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Peter Yarrow, the folk singer/songwriter from the musical trio Peter, Paul & Mary, has been making some waves in the children's book world for the past couple of years. In 2007, he published a picture book version of one of his most famous songs (co-composed with Lenny Lipton), Puff, the Magic Dragon. At the time of the book's publication, I was working as a children's librarian at a small rural library. I pre-ordered a copy thinking that it would be fun to read or sing aloud during storytime. As soon as I saw the actual book, I knew I also wanted a copy for my own home library. The cloth-covered book came with this beautiful, shimmery foil-enhanced dust jacket and inside gorgeous, full page bleed illustrations by the talented Eric Puybaret.
The land of Honalee, as imagined by Puybaret, is a colorful, magical one. Puff looks very friendly and approachable, the perfect companion for a little boy named Jackie Paper. The song really comes to life in the illustrations and, thankfully, there's even a happy ending. Sad Puff isn't abandoned forever in his cave. Both my kids really like the book and, for the past couple months, my toddler son has requested "Puff" frequently. First he wants to sit and look at the pictures while I sing the song and then he asks for the CD so he can dance to the music. The book comes with a CD recording of Yarrow singing "Puff, the Magic Dragon" with his daughter, Bethany (plus a couple of bonus songs). The beautiful book could easily become a collectible, but I'm afraid ours has already experienced some wear and tear. That's OK though...after all, I'd rather see the book in my children's hands than sitting on the shelf. A worn book signals a good book.
More of Yarrow's folk songs for kids can be found in his Story Songbook series. I reviewed The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Sleepytime Songs in 2008, here on Brimful Curiosities. Since then we've had the opportunity to read and listen to The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Let's Sing Together! published last August. The picture book contains the lyrics to twelve familiar folk songs, and illustrator Terry Widener has created full page spread acrylic artwork to accompany each song. Some favorites of ours in this book include "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and "Hey, Lolly, Lolly." The images in the book help my kids visualize the music, provide meaning to the lyrics and allow for an interactive listening experience. A corresponding music CD comes with the book and the back section of the book includes guitar chord accompaniment diagrams and facts about the songs. The other book in the series is titled The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Favorite Folk Songs.
On Wednesday, we saw a poor, lame doe walk up to our neighbor's bird feeder. The deer's front leg was severely injured and the sight of it broke my heart. Seeing it reminded me of Yarrow's new book, Day Is Done. Images of caring animal parents with their babies grace each page, but apprehension and sorrow is evident in the text, "Do you ask why I'm sighing son? You shall inherit what humankind has done. In a world filled with sorrow and woe, If you ask me why, why is this so?" However, the refrain sends the reassuring message that the parent is there and all will be well when the day is done. At the end of the day, all is well as father and son take each other's hand and embrace. The son's bedroom is filled with toy animals and a poster of the world, implying that the little boy, with a child's outlook on life, is far wiser and loving than those much older than him. My kids aren't as drawn to this book as much as Puff, but they do enjoy looking at the adorable wildlife illustrations by Melissa Sweet. Like in all of Yarrow's books, a CD accompanies the text. Peter Yarrow is the founder of Operation Respect, an organization that works to teach school-aged kids respect and tolerance. His songbook recordings can be found in the media center free of charge so that teachers, administrators, parents and other educational advocates and practitioners can use them in their outreach.
This week for our story + art craft we made flying dragons. I cut out a dragon shape from green cardstock paper. Using a mirror image paint technique, we folded the dragon in half and the kids decorated one side using glitter paint. After pressing both sides together, we had symmetrically painted dragons. The glitter glistens and feels like the dragon scales. After the paint dried, we folded paper airplanes and stapled the dragons to the top. Voila, a flying dragon. Ours don't exactly glide but fly erratically, sometimes performing loops then crashing to the ground! (Interested in more Puff activities? A Puff Activity Kit is available as a downloadable pdf here: www.sterlingpublishing.com/file_download/43).
Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, illustrated by Eric Puybaret. Sterling Children's Books (August 2007); ISBN 9781402747823; 24 pages; Book Source: Personal copy
The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Let's Sing Together! illustrated by Terry Widener. Sterling Children's Books (August 2009); ISBN 9781402759635; 48 pages; Book Source: Review copy provided by publisher
The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Let's Sing Together! by Peter Yarrow, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. Sterling Children's Books (October 2009); ISBN 9781402748066; 24 pages; Book Source: Personal copy
Post what you've been reading each week with your kids at Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns. A Mommy's Adventures hosts the "stART" meme (Story + Art) each week. Hope Is the Word hosts a Read Aloud Thursday link-up as well and Amy at Keeping up with the Schultz Family hosts Round Robin. I am an Amazon affiliate and may receive a very small commission for products purchased through my Amazon links.


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Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash
Makes: 6 servings (or 3 as a main course)
Free of: gluten and all top allergens
- 3 medium-sized acorn squash, halves and seeded
- 1/4 cup (60 mL) water
- 2 cups (475 mL) quinoa, cooked
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup (250 mL) red or orange bell pepper, diced
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 1 small red onion, diced
- 1/4 cup (60 mL) chives, finely diced
- Pinch salt and pepper
- Heat oven to 350° F. Place squash on a baking sheet, cut side up. Pour water onto sheet, and cover with tin foil. Bake squash 20-25 minutes or until cooked. Remove from oven.
- Cook quinoa (follow package instructions); place in medium-sized bowl.
- In a sauté pan, heat olive oil on medium. Add bell pepper, zucchini, onion and chives. Season with salt and pepper, and sauté 4-6 minutes.
- Add vegetables to cooked quinoa. Spoon mixture into cooked squash halves.
- Return stuffed squash to oven and bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove and serve.
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Gov. Dannel Malloy issued the following statement about the frigid temperatures tonight.
(HARTFORD, CT) – With bitter winter cold temperatures expected over the next several days, Governor Dannel P. Malloy today directed the Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS), the Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to coordinate with 2-1-1 and Connecticut's network of shelters to ensure that the state's most vulnerable people are protected.
"Overnight temperatures are expected to range from 0 to 10 degrees over the next several days," Governor Malloy said. "Factor in the wind chill, and it will feel like 0 to -15 degrees. We are taking steps now to make sure that we can take care of those in need of shelter.
"The 2-1-1 system provides an incredibly important service to the people of Connecticut and I encourage everyone to take advantage of the help that is available to them. I am also encouraging local communities to consider opening warming centers or other facilities to help people in need."
Under the state's Severe Cold Weather Protocol, DEMHS activates its WebEOC communications network – an internet-based system that allows local, regional and state emergency management officials and first responders to share up-to-date information about a variety of situations and conditions. The system is used to monitor capacity at shelters across the state, enabling 2-1-1 to act as a clearinghouse to ensure shelter space is found for those who need it. Local officials, working through WebEOC, can alert 2-1-1 and the state when they open temporary shelters or warming centers.
DSS coordinates with 2-1-1 and the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, as well as working with existing vendors to resolve transportation issues for people needing shelter during the period of severe cold.
DMHAS, meanwhile, has teams who specialize in working with homeless people to locate those who are at risk, spread the word about the 2-1-1 system, and encourage everyone to take advantage of the safety of shelters. The agency is also working with shelters to assess and meet the needs of individual clients during this cold snap.


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March 20, 2012 | by Leonard A. Leo , Felice D. Gaer and Tiffany Lynch
The following essay appeared in World Affairs Journal today. For a link to the original essay, go to http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/sudans-continuing-war-religious-freedom .
In July 2011, South Sudan became an independent country, six years after a peace agreement ended Khartoum"s 20-year war to impose on the South its extremist interpretation of Islam.
By any measure, independence was a victory for the universal human right to freedom of religion or belief. However, while South Sudan"s people are finally free of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir"s tyranny, those remaining under his rule are not. Bashir"s regime and Khartoum"s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) continue to commit egregious human rights violations.
The world needs to shine a light on these abuses. The Khartoum government has launched a brutal war in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile state, bombarding its own people and denying vital humanitarian assistance. Last fall, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), on which we serve, visited a refugee camp in South Sudan filled with people who had fled the Nuba Mountains after being targeted based on their religious identity. Across Sudan, the government is cracking down on civil society, and arresting and frequently torturing protestors, opposition members, students, and activists.
Religious freedom violations increased substantially last year and continue to rise today. These abuses reflect a determination to enforce a narrow, rigid ideology against Sudan"s religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity, and particularly against Christians and non-conforming Muslims. Recently, the Association of Islamic Scholars and Preachers issued a fatwa against National Umma Party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi, and urged Sudan"s leaders to silence "voices" deemed "the enemies of God." Mahdi called for letting women attend marriage ceremonies as witnesses, participate in funerals, and pray in the same line as men, and argued that the hijab is not a part of Islam.
Sudan"s diversity, as well as its human rights commitments, in fact is recognized in its Interim National Constitution, a component of the 2005 peace agreement ("Comprehensive Peace Agreement" or "CPA") with the South. The constitution guarantees the freedoms to worship and assemble, establish and maintain places of worship and appropriate charitable or humanitarian institutions, observe days of rest, celebrate holidays and ceremonies, and communicate with co-religionists at home and abroad. While these guarantees are not fully respected in practice and often are superseded by other laws, the constitution"s commitment to these principles is a vital legal protection for all citizens regardless of religious, ethnic, or political identification.
Moreover, the signing of the CPA and the conclusion of the North/South war advanced religious freedom and other pivotal rights by ending the imposition of sharia law and the attacks on churches in the Christian and animist South. During the CPA-mandated Interim Period, Khartoum actually took small steps to improve religious freedom throughout Sudan.
However, in the lead-up to the South"s January 2011 referendum vote that secured independence, and continuing today, Bashir insisted that a forthcoming constitution will be based on sharia law, exclude references to Sudan"s multi-religious, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity, and roll back religious freedom guarantees. USCIRF has warned that such statements reveal the NCP"s goal of foisting its versions of Arabization and Islamization upon the nation and all of its citizens, regardless of their religious affiliation.
Much now has changed for the worse. Not only have the few gains made during the CPA Interim Period evaporated, but the kinds of violations that earlier prompted USCIRF to name Sudan the world"s worst religious freedom abuser have returned with a vengeance.
Khartoum is targeting Sudanese citizens based on their religious identity and destroying churches, particularly in the Nuba Mountains. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Popular Defense Front (PDF) again have been reportedly targeting Christian pastors and parishioners and attacking churches. In the first few days of fighting there, SAF troops destroyed four of the five churches in Kadugli. On February 1st of this year, the first day of school, the government bombed Heiban Bible College. While no one was hurt, two buildings were destroyed.
Elsewhere in Sudan, violations against Christians have multiplied. Last December, three Sudan Church of Christ members in Khartoum were detained because they were suspected of working with the Sudan People"s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N); they were released after security officers warned them to cease "Christian activities." In Khartoum, Islamist extremists threatened Christian leaders in text messages, visits, and letters. One message reportedly warned, "We want this country to be purely an Islamic state, so we must kill the infidels and destroy their churches all over Sudan." Four houses of worship were attacked, with no one held responsible.
Church leaders report that officials from the Ministry of Physical Planning and Public Utilities have threatened to demolish the Sudanese Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church of Sudan, and the Roman Catholic Church in Omdurman if they continued to conduct services. Christmas was not recognized in 2011 and the government is preventing religious communities from hosting Bible exhibitions.
Government oversight of Christianity is on the upswing. Church leaders report that Sudan"s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment ordered them to provide information about church activities and church members or face arrest. Pastors now report that they are censoring themselves and curtailing activities. This intimidation is reminiscent of the pre-CPA era when pastors were interrogated, arrested, and sometimes tried for allegedly working with the South.
In this post-CPA era, Southerners in Khartoum feel especially vulnerable. They are scheduled to lose their citizenship on April 8th, raising the specter of further government harassment and expulsion. Christian leaders report that Southern Christians fear for their lives and are not attending services or are fleeing to the South.
Also worrisome is a renewed focus on apostasy, a capital crime. The last time Khartoum arrested and charged anyone with apostasy was in 1998, but last year, the government arrested nearly 170 people under this charge. According to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, more than 150 of them were arrested in July, and 129 were formally charged. Their "crime" was practicing a version of Islam which differed from that of the ruling NCP. They were released in September, but only after renouncing their faith and agreeing to follow the regime"s interpretation of Islam. ACJPS also reported that in a separate incident in September, the government charged another 18 individuals with apostasy. Last May, Sudanese intelligence officers arrested Hawa Abdulla Muhammad Saleh, a Christian, for apostasy, proselytizing, "Christianization of minors," and other crimes.
Along with the international community, the United States should tell Sudan that the status quo is utterly unacceptable. In oil negotiations with South Sudan, Bashir"s government has committed theft and demanded exorbitant fees for pipeline usage, demonstrating that it cannot be trusted to do the right thing without intense public pressure. This is why, until Sudan"s leaders take concrete steps to end their war against religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity, the United States should continue to apply economic sanctions, travel bans, and asset freezes as required by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Khartoum also should commit to a transparent, inclusive national constitution drafting process that recognizes Sudan as a multiethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious nation, and that includes respect for international commitments to human rights, including freedom of religion or belief.
The split with the South last year should have taught Khartoum a lesson: Violating the religious freedom and related rights of its citizens is a recipe for endless division and strife. Lasting peace will come only when Khartoum recognizes its international obligation to respect every human right of every one of its citizens.
Leonard A. Leo serves as the Chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Felice D. Gaer serves as a USCIRF Commissioner. Tiffany Lynch is a USCIRF senior policy analyst.
To interview a USCIRF Commissioner, contact Paul Liben at firstname.lastname@example.com or (703) 870-6041.


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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 31 and ends at position 67; the E-value for the PBD domain shown below is 2.98e-7.
PBDP21-Rho-binding domain
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|Small domains that bind Cdc42p- and/or Rho-like small GTPases. Also known as the Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB).
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This entry represents the CRIB domain.
Many putative downstream effectors of the small GTPases Cdc42 and Rac contain a GTPase binding domain (GBD), also called p21 binding domain (PBD), which has been shown to specifically bind the GTP bound form of Cdc42 or Rac, with a preference for Cdc42 [(PUBMED:8107774), (PUBMED:8625410)]. The most conserved region of GBD/PBD domains is the N-terminal Cdc42/Rac interactive binding motif (CRIB), which consists of about 16 amino acids with the consensus sequence I-S-x-P-x(2,4)-F-x-H-x(2)-H-V-G [(PUBMED:7493928)].
Although the CRIB motif is necessary for the binding to Cdc42 and Rac, it is not sufficient to give high-affinity binding [(PUBMED:9660763), (PUBMED:9601050)]. A less well conserved inhibitory switch (IS) domain responsible for maintaining the proteins in a basal (autoinhibited) state is located C-terminaly of the CRIB-motif [(PUBMED:10724160), (PUBMED:10975528), (PUBMED:10966102)].
GBD domains can adopt related but distinct folds depending on context. Although GBD domains are largely unstructured in the free state, the IS domain forms an N-terminal beta; hairpin that immediately follows the conserved CRIB motif and a central bundle of three alpha; helices in the autoinhibited state. The interaction between GBD domains and their respective G proteins leads to the formation of a high-affinity complex in which unstructured regions of both the effector and the G protein become rigid. CRIB motifs from various GBD domains interact with Cdc42 in a similar manner, forming an intermolecular beta;-sheet with strand beta;-2 of Cdc42. Outside the CRIB motif, the C-termini of the various GBD domains are very divergent and show variation in their mode of binding to Cdc42, perhaps determining the specificity of the interaction. Binding of Cdc42 or Rac to the GBD domain causes a dramatic conformational change, refolding part of the IS domain and unfolding the rest [(PUBMED:9660763), (PUBMED:10724160), (PUBMED:10975528), (PUBMED:10966102), (PUBMED:10360579)].
Some proteins known to contain a CRIB domain are listed below:
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There are 9112 PBD domains in 8652 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
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- Evolution (species in which this domain is found)
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing PBD domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with PBD domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing PBD domain in the selected taxonomic class.
- Cellular role (predicted cellular role)
Cellular role: signalling
Binding / catalysis: Cdc42p-binding, Rho-GTPase-binding
- Literature (relevant references for this domain)
Primary literature is listed below; Automatically-derived, secondary literature is also avaliable.
- Nimnual AS, Yatsula BA, Bar-Sagi D
- Coupling of Ras and Rac guanosine triphosphatases through the Ras exchanger Sos.
- Science. 1998; 279: 560-3
- Display abstract
The Son of Sevenless (Sos) proteins control receptor-mediated activation of Ras by catalyzing the exchange of guanosine diphosphate for guanosine triphosphate on Ras. The NH2-terminal region of Sos contains a Dbl homology (DH) domain in tandem with a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain. In COS-1 cells, the DH domain of Sos stimulated guanine nucleotide exchange on Rac but not Cdc42 in vitro and in vivo. The tandem DH-PH domain of Sos (DH-PH-Sos) was defective in Rac activation but regained Rac stimulating activity when it was coexpressed with activated Ras. Ras-mediated activation of DH-PH-Sos did not require activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase but it was dependent on activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase. These results reveal a potential mechanism for coupling of Ras and Rac signaling pathways.
- Thompson G, Owen D, Chalk PA, Lowe PN
- Delineation of the Cdc42/Rac-binding domain of p21-activated kinase.
- Biochemistry. 1998; 37: 7885-91
- Display abstract
p21-activated kinases (PAKs) serve as effector proteins for the GTP-binding proteins Cdc42 and Rac. They are serine/threonine kinases containing the Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB) motif. The main aim of this study was to define the minimal domain of alphaPAK required for Cdc42/Rac binding. Eight stable PAK fragments of varying lengths, each containing the CRIB motif (residues 75-88), were expressed in Escherichia coli, and their ability to interact with Cdc42 and Rac was assessed using scintillation proximity assays, isothermal titration calorimetry, and fluorescence techniques. The shortest fragments examined (residues 70-94 and 75-94) bound only weakly to either Cdc42 or Rac. A longer fragment starting at residue 75 and ending at residue 105 showed binding to Q61L Rac.GTP with Kd = 1.9 microM. Highest affinity binding (Kd approximately 0.05 microM) was seen with longer fragments ending at residue 118 or 132. A small increase in affinity was seen with those fragments starting at residue 70 rather than residue 75. PAK fragments bound with approximately 3-10-fold higher affinity to Cdc42 than to Rac and bound Q61L variants with 5-10-fold higher affinity than wild type. The dissociation rates of Q61L Rac.mant-GTP and of Q61L Cdc42. mant-GTP from PAK fragment residues 70-132 were measured to be 0.66 and 0.25 min-1, respectively, which are 100-fold lower than dissociation rates for Ras:Ras-effector domains, although their affinities are similar. Calorimetric measurements revealed that binding was associated with a relatively slow heat change. It is suggested that these PAK fragments (in the absence of Cdc42 or Rac) might exist predominantly in an inactive conformation that slowly interconverts with an active conformation and/or a slow conformational change may occur upon binding to Cdc42/Rac. In conclusion, the PAK CRIB motif itself is insufficient for high-affinity binding to Cdc42/Rac, but a 30 amino acid region of PAK (residues 75-105), containing this motif, is sufficient.
- Aspenstrom P
- A Cdc42 target protein with homology to the non-kinase domain of FER has a potential role in regulating the actin cytoskeleton.
- Curr Biol. 1997; 7: 479-87
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BACKGROUND: Members of the Rho family of small GTPases have been shown to have a diverse role in cell signalling events. They were originally identified as proteins that, by regulating the assembly of the actin cytoskeleton, are important determinants of cell morphology, and have recently been shown to be involved in transcriptional activation by the JNK/SAPK signalling pathway. In order to understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of Rho GTPases on these processes, the yeast two-hybrid system has been used to identify proteins that bind to an activated mutant of Cdc42, a Rho-family member. RESULTS: A cDNA encoding a previously unidentified Cdc42 target protein, CIP4, which is 545 amino-acids long and contains an SH3 domain at its carboxyl terminus, was cloned from a human B-cell library. The amino terminus of CIP4 bears resemblance to the non-kinase domain of the FER and Fes/Fps family of tyrosine kinases. In addition, similarities to a number of proteins with roles in regulating the actin cytoskeleton were noticed. CIP4 binds to activated Cdc42 in vitro and in vivo and overexpression of CIP4 in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts reduces the amount of stress fibres in these cells. Moreover, coexpression of activated Cdc42 and CIP4 leads to clustering of CIP4 to a large number of foci at the dorsal side of the cells. CONCLUSIONS: CIP4 is a downstream target of activated GTP-bound Cdc42, and is similar in sequence to proteins involved in signalling and cytoskeletal control. Together, these findings suggest that CIP4 may act as a link between Cdc42 signalling and regulation of the actin cytoskeleton.
- Feltham JL et al.
- Definition of the switch surface in the solution structure of Cdc42Hs.
- Biochemistry. 1997; 36: 8755-66
- Display abstract
Proteins of the rho subfamily of ras GTPases have been shown to be crucial components of pathways leading to cell growth and the establishment of cell polarity and mobility. Presented here is the solution structure of one such protein, Cdc42Hs, which provides insight into the structural basis for specificity of interactions between this protein and its effector and regulatory proteins. Standard heteronuclear NMR methods were used to assign the protein, and approximately 2100 distance and dihedral angle constraints were used to calculate a set of 20 structures using a combination of distance geometry and simulated annealing refinement. These structures show overall similarity to those of other GTP-binding proteins, with some exceptions. The regions corresponding to switch I and switch II in H-ras are disordered, and no evidence was found for an alpha-helix in switch II. The 13-residue insertion, which is only present in rho-subtype proteins and has been shown to be an important mediator of binding of regulatory and target proteins, forms a compact structure containing a short helix lying adjacent to the beta4-alpha3 loop. The insert forms one edge of a "switch surface" and, unexpectedly, does not change conformation upon activation of the protein by the exchange of GTP analogs for GDP. These studies indicate the insert region forms a stable invariant "footrest" for docking of regulatory and effector proteins.
- Leberer E, Wu C, Leeuw T, Fourest-Lieuvin A, Segall JE, Thomas DY
- Functional characterization of the Cdc42p binding domain of yeast Ste20p protein kinase.
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Ste20p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae belongs to the Ste20p/p65PAK family of protein kinases which are highly conserved from yeast to man and regulate conserved mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. Ste20p fulfills multiple roles in pheromone signaling, morphological switching and vegetative growth and binds Cdc42p, a Rho-like small GTP binding protein required for polarized morphogenesis. We have analyzed the functional consequences of mutations that prevent binding of Cdc42p to Ste20p. The complete amino-terminal, non-catalytic half of Ste20p, including the conserved Cdc42p binding domain, was dispensable for heterotrimeric G-protein-mediated pheromone signaling. However, the Cdc42p binding domain was necessary for filamentous growth in response to nitrogen starvation and for an essential function that Ste20p shares with its isoform Cla4p during vegetative growth. Moreover, the Cdc42p binding domain was required for cell-cell adhesion during conjugation. Subcellular localization of wild-type and mutant Ste20p fused to green fluorescent protein showed that the Cdc42p binding domain is needed to direct localization of Ste20p to regions of polarized growth. These results suggest that Ste20p is regulated in different developmental pathways by different mechanisms which involve heterotrimeric and small GTP binding proteins.
- Osada S, Izawa M, Koyama T, Hirai S, Ohno S
- A domain containing the Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB) region of p65PAK inhibits transcriptional activation and cell transformation mediated by the Ras-Rac pathway.
- FEBS Lett. 1997; 404: 227-33
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The molecular bases of the versatile functions of Rho-like GTPases are still unknown. Using luciferase assays with rat 3Y1 cells, we found that Rac1 is integrated downstream of Ras in the TRE (TPA response element) activation pathway. Coexpression of a mutant of p65PAK, PAK/RD, lacking the kinase domain but containing the Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB) region, suppressed the TRE activation and cell transformation caused by constitutively activated forms of Ras (RasV12) and Rac1 (Rac1V12). PAK/RD is a good tool to investigate the signaling pathways in which Rac and Cdc42 are involved.
- Rittinger K et al.
- Crystal structure of a small G protein in complex with the GTPase-activating protein rhoGAP.
- Nature. 1997; 388: 693-7
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Small G proteins transduce signals from plasma-membrane receptors to control a wide range of cellular functions. These proteins are clustered into distinct families but all act as molecular switches, active in their GTP-bound form but inactive when GDP-bound. The Rho family of G proteins, which includes Cdc42Hs, activate effectors involved in the regulation of cytoskeleton formation, cell proliferation and the JNK signalling pathway. G proteins generally have a low intrinsic GTPase hydrolytic activity but there are family-specific groups of GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) that enhance the rate of GTP hydrolysis by up to 10(5) times. We report here the crystal structure of Cdc42Hs, with the non-hydrolysable GTP analogue GMPPNP, in complex with the GAP domain of p50rhoGAP at 2.7A resolution. In the complex Cdc42Hs interacts, mainly through its switch I and II regions, with a shallow pocket on rhoGAP which is lined with conserved residues. Arg 85 of rhoGAP interacts with the P-loop of Cdc42Hs, but from biochemical data and by analogy with the G-protein subunit G(i alpha1), we propose that it adopts a different conformation during the catalytic cycle which enables it to stabilize the transition state of the GTP-hydrolysis reaction.
- Zhang B, Wang ZX, Zheng Y
- Characterization of the interactions between the small GTPase Cdc42 and its GTPase-activating proteins and putative effectors. Comparison of kinetic properties of Cdc42 binding to the Cdc42-interactive domains.
- J Biol Chem. 1997; 272: 21999-2007
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The small GTPase Cdc42 interacts with multiple factors to transduce diverse intracellular signals. The factors that preferentially recognize the GTP-bound, active state of Cdc42 include a panel of GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs), the Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB) motif-containing molecules, and the RasGAP domain containing IQGAP1 and IQGAP2. In the present study, we have determined the kinetic parameters underlying the functional interactions between the Cdc42-binding domains of some of these factors and Cdc42 by monitoring the continuous release of gammaPi and have compared the ability of the domains to bind to Cdc42. The catalytic efficiencies (Kcat/Km) of the GAP domains of Bcr, 3BP-1, and p190 on Cdc42 are found to be 60-, 160-, and over 500-fold less than that of Cdc42GAP, respectively, and the differences are due, to a large part, to differences in Km. The Km values of the GAP domains compare well to the binding affinity to the guanylyl imidodiphosphate-bound Cdc42, suggesting a rapid equilibrium reaction mechanism. The affinity of the Cdc42-binding domains of the CRIB motif of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome protein and p21(cdc42/rac)-activated kinase 1, and the RasGAP-related domain of IQGAP1, which all inhibit the intrinsic rate of GTP hydrolysis of Cdc42, are found to be 4, 0.7, and 0.08 microM, respectively. These quantitative analysis provide insight that Cdc42GAP functions as an effective negative regulator of Cdc42 by fast, relatively tight binding to the GTP-bound Cdc42, whereas IQGAP1 interacts with Cdc42 as a putative effector with over 10-fold higher affinity than the CRIB domains and GAPs, and suggest that various GAPs and effectors employ distinct mechanism to play roles in Cdc42-mediated signaling pathways.
- Hart MJ, Callow MG, Souza B, Polakis P
- IQGAP1, a calmodulin-binding protein with a rasGAP-related domain, is a potential effector for cdc42Hs.
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Proteins that associate with the GTP-bound forms of the Ras superfamily of proteins are potential effector targets for these molecular switches. A 195 kDa protein was purified from cell lysates by affinity chromatography on immobilized cdc42Hs-GTP and a corresponding cDNA was isolated. Sequence analysis revealed localized identities to calponin, the WW domain, unconventional myosins and to the rasGAP-related domain (GRD) contained in IRA, NF-1, SAR1 and rasGAP. p195 was found to be identical to IQGAP1, a protein previously reported to bind ras. Purified recombinant p195/IQGAP1 bound to and inhibited the GTPase activity of cdc42Hs and rac whereas no interaction with ras was detected. The C-terminal half of IQGAP1 containing the GRD bound to cdc42 and rac in a GRD-dependent fashion, but a smaller fragment containing only the GRD did not. Cdc42 was also co-immunoprecipitated from cell lysates with antibody specific to p195/IQGAP1. Calmodulin also co-immunoprecipitated with p195/IQGAP1 and was found to associate with fragments containing the IQ domain. Expression of a cDNA fragment encoding the GRD inhibited the CDC24/CDC42 pathway in yeast, but no effect on ras was observed. In mammalian cells, both endogenous and ectopically expressed p195/IQGAP1 were localized to lamellipodia and ruffling cell membranes, where co-localization with actin was apparent. These results suggest that IQGAP1 is an effector target for cdc42Hs and may mediate the effects of this GTPase on cell morphology.
- Symons M et al.
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, a novel effector for the GTPase CDC42Hs, is implicated in actin polymerization.
- Cell. 1996; 84: 723-34
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The Rho family of GTPases control diverse biological processes, including cell morphology and mitogenesis. We have identified WASP, the protein that is defective in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), as a novel effector for CDC42Hs, but not for the other Rho family members, Rac and Rho. This interaction is dependent on the presence of the G protein-binding domain. Cellular expression of epitope-tagged WASP produces clusters of WASP that are highly enriched in polymerized actin. This clustering is not observed with a C-terminally deleted WASP and is inhibited by coexpression with dominant negative CDC42Hs-N17, but not with dominant negative forms of Rac or Rho. Thus, WASP provides a novel link between CDC42Hs and the actin cytoskeleton, which suggests a molecular mechanism for many of the cellular abnormalities in WAS. The WASP sequence contains two novel domains that are homologous to other proteins involved in action organization.
- Burbelo PD, Drechsel D, Hall A
- A conserved binding motif defines numerous candidate target proteins for both Cdc42 and Rac GTPases.
- J Biol Chem. 1995; 270: 29071-4
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Rho, Rac, and Cdc42 are small GTPases that regulate the formation of a variety of actin structures and the assembly of associated integrin complexes, but little is known about the target proteins that mediate their effects. Here we have used a motif-based search method to identify putative effector proteins for Rac and Cdc42. A search of the GenBankTM data base for similarity with the minimum Cdc42/Rac interactive binding (CRIB) region of a potential effector protein p65PAK has identified over 25 proteins containing a similar motif from a range of different species. These candidate Cdc42/Rac-binding proteins include family members of the mixed lineage kinases (MLK), a novel tyrosine kinase from Drosophila melanogaster (DPR2), a human protein MSE55, and several novel yeast and Caenorhabditis elegans proteins. Two murine p65PAK isoforms and a candidate protein from C. elegans, F09F7.5, interact strongly with the GTP form of both Cdc42 and Rac, but not Rho in a filter binding assay. Three additional candidate proteins, DPR2, MSE55, and MLK3 showed binding to the GTP form of Cdc42 and weaker binding with Rac, and again no interaction with Rho. These results indicate that proteins containing the CRIB motif bind to Cdc42 and/or Rac in a GTP-dependent manner, and they may, therefore, participate in downstream signaling.
- Madaule P et al.
- A novel partner for the GTP-bound forms of rho and rac.
- FEBS Lett. 1995; 377: 243-8
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Using the yeast two hybrid system and overlay assays we identified a putative rholrac effector, citron, which interacts with the GTP-bound forms of rho and rac1, but not with cdc42. Extensive homologies to known proteins were not observed. This 183 kDa protein contains a C6H2 zinc finger, a PH domain, and a long coiled-coil forming region including 4 leucine zippers and the rholrac binding site. We recently identified three others putative rho effectors characterized by a common rho binding motif. Citron does not share this motif and displays a distinctive protein organization, thus defining a separate class of rho partners.
- Ottilie S et al.
- Fission yeast pak1+ encodes a protein kinase that interacts with Cdc42p and is involved in the control of cell polarity and mating.
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A STE20/p65pak homolog was isolated from fission yeast by PCR. The pak1+ gene encodes a 72 kDa protein containing a putative p21-binding domain near its amino-terminus and a serine/threonine kinase domain near its carboxyl-terminus. The Pak1 protein autophosphorylates on serine residues and preferentially binds to activated Cdc42p both in vitro and in vivo. This binding is mediated through the p21 binding domain on Pak1p and the effector domain on Cdc42p. Overexpression of an inactive mutant form of pak1 gives rise to cells with markedly abnormal shape with mislocalized actin staining. Pak1 overexpression does not, however, suppress lethality associated with cdc42-null cells or the morphologic defeat caused by overexpression of mutant cdc42 alleles. Gene disruption of pak1+ establishes that, like cdc42+, pak1+ function is required for cell viability. In budding yeast, pak1+ expression restores mating function to STE20-null cells and, in fission yeast, overexpression of an inactive form of Pak inhibits mating. These results indicate that the Pak1 protein is likely to be an effector for Cdc42p or a related GTPase, and suggest that Pak1p is involved in the maintenance of cell polarity and in mating.
- Metabolism (metabolic pathways involving proteins which contain this domain)
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% proteins involved KEGG pathway ID Description 16.47 map04810 Regulation of actin cytoskeleton 12.99 map04012 ErbB signaling pathway 12.99 map04660 T cell receptor signaling pathway 12.99 map05211 Renal cell carcinoma 12.99 map04510 Focal adhesion 12.99 map04360 Axon guidance 6.26 map04010 MAPK signaling pathway 4.18 map05120 Epithelial cell signaling in Helicobacter pylori infection 4.18 map04650 Natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity 3.48 map04520 Adherens junction 0.23 map00562 Inositol phosphate metabolism 0.23 map00632 Benzoate degradation via CoA ligation
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with PBD domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing PBD domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
- Structure (3D structures containing this domain)
3D Structures of PBD domains in PDB
PDB code Main view Title 1cee SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF CDC42 IN COMPLEX WITH THE GTPASE BINDING DOMAIN OF WASP 1e0a Cdc42 complexed with the GTPase binding domain of p21 activated kinase 1ees SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF CDC42HS COMPLEXED WITH A PEPTIDE DERIVED FROM P-21 ACTIVATED KINASE, NMR, 20 STRUCTURES 1ej5 SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE AUTOINHIBITED CONFORMATION OF WASP 1f3m CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN SERINE/THREONINE KINASE PAK1 1t84 Solution structure of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) autoinhibited core domain complexed with (S)-wiskostatin, a small molecule inhibitor 2k42 Solution Structure of the GTPase Binding Domain of WASP in Complex with EspFU, an EHEC Effector 2lnh Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) exploits a tryptophan switch to hijack host F-actin assembly 2odb The crystal structure of human cdc42 in complex with the CRIB domain of human p21-activated kinase 6 (PAK6) 2ov2 The crystal structure of the human RAC3 in complex with the CRIB domain of human p21-activated kinase 4 (PAK4) 2qme Crystal structure of human RAC3 in complex with CRIB domain of human p21-activated kinase 1 (PAK1) 4fie Full-length human PAK4 4mit 4MIT
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Last year I got told to drive from the Test and Tune to the pit area at no more than 50 mph. Well, buck 20 was a hoot but as more cars show up maybe 50 is a bit safer. You can camp on site, hotels too. Beer and food close by too.
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"Personal Progress Mentors," New Era, Mar. 2013, 10–12
Personal Progress Mentors
Hillary Holbrook lives in Iowa, USA.
Young women are accomplishing great things through Personal Progress, and they're helping one another at the same time.
Every year in Iowa, the corn plants grow taller than 10 feet high. In the summer, it's not hard to find fields of tall, leafy corn stalks that extend for miles.
But look closer. Something else is standing tall in central Iowa—a group of six young women who are diligently helping one another achieve their Personal Progress. They mentor each other under the direction of their Young Women leaders and with the help and support of their parents and priesthood leaders. These young women understand what it means to "stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places" (Mosiah 18:9) as they teach by example the true value of Personal Progress.
Establishing Good Habits
Camilla C., 14, remembers feeling excited when she turned 12 and entered the Young Women program. "Yes, I finally made it!" says Camilla, reflecting on that day. However, she soon became overwhelmed flipping through the pages of her new, pink Personal Progress booklet. "I realized I had an entire book to complete, and I had just completed Faith in God," says Camilla.
Kalie G., a Mia Maid at the time, had earned her Young Womanhood Recognition and had decided to work on her Honor Bee, which can be earned after the Young Womanhood Recognition and involves mentoring another young woman with her Personal Progress. Kalie learned that Camilla needed help, and the two young women started meeting together weekly.
Camilla says Kalie "helped me with the scriptures that are listed in the different value experiences. She would assign me one scripture for each day of the week."
Kalie says, "We would go over the value experience that she completed from the past week. We worked on it for a couple of months."
Camilla discovered that having Kalie as a mentor was helpful. "I would have waited longer to do my Personal Progress had Kalie not helped," says Camilla. "She was an inspiration to me. I have grown in my own strength because of her."
Having these spiritual experiences together has strengthened their friendship. Plus, Camilla is close to earning her Young Womanhood Recognition, and Kalie earned her Honor Bee. But the two agree that something even better came as a result of working on Personal Progress.
"Reading my scriptures morning and night and praying morning and night" are two major habits that Camilla has continued since working on Personal Progress. The same is true for Kalie.
Kalie says, "One of the [Honor Bee requirements] is to read the Book of Mormon again, and I think that helped me keep the habit of reading it every single day."
Strengthening Testimonies
The story is similar with Shannon M., 16, who has earned her Young Womanhood Recognition, and Lucy W., 14. Lucy was halfway through her Personal Progress as a Beehive. She stumbled across the third value experience for Faith and hit a wall.
"I was supposed to look in the Bible Dictionary or True to the Faith," says Lucy. "I didn't know where to start. I didn't know exactly what to look for or how I could use it toward my experience."
Shannon mentored Lucy, and the two went through the reading materials and set goals. Lucy was able to complete the value experience and carry out a family home evening, completing her goal. This experience strengthened Lucy's testimony and helped her stick with Personal Progress.
"When you finish something and you have to pray about it and write about it in your journal, it strengthens your relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ."
Shannon says that working on Personal Progress helped confirm the testimony she knew she had. "I was born into the Church, and I never really had that experience where I thought, 'I know this Church is true'—until Personal Progress," says Shannon. "It has backed my testimony up. That was the turning point."
Fortifying Family Ties
Mentoring a young woman was especially important to Jodi E., 18, who was working on her Honor Bee. She arranged to mentor her niece, Kylie J., 13, who had recently entered the Young Women program.
Having an aunt in Young Women helped Kylie overcome shyness. "I would have been more nervous without Jodi's help," says Kylie.
Both young women discovered a need within their own Young Women program, and they worked together on a 10-hour value experience for Faith.
They made pocket-size booklets about the Young Women values and theme that could easily be attached to a key ring or carried around in a scripture bag or purse (see top right). The first page of the colorful, nine-page booklets had a copy of the Young Women theme, and each of the other pages focused on a value with its corresponding statement from the Personal Progress booklet.
Jodi helped Kylie lay out the template on the computer and laminate each page after they were printed. Kylie cut, glued, hole-punched, and bound 20 booklets and passed them out in class. Working on this project helped Kylie become comfortable around her new peers and "learn about each Young Women value and how they all tie into the gospel."
Jodi is about to earn her Honor Bee, but receiving a new charm is secondary to what Jodi says is truly accomplished. "Ultimately it's fun to get the medallion at the end," says Jodi, "but I like doing Personal Progress because it strengthens me as a person and keeps me committed and constantly doing something to remind myself of the gospel and the Savior and what I want my life to entail." That includes making covenants in the temple.
Working on Personal Progress has helped these youth stand tall in their daily lives, overcome trials and temptations, and live worthy of the temple. The young women agree that completing the value experiences within Personal Progress has planted a seed in their hearts, and what grows is a strong testimony of the Savior and His gospel. It may not be physically visible like tall corn stalks, but it is present in the way the young women live their lives and the good choices they have made to continue to progress and become more like the Savior.


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Historically in the database world, most systems implemented "pessimistic" locking mechanisms. In a pessimistic approach, access (with possible intent to update) to a data resource could not be obtained unless the requestor were able to get exclusive control of the resource. More recent systems employ an "optimistic" approach whereby the data resource is only locked while it is actually being updated. The semantics are quite different, but the intent is the same - makle sure that we don't have conflicting updates.
In general pessimistic locking delivers absolute guarantees, but may cause throughput reductions or excessive resource consumption. Optimistic locking assumes that there will be little contention and therefore doen't consume resources not hold locks "until it has to". In a system with optimistic locks the update requestor may have to deal with the contention behavior (retrying operations or whatever). In the pessimistic scenario, the requesting application can't proceed unless it is safe to do so.
In eventing models, we have similar trade offs that we need to make. No, they aren't lock based, but they do have implications on throughput. These are all focussed around guranteed sequence and guaranteed delivery. Both of these impose throughput limitations on an event based system. Guaranteed sequence isn't really any kind of guarantee however. It is a guarantee that over a certain time frame, messages will arrive in sequence. However this unpacks into not applying events in consuming systems until the guarantee period has expired in some cases.
Why you might ask? Imagine that you have timestamped events coming in, you may not know that an event that comes in does not have an earlier predecessor that has somehow been held up. So you might choose to wait for the appropriate time interval "just to make sure nothing is coming in later" and then apply all events in proper sequence. Set the event sequence window to 5 minutes and in the worst case you are processing 5 minute batches. That doesn't sound very friendly.
So maybe you think about applying sequence numbers to the events. That's fine (well kind of) unless the sequence number calculator is a central shared resource, in which case there may be contention for that. At least however, you can detect that events are out of sequence because if a receiving system perceives a gap in sequence numbers, then it can wait for the "time out period" or the appearance of the missing sequence number(s) whichever happens first and then apply the updates. This is a bit intrusive to the event creators - managing sequence numbers was probably not in their original plan.
In neither of the above scenarios do we get maximal throughput. They are both intrusive and will deliver quite inconsistent throughput. They are rather akin to the pessimistic locking approach taken in database systems.
Looking at it a different way, we can perhaps detect (externally to the applications) that things have happened out of sequence. maybe using an out of band control infrastructure. Thus if a sender identifies when something was sent (using a messaging infrastructure), the receiver's act of receiving will identify when it was received. If the receipts are out of sequence the infrastructure can alert and trigger actions. The assumptions are that:
- Sequence errors are few and far between
- It is OK to recognize that the sequence has been violated
- The infrastructure is capable of re-delivering the events in an appropriate sequence
- There have been no irrevocable side effects as a result of the out of sequence receipt.
This looks to be a fruitful area of research (or if the research has already been done, a fruitful area for some best practice patterns) as we treat 2011 as "The Year of the Event" as Todd Biske proposes.


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Good news! A second court ruling showed skepticism that the Obama administration intends to enact a meaningful "accommodation" of the conscience rights of non-profit groups battling the HHS insurance mandate.
A Washington, D.C. circuit Court of Appeals overturned lower courts and ruled Tuesday that the lawsuit of two plaintiffs– evangelical Wheaton College and Catholic Belmont Abbey College— will not be dismissed.
HHS has denied the colleges exemptions from the mandate that health insurance provide free abortion-causing drugs and sterilization. And although the Obama administration had previously announced plans to create a new rule, or accommodation, it has not yet taken the steps necessary to make that promise legally binding.
The Court of Appeals decided the colleges' cases should stay alive while it scrutinizes whether the government will meet its promised deadlines. In fact, it ordered that HHS must appear in court every 60 days until its promised accommodation has become part of the official Obamacare "preventative services" regulatory regime!
Over 100 individuals, schools and businesses have sued the HHS mandate. Just last week, a New York district judge resisted the Obama attorneys' claim that the grounds for these religious liberty lawsuits will soon disappear once the accommodation is made. District Judge Brian Cogan didn't buy that logic; he allowed the Catholic Archdiocese of New York lawsuit to go forward, saying,
"There is no, 'Trust us, changes are coming' clause in the Constitution."
Of course no serious person believes that any promised tweaking of the mandate can eliminate its essential undermining of religious freedom. The mandate flies in the face of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which requires that only a 'compelling' governmental interest has any potential to infringe on religious exercise, and then only if carried out in the least intrusive way.
The Obama administration attorneys have only a liberalizing-abortion agenda, and no true compelling interest, for forcing free coverage of morally offensive "preventive" services. They have offered ridiculous justifications for not granting exemptions, including:
- a person loses religious liberty rights once they run a business;
- religion is limited to worship inside a building and serving only those who believe as you do.
Kansas lawmakers have secured important conscience protection for:
- taxpayers;
- private employers;
- medical personnel and facilities.
In 2011, Kansas passed pro-active legislation forbidding the establishment of elective abortion coverage in any anticipated state health insurance "exchange' (a kind of marketplace for policies). Eighteen other states have passed similar bans.
Also that year, Kansas lawmakers passed a measure to protect employers' right to refuse to cover any abortions (other than those to save the mother's life) in their company health plans. Under this law, employees can buy a special, separate "rider" policy for elective abortions. This law is similar to ones other states have had for decades which have been upheld in court. The Kansas law is in effect but the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has sued, and the matter is headed for trial next year.
Under the 2012 Kansas Healthcare Rights of Conscience Act, health professionals cannot be fired, and medical facilities cannot be sued, for not performing abortions, or for not providing referrals for them. Conscience decisions on sterilizations and abortion-causing drugs are also protected.
Kansas has established significant laws to protect life and conscience, but the push to normalize abortion and restrict religious liberty continues.


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Baby animals are often called different names than their mothers. For example: A puppy's mommy is called a dog.
See if you can name each mommy for the different baby animals listed below. Check out the pictures below to help you.
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Hello guys.
I decided to post this in the C forum since its what I use, but its really a general problem.
I need to find if a any given point in space (2d/3d) is inside an irregular region formed by rectangles (or cubes in 3d).
I have several different boxes with its coordinates as shown in different colors in the figure. I want to form one big region from all these boxes and then try to find if points lie inside or outside.
I have already developed an implementation that uses search trees (quadtrees) and is efficient in looking through each of the boxes to see if the points are there. Now, some of the problems I want to solve have millions of boxes and millions of points, so I'm looking for ways of say having one big region. In 2d this could be a polygon for example which is not hard to do, but not for 3d.
Basically what I would like in the end is to form a big region where I can quickly get candidate points, which I can then process in detail with my search trees algorithms.
I've been developing the search tree algorithms for the last few days so my head is pretty biased towards that at the moment and I need some external thinking.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 18 September 2012 - 01:27 AM
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Re: Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 18 September 2012 - 02:18 AM
Re: Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 18 September 2012 - 02:36 AM
Salem_c, on 18 September 2012 - 09:18 AM, said:
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I also posted the question in the devshed.com and cprogramming.com forums. Didn't mean to flood the forums, I just thought I would get different answers this way. Cheers
Re: Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:11 AM
Moved to Software Development
Re: Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:51 PM
You can form a bounding box for your region or volume, you can do a quick rough check for a point being outside. But once you have a candidate, you should go back to your quad or oct trees if you already have those structures prepared. My gut feel is that you maybe able to increase the probability of a hit by using k-d trees within that bounding box instead of straight quad or oct trees, but gut feel can only be proven out by having real performance numbers.
This post has been edited by Skydiver: 18 September 2012 - 03:52 PM
Re: Geometric search/intersection problem
Posted 19 September 2012 - 06:33 AM
Hi. Forming a bounding box around the region won't work because most likely the region wont resemble a square. I've tried this and in practice I end up overestimating the candidates way too much. Then, the search would take almost as long as doing the detailed search from the begginning.
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N° 37–2003: ESA at the 2003 Paris Air Show, le Bourget
6 June 2003
From Sunday 15 to Sunday 22 June, ESA will be present at the 2003 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget with a special pavilion dedicated to the European space programmes. Visitors will not have difficulty finding it, as it will be in its usual place between the life-size models of Ariane 1 and Ariane 5, just beside the Air and Space Museum.
Inside the 1000 square metre exhibition area a host of exhibits and events will highlight ESA's activities: Space Science, Space Transport, Human Space flight, Telecommunications and Navigation, Earth Observation, Industrial Matters and Technologies, Future Concepts and Education.
The Paris Air Show is the largest international air show and it is an excellent opportunity for the general public and the space community to get acquainted or keep up to date with current and future space projects in Europe. In particular, the media will benefit from specific arrangements for briefings and interviews with ESA Directors and experts in various disciplines. The media programme will run as follows:
Sunday 15 June- Public day
A full day of games, quizzes, activities with astronauts and other surprises.
Monday 16 June
"ESA achievements and perspectives", press breakfast with current ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà and future Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
"European strategy for satellite navigation, from EGNOS to Galileo" press briefing with Claudio Mastracci, ESA Director of Applications.
Tuesday 17 June
Press meets ESA's Directors- interview opportunities all morning (location Press Centre)
"European launchers: the way forward" ESA Director of Launchers, Jean-Jacques Dordain, and representatives of CNES and Arianespace outline to managers from European industry the recent ministerial decisions about the European launcher sector and the impact they will have.
Wednesday 18 June
"Observing the Earth: Why is it important?"
Conference chaired by ESA's Director of Earth Observation José Achahe. Distinguished speakers will illustrate to the potential users and to European policymakers the importance of satellite images to understand and secure our planet.
ESA-UNESCO agreement on use of space technology for the preservation of world heritage
For more than a year, Earth Observation satellites have been monitoring the endangered habitat of gorillas in Central and East Africa. Building on the success of this initiative, the directors general of ESA and UNESCO will sign an agreement that will put space technologies at the service of interested Nations to help preserve more than 700 cultural and natural World Heritage Sites designated by UNESCO.
In July 2004, Paris will host more than 1500 scientists from around the World to discuss the future of space science research. Prof. R.M. Bonnet, President of COSPAR, and Prof. J. Audouze,Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, will present COSPAR 2004's main topics and opportunities for partnership.
Thursday 19 June
Overview of ISS status
Jörg Feustel-Büechl, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, will brief the media on the present status and outlook of the European participation in the International Space Station.
Launch of European ISS Business Club – IBC ESA launches a forum for commercial entities associated with the design, development, operation and utilisation of the European elements of the International Space Station.
"Technology transfer: an everyday reality"
What do things like an anti-UV suit for babies suffering from Xeroderma Pigmentosum, the C 60 prototypes of the Pescarolo Sport Team, an air decontaminating device for hospitals, an alarm to monitor elderly people and the new catamaran of Yves Parlier have in common, and what do they have to do with space? Find out with Pierre Brisson, Head of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme.
GPE (Groupe Parlementaire de l'Espace) press conference
"The large Space Telecommunications Platform"
Press briefing.
"ESA's satellite telecommunications programmes"
Press briefing.
Friday 20 June
"Women in space industry"
Debate chaired by ESA's Director of Administration Daniel Sacotte. Share the experience of women from industry, universities, international organisations and media who could build up a professional career in scientific disciplines.
"The European Space Technology Master Plan"
Debate chaired by Hans Kappler, ESA's Director of Industrial Matters and Technology programmes. How technology harmonisation is able to support the competitiveness of European industry and the creation of a balanced industrial landscape.
"EUREKA and ESA, an outstanding co-operation"
ESA's Technology Transfer Programme has been cooperating for seven years with EU's EUREKA initiative. Philippe Jurgensen, Secretary General of EUREKA. and CEO of ANVAR. and Pierre Brisson, ESA's Head of the Technology Transfer programme present the latest achievement in their collaboration.
Saturday 21 June- public day
"Human space flight, dream and reality"
Debate in partnership with "Le Figaro". Participants: Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Senior advisor and former ESA Astronaut; Michel Tognini, Head of ESA Astronauts corps; Jacques Blamont , Advisor to the President of CNES; moderators: Fabrice Nodé-Langlois, Head of Science Section, Le Figaro and Cyrille Vanlerberghe, science journalist, Le Figaro.
As of 12:00
Games, quizzes, activities with astronauts and other surprises.
Sunday 22 June- Public day
A full day of games, quizzes, activities with astronauts and other surprises.
Media interested in attending the events above are kindly requested to return the attached form, duly filled out, before Friday 13 June (fax + 33 (0)1 5369 7690). Do not forget to bring your press card or press credentials. For free access to the air show, media accreditation is available from GIFAS (tel. + 33 (0)1 44 43 17 62 or see http://www.paris-air-show.com).
Paris Air Show at Le Bourget
Media Programme
Last name: _____________________First _____________________
Media represented:__________________________________________
Telephone: _______________________Fax: _____________________
I will attend the following events:
Monday 16 June
( ) 09:30-11:00
"ESA achievements and perspectives" - press breakfast with ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà and future Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
( ) 11:30-12:30
"European strategy for satellite navigation, from EGNOS to Galileo"- press briefing
Tuesday 17 June
( ) 10:00-12:30
Press meets ESA's Directors- interview opportunities all morning (location Press Center)
I would like to interview:
( ) Antonio Rodotà, Director General
( ) José Achache on Earth observation
( ) Jean-Jacques Dordain on launchers
( ) Jörg Feustel- Buechl on the International Space Station, astronauts, etc.
( ) Hans Kappler on industrial matters and technology programmes
( ) Claudio Mastracci on telecommunications and satellite navigation
( ) Jean-Pol Poncelet on strategy and external relations
( ) Daniel Sacotte on administration and general policies
( ) David Southwood on space science
( ) Gaele Winters on ESA's technical establishments (ESTEC, ESOC)
( )10:30-12:00
"European launchers: the way forward"- presentation ESA/CNES/Arianespace to industry
Wednesday 18 June
( ) 10:00-11:45
"Observing the Earth: Why is it important?"- conference
( ) 15:00-15:30
"ESA-UNESCO agreement on use of space technology for the preservation of world heritage"- signature of agreement
( )16:00-17:00
COSPAR 2004- presentation.
Thursday 19 June
( ) 10:00-10:45
Overview of ISS status – press briefing
( ) 10:45-11:30
Launch of European ISS Business Club – IBC- press Briefing
( ) 11:45-13.00
"Technology transfer: an everyday reality"- round table
( ) 15:00-15:30
GPE (Groupe Parlamentaire de l'Espace)-press conference
( )16:00-16:30
"The large Space Telecommunications Platform"- press briefing.
( )16:30-17:30
"ESA's satellite telecommunications programmes"- press briefing.
Friday 20 June
( ) 09:30-11:30
"Women in space industry"- debate.
( ) 10:30-12:00
"The European Space Technology Master Plan"- debate
( ) 15:45-16:15
"EUREKA and ESA, an outstanding co-operation"- presentation.
Saturday 21 June
( ) 10:30-11:30
"Human space flight, dream and reality" debate in partnership with "Le Figaro".
Please return this form by 13 June 2003 to: ESA Media Relations, Paris - Fax:+33.(0)1.5369.7690


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Is it possible to live normal again? These past two years of fertility treatments have really changed who we are individually and as a couple. I don't think I will ever be the same, both of us. That's okay though, I would never change it for the world. I just wish I could sometimes have a switch button to turn off at times. Every time I see a baby my heart warms up and when I see a pregnant woman I get happy and sad. I just want it to be our turn. I know there are many others in this world who are asking the exact same thing..."when will it be our turn?"
I pray and pray to God that he give me strength to never give up, ever. I know it will be our time, its the waiting part that has been the hardest time. I really know can say I understand the phrase "patience is a virtue".
Baby dust to all! <3
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Is it possible?
Is it possible to live normal again? These past two years of fertility treatments have really changed who we are individually and as a couple. I don't think I will ever be the same, both of us. That's okay though, I would never change it for the world. I just wish I could sometimes have a switch button to turn off at times. Every time I see a baby my heart warms up and when I see a pregnant woman I get happy and sad. I just want it to be our turn. I know there are many others in this world who are asking the exact same thing..."when will it be our turn?"
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Financial Phone Call
Today our financial adviser called us to go over our IVF package. We decided to go with a two-cycle plan which includes two fresh cycles and an as many frozen embryo transfers we need until pregnant. Our adviser told us that the plan does not expire until there is a live birth. I brought up the fact that if anything was to happen God forbid would we be covered and yes we would be. I felt a huge, HUGE sigh of relief hearing this. We feel really good about this now its just about saving our money. We have most of the meds we will need...huge sigh of relief and now we wait until our first appointment which should be around October! I could run down the street screaming I am so excited!!!
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Long Overdue!
Hello blogger world!! It sure has been awhile!! I apologize to everyone who has contacted me and have seen zero response from me. Our Internet has been down and continues to be down so I am reporting from work while I am on break!
So what has been going on with us two?!
Well we told you all that we were moving to a bigger and better house two houses down...literally! Well, we were given a date of the 22nd then it got moved to the 11th, then it got moved to the 5th! As you can see all the moving around of dates really had us confused and we had decided to plan on moving out on the 22nd that way we didn't feel rushed moving. Then, we got a call on the 3rd that the house would be in fact ready to move in so we jumped on that train! Before you knew it were packing at the speed of light and coordinating friends and family to help move us in, along with everything else that comes along with moving! Boy, it was quite the move! Everything was a mess!! Me being the organized person that I am through that out the window. We are still unpacking and moving stuff around. Thankfully we are moved in. We still have to clean the other place out and finish some stuff over there but for the most part we are 80% done.
Every evening after work I come home and we both start on something with the house. We want to just get it all done and behind us. I guess it didn't help that in that week our washer broke, and our Internet has failed to be connected....but we have TV! We are still awaiting them to come and connect! I hate being with out Internet! I love everything about this house! We are starting to put "our" touches in the house. Its starting to feel like home.
I think the hardest part of this move was not the fact that we were go-go-go but the empty room. In our other house our second bedroom was not really visible unless you went down the hallway now I pass the room every time I go to our bedroom or in that part of the house. Every time I picture "our" baby room decorated and the cooing of a newborn baby. Something so close yet it feels so far away. I cried the first night we were moved in. I sat in the empty room and just cried. Haven't cried since we found out about our negative. It didn't make it any better when I had to look at the baby stuff we have bought over the past two years. I still don't know why we bought baby stuff. I mean not a lot but some cute neutral color clothes. I can't wait to have that baby in our arms.
We had a phone consult with our new doctor whom I love and appreciate! He was awesome and down to earth. He explained that after reviewing my chart he believes I was on too high of meds. I had a feeling of this. He said especially for my age. He also said that based on my antral-follicle count he should have known that I would have stimmed well which I did. I went too fast which caused me to have a lot of immature eggs. He also said that based on how many eggs I had at day three I should have been a day three transfer and NOT a day 5. Another big sigh. I cried on the phone and he was so comforting and said it was OK. He understood how frustrated this entire process was. So we have decided we want to start with my period in November. Which means retrieval/transfer would be December/Jan. We may push it earlier if we can save enough by then. I can't wait to get this process going!!!
Thank you to all who reached out while I was gone! You are all awesome :)
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I am interested in jobs doing work for others in this part of my work life that don't make me wanna retch or smack, which is the case for most of what I see. The economic facts are less important than avoiding
I am interested in jobs doing work for others in this part of my work life that don't make me wanna retch or smack, which is the case for most of what I see. The economic facts are less important than avoiding . For there's Mastercard
= 1974 - 2018 =
= 1974 - 2018 =
Revision as of 19:22, 14 December 2018
As you may know, though hardly unheard of, life long programmers are unusual and of course it's the norm for some such as tenured academics, research fellows in industry, etc. Here's the top level of my story.
2018 - †
I have chosen "domain" as the organizing concept of much of my work going forward, centrally for an independent peer-peer name system and the development of a standardized domain driven approach to development of applications, and in particular AI integration of applications and domains. One of these may well be what brought you here so see the supporting material for more information on same. The remainder of this § discusses the motivation driving my second working life.
From the earliest age, I have been resistant to authority, which for the most part, given the state of human societies through to the present, is generally illegitimate. Why? Because essentially every society up to this time is organized on the principle of domination of others in order to extract the value of their labor, make individuals conform to local belief systems, etc. Progress is ever countering this over the long march of history because it is inimical to human nature but paradoxically, in this time, 資本主義, the doctrine of the extraction of value from labor, is also the one that makes it possible for individuals to be free of domination, if they can work for themselves. To the extent that it is organized for the well being of all the members, like a healthy body in relation to its cells, the authority of society is legitimate, and because this is the reason for society to exist at all, over time the progressive outcome becomes more certain and manifest.
I am very far from thinking that the acquisitive instinct is fundamentally wrong or that altruism is necessarily right. I definitely believe that selfishness which does not harm others can be a virtue, it's just that so far, a social form that makes it so has not been achieved and indeed the apparent trend is away from a high point in the last century, not as was thought then as a result of totalitarian socialism but rather ironically as a result of the global dominance of doctrinal capital with its supposed philosophical base in individualism.
To paraphrase 邓小平, it is indeed glorious to become rich, but not from the expropriation of the value of the labor of others and not at the expense of the optimal development of society at large.
2019 and later jobbing
I am interested in jobs doing work for others in this part of my work life that don't make me wanna retch or smack, which is the case for most of what I see. The economic facts are less important than avoiding cupidity/stupidity. For everything else, there's Mastercard!
1974 - 2018
This was the wage labour moeity of my work life, which is given fine detail starting with Praxis Tour which has a responsive bootstrap tour, c. 2015 with drupal sites for desktop and mobile devices, a cover page and 10 page resume, etc.. 1974 is the actual start because that's when I took training at the schools Control Data was running and actually did first programming, but I went back for a 4 year degree majoring in Math and CS and only had operator jobs until 1980. I did have a DP course at a community college before CDC in '73 which pushes it back to my teens. The Control Data Institute I went to btw, was in the building shown on the Bob Newhart Show at that time on Michigan Avenue as being where he had his office.
From the late nineties I mostly worked remote, but did work on-site in Buffalo in '14, and from the late 80s 60% or so of my work was on a contractor basis, by the turn of the century independent of job shop parasites. From late '18, for the reason explained in the prior §, I consider this phase of working life ended, the last actual gig was spring '18. The character also discussed in theat §, together with a less than propitious childhood, lead to a less than stellar success in my first working life, as far as success is measured in money and the like. However I think it was a tremendous success in delivering me more or less whole, as a life long learner with a high IQ, and considerable depth of experience as an IT worker, to this point where I can work for myself, society at large, and free, open source production.
About Legacy Content
Much of the legacy content had as its original purpose job seeking. To the extent that it is, this content is maintained for historical purpose and works where it works, e.g. flash (like the Old Web Portfolio), or areas broken by TLS (https), modern browser constraints, may or may not be fixed. Here are links that were formerly in the stuffs box to your left before this reorganization:
Agile Praxis Ft Concept Praxis Tour (linked above) UI/UX Artistry
Since I've always thought of myself as an independent agent of production, a substantial amount of the legacy content has a historical relevance to current efforts.


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The week after Christmas, according to a longstanding family tradition, a herd of Holyokes (and Urquharts, and others) headed to Sugarloaf for a ski vacation we've always called "Snow Camp."
As "Snow Camps" go, this one was epic: Sugarloaf received more than 40 inches of the white stuff in the 10 days before we arrived (and was in the midst of getting a foot of it when we drove into the western mountains) and the skiing was fantastic.
But skiing's not the only reason we head to the woods for a week each year. We eat a lot, too … and read. Some of the younger set plays video games. Others assemble puzzles. We play board games and bingo.
And this year, we took photos.
At least my niece, Alyssa, did.
For Christmas this year she was happy to receive a new camera, which she quickly put to good use. Sometimes she took photos of family members. But her best shots may have come during a couple of photo excursions with her dad, Carl.
Carl had a bit of inside information: He had been in the Sugarloaf region for work a couple weeks earlier, and had happened upon a large herd of deer that a landowner had taken to feeding twice a day.
If you're expecting me to join the fray and turn this blog post into further debate on the controversial subject of winter deer-feeding, you're out of luck.
I just wanted you to see a cool photo of some Maine deer.
Alyssa and Carl joined the deer for supper one night, then returned for breakfast the next morning. One of her photos was so striking, I had to use it in the paper — you may have seen it in black-and-white in our weekend editions.
Her photo, which I'll share here in color, shows a part of that deer herd. It also focuses on the star of the show, a one-antlered critter I've taken to calling "Uni Horn."
This is Alyssa's outdoor photography debut, and I'm proud of the shot she took.
I'm equally proud to share that shot with you.


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