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Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., has acquired the assets of Cal/West Seeds based in Woodland, CA. Cal/West is a leading supplier of alfalfa, clover, and other crops to seed companies and growers in the U.S., Canada, and 25 other countries around the world. The addition of Cal/West Seeds expands Dow AgroSciences' alfalfa business and strengthens its global forages business.
"Cal/West fits our business model – they are not only a technology developer in their industry, but also have a strong genetics program which will strengthen our forages business," said Rolando Meninato, Global Leader; Seeds, Traits and Oils at Dow AgroSciences.
Under the terms of the agreement, Dow AgroSciences will acquire substantially all of Cal/West Seeds' assets which include Cal/West and Producer's Choice brands, Cal/West SRL Argentina, the research and development technologies and genetics programs, as well as the production facilities. Cal/West has R&D and production facilities in California, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Paul Frey, CEO of Cal/West Seeds, said, "We believe this opportunity will effectively help achieve many key business objectives, and customers will benefit from access to more diverse technologies to deliver enhanced productivity of alfalfa and forage products. We are excited and looking forward to building a better and stronger forage business under Dow AgroSciences!"
The Cal/West acquisition will complement the Dairyland Seed's alfalfa platform and research programs and will make the new Dow AgroSciences forages business one of the largest in the industry. Dairyland Seed was acquired by Dow AgroSciences in 2008.
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Blown away by Hurricane Sandy: News of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
But the coverage is returning as Sandy's floodwaters recede and Republicans press the Obama Administration for more answers about the deadly attacks in the Middle East.
"I think there's classified information the public should know about eventually but there's no reason for it to be classified," said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, declining to discuss what classified information he has or has not seen.
Rubio said he hopes for more public information after his committee holds a closed-door hearing on the attacks Nov. 15.
"After the hearings," Rubio said, "there will be an enormous amount of pressure on them to disclose that."
Rubio, a Republican, said he was disappointed that the Democrat-controlled Senate scheduled the hearings after the election, and he suggested it gave President Barack Obama more time to spin "a political narrative."
Obama has received a boost of positive press from the latest disaster, Hurricane Sandy.
The monster storm dominated the news, largely because it affected so many people and destroyed so much in the backyard of the national media's broadcast nerve center in the New York area.
In contrast to how he handled Benghazi, Obama is winning plaudits for managing the crisis and striking up what some political observers jokingly called a 'bromance" with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a campaign-trail surrogate for Republican Mitt Romney.
The two incidents highlight the perils and profits inherent in the politics of disaster in the neck-and-neck presidential race.
Until Sandy struck this week, there was only one major disaster burning in the presidential race: Benghazi, the deaths of four foreign-service workers and the Obama Administration's differing explanations of what happened.
Now, Obama supporters are on offense, blasting Romney for suggesting in a June CNN debate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be cut or take more of a back seat in responding to disasters.
"We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney said, when asked specifically about whether to cut costly disaster relief.
Romney's campaign Wednesday supplied a statement to CBS that clarified his position about the "key role" FEMA plays.
"As president, I will ensure FEMA has the funding it needs to fulfill its mission," he said, "while directing maximum resources to the first responders who work tirelessly to help those in need, because states and localities are in the best position to get aid to the individuals and communities affected by natural disasters."
George Haddow, an Obama supporter and former FEMA deputy staff chief in the Clinton Administration, said Romney's comments show "he doesn't know what he's talking about" when it comes to FEMA.
"Disasters are the most-political events that happen in a democracy," Haddow said.
"They get all of your attention. The media's there. It's white hot. There's a ton of money involved. There are people in distress. This is a platform. You either jump on that platform and define what you're doing or, if you don't, other people will. And they'll define it for you."
Former President George W. Bush is a prime example.
Bush's approval ratings soared after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But his administration was hobbled by Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans in 2005.
Romney was in danger of having his position on FEMA defined by the Obama campaign when the Republican repeatedly refused to answer questions from a reporter about his position earlier this week.
Similarly, Obama refused to answer questions last week from a local reporter in Colorado about whether his administration denied help to Americans under siege in Benghazi.
"We are finding out exactly what happened," Obama told KUSA-TV. "I guarantee you that everybody in the state department -- our military, CIA, you name it, had the number one priority making sure that people were safe. These are our folks and we're going to find out exactly what happened, but what we're also going to do is make sure that we are identifying those who carried out these terrible attacks."
The day after the Libya attack, Obama said it was one in a number of "acts of terror" against the United States.
But then he and administration officials repeatedly suggested or said that it probably wasn't a terrorist attack, and instead was the result of an uprising due to an inflammatory anti-Islamic YouTube video that led to protests in Cairo, Egypt.
Rubio, who visited Libya last year and also sits on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said the administration's response made no sense because Libyans are among the least likely to rise up against the United States.
"I was shocked by that because it didn't mesh with anything I knew about Libya," Rubio said.
Crediting CNN and "open-source reporting," Rubio said it became quickly apparent that the Benghazi attacks were coordinated, occurred over a long period of time and involved heavy weapons. Yet the administration kept talking about the YouTube video.
"That leads you to conclude one of two things: Either they're incompetent because they couldn't analyze all that," Rubio said. "Or there's something they didn't want to know about because it's against their political narrative -- that al-Qaida's on the run and bin Laden died."
Rubio said there's a chance Obama's administration "underestimated the security risk in Libya because they didn't think terrorism was there and that it somehow didn't pose a threat."
Rubio said Democrats seem more invested in classifying information and delaying public hearings this election season.
Obama, in his Denver interview, suggested that wasn't the case.
"The election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened," he said. "Nobody wants to find out more what happened than I do."
But that won't happen in the U.S. Senate until after Nov. 6. ___
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That's right. I'm done! I'm done with the whole "boo-hoo-hoo"-feeling-sorry-for- myself, self-pity, crawl-underneath-a-rock, attitude. I just got back from the fortress of solitude (LOL), and I've decided that it's time to get back to blogging! By the way, do you like the new template?
On day number two of my blog life back in June '06 (feels like a million years ago), I talk about the Safety of Anonymity. It took seven months for me to accept the reality that anonymity really doesn't exist on the internet.
Yes, I did something really stupid to challenge this. Making and posting a video blog was not the brightest idea - especially if privacy was something I wanted to maintain. I know that I brought some of this on myself. I definitely accept full responsibility for this mistake. But, I don't regret it, and (for now), my video blogs will remain up.
When it comes to hate mail, many of you have told me to just forget about it and journey onward. Here are some similar thoughts from SaboCatGirl and Addumb. Maybe in a sick and twisted kind of way, it's a compliment. I also was referred to a video on youtube talking about a case of internet harrassment.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who sent so many supportive e-mails and comments. I apologize for not responding to each and every message. But, you have to know that it meant more to me than you'll ever know....
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smelliebear wrote:so is the problem with how social justice is performed by different people? like the way a certain sort of feminist (over educated well off white able bodies etc...) is constantly speaking about their guilt over marriage versus I dunno a TERF who cyber stalks and harasses other women? or is it more about how intersectionality is 'fine' in theory but in practice falls apart completely
Here's an interesting constellation of problems I noticed:
Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a topic of special relevance to you.
You too should have noticed, a lot of the leftist and social justice folks are very heavily Pro-Palestinian, because they are considered the underdog suffering oppression. by the white man. But if you read closely, their most passionate Pro-Palestinian speeches often creep into what sounds eerily Anti-Israelian and even antisemitic. While at the same time they would consider themselves the biggest enemies of neo-nazis. But because they see that a given, they feel entitled to walk an argumentation and tonality that would otherwise be forbidden. While there can be a difference between critisizing the political State of Israel or the people, it is quite... unsettling... how their passionate rhetoric is not always quite so clear in its growing sentiments of unspecifiable negativity they are getting used to when talking Jews.
What confuses matters even more: purely from a gender and women rights perspective, Israel is a shining beacon in the middle east compared. Palestina is among the last places on earth you'd like to be a woman. And the guys doing the worst there, are the types that are interested the least in peaceful negotiation.
So it is no surprise that at the same time quite some SJWs are outspoken against Islam and black "hoodmen", in how women are treated, and given the heat of moment, mount into racist remarks and perpetuation of prejudice, in surreptitious ways they seem blind to themselves, because another issue takes precedence to them, in a conflict of interests, while being often zealous in painting you a racist for every little off-hand joke, maybe in an attempt to reassure themselves that they are not.
In general, the more convinced you are about your good, the blinder you become to your evil. Because evil likes to hide in the greatest causes for good; that's where it can act safest and freely behind the scenes. That's why as much unjustifiable wrong has been done in the name of social justice as has been done in any other name. That's why nothing can be save of utmost inquiry and critique at all times, especially on the biggest names of the good and brave most actively and mercilessly critiquing others the loudest in public.


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NIH Launches First Center In Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
NIH Launches First Center In Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
Initiative Will Generate New Tools to Accelerate Study of Human Disease
"Providing public-sector researchers with this unprecedented opportunity will greatly broaden the scope of biological exploration," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "The NIH-supported chemical genomics network will have a transformative effect on medical research by expanding our understanding of how the human genome and proteome function, which in turn will speed the development of new ways to fight disease and improve human health."
In contrast to researchers in the pharmaceutical industry, many academic and government scientists currently do not have easy access to large libraries of organic chemical compounds. Such compounds, which scientists call "small molecules" because they are smaller than proteins, can be used as tools to modulate gene function and improve understanding of biological pathways involved in human health and disease. This area of research is often referred to as chemical genomics.
Established through the Molecular Libraries and Imaging working group of the recently announced NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center is based in the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) Division of Intramural Research. It is the first component of an initiative that will result in a consortium of chemical genomics screening centers. In addition to NHGRI, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is providing leadership for this initiative, which, like all of the Roadmap initiatives, includes representation from numerous NIH institutes and centers.
Up to 10 pilot centers will be funded at academic institutions and other locations across the country in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005. "These chemical genomics centers will be coordinated to build a network in the academic research community for identifying a broad range of small molecules with promising properties for biological research," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
To support the network, NIH plans to establish a repository to acquire, maintain and distribute a collection of up to 1 million chemical compounds. As was the case for the Human Genome Project, data generated by the chemical genomics network will be deposited in a central database, called PubChem, which will be managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine and will be freely available to the entire scientific community.
"Our effort will build upon what has been learned by the pharmaceutical industry, but it should not be viewed as an effort to turn public sector researchers into drug developers," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "What we are doing is simply giving academic and government researchers a chance to contribute in a much more vigorous way to the earliest stages of the drug development pipeline: the identification of useful biological targets. This is a win-win situation for basic biology, for the drug industry and, most importantly, for the American public."
Christopher P. Austin, M.D., who is NHGRI's senior advisor for translational research, will direct the NIH Chemical Genomics Center. The center, which will have a staff of about 50 scientists, plans to begin high-throughput screening of small molecules by the end of 2004.
While most marketed drugs are small molecules - and this class of chemicals has been the focus of intense screening efforts by the pharmaceutical industry for many years - researchers in academia, government and non-profit research institutions traditionally have not been able to tap into large libraries of these compounds. In addition, pharmaceutical research tends to focus on small molecules that act upon a relatively narrow group of molecular targets with known relevance to human disease. The chemical genomics center network will explore the vast majority of the human genome for which no small-molecule chemical probes have been identified. Of the hundreds of thousands of proteins thought to be encoded by the 25,000 genes in the human genome, less than 500 currently have a chemical compound with which they interact.
With an eye toward expanding the frontiers of genomic exploration, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center plans to screen more than 100,000 small-molecule compounds in multiple high-throughput assays within its first year of operation. "Screening on the scale we are planning is unprecedented outside of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. For the first time, biologists in the public sector will be able to take full advantage of the tremendous power of small molecules to serve as probes to advance our understanding of biology," said Dr. Austin.
To help achieve its ambitious goals, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center has selected a suite of ultra-high throughput target and pathway screening technologies from Kalypsys, Inc. of San Diego. The Kalypsys agreement, valued at up to $30 million over the course of a four-year contract if all options are exercised, will deliver to the NIH center a suite of technologies, materials and services, including a highly automated robotic system capable of screening more than 1 million compounds per day in a variety of biochemical and cellular assays.
The Kalypsys system features an innovative, rapid parallel assay process that uses proprietary robotic and liquid-handling technologies to dispense cells or proteins onto 4x6 inch plates, each containing 1,536 microwells. The system then transfers a different chemical compound into each well, and the wells are examined by computerized scanners to assess the effect of each compound on the cells or protein. For example, one compound may activate a particular function in a cell, while others may have the opposite effect or no effect at all. In addition to cells and proteins, the Kalypsys system will offer researchers the ability to screen small, whole organisms, such as zebrafish embryos or yeast, against a large array of chemical compounds. A high-resolution photo and a low-resolution video of the Kalypsys system are available at: www.genome.gov/dmd.
Data gleaned from the screening effort will shed new light on the function of various genes and the roles that specific genes play in pathways crucial to biological function. Ultimately, researchers hope the information generated by the chemical genomics network will identify new targets for therapy and tools to study them, thereby enabling such targets to move more rapidly through the drug development pipeline.
Also today, Dr. Austin announced that Jim Inglese, Ph.D., has been appointed head of biomolecular screening in the NIH Chemical Genomics Center. "We are very excited that a researcher of Dr. Inglese's stature in the pharmaceutical and chemical genomics communities is joining our team. His expertise in high-throughput screening technologies and assay development will be a tremendous asset to our center," said Dr. Austin, noting that Dr. Inglese comes to NHGRI from Merck Research Laboratories in North Wales, Pa., where he was a senior research fellow in the automated biotechnology group.
Dr. Inglese received a B.S. in Chemistry from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., in 1989. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal, ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies.
About the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
The NIH Roadmap is a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research. Additional information about the NIH Roadmap can be found at its Web site, www.nihroadmap.nih.gov.
About NHGRI
NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research develops and implements technology to understand, diagnose and treat genomic and genetic diseases. The NHGRI Division of Extramural Research supports grants for research and for training and career development at sites nationwide. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site, www.genome.gov.
About NIH
The NIH comprises the Office of the Director and 27 Institutes and Centers. The Office of the Director is the central office of the NIH and is responsible for setting policy for the NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The NIH is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Additional information about the NIH can be found at its Web site, www.nih.gov.
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Curve ball. You thought today was going to be about the new sweater but it's not. (But all good things come to those who wait so be patient.)
Rhinebeck was a lot of things. I had been once before but it was Debbi's rookie season. She handled it like the yarny pro that she is. We were both pretty judicious about what we bought and that had nothing to do with the visit a day earlier to WEBS. (Another story for another blog post.)
Debbi fell in love with a hat called Lotus Blossom at the Green Mountain Spinnery booth. Because she is my friend and I like everything she likes, we both bought yarn for the hat and are knitting along together. Well mostly together. Due to an operator error (explained here), Debbi had to restart and I may have edged ahead. I paused and worked on the sweater a bit while Debbi waited for her box of goodness that she shipped back from her East Coast escapades.
The yarn is Green Mountain Spinnery Simply Fine (a light fingering 60/40 wool/mohair blend). We are using a natural with a hand painted in shades from red to orange to yellow. It is going to be awesome. I can't wait to wear it on my walks all winter!
(The yarn cozies are from Buffy Ann Designs and are my new favorite knitting accessories and the markers are Knitifacts, of course.)
We are having fun and promise to keep you posted. This KAL is set to expire in 2 weeks, November 18th.
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The ex-wife of Steven Slater, the flight attendant who has become something of a folk hero for his dramatic exit from a JetBlue aircraft after an altercation with a passenger, said Thursday that Slater is a "consummate flight attendant" who was "born to fly." Cynthia Susanne said that her ex-husband is "such a gentleman" that the passenger who set him off must have been "a nightmare."
"I do not believe that he was rude to anyone," Susanne told Meredith Vieira live on TODAY. "I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this passenger was a nightmare" to have provoked Slater, 38, to launch an expletive-laden tirade over the plane's public address system before activating the plane's emergency exit slide and driving to his home in Queens.
Susanne said that she first heard of the incident when "it was brought to me by a news reporter over the telephone." She added: "It was shocking to me, because I couldn't believe the media frenzy at my door. I can't imagine what Steven is going through."
While Slater has indeed become a household name almost overnight — gathering some 160,000 Facebook friends in the days since his tirade and arrest — it may come as a surprise to some that he even has an ex-wife. Susanne says they were married in 1991, but their union lasted less than a year.
Susanne told NBC said she first believed their marriage ended "because we were very young — like kids, really. Now I think I know better than that."
Before Susanne's interview, Lauren Dominijanni, a passenger on the Aug. 9 flight that Slater dramatically exited, reported in a TODAY telephone interview that Slater had seemed agitated well before the emergency slide incident. "He had a huge gash on his head; he looked very disgruntled," she said.
Dominijanni also said that when she asked Slater for an antiseptic wipe to clean up some coffee that had been spilled on her seat, Slater rolled his eyes and said, "Not now, honey; maybe when we get in the air."
But Susanne told Vieira she finds such accounts "hard to believe" suspects that passengers' recollections have been affected by the media frenzy over her ex-husband. "It would not surprise me if perception was skewed ... perception is everything," she said. She also added that "I do not believe Steven to have a problem with alcohol or substance abuse ... he's just such a great, fantastic person.
"It's a sign of the times," Susanne told Vieira. "We've all stood behind someone abusing a store clerk." And, she added, flight attendants get even more abuse that most service personnel. "They are not waitresses of the sky," she said. "They are there to save your life. They should have that respect."
As for Slater, Susanne said, "I think he's fantastic. I know he will handle this with all the grace and humility he has.
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The GTX 570 Beast 2.5GB is a factory overclocked card that owes its high clocks to carefully handpicked GF110 GPUs. The card comes with Zalman cooling that served us well. We did not change fan rpm or GPU voltages and we still did some gaming at 895MHz. The GTX 570 Beast 2.5GB ran stable at 163MHz (22%) higher clocks than reference.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- TransCanada is considering delivering crude oil to the Atlantic Coast while it waits out the Keystone XL review, Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling said.
TransCanada aims to build the Keystone XL pipeline to deliver crude oil from Alberta to refineries along the southern U.S. coast. The project requires approval from the U.S. government because it would cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
Girling told Bloomberg News that TransCanada may decide next month whether to invest in a new project planned for the East Coast by 2017. That pipeline, he said, would carry as much as 900,000 barrels of oil per day.
"Production from the oil sands and U.S. production sources is expected to grow a couple million barrels a day, which means that we need, as an industry, probably three Keystones to get that oil to market," he said. "If Keystone doesn't get approved, the oil will still get to the Gulf Coast."
Environmental groups in Quebec may wage strong opposition to TransCanada's East Coast plans. Crude oil from Canada is considered more of an environmental threat, sparking opposition to projects from Keystone XL to Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal for British Columbia.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said she had "no doubt" that Keystone XL would come up during Friday meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry and Canadian officials in Washington.


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I am teaching a topics course on Riemann Surfaces/Algebraic Curves next term. The course is aimed at 1st and 2nd year US graduate students who have have taken basic coursework in algebra and manifold theory, but may not have had much expose to algebraic geometry. I will loosely follow the book Introduction to Algebraic Curves by Griffiths. In particular, I hope to spend a minimum amount of time developing basic machinery (e.g. sheaf theory) and to start doing concrete geometry (e.g. canonical models of curves of genus up to 4) as soon as possible.
My question is: what are some good concrete, accessible geometric topics in Riemann Surface/Curve theory that aren't in the standard textbooks?
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- ^Year of movie~ : 2014
- ^Genres of movie~ : Drama, Horror, Thriller,
- ^Status of movie~ : Released
- ^Release date of movie~ : 2014-01-17
- ^Companies of movie~ : Causeway Films, Smoking Gun Productions,
- ^Countries of movie~ : Australia,
- ^Language of movie~ : English,
- ^Durationof movie~ : 93 Min
- ^Average vote of movie~ : 6.8
- ^Translation of movie~ : EN,FR,PL,ES,DA,DE,NL,RU,EL,HE,HU,
- ^Cast of movie~ :
- Essie Davis as Amelia
- Noah Wiseman as Samuel
- Daniel Henshall as Robbie
- Hayley McElhinney as Claire
- Cathy Adamek as Prue
- Craig Behenna as Warren
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Director : Jennifer Kent, Writer : Jennifer Kent, Producer : Kristina Ceyton, Producer : Kristian Moliere, Original Music Composer : Jed Kurzel, Director of Photography : Radek Ladczuk, Editor : Simon Njoo, Casting : Nikki Barrett, Production Design : Alex Holmes,
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