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You read that correctly. Just when it seemed the "old" Ned Colletti was gone, he sprouts up again.
Sulbaran, 19, was signed as an international free agent out of Venezuela in 2011. He was one of the Loons' most consistent pitchers this season. In 92 2/3 innings, Sulbaran had some impressive numbers:
He compares favorably to Julio Urias -- physically. That's pretty much where the comparison stops. He's 5'10, 185 pounds, but doesn't have the velocity and command of multiple pitches the now-17-year-old does.
Look, I understand Sulbaran is probably nothing more than a reliever in the majors -- if he even gets there -- but the fact the Dodgers traded him for one of the worst hitters in MLB history is mind-boggling.
Seriously, Butera has the third-worst OPS+ among players with 500 or more plate appearances in MLB history. Some in this exclusive club include Kevin Cash (2002-10, 37 OPS+), Donnie Sadler (1998-2007, 39) and failed former super prospect Brandon Wood (2007-11, 40).
It doesn't have anything to do with the fact the Dodgers traded Sulbaran. He's a decent arm whom I ranked at No. 20 (and No. 30 before the season). His 87-91 MPH fastball isn't going to blow hitters away, but he controls it well enough to go with his low-70s fastball, a changeup and an extremely fringy slider.
Butera, 30, will probably not don a Dodger uniform, so the Dodgers effective gave away Sulbaran for a no-hit (literally) catcher. Do not like.


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Monday, December 5, 2016
Physical activity is important for everyone but especially for those with diabetes. Why? The reason is simple.
Exercise can help control your blood sugar -- and that is the name of the game with diabetes!
To encourage you even more, many types of moving may have other effects that help to improve your health. And --it is not unusual for people with diabetes to find that they can reduce their glucose-lowering medicine when they follow a healthy diet and get regular exercise. Sometimes they find that they no longer need it at all.
You can fight diabetes by being active! Learn why exercise is so important to living a diabetes free life!
Aerobic exercise is activity that is low intensity for a period of 15 to 20 minutes or longer
During this time, you keep your heart rate at 60-80% of your maximum heart rate. Examples of aerobic exercise include:
"Moderate" exercise means you are working hard enough to raise your heart rate and break a sweat. Moderate level activities are:
"Vigorous" exercise means you are breathing hard and fast, and your heart rate has gone up a lot. If you are exercising at this level, you will not be able to say more than a few words without pausing for a breath. Vigorous level activities are:
Do not go more than 2 days in a row without aerobic exercise.
In addition to aerobic training, engage in moderate to vigorous muscle-strengthening activities at least 2-3 days each week. Combining aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities may actually be better than either alone for improving your body's ability to control blood sugar.
There are many muscle-strengthening activities that you can try, whether it is at home or at the gym:
Increase how much you move each day. Some easy things you can do are:
Find more ways to Be Extra Active Each Day.
Moving more during your regular daily activities has added health benefits, such as helping to prevent excessive weight gain. Using a step counter can help you increase your number of steps, especially if you set a goal, such as 10,000 steps per day.
The key is to keep your exercise at a moderate level. Short bursts of intense exercise, such as a sprint, can actually increase your blood sugar levels. As you make a plan for regular exercise, be sure to check with your doctor. Your doctor can guide you on when it is important to test your blood sugar.
You may also need to take some precautions. For example, if your eyes suffer from diabetic retinopathy, vigorous activity such as jogging or weight lifting could cause bleeding. Your retina could also detach. And if your feet have nerve damage, a common problem with diabetes, be sure to look for blisters or other signs of damage after you exercise. Treat these injuries as your doctor has recommended.
If you take insulin or medicines that can cause low blood sugar, test your blood glucose:
By doing this, you will be able to see if your blood sugar level is stable, rising, or falling.
Use the following chart to decide whether it is safe for you to exercise:
If your blood sugar
(mg/dL*) is:
Less than 100
|Your blood sugar may be too low to exercise safely.
100 - 250
|It is general considered safe to exercise.
250 or higher
Test your urine for ketones.
Ketones are substances that build up when your body cannot use glucose for fuel.
Do not exercise if you have a high level of ketones.
300 or higher
|It is too high to coinsider exercising.
*mg/dL means "milligrams per deciliter"
Check your blood sugar after exercise, too. If it is too low, eat some carbs to prevent hypoglycemia. In fact, it is always a good idea to keep a carb snack on hand in case your blood sugar drops too low. Exercising with a partner is also a good safety measure.
When you use your muscles, they need to get energy from somewhere. Most of the time, that energy comes from glucose. Glucose is the sugar running through your bloodstream after you eat. If your muscles use blood sugar for energy, then obviously, the level of sugar in your blood drops. But the effects can last far beyond the time frame of your workout.
For people with type 2 diabetes, regular exercise appears to increase the insulin sensitivity of the body's cells. This is especially true of muscle cells. That means cells are better able to take up glucose from the bloodstream, and they require less insulin to do this. In fact, research suggests that regular exercise can help muscles take up glucose up to 20 times the normal rate.
Because depression is more common in those with diabetes, increasing your physical activity and physical fitness can help reduce symptoms of depression
And remember, you may also find that you can reduce, or perhaps no longer need, your glucose-lowering medicine when you follow a healthy diet and get regular exercise.
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Colberg, SR., et al. "Exercise and type 2 diabetes: the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association: joint position statement executive summary." Diabetes Care, v. 33 issue 12, 2010, p. 2692-6.
Content from this article originally appeared in Chow Line (8/19/07 and 3/29/09), a service of Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission.
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The post office is set for the holidays.
The agency unveiled two new Christmas stamps Thursday, and is following on Friday with new stamps to commemorate the Jewish holiday Hanukkah and the African-American celebration Kwanzaa.
This year's traditional "Madonna and Child" Christmas stamp features a painting by the 16th century artist Raphael which now hangs in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
The modern holiday stamp features a set of four 1950s style Christmas tree ornaments.
The Kwanzaa stamp is illustrated with a family dressed in green, red and black. The Hanukkah stamp features the eight letters Hanukkah on colored fields, representing the eight candles, and the second letter "K" resembles the toy known as a dreidel.


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Anyone who was within hearing distance of our apartment, or following me on Twitter, got to witness the absolute upheaval of my emotions tonight while I watched the OSU game. At the end of it all, as heartbroken as I am over the loss of the game, and more importantly, the loss of women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna, I kind of think that ISU deserved to win that game. We played horribly. Whether it was just our time to lose, a bad night caused by the emotions of losing members of the OSU family, or a stupid fluke, ISU out-played us. It's been a hell of a year for OSU football and guess what? It's not over yet.
Image courtesy of baseball-bat.tumblr.com, which you probably should avoid if you are a rational and decent human being.
A few baseball-related notes: Justin Verlander won the AL Cy Young, Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young, and four Giants pitchers got votes. Congratulations to our starting pitchers, who basically carried the team this season.
Darren Ford got DFA'd.


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One IICS Practice In The Books
Well, as a fan – I thoroughly enjoyed the first practice. As a blogger, I didn't do a very good job. I have no clue who led the session or anthing happening of note – but I had a blast.
I met up with a reader, "imjustsayinisall", whom I had never met before. He and I stood at the entrance of pit road and had a great time talking racing and just taking it all in.
The day is now warm and still a crystal blue sky. I can tell by the feel of my face that I'm getting sunburned… but who cares? I'm at a race track.
I think either the Continental Tire or Rolex series is about to practice next, and then the Firestone Indy Lights followed by the second session for the Izod IndyCar Series. It has already been a full day, but still so much more to go.
God intended racing for days like this. Life is good.
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Thanks for the report, George. Sounds awesome.
Hobbson sounds like a comic book newspaper editor, all he needed was a "Great Ceasar's Ghost."
You are a fantastic blogger!
The most informative Indy Historian. You should ask for a press card-
Patric Dempsey is supposed to be there this weekend…
Sweet Home Alabama!
You'll have a lot more fun just soaking everything in, and writing to reflect about it later.
And fun is what this is all about…take more than your share!
Andybody who says IndyCars look slow on road courses has some splainin' to do, and they'll be a second quicker tomorrow on reds.
What a great track, they just need one good place to pass. I hope they find it on Sunday.
Way to go George. Are you getting some pictures?


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Today's Express is up in arms about the number of migrants who are "shunning the English language".
But it's worth taking a look at the facts of this story.
The Express claims "4 million people living here hardly speak [English]".
Which might be a lot of people "shunning the English language", if it was true.
But it isn't.
Citing Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, The Express says:
"More than four million migrants cannot or rarely speak English."
But the ONS states:
"Of the eight per cent (4.2 million) of usual residents aged three years and over with a main language other than English, 79 per cent (3.3 million) could speak English very well or well."
So, in order to get its headline figure of four million who "hardly speak" English, The Express has included 3.3 million people who do in fact speak English "well or very well".
They have also decided 726,000 census respondents who said they speak "some English" belong in this "cannot or rarely speak English" category.
By definition, people who speak "some English" can speak English. They might also use what little English they speak every single day meaning it may be wrong to say they "rarely" speak English.
This means as many as 4.026 million people may be wrongly classified by The Express as being among the 4 million people who "cannot or rarely speak English".
As The Express does admit further down its article, the census found only 138,000 respondents who categorically "cannot speak English".
There is also an issue with assuming these people are all migrants.
To get its big number The Express has classed "all usual residents aged three years and over with a main language other than English" as "migrants".
Which clearly isn't true.
This group will include all British citizens who said their first language isn't English. It will also include all British citizens who said sign language is their first language.
So where does this leave us? It seems The Express's claim that '4 million migrants have shunned the English language' falls down on two important points.
Firstly, the number is out by between 3.3 million and 4 million.
Secondly, they definitely aren't all "migrants".


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Apple been on the offensive using all the patents they have to stop android phones, even patents that are clearly invalid. Driod phones been owning apple but a wide margin.
It's a two-horse race, no question. Apple and Google's grip on the world smartphone market tightened even further during Q2, with everyone else's combined share falling to 15 per cent from 34.3 per cent in the year-ago quarter. The numbers come from IDC, a market watcher, and they chart RIM's decline - from an 11.5 per cent …
Apple been on the offensive using all the patents they have to stop android phones, even patents that are clearly invalid. Driod phones been owning apple but a wide margin.
The Fandroids has now become the new sheep.
It just goes to show how hard hitting this recession is that phone users are so short of cash that they cannot afford an iPhone and have to opt for the cheaper Android alternatives.
Cheaper, and better value (actually better in some cases)
The Fandroids has now become the new sheep.
Have now? They've always been cheap, disfunctional and fake copies of their fruity counterparts. Just like their phones. The Peng Peng cloned sheep of the smartphone world, including the extra worm genes.
Developers get poorer, but hey, there's better value for teh harkerz.
Cheaper for consumers for sure. Shame they lose out everywhere else - from being lumped with yester-year OSs to being subjected to the likes of CarrierIQ and pissing their privacy to the wind.
No.... were I a sheep I would have purchased one of the various generations of Iphone. I chose a handset that suited me rather than the monoform that Iphone is.
Incidentally Windows was one of the reasons for my dropping Nokia, and I know I am only one of many who feel that way
"It just goes to show how hard hitting this recession is that phone users are so short of cash that they cannot afford an iPhone and have to opt for the cheaper Android alternatives."
Are you off your face?
Stop trying to big up the iPhone. They are just as cheap. I could walk into my local high street and get one FREE!
Also, do you really think that a products price has any bearing?
What, you think you're the dogs bollox because your phone cost more than someone else's?
You, sir, are the advertisers dream.
Why? With Android, you can pick whatever phone you like, from all the big companies.
Perfer a keyboard over a touchscreen, no problem.
Like small phones rather than large? no problem.
Want one thats waterproof? no problem...
The whole POINT of Android is you aren't a sheep. You can pick and choose your DEVICE... And if your requirements change in the future, no problem either, you just sell it and buy a different Android device, all your contacts, all your apps, all your content is there to go with you... No lock-in to a specific hardware supplier.
Baaaaa, there is no way that iSheep can understand nor appreciate what you are saying. Baaaa, meeeee.
Free iPhone? So you wouldn't be paying ~ 400-500 Transatlantic Monetary Units over the course of several years? During which you're stuck with the operator? You, sir, are an advertiser's dream.
funny so did I and I ended up with a 4S
horses for courses
"Free iPhone? So you wouldn't be paying ~ 400-500 Transatlantic Monetary Units over the course of several years? During which you're stuck with the operator? You, sir, are an advertiser's dream."
W O W, missed the point completely. No wonder!
yep, i would probably be a happy Maemo/Meego user still, but rather than repair my N900, they sent me an N8 instead. I will never buy an 80's wallpaper windows phone.
"Stop trying to big up the iPhone. They are just as cheap. I could walk into my local high street and get one FREE!
Also, do you really think that a products price has any bearing?"
You should take a bus, then a train, and when you finally reach an international airport, jump on a plane, away from your cosy little high street. I think you'll find in many many many many more parts of the world that price has a HUGE baring on things, and the (false) luxury of subsidised plans is but a dream. In these markets iPhones (and yes yes, top end 'droids too) are aspirational, with your cheap and dirty 'droids being the winners due to pure economic necessity. I mean, obviously!
But please, just continue on in your little world where the butcher asks if you're local.
There will be celebrations and dancing in the streets as Fandroids emerge from their caves after hearing the news that they are now 68% ers.
Though the 68% does not give the proportion of operating system builds.
I'll hold off on the celebrations until we're in the 69% position.
If we were to assume, for the sake of the excercise, that in 2011 Nokia = Symbian we see that they had 17% market share.
Now it is a year later and we are witnessing the results of Elops "burning platform" strategy where Windows was supposed to replace Symbian.
Let's be extremely generous and give ALL Windows phone sales to Nokia (instead of sharing them around the few manufacturers that produce Winphones) and we can see that Nokia now has 8% market share, or less than half of last year.
I wonder when Nokia shareholders are going to start demanding that Elop producing results instead of a steady stream of epic fails?
<- The platform, it is burning
The market share of Symbian has been in freefall since the second half of 2010, long before 'burning platforms'. Many argue that the infamous memo hastened the fall of Symbian, and maybe that is true, but it was dying on it's arse long before the speech. The most likely cause was Android phones arriving in developed markets in large numbers and multiple price points.
While everything you say is true to a degree I would proffer two points;
1) Symbian msrket share fell by 75% in a single year. Yes, it has been in decline for years but nothing like that sort of loss.
2) Winphone was supposed to turn Nokia's fortunes around.
You could argue that WinPhone has not had time to establish itself yet, which is debatable.
We shall see what happens in another 12 months I guess.
Elop set light to it when he joined about 2 years ago. It's burned.
We're now seeing the smouldering remains.
My prediction? he'll vanish* from Nokia to destroy another company that Microsoft will buy. Timescale? Before the end of this year.
*He doesn't have a reputation for being a 'stayer'. Neither did Simon Beresford-Wylie, when he set up the disastrous NSN millstone - which seems to have been partly instrumental in causing Nokia's woes. Noticed he pissed off sharpish, too, when he saw the iceberg his Titanic struck looming.
Here's a graph which says it was the Burning Platforms memo and Flop destroying Nokia's relationship with retailers and operators. Here's the whole blog post.
Flop couldn't have really done worse if he tried.
@Dan 55
The author of that blog was being very disingenuous with that graph.
Firstly, he quotes smartphone sales rather than market share. At the end of 2010, smartphone sales were exploding rapidly, and Nokia managed to grow sales even when market share was falling. At the start of 2011, there was no growth over the previous quarter, so the decline of market share became evident in sales. Secondly, he doesn't include the whole market in the graph. If he had, Nokia would not have looked so rosey - I seem to remember HTC had success with Android before Samsung did.
I urge you to read Tomi Ahonen's postings from the end of January 2011. You will discover his opinions of Nokia's performance before 'burning platforms' happened, and why I think he was being disingenuous.
The market's shifting. Android's changed the market by allowing phones <£200 to be smart. People who in the past would have just bought a regular phone, now buy a smart phone. Whether they use it as such is open to debate.
Much the same could be said for the shift from typewriters to PCs, back in the day. Probably explains why tablets are so popular, as they eliminate the 'general purpose programmable computer' nonsense that has been a headache for users all these years.
I'm only half joking there, as just like the winds of fashion that blow between centralised and distributed computing models, there is the to-and-fro between general-purpose and appliance computing in which the appliances eventually become fat, programmable, and hard to understand.
Of course I'm much entertained by all the cloud hype, in the old days I believe this was called a 'computing bureau'?
As a mobile developer I think this is the real question. Android has much higher market share for smartphones, so in theory it's by far the best platform to develop for. Yet talk to developers, and you'll commonly hear that android only provides about 20% of their income, compared to 80% for iOS.
There has to be some explanation for that, and I do think it's because a lot of people buy an android device to replace their old feature phone, and use it in pretty much the same way.
I would agree that the acceleration in smartphone ownership that we have been witness to has to a very considerable extent gone Android rather than iPhone (given that it would be a touch unusual for someone to jump straight from a feature phone to a highend phone like Apple's offering) with the consequence that many are to a considerable extent using them as a "feature-phone+". However, that (IMHO) does not take sufficiently into account Apple's traditional demographic which is (whether some of their supporters like it or not) the "well heeled middle classes" in income terms if not that precise demographic in social terms. The last survey I saw of customer groups within "smartphonery" from the States (about ten months ago) indicated that the "typical" Apple customer (ie approximately 50% of their demographic) in the US is male, 25 - 35 years old and lives in a household where the household income is over $100.000 per annum. Given that is the case it seems highly likely that Apple have a larger percentage of customers with significantly above average incomes than the Android os does. In other words the devs do better out of Apple customers because they have more money to spend than is typical amongst Android customers. This of course is hardly surprising since Cupertino have, with considerable success, been courting that demographic for the last two decades or so.
That's probably a large part of it too. The same group of people buy audio, bmw and mercedes too, even though they could get a ford for less money.
The thing is though, it makes iOS the better platform by default. When I start planning a new project and look at the platforms, android offers less income for more work. I only consider it as either a secondary platform. Therefore my apps appear either only or first on iOS, and the iOS version gets a lot more attention. Most developers are doing exactly the same.
If you consider the platform to be something you run apps on (which after all is the real point of a smartphone), the quality of the apps is critical - and iOS ends up way ahead.
Indeed, the business case for a dev in these circumstances is entirely understandable (I speak as someone who runs a Desire Z) and if one is earning one's "daily bread" in that way one has to follow the money. Currently this means, of course, that the situation is self-reinforcing as long as there is no Android "hero-phone" that begins to attract a similar demographic. Although it has to be said that Sammy's Galaxy series is now beginning to attract the kind of kudos and sales that suggest that such a shift is possible (albeit not certain). One can at any rate remark that it is reasonably obvious that Cupertino are entirely convinced that the only Android competitor (currently) that is any threat to them is Samsung!
Because those reports you get your information from, are all part of the Apple viral marketing to pretend that there isn't a mass exedous towards Android development.
It's quite obvious on the ground however it's now VERY different. Most apps/games launch at the same time, or sooner than their iOS counterparts. That's partly helped by the fact that on Android, you don't need (nor should you use) separate iPhone and iPad versions..
> Yet talk to developers, and you'll commonly hear that android only provides about 20% of their income, compared to 80% for iOS.
That is very true for app store/google purchases. However there is also a large demand for buisness apps which never go anywhere near the stores, in my experience android is by far the biggest earner. Consider a say a warehousing app for a tablet or a team of field engineers, don't have to be anything flash
> There has to be some explanation for that, and I do think it's because a lot of people buy an android device to replace their old feature phone, and use it in pretty much the same way.
Very true. My own wife is now on her third android phone, never used the play store and after two months I heard her mention it wasn't as good as her previous one and it didn't even have netflix (previously I loaded everything I thought she'd want). Now she knows the store is there she had a quick look and never touched it again. She also never used teh app store on her iphone.
"you'll commonly hear that android only provides about 20% of their income"
Apple had a head-start and a much larger installed base. Android only passed in installed numbers a few months ago. If Android continues to outsell iPhone by 4:1 these numbers will change very quickly.
"But IDC's data show the value of enabling low-cost product in other markets, particularly emerging ones. The rise of the budget Android smartphone is clearly playing dividends for Google."
That depends on how you define value. If it's number of units shipped, then yes. If it's income, the value is probably low - especially for google, whose income is mostly from advertising. Emerging market customers are not high value customers in the eyes of the advertisers. It's probably low for the handset makers too, if the customers in these countries are buying low-end and low-margin phones.
Don't forget that Google get paid for every time a phone is made that has gmail docs maps etc on it as they are not part of the free OS as used on feature phones.
Also even if the adds only get 100th as much in emerging markets they still get money and with the millions buying thats still big bucks.
We're not there yet but the time is coming when robotics will have advanced to the point where androids can make apple and blackberry crumble. Mmmmmm, mobilicious.
I assumed this post was just harmless fun; I don't understand why it has accrued a downvote. Here, have an upvote to balance things out.
I had to upvote you, not all of us like balance. Hey! It could have been a downvote!
sometimes with an touch screen your right thumb will select things at random or sometimes you can just hit the wrong button, I have several times voted the wrong way and been unable to change my mistake.
I thought it was funny too.
She has an old feature phone that is getting buggy and has a scratched screen.
She asked me to sort out a replacment for her, said she loves her mates iPhone but not sure she wants to pay that much and can i get something thats as nice but cheaper.
Well I bought a Huawei Ascend G300 for £83 (had a voucher) spent a fiver unlocking it and sold the PAYG sim on ebay for a fiver.
Set it up with lots of useful apps and satnav etc and handed it to her. She loves it and even her iPhone loving mate thinks its a great phone. Best of all Vodaphone rolling out ICS to it very soon.
Moral is unless you love iPhone enough to be happy to pay hundreds you can get a great Android smartphone for a fraction of the price, in these cash strapped times that will boost market share quickly.
"Vodafone rolling out ICS to it soon".
I would have thought as you have sold the sim you won,t be gettin g the Vodafone update.
Have a vodafone SIM in my phone so just a quick swap for the upgrade,
I'm real happy that that phone works well for your sister, but I would not describe that phone as "great" - "competent", "good value" maybe.
A "great" Android phone would be the Nexus S or a Galaxy S III, both of which are comparable in spec and price to the iphone. Android phones are not cheaper than the equivalent Apple phone, but Apple does not provide a comparable low end model.
... and the key....
When she wants to upgrade to something better, there is a Android path to take you to the next tier of devices....
Doesn't make a difference what sim card is in the phone, when Vodafone push the update out then the phone will know and update the user.
Tom 38 - how can you compare a 4.8" screen with the tiny iPhone 3.5" and say comparable spec?
How can you state that Apple's (in conjunction with Google's) grip on the world smartphone market tightened even further during Q2, when Apple's share actually dropped from 18.8% to 16.9% in that time? Yes, iOS obviously has the second biggest share, but it's clearly Android eating that the difference, as well as everyone else's lost share...
Its % of market share not number of units sold.
Apple have increased the number of sales over the period so couldn't care less about a drop of 2% overall share.
It makes me wonder how bad RIM's sales must have been in the last year that their market share can drop so significantly. Am I the only person who bought a new BlackBerry?
I see your point, but this article is specifically talking about share (as in percentage), not number of units, because it's claiming Android and iOS are pwning the rest. Apple lost share from one chart to the other, so the claim they're part of the pwnage is misleading.
@Sordid Details - Pretty much, yeah.


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As I said, I want to teach a good eye AND self [photo]analysis. I want them to follow through on improvements to an idea. This age resists doing anything "over". They write one draft and dig in their heels when asked to improve it with a second or third draft. So here I want them to feel the accomplishment of working an idea. Yes, I will teach some elements of photography, too.
Instead of color printing, why not gray scale on whatever is available ? Then consider hand "tinting" - always a fun activity at that age.Frank


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John Horn caught up with Robert Rodriguez on Monday to talk about the success of "The Expendables" and the epic fail of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" at the box office for an earlier article, and the conversation turned toward the filmmaker's own plans.
Robert Rodriguez sounds like he's drawing a bead on "Deadpool." But will he pull the trigger?
"It's a great script and a great property," an enthusiastic Rodriguez said of the Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick ("Zombieland") screenplay that would bring the "merc with the mouth" from Marvel Comics to the screen in his own film adventure.
Rodriguez says he has been in meetings with Twentieth Century Fox about directing the film, which, presumably, would star Ryan Reynolds, who portrayed the glib gunman "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." Reynolds is becoming a major player in comic-book cinema considering his roles in next year's "Green Lantern" film, the planned "R.I.P.D." adaptation as well as his work in the "Blade" franchise.
Rodriguez, who just finished the final sound mix of "Machete," sounded gung ho about "Deadpool" but added that he is still debating his next project. "I'm just working everything out," Rodriguez said, noting that he is choosing between three options for his next directing job. He said one is the long-discussed "Sin City 2" but he declined to name the other, though it could be "Nerveracker," a far-future thriller that was announced last year but hasn't moved as quickly as anticipated.
— John Horn
"X-Men" director: Super-hero genre "mined to death"
Meanwhile, back at the ranch … Robert Rodriguez, one-man studio
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Marlins-Mets go 20 innings, Texas-Blue Jays go 18
A bunch of big leaguers became marathon men on Saturday.
The Miami Marlins needed 20 innings to outlast the New York Mets 2-1, overlapping for much of the afternoon and early evening with the Toronto Blue Jays' 4-3 win against the Texas Rangers in 18 innings.
It was the first time two games in the majors on the same day lasted that long since Aug. 15, 2006, when the matchups of Cubs-Astros and Diamondbacks-Rockies each went 18 innings, STATS said.
"It's neat, man," said Miami pitcher Kevin Slowey, who earned the win with seven innings of shutout relief. "I tell you what, that's part of what's amazing about baseball: There's always a capacity to come back and tie it up."
The Marlins and Mets played the longest major league game in more than three years. They threw a combined 561 pitches and took 6 hours, 25 minutes in New York.
"You play 20 innings, you've got to win that game," Miami manager Mike Redmond said.
The Rangers and Blue Jays needed 5 hours, 28 minutes in Toronto. They each equaled the longest game in club history.
Texas played 18 innings for the fifth time in its history, last doing it on June 24, 2004, with a 9-7 win over Seattle.
Toronto had played 18 innings once before, beating the Angels on July 28, 2005. Texas reliever Jason Frasor pitched one inning for the Blue Jays that day — he also worked an inning for the Rangers in this extended affair.
Frasor said these long games are mentally draining for relievers, as well as position players.
"If you're sitting down in the bullpen, it's just the anticipation, the preparation, it just exhausts you," Frasor said. "You're going, 'Is this going to be me, is this going to me be?' and then it's not you. You just keep waiting and waiting and it's exhausting."
Probably the same thing for Rob Brantly of the Marlins and John Buck of the Mets — both catchers played the whole way. Adeiny Hechavarria hit a go-ahead single for Miami in the 20th.
"I've got the advantage of youth right now," the 23-year-old Brantly said. "But 20 innings takes its toll."
The game began 5½ hours before the Belmont Stakes about 13 miles away — and still ended around an hour after winner Palace Malice crossed the finish line.
The last big league game to last as long also involved the Mets, according to STATS. It came when they beat St. Louis 2-1 in 20 innings on April 17, 2010.
It was the longest game by far in the history of Citi Field, which opened in 2009, and it matched the longest in Marlins history — a 7-6 loss to the Cardinals in 20 innings on April 27, 2003.
"The whole team spirit was up," said Brantly, who finished with four hits. "We were still having fun in the dugout and still cracking jokes and keeping the energy high. ... Still had enough energy to string some hits together and get that run."
A scattered crowd of 20,338 had dwindled perhaps into the hundreds by the time the stadium sound system played Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place To Go," not long after the 14th-inning stretch.
Some of the fans who remained chanted "Let's Go Home!" as the Mets came to bat in the 17th.
"In a situation like that," Brantly said, "the team that can keep their enthusiasm up the most usually ends up being the victor."


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Image Comics' 'The Walking Dead' No. 94 Preview (Exclusive)
Can Jesus be trusted?
In issue No. 93 of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic, Rick, Abraham and Michonne went searching for what the group's fearless leader felt were another group of allegedly peaceful survivors in what he perceived as a threat.
But after coming up empty in after a search for a threat from the outsiders, Rick was left pondering if Jesus may have been right -- that there really could be a peaceful society willing to help his group of survivors continue on.
"Rick has hard time trusting anybody so of course he doesn't trust the guy," Kirkman tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Anytime a stranger comes in telling him good news, he's weary of them. He remembers his interaction with the Governor and other people that he has encountered over the years. This is something he's going to be weary of at all times. The real question right now is, is he going to ruin a potential good opportunity because of his lack of trust."
But could Jesus hold the key to opening up a larger world for Rick, Andrea, Michonne and company? Kirkman says as the series continues toward its 100th issue, it's something the series has yet to tackle -- not just surviving but rebuilding the world they once knew.
"We haven't really seen anyone working hard to actually re-establish civilization," he says heading into Issue No. 94. "That's really what we're looking at here; we have a pocket where Rick and all his people live and it's safe in the community and now they're potentially going to be discovering other similar pockets of civilization. If they're able to form a network or they're able to actually work together and try to deal with this problem on a much larger scale, you're a hop, skip and jump away from re-establishing civilization and that's a very exciting thing and that may or may not be what we're working toward right now."
Check out the first five pages of Image/Skybound's issue No. 94, exclusive to THR, in the pages that follow.
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Franck Ribery has stated that he did not feel threatened when confronted with a distraught fan in the Bayern Munich dressing room after Wednesday's training session, but has admitted that things could have turned awry had the intruder carried a weapon.
The man in question approached the Bavarians' Sabener Strasse headquarters claiming to be a friend of the Frenchman, before being taken away by security officials when the winger refused to talk to him.
"I went to the dressing room after training and saw a man sitting in my spot. I asked him what he was doing there and he said that he wanted to talk," Ribery explains to L'Equipe. "He looked distraught, but I did not feel threatened. I was not afraid at the time, but it was a bit of a shock. He was not a bad guy, but just think of what could have happened if he'd carried a knife..."
It is believed that the man in question previously visited the training ground two weeks ago with a dog, purporting that he had come to give it to Ribery.


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User talk:Aschlafly
Hi! Thank for for creating this website.
Question about Government Homework
Mr. Schlafly,
When I went to post my homework answers last night, Conservapedia did not allow me to "edit" the page. Does the website have a curfew? And for the future, when precisely are the homework assignments due? Thanks. --MorganT 17:42, 21 September 2012 (EDT)
- Editing was turned off by the system for a few hours yesterday. Sorry for any inconvenience due to not being able to post. Assignments are due on Wednesdays, but it's not a problem that this homework was late.--Andy Schlafly 17:58, 21 September 2012 (EDT)
- Thank you for clarifying. --MorganT
iPSC therapies
Sorry to belabor the point, but I thought you might find this interesting. There are currently fifteen active clinical trials in the United States using patient-derived stem cells ("adult stem cells") to treat spinal cord injuries. At least one of these trials uses induced pluripotent stem cells derived from terminally-differentiated cells. In spite of the astronomical cancer risk associated, this is an active area of clinical research in the United States.--JHunter 17:58, 20 November 2012 (EST)
- The link says the location is South Korea, not the United States.
- Anti-life types have not, and will not, allow meaningful therapy with adult stem cells in the United States for victims of paralysis.--Andy Schlafly 23:06, 20 November 2012 (EST)
- Fair enough. This is a current clinical trial at Baylor using bone marrow derived stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.--JHunter 00:01, 21 November 2012 (EST)
- You're right that this clinical trial is in the United States (Texas). Thanks for finding and linking to it. But look at how small and limited the study is: only ten people, and perhaps half of them would receive a placebo rather than the stem cell treatment. Allowing stem cell treatment on only 5 persons every 3 years (the study won't complete until 2014) is so little that it is almost nothing.
- It is surprising that the study excludes non-English-speaking patients.--Andy Schlafly 17:30, 21 November 2012 (EST)
Panera Bread
This company must cater to the liberal/harassment crowd, including the one on Mowry Avenue, Fremont; they have that certain "homosexual execution" accuser sitting there now. Should we give them a call? Karajou 14:06, 21 November 2012 (EST)
- What did the manager say? --DamianJohn 18:40, 21 November 2012 (EST)
I would recommend granting him delete privileges, as he has shown himself to be a fair sysop, and always vigilantly watching for spammers. Also, please do something about the 30 odd pages that still need to be deleted. Thanks, brenden 15:52, 21 November 2012 (EST)
Template fun
I am getting rusty on the template programming syntax, so it took me a few edits to get the right result on both the template documentation and on the individual articles (which should not show extra blank lines in the box.) Everything is fine now, so please protect away. Thanks, Wschact 00:03, 22 November 2012 (EST)
- Well done! I've reprotected the template.--Andy Schlafly 00:13, 22 November 2012 (EST)
Epistle to the Hebrews
The idea that Jesus is the author of this text is held only by you. Is this enough to put it into an article? Please remember: "Everything you post must be true and verifiable. " --AugustO 14:38, 22 November 2012 (EST)
- Um, I also hold the same belief as Aschlafly that the Epistle to the Hebrews was written by Jesus as I don't believe no one else would of had the insight to do it. Dvergne 04:54, 23 November 2012 (EST)
- @Dvergne: You are highlighting the danger of the situation: any person not being well informed can be mislead by the authoritative statement in the article!
- @Aschlafly: I'm trying to get a kind of poll of the sysops - at least of those (ten including you) who have edited this year (out of a total of thirty!)
- --AugustO 19:32, 25 November 2012 (EST)
Deletion of User:GregG/Archive of User:Conservative FYI
User:Conservative deleted this page in my userspace without an explanation. I tried to contact him twice about the deletion at his message area, but he oversighted both of my contributions and protected his message area. Thus, I am asking you to either have User:Conservative explain the deletion of a page in my userspace and/or have the page restored. I also think that User:Conservative's actions in this matter qualify as abuse of administrative powers (and, as an aside, are very ironic considering this user's campaign against those who lack what he/she/it/they/I call "machismo"). Thanks, GregG 22:05, 24 November 2012 (EST)
- GregG, you may look back and thank me. You are starting to get obsessed with my every edit and keeping a log of some of my non-main space edits. You are beginning to resemble evolutionists/atheists with Severe Conservapedia obsessive compulsive disorder. Just look at my deletion as an "intervention". A cold splash of water in the face to break your obsession with me.
- We both know what is mainly causing this obsession. You inability to defend evolutionism against valid criticism plus my pointing out that Ken Miller can't either. Conservative 22:21, 24 November 2012 (EST)
- This has nothing to do with evolution or religion. I am not obsessed with you. Also, it's ironic that this charge is coming from someone who showed enough dedication to my contributions and/or the recent changes page to delete a page in my userspace. GregG 22:35, 24 November 2012 (EST)
- ETA Also, I don't see dedication to this project as a disorder. I trust that you wouldn't either, given your extensive contributions to the project. GregG 22:35, 24 November 2012 (EST)
- GregG, now I am really beginning to worry. You are engaging in denialism about your obsession with me. Denialism is a classic symptom of atheists/evolutionists and individuals with Severe Conservapedia obsessive compulsive disorder. Do whatever it takes to break your cycle of obsession! Here are 15 ways to stop obsessing. Conservative 22:49, 24 November 2012 (EST)
- By your logic, everyone is "obsessed" with Conservapedia; those who deny such, according to you, are exemplifying symptoms. Simply ridiculous. GregG 11:20, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- Why don't you both focus on the original topic? I thought userspaces were supposed to be left to the user in question on this project. Isn't that one of the ways we are different from Wikipedia? I seem to recall reading that somewhere on here. Unfortunately, I can't see the page so I don't know what it said. But I think Conservative needs to explain his deletion. This has nothing to do with evolution, obsession, creationism, or any of the other things you guys have been getting into in this thread. It is a more simple matter than that. Focus. Gregkochuconn 21:39, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- By your logic, everyone is "obsessed" with Conservapedia; those who deny such, according to you, are exemplifying symptoms. Simply ridiculous. GregG 11:20, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- GregG, now I am really beginning to worry. You are engaging in denialism about your obsession with me. Denialism is a classic symptom of atheists/evolutionists and individuals with Severe Conservapedia obsessive compulsive disorder. Do whatever it takes to break your cycle of obsession! Here are 15 ways to stop obsessing. Conservative 22:49, 24 November 2012 (EST)
Feast of Christ the King is today
Perhaps this would be good to mention on our main page. GregG 11:21, 25 November 2012 (EST)
- Hi Greg! It's almost time to begin our wait for the birth of Jesus Christ next week. Hope all is well. Because of His merciful love, Nate Nate 15:00, 25 November 2012 (EST)
You really should look into some way of installing questycaptcha. Also, any idea why they lately aren't spamming links to external sites, but rather spamming us with a wall of text, of no apparent advertisement value?brenden 22:09, 25 November 2012 (EST)
Possible page protection
Andy would you consider protecting Epistle to the Hebrews - currently it's only subject to redundant edit warring that is August removing the theory and MattyD parodying. This type of edit warring isn't good for the page.--IDuan 12:23, 26 November 2012 (EST)


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Shields makes Royals debut on Opening Day
CHICAGO (AP) As the Kansas City Royals added to their roster during the offseason, Billy Butler was glad the team embraced the task at hand instead of eyeing the future.
The Royals are in a win-now mode and believe they are poised to make a big jump in the AL Central starting with Monday's opener against the Chicago White Sox.
"There's no reason we shouldn't be better," Butler said Sunday. "How much better that is? I'm not a mind reader. I'm not a projector. … Our talent's higher than it's ever been since I've been here."
After going 72-90 for their 17th losing season in 18 years, they believe they're ready to become a winner.
"We're still young, we're still growing," manager Ned Yost said. "We're going to have ups and we're going to have downs, but I think we're in a much better position to be successful this year just because of the maturity factor."
While the Royals made some big moves, including a trade with Tampa Bay for ace James Shields, the White Sox largely kept their roster intact. Even so, they believe they have enough to challenge Detroit for the AL Central title.
They led the division for 117 days last season before a 2-10 slide in late September dropped them to 85-77, three games behind Detroit.
Chicago's biggest offseason moves were re-signing pitcher Jake Peavy before he could become a free agent and giving a five-year deal to Chris Sale – the opening-night starter – after a 17-win season. The White Sox also shuffled their front office, promoting Rick Hahn to general manager and Ken Williams to executive vice president, and let catcher A.J. Pierzynski sign with Texas.
As for splashy additions? They left that to the rest of the division.
"I'll drop the Florida Gulf Coast here," Sale said, referring to his alma mater's run to the regional semifinals in the NCAA tournament. "Nobody expected them to win anything. They didn't have a big bandwagon or fan base to start with. If you believe in yourselves, that can take you a long way. We all believe in ourselves and in each other. We're going to get this thing going – and get it going right away."
Where it'll end is difficult to predict.
"We have a solid team," Gordon Beckham said. "It's six months away from when we'll know if we're going to the playoffs or not. Do we have a chance? Yeah. But I think 30 teams have a chance."
Kansas City appears to have improved. The Royals re-signed Jeremy Guthrie after he dazzled in a short stint with them last season, and they acquired Ervin Santana from the Los Angeles Angels. The deal for Shields cost them top prospect Wil Myers.
"That's the first time we've ever made a move to help out the big league team," Butler said. "Usually, we're stocking the system. Our big league team's gotten to the point where we needed to make a move to help out the big league team because we have talent and we needed to trade some prospects for major league. It doesn't get more exciting than that."


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Ozzie Guillen hopes Detroit's potential division-clinching title will fuel hunger to White Sox
By Mark Gonzales
DETROIT - Manager Ozzie Guillen wishes Detroit would have clinched the American League Central before the White Sox faced the Tigers on Friday night.
But Guillen saw one benefit should the Tigers win the division in front of the Sox's players.
"I like that because if they clinch today having us in town, make sure our players get hungry and say 'why not us,' " Guillen said. "And we can retain that for next year.
Guillen folded his arm tightly and scoffed at another question about why he moved Jake Peavy's start from Wednesday to Friday night. The question came from a Detroit television reporter, and Guillen repeated earlier this week his decision was not to make it more difficult for the Tigers to clinch the division title.
"I'm going to make this clear to all those freaking people out there," Guillen said. "The only reason we pitched Peavy here is because that was his turn.
"I see a lot of comments about we bring the best guys to face
"I take care of my players. and that's the only reason we did it."
Guillen was more stunned by the International Olympic Committee eliminating Chicago from consideration to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
"I was shocked," Guillen said. "Chin up. I was shocked because I never thought
Reliever Octavio Dotel (sore neck) said he was available to pitch this weekend, but D.J. Carrasco (hamstring) said he has been unofficially been sidelined for the rest of the season.


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As a teenager, Bill Strickland started working evenings and weekends for Hitchens Cycle Shop, owned and operated by friends of his family, in 1958.
He didn't know at the time it would lead to decades of bicycle sales and service. He was working for pocket money for a shop that had been owned by a friend of his father's, Morris Hitchens Jr., who died the year before Strickland started working there.
During the years that followed, Strickland learned the bicycle trade from Hitchens' father, Morris Sr., who stepped in after his son died to help keep the shop going with Morris Jr.'s wife Florence.
But the man who would eventually call himself Dr. Bike almost wound up in a full-time career in the military. He was stopped when Florence Hitchens Duffett — who looked on Bill as a son — offered to sell him the shop in 1970. Strickland, with one young child already and wife Pat pregnant with their second, decided he'd rather stay in Newfoundland than head overseas with the army. Before then, he hadn't seriously considered working in the bike shop as a career.
"I'd thought about it, but never to the point of deciding it was what I'd want to do. We sat down and she told me what she wanted for the shop.
"She said, 'Bill, I don't want money up front. Pay me off so much a week, or so much a month, I don't care. I don't want a big pile of money,'" he said.
They decided on a price, and Strickland got a loan from his aunt and uncle, Irene and Harvey Hogarth, who provided him with similarly generous repayment terms.
"I said, 'Irene, I'm not going to be able to pay you back right away.' She said, 'Bill, I don't care. As long as you comes down once a month, once a week, whatever it be, what suits you.'"
Strickland elected for monthly payments, which Irene accepted, on one condition.
"She said, 'OK, once a month. I can't tell you how much to pay on it, because I don't know how much you're going to have. But don't come down and pay me money and you find out three days later the money you paid me is now affecting you buying some parts.'"
Strickland paid her off — "in record time," he said — and Bill's Cycle & Sport Shop, a decades-long fixture on Long's Hill was born. Strickland repaired bicycles and sharpened skates — Dr. Bike was also a hockey coach who treasures memories of an international hockey tournament he organized for a visiting Soviet Union team in 1992. He couldn't say no to cash-strapped children, or homeless adults — or charities, according to his wife and daughter.
"There wasn't one organization, whether it was Vera Perlin or the churches or this child with cancer or the RNC and the fire department — there wasn't one group that sent a donation letter that he didn't give something to," said Rhonda Strickland Reddy, Bill's daughter.
Strickland's commitment to his customers made for some long hours at the shop, said Reddy — and demand for the shop's services during biking season kept Strickland from doing much bicycling of his own.
"Mom used to complain because every single night his supper would get cold. By the time he'd get home, it wasn't fit to eat. That's the way it was back then," she said.
Not that there weren't benefits when your father owned a bicycle shop.
"He was all the time carting bikes back and forth for all the kids," said Reddy, adding the neighbourhood children would chase Strickland's van from the second he'd turn onto their street. "He wouldn't be landed in the driveway, and there'd be a youngster knocking on the door: 'This is broke' or 'Can you sharpen my skates?'"
When she got older, Reddy worked in the shop herself. "Bill always said his daughter Rhonda got a Bill Strickland Degree in Business," said Emeline, Bill's second wife. It was experience she parlayed into a job as the sales and banquet manager at The Wilds golf course in Salmonier River.
Bill's second wife, Emeline, teared up as she recounts a favourite story about Bill, something that happened when they were dating.
"We're driving home from downtown. We were down to one of the better restaurants downtown. And when we're driving home, it's pouring rain," she said. "He saw this man over to the right as he's looking out through the window and he stopped, dead in his tracks. And I said, 'Bill, you're hanging up traffic,' and he said, 'You and I are full. We've eaten. That poor man has nothing.' And he took $25 out of his purse and said (to the man) 'Here, go and get yourself something to eat.'"
Last fall, around his 65th birthday, when Bill and Emeline were planning a Florida vacation, he decided it was time to call it quits, and without his own young Bill Strickland to pass the shop onto, he elected to sell the business to Cychotic Bikes nearby on Lemarchant.
Despite being months into his retirement, Strickland's bike repairman's eye has stuck with him.
"When we're on the highway and somebody's riding a bike, he will make a comment instantly," said Emeline. "'The light's not working on the back. The tires are wrong for this time of year. The man is not wearing a helmet.' There's so many things, at a glance."
Emeline and Rhonda said the biking community will notice the loss this spring and summer as cycling season comes without Bill's shop there for repairs — and Strickland said the reverse is just as true.
"I'm going to miss it. I already do miss it."
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Subtractive microarray approach to assay autoaggregation. As described in the text, the effect of autoaggregation was determined using two separate conditions: "SDM +/− saliva" and "SDM + saliva +/− lysine." To determine whether a gene is either affected by aggregation or differences in medium composition, the responses from both conditions were compared. Only the gene responses that were similar between the two microarray experiments were considered to be due to autoaggregation, whereas gene responses that were specific to either of the two microarray datasets were attributed to factors unrelated to autoaggregation. Arrows underneath each microarray condition point to the total number of affected genes from each experiment. A comparison of the two datasets identified the shared gene responses, which were attributed to aggregation. The total number of genes within each geneset is listed.
Phase-contrast images of cells used for microarray. Phase-contrast images of the same cultures used for RNA extraction and microarray were taken just prior to RNA extraction. The total magnification is ×1,000. The medium compositions are as follows: SDM (A), SDM plus 25% saliva (B), and SDM plus 25% saliva plus 50 mM lysine (C).
Selected genes from the microarray data set
The overall response to aggregation is summarized in Table 3 . When grouping genes by basic functional categories, the greatest number of genes affected by cell-cell contact involves transport and/or substrate binding. Of these, a large portion comprises putative permeases of a variety of nutrients, as well as putative phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sugar phosphotransferase system components, which presumably bind certain sugars. Similarly, numerous putative amino acid and peptide transporters were induced as well. In addition to genes involved in nutrient acquisition, three separate putative Na + /H + antiporters were induced (FN0650, FN1422, and FN2077), as well as an operon predicted to encode an efflux pump used to confer resistance to multiple antimicrobials (FN0515 and FN0516). Given the large number of transporters affected, it is not surprising that many genes involved in energy and/or intermediate metabolism were affected as well. From these genes, a large portion (at least 10) can be attributed to the metabolism of ethanolamine. The genes required for this ability are all clustered and arranged into two to three large operons of " eut" genes (FN0078 to FN0090).
Summary of affected genes
Real-time RT-PCR confirmation of microarray results. Based upon the microarray data, it appeared that aggregation had a similar effect upon gene expression when measured under both assay conditions (+/− saliva and saliva +/− lysine). To further confirm these data, we analyzed the RNA used for the microarray studies via real-time RT-PCR. We tested a representative subset of the total microarray data set based upon chromosome location, putative gene function, and the magnitude of the gene expression change. As shown in Fig. 6 , we found that most of the genes were indeed affected quite similarly between the +/− saliva and saliva +/− lysine experiments. The exception was FN1900, which was one of only four genes found by microarray to have lower expression upon aggregation. From the real-time RT-PCR analysis, it appeared that this gene is lower expressed only in the saliva +/− lysine condition, which suggests that this effect is probably unrelated to aggregation. However, it should be noted that in the microarray data set, the decreased expression of FN1900 was much more apparent in the saliva +/− lysine samples (>4-fold) compared to the +/− saliva samples (<2-fold) (Table 2 ). Therefore, the trend in FN1900 gene expression was still consistent between the microarray and real-time PCR analyses. Overall, we found that the degree of differential gene expression in the real-time PCR analysis corresponded reasonably closely to the microarray values with the main exceptions being FN1988 and FN1989, which seemed to have been underestimated by microarray analysis. However, the trends of expression were again consistent, since these genes had the greatest increases in both the microarray data set and the real-time PCR experiments. In addition, there seemed to be little evidence that the microarray had overestimated gene expression changes. Thus, it appears that the microarray data are likely to be an accurate representation of the overall trends in gene expression and in many cases are also likely to be a close reflection of the gene expression changes as measured by real-time RT-PCR.
As both species possess individual genomes and utilize unique metabolic pathways, it is likely that as well as the metabolic production of H 2 O 2 by S. pneumoniae , there exists a myriad of biological factors that may impact the growth of one of the species. These factors include metabolic by-products produced by one of the species, which can be beneficial or detrimental to the other species. The metabolic by-products generated are in turn dependent on the environmental conditions, nutrient availability and physical conditions of the environment.
Recently, it has been observed that in a batch coculture model of S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae growth, S. pneumoniae was able to outcompete H. influenzae (A. Tikhomirova S.P. Kidd, unpublished observation, 2012). This effect was not dependent on the strains used and was not a result of H 2 O 2 -mediated competition as an spxB isogenic mutant of S. pneumoniae also inhibited H. influenzae planktonic and biofilm growth. Importantly, this growth inhibition effect was time dependent, where H. influenzae cell death occurred only after the entering of both species into stationary phase. This growth inhibition effect appeared to be a result of a pH change occurring in the S. pneumoniae growth after reaching stationary phase (A. Tikhomirova S.P. Kidd, unpublished data, 2013). Hence, it appears that by modifying the pH of the immediate environment during certain growth stages, S. pneumoniae can diminish the viability of H. influenzae . Hence, H. influenzae may be more adapted for survival and potentially biofilm formation in an environment where pH is elevated. This is supported by the finding that the type IV pili important for H. influenzae biofilm formation were expressed in a chemically defined medium at pH 8.5–9.0, but not 7.2 (Bakaletz et al. , 2005 ). The pH of the middle ear environment has not been extensively studied; however, it has been shown that the pH of middle ear effusions of OM patients with chronic secretory forms of OM extends to a basic pH that ranges from pH 7–9 (Nuutinen et al. , 1993 ; Wezyk Makowski, 2000 ). If S. pneumoniae lowers the pH during a multispecies infection, H. influenzae must have mechanisms to regulate the pH to maintain a neutral or basic pH of the environment. One pH regulatory mechanism in H. influenzae is urease. The H. influenzae urease is a nickel-dependent enzyme, which is involved in catalysing the hydrolysis of urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide (Mobley et al. , 1995 ). In other bacteria, the urease functions to raise the pH of the environment, allowing bacterial survival at low pH environments (Ferrero Lee, 1991 ; Stingl et al. , 2002 ). In a chinchilla model of OM, it has been demonstrated that the ureH , a homologue of a gene requires for expression of an active urease in Helicobacter pylori , was upregulated in the chinchilla middle ear (Mason et al. , 2003 ). Additionally, in human chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, antibodies against H. influenzae urease increased with exacerbations of the disease, indicating urease expression in chronic diseases of the respiratory tract (Murphy Brauer, 2011 ). The ure operon was also found to be more prevalent in H. influenzae isolates from OM or COPD than from isolates obtained from throats of healthy individuals (Zhang et al. , 2013 ). It would be likely that if S. pneumoniae growth dramatically reduces the pH of the environment (A. Tikhomirova S.P. Kidd, unpublished data), then for a coculture growth within the middle ear, acidification of the environment would be prevented or shifted to a more alkalizing state that would facilitate survival, type IV pili expression and a multispecies biofilm formation. Hence, in chronic forms of OM that involve multispecies infections, H. influenzae may require urease or other systems to maintain the pH at a neutral or slightly basic state, which is consistent with the clinical observations for the presence of urease.
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Fig. 2A–B are composite images of Cy3 and DAPI views of sections hybridized with a Fusobacterium -specific probe. Fusobacterium species is localized within the mucus layer of colorectal sections (A) 20X and 40X. Fusobacterium species is localized within the crypts of colorectal section (B) 20X and 40X. Fig. 2C (20X and 40X) is a positive control and shows sections stained with general bacteria probe (Eub 388). General bacteria, including most Eubacteria species, are localized to the mucus layer above the epithelium. White arrows point to bacteria either in mucus layer above the colonic epithelium or within the crypt.
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The purpose of this thread is to provide a place to discuss all things Ledo related.
To keep the discussion enjoyable for all Suisei no Gargantia fans, please follow the guidelines below and stay on-topic!
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|2013-04-24, 20:26
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No Ledo is not emotionless as you guys think. Ledo tried to save his comrades and let loose Chamber's limiters even if it could mean they run out of power.
Unlike those characters Ledo is not of a one track mind. He thinks things through and is careful in not harming the natives who are only in the defensive.
Pirates were a threat to civilians and he did what any soldier would've done. Neutralize the hostage takers before they can harm the civvies.
He even accepted the new Rules of Engagement when dealing with the Gargantia fleet.
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|2013-04-24, 21:03
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Agreed, right now it is just cultural differences. The people of Gargantia's value is closer to us, while Ledo's value and beliefs are more foreign. So to us Ledo might feel colder, but as Ledo get uses to more of the culture and the language we should get his true-self.
|2013-04-24, 22:24
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I wouldn't call Ledo emotionless, I don't think he would have volunteered to hold off the Hideauze for the rest of his squadron or bothered to try to help his trapped comrades during the first episode otherwise. He also shows visible anger at the Hideauze just before he gets sucked into the wormhole.
I think it would be more accurate to say Ledo is a product of the environment he was raised in, the fight against the Hideauze looks like it leaves very little time to do anything but practical day-to-day routines (we don't even know if the pilots get any other chances for shore leave besides the one shown to Ledo).
|2013-04-25, 02:17
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I thought he was emotionless in the promo material, and I was totally wrong when he's more than just that. His biggest weakness was the fact that he's unable to interact foreigners from what I've seen so far, so he needs to learn more about the civility behind Gargantia. His fighting moments are great, hope he'll protect the civilians even though he's forced to neutralize them whenever we're in a threatful situation.
|2013-04-25, 12:27
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^I wouldn't worry about Ledo doing anything rash, he's arguably one of the most sensible and level-headed male MCs I've ever seen. His difficulty in interacting with the people of Gargantia is pretty understandable considering that he's so far removed from the environment he is used to.
|2013-04-25, 15:00
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He's doing rather well given his situation and it's portrayed in a somewhat more realistic way than the norm, usually the MC would be either in a terrible state or fitting in as a local in a matter of minutes.
|2013-04-25, 19:59
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The soldier clones in ep 1 look Ledo's age. I wonder if Avalon only started mass cloning soldiers recently due to Hideauze attack. As population (of soldiers) increases tremendously compared to Avalon's carrying capacity, soldiers were only allowed limited citizenships.
This gives a very gloomy implication for ep 1, as the soldiers who died might have been Ledo's siblings, while his colonel might be his parent (or the DNA source).
|2013-04-26, 21:19
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If think Ledo will gain a rudimentary ability to speak the Gargantians' language. He's already learned to say "Thank you". He'll probably learn enough to get by on a daily basis. But complicated discussions would still be translated by Chamber.
|2013-04-27, 00:40
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I love it when he freaks out when girls try to feed him dead things.
In 16 years of his life all that he has eaten are MREs. I take it Avalon has real food but much like Macross Frontier episode 1 real meat would be a luxury.
Unless the Galactic Human Alliance turned vegetarian.
|2013-05-06, 18:37
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Location: Northeast USA
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Thus Raviel has it right that Ledo's behaviors and expectations were shaped by the society that he's accustomed to (as are we all). Ledo's society values efficiency and is purpose-driven, and hence Ledo was initially operating from that standpoint.
As of episode 5 I'd say that Ledo is showing remarkable flexibility and open-mindedness with how he's accepting of the operations and expectations of the society on the Gargantia. Even though his society is clearly superior (at least from a technological standpoint) he isn't attempting to dictate how the people of Gargantia should be living or what they should be doing. Open-minded indeed.
I feel that there's a fairly predictable end point coming, though. Ledo will acclimate and then fit in to Gargantian society, and then will face difficulty re-integrating with the Galactic Alliance. The theme will probably be along the lines of how the Galactic Alliance lost what it "truly meant to be human," or some such thing... we'll see.
Otherwise, this is a very interesting premise, and Ledo is a very interesting character. You have to wonder if such differences in society can and will develop if and when humans colonize other planets and space.
|2013-05-07, 22:28
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At no point was power mentioned as an issue, the two concepts used were "burning out" and "preserving unit functionality".
|2013-05-16, 14:27
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Why don't they just make him the teacher? He seems to pick up language fast.
He's a genetically engineered, super soldier from outer space. He's probably a peak human specimen with a 200 IQ. He's average for his kind but a genius for the primitives.
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Admission is $15 general, $8 students/seniors.
Chirgilchin, a group of
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