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Ground Control to Major Tom: Kyle Busch suited for action (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
Crash City?
Well, this track's new asphalt looks pretty darned slippery.
The man who comes out of Sunday's Phoenix 500 with the NASCAR tour points lead, either Jimmie Johnson or Brad Keselowski, is almost certain to go on to win this season's Sprint Cup championship.
And after more than a dozen drivers crashed here Friday in practice, that championship pressure appeared clear. Denny Hamlin said the track-and-tire combination made things "treacherous."
Johnson comes here with a slim seven point lead over Keselowski, and Johnson has won the last two races, at Texas and Martinsville.
And Johnson Friday looked to be playing it cautiously. He was slow in practice, which gave him a poor draw for qualifying, and he qualified poorly, 24th.
Keselowski on the other hand appears boldly confident here, after refusing to buckle in Johnson's charge. And Keselowski will start 14th.
"There is no resemblance between the Brad-then and the Brad-now," Hamlin said, referring to Keselowski's growing maturity.
Kyle Busch won the pole last night for the 500, and he could easily win, because this is a very good track for him. But it would be a rarity for a non-chaser like Busch to win a playoff race.
Busch, who has had something of a lackluster -- relatively -- season, has been plagued with more than usual mechanical issues this season, blown engines, and bad luck.
However Busch could easily have won Texas. And his car appeared much more stable and secure here Friday than most of his rivals'.
Toyota swept 1-2-3 in qualifying, but just how to analyze qualifying, in light of the slick track and hard tire, and Sunday's expected cooler weather?
"The track started out today very, very slick, but as the day went on it got better," Martin Truex Jr. said after his second-fastest qualifying lap.
Still, this event, particularly for title contenders over the years, even before the chase, has been difficult, a title graveyard for many.
Smile and the world smiles with you: Jimmie Johnson (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Keselowski, the upstart, has been hanging tough with veteran Johnson throughout the playoffs. And then last Sunday night their title duel got down to what Johnson described as "bare knuckles racing.'
Here Johnson was quick to praise his rival for keeping a cool head, even when driving so hard. "He is the only driver that came to victory lane to shake my hand after the race in Texas, and I just thought that took a lot of class," Johnson said.
"It's tough in this moment -- we're both racing and trying to achieve our dreams of being a champion... and for him to put a smile on his face and come to victory lane to shake my hand I thought was a big move on his behalf."
Especially just moments after Keselowski took Johnson "well past Elvis" in the first turn in their battle for the win.
Johnson, with five championships and an edge toward a sixth, is setting new goals for himself:
"I want to be considered the best driver to ever sit in a stock car. The undisputed way to pull that off is to win eight championships.
"I put that mark way, way out there in front of me. It's a lofty goal. I've accomplished every goal I've set in front of myself. And I'm going to put one way out there and hope I get there.
"If I don't, I know I've tried and given 100 percent. We'll see if I get to it."
Brad Keselowski's crew chief on the move (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
There are those who say they're tired of Johnson ripping off championship after championship.
"I've worked my entire life to get to this point in my career," Johnson says. "I wasn't around to see the Richard Petty era, but I know -- or I can only assume -- a lot of people were tired of seeing the King win. I know a lot of people were tired of seeing Dale Earnhardt win.
"I lived it firsthand in watching Jeff Gordon go through that very same thing after his fourth championship.
"It's not that I'm in this unique situation.
"I'm not doing anything different than Gordon, Petty, Earnhardt. In fact I'm awfully damn proud to be in that lump of guys that had to go from cheers to boos... and when they get back to cheering you again is when you stop winning. I don't want those cheers; I'll keep the boos."
This race is shaping up as something of a wild card in the title chase.
And Johnson suddenly seems on the defensive.
"We've won some races here, and been able to run in the top-five -- which is very important, to carry a lead into a comfortable Homestead," Johnson insists.
"I've been on the ropes here racing Denny, and things worked out from a fuel mileage standpoint that closed the gap (2010), and went to Homestead and had to race for it.
"I've been here before with Gordon dueling it out. We won, and he might have been second or third in the race... and that is the year that reminds me the most of what I'm dealing with right now.
"I expect for Brad to be strong here. He and I raced real hard for third or fourth in the closing laps of the spring race. I would assume we would be right there running nose to tail once again when the checkered flag falls on Sunday."
Kyle Busch (R) and brother Kurt (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
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Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and […]Read more →

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Sports Illustrated's annual Fortune 50 list of the 50 highest-earning American athletes list is out and Major League Baseball is heavily represented. In fact, 36% of the athletes are baseballers — some better than others (looking at you, Barry Zito). And while I'm sad to see an star like Floyd Mayweather, Jr at the top, one who eschews real glory at the highest level for a comfortable place atop boxing mediocrity, I am glad that baseball players are makin' that pay-puh. It makes me feel less suicidal when I pay $8 for a 16 oz beer.
Here's a quick rundown of the highest paid American baseball players and their overall ranking among American athletes in parenthesis.
1. Alex Rodriguez (6)
Too bad for the Yankees A-Rod can't be young and steroided like the good old days. His health is just going downhill from here.
2. Derek Jeter (9)
He can do no wrong. I would pay this man a bazillion dollars a year if I could. And since Albert left me, I have no problems admitting my 17-year Jeet man-crush.
3. Joe Mauer (12)
Really? 12th highest paid American athlete overall and third highest Major Leaguer? I would feel better about this if he could hit it over the Target Field fence once in a while.
4. Vernon Wells (17)
PSSSHH!!!! I just ruined my keyboard with a mouthful of coffee.
5. C.C. Sabathia (20)
Mo' money, mo' foooooooooooooooooood!
6. Mark Teixeira (21)
Nothing says $23 million a year like a YEEE-HAW JAW!
7. Prince Fielder (22)
I have a feeling if I make one more Prince Fielder fat joke then I'm going to be… eaten…
8. Adrian Gonzalez (25)
He may have lost his power stroke, but with $21 million a year I'm sure he's strokin' plenty of power.
9. Justin Verlander (28)
A man's man, I would prefer to see Verlander at the very top of this list, or at the very least, have the opportunity to rifle a fastball at Mayweather's head.
10. Cliff Lee (29)
Way to go, Phillies. You're making Clifton Phifer look bad.
11. Ryan Howard (32)
While many of my Cardinal fan brethren choose to hate on Albert, I prefer to hate on Howard, the man who made signing Albert impossible.
12. Roy Halladay (35)
Way to go, Phillies. You bring in the best pitcher in baseball to get you over the hump then s*** the bed three years in a row.
13, 14, 15. Barry Zito, Carl Crawford, Albert Pujols (Tied for 36 overall)
One of these things is not like the other…
16. Josh Beckett (44)
Is it me or has he gained like 40 pounds since he was traded to the Red Sox?
17. Jake Peavy (45)
Up until this year, I thought dude was done. Yes, the crow I've been eating tastes bad.
18. A.J. Burnett (49)
Huh? How did A.J. get on this list? I'd like to know the same. He should've signed two contracts, one for each of his personalities. At least he's been living up to it ever since his worst day ever.
Hate me 'cuz I didn't make the list, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right!


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I'm tearing my hair out over what I thought was such an easy thing to do!
I'm using VB6 and the Data control. I have a number of text boxes linked
to Data/Time fields. I would like to be able to delete dates and leave these
text boxes empty but I either get 'Data Conversion error' type messages or
no message and no changes are saved. The problem is that Date/Time fields
cannot be zero length strings but should be either dates or NULL. I can't
set the text boxes to NULL and if I use Edit/Update it retriggers the Validate
function (which I don't want). If I set the text box CauseValidation event
to False it doesn't make any difference (a MS bug methinks). How can I delete
text boxes containing dates (linked to Date/Time data type) to leave them
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Say that Wisconsin name.
What's Julie reading?
Link Love: Shelly's Podcast, For Whatever Reason, Old Coot Cast.
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It's time now to turn the page.
If you read the recap of my recent trip to Lincoln, Nebraska – the second leg of the MSF-La Quinta College Football Road Trip – you know how much fun I had spending the weekend with one of my favorite people in what is now one of my favorite college towns.
And this came on the heels of a similarly great weekend in Norman, Oklahoma with my little bro Bryce.
The big difference between Weeks 1 and 2 of the #LaQuintaTrip is that Week 1 was almost all about the football game itself (we had incredible 50-yard line seats for an epic Big 12 upset) while Week 2 was about everything that surrounded the football game.
Week 3, this weekend in Austin, Texas, will be about both.
And my, my what a gave we'll get to watch: West Virginia and Heisman front-runner Geno Smith against the Texas Longhorns in Darrel K. Royal Stadium.
There are so many reasons I'm excited for this week. How about I just start counting a handful of them down?
1) More time spent with great friends, new and old.
I don't know about you, but I would rather go to a crappy Division III football game with my best friends than attend the BCS National Championship Game with strangers.
To me, what makes an experience is the people that you share it with.
And what has made this MSF-La Quinta CFB Road Trip such a great experience so far is that I have gotten to share it with Bryce and Genesis, two people who aren't in my immediate family but might as well be. It's made every minute of the experience so much more meaningful to be able to spend it with people I'm so close to.
And this week, I have not one but two special, awesome, amazing guests lined up: one an old friend and the other a new one.
You'll get to know Aaron and Kristin over the weekend and in the recap. Suffice it to say, having enjoyed many a lively social situation with both, I have 100% confidence in our ability to live it up in Austin and bring you back some entertaining pics, videos, and anecdotes.
2) More time spent in Austin (finally)!
You probably don't need me to tell you this, but Austin is a great city. I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I've lived in Dallas for four-plus years now, and this will be just my fourth weekend excursion into the city.
Every single time I've gone, I've had a blast. I expect this time to be no different.
While there will be plenty of big football names featured in the recap – naturally, with two heavyweights like Texas and West Virginia doing battle – I'm sure the city itself will end up being one of the major featured stars as we chronicle our journey for you.
3) Geno Smith, live and in person.
Simply put, no college football player in America is playing better or more spectacularly than Geno Smith right now. You might have heard about his superlative stats from last weekend's game against Baylor: 45-51, 656 yards passing, 8 TDs.
Unlike last weekend in Lincoln, we will be in the stadium to watch the game. Our seats won't quite be the 50-yard line thrones we had in Norman, but just being able to see Smith quarterback Dana Holgerson's offense with our own eyes will be worth the price of admission.
Not that we're expecting anything close to what he did against Baylor though, because…
4) It should be one hell of a game.
Texas has been a bit down lately, but they enter Saturday's game undefeated and sporting one of the nation's more talented defenses — though consecutive games of 31 and 36 points allowed may suggest otherwise.
On the other hand, Texas' offense has been surprisingly effective this year, racking up 47.3 points per game. The competition hasn't been great, but it's a step in the right direction for a team that has struggled mightily on offense over the last several years.
Hmm…Texas, which enters the game ranked #11, is averaging 47.3 points and giving up 33.5 the last two weeks. West Virginia, #8 in the polls, is averaging 53.0 points and giving up 32.5.
No, it probably won't be like West Virginia-Baylor, but this ain't going to be LSU-Alabama either.
There will be some points scored, and it will be fun to watch.
5) West Virginians in Austin
This is West Virginia's first trip to Austin as a member of the Big 12 conference. I have no idea how many Mountaineers fans will make the trip, but I'm sure a decent chunk of them will.
And considering the reputation of West Virginia fans as being rather…raucous…I'm curious to see just how that juxtaposition of the West Virginia faithful in a city like Austin will mix. I think it will be awesome.
After watching this clip, I've got a lot of love for West Virginia fans. This is one outstanding group rendition of a great ol' John Denver song:
Aaron and I have discussed possibly making a music video to chronicle the trip. This might be a bad song to go with if we do…
Now, let me turn the attention to you, dear reader. What are you most looking forward to seeing captured from this weekend?
We certainly will be hitting up 6th Street on Friday night, and we'll be crashing tailgates on Saturday, and we'll be taking in the sights and sounds of a game at Darrell K. Royal Stadium on Saturday night. Anything in particular you'd like to see? I can't guarantee it, but I can sure try.
What I can guarantee is another fun recap filled with many, many pictures, probably some (embarrassing) videos, and a number of funny anecdotes … because that's just how Aaron, Kristin, and I roll.
So get ready. I am.
There are only two more weeks left of this epic road trip La Quinta is sending me on. I plan on maximizing every moment.


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The Northern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua is made of the Chinandega Department to the north and the Leon Department to the south. The area has a total population of 830,900 as of the 2005 Census.
The Chinandega Department is located on the border with Honduras, It is largely agricultural, it produces rum from sugar cane; other products are bananas, peanuts, shrimps and salt. The capital city of the department is Chinandega. Other major towns in the department are Chichigalpa and Corinto.
The Leon Department is located just south of the Chinandega Department. It is the fourth most populous in the country with a total population of 389,600. Its capital is Leon. About 20 minutes from Leon lies the beach communities of Poneloya and Las Peñitas. Other towns in the department include El Sauce, Larreynaga (which is primarily known as Malpaisillo), and Nagarote.
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Guillermo Del Toro is coming to grips with the fact that his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness is likely never going to happen.
After Hellboy II, it looked like the film was going to be the next directing vehicle for Del Toro, but Universal Pictures pulled the plug on "Madness" over budget problems. Del Toro immediately moved on to Pacific Rim–a giant monster movie for Legendary–leaving a glimmer of hope that maybe, someday, At the Mountains of Madness would happen.
But with Prometheus now on the way, you can pretty much forget about that Lovecraft adaptation. Del Toro took to the message boards of Del Toro Films to explain why. He began with:
"I have been interviewed about this lately and wanted to post my two cents about this:
Prometheus started filming a while ago – right at the time we were in preproduction on PACIFIC RIM. The title itself gave me pause – knowing that ALIEN was heavily influenced by Lovecraft and his novella.
This time, decades later with the budget and place Ridley Scott occupied, I assumed the greek metaphor alluded at the creation aspects of the HPL book. I believe I am right and if so, as a fan, I am delighted to see a new RS science fiction film, but this will probably mark a long pause – if not the demise – of ATMOM.
The sad part is – I have been pursuing ATMOM for over a decade now – and, well, after Hellboy II two projects I dearly loved were not brought to fruition for me.
The good part is: One project did… And I am loving it and grateful for the blessings I have received."
Pressed further about the connections between Madness and Prometheus, he wrote:
"Same premise. Scenes that would be almost identical."
Followed with:
"Both movies seem to share identical set pieces and the exact same BIG REVELATION (twist) at the end. I won't spoil it."
Clearly, Del Toro is privy to information about Ridley Scott's film that the common public does not know, so we'll have to take his word for it on the similarities.


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One of Dakar's most surprising landmarks. The algae within it turn the lake a vivid pink that must be seen to be believed!
Dakar is on the west coast of Senegal, so the Atlantic Ocean will literally be within your reach.
With over 500 km of coastline, you'll have no trouble finding your perfect beach in Dakar.
Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, as well as its largest. It might have started out as a small collection of villages in the Cape Verde Peninsula, but Dakar has grown into one of the largest cities in West Africa. The city is almost completely surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, making it a popular beach holiday destination.
However, its exceptionally long coastline is not the only thing that makes Dakar one of Africa's best beach destinations. The Senegalese are known for their hospitality, or as the locals call it: téranga, which means treating strangers as if they were family. It's the cornerstone of Senegalese culture, which you'll no doubt experience when travelling to Dakar and beyond.
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So what are you waiting for? Book your flight ticket to Dakar today and discover Senegal with Brussels Airlines!
Senegal is known for its love of music. You'll find plenty of music venues and festivals in the country.
There are two main seasons in Senegal; the dry season, which runs from November to May, and the rainy season, which runs from June to October. The average peak temperature in the dry season is around 25 °C. In the rainy season, the weather becomes more humid and average peak temperatures rise to between 30 °C and 35 °C.
Most tourists visit Senegal between November and February, when the weather is cool and dry. If you want to visit the many music festivals, including the Saint-Louis Jazz Festival, travel between March and June. Some hotels and national parks close during the rainy season (June – October), although other hotels will offer big discounts during this time, making it a great option for budget travellers.
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If the weather gets too hot, try a refreshing jus de bissap (hibiscus juice) or a jus de bouye (made from Senegal's national symbol, the Baobab fruit).
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In addition to the user volume restriction, community edition customers will not receive priority support, but the company believes that its user community forums will provide much of the guidance that is necessary.
Additionally, Codice has announced major upgrades in its new Plastic SCM 3.0.6 release, including a number of important improvements on the core Eclipse integration (such us a new Synchronize view, the ability to directly import projects from Plastic SCM during workspace creation, and revisited check-in functionality), as well as new Mylyn integration to improve parallel development within Eclipse (the Mylyn integration represents a significant step for Codice, as it will streamline parallel development for Eclipse users).
As part of the new release, Codice has also introduced a new Visual Studio Package for Visual Studio 2005 and higher. According to the PlasticSCM blog, the Visual Studio Package will create "a better base to continue evolving plugins and enable more innovative functionalities ... Thanks to the new integration, we were able to include much more functionality in the Visual Studio IDE [including] the context menu options that were simply not available before, like annotating code or showing up history and tree 3D (before only the tree was available)."


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What Constitutes Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is:
The verbatim use of any passage or phrase lifted from a published or unpublished source and presented as the student's own writing without acknowledging indebtedness is dishonest. Hacker says, "Your research paper is a collaboration between you and your sources. To be fair and ethical, you must acknowledge your debt to the writers of those sources. If you don't, you commit plagiarism, a serious academic offense" (Hacker, 2004). The submission of another student's paper as your own is plagiarism; repeating someone else's phrases or words or presenting another person's ideas as your own is plagiarism.
Part of the Hiram College Style Sheet
Hacker, Diana. Rules for Writers. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. print.
What activities may constitute plagiarism?
(This list is not exhaustive)
Unauthorized assistance from persons:
(Authorized assistance consists of the support system the College has sanctioned, including the Writing Center, Vencl-Carr and writing assistants, and peer editors; however, "assistants" and "readers" can also be accused of plagiarism if they are involved in any way in the following offenses.)
- Using a paper written by another student.
- Asking a "friend" to write a paper for you, and using it as your own.
- Agreeing to supply other students with work not their own in either way listed above (or other ways that represent an excess of "help," such as writing entire paragraphs for other people).
- Allowing one person in a collaborative writing project to do all the writing, and handing it in as the result of a collaboration (all parties are guilty).
- Turning in a paper written in another course, without telling an instructor you are doing so.
- Handing in a paper purchased off an internet site.
- Deliberately breaking the rules of fair assistance established by a professor for a particular assignment; if a professor tells you, for example, that the Writing Center may not be consulted on a take-home essay exam, it may not.
Unacknowledged assistance from sources:
- Using published material word for word, without citing it or placing it in quotation marks (or both).
- Paraphrasing without citation.
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- Placing the citation for a paraphrase at a place in your text that does not clearly indicate which sentences that precede it are included in the paraphrase.
- Changing words in a paraphrase, but not syntax.
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Add your own student page to the site.
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- 1 Add a sub-heading.
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- 3.1 Lab 1
- 3.2 Lab 2
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- 3.3.1 1.Select 4 reference papers related to your selected topic sub-section. Read these papers and write a brief description of their findings and relevance to the selected topic sub-section. The reference along with your description should then be pasted on both your group discussion page and your own personal page.
- 3.3.2 Article 1 - Charge as a Selection Criterion for Translocation through the Nuclear Pore Complex.
- 3.3.3 Article 2 - Role of Molecular Charge in Nucleocytoplasmic Transport.
- 3.3.4 Article 3 - Higher Nucleoporin-Importin β Affinity at the Nuclear Basket Increases Nucleocytoplasmic Import.
- 3.3.5 Article 4 - Assembly of Nsp1 Nucleoporins Provides Insight into Nuclear Pore Complex Gating.
- 3.3.6 2.Select an image related to your selected topic sub-section (this can be from one of the 4 above or from elsewhere). The image should be uploaded (with all the required information: description, reference, copyright and student template) and pasted onto the project page sub-section and onto your own personal page.
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This is about Prokaryotes.[1]
<pubmed limit=5>Prokaryote</pubmed>
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Lab 1
Chloroplast present in Eukaryotes and not in Prokaryotes [1]
Copyright: © 2007 Henderson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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1. On your own student page upload an image with the reference using the Pubmed formatting shown in the practical class tutorial last week.
Plant Nucleus [1]
Copyright © 2012 Gao et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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2. Identify a recent research article (not review) that uses either confocal microscopy or super-resolution microscopy as one of the study's techniques. Explain briefly (1 paragraph) how the microscopy technique specifically contributed to the article's findings.
In Vivo Determination of Organellar pH Using a Universal Wavelength-Based Confocal Microscopy Approach.
The purpose of the study was to measure the intracellular pH of organelles in situ using the physics behind confocal microscopy. This was achieved by extracting the colonies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae which were associated at various developmental stages. Confocal fluorescence microscopy was then used to monitor the variation in intracellular pH by targeting fusion proteins to subcellular compartments and then quantifying the fluctuations in the emission wavelengths obtained. The use of confocal microscopy imaging enabled researchers to distinguish between the various fluorescent fractions that were present in single cells. It also provided enhanced readings of emissions by the decreased photobleaching and amplified signal-to-noise ratios which detected a wide range of fusion proteins and intracellular pKa levels leading to precise quantifications of organellar pH. Ultimately, the use of confocal microscopy imaging has advanced to such a high level that determining intracellular level of pH is simple and efficient compared to the previous methods of microscopy and spectrofluorometry used. Confocal microscopy also promises much greater result as research proceeds.[1]
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Article 1 - Charge as a Selection Criterion for Translocation through the Nuclear Pore Complex.
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are porous structures that selectively control the components that pass through the nucleus to the cytoplasm and vice versa. A common understanding on the selective aspect of NPCs comes from the various diameter sizes that NPCs can occupy, however scientists have been focusing on another governing principle of translocation that they believe is related to charge. It is known that proteins that undergo rapid translocation are highly negatively charged, whereas proteins that are blocked from this translocation process are positively charged. Analysis has shown that, proteins that occupy the inside of the pore channel are net positively charged and transport receptors are negatively charged. This indicates that translocation rates within NPS are dependent on the electrostatic interactions between transport receptors and NPC due to an immense gain in energy. Overall, the investigation suggests that the negative charge plays a significant role in determining which components pass through the NPC.[1]
Article 2 - Role of Molecular Charge in Nucleocytoplasmic Transport.
Similarly to article one, this study focuses on the role of charge in the selectivity of Nucleocytoplasmic transport. It highlights the significance of phenylalanine-glycine (FG) nucleoporins (Nups) in creating a selective barrier with net positive charges in the nuclear pore complex. It is known that the positive charge accounts for the passive diffusion of small molecules and transport-receptor facilitated diffusion of cargo molecules. However, it was recently hypothesized that a negative surface charge plays a significant role in determining which components pass through the NPC. This study aims to unpack how these charge interactions may impact transport kinetics and spatial transport routes for both passive diffusion and facilitated translocation. By using high-speed fluorescence microscopy, scientists were able to determine that the electrostatic interactions between the negatively charged surface receptors and positively charged FG-Nups although increased the likelihood of NPC binding, did not reveal the nuclear transport mode or spatial transport routes. Instead, Nucleocytoplasmic transport was found to be dependent on molecular size, signal and surface charge and not one or the other.[2]
Article 3 - Higher Nucleoporin-Importin β Affinity at the Nuclear Basket Increases Nucleocytoplasmic Import.
For many years scientists have debated on whether the presence of an affinity gradient in NPCs for the import receptor Importin β increased or decreased Nucleocytoplasmic Import. However the answer to this postulation remained obscure. This study aimed to understand how this affinity gradient may have enhanced Nucleocytoplasmic Import by using agent based modelling (ABM) that looked at the association between rate constants and molecular binding. By employing different values of the affinity gradient, they have found that the rate of transport had increased by 10% compared to the pores lacking an affinity gradient. They also found that this effect was maximised at 200 µM for Importin β. Overall, this study highlighted the significance of Importin β Affinity in Increasing Nucleocytoplasmic Import rate.[3]
Article 4 - Assembly of Nsp1 Nucleoporins Provides Insight into Nuclear Pore Complex Gating.
Our current understanding suggests that the central transport channel which is a part of the NPC is formed by repeating subunits of FG-nups and serves as the selective barrier for incoming material. By analysing the spatial arrangements of nups, scientists can understand how NPC serves as a filter for macromolecules and allows for diffusion of small molecules below 40kDA. In this study, scientists used molecular dynamics to model the possible variations of Nsp1 (Nsp1-FG). They have discovered brush-like structures that consist of bundles that have been cross-linked to various nups. They have also found that transport factors are tightly associated with multiple FGS in cross-linking zones and also dissociate the bundles to widen the pores and allow molecules to enter. Overall, the model of the nuclear pore complex gating shows that the periphery of the NPC central channel consists of a few brushes with many cross-linked bundles due to the tethering of nups. However, the central regions shows a sieve-like structure of bundles with repeated cross-links as tethering of nups is less prominent.[4]
Charge as a selection criterion for nuclear transport [1]
© 2010 Colwell et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
--Z3418837 (talk) 05:36, 3 April 2014 (EST)
Lab 4
1. Identify an antibody that can been used in your group's transport project.
Anti-Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins [Mab414] antibody - ChIP Grade (ab24609)
2. Identify the species deriving the antibody.
Mouse and it is monoclonal
3.Species reactivity
Reacts with: Mouse, Rat, Cat, Human, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Xenopus laevis, Caenorhabditis elegans, Zebrafish, Vertebrates, Yeast.
4. IsoType
5. Epitope and use.
ab24609 recognizes the conserved domain FXFG repeats in nucleaporins such as the p62, p152, p90 and this NPC family is used to study the morphology and composition of the nucleus and nuclear envelope.
6. Identify the working concentration for the antibody.
100 µl at 1 mg/ml
7. Applications:
WB: 1:5,000, IF: 1:5,000, IHC: 1:500, IP: 1:5,000, IEM: 1:5,000, ChIP: use at an assay dependent dilution.
8. Identify a paper that has used this antibody.
Yeast nuclear envelope proteins cross react with an antibody against mammalian pore complex proteins.[1]
- ↑ <pubmed>2661560</pubmed>
--Z3418837 (talk) 23:24, 9 April 2014 (EST)


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Striving for Greatness
December 04, 2013
At Lewis & Clark, student-athletes thrive in the classroom and on the field. This fall, two seniors were recognized with national honors for the determination, drive, and leadership required to excel in their sport.
Keith Welch '14 has shattered numerous school records. The quarterback—who maintains a near 3.5 GPA, provides peer mentorship, and volunteers on move-in day—will graduate as Lewis & Clark's all-time leader in total yards from scrimmage, completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns.
Welch's success isn't confined to Lewis & Clark. His 11,520 yards of total offense broke the all-time Northwest Conference record, and he has been named one of the 10 finalists for the 2013 Gagliardi Trophy for Division III football's top student-athlete. The award honors excellence in athletics, academics, and community service. Welch is the only player from the Northwest Conference on the list.
Records set by Keith Welch
- 11,520 yards of total offense
- 8,779 passing yards
- 74 touchdown passes
- 719 completions
"The first time we gave him a play call," head football coach Chris Sulages tells the Portland Tribune, "he ran into the huddle, called the play correctly, got everybody lined up right, and snapped the ball like he'd done it a million times. Right then we knew we had something special."
In November, Kaitlyn Throgmorton '14 ran in the NCAA III Women's Cross Country National Championships at Hanover College. She was one of just seven runners who qualified individually out of the West Region. Last year Throgmorton helped lead the Pioneers to a 20th place finish at the National Championships.
"Kaitlyn ran a terrific race to earn the trip to Nationals," says head cross country coach Keith Woodard.
More than 64 percent of Lewis & Clark students participate in one or more of our 19 varsity sports, 10 student-run club sports, and numerous intramural sports.
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Note: This review originally appeared in the Illinois Entertainer.
Ann Courtney, who fronts the Brooklyn-based Ann Courtney & The Late Bloomers, isn't the first indie rock performer to cast a cynical eye toward romantic entanglements. What sets her apart from much of the current pack is the versatile way she belts out these caustic observations rather than settling for a one-note or gimmicky vocal style. Crocodile, the band's full-length debut following a pair of EPs, also proves that she and David Giambusso are inventive guitarists.
The slinky "Perfect Medicine" is embellished with psychedelic strumming, and on the ominous "Shut Your Mouth," Courtney and Giambusso harmonize to a slow-pounding beat. "Don't Be A Fading Bruise," a bitterly sarcastic dig at an abusive boyfriend evokes Liz Phair, while on "Strong Arm," Courtney warns, "Don't forget I know where you live" with a Chrissie Hynde snarl. Crocodile also offers the playful jazz arrangement of "Nothing On Me" as well as the raw garage rock of the ironically named "Nice And Quiet.


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- The Minneapolis, Minnesota city council passed a resolution last week calling for a shift of federal spending priorities from war to meeting essential needs, prepared by Minnesota Arms Spending Alternatives Project. St. Paul (MN) has already passed a similar resolution, and Duluth (MN) and Des Moines (IA) are expected to follow with similar statements. Many other cities across the nation, including Portland, Maine, have passed these same kind of resolutions. It is becoming clear that people want to connect the dots between endless war spending and fiscal crisis at home.
- But still some groups around the country who claim they want to save social programs refuse to make the connections to military spending. It is my opinion, and the opinion of many other grassroots leaders around the nation, that some NGO's refuse to include the military budget in their public articulation because the weapons industry unions and the Democrats don't want these links to be made. Just today one of my friends called an organizer in Maine and asked why their union sponsored protest event that was calling for tax increases on the rich was not also making the connection to the bloated Pentagon budget. The organizer told my friend that it is because of the "defense industry" unions in our state. They won't allow the links to be made.
- All across the country NGO's that get funding from foundations, or from wealthy individuals, that are linked to the Democrats are often not allowed to go near certain issues like the Pentagon budget, single-payer health care, Israel-Palestine, climate change and more. In recent years some so-called "progressive" foundations have been telling peace groups that they can't use the word "disarmament" any longer. Instead they have to use "arms control" because the Democrats don't want the grassroots clamoring for real disarmament. This "occupation" of the left's issue positions and public articulation is a form of corporate colonization of the progressive movement. This must end or we will never build an effective movement for change in this country and around the world.
- I expect to see this whole "issue control" situation come to a head during this coming year. With climate change and austerity budgets staring us in the face the independent left cannot cower in the face of these mainstream Democrat party operatives that serve as leaders of local non-profit groups but in essence have become "gate keepers" for the oligarchy as they help reduce our public discourse to the lowest common denominator that does not ultimately challenge the system.
- If the corporations and Democrats can control the money stream between funders and activists then the organizers get held hostage because they need the job in our declining economy. So they learn to shave the edges and over time they learn to stay away from the more independent organizers and groups that are not toeing the line. This essentially leads to splits in the movement and a bifurcation of the "progressive" message and demands that get made on the political system. The public gets confused. They wonder why the groups are not working together. No one wants to talk openly about what is really going on.
- I've seen this same story for years and usually those on the independent left are called disruptive and uncooperative if they try to bring these contradictions to light. But current realities are making it increasingly evident that we can't any longer afford to deny and sugarcoat these issues and happily a movement is springing up across the nation to face these challenges in a more direct way. It's about time.


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3rd Edition - 6x9 paperback Updated and revised.
The three years since the publication of the previous English edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles have seen a continuation of the economic recession process set in motion after the 2007 financial crisis. This process has consisted of the inevitable microeconomic readjustment and realignment of a real productive structure which the credit expansion of the prior "speculative bubble" years had rendered unsustainable. Though governments' fiscal and monetary policies have on many occasions been erratic and counterproductive, in the end, enormous growth in public deficits has brought on a sovereign public debt crisis in international markets. This crisis has been so severe that one by one, the different governments have been forced to take measures, even if timid ones, in the right direction, measures to reduce public spending, interventionism, and regulation of the economy, and to liberalize factor markets and make them more flexible, especially the labor market.
Can the market fully manage the money and banking sector?
Jesús Huerta de Soto, professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has made history with this mammoth and exciting treatise. He integrates sweeping history and rigorous theory to make the good-as-gold case that the institutions of money and banking can be part of the free market -- without a central bank, without bailouts, without inflation, without business cycles, and without the economic instability that has characterized the age of government control.
Such a book as this comes along only once every several generations: a complete comprehensive treatise on economic theory. It is sweeping, revolutionary, and devastating--not only the most extended elucidation of Austrian business cycle theory to ever appear in print but also a decisive vindication of the Misesian-Rothbardian perspective on money, banking, and the law.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann has said that this is the most significant work on money and banking to appear since 1912, when Mises's own book was published and changed the way all economists thought about the subject.
Its five main contributions:
Those are the main points but, in fact, this only scratches the surface. Indeed, it would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this book. De Soto provides also a defense of the Austrian perspective on business cycles against every other theory, defends the 100% reserve perspective from the point of view of Roman and British law, takes on the most important objections to full reserve theory, and presents a full policy program for radical reform.
It was Hülsmann's review of the Spanish edition that inspired the translation that led to this Mises Institute edition in English. The result is astonishing: an 875-page masterpiece that utterly demolishes the case for fiat currency and central banking, and shows that these institutions have compromised economic stability and freedom, and, moreover, are intolerable in a free society.
De Soto has set new scholarly standards with this detailed discussion of monetary reform from an Austro-libertarian point of view. Huerta de Soto's solid elaboration of his arguments along these lines makes his treatise a model illustration of the Austrian approach to the study of the relationship between law and economics.
It could take a decade for the full implications of this book to be absorbed but this much is clear: all serious students of these subject matters will have to master this treatise.
This is a really great book. He quotes extensively from Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, and other familiar names, but only Rothbard compares with his clarity. He must have had a really good translator. After reading halfway through the PDF, I had to buy the hard copy to put on my shelf.
At one point, he does introduce some simple formulas to precisely explain the deleterious effects of fractional reserve banking on the structure of production. If you don't like math, don't worry -- you can easily pick up the essence from the surrounding text.
Yes, I've read most of Mises and Rothbard, but de Soto still improved my understanding of several difficult points. I was amazed. I've been recommending this book to my friends, but of course none of them will ever read it.
Chapter 1: The Legal Nature of the Monetary Irregular-Deposit Contract
Chapter 2: Historical Violations of the Legal Principles Legal Principles Governing the Monetary Irregular-Deposit Contract
Chapter 3: Attempts to Legally Justify Fractional-Reserve Banking
Chapter 4: The Credit Expansion Process
Chapter 5: Bank Credit Expansion and Its Effects on the Economic System
Chapter 6: Additional Considerations on the Theory of the Business Cycle
Chapter 7: A Critique of Monetarist and Keynesian Theories
Chapter 8: Central and Free Banking Theory
Chapter 9: A Proposal for Banking Reform: The Theory of a 100-Percent Reserve Requirement
Conclusion: The Banking System of a Free Society Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names
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Best of Honolulu 2011: Food
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Onopops won editor's pick for best popsicles.
Photo: Rae Huo
Readers' Picks
The buffet service at the Prince Court at the Hawaii Prince Hotel is most definitely more than you can eat. The menus change, but poke, sushi, ribs, and fresh seafood are always favorites, along with a waffle and omelet station for Sunday brunch. 100 Holomoana St., 944-4494, princeresortshawaii.com/hawaii-prince-court.
A Hawaii original, Teddy's Bigger Burgers was born out of "a craving in our belly and a deep, passionate, primitive desire to satiate that craving with a burger," says co-CEO Ted Tsakiris. Premium meat and diverse range of toppings from pineapple to peanut butter makes the retro 50s-style burger joint a hit. Multiple locations, 949-0050, teddysbiggerburgers.com.
Grocery Store
Once again, our readers love Safeway. The Kapahulu location is the chain's latest "lifestyle store" location; customers can find a sushi and sandwich counter, soup bar, grab-and-go areas and a plentiful organic, local, and specialty-item selection. All the locations maintain as much variety as possible, giving readers more reasons to return to their favorite grocer. Multiple locations, safeway.com.
Health Food Store
Whole Foods takes an educational approach to food. Classes are offered almost daily and Natalie Aczon, marketing supervisor, says the most popular are "The Mechanics of Organics," "Eat More Foods for Your Moods" and "Keiki in the Kitchen" (sometimes taught by Duke Kenney, son of Ed Kenney, who owns Town). Families and schools frequently arrange tours of the grocery store to learn about local food, organics or how to shop Whole Foods on a budget. A new location in Kailua is slated to open later this year. 4211 Waialae Ave., 738-0820, wholefoodsmarket.com.
Local Food or Beverage
3-way tie
Hawaiian Sun has a long heritage of making drinks and snacks infused with local flavors. Its roots can be traced to the 1950s, when the business sold papayas. Its modern day offerings include jams, macadamia nut chocolates and tropical drinks that can be purchased at grocery stores and retail outlets. hawaiiansunproducts.com.
A little more than 15 years ago, a father and son team out of Oregon decided to bring craft beer to the Big Island. What resulted was Kona Brewing Co., which produces 12 beers (six of which are bottled and sold in grocery stores), two pubs (one on Oahu at Koko Marina) and a brewery that produces 20,000 kegs a year. 75-5629 Kuakini Highway, Kailua Kona, 808-334-2734, konabrewingco.com.
Karen and Jason Campbell of Waialua Soda Works set out on a mission, in 2003, to "bring back the experience of drinking soda." Flavors range from classic—root beer and vanilla cream—to classically Hawaiian—pineapple, mango, and lilikoi. All are made with pure cane sugar and natural flavors. Purchase at grocery stores or online. waialuasodaworks.com.
Liliha Bakery has been making its famous coco puff for 20 years, at a rate of up to 7,200 a day. Add other sweet delights—butter horns, turnovers and custom made cakes (with flavors like dobash and haupia)—to your tab for total pastry bliss. Closed Mondays. 515 North Kuakini St., 531-1651, lilihabakeryhawaii.com.
Place for Local Produce
Seven years ago, Dean Okimoto, of Nalo Farms, and Joan Namkoong, a well-known food writer, helped create a small Diamond Head farmers' market. What started with 14 vendors in the Kapiolani Community College parking lot evolved into a 65-booth Saturday morning market with an average of 6,000 customers. Lisa Asagi, one of the market's managers, says the market could expand even further if it wasn't for the venue's space constraints. The wait list to get a booth is a mile long. The No. 1 rule? Everything must be grown locally. 4303 Diamond Head Road, 848-2074, hfbg.org.
Place to Buy Fresh Fish
Talk with Cyrus Tamashiro, one of the brothers who runs Tamashiro Market, and it doesn't take long to learn his business focus. "We always try to get fresh fish and sell it fast," he says. The market stocks 75 varieties of fish and more than 30 types of poke. While some of the selection comes from the Mainland, the Tamashiro brothers get as much as they can from the Honolulu Fish Auction and local fishermen. The market has been a Kalihi mainstay since the '50s. "We've found our niche and I think we do it well," says Cyrus, "The people of Hawaii consistently come back and we hope to do this for many more years." 802 N. King St., 841-8047, tamashiromarket.com.
Wine Shop
Not only can you get diverse range of wine, beer and liquor from Tamura's, but shoppers can also load up on poke, crackers and cheese. The flagship Waialae location features a special wine room with boutique and tough to find labels. 3496 Waialae Ave., 735-7100, tamurasfinewine.com.


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Dear Sam.
I got your letter and am glad to know your feeling good. It has been awful hot here this last 2 days. Last night neither Lena or pa slept any but I slept all night. It is not quite so bad tonight. Pa went to work tonight at 8 o'clock and gets home about 7 tomorrow. He was down the beach today and had a (Jewbily) jubily.
I succeeded in getting tickets for Lena and Bert for Braves field tomorrow night. They cost 50¢ but we get them free and I got 2 from some girls who couldn't go. $1.50 saved. I will write and tell you all about it.
There is a hen and roaster over in Napolean's yard. When the roaster crows it sounds as if some one was closing a sqweaking gate. Oh what a voice. I am glad you are getting enough to eat. Talk about chicken soup say if Napolean don't put some lard on his roaster's throat some of the neighbors will be having some chicken soup. By the looks of things it dosent seem as if you would be home for the 12th of Oct. but of course nobody knows. They might send you home as quick as they sent you down there, almost without any warning.
I didnt go up to the Band Consert tonight because I was kind of tired when I got home. I was hot and Lena and I sat on the steps with little Mary and watched Bert go by. We took her home about half past seven and we came home at 8. Lena has gone to bed but I will drop this in the box before I fall in.
I hope this letter finds you well and contented for a while longer anyway. I am almost asleep. Tomorrow night I will leave the house about 7 o'clock as the show starts at 8. Now I must close.
With Love from all
© Copyright 2009 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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The book is the most important thing because studies show that over the summer break, kids forget what they've learned.
BIBLIOFILES: Summertime and the Reading is Easy
By Allison Stewart
Close your eyes. Okay now open them again because you can't read this with your eyes closed. I didn't quite think that through! What I wanted to do was have you imagine a lazy summer day, with the sun shining down and just enough of a breeze to cool you off but not enough of one to disturb the pages of the book you're reading. There's a nice frosty glass of lemonade and/or gin and tonic close at hand and the world is perfect.
If you are school-age child the most important thing in that scenario is the book(s) you're reading. Well, after the drink being lemonade not gin and tonic. The book is the most important thing because studies show that over the summer break, kids forget what they've learned. In more academic terms "students experience significant learning losses over the summer, most notably in the areas of reading and math, and that these losses add up over time to create a significant learning gap" (Library and Archives Canada, 2006). This is because reading is a complex brain activity. The process of understanding what is being read goes beyond just knowing what the words mean. As with any other complex activity, you have to do it on a regular basis or you will lose your ability to do it well.
Don't worry; public libraries are here to help once again! Most public libraries in Canada offer Summer Reading Programs. Some are done locally, some are done provincially as in B.C. and many of them participate in the nation-wide TD Summer Reading Club Program. This is Canada's largest bilingual reading program and it's for kids of all ages and abilities. There are resources for kids with print-disabilities as well.
Here in the Tri-Area, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and the Parkland County Libraries all offer SRP activities. You can get all the details by going to their websites or phoning them for more information. In addition to special events and weekly programs there's the Summer Reading Game to play. The more you read, the more points you get! There are prizes to be won and fun to be had.
Kickoff Parties in Your Community include Spruce Grove on June 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Stony Plain on July 2 from 10:30-11:30 a.m.; programs start in Entwistle on July 3; Tomahawk on July 8; Keephills on July 9; and Duffield on July 11.
Don't let the summer pass you by!
— Allison Stewart is the director for the Stony Plain Public Library


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If Mike Tyson had been cast on any TV series other than NBC's Law & Order: SVU, it wouldn't have sparked such a firestorm. But the hiring of a convicted rapist on a drama that has received numerous awards for its sensitive portrayal of sex crimes has raised flags and inspired one outraged rape survivor to start a petition urging NBC to rethink its decision. So far, the petition has been signed by more than 6,000 protesters, including NCIS star Pauley Perrette.
"I'm sorry that she has a difference of opinion, but she's entitled to it," Tyson says of the Change.org petition's author, Marcie Kaveney. "I'm sorry that she's not happy. [But] I didn't rape nobody or do anything like that, and this lady wasn't there to know if I did or not. I don't trip on that stuff. I'm not trying to get rich and famous; I'm just trying to feed my family. Why should they care? Since I'm clean and sober five years, I haven't broken any laws or did any crimes. I'm just trying to live my life."
The former boxing champ plays death row inmate Reggie Rhodes, whose crimes were provoked by devastating childhood abuse, in the Feb. 6 episode. "He's a really damaged young man and a broken person," says Tyson, who served three years of a six-year prison sentence after being convicted in 1992 of raping Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old Miss Black America beauty pageant contestant. "He was taken advantage of any way a man could be taken advantage of. He murdered one of his abusers and now he's on death row working on trying to get an appeal."
Tyson's scenes all take place in a prison cell or a courtroom — two locations he knows well. But he says he wasn't concerned about dredging up his past. "I just got the script and did the best I could," he says. "I have no emotional connection to the role. As a human being I can relate to it, but it has nothing to do with me."
Tyson admits that prior to his TV Guide Magazine interview, he was coached by his team about "what to say and how to say it, because they feel I can't handle this stuff." But all he really wants is to be given a chance to demonstrate that he is a changed man.
"When people say, 'He shouldn't do this,' that upsets me because it hurts people close to me," says Tyson, who has been working hard to foster relationships with his seven surviving children. "I'm happy with myself. I'm not on drugs. I'm not drinking. I'm not making a big fool of myself again. I'm trying really hard, you know?"
Tyson, 46, who won a 1989 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Male Athlete and oversees his Mike Tyson Care Foundation to help at-risk youth, has long been a "big-time" fan of SVU. "My wife [Lakiha Spicer, who he wed in 2009] and I looked on this show a lot, especially when I was going through my relapse and drug periods," he says. "It was the most exciting show on TV. I think it's awesome that they take true events out of the paper. It has great energy."
His favorite SVU character is Ice-T's Detective Tutuola; the two share scenes in the episode. Tyson also appears with guest star Andre Braugher and Mariska Hargitay, who in 2002 started her Joyful Heart Foundation to help survivors of sexual assault. While Hargitay has been silent on Tyson's casting, the foundation's spokesperson expressed serious concerns to the show's producers.
Tyson says he found Hargitay to be "very quiet" on set. "You can tell she's the boss." But he maintains that he didn't take the job looking for friends or admiration. "I didn't go there looking for people to kiss on me and tell me how great I am," he says. "That's my downfall. I try to stay as far away from that as possible. I was there to do a service."
This was Tyson's first opportunity to act as a character other than himself (as he has done in The Hangover films; he'll appear in Part 3 later this year). He is well aware that he has much to learn. "I don't think I have any acting skills; I have acting ability. I did [SVU] with the best of my ability, and I'd really like to do more, no matter what the role is. This is a transformation in my growth path as a human being, and I'm so grateful that society in general has given me the opportunity to live a better, healthy life that I deserve to live."


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Retired English Teacher
Could someone please answer my query
What is a non-systematic error in the spoken English?
Scholars (Brown, 2000; Corder, 1967) suggest that
distinguishing mistakes and errors can appropriately
analyze learner's L2 learning performance. Corder (1967)
states that mistakes are categorized as non-systematic
errors out of chance circumstances, such as slips of the
tongue, while errors refer to systematic errors which often
occur in second language learning.


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Support information for Intel® NUC Board NUC7i7DNBE
Information to help you get started using your Intel® NUC Kit NUC7i7DNBE.
Instructions for installing an operating system on an Intel® NUC.
Instructions for the BIOS update options available for Intel® NUC products.
Links to technical specifications for Intel® NUC products.
Memory features and requirements, with link to Compatibility Tool for list of validated memory modules for Intel® NUC Kits NUC7i7DN.
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havent been around here for a while. i haven't used newsbin either for a while either living in linux land but started to the miss the program i started out with when i 1st started using newsgroups back in 2002 wow! its been a long time.
anyway im using manjaro 64 and everything is smooth. this is probably the best its ever been on linux that i have used. i was actually able to install the 64bit installer which i was never able to before. i havent noticed any problems yet. its been stable.
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"As the pioneering psychedelic chemist Alexander Shulgin (1927-2014) has pointed out, the idea that the Earth moved around the Sun was radical heresy at one time. A century later, it was a commonplace truism. The prospect that the inner exploration of consciousness with psychedelics might be recognized as, in itself, a positive and worthy endeavor is another radical heresy that may be seen as self-evident in the future. Rather than collapsing into anarchy, a civilization that supports the adult individual's right to utilize these chemical catalysts for self-discovery and spiritual communion might advance to a more mature and stable state. Much of the anxiety and negative conditioning around the subject could be dispelled with logical argument based on evidence for the relative safety of psychedelics, especially natural ones, compared to other drugs. The point is not that everyone needs to take psychedelics but that the minority of people who find themselves compelled to make this exploration could be permitted to do so. (…) In a culture that is awash in prescription chemicals, drugs of abuse, and mood-altering SSRIs, it seems increasingly odd to ban a handful of plant substances and related compounds (even LSD is closely related to a chemical found in ergot fungus) that have been used by human beings for untold thousands of years."
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"To a large extent, the cultural and social movements of the 1960s developed in reaction to the Cold War, which nearly reached a devastating nuclear climax during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The awareness of humanity's hair-trigger proximity to self-inflicted annihilation inspired individual acts of courage and brilliance, and mass movements for social and personal liberation. It also led to widespread interest in psychedelic exploration as a fast track to self-knowledge and spiritual illumination. Rather than leading to instant "enlightenment", the visionary insights, temporary dissolution of ego boundaries, and deconditioning from proscribed social codes often induced by entheogenic explorations helped some people to reevaluate their own role in society at that time.
Today, we are faced with an intractable and unpopular war in Iraq that has already continued longer than the U.S. involvement in World War II, a rise in terrorism, and a global ecological crisis of terrifying magnitude. Just as the 1960s generation had to confront the militaristic insanity of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, our generation has to reckon with the individual and collective mind-set that has brought us to this critical threshold, quickly approaching the point of no return. While it would be the height of silliness to consider psychedelics, in themselves, as the Answer to the massive problems now facing us, they continue to offer some individuals a means for looking at the world from a different vantage point, integrating new levels of insight."
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"When we cast a cold eye on the current planetary situation, we discover that the industrial culture and excessive lifestyle of the affluent West masks an intensifying scarcity of resources that is unsustainable, even in the short term. According to scientists, 25% of all mammalian species will be extinct within the next 30 years. Our oceans are 90% fished out, with the potential for an irreversible collapse of many fisheries. As accelerating climate change leads to an increase in natural disasters, the polar ice caps are melting at rates that exceed predictions, potentially leading to a significant rise in global sea levels, causing coastal flooding. At current rates of deforestation, there will be no tropical forests left on the planet in 40 years. According to many geologists, we are on the verge of 'peak oil' – the highest possible production of oil, after which procution must decline – leading to higher prices and potential scarcity of energy in the next decades… Our efforts to find short-term technological fixes for the problems we create often lead to deeper errors and more dangerous unintended consequences. We are faced with the urgent task of changing the direction of global civilization if we want to avoid biospheric collapse and species burnout.
Without romanticizing native cultures, we can recognize that in many cases their intimate and sacralized relationship to the natural world kept them from overshooting the carrying capacities of their local ecosystems. The modern fixation on abstract, quantifiable, and rational modes of thought has profoundly alienated us from the directly sensorial and mimetic forms of knowing and relating maintained by indigenous cultures, allowing us to treat the natural world as something separate from ourselves. The entheogenic experience can temporarily reconnect the modern individual with lost participatory modes of awareness that may induce a greater sensitivity to his or her physical surroundings, beside raising a psychic periscope into the marginalized realms of mythological archetype and imaginative vision. It is not a question of forfeiting our mdern cognition for fuzzy mysticism, but of reintegrating older and more intimate ways of knowing that can help us find a more balanced relationship with the human and nonhuman world around us.
It may seem unlikely that psychedelics could be rehabilitated, but who knows? Profound shifts in consciousness and culture happen in surprising ways, overturning the smug certitudes of academic experts and media commentators. New forms of awareness develop below everyday consciousness, gestating in hidden reaches of the collective psyche, long before they are allowed to be articulated and manifested as new social realities. What was once scandalous and impossible can become acceptable and obvious to a new generation, and doors that long seemed securely padlocked may swing open at the merest touch. As new paradigms of knowlege emerge, breaking through the crust of old habit and received conditioning, change becomes possible – and sometimes inevitable."
– Daniel Pinchbeck,
Introduction to The Psychedelic Experience, by T. Leary, R. Metzner and R. Alpert,
Penguin Classics, 2007.


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As a class, students create a basic plot diagram of a book they have read. They discuss the use of symbols to represent major events, and assign a positive or negative rating to each plot event they listed. The teacher then turns their ideas into a graphical map of the story to introduce the concept to the class.
In the next session, students discuss an example graphic map from The Watsons Go To Birmingham1963, created from Kenny's point of view, and use a rubric to score it. Students then work in small groups, using an online tool to create a graphic map following another character in the book. Finally, students work independently to create a graphic map for another book they have read.
- Graphic Map: Use this online tool to create a graphic representation of a book.
- Graphic Map Example: This example shows several events from The Watsons Go To Birmingham1963 from Kenny's perspective.
- Graphic Map Rubric: Use this rubric to assess students' graphic maps of a book they have read.
Story maps represent the basic structure of a narrative text, and act as templates that graphically represent plot elements. Most story maps document the basic elements of fiction: setting, characters, initiating event, conflict/goal, resolution, and theme. However, Margaret M. Foley in her article, "The (Un)Making of a Reader" asserts that we need to ask more from our students when they respond to literature. Foley states, "What is lost in our rush to have everyone comprehend in the same way is the reader's interests, feelings, and ideas" (510).
This lesson plan takes comprehension a step further by asking students to retell the story graphically, based on their own interpretation of the text. By focusing on a particular change through graphical maps, students gain a deeper understanding of a text. In such projects, students think about the events, characters, and themes; assign a value to them and think about how the elements of the story are all interconnected. This idea of comprehension helps students to read and respond in a deeper fashion.
Further Reading
Foley, Margaret M. "The (Un)Making of a Reader." Language Arts 77.6 (July 2000): 506-511.
This lesson plan was adapted from an idea in Barry Lane's After The End: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision (Heinemann, 1993).


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+ Bike rider does 80 in honor of his 80th
Carl Meyers turns 80 on Dec. 3, and he wanted to do something special to celebrate. An avid bike rider, he bought a new bike and decided to ride 80 kilometers — 50 miles — on his birthday. His plan is to start at the old Venice train station and ride to the Venetian Waterway Trail and then to the Legacy Trail, in Sarasota. He will repeat the route to make it 80 kilometers total.
But he won't be riding alone. Joining him will be his sons, Eric, of Oak Park, Mich., and Jon, of Dearborn, Mich.; his wife, Mary; and a few friends. Not all will make the entire ride. On Sunday, Nov. 29, his neighbors at Spanish Main Yacht Club will drop by an open house to wish him well.
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Arkansas sprinter Regina George arrested in Fayetteville early Sunday morning
Arkansas women's track and field standout Regina George was arrested early Sunday morning in Fayetteville for public intoxication.
Police say they received a call from Washington Regional Medical Center about a woman who had been released earlier that day but didn't have a ride home. They eventually found George walking south along Gregg Avenue around 9 a.m.
The police report says George appeared unsteady on her feet with bloodshot, watery eyes. When approached by police, she identified herself with as "Briyanna Thomas" and denied having been admitted to the hospital.
The officer noticed George was wearing a hospital wristband, but she refused to let him see the name on it. She then became upset and tried to leave, then began to resist when the officer attempted to restrain her.
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In March 2011, George was arrested on battery charges after an altercation with her roommate.
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Oeuvres completes de Frederic Bastiat, mises en ordre, revues et annotees d'apres les manuscrits de l'auteur (Paris: Guillaumin, 1864) 3rd edition, 7 vols. Vol. 3. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/945,
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Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights lawyer and first black Supreme Court justice who was instrumental in ending Jim Crow segregation. His representation of schoolgirl Linda Brown resulted in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which ended separation practiced in a wide variety of public facilities and institutions.
Yet Marshall sought more than just desegregation. Explaining his vision, Marshall proclaimed that "a child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi … has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States."
"It's not true," he continued, "but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
Through numerous legal challenges, Marshall ensured that the laws mandating racial division were destroyed. At his death, the anti-discrimination proposals he championed had become an integral part of American law.
However, even as we celebrate the second inauguration this week of the nation's first African-American president, Justice Marshall's goal of equal opportunity for racial minorities proves elusive.
Socioeconomic disparities between blacks and whites are still alarming. Blacks are twice as likely to be poor or homeless, and more than twice as likely to be incarcerated. Blacks accumulate wealth at one-twentieth the rate of whites. The median wealth (assets minus debts) of black households is one-twentieth of that of white households. In the last few years, the gap has only widened.
Racial inequality today is much more complex than it was when Marshall argued cases. Sixty years ago, laws imposed discrimination on racial minorities, and violence was used to maintain the divide. Today, what I call the "ghosts of Jim Crow" are individual and societal choices that result in housing and social isolation, education inequity, reduced political power and increased economic hardship for blacks.
One such ghost is evident in employment disparities. Unemployment among blacks consistently remains twice that of whites. In difficult economic times, black women are hit particularly hard: In the recent recession, the percentage of jobs lost by black women was higher than any other group."
Bari-Ellen Roberts understands this phenomenon all too well. A black woman employed as a senior financial analyst at Texaco in the 1990s, she was denied opportunities for professional advancement by supervisors. Ms. Roberts, who sued in a class-action discrimination suit, wrote about her experiences in "Roberts Vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America."
Another ghost of Jim Crow was found in a Philadelphia suburb. To generate additional revenue, the Valley Swim Club allowed local day camps access for a fee. A Philadelphia-based camp that provides activities for 50 black children, in July 2009 paid $1,950 so the children could use the pool once a week.
News reports at the time indicated that, when the black children showed up on the first day to swim, the white children in the pool immediately exited the water — and that a white parent was heard to say, "What are all these black kids doing here?" A club attendant asked all of the black children to leave, which they did, some of them in tears. Refunding the payment, the president of the Valley Swim Club said the reason for the cancellation was "concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … of the club."
Another example of continuing racial discrimination is in the administration of the death penalty — black defendants with white victims are the most likely to be executed. This became all too evident on Sept. 21, 2011, when the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man, for the murder of a white, off-duty police officer. Mr. Davis was executed despite the fact that evidence of witness coercion, intimidation and fabrication of testimony by police had raised serious doubt as to his guilt. Just as in the Jim Crow era, a black person can still be executed in America even when his guilt is in question.
Six decades after Marshall announced his equal opportunity vision, and two decades after his death, a post-racial America still doesn't exist. As Colin Powell recently said, there is an "intolerance" on the part of some Americans that involves "looking down on minorities."
These ghosts of Jim Crow must end if Marshall's goal of equality is ever to be achieved.
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What We Hope to Show
Manufacturers do special, significant work that deserves to be seen. Enter "The Edge Factor."
My first exposure to manufacturing was not promising. Shop class, or Industrial Arts, was a requirement in middle school. It was a class in which the procedures were rigid and the teachers stern—owing (I now realize) to the precision and potential peril of the equipment we used. We also had to wear hair nets, offering further cause for bristling. When middle school ended and my time in this class was done, I felt relieved.
But I studied engineering in college. At an aerospace company, I worked in machining. Programming machine tools, I saw for the first time how mathematical lines translated to the fluid motions of a tool sculpting a component from superalloy metal. What I saw was real beauty. On difficult days, I could reawaken my spirit by recalling the beauty at the core of what I was doing.
Back then, I had not yet found my place. Now, I have. My real calling involves paragraphs more than programming. How I might have done as an engineer is unknown. As a communicator, though, I think I innately appreciate at least one vital insight about reaching people. It's this:
Communication does not happen because you or I choose to speak. By itself, giving voice to our ideas doesn't matter much.
Rather, communication also requires something more difficult to obtain. Namely, communication happens because someone is willing to listen.
Lately, I have had the privilege to work on a different sort of communication vehicle, a project that is a departure for this magazine. Modern Machine Shop is a partner in The Edge Factor—a new show that will compellingly portray manufacturing for a general audience. The show has a shot at TV broadcast, so a TV-length pilot has been made. We'll see how that develops. Meanwhile, we will continue making episodes tailored to other venues where viewers gather. You can read more here.
Working with filmmakers, a writer of paragraphs quickly comes to realize how little informational content film is able to convey, relative to print. Film is rich in content, but a lot of that content is emotional. The actual informational message has to be lean. This is a challenge. Yet this is the form the opportunity takes.
In our culture, TV and film are where people are paying attention, where the greatest quantity of people is willing to listen. People are receptive to messages delivered this way. They are willing to be informed if they are also entertained, which is a reasonable bargain. So, part of the idea behind The Edge Factor is: Let's go there. Let's try to make a show worth watching, a show about manufacturing.
What will the show say? I think most readers of this magazine would roughly agree about what we wish the wider world understood about manufacturing. As episodes accumulate, I hope that message comes across. I hope it persuades. At the same time, I have a hope for the show's emotional content, too. Through real stories and real footage of parts being made, I hope many other people will set aside their false or incomplete notions from shop class or wherever else. I hope they come to recognize the very same beauty that you and I have found.


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The application configuration should ensure that SSL is used for all access controlled pages.
If an application uses SSL to guarantee confidential communication with client browsers, the application configuration should make it impossible to view any access controlled page without SSL. However, it is not an uncommon problem that the configuration of the application fails to enforce the use of SSL on pages that contain sensitive data.
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- A user manually enters the URL and types "HTTP" rather than "HTTPS".
- Attackers intentionally send a user to an insecure URL.
- A programmer erroneously creates a relative link to a page in the application, failing to switch from HTTP to HTTPS. (This is particularly easy to do when the link moves between public and secured areas on a web site.)
Risk Factors
- Login pages are not SSL protected
- A publicly accessible page contains a relative link to a protected page which forgets to switch to SSL.
Related Attacks
- Attackers that are trying to steal login credentials, session IDs or other sensitive information
- Bypassing SSL by entering HTTP instead of HTTPS
- Sending insecure URLs of protected pages to the victim (e.g. login page) to trick the victim into accessing the privileged pages via HTTP
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