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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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Layoffs and Budget Cuts: The Math Doesn't Add Up
Taking on the "anti-seniority" crowd.
By Dennis Van Roekel
March 18, 2011
"Last in, first out" (LIFO) is a term commonly used in merchandise control. It describes how stores stock products. With napkins and paper plates, you push the old items back to make room for new items of the same kind – so the last items stocked are the first items sold. For perishable goods you push old items to the front, so they're the first selected by shoppers – milk and eggs are restocked this way.
LIFO is for inventory. Yet somewhere between the Kroger and the classroom, it became confused with teacher experience and layoff policies. Teachers are now viewed as "perishable"— the longer they've taught and the more money they earn, the faster they need to be "restocked" for fresher, less expensive goods. But teachers don't come with "sell by" dates, and it's an insult to punish them for their years of service.
Some people say layoffs are an "opportunity" to get rid of underperforming teachers. So let me be clear: If a teacher isn't qualified, he or she shouldn't be in the classroom. There are procedures in place in every school district to terminate unqualified or incompetent teachers, and administrators shouldn't wait for a budget crisis to remove them. The fair dismissal process should be transparent, efficient and fair. We owe it to everyone concerned – especially students – to resolve cases as quickly as possible.
Now that's settled, let's deal with the real issue. Layoffs caused by budget cuts are about money, and experienced teachers cost more. Until you take an honest look at the high costs associated with turnover from a passing parade of inexperienced teachers.
It's extremely expensive to keep hiring and training new teachers. And these problems are worst in precisely the schools that most desperately need good, proven teachers.
So for the anti-seniority crowd, tell me again how fewer experienced teachers in schools that serve the poorest students is the answer? Do we really want an endless churn in our classrooms? How many people who dismiss the value of experience would send their own children to a school staffed entirely by first-year teachers?
Teaching is a complex profession, and experience matters. I taught math for 23 years, and I know without a doubt I was a much better teacher in year 20 than year 2. In no other profession is experience deemed a liability instead of an asset.
These are tough economic times for school districts, and no matter how you slice it, layoffs are difficult for everyone involved. It might save a few dollars in the short run by axing experienced teachers and retaining newcomers who earn less, but in the long run it's our children who will pay the steepest price.
Let's Do the Math...
- Nearly 50 percent of new teachers leave the profession in the first five years, and schools lose 100 percent of their investment. Turnover rates in high-poverty districts are 2x as high as rates in wealthier school districts.
- Research shows costs for "recruiting, hiring, and training a replacement teacher" is as high as $17,000 per teacher, leading to billions of dollars spent each year replacing teachers who left the classroom.
- The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future published a cost calculator to help administrators, parents and members of the community estimate a school's expenses on teacher turnover.
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Launched by NASA in 1962, Relay 1 was one of several satellites placed in orbit in the decade after Sputnik to test the possibilities of communications from space. Relay 1 received telephone and television signals from ground stations and then transmitted them to other locations on the Earth's surface. The satellite relayed signals between North America and Europe and between North and South America, and it also monitored the effects of radiation on its electronics. In conjunction with the Syncom 3 communications satellite, Relay 1 transmitted television coverage of the 1964 Olympics in Japan.
This prototype of Relay 1 is covered with solar cells. The antenna on top is for receiving and transmitting communications signals; those at its base are for telemetry, tracking, and control. In orbit, Relay used spin-stabilization to orient the antennas to communicate with Earth.
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Not much time to whitter on this week due to other distractions so here is the list of what was played and a few comments
- Higher Elevation – The Diamond Mind – Pebbles Volume 3 – classic psychedelia
- Factory Star – New Chemical Light – Enter Castle Perilous – from the new album and as a promo for the launch at the Salutation in Hulme this friday. Album is available from Occultation Records.
- Saucer – Barney – These Are Testing Times – the first of four fumbles from Farley – and he says in response to my query about more info about this band "I know nowt more about them. That track appeared on a compilation and I've never managed to find anything else by them. I think they released a few other things -see discogs.com – but think they must have been pretty short-lived. The only clear thing is 555 Records, the label the compilation was released on. I like that track, even if it's totally predictable as to what is going to happen."
- Well Wisher – Babe Issues – Split with Polina – thanks to Ian Breen for drawing this fantastic pair of new tunes from this great band. Available from Bandcamp/
- Crash of Rhinos – Wide Awake – Distal – and thanks again to Ian Breen for drawing this rather fine band from Derby to my attention – check them out on Bandcamp.
- GlassHeads – Man In the Street – Pre-release single – out soon check out their new website
- Red House Painters – Mistress – Red House Painters – Farley's second fumble of the evening.
- Young Widows – Future Heart – In and Out of Youth and Lightness – from the rather spiffing new album.
- Obits -You Gotta Lose – Moody, Standard and Poor – also from the rather spiffing new album.
- Well Wisher – Montel – Split with Polina – as above.
- Lush – Nothing Natural – Spooky – third Farley fumble of the evening.
- Factory Star – The Fall of GB – Enter Castle Perilous – another track from the great album and if you are tempted to ask – it is not about the band Martin co-founded in 1976!
- The Go-Go Darkness – Radio Talk – Dark Heart – via Mr Thornborough – thanks…..from the Outlier/Vebeth lable …. more of them to come
- Moff Skellington – A Song to Make You Gassy With Concern – Embers from the Rapid Eye – another song from the new album
- Sonic Youth – Within You Without You – Daydream Nation (Expanded Edition) – the last fumble of the evening
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I follow my favorite marine mammals around the world and have been diving in the Bahamas, Hawaii, Galapagos, Arctic Circle, Maldives, Azores and many more. I'm inspired by dolphin movements, energy, intelligence and social structure. Also the silence of the big blue inspires me.
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Today the California Academy of Sciences achieved a groundbreaking feat of sustainable design as the U.S. Green Building Council presented it with its second LEED Platinum certification, making it America's first double platinum museum, and the world's largest double platinum building! The green-roofed museum designed by Renzo Piano continues to perform to the highest sustainable standards three years after it received its first LEED rating. Find out more about what makes this building so remarkably green right after the jump!
The devastating 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California severely damaged the original 158 year old academy building in Golden Gate Park, giving the organization a chance to start over. So they took their time (a full ten years) to create a super energy-efficient green-roofed building that includes an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, as well as a world-class research and education program. The first LEED Platinum rating was awarded based on the building's superior design and construction, but the latest certification under the USGBC's "Existing Buildings: Operation & Maintenance" category acknowledges the incredible strides taken to ensure that every aspect of the museum's day-to-day operations are as earth-friendly as possible.
Of the 80 points available, the Academy received an unprecedented 82. This is for achieving the very best marks in sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy use and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality, and innovation in the design process. Here are a few specific highlights: 100% of the building's computers are energy star-rated and 100% of the paper used in the building is composed of post-consumer recycled content. Up to 65% of the Academy's waste is recycled or composted (including the waste of the 5 million visitors who have walked the lush corridors to date), and 70% of the staff use alternative transportation to get to work. The Academy uses 32% less water than the average building, while 100% of the roof and 80% of the surrounding landscape consists of indigenous vegetation. Finally, the Academy continues to share their learning and love of nature with ongoing education programs. This is definitely a crowning achievement that the rest of the world can look to for inspiration.
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As I am standing before you I am overcome by sadness and a sense of failure. I wish to share the same with you and with our health Minister Mr.Suresh Shetty who had agreed to join us today. The latest census data exposes the inadequacy of our efforts and our collective failure which let 7 million girls go missing from our population over the last 10 years. In spite of the activists and all those who are working for the cause shouting hoarse about the falling sex ratio there was hardly any urgency in the efforts of the government to curb the practice of illegal pre-birth sex determination.
Now we have a situation where pre-birth sex selection has ceased to be a phenomenon of a few states or districts. It has almost become a pan India phenomena. Except six states all the others have shown a decline in sex ratio. Three of the six states Punjab (874), Haryana ( 830), Gujarat ( 886) had only minor improvements and are still far from the national average of 914 girls per 1000 boys. While we were sure that sex ratio would further decline in Maharashtra, the figure 883 came as a shock to many of us. Mumbai recording a fall of 48 points and reaching 874 girls per 1000 boys was a shocker.
The media is covering the issue extensively and the government has launched a campaign to Save the Girl Child. Do we really need to be in such dire straits to wake up and put our act together? Do we need the foetuses to float in a nallah to push us into action. I have a few questions to the Health Minister who is with us today on behalf of all of us. Why did the Maharashtra government take 3 years to constitute the State Supervisory Board? Why are the advisory boards not constituted or called for meetings as per the requirements under the law? Why does the government shy away from treating the issue as one of medical malpractice and illegal business by some doctors? How come whenever we speak of pre-birth sex selection the focus shifts to controlling abortions and monitoring and harassing of women? Why don't we try to understand what is it that has changed in our perennially son preferring society that makes the choice of eliminating girls and making a business out of it so easy. We did not have bad sex ratios even when we were a newly liberated country in 1960's! What has changed now?
Our aspirations have changed thanks to liberalization and the visibility of prosperity all around us. Choices have become accessible and affordable thanks to aggressive marketing of technologies. But unfortunately, nothing much has changed with regard to the status of women. It is such a sad joke that whenever we say mind set change we only think of posters, banners and films. Do they really change our attitudes? Would I like to have a daughter just because I saw a poster, if I am not sure that she would get quality education in safe and sensitive schools which would help her become economically independent? Will I dream of sending her to work if I am not confident of her safety, security and equal opportunities at work place? Will I fight for my unborn daughter if I am not confident of the efficiency of the legal system, sincerity n honesty of the administrative system and support systems available for me – half way homes, child support, career n legal counseling, employment opportunities etc if I chose to leave the abusive family?
Mind sets change when we change the circumstances in which we live, communication helps but it is not adequate in itself. We have some of the most progressive laws but very little financial as well as human investments are made in implementing them effectively.
The shortage of women will only make the atrocities on women increase making girls that much more vulnerable and unwanted, trapping us into a vicious circle. WE need the government to be proactive on many fronts and act with sincerity and accountability. It is heartening to that the Govt of Maharashtra has launched the www.amchimulgi.gov.in website for online registration of complaints and a help line as well to register complaints as well as to provide counselling services to women facing family pressure to go for sex determination. I request each one of you to be vigilant and complain online whenever you visit a clinic and find that it is not complying with the law or whenever you get to know that somebody had been informed about the sex of the foetus by a doctor. The things that you need to look into are:
· A board at any ultrasound clinic saying sex selection is a punishable crime
· 2 copies of the PCPNDT Act should be available
· Registration certificate of ultrasound machine
· Registration certificate of doctor/radiologist
· F and G forms to be filled up correctly
· The sex of the foetus should not be revealed in any which way
We hope the government works on the complaints with alacrity. We have developed some real good communication material and hope the government uses it to promote the website.
We have launched the Million signatures campaign in 2009 and we have been collecting signatures to demand the government to initiate a few programmatic/policy interventions. Our demands include:
· Reconstituting the advisory boards as per law
· Conduct a social audit of reports submitted by the clinics
· Make available online data of USG machines sold by companies
· Institute a special fast track court
· Appoint a special prosecutor at the state level
· Initiate legal action against clinics for any violation of the Act
We have received 60,000 signatures so far. These signatures are received through SMSes, emails, and through signatures obtained at various events, colleges and organizations. I am sure many of you have signed the pledge card. Sir, we do not have much time, we need to act and act now. We have to keep our personal, professional and political agenda's aside and fight for the rights of the girls. . Sir, we do not have much time, we need to act and act now. We have to keep our personal, professional and political agenda's aside and fight for the rights of the girls. It is not just about her! It is about us as people, us as a society and us as a country.


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I had an initial issue with the adapter. Because it fits the GI magazine so tightly, I didn't realize that the magazine catch wasn't seating in the magazine slot. So I ended up grinding the lugs some more and the front of the magazine lips sits on the lugs and it feeds and ejects properly for about 6 rounds. What I'm discovering, is that the magazine doesn't sit quite vertical in the magazine well. If I hold the magazine back and cycle the rounds, I can cycle a whole magazine reliably; if I don't, I get 5 or 6 rounds and then have to re-seat the magazine. Now I have a couple questions for you:
1. Since the front of the feed lips are obviously high enough to feed the rounds, have I ground it enough?
2. Is the magazine supposed to sit level (seems like it should) and if it doesn't do I need to look for another problem?
3. There is only a sliver of metal between the magazine release tab (the tab for the AR mag release) and the top of the adapter and it is bulged upward. Is this normal?
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1. I have no way to tell how much is ground off, but better to check out the possible fixes below to start with.
2. No the mag is slightly lower in the rear so the bolt doesn't hit the primer in the middle. Standard protocol is to only touch the top 1/3 of the round to start it moving.
3. It sounds like your mag catch is too long and catching the follower, causing the rounds to misfeed. This also causes the bulge as the mag being forced into the adapter against the magcatch can't slide out the slot, so it bends the little keeper tab. Another possibility is the adapter is not firmly against the bottom of the receiver causing the rear of the mag to hang down too low. You will have to adjust these two things to fit your rifle as I didn't(/couldn't, as the magcatch wasn't complete) spend the time tuning it to a rifle, thus a kit.
I think you will find that the mag is not fitting as tight as you think in the adapter. I believe the adapter is slightly off center causing the mag to rub the narrow part of the magwell of your receiver. Some rifles have a slightly narrower front than others. It may be necessary to hit this part of your magwell with a file slightly. Look in the bottom of your magwell with the adapter on, but mag out. You shouldn't be able to see the edges of the receiver as the mag is almost as wide as the adapter. If you can see the narrow part of the receiver, you will need to hit the edges you see with a file. Maybe 3 licks per side or so until the mag isn't touching them.
Here are some measurements for the magcatch I start with. It should be about .038 from the edge of the catch to the outside of the 1/8" z bar you welded it to. This is a good starting point. Yours may need to be slightly shorter, but should not need to be longer as it can and will interfere with the mag follower. Grind it at a slight angle starting at the bottom as it will make for easier mag loading. The rear of the adapter should be firmly against the bottom of the receiver, and no taller than the blank adapter was when I shipped it (I believe it was 1.935, but I'll check tomorrow and be sure and tell you.) You can adjust the rear height-to-receiver tightness by bending the tab(of the adapter) that is held by the paddle magcatch of your rifle.
All these little hiccups you are experiencing, I experience on every one before I cure them and box them for sale. I usually go through 90 rounds in each adapter and a few hours of fine tuning. Imagine doing 200 at a time.
Appreciate the info and I'll troubleshoot, but this one is from the last batch of completed adapters you sold. Bought it in April, I believe.
Where I'm seeing wear on the mag well is on the rear and sides, but I'll check it out again.
Sorry, I get confused about who gets what. If it was one of the finished ones, it worked repeatedly before shipping, so I would still check for centering. If you remove the adapter and insert a mag in it is it still tight? It should be loose enough for the mag to fall out when the magcatch is pressed. If it isn't, send it back and I'll send you another. Make sure the magcatch spring is holding the magcatch closed and that the mag isn't just coming loose from the recoil. I have had a few springs, that for some reason, have not held tight enough after a few months.
I'm packing you one up now.
I'll try to ship this one off on Monday.


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'Smoke bomb' sequel in Tennessee?
In rural Dunlap, Tennessee, six teenage girls were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide on Wednesday night after school officials discovered a list of 300 names in a school garbage can that police contend was a list of people to be killed, according to the Associated Press. The Sequatchie County High School students, ages 14 to 15, also allegedly posted death threats on a MySpace page. Police would not reveal the full contents of the posting, which has been removed, but school officials did say the list included the names of Sequatchie students and faculty members, as well as the names of Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, and the Energizer Bunny.
The circumstances are reminiscent of last year's case of four Albemarle teenage boys who were arrested and charged with conspiring to murder and blow up schools. It was later revealed that MySpace postings made up much of the case against the boys while no specific plot was ever uncovered and no bomb-making materials were found. A Charlottesville jury later returned a not-guilty verdict in the trial of the one boy who appealed his closed-trial guilty verdict.
Additionally, the initial public discourse about the Tennessee case seems remarkably similar to that of the Albemarle arrests, specifically with regard to the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School. Roger Thompson, a professor of criminal justice told the Chattanooga Times Free Press, "It's Columbine... It taps the nerve of every parent. It needs to be taken seriously." Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Camblos said last March that his handling of the case was "absolutely colored by Columbine," and later revealed in an interview on WINA that one reason he took the threats so seriously was that the alleged "ringleader's" birthday is April 20, the same date as the Columbine shooting.
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Oh good grief. It's a bunch of 14-year-olds, definitely a joke. If we're going to lock up anyone whose made a joke about killing someone *cough*Barney*cough*, the jails will be full.
Yes, the school officials should have investigated. But once they found that there was no real danger, they should have told the girls their list was stupid, and maybe given them detention. Not ruin their lives.


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Melisa Lishner, director with Crystal and Company, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2013: NAREIT's Law, Accounting and Finance Conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Lishner discussed trends in D&O insurance litigation.
"Even though federal class actions have slowed down, we anticipate that it is not going to continue," she said. "With the economy slowly strengthening, you end up with more transactions, which require more documentation, which require either shareholder approval or more scrutiny over those documents. Whenever you have a transaction, you are going to get noticed, and with mergers and acquisitions, you have a 95 percent chance of getting a claim once the transaction is announced."
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This is a reposting of the last announcement; no new information is present. 6th International Meeting on Arabidopsis Research June 7-11, 1995 Madison, Wisconsin USA I will repost the meeting announcement at regular intervals or whenever there is new information. Any new information will be at the beginning of the message. Travel notes: For those who wish to schedule flights in and out of Chicago rather than Madison, there is bus service from the Chicago airport to the Wisconsin Union meeting site provided by the Van Galder Bus Company (9 departures per day; $17 per one way ticket). This service is not reserved for the meeting and this company does not accept reservations or advance ticket sales. Tickets are purchased at the airport. The time of our meeting is scheduled when there is unlikely to be a large demand on the bus service. The number to obtain the schedule is 608-257-5593. For those flying from Boston, New York (LGA), Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, San Diego and Los Angeles to Madison, you might want to consider Midwest Express Airlines (800-452-2022) which provides first class service to all seats at regular fares. Detailed directions to the conference site from Madison and Chicago will be provided with a confirmation of receipt of registration materials. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION AND RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS IS APRIL 5. THE TITLE, AUTHORS AND TEXT OF THE ABSTRACT MUST FIT WITHIN AN AREA 12 CM HIGH BY 16.5 CM WIDE. THE AREA AVAILABLE FOR EACH POSTER IS 4 FT (120 CM) HIGH BY 3 FT (90 CM) WIDE. Some of the registrants who submit poster abstracts will be chosen to present a talk in the appropriate session. Rooms will be available for anyone who wishes to organize a workshop before or after the meeting or during the designated time: 4:00 to 6:30 on June 10. Provide a title and list of participants to the Wisconsin Union address below or to Rick Amasino by email at amasino at biochem.wisc.edu To register for the meeting you may print and complete the following form (we will not accept registration by email) and return (by mail) with payment (and abstract if you wish to present a poster and be considered for a "poster talk") to: Wisconsin Union/Arabidopsis meeting Conference Services 800 Langdon Street Madison, WI 53706 USA Name: Affiliation: Department: Street: City/State/Code: Country Telephone: Fax: E-mail: FEES (in U.S. dollars): ($175.00) Conference Package (includes Registration fee and all meals except breakfast) Place the amounts in parentheses for any of the following options you wish to have. Housing Options: Dormitory housing package (includes nights of June 7-10 and breakfast June 8-11) The dormitories are air conditioned. For those who desire hotel accomodations a list of nearby hotels is provided below. ( ) $170/person Single Occupancy ( ) $110/person Double Occupancy (if you wish to request a specific roommate write the name below this line) ( ) Early arrival/late departure - extra nights of dormitory housing ($19/person double; $31/person single (indicate arrival and departure dates below). ( ) Parking ($4/day) ( ) Total ($175.00 + options selected) Payment by check (payable to Wisconsin Union/Arabidopsis meeting) or Mastercard or Visa credit card is acceptable. For credit card payment provide the following: Mastercard or Visa (circle one) Card Number: Expiration Date: Cardholder Signature: The following scientific program was prepared by the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) (elected by electronic ballot by North American subscribers to the Arabidopsis electronic bulletin board). The current members of the NAASC are Frederick M. Ausubel, Harvard Medical School (Chairperson), Joanne Chory, Salk Institute, Gloria Coruzzi, New York University, Joseph Ecker, University of Pennsylvania, Mark Estelle, Indiana University, and David Meinke, Oklahoma State University. In addition, Mike Sussman, University of Wisconsin, served on the program committee. WEDNESDAY JUNE 7, 1995 REGISTRATION BUFFET DINNER AND MIXER 6:00- 9:00 POSTER SESSION 8:00-12:00 THURSDAY JUNE 8, 1995 SESSION 1 - 9:00-10:30 Genomics and Related Technologies J. Ecker (Chair) R. Schmidt (John Innes Centre): Physical mapping on chromosome 4 and 5 M. Bevan (John Innes Centre): The European Arabidopis genome sequencing project D. Bouchez (INRA, Versailles France): A new YAC library for genome mapping in Arabidopsis Poster Talks BREAK 10:30-11:00 SESSION 2- 11:00-12:30 Development I -Embryonic D. Meinke (Chair) D. Shevell (Rockefeller Univ.): The role of EMB30 in plant development. B. Schwartz (Okla. State Univ.): The SUS2 gene and abnormal development of the suspensor. Marilyn West (U Calif.-Davis): Tales from the Crypt--Revelations from Dead Embryos Poster Talks LUNCH 12:30- 2:00 SESSION 3 - 2:00-3:30 Development II - Post-Embryonic B. Pruitt (Chair) D. Preuss (Univ. Chicago): Pollen-pistil communication in Arabidopsis: Late and early events P. Springer (CSH): Gene trap disruption of PROLIFERA, a gene required for megagametophyte and embryo development in Arabidopsis A. Ray (Univ. Rochester): The gametophyte and the sporophyte in female reproductive development K. Schneitz (Harvard Univ): Organ develpment in higher plants: A systematic genetic anlysis of ovule ontogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Poster Talks BREAK 3:30- 4:00 SESSION 4 - 4:00-5:30 Development III- Post-Embryonic G. Jurgens (Chair) K. Barton (Univ. Wisconsin): Initiation and maintenance of the shoot apical meristem T. Laux (Univ. Tubingen): Genes involved in shoot meristem formation and organisation B. Scheres (Univ. Utrecht): Genetic analysis of root development L. Di Laurenzio (New York Univ): A molecular genetic analysis of root morphogenesis Poster Talks DINNER 5:30- 7:30 POSTERS 7:30-12:00 FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1995 SESSION 5 - 9:00-10:00 Development IV - Flowers E. Meyerowitz (Chair) D. Weigel (Salk Inst.): Leafy encodes a developmental switch V. Irish (Yale Univ.): Genetic analyses of petal and stamen development B. Savidge (Univ. Calif. San Diego): Molecular basis of the cauliflower phenotype M. Aukerman (Univ. Wisconsin): Control of flowering time by Luminidependens Poster Talks BREAK 10:30-11:00 SESSION 6 - 11:00-12:30 Development V - Environmental Effects on Development R. Hangarter (Chair) T. Elich (Salk Inst.): Phytochrome signal transduction N. Wei (Yale Univ.): The role of COP9 complex in mediating light control of development M. Ahmad (Univ. Pennsylvania): Genetic analysis of blue-light responses Poster Talks LUNCH 12:30- 2:00 SESSION 7 - 2:00-3:30 Biochemical Genetics I R. Last (Chair) Nigel Crawford (UC San Diego) Nitrate: Signal and Nutrient for Plant Growth Alan B. Rose (Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell) Tryptophan Biosynthesis and Genetics Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth) Analysis of Arabidopsis mutants defective in iron acquisition Poster Talks BREAK 3:30- 4:00 SESSION 8 - 4:00-5:30 Biochemical Genetics II C. Somerville (Chair) C. Chapple (Purdue Univ.): Using Arabidopsis to understand the biochemistry of wood C. Benning (Inst. fur Genbiol Forschung, Berlin): Genetic analysis of thylakoid lipid headgroup biosynthesis B. Lemieux (York Univ.): Molecular genetics of epicuticular wax biosynthesis C. Nawrath (Univ. de Fribourg, Switzerland): Creation of a polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthetic pathway in plastids Poster Talks DINNER 5:30- 7:30 POSTERS 7:30-12:00 SATURDAY JUNE 10, 1995 SESSION 9 - 9:00-10:00 Growth Regulators I M. Estelle (Chair) J. Kieber (Univ. Illinois): Molecular Genetic Analysis of Ethylene Biosynthesis and Action in Arabidopsis J. Ecker (Univ. Pennsylvania): Molecular genetics of ethylene M. Bennett (Univ. Warwick): Molecular Characterization of the AUX1 gene S. Abel (Theologis Lab.): PGEC Early auxin-regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis Poster Talks BREAK 10:30-11:00 SESSION 10 - 11:00-12:30 Growth Regulators II R. Finkelstein (Univ. Calif. Santa Barbara): Genetic analysis of ABA response J. Giraudat (CNRS): Characterization of the ABI1 and ABI3 genes N. Harberd (John Innes Center): Molecular genetics of gibberellin-related signal transduction Poster Talks LUNCH 12:30- 2:00 SESSION 11 - 2:00-3:30 Response to Environmental Stress and Pathogens I K Davis (Chair) K. Davis (Ohio State Univ.): Ozone responses A. Britt (Univ. Calif. Davis): DNA repair M. Thomasow (Mich. State Univ.): Cold-responsive genes J. Braam (Rice Univ.): Touch genes Poster Talks BREAK 3:30- 4:00 WORKSHOPS 4:00- 6:30 Concurrent workshops in smaller meeting rooms. These can be organized on the INTERNET by initiative of any member of the Arabidopsis Community in consultation with the Program Committee. BARBECUE 6:30- 8:30 PARTY 8:30-12:00 SUNDAY JUNE 11, 1995 SESSION 12 - 9:00-10:30 Response to Environmental Stress and Pathogens II B. Staskawicz (Chair) X. Dong (Duke Univ.): Genetic dissection of the SAR signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis R. Innes (Univ. Indiana): The Evolutionary Relationship of disease resistance genes from Arabidopsis and Soybean with similar specificities M. Coleman (Sainsbury Lab.): Cloning and characterization of the Rpp5 Gene Arabidopsis thaliana Poster Talks BREAK 10:30-11:00 SESSION 13 - 11:00-12:30 Cell Biology/Cell Structure N. Raikhel (Chair) N. Raikhel (Michigan State U): Signals and machinery for sorting of plant vacuolar proteins J. Nasrallah (Cornell) A superfamily of S-locus related genes in Arabidopsis J. Schroeder (U Calif-San Diego): Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in guard cells and K nutrition Poster Talks NEARBY HOTELS IN MADISON Concourse Hotel - 1 West Dayton, Madison, WI 53703 608/257-9670 8 blocks from meeting site 376 rooms, 170 with 2 double beds, 90 executive suites Fitness center, bar restaurant Free parking Free shuttle service to meeting site Howard Johnson - 525 WEST JOHNSON STREET, MADISON, WI 53703 608/251-5511 6 Blocks to meeting site 125 rooms, 54 with 2 double beds, 89 with 1 large Pool, fitness center, bar, restaurant Free parking Free shuttle service to meeting site INN ON THE PARK - 22 SOUTH CARROLL, MADISON, WI 53703 608/257-8811 8 blocks to meeting site 220 rooms, 150 with 2 double beds, (total of 362 beds) Pool, fitness center, bar, restaurant Free parking Free shuttle service to meeting site InnTowner - 2424 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 608/233-2902 2 miles to meeting site 120 rooms, 80 with 2 double beds, 40 with king Pool, fitness center, bar, restaurant Free parking Free shuttle service to meeting site Madison Inn - 601 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53703 608/257-4391 1-1/2 blocks to meeting site 75 rooms, 40 with 1 large bed, 35 with 2 large beds Bar, restaurant Free parking University Inn - 441 North Frances Street, Madison, WI 53703 608/257-4881 2 blocks to meeting site 45 rooms, 32 with 2 double beds, 9 with 1 double bed Restaurant Free parking


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Nuno Alves, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Western New England University, has been experimenting with the BeagleBone and posted an excellent how-to guide on getting the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 compatible LCD screens working with the embedded Linux platform. He even developed and shared a C library to make it dead simple to print characters and strings to the these displays. Thanks for sharing, Nuno! No doubt that this will be very helpful for those of us building projects with the 'Bone.
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Subject description: A suite of console applications, and a future puplet
AtomPup is a suite of console applications, targeted at people with limited hardware and console-lovers. It requires extremely minimal system resources (32 MBs of RAM and basically any processor). Atom includes many many fixes that make everything work well, it's more than a pile of compiled applications.
Currently Atom is an
for Puppy (any Puppy, as long as it works with SFSs). I'm currently working on a barebones Puppy to serve as a base for it, so I can make it a complete puplet.
It includes a variety of useful applications, for all common tasks:
- CenterIM - a multi-protocol instant messaging client that supports MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ. Support for Live Journal, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber and IRC is removed.
- WeeChat - a lightweight and extensible IRC client, comes with the FIFO plugin to use with the MOC script (read below), all other plugins are excluded.
- Music On Console - a feature-rich music player that supports MP3, OGG and Flac, file browsing and a playlist. Comes with the default theme and a theme that uses Vifm's colors. All other themes and support for additional formats are removed.
- Transmission - a BitTorrent client, the best there is.
- tnftp - a simple FTP client, included by default in major BSD operating systems.
- Calcurse - a personal organizer with a calendar and daily notes.
- Vifm - a tiny 2-panel file manager that integrates with Vim.
- nano - a simple text editor, support for all programming-related stuff and spell-checking is removed to make it smaller, but the vital help page and all functionality are there.
- Vim - the best text editor there is, with support for spell-checking and all advanced functionality needed for editing files, writing programs and scripting. Compiled with
support for Python, Perl, Ruby and Tcl (it also supports C and many many other scripts and programming languages).
- htop - a process viewer with many features, such as system resources monitoring, process priority managing and process killing.
- Screen - a window manager that allows multiple terminals to run just like tabs in ELinks, for multitasking.
- Vitetris - a Tetris game, with difficulty levels and many options.
- NetHack - a dungeon exploring game. Comes with bug-fix patches, the menu colors patch, the colord HP monitor patch, the assorted YAFMs patch and several modifications to make it work well with Puppy.
All applications are compiled in Puppy standarts (i486) to ensure compatibility with older systems. Some features are removed to make applications depend on less libraries, make them thinner and faster, and lower the RAM usage (as needed libraries are loaded to RAM and kept there).
The RAM usage of Atom is
with only htop running. After running a
Puppy and using WeeChat, CenterIM (with MSN and ICQ), MOC (with 10, 320 Kbps VBR MP3 files), ELinks (with Barry's blog, CNN and the NetHack website open), htop, dhcpcd (a DHCP daemon for my internet connection) and Screen (with UTF-8 support), the RAM usage is 27 MB. The CPU usage doesn't go above 4%. This means that a computer with 32 MB RAM is able to boot Puppy frugally with Atom and run everything efficiently and quickly from RAM.
Another important thing I should not is that all applications are compiled without mouse support, for consistency, since some of them do not support it. Moreover, I believe that console-lovers prefer keyboard combinations.
- Bookmarks in ELinks, that lead to application homepages and documentation.
- /usr/bin/mnp, a "now playing" script for MOC and WeeChat.
- /root/Downloads, for Transmission downloads.
- Default settings for Screen: startup message disabled, various tweaks to make it work nicely with all applications, a statusbar with a list of all open windows and a clock (a "taskbar").
- Default settings for ELinks: colors enabled, clock disabled.
- Default settings for Calcurse: the appointment key is set to p instead of ^A, because it conflicts with Screen.
- Default settings for Weechat: the default nickname is "userX" (user1, user2 ... ), automatic connection to the Puppy IRC channel.
- Default settings for NetHack: colors on, autpickup on, values for inventory, number pad on.
- Default settings for Vim: syntax highlightning on.
- /usr/bin/screen, a script that runs Screen with the -U parameter (to force UTF-8 support) and passes all other parameters. Fixes the issues with ELinks, MOC, Vifm and CenterIM. The Screen executable is /usr/bin/startscreen.
- /usr/bin/vimtutor, a script that runs the Vim tutorial, a silly replacement for the original script.
- /usr/bin/mocp, a script that runs MOC with the Kelev theme - the MOC executable is /usr/bin/startmocp.
- The command used to run MOC is
, because that's something else.
- The "heaviest" (not heavy, just heavier than the others) applications are probably Vim and MOC.
- The reason I included both nano and Vim is that nano is supposed to be a simple editor for text files, and Vim is supposed to be a "word processor", for editing big files and programming, with extensive use of its programming-related and advanced functionality.
- Atom is designed to run in RAM, even on old systems, that's why it's so tiny.
- Vifm, Vim and NetHack share many key combinations. Your best choice is studying the Vim tutorial until you master it, then the other applications I mentioned will be alot easier to use.
- Vifm is also able to open files in Vim.
- Alsamixer is included in all Puppies, you can use it as a mixer. It is wise to set the volume slightly higher than the volume you usually use, so you can lower MOC's volume to 80% and raise it on on more quiet music.
Atom ships in 2 versions:
- A version for kernels 2.6.29 and above (Puppy 4.3 and above) - SFS4.
- A version for older kernels, for older Puppies and Retro versions - SFS3.
If you use a Puppy Retro version and downloaded the SFS4 version by mistake, you can use the SFS converter, through the utilities menu, to convert it to SFS3 and make it usable with your older kernel.
- 24/10/09: build 27, made /usr/bin/vimtutor mehave like the original vimtutor and added ELinks bookmarks to application homepages and documentation.
- 24/10/09: build 26, added default settings for Calcurse - the key to add a new appointment conflicted with Screen.
- 24/10/09: build 25, added comments to /usr/bin/screen, /root/.screenrc and /usr/bin/mocp, made /usr/bin/vimtutor friendlier.
- 24/10/09: build 24, made the script run itself by mistake, now fixed.
- 24/10/09: build 23, added the MOC Kelev theme and the /usr/bin/mocp script that runs MOC with the theme, removed the black theme.
- 24/10/09: build 22, /usr/bin/screen fixed to pass parameters to Screen.
- 24/10/09: build 21, /usr/bin/screen added, Vim tested.
- 24/10/09: build 20, /root/.vimrc and /usr/bin/vimtutor added.
- 24/10/09: build 19, Vim compiled, fixed and added.
- 23/10/09: build 19, experiments with Vim and the automatic Vim compliation script.
- 22/10/09: topic written, all applications fixed and packed, now for real, 18th build.
- 21/10/09: build 18, everything recompiled, ELinks fixed and optimized with dependencies removed, the "now playing" script is improved.
- 20/10/09: build 17, /root/.nethackrc added.
- 20/10/09: build 16, NetHack recompiled with all patches and Puppy fixes.
- ...
(Maybe) Interesting facts:
- All the Atom applications without Vim are just 4.1 MB. The addition of Vim makes them about 11 MB (Vim is huge, it's 21 MB after cleaning!). It doesn't really matter how big they are, unless you use
. For example, if you run MOC from an SFS without Vim, and do this again with Vim in the SFS, the RAM usage will be identical. You only get an extra overhead of 6 MB when using
, since Vim is not loaded to RAM when running MOC.
- I first compiled everything for i686 with O3 instead of i486 with O2, as all Puppy's packages. Everything was slightly bigger and felt somewhat slower. i486 feels smoother on my i686 machine ... maybe it's just me. Weird, isn't it?
- Yes, I use Atom. I just pick the latest Puppy, install it, run it once and open some wizard to trigger the saves thingy, make a save, reboot, add Atom to the SFS list, and use the installed Puppy with
. When I really need xorg, I detach Screen, run xorg, reattach in rxvt, do whatever I do, detach, close xorg and reattach in the terminal.
Downloads, build 27:
- NetHack sources:
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are we who we think we are? or is this all a lie thought up by people whom we can not see?
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Post subject: I'd love to see this as a Puplet
I think this is a great idea and would LOVE to see it made into a full blown barebones puplet, with no X..
I've downloaded the sfs and had fun checking out this great little pack of CLI apps.. Trying to learn...
I'm VERY surprised it has not been a lot more popular. But for what it's worth, great work! I love it.
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Posting just to let you know I also downloaded and have been playing with it on and off since October. (I'm mainly using Puppy 214X so I had to resquash it to squashfs ver 3.0.)
Just wanted to say
thank you
, for this little gem. I'm a minimalist at heart and really do appreciate this effort
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Posted: Mon 29 Mar 2010, 04:45
Post subject: Re: I'd love to see this as a Puplet
sc0ttman wrote:
I think this is a great idea and would LOVE to see it made into a full blown barebones puplet, with no X..
Visited this long-lost topic ... Yes, I'm currently working on Rabbit Linux, which is exactly this thing, but an entire distro. I already made 115 MB of packages, ranging from GCC and glibc to console games. It's not a puplet, but an indendent distro with its own package manager. It uses CARROT packages
I'm currently working on the Rabbit Linux beta, which will probably come with 2 kernels, 22.214.171.124 and the latest one (currently it's running 220.127.116.11).
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What are CARROT packages and where is the software for working with them?
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Posted: Mon 29 Mar 2010, 10:16
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It's an independent distro, and I don't think that Rabbit Linux packages will ever work with Puppy. The only chance of getting them to work is probably dpup and all the Ubuntu-based wooflets floating around.
It has the latest versions of everything, while Puppy has the ancient glibc 2.6 and GCC 4.2.2. Things simply won't run.
In short: this is NOT for Puppy, at least for now. When everything is ready, I'll check this.
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Post subject: rabbit
RabbIT says "RabbIt is the mutating, caching webproxy which is used to speed up surfing over slow links like modems."
Maybe try "Bunny"?
If it can be small and pxe-booted easily but support big applications saved in folders (like Skype and Opera), it will be very useful for schools, as schools do a lot of console programming like C.
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice?
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Umm ... I'll consider that, I've heard that already.
Currently in all test builds it's Rabbit Linux and the user is "bunny". I can replace them. At least for now, it's console only, but it has a browser, IRC client, music player, etc', so it's very usable. I'm going to test Rabbit Linux on my old P3, I want to turn it into a jukebox.
I'm thinking of building "rpup", the problem is things like X that must be taken from somewhere else, at least until I write scripts to build them. I also tried all Rabbit's building scripts under 4.3.x and failed because of the old GCC ... I'll try them again on dpup, they can be useful for building cross-toolchains - you can build a toolchain with GCC 4.2.2, glibc 2.6 and whatever binutils is used by 4.x, to compile 4.x-compatible packages under dpup.
Regarding PXE, I have absolutely no idea how to do that.
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Posted: Sun 04 Apr 2010, 16:34
Post subject: Re-upload sfs
Your AtomPup sfs is not available for download anymore. I wanted to try it with Puppy Onebone. I've got an old Compaq Ipaq 500 Mhz Celeron 128mb and your sfs would seem ideal for it. Any chance of uploading again? Thanks.
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I lost my backups ... maybe someone who downloaded it can upload it.
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Pardon us while we, like, totally re-calibrate our right-wing whackjob-o-meters:
Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish
OCTOBER 8--An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report. Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge's death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery's Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died (while apparently in the midst of some autoerotic undertaking). While the Montgomery Advertiser, which first obtained the autopsy records, reported on Aldridge's two wet suits, the family newspaper chose not to mention what police discovered inside the minister's rubber briefs.
I'm sorry ... there's just no way we can't go there, is there?
There is a dildo in the anus covered with a condom.
Don't you miss the old days when a blowjob in the Oval Office involving consenting adults was enough to send the entire country into fits of gibbering, moralistic panic? Yes, those were good times, weren't they?
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Liberia has some of the highest incidences of sexual violence against women in the world
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even for community workers used to hearing horrific accounts of sexual violence in Liberia, the case of a two-year-old girl raped by a male acquaintance was devastating.
The toddler's mother needed to drop something at the market, so when the man came to visit, she asked him to mind her child for an hour.
"When she got back home, her daughter was screaming and screaming," a welfare officer told researchers. "He had claimed it was just a case of the child missing the mother, but after he left, the infant continued to scream. When she went to change the infant's diaper, she discovered that the baby had blood all over her legs and private parts."
Up to three-quarters of Liberian women suffered sexual violence during the country's 14-year civil war, in which self-appointed generals with names like "Bad Boy" and "Butt Naked" led armies of child soldiers high on marijuana and amphetamines to mutilate and rape as they fought.
Although the conflict ended in 2003, Liberia still has some of the highest incidences of sexual violence against women in the world, according to the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) think-tank.
It cited a 2013 study that found 26 percent of women and girls had been raped outside of marriage and 74 percent had suffered marital rape in northern Nimba county alone.
Research ODI published on Monday blamed "hyper-masculinity" – aggressive, macho behaviour - sparked by years of war, for driving cycles of sexual violence in countries such as Liberia and East Timor, long after fighting has ended.
Mothers raped during conflict now face the risk of their daughters also becoming victims of sexual assaults, ODI said.
Many Liberians witnessed atrocities as civilians or took part in them as combatants during a conflict that killed some 200,000 people out of a population of just over 3 million.
Experts say many men were stripped of their ability to protect or even feed their families in the war. Angry and powerless, they routinely turn on women and girls, reasserting their dominance through the use of force.
ODI Research Fellow Nicola Jones said the case of two-year-old girl assaulted in Liberia's Bomi county, a former rebel base that was one of the worst affected areas during the war, was not exceptional.
"This was not just a one-off case. There were a number of cases of very, very young children being abused, and I think it's only then that people are shocked," said Jones, one of the authors of "The fallout of rape as a weapon of war".
"(But) a 13-year-old? People sort of shrug. I think that's very telling about the toll this normalisation of violence is taking," Jones told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Women and adolescent girls in Liberia spoke repeatedly of the threat of violence from husbands and fathers, but also, from brothers. The violence they encountered was often random and public in nature, taking place quite openly in streets and bars near their homes, Jones said.
If the cycle is to be broken, donors attending this week's London summit on ending sexual violence, should take the unusual step of committing to long-term programmes - perhaps as long as 20 years - to address the problem, ODI said.
"Over a decade on, men no longer face the threat of being killed, but women and girls still face the risk of rape and sexual assault. For them, the war continues," said Janice Cooper of the Carter Centre Liberia, which works with survivors of sexual violence.
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White Ridge Barrow
White Ridge Barrow is East-South-East of the Stalhrim Source, and quite close to it.
It is also the location of the Black Book: The Sallow Regent.
Neloth at Tel Mithryn sends the player on this quest. He has located another of Hermaus Mora's Black Books in White Ridge Barrow and wants it brought to him so he can read it.
The first room after entering the Barrow contains one chest and two dead Reavers. Activate the Door Bar and open the Wooden Door. Defeat the enemies as and when they appear. White Ridge barrow is full of difefrent types of Spiders, as well as occasional Bandit Marauders. Follow the passageway. It makes no difference whether one goes left or right when the passage splits, as both ways lead to a stairway down into the Barrow proper.
New in this Barrow are red sacs out of which Jumping Flame Spiders and and Exploding Flame Spiders hatch and attack. This is the same as how Chaurus Hunters hatch in Dawnguard.
At the bottom of the stairway is a large room with two Ruby Geodes and some urns. Activate the chain at the end of the room to lower a bridge over half of the next room. Go down the stairway to the left and defeat the Bandit Marauder at the bottom. Head up the stairs on the left, defeat the Flaming Spider that appears, and open the door. Defeat the spiders and a Draugr Deathlord. Search the Deathlord and chests for loot.
Head back out of the room and down the stairs into the lower level of the room. Follow the room around the corner to the right. Defeat the Jumping Flame Spiders and the Bandit Marauder. Continue down a corridor at the end of the room.
Along the way is a small chamber with two Ruby Geodes and two Heart Stone Deposits. Continue down the corridor. Open the door to White Ridge Sanctum. Continue on to a Wooden Door. Activate the Door bar and open the Wooden Door. Cross the chasm in the middle of the room. Defeat the Bandit Marauders, the Spiders and Merilar Rendis. Search the bodies. On Merilar Rendis is a key and a diary. Take both and read the diary. It provides some clue as to what is being done inside the Barrow.
Continue through the iron door at the end of the room. The passage leads to a pool of water which is under a grill in the main room. Search the chest for loot. Continue further down the passage to a river which runs the length of the room. Along this river are four Ruby Geodes which can be mined.
Return to the main room. Cross the room and head up the wooden ramps. Defeat (a lot of) spiders. Three Ruby Geodes can be mined in this room. In the far corner of the room, under a ramp/walkway, is a small room. Search this for minor loot.
Return to the room and head up the ramp. At the top, on the right, is a caged room. Open the cage with the key taken from Merilar Rendis' body. Inside the cage is the body of Servos Rendos. Search the body and read the journal. On the table are the Spider Experiment Notes and an Imbuing Apparatus. Read the Notes and find out what the Imbueing Apparatus is used for. Also on the table are ingredients for making Spiders: rubies, spider pods and salt piles.
The Imbuing Apparatus has two parts:
- Imbuing Chamber: ingredients are put in here
- Imbuing switch: activate to make Spiders
The Notes include the following recipes:
Exit the cage and follow the passageway. on the left is a ladder exit to Solsteim. Ignore this for now and continue along the passageway. This passage is actually a dead end but there are various types of ore to be picked up, as well as a knapsack to be searched. Also in this passage are two Ruby Geodes.
Return to the cage and head down the ramp. Cross the room to the gate. Open the gate and hack the spiderwebs away. Ignore the wooden door on the left and follow the corridor to the chest at the end. Return to the wooden door. Activate the door bar, open the door and defeat the abndit mArauders and Spiders inside the room.
Head back down the ramps, across the chasm and up the stairs on the other side. Chop down the spiderwebs and proceed. Open the iron door and follow the passage to a large chamber. In this chamber can be found the Black Book; The Sallow Regent, a word wall with the shout Cyclone: Unleash, a chest and a Dragon Priest named Dukaan.
Defeat Dukaan. The mask increases Frost resistance by 50% and Frost spell damage by 25%. Search the chest for loot and retrieve the Black Book.
It is safe to read the Black Book and finish that quest, before retruning to Neloth.
Retrun to the ladder to Solstheim mentioned earlier. Defeat the Spiders when exiting the Barrow, including a new variant: Jumping Frost Spider. Next to the exit is a Saphire Geode. The exit is in a run-down house across the river from the main entrance of the barrow.
Return to Neloth, who makes a copy of the Black Book before handing it back.