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Spring is my favorite season.
First of all, it means that weeks of being cold, and shivering and discomfort begin to melt away, and my senses are all soothed. My sense of touch is stroked by gentler breezes. The scent of sound is enhanced when I hear the early robins of spring announce the coming of warmer days. And I was always anxious to put my nose in early blooms once the smell of honeysuckle tickled my nose and like many children, I would pull out the middle part to taste the nectar of those tiny delicate blooms. But it was was eyes---they were always dazzled by the display of color. These sights of spring brought me the most, since in childhood.
Whether I was playing in my grandmother's garden, or preparing for a May crowing event at my local parish, the flowers always captivated my attention. There was something almost magical about the touch, the smell and the sight of flowers. At my small Catholic church parish, when we had our annual May Crowing ceremonies, flowers let us all know that something was truly going on.
May Crowning Ceremony, St. John the Baptist School, Ft. Smith, Arkansas
The sheer beauty of the Iris truly makes me stop! An when I see the multicolored ones, especially any that contain variations of purple, I can only stop in the tracks and be taken by the mere beauty of it all. This is nothing that human hands can create, and when I see the elegant soft velvety petals of a the purple Iris it truly takes my breath away!
Oh soft, subtle velvet iris, so elegantly you come.
Like an elegant dancer your fling your skirt
letting it ripple in the breeze, and your gentle top
flirts with the wind and tells the world
that you are simply beautiful!
The one flower though that always made me smile was the Jonquil. They bloomed in my yard and when they appeared, I knew that sweaters could be shed and I would soon feel warmth on my skin when I played. Jonquils are slightly different from other daffodils, as their stems are rounded and not flat, and I knew that when I saw them, so pretty, and so vibrantly yellow, once again, my time of childhood joy had come.
Easter varied from year to year on the calendar, and my memory of Easter was that I was often quite chilly. My father would insist that we take our pictures on Easter and I always remember standing in the yard shivering to take the Easter picture. Usually Easter always came before the Jonquils, and I was not yet warm.
Easter Morning, in the 1950s.
A post script---one of my favorite songs is by jazz artist, Betty Carter, who sings a beautiful ballad called "Spring Can Really Hang You Up, The Most".
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Said Dan Barker, a former preacher, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, about the Clergy Project. Richard Dawkins — the atheism proselytizer — is also involved in this project. He writes:
"If a farmer tires of the outdoor life and wants to become an accountant or a teacher or a shopkeeper, he faces difficulties, to be sure. He must learn new skills, raise money, move to another area perhaps. But he doesn't risk losing all his friends, being cast out by his family, being ostracized by his whole community...A farmer who "tires of the outdoor life" is not a fraud, is not deceiving the people he cares about telling the truth to. It's funny that Dawkins didn't put that problem first. That says something about Dawkins, no?
"Clergy who lose their faith suffer double jeopardy. It's as though they lose their job and their marriage and their children on the same day."
Anyway, it really is an awful problem, to believe you're called into the ministry and then to feel that's nothing at all. And yet, isn't that part of training for the ministry, struggling with "the dark night of the soul" and so forth?

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In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, thousands of people from East Berlin crossed over into West Berlin to reunite with families and escape communist repression. In an effort to stop that outflow, the government of East Germany, on the night of August 12, 1961, began to seal off all points of entrance into West Berlin from East Berlin by stringing barbed wire and posting sentries. In the days and weeks to come, construction of a concrete block wall began, complete with sentry towers and minefields around it. The Berlin Wall succeeded in completely sealing off the two sections of Berlin. The U.S. government responded angrily. Commanders of U.S. troops in West Berlin even began to make plans to bulldoze the wall, but gave up on the idea when the Soviets moved armored units into position to protect it. The West German government was furious with America's lack of action, but President John F. Kennedy believed that "A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." In an attempt to reassure the West Germans that the United States was not abandoning them, Kennedy traveled to the Berlin Wall in June 1963, and famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!"). Since the word "Berliner" was commonly referred to as a jelly doughnut throughout most of Germany, Kennedy's improper use of German grammar was also translated as "I am a jelly doughnut." However, due to the context of his speech, Kennedy's intended meaning that he stood together with West Berlin in its rivalry with communist East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic was understood by the German people.
In the years to come, the Berlin Wall became a physical symbol of the Cold War. The stark division between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin served as the subject for numerous editorials and speeches in the United States, while the Soviet bloc characterized the wall as a necessary protection against the degrading and immoral influences of decadent Western culture and capitalism. During the lifetime of the wall, nearly 80 people were killed trying to escape from East to West Berlin. In late 1989, with communist governments falling throughout Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall was finally opened and then demolished. For many observers, this action was the signal that the Cold War was finally coming to an end.


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Shiv Nagar, India, renamed itself SnapDeal.com
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Introduction to the LG 55LW5600 55″ LED LCD HDTV
I first saw the passive 3D LCD displays at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and was immediately drawn in by their crisp bright displays and limited crosstalk. Fellow Secrets team member Chris Heinonen and I recently took a look at the 55LW5600, a 55" 3D LED LCD HDTV from LG.
The LG 5600 uses a passive 3D system, which uses a Film Pattern Retarder to allow the use of simple polarized glasses. The Active Retarder is basically another layer in front of the LCD panel that alternates circular polarized light – clockwise for one eye, and counter-clockwise for the other. It is very similar to how RealD works in the theater; in fact, the same 3D glasses can be used with the LG. This is a major selling point for people who frequently have a group of friends over to watch movies and play games. Being able to hand out eight pairs of 3D glasses to everyone in the room is not something easily accomplished with expensive active shutter glasses. Slap on a solid price point and that makes for a pretty enticing offer to step into the world of 3D displays.
LG 55LW5600 55″ 3D Edge Lit LED LCD HDTV Specifications
- Design: LED Edge Lit LCD 3D HDTV
- Native Resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Maximum Refresh Rate: 120 Hz
- Screen Size: 55″ Diagonal
- Input Signal Compatibility: 480i/p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p24/60Hz
- Audio: Main – 10 watts x 2, Digital Output Toslink (Dolby Digital, 2-channel PCM)
- Inputs: 2 Composite, 2 Component, 15-pin VGA, 4 HDMI 1.4, 2 USB, 1 Ethernet, 1 SD Memory Card Slot, Ethernet, RS232
- Internet Apps: Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, Amazon Video, CinemaNow
- Power Consumption: 159 Watts In Use (average); <0.1 Watt in Standby
- Dimensions: 33.5″ H x 50.9″ W x 13.0″ Deep with Stand
- Weight 69.7 Pounds
- 4 Sets of 3D Glasses Included
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Design and Setup of the LG 55LW5600 55″ 3D Edge Lit LED LCD HDTV
At just 1.2" deep, the LW5600 is thin, very thin. In fact, I'm not sure why anyone would even need a thinner TV than this and anything smaller probably wouldn't have room for a standard HDMI connection! The unit is gloss black with a slim rectangular base. No distracting silver aesthetics, just a nice clean design. The LG is just under 60 pounds with the stand, so unless you are freakishly strong with long arms, having a friend to help move it is still necessary, but at least you won't break your back like with old CRT sets.
Setting up the display is fairly user intuitive with LG's unique graphic interface. There are several display options including standard and the always nauseating "vivid" mode, but we skipped straight to the ISF Expert mode and immediately noticed a much better picture. There are also the standard stretch and zoom modes, but we selected "Just Scan" which is a one-to-one pixel mapping. One negative aspect of the menu design in the LG is that there is no button that quickly takes you to Setup for adjusting the display settings.
After the display was hooked up and had warmed up, we proceeded to calibrate it using a calibrated i1 Display2, ChromaPure 2.2 Software, and a Lumagen Radiance Mini3D.
The LG 55LW5600 55″ 3D Edge Lit LED LCD HDTV
Since I haven't had much experience with 3D displays at home, checking out some 3D content was most pertinent. First up was IMAX Under the Sea, a collection of underwater life and scenery. It took a minute for my eyes to adjust but one they did the 3D effect was fairly solid. Some shots had too much activity happening "in front" of the TV and this made focusing more difficult. Unfortunately, this is also where we first noticed the downside of a passive 3D system. Each eye can only see 1920×540 pixels, and so you are losing half of the horizontal resolution in every frame. This was easily noticeable on any angles, as you have very visible aliasing, or stair-stepping, caused by the lack of resolution and inability to correct for it. The active retarder anomalies continued to pop up as we viewed other content, it may not bother everyone, but it was a bit distracting for us.
Next up was Resident Evil: Afterlife, a film shot natively with 3D cameras, not with a post-process 2D to 3D conversion. The images were slick and the 3D effects certainly added to the entertainment factor. However, the look of the film was very artificial. In fact, it felt like I was watching a video game. The LG set has a frame creating mode called True-Motion, which creates new frames of video in order to smooth out the image. Some people like this; I however, cannot stand it. Watching 3D content looked very much like True-Motion was turned on, but when going to the menu, it said it was turned off. After a bit of research, it was discovered that the LG processes all 3D signals at 60 frames per second. So in the case of film material shot at 24 fps, the LG was smoothing out the image with added frames of video. Unfortunately, there is no way to currently turn off this feature.
When watching a bit of Tron Legacy, the same 60 fps smoothness was just too distracting to fully enjoy the visuals. The 3D effect tended to make me feel more like I was watching something fake. I never had that feeling of immersion, like I was looking through a window. Additionally, the heavy use of CG and bright colors on black backgrounds made the aliasing very apparent.
Where 3D really shines in my opinion, is with video games. Your brain already knows it is looking at something fake and computer generated, so it is not fighting with reality. I find it easier to get lost in the made up world of a video game that with 3D images of real life. We played Killzone 3 on the PS3 and although some detail, resolution and frame rate was lost compared to the 2D version, the game looked fantastic and everyone in the room was wowed by the 3D experience. The same went for Wipeout HD and we all felt this was the only way Wipeout was meant to be played.
Aside from exceptional 3D movies like Avatar, for me the future of 3D is definitely in the world of video games. There are more possibilities with how you interact and the level of immersion with games than with movies. Devices like Kinect are already recording your movements in 3D so it seems like a natural progression that the images you are interacting with would be 3D as well.
As a 3D gaming display, the LW5600 did a very good job. It's passive system allowed 8 people in the room to partake in the experience, and a fine experience it was.
Since most viewing is still going to be done in 2D, we watched some other content on the display as well. Baraka is still as detailed as almost any Blu-ray disc can be, and on the LG it looked very nice. Post-calibration the images were very natural and while some might feel it lacked a bit of "pop" that other displays can generate, at times it almost felt like looking at a window with how accurate it appeared. If you got too close to the screen, the Retarder would often be visible as imparting a bit of texture to the image, taking you away from the "looking through a window" feeling that shots could otherwise have.
The Blu-ray version of Casablanca looked wonderful as well. With the grayscale corrected for, the black and white image looked very good without a red or blue tint to it. While not the sharpest image available, the details from the classic film came out and the windowbox bars vanished thanks to the adaptive edge-lighting of the LG display. While passive 3D might have had some issues with resolution, there was none of that with 2D and the resulting image looked great, provided you were not close enough to see the Retarder texture.
The LG 55LW5600 55″ 3D Edge Lit LED LCD HDTV On The Bench
LG has been very good recently about having ISF Expert modes that allow for more control over calibration than some displays, but also provide a good starting point for users. Out of the box, the ISF Expert Mode had a grayscale that was on the warm side, with an average temperature of 5,800 and a dE of 10.7. The colors were also better than expected with an average dE of 4.8 for the primaries and secondary's, and it had a very good average gamma that was almost 2.2.
The LG offers two ways to adjust the grayscale, with either 2 points or 10 points to adjust. Despite the temptation for extra control, I found that after adjusting the 10 points to be correct that the gamma was totally destroyed, averaging 1.5 even when the menu system was set to a gamma of 2.4. Using the 2-point method, it took almost no time to calibrate the 80% IRE pattern, and the 20% pattern already had a dE of 1.6 and needed no work. After this was done the grayscale had a dE of 1.2 and a gamma of almost exactly 2.2.
Adjusting colors was not quite as easy as LG only provides color and tint controls for each color, and not the full set of Hue/Saturation/Lumination or Red/Green/Blue controls for each color that other vendors do. This made it harder to really dial in the colors, but we were able to reduce the average dE for the primaries and secondary's from 4.8 to 2.0. Blue had the highest dE of 3.9 but as this is the color that the eye is least sensitive to errors in, this is a very good overall result.
We did notice some strange behavior in how the sharpness controls worked with the luma and chroma patterns on Spears and Munsil. If the sharpness controls dropped below a certain level, a 1 pixel line would become hazy with edges around it and the luma zone plate pattern would be a smooth gray at the edges, instead of sharp all the way out. Keeping both controls at 50 seemed to be ideal, which is the default. However, if they were this high than the chroma plate showed a lack of fine chroma detail in 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 modes, but showed all the detail in RGB mode. Dropping the sharpness controls allowed the chroma detail to pass in the YCbCr modes, but then caused a loss of luma resolution. This was very odd behavior, but we would suggest keeping those controls at 50, since luma resolution is more important than chroma, but set all your devices to be RGB output instead of YCbCr for the LG set.
Once calibrated, the LG had a very nice, natural image and we didn't notice haloing or other issues from the LED localized dimming either. It did provide us with pitch-black letterbox borders on scope films and a very nice overall image.
Conclusions About the LG 55LW5600 55″ 3D Edge Lit LED LCD HDTV
The 3D display market is a tough one to be a part of. People have yet to be convinced that 3D is the future of home entertainment and are very skeptical when buying a new TV. Do they really need 3D? That is certainly up to the consumer, but LG has released a very capable display that puts of a very nice 2D and 3D image on screen. Those consumers that want to host events like the Super Bowl, or just have friends over to watch a movie no longer need to be put off by the ridiculous cost of active shutter glasses.
The LW5600 can be picked up for a competitive price along with plenty of passive glasses for you and your friends. The LG looks good out of the box under the ISF Expert setting, but it looks even better after professionally calibrated. I would certainly suggest checking it out in person before purchasing one, to make sure the issues we had with the 3D resolution and the Retarder texture aren't going to be a problem for you. Those issues aside, the LG is a very nice display.


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Automated ribotyping, bacterial taxonomy, contamination identification, DNA fingerprinting, DNA probes, determinative bacteriology, gel electrophoresis, manual ribotyping, microbial contamination, molecular epidemiology, phenotyping, polymerase chain reaction, RFLP, rRNA operon, restriction endonuclease, restriction fragment length polymorphism, RiboBank, Riboprinter® system, ribosomal DNA, ribosomal ribonucleic acid, Svedberg units.
Genes are considered the building blocks of life because they provide instructions for all cells in the body. Genes, which are located inside of cells, control an organism's development and functions by instructing cells to make new molecules (usually proteins).
DNA is a long thread-like molecule made up of large numbers of nucleotide bases. The sequence of nucleotide bases in DNA serves as the carrier of genetic (hereditary) information. Nucleotides are molecules composed of a nitrogen-containing base, a 5-carbon sugar, and one or more phosphate groups. Long strands of nucleotides form nucleic acids.
RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a polymeric constituent of all living cells and many viruses. The structure and base sequence of RNA are determinants of protein synthesis and the transmission of genetic information.
Ribotyping is a highly sensitive and precise method for the identification, classification, observation, and tracking of various bacteria from the sample of interest. This helps to distinguish organisms within the same species, which might help in the identification of the disease-causing organism and finding an appropriate treatment for it. It can also determine if an infection is caused by a single strain or by multiple strains. In an outbreak of an infection in a large population, ribotyping can detect the source of infection, identify its mode of transmission, and monitor the distribution and occurrence of a particular strain of bacteria. In clinical studies, ribotyping can identify the role of an organism in the occurrence of the disease and monitor the treatment regimens.
Ribotyping involves detecting and identifying the different species and/or strains (subspecies) of microbial organisms. This is achieved by obtaining a genetic fingerprint of the genome that codes for ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. RFLP is a laboratory technique in which organisms may be differentiated by analysis of patterns derived from cleavage (cutting) of their DNA. Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a molecular component of ribosomes, which are tiny cell organs made of complexes of RNA and protein.
Ribotyping is a highly sensitive and precise method used to identify, classify, observe, and track various bacteria from the sample of interest. Ribotyping may be done either manually or automatically.
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: The initial step in manual ribotyping involves the extraction of genomic DNA from the bacterial colony or sample of interest (food, water, feces). The extracted DNA is then cut (cleaved) into smaller pieces by enzymes called restriction endonucleases. These enzymes cleave the DNA sequences at specific sites called recognition restriction sites, which results in characteristic fragments of DNA of different lengths and strand orientation. The fragmented DNA sequences are of different lengths and differ among species, which assists in identifying the organism. This is the key principle of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP).
The fragmented DNA sequences are put on gel electrophoresis, a process that uses electricity to separate the DNA fragments based on their size and electric charges as they migrate through a gel matrix to form distinct bands.
The separated fragments of DNA are then transferred to a membrane matrix (southern blot transfer) and are immobilized or fixed to the membrane. The immobilized DNA fragments are paired with complementary sequences of DNA called probes in a process known as hybridization. The probes have specific sequences of nucleotides that are complementary to specific DNA fragments to which it gets hybridized. These special probes are tagged with either a radioactive dye or an enzyme to facilitate easier detection.
The DNA fragments hybridized with the probes give out distinct band patterns when visualized with autoradiography and recorded. This is called genetic fingerprinting. Autoradiography is a technique in which the DNA sequences tagged with radioactive molecules are exposed to X-rays and visualized.
The band patterns are compared with a database to identify the strain of the organism. The recognition of similarities and differences among the various samples becomes easier with the addition of more strains to the database. Hence, storage of the pattern helps in early and easy identification of the organism.
The conventional, manual method for ribotyping has limited usage as it is time consuming and labor-intensive, requiring sufficient experience and expertise. In addition, the lack of standardization and subjective interpretation leads to a lot of variation among laboratories and technicians, which decreases the reliability of the test. However, smaller fragments can be separated with greater resolution by manual methods than by automated processes. This may be due to the larger gel sizes, resulting in greater band separation. The manual ribotyping takes about 10-12 days for total processing of the samples.
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) is an enzymatic method for the repeated copying of the two strands of DNA of a particular gene sequence. It is widely used to amplify minute quantities of biologic material so as to provide adequate specimens for laboratory study. It may be used in combination with ribotyping, which reduces the time required to perform the tests. It also eliminates the problem of insufficiently isolated DNA. For example, in certain slow-growing bacteria that contain very few copies of the rRNA genes, PCR can amplify very small amounts of the genetic material to the levels required for RFLP analysis within a short period of time.
: Automated ribotyping involves the use of systems such as the Riboprinter® system from DuPont Qualicon, Wilmington, Delaware. It eliminates manual intervention and provides standardized and consistent results within one day (eight hours). It also aids in matching the genetic snapshot of organisms with databases, thereby helping in recognition of the contamination with ease, speed, and precision. Even in rare cases, when the identification of the organism is not possible, it still helps in finding the source of contamination, which may facilitate the initiation of action against the organism. The electronic fingerprints obtained can be compared with other riboprinters and then incorporated into a common database.
There are several advantages of automated ribotyping. It is a very easily reproducible and standardized method for classification of organisms. Hence, this method is useful as a rapid screening method for analyzing genetic relationships among isolates and for identifying strains of particular regional relevance. Also, remote identification is possible through the Internet as electronic databases of important ribotypes may be constructed using this method. This may facilitate the tracking of the organisms from anywhere in the world. This technique is not affected by bacterial culture conditions or growth stages of the organism; therefore, it produces accurate and reliable results.
: Ribotyping technique has been used in various areas to identify disease-causing organisms. The information generated by ribotyping is stored in libraries for future reference because it helps in the early detection of disease-causing organisms. The new ribotypes obtained can be compared to other known ribotypes in the library, thereby assisting in the recognition of the organism with ease, speed, and precision. The recognition of similarities and differences among the various isolates becomes easier with the addition of more strains to the database. Currently more than 600 patterns are in the database, and this database is continuously updated. Databases for
(80 pattern types),
(97 pattern types),
(65 pattern types), and
(252 pattern types) have been established. These databases continue to grow as more bacteria are ribotyped.
Researchers, diagnostic investigators, and epidemiologists may use the database for various reasons. Investigators may use the database to identify specific disease-causing organisms, which may help treat individuals affected by this pathogen. Epidemiologists, who study the frequency and distribution of diseases within the human population and environment, may use the database to identify the commonly occurring pathogens in the environment. This may help in developing strategies for the management of disease outbreaks due to particular strains of organism. These databases may be accessed through the Internet. Certain organizations maintain databases for specific organisms. For instance, the World Health Organization has a ribotype database for
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
. To provide a platform for online comparison of bacterial fingerprints, RiboBank was created and is maintained under the GENE project (Genetic Epidemiology Network for Europe) with support from the European Union Fifth Framework Programme. This facilitates the comparison of the ribotypes from any part of the world.
Implant-associated infections
: Implant is a medical device that is used to replace a missing part of the body. However, implants are associated with increased risk of infection.
Staphylococcus epidermis
is a major pathogen, or disease-causing agent, that causes implant-associated infections. Several microorganisms such as
Staphylococcus epidermis
may enter the surgical wound, adhere to the implant, and cause infection. By using ribotyping technique, researchers have identified different bacterial strains responsible for causing the infection. This also helps researchers to understand the development of multiresistant strains, bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics, thereby assists in finding a suitable treatment against the organisms.
Genetic relatedness
: Ribotyping has also been used to study the gene responsible for the development of multidrug-resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii
Acinetobacter baumannii
bacteria commonly cause infections in individuals who have compromised immune systems, such as those with AIDS. Further research is required to determine whether the multi-drug resistant strains from different geographic regions are genetically similar. This may assist in developing treatments that target a particular disease-causing gene.
Isolation from surface water
: Studies have been conducted to identify enterococcal species in surface water using automated ribotyping. Ribotyping may be an effective tool for the identification of different bacterial strains. Because surface water consists of many organisms, this method has the potential to identify the exact source of contamination in surface water, thereby helping to develop ways to remove water contamination. Enterococci are the bacteria usually found in the intestine of humans and animals. However, they may cause certain serious infections such as infections acquired as a result of treatment in a hospital.
: Ribotyping may be used to accurately identify or differentiate species and/or strains (subspecies) of microbial organisms and thus helps to find the cause of infection. This information may help identify ways of preventing or treating the infection or disease. Ribotyping has widespread applications as explained below.
Animal farms
: Consumption of contaminated feed causes a number of diseases in animal farms that may lead to food-borne outbreaks such as listeriosis, which is caused by eating food contaminated with
Listeria monocytogenes
. Ribotyping may provide useful information by identifying the contaminated feed source and how the disease-causing bacteria are being spread. Ribotyping can thereby assist in the elimination of the contaminated source, reduce the food-borne outbreaks, and help maintain food safety in the animal farms.
Nosocomial infection
: Patients may acquire infections in hospitals from a hospital source (nosocomial) such as medical equipment or from another patient. Ribotyping helps identify the source and route of infections so that individuals may take precautions to prevent further infections. Because ribotyping can identify the disease-causing organism, physicians can prescribe the appropriate medicine, which facilitates quicker recovery in patients.
Environmental pollution
: Bacterial contamination impairs water quality due to human activity. Both human and animal fecal pollution poses a major health hazard due to the disease-causing bacteria. Ribotyping may be used to identify sources of potential and actual disease-causing bacteria, thereby preventing the outbreak of several illnesses.
Food industry
: Fermented foods are subjected to the action of microorganisms or enzymes, which causes modification in the foods. This process may make fermented foods more digestible, nutritious, safer, or tastier. The use of ribotyping for the detection and identification of the microbial strains and subtypes in the fermentation food industry helps ensure the safe fermentation of foods under controlled conditions. Hence, identification of the disease-causing strain using ribotyping may help in preventing infections.
The manual method for ribotyping is time consuming, labor intensive, and not as discriminating as pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). However, the development of automated ribotyping systems has increased the usefulness of this technique for the analysis of a large number of isolates.
The interpretation of the subtyping (identification of different strains of the organism) data by ribotyping includes a subjective component and depends on the training of the technician.
The ability to distinguish organisms is limited in that the polymorphism of variations in DNA sequences is confined to a small number of bands (3-4). The identification of the different strains of the organisms, therefore, becomes difficult.
It may be difficult to distinguish between several ribopatterns, the distinct protein band patterns derived from ribotyping, because there are only slight differences in the size of the bands.
Future research
Molecular fingerprinting with ribotyping has helped to identify multiple routes of
contamination in seafood and has also established a genetic association among different groups of microorganisms based on their cell surface antigens. This helps in the identification of genetic variation in the different strains of
and their possible route of entry into the seafood. Identification helps to inhibit the disease-causing organism before contamination occurs, thereby preventing the infection.
Patients may acquire infection in hospitals either from a hospital source such as medical equipment or from another patient. Such infections caused by
Clostridium difficile
is a major cause for concern. Hence, identification of the disease-causing strains of the organism using ribotyping may help to prevent the disease. It may also make possible the development of drugs for the disease-causing organism. Researchers are conducting a study to examine the efficacy of the antibiotic oritavancin against
Clostridium difficile
for the treatment of such hospital infections.
With the help of ribotyping from the roots of certain teeth that have undergone root canal Researchers have identified a new bacterial strain, Endo-EH, which belongs to the
species. Root canal treatment is a process in which the dentist treats the infected pulp blood or nerve supply of the tooth. Further research is needed to understand the mechanism underlying this disease-causing organism and possible treatment strategies.
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Hearing University of Colorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano say he views the school's athletic department as a business that should be operated as such was almost as big of a surprise Wednesday as hearing DiStefano cut ties with athletic director Mike Bohn a day earlier.
Don't get me wrong. It's refreshing to hear that perspective from someone in DiStefano's position, especially at CU.
There is no debating the matter. College athletic departments at the Division-I level are multi-million dollar businesses and trying to run them with any other mindset is a recipe for failure. I think that is a hard lesson learned here in Boulder in recent years.
But it was odd to hear from DiStefano because the bureaucracy he oversees has been getting in the way of the athletic department for years in tandem with the president's office in Denver. And I'm not buying that is suddenly going to change just because the chancellor seems to be open to the idea of hiring a successful businessman or woman to lead the department in the future.
Here is an example.
A year ago in the spring of 2012, Bohn probably got out in front of his bosses a bit by telling a room full of reporters that he expected to be able to announce a "transformational" facilities project in and around Folsom Field by September, which was roughly six months away at the time.
When that news hit the streets it generated a lot of excitement among CU fans and boosters who had been waiting for months, years even, for just such an announcement.
But that announcement never materialized in September because all the bigwigs at the university and CU System level hadn't signed off on it yet. It was delayed and delayed and delayed while the school conducted feasibility studies and meetings and reviews and it inched its way through the complexity of the reporting structure.
Finally, in February we heard Bohn and DiStefano brief members of the Board of Regents in Colorado Springs about plans for $170 million in upgrades that will be funded by private donations and television revenue.
The owner or CEO of a business, a role the athletic director fills in the athletic department, wouldn't have had to wade through that morass before coming through on his promise, especially when that promise was simply regarding unveiling plans for a project off in the future.
It was also odd Wednesday listening to the chancellor talk about the big business of college athletics when he was part of the CU administration that fought against that exact perception of college athletics during the recruiting scandal surrounding the CU football program back in 2004 and 2005.
Back then the school wanted more oversight of athletics. It wanted Bohn to help integrate the athletic department more closely into the fabric of the rest of the campus. It later praised him for doing so. Blah, blah, blah.
Eight years later that mentality is suddenly gone.
I get that the leadership has changed over time and people learn from past mistakes. Those are good things in this case, as long as DiStefano follows through on transforming the athletic department into a business-minded enterprise. But I'm also struck by how much time and energy has been wasted these past years by not treating it like a business all along.
Two football coaching staffs, an athletic director and other less prominent CU employees have lost their jobs, in part, because the school didn't get this right sooner.
Make no mistake, I'm not saying Dan Hawkins or Jon Embree or Bohn would still be in their jobs today if the school allowed the athletic department to function more like a business all along. Each of those men made plenty of mistakes along the way that helped seal their fate.
But this much is absolutely true, if CU had followed this course all along, the jobs of those three men and others would have been significantly easier with fewer hurdles to clear to get things done around here.
Now the true test comes. We'll find out in the in the very near future how serious DiStefano is about changing the approach to one that is more business-oriented. How do we know that? Because a big business wouldn't dillydally once it started the ball rolling in this direction.
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While I enjoyed the Japanese-developed Devil May Cry series and adore English developer Ninja Theory, I had absolutely no interest in this new DmC until I saw this video.
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What would Thanksgiving be without stuffing? If you're looking for an allergen-friendly recipe or just a delicious new take on this holiday staple, you've found it here! I've created a sweet stuffing that is perfect for kids and adults alike. It's gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan so you can easily serve this to your entire Thanksgiving table without having to worry about food preferences. If nut-allergies are a problem, you can easily substitute in ground flax seeds for a similar crunch and nutty flavor.
The trick to this satisfyingly sweet stuffing is the dried cherries and honey along with a sprinkle of fresh basil leaves. If you have extra pine nuts you can toss them into my healthy Pine Nut Stuffed Mushroom recipe to serve as a tasty appetizer.
6 cups gluten-free bread, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 cup dried cherries
2 tablespoons honey
¼ teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
¼ cup pine nuts, finely chopped
2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh thyme
3 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup fresh basil, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 400° F. Prepare a baking dish with nonstick baking spray. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine gluten-free bread pieces, dried cherries, honey, salt, pepper, pine nuts, fresh thyme, vegetable broth and olive oil. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes or until heated through and golden brown.
Remove from oven; set aside to cool for 10 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with fresh basil.
Serve warm.
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By Drew Packham, NBA.com
LAS VEGAS — The last full day of seven games featured several returning players putting up big numbers.
Phoenix's Markieff Morris wrapped up his solid showing, putting up 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Suns to a 96-87 win over the Grizzlies. Morris was 10-for-17 from the floor, hit a pair of 3s and looked like the best player on the floor, impressive considering Josh Selby did his thing again for the Grizzlies, scoring 23 points to maintain his scoring lead (27.5 ppg) over Damian Lillard (26.5 ppg).
Non-rookie of the day: Malcolm Thomas, Bulls. For the fourth straight game, the SDSU big man dominated the boards, pulling down 16 to go with 21 points in Chicago's 77-74 win over the Clippers. Thomas is opening eyes in Vegas and should find himself on a roster this fall after spending most of last season bouncing around the D-League.
Other notables: Wes Johnson, Wolves. Minnesota's swingman is looking confident with his shot and scored 28 points Saturday to increase his scoring average to 22.7 (fourth overall). "I just need to relax and play basketball the way I know how," Johnson said. "I don't think I've lost anything." Jimmy Butler, Bulls. The second-year guard out of Marquette scored 23 points on 6-for-10 shooting. In four games, Butler has topped 20 points three times and is sixth overall in scoring at 20.8 points to go with 6.5 boards. His role could increase this season, so Chicago fans must love seeing these numbers.
Rookie of the day: Will Barton, Trail Blazers. Portland's second-round pick (40th overall) has been overshadowed by the team's two lottery picks (Lillard and Meyers Leonard) but has quietly been doing a little bit of everything. Saturday, though, with the Blazers resting their top players, Barton played all 40 minutes, scoring 27 points on 10-for-17 shooting. "I'm a role player, but when I get the opportunity to be the man, I take it," Barton said.
Other notables: Jae Crowder, Mavericks. Crowder closed out his impressive showing with 21 points and six rebounds in Dallas' 82-76 overtime win over San Antonio. Crowder, a second-round pick (34th overall) out of Marquette, finished with five-game averages of 16.6 points and 5.4 rebounds. Crowder could be a steal out of the second round. Kendall Marshall, Suns. The point guard taken 13th overall has looked terrible here, but closed out with his best game yet, scoring 15 points (on 6-for-10 shooting, 3-for-4 on 3s) and handing out 10 assists, giving him the overall lead in assists at 6.5 per game. Also, John Henson had another good game for the Bucks (22 and nine) in an 88-87 win over Boston.
Coming up: Summer League comes to an end Sunday with just three games on the slate. Two games will air live on NBA TV — Celtics-Clippers at 6 ET and Grizzlies-Wolves at 8 ET — while the Bulls-Bucks game will be shown on replay at 4 a.m. ET. The All-Summer League teams will be announced at the end of the day.


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Vanek hat trick lifts Canadiens over Avalanche 6-3 in Roy's return to MontrealNHL.com @NHLdotcom
MONTREAL - Thomas Vanek had a hat trick to lift Montreal to a 6-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche in former Canadiens great Patrick Roy's first game at the Bell Centre as an NHL head coach.
Brandon Prust, who left the game late in the first period with an apparent shoulder injury, returned to score a goal and set up one by Travis Moen for Montreal (38-25-7), which won its third game in a row. Vanek got his first goal in six games since he was acquired in an NHL trade deadline deal.
Trailing by two goals, Roy pulled goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere with 2:20 left to play, but Dale Weise scored into the empty net.
Rookie Nathan MacKinnon scored a highlight-reel goal and Max Talbot and Jamie McGinn also scored for the Avalanche (44-20-5), which lost for only the third time in 10 games. The Avs end a three-game road trip Wednesday night in Winnipeg.
Some wondered how the Bell Centre crowd would react to Roy, who won Stanley Cups for the Canadiens in 1986 and 1993 but later demanded a trade and was on the outs with the organization until 2008 when they retired his No. 33 jersey.
It was clear that all was forgiven when the former goaltender got his first long ovation when he was shown on the scoreboard during the national anthems.
Roy's team responded with a strong opening period.
No. 1 overall draft pick MacKinnon put on a show as he ragged the puck in the Montreal zone for most of an entire shift. Then he got the puck alone in front of the net off a strange deflection and deked Carey Price for his 23rd goal of the season at 18:03.
The Canadiens bounced back in the second, as Vanek tapped one into an open goal after David Desharnais lured Jean-Sebastien Giguere out of his net on a rush at 7:44.
Talbot was parked at the doorstep to knock in a Matt Duchene feed at 9:33, but Moen tied the score at 10:21 with his second of the year and his first since Nov. 22. Prust dove to chip the puck into the middle, where Moen caught it, then did a spin-around move to beat Giguere with a backhand.
Giguere took a holding the stick penalty and Vanek made him pay as he converted a Max Pacioretty feed on a power play for the game-winner at 14:45. Montreal was on the power play again when Vanek deflected an Alexei Emelin shot in at 17:40.
Notes: It was Roy's first game against Montreal since he was a player on Nov. 6, 2001. Roy opted to put Montreal native Giguere in goal over No. 1 Semyon Varlamov. . .Paul Stastny returned from after missing four games with a back injury. . . The Avs went into the game with the NHL's fourth best power play and Montreal with the fourth best penalty kill.


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Dr. Dan L. Morrill
139 Middleton Drive
Charlotte, N.C. 28207
[email protected]
R. J. Reynolds High School - 1956
Wake Forest University - 1960 (B.A.)
Emory University - 1961 (M.A.)
Emory University - 1966 (Ph.D.)
Professor Emeritus of History UNCC
Director, Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
DeWitt Clinton Elementary School
Location: Chicago, Illinois
No. of Students in School: 1,600
Teacher: Dorothy Franklin
No. of Years Teaching: 16 Years
Grade: 7th
Subject: Language arts
No. of Students in the Classroom: 30
DeWitt Clinton Elementary is an urban K-8 school in Chicago, Illinois, that serves a primarily first-generation immigrant population speaking more than 17 different languages. The majority of students are Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Russian, or Bosnian, with a small minority of other nationalities and ethnicities. Many of Clinton's children require ESOL or bilingual assistance. Approximately 50 percent are below grade level in core subjects, and 85 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch. In the tradition of a neighborhood school, all of the approximately 1600 students live within walking distance of school grounds. Clinton experiences a high rate of transience as families move into and out of the surrounding areas.
size at Clinton hovers around 28 to 30 children of all abilities.
In Dorothy Franklin's double-blocked language arts classes,
the average reading level is fifth grade, with some students
as low as third and others as high as ninth. Ms. Franklin
also has students in various stages of the bilingual program.
Teachers meet in grade level teams to discuss the status and
well-being of individual students. Language arts teachers
for grades five to eight also hold weekly meetings to discuss
issues of curriculum.
does not mandate texts that schools must teach, only skills
and concepts that they should address. Some schools have created
a list of approved texts, but teachers at Clinton have free
rein in selecting their material. Ms. Franklin has chosen
to use novels and self-selected reading materials.
Torn between the order of a traditional classroom and the excitement of collaborative learning, she struggles to strike a suitable balance in her own room. Students usually sit in rows, with desks grouped in twos or threes to facilitate discussions. At times, however, they arrange their seats in a large circle so they can participate in a whole-class dialogue.
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OCEANSIDE, California (Reuters) - A southern California man whose wife's flesh was found cooking in pots on the stove at their home in Oceanside has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges, authorities said.
Oceanside police said they arrested Frederick Hengl, 68, last Friday after they were called to investigate a foul smell coming from the home he shared with his wife, Anna Faris, 73, a few blocks from Oceanside pier.
Investigating officers found parts of Faris' body cooking in three pots on the stove top, according to Deputy District Attorney Katherine Flaherty.
"The first responding officer saw what she believed was meat cooking on the stove top," Flaherty told reporters at Hengl's arraignment Wednesday.
"In addition to the parts of the victim that were cooking, her severed head was found in the freezer," she added.
Hengl was arrested as he finished a beer at a bar near the couple's home. He was subsequently charged with murder, mutilation of remains and cruelty to a dependent elderly person, according to court records.
He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment hearing at the Vista branch of the San Diego County Superior Court on Wednesday. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether they intend to seek the death penalty.
Hengl is due to return to court on December 3 for a status conference, an informal discussion between the judge, prosecution and defendant about the case.
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