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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Owner Michael Waltrip and others in the NASCAR garage hope to bring attention to the needs of those affected by the Oklahoma tornadoes at the Coca-Cola 600 this weekend.
Michael Waltrip Racing's three Sprint Cup cars will carry decals of Feed The Children, an Oklahoma City-based group that is providing food and resources to victims of the tornadoes. Michael Waltrip said he wanted to help out when he saw the devastation.
MWR cars driven by Martin Truex Jr., Clint Bowyer and Mark Martin will carry the decals in Sunday's race. Michael and Darrell Waltrip held a charity golf tournament last year and Feed The Children was among the beneficiaries.
Swan Racing owner Brandon Davis is from Oklahoma and was in college in Oklahoma City in 1999 when the last devastating tornado hit the city's suburbs. He still has family there and said Thursday that one of his cousins lost their house in the storm.
"It hit very close to home for me," Davis said. "It's been a very emotional week.
Davis's No. 30 car driven by David Stremme will also carry a decal for Feed The Children.
Michael Waltrip said the Coca-Cola 600 was a great forum to reach millions of race fans about those in need.
Authorities say there were 24 people killed by the tornadoes. The police and the mayor's office in Oklahoma City both estimate that around 12,000 homes were damaged and destroyed in the city and to the south in Moore.
David Ragan and Front Row Motorsports are encouraging fans to join team partner, Oklahoma City-based Love's Travel Stops, in donating to help tornado victims. The company announced a $3 million donation toward relief efforts. Ragan's No. 34 car will carry decals during the race.
Love Travel Stops said $1 million would go to the OK Strong Relief Fund and $500,000 would go to Catholic Charities. The other $1.5 million would fund a benefit event for those hurt by the storm.
Ragan said his team was more than willing to help relief efforts.
"Anything we can do to help, we're obviously happy to do it," Ragan said. "You feel so helpless when you watch the footage on TV and you wish you could do something more for those folks."
Davis' business, Swan Energy, sent supplies to people who lost their homes in the storm. He said crew members for the No. 30 Sprint Cup car are collecting clothes and additional supplies to send to Oklahoma.
Davis says NASCAR fans are among the most generous and responsive in times of great need. "And they do it in a big way," he said. "When they see someone in need, they're going to help out."


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Acer's Liquid A1 smartphone: out later this month through Clove
Said to be the world's first smartphone to combine an 800 x 480 touchscreen with Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor and version 1.6 of Android, the Acer handset will be available from online retailer Clove during "late November".
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Before joining All Things Considered in 1987, Siegel served for four years as director of NPR's News and Information Department, overseeing production of NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as special events and other news programming. During his tenure, NPR launched its popular Saturday and Sunday newsmagazine Weekend Edition. Siegel joined NPR in December 1976 as an associate producer, and was appointed public affairs editor in 1977 and senior editor in 1978. In 1979, Siegel was chosen to open NPR's London bureau, where he worked as senior editor until 1983.
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Ventricular Septal Defect
A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a defect in the wall called the septum that is between the heart's 2 lower chambers called the ventricles. A septal defect is often referred to as a hole in the heart.
Normally, the right side of the heart receives oxygen-poor blood and pumps it to the lungs where it is filled with oxygen. The blood is then sent back to the left side of the heart, which pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body. But with VSD, the heart pumps inefficiently. The oxygen-rich blood is pumped back to the lungs.
VSD can lead to enlargement of the heart and high blood pressure in the blood vessels of the lungs.
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VSD is more common in young infants and children. Other factors that increase your chances of VSD include:
- Parent with a septal defect
- Genetic defects such as Down syndrome or other inherited disorders
- Use of alcohol , phenylhydantoin, or isotretinoin
- Rubella during the first trimester of pregnancy
- Maternal diabetes or phenylketonuria
You will be asked about your child's symptoms and medical history. The exam will include listening to your child's heart to detect a heart murmur. If a heart problem is suspected, your child will likely be referred to a pediatric cardiologist. This is a doctor who specializes in heart problems in babies and children.
The heart may need to be viewed. This can be done with:
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- Cardiac catheterization
The heart activity may be tested. This can be done with electrocardiogram .
Bodily fluids may need to be tested. This can be done with blood tests.
The oxygen in your blood may be tested. This can be done with pulse oximetry.
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Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you or your child. Treatment options include the following:
Watchful Waiting
More than half of VSDs will close on their own. If there are no signs of heart failure, the doctor may recommend periodic check-ups to see if the defect closes on its own.
Surgery is often recommended to repair large VSDs that cause symptoms or that have not closed by 1 year of age. This involves open heart surgery to place a patch over the hole.
Extra Nutrition
In cases of VSD in which a child fails to gain weight, extra nutrition may be needed. This consists of high-calorie formulas, breast milk supplements, and tube-feedings.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
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U.S. stocks finished lower on Friday after a Republican plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff" failed to gain sufficient support on Thursday night, draining hopes that a deal would be reached before 2013.
Still, stocks managed to rebound from the day's lows near the end of the session, and for the week, the three major U.S. stock indexes still ended higher, with the S&P 500 gaining 1.2 percent.
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Trading was volatile because of waning confidence in the prospect of a deal out of Washington, and in part, as the result of the quarterly expiration of options and futures contracts. The CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, the market's favorite barometer of investor anxiety, finished below its session high.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner failed to garner enough votes from even his own party to pass his "Plan B" tax bill late on Thursday. It was the latest setback in negotiations to avoid $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts that some say could tip the U.S. economy into recession.
"The failure with Plan B was disappointing, if not terribly surprising, but now there's a real lack of clarity about what will happen, and markets hate that," said Mike Hennessy, managing director of investments for Morgan Creek in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 120.88 points, or 0.91 percent, to 13,190.84 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 13.54 points, or 0.94 percent, to 1,430.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 29.38 points, or 0.96 percent, to 3,021.01.
"Amazingly, this sharp decline today may not actually change the technical picture much - unless the decline gets worse," said Larry McMillan, president of options research firm McMillan Analysis Corp, in a research note.
For the week, the Dow gained 0.4 percent and the Nasdaq climbed 1.7 percent.
On Friday, Herbalife dropped for an eighth straight session. Investor Bill Ackman recently ramped up his campaign against the company. The stock skidded 19.2 percent to $27.27 and has lost more than 35 percent this week.
Plan B, which called for tax increases on those who earn $1 million or more a year, was not going to pass the Democratic-led Senate or win acceptance from the White House anyway. But it exposed the reality that it will be difficult to get Republican support for the more expansive tax increases that President Barack Obama has urged.
Still, the declines of about 1 percent in the three major U.S. stock indexes suggest that investors do not believe the economy will be unduly damaged by the absence of a deal, said Mark Lehmann, president of JMP Securities, in San Francisco.
"You could have easily woken up today and seen the market down 300 or 400 points, and everyone would have said, 'That's telling you this is really dire,'" Lehmann said.
"I think if you get into mid-January and (the talks) keep going like this, you get worried, but I don't think we're going to get there."
Banking shares, which outperform during economic expansion and have led the market on signs of progress on resolving the fiscal impasse, led Friday's declines. Citigroup Inc fell 1.7 percent to $39.49, while Bank of America slid 2 percent to $11.29. The KBW Banks index lost 1.19 percent.
Volatility on Friday was exacerbated in part by "quadruple witching," the quarterly expiration of stock index futures and options, stock options and single stock futures contracts.
About 8.59 billion shares changed hands on major U.S. exchanges, more than the daily average of 6.47 billion daily in 2012, in part because of the "quadruple witching" expiration.
The day's round of data indicated the economy was surprisingly resilient in November; consumer spending rose by the most in three years and a gauge of business investment jumped.
But separate data showed consumer sentiment slumped in December. The S&P Retail Index fell 1.2 percent.
U.S.-listed shares of Research in Motion sank 22.7 percent to $10.91 after the Canadian company, known as the BlackBerry maker, reported its first-ever decline in its subscriber numbers on Thursday alongside a new fee structure for its high-margin services segment.
(Additional reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Leah Schnurr; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Nick Zieminski and Jan Paschal)


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"Pro-poor" Relief for Haiti
In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that is believed to have killed more than 150,000 people, a call is growing for more long-term, sustainable solutions, such as debt relief.
The Caribbean island nation, which suffers from a legacy of political unrest, environmental devastation, and financial ruin, has staggered under the weight of debt since it won independence from France more than 200 years ago.
Today, the poverty-stricken nation of some 9 million people is more than $1 billion in debt, and relief organizations and some government leaders are pushing for solutions that allow Haitians to focus on "recovery, not repayment."
The World Council of Churches and other groups have pushed for aid to come in the form of grants, not loans, so that Haitians can move forward with rebuilding their country without shouldering ever more debt. Canada's more than $100 million in assistance, for example, comes from grants; Canada canceled Haiti's debt last fall. In late January, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez canceled Haiti's $295 million debt to Petrocaribe, Venezuela's regional energy distributor.
Humanitarian aid was disorganized and debt relief contentious—and ultimately, limited— after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nick Dearden, director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, appealed to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and governments around the world to avoid the "half measures" that followed the tsunami and to pursue debt cancellation.
Robert Glasser, international secretary general of CARE, said help needs to extend beyond the immediate emergency to reconstruction. He urged donors to back not only debt relief but policies and programs that are "pro-poor." "This is not the first, nor will it be the last natural disaster to hit Haiti," said Glasser. "But it is our chance as a community to relieve the country from a terrible debt burden and help Haitians build a new future on a new foundation of equitable development."
—Kim Eckart is associate editor at YES! Magazine.
- Beverly Bells Blogs from Haiti: After 30 years working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti, Beverly Bell is documenting the impact of the earthquake on Haiti's grassroots movements.
- A Victory for Haiti: How an international, grassroots mobilization helped spur the G7's decision to cancel Haiti's onerous foreign deb
- Debt Relief: The Results Are In: Debt relief has allowed poor nations to pay for schools and health care instead of loan interest.
"Haiti isn't doomed ... If we rally around them now and support them in the right way, the Haitian people can reclaim their destiny."
Former President Bill Clinton,
U.N. special envoy to Haiti, on relief efforts following the January earthquake
Protests Mount Against Israeli Blockade of Gaza
In a series of protests across the Arab world, activists have demanded an end to the siege of the Gaza Strip and expressed outrage at the Egyptian government for actions that reflect the political will of Israel and the United States.
The largest of these protests was the Gaza Freedom March, in which 1,362 activists from 43 countries gathered in Egypt to attempt to cross the border into Gaza. The march, which began Dec. 30, occurred one year after an Israeli bombing campaign left approximately 1,400 dead in the Gaza Strip.
The march was meant to raise awareness of Israel and Egypt's blockade of Gaza, which is considered illegal under international human rights and humanitarian law. Despite extensive planning and initial approval from Egyptian authorities, the Freedom March was halted when Egypt restricted the number of entries to just 100 participants and canceled the buses that would take the activists to the Rafah border crossing, citing "security reasons."
Israel has maintained its blockade since June 2006, preventing desperately needed food and medical supplies from reaching Gaza's 1.5 million citizens. Exports also have been almost completely restricted, devastating the Gazan economy. The siege could worsen in the coming months as Egypt continues construction of an underground security barrier meant to block the tunnels running between Gaza and Egypt. Israel maintains that the tunnels are used to smuggle munitions into Gaza. The tunnels, however, also have become a main thoroughfare for food and medical supplies not allowed through the sealed borders.
In the weeks following the Gaza Freedom March, crowds gathered in other Arab nations protesting the building of the underground barrier and accusing Egypt of acting as an agent of the Israeli and U.S. governments.
—YES! Magazine staff
Legalizing undocumented immigrants would boost the U.S. economy by $1.5 trillion over the next decade through new jobs, higher wages, and increased consumption, according to a study by the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center.
The study comes as Congress is expected to take up immigration reform. There are an estimated 12 million undocumented residents in the United States.
Chicago Ward Tries Citizen Budgeting
In a city with a history of corruption and lack of transparency, one elected official is restoring meaning to the term "public funds."
Alderman Joe Moore, of Chicago's 49th Ward, has launched what is believed to be the United States' first experiment with "participatory budgeting," a grassroots process that lets residents allocate municipal funding as they see fit. The residents of the far north-side ward will oversee the budgeting of this year's $1 million in infrastructure funds. The city allocates these funds annually to alderpeople to use at their discretion. Moore decided his residents would know what infrastructure improvements were needed better than any government official.
The process started in November 2009 with neighborhood meetings facilitated by ward officials. There, any ward resident could express an opinion about how to spend the money. The process was first used in Brazil in the 1980s and has become popular in Latin America and around the world.
In the 49th Ward, suggestions ranged from more street lighting to installing community gardens. From the neighborhood meetings, residents elected representatives, who then divided into subcommittees to deal with the different project categories, like arts and public safety.
In March, committee representatives will present ward residents with a list of final projects for review. By April, the projects should be underway. If everything goes well, Moore has promised to do this every year and encourage other politicians to follow his lead.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.com.
Oregon voters in January approved two measures that will increase the income tax on wealthy households and on corporations.
Interested? Beyond Tea Party Politics: Oregon voted to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy to help fund programs that assist low and middle-income families.
Bolivia to Host Climate Summit for the People
Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for an alternative climate-change conference, this one involving governments as well as non-governmental organizations, indigenous groups, scientists, and environmentalists.
Following the weak, nonbinding Copenhagen Accord that came out of the United Nations climate negotiations in December, the World Conference of the People on Climate Change aims to unite nations that want a stronger agreement. Heads of state from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are expected to attend the conference in April in Cochabamba.
The conference will explore the issue of climate debt, the idea that industrialized nations—those most responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions—should give substantial aid to the poorer countries that most often suffer the consequences of climate change. Also on the agenda is the proposal of an international court for environmental crimes, which could try nations for crimes against nature, such as the dumping of toxic waste or the destruction of natural resources.
Bolivia was one of five countries to block a consensus on the Copenhagen Accord, claiming a small group of wealthy nations had drawn it up in secret. Many saw Morales as a roadblock to an agreement. Along with advocating for climate debt, he challenged the conference to hold global temperature increases at 1 degree Celsius (as opposed to the 2-degree limit the conference decided upon). This stricter limit on temperature increase would require a far faster and more costly response from industrialized nations to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
"Our objective is to save [all of] humanity and not just half of humanity," Morales said in a speech at Copenhagen. "We are here to save Mother Earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to under 1 C. [Above this] many islands will disappear, and Africa will suffer a holocaust."
—Margit Christenson is a freelance writer based in New York City.
Scotland's remote Isle of Eigg has been awarded a share of a 1 million-pound prize from the United Kingdom's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. The organization's Big Green Challenge gave Eigg 300,000 pounds to support the island's commitment to renewable energy.
Residents purchased the island in 1997 and have since installed solar and hydropower facilities that generate nearly all of Eigg's electricity needs. According to the Ecologist, Eigg residents will use the prize money for additional energy-efficiency projects.
California has made mandatory its green-building code, "Calgreen." The nation's first statewide green-building law requires all new buildings to use recycled materials and reduce water consumption. Critics, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Green Building Council, say the regulations aren't strict enough and may conflict with stronger municipal green-building codes.
"I don't think American elections should be bankrolled
by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people."
President Barack Obama,
referring in his State of the Union address to the U.S. Supreme Court decision easing restrictions on campaign spending
Interested? Read Fran Korten's 10 Ways to Stop Corporate Dominance of Politics
Appeals Court Rules Inmates Entitled to Voting Rights
A federal appeals court in January ruled that felons incarcerated in Washington State have been illegally barred from voting. A panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the state's prison system is "infected" with racial discrimination and therefore violates voting laws.
The majority ruled that the ban violated the 1965 National Voting Rights Act on grounds of racial discrimination. According to a University of Washington study, racial and ethnic minorities make up 12 percent of Washington's population, but account for 36 percent of prison inmates. African Americans are nine times more likely to be incarcerated than whites; because of this, 25 percent of black men in Washington are disenfranchised from voting.
A single plaintiff first brought the case to court in 1996; by the time of this ruling, five more had joined. All are members of minority groups claiming political discrimination by the state.
Similar cases in other states have gone to trial, but this is the first ruling in favor of inmates. Only Vermont and Maine allow incarcerated felons to vote.
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna has appealed the 9th Circuit decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.com.
Sweden Labels Food With CO2 Data
More than 92 percent of Swedes want more information about the "green credentials" of their food, and producers responded to satisfy customers. Some Swedish companies have labeled their products to show how many kilograms of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere during production.
One Swedish burger chain, Max, offers beef alternatives and signed on enthusiastically to the new recommendations. It became the first restaurant chain to publish carbon footprints of menu items to encourage people to eat less beef.
Determining food's carbon footprint is difficult and nuanced. Complex production lines make it difficult to track the carbon footprint of an individual product, and consumer suggestions are not as simple as "eat less meat." For example, the guidelines discourage Swedes from eating cucumbers and tomatoes because in Sweden they can only be grown in energy-consuming greenhouses. Low-impact vegetables like carrots are recommended over the less climate-friendly ones.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at .
Washington State lawmakers have banned BPA (Bisphenol A) in baby bottles and food containers for children younger than 3.
Washington joins Minnesota and Connecticut in prohibiting some BPA products. The state of Wisconsin is considering a ban.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently reversed a 2008 finding that BPA, the main component of polycarbonate plastic, was safe. The agency said BPA should be studied further for potential health risks to children.
Plastics made with BPA typically have a number 7 on the bottom or the letters "PC" in the recycling triangle.
The legislature will have to hammer out differences in House and Senate versions of the bill; the House version extends the ban to sports bottles. The rule will go into effect in 2011.
The Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2010 warns that global consumerism is unsustainable and urges a substantial cultural shift .
The economy may propel consumers in that direction. Last fall, a New York Times/CBS News poll found that Americans are spending less money and instead turning to cultural events, hobbies, and family activities. Lower consumer spending is expected during a recession, but the trend toward "doing more," experts said, is new.
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After retiring from a 30-year teaching career at Palo Community Schools in 2005, she has more time for another of her passions: volunteering.
Karen Merchant retired from a 30-year teaching career at Palo Community Schools in 2005. But that doesn't mean she has slowed down – only that she has more time for another of her passions: volunteering.
Merchant is a founding member of the Ionia County Peace Community, for which she also contributes to an online blog. This summer, she wrote a post asking readers to "Give peace a chance," in which she expressed her world vision.
"The other day a person asked me this question: 'If you could have any thing in the world, no matter what the cost, what would it be?'" Merchant wrote. "I have always answered this question in the same way for years and years and years ... a peaceful world where all people are respectful of each other and hate or prejudice does not exist."
It is this vision of a peaceful world that guides Merchant's activities every day.
Merchant is a 4-H leader for the World Wide Kids 4-H Club, a global and cultural education club that participates in numerous service projects, such as the International Dinner and the Passing on the Gift/Empty Bowls Soup Dinner, with funds raised going toward ending worldwide hunger and poverty efforts, and locally to the Zion Community Food Pantry, Ionia Commission on Aging and Heifer International.
"Karen is more than simply kind and loving; she is love," said friend and colleague Amy Buckingham of Ionia. "There are lists and lists and lists of things that she does and gives and creates and organizes, but she is more than her deeds and her talents. Karen is love. She lives love."
Merchant and World Wide Kids 4-H Club members also are involved with tree planting in Ionia County, painting trash barrels and planting flower boxes for the Ionia Free Fair, spreading compost and wood chips at the Howell Nature Center, and wrapping Christmas gifts to benefit Nyaka AIDS orphans in Uganda. In addition, Merchant is president of the 4-H Still Exhibit Committee and vice president of the 4-H Advisory Council.
"Lao Tzu said, 'Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, and kindness in giving creates love,'" Merchant wrote in another blog post earlier this year. "As the quote from Lao Tzu says, our actions have definite consequences. The consequences are far reaching, not only affecting our own life, but the lives of those around us. A simple word can make – or break – someone's day. Thinking before you do or speak can make the difference in the response that you get back. Giving is the heart's way of expressing joy."
Merchant's mission is always to give. Along with her 4-H activities, she is active in her church, where she sings in the choir, chairs the administrative board and helps plan a yearly retreat for women.
Merchant is president of the West Central District General Federation of Women's Clubs, a committee member of Ionia Relay for Life and publicity chair for the Ionia CROP Walk each year. She is an officer, member of the choir and band member for the Saranac Area Musicians and Singers, and plays in the Danish Band for the Greenville Danish Festival.
"Karen is special because she is so much fun. She has a great sense of humor and is lots of fun to be around," said friend and colleague Judy Huynh. "She is also a very loyal and devoted friend to many. She really cares about people, and lives a life of service to others. Her faith is very important to her, and she is a wonderful example of what it means to truly follow Christ – never judging others, but treating everyone with love and respect."
Those who attend the Ionia Free Fair may recognize Merchant from her work in the Free Fair's Antique Village and where she serves as superintendent of the Floral Department. Her love of antiques also has led to her involvement with the Ionia County Historical Society.
Merchant is president of the Ionia Area Retired School Personnel, and she often helps with the organization's pre-retirement workshops.
"Karen is such a friendly, outgoing person. She is extremely dedicated to many projects and causes," said Penny Beeman of Ionia, another of Merchant's friends and colleagues. "Often this much passion leads to trying to convince others that your way is the right way, but Karen is not like that at all. She realizes that most often there are several sides to a story or more then one way to do the job. This quality makes Karen one of the most caring and loving people that I know. She shares herself and her time freely. And her actions always put a smile on my face."
Merchant was one of four people nominated for this year's Ionia County Woman of the Year award during the Ionia Free Fair.
"Every day we are faced with opportunities – opportunities to make our own life better, opportunities to make someone else's life better," Merchant wrote in her blog post. "How do we make the decisions needed to face these opportunities? My suggestion is with kindness."


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About Lovis Corinth
A leading figure of the Berlin Secession, Lovis Corinth worked as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, bridging the stylistic gap between impressionism and German expressionism with naturalism as a common thread. Best known for his portraits and landscape paintings, Corinth favored themes of love, sexuality, and death. While Corinth sought to capture the body's fleshy nature and exaggerated gestures in his portraits, his landscapes are more traditional and emphasize overall compositional balance. After a stroke left him partially paralyzed in 1911, Corinth's brushstrokes grew vigorously uninhibited, echoing the work of Dutch painters Frans Hals and Rembrandt. Corinth's self-portraits, created as a means of stylistic and allegorical exploration, also grew more cerebral in his later years.
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Public Service seeks rate hike; blames energy costsBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 16. 2013 8:38PM
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to pay less for electricity, take a tip from the 1960 hit by The Miracles, "You'd Better Shop Around."
Public Service of New Hampshire announced on Friday that it would ask regulators to approve an energy charge of 9.23 cents per kilowatt hour, effective Jan. 1, an increase of .61 cents per kwh from the current rate of 8.62 cents.
That means the average residential customer, using 500 kilowatt hours a month, would see the energy service portion of his or her bill go from $43.10 to $46.15 per month. Other charges, such as transmission fees, are not expected to change significantly in 2014.
The state's largest regulated utility had predicted in October that it would need an energy supply charge of 8.99 cents for 2014. In the months since, fluctuations on the wholesale energy market and uncertainty about future prices prompted the utility to seek the higher rate in its year-end filing.
The Public Utilities Commission will hold hearings this week to rule on the PSNH request.
"The updated rate appears to be in line with what is occurring with the region's utilities, largely as a result of higher energy market prices," said PSNH spokesperson Mike Skelton.
The regulated utilities in the state — PSNH, Unitil and Liberty — are paid by consumers to deliver the electricity no matter who provides it, although each offers energy supply on a "default" basis. If consumers don't select an unregulated competitor, they "default" to the regulated supplier.
With competitors offering 12-month rates as low as 7.70 cents per kwh, the migration of customers from PSNH to third-party suppliers is likely to continue.
The other two regulated utilities previously offered default rates that were equal to or lower than competitive rates, but they, too, are now likely to lose energy supply customers due to rate hikes approved late this year.
Liberty Utilities, which serves 6 percent of the state's customers in western and southern areas, is charging 8.89 cents per kwh until April 30; while Unitil, serving 11 percent of the state in the Seacoast and Concord area, is charging 9.55 cents through May 31.
The exception to the trend is the New Hampshire Electric Co-op. Its rates are set by a board of directors and not regulated by the PUC. The co-op was charging 7.11 cents per kwh and lowered the rate to 6.77 as of Nov. 1 for its 60,000 customers in the central part of the state.
Volatile natural gas price
The state's two largest competitive suppliers are offering lower rates than all three regulated utilities. ENH Power is offering a "Long Saver" rate fixed at 8.70 cents per kwh for 24 months. North American Power is offering a 7.99 cent six-month fixed rate, and a 7.69 cent 12-month fixed rate.
One of the earliest entrants into the competitive market for residential customers, Resident Power, is offering 7.77 cents for 12 months for customers who sign up before Jan. 1. A newcomer to the residential market, Neighborhood Energy, is offering 7.92 cents guaranteed for six months.
The website, shopenergyplans.com, reports its lowest rate at 7.70 cents, offered by NextEra Energy, is guaranteed for 12 months.
PSNH is the only regulated utility in the state that also operates power plants, the cost of which is built into the PSNH energy charge. About one penny of the PSNH energy supply charge is associated with cost-recovery on more than $422 million spent on mercury scrubbers at the Merrimack Station coal-fired plant in Bow.
"We are essentially very competitive with the energy market," said PSNH spokesman Martin Murray. "We do have the question of the mandated scrubber and how to fairly recover those costs. Absent the scrubber, our rate would be 8.25 cents."
Susan Chamberlin, the consumer advocate who represents ratepayers before the PUC, said the new PSNH energy service rate highlights the problem with placing PSNH generation costs on the default customers, most of whom are residential customers.
"As the energy service rate increases, more customers leave, increasing the rate for the remaining customers," she said. The Office of Consumer Advocate has argued that the PUC should re-examine how the energy service rates are determined.
Wholesale prices for natural gas delivered into New England are volatile and likely to rise over the winter, due largely to a lack of pipeline capacity into the region.
Speaking at the N.H. Business and Industry Association Energy Seminar last week in Manchester, Jim Shuckerow, director of energy supply for Northeast Utilities, predicted there would be no new "iron in the ground" into New England until 2020, with natural gas prices expected to continue to rise from their 2012-2013 low-water mark between now and then."Perhaps 2013 will be recalled as the good old days of power-supply pricing," he said.


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Indigenous Politics Program receives $25,000 grant
Office of Hawaiian Affairs funds Native Hawaiian participationUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Mary L. Baker, (808) 551-0672
Indigenous Politics Research Assistant, Political Science
Dr. Noenoe Silva, 808-956-8030
Associate Professor, Political Science
Indigenous Politics Research Assistant, Political Science
Dr. Noenoe Silva, 808-956-8030
Associate Professor, Political Science
Posted: Mar 29, 2011
The Indigenous Politics Program in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa has received a $25,000 grant to provide tuition and stipends for six Native Hawaiians to participate in Land, Water, and Governance: Reclaiming 'Ćelánen'(Ancestry/Birthright), a two-week exchange with indigenous scholars and practitioners in Victoria, British Columbia. The exchange is a collaboration between the Indigenous Politics Program at UH Mānoa and the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria.
Land, Water, and Governance: Reclaiming 'Ćelánen' offers a unique opportunity for cross-cultural study of indigenous practices in the seminar room as well as in the community. It is a part of a broader course of study that prepares Master's and PhD students at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa to think critically about issues facing the Native Hawaiian and other indigenous communities. The mission of the program is to nurture individuals to engage in a critical praxis of indigenous politics and to strengthen the relationships between the university and indigenous communities.
In keeping with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' `Āina strategic priority, this summer exchange trains Native Hawaiian scholars to participate in responsible stewardship of Ka Pae ʻĀina in order to maintain the connection to the past and move forward with a viable land and water base.
For more information, visit: http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/indigenouspolitics


text: Garland was one of three cities recognized during the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Dallas this week as winners of Google's Get Your Business Online City Challenge. Garland Mayor Douglas Athas takes home the honor for leading a number of initiatives to help Garland's small businesses get online. Mayor Rizzo from Revere, Massachusetts, and Mayor Fischer from Louisville, Kentucky also were honored. More than 150 Mayors and their cities participated in the City Challenge, which Google launched with the U.S. Conference of Mayors in June 2013. Cities hosted events, conducted outreach, and formed partnerships to encourage local businesses to get online. The winning cities were celebrated for their creative, far reaching, and scalable efforts. One of Garland's initiatives was a Public Service Announcement with local business owners encouraging others to get online. As part of their prize package, winning cities will be given a technology prize package valued at $50,000 that includes phones, tablets, and laptops. In addition, during the next few months, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Google will help host an awards ceremony in each of the cities. "Over the next three years, businesses that make use of the web expect to grow 40% faster than those that don't. Yet, 55% of America's businesses don't have a website." said Soo Young Kim, Head of Google's Get Your Business Online Program. "We are thrilled to see the great strides cities made in helping to get their local businesses online where there customers are." "We are honored and excited to win this recognition from both Google and the U.S. Conference of Mayors and for the opportunity to continue our partnership with both organizations." said Mayor Douglas Athas. "The Mayor's Office worked with the Garland Chamber of Commerce, the Garland Downtown Business Association and other local organizations to encourage businesses to get online. As part of winning this recognition we will begin working with Google on the next phase of the project Let's Put Garland On the Map. This next phase will begin later this summer and will take a more in-depth look at what businesses are currently online and how we can better partner with those that are not online."About The United States Conference of Mayors The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are nearly 1,400 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/usmayors, or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/usmayors.


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MRI scanning uses magnetic fields to make images of the inside of the body. A computer produces two- and three-dimensional pictures. MRI of the breast uses an MRI to evaluate breast tissue.
Reasons for Test
Breast MRI can be used to:
- Evaluate breast abnormalities seen on mammography
- Identify breast abnormalities in women (and in some cases, men) with dense breast tissue, implants, or scar tissue
- Examine breast implants
- Examine scar tissue
- Evaluate the progress of breast cancer treatment
- Identify cysts or enlarged breast ducts
- Examine lymph nodes near the breast
Possible Complications
MRIs can be harmful if you have metal inside your body such as joint replacements or pacemaker. Make sure your doctor knows of any internal metal before the test. Some may also have an allergic reaction to the contrast dye. Talk to your doctor about any allergies you have or if you have liver or kidney problems. These may make it difficult for your body to get rid of the contrast.
If you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant, talk to your doctor before the MRI scan about whether an MRI scan is right for you.
What to Expect
Prior to test
Leading up to the test:
- Try to schedule the test between days 5 and 15 of your menstrual cycle. This is a time when the breast tissue is less dense.
If your doctor prescribes a sedative:
- Arrange for a ride home.
- Take the sedative 1-2 hours before the exam, or as directed.
Once at the MRI center:
You will be asked about the following:
- Medical and surgical history
- Pregnancy
- Allergies
- Other conditions that you may have—If your MRI involves contrast material, your doctor will ask about the health of your kidneys. There is a risk of complications in people who have kidney disease and receive contrast material.
You will be asked if you have something in your body that would interfere with or make it so you cannot have an MRI, such as:
- Pacemaker or implantable defibrillator
- Neurostimulator
- Ear implant
- Metal fragments in your eyes or in any other part of your body (Tell your doctor if your work involves metal filings or particles.)
- Implanted port device
- Metal plate, pins, screws, or surgical staples
- Metal clips from aneurysm repair
- Retained bullets
- Any other large metal objects in your body (Tooth fillings and braces are usually fine.)
- You will remove any metal objects (such as jewelry, hearing aids, glasses).
- An x-ray may be taken to see if there are any metal objects in your body.
You may be:
- Given earplugs or headphones to wear (The MRI machine makes a loud banging noise.)
- Allowed to have a family member or friend with you during the test
Description of the Test
You will lie face down on your stomach on a moveable bed. The bed will slide into a large, cylindrical magnet. Your breasts will hang into cushioned openings. You may be hooked up to monitors. These monitors will track your pulse, heart rate, and breathing. The technician will be in another room and give you directions via an intercom. A magnetic field will be produced to generate three-dimensional images of your breast tissue. As this happens, you will hear loud banging noises.
The MRI may require contrast dye to make the pictures better. In this case, you will receive an IV in your hand or arm. Contrast material will be injected through the IV.
After the Test
You will need to wait until the images are examined. In some cases, the technician may need to take more images.
- If you took a sedative, do not drive, operate machinery, or make important decisions until the sedative wears off completely.
- If you are breastfeeding and receive a contrast dye, you and your doctor should discuss when you should start breastfeeding again. Information available has not found any ill effects to a baby if a mother has had contrast dye.
How Long Will It Take?
About 1-½ hours
Will It Hurt?
The MRI images will be sent to a radiologist. Your doctor will receive the report and talk to you about the results.
Call Your Doctor
After the test, call your doctor if any of the following occurs:
- Worsening of your symptoms
- Any allergic or abnormal symptoms, like a rash or swelling if you were injected with contrast dye
If you think you have an emergency, call for medical help right away.
Revision Information
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A Makefile Tutorial By: volcanic
(Could be part 1 of 2 if requested, see end of file)
Ive been learning C++ for the last few months, programming in linux and
using the g++ compiler. I have used makefiles during the course of my learning but
found them a bit hard to understand at first.
I turned to AO for some good explinations,
but couldn't come up with much of anything. Seeing that many people turn to AO to get help
with learning C++, I thought I would pass what I learned on to others in the same boat as I am in.
This Tutorial is specific only to C++ programming, I am not too sure about makefile equivalents in other
languages, I am sure the equivalents are quite simmilar, but I don't want to misinform anyone.
The basic premise of a makefile will allow it to be used for purposes other than compiling a program,
but I will leave these purposes for another conversation.
I do, however, welcome any comments that might be of use to somebody reading this tutorial.
If anything stated below is inconsistent or incorrect, please reply or email me and I will edit my tutorial.
Thank You!
What is a makefile?
At its most basic form, a makefile is a set of instructions
that the compiler reads to turn your code into an executable file.
Most programs that you write will contain more than one source
code files (.cpp .h), so the makefile also acts as a set of instructions
for your compiler to properly build the program out of these many
source code files, this is called linking.
How do I implement a makefile?
By using the make utility(part of the *nix and/or shell command line).
A good idea when writing the source for your program is to keep each
program in it's own individual directory (seems logical enough). Then, in
that particular directory, you will create your makefile (described below).
Once you are ready to compile(make) your program, you type: make.
Make will look for the makefile and take it from there.
-Comments can be placed in a Makefile by placing a pound s ign in front of the line
to be commented (#).
** Using the basic knowledge listed above, you should be armed with enough info
COLOR=royalblue]**[/COLOR]to get you through the rest of this tutorial. Any additional comments/remarks are
1. Simple Compilation:
A small program requires at least one file. When a program is
compiled, it goes through 3 stages:
Compiler: All code is converted into assembly code (.s file).
Assembler: Assembly code is converted into object code,
making the origional code into a .o code (o for object).
Linker: This stage links .o code with other .o code files used in your
2. Multiple File Compilation:
Source code that is divided up into more than one file goes through the same
process as the simple compilation above, with just a few more rules.
An example of a multiple file compilation:
You have two .cpp (or .c) files that depend on the same .h file.
The first stage (compiler) will convert each dependent pair into
a .s file. So the first .cpp file will be assembled together with the .h
file, creating a .s file. And the same happens with the other .cpp file.
This leaves you with two .s files.
The second stage (assembler) converts both of these .s files into .o
files. Now you have two object files.
The final stage links these two object files into one executable program,
also called a run time image.
3. Dependency:
You can see from step 2 above that the final executable program was dependent
on the two .o files made from the previous stage. You can also see that the two .o
files were dependent on the 2 .cpp(or .c) and the one .h file. This concept is strangely
enough called "dependency" and is one of the fundamental ideas behind the makefile.
When calling the make command, make will check to see what needs to be done when,
and in what order. For this, it uses each files timestamp. A timestamp is a record of the
last time a file was modified.
If you have the same program that we compiled and made into an executable above,
and you go back and change something in one of the files, then your program will need
to be re-compiled.
Of course, you only changed one of the two .cpp (or .c) files, so make will compare the timestamps
of each dependent file and will only re-compile those files who's timestamps are for a later time than
their dependent's.
4. Cleaning:
Once you run make, provided your program compiles properly, you will have some new files
appear in your directory; namely, the .o files and executable program you created.
In order to go back and make a change to your source and change the executable program, you will
need to run make again, but, make won't think it has anything to do if the .o files and the executable
file it needs to create are sitting right there in the directory.
So the files will need to be removed.
You can do this in two ways.
1. Remove them manually (using the rm filename command).
2. Create something in your make file that will remove them for you.
This "cleaner" will be shown in code a little later in the tutorial.
***Important Format*** The dependency code explained below follows this format:
target: source files(s)
^^^^^^Replace ^'s with 1 tab character. This MUST be a tab character, no exeptions.
***Compiler Note*** For the compiler commands below, I will use the command g++
This can be replaced with the compier of your choice.
*** Using the -c option in your compile command will cause only an object (.o) file to be
produced. The last stage (linker) will not take place.
*** When #including a .h file into a program, the .h file need not be in the makefile.
But note, when the .h file changes, the rest of the program will not automatically be remade.
1. Hierarchy
When creating the code for your makefile, the format follows a hierarchial fashion,
with the most important thing on top, the executable (run image)
2. Lets Create An Example Program:
I am going to explain this using the same program from #3 above,
but let me use some names to make this easier.
(2) .cpp files are called: me.cpp & you.cpp
(1) .h file is called: him.h
**Remember both me.cpp and you.cpp are dependent on him.h
Our program is going to be called: projectUS.
3. How to write this:
First I will show the code, then I will explain it.
projectUS: me.o you.o
g++ me.o you.o -o projectUS
me.o: me.cpp him.h
g++ -c me.cpp
you.o: you.cpp him.h
g++ -c you.cpp
rm *.o projectUS
The first line tells us that there will be a run image that will be called projectUS, and
that it is dependent on me.o and you.o If the timestamps for the Rule Line (indented
line two) are for a later time than those for the Dependent line (line one), then the
commands for the Rule Line are followed. This rule line tells the dependent line how to
get me.o and you .o. Notice that the g++ command is flagged with the -o flag, not the -c?
This is because in this stage, the compiler will be linking objects, not compiling code into
assembly language.
So that second line will call both the third and fith lines to be run. Same thing here.
me.o is dependent on me.cpp and him.h
Timestamps are checked, and if needed, g++ -c me.cpp will be ran.
Ditto for you.o
Provided the code compiles with no errors, you will have an executable file in your directory.
The clean line allows you to call the command: make clean
This will run the command for clean listend in its rule line, namely removing all files in the directory
that end witn *.o projectUS
This brings up another good point. You can have one makefile that runs multiple programs.
For the makefile above, you can either run: make clean, or make projectUS
If you had another programs makefile in this file you could call: make otherProgramsName
Where otherProgramsName, clean, and projectUS are called a makefiles target.
-The make command will be able to find a makefile whether or not it is
spelled with a capital M or a lowercase m. If you do not wish to use either
of these, you can use the command: make -f whatevernameyouwant
-In the case of having many files being made together, at least one of them must have
a main() function.
-No two functions can be named the same.
-There are other nice little things that the make utility allows you to do, such as set macros
and use pre-existing macros to make your makefiles easier to write and understand.
If the audience would like, I can write a part 2 to this tutorial at a later date.
Thank You For Reading
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A colorway now synonymous with Kanye West's Swoosh tenure looks to bear new fruit with the second generation of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350.
Black and pink (or "Blink") appears to be an upcoming colorway of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2.
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Richard Lab:qPCR
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Quantitative PCR (qPCR or also called Real-time PCR) is a very useful protocol for determining comparitive populations in a sample. This protocol is primarily for comparing bacterial populations in environmental samples (like silage), but can be used for other purposes as well. RT-qPCR can also be used to quantify and compare RNA in a sample including comparing relative mRNA levels. For more information on qPCR and its uses, please see the qPCR hub page or the PCR hub page.
- The Genomics Core Facility at Penn State has two Applied Biosystems 7300 Real-Time PCR Systems that you can use. To access these systems you will need to in, and sign up on their calendar "CoreCal".
- To run your sample you'll need a 96 well optical plate with a half skirt (AB part #N801-0560) and an optical film to cover it. You can purchase these directly from the core facility.
DNA Preparation
- Your DNA can be extracted from any sample. We commonly use a kit for this purpose, but there are a variety of methods around to extract DNA from many materials.
- An important consideration is that the DNA is free of humic acids, which are common contaminants of dna extracted from soil or silage samples. Humic acids will screw up your qPCR.
- Typically 1-20ng of DNA will be added to each (20μL) reaction. This will generally involve diluting your DNA.
To design primers you should probably use a computer program. With the programs suggestions it is important to run a primer BLAST to check for non-specific binding. It is also important to make sure that their products are the same length if you're going to be comparing different populations using SYBR green. For considerations on how to choose which primers to use, see the analysis section. We use the following primers on a regular basis to identify specific populations:
- Quantification of total bacteria:
- Ftot - GCAGGCCTAACACATGCAAGTC
- Rtot - CTGCTGCCTCCCGTAGGAGT
- Quantification of Lactobacillus spp.
- Flac - GCAGCAGTAGGGAATCTTCCA
- Rlac - GCATTYCACCGCTACACATG
- Quantification of Ferulic acid esterase gene from Lactobacillus jonhsonii
- Ffae - TTAAAACAGATCCGCATGTACGTAA
- Rfae - AGCCCAGCTAACATTGAAGCA
PCR Mix
While there are many commercial 2X PCR mixes to choose from, a cheap and easy homemade stock is really useful for most applications.
2X SYBR Mix
This recipe is to make 1ml of 2X qPCR master mix using Taq DNA polymerase (with thermopol buffer) available from New England Biolabs. This mix is enough to make an entire 96 well plate of 20μL qPCR reactions. After this mix is prepared it should be kept on ice until use.
- 705μL Water
- 200μL Thermopol Buffer (with Mg2+)
- 25μL dNTP mix (10mM each)
- 40μL ROX dye (see note)
- 10μL Taq DNA Polymerase (~15 units)
- 5μL each primer (100μM)
- 10μL SYBR Green II (100x)
- ROX is supplied in a 25μM stock solution. The 40μL listed above is the amount used for Applied Biosystems 7000, 7300, 7700, 7900HT, StepOne, and PRISM models. If using an AB 7500 only use 1/10 the amount of ROX suggested here.
- If not using ROX (or using less ROX) substitute the remaining volume with water.
Taqman Mix
You can also make a similar mix using a taqman probe instead of SYBR green. While the probes are expensive (over $100 each), they can lead to more reliable results, and eliminate the need for normalization based on the amplicon length when doing comparisons.
Running the sample
- 1. Keep the master mix and your sample apart until immediately before running.
- 2. Dilute a portion of your samples to have a DNA concentration of 0.1-2ng/μL.
- 3. Place 10μL of the diluted samples in each well in the plate.
- 4. Lightly put the optical film over the plate.
- 5. Take your prepped plate and your 2X master mix (in a tube on ice) down to the core facility.
- 6. Start up the machine.
- 7. Set up the following program.
- Detector = SYBR, Rox = Yes (but only if you added it)
- 95°C for 10 min
- 95°C for 20sec
- 60°C for 60 sec
- Repeat the two-step cycle 45x
- If you want to, you can do a melt curve to be sure that your primers are only amplifying one thing.
- Ramp from 50.0°C to 95.0°C
- Read every 0.2°C h
- Hold 00:00:02 between reads
- 8. Add 10μL of 2X mix to each well (using a multi pipettor for this makes it much easier).
- 9. Quickly centrifuge the plate.
- 10. Place it in the machine and Run the program (you will need to save it first):
- Comparative analysis of qPCR data is usually based on CT (the cycle at which a given sample reaches some threshhold value of DNA fluorescence).
- The threshold for CT can be manually set by the user, but is typically close to the point when the sample fluroescence elevates above background levels.
- In general, the ratio between two CT's in one sample is not very interesting, and provides very little "real" information unless it's based on some kind of calibration. So the analysis methods are used primarily to compare two different CT's between different samples, or to compare many samples to one reference sample. This provides much more in the way of interesting data. An example would be thus: "In sample A, the CT of population 1 is 2.5 higher than the CT of population 2, but in the control sample the CT's are nearly equal." The 2-ΔΔCT method allows us to more precisely quantify this change.
As Percentage of Total DNA
Using this method the CT of a sample is compared to the CT values of a standard curve of DNA from a pure culture.
- By comparing the amount of DNA added to the sample to the amounts of DNA in the standard cuve, the "percentage of total DNA" can be calculated.
- Results typically feel like, "There were 10ng of DNA added to this well, but the CT is the same as the CT of the well containg 1ng of pure culture DNA; so our target DNA is 10% of the total DNA".
- The difficulty of this method lies in the replicability of DNA extraction from samples (especially plant samples like silage). Often extra plant DNA can be extracted very differently from one sample to another. Further complicating the matter is gleaning useful meaning from this "percentage of total DNA" output.
Using the 2-ΔΔCT Method
This method uses a second set of primers which anneal to a greater population of DNA as an reference. This eliminates the vagueness of the total DNA method and the error introduced by differential DNA extraction.
- The amount of the target DNA relative to the reference DNA is 2-ΔCT where ΔCT = ΔCT, target - ΔCT, reference.
- Typical output feels like "My population is 25% percent of the total bacterial population".
- You actually still have to make a standard curve (and sometimes more than one) for two reasons:
- 1. To be sure that your two primer pairs are amplifying at the same efficiency.
- The ΔCT values should be approximately the same for all dilutions.
- This standard curve can be done with DNA from any sample and need not necessarilly be from a pure culture.
- 2. To calibrate the relationship between the two amplicons.
- If your comparing a one copy gene (like an enzyme) to a many copy gene (like rRNA genes) then a numerical relationship needs to be established between them.
- If your amplicons are different lengths then this will also be taken care of in this calibration.
- Sometimes it helps to use a DNA from pure cultures of different genera to determine this relationship if that's important to you.
Using the Pfaffl Method
- This is the prefered method as it corrects for differences in PCR efficiency as well as amplicon length without calibration.
- You should probably run a dilution just to see if your values jive.
- This method could be used to measure differential gene expression as well as comparative populations.
1. Definitions:
- Target - The population you're trying to quantify
- Reference - The population you're comparing it to
- Control - A treatment for which you are measuring both target and reference populations
- Sample - A treatment for which you are measuring both target and reference populations comparing to the control treatment
2. Define an efficiency for each reaction using the slope during the exponential phase of the reaction:
- Efficiency = E = 10-1/slope.
- This is the major difference with the previous method, and corrects for differences in amplicon length as well as copy number.
- The slope of different dilutions (if you made any) should be the same.
3. Define the ΔCt for target and reference populations (the Pfaffl paper uses "CP" instead of Ct).
- ΔCttarget = Control Cttarget - Sample Cttarget.
- ΔCtreference = Control Ctreference - Sample Ctreference.
4. Compare the sample to the control using the ΔCt's
- Ratio = (Etarget)ΔCttarget / (Ereference)ΔCtreference
- This is the ratio of the target in the sample to the target in the control, using the reaction effiency (E) and the reference levels to normalize.


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Two small cacti have put a stop to motorcycles and ATVs on one of southern Utah's most contested pieces of public land. On Sept. 20, the BLM announced that off-highway vehicle use would be restricted in the desert surrounding Factory Butte to protect the endangered Wright fishhook and the threatened Winkler cactus. The decision closes 222 square miles to off-road vehicles, but leaves riders a four-square-mile playground and 220 additional miles of established dirt roads and trails. Motorized proponents vow to fight: Mike Swenson, executive director of the Utah Shared Access Alliance, told the Salt Lake Tribune that Factory Butte "is a place that Mother Nature seems to have designed for open off-road recreation that the government has basically taken away."


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NDSU is one of 12 institutions selected to take part in a pilot program aimed at improving student success, retention and completion rates. The John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education invited NDSU for its Gateways to Completion process. The program provides tools for faculty and staff to analyze student and institutional performance in introductory gateway courses.
By accepting the invitation, NDSU will analyze up to five high-risk courses, which will be identified using evidence collected during the first year of the three-year Gateways to Completion process. The analysis will lead to the creation and implementation of evidence-based course transformation plans.
"Gateway courses enroll large numbers of undergraduate students," said Drew Koch, executive vice president of the Gardner Institute. "Research studies, such as Clifford Adelman's 'Answers in the Toolbox' and 'The Toolbox Revisited,' show that students who do not succeed in gateway courses are significantly less likely to complete their stated programs of study and they also are less likely to complete college degrees anywhere.
Nationwide failure rates in these courses can reach 50 percent, Koch said. "NDSU clearly recognizes the need to improve student learning and success in gateway courses," he said. "We are quite pleased that its faculty and staff will use the program as part of their ongoing efforts to intentionally and positively address the issue."
NDSU Provost Bruce Rafert said the project is suited to NDSU because "student success and retention is integral to our core business and are first and foremost in everyone's current strategies and tactics. Ideally, this project will become a permanent activity that is integrated into the institution."
NDSU is organizing its preliminary steering committee, which will include two college deans, the director and a research analyst from the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, the director of General Education and representatives from the Council on Improving Advising and the Council on Improving Retention. Faculty from the selected high-risk courses also will be added to complete the committee.
NDSU faculty will play a significant role in the process. They will generate plans with their academic and student affairs colleagues and will be supported with Gateways to Completion predictive analytics and dashboard tools. NDSU also will join other participating institutions at the annual Gateways to Completion Community of Practice meeting and the annual Gateway Course Experience Conference.
Other founding institutions include American Public University System; Arkansas Tech University; Ashford University; Florida International University; Kennesaw State University; Lansing Community College; Lone Star College – North Harris; Metropolitan State University – Denver; Nevada State College; University of Houston – Downtown; and the University of Rhode Island.
"The cohort's composition shows that this is an issue that spans all of academe," said John Gardner, president of the Gardner Institute. "We applaud NDSU for its willingness to take action on this issue."
The Gateways to Completion process was developed with input from the 32-member G2C National Advisory Committee.
The Gardner Institute is a North Carolina-based, federally recognized non-profit organization. Since 1999, the institute has worked with hundreds of postsecondary institutions around the world to improve undergraduate student learning, success, retention and completion rates.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.


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The Office for National Statistics also said Tuesday that higher prices for clothing, shoes, food and non-alcoholic beverages were also factors behind the increase in the headline annual inflation rate to 2.7 percent from 2.2 percent in September.
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On April 27, the Friends of Niagara University Theatre will host the 28th annual Friends of Niagara University Theatre Gala, including a 4 p.m. production of "Into the Woods" at the Leary Theatre within the Elizabeth Ann Clune Center for Theatre, Clet Hall.
Niagara University Theatre will present the Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine fairytale musical, "Into the Woods" from April 18-28. Associate professor Doug Zschiegner will direct the production, while associate professor Terri Filips Vaughan is choreographer and music adjunct Randy Andropolis will provide musical direction. The production premiered on Broadway in 1987, and most recently received critical acclaim at New York's Central Park this past summer.
On the day of the gala, the musical matinee will be followed by a cocktail reception, dinner and silent and live auction at the Niagara Falls Country Club in Lewiston. Auction items include gift certificates to area stores, restaurants and businesses, paintings, entertainment and sports-related memorabilia, gift baskets and much more.
Dr. Nancy McGlen and her husband, Joseph Gadawski, are this year's honorary gala chairs. McGlen is dean of NU's College of Arts and Sciences and Gadawski is retired from his position as the vice president of Clark Container, formerly a Division of Mark IV Industries. Long-time supporters of NU Theatre, the honorary chairs said they are thrilled to have the opportunity to provide leadership for this important fundraiser.
Auction committee co-chairs include Friends board members Maria Arena of Clarence, Pamela LeCuyer of Getzville, Lori Presti of Youngstown, and Adair M. Saviola of Buffalo. Arena is board secretary and decorations chair of the event, and Saviola is board president. Dinner committee chair is Friends' board vice president, Russell Papia of Williamsville.
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