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Argon from SilverStone, inexpensive cooling for three sizes of system
Subject: Cases and Cooling | July 22, 2013 - 04:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Silverstone, heatsink, AR02, AR01
SilverStone have released three new Argon branded coolers, the mid-sized AR01, the small AR02 and the extra large AR03, of which [H]ard|OCP reviewed the first two models. The AR01 is 120mm x 50mm x 159mm and uses three heatpipes to move the heat up to where it can be dispersed by the 120mm fan. The AR02 is 92mm x 50mm x 134mm which makes it great for smaller systems though the 92mm is an odd size and could be hard to replace if you so desired. Both coolers are under $35 to pick up, so while not the best performing heatsinks on the market they do very well when you look at the price to performance ratio. You can see the full review here.
"SilverStone comes to us today with a new series of air cooler for your AMD or Intel branded processor. The Argon series is pointed squarely at the lower cost end of its product stack. So how do these 6mm heatpipe units with "Direct Export Technology" stand up to testing in a world of great air coolers with much higher prices?"
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(5 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
By john doe
from seattle, WA
About Me Minimalist
Comments about RESIST Super Antioxidant Serum - 1 oz:
helped with my rosacea
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Nothing special
By Paula's Fan
from NC
After using this product with Resist Barrier Repair moisturizer and AHA/BHA lotion I found that it did not add anything. I did not have any problem with the product and it didn't feel greasy (it feels pretty much like any silicone serum out there) but it just made no difference whatsoever. I didn't repurchase and am not missing it at all. If you just like having an extra step in your beauty routine then this could work. Otherwise I'd suggest to save money.
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Swollen, itchy eyes
By Linda
from Illinois
About Me Beauty Expert
Add me to the list of ones who are stuck with swollen eyelids and terrible under eye itching. First time I've ever had a reaction to a product. It's been almost a week and my eye area is still dry and itchy. Enough of us have complained about having had an eye reaction here and at other sites that this problem needs to be looked at.
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Love the feel
By Michele
from AZ
About Me Beauty Conscious
I use the product at night. I received a sample and thought I would try it. I love the way it feels and goes on my skin so smoothly. I was worried I might break out, but I did not, and it made my skin feel soft. I really like the product.
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Can't use
By Lynn
from Mundelein, IL
I really wanted to like this serum since I do love Paula's products. This serum felt a bit greasy to me, and did not absorb very well. It also caused several whiteheads, which I do not normally get. My skin is dry and sensitive, but not breakout prone.
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Made me breakout!!
By Sarah
from MA
Tried a sample for a week, using nightly after toning and exfoliating. I liked the way it felt on my skin and it did make my skin appear softer. However, my acne prone skin did not react well and I ended up breaking out, especially along my chin and around my nose. Can't continue using, and I'd be careful if you have acne prone skin.
Pleasantly surprised
By Queene
from Wisconsin
I use this at night 3 times a week after exfoliant and brightner. When you first put it on, one might freek and consider it to greasy but it soaks in quite quickly. On those nights when I use it my skin is considerably lighter and softer.I would love to use it in the morning but it does not mix well with my sunscreen and makes my face flakey. So I only use my PC skin recovery moisturizer under sunscreen. It is also the only PC product with vitamin C I can tolerate.
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Brings tears
By debber
from VA
I love the Resist line of products and felt it was time to bring in the serum...well this was a mistake for my skin. It sat on my skin feeling greasy, and then resulted in my eyes watering like crazy each time I used it. I had to scrub it off and rinse my eyes out with drops! I kept trying (I hated to waste this much money) and kept getting the same results (ridiculous on my part). It does not work for me at all - which is baffling considering I can and do use the Retinol and BHA, AHA products easily. There is something in this that I must be quite allergic to.
(5 of 9 customers found this review helpful)
Mostly silicone
By Matt
from Woodland Hills, CA
I used the product at night right after washing my face. The texture is closer to liquid and applies easily but this is mostly due to the silicone. Right after application, I can feel this product just sitting on my skin. I'm not a fan of silicones but I thought I would give this a try based on the ingredients and reviews. After a week of use, I had to stop because I couldn't stand the feeling. Within that week time, I didn't notice any change in my skin.
I wouldn't call it greasy
By kayday
from Houston, Texas
I do like this serum. Several reviewers said it is greasy, but it's not the word I would use to describe the texture. It is thick/slippery but immediately absorbs and is not greasy at all to me. It LOOKS oily momentarily, but doesn't feel like oil. It's a very different feel, not unpleasant once you try it and see that it immediately completely disappears.


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Though the country is the world's top polluter, that isn't stopping China from leading the way on new green technology. China has begun an effort to figure out how to burn coal without releasing carbon into the atmosphere.That's quite an ambitious goal — especially for a country that is the biggest source of carbon emissions… Read More →


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The Calm Before the ConflagrationPosted on Feb 25, 2008
By Chris Hedges The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq—the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups from their midst. Iraq no longer exists as a unified state. It is a series of heavily armed fiefdoms run by thugs, gangs, militias, radical Islamists and warlords who are often paid wages of $300 a month by the U.S. military. Iraq is Yugoslavia before the storm. It is a caldron of weapons, lawlessness, hate and criminality that is destined to implode. And the current U.S. policy, born of desperation and defeat, means that when Iraq goes up, the U.S. military will have to scurry like rats for cover. The supporters of the war, from the Bush White House to Sen. John McCain, tout the surge as the magic solution. But the surge, which primarily deployed 30,000 troops in and around Baghdad, did little to thwart the sectarian violence. The decline in attacks began only when we bought off the Sunni Arabs. U.S. commanders in the bleak fall of 2006 had little choice. It was that or defeat. The steady rise in U.S. casualties, the massive car bombs that tore apart city squares in Baghdad and left hundreds dead, the brutal ethnic cleansing that was creating independent ethnic enclaves beyond our control throughout Iraq, the death squads that carried out mass executions and a central government that was as corrupt as it was impotent signaled catastrophic failure. The United States cut a deal with its Sunni Arab enemies. It would pay the former insurgents. It would allow them to arm and form military units and give them control of their ethnic enclaves. The Sunni Arabs, in exchange, would halt attacks on U.S. troops. The Sunni Arabs agreed. The U.S. is currently spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay the monthly salaries of some 600,000 armed fighters in the three rival ethnic camps in Iraq. These fighters—Shiite, Kurd and Sunni Arab—are not only antagonistic but deeply unreliable allies. The Sunni Arab militias have replaced central government officials, including police, and taken over local administration and security in the pockets of Iraq under their control. They have no loyalty outside of their own ethnic community. Once the money runs out, or once they feel strong enough to make a thrust for power, the civil war in Iraq will accelerate with deadly speed. The tactic of money-for-peace failed in Afghanistan. The U.S. doled out funds and weapons to tribal groups in Afghanistan to buy their loyalty, but when the payments and weapons shipments ceased, the tribal groups headed back into the embrace of the Taliban. The Sunni Arab militias are known by a variety of names: the Iraqi Security Volunteers (ISVs), neighborhood watch groups, Concerned Local Citizens, Critical Infrastructure Security. The militias call themselves "sahwas" ("sahwa" being the Arabic word for awakening). There are now 80,000 militia fighters, nearly all Sunni Arabs, paid by the United States to control their squalid patches of Iraq. They are expected to reach 100,000. The Sunni Arab militias have more fighters under arms than the Shiite Mahdi Army and are about half the size of the feeble Iraqi army. The Sunni Awakening groups, which fly a yellow satin flag, are forming a political party. The Sunni Arab militias, though they have ended attacks on U.S. forces, detest the Shiite-Kurdish government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and abhor the presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil. They take the money and the support with clenched teeth because with it they are able to build a renegade Sunni army, a third force inside Iraq, which they believe will make it possible to overthrow the central government. The Sunni Arabs, who make up about 40 percent of Iraq's population, held most positions of power under Saddam Hussein. They dominated Iraq's old officer corps. They made up its elite units, including the Republic Guard divisions and the Special Forces regiments. They controlled the intelligence agencies. There are several hundred thousand well-trained Sunni Arabs who lack only an organizational structure. We have now made the formation of this structure possible. These militias are the foundation for a deadlier insurgent force, one that will dwarf anything the United States faced in the past. The U.S. is arming, funding and equipping its own assassins. There have been isolated clashes that point to a looming conflagration. A Shiite-dominated unit of the regular army in the late summer of 2007 attacked a strong Sunni Arab force west of Baghdad. U.S. troops thrust themselves between the two factions. The enraged Shiites, thwarted in their attack, kidnapped relatives of the commander of the Sunni Arab force, and American negotiators had to plead frantically for their release. There have been scattered incidents like this one throughout Iraq. If the U.S. begins, as promised, to withdraw troops, it will be harder to keep these antagonistic factions apart. The cease-fire by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, extended a few days ago, could collapse. And if that happens, a civil war, unlike anything U.S. forces have experienced in Iraq, will begin. Such a conflagration, with the potential to draw in neighboring states and lead to the dismemberment of Iraq, would be the final chapter of the worst foreign policy blunder in American history. Advertisement Square, Site wide Keep up with Chris Hedges' latest columns, interviews, tour dates and more at www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges.Taboola Below Article
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By not provided, March 11, 2008 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment Someone should tell McCain (and Obama) that the "surge" isn't working, our buying off the enemy at $10 per day per head has been reducing the violence. I'd love to see Obama read a few quotes from the NPR story about this (from military personnle in Iraq) during a debate with McCain, and watch McCain fumble for some lame "explaination". The "surge" is a joke, more lies and deception from the Bush administration.
By 2468, February 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm Link to this comment Divide and Conquer has been used in Iraq since the British mandate after WWI. It is still the goal. Let them all kill each other and we will walk in and still get the oil when it is all over. Of course, we will have to stay long enough to do so. The same thing is right now occurring in Kosovo to the Serbs.
By Conservative Yankee, February 28, 2008 at 7:07 am Link to this comment was not doing appreciable business in the Mid East in those days. Our off-shore opps were in South America, (almost exclusively) and we were still doing business with domestic and Canadian producers for the lions share of production. If Iraq had ceased entirely doing business with us, it would not have lowered share prices by a fraction of a penny.
Before casting disparaging remarks about this entity, in might help you to do some research. They were concerned with "economy" before this was popular, running the "Mobil Economy run" yearly, and they also invested heavily in culture and safty being the first Oil company to mandate doubled hulled tankers for their hauling vessels. The merger between EXXON and Mobil was not good for consumers as Mobil was a forward looking company, and Exxon is much more wed to traditional fuels (See Sable Island) Before the Merger Mobil was moving toward Hydrogen production from sea-water (Not fuel cells) When Hydrogen is burned, the by-products are oxygen, and water pure enough to drink… Think about that.. The Hydrogen program was killed by Exxon
By THIRD, February 28, 2008 at 6:16 am Link to this comment Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse! Chris Hedges account of the outcome possibilities of paying and arming Iraqi extremist factions is bone chilling to say the least.
By jangelique, February 27, 2008 at 10:17 pm Link to this comment How about a dose of TRUTH here! Dubya and company COULD have done something when this mess first began to go sour, but they hid their heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches pretending nothing was wrong. The window of opportity to correct this mess has long closed.
By Daniel Barker, February 27, 2008 at 6:31 pm Link to this comment Does anybody care about Iraq? Do you drive an SUV? Do you eat too much meat? As long as we drive SUVs, eat too much meat, live in oversized homes and in general not give a damn about the consequences of our actions our government will act accordingly. Does anybody remember Cindy Sheehan and Camp Casey? Why is Mrs. Sheehan forgotten? What have the Democrats done since 'Regime Change day' Nov. 7?
By Pragmatist, February 27, 2008 at 6:13 pm Link to this comment They don't want the civil peace within Iraq. War means money. War in Iraq means oil. It's not a coincidence that they ran piplines into the Caspian Sea as soon as they moved from Afghanisan to Iraq. Now they're building bases in Iraq to lauch war against other non-reformed oil producing countries. I have been working between Saudi and Iraq for the past seven years and all I see over there is the protection of gas and or oil wells/piplines.
By Jack, February 27, 2008 at 9:11 am Link to this comment If the most powerful military that the world has ever known can only keep the peace by paying off the insurgents, how do we expect the Iraqi Police and Military to keep the peace when we leave. The only way that they could keep the peace in Iraq is for them to have a military as powerful as the United States. Is that something that we really want? Beacuse their civil war will likely end in the establishment of a dictator which rules similarly to Saddam Hussein, and he will probably not have a friendly view towards the United States. (Better the devil we did know, than the devil we don't) It is truly amazing how big this blunder by Bush was. I am not sure that the United States will ever be able to regain our credibility again, especially in the Arab world. This is what happens when you have an interventionist foreign policy and feel you have the right to meddle in the affairs of others. We have stirred up a hornet's nest but those in power feel that the only course available to us is to keep doing what we are doing, because it is working so well.
By Chuck Norris, February 27, 2008 at 8:50 am Link to this comment Told You This Would Happen. A year from now don't blame me: I'm voting Ron Paul.
By weather, February 26, 2008 at 5:59 pm Link to this comment In keeping w/your post on matters of trust, pls. consider too the media's full cooperation in choreographing these profound crimes w/such a nonchalance, that one might somehow think this sickness was acceptable. Often in criminal law it is the mens rea, the thought, or the conspiracy to commit the crime that deserves more punishment that the crime itself - here we see a screenplay and story board of darkness.
By JimM72, February 26, 2008 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment There are too many insults on this site. Is there no more respect for others? JIm M
By Tosh, February 26, 2008 at 8:40 am Link to this comment Thank you for the reply. The bearded guy in the pictures with Zbig looks like some Pakistani or Indian paratrooper rather than OBL as the caption implies. Keep on.
By DennisD, February 26, 2008 at 8:12 am Link to this comment The only true "surge" has been the $urge of national debt which no one in the District of Corruption is willing to address. Oh sorry, they have forwarded the "address" to the next five generations of tax slaves. Appearing to buy positive results that haven't actually been realized is what it's all about. Don't look behind the curtain or expect the MSM to expose how the results are being achieved - that would be real news reporting that would get people fired. It's an "election" year and as usual everything in America is for $ale including the voters expectations of a real change of direction that neither the D's or R's are willing to make.
By David Wilson, February 25, 2008 at 11:56 pm Link to this comment If Shi'itesd and Sunni's united, Baghdad would be another Dienbienphu.
By Tosh, February 25, 2008 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment Maani said; "(which, by the way, is EXACTLY how we created the Taliban, Al Qaeda and OBL in Afghanistan - thanks, in no small part, to the efforts of Obamas chief foreign policy advisor, ZB)." Is that Zbig? Thought he was with Carter? Were they (Taliban, AlQaeda, and OBL) not created during the Reagan admin?
By writeon, February 25, 2008 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment Buying off the enemy would appear to be a delaying tactic. Delaying inevitable defeat until after the persidential election. Almost everything the United States is doing in Iraq has little to do with Iraq in itself, but a great deal to do with the management of perceptions internally, in the United States in an election year. If Iraq was exploding right now, it's difficult to imagine the possibility a Republican victory. So the lid has to kept on Iraq, by any means necessary, until the election is over, afterwards who knows what might happen?
By Joe, February 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm Link to this comment ocjim- your comments remind me of the most disturbing aspect of the Bush Presidency: its failure to consider long-term effects of its actions. This applies to every policy or executive action, from demolishing the Alaskan wilderness in a drunken grope for oil to foreign relations to a failure to lead by example and ..the simple common sense to know when it's time to stop what you are doing.
By Conservative Yankee, February 25, 2008 at 7:49 am Link to this comment There's a history here which most seem to miss. Folks might wish to Scroogle Iran's "Mohammad Mosaddeq" "Operation Ajax" "Treaty of Sèvres" those really interested might wish to get a copy of Vanityfair's " "Iraq's Mercenary King" |
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Archos Announces Line of 8, 9.7 and 11.6-inch Android Jelly Bean Tablets with Quad-Core ARM Processors
All three boast an IPS panel with capacitive multi-touch support, a quad-core CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, an 8-core GPU with support for Full HD 1080p video decoding, 2GB or RAM, front and back cameras, mini-HDMI output, a microSD card slot, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box.
The smallest of the three, the Archos 80 Platinum, features a 1024x768 display resolution. Compared to Amazon's Kindle Fire, Archos says the 80 Platinum is twice as fast, has double the amount of RAM, and includes a back camera, all for less money. The 80 Platinum will be available in February for $199.
Sitting in the center of the lineup is the Archos 97 Platinum HD (previously known as the Titanium HD) with a 2048x1536 resolution, which just so happens to be the same as 3rd and 4th generation iPad devices. However, it's much less expensive at $299. Look for the 97 Platinum HD to also ship in February.
Finally, the Archos 116 Platinum features a 1920x1080 resolution and will be available in April for $349.


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High court seen likely to take ERISA fidicuary-breach case
Chances have improved that the Supreme Court could rule on an ERISA fiduciary-breach case involving a dispute over how courts should interpret the law's statute of limitations on fiduciary-breach lawsuits, ERISA attorneys say.
OMERS infrastructure program writes new page in investing
When OMERS executives closed a $12.5 billion-plus infrastructure co-investment program in June, they raised money not only from large institutional investors, but also from money managers looking to expand their businesses into infrastructure. In this way the C$65 billion pension fund has managed to beat the money management industry at its own fundraising game.
BlackRock powers up a hedge fund unit
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest money manager, is creating a hedge fund boutique within its vast investment management empire.
Insurer assets outsourced to managers jump 54% in 4 years
Insurance companies outsourced almost $2.8 trillion to the 50 largest money management firms managing non-affiliated insurance assets, a 54% increase from four years earlier, Pensions & Investments data show. More specifically, the top 10 firms managed $1.08 trillion in outsourced, non-affiliated general account insurance assets. That was up 30.1% from four years earlier.
ERISA at 40
While the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 benefited millions of people, it did not live up to the "retirement income security" part of its name. Along with praise for what ERISA did accomplish, there are now calls for fixing what it did not.
Sovereign wealth funds move outside for specialist investments
Growing allocations to alternatives and multiasset strategies have left the sovereign wealth funds and national pension plans that dominate Asia's institutional investor landscape relying more on external money managers to manage their portfolios.
Most emerging markets managers underperform
Emerging markets are held up as the poster children for inefficiency and, it follows, as the perfect region for active managers to outperform benchmarks. But despite heightened volatility, uncertainty and wide return dispersion, the majority of money managers failed to outperform their benchmarks
Deutsche Asset entering rebuilding mode
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management executives have been on a global recruiting spree as they seek to rebuild institutional assets and accommodate a growing demand among U.S. institutional clients for alternative investments and smart beta.
Questions over dark pools prompt changes in best execution
Recent investigations into dark pools and high-frequency trading are causing institutional investors to reconsider just what constitutes best execution — and how to measure it. And the pressure to convey that to asset owners is falling on money managers and investment consultants.
ERISA architect Nagle praised as intelligent, fair
Robert E. Nagle, one of the architects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 who died Aug. 16, is remembered by colleagues as a good, kind, competent man whose knowledge and fairness in the employee benefits field was unmatched.
Germany's economy
The country's economy shrank 0.2% in the second quarter, and its central bank recently cited several challenges to growth.
Merged firm expects big payoff in 5 years
The company being created from the merger of Treasury Group Ltd. and Northern Lights Capital Group LLC will double its AUM within five years, its CEO predicts.
Illinois puts $1.1 billion to work right away
Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, Springfield, kicked off its 2015 fiscal year with investments and commitments totaling $1.1 billion and set the stage to tactically deploy at least another $1 billion with real estate and hedge fund managers.
Special Report
P&I/Towers Watson World MegaFunds: 2014
Assets of the world's largest 300 retirement funds increased 6.2% in 2013, the fifth straight year of growth, but at a slower pace than in 2012.
Managers of insurance assets
Pensions & Investments takes a look at the largest managers of non-affiliated insurance assets.
Lessons learned from ERISA
ERISA was a farsighted law in many aspects, especially in defining and assigning fiduciary responsibility, including prohibition on conflicts of interests, to those overseeing pension funds. But ERISA in the long term failed to expand defined benefit coverage.


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Charity Navigator, a well-known and well-thought of source of charitable-giving analysis, has developed a list of questions that you as a donor should ask before you begin the act of supporting a charity. We present an edited version of the check list below. If you are thinking about making a "serious" donation, we think your time would be well spent reviewing this information. Here are their recommended questions:
- Can your charity clearly communicate who they are and what they do?
If a charity struggles in articulating its mission and its programs, it will probably struggle in delivering those programs. Organizations that can explain who they are and what they're trying to accomplish have a singularity of purpose and a commitment to focused institutional change. If a charity can't explain who it is and what it does, and why it is needed, find one that can. - Can your charity define their short-term and long-term goals?
Organizations without quantifiable goals have no way to measure success. If they have no way to know if they are successful, how can you be sure they are working toward something? - Can your charity tell you the progress it has made (or is making) toward its goal?
Good intentions are no longer sufficient to warrant your charitable support. Ask your organization what it has done to make the issue it confronts better. What are its results? Why should you support an environmental clean-up organization if it can't show you that it is cleaning up the environment? - Do your charity's programs make sense to you?
If you support the mission of an organization, ask yourself if its programs also make sense. If an organization's goal is to promote kindness toward animals, does it pursue its goal in a way that makes sense to you, or does it merely inflame the issue? If you know you want to support the outcome the charity aims to deliver, ask yourself if its method of arriving at that outcome makes sense to you. - Can you trust your charity?
Our research has shown that the overwhelming majority of charities in this country are not only responsible and honest, but well-managed. So we give with confidence. You should feel the same way before you give. Don't support a charity until you feel comfortable with it. Do whatever it takes to put your mind at ease. Good charities will encourage this. A happy and trusting donor is a willing and supportive donor. - Are you willing to make a long-term commitment to your organization?
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Rome Sweet Rome
When his wife was invited to study in Rome rent-free, Stephen Heuser took a six-month sabbatical and tagged along. 'La vita' doesn't get much more 'dolce' than that.
As the heat mounted, the city began to feel a little enervating, so we escaped for a five-day trip to the north of Italy. By the time we returned, the city had transformed itself again: Stages were being built in public squares for summer concerts. Streets were clogged with tourists, seemingly all moving in groups, seemingly all behind the same bottle-blonde lady holding aloft a folded umbrella. You could no longer just drop in for a quick scoop of gelato--you had to wait, but I didn't even know how to line up anymore. Instead of shoving right into the side of the line, a Roman tactic I had finally embraced, people seemed to form the orderly queues of their native countries.
It was the Rome I remembered from my visit all those years ago, a crush of three-day visitors ticking Rome off their lists. But it wasn't the place where I'd been living. So, for my last weekend in Italy, we did as the Romans do. We went to the beach.
Every local has his favorites
During his six months in Rome, Heuser found himself returning to a few spots, not all of which appear in the guidebooks. Here's his partial, and highly subjective, list of museums, churches, and restaurants worth adding to any itinerary.
Ancient art gallery
Palazzo Massimo While busloads of tourists wait hours to get into the Vatican Museums across town, you can stroll right into this magnificent collection of ancient Roman sculptures, paintings, and mosaics. The top floor alone is worth the $9 admission, with several vividly frescoed rooms re-created from Roman villas. Your ticket also admits you to three other museums of historical Rome: the Palazzo Altemps, with more sculptures; the Crypta Balbi, an anatomy of the medieval city; and the Terme di Diocle-ziano. Largo di Villa Peretti 1, 011-39/06-3996-7700.
Great collection
Galleria Borghese Located in Villa Borghese park, the Galleria Borghese is a manageable jewel commissioned by the nephew of Pope Paul V expressly to hold his lush art collection--classical marbles, Renaissance paintings, and some of Bernini's greatest sculptures. The walls and ceilings, decorated to reflect the theme of the works displayed, constitute a museum in and of themselves. Piazzale Museo Borghese 5, 011-39/06-328-101, $10.50 (reservations required).
Major church
Santa Maria Maggiore This cavernous basilica is a thousand years older than St. Peter's and was built after the Empire collapsed, when Rome was crumbling into a backwater. Its grand accumulation of art and artifacts embodies the wealth and eclecticism of the Church--sparkling medieval mosaics, Rome's tallest bell tower, a purported fragment of Jesus's crib, and two garish Renaissance side chapels larger than some churches. Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore.
Medieval basilica
Santi Cosma e Damiano Of the thousands of people who go to the Forum every day, few pop out the side gate and visit this charming medieval church. One end was grafted onto the Temple of Romulus; the other is covered with sixth-century mosaics in a strikingly modern blue-green palette. A quirk in the building's history means the floor is much higher now than when it was built, putting visitors right up near the saints, the evangelists, and the flock of lambs. Via dei Fori Imperiali 1.
Architecture showpiece
San Carlino Architecture aficionados tend to skip the big-name churches, preferring buildings by Francesco Borromini. The baroque craftsman imbued his tiny structures with imaginative geometries that give mind-bending life to their plain stucco interiors. The most popular is probably Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon, but I especially loved San Carlino alle Quattro Fontane, where the elliptical dome rises in a mystifying tangle of octagons and warped crosses. Via Nazionale at Via delle Quattro Fontane.
Trompe l'oeil
Convento di Trinità dei Monti Inside this French convent--you enter just to the left of the Trinità dei Monti church, near the Spanish Steps--is a long anamorphic painting in the cloister. It's a landscape that, as you move around, morphs into a portrait of a cloaked saint. Tours are given only twice a week. Ask if an English-speaking guide is available; otherwise the tour will be in French or Italian. Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 011-39/06-679-4179, $6.25 (reservations required).
Cheap tour
The number 116 bus The 116 isn't the quickest way across town--walking is probably faster--but riding the tiny bus is like a ¬1 tour of the city. It starts in the parking garage next to the Vatican and wriggles its way through an hour's worth of Rome's great public spaces and boulevards--the Via Giulia, Piazza Farnese, Campo dei Fiori, the Via Veneto--before finally turning around in a bucolic cul-de-sac in front of the Galleria Borghese. Hop off and walk through the surrounding park, or just stay onboard and do the whole thing in reverse.
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A Harvard Woman Figured Out How To 3D Print Makeup From Any Home Computer And The Demo Is Mindblowing
Published 12:50 pm, Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Grace Choi was at Harvard Business School when she decided to disrupt the beauty industry. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors.
"The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bulls**t," Choi said at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. "They charge a huge premium on something that tech provides for free. That one thing is color."
By that, she means color printers are available to everyone, and the ink they have is the same as the ink makeup companies use in their products. She also says the ink is FDA approved.
Choi created a mini home printer, Mink, that will retail for $300 and allow anyone to print makeup by ripping the color code off color photos on the Internet.
She demonstrated how it works, then brushed some of the freshly-printed makeup onto her hand. She answered a lot of the tough questions about how she'll move beyond powders to creamier products and partner with traditional printing companies in the video below.
Here's how Mink, Choi's makeup-printing machine, works.
First, find a color you want to print. Choi says her machine will print creamy lipsticks or powdery eye shadows.
Use the color picker to copy the hex code of the color you've chosen. In this demo, Choi chose pink.
Using Microsoft Paint or Photoshop, paste the hex code into a new document. You'll see the color you want to print pop up.
Print the color, like you'd print any other document on your computer.
Here Choi is, printing out the pink eye shadow.
This is what the finished product looks like. It comes in a little Mink-provided container that looks just like eye shadow.
Choi dips a makeup brush in the freshly-printed powder to show it really is makeup.
Then she brushes the pink on her hand. "Mink enables the web to become the biggest beauty store in the world," says Choi. "We're going to live in a world where you can take a picture of your friend's lipstick and print it out."
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The third-seeded Spartans (25-8) won consecutive games for the first time since winning 11 straight in a stretch over December and January. They will face No. 8 Michigan in the final on Sunday.
The Spartans went on a 16-1 run in the first half and took a 37-16 lead when Gary Harris scored with 5:39 left before halftime.
Frank Kaminsky had 28 points and Sam Dekker added 11 points and seven rebounds for the second-seeded Badgers (26-7).
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Uhmmm, yeh you do.
Stokers take Rice sized coal, they need small bits to feed over the grate at a set pace. Prolly the closet thing to a Wood Pellet stove as you'll get (eventhough they really aren't cuz we know better)
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Praising "customer commitment" may be a corporate cliché, but the reason cited by Apple's chief executive for hiring John Browett to join the US technology group will come as little surprise to his colleagues at UK retailer Dixons.
"He is an incredibly customer focused individual – everything he's done to improve the business has got the customer at the forefront," said David Lloyd-Seed, Dixons Retail's communications director.
For Mr Browett, a Cambridge university and Wharton business school graduate, this meant frequently leaving his wife and three daughters on Saturday mornings to sell televisions on the shop floor of Dixon's megastore in Staples Corner retail park, in north London.
"He wanted to understand what the customer wants and fine-tune the engine to implement it," said Mr Lloyd-Seed.
A Dixons colleague said staff at the retailer had "mixed emotions" about Mr Browett's impending departure: both flattery and sadness that the world's largest personal technology company recognised the success of their CEO.
Since joining from Tesco online in December 2007, Mr Browett is credited with introducing exit surveys of customers and undercover mystery shoppers in a bid to usher in US-style customer service at the struggling electrical products retailer.
One person who worked with Mr Browett at Tesco.com said he was considered a member of the so-called "Tesco Academy" – shorthand for talented individuals who went through the supermarket's ranks and were later poached.
"John was pretty well regarded not just in Tesco but in the retail sector so there was some surprise when he left for a struggling big box retailer," the person said.
His departure leaves Dixons, which owns Currys and PC World, without a widely respected leader in a difficult part of the retail landscape.
"Mr Browett has been the figurehead of the Dixons' renewal and transformation, and his departure will be negative for sentiment," said David Jeary at Investec. Another retail analyst characterised it as a "big blow".
Tough economic conditions have left consumers less likely to buy white goods, such as large TV sets and other electrical products. Coupled with pricing pressure from online retailers, such as Amazon, some retailers have struggled to survive.
Last year, Best Buy abandoned its attempt to set up its big box stores in the UK. Just two weeks ago, Dixon's showed some signs of resilience, reporting market share gains in the UK and Ireland from its struggling rivals, such as Comet, over the festive period.
Mr Browett's successor, Sebastian James, who joined the company in 2008 and has been running the company's operations, is seen as a safe pair of hands. But without Mr Browett, a keen sailor in his spare time, Dixons could face more choppy retail waters.
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Governor declares an end to prison crisis
SACRAMENTO Citing successful overhauls and the expenditure of billions of dollars, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday proclaimed California's prison crisis over and said the federal government should remove its cap on the state prison population and end its oversight of the prison system's mental health services.
"It is now time to return the control of our prison system to California," Brown said in a news conference. "There's no question that there were big problems in California prisons. … But after decades of work, the job is now complete."
The governor's announcement came just hours after the state filed papers in federal court Monday evening asserting that "the overcrowding and health care conditions" that led to federal intervention "are now a distant memory." Federal oversight stems from class-action lawsuits filed by prison inmates in 1991 and 2001 that said mental health services and general health care services in the state prison system were unconstitutional.
In 2007, those cases were consolidated under a three-judge panel that ruled prison crowding is the primary cause of poor medical and mental health care in the state prison system. For years, the system's medical services have been supervised by a federal receiver while the system's mental health care is under what's known as a special master.
But even with independent supervision, the three-judge panel said, California wasn't doing enough to improve the situation in its prisons. In 2009, the panel ordered the state to reduce the prison population.
Monday was the deadline for the state to submit plans describing how it would meet the federal cap on the prison population. The state submitted a plan to release some prisoners – "under protest," as Brown said – but noted that it has "reduced its prison population by more than 43,000 inmates since 2006" and "has also made tremendous improvements to the prison medical and mental health care systems, and eliminated all constitutional systemic deficiencies in the provision of care to inmates."
"Accordingly," the state said, "rather than force further population reductions, the Court should vacate the population cap and end this three-judge court proceeding." In a separate filing, the state called for the removal of the special master overseeing the prison system's mental health services.
The fate of the prison system will be decided in federal court, but Brown on Tuesday took his case to the people, scheduling news conferences in Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Among the success stories Brown cited was his prison realignment program, which shifted much of the responsibility of housing and supervising convicts who would have previously been sent to state prison, in county jails. Some argue that the program has not only strained local resources but led to the release of dangerous inmates who have, in turn, caused crime rates to jump in parts of the state.
"In terms of realignment," Brown said, "I reject the notion that this has contributed to anything but the public interest. People commit crimes in the local community and they are now, to a greater degree, being supervised, being rehabilitated or being incarcerated locally. We're transferring billions of dollars to achieve that goal. I think it's very sound."
Sheriff's officials have seen the population in Orange County jails increase steadily under realignment. From October 2011 to September 2012, more than 2,200 prisoners from state prison have been released and placed in the supervision of Orange County probation officials. The average sentence of someone headed to county jail increased from 113 days to 165 in a year.
Brown said the state has made tremendous improvements to medical and mental health care services.
"Most of the people in prison get far better care for mental health problems or their physical well-being in prison than they'll get once they're released on the streets," the governor said.
He continued: "Our prisons are not overcrowded. I know that there's a design capacity, but that's a somewhat arbitrary figure. The experts that not only work here in California but whom we've hired to look at our system advise me that our system is meeting the highest standards of health care and mental health care. And for that reason there's no justification for the federal court to say you can only hold a certain number of people in the prisons."
Prison inmates and advocates for greater changes don't agree with Brown's assessment. Californians United for a Responsible Budget, which describes itself as "a broad-based coalition of over 40 organizations seeking to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state," said in a news release Tuesday that the state's filings are another attempt "to evade the Court's order to reduce the prison population. In September, the Court rejected Brown's attempt to raise the population cap to 145 percent."
The organization noted that state prisons "hold 133,000 in space that was intended for 80,000."
"If people's lives weren't at stake, claiming that caging one and a half times the people our prisons were built to hold isn't overcrowding would be laughable. But this isn't laughable, it's morally outrageous," said Diana Zuñiga, field organizer for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, in a statement.
"There are clear, safe ways to bring people back to our communities that would increase public safety and free more funding for social services and the education system the Governor claims to value so much. It's time for this administration to stop dragging its feet and make the kind of change Californians have been demanding for years."
Jeffrey Callison, spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email, "We don't know when the court will rule. It's at the court's discretion. "
Staff writer Salvador Hernandez contributed to this report.
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"Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight" and "The Dark Knight Rises" co-writer David S. Goyer is writing a brand new series for the new partnership between BBC Worldwide and Starz Entertainment.
The new series, called "Da Vinci's Demons," was just greenlit by Starz. The 8 episode series is scheduled to begin production in early 2012. The premise is, a 25-year-old Da Vinci, master painter, inventor, swordsman and more experiencing his youth in Renaissance Florence. As a free thinker with almost superhuman intellect and talents, he "struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it."
Goyer, who also wrote the upcoming Superman film "Man of Steel" had this to say about the upcoming show:
"Da Vinci was the original Renaissance man – a near-mythic figure that has world-wide appeal. After working with characters like Batman and Superman, it made a strange kind of sense for me to dive into the facts and legends swirling around his origins. This will be a show about secret histories, genius, madness, and all things profane. And I'm particularly excited that I get to do it on premium cable, where the story can be as dark and challenging and irreverent as it deserves to be."
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The woman described in At the Cancer Clinic is clearly at odds with her body. She does not have the strength to walk on her own, struggling with each step. The narrator describes her as staring at her feet as she walks, as if they are independent of her and she is interested in what they are doing. Her body is not under her control.
Cancer is a state in which cells grow without control. As opposed to normal cells, which reproduce in an orderly fashion and limit themselves, cancer cells are inclined to keep growing, creating tumors and blockages that impede the body's normal functions. It is plain to see that the woman described in this poem is very ill. One of the ironies of treating cancer is that some of the most effective treatments, most notably chemotherapy and radiation therapy, weaken the body; they have to...
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Here's a decidedly sobering fact to ponder: Chief marketing officers have the shortest tenure of any business executive. And with a recession in full force, marketers now need to prove themselves to the CEO and to the board more than ever before.
Marketing is often dismissed as an expense, whereas sales has historically been viewed as the revenue generator. That said, online channels have changed the rules of the game—93% of buyers start their research online, and 80% of decision-makers who made a recent purchase believe they found the vendor (as opposed to the vendor targeting them).
Translation: 1. Nurturing and managing a lead from inception is more important than ever; and 2. It's marketing—not just sales—that has a big impact on a company's revenue line. Given that, it's about time marketers claim a seat at the revenue table! Here are a few strategies based on my own experience that will help you achieve this:
Speak the same "financial" language as other executives. Look at how every other influential executive in the organization talks: They are concerned with ROI, revenue, profitability and stockholder equity, not the soft metrics to which marketers are accustomed. If you really want to grab the other executives' attention, make every effort to speak about marketing activities in terms of how they concretely integrate into the company's revenue pipeline.
Project results, not just expenditures. Most marketers can predict what they will spend in a given quarter, yet neglect to forecast how that expenditure will impact the bottom line. By focusing on cost instead of hard metric results, marketers perpetuate the myth of marketing being the cost center. Instead, marketing should mirror sales by forecasting and predicting leads, pipeline and revenue in order to solidify their position as a revenue-driving company asset.
Align incentives with sales. One of the reasons sales is so successful is because it is incentive-based. In the beginning of the quarter, revenue goals are set and employees are compensated based on performance. Marketing should take a cue from sales—set quotas and take on incentive-based compensation to improve results. By establishing a different infrastructure, marketing and sales can finally align and close the ever-elusive gap between the two departments.
Standardize best practice methodologies. All functions in the enterprise need standardized, repeatable processes in order to be seen as professional disciplines. Marketing is no exception to this rule, and should develop a meticulous and unanimous methodology for standardizing activities within the department. Such consistency will guarantee better performance and reliable results. Consider establishing a marketing "dashboard" of key metrics to review quarterly.
Utilize the right tools for the job. Just as sales force automation revolutionized sales, marketing automation technology is revolutionizing marketing by providing marketers with the firm metrics they need to prove their case. Today, affordable marketing automation technology exists that helps drive revenue, predict results, plan spending and measure performance. By arming themselves with the right tools, marketers can finally stand up and say, "Here's the proof that we really helped drive these results." Marketers must utilize such tools in order to effectively earn a seat at the revenue table.


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"San Diego activist recording artists Liquid Blue stands out as an original and intelligent voice for positive change. The band turns social commentary into art. Their debut album, Supernova, combines western pop melodies with exotic East Indian instrumentation to delivery a hard dose of progressive political commentary. The band aims to raise public awareness with a mission to promote positive social change and shed some light on the dark corners of reality". (Icon Magazine)
"Liquid Blue could be the best alternative pop band you hear all year"- (Broadjam).
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On Tuesday, the college basketball world could finally find out where Andrew Wiggins is headed.
Huntington Prep Coach Rob Fulford told the Herald-Leader on Saturday night that a Tuesday announcement is not out of the question, following a tweet from 24/Sports analyst Jerry Meyer that said he was "expecting" a decision from Wiggins on that day.
Both of Wiggins' parents, who live in Toronto, are expected to arrive in Huntington on Monday. Fulford has said several times in recent weeks that Wiggins would decide no later than Wednesday, which is the final day of the regular signing period.
Wiggins — the No. 1 rated player in the class of 2013 — is considering UK, North Carolina, Florida State and Kansas.
Meyer and several of his 24/7 Sports colleagues are predicting that Wiggins will choose the Seminoles. Both of the 6-foot-8 forward's parents were standout athletes at Florida State.
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UK. I just do not understand why the hype for FSU. Why did not his brother go to FSU?
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The guard and twirlers perform with the Pride during the football season. We also have performances and competitions in the spring semester. With the UND Guard, you have the opportunity to spin and perform all year!
We spin 5 ½ foot poles along with rifles –depending on the skill level and interest of the group. Dance is also incorporated into the choreography.
Do not have a lot of dance or spinning experience? Not a problem! We work as a team so that everyone can get the basics down and we will work with you so that you are comfortable with the choreography.
By becoming a member of the guard you can get class credit as well! Just sign up for Marching/Athletic Band and attend band camp the week before classes start.
The goal of the UND Colorguard is to provide an opportunity for students to participate in an outstanding performance group. We are a unit that teaches teamwork and performance skills, as well as building confidence and self-esteem. We also have a lot of fun doing it!
The guard is also open to many different performance and competition opportunities. In spring 2011, the guard was able to travel down to Orlando, Florida for the Twirl Mania competition. There we placed 3rd in our parade performance, 5th in our group performance, as well as 1st and 2nd places in our member's solo routines. We look forward to many other performance and competition opportunities in the future.
We are a close-knit team that works hard to perform great! If you want to make new friends, get class credit for spinning and performing, and have fun then the University of North Dakota Colorguard is the perfect place for you!
Want to join the Color Guard?
E-mail the Color Guard Coach Shannon Helseth. For more information about the entire marching band, email the Pride of the North Professor Brooks.
The Emeraldettes, the premier twirling squad in the upper Midwest, perform with the Pride of the North Marching Band at all the home games and away games each year. In addition to football half-time shows, the Emeraldettes also compete each year in Twirl Mania International Baton Championships in Orlando, Florida.
There is not a specific number of spots available on the Pride of the North twirling line. The number of Emeralettes depends on the caliber of the applicants. Currently there are five members on the line for the 2013-2014 season. They are led by Florida native Katie Kwak.
To apply to be an Emeralette, contact Professor Brooks or at 701-777-4396 to express your interest. You will be asked to submit a video performance, either online or DVD, that highlights a variety of skill that include using one-three batons.


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Since its introduction in the late 1500s, microscopy has been an essential tool for examining cell morphology and biomarker distribution. Microscopy, similar to the trend among many other techniques, has advanced towards high-throughput capabilities, with current microscopes capable of collecting thousands of high-resolution images per day. Along with these throughput advances have come the challenges associated with analyzing such large volumes of data. High content screening enables data collection from multiple cellular parameters—such as size, cell cycle stage, and intensity and localization of fluorescently labeled components—and is increasing in popularity for therapeutic drug discovery and functional genomics applications. Until now, methods available for interpreting the data acquired from these images relied upon parametric statistical tools such as principal component analysis and clustering, all of which assume a normal data distribution—a rarity in the cellular world. When incorrect, this assumption can lead to inadequate interpretation of the data. Reporting in this issue, J. Gorenstein and colleagues at Merck Research Laboratories describe a method using Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) nonparametric statistical analysis to enable unbiased interpretation of high-content image data. KS analysis determines the maximal difference for a single parameter between two populations without requiring assumptions regarding distribution of the data. This results in equally weighted dimensionless scores for each parameter that can be combined to generate a cumulative score. The use of cumulative scores allows for simple comparisons of multidimensional cellular changes between test and control conditions. The authors demonstrate their method by scoring phenotypic changes induced during a small molecule screen and with a subgenome-wide siRNA screen, showing that this method of analysis enables quantitative screening for mechanistic changes in cell phenotypes which can assist in target identification and prioritization when applied to compound screens.
See "Reducing the multidimensionality of high-content screening into versatile powerful descriptors"
Of Mice and Men
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is characterized by chronic swelling and tissue damage in the gastrointestinal tract. Treatments exist to ease symptoms of the disease, but currently there is no cure and the precise cause of the disease is unknown. In order to develop new treatments, the proper tools must be made available to researchers. Mouse models where colitis is induced through the use of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS) or oxazolone haptens have proven useful for the study of IBD. TNBS and oxazolone haptens are believed to induce colitis by binding endogenous proteins in the colonic mucosa and inducing a local immune response through activation of macrophages and T cells. However, researchers have been unable to confirm this since the proteinbound chemical compounds are indistinguishable from free chemicals in the intestine. In this issue, K. Ishiguro and colleagues at Nagoya University (Aichi, Japan) describe a new mouse model for investigating the mechanisms responsible for IBD symptoms and evaluating potential therapeutics. The authors induced colitis by intrarectal administration of 4-chloro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD-Cl), a compound that fluoresces upon binding to endogenous proteins, thereby allowing observation of hapten-protein formations. Visualization confirmed that NBD-protein conjugates formed and were by macrophages, resulting in inflammatory cell infiltration and crypt-epithelium destruction within 2 days of NBD-Cl delivery. T-cell involvement was also confirmed in controlled experiments using BALB/c wild-type and thymus-deficient nude mice. With the ability to visualize the NBD-proteins in the colonic mucosa, researchers will now be able to investigate inflammatory reactions and use this resource for screening experimental interventions for colitis when hapten-protein formation is confirmed.
See "Novel mouse model of colitis characterized by hapten-protein visualization"
Welcome Mat
Microbial mats are exemplary model systems for metagenomic analysis of complex interactions among diverse microbes. But unlike soil or sediment samples, the efficient extraction of DNA from hypersaline microbial mats is hindered by high levels of salts and extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs). While current methods for DNA extraction from these samples are effective, they are also harsh, resulting in extracted DNA that is too small for large-insert cloning and which may not accurately represent the diversity of microbes in the sample. In this issue, R.S. Norman and colleagues at the University of South Carolina, (Columbia, SC) describe their modified DNA extraction method from microbes in hypersaline mats that overcomes the shortcomings of other techniques. The authors compared their modified freeze-thaw/polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation method with three other standard methods: (i) freeze-thaw/lysozyme (LYS/FT), (ii) freeze-thaw (FT), and (iii) bead beating (BB) using a commercial kit. The critical first step for all of these methods, even prior to DNA extraction, is to separate microbes from the matrix of the mats, which is the major source of EPS contamination that hinders downstream applications such as PCR. The PEG method yielded both the purest and highest amount of DNA, while BB was the poorest for both of those criteria. High molecular weight DNA was obtained from the PEG, LYS/FT, and FT methods, in contrast to BB, which produced lower molecular weight, sheared DNA. For all methods, extracted DNAs were of high enough quality for PCR amplification of bacterial 16S rRNA genes. 16S rRNA gene analysis using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis demonstrated that DNA extracted using the PEG method, when compared to DNA extracted directly from the remaining cells in the sediment left after cell separation, faithfully represented the microbial diversity originally present in the mat. Based on sequencing of pooled archaeal and bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicons, the taxonomic diversity of DNA isolated using the PEG method was higher than that from the BB method. Therefore, this improved method for DNA extraction from microbial mats provides high quantities of pure, high molecular weight DNA that accurately represents the taxonomic diversity of the sample and is suitable for large-insert cloning and metagenomic analysis. And for those working on microbial communities from other locations, authors suggest their method should be applicable to other similarly recalcitrant samples.
See "Extraction of high molecular weight DNA from microbial mats"
The Aroma of Weed-killerIncorporation of nonstandard amino acids into proteins is necessary for structural analysis using different spectroscopic techniques. Both the incorporation of the unusual amino acid and the overall yield of the target protein have to be maximized, which is often difficult to achieve. Typically, the unusual amino acid is incorporated through overexpression of the protein in the corresponding auxotrophic Escherichia coli strain grown in minimal medium supplemented with the amino acid analog, but this can result in low protein yields. Addition of the natural amino acid to increase protein yield decreases incorporation of the analog. One approach to introduce aromatic amino acid analogs into proteins expressed in E. coli that doesn't require auxotrophic strains is through the use of N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine (glyphosate), an herbicide that inhibits biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids. Cell growth in the presence of glyphosate requires media supplemented with all three aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan). Substitution with the desired aromatic amino acid analog leads to its incorporation into the overexpressed protein. However, when this method was used to introduce fluorotryptophan into proteins for NMR studies, the yields were modest and incorporation only reached ~80% because tryptophan had to be added to allow adequate cell growth. To greatly increase incorporation of fluorinelabeled amino acids and protein yield, M. Neerathilingam and J. Markley at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have combined the glyphosate method with the use of auto-induction medium. This type of medium enables E. coli growth to high density followed by automatic induction of protein expression from lac promoter constructs without the need for IPTG. The use of glyphosate with auto-induction medium enabled the substitution of 6-fluorotryptophan at all eight tryptophan residues in maltose binding protein with 99.3% incorporation and a high protein yield.


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I need to have image as tooltip. Is it possible. If yes how. I dont want to use applet. When i scroll over the label in my frame the pop up containing the image should be displayed. How can this be done.
And how can multi line tool tip texts be given. I use Netbeans IDE. If i enter the text in the Column "ToolTip Text" only the text is displayed. So how do i use a multi line tool tip.
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■ State Rep. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs:
■ Democratic candidate Steve Ivancie: http://steve4state.com.
Steamboat Springs Randy Baumgardner said he heard some terrible stories in Arizona last week.
Baumgardner, a Republican from Hot Sulphur Springs, represents Routt County and the rest of House District 57 at the Capitol in Denver.
He recently spent about six days in Arizona with 10 other Republican state legislators, he said, "on a fact-finding mission looking at the immigration issues and the drug trafficking and human trafficking into the country." He met with people including law enforcement officers, U.S. Border Patrol members, landowners and Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, the Republican co-author of Senate Bill 1070. That bill has been described as the nation's toughest on immigration and has spurred protests, questions about its constitutionality and ongoing court action since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed it into law in April.
Brewer, a Republican, has asked the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to overturn U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's decision to block parts of the law, The Arizona Republic reported late last month.
Similar immigration law debates could intensify in Colorado next year.
Baumgardner said "there's a very good possibility there will be legislation drafted" regarding immigration laws in Colorado's 2011 legislative session.
"We're going to have to do something," he said Wednesday. "I don't know exactly how that legislation is crafted because we're going to have to adhere to our constitutional laws here in the state."
Baumgardner said that during his trip he heard stories about home break-ins, stolen vehicles, shootings and other crimes along the country's border with Mexico.
"It's posted down there, everywhere, 'Stay out of these areas' because of human trafficking and drug smugglers," Baumgardner said. "Those are things that are happening that people should be aware of."
Whether Baumgardner has a hand in potential immigration legislation will be up to voters in Northwest Colorado, where Baumgardner is up for re-election.
His challenger in fall, Democrat and former Steamboat Springs City Councilman Steve Ivancie, called Arizona's new immigration laws "a little over the top in terms of constitutionality."
Ivancie said the key immigration issues facing Colorado involve undocumented workers and unaccountable employers.
"When I'm in the state Legislature, I will work to ensure that Colorado employers have the tools they need to accurately document the immigration status of the people they employ, so they won't be fooled by falsified documents and such," Ivancie said. "Employers need to be accountable if they knowingly hire illegals. … I think that's the key word — accountability."
Ivancie said immigration reform ultimately has to come from the federal government.
"I don't believe a state-by-state patchwork when it comes to immigration is appropriate or effective," he said. "It's a federal issue and the federal government needs to do its job."
Ivancie added that federal action is occurring. He praised the $600 million bill President Barack Obama signed two weeks ago to pay for 1,500 new border agents, more Border Patrol stations and more unmanned surveillance drones on the southwest border.
Baumgardner said Colorado faces additional immigration issues.
"The problem that we're going to have to address is the sanctuary city problem … (and) the amount of social services that are offered to illegals is going to have to be looked at," Baumgardner said, clarifying that he thinks emergency services always should be provided.
"In order to receive social services, you're going to have to be a citizen. If you're illegal, then you're not entitled to social services."
Ivancie said some Colorado politicians, including Baumgardner, appear to be using the immigration issue for political leverage in an election year.
"Where was all this talk about immigration when the economy was booming?" Ivancie asked Wednesday. "Some politicians are probably going to exploit this for political gain — where have they been for the past several years? … We'll just wait and see what happens come next year, when the election's over."
Baumgardner said he was involved in a bill last year that would have implemented electronic verification policies for immigrants. That bill died in a Senate committee.
He said he also engaged in talks about possible photo-identification legislation.
Baumgardner said he is not using the issue to score political points.
"The people that are making those statements haven't been down to the border and talked with people that are there … and experienced the lawlessness that's happening there," Baumgardner said. "I don't think it has anything to do with grandstanding at all — I think it has to do with our borders being safe and the country being safe.
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Free Baseball At Foley Field Monday
April 15, 2012 Georgia Baseball Weekly Update 22-14 Overall (7-8 SEC) This Week: 5 games Monday vs. Liberty, 3 p.m. (Foley Field); Flames are 30-9; Free Admission; Georgia will start RHP Taylor Hicks, RFr., (2-2, 5.62 ERA); Liberty's starter is TBA Tuesday vs. Furman, 6 p.m. (Foley Field); Furman is 17-20; Furman's starter is TBA Georgia will start RHP David Sosebee, Fr., (2-0, 5.79 ERA) Friday-Sunday @ #4 Florida; 7 p.m. (CSS), 7 p.m. (CSS); 3 p.m. (ESPN2); Gators are 28-8 (9-6 SEC); SEC Rotation for Georgia and Florida: TBA Last Week: 3-1 April 11 @ Clemson, W 8-7 April 12 vs. #18 Ole Miss, W 8-4; April 13 vs. #18 Ole Miss, W 6-3; April 14 vs. #18 Ole Miss, L 8-3 Bulldog Notes: *Georgia (22-14, 7-8 SEC) plays host to Liberty (30-9) on Monday at 3 p.m. and Furman (17-20) on Tuesday at 6 p.m., before resuming SEC action on the road with No. 4 Florida (28-8, 9-6 SEC). The Liberty game is a makeup game due to a rainout earlier this season and admission will be free. All three games of the Florida series will be televised; CSS will do the first two at 7 p.m. while ESPN2 has the Sunday contest at 3 p.m. Liberty beat Winthrop two out of three this past weekend while Furman was swept by Western Carolina. The Gators won an SEC series at Tennesse and now play host to Georgia Southern Tuesday before the Bulldogs come to town. *The Bulldogs went 3-1 last week with a road win over Clemson and then claimed an SEC series over No. 18 Ole Miss at Foley Field. Georgia hit .324 with a 4.00 ERA in the series against the Rebels. Senior Peter Verdin led the team with a .625 average (5-for-8) in the SEC series while junior DH/C Brett DeLoach hit .462 (6-for-13). Senior RHP Michael Palazzone pitched a complete game in game one to lead the Bulldogs to a victory and sophomore LHP Alex Wood went 7.1 innings for a win in game two. Georgia has moved closer Blake Dieterich to the rotation. He lasted 3.1 innings and got the loss in game three.
*Sophomore left-hander Alex Wood (5-1, 2.61 ERA) clinched the series versus #18 OIe Miss with a 6-3 victory. He has 62 strikeouts and only 10 walks in 58.2 innings this season. In SEC action, Wood is 2-0 with a 2.61 ERA in five starts with 29 strikeouts and eight walks in 31 innings. *The Bulldogs are hitting .282 as a team with a 3.76 ERA and a .975 Fielding Percentage. In SEC action, the Bulldogs are batting .291 with a 4.78 ERA and a .978 Fielding Percentage. *Freshman centerfielder Hunter Cole has reached base in 19 consecutive games. He is batting a team-best .370-3-6 in SEC games and ranks second on the squad overall at .316-6-17. |
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