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Saltalamacchia was out of the lineup for the third straight game on Friday against the Blue Jays, with Boston facing its third left-hander in as many nights in Aaron Laffey. The time away from the game also comes after a rough offensive stretch for the switch-hitter.
"He's dying to get back in there, so we'll see if he's recharged tomorrow," said manager Bobby Valentine on Friday.
In five games since the All-Star break, Saltalamacchia is 1-for-15 with eight strikeouts against two walks. He's struck out at least once in each of his last eight games dating back to July 6.
"[He's seen] tough pitches and [is] swinging at some pitches that really weren't hittable," Valentine said. "I think he will be more selective next time he gets out there and hit them the way that he can."
Saltalamacchia is hitless in his last 13 at-bats and is mired in a 1-for-24 slump over his last seven games. He leads Major League catchers with 17 home runs, but his .229 batting average is the lowest it's been since late April.
But working on his swing is not the main priority for a catcher in his first full season as a starter with the responsibility of overseeing Boston's pitching staff. That alone leaves less time for Saltalamacchia to tinker with his offense.
"He's also a switch-hitter, so he has a lot on his plate, working on both sides of the plate, working with the pitching staff and taking a real personal responsibility when things don't go well," Valentine said. "I think the one thing he has not shied away from is the idea that he is really responsible for everything that goes on out there with his pitching staff, and I think that's a burden as much as anything. It's his first year doing it full time, and I think he's figuring it out."
Kelly Shoppach has started in Saltalamacchia's place for the last three games. He hit a pinch-hit two-run homer in Tuesday's 7-5 loss to the White Sox but was 1-for-7 with four strikeouts in his last two games entering Friday.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Corporate insiders nowadays are as pessimistic as they were just before the 2008 market meltdown.
Though their bearishness doesn't necessarily spell an immediate end to the bull market, it can't be good news — since insiders presumably know more about their companies' prospects than do the rest of us.
Corporate insiders are a legally-defined group containing a company's officers, directors, or shareholders owning at least 10% of its outstanding shares. Any time insiders buy or sell shares of their company's stock, they must report the transaction more or less immediately to the SEC, which makes the data available to the public.
But skeptics will no doubt point out that the insiders failed dismally in late 2007 to foresee the imminent downturn not only at their companies, but in the economy overall.
Supporting their argument is the ratio of the number of shares insiders have recently sold to the number recently bought. Lower ratios mean that the insiders on balance are bullish, while higher ratios mean they are more bearish. The historical average for this ratio, according to the Vickers Weekly Insider Report, a publication of Argus Research, is between 2-to-1 and 2.5-to-1.
At the top of the bull market in October 2007, just before the Great Recession and the worst bear market since the 1930s, this sell-to-buy ratio stood at a bullish 1.98-to-1.
That result certainly doesn't provide much encouragement to those who would look to corporate insiders for guidance.
So why pay attention to insiders now?
Largely because that overall ratio was distorted. Nejat Seyhun, a finance professor at the University of Michigan, has found from his research — conducted well before 2007, I might add — that only some insiders have a consistently accurate view of their companies' prospects.
The insiders worth paying attention to are a company's officers and directors. Those with relatively little insight, in contrast, are the largest shareholders.
This is a crucial distinction. The largest shareholders in 2007 were mostly bullish even as officers and directors were becoming more bearish. Since the composite statistics were dominated — as they almost always are — by the actions of the largest shareholders, these overall statistics diverted attention from the bearish behavior of insiders with the greatest insight.
Not surprisingly, Prof. Seyhun — who is one of the leading experts on interpreting the behavior of corporate insiders — has found that when the transactions of the largest shareholders are stripped out, insiders do have impressive forecasting abilities. In the summer of 2007, for example, his adjusted insider sell-to-buy ratio was more bearish than at any time since 1990, which is how far back his analyses extended.
Ominously, that degree of bearish sentiment is where the insider ratio stands today, Prof. Seyhun said in an interview.
Note carefully that even if the insiders turn out to be right and the bull market is coming to an end, this doesn't have to mean that the U.S. market averages are about to fall as much as they did in 2008 and early 2009. The one other time since that bear market when Prof. Seyhun's adjusted sell-buy ratio sunk as low as it was in 2007 and is today, the market subsequently fell by "just" 20%.
That other occasion was in early 2011. Stocks' drop at that time did satisfy the unofficial definition of a bear market, and the insiders' pessimism was vindicated.
And though the 2011 decline wasn't nearly as bad as the losses in 2008, corporate insiders' latest behavior, properly interpreted, is worrisome.
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Swift preview 6
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* We can't use system anymore in preview 3. This introduces a lot of issues around envrionment variables, which can't be listed in swift :-(. So we no longer inherit environment variables, we only set the ones we set. * We do pass on PWD and PATH, because otherwise that would be terrible * Toolchain is now a part of platform config instead of something we pass around by hand. * We now detect xcode 7 / 8 depending on whether we're using a toolchain installed to Xcode.app or Xcode-beta.app. That's still not right, but fuck it.
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Add support for C language to atllbuild
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This PR lets you mix .swift, .h, and .c files all in the same atllbuild task. It works a lot like Xcode's behavior, if you've used that. \# Rationale I feel the need to defend this feature, since I have been previously on the record as saying "the entire value is debatable" (https://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg01829.html). There are 5 cases where I think it makes sense to add a little C to your Swift project: * To use the odd feature Swift doesn't support. Recently, I needed to call a variadic C function; Swift cannot call them, C is our only hope * To work around a Swift compiler bug. Several of my projects have this case. * To repackage an existing Xcode project where somebody used C in it. I have not investigated and don't want to investigate whether that somebody was sane or insane, but we should at least be able to build their project. * To include headers from a system C library. SwiftPM tries to solve this with module maps, however it doesn't hide the implementation details https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-655. This feature can actually hide them with a few different methods discussed below, which is a clear win. * To write Swift bindings for a C library. This generally involves a little C glue code (such as using a header or something), and for reasons that will become clear, using our C support is better than previous approaches at that problem. \# Rationale-NOT: Additional rationale: * SwiftPM will probably add this eventually * per #113, we should be a superset of their functionality I would like to be very clear about my goals: * This is really only designed for the case of "need a little C in your Swift project", not anything larger * This is not a replacement for e.g. GNU Make or a general-purpose C buildsystem, nor will it become one * The preferred mechanism for building a real C library is shelling out to your real C buildsystem * Nobody should be repackaging their established C libraries as atllbuild tasks. atllbuild is designed to build Swift projects, not C projects. \# Design * You can now specify `.c` and `.h` files in the sources for atllbuild tasks * Also `**.c` and `**.h` just like `**.swift` * Like `.swift`, no files are scanned by default, everything is explicit * Adding `.c` files causes them to be compiled and linked into the atllbuild task just like swift files * Adding `.h` files exposes declarations to Swift. It works much like a bridging header; put stuff in header files and then Swift code will see it. * Your `.h`s can import other `.h`s (from the system, or anywhere else) and you otherwise have access to the complete C preprocessor * New atllbuild setting `c-compile-options` specifies compile options for C files. `compile-options` is ignored for C. * C files work as you'd expect, including support for things like configurations, optimization, atbuild preprocessor macros, etc. \# Linking The standard `link-options` sets link options for both C and Swift; since they are linked into the same library there is no individual control. So if you want to link your C (and Swift) code against curl, you could say `:link-options ["-lcurl"]` for example. The problem with this approach is that everybody who depends on you might also need `-lcurl`. Traditionally we've solved this with overlays that we expose to callers. SwiftPM avoids this problem by requiring everyone to create e.g. `CCurl` everywhere: https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/master/Documentation/SystemModules.md And in fact people do: https://github.com/IBM-Swift/CCurl The problem is now you have to import `CCurl` everywhere (even in files that don't directly use it). See generally, https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-655, https://gist.github.com/briancroom/5d0f1b966fa9ef0ae4950e97f9d76f77 Here is the cool part though. This PR adds a new option `:module-map-link ["curl"]`. That will inject a link directive into both the module map we use at buildtime and the one we export e.g. into an atbin. Emitting that link directive has the effect of injecting `:link-options ["-lcurl"]`. However, it will *also* inject that link option into any Swift module that imports this one. The result is that downstream no longer needs to add `:link-options ["-lcurl"]` anymore. Additonally, since we achieve this in a single module, there is no `CCurl` to import anymore. The details of linking to the C library are more effectively hidden. For these reasons, I believe using the C support in this PR is way more effective for writing bindings than any other solution. \# Known issues * Using `.h` in `sources` requires a synthesized module map * Using `.c` in `sources` is not supported for bitcode * Using `module-map-link` requires the module map to be distributed for the link to take effect on downstream; we recommend `packageatbin` for packing build products * Currently, swift functions are not "visible" to C code (like they are visible to ObjC from Xcode) although presumably if you had a function, knew its calling convention, and knew its c-name, you could totally call it from C.
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This extends #104 by adding actual effects to the configurations rather than have them be no-ops. Effects include: * debug instrumentation (new in this PR), for emitting `-g` (see #73 for an obvious extension) * optimization control / WMO control * compression level (faster debug atbins) * test instrumentation (`-enable-testing`) * `#if ATBUILD_RELEASE` etc. from Swift code There are some deprecations associated with this PR: * `whole-module-optimization` atllbuild option is now deprecated; use `--configuration release` instead. There currently is no plan to control these separately, use `--configuration plain` + `:compileOptions ["-O"]` to get optimization without WMO. Or open a bug to complain about this change. * `magic` atllbuild option is now deprecated; to opt out of magic use `--configuration none` instead. Doc PR to follow. In addition, CI is now updated to produce release (optimized) builds for atbuild, which significantly optimizes atbuild performance.
This option was deprecated in atbuild 0.9.0. Use `--toolchain` on the CLI instead. Users should have had enough time to migrate at this point.
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Resolve #13 This PR introduces `link-with-atbin` which allows linking with an arbitrary atbin (such as a binary release, see https://github.com/AnarchyTools/atpm/issues/1) or any other atbin you have lying around. `link-with` has been renamed `link-with-product` and we intend to deprecate the old syntax.
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This implements, more or less, the scaffolding described in #36. This commit does not actually make tools behave differently in any configuration (so this is mostly a placebo) but after this, tools can adjust their behavior. Notable additions/departures from the original proposal include: * Support for "custom" configurations outside the built-in set * The addition of `test` and `bench` as built-in configurations, since 2/2 developers use them * Internal API has new "helper" methods for common "tool questions" (should we optimize, are we testing, etc.) Ideally, custom configurations could indicate their own values for these questions, although that's outside the scope of this patch. Doc PR to follow.
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We previously used a (pretty bad) hack for WMO. This resulted in issues like #92. Upstream now has proper support for WMO (see generally, https://github.com/apple/swift-llbuild/pull/28, https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-881). We now use the upstream feature to handle this case. We also add -num-threads support, which upstream recently added. Note that our implementation now only works for swift-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2016-05-09-a and above. Resolve #92


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Texas is not a great soup state. There are households that serve soup on regular basis, I'm sure, and I'm also sure that there are households that don't have a Texas flare and therefore don't have Texas cuisine either. But for the most part, wherever men dine, whether women are present or not, soups tend to have more filling qualities about them like meat and potatoes. In my experience, whether in my mom's kitchen, church potlucks, school lunches, etc. in Texas, soups tend to be considered something extra like a side dish or as an accompaniment to something else. Although occasionally, you'll find some big hearty meat and vegetable type soups, which are actually the main part of the meal. But for the most part, these are like country soups served anywhere in the USA especially in the Midwest. Also you'll find all kinds of fish and seafood soups, bisques and stews along the any of the coasts in the USA. But in the Gulf Coast, many of these have a Creole taste to them. In these places, you'll find gumbos too, which are wholly Creole.
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14.5 oz can tomatoes, partially drained
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Douglass, Frederick dŭg´ləs [key], c.1817–1895, American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md. The son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white father, he took the name of Douglass (from Scott's hero in The Lady of the Lake ) after his second, and successful, attempt to escape from slavery in 1838. At New Bedford, Mass., he found work as a day laborer. An extemporaneous speech before a meeting at Nantucket of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1841 was so effective that he was made one of its agents. Douglass, who had learned to read and write while in the service of a kind mistress in Baltimore, published his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845. Fearing capture as a fugitive slave, he spent several years in England and Ireland and returned in 1847, after English friends had purchased his freedom. At Rochester, N.Y., he established the North Star and edited it for 17 years in the abolitionist cause. Unlike William L. Garrison , he favored the use of political methods and thus became a follower of James G. Birney . In the Civil War he helped organize two regiments of Massachusetts African Americans and urged other blacks to join the Union ranks. During Reconstruction he continued to urge civil rights for African Americans. He was secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), marshal of the District of Columbia (1877–81), recorder of deeds for the same district (1881–86), and minister to Haiti (1889–91). Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1962) is a revised edition of his autobiography, which has also been published as My Bondage and My Freedom.
See also biographies by B. T. Washington (1907), P. Foner (1964), B. Quarles (1968), A. Bontemps (1971), and W. McFreely (1991); E. Fuller, A Star Pointed North (1946); P. S. Foner, ed., Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (4 vol., 1950–55).
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Your turtle at 1 1/2 " is not a baby any more , it's a juvenile , and should be on about 30-50 % veggies now and by young adult 70% veggies !
Piggley gets a well mix of veggies every day and protein every other day . And I use the 2/3's rule for that !
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We generally encourage presentation of original results prior to publication at scientific meetings. Nevertheless, press coverage and presentation at scientific conferences can sometimes affect consideration of papers at the Science Journals. For example, reporting the main findings of a paper in the mass media can compromise the novelty of the work and thus its appropriateness for a Science Journal. Therefore, authors should feel free to present their data at scientific meetings but should not overtly seek media attention or give copies of the figures or data from their manuscript to any reporter. If a reporter attends an author's session at a meeting and writes a story based only on the presentation, such coverage will not affect a Science Journal's consideration of the author's paper.
Unpublished Data and Personal Communications
Citations to unpublished data and personal communications cannot be used to support significant claims in the paper. Papers will be held for publication until all "in press" citations are either published or posted in full on a preprint server.
Copies of any papers by any subset of the authors that are related to the submitted manuscript and are under consideration or in press at other journals must be included with the submission of the original and/or revised version of the paper. While your paper is under consideration at a Science Journal, please contact your editor if a related paper is submitted elsewhere. Access to this material will let the editors put the results in the submission in the proper context and make the best decision regarding the submitted manuscript. Failure to disclose related papers may lead to rejection.
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Authors and reviewers are expected to notify editors if a manuscript could be considered to report Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC). The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as "life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security". Papers identified as possible DURC will be brought to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief for further evaluation. If necessary, outside reviewers with expertise in the area will be consulted.
The Science Journals support the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines to raise the quality of research published in Science and to increase transparency regarding the evidence on which conclusions are based.
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The Science Journals require the Materials and Methods section to provide sufficient detail to allow replication of the study. Study design should be described in detail and reagent description should facilitate replication (for example source and purity should be specified, there should be evidence that antibodies have been validated, and cell lines should be authenticated). Statistics must also be comprehensively described as outlined below. We require that all computer code used for modeling and/or data analysis that is not commercially available be deposited in a publicly accessible repository upon publication. In rare exceptional cases where security concerns or competing commercial interests pose a conflict, code-sharing arrangements that still facilitate reproduction of the work should be discussed with your Editor no later than the revision stage.
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Materials/samples used in the analysis must be made available to any researcher for purposes of directly replicating the procedure. Authors are also expected to honor reasonable (consistent with community standards) requests for research materials/samples to the extent feasible, so that other research groups can extend and advance the results. Any restrictions on the availability of samples or special permit requirements that restrict use or sharing of samples should be discussed with the editor no later than at the manuscript revision stage and spelled out explicitly in the acknowledgments.
5. Design and analysis transparency
The Science Journals encourage authors to follow relevant standards for their field for reporting key aspects of the research design and analysis. Authors should report which standards were followed and note any deviations from the guidelines. Where applicable, note which guidelines were followed.
A chart providing links to major biomedical research reporting guidelines is available at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Other guidelines may be found at the relevant society website: for example the American Chemical Society gives standards for the characterization of organic and inorganic molecular compounds.
See Guidelines for specific types of studies below.
6. Preregistration of studies
If the study that is submitted to a Science Journal for publication was preregistered, such as at the Center for Open Science's Open Science Framework or ClinicalTrials.gov, authors should provide a link to the registration of the study upon submission of the paper to a Science Journal.
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If the analysis plan was preregistered in an independent institutional registry, authors should provide a link to the registration of the analysis plan upon submission of the paper to a Science Journal.
8. Replication
The Science Journals encourage the submission of replication studies that provide new insights into previously published results. We hold replication studies to the same standards as other content submitted to the journals.
Authors should describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the results.
- Data pre-processing steps such as transformations, re-coding, re-scaling, normalization, truncation, and handling of below detectable level readings and outliers should be fully described; any removal or modification of data values must be fully acknowledged and justified.
- Descriptive statistics should be presented for variables that are integral to subsequent analyses and interpretation of the study findings.
- The number of sampled units, N, upon which each reported statistic is based must be stated.
- For continuous variables, distributions should be described using graphical displays such as scatterplots, boxplots, or histograms or by reporting measures of central tendency (e.g., mean or median) and dispersion (e.g., SD, interquartile range).
- For continuous variables that are approximately normally distributed, mean and SD are suitable measures for center and dispersion, respectively.
- For continuous variables with asymmetrical distributions, median and range (or interquartile range) are preferred to mean and SD.
- All measures of central tendency or dispersion that are used should be identified.
- For very small samples sizes (e.g., N < 20), presentation of all data values in tabular format is desirable unless presentation would violate restrictions for privacy or confidentiality for human subjects.
- Units should be supplied for all measurements.
- Methods used for conducting statistical tests (e.g., t-test, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Wald test of regression coefficient) and for constructing confidence intervals (e.g., normal-based 95% CI: mean ± 2SD, likelihood ratio-based interval) should be clearly stated. Mention methods used in the Materials and Methods and then provide the individual test name in the figure legend for each experiment.
- The testing level (alpha) and whether one-sided or two-sided testing was used should be reported for each statistical test; typically two-sided testing is appropriate, but if one-sided testing is used its use should be justified.
- Adjustments made to alpha levels (e.g., Bonferroni correction) or other procedure used to account for multiple testing (e.g., false discovery rate control) should be reported.
- When Bayesian analyses are conducted, any assumptions made for prior distributions must be fully described.
- Sufficient information should be supplied to allow readers to judge whether any assumptions necessary for the validity of statistical approaches (e.g., data are normally distributed, survival data are consistent with proportional hazards in a Cox regression model) have been verified.
- An accounting of missing data values should be provided; if imputed data values are used in statistical analyses, the methods used for imputation should be fully described.
Authors should present results in complete and transparent fashion so that stated conclusions are backed by appropriate statistical evaluation and limitations of the study are frankly discussed.
- Point estimates of population parameters (e.g., mean, correlation coefficient, slope) or comparative measures (e.g., mean difference, odds ratio, hazard ratio) should be accompanied by a measure of uncertainty such as a standard error or a confidence interval.
- Results of each statistical test should be reported in full with the value of the test statistic and p-value, and not simply reported as significant or non-significant; more than two significant digits on p-values are usually not needed except in situations of extreme multiple testing such as in genetic association studies where stringent corrections for multiple testing might be used.
- Any results that are reported to constitute a blinded, independent validation of a statistical model (or mathematical classifier or predictor) must be accompanied by a detailed explanation that includes: 1) specification of the exact "locked down" form of the model, including all data processing steps, algorithm for calculating the model output, and any cutpoints that might be applied to the model output for final classification, 2) date on which the model or predictor was fully locked down in exactly the form described, 3) name of the individual(s) who maintained the blinded data and oversaw the evaluation (e.g., honest broker), 4) statement of assurance that no modifications, additions, or exclusion were made to the validation data set from the point at which the model was locked down and that neither the validation data nor any subset of it had ever been used to assess or refine the model being tested
Guidelines for Specific Types of Studies
Animal studies
For all laboratory animal experimentation described in the manuscript, the Science Journals require that authors state in the Methods section their adherence to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, or the equivalent. Species, strain, sex, and age of laboratory animals should be provided in the main text or Supplementary Materials.
Genetically modified animals. To avoid confounding effects of inbred strain background, littermate controls should generally be used, although exceptions may be allowed. Justification for other control animals should be included. Authors should fully describe the source of their animals and number of times backcrosses were performed
Human subjects research
Informed consent must be obtained for studies on humans after the nature and possible consequences of the studies are explained. A statement that informed consent was obtained must also appear in the manuscript. All research on humans must have approval from the institutional IRB (Institutional Review Board) or an equivalent body. The editors reserve the right to request IRB documents associated with a particular paper. Gender and age of all subjects should be provided in the main text or Supplementary Materials.
Clinical trials
A CONSORT Statement includes recommendations, a checklist of items that should be included in a comprehensive report, and a participant flow diagram. The recommended checklist should be completed and provided at the time of manuscript submission. The recommended trial flow diagram may be presented as a figure (usually Fig. 1). Reports of randomized controlled trials that do not conform to the CONSORT guidelines may be returned to authors for revision prior to formal review.
Registration of clinical trials. Clinical trials should generally be registered in accordance with the criteria outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, including the June 2007 update. Authors should provide the trial registration number in the Acknowledgements section and provide a link to the trial registration, to be cited as a reference.
Biomarker studies
Putative biomarkers must be evaluated with an independent validation set. Reports of unvalidated biomarkers will only be considered in the context of a clear experimental, mechanistic connection to disease or other unique contribution to understanding of disease or clinical practice. A statement should be included in all biomarker papers describing how overfitting (training models on large numbers of variables measured on small numbers of subjects) and other forms of bias were avoided. We strongly recommend all papers reporting potential new biomarkers be evaluated by an independent statistician before submission.
Modeling studies
Computational models should be validated either experimentally or through a dataset independent of the training set. All assumptions should be clearly stated with sources provided in the references and notes section. [See Research Standards for code availability requirements]
Small molecule studies
All studies that make use of chemical compounds (including pharmaceutical research) must disclose the full structures of those compounds, including stereochemistry if known. If the compounds are not readily available from commercial sources, the methods used for their preparation, purification, and characterization must be disclosed in full detail. 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra should be included in supplementary materials for all synthesized organic compounds.
Data Deposition
The Science Journals support the efforts of databases that aggregate published data for the use of the scientific community. Therefore, before publication, large data sets (including microarray data, protein or DNA sequences, atomic coordinates or electron microscopy maps for molecular and macromolecular structures, and climate data) must be deposited in an approved database and an accession number or a specific access address must be included in the published paper. We encourage compliance with MIBBI guidelines (Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations).
Details include, but are not limited to:
- Molecular and macromolecular structure data. Atomic coordinates and structure factor files from x-ray structural studies or an ensemble of atomic coordinates from NMR structural studies must be deposited and released at the time of publication. Three-dimensional maps derived by electron microscopy and coordinate data derived from these maps must also be deposited. Approved databases are the Worldwide Protein Data Bank [through the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Macromolecular Structure Database (MSD EMBL-EBI), or Protein Data Bank Japan], BioMag Res Bank, and Electron Microscopy Data Bank (MSD-EBI), and for synthetic compounds, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (organic/organometallic), or the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database. We require authors of papers reporting structural data to initiate deposition of the model and data at wwPDB and provide a Preliminary Full or Full validation report from the deposition server (for macromolecules) or CIF and checkCIF files (for synthetic compounds) with their submission. If these are not provided, they will be requested for review. We may also request electron microscopy density maps during the review process.
- DNA and protein sequences. Approved databases are GenBank or other members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (EMBL or DDBJ) and SWISS-PROT.
- Microarray data. Data should be presented in MIAME-compliant standard format. Approved databases are Gene Expression Omnibus and ArrayExpress.
- Climate and Earth and Space Sciences data. Guidelines on data deposition are provided by the Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS), together with a searchable online Repository Finder.
- Ecological data. We recommend deposition of data in Dryad.
- General data sets without an appropriate specialized repository that are too large to be included as supplementary materials at a Science Journal should be deposited at a general repository such as Dryad. Complex, dynamic databases, can be made accessible through an institutional website, but an archived static version should be deposited at a general repository and the DOI included in the Science Journals paper. In rare cases where there is no appropriate repository, authors will be required to sign an agreement to make a copy of the database, as it exists at the time of publication, publicly available on their own websites for a period of at least five years after the paper's publication date. The authors would also be required to submit to the Science Journal a zipped archive of the same website with complete instructions for unzipping and installing the database, and to sign a declaration certifying that the copy is the same as that on the publicly available website. Further questions can be directed to your editor.
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After publication, all data and materials necessary to understand, assess, and extend the conclusions of the manuscript must be available to any reader of a Science Journal. After publication, all reasonable requests for data, code, or materials must be fulfilled. Any restrictions on the availability of data, code, or materials, including fees and restrictions on original data obtained from other sources must be disclosed to the editors as must any Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) pertaining to data or materials used or produced in this research, that place constraints on providing these data, code, or materials. Patents (whether applications or awards to the authors or home institutions) related to the work should also be declared.
Fossils or other rare specimens must be deposited in a public museum or repository and available for research.
Unreasonable restrictions on data, code, or material availability may preclude publication. Problems in obtaining access to published data are taken seriously by the Science Journals and can be reported at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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In general, authors will complete the license form as a "click-through" during the process of uploading the revised manuscript after peer review.
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It's so easy to go through the motions of each day, one moment at a time, without fitting the bits and pieces together —never seeing the forest for the trees. Days start to run together and events repeat with a numbing regularity which dulls my senses. Sometimes, in order to see ourselves more clearly, we have to step outside our daily routines; take the road less traveled —or at least the left turn instead of the right —and things change.
If we are lucky, we can see the change we are being and creating as we go. If we are, perhaps, not as observant but equally lucky, we have friends who are there to help us not only find the forest but navigate our way through it. That has been my experience in this past year of blogging. Some days —weeks really— I have been moving so fast and furiously that I've missed the beauty around me —until some kind blogging friend has reached out and touched my heart, reminding me that my absence is felt; there is a hole which no one else can fill.
Tuesday, the day of my high muckety muck committee meeting, was also my blogging anniversary. I was so busy —and have been all week —that I completely missed it! But, you know, there's a funny thing here because —without the support, encouragement, wisdom, humor, and self-discovery I have shared with my readers and blogging friends over this past year —I would never have had any sense that my absence was felt at those committee meetings that I missed; that my one voice does make a difference. I would never have spoken up and had my needs —and Nik's—met with such grace and ease.
Nor would I have been so beautifully reminded of the gifts I bring when I share my son with others —both online and in person. I know my son is magnificent and special; what parent doesn't think that about their own child? But seeing my child through others' eyes has made me a more conscious parent, more willing to recognize and, when appropriate, place my son's needs ahead of my own desires and ego. I feel the weight of the responsibility a little heavier than I would like on many days but I shoulder the load with love because I know I am not alone in the journey.
The meeting itself went well; perhaps I will write more about that another time. The child care, depending on your perspective, was pretty good. There are things I learned that I will do differently next time to make sure Nik has a bit more guided activity for part of the time. Also, I realized that people do not fully understand perseveration until they experience it first hand. The unfortunate effects of allowing certain perseverations to continue for a long time have lasted long past Tuesday afternoon. But I can see that it is up to me to guide those who care for my son as well as to find new and creative ways to distract Nik and keep him more fully occupied in the days which follow.
None the less, I know that Nik was cared for by a loving and conscientious friend; S was not afraid of Nik's high energy and insatiable —bordering on dangerous— curiosity. She's even willing to do it again for the next meeting in July! S sent me a beautiful email after she got home; she wrote —
I so loved spending time with Nik. I want you to know, that I was able to connect with how awesome of a kid he is!
I know you already know!
Niksmom, ALWAYS keep the hope in your heart going strong.
That one-on-one time with him was amazing. I watched how he
problem-solved. I watched how he NEVER got discouraged when attempting something. I watched him enjoy his now –
which so many of us adults can never do. I watched his compassion
as he wanted to share his apple with me, just like his Mommy – I was honored.
Niksmom, I loved being with your blessing. Because guess what,
he is a blessing to me too. A reminder of WHY WE DO THIS!
Our precious, precious children.
When is the next ICC meeting? You have me for as long
as you can use me!
With love for you my friend,
One day I took a pebble called blogging and tossed it into my little pond; my pond was forever changed. Then I took some pebbles from my own garden and dropped them into several other ponds. The ripples are still moving outward and I cannot see how far they extend, but I know that I am changed yet again.
Thank you for being a part of my journey, my growth, and my change. Thank you for the ripples you've made in my heart and in my life.
Photo courtesy of http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/photo/rain.html


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disclaimer: this is not a horror story about events in the night time. oh wait, it is a horror story if you look at it with certain perspectives.
It's night time in London and the atmosphere is melancholic. sayu =.=
In 'In the Shade of the Qur'an', there is an interesting interpretation of a verse common to most people.
"And from the evil of the darkening (night) as it comes with its darkness." (113:3)
In the day, with everything illuminated and lots of affairs to attend to, we are more cautious of our actions. At night time, evil breaks loose, riding on a harley-davidson, wind blowing in its face. Under the cover of night, those evil tendencies become more prevalent, those ridiculous thoughts come back to say 'hey, its alright, leave those goody-two-shoes behind, you've earned yourself some R & R.'
'but i have friends'.
with friends who let us languish in the dark, its better to be alone. at least they won't have direct responsibility. *shudder* Which is why surah al-Falaq asks us to seek protection with Allah, rabb al-falaq, Lord of the dawn, who can eliminate the evils of the darkness.
And especially for us the young generation, who are determined to become towers of light that serve as beacons for mankind. shoo, darkness, shoo.
"Is he who was dead (without Faith by ignorance and disbelief) and We gave him life and set for him a light whereby he can walk amongst men, like him who is in the darkness (of disbelief, polytheism and hypocrisy) from which he can never come out? Thus it is made fairseeming to the disbelievers that which they used to do." (Al an'am:122)
And also keep good company.
"By Al-'Asr (the time). Verily! Man is in loss, Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth and recommend one another to patience." (Al 'Asr)
In loss, except those who recommend to truth and patience.
Based on my recent revision of economics, the rational man is utility-maximising. so i think this is the perfect time to be rational.
Don't let the darkness get to you.
goodnight, and goodluck.


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Kicked out: NFL considers abolishing extra points
If you're one who believes commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL are tampering with the game of football too much by modifying rules to protect players, you'll really dislike this one — but it's very interesting.
Goodell told NFL Total Access Monday the league is exploring the possibility of eliminating extra points.
"The extra point is almost automatic," Goodell said. "I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd. So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
Touchdowns would be worth seven points, not six. Rather than sending the kicking team on after a touchdown, teams would have a choice whether to attempt to get in the end zone for a conversion and a total of eight points. A failed conversion, however, would drop the damage down to six points.
It's an intriguing concept and, unless you're concerned about the preservation of football as we know it, one that makes a reasonable amount of sense.
Goodell and the NFL seem to have to have two factors in mind behind the proposal: entertainment and safety.
It's true. Extra points have become nearly automatic, so why not automatically tack seven on the scoreboard when teams get in the end zone? They won't need to go for the conversion most of the time. Plus, an additional decision-making element could be extremely fun to watch.
Say a team ties the score with a late-game touchdown. Does it dare try a conversion and risk losing a point? Probably not. If the team needs eight points to tie, it would go for the two-point conversion anyway.
So, really, what's the difference?
Many already question whether Goodell's impact on the game is too heavy, and it's understandable. The conversion (or try) is among the oldest parts of football, dating all the way back to the sport's rugby roots.
But the game has changed over time and the emphasis has shifted from the subsequent kick, which used to be worth more, to the touchdown.
Remember this, too. The forward pass was once just an intriguing idea in football. That's caught on fairly well.
Anyway, just for kicks:


text: Memorabilia from Carrie Underwood's latest tour will be on display during a new exhibit opening June 5 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Carrie Underwood: The Blown Away Tour runs through Nov. 10. The exhibit will feature original costumes and custom accessories, including one-of-a-kind gowns, embellished separates and other stage clothing created by Emmy Award-winning costume designer Marina Toybina. It will also display items from Underwood's backstage meet-and-greet area, including a selection of gifts and signs presented by fans during the tour. Launched in 2012, Underwood's Blown Away tour will have included 112 performances dates by the time it concludes on May 23 in Abbotsford, Calif.


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Adele is a mom!
The pop singer has welcomed her first child — a son, People reports. No further details about the new addition were available.
Adele pregnant with first child
The 24-year-old Grammy winner announced in June that she and her boyfriend, Simon Konecki, were expecting. "Obviously we're over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time," she wrote on her website.
Adele recently released a new single, "Skyfall," the theme song for the new James Bond film of the same name.


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I'm a closeted fan of slapstick comedy and that's why I'm posting this ad by DDB & Tribal Worldwide, Amsterdam:
The spot itself is pretty funny and visually entertaining. But I kept thinking to myself throughout the entire thing,
'What is this asshat doing riding in the back seat?'
That was a tad distracting.
And the fact that this ad is supposed to be selling me car insurance… that was an awfully long set-up. Are we there yet?


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By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 12 (Reuters) - The head of the Alaska Republican party was ousted from her post and a public feud raged on this week between state party traditionalists and Tea Party loyalists allied variously with Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.
State Republican chairwoman Debbie Brown, a self-described "strong conservative" who shuttered party headquarters in midtown Anchorage as a part of her war with the party's old guard, says she is still the party's leader despite "shenanigans" by its executive committee, who removed her from the job on Monday.
Brown, from Kasilof, Alaska, was traveling and did not attend Monday's meeting, which she dismissed as illegitimate.
She was the second GOP chief ousted this year in sparsely populated Alaska, where big personalities can be just as powerful politically as ideology.
Brown was replaced by retired Army Colonel Peter Goldberg, a little-known recent returnee to the state where he was once posted during his military service.
Officially, Brown was removed over management issues. "She simply failed to demonstrate any capacity to lead or success in the position of chair," said Frank McQueary, a non-voting committee member who participated in the meeting.
That meeting was held at a site away from the darkened state party headquarters in midtown Anchorage, which on Brown's orders had notices posted outside, still there on Friday, advising that access to the building had been rescinded as of April 4.
The leadership upheaval followed months of infighting pitting longtime party leaders against activists including supporters of former Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, former Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, and libertarian-minded supporters of Ron Paul, the former candidate for the Republican presidential nominaion.
But national politics have little to do with the turmoil among Alaska Republicans.
"This is much more specific to Alaska than it is a reflection of the national issues," said Gerald McBeath, a political science professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Brown has found herself at a national Republican meeting in Los Angeles this week alongside her appointed successor, Goldberg, with both identifying themselves as head of the state party - and both denied that title at the meeting, she said in a text message to Reuters on Friday signed "Debra Holle Brown, Chairman, Alaska Republican Party."
The national Republican leadership "decided the best solution, for all parties, was to deny Alaska a Chairman's seat," she wrote.
Brown's ouster followed a similar move in January against her fellow Tea Party ally Russ Millette. He had been elected to succeed longtime chairman Randy Ruedrich, who left the job voluntarily.
Ruedrich had long feuded with Palin and Miller.
Miller, who is mulling a 2014 campaign against Democratic Senator Mark Begich, defended Brown in an essay published on his website, "Restoring Liberty." He said charges against her were spurious and that she had been the victim of "a kangaroo court-type proceeding orchestrated by long-time party bosses."
McQueary, the executive committee member, said Brown has the right to appeal her removal. If she appeals, party members will consider the matter at their May 25 state convention, he said. (Reporting by Yereth Rosen; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Gary Hill)


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Byron – new VA-style organ synth for Windows
Torn Sub has released Byron, a VA-style organ synth for Windows that offers 3 oscillators with a 50 waveforms sound engine in each. Each sound engine has a secondary engine which gives the ability to morph the driving waveform to another one and to combine the whole 3 oscillators together, so that method can create a wide range of organ sound combinations.
Apart from the engine, each oscillator has its own sound engine designing section, envelope, powerful 5 states filter (low pass, high pass, band pass, band reject, peak) with its own envelope, 2 LFOs (one for the amp, one for the filter) and 3 built-in effects: equalizer, tube and bass tube, so in fact, every oscillator can perform as a complete instrument. Each oscillator also has its own ability to send itself to each of the global effects directly from the synthesis section, with only a single button press.
Byron reduces the use of the mouse to the necessary minimum as it has been built according to the "one click" approach and is suitable for touch screens. No matter if it comes to choosing a new preset or just leaping to another section, everything is bright and clear and done with only one click. This approach is particularly evident in the preset manager section: In addition to the traditional method, every preset gets its own knob on the panel with its name on it, and will help to find sounds easily and efficiently, with only on one single click.
Byron is equipped with 8 master effects (tube, bass tube, overdrive, phaser, chorus-flanger, reverb tremolo and delay) alongside a wide MIDI section.
The MIDI section contains some new features like "octaver" effect, MIDI limiter (limits the maximum velocity gain to a specific value), Fixed velocity (plays any note with a specific velocity), a separate "MONO MODE" with portamento effect for each oscillator, "MIDI learn" possibility for every Significant knob and "MIDI split" that splits the user's keyboard into 2 ranges, low and high, allows the user sending each of the 3 oscillators to a selected keyboard range with only one button press.
Byron gives the possibility to combine the beloved drawbars method and obtain an organ playing experience with 9 drawbars that divide the frequency spectrum into 9 frequency ranges. The user may choose to turn on\off sending each oscillator's signal via drawbars separately from the oscillator's synthesis section with only one button press.
Pricing: For 39$, customers will get licenses for three computers on the first purchase for both Windows VSTi and stand-alone versions. Each extra license for both versions will cost 13$.
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July 10, 2013
A recent spike in runway incursions at Quad City International Airport (MLI) in Moline, IL led representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration Safety Team (FAASTeam) to issue a safety advisory to pilots operating at the Class C airport.
The bulletin also serves as a reminder for all pilots to take steps to avoid similar errors.
In fiscal year 2012, the FAA recorded 1,150 runway incursions at airports across the United States, with 18 of those incursions categorized under the most severe "A" and "B" ratings, indicating a sharply increased potential for collision. Pilot deviations accounted for more than half of total incursions (722) and, of those, 82 percent were attributed to general aviation (GA) operations – a percentage that has remained largely the same over the past decade, noted Chris Pokorski with the FAA Office of Runway Safety.
"Runway incursions are almost always due to pilot error and often result from relatively simple errors that may have been easily avoided," Pokorski said.
Over the past two years, 11 runway incursions have occurred at MLI, with seven reported since January 2013. GA pilots were responsible for four of those incidents. Although FAA figures indicate that 80 percent of all runway incursions occur as aircraft taxi out for departure, roughly half of all reported incursions at MLI involved traffic that had just arrived to the airport.
"Since the reopening of Runway 5/23 in October 2012, the complexity and size of this intersection seems to be leading pilots to exit onto an active runway instead of the assigned taxiway," the FAASTeam advisory explained. "The volume of traffic and the airport's complex runway and taxiway configuration require exceptional vigilance and situational awareness by all persons operating on the airfield."
NBAA Central Regional Representative Bob Quinn noted MLI's field configuration may also play a role.
"With the exception of arrivals to the southwest, the runways all meet at a point that would appear to be a convenient turnoff for most landing traffic, though the intersection warning does not characterize the landing issue but instead refers to a 'wrong runway departure' risk," Quinn noted.
Miscommunication between pilots and controllers may also be a factor, particularly at airports where intersecting runways may be used to clear arriving traffic off the active runway. The FAA noted that 226 incursions attributable to operational incidents or errors involving an air traffic controller were reported in FY2012.
"Pilots and controllers do use intersecting runways for exiting active runways, but this procedure needs active anticipation and participation by the controller and pilot involved," Quinn added.
Look for Airport Surface 'Hot Spots' and Maintain Awareness
NBAA Operations Service Group Specialist Peter Korns said that the FAA has published extensive guidance for flightcrews to mitigate the risk of runway incursions, including reviews of airport runway signage and steps for maintaining situational awareness.
"Avoiding runway incursions comes down to risk mitigation," he said. "Pilots need to develop taxi briefings, maintain situational awareness and focus on task management, especially on complex airport surfaces and around hot spots." These "hot spots" identify runway and taxiway intersections with a known elevated risk for incursions and appear on airport diagrams.
Pokorski added that a recent addition to the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge should also help to combat the problem.
"Our department worked with the flight standards department to develop an update to the handbook with guidance for instructors to provide training on surface maneuvers," he said. "Such training wasn't specified before, and as we developed this guidance, we discovered that even instructors were having problems with interpreting airport signage."