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Protein Biochemistry and Proteomics
1st Edition
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Table of Contents
The Concept of the Experimenter Abbreviations
- The Daily Bread
1.1 Making Buffers
1.2 Protein Determination
1.3 Gels
1.4 Staining Gels
1.5 Precipitate and Concentrating
1.6 Blotting
1.7 Autoradiography of Gels and Blots
- Ligand Binding
2.1 Radioactive Ligand Marking
2.2 Binding 2.3 Analysis of Binding Data
2.4 Crosslinking of Ligands 2.5 Purposes
- Solubilization of Membrane Proteins
3.1 Detergents
3.2 Solubilization
- Protein Detection via Functional Measurements
4.1 Translocators
4.2 Reconstitution
4.3 Flux Assay 4.4 Constructive Thoughts
- Cleaning and Purifying
5.1 Pure Fun
5.2 Conventional Purification Methods
5.3 Affinity Chromatography
5.4 The Purity Test
5.5 Profiting
- Antibodies
6.1 Production of Polyclonal Antibodies
6.2 Immunoprecipitation
6.3 Immunoaffinity Chromatography
6.4 Antibodies Against Unpurified Proteins
6.5 Immunological detection techniques
- Proteomics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Sample taking
7.3 2D gel electrophoresis
7.4 Mass Spectroscopy of Peptides and Proteins
7.5 Protein Chips
7.6 Microsequencing
7.7 Strategy
- Subunits
8.1 Number & Stoichiometry of Subunits
8.2 What Holds Our World Together
- Glycoproteins
9.1 How, Where and for What Purpose are Proteins Glycosylated?
9.2 Detecting Glycoproteins in Gels
9.3 Detection of Glycoproteins on Blots
9.4 Deglycosylation 9.5 The Sugar Chains
- Treasure Island
10.1 Of the Paper
10.2 Of Writing a Paper
- Desert Planet
- Jaws
12.1 Suppliers 12.2 Suppliers by Product
Last Things
Hubert Rehm's Protein Biochemistry and Proteomics is more than a laboratory manual; it is a strategic guide that provides the reader with tips and tricks for more successful lab experiments. Using a conversational yet professional tone, Rehm provides an overview of a variety of methods in protein biochemistry/proteomics. He provides short and precise summaries of routine procedures as well as listings of the advantages and disadvantages of alternative methods. Readers will immediately sense that the author if very familiar with the challenges, and frustration of the daily lab routine. Never before has such an honest, tactical guide been available for those conducting lab experiments within the field of biochemistry.
Key Features
- Shows how to avoid experimental dead ends and helps users develop an instinct for the right experiment at the right time
- Contains short and precise summaries of routine procedures (e.g. column chromatography, gel electrophoresis), and lists the advantages and disadvantages of alternative methods
- Includes over 100 detailed figures and tables
- Contains a chapter on proteomics
Laboratory practitioners such as students, instructors, and professionals, conducting experiments within the field of protein biochemistry.
- No. of pages:
- 256
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2006
- Published:
- 21st February 2006
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780120885459
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080458434
"It will provide you with the necessary tools for success…if you are a protein biochemist, what are you waiting for? Grab the Experimenter and get experimenting!" --Weanée Kimblewood for LAB TIMES (2006)


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Storycodes: M+/f+; bodypaint; encase; packaged; outdoors; egg; hunt; bunnysuit; gag; cons; X
The van pulled up to the curb. Denise climbed in. She was the last, so she got the passenger seat. Tina sat next to her, Jess drove. Nobody spoke. The others in back said nothing. Most slept. She thought she heard a snore.
They rode across town to Anderson's warehouse. In addition to being their pimp, he had a nice little black market business. As they rolled up Denise could see the back of a panel truck filled with large bowls. Anderson pulled the door down, latched it, climbed into the truck and drove off. Jess followed.
It was a long drive: two hours on the interstate and another half hour on the country road. They pulled up to a stone gate. The sign said Greenshire Hunt Club Private. A paved road wound through the trees. At one point Denise caught sight of the house. It was big, not a mansion, but big enough. Anderson pulled off onto a dirt track, Jess followed. The bouncing woke the sleeping girls.
"Where the hell are we," someone said. No one answered.
Anderson stopped, got out and raised the door. He grabbed one of the bowls. It was brightly colored. Jess turned around.
"We're doing an Easter egg hunt and you ladies will be the chicks in the eggs. Who's first? Tina?"
Tina looked apprehensive, bit her lip, but nodded. Jess stepped out of the van, Tina slid over and followed her.
"Okay, strip."
Tina pulled off her clothes, set them on the seat next to Denise. Tina was the baby, just 19. She had a girl's body, hadn't quite gotten rid of her baby fat. She was adorably cute now. In a couple of years she'd be drop dead gorgeous. She had kinky blonde hair, chubby cheeks, a mouth that looked like a perpetual smirk. She had torpedo titties. Tits that were more long than round. But they were firm, stuck straight out. Denise felt a twinge of envy. Her tits had never been that firm.
Anderson set the second half of the egg on the ground, went back to the truck to retrieve his air brush gear. Jess followed him and came back with a huge bail of green, plastic grass.
She tore the bail open and stuffed it into the bottom half of the egg. Meanwhile, Anderson painted Tina, painted her head to toe a bright yellow. She put her hair up in a bun and Anderson pulled on the cap. It was covered in bright yellow feathers, more of a mask than a cap. There were holes for her eyes, and for her mouth and chin. He tugged it into place, got the eyes lined up, then he helped her into the egg. She stopped half way and raised her feet so Anderson could paint the bottoms. Anderson is nothing if not meticulous.
She climbed the rest of the way, settled herself in the soft, green grass. Jess reached into the van and grabbed her camera, took several shots of the naked yellow chick on a bed of green. She helped Anderson position the top half of the egg, set it in place. Anderson took the screw gun and fastened the half dozen screws to secure the halves.
The egg was brightly colored with a kind of diamond pattern running around the middle The pattern made it look like the egg was solid, which, now that it was secured, in a way it was.
The vehicles started to roll.
"I can't do this." This from Leslie. "Seriously. Just watching it has my stomach in a knot. Sorry. I just can't"
"No problem. There are ten eggs and twelve of us. Two will be cocktail bunnies. You can be one. Anyone else have a problem."
"Me," said Denise. "I don't even like elevators. You can ask Anderson."
"Okay, you and Leslie are the cocktail bunnies. Your outfits are in back. Someone want to grab those bags behind the seat?"
Jess made a notation on a map, put the van in gear, and they bounced along.
"Just so you know, the eggs aren't airtight. He's rigged up some holes and tubes that let air in, but not light. It'll get a bit stuffy, but I spent the afternoon in one last week and it was fine."
"You gotta be kidding!"
Denise turned back just as Diane handed her a bag. Leslie was holding up the "outfit". It was, in fact, a bunny suit. Think Bugs Bunny in pink. It was all of a piece with enormous bunny feet that looked like they started life as slippers. Probably had. Jess is the seamstress. She makes all their costumes. There were bunny paws. The suit itself looked like a kid's onesy, all soft and plush. The face or hood had big floppy ears, a little, sniffing nose, and long whiskers. Other than eye holes and the zip up the back there were no openings.
"Can I change my mind? That egg is starting to look pretty good."
A couple of the girls chuckled.
"How do we hold things?"
"The mittens are more flexible than they look. You'll be able to manipulate glasses and bottles, kinda sorta."
"No mouth hole?"
"Unh uh. You can breathe well enough through the fabric."
Denise pulled a roll of pink tape from the bag.
"And this?"
"Bunnies should be seen and not heard."
A few minutes later the vehicles pulled to a stop, another girl stripped, was painted, and sealed in an egg.
Slowly the van emptied until there were three. Jess made a last notation on the map and handed it to Denise.
"Don't lose this. Anderson's been making this up as we went along. He has GPS, but if the battery dies, we're screwed."
Denise reached for the glove box.
"No. Once everything is set, Anderson will make himself absent, probably take the van. Tuck it in your bunny suit somewhere."
Jess stepped out of the van and stripped. She was the quintessential dark haired beauty. French perhaps. Wavy black hair framed her flawless face. She spent a lot of time in the gym and, though not a hard-body, it showed. When she walked, nothing jiggled but her tits, and even then not much. Perky was the overused word, but if you looked up perky tits, there'd be a picture of Jessica.
Presently she was painted and sealed inside the last egg. Leslie climbed into the front seat. Denise drove.
At the house, Anderson led them through a back door and up a flight of stairs. In a small room the two girls stripped. Anderson helped Leslie into her bunny suit, paused to gag her with the pink tape before pulling the hood over her head and zipping her in.
"What's this?"
"A map."
"Yeah, I can see that."
"Jess thought it would be a good idea."
"I have GPS."
"Yeah, well, call it a backup plan."
Anderson made a face, then shrugged. He helped Denise into her costume. Denise slipped the map down her leg. Anderson looked at it frowned. You could just barely see it if you looked real hard, but he's anal about this kind of thing.
"Let me see that."
Denise pulled the map out, handed it over. He studied it for a bit, then folded the map in quarters.
"Here. Stick it in your paw."
Denise thought of a witty retort, but bit her tongue.
Once suited up, the girls looked at each other and burst into muffled giggles.
"All right. All right. Listen I'm gonna take you downstairs, show you where the bar is, then I'm gonna vamoose. The guy's name is Binelli, Angelo, Angie Binelli. He drinks vodka, neat. Neat means a double shot in a rocks glass, but no rocks. Got it?"
The bunnies nodded.
Downstairs, Anderson led them into the lounge. The place had a rough-hewn look to it, but purposely made to look that way, kind of like expensive, distressed jeans. The effect was authentic enough.
Binelli walked in just as Anderson was leaving. Denise fixed a drink and brought it over. Binelli took a sip, smiled and said, "Thank you." Denise could only nod.
"Are we all set?"
"Yep. Ten guests, ten eggs."
"Fine, fine."
And without another word, Angie Binelli left the room.
The guests arrived in ones and twos. The bunnies served drinks. When all the guests had gathered and consumed a second round of drinks, they pulled names from a hat and the first five headed out to the barn. Through the window, Denise watched as five golf carts putted by, each pulling a small trailer. Binelli walked up.
"We use the trailers to haul game. Today we have a different breed of game. I hear it tastes like chicken."
He gave her a wink.
A few minutes later a cart drove by. An egg wobbled on the trailer.
"That was fast."
The cart stopped by the rear patio. The hunter pulled the egg from the trailer. It landed with a thump, rolled twice, then wobbled upright. Denise was very glad she wasn't in that egg. The sixth guy climbed aboard and sped into the woods.
Nothing happened for a while, but then carts appeared and eggs were dispensed - all but one. Denise hadn't memorized the colors, but it stuck in her mind that Jess was in a green egg and there was no green egg on the back lawn. An hour passed, then the last cart appeared - empty.
"Hell if I can find it. Went down every trail - twice."
Someone suggested they all go out, but someone else noted that everyone was pretty much lit and, besides, it was getting dark. Binelli stepped over to Denise.
"He knows where he put them, right?"
Denise nodded.
Binelli pulled out his phone. Waited.
"Shit. No service."
Denis waved a paw, pointed to herself.
"What? Can't you talk?"
Denise shook her head, made a wiping motion over her mouth, then pointed over her shoulder and made a pulling motion. Binelli scowled at her, then stepped behind and pulled down the zipper. Denise tried to pull the suit off, but couldn't. Binelli slipped the hood over her head and the paws from her hands. She reached down into the paw on her foot and retrieved the map. The men put their heads together, figured out who had found which egg.
"Oh for Christ sake. She's about a half mile down the south fire road. Gino, head out behind the barn. You'll see a path that bears off to the left. Take it, then take another left when you hit the fork. Follow it for about a thousand yards give or take. She should be there. If you merge with the main trail, you've gone too far."
The men started to disperse, Denise tried to pull the bunny suit back on.
"Leave it. In fact, take it off."
She stepped out of the suit, wearing only the strips of tape over her mouth. Binelli gave her an approving nod.
"I like it. Nice and simple. Of course I may want to remove that tape later. Help your friend out of her suit. It looks stupid."
Denise nodded.
A few minutes later the cart came roaring back. It skidded to a stop, sending the green egg bouncing and rolling across the lawn where it fetched up against the rest. Denise winced.
There was a long silence.
"Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Open the friggin' eggs."
Someone produced a screw gun, the first egg was opened, and a naked, yellow chick emerged. The men hooted and cheered.
Binelli wagged his glass, Denise refilled it, handed it back. He raised it.
"Here's to a successful hunt."


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The Nature Center is a perfect learning laboratory for many scientific studies and community projects.
If you would like to use the Nature Center for research, trail work, or a special project, please contact Stephanie Weber, at 970-769-1800 or email@example.com.
In February 2018, Animas High School sophomores visited the Nature Center and created a "Photo Journey" for us. Several of these students participated in our education programs in elementary and middle school, and they were excited to return. We love seeing the Nature Center through their eyes!
Other projects that have been conducted at the Nature Center include:
Fort Lewis College Archaeological Field School – The Durango Nature Center is home to a Prehistoric Dinetah Gobernador Phase Site. This is a very exciting discovery that was excavated by Mona Charles and her students.
Fort Lewis College Biology Department – Field Ecology classes have a long-term weather station and water sampling projects going on at the site each spring.
Fort Lewis Geology Department – Geology classes sample water along the Florida River at the site each fall.
The Lions Club – The Lions Club paid to construct a beautiful all-season pavilion where most of our programs gather.
High Noon Rotary – The High Noon Rotary built a footbridge that crosses the Florida River and leads to the heart of the site. Upon crossing the bridge, visitors step into the beauty of the Nature Center.
Southwest Conservation Corp (SCC) – Durango Nature Studies has been a community partner with SCC for several 12-13 year old crews. We also serve as a training site for other adult crews.
Eagle Scouts – The site hosts various projects that are a result of scouts partnering with DNS to obtain their eagle scout badge. Recent projects have been the completion of a floating dock in our pond, a foot bridge across the Florida River, and bird house project for nesting birds.
Colorado State University – Graduate students conducted a study on boreal chorus frogs based on the large number of frogs at the site. The study involved obtaining cotton mouth swabs for genetic analysis and recording audio samples.
Animas High School – Students conducted a bullfrog study and came up with plans to eliminate this invasive species so the native leopard frogs could thrive. Click here to see bullfrog study results.
Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas – Because of our excellent riparian habitat, field studies were conducted at our site for the atlas. Findings included 42 species, including three that had not been seen before in the area. Click here to learn more about the bird atlas.


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by Sergio Moutela (from a series of posts made in the AMMA Facebook group)
What I've learned in 10-months since opening my meadery:
I am actually writing this bi-monthly "installment" two weeks earlier than my actual 10-month mark due to an upcoming surgical procedure I have to undergo that will put me out of the game for at least two weeks. Nonetheless, I thought I'd get this out before then, especially since I now have a clear picture of where we'll be in the very near future, and it's rather exciting to say the least.
So at this point in the game, I've learned a few lessons. Some the easy way, and others, well… let's just say, don't take a phone call in the middle of doing any tank transfers.
On the top of my mind right now happens to be something that doesn't get talked about much, if at all, and so, I will focus on just that for this post.
And that topic is, Software.
So you want to sell in your tasting room and online? How about manage club memberships? Have you implemented a surefire inventory system, especially one that works across multiple sales avenues? Depending on how "big" you want to get, an Excel spreadsheet or two might do just fine for a while, but here's a heads up, especially for those of you haven't gotten up and running yet, you're looking at a whole lot more work when running a meadery other than making mead and "taste testing". You will find that all the other demands of running a business in such a tightly regulated industry will eventually only leave you with enough time to keep track of all the numbers and compliance parts of the job! Well, the right software, in my opinion, is key to any successful business. Eliminate need to for double or triple entry of the same data, less risk for mistakes, and most importantly, a lot of time saved.
I opened Melovino Meadery with a winery specific software which looked great, and should have worked wonders for the business. Turned out, it was just riddled with glitches and such outdated backend structuring that it just made my life a living hell once business really picked up. We since switched over to using Square as our main POS system and a separate third party provider for our online store which is awesome. Everything works tremendously well now, but, and here's a very important but… How well is good enough? If you're like me, you're mind never stops until you have absolutely convinced yourself that "this is best possible outcome or method of doing things". And sure enough, "working well" wasn't good enough for me.
One big pet peeve for me has been, no simple way to align customer lists and inventory specifically. This becomes rather frustrating especially when running low on certain items.
As incredibly awesome as Square is as a POS system, to me, it also lacks one major component that becomes extremely and literally valuable to any business…. CONTACT INFORMATION. Square does not allow the user to see or use any customer names or email addresses. There is one option though, if you pay an extra fee per month, that does allow you to at least get in contact with your customers with some email marketing, but it actually limits the number of customers accessible to you to only regulars. Which compared to the total amount of people we have coming in as new customers, is so minuscule that it isn't worth shit. Maybe for a coffee shop or bakery with the same daily customer base, but not a meadery.
So let's put things into perspective: Melovino has around 175 customers every single weekend, 99% of which are all NEW customers, not to mention a handful more here and there during weekdays. To have those customers leave your place of business without at the very least an email address, well, that's just plain stupid in my book. You can't afford "ghost customers". But you know what you COULD afford if you have a nice long email list?? More tanks, more honey, more whatever you need to grow your business. The power of an email list is invaluable, especially one that just keeps on growing organically. If you aren't marketing your products, most importantly to the people that WANT your products, then you"ll be getting nowhere really fast. Reminds me of a post here I saw a few months ago when someone asked how quickly he should expect to sell 1000 cases of product. There is only one right answer, which is, however quickly you make it sell…
After two months using Square, I've decided that moving to a software system that ties everything together into a centralized database (customers, orders, club management, marketing, inventory, etc…), and allows us to continue building our email list is by far the smartest way to go and grow. I have since found a much better alternative to the software I began using originally, which is much more up with the times and modern technology as well as pretty savvy on multiple marketing opportunity angles. Will be giving them a shot soon and will be sure to revert with feedback in the one of the following posts like these.
Where do we stand right now as far as the meadery's progress?
I am pretty confident in saying that we have got to be the fastest growing meadery in the country.
Yeah, I said it. Even when trying to think of where some other meaderies might have been within the same time frame we have gone through even up until now.
Here is where we'll be at our 14th-month mark…
– Automated bottling line (arriving in 4 weeks)
– a second glycol system at 10 ton capacity (ordered today, arriving in October)
– 4000 gallon total tank capacity per run, turning around batches at a minimum of 8 runs per year, goal is for 12x per year (tanks also ordered today, arriving in October)
– 4000 liter motorized mixing tank
– two commercial pumps
– Crossflow filtration system (arriving December)
This is huge for us, but only the start. This setup will give us all the tools we need to do some major damage until we're ready to move in three years when our lease is up. Plans from there are to move into a 15-20k square foot space, install a brewery system, and continue to expand.
I will remind you all again… We haven't even begun distribution. All tasting room sales and club memberships (at 312 members as of today). Distribution will start in January in NJ & NY, and move out of state by summer of 2016.
We've recently been contacted by Wegmans to start carrying our meads at some local stores here in NJ, and somehow some way, the owner of the biggest distributor
in Taiwan got a hold of some of our meads and are ready to order as much as we can give them. Things are looking on the up and up.
Cheers, and mead on.
Owner of Melovino Meadery, Sergio Moutela, has become a notable award-winning mead maker who's products have wowed even the most discerning and educated of palettes. His mead has been served at the James Beard House in NYC and has won multiple Gold medals in some of the biggest mead competitions in the world, amateur and professional.
Find him and his meads at http://www.melovinomead.com
Vicky Rowe
She is also an experienced marketing coach and consultant who has recently decided to focus her marketing expertise exclusively on the craft beverage market to help meaderies, cideries, breweries and distilleries expand their business and get more customers while doing what they love.
Latest posts by Vicky Rowe (see all)
- 11-26-19 Amy Olsen and Annie Zipser – Michigan Mead Alliance, making mead, and mead talk - November 26, 2019
- 11-5-19 Mike Faul – Rabbits Foot Mead – peak honey, Irish mead and meadery IT - November 5, 2019
- 10-29-19 – Sergio Moutela – pyments, beer style meads, weirdomels and recipes - October 29, 2019


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Katy Perry officially has more Twitter followers than Egypt has residents.
Amassing over 90 million followers, the singer is now the most followed person on Twitter.
She's the first user to reach the milestone, leaving the likes of Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Barack Obama in her wake, and putting their 84 million and below followers to shame.
Twitter took to, well, Twitter, to share the news. And while the pop star had her account hacked just over a month ago, that's not stopping the social media site from partying in the name of Perry.
According to a release from Twitter announcing the new landmark, the top six expressions used to refer to Katy in tweets are: [my] queen, beautiful, [the] best, better [than], amazing and [my] spirit animal, NME reports.
It's party time, @katyperry! With 90 million on the guest list, we're gonna need a really big dance floor. ❤ pic.twitter.com/TiuHfZllPW
— Twitter (@Twitter) July 1, 2016
Perry's response to her new title?
Dang this is tight ? https://t.co/r9GhNsbNvy
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) July 1, 2016
Every1 else havin a lit Friday night & I'm here examining the nose pore cleaner strip I just peeled off & I must say, nothing can top this.
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) July 2, 2016
Now, according to the CIA's World Factbook, 223 out of the world's 238 countries have a population less than 90 million.
That means Katy Perry has more followers than 94 per cent of the world's countries have residents, which is absolutely insane.
Currently, Egypt is the closest to Katy Perry's followers with a population of 88,487,396 as of July 2015.
But not everyone reacted positively to the news that the equivalent of the population of Egypt, and then some, is hanging on to the pop star's every tweet:
.@twitter @katyperry This really makes me think about the ephemeral nature of human existence
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) July 1, 2016
But the majority were pleased for 'Queen Katy':
Queen of Twitter @katyperry 90 million followers #killerqueen
— Muggle (@VerlynnJohnson) July 2, 2016
Either way, having 90 million followers is massive – we're sure she's probably happy about it.


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What is Morality?
We speak about morality in many occasions. This time I want to present a link to a more scientific article. In «How does morality work in the brain? A functional and structural perspective of moral behavior»
"Neural underpinnings of morality are not yet well understood. Researchers in moral neuroscience have tried to find specific structures and processes that shed light on how morality works. Here, we review the main brain areas that have been associated with morality at both structural and functional levels and speculate about how it can be studied. Orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortices are implicated in emotionally-driven moral decisions, while dorsolateral prefrontal cortex appears to moderate its response."
Leadership crisis
"While today's column could focus solely on the government shutdown or various components thereof, a lack of leadership isn't just a problem in the United States; it's a global problem. It's also much more than an indictment on global politics; it's a systemic problem that pervades every level of society. I don't think there's much debate the world is ensnarled in a crisis of leadership. The question becomes what do we do about it?"
Through his personal experience, Scott Smith goes through 4 concepts that tent to put an end to our motivations. His revision of those problematic discouraging points might help us recognize it in ourselves and contribute to another small progress of eliminating and overcoming them.
TED's best for the week:
"What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its "loneliness, longevity, grim thrill" — that is, except for fiction, according to Parul Sehgal, an editor for "The New York Times Book Review". In an eloquent meditation she scours pages from literature to show how jealousy is not so different from a quest for knowledge."
Book of the week!
Benito Cereno – Herman Melville
The question of interculturality is a constant theme in many books. Whenever there is an encounter between characters from different origin, the reader witness a way of unveiling the notion of the otherness in our fellow human kin. However, there are very little books that present this interaction in such an overwhelming way. Melville's Benito Cereno is certainly one of them. While Herman Melville is known for his literary canon Moby Dick, the novella Benito Cereno is an incredible story that not only teaches us about the painful truth of the slave trade but also shows us a reality of three cultures. This encounter between the African, the European and the American is a mastery of a constant change of roles of the Hegelian Master & Slave. As we see in the selected quotes below:
Famous Quotes from the book:
- "In fact, like most men of a good, blithe heart, Captain Delano took to Negroes, not philanthropically, but genially, just as other men to Newfoundland dogs."
- "All this, with what preceded, and what followed, occurred with such involutions of rapidity, that past, present, and future seems one."
- Forget it. See, yon bright sun has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves."
"Because they have no memory," he dejectedly replied; "because they are not human."
"You are saved, Don Benito," cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; "you are saved; what has cast such a shadow upon you?"
"The Negro."
- "Benito Cereno, borne on the bier, did, indeed, follow his leader!"
Benito Cereno, Melville (pdf / audio book).
Person of the week!
For whoever visited the great city of Barcelona in Spain must have visited one or more of the sites designed and constructed by Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926). The world known architect designed some of the most fascinating buildings and parks in the world. Gaudí, a prominent Catalan cultural figure studies, worked and lived in Barcelona. With his work he developed a particular architectural language of the highest esteem. The same esteem this great man had for nature, his great inspiration, as he once said: "There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners."
In Homage to Catalonia, (1938) George Orwell wrote on the Sagrada Familia: "For the first time since I had been in Barcelona I went to have a look at the cathedral–a modern cathedral, and one of the most hideous buildings in the world. It has four crenellated spires exactly the shape of hock bottles. Unlike most of the churches in Barcelona it was not damaged during the revolution–it was spared because of its 'artistic value', people said. I think the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance, though they did hang a red and black banner between its spires."
La Sagrada Familia – http://www.gaudisagradafamilia.com/. For a Short clip on its magnificence, Click here. Moreover, Gaudí was so responsible for its work that he made instructions for the continuance of the construction postmortem. The magnum opus that began in 1883 is destined to end on 2026. Here is how it will look:
Park Güell – http://www.gaudidesigner.com/uk/parc-guell-visite-parc.html
Casa Batlló – http://www.casabatllo.es/


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A driver was being treated at a Saint Johns County hospital after his truck overturned Wednesday, spilling Jell-O snack packs all over I-95.
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Police said the driver's truck flipped over Wednesday morning after it slammed into another truck. Individual packs of Jell-O splattered all over the highway, which caused a major traffic jam.
The driver was trapped inside the mangled truck but was quickly rescued by police.
He was airlifted to the hospital. where he was being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
No one else was injured in the crash, police say.
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CCSAGE NATURALLY GREEN announces a brand new initiative in the fight against wind turbines in PEC.
Our colleagues at PECFN and APPEC are to be congratulated on their efforts to date before the Environmental Review Tribunal and the Courts. We at CCSAGE Naturally Green have been researching a novel approach to fighting wind turbines and are now introducing it to County residents and businesses. It will put Queen's Park, Gilead Power and wpd Canada on notice that their misguided efforts to industrialize the County with wind factories in south County and a transmission line along a 28-km route ending north of Picton, will have serious consequences for all of them.
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that if anybody suffers a business loss or reduction of property value because of construction authorized by statute (construction of wind factories is authorized by the infamous Green Energy…
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New implementation guide and planning tool for achieving integrated care.
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An evaluation of a quality improvement program with a pay-for performance (P4P) incentive in a population-focused, integrated care program for safety-net patients in 29 community health clinics.
This study assesses how fidelity to two key functions of the Collaborative Care model affects patient outcomes. The results suggest that timely follow-up may significantly improve patient depression outcomes.
Trauma can increase the risk of health, social, and emotional problems. Despite the high prevalence of patients with a past history of trauma, few clinics or Collaborative Care teams have a protocol for addressing it. These three tips can help clinicians safely and effectively discuss the trauma history of their patients during their initial assessment.
The objective of this study was to design a bundled case rate that aligned with the variation found in evidence-based depression care in primary care or Collaborative Care for Depression. The investigation's findings supported a monthly case rate design that better matched payment with variation compared with a one-year fixed design.
A study to determine whether coordinated care management of multiple conditions improves disease control in patients with depression and poorly controlled diabetes, coronary heart disease, or both.
This paper by David J. Katzelnick, MD and Mark. D. Williams, MD explores large-scale dissemination of the Collaborative Care model. The authors agree that there is enough of an evidence-base proving that the model works and that the problem lies in the implementation science and dissemination knowledge base.
An example of what kind of metrics can be tracked in an integrated care implementation.
A description of the web-based data management system developed to support the IMPACT study, a multicenter trial of a disease management program for late-life depression in primary care.


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A week full of loaded privacy news.
The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica, had revealed information about how the N.S.A. is using well-placed backdoors to crack down the basic encryption of the Internet, including SSL (and its HTTPS implementation), VPNs, SSH and many more protocols. So, after we've learned that service providers work directly with the N.S.A, we now know that infrastructure makers had probably done the same. As Bruce Schneier convincingly argues, the implications for trust in the Internet are dire.
The Acxiom Corporation, a marketing company that has build vast databases on most American, including details on the household income, financial background, and shopping preferences, is trying a new strategy: total openness. It had created a new Website, Aboutthedata.com, which allows people to view and edit the personal details that the company stores about them in its marketing databases. The wesbite has sparked a discussion about the inaccuracy of some of its information and its security.


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In 2007 I took a trip to the Arctic Circle to photograph killer whales. The setting in the Norwegian fjords was incredibly beautiful and I found myself profoundly moved after coming eye-to-eye with one of these magnificent creatures.
It was just days after my return from Norway, when still on a high from the trip, I saw Irish Greenpeace activist, Dave Walsh speaking on the TV news about the Esperanza's anti-whaling expedition in Antarctica. Until then, whilst I knew that whaling still happened in parts of the world, I had no idea it was taking place on such a large scale. The television footage was truly heart-breaking and I couldn't understand why in this day and age, anyone would need to hurt a whale, let alone set out to hunt down and kill over one thousand of these defenceless animals.
So I emailed Dave on board the Esperanza and started to follow the campaign closely online. I quickly became deeply inspired by the brave, committed crew and by the peaceful, yet proactive, stand they took against the might of the Japanese government-run whaling industry.
But it wasn't just the crew I was impressed by, my background is in communications, and I was bowled over by the genius creation that was Mister Splashy pants – the whale named by Greenpeace's supporters who became the mascot for the highly successful 2007 advocacy campaign to stop plans to expand the hunt to humpback whales.
The story got picked up around the world – Sky News, BBC, CNN, Reddit, you name it. Mister Splashy Pants became hot stuff! Thousands of people around the world got behind it, and the international pressure, quite simply, worked - the Japanese abandoned plans to hunt humpbacks and haven't raised it again since.
While all of this was going on, I thought quite seriously about applying to become a member of crew on a Greenpeace ship myself, but I soon realised that I wouldn't survive a week, let alone several long months, out on the high seas.
But one thing I can do is raise money.
So as the whalers carried on hunting fin and minke whales, I got more and more involved with the anti-whaling campaign, and raised as much as I could to help support it, even became Greenpeace'sInternational Fundraiser of the Year – quite honestly, one of my proudest achievements to date.
In fact, somewhere in the Southern Ocean swims a humpback whale by the name of SIDD - one of the other whales tagged in Greenpeace's humane research programme - who I felt very privileged to be asked to name. I took the naming very seriously… after much debate and discussion with friends and family, we agreed we wanted to name him for the Esperanza's crew – SIDD is an acronym of the initials of the first names of the three Irish crew members Sara, Dave and David, and of Irene, the ship's blogger.
The other thing I realised I could do for the whales was write.
After my experience in Norway, and with the Greenpeace campaign, I read every book and watched every movie and documentary about whales that I could find. I volunteered on a whale conservation project in South Africa and it was there, surrounded by whales, that I started to write my novelLook into the Eye.
I felt compelled to write the story as a way of trying to understand the almost ethereal nature and mystery of these beautiful creatures myself, and thereafter to share my findings with perhaps a whole new audience of potential whale lovers. A fictional story about two troubled people whose lives change after an encounter with a whale, Look into the Eye is set against the background of the 2007-8 anti-whaling campaign. It's sad in parts, funny in others, and part of the action takes place on board a fictional Greenpeace ship. Mister Splashy Pants himself even makes a guest appearance!
And so, as long as there's breath in my body and ink in my pen, I will continue to speak up for whales, and for those that fight for their rights, and for the health of the oceans that are their home. I dread to think what state this world would be in today, let alone tomorrow, if people didn't stand up, speak up, or take action, for what they believe in.
Jenni Barrett is a Greenpeace Supporter and author of Look into the Eye. She's donating half the proceeds of every purchase to charity, and 10% to Greenpeace. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook. For more about Mister Splashy Pants, check out the Ted Talk by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian:


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CLAREMONT, Calif. (Sept. 29, 2016) – Caltech men's tennis will send a record six Beavers to the ITA West Regional Championship hosted by Pomona-Pitzer Colleges this weekend.
Only three returning Beavers entered the field this year, with a trio of rookies joining them. Senior Morgan Lebby (Laguna Beach, Calif. / Laguna Beach), sophomore Zixiao Li (Coppell, Texas / Coppell) and freshman Karthik Nair (Irvine, Calif. / Crean Lutheran) were each stuck with tough draws, having to face #2 seed Jake Yasgoor of Pomona-Pitzer and #9 seeds Julian Gordy (CMS) and Bryant Johnson (UR), respectively. Gordy was the No. 87 recruit in the nation two years ago, while Johnson posted a 9-7 record across courts #2-5 as a rookie. Nair's match with Johnson has been tabbed as one of four "Best 1st Round Matchups" in a preview at Division3tennis.com.
Sophomore Derik Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif. / Canyon) and freshman Connor Soohoo (Redwood Shores, Calif. / Silicon Valley Tennis Acad.) have been matched up with Whittier College twins Thomas and Maxwell Koszowski, who boast approximate UTRs of 10 and 9, respectively, but combined have beaten just three players with UTRs over 10 in the last year, while both Nguyen nor Soohoo have lost just once each to players with UTRs below 11 in the past two years. Each has a daunting task likely awaiting them should they advance to the second round, however, with Nguyen in the same pod as #7 Joey Dulle of Redlands and Soohoo in a pod with #9 seed Sam Malech, who went 6-1 at his primary #4 singles position last year.
The final singles competitor for the Beavers is rookie Tine Valencic (Colleyville, Texas / Grapevine), an unrated recruit and twin brother of No. 96 recruit Miha Valencic, who will not compete in this tournament. Tine faces UC Santa Cruz's Derek Levchenko, a hard-hitting senior who memorably rallied from being down match point against Li at The Ojai Tournament last spring to win a thriller in three sets (5-7, 7-5, 7-5) and lost just one match to a player with a UTR below 12 last year. Should Tine pull the upset, top Whittier player #9 Andrew You will likely be his opponent in the second round.
All six Beavers will also compete in doubles, and against familiar foes. Li and Nguyen are scheduled to face Johnson and Avery Davis, a four-star freshman, with #4 seed Pomona-Pitzer's Yasgoor and Kalyan Chadalavada looming in the next round. Nair and Valencic have perhaps the most favorable matchup, against the Koszowski twins, but would have to contend with the #3 seed Sagehens, Antony Bello and Spencer Simonides, the following round. Finally, Lebby and Soohoo take on Levchenko and AJ Flora, neither of whom made the Banana Slugs' doubles lineup at the NCAA Championship, although each rotated in and out of various positions during the regular season.
Soohoo d. MKoszowski (6-0, 6-2); #9 Malech d. Soohoo (6-2, 6-1); Bello d. Soohoo (6-1, 6-1)
Levchenko d. Valencic (7-6 [5], 6-2); Valencic d. Kasai (6-2, 6-1); #9 Berber d. Valencic (6-3, 6-4)
TKoszowski d. Nguyen (6-3, 6-2); Nguyen d. Helms (6-2, 6-1); Mandic d. Nguyen (6-4, 6-0)
#2 Yasgoor d. Lebby (6-1, 6-0); Kettering d. Lebby (5-7, 6-4, 10-8)
#9 Gordy d. Li (6-2, 6-2); Van Butselaar d. Li (6-0, 6-2)
#9 Johnson d. Nair (wd.)
Flora/Levchenko d. Lebby/Soohoo (8-4)
Davis/Johnson d. Li/Nguyen (8-5)
Koszowski/Koszowski d. Nair/Valencic (wd.)
Follow and show support for your Caltech Beavers on Twitter (@CaltechBeavers), Facebook, YouTube and Instagram!


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Q: I have had persistent pain in my hip area for months. I have tried stretching, exercise, physical therapy and nothing seems to work. Is there anything else I can do?
A: It is not uncommon for people to suffer with hip pain for many months or even years before the actual diagnosis is established. A common cause of hip pain is tearing of the cartilage lining of the hip socket or pinching and rubbing of tissue in the hip joint. Pain in getting up from a seated position or while standing for prolonged periods of time—or even getting in or out of a car or off a bike—can be suggestive of damage in the hip joint. Pain during intimacy can also be a sign of problems in the hip. Persistent hip pain or groin pain should not be ignored, as it can lead to early degeneration and long-term problems in the hip joint. It is certainly something worth having evaluated by a physician who is well versed in problems related to the hip.
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Daily Content Archive(as of Saturday, December 30, 2017)
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Defining the Past Perfect TenseThe past perfect tense expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past. How do we form the past perfect tense? More...
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PorcupinesAmong the largest rodents in the world, porcupines are found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas and are known for their coats of sharp quills that defend them from predators. Though porcupines' quills take various forms depending on the species, all are modified hairs coated with thick plates of a tough structural protein called keratin that makes them needle-sharp. Contrary to popular belief, porcupines are not capable of shooting their quills. How, then, do they defend themselves? More...
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The Iroquois Theater Fire (1903)Billed as "absolutely fireproof," Chicago's Iroquois Theater was filled with mostly women and children—out of school for the holidays—for a matinée on December 30, 1903, when a curtain caught fire. One actor tried calming the audience, but panic spread. Many escape routes were unmarked, and a stampede ensued. As people fled, the cold air they let in fed the inferno. More than 575 people died—a death toll more than double that of the famed 1871 Chicago Fire. What show had packed the theater? More...
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Titus (39 CE)The son of Roman emperor Vespasian, Titus gained renown as a military commander and was given command of the Praetorian Guard after repressing the Jewish rebellion in Judea. Upon succeeding his father in 79 CE, he pursued a policy of conciliation and sought popular favor. A benevolent ruler, he halted prosecutions for treason and spent lavishly on subjects, a practice that earned him goodwill in Rome but caused his successor financial trouble. What two disasters struck during his reign? More...
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|Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
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things that go bump in the night— Frightful, deadly, and usually supernatural things or events that one imagines in the dark of night. More...
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Rizal Day (2018)A national holiday in the Philippines, Rizal Day commemorates the execution of the national hero Dr. José Rizal on this day in 1896. Flags fly at half-staff throughout the country, and special rites are led by the president at the 500-foot Rizal Monument in Manila. Writing from Europe and denouncing the corrupt ruling of the Philippines by Spanish friars, Rizal became known as a leader of the Philippine reform movement. He had no direct role in the nationalist insurrection; nevertheless, he was arrested, tried for sedition, and executed by a firing squad. More...
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Namita, I pore over your posts, drool & draw a great deal of vicarious pleasure. Finally I baked the semolina banana eggless fat-free cake in shifts. Gathered the ingredients at breakfast time, not enough curds so set a big bowl & went out for the society garden committe meeting. Returned & seved lunch, mixed the semolina & yoghurt at 2.30 pm, cleared the counter & fell asleep, we were in a submarine yesterday & went to bed v late. Instead of one hr I stirred in the rest of the ingredients after th-r-ee hrs, beat that? The cake baked to perfection, in spite of straying from instructions, the sooji grains are succulent; the bananas were sweet so I could have done less sugar, next time. Love you, Namita. Thanks a million. I enjoy your accounts as much as your recipes. Love to everyone xoxoxox KavitaReplyDelete
Hi,wanted to make it today, how much are the bananas in cup measurement?1 cup.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Binu, Yes mashed bananas would be around 1 Cup. Happy Baking!Delete
I made this,came out well,thanks,I will be making this again!ReplyDeleteReplies
So happy to know that your banana bread came out well.Delete
Hello, I'm baking this batter as 2 loaves in 4 inch small pans for a bake sale! Came out well.also added dark chocolate chips to the remaining batter for a bigger loaf.ReplyDelete
Out of all your banana bread recipes, do you have a favorite?Replies
Hello Binu, so excited to know about the bake sale. How did it go? Great idea to have added banana chips. Of all the banana bread, i loved the yeasted banana bread I baked some time ago. It comes out really soft.Delete
Hello Namita,the bake sale went well,it was for raising funds for supporting poor families. Banana bread was a hit!!It's become our family favorite too.👍ReplyDelete
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Can i use refined oil instead of olive oil?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, You may use refined oil. Happy Baking!Delete
Hello, made this twice in this week, one for a friend n one for the family.. one of our favorite cake!!👍ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You so much Binu. Even I feel like baking it again :)Delete


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I'm running puppet and it functions okay, but it's taking about 15 minutes on a sync without any changes, and it seems to me that this shouldn't take more than a minute or two. Here are some stats:
- ping 40ms
- 49 files, 3 MB, largest is 90K
- master is Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) w/ puppet 2.7.11
- (upgrading to puppet 2.7.23 didn't help)
- agent is Debian 7/64 w/ puppet version 2.7.23
- server is serving one client, only
I have tried with and without Apache tunnel/WEBrick/passenger with the same results.
What are some strategies for diagnosing this and and improving on the sync time?
UPDATE: In my case, in addition to the selected answer for using the
--evaltrace option, I used
strace and found that TCP connections were timing out and that my firewall was rate-limiting. (Why puppet didn't report the timeout and why it's not reusing the connection, I don't know.)


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I wanted to make a ricotta pie since a while and I decided this week-end was the time to give it a try. I filled it with (tones of) chocolate chips and topped it with fresh strawberries & raspberries and maple sirup.
Honestly? It was such a decadent breakfast ! The perfect balance between sweetness, fluffy and fruity tastes, I could have eaten the whole pie. Easily...
Find below the recipe and all that inspired me this week.
What are your plans for this week-end? Hope you are having a lot of fun !
Sunday Recipe
Makes 1 pie:
500 gr ricotta
5 eggs
140 gr sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
125 gr chocolate chips
1 pie pastry
* Preheat your oven on 180°C.
* In a large bowl mix the egg yolk and sugar. Add the ricotta and vanilla extract stirring well between both.
* Beat the egg whites until stiff adding a pinch of salt at mid-way.
* Add the egg whites in 3 times at the ricotta mixture, mixing gently.
* Add the chocolate chip, stir just to spread them into the mixture.
* Place the pie pastry into a mold with high sides (such as a cheesecake mold).
* Pour into the ricotta and chocolate chip mixture and bake for 40 minutes. The pie is cooked when golden and slightly harden at the center.
Serve warm or cold as it is, or topped with fresh red fruits and maple sirup (my favorite!)
Sunday Music
Sunday Pics
I am currently writing some helpful (I do hope so!) post about wardrobe rehab and here are some inspiring pics I found on internet.
Source : inconnue
Sunday Shoes
Few sundays ago I talked to you about this australian shoes brand I love, Senso. They have amazing cut-out boots and I found very similar ones for a lower price at Jonak's. How cute they would be with a silk dress or with a boyfriend pair of jeans?
Find them here ;)
Sunday Contest
This is the last day of the Antik Batik Facebook page contest and maybe win an accessorize from the brand, so don't forget to like my picture to enter the contest !
Sunday DIY
How lovely is this lighting heart?
Find the DIY here.
Sunday Food
Home-made pretzel.
I have made pretzel from scratch yesterday night and we loved them so much at home. Recipe coming this week on the blog ;)
Sunday Jewels
I don't wear a lot of jewelry. Well, I actually wear only one gold thin necklace and that's all. But I have found this one recently and I surprised myself wearing it every day since !
Sunday Look
I am currently obsess with any kind of skit that will have psychedelic print. I love their capacity to bright up an outfit with this sole pattern, and how versatile they can be (wear them with leather jacket, a pair of sneakers at daytime and heals at night).
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Resharper Jedi
Oren (Ayende) seems to be the official Resharper Jedi, elected by the guys during DevTeach. In his Hibernating Rhinos series you can see how fast he uses a lot of features from Resharper.
In my teams I try to convince every developer to learn at least the most important Resharper shortcuts, it really really improves the programming speedy. I personally rarely use a mouse inside visual studio due Resharper features shortcuts.
I cannot imagine myself using Visual Studio without Resharper anymore; it seems only a text editor with an integrated compiler/debugger. However, I'm happy with VS + Resharper, but I still would like a "JetBrains IDE for .NET", kinda "IntelliN".
Talking about Resharper, I just found a new blog from a JetBrains' developer about Resharper. It looks like a nice blog:
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Fast system <> real time system
Why a lot of people think that systems that have fast response are "real time" systems? I often hear things like "It's a real time system, the values are constantly updated in real time.", "It's a real time system, it responds immediately after it receive a request". Real time is about compromise to give a response in a window of time, I mean, the system has to produce a response in x seconds, no matter what, it has to produce it in x seconds, point. A formal definition from http://www.dedicated-systems.com/:
A Real-Time System responds in a (timely) predictable way to unpredictable external stimuli arrivals. In short, a Real-Time System has to fulfill under extreme load conditions:
- Timeliness: meet deadlines, it is required that the application has to finish certain tasks within the time boundaries it has to respect;
- Simultaneity or simultaneous processing: more than one event may happen simultaneously, all deadlines should be met.;
- Predictability: the real-time system has to react to all possible events in a predictable way;
- Dependability or trustworthiness: it is necessary that the real-time system environment can rely on it.
In one of my current projects we have to control PLCs for pallets transportation in a warehouse, we have to reply the PLCs quick, otherwise the efficiency of the warehouse goes down, but it's far from being a real time system, even so I bet someone (colleagues, partners, client, providers, etc.) will call it a real time in some moment in the future.
The majority of systems people call real time are .NET or Java (not JSR-001/JSR-282) systems. However, the garbage collector in .NET and Java is not deterministic, so you cannot be sure about when some things will happen. For this reason, you cannot build real time systems in .NET or Java, at least not a "hard" real time system.
With JSR-001/JSR-282, Java will be able to build hard real time system; however, I've never saw anything similar for .NET, unfortunately.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
My default .NET data access strategy - NHibernate based approach
Instead of creating NHibernate mapping files, we are using Castle Active Record (AR) attributes to decorate our domain model classes. Analyzing the attributes AR can generate the mapping files dynamically, so we don't have to deal with a lot of xmls files. We have something like this.
But we also don't create the domain model directly, we use the Active Writer, which is a VS add-in that works like VS Class Designer, but it generates classes decorated with the AR attributes. So, it's very fast to create a full domain model mapped using the AR attributes.
However, we don't use the ActiveRecordBase class as base class for our model in order to avoid getting the persistence methods in our domain model. We prefer to use repositories (DDD flavor).
For the repositories we use a slightly modified version of Rhino Commons ARRepository (generic specialization). The implementation uses the ActiveRecordMediator which already have most of basic persistence operations, such as Save, Delete, FindAll, FindOne, etc.
For custom queries, we try to avoid using the NHibernate query API directly; instead we use the Ayende's NHibernate Query Generator tool. It allows us to have strong typed queries that feels like SQL Queries, much better/natural in my opinion.
So, we have something like this in the EquipmentRepository:
Equipment FindDougEquip()
return FindOne(Where.Equipment.Name == "DouglasEquip" && Where.Equipment.Id > 0);
Well, I think this approach is very productive; we have a full persistable domain model and basic repository classes, besides the strong typed queries in few minutes. Really really fantastic open source tools.
Monday, May 7, 2007
First post - Introducing myself
As you can find somewhere in this page, my name is Douglas and I'm from São Paulo, Brazil. I'm an Electrical/Computer Engineer graduated at Poli-USP. I work as a Team Leader at Chemtech, an industrial services company from Siemens group. I usually work at São Paulo office, mainly in software development projects for a range of industries such as metals and mining, logistics, water and electric power, etc. Chemtech is a really nice place to work, I'll post about it in the future.
I'm a huge fan of modern/agile software development practices like refactoring, continuous integration, TDD, DDD and techniques like IoC/DI, ORM, AOP, etc.. Most of my projects uses .NET platform (my favorite), but I already did some huge projects in Java EE world, which I like as well.
I'm always looking for great tools, whenever possible, open source one. In .NET world I (and my teams) use a lot of them, such as Castle Project stack (Windsor, Active Record, Active Writer, Dynamic Proxy), NHibernate, Ayende tools (Rhino Mocks, NQG, NQA, Commons), Cruise Control .NET, NAnt, NUnit, etc.. While JetBrains does not create a kick ass .NET IDE, I use Visual Studio with its fantastic Resharper add-in. In Java world I use the similar ones.
I'm also very interested in project management, I like to compare and merge/use whenever possible agile practices such as Scrum and XP with PMI PMBoK guidance in my projects.
Well, so it's the end of my first post. In the future I'll post more about my life in software development industry and other random stuff.
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Past Convention Darlings: Where Are They Now?
Which convention speakers are making a repeat appearance or not coming back?
August 27, 2012 -- intro: Every political convention comes with its memorable moments from Sarah Palin's shout out to the hockey moms across America to that memorable kiss between Al and Tipper Gore that some wish could be erased from their memories.
But with each political cycle, the players at these conventions come and go – with some coming back for seconds and thirds and others leaving the show all together.
Here's a list of past convention darlings who are making repeat appearances, not coming back, or are set for their GOP convention debut this year in Tampa.
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Only one George Bush will be at this year's GOP convention, and it's not one of the former presidents.
At the age of 12, a young George P. Bush ambled up to the stage and recited the pledge of allegiance at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his grandfather George H.W. Bush received the GOP nod for the presidency.
Since his adolescent convention debut, George P. Bush, who is the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and nephew of President George W. Bush, has maintained a consistent presence at GOP conventions. Bush spoke at the 1992 convention in Houston, Texas where his grandfather was renominated as well as the 2000 and 2004 GOP gatherings where his uncle received the nod for president.
In 2000, George P. Bush delivered a memorable bilingual speech at the party's convention in Philadelphia on the same night his uncle spoke, calling George W. "a good man, un hombre de grande sentimientos, who loves his family and his country." George P. concluded his speech with "Que viva W! Que viva Bush! Y que vivan Los Estados Unidos! Muchas gracias."
"I am an American, but like many, I come from a diverse background. And I'm really proud of it, and I respect leaders who respect my heritage," George P. Bush, who's mother was born in Mexico, said in 2000.
While Bush 41 and Bush 43 won't attend this year's convention, George P. Bush and his father, Jeb, will represent the family in Tampa this year. George P. Bush's Maverick PAC will sponsor a baseball game with members of Congress as well as host Mav Bash, a party at the Florida Museum of Photographic Art. Bush also will appear on a panel for the economic development series during the convention alongside Florida Gov. Rick Scott and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. While George P. does not have an official speaking role at the convention, his father Jeb Bush will speak on Thursday night, the same evening as the Republian presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
George P. Bush has carved out a niche of his own in Republican politics. He recently became the deputy finance chairman for the Republican Party of Texas and runs Maverick PAC, which focuses on boosting the "next generation of Republican leaders." But does the young Bush plan on furthering the Bush legacy of holding public office?
"Right now I'm reviewing potential opportunities, and we'll - we'll see where it takes me," Bush told ABC News' Jonathan Karl this summer.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took the political world by surprise when Sen. John McCain announced her as his running mate, and she bonded with hockey moms throughout the country with one simple line from her speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
"You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick," Palin said.
Palin's political action committee, Sarah PAC, placed a deposit on an event space in Tampa earlier this year, but the former VP candidate said she will not speak at the convention just four years after she electrified the GOP in Minnesota.
"This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and I'm excited to hear them," Palin said in a statement earlier this month.
But one half of the 2008 ticket will take the GOP stage this week. Sen. John McCain, who campaigned for Romney in Florida during the state's primary in January, is set to speak on Wednesday.
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quicklist: 3 title: Hank Williams Jr. category: Obama-trashing Country Music Star url: text:
Hank Williams Jr. got a crowd riled up on the opening night of the 2000 Republican convention in Philadelphia, asking the crowd of delegates, "My fellow rowdy Republicans. Are you ready for the best Republican National Convention ever?"
On ABC News' programming that night, ABC News' Peter Jennings commented that "Hank Williams Jr. is a Republican who seemed at home here as he did on 'Monday Night Football.'"
But the Republican country singer, whose famous song "Are You Ready For Some Football?" greeted football fans on their television each Monday, parted ways with "Monday Night Football" last Fall after some controversial remarks comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
Williams long has been an outspoken critic of President Obama and the Democratic Party. In 2008, he campaigned alongside Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, even penning a song called "McCain-Palin Tradition," a play off his popular country anthem "Family Tradition."
"John and Sarah tell you just what they think. And they're not gonna blink. And they don't have terrorist friends to whom their careers are linked," Williams sang at a 2008 stop in Virginia Beach, Va.
And earlier this month, Williams bashed Obama at the Iowa State Fair, accusing the president of hating America.
"We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!" Williams said.
But will Hank Williams Jr. take his Obama trash talking to this year's confab with his "fellow rowdy Republicans" in Tampa? Last week, his publicist's office said only they "cannot confirm or deny" whether he will attend.
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quicklist: 4 title: Joe Lieberman category: The "Independent Democrat" McCain Backer url: text:
In 2007, Sen. Joe Lieberman, who identifies himself as an independent democrat from Connecticut, shocked the Democratic Party faithful by endorsing the presidential bid of its rival – Sen. John McCain. Lieberman, who was on the 2000 Democratic ticket as John Kerry's running mate before becoming an independent in 2006, delivered a rousing keynote speech at the 2008 Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., expressing support for his long time friend from the Senate.
"I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party," Lieberman said. "I am here tonight for a simple reason, because John McCain's whole life testifies to a great truth: being a Democrat or a Republican is important. But it is nowhere near as important as being an American."
McCain reportedly considered asking Lieberman to join the GOP ticket in 2008 before opting to go with a risky choice in Alaka Gov. Sarah Palin.
But after bridging this party divide four years ago, Lieberman, who is retiring from the senate this year, won't attend either upcoming conventions.
"This is one of the benefits of being an Independent — you don't have to go to either convention," Lieberman told The Hill.
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quicklist: 5 title: Artur Davis category: Former Obama Backer turned Romney Supporter url: text:
In 2008, Rep. Artur Davis, then a Democrat, delivered one of the seconding speeches to nominate Barack Obama to the Democratic ticket.
"I am honored to second the nomination of the man whose victory tonight takes us closer to becoming what we know America can be, ladies and gentlemen," Davis said at the Democratic Convention in Denver in 2008. "This is the cause for which we stand -- an American president named Barack Obama who will lead and inspire the free world."
Fast forward four years and Davis has said he can no longer support President Obama and has turned to endorsing Mitt Romney.
The Romney campaign likes to highlight Davis's change of heart, utilizing him on the campaign trail as surrogate to stump for the presumptive GOP nominee.
And at the GOP convention in Tampa, Davis' disavowal of Obama will be on full display when he addresses delegates on Tuesday night.


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6344 Penn Avenue S.
Richfield, MN 55423
Richfield Reviews by Nicole Sobania
In this Richfield Reviews piece I will be telling you first hand what to expect when visiting Davanni's Pizza & Hot Hoagies in Richfield. When you first enter the restaurant you will find that it is a pretty typical causual dining facility great for a night out with the family. A little about Davanni's Pizza & Hot Hoagies, they have been in business over 38 years and they are a local company starting the first shop in St. Paul. They also pride themselves in providing healthy menu options that taste great!
The Davanni's Pizza & Hot Hoagies Experience
When you first enter the pizza place you are greeted at the counter to order. There is a huge menu with a ton of options to choose from ranging from pizzas to hot hoagies. The staff was very friendly and the wait time to order was very short. On my visit I ordered a Lonely Blonde beer, one of their new craft beers they now serve and a veggie hot hoagie. The beer was great, especially if you like a pale ale, but they also had several other options of both craft and draft beers. The wait time on my hoagie was minimal and my sandwich was overflowing with vegetables, which I really enjoyed! The sandwich was very large and was filled with green and black olives, green peppers, mushrooms, pizza sauce and much more! If you are not a huge veggie lover you will find that their menu is packed full of other options. There is nothing better than washing a hot hoagie down with an ice cold craft beer, I greatly enjoyed my lunch!
Other Things To Note About The Experience
A really cool thing about Davanni's in Richfield is the artwork that can be seen all around the restaurant, they feature old black and white photos of Richfield which really gave it that local home town feel. The restaurant was also very clean and had two large party rooms that you can reserve for upcoming get togethers. Highly recommend this place for your next pizza excursion either dine in or carry out!
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About The Author
This edition of the Richfield Reviews has been prepared by Nicole Sobania. It is important to note that the author is not a professional critic, but just an average person telling readers about her experience at these facilities. These reviews are also not meant to be harsh critiques, but simply to let readers know what to expect upon their visit.


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Sept. 29, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara head coach Jennifer Mountain announced the addition of Tamara Inoue as an assistant coach to the women's basketball program this week. Inoue joins the Broncos after six years playing and coaching in Australia. Her prime responsibilities will involve recruiting, film exchange, scouting and working with the Bronco guards. Jesse Pruitt also joins the Santa Clara athletic staff as the video coordinator for both the men and women's basketball teams.
"We are absolutely thrilled to have Tamara join and complete our staff," said Mountain. "Her international experience as a club coach in Melbourne will definitely benefit our recruiting and international exposure. Tamara brings experience as a hands-on court coach as well as extreme enthusiasm and tech insight. She is going to be a great addition to our staff."
"I'm really excited to get back into the college level," said Inoue. "I knew for the beginning that coming to Santa Clara was going to be great. We have the ability to do many great things here."
Inoue's playing days in Australia were cut short due to injury but after rehabbing in the United States, she returned to coach in the Victorian Basketball League.
"I went to Australia in 2002 originally to play, but I got injured," Inoue said. "They liked me so much that they asked to me to stay on and coach. Being involved as a player in Australia, I knew of the amount of talent that Australian players have and I really wanted to get out there and coach them."
Inoue earned VBL Coach of the Year honors in 2006-07 with the Nunawading Spectres. She also coached the Knox Raiders to a National championship the following season with a 27-1 record. The Raiders faced their lone loss in the national title game. Inoue has also help run the Melbourne Roos club. With the Roos, she has developed several NCAA Division I athletes such as USC's Heather Oliver, Gonzaga's Kelly Bowen and Pacific's Claire McCleod as well a many others.
Inoue played three seasons for the 49ers after transferring from University of California - Berkeley, becoming a two-time All-Big West honorable mention. As a senior, she led the Big West in assists, averaging 5.9 per game, and as a junior she finished second in the league in assists (4.6 per game), while averaging 9.6 points per game and shooting 45 percent from the field and 35 percent from beyond the arc as the 49ers advanced to the WNIT.
Inoue was a USA Today honorable mention All-American as a senior at Laguna Hills High in 1997. She averaged 14.0 points per game that season. A two-time league MVP, she set the school-record for points (30), assists (12) and steals (12). She attended high school and Long Beach State and played basketball with 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist and volleyball All-American Tayyiba Haneff. Inoue received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Long Beach State in 2002.
Pruitt joins the Broncos staff after serving two years as an assistant under Head Coach Greg Kamansky at Division II Cal Poly Pomona. Pruitt's main responsibilities were player development, film exchange, recruiting and game preparation.
"We are extremely excited to have the addition of Jesse and his experience in video editing," said Mountain. "Scouting opponents is extremely important to the success of our program and he will be a valuable addition. Jesse will help in producing and cutting up opponent films for the purpose of game preparation."
Pruitt graduated from UC Davis in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in Sociology-Organizational Studies. He was a member of the Aggies team for two seasons under former UC Davis head coach Brian Fogel. Pruitt had a career-high 14 points against UC San Diego in a thrilling 2OT victory on Jan. 25, 2003.
Pruitt earned three varsity letters at Upland High School. He was the team captain as a senior and led the team to a 33-2 record and a CIF Southern Section championship, a No. 4 state ranking and a No. 10 national ranking.
Pruitt is a native of Pomona, Calif. He has worked at several basketball camps including: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Fullerton, Double Pump, Maryland, Pangos All-American, Santa Clara, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine and UCLA.


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Okay, you want to engage only on your own terms, and you want to achieve combat superiority…the question now is that Hurricane ratting at the top belt. You're pretty sure your ship is better than his, but it depends on his fit and skills. You also wonder whether he might not be bait for an entire blob. In this game of rock-paper-scissors, is he the paper to your scissors or a rock poised to smash down on you? That's the trick, isn't it—knowing the answers to these and a thousand other questions.
What's wanted is intelligence ("intel")—not something high-functioning between your ears so much as some good data with which to work. Warriors throughout history have bemoaned the fog of war; in this article I'll suggest ways to cut through much of that fog.
The most basic source of intel available to every pilot in New Eden (except those in worm-hole space) is the local communications channel ("local"). This channel starts by helpfully counting the number of pilots sharing the same solar system. That number alone bears on a few interesting questions. If the number is high, then others have probably already observed the Incursus ratting the asteroid belts; the fact that none of them have attacked the Incursus may suggest the Incursus is their friend (and thus may have backup) or he may be a feared combat pilot. Many pilots in local always means one should consider the fact that one's target may be able to call for quick backup. But then, it can also mean that someone is likely to be vulnerable in space, whether mining or ratting or fulfilling some mission; it's worth looking around some. And pilots with lots of friends in local may lull themselves into a false sense of security.
In addition to the total number of pilots in space, "local" further offers the identity of each and every one. Take a look at that list. Any pilot who is subject to a 15-minute Global Criminal Countdown timer ("GCC") may be so indicated by a red skull (whether this actually is the case depends on your overview settings). This tells you there is a pilot on the hunt in the same star system as you. It also tells you that sentry guns will shoot at him on sight—so while you'd have sentry guns on your side if it comes to that, it's unlikely he'll go near them in the first place. If you've identified any pilots, corporations, or alliances as particularly friendly or hostile, you can see indications of this next to each pilot's name—pilots with excellent standing can have a blue symbol, for example, while pilots with horrible standing can have a red symbol. This makes it convenient to see at a glance how "on guard" you should be.
Take advantage of even more free intel afforded you by the list of pilots in local! Right-click a pilot's name, then select "show info." Note the pilot's security status. A high security status means the pilot probably won't initiate hostilities with you, unless perhaps you yourself are an outlaw. Setting out bait is unlikely to work with such pilots. Quite possibly, they're combat-inexperienced. A low security status, on the other hand, means the pilot has a history of attacking people for no lawful reason. He'll probably attack you if he thinks he can win, and he's likely to be experienced and to have a plan.
There are two tabs of information on each character particularly helpful to a combat pilot. The first tab I go to is the Employment tab, which provides a complete record of a pilot's past employment. How far back does this record go? The older the pilot, the more skills and experience he potentially has.
The Employment record provides useful intel not only about how much skill and experience a pilot may have, but what kind skills he is likely to have learned and what kind of experience he is likely to have gained. If you see a string of PVP corps in that history, you can bet the pilot is both skilled and experienced in combat. If you see a string of mining corps, he may be skilled but likely has devoted much of his studies to industrial pursuits rather than combat, and while he may or may not be experienced at evading combat, he probably doesn't have much experience in actually fighting. Long gaps in an employment record could indicate periods of inactivity, in which case the pilot may not be as skilled as his age would suggest. However, watch out for pilots who seem to have several years in NPC corporations (corporations not controlled by actual players)—that is a sign of a player's alternate character ("alt"), and that could mean a scout or support pilot of some kind.
After gleaning what I can from the Employment tab, I'll check a pilot's Bio tab. Is it full of links to contracts? Does the pilot use it to remind himself what sorts of damage rats can tank? Does it assume you've just been ganked, and claim enjoyment of your loss? Such information can be a real clue as to what you may be up against. Just realize that the Bio tab is less reliable than the Employment tab; while the Employment tab is generated by the authorities based on public records, the Bio tab is under the complete control of the pilot, and many a pirate has used the Bio for misinformation.
With time, you'll find yourself collecting a body of useful knowledge. Especially if you hunt in a series of "home" routes, you'll start recognizing people by name. You'll look at local and recognize this pilot as a macro mission runner, that pilot as a POS maintainer, and the other pilot as a pirate. You'll get to the point where you know what ships that pirate likes to fly, and what tactics he likes to use. I know some pilots who make written records of every encounter they have with another pilot, noting ship types, tactics, associates, etc. While I myself don't often write this sort of thing down, I've never complained when a gang member informs me "he never flies alone; he always has a Falcon alt nearby." You might want to start creating your own intel files of such useful information!
In the Tuskers, we have an Intel section of our forums for sharing information of use to us all. We have a list of known Falcon pilots there, for example. We also describe traps we fall prey to, so that our mates won't make the same mistake we did. We note which corporations work with each other. We describe "prize targets" we've observed, rich vessels in space and any vulnerabilities we discover about them. We identify major threats in the area, and discuss ways to deal with them. If you have the opportunity to pool intel like this, do it!
Many pilots post records of their kills and (less frequently) losses on publically-accessible databases known as killboards. One widely-used and long-running killboard is BattleClinic. Just look at the intelligence bonanza a killboard can provide! What ships a pilot tends to fly, how he fits them, which other pilots show up with him on killmails, whether he fights (and wins) against other combat ships, or whether he sticks to weaker prey, which systems he is active in, etc.—useful intel indeed. If you're sizing up the situation in a solar system, you could do worse than take a few moments to check a pilot out on the killboards.
Finally, let's consider the role of scouts in acquiring intel. A scout is some other pilot who looks around and reports what he observes. "Local" provides useful information; having access to that information before you or your gang jump into a system can be even more useful—send a scout in ahead of you. As you size up the numbers in local, you may determine your gang has the advantage—but what if there is a hostile gang sitting at a gate ready to jump into your system? Having scouts watching those gates would be great. Is that pilot's Falcon alt nearby? How many corpmates can the target call on for backup in the surrounding systems? Will the next ship to jump into our gate camp be a rich cargo vessel or a camp-busting gang? These are all questions scouts can answer.
A scout can be in most any ship type that is difficult to detect or engage. Some scouts like to fly in rookie ships, making themselves beneath notice for many. Others like to fly ships fit to tackle, so they can hold down a target while their gang warps in. Yet others prefer ships that can warp while cloaked and probe out targets.
It's useful for a scout not to be in the same corp as yourself or your gang. You don't want people connecting you with your scout, if you can help it. You want people to underestimate your gang and to underestimate the threat posed by the scout. Many players have two EVE-Online accounts primarily so that they can have an alt scouting for them—it's just that valuable.
A scout can go ahead of you or your gang, looking for targets (and probing them out and/or tackling them if those are options), locating gate camps, and keeping an eye on things in that direction. A scout can trail behind you or your gang, watching out for gangs stalking you or juicy targets coming from behind. A scout can "shadow" a hostile fleet, reporting on its movements and composition. Multiple scouts can fan out through several systems, covering you from all directions or finding the best targets in the least amount of time.
By paying attention to local, keeping records, checking killboards, and employing neutral scouts, you can achieve more PVP success. All else being equal, the pilot with the best intel will not necessarily win—but the pilot with the best intel should be able to make sure all else is not equal, and that the inequalities are in his favor.


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Bepowaveh. Bienvenidos. Welcome.
New Mexico is a space with deep, complex histories that all need to be shared. The conference committee for the Historias de Nuevomexico - Histories of New Mexico welcome you in the multiple historic languages of our geopolitical region - Tewa, Spanish and English. Simultaneously, while we privilege these three languages, we must also immediately make room for the langauges that have also shaped our region: Diné, Ute, Tiwa, Towa, Keresan, French, along with many others. Just as our welcome highlights distinct, yet overlapping, linguistic cultures, the Historias de Nuevomexico invites participants to engage in the myriad perspectives that shape our understanding of New Mexico. The model for investigating Historias/Histories that we would like to encourage is based in thinking about multiple spaces for multiple histories, not a single timeline for history.


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