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The Russian Library Initiative: For Better or Worse
At the Read Russia event at Book Expo America last week (was it really only last week!?), Overlook Press announced a new project, the Russian Library initiative, supported by Read Russia and the Russian government that is going to result in the publication of 125 works over the next ten years that span all a thousand years of Russian literary history to create an official, singularly-released, uniform edition of Russian literature, from the great early Russian epics to, hypothetically, the present day.
As a Slavophil with a penchant for history who now works in publishing, a bunch of people hit me up about Overlook's project, asking what I thought about it. And I've been marinating my sentiments for over a week, trying to weight both the positive and the negative, and then Chad asked me to write about it, so I guess I'll have to give it my all. I love this project, I love Overlook and Ardis and anyone who publishes anything from Russia, and I love all of the works that will be included in this series, though not all 125 titles seem to have been compiled yet. And yet I have some serious problems with everything. According to Overlook's press release:
"Selected titles will have been nominated and commissioned by an Advisory Board of distinguished scholars, translators, and academics. The series will feature not only the obvious great masterpieces of Russian literature by Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, but other major works that continue to remain unknown outside Russia, for example, early texts from the Russian literary canon such as the early works as The Primary Chronicle (1113), The Lay of Igor (1185), and The Novgorod Chronicle (ca. 1200). These will be followed by nine centuries of Russia's rich literary tradition to the present day. THE RUSSIAN LIBRARY editions will be designed and produced to an elegant standard format, each volume introduced and critically annotated by appropriate scholars."
This is a massive achievement, worthy of praise. But let's talk about the reality of the situation here. The Russian government is behind this, via the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, and they are presumably bankrolling the entire project (because no one in the right minds actually expects that even the most dedicated Game of Thrones fan is actually going to go out and pick up The Lay of Igor just because Overlook is bravely publishing digital and attractive print editions of the epic). This "Russian Library" initiative is meant to invoke the great national library collections of the world, like The Library of America. But any time a government gets involved in the publication of anything, there's reason to be wary, and innumerable questions arise: what are their intentions, what is their endgoal, and why will certain works be selected but not others?
My biggest problem with the "Russian Library" project is a problem that infects the entire publishing industry and which, of course, inspired the title of this blog (and the reason why I'm here). Considering an estimated 3% of everything published in America every year is a translation (shout out to the Three Percent idea!), but only an estimated 0.3% of the total are original, new translations, why would we continue to pour so many dollars and resources behind projects to republish and republish the Dostoevskies and Tolstoys of the world, authors who have had fantastic translations done numerous times since their original Constance Garnett translations over a century ago, and who are already republished and retranslated far too often every year?! To give this project some credit, this might be the first time some of the epics have been released to the public in their full, unedited form (I'm not really sure if these will be edited, nor am I sure if they've ever been released in their full form in the States, I read them in Serge Zenkovsky's awesome Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales), and it remains to be seen how many of the 125 books will not just be reprints (I doubt any of these works will be retranslations, though Russian translators in the States could sure use the work) – I hope it's more than one.
So who is the target market for this ambitious project? My guess is American politicians, because I don't believe scholars of Russian history constitute a large enough of a share of the market for books these days. I think, quite plainly, that the Russian government wants to boost its image abroad. And what is the one thing that everyone in the world unequivocally likes about Russia? Hint: the answer is not vodka; the answer is literature. But if the Russian government really wanted to support its image and Russian literature abroad at the same time, they shouldn't have to reissue Crime & Punishment for the umpteenth time, they'd support the writers of today who live and breathe Russian literature or the authors who were repressed and/or swept into the dustbin of history (only to be rescued by fine folks like NYRB, whose publications of Platonov, Grossman, and Krzhizhanovsky are worthy of the highest praise) who could be held up as bright and shining examples of how Russian literary culture perseveres, despite political tugs-of-war and name-calling.
The Russian government does not, however, typically support contemporary Russian literature. They do not support the translations of contemporary Russian literature abroad, and it seems like the Russian government would much rather forget that Russian literature is alive and well, with the innumerable Russian authors who are still waiting for their first translated publications in the States, prominent Russian names like Prilepin, Bykov, Shishkin (whose first English translation is finally coming out this fall through Open Letter, or even authors who have had only a limited number of their works ever published in English, like Ulitskaya and Slavnikova (who both should be included in this set, considering her work with Overlook), Petrushevskaya, Sorokin, or Pelevin.
The Russian government would be better served by supporting financially the publication of all kinds of Russian literary endeavors abroad through international presses like Overlook, NYRB, Open Letter and others, and especially those precious few organizations that currently support Russian translations abroad: the Prokhorov Fund's 'Transcript' project (headed up by the amazing Irina Prokhorova, the literary sister of Brooklyn Nets-owning oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov) and the new Center for Translation in Moscow. So Russian government, good for you for finally seeing the value in your long cultural history for export abroad, but it's time to act on that in the here and now and stop publishing so many reprints of 19th-century Russian literature and work on righting the wrongs of your politically-repressive history of suppressing great literature and get all of the great works that have never been translated in the past thousand years printed and distributed in America ASAP. Then that will be something I could stand up and applaud whole-heartedly.


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DUNEDIN, Fla. — The Blue Jays have decided to hold closer B.J. Ryan out of spring games for the time being. Ryan experienced some minor soress — nothing more than normal fatigue, according to GM J.P. Ricciardi — after his last outing and Toronto wants to take a cautious approach with his comeback.
Ricciardi said Ryan will continue to throw on flat ground, but there's no indication as to when he might appear in another spring game. With less than two weeks remaining in camp, it's looking more and more doubtful that Ryan is going to break with the team.
"We're not going to take him unless he can be B.J.," Ricciardi said, "where we use him three or four times a week. If he can't do that, then we'll just let him stay down here, let him keep pitching and eventually he'll be ready at some point. When he's ready, we'll take him."
"For us to sit here and say he was going to be here on Opening Day," he added later, "we never threw that date out there and I don't think it was fair to him to throw that date out there. I think it's important that he just keeps getting better and he feels good."
Talked to Ryan and he indicated that the soreness was in his left forearm and biceps — not near where he had surgery. He also said that he felt it'd be "selfish" to rejoin the bullpen if he couldn't pitch at least every other day. I say he doesn't leave Florida with the team. We'll see what happens.
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NEW YORK (10-7-2) at TORONTO (8-12)
at 1:05 p.m. ET at Knology Park
Johnny Damon, LF
Melky Cabrera, CF
Robinson Cano, 2B
Hideki Matsui, DH
Shelley Duncan, RF
Wilson Betemit, 1B
Cody Ransom, SS
Jose Molina, C
Nick Green, 3B
PITCHING: RHP Ian Kennedy
David Eckstein, SS
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Scott Rolen, 3B
Frank Thomas, DH
Matt Stairs, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
PITCHING: RHP Kane Davis, LHP Brett Cecil, RHP Brandon League, RHP Jeremy Accardo, RHP Jason Frasor, RHP Brian Wolfe
CONGRATS: Former Jays second baseman Roberto Alomar was elevated to the club's Level of Excellence on Thursday and, in a conference call with the media, Alomar said, should he be voted into the Hall of Fame, he'd want to go in with a Toronto hat on his plaque.
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Probably a good idea would be to leave BJ in Florida for a few weeks to continue his strength progam. You wouldn't want him pitching in Boston or New York in the cold anyway so why not let him heal in a warm climate and bring him back when he is ready and the weather improves.
Robbie is a beauty!!! The best fielding second baseman i've ever seen. I'll alway remember his jack off Eckersley with his arms raised the instant he made contact with the ball. Too bad he couldn't have finished his career in T.O
You are 100% right.There is no need to rush BJ back until he is 100%.Pitching in the north in the spring would not do him any good.Accardo is more than cabable of doing the job.We don't want a situation where BJ comes back too early and has to be shut down about June or July because he rushed things.
I remember Robbie's jack off Eck too.What made it even sweeter was it was just after Eck had done some showboating.Not to mention I was watching the game with some A's fans and they were riding me pretty hard.After Robbie's homer, things got a little quiet.
It looks like Accardo is working on a curve ball or something in today's game ?
Am i right on that, i don't remember him having a breaking pitch, but, maybe im wrong.
Correct me if i'm wrong but did J.p. not say last year that B.J. should be ready by spring training. I knew how unrealistic it was then, however, for j.p. to say that "he never threw that date out there" is a little stupid (if he did). As much as I like the club he has put on the field the guy is ridiculous when it comes to some of the things he says. He lied about B.J. last year and this year, as well as the rios rumour.
Dave: I heard that Accardo's fastball is down a few mph. Last year it was at 95-97 and someone mentioned it was at 92-95 this spring. Did you happen to notice anything on the gun ?
Nice to see that Roberto will be added to the level of excellence. Personally, my favourite Jay ever.
Accardo definatly didnt look sharp, he left a few balls out over the plate.
League on the other hand looked really good, the dirt infront of home plate probably had a few divots after his two innings.
Aaron Hill looks poised to have a stellar season. I really beleive the bats will all come around.
Congrats on the Spartans win.
What is Izzo's record in the 2nd rd. ? It is all about adjustments and there might be nobody better than him.
Jansen is done for the year, Ryan is out for God only knows how long. I hope this isnt a sign of another injury plagued/winless season.
Yah Accardo def was not reaching 95-97, which is why i thought he was trying out a new pitch.
He was in the 80's when he was throwing what looked like a breaking ball that was always over the plate and high except once when i think he got a strikeout with it.
He was def in the low 90's the whole time 92-95. Accardo just pitched weird.
League's velocity is right up there which is awesome. I think he threw 98 three or four times. I still don't get why he uses that new arm angle but whatever.
Brett Cecil looked awesome ! He struggled against those minor leaguers, but he totally seems like a Brian Fuentes style pitcher.
First thank you for the great job you do keeping us up to date with spring training .
Second I have a question . I was reading the Yanks blog and Hoch doesn't have too many kind words for Knology Park. He says its stuck in the 80's and the press box perpetually smells of B.O.. I wanted to ask if maybe it was him , if he perpetually smelled it but I refrained. My question is this … Is Knology Park really all that bad compared to the other ball parks?
Refresh my memory somebody. The Alomar/Carter for McGriff/Fernandez was a great trade for both teams (but two WS would say best for Toronto). Were there any other players involved? Really cool to see the Jays two days in a row on ESPN. Knology still looks good to me…but I have never been in the press box so I don't know how it smells.
I hope Ryan's soreness does not escalate. We need him desperately now that Casey Janssen is out. Maybe Benitez will get some save opportunities to reach 300 saves. He only needs eleven more.
Accardo was throwing his splitter, he has always had it. I could have missed something else cause i stopped watching after the home run to Betemit. But I didnt see a cuveball thats for sure.
There were only the 4 players involved in the Alomar/Carter trade, but Tony F came back for 1993. I didn't realize it before, but both Fernandez and Alomar were signed as undrafted amateur free agents. How did guys like this fly under the radar?
INDIGO: Hoch wasn't completely off. From a working standpoint, Knology Park has a great clubhouse and a decent pressbox, which has a certain odor that may or may not be classifiable as B.O. The park itself it's that great, but hey, they've got new blue seats! From a fan's point of view, the stadium is one of the better parks for having access to the players if you want to meet them or get an autograph or something. It's an older crowd than other stadiums and, man, they reeeaaaallly need to update the sound system — music included. It's not a terrible park, though. Winter Haven, on the other hand…
Jordan, thanks for the Knology update . Maybe the "snowbirds" can take up a collection to help with a new sound system though they probably like the old 8 track and the music that came with it ….lol… Have a safe, healthy and Happy Easter everyone
It's great the park is fan friendly , it helps connect the public and the players .
It's nice to see Roberto Alomar honoured with the Jay's Level of Excellence and if/when he goes into the Hall of Fame it will be as a Blue Jay


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The Great Halloween Turnip
Ireland Halloween tradition was that the Jack-o'-Lanterns were hollowed out turnips.*
The tradition came to the in United States in the 1800s and Pumpkins replaced the turnips.*
Now, you know just a wee bit more by reading Chicken-Fat than you did two minutes ago, even it is plagiarized, but reworded, material.
*UNCLE JOHN'S BATHROOM READER page-a-day calendar, October 31, 2011
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I was cooking breakfast, an eye on the TV, when the announcement came that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Within minutes, that announcement morphed into the worst news I had heard since the death of JFK.
I threw out breakfast and drove to the office.
I went immediately to my computer and wrote what I have long called a "hand-holding message." I quickly posted it to our Letters Library.
I was about to order an email broadcast to clients when a long-time Canadian client, Robert Cable, copied me on the hand-holding message he was sending his clients. His was better than mine. I pulled mine, posted his and ordered the e-mail blast.
I have not re-read Bob's letter in nearly 10 years. It is an extraordinary letter. Someday, maybe Harvard Business School will use it as a case study in financial-crisis management.
By September 12, I decided that Bob's message was too important to limit to Bill Good Marketing clients. We pumped out 25,000 email copies.
Within a day or so, talking heads on CNBC were talking about a letter brokers all over the country were sending. On Saturday morning, CBS Marketwatch plagiarized it. Monday morning, the markets opened 500 points down and then in the next few months did what markets do—recovered. But there were lessons learned.
First read Bob's letter, and if you want to learn more about this extraordinary writer (also an extraordinary advisor), here's a link to one of his websites.
(See complete coverage of 9/11: Ten Years After on AdvisorOne.)
Bob Cable's Letter
Today will never be forgotten. The horrific and senseless attacks have caused unknown numbers of innocent people to lose their lives. The impact beyond the lives lost may never be known.
I want to help you through this financially by outlining from experience what is likely to happen.
First, your guaranteed investments remain solid and safe. However, there will be panic in the stock market(s) when they reopen. At this point, I do not know when markets will again open for trading. Every incident that causes a stock market panic is different. But the reaction in the markets usually has a course that is strikingly similar. So here's where you need to sit back and think this through. Here's what the markets are likely to do.
In every panic, the market will open way down initially. Please understand this: you cannot get out before this happens. If you rush in to sell, you will most likely get a price that is around the worst of the day.
Remember, I've seen this before. In the past, those who got out, did so to make themselves feel better. As time passed and they looked back, they wondered what they could have been thinking to sell at such low (panic) levels. The market, for some time, will likely be subject to wide swings based on the news of the moment. But in every case of panic, the market has recovered. I do not expect it to be any different this time.
Sure, there will be disruptions. Some companies may shut down operations for a few days. Most businesses will be impacted, some more than others.
But think for a minute about the companies you own. The Canadian bank that deals with the person down the street for their mortgage or car loan. The drug company that makes drugs for hypertension or asthma. The company that processes your credit card transactions.
Sure, they'll be impacted, but the impact on their business is probably, at most, minimal. And most important of all to you and to me is that it is very likely to be temporary. All of these temporary company setbacks add up to a very likely temporary market setback.
Let me be clear. I in no way want to minimize the impact of what has occurred. It has changed many lives forever. But it is unlikely to have a lasting impact on companies' fortunes and thus on the stock market. History has shown us this on many occasions.
The best thing you can probably do financially is nothing. Those who believe in stocks for the long run could even be buying. In times like these, stocks tend to move, as the saying goes, "from weak hands to strong hands."
Setting the financial world aside, you can look around you and be more thankful than ever for what you do have. Your health. Your friends. Your family. Your faith. Those you love and who love you. And if you're so inclined, say a prayer for those who need it most today.
If you need to talk, please feel free to call me. I will be in the office all day today. — Bob Cable, 9/11/01
Lessons Learned
1) Act fast.
2) Take a stand. Lead.
Send an e-mail, that day, telling your clients what to think. They nominated you as their leader. Get on the phone and call the people who do not have access to e-mail.
3) Be prepared. It will happen again.
This blog post, as well as many others, is based on my survey "Best Practices 2011." I have promised survey participants a free copy of my enhanced ebook, "Making Referrals Happen." By filling out the survey, you can compare your answers to "best practices." The survey is still open. You can take the survey here. Past articles in my best practices series are archived here.
(See complete coverage of 9/11: Ten Years After on AdvisorOne.)
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing and writes a regular blog for AdvisorOne. He is also the author of "Prospecting Your Way to Sales Success" and Hot Prospects. His "Sales Seminar" column appears monthly in Research Magazine.


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Pictured: Jake McGuiggan had a pair of hits on Tuesday for the Crimson
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Pete Castoldi's sacrifice fly in the ninth inning gave visiting Northeastern a 6-5 victory over Harvard in a non-league baseball game at O'Donnell Field on Tuesday.
Working against lefty reliever Will Keuper, Aaron Barbosa led off with a drag bunt single and moved to third base on a single to center from Matt Miller, who went to second base on the throw to third. After an intentional walk, Castoldi lifted a fly ball to shallow left-center but the speedy Barbosa was able to score without a play at the plate.
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Northeastern scratched for a run in the first inning but Harvard scored two runs in both the second and third innings against Huskies' starter JT Ross (3.0 IP, 5 H, 4 R). Jake McGuiggan delivered an RBI double, Jeff Hajdin plated a run with a perfectly-executed suicide squeeze, Tyler Albright plated a run with a sacrifice fly and McGuiggan scored another run with a single to center.
Northeastern tied the game in the fourth behind Castoldi and Sean Lyons, who delivered a two-run single out of the nine hole in the order.
Harvard went to the bullpen and Brent Suter shut down the NU attack with five strikeouts in 3.1 innings.
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The lead didn't last unfortunately for Harvard as a bloop single just past the infield by Puttress started the eighth. With one out, a grounder destined for right field was corralled nicely by Harvard second baseman Jeff Reynolds who made the play at first, but Puttress went to second and Alan Pastyrnak scored the run with a single to left-center.
Harvard had a chance in the bottom of the eighth when Albright led off with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from McGuiggan. A fielding error put runners at the corner and pinch runner JT Tomes stole second to put two runners in scoring position with jack Colton at the plate. Two tough strike calls put Colton in a bind. Harvard put on a contact play but Colton sent a grounder directly to Castoldi at third and Albright was easily cut down at the plate. Still with two runners on base, NU's Miller had to make a diving stop at first base on a bounding ball from Hajdin and flip to Carmain at first to end the inning.
In the ninth, Dylan Maki (S, 2) struck out two of the three batters he faced to get the save.
Reynolds and McGuiggan led Harvard with two hits apiece while Barbosa had three for Northeastern to extend his hitting streak to 11 games.
Harvard is back in action on Saturday and Sunday when the Crimson travels to Brown for four games in the Red Rolfe Division.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX has confirmed its plans for Wednesday, January 27, the date of President Obama's first State of the Union address.
"American Idol" will shift to 8:00/7:00c that night, leading into the speech at 9:00/8:00c.
"Human Target," originally slated for 8:00/7:00c on January 27, will instead air a day earlier - Tuesday, January 26 at 9:00/8:00c.
Said installment replaces "Kitchen Nightmares," which was set to get a post-"Idol" boost before assuming its regular Friday, 9:00/8:00c slot on January 29. "Nightmares" however will still follow "Idol" on Tuesday, February 2 as previously reported.
To recap:
Tuesday, January 26
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol"
9:00/8:00c - "Human Target" (Moved Up from January 27)
Wednesday, January 27
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (Moved Up from 9:00/8:00c)
9:00/8:00c - "FOX News Special"
Friday, January 29
8:00/7:00c - "Dollhouse" (Series Finale)
9:00/8:00c - "Kitchen Nightmares" (Season Premiere)
Tuesday, February 2
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol"
9:00/8:00c - "Kitchen Nightmares" (Special Night)
Wednesdays (as of February 3)
8:00/7:00c - "Human Target" (Time Slot Premiere)
9:00/8:00c - "American Idol" (Time Slot Premiere)
Fridays (as of February 5)
8:00/7:00c - "House" (Repeats)
9:00/8:00c - "Kitchen Nightmares"
As for the other broadcast networks, NBC has committed to two hours of news coverage on Wednesday, January 27 starting at 9:00/8:00c while ABC and CBS are expected to announce their plans shortly.


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Bio::Assembly::IO::maq - Driver to read assembly files in maq format *BETA*
# convert the native maq map format to plain text $ maq mapview all.map > all.maq # Building an input stream use Bio::Assembly::IO; # Assembly loading methods my $asmio = Bio::Assembly::IO->new( -file => 'all.maq', -format => 'maq' ); my $scaffold = $asmio->next_assembly;
This package loads and writes map information in/from "maq" map files converted by the "maq mapview" utility. This module is a driver module for Bio::Assembly::IO input/output. Parsing is based on Heng Li's description of "maq mapview" output, found at the "maq" manpage: http://maq.sourceforge.net/maq-manpage.shtml <http://maq.sourceforge.net/maq- manpage.shtml>. The basic "maq" workflow is: map reads to a reference sequence (with "maq map"), then create a consensus from the map (with "maq assemble"). To read a complete assembly with this module, the following files need to be available: [basename].maq : created by maq mapview [basename].map > [basename].maq [basename].cns.fastq : created as follows $ maq assemble [basename].cns [refseq].bfa [basename].map $ maq cns2fq [basename].cns > [basename].cns.fastq "maq" produces only one "contig"; all reads map to the reference sequence, which covers everything. This module breaks the reads into contigs by dividing the "maq" consensus into pieces for which there are contiguous non-zero quality values. The module "Bio::Tools::Run::Maq" will help in this process (eventually). This module has no write capability. Implementation Assemblies are loaded into Bio::Assembly::Scaffold objects composed of Bio::Assembly::Contig and Bio::Assembly::Singlet objects. Contigs are not explicitly specified in "map" files; the division of the map into contigs is calculated in this module. Additional assembly information is stored as features. Contig objects have SeqFeature information associated with the primary_tag: _main_contig_feature:$contig_id -> misc contig information Read objects have sub_seqFeature information associated with the primary_tag: _main_read_feature:$read_id -> misc read information Singlets are contigs of a single sequence, as calculated within this module. They are cataloged separately, as specified in Bio::Assembly::Scaffold.
· Add pod descriptions of maq descriptive data (currently SeqFeatures added to each contig component) · Add features describing the aggregate status of reads and contigs based on the maq "paired flag"
Mailing Lists User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing lists Your participation is much appreciated. firstname.lastname@example.com - General discussion http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists Support Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: email@example.com rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible. Reporting Bugs Report bugs to the BioPerl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web: email@example.com https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
AUTHOR - Mark A. Jensen
Email maj -at- fortinbras -dot- us
Further improvements by Florent Angly (florent dot angly at gmail dot com)
Code and some POD text ripped liberally from Florent Angly's Bio::Assembly::IO::tigr.
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a "_". next_assembly Title : next_assembly Usage : $scaffold = $stream->next_assembly() Function: return the assembly defined by the map and cns files Returns : Bio::Assembly::Scaffold object Args : none next_contig Title : next_contig Usage : $scaffold = $stream->next_contig() Function: Returns the next contig or singlet in the ACE stream. Returns : a Bio::Assembly::Contig or Bio::Assembly::Single object Args : none _init_contig() Title : _init_contig Usage : my $contigobj; $contigobj = $self->_init_contig( \%contiginfo, $scaffoldobj); Function: store information of a contig belonging to a scaffold in the appropriate object Returns : Bio::Assembly::Contig object Args : hash, Bio::Assembly::Scaffold _store_contig() Title : _store_contig Usage : my $contigobj; $contigobj = $self->_store_contig( \%contiginfo, $contigobj); Function: store information of a contig belonging to a scaffold in the appropriate object Returns : Bio::Assembly::Contig object Args : hash, Bio::Assembly::Contig _parse_cns_file() Title : _parse_cns_file Usage : $self->_parse_cns_file Function: parse the .cns.fastq (consensus) file associated with the present map; set the objects cns attribute Returns : true on success; nil if file dne Args : none _cons() Title : _cons Usage : @cons = $self->_cons Function: get the array of consensus fastq Bio::Seq::Quality objects Returns : array of Bio::Seq::Quality objects Args : none _next_cons() _store_read() Title : _store_read Usage : my $readobj = $self->_store_read(\%readinfo, $contigobj); Function: store information of a read belonging to a contig in the appropriate object Returns : a Bio::LocatableSeq object Args : hash, Bio::Assembly::Contig _store_singlet() Title : _store_singlet Usage : my $singletobj = $self->_store_read(\%readinfo, \%contiginfo); Function: store information of a singlet belonging to a scaffold in a singlet object Returns : Bio::Assembly::Singlet Args : hash, hash write_assembly() Title : write_assembly Usage : Function: not currently available for maq assemblies Returns : throw Args : _basename() Title : _basename Usage : $self->_basename Function: return the basename of the associate IO file Returns : scalar string Args : none


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Environmental groups filed a protest this week of a Bureau of Land Management plan to allocate more than 800,000 acres in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming for oil shale and tar sands development.
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Grand Canyon Trust, Living Rivers and the Sierra Club sent the protest Monday to BLM protest coordinator Brenda Hudgens-Williams.
The proposal would make available nearly 700,000 acres in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for research and development of oil shale, and about 130,000 acres in Utah for activities related to tar sands.
A news release about the protest said such development would release "intensive greenhouse gas emissions, hasten Colorado River drying, threaten wildlife and increase local and regional air pollution."
"The climate crisis is worsening every day. The last thing we need is to destroy our public lands for carbon-intensive oil shale and tar-sands mining," said Taylor McKinnon, public lands campaigns director with the Center for Biological Diversity.
Last month, the BLM made public a plan that dramatically scaled back a Bush administration plan to allow leasing on rangelands in the three states.
The 806,000-acre recommendation about 1,250 square miles was one-third of what the Bush administration had proposed to lease.
BLM Colorado State Director Helen Hankins said the compromise proposal takes a responsible cautious approach to resource development.
"Today's leases demonstrate our continued commitment to encouraging research and development that will help fill in some of the existing knowledge gaps when it comes to technology, water use and potential impacts of commercial-scale oil shale development," Hankins said in a prepared statement issued Nov. 9 with its recommendation and a 6,245-page environmental impact statement. "To date, technological and economic conditions have not combined to support a sustained commercial oil shale industry, and this plan lays a strong foundation to explore oil shale's potential."
A 30-day protest period ended Monday, after the environmental groups filed their 94-page protest.
For more information on the BLM plan, go to on.doi.gov/STHqH9.


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The annual TIME 100 poll is no stranger to sensational results. It once triggered a comic dance-off between an American television icon and a Korean pop superstar. More often than not, though, the online poll showcases the collective power of the Internet — invariably, the heroes of cyber subversives and netizens-in-the-know rise to the forefront, outstripping the world's traditional powerbrokers. The top two most influential people in the world, according to you, the voters, are the hacktivist collective Anonymous and Erik Martin, general manager of the information-sharing site Reddit. You'll have to scroll down the results page for a while to find GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
But another right-wing politician did come in third: India's Narendra Modi. The controversial Chief Minister of the western state of Gujarat, Modi is, as a recent TIME International cover story discussed, one of the most polarizing figures in the world's largest democracy: to his supporters, he's a pro-business reformer and man of action who ought to be the country's next Prime Minister; to some of his critics, he is little better than a war criminal, complicit in the hideous 2002 religious riots in Gujarat that took place under his watch in which hundreds died.
(READ: Why Modi means business.)
Not surprisingly, Modi's Hindu nationalist backers seemed to have rushed to the poll, helping him soar ahead of well-known U.S. personalities like President Obama and Lady Gaga. But so too did his detractors. In addition to quite a few "Yes" votes, Modi amassed the most "No" votes of anyone featured on the poll — more than 260,000.
Of course, given how heated any discussion of Modi becomes in India, the poll itself turned into something of a hot potato. Eight months ahead of local elections in Gujarat, a politico from the Congress party (in opposition in Gujarat, but in power in New Delhi, where Modi's BJP is its chief opponent) labeled him an "internet manipulator," using TIME's poll to boost his own standing. Seeing Modi's rise up the poll, opponents banded together, in some cases sending mass emails urging Indians to "save the future" of their country by voting "No" against Modi. A Congress party spokesman hailed the results of this effort:
What the supporters of the Chief Minister were doing was just a manipulation of the internet to make him repositioned as one of the top influential leader of year. This was not a natural vote as we know that his supporters were manipulating it. So his opponents have voted against him as they have come to know reality of things in Gujarat.
That reality, though, has little to do with the over-heated buzz and spin surrounding an unscientific online poll. Still, it's proof that Gujarat's Chief Minister casts a very long shadow over Indian politics. In an interview while in India, TIME editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh explained the prominence given to Modi on the magazine's cover and website: "Being on the cover of TIME is neither a prize nor an endorsement. It is a sign of a person's importance, or of their influence, certainly. Modi is unquestionably both of those things."


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This month marks a significant turning point for GCN, as we unveil a redesign of our print and online platforms that reflects a sharpened focus on the changing technology, tools and tactics used in public-sector IT.
In doing so, we want to zero in on what matters most on a practical basis to agency IT managers, whose jobs involve devising the technology systems and applications needed to make public-sector programs more productive and a better value for taxpayers.
We will cover the technology challenges of those who are charged day in and day out with evaluating requirements handed down from policymakers, identifying and sourcing the best available products and services, and integrating them into agency systems.
We will analyze public-sector efforts in technology fields such as cloud computing, big data, cybersecurity and mobile computing, and provide case narratives of how agencies faced crucial decision points and what technologies and tactics they used.
Our editorial mix will include explanatory pieces, analyses of IT data trends and commentaries, including blogs on the mobile tech front, cybersecurity tactics and emerging technologies for public-sector IT shops.
You will find examples of our new approach online and in the current print edition of GCN. In our lead story this month, we detail features of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system that will be most critical to public-sector organizations. Elsewhere, we show how the city of Minneapolis' IT managers solved a problem that sooner or later will confront most cities: how to avoid overwhelming civic call centers with mobile phone calls.
Few projects or IT teams better represent GCN's focus than the winners of this year's GCN Awards, whose profiles we feature this month. The 2012 winning projects show how government agencies are using keystone technologies like mobile and cloud to finally crack some of government's most historically intractable IT problems.
In one example, a team from Arlington National Cemetery turned around a paper-based recordkeeping disaster using best business practices and mobile technology. In another, the Marine Corps modernized its tactical supply chain using cloud computing tactics. There are many more featured this month.
By focusing on the technologies used in these and other public-sector projects, we hope to provide our readers a source of practical analysis and expertise tailored to the often unique requirements of public sector IT. It's a story that involves some the most compelling technology challenges of our times – and one we look forward to telling.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking extra soy supplements did not help stave off artery hardening in a new study of postmenopausal women.
But, researchers said, soy showed a possible benefit in young women just a few years after menopause — warranting more research in that age group.
The findings add to conflicting data about the role of soy in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart disease.
"I was not surprised" about the lack of a clear benefit, said William Wong, who studies nutrition and chronic disease at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and wasn't involved in the new study. "So far the research (on soy) has been contradictory."
Researchers have theorized that since rates of cardiovascular disease are lower in Asia — where soy is an important component of the diet — there could be something protective about the nutrient-rich plant.
For the current study, Dr. Howard Hodis from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and colleagues randomly assigned 350 healthy postmenopausal women to get either 25 grams of soy protein (including about 90 milligrams of isoflavones) or soy-free milk protein each day. Both types of protein were delivered in drink powder and food bars.
Women — and the doctors treating them — didn't know what kind of protein they were getting.
Every six months for up to three years, researchers brought the women in for an ultrasound to measure the build-up in their carotid arteries — those responsible for supplying blood to the brain.
More than 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, and most of those occur when blood clots form on plaque in those arteries and cut off blood flow to part of the brain.
In general, there was not a clear difference in artery hardening among women taking soy or non-soy protein supplements. In the soy group, researchers measured artery thickening of nearly five micrometers per year, compared to about six micrometers in the "placebo" group, on average — but that differences may have been due to chance.
It seemed more likely, the researchers write in the journal Stroke, that women less than five years out of menopause got some artery-protecting benefit from soy protein, based on their build-up measurements. Again, they couldn't confirm that wasn't also a chance finding, but Hodis said it would make sense.
Soy contains estrogen-like chemicals called isoflavones, he said, and women's bodies seem to stop responding to estrogen as they get farther away from menopause.
Women getting high doses of soy protein reported more breast pain and vaginal bleeding or spotting during the study.
"If a woman goes on this stuff, especially at this dosage... she still needs to see her gynecologist," Hodis told Reuters Health. "Those things need to be monitored," he said, in case they hint at future disease.
Soy isoflavone tablets can be bought over the counter and cost about 25 to 50 cents per day. The amount given to women in this study, Hodis said, is much more than Americans usually get — but is similar to what would be found in a typical Asian diet.
For women who would rather get extra soy from food, Wong recommended soy beans, bean curd and soy milk, which "nowadays is pretty tasty," he said in an interview.
The possibility of a benefit in young women "is encouraging, but we need to do more study to confirm it," Wong said. For now, he said he doesn't see much harm if women want to add more soy-based food to their diets. "A little bit of soy isn't going to hurt you."
SOURCE: bit.ly/rekt3q Stroke, online September 8, 2011.


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Camille Gaito was named an assistant coach with the UCSD softball program in September of 2013.
Gaito is responsible for working with the pitchers, as special assistant to associate head coach Jessica Millsap.
As a student-athlete, Gaito is one of the most decorated athletes to every play at Triton Softball field. She was a pivotal piece is bringing home the 2011 NCAA Division II national championship, the program's first national title and the 30th overall for UCSD as an institution.
Gaito received All-America honors three times, was named to the All-CCAA First Team three years and earned Academic All-District selection once. After a stellar 2011 campaign, Gaito was tabbed the CCAA Female Athlete of the Year, CCAA Pitcher of the Year, West Region Pitcher of the Year and the NCAA Championship Most Valuable Player. She finished as UCSD's all-time career leader in wins (98), appearances (154), complete games (101), saves (9), innings pitched (877.2) and strikeouts (617).
Gaito earned a bachelor's degree in international studies from UC San Diego in 2012.


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An amazing retro shooter with fantastic, upgrade-based gameplay! It's addicting, it's simple, and it's sweet. Five stars for this masterpiece.
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An amazing retro shooter with fantastic, upgrade-based gameplay! It's addicting, it's simple, and it's sweet. Five stars for this masterpiece.
nice game it's simple but fun and it a bit addicted so nice job
Far lower rating than it deserved simply because of one thing- this caters to those with mouses. I cannot even play properly and there is no option to change the controls. I hope this can be added in the future.
One of my favorite flash games of all-time.
I'm bummed, though, because it won't load.
Worked fine on Armor Games but had some lag issues there (which always seems to be the case at that site).
Really too bad. I do, genuinely, LOVE this game.
Great game! At least 1 full hour of challenging fun. Although it didn't give much in terms of story (endless, literally) so we never find out about the purge, it gives back with authentic gameplay.
I have nothing to say other than the system of advancement could be better (based on time and not on pixels collected/level).
Got 4,532,965 on my last run. This was legit, and anyone trying to go over a million should NEVER EVER upgrade "pixel" and "magnet" (avoid at all costs gathering pixels because when you get stronger, the enemies get stronger) and try not to upgrade "points" either because they only affect "kill points" and not "chain points". Since the rule of thumb is to do enormous chains (kills without being hit) the point upgrades become far useless than the damage ones.


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Breast Cancer Treatment Options
If you've been diagnosed with breast cancer, you have many treatment options available depending on a variety of factors. You can discuss the options with your doctor and your loved ones to decide the best course for you.
Common treatments for breast cancer include
Surgery: Everyone with breast cancer has some form of surgery. You might undergo one of these procedures:
Lumpectomy: Removing the cancerous lump and some of the surrounding tissue.
Mastectomy: Removing the breast tissue.
Reconstructive surgery: Surgery to rebuild your breast. You decide if and when you want it.
Radiation therapy: Radiation involves beaming x-rays or gamma rays at the cancer cells to damage or destroy them.
Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is a combination of medications that reaches all the parts of your body, and kills the cancer cells that may remain after surgery and radiation. Its purpose is to prevent a recurrence of the cancer and to increase your chances of survival.
Hormone therapy: Hormonal treatments such as tamoxifen are used to both prevent and treat breast cancer.


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Trainee Retail Recruitment Consultant
- Recruiter
- SW6 Associates Ltd
- Location
- City of London
- Salary
- 25000.00 - 45000.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 02 Oct 2019
- Closes
- 27 Oct 2019
- Sector
- FMCG/Consumer Durables, Retail
- Job Function
- Recruitment Consultant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Trainee Retail Recruitment Consultant – West London
Salary: GBP20k – GBP23k basic + Uncapped Commission (1st year OTE GBP30k – GBP40k)
Location: West London (Chiswick)
Seeking: Graduates, High Academic Achievers, Sales/Commercial Personnel, High Sporting Achievers
If you are MONEY MOTIVATED, driven by SUCCESS, and thrive in a FAST–PACED, LIVELY and COMPETITVE environment – my client has a trainee recruitment consultant position for you!
What to expect as a Graduate/Trainee Retail Recruitment Consultant:
- Working with an exciting mix of the world's largest retail brands, and small boutique firms – placing the best talent into their global teams
- Overseeing the entire recruitment process managing both candidates and clients from Day 1
- Identifying and sourcing candidates via headhunting, networking and advertising
- Attending candidate and client meetings across London
- Complete autonomy over your salary and career progression – the sky is the limit!
Core Competencies needed to be a Graduate/Trainee Retail Recruitment Consultant:
- Resilience
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- Money motivated
- Exceptional communication & negotiation skills
- Ideally you will be a graduate with a 2:1 degree, but strong academic or sporting candidates with prior sales experience also excel in a recruitment position
What does this client offer you?
- Personalised career development programme, designed by you and your manager, on Day 1
- Unrivalled sales and recruitment training
- Bonus scheme: with the mission to always offer the best bonus scheme in the retail recruitment market!
- Unique incentive scheme; Rolex watches, iPads, holidays, champagne lunches, Selfridges' vouchers just to name a few
- 'Work hard play hard' ethos; company nights out, dodgeball tournaments, summer rounders and Michelin star dinners are all part of the thank you package for your hard work
- Starting salary GBP18k – GBP21k + Uncapped commission + promotion average 3 months
This position is tailor made for driven individuals keen to get their foot on the sales ladder and start making great money as soon as possible! Available for an immediate start, this company offers a personable and supportive working environment to any trainee/recruitment consultants eager to show what they can bring to the team.


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"Apricots. Feed him apricots. Or apricot jam, since it's just past the season for fresh Apricots."
"I heard boiled potatoes are good, too. Just make sure to avoid anything fried or fatty!"
4 year old Juju had just contracted Hepatitus A, or sfair ("the yellowish disease") as its known here, where it is fairly rare, and as we gather around our morning coffee, there is no shortage of advice being dished on what the proper course of treatment should be.
We are in the Wavel Refugee Camp, situation just 30 km west of the Syrian border, where my husband grew up, and where several hundred Palestinian families continue to live (a fraction of the much larger camps in the rest of Lebanon). Originally a French Army barracks, Wavel is unique in several respects: is the smallest of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; the only one in the Hezbollah stronghold of the Beqaa Valley; and the one that has surprisingly experienced the least turmoil, having been spared the massacres, incursions, and family feuds of larger camps such as Nahr al-Bared and Ay nil Hilweh, and, most notoriously, Sabra and Shatilla, despite its proximity to Syria. The camp has in the past three years, however, experienced a significant spillover of other Palestinian refugees from Syria, crowding the already teeming camp, overwhelming relief agencies, and raising rentals significantly (more on this in another post). Palestine refugees now comprise about ten percent of the population in Lebanon, according to UNRWA, who overseas their care, but are infamously lacking in many basic civil rights, are forbidden from working more than 20 professions (including medicine), cannot own land, and have the highest figures of abject poverty of any other Palestinian refugees.
"What do Apricots have to do with Hepatatius A?" I inquired, curious as to whether there was some scientific foundation to this age-old folk remedy.
"You mean Sfair"
"Yes, yes, Sfair. How are they supposed to help?"
"Who knows, they say they are good. It's a liver disease. The liver needs nutrients". I guess not.
Well-meaning and often nosy neighbors, cousins, and extended family all offered their own familial remedies for the sickly boy, whose highly contagious but otherwise un-extraordinary virus, I learned, does not require medication nor a change of diet. But such is life in the refugee camp, where everybody assumes the role of doctor, pharmacist, and therapist all at once, and where the line between public and private space is blurred to nearly nonexistent.
The morning banter is interrupted by other, more enthralling gossip: Muhammadayn, one of two local camp bakers, has just proposed to his long-time love interest, a woman 3 years his senior, expressing his desire to take her on as a second wife, much to the chagrin of his current wife and mother of his five children, whose side most of the camp is on. The formerly obese baker (thus the nickname "Muhammadyan", or "two Muhammads") is now fit as a fiddle, having vowed to shed his weight after contracting diabetes from a lifetime of consuming leftover manakeesh.
Then, there is "Halawa", the camp bad-boy, who, after many idle years spent in the camp with no work prospects, decided to make the perilous seas voyage across the Mediterranean to Europe, after collecting enough to pay smugglers a handsome sum of some $14, 000. He now waits in Beirut for his contact in the Lebanese army to accept his cut and let him on a cargo ship to Turkey, and from there, on to Greece. Just last year, a mother and her two daughters from this very camp drowned on this very journey . But with little left to lose and nothing to gain, many young people have chosen to immigrate, either to Scandinavia (Malmo, Sweden, in particular) and more recently, to Germany), sometimes by marriage, sometimes by smuggling.
There is also news of UNRWA having run out of money, that perhaps schools won't start on time this year. Children rejoice, parents groan. The conversation ends on a somber note from which those gathered around coconut cakes, nectarines and Nescafé still manage to derive humor: the mosque loudspeaker announces the funeral of a women who died the night before-from a heart attack, as she was dancing at a wedding.
"She fell flat on her face. Nobody knew what to do with her, so they put her on a couch and covered her up, and carried on with the wedding! She's now in the morgue freezer. At least she went happy, and probably cooler in there than it's been here during this heat wave!"


text: I'm always fascinated to learn how designers come about their wonderful creations. A few weeks back I visited my dear friend and talented designer Deborah Ehrlich at her gorgeous Hudson Valley farmhouse (which I featured here) and had a glimpse at one of her new pieces — the Crystal Jelly Jar Shade. Although she's mostly known for her paper thin, clear-as-water, and absolutely flawless crystal glassware, Deborah thought it would be cool to venture into the world of lighting. Her inspiration came from the ingenuity of farmers who back in the days transformed basic jelly jars into impromptu shades for their lighting fixtures. Her classy version is meticulously hand blown in Sweden and is a testament of the purity and delicacy of her work. So guess what? To celebrate the start of its production Deborah is having a launch sale on Fab.com through this Thursday (hurry, time is runnin out). The lamp iincludes the ceiling fixture with porcelain base, patinaed brass fittings and the crystal jelly jar shade. I'm beyond-words thrilled to see the final product come to life.


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I got this idea from KrazFD's original thread in the IDAS main section. I thought it would be a bit helpful here since the game is quite new to most of us.
The purpose of this thread is to ask if what you have is a good time or not. No flaming will be tolerated for bad times.
When replying to a question, please provide a somewhat elaborate answer. The th
read would be quite boring if it were filled with simple yes and no answers.
Post away!
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Ehh lol..
Akagi dh dry - 2'46
Akagi dh wet - 2'50
Akina dh dry - 3'16
akina dh wet - 3'20
Iro dh dry - 2'58
Tsubaka out dry - 2'58
Tsubaka in dru - 2'58
Im driving a GC8 with a 3-3-3-3-2 tune so yeah..
I think they are my times, not sure, i over estimated so yeah if they're bad then they're bad lol
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Akagi dh dry - 2'45"5xx
Iro dh dry - 2'58"xxx
Tsukuba IB dry - 3'00"0xx
That was with an AE86 with 3-1-3-1-1 tune.
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Myogi DH Dry - 2:38:xxx
Akagi DH Dry - 2:38:6xx
Akagi UH Dry - 2:42:xxx
Akina DH Dry - 3:06:xxx
Tsukuba OB Dry - 2:51:xxx
Tsukuba IB Dry - 2:52:xxx
Posted: Aug 18 2007, 09:18 AM
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(capp 7-2-0-0-0)
Irohazaka DH dry: 2'52
Irohazaka UH dry: 3'01
Irohazaka DH wet: 2'59
Irohazaka UH wet: 3'01
Tsukuba IB dry: 2"58
Tsukuba OB dry: 2"57
(s2000 FT) WOLF's CARD
Irohazaka DH dry: 2"50
are these good times or not,...
im not really sure
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I only bagged a 2'51 on Myogi DHD using a stage 1 electronic, stage 1 muffler tuned R32. Had to deal with understeer but it ranked as the 5th fastest time on my arcade's machine,for now at least.
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it would be a bit hard to say whether the times are good or not since, like you said, everyones new to the game
maybe someone from japan should compare our times with theirs???
but then again, its good to share your times and talk about it XD
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2'54 Tsukuba OBD with S2000.
2'57 Tsukuba OBD with stock Altezza.
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Akina lake both directions: 2'47 middish
Myogi DH: 2'36 mid
Myogi UH: 2'37 mid
Akagi DH: 2'38 mid
Akagi UH: 2'44 mid
Akina DH: 3'07 flat
Akina UH: 3'12 mid
Akina UH: 3'11 low (GC8V)
Iro DH: 2'49 high
Tsukuba OB: 2'49 low
Tsukuba IB: 2'52
All of this (except that one Akina UH) is with my Fully tuned S2000. My wet times are now 1-2 seconds slower than my dry times. I can still see red on all my runs except Tsukuba OB where I'm really having a hard time trying to beat that .100 for the 48. What you guys think? As usual, Retsuka, your input is one of those I need here.
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your doing quite well actually...
your times are 7-8 seconds off the WR so there is huge room for improvement, but im not exactly running WR times either so i cant be much of a help in that department since i havent really played the game seriously in a while.
it should just be your practise time, no ones really had the game for a resonable amount of time and also i feel there are some discoveries yet to be shared with the over seas players.
for starters an effective way and explanation that shows how to resolve understeer and run fast times at once.
oh btw your times get overwritten for ver 1.2 btw which is really, really f**king stupid.
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Akagi DH - 2'45
Akina DH - 3'15
Iro DH - 2'57
Tsukuba OB - 2'58
Even though I watched the videos, I have no clue what they're are doing still
I can only copy line, f**k up, then PC at exit rofl.
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hi, i'm new too. 7-5-5-5-7
akg dh 2'48
up 2'52
akn dh 3'13
up 3'20
Iro dh 3'57
rev 3'04
Tsu out 2'54
in 2'58
i'm only interested in tsukuba outbound and akn though.. thts where all my money is wasted at..
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2'49'000 irohazaka dh in evo 4....check IR if you dont beleive me
1 go too ... gayest run
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is a '42 on myogi dhw with the MR2 I have now any good? damn understeer sends me to the sh!thouse once CP4 comes around...
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Are you the one who wanted me to join your team?
Those times are obviously good. I should be able to get around them soon, the 180 is so shit compared to some of the others though lol
3'11 Akina DH
2'55 Iro DH LOL so bad.
Tsu OB 2'51
Tsu IB 2'54 Haven't played it for about 3 weeks?
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No benny, sorry. You got me mistaken with FKnz.
Thanks for the compliments btw. How's the sil80 in Myogi? I heard its pretty good there.
Here are a few more updates, some posted on the IR, some not.
3'15 low Akina UH wet Trueno
2'35 mid for Myogi DH S2K
2'37 low for Myogi UH S2K
3'03 low for Iro rev wet S2K (I dont know how to play this friggin' course)
2'37 mid for Akagi DH S2K
2'49 low for Iro DHD S2K
2'51 mid for Iro DH wet S2K
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Akina downhill dry 3'25. Trueno 7-0-1-2-0, I know I suck
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Black FD
Myogi DHD 2'38'xxx
Rate it plz...
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3'03 on iro downhill dry in a stock 86 trueno, which was also my first ever game of IDAS4 ?
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2'49"8 using ae-86 levin,(7-7-4-0-4)..
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I got 2.53 at Iro DH...
My godd..... you guys are good...
Want to see you all playing TA
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Pretty good, IMO. I run a 2'33 but Im FT'd.
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Cant go below 2'35'xxx unless FT
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so ummm '40 on myogi dhw any good with a 4-3-3-2-4? only problem is the fking understeer that crops up every while and again >.<
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Attending to Early Modern Women, which has been held seven times at the University of Maryland since 1990, is moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, thanks to the generous support of the College of Letters and Science at UWM. The conference will retain its innovative format, using a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote dialogue, augmented by a plenary session on each of the four conference topics: communities, environments, exchanges, and pedagogies. It will be held at the UWM School of Continuing Education Conference Center in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, within easy walking distance of the lakeshore, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Amtrak station.
Attendees will stay in the near-by and newly renovated Doubletree Hotel. The conference will run from Thursday June 21 through Saturday June 23, 2012, and attendees will also have the opportunuity to participate in a special pre-conference seminar on Wednesday June 20 at the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.


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buffetbuster the one time that they went west (New Mexico), it was not very well attended. I am guessing that they will continue to have them in Eastern or Central time zones.
billyboy Sounds awesome! I hope you can shoehorn in a stop at Dottie's for those amazing chicken pies and donuts!! TnT, where/what is Harry's? I wholeheartedly agree with you on Pepe's and love that pepper relish at Blackie's. CC, there are quite a few threads about tours in NYC that you might find helpful. I think the trick is to take the parts of those local trip reports and cobble together a tour full of all the things that are the most interesting to you. I was going to include links to some of my NYC reports but my computer here at work won't let me for some reason. If you need any advice on putting something together for NYC, just shoot me a PM, I'd be glad to help!


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Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Rice Flour, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a source of Linoleic Acid), Beet Pulp, Rice Bran, Sunflower Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a source of Linoleic Acid), Natural Chicken Flavor, Flax Seed, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Yeast, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Fish Oil, Lecithin, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Garlic, Dried Cheese, Chondroitin Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Niacin, Biotin, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Sodium Bisulfate Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Carbonate, Folic Acid
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The main grain, and likely the main ingredient (as it appears in 3 forms) is rice. As a whole grain, rice is good quality but rice flour and rice bran are grain fragments that we consider to be filler. We note that fat is the fourth ingredient in the food, and that Purdue University has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry dog food as a factor increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs.
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Three traits explain most of the variation in the diversity of animal phyla, representing >80% of all known species
"What explains patterns of diversification and richness among animal phyla?"
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New research helps reveal why some groups of animals are more successful than others
A new study helps explain why different groups of animals have such different numbers of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.
All animal species are divided among ~30 phyla, but these phyla differ dramatically in how many species they contain, from a single species to more than 1.2 million (insects and relatives). However, the explanation for the remarkable variation in biodiversity among animal phyla remains largely unknown. Animals also have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life. For example, animals include plant-like, immobile marine phyla that lack heads, eyes, limbs, and complex organs (sponges), parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs, and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates). A fundamental but unresolved problem is whether the basic biology of these phyla is related to their species numbers. For example, does having a head, limbs, and eyes allow some groups to be more successful and thus have greater species numbers?
In a new study, researchers from the University of Arizona have helped resolve this problem. They assembled a database of 18 traits, including traits related to anatomy, reproduction, and ecology. They then tested how each trait was related to the number of species in each phylum, and to how quickly species in each phylum multiplied over time (diversification). They found that just three traits explained most variation in diversification and species numbers among phyla: the most successful phyla have a skeleton (either internal or external), live on land (instead of in the ocean), and parasitize other organisms. They also found that many dramatic traits had surprisingly little impact on diversification and species numbers, such as having a head, limbs, and complex organ systems for circulation and digestion. Read the Article


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Police have identified a man who was arrested in the stabbing of a Philadelphia cab driver overnight.
Luis Moreno, 21, and an unidentified man allegedly stabbed the city taxi driver nearly a dozen times during a robbery at Front Street and Washington Avenue in the Queen Village neighborhood, according to Philadelphia Police.
The attack left the driver in the hospital, Moreno under arrest and the other suspect on the loose.
Police say the cabdriver let the men out of his cab around 1:15 a.m. near Front and Washington. According to police, one of the men stood by the driver's window appearing to get money from his wallet when the other man took a knife and began stabbing the driver.
At that time the other man also took out a knife and began attacking the cabbie through the driver's side window.
The driver fought back, grabbing one of the men's knives and stabbing him. At that time the other suspect stabbed the cabbie in the head. The taxi driver also suffered wounds to his arm, side and chest in the process, according to investigators.
The suspects ran away. Originally it was reported that they took $20 but police later clarified that they actually took $205.
After the attack, the 37-year-old cabbie, who investigators haven't identified, managed to drive about eight blocks to Front and South Streets because he knew there are normally police in that area.
"Someone outside saw him and called police, and they responded quickly," said police Capt. Frank Llewellyn.
Despite being stabbed, the driver was able to give a basic description of his attackers.
Police picked up Moreno at 4th and Federal Streets. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery and other related offenses. The other man got away, and police say it's possible he was stabbed in the process of the attack.
The driver was taken to Jefferson University Hospital. He was believed to be in critical condition but police later said he was in stable condition with what investigators called "superficial" wounds.
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Bristol Chai | Eva Organic
On almost every street corner in India you will find somebody selling hot spicy tea, they are locally known as chai wallahs . For many Indians stopping for a chai is an important part of their daily routine. In each of these kiosks, the chai wallah will create an atmosphere conducive for discussion, sharing and tasting.


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Dalai Lama's U.S. Visit: More Business, Less Tibet
Exiled Spiritual Leader Speaks About Capitalism and Nonviolence in Public, on Politics and China in Private
During his visit to the U.S. that began this week, the Dalai Lama will travel to Silicon Valley to chat about compassion with Adobe Systems Inc. co-founder Charles Geschke. Then, after a stop in Los Angeles for a speech on nonviolence, he will head to Minneapolis to discuss the nature of happiness. Not on the Tibetan religious leader's agenda: a public talk about the standoff between China and his supporters in Tibet.
Beijing's mounting pressure on foreign nations is making it more difficult for political leaders to meet publicly...


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Teaching That Is off the Charts
"The thing I love about Berklee is that it's so diverse. I don't know any place where you can find so many styles of music—and experts in those styles. And the students come in at such a high level that they are more like peers. It's not unusual for a teacher to support a student at a gig, but they always give you respect as a teacher."
Many of our faculty members are professional musicians who record and tour frequently, but they also have a passion for teaching. George Russell Jr. started piano lessons when he was seven and is an in-demand player. He graduated from Duquesne University with a degree in music education and taught at a number of schools before joining Berklee, where he has won the Distinguished Faculty Award and the Ted Pease Excellence in Teaching Award.
"In terms of analysis and the concepts that we teach, Berklee has a system that is second to none. I have the latitude to present the material how I see fit, so I do a lot of playing in the classroom. I also teach a massive open online course (MOOC). When I see former students on TV or hear about where they're teaching or what they're doing with music, I feel very proud. When they succeed, I succeed."
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Chorus master: Martin Buchta
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The singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), which marks the beginning of Mozart's mature period, was commissioned by Emperor Joseph II for the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart attached great importance to the work, since it was the first operatic piece he presented in Vienna as an independent, freelance artist without obligations to his former employer in Salzburg and without close bonds to his overprotective father.
The theme and music of Die Entführung aus dem Serail reflect much of the composer's personal revolt, with the characters too longing for liberation and escape from captivity, facing wrath and arrogance, fighting – when their path to freedom is opened – with doubts about their loved ones and themselves. Yet as is customary with Mozart, melancholic and oppressive moods alternate with lightened, humorous, even slapstick moments. The story of Konstanze and her maid Blonde, abducted by the Turkish Pasha Selim to his harem, from where after overcoming numerous pitfalls they are liberated by their fiancés Belmonte and Pedrillo, is a variation on the vital Mozartian theme of seeking free naturalness and balance in human relations, above all, in relationships between men and women. The fleshed-out characters and musical virtuosity of the solo parts place Mozart's singspiel high above the works of (not only) his contemporaries and also confirm the composer's paramount position among the dramatic artists of all time.
The opera is staged in German original version and Czech and English surtitles are used in the performance.
Approximate running time, including intermission: 2 hours, 45 minutes, one 20-minute intermission.
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Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.
Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter to this newspaper, the noted venture capitalist Tom Perkins called attention to certain parallels, as he saw them, between Nazi Germany's war against the Jews and American progressives' war on the "one percent." For comparing two such historically disparate societies, Mr. Perkins was promptly and heatedly denounced.
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Learn More About the pH Levels in Common Drinks
As a family dentist, we know that people have a special relationship with their dentist. When you walk into the family dentist office, you are placing your trust in us to take care of your teeth, often from generation to generation. People come to us with all their needs, and more importantly, they trust us to educate them so they know how to best take care of their own teeth. Treating families, we have learned to take the holistic approach, where we prefer to use prevention over waiting. There are many things that can affect your teeth, cause you to lose your enamel, and even allow for decay. We want to make sure that you know as much as you possibly can to avoid things that can damage your teeth, and one of the most common things few people know about are the pH levels in drinks and how they affect your teeth. To that end, we have started having conversations with our patients about pH levels in common drinks, explaining what pH levels are and how they can damage your enamel. Before we start to talk about things like pH levels, it is important to first set the stage by reminding our patients that any time you put something in your mouth, it will affect your teeth. Knowing how substances affect your enamel is one of the key elements to having a long and healthy relationship with your teeth.
So as a family dentist, how do pH levels affect the teeth, and what exactly are pH levels? When you look at things in terms of chemistry, every substance has a pH level. This includes common drinks that your family consumes. Water is considered to be neutral because it has a pH level of seven, and this has no effect on your teeth. This is an important baseline for a family dentist and is one of the reasons why we always recommend to our patients that you drink water rather than any other drink. However, most people do drink any number of common drinks, which is why talking about pH levels is important. All substances are divided into being either acidic or alkaline, depending on their pH levels. Here are a few common drinks and their pH levels.
Soda is one of the extreme beverages that patients of a family dentist drink. Sodas like Coca-Cola have a pH level of 2.52, which in technical terms means it is closer in acid levels to phosphoric acid with a pH level of 2.00 than it is to neutral water. Other drinks like Mountain Dew (pH level of 3.22), root beer (pH level of 4.75), and Dr. Pepper (pH level of 2.95) all have a severely acidic composition that is damaging to teeth. When you consider that enamel starts to dissolve when it comes in contact with any substance that has a pH level of 5.5, you realize that these drinks are extremely harmful, especially when it comes to children with developing teeth.