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The Mr Mustache book in english!
We have already had so much positive feedback and orders of our Mr Mustache book that we
have decided to make an english version of it right away. A little longer delivery time, but
for sure in time for christmas ;)
Thank you all of you who have ordered the book! (Just mail us if you want the english version
instead of the swedish).
15 comments:
- coelho said...
i'm so going to be placing an order for an engligh version - looks amazing! x
- September 26, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Oh wonderful! I may still order one in Swedish though, just to learn maybe a few words :-) Then also one in English for my little nephew. Can't get over how sweet these pictures are xx
- September 27, 2010 at 12:59 AM
- teddybearswednesday said...
YAY !! I was sooo hoping this might happen. But I would have got the Swedish version if not anyway. xo
- September 27, 2010 at 7:46 AM
- sonia pulido said...
it is wonderful!!
- September 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM
I would love one in english please!
- September 28, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Melinda Josie said...
I'm so glad you're doing an English version! (Congratulations on a beautiful book!).
- September 30, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Misha Lulu said...
it looks gorgeous! It is on my wish list for Christmas!
- October 3, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- Unknown said...
please Santa! congratulations - its is wonderful im sure.
- October 6, 2010 at 11:18 PM
- vilda thomas said...
your blog is a pure "makes me smile (of such beautiful things)-source"! THANKYOU
- October 13, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Julie said...
Beautiful little sets. This book is on my wish list for my children's xmas!
- October 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Boken ser fantastisk ut:)
The book looks great:)
- October 16, 2010 at 4:32 PM
- Jen said...
I love it!!!
- October 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Hello, I received MM, its realy very beautiful! There is an lot to see on the pictures. Thank you both ladies!
- October 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Casie Jean said...
I want want want this.
Casie Jean
- November 25, 2010 at 3:39 AM
- poédra said...
Just received it today, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! I can't be happier, thanks you so much!!!
- November 27, 2010 at 9:05 AM


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Ultra Recall Standard 5.0 ($49, 45-day free trial) is a simple outlining, note-taking and document management tool that is similar to TreePad and MemoMaster, but has a more robust set of features that I find especially useful.
The "Data Explorer" pane shows your "Info Items" in an outline view. The central pane is a tabbed display that shows the actual information in each item. Other panes show child items or the attributes of the current item. There is a great deal of flexibility in how these panes are laid out, and Ultra Recall allows you to save and switch to a variety of layouts, so you can have one arrangement for some tasks and a different arrangement for others.
The hierarchical outline format for the Data Explorer pane is a well-worn standard. Ultra Recall offers a very nice new twist, though, and it is a feature I've been seeking for a while.
You can file the same item under multiple hierarchies, which is extremely helpful, as one of the weaknesses of the outline structure is that many pieces of information logically belong in different areas simultaneously. With Ultra Recall, you can use alt-drag to place a linked copy of an item under a different tree. Because this is a reference link, rather than a cut-and-paste of the information, you still only have one "copy" of the item, but it can be seen, edited, and so on under however many trees it logically belongs with.
An author might have a tree of "Characters," for instance, and also a tree for each chapter in a book. The same character can be found in the chapter tree for each chapter he appears in, and in the character tree, and anywhere else it makes sense to place that data item.
Also , you can give each item in the $100 Ultra Recall Professional (but not the $50 Standard) unique attributes. Attributes are simple data tags that allow Ultra Recall to add some structure to a piece of information. A good example is the built-in "Contact" item, which has attributes for name, phone number, and so forth.
Ultra Recall allows linking to files and external sources, such as Web pages. It also offers an in-app browser with the ability to save pages as items within your Ultra Recall database. The in-app browser is adequate, with some minor rendering issues on some pages.
While Ultra Recall's help file contains entries on most of the program's features, some of the information is sparse, and it could use more of a tutorial, rather than reference, slant.
The interface is generally clean and adheres to Windows UI guidelines, except for the annoying "partial menus" where only a subset of the items show until you hover on the menu for a few seconds. None of the configurations or settings could deactivate this behavior.
The Standard edition, at $50, lacks some import and export features, as well as the ability to add custom attributes or create custom forms. A full feature comparison is at developer Kinook Software's Web site.
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As you know, Photo Booth includes a collection of image-altering effects you can use to distort your photos; just click the Effects button to see the collection of 24 effects, and to apply them to your photos. A subset of these effects (16 in all) are available in iChat, too, for use in creating some truly strange looking iChat image icons. But in case that's not enough effects for you, here's a way to add over 20 additional effects to both iChat and Photo Booth.
To use today's hint, you'll need a text editor that can handle binary plist files—Apple's own Property List Editor (included with Xcode), or BareBones' free TextWrangler, for instance. There's a bit of editing to do, but it's not hard.
To start, open two Finder windows. In the first, navigate to /System -> Library -> Compositions. In the second, navigate to your user's Library folder. If you don't see a Compositions folder there, create one, and then navigate into it.
Next, copy a number of the compositions from the first (System-level) window to the second (your user's Library -> Compositions folder). Note that there are many entries in the top-level Compositions folder, but not all will work well with iChat and Photo Booth. So how do you know which ones to copy?
Thankfully, Mac OS X Hints reader Anthony Saxon has done the hard work for you. He reports that the following effects work well:
ASCII Art, Blue Print, Blur, City Lights, Color Controls, Color Invert, Compound Eye, Concert, Crystallize, Dot Screen, Exposure Adjust, Gamma Adjust, Kaleidescope, Line Overlay, Line Screen, Monochrome, Neon, Pixellate, Pointillize, Posterize, Sharpen, Tracer, Zoom Blur
Copy as many or as few of those as you'd like over to your user's Library/Compositions folder. (If you're running 10.6, you'll see a preview of each effect in its icon, or you can use Cover Flow view to see a larger version.)
Before proceeding further, please note that some users who have tried this have reported crashes with Photo Booth or iChat after adding some new effects. I have removed the known troublesome effects from the list, but that doesn't mean there might not be more issues (particularly on Snow Leopard machines).
If the thought of some possible short-term application instability is a concern, you should probably not read any further—although I do provide instructions below on how to recover from a crash if you experience one.
Once you've copied over the files you'd like to use, you'll need to edit each one, and delete a few lines. Launch TextWrangler, and use File -> Open to open one of your copied files. These files will all look relatively similar, especially near the beginning of each file, which is the part you're interested in editing. Look for these five lines:
You want to delete all five of those lines, then save the file.
Because of the slim chance that an effect may cause a crash, I suggest testing each before editing the next (or do them in small batches). This makes recovery easier if you do experience a crash.
Once you're sure a given effect works, repeat the editing with the next file you copied across, and test again.
As you can see in the image at right, Photo Booth (and iChat) will add additional effects pages to accommodate your added effects; I've added eight effects, so Photo Booth is showing them all on one additional page.
So what happens if you have a crash after adding these effects? Say Photo Booth or iChat quit then refuse to launch, or maybe your machine kernel panics (gray and white screen appears, telling you you must reboot)?
If this happens to you, the fix is thankfully simple—just don't try to launch iChat or Photo Booth until you fix the problem. The actual fix is what you might have guessed: simply remove the added effects from your user's Library/Compositions folder, and all will be back to normal.
While crashes are never nice, I haven't experienced any after adding eight of the above effects to Photo Booth on my MacBook Pro—and my daughters love playing around with the Tracer effect, so I think these added effects will stay around for a while!


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Laura J. Juszczak
Associate Professor
Location: 3119 Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1426
Fax: 718.951.4607
Email: Laura J. Juszczak's Web site
After several years as a painting conservator, Laura Juszczak returned to New York University with the aim of becoming an art conservation scientist. On the way to a master's degree, however, her focus changed from the study of inorganic to organic pigments. She stayed on to complete a Ph.D.; her dissertation focused on the energy transfer mechanism in light-harvesting blue-green algae. Continuing with spectroscopy, she worked as a postdoc in the laser lab of Professor Joel M. Friedman, primarily studying hemoglobin mutants using the laser technique of UV resonance Raman(UVRR) spectroscopy. She stayed on at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a faculty associate. With her faculty appointment in 2006 at Brooklyn College, Juszczak earned NIH funding to apply UVRR and other spectroscopic techniques, together with molecular modeling simulations, to study the reporter molecule and amino acid, tryptophan, in proteins.
Postdoctoral studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - 1999 (Laser Spectroscopy of Proteins)
Ph.D., New York University - 1993 (Chemistry, Physical)
M.S., New York University - 1986 (Chemistry)
M.S., University of Delaware - 1979 (Art Conservation)
A.B., Wellesley College - 1976 (Art History)
Areas of Expertise:
Laura Juszczak's area of expertise is biophysical chemistry; her tools are spectroscopic, primarily UV resonance Raman. This technique is used to selectively probe aromatic residues in proteins, primarily tryptophan but also tyrosine. Such studies reveal details about protein conformation in both the normal and diseased state. This information allows us to understand the molecular level detail of the disease process, and helps researchers to design effective drugs.
Books and Publications
Laura J. Juszczak. "Clock It: Solving the 3-D Chirality Problem with a 2-D Method-A Simple Algorithm for Teaching and Determining Enantiomers in General Chemistry." Journal of Chemical Education, September 8, 2021, Articles ASAP (Communication). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Grigoryan, A., S. Eisenberg and L.J. Juszczak. PHOXI: A High Quantum Yield, Solvent-Sensitive Blue Fluorescent 5-Hydroxytryptophan Derivative Synthesized within Ten Minutes under Aqueous, Ambient Conditions. J Phys Chem B (2017) 121 7256-7266, PubMed # 28686023, NIHMSID 898377. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2017
Laura J. Juszczak and Azaria S. Eisenberg. The Color of Cation-pi Interactions: Subtleties of Amine-Tryptophan Interaction Energetics Allow for Radical-like Visible Absorbance and Fluorescence. J Am Chem Soc. (2017) 217 8302-8311, PubMed #28537725, NIHMSID 890707. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
AS Eisenberg, M Nathan, LJ Juszczak. : Excited state electron distribution and role of the terminal amine in acidic and basic tryptophan dipeptide fluorescence. J Mol Struc 2016 12pp (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Eisenberg, S. and L.J. Juszczak. "The Broken Ring: Reduced Aromaticity in Lys-Trp Cations and High pH Tautomer Correlates with Lower Quantum Yield and Shorter Lifetimes." Submitted to Journal of Physical Chemistry B. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
Eisenberg, S. and L.J. Juszczak. The Broken Ring: Reduced Aromaticity in Lys-Trp Cations and High pH Tautomer Correlates with Lower Quantum Yield and Shorter Lifetimes. J Phys Chem B (2014) 118 7059-69, PMCID: PMC4165537. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
Eisenberg, Azaria Solomon and Laura J. Juszczak. "Relating Trp-Glu Dipeptide Fluorescence to Molecular Conformation: The Role of the Discrete chi 1 and chi 2 Angles." Journal of Computational Chemistry. Article first published online, April 8 | DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23288. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Eisenberg, A.S. and Laura Juszczak. "Correlation of TrpGly and GlyTrp Rotamer Structure with W7
and W10 UV Resonance Raman Modes and Fluorescence Emission Shifts" Journal of Amino Acids. DOI: 10.1155/2012/735076. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Meng, Xianwei, Trisheena Harricharran and Laura Juszczak. "A Spectroscopic Survey of Substituted Indoles Reveals Consequences of a Stabilized 1Lb Transition." Photochemistry and Photobiology. DOI 10.1111/j1751-1097. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Juszczak, L.J. and R.Z.B. Desamero. "Extension of the Tryptophan Dihedral Angle - W3 Band Frequency Relationship to a Full Rotation: Correlations and Caveats." Biochemistry 48: 2777-87. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Maliga, Z., J. Xing, H. Cheung, L.J. Juszczak, J.M. Friedman and S.S. Rosenfeld. "A Pathway of Structural Changes Produced by Monastrol Binding to Eg5." Journal of Biological Chemistry 281: 7977-82. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
Samuni, U., C.J. Roche, D. Dantsker, L.J. Juszczak and J. M. Friedman. "Modulation of Reactivity and Conformation within the T-quaternary State of Human Hemoglobin: The Combined Use of Mutagenesis and Sol-Gel Encapsulation." Biochemistry 45: 2820-35. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
Juszczak, L., U. Samuni and J. M. Friedman. "The Conformational and Functional Significance of the α140 Side Chain in HbA: A UV and Visible Resonance Raman Study of the Three α140 Mutants." Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 36: 350-58. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
Kavanaugh, J.S., L.J. Juszczak, P.H. Rogers, A. Arnone, Hilda L. Hui, Anita Wierzba, Alice DeYoung, Laura D. Kwiatkowski, Robert W. Noble, Eric S. Peterson and Joel M. Friedman. "Intersubunit Interactions Associated with Tyr42 alpha Stabilize the Quaternary-T Tetramer but Are Not Major Quaternary Constraints in Deoxyhemoglobin." Biochemistry 44: 3806-20. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"Comparative Vibrational Spectroscopy of Intracellular Tau and Extracellular Collagen I Reveals Parallels of Gelation and Fibrillar Structure." Journal of Biological Chemistry 279: 7395-404 and 18098. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
NSF INSTRUMENTATION AWARD. Sept. 2021 CO-PI on: 'MRI: Acquisition of a Streak Camera System for Time-resolved deep UV - visible photoluminescence Spectroscopy.' PI: Mim Lal Nakarmi, Dept. of Physics, Brooklyn College. Title of my proposal contribution: 'Photodynamics of the Cation-π Interaction and its role in Protein Function.' (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
NSF PROPOSAL CONTRIBUTOR to: 'MRI: Enhancing research and undergraduate experiences at CUNY through modern parallel hybrid architectures and cloud technologies.' PI: Angelo Bongiorno, High Performance Computer Center at the College of Staten Island. Title of my contribution: 'Connecting the visible spectroscopy of aromatic cation-interactions to molecular level specifics and radical photophysics.' Submitted January 2021. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
NIH SC3 application submitted, "Coloring in the aromatic boxes: visible spectroscopy of cation-pi interactions." (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
NSF MRI, for "Proposal for a stimulated-emission-depletion (STED) microscope," submitted by Rein Ulijn, ASRC, CUNY, Jan. 22. Contributed a support proposal, "STED microscopy for the development of auxiliary photosynthesis light-harvesting pigments." (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
NIH grant 5 SC3 GM105562, for "Edge-on/face-on: Trp tripeptides model residue interactions in proteins." June 2013 - May 2017.
(Grants and Fellowships) 2013
PSC-CUNY ENHC-44-37, for "Tryptophan as secondary sphere binding ligand in the prion protein 2+ octapeptide complex." July 2013 - June 2014. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Lipke, P., L. Quadri, L. Juszczak and T. Muth. MRI-R2 joint proposal for major research instrument: "Acquisition of a Plasmon Resonance Spectrometer: Metal Surface Affinity and Kinetics for Irreversible-Binding Proteins as Measured by SPR Spectroscopy." Funded August 2010-July 31, 2013. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
NIH SC02 proposal 1SC2GM092291-01, for "Spectroscopic Markers for Blue-Fluorescing Tryptophan in Proteins." Funded June 2010-May 2013. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY Award #62490-00-40, for "A Small Drug-Like Molecule Inhibits Amyloid Beta 42 Oligomerization and Toxicity." (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
PSC-CUNY Award #60087-37-38, for "Two-Dimensional Spectroscopic Analysis of Protein Unfolding/Refolding by FTIR Spectroscopy." (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Research Activities
Undergraduate research mentoring for Hillary Jaramillo (CHEM 5110; project: "Quantum Yield and Lifetime measurements on Cys-Trp dipeptide charges species") and Godfrey Rollins (CHEM 5110; project: "Quantum Yield and Lifetime measurements on Trp-Cys dipeptide charges species"). 2015
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
At the CUNY Biophysics Symposium, ASRC, CUNY, May 3, 2109. "The role of cation-pi interactions in protein function." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
The American Photobiology Biennial Meeting, Tampa, FL. May 14, 2018. Coloring in the boxes: Spectroscopic characterization of cation-pi interactions in aromatic, ligand-binding pockets. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, June 9-12, 2016, College of Mt. St. Vincent, Yonkers, NY. Lecture: The effect of N-terminal and indole amine protonation state on aromaticity and tryptophan quantum yield. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
The College of Staten Island/CUNY November 10, 2016. Title: The broken ring: what tryptophan fluorescence and electronic isosurfaces tell us about the fluidity of aromatic pi electron distribution. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Azaria, M.A., S. Eisenberg and Laura J. Juszczak. "From Charge State to Isosurfaces to Spectra: Unraveling the Mystery of Lys-Trp Dipeptide Fluorescence" platform talk. International Biophysical Society Meeting. Baltimore, Feb. 7-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Azaria, M.A., S. Eisenberg and Laura J. Juszczak. "UV Resonance Raman and Fluorescence spectroscopies with QM/MD calculations characterize Trp Protein Environment" poster. RamanFest. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., June 12-13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"The Photophysics of Trp-Glu Dipeptide Conformations" poster. Gordon Conference on Photochemistry. Stonehill College. Easton, Mass., July 21-26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Eisenberg, A., M. Nathan and L.J. Juszczak. " Backbone Stretched; Backbone Curled: Conformational Similarity for Trp Dipeptides Parallels Fluorescence Emission and UVRR W10 Shifts." 56th International Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, Feb. 25-29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy: Versatility at a Single Wavelength." CUNY Graduate Center. BICM. March 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Eisenberg, Azaria and L.J. Juszczak. "Tracing the Fluorescence Shift of Tryptophan Dipeptides" poster. International Biophysical Society Meeting. Baltimore, March 2-4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Meng, X., A. Eisenberg, T. Harricharan and L. Juszczak. "Electron Density of Indole Derivatives, Calculation and Experiment," Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Symposium. Baruch College (CUNY). New York, Nov. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Marin, Tania and Laura Juszczak. "A Study of Unfolding and the Beta Sheet to Alpha Helix Conformational Switch in Beta Lactoglobulin" poster. 54th International Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, Feb. 20-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Juszczak, L. and R. Desamero. "Extension of the Chi(2,1) Dihedral Angle - W3 Band Frequency Relationship to a Full Rotation: Correlations and Caveats" poster. 53rd International Biophysical Society Meeting. Boston, Feb. 28-March 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Professional Leadership
Brooklyn College Campus Sustainability/Energy Pillar (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Sept. 2018 Co-coordinator for BC LSAMP program, part of the CUNY NSF-LSAMP program to increase underrepresented minority participation in STEM majors with the goal of increasing post-graduate STEM studies. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Biochemistry Department, CUNY Graduate Center, executive and admissions committee representative (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
University Faculty Senate representative. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Undergraduate science fair judge, NYC Science and Engineering Fair. City College of New York (CUNY). New York, March 4. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2012
Arrangements co-coordinator, 25th Annual H. Martin Friedman Lecture, Brooklyn College, October. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Faculty Membership Committee, Biochemistry Department, CUNY Graduate Center. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Brooklyn College Faculty Council. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Pedagogical Achievements
CHEM 4620. Student Independent Researdh Project: Ligand docking in the mu-Opioid Receptor using Chimera and AutoDock Vina freeware. This project was first introduced into in Spring 2020 and has been further developed 2021
Chemistry 1007: Curriculum revision implemented in fall semester. Emphasis of the curriculum away from environmental climate change to the chemistry of food and cooking with a focus on food sustainability. A secondary text was required, "The Kitchen as Laboratory" by C. Vega, J. Ubbink and E. van der Linden. All lecture components were made online: etext, which allowed for use of McGraw-Hill interactive querying while reading, and e-problem set submission and grading. YouTube lecture-demonstration videos on cooking procedures and chemical concepts were integrated into the lecture. 2014
Lecturer, BICM 88800, "Protein Adsorption to Surfaces." Biochemistry Department, CUNY Graduate Center. 2010
Undergraduate mentor for Barnard College student Viktoriya Rutkovskaya, on "Fluorescence Excitatation and Emission Study of Indole in Graduated Solutions of N-pentane and N-butanol." June-July. 2010
Visiting master's student mentor for Fenneke KleinJan of Gronningen University, the Netherlands, on master's thesis chapter, "UV Resonance Raman Analysis of Proteins With Highly Blue-shifted Tryptophan Fluorescence." November 2009-May 2010. 2010
Visiting scientist collaboration. Sarah Paquette, Ph.D., professor, College of the Menominee Nation. Keshena, Wis. Development of a program for two-dimensional correlation analysis using Mathematica software. June-July. 2010
Community Activities
Brooklyn College/CUNY representative, NIH Graduate & Professional School Fair, Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., July 8. 2010
Other Professional Activities
"Spectroscopic Study of Blue-shifted Tryptophan Fluorescence in Proteins" seminar and outreach. College of the Menominee Nation. Keshena, Wis., Oct. 26. 2010
"Spectroscopic Study of Blue-shifted Tryptophan Fluorescence in Proteins" seminar. Department of Chemistry, Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, Oct. 25. 2010
MBRS - Support of Competitive Research SCORE Program meeting. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Md., Dec. 2-3. 2010
PSC-CUNY Panel on Grant Awards in Chemistry. 2010
Attended "Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration." Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Conference. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4-5. 2008
U.S. Provisional Patent Application no. 60/802,972, for "Methods of Dissolving beta-Sheet Proteins and Uses Thereof." 2006


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I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port built into a server.
The company is announcing a new, Ethernet-enabled version of its Xsigo I/O Director at VMworld in San Francisco on Tuesday.
With I/O virtualization, one more piece of the data center becomes virtual and can be modified with relative ease to suit changing application requirements. Xsigo has been selling its I/O Director platform for three years, but only for use with InfiniBand server adapters. Enterprises have been able to plug a server into the I/O Director via a single InfiniBand connection and divide the capacity of that pipe into a number of different virtual Ethernet or Fibre Channel links. This eliminates the need to buy additional server adapters, said Jon Toor, vice president of marketing at Xsigo.
Xsigo's latest product allows enterprises to do the same thing without even buying the InfiniBand adapter, because Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet is built into almost all servers. The new I/O Director, available to order now for shipment beginning next month, will accommodate 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports. With it, administrators will be able to connect any server to any network or storage resource in minutes, according to the company. The system can even be managed via an iPhone or iPod Touch, using an application downloadable from iTunes.
In settings where 10-Gigabit Ethernet offers enough performance, the new I/O Director could be an economical solution, said Jim Levesque, a systems programmer at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The DWP is already using the InfiniBand product and enjoying several benefits from it, he said.
The DWP uses InfiniBand to achieve 20M bps performance and very low latency, which Ethernet doesn't offer, Levesque said. The utility started using Xsigo's product in production at a new disaster recovery facility about a month ago. It allowed the company to create much fatter pipes between its application and database servers, Levesque said. It also meant the company could reduce the number of network adapters in each physical server by 80 percent. In previous deployments, DWP has installed as many as six Ethernet and four Fibre Channel ports in each server. With the I/O Director, it only needed two InfiniBand ports, each with 20G bps of capacity.
A side benefit of the system is that it allows for reprovisioning the network on the fly, saving time and money, Levesque said. Cutting down on the number of ports also reduces cabling, so the data-center architecture is simpler and there are fewer wires that may block airflow through the servers, he said.
Enterprises increasingly need some form of I/O convergence, said Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi.
"The problem is really driven by virtualization and the fact that workloads can and will move around, so we can't physically preconfigure and prescribe what the I/O mix is going to be and have that live for the life of that system," Fabbi said.
Some vendors, such as Cisco, are pushing Fibre Channel over Ethernet as a single network infrastructure that spans both storage, with its traditional Fibre Channel connectivity, and Ethernet LANs. Others, such as NextIO, utilize PCI Express. What technology is used matters less than having flexibility, Fabbi said. However, Xsigo's approach has the advantage of embracing the trend toward built-in 10-Gigabit Ethernet and allowing companies to start out with Gigabit Ethernet, he said. By contrast, Fibre Channel over Ethernet is solely a 10G bps solution, so it's limited to newer equipment, Fabbi said.
In that sense, Xsigo's system ultimately could be transitional, as servers in time will have both 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE built in, according to Fabbi. FCoE will be featured in upcoming blade servers and, within a year or 18 months, in most new rack-mount servers, Fabbi predicted.
The base model of the new product, the VP560e I/O Director, will be priced starting at US$35,000. Dell, a partner of Xsigo, will also resell the Ethernet-capable systems.


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Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to Anatoly Karlin. He blogs at The Unz Review
Topics include:
Anatoly's article at the Unz Review about his American Decade
Why Anatoly is leaving the United States and going back to Russia
How the United States is becoming more like Europe
T.R. Reid's book The United States of Europe, where he argued that the EU was emerging as a superpower rivaling the US, but has latter been disproved
How during the Bush era Americans perceived Europeans as "Cheese Eating Surrender Moneys," but latter Sarkozy became the architect of the war in Libya, and arming Syrian rebels
Another element of America's Europeanization is the decline in social conservatism, the surge in support for gay marriage, and drug legalization
Anatoly's political views, which are fairly socially liberal(except for rejecting political correctness, and radical feminism), economically centrist, and closest to Rabbit's AltLeft
U.S. Millennials More Likely to Support Censoring Offensive Speech, especially among university students who are the future elites
The decline in American fertility rates toward European levels
How American politics now resembles Europe in the sense that there are five distinct blocs: Clinton democrats, Sanders socialists, Rubio/Bush etablishment conservatives, Cruz Bible-bashers, and Trump nationalists.
Anatoly's pre election prediction article US Elections 2016: Let's MAGA, Not War, and Trump's support in the rust belt
Trump's economic policies as a hybrid of supply side economics, and economic nationalism, and the similarities to Putin's economic policies in Russia
The GINI index of income inequality
The pros and cons of economic automation, and the basic income
Transhumanism, Zoltan Istvan, and his book The Transhumanist Wager
The Bay Area where Anatoly spent most of his time in the US, and how it's pretty much ideal, but also the most expensive macro-region of the US
California is also home to Ron Unz, Steve Sailer, as well as the "Alt Left" movement(the tiny group of thinkers combining leftist economics with HBD, sane views on gender relations, and a penchant for futurism )
The futurist scene in the Bay Area including Scott Jackisch's Bay Area Futurists meetup, Health Extensions Salons, Mike Johnson's Qualia Research Institute, Effective Altruism, and the "techno" faction of NRx
Mass Transit, Bay Area Rapid Transit, how older cities tend to have more integrated transit systems, and why conservatives oppose mass transit
Global Warming, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius who discovered climate change, debunking climate change deniers, and whether it will benefit arctic regions such as Russia
Observations on other American cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and Pittsburgh
Anatoly's experience ridding across the nation on Amtrak
Architecture: Skyscrapers, Brutalism, architect John Portman's 70's Neofuturism, and Rabbit's ideal city based on the film Logan's run
America's great wilderness and National Park System
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Paul Manafort Pleads Not Guilty To Conspiracy, Tax And Bank Fraud Charges
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, tax and bank fraud charges in an Alexandria, Va., federal courtroom Thursday afternoon.
Judge T.S. Ellis set a trial date for July 10.
Manafort faces a separate federal trial on Sept. 17 on other charges also brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office in a Washington, D.C., case.
For the Virginia case, Manafort will be fitted with a second electronic monitoring bracelet (he is already wearing one related to the D.C. case) and will be allowed to meet with lawyers, attend church services and make emergency medical trips as needed.
Ellis, who has been on the bench for 31 years, alternately cracked jokes and pressed lawyers for Manafort's and Mueller's office on their legal positions.
The judge urged prosecutors to add a lawyer to their team experienced in practicing in the Eastern District of Virginia federal court where the Alexandria, Va., courthouse is located. "Only a fool would try a case in a jurisdiction he's unfamiliar with, without local counsel," the judge said, citing wisdom of his mentor Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
The judge also pressed the special counsel's team about why it had brought so many charges against Manafort — 18 — and whether the government case could be streamlined.
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said his case would likely take eight to 10 trial days and involve 20 to 25 witnesses.
But Ellis also pushed Manafort's defense team, which resisted a quick trial date. When Kevin Downing, the lead lawyer for Manafort, said that in a perfect world "with rosy glasses on," the Virginia trial would start in November, the judge retorted: "You need to go back to the optometrist — that isn't going to happen."
The judge asked whether Manafort's team expected to challenge the authority and scope of Mueller's mandate — an argument Manafort is making in a separate civil suit in Washington, D.C., federal court — and Downing said yes.
Downing said he would add two Virginia lawyers to his team, likely on Monday.
If Manafort is convicted in either the Virginia or D.C. case, it could amount to a life sentence since he is 68 years old.
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Let $M$ and $N$ be $R$-modules with $R$ a commutative ring with identity. When we calculate $Tor_i^R(M,N)$, usually first we choose projecive resolutions $P_.$ and $Q_.$ of $M$ and $N$, then we calculate the $i$-th homology group of the complex $P_.\otimes Q_.$. My question is: can we choose an injective resolution $I^.$ of $M$ and a projective resolution $Q_.$ of $N$, and $Tor_i^R(M,N)$ is just the $i$-th cohomology group of the cochain complex $I^.\otimes Q_.$?
The cochain groups of $I^.\otimes Q_.$ is defined by N.E.Steenrod as follows: $(I^.\otimes Q_.)^n=\sum_{i=0}^{\infty}I^{n+i}\otimes Q_i$, the coboundary operator is defined by: $d(r\otimes q)=\delta(r)\otimes q+(-1)^{n+i}r\otimes \partial(q)$.


text: He may have kicked some serious butt in the Die Hard series, but in this mid-1980s commercial, rugged tough guy Bruce Willis shows his softer side dancing, singing and twirling on a porch while hawking light booze. The ads feature Bruce and his boys jamming on a porch and singing about the greatness of Seagram's Golden Wine Coolers. "Hey big fellas, look here," he croons. "It's wet and it's dry my, my, my. Me and the boys love, love, love it all the time." The television ads were reportedly wildly popular, helping to both make Seagram's the world's largest distilled-spirits company and launch Willis' short-lived singing career. In an ironic twist, Willis lost his position as Seagram's spokesman after being caught drunk driving.


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Standards covered by or related to COMBINE activities
One of the major goals of COMBINE is to improve the interoperability of existing standards, and to foster or support fledging efforts aimed at filling gaps or new needs. Below are listed some of the major community standard representation formats covered by or related to COMBINE activity.
COMBINE standards
The following standardization activities are open community efforts. The standards are described in freely available specifications, and associated tools (XML schemas, UML diagrams etc.). They are piloted by democratically elected editorial boards, sometimes assisted by scientific committees. A decent software support exist, including API implementations. The development is supported by central teams and/or funding sources. The different formats try to avoid overlapping but rather strive to interoperate, via interconversion, cross-linking, use of common metadata layers etc.
A comprehensive list of specification documents is also available, following the COMBINE specification infrastructure.
| BioPAX is a standard language that aims to enable integration, exchange and analysis of biological pathway data. It is expressed in OWL.
The last specification is BioPAX Level 3.
BioPAX development is coordinated by an elected editorial board and a Scientific Advisory Board.
BioPAX is supported by many pathway database or processing tools. An API is available to help implementing support: Paxtools
| The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN), is a set standard graphical languages to describe visually biological knowledge. It is currently made up of three languages describing Process Descriptions, Entity Relationships and Activity Flows.
The last specifications are SBGN PD Level 1 Version 2.0, SBGN ER Level 1 Version 2 and SBGN AF Level 1 Version 1.2.
SBGN development is coordinated by an elected editorial board and a Scientific Committee.
Several data resources and software claim support for SBGN. An API is available to help implementing support: libSBGN
| The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is a computer-readable XML format for representing models of biological processes. SBML is suitable for, but not limited to, models using a process description approach.
The latest stable specification is Level 3 Version 2 Core.
SBML development is coordinated by an elected editorial board and central developer team.
Over 250 software systems known to support SBML can be found in the SBML software guide. APIs are available to help implementing support: libSBML in C++ and JSBML in Java.
The Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language (SED-ML) is an XML-based format for encoding simulation experiments. SED-ML allows to define the models to use, the experimental tasks to run and which results to produce.is a computer-readable format for representing the models of biological processes. SED-ML can be used with models encoded in several languages, as far as they are in XML.
The latest stable specification is Level 1 Version 3.
SED-ML development is coordinated by an elected editorial board.
APIs are available to help implementing support: libSedML in C#, libSEDML in C++ with swig bindings for python, java, perl, R and ruby, and jlibsedml in Java.
The CellML language is an XML markup language to store and exchange computer-based mathematical models. CellML is being developed by the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland and affiliated research groups.
The latest stable specification is Version 1.1.
CellML development is coordinated by an elected editorial board.
APIs are available to help implementing support: CellML API in C.
The Synthetic Biology Open Language Data (SBOL Data) is a language for the description and the exchange of synthetic biological parts, devices and systems.
The latest stable specification of SBOL Data is 2.2.0.
SBOL Data is developed by the SBOL Developers Group. The development is coordinated by an editorial board and the SBOL Chair.
SBOL data is supported by many software tools. APIs are available to help implement the support of this data standard.
The Synthetic Open Language Visual (SBOL Visual) is an open-source graphical notation that uses schematic "glyphs" to specify genetic parts, devices, modules, and systems.
The latest stable specification of SBOL Visual is 2.0.0.
SBOL is developed by the SBOL Developers Group and SBOL Visual Group. The development is coordinated by an editorial board and the SBOL Chair.
SBOL Visual is supported by many software tools.
The NeuroML project focuses on the development of an XML based description language that provides a common data format for defining and exchanging descriptions of neuronal cell and network models.
The latest stable specification of NeuroML is version 2 beta 4.
NeuroML development is coordinated by the NeuroML Editorial Board.
NeuroML is supported by many software tools and databases, see here.
Associated standardization efforts
The standardisation efforts described below are not community-developed representation formats. However, they are tools to add a layer of semantics that facilitate the use, the interoperability or enhance the usefulness of COMBINE representation formats.
COMBINE Archive
A COMBINE archive is a single file bundling the various documents necessary for a modelling and simulation project, and all relevant information. The archive is encoded using the Open Modeling EXchange format (OMEX).
COMBINE Archive Metadata
COMBINE archive metadata provides a harmonized, community-driven approach for annotating a variety of standardized model and data representation formats within a COMBINE archive.
Identifiers.org URIs
MIRIAM Unique Resource Identifiers allow one to uniquely and unambiguously identify an entity in a stable and perennial manner. MIRIAM Registry is a set of services and resources that provide support for generating, interpreting and resolving MIRIAM URIs. Through the Identifiers.org technology, MIRIAM URIs can be dereferenced in a flexible and robust way.
MIRIAM URIs are used by SBML, SED-ML, CellML and BioPAX controlled annotation schemes.
Systems Biology Ontology
The Systems Biology Ontology (SBO) is a set of controlled, relational vocabularies of terms commonly used in Systems Biology, and in particular in computational modeling.
Each element of an SBML file carries an optional attribute sboTerm which value must be a term from SBO.
Each symbol of SBGN is associated with an SBO term.
Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology
The Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology (KiSAO) describes existing algorithms and their inter-relationships through their characteristics and parameters.
KiSAO is used in SED-ML, which allows simulation software to automatically choose the best algorithm available to perform a simulation and unambiguously refer to it.
BioModels.net qualifiers
BioModels.net qualifiers are standardized relationships (predicates) that specify the relation between an object represented in a description language and the external resource used to annotate it. The relationship is rarely one-to-one, and the information content of an annotation is greatly increased if one knows what it represents, rather than only know it is "related to" the model component.
Related standardization efforts
The following standardization efforts are of interest for COMBINE, either as candidate standards, or similar efforts in different domains.
Computational Neuroscience Ontology
The Computational Neuroscience Ontology (CNO) is a controlled vocabulary composed of classes representing general concepts related to computational neuroscience. More ...
FieldML's (Field Modelling/Markup Language) goal is to be a declarative language for building hierarchical models represented by generalized mathematical fields. Its primary use will be to represent the dynamic geometry and solution fields from computational models of cells, tissues and organs.
FROG analysis - a community standard to foster reproducibility and curation of constraint-based models. FROG provides guidelines, best practices, and a set of standardized FBA analyses to assess reproducibility and curation efforts.
FSK-ML's (Food Safety Knowledge Markup Language) aims at encoding experimental data and mathematical models from the domain of predictive microbial modelling (and beyond) in a software independent manner. An FSK-ML file is an OMEX container, as the COMBINE Archive, and re-use other COMBINE standards to store models and simulations. A former version of the standard was the PMF-ML, and OpenML for Predictive Modelling in Food.
GPML (GenMAPP Pathway Markup Language) is an XML-based format to define a pathway consisting of purely graphical elements (such as lines and shapes) or graphical elements with added biological information (such as genes, proteins and datanodes).
The mathematical modelling ontology (MAMO) is an ontology describing and classifying the mathematical models used in the life sciences (for the time being). MAMO provides the types of models, the variables they use, the readout to expect and other relevant features.
The Network Interchange for Neuroscience Modeling Language (NineML) - is a language developed by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and designed for the description of large networks of spiking neurons.
The Numerical Markup Language (NuML) (pronounce "neumeul" and not "new em el", that sounds like NewML) is a simple XML format to exchange multidimensional arrays of numbers to be used with model and simulation descriptions. NuML was initially developed as part of the Systems Biology Results Markup Language (SBRML).
PEtab is an SBML and TSV based data format for parameter estimation problems in systems biology.
The Pharmacometrics Markup Language is an exchange format for encoding of models, associated tasks and their annotation as used in pharmacometrics. PharmML is developed by the DDMoRe consortium, an European Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project.
The Proteomics Standards Initiative Molecular Interaction XML Format is a a data exchange format for molecular interactions developed by the the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative
The Spiking Neural Mark-up Language (SpineML) is a declarative XML based model description language for large scale neural network models. It is partially based upon on the INCF NineML.
The Terminology for the Description of Dynamics is a project to build an ontology for dynamical behaviours, observable dynamical phenomena, and control elements of bio-models and biological systems in Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology.
More information about standards used to share data in life sciences can be found at FAIRsharing. The FAIRsharing team manually curates data and metadata standards, databases and data policies across all scientific research areas. FAIRsharing provides links among these standards and databases as well as to journal and funder data policies that recommend or endorse their use. For example, FAIRsharing contains a collection of the COMBINE standards as well as many Systems Biology resources.


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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is traveling to Arizona to tour Border Patrol facilities amid the ongoing crush of immigrant children and families from Central America.
Johnson says his trip to the border Wednesday is focused on getting a firsthand view of what Border Patrol agents are dealing with as they process record numbers of child immigrants caught crossing the Mexican border alone.
Most of the more than 52,000 immigrant kids crossed the border illegally in South Texas, the busiest area for illegal immigration along the Mexican border. Because so many children have been found this year, the Border Patrol is routinely flying groups of them from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to be processed in Nogales, Arizona.
Johnson went to Texas last week.


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DFW International Airport and Singapore Changi Airport sign Memorandum of Understanding for Fire Training
Shared effort to enhance cooperation in fire safety and engineering
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport and Changi Airport Group (CAG) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to enhance shared efforts and cooperation between DFW Airport's Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Changi's Airport Emergency Service (AES) division in the areas of fire-fighting, rescue, evacuation and fire safety strategies.
"This agreement sets the stage for us to build and maintain a close strategic partnership between DFW and CAG with a goal of saving lives," said Jim Crites, Executive Vice President of Operations. "Both airports are committed to the safety and security of their passengers, customers and people and this enables us to share and exchange expertise in areas of fire-fighting, rescue and evacuation operations."
Tan Lye Teck, Executive Vice President, Airport Management, Changi Airport Group said, "We are very pleased to partner with DFW in this partnership which will facilitate a mutual exchange of best practices in emergency operations and training between both organizations. This will further develop the expertise and skills of our officers, and enable them to better respond to emergencies and crises within the airport."
Effective for five years, the MOU formalizes the partnership between the two airports to utilize assets that will continue to ensure operational excellence and safety with the best techniques in fire-fighting and training.
The DFW Fire Training Research Center (FTRC) offers the latest in fire response techniques and research to firefighters from around the world. The FTRC features a full-size mockup of an Airbus A380, as well as an award winning interactive curriculum and some of the world's most highly trained instructors on aircraft rescue firefighting.
Changi's Airport Emergency Service (AES) has over the years, established itself as one of the leading organizations in Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting. It provides rescue and fire protection at Singapore Changi and Seletar Airports as well as at the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) airbases within the Republic to the highest standards prescribed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Both airports conduct their respective training exercises throughout the year, designed to have the skills and assist in the development of their fire-fighting personnel. Under the MOU, each airport will be responsible for organizing a training program for the fire-fighting personnel from the partner airport.
About Changi Airport Group
Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd (CAG) (www.changiairportgroup.com) was formed on 16 June 2009 and the corporatisation of Singapore Changi Airport (IATA: SIN, ICAO: WSSS) followed on 1 July 2009. As the company managing Changi Airport, CAG undertakes key functions focusing on airport operations and management, air hub development, commercial activities and airport emergency services. CAG also manages Seletar Airport (IATA: XSP, ICAO: WSSL) and through its subsidiary Changi Airports International, invests in and manages foreign airports.
Changi Airport (www.changiairport.com) is the world's most awarded airport with more than 440 accolades received since it opened in 1981. To serve passengers and visitors from the world over, there are over 350 retail stores and 120 F&B outlets across the airport's three terminals. Changi handled more than 51 million passenger movements in 2012, an annual record. Today, it serves some 110 airlines flying to over 250 cities in about 60 countries and territories worldwide. A flight takes off or lands at Changi roughly once every 100 seconds.


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I heard about a supposed dangerous chemical called "triclosan" that is in many personal care and other consumer products. Can you enlighten?
Carl Stoneman
Richland, Wash.
Triclosan is a synthetic chemical compound added to many personal and household care products to inhibit illness by preventing bacterial infection. It works by breaking down the biochemical pathways that bacteria use to keep their cell walls intact, and as such kills potentially harmful germs if used in strong enough formulations. First developed as a surgical scrub back in 1972, triclosan is now used in upwards of 700 different consumer-oriented products, many of which people use more than once a day. They include hand soaps, deodorants, toothpastes, kids' toys, yoga mats and, of course, hand sanitizers.
Whether triclosan is actually as effective as advertised, especially in the small doses found in consumer products, is a topic of much debate. Manufacturers insist that the product helps reduce infections. But researchers from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health found, after surveying 27 different studies conducted between 1980 and 2006 on the effectiveness of antibacterial soaps, that washing hands with products containing triclosan was no more effective in preventing infectious illness — and did not remove any more bacteria — than plain soaps. The analysis, "Consumer Antibacterial Soaps: Effective or Just Risky?" was published in 2007 in the peer-reviewed journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases. According to lead researcher Allison Aiello, triclosan — because of the way it reacts in living cells — may cause some bacteria exposed to it to become resistant to amoxicillin and other commonly used antibacterial drugs, but she adds that more research is needed to bear out this hypothesis.
Anti-bacterial soaps and other products utilizing triclosan may in fact be doing more harm than good for the people who use it regularly. According to the non-profit Beyond Pesticides, triclosan has been linked to various human health problems. "It is associated with skin irritation, has been shown to interfere with the body's hormones, and has been linked to an increased risk of developing respiratory illness, or asthma, and cancer, as well as subtle effects on learning ability," reports the group, adding that 75 percent of Americans are walking around today with trace levels of triclosan in their bloodstreams. Tests using lab animals have verified that exposure to large doses of triclosan can cause irreparable health damage, but industry representatives say that the levels found in consumer products are much too small to do so.
Beyond its potential human health effects, triclosan can also harm the environment. According to Beyond Pesticides, some 96 percent of the triclosan from consumer products is washed down drains where it flows into wastewater treatment plants often ill-equipped to deal with it. Inevitably some of the triclosan escapes treatment and is released into local waterways, where exposure to sunlight can convert it into dioxins, a highly toxic group of chemicals responsible for contaminating waterways and wreaking havoc on wildlife.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is finally taking a fresh look at triclosan after years of controversy, consumers can do their part by asking the places they shop to stop selling products containing the controversial chemical additive. The Beyond Pesticides website offers a customizable sample letter designed to help consumers convince local retailers to forego stocking items with triclosan.
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UK mortgage approvals slump during pandemic
UK mortgage approvals slumped to a record low during May as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the housing market, according to data from the Bank of England.
The number of mortgage approvals fell to 9,273, the lowest number since comparable records began in October 1997, down from 15,851 in April.
New mortgage approvals collapsed by 90% compared to pre-pandemic levels and represent just a third of the lowest level seen during the 2008 financial crisis.
The data also showed a net repayment of consumer credit of £4.6 billion pounds in May as people remained largely stuck at home and spent less.
The Bank of England also reported a further big rise in the amount of money households and companies hold in their bank accounts, which increased by £52 billion.
Commenting on the data, Hina Bhudia, a Partner at mortgage broker Knight Frank Finance, said: 'The Bank of England data reveals the unprecedented impact of the property market shut down when many surveyors were unable to visit properties to conduct valuations in-person.
'Leading indicators suggest lending has been picking up since May, but it's clear there is still a long way to go before many borrowers experience anything resembling pre-pandemic conditions.'
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On May 25, nine libraries from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries launched a data-driven acquisitions ebook pilot program. The project is similar to the one being run by the Orbis Cascade Alliance, which recently received FY13 funding of $750,000.
Two Consortial Ebook Projects Move Deeper Into Demand-Driven Acquisitions
By Michael Kelley on June 20, 2012
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InterDigital on Tuesday said it was considering selling the company, and now the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, said Google is interested in scooping up the mobile chip technology developer.
An InterDigital acquisition could help Google bolster its patent holdings at a time when its Android mobile operating system is under heavy attack. Giants with far stronger patent positions than Google including Microsoft, Apple and Oracle are suing Google and Android phone makers for alleged patent infringement. With a stronger patent portfolio that the other companies might be required to rely on, Google could better defend Android.
In its Tuesday statement, InterDigital said it had hired financial advisers to help conduct a strategic review of the company, which could include a sale of the business. Over the past year, it has seen the value of intellectual property rise "substantially" as major mobile companies have begun to understand the value of such assets, it said in the statement.
It said it hasn't set a timetable for completing the review process and that it wouldn't comment further about it.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that InterDigital's decision to explore a sale was spurred by Google's interest in the company.
Google declined to comment for this story.
InterDigital has more than 8,000 patents and even more pending, it said. Its technology is used in mobile chips. The company claims to have contributed significantly to an early mobile digital cellular standard once used by AT&T and many others around the world. It has also contributed to more modern cellular technologies. Its licensing program had generated more than US$1 billion by 2006, according to the company's website.
Acquiring such an extensive patent portfolio could make up for Google's loss of the Nortel patents. Google had bid on that valuable patent portfolio, which also could have helped it stave off competitors, but lost to a consortium of companies that included Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion. Those companies paid $4.5 billion for the more than 6,000 patents, significantly more than the $900 million that Google had offered.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Patti Labelle is a known diva and Queen Latifah does not consider herself one, but both will be among those honored as part of the Black Girls Rock! awards show on BET.
Black Girls Rock! founder Beverly Bond announced the show's honorees in a statement on Monday. Other honorees include tennis champion Venus Williams, screenwriter-producer Mara Brock Akil, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, community organizer Ameena Matthews and children's rights advocate Marian Wright Edelman.
Actresses Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King return as hosts of the ceremony, which will air Nov. 3. It will be taped later this month at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J.
Black Girls Rock! is a nonprofit organization that mentors young black girls and works to fight negative images of black women in the media.


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- scipy.stats.normaltest(a, axis=0)[source]¶
Tests whether a sample differs from a normal distribution.
This function tests the null hypothesis that a sample comes from a normal distribution. It is based on D'Agostino and Pearson's [R251], [R252] test that combines skew and kurtosis to produce an omnibus test of normality.
a : array_like
The array containing the data to be tested.
axis : int or None
If None, the array is treated as a single data set, regardless of its shape. Otherwise, each 1-d array along axis axis is tested.
k2 : float or array
s^2 + k^2, where s is the z-score returned by skewtest and k is the z-score returned by kurtosistest.
p-value : float or array
A 2-sided chi squared probability for the hypothesis test.
[R251] (1, 2) D'Agostino, R. B. (1971), "An omnibus test of normality for moderate and large sample size," Biometrika, 58, 341-348 [R252] (1, 2) D'Agostino, R. and Pearson, E. S. (1973), "Testing for departures from normality," Biometrika, 60, 613-622


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An elementary school music teacher walked into a church in the middle of Sunday services and shot and killed his ex-wife as she sat in a pew, police said.
Gregory Eldred, 52, of Coudersport, Pa., has been charged with first-degree murder, accused of twice shooting Darlene Sitler, 53, at the First United Presbyterian Church, where she served as organist and choir director. It wasn't immediately clear if she was serving in those capacities when she was shot.
Witnesses told police they saw Eldred pacing outside the 180-year-old church before the service and that other members of the congregation grabbed Eldred after the shooting around 11:20 a.m., and held him until police arrived. Nobody else was injured.
The defense attorney listed in online court records did not immediately return a call for comment Monday.
Eldred has taught music at the borough's elementary school since 1986.
Trooper Michael Knight told the Bradford Era newspaper on Sunday that Eldred allegedly walked down the church's middle aisle and fired two shots at Sitler.
Trooper Knight told the newspaper there were no children in the church when the shooting happened, but that police bused all those who witnessed the shooting to a building which houses Potter County offices so they could be interviewed by police. Mental health counseling was also being made available to those witnesses, Knight said.
Potter County Commissioner Susan Kefover told the newspaper the shooting was "devastatingly tragic for the community."
"It's hard to even comprehend it. You just feel this tremendous grief and you're trying to process what happened," Kefover said.
In addition to her church duties, Sitler taught music at the Northern Potter Children's School, an elementary school that neighbors the district where her ex-husband taught, for 30 years.
"She's just the consummate professional," Northern Potter Superintendent Scott Graham told The Associated Press on Monday. "The kids loved her. She just did so many things here for the school and the community."
The Northern Potter School District is based in the tiny borough of Ulysses, about 160 northeast of Pittsburgh, very near the New York border. It's about 20 miles northeast of Coudersport, where her ex-husband taught school and she attended church, Graham said.
Sitler taught music to all students in the Pre-K through 6th-grade school, and also headed the chorus and band for 5th and 6th graders. She's taught at the district since 1982, spending just one year after college teaching elsewhere before coming to Northern Potter, so the staff and students throughout the district knew her well, Graham said.
Crisis counselors from surrounding districts and a member of the local pastors' ministerium were at the district Monday.
"There's a lot of good things about growing up and living in a small community, and I believe we have a lot of help for the children and the staff members who may need it," Graham said.
Graham said the couple had been divorced for several years and offered no rationale for the shooting.
Officials with the Coudersport Area School District, where Eldred taught, did not immediately return a call and email for comment. Eldred also played clarinet for the Southern Tier Symphony Orchestra in Allegany, N.Y.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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Episode 34 of "Everybody Hates Chris"
s02e12 Everybody Hates Hall Monitors
Title: Everybody Hates Hall Monitors
Original Air Date: 01/29/2007
Plot Outline:
Hoping to get more respect from his classmates and to stop being Caruso's (Travis Flory) punching bag, Chris (Tyler James Williams) signs up to be a hall monitor. However, when the kids still don't take him seriously, Greg (Vincent Martella) suggests that Chris step up his game. Unfortunately, his newfound power as hall monitor goes right to his head, even threatening his friendship with Greg. Tonya (Imani Hakim) discovers that her girlfriends are only hanging out with her to get closer to Drew (Tequan Richmond). A sleep-deprived Julius (Terry Crews) struggles to get a little peace and quiet when he can't seem to escape Rochelle (Tichina Arnold) and her constant complaints about her new job.