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Inherited β-Cell Dysfunction in Lean Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes
The syndromes comprising diabetes mellitus share the common feature of β-cell failure. Inheritance of β-cell failure is clear in patients diagnosed with the MODY (maturity-onset diabetes of the young, also referred to as monogenic diabetes in youth) syndromes (1), as well as in permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (2) where mutations in genes essential for insulin secretion associate with elevated blood glucose. Causative alleles for β-cell dysfunction have been identified for the monogenic forms of diabetes. Likewise, a role for genes impacting glucose-stimulated insulin secretion has been proposed for some polygenic forms of diabetes mellitus. Genome-wide association studies have not associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes required for optimal insulin secretion with autoimmune type 1A diabetes. In contrast, latent autoimmune diabetes of adults has been associated with TCF7L2 (3), a gene associated with reduced insulin secretion (4). TCF7L2 is one of the most significant loci for type 2 diabetes (5) and, along with HNF1B/HNF4A (6) and KCNJ11 (7), tie genes involved in β-cell dysfunction to risk for developing type 2 diabetes in overweight individuals. In this issue of Diabetes, a new report (8) proposes that a recently identified type 2 diabetes risk gene is linked to dysfunctional glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) in lean Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Lean type 2 diabetes is highly prevalent in Japan where more than half of the patients with this condition are considered normal weight (BMI <25) (9,10). The contrasting general clinical phenotypes of obese individuals with type 2 diabetes compared with lean individuals with type 2 diabetes have recently been detailed (9). In this report of 40 case subjects with a diabetes duration of 10–12 years, patients had an average age of onset of 56 ± 2 years, low BMI (21 kg/m2), HbA1c of 6.7 ± 0.1%, and fasting blood glucose of 144 ± 9 mg/dL. Diabetes in lean Japanese patients has been associated with a low level of fasting insulin (32 ± 17 pmol/L) in addition to reduced peripheral glucose uptake (2.3 ± 0.6 mg/kg/min) and elevated endogenous glucose production (13.8 ± 1.8 µmol/kg/min) (11). These data suggest that this disorder in normal-weight individuals results from impaired insulin secretion and action.
Studies to identify the genes contributing to type 2 diabetes in lean individuals identified a region on chromosome 21q (12). Follow-up examination of this region led to the identification of KCNJ15 (potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 15) as a susceptibility gene (13). KCNJ15, also known as Kir4.2, is expressed in a wide variety of tissues and cells including peripheral blood, kidney, and pancreatic islet cells (13). The risk allele mRNA is present at elevated levels due to increased mRNA stability. Overexpression of KCNJ15 in the rat β-cell line INS1 resulted in a significant reduction in GSIS. These data support a role for the KCNJ15 risk allele as causative in β-cell dysfunction observed in lean type 2 diabetic patients.
In this issue of Diabetes, Okamoto et al. (8) examined the mechanism whereby KCNJ15 inhibits GSIS using both in vitro and in vivo approaches and made several important observations. First, expression of KCNJ15 is positively regulated by glucose. Second, the expression of KCNJ15 was higher in the pancreatic islets of patients with type 2 diabetes. Additionally, knockdown of KCNJ15 in INS1 cells resulted in an approximate twofold increase in GSIS. Likewise, using a small inhibitory RNA approach, the authors were able to convincingly improve GSIS in both euglycemic and diabetic mouse models through knockdown of KCNJ15. However, it should be noted that while the suppression of this gene in diabetic mice did increase insulin secretion, it did not fully correct blood glucose levels to within the normal range. Finally, it is reported that KCNJ15 associates with calcium-sensing receptor in the plasma membrane, and the authors proposed that this interaction blocks the KCNJ15 activity allowing for stabilization of "post-prandial" membrane potential.
Unlike the MODY syndromes in which a single genetic defect results in decreased insulin secretion, the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in normal-weight individuals likely requires the contribution of multiple genetic regions (12). The data by Okamoto et al. (8) provide an important step forward in our understanding of β-cell function/dysfunction and offer a paradigm to study the singular impact of a risk gene within the pathology of diabetes. Once a mechanistic role has been elucidated, this provides a further platform to investigate interactions with other identified risk alleles. Moving toward expression of the specific risk allele in human β-cells, primary or a cell line that secretes insulin (such as the recently developed EndoC-βH1 [14]), will provide a further understanding of how a synonymous SNP modifies protein function in a human system. It should also be pointed out that many of the SNPs associated with polygenic forms of diabetes are in noncoding regions or induce synonymous changes. Therefore, these studies provide a model for studying polymorphisms that impact protein activity or function but do not alter protein sequence or a promoter region.
In light of these new data (8), the authors suggest KCNJ15 as a new pharmacological target for individuals with reduced insulin secretion. KCNJ15 depletion or inhibition with a small molecule may be an attractive therapeutic in any system where GSIS is decreased. This is strongly supported by the data provided by whole animal systems where knockdown of Kcnj15 led to elevated insulin secretion in mice without diabetes and in mice with diabetes induced by a mutation in the insulin 2 (Ins2) gene, that is presumably independent of Kcnj15. However, caution should be exercised. KCNJ15 appears to have a major role in renal function (15,16), and diabetic patients represent a population at increased risk for renal failure (17).
In conclusion, Okamoto et al. (8) present compelling evidence that KCNJ15 plays a role in reduced insulin secretion and the C566T SNP is likely causative in type 2 diabetes. However, further work is required for a systematic understanding of how KCNJ15 blocks GSIS.
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (DK074656) (C.E.M.) as well as funding from the American Diabetes Association (C.E.M.), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (C.E.M.), and the Sebastian Family Endowment for Diabetes Research (C.E.M.).
No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
The authors thank Mr. Clive Wasserfall and Dr. Desmond Schatz for critical reading of the manuscript and valuable advice.
See accompanying original article, p. 1734.
- © 2012 by the American Diabetes Association.
Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.


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I've been jumping all over the place when it comes to finishing up this office. My corkboard project is taking muuuuch longer than anticipated and while I wait on the prime opportunity between work and Liv's naps to nail gun that frame together, I've started experimenting with the wall collage for the guestroom portion of the office.
Wall collages! They're awesome. It's all about how many photos can I stuff on a wall creatively. Here's some of the inspiration that I'm working with:
But this image really nails it on the head:
There's something about that cluster of pictures that I'm especially drawn to. Love the neutral theme and the natural wood frames (kind of matches the theme of the office) and the organized chaos that the wall evokes.
But the wall collage isn't all about slapping pictures up on the wall. I want each and every photo, painting and object to mean something to our family. Maybe a souvenir from a trip, an art project by one of Kevin's amazingly crafty family members or a photo of a place that we love.
So while I hunt down the perfect pieces (I know they're buried around here somewhere… I just need to hunt – aka 'shop' the house and garage) here are a few layouts that I think will look great on that dark brown wall in the guestroom:
Or maybe this one:
I'm a visual person. I need to see just how the artwork (or bookshelf, closet or anything else I'm organizing) will look before committing. Especially to lathe and plaster walls! These poor walls can only take so many misaligned holes. I've learned the hard way.
PS I'm just beginning to really use the magical tool of Pinterest… for more beautiful wall collage inspiration, check out my board here.
Images: Unabashadely Prep, Walking Around Where the Sidewalk Begins (found at a veiled aside), Pottery Barn, Decor Chick

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Cricket Web - Cricket Games Official Trailer for Ashes Cricket 2009 Released
Set to one awesome song too.
Cricket Web - Cricket Games Official Trailer for Ashes Cricket 2009 Released
Set to one awesome song too.
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This game looks ace. Can't wait for it.
Winner of the Inzamam Award!
Unproud Member of Twenty20 is boring society
Xbox 360 Gamertag - Le Midge
Legspinner, and Right Hand Bat
I have nothing to say but "lol at that Michael Clarke bit".
How they'd put stuff like that on an official trailer is beyond me.
Official release date in the BENELUX is August 7th, according to the site of XBOX that date is also the starting date of the Ashes.
I think they got the month wrong.
Anyway it's on my wantlist.
Does anybody knows if you can also play the T20 WC, really want to win it with SA
Amobokobokoboko envolved in the noble game of cricket
What is the release date in the UK? (on the Wii)
If it is on wii will i need the motion plus controller????
Any ideas of the price?
They don't release it in Belgium so I will try to pick it up when I'm in the UK.
Reactions to the X360 demo have been largely very positive. Looks like I'll be getting this for the Triple, then. PSN, anyone?
Just got the demo on Xbox live, pretty hard game.
8 runs 3 wickets, I lost with 1 wicket.
James Anderson's bowling action oddly reminiscent of mine.
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
the bowling action in the trailer looks...weird. Maybe the gameplay will be better. Will get the game when its out though.
The future of WI cricket: Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Yannick Cariah, Yannick Ottley, Ravi Rampaul.....or should I say the future of Trinidad and Tobago cricket?
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nonhocapito » March 1st, 2017, 9:54 am wrote:Hm. After all these compliments, I am the one left to say: the usual bogus science discussed by wannabe scientists.
Dismissing in three lines the validity or existence of a thermal plant, without being engineers and without addressing engineers is not what I would call "research". It's more of a pub chat, perhaps.
If we didn't have chances to take airplanes now and then, you guys would dismiss the possibility of flight as a scam in just the same casual way.
Doing this while plugging yet another con-artist supporter of the "flat earth" is just the icing on the cake.
My unheeded recommendation remains the usual: focus on the media fakery, if any: or abstain from discussing scientific matters altogether.
scud » 27 Feb 2017, 00:15 wrote: In fact from Wiki's list we appear to be about 4M/W short of where we were 27 years ago in 1990. More decommissioning than commissioning, wallet busting price hikes ('cause polar bears or something) yet masses more people flooding in from everywhere, each with their own demands. But close them they do so what's taking up the slack? Windmills? Solar panels? Suppose, can't be anything else can it?
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What is #kryptour? Our Kryptonics Ambassadors and Brand activists will be posting photos of the new Kryptonics Star Trac Wheels and/or people riding them in iconic locations around the globe.
Why don't you do the same? Take your Krypto's out for a ride and shoot a photo of them wherever and whenever you feel it is worth sharing with the world. Tourist attraction? Good! Meeting a celebrity? Go for it! Visiting a famous skate spot? Nail it!
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9812D Improves De Facto Standard With Built-in Dynamic Signal Analyzer, Maintaining Highest Accuracy With Faster Measurement Speed, Wider Frequency Range
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 24, 2013) - ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. (www.proplussolution.com), the global leader for SPICE modeling solutions and the leading technology provider for design for yield (DFY) applications, today announced it is shipping 9812D, the latest generation wafer-level, 1/f noise measurement system, to select customers.
9812D improves upon 9812B, the industry's de facto standard 1/f measurement system used worldwide for more than a decade by leading foundries, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and research organizations. With an industry-proven system architecture as its foundation to ensure highly accurate measurement and a frequency range that exceeds 10 Megahertz (MHz), it has a built-in dynamic signal analyzer (DSA) with multi-threaded processing for improved performance and reduced cost.
"Noise is a key figure of merit for semiconductor process quality and also an intrinsic characteristic impacting circuit performance," affirms Dr. Zhihong Liu, executive chairman of ProPlus Design Solutions. "9812B has been a great product for 1/f noise measurement, leading the industry for more than 10 years. To meet the new challenges at 28 nanometer (nm) and beyond, we worked with leading foundries on significant improvements of the 1/f system, giving birth to a new 1/f noise system 9812D, a product we believe will rapidly become the new standard."
Introducing 9812D
The 9812D product is motivated by the needs of wafer fabs and circuit designers. Leading wafer fabrication facilities use 7*24 1/f noise measurement data to assess process quality. A three-to-10X throughput improvement of the 9812D system means faster data collection and early detection of process issues, which if undetected, could result in significant financial losses. The 9812D increases return on investment by integrating DSA, eliminating the need for expensive external signal processing equipment. This reduces the up-front investment, set-up risk and time.
Increasingly, circuit designers are interested in 1/f noise data at higher frequencies and 9812D pushes the range for reliable and accurate measurement to 10MHz. They are concerned also about variation effects at leading-edge process nodes, increasing the need for statistical noise models. Generating statistical noise models requires massive amounts of data collection that is particularly challenging at low frequencies.
The 9812D system's proprietary technology enables fast, accurate data collection in the range of 1hertz (Hz) to 10MHz, making the generation of accurate statistical noise models practical.
The 9812D low-frequency 1/f noise measurement system is designed to measure low-frequency noise characteristics of on-wafer or packaged semiconductor devices, including MOSFETs, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), junction field effect transistors (JFETs), diodes and diffusion resistors.
In addition to frequency domain measurement, 9812D can measure device noise in the time domain and can be used to perform on-wafer auto measurement for flicker (1/f) noise and Radom Telegraph Signal (RTS) analyses.
The new system inherited features of 9812B, including the industry's best measurement accuracy. Its accuracy has been tested for all types of technologies, including the most advanced process nodes at 28nm and below and has an extended measurement bandwidth that exceeds 10MHz. 9812D has a true 10MHz bandwidth that can accurately measure 1/f noise without roll off to a much wider frequency than any other solutions.
By integrating a high-performance DSA, the 9812D system delivers high-measurement throughput with three-to-10X improvement over the 9812B. It targets requirements of statistical noise analysis of large amounts of data and 7*24 process monitoring at advanced technologies. The tight DSA integration allows the user to achieve cost-effective, high-performance and high-quality results.
9812D is also the only available system that can take up to 100V from the Source-Measure Unit (SMU) for high-voltage device noise measurement, and has the lowest current level for low-current noise measurement such as MOSFETs under weak inversion conditions.
Unlike other solutions with one built-in voltage low-noise amplifier (LNA), 9812D has multiple built-in voltage and current LNAs. This ensures the highest possible accuracy for low-impedance device under test (DUT), such as, BJT, IC resistors and diodes, and high-impedance DUT, such as MOSFET in weak inversion and JFETs.
New NoiseProPlus software drives the noise system and delivers enhanced usability and easier setup for full current-voltage characteristics, 1/f and RTS noise measurement and graphical analysis of measured data. It can control a semiautomatic probe station for multi-die, multi-device and multi-type statistical noise measurements, and has been optimized for fast processing and analysis of massive noise data.
ProPlus Design Systems is accepting orders now for 9812D. Shipping will begin in March. Pricing is available upon request.
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ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. delivers Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions that enhance the link between design and manufacturing. It provides unique Design for Yield (DFY) solutions that integrate device modeling software, a parallel SPICE engine and statistical analysis algorithms. Products include: BSIMProPlus™, a leading device modeling technology platform for nanometer device fabrication, NanoSpice™, a full-chip parallel SPICE simulator with full-chip capacity and SPICE accuracy for transistor-level statistical simulation and analysis, and NanoYield™, a DFY platform to meet performance and yield optimization challenges of advanced memory, analog and digital circuit designs. ProPlus Design Solutions has R&D centers in the San Jose, Calif., Beijing and Jinan, China, and offices in Tokyo, Japan, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Shanghai, China. More information about ProPlus Design Solutions can be found at www.proplussolution.com.
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Solo wrote:It's not cheating, it's just not allowed.Joedward wrote:A pre-emptive apology if this is a dumb question, but would it be considered cheating to make a ship that was longer than 48 studs, if it fit inside the baseplate limitations diagonally?
Building Guidlines wrote:Your MOC must fit within a 48x48 stud area
ThatGuyWithTheBricks wrote:I meant that the maximum dimensions of your ship should be 48 studs long, 48 studs wide, and 48 studs high. I know it doesn't exactly say that, but i think that's what they meant and the baseplate was just an example if you don't want to count the studs.
ThatGuyWithTheBricks wrote:Plus, Solo already cleared that up, so i don't understand why you are continuing to argue .
Your challenge for this tournament is to build your very own original bounty hunter and bounty hunter ship.
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Your bounty hunter should follow minifig form: legs assembly, torso assembly, head at the minimum. backpack, cape, helmet, hair, weapons, accessories, etc, are optional. you may use droid elements for your minifig. The bounty is optional.
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Bryan Singer is pulling out all the stops for X-Men: Days of Future Past. Seemingly every time a rival studio earns headlines with news bits or announcements, whether it be Sony with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Warner Bros. with Man of Steel or Marvel Studios and their pile of Phase Two films, the director who first brought X-Men to life on the big screen takes to Twitter with a newsworthy slice of info himself.
While Iron Man 3 is currently rocking theaters worldwide, Thor: The Dark World next on the docket, Captain America: The Winter Soldier shooting in public areas and Guardians of the Galaxy gearing up for a London production start next month, the two-years-out sequel to The Avengers has managed to steal some spotlight with writer/director Joss Whedon hyping up the introduction of two new characters, one of which Bryan Singer just cast in X-Men: Days of Future Past. What?
Let's start at the beginning. Just a few weeks ago during the LA world premiere of Iron Man 3, Joss Whedon intentionally revealed to reporter after reporter on the red carpet that his first script draft for The Avengers 2 (still untitled) was complete. He expressed excitement about introducing and playing with a new "brother-sister" act, which fans knew right away was a reference to Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, aka Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Reports here and there claimed to have confirmed the two characters, but it was clinched when Joss Whedon confirmed it himself, talking about how the pair may mess with the team dynamic and not necessarily agreeing with how The Avengers function.
Obviously with Twentieth Century Fox owning the film rights to all things mutant and X-Men from the Marvel Comics universe, there were some questions that needed to be answered. We knew from interviews with Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige that these two characters were contractually an exception to the rule since in the books, they are both X-Men characters and members of The Avengers. He said it's "complicated" but essentially, both studios could use the brother and sister. We also understand that if Marvel Studios were to use them in the Marvel Cinematic Universe there were some stipulations - namely that they couldn't be mutants, nor could they be children of X-Men villain Magneto.
Does that mean both studios could use them simultaneously or is it a case of first come, first served? We don't know but we're going to find out pretty damn soon because just weeks after Joss Whedon announced his intentions of introducing them in The Avengers 2, Bryan Singer is beating him to the punch:
Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) May 23, 2013
X-Men: Days of Future Past releases next July and The Avengers 2 releases May 2015. It should also be noted the Days of Future Past began production a few weeks ago, so the casting of Evan Peters - an incredible actor for anyone who's watched American Horror Story - is oddly timed to say the least, if not intentional. With the sheer amount of characters at play in the X-Men super team-up, Peters likely will not have a significant role to play, but at this point, with Singer turning the time-travel tale into an all-star cast party featuring towering Sentinel robots and Peter Dinklage's mustache, more the merrier, right? And how can you say no to this guy:
What does this mean for The Avengers 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past? There are three possibilities:
- Singer and Fox are planting their foot in the ground and beating Marvel Studios to the punch, finally introducing Magneto's children after six X-Men films (we're not counting the "cameo" in X-Men Origins: Wolverine), and both studios are offering their own adaptation of the super-fast Quicksilver character and his sister. Fox has Peters, who will Whedon cast to compete?
- Marvel and Joss Whedon's "brother-sister act" may not be what it seems and rumors of them changing their origins significantly may prove true - non-mutants of British heritage, unrelated to Magneto, perhaps even with different names. If this is the case, what's the point of using them and not any of the dozens of other legally available Avengers members from the vast Marvel Library?
- The ultimate fanboy outcome: However unlikely, after all the talk from Fox's Marvel movie consultant Mark Millar and producer Lauren Shuler Donner of desiring a crossover with The Avengers universe, Fox and Disney/Marvel have somehow struck up a deal to make it so. Beginning with X-Men: Days of Future Past, the Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver introduced in Singer's film are the same pair going to show up in The Avengers 2, meaning Evan Peters may have just been cast in The Avengers 2 as well. They can get away with not entirely acknowledging the events of the upcoming X-Men film (and previous franchise installments) with the alternate timeline/universe plot device. Heck, Scarlet Witch can use her reality and probability altering abilities to literally erase the existence of all (most) mutants, explaining why they've not appeared or been mentioned in the Marvel Studios movies (see: House of M). Not to get too far into geekdom, but such a deal with Fox would potentially allow Marvel Studios to utilize characters from the Fantastic Four library as well and we know they're interested in owning Silver Surfer and Galactus again...
The third option is super complicated, but it was widely reported that Marvel Studios was at least willing to work with other studios when it came to The Avengers since they were willing to include the Oscorp tower from The Amazing Spider-Man into the same skyline as the Stark Tower. Scheduling of visual effects sadly prevented it from happening. For fans, this is the best case scenario, but also the least likely.
The more likely scenario is that each studio is, unfortunately, aiming to draw from the same two characters, and for Fox, since they have not one, but two Magnetos played by two of the best actors on the planet, win out. That would mean Marvel Studios - much like they were criticized for taking liberties from Marvel Comics in Iron Man 3's story - are going to go even more extreme in distancing themselves from the source material with their versions of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in The Avengers 2. That is, assuming Whedon and Feige are not playing everyone about the new characters in sequel.
Right now, one thing is official. Evan Peters is playing Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The Avengers 2 shoots next year and rumor has it, they already have mock ups of their ideal designs for Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, the latter of which is based on Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan. She was asked about her thoughts on the rumors by The Mary Sue to which she replied:
"I have heard about it and yes, I would. Yeah, of course I would. I love Joss and I love those films, and I love his handle on them and how he portrayed these kinds of superheroes. I think it's very different from what anyone else has done. So yeah, I'd love to be in it."
With Quicksilver now cast, a Scarlet Witch X-Men announcement may be coming up soon for the film that serves as a sequel to both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class. Bryan Singer knew this tweet would result in buzz, confusion and questions and perhaps that's all a part of the plan. Soon we'll hear from executives and talent from both sides of the camp and we may have our answers. Or maybe we won't and there are surprises to be had further into the future.
Ready to have your mind blown? What if Saoirse Ronan was cast as Wanda Maximoff in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Ready to have your mind blown again? It's possible that Quicksilver appears in two different variations in theaters before The Flash is even introduced on the big screen. Some things just aren't fair in life.
[Update: Mark Millar hinted at "crossing over certain characters" previously.]
Bryan Singer directs X-Men: Days of Future Past with newcomers Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Boo Boo Stewart, Fan Bingbing, Evan Peters, Adan Canto, along with returning stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Halle Berry, Daniel Cudmore.
The Wolverine releases July 26, 2013, X-Men: Days of Future Past on July 18, 2014.
Let me know on Twitter @rob_keyes if you'd like to see X-Men and The Avengers crossover!
Sources: Bryan Singer, The Mary Sue (via CBM)Aquaman 2 Will Be Way Bigger Than The First, Says Jason Momoa
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Political Rights in Estonia
The political rights category contains numerical rating between 1 and 7, with 1 representing the most free and 7 the least free. The ratings process is based on a checklist of 10 political rights questions. The political rights questions are grouped into three subcategories: Electoral Process (3 questions), Political Pluralism and Participation (4), and Functioning of Government (3). Scores are awarded to each of these questions on a scale of 0 to 4, where a score of 0 represents the smallest degree and 4 the greatest degree of rights present. The highest score that can be awarded to the political rights checklist is 40 (or a total score of 4 for each of the 10 questions). The total score awarded to the political rights checklist determines the political rights rating. The rating of 1 through 7, with 1 representing the highest and 7 the lowest level of freedom, corresponds to a range of total scores.
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Bracketing Paradoxes in Morphology
Heather Newell
Bracketing paradoxes—constructions whose morphosyntactic and morpho-phonological structures appear to be irreconcilably at odds (e.g., unhappier)—are unanimously taken to point to truths about the derivational system that we have not yet grasped. Consider that the prefix un- must be structurally separate in some way from happier both for its own reasons (its [n] surprisingly does not assimilate in Place to a following consonant (e.g., u[n]popular)), and for reasons external to the prefix (the suffix -er must be insensitive to the presence of un-, as the comparative cannot attach to bases of three syllables or longer (e.g., *intelligenter)). But, un- must simultaneously be present in the derivation before -er is merged, so that unhappier can have the proper semantic reading ('more unhappy', and not 'not happier'). Bracketing paradoxes emerged as a problem for generative accounts of both morphosyntax and morphophonology only in the 1970s. With the rise of restrictions on and technology used to describe and represent the behavior of affixes (e.g., the Affix-Ordering Generalization, Lexical Phonology and Morphology, the Prosodic Hierarchy), morphosyntacticians and phonologists were confronted with this type of inconsistent derivation in many unrelated languages.
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Louise Cummings
Clinical linguistics is the branch of linguistics that applies linguistic concepts and theories to the study of language disorders. As the name suggests, clinical linguistics is a dual-facing discipline. Although the conceptual roots of this field are in linguistics, its domain of application is the vast array of clinical disorders that may compromise the use and understanding of language. Both dimensions of clinical linguistics can be addressed through an examination of specific linguistic deficits in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, craniofacial anomalies, adult-onset neurological impairments, psychiatric disorders, and neurodegenerative disorders. Clinical linguists are interested in the full range of linguistic deficits in these conditions, including phonetic deficits of children with cleft lip and palate, morphosyntactic errors in children with specific language impairment, and pragmatic language impairments in adults with schizophrenia.
Like many applied disciplines in linguistics, clinical linguistics sits at the intersection of a number of areas. The relationship of clinical linguistics to the study of communication disorders and to speech-language pathology (speech and language therapy in the United Kingdom) are two particularly important points of intersection. Speech-language pathology is the area of clinical practice that assesses and treats children and adults with communication disorders. All language disorders restrict an individual's ability to communicate freely with others in a range of contexts and settings. So language disorders are first and foremost communication disorders. To understand language disorders, it is useful to think of them in terms of points of breakdown on a communication cycle that tracks the progress of a linguistic utterance from its conception in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension by a hearer. This cycle permits the introduction of a number of important distinctions in language pathology, such as the distinction between a receptive and an expressive language disorder, and between a developmental and an acquired language disorder. The cycle is also a useful model with which to conceptualize a range of communication disorders other than language disorders. These other disorders, which include hearing, voice, and fluency disorders, are also relevant to clinical linguistics.
Clinical linguistics draws on the conceptual resources of the full range of linguistic disciplines to describe and explain language disorders. These disciplines include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. Each of these linguistic disciplines contributes concepts and theories that can shed light on the nature of language disorder. A wide range of tools and approaches are used by clinical linguists and speech-language pathologists to assess, diagnose, and treat language disorders. They include the use of standardized and norm-referenced tests, communication checklists and profiles (some administered by clinicians, others by parents, teachers, and caregivers), and qualitative methods such as conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Finally, clinical linguists can contribute to debates about the nosology of language disorders. In order to do so, however, they must have an understanding of the place of language disorders in internationally recognized classification systems such as the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association.
Connectionism in Linguistic Theory
Xiaowei Zhao
Connectionism is an important theoretical framework for the study of human cognition and behavior. Also known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) or Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), connectionism advocates that learning, representation, and processing of information in mind are parallel, distributed, and interactive in nature. It argues for the emergence of human cognition as the outcome of large networks of interactive processing units operating simultaneously. Inspired by findings from neural science and artificial intelligence, connectionism is a powerful computational tool, and it has had profound impact on many areas of research, including linguistics. Since the beginning of connectionism, many connectionist models have been developed to account for a wide range of important linguistic phenomena observed in monolingual research, such as speech perception, speech production, semantic representation, and early lexical development in children. Recently, the application of connectionism to bilingual research has also gathered momentum. Connectionist models are often precise in the specification of modeling parameters and flexible in the manipulation of relevant variables in the model to address relevant theoretical questions, therefore they can provide significant advantages in testing mechanisms underlying language processes.
Derivational Morphology
Rochelle Lieber
Derivational morphology is a type of word formation that creates new lexemes, either by changing syntactic category or by adding substantial new meaning (or both) to a free or bound base. Derivation may be contrasted with inflection on the one hand or with compounding on the other. The distinctions between derivation and inflection and between derivation and compounding, however, are not always clear-cut. New words may be derived by a variety of formal means including affixation, reduplication, internal modification of various sorts, subtraction, and conversion. Affixation is best attested cross-linguistically, especially prefixation and suffixation. Reduplication is also widely found, with various internal changes like ablaut and root and pattern derivation less common. Derived words may fit into a number of semantic categories. For nouns, event and result, personal and participant, collective and abstract noun are frequent. For verbs, causative and applicative categories are well-attested, as are relational and qualitative derivations for adjectives. Languages frequently also have ways of deriving negatives, relational words, and evaluatives. Most languages have derivation of some sort, although there are languages that rely more heavily on compounding than on derivation to build their lexical stock. A number of topics have dominated the theoretical literature on derivation, including productivity (the extent to which new words can be created with a given affix or morphological process), the principles that determine the ordering of affixes, and the place of derivational morphology with respect to other components of the grammar. The study of derivation has also been important in a number of psycholinguistic debates concerning the perception and production of language.
Walter Bisang
Linguistic change not only affects the lexicon and the phonology of words, it also operates on the grammar of a language. In this context, grammaticalization is concerned with the development of lexical items into markers of grammatical categories or, more generally, with the development of markers used for procedural cueing of abstract relationships out of linguistic items with concrete referential meaning. A well-known example is the English verb go in its function of a future marker, as in She is going to visit her friend. Phenomena like these are very frequent across the world's languages and across many different domains of grammatical categories. In the last 50 years, research on grammaticalization has come up with a plethora of (a) generalizations, (b) models of how grammaticalization works, and (c) methodological refinements.
On (a): Processes of grammaticalization develop gradually, step by step, and the sequence of the individual stages follows certain clines as they have been generalized from cross-linguistic comparison (unidirectionality). Even though there are counterexamples that go against the directionality of various clines, their number seems smaller than assumed in the late 1990s.
On (b): Models or scenarios of grammaticalization integrate various factors. Depending on the theoretical background, grammaticalization and its results are motivated either by the competing motivations of economy vs. iconicity/explicitness in functional typology or by a change from movement to merger in the minimalist program. Pragmatic inference is of central importance for initiating processes of grammaticalization (and maybe also at later stages), and it activates mechanisms like reanalysis and analogy, whose status is controversial in the literature. Finally, grammaticalization does not only work within individual languages/varieties, it also operates across languages. In situations of contact, the existence of a certain grammatical category may induce grammaticalization in another language.
On (c): Even though it is hard to measure degrees of grammaticalization in terms of absolute and exact figures, it is possible to determine relative degrees of grammaticalization in terms of the autonomy of linguistic signs. Moreover, more recent research has come up with criteria for distinguishing grammaticalization and lexicalization (defined as the loss of productivity, transparency, and/or compositionality of former productive, transparent, and compositional structures).
In spite of these findings, there are still quite a number of questions that need further research. Two questions to be discussed address basic issues concerning the overall properties of grammaticalization. (1) What is the relation between constructions and grammaticalization? In the more traditional view, constructions are seen as the syntactic framework within which linguistic items are grammaticalized. In more recent approaches based on construction grammar, constructions are defined as combinations of form and meaning. Thus, grammaticalization can be seen in the light of constructionalization, i.e., the creation of new combinations of form and meaning. Even though constructionalization covers many apects of grammaticalization, it does not exhaustively cover the domain of grammaticalization. (2) Is grammaticalization cross-linguistically homogeneous, or is there a certain range of variation? There is evidence from East and mainland Southeast Asia that there is cross-linguistic variation to some extent.
Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
Daniel Harbour
The Kiowa-Tanoan family is a small group of Native American languages of the Plains and pueblo Southwest. It comprises Kiowa, of the eponymous Plains tribe, and the pueblo-based Tanoan languages, Jemez (Towa), Tewa, and Northern and Southern Tiwa. These free-word-order languages display a number of typologically unusual characteristics that have rightly attracted attention within a range of subdisciplines and theories.
One word of Taos (my construction based on Kontak and Kunkel's work) illustrates. In tóm-múlu-wia 'I gave him/her a drum,' the verb wia 'gave' obligatorily incorporates its object, múlu 'drum.' The agreement prefix tóm encodes not only object number, but identities of agent and recipient as first and third singular, respectively, and this all in a single syllable. Moreover, the object number here is not singular, but "inverse": singular for some nouns, plural for others (tóm-músi-wia only has the plural object reading 'I gave him/her cats').
This article presents a comparative overview of the three areas just illustrated: from morphosemantics, inverse marking and noun class; from morphosyntax, super-rich fusional agreement; and from syntax, incorporation. The second of these also touches on aspects of morphophonology, the family's three-tone system and its unusually heavy grammatical burden, and on further syntax, obligatory passives. Together, these provide a wide window on the grammatical wealth of this fascinating family.
Mayan Languages
Nora C. England
Mayan languages are spoken by over 5 million people in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. There are around 30 different languages today, ranging in size from fairly large (about a million speakers) to very small (fewer than 30 speakers). All Mayan languages are endangered given that at least some children in some communities are not learning the language, and two languages have disappeared since European contact. Mayas developed the most elaborated and most widely attested writing system in the Americas (starting about 300 BC).
The sounds of Mayan languages consist of a voiceless stop and affricate series with corresponding glottalized stops (either implosive and ejective) and affricates, glottal stop, voiceless fricatives (including h in some of them inherited from Proto-Maya), two to three nasals, three to four approximants, and a five vowel system with contrasting vowel length (or tense/lax distinctions) in most languages. Several languages have developed contrastive tone.
The major word classes in Mayan languages include nouns, verbs, adjectives, positionals, and affect words. The difference between transitive verbs and intransitive verbs is rigidly maintained in most languages. They usually use the same aspect markers (but not always). Intransitive verbs only indicate their subjects while transitive verbs indicate both subjects and objects. Some languages have a set of status suffixes which is different for the two classes. Positionals are a root class whose most characteristic word form is a non-verbal predicate. Affect words indicate impressions of sounds, movements, and activities. Nouns have a number of different subclasses defined on the basis of characteristics when possessed, or the structure of compounds. Adjectives are formed from a small class of roots (under 50) and many derived forms from verbs and positionals.
Predicate types are transitive, intransitive, and non-verbal. Non-verbal predicates are based on nouns, adjectives, positionals, numbers, demonstratives, and existential and locative particles. They are distinct from verbs in that they do not take the usual verbal aspect markers. Mayan languages are head marking and verb initial; most have VOA flexible order but some have VAO rigid order. They are morphologically ergative and also have at least some rules that show syntactic ergativity. The most common of these is a constraint on the extraction of subjects of transitive verbs (ergative) for focus and/or interrogation, negation, or relativization. In addition, some languages make a distinction between agentive and non-agentive intransitive verbs. Some also can be shown to use obviation and inverse as important organizing principles. Voice categories include passive, antipassive and agent focus, and an applicative with several different functions.


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Prince William is to host Buckingham Palace's first football match to celebrate the Football Association's 150th birthday.
The Duke of Cambridge, president of the FA, is planning to use the Queen's back lawns for the match which will see the Civil Service FC and Polytechnic FC go head to head at the Palace on October 7.
"In our 150th year, it is hugely important for The FA to honour the efforts of many thousands of volunteers who week in, week out, help to provide the opportunity for millions more people to enjoy football at grassroots level," the Duke explained.
"Inviting 150 of these volunteers to Buckingham Palace provides a fitting way for The FA to pay tribute and give thanks."
The match, which has been approved by the Queen, was seen as a great way for the FA to celebrate its long history
Prince William became the President of the FA in 2006, replacing his uncle Prince Andrew who gave up his role the year before. He has been seen playing football for Castle Rising FC while on holiday at Sandringham last Christmas as well as being seen playing football with his brother, Prince Harry, while in Lesotho during their first joint overseas engagement in 2010.
The Prince, who recently became a father to Prince George, has also been seen playing football in Battersea Park, notably, the evening before his wedding and when he came back from honeymoon.
In a speech while addressing children at a leisure centre, William quipped that he believes he plays football 'like a giraffe on ice'.
Prince William is known to support Aston Villa, due to the fact it was the team he was taken to see at their home ground, Villa Park. He has also been seen at many England international and home nation matches during his time as President of the FA.
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Swans off and running
Ben Davies' emphatic volley and Pablo Hernandez's late second handed Swansea their first points of the Barclays Premier League season, seeing off West Brom 2-0 at The Hawthorns.
Having lost to Manchester United and Tottenham, Michael Laudrup's side were in need of a result to lift them off bottom spot and duly delivered with Hernandez teeing up Davies for the opener before applying the finishing touch in the 83rd minute.
Swansea had started lethargically, but West Brom failed to convert a lively start into goals and paid the price when Davies' second career goal left them chasing the game.
They could not find a way back into it as the game progressed and instead found themselves opened up at the back in the closing minutes.
While Swansea's campaign is now up and running, Albion head into the international break with one point from three matches.
The day had started with Steve Clarke confirming Nicolas Anelka's return to the fold, less than two weeks since his mooted retirement, by including the striker in the starting XI.
His name was the most notable on Clarke's team sheet but there was also a first league start for on-loan Manchester City winger Scott Sinclair, against his old club.
Swansea showed six changes from the side that took on Petrolul Ploiesti in Europa League qualifying, with a handful of senior men restored.
Wilfried Bony won a dangerous free-kick for Swansea after just two minutes, Jonjo Shelvey curling his effort over the crossbar from just outside the area.
But otherwise, the opening stages were all about West Brom.
All eyes were on Anelka and he was busy.
He busted Swansea's offside trap early on but, having darted into the area, his cut back was easily gathered by Michel Vorm.
Anelka's hunger was again in evidence when he chased a lofted pass right to the byline and dragged his pass back towards Billy Jones, who failed to get a clean connection despite a couple of attempts.
The Frenchman was proving a real handful for Swansea and outmuscled Chico Flores to offer James Morrison a sight of goal in the 13th minute. His shot would have tested Vorm at the near post, had it not been charged down.
By now, Albion were all over the visitors and came even closer to an opener three minutes later.
Sinclair's free-kick from the right was headed towards the bottom corner by Morrison but struck his unwitting team-mate Shane Long and bounced clear.
Then, entirely against the run of play, Davies struck.
Hernandez was the provider, attacking the left of the West Brom defence and finding Davies at the second attempt, his first cross having been headed clear.
When the ball fell for the left-back he met it with a crisp side-footed volley that left Boaz Myhill rooted.
The goal gave the visitors new confidence and a clever piece of footwork from Bony on the halfway line could have left West Brom exposed had Gareth McAuley not dragged the Ivorian down and earned a booking.
The closest the hosts came to levelling before the break came after 31 minutes when Long fed Anelka and he just missed the target with a powerful low shot.
Morrison made way for Graeme Dorrans at the break but with an hour gone, West Brom were still behind and hardly threatening.
Swansea's game plan appeared to be a conservative one if Shelvey's increasingly deep positioning was anything to go by.
With half-an-hour to go Michu might have found himself in trouble with a fussier referee or a more dramatic opponent. The Spaniard took offence to a foul by Claudio Yacob and responded by pushing him in the chest, picking up nothing worse than a yellow card.
Mike Dean took Jonas Olsson's name next, the defender having tangled with Bony on the touchline.
It was Bony's final involvement before being replaced by Jonathan de Guzman, a swap that saw Michu move up front.
With 70 minutes gone Wayne Routledge spurned a wonderful chance to make it 2-0, racing clear for what should have been a one-on-one with Myhill only to hesitate and allow McAuley to make a clinical blocking challenge.
McAuley's header at the other end was close to levelling the scores moments later but it was to get worse, not better for his side.
Hernandez, shortly after grazing the crossbar from 20 yards, was on hand when Michu unselfishly rolled the ball across the box from close range.
Michu might have shot from an awkward angle, but instead left his fellow Spaniard with a near open goal to power his shot into.
Source: PA
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
A one-sentence post on...PLAYOFFS!
As a baseball fan, we're excited that the playoffs have begun, but as a Blue Jays fan, we're depressed by the fact that we'll be watching them as an impartial observer once again while listening to the incessant gloating coming from our good friend, a lifelong Red Sox fan.
Posted by Tao of Stieb at 3:32 PM
3 comments:
- fantasybaseballmacbookpro said...
Love him or hate him, Manny is the purest hitter in the world.
- October 2, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- dave said...
another home run tonight but have you noticed how he hasn't hit any when the games are close?! So they don't count.
(in all seriousness... Albert is)
- October 3, 2008 at 1:35 AM
- The Ack said...
where's that cat "cubsfan"?
I hope he's still with us - literally.
- October 3, 2008 at 11:42 AM
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I'm getting ready to brew a Cream Ale using mostly six row and flaked maize with some vienna and pilsner thrown in. I'm using German Noble hops and an American Lager yeast, but I'll ferment it at 60F.
I was just looking at the recipe of the week. 12 dollar cream ale. It is a SMaSH made with Briess 2 row and Willamette hops. Isn't a kolsh basically just 2 row? I thought a cream ale had flaked corn or something in it to make it creamy. My question is what is the difference between a kolsh and a cream ale?


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Justin Bieber might currently be the biggest teen pop star in the world, but the Canadian singing sensation said he's experienced his share of bullying.
"There are so many bullies. It goes on so much. I think that you should, especially if you are a bystander, you definitely should help out because it could be you next," Justin said during an interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" airing Wednesday.
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"Everybody goes through bullying. Everybody has it, even me," he told Ellen. "On my YouTube page, there are so many haters. They just say crazy stuff. Like, I'm not mad. I'm 16 years old and I don't have chest hair and I'm not angry about it at the moment. That will come."
The young star said people have slammed him for the thing that has made him so famous.
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"People are like look at him he puts helium in his voice before he sings," Justin continued. "You just have to laugh at yourself. It's funny."
Justin also told Ellen that he likes "to hang out with girls and date and stuff like every other 16-year-old."
He recently spent some time with fellow teen star Selena Gomez at a high school (?) football game, where he was also accompanied by Will and Jaden Smith – but Justin remained mum on details of a possible romance with the Disney star.
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"She's sweet," he said of Selena. "She's a sweetheart."
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TV's loss is moviedom's gain.
At least, that was Jason Sudeikis' message to a "Late Night With David Letterman" audience Thursday, when the "Saturday Night Live" stalwart announced that he's chucking his television day job of the last decade in pursuit of big-screen glory.
"I'm definitely done," Sudeikis told Letterman of his "SNL" run. "I'm not coming back in the fall."
The writer-actor went on to muse about applying his creative mojo concocting short bits for "Saturday Night Live" toward the motion picture M.O. "Can I make this sketch idea last 90 minutes and turn it into a movie?" a mustachio-ed Sudeikis wondered aloud, his voice booming into a shout, mouth affixed with a grin.
Sudeikis' announcement comes as no surprise to NBC, tactically coinciding with his co-starring role in the Warner Bros. comedy "We're the Millers" (in theaters Aug. 9). The movie finds Sudeikis playing a bumbling marijuana dealer who masquerades as a milquetoast family man (alongside Jennifer Anniston as a stripper pretending to be his wife, with Emma Roberts and Will Poulter rounding out his dysfunctional ad hoc family) to smuggle a gigantic load of weed from Mexico in an oversize RV.
Sudeikis' TV 23-skidoo arrives at a transitional moment for "SNL," announced on the heels of departures by fellow cast-mates Fred Armisen and Bill Hader (as well as Andy Samberg last year). But for anyone who has kept tabs on Sudeikis – who memorably telegraphed Mitt Romney and Joe Biden, in addition to a constellation of straight men and dads, on the show – his movie move comes as no surprise.
After notching character parts in movie comedies including "What Happens in Vegas," "Semi-Pro" and "The Bounty Hunter" for the past half-dozen years, Sudeikis came into his own as a leading man, co-starring alongside Owen Wilson in the Farrelly brothers' bawdy infidelity romp "Hall Pass" in early 2011. Then Sudeikis broke through later that year with the surprise hit "Horrible Bosses."
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He attempts to join a long line of "SNL" refugees including Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Tina Fey, who parlayed their small screen late-night berth on the show for movie mega-stardom. Question is, will Sudeikis' career go more in the direction of Will Ferrell or Joe Piscopo?
Aubrey Plaza has rom-com on her 'To Do List'
'Gone Girl' casting: Rosamund Pike to star opposite Ben Affleck?
Venice lineup: 'Gravity,' 'Philomena' and, of course, James Franco
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Blackmart Alpha is always updated with the latest App published on the web in order to provide all users of the world an experience compatibilitò 360 ° on your Android device.
Blackmart Alpha: Installation
To install this alternative Android Market on Android smartphones and tablets, in most cases need to go to the settings menu, select "unknown sources" and check the box.
In this way the market as an alternative to Google Play Store (Blackmart) can be installed.
This problem in the Android arises when you try to install an application that is not from the original market (Google), so by default the box for "Unknown Sources" is not checked, then it is advisable to dull not to have more problems with the installation of applications from unknown sources such as Blackmart Alpha.
Blackmart Alpha: Information
Blackmart Alpha has many applications, but unlike the Google Play Store fail to appear only the applications that are compatible with your system and model of your smartphone or tablet.
In some cases, applications downloaded from this market alternative to the Google Play Store may not be compatible with your system, therefore you can not run them and use them.
Fortunately, the market Blackmart some applications are available in multiple versions, so if an application is not compatible, it is recommended scaricarne another version and then if you need to upgrade from within the app.


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Working my way backwards…
A summary of articles from February 8th to 14th on Washington wine.
From around the country…
The Austin Chronicle says "Drink Washington".
From the blogosphere…
The Tasting Circle checks out some Washington reds.
Ken's Wine Guide checks out Ch. Ste. Michelle's 2007 Chardonnay.
Pacific Northwest Wine, Beer, and Food Ramblings does a vertical of Walla Walla Vintners Merlot.
AmericanWinery.com joins the campaign to lift the ban on wine shipments to NJ.
Wine Club Guide writes about Pasek Cellars.
Portalis writes about O'Shea Scarborough Winery.
Seattle's Capitol Hill Wine Blog writes about wineries trying to go green.
Seattle Wine Blog does a classification of Washington wineries.
Indian Wines checks out Bainbridge Island Winery.
RJ's Wine Blog tastes Ch. Ste. Michelle's 2005 Cabernet.
Salut Wine Co. writes about Januik's 2006 Eldering Vineyard Chardonnay.
Swordfern Wines writes about the 2006 Sinner's Punch and tastes the latest from Andrew Will.
Washington Wine writes about blended wine.
Doug at Wino writes about wine and the economy.
From the locals…
KIMA TV shares the love with some local wineries.
The Oregon Examiner briefly writes about a bill to target grapes imported to Washington. KEPRTV also picks up on this story.
The Tacoma News Tribune gives an update on the The Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers.
WSU Today reports on Ted Baseler's appointment to the board of regents.
The Tri-City Herald checks out Columbia Crest's Two Vines Red Wine. They also report on recent honors to people in the wine industry from Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers as well as wine education programs.
The Eastside Business Journal writes about the recent success of the "A Celebration of Washington Wines" dinner and auction.
The Seattle Times writes about the effect of the recession on wine grape growers.
Washington Wine Round-up - February 8th to 14th
Working my way backwards…
2 comments
rj's wine blog Says:
nice summary of the week's events. i used to live in seattle for a long time and miss washington wines.
nice blog, too. just added you to my blogroll.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Thanks RJ and glad to see you are still keeping up with Washington wine. Lots going on here in the wine world to lure you back or at least for a visit.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 568 diseños de 104 diseñadores freelance.
Strategic Protection
Strategic Protection is a provider of the highest quality security and event management services available within Australia. Within 18 months of operation, Strategic Protection has grown from a sole trader to a team of over 65 staff - from one client to now having multiple high profile contracts including ski resorts and hotel chains.
The clearest distinction between Strategic Protection and other security providers is not what we deliver, but how. Where other organisations might provide thugs dressed in black as bouncers for a venue, we provide courteous, professionally presented hosts to provide a welcoming experience for the patron, and enhance their experience and the reputation of the venue.
Through this logo design process we're aiming for branding that will reflect our status as an innovative company delivering the highest standard of security service - we are are the elite, gold class standard within the industry.
Our target audience is the exclusive, high end of the market, particularly organisations who pride themselves on the quality of their products and services, and require security to match. When only the best will do, we want people to remember Strategic Protection.
We're talking about 5 star hotels, close personal protection for celebrities and dignitaries, red carpet security, or any event that requires the highest customer service and attention to detail.
Required elements:
The design must contain the words "Strategic Protection" in either uppercase, lower case or title case. (We've added our current text branding in the attached file). In addition we would like to see an branding/icon of some description.
If possible, the design should be able to incorporate ".com.au" as an integral part.
The logo will be reproduced on uniforms, lanyards, stickers, business cards, letterhead and our website - so the design must be flexible to allow for a variety of uses.
Visual style:
Simplicity is key. The logo must be contemporary - clean, clear and simple with visual impact and be instant recognition. We would like to avoid anything that infers dominance or aggression and don't want to see any cliches - objects like eagles, padlocks, shields, or firearms will be eliminated. Remember: our core business is high class professional customer service within the security industry. We like shapes with clean edges - diamond, star, and triangle, or simple bezier curves.
Also, please don't use Australian symbolism - no outlines of Australia or native animals, etc.
The colours we have recently chosen are burgundy, silver, white and black. We would prefer to steer away from red as it can appear aggressive. Also bear in mind that the design will have to be reproduced in single colour for some applications.
1) Try to keep the text/logo ratio even. We don't want a huge logo and small text.
2) Think outside the box - so far we've had everything from chess pieces to stars, and umbrellas to puzzles. Not everything is suitable but we're really liking the variety! Just try to keep it related to the brief.
3) The design doesn't need to be a literal interpretation of the words "Strategic" or "Protection" (although thats okay if it does!) We'd be equally happy with a design that emphasises that our services are the highest quality.
4) The initials "SP" in the logo aren't suitable, as many companies and organisations already use this type of representation. We're really after something unique!
Things we've decided we DON'T like:
1) Umbrellas - not a professional symbol
2) Chess pieces - we understand the reference to "strategy" but it doesn't appeal to us as a design element. (This includes castles.)
3) Horses - not something we consider relevant to a security company.
4) Crowns - they imply very boldly that we feel we are the king of security. We're looking for something that displays our professionalism in a more subtle and stylish way.
5) Circles - this shape just doesn't do much for us.
Thanks for reading the brief. We're excited to see what you come up with, and will attempt to provide feedback and guidance where possible.


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How to Settle Arguments and Disagreements with Your Partner
Every couple experiences disagreements. When handled with care, respect and understanding, couples can resolve their differences in a positive way and learn more about each other. When not resolved properly, couples can quickly become isolated and driven apart.
Identifying your argument style
Working out how you and your partner respond to conflict can help you to understand how arguments develop.
Subtle subversive: tends to avoid confrontation and often hints at problems through silence, nagging or whining. The problem is often the long build-up that develops before an argument breaks out.
High-level attacker: often vocal and dominating during an argument. They may have come from environments where arguments were loud and frequent, and so see this style as normal.
Pre-emptive striker: dislikes blow-ups and try to avoid a full-scale battle by any means. Can be a sensitive and defensive personality.
Shock absorber: afraid of arguments, s/he refuses to engage in a row in any way at all. Beneath the surface can lie unvoiced resentment and bitterness.
Peace-seeking missive: dislikes conflict and seeks to end a row as soon as possible. This can detract from focusing on resolving the cause of the disagreement.
When different styles collide, it can be difficult for a couple to interact effectively during a disagreement. The key thing to focus on is approaching the issue as the enemy, and seeing yourselves as comrades in arms.
Here are some early warning signs that a conflict is brewing:
You avoid eye contact, physical affection and sex.
You contract or question your partner on everything.
You respond to attempts at conversation with short, curt replies.
Your thoughts are focused on your partner's negative qualities.
How to control your anger
If you display some of these signs you should first acknowledge your feelings and pinpoint the emotions you're feeling. Then try to identify the trigger and consider whether external circumstances are making you more sensitive.
Decide whether the issue really matters before raising it with your partner. If it's not important, get back on track by reassuring yourself and using positive self-talk to calm your anger. Aim to reconnect with your partner using either physical touch or words.
Master the art of negotiation to improve communication
Conflict is often fuelled by miscommunication. When couples start to argue, there's often a focus on winning the fight, rather than resolving the issue. You need to listen to each other's opinions and perspective without judgement. When asking questions, keep your tone and language relaxed and open. When you've identified the problem, it becomes easier to agree on a goal. There are a number of ways in which you can resolve your difficulties.
Compromise: Both parties agree to back down a bit. But this can be a limited way of solving a problem, with both partners making sacrifices but possibly without achieving an ultimate solution.
Collaboration: Couples focus on how to reach their goal by working together to find a new way of attaining a solution which works for both sides.
Exchange deal: Oone partner agrees to the other's wishes, but in turn makes a request which s/he feels is of equal value.
It's a good idea to set a review date when you can sit down and discuss whether the solution is working. This gives you an opportunity for you both to reassess how the changes have affected the problem, and whether further action needs to be taken.


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Ora Out by Giulio Iacchetti is a wall edge clock designed for mounting at the junction of two walls protruding out both. This solution ensures the object's total accessibility, making it possible to check the time even from angles that are not perpendicular to the clock. The absence of decorations and the regular appearance of the grey hands help emphasise the formal cleanliness of the clock, strengthening its visual power. This design with its minimalist lines easily adapts to different settings, whether home or work. Ora Out comes in two different colour versions, white and orange.
Giulio Iacchetti, industrial designer since 1992, designs for many brands including Abet Laminati, Alessi, Danese, Elica, Foscarini, Globo Ceramiche, Jannelli&Volpi, Hastens, Magis, Meritalia, Moleskine, Pandora design. The distinctive characteristics of his work is the research and definition of new object typologies, like the Moscardino, the biodegradable spoon/fork designed with Matteo Ragni and for which, in 2001, he has been awarded with Compasso d'Oro. In 2009 he was awarded the prize for innovation – Premio dei Premi – by the President of the Italian Republic for the Coop Eureka project, which brought the design in the large-scale retail trade. In May 2009 the Triennale di Milano held a solo exhibition entitled "Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects ". In November 2012 he launches Internoitaliano, the "factory network" made up of many craftsmen labs with whom he signs and produces furniture and accessories inspired by the italian way of living. He had also pursued his personal research project into new design topics such as the symbol of cross from which came the exhibition titled Cruciale held by the Diocesan Museum, Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome and by Castello di Lombardia in Enna, Sicily. In 2014, he won his second Compasso d'Oro for the design of the manhole covers Sfera, designed with Matteo Ragni for Montini. www.giulioiacchetti.com


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Drinking water safe after 5K-gallon spill into Ohio River
NEW RICHMOND, Ohio — Crews are mopping up a about 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into the Ohio River during a routine transfer at Duke Energy's Beckjord Station about 20 miles east of Cincinnati.
Fuel spilled into the river starting about 11:15 p.m. ET Monday and was stopped by 11:30, said Sally Thelen, Duke Energy spokeswoman.
"We notified state and local authorities of the incident and have been working with them throughout the overnight hours," said Chuck Whitlock, Duke Energy's president of Midwest Commercial Generation and vice president of gas operations. "We have cleanup crews on site that are identifying the appropriate actions that will be needed to remediate."
Crews have set up three stations between the plant and Coney Island amusement park, about 9 miles downriver from the spill, to skim the oil off the water, said Steve Renninger of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Almost 500 gallons have been cleaned up so far.
Officials originally calculated that about 8,000 gallons of fuel had spilled into the river, but once the sun came up, the estimate was lowered.
JUNE: 7,500 gallons of oil spills in Colorado river
2013: Delayed response worsened Yellowstone River oil spill, feds say
The Coast Guard closed a 15-mile stretch of the Ohio River from river mile marker 453, where the spill occurred, to mile marker 468.
Keeping boat and barge traffic out of the area is key, said Peter Tennant, executive director of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, because it prevents diesel fuel that is sitting on the surface of the water from moving into water intakes, which are below the surface.
"This one is of major concern because of where it happened. Any time something happens upstream from a water intake, it is of major concern," he said. "You don't want to take chances with people's health."
Cincinnati's water department shut down intake valves on that stretch of river shortly after midnight, Director Tony Parrot said. Reserves are near capacity and residents won't feel any effect from the spill.
The spill is expected to take several days to clean up, said Chief Warrant Officer Mark Nemec with the Coast Guard's Cincinnati Marine Safety Detachment.
"It's not anything that's going to be very, very quick," he said.
Crews were dispatched to several areas Tuesday after reports of strong chemical odors were reported.
Jack Karnes who has lived near California Nature Preserve along the Ohio River downriver from New Richmond since 1939 said he's never seen a spill on the river like this and he knew exactly what was going on when he woke up and took a deep breath.
"I hauled oil for 10 years," he said. "I knew what it was."
Dave Palanci, who lives in the same neighborhood, said he also smelled the oil when he woke up.
"I knew what it was, but I didn't know where it was coming from," Palanci said. "You knew what it was as soon as you smelled it."
The men, who were sitting in Karnes' garage Tuesday morning, said they weren't concerned about the spill because oil sits on top of the water and most fish sit on the bottom of the river.


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Jagex CEO says gameplay works as a 'short, sharp experience.'
British computer games guru Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex, billed as "the Western hemisphere's leader in Massively Multiplayer Online Browser Games," yesterday gave Abu Dhabi Media Summit attendees an exclusive sneak preview of the latest Transformers game, Transformers Universe.
One of the prime attractions of such games, Gerhard suggested, is that they offer a short, sharp experience. You don't need to geekishly spend "four hours" playing them but can fit them round the rest of your professional and domestic life in "far more intense but shorter gameplay sessions."
Speaking at the "Fireside: Game On" event, the Jagex boss also talked up the benefits of branded content in an increasingly crowded games market.
"As the market gets more saturated, branding becomes more important," he commented. "In the more congested marketplace, it suddenly gets harder and at that point, brands stand out."
Gerhard also reflected on the tensions between console-based games and browser games.
"The console providers are a law unto their own," he said, pointing out there was no "technical reason" why games like Transformers couldn't be played the Xbox, Wii or other similar devices. "We've never achieved any commercial relationship with these guys."
However, he suggested it was "only a matter of time" until platform owners will be obliged to make their consoles accessible to browsers.
As for the longer term game plan, Gerhard is now targeting aggressively smart TVs as the next platform on which Jagex wares can be enjoyed.


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ORLANDO, FLA. (April 17, 11 a.m. ET) — After nearly a decade, Wrapping Machinery SA returned to NPE and to the North American market.
The Stabio, Switzerland-based thermoformer last attended in NPE in 2003, before turning its focus to the European market, said Giovanni Morandi, area manager.
Now, with new machines and a larger worldwide prescence, WM is setting its sights on America.
"We believe the time has arrived to challenge the market," Morandi said.
"We are here now because now we have all the necessities…to support the American market."
The company has two main reasons for expanding – a shrinking gap between the euro and the dollar, and a changing mentality in American manufacturing, he said.
North American machines tend to be larger, because utility costs are lower and floor space isn't often an issue, but now manufacturers are embracing the European model of small, rapid machinery, he said.
The company also has the technology to monitor machines remotely, so an engineer in Switzerland can easily communicate with a client in California and diagnose machine issues, he said.
"We don't want to simply sell the machine and say 'bye bye, it's your problem now'," he said, adding that WM has an agreement with a company in Chicago to handle North American clients.
To mark their return, WM introduced their newest thermoforming line, a series of vacuum and pressure forming machines dubbed the FC Speedmaster Plus.
The machines offer vacuum and compressed air forming, in-line punch and die and steel rule cutting, and vertical stacking units.
Most of the Speedmaster machines are used for food packaging, like making trays or salad containers, but they can also be used to make blisterpacks and other sterile medical packaging, he said.
The machines are designed to be easy to use and have low maintenance costs, Morandi said. They are fully customizable, and by making small changes, the new machines have the pontential to lower energy usage by 1 kW per hour.
"We want our machines to pay attention to the human factor," he said.