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Hear My Soul Speak : Wedding Quotes from Shakespeare
"To you I give myself, for I am yours." - As You Like It
Don't Just Say Something Good, Say Something
Over 100 Shakespeare quotes, hand-chosen by Shakespeare experts for their usefulness in a wedding.
Explanations! Know what you're saying and when you might want to say it.
Something for Everybody! Invitations, readings, vows, best man toasts, father of the bride speeches, even ideas for how to sign the guest book.
Included! Lessons on how to memorize and recite Shakespeare so you're not stuck reading it from an index card you pull out of your back pocket.
"Heaven give you many merry days." - The Merry Wives of Windsor

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The Data Center 100
Building a data center is one thing. Making it work right is a completely different business, one that requires a variety of tools. Those tools are primarily software applications that help monitor data center functions to ensure power, cooling and other variables are as expected. More importantly, those tools notify administrators when something is not working properly. Many also provide data on potential fixes or, in the case of the most sophisticated, automatically take the required actions to keep the data center running smoothly. The more simple tools can be a good way for solution providers to start a data center management business, but the sophisticated tools are best left to experts.
Check out the top tools providers from this year's Data Center 100.
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Sick of the Meat Cube, BK Club and Apple Pie McFlurry? Try ordering these ultra-secret menu items that only a handful of fast-food customers know about.
Being forever 21 sounds good at first, but in the grand scheme of things it's an existential nightmare.
Stay 'woke' on the best treatments for chronic sleeplessness.
Now that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature, hopefully these other great musicians will win the award in the future.
Surveying the horrors of nuclear annihilation, I realize the hubris of my species and the grand indifference of the universe. But I have to admit, a lot of these horrors would make great band names.
Office cubicles look a lot like a maze, if you arrange them into a maze and forget that in a maze you have to walk around, not just sit in a chair and browse Facebook all day.
Critics of Obamacare claim that it's unconstitutional, increases the national debt and imposes too many costs on businesses. But what do they propose we replace it with?
Gingerdead Man 3: Someone punches or just sort of pokes the Gingerdead Man, exploiting his one weakness of being a man made of gingerbread.
In Permanent Midnight, Jerry Stahl's heroin addiction alienates his friends and wife. I don't have any friends or a significant other, so I figured that for someone like me, drug abuse would have the opposite effect and make me popular.
Am I boring you? Does the flesh-rending, bone-splintering brutality of the Fight Palace put you to sleep? In the arena, a moment can mean the difference between life and death, but clearly a moment of your time is too much to ask.
The moment I step inside Planet Fitness, I feel completely at home. No prying eyes staring at me, judging me, like they do on the street. It's almost like that horrible, regrettable incident never happened.
I've never been one to define myself by my clothes, so an ironic "Future Children's Party Clown" t-shirt appealed to me. I might have been weird, but I knew I'd never become a children's party clown. Until I did.
In a change of format, the next season of The Simpsons will consist entirely of the cartoon family discussing the lives of their fans.
Check out that biomechanoid in the corner with tentacles for hair. I bet she spent an hour on that hairdo she wants you to think she just crawled out of a pool of amniotic jelly with.
The store is empty, funereal, a museum exhibit on twenty-first-century fashion. Mannequins stand vigil over untouched merchandise, staring at me like the bust of Ozymandias. If there were teens in this place, they left long ago.
Legendary musician/harbinger of doom the Plague Piper appears on VH1 Storytellers to share the inspiration behind some of his most popular songs.
Many reviewers feel the new album of Kurt Cobain's home recordings violates the dead musician's privacy. But what if Kurt Cobain is really spying on us?
Are you leading a class or book club discussion on Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, aka the book of the dead? Here are 13 prompts to get things rolling.
With all these great tats, it's safe to say I'm the most unique person on earth. Which sounds great, until you realize how lonely it is.
Late in the 21st century, most human recreation is performed by robots. Every night, the robots go to bars and nightclubs and transmit the experience to their human masters. At the end of the night, the robots must return to their factories to be destroyed. This is not called execution. It's called closing time.
We've been called the world's most dangerous band. That title mainly refers to the danger of being in our band, which has lost several members due to drug overdoses, time-travel mishaps or because they were eaten by our drummer, Quark. I'd fire Quark, but he's 12 feet tall and is our moral compass for all decisions that don't involve eating people.
Elliot said my breakup must have been due to the sweater curse, an unexplained phenomenon where anyone who gives their significant other a hand-knit sweater gets dumped. The only way to break the curse, Elliot said, was to destroy the sweater.
Elliot told us the legend of Grout Man, a ghostly being who used his psychic powers to make teenagers steal grout and bring it to his mansion in the woods. He then made them grout the tiles on his patio for all eternity.
The Kill List MFA Program grants a terminal (no pun intended) degree in writing lists of targets for the U.S. government to extrajudicially murder. The online program meets twice a year to workshop the students' lists.
You know what happens when you assume ... or do you? Here are some more consequences of assuming you might not be aware of.
Has the passion been fading from your relationship? Maybe it's time to try something new! Remind your partner that you love him or her with these fun and unique love coupons.
Brooklyn was once a hotbed of gang violence, with groups like the Pure Hells, Satan Souls and Screaming Phantoms carving out their turf. The borough has gotten a bit safer over the years, but many dangerous gangs are still at large.
The unexamined life is not worth living, which is why it's important to live your life in front of a webcam, where it can be examined by hundreds of lonely men. But like any fine art, camming has its do's and don'ts.
Sometimes I'd get bullied while driving the driver's ed car. The guy behind me would give me a wet willy so hard that his finger would poke through my eardrum and into my skull, damaging the part of my brain that processed depth and time.
I'm haunted by a recurring vision of a skeleton flipping me off. To avoid seeing this terrifying image in bumper sticker form, I pay someone with a blank bumper to drive in front of me at all times.
Recently, I won a trip to New York City to appear on "New York or Butts?", a game show where contestants must distinguish aerial photos of Manhattan from pictures of bloody, hemorrhoidal anuses. While touring the city, I discovered some great spots that all visitors to the Big Apple should add to their itinerary.
I'm walking down the street when a white man asks me if I know what time it is. I think he's trying to mug me or sell me Bruce Springsteen tickets, so I throw my pizza at him and run.
CANCER FACT: A group of people called "Cancer Chasers" try to contract cancer by sleeping with cancer patients. Most are unsuccessful, except for a few who get cancer from smoking after sex.
Two zombies who've just finished their shift board the train and kick me out of my seat, explaining that the backs of haunted house rides are reserved for cool people. "Have you ever touched and then ripped off and eaten a boob?" one says to me. "Yeah, that's what I thought."
Sometimes I dream that I'm sitting in the back of the defunct Weinermobile as it careens driverless down the highway. At first I thought this was symbolic of the powerlessness I feel in life, but then I realized it's actually the Weinermobile's dream of being able to drive again.
Winter is a cold, inhuman force, so plow drivers are trained to be cold and inhuman as well. On their first day on the job they're subjected to Chinese snowflake torture - basically the same as water torture except with snowflakes instead of water and Christmas carols playing in the background.
The walls of my dorm are covered with supermodel posters. Today I tore one down looking for an electrical outlet and saw the words "HELP ME" written repeatedly on the wall in a mix of blood and hair gel, but then the poster re-affixed itself to the wall like a rapidly healing wound.
Scott said that he loved me but only as a friend, not a best friend like I wanted him to be. Since then our lunches have been awkward; the last time, when he vomited from Burger Hub's cadmium-tainted glasses, we just silently watched his vomit dry for 20 minutes.
Years of listening to my coworkers' stories about their weekends have given me the ability to see them as high-def 3D movies, more real than my own life. I walk into a coworker's campsite, her tent a skyward arrow indicating the course of her future.
The singer dove off the stage and crowd surfed in a sort of reverse funeral procession where the person being carried is the only one truly alive. Touching him I felt religious ecstasy and started speaking in tongues and requesting songs that didn't exist.
To be a designated driver I drink beer, then do coke to cancel out the beer, then Quaaludes to take the edge off the coke, then PCP to stay awake on the Quaaludes, then more beer to drown out my friends, who are yelling at me to find my clothes and get off the roof because they want to go home.
Eryk danced with the dress across the parking lot. The street lights became disco balls, the raccoons by the dumpster became promgoers and slow-dance music played from the storm drains. "Look," the dress said, "They're announcing us prom queen and queen."
The mortar and pestle on pharmacy signs looks like an inverted Taco Bell logo. Old people sometimes confuse the two and go to Taco Bell for their heart medicine and get triple beef burritos and die instantly.
The poor quality of the tape makes it look less like a movie and more like a director's half-formed idea for one. After a few drinks the room looks the same way, making you forget which side of the screen you're on.
If an unattractive person somehow gets their hands on forbidden Abercrombie & Fitch merchandise, dodging the lava pits and robot mannequins that throw the ampersands from their A&F T-shirts like shurikens, they'll fall victim to the store's mirrors, which explode if they display unattractive people, shooting shards of glass into the people's faces.
In today's video Emma is doing forced sneezes, where a man holds a handful of pepper under her nose. She secretly enjoys these videos the most. While she hates being dominated during sex, her sinuses are naturally submissive.
Life is just a vast warehouse of people, music and beer to be assembled into parties. Here are some of the most popular types of parties happening today.
One night in 1989 I showed up to my job at the McDonald's in Times Square, New York, and the place was filled with gay ravers. They were dressed as gay versions of McDonald's mascots, like Mac Tonight in Liberace garb and Mayor McCheese with a rainbow sash.
As janitor at a counseling office, one of my jobs is to clean the secret staff entrance. The entrance, a 50-foot hallway, runs between the office and the alternate universe where psychologists live.
The touchscreen had an interface I didn't understand, and I kept hitting the wrong buttons, flooding the screen with error messages. Each one made the cashier cringe, but told me to keep going. As I fumbled through the menus trying to upgrade my meal he began breathing heavily.
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Tips On Boating Safely with Children
More than 70 million Americans enjoy recreational boating each year. Unfortunately, about 3,000 people were injured and more than 650 died in boating accidents in 2010, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Coast Guard. That's why it is so important to practice boat and water sports safety.
Here are 10 ways to ensure a safe boat ride this summer.
1. Wear life vests. Most boating-related drownings can be prevented by wearing personal flotation devices. Of the 484 people who drowned in 2010, nearly 400 of them were NOT wearing life preservers. Recreational boats must carry one appropriately sized life jacket approved by the Coast Guard for each person onboard, and the jackets must be kept accessible and in good condition. Children 14 and under need to wear child-sized life jackets and must wear them at all times onboard. The life jacket should fit snugly and not allow the child's chin or ears to slip through the neck opening.
2. Don't substitute floats or toys for life jackets. Air-filled swimming aids, such as water wings and inner tubes, are not safety devices and should never be substituted for portable flotation devices.
3. Take a boating education course before operating a boat or personal water craft. Contrary to popular belief, driving a boat is not the same as driving a car. Most reported boating incidents in 2010 involved operator-controllable factors: carelessness or recklessness, inattentiveness, inexperience or unsafe speeds. Ninety-one percent of the fatalities occurred on boats where the boat operator had not attended a boating safety education course.
4. Do not allow children under age 16 to operate personal watercraft. In 2010, 21 children under age 14 lost their lives while boating. Personal watercraft accidents accounted for 20 percent of all boating accidents reported to the U.S. Coast Guard, injuring 776 and killing 38.
5. Never drink alcoholic beverages while boating. Alcohol use affects judgment, vision, balance and coordination. Alcohol use was linked to 330 boating accidents and 126 deaths in 2010, according to the Coast Guard.
6. Make sure riders are seated and holding on while the boat is in operation. This is especially true for little ones, whose low weight could make it easy for rough waters to bump them out of the boat.
7. Avoid boating alone. Even adults and seasoned swimmers can get into trouble around water.
8. Always have a spotter. If pulling a skier or other water recreation device, always have someone other than the driver to watch for hidden dangers and quickly alert the driver if the rider falls. Also, whether tubing, skiing, wakeboarding or participating in other water sports, all participants should wear life vests.
9. Get a Vessel Safety Check. The Vessel Safety Check is a free public service provided by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and U.S. Power Squadron volunteer organizations. Volunteers check safety equipment and provide information about equipment purpose, safety procedures and applicable regulations. For more information, visit vesselsafetycheck.org.
10. Be aware of the risk of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. All internal combustion engines emit CO, an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas. In the early stages, the symptoms of CO poisoning are similar to seasickness and CO can kill in a matter of minutes. Potential CO poisoning exists during the operation of any gasoline-powered engine. To avoid CO poisoning, be aware of the risk, ensure sufficient ventilation, properly install and maintain equipment and use CO detectors.
For the welfare of your children, your family and all those boating with you, please be careful. You can never go overboard on water safety.


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While the battle over same-sex marriage dominates the headlines in the ongoing struggle for gay-and-lesbian equality, many other battles are just as important, if not more so. Two such issues — adoption rights and organized religions' views on homosexuality — surfaced over the past week, and both reflected major social and theological shifts in two of our most important religious institutions. One skulks unashamedly into the past, while the other promises to move boldly into the future.
On February 15, four Massachusetts bishops instructed the board of Catholic Charities of Boston — the church's principal social-service agency in the state, whose self-declared "mission" is "tobuild a just and compassionate society rooted in the dignity of all people" — to cease facilitating adoption by same-sex couples on the grounds that such adoptions are morally dangerous for children. (In the past two decades only 13 out of 720 placements were made to same-sex couples.) Over the past week, eight of the 42 Catholic Charities board members resigned in protest. Because many of its corporate and nonprofit contributors must abide by their own nondiscrimination policies, Catholic Charities may also lose millions of dollars in donations.
But as Catholic bishops in Massachusetts conspired to deprive gay and lesbian couples of basic civil rights under state law, a very different story was unfolding at an undisclosed site near Baltimore, Maryland, where on March 7 and 8 the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (the body that adjudicates religious law for Conservative Judaism) debated whether to discard the denomination's traditional prohibitions against homosexual behavior, and recognize same-sex unions as well as ordain gay and lesbian rabbis. Commentary in the Jewish press suggests that the committee will likely liberalize interpretation of Halakah, or Jewish law.
Stepping back, we shouldn't be surprised by either development. While the American Catholic Church has historically been liberal in its pursuit of social and economic justice and fairness to immigrants, and in its opposition to capital punishment and unjust wars, the same can hardly be said of its approach to sexuality — especially gay sexuality. Indeed, with its active campaign against same-sex marriage, its prohibitions on celibate gay seminarians, and even its injunctions against safe-sex education and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, the Catholic Church has become increasingly reactionary — especially over the past three years. This digging in of heels, of course, helps the church distance itself from its clergy sex-abuse scandals, but it also reflects the Vatican's geopolitical situation: the Catholic Church's real growth is taking place in underdeveloped countries with more-patriarchal sexual mores. Meanwhile, Conservative Judaism has become increasingly liberal — in 1985 it sanctioned the ordination of women to stem the defection of congregants to Reform Judaism (which made this decision 13 years earlier). Even so, from 1990 to 2000 Conservative Judaism's share of the nation's Jews shrank from 43 to 33 percent, with most of its former members opting for the more liberal thought of Reform Judaism. Not surprisingly, Conservative Judaism already lost its most deeply conservative adherents to Orthodox Judaism over the gender issue.
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If you watch the following video you'll notice that photoshop is providing a subset of features on the iPad and since this is a "new" piece of software nobody can complain about all of the features the left out. You can find the same thing with some of the Apps that apple has released including the latest addition "GarageBand". Maybe this is what truthfully sets the iPad apart from the Windows Tablet PC's of the early 2000′s. A fresh start.
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P.S. No offense to any of my hippy readers…as if they have computers psshhh Oh and this doesn't mean you won't find me eating at Applebees or anything in the near future…..I'm not suggesting I am a changed man….just open to change!
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This simple set of classes very easily allows you to map your XML coming in off of a URL (Like a REST based service) to an object.
This is basically a simplistic ORM (object relational mapper) written in objective c and meant for the iPhone.
As I discover more tidbits I will try to make note of them here. Also I will try to blog in a bit more detail about them and my project in near future.
]]>I picked up one of these tuners and started installing on my HP a1720n when I realized that I'd have to remove my graphics card in order to have a spot for it as the PC only comes equiped with one PCI Express slot. I'm alright with that though, I don't have a problem using the onboard video or an older PCI based video card. So I remove the PCI Express video card, Â put in the tuner card, and power the machine up…..Nothing….no video….what follows is an evening of swearing, moving and removing cards, and rebooting about 50 times!
As it turns out the motherboard of my media center doesn't allow anything other than a graphics card in the PCI Express slot. It actually goes as far as deactivating the onboard and PCI based video options in the BIOS when you put anything in that slot. UGH…
My next thought is that I can either upgrade my motherboard or upgrade machines. I poked around online and decide that a QUAD core upgrade wouldn't be a bad thing. So I ordered up a Quad Core Dell w/ 6GB of RAM from bestbuy.com and I went in and pick it up last night.
Within 3 hours of playing with this new machine I decided I didn't like it and that it was going back for a few reasons:
McMillan – Irish
Borelli – Italian
Burns – German
Finnerty – Irish
Rose – Dutch
Vanderzwagg – Dutch
DeYoung – English/Irish/Cuban ??????
Smallegan – Dutch
The only name I'm not very sure of is DeYoung….based on this image it could be from any number of places:
DeYoung Port of Departure from Ancestry.com
From this I can derive that I am about:
37.5% Dutch
25% Irish
12.5% Italian
12.5% German
So far I've been to Ireland and if it turns out DeYoung is from England I've been there as well. This year we plan to go to Italy and I can't help but wonder if I am going to see more family resemblance….It is kind of crazy how so many different nationalities are classified together as caucasian but with so many varieties of facial and physical body structure. Based on my mutt status I guess I'm gonna classify myself as Durisianman What are you?


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Price Dispersion In U.S. Manufacturing: Implications For The Aggregation Of Products And Firms
This paper addresses the question of whether products in the U.S. Manufacturing sector sell at a single (common) price, or whether prices vary across producers. Price dispersion is interesting for at least two reasons. First, if output prices vary across producers, standard methods of using industry price deflators lead to errors in measuring real output at the industry, firm, and establishment level which may bias estimates of the production function and productivity growth. Second, price dispersion suggests product heterogeneity which, if consumers do not have identical preferences, could lead to market segmentation and price in excess of marginal cost, thus making the current (competitive) characterization of the Manufacturing sector inappropriate and invalidating many empirical studies. In the course of examining these issues, the paper develops a robust measure of price dispersion as well as new quantitative methods for testing whether observed price differences are the result of differences in product quality. Our results indicate that price dispersion is widespread throughout manufacturing and that for at least one industry, Hydraulic Cement, it is not the result of differences in product quality.
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Age: 81
Fortune: self made
Source: asset management
Net Worth: $1.9 bil
Country Of Citizenship: Canada
Residence: Montreal
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Industry: Finance
Marital Status: married, 4 children
Education: Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Harvard University, Master of Business Administration
Born in Berlin, Jarislowsky moved to Canada in 1949 after receiving his M.B.A. at Harvard. Six years later founded Jarislowsky Fraser, an asset manager that today manages $50 billion on behalf of institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals. Outspoken critic of excessive executive pay. In addition to an eclectic art collection, which includes jade, Chinese furniture and Eskimo artifacts, owns a private island in British Columbia with 16 miles of shoreline. Inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame last year.
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October 1, 2012
Biothera has named Ryusendo Co. Ltd. as its exclusive distributor in Japan of Wellmune WGP and the company's other immune health ingredients for foods, beverages, and supplements. Wellmune WGP is a natural beta 1,3/1,6 glucan from a proprietary strain of baker's yeast, which can be used as a health ingredient in foods, beverage, and supplements in more than 50 countries.
"Immune support is a rapidly growing category spanning a broad range of consumers—from infants to the elderly—and we are excited to make the immune health benefits of Wellmune available to the Japanese people," said Yoshiaki Shiojima, CEO of Ryusendo Co. Ltd. "Wellmune is an excellent addition to our portfolio that provides new opportunities for formulating in beverages and conventional foods as well as health foods."
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Oxford Textbook of Medicine
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Summary: Restriction endonuclease FokI, catalytic domain
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Restriction endonuclease FokI, catalytic domain Provide feedback
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Literature references
Wah DA, Bitinaite J, Schildkraut I, Aggarwal AK; , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998;95:10564-10569.: Structure of FokI has implications for DNA cleavage. PUBMED:9724743 EPMC:9724743
Kovall RA, Matthews BW; , Curr Opin Chem Biol 1999;3:578-583.: Type II restriction endonucleases: structural, functional and evolutionary relationships. PUBMED:10508668 EPMC:10508668
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SCOP: | 2fok |
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InterPro entry IPR004233
There are four classes of restriction endonucleases: types I, II,III and IV. All types of enzymes recognise specific short DNA sequences and carry out the endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA to give specific double-stranded fragments with terminal 5'-phosphates. They differ in their recognition sequence, subunit composition, cleavage position, and cofactor requirements [PUBMED:15121719, PUBMED:12665693], as summarised below:
- Type I enzymes (EC) cleave at sites remote from recognition site; require both ATP and S-adenosyl-L-methionine to function; multifunctional protein with both restriction and methylase (EC) activities.
- Type II enzymes (EC) cleave within or at short specific distances from recognition site; most require magnesium; single function (restriction) enzymes independent of methylase.
- Type III enzymes (EC) cleave at sites a short distance from recognition site; require ATP (but doesn't hydrolyse it); S-adenosyl-L-methionine stimulates reaction but is not required; exists as part of a complex with a modification methylase methylase (EC).
- Type IV enzymes target methylated DNA.
Type II restriction endonucleases (EC) are components of prokaryotic DNA restriction-modification mechanisms that protect the organism against invading foreign DNA. These site-specific deoxyribonucleases catalyse the endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA to give specific double-stranded fragments with terminal 5'-phosphates. Of the 3000 restriction endonucleases that have been characterised, most are homodimeric or tetrameric enzymes that cleave target DNA at sequence-specific sites close to the recognition site. For homodimeric enzymes, the recognition site is usually a palindromic sequence 4-8 bp in length. Most enzymes require magnesium ions as a cofactor for catalysis. Although they can vary in their mode of recognition, many restriction endonucleases share a similar structural core comprising four beta-strands and one alpha-helix, as well as a similar mechanism of cleavage, suggesting a common ancestral origin [PUBMED:15770420]. However, there is still considerable diversity amongst restriction endonucleases [PUBMED:14576294, PUBMED:11827971]. The target site recognition process triggers large conformational changes of the enzyme and the target DNA, leading to the activation of the catalytic centres. Like other DNA binding proteins, restriction enzymes are capable of non-specific DNA binding as well, which is the prerequisite for efficient target site location by facilitated diffusion. Non-specific binding usually does not involve interactions with the bases but only with the DNA backbone [PUBMED:11557805].
Thie entry represents the type IIS restriction endonuclease FokI (EC), which is a member of an unusual class of bipartite restriction enzymes that recognise a specific DNA sequence and cleave DNA nonspecifically a short distance away from that sequence [PUBMED:9724744]. FokI contains amino- and carboxy-terminal domains corresponding to the DNA-recognition (INTERPRO) and cleavage functions, respectively.
The catalytic domain contains only a single catalytic centre, raising the question of how monomeric FokI manages to cleave both DNA strands. The catalytic domain is sequestered in a 'piggyback' fashion by the recognition domain [PUBMED:9214510].
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Molecular function | DNA binding (GO:0003677) |
Type II site-specific deoxyribonuclease activity (GO:0009036) | |
Biological process | DNA restriction-modification system (GO:0009307) |
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan HTH (CL0123), which has the following description:
This family contains a diverse range of mostly DNA-binding domains that contain a helix-turn-helix motif.
The clan contains the following 256 members:
AbiEi_3_N AbiEi_4 ANAPC2 AphA_like Arg_repressor ARID B-block_TFIIIC Bac_DnaA_C BetR Bot1p BrkDBD C_LFY_FLO Cdc6_C CENP-B_N Cro Crp CSN8_PSD8_EIF3K Cullin_Nedd8 CUT DDRGK DEP Dimerisation Dimerisation2 DsrD DUF1133 DUF1153 DUF1323 DUF134 DUF1441 DUF1492 DUF1495 DUF1670 DUF1804 DUF1836 DUF1870 DUF2089 DUF2250 DUF2316 DUF2582 DUF3116 DUF3253 DUF3853 DUF3860 DUF3908 DUF433 DUF4364 DUF4447 DUF480 DUF722 DUF739 DUF742 DUF977 E2F_TDP EAP30 ELL ESCRT-II Ets Exc F-112 FaeA Fe_dep_repr_C Fe_dep_repress FeoC FokI_C FokI_N Forkhead Ftsk_gamma FUR GcrA GerE GntR HARE-HTH HemN_C HNF-1_N Homeobox Homeobox_KN Homez HPD HrcA_DNA-bdg HSF_DNA-bind HTH_1 HTH_10 HTH_11 HTH_12 HTH_13 HTH_15 HTH_16 HTH_17 HTH_18 HTH_19 HTH_20 HTH_21 HTH_22 HTH_23 HTH_24 HTH_25 HTH_26 HTH_27 HTH_28 HTH_29 HTH_3 HTH_30 HTH_31 HTH_32 HTH_33 HTH_34 HTH_35 HTH_36 HTH_37 HTH_38 HTH_39 HTH_40 HTH_41 HTH_42 HTH_43 HTH_45 HTH_46 HTH_47 HTH_5 HTH_6 HTH_7 HTH_8 HTH_9 HTH_AraC HTH_AsnC-type HTH_CodY HTH_Crp_2 HTH_DeoR HTH_IclR HTH_Mga HTH_micro HTH_OrfB_IS605 HTH_psq HTH_Tnp_1 HTH_Tnp_1_2 HTH_Tnp_4 HTH_Tnp_IS1 HTH_Tnp_IS630 HTH_Tnp_ISL3 HTH_Tnp_Mu_1 HTH_Tnp_Mu_2 HTH_Tnp_Tc3_1 HTH_Tnp_Tc3_2 HTH_Tnp_Tc5 HTH_WhiA HxlR IBD IF2_N IRF KicB KORA KorB La LacI LexA_DNA_bind Linker_histone LZ_Tnp_IS481 MADF_DNA_bdg MarR MarR_2 MerR MerR-DNA-bind MerR_1 MerR_2 Mga Mnd1 Mor MotA_activ MqsA_antitoxin MRP-L20 Myb_DNA-bind_2 Myb_DNA-bind_3 Myb_DNA-bind_4 Myb_DNA-bind_5 Myb_DNA-bind_6 Myb_DNA-bind_7 Myb_DNA-binding Neugrin NUMOD1 OST-HTH P22_Cro PaaX PadR PAX PCI Penicillinase_R Phage_AlpA Phage_antitermQ Phage_CI_repr Phage_CII Phage_rep_org_N Phage_terminase Pou Pox_D5 PuR_N Put_DNA-bind_N Rap1-DNA-bind Rep_3 RepA_C RepA_N RepC RepL Replic_Relax RFX_DNA_binding Ribosomal_S19e Ribosomal_S25 Rio2_N RNA_pol_Rpc34 RP-C RPA RPA_C RQC Rrf2 RTP RuvB_C SAC3_GANP SANT_DAMP1_like SatD SelB-wing_1 SelB-wing_2 SelB-wing_3 SgrR_N Sigma54_CBD Sigma54_DBD Sigma70_ECF Sigma70_ner Sigma70_r2 Sigma70_r3 Sigma70_r4 Sigma70_r4_2 SLIDE SMC_ScpB SpoIIID STN1_2 Sulfolobus_pRN SWIRM TBPIP Terminase_5 TetR_N TFIIE_alpha TFIIE_beta TFIIF_alpha TFIIF_beta Tn7_Tnp_TnsA_C Tn916-Xis TraI_2_C Trans_reg_C TrfA TrmB Trp_repressor UPF0122 Vir_act_alpha_C YdaS_antitoxin YjcQ YokU z-alphaAlignments
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Seed source: | Structural domain |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Domain |
Author: | Griffiths-Jones SR |
Number in seed: | 6 |
Number in full: | 21 |
Average length of the domain: | 136.00 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 45 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 23.15 % |
HMM information
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Family (HMM) version: | 15 | ||||||||||||
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- Trump engaged in a publicity stunt where he offered $5 million to charity in exchange for President Obama's college and passport records.
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UNC-TV's beloved Just For Kids star Read-a-roo is now the star of her very own kid's special, Let's Go Shopping With Read-a-roo! Read-a-roo celebrates her birthday this month with the UNC-TV premiere of Let's Go Shopping With Read-a-roo, Saturday, June 28, at 9 AM.
Let's Go Shopping With Read-a-roo was taped at EarthFare's Brierdale location and features Read-a-roo and pal Miss Joy on a shopping excursion for healthy, tasty treats! They meet new friends, sample yummy snacks, and learn about tasty vegetables and fruits available – many grown right here in North Carolina!
Let's Go Shopping With Read-a-roo is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Health & Wellness Trust Fund Commission, and its Fit Kids Initiative. The North Carolina Health & Wellness Trust Fund Commission invests in programs and partnerships to address access, prevention, education and research that help all North Carolinians achieve better health. Visit www.HealthWellNC.com for more information.
EarthFare is based in Asheville, North Carolina and currently has 13 stores located throughout the Southeast region of the United States. Earth Fare offers all natural and organic products, free cooking classes, workshops, fun events and more.


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OK so last week i told you i would post another good one, so here it is....I was working for a drain co in NJ...We got a call from the Phila Housing Authority (this was 9yrs ago). The call was to check for a serious sewer odor. As soon as my partner and i got out of the truck at the job, you could smell the sewage... The house was a run down house. When the homeowner openned the door, the smell of sewage was so awfull, we went and got towels to cover our face. We immediataly told the homeowner to get out of the house. After going thru our whole shpeal with the guy, he took us to the 1st floor bathroom. He said his toilet hasnt worked in months. We noticed a fish tank, and a 5 gallon bucket next to the toilet. He said he would dump water into the toilet to make it flush everytime he would use it. We both noticed that there were no bolts on the toilet to the floor. The flooring around the toilet was so rotted, i couldnt believe that the toilet hadnt fallen thru into the basement. So we moved the toilet over, and found out why there was so much floor rot. When we moved the toilet we saw that there was no toilet flange, and no toilet sweep. The sweep and flange and broken off and fallen completely down into the basment floor. All the toilet usage, IE daily usage, was just being flushed with his buckets into the basement and all over the floor. There was a mound of CRAP at least a ft and a half high, plus all the urine. We called the PHA and the Board of Health. They relocated the guy, and the PHA took over the job... I couldnt believe that someone would not notice the pipe was broken let alone the sewage that was just falling into the basement. He said he would not go into the basement do to the smell.
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The History of Sanitary Sewers Good site on the history of sanitary sewers and cleaners
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We had a remodel job a couple years ago like that. Except the homeowner did fall through the floor, surprising that the copper sewer line didn't break also. I wish I would've taken pictures, it was kinda funny to see just a toilet sitting there with no floor around it. When we went down to the basement, someone had taken off the cleanout cap and never put it back on. I'll save everyone the mental pictures but trust me it was the worst thing I ever saw.
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Originally posted by MrsSeatDown View PostDrain, was it an old guy? How come he didn't call a plumber sooner? It seems more sad than stupid
Young guy, in his late 20sThe History of Sanitary Sewers Good site on the history of sanitary sewers and cleaners
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Ya they obviously didnt careThe History of Sanitary Sewers Good site on the history of sanitary sewers and cleaners
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Astell&Kern AKR01 Balanced Armature In-Ear Monitors
"Astell & Kern AKR01 Jimmy Moon at Astell & Kern was kind enough to lend me a pair of AKR01's for review. Big thanks to him. Anyways, review ahead! What are they: I notice that I haven't seen coverage for these at all, and I wanted to tell you what they are about. The AKR01 is based off the Final Audio Heaven IV design, and is voiced to work well with..." --wolfetan44
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Try Something New
Though you tend to have tried-and-true dishes that you order during each visit (even if it's five times a week!), we encourage you to broaden your horizons and try something new next time you dine with us. Below are a few of our favorites. Learn more about these and other ingredients over at the Glossary.
Tacos Al Pastor – corn tortilla topped with shaved rotisserie-cooked pork, pineapple, red onion & cilantro and drizzled with spicy guacamole & Mexican red sauce
Lengua – slow-cooked beef tongue
Chile Verde – braised pork roasted with a variety of hot peppers
Steak en Salsa Roja – grilled steak in spicy red pepper sauce
Chicken Ranchero – boneless chicken slow-cooked with onions, tomatoes and a variety of hot peppers
Grilled Vegetables – your choice of lightly seasoned onions, broccoli, corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, red onions, sweet potatoes and seasonally available vegetables like Brussels sprouts
Breakfast – burritos and tacos with your choice of fresh scrambled eggs, huevos rancheros, home fries plain or with pork hash, sausage (chorizo and traditional), rice, salsa and spinach; pair with our fresh-squeezed orange juice!
Spice It Up – jalapenos, habanero sauce, hot sauce (combination of hot peppers with onions, garlic and a touch of cilantro), guacamolio (spicy guacamole made with avocados and hot peppers), salsa ardiente (green sauce made with hot peppers) and salsa roja (red sauce made with hot peppers).
Horchata – traditional Mexican drink made fresh daily from ground almonds, rice milk and cinnamon
Jamaica – traditional Mexican drink made fresh daily from brewed hibiscus petals; often called a Mexican fruit punch
Mexican Coke – bottles of Coke imported from Mexico that are made with real cane sugar instead of corn syrup
Jarritos – bottled Mexican soda available in a variety of flavors including apple, fruit punch, grapefruit, guava, lime, orange, and tamarind
Jumex – canned Mexican juices available in a variety of flavors including apple, apricot, guava, mango, pear, strawberry/banana, and tamarind


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Nous sommes très enthousiastes au sujet de notre premier concert en Croatie et très heureux d'avoir eu le temps de découvrir la magnifique ville de Zagreb.
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One of the greatest rock bands of the 1980s, wildly popular in Croatia, legendary The Cult will be playing at Šalata in Zagreb on 27 June this year.
Great news for lovers of good music! INmusic festival #12 is going to host one of the greatest and most popular rock bands in the world today, the Kings of Leon!
Popular Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, the man who in his career spanning almost 40 years has sold more than 100 million albums, is performing on 9 November in Zagreb Arena!
The City of Zagreb is better off by one more cinema, the Kaptol Boutique Cinema which many say is the most beautiful cinema in town.
Zagreb Design Week is the largest event in Croatia dedicated to design, and is the only design festival to encompass the whole city, to organise large exhibitions, talks, panels, workshops, presentations, pop-up shops and guest appearances by some of the world's most famous designers.
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I'm of course in awe of all the artists and crafty moms we feature here on CMP. But I have a special place in my heart for those multiple-hit wonders who keep cranking out the cool stuff. One of them: The very talented Jennifer Talbot of b.delicious.
We first came across her adorable felt/microsuede barrette and appliquéd tees last year, and since then it seems she's been busy whipping up plenty more covetable cuteness. She's got far more for the little dudes of the world (love the Kingpin design) and has expanded her line of hair accessories to include funky little animals.
But above all, I'm crushing on her plush owls that are just smashing in person. Pair one with a matching owl barette and you've got a great little birthday gift for your distant niece or your neighbor's kid. Especially when you see how it all comes packaged. Sweet. -Liz
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Peregrine falcons are awesome, hard-core hunters.
Some amazing video was released recently showing falcons hunting crows. And it is intense.
Cameras were mounted on the heads of these incredible birds, giving us a true bird's eye view of the action. The birds also were fitted with backpacks to record footage of the pursuits.
It's like a chase scene from a Jason Bourne movie: High-adrenaline, action-packed, uber-dramatic.
By using the video, scientists were able to learn that falcons "pursue prey by keeping the image of the prey in the same place on their retina during the pursuit as they close in."
This makes the target seem stationary and allows the falcons to attack more precisely while maintaining the element of surprise. All at a high-rate of speed. Falcons attack at speeds over 200 mph when swooping down from great heights.
"Every time the prey maneuvers, the predator has to readjust its position," Suzanne Amador Kane, the study's lead author, told NBC News. "We saw falcons do a series of fixes to keep the prey at the same angle in the camera's field of view."
It's like the bird's have built-in high-tech tracking software. A slightly unfair advantage in the circle of life.
Have you seen a video you'd like to share? Contact Graydon Johns at firstname.lastname@example.com. Find him on Twitter: @gjohns.


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SPEECH by H.H. The Aga Khan at the Global Philanthropy Forum, Keynote, Washingtom - 2009-04-23
Posted April 24th, 2009 by heritagePresident Jane Wales, thank you for those very generous comments.
I'd like to say how happy I am to share in this year's Global Philanthropy Forum.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a special pleasure for me to be with you tonight, for I look upon you as particularly serious and informed partners in the work of global understanding and international development.
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Posted April 24th, 2009 by heritageHis Highness the Aga Khan delivered a keynote speech at the 8th annual Global Philanthropy Forum. The Aga Khan also met with The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Secretary of State, at the State Department prior to delivering the address to participants at the Global Philanthropy Forum.
High Highness the Aga Khan, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Her Majesty Queen Rania, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, and White House Climate "Czar" Carol Browner were among the 500 philanthropists present to discuss those crises we face which cannot be solved by governments alone.
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It's the 4th of June, 1942, and Japanese bombs are raining down on Midway—and you. This lethal assault is a prelude to an invasion whose success gives the enemy control over the Pacific. You are one of the American airmen who hold the outcome of this decisive battle in their hands. You'll have to prove yourself as a fighter, bomber, and reconnaissance pilot, and confront Japanese aces as a bomber and ground AA gunner. The enemy has to be stopped at Midway—and victory's up to you. Relentless action and non-stop excitement at Midway: that's Combat Wings. Take part in the Pacific War's most important battle as fighter, bomber and reconnaissance pilot, a gunner in a Flying Fortress—or an anti-aircraft gunner fending an aircraft carrier or airfield from swarms of enemy planes! A campaign of 21 richly varied missions is complemented by a multiplayer mode that lets you fight for the Americans or the Japanese. Choice of two control modes—arcade action or flight sim, chase and cockpit views, 20 flyable plane types, and spectacular graphics deliver an unforgettable gaming experience packed with thrills and full-blooded combat.
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By Brian Jacobsmeyer
Photo by Paul Stanley
Every member of the U.S. Physics Team earned either a silver or gold medal at this year's Olympiad, and the team placed 4th in the overall medal count. Pictured from left to right are traveling team members Jeffrey Cai (silver medalist), Jeffrey Yan (silver medalist), Allan Sadun (gold medalist), Kevin Zhou (gold medalist) and Eric Schneider (gold medalist).
Medals and honorable mentions were awarded in tiers based on a student's percentile score on theoretical and experimental exams. Students could also earn a number of special prizes for outstanding individual performances.
Almost 400 students representing over 80 countries competed between July 15th and 24th. US team member Eric Schneider's strong individual performance ranked third overall and earned him a special prize for the most creative solution to a theoretical problem.
"Without a doubt, these [problems] were harder than any theoretical questions we've had in about a decade," said head coach Paul Stanley.
The rigorous theoretical section required students to calculate how to launch projectiles onto spherical buildings, evaluate magnetic superconducting drinking straws and analyze condensation on aircraft wings in the first problem alone.
Only about 30 students earned more than 50 percent credit on this "most difficult" theoretical question, according to Stanley. Although many students struggled with this problem, Schneider followed unique paths to his solutions, achieving almost full marks that led to his special prize.
"He was able to find an elegant approach instead of brute forcing like a lot of people might have," said team coach Andrew Lin.
Stanley and Lin agreed that the experimental section was comparable in difficulty to previous years. The experimental half of the exam included a circuit problem and an investigation of the magnetic permeability of water. Event organizers even developed custom multimeters for the experimental section with simultaneous voltage and current measurements and data logging capabilities.
Students didn't travel to Estonia solely for their exams, however. For the rest of the trip, the teams mingled while exploring cultural and tourist sites throughout the country. Outside of the classroom, the students visited coastal islands, a meteor impact crater, surviving medieval towns, and an outdoor adventure park.
The sporting mood of the London Olympics even drifted east toward Estonia, and the students competed in a friendly international soccer tournament. Students on the team truly enjoyed the opportunity to speak with their international peers in a relaxed setting, according to Stanley.
Lin experienced similar opportunities as an alumnus of the 1998 and 1999 US Physics Teams. After traveling as a coach with the team this year, Lin now has a more nuanced perspective on the competition.
"It was really interesting to see how it has grown and also to see it from the leader's point of view," said Lin.
Over the years, competition has stiffened as more teams have joined, but the US has consistently performed at a high level. During his roughly ten year tenure as academic director, Stanley estimated that the highest team performance was third place, so this year ranks among the best US results since the team first participated in 1986.
The American Association of Physics Teachers and the University of Maryland are responsible for recruiting and training the US team every year with financial support from over a dozen organizations, including the APS.
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iPotty iPad Holder for $22 + pickup at Home Depot
Home Depot offers the 2-in-1 iPotty for $22.49. Opt for in-store pickup to dodge the $5.99 shipping fee. That's tied with our mention from a week ago and the lowest price we've seen. (It's also a current low by $13.) It features an adjustable, rotating iPad stand with clear touchscreen protectors (thank goodness), removable inner bowl, potty seat, splashguard, and more. Deal ends March 24.


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With Instructables you can share what you make with the world, and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
This will show you how to make a lego model of the USS Voyager from Star Trek. it includes a display stand. The steps are in the photos, ...
Here is a list of parts you need to build this.
First make the rear part of the model.
Next the main part of the ship.
Now we add the two plates on the bottom.
Now the last part of the model, the thrusters.
This is the display base for all you displaying needs. (This part is optional.)
Now your finished with your very own Voyager! Enjoy!
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September 3, 2008
Analyst Actions: Lowe's, Regions Financial
Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler says there are three drivers behind his upgrade of Lowe's Companies (LOW): 1] Housing data is stabilizing; 2] Company and Street estimates still appear reasonable after a strong second quarter; Street expectations about likely store growth appear reasonable as well, with investors prepared, he thinks, for a modest cut; 3] His normalized EPS assessment has crept higher based on recently resilient margins, and he sees an increasingly fixed [vs. variable] cost structure helping LOW leverage to a greater degree when sales recover.
Fassler sees $1.53 fiscal year 2009 [January] EPS, $1.60 fiscal year 2010, and $1.80 fiscal year 2011. He raises his target price by $1 to $28.SANDLER O'NEILL UPGRADES REGIONS FINANCIAL TO HOLD FROM SELL ON VALUATION
Regions Financial (RF) assumes from FDIC about $900 million in total deposits, including all uninsured deposits, of Integrity Bank.
Sandler O'Neill analyst Kevin Fitzsimmons says RF shares are down roughly 64% since early February and now trade at 86% of tangible book value per share [before the market open]. He notes that the shares fell below his $10 target.
Fitzsimmons also suspects there may be short covering on news RF is assuming deposits of Integrity Bank. He views the deal as net positive as it provides additional deposit funding, which helps incrementally boost the company's liquidity and keep a lid on funding costs amid a competitive deposit pricing environment. Also, he notes the deal also allows RF to boost its market share in metro Atlanta and gain instant access to new customers.


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Exide Technologies will hold its next community meeting on May 9. The company is in the process of dismantling its plant on Fifth Street in Frisco and decontaminating areas. The meeting will be from 5 to 8 p.m. at The Depot at the Frisco Heritage Center, 6499 Page St. Click here to learn more.
Flexible workplace provider Regus is opening its business centers for free on Friday in honor of Earth Day. Its local centers are at 6136 Frisco Square Blvd., Suite 400, in Frisco and 6860 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 200, in Plano. The fully equipped centers (wi-fi and coffee available) allows workers to cut their commute and work in a professional environment. Click here to learn more.
Tickets are available to watch the Texas Tornado and Amarillo Bulls play in the South Division Finals. The best of five series starts with the first two games in Amarillo. Game 3 - and games 4 and 5 if needed - will be played April 30 at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco. The winner of the series will advance to the Robertson Cup National Championship Tournament, which is May 10-13 at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco. Click here to learn more.
Hope Park Frisco is still being built. Work will be shut down today because of the threat of inclement weather, but then it starts right back up again. Volunteers are needed for "button up, touch up and clean up" from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Organizers say there's no need to sign up. Just turn out at Frisco Commons park to pitch in. Hope Park is a playground designed especially for children with special needs. Click here to read my news story on Hope Park and the people behind it. Click here for the group's website.
Applications are being accepted for the Frisco Police Department's Junior Police Academy this summer. Eligible students must be entering seventh or eighth grades. The free weeklong program teaches the basic functions of the police department and offers practical exercises. Spots are accepted on a first-come, first serve basis. There are seven camp sessions to choose from. Click here for details on applying.
The Collin County Farmers Market will hold its grand opening on Saturday. The market, which was founded by local farmer Kari Gates and former Frisco market manager Scott Merner, is at Fairview Farms on Central Expressway at Parker Road in Plano. The market is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Click here to learn more.


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Associate Professor Director of Software Engineering Program Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Computer Science Department (Courtesy Appointment) Clarkson University Potsdam, New York 13699-5720 dhou clarkson edu Curriculum Vitae (brief, 2017 version) Research Statement (long) Publications: DBLP (a subset of my papers) Papers in PDF Google Scholar CitationsSoftware Engineering Research LaboratoryI am always looking for outstanding students to work with. Graduate students already at Clarkson must take my courses in order to have me as advisor. RA positions available in 2017Students and Theses
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In an attempt to boost speeds, T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS and is now using the carrier's spectrum to make its own LTE connections faster. The improved LTE service is rolling out in Dallas to begin with and is expected to reach other markets in 2014.
A Faster Connection
The service, which combines the spectrums of T-Mobile and MetroPCS, is called 20-by-20 and will double the carrier's current 20 MHz spectrum to offer more competitive speeds. Since the speed improvements will play off T-Mobile's current LTE service, users will not have to change their actual smartphone hardware to receive the benefits of a faster connection.
Although T-Mobile does not want to make promises regarding how fast the service will be or when its millions of customers will receive it, some technology publications are reporting that the enhanced LTE connections will provide speeds around 13.25 MB/s down and 3.6 MB/s up.
A similar program meant to increase T-Mobile's LTE speeds will be rolling out even sooner than the one in conjunction with MetroPCS. This program, entitled 10-by-10, will begin to reach some of T-Mobile's markets before the end of the year, whereas the faster speeds coming as a result of the MetroPCS acquisition will only be seen starting in 2014.
Better than Its Competitors
In announcing the rollout of the faster LTE connections, T-Mobile Vice President Grant Castle said the 20-by-20 program is superior to what competitors are doing. In particular, 20-by-20 appears to be a more efficient way to increase speeds than Verizon's network improvements. Verizon Wireless is building up its AWS-based network to boost speeds, but those connections are only accessible to a handful of smartphones.
T-Mobile has been working on integrating the MetroPCS spectrum for some time and has also implemented other programs to boost LTE speeds. Some of T-Mobile's larger markets have already seen speed improvements, as the carrier has cannibalized its 2G and 3G networks to use them for LTE connections.
LTE is becoming popular around the world and in some areas, mobile data connection speeds are nearly as fast as home Internet speeds are in the United States. As smartphones become more prominent among U.S. adults, the demand for faster connections has been growing, resulting in Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile all having to focus on enhancing their LTE services.
Customers in the Northern Dallas area will slowly begin to notice the faster connection speeds but a full rollout of the MetroPCS spectrum integration is not expected to take place until early 2014. Not only will 2014 be a big year for T-Mobile's LTE service, but its competitors will also begin to shine through by offering faster data speeds to a growing number of customers.