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"It's like getting married to 154 people at the same time and trying to keep them happy. Franchising at its core is about relationship management," he said.
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Whether Smashburger can move into the multi-thousand territory of McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's will have more to do with management expertise than the taste of its burger, he said. (Reporting by Gary M. Stern; Editing by Carla Tonelli)
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by PhilipJ on 28 July 2006
Plasmid purification isn't all that hard, except that when you're in the physics department and you're using the shared use facilities in the molecular biology building. But anyway.
I've been trying to get a clean sample of my pPIU1 plasmid, and I need a fair amount so I've been using a QIAGEN maxi prep kit to do so. The basic idea is that you pick a single colony of cells from an agar plate and grow them up in liquid media (~ 5 mL) for about 8 hours. You then take a small volume of this liquid culture and use it to start a new, large (~500 mL) liquid culture which you leave growing overnight. By the morning you have a nice cloudy (and smelly) culture of cells that are ripe for harvesting.
You collect them by spinning the liquid down and forming a pellet of cells, which you can then resuspend, lyse, and harvest the DNA from. It involves lots of time standing around ultracentrifuges (no MRF yet, thankfully), and as long as you can follow the recipe, everything should go smoothly.
The problem I'm having, however, seems to be genomic DNA contaminating my end sample (see the gel at right, there's a long peice of something which hangs out up in/near the well, and if I digest the sample (not shown) I get horrible streaks all along the lane). The QIAGEN Plasmid Purification Handbook (PDF) gives instructions on how to lyse the cells to begin with, (steps 5 and 6 on page 21) which tells you to "mix thoroughly by vigorously inverting" 4-6 times, with two different buffers. These are the steps which actually break the cells apart, making it possible to then separate the DNA from the rest of the cell soup. When you have problems like I'm having and go to the comments and suggestions section (page 38, under Contaminated DNA/poor-quality DNA), they say if there's genomic DNA in the eluate, they tell me the mixing of the bacterial lysate was too vigorous! In fact, it must be handled gently.
Great. Thanks QIAGEN.
In my defense, I've done this a couple of times now and I'm sure I've payed attention to how rough and tumble a life my cell lysate has had, and I seem to end up with genomic contamination every time. It doesn't seem to show up on mini preps of the same cell culture. I've also tried two different maxi prep kits to see if there was something wonky with the buffers, and that doesn't seem to be it either. Any wet lab experts have any suggestions?
- Bill Hooker 4406 days ago #
Ultracentrifuge? That could be the problem; biologists typically mean spins of >100,000 x g when they say "ultracentrifuge". You only need a few thousand x g (say, 5000 rpm with a 10cm-ish rotor) to pellet bacteria.
You could also do your cultures the other way—grow the small prep overnight and the large prep during the day. That way the cells are log phase when you collect them. A 1:100-200 dilution of an overnight culture into fresh medium should reach log phase (A650 of ~0.6) in 4-6 hours.
When you resuspend the cells in P1, be gentle but thorough: pipette up and down until all you get a homogeneous suspension. Then add P2 and invert the (capped!) tube, rolling it over in your hands at the same time, ~20 times. The old advice used to be "make sure the entire inside of the container is coated with slime". Be gentle, but make sure you end up with a mostly-clear solution (it will be snotty, with some white bits, but should be mostly clear). Don't take longer than about five minutes. Mix the P3 in the same way.
If you're using the cartridges to remove the SDS precipitate, try spinning instead—leave behind some of the clarified lysate rather than carry over any of the pellet.
I suspect, though, that you're simply overloading the column. 500 ml is a lot of bugs! Try doing a midiprep—or just using the maxiprep column anyway—with 100 or 200ml instead.
- kstrna 4406 days ago #
We typically use the Hi-Speed Maxi Kits. They work very well. When it comes to adding P1, I mix it fairly well. With the P2, I shake (inverting the tube quickly) the cell mix fairly well 6 times letting it sit for 5 minutes. Like Bill, a snotty clearish solution with barely any bits. Then I add the P3, inverting the same way & let it sit for 10 minutes. The rest follows the protocol.
Have you tried using less culture? As Bill pointed out 500 mL is a lot. The suggested for a low copy plasmid is 250 mL. For a high copy it is 150 mL for Maxis.
- Uncle Al 4405 days ago #
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- commenter 4405 days ago #
Did you put the RNAse into P1?
- PhilipJ 4405 days ago #
Thanks for the suggestions all,
commenter—yes, there is RNAse in the P1;
Bill and kstrna—The plasmid is rather long (14 kb), and is of reasonably low copy, so I have been trying to start out with as many cells as possible. I have contacted Qiagen and for the regular maxi prep kits they didn't think 500 mL was too much, but also suggested I go to a lower volume and see if that fixes things. As it is low copy, I don't suspect I'm overloading the columns, but stranger things have happened before, so I'll give that a try.
- kstrna 4405 days ago #
It isn't so much overloading the column just with more cell pellet you maybe putting more effort into getting all the cells lysed. In doing so, you are probably shearing some of the genomic DNA which is why it is coming down. With fewer cells, you should be able to be less vigorous resuspending and lysing your cells which will hopefully prevent the shearing.


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I would encourage all taxpayers to vote "No" on Referendum 1A (county tax increase purportedly for county roads).
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– The county projections are based upon a static view of our economy. We are in a construction boom that the Rocky Mountain News estimates at $1 billion or more (Oct. 6, 2007). Market values have increased dramatically, with the Steamboat Pilot & Today reporting a 35 percent countywide assessment increase (May 10, 2007). The financial impact of the increased mill levy would be applied to both new construction as well as market-value appreciation. Every two years, the assessor revalues the taxpayer's property and the taxpayers are already at the midpoint of the next evaluation. Growth recently has exceeded 30 percent biannually with no letup on the horizon. If the ballot issue is approved, the assessed value of appreciation on your property will be taxed at 12.266 mills, resulting in substantial tax increases.
– The monies collected in 2008 for the tax year 2007 are project to be $3.3. million, of which $2.6 million will go into the capital fund and $700,000 will go into the general fund. The amount going into the capital fund is capped at $2.6 million. Of the $2.6 million for roads, $818,000 will be returned to the city of Steamboat Springs. Since 75 percent of Routt County property taxes are paid by Steamboat Springs property owners, they only get a 33 cent return on every $1 of taxes.
– Increased tax monies resulting from appreciation and new construction would go into the general fund and not require voter approval of its amount or use. Assuming biannual growth at the 30 percent rate for the four-year period from 2006 to 2010, the amount of the total tax, as well as the amount going in the general fund, is substantially greater than articulated by tax proponents. In 2009 and 2010, that tax would be $4.3 million, with $1.7 million going into the general fund. In 2011 and 2012, the tax total would be $5.6 million, of which $3 million would go in the general fund. For the six-year period, the total tax would be $26 million, of which almost $11 million would go into the general fund.
– After the first six years, the monies going into the capital fund would not be subject to voter approval as to purpose or use. Obviously, monies going into the general fund are discretionary spending at the will of the county commissioners. With the tax base increasing over the long range, the county practicably should never again need voter approval for a project or tax increase.
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FEMA Area 1 C&C Manard, MA
Massachusetts EMA Framingham, MA
FEMA. Beverly TF1, Beverly Airport NIKE Base
First Air Force C&C Bunker, ( Now used by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ) The Notch Holyoke, MA
Fort Devens TOC
Fort Devens Annex, Maynard, MA
Chilmark Island, south of Martha's Vineyard, MA (This was a Presidential Bunker for Kennedy, located apx. 30-35 miles SW from Hyanisport) Bunker was still there in 75 but in bad shape.
Boston Harbor Islands Defense Base, Dates to the Spanish American War Includes deep multi level bunkers on Long Island and Dear Island included tunnel between the two bases which has collapsed.
Harbor Command Post, Nahant, MA (Now owned by Northeastern Univ.)
Under Ground Hanger Orange Airport, Orange MA
Fort Edward's C&C Bunker ( was still there in 75 located adjacent to the BOMARC Sheds.)
Westover Air Reserve Base Command Bunker located on west side of the base, entrance is through an ordinary looking Cape type house.
Massachusetts National Guard C&C Bunker Rehoboth, MA
I work at 3 of the sites mentioned here ( travel intensive job ). And I work at the Nevada Test Site, where I frequently work in tunnels.
All the dirt that comes out of the tunnel has to go somewhere. Frequently it is used to make artificial terraces around the tunnel. This soil is a different color and composition than the pre-tunneling operation surface.
Mining equipment is vast, ungainly and requires constant attention from trained specialists.
These specialists are highly paid union members ( a miner I know at NTS makes $98 an hour! An HVAC guy I know there makes $30/hr. But he just got hired ).
If there are underground bases at these locations, there are miners unions, operators unions, highly paid union miners, and vast ugly pieces of hard rock mining gear that can't possibly be confused for anything else.
I don't see these things at the sites I work at.
Originally posted by Midnight Watchman
Delaware has abondoned bunkers buried under sand dunes along the shoreline:
From the history of the Cape Henlopen State Park:
With the onset of World War II, the U.S. Army established a military base at Cape Henlopen in 1941. Bunkers and gun emplacements were camouflaged among the dunes, and concrete observation towers were built along the coast to spot enemy ships. In 1964, the Department of Defense declared 543 acres of the Cape lands as surplus property. The State of Delaware accepted the property and established Cape Henlopen State Park.
You can now take tours of some of the "underdune" bunkers at the park, but there's many more still scattered around the park if you hike off-trail.


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"I've got a bad feeling about this, Carl."
"You're always the pessimist! They moved us outside just for some fresh air. That's all."
D*Face, a street artist in London, added huge googly eyes to discarded Christmas trees that face a bleak future. You can view more pictures of his anthropomorphic trees at the link.
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A Canadian short film by the Jason Eisener who you might know as the director of the grind house film "Hobo With a Shotgun". Or as I like to call the film, the best Tree film created....
What in the world did I just watch??!
This is so true - the best food we at in London was ethnic cuisine!
Christmas trees +horror film =sold gold short film
The running joke is that English cuisine has improved a lot, now that it is mostly Indian carryout.


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January 2014
While staying at Shelly Point Hotel we explored the area of St Helena Bay. We were very impressed with the styles and designed of the houses of the area. This is the place to visit if you want to get away from the normal holiday destination. It has a different look and feel. Found very few places to eat, but I can strongly recommend the Coffee shop restaurant at the Nursery on the right coming into the bay. Tranquil and scenic setting with good menu and quality food served for us.
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Our second December in St. Helena bay. No traffic...tranquil..places to explore, well known places to have something to eat in the area..
Bokkomlaan is a must!...If you are into a laidback holiday...come and see for yourself!!
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We were there in late January 2012 and now own a small cottage there. The livingstyle, pace and tranquility is priceless. Now we are even going to have the first "See Fees" on 28 December 2012 at the harbour...that is what I call the place to be!
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After lending her vocals to dozens of records and releasing her own albums with Floetry, Marsha Ambrosius goes at it alone on "Hope She Cheats on You (With a Basketball Player)," the first single off her forthcoming J Records debut Late Nights & Early Mornings, due October 26. Collaborations with Alicia Keys, Dre & Vidal, and Just Blaze are featured on the set.
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Dates in a bowl.
A date circled on a calendar.
- Date is defined as a particularly day of the month or day, month and year or a social outing between two people.
- An example of date is October 9, 1925.
- An example of date is two people meeting for coffee.
- The definition of date is to belong to a particular time period or to assign a time period to something or to go out with someone due to romantic interests.
- An example of date is to make paper to look older by burning the edges.
- An example of date is to determine that a photograph was taken in a specific year based on the clothing of the individuals in the photograph.
- An example of date is for a man to take his girlfriend to the movies.
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date. (n.d.). Retrieved August 17th, 2018, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/date
- a statement, as on a document or coin, specifying when it was made
- the time at which a thing happens or is done
- the time that anything lasts or goes on
- [pl.] a person's birth and death dates, usually expressed in years
- the day of the month
- an appointment for a set time, esp. one for a social engagement with a person with whom one is having or considering having a romantic or sexual relationship
- such an engagement
- a person with whom one has such an engagement
Origin of dateMiddle English from Old French from Classical Latin data, feminine of datus, past participle of dare, to give (the first word in Roman letters, giving the place and time of writing, as data Romae, literally , given at Rome) from Indo-European base an unverified form d?-, to give from source Classical Greek d?ron, gift, didonai, to give, Russian dat', to give
transitive verbdat′ed, dat′ing
- to mark (a letter, etc.) with a date
- to find out, determine, set, or record the date of
- to assign a date to
- to show or reveal as typical of a certain period or age
- to make seem old-fashioned or out-of-date
- to reckon by dates
- to have a date or dates with
- to belong to, or have origin in, a definite period in the past: usually with from
- to be or seem outdated or old-fashioned
- to have dates (see datenoun above): I seldom dated while attending college
to date
up to date
- the sweet, fleshy fruit of the date palm, having a large, hard seed
- date palm
Origin of dateMiddle English from Old French from Classical Latin dactylus from Classical Greek daktylos, a date, probably from Sem, as in Arabic dáqal, date palm
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- a. The time stated in terms of the day, month, and year: What is the date of your birth?b. A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
- a. A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen: the date of their wedding.b. dates The years of someone's birth and death: Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
- The time during which something lasts; duration: "Summer's lease hath all too short a date" ( Shakespeare )
- The time or historical period to which something belongs: artifacts of a later date.
- An appointment: a luncheon date with a client. See Synonyms at engagement.
- a. An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.b. One's companion on such an outing.
- An engagement for a performance: has four singing dates this month.
verbdat·ed, dat·ing, dates
- To mark or supply with a date: date a letter.
- To determine the date of: date a fossil.
- To betray the age of: Pictures of old cars date the book.
- To go on a date or dates with.
- To have origin in a particular time in the past: This statue dates from 500 BC.
- To become old-fashioned.
- To go on dates.
Origin of dateMiddle English from Old French from Medieval Latin data from Latin data (Romae) issued (at Rome) (on a certain day) feminine past participle of dare to give ; see dō- in Indo-European roots.
Related Forms:
- dat′a·ble date′a·ble
- dat′er
- The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.
- A date palm.
Origin of dateMiddle English from Old French from Old Provençal datil from Latin dactylus from Greek daktulos finger, date (from its shape)
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(plural dates)
From French datte, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (daktulos, "finger") (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably from a Semitic source such as Arabic دقل (dáqal, "variety of date palm") or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, "date palm").
(plural dates)
- That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made.
- The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.
- the date for pleading
- Do you know the date of the wedding?
- We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
- A point in time
- You may need that at a later date.
- (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
- George Chapman (translat), Homer (auth), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
- As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,
- Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
- Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
- And to have children wise and valorous.
- A pre-arranged social meeting.
- I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
- A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
- I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
- A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.
- We slept together on the first date.
- The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.
(third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)
- To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
- To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
- To determine the age of something.
- to date the building of the pyramids
- To take (someone) on a series of dates.
- To have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with.
- (intransitive) Of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship.
- (intransitive) To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- This show hasn't dated well.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- To note the time of writing one may say dated at or from a place.
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"That´s 60 points, and we have won 18 games in the Premier League - and with five to go, we can end with a very healthy tally in an excellent position," said Moyes.
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Vaughn found guilty of killing family
Jurors deliberating for less than an hour convicted an Oswego computer specialist of murder Thursday in the deaths of his wife and three school-aged kids during what he told them was a road trip to a water park.
Christopher Vaughn, 37, showed no emotion as the verdict was read. Family members of the victims cried and hugged each other in a hallway outside the courtroom immediately afterward.
Vaughn killed his family because he saw them as inconvenient obstacles to his dream of a new life subsisting in the Canadian wilderness, prosecutors told jurors Thursday before they withdrew to deliberate. The prosecution argued he had compiled survival guides and posted wistful Internet messages about constructing a cabin and settling for good in the Yukon cut off from the world, state attorneys said.
"This case is not just a murder, it's an atrocity," said Will County States Attorney James Glasgow. "To annihilate your family, I can't think of a more unspeakable crime."
Vaughn was eligible for the death penalty when the case began, but Illinois has since abolished capital punishment. That means he faces a maximum life term when he is sentenced on Nov. 26.
Prosecutors said Vaughn pulled the family SUV off the highway after 5 a.m. on June 14, 2007, placed a pistol under his 34-year-old wife Kimberly's chin and fired. They say he then meticulously shot 12-year-old Abigayle, 11-year-old Cassandra and 8-year-old Blake -- each in the chest and head.
Abigayle was found holding a stuffed animal and a Harry Potter book. Forensics experts said the trajectory of the bullet into Blake's chest indicated he had raised his arm as Vaughn shot him.
Vaughn awoke his wife and children that morning promising a surprise trip to a water park downstate.
During nearly a full day of closing arguments Thursday, prosecutor Chris Regis read emails Christopher Vaughn wrote to a friend before the murders saying he longed for a life unencumbered by cellphones and other hallmarks of modernity. He cited poet Henry David Thoreau about the virtue of shrugging off obligations.
"I just want to live plain and simple," Vaughn wrote in one email.
Regis said that Vaughn felt "he was held back by four major obstacles ... Those four obstacles were eliminated on June 14, 2007."
He had long since written off his wife and kids, Regis told jurors.
"He's ready to drop off the face of the earth and disappear," he said. "This is all about him. ... Me, me, me, me. I, I, I."
Vaughn took notes during the nearly six straight hours of closings but displayed little emotion as he sat at the defense table, even when prosecutors displayed crime-scene photos of his wife, her head hanging back and dried blood near her nose and mouth.
In his closing, defense attorney George Lenard repeated Vaughn's contention that his wife was suicidal over marriage troubles and affected emotionally by antidepressant medication, The defense claimed she shot Vaughn in the wrist and leg, then killed the children and herself.
Lenard added later that Kimberly Vaughn may have seen the murder of her kids as a twisted act of mercy.
"(She) was of the mindset that if she was gone, they were better off with her ... `Come with me to heaven,"' Lenard said, depicting what the mother might have been thinking.
Prosecutors balked at that idea.
In his closing, Mike Fitzgerald cited witnesses who testified that Kimberly Vaughn was upbeat around the time and that, just the evening before, she had fussed cheerfully over a recipe for "cheesy potatoes."
Moreover, he asked how the wife could have just grazed her husband with two bullets as he sat right next to her -- yet somehow managed to put a bullet into each of her kid's heads.
"No way, ladies and gentlemen," Fitzgerald said. "No way that's possible."
In their more than three-week presentation to jurors, prosecutors called more than 80 witnesses.
One was a stripper Vaughn a confided in about his marital troubles. She said Vaughn never asked her to dance, but that they discussed the outdoors and poetry. The manager of a suburban strip club, Scores Chicago, testified that in the days leading up to the killing, Vaughn spent nearly $5,000 at the establishment.
Prosecutors had wanted to go into Vaughn's obsession with Druid beliefs, which typically involve worship of nature. But the judge barred them from direct reference to any such beliefs, saying it could unfairly prejudice him in jurors' eyes.
A series of forensics experts testified that blood splatter, the angle of the shots and other evidence proved Vaughn pulled the trigger. An investigator described finding a magazine at Vaughn's home with an article on how to make a murder look like a suicide. And prosecutors entered evidence that he visited a gun range the day before the slayings.
They also entered emails into evidence where Kimberly Vaughn expressed admiration for her husband, in one message calling him her "hero."
Several emails of Christopher Vaughn's to a friend were also read in court. In one, he wrote his wife, Kimberly, will "be just fine" because he planned to fake his own death so she could collect on his life insurance policy.
Jurors also watched hours of videotaped police interviews of Vaughn from the day of the shootings.
At one point during the interrogation, state Trooper Cornelious Monroe brought out pictures of Vaughn's children, questioning Vaughn's cool demeanor and Monroe adding that, if his own kids had been murdered, he would be crying.
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A beautiful life melted away in an acid attack
"Main bahut himmatwali thi (I had lots of guts)", she says looking at you with eyes reduced to unseeing opaque white mottled orbs and her once-pretty face a mass of melted flesh. But acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee is still a fighter, as she battles all odds for justice.delhi Updated: Jul 13, 2012 23:38 IST
"Main bahut himmatwali thi (I had lots of guts)", she says looking at you with eyes reduced to unseeing opaque white mottled orbs and her once-pretty face a mass of melted flesh. But acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee is still a fighter, as she battles all odds for justice.
She was fast asleep on the terrace of her house in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, on the night of April 22, 2003, when she felt the burning liquid splashed on her - melting away the flesh on her face, neck, the right part of her chest and lower torso… That horrific acid attack on Mukherjee when she was barely 18 also ended her dreams of a beautiful future.
"Meri zindagi khatam ho jayegi, pata nahin tha (My life would finish, I did not know," Mukherjee told IANS.
The three men responsible, including a married man, were held and two of them were even convicted. But they got bail from the Jharkhand High Court. Mukherjee and her father, who has sold all his land and family jewels in her treatment and in legal fees, are fighting to get the bail cancelled, coping with threats from the accused, besides paying innumerable visits to hospitals for her treatment.
Mukherjee was studying sociology honours in a Dhanbad women's college and also juggling a job with a private firm and was part of the National Cadet Corps when the acid attack ruined her life. She was a very pretty girl then, as one could see from the photographs her father shows the IANS correspondent.
The three men, one of who was in his 40s and one was an 18-year-old, would tail her everyday, pass lewd comments and harrass her.
"When it increased, I decided to protest. I had lots of guts then… I was part of the NCC and was a senior sergeant...I told them to stop troubling me or I will complain to the police," Muherjee said.
The three accused, who she named as - Tapas Mitra, Sanjay Paswan, and Bhrahmadev Hajra - told her that she had become very "ghamandi" (arrogant) and they would teach her a lesson. She told her father of the incident and he in turn complained to the families of the three men.
Nothing happened for one and a half months. And then the men struck back, pouring acid on Mukherjee as she lay asleep alongside her sister and father on the terrace. "It was 2 am, that night. I never thought this would ever happen to me."
Her father has spent Rs. 10-15 lakh in the court cases and on her treatment. They have also borrowed Rs. 3-4 lakh from relatives, who are demanding the money back. Her father, Chandidas Mukherjee, who had a menial job in a mill earning about Rs. 5,000 a month, has given up his job. He makes ends meet by working as a pujari (priest) in homes.
The youngest of the three men was let off on account of being a juvenile, while the other two were convicted and sentenced by the district court in 2006 to nine year jail. However, they appealed in the high court, which granted them bail.
"In the six years since I have not been granted hearing by the high court," she said.
Mukherjee said she and her father have met the chief minister of Jharkhand, all the legislators, and MPs, but all she got was "aashwasan (assurances).. nothing else".
She has also approached the union women and child development ministry and has been assured of help.
Her younger sister, who also suffered acid burns on her hands and feet, was married off early. "We were getting threats and did not want it to ruin her life, so we got her married off."
Mukherjee has approached Safdarjung Hospital for treatment, but has been told to wait as they have lots of patients, she said.
Her treatment in private clinics will cost over Rs. 10 lakh, which she does not have.
Recalling the days immediately after the attack, Mukherjee said all she remembers is waking up in excruciating pain. "I would scream in pain, and fall unconscious.. I was like that for six months...I would tell god to kill me."
The acid melted her nose, her right ear and some of it went into her ear drum, but luckily it did not enter her brain. She can't hear from her right ear, which as she shows by lifting her dupatta, is reduced to a small glob of flesh.
Doctors took skin from her thighs and grafted it on her nose and cheeks, to give it a modicum of shape.
"I want justice, or allow me to end my life," says Mukherjee.
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Older versions if jenia4faces had references into the com.sun class hierarchy, to get those up and running with myfaces means some manual adjustments have to be performed.
In jenia4faces-popup.jar/META-INF/jenia-popup.tld comment all references to com.sun.* classes. These are <validator/> and <tei-class/> elements. This will remove references to JSF RI.
- Add patched libraries to the webapp path.
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Walkers are being encouraged to name their favourite bits of the Cleveland Way and Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trails, for a new North York Moors National Park Authority project which aims to come up with a list of the 'top ten' highlights of both these popular long-distance routes.
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According to Malcolm Hodgson, National Trails Officer for the National Park Authority:
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You are to recognise 3 genre of music and evaluate that style with the aim of performing that style accurately. P1 Explain the fundamental stylistic elements of a wide range of musical genres. You will understand the stylistic elements across a wide range of musical genres Reggae
Reggae is most easily recognized by the rhythmic accents on the off-beat, usually played by guitar or piano (or both), known as the skank. This pattern accents the second and fourth beat in each bar (or the ands of each beat depending on how the music is counted) and combines with the drums emphasis on beat three to create a unique feel and sense of phrasing in contrast to most other popular genres focus on beat one, the "downbeat" Stylistic elements:
The tempo of reggae is usually felt as slower than the popular Jamaican forms, ska and rocksteady, which preceded it. It is this slower tempo, the guitar/piano off-beats, the emphasis on the third beat, and the use of syncopated, melodic bass lines that differentiates reggae from other music, although other musical styles have incorporated some of these innovations separately. A standard drum kit is generally used in reggae, but the snare drum is often tuned very high to give it a timbales-type sound. Some reggae drummers use an additional timbale or high-tuned snare to get this sound. Cross-stick technique on the snare drum is commonly used, and tom-tom drums are often incorporated into the drumbeat itself. An unusual characteristic of reggae drumming is that the drum fills often do not end with a climactic cymbal. Wide ranges of other percussion instrumentation are used in reggae. Bongos are often used to play free, improvised patterns, with heavy use of African-style cross-rhythms. Cowbells, claves and shakers tend to have more defined roles and a set pattern. The bass guitar often plays the dominant role in reggae, and the drum and bass is often the most important part of what is called, in Jamaican music, a riddim (rhythm), a (usually simple) piece of music that's used repeatedly by different artists to write and record songs with. Literally hundreds of reggae singers have released different songs recorded over the same rhythm. The central role of the bass can be particularly heard in dub music which gives an even bigger role to the drum and bass line, reducing the vocals and other instruments to peripheral roles. The bass sound in reggae is thick and heavy, and equalized so the upper frequencies are removed and the lower frequencies emphasized. The bass line is often a repeated two or four bar riff when simple chord progressions are used. From the late 1960s through to the early 1980s, a piano was often used in reggae to double the rhythm guitar's skank, playing the chords in a staccato style to add body, and playing occasional extra beats, runs and riffs. The piano part was widely taken over by synthesizers during the 1980s, although synthesizers have been used in a peripheral role since the 1970s to play incidental melodies and countermelodies. Larger bands may include either an additional keyboardist, to cover or replace horn and melody lines, or the main keyboardist filling these roles on two or more keyboards. The reggae organ-shuffle is unique to reggae. Typically, a Hammond organ-style sound is used to play chords with a choppy feel. This is known as the bubble. This may be the most difficult reggae keyboard rhythm. The organ bubble can be broken down into 2 basic patterns. In the first, the 8th beats are played with a space-left-right-left-space-left-right-left pattern, where the spaces represent downbeats not played—that and the left-right-left falls on the ee-and-a, or and-2-and if counted at double time. In the second basic pattern, the left hand plays a double chop as described in the guitar section while the right hand plays longer notes on beat 2 (or beat 3 if counted at double time) or a syncopated...
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The genius entrepreneur from China established her company while she was attending a university in the United States. The young boss said that her company is making around 20 million RMB (roughly $3.2 million) per month.
What's even more shocking is that the Qingdao-based company has only been around for two years. Tons of university students are said to be flocking to the company in hopes of being one of their best sales representatives and maybe to get one of those BMWs.
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Bee discussed Full Frontal at New York Comic Con.
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The cancer research journal Oncogene issued on October 16th 2017 an Editorial on the topic of research integrity:
"The importance of being earnest in post-publication review: scientific fraud and the scourges of anonymity and excuses".
The editorial contains a list of 8 common excuses dishonest authors used to escape responsibility for manipulated data. It was authored by David Sanders, virologist and professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, US, as well as Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine and oncology at the Imperial College London, UK, who is also one of the two Editors-in-Chief (EiC) of the journal Oncogene. Sander is one of these rare brave academics who is unafraid to call out scientific misconduct while his peers hide in the bushes and instead even point fingers at whistleblowers like him. As the newspaper USA Today wrote earlier this year, Sanders made himself a very powerful enemy, the star US cancer researcher with Italian origins, Carlo Croce:
"But that didn't stop Sanders from alleging that Dr. Carlo Croce, a prominent cancer researcher at Ohio State University, falsified data or plagiarized text in more than two dozen articles Croce has authored. For the past two-plus years, Sanders has contacted scientific journals in which the articles appeared to alert them of his concerns. Earlier this month, he went more public with his claims in an investigative piece by the New York Times that delved into years of ethics charges against Croce.
"There are, and I anticipate there will be additional, consequences for my career," Sanders said Tuesday afternoon while sitting in his office inside the Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology at Purdue.
This isn't the first time Sanders has publicly accused a scientist of bad behavior. In 2012, Sanders had an article by a former colleague retracted on the basis that the colleague used their former deceased research partner's data in the paper without permission".
A long article appeared in The New York Times prior to that, "Years of Ethics Charges, but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass", detailing the case of Carlo Croce and the role of Sanders the whistleblower, and the Ohio State University, who were mostly covering up the affair. Croce hit back: he is now suing the newspaper, and in separate lawsuit, also Sanders at a New York court, as reported by Retraction Watch.
Hence, Sanders knows first-hand what research misconduct is and how to act upon it. Indeed, the editorial was his idea, and his co-author Stebbing joined afterwards. As Sanders wrote to me:
"The impulse for the editorial and the list was from me. We discussed the inclusion of particular items and how they were described together".
Stebbing indeed is not much of a whistleblower, quite the opposite, he can be in fact seen as victim of such. His own publication was heavily criticised on PubPeer, for suspected western blot band duplications. And the piquant bit is: Stebbings, together with his first author Georgios Giamas (now Reader in Biochemistry at the University of Sussex, UK) offered on PubPeer explanations which sound very much as what he himself has been ridiculing in the Sanders & Stebbing editorial in his journal Oncogene. Continue reading "Oncogene EiC Justin Stebbing, a hypocrite of research integrity?"