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Failure is Okay
Published on - November 30th, 2009 (Modified on - December 29th, 2009) (by J.D. Roth)
This article is the 10th of a 14-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly.
Yesterday, for the first time in my 40-1/2 years on this earth, I went ice skating. Initially, I was scared to try, but I eventually gave in to the taunts from my eight- and ten-year-old friends.
I love roller skating and I'm not too bad at it, but the ice skating…well, it sucked. It took me eight minutes to make it around the rink for the first time, clinging to the wall, my shins in pain. It took me five minutes to make it around a second time. Four minutes for round three.
My first half hour on the ice was an exercise in frustration. I couldn't make it more than a few feet without falling or lunging for the wall. Worst of all, I had to swallow my pride and accept advice from Tristan, Emma, and Harrison, my grade-school guides. (Emma, especially, was keen to skate around with me saying, "You're doing great, J.D.! Good, good.")
This isn't me, but I'm very familiar with that pose…
By the end of afternoon, I could make it around the rink on my own. My steps were shaky and uncertain, but ultimately my personal best was 2-1/2 laps before falling or grabbing the wall. I'll never be an Elvis Stojko (nor even a Tonya Harding), but now I can say I've been ice skating. I could have let my early failures and frustrations get me down. I could have left the ice and said, "I'm not doing this anymore." Instead, I stuck with it. I'm glad I did.
The ability to keep going in the face of failure is critical to success when learning to skate — and when learning to manage your money. Nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes with money every day. I've made tons in the past, and I continue to make them. Here are just a few examples:
- I managed to take on over $35,000 in consumer debt before turning things around.
- I tried (and failed) to repay my debt several times before stumbling on the debt snowball method, which worked for me.
- Before I embraced the idea of index funds, I repeatedly poured money into stocks that tanked.
- When I bought my used Mini Cooper last spring, I let emotion override my better judgment, and ended up paying more for the car (and getting less for my trade-in) than I should have.
I could name dozens of other examples big and small. But the key is every time I realize I've made a financial mistake, I try to learn from it so I don't repeat it in the future. Sometimes I do repeat my mistakes, but I try not to. Instead, I try to fail forward.
Building success from the ashes of failure
In Failing Forward, John C. Maxwell writes that there are seven key abilities that allow successful people to overcome failure instead of taking each setback personally. Successful people:
- Reject rejection. Successful people don't blame themselves when they fail. They take responsibility for each setback, but they don't take the failure personally.
- View failure as temporary. "People who personalize failure see a problem as a hole they're permanently stuck in," writes Maxwell. "But achievers see any predicament as temporary."
- View each failure as an isolated incident. Successful people don't define themselves by individual failures. They recognize that each setback is a small part of the whole.
- Have realistic expectations. This one is huge. Too many people start big projects — such as paying off their debt — with the unrealistic expectation that they'll see immediate results. Success takes time. When you pursue anything worthwhile, there are going to be bumps along the way. And remember: The perfect is the enemy of the good.
- Focus on strengths. This was one of the biggest lessons I took away from Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek. When I interviewed Ferriss last year, I asked him to expand on this idea. He told me: "Focus on leveraging and amplifying your strengths, which allows you to multiply your results. Fix any fatal weaknesses to the extent that they prevent you from reaching your goals, but perfection isn't the path to your objectives; finding ways to cater to your strengths is."
- Vary approaches. "Achievers are willing to vary their approaches to problems," Maxwell writes. "That's important in every walk of life, not just business." If one approach doesn't work for you, if it brings repeated failure, then try something else. Maxwell is saying that to fail forward, you must do what works for you, not necessarily what works for other people.
- Bounce back. Finally, successful people are resilient. They don't let one error keep them down. They learn from their mistakes and move on.
These seven points form a firm foundation for dealing with failure in all parts of life, including personal finance. As you pay off your debt, as you learn to invest, as you cut your spending, accept that some failure is inevitable. But you are not your mistakes. Own them, learn from them, and move on. (And remember: Good habits keep small mistakes manageable.)
It's never too late to change direction, to start making smart choices. If you're 40 and don't have retirement savings, you can start saving tomorrow. If you're 30 and staggering under the weight of credit card debt, you can cut up your cards and make a commitment to change direction. The wonder of the future is that it can be built upon the ashes of the past.
At 40, I can look at who I am and can connect the dots back through my life. Though I regret not saving for retirement when I was younger, though I regret accumulating massive credit card debt, though I regret living a consumerist lifestyle, I see now that these experiences made me the man I am today. Without them, I wouldn't be motivated to help others make smart money decisions. (And let's be clear: I am not advocating that others repeat the mistakes I've made.)
Failure is okay
Every day I write this blog, I'm afraid I'll fail. (At my personal site, I recently said I've experienced "1000 days of doubt" at Get Rich Slowly.) Whenever I do my weekly podcast, I'm afraid I'll fail. And as I've written my book over the past nine weeks, I've been afraid of failure every single day. But I do these things anyhow. I know that if I don't try the things I'm scared of — if I don't risk failure — I'll never succeed.
I wrote about my fear of failure back in June of 2007. I described how I'd spent much of my adult life shackled by fear. But by saying "yes" to the things I'm afraid of, my life has become amazing.
If you've made poor financial choices, don't let them get you down. Don't let them make you afraid to try again. Draw from your experience. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
This is the 10th of a 14-part series that explores my financial philosophy. These are the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. Other parts include:
- Tenet #1: Money is more about mind than it is about math
- Tenet #2: The road to wealth is paved with goals
- Tenet #3: To build wealth, you must spend less than you earn
- Tenet #4: Pay yourself first
- Tenet #5: Small amounts matter
- Tenet #6: Large amounts matter, too
- Tenet #7: Do what works for you
- Tenet #8: Slow and steady wins the race
- Tenet #9: The perfect is the enemy of the good
- Tenet #10: Failure is okay
- Tenet #11: Financial balance lets you enjoy tomorrow and today
- Tenet #12: Nobody cares more about your money than you do
- Tenet #13: Action beats inaction
- Tenet #14: It's more important to be happy than to be rich
Look for a new installment in this series every Monday through the end of the year.
This article is about Basics, Psychology, Self-Improvement
I think we could even say failure is essential. A scientist friend of mine had 78 trials before he perfected a flavor he was working on developing. Each "failure" he said was just a lesson in how to improve his next experiment.
The same is true of personal finances. Our failures teach us valuable lessons. The lesson are only useful if we are paying attention.
I look back over the last ten years and I'm thankful for my failures because they have taught me priceless lessons.
Hi J.D.,
What a great post! It is so important to educate people about failure. Just as you said, "The ability to keep going in the face of failure is critical to success." You provided some excellent points on how to overcome failure. I'd like to add to your post the different ways of defining failure so that people can see "failure" from a different perspective.
These definitions are what I learnt from Dr. Robert H. Schuller's book, Success is Never Ending, Failure is Never Final:
Failure doesn't mean you were dump to try; it means you had courage to explore and experiment to see what would work and what would not.
Failure doesn't mean you don't know how to make decisions; it just means you have to make another decision.
Failure doesn't mean you're a failure… It does mean you haven't succeeded yet.
Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing… It does mean you have learnt something.
Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool… It does mean you had a lot of faith.
Failure doesn't mean you've been disgraced… It does mean you were willing to try.
Failure doesn't mean you don't have it… It does mean you have to do something in a different way.
Failure doesn't mean you are inferior… It does mean you are not perfect.
Failure doesn't mean you've wasted your life… It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.
Failure doesn't mean you should give up… It does mean you must try harder.
Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it… It does mean it will take a little longer.
Failure doesn't mean you're finished… It does mean you have a chance to try something new.
Failure is never final!
And if you're a religious person, here's another one for you from Dr. Schuller:
Failure doesn't mean God has abandoned you… It does mean God has a better idea!
I'm in the process of learning this important lesson. I have a tendency to dwell on my failures and let them define me. Not very productive.
I've gotten better, though.
I agree with Craig; failure is a learning experience as long you keep at the task. If you give up, you've learned nothing.
I've always tried to look at failure as an opportunity to test myself and see what I'm made of. How will I react to this situation and what will I do to get past it? We aren't tested very often, but failure is one of those times where you can truly find out what you're made of when the going gets rough.
A coaching colleague says that the coaching skills either take a client deeper or moves them forward. So, in my mind failure is simply the decision one makes to stay down when things don't go well rather than go deeper or move forward.
Keep up the good work JD!
Small steps in the right direction are still steps in the right direction.
I say, pick a goal and start working at it. If its finances, pick one small habit and change it, like bring your lunch each day instead of buying lunch. That $5/day saved is $25 a week, $100 a month, put that money towards your emergency fund or your debt. Start tracking your spending, a wonderful way to figure out where the money leaks are, cut up the credit cards and switch to debit or cash.
"Fall down 7 times, get up 8."
I really like the ring of that. I have to modify the number to a much higher one, but the meaning behind it holds true; you must always try again and try something different.
As they say, the only way to fail is to stop trying.
"The ability to keep going in the face of failure is critical to success" — truer words were never said. On a very basic level, we'd all still be flopping around on our bellies if it weren't for continuing on in the face of failure: how else does anyone ever learn to walk? It's a part of the process. We can't get anywhere without failure, so why not embrace it?
Timely post – like Brett above, I'm going through this path of failure right now in my career, and it's forcing me to consider carefully what my next steps are. Using the energy of negativity to figure out what next steps are is a Good Thing.
If we never fail, then we simply haven't tried anything new and challenging. What good is a life spent being sheepish and mundane? I'd much rather experience some failures and actually live a life!
Your ice skating experience reminded me of my first skiing experience. It was miserable! But, I kept trying and eventually became an adequate skier for a few years. The lesson learned was keep trying. If you don't succeed, at least you can say you tried your best and move on.
Well said and true as always. Keep going in the face of a recent failure. it gives you another chance at success.
John DeFlumeri Jr
I took my son (2 yrs and 4 months) ice skating for the first time over the weekend. It was pretty special to hold him while we glided around the ice and pick him up when he fell down.
I'm going to add this post to the list of stuff I want him to read when he grows up. I think it's important to always challenge yourself and try new things but fear of failure (or what other people think of you failing) can really hold us back sometimes.
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but one of the most inspiring commentary I've seen regarding failure was a Nike commercial featuring Michael Jordan:
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
– Michael Jordan
I've admitted many of my own failures on this site (such as paying $40,000 for a VW Jetta, and losing $20,000 in a charitable donation tax shelter scam). Mathematically, I would be better ahead without those failures. However, I might've instead just blown the money on other things, without having learned the valuable lessons such spectacular failures have taught me. Those experiences have shaped me and made me a better investor, consumer, and husband.
Part of my motivation for participating in sites like GRS is to try and help pass those lessons on to others, without them having to suffer the devestating blows to their finances. However, the more I think about it, the more I wonder if the actual loss is necessary to truly learn the lesson. Maybe these kinds of things can't be taught – they have to be experienced for yourselves.
Good post.
Great post! And something we're trying to instill in our own child, who is perhaps too used to easy successes, and keep reminding ourselves. It does seem to get easier as we get older and recover from ever more failures. But each failure really is a learning experience.
Great post. Two years ago on the day before Thanksgiving, while surfing the web during a slow pre-holiday work day, I discovered Get Rich Slowly. J.D.'s story struck a nerve with me, as I was in debt more than I had ever been before in my life. I was determined that I would have the debt paid off within two years as well as hit a few other financial goals. Today, Well I am still in debt, altghough no where nearly as much as back then.
Two years ago, I would have considered this as a failure and beat myself up mercilessly. I realize now that you can't just give up if you don't make it work the first time. Where would any of us be if we didn't try someting new and fail? Most of my best learned lessons came from failures.
JD, this post sums up everything I like about your blog. Thanks for putting yourself out there for us!
It is so imperative to our growth that we embrace our failures. As a society we typically handle them all wrong (freeze, fight or flee methods come to mind). If we see and accept our failures, we're learning how to take responsibility. If we don't, we're living in denial and doomed to repeat the same mistakes and never get on our intended course. Failure (for lack of a better word) is a great definer.
I read Failing Forward just recently and it delivers an important message we're just not looking close enough at.
Learning from failure is a great idea — but I'm not sure it is the same thing as forcing yourself to continue to do something that you're not good at or aren't enjoying. It may be that JD will never enjoy ice-skating, and of course he doesn't have to.
Recognizing when to give up on something and move on is hard, because it can mean accepting changes that are not what one hoped for (I'm thinking especially in relationships, or in recognizing that a particular career path won't work for you: how long should one try for an acting career or look for a college teaching job?)
Hey J.D.,
The opposite of success isn't failure, it's giving up.
Failure is simply finding out what doesn't work. The faster we fail, the sooner we find what does work and achieve results. We fail often to succeed faster (hope me linking to an article I wrote isn't spammy… just thought it's relevant and helpful to the topic)
Plus, failure is a natural part of doing things too. We all suck at first, so the only way to get better at something is to just keep failing, learning what works, and doing that. Over time, we get better, do the thing more effectively, and achieve greater results.
Here's to frequent calculated failure to succeed faster,
Hey, don't dis Tonya Harding! She was a great skater, that whole knee-bashing incident aside.
As ironic as it sounds, sometimes failure can lead to the best. Maybe you failed and can learn some things from it, or learn what went wrong and how to fix it for next time. Always put a positive spin on it and try to work harder the next time.
Failure is a funny thing. We all forget that before we learned to ride a bike (or walk), we failed over and over again! And if we didn't, we'd all be crawling.
Luckily, the most influential people in our history never let failure hold them back. Some (if not most) of them failed over and over again (maybe they didn't beat themselves up over it). Everybody fails sometimes, Benjamin Franklin (arithmetic), Abe Lincoln (too many to list), Albert Einstein (school), etc. The list goes on and on. The trick is never to give up or let it slow you down!
It took me a long time to learn that lesson… I hope I can teach it to my kids!
Dear J.D.:
That is how we learn in life. If we run from failure we will never learn. If we don't learn, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we waste our lives.
I say we should invite failure to our lives. That does not mean failing on purpose, but it means taking chances and being ready for consequences.
Failure makes life exciting and interesting. If you don't fail, then you either are a god or a just plain lazy.
31 years ago I went on a first date with my now husband. First (and last) time ice skating. I thought the hardest was just getting to the ice! I think they put the benches closer now!
I agree, failure is the best tool to success. But everything in moderation.
Great article! Some of my favorite failure-related quotes are:
"One who fears limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again." – Henry Ford
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Oliver Goldsmith
"To get out of a difficulty, go through it." – Samuel Easton
"It is difficulties that show what men are." – Epictetus
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." – Richard L. Evans
This struck a cord. I'm an engineer and in one of my former jobs, it was my responsibility to troubleshoot manufacturing problems. A second part of the role was figuring out how to do something when it's never been done before (invention).
My method was simple. 1) List out all the things that could potentially be the solution 2) Start eliminating the things that aren't it.
You make the best guess at what's most likely the solution and start working your way through the list.
Every dead end could be seen as failure, but in reality, it's one step closer to your answer.
I love what you wrote, "I know that if I don't try the things I'm scared of — if I don't risk failure — I'll never succeed." This is so completely true of all things we want to gain and move forward with in life. I love today's post. Thank you for sharing your insights. And keep skating!
If you want a lesson about failure and perfection take up cross stitching. Its next to impossible to follow every single instruction, threads tangle, stitches have to be taken out, and patience is required to continue towards the end goal. But after everything is said and done, no one sees the back of the fabric where there are 10 tangled strands of thread, or where you accidentally miscounted and added an extra three stitches to the end of a row. The only thing that anyone notices is that you finished the project, and that it might have a bit more character than was originally planned.
Thanks for the timely post. I failed to study for the LSAT this year and hence wasted money paid for registration (I registered for December 5, 2009!). I'll re-register for June, I have established a study schedule to see me through the process. This failure will be my propellant to the next level.
Sandy L., I really like your perspective on failure. I place far more value on discovering the things I don't want or need in life, than the (very) few things I am sure I do want/need. This applies to issues of career, relationships, and life goals.
The things I don't want in my life serve as beacons from which to keep a distance, so that I can continue down the road of life in the direction of the things I do want — many of which I haven't discovered yet.
JD, I've enjoyed your site for a while, but I will love you forever now that you've made an Elvis Stojko reference.
Great post! This is something that I need to remind myself of often. Many times I don't want to try new things because I'm afraid to fail – when in reality it's because of failures that I've learned the most.
I too could cite examples of money failures and have used those to learn from. I wouldn't be able to relate to others in my job (financial planning) if it weren't for past mistakes.
As long as we are learning from them – failures can be great stepping stones!!
I'm glad it's OK because I've had my share. My best approach now is to make fewer of them. I definitely need to learn from them. Otherwise, failure has done nothing for me.
This is extremely timely for me…. I just succumbed to some shopping temptation, and spent $47 on three things. But I used some of my savings to cover this, savings that's set aside specifically for spending on things I find and would like to have. (And decide there's a space they fit in in my life that isn't filled by something else.)
I'm also going to be tackling an over-inflated credit card bill this month. I've sworn that I will pay it off and not pay any more interest to this card, and it's looking like about $200 will need to come from some already-depleted savings accounts to help cover it. (Savings not related to the aforementioned account.) I feel like we've backslid a lot because of it, but we've managed to tame our budget extremely temporarily to cover the expense.
In fact, I'm optimistic that some of the cutting back will stick, and we'll be able to save more going forward, even if it feels like a setback right now.
If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving isn't a good idea, just make sure your failures don't have too steep of a learning curve that when you fail first you can survive it.
Your learning to skate, at a ice rink, with people, if something happens no biggie, good, learning to skate at the back pond by your self and if you fall and break your leg you freeze before you are missed, bad.
Investing a small part of your savings in stocks when young, could be good, someone thats 65 and drops it all on one stock, and has no background in it, bad.
I'm always attracted to discussions of failure. It seems to me that if one is succeeding more than failing, then one isn't taking enough risks in life – or else, you're way more perfect than anyone I know.
Failure is tough – but it takes us where we need to go.
Oh, that shin pain! It's so intense and I don't know how to avoid it! I've never been a good or fast ice skater, but it IS fun to do every now and then. Have you roller-skated at Oaks Park? That is an amazing old-school experience.
JD, great post! I recently started a personal finance blog after being inspired by blogs like yours. Since starting I often find myself feeling frustrated with my writing skills, but I know if I push through those moments I will get better. I think the weak give up, so as long as you keep putting one foot in front of the other you can't lose.
@Kevin, that Jordan quote is one of my favorites as well.
Great Job JD –
It reminds me of a paper I had to write for my economics final on the elasticity of demand – I chose to find out what makes cat food sell. (I just got a cat! go figure)
So off the the library and coming the stacks for lots of statistics, journals, and assorted other information. Back to the lab and pour all this stuff into the model we were using (kinda a geek class too) and voila – I write my paper finding that of all the items I researched I did not find the answer as to how to increase demand and hence what sells cat food.
The Prof GAVE ME A F! LOL very wrong for the Prof as I then went up to the Prof an told her that there is big money knowing what not to chose!
She sat there and listened and then reversed the decision to a A+. She indicated that no one ever presented the paper in the same manner.
So my two cents – failures are good learning tools.
I don't know what it is about ice skating but even though I consider myself a fairly athletic person as I have played college basketball, fought competitively as a kickboxer, and also played high school soccer there is just something about ice skating that has always been very embarassing for me!
It's great to read posts like this because they inspire me to keep going. I think that reflecting on past mistakes is one of my biggest downfalls, and I struggle daily to get over things I've done a long, long time ago.
It's good to see that not only can it be done, but you can be financially successful in spite of it.
JD, very inspirational post!
Professionally I teach companies how to use a Lean Management approach in business which is modeled after the Toyota's famed Toyota Production System.
Routinely when our companies begin a major project we use a Daruma Doll to symbolize their commitment. The Daruma story includes the concept that in life we often encounter failures but we persevere to overcome them. Literally we use the saying "Nanakorobi Yaoki," translated to mean seven times down, Eight times up.
These concepts that you shared so eloquently are core to the success of so many corporations that have applied these principles including Ford, Toyota, Boeing, Nike and now even Starbucks.
And you are correct this perseverance is applicable and beneficial to one's personal life as well.
Keep up the great work!
All day since reading this I've had "Pick yourself up" from _Swing Time_ going through my head. A very inspiring tune for a very inspiring post.
and just dancing no lyrics:
JD, I love that you're from Portland, but I REALLY loved the Tonya shout out in this post!
I'm in the process of taking what is turning out to be a big risk at work, and I'm loving it! Regardless of how the "higher ups" measure this experiment, to me it's already a success. Wouldn't have done it without you having my back.
This article was just what I needed today! Thank you!
I have often thought that taking criticism well is key to success also.
But then there's the "dark side' we don't want to think about (courtesy of Emily Dickinson):
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed…
Failure is something that our society nowadays cannot even consider being a good thing.
It's a foreign concept to us that failing could actually be a good thing and have good results, such as learning from your mistakes and forcing a person to consider other solutions and alternatives.


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(2) Children's services
The term "children's services" means the provision on a routine or regular basis of health, day care, education, or library services—
(A) that are funded, after January 8, 2002, directly by the Federal Government or through State or local governments, by Federal grant, loan, loan guarantee, or contract programs—
(i) administered by either the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of Education (other than services provided and funded solely under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq., 1396 et seq.]); or
(B) that are provided in indoor facilities that are constructed, operated, or maintained with such Federal funds, as determined by the appropriate head of a Federal agency in any enforcement action carried out under this part,
(4) Person
The term "person" means any State or local subdivision of a State, agency of such State or subdivision, corporation, or partnership that owns or operates or otherwise controls and provides children's services or any individual who owns or operates or otherwise controls and provides such services.
Source(Pub. L. 89–10, title IV, § 4302, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IV, § 401,Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1773.)
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The Child Nutrition Act of 1966, referred to in par. (2), is Pub. L. 89–642, Oct. 11, 1966, 80 Stat. 885, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 13A (§ 1771 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1771 of Title 42 and Tables.
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I hope that you are all enjoying spring. It has been a busy year for the HIV/AIDS
Section this year. Thanks to those of
you who completed the membership survey that we distributed this past
winter. We have compiled the results and
are working to implement changes to reflect the needs of all of you. It was quite evident from the responses that
you would like more communication from your Section leaders. As a result, we have decided to implement a
monthly e-mail with information of interest to our members, but also to create a
listserv so that we can share information quickly and easily. See below for how to become a part of the
listserv. It is hard to believe that the Annual Meeting is only five months away. I look forward to seeing all of you in D.C.
Take care,
APHA Annual Meeting
The 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition will take place in
Washington, D.C., from Oct. 29 – Nov. 2. Registration and Housing are now open. Early bird fees will be available
until August 19.
HIV/AIDS Section Social at Annual Meeting
Since this Annual Meeting marks our 10 year Section Anniversary, we are
having our social at La Tasca on Tuesday, Nov. 1, from
7-10. We will have plenty of food and
drinks for everyone. La Tasca is located
two blocks from the convention center so it is close to all the convention
hotels. Please attend this special event
as we will be honoring past chairs, leaders, and members.
HIV/AIDS Listserv Directions
To become a member of the listerv (yahoo group), send an e-mail to email@example.com
This group is by invitation only, so once you send an e-mail to the
above address, please put "Add me to the List" in the subject line as well as
provide your e-mail address and name.
Once you have done this, you will receive an e-mail from firstname.lastname@example.com
instructing you on how to get signed up.
I encourage folks to take part in listserv activities by passing along
information related to funding opportunities, research briefs, policy briefs,
job announcements, etc. This is only open
to HIV/AIDS Section members, so please make sure that information is of
interest to members with an interest in HIV/AIDS.
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Registration is now open for the APHA 139th Annual Meeting
and Exposition in Washington, D.C., Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2011. More than
1,000 cutting edge scientific sessions will be presented by public health
researchers, academicians, policy-makers and practitioners on the most current
public health issues facing the nation today. For registration and more
information about the Annual Meeting, visit www.apha.org/meetings.
Our Section will have a strong presence at the meeting. View
the sessions sponsored by our Section in the interactive Online
Program (http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/webprogram/start.html
). Search the program using keyword, author name or date. Don't forget to visit
the Section and SPIG pavilion in the Public Health Expo next to Everything APHA
to speak to a Section representative.
Need-based scholarships available for students to attend Annual Meeting
APHA is proud to announce the availability of need-based scholarships,
sponsored by External Medical Affairs, Pfizer Inc., for student members to
attend the 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., from Oct.
29-Nov. 2, 2011. Twelve students
will be granted registration and up to a $500 stipend to use toward food,
lodging and transportation. An
additional four students will be given Annual Meeting registration only. Recipients of the scholarships will be chosen
based on financial need and their essay submission. As
part of the award, students will be strongly encouraged to attend at least one
Section business meeting. Please inform
the student members of your Section about this unique opportunity! Visit: www.apha.org/meetings/registration/scholarship
for complete details and application.
Please contact Pooja Bhandari at firstname.lastname@example.com with any
Update on APHA Book Publications – June 2011
I am very pleased to announce that there are a number books in
production as well proposals for books that have been accepted and work on them
is under way. Furthermore, several
authors of current products will be available to sign their books at the Fall
APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
APHA members of all Sections are encouraged to use existing, new and
emerging products in their academic courses. These resources are also very
relevant to policy, prevention, advocacy and client care initiatives. Please
encourage your colleagues to use these timely and evidence-based
resources. Go to the APHA website to
find out more: www.aphabookstore.org
We are also looking for new proposals for books. If you have an idea
for a book, please send a few paragraphs describing the idea, intended audience
and your qualifications to Nina Tristani, Director of Publications, APHA,
Thank you for supporting APHA Books and promoting these products.
Norman Giesbrecht, PhD, Chair,
APHA Publications Board
o Environmental Health
and Racial Equity in the United States, Authors: Robert D. Bullard, PhD;
Glenn S. Johnson, PhD; and Angel O. Torres, MCP
Books at Printer in June
• Megacities and
Public Health, Omar Khan, MD, MHS
• Public Health
Management of Disasters, 3rd edition, Linda Landesman
Books Currently in Production
• Injury Prevention
for Children and Adolescents: Research
Practice, and Advocacy, 2nd edition,
Karen D. Liller, PhD
• School –Based Health
Care, Terri Wright, MPH and Jeanita Richardson, PhD
Books in Development
• Control of
Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition
• Control of
Communicable Diseases Lab Book
• Compendium of
Methods for the Examination of Foods, 5th Edition
• Caring for Our
Children, 3rd edition
• Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 22nd edition
• Communicating Public
Health Information Effectively is now on Kindle.
Co-sponsored Books
Jossey-Bass: Emerging Infectious Diseases published in April 2011.
Jones and Bartlett Learning books to be published before the 2011 Annual Meeting: Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Essential Case
Studies in Public Health: Putting Public Health into Practice, Global Health
101, Field Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Epidemiology in Women's
Health, Essentials of Health, Culture and Diversity, Epidemiology of Chronic
Disease, Introduction to Air Pollution Science, and Essentials of Program
Planning and Evaluation.
APHA is also co-publishing with Wiley,
Designing Healthy Communities by Richard Jackson. The book is a companion to a PBS series to
air this fall.
The 2011 APHA Annual Meeting theme "Healthy Communities Promote
Healthy Minds and Bodies" gives APHA members an opportunity to build on
the 2009 and 2010 themes of Water and Social Justice as public health
Green Goals. The APHA Food and
Environment Working Group, the Environment Section's 100th Anniversary
Committee, and APHA are setting goals to reduce waste and promote a
sustainable, just, and healthy food and water system. Got Trash? We encourage everyone
at APHA 2011 to increase efforts to reduce trash, especially paper and plastic.
The Diversion Rate (the
recycling/trash ratio) in D.C. the 2007 APHA Annual Meeting was 34 percent. The Diversion Rate in Denver the 2010 Annual Meeting was 52.75 percent. Can we achieve a Diversion rate of 75 percent at APHA 2011?
-- The D.C. Convention Center's
water fountains and food service sinks provide filtered water! Bring your own
refillable bottle to the conference to cut down on plastic waste.
-- Plan events using local
resources and services that encourage wise use of water and other resources. If
you need advice or suggestions, contact us: email@example.com
-- Buy food sourced from sustainable
producers and distributors.
-- If using disposables, use compostable products and use the facility
compost program. Label containers so
compostables do not go into the waste stream.
-- Take advantage of the D.C. Convention Center's Green Initiatives:
-- Learn more about APHA 2011 Environmental Initiatives:
Be an ambassador of public health and social justice in your own
community. Share information about the social justice, public health and
environmental problems caused by bottled water and water privatization,
especially disposable plastic water bottles.
Use the "Resources and References" below and on the Food and
Environment Working Group's Facebook page:
Share ideas for waste reduction at the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting's programs, scientific
sessions, events and exhibits. Send your
questions and suggestions to Ellie Goldberg at firstname.lastname@example.com and join
the conversation on the Food and Environment Working Group's Facebook page
If you would like to work with us toward these goals, contact Rebecca
Klein, email@example.com, Working Group membership is open to all APHA members.
Resources and
Bottled Water Myths
Bottled Water: Get the Facts
Blue Gold, Maude Barlow
Film: http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/
These are exciting times when considering the many ways our
transportation systems impact health and equity in our
communities. Congress extended the current federal surface
transportation bill until Sept. 30, 2011, and Congressional committees are aiming to draft a new transportation bill before
this latest extension ends.
Want to learn more about the connections between transportation, equity
and health? View our archived webinar
series, subscribe to the monthly transportation and health eNewsletter
that offers an array of new events and updates, and download the newly-released
online public
health and transportation toolkit
and accompanying resources today.
We also invite you to send a message
to your members of Congress urging that they ensure that strong public health
provisions are included in the federal surface transportation reauthorization.
For more information, visit http://apha.org/transportation.
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""Buying a pop-up book is a lot like starting a party with tequila shots: you know up front that things aren't going to end well."
i facebooked the SHIT out of that.
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Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar Rare Pic, just after his trial in Delhi and before his departure for exile in Rangoon. He is the only Mughal emperor to be photographed.
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Okay, I did an ALPHABET OF PICTURE BOOK MAKERS. Stumped on 'x'... do the X-Men write their own stories? For 'n' and 'q' I cheated and used first names, but I see you did the same, Minh. I was also not fussy about whose name went first, author or illustrator.
So here goes:
A- Archambault, John & Bill Martin Jr
B- Barnett, Mac & Adam Rex
C- Child, Lauren
D- Donaldson, Julia & Axel Scheffler
E- Escoffiër, Michael & Kris Di Giacomo
F- Fogliano, Julie & Erin Stead
G- Gomi, Taro
H- Hallensleben, Georg & Ann Gutman
I- Isol
J- Jeffers, Oliver
K- Klassen, Jon
L- Lobel, Arnold
M- MacCaulay, David
N- Norton Juster & Jules Feiffer
O- O'Leary, Sara & Julie Morstad
P- Page, Robin & Steve Jenkins
Q- Quentin Blake & Roald Dahl
R- Riddell, Chris
S- Sendak, Maurice
- Steig, William
T- Tan, Shaun
U- Ungerer, Tomi
V- Van Allsburg, Chris
W- Wheeler, Lisa & Sophie Blackall
Y- Yolen, Jane & John Shcoenherr
Z- Zwerger, Lisbeth & H.C. Andersen
I love it! I thought about trying a picture book focused author alphabet but was afraid to dive in--great job!
Is it any coincidence that the first pair did an alphabet book... BOOM, BOOM!
... and I see a typo. Sorry, it should be "Schoenherr" with Yolen.
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Whenever I read The Runaway Bunny to my kids I hear Liam Neeson's voice in my head: "I don't know why you're running away. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for junk food I can tell you I don't have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career as a Mama Bunny. Skills that make me a nightmare for runaway bunnies like you. If you come home now, that'll be the end of it and I will give you a carrot. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will hug you."
Book Riot recently ran another reader poll about what books people pretend to have read and asked me to help with some of the accompanying graphics, knowing that I can't resist the chance to make a venn diagram.
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Some links:
Everybody is a Librarian consciously or otherwise. The Almighty creator is a Librarian. He put like things together. This issue is discussed in detail in the EYE magazine - Department of library and Information Science. University of Nigeria, Nsukka.Or see http://www.unn.edu.ng
Commando171379. UNN.
If you don't think picture books can be considered literary fiction, that Harold and the Purple Crayon is strictly child's play, then a few minutes with Mac Barnett may change your mind. The author (whose works include Chloe and the Lion and Extra Yarn) speaks passionately about his craft and has strong opinions about the power and potential of children's literature. After hearing him at a recent picture book panel in DC (where he held court on everything from metafiction to skeomorphism), I decided to track him down for a few questions.
Loved Amelia Bedelia as a child and love Zooey Deschanel now!! What a perfect combo! Thanks for this article, great read.
With Gatsby finally about to hit theaters, I couldn't resist putting together another mash-up. CLICK HERE for the full post at Book Riot.
Great list here from all the BookRiot contributors. My choice for the month was:
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
There's a great passage early on in Giovanni's Room that's incidental to the plot, but provides key insight into the main character, David. He's describing a car crash in which he was the drunk driver, but he tells his story completely in the passive voice: "something weird happened to all my reactions", "the car sprang suddenly out of my control", and finally "a telephone pole, foam white, came crying at me out of the pitch darkness". Through this narrative alchemy, David manages to separate himself from the responsibility for his actions. He didn't so much cause the accident as the accident happened to him. As the story unfolds, you see David repeatedly rely on this self-preservation tactic. He may feign self-loathing as he wreaks havoc on the lives of those around him, but whether he is steering friends into a tree or driving his lover toward tragedy, in his mind David is never truly at fault—he is merely the victim of circumstance.
My request to the universe: Louis CK reading Catcher in the Rye. Please? Somebody?
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This is awesome and somewhat totally mindblowing. Via Brain Pickings:
"Sylvia Plath — celebrated poet, little-known artist, lover of the world, repressed "addict of experience", steamy romancer … and children's book author? Given my soft spot for lesser-known vintage children's books by famous literary icons, I was delighted to discover The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit (public library) — a charming children's story Plath penned shortly before having her first child. Though her journals indicate it was written on or immediately before September 26, 1959, it wasn't until March of 1996 that the tale saw light of day with its first — and only — publication, featuring wonderful illustrations by German graphic designer and artist Rotraut Susanne Berner."
Plath also published the picture book, THE BED BOOK, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. It rhymes and it's actually a pretty good book in the tradition of Mary Ann Hoberman's A HOUSE IS A HOUSE FOR ME. It looks like Sir Quentin Blake illustrated a later UK edition of the book, too.
Through the magic of Instagram, the average person with a cellphone camera can take a normal picture and add depth, grit, and even a sense of made-to-order nostalgia. Now imagine an app that would let you apply this same capability to literature. Something that would allow you to–with just a few swipes on your smartphone–take a pedestrian piece of prose and instantly transform it into something more memorable.
For example, let's take "The Hunger Games." Its popularity is unquestioned, but it was not particularly renowned for the complexity or beauty of its language. What if we could take a passage from this book and apply some preset filters to approximate a more classic style?
Book Riot asked contributors to choose the best book we read this month. My choice was A. M. Homes' "The Safety of Objects", but you should go check out the full post--lots of good stuff there.
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It's that time of year again when I find myself brooding over the smoking wreckage that is my NCAA tournament bracket, wondering where it all went wrong.
And inevitably, there's someone out there who filled out their bracket based on some random criteria (uniform color, mascot fierceness, campus with the best food courts french fries), and I can only watch in horror as they dance their way to victory.
So as we head into the Final Four, I'm taking this time to reevaluate the field based on an equally random factor: the literary connections of the remaining schools.
Maybe this will provide clarity in the face of the madness — and perhaps next time I'll head to the library instead of the sports page before making my picks. I definitely can't fare any worse than I did this year.[Click here for full text]
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"Writing is a safari, dammit," exclaimed the teacher. "It means going out there and spotting, nabbing, and bringing home to the cage of the page the most marvelous living stuff of the world."
Timothy Robinson sat right in front of the teacher. He was doodling scenes from Conan in the margins of his notebook.
"But those cages are small and expensive," the teacher continued, searched, groped, not knowing quite what she was talking about.
Conan's pectorals were like concrete slabs and in Timothy Robinson's margins Conan's biceps and triceps had begun to make his arms look like large croissants. Now he suddenly was getting sunglasses. Now striped thighs.
"Don't bring back any dim-witted mooses," she said. "Don't put a superfluous dumb cluck of a line in your poem." She had used her lifeboat simile in the last class: A line is like a lifeboat--only a limited number of words get to go in it and you have to decide which word-lives are most valuable; the rest die.
It was ridiculous, but the only thing she could think of to say.
When no one said anything in response, she stared out into the center of the room and said, "So, Tim. How the f--k is Conan?"
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Two of the year's most highly anticipated events are the The Great Gatsby movie and the return of Arrested Development. To fill the void until their release dates, let's see what happens when the Great American Novel meets the Great American Family.
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Last August, Michelle F. Rodriguez wore a slinky silver tank top and a pair of slim black capris to her high school reunion. "People were complimenting me all night. They couldn't believe I was the same person," says Michelle, a 23-year-old office assistant and fitness instructor in Warren, Michigan. Just five years ago she weighed 190 pounds, rarely exercised and spent most of her time munching on high-fat snacks.
Growing up in a Detroit suburb, Michelle was always heavy. "I never played sports, so I didn't get much exercise. I spent a lot of time watching TV and eating junk," she admits. By her high school graduation she was 5'4" and weighed 150 pounds.
In the fall of 1995, Michelle was a freshman at Central Michigan University. Homesick, she turned to food for comfort. "I would eat only one 'real' meal a day -- usually pizza or a sub from the cafeteria -- but I stuffed my face day and night with chips, cookies and candy." By the end of the school year, she weighed 190 pounds and wore a size l6.
Her wake-up call came on Christmas Day 1997. "There was tons of food. I ate two huge meals and snacked nonstop. I was sick all night. When I finally stopped throwing up, I told myself something had to change."
Michelle decided that the key was to start slowly. Her first step was to drink more water to curb the urge to snack. "I was used to putting something in my mouth every five seconds, so I needed a substitute," she says. To monitor her portion sizes, she began to keep a food diary. She also joined a gym close to work and began walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes five times a week. By July 1998 she had lost 25 pounds.
She started taking step aerobics and was so enthusiastic (and mastered the routines so quickly) that her instructor urged her to get her certification. She passed the test in September 1998. By the following March she was teaching six classes a week and had lost another 30 pounds. She added a weight-lifting routine, which helped her firm up, and by August 2000, she had reached her current weight of 130.
Currently, Michelle juggles her day job with her busy teaching schedule. She hopes to pursue a degree in exercise science -- and maybe open her own gym someday. "I can't believe how quickly my life has changed," she says. "For the first time ever, I feel really good about myself. I can honestly say I've never been happier!"
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After 10 successful years, Kids In Glass Houses have decided to call it a day.
This comes as no easy decision as Aled explains..."It's a surreal and daunting moment when you realise that you're contemplating bringing to an end something that has given you unquantifiable joy and satisfaction, and that is so personal that it embodies who you are or have been perceived as for so long.
"The band have had an incredible run which spans over 10 years. They've had chart success with multiple albums/singles, sold out numerous tours, toured with incredible bands and travelled the world doing what they do best. It's a sad but an exciting time in the KIGH camp and no doubt their fans will be feeling the same.
Aled goes on..."It's not an easy void to comprehend filling, but I think now is the right time for us to do it. We're all unified in this belief and excited by the prospect of ending things in the best possible spirit at the end of the year. We've known this day was coming for quite a while and have done our best to make sure that the next few months are as memorable as those years that have come before. I really can't thank everyone who has supported us enough.
"To coincide with the tour the band are producing exclusive Smart Casual and Dirt T-shirt, Vinyl and screen print ticket bundles. These are available now (26th Feb) for pre-order from http://www.kidsinglasshouses.com
The South Wales quartet started in 2003 and saw success on the strength of the singles "Give Me What I Want" and "Saturday" off their debut album Smart Casual in 2008. They released their second album Dirt early 2010, which saw the band releasing four singles from this, most notably "Matters at All". The band's third album, In Gold Blood, was released on 15 August 2011. Their fourth album, Peace, was released on 30 September 2013 through Transmission Records which mid weeked in the UK Official Charts Top 20.
Kids In Glass Houses are – Aled Philips (Vocals), Iain Mahanty (Guitar) , Joel Fisher (Guitar) , Andrew Sheehy (Bass) and Phil Jenkins (Drums).
Phil finishes with..."The October tour will be the last for Kids In Glass Houses. However sad that sounds, the whole idea behind this split is to make most of 2014, truly enjoy what we have & give the band an honorable send off. Let's celebrate."
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Who will win the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE? Back To The Moon For Good tells the story of teams around the world that are competing for the largest incentivized prize in history by landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon for the first time in more than 40 years. To win the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a team must land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, navigate 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images and data back to Earth. This global competition is designed to spark imagination and inspire a renewed commitment to space exploration, not by governments or countries – but by the citizens of the world. Narrated by Tim Allen.


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From Proteopedia
|1c0g, resolution 2.00Å ()
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|1c0f, 1dej
|FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum
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Replacement of residues 228-230 or 228-232 of subdomain 4 in Dictyostelium actin with the corresponding Tetrahymena sequence (QTA to KAY replacement: half chimera-1; QTAAS to KAYKE replacement: full chimera) leads to a higher Ca(2+)-activation of the regulated acto-myosin subfragment-1 ATPase activity. The ratio of ATPase activation in the presence of tropomyosin-troponin and Ca(2+) to that without tropomyosin-troponin becomes about four times as large as the ratio for the wild-type actin. To understand the structural basis of this higher Ca(2+)-activation, we have determined the crystal structures of the 1:1 complex of Dictyostelium mutant actins (half chimera-1 and full chimera) with gelsolin segment-1 to 2.0 A and 2.4 A resolution, respectively, together with the structure of wild-type actin as a control. Although there were local changes on the surface of the subdomain 4 and the phenolic side-chain of Tyr230 displaced the side-chain of Leu236 from a non-polar pocket to a more solvent-accessible position, the structures of the actin chimeras showed that the mutations in the 228-232 region did not introduce large changes in the overall actin structure. This suggests that residues near position 230 formed part of the tropomyosin binding site on actin in actively contracting muscle. The higher Ca(2+)-activation observed with A230Y-containing mutants can be understood in terms of a three-state model for thin filament regulation in which, in the presence of both Ca(2+) and myosin heads, the local changes of actin generated by the mutation (especially its phenolic side-chain) facilitate the transition of thin filaments from a "closed" state to an "open" state. Between 394 and 469 water molecules were identified in the different structures and it was found that actin recognizes hydrated forms of the adenine base and the Ca ion in the nucleotide binding site.
Structural basis for the higher Ca(2+)-activation of the regulated actin-activated myosin ATPase observed with Dictyostelium/Tetrahymena actin chimeras., Matsuura Y, Stewart M, Kawamoto M, Kamiya N, Saeki K, Yasunaga T, Wakabayashi T, J Mol Biol. 2000 Feb 18;296(2):579-95. PMID:10669610
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
[GELS_HUMAN] Defects in GSN are the cause of amyloidosis type 5 (AMYL5) [MIM:105120]; also known as familial amyloidosis Finnish type. AMYL5 is a hereditary generalized amyloidosis due to gelsolin amyloid deposition. It is typically characterized by cranial neuropathy and lattice corneal dystrophy. Most patients have modest involvement of internal organs, but severe systemic disease can develop in some individuals causing peripheral polyneuropathy, amyloid cardiomyopathy, and nephrotic syndrome leading to renal failure.[1][2][3][4]
[GELS_HUMAN] Calcium-regulated, actin-modulating protein that binds to the plus (or barbed) ends of actin monomers or filaments, preventing monomer exchange (end-blocking or capping). It can promote the assembly of monomers into filaments (nucleation) as well as sever filaments already formed. Plays a role in ciliogenesis.[5]
About this Structure
1c0g is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens and Tetrahymena thermophila. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
See Also
- Matsuura Y, Stewart M, Kawamoto M, Kamiya N, Saeki K, Yasunaga T, Wakabayashi T. Structural basis for the higher Ca(2+)-activation of the regulated actin-activated myosin ATPase observed with Dictyostelium/Tetrahymena actin chimeras. J Mol Biol. 2000 Feb 18;296(2):579-95. PMID:10669610 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1999.3467
- ↑ Haltia M, Prelli F, Ghiso J, Kiuru S, Somer H, Palo J, Frangione B. Amyloid protein in familial amyloidosis (Finnish type) is homologous to gelsolin, an actin-binding protein. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1990 Mar 30;167(3):927-32. PMID:2157434
- ↑ Maury CP, Alli K, Baumann M. Finnish hereditary amyloidosis. Amino acid sequence homology between the amyloid fibril protein and human plasma gelsoline. FEBS Lett. 1990 Jan 15;260(1):85-7. PMID:2153578
- ↑ Ghiso J, Haltia M, Prelli F, Novello J, Frangione B. Gelsolin variant (Asn-187) in familial amyloidosis, Finnish type. Biochem J. 1990 Dec 15;272(3):827-30. PMID:2176481
- ↑ de la Chapelle A, Tolvanen R, Boysen G, Santavy J, Bleeker-Wagemakers L, Maury CP, Kere J. Gelsolin-derived familial amyloidosis caused by asparagine or tyrosine substitution for aspartic acid at residue 187. Nat Genet. 1992 Oct;2(2):157-60. PMID:1338910 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng1092-157
- ↑ Kim J, Lee JE, Heynen-Genel S, Suyama E, Ono K, Lee K, Ideker T, Aza-Blanc P, Gleeson JG. Functional genomic screen for modulators of ciliogenesis and cilium length. Nature. 2010 Apr 15;464(7291):1048-51. doi: 10.1038/nature08895. PMID:20393563 doi:10.1038/nature08895


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text: WinRAR - What's new in the latest version Version 5.11 1. WinRAR can unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers. Previous versions failed to unpack them. 2. "Keep broken files" extraction option is supported for 7-Zip archives. 3. Bugs fixed: a) WinRAR 5.10 did not set "hidden", "read-only" and "system" file attributes when unpacking ZIP archives; b) WinRAR 5.10 failed to update self-extracting RAR archives containing nested ZIP archives stored without compression; c) ZIP archive created with "Do not store paths" option included unnecessary empty name records for folders; d) archived files could have 1 hour modification time error in Windows XP; e) deleting a file in RAR5 solid archive containing files stored with -ver switch caused such files to lose version information; f) black rectangles were displayed instead of toolbar buttons in 16- and 24- bit screen color modes and Windows custom text size larger than 100%. Version 5.10 1. Added extraction support for ZIP and ZIPX archives using BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression. 2. Added extraction support for 7z split archives (.7z.001, .7z.002, ...). 3. Added support for AES-NI CPU instructions allowing to improve RAR encryption and decryption performance. 4. Default theme images are scaled up with better quality in high DPI display mode. 5. Environment variables, such as %temp%, can be used in "Files to add" field of archiving dialog. 6. Switch -ai can be used when creating RAR archive, so predefined values, typical for file and folder, are stored instead of actual attributes. Previously this switch could be used only when extracting. Version 5.01 1. RAR 5.0 archives can include an optional quick open information controlled with -qo[-|+] switch or "Quick open information" options group in archiving dialog. It allows to open the archive contents in WinRAR faster. This version provides better update performance for archives containing both quick open information and service records, such as NTFS file security. Also default parameters of quick open information are optimized to achieve faster open time for such archives. 2. Bugs fixed: a) "Find" command could fail when searching text string in .7z archives; b) when opening RAR 5.0 archive with encrypted file names stored in another such archive, WinRAR could issue an erroneous message that password is incorrect. It happened only if passwords to inner and outer archives were different. It did not affect extraction, all files could be unpacked regardless of this message; c) option "Use for all archives" in password dialog did not suppress additional password requests for RAR 5.0 archives with encrypted file names; d) WinRAR address bar did not process correctly environment variable based paths, such as %temp%; e) storing NTFS file security and alternate data streams did not work for file pathnames longer than 260 characters; f) "Test" command could erroneously report damaged data in valid recovery record if only a part of files in RAR 5.0 archive was tested. It did not happen if entire archive contents was tested; g) "Test" command erroneously reported errors when verifying RAR 4.x Unix symbolic links; h) WinRAR "View" command did not work for files inside of BZIP2 archives; i) if "High precision modification time" option in archiving dialog was turned off, WinRAR did not store the modification time at all instead of storing a lower precision time; j) destination paths containing .\ or ..\ component did not work when extracting non-RAR archives in WinRAR command line mode; k) WinRAR failed to unpack multivolume CAB archives. Version 5.00 1. New RAR 5.0 archiving format. You can use "RAR 5.0" option in archiving dialog or -ma command line switch to create RAR 5.0 archives. Older software including older WinRAR versions is not able to decompress RAR 5.0 archives, so if you plan to send an archive to other people, it is necessary to take the compatibility issue into consideration. You can select "RAR" instead of "RAR5" option in archiving dialog to create RAR 4.x archives compatible with previous WinRAR versions. 2. Changes in RAR 5.0 compression algorithm: a) maximum compression dictionary size is increased up to 1 GB in 64 bit WinRAR. 32 bit WinRAR version can use up to 256 MB dictionary when creating an archive. Both 32 bit and 64 bit versions can unpack archives with any dictionary size, including 1 GB; b) default dictionary size for RAR 5.0 is 32 MB, typically resulting in higher compression ratio and lower speed than RAR 4.x 4 MB. You can use "Dictionary size" archiving dialog option or -md


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Where and When will the Parade be, I need to make sure I can be there!
so we're driving in from Vegas for the game on Wed.
would love to be able to park somewhere along the way and take metro in....which would be the best/easiest/safest stop to leave our car and get up to the stapler?
I live almost exactly where the 405 & 101 meet so I could easily hop right onto the freeway to head downtown but was wondering if it would be much faster if I drove to the NoHo metro station (about a 20 min. drive) and then took the red line to 7th/Metro and the blue line to the Pico station? Thanks for your help.
Some people on here prefer just walking the 4 blocks from 7th Street to Staples instead of transferring to the Blue or Expo Line. Both are good -- it's a personal preference thing.
Definitely taking the Metro BlueLine if we see a Game 6 (hope not...)
For Game 4 I took a half day off work (I work in Irvine) and drove up, exited the 110 freeway at MLK and headed up Figueroa. Nightmare.
Here's what happened:
- gridlock anywhere within a mile of Staples Center
- no event parking on restaurant row (Figueroa from USC to I-10)
- the independent lots on Figueroa were either full or not taking trucks/SUV's (no love for my F-150)
- one of the larger independents had been bulldozed, no parking there
- I drove around and all the Staples Center/Convention Center lots were full or taking only season parking passes
- finally wound up on Olympic and found a spot in the Downtown Car Wash...$50 but they had me by the hockey pucks
- in all, I spent over an hour driving around looking for parking
- during the drive-around, I passed the Metrorail tracks several times and saw that the trains appeared unaffected by the gridlock
If we have to go thru a Gm. 6 Monday night I'm certainly taking the train, probably from Wardlow
I'm going to try and watch the game at my dad's place downtown, but I don't want to go anywhere near staples in my car. Any advice on a spot to park on the outskirts of downtown from which I can easily get to Pico/Grand on bus/rail? I'm coming from Glendale.


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Tonight's edition of "Newark Today," our monthly call-in show with Mayor Cory Booker, will feature a discussion with Police Director Garry McCarthy. City officials weren't exactly celebrating the fact that murders were down in 2007 (98, as compared to 106 last year) but they made the point that crime, across the board, was down in the city, too. Tonight, we'll talk about the specifics of crime data and what the city thinks made the numbers fall last year. We'll also talk about upcoming programs the city says will further reduce crime in 2008.
The program airs at 8 p.m. on 88.3 fm and wbgo.org. We're taking your calls (1.800.499.9246) and emails (firstname.lastname@example.com). try to join us. Otherwise, you can hear the program, on demand, at wbgo.org/newarktoday. - David Cruz
IAJE Evening 1 - Lionel Loueke
January 10, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: audience participation, bassist, blue note, constitution hall, Discovery, gala concert, gregoire maret, harmonica player, IAJE 2008, international flavor, Jazz Alive, jumping the shark, karibu, lionel loueke, Live Music, live performance, metro toronto convention, metro toronto convention center, musicality, nemeth, new york voices, seven teens, thirst, toronto convention center
I'm interviewing guitarist Lionel Loueke at noon, so I'm jumping the shark a bit. But Loueke closed the Gala Concert. After New York Voices, about 80 percent of the audience poured out of the Metro Toronto Convention Center's Constitution Hall. Those with a thirst for adventure (or simply no restrictions on bedtime) stayed for Lionel's trio. They are formerly known as Gilfema - Loueke, the Swedish/Italian bassist Massimo Biolcati, and Hungarian drummer Ferenc Nemeth.
They opened with the title song from Lionel's upcoming Blue Note release, Karibu. For the Swahili challenged, that means "Welcome."
Another live performance from the trio. This is called "Seven Teens." Don't bother trying to tap your foot or count the 17 beats per measure. Just enjoy listening to it.
The set ended with a little surprise. Lionel added to the international flavor of the band (not to mention the already-high musicality) with an invitation to harmonica player Gregoire Maret. And for lagniappe, let's throw in a some audience participation.
IAJE Evening 1 - New York Voices and Pac-Man
January 10, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: brazilian dreams, chicago winter, claudio roditi, craftsman, crowd, gala concert, greatest fan, harmony sound, iaje, IAJE 2008, institutions, jazz, john coltrane, Live Music, new york voices, pac man, paquito d rivera, rendition, snow samba, trumpeter, vocal harmony
I'm not the greatest fan of New York Voices, because I can't get beyond that vocal harmony sound. The rest of the planet loves it. I don't. But I absolutely respect what they do. Because they do it so well. You can always find New York Voices performing at one of the country's venerable jazz institutions, Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsman's Guild. Their latest CD, A Day Like This, is Grammy-nominated. And they are a crowd favorite at IAJE. They're also first-rate educators, and members of IAJE.
Shows you how much I know...
New York Voices played to a packed house for the IAJE Gala concert. Among the highlights was a vocalese rendition of John Coltrane's "A Moment's Notice." They call it "Noticing The Moment." Listen for yourself:
New York Voices - Noticing The Moment (A Moment's Notice)
In the middle of the set, they invited one of the IAJE Gala honorees, Paquito D'Rivera, for a couple of songs from a previous album, Brazilian Dreams. After Pac-man told a story about how he and trumpeter Claudio Roditi wrote "Snow Samba" during a Chicago winter, they launched into it.
New York Voices and Paquito D'Rivera - Snow Samba
If you want more of that, the New York Voices and Paquito D'Rivera are playing the Blue Note in New York on Monday night. - Josh


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UNDATED (WSAU) Want to see Brett Favre in purple with your own eyes? It might not cost as much as you think to attend Monday night's game in Minneapolis between Brett Favre's Vikings and his former Green Bay Packers.
Brokers at Ticket King are selling nose-bleed seats as low as 65-dollars. And other prices are coming down, as the available supply of tickets out-paces the demand. They say it's because the Twin Cities has a glut of major sporting events this weekend, and they're spreading the entertainment dollars a lot thinner. Those events include the Badger-Gopher college football game at the new T-C-F Stadium. And the Minnesota Twins are playing their final three games ever at the Metrodome before moving outdoors next year.
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