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PRESS mixture onto bottoms and up sides of prepared muffin cups. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Remove chocolate boats carefully with a small spatula. Let stand at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes.
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BURTON, Mich. In 2001, Laurie Schmald Moncrieff gave her 35 workers some homework.
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The changes rattling the auto industry first hit small suppliers such as Schmald Tool & Die 10 years ago, as companies shifted more work overseas. The first parts to go to Asia were types Moncrieff's company made: small metal parts easily tossed in a crate and shipped to the U.S.
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A decade of severe pricing pressure from customers — automakers and larger suppliers — forced many suppliers into bankruptcy court, even before the current sales crash. Now, suppliers, who employ 590,000 U.S. workers, have followed automakers in asking for federal aid.
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If auto suppliers go out of business, it ripples through the system. Auto plants often get parts hours before they go into a vehicle. Disruption of the chain slows or cripples production.
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"It's like a table of dominoes — if one thing falls, everything around it starts to fall," he says. "If there's a company that's kind of healthy or is surviving and the company that supplies it starts to fail, it creates pressure."
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The year might even be better, she says, because of new non-auto business. Through a consortium of suppliers she formed, Schmald recently won a Defense Department contract for inside shells of hand grenades. They've also made bars for body piercings and are working on new business in the nuclear and wind energy and levitated rail industries.
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Courting customers outside the auto industry was foreign to many suppliers. When Moncrieff began working for her father in 1996, she pushed to find new business. When she took over a few years later, she learned that sales leads she'd brought in from other industries were often shredded or tossed out.
That's in part because, for a long time, making money in the auto sector was easy. Business came in through word of mouth or personal connections. Suppliers often had one or two big customers. That often was enough to keep their plants running full steam, and they didn't bother looking for new customers.
But it wasn't a smart way to do business, Moncrieff says. "The generation before us was greedy and short-sighted," she says. "We've got to think about the next generation. If it all goes, at least I can look at my kids in the eye and say, 'I did everything I could.' "
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Concomitant prediction of function and fold at the domain level with GO-based profiles
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Predicting the function of newly sequenced proteins is crucial due to the pace at which these raw sequences are being obtained. Almost all resources for predicting protein function assign functional terms to whole chains, and do not distinguish which particular domain is responsible for the allocated function. This is not a limitation of the methodologies themselves but it is due to the fact that in the databases of functional annotations these methods use for transferring functional terms to new proteins, these annotations are done on a whole-chain basis. Nevertheless, domains are the basic evolutionary and often functional units of proteins. In many cases, the domains of a protein chain have distinct molecular functions, independent from each other. For that reason resources with functional annotations at the domain level, as well as methodologies for predicting function for individual domains adapted to these resources are required.
We present a methodology for predicting the molecular function of individual domains, based on a previously developed database of functional annotations at the domain level. The approach, which we show outperforms a standard method based on sequence searches in assigning function, concomitantly predicts the structural fold of the domains and can give hints on the functionally important residues associated to the predicted function.
Proteins are the key players of the cellular processes. Obtaining information on the structure, function and important residues for the protein repertory of a given organism (proteome) is crucial not only for getting insight into its biology, but also to foresee possible ways for modifying it in our benefit. Nevertheless, obtaining experimentally this kind of information is very slow and expensive. On the contrary, obtaining the raw sequences of complete proteomes or part of them is nowadays relatively fast and inexpensive, and this is getting even better with "next generation sequencing" technologies
Methods for predicting protein three-dimensional structure from sequence generally are based on the known relationship between sequence similarity and structural similarity. Most of these methods look for homologous proteins of known structure and model the problem sequence based on them. This search is either based on simple sequence matching methods for cases of close homology, or profile-based methods for remote homology.
Similarly, most methods for computationally assigning function to proteins ("annotation") are also based on the observed relationship between sequence similarity and functional similarity
The basic concepts and methodologies for transferring function from homologous sequences have evolved with time and, at the same time, adapted to these new structured vocabularies (for recent reviews describing in detail the field see
Most of these methods, specially those based on global sequence matches against individual proteins or profiles, are intended to assign function at the whole chain level, without distinguishing which individual domain is associated to a given GO:MF term. In most cases, this is not a problem of the methodologies themselves but of the annotations contained in the resources they search against. In these resources, functions are associated to whole chains, not to particular protein domains, and as such they are transferred to the problem sequences. Nevertheless, domains are the structural, evolutionary, and often functional units of proteins. In many cases, individual molecular functions can be assigned to them. Even the functional annotations in domain-oriented databases such as Pfam or Intepro suffer from this problem when these annotations are interpreted in terms of physical domains
In this work, we present a method for annotating proteins with GO:MF terms at the domain level. The method is based on matching against a library of "position specific scoring matrix" (PSSM) profiles
Figure 1
Schema of the method
Schema of the method. The starting point is the SCOP2GO functional annotation of chains at the domain level (top left). The shapes represent the folds of the domains, while the colors represent assigned GO:MF functions. Structural alignments for the domains with the same fold and the same function are generated and PSSM profiles are derived from them. For benchmarking (left), an equivalent database is constructed merging all the domain sequences involved in these profiles. For assessing the performance of both resources for a given test sequence, new versions of both databases are built by excluding this sequence and all its homologs (transparent cylinders in the figure). Querying the test sequence against both resources produces list of hits which can be interpreted as predictions of folds and functions (colored shapes) associated to its domains. These predictions of both resources for the domains of the test sequence can be contrasted against its original SCOP2GO annotations (multi-colored triangle and circle). For predicting (right), a sequence of unknown domain characteristics in terms of fold and function is queried against the database of PSSMs. The hits can be interpreted as predictions of fold and function at the domain level. Additionally, the conservation pattern of the structural alignments associated to the matched PSSMs can give clues about functionally important residues.
Library of GO:MF profiles at the domain level
The idea is that each entry in this library represents an alignment of all domain sequences known to have a given GO:MF function (a non-redundant representation of them, actually) that can be related in an alignment, i.e. belonging to the same fold and hence amenable of structural alignment.
The starting point is the SCOP2GO resource, which contains GO:MF annotations at the structural domain level
Multidomain entries, as well as those corresponding to PDB chains annotated as "mutant" and "circular permutation" are excluded. The resulting domains can be seen as arranged in a matrix of Fold
The current version of the library contains 338 entries covering 115 different GO:MF terms and 150 SCOP folds.
Querying a sequence against the library
Since each entry in the library is associated to a fold and a GO:MF term, querying a whole-length sequence against the alignments/profiles within this library with "reverse psi-blast" (rpsblast) produces a list of hits each representing a concomitant prediction of fold and function for a particular segment (i.e. a domain) of the query sequence (Figure
One of the added values of the method presented here is that the profiles are constructed "informed" by GO:MF annotations, instead of relying on the domain groupings that would result from sequence relationships alone (e.g. families and superfamilies) To evaluate the effect of this, we compared the results of searches against this database of pre-computed profiles, with those obtained by the same method (psi-blast) against an equivalent database with exactly the same domain sequences but not grouped according with GO:MF terms. In order to do that, all the domain sequences after the 40% ID filtering (just before performing the structural alignment) are mixed together in a large database which is formatted for psi-blast (Figure
We constructed a test set for evaluating the performance of these two resources form the entire PDB clustered at 30% ID downloaded form the RCSB site
For each chain in our test set, we carry out the following procedure. First we re-construct the two databases as described before but removing from the very beginning any domain corresponding to a chain within the same 30% ID PDB cluster as the test chain (Figure
So, for a given chain in the test set we obtain two sorted lists of hits, one for each method/resource, called "GO_PROFILE" and "PSI_BLAST" hereafter (Figure
A ROC (receiver operator characteristics) analysis
where Tp, Fn, Fp and Tn are the "true positives, "false negatives", "false positives" and "true negatives" resulting from a given threshold.
In the first part of this section we show the results of the large-scale evaluation of performances for GO_PROFILE and PSI_BLAST based on a test set of 1017 protein chains as explained in "Methods". In the second part, we show some examples of cases where one of the methods finds a right match while the other fails and vice versa, and where these failures are due to different reasons, to illustrate the advantage and drawbacks of this methodology as well as its complementarity with others. Another example allows to illustrate an additional advantage of this method: the possibility of obtaining a prediction of functionally important residues associated to the predicted GO:MF term.
Large-scale evaluation
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Large-scale evaluation results
Large-scale evaluation results. ROC plots illustrating the discriminative capacity of the highest scoring hits detected by both methods in detecting the right function (a and b) and fold (c) in the correct domain. a) Only the GO terms at distance 2 or higher from the root of the GO:MF graph are evaluated; b) the same for distance 4 or higher (more specific terms).
It can be seen that both approaches present a very good discriminative power. Nevertheless, GO_PROFILE outperforms PSI_BLAST in assigning the right functions to the right domains (Figures
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Additional results of the large-scale evaluation. Additional ROC plots for other levels of functional specificity (distance to the root of the GO:MF graph) including also the results of HMM searches against the profiles.
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The ROC plots in the Additional File
For the case of fold prediction, it can be seen that the performance of both approaches is very high and very similar (Figure
The first example is the mitochondrial precursor of the ATP-synthase beta chain ([PDB:
Another example is the periplasmic cytochrome C551I ([PDB:
The next example illustrates a problem of this method: the quality of the GO:MF domain annotations it relies on. For the Aspartyl-tRNA synthase [PDB:
In the case of the mono-domain tyrosine phosphatase [PDB:
The last example illustrates an additional advantage of this method: the fact that it can provide clues about possible functional sites, concomitantly with the prediction of fold and function. The casein kinase 1 ([PDB:
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Example of predicted functional residues
Example of predicted functional residues. Residues predicted by the method as associated to the GO:0004672 ("protein kinase activity") function for the casein kinase 1 ([PDB:
It is well known that most proteins, especially in eukaryotic organisms, are multidomain
As commented in the Introduction, almost all methods and resources for predicting protein function are intended to work at the whole-chain level. Even the functional annotations of entries domain-oriented databases such as Pfam or Intepro are not intended to be interpreted in terms of physical domains. In
The main methodological novelty of the procedure presented here is the usage of profiles derived from structural alignments of all domains associated to a given GO molecular function. This association of GO:MF terms to structural domains is taken from the first resource specifically devoted to this task
We compare this method with a base-line methodology for predicting protein function (psi-blast) in order to illustrate the added value of these novelties. Actually, only the added value of the GO-informed profiles, since the GO:MF annotations at the domain level are also provided to psi-blast in this benchmark. The large-scale evaluation based on GO annotations is not perfect due to many reasons (unspecific annotations, etc), some of them illustrated in the examples shown. Nevertheless, all these factors affect both methodologies due to the parallel evaluation procedure followed, based on the same dataset. An exhaustive comparison with more sophisticated methods for function prediction is outside the scope of this work due to the different functional vocabularies and databases used and, more importantly, the domain orientation of this method: almost all other existing resources for function prediction assign function at the whole-chain level. We also show some examples to illustrate the advantages of this method in particular situations and highlight its complementariness with existing approaches. Indeed, the method presented here is not intended to compete with the plethora of methods designed for predicting function at the whole chain level, but to fill a very particular niche: function prediction at the domain level. Nevertheless, this method can be also used to infer molecular functions for whole chains in two ways: i) although excluded from the benchmark presented here for simplicity, the SCOP2GO resource also contain functional assignments for groups of domains, and ii) the function of the whole chain can be manually inferred from the annotations of the individual domains although this requires some expert knowledge.
The domain orientation of this methodology also makes that it can be only applied to the "molecular function" category of GO (GO:MF) and not to the "biological process" category (GO:BP). As commented above, only the molecular functions can be differentially assigned to particular domains, while biological processes are properties of whole chains.
This resource will be improved as the GO:MF annotations at the domain level it is based on, which right now are generated with an automatic procedure, are extended and manually curated. Moreover, the method presented here can be implemented with any other domain-based functional annotation.
We present here a method and a resource for the concomitant prediction of fold and molecular function at the domain level, using a single sequence as input. The method outperforms standard sequence-based methods. Functionally important sites may also be identified although this feature has not been exhaustively benchmarked so far and we only show illustrative examples.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
FP conceived the original idea. FP and DL designed the experiments. DL implemented and performed all the experiments. FP and DL contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
The authors want to thank the members of the Computational Systems Biology Group (CNB-CSIC) and Dr. Mark Wass (CNIO) for interesting discussions and support.
Funding: This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation [projects numbers BIO2009-11966 and BIO2010-22109].
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By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Special to The New York Times
Published: December 30, 1990
CHERNOBYL, U.S.S.R.— This irradiated ghost town, where the effects of the 1986 nuclear-plant disaster are still accumulating in raw and haunting detail, has become the latest arena in the volatile politics of Soviet nationalism.
Ukrainian scientists concerned about the welfare of hundreds of thousands of people living in the disaster's swath are challenging the Moscow authorities' control over the complicated and risky plans for cleaning up the aftermath.
The scientific contest, in which the sovereignty-minded Ukraine is demanding tighter radiation health limits and far larger zones of evacuation and monitoring than the central Government insists are needed, comes at a critical moment for the authorities who oversee the Chernobyl plant.
They must plan an entirely new sarcophagus around the 171 tons of grotesquely spewed and resolidified uranium fuel in Chernobyl nuclear unit No. 4, to shroud it more safely from the environment for 150 years. The existing sarcophagus, a darkly buttressed 20-story-high cube of concrete and steel built four years ago, has a life span of no more than 25 years, with constant care and reinforcement.
In addition, the authorities must find a way to head off the gradual leaching of radioactivity from 800 hurriedly bulldozed containment pits dug for a huge volume of dangerous nuclear debris, including houses, trees and topsoil. The materials are buried close above some of the republic's ground-water supplies in Pripyat, site of the reactor, which is about 12 miles northwest of this town and about 85 miles north of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
Beyond those critical problems, officials are still working on reliable ways to monitor the most affected individuals among the more than 135,000 people evacuated from the immediate area of the explosion's fallout. Worried republic-level authorities in the Ukraine and Byelorussia already have gone beyond the central Government's safety standards to begin boarding up more towns and evacuating scores of thousands of additional "ecological refugees."
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No people but numerous grisly dilemmas abide here now because of the disaster's persistence. Five hundred tons of dangerously irradiated beef wait on a nearby railroad siding in 40 boxcars kept endlessly refrigerated after a four-year cross-country wandering.
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Dmitri M. Grodzinsky, a biologist at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, is one of a group of scientists arguing that the public welfare demands that the republic have a primary role in the cleanup plans.
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Visitors can remix a loop from some electro tracks. From a library of party, road and everyday sounds, you can place samples on the timeline, change their volume and pitch.
I developed most of the v1's front-end during my intership at UZIK. After 3 months, 1174 mix was submited to the competition.
with Benjamin Diolez — april 2010 — at school — Play on Kongregate
The goal of this psychedelic game is to keep the ball going up. Unlock several bonus to get more point and enjoy the power of psychedelic backgrounds.
Use the left and right keys to move sideways.
Game made for an OOP class at SRC Bordeaux. My coworker made the illustrations and I took care of the developement.


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Leather is the oldest material than any other material. It is said that this material is invented by our forefathers in ancient days when they felt that they should drape up their body to save themselves from changing weather. Leather is the primary material that takes care of human skin and health and protects it from many other harsh things in the nature.
Leather was used to use in very much raw state by our forefathers but as time passed it changed its faces so well and helped human's in every condition whenever they needed it. Leather is very versatile material, which has capacity to make it mold in so many ways that it can help human by changing its colors and nature.
Leather material has richness and glory of bravery and it has passed it to those garments, which are made up from any type of leather. Leather has such qualities because leather jackets were used by many warriors. Those leather jackets are called as leather bomber jackets. Hence, leather bomber jacket symbolize great victories and bravery. These qualities do lend men the masculine look and helps to highlight their some manly qualities, which they flaunt by wearing these jackets.
Leather bomber jackets are best to use during any kind of season like you can also wear it in rainy season. You can wear it during cold season; it will protect you from extreme cold and you can also wear it in summer to keep yourself away from ultra violet rays which harms out skin badly.
However, while wearing this jacket do take care of it properly so that it will stay fresh for long. Leather bomber jacket is most famous jacket of men and women. You can wear it with any kind of attire it will obviously increase your beauty and stunning looks.
Leather bomber jackets are available in many types of leather fabric but it would be great if you buy suede leather's, lambskin leather's or cowhide leather's leather bomber jacket as they have long life and these are best leather material found all around the world.
Leather bomber jacket you can wear while you going out on your bike. These are best to use while riding your bike. As they are tough and also lends you same looks which enhances man's masculine looks. In addition, if you are a women it will help you to show off your hard and tough attitude to world.
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See the Real Life Models for Your Favorite Disney Characters
The look, movements and personalities of the Disney characters come from many different sources. For some characters, actors and models are brought in to act out scenes from the film...
The look, movements and personalities of the Disney characters come from many different sources. For some characters, actors and models are brought in to act out scenes from the film...
From Sexy Olaf to Sexy Jiminy Cricket, check out our picks for the 10 most ridiculous "sexy" Disney Halloween costumes.
October 13th had several notable things happen on its date: Someone should have hired a food taster, something was laid at the Whitehouse (mind-out-of-gutter) and the modern equivalent of The Donner Party' began in the Andes.
'Dracula Untold' is hitting theaters this weekend*, and truth be, uh, told, it doesn't look that great. But it could be worse -- a whole lot worse. Cinema has a rich history with blood-suckers, and thanks to the over-saturation in the genre, it's quite rare to see a great vampire film. For every good one, there's at least 10 not-so-good vampire flicks. Honestly, it was hard to choose just 10 because there are some real stinkers out there. As a disclaimer, we kept 'Twilight' out of this because it was just a little too obvious. We all know it's awful, we don't need to beat a dead sparkle-horse.
*Does Dracula's story really need to be told again? Yeah, dude, we get it.
We've made it to October and here are the songs we'll be jamming to this month!
The City of Midland's October 'Monthly Shorts' features news from Keep Midland Beautiful, kids activities with The Midland Fire Department and the Midland Parks and Recreation Department along with details about the CAF Airsho.
'Forbes' just released its annual list of the 400 richest people in America. Who made the list?
There's one less reason to feel like a proud American today.
On this date in history: A TV announcer was married....for the 7th time, some guy named Cassius won a metal, tragedy at the Olympics and the first computer generated music video to air on MTV Europe wins some awards.
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RotoExperts.com takes a look at what has caused the downfall of four young, hard-throwing left-handers.
Scott Kazmir, Tampa Bay Rays
With a 7.28 ERA, a stint on the disabled list and a messy 5.33 walk-per-nine-innings ratio (BB/9), Kazmir has certainly been a problem for his owners. His issues seem velocity-related. After averaging 91.8 mph last year, his fastball has dipped to 89.8. With the loss in velocity, he has possibly been reluctant to throw fastballs, tossing them 65.5% of the time, compared with 75.1% in 2008. His deteriorating control and the increased hit-ability have made him a hazard to fantasy pitching staffs. It's possible mechanical flaws are affecting his velocity, but it's a certainty that arm issues are behind his struggles.
Francisco Liriano, Minnesota Twins
His velocity also seems to be the root of his problems. Before his surgery, his fastball averaged 94.7 mph and his slider was at 87.7. Post-surgery, those numbers have dropped to 91.5 and 86, respectively. The diminishing velocity seems to have him nibbling more, as the career-high 4.22 BB/9 seems to indicate. Liriano is walking more hitters, striking out fewer and allowing a career-high .272 batting average against. Obviously, this is not the same pitcher who posted a 10.71 K/9 in his incredible 2006 rookie season. His 2009 results leave little hope Liriano is going to meet the expectations that many fantasy owners heaped upon him.
David Price, Tampa Bay Rays
Regardless of his outstanding stuff, Price cannot be successful with a BB/9 of 6.14. Price seems to be nibbling at the edges more than in his brief 2008 trial. His first-strike percentage is 51.5%, after posting a strong 59.7% last year. He's getting hit hard after falling behind, with a 23.8% line-drive percentage compared with last year's 12.5%. He's actually quite fortunate to be holding opposing batters to a .236 batting average. With a 9.08 K/9 rate, it's obvious he still has good stuff. Price might simply have to learn to trust his stuff and go at hitters the way he did during the Rays' postseason run last year.
Jonathan Sanchez, San Francisco Giants
He had a solid first half of 2008, with an 8-5 record, a 3.97 ERA and 115 strikeouts in 111 innings. A rotator cuff strain marred his second half, but many experts looked at him as a major sleeper coming into 2009. What went wrong? Bases on balls again is the bane of a young pitcher. Sanchez's always-shaky control has fallen apart, with an abysmal 6.12 BB/9. Most of his other indicators are right in line with his career norms, but his failure to throw strikes has led to a nightmarish 1.73 WHIP. Sanchez is young enough to rebound, but time might be running out with his recent move to the bullpen. It might be his great first half in 2008 was the one high note in an otherwise tumultuous career.
Steve's been with USA TODAY in one form or another since 1993. He started at USATODAY.com in 1996, becoming the website's baseball editor in 1999, and has written the fantasy baseball column for Sports Weekly since 2006. Follow him on Twitter: @sgardnerUSAT.
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The country traffic design I published the other day, proved popular. So here is another little set of transport themed motifs for you. These are based on my busy traffic design, which can be seen on fabric via my Spoonflower shop or on a variety of products in my Redbubble store.
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The classically designed Ottawa children's jodhpur boot gives great comfort when wearing.
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statvfs(2) statvfs(2)
statvfs, fstatvfs - get file system information
#include <<<<sys/types.h>>>>
#include <<<<sys/statvfs.h>>>>
int statvfs (const char *path, struct statvfs *buf);
int fstatvfs (int fildes, struct statvfs *buf);
statvfs() returns information about a mounted file system.
fstatvfs() returns similar information about an open file.
The parameters for the statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions are as
path is a pointer to a path name of any file
within the mounted file system.
buf is a pointer to a statvfs structure, which is
where the file system status information is
fildes is a file descriptor for an open file, which
is created with the successful completion of
an open(), creat(), dup(), fcntl(), or pipe()
system call (see open(2), creat(2), dup(2),
fcntl(2), or pipe(2)).
The statvfs structure contains the following members:
ulong f_bsize; /* preferred file system block size */
ulong f_frsize; /* fundamental file system block size */
ulong f_blocks; /* total blocks of f_frsize on file system */
ulong f_size; /* size of file system in f_frsize unit */
ulong f_bfree; /* free blocks */
ulong f_bavail; /* blocks available to non-superuser */
long f_files; /* total file nodes in file system */
long f_ffree; /* free file nodes in file system */
long f_favail; /* file nodes available to non-superuser */
long f_fsid; /* file system ID for file system */
/* type; see sysfs(2) */
char f_basetype[FSTYPSZ]; /* file system type name is null-terminated */
long f_flag; /* bit mask of flags */
long f_namemax /* maximum file name length */
char f_fstr[32]; /* file system specific string */
time_t f_time; /* Last time file system was written */
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statvfs(2) statvfs(2)
The field f_basetype contains a null-terminated file-system-type name.
The constant [FSTYPSZ] is defined in the header file <<<<statvfs.h>>>>.
The following flags can be returned in the f_flag field:
ST_LARGEFILES File system is enabled for large files.
ST_RDONLY File system is read-only.
ST_NOSUID File system does not support setuid and
setgid semantics.
ST_EXPORTED File system is exported (NFS).
ST_QUOTA Quotas are enabled on this file system.
statvfs() and fstatvfs() return 0 upon successful completion;
otherwise, they return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.
If statvfs() fails, errno is set to one of the following values:
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component
of the path prefix.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links are encountered
during path-name translation.
[ENAMETOOLONG] The length of the specified path name exceeds
PATH_MAX bytes, or the length of a component
of the path name exceeds NAME_MAX bytes while
_POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in effect.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist (for example,
path is null or a component of path does not
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a
If fstatvfs() fails, errno is set to the following value:
[EBADF] fildes is not a valid open file descriptor.
When both statvfs() and fstatvfs() fail, errno is set to one of the
following values:
[EFAULT] buf points to an invalid address.
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statvfs(2) statvfs(2)
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or
writing to the file system.
df(1M), fstatfs(2), fstatvfs64(2), quotactl(2), stat(2), statfs(2),
statvfs64(2), sysfs(2), ustat(2).
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text: "It's King Lune in the middle: the brothers Dar and Darrin on each side of him. Behind them are Tran and Shar and Cole with his brother Colin. " ― Hermit of the Southern March[src] Shar was an Archenlander lord who lived during the reign of King Lune. He fought with Tran at the Battle of Anvard. Retrieved from "http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Shar?oldid=46450" Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you've made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Categories: Archenlanders Nobility Characters of The Horse and his Boy


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What is your username? Naali
Please link to the wiki here: http://thejadecocoonproject.wikia.com/wiki/Jade_Cocoon_Wiki
How many edits have you made on that wiki? 2322 until this moment.
How many days/months have you been editing there? Joined in May 2012, about 3 or 4 months with actual edits. My last edit wave started 9 days ago.
On the Special Pages → Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it?
28th January 2013 by Levant of Syrus
Any other information: I was made admin by the founder, Levant of Syrus, who hasn't given any other rights to other users. I've tried to contact her three days ago, but I don't think she will ever react. There are some users editing a bit at the moment, but I've created most of the stuff there, about 300 of the pages. I would like to get bureaucrat rights so I can promote other dedicated users to admins and bureaucrats.
~N~ (talk) 07:26, August 8, 2013 (UTC)
Granted. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 20:59, August 23, 2013 (UTC)


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(1930?-) Brilliant electrical engineer and founder of ARP Instruments. Pearlman graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1948, the same year that he wrote a term paper speculating on possible designs for future music synthesizers. However, he did not go into the music business right away; after graduation he joined the electronics firm of George A. Philbrick Researches, which was doing pioneer work on pre-integrated-circuit operational amplifiers. In 1962, Pearlman and a few co-workers broke away from Philbrick and founded Nexus Research Labs. At Nexus, Pearlman did research on analog computing circuits using op amps. He designed some circuits used in NASA's Gemini and Apollo space capsules, and among his patents from that period was one for a circuit that is still used in analog synthesizer VCOs today.
The Nexus founders sold the company to Teledyne in 1967, and the proceeds of the sale made them wealthy. With time and money on his hands, Pearlman returned to his college-years interest in electronic music and began building synthesizer circuits. After two years, he had the basics of a modular synthesizer that could compete with Moog Music's offerings. He founded a new company, putting $100,000 of his own money into it and naming the company using his initials — Alan R. Pearlman. (He was nicknamed "Arp" when working at Philbrick; apparently nicknaming people based on their initials was a company fad, since the company's founder, George A. Philbrick, was known as "Gap".) ARP's first product, the Pearlman-designed 2500 modular synth, filled a hole in the marketplace at a time when Moog was having trouble keeping up with its orders, and ARP was an instant success.
Other successes followed in quick succession, including the Odyssey performance synth, the Omni string synth, and the 2600 semi-modular. But the company suffered from management problems; Pearlman did not want the responsibility of making day-to-day business decisions and a leadership struggle ensued. Also, Pearlman, by his own admission, did not relate well to the pop and rock musicians who were the company's main customers. (It is not true, however, that Pearlman did not listen to or play music; he was a classically trained pianist.) After the company went public in 1973 and established a board of directors, Pearlman found himself gradually being pushed out of a management role. Over his objections, ARP pursued the disastrous Avatar project that led to the company's financial collapse. When the company fell into bankruptcy in 1981, Pearlman was dismissed along with the rest of the management.
After ARP, Pearlman went into semi-retirement. He founded a software company called Selva Systems, but little info is available on the Internet about its activities. He emerged from retirement in 2003 to consult with soft synth maker Way Out Ware on the TimeWARP 2600, a soft synth which emulates the ARP 2600, and he has since consulted on other software emulations of ARP synths. As of December 2010 he is alive and well and living in Massachusetts.


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text: We're inviting the public into our studio space for a free community storytime featuring Degas & The Little Dancer. Young ballerina Marie van Goethen dreamed of becoming a world famous dancer. She gave up her dreams to support her family as an artist's model, yet still became one of the most famous dancers in the world as the subject of Edgar Degas' bronze statue La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans. An interactive activity will follow the story. For ages 5 and under and accompanying adults. This storytime is a small preview of family ballet Degas & The Little Dancer, which takes place for seven performances May 8-22!


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Student Away From Home? Amazon Prime Student Free 6 Mos. Trial!
Thousands of Canadian students have already jumped on board of trying out an Amazon Student membership for students, and with good reason. There's a 6 month free trial for students in college or university and after the 6 mos. is up, if you decide to keep your membership, you'll be charged only $39, for an additional one year membership, which is half of the regular Amazon Prime annual fee of $78!
Here's a perfect example of why students should have an Amazon Student membership. Grocery shopping takes time and effort, especially if you don't have a vehicle. Regularly purchasing products for home (as well as school supplies) with fast, free shipping is amazing. These products are also generally available at low prices as Amazon has competitive pricing.
The Amazon Student member can purchase products for the dorm room such as toilet tissue, paper towel, shampoo, dorm room cleaning agents, laundry detergent, pop-tarts, munchies and more. If they need an item faster, they can pay $3.99 for one day shipping (available in certain areas, some remote areas won't be able to offer this service.)
Other added benefits such as free unlimited cloud photo storage, and early access to Amazon Prime deals are included.
Cancelling is super easy and is done online without talking to anyone - a simple click of the mouse ends the membership. Once the benefits of ordering online with no minimum purchase required, and free shipping on Amazon.ca Prime eligible products are realized, I think most students will want to carry on with their membership.
If you're a student in Quebec, there is no free trial but for the $39 you will receive 18 mos. of Amazon Student, so you are still able to have the same amount of months as anyone else, in the long run!
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