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ADDRESS: Hidden Valley Farm, Nellysford
ASKING: $1.8 million
BUILDING: 4,500 finished square feet; many outbuildings
LAND: 120 acres
NEIGHBORHOOD: Nellysford
CURB APPEAL: 8 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Owner Charles Kuhn 989-9287
As Western Albemarle disappears under bulldozers and million-dollar tract houses, it seems the very vistas that lure people to our area will soon be gone. Even along the Emily Couric Memorial Highway (Route 151), houses appear to pop-up overnight.
But despite the growth spurt, Nelson County still looks rural.
Seven miles from the 250 West turn-off and just before the hamlet of Nellysford rests this spectacularly placed farmette. It's perhaps a mile or so off the road, and the only indication that our directions weren't way off was a bold sign declaring "Hidden Valley Farm." Not so hidden after all.
Crossing a small stream and following a line of stately white pines, cedars, and dogwoods, we came upon a pale yellow house right out of a Scandinavian fairytale– not overtly grand, but impressive enough to make us catch our breath.
Inside, more pale yellow paint covered the walls. The 10-foot ceilings and massive windows created the effect of less delineation between outside and in than, say, you might feel in a barn. And that's a good thing.
Living here is all on one level, with no particular distinction as to what one might do with each room. The rooms are spacious and could easily be changed as families grow or shrink. All the bookshelves and floors gleam with a light pine finish. Wool carpeting covers the floors of the bedrooms, adding a little "green" appeal. The east wing, with a recently upgraded bathroom, sports a bamboo floor. A screened porch has been turned into a 300 square-foot all-weather room that literally begs for yoga mats and Yanni.
So much light and exposure do give the place a certain airiness, but sometimes it was a little too much. Just for a little contrast, one might think of creating a cozy dark corner for those moments when you're just not feeling sunshine-y bright.
Everywhere you go, the outside stays right beside you. Throughout the offices, bedrooms and living areas, the overriding impression was of the surrounding land. On this pre-spring teaser of a morning, the desire to take off into the woods was almost overpowering.
To the west, a wide-open kitchen with dining area was more of the same with continuous floor-to-almost-ceiling wraparound windows. From here, we stepped outside to find a second house, built in 2002. Connected by a covered carport, the new structure is nothing fancy but perfect for teens, grandparents, or visiting dignitaries.
From here we finally got to fully take in the breathtaking majesty that the house had obviously been built to inhale. And here is the reason for the price tag: Land in all its unspoiled glory stretching as far as the eye can rove.
The property breaks down into 20 acres of open hay fields, 40 acres of forest, and 60 almost flat acres enclosed by three-board oak fencing. A small bass-stocked pond with island looks like it could provide hours of summer fun. The list of amenities continues with a quaint guest cottage, large barn with four-horse stable, a tack room and hay storage, several small outbuildings, a greenhouse (for year-round food) and an organic garden.
Even that impressive list barely covers it. Hiking and horseback trails disappear into the hills where they meet up with the Appalachian Trail, the George Washington National Forest, and Wintergreen Nature Preserve and where– the owners promise– waterfalls abound.
It's a lot to cover, not just on foot but also in a brief review. Buyers with the means who value open vistas should look to Nelson county as one of the last frontiers of tranquility in the area.


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Good fences make good neighbors, as the saying goes.
But as the first trailer from Universal Pictures' comedy "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising" quickly proves, no fence is strong enough to keep Kappa Kappa Nu's Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz) from taking down the neighborhood.
In the sequel to Neighbors, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne reprise their roles as Mac Radner and Kelly Radner, respectively. When a sorority moves in next door, the tired parents enlist the help of Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron), who terrorized them in the first film along with his fraternity brothers. Returning cast members include Ike Barinholtz as Jimmy Blevins, Dave Franco as Pete Regazolli and Carla Gallo as Paula Faldt, while newcomers include Kiersey Clemons as Beth, Selena Gomez as Madison and Lisa Kudrow as Dean Carol Gladstone. TruTV's Billy Eichner and Vine star Cameron Dallas also appear in unspecified roles.
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The Radners may have met their match. "With the sorority girls, it's like a glimpse into their daughter's future," Byrne tells Entertainment Weekly. "It terrifies them."
Director Nicholas Stoller is back, as are producers Evan Goldberg, Rogen and James Weaver. Goldberg, Rogen and Stoller wrote the film along with Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien.
In the December 2015/January 2016 issue of NYLON, Moretz described her onscreen sorority sisters as "a lot scarier than the boys" from the first movie. The various actors she worked with, however, were anything but scary. "Selena and I have been friends for a year now, and she's a total sweetheart," she told the magazine. "Seth is an amazing guy and a smart writer, and Zac is great." The feelings are mutual, as Efron called her "smart, funny, dope and a beautiful person."
Moretz credited Rogen and Stoller with hiring female writers and taking a pro-female stance. "If any of the women ever feel there's something inappropriate, we speak up, and they will never push the boundaries with us," she said of her fellow actresses. "They've been really respectful."
That said, the parties are bigger and badder than ever. As one might expect, the Mad Max-inspired tailgate gets out of control fast. "That one was both a lot of fun and a nightmare to shoot," Rogen confesses to Entertainment Weekly. But not for the reasons one might assume: "Anytime I'm shirtless next to Zac Efron for really long periods, it even gets to me eventually."
"Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising" will hit theaters on May 20, 2016. Its predecessor, released on May 9, 2014, was a massive hit, grossing over $270 million worldwide against an $18 million budget.
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text: All this local-centric talk lately has me thinking about who the worst people I've ever been around in the lineup are and where they are from. This is completely anecdotal, all about blanket statements and over-generalizations, so don't anyone take this personally and start whining about anything other than what I'm whining about. Got it? Worst People in the Lineup: 1) Italians: They're always in Barbados, I have no freaking idea what attracts so many of them. I've had them repeatedly fade me, friends and locals I know down there. Seen them get called out of the water, slapped around, yelled at and they still don't seem to get it. The worst was one who almost landed on my head at Soup Bowl on a 3' OH day when I was tucking up under the lip. 2) VA Beachers: I have never seen as many paddle-arounds and senseless paddle battles in one session than those around VA Beach locals and/or transplants. This goes way, way back to my grom years when Hotwax used to run a pro-am and I surfed the 17th St. comp a couple years and having to be around large groups of Vabeechers in the warmup areas. First time I have ever seen kids intentionally sit right underneath you to block you off waves. Not to mention every trip to the OBX I have ever been on--it's almost guaranteed if you have miles of beach to you and a couple buds a group of Vabeechers will paddle out right beside or on top of you. Hell, there are a couple transplants here who do the same thing to this day. They don't usually crowd me out too much because they know I'll just run over them now but they straight up harass my best friend sometimes 3) UNCW Students (excluding Gnaractually, never met him in person but he seems like a standup dude): Beside the fact they all seem to think it's cute to drive down the right turn lane and cut in front of the line of people doing the proper thing waiting for the drawbridge at WB... even though this act of complete selfishness and disrespect relegates them to below rancid douche status in my book, I still think they are worse in the water. This definitely dovetails with the VA Beach factor somewhat, I'm sure. The problem with most UNCW surfers is they are "Summer Pros," and those who do surf in the winter suck just as bad too. It's almost guaranteed if someone ditches their board in front of you, cuts you off only to fall, paddles for the shoulder of the wave you're riding and getting in your way instead of duckdiving the whitewater behind you, back paddles you at Masonboro then has the audacity to ask for a ride on your boat back to WB and/or any other kooky thing you can think of--it's almost surely a UNCW student. So, what's everyone else's top 3 WORST PEOPLE TO SURF AROUND?


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Many tradition-bound churches are struggling to attract new members and pay their bills, while a smaller group of churches has discovered prosperity by embracing change and attracting younger members.
"The old way of doing things doesn't work for many groups," said David A. Roozen, professor of religion and society at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, which conducted the survey.
The survey found that less than 20 percent of the churches said they were in good financial health in 2008 -- down from 31 percent in 2000. Just 48 percent of the churches reported even modest growth in 2008, compared to 58 percent in 2005.
The Faith Communities Today 2008 survey of primarily Christian congregations found the decline was universal: mainstream Protestant, evangelical Protestant and Catholic. The study concludes that the picture of American churches is a story of persistent and broad-based decline, but also the story of pockets of vitality.
It is the story of two Baptist churches: Union Park and Oviedo.
Union Park Baptist was formed in 1954 and seven years ago had an average Sunday attendance of 300. Today, the church in east Orange County gets half that many. Its congregation is predominantly middle aged and older.
Danny Watson grew up in the church and remembers in the late 1980s when there were 500 people at Sunday worship, and the congregation funded a new education wing and multi-purpose building. Now, he said, they have to scrape by every week to pay the electric bill.
"Our church has been in tight spots before and we got through them. This is the first time something of this [magnitude] has come upon us," said Watson, 53, who works in construction.
The declining membership, along with the faltering economy, have placed the church in a financial bind.
"We are going to die," said Pastor Coleman Pratt, the church's minister for the past 15 years. "We need to rethink the church in today"s culture, today's time. We're still doing church like we've always done it."
This past Sunday, Pratt held the second in what will be 13 weeks of discussions with his congregation on the future of their church. Among the topics was the need for a clear, unifying vision and purpose for the church.
In the Hartford study, a clear vision is one of the hallmarks of the churches that are thriving. Other characteristics that produced growth were: clarity of purpose, openness to change, attentiveness to new members and appreciation of volunteers.
"Sometimes the lack of clarity is really the fact they have so many different visions that are competing," Roozen said.
In addressing his members, Pratt cited a Biblical passage that says without a vision, the people perish.
An hour later, in the new, 3,800-seat worship center at First Baptist Oviedo, Pastor Dwayne Mercer cited the same passage. The vision of Oviedo Baptist is clear, Mercer said: "Reach, teach and send people out. We are trying to reach people for Christ. That is what we've always been about."
A unifying vision is the key to the acceptance of change within a church, Mercer said.
"As people grasp the vision, that makes them more open to change. They realize it's not about them. It's about the people we haven't reached for Christ yet," Mercer said.
The Oviedo church, founded in 1870, has undergone tremendous change in recent years. Its membership has increased from 1,300 a decade ago to more than 4,000 today. It added a contemporary worship service with a rock band replacing the choir about four years ago that attracts an under-50 crowd.
Recently, for the first time, the contemporary service at the Seminole County church out-drew the traditional service, Mercer said.
On the same Sunday that Pratt was edging his congregation toward the risky unknown of change, Mercer was promoting his Facebook site and next week's "Bring a Friend Sunday" in which he vowed not to preach about tithing or anything else that might scare the newcomers away. Afterward, there will be T-shirts and pizza.
"You bring a guest, you get a T-shirt, they get a T-shirt, we eat some pizza and I get to meet them," said Mercer, the church's pastor for 16 years.
Pratt says Union Park Baptist has lost members to Oviedo Baptist, but he has no desire to pastor a church of that size. Bigger is not better. Growth in itself is not the objective. Staying vital and vibrant is.
"This rethinking the church is not about us becoming bigger," Pratt said. "It's about us becoming better."


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Eastside Road, May 31, 2012—DON'T TAKE A PICTURE of that, she ordered, so I didn't — or if I did, I'm not about to post it here. Yes, it was the last of the paella that she cooked, let's see, a week ago. With the addition of chicken this time — chicken from the box she brought home last night from Olive & Vine. Next time I'll make a half recipe, she says. I don't know: it still tasted good to me.
Sauvignon blanc, Preston of Dry Creek, 2010; Sirah-Syrah, Preston of Dry Creek, 2008


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I threw ya the soccer card curveball yesterday so the least I can do is post a pack of 2008 Upper Deck Series 2 to make up for it. The first pack out of my blaster was the one with the jersey so I figured why not post it. This is a normal blaster and not one of the Star Spangled ones so no USA team prospect jersey here. One thing that annoyed me about this blaster is it advertises a new retail-only insert set of Superstar Scrapbook cards and of course, no Braves. Not even Chipper ".420" Jones. Bah phooey. I bet everyone's scrambling to make Chipper inserts now though... Here's the pack.
483 Matt Holliday
UDJ-WI Dontrelle Willis Jersey
680 Jason Jennings
649 Eric Bedard
602 Chris Denorfia
461 Nick Swisher
483 Matt Holliday Gold #87/99
SQ-44 Eric Byrnes
Doubled up on the Holliday in this pack and got his Gold parallel. The photo appears to be him swinging away at the Home Run Derby. Matt hit 13 homers in the derby and was eliminated in the second round. The Dontrelle Jersey is sweet, I don't care if he's flaming out fight now and is back in the minors. This card is extremely thick too... much thicker than the series one relics. There's a run after the jersey of four straight players with new teams in their new uniforms including Nick Swisher in a Sox jersey. As soon as I get a double, it's yours Steve. The StarQuest card is an uncommon bronze colored card of Eric Byrnes. I really like the StarQuest inserts, it's a nice throwback to the old Collector's Choice sets. Not bad for the first pack in the box, it will all even out of course but it's still nice to get a loaded pack every so often.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
2008 Upper Deck Series 2 - Blaster pack
Posted by dayf at 1:34 PM
Labels: 2008, series 2, Upper Deck
2 comments:
- Steve Gierman said...
I can wait until that happens. :)
- Captain Canuck said...
you know where to send spare Roachie's....
c/o the 3rd igloo on the left
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Many have heard the question posed what came first, the chicken or the egg? But how does that concept apply to depression? It's well-known that when we're depressed, our motivation and interest in maintaining a healthy and balanced diet subsides in the same way our energy does. Harvard Medical Students positioned that same question in relation to depression; what came first, depression or a poor diet? continue reading
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Polar Researchers Harness Robots That Thrive in the Midnight Sun
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The midnight sun is shining on the Greenland ice sheet, and Yeti Robot is out for a spin.
The probe's chunky tires crunch a trail through the snow, then jerk to a stop. A blue plastic sled carrying a ground-penetrating radar crashes into Yeti's boxy black chassis, still tied to the robot by nylon ropes.
Yeti's handlers try to diagnose the problem. The robot is swinging too wide on its right turns, straying from the path programmed into its onboard GPS. The engineers confer. Seconds later, Yeti is again whizzing toward the horizon.
It's the first day of this year's field tests, and the researchers are eager to show off their prize pupil. If all goes well, battery-powered Yeti and its close relative -- a solar-powered version called Cool Robot -- could one day expand scientists' access to Earth's poles and enhance their ability to study how climate change is speeding the melt of Greenland's ice sheet. ...
"If you see a crevasse, you have a couple of seconds to stop the vehicle," said Laura Ray, a professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering who helped create Yeti and Cool Robot. "As you can imagine, that's a fairly fatiguing, stressful job."
Ray and her colleagues say Yeti could help make those supply treks safer. The robot, outfitted with a ground-penetrating radar, could take over the job of scouting for crevasses -- and interpret those data on the fly. The current version of Yeti is constructed from $25,000 worth of parts, including military-rated, ultralight batteries that can travel 10 to 15 kilometers before they need to be recharged.


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EPA Offers Smart Growth Assistance to Rhode Island; Mississippi County, Arkansas; Kelso, Washington
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will offer technical assistance to three areas of the country to help improve their economy and create jobs while protecting health and the environment through the use of smart growth strategies.
Many communities want to foster economic growth, protect environmental resources, enhance public health, and plan for development, but may lack the tools, resources, and information to achieve their goals. In response to this demand, EPA developed the Smart Growth Implementation Assistance (SGIA) Program that can help these communities achieve those goals. The following applicants will receive technical assistance in 2013:
– State of Rhode Island ─ EPA will help the state assess impacts from climate change on economic activity in North Kingstown and prioritize actions in the state's economic development plans. The agency aims to help North Kingstown and other Rhode Island communities prepare for rising sea levels and reduce the potential impact of climate change on major public infrastructure, private sector investments, and other key economic assets.
– Mississippi County, Ark. ─ EPA will help Mississippi County capitalize on the potential redevelopment opportunities related to new steel manufacturing jobs coming to the region. The project will identify neighborhoods that are best suited for expanding housing opportunities and minimizing commuting time to new jobs. The planning effort may also focus on updates to existing infrastructure, reuse of existing buildings, and development of new public spaces for existing residents and new employees moving to the region.
– Kelso, Wash. ─ EPA will work with the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments to identify infrastructure, workforce training, and other economic development strategies for encouraging redevelopment in a neighborhood and industrial area south of downtown Kelso, and to create guidelines for public investments that will improve health and equity for residents.
"The Smart Growth Implementation Assistance program helps communities pursue development that can foster new economic opportunity, and protect public health and the environment," said EPA Director for the Office of Sustainable Communities John W. Frece. "By working hand-in-hand with communities, we create tailored strategies that meet local needs while also providing models that can benefit many other communities around the country."
EPA selected the three recipients from a pool of 79 applicants. The finalists were selected based on how well the projects fit with current program priorities, including: redevelopment for job creation, workforce housing and sustainable neighborhood design, community resilience, the strength of the local partners, and the ability to support existing local policy implementation processes, among other factors. The projects are coordinated through the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a joint effort of EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). This interagency partnership coordinates federal investments in infrastructure, facilities, and services to get better results for communities and use tax dollars more efficiently.
To date, the Partnership has worked to coordinate over $4 billion dollars in federal investments across the three agencies. The Partnership is helping communities across the country create more housing choices, make transportation more efficient and reliable, reinforce existing investments and support vibrant neighborhoods that attract new business.
EPA will use lessons learned from this year's Smart Growth Implementation Assistance projects to develop tools for other communities facing similar challenges. Since 2005, EPA has supported 36 Smart Growth Implementation Assistance projects serving 49 communities.
More information about the Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program and the selected communities: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/sgia_communities.htm#content


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Flavorful high fiber combination of chicken, figs, beans and vegetables.
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In a large bowl, whisk together the orange juice, yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, mustard and pepper. Whisk in the olive oil until well blended. Add the chicken, chickpeas, cucumber, onion and figs; stir and toss to coat well. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.
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Discover Bundeena's secret paths and hidden vistas in this special two hour walk that most locals don't even know about! The walk varies according to tidal conditions so come prepared for a bit of adventure as every walk scheduled is unique. You'll also learn a little about the local history and some interesting landmarks.
We'll meet up at Bundeena Ferry Wharf and set out on foot at a casual pace through the town of Bundeena. We'll make our way over to several beaches and stunning outlooks including views of Deehban Spit, Port Hacking River, Gunyah Beach, Potter Point and more. We'll take advantage of several staircases and walkways that you won't find on Google maps!
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Summary: Clostridial binary toxin B/anthrax toxin PA Ca-binding domain
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AB toxin Edit Wikipedia article
crystal structure of the enzymatic component of iota-toxin from clostridium perfringens with nadh
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crystal structure of the anthrax toxin protective antigen heptameric prepore
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The AB toxins are two-component protein complexes secreted by a number of pathogenic bacteria. They can be classified as Type III toxins because they interfere with internal cell function.[1] They are named AB toxins due to their components: the "A" component is usually the "active" portion, and the "B" component is usually the "binding" portion.[1][2] The "A" subunit possesses enzyme activity, and is transferred to the host cell following a conformational change in the membrane-bound transport "B" subunit.[3] These proteins consist of two independent polypeptides, which correspond to the A/B subunit moieties. The enzyme component (A) enters the cell through endosomes produced by the oligomeric binding/translocation protein (B), and prevents actin polymerisation through ADP-ribosylation of monomeric G-actin.[3][4][5]
Examples of the "A" component of an AB toxin include C. perfringens iota toxin Ia,[3] C. botulinum C2 toxin CI,[4] and Clostridium difficile ADP-ribosyltransferase. [5] Other homologous proteins have been found in Clostridium spiroforme.[4][5]
An example of the B component of an AB toxin is Bacillus anthracis protective antigen (PA) protein,[3] B. anthracis secretes three toxin factors: the protective antigen (PA); the oedema factor (EF); and the lethal factor (LF). Each is a thermolabile protein of ~80kDa. PA forms the "B" part of the exotoxin and allows passage of the "A" moiety (consisting of EF or LF) into target cells. PA protein forms the central part of the complete anthrax toxin, and translocates the A moiety into host cells after assembling as a heptamer in the membrane.[6][7]
The Diphtheria toxin also is an AB toxin. It inhibits protein synthesis in the host cell through phosphorylation of the eukaryotic elongation factor 2, which is an essential component for protein synthesis. The exotoxin A of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is another example of an AB toxin that targets the eukaryotic elongation factor 2.
The AB5 toxins are usually considered a type of AB toxin, characterized by B pentamers. Less commonly, the term "AB toxin" is used to emphasize the monomeric character of the B component.
The two-phase mechanism of action of AB toxins is of particular interest in cancer therapy research. The general idea is to modify the B component of existing toxins to selectively bind to malignant cells. This approach combines results from cancer immunotherapy with the high toxicity of AB toxins, giving raise to a new class of chimeric protein drugs, called immunotoxins. [8]
See also
- ^ a b "Bacterial Pathogenesis: Bacterial Factors that Damage the Host - Producing Exotoxins - A-B Toxins". Archived from the original on 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ De Haan L, Hirst TR (2004). "Cholera toxin: a paradigm for multi-functional engagement of cellular mechanisms (Review)". Mol. Membr. Biol. 21 (2): 77–92. doi:10.1080/09687680410001663267. PMID 15204437.
- ^ a b c d Perelle S, Gibert M, Boquet P, Popoff MR (December 1993). "Characterization of Clostridium perfringens iota-toxin genes and expression in Escherichia coli". Infect. Immun. 61 (12): 5147–56. PMC 281295. PMID 8225592.
- ^ a b c Fujii N, Kubota T, Shirakawa S, Kimura K, Ohishi I, Moriishi K, Isogai E, Isogai H (March 1996). "Characterization of component-I gene of botulinum C2 toxin and PCR detection of its gene in clostridial species". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 220 (2): 353–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1996.0409. PMID 8645309.
- ^ a b c Stubbs S, Rupnik M, Gibert M, Brazier J, Duerden B, Popoff M (May 2000). "Production of actin-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase (binary toxin) by strains of Clostridium difficile". FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 186 (2): 307–12. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2000.tb09122.x. PMID 10802189.
- ^ Pezard C, Berche P, Mock M (October 1991). "Contribution of individual toxin components to virulence of Bacillus anthracis". Infect. Immun. 59 (10): 3472–7. PMC 258908. PMID 1910002.
- ^ Welkos SL, Lowe JR, Eden-McCutchan F, Vodkin M, Leppla SH, Schmidt JJ (September 1988). "Sequence and analysis of the DNA encoding protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis". Gene. 69 (2): 287–300. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(88)90439-8. PMID 3148491.
- ^ Zahaf N, Schmidt G (2017-07-18). "Bacterial Toxins for Cancer Therapy". Toxins (Basel). 9 (8): 236. doi:10.3390/toxins9080236. PMC 5577570. PMID 28788054. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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Clostridial binary toxin B/anthrax toxin PA Ca-binding domain Provide feedback
This domain is a calcium binding domain in the anthrax toxin protective antigen.
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This domain is a calcium-binding domain in the anthrax toxin protective antigen (PA).
A large group of bacterial exotoxins are referred to as "A/B toxins", essentially because they are formed from two subunits [PUBMED:8225592]. The "A" subunit possesses enzyme activity, and is transferred to the host cell following a conformational change in the membrane-bound transport "B" subunit. Clostridial species are one of the major causes of food poisoning/gastro-intestinal illnesses. They are Gram-positive, spore-forming rods that occur naturally in the soil [PUBMED:8225592]. Among the toxins produced by certain Clostridium spp. are the binary exotoxins. These proteins consist of two independent polypeptides, which correspond to the A/B subunit moieties. The enzyme component (A) enters the cell through endosomes produced by the oligomeric binding/translocation protein (B), and prevents actin polymerisation through ADP-ribosylation of monomeric G-actin [PUBMED:8225592, PUBMED:9659689, PUBMED:10802189].
Members of the "B" binary toxin family also include the Bacillus anthracis protective antigen (PA) protein [PUBMED:8225592], most likely due to a common evolutionary ancestor. B. anthracis, a large Gram-positive spore-forming rod, is the causative agent of anthrax. Its two virulence factors are the poly-D-glutamate polypeptide capsule, and the actual anthrax exotoxin [PUBMED:1910002]. The toxin comprises three factors: the protective antigen (PA); the oedema factor (EF); and the lethal factor (LF). Each is a thermolabile protein of ~80kDa. PA forms the "B" part of the exotoxin and allows passage of the "A" moiety (consisting of EF and LF) into target cells. PA protein forms the central part of the complete anthrax toxin, and translocates the B moiety into host cells after assembling as a heptamer in the membrane [PUBMED:1910002, PUBMED:3148491].
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World Dance: Machol Olam 2011
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This summer, dance from Israel has been crisscrossing the globe with tours and performances at major festivals. In recent weeks, with the five-day Contemporary Israeli Dance Week as part of LaMaMa Moves! in New York City and an extraordinary number of appearances by Israeli artists at the Montpellier Dance Festival in France, Israeli dance has triumphantly showcased its strengths on the world's stages. Now, from July 11-28, Israel's stages are about to get a dose of the world's best dance in a brand-new festival called Machol Olam – World Dance.
Presented by the Suzanne Dellal Centre at the Wohl Amphitheater in Ganei Yehoshua, World Dance offers local dance fans an array of styles. While Israeli contemporary dance makes an appearance on the celebratory opening night with an excerpt from Barak Marshall's Rooster, and The Project (a joint production of Suzanne Dellal and the Israeli Opera) will perform Jacopo Godani's Light Years, by and large, the amphitheater's stage is ceded to those artists who draw on ballet and flamenco forms.
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On July 13, the festvial continues with Pave Real, a co-production between Michal Natan's COMPAS: The Israeli Flamenco Dance Company and Spanish flamenco dancer Miguel Angel Espino. Live flamenco and Argentine tango music helps create the mood for the work, which is set in a dance club in the 1930s.
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Hewing closely to Marius Petipa's original choreography as revised by Aleksander Gorsky, the Israel Ballet's spirited production of Don Quixote is scheduled for July 16. Valeria Martynyuk, a member of the famed Mariinsky Ballet since 2004, will dance the lead role of Kitri.
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World Dance contains a mini-festival, Madridanza, which kicks off with the Victor Ullate Ballet – Comunidad de Madrid on July 18-19. Since 1988, the company has been an integral part of Madrid's dance scene, but this is the first time the troupe is appearing in Israel. Ullate and Eduardo Lao provide the choreography for El Arte de la Danza, a production that displays the strengths of the company's dancers.
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Enlivening Madridanza on July 23-24 is Ballet Flamenco José Porcel. The company will present Moralejas with choreography by Porcel, Rocio Molina, Isabel Bayon, Alfonso Losa, and Ruben Olmo.
Madridanza also boasts a Spanish Gala celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of mutual diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel. Held on July 21, the concert will feature Porcel, dancers from Victor Ullate Ballet, Michal Natan and Miguel Angel Espino, Silvia Duran, and Gentian Doda and Dimo Kirilov in duets by Doda and Nacho Duato as well as the Ladino singing of Galit Giat.
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For more information, view World Dance's page on the Suzanne Dellal Centre's website. Tickets to performances at the Wohl Amphitheater are available through Suzanne Dellal's box office: 03-5105656.


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If I'm at the beach I'm pretty much going to rock my Turkish towel "Sarong Style". Use them to dry off then wrap them around your waist and you can live in your bikinis all summer.
And of course, as a towel.
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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Kunyas: Nicknames that are Names
You may or may not know the word "kunya" but in one way or another you probably have already heard of a kunya. Educational materials on Arab culture or the Middle East will teach you that kunyas are honorific names/titles used by Arabs. What is generally taught is that someone named "Abu Umar" is the father of a child named Umar. "Umm Umar" would be the mother of Umar. Meanwhile an Ibn Thahr is the son of a Thahr.
All Catholicgauze can say is that is how the system was meant to work but no longer does (or in my sleep-deprived thinking, "Lies! Horrible Lies!). In today's modern Middle East the kunya has devolved into nicknames that can be used in place of true birth names on almost anything expect official government documents. People will take a kunya to tie themselves with popular historical figures, their profession, even favorite sports stars.
What is truly something else is one can have a kunya for certain situations. For instance, your friends may know you as "Abu Ahmad" after your son but your your co-workers may know you as "Abu Jindal" after the local soccer star. Surprisingly your family may not know you use the kunya Abu Jindal. So a co-worker could call your home, ask for an "Abu Jindal," and be told no one by that name lives there. Your co-workers may not know your true name so any attempts to reach you would end in vain right then and there.
Catholicgauze has encountered this problem already and plans on many more name searches. I can only imagine how people who live in the Middle East manage to work around this kunya problem.
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I find the subtitle:
"lack of a proper naming system" to be extremely infantile.
- Catholicgauze said...
"Proper" as in agreed upon systems allow a culture to grow and thrive. Proper agreements on langauge allow for communication. Where would Western Civilization if English speakers, French Speakers, and Spanish speakers could not communicate with one another if they could not agree on writing or language rules for their own respective language?
The same holds true for names. A buerarctic system such as a state needs to have proper, agreeded upon names for its citizens. Whether a culture/state conducts a census is a sign of centralization and allows for advancement. If one uses multiple names and people cannot successful communicate information concerning other people then advancement is delayed.
People do have a set naming system, as you point out, for official documents there is one official name. The kunya is just a nickname. It might be hard for you to adjust to, but for god sake could you sound any more imperialistic?
A kunya shows affection, much like the Russian diminutive.
Instead of braying for dull Western Mc-uniformity learn something about the world.
- Catholicgauze said...
But my point is there are some who do not use their full birth name at all. Not only have I seen official documents use kunyas only I have met some full grown legally adults who do not know their full legal, birth name. They reverted so much on kunyas that those are their names for all practical sake. When one person uses several kunyas and never their "true legal" name then goverence, communication, and everything else is made so much more difficult. The Iraqi government itself has admitted this is a problem in the "wild" tribal areas.
I am learning much about the world and other cultures but that does not mean I have to accept everything. And before I am accused of being somesort of racist let me make the point there are things about American and global cultures I find odd to wrong with Iraqi Arabic culture being superior in reguards.


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Off FCC complaint gets fast response
"Cingular is not meeting my needs," Winston Barham informed the Federal Communications Commission, "and I wish to be released from my contract." Barham got his wish– not because he complained to the FCC (although that was undoubtedly a wise move), but because he was dogged in his determination to get Cingular's attention.
When Barham filed his FCC complaint on February 23, he had been unable to use his cell phone at his home in Gordonsville for two weeks. This, he claims, was because a nearby tower had gone out on February 8. Barham was leaving town the next day and decided to wait and see whether the problem had been fixed when he returned. It hadn't.
Barham called Cingular customer service on February 13 and claims the representative "informed me that [the outage] was a known issue and being worked on," and said he would put a note on Barham's account. Another week passed with no service. On February 19, Barham went to the Charlottesville Cingular store and spoke to Jessie Goodrich, who, he says, was unable to find any record of either trouble in the Gordonsville area or Barham's February 13 call to Cingular customer service.
"She promised to keep in touch with me about the issue," he wrote in his FCC complaint, but says he never heard from her again– or from anyone else at Cingular. Barham expanded his efforts to resolve the problem on February 22, when he contacted me, and again on the 23rd when he filed his complaint with the FCC.
Last summer I wrote about Julia Blodgett's billing dispute with Cingular during its takeover of SunCom ["Mail call," June 9, 2005]. Blodgett– who claimed she lost service twice in less than seven weeks– switched to another company; ultimately, Cingular dropped charges for calls she was able to prove she couldn't have made or received. In that column, I referred to a July 2004 Consumer Reports survey based on data from the FCC in which Cingular (which had just become the largest U.S. wireless phone company by merging with AT&T) "had a complaint rate nearly four times the rate for Verizon Wireless, the nation's second-largest carrier."
Things haven't changed much, according to the January 2006 Consumer Reports: in a survey of 50,515 subscribers to ConsumerReports.org, Cingular was rated lowest in overall performance among the four major wireless carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Cingular). Respondents graded each company in four problem areas: no service, circuits full, dropped calls, and static.
The same day Barham filed his FCC Form 475 (which is for complaints about "general communications related issues" and can be accessed at fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/FORM475.PDF), his service was restored. Even so, Barham still wanted out of his Cingular contract: "Since Cingular took over SunCom's network in June 2005," he stated in his complaint, "I have been consistently dissatisfied with their service."
For instance, Barham claims that he couldn't get Cingular service at his office in Charlottesville, even though that hadn't been the case with SunCom; he also says this wasn't the first time he'd lost service at home.
I contacted Cingular public relations employee Mark Siegel, who– after repeated efforts on my part to find out what, if anything, was happening– finally put me in touch with a woman in the office of Cingular's president. She, in turn, had referred the situation to Brandon Jones, also of the president's office, who had been playing phone tag with Barham and was about to classify the case closed. Even though he'd never reached Barham, he considered the fact that he'd left three messages enough basis for dismissing the problem.
I urged Johnson to try again, and was happy to learn that Barham would be allowed to leave Cingular, if he chose; otherwise, he would be credited for the no-service periods. The men eventually connected, and Barham will be released from his contract.
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer or write her at Box 4553, Charlottesville 22905.


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The feasibility study should be completed by the end of the year, said Yousef Fakhroo, QPI's global communications manager.
The company, with a broad portfolio of energy investments, is seeking to develop its activities abroad, especially in Africa.
If it goes ahead, the plant would be Djibouti's first industrial-scale wind power facility. The country is keen to diversify its energy mix away from expensive diesel-powered plant.
The Djibouti Electricity Company also has a long-standing agreement with the American-affiliated Maple Indian Ocean Resources to build a 40MW wind and solar plant near Lake Goubet, also west of the capital.
Another, smaller project is under evaluation near the southern town of Ali Sabieh.


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Twitter has opened the lines of communication between celebrities and their fans in unprecedented ways.
And, of course, that's usually not a good thing.
In the hours after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan and sparked evacuations as far away as Vancouver, rapper-turned-actor 50 Cent turned to Twitter to voice his thoughts. And they were, to put it mildly, a tad insensitive.
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"Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing," he wrote after reports claimed the tsunami could wreak havoc on the California coast.
He also showed that, amid the chaos, at least someone was thinking of the hoes: "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoess from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol."
Yes, that's a "LOL."
According to reports, the Twitterverse responded angrily to 50's posts, inundating the rapper's feed with complaints.
His response? "Nah this is nuts but what can anyone do about it. Let's pray for anyone who has lost someone. Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value. Hate it or love it. I'm cool either way 50cent."