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Friday, February 03, 2017
Why is life the way it is?
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I wonder if Lane feels any discomfort in being associated with a fundamentalist cracker like Faraday.ReplyDelete
I read Nick Lanes's The Vital Question, and there's something that puzzles me, which relates to this article: The energetics of genome complexity, Nick Lane & William Martin, 2010. (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/abs/nature09486.html)ReplyDelete
They do a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Prokaryotes metabolise about 3x faster than eukaryotes in terms of watts/g, but eukaryotic cells are 15,000x bigger, so eukaryotic cells have 5000x times as much power in terms of watts/cell. Eukaryotes have 4x as many genes as prokaryotes, so they have 1200x as much power per gene.
About 80% of a cell's power is used for making proteins, so it seems eukaryotes make about 1200x as much protein per gene. I started wondering about the mechanics of that. Transcription rates and translation rates per nucleotide are at least as fast in prokaryotes, and there's no introns to transcribe or splice out, so you'd think prokaryotes would make more protein per gene, not 1200x less.
Eukaryotic cells cells live longer of course, and most are diploid, so have two copies of each gene. Some are polyploid or multinucleated - and I think Lane and Martin's "15,000x bigger" includes some eukaryotic cells with lots of nuclei. A fair comparison would be of (rate of protein synthesis)/(gene copy).
So I got some numbers, from the book Cell Biology by the Numbers, and the biomumbers site (http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/). I found it easiest to get figures for cell volumes. I assume (protein weight)/volume is similar for these cells. They are for organisms when they are growing fast (but not as fast as possible). V = volume in um^3 per gene copy per hour.
E Coli: volume 0.7 um^3, #gene copies 4400, doubling time 1h. V = 1.6e-4
Budding yeast: volume 37 um^3, #gene copies 6000, doubling time 3h. V = 20e-4
C Elegans: volume 1800 um^3, #gene copies 40000, doubling time 10h. V = 45e-4
Euglena gracilis: volume 3700 um^3, #gene copies 60000, doubling time 12h. V = 50e-4
It seems that these eukaryotic cells make protein 10-30x faster than E Coli, per gene copy. Looks very odd to me. Presumably the limiting factor for prokaryotes is power, as Lane and Martin suggest. Apparently prokaryotes have the molecular machinery to make protien faster than eukaryotes, but they hardly ever have enough energy to run the machinery anywhere near full speed. I feel I must have miscalculated something, or be ignorant of something important, and it's bugging me!
Try thinking in terms of proteins made per ribosome. Then, to rationalize why eukaryotic cells have so many more ribosomes, try to estimate ribosomes made per ribosomal gene copy.Delete
This seems like a relatively pointless discussion to me. A typical generation time for bacteria is several days or maybe even weeks. Most of the protein in the cell is very stable and doesn't need to be constantly made (e.g. ribosomal proteins, transporters, DNA polymerase, electron transport complexes, pyruvate dehydrogenase). As a result, the typical bacterial cell is only making enough protein to replace those that turn over fairly rapidly. That's only a small percentage of its potential capacity.Delete
Contrast this with yeast cells that are doubling every hour or with cells in a growing mammalian embryo. Those cells are churning out protein (plus lipids, nucleic acid, and carbohydrate) at an enormous rate.
The rate of protein synthesis will depend on the supply of energy in all cases. It seems pretty obvious to me that the potential rate under optimum conditions will be much higher than the rate under normal conditions.
Where's the beef?
BTW, the rate of transcription in this case is the number of transcripts produced per minute. At steady-state levels, that is determined by the number of initiations per minute since many transcription complexes can be transcribing a gene at the same time. Thus, the rate is independent of the size of the gene or the presence of introns.
BTW, in most complex eukaryotes only half (or fewer) of the genes are being expressed in any one cell type. Even in E. coli there are a fair number of genes that are silent (repressed) under certain conditions.
In transcription and translation, there must be some sort of trade-off between energy efficiency, speed, and accuracy. If bacteria don't need much speed (because they never have the energy to exploit it), they should have evolved molecular mechanisms which work slower, but are more energy efficient and/or more accurate. They have not done this, and I think that demands an explanation.
If you look at bacteria which grow more slowly, they should have evolved even slower mechanisms. I don't have numbers for such organisms.
On your first BTW: good to know. I was trying to get a picture of how parallelised the process in eukaryotes are, and that helps. Still, bacteria use more parallelism than eukaryotes.
If bacteria don't need much speed (because they never have the energy to exploit it),Delete
Not sure of the apples/oranges issue here. Bacteria need to keep up with their neighbours. Any slowdown will see them outcompeted. Eukaryotes have a different ecological dynamic - they aren't diffusion limited and directly competitive for raw 'building blocks'; many of them engulf entire organisms for fuel. They need to be better at that. Bacteria are on the breadline; eukaryotes comparative 'fat cats'.
Let's keep in mind that when we're talking about eukaryotes in this context we are referring to single-cell eukaryotes who also have to keep up with their neighbors.Delete
Absolutely - that specifically was in my mind. But their ecology is nonetheless different from that of their prokaryote neighbours. They are some 10,000-50,000 times bigger, for one, and that don't come cheap. It is arrived at by consumption, which gives a significant change in dynamic, well before one starts to look at multicellular versions.
Prokaryote/eukaryote energy budgets are not directly comparable.
An important point to consider is that there are a large number of heterotrophic flagellates that can be <<10 microns across and which harbour very few mitochondria. This size range of eukaryotes is rarely considered in these energy budget discussions. Also, for a different take on the energetics discussion have a look at Lynch and Marinov (2015) :https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26575626Delete
Ah -- you've already blogged about that paper! Note that none of these authors have considered very small eukaryotes in their calculations. In my view this is critical to understanding eukaryogenesis. It doesn't really matter what the 'average' size of eukaryotic cells are...it matters more what the size of the last eukaryotic common ancestor was. If this cell was < 50x the volume of the last common ancestor of euks and the closest related archaeal cells, then all of the scaling arguments change.Delete
I read your comment with great interest, Graham. I have not read The Vital Question, but I have read various other papers that Nick Lane has written. They tend to be about the need for energy when the number of genes are increasing, and they conclude that mitochondria are needed for eukaryotes. I have analyzed the New Scientist paper from 23. June 2012: "Life: Inevitable or fluke?". I think it is quite similar to the one you are referring to. I found that there is no need for extra membrane area for eukaryotes, and especially not for eukaryotes as compared to bacteria. I instead concluded that mitochandria are not needed for eukaryotes. Quite contrary, my blog has other explanations, e.g. the Organelle Escape Theory, which explains relations between bacteria and organelles at least as well, or probably better than Margulis´ theory.
Professor Moran, what's the best known example of a beneficial mutation?ReplyDeleteReplies
The easiest ones to understand are mutations to antibiotic resistance in bacteria.Delete
I'm looking for specific examples, not necessarily easy ones, where genetic information is added, not destroyed.Delete
For example, if resistance is the consequence of the breaking of a genetic switch, then it's not a very useful example.
Why don't you first provide a robust definition of what you consider to be genetic "information", and what an example of "addition of genetic information" would look like. Once you've done so, give yourself a big medal for being the first creationist to ever actually accomplish this feat.
(Sorry for mistyping your name, BTW.)Delete
lutesuite, I don't care, what's your angle on this, I'm just looking for some food for thought. Have you got anything, that I might find interesting?Delete
I doubt I have anything you'd be able to comprehend, never mind find interesting. But, for my own amusement, show me what kind of convoluted apologetics you have to resort to in order to explain this away as an example of "addition of genetic information":Delete
That's a good one.Delete
To begin with, I'll try to ask, how many mutations did it take to get from function A to function B.
What path did a specific gene copy take through the fitness landscape?
Was it a random walk?
etc. I'll ask many questions, before I form my opinion.
But it's definitely food for thought. Thank you.
What I've learned from this article, is thatDelete
a random walk more commonly involves the insertion and deletion of longer segments,
and a few point mutations. (instead of just point mutations, which is what I assumed from listening to ID advocates).
The mechanism involved in these mutations is not radiation, nor any mutagenic agent. It's just what the cell normally does.
The way those sequences evolve, reminds me of hacking, which gives credence to a theory, about which (believe it or not) I learned today.
Mostly, his book is just boring. It contains some interesting ideas, but there wasn't mouch flesh put on them.
That's why I needed some examples to study, but, preferably, with multicellular organisms.
Perry Marshall is an ignoramus. Ignore him. Better to try and learn from competent mainstream biologists, several of whom post here regularly (I'm not one of them, I hasten to add. I'm just a reasonably well-informed amateur.) There are also ignoramuses who post here, but its usually pretty easy to tell them apart from the folks who know what they're talking about.Delete
He does seem to have that aura. But how do you know, that his ideas are garbage?Delete
Because I've read about them and I understand biology. Here's what happens when he tries to take on one of those competent mainstream biologists I was talking about:Delete
Why don't you cite the experimental finding that you think best supports his claims?
I'm not even sure, what's his claims are. None of his ideas seem to be originating with him.Delete
In his book, he's basically saying the same thing as
Gregory Chaitin in Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical
, but dressing it up in a theistic light. That I find entirely appropriate. But there's almost nothing original about this guy.
To answer your question: I'm citing Gregory Chaitin's book. But it's a piece of theoretical works, not experiments, so decide for yourself, if it's reliable or not.
It's interesting: Chaitin proposes a way to differentiate between different hypotheses for the cause of evolution.Delete
"in our Busy Beaver toy model of evolution it turns out that the organisms that evolve are better and better approximations to the halting probability Ω—lower bounds, in fact—because these are the fittest organisms. And intelligent design obtains N bits of Ω in time N, which is the best possible; exhaustive search, which stumbles about trying everything, obtains N bits of Ω in time 2^N; and cumulative random evolution obtains N bits of Ω in time between N^2 and N^3."p.43
For example, if resistance is the consequence of the breaking of a genetic switch, then it's not a very useful example.Delete
What if it's the result of plasmid exchange?
Maybe? Could you be more specific, please?
Thanks! It's good.Delete
Why do you add "naturalistic" in the last sentence in your post about speculations? Do you add it because alcaline vents were found and tested?ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting this extremely well done lecture. I read "The vital Question" as well and think it is a very plausible theory. Also the part about the separate origine of (the membranes) of Archaea and bacteria that is well documented and illustrated in the following article:
A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria
Sojo V, Pomiankowski A, Lane N (2014) A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria. PLOS Biology 12(8): e1001926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001926Replies
I added "naturalistic" because there are many non-naturalistic explanations of the origin of life. Most scientists ignore them but we discuss them frequently on this blog. I didn't want the. Creationists to get their hopes up! :-)Delete
My professor of Quantum Mechanics, who is a cosmologist but occasional Origin of Life researcher, James Trefil, argued life is the way it is because of frozen accidents. I suppose he meant it could have taken different forms, but the form we have today is because that was the accident that was frozen.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't think "frozen accident" is that useful a concept here. The generally used notion is "contingency", which I think better communicates the idea you want to get across.Delete
Contingency means that everything depends on what came before—a lesson learned by Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life."Delete
Frozen accident refers to the origin of the genetic code. Did it evolve for specific reasons such as matching the properties of an amino acid to a particular codon or did the assignment of codons arise pretty much by accident that was subsequently frozen in place because change was difficult.
so, do you believe that ? was it a " frozen accident " because change was difficult ? The change from two to three codons was not difficult, but further change was, that why it suddenly froze and stopped changing ? What was the mechanism that gave rise to the genetic code and , subsequently the translation system and ciper ?Replies
It's quite simple, Otangelo.Delete
If you have a simple structure consisting of two blocks sitting next to each other, you can easily move one or the other around without the entire structure collapsing.
However, if you build a complicated pyramid atop those two blocks, it is no longer possible to move either of them without causing the pyramid to fall.
Clear now?


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You wrote me last week to ask me to say something about Huja's retirement. Your quote was entirely accurate– saving the editorializing a "still-miffed Danielson says today." I am not miffed nor was there any reference to me being miffed. Life goes on, and I wish Huja well.
Also, it should be noted that the original Regal building was made so poorly that we tried, at great expense, to save the facade only to have it crumble before our eyes. Economics dictated that we try to make something work, and a good compromise was accomplished. Not a great architectural treatment, but it works.
The trolley was a concept created with the help of Judy Mueller and Gary O'Connell, not Huja. Charlottesville is a great place because of so many good people doing so many good things. I am proud to be a part of it. Huja did his job and we are basically all better off for it. Once again, I wish him a wonderful life in his retirement.
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I am so mad that I didn't get ONE STINKIN' PICTURE of Amanda and I! Grrr! But here is a run-down of our little "momcation"......
When we got to Hot Springs, we at lunch at Brickhouse Grill, then walked around for a bit and looked in some eclectic little shops- something that is a HUGE treat since we never could do that with two big strollers in tow. :) We had spa appointments at 3, so we soon headed to the Arlington Hotel for our hot baths and spa treatments:
This is the Arlington at night. I have stayed there a couple of times, and honestly I like hotels to be a little newer. :) But they have a nice spa and I love the history of the place. As I was soaking I was thinking about all of the generations that had been there before. Al Capone could very well have taken a bath in the same room I did! How cool! I got a bath, facial, and massage. And honestly felt like a new woman afterwards!!!
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Irregular Divisions of the Beat (Tuplets)
Posted by Robert Thomas on March 30th, 2011
Any division of a unit into irregular components requires the addition of a number showing the division. The term "tuplet" is used to refer to these irregular beat divisions. Abnormal divisions of beats are shown with brackets, numbers (showing the number of notes in the resulting group by means of an Arabic number or ratio) and beams. The note values of tuplets are determined by the note-values of the regular grouping against which they are set. With three notes against two in simple time, the duplet is the regular grouping and thus the triplet grouping would use the same note values as the duplet (in , the regular duple grouping would be two quarter notes and therefore the triple grouping would also be quarter notes). When the number of notes in the irregular group is more than twice the number of the regular duplet, the next smaller note value is used (e.g., with quintuplets in , the regular duple grouping is two quarter notes and therefore the quintuplet grouping is eighth notes [5 > 2 x 2]). While triplets and quintuplets are generally understood to imply the ratios 3:2 and 5:4, respectively, other irregular groupings can and do occur. In order to facilitate ease of understanding, it is recommended that ratios be used in these cases.
If a tuplet figure is beamed, the number is placed on the side of the beam opposite the note head. If there is any question as to which notes or rests are included in a tuplet, or if a tuplet figure is not beamed or only partially beamed (as may be the case when a rest or notes of mixed values are included in the tuplet), a bracket should be must be used with a number or ratio.
Brackets must enclose the entire space of all notes and rests included within the grouping (from the left side of the first note to the right side of the last note – although if the last note of the tuplet is flagged, the stem is used for the boundary, not the flag). Brackets and numbers are normally placed on the stem side of notes, but when ledger lines are used, the number and bracket appear on the note head side. Usually, the two halves of a tuplet bracket should be straight enough to appear as if they are part of the same line, with the tuplet number centered within the bracket. In cases where the figure includes both up- and down-stem notes, the tuplet is placed above the figure.
Numbers should be centered over or under the center of each grouping. The number of the tuplet is written in boldface italic type and is a little over one space tall.
Unless absolutely impossible, the tuplet number should always be outside the staff. If fingerings are marked, the tuplet number should be placed opposite the fingering numerals. If the tuplet number lies in the path of a slur, the tuplet number should be moved to the side of the note opposite the slur (that is, if the tuplet would normally be placed above the staff, place it below the staff, and vice versa). Articulation markings (except large slurs over the entire configuration) are always included inside a tuplet bracket. Care should be taken to ensure proper vertical alignment between parts when dealing with tuplets.
Nested tuplets are always placed on the same side of the figure, regardless of stem directions. When dealing with nested tuplets, the smallest values are placed closest to the notes with progressively larger groupings placed further out.
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Despite being a community theater actor, I am consistently awed by the work put into a local production that local people stage for local audiences, and my experience in mid-February at South Bend Civic Theatre (SBCT) confirmed such high production values with its latest Studio Theater effort, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, A Parable.
Premiering off-Broadway in 2004, and awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and four 2005 Tony Awards, including Best Play, SBCT's production of Shanley's play illustrates SBCT's efforts to stage current, significant, award receiving work for local audiences. As a sometime actor for SBCT, I shamefully admit that until I sat in the audience for Doubt, A Parable, I had never consciously considered the diverse efforts put into any production but the ones I participated in.
Most plays produced by SBCT begin with the play selection process. Letters are sent out to prospective directors in late spring, soliciting suggestions for the Play Reading Committee. This means for Doubt, A Parable that it was only two years removed from its critical accolades, and such a well-received script is oftentimes unavailable for community theaters so early in its life; in fact, Executive Director of SBCT, Jim Coppens believes SBCT's production was one of the first community theater stagings of Shanley's play.
Once a play is selected for the next season, SBCT builds its schedule. Plays and musicals get directors, and directors learn their time slots and venue. No longer confined to producing and fitting everything in a 19th century firehouse seating 77, and now able to choose between an intimate black box studio space and a larger auditorium, Doubt was appropriately slated by the Play Reading Committee and SBCT Board for the black box.
The black box affords greater intimacy with the play for the audience, and much like the former Firehouse space, where the action can literally occur inches from the face of the audience, such proximity demands the attention to detail technical wizards like David Chudzynski and Matt Davidson consistently produce. As a result, the first technical meeting often comes next. While these technical meetings are largely a mystery to me, the art that Messrs. Chudzynski and Davidson — and the volunteers they lead — manage to create, amazes and astounds and can go woefully unnoticed as the pieces which slowly appear over the course of rehearsals, suddenly become whole in the week before opening. From establishing subtle lighting nuances and finding impossible sound effects, to creating a painted floor that looks like real hardwood, there is tremendous work done by a crew sometimes exceeding the size of the cast.
Many of the directors I work with indicate casting is anywhere from 90-99% of their work, and I think they're often just being kind having reflected above on all the cats they have to herd. Auditions can begin 4-7 weeks before a show opens, and once a show is cast, rehearsals can run, depending on the director, anywhere from 5 nights a week for 3 ½ hours a night with "homework" to 3-4 nights a week 2 hours a night. Despite having wanted to act in SBCT's production of Doubt, A Parable, I believe the director, Jim Coppens, cast his show well, for the title includes the words A Parable, and the very presence of those words indicate John Patrick Shanley had more going on in the text and in his head than the tale of a priest suspected of sexual abuse in 1964.
You see, the complexity of Doubt and its parable means the cast had to make choices, and Shanley does not make their decisions easy, as Shanley never makes clear for the audience whether the priest has made advances on the first African-American student to attend St. Patrick's, or he has innocently sought to care for, protect and shelter this student from the potential prejudice of the parish and community.
The cast's choices begin subtly. Sister Aloysius (played by Jean Plumhoff) sets the conflict in motion by establishing doubt in the innocent mind of Sister James (played by Dana Vagg), encouraging her to watch for anything untoward in the behavior of Father Flynn (played by Matthew Bell). Yet as the play progresses, there is no text indicating with clarity who is right or who is wrong. We don't see Flynn alone with the boy. Any sense of guilt or innocence comes from the actors' performances. There is no admission of guilt and no vindication of innocence. Without a clear confession, how can there be certainty? This play asks the audience to draw their own conclusions. I will not spoil yours with mine, but I will say that my interpretation came thanks to the strength of Matthew Bell's performance and the circumstantial evidence as presented by his initial accuser Sister James to his inquisitor Sister Aloysius.
Not until after the play, however, did I realize the efforts and choices these actors had to make. For even if the audience chooses not to judge Father Flynn, Matthew Bell – the actor — must know what Father Flynn's intentions were to the young boy, Dana Vagg – the actor — must know whether or not Sister James truly believes Father Flynn's proclamations of innocence, and Jean Plumhoff – the actor — has the arguably the hardest choice to make, for she must know why Sister Aloysius experiences doubt in the end. After the play, SBCT offered an opportunity they do not offer enough when they invited the audience to remain after the show to discuss the play with the cast and director. As a result of this conversation with the cast, I reflected beyond my end of show conviction about Flynn's guilt (or innocence) to a realization that even were I right about Flynn, Shanley's parable is less about Flynn than it is about Sister Aloysius' conviction that Flynn was guilty and the action she takes to remove him from the parish.
John Patrick Shanley's parable premiered off-Broadway a little over a year after the invasion of Iraq and Colin Powell's evidence to the United Nations that Iraq clearly had weapons of mass destruction, nearly two years after President Bush spoke to the UN about Saddam Hussein's "Decade of Deception and Defiance," and approximately three years after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in his staffer snowflakes, "Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
We trust those with power and authority. We trust them to be honest. We trust them to protect us. Sometimes there are things they cannot tell us, but when they deceive us, they shake our faith. Sometimes doubt can strengthen our faith as we choose to reject temptation, but sometimes doubt brings down what we previously believed to be pillars of authority: our parents, our teachers and schools, our church and our government.
Not only did South Bend Civic Theatre's production of Doubt, A Parable open at the start of Lent, SBCT also slated it for an election year. There's a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might be aware from when a play is submitted to the Play Reading Committee to its closing night performance.
But Doubt, A Parable isn't finished. You have one more opportunity to see this production:
"South Bend Civic Theatre is pleased to announce the upcoming Indiana Community Theatre League Festival 2008, "Sharing the Spotlight" to take place in the Wilson Mainstage Auditorium on Saturday March 15, 2008. Six community theatres from throughout Indiana will each present a different (abbreviated) play for adjudication by two nationally renowned judges, Mary Britt and Morrie Enders. An awards ceremony and brunch will follow on Sunday March 16, 2008 in the Holiday Inn, downtown, South Bend.This will be the first year South Bend Civic Theatre will host the event in its new home at 403 N. Main St., South Bend. Past years' competitions have garnered SBCT numerous awards including first place honors for 2007's The Gin Game, which went on to regional competition. South Bend Civic Theatre is honored to be hosting and "sharing the spotlight" with the best community theatre Indiana has to offer.The schedule is as follows:Block I: 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Elkhart Civic Theatre, "Smoke on the Mountain"
South Bend Civic Theatre: "Doubt, a Parable"Block II: 2:30-5:00 p.m.
Community Theatre of Terre Haute: "Variations on the Death of Trotsky"
Kokomo Civic Theatre: "See Rock City"Block III: 7:30-10:00 p.m.
Muncie Civic Theatre: "This Song is Your Song"
Community Theatre Guild (Valparaiso): "Letters Home"A limited number of tickets will be available to the general public the day of the event for $10 per Block or $25 for all 6 Productions. Walk-up sales will be available March, 15 only. Check or cash only. (Sorry we cannot accept credit or debit cards for this event.) For more information please call 574-234-1112."


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An SFPD patrolman in 1893 detained several 24th century time travelers from the senior staff of the starship USS Enterprise-D. The policeman had been summoned because of the away team was disrupting a hospital facility, but the crew fled his custody after the officer was struck by William T. Riker. (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II")
In the mid-20th century, The Dixon Hill literature (later adapted as holoprograms) took place in San Francisco. One of Dixon Hill's 1940s-era associates was a fictional character named McNary, a lieutenant and detective in the SFPD. In 2364, Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher were playing the holonovel. A desk sergeant for Precinct 12 of the SFPD was flirting with Dr. Crusher. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
In 1986, an SFPD motorcycle patrolman encountered Pavel Chekov and Uhura, who had time traveled from the 23rd century. He was impassive as Russian-accented Chekov and Uhura asked him to direct them to a nuclear aircraft carrier dock facility. The next day, two officers, including Taggard, were assigned to a security corridor at Mercy Hospital. In an operating theater off this corridor, prior to his successful escape, Chekov was being prepped by medical staff for surgery. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Benjamin Sisko and Julian Bashir were sent back in time to 2024, and didn't have any identification to show officers Vin and Bernardo Calvera of the SFPD that they weren't homeless, and were sent to a Sanctuary District. Jadzia Dax, also sent back in time, was assisted by Chris Brynner (after telling him she wasn't homeless, and just needed to re-order her identification) so the police didn't take her in as well.
When the Bell Riots began in the Sanctuary, a SWAT team raided the facility, indiscriminately killing hostage takers and bystanders. The team had been informed that there were no longer any living hostages. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II")


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He recently cycled 1300 km in Arctic Norway over seven days – in the middle of winter! A few weeks later extreme cyclist Omar di Felice cycled 1350 km around Iceland in five days. We caught up with him when he got back and asked why cycling over winter is awesome and how to do it well.
Omar has won a number of high profile extreme cycling races. © Omar di Felice
Enjoy the fresh air
Cycling during winter is a challenge and a way to explore my limits. When I climb a mountain in winter conditions with no cars and no other cyclists on the road, I can breathe pure air and enjoy the solitude. I love it – it's very introspective!
Omar cycled from Rome, his hometown, to Paris non-stop in 72 hours. © Omar di Felice
Ready for race season
During the last years I learned to cycle in winter conditions in the same way I do in summer. My goal for winter is to do the same quantity of climbs and meters of ascent. If you can do this during winter you will be better prepared for the first races of the season.
His adventure in Iceland was a tough and magical experience. © Omar di Felice
Get tougher
When you cycle for several weeks and months in cold weather then you can better tolerate poor weather conditions during the rest of the year. It's a way to make your body better prepared and stronger. I love this part of my training.
The landscapes were incredible, changing every 10 minutes. © Omar di Felice
Take it gradually
As with all training, you've got to be progressive with winter cycling. Experiment with it gradually. Pay attention to having the right apparel to avoid health issues and, of course, the right tires. Conditions during wintertime are the most difficult with slippery and icy roads.
In September he's riding 2000 km from the Pyrenees to northern Italy. © Omar di Felice
Calories are king!
Nutrition and supply are crucial: carefully consider your caloric balance, eating more fatty foods to prevent hypothermia and problems connected to a lower body temperature. To perform well in cold conditions you need the right caloric supply.
A typical training week is between 400 to 700km. © Omar di Felice
Track progress
I use my Suunto Ambit 3 Peak to monitor my heart rate and caloric consumption and, especially during an Arctic ride, it's important to know the exact air temperature. I also use it to monitor the distance and ascent of each ride. I prefer my watch to a bike computer because it's more resistant to extreme and cold conditions.
© Omar di Felice
Feel the passion!
Staying positive on long, a cold ride is important, but it's easy when you follow your passion. Turning my passion into a profession is so special and when I'm tired I think, 'Okay Omar, you're doing the thing you dreamed about since you were a boy so no excuses, stay focused and enjoy the ride'."
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What reasons are there why this operation would take around 5 minutes? At the default value of DefaultBufferMaxRows (10,000), the import fails completely with a timeout after around 5,000 rows. I dropped the value to 1,000 and now it gets there eventually with no timeout, but takes a full five minutes.
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7/27/2012 | By Matthew Bechard
Despite the challenging market conditions, American Assets Trust (NYSE: ATT) has been successful in its plans to growth through internal development as opposed to acquisitions, according to John Chamberlain president and CEO of the San Diego based REIT.
"We've stayed pretty true to form and we were successful in acquiring an office building in San Francisco earlier this year," he told REIT.com in a video interview at REITWeek 2012: NAREIT's Investor Forum. "But the bulk of our efforts have been focused on developing properties w already own and adding additional pad buildings. That focus is going to continue."
The company has a diverse approach in that it own properties in multiple sectors. While he said most of the sectors are "firing on all cylinders," he added that one sector in American Asset's portfolio poses a potential challenge.
"I would describe our multifamily properties as being somewhat choppy," he said. "We have 5.4 percent same store growth net operating income, yet our occupancies are ticking up."
Chamberlain added that the company has a lot of product that competes with the single family home products.
"That's a challenge for us, but all of the other sectors as a whole are doing very well," he said.
American Assets has no plans to expand beyond its core markets, according to Chamberlain.
"We're spending 100 percent of our time in our core markets. Since we went public in Seattle we've come close on a couple of acquisition up there, but unfortunately we were the bridesmaid and not the bride," he said.
However, Chamberlain added that once the company finds the right opportunity, either on the West coast or in Hawaii, the company may affect a tax deferred exchange.


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Computer handwriting recognition offers a new way of improving the human-computer interface and of enabling computers to read and process the many handwritten documents that must currently be processed manually. This thesis describes the design of a system that can transcribe handwritten documents.
First, a review of the aims and applications of computer handwriting recognition is presented, followed by a description of relevant psychological research. Previous researchers' approaches to the problems of off-line handwriting recognition are then described. A complete system for automatic, off-line recognition of handwriting is then detailed, which takes word images scanned from a handwritten page and produces word-level output. Methods for the normalization and representation of handwritten words are described, including a novel technique for detecting stroke-like features. Three probability estimation techniques are described, and their application to handwriting recognition investigated. The method of combining the probability estimates to choose the most likely word is described, and performance improvements are made by modelling the lengths of letters and the frequency of words in the corpus. The system is tested on a database of transcripts from a corpus of modern English and recognition results are shown. Recognition is described both with the search constrained to a fixed vocabulary and with an unlimited vocabulary.
The final chapter summarizes the system and highlights the advances made before assessing where future work is most likely to bring about improvements.
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Just wanted to share this pretty little New Year's Eve party I saw on {Blowout Party}.
I'm SO IN LOVE with all the clocks!!
I mean, the clock motif would work every single year.
And I don't think it would ever get old!!
I'm also loving all the gold. Gold is my favorite this time of year.
Those little clock face plates are killing me!!
It would be fun to have a "movie star picture" with all those clocks in the background.
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He did get the long hair chopped off........it might be a wig for continuity purposes but his actual hair is about the same style now.........
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First official pics released
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Thanks for nice pics!
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
I really hope there will be some teasing this summer ... afterall, the 'Bruce Almighty' campaint started very early also. Since this is a big comedy concept I'm hoping the same.
That would be a shame. I mean c'mon ... they should have a teaserposter at least this summer. The first (simple ánd funny) teaserposter for "Get Smart" (starring Steve Carell) was out before 2008 even started. And that movie had very good teaser, very funny and not spoiling the whole plot. And based on that a lot of people I know want to see it already ... keep in mind that Steve Carell still isn't famous at all in Europe.
I hope they do smart marketing for "Yes Man" also.
Outnow.ch has a new picture, when you follow the link and click on the image, you get the high resolution.
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Once again Outnow.ch has 7 (!) new high quality pictures of Yes Man! Click on a picture (then you get a bigger one) and then click again (and it's even bigger then before), nice.
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Family sees sidewalk memorial as symbol of unity in Newtown
NEWTOWN >> Not long after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Dr. Thomas Draper saw a way to help a community in pain.
The retired physician and medical adviser suggested the Children's Memorial Walkway, a sidewalk extending from the town's landmark flagpole on Main Street, down Church Hill Road to the village of Sandy Hook and right to the entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School.
He said he saw the project as a way to "enhance the connectedness" of the residents of Sandy Hook with the rest of the people of Newtown.
It was not an inexpensive proposition, but Draper was undaunted. His family launched the Children's Memorial Walkway charity to collect funds.
They offered to kick-start the effort with their own money, with the hope they would be joined by other donors.
First Selectman Pat Llodra has announced the Draper family is committed to matching as much as $200,000 for the first phase of the project, which will be coordinated by town building and land-use officials.
Church Hill Road is not completely without sidewalks, but they are patchy. The money the Drapers collect will be used to begin filling in missing sections.
"It is my hope that this donation will inspire other people to contribute to Newtown's larger sidewalk plan, to build our community around a sense of unity and togetherness," Draper's son, Joseph, said in a news release.
The charity's website, newtowncharities.org, describes the walkway effort as reflecting "the unity of our community in continuing remembrance and shared loss.
"The Children's Walkway will create those random serendipitous moments where people recognize each other as neighbors and friends. We are no longer strangers but villagers looking out for one another, particularly the young, old and frail," according to the website.
"A wide, well-built walkway will connect churches, schools and parks with our major areas of commerce (which) will encourage physical activity and unify our community."
What Llodra said she likes most about the Drapers' idea is that the sidewalk will show Newtown is one community. The shootings occurred in Sandy Hook, but its impact is far from isolated.
Sidewalks "bring people together," Llodra said. "They are a way to establish a community of walking, friendliness, congeniality."
This project fits with the town's comprehensive sidewalk plan, which will connect schools, parks and other community gathering places.
"When you develop your environment, people come together in a more natural way," Llodra said. "You share things together. In my vision, it's the way you build a community."
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A South American security researcher who goes by the handle Ch Russo claims to have obtained sensitive user information from popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. He says that he gained access to the site's administrative control panel and exploited a SQL injection vulnerability that enabled him to collect user account information, including IP addresses and records of which torrents individual users have downloaded.
Although The Pirate Bay has previously been subjected to law enforcement raids and other situations that could potentially have compromised its databases, this is the first known incident that has resulted from a security vulnerability. The site was down when the breach was disclosed, but is now running again. The site operators told TorrentFreak that the downtime was originally for unrelated maintenance activities, but that they decided to take the opportunity to also fix the site's database-handling code.
Russo disclosed details about his infiltration of The Pirate Bay to security blogger Brian Krebs, who has confirmed the authenticity. In a blog entry published today, Krebs includes screenshots of Pirate Bay administrative Web consoles which show information about the site's users. Russo was able to extract the MD5 hash of the password for Krebs's own account as a means of demonstrating the extent of his access to The Pirate Bay's inner workings.
Russo published some additional information about the breach on his own website, which is currently down. He acknowledges that the information that he has obtained from the breach—account records for over 4 million Pirate Bay users—would likely be of interest to the MPAA and other groups, but he says that he has no intention of selling the actual data. His purpose, he says, was to increase awareness among users that their data might not be safe.
Krebs unsuccessfully attempted to bring the issue to the attention of The Pirate Bay staff, and could not get a statement from them about the vulnerability. In his effort to get some kind of response, he joined the site's IRC channel, where he was taunted by moderators who did not believe that he was a journalist or that he had access to any sensitive data. When he eventually posted the MD5 hashes of administrator passwords in the channel, he was kicked out and banned.
Although the actual passwords were never accessible, and the site only stored MD5 hashes, it's still possible to determine the underlying value of an MD5 hash by using brute force comparison methods. Such an attack would only work on weak passwords, however. The Pirate Bay contends that the security vulnerability has been addressed and doesn't anticipate future breaches of a similar nature.


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Between 1962 and 1964, Alain Jacquet created his Camouflage series, to which Camouflage Botticelli (Birth of Venus), 1963–64, belongs. For this piece Jacquet reproduced Sandro Botticelli's important Renaissance painting(1) of a curvaceous, nude Venus with flowing golden hair, posed on a floating cockle shell, and he overlaid it on a gas pump that bears the word "Shell," complete with the oil corporation's scallop-shaped logo. Jacquet makes a humorous connection between Venus—the shell being one of her attributes, according to Roman mythology—and the corporate logo. Other paintings in the Camouflage series are based on works by Michelangelo, Piet Mondrian, Roy Lichtenstein, Giorgio de Chirico, and (moving from the art to the entertainment industry) Walt Disney. Each work contains its own flip visual pun, and Camouflage Botticelli is the masterwork of the group.
Although he is not directly associated with the small group of French artists from the 1960s known as the Nouveaux Réalistes, or with American or British Pop art of that decade, Jacquet shares close affinities with both movements. His ironic use of the everyday—advertising and corporate logos—and his play on mechanically-reproduced imagery makes his art a kind of commentary on the way commercialism affects contemporary culture. These qualities especially align him with his Pop and Nouveau Réaliste contemporaries, with whom his work has been exhibited numerous times throughout Europe and America.
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Oh, No! Victoria Justice's Boyfriend, Ryan Rottman, Arrested For DUI — But She Hates Alcohol Abuse!
Nickelodeon starlet Victoria Justice has one of the cleanest images in Hollywood, but her 26-year-old boyfriend was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol July 7 — should she break up with him?
As far as good girls in Hollywood go, they don't get much more clean cut than Victoria Justice. However, the 18-year-old starlet's 26-year-old boyfriend, Ryan Rottman, was arrested for a DUI in Los Angeles July 7 — and she's told us before she has no tolerance for drug and alcohol abuse. Is their relationship doomed?
According to TMZ, Ryan — who's been openly dating Victoria since April — hopped a curb in his car, was pulled over by the police and blew a .19, which is more than double the legal limit in California. He was arrested, taken to jail and released a few hours later.
Interestingly enough, Ryan's really good pals — Zac Efron and Rumer Willis — were both in the car behind him during his arrest and even stopped to talk to the police as well, before driving away.
Earlier this week, Victoria and Ryan looked happier than ever as they took a leisurely bike ride in Los Angeles, even stopping for a quick kiss. However, Ryan's arrest cannot make Victoria happy.
As the star of the hit Nickelodeon kids' show, Victorious, the actress has a squeaky clean image and goes above and beyond to be an excellent role model for her fans.
She told HollywoodLife.com earlier this year, "Drinking and smoking is not something that is going to help me or something that interests me, so I think it's just something that I wanted to share and be open with."
Do YOU think Ryan and Victoria's bond will hold, despite his major mistake? Should she break it off with him to keep her image clean? Sound off below!


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King stock falls as investors sour on Candy CrushMarch 26, 2014: 4:01 PM ET
Investors may not have much of a sweet tooth.
King Digital Entertainment (KING), the maker of the addictive online game Candy Crush Saga, dropped 15.5% from its offering price Wednesday. The stock priced at $22.50 per share but finished the day at $19. King sold 22.2 million shares and raised $500 million from the offering. JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse and Bank of America Merrill Lynch were among the top underwriters for the offering.
Based on its current share price, King is worth about $6.5 billion. By comparison, rivals Zynga (ZNGA) and Activision (ATVI) sport valuations of $4 billion and $14.6 billion, respectively.
Related: Candy Crush company founder left $1 billion on the table
The disappointing performance of King in the early going may reflect concerns that profits may be too closely tied to what could be a one-hit wonder, according to Peter Garnry at Saxo Bank.
"King Digital is putting all its energy into finding the next game that can leave the company less reliant on cash-generator Candy Crush," he said in a report. "Given what we have seen with other mobile games' trajectory in engagement, time is not King Digital's best friend."
But Garnry added that King "has shown superior execution in gaming development and marketing."
Candy Crush averages about 93 million daily users, who play the game more than a billion times a day, according to the company.
King reported annual revenue of $1.9 billion and a profit of about $568 million, despite offering games to players for free. King makes money by selling virtual items to a small fraction of its users who wish to enhance their playing experience.
But its growth has soared. Sales in 2012 were $164 million and it reported a profit of just $8 million.
Despite its rapid gains, King's dependence on Candy Crush has some worried about its long-term viability. There are concerns that this could be a repeat of Zynga, which has been unable to the match the success of FarmVille.
Related: On eve of IPO, how does King Digital compare to Zynga?
Zynga currently trades for less than half it did when it went public in 2011. Still, Zynga has regained some lost ground and is up more than 20% this year. Shares of another mobile game developer, Glu (GLUU) has also surged this year.
King's debut comes amidst a busy year for new offerings. There have been 53 new listings in the United States so far this year, according to IPO research and investment firm Renaissance Capital.
In the same period last year, there were just 30 companies that went public. At that rate, the number of IPOs this year could rival last year's total of 222, which was the highest number since 2000.
While the overall market has been volatile due to geopolitical concerns and the Fed's scaling back of stimulus, the average IPO has returned nearly 30% from its offering price, according to Renaissance.


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I kind of hate the soundtrack to this game.
Did anyone else think of FF13 in relation to the game mechanics being rolled out so slowly? I'm on Day 7 and still have a couple of blank slots on the sub-menu.


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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2011
Mandriva 2011 PowerPack: A quick image tour
The installation process is basically the same that one finds in previous Powerpack versions. However, this time, the DVD waits a bit before it boots. That gives newbies some time to read the instructions on the screen, which is good.
The installation process also has a main difference: this PowerPack version offers you more customization of the computer instead of simply bloating it up with all kinds of software. So, you get to choose whether or not to install games, multimedia programs, documentation, or if you want to install your own packages. It also gives you desktop options: KDE, Gnome 2.32, or LXDE. Why not Gnome 3? Well, I suppose that since KDE comes with the ROSA SimplyWelcome as default, they chose to avoid some duplicity.
For the summary, if you define a country, you can also choose to install IMEs to type Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. I chose iBUS. After the selection, the installer downloaded the necessary packages. This is convenient, but it is also offered in the free Mandriva Desktop 2011 version. You create your account and choose your avatar (I chose the cat) and then you are ready to let the system reboot. I liked the fact that the old booting screen is back...Well, sort of: they combined the Mandriva 2010 and 2011 booting screens! After a while, you are finally taken to your Mandriva 2011 PowerPack desktop:
I really liked the wallpaper because of its colors and because it brings memories of previous PowerPack versions.I fired up the SimpleWelcome and noticed two things: At the top of the screen, my cat avatar was replaced by an image of some pebbles, the avatar of the Guest account. No matter if I changed the image using KDE controls or Mandriva Control Center, the pebbles didn't go away. However, if I logged out, I coud see the image of the cat.
The other thing I noticed is that there were lots of programs that were not offered in the free version, although you can get them from the repositories anyway. The main problem that a newbie could face is probably getting to configure drivers correctly, which is one of the additional values that PowerPack offers.
Here are the images of the application categories:
Firefox version is 8.0.
Then, it ocurred to me to delete the Guest account and... voila!, my cat avatar finally appeared at the top.
I think that the PowerPack version is a good option for newbies who are not interested in spending some time learning how to configure video (yes, Flash is working out of the box) and that want games, more software, or additional value (support) out of the box for a fraction of the price they would have paid for Windows. I got the discount, so Mandriva 2011 PowerPack cost me $47.20 instead of $59. Was it worth it? Well, for me, it was a satisfactory purchase.
So was the access to the PCLinuxOS PASS.
To be honest, I cannot regret having used little amounts of money to support Linux projects. After all, Windows cost me a lot more and, if I add up all the money I wasted paying technicians to destroy my data and put Windows back, I can say that I have a good reason not to complain.
My only regret is not being able to make a small contribution to Mageia.
Maybe some day...
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I have not used Mandriva for a whle having switched to fedora.I just noticed that if you add up PClinuxOS, MAndriva and Mageia then the Mandrake family would be the second most popular choice on distrowatch,just behind the Debian, ubuntu, Mint campResponderEliminar
@ brent,ResponderEliminar
Interesting observation! I cannot say I'm much of a fan of Mandriva these days (I am not convinced by the ROSA stuff yet), but then it's good to have other Linux projects like Fedora, Mageia or PCLOS if you are in the RPM camp. If you prefer DEB, then there's also plenty of choice: Debian, Mint, *buntu, Mepis...
And then, there's also Pardus, Slackware, or Zenwalk. To sum up, it's good to have options!
Isn't ROSA a KDE thing? Or is it purely from the OS?ResponderEliminar
No, it's a technology developed by ROSA Labs exclusively for Mandriva. KDE has a netbook activity that looks similar, but the ROSA panel/Launcher has more functionalities. I don't like it because it looks like an oversized cellphone instead of a desktop, in my opinion, but I'm learning to coexist with it.ResponderEliminar
Good to hear that the Powerpack is working as expected. I'm not a fan of those cellphone-like desktop environments either, but it seems to be the trend these days:(ResponderEliminar
That's true. The good part is that the Mandrivasync and the Timeline work perfectly, which make the ROSA thing more appealing.
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I am a firm supporter of Opensource. I contribute to Mozilla QA, SUMO, l10n and I also work towards building and nurturing our local Mozilla community - Mozilla Gujarat.
I also teach the web and help people with web literacy. I often read, write and speak about Opensource, UX and Material Design stuff as well.
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First Watch: Maps & Atlases, 'Fever'
The deeply disturbed character who appears in the latest Maps & Atlases video, for the song "Fever," may not live to see tomorrow. As the Chicago-based band sings about holding on in our darkest hours, "The Man" slowly wastes away, addicted to a mysterious drug.
Maps & Atlases guitarist Erin Elders, who directed the video, tells us in an email that "The Man" is an imagined character the band first introduced in a promo video for the group's latest album Beware And Be Grateful. "The Man has become a nomad, wandering in and out of the city's frayed pockets. He self-medicates his mysterious affliction while wasting time in train yards and burned-out parking lots. Ultimately he finds it's the small, human interactions that cure him."
Elders says the band had a much larger production in mind when they began working on the video, one that involved "a roller-skating rink and a small army of extras." But the group scrapped it because of a lack of resources. "At first, I viewed this as our project falling apart," Elders says. "But really it was helping us focus on what the video was about. Having no budget and a barebones crew made us tell our story with very little. We had to whittle it down to its most simple. Reality was doing us a favor; after all, the video was about the importance of the human connections we make. You don't need a crane shot over a sea of extras to convey that."


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Obama's inauguration The 44th President: Jan. 20, 2009
Expect delays in D.C.
Whether you're going with a group or just want to know what it's like in D.C., local stories and resources from D.C. organizations will help you feel like you're there.
The 2009 inaugural parade will begin at the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building and proceed along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. The green area is a traffic-restricted area, where only pedestrians will be allowed. View an interactive version of this map at LJWorld.com/inaugural_parade/
Local students heading for inauguration
Students from Free State High School and Baker University are heading to Washington, D.C., to see Barack Obama take the oath of office.
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Baker students also plan trip to inauguration
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