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LAMAR – The Little Pigeon Baptist Church, off Indiana 245 on W. CR 1200N near Lamar, will hold a gospel sing at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18.
Crossties Bluegrass Gospel will be the special guests for the evening. Refreshments will be served at 6 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Holy Cross to host flea market Sept. 18
ST. CROIX – The Holy Cross Catholic Church in St. Croix will host its annual Hugh flea market from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 18.
The market will include antiques, collectibles, books, clothing, household items, baby furniture, crafts and more. Produce, baked goods and homemade jellies will also be sold and the annual James Hugh raffle will be held.
Gospel Tabernacle announces new Sunday worship times
CANNELTON – Cannelton Gospel Tab-ernacle Church will have new Sunday morning worship and Sunday school times beginning Sunday.
Service and Sunday school will begin at 10:30 a.m. All other service times will re-main the same.
St. Pius to hold annual fest Sept. 12
TROY – St. Pius Catholic Church in Troy will have its annual Fall Festival Sunday, Sept. 12. On the menu is their "famous" soup, by the bowl and gallon, fried-chicken or roast-beef dinners, hamburgers, polish sausage and homemade pie.
Entertainment will include the band Crosswind, a giant yard sale and flea market, games for adults and children and a raffle. Serving will begin at 11 a.m. Those wishing to are asked to take soup containers.
Deer Creek to broadcast Beth Moore Sept. 18
TELL CITY – Deer Creek Baptist Church will host the Beth Moore live simulcast Sept. 18.
Beth Moore is an inspirational woman with a passion to minister to women of all ages. She will share her own life experiences and show "how a relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important gift we can have." Travis Cottrell, acclaimed worship leader, and his praise team, will also join Moore for the event.
Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast served before the event, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will also be provided followed by the afternoon session, which will conclude at 4 p.m.
Tickets are $25 and should be purchased in advance by calling 836-2187, 836-4186 or 547-5561.
The church is located six miles north of Tell City on Indiana 37, directly across from the Perry County airport.
All women in the area are invited to make plans to attend and enjoy a day of fellowship.
St. Paul offers classes to become Catholic
TELL CITY – Classes for those seeking the Catholic faith are being planned and scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays starting in October and ending in April. The classes will be held at St. Paul Catholic Church's ministry center. One-on-one inquiry sessions with Sister Mary Emma can be scheduled at the convenience of each person. Invitations are also extended to anyone who has drifted away or who has been hurt by the church.
Call Sister Mary Emma at 547-7994 for more information.
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The dreaded words 'bear market' strike fear into the hearts of many investors. A bear market happens when investment prices drop �by more than 20% from their most recent high. There can be bear markets for a market as a whole, such as in the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500, as well as individual stocks.
While 20% is the threshold, bear markets often plummet much deeper than that over a sustained period, not all at once. Though the market has a few occasional 'relief rallies,' the general trend is downward. Eventually, investors begin to find stocks attractively priced and start buying and the market hits bottom, officially ending the bear market.
Bear markets are characterized by investors' pessimism and low confidence. During a bear market investors often seem to ignore any good news and continue selling quickly, pushing prices " and sentiment " even lower.
By contrast, �in a bull market, investors are optimistic and reward even modestly good news with higher stock prices, fueling an upward spiral. �Bull markets tend to be much �longer than �bear markets.
While investors might be bearish on an individual stock, that sentiment may not affect the market as a whole. But when the market turns bearish, almost all stocks within it begin to decline, even if individually they're reporting good news and growing earnings.
� Read more: Here's what you need to know when the market crashesHow long do bear markets last?
Bear markets are the bigger, more ferocious versions of 'market corrections,' which are typically brief, shallow downturns in the market. Of course, what at first seems to be a correction may quickly become a bear market, if stocks continue to fall. While every downturn is different, investors categorize each by its depth. For example:Corrections are often relatively short and shallow. There have been five corrections of at least 10% since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, with stocks declining an average 14.3% during �each period.Bear markets tend to go on longer and plunge deeper. The three bear markets since 1987 have dipped 46.5% over an average �time period of 1.4 years.Meanwhile, the last three bull markets have lasted nearly nine years on average.The S&P 500 has experienced 11 bear markets in the last 75 years.A bear market in graphics
As the name suggests, bear markets can be scary. To get a sense of what a bear market looks like graphically, take a look at the market from 2000-2003 as represented by the S&P 500 Index. By late 2000 the U.S. economy was verging on a recession.
On this chart you can see the market crash in March 2000, which helped kick off the longer-term bear market, as the dot-com boom busted. However, despite this crash, it wasn't until later that year that the market made a sustained move down. The bear market in the S&P 500 didn't reach its lowest level until late 2002, about 2.5 years �after its bull market peak.
How does that compare to the most recent recession? To borrow a famous quote: 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.'
Here the market didn't show a clear breakdown until October 2007, but then it moved quickly. Stocks moved lower for all of 2008 " the classic behavior of a bear market " before finally bottoming in March 2009.
Finally, for contrast, have a look at the 2015-2016 correction, which was precipitated over concerns about Chinese debt and rising interest rates, rather than an America-wide recession.
This correction is not all that pronounced, especially in retrospect. From its November 2015 high to its February 2016 low, the market dropped more than 13%, not enough to be a bear market. That decline defines it solidly as a correction, and the market continued moving higher not long after. It was a key time for discount shoppers to emerge for cheap stocks.What causes a bear market?
A bear market often occurs just before or after the economy moves into a recession.
Investors carefully watch key economic signals " hiring, wage growth, inflation and interest rates " to judge when the economy is slowing. When they see a shrinking economy, they expect corporate profits to decline in the near future and so they sell stocks, pushing the market lower. Investors en masse are good at predicting recessions, so a bear market usually signals more unemployment and tougher economic times ahead.
That was certainly the case for the 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 bear markets. But the infamous 1987 bear market was a different beast, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22.6% in a single day. It was a crash for the ages, and the drop technically put the market into a bearish funk. The market sank 33.5% in short order, but a recession was nearly three years away. With the strong underlying economy, this bear market was one of the shortest on record, just 101 days.
So while bear markets often foretell a recession, they don't always do so.How to tell if a bear market is ahead
Bear markets look obvious in retrospect, but as the saying goes, 'Nobody rings a bell at the top.' It's not easy to determine when stock prices have peaked and you're entering a bear market or to predict if a relatively mild correction will turn into a full-blown bear.
Still, investors do have some rules of thumb. One of the best ways to determine whether a bear market is likely is to watch interest rates. If the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates in response to a slowing economy, it's a good clue that a bear market could be on the way. But sometimes a bear market begins even before interest rates are lowered.
For example, look at when the Fed lowered interest rates near the last two bear markets. In January 2001, the central bank dropped rates from 6.5% to 6%, while the bear market officially began in March 2000. The situation was reversed in the 2007 downturn. In mid-September 2007, the Fed dropped rates from 5.25% to 4.75%, and the bear was shortly on the market's heels. Lower interest rates are no guarantee, but they're a guidepost that tougher times might be ahead.
So whenever the next bear market �rears its head, you'll want to be ready.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Big Escalator News?
Yesterday afternoon, we saw several men--not Metro workers--looking very closely at the platform-to-mezzanine escalators at Federal Center SW. There are only two escalators there, one up, one down. They usually work, as do the three from the mezzanine to the street.
The men seemed concerned with the pylon that sits on the platform at the bottom of the escalators. Some were making sketches, while others talked about whether the pylon could be moved.
We decided to ask what was going on.
"We're gonna rip these escalators out and put in new ones," said one of them. "All up and down the Orange and Blue lines."
"All of the escalators?" we asked.
"Mostly the platform-to-mezzanine ones," he said.
That sounded like pretty big news considering Metro's escalator woes, so we asked Metro for the details such as cost, time lines, station names, etc.
Metro said it was "a survey of escalators as part of our Infrastructure Renewal Program," adding that several escalators on the Red Line will also be looked at.
"Escalators will be rehabbed, as in the past, however, several units will be completely replaced. Federal Center will be rehabs, a few units at Foggy Bottom and Dupont Circle will be replaced," they said.
We asked for more information, but Metro declined.
"This is the beginning stages," they said. "Watch for press releases as the actual work begins."
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27 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Any word on when the canopies will be installed at Metro Center and Judicary Square?
- March 3, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
They finally fixed the outdoor escelator at the College Park station. It had been out of service since mid-December.
- March 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Paul said...
With such a huge budget deficit I don't really see the need to keep fixing escalators that are more of a luxury than a necessity. Don't get me wrong, the escalators leading outdoors are most of the time very lengthy and should be serviced by what about the short platform to mezzanine ones? Why not just keep them off and have people walk the 10 steps. There is an elevator as well. I rather send the money to have my trains running on time.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
The platform escalators are not the problem, its the mile-long street to mezzanine escalators that are the worst when they break down.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
The escalator situation along my red line commute has been nothing short of a disaster. The platform escalator at Cleveland Park (which had been quite reliable!) was being rehabbed and was supposed to be done Feb. 11 - it had been closed for 3 months. It finally opened yesterday. One of the three mezzanine escalators has been out of service since mid-February and still has a sign on it saying it's returning to service Feb. 25. I've noticed similar situations at Woodley Park and Metro Center. Before taking on all this extra work, maybe Metro's escalator workers should try to finish on time what they've already signed up to do.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
There are too many older stations that don't have steps as an option to go between Mezz and platform, such as Medical Center. Everyone has to bottle to go single file up and down one escalator when the other is out of service (often) because there are no stairs. Take out the escalators and make steps. $ saved, exercise is good.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg
- March 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
Those guys broke the Golden Rule of architects/engineers working in the field. Never answer questions about why you are there, just refer the curious people to the client.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
Whoa, @Anonymous 10:13AM! Not that I'm not for using stairs instead of escalators, but perhaps we should figure out which escalators to rip out. I, for one, am not ready to have the one at Wheaton changed to stairs. Don't get me wrong, I work out daily, but there are days where I don't particularly even feel like walking up the moving escalator. Perhaps it's my own doing. It used to be I could workout twice a day so walking up the escalator was a breeze, but now that I've scaled back my workout, I don't "sail up" the escalator quite as quickly as I have in the past.
The only other observation about wanting to replace the escalators with stairs is that more people would be crowding onto elevators which also have a tendency to be out of service quite a bit.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
@Anon 10:35 -- Look again; I was referencing going from the mezzanine to the platform, not mezzanine to the surface street(s). I agree that long escalators from mezz to street such as Wheaton need to be there.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
Alas.. Alas my asterisks the lone little New Carrollton escalator on the Ellin Road side is "not broken" but just needs the attendants to hit a button to get it working again as it apparently shuts down at the slightest indication of something bumping against the side. It never runs.
If it ain't broken I suppose it ain't gonna be in any fix list huh? I has a sad. ;)
- March 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
There is no incentive to install modern, functional, reliable escalators. The repairmen racket won't tolerate having this massive patronage system running dry.
- March 3, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- HRH King Friday XIII, Ret. said...
Information will be availabe "as work begins"??????????????????
No, no, no, no, no, no. This is NOT good. This is Metro speak for "we really don't have a plan or timetable which means you'll be waiting for us to finish installing these escalators for months if not years."
- March 3, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wasn't there a very long, system-wide escalator rehabilitation project just a few years ago? Now they have to repair the repairs?
- March 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Metro should really use this an opportunity to replace some (not all, just some!) of the escalators with stairs. Escalators are needed in many stations to go from the street to the mezzanine - the Red Line has a lot of deep stations are like that, for example. But there are many places where there are short escalators that could be replaced or supplemented by stairs.
Clarendon has a nice set of stairs in between the two escalators. They are great if an escalator is out of service, or just to handle peak crowds.
Ballston ought to be reconfigured like Clarendon - there are 3 escalators, and if they replaced the middle one with stairs, that would be one less to maintain. Also, the stairs can be used in both directions at the same time, so you don't have the problem of one down escalator and two up ones, or vice versa.
Judiciary Square really ought to have a set of stairs - the two escalators at each entrance there are spaced far apart, with the space between covered by metal sheets. A wide set of stairs could be put in between the escalators to handle rush-hour crowds, especially since one or both of the escalators is always broken at that station.
If Metro replaced maybe 25% of their shorter escalators with stairs, they could spend their entire escalator budget on the escalators that are really needed.
- March 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
uh Anon 1:06? Some of us cannot use the stairs. At all. Please remember those of us not as (apparently) young and physically fit as you. Ballston is one stop I use every day, twice a day. I CANNOT walk those stairs and know better than to try. 911 would have to be on standby for me to even attempt it. Even "shorter" ones would be completely prohibitive to folks like me - and know I did not ask to be this way. God decided it for me. (Just wish I knew why. ;)
- March 3, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
@1:19 - that's why they have elevators.
- March 3, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
The escalators are just another example of Metro's long term failure. Sure, we all understand why they were put in, but that was an acceptable reason 30 years ago. As Metro was used more and evolved into something much more than the original designers had in mind, the "leadership" should have seen that so many escalators was untenable. Instead, they continued with the old model, and now we find ourselves with a problem that is, to use the parlance of the day, too big to fix.
You see this pattern over and over and over again with Metro, and here we are.
- March 3, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
@10:13 & 10:47 -- Terribly sorry for my mistake! Thanks for pointing out my error to me!
- March 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yeah Anon 1:36... they have elevators. Ever tried waiting for one during RUSH HOUR? Go try it out for a week. Let me know how cheerful you remain. If you believe "Elevators are for the encumbered. They dont need nor deserve modern technology like escalators" you are living in a world I hope to never visit. It sounds cruel, selfish and downright retro. Bet all people who think this way will immediately change their mind the first time they end up on crutches for just a few days. Get real. Think equal rights for all. (Where did I hear that line before? ;)
- March 3, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
(To the Tune of "If all the Raindrops…")
If all the Metro lines were candies and chocolates,
Oh what a Metro it would be.
I'd wait for my train,
for hours without complain.
(Ding Ding, Doors closing, Beep Beep, May I have your attention please)
Oh what a WMATA it would be.
If the Blue line were Almond Joy and the Orange Reese's Cups,
Oh what a Metro Center it would be.
I'd travel all the way to L'Enfant
and eat Yellow line Butterfingers and Green Andes Mint without want.
(Ding Ding, I repeat doors closing, Beep Beep, Currently experiencing delays)
Oh what a Metro ride it would be.
If Purple line dark kisses and Silver line 3 Musketeers really existed
Oh what a miracle it would be.
I'd travel to Bethesda, College Park, and Tysons to play
Without having to ever get stuck on the Beltway.
(Ding Ding, Train offloading, Beep Beep, Delays continue)
Oh what a WMATA it would be.
If all of the Red line Raisins ran smoothly
Oh what a shock that would be.
I'd stop packing extra food
out of fear of spending Shabbat at Rhode Island Brentwood
(Ding Ding, Train out of service, Beep Beep, Above ground stations are closing)
Oh what a Metro that would be!
- March 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
@4:28 - I do use the elevators EVERY DAY since I am a wounded 26 year old combat veteran who uses a wheel chair. Bet you feel like an idiot now, don't you. Come ride the elevators with me. I can't use escalators like people with legs, like you.
- March 3, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
I hope they take a close look at expanding platform access at stations on the Red line. Many stations have only one point of access to the platform. Shady Grove, for example, has one access point from mezzazine to platform (2 escalators and 1 stair). Trains are often delayed in returning to Shady Grove because the platform is too crowded with people to disembark more passengers. This is ridiculous considering Shady Grove is one of the busiest stations in the Metro system (and it has more parking than any other metro station).
Station platforms should have at least two separate points of access. This is a simple matter of practicality and safety.
- March 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
I never realized escalators were so high maintenance until I moved to DC
- March 3, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
@ anon 1:19 - I'm sorry, I think the way I worded my post yesterday made my suggestion about Ballston unclear. When I suggested replacing the "middle" escalator with stairs, I meant they should configure the station like Clarendon, where there is an escalator on the left, stairs in the middle, and an escalator on the right. In other words, I meant in the "middle" horizontally, not in the middle vertically. I fully understand that some people cannot use even short flights of stairs, and I agree with you that escalators should be present at every level of the station to allow someone who cannot walk the stairs to get all the way from the platform to the street without having to climb stairs. I just think it would be smart if there was a set of stairs running parallel to the escalators, so some of us could use those and get out of the way of the people who really need the escalators. That would be good for everyone, don't you think?
- Anon 1:06
- March 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
What is needed is stairs AND escalators. That's what Cap. South has.
Why not take the wasted space between the escalators and put stairs in there?
- March 4, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Stan's Computer said...
Metro's "safety is a big joke" attitude is also a major cause of escalator failures, as discovered by the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp when they experimented with a 'stand to one side' program. (The program was scrapped as a result of a 5-fold increase in accidents.) The Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corp found that standing to one side greatly increased breakdowns and escalator failures.
The simple expedients of painting 2 inch boundary markings at the edges of the steps and increasing operating speed would substantially reduce equipment breakdowns and greatly enhance passenger safety.
Unfortunately, it's only taxpayer money.
- March 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM


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Looking for Sgt. William Taylor,Royal Artillery b. c1870
My Grandfather was William Taylor. When my father was born in Fulham,England in 1905 he was named as his father - William Taylor, Sergeant in the ROYAL ARTILLERY.
His mother, Fanny Pride, said that she married William in 1894 but I cannot find a marriage Cert.
I believe therefore that William may have been born c.1874. Fanny was born in 1862.
I have a photo of William age about 30 in RA uniform taken in Mauritius between 1902 and 1904. This does not show any rank.
When my father married in 1934 his father is described as deceased.
I believe William may have served in the 2nd Boer War and was a proffessional soldier.
In the 1911 census Fanny says she is married and has 1 child but he is not with her.(my dad was given to a friend). She is described as a
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BEIJING -- A bus carrying many German tourists hit the back of a truck and burst into flames Monday on an expressway in northern China, killing five Germans and a Chinese citizen, state media reported.
The accident happened near Tianjin on an expressway that links that port city with the capital Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The bus was engulfed in flames and black smoke, and was a charred skeleton of metal by the time the fire was out.
Xinhua quoted police as saying the bus rear-ended a container truck and caught fire. The driver was one of the dead.
It said 12 Germans and two Chinese were hurt, suffering from burns, fractures and bruises. They were first taken to a local hospital, but Xinhua said the three most serious cases, all German, were transferred to Tianjin Municipal People's Hospital and to the city's First Hospital for treatment.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, Xinhua said. It said the German ambassador to China, Michael Schaefer, went to Tianjin to visit the injured.
Road safety is a serious problem in China. According to government statistics, poorly maintained roads and bad driving habits result in about 70,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries a year.


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Suffice to say, it hasn't been a good day off the field for high-profile football recruits.
Earlier today, reports surfaced that one of the top running backs in the Class of 2014 had, in essence, lied about taking an official visit to Notre Dame. Now, one of the top players in the Class of 2013 may be wishing a visit he did actually take was a figment of his imagination instead.
According to multiple media outlets, 19-year-old Taquan Mizzell was arrested by Charlottesville police very early Sunday morning and charged with underage possession of alcohol. The Washington Post writes that "[a]n officer spotted Mizzell, 19, standing in the middle of the street trying to kick a moving vehicle, Lt. Ronnie Roberts said, before determining Mizzell had been drinking."
The incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. local time as Mizzell was on the backside of a visit to Virginia. Mizell had committed to the Cavaliers in August of last year and was taking an official visit to the school.
As Mizell has not yet signed his National Letter of Intent, UVa. coaches are not permitted to comment on the situation.
Rivals.com ranks the five-star Virginia Beach product as the No. 1 all-purpose running back in the country and the No. 29 player at any position in the country. He's also rated as the No. 3 player in the state of Virginia.
Mizell is the first five-star commitment of the Mike London era, and the first for the football program since Eugene Monroe in 2005.
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|1 kit
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|* FC = flow cytometry; HCS = high-content screening; HTS = high-throughput screening; I = imaging.
Visualize Phagocytosis, Endocytosis, and Internalization—pHrodo™ Red and Green Reactive Dyes and pHrodo™ BioParticles® Conjugates
What They Are
The proprietary pH-sensitive pHrodo™ conjugates of E. coli, S. aureus, and zymosan are designed to be specific sensors of phagocytosis. These red- and green-fluorescent pHrodo™ BioParticles® conjugates can be visualized using standard TRITC or fluorescein (FITC) filters, respectively.
pHrodo™ STP esters and maleimides are reactive versions of our unique fluorogenic pH indicators, developed to allow researchers to label proteins or amine- or thiol-containing biomolecules. pHrodo™ Green indicators expand the multiplexing capabilities of this technology for the study of many membrane internalization processes.
What They Offer
- Flexibility—label any amine- or thiol-containing molecule with a pH indicator dye
- Multiplexing capability—available in red- and green-fluorescent versions
- Utility—optimized, fixable probes for detecting phagocytosis in live cells
- Compatibility—conjugates can be used for live-cell fluorescence imaging, high-content screening (HCS), flow cytometry, and high-throughput screening (HTS), and with benchtop instruments such as the Tali®, FLoid®, and Attune® systems
How They Work
During phagocytosis, cells ingest the pHrodo™ dye–conjugated BioParticles® and form phagosomes. These phagosomes fuse with early lysosomes to form acidic phagolysosomes. The nonfluorescent pHrodo™ dye, conjugated to the surface of the BioParticles® reagents, becomes fluorescent with this reduction in pH, making these particles ideal reagents for the study of phagocytosis and its regulation by drugs and environmental factors. Because pHrodo™ dye is minimally fluorescent at neutral pH, wash steps and quencher dyes are not required. To facilitate multiplexing, cells assayed for phagocytic activity with pHrodo™ BioParticles® conjugates can be fixed, preserving the fluorescent signal potentially for up to 24 hours.
The pHrodo™ green and red maleimides and amine-reactive esters can be used in a simple protocol for labeling reactions. The dyes are provided as dry powders that are reconstituted in DMSO to make the stock solutions. Protein to be labeled with an amine-reactive form of pHrodo™ dye should be in 0.1 M sodium bicarbonate buffer, pH 8.3, at a concentration of ≥1 mg/mL. The reactive dye is added to the protein solution and reacted for up to an hour. The resulting conjugate can be purified using standard gel filtration techniques. Thiols can be labeled in a similar manner; however, a protein reduction step may be required prior to the labeling reaction (see product manual).
- Learn more about pHrodo™ indicators
|Phagocytosis in MMM cells visualized using pHrodo™ Green E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate and pHrodo™ Red E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate. MMM cells were plated in complete medium and cultured overnight. Cells were then rinsed with 1X Live Cell Imaging Solution and treated with a suspension of pHrodo™ Red E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate (left) and pHrodo™ Green E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate (right) in Live Cell Imaging Solution at 1 mg/mL. Cells were incubated for 90 min at 37°C. Nuclei were stained with NucBlue® Live Cell Stain.
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|Ex/Em maxima (nm)
|pHrodo™ Red E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Green E. coli BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Red S. aureus BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Green S. aureus BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Red Zymosan BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Green Zymosan BioParticles® Conjugate
|5 x 2 mg
|pHrodo™ Green STP Ester
|0.5 mg
|pHrodo™ Green Maleimide
|1 mg
|pHrodo™ Red Maleimide
|1 mg
What It Is
The Attune® Autosampler, an optional accessory to the Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer, enables rapid processing of multiple samples. In addition, the newly improved software offers greater functionality for data analysis.
What It Offers
- Broad compatibility—the Attune® Autosampler is compatible with many different formats, including tubes and 96-well, 384-well, and deep-well plates
- Sample integrity and data quality—the Attune® Autosampler mixes sample by aspiration (instead of shaking) to help ensure sample uniformity
- Easy operation—the Attune® Autosampler can be easily attached to and detached from the instrument, allowing users to quickly switch between the autosampler and individual tubes
How It Works
The Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer uses proprietary sound wave technology to help ensure accurate alignment of cells through the path of the laser beam. The Attune® Autosampler enables high-throughput sample processing. Its intelligent probe leads to minimal clogging and carryover and also prevents instrument damage. Using the virtual plate layout view, users can create compensation wells, define instrument settings, and identify samples. The free software allows multiple experiments to be defined on a single plate.
- Learn more about the Attune® Autosampler
The Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer and Attune® Autosampler.
What They Are
Alexa Fluor® 680 and Alexa Fluor® 790 secondary antibodies and streptavidin conjugates are ideal for fast and accurate multicolor western detection. Alexa Fluor® 680 and Alexa Fluor® 790 secondary antibodies for fluorescent western blotting provide excellent signal-to-noise ratios on standard near-IR fluorescence scanners such as the LI-COR® Odyssey® Imaging System and the Kodak® image station.
What They Offer
- Bright, photostable fluorescence
- Excellent signal-to-noise ratios
- Sensitive detection
How They Work
With Alexa Fluor® 680 and Alexa Fluor® 790 secondary antibodies, you can generate multicolor western blots that enable you to simultaneously evaluate multiple proteins on the same blot, even if the proteins comigrate. Multiplexing provides simple normalization and requires no blot stripping, no single-blot comparisons, and only two antibody-incubation steps, saving you time and sample.
|Simultaneous detection of AKT and GAPDH. AKT protein (pseudocolored green) can easily be detected on the same blot as the housekeeping protein GAPDH (red). The ability to simultaneously detect proteins of two different sizes on the same blot allows simple normalization using a housekeeping protein as the standard. Western blots were probed with GAPDH Mouse mAb (Cat. No. 398600) and AKT (pan) Rabbit pAb (Cat. No. 44609G), followed by detection with Alexa Fluor® 680 goat anti–mouse IgG and Alexa Fluor® 790 goat anti–rabbit IgG antibodies. Lane 1: MagicMark™ XP Western Protein Standard (Cat. No. LC5602). Lanes 2–5: Serial dilutions of Jurkat cell lysate containing AKT.
|Alexa Fluor® 680
|Alexa Fluor® 790
|Goat anti–mouse IgG
|Goat anti–mouse IgG (H+L), highly cross-adsorbed
|Goat anti–rabbit IgG (H+L)
|Goat anti–rabbit IgG (H+L), highly cross-adsorbed
|Goat anti–rat IgG (H+L)
|Donkey anti–mouse IgG (H+L)
|Donkey anti–rabbit IgG (H+L)
|Donkey anti–goat IgG (H+L)
|Rabbit anti–mouse IgG (H+L)
|Rabbit anti–goat IgG (H+L)
What It Is
The Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor is a fluorescent two-color sensor of cell cycle progression and division in live cells. This reagent allows accurate and sensitive cell cycle analysis of individual cells or a population of cells by fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, or high-content imaging.
What It Offers
- Accuracy―cell cycle–controlled expression of bright GFP and RFP indicators for live-cell analysis of individual cells or populations
- High efficiency―>90% transduction of a wide range of mammalian cell lines, including primary cells, stem cells, and neurons
- Speed and convenience―simply add the Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor to your cells in complete medium, incubate overnight, and analyze
How It Works
The Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor is delivered by highly efficient BacMam 2.0 technology, enabling cell cycle studies in essentially any cell type. Provided in a ready-to-use format—simply add, incubate, and image—the Premo™ FUCCI sensor affords highly efficient transient expression in cell lines, primary cells, and stem cells. Cells change from red in the G1 phase to yellow in the G1/S interphase and green in the S, G2, and M phases, as fusions of emGFP and TagRFP coupled to two cell cycle–regulated proteins are expressed and degraded.
- Learn more about the Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor
Imaging cell cycle progression in live cells with the Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor. U2OS cells were transduced with the Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor. Images were acquired every 10 min for 16 hr. Imaging was performed on live cells using standard FITC/TRITC/Cy®5 filter sets.
|Cat. No.
|Premo™ FUCCI Cell Cycle Sensor, BacMam 2.0
|1 kit
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BP shares sunk Thursday in London as U.S. politicians pressed the British oil company to halt its dividend payments and fork out greater compensation for American workers and companies devastated by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
But markets were also beginning to heed warnings from analysts who said Wednesday's 15.8 percent sell-off of BP shares in New York was an overreaction.
BP shares dropped as much as 11 percent to a 13-year low at the open in London, then recovered some ground by early afternoon, trading 5.1 percent lower $5.42. In the United States, the stock was up 11.6 percent in premarket trading at $3.40.
IN PICTURES: Sticky mess: The Gulf oil spill's impact on nature
The share price falls in London and New York have wiped out around half the company's market value since the spill began with an April 20 rig explosion in the Gulf.
BP PLC is finding itself caught in a trans-Atlantic squeeze between an angry U.S. administration and unhappy shareholders, who include hundreds of thousands of retirees in British pension funds.
Prime Minister David Cameron's office said the British leader would discuss the issue with President Barack Obama on a scheduled telephone call over the weekend.
Investors are fretting about the rising costs facing BP after Obama suggested it should also pay unemployment benefits to thousands of oil workers laid off during a moratorium on deep-sea drilling triggered by the spill.
BP tried to reassure investors before the London Stock Exchange opened, saying it was in a strong financial position and it saw no reason to justify the U.S. sell-off, and many analysts agree that the company can withstand the crisis.
But most market experts also acknowledge that the political rhetoric surrounding the accident is outweighing financial fundamentals.
"We don't believe BP has a funding issue, but given the overwhelmingly hostile nature of the U.S. government the company may decide to suspend payments until the wells are capped and the clean-up sufficiently advanced to convince the US that it can afford all the costs as well as pay dividends," said Evolution Securities analyst Richard Griffith. "Unilateral action against BP over its U.S. operations, be it unreasonable or illegal, hangs over BP."
Robert Talbut, the chief investment officer at Royal London Asset Management, a shareholder in BP, said "there is a lot of very irrational and short-term selling going on." But he added that talk of a potential sale of assets or takeover bid — PetroChina Ltd. has been suggested by some as a potential suitor — was not surprising.
"I can understand exactly why someone else would want to buy the BP assets because I think they are grossly undervalued at the moment," he said. "As a shareholder, it's not something I would welcome."
The politics of the spill crossed the Atlantic, with London Mayor Boris Johnson expressing concern Thursday about the "anti-British rhetoric that seems to be permeating from America."
Johnson said BP was paying a "very, very heavy price" for an accident.
"I would like to see a bit of cool heads rather than endlessly buck-passing and name-calling," Johnson told BBC Radio. "When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP, it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the airwaves."
The influential Financial Times newspaper ran a banner front-page headline "UK alarm over attack on BP."
Cutting the dividend would have a big impact in Britain, where the company accounts for about an eighth of dividend payments from companies in that country's blue-chip stock index, providing crucial income for retirees. In addition, about 40 percent of BP's shareholders are based in the U.S.
BP, which earned more than $16 billion last year, said Thursday the cost of the clean-up and containment efforts had now hit $1.43 billion.
Speaking to investors last week, CEO Tony Hayward wouldn't estimate the total bill, though he told analysts that minority partners in the rig would be expected to pay as well.
BP stressed on Thursday that it had "significant capacity and flexibility" to deal with ongoing costs, underlining its additional cash flow, strong debt to equity ratio and proven reserves.
The company reminded investors that it had indicated in March — before the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig — that its cash inflows and outflows were balanced at an oil price of around $60 per barrel.
It said its gearing was currently below the bottom of its targeted range and its asset base was "strong and valuable." The company had more than 18 million barrels of proven reserves and 63 billion barrels of resources at the end of 2009.
Killik & Co. analyst Jonathan Jackson said the shares would remain very volatile until there was a clearer idea of the potential cost but he remained positive on the stock.
"Despite the high risk involved in adding to holdings in the short term and the possibility of a temporary suspension of the dividend, we would continue to do so," he said.
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Rivaling the enchantingly delicate nature of genuine eggshell, this subtly shimmering single pendant necklace is the perfect addition to polish of your nature-inspired style. Crafted in the USA, the artisan, Elaine B., who creates this collection uses cast, recycled, and oxidized sterling silver. The "broken" edges feel organic, and in combination with the matted oxidized finish they give the shape a very authentic eggshell feel. The slightly unfinished, edgy style meets the sophisticated shimmer of the sky blue topaz stone that is cradled in the middle of the half shell, giving the necklace the advantage of everyday wearability and also enough elegance for special occasions.
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|American Artisan Jewelry
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|United States
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|Elaine B Jewelry is woman-run studio dedicated to durable, wearable & sustainable style. Whenever possible, Elaine and her team use recycled metals, reclaimed & rough stones, and they always outsource any needed services to small, USA-based companies. In addition to using recycled metals, they always recycle any scrap metals and materials they can't use.
|Artisan Story
|Elaine is a jewelry artisan based in charming downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. She began her journey into jewelry making as a young woman who asked herself the question, "how do I want to spend my days?" Her theory was that everything is a job. For every product that's made and service that's provided, someone is doing that as his or her career. So she decided that what she wanted to do was create. Through her time in college attending courses in the Craft and Material Studies major, it became clear to Elaine that she wanted to create jewelry. She is now the owner and creator of Elaine B Jewelry, a line dedicated to providing beautiful wearable pieces with a genuine story and thoughtful design.
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Zappa says: Updates!
Hello all. I've updated my real website so that everything now makes sense in the universe. The Store icon now links to my Etsy shop, the News icon links to this blog, my About section now features a downloadable PDF of my Creative CV, the Links section has two new additions and finally, I've added a few preview pages of The Big Bang Issue One in the Portfolio section.
I added this picture of Frank Zappa from my sketchbook so this post wasn't so boring. Thanks to HTML wizard Tim Eggleston for doing all the work!
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Ka-Ro TX6S is the latest addition to the Ka-Ro Computer on Module family. It features NXP's i.MX 6Solo single core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Thanks to the integrated peripherals the i.MX6Solo is a flexible platform to suit a wide variety of demands in industrial, automotive and consumer applications. The TX6S targets applications where a small form factor (26 cm² (36 mm x 71 mm including the socket)) and low- power consumption go hand in hand with high demands on performance and speed.
Also available as 800MHz industrial Quad-Core TX6QP, Dual-Core TX6DL and 1GHz Quad-Core TX6Q
Embedded computing power is very much in demand in a growing number of multimedia-centric devices. The Ka-Ro TX6 is ideally suited for target markets requiring high-end devices for powerful images and impressive video streaming creating connected devices in the following vertical markets.
By combining the power-efficient processing capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture with bleedingedge 3D and 2D graphics, as well as high-definition video, the i.MX 6 provides a new level of multimedia performance to enable an unbounded next-generation user experience.
For more information regarding i.MX 6Solo processors, see the NXP product page:
NXP i.MX 6Solo
128 MiB SLC NAND
Often, devices are required in different performance and price classes. This is where Ka-Ro's TX standard comes into its own. With one single hardware design embedded engineers can produce a range of pin- and software-compatible products. Ka-Ro introduced the TX CoM standard over six years ago. Until today, the Ka-Ro Starter Kit V has served as the unchanged development environment for all Ka-Ro TX modules underlining Ka-Ro's long-term product and family strategy. All the TX modules can be used on the Starter Kit V which enables great scalability and flexibility.
The philosophy behind Ka-Ro's TX CoM family is to reduce a CoM down to the absolute minimum of components. In doing so, application designers and engineers using Ka-Ro CoMs can achieve maximum flexibility. Ka-Ro TX CoM modules solely feature the processor plus memory and the power supply. Any additional functions can be added to the base board.
This focus on CoMs with a minimum number of components is on the one hand the key to very competitive pricing, on the other hand it enables Ka-Ro to ensure long-term availability. While processor manufacturers like NXP offer a long-term availability of 10 to 15 years, this must also apply to any further components integrated onto a module or these must be available via second sourcing and without any necessary software alterations. If these components are integrated on a module, as is the case with many other manufacturers, this long-term availability is endangered, or – from right from the start – not possible to guarantee.
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Testimony for Securities and Exchange Commission Field Hearing re: Disclosure of Pension Liability
David Crane, Special Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger
September 21, 2010
Good Afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to be here today.
State and local governments utilize a misleading method for reporting the size of public pension obligations. Let me give you an example.
Suppose an individual wears two hats, one as a just-retired government employee entitled to pension payments from a state government, and the other as an investor in a general obligation bond issued by that same state government. Assume the pension payments and the bond payments are unconditionally owed by, and fully recourse to, the government.
Suppose further that the pension payments and bond payments have identical profiles. For example, suppose that the bond requires a payment of $30,000 per year for 25 years and likewise the pension requires a payment of $30,000 per year for 25 years.
Also, with respect to the bond, assume that, at the interest rate at which it was issued to the retiree, the government will record a present value obligation of $425,000.
With respect to the pension payments, the very same government will record an obligation of only $320,000.
Now, how can that be? Two identical, fully recourse and unconditional obligations owed by the same government are valued at different amounts. The answer lies in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of government pension accounting that allows governments to hide liabilities.
In short, that world permits governments to discount pension liabilities at a high rate, resulting in diminished present values. The logic used to justify that outcome is that, because the government has established a fund, called a pension fund, in which it deposits capital in the hope that capital will grow to meet the pension payments, the government should be able to discount its pension liabilities at the rate at which it hopes to earn on that capital.
Now, that might be a legitimate outcome if the government and its taxpayers were no longer on the hook for the pension promises once money is deposited into the pension fund.
But that's not the way it works. The government and the taxpayer stay on the hook. As a result, the retiree who is due the pension payment is not only due an unconditional payment from the government and its taxpayers but also is secured by whatever assets reside in the pension fund. If anything, an even lower discount rate should be used to discount that senior secured obligation when compared to the unsecured bond. Yet, perversely, current government accounting allows governments to discount those senior secured obligations at a higher rate.
To put this in perspective, consider this: If Alice's accounting could be applied to your mortgage obligation, then just setting up a trust account and projecting that account to earn a high rate of return on any deposits you make to that account would allow you to reduce the reported size of your mortgage. Wouldn't that be nice - at least, until you actually had to make the payments on the mortgage, which, of course remain the same.
As a result of Alice-in-Wonderland accounting, state and local governments are understating pension liabilities by $2.5 trillion, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. And note that these aren't like Social Security or Medicare liabilities — these are contractual liabilities that cannot be changed, even by State Legislatures or Congress.
It gets worse. Because of Alice-in-Wonderland accounting, state and local government pension funds are perversely incentivized to assume the highest rates of return at those pension funds in order to minimize reported liabilities and then to "swing for the fences" in investing the capital of those funds in the hopes of actually achieving those returns, producing even more risk for the taxpayers who must make up for pension fund shortfalls. Believe it or not, recently, the Chief Investment Officer of a large state pension fund was quoted as saying "Do I think it's unrealistic to search for returns in the 7.5 to 8 percent range? No, I don't. It's really hard to imagine a worldwide market system not providing a return to riskier sources of capital." (Bloomberg Business Week; italics added.) Given that the capital in state and local pension funds is there to protect governments and taxpayers from having to dig further into their pockets to meet pension payments for which they are on the hook, that official is effectively characterizing government and taxpayer capital as being in search of "riskier" investments.
So what does government pension accounting mean in the real world? As just one example, consider what Alicia Munnell, former member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, recently reported:
"In 1999, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) reported that assets equaled 128 percent of liabilities, [after which] the California legislature enhanced the [pension] benefits of both current and future employees. If CalPERS liabilities had been valued at the riskless rate, the plan would have been only 88 percent funded. An accurate reporting of benefits to liabilities would avoid this type of expansion . . .."
In other words, in 1999, using Alice-in-Wonderland accounting, CalPERS reported that its assets exceeded liabilities when in reality liabilities exceeded assets. Encouraged by that accounting, the State Legislature enacted a law that year boosting pension promises as Munnell describes. The hidden cost from that boost has already hit $15 billion and will reach at least another $150 billion. More generally, after having reported that liabilities were a fraction of assets and projecting that the state's pension costs would total $5 billion over the succeeding ten years, the state actually incurred costs of $25 billion over that period.
California wasn't alone in this regard. Unrealistic reporting of pension promises is a systemic problem. That's why the S.E.C. must require realistic accounting of public pension liabilities. For that to happen it must insist upon the use of a realistic discount rate when reporting pension liabilities. As Munnell puts it: "The argument is compelling that the liabilities of public pension plans, which are guaranteed under state law, should be discounted by a rate that reflects their riskless nature." In this sentiment she is joined by academics from Stanford, Northwestern, Wharton and the University of Chicago and other commentators.
In addition, the S.E.C. cannot rely upon the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) to correct its ways and adopt realistic accounting. GASB is funded and governed by the very governments that would be forced to revise upwards their pension liabilities should a realistic discount rate be required.
I am happy to take questions.


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