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I'm having trouble aligning 3 sequences together - the total gene (~2500bp) and the forward and reverse sequences that are ~1000bp in length. Now I'm using Clustal X2, but the problem is that the program does complete alignment, which is useless for me right now. Could anyone recommend or suggest any parameters or methods on how to align more that 2 sequences together, but that each sequence is aligned to the first one (the total gene)? Thanks!
Your question is not very clear, but I think what you are trying to do is align sequencing results to a reference gene sequence. Your total gene sequence spans ~2500 bp. It sounds like you have a forward sequence at the start of gene, reading only about 1000 bp and the reverse strand reading in 1000 bp from the end (if this is Sanger sequencing, you likely only have 800-900 bp of accurate base reads by the way). Therefore, you have a gap of about 500 bp in the middle of your gene of interest. There are (at least) two ways to do the alignment, and I would suggest the manual method if you are trying to verify gene sequencing. Manual Method:
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At the top of this window is a schematic, showing exactly how much of the the query sequence aligns with the subject sequence. The longer the line, the more bases align. Similarly, the closer the colour of the line is to right of the scale (e.g., red), then the more continuous the segment is indicating a longer, continuous alignment. Below the graphic is a table of results. Briefly, the table highlights all possible alignments that the BLAST algorithm has found, including how much coverage there was, confidence of the alignment and length of alignment coverage. Below the results table, are the detailed results which were summarized in the table. This detailed report shows you exactly which bases align or mismatch, or any gaps. The top line is the subject sequence; the bottom is the query sequence. The other thing to keep in mind here is the Strand line. In this case, it says "Plus/Plus, meaning that the aligned sequences were the forward sense, or plus strand, of each of subject and query sequence, respectively. If you entered a reverse complement sequence instead (such as the reverse sequencing results) then this would change to "Plus/Minus". From here, you will still need to manually line these results up to your gene of interest to determine exactly which portion of the gene is missing sequence coverage, as well as any mutations that may have cropped up in the cloning process. |


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PEMA spokeswoman Ruth Miller said Wednesday that the agency's staff continues to compile damage cost estimates that are still being reported.
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The Pennsylvania figure is dwarfed by the billions of dollars in damage being reported in New Jersey and New York, but is in line with several other states that sustained damage.
State utility regulators say more than 1.5 million customers in the eastern half of the state lost power at some point after the storm struck on Oct. 30. Flooding was relatively minor, while downed trees and power lines blocked hundreds of roads.
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The financial tally is higher than neighboring New York's. Earlier this week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that Superstorm Sandy ran up a bill of $32 billion in his state.
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ok so ive had the game a month and i love the graphics the style and the people but i cant find a class that plays to my style on other mmo's.i know i know its not like other mmo's but wow ruined me in some ways.
Fast attacks
fast movement
Mixture of ranged and melee
mix of more than one style Eg dps one point healing the next
pretty armor not nessary revealing but pretty good looking
good animations(hate just standing there)
not too keen on pet classes i can play them but the pets bore me.
slow lumbering hulks of things that take ages to kill anything
ugly armor
being pigeon holed into one role all the time.
a class thats too simple
On wow i play a druid balance and resto and a shaman ench and resto.Really i am looking for something like these.Maybe its not possible or amybe its the wrong game for me but i want to try so i come here to you nice people.
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"Terrific -- not exquisite"
Like any addiction, the original ecstasy never returns. That is to say honeymoons end. I came late to the series, starting only this year with Still Life with Crows, and I followed it with everything up and until the long wait for Two Graves. Each book subsequent to Still Life was slightly a let down -- none brought me back to the peak of nirvana of the first. This is not to say that the others were poor or unreadable or unrecommendable; only that I could not regain the effects of Still Life.
Awaiting (6 mos) for Two Graves, I was eager to start reading. The first half was stellar. The third quarter good; the final quarter long, tedious and unjustified.
At first I felt manipulated that three discrete story lines were being offered alternatively. but at the end, we were given pages and pages (hours) of Pendergast's show-down in South America. Frankly, I got bored.
The three story lines are treated inequitably. Corrie Swanson returns to this episode, and she has a lot of "stuff" to take care of. She, her problems and her conflict are introduced, her conflict is resolved... that's it.
Constance's story is examined again, a conflict intervenes and is resolved. But these two very interesting parallel story lines are abruptly abandoned so that we can follow AXP playing superhero. Each of the other two stories resolve independent of the main one, but AXP does not contribute to their resolution. This makes me feel cheated of my proper fix of AXP's masterful management of all that is wrong in the world.
For me, and I offered my limited P&C credentials above, AXP drives everything, and in this book, he was off on his own adventures, eschewing help from D'Agosto and Corrie, which would have made the solving much more "real" in the context of these books.
As for the story(ies):
1. The Constance story resolves in this book. The explanation is more than a little implausible, but it fits comfortably with the explanation of Helen's disappearance in the earlier books.
2. Corrie gets to play detective all by herself. She is successful and finds her long-sought happiness. Corrie bears a remarkable resemblance (in behavior, attitude, goals and gall) to Lisbeth Salandar from the Dragon Tattoo Series. P&G's Corrie was created in 2003, well before Larson's books (2011) which is telling!
3. The AXP/Helen/South America story could have been half as long and the above two expanded more deeply. Lots of traveling, planning, reconnoitering, faking and infiltrating taking up many, many pages, and in my opinion wasting good story time.
4. Thrown in for good measure is some progress in D'Agosto's life.
again... nothing interactive among all the beloved characters. It's like three different books (novellas) packaged as one big novel.
I wouldn't recommend this to a new P&C reader, but for a fan, Two Graves is a MUST read. Some of the early parts are classic P&C.
I have faith the next installments will be 100% wonderful again.
"Tedious, trite and unbelievable."
I know this is an oldie, and we cannot judge it by Kellerman's recent work, but really, it was a little too preposterous. ALERT: There are scenes that describe graphic child sexual abuse here. There are words/phrases that would be unspeakable in today's sensitive times. But we cannot slight JK for that -- that was then and this is now.
No, my complaints are about the way the story unfolds. First there is some detective work that combines Milo & Alex, then Milo disappears and Alex is a psychologist, detective, and near-mercenary. There are some nice homey scenes between Milo and Alex and their respective amours, but not enough of them.
At any rate, the bad guys are rounded up and the most hated of them have stories to tell; long, stories, told in retrospect, as if it justified their adult behavior.
Alex treks to other states, gets in fights, shoots, captures and threatens people until the truth comes out. When it does, all the truths link up into a somewhat surprising outcome.
I am glad that JK decided to take the weapons away from Alex in his later, more mature books.
I know it was the launch of the series, so for me, having read all the subsequent books, this one lacks the cohesiveness and logic of the best and most modern of the Alex/Milo canon.
I would not recommend this book, however, because of the graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. I would feel responsible to someone who read it on my recommendation and encountered this content. I would not recommend it to anyone who loves the Milo/Alex pairings because this one does not illustrate their relationship as we have come to expect.
For a first time reader of JK, it is always best to begin a series at the beginning, and this one, because of some of the content, might turn someone away.
I had to check to be sure, but there is a movie (1994) of the same title, which seems to include some aspects of this plot, though it doesn't seem an exact rendering.
"Not nearly so commercial as I feared."
I liked it. The twists, such as they were, were not outrageous, the final scenes about Jacob were a bit surprising because of their being so unconventional. It is very unconventional because we (Americans) do not believe parent-child relationships can go in this direction. Frankly, I don't know who was more outrageous -- the parent who couldn't accept a probable truth that was fairly convincing or the parent who accepted the truth and felt it necessary to do something in response.
The court room scenes were a little too long and tedious, and some of the conversations were stilted and unrealistic, but if you're writing a story about something.. in this case a man, his father and his child, you have to start with a premise: What if a child grows up and fulfills the fears a father has as relates to his own inherited psychology? Does the apparent outcome succeed in proving the existence of a "murder" gene? Did Jacob inherit it? Was Laurie affected by living with this "gene" in her midst?
The story brings up many avenues for critical thinking.
It is buried in a story that, if not riveting, was fairly well done.
Worth the credit, worth thinking and talking about it.
"Tedious, childish, melodramatic"
I hope I can say enough about this horrible book that will keep enthusiastic hopefuls from spending time and money to acquire it. I cannot compare it to anything else by Coban except for "Stay Close," which was marginally readable. But this one, it's so bad, so implausible, so repetitive, so convoluted that it seems to have been written by a first year Composition student. The cliches are rampant. The love story that drives the dumb plot is dumber than that student writer's first draft. This man, this protagonist, Jake Fisher, is such a mope, such a feminized character that his described big, handsome physique seems wrong. His "fight" scenes are successful because of luck and some tricks, not because he is so enraged and impassioned that he is aggressive or cunning. His best friend, (requisite "black guy") Benedict is not as he seems. There is a sweet waitress and a crotchety old secretary. Everyone lies. There are (non-Italian) mobsters and African drug cartels. There are funky FBI agents and fence-riding cops. There is a lot of shooting and running and disguising. There are two references (in case you missed the first one) to a Lesbian couple. So Coban hit all the right notes politically. But none of that can Bandaid a shoddy story and lousy, boring characters who generate no sympathy (from me).
The ending lines actually explain the whole thing, and once you know why Natalie has disappeared, it's pretty flaccid. I still couldn't have cared less. By the time we are told why Natalie disappeared, we have been exhausted by events that do NOTHING to advance the Natalie story.
Many reviewers described this as a wild ride, high-tension, edge-of-the seat thrill. Not even a little bit of this story was so compelling. If I had bought a hard copy, I would have demanded my money back; I couldn't have sat still in one place to complete it.
Narrator: I usually love Scott Brick, but his intonation of Jake was so tired, I wondered if he was told to read it like that by the author. I will always choose Scott Brick if I have an option, but Coban won't be on my favorite authors list.
"Role Reversals and AXP mostly absent"
The beauty of this series is AXP's interest in and contribution to the story; in this one he opened and he closed the story, but the plot was so fragmented that it was hard to decide if this book was about Constance or Pendergast. At the end, even though Constance's role is revealed as being as key, I found this episode weak and not believable.
But the story itself is what lacks the ability to hold interest. There is a monastery, there are monks. There are trusts made and broken. AXP takes off and leaves Constance at the monastery to question the most secluded monk... too easy, really. An important and dangerous artifact is stolen from the monastery and the monks ask Pendergast to retrieve it.
Then there is an ocean voyage and many red herring bad characters. There is an apparently prime story line about the ship's captains, but those also relate to the found/missing artifact. There are ghostly characters, cliched sea characters, a luxury liner about to go Titanic and a half dozen or so odd deaths -- all in service to the missing artifact.
So, the crime is solved, but not before AXP falls under its spell and "disappears" -- by becoming bad AXP ---- for way too long. Constance tries to guide him back to his good self and ultimately AXP's strong thoughts of home and a visit from his dead(?) brother bring him back around to sanity. The ship is not lost and the bedeviled characters regain their sea legs. There is a reappearance of a former nemesis, and the book closes with suggestion of greater devastation to come. Lots of people die.
It is disappointing on many levels. I think that when AXP disappears early on from his own book, you can expect it to be a poorer cousin of the better books. It's as if the star of a series dies mid-season and they have to absent him and make an explanation -- like it was all a dream or some such thing. Except for a rather enjoyable chapter where AXP plays blackjack to foil the card counters on board, it was mostly without Pendergast's usual charm.
I feel I wasted my credit. I would rather have paid $5-6 for this and saved a credit. It was not a "good purchase."
STill, if you follow the series, the story does offer information necessary to go forward to the next, hopefully realistic and harrowing adventure.
"Good story, great narrator, falls a little short."
I agree with the other posters here that the "ick" factor was excessive and unnecessary. Not sure why it was necessary for the writer to include that particular aspect since the device did not result in any real assistance to solving the crime(s). The two weirdos were used like a red herring, maybe to divert the reader from discovering the true perpetrator.
For me, I sort of "knew" 2/3 thru who was heading up the myriad disappearances. You will too. It's okay, though since you won't be quite sure. The ending is a bit trite. All the explanations and justifications for lifetimes of disappointment, fear, revenge and uncertainty.
The text was good; deep and satisfying. The primary characters mostly believable -- especially Ray Levine. Megan was too dippy to have been who she used to be and her husband way too tolerant.
Left unfinished were the punishments meted out to the people who set the weirdos on the prowl, but other than that, mostly satisfying, understandable, and 75% believable. This won't deter me from another Coban story -- I have liked others of his before -- but I will pay close attention to reviewers who cite the stuff that (for no apparent reason) is included to make me squirm. I can take horror and gore, if it serves a purpose. Here, I don't feel it served anything but an appeal something I can't quite recall. It reminds me of something I've read -- like in Preston & Child, or another series. I am hoping this wasn't a copy-cat effort to compete with the likes of P&C.. there is no way to beat those two at their game.
Harlan Coban should stick to what he does best. If he needs torture and horror, I hope it is better justified in future books.
In all, I liked it. It kept me "turning the page," and I only laughed a few times at improbable scenarios.
"A long way around a decent story."
The prologue and epilogue were great. The long middle was often tedious and a tad mundane... post-modern crap that wandered along, plotless but incident-rich. The characters were not standouts, but were normal, accurately described people we all know, love and hate.
The problem was not only the lack of a "point," but the lack of cohesion. Many, many things occurred in this long story, but all you really needed and wanted to know was given in the prologue. The resolution of the story questions did not come until the epilogue and then, the explanations were kind of shruggingly okay.
In the middle are several family members, several subsets of families, several buildings and locations whose past, present and future are all linked. We have several unlikable characters, and contrary to common practice, some of these are children, and they are believable. There is a climax crisis seen in a school, it is inevitable, I suppose, but the actions of one of the key child characters is indecisive and, frankly, not well explained. It was as if the author was the father of the child and couldn't commit to allow the child to act as a normal child might have. The father in the book, the key character, Miles, is an overweight softie who has no guidance except that of his gruff (caricature of a) father. He is manipulated by women living and dead and he really has no past to stand him out as a protagonist with something to lose or acquire or adapt to. Many other characters (brother David for one and ex-wife Janine for another) are multi-faceted and have depth. The author gives those characters depth of feeling and contemplation, reflection and acts that change after reflection. For Miles, the author has nothing but irritation.
At the end of the book, the reader is given the explanations to a number of odd events in a few of the characters' lives. Miles makes a decision -- finally -- but it is a decision to do nothing rather than to do something. I got the impression that in the "sequel" (God forbid) we would find the Robey family intact and picnicking on the Whiting land. I learned nothing, I felt little for any of these people and not for one moment do I think I could find this so-called Empire Falls anywhere on the planet. It was not sufficiently engaging. It was like a diary of a bored man.
I gave it three stars because the writing is exquisite. The language, the imagery, the 2nd hand, omniscient description of what characters said and felt were all astute and believable. What was lacking was the voice of the characters as they experienced it.
The narrator, as usual was fabulous and correctly distinguished voices. If I have one complaint about McClarty, it's his attempts at women's voices. But to his credit, they were all equally treated. The women sound like drag queens. Still I'd listen to Ron read anything over some of the other narrators I have endured.
*** for story
** for structure of the novel.
***** for the narrator.
"Everyone is Guilty here - especially the author."
From the first "discovery" of bones until the end of the book when that finding is explained, the story had very little substance. When the explanation of the blue box is given at the end, one wonders how and when Alex put it all together. But then, I may have nodded out during that part.
In fact, the story that surrounds the blue box is more interesting, realistic and emotional than the junk in the middle. There were some interesting "red herrings," some witty anti-stereotypes that did little to hide the fact that some of the fictional personalities were taken from today's tabloids.
The mystery that Milo and Alex investigate together was downright ridiculous, improbable and uninteresting. I wanted to squeeze this quick listen in between some required reading, knowing I could knock down a dozen hours in a day or so. I was wrong. It was so tedious, I couldn't stay with it. I found myself reading the paper and listening to it as background noise, having to rewind to catch up and try to get further with it.
It seemed like the large story that comprises the deaths of several people was contrived to showcase very rich Hollywood types. The anti-stereotype may have been an effort at defusing some clichés that surround that kind of lifestyle. In this mire of wealth are religious fanatics, entrepreneurs, pimps, drug addicts, perfect mothers and lousy fathers, castration, abortion, adoption, bad marriages, murder and taxidermy.
The woman who finds the blue box under the tree of her new home is an unfinished character. She appears 2-3 times throughout the story, has a heart-to-heart with Alex and is "cured." The mother of four whom Alex suspects is a certain type of spoiled and damaging superstar turns out to be June Cleaver. Alex literally stalks one character, and thinking he is *tricking* her into revealing herself, the character, who is on to him at once, tells him Milo everything, incriminating another person. Illogical, unbelievable.
Milo is true to form; if you loved him before, you will love him still. Robin is as bland as Blanche is white. A couple of love scenes between Robin and Alex are all we get about them and they are stilted. In fact, the only *love* in the whole damned thing is demonstrated in the final paragraphs of the whole book and those scenes relate to NOTHING else at all.
Guilt? Almost everyone in this cast of characters is guilty of something.
Mystery? Yes, but fairly easy to put together, because Alex and Milo discuss the possibilities and rate them as feasible or not. Toward the end of the book, Alex recognizes how wrong he had been about some of the elements of the story. So what?
Thriller? No.
Historical/Scientific/Criminal/Psychological content? Light at best.
Horror? Indirect horror when contemplating the nature of mankind -- historical and current.
Redemptions? None. No turnarounds, no recapitulations, no ah-ha moments, nothing.
Informative/Educational? At approximately the 5th grade level.
Love the narrator though. I have come to depend on that voice -- even the silly female voices -- in Kellerman's books. I hope he stays on until the next one.
Hoping for better sooner than later.
"Pendergast2 (squared)"
Only three stars because of the somewhat silly scenes. There is a ridiculous jail break, a ridiculous explanation for Diogenes' breakdown and an even more ridiculous across-the-globe chase by a very unlikely pursuer.
However: This is an AX Pendergast novel and that alone recommends it. The above borderline inanities would only be suffered by a true fan. For a first time reader of the series, there is little to no explanation of some of the characters, their histories or their roles in this current episode. Like another reviewer, I regret that the thin white duke makes a late appearance, and one that stretches credulity too far. In the end, there is the requisite chase seen, this one up and down a mountain. The settings bring us back to Italy. We ride trains, visit convents, and traipse the wine country.
There is a disturbing sequence, one that reaches a degree of discomfort I have not encountered in these books thus far. There is a letter left in the aftermath of a devilish seduction. The letter is so heartbreaking, so grievous and so daring (to have put such things in words), that this character's words on the final page of the book, are sadly inevitable. In fact, this final statement made by a normally marginal character, invites a foreshadowing of future prestidigitation and charade among the regular players.
As in all P&C books, there is are lessons to be taught to the reader. We learn some history, a lot of geography, a little neuroscience and a healthy dose of chemistry. The books are veritable fonts of trivia.
By far, in all the scenes in the book, the planning and execution of the two "escapes" are the centerpieces. One precedes the other by very little time, and both are choreographed to deliver the same kinds of messages: The police (except for D'Agosta) are stupid, city government is stupid, academics are passably intelligent but failures outside their area of brilliance. Only Pendergast and D'Agosta -- and some of the help AXP employs -- are able to save the world. That's a superhero for you, or a Christ figure, or maybe a myth.
My usual 4 star rating is reduced for being a little silly and a little too long getting AXP into the action and the crossing the line of good taste in the deception visited upon the most innocent of all the characters.
Do not skip this book if you are a fan and are reading the Diogenes trilogy, but do not start your journey into the world of P&C and AXP with this tome; it might drive you insane.
"My 2nd favorite P&C"
Only Still Life With Crows affected me more -- but on a personal and emotional level. Brimstone was good for many other reasons. Lots of terrific "what ifs," the always intelligent vocabulary, equal amounts of suspense and exclamations of "of course..." -- a little supernatural, but always human!
AXP and D'Agosta are not cut from any other cloth. Sure, there are the ridiculously convenient lucky breaks and Hand-of-God sort of things, but so what? The gracious nod to Wilkie Collins and Poe enlarged the other literary, musical, cultural and geography references making this an immersive experience.
This one differed (for the better) from some of the series for NOT including long, somewhat-boring chases in caves and tunnels. The chases occur above ground. Still there is enough going on beneath castles and mansions so that when you come up for air, the whole thing stays with you.
It's a feel good and a breath-holder. I read this out of order, so I knew the future effects and consequences this book would set up. But even knowing what was coming, the story and its pacing were so good, it did not matter.
Loved "Buck," and the authors' delicate handling of his well-intentioned but misled efforts. That character and his story border on political-religious "preaching." So subtly handled, the message and the warnings are kind and clear.
If there is a theme in all of this, that applies to every character, including AXPm it might be:
Get thee behind me, Ego!
"Boring, trite, boring and unimportant"
Sorry.. it's horrid. The narrator did the best he could with such slow, uninteresting information. I took a class on this book and the instructor LOVED it and was so animated about its importance in the world, blah, blah, blah. The only good thing about the whole book was in chapters 7-10... The real relationships between Salim and Yvette... the sex scenes were sublime and gorgeous -- until they weren't... at any rate, except for historians and political science students, I can't see who would find this entertaining or worth spending time or money on.


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CLINTON — Mr. Luther L. King, 57, of 295 Serenity Lake Drive, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 at the Kitty Askins Hospice Center in Goldsboro.
Luther was born in Sampson County in 1955 to the late Luther Ballard and Lou Mae Mathis.
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Burial will follow in the Sandhills Cemetery.
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I have installed Askbot in a virtual environment using PIP following the docs on website. After that I used the startforum
command for one-time setup and got to this step:
Once the fresh copy of Askbot appears in your browser, create a new account at the site.
Now I'm stuck.
I tried to log into local Askbot at http://127.0.0.1:8000/account/signin/
using my Google account (clicking on Google icon) but the sign in process doesn't seem to work for me. At the top of the page I get this message:
OpenID https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id is invalid.
Considering that the signin on askbot.org using Google works without any issue I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
Anyone willing to help?
P.S. Not sure this is relevant, I'm behind the company NTLM proxy.
I've just had exactly the same issue. In my case, the server was also using a proxy to access the internet, and it had been set up for http, not https.
The OAuth request to google requires https - so as soon as I copied the value of my http_proxy
environment variable to https_proxy
, it worked.
Assuming you're running the server on linux, you can copy the environment variable like so:
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
It is definitely an issue with the being able to access that particular URL. In your case it seemed to be the encrypted HTTPS traffic.
For me the issues was name resolution. My firewall was blocking outbound UDP (DNS) requests.
This is a strange error, maybe it is due to some difference in the network setup. The google open id contains a url parameter, and possibly it is lost at some redirect...?
Could you try it on the same machine but from a different network?
If anyone else had this I hope they will add some information here.
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Neutron scattering is one of the most effective ways to obtain information on both, the structure and the dynamics of condensed matter. A wide scope of problems, ranging from fundamental to solid state physics and chemistry, and from materials science to biology, medicine and environmental science, can be investigated with neutrons. Aside from the scattering techniques, non-diffractive methods like imaging techniques can also be applied with increasing relevance for industrial applications.The spallation neutron source SINQ is a continuous source - the first of its kind in the world - with a flux of about 1014 n/cm2/s. Beside thermal neutrons, a cold moderator of liquid deuterium (cold source) slows neutrons down and shifts their spectrum to lower energies. These neutrons have proved to be particularly valuable in materials research and in the investigation of biological substances. SINQ is a user facility. Interested groups can apply for beamtime on the various instruments by using the SINQ proposal system.
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L.A. Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar de Longoria, who is presiding over City Councilman Richard Alarcón's preliminary hearing in his voter fraud case, also happens to be the sister of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The mayor doesn't count many City Council members as allies, but he and the veteran San Fernando Valley politician are known around City Hall to be close.
Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Lentz Snyder, who is leading the prosecution's voter fraud and perjury case against Alarcón and his wife, said she no issue with de Longoria presiding.
Nor does she have any knowledge of the political relationship at City Hall, she said during a break at Friday's preliminary hearing.
"I'm ignorant ... and ignorance is bliss," she said.
Snyder said M.L. Villar de Longoria also signed the search warrant for Alarcón's home in 2009.
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Derivative from the act of "throwing salt" on one's game, any case in which one might deprecate another and embarrasingly so. "Quit throwing S-A-L-T all over my G-A-M-E!"
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1: adj. - to describe something unfortunate or unfavorable happening, or one's angered mood.
2: verb - to do something which causes an unfortunate or unfavorable situation. 3: inter. - to express distaste or unhappiness about a situation. note: the international symbol of salt is brushing off one's leg with the back of their hand as if one is dealing with salt being spilled upon them. also, for additional effect, one may hiss like a snake (see: salt snake). 1: "did you hear the flyers lost?"
"yeah, i was pretty SALT about it, but then i remembered that those bums always lose." 2: "robert esche is doing his swiss cheese impression again this season." "yeah, he really knows how to SALT everything up." 3: "someone finished off the last of the pizza." "SALT, now what am i going to eat for breakfast tomorrow?" |
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1. noun - A labor organizer who obtains employment with a company for the sole purpose of unionizing the workers. 2. verb - To obtain employment with a company for the sole purpose of unionizing the workers; to be a salt. (Also: salting). Labor organizer speaking to other organizers: "We're trying to establish a union at Wal-Mart, but we can't approach the workers while they're on the job. We need someone to volunteer to be a salt."
CEO speaking to Human Resources department: "You need to be vigilant when hiring, we're trying to avoid the employees unionizing and we don't want any salts agitating the workforce." |
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To interfere with your plans (or to mess up your game). Playa Hatin' Quit throwing salt on my game...fool!
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Keep in mind that we are talking about 15 years ago. I honestly don't recall how prevalent KVM switches were back then or if they were cost effective even if they were prevalent.
But...it would not matter. Back then Macs used ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) for both the keyboard and mouse. And the external Mac displays used a DA-15 connector, not the DE-9 (aka VGA) connector...although at some point you could use an adapter to use a VGA monitor with a Mac (I don't believe you could when the Mac II first came out). In other words, unlike today's world where ports are fairly standard, both "sides" had their own "standards" that they used, so using a KVM switch was not really an option.


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Before a new vaccine is introduced in a developing country, it should be tested in representative populations using relevant schedules and endpoints. Furthermore, some vaccines are only likely to be required "and hence evaluated for efficacy" in developing countries. All vaccine trials should meet Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and ethical and applicable regulatory requirements. However, most institutes and clinical sites located in developing countries with a high prevalence of diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis or AIDS, have no experience in GCP, nor the capacity to conduct good quality trials or ethical reviews. Capacity building for research institutes in developing countries to conduct such trials is therefore a priority.


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Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
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The success of an Agile / SCRUM project is a successful start. The first interaction is often referred to as iteration 0. Other iterations have a set of stories with clear acceptance, certain which establishes the velocity of the team and its effort. What then is accomplished in iteration 0? How do we get an Agile process started?
This session will outline all the "pre" activity tasks that lead into an agile development process. As well as the establishment of a task list of iteration 0, include the establishment of development environment, configuration management details. This will include several case histories examples of Iteration 0.
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Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
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My knowledge in the family studies discipline stems from my research with the Fathers and Families Research Program (F&FRP), Faculty of Health. As Research Academic, I have responsibility for at least ten completed and current research projects. My methodological strengths lie in qualitative and mixed research methodologies. Research instruments that I have designed and used in data collection include questionnaires, focus groups, and structured, semi-structured and in-depth interviews. Other data I work with include videos and online texts (e.g., Fletcher & StGeorge, 2011). In collaboration with Fletcher, I have developed an observation instrument designed to measure parent-child interaction (e.g., Fletcher, StGeorge & Freeman, in press).
Since 2008, I have worked within the Fathers and Families Research Program, in the Family Action Centre, Faculty of Health. Led by Dr Richard Fletcher, the research team has worked on a number of different projects with a core focus on fathers' role in family life and child well-being and father-inclusive practice in human services. The team have together produced a suite of peer-reviewed publications that explore fathers' influence from quantitative, qualitative and observational research approaches.
At the same time, I have been developing publications from my thesis in music education psychology and maintaining collaborations with research colleagues in SORTI (Centre for the Study of Research Training and Impact).
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One person was killed in a wreck near Silverstreet on Sunday.
A 1995 Nissan was traveling West on S.C. Highway 34 about five miles west of Silverstreet around 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
The driver, Harry Tyre Phelps, 26, of Greenwood , ran off the right side of the road and the car overturned and hit a utility pole, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.
The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and was partially ejected.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Autopsy results revealed cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head" according to Coroner Craig Newton.
Prior to Sunday's wreck traffic fatalities have jumped 125 percent in the county so far this year.
Newton also reported this is the 10th traffic fatality reported in Newberry County this year, a sharp increase from just a year ago.
The S.C. Highway Patrol, Newberry County Sheriff's Office and Newberry Police will be doing a traffic safety blitz Monday and Tuesday to work to reduce fatal collisions in the county.


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This Is What Happens When Grandparents Use Webcams
It's pretty much a given that Grandma and Grandpa and technology don't mix. So when they use a webcam for the first time, we can expect serious confusion, surprise, and hilarity to ensue. Luckily for us, thatâs exactly what we have here! Check out the funniest reactions of grandparents using webcams.
This has got to be the most animated granddad ever. This whole webcam thing is making him go through the entire spectrum of emotions in just a few seconds — heâs surprised, happy, confused, shocked, angry and then falls prey to the confusion of looking into a mirror. It happens to the best of us.
We're confused — why is Grandpa trying to catch digital raindrops with his tongue? Shouldn't he be passed out in front of a Western with a Mickey's grenade in his hand? Apparently some grandpas (this one) would rather mess around with the digital effects on their webcam. Very puzzling.
You know when someoneâs taking a picture of you but they mistakenly click the video button, and youâre left awkwardly smiling for way too long? Well that mistake is bound to happen 99% of the time when grandparents and webcams collide. This time, Rita is nagging her husband about whether or not he heard a clicking noise, and Frank is just casually holding a giant birthday cake. It's a brief glimpse into the dark side of the grandparent lifestyle.
After seeing Frank and Ritaâs first set of shenanigans, we just had to follow up with the funny couple. This is the final product of another recording attempt, and we are happy to say itâs just as entertaining as their first shot at a webcam. Frank serenades Rita while holding yet another cake, only this time he adds in an adorably off-key rendition of âHappy Birthday.'
As you can see, grandparents have a knack for birthday greetings. Just like Frank and Rita, this senior couple is trying to figure out a webcam while sending along some well wishes. Now, Grandma seems to have the whole thing down pat, but Grandpa? He canât help but make things 10 times funnier with his silly antics. Knocking on his head while cracking up and yelling âmy teeth fall out sometimes!â is just the beginning.
Weâve saved our very favorite webcam-using grandparents for last — âThe Happy Huffmans.' Within the first few seconds of this video, youâll completely understand why itâs our front-runner for most hilarious, charming and technologically-inept grandparents. Ever. First, thereâs Bruceâs hysterical monkey impression while Esther pays no attention, and then thereâs his adorable singing of âHello My Darlin.' We're just glad they managed to actually figure it out so they could record it.


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Want To Hunt In Idaho?
Idaho has some of the best hunting in the West, including trophy species and other big game animals, upland game, turkeys and waterfowl.
Here's what you need:
A gun, a hunting license and a place to go. Everything but the gun is available here. Resident licenses vary from nonresident licenses.
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Fish and Game has launched a revision of its long range plan for managing elk. Follow the link below to track the elk planning progress.
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NTEU Special National Council Resolution, June 2013
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Refurs STRICTLY to young boys. Female shota is colled Lolli.
Shota, or more commonly in Japan; Syouta, is LEAGAL in Japan because the age of concent is 13 there. Rather than attracting gay men, this appeals to young Japanese girls & one of my friends. Because of how popular it is & how well it sells & since 2D drawings are harmless, shota will not become illigal in Japan any time soon.
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Commonly used as a warning in fanfiction, refers to porn involving an underaged boy (usually 9-12). The other partner can be either another underaged boy or an adult, though adults are more common.
Originates from the Japanese "Shoutacon" which is short for Shoutarou Complex, Shoutarou being a stereotypical name for young boys in Japan. "Did you see that shota fic on the forum yesterday?"
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A young boy, usually between 5 and 13, typically in Japanese anime/manga. These characters are cute, short, and innocent. In most yaoi, they are blonde. While they do attract a fair size male audience, females are more drawn to them. Amy couldn't believe how cute 11-year-old Syaoran was in that anime! What a total shota!
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A shota is a boy about the age of 14. He is usually blonde, small and innocent. They are found in animes/mangas, and if your lucky real life~ ;D
A shota is male, and a female version of a shota is called a loli. Somebody who loves shotas and is obsessed over them (like me) is called a shotacon. And example of a shota is the VOCALOID Len Kagamine. YouTube him~ 1."Hey look at that boy over there!! He's so small and cute!"
2."I believe that is what you would call a shota" |
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A nice handsome and loving person. Very responsible and hard working. A guy named Shota will always be a good friend and lover. They are generally nice and gentle,trying to think about the person they are with first rather than themselves. Shota s will nurture you and care about you. Promise you will never regret being with Shota. They are soo adorable You are such a lovable Shota!
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Also spelled as Syota A filipino word coming from the words SHOrt and TAym (time) Used to indicate a girl who's relationship with is only desired for a short/limited amount of time. Girls feel insulted when called the Shota of their boyfriends but guys usually feel cool whenever they have shotaS "Tol ano mo si Marie? Girlpren mo?"
(Dude, what is Marie to you? your girlfriend?) "Gago hindi, shota lang yun, wala ako pera e kaya bawal mamili" (Idiot no! She's my shota, i just have no money at the moment so i can't be too picky) |
Shota is a Japanese given name, and people with this name that live in english speeking countries are tormented by moronical people who know the other definition meaning "boy child porn" Stupid people like jake make fun of people named shota.


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High blood pressure (BP) or hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease. Key strategies for managing hypertension include lifestyle modifications combined with medication. However, long-term adherence to these strategies remains a significant challenge. One recommended approach for improving adherence to lifestyle modifications and/or medication, and for increasing patient participation in management of their hypertension is self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring. However the effects of this strategy on BP, clinical and other outcomes remain uncertain.
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A leading lobbyist has been accused of "utterly reprehensible" behaviour including bullying and intimidating opponents.
Labour MP Thomas Docherty claimed Mark Cummings sent him a text message containing sectarian abuse after he opposed a development planned by one of the lobbyists' clients.
Mr Docherty, himself a former lobbyist, used parliamentary privilege to make a series of claims against Mr Cummings, director of Edinburgh-based Invicta Public Affairs.
The Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife told the Commons the police were called in over the text message, sent when he was a parliamentary candidate, but there were no charges.
"I am not alone in receiving intimidatory behaviour from Mr Cummings, he is well-known for bullying and becoming aggressive, particularly towards women opponents of schemes," Mr Docherty claimed.
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Setting out examples of "unacceptable" practices used by Mr Cummings, Mr Docherty claimed the lobbyist would get an employee to pose as a journalist to sound out politicians about planning applications. He also claimed Mr Cummings placed candidates to stand for election to community councils in Scotland which have to be consulted on planning issues.
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Amazing girl that basically rocks everybody's world. She is totally classy and an awesome friend. "Lesley is amazing. I wish she was my friend."
2. | Lesley | ||
Feminine name; Scottish in origin; meaning dark grey fortress. Often given to women of incredible beauty and abysmal depth, whose demeanor evokes some ancient mystical rite lost to modern time. Like a dark grey castle fortress in the early morning, one marvels at its beauty subtley and magically revealed through fog and mist. One longs to not merely see the timelessness of such a creation, but to also scale its walls to be part of something greater and far more ancient than the one's self. Perhaps once in a lifetime, one is lucky enough to see a Lesley. And if so, one will never forget how such a sight grants one with an apprecitation of the gradiations between the physical and metaphysical. On an early morning, many years ago, I was lucky enough to see a Lesley.
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Amazing, absolutely beautiful, perverted, so fun to be with.
will make you feel so special. the most amazing girlfriend you can ever have. great kisser. you can get lost in her gorgeous eyes. you will love her likes to argue a lot and needs to be punished for it Lesley is the best girlfriend ever.
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a short and adorable girl. she loves having fun,and shes fun to be around. shes smart,funny and more she the best friend i ever had!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The feminine form of the unisex name Lesley/Leslie
The EY implies female No, my name is Lesley, because I'm a girl.
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A.) A scallywag slut-face who often sucks the penis of young chickens. However, if there are no chickens around, then she settles for horses or elephants.
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In 2012 we celebrate Mozart's revolutionary masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro with a new production from one of the most exciting theatrical minds in Australia, Benedict Andrews.
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It's a special day. Susanna, the housemaid, and Figaro, the security guard, are getting married! And the boss has provided them with brand new married quarters, ideally positioned right between his and his wife's bedrooms.
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