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Press Release
Maryland Man Sentenced to 17-Year Prison Term For Pair of Robberies of Metro Passengers
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia
-Second Man Recently Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison For His Role in Crimes-
WASHINGTON – Clifton Smith, 21, of Oxon Hill, Md., was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for his role in a series of crimes, including two robberies that took place last year on Metrorail trains, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
Smith and a co-defendant, Alazajuan Gray, 20, of Washington, D.C., were found guilty by a jury in May 2013 of armed robbery, robbery, obstruction of justice, threats, contempt of court, carrying a dangerous weapon and other charges. The verdicts followed a trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Gray was sentenced July 23, 2013, to a 14-year prison term. Both defendants were sentenced by the Honorable Herbert B. Dixon, Jr.
Upon completion of their prison terms, both men will be placed on five years of supervised release.
According to the government's evidence, on Sept. 21, 2012, at about 11:30 p.m., Gray and Smith approached several college students who had recently moved to Washington, D.C. as these college students, including the victim, were on a Metrorail train at the Fort Totten station. Gray, who was armed with a handgun, took the victim's iPhone and money. Smith encouraged Gray to take the victim's property. The victim did not report the crime at the time; Smith told him not to "snitch" and tell the police or he would be harmed.
One week later, on Sept. 28, 2012, at 8:30 p.m. the same victim, who was returning home from his part-time job he used to pay for community college, was at the Fort Totten Metro station and again encountered Gray and Smith. Gray approached him and flashed a gun. Gray and Smith chased the victim into the station's kiosk. While inside the kiosk, Smith demanded if he was "snitching" and then assaulted the victim. Gray and Smith fled, but soon were caught by police.
Neither the gun nor the victim's iPhone were found on either of the defendants. However, police found an iPhone near the location where Smith was stopped that night by the Metro Transit Police. The iPhone was linked to a separate Sept. 28, 2012 robbery. That robbery occurred at 7:30 p.m. on a Metrorail train at the Gallery Place/Chinatown station. In that incident, Gray grabbed an iPhone from a woman who had also recently moved to Washington, D.C. She was studying her graduate school homework as the train arrived at the station. After Gray snatched the iPhone, Smith then blocked the victim's attempt to chase after Gray.
Cellular tower evidence placed Gray's cell phone at the scene of the first armed robbery.
In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Machen commended the work of those who investigated the case for the Metropolitan Police Department. He also expressed appreciation to the Metro Transit Police and the FBI for assisting in the investigation. Finally, he acknowledged the efforts of those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Paralegal Specialists Todd McClelland, Lynette Briggs, Lynda Randolph, and Kendrell Smith; Litigation Technology Specialists Anisha Bhatia, Thomas Royal, Will Henderson, Josh Ellen, Paul Howell, Claudia Gutierrez, and Leif Hickling; Victim/Witness Advocates Jennifer Clark and James Brennan; interns Ashley P. Foote, Taylor Jones and Chelsea King; former intern Justin Bennett, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Suzanne Curt and Chrisellen Kolb, Deputy Chiefs of the Appellate Division. Finally, he thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Phil Selden, of the Felony Major Crimes Section, who is prosecuting the matter.
13-276Updated March 8, 2016


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Above & Beyond, GrizMatik with Special Guests, Morgan Page, The Polish Ambassador, ESKMO, Quixotic, Cyril Hahn, and A Tribe Called Red are among the nearly 30 acts added to the 2013 lineup. Also announced today are the Curated Events – Fool's Gold Clubhouse, Movement at Electric Forest, and Deep in the FOREST. These artists and curated events join previously announced artists: live music pioneers The String Cheese Incident (3 performances), Passion Pit, Empire of the Sun, Knife Party, Dispatch, Benny Benassi, Yeasayer, A-Trak, Grimes,Railroad Earth, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, FEMI KUTI & The Positive Force, Madeon, Headhunterz, Baauer, Danny Brown, Greensky Bluegrass and many more. The full list of artists announced today is included below. The complete list of currently confirmed performers is available at www.electricforestfestival.com.
Also announced today are Electric Forest's 2013 Curated Events. Fool's Gold Clubhouse – hosted by the Brooklyn-based indie label at Electric Forest's Tripolee Stage – will feature A-Trak, Danny Brown, OLIVER, Just Blaze, Caze, Nick Catchdubs, Treasure Fingers, Party Supplies and others to be announced. Also at Tripolee, Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival returns as a curating partner for Movement at Electric Forest – an energy-packed evening showcasing both Movement alum and emerging talent. Deep in the FOREST, a curated series new to Electric Forest this year, will feature Nu-Disco and Deep-House performances in the heart of the Sherwood Forest – with sets by artists Munson Meeks (Boulder), Luke the Knife (Denver), Cyril Hahn (Vancouver), and No Regular Play (Brookyln), among others. For additional details regarding Electric Forest's 2013 Curated Events visit www.electricforestfestival.com.
Among today's artist announcements are two winners of Electric Forest's "Instrumental Forester Competition." Hosted by EF's Plug In fan engagement program, artists Jessijem n' the Infamous Crotch Kickers and Sam Klass each earned a performance slot on the festival's Forest Stage. In other Plug In news, Imago's "Cerebrum of Electric Forest" submission snagged first prize for Electric Forest's"Installation Sponsorship Contest." They win a $3000 grant and 5 GA Passes to manifest their artistic vision – a projection-mapped brain personifying the cognitive center of the forest in – to display at this year's festival. Visit www.electricforestfestival.com for details on all Plug In opportunities.
2nd Round Artists Announced Today:
Above & Beyond
GrizMatik with Special Guests
Morgan Page
The Polish Ambassador
Orchard Lounge
Eliot Lipp
Cyril Hahn
A Tribe Called Red
No Regular Play
Lance Herbstrong
Nigel Hall
Delhi 2 Dublin
Russ Liquid
Shreddie Mercury
The Main Squeeze
The Floozies
Luke the Knife
The Nth Power
Rosin Coven
Vokab Kompany Dustin
Thomas Jessijem n' the Infamous Crotch Kickers
Sam Klass
PLUS a Silent Disco in the Sherwood Forest!
With Curated Events Fool's Gold Clubhouse, Movement at Electric Forest, and Deep in the FOREST.
For the complete list of confirmed artists performing at Electric Forest 2013 visit www.electricforestfestival.com

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WIMBLEDON, England – After curling in a 102 mph ace to grab a two-set lead a mere 56 minutes into his Wimbledon quarterfinal Wednesday, Roger Federer casually pulled an extra tennis ball from his pocket and strolled to sit in his changeover chair for a sip to drink.
No fist pump. No yell of excitement. No energized jog to the sideline.
There still was work to be done; nothing to be taken for granted. Motivated by the bitter memory of quarterfinal losses at the All England Club the past two years, including a wasted two-set edge in 2011, six-time Wimbledon champion Federer bullied 26th-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to reach his record 32nd career Grand Slam semifinal.
"Feels great being back in the semis. ... Haven't been here in the last couple years," the third-seeded Federer said. "So this is nice, to be back to a place where I've been so many times before."
He's two wins away from a seventh Wimbledon championship, which would equal a mark set by William Renshaw in the 1880s — back when the defending champion received a bye directly into the final — and tied by Pete Sampras in 2000.
Nothing worked for Youzhny, including a kidding plea for help from eight-time major champion Andre Agassi, who was seated next to his wife, Steffi Graf, in the front row of the Royal Box, near Prince William and his wife, Kate.
"I know I'm playing really well," Federer said. "I am aware things are going to get complicated in the next match."
Sure are.
That's because he'll face a familiar foe Friday: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, who didn't have too much trouble while beating No. 31 Florian Mayer of Germany 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
This will be the sixth semifinal in the past eight Grand Slam tournaments, and 27th meeting overall, for Federer and Djokovic, and their first at Wimbledon.
Federer leads 14-12, but Djokovic won six of their last seven matches, including at the French Open a month ago.
"There's no secrets with those guys. They know how to play each other," said Federer's coach, Paul Annacone. "So it's really going to be who plays the bigger points better."
The other men's semifinal will be No. 4 Andy Murray of Britain against No. 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France.
Neither has won a Grand Slam title or been to a Wimbledon final.
Cue "Murray Mania," as it's known around these parts. He is trying to become the first British man to earn the trophy at the All England Club since Fred Perry in 1936; the last to even make it to the title match was Bunny Austin in 1938.
"If you think too much about it, and you read the newspapers and you watch the stuff on TV that's said about you, I think it would become far too much," Murray said. "But if you kind of shield yourself from it all and kind of just get into your own little bubble, only listen to the people that are around you, then it's something you can deal with."
He was one point from facing a two-set deficit before coming back to eliminate No. 7 David Ferrer of Spain 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (4) to get to the semifinals for the fourth year in a row. Murray lost at that stage to Andy Roddick in 2009, then to Rafael Nadal in 2010 and 2011 — and No. 2 Nadal's stunning exit in the second round last week ratcheted up expectations this would be Murray's year.
"Subconsciously, I'm probably extremely stressed out right now," Murray said, "but I try not to feel it."
A basketball fan, he likened his situation to that of LeBron James, who recently won his first NBA championship with the Miami Heat after twice losing in the finals.
"I've been close a lot of times and not quite made it. Just have to keep putting myself in the position, and hopefully it will click," said Murray, the runner-up at the U.S. Open in 2008, and the Australian Open in 2010 and 2011. "There's a lot of people that said he would never win. ... Sometimes it takes guys a bit longer than others."
Tsonga, a finalist at the 2008 Australian Open, got to his second consecutive Wimbledon semifinal by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
He's 1-5 against Murray, including a loss at Wimbledon two years ago.
In the women's semifinals Thursday, 13-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams plays No. 2-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, and No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland faces No. 8 Angelique Kerber of Germany. Williams is a four-time Wimbledon winner; none of the other three women has reached the final. The 30-year-old American is trying to become the first woman at least that age to win any major title since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1990.
Federer, who turns 31 on Aug. 8, has gone 2½ years without adding to his record total of 16 Grand Slam titles. And he hasn't won Wimbledon since 2009, losing to Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals two years ago, then Tsonga in the quarterfinals last year after taking the first two sets.
If he wins Sunday's final to end his major trophy drought, the Swiss star would overtake Djokovic in the rankings and tie Sampras' record of 186 weeks at No. 1.
"He definitely wants to prove himself — and to everybody else — that he can win it once again," Djokovic said. "We both have to play at our best in order to get a win."
The Serb is 43-2 with five titles at the last seven majors, with one loss to Federer and one to Nadal, both at the French Open.
"He showed why he's the best player right now in the world. He left me no chance in the second set," Mayer said. "Roger also has to play on a really high level to have a chance to beat Novak."
Undisturbed by whipping wind or passing rain, Federer certainly looked good against Youzhny, who's seen this act before: Federer has won all 14 of their matchups.
In the fourth round, Federer needed a medical timeout to get treatment for an aching back. Didn't seem to be a problem at all Wednesday, when he won 49 of 66 service points.
"However it feels, if he plays like this, I'll take that any day of the week," said Annacone, who also coached Sampras.
By the end of the second set, two-time U.S. Open semifinalist Youzhny was screaming at himself in Russian or throwing his arms aloft in mock celebration after winning the occasional point.
After Federer flicked one particularly impressive defensive backhand and got to break point in the third set's opening game, Youzhny turned with his palms up to seek suggestions from Agassi, who smiled back. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge applauded. Youzhny, apparently pleased to play the role of court jester, promptly double-faulted.
When a reporter made a tongue-in-cheek remark about in-match coaching being against the rules, Youzhny grinned and said: "If he helped me, I'm ready to pay a fine."
Djokovic, at 25 the youngest quarterfinalist, seems to know exactly what to do against Federer, the oldest.
Into his ninth consecutive major semifinal, a streak that ranks fourth behind Federer's record 23, Djokovic never had won a grass-court title until a year ago at Wimbledon.
That success, and his tremendous two-year run, fuel Djokovic's confidence going into Friday's matchup.
"We never played on grass," Djokovic noted, "so I think it's going to be interesting for both of us to see what happens."
For the rest of us, too.
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FusionSeq List of programs
From GersteinInfo
User documentation main
Data formats
FusionSeq use a few data formats to perform its operations.
Mapped Read Format (MRF)
This format is defined in the context of RSEQtools. More details can be found here.
Gene Fusion Report (GFR)
This file format defines the relevant information for each fusion transcript candidate. The rationale is that different filters can be applied to exclude "false positives" artificial fusions starting from an initial set. We also provide a parser that interprets this format allowing the user to propagate easily any changes to this format. For a given fusion candidate, involving gene A and gene B, the basic GFR format requires the following fields:
- the ID of the fusion candidate (id): typically it contains the sample name and a unique number separated by an underscore. The number is padded with zeros for consistency;
- SPER, DASPER and RESPER: scoring of the fusion candidate;
- Number of inter-transcript reads (numInter), i.e. the number of pairs having the ends mapped to the two genes;
- P-value of the insert size distribution analysis for the fusion transcript. Since we do not know the actual composition of the fusion transcript, we compute the p-value for both directions: AB (where gene A is upstream of gene B - pValueAB) and BA (where gene B is upstream of gene A -- pValueBA);
- Mean insert-size value of the minimal fusion transcript fragment. As before for the p-values, we compute both AB and BA versions (interMeanAB, interMeanBA);
- Number of intra-transcript reads for gene A (numIntra1) and gene B (numIntra2), respectively, i.e the number of pairs where both ends map to the same gene;
- The type of the fusion (fusionType): cis, when both genes are on the same chromosome, or trans, otherwise;
- Name(s) of the transcripts (nameTranscript): all the UCSC gene IDs of the isoforms of each gene in the annotation separated by the pipe symbol '|';
- Chromosome of the genes (chromosomeTranscript);
- Strand information (strandTranscript);
- Start and end coordinates of the longest transcript for both genes (startTranscript, endTranscript);
- Number of exons in the composite model for both genes (numExonTranscript);
- Coordinates of the exons in the composite model (exonCoordinatesTranscript): each exon is separated by the pipe symbol '|' and start and end coordinates are comma-separated;
- Exon-pair count: it describes which elements are connected and corresponding number of inter-transcript reads;
- interReads: the pair-read type, as well as the exons and the coordinates of the reads joining the two genes. Pair-type, exon number, start and end coordinates are reported as a comma-separated list, with the pipe symbol '|' separating the different pairs. The pair-reads type encodes the different possibilities two reads can be classified to in terms of the gene annotation set:
- 1 : exon-exon
- 2 : exon-intron
- 3 : intron-exon
- 4 : intron-intron
- 5 : intron-boundary
- 6 : exon-boundary
- 7 : boundary-exon
- 8 : boundary-intron
- 9 : boundary-boundary
- Reads of the transcripts: the actual sequence of all the inter-reads.
- Pair-count: a summary of the number of reads for each category and joined exons (see interReads for the category definition). The field reports the pair-reads type, the number of reads, the two exons that are joined by the pair as a comma-separated list. The different pair types are separated by the pipe "|" symbol.
The GFR format can include additional optional information computed in the subsequent processing. For example, it is possible to add gene symbols (geneSymbolTranscript) and descriptions (descriptionTranscript) from the UCSC knownGene annotation set.
Breakpoint data format (BP)
Similarly to GFR, the junction-sequence identifier uses a standard format to capture the results of this analysis. For each tile that has at least 1 read aligned to, it reports, comma-separated:
- chromosome, start and end coordinates of the first tile, using UCSC notation: "chr:start-end", although the intervals are 1-based and closed;
- chromosome, start and end coordinates of the second tile
- All the sequences of the reads mapped to that tile with the offset information, separated by the pipe symbol.
For example, one line may read as:
where two reads support this specific junction.
Core programs
Fusion detection module
geneFusions identifies potential fusion transcript candidates from an alignment file.
geneFusions prefix minNumberOfReads < sample.mrf > fusions.gfr
- Inputs: Takes an MRF file from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- prefix - the main ID of each candidate, i.e. prefix_0001, prefix_0002, etc.
- minNumberOfReads - the minimum number of reads required to include a candiate
- Optional arguments
- none
Note: sample.mrf must include the sequences of the reads.
gfrClassify assign each fusion candidate to a specify category: inter-, intra-chromosomal, read-through, or cis. Please see the publication for a description of these classes.
gfrClassify < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
Filtration cascade module
Mis-alignment filters
It removes potential fusion transcript candidates if the two genes are paralogs. It uses TreeFam to establish is two genes have similar sequences.
gfrLargeScaleHomologyFilter < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
It removes candidates that have high-similarity between small regions within the two genes, where the reads actually map.
gfrSmallScaleHomologyFilter < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
Some reads may be aligned to repetitive regions in the genome, due to the low sequence complexity of those regions and may result in artificial fusion candidates. This filter removes reads mapped to those regions. If the number of reads left if less than a threshold, the candidate is removed.
gfrRepeatMaskerFilter repeatMasker.interval minNumberOfReads < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- repeatMasker.interval - the interval file with the coordinates of the repetitive regions
- minNumberOfRead - minimum number of reads overlapping the repetitive regions in order to remove the candidate
Random pairing of transcript fragments
gfrAbnormalInsertSizeFilter removes candidates with an insert-size bigger than the normal insert-size. The fusion candidate insert-size is computed on the minimal fusion transcript fragment.
gfrAbnormalInsertSizeFilter pvalueCutOff < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- pvalueCutOff - the p-value threshold above which we keep the fusion transcript candidates
Combination of mis-alignment and random pairing
gfrRibosomalFilter removes candidates that have similarity with ribosomal genes. The rationale is that reads coming from highly expressed genes, such as ribosomal genes, are more likely to be mis-aligned and assigned to a different genes.
gfrRibosomalFilter < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
It removes candidates that have a higher number of chimeric PE reads than PE reads aligned to the corresponding individual genes. This filter would only consider cases where the chimeric reads are mapped to introns of the two genes.
gfrExpressionConsistencyFilter < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
Other filters
gfrPCRFilter removes candidates with the same read over-represented, yielding to a "spike-in-like" signal, i.e. a narrow signal with a high peak.
gfrPCRFilter offsetCutoff minNumUniqueRead
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- offsetCutoff - the minimum number of different starting positions
- minNumUniqueRead - the minimum number of unique reads required to include a candidate
It removes candidates involving genes with specific description, such as ribosomal, pseudogenes, etc.
gfrAnnotationConsistencyFilter string < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- string - a string identifying the element to remove, ex. pseudogene
It removes candidates that are likely due to mis-annotation of the 5' or 3' ends of the genes.
gfrProximityFilter offset < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- offset - the minimum distance (in nucleotides) between the two genes to keep the candidate
It removes candidates specified by the user in a file
gfrBlackListFilter blackList.txt < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- blackList.txt - the file with the candidates to remove. The format of this files is a simple two-column tab-delimited file with describing the two gene symbols. For example:
It removes candidates if the reads can be aligned to a splice junction library. NB: this filter should be used only if the alignment was not performed against a splice junction library.
gfrSpliceJunctionFilter splice_junction_library < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- splice_junction_library - the splice_junction_library in 2bit format
It removes candidates including a mitochondrial gene. NB: this filter should be used only if the alignment was performed against a gene annotation set with mitochondrial genes.
gfrMitochondrialFilter < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
Scoring the candidates
gfrConfidenceValues computes the scores SPER, DASPER, and RESPER for each candidate. SPER is the number of Supportive PE Reads per candidates, i.e. the normalized number of inter-transcript reads.
where m is the number of inter-transcript reads, i.e. PE-reads connecting two different genes.
DASPER (Difference between the observed and the Analytically computed SPER) and RESPER (Ratio between the observed SPER and the Empirically computed SPER) compare the observed SPER with two slightly different ways to compute the expectation. Please find at Genome Biology, 2010;11:R104 more information about those scores.
gfrConfidenceValues prefix
- Input: GFR from STDIN
- Output: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- prefix - the prefix of the .meta file
Note: gfrConfidenceValues expects that the file prefix.meta is available. This tab-delimited file includes some meta information about the MRF dataset. The minimum required set of information is the number of mapped reads with the following syntax as an example:
Mapped_reads 236549456
This represent the number of PE reads that were mapped. It is possible to determine this number by counting the number of lines in the MRF file. For example:
grep -v AlignmentBlocks file.mrf | grep -v "#" | wc -l
A one-line command to generate this is:
$ MAPPED=$(grep -v "AlignmentBlock" file.mrf | grep -v "#" | wc -l); printf "Mapped_reads\t%d\n" $MAPPED > file.meta
gfrConfidenceValueTranscript [deprecated]
gfrConfidenceValueTranscript computes LSPER (Local SPER) as the number of inter-transcript PE reads supporting the fusion divided by the average gene expression value. However, since in many cases, only one allele contributes to the fusion transcript, the expression of the fusion transcript may not correlate with the expression of the genes generating it. Please find at Genome Biology 2010;11:R104 more details about why this score may impair the correct ranking of the candidates (see Additional file 1, text and Figure S6).
gfrConfidenceValueTranscript prefix
- Input: GFR from STDIN
- Output: Reports GFR to STDOUT
- Required arguments
- prefix - the prefix of the .composite.expression file
Note: gfrConfidenceValueTranscript expects that the file prefix.composite.expression is available. This file includes the expression values for the genes that are part of the transcript. The best way to compute is by using RSEQtools, using mrfQuantifier, e.g.:
mrfQuantifier knownGeneTranscriptCompositeModel.txt multipleOverlap < prefix.mrf > prefix.composite.expression
where knowGeneTranscriptCompositeModel.txt is the interval file representing the UCSC knownGenes library.
Junction-sequence identification module
It generates the splice junction library and two files to be run with a cluster to perform the indexing and the mapping in parallel.
gfr2bpJunctions <file.gfr> <tileSize> <sizeFlankingRegion> <minDASPER>
- Input: file.gfr - GFR file (not from STDIN)
- Outputs: Two files with all the jobs to be run on a cluster:
- file_joblist1.txt: the instructions to index the library and align the reads to the junction library.
- file_joblist2.txt: the instructions to aggregate the results of the alignment.
- Required parameters:
- tileSize: the number of nucleotides in each tile. For example, a 50nt read may be aligned to a 80nt junction, thus tileSize would be 40.
- sizeFlankingRegions: the size, in nucleotides, of the flanking region around the exons.
- minDASPER: the minimum DASPER values for which the breakpoint analysis is performed.
It validates the junctions, i.e. excludes those junctions with sequence similarity to the other regions of the genome.
validateBpJunctions < fileIN.bp > fileOUT.bp
It filters some of the junctions because of number of reasons (see parameters).
bpFilter <minNumReads> <minNumUniqueOffsets> <minNumReadsForKS> <pValueCutoffForKS> <numPossibleOffsets>
- Input: BP file from STDIN
- Output: BP file to STDOUT
- Required parameters
- minNumReads: minimum number of reads aligned to the junction to be kept
- minNumUniqueOffsets: minimum number of unique reads aligned to the junction to avoid PCR artifacts
- minNumReadsForKS: minimum number of reads to perform a Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. This would compare the reads distribution with a uniform one. However, only if there are sufficient reads this test can be performed.
- pValueCutoffForKS: the pvalue cut-off if a KS test is used
- numPossibleOffsets: number of possible offsets, i.e. starting positions of the reads
It generates a signal track from the reads aligned to the junction.
bp2wig file.bp
- Input: BP file (not from STIDIN)
- Output: WIGGLE files showing the support of the junction
It generates a text representation of the reads aligned to the junction.
- Input: BP file from STDIN
- Output: an text file to STDOUT reporting the aligned read to the junction. For example:
Tile 1: chr21:38717312-38717353 Tile 2: chr21:41801877-41801918 Number of reads spanning breakpoint: 5 AGGAGGGTTC CTGCCGCGCTCCAGGCGGCGCTCCCCGCCCCTCGCCCTCCG ATTCATCAGGAGAGTTC CTACCGCGCTCCAGGCGGCGCTCCCCGCCCCTCG CCACACTGCATTCATCAGGAGAGTTC CTGCCGCGCTCCAGGCGGCGCTCCC CTTCCCGCCTTCGGCCACACTGCATTCATCAGGAGAGTTC CTGCCGCGCTC CTTCCCGCCTTCGGCCACACTGCATTCATCAGGAGAGTTC CTGCCGCGCTC TCTTCCCGCCTTTGGCCACACTGCATTCATCAGGAGAGTTC CTGCCGCGCTCCAGGCGGCGCTCCCCGCCCCTCGCCCTCCG
Utility for debugging. It converts the alignment to the fusion junction library from bowtie output to BP.
- Input: bowtie alignment file from STDIN
- Output: BP file to STDOUT.
Auxiliary modules
It generates a schematic illustration depicting which regions of the two genes are connected by PE reads.
gfr2images < fileIN.gfr
- Pre-requisite: the pairCount column should be present in the GFR file. gfrCountPairTypes should be executed first.
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: JPEG images labeled SampleID_0000#.jpg, where SampleID is the unique identification of the fusion candidate present in the GFR file.
It generates two fasta files, one for each gene, with the PE-reads connecting them
gfr2fasta < fileIN.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: * Outputs: FASTA files labeled SampleID_0000#_[1|2].fasta, where SampleID is the unique identification of the fusion candidate present in the GFR file and [1|2] indicates which gene they correspond to.
It generates two BED files of the fusion transcript reads; one per gene.
gfr2bed < fileIN.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: BED files labeled SampleID_0000#_[1|2].bed, where SampleID is the unique identification of the fusion candidate present in the GFR file and [1|2] indicates which gene they correspond to.
It generates a GFF file for all candidates on the same chromosome reporting all PE-reads for visualization in genome browsers such as UCSC.
gfr2gff < fileIN.gfr
- Inputs: GFR from STDIN
- Outputs: GFF files labeled SampleID_0000#.gff, where SampleID is the unique identification of the fusion candidate present in the GFR file.
It generates an MRF file from the export files of a Genome Analyzer II run.
export2mrf prefix file_1_export.txt file_2_export.txt > file.mrf
- Inputs:
- prefix: the sample ID
- file_1_export.txt: the export file for the first end
- file_2_export.txt: the export file for the second end
- Outputs:
- An MRF file with all the mapped reads to STDOUT
- prefix_allReads.txt: the list of all the reads for the breakpoint analysis. Each line reports only a read
- prefix.meta: a summary file (tab-delimited) including the total number of reads and the number of mapped reads. This file is a prerequisite for gfrConfidenceValues.
It includes additional information about the fusion transcript candidates such as gene symbols and gene description. This is a pre-requisite for gfrBlackListFilter and gfrAnnotationConsistencyFilter.
gfrAddInfo < fileIN.gfr > fileOUT.gfr
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- An external file that includes all descriptive information about the annotation set. The format of this file should follow kgXref.txt (from UCSC). Indeed, we use kgXref.txt for human, however, this could be modified in geneFusionConfig.
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- geneSymbolTranscript1
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- descriptionTranscript1
- descriptionTranscript2
- A GFR file to STDOUT with 4 additional columns:
It counts how many PE reads are assigned to each category, i.e. exon-exon, exon-intron, etc. This is used by the the CGI programs to summarize the statistics of the fusion candidate.
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text: In March of 2007, Sony decided to go through all of Elvis' masters. They retransferred everything and remastered all tracks including repairing as many clicks, pops, bad edits and dropouts as they could. They have used these newly mastered recordings on their new releases since 2007 including budget soundtracks, Legacy releases, the 30 disc Complete Elvis Presley Masters collection and the Franklin Mint package.


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Little did I know what would happen next.
As I wrote the orders for admission, I was surprised to see a little "reminder" box pop up that I should offer this patient a nicotine patch. What?? A computer pushing drugs?
Well it seems that nicotine patches are now part of the federal guidelines regarding smoking cessation issued by the Public Health Service, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. But an interesting twist to these guidelines was revealed yesterday (WSJ, subscription):
(Doctor) Michael Fiore is in charge of revising federal guidelines on how to get smokers to quit. He also runs an academic research center funded in part by drug companies that make quit-smoking aids, and he personally has received tens of thousands of dollars in speaking and consulting fees from those companies.What is interesting is the way the government makes these recommendations: based on clinical trials. And who is better equipped to perform clinical trials than drug companies? (Bias 1). Further, all of the individuals in clinical trials must sign consent, and therefore have to be willing to take a drug (Bias 2). So these "clinical trials" are, by their very nature, skewed toward those willing to take a drug.... Dr. Fiore, a University of Wisconsin professor of medicine, headed the 18-member panel that created those guidelines. He and at least eight others on it had ties to the makers of stop-smoking products.
Those opposed to urging medication on most quitters note that cold turkey is the method used by the vast majority of former smokers. They fear the federal government's campaign could discourage potential quitters who don't want to spend money on quitting aids or don't like the idea of treating their nicotine addiction with more nicotine.
"To imply that medications are the only way is inappropriate," says Lois Biener, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who has surveyed former smokers in her state. "Most people don't want them. Most of the people who do quit successfully do so without them."
But in the interest of revealing effectiveness of these smoking cessation drugs in the real world, another type of study, an observational population trial that looks at all comers to the smoking cessation party, found this:
Studies of quitters outside clinical trials have shown no consistent advantage for medicine over cold turkey, the pharmaceutical industry's primary competitor. An unpublished National Cancer Institute survey of 8,200 people who tried quitting found that at three months, users of the nicotine patch and users of bupropion (Wellbutrin) remained abstinent at higher rates than did users of no medication. But at nine months, the no-medication group held an advantage over every category of stop-smoking medicine. The study was presented at a world tobacco conference last summer.But the potential conflicts with the pharmaceutical industry don't end there:
The American Cancer Society has allowed its logo to be placed on stop-smoking products in exchange for money. A Cancer Society spokesman defends that decision, crediting the pharmaceutical industry for bringing invaluable marketing muscle to the society's Great American Smokeout every November.Gee, I wonder why. Lots and lots of Wellbutrin and Nicorette is sold each November, I'm sure. Gotta "raise that public awareness" now don't we? It seems personal responsibility has gone out the window.
So smokers, go ahead, pay the drug companies to maintain your oral gratification. But just know what you're getting into. Oh, sure, there's the powerfully addicting nature of nicotine... but isn't that a drug, too?
Maybe before smokers buy the drugs, they should just quit. Do it any way you can - substitute a toothpick for a cigarette - I had one patient who liked dried apricots and sucked on those instead - whatever - just do it.
And see what happens.
Now, if I could figure out a way to bypass that computer prompt...


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In case you hadn't noticed, fashionable clothing for men has barely changed over the past 200 years.
The coat-tie-trousers-hat ensemble was established in the 1820s. The only significant change has been the abandonment of the hat, once the most personal and most expressive item in a man's wardrobe.
While the basic elements have remained constant, men's clothing has seen countless variations over the past two centuries. Each year, it seems, brings new coat lengths, tie widths, and lapel cuts. But as this 1930 advertisement shows, there is a strong resemblance between the suit of today and of 70 years ago.
In the '30s, a Post article posed the question that has occurred to most men who've wandered the aisles of a clothing store and shaken their head at the strange, new fashions: "Where do they come up with this stuff?" Based on his experience as a buyer, Arthur van Vlissingen declared that new styles weren't dictated by either clothing retailers or manufacturers; neither could afford to gamble on an upcoming trend.
New styles become popular only when men see other men wearing them. "Men, unlike women, seldom discard a garment simply because the style has meanwhile changed. The average man who buys one of our suits wears it until, from his standpoint, it is worn out. … But men are none the less sensitive to style. They will [only] buy clothing which is … the fashion in their social circles, whatever these circles may be. They are determined to start even with their fellows every time they get new outfits," Vlissingen wrote.
But this only explains how styles grew, not how they were born. He explains that, ultimately, new fashions were started by men who had their clothes made for them. These men included the successful executive, who needed to prove his ability to sense a new trend and his willingness to invest in it. Also included was the salesman, who had to demonstrate to his customers that he was aware of the latest developments, both in his own business and in fashion.
Younger men followed "styles which take shape at the places where the country's leisured and socially prominent loaf, such places as Palm Beach and Newport, Aiken and Southampton, White Sulphur and Virginia Hot Springs."
Another major influence on fashion in the 1930s was college—one university, in particular. "The fashions in clothing worn by our male population, between the ages of 14 and perhaps 25, usually get their start at Princeton," Vlissingen wrote.
"Harvard is a very large university, in a great city which influences the students' styles heavily. [But] it holds to a tradition of careless dress—well-made clothes seldom dry-cleaned and never pressed. Yale is more compact and more finicky, but New Haven is also a large city. Princeton is in a smaller town, off by itself where it can incubate a style effectively. Practically every Princeton student is well dressed, whereas only one-third or so of the Yale men can qualify by our standards."
Whether they were at a resort or on a campus, these young men made up "a selective group of people, to whom adheres social prestige, [which] absents itself from cities all over the country. During their absence these men quite unconsciously decide what sorts of clothing they wish to wear. Then they scatter to their homes and are imitated by their friends, from whom, in turn, the style spreads in ever-widening circles."
In addition to the fashion example set by the successful executive or the big man on campus, American men's tastes were strongly influenced by the clothing they saw actors wearing in motion pictures.
Mr. Jinks, the well-known wholesale grocer of a mid-Kansas town, would indignantly and honestly deny that he buys his clothes according to what he sees at the movies. But the chances are that his clothier can recognize in Mr. Jinks' halting description of the suit he wants, the outfit against which Marlene Dietrich pillowed her comely cheek at the Lyric last night.
No longer can a New York salesman come into Mr. Jinks' store wearing a shepherd-plaid suit with two-inch checks, a red necktie, with a diamond horseshoe, and a pair of high-yellow shoes—not if he wants Mr. Jinks to think he's dressed in the latest style.
Mr. Jinks may not be particularly alert about styles, and maybe he has not been in a town of more than 25,000 population for two years. But, like almost everyone else on the North American continent, Mr. Jinks goes to the movies. So does the traveling salesman. Which helps to account for the fact that the old-fashioned traveling man in loud clothes has gone the way of the passenger pigeon. Douglas Fairbanks and his well-dressed fellows have done him to death.
Gone are the days when movies introduced men to elegant dinner jackets, stylish sport coats, and raffish neckwear. Today's movies are more likely to reflect the style du jour: work pants, T-shirt, and baseball cap, which are worn by movie moguls, software tycoons, and every big man on campus. Perhaps the 200-year-old fashion for men will, at last, be replaced.
1930s Fashion: Men's Suits
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Architects: Studio Pacific Architecture
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Photographs:Simon Devitt
Text description provided by the architects. Situated in the Kumutoto precinct on Wellington's waterfront, the Meridian building is seamlessly integrated into the surrounding maritime environment, working with its neighbouring buildings to contribute to the character of the precinct, while also representing a strikingly distinctive and environmentally innovative architectural work in its own right.
In addition to the client's desire for a flagship green building, at the forefront of sustainable design, the site's prominent waterfront position meant that any structure located there would be highly visible on all faces, necessitating a particularly coherent form. The ground floor was also required to function as a fluid, lively extension of the public waterfront space, interconnecting with the surrounding paved areas and walkways.
The design of the final building, completed by Studio Pacific in association with Peddle Thorp architects, subtly translates elements from the heritage waterfront Sheds nearby into a contemporary register. The building is articulated as two separate forms: a smaller curved annex portion, sitting close to the existing Sheds in the precinct, with richly-coloured and textured external louvres to relate to the colours and textures of the surrounding built fabric, and a smooth, white rectangular pavilion facing seawards, with the upper floors cantilevered out to seemingly float lightly above the water. The visual weight and detail of the annex anchors the lightness of the pavilion. The top floor of the annex has been set back and sits like a lantern above the louvred screen, visually relating to the roof lights of the neighbouring Sheds, while the folding roof of the pavilion represents a modern interpretation of the varied roof forms of the sheds.
Award-winning for its commitment to sustainability, the building uses partially recycled cement in the structure, significantly reducing CO² emissions; it also features twin skin east and west facades, operable external shading to north and west and reduced glazing to the south façade. Within the building there is extensive exposed thermal mass, chilled beam technology and high efficiency light fittings, all contributing to a 60% lower energy consumption than a typical office building. A 70% reduction in water usage is also achieved through harvesting rainwater and using low flow fittings. All material selections are from sustainable sources wherever possible, have low embodied energy and are recyclable.


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Inspiration Through Inner City Outings
That's ICO leader Chris Grenier, in the upper left, having fun.
Years ago, while doing trail maintenance in the White Mountains, Chris Grenier listened to one of the leaders describe hiking the Appalachian Trail.
"He had story after story," Chris recalls.
Chris had limited hiking and camping experience up to that point. But, inspired by what he had heard, Chris hiked the Appalacian Trail two years later.
"And now, thanks to Inner City Outings, I have story after story when kids ask me about the various places I've been. It's a great topic around the campfire."
Chris is a leader with ICO's Chicago group, which helps kids who would otherwise not get the chance to experience the outdoors connect with nature. Inner City Outings is made up of 50 groups across the country, leading more than 800 outings each year and serving more than 14,000 kids.
Most kids who first experience Inner City Outings barely have any outdoor experience, let alone activities like camping. In many cases, ICO kids go to places they haven't heard of before.
"There's a lot of education involved, and it's great to watch the kids absorb all of it. It's rare that they ever get to see those environments," says Chris.
For Chris, ICO is an outlet that enables him to pass along the same inspiration that motivated him to hike the Appalachian Trail years ago.
"I definitely feel like I'm giving back to the community. I get to watch them enjoy. There's not really a downside to working with ICO."
Want to get involved? Learn more about Inner City Outings.


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Weidman unanimously outpoints Machida at UFC 175
LAS VEGAS — Chris Weidman unanimously outpointed Lyoto Machida at UFC 175 on Saturday night to retain his middleweight title.
Weidman improved to 12-0, with the three judges scoring it 49-46, 49-45, 48-47. Machida fell to 21-5.
In the co-main event, women's bamtamweight champion Ronda Rousey stopped Alexis Davis at 16 seconds of the first round. Rousey improved to 10-0 — all by knockout — with her fourth consecutive title defense.
Rousey rocked Davis with a solid right, secured an immediate judo toss and landed nine punches, knocking out Davis and forcing the referee to stop the fight.
Weidman and Machida landed big shots in the first round, with neither taking time to feel out their opponent out.
Weidman pressed forward for most of the second round, keeping Machida on his heels and got a takedown against the fence with just under a minute left. Weidman was able to land a few shots to the grounded Machida and two knees as he rose just before the bell.
Machida's awkward style and solid kicks kept Weidman's offense in check for most of the first half of the fight.
Weidman opened things up in the third round, slamming Machida twice and landing two big straight rights that stunned the challenger and sent him into survival mode.
Machida stuffed most of Weidman's takedown attempts throughout the fight and dazed the champ with a straight left halfway through the fourth round. Machida added a few kicks and punches to clearly gain the momentum in what was his best round.
In the fifth round, both fighters landed multiple power shots and both were hurt. Weidman seemed to take control of the round with a late takedown, but Machida fought back and had the champ in trouble against the cage as the final bell sounded.
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City delivers a true third-person team-based shooter experience set within the dark and sinister Resident Evil universe. Not only does this setting provide a rich backdrop to the action but also delivers a unique and thrilling triple-threat battle. Zombies and Bio-Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s) add to the mix as players compete against their team's opposing squad and also tackle this third, unpredictable element that could only exist in the twisted Resident Evil universe. The result is a brand new style of gameplay that breaks the conventions of traditional third-person shooters.
It is September 1998 and the action centres on the ill-fated Raccoon City and the horrific consequences of the deadly T-virus outbreak. With a cover up required, Umbrella orders an elite team into Raccoon City to destroy all evidence of its involvement. Meanwhile the US Government has quarantined the city and dispatched its own team of elite soldiers to determine the source of the mysterious outbreak. Caught up in the action are rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield.
Players take on the role of an Umbrella Security Soldier (U.S.S.) and battle against all the competing forces at play in Raccoon City. Choose from six characters, each one equipped with a unique skill set, including the female field scientist Four-Eyes who can manipulate the T-virus and take control of the B.O.W.s raiding the streets of Raccoon City or the weapons expert and U.S.S. team captain Lupo.
- Team based shooter set in the dark and sinister Resident Evil universe.
- Triple threat battle as zombies and B.O.W.s add to the action.
- Compete with up to three friends as an Umbrella Security Service squad member in campaign mode.
- Choose from six U.S.S. characters, each with their own unique skill set and roles.
- Return of favourite Resident Evil enemies, iconic landmarks and characters, such as Leon S. Kennedy.
- Rewrite the history of the Raccoon City outbreak. Relive the iconic crash scene from Resident Evil 2 as Leon S. Kennedy desperately tries to escape from the clutches of the Umbrella Security Services.
- Risk infection from the hordes of zombies making their way through the city.
- Competitive online multiplayer modes provide a unique gaming experience thanks to the three corner combat between the Umbrella Security Service, US Special Ops and threat of zombies and B.O.W.s.


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This specific tutorial is a single movie from chapter three of the After Effects CS4 Beyond the Basics course presented by lynda.com author Chad Perkins. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-CS4-tutorials/beyond-the-basics/772-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-lynda-772-0306
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4. Color Correction in Camera Raw
5. Blending Layers and Compositing
6. Advanced Effects
7. Making Particles
8. Creating Common Motion Graphics Elements
9. Advanced Animation
10. The Principles of Animation
11. Working with Photoshop Files
12. Project: Animating Elements from a Photo
13. Advanced 3D
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15. Playing with Time
16. Intermediate Expressions
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Son of a Beech! Artisan-Crafted Slingshot
December 18, 2013
UK maker and friend, Geoff Fisher, has just announced two new additions to his popular artisan-crafted Trook family of hand whittled hooks.
Fisher makes his new artisan-crafted Slingshot and Brush from the same local Beech and other woods he uses … Read More...


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This DVD Home Theater brings awesome power to movies and music with dynamic bass sound from a big, 20-cm woofer. Bluetooth® compatibility makes it easy to listen to music stored on a smartphone or tablet with dynamic bass.
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Create smooth high-resolution images 1080p Up-Conversion raises image quality by correcting, in pixel units, the brightness signals of images in recorded content, DVD movies, and other media.
Lets you enjoy music wirelessly in your room Music data from a compatible device is sent to the main unit by wireless transmission.
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If an iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts is part of your afternoon routine, expect a nudge to buy a cookie or doughnut you didn't plan on.
Dunkin' Brands CEO Nigel Travis said in a phone interview Thursday that the company is pushing to get its cashiers to "upsell" to afternoon customers. It's part of an effort to increase sales after stores have emptied out after the morning rush. In the afternoon, customers who do come in are mostly just searching for a drink.
Upselling of this kind — often called "suggestive selling" in the fast-food world — is common. Who hasn't been asked "Would you like fries with that?" But it's not a strategy Dunkin' has aggressively pushed in the past, because most the chain's business is in the morning when customers are in a rush and speed is the top priority.
"People tend to be in a slightly different mode in the afternoon," Travis said. "In the afternoon, they tend to be more relaxed."
For Dunkin', that means cashiers can take the extra few seconds to ask customers if they want a doughnut, cookie or even a sandwich along with that coffee. Travis said the need to upsell would be emphasized in an upcoming talk with U.S. franchisees.
As an extra temptation, the company has also been rolling out small cases in some stores to display items like cookies and Danishes more prominently at the counter.
"Franchisees are kind of excited about it, Travis said. "It's a way to push various items."
It's a tried-and-true strategy. The head of the U.S. division for McDonald's Corp., Jeff Stratton, has said in a past interview with the AP that keeping the chain's apple pie dispensers visible to customers right behind the cashier helps drive sales. If McDonald's were to put the dispensers in the back kitchen area, he said apple pie orders would probably be cut by half.
Some people may think they're not susceptible to such tactics, but Travis says the evidence shows otherwise. He cited an example of a company where he previously worked that used video cameras to study the eye motions of customers while they waited in line. Customers would look up at the menu board to decide what they wanted while in line. But once they reached the counter, they'd look up at the menu board again, he said.
That second glance at the menu suggested people are susceptible to changing their minds, Travis said.
Attracting more customers in the afternoons — and getting them to buy more when they visit — is critical for Dunkin' Donuts, with convenience stores, fast-food chains and packaged food companies all pushing into the breakfast business. Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., based in Canton, Massachusetts, cited that intensifying competition Thursday as one of the reasons for its underwhelming sales increase of 1.8 percent at established U.S. locations in the latest quarter.
The disappointing results prompted Dunkin' to trim its U.S. sales forecast for the year. It now expects growth of 2 to 3 percent at domestic Dunkin' Donuts locations, down from the 3 percent to 4 percent increase it previously forecast.


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Bloesem Interview in the 101 Woonideeen
A new look for Dutch magazine 101 Woonideeen and I'm lucky enough to be part of this issue in a new jacket and style. Just before Christmas I was invited by the lovely Anne-Marie for an interview... couldn't have been a more hectic perdio to be honest and having a photo-shoot in my house with Christmas decorations already up didn't make my life easier either, but due to the help of my good friend An van Daele we managed to get some nice pics of my home. I especially loved having the actual interview with Floor Roelvink... the questions she asked really made me think about how my blog has grown in something worth mentioning in a super great magazine like the 101 Woonideeen.
You can get a better impression right here on their blog and for all you Dutch readers please do buy the copy... you won't regret it... so many more nice interviews and very beautiful homes!
....the hardest part is always to choose favorite... there are so many blogs out there that I really love, like and read but there is only space for a few to mention, so I thought it would be best if i mention the ones that have been super supportive of Bloesem, old friends... so to speak :)
..Big Thank you to An van Daele!


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Besides his signature black turtleneck, New Balance sneakers, and blue jeans, Steve Jobs was known for his silver Mercedes SL55 AMG. What was perhaps most interesting about Jobs' ride was the fact that it never had a license plate.
Jobs' Mercedes was photographed many times over the last several years, but the car was always plate-free. How did he do it? Did he pay the fine every time he was confronted by the police? Did he obtain a special permit? Did he just get lucky?
The answer is actually very simple.
ITWire explains (via The Loop):
Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a loophole in the California vehicle laws. Anyone with a brand new car had a maximum of six months to affix the issued number plate to the vehicle.
So Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one. At no time would he ever be in a car as old as six months; and thus there was no legal requirement to have the number plates fitted.
One might also assume that the leasing company was happy – they had an endless supply of luxury cars to on-sell with the previous driver being none-other that Steve Jobs.
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I think the details have been finalized for this, so I'm going to go ahead and post it here.
As we mentioned on the last Non-Prophets, Matt and I have been booked to speak at Bradley University in Peoria, IL on Friday, April 9 and Saturday, April 10. We will be in room 126 the Caterpillar Global Communications Center (GCC) at 5:00 PM, and Saturday at 2:00 PM.
We expect a mostly theist crowd. On Friday we'll be doing a sort of Atheism 101 discussion. Saturday we'll go over common apologetic fallacies. On both days we will leave ample time for questions. I'm guessing it should be pretty similar to watching a taping of TAE, except that the "callers" will be live in the lecture hall.
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Meyer Lemon Vanilla Shortbread
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons finely grated Meyer Lemon zest, divided use
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon Meyer Lemon juice
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon coarse sugar, for sprinkling
In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat butter and cream cheese until creamy - about 1 minute. Beat in sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, lemon extract, vanilla extract until well combined - about 1 minute. Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in lemon juice and flour until just combined. Chill cookie dough in refrigerator for 30-45 minutes or until cold and firm.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat cookie sheets with cooking spray.
Roll out shorbread dough on a lightly floured surface to an 1/8-inch thickness using a rolling pin. Try to roll the dough into a perfect rectangle. Cut off some of the raggedy edges, if necessary. Cut dough into squares; transfer to cookie sheets. In a small bowl, rub together remaining 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest and 1 tablespoon coarse sugar, using fingertips. Sprinkle over tops of shortbread.
Bake 12-15 minutes or until very light golden brown. Transfer shortbread to wire racks to cool.
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Butterball Farm Worker Guilty of Animal Cruelty
Undercover video showed kicking, stomping of turkeys.
Aug. 28, 2012 — -- A worker caught on undercover video abusing turkeys at a Butterball factory farm in North Carolina pled guilty Tuesday to felonious cruelty to animals.
Brian Douglas was one of six workers facing charges after undercover video shot by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals and published on the Blotter revealed alleged abuse. An MFA activist had worked undercover at the farm for three weeks and documented what the group called "acts of violence and severe neglect." In the video, workers can be seen kicking and stomping on turkeys, as well as dragging them by their wings and necks.
READ the original ABC News report on the Butterball raid.
WATCH footage from the undercover Butterball video.
Hoke County detectives raided the farm on Dec. 28 after seeing the video. During the raid, officials inspected 2,800 turkeys, seizing 28 and euthanizing four.
Douglas will serve 30 days in jail, followed by 42 months of probation. Four other workers were also charged with cruelty to animals, and their cases are pending.
Earlier this year, Dr. Sarah Mason, a veterinarian at the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, was suspended from her job and sentenced to 45 days in the Hoke County jail after pleading guilty to obstructing justice and obstructing a public officer. Mason admitted calling a friend who worked at Butterball prior to the December raid. Her sentence was suspended and she will be on unsupervised probation, but she will be required to take two ethics courses.
Officials charged that Dr. Mason, the Director of Animal Health Programs at the Agriculture Department, had called a Butterball veterinarian on Dec. 23 and allegedly informed him that there was an investigation into the farm. Details of the pending raid, according to prosecutors at the Hoke County District Attorney's office, were supposed to be "treated as confidential, and should not be disclosed."
Though she initially told authorities she had not talked to the Butterball employee, Dr. Mason later admitted telling him about the existence of the Mercy for Animals video showing alleged abuse, and telling him that the video had been given to a county prosecutor.
After conducting an internal investigation, officials at the Agriculture Department suspended Dr. Mason for two weeks without pay. "The Department ... found that Dr. Mason did not at first answer truthfully when she was interviewed on Jan. 5, 2012 by Hoke County authorities about a leak of information about their investigation," said the Agriculture Department in a statement. "We were aware that charges could be brought against Dr. Mason as a result of her actions."
But the department's statement also said that Dr. Mason had not explicitly told anyone at Butterball that there was a criminal investigation in progress, "nor was she aware or did she tell anyone that there was going to be a search warrant served at any of their facilities."
In a statement issued through her attorney, Dr. Mason said her rationale for contacting the Butterball veterinarian -- a longtime personal friend -- was to "immediately curtail" any animal abuse taking place. In addition, Mason stated, "I deeply regret the actions I have taken have reflected poorly on the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services." She stated she recognized the "seriousness of the situation."


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"What the hell is GITN?" You might ask. GITN stands for glitchinthe.net, and for the past ten years it has hosted my blaagh, dns, email, IRC and more. It has served us well, went through a couple of hard drives but the rest of the hardware has stayed the same. Its pretty remarkable, actually, that it is has not keeled over many years ago. I guess when you have a machine in a nice environment it lives for a long time.
Why the change? Well there are several reasons. Gitn is no longer hosting as many services as it used to. Over past few years spam has grown in sophistication compared to deterrents. That or I've grown less interested in wasting my time on maintaing the deterrents. At any rate, late last year I outsourced my email and DNS to fastmail. IRC (irc.glitchinthe.net) was also shut down a while back as the IRC network it was part of effectivly disbanded. With fewer services to host, migration has become a easier. But I still kept putting it off. Untill, last week. When my coloc provider had network problems which resulted in twelve hours of downtime, it reminded me that its time to move whats still on gitn somewhere else.
So here we go! Its all going to AWS. I've been using it quite extensivly at work and it has been, just a pleasure to work with. Rather inexpensive, and comes with some great services. It just made sense to move what ever remained of gitn there.
While migrating I'm also simplifying infrastructure, so its not completely trivial and might take a couple of weeks to finish. By the time you read this it will all be in a new place.
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Salt Lake City and San Francisco Surveys of Mormons, 1967-1969 (San Francisco Sample)
Mauss, A. L. (2021, August 15). Salt Lake City and San Francisco Surveys of Mormons, 1967-1969 (San Francisco Sample).Summary
These are the first large-scale surveys of Mormons ever conducted, with or without church auspices, based upon probability samples of adult Mormon householders. As of century's end, these are the only such surveys available to the public, although the LDS Church has in recent years conducted many private surveys of its own for various purposes. Large as they are, the Mauss surveys cannot be considered representative of all Mormons everywhere, of course, even in the 1960s, but they are certainly representative of Salt Lake City Mormons then, as well as of the most highly urbanized San Francisco Mormons (and, by extension, perhaps of Mormons in similar sections of other American cities).The questionnaire and the survey procedures were modeled in large part after those of the Glock and Stark 1964 survey of Northern California churches (which did not include Mormons). Accordingly, the 23-page questionnaire includes many items intended to measure various dimensions of religiosity; the usual demographic and social class information; the conversion experience (for converts); religious defection and reactivation; civil liberties; and attitudes toward blacks and Jews.
The nature and scope of these Mormon surveys, which used identical questionnaires, were intentionally guided by those of the Glock and Stark instrument and were carried out during the principal investigator's doctoral studies under Glock. The survey procedures in Salt Lake City were fairly straightforward and yielded data as representative for Mormons as the Glock and Stark survey was for Catholics and Protestants. However, the rationale for selecting the two Mormon wards in San Francisco, and none of the others, was that the Bay and the Mission Wards consisted disproportionately of the most "urbanized" church members (as opposed to suburban neighborhoods) -- that is, those closest to the inner-city, the apartment dwellers and the temporary residents. These two Mormon wards also included most of the ethnic minorities among Mormons in San Francisco (primarily Hispanic, Polynesian and Asian-Americans). The idea was to get as stark a contrast as possible to the Salt Lake City Mormons.
The ARDA has added five additional variables to the original data set to enhance the users' experience on our site.
Data File
Cases: 296Variables: 267
Weight Variable: None
Data Collection
1967-1969Funded By
The Presiding Bishop's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided informal sponsorship by "vouching for" the principal investigator in his efforts to obtain the necessary membership rolls from local bishops. No funds and no other forms of sponsorship were provided.Collection Procedures
Each respondent received in the mail a questionnaire, with appropriate instructions, and a prepaid postcard addressed to the principal investigator. Postcards contained only a respondent's name, address, ward and declaration that s/he had completed and mailed the questionnaire. Respondents were asked to mail the postcards separately from the questionnaires, so that they could be checked off the ward list without compromising the anonymity of the questionnaires themselves.A month after the original mailing, a follow-up reminder was sent to all non-respondents. After three months, questionnaires were no longer being received. At that point, the principal investigator made appointments to consult with each bishop and/or ward clerk over a list of non-respondents. For each non-respondent, certain information was obtained to permit estimates of non-response bias. This information included the non-respondent's gender, age, occupation and level of church activity.
Sampling Procedures
There were two surveys, each with a different population universe. The first survey universe included all LDS members (Mormons) of the Greater Salt Lake City area, from the state capitol in the north to and including Murray, about 60 blocks to the south; and from the mountain bench on the east to and including Taylorsville, about 20 blocks to the west. In 1967, this population contained 243,572 Mormons in about 50,000 households, comprising about 400 wards with membership sizes ranging from 372 to 1,019 (mean and mode between 625 and 650). The second survey universe included all LDS members (Mormons) in the eastern half of the city of San Francisco, from the Panhandle of the Golden Gate Park on the west to the Bay on the east (comprising Bay Ward and Mission Ward only), about 550 households.In Survey One (Salt Lake City), a list was obtained from the Presiding Bishop's Office of all the wards (congregations) and their respective membership sizes in the population universe. A block of numbers was then assigned to each ward corresponding to its membership size. That is, the first ward on the list had 610 members, so that ward was assigned numbers 1 through 610; the next ward had 735 members and was thus assigned numbers 611 through 1,345, and so on. After that, a table of random numbers was used to select 10 wards for the survey, depending on which block(s) of numbers contained the 10 numbers chosen from the random table. For example, if one of the random numbers was 1,102, the second ward on the list would have been selected for the sample (since it contained numbers 611 through 1,345). With this system, a ward's chance of being selected for the sample was proportional to its membership size. The 10 wards selected by this method turned out to be distributed geographically. In Survey Two (San Francisco), only two wards were involved (Bay Ward and Mission Ward), so membership lists were obtained from the two bishops and the same procedures were followed as in the 10 Salt Lake City wards. A response rate of 55% was obtained (N=296).
Over-sampling and weighting
No special system was imposed for either oversampling or weighting. However, the sampling system, more or less automatically, over-sampled inactive church members, females, singles, and, in San Francisco, ethnic minorities and the residentially transient.
Principal Investigators
Armand L. MaussRelated Publications
Mauss, A.L. (1994) The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation: University of Illinois PressMauss, A.L. (1976) "Shalt the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 10(2): 82-84 (1976).
Mauss, A.L. (1972) "Moderation in All Things: Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 7(l): 57-69 (1972).
Mauss, A.L. (1972) "Saints, Cities, and Secularism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 7(2): 8-27.
Mauss, A.L. (1968) "Mormon Somitism and Anti-Semitism," Sociological Analysis 29 (Spring): 11-27
Mauss, A.L. (1966):"Mormonism and Minorities" (doctoral dissertation University of California, Berkeley, 1970).
Mauss, A.L. (1966) "Mormonism and Secular Attitudes toward Negroes," Pacific Sociological
Review 9(2): 91-99
Additional notes on the construction of indices
The last ten variables in this data file are indices. These are additive in nature and are constructed by combining conceptually similar questions. Thus, for the index of Orthodoxy, for example, responses to questions about belief in God, belief in Jesus, belief in the Devil, and belief in Joseph Smith's First Vision were added together, with 4 points given for each "definitely true" response, zero for each definitely "not true," and intermediate responses with correspondingly intermediate scores (e.g., 2 for "don't know" or similar responses).Allowing for obvious differences in the formatting and response categories of the various questions, all of the indices were constructed in this same basic manner. After having been constructed, each index was validated by at least two different "criterion questions," and all the validations proved very strong. The criterion questions were also used to estimate the appropriate scoring on the index for cases where respondents failed to answer one or more of the indices.


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ok I'll make the story short
I am in a fight with a girl from school for over 2 years now!
I decided to make a website about here, where I call here a hoocker (which she is, matter of speech) and included here tel number, mobile number, and made a little screen where you can enter remarks which will be send to HER email adres
well maybe I went to far, but she did some nasty things to me too
the problem:
she reported this to the police, I am shutting everything down
but should I be afraid for the police, can they find my IP adres??
does hotmail register your IP adres
plz answer this question, without making arguments about that I was wrong blabla (many people do!!)
cause I am not feeling really happy


text: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department created the Authorization to Act as Agent to deal with the problem of trespassers on commercial property after business hours or on vacant property when no one was authorized to be on that property. The Authorization is a tool for police to eject or arrest persons who have no right to be on certain property without the necessity of the owner's presence. This authority is NOT for property which is partially occupied, such as an apartment complex or part of a duplex or triplex. It also is NOT for commercial property which stays open to the public for 24 hours (where there are public telephones, ATM's, etc.). In order for the Authorization to be enforced, the property must be posted with "No Trespassing" signs which are clearly visible. The wording of the signs is up to you. (If you prefer, "no trespassing" signs can be purchased at most hardware stores.) Additionally, we must be advised of specific hours during which absolutely no one is permitted on the property. The owner or manager must indicate these hours on the application AND ON THE NO TRESPASSING SIGNS. The agency status will remain in effect for one year unless terminated by you prior to that date. A new form must be filled out if ownership changes and/or to renew the authorization for an additional year. This form, Authorization To Act(PDF, 129KB), must be executed in the presence of a notary public and returned to the CMPD at 601 E. Trade Street, Charlotte, NC 28202.


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Workers for the medical examiner's office began sifting soil Monday for possible human remains at a site near the World Trade Center where a chunk of airplane debris believed to have come from one of the 9/11 hijacked jetliners was found.
The aircraft part has been identified as a piece from a 767 wing, officials said Monday. NBC 4 New York, which first reported the finding in an alley near ground zero last week, has also learned the answer to the mystery of a rope that was found intertwined in the part — according to a law enforcement official, a detective who responded to the original call about the part last week tried to move it with a rope.
Authorities on Friday had said the rope might have indicated the part was lowered into the alley, but have since interviewed everyone who had contact with the part last week and have now answered that question. The official tells NBC 4 New York that the detective found the rope nearby and was trying to move the part to find a serial number or other identifying mark.
The NYPD also said Monday that a Boeing technician has confirmed that the 5-foot part is a trailing edge flap actuation support structure.
"It is believed to be from one of the two aircraft destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, but it could not be determined which one," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
On Sept. 11, American Airlines flight 11 hit the north tower at 8:46 a.m., and United flight 175 hit the south tower at 9:03 a.m. A FEMA graphic below shows that all the other plane parts in the immediate area were from flight 175.
Police and officials from the city medical examiner's office were on scene Monday to sift the soil under the part for lost human remains. Officials said the part will be removed when that process is complete -- likely on Wednesday.
The part was found wedged between two buildings in a very narrow alley only about 18 inches wide between the rear of 50 Murray St. and back of 51 Park Place, the site where a mosque and community center has been proposed three blocks from ground zero.
The part bears a "Boeing" stamp, followed by a series of numbers.
The NYPD said the landing gear was found after surveyors hired by the property owner inspecting the rear of 51 Park Place called police on Wednesday.
The rubble from the 9/11 attack was cleared from the 16-acre site by the spring of 2002. Other debris, including human remains, has been found scattered outside the site, including on a rooftop and in a manhole, in years since.


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What is it about reality television that draws us in? Do we just want to compare our own lives to those featured to see if we appear to be normal? Or, more likely, is it just that we want to shake our heads at those on the screen and wonder how in the world they ended up doing something quite so crazy?
The perfect example: Reed Timmer and his fearless team on Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel.
I don't mind a nice rainstorm or even a little lightening now and again, but I strongly prefer to watch it from the warmth and safety of my couch (or possibly peeking out from under the covers in bed) rather than being out on the road driving in it. The darkness, the rain, the unknown... no, I'm not purposely heading out there in that.
Reed, on the other hand, is out there with his crew driving straight for the action. They not only want to track down the twisters, but their goal is to actually go inside them. I'm shivering just thinking about it.
Fortunately, the Chase Team isn't out driving around in my minivan, but rather in the "Dominator," a technologically-advanced vehicle that is built to acquire all of the data that they are gathering while also keep them from getting swept up and away and dropped down in Oz.
Check out what this mobile marvel can do!
Crazy, right?
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These bracketless wipers are designed without metal or plastic brackets, joints or hinges, which means they're an improvement over conventional wiper blades. Not to mention that everything from high-tension springs to an aerodynamic design to the customized, precision fit to the curve of the windshield means that these wiper blades will be able to perform in all types of weather.
Although when I'm out driving it's not to get precisely in the path of a tornado, I still want to know that I won't have a problem clearing my window in anything from rain to sleet to a splatter of mud and the Bosch ICON wiper blades are just the thing to do that to keep my family safe.
Plus, with up to a 40% longer life, it is easy to see that the amount of engineering that went into these wiper blades has resulted in a long-lasting, high quality, must-have product — no matter if you are driving home from soccer practice or into the path of a tornado.
To celebrate the release of the Bosch ICON wiper blades, Bosch is currently holding a contest on Facebook for a prize pack of incredible prizes (e.g. iPad 2, Bosch ICON wipers, iTunes gift card and more). On top of that, one lucky fan will win an experience of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid, five-night VIP Storm Chasing trip for themselves and a guest with Reed Timmer!
If you've ever wanted to experience storm chasing, this is the contest for you! Be sure to visit the Bosch Facebook page to enter as well as to see Reed documenting his experience with the Bosch ICON wiper blades in a series of great webisodes.
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DURHAM, N.C. – Quarterback Sean Renfree completed 15-of-19 passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns while wideout Blair Holliday caught eight passes for 84 yards to highlight Duke's 60-play scrimmage Saturday morning at Wallace Wade Stadium.
"We really got what we wanted out of it," said Duke head coach David Cutcliffe. "We wanted to extend play. We've done a lot of fundamental work. This is practice nine. Probably more fundamental work and less team work than we've had in any time since we've been here. But we've worked on some of the 'how' before we were doing the 'what'. I think it's paid off. It's paid off with players like Blair Holliday, who you can just see has jumped leaps and bounds from where he was. It's paid off in a lot of our offensive and defensive linemen – first team and second team."
Renfree's two scoring throws covered eight and 15 yards, respectively, to Jamison Crowder and Holliday. Crowder finished the day with six grabs for 67 yards. Running back Josh Snead spearheaded the ground attack with 61 yards on eight attempts, including a one-yard touchdown plunge, while quarterback Brandon Connette rushed five times for 29 yards with a nine-yard touchdown.
"The coaches have shown great trust in all our receivers," Holliday said. "We changed our offense around a bit where every receiver needs to know the positions; every receiver needs to come up and make big plays. It really just shows how much trust they have in us to put us out there and make plays."
The final scoring play of the morning came on a 40-yard strike from Connette to tight end Issac Blakeney.
"Issac Blakeney and David Reeves are two very young tight ends that I can see now all of the work they've put in," Cutcliffe noted. "If I had to probably pick one thing that the naked eye caught was Sean Renfree. He was a senior quarterback today. He was really sharp, and not just in the scrimmaging parts. From the first part of practice on -- I watched him through seven-on-seven -- everything was at a very high level. A lot of encouragement today."
Safety Walt Canty registered the lone turnover of the day with an interception. Kicker Will Monday booted a 26-yard field goal along with a pair of PATs.
Duke will host the annual Spring Game presented by PNC Bank on Saturday, March 31 in Wallace Wade Stadium. Kick-off is set for 1 p.m. and admission is free of charge.


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I was in Toronto in my consulting life the other day when an article in the Canadian press caught my eye. It was about a company that was doing something called "thought-controlled computing."
I had no idea what this meant but it sounded cool and important. So, I Googled the CEO and co-founder – a woman named Ariel Garten – and it turns out she's not only a neuroscientist and an entrepreneur, but a fashion designer and a practicing psychotherapist. She's also just 33 years old.
My first thought was, "Wow, this is (well, you know)" - that shiver of curiosity that invariably leads to a podcast. My second thought was that maybe Ariel Garten was really a computer simulation since it all seemed a bit much. Anyway, I got in touch, saw her office demo-ed her products, chatted with her over dinner, and just knew you would want to meet her, too.
Apart from her accomplishments and the cutting edge technology she and her team are developing, what fascinates me about Garten is the way she proves that artistic and scientific sensibilities can truly be integrated. I also admire the skepticism this tech entrepreneur has about our modern fetish for technology. Toss in the fact that she says our playlists will one day sense when we're depressed and suggest songs that would make us happy, and you have the makings for what I hope you'll agree is an interesting conversation.