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An interesting section from an interview of Jared Diamond regarding his new book, The World Until Yesterday: What we can Learn from Traditional Societies?. Dr. Claire Panosian Dunavan, former American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) President, chats with Diamond about what he learned from research in New Guinea.
Many will know Diamond for his 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society In the book, he argues that environmental differences can explain varying rates of development between regions of the world, a thesis that was not without its critics.
The latest offering from Diamond is bound to meet similar praise and criticism experienced by his previous work. The book discription that appears on Amazon says,
Many will know Diamond for his 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society In the book, he argues that environmental differences can explain varying rates of development between regions of the world, a thesis that was not without its critics.
The latest offering from Diamond is bound to meet similar praise and criticism experienced by his previous work. The book discription that appears on Amazon says,
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.This section of the conversation relates directly to development and public policy. Diamond discusses the ways that well-intentioned policies or interventions can cause more harm than good.
This is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn't romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us.
DUNAVAN: "Do you feel a desire to help or any moral imperative when you meet traditional people and see vast disparities in their quality of life [as compared to ours]?"
DIAMOND: "No, because I would consider such a moral imperative on anyone's part a bad idea. Because well-intentioned policies so often backfire, I would consider it a mistake not just on my part but on anyone's part to try to change a society."
"I don't know what changes are going to work out well. I've just seen so many changes in New Guinea that have backfired. Here's an example. What could be more obvious than providing education? The Australian colonial administration put a lot of effort into education. It' not that one shouldn't educate New Guineans; of course you should educate New Guineans. But the approach of the Australians consisted of requiring all young New Guineans to have a few years of primary school—a noble, worthy ideal, but it backfired."
"The tragedy … was a double tragedy. The first tragedy was that a few years of primary school do you little good: they don't let you get a job. But a few years of primary school do take you out of the gardens when traditional New Guineans are learning to become farmers--and learning to become a farmer really is difficult. New Guinea friends of mine who went to school told me that when they came back to their villages, they didn't know what sweet potato to plant on what slope. The tragedy was that a few years of universal education were not enough to provide jobs but it was enough to undermine their ability to operate in New Guinea society."
DUNAVAN: "Let's look 50 years hence. Obviously languages are disappearing; the world will no longer exist in such a way that people can remain isolated. What will it be like for traditional societies?"
DIAMOND: "There's a huge spectrum of possible outcomes. One possible outcome: if we in the first world mess up our own society, mess up the whole world … and you ask yourself who is going to be left after 50 years, well all of us here who don't know how to make stone tools, don't know what to gather, all of us here are going to starve to death. The places in the world where people will survive are the places where—within living memory—people have been living in the forest and making their own gardens."
"So, in one scenario, 50 years from now, New Guinea and parts of the Amazon will be the best functioning places in the world because the rest of us will be dead or incompetent."
"Other scenarios? New Guinea is developing. There's a big natural gas project of which Exxon Mobil is in charge, so a lot of money is flowing in. In Papua New Guinea as in other countries where lots of money is [now] flowing in, the social mechanisms for making use of money are not in place and the money is not paid to individuals but to village leaders. But village leaders do not have 3000 years of experience of state government that says that village leaders are supposed to represent their people, so a lot of money gets wasted … It's therefore possible that in Papua New Guinea as in many other parts of the world, the hope people feel now will not materialize."
DUNAVAN: "Do you see remnants of stateless societies in so-called modern settings?"
DIAMOND: "Yes, they are all around us in rural areas of the United States. In Montana, for example, if neighbors have a dispute, they don't hire lawyers; they deal with disputes by tribal mechanisms. Here's another example. When I went to England in the 1950s, much of village life was essentially tribal. Everyone knew everybody. Everything was in public view. Many people spent their lives within one or two miles of where they were born. That's why the title 'World Until Yesterday.' Much of yesterday is still with us."


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In our regular Sunday feature, FIFA.com presents you with some of the biggest names in football who will be celebrating their birthdays over the coming week.
3. Zico (60) is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to play the game, in part due to some magnificent performances for the Brazilian national team. He played in three FIFA World Cup™ competitions in a row with A Seleção, finishing third at Argentina 1978 and suffering second-round and quarter-final exits at Spain 1982 and Mexico 1986 respectively. In Spain, as part of a Brazil XI widely considered to be the best team never to have won FIFA's flagship tournament, the gifted playmaker netted four times in five encounters. Zico was a loyal servant to Flamengo for the majority of his productive domestic career, during which he secured four Brazilian league titles, seven Rio State Championships, the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup. He also had spells with two foreign clubs, Udinese in Italy, and Kashima Antlers in Japan, with whom he won the national league title. The skilful midfielder earned numerous individual awards over the years, including Brazilian Footballer of the Year (twice) and South American Footballer of the Year (three times), and twice topped the scoring charts in his homeland. A move into coaching saw him guide Japan to AFC Asian Cup glory in 2004, a victory that qualified the Samurai Blue for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. He also led the Japanese to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, after which he enjoyed brief stints at the helm of Fenerbahce, Uzbeki outfit Bunyodkor, CSKA Moscow and Olympiacos. The Brazil legend subsequently took charge of the Iraqi national side, but left during the qualifying campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
4. Landon Donovan (31) is one of United States' most capped players, having participated in the last three FIFA World Cups, Korea/Japan 2002, Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010, scoring a total of five goals in 12 matches. The incisive forward appeared at the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2003 and 2009, where USA came close to pulling off a shock against Brazil in the final. He also hoisted three CONCACAF Gold Cups, finishing joint top scorer at the continental event on two occasions. In his youth, he turned out at the FIFA U-17 World Cup 1999, the 2000 Olympic Football Tournament and the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2001. Donovan turned professional at Bayer Leverkusen, before being loaned out to San Jose Earthquakes, where he landed the MLS Cup twice. A move to current club Los Angeles Galaxy has seen him earn three further championship winners' medals and hold aloft the US Open Cup. During his time with the Californian outfit, he has enjoyed loan spells at Bayern Munich and Everton (twice). The American attacker has previously been named US Soccer Athlete of the Year four times, and he won the MLS Golden Boot in 2008.
5. Mahmoud Abdel Razek (27), better known as Shikabala, is one the Egyptian League's most talented players. He rose to prominence over ten years ago at Cairo giants Zamalek, where he claimed two league championships, a CAF Champions League title, a CAF Super Cup and an Arab Cup of Champions Clubs. After spending two seasons with PAOK in Greece, he returned to the White Knights, whom he inspired to an Egyptian Cup triumph in 2008. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, he was sent out on loan to UAE heavyweights Al Wasl, but has since returned to the Egyptian capital. The attacking midfielder has also collected silverware on the international stage, lifting the World Military Cup in 2007 and the CAF Africa Cup of Nations in 2010. Prior to achieving those feats, he played at the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2005.
6. Kevin-Prince Boateng (26) played an integral part in Ghana's tremendous South Africa 2010 campaign, which ended at the quarter-final stage following a narrow loss to Uruguay. Born in Germany, the powerful midfielder came through the ranks at Hertha Berlin, where he established himself in the first team. He was transferred to Tottenham Hotspur, with whom he won the English League Cup, before signing for Borussia Dortmund, and then Portsmouth, winning the FA Cup with the southern outfit a few months later. After moving to AC Milan by way of Genoa, he helped I Rossoneri to secure the Serie A title and the Italian Super Cup.
7. Mathieu Flamini (29) is a well-respected defensive midfielder, having represented big-name clubs in three different countries. He initially demonstrated his potential at Marseille by propelling the French side to the UEFA Cup final. Having put pen to paper with Arsenal, he went on to emerge victorious in the FA Cup final and the Community Shield, but could not prevent his team-mates from losing the UEFA Champions League final to Barcelona. After four seasons in London, the tireless Frenchman committed himself to AC Milan, where he has since added Italian league and Super Cup triumphs to his footballing CV.
8. Rafik Djebbour (29) helped Algeria to make just their third-ever FIFA World Cup appearance at South Africa 2010, where the North Africans exited at the group stage. A product of Auxerre's renowned youth set-up, the free-scoring striker has spent his entire club career to date in Europe. His former employers include Belgian outfit La Louviere, as well as Greek sides Atromitos, Panionios, and AEK Athens, with whom he reached the national cup final. Djebbour has had better luck at his current club, Olympiacos, having won two Greek league crowns and a Greek Cup with the Kokkini.
9. Youri Djorkaeff (45) was a key component of the French side that captured the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil, the 2000 UEFA European Championships and the FIFA Confederations Cup 2001. In addition, he played at UEFA EURO 1996 and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan with Les Bleus. An attacking midfielder with an eye for goal, he started off at Grenoble, prior to starring for Strasbourg and Monaco, where he lifted the French Cup. After moving north to don the shirt of Paris St Germain, he attained the Trophee des Champions and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The adroit Frenchman's form piqued the interest of Inter Milan, with whom he would go on to win the UEFA Cup. Djorkaeff subsequently played in Germany, for Kaiserslautern, and in England, for Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers. He brought down the curtain on an impressive career while on the books of New York MetroStars (now New York Red Bulls).

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Narayan Oil is a medicated oil used in combination or alone in treating vata disorders.
Its usage:
In treating neurological disorders, nuralgia, arthritis.
Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rhumatoid, cervical spondylosis, gout.
It is used for nasal instillation to improve strength of sense organs and to treat hearing and vision problems.
It is helpful in locked jaw and toothache.
It helps to relieve testicular pain, on massage.
In Ayurvedic treatment like Dhara, Basti treatment.
can be given orally in small quantity of 5-10ml.
Preferably under doctor's guidence.
Narayana Tel ingredients:
480 grams of each of
Bilva – Aegle marmelos
Agnimantha – Premna mucronata
Shyonaka – Oroxylum indicum
Patala – Stereospermum suaveolens
Paribhadra – Erythrina variegata
Prasarini – Paedaria foetida
Brihati – Solanum indicum
Kantakari – Solanum xanthocarpum
Ashwagandha – Withania somnifera
Bala – Sida cordifolia
Atibala – Abutilon indicum
Shvadamshtra – Tribulus terrestris
Punarnava – Boerhaavia diffusa
Water for decoction – 49.152 liters, boiled and reduced to 12.288 liters
Taila – Sesame oil – Sesamum indicum – 3.072 liters
96 grams of fine powder of each of following, made into paste with water –
Shatapushpa – Anethum sowa
Devadaru – Cedrus deodara
Mamsi – Nardostachys jatamansi
Shaileyaka – Convolvulus pluricaulis
Vacha – Acorus calamus
Chandana – Pterocarpus santalinus
Tagara – Valeriana wallichi
Kushta – Saussurea lappa
Ela – Elettaria cardamomum (cardamom)
Mashaparni – Teramnus labialis
Mudgaparni – Phaseolus trilobus
Shalaparni – Desmodium gangeticum
Prishnaparni – Uraria picta
Rasna – Pluchea lanceolata
Turagagandha – Withania somnifera
Saindhava Lavana – Rock salt
Shatavari rasa – Juice extract / water decoction of Asparagus racemosus – 3.072 liters
Goksheera – Cow milk / goat milk – 12.288 liters
The above combination of herbs and liquids is heated till total moisture evaporates. It is then filtered and stored.


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SANTA ANA, Calif. - A misdemeanour vandalism charge has been dismissed against mixed martial arts fighter and reality show host Jason (Mayhem) Miller, who was found naked in a Southern California church.
Court records show that the 31-year-old Miller had the charge dismissed at a hearing Wednesday.
Miller was found nude in a church three months ago by a pastor who called authorities when he found books and CDs that were strewn about and missing boards from a previously broken window.
Orange County prosecutors said Miller was accused of breaking at least one picture frame, spray-painting inside the church and damaging a propane tank and other items.
Miller, has fought for several organizations including the UFC, and hosted the MTV show "Bully Beatdown."


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Nick Lappos has spent a lot of time and energy in recent years critiquing the promise and performance of Bell Helicopter and its vaunted tilt-rotor technology. Now he is going to work for Bell and, presumably, will have a hand in developing and marketing the company's tilt-rotor aircraft. In a March 19 e-mail to employees, Bell CEO Richard Millman said the company's senior engineering leadership is being reorganized, with Lappos (formerly of Sikorsky Aircraft and most recently Gulfstream Aerospace) installed as head of Bell's XworX research and development shop. Jeff Lowinger, a Boeing Helicopters engineering executive, will take over as head of Bell's engineering department. Both will report directly to Millman. Bell officials declined to comment on the changes. For related news


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Action, adventure, games, fantasy.
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Action, adventure, games, fantasy.
Visual Arts Psychological Comedy Mystery
...what a weird anime/manga that would be xDD
The third eye of love♥ Koishi Komeiji ♥ Closed eyes of love
Let us seek that side.
Addrenilin Around every corner ie.(trying to predict (not the fortune teller kind) whats around every corner and what trying to give quick answers)
Darkstep, Drumstep and Drum&Bass.
Adventure, Fantasy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, and Shounen.
YAOI. Romance, fantasy and comedy.
Yep! ♥
"They didn't need to tell eachother. They never needed to tell eachother."
"Massive Multiplayer Offline Role-Playing Game"... is the genre of the game we're all playing.
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Umh ... The boring genre id say. Other than that , Fantasy ,Comedy and Games
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. - Chuck Palahniuk
New Blog!
A Completely Mediocre and Overdone BlogNow with 22% more entries!Make that 22.3735242%!
Part-Comedy, Part-Drama, Slice of Life, Mature, Gender Bending, and Random. (Possibly Sci-Fi too, if you consider my LARP shenanigans.)
Monday: Games
Tuesday: Harem...(We got a hour where we can pick between Music/sports/art and I'm alone with 20 girls at music
Wednesday: Games
Thursday: Games
Friday: Games
Saturday: Games
Sunday: Games
Set by Serated
Yuri when around my gf.
Otherwise, Visual arts and Slice of life.
ein, zwei, drei, vier bin endlich weg von Dir
fünf, sechs, sieben, acht Du hast jetzt keine Macht
Action, Adventure, Thriller, Comedy and.. Fortune Cookie.
School Life, Comedy, Random and Adventure
Slice of life.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
Adventure: You always get yourself into stupid trouble.
Comedy: You always try to pull off jokes, which are most of the time, corny.
Drama: You make a fuss about little things.
Fantasy: Daydreaming is your favorite hobby.
Mature: You think you already know what life is about.
Mecha: You're an adult and you still play those silly toys!
Music: Other people think your music sucks. You don't care anyway.
Random: You say
and do thingsspur of the moment that make absolutely no sense but you go along with it LIKE A BAWSS. [contributed by BA]
Romance: You think 'love' is everything in life.
School Life: You always curse about how difficult your academic life is.
and finally
Sci-Fi: You always imagine what would it be if you had a time machine.
Waiting for
Season four of Sherlock
The new Hobbit movie
Season five of Game of Thrones
New episodes of Downton Abbey
Fantasy~ because I am a dreamer with a talent for traditional art :3
Adventure, Drama, Ecchi, Games.
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Psh. my genre is very simple.
pic sums it up perfectly
Hmmm... Been a while
I would say up until a few years ago my life was all about Action and Adventure, then realized i am getting old and need to buckle down and get my priorities in check so over the past 2 years i have been living a "Shounen Mecha Mystery Random" life of just going to school, going to work and acting like a man child with no real direction of where my life is going, which is funny since my main goal in life right now is to buckle down and finish school and get a nice job.
Guess life is just too damn fun not to act crazy and do goofy stuff, so yeah.. i think like a little boy, play with my video games and toys, don't know where the heck my life is headed and do completely random stuff.
For first, it's
Visual Arts: I spend my life in drawing, photography, graphic design, and the like =D
Random: You say and do things spur of the moment that make absolutely no sense but you go along with it LIKE A BAWSS.
Action: You are always on the move. With or without direction.
Mature: You think you already know what life is about.
Psychological: ...I think you need some medications. [Honestly, so do I]
And alast...
Reverse Harem: You've got guys chasing after you! [Yes, and it's not so cool as it sounds.]
Btw, great thread!
No Mercy,
No Remorse.
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Action, adventure, comedy, a little bit of drama, lots of fantasy (anime's fault xD), I guess also mature, music, mystery, romance, sports and visual arts, guess that's everything I remember
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Mine would be:
Shounen-I don't want to grow up >< I want to watch anime until I'm 60 ><
Sci-Fi-I Have always wanted a flying DeLorean time machine
GenderBender-Haven't found an explanation for this one yet
Comedy-I'm always cold and calculating...but at least I still have a good sense of humor and I laugh when ever my friends/classmates do stupid things
Bookworm-I read a lot literally a lot
Nerdy-I know this isn't in the choices but I am a hard core nerd
Mature-Only when I absolutely have to be
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I would have to say that my life is a little of every genre. Its like a random dramatic comedy.
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AT&T has announced that the BlackBerry Z10 will be available March 22, with pre-orders beginning tomorrow for those who are eager to get their hands on the handset. The Z10, which is already available in Canada, UK, and about 20 other countries, will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract.
T-Mobile has also opened pre-orders for its business customers today at $249.99 on a two-year plan, though it's unclear when it will officially go on sale to consumers. Reuters hints that business customers could get deliveries by the end of this week. Verizon also has yet to announce when sales will begin, while Sprint announced last week that it won't be offering the Z10 handset, but the keyboard-centric Q10 instead.
The official sales numbers of BlackBerry Z10 handsets elsewhere in the world have also yet to be announced, though that hasn't stopped analysts from estimating. CEO Thorsten Heins has said that the company does not want to publish sales figures until it has "observed the trend in sales."


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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Jan. 24. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the "Crime" tab.
Arthur Griffin, 45 — driving under suspension first offense
Paul Dantzler, 26 — criminal domestic violence
Gary Smith, 54 — driving under the influence first offense
Amber Kimberly Robinson, 20 — trespassing after notice
Shelton Bryant Jr., 38 — assault and battery third degree
John Edward Byrne Jr., 47 — failure to appear and pay
James Austin Cooper, 21 — no valid driver's license
Gilbert Edward Day II, 44 — driving under suspension for driving under the influence third offense bench warrant
Kristin Renee Hudson, 32 — leaving the scene of an accident
Reginald Michael English, 27 — driving under suspension license not suspended for driving under the influence first offense
Jamie Allen Curtis, 27 — malicious injury to animals and personal property
Nora Renee Padgett, 49 — possession of methamphetamine, unlawful use of a telephone
Mark Steven Reed, 54 — operating an uninsured vehicle, altered vehicle license, failure to register, no South Carolina driver's license
Jennifer Ann Reed, 34 — disorderly conduct
Willie Lee Carter Jr., 22 — failure to comply three counts, shoplifting, trespassing after notice
Donald Jack Peck Jr., 38 — improper display, no valid driver's license
Tremeyne Uron Perry, 18 — shoplifting value $2,000 or less, possession with intent to distribute marijuana within half of a mile from a school, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, fail to comply with order of public safety officer bench warrant
Anthony Douglas Williford, 37 — possession of other controlled substance, contempt of drug court commitment
Joseph Shane Mills, 19 — receiving stolen goods, simple possession of marijuana, hold for North Augusta Department of Public Safety
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Millikin tied the game with 15 seconds left to play on a 27 yard field goal by Austin Brettschneider.
In the overtime period, the Millikin defense came up big stopping Elmhurst on its first three plays for minus two yards. David Tomis hit a 44 yard field goal to give the Bluejays a 45-42 advantage.
On Millikin's possession, the Big Blue quickly moved to inside the Bluejays' 10 yard line. On third and one from the six yard line, Millikin's Justin Brooks tried to go up and over the pile for the first down. Elmhurst's Marvin Carr jarred the ball loose and Jamall Lane made the recovery stopping the Millikin possession and sealing the victory for Elmhurst.
The game matched the drama of the last five meeting between the two schools with the lead changing hands several times including twice in the fourth quarter.
Millikin had a 13-7 lead at the end of the first quarter thanks to two Sean Dunning touchdown runs. Dunning scored from 10 yards out for the game's first touchdown and from 11 yards out to answer a three yard Josh Williams touchdown from the Bluejays.
Elmhurst then took control in the second quarter outscoring Millikin 21-7.
Elmhurst got three second quarter touchdown runs from Scottie Williams from five yards, 99 yards, and three yards. Millikin's second quarter score came from quarterback Matt Holmes who scored on a five yard run.
Elmhurst went up 35-20 in the third quarter on another Williams three yard run.
The Big Blue then began to rally starting with a 40 yard touchdown pass from Holmes to Jake Palmer. The play was a short swing pass that had Palmer zipping across the Bluejay defense. Millikin pulled to within two at 35-33 on a Holmes to Erik Tobey nine yard pass.
Millikin took the lead half way through the fourth quarter when Holmes hit freshman Sean Maloney on a nine yard touchdown pass. Millikin's try for two failed and it was 39-35 Big Blue.
Elmhurst answered back on a 33 yard pass from Joe Furco to Vince Gabrys to go up 42-39.
Holmes had a big day for Millikin rushing for 170 yards on 27 carries with one touchdown and was 28-40 passing for 305 yards and three scores. Tobey led the Millikin receivers with 13 catches for 126.
Williams was the offensive star for Elmhurst with four touchdowns and 229 yards rushing on 32 carries. Furco was 14-24 passing for 164 yards.
Millikin had 557 yards in total offense while Elmhurst racked up 452 yards.
Millikin was hurt by penalties again this week. Millikin was flagged eight times for 93 yards.
Christian Silva was Millikin's top defender with 13 tackles. Freshman Sam Duprey had 12.
Lane had 14 stops for the Bluejays while Wayne Tuckson added 13 including three tackles for a loss.
Elmhurst is now 6-1 and 3-1 in the CCIW while Millikin falls to 3-4, 0-4.
Millikin plays at Wheaton on Oct. 27 at 1 p.m.


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Savills plc, the international real estate advisor, publishes the following Pre-Close trading update in respect of the year to 31 December 2017.
The Group experienced a stronger than anticipated finish to the year in a number of our businesses around the world. In addition to substantial commercial transaction volumes in both the UK and a number of Asian and European markets, the relative resilience of Savills UK Residential transaction business, which achieved year-on-year revenue growth in challenging markets, was of particular note. Accordingly, the Group now anticipates that underlying results for the year to 31 December 2017 will be ahead of our previous expectations.
In the UK, we saw increased market share in commercial transactions, primarily as a result of relatively robust occupier demand and continued strong investment interest from the Asia Pacific region. Our Less Transactional businesses, both in the UK and globally, performed in line with our expectations.
Our Asia Pacific and Continental European transactional businesses have performed ahead of our expectations, with particularly strong results from Hong Kong, China, Australia, Japan, Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands. Improvements in these countries and in the UK more than offset a decline in the US business due, in part, to continued occupier uncertainty particularly in respect of Government-related transactions, and to the cost of our newly recruited Capital Markets team in New York as we build our capability for the longer term.
Savills Investment Management transacted assets of over €5.5bn during 2017, which contributed to a performance in line with our expectations. Successful fund launches during the period bode well for the further development of this business in 2018.
In the current year, against the backdrop of heightened uncertainty over global economic prospects, geopolitical risks and rising interest rates, we expect some tempering of the strong transaction volumes of recent times in some markets. Accordingly our expectations for 2018 remain unchanged.
Savills will report 2017 full year results on 15 March 2018.
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Readers who, like me, get most of their TV on a recorded delay may not have seen this ad starting to pop up on their local airwaves just yet. So here it is. It premiered during a football game.
This Assassin's Creed 3 commercial doesn't exactly give the redcoats a badly-needed break, but it does have shots of my beloved Boston, so I like it anyway. Plus, it's nice to see some glimpses of Connor without the hood.


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BOSTON, April 20 (UPI) -- CNN logged a 194 percent boost in viewers Monday through Thursday compared to the previous week with coverage of the Boston marathon bombings, ratings indicate.
The cable news network edged out Fox News between 11 p.m. and midnight Thursday when news first broke of a shootout between police and two suspects. CNN had 986,000 total viewers, while Fox News had 954,000, Nielsen data said. MSNBC came in third with 392,000 viewers.
Fox News saw a 48 percent increase in ratings between Monday and Thursday, while MSNBC had a 37 percent increase, the data indicated, as reported Friday by the Los Angeles Times.
One suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a native of the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, was killed in a firefight with police Thursday. His brother, 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev, was apprehended Friday night in Watertown, Mass.
CNN President Jeff Zucker issued a memo to the network staff praising them for their coverage of the marathon bombing and the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, The Hollywood Reporter said.
"You have worked tirelessly, around the clock, to share these stories. And our audiences have responded, making it clear that they rely on us in ever increasing ways," he wrote in a statement. "In front of the cameras and behind the scenes, you have shown the world what makes us CNN."
Early on in its coverage of the Boston marathon bombings and the subsequent manhunt for the suspects, CNN was mired in journalistic embarrassment, the Times said. The network reported police had arrested a "dark-skinned" male on the same day of the bombing, drawing criticism from the NAACP after the report turned out to be false.
Zucker acknowledged the network's errors in his statement.
"And when we made a mistake, we moved quickly to acknowledge it and correct it," he said.


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Why no one built this until now, 32 years after The Empire Strikes Back, I don't know. But this enterprising builder, "fortyozjuicebox," assembled a compact, cardboard version of a Snowspeeder and, at the :40 mark of that video above, races it downhill at a sledding derby.
The video, however, doesn't show the level of detail that went into this thing, so check out these closeup images below. It's even got a rear gun and radiator port, but no place for Dack to sit, I'm guessing.
Check Out a Snowspeeder Sled in Action [Nerd Approved via Neatorama.]


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A panel of researchers and educators will explore various aspects of virtual environments including how children seek, use, and share information, how libraries are reaching out to youth by providing virtual spaces, and how children are tagging information using virtual games. They will report the findings of their recent research and engage the audience in a lively discussion.
Understanding how youth interact with virtual environment will contribute to our growing knowledge of how social information practices develop in young people. This knowledge is of critical concern to parents, educators, care-givers, information professionals, and others who mediate the real and virtual worlds of preteens. Beheshti, Bowler, Large, & Nesset (2005) note that CVEs offer a rich context for the development of socially mediated information practices. What are the implications of these CVEs for this and future generations of youth?
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America, meet Alan Grayson.
To the vast majority of Americans, Rep. Alan Grayson (D) of Florida is the representative who told members of Congress late Tuesday night that the Republicans' health care plan was for sick Americans to die quickly.
Accompanied by a billboard adorned with the same message, he said this precisely: "If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly."
What is perhaps most surprising is that it took him this long to get America's attention.
Bringing the blogosphere to Capitol Hill
The New Republic describes the freshman congressman – who is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the House – as "the first member to bring the blogosphere's in-your-face style to Capitol Hill."
When his hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel, suggested that "some say" his style "may quickly rub his new colleagues the wrong way." He responded in a fundraising e-mail: "Well, 'some say' that the Sentinel is a trashy tabloid that dresses up bias and gossip as news."
Introducing Vice President Joe Biden at a fundraising dinner, he suggested that former Vice President Dick Cheney gave Mr. Biden a tour of the White House "dungeon" and "its torture rack." He joked that Mr. Cheney invited Biden to "go waterboarding" with him.
Grayson enemy No. 1: the Fed
Elected as an anticorruption crusader targeting contractors in Iraq, he has turned his focus to the Federal Reserve and those he holds responsible for the financial meltdown.
His performances at hearings are tailored for the YouTube generation, and he has his own section on the online video site.
In one typical exchange, he asked the CEO of AIG the names of the "20 to 25 people" involved in the credit-default swaps that played a part in AIG's collapse.
Edward Liddy: …I do not know those names. I don't have them all at my command.
Grayson: Well, how can you propose to solve the problems of the company that you're now running if you don't know the names of the people who caused that problem?...
Liddy: I'm just not going to do that, sir, because that will provide—that'll be the—that could be a list of people that we could do—individuals who want to do damage to them could do that. It's just not…
Grayson: Well, listen, these same people could now be working right now today at Citibank. Is it more important to protect them, the ones who caused the $100 billion loss, or protect us? Which is more important to you right now?
Strange bedfellows
In what could be this Congress's most extreme case of strange bedfellows, Grayson has teamed up with libertarian Republican Ron Paul to back a bill calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts has backed the bill.
In an interview with Phil's Stock World, he called the Federal Reserve's activity "the story of the millennium. There are very few stories you can ever write about where the numbers involved have 13 digits in them."
Some call him a conspiracy theorist. Many liberals call him a hero.
But one thing seems clear. He could well be the congressman least likely to apologize for his words.
Strike that.
He did apologize Wednesday, though it was not the apology Republicans might have been hoping for.
Citing a Harvard study that estimates 44,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance, he said: "I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America."


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January 16, 2014Maysville License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the Maysville License Office to Roberta Sue Steiner of Maysville. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
Steiner has been the contractor of the Maysville License Office since 2009. She also served as the agent of the Maysville office from 1995 to 2005.
The Maysville License Office will remain at its current location at 104 W. Main.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 8,000 transactions were conducted at the Maysville office, generating approximately $28,614 in agent processing fees.
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This year's Trinidad and Tobago Carnival [1] is practically over, but it has inspired a slew of blog posts – some explaining various aspects [2] of the celebrations [3], but others lamenting the state of the festival.
Tony Deyal, writing at Abeng News Magazine [4], described it like this:
I am in Trinidad. It is hot and dry. The roads are crowded. The murder rate is high. The nights are noisy. It is a silly season beyond reason, adequate description and financial sanity. It is Carnival time.
The rest of his post was mostly a recollection of the "Old Time Carnival" of his childhood, but even amidst the revelry, he noted:
What struck me was that there was always an undercurrent of violence- perhaps because the majority of the people worked in the cane-fields, made their living with cutlasses and spent most of their recreation time in the rum shops. It was the way disputes were settled and started.
Back in the present day, Mark Lyndersay, via a series of thoughtful posts [5], contemplated the challenges facing "Carnival's leadership". Naturally, he consulted [6] "people whose work [he] enjoy[s] and who also have both opinions on and skin in the festival". His experts included Leslie-Ann Boisselle, a ten-time queen of Carnival contestant who suggested that calypso should be taken out of Dimanche Gras [7]:
'Leave the kings and queens for Dimanche Gras because tourists don't understand the calypso but the visual medium of the mas resonates with them.'
She believes that both shows, a calypso final and a costume based Dimanche Gras could be 'tight, well coordinated productions, professionally produced…make it something that could be filmed and marketed for sale, something that could be run on international tv as a two-hour special.'
Kenwyn Murray, part-time lecturer at the University of the West Indies [8] Carnival Studies Unit [9], thought that there should be more training in the Carnival arts:
'What we admire about the mas of the 50's, 60's and 70's is what we forget about it. They came out of yards, where there was informal training going on. The event has moved out of ritualistic expression to a larger commercial activity. There has been unchecked growth and people have been participating in an ad hoc way, based on what they know and what they can rely on. Training in the industry needs to be looked at deliberately.'
To help meet meet the need, the university is now offering a Practitioners Certificate in the Carnival Arts [10].
Blogger BC Pires [11] had an interesting perspective [6]:
'I'd axe out VIP sections of anything, including declaring all-inclusive mas bands illegal. If we keep turning what used to be something that brought us all together into the main device for separating us, it will end in bloodshed on the streets, and not the one or two choppings or stabbings we have now. There will be an eruption of violence that will make the steelband clashes of old look like primary school recess lock neck. We will all be playing casualty.
No, put that change as two. The first firetrucking thing I'd do is force music systems and bands to keep their volumes to a healthy level. NOTHING is ruining Carnival now more than the earsplitting volume of the music, it's like being beaten up.'
In another post, Lyndersay addressed [12] "the geography of Carnival" by itemizing all the controversies that took place this year with regard to parade routes:
The road, this Carnival makes clear, is no longer made to walk as Lord Kitchener sang.
It's now an event management challenge that must be planned and curated with immaculate clarity if everyone who hopes to enjoy Carnival is to have their space.
The country's largest annual festival is being convened along roadways that no longer meet the needs of the vehicular traffic they were originally designed for, so it's no surprise that they are also inadequate to meet the surge in Carnival Tuesday foot traffic.
The tweaks and adjustments that have sought to meet the growth of the festival amount to little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The good ship Carnival is listing badly and there seems to be a dearth of either creative or sensible thinking about how to address the problem.
He continued:
It's been more than 60 years since the administration of Carnival came under the oversight of the State, and this premier event has attracted increased taxpayer funding even as the planning invested in its long term development has withered.
In that time, calypso has become a ward of the state, the steelband is in desperate decline and design has been balkanized into traditional and fun silos, neither of which has advanced the design of Carnival over the last two decades.
Carnival needs better analysis, better management and better organization.
The continuing wonder, that the event is so exciting…and so much fun should not cloud the thinking of the festival's leadership.
It's time to seriously examine the issues and make hard decisions about the festival itself that separate history, tradition and sentiment from reality.
Carnival is creatively reinvented from the ground up each year, but there is no reason that its infrastructure and organization should follow that model.
Of course, there are exceptions to the rule: small, creative Carnival bands [13] springing up [14] and bringing together the best of art, design [15] and social commentary, all in a fun package.
Finally [16], Lyndersay wondered about "how tissue thin the difference between modern soca and European dance music has become" and why local music just can't seem to break through internationally:
It's not the only spot in the Carnival landscape where international breakthroughs seem imminent, and it also isn't the first instance of the type of creative osmosis that's brought the festival to international attention.
From Who let the dogs out to Minshall's command performances for the Olympics, to the impact of Differentology on international music charts, the products, aesthetic and creative potential of Carnival always seem just on the verge of being a big thing, before retreating determinedly to the safety of the parochial.
What is it about T&T that brings us global attention, as calypso did in the 1940's and 50's, only to lose momentum?
In his estimation, "a misunderstanding of roles is a big part of it":
The State really needs to decide whether it is an investor in Carnival or its sponsor. When Carnival stakeholders begin to gripe about the lavish freeness expected by representatives of the State during events, perhaps it's time to admit that you're a sponsor, and a loutish one at that.
Yet the conversation about Carnival is always about investment and returns and earnings, business terms that mean nothing when more than $200 million can be ploughed into the annual festival with no expectation of serious accountability for spending on that scale.
An investor considers a plan, puts money behind it and expects accurate reporting on the progress of the business.
A sponsor buys into a brand in the hopes of leveraging their own fortunes, their return comes in winning attention.
The state needs to decide which it is and stop trying to be the worst of both.
Similarly, the NCC [National Carnival Commission [17]] really needs to decide exactly what it is, because it's acting like the serf of the stakeholders instead of the convenor of Carnival.
He summarized the state of Carnival [16] by saying:
Tomorrow, on Ash Wednesday, there will be much celebratory backpatting on the success of another edition of the festival.
This will happen regardless of the conspicuous failures of so many State sponsored events to galvanise public interest or to contribute to the formation of anything that might resemble a sustainable Carnival economy.
Next up is Lent, when the literal eating of fish will accelerate, despite another year's lost opportunity during Carnival to meaningfully engage the metaphor of making fishers of men.
The images of the Future bat head [22] and "Miss Miles" setting up [23] are by Georgia Popplewell [24], used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license [25].


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New trade tariffs for British produce post-Brexit could spell disaster for many farms, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) said.
The union's chief economics and international affairs adviser Dr Andrew Francis sounded the warning following claims by former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg that UK farming "will be particularly badly hit by tariffs".
In a Party paper to explain the potential challenges facing the UK's food and drink industry after Brexit, Mr Clegg said a "hard Brexit"; by which the UK splits from the EU's single market and its customs union and fails to negotiate a free trade agreement with Brussels, would mean World Tarde Organisation rules apply. This, he said, would set import and export tariffs for milk at 47 per cent, cheese 40 per cent, beef 59 per cent, lamb 40 per cent, unmilled wheat 40 per cent and fruit and vegetables around 10 per cent.
The Sheffield Hallam MP wrote: "Brexit could have far-reaching negative effects on the British food and farming industries."
Extra import levies and customs checks would also contribute to food manufacturers raising food prices, he said.
Responding to the report, the NFU's Dr Francis said: "Continued access to the EU single market should not be hindered by imposed tariffs or non-tariff barriers... it would be beneficial to the food and drink sector for the UK-EU trading relationship to continue.
"Many farmers are already struggling to meet the costs of production within an environment of low prices. Should we leave the single market, the implications of trade tariffs could potentially be disastrous for many farm businesses."


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12 oz. Mouse
Corndog Chronicles
Skillet, Rooster, and the Eye hold a vigil at the police station while trying to get up the bail money for Mouse. Golden Joe is on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Rooster is desperate. They almost turn to Shark for the money, but then the real robber is caught and Mouse Fitzgerald is released. But he has lost his job because they found out about his arrest.
12 oz. Mouse
Season 1
EP 1 Hired
Mouse Fitzgerald has been out of work most of the month. He's late on his rent payment, and the landlord is ready to forcibly evict him. Mouse Fitzgerald takes his pool stick down to the billiards hall and stakes his last bit of money. He wins and returns just in time to pay up. Skillet remains unaware of Fitzgerald's gambling stunt, and thanks the Lord Jesus.
EP 2 Signals
The 12 oz. Mouse has painted a portrait of a Black Jesus. Suddenly there is a run of good luck all around him -- Skillet wins two bets in the same day! But they must choose -- does Mouse Fitzgerald get to enter the painting in a contest for the art gallery? Or does the painting stay in the living room?
EP 3 Rooster
Mouse Fitzgerald plans to celebrate Rooster's new job. But then they find out he didn't get it because he is a couple years too old to meet Shark's requirements.
EP 4 Spider
Mouse Fitzgerald's old army buddy visits. He is now a wealthy TV minister, and offers Fitzgerald a job. The 12oz. Mouse turns it down after dishonest tactics are revealed.
EP 4 12oz Mouse Spider Man Special
You probably haven't seen this one. We don't even remember making it.
EP 5 Rememorized
During a schoolroom history class, the Eye calls George Washington a racist because he was a slave owner. The Eye gets suspended from school and sent home. Rhoda and Liquor try to persuade the Eye to apologize for his statement.
EP 6 Spharktasm
Skillet finds a sexually explicit book in the house. He is surprised when it turns out to belong to Spider Boy. However, Spider Boy's college boyfriend is only using it for a school paper.
EP 7 Adventure Mouse
Mouse Fitzgerald has sold a painting, but the art customer turns out to be one of Skillet's old enemies. Skillet throws the man out and refuses to let Mouse Fitzgerald do the work. The 12 Oz. Mouse runs away from home to live and work at the art patron's house, but is unable to paint in the new, peaceful environment.
Season 2
EP 1 Bowtime
Fitzgerald and Skillet are upset when Poncho gets Senior status, even though he failed all his classes Junior year. They meet with Shark.
EP 2 Surgery Circus
A powerful city official visits the housing projects after Skillet writes a scathing letter exposing the decrepit conditions in the ghetto. Rectangular Businessman is furious with his son, the Fascist Midget.
EP 3 Booger Haze
Mouse's landlord holds a contest to see who has the cleanest apartment. In hopes of winning, Mouse makes the whole flat spic and span. Skillet brings a notoriously filthy man, Golden Joe, back to Mouse's apartment at the last minute - jeopardizing Mouse's chances of winning. After giving Golden Joe a bath and some new clothes, they pull out a close victory!
EP 4 Star Wars VII
Someone has chosen Mouse to appear in a TV commercial for an all natural health tonic. Mouse turns down the role when he learns it contains a mere 35 percent alcohol.
EP 5 Enjoy the Arm
Shark is angry, smashing furniture and yelling. Rooster and Liquor think he is suffering from hypertension and talk him into taking a physical exam. The Doctor tells Shark he has a high cholesterol level, and instructs him to cut back on salt and fat.
EP 6 Auraphull
Mouse Fitzgerald starts dating a wonderful new girl, and paints her portrait for free. Fitz gets his heart broken when the girl dumps him as soon as the painting is done.
EP 7 Meat Warrior
The Eye appears to be having a nervous breakdown, and slaps the Cop. Liquor takes him to a Women's Awareness meeting, but the Eye refuses to participate, and calls the women "cackling hens." When he returns home, Shark demands to know where he's been. The Eye tells him, and a vicious argument ensues. The Eye rethinks his opinion on the meeting.
EP 8 Meaty Dreamy
Mouse Fitzgerald has a birthday party, but Producer Man can't get him the art supplies because his credit is turned down by the new computer system at the department store. Mouse is disappointed at first, but seems to get over it. He leaves for the evening to go see Skillet. Mouse is arrested on his 18th birthday - for holding up a liquor store.
EP 9 Corndog Chronicles
Skillet, Rooster, and the Eye hold a vigil at the police station while trying to get up the bail money for Mouse. Golden Joe is on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Rooster is desperate. They almost turn to Shark for the money, but then the real robber is caught and Mouse Fitzgerald is released. But he has lost his job because they found out about his arrest.
EP 10 Eighteen
Skillet is selected to participate in forced busing in an attempt to achieve integration in the city's public schools. He doesn't want to go, but Mouse Fitzgerald talks him into it.
EP 11 Pre-reckoning
Rooster finds $65,000 in a brown paper sack in an alley from a botched robbery at Rhoda's. He wants to keep the money, but Liquor talks him into returning it.
EP 12 Farewell
The New Guy is secretly going out with a 45 year old man. Skillet is shocked when he finally meets him. The man has a ring and is ready to propose marraige to the New Guy. Mouse Fitzgerald convinces the New Guy to break off the relationship.
EP 13 Prolegomenon
Golden Joe refuses to take an IQ test at school, so he fails it. Golden Joe claims it was a racist test, not at all suitable for the hip hop sub-culture. The Eye and the Cop meet with the school faculty to discuss it, and end up getting jived by a white-bread computer nerd.


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AMHS Releases Summer 2013 Schedule
(JUNEAU, Alaska) – The Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) today announced the early release of its 2013 summer schedule.
"Releasing the schedule early greatly benefits the communities and businesses served by the marine highway system," said Michael Neussl, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Deputy Commissioner for Marine Operations. "Not only does it provide Alaskans with more time to plan their travel but it also helps those traveling to Alaska during the busy summer months to book their travel well in advance."
Release of the 2013 summer schedule was dependent upon the important public comment period held in August. The comment period is an opportunity for communities and individuals to review and comment on the proposed schedule, and to make AMHS aware of significant community events.
"We made several changes based on the comments received from individuals, businesses and communities across the state," said Neussl. "For example, we added an additional sailing through Gustavus and addressed the day boat concerns in Northern Lynn Canal."
The Alaska Marine Highway is following a record high year for revenue generation. In fiscal year 2012 AMHS revenues totaled $52.2 million, an increase of over 7 percent from the previous year. With no fare increases, that revenue increase was generated by increased ridership including an all-time record high of 114,100 vehicles transported. That revenue generation represents a 30.4% recovery of the system's operating cost.
Travelers are encouraged to make reservations in advance either online at FerryAlaska.com, by calling 1-800-642-0066, or visiting ferry terminal staff throughout the system. Making advance reservations is the best way to guarantee space for passengers and vehicles, and it allows the system to operate more efficiently. Fare information is available online or from reservations agents.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities oversees 255 airports, 11 ferries serving 35 communities, 5,619 miles of highway and 720 public facilities throughout the state of Alaska. The mission of the department is to "Get Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure."
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Major Areas of Research
- Structural immunology
- Structure and function of NK-cell receptors
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Structure and ligand recognition of NK-cell receptors
Natural killer (NK) cells constitute an important branch of host innate immunity against tumor and viral infection. The activation of NK cells is controlled by the balance of activating and inhibitory receptors, To understand the molecular mechanism of NK-cell target recognition, we have carried out structural studies on a number of activating and inhibitory NK-cell receptors. As examples of the activating receptors, we determined the crystal structures of NKG2D in complex with its ligand ULBP3 and of a natural cytotoxicity receptor (NCR) NKp46. To gain functional insights into the inhibitory NK receptors, we determined the crystal structures of human CD94, KIRDL2 and its complex with a class I MHC ligand, HLA-Cw3. Through these structural works, from both our lab and others', we learned how NK cells recognize their ligands. We continue our structural studies on the natural cytotoxicity receptors and their ligand identification.
Structural mechanism of HIV-1 and host interactions
HIV type 1 (HIV-1) infects macrophages efficiently despite relatively low levels of cell-surface CD4 expression. Additional attachment factors on host cells have been suggested to facilitate the viral entry. We have studied HIV-1 envelope gp120 interaction with host carbohydrate receptors, such as DC-SIGN, in the past few years. While DC-SIGN binds gp120 with high affinity, it does not appear to facilitate the viral entry. Instead, our preliminary results showed that HIV-1 gp120 recognized, both in solution and on cell surface, a new family of myeloid-lineage carbohydrate receptors, the Sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins (Siglec) through envelope-associated sialic acids. We are currently investigating the functional relevance of gp120-Siglec recognition, whether HIV-1 uses Siglecs to facilitate its host entry, and the potential importance of envelope carbohydrates in HIV infection and pathogenesis.
HIV-1 encodes an accessory protein, vpu, to facilitate the maturation and efficient host cell release of viral particles. Recently, CD317 has been identified as a host target of vpu and renamed tetherin, for its ability to retain HIV-1 viral particles on transfected cells. The gene for tetherin, also known as bone marrow stromal antigen 2 (BST2), encodes a 180-amino acid type II transmembrane protein with a predicted GPI-anchor at the c-terminus. Evidence suggests that tetherin induces the internalization of nascent virus to endocytic compartments, thus inhibiting their release, and the expression of vpu promotes the intracellular degradation of tetherin.
While this recent work provides significant insight into vpu and tetherin interactions and their role in viral release, the mechanism of tetherin-mediated viral retention as seen in vpu infection remains unclear. In particular, what is the viral target of tetherin and how does tetherin interact with HIV-1 and inhibit virus release? To address these questions, we propose to investigate the structure and function of tetherin by X-ray crystallography and identify its HIV-1 viral ligands using solution and cell surface binding approaches. These studies will not only advance our understanding of HIV-1 biology and viral pathogenesis but also facilitate the design of potential novel tetherin mimics to help sequester and clear the virus from infected individuals.
Fc receptor recognition by immunoglobulins and pentraxins
Pentraxins are a family of ancient innate immune mediators conserved throughout evolution. The classical pentraxins include serum amyloid P component (SAP) and C-reactive protein (CRP), which are parts of acute-phase proteins synthesized in response to infection. Both recognize microbial pathogens and activate the classical complement pathway through C1q. More recently, members of the pentraxin family were found to interact with cell surface Fcγ receptors (FcγR) and activate leukocyte-mediated phagocytosis 5-8. We now describe the structural mechanism for pentraxin binding to FcγR and its functional activation of FcγR-mediated phagocytosis and cytokine secretion. The complex structure between human SAP and FcγRIIa reveals a diagonally bound receptor on each SAP pentamer with both D1 and D2 domains of the receptor contacting the ridge helices from two SAP subunits. The 1:1 stoichiometry between SAP and FcγRIIa infers the requirement for multivalent pathogen binding for receptor aggregation. Mutational and binding studies show that pentraxins are diverse in their binding specificity to FcγR isoforms but conserved in their recognition structure. The shared binding site for SAP and IgG results in competition for FcγR binding and the inhibition of immune complex-mediated phagocytosis by soluble pentraxins. These results establish the antibody-like functions for pentraxins in the FcγR pathway, suggest an evolutionary overlap between the innate and adaptive immune systems, and have novel therapeutic implications for autoimmune diseases.
Dr. Sun obtained his Ph.D. from the Molecular Biology Institute, University of Oregon, for the study of structure and thermostability of phage T4 lysozyme using X-ray crystallography. He then joined the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DIseases for his postdoctoral training in 1991, focusing on the structure and function of cytokines. In particular, he determined the crystal structure of a human transforming growth factor, TGF-beta 2. He joined NIAID in 1994.
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Joyce MG, Tran P, Zhuravleva MA, Jaw J, Colonna M, Sun PD. Crystal structure of human natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp30 and identification of its ligand binding site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Apr 12;108(15):6223-8.
Lu J, Marjon KD, Marnell LL, Wang R, Mold C, Du Clos TW, Sun P. Recognition and functional activation of the human IgA receptor (Fc{alpha}RI) by C-reactive protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 22;108(12):4974-9.
Radaev S, Zou Z, Tolar P, Nguyen K, Nguyen A, Krueger PD, Stutzman N, Pierce S, Sun PD. Structural and functional studies of Igalphabeta and its assembly with the B cell antigen receptor. Structure. 2010 Aug 11;18(8):934-43.
Bivona L, Zou Z, Stutzman N, Sun PD. Influence of the second amino acid on recombinant protein expression. Protein Expr Purif. 2010 Dec;74(2):248-56.
Radaev S, Zou Z, Huang T, Lafer EM, Hinck AP, Sun PD. Ternary complex of transforming growth factor-beta1 reveals isoform-specific ligand recognition and receptor recruitment in the superfamily. J Biol Chem. 2010 May 7;285(19):14806-14.
Joyce MG, Radaev S, Sun PD. A rational approach to heavy-atom derivative screening. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2010 Ap;66(Pt 4):358-65.
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I was at the gym the other night and I stepped on the scale only to realize a disappointment waving through me like a hurricane. I have been trying to exercise more and eat better for what?Only to find this disappointment.I then stood back and watched a few other people get on the scale. The first being a woman whom I thought looked terrific. She too expressed disappointment. Then two men approached the scale and they were pleasantly happy with the results of the reading on the scale.How can it be possible to have an inanimate object determine how we feel about ourselves?We just weighed our self-worth and that isn't what scales are for.Scales are merely a tool to get feedback on where we are and where we may want to be as far as our weight is concerned. Using the scale wisely along with other measuring devices can be helpful and not detrimental if kept in perspective.Wise use of the scale depends on where you are in your weight change process. I say weight change because some people also are trying to gain weight where others want to lose weight.It is recommended at the early stages of weight change to weigh yourself daily. Actually if you weigh yourself a few times per day you can figure out what time of day you weigh your least and what time you are at your highest weight.If you weigh yourself in the morning before you eat breakfast, it will give you the low end of your personal weight fluctuation and will give you the information you will need to set your daily calorie goal. Your weight may fluctuate two-to-eight pounds throughout the day and that is why it is recommended to weigh yourself two-to-three times daily the first week or so to determine how your body holds weight and changes throughout the day.Let's say you just had some food and water. Food and water will add weight. One quart of water weighs about two pounds. If you weighed yourself then had a gallon of water and hopped right back on the scale, your weight would be almost nine pounds heavier.When you have reached your weight-change goals and are in your maintenance phase then it's advisable to weigh yourself once a week. After you have been in maintenance for six months, weighing yourself one time per month would be adequate. After six months you have had enough experience with the lifestyle changes to keep yourself in check without the use of a scale.A scale doesn't necessarily provide body fat composition information. There are some scales that do and they tend to be fairly expensive and I am not sure of their accuracy.Measuring body fat can be done fairly precisely by caliper testing as long as the same person is performing the test on you with the same instrument on a consistent basis. The reliability is as good as the instrument and person performing the test. This type of testing along with the scale is just measuring change.Fat testing is a means to compare results from one week to the next. I would also advise everyone to take a good look at themselves with minimal clothing on in the mirror and also feel how your clothes are fitting. These two methods may be good methods as well.Muscle is denser than fat. When people first start an exercise program it is not uncommon to have the scale go up due to an increase in muscle mass. After weeks of discipline the pounds of fat will come off. Be patient. It takes time before results kick in. Don't give up if the scale doesn't change immediately. Regular exercise along with a disciplined diet is necessary before change takes place. It usually takes me six weeks of disciplined exercise before any noticeable change takes place.Just remember, you can work off those holiday pounds with patience and persistence.
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Here's a funny thing about arts festivals: You know they're really cooking not so much by what acts are part of the official lineup but by what's tagging along.
Exhibit A is the Edinburgh Festival. If that annual entertainment conflab in Scotland were composed only of the official entries — a military tattoo, operas and, mostly, other such high-end attractions — the entertainment world would not head there en masse each August. Everyone goes for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which, over time, has become an official entity all of its own. Almost anyone with the money to rent a church basement can stage a show in Edinburgh. So what about this week in Chicago, when the TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival is coming to town? Is there a fringe growing up around the official offerings?
More than you might think. I remember standing outside the Park West a couple of years ago as an agent-booker type from Los Angeles told me how Just for Laughs Chicago, as distinct from the original Just for Laughs Montreal, was known as a "consumer festival" — which is industry-speak for a festival that people who work in the business don't need to attend. Well, you're thinking, who cares if industry types attend if I just want to see some shows? Fair enough.
But if you are one of thousands of folks in Chicago taking classes at iO or Second City or if you're a stand-up comic looking for a new agent, you're hoping some agents will find their way here. And they won't come to see Bill Maher do what Bill Maher always does.
This year, there are some signs of improvement. Seth Meyers may be scouting for "Late Night" talent. Marissa Ross, the casting director for "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS, said she is hoping to open up a casting office in Chicago and plans to host the "first annual Chicago comedy talent counting conference" in Chicago this very weekend. Ross said this week that she plans to bring talent scouts from most of the major broadcast and cable networks to town, where they will be attending regular shows at iO and at Second City, as well as watching a special "diversity showcase" Saturday at the Annoyance.
What else can you find that's not on the official Just for Laughs slate? This weekend, Stage 773 will host the Chicago Women's Funny Festival. Curated by Jill Valentine, the fest will feature a plethora of funny gals, including sketch, stand-up, vaudeville, improv and the like — from newcomers to veterans like Susan Messing.
Meanwhile, the Laugh Factory is presenting a week of what it calls "comics that will make Chicago residents proud" — poking a little fun at the national acts who make up a hefty portion of Just for Laughs. In its pointed publicity, the Laugh Factory accuses Just for Laughs of "neglecting the talent in the host city talent yet again" (conveniently not mentioning the Laugh Factory's own love of national acts). The Lakeview venue is hosting an entire week of Chicago comics, beginning with the crowning Tuesday of "Chicago's Funniest Media Personality" (I didn't know we had any that were funny) and booking a week of free-for-you shows featuring local funny people. Laugh Factory even says it will buy scouts and agents a free drink to encourage them to show up.
And if you didn't know the comedy scene in Chicago was feverishly competitive, now you do. The venerable Zanies comedy club in Old Town is doing pretty much the same thing on exactly the same dates (June 11-16), showcasing "10 Comedians for 10 Dollars" and thus offering a chance for those comics to showcase themselves at just the right moment.
Does all this constitute a fringe? Well, not entirely. It still would be great to see out-of-towners and locals booking up every available storefront and basement during this week.
But all this represents an improvement. And a great few days for laughs.


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10 military cemeteries to visit for Veterans Day
Military cemeteries offer a historic connection to the past, and Monday's Veterans Day holiday is a perfect time to visit, says Stephen W. Lehman, senior historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington. "When you see the name and the date on a grave marker, you have to remember these are people just like you." He shares notable burial grounds with Larry Bleiberg for USA TODAY.
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
This burial ground — commonly called the Punchbowl for the extinct crater where it's located — contains 33,230 graves of soldiers who perished across the Pacific in World War II, along with victims of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Notable burials include war correspondent Ernie Pyle and U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, who died in 2012. 800-464-2924; gohawaii.com
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
San Diego
This beautiful burial ground on hills overlooking the Pacific speaks to San Diego's history as a Navy town. It includes memorials to the ships lost at the World War II battle off Samar in the Philippines, when a badly outnumbered U.S. fleet encountered the Japanese. "They attacked and fought until they were all almost sunk or killed. It was one of the biggest naval battles ever," Lehman says. 619-232-3101; sandiego.org
Santa Fe National Cemetery
New Mexico
As the West began to settle and civilize, the government closed frontier forts and brought the dead to what was then a territorial capital for re-burial. "It's a time capsule of the Western frontier," Lehman says. It's also where victims of the battle of Glorieta Pass, a little-known Civil War battle in New Mexico, were interred. A monument honors the Navajo Code Talkers, who confounded the Japanese by using their native language to transmit military orders. 800-777-2489; santafe.org
San Francisco National Cemetery
The Presidio, first used as a fort by the Spanish, includes a historic burial ground with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay. Graves here include Buffalo Soldiers — the African-American servicemen who served across the West after the Civil War — and Union spy Pauline Cushman Fryer, a former actress who barely escaped execution. "It's fascinating when you see the people buried there," Lehman says. 415-561-5300; presidio.gov
Arlington National Cemetery
This somber cemetery pays homage to fallen soldiers and other national heroes, including presidents, astronauts and victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon. Lehman suggests visiting Section 60, where soldiers lost in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. "It really brings it to life. It's right there, it's right now. There are still internments going on." 877-907-8585; arlingtoncemetery.mil
Gettysburg National Cemetery
The world's attention will turn to Pennsylvania later this month when ceremonies honor the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, which President Lincoln gave at the dedication of this cemetery. "It was less than six months after the battle," Lehman says. "They were still gathering bodies from shallow graves and finding soldiers that had been killed." 717-334-1124; nps.gov/gett
West Point Cemetery
New York
Set in an idyllic spot overlooking the Hudson River, this cemetery contains notable West Point grads like Persian Gulf commander Norman Schwarzkopf and George Armstrong Custer, who presided over the Battle of the Little Bighorn. "His widow insisted he would not remain out in the prairies and made sure there was a very good monument," Lehman says. 845-938-2504; usma.edu
Andersonville National Cemetery
Most of the 13,000 Union soldiers buried here perished in the infamous Confederate Andersonville POW camp. American Red Cross founder Clara Barton played a role in creating the burial ground, which is still in use. "It's a powerful place. The cemetery is dedicated to all American prisoners of war — from all wars," Lehman says. 229-924-0343; nps.gov/ande
Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery
This frontier fort was the crossroads of Western expansion and contains burials dating to 1827, although the earliest graves were moved to the current site. "As bodies were found in the Western Theater, they'd be buried in Fort Leavenworth," Lehman says. 913-684-4348; garrison.leavenworth.army.mil
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial
Less famous than the cemeteries in Normandy marking the World War II D-Day invasion, this graveyard northwest of Paris was created for World War I victims who were not repatriated. The grounds are carefully maintained, Lehman says. "It's a window on the way the U.S. thought about its venture overseas. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars." abmc.gov


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