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by Tom Utescher
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is seeking a new head coach for its varsity girls basketball team this summer, due to the unexpected resignation of Steve Purcell.
The Blue Devils were 27-28 overall against challenging competition during Purcell's two seasons with the team. SCH went 7-5 within the Girls' Inter-Ac League each year, and last January Purcell became the first coach to lead the Devils to a victory against longtime league power Germantown Academy.
Just prior to coming to Springside, Purcell was an assistant coach for the successful Archbishop Ryan High School program under head coach Jackie Hartzell. On June 26, Hartzell was announced as the new head coach at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP), and she asked Purcell to rejoin her as she took the helm of the West Philadelphia franchise.
UPS is a member of the Division II Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, along with Chestnut Hill College and Philadelphia University.
The SCH Blue Devils graduated only two players from their 2012-13 roster, and among the new additions will be a 6'1" freshman out of Norwood Fontbonne Academy, Chloe Burns.
Anyone interested in the coaching position should contact SCH's director of girls athletics, Tina O'Malley, at 215-247-8015 or email@example.com. O'Malley noted that there are also two coaching vacancies for the upcoming fall season; upper school JV field hockey coach and upper school volleyball assistant coach.

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kaipo precisava de um novo design de logo e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 134 designs enviados por 49 designers freelancers.
Red Pill
Red Pill is a brand-new educational product that trains people to improve physical, emotional, spiritual, & financial health in 90 days.
The Red Pill idea comes from the movie, The Matrix, & the logo should represent the idea that there's a special formula (a "red pill") that you can take to set you free from a life that sucks.
This logo will be used on blogs, books, & software boxes.
People looking to break free from a life that sucks & improve their physical, emotional, spiritual, & financial health ... and simply live a free, balanced, healthy, successful lifestyle.
We'd like:
1) A logo
2) A "Red Pill" font treatment
3) A .psd version of the final product
Think heavenly... futuristic... white/red theme... and all the emphasis on this "magical" pill.
I'm afraid to mention ideas because I don't want to affect your creativity in any way, but some possible ideas:
1) Something like this red pill .. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-ph…oncept.php .. floating & glowing above outstretched hands like this .. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-ph…rkness.php .. only on a white, not black, theme
2) An effect like this might be cool .. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-ph…fering.php .. where everything is black & white & all the emphasis is on the red pill
3) Or, just a clean, vertical red pill might be all we need. I'll have to see it.
Thank you!
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Playground in winter in Zug, Switzerland. The playground has several water-based features such as an archmedes screw to get water out of the stream and a series of basins in which you can pour water using a handpump. A stream is running through the playground.
The playground is surrounded by houses and a sportpark.
I was struck by the beautiful light that was created close to sunset on a sunny winterday.


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The test of a book for me is how often I see myself referring to it down
the road; does it have proverbial legs? On that basis alone, The Best
Of DragonKing Press Newsletter is a gem.
It's a collection of various issues of the DragonKing Press Newsletter,
which has been run by Karl Stern since 1999. In his introduction, Stern
likens his newsletter to the Time Magazine of the wrestling
industry, while the Wrestling Observer is the Wall Street
Journal. Personally, I feel it's a little more like Discover magazine -- there's a lot of stuff that is so deeply researched that
keeps it from being totally mainstream.
The primary focus of DragonKing Press Newsletter has always been the
history of the business, and it excels at putting the events of today
into a historical perspective.
By far the best reason to get the Best Of book is the
often-talked about 'Wrestlers who die under the age of 40' issue, from
September 2002. By my criteria, I can definitely see myself referring to
this alone numerous times. Instead of just listing names, Stern takes a
statistical perspective on it, tallying up how they died. It is a very
disturbing number.
Other strong inclusions in the Best Of include the story of
wrestling pioneer William Muldoon, a look at Abraham Lincoln's wrestling
connections and an interview with Harley Race. Some of the other choices
don't stand up as well. The list of the 100 Most Influential People in
Pro Wrestling History seems dated in many ways, and Stern admits as much
in a pre-amble at the beginning of the book, saying that the same list
today would be very different.
The packaging of the whole Best Of DragonKing Press Newsletter isn't exactly polished either. It's a bound collection of photocopied
past issues, complete with the typos, inconsistent printing styles and
poor photo reproduction that are the hallmark of the self-publishing
industry. Not that there's anything wrong with that; it's just that it's
important to know what you are getting.
While reading the Best Of DragonKing Press Newsletter, one comes
away with the feeling that its contributors -- especially Stern -- truly
love the pro wrestling industry and celebrate it in a way that a true
mainstream commercial magazine couldn't.
You can learn more about the DragonKing Press Newsletter at their web
site, www.dragonkingwrestling.com. The Best Of DragonKing Press
Newsletter sells for $15 USD, $29 internationally. The newsletter
itself is available for $15 for six issues. The mailing address is DKP:
PO Box 781: Haleyville, AL 35565.
Greg Oliver founded SLAM! Wrestling with John Powell way back in
1996, and has been writing about pro wrestling since 1985. He is the
author of the recently published book The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame:
The Canadians from ECW Press. Order it from the SLAM!
Wrestling Store. He can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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WordGirl "Pretty Princess Premiere/Where's Huggy?" Pretty Princess Premiere - Will Becky be able to attend "The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony" movie premiere or will the Energy Monster foil her chance of seeing Pretty Princess on the silver screen? Vocabulary Words: Anticipate, Premiere. Where's Huggy? - Disaster strikes when Bob goes missing. WordGirl tracks him down by making house calls at the evil villains lairs. D
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Wild Kratts "The Desert Elves" When Koki and Jimmy get stranded in the desert, Aviva and the Kratt Brothers must rely on the eyes and ears of the Elf owl to help find their friends in the harsh habitat. D
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Cyberchase "A Clean Sweep" Hacker makes Buzz's dream come true and gives him his very own donut shop in Radopolis. But it's just part of Hacker's latest scheme. Working out of the donut shop, Hacker makes confetti out of magnetite, and uses it to put all the Radsters to sleep, so he can take over the cybersite. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Ruff Needs His Herring Checked" Ruff has finally lost it! He's hearing a voice that no one else can hear. Even stranger, the voice is telling him to bake cookies to woo Charlene, the poodle next door. Ruff's sanity is at stake as he sends Isaac and Liza to meet with an audiologist to find out everything they can about hearing. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, the Dow and S&P break through levels they've never seen before - 16,000 on the Dow and 1800 on the S&P. But with a flood of data and earnings due this week, is there something that could derail the rally? And, if the mutual fund industry comes under tighter regulation, what would the impact be on you - the investor?. D
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Antiques Roadshow "Survivors" In this special episode, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW highlights amazing tales of rescues, near misses, and beating the odds with treasures that have endured wars, natural disasters, fires and more. A French Blue John urn that remains largely intact despite multiple gunshots is appraised for $3,000 to $5,000.G
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Antiques Roadshow "San Diego, CA - Hour One" Highlights include an original, handwritten draft of the 1933 popular American song "Stormy Weather" and a portrait by Robert Henri, a founder of the American Ashcan School of painting, valued up to $300,000.G
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Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Food Hour: Southern China" New Zealand chef Peter Gordon discovers the roots of Cantonese cuisine. His journey takes him north to Lianzhou, the mountain home of the Yao tribe, where he cooks succulent spiced pork. Next he walks the rice fields of the Pearl River Delta, cooks up a feast for boat racing crews in Guangzhou, shops in the fabled market of Qingping, and samples street fare in Chaozhou.G
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Independent Lens "Indian Relay" This documentary follows several teams from three different American Indian communities - including members of the Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Fort Hall, Idaho - as they prepare for and compete across a grueling Indian Relay season. The hope and determination of modern-day American Indian life is revealed in this story about what it takes to win this exciting, and sometimes dangerous, form of horse racing.G
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Praise for Nick Taylor's books
"A vivid portrait of a New York mobster turned government witness. The many sides of Sal Sr. -- his charm, disregard for the law, devotion to his kids, and selfishness -- are what really fascinate."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"COMPELLING . . . The contradiction of a mad-dog criminal/good father used by Mario Puzo in 'The Godfather' is even more effective here because Polisi is real and this story is true."
-- Booklist
"The story makes for a ripping yarn. Taylor manages to weave together the scientific workings of lasers, the intricacies of the US patent system, and the strange details of Gordon Gould's quirks and predicaments . . . Taylor does a great job of pulling together science, law, business, and human drama."
-- Wired
"Taylor's writing style makes the science of the laser, so ubiquitous now in modern science and medicine, understandable and fascinating in this account of one man's 30-year battle for recognition and compensation. Taylor brings obvious appreciation for the drama of scientific discovery and the process of seeking credit for technological innovation to this fascinating true story."
-- Booklist
"This book could well be entitled 'The Straight Stuff.' When was the last time you read that kind of memoir?"
-- Detroit Free Press
"Fascinating . . . Ablaze with drama . . . His memoir is a joy to read."
-- Book-of-the-Month Club News
"[Glenn]'s story is chock-full of duty, honor, patriotism, hard work and bedrock love of family. They don't make 'em like they used to.
-- St. Petersburg Times
"A wonderfully wise presentation of a family's life as it yields, inevitably, to death. I can't think of a book more necessary than this one for all of us."
-- Robert Coles.
". . . short, cool, and skeletally bright. . . Taylor is less self-consciously literary than Philip Roth in 'Patrimony' and has a less dramatic filial tale to disclose than Tobias Wolff in 'This Boy's Life.' But in its quiet, economical way 'A Necessary End' will stand comparison with either of them. . . the story of this book . . . may seem to posterity one of the key stories of our time."
-- The Washington Post
". . . a lovely book, tenderly written, a must-read for all whose parents have started -- or even finished -- their walk down the long, slow road toward death."
-- The Boston Globe
"Engrossing . . . Recommended reading for fishing buffs and just plain sports fans."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Truly fine writing about the sunburned rigors and unexpected dangers of competitive bass fishing."
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Importance of Play
How sports and games keep baby boomers healthy and happy.
It's Time to Start Building Again
Infrastructure's a clunky word, but it's important. It means fixing things, and that means jobs. The WPA blazed the trail back in the 1930s when unemployment was sky-high. FDR had to fight conservatives who didn't want to spend the money. But WPA workers rebuilt the country and their paychecks stimulated the economy. Obama's got a new plan to do some infrastructure work, but the conservatives are against him, too. I'm a fan. Let's get behind him on this. Here are some highlights of what he proposed today:
The President's infrastructure plan calls for a Rebuild America Partnership that will attract private capital to build the infrastructure our businesses need most. By acting on the President's plan, together we can prove that there is no better place to do business and create jobs than right here in the United States of America.
Investing in a "fix-it-first" policy: The President's plan will immediately invest $50 billion in our nation's transportation infrastructure, with $40 billion targeted to the most urgent upgrades and focused on fixing our highways, bridges, transit systems, and airports most in need of repair.
Attracting private investment through a "Rebuild America Partnership": The President's plan will partner federal, state, and local governments with businesses and private capital to provide America with the best transportation, electric, water, and communications networks in the world.
Cutting red tape: The President's plan will cut timelines in half for infrastructure projects and create incentives for better outcomes for communities and the environment through a historic modernization of agency permitting and review regulations, procedures, and policies.
This new proposal would build on earlier progress. Obama's Recovery Act was the most significant transportation public works program since the New Deal, providing $48 billion in Recovery Act dollars to more than 15,000 projects across the country. Between Recovery Act and core infrastructure funds, American workers have improved over 350,000 miles of U.S. roads and repaired or replaced over 20,000 bridges since the President took office. Over the last four years, the Department of Transportation has built or improved more than 6,000 miles of rail, 40 rail stations, and purchased 260 passenger rail cars and 105 locomotives. In addition, the Obama Administration has made an unprecedented commitment to strengthen public transportation across the United States, investing in more than 350 miles of new rail and bus rapid transit, and helping to revitalize the American manufacturing industry by investing in 45,621 buses and 5,545 rail cars.
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American-Made -- The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work is receiving new attention in light of the economic meltdown that began in the fall of 2008. The pundits are calling it the greatest crisis since the Great Depression, and suddenly Americans are looking back. The WPA was one of the weapons FDR wielded against the human suffering caused by those hungry years, and today people are wondering what a new WPA would look like as unemployment climbs.


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Every so often people ask me about what podcasts I listen to, and every so often I start listening to something new and get terribly excited about it and have to tell my colleagues all about it. Also, this past semester I taught my first course. It was an LIS course entitled, "Introduction to Technology." Instead of the normal plethora of weekly readings, I toned the readings down a little bit, and added a few podcasts as "suggested listening" for learning experiment. It went over well, so I figured I post something about my favourites, why I like them, and why I think they are relevant. I'm sticking to podcasts that tie into my profession - FilmJunk, Quirks and Quarks, and Linux Outlaws, not this time. If you have any recommendations, please share!
Digital Campus - "A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums." I stumbled across this podcast late last spring, and have been an eager listener every other week. The podcast is in a way an extension of the work being done at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and moreover, it is an excellent source of information regarding projects and trends in the digital humanities. At MPOW we are currently in the infant stages of creating a digital scholarship centre that is going to be integrated with our library, so the podcast is a great way to stay fresh with what is going on in digital humanites.
The Changelog - is a weekly podcast that covers new open source software projects. I constantly find myself a little lost with the many different open source projects and trends. This podcast allows me to listen to an episode on specific project so I can learn more about it. Sometimes it is exactly what I need, other times it is over my head, but hey, that happens.
This Week in Law - is a weekly podcast on the TWiT network hosted by Denise Howell and a panel which covers new issuses in technology law. Before I entered the library profession, I had intended on becoming a lawyer. Well, we all see how that went. But, I never lost interest in law, or issues that have always interested me. This podcast, along with the next, allow me to keep up and stay fresh.
Free as in Freedom (previously, The Software Freedom Law Center podcast) - is a biweekly podcast featuring Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler covering legal issues and topics in the open source and free software world. This podcast again appeals to the legal issues sides of me, but more so in so far that it deals mainly with legal issues around open source and free software. Dan Scott tipped me off to the podcast one day, and I have been a regular listener ever since.
The Command Line - is a weekly podcast consisting of a news episode, what the host Thomas Gideon calls a rant episode which is more or less an essay on a given topic, and the occasional interview.
JISC - is an intermittent podcast put out by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) touching on new issues and trends in library and information science.
CBC Spark - is a combination of a weekly podcast, radio show and blog which centres around technology and culture, and is hosted by Nora Young. The show occasionally crosses over into information science territory, but I listen to it more so for the interesting topics each week.
TVO Search Engine - is a weekly podcast hosted by Jesse Brown which explores the Internet and technology's impact on culture and politics. This is one of my absolute favourite podcasts, and an interesting take on journalism in my opinion.


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Speaking at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters this morning, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama as out of touch for spending too much time at Harvard, where the president went to law school. "We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps," Romney said.
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Unfortunately for Romney, his attack is undermined by the fact that the GOP presidential hopeful has twice as many degrees from Harvard as Obama. Romney earned a combined JD/MBA from the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts university. That means Romney spent an extra year at Harvard, getting the combined degree in four years, compared to Obama's three for the JD alone. Indeed, Romney thrived at Harvard by all accounts.
Romney has previously attacked Obama for taking advice from the "Harvard faculty lounge," even though one of Romney's top economic advisers is Harvard professor Greg Mankiw.
Romney has also taken at least $32,000 in contributions from Harvard faculty and administrators.


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Spring Break!
The last week in March, William Woods University students participated in one of college students' most anticipated events of the spring semester... Spring Break!
Every other year, I've always gone home for spring break. It was always wonderful to get to simply lay low for a week, reconnect with my family, and enjoy a week off from deadlines and responsibilities. Since this year was my LAST spring break, though, I decided to go somewhere and do something new and exciting! I went to a charming little town called Madeira Beach in Florida (it's about halfway down the coast of Florida on the Gulf side), near Clearwater. I went with my fiance and another couple from campus. It was such a blast! Our only complaint was that the intense wind all week long made the beach rather chilly, but it was still great fun!
We visited the Clearwater Marine Aquarium one day, home of the famous dolphin named Winter from the movie Dolphin Tale! If you haven't heard of or seen the movie, you should definitely look it up. It tells the beautifully inspiring (and true!) story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued by this aquarium in 2005. She was found washed up on the beach, her tail tangled in a trap meant for crabs. Her tail had been cut off from circulation for too long, causing parts of it to die and fall off, so her rescuers decided her only chance of survival was to amputate the rest of the tail. The movie shows how Winter learned to swim again, both without a tail at all and with the help of the prosthetic tails built for her. It was so cool to get to walk around the aquarium where so much magic happend! Winter is still at the aquarium, too, so we got to see her in person! We also got to meet some of the other rescue dolphins, along with several sea turtles, sting rays and manta rays, and a few otters! The Marine Aquarium's mission is simple: Rescue - Rehab - Release. If there is any chance of the animal surviving again in the wild, the rescuers keep their interactions with the animals minimal. Some of the dolphins will never be able to stand a good chance in the wild again, though, and they quickly become best friends with the people who work in the aquarium! So many amazing things happen there... I loved getting to visit it!
Darin (my fiance) and I enjoyed several long walks on the beach, too... And I don't mean that in the typical cheesy, romantic sense. We literally HIKED on the beach! We probably covered close to 5 or 6 miles round trip - on three different occasions! On these walks, we saw sharks on three separate occasions! The first two times were when a fisherman reeled in small sharks, and the third time was when we passed a tiny baby shark that had died and washed up on the beach. All three sharks were called Bonnet Head sharks, which look similar to hammerheads but are completely harmless to humans. I've been on beaches several times in my life, but I had never seen a shark out in the wild before!
We were all very grateful to have a week off to relax and reset before our last few weeks of the semester! The first week back was a little rough; it was kind of hard to find our routines again. This week is off to a much better start, though. We really don't have very much longer to go at all - graduation is in 25 short days! I have a feeling that the rest of this semester is going to FLY by. I can't believe how fast it's happening!


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October 2007-National journal spotlights Dr. Fox's embryonic stem cell work
by Tom O'Connor, UNMC public affairs
Thanks in large part to the work of a UNMC scientist, an international group of researchers has demonstrated that embryonic stem cells can be converted into liver cells and used to restore liver function in mice with liver failure. The findings are reported in the Nov. 5 issue of Nature Biotechnology, the leading international science journal in the field.
Ira Fox, M.D., McLaughlin Professor of Surgery and senior associate dean for research in the UNMC College of Medicine, served as the senior author on the article and headed the study along with Naoya Kobayashi, M.D., Ph.D., of Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry in Japan.
In the study, the researchers generated liver stem cells from mouse embryos to help power a liver assist device in mice with acute liver failure. Typically, mice with acute liver failure die within a matter of days. However, using the liver assist device containing mouse liver cells derived from embryonic stem cells, 90 percent of the mice in the study experienced long-term survival.
After implanting the liver assist device seeded with the embryo-derived cells, the new cells developed characteristics nearly identical to those of primary hepatocytes (liver cells). The new cells filtered the blood much as the liver does, and kept the mice alive, while mice not fitted with the liver device died within two days.
The study was one of two articles in Nature Biotechnology this week that describe making liver cells from mouse embryonic stem cells. A research team at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City headed the second study.
A third article in Nature Biotechnology, written by a San Diego research team, described an efficient method for converting human embryonic stem cells into cells that produce hormones made by the pancreas, a technique that could lead to a cure for diabetes.
"Both (liver) articles lay out a road map for how to regenerate a failed liver using embryonic stem cells," Dr. Fox said. "The next step is to apply this approach to producing human liver cells.
"Our study is an important first step, but there's still plenty of work to be done. Our work, and the other studies published this week, show we're getting closer and closer (to making this applicable to humans)."
Embryonic stem cells are the body's master cells and have the ability to transform into any kind of cell or tissue in the body.
Drs. Fox and Kobayashi have worked together for years on liver cell regeneration. Dr. Kobayashi worked at UNMC for two years completing his post-doctoral training under Dr. Fox during the late 1990s. In 2005, two UNMC research teams – one headed by Dr. Fox, the other by Stephen Rennard, M.D., Larson Professor of Pulmonary Medicine – received training on how to use human embryonic stem cells in research. Both groups brought human embryonic stem cell lines back to Nebraska for their research. The embryonic stem cell lines are among the stem cell lines approved by President Bush.
A liver transplant surgeon, Dr. Fox is trying to determine if embryonic stem cells can be safely turned into liver cells that would ultimately be infused into failing livers. This form of therapy, cell transplantation, could be used as an alternative to organ transplantation for some patients with liver failure.
Due to the shortage of organ donors to meet the increased demand for organ transplants, Dr. Fox has, over the past decade, examined a variety of alternative ways – other than organ transplantation – to regenerate damaged livers. During this period, Dr. Fox has also studied the properties of adult stem cells and pig liver cells for this purpose.
Infusing human liver cells into a diseased liver in 1997, Dr. Fox was the first to get transplanted individual liver cells to partially correct a rare metabolic liver disease in a 10-year old child. In doing so, the patient was able to avoid undergoing a liver transplant for many years. The research was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 1998.
Currently, more than 17,000 Americans are on the waiting list for a new liver. Liver failure can be caused by viruses such as hepatitis, by drug or alcohol damage and by a range of other diseases. Often the only cure is a transplant, and more than 5,000 liver transplants are done in the United States each year.


text: droidly 0 Posted July 21, 2012 Per this thread on BGG, there is some confusion about the line of sight rules in Descent 2E. I'd like to know the official ruling. The problem: In the Line of Sight Example #2 on page 12 of the rulebook, Jain and the zombie are said not to have LOS, because neither of the 2 lines drawn in the example are sufficient to establish LOS. However, the rules say that LOS can be established by drawing a line from "any corner to . . . any corner" of the tiles (emphasis in original). So there are 16 possible lines to draw between their tiles, and at least one of those lines would establish LOS: from Jain's lower-left corner to the zombie's lower-right corner, for example, would pass right through the corner between the boulders. There is a lot of speculation on the BGG forum, e.g. that maybe you can't trace these lines through the figures' own tiles--that you can't actually choose any corner, but must choose a relatively "forward" corner. But that isn't consistent with the idea that, if I am attacking a large monster, I can target any of the tiles it occupies as my target (since some of those squares may not be the nearest tile to me). The worse problem is the seeming arbitrariness of the distinction between cases with LOS and those without: if I can trace a LOS when 4 tiles apart, but not when 5 apart, but can again when 6 apart… it sounds like time for some house rules, or better yet, an official ruling. Anyway, I think the question is clear: by a strict reading of the rules, Jain and the zombie do have LOS; but per the example they do not. Is the example wrong, or are the rules missing something? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Dj Chris B needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Dj Chris B
Im a Video Dj in the Detroit, Mi area Looking for a Logo to put on my website, Business cards and Music Videos. I Dj at Motor City Casino you can see more about it at.... http://www.amnesiadetroit.com/index.html
the age group is 21+, target audience would be the Night Club groups but at a higher end.
Im open for any kind of design I want something modern and in style, Attractive.
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Join the 22nd annual SPIN gala, Bella Notte, a gourmet food and wine event at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Hilton Waterfront Hotel & Resort in Huntington Beach, 21100 Pacific Coast Hwy.
Two award-winning chefs, Executive Chef Jeff Littlefield of Shades Restaurant at the Hilton and Chef Alessandro Pirozzi of Cucina Alessi, will prepare a delicious Italian wine dinner. The evening starts with a cocktail reception and silent auction followed by dinner and dancing. Dress in your favorite black and white cocktail attire.
The evening benefits SPIN, which provides meals to the homeless and working poor living in Orange County. Tickets cost $175. For event information, call (888) 552.1900, or visit http://www.spinoc.org
Get half off at Nordstrom
When it comes to sales, nobody does it better than Nordstrom. Its famed Half-Yearly Sale for women and kids is back.
Ladies can stock up on fall merchandise reduced up to 50%. It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts. The prices are the lowest of the season, so take advantage of finding the right looks for holiday parties and seasonal gatherings.
Fashion favorite brands on sale include 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Alice + Olivia, Cole Haan, Diane von Furstenberg, J Brand, Kate Spade New York, Marc by Marc Jacobs, M Missoni, Mini Boden, Nike, Steve Madden, Stuart Weitzman, Tory Burch and Vince. Brands will vary by store.
Orange County boasts seven Nordstrom stores. For more information, please contact Nordstrom South Coast Plaza at (714) 549-8300, Nordstrom Brea Mall at (714) 529-0123, Nordstrom Santa Ana at (714) 972-2020, Nordstrom Mission Viejo at (949) 347-2710, Nordstrom Irvine Spectrum at (949) 255-2800, Nordstrom Fashion Island at (949) 610-0700 or visit the online store at nordstrom.com.
CHOC Auditions
Here's your chance to perform live on stage while raising funds for Children's Hospital of Orange County. Auditions for CHOC Follies will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach.
CHOC Follies XV, an original musical that will raise money for CHOC, is called "Christina and the Crystal Ball, a Cinderella Story for the Social Net Set."
It's a comedic and modern spoof on the classic fairy tale. Since its inception in 1997, CHOC Follies has netted more than $5 million for the hospital.
Cast members don't have to have singing and dancing experience. The auditions follow a group format; however, if you feel like you would like to audition for singing or dancing roles, solo auditions will follow the group auditions — no more than a minute long. Just bring sheet music or a background tape.
Auditions will be held at The Island Hotel (free valet parking), at 690 Newport Center Drive. For more information, visit http://www.choc.org.
Laguna locals get discount
Let's face it, Monday's can be overwhelming, but now you start your week off right by treating yourself to dinner and drinks while saving 50% off your bill, at Katsuya by S+ARCK in Laguna Beach.
Monday nights is Local's Night at the sleek, contemporary yet comfortable restaurant known for its indoor-outdoor, family-friendly dining and traditional Japanese robata selections prepared over an open flame, signature cocktails, and an incredible kid's menu.
The entire menu will be half-off from 5 to 10 p.m. every Monday through Dec. 31. It's your chance to enjoy Monday Night Football on Katsuya's flat-screen televisions in the bar, or relax and indulge in the dining room, sipping favorite cocktails such as the burning Mandarin and the Katsuya fresh; or ordering signature dishes like crispy rice with spicy tuna, yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, and miso-marinated black cod; wine, sake, beer and dessert items.
Katsuya is at 858 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach. For more information, call (949) 793-4030, or visit http://www.sbe.com/katsuya/laguna-beach.
Walk for the diabetes cure
You can help find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
On Sunday, join the Walk to Cure Diabetes at UC Irvine along with more than 5,000 people in Orange County and a half million nationwide to raise funding for research in the fight against Type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is not caused by obesity, overeating or a lack of exercise; it is an autoimmune disease that can strike anyone at any time — most frequently children. Insulin keeps people with Type 1 diabetes alive, but it is not a cure.
Fatal complications caused by the disease include kidney failure, blindness, amputation, heart attack and stroke. Children and adults with juvenile diabetes and their families are in a constant battle to manage blood-sugar levels with six or more daily finger pricks to test blood, multiple insulin injections each day, and careful monitoring of exercise and food intake.
My son Tristan was diagnosed six years ago at age 14. Just to stay alive, he has given himself more than 13,140 shots of insulin since he was diagnosed.
The good news is that a cure for Type 1 diabetes is within reach. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is funding most major scientific breakthroughs in T1D research, and there have been many. JDRF funds a major portion of all Type 1 diabetes research worldwide, more than any other charity.
By making a tax-deductible donation, you can be a part of bringing about a cure. Each of us can make a real difference.
In addition to the amazing foods at the walk, you can continue support JDRF'S restaurant fundraiser. Seven local restaurants near UC Irvine, including Wahoo's Fish Tacos, Pei Wei, Cha for Tea, Five Guys, Daphne's, Freshii and California Pizza Kitchen, will donate a percentage of proceeds to JDRF between the hours of noon to 5 p.m. Fliers will be passed out at the walk.
For more information, visit http://www.jdrfoc.org/events.asp.doc.
Get some wine education
Turn to UC Irvine to help with the holiday season. UCI's extension class in wine education, "Holiday Pairing of Food and Wine," can make your feast and holiday parties even more memorable.
The two-session course, from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday and Nov. 14, will teach you how to choose wines for your holiday meals. Learn about the options in pairing domestic, international and sparkling wines with foods normally served at home or at a party.
The course costs $200 and includes an $80-course material fee. For more information, contact Stephanie Fix at (949) 824-0325, or visit unex.uci.edu.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University's official bio of new basketball coach Eddie Jordan says he graduated from the university in 1977.
But the university registrar's office says the former NBA player and coach never received a degree from Rutgers, though he earned 103 credit hours from 1973 to 1985.
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Quote# 81615
Atheists! if the bible is not true why are there Christians?
[Angry Noodle]
" Christians! If the Koran isn't true, then why are there Muslims?"
the KORAN is not true.
Y! answers
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Quote# 81614
So a young girl (in your words, thirteen or younger) who has had sex must remain with the man she had sex with? Even if the only reason a girl that young has had sex is because she was raped?
Wow. That's really twisted.
I also note that your precious commandments do not forbid rape (and don't give me the adultery crap again; it's irrelevant unless you erroneously assume that every woman ever born has had sex at birth).
You are the one who has got every thing twisted.
Your assumptions are incorrect—get the facts right before you jump to conclusions!!
Rape is punishable by death—so if a thirteen year old girl or younger is raped—the rapist must die—so when the rapist is put to death—the girl can marry some one of her choice.
While the rapist is alive the girl will be committing adultery.
Paul Bethke,
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Quote# 81608
(response to state of Tennessee nullifying Nashville's LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance)
After harassing law firms, sports figures, restaurants, and average Americans, homosexual activists are starting to show the public what they really are. Intolerant. Lawmakers in Tennessee witnessed the bullying firsthand, when the state tried to stop policies that are bad for business and worse for the economy. The Left had been trying to use local governments to demand special employment rights for gays and lesbians. Yesterday, Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law that will keep private companies from being held hostage by homosexual activists.
Starting this month, cities and counties can no longer adopt anti-discrimination policies that are stricter than state law. It all started with a Nashville city ordinance that required private government contractors to give special preference to gays in lesbians in hiring and firing decisions. By signing SB 632 into law, Gov. Haslam erased the Nashville measure and freed up companies to run their businesses the way they see fit. Thanks to local pastors and former state Sen. David Fowler at the Family Action Council of Tennessee, employers will be the ones dictating office policy--not the liberal government
Tony Perkins,
Joe. My. God.
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Submitted By: Aspergus
Quote# 81606
[A blogger's letter to Satan]
I've had so much exposure to you and your antics lately. But you will not steal my joy. You absolutely will not kill, steal from, or destroy me or my family. The Lord God is on His throne, and you will never succeed in causing His plans to go awry. I know you know that. I love that you know that.
You think you are getting to me, but all the harm you seek to do me really only makes me stronger. Do you know that? You are driving me to Jesus! Keep devising your evil schemes if you must...I'll cling to Jesus all the more. The deeper I go with Him, the more absurdly stupid you look. Yes, you've caused us pain, but guess what? God Almighty is in control, and He's turning it all to good! So take that!
You might strike me down, perplex me, or trouble me...maybe you'll discourage me or make me feel stupid and unqualified...you will most certainly continue to hound me with incessant distraction and drop countless obstacles in my path...but my God will pick me up, dust me off, and help me stand again after each and every battle. So get ready because I'm not giving up. I take it as a compliment that you won't leave me alone. I must be a threat to you! I pray so. I pray so in the name of Jesus. Yes, JESUS!! Are you trembling? I know you are....
By the way, get out of my house, and stay out in the name of JESUS. Leave my kids alone, in the name of JESUS. I have my armor on and I'm ready to do battle. I reclaim the Peace that passes understanding. I plead the blood of JESUS over my mind and my thoughts...I plead the blood of JESUS over my children's futures, and I plead the blood of JESUS over my home and my property. I know you have to leave now! Ha!
Hate me all you want. Hate my kids, even. You should, because they are going to do mighty things for their Lord Jesus Christ. I realize you'll keep assigning all your ridiculous demons to attack us and try to deter us. But it won't work, because we have authority over you through the Blood of Jesus. Oops! I mentioned the Blood again! Scared? You should be. You are defeated, loser, and your days are numbered. You remember that day at the cross, don't you? My Jesus shed His blood for me. I am His, and He is mine...and you lose.
Jesus is Lord! I know you hate to hear that because it's the truth! His light illuminates and eliminates your darkness at all times and in every situation. I will overcome you, by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony.
Get thee behind me, Satan, in the name of JESUS!
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Quote# 81547
Most scientists never even taken a class on evolution. And there are many more scientists who have actually taken time to investigate the validity of the theory have discovered it is bunk.
The truth is most scientists don't want the creation explanation because of the implications so they force feed the evolution fairy tale to people despite the evidence that goes against. For examples, more and more scientists have come out to say that Darwin's Tree of Life is false; random mutations (coupled with natural selection) decreases genomic information instead of increases; the fossil record shows special creation rather than evolution etc.
Evolution is the biggest lie people have fallen for. If I didn't know better I would think Satan is behind the lie to cast doubt on special creation. "No, no you who is more complex than all the machines and computers in the world combined evolved from a single cell which accidently formed billions of years ago." The world falls for it hook, line, and sinker. Satan didn't have to have the Bible burned or only in the hands of few evil men as in the era when the evil Catholic Church had control, he will just have people doubt it by propagating a bogus theory. Hardly anyone would know it's bogus because people are too lazy to research all the facts themselves.
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Quote# 81448
Regarding an atheist BHS student's protest of a prayer at this year's graduation ceremony.
At an impromptu gathering of students Thursday afternoon outside First Baptist Church in Bastrop, many of the more than 40 graduating seniors assembled expressed their disbelief about their classmate's protest.
"I'm wondering why," said Kari Payton, class valedictorian. "This is something that's been done for years - forever - and now that we're graduating we can't show reverence and honor to our God?"
Jasmine Davis' feelings on the issue were shared by many others.
"Why does one person get to decide what more than 200 of us do?" Davis said. "It's obvious (the student) is in the minority, yet the rest of us are being denied to pray to our God."
In addition to the students, a similarly sized group of adults gathered at the church.
Rita Stuckey said a fellow member of Bonne Idee Assembly of God informed her about the school's decision to remove prayer from the program and the gathering at First Baptist. Her children have already graduated from Bastrop High.
"When I was raised here, Christ as the center of our community," Stuckey said. "I think the children should have the right to pray and shouldn't be prohibited from sharing their belief in Christ."
As the group crowded the front steps of the church, they discussed a plan that will still allow prayer to be heard at graduation. During the time of "silent reflection," adults in the bleachers in the football stadium at Bastrop High will stand, followed by the students, who will turn to face the stadium as the group recites the Lord's Prayer.
Bastrop High School seniors,
The Baystrop Enterprise
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Quote# 81447
Regarding an atheist student's fight to not have a prayer at his high school graduation.
Mitzi Quinn has been on the staff at BHS for almost 25 years, much of that time as a senior advisor. In the past, Quinn said there have been students who were atheist, agnostic and other non-Christian religions who "had no problems" with the prayer.
"They respected the majority of their classmates and didn't say anything," Quinn said. "We've never had this come up before. Never."
Throughout her time working with the student, Quinn said they never expressed their personal beliefs or that they had any problems with other students' Christian faiths.
"And what's even more sad is this is a student who really hasn't contributed anything to graduation or to their classmates," Quinn said.
Mitzi Quinn,
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Submitted By: emau99
Quote# 81573
2 billion deaths as a result of false beliefs in the history of the world before Jesus
2 and 1/2 million in 2000 years. on comparison to the rest of our recorded history.
Does that sound like a failure or ONE HELL OF A SUCCESS.
And he still promises more to come.
Most people like to take a view that supports their own interpretation without looking at the big picture.
Look at the big picture. Look at the world without Jesus and the number of Dead bodies. Then Look at the world with Jesus and count again. Belief in Jesus has been the biggest deterrent to religious killings in world history.
Elias Vasquez,
Amazon.com Religion Discussion Forum
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Submitted By: Todd Pence
Quote# 81540
Radio host says Rapture actually coming in October
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) -- California preacher Harold Camping says his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21.
The independent Christian radio host said Monday the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted.
Camping says he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true on Saturday that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife.
Harold Camping,
AP News
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar
Quote# 81537
(On the arrest of the IMF president for charges of rape)
In what possible way is the price of the hotel room relevant except in every way: this is a case about the hatred of the have-nots for the haves, and that's what it's all about. A man pays $3,000 a night for a hotel room? He's got to be guilty of something. Bring out the guillotine.
Ben Stein,
The American Spectator
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Quote# 81531
Recently I found an old childhood book at a thrift store. I remember loving it and was excited to buy it for my kiddos. Are you all familiar with the children's book, "The Little Red Hen"(by Paul Galdone). If not, I highly recommend it. Our children just love it, and of course we read with animated voices. It is about a hen, who does all the work and her friends the mouse, the dog and the cat are lazy and will not help her when hen asks. Then when hen has gotten the field ready, planted the wheat, took care of the wheat and milled the wheat she bakes a cake. Then her friends decide to get up, because they smell the cake and want some too. The hen says she did all the work so she will eat all the cake! I love this book and remember it as a child. The story really allows you to share with your children, what the Bible says about slothfulness. Don't you think I should send a copy to Barack Obama and his followers? HA!!!!!!! It may do this country some good!!!
Jessica ,
~Working On a Full House~
59 Comments
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Quote# 81527
The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well.
"It has been a really tough weekend," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Massive earthquakes would strike, he said. Believers would ascend to heaven and the rest would be left to wander a godforsaken planet until Oct. 21, when Camping promised a fiery end to the world.
But on Sunday, almost 18 hours after he thought he'd be in heaven, there was Camping, "flabbergasted" in Alameda, wearing tan slacks, a tucked-in polo shirt and a light jacket.
Harold Camping,
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar
Quote# 81514
Can you blame them? They are always called "retards," "idiots," "morons," "fundies" and all kinds of other horrible names. They often get slandered, stalked, and have their property stolen and changed by crazy atheist psychopaths, including many right here who use IMDB as a platform to do those things.
xtians are perfect saints in comparison to the infinitely more abusive atheists that they have to put up with.
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Quote# 81513
How about:
atheist beliefs in darwinism.
atheist beliefs in murdering babies.
atheist beliefs in murdering the severely handicapped by slow starvation and dehydration (i.e. Terri Schiavo).
atheists beliefs in stalking and theft (most atheists who are on IMDB do these things)
atheist beliefs in hating, silencing and personally attacking anyone who opposes their viewpoints.
atheist beliefs in space aliens.
atheist beliefs that george carlin is funny and brilliant.
atheist beliefs that bill maher is brilliant.
atheist beliefs that penn and teller are brilliant.
atheist beliefs in supporting almost every immoral cause that exists.
Almost every atheist, if not every atheist, believes in those things.
It's like the poster said, atheists share tons of common beliefs, many of which are extreme, especially the pro-murder beliefs that atheists have.
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Quote# 81511
Effects on morale can be particularly adverse. The presence of women among male troops weakens combat readiness. All-male units in the field experience bonding that enhances unit cohesion and effectiveness. When women are introduced, men stop relating to each other and begin trying to attract the women. Nor can morale be improved when accusations of harassment are always a threat. Male officers leave the office door open or have a third person in the room when dealing with a female subordinate. An accusation of sexual harassment by the woman, even if unproven, would severely damage the man's service career, and both the man and the woman are acutely aware of that fact. They could hardly not be sensitive to the issue when, for example, Representative Pat Schroeder demanded and got sexual harassment training for all personnel in order to rid the Navy of bad attitudes.
The Israelis, Soviets, and Germans, when in desperate need of front-line troops, placed women in combat, but later barred them. Male troops forgot their tactical objectives in order to protect the women from harm or capture, knowing what the enemy would do to female prisoners of war. This made combat units less effective and exposed the men to even greater risks. In the Gulf War a female American pilot was captured, raped, and sodomized by Iraqi troops. She declared that this was just part of combat risk. But can anyone suppose that male pilots will not now divert their efforts to protecting female pilots whenever possible?
Our military seems quite aware of such dangers, but, because of the feminists, it would be politically dangerous to respond as the Israelis did by taking women out of harm's way. Instead, the American solution is to try to stifle the natural reactions of men. The Air Force, for example, established a mock prisoner of war camp to desensitize male recruits so they won't react like men when women prisoners scream under torture. There is a very considerable anomaly here. The military is training men to be more sensitive to women in order to prevent sexual harassment and also training men to be insensitive to women being raped and sodomized or screaming under torture. It is impossible to believe that both efforts can succeed simultaneously.
Robert Bork,
Fathers for Life
64 Comments
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Submitted By: Honky McCracker
Quote# 81509
Everyone has a religion and a god. Yours religion is atheism and your god is nature, albeit a false version of nature, one based on the fabrications darwinists make about nature which give it powers that it does not have in reality.
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Quote# 81498
ARGUMENT PART 1 ( the atheistic view shown as a syllogism )
1) If God does not exist, then there is no logical reason for relying on logic. (Modus Tollens)
2) There is a logical reason for relying on logic. (Modus Tollens)
C Therefore it is not the case that God does not exist or (God exists ( by negation.) Q.E.D.
This brings an atheist to the question - What is the logical reason for relying on logic ? And that brings them to see that they believe in what they have not proved (only faith).
They argue against God, because they want sufficient logical evidence, but they do so with the very tool they cannot or will not give sufficient logical evidence for. (Hypocrisy?)
(So, they ACCUSE Theists of doing that which they do, shame...shame...shame. How inconsistent?)
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Quote# 81497
(Bottom quarter of the post, scroll down.)
As for who observed Evolution? You do. You just choose to ignore it and/or you're incapable of understanding it. You decide.
No I don't, I have never ever seen a dog produce a cat or anything like that with my eyes, evolution seem to be dead immediately when they came up with the theory, is that not weird....suddenly we cannot see it happening anymore, but for millions and millions of years it was happening all over the place!
Interfaith Forums
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Quote# 81475
I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States . . . [W]e have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play. And my husband and I are both Christians, and we believe very strongly the verse from Genesis [Genesis 12:3], we believe very strongly that nations also receive blessings as they bless Israel. It is a strong and beautiful principle.
Michele Bachmann,
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Quote# 81471
Minnesota House Republicans invited anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide to give the morning prayer. The prayer was so offensive to many legislators that House leadership brought in the chaplain to redo the prayer.
Dean has made many controversial statements as pastor of You Can Run, including advocating the incarceration of gays and lesbians, that the LGBT community is trying to usher in Sharia law in Minnesota, that gay men molest an average of 117 children "before they get caught," and that Muslim nations that execute gays are more moral than American Christians. His prayer on Friday touched off a firestorm at the Capitol as the LGBT community was rallying outside the House chambers against a proposed anti-gay marriage amendment.
Dean said during his prayer, "I know this is a nondenominational chamber," he said listing off a litany of Christian denominations and leaving off any mention of Judaism.
Then he took a dig at President Obama, insinuating that he is not a Christian. "The head of the denomination is Jesus as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged, in Jesus name."
Rep. Terry Morrow, DFL-St. Peter, rose to speak out against the prayer. At first he was at a loss for words.
"I want to express a deep level of concern about what occurred in this chamber this morning," he said.
He said the fact that the House restarted the prayer was an indication that something went wrong. "I take that as an acknowledgment that there is legitimate cause for deep concern among the members and the staff and among the people of Minnesota."
Today hope was crushed by the words of a single speaker," he said. "Mr. Speaker, I do trust and hope that we understand the gravity and the severity of the prayer that has been given to the people within this chamber and out."
"I'm shaking right now because I'm mad," he concluded. "This cannot happen again."
Already this year, in the Minnesota Senate, Republicans invited a pastor who gave a sectarian prayer that caused concern among that chamber's non-Christian members.
Bradlee Dean,
The Minnesota Independent
56 Comments
Fundie Index: 74
Quote# 81469
You've gone on record stating that President Barack Obama's policy initiatives are bringing us closer to the apocalypse.
I don't think I've said that. But the fact is, he's a committed socialist. He was educated by a socialist, he thinks like a socialist, and he surrounds himself with socialist, ultra, ultra-liberal thinkers. The problem with socialism is, not only do they not believe in God or accountability to him…
…You don't think President Obama believes in God?
I'm talking about socialism. He is a committed socialist. They're wrong in believing in the perfectibility of man—that man is very good. That's one of the cardinal mistakes that socialists make. The Bible says that man's heart is desperately wicked, and he needs salvation. He needs a new heart put in him by spiritual force in calling for the name of the Lord. One thing you have to distinguish is those who claim they're Christians, but who've never had an experience with Jesus. They're usually people that hardly ever go to church, hardly ever read the Bible, but rather than be atheists or nothing, they say they're a Christian. Well, that doesn't make you a Christian.
Isn't Barack Obama a Christian?
I challenge you: Name one Christian who he's appointed to public office.
Hillary Clinton.
You've got to be kidding me. She's a socialist. She is ultra, ultra liberal. And besides, have you ever heard of as many communists or socialists that have been appointed as tsars in our country? There are 134 of them and they've been appointed by this man who you claim is a Christian.
Tim Lahaye,
The Daily Beast
98 Comments
Fundie Index: 81
Quote# 81459
It has been scientific proven that the molecular structure of water changes when it is prayed over. It's structure becomes more organized and symmetric. Even if you don't believe in the use of Holy Water the fact that the body is mostly water proves that prayer does have a positive effect on the body as well.
Revelation Now
97 Comments
Fundie Index: 157
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Quote# 81455
I came across an article stating that the homosexuals in California are trying to attack Judaism by outlawing circumcision. It is generally known that homosexuals prefer uncircumcised boys and they are trying to make their preference the law of the land. This is another reason why all synagogues in The United States should support my candidate. Many are circumcised because it is considered more hygienic, which I disagree with. But circumcision is the symbol that bonds my chosen people to me. And though I do not require it of everyone it is such a fundamental part of their faith that I do not believe people of other religions have a right to tell them that they can't practice it. This law is a direct attack on Judaism! The nation of Israel as a whole should condemn it, and, condemn those putting it forth. I ask all the people of California to vote against this proposition, to support the reasonable right of others to practice their religious beliefs. To compare male circumcision to the abomination of female circumcision which is taught nowhere in The Scriptures, shows how deranged these people are! I would order that those putting forth this proposition be removed from The Book Of Life, but as we have found they already have been, there would be no sense in making such a proclamation.
Gerald Polley,
Voices From Spirit
80 Comments
Fundie Index: 72
Quote# 81450
[Re. Muslim Americans]
The men with the hats and the nightshirts and the women with the burqas wear these clothes as a sign of being part of an Islamic separatist movement.
They are not here to be American. They are here to destroy America.
To me, that garb is the same to Black Americans as the sheets the KKK wears.
Ghost of Philip Marlowe,
Free Republic
41 Comments
Fundie Index: 58
Submitted By: Honky McCracker
Quote# 81441
Charles [Barkley], when I walk into the women's restroom at work, it's called "sexual harassment" even if I don't say anything to them. That's because I'm attracted to women.
What do you call it when a gay man is in the locker room with men, Chuck? I'll give you a hint: same thing.""
The goal is to allow the deviants, full, unhindered, access to the object of their sick obsession.
Free Republic
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Every year, government agencies put forth ideas on how their particular department can save money. This year, the Obama administration is proposing 126 cost saving measures totaling $23 billion for the 2011 federal budget. Some of these measures are big-ticket items involving the reduction or deletion of specific programs that can save hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars on their own.
Other measures are small, common cost-saving measures that often equate to turning out the lights when one leaves a room or not throwing away items that are still perfectly usable. These proposals only amount to savings of roughly $200 million in the 2011 budget, but if some of them were enacted throughout the federal government, the savings could be potentially huge, said Steve Ellis, vice president for Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan government watchdog group. But such mandates are rare, so simple savings maneuvers are often championed by only a handful of departments, he added.
"There are things to eliminate waste that should be done government-wide, and often times they're things that are already going on in companies and even in our homes," Ellis said.
Here, we take a look at 10 cost-saving measures the administration is considering that do not involve staffing reductions or elimination of programs — measures that could be implemented today.
Click ahead to see 10 ways the government plans to reduce wasteful spending in 2011.
By Constance Parten
Published: 26 July, 2010
Source: Office of Management and Budget


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The Beginning of Forever
What if Bella had went back to Phoenix after Edward left her? What if Laurent had found her and Jake and the other wolves weren't around to protect her? My version of New Moon. Picks up after Edward and the rest of the Cullens leave Forks. R & R!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of it's characters. All credit goes to Stephanie Meyer.
1. Depths of Despair
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When I agreed to come back to Phoenix with my mom, I had some conditions. I already had more than enough credits at my old high school to graduate early. So my first condition was that I wouldn't have to go back to school. My parents easily agreed to this, considering the fact that I would still receive a diploma.
My next condition was a little harder to sell them on. I didn't want my mom to have to move back in our house in Phoenix and leave Phil in Jacksonville. The whole point in me moving to Forks in the first place was so that she could have some time alone with Phil and not have to worry about me. Just because that had fallen through didn't mean that I was going to give up on that hope for my mom.
I had won out in the end. My mom's want to be with Phil on the road and Charlie's need to get me out of Forks made them accept my condition. And the fact that I "already act like a middle-aged woman" as my mom put it helped my odds.
My third, last, and most important condition: no one ever speak to me about the reason as to why I was now back in Phoenix. No one was ever to mention his name or any of their names ever again. Hell, I couldn't even think of them to myself without having a panic attack. Not that that didn't stop me from falling apart all the time. Which is why I always tried to keep myself busy, keep my mind from being able to wonder. The worst part was at night, when I crawled into bed. Well, technically I guess I should say day. Somewhere along the way of trying to avoid the sun as much as possible, my days and nights had gotten reversed. Which didn't bother me. I loved the darkness.
I knew that I had changed in the year that I had been away, and not all for the good. Most of the changed had happened in the last 4 months. Ever since they left me... I was quieter. I didn't socialize at all. The only people I ever talked to were Charlie and Renee', and on the rare occasion, Phil. Even then I didn't talk too much. It hurt to talk, mostly because then I could hear how different my voice had become. It had a hallow quality to it, empty. Even I noticed there was no emotion in it. It made me shiver to think about it. But that really was the only thing that even semi scared me anymore.
Dark alleys, walking by myself in the middle of the night, shadows, all of the stuff that would have scared my shitless 4 months ago didn't anymore. I just couldn't find any real reason to be scared. I knew what was out there, the real monsters that stalked the night. And to tell the truth, even the thought of them didn't scare me anymore. Part of me was starting to think that I had dreamed up the past year of my life and all of the things that happened. But then all I had to do was look down at the crescent shaped scar on my hand and feel the coldness of it compared to the rest of my skin to know that it had not been a dream.
I didn't have a job. My mom's house was paid off, and Phil's salary was large enough to pay the few bills that accumulated here. I usually slept most of the day, keeping the curtains drawn tight against the windows so that I wouldn't let any of the sun in. By night, I would usually wonder around the city, searching for something but not quite sure what it was.
Okay, that's a lie. I know exactly what I'm looking for every night when I walk the streets of Phoenix. Some sign of them. Well, not them exactly, but more like some sign of their kind. Something, anything to make me positive that I didn't make up all of the events of the past year. With every passing day it seemed more and more like a dream.
As I left the house, I decided to go the one place that I had been avoiding since I'd been back in Phoenix. Not because I was scared, more or less because I knew it would remind me of them, of him. But I knew that I couldn't avoid it for long.
As I rounded the corner, the ballet studio came into view; I felt the hole that seemed to be forever gaping open inside of me rip open even more. It looked so creepy, so forlorn against the dark night sky.
It looked completely unstable. The outside walls were blackened and burnt. All of the windows were blown out.
My feet seemed to have a mind of their own. Next thing I knew, I was standing at the studio's door. I knew I shouldn't go in. The thing looked like it could collapse at any given moment. But I did anyway.
The inside looked a million times worse than the outside. It was almost unrecognizable. The fire had totally gutted out the place. There were broken pieces of the mirrors everywhere on the floor. It smelled of burnt wood and gasoline.
As I walked further in, I saw the bloodstains that were on the floor; my blood. I looked closer, and saw that some of the mirror shards were covered with blood, too. It all came at once.
Finding out that James had my mother. Ditching Alice and Jasper to go "save her". Coming here, to the studio, to find out it had all been a ruse that James had came up with to lure me to him alone. James throwing me across the room, the sound my leg made as he stepped on it and the bone snapped like a twig, the blinding hot sensation I felt as his venom swept through my veins.... His sweet lips as he sucked the venom out of me.
Somewhere during my flashbacks, I had sunk to the floor. I was kneeling with my arms wrapped tightly around my torso, as if I could hold myself together and keep the hole from tearing me in two. I could feel it coming on, the hysteria. I couldn't control it. Whenever I thought about them it was inevitable that the falling apart would happen soon after. I was about two seconds away from being a balling lump on the floor when I heard it; the sound of footsteps.
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December 11, 2013
In the world of distributed systems, there are still a lot of unsolved problems and improvements to be made. This means that there is a lot of interesting research being done at top institutions around the world – with some of the brightest minds looking to improve distributed systems. At RICON West, Riak's developer conference, we brought three PhD students and candidates to speak, whose work on distributed systems has been vital to both Riak and the future of the industry.
Peter Bailis is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. His talk, "Bad As I Wanna Be: Coordination and Consistency in Distributed Databases", goes into how to reason about the trade-offs between coordination, consistency, latency, and availability, with a focus on practical takeaways from recent research both at UC Berkeley and beyond. He also talks about reconciling "consistency" in NoSQL and ACID databases and explains why, even though you probably didn't "beat the CAP Theorem," you (and tomorrow's database designs) may be on to something.
Lindsey Kuper is a PhD candidate at Indiana University, who studies the foundations of deterministic parallel programming. At RICON, she spoke on "LVars: Lattice-Based Data Structures for Deterministic Parallelism," which introduces LVars (data structures that enable deterministic parallel programming). LVars generalize the single-assignment variables often found in deterministic parallel languages to allow multiple assignments that are monotonically increasing with respect to a user-specified lattice of states. LVars maintain determinism by allowing only monotonic writes and "threshold" reads to and from shared data. Her talk looks at examples of programming in an LVar-based parallel language that is provably deterministic, and explores the connection between LVars and CRDTs.
Finally, we had Diego Ongaro, a PhD student at Stanford University, talk about "The Raft Consensus Algorithm." His talk discusses Raft, a consensus algorithm designed for understandability and developed by Diego and Professor John Ousterhout. Raft is equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance, but it's designed to be as easy to understand as possible, while cleanly addressing all major pieces needed for practical systems. The hope is that Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a wider variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are available today.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - human aquarium Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "human aquarium" SplitSoulmemberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 2000Posts: 336Location: Denmark Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 1:06 pm Hmm. Trying something new. -Split Back to top RagnarokmemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 1085Location: Navarra, Spain Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 1:26 pm Well, I think you have improved, but still IMHO you lack a good composition. It's too chaotic, the eyes go up and down, left and right and don't find any guides, any paths to look. Hope this helps. Back to top SplitSoulmemberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 2000Posts: 336Location: Denmark Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 1:40 pm I know what you mean. It was more of an experiment than anything else. -Split Back to top AkolytememberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 722Location: NY/RSAD Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 2:19 pm Damn, they make birds bigger everyday, and I just washed my windshield grr... I like the colors, but not the overall construction...It's lacking a focal point, I think. ------------------ Every man dies, but not every man really lives. Back to top AnthonymemberMember #Joined: 13 Apr 2000Posts: 1577Location: Winter Park, FLA Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 2:31 pm I agree with Rag - in an abstract picture the composition is of the utmost import. It's what seperates "good" abstract from "random." ------------------ -Anthony Carpe Carpem Back to top SplitSoulmemberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 2000Posts: 336Location: Denmark Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 3:06 am Up we go. -Split Back to top SpitfirememberMember #Joined: 20 Mar 2000Posts: 2009Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 3:51 am Why bump? The system is accurate enough. ------------------ Sincerely yours, I´ve disowned us. Back to top -- Transcendent --memberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 251Location: Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 4:08 am No, I don't like abstracts, but I do like this one - it has a surreal quality to it all - like a camara placed to the belly of a man with a transparent stomach, quite disturbing, if I might add. good stuff. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Huberdeau scores 2 goals, Panthers beat Flyers 5-2NHL.com @NHLdotcom
PHILADELPHIA - Jonathan Huberdeau and Peter Mueller each had two goals to help the Florida Panthers snap a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.
Tomas Kopecky also scored for Florida, which was 0-2-3 since a 3-2 shootout victory in Philadelphia on Feb. 7. Scott Clemmensen, who backs up Jose Theodore, stopped 32 shots to earn his first win since April 7.
Luke Schenn and Jakub Voracek scored Philadelphia's goals in the third period.
The Flyers came out flat one night after a wild 6-5 win at Pittsburgh. It didn't help when they learned before the game that centre Matt Read will miss six weeks because he tore rib cage muscles when hit by the Penguins' Chris Kunitz. Read leads Philadelphia with seven goals and is a key contributor on the power-play and penalty-kill units.
The Panthers, who came in with the third-fewest points in the NHL, quickly took advantage of Philadelphia's emotional letdown. Mueller and Kopecky scored 29 seconds apart in the first period to give Florida a 2-0 lead.
Huberdeau set up the first goal by threading a give-and-go pass between two defenders to Mueller, who fired a shot over goalie Ilya Bryzgalov's shoulder. A bad turnover by the Flyers then led to a breakaway for Kopecky, who wristed a shot past Bryzgalov.
Things didn't get better for the mercurial Bryzgalov after coach Peter Laviolette called a timeout.
Huberdeau, who scored the winning goal against Bryzgalov in the shootout win two weeks ago, had a breakaway moments later. The 19-year-old rookie got yanked down from behind by Kimmo Timonen, setting up a penalty shot. He scored on a nifty backhander to make it 3-0.
Bryzgalov wasn't too happy after allowing the goal. While sitting on the ice, Bryzgalov tossed his stick over the net and off the glass. He didn't get a reaction from teammates or the crowd.
Huberdeau ended Bryzgalov's night midway through the second period when he scored a power-play goal to give Florida a 4-0 lead.
Brian Boucher replaced Bryzgalov, who threw his stick down the tunnel after he left the ice.
Fans were so eager to cheer for something that they chanted "Boosh" after Florida's Tomas Fleischmann missed the net on a breakaway shot.
Schenn snapped Clemmensen's shutout bid with 6:08 left. After Mueller netted his second goal, Voracek scored his fourth in two games to cut the Flyers' deficit to 5-2.
Notes: The Flyers fell to 8-10-1 with their first loss in three games. ... The Panthers won the season series 2-1 after losing 7-1 at home to the Flyers on Jan. 26. ... Huberdeau recorded his second two-goal game. ... It was Clemmensen's first shutout since Nov. 15, 2011 at Dallas. ... Voracek has eight points in the last three games.


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Kyungjae Myung won't just tell you about unstable genomes, he'll show you one.
Exploring genomes - frequently human, but often mouse and yeast genomes as well - fills his day as a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) investigator in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch and head of the Genome Instability Section.
Dr. Myung — known as "KJ" among his colleagues — is a Korean-born and educated scientist who came to NHGRI in 2002 to study genome instability, which is both a characteristic of and, in some cases, a trigger for many genetic diseases, including cancer. Dr. Myung's interest in the field was initially piqued by trying to understand how cells repair DNA damage caused by ultraviolet radiation, such as sunlight.
"I was fascinated," explains Dr. Myung. "DNA damage happens in people's cells every day. There can be around 10,000 different sites where an individual's DNA can be damaged just in one day, though the damage is seldom actually transmitted."
Ultraviolet radiation inflicts fairly minor changes to DNA, often affecting just one or two of the approximately three billion base pairs in the human genome. At NHGRI, Dr. Myung focuses on how a cell mends larger-scale DNA damage — such as a break in one or both strands of the DNA — that can occur by oxidative stress or exposure to ionizing radiation, such as x-rays. This more extensive damage, known as gross chromosomal rearrangement, includes deletions, in which a chunk of chromosome is lost; translocations, in which part of one chromosome attaches to another; and inversions, in which a segment of DNA is broken and then reattached in the opposite orientation.
When DNA breaks, a team of enzymes arrives at the site of damage and halts replication until the damage is repaired. But in many cancers, as well as some other diseases, one or several members of the repair crew are either absent or do not function properly. The result is that DNA damage accumulates, leading to mutations. The mutations either kill the cell, or, worse, they may survive to produce a population of abnormal cells that sometimes cause cancer.
Dr. Myung discovers and studies proteins that help repair DNA. One of these is the enhanced level of genome instability 1 (ELG1) protein. In a healthy cell, ELG1 levels are low. But when DNA is damaged, ELG1 is produced in higher quantities and migrates to the damage.
"That's what I will show you," says Dr. Myung, excitedly launching a movie clip on his computer. "Seeing is believing!" On a grainy, gray backdrop, he points out the dark gray ovals marking the boundaries of three human cells. Inside each cell is another dark gray circle reflecting its nucleus, and the DNA is inside the nucleus. There are also a couple of bright green fluorescent dots inside the nucleus - this is the ELG1 protein labeled with a fluorescent tag. The time-lapse movie shows first just a few green dots, but then a swarm of green dots converge on the broken DNA.
What interests Dr. Myung is not so much the consequence of genomic instability — tumors or cell death — but how the cells repair such damage and prevent it from happening altogether.
He uses yeast to identify the genes and their encoded proteins that keep the cell free of DNA damage. The yeast genome contains just over 12 million base pairs of DNA packaged within 16 chromosomes. Yeast has approximately 6,000 genes in all, approximately 1,000 of which are essential for survival. To explore the yeast genome for genes of interest, Dr. Myung has used two approaches.
He designed a novel method to screen all of the 5,000 non-essential genes in the yeast genome to figure out which ones, when eliminated, cause the genome to become unstable. In doing so, he and his colleagues found 10 genes that have not previously been known to play a role in protecting and repairing the DNA. If any one of these genes are eliminated, the yeast genome suffers damage. Dr. Myung chose to focus on two of the 10 genes — radiation sensitive 5 (RAD5) and the gene mentioned above, called ELG1.
He also looked at all 6,000 genes in the yeast genome and asked: If you have too much of the protein encoded by any one of these genes, can you increase the level of DNA damage? He found 13 genes that fit the bill; the first one he chose to investigate is mutator phenotype 1 (MPH1).
Together, these two screens discovered genes involved in DNA repair that have provided the foundation of all his current and future research, says Dr. Myung. Having fished out these interesting genes in yeast, he plans to find their counterparts in humans, then knock out those same genes in mice and see whether tumors arise.
To date, Dr. Myung and his colleagues have discovered two human counterparts to RAD5 — a gene called SNF2 histone linker PHD RING Helicase (SHPRH) and another called helicase-like transcription factor (HLTF). Both have links to cancer. Though little is known about the gene, mutations in SHPRH have been encountered in several cancers. For the past 10 years, other researchers have noted that HLTF seems to be turned off in many colorectal cancers, but before Dr. Myung's discovery, no one had figured out that HLTF is involved in DNA repair.
When DNA damage occurs, a protein called proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) encircles the DNA and blocks replication of the damaged region, thereby ensuring that it is not passed to the next generation. But before PCNA can alert repair crews to the damaged site, it must first be chemically modified — Dr. Myung discovered that this is the role of HLTF and SHPRH.
"That's the signal that 'Oh, we have damage in DNA and we need to repair it,'" says Dr. Myung. "If a cell has damaged DNA and dies, that's great because it was abnormal and you want to eliminate it. But if it barely survives, then that's a problem because it carries damaged DNA and makes the genome unstable. Now you have created something really dangerous."
To test his hypothesis, Dr. Myung engineered mice lacking both Hltf and Shprh — these animals should have more DNA damage and eventually produce more tumors than a mouse that had both genes. It will be another year before he has the results of these studies.
The ELG1 protein also has links to cancer. Some patients with neurofibromatosis are also cancer prone: these individuals have a deletion in their DNA that disrupts not only the neurofibromin 1 gene that causes their disease, but also the ELG1 gene. "These patients are probably cancer prone because they have a defect in their DNA repair pathway," explained Dr. Myung.
Dr. Myung is also investigating whether cells that lack ELG1 are more susceptible to DNA damage in the presence of carcinogens and other harmful agents. He has reduced the levels of ELG1 in mice by half and found that the animals develop cancers.
To illustrate his point, Dr. Myung reveals another movie. This one shows what happens in cells that produce too little ELG1. A 48-hour, time-lapse clip shows DNA replicating, after which the cell divides. But another pair of cells doesn't divide-instead they fuse together and then separate making two, three, and four cells. But in one of the cells is a glowing green chunk- part of a chromosome. "That could be a broken piece of chromosome, a type of genome instability. And then, see they survive, they didn't die - those could be precursors to cancer."
Of the 13 genes that Dr. Myung uncovered among the genes that produce too much protein, he chose to study MPH1. When high levels of MPH1 are produced, DNA damage increases. MPH1 is the yeast counterpart of the Fanconi anemia gene FANCM. This condition is characterized by, among other things, increased risk of tumors. While Fanconi anemia is well-understood clinically, it is poorly understood at the molecular level. Dr. Myung is planning to use MPH1 as a genetic tool to probe the Fanconi anemia pathway in yeast and then humans. "So, hopefully,we're going to be able to finally solve the almost 80-year mystery of Fanconi anemia."
Dr. Myung speculates that regions of certain chromosomes may be more susceptible to damage than others. He hopes to use ELG1, which naturally marks damaged regions of DNA, to zoom in on the sites on each human chromosome that are vulnerable to DNA damage; essentially mapping the unstable regions of the human genome.
"Fundamental molecular mechanisms in organisms-from yeast to human-have been maintained through evolution to preserve genetic information," Dr. Myung said. "Simple model organisms such as yeast provide clues to help us understand the mechanisms important for suppressing genome instability. Follow up studies of the mammalian counterparts of yeast genes will help us figure out what causes the genome instabilities that we see in many genetic disorders, including cancers."
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Word on the Street: New about New England writers and books
Now on stage in Boston, Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel "Invisible Man'' seethes, groans, pummels, sighs, and dreams. Gunshots ring out but you also hear music that Ellison mentions in the novel — blues, jazz, and the recordings of Louis Armstrong.
Through the entire production, the unnamed narrator, played by Teagle F. Bougere, remains on stage, sometimes peering into the audience in a way that makes you feel he is addressing you, personally. That's especially true when the house lights go up, and there is no darkness in which to hide.
The dialogue in the Huntington Theatre's production is drawn solely from the novel, though the verb tense is changed in some places. Oren Jacoby, a documentary filmmaker who adapted the novel for the stage, told the Globe in a piece published earlier this month, "I am just the tailor cutting the beautiful garment.'' He wasn't kidding.
"Invisible Man,'' which won the National Book Award in 1953, is recognized as one of the great literary works of the 20th century and an essential book about race in America. I imagine any teacher who has ever tried to bring great literature alive for students will feel humbled by this "Invisible Man.'' The play closes Feb. 3. Catch it if you can.
Literary — and other — firsts
Boston writer Carissa Halston bills her Literary Firsts, founded in 2010, as "the sexiest reading series in Cambridge.'' She's spiced up the typical format for an evening of readings by reserving one of the four slots for a confessional tale about an initial sexual experience. (The other three spots are for a poet, a fiction writer, and an essayist.)
In an e-mail, she told me, "As I like to tell the audience before each reading — it's not necessarily about the first time, just a first time that the writer did something with someone. You'd think it would result in wall-to-wall embarassment, but the confessional readings are so honest and heartfelt and resonant and not-at-all embarrassing that the audience loves them.''
She winds up with a crowd of about 50 people at the quarterly readings she hosts at Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge. The new season opens Monday at 7 p.m. The confessional tale will be read by Sarah Sweeney, whose essay about stalking was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other readers include Anthony D'Aries, author of "The Language of Men,'' a memoir about his father, a Vietnam veteran.
This year Halston's adding a fifth reading to coincide with the Associated Writing Programs Conference being held in Boston. On March 9, the final day of the event, one of the biggest literary conferences in the United States, she'll invite up to eight writers to read at the usual time and place.
Coming out
■ "Suspect''by Robert Crais (Putnam)
■ "Private Berlin''by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown)
■ "The New York Times Sweet & Simple Crosswords,''edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's)
Pick of the Week
Karen Frank of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vt., recommends "The Painted Girls'' by Cathy Marie Buchanan (Riverhead): "At the end of the 19th century, Paris was the center of the world for all arts, and humanity struggled with massive changes in the very structure of society. Degas and Zola were players on this stage as were three sisters who aspired to the world of ballet. Based on historical figures and incidents, this novel of family, romance, degradation, and fulfillment delivers great atmosphere and fully-realized characters.''


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Serena Williams Back on Court, Wins First Wimbledon Match
After an injury that nearly destroyed her career, tennis pro Serena Williams was back on the court Tuesday for round one of the 2011 Wimbledon championship.
The four-time Wimbledon champ, who is going for her third-straight title, defeated Aravane Rezai of France 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in an intense three-set match marked by struggles and emotion.
Williams, whose appearance at Wimbledon Tuesday marked her first major tournament in 11 months, was moved to tears after she handedly closed the third and final set of the match. "I usually don't cry, so I don't understand it," she later told BBC News. "It's just been so hard. I never dreamed that I'd be here. And to win … It was a really big win for me."
It's been a rocky year for the seventh-seeded player. She recently underwent multiple surgeries for a foot injury, and earlier this year, doctors found blood clots in her lungs. Williams later referred to her bout with pulmonary embolism to as the scariest moment of her life.