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TomTom, the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions, today announces that the official voices of the Target Chip Ganassi Racing and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates drivers are now available for users of TomTom devices. Users who have installed TomTom HOME, can download for free at their favorite drivers voices at www.tomtom.com/racevoices.
The voices include two-time and reigning IZOD IndyCar Series Champion and 2007 Indianapolis 500 Winner Dario Franchitti, two-time IZOD IndyCar Series Champion and 2008 Indianapolis 500 Winner Scott Dixon, and 2000 Indianapolis 500 Winner and current NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. Now, three of the best professional race car drivers can be your co-pilot.
TomTom portable navigation devices guide drivers with audible, turn-by-turn instructions and 3D maps that work right out of the box. On the road, the race car drivers will help safely and efficiently guide TomTom users to their destinations. Each driver gives funny and witty instructions, putting the fun back into the daily commute.
"We are excited to extend our partnership with the Target Chip Ganassi Racing team into the 2010 race season," said Tom Murray, senior vice president of market development. "TomTom users can now start their engines with Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon or Juan Pablo Montoya, to make even the shortest drive a fun and exciting experience."
In addition to the driver's voices, car icons and start-up images of the Ganassi stockcar and Indy cars are available exclusively at www.tomtom.com/racevoices.
"I use my TomTom all the time," said Montoya, who has a version of his voice available in both Spanish and English. "As soon as I found out they were coming back to the Target program I asked when I would receive mine. We're in different places every weekend and I'm always on the go – in search of new restaurants and sights to see so my TomTom definitely guides me. I don't leave home without my TomTom."
"Winning at Iowa in a TomTom car last season was a great way to start the TomTom Chip Ganassi partnership," said Franchitti. "I'm lost without my TomTom, and use it daily whether I'm in the US or back home in Scotland. It's impressive to see a company like TomTom leveraging their relationship with the race team and doing some real activation by getting all three Target drivers' voices online for race fans. I hope a lot of people will get a kick out of this."
"I have always been into technology and I always have to have the latest in satellite navigation and other electronic devices" said Dixon. "TomTom is a big supporter of the race program and I can tell you my TomTom is always with me when I travel. Adding the Target drivers to the lineup of downloadable voices gives race fans another fun way to enjoy the sport."
About TomTom N.V.
TomTom N.V. (AEX: TOM2) is the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands it has over 3,000 employees worldwide. More than 40 million people use its solutions every day, in the form of dedicated portable navigation devices (PNDs), in-dash car systems or tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management. In addition, hundreds of millions of people use TomTom's digital maps on the internet or mobile phones.
In 2009, TomTom reported €1.5 billion in revenues and a €340 million net cash flow from operating activities. More information about TomTom can be found at www.TomTom.com.
Please note that the voices are not available to TomTom iPhone application users at this time. See www.tomtom.com for more information.
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Listening in with Michael Card & Brennan Manning
- 2004 13 Aug
We hardly felt the need to "introduce" these thinkers/teachers to you. Considering their exhaustive work in the Christian community — from Brennan's regular speaking engagements and 14 books, including the famed "Ragamuffin Gospel" and "Abba's Child," to Michael's 27 albums, recent writing on lament literature and "In the Studio with Michael Card" radio program, there are hardly words to describe the impact these two have made on those who've encountered them or their work throughout their decades of ministry. Now we're honored these two friends of 20 years set aside time to converse exclusively for CCM readers.
Michael: A long time ago we first met through your book, "Lion and Lamb: the Tenderness of Jesus." And the key theme, for me, was healing our image of God and God our Abba. What does it mean that God is our Father?
Brennan: American child psychologists tell us that children learn to speak between the ages of 14 and 18 months. Regardless of the sex of the child, the first word normally spoken at that age level is "Da Da Daddy." A little Jewish child, speaking Aramaic in first century Palestine at the time of the historic Jesus, at the same age would say "Ab Ab Abba." I really think we caught the revolutionary revelation of Jesus' teaching on God the Father because He's daring us to address the infinite, transcendent, almighty God in the same colloquial form of address our own children used that morning, which is Abba, literally meaning "Daddy."
Without hesitation, the greatest gift I've ever received in my life in Jesus is the Abba experience. I could only stutter and stammer about the life-changing power of the Abba encounter; and, by that, I mean freedom from the fear of life, freedom from the fear that I'm going to betray Jesus with my own malice and freedom from the fear of death.
In the years of the Abba desert, which began in the Zaragoza Desert in Spain in the late 1960s, things I've come to see about Abba is, one: His love is intimate. If you've got skeletons in the closet from your past life, something so shameful, so embarrassing, so utterly self-centered that your palms start sweating when you start thinking about it, the intimate love of Abba reaches into that dark experience. Reconciliation in the Scriptures is not primarily making peace with someone else; it's first of all making peace with that part of yourself where peace couldn't be found before — such is the intimate love of Abba.
Second, His love is unique, meaning Abba loves me not as you think I am, not as I am supposed be, but as I really am. And the real Brennan Manning is a bundle of contradictions. I believe in Abba with all my heart; but on a given day when I see a 9-year-old girl raped and murdered by a sex maniac or a 4-year-old boy slaughtered by a drunken driver, I wonder to believe a loving Father exists.
The God of my experience is: I love, and I hate. I feel bad about feeling good. I feel guilty if I don't feel guilty. I'm wide open and locked in. I'm trusting and suspicious. I'm honest and still play games.
The fourth thing I've learned is Abba's love is reliable. He loves me if I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. And I'm sure, Mike, if you and I had the chance to share our lives' stories, we'd discover a striking similarity that both of our lives have been a celebration of God's faithfulness in good times and in bad.
Ironically, it was April Fool's Day 1965 that I woke up at 6:30 in the morning in a doorway on a commercial boulevard in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I woke up in an alcoholic fog, smelling vomit all over my sweater, staring down at my bare feet. And coming along a sidewalk was a woman, maybe 25, blonde hair, attractive lady. She had a 4-year-old son on her hand. The boy broke loose from his mother's grip right at the doorway and stared at me. The mother came up quickly behind him, cupped her hand to cover his eyes and said, "Don't look at that filth. All that is, is pure filth." And 29 years ago, that filth was Brennan Manning. The Abba I've come to know through experience, the Abba I've come to know by faith loves me as much if I'm born in the state of grace as He does this "born again" state of grace. For His love is never, never, never based on our performance, never conditioned by our moods of manipulation or oppression. It knows no shadow of alteration or change. The love of Abba in Christ Jesus is reliable.
The love of Abba is tender. Tenderness is what happens when you discover you're liked by somebody. If you communicate to me that you like me — not just love me as a brother in Christ, but really like me, then you open up to me the possibility of liking myself, accepting myself, loving myself. The look in your eyes banishes my fears and my defense mechanisms like sarcasm, ridicule, name dropping, giving you the appearance I've got it all together.
My friend Ed Farrel up in Detroit goes on his two-week summer vacation to Ireland. The reason is his favorite uncle is celebrating his 80th birthday. On the morning of the great day, Ed and his uncle get up before dawn, get dressed in silence and go for a walk around the shores of Lake Kilarney. Just as the sun is about to rise, his uncle turns to the rising sun. Ed didn't know what to do. So he's standing beside his uncle, shoulder to shoulder for 20 full minutes, not a word exchanged. Then his 80-year-old uncle goes running, skipping down the road; and he's radiating, beaming with joy. Ed catches up to him and says, "Uncle Seamus, you look really happy." He says, "I am, lad." Then Ed says, "You want to tell me why?" And the old man says, "Yes, you see, " and then the tears wash down his face, "my Abba is very fond of me."
If I asked the reader right now: Do you believe Abba likes you — not loves you because, theologically, Abba has to love you. Abba loves you by the necessity of His nature. If I asked if you really believe He likes you and with gut-level honestly, you could reply, "Oh yes, Abba is very fond of me," there would come a relaxedness, a serenity, a compassionate attitude toward yourself and your brokenness.
Michael: You have that prayer as a "breathing in, breathing out" exercise. Could you describe that to us?
Brennan: Yes, it's a prayer I had asked an old nun to pray, who had been sexually abused by her father when she was 5 years old. Then at 9 years old, her virginity was taken. At 12 she knew of every kind of sexual perversion she had read about in a dirty book. She said to me: "Do you have any idea of how filthy I feel? I'm filled with so much hatred of my father, hatred of myself."
I prayed with her for several minutes for healing. Then I asked her, "Sister, would you be willing, for the next month, to go to a quiet place every morning, sit down in a chair, close your eyes and pray this prayer over and over: 'Abba, I belong to you'? At the outset, you say it with your lips; but then your mind becomes conscious of the meaning and then, most importantly, in a figurative sense, you push your head down into your heart so that now, "Abba, I belong to you," becomes what the French call a crie de couer, a heartfelt cry to the depth of your being, establishing at the beginning of each day who you are, why you're here, where you're going. It's a prayer you can pray walking across the street, driving your car, watching television, eating a meal, sitting in church. When you do this, literally dozens and dozens of times a day, you can, as Jesus says in Luke 18, "Pray all day long and never lose heart."
Well, I asked the nun if she would try, and she said, "Yes." And two weeks later, I received the most moving and poetic letter I've ever gotten in ministry. This old woman described the inner healing of her heart, the complete forgiveness of her father and inner peace she had never known before. And she ended her letter this way: "A year ago, I would have signed this letter with my real name in religious life, Sister Mary Genevieve. But from now on, I'm just Daddy's little girl."
Michael: Her image of God as her father had been healed. We all come into this, trying to relate to God bound up with the relationships we had with our earthly fathers. That's got to involve healing. Obviously, this woman is an extreme example, but my father was a doctor — a wonderful Christian man, a gentle man but very busy and very performance-oriented. Like so many others, when I tried to relate to God, I thought, "Well, God is a person who's probably too busy for me. God is a person who probably would only accept a straight-A report card from me." I think that's why, when I read "Lion and Lamb," that business of healing the image of my father completely changed my life. That's the process that happened to this nun. And that's a process that most powerfully happened to you.
Brennan: Yes, I can really relate to what you're saying, Michael. My own father, God bless him — with an eighth-grade education because he had to go out and support his own family because his father was alcoholic — was only available to speak an abusive word or tell me to go to my room and drop my pants and beat me over the back and buttocks with his leather belt. My image of God the Father, my image of any father, was one who was abusive, demanding, correcting, scolding, criticizing and a constant monologue to me of impatience and chastisement with my behavior.
There was a fascinating study done in 1976 that said those who have had a negative experience with their human father and those who've had a very positive experience can have the same, intimate Abba experience because let's not underestimate the power and wisdom of Jesus Christ crucified, who leads us into the Abba experience.
Michael: Didn't you just have a birthday?
Brennan: I just had my 70th birthday, and one of the things you notice about your 70th birthday that you don't notice at your 50th or 60th or 65th is how difficult it is getting out of a car [laughs]! There are certain parts of your body you're aware of that you used to take for granted.
What I did [for my birthday] was go to a restaurant in the French Quarter [in New Orleans] owned by two friends. I invited 10 friends from around the country who've stood with me in the bad weather of life. It wasn't so much to celebrate my birthday as to celebrate their friendship. So I hosted the dinner, and I gave them all a couple of nice presents; and I wanted to thank them all for being so good to me. But before we began the dinner, I wanted to have a little prayer service. Since we were having a dinner party, I went to this passage in chapter 14 of John. After the reading, I gave a little homily. The homily was actually a poem from one of my heroes in my life [Daniel Berrigan], who is one of our great American poets and also a peace activist.
The question has come: How does one sustain one's life in Christ after one has had the saved experience? One, a disciplined life of prayer is absolutely indispensable. By that, I mean showing up and shutting up 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening, with a notable exception for young parents, who certainly are so preoccupied by their children (but who can do spontaneous prayers during the day).
The second way to grow in faith is in the inspired words of Father Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov. An elderly woman comes to him, this renowned spiritual guru; and she says, "I'm losing my faith." He says, "Why do you say that?" She says, "I've lost any sense of the presence of God." He says, "Go out and love three people every day." Because of the inextricable connection between faith, hope and love, every act of love increases our faith. There is so much going on in the Christian world about growing in faith, and it means memorizing Scripture; it means going to concerts; it means going to lectures; it means hearing all these gifted speakers. I wonder when I see 50,000 people at a Christian rock concert, if anyone had gone that day to visit a shut-in to get their own spiritual inspiration.
When Jesus was asked by the lawyer, "You've been teaching for three years. You've told all kinds of parables; you've given all kinds of sermons. Your sermon on the mount was unforgettable. Could you just condense, boil down into a simple sentence the essence of your message?" Jesus says, "Yes, it's all about loving God. That means by giving Him time every day and loving your neighbor." That's the real Jesus of the Gospels. That's the Christ we're called to follow. Let's set aside a lot of this "hoorah" and pay attention. Christianity is all about loving, and you can take it or leave it. It's not about worship or morality. Those are expressions of the love that causes them both. So let's get back to the heart of Jesus, who said, "Love God with all your heart." It can be the elderly. It can be your own family. It can be your children. It can be a colleague down the street. There is no substitute for growing in faith by spending time with God and loving your brothers and sisters.
Michael: I've been going through the literature and trying to understand what this defining characteristic of God is in the Old Testament. The more I boil it down, it's enemy love. Jesus defines loving, ultimately, in terms of the ability to love your enemy. Most people call it covenantal love. God loved us when we were still enemies. When you talk about going to find people to love — and this is where God is taking me right now eventually, that means we've got to love our enemies, identify who they are, admit we have enemies in the first place because most of us (myself included) are in denial that we have enemies. The fulfillment of the commandment to love, if you push it to extreme in Jesus' teaching, is this idea of loving our enemies. But He did that for us. We're the ones who nailed him to the cross.
Brennan: I'm just wondering if those who saw "The Passion of The Christ" really identified themselves as the enemy — that it was our sins who put Christ on the cross. In my own room I have a very jagged crucifix made by a man in Kingston, Jamaica. When I look at that crucifix [I know that] I am the forgiven enemy of God, that Jesus knows my whole life story, every skeleton in my closet, every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty. Right now, He knows my shallow faith, my feeble prayer life, my inconsistent discipleship. He loves me and accepts me just as I am. When I'm in touch with my own heart as a forgiven enemy of God, that has to become the source, the basis for reaching out and accepting the brokenness, the weaknesses of others.
For more information visit MichaelCard.com and BrennanManning.com.
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While the governor eventually apologized for this hyperbole, he has continued to reject it as much as he can. In November 2012, LePage announced he would not have Maine create a state insurance exchange. Instead, the federal government would set one up in the Pine Tree State.
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Echoing Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a fellow Republican who had long crusaded against the federal law but is now backing Medicaid expansion, Kasich emphasized that he would like to see the law repealed, but the federal money it would pump into the state — about $13 billion over the next seven years — was too much to pass up.
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"This is the right decision for Ohio," Kasich said, according to Ohio Public Radio. "It's our money. Let's bring it home."
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This budget also takes the significant step of helping more low-income and working Ohioans have access to health care through Medicaid, for which the federal government will pay 100 percent for three years and level off at 90 percent beginning in 2020. While a complex decision, this reform not only helps improve the health of vulnerable Ohioans and frees up local funds for better mental health and addiction services, but it also helps prevent increases to health care premiums and potentially devastating impacts to local hospitals.
Unless the Maine Legislature goes a different direction, and in enough numbers, Maine won't craft its own health insurance exchange nor expand Medicaid.


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A Conversation With Danny Meyer, President of the Union Square Hospitality Group, an organization that includes some of New York City's most highly rated restaurants including the Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern. Meyer shares the secret to business and gastronomic success at this week's Friday's at Five at the Bridgehampton Community House and on August 22 at the Ross School's "Cuisine & Wine," where chefs from USHG will treat guests to a marathon four-hour culinary event.
Twenty-seven is quite young to open your first restaurant, let alone the Union Square Café. Where was your love of cuisine and the food business born?
I think it was born from my childhood growing up in St. Louis where we, because of my dad's travel business, had the sons and daughters of French inn keepers in our home and there was always interesting food and always a bottle of wine on the table. Also, I think it was born because of my dad's work primarily with European countries. We had the privilege to travel at a young age and I just connected to food. And this is way before the era of the celebrity chef. It was truly experiential.
What was your concept for the Union Square Café that set it apart from the thousands of restaurants in Manhattan?
The concept was no concept. When I heard the word concept early on I shuddered. I was really trying to create a place that was my favorite restaurant based on all the things I love about restaurants and all the things I hate about restaurants. I wanted a place you could feel comfortable on any occasion, whether you were dining alone, with friends, having a non-eventual lunch or anniversary dinner.
It was a huge bulls eye in 1985 because New York in those days tended to present you with special occasion dining and chain restaurants. There were not many options where you could eat a good meal with good service and a fair wine list in a casual setting. Things have changed and now, of course, our challenge is to try and lead the pack.
Your book "Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business" outlines your recipe for success and has been lauded by readers as applying to all industries. Why share your secret to success?
The reason I am in Phoenix right now is I was speaking to the senior management of Brooks Brothers. I have spoken to Campbell's [Soup], British Airways, so you're right, it's not just about the restaurant industry. In the same way I would hear that question when Michael Romano and I wrote the Union Square cookbooks. When you love what you do you take a huge amount of pleasure in sharing it. In the same way we were not concerned that sharing recipes would not put us out of business, I felt the same way about "Setting the Table." It has been incredibly gratifying that our story has apparently had transferable benefits for all kinds of other organizations and it certainly hasn't put us out of business.
Can you explain the term "enlightened hospitality" – your formula for success in a highly competitive, Manhattan restaurant industry?
It's the name that we gave to the virtuous cycle for how we prioritize our chief stakeholders in order to hopefully achieve a gratifying level of customer satisfaction and profitability. Ironically, the way to achieve that satisfaction, is to put our customers second and our staff first. And for profitability, our shareholders are fifth behind the communities we do business in, our investors, our staff members and our guests. It's a cycle, not a linear list. In a vicious cycle, one thing leads to something worse. A virtuous cycle leads to something better. "Enlightened hospitality" is the name for what we were doing. "Setting the Table" is my own self-expression of what we had been doing that worked so effectively. It's a little odd that in a city with a huge restaurant mortality rate, somehow five of the top ten are ours and the top two have been ours flipping places – Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern.Â
How did the Union Square Café evolve into the organization the Union Square Hospitality Group – boasting a number of award wining and highly rated Manhattan restaurants?
It expanded, at first, very, very slowly. There was almost a decade between when we opened the Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern and then there has been something new every two or three years since. It has always been a function of mining the depths of my own passions for things we love and trying to rearticulate it in a new way whether its barbeque, jazz, Indian cuisine … we're also opening up at the Met's new Citi Field. We have a huge passion for sports and baseball. Each time, what we are stating is we are in the business of food, but we are also in the business of life and if we try to find those things that we get excited about.
You are also a philanthropist, serving on the boards of Share Our Strength and City Harvest. Does good business and philanthropy go hand in hand?
I think so. I think that good business always comes in some combination of the head and heart and the same is true in philanthropy … The more you can inject heart into a business the better it is for the staff, your customers and the business. Â
On August 22 your company will host a night of cuisine and wine at the Ross School featuring a bevy of chefs from a number of your restaurants. What will the evening entail?
Well, hopefully it will be the premiere culinary event the South Fork has ever tasted. It's really a galaxy of star chefs. We are throwing everything we got at it. There is something like 18 New York Times stars, 19 James Beard awards that will be there.
It's a great school. A number of our regular guests at our restaurants have kids who have gone there and who are young alumni themselves. It was a cause we felt comfortable aligning ourselves with. If nothing else it will show an array of culinary talent that goes with our restaurants. We have achieved a level of fame for our hospitality and sometimes people forget the number of star chefs we have.
You will also be on hand on the East End for a book reading at the Hampton Library's Fridays at Five series on August 8. Have you spent much time in the Hamptons?
My family is out there right now. I have never owned a home, but we have rented over the course of 14 different summers, always in Amagansett primarily because we have had family in homes there. It has been a wonderful and beautiful way for cousins to get to know each other. It's relaxing – for those who don't have to commute from New York.
What are some of your favorite places to eat while you are on the East End?
Definitely the backyard barbeque, but in the way of restaurants I have been a huge, long-time fan of Nick & Toni's. I like their Mexican place La Fondita. I have had a lot of wonderful evenings at Dave's [Grill] in Montauk, Turtle Crossing. We used to take the kids to Snowflake and we used to go to 95 School Street in Bridgehampton, but that's not there anymore. We did have a really good meal at 1770 [House in East Hampton] at the beginning of the summer.
Top five favorite foods?
Sausage and mushroom pizza, grilled steak, barbeque ribs, pasta, corn on the cob … and red wine.Â
The Friends of the Hampton Library will host Danny Meyer at Fridays at Five on Friday, August 8. Meyer will be speaking at the Bridgehampton Community House. The doors open at 4:30 p.m. There will be a question and answer session following discussion and a book signing. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Tickets are $15 a piece or a season pack of 5 for $60. All monies raised benefit the Hampton Library. For more information call 537-0015. On August 22 Danny Meyer will host "Cuisine & Wine @ ROSS," at 6 p.m., featuring chefs Michael Romano & Carmen Quagliata of Union Square Cafe, Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park, Gabriel Kreuther of The Modern and Robb Garceau of Hudson Yards and more. The event will benefit the lower school's nutritional program. Tickets cost $1000. For tickets call 888-877-8499.


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Saturday, July 7, 2012
What is the Nature of Genealogy as an Activity?
As a side note, if you look at the images associated with the genealogy programs online, you would get an entirely different impression of who the genealogists are. Given the demographics at the Expo, I would think that most of the advertising is misdirected.
But I draw on my own experience. I became very much involved in genealogy about the age of 35. So, I did not then, nor do I now, fit into the predominant demographic. But when I was younger, I did not attend even one genealogy conference. In fact, given the lack of Internet in those times, I don't think I had ever heard of a genealogy conference. Further, it never occurred to me that genealogy could be or was cooperative in nature. During nearly all of those early years doing research and adding names and dates to my genealogy, I don't recall ever finding anyone in my family or otherwise, who was similarly interested in genealogy. In the nearly thirty years since I first began working on my genealogy, I have found limited pockets of interest in people on certain of my family lines. However, my attempts at organizing some sort of cooperative effort have never matured into a productive research situation.
So, if the genealogical community is predominantly female, older and a solitary pursuit, why is there such a marked effort by online software and website developers to make into a "cooperative" activity? Who am I supposed to cooperate with? For example, I have been online with New.FamilySearch.org for over five years. Although I have had contact with others interested in my genealogical research, I have never found anyone who even vaguely suggested cooperating on any projects. Am I disappointed or discouraged because no one else in my immediate or extended family is cooperating in genealogical research? Not at all. I do have one daughter who is very interested and writes a fabulous blog, TheAncestorFiles.blogspot.com and we do exchange information. But I would not consider that the exchange consisted of cooperative effort.
I view myself as a solitary genealogical researcher working in parallel with other researchers who are working on their own lines. I have heard about and seen the results of some cooperative research projects, primarily conducted many years ago by my wife's family. I have attended some very successful genealogically oriented family reunions (cooperative events?) with my wife's family and one branch of my extended family. But those events cannot be said to have produced a cooperative effort in doing basic research. They are more of an exchange of documents, photos and artifacts combined with information about current living family members and how they are related to a distant common ancestor.
Further, I am not at all upset or disturbed about the solitary nature of genealogy. I do not intend to give the pursuit merely because I can find no one else in my family who is even slightly interested in combining their research efforts with my own. So, this seems to be the dominate model of genealogical activity, single older adults who are interested in pursuing genealogical research, some of whom began their interest a some time earlier in their life. Now, what about the extended family of these researchers? I believe you could say that there is a cloud of immediate family members, some of whom are somewhat tolerant of the genealogist and even including a few that will participate in genealogical activities if coerced into doing so. Having more than one central genealogist in an extended family is likely an unusual situation. Beyond the central genealogist, there is a further cloud of relatives who are only vaguely aware, if at all, of genealogy or the researcher's efforts.
Are any of the present genealogical databases or online resources calculated to create an atmosphere of cooperation among these extended family members? If the programs emphasize family cooperation and "beginners" at the expense of providing support for the established genealogical hub individuals, doesn't that at best ignore the present structure of the community or at worst alienate the people who are actually doing genealogical research?
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Interesting post, Jim.ReplyDelete
From my point of view it all depends on A)your goals and B)the tools you utilize to achieve those goals in one's work.
With A), I have been very successful in attracting and building interaction, support, communications, and sharing within our family, but this is because it is a twin primary goal of my genealogy work. These twin goals are 1) to create a high quality, documented, inclusive family genealogy and 1) build and then nurture family involvement worldwide by focusing on family history, not just genealogy. (I purposely use the two terms as I have learned the simple term of 'genealogy' turns off way too many people.
Concerning B) I make great use of the MyHeritage.com genealogy and family Social Networking site. It has wonderful features to encourage and develop involvement. Our membership is now over 200 and this has become a news hub, a communications station, and a sharing platform as well as the 'keeper' of our family tree.
I do things like a once-a-week Family Update to all members on what is new and ask for input. Response has been tremendous and positive. Additionally I constantly preach inclusiveness and each person's role in preserving the culture and values of those who have gone before us.
I then augment this with the more public use of Facebook over and over.
Online databases and resources are a miracle for serious amateur and professional genealogists who will pursue verifying everything, and a windfall for people who believe accumulating names and posted "facts" is genealogy. Genealogy has become big business:it is impossible to gauge how many of us who pay for subscriptions are accumulators or verifiers. Do we care when the cost adds value to our own research? Do we care how old the researcher is? Is one-time help, paid or unpaid, cooperation? Would hub individuals be doing genealogy if we didn't, by nature,love researching by ourselves? Don't we all find our own genealogy communities because of the internet? My question is where is the online community for the intermediate amateur who is reasonably happy with the quality of our Sources and Citations, aware that research will never be done but also aware that we won't be here forever and need our information in permanent form so some future ancestor will have a head start,tells the stories which make genealogy interesting to some family members who we usually bore to death, some repository will have our research-and doesn't cost the earth, and isn't the computer-generated narrative of our wonderful genealogy programs? What if we aren't writers? Do we need to go outside our area of interest and look to scrapbooking? Thank you for making me think. JanetReplyDelete
- Dan GradlJuly 8, 2012 at 6:01 AM
Talk about outside the demographic... I started my genealogy research when I was 12. I worked on it for about a year calling relatives visiting the national archives regularly with my aunt and even took a trip to central IL and visited courthouses and cemetaries. I didn't pick it up again until last year.. now 32.ReplyDelete
As far as collaboration on the family history... I have run into several genealogists in my extended family. Another aunt that I rarely talked to turned out to be deep into ancestry.com. However did we collaborate on a tree? No. We shared some info sure.. did a gedcom export and merged some data. However, her recordkeeping and style is not the way I like to keep my research. We didn't agree on certain conclusions, either. So we maintain our own separate history research. There have been other second and third cousins that I located through research who were also doing genealogical research. But, this has been the pattern.... Just a data swap and keep our own records going.
I think having practically no family members interested in one's ancestry is better than there existing myriad extended-family members who have entered published misinformation and/or their own baseless speculations into myriad trees, including new.FamilySearch. In some cases, simple chronologically impossible assertions taken from published material have been migrated from n.FS to Family Tree at FamilySearch.org.ReplyDelete


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NEW YORK -- When the Braves entered this season with an injury-depleted rotation, they did not have much reason to believe they would near the end of April wondering who they might remove once Mike Minor and Gavin Floyd are declared ready to pitch at the Major League level.
Minor was scheduled to start for Triple-A Gwinnett on Friday night, but the game was postponed by rain. Thus he will have to wait at least one more day to make what could be his final Minor League rehab start. There is a chance he could join Atlanta's rotation some time next week.
"If Mikey says [he'd] like to get another [Minor League rehab start], it wouldn't be a problem," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We're thinking he is going to get through this start and be great. Then we have got to come up with a decision."
If Minor deems himself ready, the Braves will likely either send David Hale to Gwinnett to serve as a starter or keep him at the Major League level to serve as a reliever.
Floyd, who is attempting to return from Tommy John surgery, allowed four earned runs in 4 2/3 innings in a rehab start for Double-A Mississippi on Friday against Huntsville.
There was some thought that Floyd might need just one more rehab start, but given the fact that he has not yet completed five innings, the Braves might give him some more time.
The Braves' rotation has a Major League-best 1.47 ERA, and with Aaron Harang producing another gem on Friday night, there is no logical fit for Floyd.


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Leland Blue Stone bracelet with sterling silver chain, crystals, and sterling silver Bali beads, Michigan bracelet, keepsake
Leland Blue Stone bracelet with sterling silver chain, crystals, and sterling silver Bali beads, Michigan bracelet, keepsake
3 Leland Blue stone nuggets are combined with sterling silver beads and chain, and blue crystals. Finished with a sterling silver lobster clasp. Can be adjusted to a shorter length.
Leland Blue stones were created through the process of making iron from iron ore. In the late 19th century, iron ore was carried from Escanaba, MI to Leland, MI on large schooners and steamers to deposit their load at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Company. During the hot process to melt the iron ore a lot of junk would come to the top which then was discarded as slag into the lake and on the beaches. That slag is now found as beautiful Leland Blue stones.
INSIDE FIT: Approximately 6.3/4" 18.4 cm
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Using a flexible measuring tape*, Measure just above (towards elbow) the wrist bone; add 3/4" to 1" to that measurement to allow for movement and flexibility. This total measurement should be within the size range of the bracelet. Keep in mind that bracelet style affects fit. Some styles, depending on the type of clasp, provide extra space. In contrast, large gemstones or other adornments may reduce the room for your wrist.
This is because the width of the beads themselves take up space on the inside circumference. Different size beads take up different amounts of space on the inner circumference. That makes the inside measurement smaller than the length when laid out flat.
If this bracelet is a gift for an adult or young lady, and you don't know wrist size, we would consider 6 as petite, 6.25 as small, 6.5 as medium, 6.75 as large, and 7.0 as XLarge.
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WDN AffiliatesNovember 28, 2006
We just launched what I think is a neat way of allowing people to attend Web Directions for free, or substantially less than the ticket price.
Taking a cue from Amazon, we've set up an affiliates program for those wanting to attend. The basic gist: Get an affiliate code from us. If you get just four other people to sign up with your code, maybe through your blog or by signing up all your friends, you're coming for free baby.
Of, if you prefer, say you and four friends/coworkers want to come en masse; ask us for a code, and when you apply that code to your order one of those seats is free. You end up each saving about 20% off the listed price. What if you've already registered? Get a code anyway, refer four people, and you've got a refund coming your way.
The catch? No catch. Just good old-fashioned free conference seats, to see some of the best speakers working on the web today. Going to play along at home? Let us know in the comments, we'd love to hear what you think about this idea.
That's very generous. If only we could get that kind of hookup from the airlines. :)
Piggy-backing off the previous post – the affliate program page has a slight typo in the last paragraph.
"The combination of amazing speakers, fantastic location, and -> ofter <- hours events"
Just thought you'd like to know.
Whoops! Thanks for the correction (and doing it right!)
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — As the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's government grinds on with no resolution in sight, Syrians involved in the armed struggle say it is becoming more radicalized: homegrown Muslim jihadists, as well as small groups of fighters from Al Qaeda, are taking a more prominent role and demanding a say in running the resistance.
The past few months have witnessed the emergence of larger, more organized and better armed Syrian militant organizations pushing an agenda based on jihad, the concept that they have a divine mandate to fight. Even less-zealous resistance groups are adopting a pronounced Islamic aura because it attracts more financing.
Idlib Province, the northern Syrian region where resistance fighters control the most territory, is the prime example. In one case there, after jihadists fighting under the black banner of the Prophet Muhammad staged significant attacks against Syrian government targets, the commander of one local rebel military council recently invited them to join. "They are everywhere in Idlib," said a lean and sunburned commander with the Free Syrian Army council in Saraqib, a strategic town on the main highway southwest from Aleppo. "They are becoming stronger, so we didn't want any hostility or tension in our area."
Tension came anyway. The groups demanded to raise the prophet's banner — solid black with "There is no god but God" written in flowing white Arabic calligraphy — during the weekly Friday demonstration. Saraqib prides itself in its newly democratic ways, electing a new town council roughly every two months, and residents put it to a vote — the answer was no. The jihadi fighters raised the flag anyway, until a formal compromise allowed for a 20-minute display.
In one sense, the changes on the ground have actually brought closer to reality the Syrian government's early, and easily dismissible, claim that the opposition was being driven by foreign-financed jihadists.
A central reason cited by the Obama administration for limiting support to the resistance to things like communications equipment is that it did not want arms flowing to Islamic radicals. But the flip side is that Salafist groups, or Muslim puritans, now receive most foreign financing.
"A lot of the jihadi discourse has to do with funding," noted Peter Harling, the Syria analyst with the International Crisis Group, adding that it was troubling all the same. "You have secular people and very moderate Islamists who join Salafi groups because they have the weapons and the money. There tends to be more Salafi guys in the way the groups portray themselves than in the groups on the ground."
But jihad has become a distinctive rallying cry. The commander of the newly unified brigades of the Free Syrian Army fighting in Aleppo was shown in a YouTube video on Sunday exhorting men joining the rebellion there by telling them: "Those whose intentions are not for God, they had better stay home, whereas if your intention is for God, then you go for jihad and you gain an afterlife and heaven."
What began as a largely peaceful, secular protest movement in March 2011 first took on a more religious tone late last summer as it shifted into an armed conflict waged by more conservative, more rural Sunni Muslims whose faith already formed an integral focus of their daily lives.
But greater attention has been focused on a Qaeda involvement in the uprising since mid-July, when fighters professing allegiance to the terrorist organization appeared during the opposition takeover of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey. In one video, five fighters declared their intention to create an Islamic state. (Mainline Qaeda ideology calls for a Pan-Islamic caliphate.)
Still, there is, as yet, no significant presence of foreign combatants of any stripe in Syria, fighters and others said. The Saraqib commander estimated there were maybe 50 Qaeda adherents in all of Idlib, a sprawling northwestern province that borders Turkey. The foreigners included Libyans, Algerians and one Spaniard, he said, adding that he much preferred them over homegrown jihadists. They were both less aggressive and less cagey than the locals, said the commander, interviewed in Turkey and via Skype and declining to be further identified.
An activist helping to organize the Syrian military councils said there were roughly 50,000 fighters in total, and far fewer than 1,000 were foreigners, who often have trouble gaining local support. "If there were 10,000, you would know, and less than 1,000 is nothing," said the activist, Rami, declining for safety reasons to use more than one name.
Not all foreign fighters are jihadists, either. One Libyan-Irish fighter, Mahdi al-Harati, who helped lead the battle for Tripoli, Libya, organized a group of volunteers for Syria, noted Thomas Pierret, a lecturer in contemporary Syrian Islam at the University of Edinburgh. "He is not a jihadi; he sees himself as a Libyan revolutionary there to help the Syrian revolution," Mr. Pierret said.
Fighters, activists and analysts say that jihadi groups are emerging now for several reasons. They generally stand apart from the Free Syrian Army, the loose national coalition of local militias made up of army defectors and civilian volunteers. Significantly, most of the money flowing to the Syrian opposition is coming from religious donors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region whose generosity hinges on Salafi teaching.
Further, as the sectarian flavor of the uprising deepened, pitting the majority Sunni Muslims against the ruling minority, the Alawites, it attracted fighters lured by a larger Muslim cause. Alawites, the president's sect, dominate Syria, but many orthodox Muslims view them as a heretical offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Understanding the military players in the Syrian opposition has become remarkably more difficult in recent months through the proliferation of brigades, battalions and fronts, many bearing religious names. Plus they change all the time, and some have all but disappeared.
But there is a marked trend in videos not displaying the revolutionary banner — Syria's independence flag with a green, white and black stripe and three red stars. "The issue of the flag really is key," Mr. Pierret said, "They are on their way to a more Salafi, jihadi agenda and a rejection of the national framework."
One recent such video, highlighting the storming of a police station hear Aleppo, featured a pistol, the Koran and a song about fighting. "The Koran in our hands, we defy our enemy, we sacrifice with our blood for religion" were some of the lyrics.
The commander in Saraqib said that when he invited jihadists into his military council, they rejected several proposed names for the expanded group that included references to Syria. "They consider the entire world the Muslim homeland, so they refused any national, Syrian name," he said.
The attitude prompts grumbling from fighters used to the gentler Islam long prevalent in Syria. Adel, a media activist from Idlib interviewed in Antakya, Turkey, in June, complained that "the Islamic current has broken into the heart of this revolution." When a Muslim Brotherhood member joined his group in Idlib, he said, inside of a week the man demanded that the slogans that they shouted all included, "There is no god but God."
"Now there are more religious chants than secular ones," Adel groused.
Behind the surface tussling over symbols lies a fight for power and influence. Those attacking the government in the name of religion want more say, while those who preceded them want to limit their role. As in Iraq, the longer the fight, the more extremists will likely emerge.
For now, both fighters and analysts said not all the jihadist symbols could be taken at face value. The scarcity of weapons and ammunition in the unbalanced fight with the government inspires much more tension than ideology.
Some Syrians who seek a more secular revolution blame the lack of Western support for driving the rebellion into the arms of the extremists, either by not supplying arms or by not forcing a solution. "The radicalism is the result of a loss of hope," said Imad Hosary, a former member of the nonviolent, local coordination committees inside Syria who fled to Paris. "The jihadists are those that say heaven awaits us because that is all they have left; the international community is responsible for not finding a solution."
The most prominent emerging homegrown groups include Ahrar al-Sham and Sukur al-Sham, which field various chapters in Idlib and elsewhere. Jibhat al-Nusra, an organization that has claimed several suicide bombings, is considered weak on the ground, the experts said.
Ahrar al-Sham in particular enjoys the support of Sheik Adnan al-Arour, a Sunni Muslim media star in exile, who blasts Shiites and Alawites on his television show and on what appears to be his authentic Twitter account. "We buy weapons from the donations and savings of the Wahhabi children," said one recent Twitter posting, referring to the Islamic sect prominent in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, "and not from the Americans like the Shiites of Iraq did."
He has also lashed out against Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the militant Shiite organization that backs President Assad. "I ask Hassan Nasrallah how many wounded Syrians has he healed? Because I know how many he and his party killed."
Members of the main homegrown groups denied harboring extremist tendencies, like declaring other groups or individuals apostates. Abu al-Khatab, in his late 20s, said he was a former fighter for Al Qaeda in Iraq before he joined Ahrar al-Sham. "I agree with Al Qaeda on certain things and disagree on others," he said. "Suicide bombings should only be against the security forces, not civilians, for example."
Abu Zein, a spokesman for Sukur al-Sham, said the organization included Syrians plus other Arabs, French and Belgians. "The Qaeda ideology existed previously, but it was suppressed by the regime," he said in a Skype interview.
"But after the uprising they found very fertile ground, plus the funders to support their existence," he added. "The ideology was present, but the personnel were absent. Now we have both."
Rami, the activist, thinks the jihadi tendencies mark both the length of the fight and the fact that society in many areas has become male-dominated and unstable, with the elderly, women and children having fled. Syrian Islam, he said, tends not to sympathize with extremism. A broad fatwa issued via Ahrar al-Sham against all Alawites was so widely condemned by other fighters that it was later diluted to focus on government figures.
Rami described one local leader in Binnish, a town near Saraqib, questioning the religion of Ahrar al-Sham members who he thought were kidnapping too many local Shiites.
"He told them, 'Damn your religion — who is this God of yours you are bringing? I have been a Muslim for 40 years, and this is a God we don't know,' " Rami said.


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Too many decisions, not enough experience. These are just two of the reasons why many put off renovating their homes. And for some who go ahead, they take on the task only to mess up the projects completely or get taken to the cleaners.
Like the saying goes, sometimes it's better to leave it to the big guns. And in this case, the big gun is Canadian celebrity handyman Bryan Baeumler.
He's just launched a new TV show, aptly named Leave It To Bryan, in which he takes charge to help couples realize where their renovation focus should be.
Baeumler has created a name for himself through past shows, a popular blog on HGTV.ca and a newspaper column, but is probably best known for Disaster DIY, where he was a Prince Charming of sorts, rescuing fair maidens whose home projects had stalled thanks to novice husbands who, more often than not, bit off more than they could chew.
His new show has a similar focus, but in this case, homeowners can tell him the renovation they want done, but it won't necessarily be the one he'll do. Instead, he'll determine what the home needs the most and he gets the final say.
The concept of the show was born from experiences and people Baeumler met filming Disaster DIY and House of Bryan, which involved him building his own house. He gives an example of one man who wanted a home theatre like the one Baeumler built in his own house, when what the man should have been more concerned about were structural issues in his home.
"That (the movie theatre) was all he focused on, while his roof needed to be replaced, he had single-paned glass on the windows, all kinds of water problems," says Baeumler. "But yet his priority is having a home theatre. So the concept kind of grew around that. It's really looking into what people want versus what they need. And are they making responsible choices with their home when it comes to financial, environmental and moral decisions? Are we picking what's beautiful or are we picking what's right? And sometimes they can go together, but not always."
Baeumler says people's attitudes must change - and he's hoping the show will have an impact - because there's a "crisis" looming in the next 15 to 20 years as the newer homes of today get older.
"When people live in their own homes, they romanticize home ownership," Baeumler says matter-of-factly. "They kind of look at it and say, 'We'll buy this old home and we'll throw a beautiful brand new kitchen in it, we'll redo the bathrooms and everything will be glorious.' But they are turning a blind eye to the serious issues within the home. And they are certainly not prioritizing them by putting their money toward those problems."
In the first episode, which aired Thursday, homeowners Kirsi and Brian want a new kitchen for their 100-year-old home - something Kirsi has been dreaming about since they moved in. Once Bryan has a look at the house, he discovers a half-renovated bathroom, a leaky roof with shingles missing and old windows that weren't installed properly, in addition to a kitchen that needs updating.
Homeowners are involved with the projects by sourcing products and helping out, but it's Baeumler who decides what to do with the their budgets, which typically range from $10,000 to $50,000.
"We send them away and I come back with building plans and permits and the scope of work," he says. "So we get started on the work and they come back that day not knowing what we've decided and they find out kind of mid-demolition. There's no going back. And I haven't had anything thrown at me yet."
When: Thursdays, 10 p.m. on HGTV.
More Bryan: Baeumler will also appear, along with Mike Holmes and Scott McGillvray, in Canada's Handyman Challenge, which premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m.
House of Bryan 2: This show about building Baeumler's Georgian Bay cottage comes to HGTV in the spring.


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A Look Inside Iris Cafe's New Takeaway Market, Brooklyn Heights
Iris Cafe's new takeaway shop in Brooklyn Heights is like the best version of a neighborhood bodega. There's a deli in the back with sandwiches and salads made-to-order, rows of colorful drinks in the fridge case, and chocolates near the register. All of the products featured here are either locally sourced or personal favorites of owner Rachel Graville (and she has great taste).
Graville opened the cafe in late 2009, which just this month started dinner service. The original cafe's menu—avocado toast, bluefish salads, and more breakfasty/lunchy items available all day—can now be found at the takeaway shop a few doors down, while the cafe has transitioned to full restaurant mode with waitstaff.
So if you just want a quick sandwich, or you ran out of Corn Flakes and milk, head over to Iris Take Away. It's smaller than the average bodega but still offers quite a bit: Del's Lemonade, Red Jacket juices, plenty of gluten-free products (Graville's dad is gluten-intolerant so she's especially committed to stocking those), glass bottles of Battenkill Valley milk, Cacao Prieto chocolates (from the Red Hook factory), Stewart and Clarke's lip balms (created by a Food & Wine editor), and jars of slaws. "My philosophy is we should all be eating more lacto-fermented foods," said Graville.
There's also a bulk bin corner with popcorn kernels, oats, other grains, and Iris's homemade granola available by the shovelful.
Recently there was a sign up for a roast lamb sandwich. "We'll be testing some stuff here for the restaurant." So don't be surprised if you see lamb pop up on the dinner menu at the restaurant.
Check out some highlights from the shop in the slideshow >>
Iris Take Away
16 Columbia Place, Brooklyn NY (map)
They will also deliver any takeaway items in the neighborhood. Open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Edge was in London at the weekend, comparing an acoustic night featuring Kasabian and The Hours - part of the annual Little Noise Sessions.
'They support a really crap football team (Leicester City), their music is OK," quipped Edge, before welcoming Kasabian., (Leicester's finest) onto the stage of the Union Chapel. 'They don't have echo on their guitars and they haven't written any songs about '60s civil rights leaders.'
Earlier he introduced The Hours. ('gobby and charming' ). It was a year ago that Edge turned up for another surprise appearance at the same venue, performing an acoustic set with Bono.
This year's Little Noise Sessions are in support of Mencap's 'Don't Stick It, Stop It' campaign, aimed at stopping school bullying of special needs students.
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Melky exits with elbow injury after hit by pitch
Blue Jays outfielder is considered day to day after X-rays were negative
TORONTO -- Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera is considered day to day after he was hit by a pitch on the right elbow during Thursday night's 2-1 loss to the Orioles.
X-rays were negative and Cabrera isn't expected to miss a significant amount of time, but the Blue Jays won't really know what to expect until Friday.
Cabrera was hit on the elbow by a 91-mph fastball from Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez during the first inning. Cabrera initially tried to remain in the game but was lifted for pinch-hitter Nolan Reimold in the third inning.
"It got him pretty good, he's got a nice welt and seam marks on his arm," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "It locked up on him when he was trying to hit underneath the stands. He's wasn't able to give us a good effort, but I don't think it's a big deal."
Cabrera entered the game as one of Toronto's hottest hitters. He had hit safely in 17 of his previous 20 games and was batting .392 (31-for-79) with a .455 on-base percentage since July 13.


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text: One person who got a letter canceling his health insurance was Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo. He holds up the letter during a congressional hearing Wednesday on insurance problems. He says his family chose to buy private insurance rather than use the congressional plan. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Shots - Health News Notices Canceling Health Insurance Leave Many On Edge October 30, 2013 President Obama repeatedly said that anyone who likes their current health insurance policy would be able to keep it. But insurers have sent hundreds of thousands of cancellation notices to people who buy their own coverage — and some of them face significantly higher costs to get new policies under the Affordable Care Act. Notices Canceling Health Insurance Leave Many On Edge Listen · 4:25 4:25 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/241895808/241903914" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript


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Homo sapiens C/D box snoRNA HBII-85-28: this snoRNA was first characterized by CavaillŽ et al. (2000), de los Santos et al. (2000) and Meguro et al. (2001). It is highly expressed in the brain and uterus, and to a lesser extent in kidney, heart and lung (Cavaille et al., 2002). Due to cross-hybridisation in Northern blot analysis, it could not be assessed if all predicted snoRNAs in this cluster are indeed expressed. As HBII-52 and HBII-13, HBI-85 was not expressed in the brain of a patient with a paternal 15q11-q13 deletion (Prader-Willi syndrome), but was normally expressed when the deletion was maternally inherited (Angelman syndrome). Genomic sequencing revealed that 27 closely related copies HBII-85 are encoded in introns of the large (460kb), paternally expressed, transcription unit (SNURF-SNRNP-UBE3A AS), that is antisense to the maternally expressed UBE3A gene (Runte et al., 2001). The same transcription unit hosts HBII-13, HBII-436, HBII-437 and HBII-438A/B, and 47 copies of HBII-52). The snoRNAs of this cluster are not predicted to guide to 2'O-methylation of a rRNA or snRNA.
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Runte, M., Huttenhofer, A., Gross, S., Kiefmann, M., Horsthemke, B., and Buiting, K. (2001). The IC-SNURF-SNRPN transcript serves as a host for multiple small nucleolar RNA species and as an antisense RNA for UBE3A. Hum Mol Genet, 10, 2687-2700.
Cavaille, J., Buiting, K., Kiefmann, M., Lalande, M., Brannan, C. I., Horsthemke, B., Bachellerie, J. P., Brosius, J., and Huttenhofer, A. (2000). Identification of brain-specific and imprinted small nucleolar RNA genes exhibiting an unusual genomic organization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 97, 14311-14316.
Cavaille, J., Seitz, H., Paulsen, M., Ferguson-Smith, A. C., and Bachellerie, J. P. (2002). Identification of tandemly-repeated C/D snoRNA genes at the imprinted human 14q32 domain reminiscent of those at the Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region. Hum Mol Genet, 11, 1527-1538.
Meguro, M., Mitsuya, K., Nomura, N., Kohda, M., Kashiwagi, A., Nishigaki, R., Yoshioka, H., Nakao, M., Oishi, M., and Oshimura, M. (2001). Large-scale evaluation of imprinting status in the Prader-Willi syndrome region: an imprinted direct repeat cluster resembling small nucleolar RNA genes. Hum Mol Genet, 10, 383-394.
de los Santos, T., Schweizer, J., Rees, C. A., and Francke, U. (2000). Small evolutionarily conserved RNA, resembling C/D box small nucleolar RNA, is transcribed from PWCR1, a novel imprinted gene in the Prader-Willi deletion region, which Is highly expressed in brain. Am J Hum Genet, 67, 1067-1082.
Runte M, Varon R, Horn D, Horsthemke B, Buiting K. (2005) Exclusion of the C/D box snoRNA gene cluster HBII-52 from a major role in Prader-Willi syndrome. Hum Genet. 116:228-230.
Ding F, Prints Y, Dahr MS, Johnson DK, Garnacho-Montero C, et al. (2005) Lack of Pwcr1/MBII-85 snoRNA is critical for neonatal lethaly in Prader-Willi syndrome mouse models. Mamm Genome 16:424-431.
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MrFreelance necesitaba un nuevo diseño de animación en Flash y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 8 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for original Flash elements (.fla files) that would be useful to Web Developers and Designers. Things like Preloaders, Buttons, Menus, Animations, Text or photo and masking effects, etc.
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I'm developing a website that will provide free Flash resources (.fla files) to Web Designers and Developers. I'm looking to get some original flash content on the site that others will find useful. Submissions could fall under any of these categories:
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Please note: Upon payment to the winners I will own the rights to the files. The files will be placed on my website for others to download FREE. I will not be re-selling the content.
The winning designers will also get a link to their personal site (if they have one) and FULL CREDIT for the work on the site. I won't be doing any glory stealing so don't worry:)
I will award a second prize winner ($50 USD) and possibly multiple runners up ($25 USD each). I can't stress enough that all the graphics and code need to be ORIGINAL.
DO NOT purchase stock from other sites and try and upload it as your own.
All contestants are encouraged to be on the lookout and bring to my attention any entries that may not be 100% original.
Anyone found to be uploading purchased content and claiming it as their own will be disqualified from the contest.
Prizes will be awarded to the "coolest" and most useful elements, but I reserve the right not to award a winner if all your entries suck (but I don't think that will happen since you all seem to be really talented) :)
Enter as many times as you like because if you're good, you could win first AND Second prize :)
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Traditional Tibetan patterns are reinterpreted in this line of contemporary designs. Each rug is hand woven in lustrous wool in subtle color palettes that coordinate perfectly with any setting.
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A unique and vibrant blue, it comes from Sleeping Beauty Mountain in Arizona where we found a deposit that lives up to our high expectations. It is lightfast and permanent, with none of the transient color fade that plagues most turquoise.
Turquoise has a unique porous nature that produces granular washes. Juicy washes flow from the brush and drybrush work has the intense texture found only in a mineral pigment. Traditional mineral pigments have a muted feel, our unique Turquoise Genuine has a true brilliance. We use the highest grade mineral that is found closest to the earth's surface, where environmental factors have enhanced the structure to gemstone quality and deepened the tonal richness to a remarkable blue.
Historic references of Turquoise date back as far as Egypt's first dynasty. Turquoise from the American Southwest has been unearthed in Aztec ruins and Persian turquoise was used as trading currency.
- ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
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