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It has been reported that Indonesia could utilize the potential of Islamic finance to fulfil its ambitious infrastructure plans, Standard & Poor's said in a report. The poor state of infrastructure is hindering the growth of Southeast Asia's largest economy, the report said, while noting that the government is planning to spend more than $200 billion through 2014 to upgrade and expand infrastructure. It also noted that most infrastructure projects are backed by the private sector while the government is considering various financing alternatives to fund the rest. "We believe Indonesia can emulate Malaysia's success thus far in utilizing Islamic finance for infrastructure development. This is due to Indonesia's large infrastructure development needs, the government's willingness to attract private capital to fund these investments, and the rising demand for investable assets of a growing domestic Islamic finance market," said S&P credit analyst Allan Redimerio. Islamic banking hopes small medium enterprises (SME) will grow in Indonesia. National economic condition still depends on SME, Widjanarko says. "Many entrepreneurs emerge. The segment offers a big opportunity for Islamic banking," he said. In the mean time, Islamic banking is still optimistic about the outlook in 2012, although the global economic condition still hampers. "We are optimistic to reach the development in 2012 despite the unstable international economy," he said. The Director of Bank Syariah Mandiri (BSM), Sugiharto, agrees. He said, investment grade will influence Indonesian economy. "With the support from Indonesian economy and good investment, we believe that business performance of Islamic bank will increase," Sugiharto said. However, the improving grade will not impact Islamic banking directly to the business capacity in Indonesia is still small, the chairman of Indonesian Islamic Bank Association (Asbisindo), A Riawan Amin, says. "Recently, the infrastructure financing and capital flow do not involve Islamic banking yet," he said. To boost Islamic banking, Amin said, the government should have given stimulus. He also suggests, infrastructure financing can be done by syndication of some Islamic banks. "The political will of the government is very important," he added. |
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Summary: LacY proton/sugar symporter
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LacY proton/sugar symporter Provide feedback
This family is closely related to the sugar transporter family.
Literature references
Marger MD, Saier MH Jr; , Trends Biochem Sci 1993;18:13-20.: A major superfamily of transmembrane facilitators that catalyse uniport, symport and antiport. PUBMED:8438231 EPMC:8438231
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SCOOP: | ATG22 MFS_1 MFS_1_like MFS_2 MFS_3 MFS_4 MFS_5 Nuc_H_symport OATP PUCC Sugar_tr TRI12 |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | Sugar_tr Nuc_H_symport MFS_1 MFS_1 MFS_1_like MFS_2 |
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Transporter classification: | 2.A.1 |
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InterPro entry IPR000576
In bacteria there are a number of families of transport proteins, including symporters and antiporters, that mediate the intake of a variety of sugars with the concomitant uptake of hydrogen ions (proton symporters) [PUBMED:8438231]. The lacY family of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae are proton/beta-galactoside symporters, which, like most sugar transporters, are integral membrane proteins with 12 predicted transmembrane (TM) regions. Also similar to the lacY family are the rafinose (rafB) and sucrose (cscB) permeases from E. coli [PUBMED:1435727].Gene Ontology
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Cellular component | membrane (GO:0016020) |
Biological process | transport (GO:0006810) |
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This family is a member of clan MFS (CL0015), which has the following description:
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is one of the two largest families of membrane transporters found on Earth [1]. It is present ubiquitously in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya and includes members that can function by solute uniport, solute/cation symport, solute/cation antiport and/or solute/solute antiport with inwardly and/or outwardly directed polarity [1]. All permeases of the MFS possess either 12 or 14 transmembrane helices [1].
The clan contains the following 24 members:
Acatn ATG22 BT1 Folate_carrier FPN1 FTR1 LacY_symp MFS_1 MFS_1_like MFS_2 MFS_3 MFS_4 MFS_5 MFS_Mycoplasma Nodulin-like Nuc_H_symport Nucleoside_tran OATP PTR2 PUCC Sugar_tr TLC TRI12 UNC-93Alignments
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Seed source: | Prosite |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Family |
Author: | Finn RD, Bateman A |
Number in seed: | 4 |
Number in full: | 304 |
Average length of the domain: | 366.70 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 38 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 96.10 % |
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Model length: | 413 | ||||||||||||
Family (HMM) version: | 18 | ||||||||||||
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For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the LacY_symp domain has been found. There are 13 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein seqence.
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Newbie here! Can i have a java program GUI or Console in Order System
Sorry for this post but i need to do this to pass my midterm project :confused:
I know this the wrong way to approach you guys but i have no choice ..If someone reply at my post i would be very happy thanks to you with all your help..
I need an Order System like in a Fastfood.. Like what you see when you receive your receipt at the counter..
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just trying my luck..how about a a little tutorial about the form and checkbox? :(
I think You have two way or to do yourself or to pay for this task.
About little tutorial in google many information about it. see Java Swing Tutorial | Java BeginnerSkype: petrarsentev
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Yeah your right maybe I'll do it with my self and some help when i got the codes and ask for help to correct it right? Nice link there thanks for the advice..
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BRENTWOOD — Eight months after a well-known clerk at the Epping Cumberland Farms suffered a fatal heart attack, the man who allegedly stole cigarettes from the store just two hours before the employee's death has been indicted on a felony theft charge.
BRENTWOOD — Eight months after a well-known clerk at the Epping Cumberland Farms suffered a fatal heart attack, the man who allegedly stole cigarettes from the store just two hours before the employee's death has been indicted on a felony theft charge.
Jeffrey Seymore, 27, of Manchester, faces one count of theft by unauthorized taking for allegedly swiping cigarettes from three local convenience stores in a 72-hour period between Dec. 22 and Dec. 24.
Seymore could spend 3� to seven years in prison if convicted of the thefts, one of which occurred on Christmas Eve at the Cumberland Farms on Route 125 in Epping.
Store clerk Norman Blais was working that night when police said Seymore entered the store shortly after 10 p.m. and asked for cigarettes.
Moments after the 67-year-old Blais placed four cartons of Marlboro cigarettes on the counter, Seymore allegedly stole them and fled the store.
The theft frightened Blais, who quickly notified police and gave a description that helped lead to his arrest a short time later in Raymond.
While rushing to finish his work, Blais collapsed inside the store two hours after the theft.
An autopsy confirmed Blais died of a heart attack.
The indictment also accuses Seymore of stealing cigarettes from an Xtra Mart in Epping on Dec. 22 and more cigarettes from the Shell service station in Raymond that day.
Blais' wife, Denise, had insisted that stress from the theft contributed to her husband's death on Christmas Eve, but authorities said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to prove.
Seymore never touched Blais during the alleged theft, police said, and the death came two hours later.
While they acknowledged that it would be hard to link Seymore to the death, the case prompted calls from Epping selectmen to investigate further to see if there was anything more that could be done to prosecute the case.
Epping police prosecutor Heather Newell explored ways to bring a more serious charge against Seymore, who originally faced Class A misdemeanor theft charges punishable by a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.
According to Newell, state law allowed the misdemeanor charges to be upgraded to a more serious felony charge because the three alleged thefts occurred at different stores within 72 hours.
After taking a closer look at the case, Newell recently forwarded it to the Rockingham County Attorney's Office for review. The case was presented to this month's grand jury, which handed up the indictment.
"I am very pleased that the case was presented to the grand jury and that they returned an indictment. I credit Epping and Raymond (police departments) for working collectively with each other and the County Attorney's Office to ensure that there is justice in these matters," Newell said Monday.
Seymore's attorney, Neil Reardon of Hampstead, could not be reached for comment.


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Kirsten Lepore first gained recognition in the animation world with her well received and aptly named 2008 short film 'Sweet Dreams', the uplifting love story of a cupcake that sets out on journey across the sea and gets stranded on an island of vegetables. She returns here, with 'Bottle', to her winning theme of far fetched love across the water.
The charming 2010 short film, animated on location, won second place at the Bafta LA Student Film Awards, and the 'Best Student Animation' at the Stuttgart Int'l Animation Fest, and the Animation Conversation's Annecy+ 'Best Of'.
Kirsten tells us about the shoot:
The entire production took 9 months from conception of idea to final editing, although the actual shooting time was around one or two days a week over the course of about 4 months or so. Each shoot day was about 8 hours, since I could only shoot in the daylight.
Most of the snow shots were done in either Frazier Mountain Park (an hour north of Valencia, California) or at Big Bear Lake. All the beach shots were done in Malibu.
The inspiration for the piece began with the technique and the materials. I knew I wanted to make an animation with snow and sand on location, so I subsequently devised a story that would weave the two together and allow me to experiment with a new medium.
Kirsten recently made it to Creativity Magazine's list of the top 50 "category defying" creative people of 2011.
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Miley Cyrus' bong smoking was caught on camera -- that much we know.
What we don't know is what was in Miley Cyrus' bong: was it Marijuana? Or, was it Salvia, as some are speculating.
Relieved that she might not have smoked pot? Don't be -- Salvia is a "drug of concern" for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency due to its hallucinogenic effects.
Salvia is a Mexican herb that has steadily increased in popularity over the past few years as another way for people to get high.
When smoked, Salvia can produce "psychic effects include perceptions of bright lights, vivid colors and shapes, as well as body movements and body or object distortions," according to the DEA.
The DEA is apparently studying Salvia to determine whether or not it should be classified like LSD and Heroin.
Not everyone is against Salvia, though. Harvard and other research universities are looking into the medicinal benefits of Salvia for conditions like schizophrenia and addiction.
"Animal data suggest that salvia is not addictive. But people will try it once and since it's such an intense and unpleasant experience that they will not want to do it again," L.A.-based psychiatrist Dr. Joe Haraszti told TMZ.
Was Salvia in Miley Cyrus' bong? We don't know for sure. One thing we do know: it's best to educate yourself and your teens about Salvia.
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People always ask me what really makes a wedding shine on SMP. My answer is always soul. When a wedding has so much heart you can feel it through the computer screen, that's when I know it will resonate with everyone that passes by the pages of SMP today. This wedding from Photography by Katy Carlson has soul and then some, and it only takes one look at this gallery to see precisely what I'm talking about. See it all here.
From Katy… Kayla and Ethan's wedding was inspired by Bilbo Baggin's going away party from the "The Fellowship of the Ring", except without the silly costumes. The venue could not have been more perfect with a miniature forested area for the ceremony, a grassy area for dancing and a tent for feasting. Upon arriving the guests were asked to light and hang a mason jar in the trees but the details didn't stop there. Kids and grown-ups alike left their touch on a painting canvas and a canopy-tent decorated like a living room beckoned you to leave a note of advice to the Bride and Groom.
While some details were meticulously planned, others were left to unfold naturally such as the toasts and the open mic dancing. These spontaneous moments were what truly made the memories that night as they showcased what everyone who loved the couple was able to bring to the table. Following sparklers, the grooms dad even gathered everyone around to tell one of his kids' favorite "scary stories" while guests cozied on the benches with blankets that had been laid out. This truly blissful day was one that everyone, both young and old, will be remembering for years to come.
From the Groom… Remembering the wedding is a lot like those moments after sleep where you find yourself trying as hard as you can to hold onto the slipping details of a good dream. I remember the feeling of the small of Kayla's back when we kissed- delicate and a reminder, as well as a motivator for the sense of pride and protection I still feel. I remember the look of pride in my Father's eyes, and loves in my new Mother-in-law's. The lanterns reminded me of something out of Peter Pan, colored glowing mason jars suspended from trees like fireflies.
Photography: Photography by Katy Carlson | Wedding Dress: An Elegant Affair | Catering: Jazzy Rupert's | Wedding Venue: Dayspring Farm


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Lacdoudal will be off for a year according to trainer Philip Hobbs
PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)Tendon injury could end Lacdoudal career
LACDOUDAL, who delighted his many fans when posting a first winin more than four years at Cheltenham this month, could have run his last race after sustaining a tendon injury in that defeat of cross-country specialist Garde Champetre.
The 11-year-old, who had been without a victory since landing Sandown's end-of-season Betfred Gold Cup in 2006, has been a stalwart of Philip Hobbs's stable for seven years and showed his enduring talent and versatility when battling to a popular success at Cheltenham.
However, Roger Skan's grey, ridden on his two biggest days by Richard Johnson, has now been denied the chance to compete in the season's remaining two races over the idiosyncratic track.
"The news is not good, as the horse has done a tendon and will certainly be off for a year," said Hobbs. "It's disappointing that we can't carry on running him in Cheltenham's cross-country races, but at least we had a great day with himlast week. We haven't decided yet if he will be retired, but he's going to be at least 12 if he does come back.
"He has been a phenomenal horse for us. He came to us as a four-year-old and has given us some great days, including winning the Betfred at Sandown and other decent races as well. If he is retired, he definitely has a good future ahead of him, as he's a brilliant hunter."
Lacdoudal has won ten of his 49 races, accumulating over £350,000 in prize-money.


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PBS's new weekly standard: Tucker Carlson; An unfiltered Media Matters for America analysis of the new PBS host
Carlson doctored Gore quotes; told lies about Wellstone memorial service
Carlson on women: "[T]hey want to be spanked vigorously every once in a while."
Carlson's Hillary Clinton fantasy: "Every time I see her I think I could, you know, help.... She seems tense."
How to contact PBS: click here [1]
On Friday, June 18, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will premiere its new weekly talk show, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered [2], hosted by conservative pundit Tucker Carlson [3], who will also serve as the program's managing editor. As Ken Auletta [4] wrote in the June 7 issue of The New Yorker, in an article titled "Big Bird Flies Right: How Republicans learned to love PBS," the establishment of Carlson's show is part of a broader effort to push PBS further to the right ideologically.
Carlson, co-host of CNN's Crossfire, made a name for himself writing for the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, which is edited by William Kristol [5]. (Carlson is currently on the masthead [6] as a contributing editor.) Carlson is the author of the book Politicians, Partisans and, Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News [7], published in 2003 by Warner Books -- which is owned [8] by CNN's parent company, Time Warner.
He is also a former a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; has been a columnist for New York magazine and Reader's Digest; is a regular contributor to Esquire; and is a political analyst for CNN. As the subject of a June 16 "Live Online [9]" chat at washingtonpost.com, Carlson told The Washington Post he hopes, in the Post's words, that "the new program ... will be less partisan in tone" than Crossfire. Here are two "less partisan" remarks Carlson made during the chat [9]:
- I must say, though, that most of the hate I run across these days seems to be coming from the left. Check out MoveOn.org [10] sometime if you don't believe me.
- I think Michael Moore [11] is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
Carlson is no stranger to the public broadcasting family: His father, Richard W. Carlson [12], was president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [13] (CPB) from 1992 through 1997. CPB is a private, non-profit corporation created by Congress that has a substantial role in funding the operation and programming of PBS.
According to Auletta, pressure from members of the Bush administration and other Republicans prompted CPB to commission Carlson's show, as well as another new program (expected to debut this fall) hosted by Paul Gigot [14], editor of the very conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. CBP will be providing funding for these programs -- even as PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers [15], which received no CPB financial support, will be reduced from 60 minutes to 30 minutes of weekly broadcast time. (Moyers is retiring [16] after the November elections; the show's co-host, David Brancaccio [17], will be promoted to host.) From Auletta's article in The New Yorker:
"This is the first time in my thirty-two years in public broadcasting that C.P.B. has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons," Moyers wrote to me in an e-mail. "So now we have C.P.B. funding two right-wingers, Gigot at the W.S.J. and Carlson at CNN-God bless them both!-who already own big megaphones in commercial media. How does that make public television different?"
Major Republican fundraisers have been appointed to CPB's board. In addition, Auletta wrote:
[President George W.] Bush has refused to appoint Chon Noriega, a professor of film, television, and digital media at U.C.L.A. and a co-founder of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, who was recommended in March of 2003 by the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle. Noriega, a Democrat, was interviewed that month by Rebecca Contreras, of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. He was asked, he remembers, the question that Lott asked Halpern: Was it appropriate for the C.P.B. to intervene in programming deemed politically biased? "It was clear that this was the important question," Noriega told me.
Noriega, who told Contreras that the C.P.B. should intervene only in extraordinary circumstances, has heard nothing about his appointment. A White House spokesperson, Healy Nully, said, "It is my understanding that we have asked for another candidate" from Daschle.
According to Auletta, CPB Board of Directors chair Kenneth Y. Tomlinson [18] wanted "neutral" hosts for these new programs. Notwithstanding Carlson's occasional spats with fellow conservatives (he accused former Bush communications director Karen Hughes of lying; and he called Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist [19] "a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep"), there's little reason to think Carlson would be, as Tomlinson described, a "neutral host" -- or to think there was any "journalistic reason," rather than an ideological one, for his selection by PBS. Indeed, PBS describes [20] him as follows: "Carlson combines a conservative and libertarian take on the news."
More troubling than his lack of neutrality, throughout his career, Carlson has misquoted various individuals as well as misrepresented various individuals' positions. While working as a staff writer for The Weekly Standard, Carlson wrote a May 19, 1997, cover story titled "The Real Al Gore." Referring to Gore's book on the environment, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit [21], Carlson wrote, "Gore lets it drop that his 'Global Marshall Plan' to save the environment will cost the United States 'almost $100 billion a year.'" As noted [22] by Bob Somerby [23] in the April 30, 1999, edition of The Daily Howler website, this assertion is contradicted by the actual text of the relevant portion of the book:
Today, of course, the United States cannot conceivably be the principal financier for a global recovery program. ... The financial resources must now come from Japan and Europe and from wealthy, oil-producing states.
Elsewhere in the article, Carlson stated that Gore had become a "fanatic," claiming that characterization was justified by the following sentence from Gore's book (excerpted below from Carlson's article):
We now face the prospect of a global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's ruthless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction.
But Carlson misquoted Gore: The sentence actually began with the words "We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war..." [emphasis added]. Further, Carlson misquoted Gore as writing "ruthless advance"; yet what Gore actually wrote was "relentless advance."
The distortions significantly alter the meaning of the paragraph. Carlson's first rewrite reads as if Gore was referring to a literal civil war; the second makes the reader believe Gore has a negative view of the advance of civilization, when in fact he was only concerned with "those who refuse to consider the consequences" of that advance.
In that same article, Carlson attacked Gore for campaigning on the same day his sister died, implying that Gore was too busy to be genuinely concerned with her death:
The day Nancy Hunger died must have been a very busy one for Al Gore, for at some point during the same day, July 11, 1984, he also found time to give a speech before the Kiwanis Club in Knoxville, across the state from his sister's deathbed. He also squeezed in an interview with a wire-service reporter. Whether he managed to do these things before or after his sister's last words to him is not clear, since Gore didn't mention her in the UPI interview he gave.
As Carlson later learned, it was indeed a busy day for Al Gore. Two weeks later, on June 2, 1997, the magazine printed a letter from Gore's driver:
Regarding Tucker Carlson's "The Real Al Gore": The implication that Al Gore gave campaign speeches and interviews on the same day and possibly after his sister died is inexcusable. Carlson says that "it is not clear" whether Gore was campaigning before or after his sister's death that day. It is clear in my memory, however, because I was his advance person and driver during that campaign. He was in East Tennessee when he was notified that his sister, Nancy, had taken a turn for the worse. He immediately returned to the hospital in Nashville to be with her. He arrived late in the afternoon and she died that night. She had been sick for some time and was in and out of the Vanderbilt Hospital for a period of months and I also stayed at her parents' house in Carthage, Tennessee. Al made time to visit with her often in the hospital and when she was in Carthage. We would drive from one end of the state to the other to get back to Nashville or Carthage so he could spend time with her. When I was too tired to drive, he would.
Apparently undeterred by these facts, Carlson responded to this letter by chastising Gore for mentioning his sister during a speech at the 1996 Democratic National Convention:
Inexcusable or not, Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year.
So what was "the cheap way," as Carlson put it, in which Gore treated his sister's memory? At the convention, Gore recounted his final conversation with his sister and explained how it inspired him to fight to protect "our children from the dangers of smoking."
Carlson claimed that during Gore's 1984 senatorial campaign, Gore "didn't talk much about curbing smoking that year." Carlson asserted this without evidence and proceeded to quote a journalist who said that, during the campaign, Gore "was willing to call the tobacco industry Merchants of Death."
In his role as co-host of CNN's Crossfire, Carlson continued his habit of misrepresenting events to criticize how people respond to family deaths. After the memorial service commemorating those who died in the fatal plane crash that killed Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, their daughter, and five others, Carlson stated [24], on October 30, 2002:
The political world is still reeling tonight from yesterday's nauseating display in Minnesota, where a memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone was hijacked by partisan zealots and turned into a political rally. Republican friends of Senator Wellstone were booed and shouted down as they tried to speak.
In fact, no Republicans were "shouted down as they tried to speak." Carlson also said of the memorial service, "It is revolting" and "It makes me sick."
Apparently, Carlson was revolted and sickened by something he hadn't even seen. As Carlson admitted to Al Franken [25] (as reported in Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right), he hadn't yet watched the memorial service he described in such outraged terms, even as he repeatedly and incorrectly referred to it as a funeral.
He also claimed to Franken that he did watch the memorial as preparation for the following day's edition of Crossfire (10/31/02), during which Carlson continued to mischaracterize [26] the event with the following analogy:
If I died and my children stood up at my funeral and said our father has died, but the most important thing is that his show continue to beat MSNBC. That's the most important thing. His legacy -- I'm serious that would be sick. There's something sick about this.
While Carlson is correct that Wellstone's surviving children expressed concerned for their father's legacy, at no point during the memorial service did any of them state that "the most important thing" was for former vice president Walter Mondale, who replaced Wellstone as the candidate, to beat his opponent, Norm Coleman.
Carlson himself stated, "To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?"
Carlson's falsehoods and misrepresentations on Crossfire are frequent. Of former President Bill Clinton, he said [27], "[He] hasn't cured AIDS in Africa, despite his promises" (5/21/04); yet Clinton never promised to cure AIDS in Africa. Carlson denied [28] that any Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resources were used to track the plane of a Democratic politician from Texas who had left the capital, Austin, in order to thwart a quorum during the controversial redistricting process, when, in fact, DHS did play some role (05/16/03). Carlson claimed [29], "Halliburton is actually losing money on its Iraqi contracts," something that is difficult to do with "cost plus" contract arrangements (3/11/04).
Carlson also accused [30] former Freedom Rider and current U.S. Represenative Bob Filner (D-CA) of being a liar and of committing "slander on the United States" for pointing out that the United States had sold biological weapons to Iraq (9/25/02). An article in Newsweek (9/23/02), which has been confirmed by similar reports elsewhere, reported:
According to confidential Commerce Department export-control documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, the shopping list included a computerized database for Saddam's Interior Ministry (presumably to help keep track of political opponents); helicopters to transport Iraqi officials; television cameras for "video surveillance applications"; chemical-analysis equipment for the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), and, most unsettling, numerous shipments of "bacteria/fungi/protozoa" to the IAEC. According to former officials, the bacteria cultures could be used to make biological weapons, including anthrax. The State Department also approved the shipment of 1.5 million atropine injectors, for use against the effects of chemical weapons, but the Pentagon blocked the sale. The helicopters, some American officials later surmised, were used to spray poison gas on the Kurds.
No public correction or apology to Filner was forthcoming from Carlson, who said, "I don't care what jail the guy's been in, that's an outrage that he would say that on television," after being reminded by co-host Paul Begala of the following:
In 1961 an Ivy League child of privilege by the name of Bob Filner joined the Freedom Riders in the segregated South. Filner was beaten, arrested and thrown in Mississippi's notorious Parchment State Penitentiary, where temporarily he was housed on death row. His cellmate lost his mind.
Today Filner is a Democratic Congressman. Yesterday he noted, factually, that America had armed and aided Saddam Hussein in the past. Joe Wilson, a right-wing Republican from South Carolina, accused Filner of hating America.
One of Crossfire's frequent guests, Kenneth M. Pollack [31] -- senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and director of research at Brookings's Saban Center for Middle East Policy -- cleared things up [32] for Carlson a few months later (2/10/03):
POLLOCK: Well, Tucker, remember, we're not blameless in this either.
CARLSON: Have we done that?
POLLOCK: Well, we sold Saddam the anthrax and we kind of looked the other way.
While co-hosting Crossfire, Carlson referred [33] to crossdressing as a "Democratic value" (7/16/03); accused [34] Begala of being homophobic for pointing out that Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) was a cheerleader at the University of Mississippi (9/25/02); regularly made snide remarks about the transgendered community being a constituency of the Democratic Party [35]; and mocked outreach [36] by the Democratic National Committee (DNC [37]) to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) community. Regarding goals to increase GLBT delegate representation at the Democratic National Convention, which Carlson ridiculed, he said [38], "And if you don't find them at least mildly funny, you're probably a Democrat," while falsely claiming the efforts included the establishment of quotas (5/19/04).
In an October 1997 commentary in The American Spectator [39], titled "The Episcopal Church in Crisis," Carlson predicted that the Episcopal Church's increasing embrace of gays and lesbians would soon cause "the whole enterprise [to come] tumbling down." Carlson described an incident in which brochures distributed by the Marin AIDS Interfaith Network were modified by someone to include Old Testament quotes condemning gays and lesbians. Carlson mocked The National Episcopal AIDS Coalition for being concerned about this and for referring to the perpetrators as "hatemongers." Carlson's retort: "Imagine that, huffed the Episcopalians: quoting the Bible. Talk about hateful."
In an April interview [40] in Elle magazine, Carlson stated, "One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality -- this apparent increased willingness of girls to bring along a friend. That's a pretty good thing." And, in response to a question about which woman he would most like to be, he answered, "Elizabeth Birch [41] [former executive director] of the Human Rights Campaign [42], because you'd be presiding over an organization of thousands of lesbians, some of them quite good-looking."
In that same interview, Carlson said of women, "They want to be listened to, protected and amused. And they want to be spanked vigorously every once in a while." The following are statements Carlson made on CNN's Crossfire on the subject of feminists and feminism:
- You will admit that at least 40 percent of any vote in a Democratic race is humorless feminists. (7/18/02 [43])
- The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women do bad things. (11/20/02 [44])
- Who laughs less than feminists? (5/26/04 [45])
- To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something. (5/21/03 [46])
Carlson falsely claimed [47] that complaints from feminists had prompted Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department to cover with sheets the exposed breasts of The Spirit of Justice, the statue that stands in its Hall of Justice (6/03/02).
Carlson told Elle that his "guilty fantasy" [40] is Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY): "Every time I see her I think I could, you know, help.... She seems tense."
When it came to the Iraq war, Carlson frequently used sophistry to undercut the arguments of war opponents who came on the show. For example, on the August 21, 2003, edition of Crossfire, he said [48], "If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people."
After Pope John Paul II sent an envoy to President George W. Bush to argue that the war was not justified, on the March 5 edition of Crossfire [49], Carlson asked Frances Kissling [50], president of Catholics for Free Choice:
I want to know what are the Pope's plans to liberate the Iraqi people? I didn't hear you talk about that.
Apparently Carlson has done an about-face on the Iraq war. On May 12, 2004, Carlson was quoted in The New York Observer saying the following about the Iraq war: "I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it." Yet on Crossfire that same day, Carlson had the temerity to criticize [51] Senator John Kerry's (D-MA) statements on the Iraq war, when in fact it is Carlson who has flip-flopped. From the May 12 edition of Crossfire:
Kerry did vote for it, but then he opposed it. Now he wants to prolong it. What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
On September 23, 2002, Carlson said [52], "I found the former Vice President Al Gore's speech today so dispiriting, not to say pathetic," objecting to what he considered Gore's failure to address "the threat that Iraq poses to the world." On the following day's program he referred to "Al Gore's touching, poignant, utterly useless attempt to inject himself into the Iraq debate." In the days following the speech, Carlson frequently misrepresented the meaning of one particular part of it:
Nevertheless, Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
Of this, Carlson said:
Those two sentences back to back contradict each other. The first one says get the world community to take away weapons of mass destruction, the very next sentence says it's impossible, he'll have to be removed. Who wrote this? What's going on here?
The following day, Carlson reported [53]:
He [Gore] said we ought to use the U.N. In the very next sentence, he said those weapons will remain as long as Saddam lives. It was very, very junior varsity, kind of sad, weak. And I expected better from him.
Gore clearly said "Iraq's search for weapons" would continue -- the important word being "search" -- while Carlson's case against the speech rested on the incorrect premise that Gore had asserted that Iraq, at the time, had weapons of mass destruction that were a threat to the United States but nonetheless did not consider Saddam Hussein to be a threat to the United States. Carlson mischaracterized [54] the speech yet again on the September 24, 2002, edition of CNN's Inside Politics: "Yes, it's a threat. No, I'm not sure what we are going to do about it," even though the speech plainly spelled out what Gore considered to be a proper course of action.
In an August 2003 interview [55], Carlson was quoted by Kevin Holtsberry of blogcritics.org as saying:
I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
I try to tell the truth. To be interesting but to tell the truth.
Hopefully Carlson will try harder.
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A study published in PLoS Computational Biology maps the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life. Researchers Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute traced the six methods of carbon fixation seen in modern life back to a single ancestral form.
Carbon fixation -- life's mechanism for making carbon dioxide biologically useful -- forms the biggest bridge between Earth's non-living chemistry and its biosphere. All organisms that fix carbon do so in one of six ways. These six mechanisms have overlaps, but it was previously unclear which of the six types came first, and how their development interweaved with environmental and biological changes.
The authors used a method that creates "trees" of evolutionary relatedness based on genetic sequences and metabolic traits. From this, they were able to reconstruct the complete early evolutionary history of biological carbon-fixation, relating all ways in which life today performs this function.
The earliest form of carbon fixation identified achieved a special kind of built-in robustness -- not seen in modern cells -- by layering multiple carbon-fixing mechanisms. This redundancy allowed early life to compensate for a lack of refined control over its internal chemistry, and formed a template for the later splits that created the earliest major branches in the tree of life. For example, the first major life-form split came with the earliest appearance of oxygen on Earth, causing the ancestors of blue-green algae and most other bacteria to separate from the branch that includes Archaea, which are outside of bacteria the other major early group of single-celled microorganisms.
"It seems likely that the earliest cells were rickety assemblies whose parts were constantly malfunctioning and breaking down," explains Smith. "How can any metabolism be sustained with such shaky support? The key is concurrent and constant redundancy."
Once early cells had more refined enzymes and membranes, giving greater control over metabolic chemistry, minimization of energy (ATP) used to create biomass, changes in oxygen levels and alkalinity directed life's unfolding. In other words, the environment drove major divergences in predictable ways, in contrast to the common belief that chance dominated evolutionary innovation -- and that rewinding and replaying the evolutionary tape would lead to an irreconcilably different tree of life.
"Mapping cell function onto genetic history gives us a clear picture of the physiology that led to the major foundational divergences of evolution," explains Braakman. "This highlights the central role of basic chemistry and physics in driving early evolution."
With the ancestral form uncovered, and evolutionary drivers pinned to branching points in the tree, the researchers now want to make the study more mathematically formal and further analyze the early evolution of metabolism.
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