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Treasure Chest Thursday: A Patchwork Quilt Made by Grandma Moore
Unfortunately I have not had time lately to do daily posts for Lisa Alzo's series "Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women's History Month" at The Accidental Genealogist, but several of them have definitely inspired me, so I'll try to do some of the prompts when I can (out of order, of course).
For Treasure Chest Thursday as well as for my series "Please Keep These Things," I would like to do Prompt #6: "Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancestor (wedding ring or other jewelry, china, clothing, etc.) If you don't have any, then write about a specific object you remember from your mother or grandmother, or aunt (a scarf, a hat, cooking utensil, furniture, etc.)"
The heirloom I am featuring is one of four patchwork quilts made by my grandmother that I inherited from my mother. I regret to say that only three of these quilts survive. I took the smallest one with me to college. Careless idiot that I was, at some point in college I washed and dried it at a laundromat – end of quilt. Had something like that happened today, I would try to get a professional to repair it for me, but unfortunately this did not occur to me at the time and I compounded my idiocy by throwing the ragged quilt away.
This quilt is the only one that is being kept out for display at the present time. The other two have been put away in a chest for the time being. There are still too many people and cats in this house to safely display all three quilts.
Grandma Moore, my mother's mother, was an extremely skilled seamstress. My mother inherited her talents; I did not. Some of the quilts Grandma passed down to her children included the names of her children and grandchildren embroidered on some of the patches, so there is double genealogy relevance!
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How lucky you are to have these quilts. Hope to see the others, as I appreciate them, just can't do them. Nice colors as well.ReplyDelete
What a great treasure! It can keep you warm in many different ways.ReplyDelete
our satory about washing the quilt reminds me too of what i did to husbands grandmothers quilt. I had forgotten I guess the history of it. I had used and it seem so old and yellowed. I thought well mom always used bleach and I washed it and used extra bleach. And it was ripped here and there, mother in law thought my mom a quilter could fix it. Mom didn't want to try. So I guess i made it worse. I knew I had done something wrong as soon as sister-in-law got a look and asked me again what I did. Live and learn.ReplyDelete
There is such love in those old quilts-I'm glad you've got a few of them.ReplyDelete
Good to see there are other quilt lovers out there, and others who have, well, made a goof in the care and keeping of quilts and lived to learn from it. Now I have to figure out a way to safely display the other two. Thanks for stopping by!ReplyDelete
Greta, I love quilts and this one is absolutely beautiful. Do you know what she used? Are the squares significant in any way? It's just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Lori - Grandma got the material she used from her daughters, daughters-in-law, and possibly some granddaughters - I remember my Mom saving up all her sewing scraps to bring with her next time we would visit Grandma. So the significance would be that most of these scraps would match items of clothing and other things sewn by family members. I always thought that was so neat.ReplyDelete
That makes it all the more precious. Lucky you! :)ReplyDelete


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Is $250,000 really middle class?
How is it that a quarter-million dollars of income has come to represent the dividing line between the middle class and the wealthy?
This post comes from Alicia Munnell at partner site SmartMoney.
It seems as though no one reads the Census Bureau's annual publication "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States" for anything but the number of people in poverty. The parts I find most interesting are those pertaining to the level and distribution of income. The numbers go to the heart of conversations about the "middle class" and the "rich."
Both President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney have adopted household income of $250,000 as a meaningful demarcation point for defining the middle class. In the case of the president, he proposes to retain the Bush tax cuts for households with less than $250,000 and eliminate the tax cuts for those above that threshold. Romney, in a recent ABC interview, offered the same definition of the middle class: "Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."
Where does this concept of $250,000 as the appropriate cutoff come from? According to the data in the Census Bureau report shown in Table 1 below, which presents the thresholds for being in different parts of the income distribution, the median household in 2011 had an income of $50,054. A household with an income of $143,611 was at the 90th percentile point, or in the top 10th of the income distribution. A household with an income of $186,000 was at the 95th percentile, or in the top 5%. The table does not even show households with $250,000, but they must be in the top 97th or 98th percentile.
Table 1. Household Income at Selected Percentiles, 2011
|Dollar limit
|50th (median)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011." Table A-2.
The thresholds must be interpreted with caution, because households include old and young, urban and rural, coastal and midland, and small and large. But it is very hard to understand how anyone could think of $250,000 as the middle. It seems as if both candidates have a mental picture of the very rich and everyone else.
The "very-rich-vs.-everyone-else" framework may come from data on the share of income earned by various households. Here the census data show that those in the top quintile – the highest-earning 20% – earn more than the bottom four quintiles combined (see Table 2). That is, the top 20% receives more income than the bottom 80%.
Table 2. Shares of Household Income by Quintile, 2011
|Lowest quintile
|Second quintile
|Third quintile
|Fourth quintile
|Highest quintile
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011." Table A-2.
And a recent study by economist Emmanuel Saez shows that within the top quintile the distribution is also very skewed, so that the top 1% receives about 20% of total income.
Thus, while the $250,000 threshold makes no sense in describing the middle class, it seems like a relevant divide for defining where the money is. Nevertheless, dividing the nation's households into the "wealthy" and "the middle class" doesn't seem like a useful exercise. It pits the majority of Americans against the top 1% or 2%.
It suggests that the majority of Americans should not be called upon to solve the nation's fiscal problems. It violates the notion that we are all in this together. Yes, the rich can contribute more, but we can all contribute something.
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Patricia Sellers admits to her checkered past.
The Kings Mountain woman has put herself in bad situations, and she�s paid a price.
More than 10 years ago Sellers� daughters were taken from her by the Department of Social Service. She was in an abusive relationship. And one night, while on a trip to South Carolina, she found herself in a no-win situation.
Sellers spent eight years in prison, and then tried to put the pieces back together.
A recent traffic stop put Sellers back in jail, a place she swore she�d never be again. This time, Sellers was charged with kidnapping her own child � more than a decade ago.
Broken home
Sellers� daughters are now in their 20s. Both were placed in DSS custody when they were teenagers. Things were bad at home.
Sellers says she was in an abusive relationship.
�I�ve never picked the right men. They�ve beat on me,� she said. �To this day I�m scared to get in a relationship.�
Her daughters didn�t adapt well to foster care.
�They were fine as long as they could visit me and see me. When DSS told them they couldn�t see me, they�d act out,� she said.
When the girls would call in the middle of the night or show up at her house, Sellers said she would return them.
But the back-and-forth ended in 2003 when Sellers went to prison in South Carolina.
According to Sellers, she sat in the car while her then-boyfriend robbed a man in a rest area.
While Sellers was in prison, her girls grew up and started families of their own.
Fresh start
Sellers was released from prison in April 2010.
Her daughter, Tasha, picked her up.
Sellers moved into a halfway house in Wingate. Eventually she struck out on her own.
She got a car and moved to Kings Mountain. After a few miscellaneous jobs, Sellers started working in the cafeteria at Belmont Abbey College.
Sellers� other daughter, Tanya, and Tanya�s daughter, Alexis, moved in.
Things weren�t perfect, but Sellers said she finally felt on the right track. That was, until March 15 when she saw blue lights in the rearview mirror.
Stopped for driving with an expired tag, Sellers found out she had outstanding warrants � for abduction of children, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and failure to comply.
The failure to comply charge was for an outstanding fine from driving with a revoked license in 2002.
Sellers said she was dumbfounded by the other warrants against her.
Behind bars
Sellers was taken to Gaston County Jail where she stayed for six days.
She spent her grocery money to make bail.
She was fired from her job and can�t drive her car because she hasn�t gotten it legally road ready. The tag is expired, and Sellers still needs to get her license reinstated.
Sellers said she never kidnapped her children and was unaware of the charges against her.
She is also confused at how the warrants went undetected for so long.
Sellers said she completed her probation in Gaston County, but never heard about the pending charges.
The 48-year-old woman spent six days in Gaston County Jail following her recent arrest. She was initially assigned a $30,000 secured bond on the child-related charges.
A judge later unsecured that bond but required Sellers to pay a $205 bond on the failure to comply charge.
That meant that after nearly a week in jail, the money Sellers needed for her release went from $30,000 to $205.
Progress impeded
Minor violations often bring to the surface warrants against past offenders, according to Capt. Bill Melton with Gaston County Police.
Warrants, new and old, are entered into a computer system which is now available remotely by officers.
When an officer runs a name through the system, old charges can come back to haunt anyone with outstanding charges.
According to court officials, more old cases seem to be popping up. It could simply be that old records are being entered into the current system.
Many of these old cases ultimately get dismissed, according to a spokeswoman for the Women at Risk program through Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice.
Each case is different, depending on the charges and all the players � the defendant, officers, magistrates, judges and attorneys.
Though the cases often get dismissed, the process can present stumbling blocks for people trying to stay on the right path, said a Women at Risk social worker.
Red tape
The initial complaints against Sellers were filed by Gaston County DSS in 2003.
When a child runs away from foster care, DSS and police are contacted. That�s likely why the warrants were issued, according to Cheryl Harris, Gaston County DSS program administrator.
Harris wouldn�t discuss the case, but did say notifying police is standard procedure.
Harris wouldn�t speculate as to why the warrants took 10 years to be served but she said when charges cross state lines the process sometimes hits a roadblock.
Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Hamlin has been assigned the case.
Hamlin said she�s already talked to one of Sellers� daughters and that the charges will likely be dropped.
Sellers has been assigned a public defender. Her next court date is in May.
Damage done
According to arrest warrants, the charges against Sellers involve Tasha and Tanya.
Both told The Gazette their mother never took them against their will. Now 26 and 27, the women say they never lived with their mother after being taken by DSS. Both admit to running away on several occasions.
Tasha said she wrote and visited Sellers during her mother�s incarceration. They talk several times a week and visit regularly.
Neither Tasha nor Tanya wants their mother to face charges.
�She was doing pretty good,� said Tasha. �She had a job. She had a car. She got her own place.�
Sellers chokes up when talking about her recent setback.
The thought of starting over again is discouraging, she said.
�It wasn�t easy coming as far as I have in two years,� she said. �Everything was going along then the past comes and kicks me in the teeth.�
You can reach reporter Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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The Ducks lost an important part of their coaching staff Wednesday when goaltending consultant Francois Allaire joined the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Allaire wanted to be closer to his home in Montreal. His year-to-year contract with the Ducks was expiring this month, and the club had given him permission to speak with Toronto, a team official said.
Allaire will re-unite with Brian Burke, who stepped down as Ducks general manager early last season to take the same position with Toronto.
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Allaire, 53, spent 13 seasons with the Ducks and was instrumental in guiding the career of goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere (above, with Allaire), who backstopped the club to the 2007 Stanley Cup championship and won the 2003 Conn Smythe Trophy despite playing on the losing team.
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Allaire had an eventful 2008-09 season with the Ducks as he tried to steer Giguere out of a slump while also developing Hiller from a backup to one of the better goalies in the postseason.
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What is a family to do when ever-tightening finances limit television channels? Why not go out and work on the well.
Our farm well's casing caved in several years ago, switching us over to exclusive use of rural water services. While we are thankful for the availability of good, clean, water at the twist of a tap, the mounting bill as we daily clean our dairy barn and water our two-acre garden was becoming a problem.
When the indoor entertainment went good-bye last week, well work became a solution to several problems facing our family.
My husband is a plumber with an intriguing host of ideas when it comes to fixing problems. The well problem was no little deal, and had we hired someone else to fix it, there would be more bills unpaid than the dish network. But, thanks to a little ingenuity, my husband, along with three sons, ages 16 to 23, figured out a way to pull the old casing, blast out the rocks and roots that caused it to cave in, and construct a 32-foot geyser of sand, silt and ice-cold water that made memories that will last a lifetime.
It was almost dusk last Tuesday when I heard hooting, hollering, and laughter enough to rival a water-fun park coming from beyond the creek by the oat field.
The boys and dad had built a 20-foot platform above the old well house and, between the four of them, inserted a new casing into the old well. After a lot of banging, chipping, and pulling up rocks and roots, they got the new casing to slide down in place and then proceeded to blow out obstructions with compressed air.
The result was a glug-glug, kaboook, then silence for what seemed an eternity as air went down into the water vein below, and then hiss, slam, kabaam as air, water, silt, and slime shot up and out the top of the long pipe, forced by cold, cold water from somewhere deep, down below.
The first time it happened, one son, who was standing in the well house, completely disappeared from sight in the blasting shower of water. Father and older son, who were on the platform, had no way to get away from the spray. Though they did not get sand and silt in their faces, they did get completely drenched by the cold well water. The son standing on the ground holding the air compressor switch held his post despite all that rained down on him from above.
It was more entertaining than any reality show or movie channel extra could ever have been on dish. And the resulting laughter and silliness still makes me smile.
Evidently, one time in the eye of a geyser was not enough, because they blasted the spray of water out of that hole several more times before deeming it "done." Laughter rang through the valley.
Even though the clothes my men wore that evening will never be the same (they came in completely coated with mud and slime), I am ever thankful for the laughter that continues to rock the house over that episode of a job well done.
Maybe the money we save on the water bill can now go toward entertainment payments. Or not. I wonder if turning off the cell phones might result in more on-the-farm ingenuity and fun times together.


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Someone forwarded me this article and I thought it was so ridiculous that i had to repost it. Holy hell... what in the world do they think D&D is?
Dungeons & Dragons Prison Ban Upheld
MADISON, Wis. � A man serving life in prison for first-degree intentional homicide lost his legal battle Monday to play Dungeons & Dragons behind bars.
Kevin T. Singer filed a federal lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin's Waupun prison, arguing that a policy banning all Dungeons & Dragons material violated his free speech and due process rights.
Prison officials instigated the Dungeons & Dragons ban among concerns that playing the game promoted gang-related activity and was a threat to security. Singer challenged the ban but the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld it as a reasonable policy.
Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures, often working together as a group, with the help of complicated rules.
Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing game since he was a child, according to the court ruling. After the ban went into effect, prison officials confiscated dozens of Dungeons & Dragons books and magazines in his cell as well as a 96-page manuscript he had written detailing a potential scenario for the game that players could act out.
Prison officials enacted the ban in 2004 after an inmate sent an anonymous letter expressing concern about Singer and three other inmates forming a "gang" focused around playing the game.
Singer was told by prison officials that he could not keep the materials because Dungeons & Dragons "promotes fantasy role playing, competitive hostility, violence, addictive escape behaviors, and possible gambling," according to the ruling. The prison later developed a more comprehensive policy against all types of fantasy games, the court said.
The appeals court said the prison's policy was reasonable and did not violate Singer's rights.
"After all, punishment is a fundamental aspect of imprisonment, and prisons may choose to punish inmates by preventing them from participating in some of their favorite recreations," the court said.
Singer was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 after being found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in the killing of his sister's boyfriend. The man was bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer.
Department of Corrections spokesman John Dipko said the department was pleased with the decision and will continue to enforce rules that are designed to maintain a safe environment.
Singer's court-appointed attorney, W.C. Turner Herbert of North Carolina, also did not immediately return a message seeking comment."
from - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/dungeons-dragons-prison-b_n_438279.html
Oh come on... you can let inmates work out and body build.. but they can't play D&D? THAT, my friends... is R-TARDED!


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March 2005
Testing the susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to antibiotics by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. Antibiotics diffuse out from antibiotic-containing disks and inhibit growth of S. aureus resulting in a zone of inhibition. Photo: CDC, Don Stalons.
The repeated emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains is a problem that has long plagued public health. Bacteria have always possessed the ability to protect themselves from naturally occurring antibiotics by acquiring resistance through the exchange of genetic material with other bacteria. In the last two decades, however, the problem has escalated as the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has increased and multi-drug-resistant strains have emerged in many species that cause disease in humans.
The prognosis is grim. There are no treatments available for infections caused by many of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance to commonly used antibiotics is steadily increasing. In fact, no class of drugs with a novel mode of action has been developed since the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962. Alternative methods to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria are needed and scientists have begun to search for antimicrobial drugs in vertebrates, invertebrates, and even bacteria and fungi in Earth's most extreme environments—from Yellowstone National Park's hot springs to the 120,000-year-old glaciers in Greenland.
Historical timeline of antibiotics
Antibiotics have proven to be a major asset in the fight against infectious bacteria.
Louis Pasteur unknowingly described the first antibiotic in 1877 when he observed that certain bacteria release substances that kill other bacteria.
In 1909, Paul Ehrlich discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), an arsenic compound that kills Treponema palladium, the bacterium causing the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis.
In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered that a mold inhibited the growth of staphylococcal bacteria and named the substance it produced "penicillin" (possibly Pasteur's unknown substance).
It was not until 1940 that Howard Florey and Ernst Chain isolated the active ingredient in Fleming's mold.
With wide-scale production of penicillin, the use of antibiotics increased, leading to an average eight-year increase in human life span between 1944 and 1972. Unfortunately, many bacterial species continued to survive penicillin treatment due to their resistance mechanisms.
Current status
There is an alarming rise in the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance. For example:
- Staphylococcus aureus is a prevalent bacterium carried by humans that can cause a number of problems, from mild skin infections to serious diseases including food poisoning, wound infections, pneumonia, and toxic shock syndrome. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported that more than 95% of S. aureus worldwide is resistant to penicillin, and 60% to its derivative methicillin.
- Today in the U.S. more than 20% of all enterococcal infections, that is, infections caused by intestinal colonizing bacteria in the genus Enterococcus, are resistant to vancomycin, once considered the antibiotic of last resort.
Antibiotics are the third largest selling class of drugs, with an annual market between $7 billion and $22 billion. Current estimates suggest that of this expenditure $4 billion to $5 billion results from antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Although the resistance problem continues to mount, pharmaceutical companies have made little progress in the development of new bactericidal drugs. Consequently, surveillance programs for early detection of multi-drug-resistant bacteria, such as Sentry, have been implemented. Supported by the University of Iowa and private donations, Sentry conducts microbial surveys in 33 nations on 5 continents, gathering over 50,000 samples of various infectious bacteria. Other programs include England's Alexander Project and programs directed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO. Their goal is to explore short- and long-term strategies to combat antibiotic resistance.
Causes of antibiotic resistance
For many years it was believed that antibiotic resistance was only caused by the failure of prescribed drug regimens. It is now accepted that human errors also contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- Misuse of antibiotics occurs in medicine, agriculture, and household products. Common examples include erroneous antibiotic prescriptions for nonbacterial infections and the addition of antibiotics to livestock feed and cleaning agents, which have helped create a reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Anomalous combinations have perpetuated drug-resistant microbes. For example, one study on Rhesus monkeys reports that mercury in dental amalgam fillings fostered a 61% increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Upon removal of the amalgam fillings, drug-resistant bacteria dropped 58%. In another example, S. aureus was shown to acquire vancomycin resistance genes through cohabitation with the vancomycin-resistant bacteria, Enterococcus faecalis, in the wound of a hospitalized patient. Through mechanisms of genetic exchange between bacterial species, the mere coexistence of these two particular bacteria helped to bring about drug resistance in S. aureus.
Enhanced transmission of resistance factors, or the increased efficiency with which resistance genes are exchanged, is another important way that antibiotic resistance is perpetuated. Factors that contribute to enhanced transmission include the survival of patients with chronic disease, an increased number of immunosuppressed individuals, substandard hospital hygiene, more international travel, and budget cuts in health care administration.
The reservoir hypothesis suggests that antibiotic-resistant bacteria have evolved because of the selective pressures applied by antibiotic drugs; moreover, the hypothesis states that each antibiotic has a threshold level that is required to induce and maintain antibiotic resistance. After a decline in the populations of susceptible bacteria from antibiotic treatment, naturally resistant bacteria begin to thrive, creating a reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
New era of antimicrobial therapeutics
It is a fact that selection of multi-drug-resistant bacteria has occurred throughout history. Unfortunately, however, drug-resistant bacteria have been met with antibiotics that are nothing more than recapitulations of earlier drugs. There has been an urgent need for new avenues of therapeutic treatment, and a new era of prophalytic (preventative) treatment has begun. Here the most plausible approaches are described:
- bacterial interference
- bacteriophage therapy
- bacterial vaccines
- cationic peptides
- cyclic D,L-a-peptides
Bacterial interference
Bacterial interference, also known as bacteriotherapy, is the practice of deliberately inoculating hosts with nonpathogenic (commensal) bacteria to prevent infection by pathogenic strains. To establish an infection and propagate disease, pathogenic bacteria must find nutrients and attachment sites (adhesion receptors). Infection by pathogenic bacteria is prevented by commensal bacteria, which compete with pathogenic bacteria for nutrients and adhesion receptors or spur attack through secretion of antimicrobial compounds.
This treatment has had promising results in infections of the gut, urogenital tract, and wound sites. The major advantage of using bacteria in a positive way to benefit health, known as "probiotic" usage, is that infection is avoided without stimulating the host's immune system and decreases selection for antibiotic resistance. Understanding how bacterial species compete, an essential criterion for research, has been known for at least 20 years but its practical application has yet to be realized.
Bacteriophage therapy
Bacteriophages (commonly called "phages") are viruses that infect bacteria and were recognized as early as 1896 as natural killers of bacteria. Bacteriophages take over the host's protein-making machinery, directing the host bacteria to make viral proteins of their own. Therapeutically, bacteriophages were used as a prophylaxis against cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery from the 1920s to the early 1940s. The practice was abruptly stopped when synthetic antibiotics were introduced after World War II. Now that there is a plethora of multi-drug-resistant bacteria, bacteriophage therapy once again has become of keen interest.
Bacteriophage therapy is quite attractive for the following reasons:
- phage particles are narrow spectrum agents, which means they posses an inherent mechanism to not only infect bacteria but specific strains
- other pathogens may be targeted through manipulation of phage DNA
- exponential growth and natural mutational ability make bacteriophages great candidates for thwarting bacterial resistance
Bacterial vaccines
Development of bacterial vaccines has become an increasingly popular idea with the advent of complete genomic sequencing and the understanding of virulence regulatory mechanisms.
Bacterial genomics allows scientists to scan an entire bacterial genome for specific sequences that may be used to stimulate a protective immune response against specific bacterial strains. This approach expedites the drug discovery process and, more importantly, provides a more rational, target-based approach.
The best targets are essential bacterial genes that are common to many species of bacteria, which code for proteins with the ability to gain accesses through lipid membranes, and possess no homology to human genes.
Regulatory genes that control virulence protein production are excellent vaccine candidates for priming the human immune system or inhibiting virulence production.
Bacterial genomics can also detect conserved sequences from bacterial species and strains worldwide. This technology will inevitably yield superior clinical vaccine candidates.
Cationic peptides
These diverse peptides are natural compounds that posses both hydrophobic and hydrophilic characteristics, which means portions of the molecule are water avoiding or water loving. Cationic peptides are found throughout nature in the immune systems of bacteria, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates.
These peptides are not the usual synthetic drugs encountered in pharmaceutical drug design; however, they do exhibit antibacterial effects. Cationic peptides have several mechanisms of action, all of which involve interaction with the bacterial cell membrane leading to cell death. From a therapeutic standpoint, these proteins have great promise, as they have coevolved with commensal bacteria yet have maintained the ability to target pathogenic bacteria.
Cyclic D,L-a-peptides
Unlike cationic peptides, cyclic D,L-a-peptides are synthetic and amphipathic (molecules having both water loving and water hating characteristics) cell membrane disruptors. As the name implies these peptides are cyclic in nature and are composed of alternating D and L amino acids. Cyclic D,L-a-peptides are engineered to target gram-positive and negative membranes (not mammalian cell membranes). In contrast to any other known class of peptides, these peptides can self-assemble into flat ring shaped conformations forming structures known as nanotubes, which specifically target and puncture bacterial cell membranes resulting in rapid cell death.
Antibiotic resistance is a continually evolving and dangerous problem that requires immediate attention as well as future planning to impede a global health crisis. Is it not time too seriously consider other methods for which current antibiotic therapies are ineffective and therefore prolong sickness, treatment, an even sometimes result in mortality? Many feel these new alternatives, such as those discussed in this article, are not mainstream. I would agree, but since the efficacy of current therapies is waning and conventional antibiotics are a temporary fix to bacterial multi-drug resistance, society must look elsewhere. If the reservoir hypothesis is true, as most scientists agree, then curbing drug usage to prevent resistant bacteria should be key. Although this viewpoint is highly debated, it holds some merit. Bacteria thrive on mutations and removal of selective pressures should slow mutational rates. Indeed, the alternative methods mentioned have begun to target the pathogen and not the organism.
In addition to current research efforts, the world's health organizations, such as WHO, CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are building better monitoring systems to detect rising numbers of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. It is not enough, however, physicians and patients must do their part by understanding the ease with which bacteria develop resistance and the consequences of antibiotic misuse.
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Michael Jackson The Experience Moonwalks onto iPhone
Posted by Jordan Minor on August 13th, 2012
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
Michael Jackson may be gone, but if Michael Jackson The Experience is any indication, it seems that his music and his legacy will be with us forever. After showing up on every platform from the Wii to the PSP to the iPad, Ubisoft's rhythm game tribute to the world's favorite smooth criminal has now arrived on the iPhone. Luckily, this mobile version comes with a few new reasons for players to not stop until they get enough.
While the game retains the iPad version's rhythm gameplay, the input system where players "draw a series of shapes with their fingers according to the beat and choreography of the Michael Jackson avatar" has been adapted for the smaller screen. The game also includes two new, exclusive songs: "Leave Me Alone" and "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough." The rest of the soundtrack consists of "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Smooth Criminal," "Speed Demon," and "Blood on the Dance Floor." More songs can also be purchased in-game.
Remember the time, on the go. Michael Jackson The Experience for iPhone is available now for $2.99 on the App Store.
Michael Jackson The Experience
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
Released: 2012-08-09 :: Category: Game
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Skyi Manas Lake Kothrud Annexe Is A Brand-New Way Of Growing Within Pune
A fantastic residential task is obtaining introduced in Kothrud Annexe Pune called Manas Lake. The domestic project covers a large land. This project is introducing with some remarkable features and also centers, therefore providing people the life as well as living that they have actually wanted for as long. This housing facility is excellent for relaxed living. The project has been developed in an extremely one-of-a-kind method makings all of it more beautiful and also eye-catching. The exterior look Skyi Manas Lake Kothrud Annexe is additionally splendid. Because the process is absolutely a prelaunch activity. It has actually been developed by Skyi Developers. This developer has produced this task making use of ideal materials and also innovation. Manas Lake Kothrud Pune provides better an opportunity to people in addition to extraordinary location along with extraordinary seems with much better environments lawn, wood in addition to running recognize and consists of assisted along with relaxing complicated.
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It's not always enough to be in love to find the words! It is from this observation that we wanted to give a little help to lovers in lack of inspiration. The models of Valentine's Day letters that you will find in this article are at your disposal. You can adapt or magnify them with your own words. Give them the care of touching the heart of the loved one by sliding them inside your card.
To invite him to dinner on Valentine's Day
"It's true that I have a devouring passion for you, but it's not a reason to let yourself die of hunger! On the contrary, love drives us to greed, if it is shared.
So I propose to you, on the occasion of Valentine's Day 2019, to savor together a fine supper.We will have all the time, for the dessert, to choose the most delicious option
Out of sight near the heart
"My Dear love,
It's a profusion of roses that I would like to lay at your feet to tell you how much I love you.The distance that separates me from you prevents me however to do it.I leave this pretty card the care of perfuming your dreams I think a lot about you and about the projects we are doing together for 2. Next year, on Valentine's Day, we will be together, which is what I want with all my strength . "
Letter from an Anti Valentine's Day to his darling
"My love,
You've often heard me say that Valentine's Day was nothing but the commercial,
That you have to love each other every day and not only on February 14th,
That the little hearts are silly and that the rose, it's nerdy
Yes I know, I said all that but today I regret it,
Because even if to my caustic sentences you laughed and acquiesced,
I felt the Blue Flower that I was so disappointed,
and it made me think, yes, I thought about it a lot.
I thought, thought … and realized
that it is this beautiful blue flower that I am in love
Without your romanticism you would be less to me.
Then I will not go to an agreed gift to sacrifice to the tradition,
But I will mark this date to prove to you that my love is stronger than my prejudices,
And I will wish this Valentine's Day,
Sweet, and beautiful, and romantic,
and that we pass it together, eyes in the eyes. "


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When to Plant Watermelons in Scobey, Montana, United States of America
Planting vegetable seeds at the correct time is the most important step for getting the most out of your garden. Knowing exactly when to plant watermelons in your garden in Scobey, Montana, United States of America will increase growing success and provide better yields.
Check optimal planting dates regularly for best results because the weather, and our results, change daily.
The optimal time to plant watermelons in Scobey, Montana, United States of America is - . The best day is with a success rate of %.
Anywhere between 70-100% is great. If consistently below that you may want to start growing from seedling or young plant, or possibly grow in sheltered environment
Optimal time frame to start
Frost free days
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Important watermelon growing information relevant to your exact garden location in Scobey, Montana, United States of America:
The total number of frost free days for your garden in Scobey, Montana, United States of America is days, but the total number of optimal days to plant watermelons is days.
For best results you should start planting watermelons in days starting .
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How to Grow Watermelons in Scobey, Montana, United States of America
Scientist cannot agree as to the exact location of where the watermelon originated, but they all agree that it originated on the African continent. The watermelon is estimated to have crossed from Africa to the Middle East and from there to Europe around the 10th century. There is evidence proving that watermelon was eaten almost 5000 years ago in Libya. Watermelon remains were also found in ancient Egyptian tombs which existed around 4000 years ago. But the first watermelons were not the sweet, tasty luscious-red that we eat today. They were a wild version of the watermelon which was not appetizing and not tasty and definitely not red. So why did they grow and cultivate watermelons 4000 years ago if they were not tasty or appetizing? Harry Paris, a horticulturalist at the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel, believes that the answer to that question lies in the name watermelon – water! He believes that watermelons were cultivated because they are mostly comprised of water and store in cool places for long periods of time. These watermelons were carried onto long journeys as water providers, serving as a natural canteen, which also explains how they travelled from the different continents. This is a fascinating must read article about the history of the watermelon http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150821-watermelon-fruit-history-agriculture/ The watermelon arrived to the United States by European colonists and through the slave trade from Africa. In the mid 1800's the watermelon was so popular in parts of the United States that farmers needed to aggressively protect them from pillagers.
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Use these images to know if your watermelon is heading in the right direction and growing properly. Exact number of growing days varies for each watermelon variety. Below is the average number of days for each stage gathered from many different varieties.
Watermelon Germination Guide
(Stage 1: Germination)
Germination is the process by which a plant grows from a seed. It is the first stage of the plant growing process and it begins when the seed is sown and ends when the radicale emerges out of the seed.
All seeds require proper soil temperature, moisture, air and light conditions to germinate successfully. However, during the germination stage the seeds require more soil warmth and moisture than light exposure.
Seeds respire just like any other living organism, requiring oxygen and producing carbon dioxide (CO2), so it is crucial to use a soil media that is sufficiently aerated so that the seeds do not "suffocate".
89% of our growing experts recommend to directly sow watermelon seeds into the ground. What is direct sowing and why do I care about it?
Required germination period
12-17 days
Optimal germination period
5-8 days
Required soil temp.
64.6º-95.5ºF / 18.1º-35.3ºC
Optimal soil temp.
74.4º-93ºF / 23.6º-33.9ºC
Required day temp.
70º-105ºF / 21.1º-40.6ºC
Optimal day temp.
72.9º-83.1ºF / 22.7º-28.4ºC
Required night temp.
60º-105ºF / 15.6º-40.6ºC
Optimal night temp.
67.7º-72.6ºF / 19.8º-22.5ºC
Optimal seed depth
3.2 inches / 8.2 cm
Optimal plant spacing
58 inches / 147.2 cm
Optimal row spacing
67.7 inches / 172 cm
Watermelon Growing Guide
(Stages 2-5: Growth)
Once seed has germinated and radicale has emerged the second stage of the plant growing process begins, developing from radicale to cotyledon -the embryonic first leaves of the seed forming a young seedling.
During the third stage of plant development cotyledon develops to 3-4 true leaves, stem begins to grow, becoming a mature seedling.
In the fourth stage the mature seedling develops to a young plant, ready for transplanting.
The fifth stage of plant development the plant is fully mature bearing fruit and/or flower.
The following guidelines apply to all of the watermelon plants' needs during stages 2-5 from radicale emergence to full maturity. During these stages sunlight becomes a more active participant in plant growth and development than in the germination phase.
Soil pH is an important factor during these stages as well. What is pH and why is it important?
Requires direct sunlight
Required soil temp.
69.3º-73ºF / 20.7º-22.8ºC
Optimal soil temp.
71.8º-75.8ºF / 22.1º-24.4ºC
Required day temp.
73.3º-80ºF / 23º-26.7ºC
Optimal day temp.
69.9º-80.3ºF / 21.1º-26.8ºC
Required night temp.
61º-NANºF / 16.1º-NANºC
Optimal night temp.
63.5º-68.2ºF / 17.5º-20.1ºC
Required sunlight hours
Optimal sunlight hours
Required soil pH
Optimal soil pH
Required watering amount
1-2 inches / 2.5-5.1 cm (per week)
Optimal watering amount
1.8-1.8 inches / 4.4-4.4 cm (per week)
Optimal depth
13.6 inches / 34.6 cm
Optimal plant spacing
32.5 inches / 82.5 cm
Optimal row spacing
41.6 inches / 105.7 cm
How difficult is it to grow watermelons?
Growing watermelons, or any other vegetable for that matter, is not hard, however some plants require more attention and care than others depending on the following factors:
Are you starting to grow your plant from seed? seedling? young plant? Depending on what stage plant you choose to plant will impact growing difficulty and patience.
The length of the growing season for your exact garden location.
If you have a short growing season and you want to start growing from seed then you may need to start the growing process in a sheltered environment (greenhouse or inside your home) which will require more involvement in the growing process.
Whether you direct sow in the garden or start in trays and then transplant also affects the level of difficulty
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What is companion planting?
Companion planting is intentional planting of two or more vegetables and/or flowers next to each other in order to positively impact plant health and yield
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Angels' acquisition of Zack Greinke is a leap of faith that puts a chill in the Rangers, A's
July is for the dreamers, for those who toss apprehension to the cosmos and swallow the hell out of the moment. It's easy to whisper sweet nothings to a lineup with Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Mark Trumbo, easier still to fall head over heels for a rotation with Jered Weaver, C.J. Wilson and Dan Haren. Part of the beauty of dreamers is that their love is unrequited. What they have is never enough.
For the Los Angeles Angels and their somnambulist owner, Arte Moreno, that held true and led to perhaps the boldest move of a trading season that gets more intriguing by the maneuver: Zack Greinke, the most coveted pitcher to be had, is now an Angel, which the other teams in the American League wish was an REM cycle and not reality.
The only solace to be taken from the deal Friday that sent prospects Jean Segura, Johnny Hellweg and Ariel Pena to Milwaukee is the five-game cushion that separates the first-place Texas Rangers from the second-place Angels, and the half-game the surprising Oakland Athletics sit behind Los Angeles. However great these Angels look on paper – and it's as though a calligrapher is drawing the team that general manager Jerry Dipoto has assembled – what's in front of them is formidable, what's behind them is dangerous and the alternative to an American League West title is downright scary.
The play-in game, the one-game playoff, the wild-card shootout, the stupid money grab that renders the previous 162 games moot – whatever you want to call it, that's what teams that don't win their division face. And as wonderful as Weaver has been (13-1 with an AL-best 2.26 ERA), even he is fallible in the face of a win-or-go-home contest. Moreno and Dipoto are gambling simultaneously that the A's and Rangers will fade and the Angels will surge like they have since May, when only Cincinnati has a better record than the Angels' 46-30.
In Greinke, the Angels get a perfect complement to what their rotation already showcases. He is not the pinpoint sidewinder of Weaver, not the crafty lefty of Wilson, not the cutter-sinker-move-move-move baron of Haren. He combines elements of all three, throws harder and, with his slider, possesses among the game's best out pitches.
Greinke was dreadful last October. Given another chance this fall, a repeat is far less likely. He pitched three bad games, as he, and pretty much anyone else, is prone to do. It looked ugly because he had forced a trade from Kansas City specifically to pitch on a contender, then was a postseason disaster. To cast it as nerves, or his anxiety issues of the past rearing their head suddenly, was disingenuous at best and plain wrong at worst.
[Tim Brown: Angels deal three top prospects to Brewers for Zack Greinke]
He's exactly the sort of pitcher teams want in the postseason: one who can dominate. It's why the Rangers chased him to the end, only for Brewers GM Doug Melvin to choose the Angels' offer instead. The Brewers believe Segura, signed as a second baseman, can stay at shortstop and be a better-hitting, if worse-fielding, version of Alcides Escobar, whom they traded to get Greinke. The 6-foot-9 Hellweg or hard-throwing Pena could fill the Jake Odorizzi role as a potential impact starter, though both could end up in the bullpen, like Jeremy Jeffress, another player in Milwaukee's original Grienke deal. If those pieces happen to even out, that means the Brewers got to an NLCS and had 1 2/3 years of Greinke for Lorenzo Cain, a trade they'd make a million times again.
Whether the Angels will regret this deal depends strictly on October, and where they stand in October may well depend on what the Rangers choose to do. They have the best farm system in baseball, with Jurickson Profar and Mike Olt and Martin Perez and Cody Buckel and Joey Gallo and Rougned Odor and Nomar Mazara and Jairo Beras and Wilmer Font. Which is to say the Rangers can get whomever they want, whether it's Josh Johnson (a source said they're tepid), James Shields (they don't want to overpay) or Felix Hernandez (it's not happening; just saying, they're that deep).
Texas has reached back-to-back World Series with teams very similar to this one, though Colby Lewis' season-ending surgery twists their rotation from exclamation point to question mark. Who starts Game 1 of their playoff series? Not Yu Darvish, Derek Holland, Roy Oswalt or Perez. Matt Harrison? Really?
Because of their lead, and their lineup, the Rangers' playoff position is safe. And October is such a crapshoot, it's eminently possible they could head into the month with this very team and head out with an appointment to meet the jeweler for sizing. And yet this race looks way different now, three Angels pitchers better than any of the Rangers' and the advantages in Texas' bullpen and lineup not enough to make up the difference.
[Related: Angels help themselves, hurt Rangers with Zack Greinke move]
It's still in a calligrapher's swoosh, of course, and that's the fun of July, when the Angels say carpe diem and the Rangers wonder the pragmatism in keeping up with the Joneses when the Joneses just traded 18 years of controllable talent for two-plus months of one guy.
This time of year the game is far more than what happens on the field. It's in the boardroom, in these moments of blind projection, when championships are won and lost on guesswork. That, and some dreams that are more strokes of genius than delusions of grandeur.
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Since LargeUp posted a big ol' feature on Alric and Boyd, I thought it might be a good idea to revisit a piece I wrote for the venerable UK zine No Ice Cream Sound around this time last year. Alric and Boyd are a pile of fun to interview–and their music tastes are pretty fun too. Withut further ado, here's "Electronic in the Dance":
Alric and Boyd have a passion for music. They've produced dancehall and R&B, working recently with Jill Scott. They're linked with Max Glazer's Federation sound, crafting amazing mixtapes. But they really get animated when talking about doing remixes for Acid House creator DJ Pierre and the fact that Carl Cox is slated to perform in Barbados for the second Music Factory Pop, Dance and House Festival in May 2012. Alric and Boyd played the first edition in November 2011.
All in all, it's been twenty years that Alric Anglin and Boyd James have been in the club scene and on radio, helping to bring electronic dance music to Jamaica. Describing themselves as a team, they've worked side by side since 1992. Djing since 88 and 84 respectively, however, they can chart just how house music and other electronic forms have been bubbling in the Jamaican scene. Yes, Boyd admits, "The scene is small, but it is there. There is an awareness."
The prolific nature of reggae and dancehall production tends to obscure the fact that music lovers in Jamaica have significant variety in their musical diet. "We listen wide, not deep," laughs Alric, in one sentence exploding any idealized view reggae lovers might have about the island and its music. "That's where you find that we started to push the envelope with house music, with electronic dance music and found that there is a market."
"Jamaican music is not just dancehall and reggae," says Boyd, lowering his voice, "And I will tell you something that might be quite shocking. The UK reggae scene is way deeper than the Jamaican reggae scene." The thing is, from the 1960s through to the 80s, a lot of reggae music was exported to the UK, because that's where the money was. "We would get what you might call the 'what left'," laughs Boyd. The phenomenon can perhaps be linked to the fact that the Jamaican British population have been interested in music from home. For this reason, and also the fact that reggae music and dancehall was long looked down upon (not even used in tourist advertising until 1984), Jamaicans on the island tend to cultivate a varied taste in music. This has exposed non-Jamaican UK listeners to heaps of Jamaican music, but it has also allowed other types of music to flourish in Jamaica. One only has to look at the rapturous reception to Celine Dion at this year's Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival to know that there's a wide audience on the island for other types of music.
"We were always exposed to American and UK music, based on the influences on our culture," says Boyd. After all, in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, it was mostly international music played on the radio in Jamaica. "It is in our DNA that we have an appreciation for country and western to classical to R&B to rock to hip hop." Specifically, however, in 1981 there was a radio show on what is now FAME fm, then Capitol Stereo, called "Disco Mania". "It was almost a five-hour radio show. It was the biggest thing for us," recalls Boyd. The hits from that show trickled down into the party scene. Rae Town's still-running party was founded in 1982, and showcased a lot of disco tunes—as it still does today.
Alric remembers sitting, listening with ear to the radio, to "Disco Mania" playing some of the underground sounds from New York. The radio show lasted ten years, and during that time Boyd ended up in New York, at NYU studying audio technology during the day and going out to now-legendary clubs from Studio 54 to Tunnel. He did an internship with Sly and Robbie, and then upon return to Jamaica, he began working with then-DJ Alric in 1992, and was able bring music to the table that was at the time unavailable in the Caribbean. "We started to develop a synergy and started to take off," says Alric.
They'd drop the bass of pop tracks and introduce underground house and techno music gradually, making sure that the crowd wouldn't lose interest. Almost like an inverted dubplate, Alric and Boyd would play with the riddim instead of the lyrics. And like all Jamaican selectors, they actively thought of the massive at all times, they were well aware of the fact that they needed to please: "If you can rock a Jamaican crowd, you're a good DJ," laughs Boyd, "In a night club where people are paying money, we had to keep the vibes. A DJs job is to convert and make memories. If you can't remember what a DJ plays, you're not a good DJ."
Their radio show, aptly titled "The Edge" began in October of 1995 and took up where "Disco Mania" left off, Alric and Boyd playing the same format as they did in the club. "We went deeper into the house, deeper into the progressive," says Boyd. "You would hear jungle, UK garage, 2 step, the new techno, hard house coming out of Germany, we were banging it," continues Alric. But back in the 90s, there was no quick download of these tracks. Alric and Boyd needed to struggle and BUY these records. Sure, they got some promos, but they'd also get records from visiting DJs and vacationers who would come and play their house parties and club gigs. The show ran strong until April of 2009, when the pair moved on to other projects.
As for the place of Alric and Boyd's favourite music in Jamaica today? "It still needs a kick. People who put on big parties here are afraid of electronic dance music because in the 80s and 90s it would come with a stigma—it was gay music of white people music or drug music. Now that it has blown sky high, I think they are trying to see how they can reintroduce it into the market."
And how do they feel about folks like Bob Sinclair and Diplo who have come to Jamaica to draw on local music and enhance their electronic dance music productions? "Jamaicans can be close minded," says Boyd, "But these people are introducing us to a new market, so don't fight it. But there are pros and cons. There are producers who do come in and take. But the good side is exposure."
And with festivals like the Barbados Music Factory receiving the blessing of London dance music stalwart Ministry of Sound, Alric and Boyd don't think it's unrealistic to think that there might be some potential for a bit of Ibiza in the Caribbean. After all, the region has the beautiful beaches and amazing weather. But, most importantly, a commitment to music that makes a crowd move. "It must have a vibes," says Alric. Boyd nods in approval.