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Colbert examines the humor of an upcoming presidential trip.
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A seriuous contribution to the study of the Old Testament sacrificial cult has just been made. Let me explain.
Anyone doing work in Leviticus these days know that there is a major debate regarding the theological rationale behind the rituals of atonement, particular those of Yom Kippur and the hatta't (the "sin-offering").
In particular, Jacob Milgrom has argued that, contrary to what many have thought of such atonement rituals, their primary focus is not purging the individual of impurity, but the maintenance of the ritual purity of the sanctuary. In his magisterial commentary on Leviticus he writes:
"Whom or what does the [hattā't] purge? Herein lies the first surprise: it is not the offerer of the sacrifice."[1]
Thus Milgrom has argued that "sin-offering" is a misleading translation of the hatta't, which he argues is best understood as a "purification offering." Indeed, a survey of the recent secondary literature reveals his influence―most scholars now refer to the "purification-offering" rather than the "sin-offering."
In essence, Milgrom wants to move us away from the idea that the offering cleanses the offerer himself--it is the sanctuary that is primarily in view. He compares the theology of Leviticus to the Portrait of Dorian Gray. The fundamental idea is that transgressions against the Lord are borne by the sanctuary. The sacrifices effectively purify the sanctuary from the resulting impurity incurred by Israel.
I've been closely following the debate about Milgrom's theory with great interest. It has especially important theological implications, which should be obvious (i.e., as an antecedent to Christian atonement theology). In fact, a number of scholars have argued that while Milgrom is right in showing that scholarship has generally neglected the purity concerns of the cult to assert the sacrifices do nothing for the individual overstates the case. For example, Steven Finlan sums up the view of many others well when he writes:
"Milgrom has correctly exposed a (former) scholarly neglect of purity concernsThe fact is, however, most of those who have taken Milgrom on are Christians who clearly have theological reasons for opposing his view. Of course, that's not to say that an anti-Christian polemic may be at work in Milgrom's view. Nonetheless, most of the critiques of Milgrom's work come in the form of sections of works dealing with Christian atonement theology. An in-depth, comprehensive treatment of the Levitical law code has been sorely needed.
in Leviticus, but he has tried to impose a new hegemony of meaning upon actions
that were really understood in a dual sense, as cleansing both the symbols (the
sancta) and the things symbolized (the priests and the people)."[2]
Enter Roy E. Gane, a student of Milgrom. Gane has offered what is clearly the most balanced and well-argued critique of Milgrom's work in Cult and Character: Purification Offerings, Day of Atonement and Theodicy (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005). In fact, the back cover features a blurb from Milgrom himself:
"[Gane's] book is a marvel of close reading and impeccable logic…. [It] is the first major critique of my work, and I am immensely happy and proud that it was done by my student and that my contribution is so comprehensively acknowledged…. It is a major work and will be the standard for a long time."Gane points out that, contrary to Milgrom's view, the text indicates that the offerings are made for (the Hebrew is מן) the offerer―not simply the sanctuary. See for example Leviticus 4:26: "so the priest shall make atonement for him for (מן) his sin, and he shall be forgiven."
In fact, Milgrom wrote a response to Gane's work, "The preposition מן in the חטאת Pericopes," in the Journal of Biblical Literature 126 (2007):161-63. There Milgrom offers a respectful response to Gane's argument.
For example, Gane looks at the use of the preposition in Leviticus 15:15b, which describes the case of a person who has contracted ritual impurity because of a discharge: "the priest shall offer [two turtledoves or pigeons], one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord [מן = for, from, or on behalf of?] his discharge." Here Gane argues that the preposition Nm should be translated as indicating that the priest is to effect purgation on behalf of (=for the benefit of) the offerer from his discharge―in other words, the sacrifice is meant to remove residual impurity from him.
But Milgrom believes this is "simply incomprehensible. Purgation (כפר) is not offered 'from' but 'for, because of'― 'his flow' (15:15)…"[3] In other words, Milgrom believes the sanctuary is what has been defiled because of the person's sin―the offering therefore is made to atone/purge it. Thus, the offering is made on behalf of the impurity caused by the discharge.
Today I received the latest edition of the Journal of Biblical Literature and..., lo and behold, the first article is written by Gane: "Privative Preposition מן in Purification Offering Pericopes and the Changing Face of 'Dorian Gray.'"
Suffice it to say, I think Gane is absolutely right on. Gane strengthens his case and answers Milgrom's response to his critique. In regard to Leviticus 15:15b he points out that Milgrom himself is inconsistent. Particularly instructive is his analysis of what Milgrom does with Leviticus 12:7. In this passage we read about the case of a woman who is ritually impure because she has just given birth. The passage reads: "[the priest] shall offer [the sin-offering] before the Lord, and make atonement for her; then she shall be clean from [מן = for, from, on behalf of] the flow of her blood." In this case Gane points out that Milgrom translates מן as "from"--in other words, he translates the preposition differently in this case. He writers,
"[W]hy does Milgrom render 'from' rather than the causative sense of Nm in 12:7, 'from her source of blood,' also referring to residual impurity in terms of its physical origin…? The fact is, only 'from' is comprehensible in 12:7, and a consistent rendering of 'from' elsewhere is only incomprehensible if one approaches the purification-offering goal formulas with an a priori assumption."[4]There's much more, but I can't discuss it all here. To sum it up though, Gane's piece is so clear I believe it will represent the standard view. Milgrom has made a tremendous contribution by refocusing us on the purity concerns of the Old Testament cult, but he is wrong to deny that it is also related to the individual offerer. Gane is absolutely correct: the sacrifices effected something for the offerer―not merely the sanctuary.
I think Gane just closed the door on that debate in this article.
[1] See Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16, 254. In addition, see Jacob Milgrom, "Studies in the Temple Scroll," JBL 97 (1978): 501-523; idem., "Israel's Sanctuary: The Priestly 'Picture of Dorian Gray,'" RB 83 (1976): 390-99.
[2] Stephen Finlan, The Background and Context of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004), 33.
[3] Milgrom, "The preposition," 162.
[4] Gane, "Privative Preposition," 220.

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A long needed blog post
I should have written lot's of things on this blog that I've been delaying for a long time... And accumulating issues. Here's a short summary, so I can throw this behind my back:Activism ANSOL, the Portuguese FSFE sister association "Associação Nacional para o Software Livre" (National Association for Free Software) is being revitalized, and I am now its direction's Vice-President for the years 2011-2012. If you wondered why I seemed with even less time this last few months, this is probably one of the reasons for it. We've been doing lot's of things, lately organizing the Portuguese event for Software Freedom Day or participating in a Public Consultation on which Open Formats should the country's computer systems use. Today isn't really a "good news" day regarding Free Software in Portugal, since the two parties now in the Government changed their minds since last year (when they were opposition) and decided to reject a proposal that would make the country spend 50% less in Software Licenses by using Free Software. Music I've been more silent in 2011, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working. In fact several cool things happened: in March I've released a new album, for the first time in vinyl. A release party was held, here's a small fan-made video of the show: In August, the latest Merankorii album, "Alain", was released in both cassette tape or tape + CD editions. Here's one of its tracks: Merankorii - Intermezzo by A Beard of Snails Records And for December there are also news - some things I'm not yet well sure to publicly state, but one is for sure: I'll be playing live in Lisbon at the 20th, and you're invited to go. Feel free to RSVP in one of the several places where the concert is announced: Necktar 2017 Volume 3 and Icaro I. Here's Kokori's track on Icaro I: What Else? Well... lot's of things, really ;-), but I guess this blog post is already long enough for a "catch up". I intend to do more of these, but this is not a promise ;-)


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Super Rugby
Reds reshape for rugby's Hurricane Julian
April 24, 2014
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Wallabies rookie Chris Feauai-Sautia must contain the player he hopes to emulate after being thrown into a sideline Super Rugby stoush with All Blacks star Julian Savea. Among a string of selection surprises, Queensland coach Richard Graham has switched Feauai-Sautia onto the Reds' right wing to mark Savea in Saturday's must-win clash with the Hurricanes.
Graham has dropped Rod Davies for botching a number of try-scoring chances while the raw-boned Dom Shipperley has failed to recover fully from a hip problem. Instead of exposing one-gamer Jamie-Jerry Taulagi against the in-form Savea, Feauai-Sautia's 95kg frame will be tested against the Jonah Lomu-like game-breaker in Wellington.
"I think that will be a good opportunity for Chris and I know it's something he's relishing," Graham said. "It will be a good physical contest on that side. Chris loves challenges and is a very competitive guy and he certainly won't be overawed."
The 20-year-old played two Tests on the wing late last season but has shown his best glimpses for Queensland at outside centre, giving the Reds the line-bending power they have missed without Digby Ioane.
Ben Tapuai's return to form means he keeps the No.13 jersey for his 50th Super Rugby match, but centre partner Anthony Fainga'a has felt the axe with Mike Harris (achilles) making his return. Harris, opposing the explosive Alapati Leuia, also has a huge task leading the Reds' defensive line against the competition's best attacking team.
Queensland's biggest shock was the rushed starting return of aggressive prop Ben Daley to a reshaped front-row following five weeks out with a knee injury. Graham likes the former Wallaby's rugged enthusiasm and expects him to set the tone along with 100-game captain James Horwill.
"Ben's one of those guys who lead from the front physically," he said. "If you have two forwards with that latent aggression, then the rest of the group jump in behind."
The 12th-placed Reds are keyed up to end a 16-year drought in Wellington to keep in playoff contention. Queensland's forwards have a chip on their shoulder about being under-rated, and Daley says they're determined to show their wares against another unfancied, yet hard-working pack that has laid the platform for three straight wins.
"Others are always fancied in the forwards more than us and, as a front-row forward, you hate being rated second best," he said. "It's going to be a tough test. And it's always good to break these hoodoos."
Reds: Ben Lucas; Chris Feauai-Satutia, Ben Tapuai, Mike Harris, Jamie-Jerry Taulagi; Quade Cooper, Will Genia; Jake Schatz, Beau Robinson, Eddie Quirk; James Horwill (captain), Rob Simmons, James Slipper; Saia Fainga'a, Ben Daley. Reserves: James Hanson, Greg Holmes, Jono Owen, Ed O'Donoghue, Curtis Browning, Nick Frisby, Anthony Fainga'a. Rod Davies.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
The Blue Jays are the Greatest Show on Artificial Turf
(And yeah, that's you Blair. Welcome to the bright side.)
At present, the Jays lead the Majors in homers by 19 over the Red Sox (88-69), and also lead the collective circuits in doubles (123), slugging (.471), and total bases (836). They sit just two behind the Yankees in RsBI with 264, followed by the Red Sox (260) and Rays (255). Which we mention mostly to remind us all that a third or fourth place finish in the AL East is not like any other division's third/fourth place finish, no matter how much Bobcat McCown spits into his mic in absolute terms about the failures of this team.
So what's our point? Whatever happens in the next week and a half with the series against the Yankees and Rays, we're reasonably sure that the Jays aren't going to go quietly or lose ugly. They are going to compete through all nine innings, and have a puncher's chance of making up ground on their divisional rivals this week.
Did you catch that last bit? We spoke of gaining ground in the race. As if we were speaking about these all-too-fetishized "meaningful games" that people groan on about endlessly. Because that seems to be the gripe of most of the gasbag radio hosts and fatuous general sporting columnists: That the Jays don't play those impactful and important games in September. That none of this stuff matters now, and that we should be suspicious about the early success because the only thing that matters is the last month...or three weeks, or two weeks, or two days, or third-of an inning of the season.
Which has led us to this minor epiphany: The Bruce Arthurs and Dave Perkins and Steve Simmons of the world are a bunch of pasty tourists when it comes to this beautiful game, and we really shouldn't pay them any hommage by listening for even a nanosecond to their all-too-knowing postulations in the preseason about how awful and dreadful the outlook is for the Jays, and why fans should be wary of the team in the here and now. Just because the only part of the season to which they pay any mind is the last bit, it doesn't mean that there isn't fun to be had in the early going.
Because this is supposed to be fun, right? This is baseball. That's why we love it.
We suspect that many of the empty seats in the RC/SkyDome are filled with the ghosts of casual fans who have bought into the steaming pantloads flung by the cynical opportunists who eat up space in the newspaper and on the talk shows. But what we really hope that people recognize over the next few weeks is that they are missing a great season. Maybe the greatest season that they've had in more than a decade. Really.
And this isn't at all like last year's team, who got off to a quick start by beating up on some weaker competition. This is a team that has been in almost every game this season, and has the crushing offensive power to get themselves back into games in a hurry.
Maybe you're the type who can shrug off another JoBau JomeRun, or another extra base hit from Alex Gonzalez, or a screamer off the bat of Vernon Wells. Maybe you can write those off as a fluke and set yourself up to walk ten feet behind the bandwagon, so that no one mistakes you for a sucker should the team falter. But where's the joy in that? Isn't it better to let yourself go and fall for a team once in a while?
We're a third of the way through, and the Jays are just a game back of the Yankees, four and a half back of the Rays and sporting the sixth-best record in all of MLB. They are setting themselves up to be in the Wild Card race, which probably only begins in July, but you can at least consider these first eight weeks the preliminary heats.
And thus far, it's been pretty frickin' fun to watch.
20 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
JoBau JomeRun. Brilliant.
I'm waiting to read the "I was wrong about the Blue Jays" columns. But, like Blair wrote last week, everyone's waiting for the wheels to come off, instead of, you know, actually enjoying the ride. The few of us enjoy it for the masses.
I love the attitude of this team. Remember when Wells said this was now his team, and he was going to lead? And how people were upset about that? Well, Wells is leading by example. This is his team.
The Summer of Tallet. It begins tonight.
- May 31, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Gil Fisher said...
Not only will the likes of JBau, Agon, Wells, Buck, EE and FLew come crashing back down to earth, but the likes of Lind and Hill are clearly not as good as we thought they were last year! This team blows!
- May 31, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Gil Fisher said...
Settle...just trying my hand at negativism (word?) there.
- May 31, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Ty said...
After watching the Jays' comeback attempts thwarted as they stranded an astronomical number of baserunners over the past few seasons, I've found it SUPER easy to get behind this team. They're never out of it, and maybe the best part is that literally everybody is contributing -- in a sport that puts so much emphasis on individual stats, the 2010 Blue Jays stand out because they really feel like a "team". There's a different hero every day, and almost every game has at least been exciting so far.
I can't wait to see these next few series. Not because I've attached some sort of bullshit meaning to them (and can we please put a moratorium on the use of the term 'litmus test' outside of chemistry class?), but because I know they're going to be exciting games against a couple of the best teams in baseball. And, yeah, because beating the Rays and Yankees would feel awesome.
- May 31, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- brigadier said...
Carpenter on Roy's perfecto;nice Hentgen comment:
- May 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
And I didn't even mention the pitching, which has been absolute gorilla balls over the past month.
Marcum, RickRo and Cecil at the top of the rotation, with the promise of something from Morrow and a bunch of decent options coming through the system or through their rehabs...
I'm as giddy as a girly girl.
- May 31, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Lowered expectations are a great thing. I don't care what happens the rest of the season. I have seen enough performance and guts in the top 3 starting pitchers to feel like we are knocking on the door. The hitters mashing the ball are fun to watch for now.
- May 31, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Hey Tao,
I took in the three game series against Baltimore over the weekend and have to agree with you that the Jays are a very entertaining team. I was impressed with the starting pitching, bullpen, and, of course, the mashing (the Jays hit 9 or 10 homers against Baltimore pitching). Vernon Wells' homer on Saturday was epic. I think that the AL East and the wild card race will be tight all season.
- May 31, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Jeremy said...
Can't wait for this stretch against the "good teams". I love how even though the Jays are 6th overall in baseball, they are still considered weak, as in "the Yankees get a break with an easy part of their schedule coming up, facing Cleveland and Toronto." I guess we have to beat them to get any kind of recognition...
- May 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Ty said...
Can't wait to see this team play at Yankee Stadium, whenever they make it out there. If they can hit this many home runs at the Dome, imagine how many they'll hit in that bandbox.
- May 31, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- Sully Sullivan said...
This is the best Jays article I've read all season. No hyperbole.
Nailed it.
- May 31, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- Mattt said...
Once again, amen. You speak the truth brother...
- May 31, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Gorilla balls!!!
- May 31, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- plain_g said...
the jays have sucked at hitting with risp for the last, like, 5 years. i like this better, just hit the damn ball out of the park.
- May 31, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- William said...
And they are beating the Bay Rays 3-0 in the seventh inning. Plus I have to eat my words about Morrow being the weak link in the rotation as he was brilliant tonight.
This is fun this season.
- May 31, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- June 1, 2010 at 1:06 AM
Well, as I have always said about any team in baseball...
The sun is shining, you arent at work - you are at the ballpark. Sit back and enjoy the fucking game.
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The Power of Community
By President Tom Rochon
"Starbucks is not a coffee company that serves people. It is a people company that serves coffee."
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, wrote these words in a somewhat self-promoting book about the lessons he learned from a successful multi-year effort to reverse a period of declining profits, employee layoffs, and store closings. The idea that Starbucks is not a coffee company seems radical at first blush. It takes a moment to realize that serving coffee is not an end in itself but rather a means to creating a certain experience for people, whether it is one of quiet individual reflection or of enjoying the store's ambience with others.
That led me to wonder: Is Ithaca College all about education, or is it all about people?
Our mission statement would at first seem to indicate that we are all about education. Here is its first sentence: "To provide a foundation for a lifetime of learning, Ithaca College is dedicated to fostering intellectual growth, aesthetic appreciation, and character development in our students."
If we left things there, IC would have a transactional relationship with each individual student. Come to Ithaca, dedicate yourself to our curricular, cocurricular, and residential life opportunities, and leave enriched in mind, spirit, and character.
The last sentence of our mission statement, though, introduces a more complex way of thinking about IC. "All members of the College community are encouraged to achieve excellence in their chosen fields and to share the responsibilities of citizenship and service in the global community." Our College is not just an educational enterprise that serves individual students. We are a community of people committed to lifelong learning and accomplishment, citizenship, and service to others. The IC community includes alumni — a perspective made clear by the reference to how we hope members of the community will live their post-student lives.
This idea of the IC community is not just empty words in a mission statement; it reflects the way we actually relate to each other. Consider as an example IC's recent search for a new mascot. As most of you know, Ithaca College has a great tradition of intercollegiate athletic competition but does not have an official mascot. Responding to a request from students that we take some measures to increase the spiritedness of campus events, we decided to create a mascot.
We invited nominations and then sent a survey to about 50,000 people to assess reactions to the finalists. Because IC is a community of employees and students from the past, present, and future, we sent the survey to alumni and to prospective students as well as to those who are currently on campus. That survey generated almost 10,000 responses, not to mention an assortment of Facebook and blog comments, online petitions, and other manifestations of active involvement. Half of the survey respondents not only clicked on their answers to the various questions but also took the time to type in their views on the subject. Experts in polling tell me that a 2 percent response rate to an online survey is common; our response rate was ten times that amount.
I truly wish the IC community had been able to come to agreement on a mascot; however, since the issue began to serve as a dividing wedge, with no clear consensus favoring any of the choices, I chose to discontinue the mascot search. The outcome of this search, however, is in many ways secondary to what the process tells us about the IC community. It is engaged! Many alumni, in particular, showed how deeply they care about the symbols associated with their alma mater. They were thinking about the IC community in an intergenerational way, with a strong feeling that decisions made now are not only of significance for the current student body but also for those who have been students here previously and those who will be students in years to come.
This thinking is a powerful force that can propel IC forward. Working together, we can support each other to become accomplished lifelong learners committed to service, as described in our mission. One example of how we can do so comes from our strategic plan, the IC 20/20 vision that has just been adopted by the College's board of trustees.
One part of the plan that I am most ex-cited about is the creation of a student-alumni mentor program that will offer students the opportunity to interact with alumni as they define their educational goals, and later as they navigate the transition from student to workplace professional. The program will also give alumni mentors an opportunity to reflect upon their own professional paths as well as expand their professional and social networks with each other. Imagine students and alumni using the networking power of Facebook to have direct conversations with each other on such topics as "What are/were the most valuable or important elements of my IC education" and "What do I wish I had done differently?"
This is the power of the IC community, a community that cares deeply about the quality of the IC educational experience and about ways we can help each other become the lifelong learners described in our mission statement. We really are a people enterprise that focuses on education to create our community.


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LiveSD card nearly ready
It is based on Linux From Scratch, specifically the automated version jhalfs-2.3.2, and the latest LFS book on SVN. LFS is a book describing how to generate a minimal Linux distribution from source code and goes through several stages to avoid dependencies on the build operating system (in my case Knoppix 7.2). JHALFS automates that process by reading the book for you and generating scripts and makefiles to perform all of the work described in the book. It's a really good idea to go through the book manually a couple of times first, if you want to learn what it's all about, but eventually you'll want to automate it as I did in the construct-live-cd part of the ROLF repository on sourceforge. JHALFS, however, moves with the times (my scripts generate linux-18.104.22.168, but LFS is on linux-3.10.10).
Moving with the times is not without its own problems, however.
Somewhere between binutils-2.22/linux-188.8.131.52 and binutils-2.23.2/linux-3.10.10, there seems to have come a change which meant that all my ROLF programs would fail on startup. More strangely still, ldd and gdb would report the problem as follows:
ldd: exited with unknown exit code (139)and
(gdb) startI had the same problem many years ago, but this time, I'm writing it down!
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x8000383
Starting program: /tmp/x/x1
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7fdfa24 in dl_main () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
The culprit is a link option I have to use to avoid the loader putting native code or data where RISC OS programs expect to have ROM or RAM mapped:
I have never come across an option that tells the linker to avoid a certain area of memory for the program to use, so this is the best I could come up with. ".interp" seemed to be the first section located in memory, and all other sections would follow on, so, initially, I tried
...with the result that I got similar problems as above. Adding 256 bytes to the address, however made it go away and for a long time, I was happy....
It turns out that adding another 256 bytes makes it go away again. If anyone can tell me why this happens, I'd be very interested to know!


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Do I really need to feed my fish? Joe – Little Rock, AR
Come And Get It
Those of us pond guys and gals that own large farm ponds have been feeding our fish for ages. Over the years, some of us have pondered, "Do I really have to feed my fish?"
"Fish" Food Versus Fish Food
There are two ways to keep your fish well fed: properly stock your pond or use fish food. We suggest both.
Properly Stocking:
To properly balance your pond, you should stock the water body with 3 prey fish, like Perch or Bluegill, for every 1 predator fish, such as Bass. This will ensure that your predator fish will have a bountiful selection of prey, while still giving the prey fish a sporting chance to mature and reproduce. If you stock too many prey fish, you will experience a very small number of big predators and a ton of tiny pan prey fish. If you stock too many predators, you will end up with very small predators and only a few big prey. When your pond is properly stocked, your fish population tends to keep itself in check. We suggest starting out with 300 bluegills and 100 bass per acre. You can add some feeder minnows into the pond to provide a nice snack that will be able to replenish itself. However, it is not uncommon for the fish in your pond to make short work of the feeder minnows you add to the pond.
Fish Food Pellets:
So you feel your fish should have a little more selection than their regular diet of … well … each other? You can control what your fish are eating by feeding them quality fish food like Game Fish Grower. Foods that are high in protein and low in filler promote rapid fish growth and optimum overall size. Pellet feeding also provides an opportunity to turn feeding your fish into an opportunity to have some fun. Pellet training your fish takes some patience and persistence, and while it can be trying at times, it is truly enjoyable once you get it right. Try to establish a daily routine feeding time and place so your fish will begin to expect your pond side presence. Start by throwing some pellets in the water from a distance, waiting for the fish to venture to the water surface to take the food. Repeat this process until your fish willingly greet you at feeding time. As time progresses, you can close the distance between you and the pond's edge. Avoid making sudden movements, as this will scare the fish and they will be more hesitant to approach you at feeding time. You can then begin placing your hand into the pond with a fist full of food, opening your hand slowly to release the pellets which will float to the surface. You may not have any takers the first few days you try this, but if you are patient, they will eventually figure out where this food is coming from. As they grow more comfortable to your hand being in the pond, they will start eating from it. If you do not have the time or desire to feed your fish by hand, you can place a feeder, like the a directional feeder, at the pond's edge to release food at programmed intervals.
What's On The Menu?
While your fish always eat the food you throw in the pond like they haven't eaten in years, the truth is, if your pond is stocked properly, they really don't need any outside assistance. On top of having other fish in the pond to eat, they will also eat bugs from the surface of the pond, leaches at the bottom, and basically anything else they can find in the water. Try to catch some of the fish in your pond each season and record how many of each type you are pulling out of the pond while inspecting them for healthy color, weight, and size. Occasionally checking up on your fish will decrease the frequency and severity of population issues, while making your pond an enjoyable addition to your home with fun activities for the entire family.
POND TALK: How often do you feed your fish?
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Hmmm. Totally different behavior in this method if the preference
#reverseWindowStagger is enabled. What I don't understand is why the window
staggering policy should have anything to do with the default height or
width of windows.
I am officially calling shenanigans on this method.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Casey Ransberger
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> Found it.
> RealEstateAgent class>>standardWindowExtent
> <snip>
> ^ (allowedArea extent - (grid*(maxLevel+1*2) + (grid//2))) min:
> StandardSize "600 at 400"].
> Something is going wrong with the math here. Changing this line to (note
> that I've just commented everything out and returned 600 at 400) fixes the
> bug, but probably breaks tons of other stuff:
> ^"^ (allowedArea extent - (grid*(maxLevel+1*2) + (grid//2))) min:
> StandardSize "600 at 400].
> I'm going to see if I can figure out exactly what's going wrong with this,
> and if so, push a proper fix to the Inbox.
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Casey Ransberger <
> casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I open a system browser in recent trunk images, the browser opens up
>> squished vertically so the first thing I need to do is resize it. I could
>> swear I'd seen this some place before, and the fix wound up being in
>> toolbuilder somewhere. IIRC Andreas pointed out the fix, but I can't find
>> the message anywhere in any of my inboxes.
>> As a sanity check, are other people seeing this too? I might note that
>> I've been using Squeak on a very small screen lately, if that makes any
>> difference (I don't know, maybe the browser tries to open at a % of total
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The following itineraries span the entire length of this incredibly diverse country, from the deserts and jaw-dropping canyons of the north to the grand colonial cities of the centre and the Mayan ruins, beaches and jungles of the south. Given the vast distances involved, you may not be able to cover everything, but even picking a few highlights will give you a deeper insight into Mexico's natural and historic wonders.
Classic Mexico
This three-week tour focuses on the southern and central parts of the country, traditionally the most popular targets for independent travellers.
1 Mexico City
Soak up the museums, murals and markets of the nation's crazy, high-octane capital, leaving a couple of days for Cholula and Teotihuacán.
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Head to Mexico's most enticing state, its capital the best place to sample mole, mescal and indigenous crafts.
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4 San Cristóbal de las Casas
Heading east into Chiapas this colonial city is worth at least two days, plus a day or two to take in the remarkable Maya villages nearby.
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Heading north these are some of the grandest, jungle-smothered Maya ruins in the country, all easily accessible.
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Back on the Yucatán mainland enjoy the balmy beaches and nightlife of the Riviera Maya.
9 Chichén Itzá and cenotes
End your trip by soaking up Mexico's most magical Maya ruins followed by a dip in the cooling waters of a giant sinkhole.
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Mexico is home to exceptionally varied landscapes and ecosystems, but you can get a decent taster in two to three weeks. This tour starts at the US border and works south.
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Witness the annual grey whale migration from the central Baja towns of Guerrero Negro and San Ignacio.
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5 Copper Canyon Railway
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6 Hiking in the Sierra Tarahumara
Jump off the Copper Canyon railway to explore remote trails, ruins and Rarámuri settlements.
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Continue south along the Pacific to the wildest, least developed stretch of Mexican coast.
8 Climbing volcanoes
Head inland to conquer the majestic peak of the Nevado de Colima, or bypass Mexico City to check out volcanic activity at Popocatépetl.
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End up on Mexico's Gulf coast near Xalapa for whitewater rafting, kayaking, climbing and canyoning.
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Spanish Mexico was fuelled by silver, leaving a rich architectural and cultural legacy in the heart of the country. Take at least two weeks to travel this route between Mexico City and Monterrey.
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Farmingdale State - 69, Purchase College - 68
Purchase, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team took a 69-68 lead in the final seconds and held on for the win last night over Purchase College. The Rams improved to 17-5 overall, 13-2 in the Skyline, while the Panthers fell to 10-12, 8-7.
In the first, the Rams led by 14 points, 25-9, with 9:27 left in the half. The Panthers made a comeback with a 15-4 run over the next six minutes, trailing 29-26. Farmingdale held Purchase to just four free throws before the break and led 35-30 at halftime.
The Rams held the lead until the 11-minute mark, when the Panthers tied the game, 46-46, on a layup and with the foul on the play, they took a 47-46 advantage after a successful free throw. On the next possession, they pushed their lead to four, 50-46, with a 3-pointer but Farmingdale was not giving up.
With 7:42 remaining, junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) made a layup and was fouled, tying the game at 54-54 on the 3-point play. The game would see five more ties over the final minutes, before a layup by senior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y.) with seven seconds remaining gave the Rams the 69-68 lead. A final attempt by Purchase would fall short and Farmingdale would take the conference win.
The Rams were led by Matthews with game-highs of 21 points, 15 rebounds and two blocks, his 20th straight double-double of the year. Smith finished with 17 points and three steals. Junior guard Ryan Davis (Flushing, N.Y.) had 12 points, eight rebounds and three assists.
Purchase junior forward Justin Person (Greenburgh, N.Y.) scored a team-high 15 points and eight rebounds, while junior guard Amar Reynolds (Bronx, N.Y.) had 14 points and three assists.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I first saw this recipe in Leite's Culinaria shortly after Dorie Greenspan's book, Around My French Table, was published. I printed off the recipe but did nothing with it until the purchase and perusal of her book again brought it to mind. August marks a flood of broccoli and cauliflower in local markets and the need to use cauliflower that had been purchased moved this recipe center stage. This gratin is very easy to make, and it is quite good. My only problem is that I think this creamy, almost quiche-like, creation is too rich to be served as a side dish. That makes me a party of one, because most other reviewers think it is a perfect accompaniment to any type of roast meat. While I would not serve it as part of a dinner, I do think this rich gratin is perfect for lunch or a light supper. The dish is best served warm and eaten on the day it is made. While it can be re-heated, the gratin becomes more strongly flavored the longer it sits and the leftovers might be a hard sell. If you are looking for new ways to serve cauliflower, I urge you to give this recipe a try. I think you'll really enjoy the gratin. Here's how it is made.
Cauliflower Gratin...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Dorie Greenspan
Butter for the baking dish
1 cauliflower (a medium head, about 2 1/2 pounds or so)
1/4 pound bacon, cut crosswise into slender strips
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
5 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup heavy cream
2/3 cup whole milk
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Freshly grated nutmeg
3 ounces Gruyère (you can use Emmenthal or even Swiss in a pinch), grated
1) Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Generously butter a 9 x 13-inch ovenproof dish and place it on a rimmed baking sheet lined with a Silpat or parchment paper.
2) Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cut florets from cauliflower, leaving about an inch or so of stem. Drop florets into boiling water and cook until fork-tender, anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes, depending on the size of the florets. (Alternatively, you can steam the florets over salted water.) Drain and rinse cauliflower florets under cold running water to cool them and pat them completely dry.
3) While cauliflower is cooking, toss bacon strips into a heavy skillet, place skillet over medium heat, and cook just until bacon is browned but not crisp. Drain and pat dry.
4) Spread cauliflower in buttered pan and scatter bacon over surface.
5) Place flour in a bowl and gradually whisk in eggs until blended. Slowly whisk in cream and milk. Season mixture with salt, pepper, and nutmeg and stir in about 2/3 of cheese. Pour mixture over cauliflower and bacon, shaking pan a little so that liquid settles between florets. Scatter remaining cheese over the top.
6) Bake cauliflower-bacon gratin for about 25 minutes, or until puffed and golden and a knife inserted in center comes out clean. If top isn't as brown as you'd like, run gratin under the broiler for a couple of minutes.
7) Gratin is best just from oven or when warm, although it can be enjoyed at room temperature, just like a quiche. You really should eat cauliflower-bacon gratin freshly made, but if you've got leftovers, cover and refrigerate them, then let them come to room temperature or warm briefly and gently in oven. Yield: 10 small servings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines parent AMR Corp are in the final stages of negotiating a merger, with the final price and management structure still to be resolved, four people familiar with the matter said.
The two airlines, as well as AMR's creditors and its bondholders, have focused their efforts in recent weeks on reaching a merger agreement, and a deal could come in the next two weeks, the people said on Friday.
AMR's board, which has not made a final decision and still considers its own restructuring plan as a viable one to revive the airline, plans to meet on January 28 and January 29 to discuss the latest developments in the negotiations, the people said.
AMR filed for bankruptcy in November 2011 citing high labor costs. A combination with US Airways would create the world's largest airline and help the two carriers better compete with larger rivals United Continental Holdings Inc and Delta Air Lines Inc.
Negotiations are continuing and could still fall apart, but progress has been made toward getting a deal done, the people said. An alternative plan for AMR to exit bankruptcy as an independent company appears a less likely path, they added.
All the people asked not to be named because the matter is not public. US Airways declined to comment. An AMR spokesman said the carrier cannot comment on the status of the discussions.
Representatives for AMR's unsecured creditors committee and its bondholders group were not immediately reachable for comment.
The airlines have a potential structure for the board of a merged company, which would consist of members from the existing boards of US Airways and AMR, and those to be designated by AMR creditors, the people said.
Negotiations have now largely come down to how the equity of the combined company would be split between shareholders of US Airways and creditors of AMR, and who will run the merged airline, according to the people familiar with the matter.
US Airways' formal merger offer made in November, which calls for its chief executive, Doug Parker, to run the combined airline, proposed that AMR creditors own 70 percent of the equity and shareholders of US Airways own the rest, the people have said.
AMR management led by Chief Executive Tom Horton believes the airline's creditors should own more than 70 percent of the equity in a merged airline, according to the people. It also remains unclear if Horton and the AMR board would ultimately agree to Parker taking the helm.
Horton rebuffed an aggressive takeover push from US Airways early in the bankruptcy process, saying the airline preferred to exit court protection on its own and consider a deal later.
But after several months of talks with its own creditors as well as US Airways, Horton has softened his approach and agreed to consider all options.
A combined American-US Airways would give American the scale to match bigger rivals that are upgrading service and expanding international routes. The merged company would have revenue of $38.69 billion based on 2012 figures, in front of United Continental which had revenue of $37.15 billion last year.
The new American would have a solid presence on the important U.S. East and West coasts and on North Atlantic routes, given American's revenue-sharing joint venture with British Airways and Iberia.
American has hubs in New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas/Fort Worth, while US Airways has key operations in Phoenix, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina.
The case is In re AMR Corp et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-15463.
Reporting by Soyoung Kim; Additional reporting by Karen Jacobs and Nick Brown; Editing by Tim Dobbyn


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November 2010
- 2010-11-26: PulseAudio 0.9.22 has been released. (Changes)
February 2010
- 2010-02-12: Canonical are hiring a sound software engineer. More details can be found at http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_UDSE/
January 2010
- 2010-01-06: Please submit translations via Transifex.net, not any longer through Fedora's Transifex installation.
November 2009
- 2009-11-23: PulseAudio 0.9.21 has been released. (Changes)
- 2009-11-11: PulseAudio 0.9.20 has been released. (Changes)
October 2009
September 2009
- 2009-09-30: PulseAudio 0.9.19 has been released. (Changes)
- 2009-09-19: PulseAudio 0.9.18 has been released. (Changes)
- 2009-09-11: PulseAudio 0.9.17 has been released. (Changes)
- 2009-09-10: PulseAudio 0.9.16 has been released. (Changes)
April 2009
- 2009-04-13: PulseAudio 0.9.15 has been released. (Changes)
January 2009
- 2009-01-13: PulseAudio 0.9.14 has been released. (Changes)
October 2008
- 2008-10-06: PulseAudio 0.9.13 has been released. (Changes)
September 2008
- 2008-09-24: Lennart Poettering published a Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
- 2008-09-09: PulseAudio 0.9.12 has been released. (Changes)
July 2008
- 2008-07-24: PulseAudio 0.9.11 has been released. (Changes)
April 2008
- 2008-04-08: Lennart Poettering goes into detail what's up next with PulseAudio's new glitch-free playback model.
March 2008
- 2008-03-30: PulseAudio 0.9.10 has been released. This is an important bugfix release. (Changes)
January 2008
- 2008-01-24: PulseAudio 0.9.9 has been released. The only change from 0.9.8 is a fix for CVE-2008-0008. An upgrade is highly recommended. (People using -NDEBUG should also check out this email.)
November 2007
- 2007-11-20: PulseAudio 0.9.8 has been released. This is a major feature enhancement release (Changes)
- 2007-11-02: Linux.com on PulseAudio
October 2007
- 2007-10-30: Don't miss this interview with Lennart which goes a bit into detail what's coming next for PulseAudio
- 2007-10-30: PulseAudio 0.9.7 has been released. This is a major feature enhancement release (Changes, announcement, blog); The Volume Control, Volume Meter, Preferences, Manager, gst-pulse, xmms-pulse have been updated, too.
- 2007-10-17: ars.technica on PulseAudio and GNOME
- 2007-10-12: Please read this blog story and the email linked therein about how GNOME and PulseAudio relate.
May 2007
- 2007-05-27: PulseAudio 0.9.6 has been released. This is mostly a bugfix release. (Changes)
February 2007
- 2007-02-06: The video (Theora) and the slides of Lennart's PulseAudio talk at linux.conf.au 2007 in Sydney are now available for download.
August 2006
- 2006-08-26: The new tool PulseAudio Preferences 0.9.5 has been released.
- 2006-08-26: PulseAudio Volume Control 0.9.4, PulseAudio Manager 0.9.3, PulseAudio Device Chooser 0.9.3 released
- 2006-08-26: PulseAudio 0.9.5 released. Changes include:
- Add module-hal-detect, a module that detects all local sound hardware using HAL and loads the necessary modules. Handles hot-plug and hot-removal of audio devices. (By Shahms E. King)
- Add shared memory transfer method for local clients
- Update module-volume-restore to automatically restore the output device last used by an application in addition to the volume it last used.
- Add a new module module-rescue-streams for automatically moving streams to another sink/source if the sink/source they are connected to dies
- Add support for moving streams "hot" between sinks/sources
- Reduce memory consumption and CPU load as result of Valgrind/Massif profiling
- Add new module module-gconf for reading additional configuration statements from GConf
- Fix module-tunnel to work with the latest protocol
- Miscellaneous fixes
July 2006
- 2006-07-24: PulseAudio Volume Control 0.9.3 released.
- 2006-07-24: PulseAudio Version 0.9.4 released. Changes include:
- Fix broken time event handling in the GLIB event loop adapter (0.9.3 shipped with a broken adapter for GLIB which caused tools like padevchooser to hang on startup. This fix solves the problem only half-way. To fix it wholly please make sure to update Avahi to 0.6.12)
- Some valgrind/massif results: halve memory consumption, make PulseAudio even more lightweight
- Fix pkg-config files for AMD64
- 2006-07-21: libao-pulse 0.9.3, xmms-pulse 0.9.3, gst-pulse 0.9.3 released.
- 2006-07-21: PulseAudio 0.9.3 released. Changes include:
- add support for running the PulseAudio daemon as system-wide instance (See System Wide Instance for more information)
- add authentication by IP address range ACL (
- update FreeBSD compatibility
- add support to set resource limits on platforms that support them and set some of them
- remove
loopback=argument for
module-*-protocol-tcpsince it is a superset of
listen=and has an unexpected default
- remove GLIB 1.2 event loop adapter
- rework GLIB 2.0 event loop adapter to act as a single GSource, make it compatible with recursive main loops
- add an API to check whether a source/sink is hardware or virtual
- remove warning about SIGPIPE in client apps
- improve latency calculation of NULL sink which allows it to be used for video playback
- port Zeroconf code from the HOWL API to the native Avahi API
- 2006-07-08: PulseAudio Volume Control 0.9.2, PulseAudio Volume Meter 0.9.2, PulseAudio Manager 0.9.2, PulseAudio Device Chooser 0.9.2, libao-pulse 0.9.2, xmms-pulse 0.9.2, gst-pulse 0.9.2 released.
- 2006-07-08: PulseAudio 0.9.2 released. Changes include:
- Rename project to PulseAudio (see this blog article for an explanation)
- increase maximum number of concurrent connections
- fix latency interpolation
- add support for reverse endian sound cards
- add support for recording in padsp
- reenable CPU load limiter
- other bugfixes
June 2006
- 2006-06-02: Version 0.9.1 released. Changes include:
- load modules even when libtool
.lafiles are missing
- generate better ALSA device names from
- if an ALSA device doesn't support the requested number of channels or the frequency, accept what ALSA suggests instead
- AMD64 portability
- drop
.shsuffix of
- build system fixes No API or ABI changes were made
- load modules even when libtool
May 2006
- 2006-05-26: Version 0.9.0 released. Changes include:
- new module
- new OSS API emulation tool
- require valid UTF-8 strings everywhere
- properly support ALSA channel maps for surround sound
- increase maximum number of channels per stream to 32
- add new threaded main loop API for synchronous programs
- introduce real shared object versioning
- a few API additions
- many, many bugfixes
- new module
April 2006
- 2006-04-28: Version 0.8.1 released. Changes include:
- support for specifying the channel map on the command lines of
pacatand as arguments to the driver modules
- ALSA hardware mixer compatibility
- fix linking
- properly remove
PF_UNIXsockets when unloading protocol modules
- fix sample cache
- many other fixes
- support for specifying the channel map on the command lines of
- 2006-04-13: Version 0.8 released. Changes are too many to count - consider reading this blog entry for more information. Many, many minor fixes.
November 2004
- 2004-11-21: Version 0.7 released; changes include: IPv6 support; PID file support; publish credentials in X11 root window (module-x11-publish; new tool pacmd; ESOUND backend; new command load-sample-dir-lazy; many, many minor fixes.
October 2004
- 2004-10-28: Version 0.6 released; changes include: TCP wrappers support; don't load the complete sound file into memory when playing back using pa_play_file(); autoload API change; don't load all sound files as FLOAT32; shorten default buffers; client-side latency interpolation; add new user volume metrics; add module-tunnel, module-null-sink, module-match and new tool paplay; new API version macros; many client API improvements; correctly lock cookie file generation; correctly lock daemon autospawning; print daemon layout to STDERR on SIGHUP; new options for pacat: allow sample type specification.
September 2004
- 2004-09-24: Version 0.5.1 released; changes include: improve esound protocol compatibility; fix autospawning via libesd; make use of POSIX capabilities; allow SCHED_FIFO scheduling only for users in group realtime; minor build system fix.
- 2004-09-20: Version 0.5 released; changes include: extensive API improvements, new module module-combine for combining multiple sound cards into one, gcc 2.95 compatibility, configuration files, add "lazy" samples, support for source and network latency measurements, add module-pipe-source, many other fixes and improvements.
- 2004-09-08: Version 0.4 released; changes include: daemon auto spawning, support for SCHED_FIFO scheduling, three new modules, proper logging, CPU load watchdog, many fixes.
August 2004
- 2004-08-27: Version 0.3 released; changes include: support for both glib 2.0 and glib 1.2, future cancellation, API updates, many fixes, relicense client library to LGPL.
- 2004-08-20: Version 0.2 released; changes include: added sample cache, introspection API, client API documentation, module autoloading, glib support, a module for intercepting X11 bell events, and much more.
July 2004
- 2004-07-17: Version 0.1 released


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Los Angeles, Times
By Dennis McLellanSeptember 30, 2013, 9:50 a.m.
A.C. Lyles, a producer whose affiliation with Paramount Studios spanned more than 85 years, has died. He was 95.
Lyles died Friday night at his home in Los Angeles, said his assistant Pam Gibson.
His long association with the studio began when Lyles was 10 and started handing out fliers for a Paramount-owned theater in his hometown of Jacksonville, Fla. It continued after he came to Hollywood, knocked on the famous studio gates and got a job in the mail room.
He eventually became a studio publicist and then a producer best known among western-film buffs for such B-movie westerns in the 1960s as "Young Fury" and "Waco." He was active as a producer into his late 80s, contributing to the HBO western series "Deadwood."
His best friends included James Cagney and Ronald Reagan, and when Reagan became president Lyles advised him on private sector initiatives.
Later in life, Lyles served as an unofficial goodwill ambassador for the studio, often entertaining audiences with his stories of stars from bygone eras. As the years passed, he was frequently called upon to deliver eulogies for his famous friends, a long list that included Bob Hope and Donald O'Connor.
Born: 5/17/1918, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.
Died: 9/27/2013, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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New Guide Helps Researchers Mine Genome Data
New Guide Helps Researchers Mine Genome Data
How-to manual spreads the word on freely available data
October 2002
BETHESDA, Md. - The Internet is teeming with user's guides for everything from cell phones to the space station. Now, to encourage greater scientific exploration of public databases containing the human genome sequence, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has created "A User's Guide to the Human Genome."
Published as a freely available supplement to Nature Genetics [nature.com] the peer-reviewed, how-to manual is aimed at spreading the word about how easy it is for researchers to mine the wealth of human genomic data that is freely available online.
"There is no point amassing all of this data in data warehouses if no one is able to use it," said Andreas D. Baxevanis, Ph.D., associate director of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research (DIR) and co-author of the guide. "There is a barrier that people perceive about their ability to access genomic data and effectively use the data."
NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., who was one of the guide's co-authors, added, "The average researcher in a biological or medical lab is somewhat overwhelmed by the avalanche of new freely-available data produced by the Human Genome Project. They know it's incredibly useful, but they're not quite sure how to use it. This guide was designed to overcome that barrier, and give "power to the people."
In addition to Drs. Collins and Baxevanis, the guide was co-authored by Tyra G. Wolfsberg, Ph.D., associate director of NHGRI's Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core, Mark Guyer, Ph.D., director of the NHGRI Division of Extramural Research (DER), and Kris Wetterstrand, M.S., a program analyst for DER.
To further underscore the need for the user's guide, Dr. Baxevanis pointed to a Wellcome Trust's survey of nearly 800 biomedical scientists in 2001. The survey found that only half of the researchers who were already using genome databases were familiar with the free, public tools for accessing sequence-based data.
"Between this information and our own anecdotal information about how people were not availing themselves of the variety of freely-available genomic databases, it really became obvious to us that a user's guide was needed to fill the void. One of the main reasons for doing the Human Genome Project was to encourage researchers to use sequence data to guide their own research. So, this guide will hopefully allow our fellow scientists to better understand what types of data are out there and how to effectively browse and search these data," said Dr. Baxevanis, who heads NHGRI's Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core.
"We also saw that there was a growing stratification betwoeen 'power scientists' who could use the data and those who could not. We wanted to prevent another digital divide within the biomedical research community," Dr. Baxevanis added. "Basic bioinformatics tools should be in the arsenal of every single researcher who is doing biology in the 21st century."
In an invited accompanying article, Harold Varmus, M.D., president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), agrees that there is a pressing, unmet need for "genomic empowerment."
"Interested people who reside outside the centers for studying genomes need to be told where to best view the information in a form suitable for their purposes and how to take advantage of the software that has been provided for retrieval and analysis," Dr. Varmus writes. "The manual before us now offers such help to those who might otherwise have had trouble in attempting to use the products of genomics. Furthermore, the advice is offered in that spirit of altruism that has come to characterize the public world of genomics."
In the 79-page guide, the NHGRI team focuses mainly on the three major genome portals that contain freely available data produced by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium and other systematic sequencing efforts. Those Web-based portals are: the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Map Viewer; the University of California, Santa Cruz's Genome Browser; and the European Bioinformatics Institute's Ensembl system.
"The underlying data are fairly similar, but the individual tool sets available at the three sites are different," Dr. Baxevanis said. "In formulating the guide, we selected a representative cross-section of tools to best demonstrate the kinds of questions that could be answered using these three Web sites."
Arranged around a series of questions commonly encountered during the course biomedical research, the guide provides users with practical, hands-on instructions for searching and analyzing genomic data contained in the major browsers. The NHGRI authors show users how to set about answering each question by choosing and utilizing the appropriate tools in one or more of the main browsers.
For example, Question 2 of the guide asks: "How can sequence-tagged sites (STS's) within a DNA sequence be identified?" The NHGRI authors point users to the NCBI portal's UniSTS resource, which contains an electronic PCR (e-PCR) tool that can be utilized to find STS markers within a DNA fragment. Using instructive text and figures, the guide then walks users through the steps of identifying the STS markers contained in a sample sequence of interest, in this case a sequence with accession number AF288398. The e-PCR search reveals the sample sequence contains only one STS, stSG47693. By clicking on the marker name, users can obtain more details about the STS from UniSTS, such as alternative names for the marker, primer information and PCR product size. In addition, the NHGRI authors steer users to several electronic cross references to mapping information, as well as a link to NCBI's MapViewer which allows users to see the genomic context of the STS marker in all maps to which it has been mapped.
The NHGRI authors emphasize that the new user's guide is a dynamic manual that will be frequently revised to reflect the rapidly changing world of genomic data and technology. "This is not a cookbook because the databases are constantly changing," said Dr. Baxevanis, noting the guide will be updated at least once between now and the target date for finishing the human genome sequence in April 2003.
In addition to showcasing the tools available through the three main genome portals, the guide includes a convenient list of links to a wide range of additional resources: other genome browsers, genome annotation databases, public sequence databases, expressed sequence tag clustering databases, human genetic and physical maps, sequence-based search tools and model organism databases.
The guide also provides information on Human Genome Hub and Genome Central, Web sites that serve as jumping off points to major genome-based Web sites. While the guide focuses mainly on the mechanics of accessing and using human genomic data, links are also included to key Web sites for information on genetic education and ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) related to genetic and genomic research.
NHGRI and The Wellcome Trust provided funding for the special supplement of Nature Genetics in which the guide was published.
NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, which is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research develops and implements technology to understand, diagnose and treat genomic and genetic diseases. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site, www.genome.gov.
Geoff Spencer, NHGRI
Phone: (301) 402-0911
Last Reviewed: February 25, 2012


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It's time to start planning decorations for a modern holiday. One of my favorite Thanksgiving posts of all time was written by Dwell Studio's founder, Christiane Lemieux awhile back. You can revisit it here. Here's a little teaser:
Since I didn't grow up with all the trappings of an American Thanksgiving, I felt free to create my own tradition. On this holiday, the meal itself will be the center of attention, so you don't need to do much in the way of decorating. The rich cranberry red, the warm orange of pumpkin and sweet potatoes, the perfect honey brown of a crisp turkey — it's already a gorgeous color palette.
She let the food be the star of the show by using beautiful monochromatic linens. It's such a nice balance:
Thinking ahead to Hanukkah, how happy are you with your menorah? If you're looking to break with tradition and try something more modern, there are tons of options out there. I love this organic one from Flickr member Less&More:
I also love the simplicity of this understated menorah by Josh Owen:
Thinking ahead to Christmas, we're finding inspiration from our Fresh New Spaces Group on Flickr. Thanks to Flickr member citrusandorange for switching up our ideas about sticking with red and green:
Branches and beautiful vintage ornaments in unexpected colors make for beautiful vignettes.
Speaking of vintage, Flickr member Electica Miamiadded ths fun vignette, which makes me feel nostalgic for my old Flexible Flyer:
Flickr member Peezeth knows how to keep things minimal, sleek, and subtly festive:
Flickr member 1richtungsblog kept things limited to gold and white, adding sophisticated holiday style:
How will you be decorating for the holidays? PLEASE share your photos from the past and present with us in our Fresh New Spaces Group, or share links in the comments section to wherever you have them posted online.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!