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James Hellwig, better known as former pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior, has died, the WWE said. He was 54.
The WWE said Hellwig died Tuesday. Scottsdale, Ariz., police spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said he collapsed while walking with his wife to their car at a hotel, and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Hellwig was one of pro wrestling's biggest stars in the late 1980s. He beat Hulk Hogan in a memorable match at Wrestlemania in 1990.
He was in the spotlight again earlier this week, making appearances at the latest Wrestlemania in New Orleans and on "Monday Night Raw," and being inducted into the WWE Hall of fame.
"WWE is shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of the most iconic WWE Superstars ever, The Ultimate Warrior," WWE said in a statement, adding: "We are grateful that just days ago, Warrior had the opportunity to take his rightful place in the WWE Hall of Fame."
WWE Chairman Vince McMahon tweeted: "We are all so sad the Ultimate Warrior has passed away. Our heart is with his wife Dana and his two daughters."
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Paul Doucette '90 has been selected as the 2012 National Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the American Legion. He will travel to Indianapolis, IN, on August 28, 2012, where he will receive the award in front of thousands of people. Read more.
Jerry Van Loan '95 is a Senior Assistant District Attorney in Ulster County, NY. On October 11, 2011, he obtained a guilty verdict in People vs. Jermaine Nicholas, a complex gang conspiracy/homicide case, which occured in Kingston, NY. In his free time, Van Loan is a competitive darts player, ranked #1 in North America in 2010, and placing 12th in the World Darts Federation World Cup in Castlebar, Ireland in September, 2011!
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Survivor: Caramoan Recap — Auction Spurs Same Bidding Mistakes
April 24, 2013 06:27 PM by Ryan Haidet
Survivor: Caramoan — Fans Vs. Favorites just keeps getting better. After a rather lackluster first half, this season really picked up steam after the merge with some of the most fascinating strategies and moves the game has ever seen. After Phillip fell victim to Malcolm's bold Idol play during the previous Tribal Council, there were a slew of mixed emotions back at camp. Many jokingly found themselves elated that the "Stealth-R-Us" nonsense was dead, while others — especially Brenda — were completely down in the dumps especially with no food. Thankfully, the Survivor auction arrived just in time. One of my favorite elements. Too bad the auction brought repeated fatal mistakes.
Before we get into the guts of the auction, allow me to rant. As a fan of this show, it always amazes me that people go into the auction without thinking about how to better benefit their future in the game. Instead of waiting to spend their money on something that may offer them an advantage in some capacity, many castaways surprisingly splurge their cash and spend it all immediately to feed their faces. I get it. They're hungry. But I always find it utterly shocking that their salivation for eats often trumps their hunger to push further ahead in the game. What would you do? Feed yourself or fight the hunger and save your cash for a possible advantage? I think the decision is hauntingly simple — especially for anybody who is a potential target for elimination.
With that said, here's how the Survivor: Caramoan — Fans Vs. Favorites auction broke down:
- Each castaway was given $500. Bidding was done in $20 increments with no sharing of money and no sharing of food. As always, the auction would end without warning.
- Jeff Probst revealed the first item was beer and peanuts, which he declared would go to the first person to bid $20. Malcolm immediately jumped in and was the first to bid. In addition to his one beer, Malcolm was also given two more and a heaping pile of pretzels.
- Reynold spent $180 for a covered item, which came with a dilemma. Before learning what he had won, Probst pulled out two more covered dishes and offered him the option to choose any of the three. Instead of swapping his initial item, Reynold stuck with the original item he won. It was a single slice of pizza. Good, right? Sure, considering one of the items he didn't trade for was a rotten coconut. Unfortunately, the other secret item he declined turned out to be the rest of the pizza his slice came from. With disappointment clearly in his eyes, Sherri took advantage of the situation by shouting out she would pay $500 for the rest of the pizza. Without hesitation, Probst took her up on the offer and sold her the rest of the pizza .
- Dawn paid all $500 of her auction cash for roasted chicken. It looked delicious — and from a food standpoint, it was probably the best choice for the protein alone.
- Probst described the next item as information in the game. Shockingly, nobody chose to outbid Malcolm and he won the note for $480. After forking over the rest of his money, Malcolm was given only 60 seconds to look at the info alone, which was actually a detailed clue to another hidden Immunity Idol.
So far, which auction item would have enticed you to bidding? Would you have already spent all your cash?
- Andrea won a covered item for $280, which wound up being spaghetti, meatballs, garlic bread and wine. But instead of letting Andrea sink her teeth into the saucy delight, Probst told her if she could benefit her entire tribe by sacrificing her spaghetti for two massive bags of rice and beans they could take back to camp. Duh. It wasn't even a decision. She would have been a fool not to make that sacrifice for everybody else.
- The next item was for an advantage in the next Immunity challenge. I thought it was clear that Eddie would shell out his money to win this item since he's on the outside of the majority alliance. But he didn't. In fact, nobody put up a battle for such an important item and easily let Cochran win it for just $340. In previous seasons, the Immunity challenge advantage sold in the auction has been a major factor and I'm shocked these veteran players and supposed superfans let this always slide away without a fight.
- Up next, Brenda bid $300 for a covered item that turned out to be pig brains.
- Letters from their loved ones popped up next. In previous seasons, this was a top auction item that sold for massive amounts of money. This time, however, Probst offered the letters to anybody willing to spend the minimum $20 bid. The only three who didn't buy their letters were Dawn, Malcolm and Sherri — the three without any cash left. Naturally, Dawn cried about missing out on the letter. Shocker! Seriously, Dawn. I'm tired of the tears. It's your fault you shoveled out all $500 to feed yourself. Own it. I get that there's disappointment with missing out on the letter, but you should have been prepared that spending all your cash on one thing might blow your chances at something emotionally important to you.
- Eddie won the final item after bidding $200. The covered dish was a massive bowl of peanut butter, which Eddie was forced to share with the entire tribe. Just to show how silly starving people can look, the tribe was only given 60 seconds to shove their dirty hands deep into the gooey delight to see how much they could scarf down. Dawn excitedly licked the peanut butter off Sherri's finger and Malcolm chose to wear some on his face like war paint.
Malcolm's Idol Hunt
In case you weren't able to read the entire Idol clue when Malcolm bought it at the auction, here's what it actually said: On the way to water, on your left hand side, is a large opening in the rocks. Next to which grows a tree out of the rock face. Its roots extend down to the ground. There is a hidden Immunity Idol buried under these roots six inches underground.
Pretty clear directions. Not so fast…
With that information, Malcolm spent the night digging around camp for the Idol. But instead of getting the chance to do it in secret, Andrea showed up and ruined his plans. Refusing to leave, Malcolm just chose to sit down next to her because he didn't want to give any inclination as to where the Idol might actually be located. This is a much different strategy than he used last week when he didn't shy away from digging around for the Idol — and eventually finding it — in front of Dawn and Andrea. I wish he would have been as brave this time around and kept on searching even if Andrea was watching.
Despite reading what seemed to be very clear directions to the Idol's location, Malcolm was never able to find it. Ironically, the one he paid $480 to get information about, he couldn't find. But the two others he found earlier this season he easily found without any clue whatsoever.
Told Ya So
As expected, Cochran's advantage that he bought at the auction proved its weight in gold (or $340) because it helped lead him to victory during the Immunity challenge. This proves, once again, that holding your money in the auction for a challenge advantage is absolutely critical — especially if you're a potential threat like Malcolm, Eddie and Reynold. Dopes.
Sadly, Malcolm wasn't able to find the hidden Idol and put a plan into motion to lie that he did. His push to get Sherri and Erik on his side failed and Malcolm became the latest person voted out of the game. Damn! What a disappointment! After the elation many fans felt last week with Phillip's elimination, I'm sure many have heavy hearts with Malcolm's dismissal. What a bummer. Malcolm, who came very close to making it to the final Tribal Council last season (and probably would have won) is one hell of a player. Unfortunately, his strong game is also what made him such a huge threat.
What are your thoughts on this episode? Are you disappointed Malcolm was voted out? If you were in the auction, do you think you would bid on food or wait for a game advantage to pop up? At this point, who do you think should is most deserving of winning the entire game and the $1 million prize? What do you think of this season overall at this point? Sound off and leave a comment below!
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5 Responses to "Survivor: Caramoan Recap — Auction Spurs Same Bidding Mistakes"
Filipe Says:
April 24th, 2013 at 7:37 pm
You can say whatever you want, about bidding for an advantage, instead of food. However keep in mind, every consideration you make is made wihout an empty stomach.
Rationally i can say: yeah, lets bid the advantage.
Would i do it, if I were there (with virtually no food in my stomach)? I have no idea.
Kathy Says:
April 24th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Totally bummed Malcolm is gone!
Vito B Says:
April 25th, 2013 at 5:43 am
After last week I declared in front of my wife "Malcolm played a better strategy than "Boston Rob". And will win this thing" guess I was wrong. We will miss him. He is a very find player!!
Sandy M. Says:
April 25th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Very sad Malcolm is gone, don't even want to watch the rest of the show…..
Christine McDow Says:
April 25th, 2013 at 9:15 am
I agree!!! Knowing Malcolm left, after watching the auction last night I deleted the rest of the episode. The rest of this season is going to be boring.


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A letter exists written by her counsel at the time which indicates that the widow's attorney was asked by both the counsel for stepson and by widow's step grandson NOT to notify court of her condition. Three letters were written by her doctor at the time which indicated it would be unsafe for her to sign any legal documents.
husband died in 2008. She has been fighting with stepson since then. They want everything after 38 years of marriage. . . even 600,000 she received as inheritance from her father....husband filed "legal separation" which she claims she knew nothing about. . . . her attorneys withdrew immediately on same date that she signed "settlement agreement" which basically gave stepsons everything....she was taking morphine and other opiates for pain from a serious fall. Case continues to this date.
Tammy.That is most terrible. I am seeing some legitimate concerns here. The inheritance, for example, should be just hers as it is 'sole' and 'separate' property to which nobody is entitled to but she herself. Similarly, 'legal separation' does not affect the marital split, or shouldn't, since the parties are still legally married. It may be helpful for her to consider seeking to subpoena the past attorney to testify as to her mental state. Otherwise, as you likely know after researching, a person is 'presumed' sane and competent unless there is a court order or significant evidence exists otherwise that the other parties were aware of. I can likewise understand why the attorneys withdrew--at that point there as little for them to do. To get this reversed she has to get some evidence or testimony from third parties pointing out her mental state, as otherwise this was a valid transaction even if unfair to her.Good luck.
she has several witnesses as to her mental state.
Tammy,She needs witnesses for when she signed. The law permits a finding of 'moments of lucidity' even for those who are not otherwise fully competent. In essence if when she signed she knew exactly what she was signing and why, and she wasn't deceived as to terms, the signature would be upheld.Good luck.
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This week on the BioLogos Forum, join astrobiologist Stephen Freeland for a look into the nature of information and the origins of life on earth. (These posts were originally published as a paper in the ASA's academic journal, PSCF, and are reprinted here with permission.)
Stephen was raised in a Christian family, and his father is a Methodist minister in England whose passion for natural history and science provided a rich environment in which to explore the relationship between science and faith. During Stephen's teenage years, he explored various denominations, from Catholic to charismatic non-denominational churches, and most recently, life in Baltimore has led Stephen to a deep and rewarding connection with St. Bartholemew's Episcopal church, where he enjoys the Christ-centered meeting point of spiritual substance, social justice, inclusive grace, and rich traditions of liturgy and music.
Because of Stephen's commitment to deepening his faith through conversations with other Christians, which helps to deepen our corporeal understanding of God's grace and processes—and because the nature of this material being the rather controversial subject of first life and evolution—Stephen will be participating in the online conversation at the bottom of each post in this series. At the end of each post, you'll find a few discussion questions, which we encourage you to use as starting points for commenting, (but you are of course welcome to ask him questions of your own, and add your own observations to the dialogue).
Note: For more on the topic of genetics and evolution, please see BioLogos Fellow Dennis Venema's current series.
Can natural processes account for the origin of genetic information?
The description of evolution given above applies once the world contains a genetic material that can influence its own rate of copying by reflecting the environment. In living systems, these remarkable properties are produced by the Central Dogma of molecular biology (DNA, proteins and the genetic code that allows the former to specify the latter: see Box 1.) Perhaps a stronger argument for Intelligent Design is that no natural process could create such a versatile system in the first place?
It is true that at present, evolutionary science does not have a clear, detailed and well-accepted explanation for how the Central Dogma of molecular biology emerged. But does that mean it is time to embrace Intelligent Design as a better approach? By analogy, current medical science has not found the cure for cancer. Taken in isolation, this sound-bite could lead to the misleading view that existing research directions, developed for decades, are best written off as a failure. This would miss an important context. Many aspects of cancer are now being treated with far greater effectiveness than ever before as a result of ongoing research. However, these cures are not robust (all-encompassing) enough to be summarized into the statement "we have found the cure for cancer." This status is typical of big questions within science: failure to reach the sound-bite goal should not be mistaken for evidence that the research program has failed. Scientific progress is measured by the insights that research produces, and their implications for where we might usefully look next. These insights may even open up new awareness of just how much we do not understand, but characterizing the past few decades of cancer research as an exhaustive search that has ended in failure would be more than premature: it would be actively misleading. This final section of the article offers context to help the reader judge whether a similar situation holds for current research into natural processes that explain the origin of genetic information.
Let us start by making entirely clear what scientists are looking for. As the previous section explains, the challenge is not to find a natural process that can create enough information for a simple genetic system. The universe is replete with information capacity and syntax – from the positions of stars within our galaxy (and billions of others) to the arrangement of atoms in a single grain of sand. Within living systems, most of this information is ignored - so the question is not "where did the information come from" (unless we wish to talk cosmology – a very different subject) but rather "how does nature create systems that focus on some of this natural information?" Put another way, the challenge for understanding the origin of genetic systems is to find how natural processes can simplify a large amount of thermodynamic information into a syntax that displays only the disciplined chemical semantics of a self-replicator.
The exact details of life's genetic information system came into focus during the middle of the 20th century.1 In 1953 Watson and Crick published the structure of DNA2, revealing the innate capacity of this molecule to replicate and evolve indefinitely. Thirteen years later, a consortium of scientists published the details of the genetic code by which the information carried by DNA is translated into specific protein sequences.3 The system was so fundamental to understanding life, yet so simple and easy to explain that it has become known as theCentral Dogma of molecular biology (Box 1.) However, it was puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. Protein catalysts supervise the construction of individual nucleotides (the building-blocks for making DNA and RNA). Other proteins link these nucleotides into DNA or RNA sequences, depending on their type (deoxyribonucleotides into DNA, and ribonucleotides into RNA.) Proteins can perform these roles because each one has just the right chemical properties to catalyze a specific chemical reaction (such as linking a molecule of the nucleotide "A" to T, G or C to start building a genetic message.4) Each protein is a long chain of amino acids (typically several hundred) that have been chemically linked together. The function and shape of a protein emerge spontaneously according to the sequence of these amino acids – just as the meaning of a word is carried (for us) by a sequence of letters drawn from the English alphabet.5 The only way to reliably build the right sequence(s) of amino acids to make the proteins of metabolism is to follow genetic instructions, one code-word (codon) at a time. In other words, for more than three thousand million years, everything living has needed proteins to make genetic information – and needed genetic information to specify how these proteins are to be made.
At the time of discovery, this system looked like an example of what proponents of Intelligent Design might callirreducibly complexity. In other words, a complex system that cannot evolve from simpler precursors, because any simplification would lose the entire functional value of the system. This perception of an un-evolvable code was further enhanced by the discovery that the same exact genetic code is at work in organisms as different as human beings and E coli bacteria (Refer back to Figure 1: this is about as genetically different as living organisms can be!) Scientists of the time came to think that one genetic code was universal for all living systems on our planet. This led Francis Crick to propose that the genetic code is a "Frozen accident" of evolution5, universal across life precisely because once it had formed (by some unknown event), it was so fundamental to all biochemistry that it could never change again. Specifically, he pointed out that any change to the rules of genetic coding would be equivalent to a simultaneous mutation in every single gene in the organism (Box 1).7 While evolutionary theory requires that occasional small mutations produce a better fit to the environment, the simultaneous mutation of thousands of genes seems extreme even by the standards of macro-mutationism. However, subsequent science has developed at least three major lines of research that undermine the concept of a frozen accident (and irreducible complexity) for genetic coding.8
First, it has been discovered that the genetic code is not universal. Around a dozen or so minor variations exist.9These variations are mostly codes in which one or more genetic codons have altered their amino acid "meanings." Some involve a more significant change – the addition of a 21st or 22nd amino acid.10 Everything indicates that these genetic codes evolved from the standard genetic code during the past few hundred million years, and continues to evolve today32. Arguments for the evolvability of the code are strengthened by the finding that amino acids are assigned to genetic code-words non-randomly. In particular, codons are assigned to amino acids in such a pattern that common mutations produce minor variations as proteins are decoded. A growing body of evidence connects this feature of the code to the idea that considerable evolution by natural selection had gone into shaping this system.11 Everything suggests that the genetic code is evolved and evolvable after all.12
The second major insight into the origins of genetic coding is that multiple, independent lines of evidence suggest the standard amino acid alphabet of 20 building-blocks grew from a smaller earlier alphabet corresponding to an earlier stage in genetic code evolution. Many variations have been proposed.13 Most derive their views by considering only one or two types of evidence; sophisticated calculations of the amino acid sequences of truly ancient proteins, the repertoire of amino acids found in meteorites; simulations of an early, pre-biological planet Earth and so on. What is interesting is an un-looked for match between the broad findings of these different approaches. In particular, different approaches end up dividing the 20 amino acids of modern organisms into 10 that were around in the earliest systems, and 10 that arrived later, as by-products of early biological evolution. The members of each group are remarkably consistent14, hinting directly at the process by which the genetic code evolved, growing more complex over time from simpler beginnings. Recent findings are also starting to make sense of why natural selection created this particular alphabet of building blocks.15
The third line of insight takes us backwards to the possible origins of genetic coding. Some scientists have used the SELEX approach described in a companion paper by Watts to define mini-sequences of RNA that specifically bind to a particular amino acid.16 Although results have been patchy, some amino acids seem to associate with surprising choosiness to the code-words assigned to them in the standard genetic code. This association suggests that the earliest steps in genetic coding may have been nothing more than simple physical affinities between two types of chemical.
Between them, these insights represent significant progress from the impossibly self-referential system viewed by Crick and those around him just 50 years ago. This half-century of research indicates that the standard genetic code at work in modern cells may be a product of substantial evolution that had taken place by around 3 billion years ago. But perhaps the most interesting progress is that few scientists still regard the emergence of life's Central Dogma as the origin for genetic information.
NOTE: Please join us tomorrow as we continue the discussion on the deepest origins of genetic information!
Box 1. An Introduction to Biological Coding and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
A code is a system of rules for converting information of one representation into another. For example Morse Code describes the conversion of information represented by a simple alphabet of dots and dashes to another, more complex alphabet of letters, numbers and punctuation. The code itself is the system of rules that connects these two representations. Genetic coding involves much the same principles, and it is remarkably uniform throughout life (Figure 2): genetic information is stored in the form of nucleic acid (DNA and RNA), but organisms are built by (and to a large extent from) interacting networks of proteins. Proteins and nucleic acids are utterly different types of molecule; thus it is only by decoding genes into proteins that self-replicating organisms come into being, exposing genetic material to evolution. The decoding process occurs in two distinct stages: during transcription local portions of the DNA double-helix are unwound to expose individual genes as templates from which temporary copies are made (transcribed) in the chemical sister language RNA. These messenger RNA molecules (mRNA's) are then translated into protein.
The language-based terminology reflects the fact that both genes and proteins are essentially 1-dimensional arrays of chemical letters. However, the nucleic acid alphabet comprises just 4 chemical letters (the 4 nucleotides are often abbreviated to 'A', 'C', 'G' and 'T' – but see footnote27), whereas proteins are built from 20 different amino acids. Clearly, no 1:1 mapping can connect nucleotides to amino acids. Instead nucleotides are translated as non-overlapping triplets known as codons. With 4 chemical letters grouped into codons of length 3, there are 4x4x4 = 64 possible codons. Each of these 64 codons is assigned to exactly one of 21 meanings (20 amino acids and a 'stop translation' signal found at the end of every gene.) The genetic code is quite simply the mapping of codons to amino acid meanings (Figure 2a). One consequence of this mapping is that most of the amino acids are specified by more than one codon: this is commonly referred to as the redundancy of the code.
Although the molecular machinery that produces genetic coding is complex (and indeed, less than perfectly understood), the most essential elements for this discussion are the tRNA's and ribosome. Each organism uses a set of slightly different tRNA's that each bind a specific amino acid at one end, and recognize a specific codon or subset of codons at the other. As translation of a gene proceeds, appropriate tRNAs bind to successive codons, bringing the desired sequence of amino acids into close, linear proximity where they are chemically linked to form a protein translation product. In this sense, tRNA's are adaptors and translators – between them, they represent the molecular basis of genetic coding. The ribosome is a much larger molecule, comprising both RNA and various proteins, which supervises the whole process of translation. It contains a tunnel through which the ribbon of messenger RNA feeds; somewhere near to the center of the ribosome, a window exposes just enough genetic material for tRNA's to compete with each other to bind the exposed codons.
Q1: "It is true that at present, evolutionary science does not have a clear, detailed and well-accepted explanation for how the Central Dogma of molecular biology emerged. … This status is typical of big questions within science: failure to reach the sound-bite goal should not be mistaken for evidence that the research program has failed." Do you feel there are any parallels we can draw between the process of science and the process of theology (personal or corporate) ? Do we grow closer to understanding God's will and action in the world by carefully examining the information contained in biblical texts, critiquing each others' conclusions, and revising our beliefs accordingly—or does understanding come to us through divine revelation—what scientists might call "eureka moments" alone?
Q2: "The second major insight into the origins of genetic coding is that multiple, independent lines of evidence suggest the standard amino acid alphabet of 20 building-blocks grew from a smaller earlier alphabet … Most derive their views by considering only one or two types of evidence; sophisticated calculations of the amino acid sequences of truly ancient proteins, the repertoire of amino acids found in meteorites; simulations of an early, pre-biological planet Earth and so on." Do you think that it necessarily grows or diminishes a human's sense of wonder at creation if natural science claims to observe increasingly clear connections between life on our planet and the non-living cosmos – for example, by finding within meteorites around half of the amino acids that your body uses to build its proteins?
1. For a fascinating and accessible discussion of the incorrect ideas that paved the way for these discoveries, see: B. Hayes: "The Invention of the Genetic Code," American Scientist (1998) 86: 8 - 14
2. Watson J.D. and Crick F.H.C. "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" Nature (1953) 171: 737-738
3. Frisch, L., (ed.) "The Genetic Code", Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (1966):1 - 747
4. More accurately, "A", "T", "G" and "C" refer to the four bases used in genetic coding. Bases are part of a whole nucleotide – the base must be added to a molecular of ribose and a phosphate to form a nucleotide. The ribose-phosphate construction is used as a universal scaffolding with which to join together sequences of bases. This technical differentiation becomes important to the origin of genetic information because bases are relatively easy to produce under prebiotic conditions, full nucleotides much less so. This and other subtleties are described further in a later section, explained well in Robert Shapiro's work (footnote 42).
5. This key insight brought Christian Anfinsen a Nobel prize in 1972, and a brief overview is found in his classic paper: Anfinsen C.B. "Principles that govern the folding of protein chains" Science (1973) 181: 223–230
6. Crick, F. H. C. " The origin of the genetic code", J. Mol. Biol. (1968) 38: 367 - 379
7. Given that there are only really 64 different rules for converting genetic information into proteins, and an individual protein can be several hundred amino acids in length, most genes use each of these rules many times over
8. For a much more thorough and technical version of this section including several hundred references to the primary scientific literature, see Freeland S.J. (2009) "Terrestrial Amino Acids and their evolution" in Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins within Organic Chemistry, Vol. 1 (ed. A. B. Hughes), Wiley VCH.
9. Knight, R. D., S. J. Freeland, Landweber L. F. "Rewiring the keyboard: evolvability of the genetic code", Nature Reviews Genetics (2001) 2: 49-58.
10. For a brief overview, see "The 22nd amino acid." Atkins JF, Gesteland R. Science. (2002) 296: 1409-10.
11. For an accessible overview of this topic, see Freeland S.J. and Hurst L.D. "Evolution Encoded," Scientific American (2007) 290:84-91. A more technical and more recent treatment of this topic can be found in Novozhilov AS, Koonin EV. "Exceptional error minimization in putative primordial genetic codes." Biology Direct (2009) 4:44.
12. For a detailed review, see Koonin EV, Novozhilov AS. "Origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma." IUBMB Life (2009) 61:99-111.
13. More than fifty models are considered in Trifonov, E.N. "Consensus temporal order of amino acids and evolution of the triplet code." Gene (2000) 261:139-51.
14. Compare the similarities in two recent reviews: Higgs, P. G. & Pudritz, R. E. (2009) "A thermodynamic basis for prebiotic amino acid synthesis and the nature of the first genetic code." Astrobiology 9: 483-90; Cleaves, H.J. (2010) "The origin of the biologically coded amino acids" J. Theor. Biol. 263: 490-498
15. Philip GK, Freeland SJ. "Did evolution select a nonrandom "alphabet" of amino acids?" Astrobiology (2011)11:235-40.
16. The current status of data here is reviewed in Yarus, M., Widmann J.J. and Knight R. "RNA-amino acid binding: a stereochemical era for the genetic code." J Mol Evol. (2009) 69:406-29.


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I would like to setup the rear end of a bike I am building with a wheel setup similar to the Tomahawk.
But I will need drive to both wheels to allow cornering at speed, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the best way to achieve this?
I would like to setup the rear end of a bike I am building with a wheel setup similar to the Tomahawk.
But I will need drive to both wheels to allow cornering at speed, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the best way to achieve this?
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find a hub with lots of holes (like one of those 90+ types). then crisscross the spokes between two hubs. don't tighten the spokes until you've inflated the tires, because the tires will push the rims apart and over stretch the spokes.
oh, and keep the valves 180 degrees from one another for balance. or maybe 120 degrees, with a reflector between them.
That motorcycle uses independent suspension for each wheel. You could try something similar so that the inside wheel can move up during a turn, while the outside wheel stays down. Perhaps something similar to Connondale lefties adapted as seatstays.
Forgot to mention that I would like the chain to drive between the wheels if possible, not essential but would be nice.
i want to use a couple of innova 3" tyres that fit on standard 20" bmx rims so lots of tyre over hang on the sides.
I like the idea of independent swing arms but it would require buying another couple of bikes for parts and I suspect spring tension would have to be spot on to work.
Thanks all keep the ideas coming.
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Two hubs mounted on the same extended axle, with two single cog free wheels in the center. Then use two chain rings and chains. One free wheel would have to be spun on backwards (not a problem) but I imagine you could get the two very close this way. More than close enough for your 3 inch tires.
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You could also get a trike rear end and chop it down so you had just enough axle sticking out on either side of the center to fit the tire overhang and chain. No suspension, but it would probably be a lot easier to make.
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Where this gets complicated is in how you run the chain.
http://mnhpva.org/Meetings/Nov_04/pages/01.html and the next few pages, shows a leaning trike. It has two swingarms linked by a bellcrank, the big rectangular aluminum bar.
It rides just like a two wheeler. It doesn't need to drive both rear wheels, as the weight is always evenly distributed between the rear wheels. The shaft on the 5th photo is his first attempt at a lockout mechanism for holding it up at stops.
If you were to always ride it like a bike, the swingarms could be right next to each other. It seems to me that with a bit of fooling around, you should be able to get wide tires to within about 1.5"-2" of each other. The bellcrank could be much smaller and lighter. Especially if the swingarm pivots were at the top of the swingarms and short tie rods linked the bottoms to a bellcrank under the frame.
Your frame would need an offset bottom bracket. (driven off a BB/crank in the regular position) That or you could put a chain ring on each side, but then you'd have to space the wheels further apart, which it sounds like you don't want to do.Originally Posted by halfbiked
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You would need to start with a Starley Differential.First invented in 1877.Differentials(chain pull type)were used on Harley 3 wheelers and other 3 wheel motorcycles.I think there were some 3 wheel mo-peds--that might be a source--maybe those old honda 3 wheelers might have someting to look at.This will be a major piece of work---good luck---sam


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Hello guys,
Recently I attempted an Arp Cache Poisoning to sniff over switched connections.
The problem is that it works against my home computer but not against my laptop.
When I try to sniff my laptop, it get DoS'ed.
Sniffing my Desktop it all goes smoothly.
What could be influential in this other than doing something wrong like a miss clicking onto another IP on ettercap or something or whatever?
I tried this 5 times last night and I was pretty confused why I could not sniff my laptop and could sniff my Desktop.
The ARP tables are as it should be for sniffing... this is where I wonder.
Put your thoughts here so I can test it again this evening.and maybe get it to work.
Tomorrow I will tell you if something else went wrong or what did I do to fix the issue.
Thank you.
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Is it possible to automatically download data from a website?
I know in SAS it is possible to automatically download data from a website. For instance, suppose you wanted to download the unemployment rate using GAUSS from, say, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The URL for the text datafile is: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE
Does anyone know if this can be accomplished inside of a program?
Thanks for your assistance.
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You can have GAUSS execute system commands and use the Curl executable. Do you want to just download the data to an xls or csv file and then use that downloaded file for your analysis, or do you want to have your program to have the flexibility to pull down a different date range every time?
After you respond, I will post an example.
Here are the steps to automatically downloading data from St. Louis Fed site:
- Download the cURL executable program from here
- Extract the cURL zip file and place the file curl.exe into your GAUSS home directory.
- The version of cURL from the link above requires the Visual Studio 2010 x64 redistributable. If your machine does not already have it installed you can download it from Microsoft from here for free.
Once these steps are completed, you can use this procedure to download the data. NOTE if you place curl.exe in a location other than C:\gauss13, then the variable curlpath needs to be changed to that location.
proc (0) = downloadData(url, outfile); local curlpath, cmds, curlexe, filetype; //Find the desired file type if (strindx(outfile, "xls", 1)); filetype = "xls"; elseif (strindx(outfile, "csv", 1)); filetype = "csv"; else; errorlog "downloadData: Warning: No valid file extension found"; endif; //Specify location of 'curl' executable curlpath = "C:\\gauss13\\"; curlexe = curlpath$+"curl.exe"; //Create full system call cmds = curlexe$+" \""$+url$+"\""$+" --data \"_qf__mainform=&native_frequency=Monthly&download_data=Download+Data&units=lin&frequency=Monthly&aggregation=Average&obs_start_date="$+obs_start$+"&obs_end_date="$+obs_end$+"&file_format="$+filetype$+"\" > "$+outfile; //Execute system call dos ^cmds; endp;
Example 1
url = "http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE/downloaddata"; obs_start = "1948-01-01"; obs_end = "2013-03-01"; outfile = "unemployment.xls"; downloadData(url, outfile);
Example 2
url = "http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS14200000/downloaddata?cid=32447"; obs_start = "1968-01-01"; obs_end = "2013-03-01"; outfile = "unemployment_part_time.xls"; downloadData(url, outfile);
These downloaded XLS files use the first 18 rows or so for description text and they will not contain useful data.