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Erin D. Garcia for Style.com
Photographed artist Erin D. Garcia as he put up his new show at HVW8 Gallery for Style.com
Photographed artist Erin D. Garcia as he put up his new show at HVW8 Gallery for Style.com
I was DP and editor on this Been Trill video for PacSun with photographer Nicholas Maggio. Thanks to Jonpaul Douglass for additional camera.
I photographed super producer Jacknife Lee at his amazing Topanga Canyon studio for Billboard, my life goals now include having a yurt someday.
Had the pleasure of shooting some work in Eugene for Nike Running and Nike ID
Shot a little fashion video for Envii out of Denmark
I photographed Peter and Hadley Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute for this month's Architect Magazine. Check out the article here.
Introducing Instagram Direct from Instagram on Vimeo.
I teamed up with my buddy Jonpaul Douglass to take a cross country road trip and shoot a video for Instagram. We followed three Instagram users on their trek from New Jersey to San Francisco, while also introducing the new Instagram Direct feature. Quite an adventure!
Some photos I made for Facebook showed up in the demo for the new messenger. Check it out here to see it in magical retina glory.
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Polar Capital Holdings Plc is an investment management company, offering professional and institutional investors a range of geographical and sector investment opportunities. The company provides entrepreneurial environment for portfolio managers within a structure that offers a level of marketing, administrative and operational support. It offers a diversified family of long-only, long-bias, equity long/short and other fundamentally driven hedge fund strategies under the Polar Capital brand. The company also provides a centralized sales, operational and regulatory platform to support its fund management activities. Polar Capital Holdings was founded by Timothy John Woolley and Brian Jonathan David Ashford-Russell on June 15, 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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The story of Drake as an uncompromising musical visionary is told by Joe Boyd, John Wood, Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Beverley Martyn and more who knew the singer-songwriter.
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Jacob David Sudol (b. Des Moines, Iowa, 1980) writes intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena and the inner nature of how we perceive sound. He currently resides in La Jolla, CA where he is Ph.D. candidate in composition at the University of California at San Diego with Chinary Ung.
Over the last five years some of Jacob Sudol's mentors have included John Rea, Alvin Lucier, Roger Reynolds, Denys Bouliane, Philippe Leroux, and David Dunn. He has also participated in master classes with Helmut Lachenmann, Fred Lerdahl, and Bent Sørensen.
Jacob Sudol has written music for domestic and international performances by many prestigious ensembles and performers including the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Contemporary Keyboard Society, Canadian pianist Xenia Pestova, Taiwanese pianist and composer Chen-Hui Jen, Brazilian percussionist Fernando Rocha, and the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble in collaboration with the McGill Digital Composition Studio. He also frequently performs his own works for instruments and electronics in diverse settings such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the International Computer Music Conference, the University of California San Diego, the wulf in Los Angeles, the MATA Festival, and the Issue Project Room in New York City.
Jacob Sudol has been a studio research assistant for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds since 2007. During the 2005 and 2007 international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques and 2006 MusiMars festivals he was an electronic assistant for performances with Court-Circuit, Martin Matalon, Matt Haimovitz, Sara Laimon, Moritz Eggert, Manfred Stahnke, the Caput Ensemble, and the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble.
During his free time Jacob Sudol takes an interest in religious phenomenology, literature, acoustics, psychoacoustics, visual art, cinema, poetry, and world folk music. As a composer he always attempts to bring insights from these other fields into his work.
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MP3 Blog #115: "Saturne"
Hugues Dufourt: Saturne (1979) For large ensemble of acoustic and electronic instruments Performed by Ensemble L'Itinéraire, Peter Eötvös (conductor) Currently out of print * * * * * In honor of the first lunar eclipse on the Winter Solstice in … Continue reading
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Jacob David Sudol: "The Space Between" (2008) For soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, and live electronics Performed by Stephanie Aston (voice), Christine Tavolacci (flutes), Przemyslaw Bosak (clarinets), Ashley Walters (cello), Jacob David Sudol (electronics/mixing), Robert Zellickman (conductor) * * * * … Continue reading
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Luigi Nono:"Quado Stanno Morendo. Diario Polacco N. 2" For two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, contralto, bass flute, cello, and live electronics Performed by Ingrid Ade, Monika Bayr-Ivenz, Monika Brustmann, Susanne Otto, Roberto Fabbriciani, and Christine Theus Currently out of print Another recording … Continue reading
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Magnus Lindberg:"Ur" (1986)For five instruments and computer controller Yamaha TX-816 SamplerPerformed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Peter Eötvös conductor No longer available commercially
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From Proteopedia
|1a3b, resolution 1.80Å ()
|Thrombin, with EC number 184.108.40.206
|FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum
|save as pdb, mmCIF, xml
The affinity of the hirudin49-64 segment for exosite 1 of thrombin has been used previously to enhance the potency of simple competitive inhibitors [DiMaio, J., Gibbs, B., Munn, D., Lefebvre, J. , Ni, F., Konishi, Y. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 21698-21703., and Maraganore, J. M., Bourdon, P., Jablonski, J., Ramachandran, K. L., and Fenton, J. W., II (1990) Biochemistry 29, 7095-7087.]. Using a similar approach, we have enhanced the activity of two active site directed thrombin inhibitors by attaching this segment via a novel reverse oriented linker to each of two tripeptide boronate inhibitors. At P1, compound 1 contains an arginine-like, isothiouronium, side chain, while compound 2 contains an uncharged, bromopropyl residue. Inhibition of human alpha-thrombin by compound 1 shows slow, tight-binding competitive kinetics (final Ki of 2.2 pM, k1 of 3.51 x 10(7) M-1 s-1, and k-1 of 1.81 x 10(-)4 s-1). The addition of hirugen peptide (20 microM) competes for exosite 1 binding and restores the k1 and k-1 to that of the analogous tripeptide, 0.29 x 10(7) M-1 s-1 and 0.13 x 10(-)4 s-1, respectively. Compound 1 has enhanced specificity for thrombin over trypsin with KiTry/KiThr of approximately 900 compared to the analogous tripeptide, with KiTry/KiThr of approximately 4. Compound 2 acts as a competitive inhibitor (KiThr of 0.6 nM) and is highly selective with no effect on trypsin. Crystallographic analysis of complexes of human alpha-thrombin with compound 1 (1.8 A) and compound 2 (1.85 A) shows a covalent bond between the boron of the inhibitor and Ser195 (bond lengths B-O of 1.55 and 1.61 A, respectively). The isothiouronium group of compound 1 forms bidentate interactions with Asp189. The P2 and P3 residues of the inhibitors form interactions with the S2 and S3 sites of thrombin similar to other D-Phe-Pro based inhibitors [Bode, W., Turk, D., and Karshikov, A. (1992) Protein Sci. 1, 426-471.]. The linker exits the active site cleft of thrombin forming no interactions, while the binding of Hir49-64 segment to exosite 1 is similar to that previously described for hirudin [Rydel, T. J., Tulinsky, A., and Bode, W. (1991) J. Mol. Biol. 221, 583-601.]. Because of the similarity of binding at each of these sites to that of the analogous peptides added alone, this approach may be used to improve the inhibitory activity of all types of active site directed thrombin inhibitors and may also be applicable to the design of inhibitors of other proteases.
Bifunctional peptide boronate inhibitors of thrombin: crystallographic analysis of inhibition enhanced by linkage to an exosite 1 binding peptide., Skordalakes E, Elgendy S, Goodwin CA, Green D, Scully MF, Kakkar VV, Freyssinet JM, Dodson G, Deadman JJ, Biochemistry. 1998 Oct 13;37(41):14420-7. PMID:9772168
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
[THRB_HUMAN] Defects in F2 are the cause of factor II deficiency (FA2D) [MIM:613679]. It is a very rare blood coagulation disorder characterized by mucocutaneous bleeding symptoms. The severity of the bleeding manifestations correlates with blood factor II levels.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Genetic variations in F2 may be a cause of susceptibility to ischemic stroke (ISCHSTR) [MIM:601367]; also known as cerebrovascular accident or cerebral infarction. A stroke is an acute neurologic event leading to death of neural tissue of the brain and resulting in loss of motor, sensory and/or cognitive function. Ischemic strokes, resulting from vascular occlusion, is considered to be a highly complex disease consisting of a group of heterogeneous disorders with multiple genetic and environmental risk factors.[13] Defects in F2 are the cause of thrombophilia due to thrombin defect (THPH1) [MIM:188050]. It is a multifactorial disorder of hemostasis characterized by abnormal platelet aggregation in response to various agents and recurrent thrombi formation. Note=A common genetic variation in the 3-prime untranslated region of the prothrombin gene is associated with elevated plasma prothrombin levels and an increased risk of venous thrombosis. Defects in F2 are associated with susceptibility to pregnancy loss, recurrent, type 2 (RPRGL2) [MIM:614390]. A common complication of pregnancy, resulting in spontaneous abortion before the fetus has reached viability. The term includes all miscarriages from the time of conception until 24 weeks of gestation. Recurrent pregnancy loss is defined as 3 or more consecutive spontaneous abortions.[14]
[THRB_HUMAN] Thrombin, which cleaves bonds after Arg and Lys, converts fibrinogen to fibrin and activates factors V, VII, VIII, XIII, and, in complex with thrombomodulin, protein C. Functions in blood homeostasis, inflammation and wound healing.[15] [HIR2_HIRME] Hirudin is a potent thrombin-specific protease inhibitor. It forms a stable non-covalent complex with alpha-thrombin, thereby abolishing its ability to cleave fibrinogen.
About this Structure
1a3b is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Hirudo medicinalis and Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
See Also
- Skordalakes E, Elgendy S, Goodwin CA, Green D, Scully MF, Kakkar VV, Freyssinet JM, Dodson G, Deadman JJ. Bifunctional peptide boronate inhibitors of thrombin: crystallographic analysis of inhibition enhanced by linkage to an exosite 1 binding peptide. Biochemistry. 1998 Oct 13;37(41):14420-7. PMID:9772168 doi:10.1021/bi980225a
- ↑ Wang W, Fu Q, Zhou R, Wu W, Ding Q, Hu Y, Wang X, Wang H, Wang Z. Prothrombin Shanghai: hypoprothrombinaemia caused by substitution of Gla29 by Gly. Haemophilia. 2004 Jan;10(1):94-7. PMID:14962227
- ↑ Board PG, Shaw DC. Determination of the amino acid substitution in human prothrombin type 3 (157 Glu leads to Lys) and the localization of a third thrombin cleavage site. Br J Haematol. 1983 Jun;54(2):245-54. PMID:6405779
- ↑ Rabiet MJ, Furie BC, Furie B. Molecular defect of prothrombin Barcelona. Substitution of cysteine for arginine at residue 273. J Biol Chem. 1986 Nov 15;261(32):15045-8. PMID:3771562
- ↑ Miyata T, Morita T, Inomoto T, Kawauchi S, Shirakami A, Iwanaga S. Prothrombin Tokushima, a replacement of arginine-418 by tryptophan that impairs the fibrinogen clotting activity of derived thrombin Tokushima. Biochemistry. 1987 Feb 24;26(4):1117-22. PMID:3567158
- ↑ Inomoto T, Shirakami A, Kawauchi S, Shigekiyo T, Saito S, Miyoshi K, Morita T, Iwanaga S. Prothrombin Tokushima: characterization of dysfunctional thrombin derived from a variant of human prothrombin. Blood. 1987 Feb;69(2):565-9. PMID:3801671
- ↑ Henriksen RA, Mann KG. Identification of the primary structural defect in the dysthrombin thrombin Quick I: substitution of cysteine for arginine-382. Biochemistry. 1988 Dec 27;27(26):9160-5. PMID:3242619
- ↑ Henriksen RA, Mann KG. Substitution of valine for glycine-558 in the congenital dysthrombin thrombin Quick II alters primary substrate specificity. Biochemistry. 1989 Mar 7;28(5):2078-82. PMID:2719946
- ↑ Miyata T, Aruga R, Umeyama H, Bezeaud A, Guillin MC, Iwanaga S. Prothrombin Salakta: substitution of glutamic acid-466 by alanine reduces the fibrinogen clotting activity and the esterase activity. Biochemistry. 1992 Aug 25;31(33):7457-62. PMID:1354985
- ↑ Morishita E, Saito M, Kumabashiri I, Asakura H, Matsuda T, Yamaguchi K. Prothrombin Himi: a compound heterozygote for two dysfunctional prothrombin molecules (Met-337-->Thr and Arg-388-->His). Blood. 1992 Nov 1;80(9):2275-80. PMID:1421398
- ↑ Iwahana H, Yoshimoto K, Shigekiyo T, Shirakami A, Saito S, Itakura M. Detection of a single base substitution of the gene for prothrombin Tokushima. The application of PCR-SSCP for the genetic and molecular analysis of dysprothrombinemia. Int J Hematol. 1992 Feb;55(1):93-100. PMID:1349838
- ↑ James HL, Kim DJ, Zheng DQ, Girolami A. Prothrombin Padua I: incomplete activation due to an amino acid substitution at a factor Xa cleavage site. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 1994 Oct;5(5):841-4. PMID:7865694
- ↑ Degen SJ, McDowell SA, Sparks LM, Scharrer I. Prothrombin Frankfurt: a dysfunctional prothrombin characterized by substitution of Glu-466 by Ala. Thromb Haemost. 1995 Feb;73(2):203-9. PMID:7792730
- ↑ Casas JP, Hingorani AD, Bautista LE, Sharma P. Meta-analysis of genetic studies in ischemic stroke: thirty-two genes involving approximately 18,000 cases and 58,000 controls. Arch Neurol. 2004 Nov;61(11):1652-61. PMID:15534175 doi:61/11/1652
- ↑ Pihusch R, Buchholz T, Lohse P, Rubsamen H, Rogenhofer N, Hasbargen U, Hiller E, Thaler CJ. Thrombophilic gene mutations and recurrent spontaneous abortion: prothrombin mutation increases the risk in the first trimester. Am J Reprod Immunol. 2001 Aug;46(2):124-31. PMID:11506076
- ↑ Glenn KC, Frost GH, Bergmann JS, Carney DH. Synthetic peptides bind to high-affinity thrombin receptors and modulate thrombin mitogenesis. Pept Res. 1988 Nov-Dec;1(2):65-73. PMID:2856554


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In Defense of Difficult Clients
by Rob Swan
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A well built solid cabinet would last longer than a cheap one right"¦ even though they may look the same on the surface? But you have to be prepared to pay for it right? Give the customer what he wants inside the budget constraints. If one is not prepared to learn about table less layout then surely you can't afford to charge top rates.
It is true we should question our methods and try to educate however the customers should get what they want.
I'm sure I'll come up with my own style and preference of designing and getting the job done right.
That sounds like a healthy attitude :) Good luck with it. The web develops at such a tremendous rate that we're all WDiT's whether we like it or not! ;)
There's really more to clients then clients that "get it" and clients that don't. I think it was Paula Scher in "Make it Bigger" who talked about there being four essntial client types. Think of a coordiate chart with extremes of smart<
>stupid and meddling<>uninvolved. These two axes cross so that you get four types: smart and excited, smart and uninvolved, stupid and excited, and stupid and uninvolved. I'm paraphrasing the langugage—
I think she was a bit more polite about the terminology—but the general idea stands. Her main point in all of this was was that some of these client types will cost you money. In my experience, the project for a stupid, meddling client will never finish on time or underbudget. While I agree that they can provide practice for understanding good tenets of design, if you have options or can afford to wait for another job to come along, do so. You will lose money (time) on a stupid, meddling client. Stupid and uninvovled is not so bad and would still make for good practice.
Fellow philoso-mo-phizer,
Great article. I can't wait for you to compose "Part II", when you post the comprehensive list of stupid questions clients ask and link to some web pages that pose answers. Then again, most of those links will point back to ALA articles! Good stuff…
Well when you take into consideration the reason we are here doing what we are doing is because of the client it puts a perspective on working with difficult people. However, sometimes you have to weigh the opportunity cost of working with such an individual and sometimes you will find that it actually is costing you money to work for them.
Thanks for the comment, it's spot on. Evaluating the opportunity cost is absolutely crucial in these situations. (I do think there's a tendency for people to hurriedly underestimate the benefits of difficult clients – but it would certainly be a costly mistake to overestimate in a situation like this!)
It seems like, with a few exceptions, we all get the same questions. I wish somebody would make some sort of educational cartoon (Donald in Standardsmagic Land? …not sure if anyone will catch that reference…) so we could just sit the client down in front of a TV and save ourselves the time and hassle.
Because after all, their job is to make our lives easier, right? There's nothing more tedious than a client who doesn't know how to do design websites…


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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp.
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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. provides value added technology based equipment and services for the global rail industry. The company provides products and services through two principal business segments: Freight & Transit. The Freight Segment primarily manufactures and services components for new and existing locomotive and freight cars, supplies railway electronics, positive train control equipment, signal design and engineering services, builds switcher locomotives, rebuilds freight locomotives and provides heat exchangers and cooling systems for rail and other industrial markets. The Transit Segment primarily manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, typically subway cars and buses, builds new commuter locomotives and refurbishes subway cars. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies was founded in November 1999 and is headquartered in Wilmerding, PA.


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get (and use) wizard pro. it will guide you every step of the way, as well as give you the programs you need to successfully, turn any media into dvd.
It's not free:
www.dvdwizardpro.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=235
(If you buy it using the link above you support MovieCodec.com)
There are free alternatives ( search google ) but I think the general issue with these applications is that the free alternatives are harder to use and requires more technical knowledge.
actually, it is free, i downloaded the program myself off of DC++. but if you buy it, its somewhere in the neihborhood of 39.99 i think, but you can google it a find cheaper perhaps?
i am wondering how come i can not watch movies that i downloaded and burned to dvd but i can watch movies that i upload and copy to dvd using 1click dvd. i am using the same blank dvd's the same player etc.
Here's a guide I put together about burning movies to DVD. Includes all different types and the programs you'll need to do it. Feel free to email me with any questions.
You can download this software to have a try! http://www.dvd-creators.net/plato-dvd-creator.html
I have a cyberlink package which came with an LG Burner,
why won't movies burn on 700MB disks, why do I keep getting a file too large error message?
You can use cucu soft dvd burning tools, it is good at burn movie files to dvd
Here is a guide about how to burn DVD movies and make it play on DVD player
How to burn avi/mpeg/wmv/mov to DVD for DVD player
You should try Total Video2Dvd Author for avi to dvd conversions (and many other format types too). In my opinion its the best out there even as a free trial! Also one of the easiest to use.
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You should try Total Video2Dvd Author for avi to dvd conversions (and many other format types too). In my opinion its the best out there even as a free trial! Also one of the easiest to use.
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I am trying to burn downloaded movies so that I can watch them on my tv using windows dvd movies maker but it tells me that every file I try to download is corrupt or invalid. They work fine when burned and watched on my computer though. Any ideas?
do you use a mac? i have a mac, i usually mac dvd creator to burn my downloaded movies to dvd disc to watch on dvd player
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April 4: A citizen called to report a highly intoxicated individual outside a business in the 1700 block of H Street who was having difficulty walking. Officers contacted the subject and provided him with a courtesy ride to his residence.
April 4: An officer contacted a 15 year-old boy at the request of the boy's parents and school employees and discussed an inappropriate remark the boy made in class. The young man expressed regret for his poor choice of words and bad judgment. The incident was handled by the school and documented by police.
April 4: A 15-year-old girl refused to go to school and an officer was dispatched to the residence. The girl's mother transported her daughter to school where she received counseling. The officer spoke with the girl and her mother and determined no police assistance was needed.
April 2: An officer saw a person driving in the 1800 block of Peace Portal Drive who did not have a driver's license. The officer stopped the vehicle, but had to clear for another call before he was able to issue the driver an infraction. The infraction was later issued to the driver by summons.
April 2: While on patrol an officer heard a border patrol agent on foot pursuit of a male on Marine Drive. Blaine officers responded to assist. The subject was caught and taken into custody. During the custodial search he was found to be in possession of approximately six grams of heroin. The subject was processed by the border patrol and then turned over to Blaine police for the drug violation. He was booked into Whatcom County Jail.
April 1: Officers responded to a report of diesel fuel leaking from a parked truck. Officers arrived and called out the fire department and public works. The truck was leaking fuel which was pouring into a storm drain. Fortunately, there was an oil basin in place that was designed to prevent oil from entering the entire system and it was functioning properly. The owner of the truck had the truck removed and will be issued a citation for the spill.
April 1: Officers responded to a two car collision on SR543. A person had attempted to make an illegal U-turn and pulled out in front of another car. One person was transported to the hospital with chest pains. A citation was issued to the driver making the U-turn.
April 1: A woman reported her child had been the victim of an assault as a result of a gum throwing incident that occurred on a school bus. Case under investigation.
April 1: Complainant heard a strange noise coming from a web locker in the 100 block of Marine Drive. It sounded like a human being crying for help. Officers checked the outside of a web locker and heard a cat meowing inside. Access to and from the web locker was available to the kitty cat. The complainant was advised of the outcome.
April 1: A person called dispatch and said she felt that she was going to do bodily harm to herself. The person requested transportation to a facility so she could talk to a mental health official. The transportation was provided.
March 31: A motorist reported six vehicles occupied by young adults were parked at a gas station in the 300 block of D Street. At least one of the passengers was drinking in public. Officers contacted three of the drivers and found they had not been drinking. Their passengers had discarded empty containers before going across the border, and everyone in the group was over the age of 21. The man who had been drinking in public was not identified. The group was allowed to continue on their trip to Canada.
March 31: An officer responded to a 911 hang-up call in the 900 block of E Street where a small child had been heard on the line and found a baby had been playing with the phone. His mom was astonished to learn he had managed to turn on the phone and dial 911. The phone was put out of reach of the little caller.
March 31: According to a complaining parent, a 12-year-old student was suspended from school for harassing another young student. The 12-year-old returned to campus at the end of the suspension and again harassed the youth, threatening to assault him off-campus in Birch Bay. The parent advised the incidents were reported to school authorities who are following up. The parent asked officers to document the incident, but to not take any action.
March 30: Border patrol agents contacted a person who was driving in circles around Lincoln Park and discovered he was a 17-year-old truant. A Blaine officer issued a warning notice for two traffic infractions and advised the Blaine high school principal of the contact.
March 30: A woman in the 1600 block of Peace Portal Drive reported she was involved in a verbal altercation with her adult son. Upon arrival the adult son was preparing to leave. Officers determined that no crime had occurred and cleared with no further action taken.
March 29: Officers responded to a report of a verbal domestic dispute in progress in the 500 block of G Street. Officers arrived and spoke to both parties involved in the dispute. It was determined the argument had been verbal only, and officers cleared without incident.
March 29: Officers were dispatched to a physical domestic dispute in progress in the 600 block of Boblett Street. The suspect fled the scene while officers were responding. Officers located the suspect, and she was arrested after an investigation revealed she had assaulted her boyfriend. The 31-year-old woman was booked into the jail.


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Edelstein: While Islamic State slaughters, West is focused on building in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat says he refuses to apologize for building in capital
Analysis: Netanyahu adopts hopeful tone with US president
Neither PM nor Obama makes Palestinian question top priority
Abbas turns to UNSC to set 2016 deadline for Israeli withdrawal
US says east Jerusalem housing plan 'calls into question Israel's commitment to peace'
Netanyahu's right-wing coalition partners slam premier for backing two-state solution
Netanyahu arrives at White House for meeting with Obama
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Team Anderson Silva fight Nogueira. Competing for the UFC, and his nickname is "The Spider".
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According to an article published in the fight! Magazine, the poverty-stricken mother of Silva left him and his older brother with his sister's family in Curitiba, Brazil, when he was four years old. Aunt and uncle Silva, therefore, found support for five children with the salary of a policeman.
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Silva family could not afford expensive lessons in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from the beginning. "When I started Jiu-Jitsu was really a matter of elite in Brazil, and there was some bias towards the poorest children, so I had to learn things on my own," said the fight! Magazine. "Some of my neighbors started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started looking at it, and then began to roll with them. It was not organized training, but better than nothing."
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Silva MMA career took a nice twist when he won nine straight fights between 2000-03. Along the way, he defeated the highly regarded Hayato Sakurai by the decision to become the Shooto middleweight champion.
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Rich Franklin, Anderson Silva, KO at UFC 64: Unstoppable on October 14th, 2006 at 2:59 mark of the first assault: Before this fight, Franklin thought that the hug would be the sweet spot. Then he and the rest of the world to know that Muay Thai Silva made the whole world over fail in comparison.
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Tip: Use a Loofah to Wash Dishes
Last week I visited Tara Kolla at her home, also known as Silver Lake Farms in Los Angeles. Her backyard is a half acre or so of paradise where she grows flowers, citrus and herbs for herself, for market and for a wonderful artisanal ice cream company called Carmela. More on Silver Lake Farms and Carmela in a future post.
Today I want to tell you about one of Tara's crops and what she suggests we do with it: loofah.
First of all, let's debunk the big loofah myth: it does not come from the sea. Loofah is a squash plant. It grows as a vine and best grown trellised. The squash is picked, dried and skinned. What remains is what you see above and in bathtubs across the world.
Tara has another idea for loofah, and that is to use it to wash dishes. We got one and have been using it all week. It works beautifully on plates and pans. It also is perfect for weaseling down a wine glass.
If you happen to be in Los Angeles, stop by Tara's stand at the Saturday Silver Lake Farmers' Market to buy one of her organic, untreated backyard loofahs. Or, pick one up wherever fine loofahs are sold and try it out in your kitchen sink.
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Amazing. I had no idea that a loofah was a squash.
I've always wanted to grow loofa. maybe I can convince my sister to grow them (She has a yard!) and then steal some to use for dish sponges.
Tara Kolla also grows the most amazing organic peonies!
whoops, not peonies. ranunculus.
This a great idea. I wonder if it will help me end my addiction to those Dobie sponges.
Hmm, I've recently been trying to come up with a way to get rid of sponges in my kitchen. Anyone have any ideas how effective a loofah is at scrubbing up cooked on food? And how long one would last?
Ugh, no way. Loofahs are natural fibers and will harbor bacteria, not to mention all the food that would get caught in them.
i am totally growing loofah this summer. i found out they came from gourds in a children's book!
wouldn't you just zap them in microwave, like you do regular sponges? Seems like you could.
Wonder how long they last - I literally go through one sponge a month. I have no idea what i'm doing to screw them up so much. Sponges are expensive too.
and oooooh, ranunculus are my new favorite flower. I get some from a farmer's market down near 7th and fig on thursdays. Might have to look her up on saturday.
If you cover something with soap would it have bacteria on it?
I've done this -- my parents bought me this penguin loofah scrubber for Christmas. Works great, and it's not bad for scrubbing the dirt off of veggies, either.
Food bits do tend to get stuck on the inside, but if you rinse it out really well, and as someone said above, zap it in the microwave periodically, I don't think it harbors more gunk or germs than your typical kitchen sponge. Not to mention all that dish soap.
I wonder if you could put it through the dishwasher. I put my sponges on the top rack periodically. Seems like you could do the same with these.
I recently started using a loofah to do the dishes so I could get rid of synthetic sponges. My problem is that the loofah doesn't hold soap at all. I end up using a rag to wash the dishes and the loofah just for scrubbing. (Incidentally--it's GREAT for scrubbing!) I can't imagine it would harbor any more germs than a regular sponge would, and you can always disinfect it in the microwave or by boiling.
I've always heard that loofah's harbor LESS bacteria because they dry out so quickly unlike a regular sponge. I often cut a loofah into 2 inch slices and use them as a place to rest my soap.
We recently started using a Twist Loofah Sponge and have found that it's the best of both worlds. It's true, loofah is awesome for washing dishes and scrubbing counters... but it's nice to have a regular sponge every once and a while too.
Have been using natural sea sponges for cleaning for a number of years...the yellow and grass sponge are naturally resistant to bacteria, mold and mildew. The wool sponges are great for the bath (but too soft for cleaning). I also buy raw loofah in 18" lengths to remove love bugs (you have to live in the south-east to know what those are). I get all of this from the Natural Bath & Body Shop. They have great prices too and their shipping is very inexpensive (less that $2.00 for me).
Do you have to live in a warm climate to grow them or can those of us in New England start a crop?
Hi everyone! I used to buy loofah shower mits manufactured with a flat loofah surface on one side and terrycloth on the other. They barely lasted 2 months because the loofah always ripped. I started growing organic loofahs last year and have been using the same one in the shower for 6 months and it's still looking and working fine. Depending on when they are harvested, loofahs can be soft or hard. Soft ones hold soap quite well. Ones that stay on the vine longer (the harder ones) don't but they sure exfoliate well! I use loofahs in the kitchen too to clean human dishes as well as the cats' dishes. When they get grubby, I throw them in the washing machine. I find that when I use a loofah to wipe down countertops, I have to dry the surface off with a tea towel. It's a bit more work cleaning countertops this way but it feels good not using anything synthetic. When the loofah is completely worn to a nub, you can compost it. Talk about a zero waste product! I compost the loofah shells too. I just haven't figured out what to do with the millions of seeds I've kept! If you want some, stop by my stand at the farmers' market! Tara - Silver Lake Farms
can you post a photo of a loofah plant? I can't imagine what it looks like growing.
These kind of sponges are used in small towns in Mexico, because they are cheap and will last forever. My grandmother would boil new ones in order to get them to soften up and then cut them in thirds to make them easy to hold. Most latino grocery shops have them.
I didn't like them much for dishes... work well on skin though :)
My parents started growing loofahs in their small backyard garden in Dallas about 3 years ago. They are super easy to grow, and a word of warning: they take over EVERYTHING! We love this though, as they grow very well in the hot-dry Texas summer, completely over the fence, etc. You just leave them on the vine to dry out all fall (but make sure you bring them inside before a frost, or they will rot!).
We've been using them for just about everything, and yes, they make SUPER dish scrubbers! We do what the above reader said, and cut into 2 inch sections. Much less smelly than synthetic sponges b/c they dry out so quickly.
Loofahs are also great if you put them in a cardboard tube (i.e. Pringles can) and fill with liquid glycerin soap, then when it hardens, rip off the tube, slice (with an electric knife) and you have handmade soaps!
I'm from Indonesia where we eat the squash when they're still young but sometimes we got more on the vine than we can eat, so we let them grow old and dry. Then we simply pick them and use them for scrubber of pots and pans.
When I first saw them in a bathroom in my first apartment that I shared with 2 other girls, I freaked out. I thought who put my mom's pots scrubber in the bathroom and what for. Funny I know but it's true. Out here back in Indonesia, we're so used to seeing loofah next to the sink but never in the bathroom.
My mom used to spank me with it too. It didn't hurt my bottom but it's just shocking that my mom use it to spank me....LOL


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Picking a favourite Martin Sheen role is no easy feat. With more than 80 films to his belt across five decades, Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (according to his passport – Martin Sheen is just a stage name) has body of work stretching all the way back to his 1967 debut as a violent hoodlum in The Incident, and is one of the most respected and gifted actors working today. For this reason and many more, Sheen is the perfect recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming 2013 Dubai International Film Festival.
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Summary: In his most ambitious book to date, poet, musician, wit, and polemicist Bill Holm repairs to his Icelandic cottage to reflect on the United States and what it might learn from the land of his ancestral roots. The book begins with a description of the extraordinary setting of Brimnes, a small fishing village on the Arctic Circle. From his house, Holm captures Iceland's warmth and genuine community, its secularism, pacifism, and love of nature, poetry, and music. Writing of the America to which his ancestors fled only two generations before, he wonders whether the compelling dream of liberty, freedom, and inquiry still animates his native country. For the legions of Bill Holm fans as well as for those yearning for some straight if often comical reflection on the state of America today, this book provides a memorable experience.
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Published on Monday, October 7, 2013 - 1:11pm
A Great Summer for Adults, Teens and Kids
Readers of all ages have been busy at Woodridge Library this summer. From birth to adults, we've had a great group of readers and learners.
- Our kickoff party in early June got the word out to the community.
- The Friends of the Woodridge Library hosted a mega book sale that attracted people throughout the day.
- We had a visit from the Fire Department and Brookland Garden Club.
- Kids planted planted their own herbs, made chalk drawings on the sidewalk while the adults learned about the library's digital resources.
It was a good day to get everyone to start signing up for summer reading.
Our babies, toddlers, and preschoolers participated in the "Read With Me" program. Using a game board and stickers, our little ones and caregivers got ready to learn to read by singing, talking and reading. We had a special visit from Blue Sky Puppets to kick off the fun.
- Children older than 5 participated in "Dig Into Reading" program.
- Local educator Sharon Gaston gave an energetic and musical performance that kids involved in telling the Three Billy Goats Gruff tale.
- Karen Brown got both kids and adults exercising their own creativity with paper crafts.
- Throughout the summer, kids made their own fossils and potato stamps to go along with the Dig Into Reading theme.
- Our Book Club explored different genre and media with their reads. We made our own Vine videos after reading The Adventures of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
- We also wrote our own comic after reading The Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarret Krosoczka.
- Ms. Lizzie also got to visit summer camps at Dance Place, St. Anthony's Summer, and YMCA Calomiris many times throughout the summer.
- The Beat Club teen/youth event at Woodridge Library was a big hit. Our program was featured in the online magazine Elevation DC.
The adults at Woodridge Library responded well when asked to sign up for the summer reading program. We got more than 150 to sign up for summer reading and we received 50 written reviews back. That was a great response from the our community.
Woodridge had many lucky Summer Reading winners. Every child that participated won a free book.
- Jacob, Amber W., Nile, Bintia, Correah, Isabella and David scored tickets to see the Washington Nationals battle the NY Mets.
- Caden M. won a basket of books (hopefully to share with all his older siblings!)
- Rosalie and Miracle read for at least 32 hours to become Super Spelunkers and had their names pulled out of hat for a special free lunch with authors.
- Jayda W. took home the grand prize of an Amazon Kindle Fire.
- Two of our teens, Ryneisha and Ronica, won Beats by Dre headsets and they were thrilled.
- Brenda Williams was our 2013 Adult Summer Reader winner of the Kindle ebook.
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I would like to respond to all the people who are telling the women on here who are "hating" to give these women kudos and do something about their own weight...
I want to say first off that I am a 25 yr old female, good looking, I'm 5'4 135lbs..I'm not some heffer, and i'm sure many of the women making these comments are not obese whales either...
I think the issue most women have with models like this and this type of advertising is that it portrays unrealistic body types and no matter what Victoria Secret claims is advertising aimed towards men, who will see Vic Secret's ads and buy that lingerie for thier women or encourage their women to shop their or towards stupid women who think that a $80.00 bra will make them feel sexier (it wont that feeling comes from within).
I mean if you're trying to sell me a product why not direct the advertising more towards me and most og the other women out there? Most of us are not 5'10 115lbs...why not have beautiful women with more realistic body types modelling this kind of lingerie? How about the Kardashian sisters, as much as I despise them adn their show) they are not stick thin and have curves and me****razy for them. I just don;t understand how they excpet to seel lingerie when all they are doing in their ads is making women feel bad...cos let's face it the media is designed to make us jealous, thereis nothing wrong with jealousy it is normal, but I think in this case the :jealousy factor" sint goig to seel more bras..quite the opposite..it will deter women away.
Sure good for them for keeping in shape but the fact is it's thier JOB to keep in shape, most of us have real jobs that dont involve or allow us to be at the gym 24/7..so really its not good for them they are just doing what is required of them to stay employed...good for the working mom of 3 who can stay that fit my hat goesoff to her.
Bottom line is advertising has to change to reflect the demographic actually purchasing the merchandise and maybe they would sell more bras and the rest of us won't be called "whales" or whatever just cos u can pinch an inch of fat on us
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I think it is so unfair to judge them. Believe it or not, some people are naturally skinny and eating has nothing to do with it! So to say things like "eat" is really offensive and so immature. Being super skinny and eating a healthy diet is possible. I know girls who eat obscene amounts of food (fast food included) and are still slim. What if you told someone that was clearly overweight to not eat? Isn't that the same thing?
I saw the show with my girlfriend... I will say that the VS models are not my type to start with. I like curves and when I look at them, I don't see much of that. The very little breast they have is so pushed up by a bra one or two sizes too small. They are actually quite thin. But that is usually within the acceptable.
This year... sorry, but that was bad. The girls were skeletal... they looked like they suffer from anorexia. Adriana Lima... she really doesn't age well, have you seen her face? She's way too skinny... Don't forget that TV is supposed to give people 10 pounds... eek!!
I don't think they look healthy and I don't find them attractive... if I was a dog hungry for bones, I probably would. Some will say that they work hard... if starving yourself is your definition of working hard. I read somewhere that Lima's diet before a show like this is... no solid food for something like a week, and she doesn't drink or eat anything ~12 hours before the show. Yeah right... that's an healthy lifestyle.
There is sick thin and there's overweight... there's plenty of room between the two and that what the fashion industry should favour.
For others who call these models "whores" and "slu*s", you need to get a reality check. This is what happens with a healthy diet and if you are going to sit in front of your computer being a keyboard warrior and **** and moan, nobody is going to give two sh*ts of what you say or do. Get off your butt and do something about your weight
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The Economics Of Education
An education in economics is more important than ever. So why are there so few classes?
|Last year, Nanakuli High School social studies teacher Dennis Tynan gave
an unusual assignment to his class: pick an issue-any issue-on which the
state government was spending too little or too much money and then write
your legislator, explaining your position. The students were reluctant at
first, unconvinced that they were allowed to do such a thing, but they soon
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Nope. Try economics.
"Some kids got really fired up. The overwhelming majority of the class ended up writing about the need for more funding and infrastructure improvements in the public schools," says Tynan, whose classroom needs a paint job and is missing several ceiling tiles. "They learned that their opinions are important and this is how they can make their lives radically different."
A graduate of Boston College, who majored in history, Tynan is in his second year at Nanakuli. Previously, he taught government and economics in Texas, one of the 14 states that requires the subject for graduation. A self-described history buff, the energetic Tynan says that it is still too early to tell if learning about supply and demand or opportunity costs has changed his students lives. But if piqued curiosity and excitement (for both students and teacher) is any measurement, the course is earning straight A's.
"Students tell me that they never knew what the stock market was before or that they could even buy stocks. Some have said that this class was the most useful they've taken," says Tynan. "Sometimes when I'm teaching history, I wonder, 'Now, how is Teddy Roosevelt relevant to these kids?' But things like banks, there's an immediate connection. How does the system work, and how can I be a part of it? Economics gives these kids power over their own lives."
Tynan was hired by Nanakuli principal Levi Chang, who had wanted to offer an economics class at the school since he first arrived six years ago. His teaching staff didn't have the experience or the time to be trained in teaching economics. But Chang, who was sold on the value of an economics education by a friend and colleague at Farrington High School, made a pledge that one way or another he would have a course offering at Nanakuli within four years. Then Tynan's resume crossed his desk.
Deficit, What Deficit?
"With ATM machines everywhere, credit cards so easy to get and credit-card debt so high, the need for an education in economics is now more important than ever," says Kristine Castagnaro, executive director of the HCEE, a nonprofit educational organization committed to expanding the economic literacy of Hawaii students. "Every single day, kids have to make simple economic decisions."
The kids haven't been doing so well lately.
According to the educational lender Nellie Mae, incoming college freshmen will amass $1,500 in credit-card debt before the end of their first term. They will graduate with more than $20,000 in debt, more than 15 percent of which will be with credit cards. It's not only college students who are on a spending spree. According to the consumer advocacy group Demos, from 1992 to 2001, the youngest adults (18 to 24 years old) saw the sharpest rise in credit-card debt-104 percent-to an average of $2,985. The second-highest increase-55 percent-was among young adults (25 to 34 years old), who also had the second highest bankruptcy rate, just after those ages 35 to 44.
The kids aren't doing well, maybe because they don't know any better. Early last year, HCEE tested 521 seniors in 19 Hawaii public high schools from all seven school districts (see sidebar on page 35). On average, the students answered 53.5 percent of the financial literacy test's 20 questions correctly, down from 59.8 percent in 2003. One result that Castagnaro found particularly troubling was that only 28.7 percent correctly answered the question concerning the budget deficit. The most popular answer (36.7 percent surveyed) was that they didn't know the answer, while 21.5 percent confused the national debt with the budget deficit.
"How can these kids not know what the budget deficit is?" asks Castagnaro. "It's on the news every night."
The state Department of Education requires content standards in economics to be implemented, but does not require a course in economics to be offered at any grade level, nor does it require student enrollment in such courses. As a result, the existence and success of a particular school's economics program usually rests on the shoulders of an individual administrator or teacher, "champions" as Castagnaro calls them. She theorizes that one of the reasons enrollment in economics courses has fallen off the table in recent years is that many of these champions have retired. With compliance to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 shifting the emphasis of many schools to the traditional three R's, it has been increasingly difficult for many administrators to fill the vacancies.
In response to these drastically falling rates, HCEE adopted a resolution last November that every high school student in Hawaii should graduate with some exposure to economics. The resolution, which at first glance seems rather elementary, was actually a revolutionary statement for the organization, which was founded in 1965.
"The DOE has economic problems of its own that are stressing its resources," says Gail Tamaribuchi, HCEE member and director of the Center for Economic Education (CEE), an economic-education training center for primary and secondary teachers. "They have a lot of priorities. If we start making demands, we will turn off the DOE immediately, and teachers bristle when it comes to having another mandate."
Supply and Demand
"When Texas mandated that economics had to be taught in it schools, there were only 15 people qualified to teach the subject in the entire state," says Castagnaro. "Economics majors don't want to become high school teachers."
In addition, the number of teachers taking in-service training in economics has plummeted. Between 1988 and 1991, the CEE served between 350 and 425 teachers annually. That number reached a high of 1,147 in 1993, before falling to 200 in 2001 and 2002.
Creating a demand for economics courses from parents and students is another problem. Most parents took their first economics course (if they took one at all) in college, and probably expect their children to do the same, if they get that far. Chang admits that, when he introduced his first class two years ago, his parents were as surprised as his kids.
But, according to Dick Rankin, HCEE member and economics teacher at Iolani Schools, the world today is a lot different than the one in which many parents grew up. And a lot of older folks have a pretty low financial I.Q. themselves. In 2003, an HCEE survey found that a sampling of Hawaii's workforce, age 16 and over, could only answer 65 percent of the 20-question financial literacy test correctly. Twenty-seven percent could not answer even half of the questions correctly.
"To me it ought to be reading, writing, arithmetic and economics. When was the last time you used an algebra equation to solve a problem? When was the last time you made an economic decision? I made about a dozen before lunch," says Rankin, who was named the National NASDAQ economics teacher of the year in 2001. "Instead, we are just throwing them to the wolves. And you can't rely on the families, because as our tests have shown, they aren't that knowledgeable either. We need to show these parents how bad this problem is. We need to show them that, if there had been education, all these bankruptcies wouldn't have happened."
However, Rankin believes that, while learning the intricacies of personal finance is certainly important, the true value of an economics education is learning new ways of thinking, fostering an ability to make informed choices. Better decision makers make better students and citizens, whether they are buying a CD or a car, or voting for president.
Rankin's arguments are embraced by just about everyone who hears them, parents and administrators alike. But it has been a tough sell nonetheless. How do you implement an economics program system-wide when there are so many demands already? Castagnaro, Tamaribuchi and Rankin all agree that Hawaii's economics education revolution will likely be a slow, steady, grassroots campaign, converting (and supporting) one school at a time. Not unlike what's happened at Nanakuli.
Changing the World One Student at a Time
The principal is in the process of incorporating the subject into the school's Career Technical Education requirements, making economics a two-year program by 2006. Like Tynan, Chang says that it's still too early to tell if the classes have had an effect beyond campus. But he does know two things: not one student has asked to drop the class (a significant event at the school) and Tynan's classroom is filled to capacity.
"Our students need to understand what the Dow Jones is all about, why the New York Stock Exchange is so important. They need to understand what is impacting that dollar in their pocket," says Chang. "Many of my staff thought it would be too difficult for the kids, that it wouldn't work. But here we are in our second year. It's a tough course, but they stick it out, because I don't know a teenager who doesn't get excited about money."
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