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The California Democrat and member of the new congressional "super committee" explains why the biggest deficit America faces is jobs.
Rep. Xavier Becerra
Tavis: Next month the 12-member congressional deficit super-committee will begin the process to find common ground on ways to reduce the growing federal deficit. Xavier Becerra is one of the six members from the House on this new committee. He represents a district, of course, here in California that includes parts of Los Angeles. Congressman, good to have you back on this program.
Rep. Xavier Becerra: Tavis, great to be with you.
Tavis: You doing all right?
Becerra: Always well.
Tavis: Good. Let me start with something that might be a bit unorthodox as a place to start, but if I said to you, respectfully – and I'm glad you're on this committee. If we have to have the committee, I'm glad you're on it.
Becerra: Thank you.
Tavis: But if I said to you, respectfully, this is the worst way to govern, this is the worst way to run a country, the worst way to make decisions – you pick 12 people out of 535 members that we elect to send to Washington and 12 of y'all get to make these high-level decisions. If I said to you, "That's a horrible way to run a government," you'd say what?
Becerra: This is where we've gotten to, and we've got to do something, because every day people are balancing their budgets at the kitchen table, and we have to do it as well.
I wouldn't have chosen this way either, but I got elected to do work, and work I will do. Hopefully, this 12-member super-committee will get it done so that Congress can vote on it, the president can sign it and we move forward. The biggest responsibility we have right now, Tavis, is creating jobs, not cutting deficits. It's creating jobs. The biggest deficit we face is a jobs deficit.
Tavis: So how do you feel, then, being on the committee that is a super-committee that is focused on deficit reduction, when by your own admission that's not where our energies ought to be? We ought to be talking about jobs.
Becerra: Well, think about it – how do you best get us out of this economic hole? Putting 15 million Americans back to work. If they're working, they're paying taxes. If they're paying taxes, the Treasury's collecting money. If they're not working, they're using services.
So quite honestly, the best way to get ourselves back in the black is to get America back to work.
Tavis: But my question, though, is how is your focus now on this super-committee at deficit reduction helping the jobs deficit that we have right now?
Becerra: Because what you can do is make sure you target the right things to get the economy going again. So for example, many of us don't believe that the way you get jobs back going again and the way you get the deficits reduced is to make devastating cuts to services right now.
What you do is you put in abeyance to some degree some of those cuts, and we've already done $900 billion worth of those cuts already, but you don't do it so you're shaving off the bone. What you do is you make them strategically, so that what you can do is for example repair our roads and our bridges, get those schools back in order.
Some good American job is going to be created if you get that school retrofitted again. So you can put Americans back to work, make good investments, at the same time that you're no longer spending money paying Halliburton to provide a meal to a soldier, bills the government, the taxpayer, for that meal, but the soldier never eats it. That's silly.
We can do things – there shouldn't be 1,500 millionaires in America who pay no taxes. We can do a number of things that quickly get the deficit going back down and American jobs back up.
Tavis: To your point, Congressman, about these strategic cuts and how you go about not further decimating the American economy by making the wrong kinds of cuts, there are some who are suggesting that if we really want to be strategic and surgical about protecting the programs that matter most to us, programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, those programs, the way this new law is written, those programs are not in your purview really to touch anyway as a part of this 12-person committee. They're pretty much exempt.
In my reading of the law, those programs – Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare – aren't really allowed to be touched anyway. If I'm right about that, maybe the best way, according to some, is for us not to figure this out. Make this 12-person committee have to kick in, and when it kicks in, at least those major programs are protected. You've heard that logic before.
Becerra: Yes and no, if that's the right way to answer this, because one, if we did nothing, the way the laws are written, certain things in the law would expire that would allow us to get the economy in better shape, believe it or not. So in some ways it's the Hippocratic Oath of the doctor – do no harm.
So the reality is, for example, the Bush tax cuts, which have been the largest drivers of these deficits, would expire next year. That's about $3 trillion or $4 trillion that we would recoup into the Treasury if we didn't have these Bush tax cuts that went mostly to wealthy folks.
So do nothing, and guess what? All of a sudden you get healthier economically. But at the same time, this committee has a task. If the 12-member committee fails, then what happens is automatically – this is what you're talking about – automatically we make cuts to all sorts of services. The services that don't get harmed are Social Security.
Medicare is touched. It is touched. Not dramatically, but it is touched. Medicaid would not get hit. But who wants to go to the point of saying that we're going to leave it to some automatic trigger that has nothing to do with reality on the ground for Americans?
We should do this because we've been tasked by the people of this country to do it, and so whether it's 12 of us or the 435 in the house or the 100 in the Senate, we should just get it done.
Tavis: The fiscal year for the government ends on September 30th, as you well know. How much danger is the country in, how much more difficult is your job going to be if by the 30th of September we don't figure out the mess that we're in now relative to our annual budget?
Becerra: We already have a sense of what faces us. This isn't rocket science, either. It's simple math. It's just making the tough choices. What the 12 of us on this super-committee have to do is agree that we're going to leave our preconditions, our special interest pledges, our sacred cows at the door, and we're going to walk in ready to look at everything, put everything on the table, and let good judgment and principle guide us to a solution.
Tavis: If we had a Congress, respectfully, that had good judgment and principle, we wouldn't be in this mess with the 12 of y'all being charged to do this in the first place, which raises this question – why is it, respectfully, that I or any other American should believe that what Congress couldn't do 12 members of Congress can do?
Becerra: Well, Tavis, remember there is a guillotine waiting for us if we don't get this done. If the 12 members don't come up with something that Congress can support and the president can sign, then the guillotine makes $1.5 trillion of automatic cuts. You can't decide, oh, I want this to be cut and this not to be cut – comes down.
Secondly, I think more importantly, the public has finally said what you've just said. We just elected you to do a job. If you're not going to do it, then why are you there? It's time for us, whether you're a D or an R, to prove that we can get it done. That does require – it says Ds and Rs. As I said, to not come to the table to negotiate, saying, "You can't touch this" or "You can't touch that."
I have to be ready to say, even though I don't believe this, that Social Security has to be on the table. Social Security has never contributed one single penny to these deficits or the national debt. Some people want to cut Social Security.
I'll say all right, let's put it on the table. I hope that I can prevail by defending it on the merits, but if we can walk in and say, "That's off the table," then all of us are going to walk in saying, "That's off the table," and then we'll never get it done.
Tavis: Two things – when you say that guillotine is waiting for you if these cuts aren't made – and I hear that – I say again this respectfully, I'm trying to figure out how members of this committee are impacted if these cuts kick in.
Put another way, pardon my English, ain't none of y'all broke, ain't none of y'all poor, ain't none of y'all unemployed. None of you are without health insurance.
I'm trying to figure out, even if these cuts do kick in, when you say the public wants us to get this solved, it's not like it's going to impact you if these cuts don't kick in. So I'm trying to understand, again, how it is that 12 members of Congress who are no different than their other colleagues, who aren't going to be impacted by these cuts themselves, can get this done when Congress couldn't get it done.
Becerra: Yeah, I'm glad you're always respectful. You've constantly you're respectfully asking the question. Tavis, you're absolutely right. There's not a member of Congress who lives the life of someone about to lose a home or who lost a job a year or two ago. That's a fact of life.
At the same time, my parents didn't get an education. I'm the first in my family to get a college degree. I know what Social Security means to my parents today. I know what it meant for my parents to see their son get to college and get a great degree.
I know that my father, who worked with his hands all his life, picking crops, cleaning the hulls of ships here in L.A. harbor, fixing the brakes on Southern-Pacific railroad cars, canning tomatoes for Campbell's soup, road construction work during the heyday of freeway construction; I know what he went through.
I know that today that same road construction worker probably could not send his son to Stanford University anymore. That isn't right. So I may not be in the situation my dad was in, but I know the shoes that my dad filled.
So I hope that each and every one of us on the super-committee, Congress, understands that it's not us we're worried about, it's folks like my parents, who built this country.
Tavis: I asked that question because I figured you might give me an answer in that vein, and I'm glad you did, which leads me to this next point. There are 12 persons on this committee, as we've already established. There is one Hispanic on that committee – Xavier Becerra – there is one African American on that committee – James Clyburn.
The overwhelming majority of the crushing that Americans are feeling because of this economy right now – you know where I'm going with this –
Becerra: Yes, I do.
Tavis: – are bearing down on your community and my community.
Becerra: That's right.
Tavis: Yet there are only two persons of color out of a 12-person committee. Now, I'm not naïve about how Congress runs. I'm just asking you what you say to Americans of color – and too many folk are being hurt in this economy, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to say that only Blacks and Browns are being hurt.
The numbers are clear. Disproportionately, the hell is raining down on Hispanics and on African Americans more than anybody else, and our Native American brothers and sisters, who are not represented on this committee at all.
But I ask, finally and quickly, what you say to those persons of color who are being hurt the most who don't necessarily see their interests represented in a broad way on the super-committee.
Becerra: I'm an American, and as much as my dad could tell me the stories of how he would walk on a street and there would be a sign in the restaurant that said, "No dogs or Mexicans allowed," I get to take my father into the White House now. When he goes into the White House he sees a man of color.
So at the end of the day, whether I'm Latino or I'm African American or I'm a woman, we're at the table now. There should be more folks of diversity at the table, but we're at the table, and that's the great thing about this country, is ultimately it gives us a place.
So what I hope is that as an American I can prove to folks that we can get to a solution for all Americans, not just Latino or African Americans or women. But no one will take away my heritage and what I bring to the table, and I guarantee you, just like Jim Clyburn or Patty Murray, Senator Patty Murray, we bring a lot to the table.
And Tavis, here I have to say something. I tip my hat to Nancy Pelosi, the leader in the House Democrats. She didn't have to appoint Jim Clyburn and me, but she did, and she has done a remarkable job as a leader for this country of making sure that people are included.
That's what leadership is about, and I hope that we can prove her right in saying that this American and other Americans have a right to be at the table because we can do it as well as any other American.
Tavis: I take your point. Respectfully, I disagree on one thing – she had to do it if she didn't want all hell to rain down on her. (Laughter) So I take your point, respectfully. Speaking of which, as you now know, I respect you, but I do not envy you – God bless you – in this journey that you're about to take. (Laughter)
Becerra: Thanks, Tavis.
Tavis: Good to see you, Congressman.
Becerra: Good to see you as well.
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Nitrates Though the roof!!!! Hey Everyone, I have 30G Long tank, just about 2 weeks ago I saw a incredible spike in the Nitrates, it's literally off the charts. I have not changed anything in my tank, I do a weekly 15% water change, feed them once a day. Since the spike I have done a water change every other day...what could be causing this and what can I do to fix it: Fish in Tank: 3 black skirt tetras 1 silver dollar 2 Sail Fin Mollys 2 Pink Guarmis I don't think the tank is over populated, I could be wrong tho please help! |
What was your nitrates reading? What is it now? Maybe 25% water changes every week will help keep nitrates lower. Could also add some plants, may help keep your nitates down some, but would still need to do the water changes. |
check your test kit, do you have a lfs that will test a sample for you?, test your replacement water. what your are stating is not realistic. keep in touch with us. please |
I took it to the LFS last night after I have done some water changes, the color of the liquid test kit was a still a darker red than anything on the yellow to light red range. My only thought could be that every other time i have taken it to the LFS they never checked it before and it's been a building problem. They suggested plenty of water changes and cut back on feeding. I don't know what to do.... Is the stock a problem? I appreciate your help! |
You should test the params of the source of the water you use. There might be nitrates in that. |
For volume of fish I don't think stocking is a problem unless that silver dollar is full grown. My first instinct would be to say it was an inaccurate test. What were your readings before this? Also, how long has the tank been established? If the tank was cycling all the ammonia and nitrites working through the system would have hit your tank with a big slug of nitrates as the cycle ended. If the test is accurate its time to reassess your maintenance habits. First off, one of the big goals of water changes is to keep nitrates under control. Your change schedule should be often enough and large enough that nitrates stay consistently below 40ppm. If your changes are too infrequent or small then the equilibrium point will be much higher. If nitrates are that high then you need to pick up the pace or volume of water changes, maybe both. I wouldn't advise more than a 50% water change at a time. If it takes more than that do more water changes with a smaller volume, like bi-weekly 30% changes. You're going to have to toy with it to see what it takes to keep your particular aquarium in check. Second, nitrates are the end result of decomp in the tank. Either your fish eating the food and pooping or uneaten food decomposing. Its also possible that a fish might have died and led to a spike in nitrogenous substances. If you have no dead fish then you will want too look at how much you feed them. First off, ignore what it says on the fish food bottle. Most read "as much food as the fish eat in 2 to 3 minutes." Remember, these people have a vested interest in selling you more fish food and the best way to do that is work you through your current supply as quickly as possible. Look to feed your fish as much as they'll take in about 30 seconds. If food is falling to the floor of the aquarium feed less or feed in one or two individual pinches after another instead of one big glop. If the fish lose interest feed them a little less. Only feed twice a day. If nitrates are really though the roof temporarily cut back to one feeding a day along with once a day 50% water changes until the nitrates are under 40ppm again. |
do you vac your substrate when you do water changes? |
Thanks for all the help so far guys!!!! The silver dollar is no where near full grown. I did a 30% water change last night, making it the second one in 5 days. I do vaccum the subtrate when I do water changes. Regarding the water that I change my tank with, I do know that is a little bit harder than most water, as I have noticed a calcium build up on my hood/lights, I moved recently. Here's my plan: going to do a 30% water changes on monday and thursday. i am also going to start using some RO water rather than the tap water I use now for water changes and continue my feeding once a day. Hopefully this will work! let me know what you think thanks for all the help! |
Are you going to RO water because of the scaling? That's a pretty expensive solution to the problem. |
well if it's my tap water which is the source of my problem, it might be worth it till it gets back under control? any other ideas you would try? again, thanks for the help |
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The winter's comin' on
The early morning air is cool and crisp. Air conditioners and fans are being replaced by storm windows and wood stoves. The leaves are starting to turn and soon we'll be out in the yard raking them up. My garden is starting to slow down and there's one other sign that the winter's comin' on...
Wednesday is the final day of the Scottsville Midweek Farmers Market.
The market offers a gathering place for our community in a beautiful village setting as well as the ability to purchase local produce and other homemade goods. The market is sponsored by the Greater Wheatland Area Chamber of Commerce and hosted by the American Legion Smith-Warren Post 367. Make sure to stop out Wednesday between 4-7pm and support your local farmers and artisans.
Which brings me back to this;
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But now they're gone
The winter's comin' on
Summer's almost gone
Ok, so the first person to tweet me the name of the group who sang Summer's Almost Gone will have a free sandwich and drink waiting for them at the food vendor located under the pavilion at Scottsville mid-week Farmers Market!


text: You Won't Believe How Amazing This Wildlife Photography Contest Winner IsKyle Wagner9/25/12 10:49amFiled to: PhotographyNatureWildlife29EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Wildlife photography can be grueling, tedious work, but the payoff is sometimes you get something as amazing as this British Wildlife Photography Awards winner. It's of gannets (birds), diving into the sea off the coast of north Scotland. And it's breathtaking. Advertisement The Gannets had been lured to the location by photographer Matt Doggett with dead mackerel, while he waited to get the shot. Here he is talking about his photo, Gannet Jacuzzi:"I like this image, as almost every stage of the action is captured-gannets entering the water, gannets eyeing up the fish, gannets taking the fish, gannets eating the fish and then finally leaving," Dogget said in a statement. "It looks like chaos, but the gannets know exactly where the other birds are."Gannet Jacuzzi is the overall winner of the BWPAs this year, but it's in good company. You can check out all the winners over at the BWPA site, and we've also included a few more below. [BWP Awards via National Geographic via Get Outdoors] Winner: Urban WildlifeStarlings watching the Starlings, by Phil Jones Winner: HD VideoRaymond Besant, Hoy Fulmars Runners up: Ben Tutton, Dippers Ben Burville, Grey SealsReply29 repliesLeave a reply


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Deployment to be completed by early 2012
Chinese exhib Wanda Cinema has ordered 280 digital cinema servers and 45 Theater Management Systems from GDC Technology.
Deployment is due to be completed by the first quarter of 2012. The massive expansion in the number of cinemas in China has been crucial in driving the impressive rise of the Chinese biz. Wanda, which was named Exhibitor of the Year at CineAsia 2010, has built 21 multiplexes with more than 200 screens in the past five years, totaling 71 multiplex and 600 screens, and it reps 15% of the total box office revenue in China. For its part, GDC now leads in the field of providing servers to digital cinema theaters in China with more than 90% market share.


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Funds: September Caps a Horrid Quarter
By Amey Stone
The mutual-fund world had little good news in September. Investors gave up hope that the weak economic readings over the summer months had been just a temporary blip and faced the fact that the economic recovery was slowing. Incessant debate over whether the U.S. should attack Iraq also fueled investors unease, prompting them to avoid stocks.
Perhaps the month's only heartening outcome was that the average U.S. diversified equity fund, which fell 8.7%, significantly outperformed the S&P 500-stock index, which fell 10.9%. However, for the third quarter, which wrapped up in September, the average U.S. diversified equity fund fell 17.2%, which was about equal to the S&P 500's 17.3% drop.
In what's proving to be par for the course this year, the funds that did best were those that bet stocks would fall. Profunds UltraBear (URPIX ) gained 23.6% in September, and Rydex Dynamic Tempest 500 (RYTPX ) gained 23.5%. Most bear-market funds gained about 10% in the month (see BW's Interactive "Mutual Fund Scoreboard").
Of broader equity-fund categories, only precious-metals funds eked out a positive return in September -- and that was just 0.4%. Int that group, Midas Fund (MIDSX ) stood out with a 6.6% gain. Precious-metals funds also had the best returns for the quarter, but they were still down 4% on average for the past three months. Year-to-date that category is up 46.9%, far outperforming any other fund group this year.
Real estate and health-care funds were relatively good defensive plays in September, down just 3.8% and 4.1% in the month, respectively. That was a bit better than hybrid funds (which invest in both stocks and bonds), which slipped 6%. For the quarter, health, domestic hybrid, and real estate funds each fell 9%, which was quite a bit better than most stock-fund groups.
September saw no real difference in how growth vs. value strategies performed, but small-cap funds, which slid about 7%, did a bit better than mid-cap and large-cap funds, which each fell about 10% on average. For the quarter, this trend was reversed, with mid- and large-cap funds tumbling about 17% while small-cap funds plunged roughly 19%.
International funds generally performed just as badly as their domestic peers, falling 10% for the month of September and 18% for the quarter. But Latin America funds brought up the rear in September, dropping 16.7% in the month as Brazil's economic woes mounted. For the quarter, Latin America funds were 23.9% lower.
Technology funds swooned 14.4% in September on the worsening outlook for information-technology spending. Over the quarter these funds plunged 26%. Year-to-date, tech funds are down a disastrous 50.5%.
Bond funds continued to provide investors with their best chance at earning positive returns, gaining 1.3% on average in September and 3.1% in the quarter. Municipal and long-term government bonds had the strongest results among bond-fund categories in September as investors stuck to quality. California tax-free bond funds were up 2.7% in September, and long-term government bond funds rose 2.3%.
The worst performing fixed-income funds were those that invest in convertible securities, which were down 3.1% for September and 8.1% for the quarter. Emerging-markets bond funds were 2.8% lower for the month and 2% for the quarter, and high-yield bond funds slipped 1.1% for the month and 2.9% for the quarter.
Stone is an associate editor of BusinessWeek Online and covers the markets as a Street Wise columnist and mutual funds in her Mutual Funds Maven column
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Cold Treat to (Cool) Tech Education: Mexican Grad Student Finds a New Home
Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez is shown with a Jatropha plant, which is used for biofuel in her native Yucatan, Mexico.
February 27, 2013—
"I went out for an ice cream cone," Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez says, of a routine journey in her native city of Merida, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula. "I noticed this man asking directions in English, and the store clerk couldn't help him."
The man was Richard Donovan, operations manager of Michigan Technological University's Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI), who was in Mexico with David Shonnard, Tech professor of chemical engineering, finishing some consulting work. This day he was doing "touristy things."
"He told me where he drove from and where he was going, and he was completely in the wrong part of the city," Sanchez Gonzalez says. "I thought he might get lost, so I told him to follow me."
When they arrived at the destination, Donovan was embarrassed to see it was a straight route he had messed up. Small talk ensued, and he asked Sanchez Gonzalez about her background.
"I told him I am a social anthropologist with a bachelor's degree and was studying for my master's degree at the time, and I was working with an NGO [nongovernment organization] while teaching two classes," she says.
She also told him she would like to pursue a PhD someday in human rights and environmental issues.
Donovan was impressed and grateful. He emailed her a few days later, telling her about the SFI website, said they might be doing research in the Yucatan and that there might be room for a PhD student to help with the work.
The research would look at a proposed biodiesel plant in nearby small towns.
"What do you think?" Donovan asked.
"What do the people in those towns think?" she replied.
She was in.
"The sustainable part of the study we are doing involves the people of the region and how they are treated," Donovan says. "Mayra's work would fit right in."
All that remained was applying, getting accepted, taking the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and the Graduate Record Exam, and traveling to Tech.
Sanchez Gonzalez wound up receiving a very competitive Mexican government scholarship to pursue a PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy at Tech and do research on her native Yucatan. Her work is part of a $5 million National Science Foundation grant with Donovan, Shonnard and others.
Even that government scholarship was serendipitous: her uncle told her about it a week after she met Donovan, an uncle who hadn't been in touch with the family for15 years.
She was on her way, but...
"Nobody told me about the weather!" she protests.
Leaving the beach at Cancun and flying into to Houghton, Mich., at midnight in January 2012, she initially refused to get off the plane until the jetway was rolled up. She was terrified of walking on the snow, which she had never seen before.
Of course, there was no jetway at the Houghton County Memorial Airport, so she carefully made her way into the terminal, where advisor Barry Solomon, professor in social sciences, waited with a coat and other winter necessities.
Leaving friends, family, jobs and hometown was tough sledding at first. Learning to walk on snow and ice from Daniell Heights down to campus came slow too.
"I cried every day for three months," she says. "Finally, my mother said she would send me money to fly me home, but she made me realize I had been given a unique opportunity, and it's not forever. It's for three or four years."
Her mother's pep talk worked.
Sanchez Gonzalez is progressing through course work and anxious to get on with her research. She's also found time to be president of NOSOTROS, the Hispanic student organization at Tech.
"And, I have another family here now," she says. "I have friends from Italy, Spain, Latin America, Turkey. The international students really help each other out."
She's fond of her professors, too, especially Solomon. "He's a good advisor."
And the new Husky Shuttle bus has helped her navigate the slippery streets of her new, albeit temporary, home.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 672436, 15 pages
Self-Organized Connectivity Control and Optimization Subjected to Dispersion of Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Received 3 May 2012; Revised 11 July 2012; Accepted 29 July 2012
Academic Editor: Zhiguo Ding
Copyright © 2012 Zhenqiang Mi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper addresses the problem of the connectivity control and the self-organized deployment/dispersion of a team of mobile ad hoc sensor nodes. First, to reduce redundant communication links while preserving global connectivity, a distributed link removal algorithm is developed that only requires local information of no more than two-hop neighbors. Secondly, for the purpose of preserving essential links while avoiding collisions, a combined piecewise-continuous motion controller is designed to regulate the motion of mobile sensors between two consecutive switches. The proposed hybrid control system can autonomously disperse a team of mobile sensors towards their final configuration with guaranteed connectivity and collision avoidance. Theoretical analysis and computer simulations have confirmed the efficiency and scalability of the proposed schemes.


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For higher order structure studies, hydrogen deuterium exchange with mass spectrometry – alternatively referred to as H/D exchange, HDX, or HXMS – has become indispensable for biotech companies.
Recent innovations in LC/MS, automation, and informatics technologies have converted HDX MS from a complex academic exercise to a robust tool for discovery and development of protein drugs.
Waters has turned what was a highly manual analytical process, where success was dependent on technical skill, into an integrated and automated system solution. This system leverages high-pressure nano- to microscale UPLC separations and high-resolution MSE mass spectrometry to answer important questions about biotherapeutic protein dynamics, conformation, and interactions, including:
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A core element of the system is the HDX Manager, which is purpose-built to manage samples separated under higher operating pressures, at 0° C and with no compromise in deuterium recovery. Its improved chromamatographic resolution is paired with a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer such as the Xevo® G2-S QTof or SYNAPT® G2-Si HDMS systems. The system also integrates on-line proteolysis with trapping capability and MSE technology for maximum sequence coverage of complex mixtures of peptic digest.
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Ion mobility separation (IMS) is used in the UPLC/MS HDX workflow, providing additional, orthogonal separations to chromatography and mass dimensions. Overlapping interfering ions are successfully resolved by IMS and displayed in DynamX HDX Software.
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In HDX studies, data are produced across multiple time points, multiple species, and with replicates. Curating this data manually is not time-efficient and requires expert interpretation. Interpretation of this data is a repetitive process that requires counting and measuring spectra.
DynamX Software is designed to systematically select spectra with predetermined criteria and measure the mass change of the deuterated form. The software automation was greatly simplified by utilizing the sharper peaks and better separation available with UPLC, and the comprehensive nature of the MSE detection. This automation, along with the capability to sort and display data, has been an important advance.
DynamX tracks all peptides that are reproducibly found in replicates, ensuring consistency in monitoring the deuterium exchange. The software also calculates the amount of deuteration and displays the results in convenient comparative views: uptake curves, a butterfly chart, and a difference chart. Data processing time is significantly reduced from months for manual processing to hours for automated processing.
DynamX software helps researchers assess possible conformational changes in their proteins quickly. It simplifies hydrogen-deuterium exchange interpretation by performing these tasks:
Hydrogen deuterium exchange (HDX) MS works in many applications, including understanding how small-molecule therapeutics bind to protein targets, and performing epitope mapping. With this technology, deuterium in a solution replaces the amide hydrogen in a biomolecule's backbone, and MS measures these changes. The results reveal information about protein structure.
Basic principles of hydrogen deuterium exchange
Amide hydrogen on the backbone of a biomolecule exchanges with deuterium in solution at different rates partly dependent on conformation. These changes can be measured by MS and therefore the degree of activity at various sites can be inferred. These locations can be identified and mapped to the primary sequence, which also allows easier visualization. Relative folding and dynamics can be determined from the different rates of uptake at different locations.
Learn more: "Performing Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange with Mass Spectrometry" in BioPharm International.
Using UPLC/MSE provides better coverage
Using MSE means that a comprehensive dataset can be generated. All of the peptides are measured without bias by peptide signal intensity. This is an important feature for HDX studies where key information might be found in low-intensity peptides.
HDX by mass spectrometry opens new windows into the dynamics of biomolecules by providing information on the relative deuterium uptake of different conformations of a protein, or locations within a protein. Recent developments have made HDX with mass spectrometry a more accessible tool to study the dynamics of higher order structure (HOS) of biotherapeutics.
Industry and regulatory trends have very clearly moved towards an emphasis on conformation and the relationships between biomolecules. Therefore HDX is a key tool that is being rapidly adopted in more areas of biotherapeutic analysis.
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A central mission of the Mass General Stroke Service is to advance the understanding and treatment of cerebrovascular disease. We are committed to promoting the education of our medical students, residents, fellows, physicians and nurses and administrative staff. In addition, there has been a long-standing commitment to welcoming and educating visitors from other institutions as they observe our clinical activities.
'Observers' include physicians, trainees, medical students, nurses, industry staff, medical representatives, and other visitors who are not affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General), Partners Healthcare, or Harvard Medical School (HMS), who wish to observe the activities of the MGH Stroke and Neuro-ICU services.
Program Overview
While we will try our best to accommodate your requested dates and activities of interest, this may not always be possible due to the high demand for stroke service observerships.
Observers are not permitted to participate in direct patient care and are required to adhere to the Hospital's policy on patient privacy and confidentiality.
Observers are welcome to attend our educational activities. These include the weekly stroke/ICU conferences on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Neurology Department Grand Rounds in the historic Ether Dome on Thursday mornings, Neuropathology conferences on Friday mornings, Neuroradiology rounds on Thursday afternoons, Neurovascular conferences on Friday mornings, and monthly Vascular Center rounds.
We request all observers to maintain a log of all stroke service activities attended. At the end of the rotation, we will provide a letter acknowledging the duration of the visit and the clinical activities observed.
An appropriate U.S. entry visa is mandatory. If accepted for the observership, we will provide the necessary documents to support your visa application. Depending on the duration of their visit, Observers may be required to undergo an occupational health check-up and a security check prior to the start of the visit.
This observership program is highly specialized and designed for individuals who are interested in developing stroke/neuro-ICU programs or pursuing stroke in their home institution. In general we welcome applications from those who have completed neurology training, practicing stroke/neuro ICU physicians or nurses, and industry personnel.
Due to the overwhelming demand for observerships and our commitment to educate our own residents and fellows, we are unable to consider unsolicited observership requests from recent medical school graduates, or those seeking US-based hospital experience prior to joining internal medicine or neurology residency.
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How to Apply
Download, complete, and submit the Stroke and Neuro-ICU Observership Program application form (PDF) with the required documents.
Medical students who wish to arrange rotating internships or neurology clinical clerkships at Mass General should contact the Registrar's Office at Harvard Medical School.
Residents in U.S. hospital-based training programs who wish to arrange a formal (accredited) elective rotation should contact our Neurology Residency Education Program Manager. For information about our residency training program please visit the Harvard Neurology Residency Program website.
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I am a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history. My publications have covered a wide range of topics in German, European and Jewish history, including life-reform and protest in 1920s and 1930s Germany; Holocaust survival and memory; Nazi policy and perpetrators; the social impact of total war; post-1945 German and European reconstruction; generation conflict and youth rebellion; Jewish and other minorities in modern German history. I also have an interest in comparative history and in particular in German-Japanese comparisons. My current research projects include a critical synthesis of recent work on Nazi perpetrators, and a project looking at a life-reform and resistance group in Germany 1920-2000.
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Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches. A tree is good to have around. A tree is nice.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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No one has been having more fun with Florida's loss to Auburn than the Tennessee site Losers With Socks. The above video of a Gator fan watching the final moments of Saturday's game comes with a strong language warning. Things pick up with about 50 seconds left in the video.
Losers With Socks also found the photo below that appeared in the Gainesville Sun. Is Auburn's Wes Byrum, who kicked the game-winning field goal, flipping off the Swamp?
Update: Thanks to reader BLV, the image below clearly has been manipulated to give the appearance that Byrum was flipping off the crowd. Compare the image below to the image on this link.
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Hmmmm. Look at that same photo in Stew Mande's Mailbag.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/stewart_mandel/10/03/cfb.mailbag/index.html - 10/3/07, 11:35 AM
It certainly is. And upon closer inspection, a bit of Photoshop work appears to have been applied. Thanks for letting me know and will update post.
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More than 1,300 items from our significant Egyptology collection. The full collection is one of the largest in the UK with 16,000 items spanning from the Prehistoric (c.5300 BC) to the end of the Byzantine Period (642 AD).
There are just six weeks left to see our fascinating exhibition Animal Mummies Revealed! Dr Stephanie Atherton-Woolham and Dr Lidija McKnight from the Ancient Egypt Animal Mummy Bio Bank led on the research for the project, working closely with staff here at World Museum and Kelvingrove .
Start date: 1897 End date: 1897 Description: Excavations undertaken by James Quibell and F. W. Green at Hierakonpolis (Kom el-Ahmar; ancient Nekhen) for the Egyptian Research Account. Bibliography: J. E. Quibell and F. W. Green, Hierakonpolis, 2 volumes (London, 1900-2).


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"We've been here and done that. Modern Warfare 2 surely fails to beat it's predecessor (Call of Duty 4)." Modern Warfare 2 has been a success, in sales at least, but is it really that good? It's hated and also loved but still... many play it. I hoped it was going to be better than Call of Duty 4, the revolutionary game that changed the FPS genre forever, but it fails to meet my expectations. If you loved COD 4 you'd probably agree and probably already know my view... |
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For this game to live up to its own hype it would need to have a solid gold box with the cover art drawn by the pope. (note it does not) It is a more of less complete copy of mw1 with the new modes only being there to lure people in. this game is incredibly glitchy online with half the people playing it exploiting glitches making some matches irritating enough to gouge out your own eyes. the story mode abandons all realism roundabout the 2nd mission and just gets more and more unbelievable... |
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First, let's start off with the campaign. After taking a short tutorial, you are thrown into a course where what difficulty you are advised to play at is recommended. After selecting your difficulty and going through a short cutscene, you are immediately put into a combat situation. The combat in this game is fluent, you simply aim and shoot. Most AI's die in 1-2 shots regardless of the difficulty, which is disappointing. The environments vary greatly, and never get boring. One mission... |
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Barack Obama campaign questions Mitt Romney's secrecy over his personal finances
WASHINGTON—The Obama campaign raised questions Thursday over Mitt Romney's secrecy when it comes to his finances, especially with regards to his investments and whether he pays his fair share of taxes, and called upon the Republican candidate to release his retirement contract from Bain Capital.
In a conference call with reporters, Robert Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, suggested that Romney may still be working for Bain in some capacity despite Romney's claim to have left the company in 1999.
Bauer said that would be one possible explanation as to why Romney received a preferential tax treatment of 15 percent on his investment income.
"It's understandable given the many years that he was involved with Bain and the pride he takes in his service there, that he may have some sort of arrangement by which Bain believes that he is continuing to render valuable service in some way to them," Bauer said. "It's just hard to get the answers to these questions when the governor has so systematically dodged the questions and refused to disclose the information."
Bauer and Obama's press secretary Ben LaBolt also criticized Romney for putting his investment holdings in a trust, managed by his personal attorney in Boston, that is not truly blind by federal standards.
A Romney spokeswoman recently told The Associated Press that Romney plans to put his holdings in a federal blind trust if he is elected president after the news service raised questions about how Romney would handle any future Bain income.
Andrea Saul, the Romney campaign spokeswoman, on Thursday emphasized that the campaign has made it known since last year when ABC News reported on Romney's blind trust that the trust does not meet the exacting federal blind trust standard—nor has the campaign ever referred to the trust as a federal blind trust.
"Another day, another tired distraction by the Obama campaign, which is frantic to avoid discussing the continued rejection of President Obama's agenda by the electorate and by members of his own party," Saul said yesterday. "As has been reported for years, Governor and Mrs. Romney's assets are managed on a blind basis. They do not control the investment of these assets, which are under the control and overall management of a trustee."
The purpose of a blind trust is to protect against conflicts of interest that could influence a president's conduct, policy positions, and legislation. Such a trust by federal standards has more rigorous parameters that would prevent Romney from knowing the contents of his portfolio.


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It was a plain, half-page ad in the March 1970 issue of Frontiers, the Academy's natural history magazine (published from 1936–1983). Advertised was an "Environmental Teach-In" at the Academy, which offered a meeting place for people concerned about the growing issues of the time—pollution and the environment. None of the Academy scientists slated to speak at the event knew how many people might show up.
"It was packed—we really had a lot of people here," says Clyde Goulden, director of the Academy's Asia Center and a speaker at that first event, before it was officially known as Earth Day.
The brochure, pictured above, listed seven Academy scientists and their lecture topics, including water and air pollution, habitat loss, ecological planning, and some of the very first tips on ways to "go green."
This year, the Academy will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day with Academy Earth Day at the Philadelphia Science Festival. You can talk with Academy scientists about their environmental and ecosystem research and learn how you can help to preserve natural resources. Throughout the year, the Academy provides a place to discuss important environmental issues. Through our Town Square series, our Urban Sustainability Forum, and our Center for Environmental Policy, the Academy continues to build public awareness about environmental topics.
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Yesterday, June 19, 2012, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") launched the first public database of complaints against credit card companies. The database shows the different complaints that have been filed against any bank that issues credit cards. The director of the CFPB, Richard Cordray, reports that the new database is not only about keeping consumers informed, but also about providing the CFPB with important insight into consumers and problematic transactions with credit card related financial products.
The new database will track consumer credit card complaints and will also identify problems in the credit card market. The database is searchable by the name of the company, the type of complaint, the consumer's zip code, and the type of relief afforded to the consumer, whether monetary or through an explanation. Consumer information is not disclosed. Yet, consumers can see the types of issues that other customers are facing across the country. The complaints run the gamut of issues, from problems with billing to interest rates to identity thief.
The database is the first of its kind and has placed a large microscope over the operations of the financial institutions, particularly the major industry leaders. The database is in test form, displaying only a sampling of the complaints. Currently, a little over 100 of the roughly 17,000 credit card complaints sent to the CFPB since last July are displayed. It remains to be seen how this public disclosure will affect financial institutions, but many, including the American Bankers Association, worry about the negative implications of the government publishing unsubstantiated and potentially misleading data.
The CFPB has announced possible plans to create similar databases for student loans, mortgages, and bank accounts.
The database potentially increases the risk exposure to credit card companies that could face negative publicity from public complaints without having clear compliance guidelines as to what is required by many of the consumer protection provisions in Title X of Dodd Frank.
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Household refers to a person or group of persons who occupy the same dwelling and do not have a usual place of residence elsewhere in Canada or abroad. The dwelling may be either a collective dwelling or a private dwelling. The household may consist of a family group such as a census family, of two or more families sharing a dwelling, of a group of unrelated persons or of a person living alone. Household members who are temporarily absent on reference day are considered part of their usual household.
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So glad this Beachy's finally coming back. The AJC has a nice article on him out this morning...
Beachy excited for Monday return
For Beachy, Monday might feel a little like making his major league debut all over again. Only this time he's actually had a lot more anticipation. Beachy broke into the majors on Sept. 20, 2010 in Philadelphia, not knowing if he was even going to be needed for the start until Jair Jurrjens tested out his knee prior to the game.
"It'll probably be more typical of other people's debuts this time around in the sense that I know it's coming and I've got time to prepare for it," Beachy said. "You know the story of the last one. Kind of happened so fast, it didn't really sink in to me. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight, control my emotions tomorrow."
Aww. I know most of my Bravesy girlfriends are so excited about this.
BEACHY BEACHY!!!! I am too excited to tomorrow's game! #Braves
— Catherine Warren (@cmw_27) July 29, 2013
In other news...
♡ Another lefty reliever from Kentucky? I won't say no to that. (But don't get me wrong, Jonny is still my favorite.)
The Braves have acquired LHP Scott Downs from the Angels in exchange for right-handed pitcher Cory Rasmus.
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 29, 2013
Downs, 37, owns a career record of 36-35 with a 3.47 ERA over 12 MLB seasons, including 2-3 with a 1.84 ERA over 43 relief apps. this year.
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 29, 2013
Downs made 29 consecutive scoreless apps. (5/5-7/23) this year while notching 13 holds and holding opps. to a .183 clip during that stretch.
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 29, 2013
Since the start of the 2008 season, the Kentucky native ranks fourth among all major league relievers with a 2.28 ERA (min. 200 IP).
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 29, 2013
Scott Downs will be rejoining a couple former teammates in #Braves clubhouse; shared three years w/ R. Johnson in TOR, two w/ Walden in LAA.
— Eric Single (@e_single88) July 29, 2013
I'm slightly concerned about his age. Is it bad that I'm hesitant to embrace a 37-year-old reliever but I want us to re-sign 38-year-old Huddy?
#Braves might be done in the bullpen department. But still a chance they land a backup INF who hits from the left side before Wednesday
— Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) July 29, 2013
I wouldn't say no to bringing Ske back. I know that's not a popular thing to say with people who focus on numbers, but He-Man is really fun to watch.
♡ Simba wins everything.
♡ Not to rehash the whole "build up the area around the Ted" issue, but they're talking about building a maglev train to go from Turner Field to the GSU MARTA station.
♡ MattE tweeted & FBed a link to this, a very Christian-focused article on Huddy and some of his off-the-field inspirations.
♡ Chris Johnson took over the NL batting lead after last night's game. I hope he stays under the radar all the way to the prize so everyone's like, "What? That guy?" and we're all, YEAH, THAT GUY. :D
♡ My favorite part of this Freddie highlight actually happened after this video cuts off. EO was laughing in a different camera angle... I think they intentionally didn't help him, right?
♡ Speaking of EO, here's an article about him titled "Buchan: Flaherty confident he will be back after Tommy John surgery". (They forgot the O', I guess.) It's totally worth reading, especially when he talks about how he hopes he'll be back with the Braves and that he's been rehabbing with Jonny:
"It's nice to have a buddy to go through the whole thing with," O'Flaherty said
Yay, I've been saying that the whole time. It's one of the few things that brings me comfort over the whole season-ending-injuries-to-my-two-fave-Braves thing. Also, I like seeing them on the rail of the dugout at home games. :)
I'll stop talking about that now; I'm sure you're tired of hearing about it! Good luck tonight, Beachy! Someone count the fans and see if there are more women than men there tonight. ;)


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A delicious mixed-vegetable dish dish that makes up one half of the delicious Indian street snack, Pav Bhaji
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1 tbsp canola or other vegetable oil
1 large onion, cut in a small dice
1-inch piece of ginger, grated
2 green chillies, chopped
Paste of 6 garlic cloves
3 tomatoes, diced
1 cup green peas, boiled and then mashed slightly
3 potatoes, boiled, peeled, and coarsely mashed (I like to leave a few pieces in for texture)
¼ or a medium head of cauliflower, grated or chopped really fine
1 green bell pepper, seeded and cut into a small dice
2 tbsp Pav Bhaji masala
Heat the oil in a wide skillet.
Add the onions and saute, until golden spots appear.
Add the ginger and garlic and green chillies and saute another minute.
Add two of the three diced tomatoes and cook over medium-high heat until the oil begins to express itself, about 4 minutes.
Add the cauliflower, peas, potatoes and green bell pepper and stir together.
Add the remaining tomatoes, pav bhaji masala powder, salt and 1½ cups water. Bring the mixture to a boil, turn down the heat, and simmer another 15 minutes or until the vegetables are really tender.
Very carefully, using a potato masher or the back of a ladle, mash the vegetables. I like to leave some texture in, so I don't overdo it, but you shouldn't have any very large pieces of vegetables in there.
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Changing current_output_sub_routing makes sad times
I've created a patch that changes the output MIDI channel of five tracks at once upon receipt of a control message, and it makes my CPU usage jump about %9 or so and a burst of digital clicks, even if those tracks aren't outputting anything at the time. Any way around this? (I'll try spacing the five changes, but that's sub-optimal and this seems like it shouldn't be happening anyway). Thoughts?
Try inserting [deferlow] after receipt of the control message.
Here is some useful explanation.
no dice. even reduced to one track, it's still doing the same thing – CPU jump, graphics (VU meters) freeze, small burst of noise.
In theory this shouldn't happen since deferlow gives lowest priority to the API call.
If you change the routing manually, does it produce similar side-effects?
Yes, it does, even changing a single track at a time.
I tried it with an empty set – one audio source, one MIDI track – no problem. But if I run it up to 64 MIDI tracks (that's not the actual threshold, but when I got tired of duplicating tracks), it starts to occur intermittently. Nowhere to the same degree as my main set, which has rather a lot more going on, but it's clearly the same thing.
The volume of the noise is dependent on the volume of my output – if I do the same thing with the source track pulled down, I don't hear it. It's not the source itself, or occurring on the input side – I recorded a loop in and it's still occurring in the same way playing the loop rather than the input audio. I changed to my laptop's built-in speakers, and it switched from occurring intermittently to occurring without fail. Then I deleted half the MIDI tracks, and it disappeared.
CPU usage with one audio clip playing and 64 empty midi tracks is 2%.
I appreciate your efforts to help but I have a feeling we've hit a dead end here…
So we may conclude that changing the routing on the fly is inherently problematic in Live.
Perhaps because it triggers some expensive operations like eg. recalculation of delay compensation.
But you could still try to reduce the glitches by increasing the audio buffer size.
It does the same changing audio routings as well… Avoid like the plague!
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SANTA ANA Kevin Durant. John Wall. Stanley Johnson?
St. John Bosco of Bellflower coach Derrick Taylor has coached against each of them and other NBA stars and said none of them trumps the Mater Dei forward at the high school level.
"He's up there with Kyrie Irving," Taylor said. "They're the only guys I ever coached against that we were just helpless (against). We did not have an answer for Stanley Johnson.
"He looked like an NBA player to my guys. And my guys are high-end players. He's another level above."
So was top-ranked Mater Dei on Wednesday night, claiming its 25th consecutive league title with an 82-71 victory over St. John Bosco at Mater Dei High.
Johnson had 31 points, 12 rebounds, three steals, a block and an assist. He had 23 points and nine rebounds in the first half alone as the Monarchs built a 48-26 lead. Johnson drained buzzer-beating 3-pointers at the end of the first and second quarters.
It was just two of several 3-pointers Johnson made from NBA range.
"I felt like I was in my range so I let it fly," said Johnson, who went 5 of 8 from beyond the arc. "No second guesses. I felt it early and kept going to it."
Mater Dei (22-1, 8-0 Trinity League), ranked No. 1 in CIF-SS Division 1AA, jumped to a 12-2 lead behind the shooting of Johnson and forward Mario Soto. The Braves (17-5, 6-2), ranked No. 1 in Division 3A, sliced their deficit to seven in the second quarter before the Monarchs closed the half with a 17-2 run. Mater Dei's lead ballooned to 25 points in the third quarter.
Johnson tried for a buzzer-beating trifecta, attempting a half-court heave at the end of the third quarter, only to see it fall into arms of Jayce Johnson, who beat the horn with a layup. Guard Elijah Brown scored 25 points, making all 11 of his free throws. He, along with guards Jordan Strawberry and Chris Nealey, were also key in holding Braves guard Isaac Hamilton to a season-low 7 points.
"We had a lot to prove here," Brown said. "This was a statement game for us. We wanted to reassure everyone we're the best team in the league."
Bosco's high-scoring offense was largely reduced to the exploits forward Daniel Hamilton (27 points) and guard Tyler Dorsey (23 points).
"They're better," Taylor said. "Anyway you want to size it, they're better. They do all the little things that we don't do."
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