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In 1987, a young Layne Luna decided to train for a state bodybuilding contest and then never followed through.
"I didn't get to do it, and I blame myself for not doing it," Luna said in a recent interview. "I was 22 at the time and it bothered me that I never got to compete in the event. It stuck with me over the years knowing I could of, would of or should have done it and what might have happened."
Luna, now 48 and a Keaau High School video and special education teacher, chalked up the experience as "unfinished business" until he turned 45 and started training again.
"This time, I had more discipline, I started eating correctly and watching my diet," Luna said. "And Naea Lindsey started coaching me. He's a master of using carbs, water and other training and diet techniques to get you ready for competition.
"Naea cooks his own food without sodium, and he does everything all natural. He really helped get me ready and Sodie Kabalis — 'The Guru of Bodybuilding in Hilo' — gave me some great advice. Sodie has won a lot of bodybuilding titles and knows the right way to train and diet."
On June 15, a sleek and confident Luna competed in the 2013 Ikaika Bodybuilding Championships at the Neal Blaisdell Arena Concert Hall in Honolulu. Since there was no masters division, he participated in the middleweight novice division against mostly contestants in their 20s.
"I was 165 pounds and not as big as some of the other guys who were 175 pounds or more," Luna said. "But bodybuilding is not about just size, it's more about symmetry and how you look. I tried to do more of a classic pose, not a hulking pose."
In preliminary judging, Luna found himself competing against guys 20 years younger, but he felt good on stage.
"I had lost 60 pounds in seven months," he said. "And I felt Naea and Sodie helped get me ready. I entered the competition just for fun and to see what happened. But it was intimidating being there."
Luna then felt an emotional rush when he was named the winner of the middleweight novice division.
"After all of those years of feeling I was a failure, I cried and all that weight that I carried all of those years for not competing the first time was lifted off my back," Luna said. "I also earned the best poser award, and then went to thank all of the other competitors."
During his time in front of the crowd in the divisional judging, Luna posed to the song "All in Love is Fair," sung by Cecilio & Kapono.
"It's a beautiful song," he said. "I was filled with emotion and all that I was going through at that time. I cried and I could see some of the people in the crowd were crying, too."
Luna then went up against all the division winners for the top overall winner.
"I stayed strong throughout and took pride in what I was doing," he said. "I was not the overall winner. But when I was posing, I could see all the other guys on stage and decided to take a step back and let them pose off.
"Naea told me to get back in there, but I was satisfied with first place in the middleweight novice division and the best poser award. I wanted to give those other guys a chance to show their hard work. And I hope to keep on training and hopefully come back in 10 months — and maybe win all three awards."
Luna also wore his "good luck" red trunks for the finals, taking a suggestion from his daughter, Hillary, who was a wrestling champion at Hilo High School and winner of the 2012 Miss Teen Lehua Hawaii scholarship pageant.
"Hillary wore red in the pageant and felt it was good luck," Layne Luna said. "I wore gold trunks in the preliminary judging, and then switched to red in the finals."
But regardless of the trunk colors, it was Luna's dedicated training under Lindsey that prepared him for his memorable time on stage.
"I'm thankful for all Naea did," Luna said. "He gave me a chance to be a different person. He helped make me an athletic champion in this sport. It was a lot of training and eating the right way. To get ready for the state championships, I trained every day, twice a day, for two weeks heading into the event.
"Naea coaches at Penn Gym and is one of the most valuable trainers/coaches in the sport, especially in dieting. I've been training with him for three years and haven't been sick one day."
"During my training, I ate chicken breasts, veggies and sweet potatoes every single day," Luna said. "I had to stay on a strict diet and for months, I couldn't go wild eating on Thanksgiving, Christmas and those other special days. I had to stay low in fat, low in sodium, and high in carbs. In dieting, it's everything in moderation and eating the right things for your body."
Since winning the middleweight novice division on Oahu, Luna, who is also a fine artist who does murals for museums, said Lindsey wants him to add six pounds and move up to the open masters division.
"To do that, it would take me a year to add those six pounds," Luna said. "I'm still deciding what I'm going to do. But I may go back to train for health. It's a different mindset training for a competition."
No matter what happens, Luna took care of his unfinished business from over two decades ago and now can move ahead knowing that anything is possible with the right mindset and hard work.
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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – The Business Platinum Card from American Express OPEN
Today, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Jason Steele looks at two popular Amex business cards to determine which one offers the best rewards.
The American Express brand has long been synonymous with both travel and business use, so it makes sense that Amex offers a variety of business credit cards that earn travel rewards. In this post, I want to compare two of those cards that come with the most features: Business Gold Rewards Card and the Business Platinum Card from American Express OPEN.
Benefits Common to Both Cards
Both of these cards include the following travel insurance, purchase protection, and business management features:
- Earn Membership Rewards points — These points can be transferred to miles with 16 different airline programs or points with three different hotel programs. You can also transfer to Plenti from MR.
- Charge card — These cards are actually charge cards instead of credit cards, meaning that you're expected to pay each month's statement balance in full, but you also have no preset spending limit.
- Purchase protection — Your eligible purchases are covered against accidental damage or theft for 90 days (up to $1,000 per occurrence with the Business Gold Rewards card, and $10,000 with the Platinum card). For more information, see my post on Everything You Need to Know About Amex Purchase Protection.
- Extended warranty — Your purchases will receive one additional year of warranty service on purchases with warranties of 5 years or less.
- Baggage insurance — Gold cardholders will receive up to $500 worth of insurance for lost or delayed checked bags ($1,250 for carry-ons), while Platinum cardholders will receive up to $2,000 for checked bags ($3,000 for carry-ons) when traveling on any common carrier such as aircraft, trains, ships or buses.
- Premium roadside assistance — This benefit will dispatch and pay for emergency automotive services up to four times per year, including changing a flat tire, jumpstarting a battery and towing your car up to 10 miles.
- The OPEN Savings program — This program offers automatic discounts of 5% or 2x Membership Rewards points when you make purchases from Hertz, HP and FedEx.
- Account Manager — While most credit cards only allow the primary cardholder to make inquiries or changes to the account, this service lets you easily designate employees or other individuals who can manage your account with either full or limited access, making it easier to delegate tasks like reviewing statements, adding authorized users, making payments and disputing charges.
- ReceiptMatch — This tool allows you to manage expenses from either your desktop or mobile device by entering receipts, tagging transactions and adding notes to your statements. You can also sync this data with QuickBooks.
- Employee card features — To help you earn rewards from your employees' spending while mitigating the risk of fraudulent transactions, Amex small business cards allow you to limit the purchases of authorized cardholders and set real-time alerts.
In addition to the benefits above, each of these cards has its own unique offerings. Here's what you'll get, including current sign-up bonuses and annual fees.
The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN
Current Public Offer: Earn 50,000 Membership Rewards points after you spend $5,000 in purchases on the card in the first 3 months of card membership. Note that you might be able to find a targeted higher offer by using CardMatch or visiting americanexpress.com.
Benefits: Earn 3 points per dollar in one category of your choosing (airfare purchased directly from airlines, advertising in select media, gas stations, shipping or computing, including computer hardware, software and cloud computing purchases made directly from select providers). Earn 2 points per dollar in each of the other four categories. Bonus points are limited to $100,000 in eligible purchases in each category each per year, 1 point per dollar thereafter. Earn 2 points per dollar on eligible purchases from the American Express Travel website, and 1 point per dollar on all other purchases. Note that all categories except for airfare is only applied to U.S. spending. No foreign transaction fees.
Annual Fee: $175 (waived for the first year)
Authorized User Details: $50 (waived for the first year) for the first authorized cardholder, and no fee for additional cards.
The Business Platinum Card from American Express OPEN
Current Public Offer: For a limited time, earn up to 100,000 Membership Rewards points; earn 50,000 points after you spend $5,000 in purchases on the card within your first 3 months of card membership and an additional 50,000 points after spending an additional $10,000 within the first 3 months. Again, be sure to check for targeted offers that may have a higher sign-up bonus, such as those at CardMatch or americanexpress.com.
Benefits: Earn 1 point for every dollar you spend on eligible purchases, and earn 50% points back on eligible purchases made when booking on the American Express Travel website. Receive complimentary access to over 700 airport lounges in three different programs: American Express Centurion lounges, Delta Sky Clubs (albeit without guest privileges and only when flying Delta) and Priority Pass lounges (most of which are outside of the United States). Get unlimited Boingo Wi-Fi at more than 1 million Boingo hotspots and 10 complimentary GoGo in-flight Internet passes per year. Receive a $200 airline fee credit each calendar year, and a $100 fee credit for Global Entry or TSA PreCheck every five years. You'll also get Gold Elite status from Hilton HHonors and Starwood Preferred Guest, as well as upgraded status from Avis, National and Hertz. Access to Amex Concierge. No foreign transaction fees.
Annual Fee: $450
Authorized User Details: Additional cardholders cost $300 each, and receive lounge access, another Global Entry credit, an additional 10 GoGo passes, and status with SPG, Avis, National and Hertz.
Which Card Should You Get?
At first glance, the Platinum card with its $450 annual fee seems like a less wallet-friendly choice than the Business Gold Rewards card, which has a lower fee of $175 that's waived for the first year. Dig a little bit deeper, however, and you'll see that the Platinum card closes this gap with its valuable fee credits. Cardholders can expect to receive the $200 airline fee credit each calendar year, which adds up to $400 in the first cardmember year.
When you add the $100 Global Entry fee credit (which you can use toward your own membership or toward someone else's application), you're looking at $500 of direct savings during your first year in return for the $450 annual fee. Throw in the Wi-Fi passes and the extensive lounge access, and you have plenty of value for most business users to justify the annual fee for your second cardmember year and beyond. Both cards waive now foreign transaction fees, so regardless of you card, you can get added value from this perk.
Making the Case for Business Gold Rewards
So would I recommend the Platinum card to all business users? Not quite. The Platinum card offers excellent perks, but if you're not likely to make use of those perks, the Business Gold Rewards card offers superior earning potential.
For example, anyone who travels domestically on most trips (usually on nonstop flights) may not have much use for lounge access here in the US unless they're in the habit of arriving at the airport very early, or encounter frequent delays. Those who travel internationally in premium cabins also won't need lounge access, since it's typically included with those fares. Additional lounge access may also be unnecessary to Delta Diamond Medallion members, or those who hold premium credit cards from American, United or Delta.
As for the fee credits, there are plenty of business travelers who never check a bag or need to purchase in-flight food or entertainment, although change fees are nearly unavoidable. In addition, most savvy business travelers already have Global Entry, so the application fee credit isn't good for much other than a gift for someone else.
The best case to be made for the Business Gold Rewards card over the Platinum card is with the opportunities for earning bonus points. There are plenty of small business owners that can make use of the 3x and 2x bonus categories, and the $100,000 annual cap (in each category) is pretty accommodating. If you get anywhere close to maximizing those bonuses, the value of the points you earn will dwarf the $175 annual fee.
Depending on the size and nature of your business, you might consider getting both cards: the Business Gold Rewards card for spending in bonus categories, and the Platinum card for all of its valuable perks. By examining your business needs, you can choose the best combination of cards to maximize your award travel possibilities.
Which of these two cards best suits your business needs?
Though the Business Gold Rewards card doesn't have the benefits package of the more premium Business Platinum Card, it also doesn't have that card's $450 annual fee. In fact, the $175 annual fee on this one is waived the first year, so getting it is like a risk-free trial of its benefits plus it comes with appealing bonus spending categories like 3x on the category of choice and a range of 2x spending categories as well.
- Special Offer: Earn 50,000 Membership Rewards® points after you spend $5,000 in purchases on the Card within your first 3 months of Card Membership
- Get 3x points - Choose 1 out of 5 categories
- Plus, 2X points on the 4 remaining categories and 1X points on other purchases
- 3X and 2X apply to the first $100,000 in purchases in each of the 5 categories per year, 1X point per dollar thereafter
- Track, organize, and stay on top of your business expenses with powerful expense-tracking tools
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Microarray analysis of clinical samples has provided useful insight into the biological processes and diversity of cell types in complex diseases that includes systemic autoimmune disease. Analysis of tissues such as skin, tumors and peripheral blood cells allows the quantitative characterization of the diversity in sample phenotypes as well as the biological pathways that are deregulated in the disease. The analysis of tumors has demonstrated its ability to quantitatively and reproducibly separate tumors into subtypes with different prognoses, to identify pathways deregulated in the disease and to reveal infiltrating cells. Application of microarray technology to scleroderma skin biopsies, isolated scleroderma cell lines and peripheral blood samples has shown that it will be an important tool for understanding the diversity in rheumatic diseases, as well as changes to the underlying gene expression pathways. In this core, we will use proven methods that have been developed and already successfully implemented in the core Pi's laboratory to analyze skin biopsy samples and peripheral blood mononuclear cells taken from patients with systemic sclerosis and normal controls. High quality RNA will be prepared, hybridized to Agilent technologies whole-genome DNA microarrays by established protocols. Using these established methods, the core Pi's lab has hybridized more than 1000 Agilent microarrays over the past three years. All microarrays are normalized using standard methods and analyzed using a combination of algorithms that include testing for differential expression and pathway analysis. The goals of this core are:
Aim 1. Generate quality controlled DNA microarray hybridizations for each sample and process the resulting data using a standard analysis pipeline. Each sample will be hybridized to Agilent 44,000 element DNA microarrays, scanned on an Axon Instruments GenePix Scanner and submitted to a research microarray database.
Aim 2. Analysis of the resulting data for differentially expressed genes, gene expression signatures predictive of clinical endpoints and deregulated pathways.
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Hendershot, Cannon, Martin & Hisey, P.C.
Business and Family Law Firm in Texas(713) 783-3110
Hendershot, Cannon, Martin & Hisey, P.C. serves clients throughout Texas, nationwide and internationally. They adeptly handle a wide variety of complex, sophisticated legal matters in such diverse areas of the law including: administrative law, business and commercial law, construction...
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The Law Offices of Ned Barnett
Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer(713) 222-6767
The Law Offices of Ned Barnett, located in Houston, Texas, specialize in criminal defense. The firm is led by Ned Barnett, a fourth generation lawyer who has been recognized by the state of Texas as a criminal law specialist. Our firm is qualified to defend your legal rights against...
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Johnson, Johnson & Baer, PC
DWI/DUI & Criminal Defense Attorneys in Houston, Texas(713) 222-0400
Johnson, Johnson & Baer, PC is located in Houston, Texas and proudly serves all of Harris County, Fort Bend County, Montgomery, and Brazoria County. The law firm specializes in criminal defense including DWI, DUI, and other alcohol-related cases. The attorneys have dedicated their...
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Gordon, Elias & Seely, LLP
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Baker & Hostetler, LLP
Full Service Business Law Firm(713) 751-1600
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Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P.
Strategic Litigation for a Complex World(713) 623-0887
In business, it's how you handle the rough spots that defines your ability to succeed. Today's business leaders need lawyers who understand today's courtroom, today's juries, ADR, appellate strategies, and even the media. They want lawyers who are high-energy and flexible, who are...
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Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Full Service International Law Firm(713) 759-9555
Located in downtown Houston in the Houston Center complex, the office plays a key role in the firm's international energy practice, particularly in Latin America. Established in 1992, the Houston office attorneys have counseled clients on projects in virtually every energy industry...
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David A. Breston, Attorney at Law
Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Attorney(713) 224-4040 or (888) 220-4040
David A. Breston, Attorney at Law, provides criminal defense representation to individuals in the Houston area and across Texas. Our team defends clients in a wide range of areas, including DUI/DWI charges, sex and drug offenses, immigration law, and both federal- and state-level...
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Gilbert Villarreal Law Firm
Houston, Texas Criminal Law, Civil Law, and Family Law Firm(713) 522-5226
At Gilbert Villarreal Law Firm, our team of Houston attorneys has years of experience working both in and out of Houston courtrooms, with clients of all backgrounds and ages. We specialize in Criminal Law, Civil Law and Family Law but handle cases of all types.
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Guy L. Womack & Associates, P.C.
Houston Military and Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers(713) 364-9913
Guy L. Womack and Associates P.C. in Houston focuses on criminal defense. The firm has represented hundreds of clients in federal, state and military courts. The practice has built a reputation for the way it handles each case.
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Johnson, Johnson & Baer P.C.
Houston DUI and DWI Lawyers(713) 222-0400
At the law firm of Johnson, Johnson & Baer, P.C., our Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyers take a personal interest in each and every case in the office. From the outset of your case, our lawyers' goal is to have the charges against you dismissed. We believe that every effort...
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Law Office of Brett A. Podolsky
Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer(713) 227-0087
Brett A. Podolsky is a criminal defense lawyer based in Houston. He works on behalf of individuals across Texas facing a variety of criminal charges. As an experienced trial attorney and former prosecutor for the State of Texas, he has the knowledge and the confidence to defend your...
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Terry W. Yates & Associates.
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers(713) 861-3100
Terry W. Yates And Associates provides advocacy and guidance based on nearly 16 years of criminal defense practice in Houston. It deals with serious state or federal financial crimes such as money laundering, embezzlement, and fraud. The law firm handles drug trafficking or money...
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The Martinez Law Firm
Houston, Texas Criminal Defense & DWI Attorney(713) 242-1779
The Martinez Law Firm is a criminal defense law firm located in Houston, Texas with a reputation for outstanding client service and skilled representation. Attorney Herman Martinez is a seasoned trial lawyer with a thorough understanding of court procedures and the techniques of...
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Vinson & Elkins, LLP
Environmental, Restructuring and Reorganization International Law Firm(713) 758-2222
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White-Shaver PC
Houston, Texas Intellectual Property Attorneys(713) 953-0860 or (877) 828-0713
White-Shaver maintains an active civil litigation practice from offices in Dallas, Houston and Tyler, Texas. We are committed to providing the highest quality legal services to our clients in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The firm has earned an AV rating in the Martindale-Hubbell...
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Terry W. Yates & Associates.
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers(713) 861-3100
Terry W. Yates And Associates provides advocacy and guidance based on nearly 16 years of criminal defense practice in Houston. It deals with serious state or federal financial crimes such as money laundering, embezzlement, and fraud. The law firm handles drug trafficking or money...
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Carter & Bachynsky, L.L.P.Houston, TX 77002
Employment Law and Business Litigation Attorneys in Texas(713) 225-9600
Our lawyers at Carter & Bachynsky, L.L.P., have obtained numerous substantial verdicts and settlements in a wide variety of cases, including breach of contract, defamation, whistleblower, minority shareholder oppression, legal malpractice, employee benefit plan litigation, and wrongful termination....
Charles Johnson Law FirmHouston, TX 77002
Texas Criminal Defense Attorneys(713) 222-7577
The Charles Johnson Law Firm is a Texas criminal defense law firm with offices in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, and Austin. We represent clients in all State and Federal Criminal Courts in the following matters: drug crimes, driving while intoxicated, assault offenses, theft, fraud and homicide....
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Securities Law Firm(713) 888-0040
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Criminal Defense Attorney in Texas(713) 526-6300
Attorney Nicole DeBorde served with distinction as a Harris County prosecuting attorney for eight years. She knows firsthand what kind of evidence the prosecution is using and how they build their cases. Nicole DeBorde applies more than 15 years of experience handling high-profile charges in the...
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Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Attorney(713) 487-7575
Fred Dahr, Attorney at Law, is located in Houston, Texas. The law firm specializes in criminal defense. Attorney Dahr has experience with a variety of cases including state and federal offenses. He will help you from the moment you are arrested and charged with a crime all the way through the trial...
Hammond Law Group, PLLCHouston, TX 77007
Texas Criminal Tax Investigations and Tax Planning Law Firm(713) 227-2700
The Hammond Law Group, PLLC ("TLG") is a Texas based law firm concentrating in tax law resolution for its clients through settlements and negotiation with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We represent individuals and corporations in tax planning, tax audits, criminal tax investigations, and in...
Hilder & Associates, P.C.Houston, TX 77006
Texas Criminal Defense, Whistleblower and Appellate Attorneys(713) 234-1416
Hilder & Associates, P.C., provides a comprehensive range of legal services for individuals, corporate officers, businesses, legal and financial professionals. Our Houston attorneys focus on white collar criminal defense matters, related complex civil and administrative litigation, corporate...
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Texas Family Law, Estate Planning and Civil Litigation Attorney and Mediator(713) 667-0222
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Heather Stamenov: TA-DA!
Primary Gallery through June 20
Take one glance at Stamenov's large-scale oil paintings and you'll see why she was a shoo-in for the Stutz Residency program this year. Her dead-on depictions of adolescent girls having fun - accomplished with bold splashy brushstrokes and thick gobs of paint - are a must-see. Check out "Happy Birthday, Harmonized," where you see 12 or so people, mostly girls, on their backs, on air-mattresses in the flowing waters of a river, singing and flipping the bird - so to speak - to life's troubles. - Dan Grossman
Russell Young, Robert Indiana, and Whitfield Lovell: Rethinking the American Dream
Long-Sharp Gallery at The Conrad through June 30
★★★★ The selected works by MacArthur Genius Grant winner Whitfield Lovell are the standouts here. Lovell's sharply-detailed portraits, drawn in Conté on surfaces ranging from paper to wood, evoke the breadth of African-American history. The portrait of a young woman on paper in "Kin XX (Be My Knife)" is part of his thought-provoking series including found objects - this one includes an actual knife. But I don't know if the adjacent Russell Young screen prints featuring portraits of Native American chiefs - and incorporating sparkly diamond dust as a medium - do anything to rethink the American dream other than to commodify a painful chapter in American history. The addition of Robert Indiana prints from his American Dream no. 5 series, however, was a good choice. It was worth trying to find parking downtown for this one. - Dan Grossman
Self-Portrait Show
Gallery 924 at Arts Council of Indianapolis through July 26
This show features 43 self-portraits - by the loosest definition of the form - by 43 Indy artists. The ones that drew me in didn't leave the world of representation behind. A.J. Nafziger's painting "Self Portrait," which portrays the artist decked out in Christmas lights, is as conceptually intriguing as it is technically sharp. Evan Hauser's ceramic and mixed media sculpture "War Childs," featuring a boy and a girl breathing out of the same gas mask, might make you wonder about the possibility of finding love in a world where the very air we breathe is under threat. - Dan Grossman
Nathaniel Russell: The Opposite of Lost
iMOCA through June 20
At a glance, this room at iMOCA seems a bit, well, mundane, in that it's merely a row of fliers - mostly 8" by 11" but some are larger - with a rough, hand-drawn approach. Feast your eyes on one, though, and the laughter begins. There are numerous guffaw-out-loud fake fliers in this show that blends photos with simple messages. It appears to be rather crude in its approach, but the effect is delicate as the show captures the idea that fliers are the last frontier of true, unmediated human expression - an expression that transcends our preoccupation with presentation, design and coolness. - Jim Poyser
Jacinda Russell: A Tale of Obsession and Nine Fake Cakes
Stutz Art Gallery through June 30
What do acrylic-painted Styrofoam cakes photographed in front of bodies of water and obscenely inscribed Marilyn Monroe publicity stills have in common? Both Russell's own photographs (of the cakes) and her digitally-enhanced representations of stills collected by a perverse Monroe admirer can indeed be termed products of obsession, the former artistic and the latter sexual. - Dan Grossman
Emily Schwank: These are the days that must happen to you
M10 Gallery through June 30 by appointment and June 22, noon to 4 p.m.
These photographs document Schwank's recent trip to Northern Ireland with her daughter, who is often a subject in this series. In the photograph "The Space Between - Belfast 2013," you see Schwank's sister - a peace facilitator - walking along the border between Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast. A number of other Schwank's photographs are similarly imbued with rich metaphorical content, spurred by the setting and clever framing. - Dan Grossman
Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums
iMOCA through June 20
The Beatles' White Album, with its all-white cover, is something of a blank canvas (at least in its first vinyl edition). Might that be the secret to its visual appeal? In Chang's "record store," consisting of 750 first edition pressings of the double album, you see a number of covers that are adorned with stickers or drawn on with pen or marker. The artistic utility of its cover, then, as well as the mind-boggling diversity of the music contained within, make it the ideal desert island LP. - Dan Grossman
Freddie Kelvin
Hilbert Circle Theatre through June 30
Kelvin's photography exhibit encircles the Rotunda at the Hilbert with an eclectic mix of his wide-ranging interests. Of particular note is his penchant for slicing through the obvious to the particular. His keen insight into dance movement allows Zach Young's body language to merge with the iridescence of the ball as prop in "Afternoon of a Faun" and unleashes Mariel Greenlee's joyful "Summer Sizzle." Initially known for his landscapes, Kelvin here provides a retrospective from straightforward reality to playing with light for refracted imagery. "Yosemite" particularly compels with its layerings of what the water reflects. Stop at the ISO Box Office for free entrance up the stairs. - Rita Kohn


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The best of British to the Daily Mirror's drive to beat the slump by getting us all to Buy British. If the sneerers regard the devotion of several daily pages to defeating this slump as what someone once described (can't remember who or about what, but it will come back to me) as a cocktail of jingoism and intellectual dishonesty, so be it.
Myself, I see the good in everything, and seldom more so than in a campaign spearheaded by Alan Sugar in finger-pointing Lord Kitchener mode.
Particularly helpful was Friday's list of products, some manufactured by British firms, that we should feel honour-bound to purchase. It will be a while before the impact on economic growth can be gauged, of course, but if there isn't a surge in sales of Fairy Liquid, Marmite and Maynards Wine Gums, I'll eat my Union flag-adorned titfer. While Colman's Original English Mustard is now expected to see off the challenge from all those fancy foreign English mustards, retail analysts predict that the biggest beneficiaries of the march to spend by the Mirror's impecunious army of readers will be Jaguar, Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce.
Before we get too excited, a tiny caveat. Mature readers may recall something similar from another hideous economic crisis. Back in 1968, a certain Daily Mirror (no relation) launched a campaign called I'm Backing Britain. "After a few months," according to its Wikipedia entry, "without any noticeable effect on individual companies or the economy generally, interest flagged..." In the New Statesman, Philip French summed up the sense that its "jingoism and intellectual dishonesty" (there, told you so) made it laughable.
Still, let's not be discouraged – it might have been different had a Labour MP of the time succeeded in his plan to hijack that campaign and restyle it "Buy British". Robert something, I think... Ah yes, that's it. Robert Maxwell. Don't you just adore perfect symmetry?
Loving the Lebedevs
The only newspaper recommended in Friday's spread was the Daily Mirror, and given the plethora of foreign-owned luxury car-makers gifted (presumably) free advertising elsewhere, this seemed ungracious to the London Evening Standard. Admittedly, the sale to Russian oligarch and all-round saint Alexander Lebedev hadn't been finalised then, and perhaps still hasn't. But assuming it has, or is about to be, the warmest of welcomes to Mr Lebedev and his son Evgeny, who, from what I read in The Independent, have an impeccable record of proprietorship in Moscow, showing a commitment to freedom of expression and courage in opposing Mr Putin that not every home-grown owner could be relied upon to demonstrate.
Now there are those, my colleague Stephen Glover possibly among them, who'd think this the moment to declare an interest, for example by mentioning a twice-weekly sports column in the Standard. But that would imply an intent to ingratiate themselves with these utterly magnificent men that palpably isn't there, so we needn't bother with any of that.
Weighty issues
Concerns mount that the Daily Mail's commitment to chronicling female weight fluctuations is on the wane. One day last week, the Mail could spare no more than three pages for the subject. In fact, even less as only the top half of page three was devoted to pictures showing that actress Gemma Arterton has gained a few pounds since October. Meanwhile, pages 22-23 covered three other slebs who've shed 18 stone between them. Not long, then, before the next Daily Mail article railing in mystified outrage at the prevalence of various eating disorders among young women.
Joe the Hack in Israel
Last week, I mentioned US-election superhero Joe the Plumber's appointment as war correspondent, for the US website pjtv.com. Pleasingly, Joe wasted little time in Israel before stamping his authority on this journalistic backwater. First, he declared that reporters should never be allowed near warzones, citing a preference for the era when visual dispatches were restricted to five-minute propaganda films from the likes of Pathé News, shown in cinemas. Then he tried to browbeat an Israeli hack, seemingly unaware that broadcasting personal beliefs is his first duty, into agreeing that the global media is batting for Hamas. Early days for Joe as a latter-day Richard Dimbleby, but an encouraging start.
End of an era?
Speaking of the latter, it is with regret and disbelief that another moment of media history must be marked. Richard's firstborn, David Dimbleby, is not among the contingent of BBC figures in Washington, DC, for tomorrow's inauguration. Why this is so, I've no idea. Perhaps he couldn't be doing with the travelling. But with no word that Jonathan is covering it either, this would seem to be the first major political event for many decades to pass without any Dimblebovian input, and even if the brothers have irked over the years, there is something faintly sad about that.
Vote Mel, watch Gaunty
A couple of requests, finally, for those with very refined media tastes. Mad Mel Phillips confides, in her astoundingly prolific Spectator-hosted blog, that she is in the running for some prestigious blogging award; and that you can vote for her once a day. Please do so.
As for Jon Gaunt, he tells Sun readers that he will soon be appearing on Countdown as the resident of Dictionary Corner – you know, the one who, with no recourse to a hidden earpiece connected to backstage geeks with anagram software, swiftly comes up with nine-letter words seldom heard beyond the confines of particle physics. We wish Gaunty every success as the thinking wordsmith's Gyles Brandreth, and rely on him to comport himself with dignity alongside that charming Susie Dent.
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Revealed: why so many Americans are fat (it's not the food)
By James Langton
Association for the Study of Obesity
Nutrition and Physical Activity - Centres for Disease Control [CDC]
Georgia Institute of Technology
THE mystery as to why Americans have become the fattest people on the
planet has been uncovered by public health experts, who say that decades of
uncontrolled suburban sprawl conceived around the motor car have left them
unable to walk even if they wish to.
Such delicacies as the stuffed crust pizza and triple bacon cheeseburger have
played their part, but the main culprit for the ever-expanding American
waistline seems to be the way modern suburbs are built. Researchers for the
US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are preparing to test the
theory with a series of experiments to find out how far Americans actually
walk. In Atlanta, Georgia, they plan to equip 800 people with satellite
tracking devices to follow their daily routine step by step.
The drift to the suburbs has been one of the most significant trends in
population movement in the last 50 years. It has been accompanied by a rise
in vehicle ownership, so that many new homes come with a three-car garage as
standard. A tour of the suburban streets surrounding any American city shows
why. In many areas, the pavement has been done away with entirely. Since the
high street has been increasingly replaced by the shopping mall, even the
simplest purchase now requires a drive of several miles.
According to Dr Tom Schmid, a director of the Centres' Division of Nutrition
and Physical Activity: "Our world has got a lot easier to live in. We sit in
cars, we don't walk to the store on the corner and we don't walk to the
park." Doctors and health experts have puzzled for some time as to just why
so many Americans are so fat. At least one in five is defined as obese - more
than 30 per cent above their ideal weight.
Yet over-eating does not seem to be the simple explanation. Most adults
consume only around 100 calories a day more than they did 20 years ago, while
the amount of fat in their diet has dropped from 42 per cent to 34 per cent.
The problem now seems to be a way of life so sedentary that it involves
little more than a few steps between the home, driveway and office. In many
areas it can be positively hazardous to walk.
Few suburbs now have sidewalks so the pedestrian is forced on to the road.
What is more, police and private security patrols view anyone moving around
on a suburban estate without a car as someone who has either run out of
petrol and in distress, or poor and up to no good. One mother of three, Linda
Koulakjian, complained to the Washington Post last week that when she decided
to take a walk to burn off a few pounds, several neighbours stopped their
cars and asked if she needed help. Mrs Koulakjian admitted: "Frankly I was
embarrassed. I didn't want to walk any more after that."
An investigation by the Georgia Institute of Technology into walking habits
in Seattle found a direct correlation between physical activity and the year
a house was built. Residents in streets built before 1947 walked or cycled at
least three times every two days. Those in more modern houses used cars
almost exclusively.
The Atlanta study, to begin in March, will look at 8,000 households in two
districts, one where the shops and houses are close together and the other in
an outer suburb. One in 10 of those taking part will wear a tracking device
so that researchers can monitor their activity. What worries organisations
such as the American Medical Association about America's bulging waistline is
that children seem to be among the worst affected. The number of severely
overweight children has doubled in the last 20 years.
One of the best ways for children to exercise, by walking to school, has all
but disappeared because over-protective parents fear that they will be
abducted by paedophiles or run over crossing the road. The reality is that
paedophiles murder only around 100 children each year in the United States.
By contrast, 1,772 children died and 316,000 were injured in car crashes in
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It's good to know some things last, and on the KSU campus, there are lots of those: Anderson Hall, built in 1879; Dickens Hall, constructed around 1907; Holton Hall, completed in 1900; and Memorial Stadium, which made its debut in 1924, for example.
Jonathan Larson's 1996 Broadway musical "Rent" is a tribute to love in all its forms.
Little Apple Doulas is currently made up of five women, all educated through a program called ProDoula, which uses a standardized curriculum to provide training and certification in labor support, postpartum support and childbirth education.
Karnowski, known to some as "Scaly Dave," co-owns Manhattan Reptile World. He sells a lot of snakes, and has dozens of them in his store, ranging from earthworm-sized babies to adults as thick as a firehose.
Despite finishing with just one winner, Saturday's performance had several solid scores and times.
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At Thursday's opening-night performance at the Kaw Valley Rodeo, Shade Etbauer was the top finisher and in the lead in tie-down roping, finishing in 9.3 seconds.
Manhattan's City Park hosted a swim meet Saturday.
Bohnenblust is a consultant for Pure Romance, a company that sells — ahem — adult products, that is "products that enhance intimate adult relationships," according to the company's website, mainly through parties at women's homes.
The 4-H Fashion revue is an early event of the Riley County Fair, which begins Thursday at CiCo Park.
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The long-term goal of my laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms that control the development of the neocortex and defects in this process that cause disease. We propose here to study the function of members of the cadherin superfamily in neocortical development. Our preliminary data show that several members of the cadherin superfamily are expressed in a spatio-temporal pattern consistent with a role in neocortical development. Our functional data provide evidence that cadherins have a role in regulating migration. Based on these findings, we hypothesize that several members of the cadherin superfamily cooperate to regulate cell migration during neocortical development. To test our hypothesis, we will: (i) Define the expression pattern and subcellular distribution of cadherin family members in the developing neocortex;(ii) Define the function of these cadherins for cell migration using both RNA interference and mouse genetics;(iii) define the cadherin ligand binding properties;(iv) identify the signaling pathways by which these cadherins regulate the motility of cortical neurons. We anticipate that our findings will demonstrate that cadherins are central for mediating cell-cell interactions during the formation of neocortical cell layers, and that their function is regulated by other molecules that have been implicated in neocortical development such as cdk5, doublecortin and reelin. As mutations and polymorphisms in human cadherin genes have been linked to epilepsy, mental retardation, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Alzheimer disease, we anticipate that our findings will be relevant to understanding disease mechanisms.
Disruption of the laminar architecture of the neocortex is associated with more than 25 neurological disorders, including epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism and mental retardation. Cortical layers are established by the migration of neurons from proliferative zones into the developing cortical wall and their incorporation into neuronal circuits. We propose here to identify and study cell surface receptors that control neuronal migration during the formation of cortical cell layers. We anticipate that knowledge of how these receptors control migration will be relevant for understanding the mechanisms leading to pathological changes associated with several neurological disorders.
|Marín, Oscar; Müller, Ulrich (2014) Lineage origins of GABAergic versus glutamatergic neurons in the neocortex. Curr Opin Neurobiol 26:132-41
|Gil-Sanz, Cristina; Landeira, Bruna; Ramos, Cynthia et al. (2014) Proliferative defects and formation of a double cortex in mice lacking Mltt4 and Cdh2 in the dorsal telencephalon. J Neurosci 34:10475-87
|Ka, Minhan; Jung, Eui-Man; Mueller, Ulrich et al. (2014) MACF1 regulates the migration of pyramidal neurons via microtubule dynamics and GSK-3 signaling. Dev Biol 395:4-18
|Gil-Sanz, Cristina; Franco, Santos J; Martinez-Garay, Isabel et al. (2013) Cajal-Retzius cells instruct neuronal migration by coincidence signaling between secreted and contact-dependent guidance cues. Neuron 79:461-77
|Franco, Santos J; Muller, Ulrich (2013) Shaping our minds: stem and progenitor cell diversity in the mammalian neocortex. Neuron 77:19-34
|Brunne, Bianka; Franco, Santos; Bouche, Elisabeth et al. (2013) Role of the postnatal radial glial scaffold for the development of the dentate gyrus as revealed by Reelin signaling mutant mice. Glia 61:1347-63
|Franco, Santos J; Muller, Ulrich (2011) Extracellular matrix functions during neuronal migration and lamination in the mammalian central nervous system. Dev Neurobiol 71:889-900
|Franco, Santos J; Martinez-Garay, Isabel; Gil-Sanz, Cristina et al. (2011) Reelin regulates cadherin function via Dab1/Rap1 to control neuronal migration and lamination in the neocortex. Neuron 69:482-97
|Conti, Francesco J; Monkley, Sue J; Wood, Malcolm R et al. (2009) Talin 1 and 2 are required for myoblast fusion, sarcomere assembly and the maintenance of myotendinous junctions. Development 136:3597-606
|Radakovits, Randor; Barros, Claudia S; Belvindrah, Richard et al. (2009) Regulation of radial glial survival by signals from the meninges. J Neurosci 29:7694-705
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Our luxurious beds have a goose down comfort layer, 100% cotton bed linen and hand printed throws. Guests can also choose from our pillow menu. All rooms are individually decorated with eclectic furniture, local art and crafts and funky, deep pile striped carpet. Minibars are stocked with a selection of boutique New Zealand products with complimentary tea and coffee.
Bathrooms have divinely deep baths and stand alone showers with both rain and slide shower heads, salon quality hair dryers, underfloor heating, magnifying mirrors, mirror demisters and both velvet and towelling robes.
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Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the unreal universe of Los Angeles, the city bares its schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. A woman is left with amnesia following a car accident. An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home. The...
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Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the unreal universe of Los Angeles, the city bares its schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. A woman is left with amnesia following a car accident. An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home. The puzzle begins to unfold, propelling us through a mysterious labyrith of sensual experiences until we arrive at the intersection of dreams and nightmares.
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In Mulholland Drive, director David Lynch once again gives us a totally twisted view of love, obsession--and reality.
The plot is a tricky one to explain--we are talking about David Lynch, after all. Without giving away too many of the film's interesting twists, the story basically focuses on two women. First, there's Rita (Laura Harring), a mysterious woman who loses her memory after surviving a car crash on the famed Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Walking around in a daze, she ends up seeking refuge in the home of a stranger who has gone out of town. Then we meet Betty (Naomi Watts), a pretty ingenue who steps off a plane in Los Angeles to seek her fame and fortune as an actress. Betty is set to stay at her aunt's place while she's away on location. Of course, this is the exact house the wounded amnesiac Rita is now hiding out in. After the two meet they try to figure out who Rita is and what happened to her. Things get pretty weird, pretty quick, and what you think is real isn't anywhere near the truth.
Lynch has an uncanny ability to cast unknowns and pull out great performances from them. He did it well in Blue Velvet with Isabella Rossellini and especially in his TV show Twin Peaks, which launched the careers of Lara Flynn Boyle and Sherilyn Fenn. As Rita, Harring is perfect as what Lynch has described as a ''broken doll.'' She gets to look seductively tousled while at the same time coming across somewhat menacing. However, it's the Australian Watts who stands out the most as the perky Betty--only is she really the sunny and optimistic Betty or perhaps someone a little more screwed up? Watts does an amazing job vacillating between the realities of the film and is able to give us two very distinctive personalities. Justin Theroux (American Psycho) also gives an interesting turn as a film director caught in the weird world of movie politics. However, veteran actors Robert Forster and Dan Hedaya, in small parts, seemed to have been used for name only.
The main thing we have to say is that Lynch is back--in all his strange and wondrous ways. Drive was originally shot as an ABC television pilot, which the network eventually passed on. This does not come as a big surprise and may explain why Forster, as a detective and Hedaya, as a shady mob financier, had such small parts. They may have played bigger roles in the television version than in the movie. Nonetheless, if you are a true fan of the director, you'll enjoy all the Lynch-ian elements he's so well known for in the film. From the car crash to a midget sitting in an odd room, he gives it to us in spades, while at the same time telling a fairly compelling and thought-provoking story. Thing is, you may not be entirely sure what happens at the end. This is the one drawback to the movie: it could just be a little too weird for the normal moviegoing set.
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If you're up for a wild ride, Mulholland Drive will affect you and leave you debating about it for years to come.
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Two suicide car bombers struck a crowded area outside a state-run bank yesterday in Baghdad, killing nearly 30 people in the latest attack targeting a high-profile part of the capital.
The blast, which tore the glass facade off the three-storey Trade Bank of Iraq building, leaving chairs and desks exposed, occurred shortly after 11am as the area was packed with people at the start of the local work week.
Iraqi officials initially said the explosives-packed cars were parked a few hundred metres apart, but later said the attacks were staged by suicide bombers.
Security forces swarmed through the debris while cleanup crews used forklifts to move the charred wrecks of several vehicles destroyed by the blast.
The chairman of the Trade Bank of Iraq – which was established to facilitate international trade and reconstruction efforts after the 2003 US-led invasion – said five guards were among the dead and six others were wounded.
Hussein al-Uzri blamed insurgents trying to undermine Iraq's progress and promised they would fail.
"The work of building Iraq's economic strength ... goes on uninterrupted, as does the work of the bank, which will be open for business tomorrow," he said in a statement after yesterday's attack.
Persistent bombings in Baghdad and surrounding areas have raised fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks in a bid to foment unrest by exploiting the political deadlock following inconclusive March 7 parliamentary elections.
Last week, suspected al-Qa'ida in Iraq militants stormed the central bank and exchanged gunfire with Iraqi security forces in a standoff that brought part of the capital to a standstill.
The ability of the insurgents to penetrate areas with tight security also has raised questions about the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over their own security less than three months before all American combat troops are to leave the country, the first step toward a full withdrawal by the end of next year.
"The irresponsible acts of those politicians have encouraged al-Qa'ida sleeper cells to resume work and strike again," said Ahmed Abdullah, an engineer in the Electricity Ministry. "Ordinary Iraqis are paying the price of the political struggle in Baghdad."
The bank is in a commercial area surrounding Nisoor Square that includes a government agency that issues national identity cards, and the telephone exchange building.
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Eukaryotic organisms utilize two types of cell division. Mitosis creates genetically identical daughter cells, thereby providing the raw material for growth and differentiation. Meiosis, in contrast, divides the chromosome number of cells in half, producing haploid gametes containing new combinations of alleles. This reduction is essential in keeping the chromosome number constant when two gametes fuse at fertilization. Mitosis and meiosis share many features in common: for example, chromosomes are segregated using microtubule based spindles, sister chromatids are held together by cohesins, and destruction of cohesins occurs via the same proteolytic machinery. Several meiosis-specific processes have evolved, however, to allow two divisions to occur after a single round of DNA replication such that homologous chromosomes, instead of sister chromatids, disjoin to opposite poles at Meiosis I. These include the connection of homologous chromosomes by a combination of crossing over and cohesion, the temporally distinct two step removal of cohesins at Meiosis I and Meiosis II and the mono-orientation of sister kinetochores at Meiosis I. Recent work has shown that these meiosis-specific processes result from the interplay between meiosis-specific proteins and mitotic cell cycle kinases such as CDK, Cdc5 and Cdc7. Using an analog sensitive conditional allele of CDC7, cdc7-as, my lab has shown that CDC7 is essential for meiotic recombination, mono-orientation of sister kinetochores and meiotic progression. The purpose of this grant is to use biochemical, genetic and genomic approaches to understand how Cdc7 regulates meiotic processes at the molecular level.
In Aim 1, we will identify meiotic substrates of Cdc7 using novel strategies recently developed for use with analog sensitive kinases.
In Aim 2, we will investigate how Cdc7 regulates the expression of NDTSO, a meiosis-specific transcription factor that acts a molecular switch to allow exit from pachytene, meiotic progression and differentiation of haploid products into spores.
Failures in meiosis result in infertility and birth defects such as Down syndrome. Proper meiotic chromosome segregation requires interplay between a conserved cell cycle kinase and meiosis-specific proteins. This grant will define the molecular role of this kinase in proper meiotic chromosome behavior ? knowledge that may ultimately lead to the diagnosis and/or prevention of certain types of infertility, birth defects and even cancer.
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|Berchowitz, Luke E; Gajadhar, Aaron S; van Werven, Folkert J et al. (2013) A developmentally regulated translational control pathway establishes the meiotic chromosome segregation pattern. Genes Dev 27:2147-63
|Lo, Hsiao-Chi; Kunz, Ryan C; Chen, Xiangyu et al. (2012) Cdc7-Dbf4 is a gene-specific regulator of meiotic transcription in yeast. Mol Cell Biol 32:541-57
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Gravity Interactive has announced that the town of Lighhalzen has been deployed on the Ragnarok Online Classic server. The town will offer players a variety of new quests as well as the homunculus companion monsters for Alchemists as well as the Somatology Laboratory dungeon underneath the city.
Airship routes to the city-state of Lighthalzen have opened up and adventurers from around Rune Midgard have journeyed over long distances to discover what this seemingly peaceful town has to offer. Established by the powerful Rekenber Corporation, the city-state of Lighthalzen brought clean unravel the mystery…
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This is just so funny...
I'm aware that this is about the classic server - but announcing Lighthalzen for awesome features like the homunculus..
The city is like 5 years old so the "new" content shouldn't be new to anyone.
Also just like the posters above me said already - the official servers are nothing but a paradise for bots.
You are better off playing on a private server where the GMs work on the botting issue rather than trying to milk money out of players with the cash shop.
Gravity dropped the ball years ago.


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