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A quick search of the PubMed database for "dual luciferase" quickly returns over 1,000 papers. The Dual-Luciferase® Reporter Assay is a powerful tool that allows researchers to ask a multitude of questions about gene control and expression in a system that itself could be normalized and internally controlled. For more than 15 years, firefly and Renilla luciferases have been valuable tools for researchers asking many different kinds of questions in the life sciences. In a recent webinar, Biologically Relevant Assays for Oncology: Harnessing the Power of Bioluminescence, Neal Cosby discussed how bioluminescent chemistries have formed the basis of a range of powerful assays and research tools for scientists who are asking questions about the deep and complex genetic and cellular story associated with cancer. Here we talk a bit of about bioluminescent chemistries, some of the newest bioluminescent tools available, and how some of these tools can be used to probe the deeper questions of cell biology, including cancer biology.
Why luminescence?
Both luminescence and fluorescence are important technologies in scientific research, but because of differences in the physical processes of excitation, each one is best suited to different tasks. Fluorescent compounds tend to be very bright, and this high signal makes them particularly well suited for activities where the signal is going to be small: fluorescence microscopy from single cells, for instance, or fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). However all of that extremely bright signal comes at a price: higher background. Fluorescent compounds tend also to be subject to interference from compounds found in compound libraries and in many common laboratory solutions.
Luminescence, on the other hand, is suitable for larger samples, like cells plated in a multiwell plate or in vivo imaging in mice. Luminescence has low background, and there is little compound interference associated with luminescence, making the signal-to-background ratio quite high, conferring a naturally high level of sensitivity to the technology for screening and other activities.
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Engineering a Brighter, More Sensitive Future: The luc2 gene and NanoLuc® Luciferases
Since the first luminescent tools were introduced, researchers have been working to improve them so that they are more effective probes for biological processes. Firefly luciferase, the work horse of the luciferase reporter gene assay, continues to be improved with the newest generation of firefly luciferase vectors, the pGL4 Vectors. With the pGL3 backbone as a starting point, 75% of the consensus transcription factor binding sites were removed to greatly reduce the risk of anomalous expression. Other modifications were also made to the vector. In addition to vector backbone modifications, the luciferase gene itself was also engineered to remove cryptic regulatory sequences and optimize codon basis for expression in mammalian cells, leading to the creation of the luc2 gene. A full range of pGL4 Vectors now exists to allow this improved luciferase to be used in a variety of experimental designs from reporter gene assays to cell signaling experiments.
Further reading on pGL4 Vectors and luc2:
PGL4 Vectors: A New Generation of Reporter Vectors
Novel pGL4 Reporter Vector Panel for Profiling Cellular Stress and Chemical Toxicity
NanoLuc® Luciferase is the newest tool in the arsenal of luminescent chemistries. Derived from the deep sea shrimp, Oplophorus gracilirostris, the bright blue luminescence is the result of the activity of a small 19kDa catalytic luciferase subunit. Researchers at Promega used bioinformatics, directed evolution and organic chemistry to produce an engineered luciferase and substrate that produce an extremely bright signal. Equimolar amounts of NanoLuc® luciferase and its substrate are approximately 100-fold brighter than either Renilla or firefly luciferases. Because of its small size, NanoLuc® lends itself to uses beyond reporter assays, and serves as a good fusion partner for protein studies. Initial work has demonstrated that NanoLuc® luciferase can be localized to the mitocondria, ER, nucleus and plasma membrane of mammalian cells. This luciferase has potential uses in protein translocation, protein stability, receptor interaction, protein:protein interaction and biosensor experiments.
Further reading on NanoLuc® luciferase:
New engineered luciferase from deep sea shrimp
NanoLuc® Luciferase Technology
A bright future with a small versatile luciferase
Things You Can Do with Bioluminescence that Don't Involve Reporter Genes
The luciferase/luciferin reaction requires four key components: oxygen, luciferase, luciferin and ATP. Any one of these is limiting and depending upon which one you limit you can measure different things. Reporter gene assays make the luciferase the limiting factor. Limiting either of the other two gives you the ability to create biochemical and cell-based assays for a variety of target molecules. All of these assays come with the same advantages of any bioluminescent assay: high senstivity, low background, little interference.
For instance, ATP is a hallmark of viable cells, and you need ATP for the luciferase/luciferin reaction. The CellTiter-Glo® Cell Viability Assay takes advantage of this relationship to produce a highly reliable assay for cell viability that is amenable to high-throughput settings and recently has been demonstrated to work well with 3D cell culture models (see Neal's webinar for a description of some of the work presented at AACR 2013).
Looking at ATP as the limiting reagent and the relationship between ADP and ATP allows you to take advantage of the luciferase reaction to create a universal assay for virtually any kinase/kinase substrate combination, such as the ADP-Glo™ Assay.
Or if you have some clever chemists around you can design enzyme substrates so that when the enzyme cleaves or modifies the substrate, luciferin is produced allowing a luciferase reaction to proceed. Assays such as the Caspase-Glo® Assays or the P450-Glo™ Assays use this strategy.
The nice thing about all of these assays is that many of them can be multiplexed with other chemistries, including fluorescent ones, so that you can get data for multiple parameters from a single sample.
But if none of these ideas seems a good alternative to a reporter assay, you could spend a late summer's twilight chasing the fireflies that light up the summer night, marveling at biology in action. That's fun too.
Further reading on bioluminescent assays:
Bioluminescent Assays for High-Throughput Screening
Introduction to Bioluminescent Assays (video)
Bioluminescent Assays for the Detection of Lysine Deacetylase Activities
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A Charity Winter Ball for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court has raised an incredible £26,000 to help fund specialist hospice care for local people and their families in Gloucestershire.
The Pulhams Coaches sponsored Winter Ball, held at the Princess Hall at Cheltenham Ladies' College, was attended by 140 guests who had the chance to win an early Christmas present - a sparkling £1,000 diamond from Goldsmiths RJ Spicer with an exclusive Champagne Diamond Raffle on the night.
Guests were also treated to gin tasting at their tables thanks to hospice supporters and local distillers, Sibling Gin.
A series of money can't buy auction lots went under the skilful hammer of Bargain Hunt's Philip Allwood, including an exclusive tour of the Coronation Street set and a behind the scenes training day with Gloucester Rugby for six people, including lunch with the players, which was kindly donated by Gloucester Rugby Club.
This is the third year the hospice has organised a charity Christmas celebration, which has so far helped raise over £75,000 for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice, meaning they can continue giving its expert and specialist hospice care to local people and their families.
Elise Hoadley, Hospice Director at Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice said, "What a truly magnificent evening we enjoyed in spectacular surroundings at the Ladies' College. It was wonderful seeing so many people coming together to celebrate and have a great time, whilst helping to raise much needed funds for our hospice and the families who need our care and support."
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John Kransinki ,Diane Kruger and my Justin Timberlake announe the nominees for the Golden Globe awards this morning in LA. As usual Justin was the ultimate showman. Sandra Bullock recieved a nod for the Blind side a movie I need to see and Precious of course receive a nod also. George Clonney movie Up in the Air also receive a nod. Matt Damon for invictus and film Icon Meryl Streep got a nod for it's complicated.
There are presenters – those who simply read the material – and there are performers – those who add their own personal flourishes to delivering the list of Golden Globe nominees, as Justin Timberlake so ably proved Tuesday morning.
Sliding some of his own observations into his announcements, the musician, 28, said while naming those who received nods in the music categories: "Paul McCartney – you may have heard of him," and "Bono – You may have heard of him, as well."
He also managed a quick little sound effect before announcing the major motion picture drama nominees. Said Timberlake, "Impromptu drumroll."
As those who watched the nominations on TV were able to witness, when Timberlake read out the name of nominee Emily Blunt for her role in The Young Victoria, he quickly cast a glance at fellow presenter John Krasinki (who is Blunt's fiancé) and quipped, "Ho, ho, ho! Somebody's going to have a good night tonight."
Afterwards, when asked if there had been anyone in particular he was rooting for, Timberlake said, "I'm such a Jeff Bridges fan, so it was great to see him get a nomination [for dramatic leading actor in Crazy Heart]. And – I don't know. I have to catch up on some movie-watching as well."
He later said, "I have not gotten to see Precious yet, but I'm very excited about it. A good friend of mine, Mr. Jamie Foxx, told me it was fantastic, so I will be getting to the theater to see it."
Will Check ScheduleAs for whether he'll attend the Jan. 17 ceremony, which NBC will broadcast live from Beverly Hills, Timberlake said he first needs to check his calendar.
"I'm not sure," he said. "I have to get through New Year's, and I don't know my schedule for January and February yet, so ..." It was pointed out that he's a busy person, prompting Timberlake to respond, "I am a busy person, yes."
Too busy to make any New Year's resolutions?
"It's not so much a resolution as a realization," he said. "In 2010 I'm going to try to put as little responsibility on myself as possible. How's that? I'm going to under-promise myself in 2010, so if it goes well, I'll think, 'Oh, my God!' "
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They are strapped to stop signs and light poles, on display all over highway medians. Sometimes they are lined up a dozen deep, like one-dimensional soldiers, seeking to grab the attention of passersby.
Illegal signs. Depending on where you stand, they are either expressions of free speech in a commercial economy, or visual spam and nothing more than mounted litter.
Now two towns in Florida, Oakland Park and Hollywood, are planning to fight these "snipe signs," which they consider landscape pollution, with an innovative tactic. They'll give the businesses that spam streets and private property with illegal signage a taste of their own medicine in the form of robocalls.
The signs are an "eyesore," said Tim Lonergan, 50, a project manager at an insurance company and resident of Oakland Park. "The signs advertise anything from buying cars to health club memberships to carpet cleaning to 'we'll purchase your house,' where people are trying to invest in real estate." Lonergan has even seen signs nailed into palm trees on private property, he said. "Everyone seems to have jumped on board and is doing it."
He said he was moved to become a community activist after he attended a program about local government two years ago.
"I wanted to get involved with the city," he said. "I started making a note of where we were having problems with snipe signs, take pictures of them, and started meeting with the city."
Oakland Park, an eight-square-mile community of about 43,000, has struggled with what to do about the signs. The local sheriff's office has told Lonergan that their hands are tied unless they actually witness someone placing the signs, and most signs seem to pop up under cover of night, he said.
The town is hoping the robocalls will do the trick. Last week, the mayor and city commission authorized the effort.
The city approved working with a vendor called Call-Em-All to call the phone numbers on the signs, informing businesses of the illegal placement of their signs and letting them know that the only way to stop robocalls is to pay a fine, said David Rafter, a city spokesman.
Oakland Park isn't the first to put robocalls to work in this way. Hollywood, Fla., began its robocalling program in March. Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober said his city has seen "great results" from the initiative, which he conceived of while he was driving around town two years ago.
At the time, the city had just completed a contest in which it offered a $500 reward to the person who could collect the most signs. Though the contest was "very successful," he said, signs re-appeared over time.
After the city initiated the robocalling program, city police estimate the illegal signs have decreased by 70 percent.
Bober said the city is spending only $300 for the robocalls and that it's well worth the investment. "City employees were going out every week to pick up these signs, squandering city resources that could be better spent on other things," Bober said, "particularly when we have these difficult financial times and we need to stretch dollars as much as we can.''
Businesses that do call to stop the robocalling pay $75 for the first penalty, $150 for the second and $250 for the third time. The mayor said companies from as far as Ohio have called the city to stop the robocalling.
Bober said it was "great" that Oakland Park is copying Hollywood's program. He said he's fielded calls from towns all over the U.S. and Canada.
"I'm glad other cities are following suit as a lot of other cities are seeing the same budgetary issues like we are and we have better ways to spend employees' time," he said. "I'm glad it's catching fire."
When asked whether consumers who receive robocalls could simulate the city's program, he said the thought has occurred to him when he receives spam text messages on his cell phone.
"I'm sure there are other applications if we all put our heads together like this," he said.


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In addition to being the Vice President of the GGWO Board of Elders, Pastor Scibelli is the Director of Missions for GGWO. In 1988, he led a 16-person team to Ghana that included his wife, Linda, and their two children. Today, the Greater Grace work in Africa includes more than 179 churches in 19 countries. He is a popular teacher on discipleship, evangelism, and church planting and has traveled more than a million miles in his worldwide ministry. It is not uncommon for him to be surrounded by scores of people after MBC&S classes and GGWO services. He can often be found doing rap sessions in the parking lot and late into the night. The Scibellis – the parents of one son and one daughter -- live in Baltimore, where he enjoys spending time with his granddaughter.


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This is it! The final round! The last one standing will be the winner!
REMEMBER! The winner is determined by the rankings of everyone who submitted an entry in ROUND ONE and was eliminated at any point in the competition. It doesn't matter if you were a deadline casualty, so long as you were an official contestant. Just so there's no question about it, here's the applicable rule:
In the last round, everyone who has been eliminated (who also submitted at least 1 song) will be allowed to rank the songs. This round the judges have no say in matters, but they will still be required to review each song. Rules for a tie are altered just a bit. Popular vote is the first deciding factor, then the judges, and then I am the last deciding factor.Good luck to the Final Four! See ya at the LP!


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My friend 'Megan' of E-Harmony fame was a single mother for a handful of years. She has 2 children, hence referred to as Boy and Girl, who are friends with Boy Weasel and Middle Weasel. Watching a single Mom in action did not make me envious of the job. Between work and school nonsense she had very little and precious time to just hang out with the kids. Thus when she was home with them, discipline was not on the top of her to-do list. It was dinner, is your homework done, what school papers do you have for me?, limited time to clean house and hang with her homies, and bed to start all over again in the morning.
Boy and Girl spent a lot of time here at the Weasel Village playing with the Weasels and never gave me a hard time. I run a tight ship, but a fun ship. When they needed extra help with math, I pulled out the chips and cards and taught them Black Jack(this really works with addition facts). They always had fun here and always knew not to cross me or break the rules. There would be consequences. They liked me and respected me. I babysat for them often and they became some real favorites of mine.
But when they went home, they put their Mom through the wringer. With no other reason than they could. They knew she was tired, and that she didn't want to spend the limited time they had together yelling and punishing. They would call her at work about spats they were having (what can she really do from the office?). So after a while she would call me when they were giving her an especially hard time at work and ask me to 'have a talk with them'.
When it would get to this point, I would have to go all R. Lee Ermey all over their little butts. Respect for your mother, siblings need to stick together, etc. I never swore, but used a tone that would make any drill Sergeant proud and they will not soon forget. And got immediate results.
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So one day 'Megan' is in her car with her Boy, while ranting to herself about what a real immature jerk etc, etc, her boss is being(we've all been through this). Her boy pipes up from the back seat. Why don't you just have Mrs. Weasel talk to him, that would straighten him out!
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Hey there! Thanks for the comment on my blog re: the Etsy show in Sept.
There is another opportunity in October – if you guys can make it – that would be great!
just wanted to let you know I really like the work on your site.
I featured you here http://www.illustrationlovers.com/nate-duval/
On this site, I link to my favorite Illustrations from around the web.
Hey Nate, just wanted to share with you that I'm a 6th grade art teacher and for the last year I have been introducing your work to my students. Since the children are only in art for 9 weeks each year, I developed a quick way to teach art history to the kids. Each day when they enter my room, there is a new work of art hanging up and they write down the artist's name and something about him/her and we have a quiz on it at the end of the term. Most of the artists are the standards (Picasso, Van Gogh,Warhol, etc), but recently I have added you, Shepard Fairey, Jay Ryan, and some other poster artists to my list of "art of the days". So now you are amongst some of the world's greatest artists, in my classroom anyway.
I have the ART OF MODERN ROCK and GIG POSTERS book and some other images I printed from the computer (the ones that are okay to show 6th graders)and the kids really enjoy your concert posters and drawings, especially the Wilco and the LOST posters.
I've been trying to explain to the kids how screen printing works but it's a hard concept for some of them to grasp. I was wondering if there was anyway you could send me one of your multi-color prints in the different stages, so they could see how you do one color at a time. I'm sure you're super busy so I understand if this is not possible,
but thanks in advance anyway!
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love your work im doing a piece on you for my artist research but i cant find any information about you in your bio….


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What She Say? Amber Rose Says She Didn't Deserve to be Bullied by Kanye
Amber Rose went from being completely mum on Kanye and her breakup to not letting a minute go by without talking about what went wrong.
She burst into tears on the set of MTV yesterday when Sway asked why she's suddenly speaking out about the breakup. She told him a lot of people don't realize what she went through with Kanye's fans and the lyrics he wrote about her, saying "I don't deserve to be bullied like that."
After calling Kim Kardashian out as a homewrecker and having this public breakdown, it looks like Amber Rose is vying for the sympathy vote and trying to clear up rumors that she was just with Ye for his money. But is it believable?
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I envy people that teach medicine. I mean, I know how hard it is and all those sick people can't be fun. But at least the company that 'makes people' doesn't often decide to do a complete reboot. Three heads and seven legs, that sort of thing. No, my job is to teach video production and in my business I have to teach something that can at any moment be made more magical.
Just this week Final Cut Pro became ever so more magical. I mean, pink winged unicorns vomiting rainbows magical.
I've heard people call it a debacle. Some say catastrophe. I don't think that's a nice thing to say; if a company wants to have sexual congress with a dog, then as long as the dog is consenting I'd say well that's just thinking different.
What's the problem? Well for a start you know that some naughty software doesn't allow you to save so that an older version can load it. That's called 'backwards compatibility' and while PhotoShop is good about it, After Effects is very naughty. Apple have come up with something very magical here in that there is no 'forwards compatibility'. Final Cut can't load files made by Final Cut. Just stop there for a moment & be impressed.
It will load files made by iMovie and strangely it has iMovie's interface and key commands and features and … well y'know one would be tempted to say that this just might be based on iMovie. Y'know? Just sayin'.
Something that was previously intended to handle feature films is now optimised for My Family Vacation. I start a new project and it is saved as an Event. Like My Birthday or My Divorce, rather than say Scene 17 of an existing storyboard and script. What used to be the asset browser now has that … that … well you kind of have to see it for yourself. They have a time line with word wrap. Because long horizontal data imagery works just so well in vertical containers.
Where does the footage go when you capture it? In Movies in your user folder, Silly! OK, so suppose my students are working in a group and need to organise multiple access? Or their user folders are on a server? Hello? Apple? Anyone left in the Pro Applications division? Have you really dropped Final Cut Server?
Once I have managed to edit something, and for the most part the editing is as before (although it's a bit like an episode of Star Trek where the parallel universe is nearly the same as ours but Captain Kirk is secretly evil) then I get to the point where I want to save this thing. But you can't save or export your project. You can only SHARE your movie on one of the usual clouds.
OK, so Apple have worked out that they can sell a lot of this to the home enthusiasts, fuck the clique that have been buying it so far. You can't blame them, it's in Apple's blood to find the sweet spot where 'it just works', and they dropped the 'Computer' a while ago. But I can't teach on this, technically or in practice and I'm now wondering who is going to take up the industry standard, how long that will take and what the hell I can do in the mean time. If it's choice between Avid and Adobe, then the latter will do.
When combined with the forthcoming Ipad style OSX Lion the future of the media labs is looking a bit 'finger painting'. Plenty of people like using iMovie on their iPad. It's a great simple way to knock up a YouTube video. But we don't all want to work that way, we are not all average and I don't want to teach average. Not everything is a cat joke destined for YouTube.
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No one in the news is safe! The Drama Desk nominated musical revue NEWSical is back lampooning current events, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians. With songs and material being updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist (Drama Desk Nominee) Rick Crom's topical musical comedy is an ever-evolving mockery of all the news that is fit to spoof!
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Spraying your lawn can be a messy, scattered process that yields only limited results. The key to a successful lawn spraying project is to devise a strategic plan for application. Here are some sensible tips for your next lawn spraying project that will improve your results and keep the mess down to a minimum.
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The virus that causes a fatal illness that was first reported among Navajo Indians in New Mexico and was later found in other parts of the Western United States has been isolated and grown in a laboratory for the first time.
The development, by two teams of Federal researchers, improves prospects for developing a simple diagnostic test to detect infection of the Hantavirus, drug therapy and even a vaccine. In the six months since the first cases of the illness were reported, the virus has produced flu-like symptoms in at least 45 people in 12 states. Twenty-seven of those people died. The virus struck many previously healthy young adults.
The ability to grow the entire virus in the laboratory is expected to improve ways to detect its presence in humans and in the deer mice that spread it. Detection, in turn, would help determine how prevalent the virus is and what circumstances allow it to spread.
Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the Army Medical Research Institute in Fort Detrick, Md., reported the advance yesterday in separate papers at a scientific meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
Only last week did the centers find the evidence that showed it had succeeded in isolating and growing the virus, days before the scheduled meeting on Hantavirus. And the Army's findings were established only shortly before then, the scientists, Dr. Clarence J. Peters of the C.D.C. and Dr. Connie Schmaljohn of the Army, said in interviews.Continue reading the main story
Donna E. Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said in a news release, "This is a major step forward in our efforts to prevent this devastating disease."
The newly isolated virus belongs to the Hantavirus group, which originated in Korea and China. A different Hantavirus caused thousands of cases among United Nations troops during the Korean War in the 1950's. It took scientists until the late 1970's to isolate that virus. Drowning in Plasma
The newly isolated virus often produces a respiratory illness that can be difficult to distinguish from influenza. Those infected may suffer fever, muscle aches and pains, coughs and other respiratory symptoms for a few days. But then the illness leads to a condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome. Breathing becomes labored as fluid accumulates in the lungs.
This condition, known as pulmonary edema, is usually caused by heart disease. But those infected with the Hantavirus "literally drown to death in blood plasma," said Dr. Clarence J. Peters, the scientist who delivered the Centers for Disease Control's report. "I have never seen anything like it."
The Centers for Disease Control and the Army conducted their research independently but exchanged information. The investigations began immediately after doctors first recognized a mysterious respiratory illness in the Four Corners area of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
At first doctors suspected that the cases were caused by influenza or pneumonic plague. But these illnesses were quickly ruled out by laboratory tests and epidemiologic investigations by the Indian Health Service, New Mexico Health Department and University of New Mexico.
The Centers for Disease Control was consulted.
"Over the Memorial Day weekend, a bunch of us got together, and the feeling around the table was that this was something new," Dr. Peters said. "Nobody had any idea what it was, there was nothing that anybody could think of that fit the epidemiology, the clinical picture. And later, as we added the pathology data, it did not fit the pathology of any known disease."
Researchers also had reason to worry about their own safety.
"The mortality rate was around 75 percent," Dr. Peters said, "and we had no idea what the organism was. So we were pretty careful around the lab."
On June 4, the fourth day of the laboratory investigation at the Centers for Disease Control, "we got a hint that it was a Hantavirus," Dr. Peters said.
The finding was a surprise because the four known Hantaviruses, which produce widespread bleeding, attack the kidneys, not the lungs.
The case for Hantavirus soon strengthened when Dr. Sherif Zaki, a pathologist at the centers, found evidence of it in tissues from autopsies of victims.
Federal researchers announced preliminary findings in June because some experts believe that the drug ribavirin is helpful against other Hantaviruses. But experts said much more had to be discovered about the new virus to determine which drugs would be effective.
Using newer genetic and other methods, the researchers were able to detect part of a Hantavirus in the tissue samples. They also determined that it was not a previously known Hantavirus.
The scientists knew that rodents carried other Hantaviruses, so they developed blood tests to determine whether they could detect the new virus among the exploding population of deer mice in the region. Next, they had not yet isolated the virus or grown it in cells in the laboratory. So, using the tissues of a deer mouse that had been trapped in the house of a fatal case, they repeatedly inoculated several new generations of cells in the laboratory over the course of weeks. The scientists eventually isolated the virus in test tubes. The molecular pattern in the virus from the mouse was virtually the same as in other samples from the fatal case.
Scientists believe deer mice spread the virus through urine, feces and saliva. But the virus is not believed to spread from person to person.
"We don't fully understand how the deer mice pass the virus from one to another," Dr. Peters said. "And by having the virus, we can infect animals in the laboratory to study such patterns and to learn how the virus makes you sick."
By testing samples of blood from mice that have been kept frozen for 15 or so years, scientists might be able to determine whether the virus is new or whether it was present but undetected for a long time in this country.
Dr. Peters said preliminary genetic studies of the virus made him "sure this virus has been here for a long time." If so, it is unknown why outbreaks have not been documented in the past and why the virus has suddenly become a killer. One possibility is that the virus has undergone changes that eased its transmission to humans. More Research Needed
While the Centers for Disease Control studies were under way, Dr. Schmaljohn and her husband, Dr. Alan Schmaljohn, both microbiologists, were carrying out similar research at the Army laboratory in Maryland.
Dr. Connie Schmaljohn said the Food and Drug Administration had recently given her Army team approval to begin safety tests among military volunteers of an experimental vaccine against a different Hantavirus.
It will take much more research to determine how great a public health threat the new Hantavirus poses and whether an effective vaccine could be developed. Dr. Peters said preliminary tests indicated that most people who have been infected with the new virus get sick and that most die. A central mystery is why the new virus has a much higher death rate than other Hantaviruses, which range from 1 percent to 15 percent.
Scientists usually name a disease or infectious agent for the geographic area where samples were first collected. But few people or places want to be linked to a fatal disease. Navajo leaders have objected to public descriptions of the infection as the Navajo disease, and other leaders have objected to naming a virus after their communities.
Dr. Connie Schmaljohn said her team had named the virus the Mammoths Lakes, Calif., virus because the mouse from which it was isolated was taken from that area.
But Dr. Peters and Dr. James M. Hughes of the Centers for Disease Control said their group had not given the virus a name because of the controversies swirling about it and are taking a new approach. "We are inviting the community to help us name their virus," Dr. Peters said.Continue reading the main story


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Arkansas' homegrown second baseman, who's been immersed since childhood in the same iconic hog calls that echoed across TD Ameritrade Park Tuesday night, bounced in the air and swung his right fist.
The first game of the College World Series finals wasn't over yet.
But senior Carson Shaddy was letting himself embrace the moment.
Right there in the seventh inning — just after his teammate had thrown out an Oregon State runner trying to stretch a single into a double, and well after Arkansas had seized control because the Beavers unraveled in a four-run fifth — Shaddy stood on the cut of the infield and soaked it all in.
"Wooooooo … Pig sooie!"
The chant rang out from the stands as the Razorbacks' dugout went wild. Party on.
Arkansas has more work to do. Shaddy was adamant about that. The 4-1 win over Oregon State means the Beavers will be extra motivated to keep the Razorbacks from celebrating the program's first national title Wednesday.
But Tuesday's triumph in an atmosphere that felt like their own stadium's electric environment? That couldn't have been scripted any better.
"We all looked around at each other and said, 'gosh, this is crazy,'" said Shaddy, who grew up in Fayetteville and whose dad played for Arkansas. "It was so loud. Everybody's wanting a championship so bad."
The Razorbacks played that way, too — whether it was first baseman Jared Gates diving in foul territory for a highlight-reel grab. Or undefeated starter Blaine Knight pitching out of jams with grit and guile. Or a lineup finding a way to keep the pressure on an Oregon State squad that seemed a bit wobbly Tuesday night.
It was in the fourth and fifth innings when the game was decided.
OSU sophomore Adley Rutschman was called for runner's interference while Arkansas attempted to turn a double play in the fourth — he ducked as he approached second base but didn't slide or veer out of the way as the rule requires. The call wiped a run off the board and credited the Razorbacks' defense with two outs. The Beavers, up 1-0 at the time, never seemed to be the same after Knight escaped the fourth-inning jam with a strikeout.
Moments later, Arkansas was chasing starter Luke Heimlich — a sudden unraveling by the OSU ace, who'd tossed four impressive one-hit innings to that point.
There was an error by the normally sure-handed Nick Madrigal. Two walks. Two hit batsmen.
"All hell broke lose," Shaddy said.
And Arkansas never looked back.
The Razorbacks strutted, flexed and yelled after zeros illuminated the scoreboard in the final seven OSU innings, much to the delight of the red-stained crowd of 25,321. The Beavers had scored an average of 9.7 runs per game in the NCAA tournament heading into Tuesday.
Yet every attempt by Oregon State to claw back seemed to be met with some rally-killing barrier.
Madrigal, the No. 4 overall MLB draft pick, lined out with two men on base to end the fifth. Razorback left fielder Heston Kjerstad threw out a runner with one out in the seventh — the play that prompted Shaddy to react with glee.
There was the high foul ball in the ninth that wasn't caught by any Oregon State fielder as Rutschman and third baseman Michael Gretler collided instead. Even a Razorback fan hauling in a foul ball barehanded in the second deck produced a roar throughout TD Ameritrade Park.
"This place was rocking," Knight said. "We really appreciate them making the trip up and giving up some really good, positive energy to go off of. I know that's what I was feeding off of."
That's been the case since Razorbacks got here, really.
Ten days ago, Shaddy and his teammates were taking the field and taking in the atmosphere during Arkansas' CWS opener. He saw red-hued shirts all over the place. When the Razorback fans joined together for a hog call before the game, Shaddy marveled.
He couldn't believe how loud it was — more than 370 miles away from home.
It doesn't get any better than this, he thought.
Then Tuesday happened.
"This game, the fans were so rowdy and ready for us to play our best," Shaddy said. "I'm glad we could get this one."
Play of the Game
Oregon State starter Luke Heimlich was on the ropes when Eric Cole came to the plate in the top of the fifth. The lefty had just hit Jax Biggers with a pitch to load the bases after Arkansas catcher Grant Koch had tied the game 1-1 with an RBI double. Heimlich needed an out. Instead, he also hit Cole with a pitch that bounced well in front of the plate. The go-ahead run scored for the Razorbacks and an ensuing error on second baseman Nick Madrigal led to a decisive four-run frame.
Star of the Game
Blaine Knight did what he's done all year, hold the opposing team in check while allowing Arkansas' offense to do its thing. The Razorback ace had only two 1-2-3 innings, but he pitched his way out of trouble when necessary to improve to 14-0 with six innings of one-run ball.
Close Play
Arkansas was content to allow a run in exchange for a double play in the fourth inning, but Oregon State designated hitter Tyler Malone beat the throw to first by the shortstop, Biggers. Trevor Larnach scored from third on the play, but he was forced to return as baserunner Adley Rutschman was called for interference when he didn't slide at second. The Razorbacks were given a double play and escaped without allowing a run.
Key Decision
If Oregon State had a chance to rally in the latter innings, it may have been in the seventh when Zak Taylor ripped a one-out pitch from reliever Barrett Loseke down the line. The ball hooked off the hop into the railing in foul territory and caromed right toward left fielder Heston Kjerstad. The charging freshman fired a dart to second base to nail Taylor, who was trying for a double. Down by three runs, the Beavers didn't need the extra base. OSU had only one batter reach base after.
Quirky Moment
Larnach lofted an opposite-field fly ball to left to lead off the OSU fourth. It appeared Kjerstad would have a play on the ball, but then he couldn't find it in the sun. The ball landed and bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Larnach appeared to score later in the inning as Arkansas attempted to turn a double play. An interference call stranded him.
Our Take
Arkansas moved within a win of its first championship as Oregon State's All-Americans faltered in the decisive inning. Heimlich struggled with his control to open the door for a four-run outburst, and Madrigal made a key error that added to the trouble.


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Palais Royal Gardens and Place des Vosges are, by far, my favourite places in Paris. Today, I took little Jude to the Palais Royal Gardens and we had such a great time. This garden is so, so pretty and resting. And, icing on the cake, today there was an exhibition of sculptures by Thierry Courtadon, called Une pierre dans mon jardin (a rock in my garden). Thierry Courtadon sculpts rocks from Volvic, a beautiful grey volcanic rock. I really envoyed his work.
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Hello SOTGC community,
I'm learning how truly gorgeous and thrilling are our womanly curves vs. our young girl straight lines. I'm also experiencing what positive attributes and suggestions are portrayed in the very substance of our bodies. There have been many times I've unintelligently cursed the "linebacker" legs and "junk in the trunk" I've been blessed with when attempting to buy jeans and bathing suits. I've even been brought to tears over the frustration! (Silly, I know, but true.) Can I get an "Amen!" up in here?
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When was the last time you stood bare in front of a mirror and admired the lines of your body and what they mean? Well, it's time if you never have and if it's been awhile. It's also time to change the message you tell yourself if you berate your sturdy thighs, vague 4 pack vs. perfect 6 pack tummy and hips that are wider than your waist. And finally, if you've still got it all, just in different places it's time to learn why and how to love all those awesome parts again.
I've been super fit as a young athlete, not so fit and trim as a result of stress induced hormone imbalances and just about everywhere in between as a corporette on the rise spending too much time in my car, at a desk, over rich meals with clients and not getting the proper amount of sleep or exercise. Today, I'm learning the critical importance of balance and ultimate lifelong health of both my body and mind and how my mind affects my body. When these two powerful machines join forces, the outcome is positively unstoppable on all fronts!
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Through my own personal struggle against unhealthy weight gain and a twisted, negative body image I've come to deeply appreciate and respect the awesome machine that is the human body and the especially wonderful things of which the female body is capable like reproducing life. One of my friends responded so fantastically to her husband when he was giving her a hard time about how often she was eating when pregnant, "Uh, hello, growing a human here (pointing to her baby bump)… I'm pretty awesome!". In that moment, whether she realized it or not, she spoke honest truth and her husband LOVED it!
As many of you know, I'm very newly married (to quite possibly the most incredible human being God EVER created. Please excuse my bias). Before our wedding I had what I think are the normal visions of being a slender, fit, blushing bride – down at least a size or two from my average, not completely ideal, over the past couple of years.
A couple weeks before the wedding my prince and I were out for a little run and we usually have great conversations while running together, this day was no exception. I had come to realize that my new schedule and immediate goals of expanding my business and becoming completely debt free were requiring significant enough time that I was unable to do the two-a-day workouts and strict eating schedule that had previously allowed me to achieve my physical goals. Instead of feeling completely defeated and sorrowful that on my wedding day I wouldn't have my "dream body", I joyfully accepted the softer curves I own that are still healthy and strong. I also was excited that I was in the process of achieving my best life yet, all the way around and my physical goals would be reached through a committed process as well, just not as soon as I originally hoped. I shared my new love of my body as it is with him because I knew he sees me as completely beautiful just as I am. Ladies, right there on the street in the middle of a run with sweat running down our brows he stopped dead in his tracks, scooped me up and pulled me into him and laid the most passionate kiss on me! Then he exclaimed, "That's the best news I could hear all year!" He LOVED that I felt confident and beautiful even though I have personal progress to achieve. And he adores my curves – they are adventurous!
Do you know that studies actually prove men go crazy over our curves? It's true! The title of one article regarding an important study conducted right here in my current hometown of Austin, TX says a great deal, "Men lust for hourglass curves say researchers" and have since the beginning of time. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1539035/Men-lust-for-hourglass-curves-say-researchers.html
In feeling great right where we are, we exude confidence that becomes wildly attractive to others. It has been scientifically proven that our mature, womanly curves which come in ALL sizes suggest fertility and health.
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So many things impact our self-image, our body perception, our understanding of "sexy" and beautiful. Many things we allow to distort that perspective. Per a recent and very candid text conversation with our petite framed wonder woman SOTGC founder Marney, I was reminded that our journey with our feminine bodies is universal and worth discussing. How many things impact the changes in our bodies as we grow from young girls to teens to fully developed women? Lifestyle, upbringing, tongue pallet development, culture, genetics, hormone changes, child bearing, breast feeding, stress, trauma, joy, financial abundance and lack, education… To none of these things are we a slave but through self-awareness, kindness toward ourselves and understanding of how to be as healthy possible we can achieve the ultimate "body beautiful".
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LOS ANGELES—Ubisoft's E3 press conference was littered with expected company heavies—Tom Clancy, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, yet another Just Dance—but it also included a few welcome surprises, particularly a sequel to last year's surprise South Park RPG smash.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole got its world premiere with little apparent gameplay and plenty of signature South Park humor. The prior game's developers at Obsidian Entertainment have been replaced this time by Ubisoft San Francisco, but series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are on board again—as proven by their cantankerous appearance at the Ubi presser.
"Fuck, now we know how to make good games," Parker told the crowd while admitting that he'd previously said he'd never make another game again. "Fuck it, let's do it again." The duo explained that this sequel would continue the journey of the last game's "the kid" hero, this time with more of a superhero angle, and it would tell "the story of why your butthole's so amazing." Sure thing, guys.
Of course, of course, of course Ubisoft announced a new Assassin's Creed game, set in the steampunky, horse-and-buggy setting of Westminster's Devil's Acre slum in 1868. AC: Syndicate's trailer showed our Victorian hero—in quite the jaunty hat—hitching rides on buggies, dodging buckshot, and using a hookshot to grapple his way onto a moving train. He also beat the crap out of a bunch of pub knuckleheads for sport at the trailer's close, so, you know, there's something for the whole family.
No release date was announced, but the game's demo will be available for public consumption in multiple cities in Europe and Australia this week.
Last year saw the debut of Rainbow Six: Siege and Tom Clancy's The Division, and this year saw... the continued hype building for both games. Sadly, neither of their press conference demos looked all that different from last year's, with The Division featuring a co-op team looting foes and caches around a giant, quarantined city, and Siege having two teams face off, once more, in that game's gadget-loaded asymmetrical combat.
Siege's public beta will start on September 24, but the game's actual release date wasn't announced, while The Division will launch in March 2016.
The art of battle
The conference's closing, "one more thing" moment came in the form of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, a gritty, drug-running co-op game from Ubisoft Paris. Dune buggies, snipers, parachuting machine gunners, helicopters, puddles of blood collecting into piles of cocaine, cowboy hats—it filled the hole that we'd come to expect from nearly annual Far Cry announcements as of late. No release date was attached, but we gotta say, its brutal sensory overload left quite an impression.
The press conference's other major new IP introduction came in the form of For Honor, a swords-and-axes melee game that debuted with a four-on-four melee mode. At first glance, the game looked like it might have a MOBA-meets-Mordor flavor, as player characters followed a giant throng of computer-controlled grunts into battle, but it quickly transformed into a slow, brutal sword-battling game.
The two-on-two duel we saw, which had been advertised as a system dubbed "the art of battle," was mostly full of brutal slashes and defensive strikes—meaning no BloodBorne-esque, high-speed rolls—and it ended, unsurprisingly, with a blood-spurting beheading.
The Anno civilization-building series is set to expand with yet another sequel: Anno 2205, set to launch on PC in November of this year. Its teaser trailer showed players building a city on Earth and developing a space-ready society so that they could eventually launch into outer space and build further colonies. Another longtime PC favorite, the high-speed, loop-loaded racer Trackmania, will finally receive a console version, dubbed Trackmania Turbo.


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Microsoft: Skype app will stop working on Windows Phone and Windows RT in "early 2017"
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- 2016-Aug-13
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would soon be dropping Skype support for Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 devices, along with several older versions of rival operating systems.
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Now Available for Raspberry Pi 3
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- 2016-Aug-08
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 IoT Core is now available with the Anniversary Update, which brings a long list of improvements, new features, and support for more devices and apps.
Hackers manage to unlock Windows RT tablets and run non-Windows OS
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The latest Patch Tuesday update killed a major vulnerability that could have potentially let hackers unlock ARM-powered Windows RT tablets and install non-approved Windows programs. Fortunately for Windows RT tablet owners, Microsoft's security engineers discovered this vulnerability before hackers exploited it.
Microsoft's Windows RT security patch also stops you from loading Linux
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It was big news when Microsoft announced it was working on a version of Windows that would run on tablets with ARM-based processors… but by the time Windows RT actually launched it was a lot less exciting. Devices like the Microsoft Surface and Surface 2 couldn't run desktop Windows apps and weren't significantly cheaper than Intel Atom-powered tablets running the full version of Windows, and they didn't even get better battery life.
Hacker gets Windows RT 8.1 PE running on unreleased Lumia 650 XL
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- 2016-Jul-16
The Microsoft Lumia 650 XL was never released, but numerous leaks have been revealed to the public with some claiming it's the Lumia 650 XL and some it's the Lumia 850. The cancelled release of the phone didn't stop hacker Calyx Hikari from successfully running Windows RT 8.1 PE on the device.
A developer is working to bring Windows 10 Mobile to the Surface RT
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- 2016-Apr-25
When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be available as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 devices, owners of those devices running Windows RT were understandably frustrated by the news that they would not be offered an upgrade path to the new OS. Instead, the company released Windows RT 8.1 Update 3 in September, adding a Windows 10-style Start menu for those devices, but little else.
Windows 10 RT shows signs of existence
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- 2016-Mar-03
It would appear that the rumors of Windows RT's demise have been greatly exaggerated. The dead OS is showing signs of life as Windows 10 RT. Windows RT, announced and released in 2012, was designed to bring Windows to ARM based processors. User adoption was extremely low, as the OS looked exactly like Windows 8; however, it was only able to run apps that were available in the Store, as well as Office RT, which came preinstalled.
Windows 10 IoT Core support for Raspberry Pi 3
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- 2016-Feb-29
This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced availability of their new board—the Raspberry Pi 3. We're excited to have Windows 10 support the new board via a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview update available for download today. The new Raspberry Pi 3 board is available now in the Microsoft Store online.
Windows 10 desktop on ARM and Win32 Mobile support tipped in new Microsoft documentation
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- 2016-Jan-15
When Windows RT launched in conjunction with Windows 8 in 2012, the operating system ran on ARM-based devices with desktop program support only for software that Microsoft bundled, like a version of Microsoft Office. Because of RT's inability to user-install Win32 programs, and for a number of other reasons, the operating system failed to catch on. Microsoft's last RT device, the Surface 2, launched in 2013.
Microsoft could be working on bringing Windows 10 desktop to ARM chips
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- 2016-Jan-14
A while ago, Microsoft released Windows RT for devices with ARM chips. Windows RT wasn't successful for the company, and existing Windows RT devices didn't receive the Windows 10 upgrade either. Now, it seems like Microsoft isn't done with Windows on ARM chips.
Microsoft updates Windows 10 IoT Core and releases it for commercial development
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- 2015-Dec-06
Microsoft has delivered improvements to its version of the Windows 10 platform for small, low-cost devices like the Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computer, making it officially available for commercial hardware developers to use at the same time.
Windows Phone Device Hacked to Run Windows RT
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- 2015-Nov-29
They say Windows RT has no future in Microsoft's vision, so the tablet-oriented operating system is pretty much dead after the latest update released in September this year.
Long-Awaited Windows RT 8.1 Update Lands, Nobody Cares
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- 2015-Sep-20
If a tree falls in a forest, but there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? If Microsoft gets around to updating Windows RT 8.1, but there's no one still using a Windows RT device, does anyone notice?
What's new and improved on the Windows 10 Start Menu on Windows RT 8.1
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- 2015-Sep-19
Late yesterday Microsoft pushed several optional updates to devices running Windows RT 8.1 and one of those updates, KB3033055, is what delivered the Windows 10 style Start Menu to those still on Windows RT 8.1 devices.
The real reason why you'll never get Windows 10 on your Surface RT tablet
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- 2015-Sep-18
"What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". That was the mantra my colleagues and I adhered to when I was leading Intel's PC benchmarking efforts in the early 2000s. As the resident "HOC" (Highly-paid Outside Consultant) to the company's Desktop Architecture Labs (DAL), my job was to help Intel's engineers design the most complex desktop runtime environments possible for the purpose of showcasing the performance advantages of each new PC chip generation.


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Whyalla 2014
My father had been living at home since my mother died last year. I had arranged to spend a week with him in August, but two weeks before I was due to fly over to Whyalla he fell and broke his hip. He had a successful hip replacement operation, but the general anaesthetic really played havoc with his (previously mild) dementia. He was in hospital for three weeks and then transferred to a nursing home, where he is slowly recovering.
So my one week turned into two, spent mainly cleaning and clearing out the house with my sister, as it's highly unlikely he'll be able to return home. In the back room we found one of the original tea chests (pic 1) into which we packed all our worldly possessions for our assisted passage from England to Australia in September 1966. My parents were never ones to throw anything out!
I went to Whyalla High (pic 2) and played football for Wanderers at Swandel Park (pic 3) but never really looked back after leaving for Adelaide Uni in 1971. In fact, as my old schoolfriend Dave said, apart from uni holidays as a postman or digging out weeds for the council, the two weeks is probably the longest I have spent there since I left.
They have good coffee in Whyalla these days. I had my morning cup at Sempre, diagonally opposite the Art Deco pearl of the north, the Hotel BayView (pic 4). People in Whyalla have never lacked a sense of humour (pic 5) or a strong political conviction. Seeing the flag as I drove past Whyalla Scaffolding (pic 6) prompted me to muse on the upcoming Scottish independence referendum. When the Scots vote to disassociate themselves from the union, the union flag will become a mere historical artifact. The non-Scottish parts of the United Kingdom—as well as certain far-flung former colonies in the South Pacific—will then have to find themselves a new flag. And what better option for Australia than the independence flag that was fluttering so proudly against the bright blue sky?
My mother worked for the Whyalla City Council in the Ada Ryan Gardens for many years. When she died last year, we asked if the council would consider erected a bench to commemorate her time there. While she was a worker, never a volunteer, the bench is in a lovely spot and I think they have done a pretty good job (pics 6 and 7).


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The Democrats may be seeing some temporary benefits from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's November decision to go nuclear and remove the Republicans' ability to filibuster most nominees.
The Monday confirmation of Los Angeles lawyer John Owens to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — the seat had been vacant for more than nine years — brought the total number of Obama picks donning the black robes for this first quarter to 19, including three appellate judges.
Compared to Obama's first quarters in pre-nuclear years, that's some progress. In the first three months of 2010, the Senate confirmed only six Obama judges, according to a count by the Alliance for Justice. The Senate confirmed 14 in that period in both 2011 and 2012 but then dropped down to only nine last year.
The Owens confirmation leaves 85 vacancies in the federal judiciary, including 15 on the important appeals courts. Obama has moved to fill 47 of those seats, with 25 of the nominees pending on the Senate floor and 22 awaiting Judiciary Committee action. (There are also 21 judges so far who said they are moving on within the next year.)
The Federal Judicial Center reports that President Obama has so far filled a total of 235 judgeships, 44 of them for appeals court slots. By way of comparison, President George W. Bush put a total of 324 people on the federal bench (62 0f them for appeals courts) and President Bill Clinton put the robes on 372 nominees (66 on appeals courts.)
If the Senate keeps up close to its current pace — maybe with an unexpectedly large flurry towards the end of this year — Obama might, after six years, get relatively close to Bush's eight-year total. But the very strong possibility of the Senate switching to Republican control for Obama's last two years, the number of judicial confirmations likely will stalemate or fall to a trickle at best, with perhaps only an occasional district court judge picked by bipartisan commissions getting through.
The real question is whether any Supreme Court retirees would be replaced with the GOP in charge. Should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who just turned 81) step down, it might be possible someone could be found. But if Justices Antonin Scalia (who just turned 78) or Anthony Kennedy (78 in July) step down, thereby threatening the court's conservative majority, we could see an eight-justice high court for a while.


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Hull 0 - Manchester City 2: Silva service! Spaniard nets stunner after Kompany sees red
DAVID SILVA netted a long-range stunner to spare Vincent Kompany's blushes and keep Manchester City's title challenge on course.
Kompany saw red after 10 minutes when he hauled down Nikica Jelavic on the edge of his own box.
But just four minutes later some Spanish Silva service got him out of jail.
The tricky winger created space on the edge of the area and curled in a beauty that left Allan McGregor with no chance.
Hull had plenty of the ball for much of the game but couldn't ever test Joe Hart, who was left incensed in the second half after George Boyd dived in the box.
Edin Dzeko slid in a second late on to seal the win and leave City six points behind Chelsea with two games in hand.
Kompany is now set to serve a one-game ban and will miss the Fulham game.
Dzeko said: "Vinny is our captain and our leader, our heart, and I hope he will be back soon so we can win games together.
"We showed character with the 10 men over 80 minutes and we did a good job.
"We were fighting all game because we knew what the game meant for us. We won the game and that's important.
"The next game against Fulham is important and we will try to win that."


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by the early seventh century Buddhist traveller Hieun Tsang in 641 A.D.,
Multan for many decades remained a town better known for its ivory dealers
and coppersmiths, whose shops flanked a temple containing richly bejewelled
idols. Notwithstanding the conquest of Multan by Muhammad bin Qasim and
subsequently by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1005 and subsequently by Timur in 1398,
Multan did not acquire the overtly Islamic identity it has today until the
emperor Aurangzeb ordered the demolition of the idols.
Multan was ruled during the 18th century by the Sadozai Afghans who were supplanted by the Sikhs from northern Punjab under Ranjit Singh. Sawan Mal was appointed Governor on his behalf in 1829. His son Mulraj, embroiled more by circumstance than by conspiracy, was held responsible for the murder of Mr. P. A. Vans Agnew and Lieut. W. A. Anderson in April 1848 and thereby invoked the punitive intervention by the British in January 1849, an event which led ultimately to the finality of the annexation of the Punjab.
|Troops crossing the Ravi near Multan, 1848
|Fort of Multan from west, 1848
|South view of Eidgah, Multan, 1848
|Eidgah, Multan, 1849
|Stroming the Mundee Awa,1848
|Stroming the Mundee Awa,1848
|Mundee Awa, Multan,,1848
|Battery breaching the Delhi gate, Multan, 1849
|Battery breaching the Delhi gate, Multan, 1849
|Explosion of Powder magazine, Multan, 1849


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myRA Pilot Program Announced
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Watch for details on a new retirement savings account called the myRA. The Treasury Department has been instructed to begin a pilot program for this new savings vehicle by the end of 2014. The myRA (my retirement account), would let workers open individual retirement accounts with as little as $25 that invest in government bonds. Contributions would not be tax-deductible and could be withdrawn at any time without penalty.
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. . . The Open Champions name slips my memory at this time . . .
sorry, had to go to japan to qualify for the AF world wide in San Antonio tex, John Brodbeck sr and Bob Dunham were the CD's in japan . In Tex i met up with my friend Capt Keith trostle , i was #2 on the team and got to pick my helper for the Nats and that is how a capt got to chase free flight planes for a two striper .did you light the fuse Keith, no i thought you did,, last time we saw that plane, spent the week between athe AF worlds and the nats at Keith's folks 500 acre farm in kansas .it was great go out the back door and put a ff up. The USAF team won the team trophy and i was again #2 on the team ,i gave Keith time to go over and fly stunt Ha Ha and he ended up 5th, and he hasent quit yet,
When I die, I want to come back and 'wake up' in a Navy Nats hangar, 1950-1966!
Me too, but be careful: come back as what? . . .
The story of the NAVY NATS is one that should be chronicled-and soon . I haven't been to the museum in Muncie, so maybe it already has happened. Anyway, Ithink it'd be a great feature in the AMA monthly mag . All of us here would love to see that happen , but are there enough AMA members left who care ?
Paul Smith. The National Model Airplane Championship is open to anyone with AMA membership (or equal).It really shouldn't be called that, because it is nothing more than a very big contest. Winning something at the Nats doesn't mean that you are the "best of the best". That honor goes to those invited to the "Internationals", where only the top few are invited.In the past, the Nats was rotated around different parts of the country. Now, those within commuting distance to Muncie have the advantage over those more expert modelers who are just too far away to attend.F.C.
I do know this much though. Nobody runs down to join the Navy after a trip to Muncie. Those Navy NATS were bigger than life, especially to the Jr. and Sr. fliers and to my little brother, 9 at the time, who watched in awe. He never flew with me but he did catch the aviation bug there and went on to become a Navy F-18 pilot. One day he flew into the NAS Dallas before it closed and parked his F-18 on the exact spot on the tarmac where we practiced 25 years before.Hi Ken. This was the entire intent on the Navy holding a Nats. Fleet Admiral Nimitz had all naval aviators interviewed right after WW2 (USN, USMC) and found over 80 percent had built and flew model airplanes when they were younger. He wanted to know why they chose aviation.
Too bad the powers to be thought the Navy Sponsored NATS was not worth the money. That had nothing to do with it. After the Viet Nam fiasco, the DOD cut back on ALL budgets. First to suffer any Navy cut backs is travel, reserve stations and ships. Active gets the loot, with subs and aviation getting the most. The Nats was part of the Naval Air Reserve and used their stations. With them shut down and man power shifted, they got lost in the shuffle. That simple.
a couple of speed flyers who shall be unnamed, were kicked off of Fairchild AFB for drag racing on an unused runway......


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"Family Waves" (15)
{Troubled Sandy}
She said, "she was tired of him. I left my old job to get away from him.
We both met, while we were going to night school.He was studying to get his BS degree, I was studying to polish up on my computer skills."
"His name is Jeff, and he and I hit it off great,at first.He would come over to my apartment,we would study together.Then one thing lead to another."
"Jeff moved in with me, about two months after we met. Everything went fine for a while.
Then he started questioning me about, where I was going.
How long I was going to be. Also asked me if I was seeing anyone."
"When I told him it was none of his business, he struck me in the face.
I was totally shocked. He apologized later, and I thought it was just a once thing.
But boy was I wrong. ! Just a week later he did it again. I told him to get out, I'm done with him.
I didn't ever want to see him again.
Jeff packed his belongings up. Before he left, he told her, we aren't finished yet.
He slam the door behind him…… Sandy thought she was finished with him for good..
Jeff calls me at work, he calls me on my cell phone.He doesn't care what time it is.
He is always calling me and accusing me of having a girlfriend or boyfriend. He is always calling and telling me he is watching me, so I better watch my back.
"I'm really scared, Joni ! " " I remember Jeff telling me he used to be a heavy drinker. He said he had to quit, because he was always picking a fight with someone."
"When it was all over he was put in jail and heavily fined. I bet he is drinking again!!"


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Orange-Avocado Mixed Greens Salad Recipe/
This salad makes sharing oh so difficult! Tangy, Zesty and so yummy!
This is a newly-found recipe that looked delicious when I first saw a photo of it. I do love a good salad. Check out my Avocado Berry Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette for another favorite. I did notice that the serving size was "6," so I thought it might last for our entire family for a few nights. Well, I kind of ate the entire thing in one sitting. All by myself. So, I will keep the serving size as "6," but if you really enjoy eating, and salads in particular, you can make that serving size a "1" like I did.
Toss together in a large bowl:
8 cups torn mixed salad greens
1 avocado, sliced
1 11-oz. can mandarin oranges, drained
1/2 small red onion, sliced
Divide mixed salad ingredients amongst plates (or plate) and top with Italian or vinaigrette dressing.
Do I even need to tell you that I loved it? I didn't think so.
Orange-Avocado Mixed Greens Salad
This salad makes sharing oh so difficult! Tangy, zesty and so yummy!
Contributed by Megan Porta from pipandebby.com.
Published Nov 06, 2010
Serves: 6
Total time: 10 min
- 8 cups mixed salad greens, torn
- 1 avocado, sliced
- 1 11-oz. can mandarin oranges, drained
- ½ small red onion, sliced
- Combine mixed greens, avocado, oranges and onion in a large bowl and toss together. Serve with Italian or balsamic salad dressing.