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Nets 102, Warriors 100
Gerald Wallace believes the future is bright for the New Jersey Nets, even if he might not be a part of it.
That's a decision Wallace will have to make this summer. For now, the 6-foot-7 forward is content trying to help the limping Nets salvage what they can from a disappointing season.
Wallace scored 10 points over the final 6 minutes and made a pair of key defensive stops as New Jersey rallied from 19 points down in the second half to beat the Golden State Warriors 102-100 on Friday night.
''The future looks good, if we had everybody healthy,'' Wallace said after the Nets opened a four-game West Coast trip with their first win at Oracle Arena in more than six years. ''We have an elite point guard, we have one of the up-and-coming centers ... so our future looks great.''
Wallace might not have had the same feelings two weeks ago after arriving in a trade from Portland. New Jersey lost its first five games with Wallace to drop 19 games below .500.
The Nets have turned things around lately and have won three of their last four.
Now Wallace is entertaining the idea of sticking around after this season.
''I'm still trying to figure out everything,'' he said. ''We have a lot of guys who are free agents ... but what we have right here is special and tonight just showed what we can do, what the heart and determination of this team is. (My decision) will come.''
The Nets hadn't won in Oakland since Nov. 21, 2005, and appeared to be on their way to extending the drought before storming back to outscore the Warriors 32-16 in the fourth quarter.
Gerald Green tied the score with a thundering one-handed dunk from the baseline then added the game-winner moments later to stun the Warriors home crowd.
Wallace finished with 24 points and 18 rebounds for the Nets. He also blocked Charles Jenkins' potential tying shot just before time ran out.
''We were a little lethargic early on, but our guys just persevered and fought,'' Nets coach Avery Johnson said. ''We got down by 19 and no one panicked.''
Kris Humphries added 20 points and nine rebounds while Deron Williams had nine points and a season-high 20 assists to help New Jersey to its third win in four games.
David Lee had 27 points and six rebounds for Golden State, which led 76-57 midway through the third quarter but couldn't get much going offensively the rest of the way.
''We didn't close them out when we had them and it came back to bite us,'' Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. ''We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. They outworked us in our own building.''
Wallace led the charge on both ends, helping the comeback when he stole the ball from Lee underneath New Jersey's basket for an easy score. He finished 7 of 16 from the floor and added five assists.
Green added 20 points, none more critical than his final two baskets when he soared in from the left baseline and split two defenders for a one-handed slam, then followed it with his soft floater 36 seconds later.
That was critical for the Nets, who went into the game limping as starting center Shelden Williams (injured right eye) and backup Jordan Williams (concussion) were both hurt during Wednesday's 100-84 win over the Indiana Pacers and were unavailable.
Shelden Williams did not make the trip and will be re-evaluated next week. Jordan Williams did join his teammates out West but did not play.
The win was New Jersey's third in four games following a stretch in which they dropped seven of nine.
For Golden State, it was yet another setback for a team that has been struggling since trading leading scorer Monta Ellis to the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Warriors have dropped nine of 11 games since the trade and now head on the road to play seven of their next nine.
Lee has helped shoulder the scoring load for Golden State since Ellis trade and got off to a fast start against the Nets. He made six of his first seven shots and scored 14 points in the first quarter, including buckets on consecutive trips down the floor when the Warriors built an early seven-point lead.
Johan Petro, who missed New Jersey's previous two games with a bruised right shoulder, pulled the Nets within 24-22 with a powerful one-handed dunk before Brandon Rush drove the length of the floor and around Williams in the key for an easy layup to put the Warriors up by four.
Dominic McGuire's reverse layup pushed Golden State's lead to 14 midway through the second quarter, and after a brief run by New Jersey, Lee followed his own miss to give the Warriors a 51-42 halftime lead.
Rookie center Jeremy Tyler gave Golden State a boost with all 10 of his points in the third quarter. Tyler, making only his seventh NBA start, added four rebounds.
The Warriors, who were booed heavily by the home crowd following Wednesday's 102-87 loss to New Orleans, took a double-digit lead into the fourth before the Nets made their late push.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Marvel heads by Byrne and Austin
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THANK YOU Jason! Corner box heads are the thing about comic books I miss the MOST! And I would be pissed if the line-up of the interior story didn't match the cover!ReplyDelete
Byrne's heads were the BEST, IMO (but hey, I'm an 80s baby). WOW!
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Ilene Schneider is the owner of Schneider the Writer, a firm that provides communications for health care, high technology and service enterprises. Her specialties include public relations, media relations, advertising, journalistic writing, editing, grant writing and corporate creativity consulting services. Prior to starting her own business in 1985, Ilene was editor of the Cleveland edition of TV Guide, associate editor of School Product News (Penton Publishing) and senior public relations representative at Beckman Instruments, Inc. She was profiled in a book, How to Open and Operate a Home-Based Writing Business and listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Advertising and Who's Who in Media and Communications. She was the recipient of the Women in Communications, Inc. Clarion Award in advertising. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Ilene and her family have lived in Irvine, California, since 1978.


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Tim Kring, a long-time television writer and producer, is best known as the creator of the NBC show "Heroes." But he's rapidly expanding his media universe — last week at Comic-Con he launched a new book project, "Shift," which will debut in August from Crown Books.
He has also created a new transmedia project called "Conspiracy For Good" (CFG), which describes itself as "a movie where YOU can be the hero and impact the outcome of the story for the better." Participants travel through a blurred narrative that mixes media, interactive storytelling and a learn-as-we-go collective approach to fight a greedy corporation and benefit good organizations.
CFG is being partially supported by Nokia and its Ovi mobile platform. Plus, the fictional story includes chances for players to do real good in the world. For instance, there is a collaboration with the Pearson Foundation and Room to Read, where each time an online visitor reads a book to a child, the corresponding book will be donated to five libraries set up in Zambia. Nokia and Room to Read will also fund a year of education for 50 girls in Zambia.
The first live meeting of participants in "Conspiracy For Good" occurred on July 17 in London. I connected with Kring to explore this new genre he calls "social benefit storytelling," and what its implications are for entertainment and social good.
What is "Conspiracy For Good" (CFG) and how can people participate or experience it?
Tim Kring: The "Conspiracy For Good" is a global movement for change driven by a story, which the audience becomes a part of and every participant has the ability to impact the outcome of this story. The story will be played out on websites, mobile devices, at live meet-up events in London, and ultimately in a village in eastern Zambia where CFG will be responsible for building a library, stocking it with books and providing 50 scholarships for school girls.
This U.K.-based project of "Conspiracy For Good" is the pilot for game-changing entertainment — narrative mythology that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, compelling the audience to become a part of the story with real world outcomes.
To get into the "Conspiracy For Good" and join in the story, simply go to the web page and watch the featured video. A recap will point you to the current activities and detail how you can get involved. And if you're in the London area, register online at the site and join us on the streets.
Anyone can follow along — comment, contribute, share, decipher, solve, connect and collaborate at the website. The site is the global hub for all things CFG: Watch videos, follow progress and events on the blog, and make an impact and interact with the characters of the story through the main websites.
"Conspiracy For Good" is called "a social benefit experience." What does this mean and how can an entertaining story generate social benefits?
Kring: The "Conspiracy For Good" creates a new genre of entertainment which combines rich narrative, philanthropy and commerce. We call this genre "social benefit storytelling." The "Conspiracy For Good" aims to become a movement. Individuals are now being "tapped on the shoulder" and asked to join this movement to continue to make the work of the "Conspiracy For Good" a reality with global impact. By participating, members of CFG have the opportunity to affect real word change from the environment to education to the economy by applying their unique abilities, talents, networks and passion as an active part of the story.
The entire gameplay centers around causes, and direct action…on the streets in London, where participants will be involved in book drives, toy drives, cleaning the Thames, etc. By creating a secret society for good, and providing a forum for people to connect with one another, the hope is that there will be a tremendous amount of user-generated interest in new and worthy causes.
"Conspiracy For Good" says it integrates "interactive theater, mobile and alternate reality gaming (ARG), music and physical participation." Is there one component that excites you most? And will this multi-screen experience include movie theaters or television?
Kring: I am very intrigued by the mobile aspect. It has just exploded over the last few years as smartphones are reaching a wider demographic. I love the idea that a mobile phone can be both a content consumption device and a content creation device. In other words, an audience can use their mobile phone to receive story and create video and text and geo-tagging themselves. For a storyteller, this really piques my interest.
"Heroes" was a fictional story about people trying to save the world. "Conspiracy For Good" seems to be a real-life extension of this narrative. What elements and lessons from "Heroes" were applied to the development of "Conspiracy For Good"?
Kring: You are right that I came up with this idea when I saw how connected and committed the "Heroes" audience was to the underlying core message behind "Heroes" — interconnectivity and global consciousness. So, I thought, wouldn't it be great to not just talk about "saving the world" in fiction, but to attempt to do it in the real world. In many ways this is the logical extension of what was known as the "360 Platform" that NBC.com and "Heroes" built around the show. The attempt there was to build a broad, connected universe around the show that created multiple extensions of the story that could cross all platforms.
We learned a tremendous amount doing this. One of the key things was just how motivated the audience can be to create content on its own. So in many ways, CFG takes that idea and makes it the ultimate goal — to create a self-sustaining movement for good that ends up having real-world implications and direct action.
You just announced that Room to Read and the Pearson Foundation will be beneficiaries of the "Conspiracy For Good" experience. Will there be additional organizations and how can participants support them?
Kring: Other organizations are invited to include their missions in the "Conspiracy For Good," and participants are welcome to join those missions, too. The meeting place for missions and people is conspiracyforgood.com.
The experience includes live meet-ups in London. How will participants meeting other participants evolve the story? Will there be meet-ups in other cities?
Kring: London is the first of what we hope will be many cities around the world. When participants come together they will follow a clue trail of video drops that move the story forward. They will have to work together in teams to solve various clues in order to advance the story. They will find key props and sets and locations for the story, interacting with these and using their collective efforts to confront our bad guys and have justice prevail for our protagonist. Along the way they will interact with actors in character, creating a sense of a truly pervasive experience.
Here's a video giving the back story on "Conspiracy for Good":
Blackwell Briggs is a fictional greedy corporation in the energy industry that distributes false information. Is it inspired by any real-life company or event?
Kring: We've all become very familiar with corporate greed of all stripes. Blackwell Briggs is an attempt to draw from that sense of familiarity without necessarily conjuring up any one corporation in particular. The corporation seems to be involved in almost everything controversial. So, in many ways, they are a "catch all" for corporate greed. By showcasing a fictional, evil corporation, we also celebrate, by contrast, the admirable, real world companies that really do exist in the marketplace today.
What does success look like for "Conspiracy For Good"?
Kring: Teams in five different countries have worked together to bring an idea to life, to do something that has never been done before. Designed as a proof of concept pilot that integrates narrative, cross-platform participation and philanthropy, the measure of success is that it has been built and deployed and proves viable on a story level, a participation and community level, providing a foundation for greater expansion.
Do you plan to join the Conspiracy For Good and contribute to the movement? Share your thoughts about this transmedia project in the comments below.
Nick Mendoza is the director of digital communications at Zeno Group. He advises consumer, entertainment and web companies on digital and social media engagement. He dreamstreams and is the film correspondent for MediaShift. Follow him on Twitter @NickMendoza.


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Shengquan and Novozymes partner on cellulosic ethanol
Nov. 25, 2012, Beijing - Shengquan Group, a Shandong-based company specializing in furan resin and polymers, and Novozymes, a world leader in bioinnovation, today announced a partnership enabling Shengquan to start commercial-scale production of cellulosic ethanol for solvents in June 2012 using Novozymes' technology.
"Shengquan is a global first mover in this industry, which is on the verge of materializing right now," says Poul Ruben Andersen, Vice President for Bioenergy at Novozymes. "Shengquan has profound experience in chemical production and is a leading company in commercializing cellulosic ethanol globally. Novozymes is proud to join Shengquan in nurturing a green and circular bioeconomy which lessens the dependence on fossil fuel resources."
Shengquan is a leading producer of furfural using xylose in corncobs, a monomer for resin production in the foundry industry. Using Novozymes enzymes, Shengquan will now convert corncob residues from furfural production into fermentable sugars and then into ethanol for solvents and other purposes. Shengquan's cost model shows that its current production cost of cellulosic ethanol is cost-competitive with conventional ethanol as the feedstock is a by-product of their current production.
Novozymes is a leading enzymatic solution provider in bioenergy. It partners with leading producers of cellulosic ethanol all over the world to commercialize this new technology.
Biofuels boost the economy and create jobs
A recent study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates that the advanced biofuel industry has the potential to create millions of jobs, economic growth and energy security worldwide.
Looking at China alone, the study shows that using less than 20% of the available agricultural residues China could produce more than 89 billion liters (23 million gallons) of biofuel, replacing 37% of its gasoline consumption by 2030. This would create 2.9 million jobs and reduce CO2 emissions from gasoline-based transportation by 29%. The figures would be even higher if biomass from forestry residues, household waste and energy crops was included.
About Novozymes
Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries, we create tomorrow's industrial biosolutions, improving our customers' business and the use of our planet's resources.
With over 700 products used in 130 countries, Novozymes' bioinnovations improve industrial performance and safeguard the world's resources by offering superior and sustainable solutions for tomorrow's ever-changing marketplace. Read more at www.novozymes.com.
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Chicago Public Schools officials have announced new, healthier school lunch menus, but a big question remains.
Will kids eat them?
As British chef Jamie Oliver (whose ABC TV show, "Food Revolution," documents his attempt to improve school food in West Virginia) recently learned, getting kids to embrace healthy fare after years of junk food takes work.
But nutrition advocates believe there is a key to unlocking their jaws and minds to better food: education.
Most experts say having access to healthy food and access to education about why it's healthy will influence eating behavior, said Gary Cuneen, executive director of Seven Generations Ahead, an advocacy group that offers food workshops to students and teachers.
Yet, the Chicago school district offers no mandatory nutrition education as part of its curriculum. Nutrition materials are available to teachers who want them.
Enter the private sector.
Communities in Chicago Schools, a nonprofit that connects volunteer professionals to 170 Chicago schools, has seen demand for nutrition classes nearly triple in the past four years. Executive director Jane Metzinger said she thinks that might be because of the results of a Personal Health Inventory her organization has administered to more than 5,000 Chicago students.
The lowest-scoring area was nutrition, she said, and when Metzinger shows the data to principals, "They get it. They see that these are their kids, not some students from a distant national survey."
The principals, she said, also recognize that better nutrition "is going to help them with academic gains," so they make the time to fit the information into their class day.
That doesn't mean simply handing out copies of the food pyramid. Cuneen said policies on preventing childhood obesity have shown that information without a connection to school meals and eating habits is not effective.
That is why Cuneen's 8-week Fresh from the Farm program includes classroom visits from farmers, tastings, cooking demonstrations, expeditions to local organic farms and help creating a school garden.
"The tastings part of the curriculum has been extremely popular and effective," Cuneen said, "and local farm expeditions where children have had the opportunity to eat broccoli and other vegetables off the plant have been absolutely transformative.
"And, of course, pulling 'hidden' root vegetables out of the ground that the children have planted in their own school gardens has helped to create new relationships between the kids and these foods."
Common Threads, a cultural and food education nonprofit started by chef Art Smith, works in 55 mostly low-income Chicago communities to bring cooking classes and cultural lessons to youngsters.
On a recent rainy afternoon, Hana Kim, 9, was zesting a lemon for a South African curry as part of her 12-week Common Threads cooking class.
"I've learned how to cut and zest and make all sorts of new recipes," the third-grader said. "I make them with my mom and sister so we can eat healthier stuff and not so much junk food."
Common Threads classmates (mostly kids in fourth to sixth grades) chopped rutabagas, potatoes and onions like pros as they bragged about their newfound ability to make sushi, cupcakes and pasta in unique shapes. Before diving into the recipes, students displayed their knowledge of spices, produce and food from other cultures as they engaged in a 20-Questions-like game for which the answer was cardamom.
Dennis Ryan's Fresh Connections program joins with Common Threads to offer workshops that help kids understand local sustainable produce. The tasting and cooking sessions often finish with the distribution of "market dollars," coupons kids use at the 61st Street Farmers Market in Woodlawn, which Ryan runs.
The Good Food Project, run by local food writer Susan Taylor, offers classroom tastings to help kids learn varieties of apples and other foods, plus how to become "food critics." The kids often get coupons for apples to take home to their families.
"The GFP has a very strong mandate that we do not criticize children for their food choices. We are not the food police, but rather our job is to introduce children to great-tasting real food and to help them gain access to it," Taylor said. The tastings take a lesson from the junk food industry, which uses "fun" to sell, but the tastings "introduce children to the exquisite flavors of real food to help them to develop their palates, develop a lifelong love of good food and enjoy the benefits of a healthy life."
Gorilla Gourmet delivers about 1,000 organic lunches to students throughout the Chicago area and also cooking classes and earth boxes that allow "you plant almost any vegetable seed and water it, and it will grow because there is an irrigation system under it, so if you forget to water it for a while, it will still be fine," said Jason Weedon co-founder and CEO.
Many of these organizations say that after the programs, they've found increased interest in nutrition, food from other cultures, behavioral changes and eating together as a family.
They and the U.S. Department of Agriculture agree healthy food in the lunchroom needs to reinforce nutrition lessons. To help with the effort and in conjunction with Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative, the USDA recently announced the HealthierUS School Challenge, which offers financial rewards to schools that meet the standards of its four-tiered program to improve school food nutrition, recess time, physical education and nutrition education.
CPS officials have announced their desire to try to gain gold status, the next-to-the-highest, for some schools. But they stop short of setting number targets.
"We are at the beginning phase of this project," said spokeswoman Monique Bond. "It would be premature to set expectations. It is important to have a framework that supports our health goals and nutrition standards. During its initial phase, this program should be embraced as an initiative, not a mandate."
The question remains, though: Will kids eat it? We'll find out in the fall, when CPS rolls out its new menu to the whole district.


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At a time when hotels promise everything from custom ice-cream room service to complete wedding proposal preparations, it's no surprise that they're also offering hypoallergenic rooms.
The Hyatt, Wyndham, Intercontinental, Fairmont and Mandarin hotel chains — among others — are experimenting with everything from small tweaks in bedding and air-purification systems to complete room remodels to help allergy sufferers have a symptom-free stay.
Many Hyatt Regency hotels offer hypoallergenic rooms, which the chain claims are 98 percent allergen-free.
The air is circulated up to five times an hour in these rooms, the mattresses and pillows are encased in a protective hypoallergenic covering, the carpet and upholstery are cleaned and protected with Pure Clean and Pure Shield anti-allergen products, and tea tree oil is installed in the air-handling unit, said Lori Alexander, spokeswoman for Hyatt.
Guests who want to stay in Hyatt's hypoallergenic rooms are charged $20 to $30 extra per night, depending on the hotel's location.
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For those with allergies, a hotel room can trigger a swarm of reactions, said Philip Tierno Jr., director of clinical microbiology and immunology at New York University.
The hotel's mattress, pillow, rug, drapery and upholstered furniture can all easily collect dust, mites and bodily secretions — all of which are the bane of allergy sufferers, Tierno said.
"Unless a hotel has impervious covers on their mattresses and pillows, they're contributing to allergies and exacerbating them," Tierno said. "Even if you don't have allergies now, you can develop them over time. You don't need to be breathing in this garbage from mattresses and pillows."
But before someone with allergies pays extra for a hypoallergenic room, they should see exactly what the hotels are offering, said Stanley Fineman, president-elect of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and allergist with the Atlanta Allergy & Asthma Clinic.
Filtering the air and circulating it frequently is helpful, as is covering the mattresses with mite-proof allergenic casing. But tea tree oil? Fineman said he has never heard of that helping with allergies.
"I have patients who complain about the reactions they get from sleeping in some hotel rooms, so for some people with allergies, it may be worth it to pay the premium to sleep in a room that's prepared that way," Fineman said. "This might be a benefit for certain patients."
What's the length of stay for most hotel furnishings?
Hotels aren't required to toss their mattresses, pillows, curtains and other furnishings after a certain amount of time, but these items can become allergy triggers if they're not cleaned and replaced regularly.
No organizations track turnover time for hotel furniture, bedding and bathroom items, so we asked some of the biggest hotel chains to tell us how often they swap their goods.
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•Shower curtains: as needed
•Window curtains: 7-10 years
•Towels and robes: as needed
•Carpets: 5-7 years
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Each tradition (religious, philosophical etc) aquires a particular flavor depending on a culture it grows within.
How do the "flavors" of ZEN (practice, rituals, even philosophical details) vary dependent on the cultures it grew within? ... for example this community/forrum (although world-wide) seem to grew out of Japanese culture).
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|PARK, BONGSOO - Pennsylvania State University
|PARK, JONGSUN - Seoul National University
|CHEONG, KYEONG-CHAE - Seoul National University
|CHOI, JAEYOUNG - Seoul National University
|JUNG, KYONGYONG - Seoul National University
|LEE, YONG-HWAN - Seoul National University
|Ward, Todd
|O Donnell, Kerry
|GEISER, DAVID - Pennsylvania State University
|KANG, SEOGCHAN - Pennsylvania State University
Submitted to: Nucleic Acids Research
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/31/2010
Publication Date: 12/20/2010
Citation: Park, B., Park, J., Cheong, K., Choi, J., Jung, K., Lee, Y., Ward, T.J., O Donnell, K., Geiser, D.M., Kang, S. 2010. Cyber-infrastructure for Fusarium (CiF): Three integrated platforms supporting strain identification, phylogenetics, comparative genomics, and knowledge sharing. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1166.
Interpretive Summary: A web-based tool was developed to make genetic information on Fusarium available to the scientific community. Fusarium is the most important group of toxin-producing plant pathogens, but the majority of Fusarium species cannot be identified using morphological data alone. Fortunately, extensive molecular phylogenetic studies using DNA sequence data have been conducted and the whole genome sequence of four fusaria has been published. To make this genetic data accessible via the internet, we constructed the Cyber-infrastructure for Fusarium (CiF; http://www.fusariumdb.org/) to support the archiving and utilization of rapidly increasing data and knowledge. The FCP platform functions as an online forum for preserving and sharing knowledge to support education and research. The web-based tools developed in this study will greatly benefit agricultural and medical scientists, mycotoxicologists, and quarantine officials worldwide by making it possible to identify genetically diverse pathogenic and toxigenic fusaria molecularly for the first time.
Technical Abstract: The fungal genus Fusarium includes many plant and/or animal pathogenic species and produces diverse toxins. Although accurate identification is critical for managing such threats, it is difficult to identify Fusarium morphologically. Fortunately, extensive molecular phylogenetic studies, founded on well-preserved culture collections, have established a robust foundation for Fusarium classification. Genomes of four Fusarium species have been published with more being currently sequenced. The Cyber-infrastructure for Fusarium (CiF; http://www.fusariumdb.org/) was built to support archiving and utilization of rapidly increasing data and knowledge and consists of Fusarium-ID, Fusarium Comparative Genomics Platform (FCGP), and Fusarium Community Platform (FCP). The Fusarium-ID archives phylogenetic marker sequences from most known species along with information associated with characterized isolates and supports strain identification and phylogenetic analyses. The FCGP currently archives five genomes from four species. Besides supporting genome browsing and analysis, the FCGP presents computed characteristics of multiple gene families and functional groups. The Cart/Favorite function allows users to collect sequences from the Fusarium-ID and the FCGP and analyze them later using multiple tools without requiring repeated copying-and-pasting of sequences. The FCP is designed to serve as an online community forum for sharing and preserving accumulated experience and knowledge to support future research and education.


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The Broad Avenue Arts District is just adorable, and when I'm not hanging out in my own neighborhood, Broad is typically where I go. It's in the Binghampton neighborhood, and about 10 years ago, the stretch of shops was mostly vacant and suffered from a high crime rate. But in the past few years, thanks to some dedicated grassroots-style neighborhood activism, Broad has emerged as a hip little district with art galleries, a dance collective, an arts social club, bars, and other cool stuff. It was also one of the first Memphis neighborhoods to get bike lanes because the residents just painted their own! How DIY! The neighborhood beacon is this old rusty, graffiti-covered water tower.
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But with the neighborhood experiencing such a renaissance, it seems kinda silly to leave the water tower all rusty. Tonight, Crosstown Arts expanded out of my Crosstown neighborhood to hold "MemFEAST on Broad," where diners voted on murals and sculptures for the water tower. While we heard presentations from three artists chosen as finalists, we dined on amazing vegan food prepared by Chef Miles McMath!
When we arrived, the tables were decorated with vintage knick-knacks from the Cleveland Street Flea Market. And all the pieces had price tags in case anyone wanted to bring one home.
I've been to all five MemFEASTS over the years (there are recaps here, here, here, and here), and the menu is always either totally vegan or vegan with a meat or cheese option. Last year, Chef Miles McMath made a totally meat-free slider bar, but this year, there were options for all diets. Each was labeled with a little sign.
The food theme this year was global street snacks, and everything was made with food that was pesticide-free, GMO-free, regional, and fair trade when possible. Before the buffet began, servers passed out appetizers. The vegan option was Sour Fruit with Chile and Salty Sugar (jicama, green mango, pomegranate, mango, grapefruit, nectarine).
They also passed out Kale Pakoras (deep-fried kale!!!!), but it was served with a vegetarian yogurt sauce. I passed on those, but Amanda, whose husband works for Crosstown Arts, made sure I got a vegan pakora without the sauce later on. I know this looks crazy, but it was delicious! I mean, deep-fried kale! That purple stuff is some kind of chutney.
After the apps were passed around, we watched a dance performance by the Collage Dance Collective. And then it was time for the buffet! Each county had its own table, and everything was served in individual plates, so I had quite a stack of plates going by the end. There was Kimchi Slaw and Freezer Pickle Tacos from the Cambodian Taco Shop. These are great! Love some homemade pickles.
But the Aloo Gobi, Chana Masala, and Naan from the Delhi table was even better.
There was an amazing vegan Yuca Patty topped with Plantains and Avocado and served with Chimmichurri and Butterbean Guacamole from the Colombian table.
My second-favorite dish of the night was this Vegetable Falafel with Field Pea Hummus and Olive Salad on Pita from the Moroccan BBQ stand.
But, for me, the star dish of the night was this Vegan Tamale made with Local Veggies and topped with Pickled Okra. I just love tamales, and this one was perfect. The Grilled Corn on the side was very tasty as well.
As we dined, local rapper Marco Pave performed. And then we heard the artists' presentations. In the end, the winning proposal by artist Suikang Zhao involved some cool LED lighting on the tower with a metal sculpture wrapping around it. It's hard to explain, but I think it will look way cool.
Also, you know I couldn't resist buying something I don't need, right? All night, I kept staring that cat piggy bank pictured above. It looks like something my Me-Maw has in her house, and since I'm really an old cat lady at heart, I just had to have it. Besides, it was only $25!


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Archive of the show is here (right click to 'Save link as...' or click to play): http://matrixfilesradio.com/shows/10May ... y-2014.mp3
First I go over last weeks episode and provide you with the Nuggets of Gold that were uncovered although due to recent events I may not have this data available yet.
I will cover more information on water as I left out a big pdf file that I put up last week but somehow forgot to go over. I will also discuss new information that came to me on how to safely eliminate Arthritis (in other words cure it).
I will also talk about what happened with my website, Matrixfiles.com, as I would like to show you a real world example of how evil works in society.
Please join me for an interesting show!
Nuggets of gold - for the 10th May show
- The technology of dew ponds has been around for at least 1,000 years.
- The are 165 million kilograms of water per second flowing in atmospheric rivers around the world.
- 1 cubic mile of water contains about 1 trillion gallons of water
- If you really want something you will be tested on your integrity to wanting or having it. Will you settle for second best?
- When you are tested there will usually be 3 or more 'events' that are the 'tests'. Are you able to discern which is the item for you? Are you a 'go-getter' or are you lazy or more interested in watching TV (or going to the pub)?
- Borax is so good for you that it has been banned by most governments for human consumption!
- Borax contains boron which is essential for good health of bones, teeth, cells and muscles.
- Borax is classified as a poison so that people are scared off from utilizing it in their eating habits. Otherwise it would eat into the profits of the drug companies.
- Ingesting Borax CURES arthritis.
- When high soil boron levels are discovered these areas are covertly destroyed by the government/pharmaceutical industry.
- 30mg of boron daily gets rid of arthritis from anywhere between 3 days to a few weeks. You can also take 1/8 to 1/4 of a teaspoon of borax to 1 litre of water per day.
PDF from last week that was not gone over
http://matrixfilesradio.com/shows/10May ... midity.pdf
Arthritis document that shows how to eradicate it
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Complaint received from a Scientology Lawyer
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Happy new year everybody! The SoundCloud team was scattered all over the world this Christmas, from Tokyo to San Francisco via Stockholm or Geneva, but we're now back in our Berlin HQ and we've just (at 7am…) finished a release dedicated to the one and only Farah. So what are the latest improvements to the Cloud?
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- The whole messaging system has been reworked and it's now possible to have nice threaded conversations.
- You can choose to receive a digest e-mail that condenses a daily or weekly update of all the notifications you want to know about (messages, comments, adds, etc…). You can still choose what, if any, stuff you want to get email notifications about right away.
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A two‐year resident of the emerging Central Market district comments on her neighborhood's evolution and ambiance. > Read More
A two‐year resident of the emerging Central Market district comments on her neighborhood's evolution and ambiance. > Read More
Rika Putri is a graphic designer based in San Francisco. She graduated from the Academy of Art University in 2010 and is now working for Gensler in San Francisco.
The Mark Bradford retrospective, currently at the SFMOMA and YBCA, collects Bradford's best work from 2000 to 2010, representing his primary concerns of a decade. > Read More
Patricia Sonnino is an artist and architect practicing in San Francisco. Her web site is www.patriciasonnino.com
It remains nearly impossible to escape architecture, urban design, or planning education in the United States without hearing the name Pruitt-Igoe, even forty years after the St. Louis housing project's demolition in 1972. > Read More
My friend Amanda Armstrong can't come on campus anymore, unless she's there to study or teach. Unless she's there, in the words of the Alameda County DA who charged her four months after their police beat her as she linked arms with her fellow protestors to protect an encampment put up on November 9th of last year, on "lawful business." > Read More
Eva Hagberg is a Berkeley-based writer, architectural critic, and cyclist. She is the author of the books Dark Nostalgia and Nature Framed, and her writing has appeared in, among others, Metropolis, Wallpaper*, The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Wired, and Print. She is currently at work on a memoir about vertigo, and a PhD about something interesting possibly to do with buildings, she's not quite sure what yet.
"Where were the students?" one of their professors asked me as we were leaving. It was a pity they missed the lecture, because Professor Machado had aimed to instruct, showing in detail how three of his projects moved from planning to completion, warts and all. > Read More
Co-curated and designed by CCA's Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham, 'Architecture in the Expanded Field' is an Herculean and painstakingly crafted 3-dimensional exhibit that indexes some 75 works of 'installation architecture'—an experimental terrain of practice explored by Erin Hyman for this magazine. > Read More
San Francisco is often compared unfavorably to other major cities in terms of its tolerance for architectural experimentation. One area where this experimentation has thrived, however, is that of installations, which by dint of their short duration and theoretical orientation, have been a potent force for examining the limitations and potentials of architecture and its social ramifications.
Playing to a big, friendly crowd, Rice Professor Lars Lerup acknowledged his Berkeley roots in a lecture on Wednesday night, 7 March, centered on his new book on the Houston cityscape, One Million Acres & No Zoning (Architectural Association, 2011). > Read More
It didn't take the mortgage meltdown to make clear that residential patterns affect individual, societal and environmental health. And the crash only made the ruinous implications of conventional sprawl development harder to ignore. Now an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art asks how architecture and planning might ameliorate those consequences, proposing alternate ideals of home and imagining buildings and places to express them. > Read More
The creative process is an intriguing design problem of its own: how should you craft the method used to craft other things? This is the second in a series of essays exploring this topic through the lens of strange atlas, an interpretive creative process. Although this approach applies beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries, the essays focus on its application for designing the built environment.
Richard Ingersoll, Nomads in Sprawltown
February 2, 2012
Like every lecture nowadays, the speaker begins hunched over a cinderblock media counter checking to see if his technology is compatible with the space. Wearing mostly black and bedecked in a small beret, the Montevarchi, Italy based architectural historian and professor Richard Ingersoll commands the attention of around 50 students and visitors who stare down at him from the blocky bare wood of the New Soft Room at the Architectural Association's London office.
John E. Parman is a visiting lecturer of creative industry and cultural policy at Birmingham City University. He can be reached at parman[at]oddpost.com.
Memories of the sculptor and painter Constantino Nivola, a friend of Corbu, a neighbor of Jackson Pollock, and in the 1970s a lecturer at Berkeley CED.
The inaugural Studio One Symposium (a component of Berkeley Department of Architecture's new Studio One curriculum) kicks off at 6:00pm on evening Friday, February 10th, and continues through the day on Saturday, February 11th. > Read More
The Architect & The Painter, the new film on Charles and Ray Eames, is broad in its ambitions and captures a few things very well. > Read More
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In his truncated life, Steve Jobs exerted a measure of influence in design that few architects have managed to achieve. As an architect in the most general sense, Jobs helped to shape the desktop worlds we occupy on a daily basis; his design interests encompassed all scales from typography and product packaging, to furniture and retail stores. > Read More
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NASA lands Curiosity rover on Mars
Our latest Curiosity rover coverage will now be posted in a new gallery, which will continue to grow with NASA's latest photos of Mars. The images below cover Curiosity's historic landing and NASA's following press briefing.
On August 5, 2012 at 10:31 p.m. PDT, the world witnessed NASA's rover landing on the Marian surface marking the next exciting phase for the $2.5 billion (USD) Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover mission. The mobile lab is equipped with nuclear-powered capabilities to vaporize rocks, ingest soil, and determine whether Mars was ever inhabited by smaller forms of life. For updates follow @MarsCuriosity on Twitter.
MORE: Curiosity rover seen by HiRISE camera on orbiting Martian satellite
Related reading: 10 out of this world science fiction books about Mars; Curiosity's mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation
NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos
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PASADENA, California (Reuters) – NASA's newly landed Mars science rover Curiosity snapped the first color image of its surroundings while an orbiting sister probe photographed litter left behind during the rover's daring do-or-die descent to the surface, scientists said Tuesday.
Curiosity's color image, taken with a dust cover still on the camera lens, shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, a vast basin where the nuclear-powered, six-wheeled rover touched down Sunday night after flying through space for more than eight months.
The picture proved that one of the rover's key instruments, a camera known as the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, was in good working order affixed to the end of Curiosity robot arm.


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Canada housing market rebound seen in mid-2018 as sales rise for second month in a row
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The number of homes sold in September climbed for the second month in a row after a slowdown earlier this year that was led by a cooling in the Toronto market.
Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday sales through its Multiple Listing Service in September were up 2.1 per cent compared with the previous month. The increase followed a 1.3 per cent increase in August.
TD Bank senior economist Michael Dolega said unlike the gain in August, that was driven by Toronto, the increase for September was more widespread.
But he noted rising interest rates and coming regulatory changes, including a potential new stress test for borrowers with uninsured mortgages, could impinge on the housing market.
"Having said that, after some near-term weakness, likely to last into mid-2018, activity should begin to rebound thereafter given the fundamentally supported demand related to strong job growth and strengthening wage dynamics," Dolega wrote in a note to clients.
Home sales in Canada had been slowing this year following changes by the Ontario government aimed at cooling the Toronto market. CREA noted that sales in September were down almost 12 per cent from the record set in March before Ontario announced its housing plan.
Also weighing on the real estate market has been rising mortgage rates.
The Bank of Canada has raised its key interest rate target twice this year, driving the big bank prime rates and the cost of variable-rate mortgages higher. The cost of new fixed-rate mortgages have also risen as yields on the bond market have also risen.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions is finalizing new lending guidelines. Among the changes being considered is a requirement that homebuyers who do not require mortgage insurance still have to show they can make their payments if interest rates rise.
CREA noted that while the September sales results were encouraging, it is too early to tell if it is start of a longer-term trend.
"Further tightening of federal regulations aimed at cooling housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver risks creating collateral damage in markets elsewhere in Canada," CREA chief economist Gregory Klump said.
The increase in sales in September was led by gains in Greater Vancouver and Vancouver Island, the Greater Toronto Area, London and St. Thomas, Ont., and Barrie, Ont.
Compared with a year ago, sales in September were down 11 per cent as the number of homes sold were down in close to three-quarters of all local markets.
The national average price for homes sold in September was just over $487,000, up 2.8 per cent from a year ago. Excluding Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, the average price was just over $374,500.
Source: Financial Post
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When introduced in 1962, the MGB featured an all-new unibody body shell sharing many styling cues with its Midget sibling. Mechanically an evolution of the MGA it replaced, the MGB was powered by a 1,798cc B-Series engine rated at 95 bhp and mated to a four-speed manual transmission with synchromesh on the top three gears and an optional overdrive. The independent front suspension used coil springs and lever shock absorbers, while the live rear axle was suspended by leaf springs and lever shocks.
Comforts included greater interior and trunk space as well as roll-up windows. Virtually unchanged cosmetically, in 1965 the MGB received a more robust five-main-bearing version of the B-Series engine and was joined by the stylish MGB/GT coupe, which was a Pininfarina-designed mini-grand tourer with a rear hatch. For 1968 MGBs and GTs received an alternator, back-up lights and an all-synchro gearbox, while American market cars were fitted with an emissions air pump and a padded dashboard. Although performance was modest (0-60 in 12.2 seconds), for years MG sold as many MGBs as they could build.
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SharePoint Tries to Keep Up
The collaboration tools discussed this month in Business Impact all have one thing in common. One way or another, they will run up against the market leader: Microsoft's SharePoint software, which is used by more than 100 million people around the world.
SharePoint's success can be attributed to several factors. One, it does a lot: among other things, it lets employees share documents, search internal files, coördinate tasks, and send each other instant messages through a central portal. Second, customers like the fact that it works well with other widely used Microsoft products, such as Exchange e-mail and the Office software package. Third, Microsoft offers a basic version of SharePoint free to companies that run servers with Windows software.
SharePoint is also customizable—according to a 2010 study by the Association for Information and Image Management, 28 percent of SharePoint users add third-party applications to it. Cognizant, an IT consulting company whose 100,000 employees exchange information and blog about their work through SharePoint, built its own version of Twitter, called Cweet, to work with the Microsoft platform. Cognizant's chief information officer, Sukumar Rajagopal, says the staffers who blog perform better on average and are more engaged with the company. All these blogs and "cweets" become part of the company's searchable knowledge database, accessible by anyone looking for information. Rajagopal argues that such tools "can be used to build collaboration across layers much more effectively than you currently are able to with traditional communication techniques."
It's difficult to imagine another maker of collaboration software replicating all SharePoint's services. Instead, software from many startups is designed to work alongside SharePoint rather than replace it altogether. But competitors still have a big opportunity in collaborative software that is hosted remotely, "in the cloud." Offering such services could give them an important advantage, because one of SharePoint's major flaws is that it doesn't store data efficiently, argues Mark R. Gilbert, a research vice president at Gartner. That can make the user experience sluggish. A company can be forced to undertake significant IT work or buy extra servers and memory to make sure the program runs smoothly.
"If you don't have a good-sized IT shop, taking full advantage of a SharePoint server license can be difficult," adds Forrester Research analyst Rob Koplowitz. As a result, he says, "smaller organizations that have the luxury of starting with a blank slate are turning to the cloud." Microsoft's closest rival, IBM, already has a cloud offering with LotusLive Notes, and three million companies are using online applications offered by Google.
Microsoft recognizes this threat and has begun offering a remotely hosted version of SharePoint. Royal Dutch Shell plans to start using it in April so its employees can collaborate on documents worldwide. Later this year, Microsoft will launch an online package of products that has a version of SharePoint built into it.
"The cloud is picking up steam and will explode this year," says Jared Spataro, Microsoft's director of product management for SharePoint. Overall, he adds, Microsoft isn't complacent about its market position. "A hundred million licensees feels like a lot," he says, "until you realize that's only one out of every five information workers in the world."
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Swiftly following Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 9, Google has issued a plug-in for the new browser that allows users to play videos in Google's WebM video file format.
The release, a technical preview, can be installed for IE9 running on either Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
"They said elephants couldn't ride flying dolphins. They said that one of the world's most popular browsers couldn't play WebM video in HTML5. They were wrong," The Google Web page for the plug-in stated.
The release represents the latest installment in the ongoing saga of bringing video to HTML5, the next-generation standard for designing Web pages.
Browser makers have not reached consensus on which video format to use. While Apple and Microsoft have put their weight behind the widely used H.264, Mozilla and Opera have declined to support that codec, citing worries over eventually having to pay patent royalties.
Last year, Google acquired video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, which developed the open source VP8 video codec. Google subsequently used VP8 as the basis for creating WebM, positioning it as a patent-free alternative to H.264-based formats.
While this new WebM release still requires a plug-in, it will at least allow content creators using WebM to have their creations be played on the world's most widely used browser, which may help Google attract more users to the format.
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I had first visited the museum in mid-April last year before it had even opened its doors to the public. Pamuk had arranged for me to visit the building for a short piece commissioned by a British paper. Early one morning I knocked on the door and was greeted by the museum's first curator, who showed me around. After her departure I enjoyed, for more than an hour, being alone among the museum's fictional objects and sound installations, which had been freshly installed in the building's three stories.
Listening to Turkish contemporary artist Cevdet Erek's brilliant sound recordings of a stilettoed woman's walk among the streets of Nişantaşı was a priceless experience. So was the chance to get a close look at the small bed of the book's protagonist Kemal and at Pamuk's manuscript, in which I could see, in the writer's longhand, the early sketches of Kemal's character. In another installation I heard Istanbul's birds as they clapped their wings; leaving the building I felt sure I would come back to the place and to its silent innocence.
Before he allowed writers and journalists like me inside, Pamuk had brought another group of people, a group that must have mattered much more — his neighbors, most of whom are antique dealers. I heard stories about how they had explored the objects of the museum with much pleasure. They were proud to have been the first visitors of the place. It made sense since they had been on that street long before the museum was even an idea in Pamuk's mind.
In the days I passed by the museum I had paid little attention to its neighbors. When The New York Times had listed Istanbul in a "places to visit this summer" article last year, a picture represented the city that showed those neighbors and their families as they visited the museum. "How can those people represent Istanbul?" one user complained on Twitter. He might have preferred seeing smartly dressed Turkish businessmen on the page instead of those not-so-glamorous locals. But then the neighborhood did belong to those people, in whose eyes we must have been little more than visitors. Some of them shared with Pamuk an impressive devotion to the art of collecting. Their shops, around a dozen of them in Çukurcuma, look like miniature museums of innocence themselves. They are similar products of meticulous labor spent collecting objects.
One morning in August I visited those antique shops. They seemed to me to have been placed there as an extension of Pamuk's artistic vision, so brilliant was his choice of locale. I visited Esra Aysun, the museum's new curator, in her office adjacent to the building, and she described it as the museum becoming an "organic part" of a neighborhood those shops had defined for so long. "We didn't change the neighborhood at all," she said. "Instead we set up an institution that is looking after its objects just like they look after theirs."
Çukurcuma's antique shops (antikacılar in Turkish) had long witnessed the life in the neighborhood. They helped make it safe when Taksim was not so safe a place in 1990s — a time when the tension between the city's Kurds, Roma people, sexual minorities, and the police force was at its peak. This was also a time when torture in police stations was widespread and street violence a basic fact of life.
Mahmut Gezmez, the owner of Yaşam Antik, seemed like a grave character when I first met him in his dimmed shop filled with many objects made of copper. He described how the number of his customers had dropped after the protests this summer. But when asked to talk about his neighborhood he cheered up. "Our customer profile changed dramatically thanks to the museum," he said. "Young and beautiful people are now frequenting this street. They are not shopping that much, but you know, one can't expect young people to shop that much. I totally forgive them." When I asked him whether he approved of the way Pamuk's curator displayed the museum's objects, he said he didn't feel qualified to answer the question. "Professional architects designed those object cabinets in the museum," he said, "who am I to criticize them? I think the museum is very nice." In an even more cheerful mood he told me how his fellow antique dealers learned English to better communicate with new customers. "Me? So far I have not managed to master the language," he said. "My English consists of two words: hello and welcome." Gezmez, who had traveled to Istanbul from Adana (a city which the country's other major novelist, Yaşar Kemal, beautifully describes in his epic books), promised to read Pamuk's books and improve his English before I left his shop.
I then visited Fikret'in Dünyası ("Fikret's World") owned by a young collector named Fikret Bilgin Yılmaz. Yılmaz said he had devoted his life to collecting; he focuses on toys and has been collecting them for the last 15 years. "Orhan Bey purchased many of the toys for his museum from my own shop in Cihangir," he said. (Everyone I spoke to that day referred to Pamuk in this way, as "Mr Orhan.") "Orhan Bey is not a collector in the classical sense of the word. He collected stuff in order to create this museum and then he seems to have quitted the habit. Another famous Turkish writer, Sunay Akın, is also a frequent visitor." Akın owns a museum in the city's Anatolian side named Istanbul Toy Museum (http://www.istanbuloyuncakmuzesi.com/eng/). "I think Pamuk is the better writer and Akın is the better collector," Yılmaz opined.
Another shop I visited on the street was virtually empty except for its owner, Haydar Tekin, who said he had lately decided to turn his place into a "transportation facility." "My family had lived here for more than a century," said Tekin, whose surname means "deserted place" in Turkish. "The grandfather of my grandfather came here first. Our family witnessed the transformation of this neighborhood over many decades. We know who helped Çukurcuma and who did not. Let me tell you," he said in a passionate voice, "Orhan Bey is a very good fellow. His museum added energy to our neighborhood! If respectable people are now frequenting these streets it is because of his museum."
Tekin then complained about the coverage of Gezi events by the international media. "They represented this city as if it was a war zone," he said. "In fact not much had changed here. All the violence took place around the park. It was peaceful in Çukurcuma."
Ahmet Ok, who runs a leather shop on the other end of the street, begged to differ. Living in an apartment in Cihangir, Ok experienced firsthand how the tear gas used by the police affected even the residential areas that had nothing to do with the events.
Ok told me how things have changed over the last four years as people from the United States and Europe started renting houses in the neighborhood. He said he had been a tourist guide for more than 25 years; when I suggested whether he was bored sitting behind a desk all day long in his shop he said he had lately become an avid reader of books. (He confessed to enjoying My Name is Red, Pamuk's IMPAC winning novel, more than the Innocence.) "I heard that Pamuk is about to finish a new book and that it is about a boza seller," he said. "I wonder whether he will build a museum for the boza seller as well."
Pamuk has frequented the streets of the neighborhood for the last 13 years. When he is in town (which is not always, since Pamuk is lecturing at Columbia University one semester a year) he visits the shops and talks to their owners. In Turkish we call antique dealers antikacılar, which is a neutral word. Antika insan (an antiquated person), on the other hand, is not so neutral: it means a weird kind of person, which the protagonist of Pamuk's book arguably is. (Following the death of his lover, he collects everything she left behind.) During my childhood, my relatives told me that writers, artists, and such people were antika insanlar, and that I should keep my distance from them. Seeing how much the Nobel laureate, his antique-dealer neighbors, and the thousands of protestors who had wanted to preserve trees in a public park had in common, I feel glad that I have never taken their advice.


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EGG HARBOR TWP. Atlantic City International Airport will receive $2.2 million under federal fiscal year 2007 spending bills approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee this week.
The funding, which was proposed and supported by New Jersey U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, will be used to acquire and install components necessary to upgrade the current Instrument Landing System at the airport.
If approved by the full Senate, the funds will be used to upgrade Runway 31 to Category III, which means it will be equipped with runway visual range sensors, touchdown zone lights and an approach lighting system that will allow many more aircraft to land in severe weather when visibility is low.
The improvements to the Instrument Landing System on Runway 31 dovetail with the other major improvements that have been and continue to be made at the airport, which is owned and operated by the South Jersey Transportation Authority.
I want to thank the senators for their continued support of the growth and development of Atlantic City International Airport, said SJTA Acting Executive Director James R. Iannone.
Among the improvements the Authority has made are full instrument guidance on Runways 13 and 31, a new taxiway, improved lighting on the flight ramps, a new 1,000-space parking lot and, this year, construction of a new baggage screening and sorting structure to house security equipment for the Transportation Security Administration and give the airlines more space for efficient loading of flights. Included in this project is installation of a second escalator near the baggage claim area, which will improve terminal traffic flow for travelers.
Late last month, the Authority authorized the expenditure of $25 million to design and build a 1,400-space parking garage at the airport. That project is expected to be completed in 2007.


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