H. representatives say they hope to meet with U.N. officials to discuss the petition. Lawyers for the group say they will pursue the matter in court in Haiti or New York if they cannot reach a settlement with the U.N.
They say immunity would not be upheld for the international organization in the case of introducing a disease into a country.