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Errea Elliot Individual Kit Deal – Red/White
These amazing new offers from Live4soccer feature an Errea Elliot kit in an individual shirt and short deal set. The kit deals enable Live4soccer to offer you the best price on the kits themselves while also adding printed numbers.
Available in red/white, the Errea Elliot Jersey is a transfer printed shirt with set-in sleeves that uses a classic vertical stripe graphic in its design.
The Elliot Jersey is made from 100% polyester and has a crew neck with an internal elastic neck tape. Features cuffs and hem on bottom for a snug fit. Available in 15 varying colour combinations.
Step One - Select your Kit Deal
- Select a size option from the drop-down menu above. If you need a mixture of sizes please select the 'Mixed Size' option and we will contact you to confirm sizes.
- If you require additional kits please Click Here to visit the Individual Kit Deals section of the website.
- Remember to add socks and goalie kits to the basket if required.
Step Two - Personalise your Kit Deal
- If you require personalisation (including club badge, sponsors logos, names or initials) please visit the Personalisation section of our website or Click Here .
- Email any relevant artwork (logos) to email@example.com and remember to include your sales order number.
Step Three - Confirm your Order
- Once we receive your order we will contact you within 24 hours to confirm your order details.
- At this stage you can select specific sizes or colour combinations to suit you. You can also specify numbers or initials on particular shirt sizes etc.
- You will receive a Customisation Form that allows you to confirm all your personalisation requirements.
- Once you have discussed your order with one of our team and completed the Customisation Form we will begin your order.
Still not sure how to place your order? No problem, contact our experienced sales team on the telephone number below for friendly expert advice.
Here at live4soccer we take our relationship with the customer very seriously. Once you place your order you should receive an order acknowledgment (via email) confirming that we have received and are processing it. If there is a problem with your order, for example an item is out of stock, we will do our best to contact you to keep you informed and ask how you would like to proceed.
Does Live4soccer Carry Stock?
YES - we are different from most other internet shops becuase we are a 'bricks and mortar' business with warehousing facilities in excess of 15,000sq ft. This allows us to deliver a prompt and efficient service to you, our customer. Please note that we do not hold stock of branded teamwear products including Nike, Mitre, Errea, Stanno and Prostar football kits. It is common practise within this industry to ship football teamwear products from the manufacturer once we receive your order.
You are always welcome to contact us if you have a quiery regarding leadtimes. We do understand the importance of meeting delivery expectations.
When Should I Expect My Order?
Stock Items
All stock items sold via this website are dispatched using an express courier service to speed up the delivery process and ensure you have your order in good time for your next training session.
We stock items in the following sections of the website:-
Training Equipment
Football Accessories
Storage Equipment
Non Stock Items
Non stock items consist of teamwear products. You should allow the following leadtimes for branded teamwear products:-
Mitre Teamwear - 1-2 days if in stock at Mitre warehouse
Prostar Teamwear - 1-2 days if in stock at Prostar warehouse
Nike Teamwear - 4-5 days if in stock at Nike warehouse
Errea Teamwear - 4-5 days if in stock at Errea warehouse
Stanno Teamwear - 4-5 days if in stock at Stanno warehouse
Out of Stock Items
There are occasions, particluarly during the busy summer months, when products can be out of stock either in our warehouse and/or with the supplier. On these rare occasions we will always do our best to contact you as soon as is practicable to keep you informed and ask you how you would like to proceed with your order. We will normally try to offer a substitute product when items are out of stock.
Printing and Embroidery
Personalising a garment takes time. Whether it is one garment from our Live4soccer Clubshop or a complete football kit you should always allow 2-3 weeks for delivery from placing the original order. Once you place an order that requires personalisation we will always contact you to confirm your requirments.
What Should I Do If I Have a Question About My Order?
It's simple - just get in touch. Most of our staff either play football, coach football or are involved in football so we do understand the importance of getting an order delivered on time. Our staff will always give an honest answer when it comes to leadtimes.
If you have any specific requirements for your delivery then please feel free to contact our sales team on 0845 603 6225 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Alternatively, you can write to us at the following address:-
Customer Services
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While we will always strive to deliver a fanatstic product range and excellent customer service we do recognice there will be occassions where customers will need to return an item. Below is important information that you should consider before making your purchase.
How Do I Return An Item I have Purchased?
All goods returned to us must be sent back to us in their original packaging and tags. Please ensure that the goods and package sent back to us are safe and secure as the goods are your responsibility before they reach our warehouse. All goods will be inspected once they arrive at our warehouse. For all goods sent back to us ensure that you enclose a note with your order number and contact information so we can identify who it is from.
We do not offer a free returns service. If you are looking to return goods to us for an exchange or a refund, please send them back to us using a courier of your choice. We recommend that you send them back using a recorded delivery as we are not responsible for any items lost or delayed on their way back to us. Please note that we cannot accept a COD or any package marked 'bill recipient'.
For goods that have been sent to you in error or goods that have been deemed by us to be faulty we will refund any reasonable return carriage costs (up to £6) and we can send out the replacement to you free of charge. For goods that are returned to us for an exchange you will be charged an additional shipping charge before we can despatch the replacement to you.
Returns Address:
Customer Services
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This section applies to all returns regardless of the reason for the return, however, see below sections relating to specific returns.
Can I Return An Item That Has Been Personalised?
Once an item has been personalised (or the process of personalisation has started) it cannot be exchanged or returned. Please ensure that when you are putting through an order with personalisation, all details and sizes are correct. If you notice that there is an error on your order, please notify the customer service team as soon as possible. We will attempt to rectify the error but we cannot give any guarantees that it will be possible.
On receipt of any personalised goods, please check the personalisation is all correct. We can only accept returns on personalised items that have been personalised incorrectly by us or if there is a fault with the goods.
Can I Return An Item That I No Longer Want?
If an item is not suitable for your needs, you are welcome to return it back to us within 14 days of receiving it. Please send all goods back to us in their original packaging with their tags and in an unused condition. Once we have received the goods, we can offer a replacement or a refund. Please note that to send out a replacement item for goods that you no longer require, we would have to take an additional shipping cost before we can despatch the replacement. We will also be unable to refund any return shipping costs for goods that are no longer required.
Can I Return An Item That Is Faulty?
If you believe that an item you have received is faulty, you are welcome to send it back to us. Once we have received it we will arrange for it to be tested. If it is deemed to be faulty, we can either replace or refund the item plus any reasonable return carriage costs (up to £6). Please ensure that the goods sent back to us are secure as we are not responsible for any damages that happen during transit back to us. Before you send the goods back to us, please notify us via email or phone of what you believe the fault to be as it may be possible for us to identify the issue and walk you through how to fix it without having to send the goods back.
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So you've got Vector images on cpanel that arent loading, and want to know how to install ImageMagick on Cpanel? Stick around and read the quick and easy tutorial showing you how.
ImageMagick is an open sourced freeware platform that allows and enables users to read vector images. The software can also code / program over 210 image formats / file types. Some of them include: jpeg,, pdf, dpx, png, postscript, tiff and svg. The steps imagemagick fo through is rotating, distorting, shearing, resizing or even mirring images, gifs and svg's. You can apply Photoshop effects like lines, ellipses and bending curves.
Guidelines when working with Cpanel ImageMagick
When working with a large number of images, editing them one by one with an image editor such as Gimp or Photoshop can become too tedious, and here's where ImageMagick can be used to batch process all images in a folder using simple commands. While ImageMagick is an application for working with images, Imagick is a PHP extension to modify/create images through the ImageMagick API. To use ImageMagick with your web applications, Imagick also needs to be installed.
ImageMagick can also be incorporated into shell scripts, batch files, or other programs to automate image preparation for blogs/websites.
Here we show you a few ways to install ImageMagick and Imagick on your cPanel Server…
How to Install ImageMagick
Installation can be performed through the built-in cPanel scripts, YUM or manually.
Installation using Cpanel scripts (Ref – http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/05/install-imagemagick-and-imagick-on-cpanel-server/)
First check if it is already installed:
If not present, install ImageMagick:
The application should be installed in a few minutes since other packages required by Imagemagick are also installed. Once the installation is complete, the Imagemagick version that has been installed can be determined using:
You should see something like:
Version: ImageMagick 6.4.8 2009-05-11 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Installing Using YUM
(Ref – http://www.dreamcreative.net/how-tos/guides-server-maintenance/install-imagemagick-on-a-cpanel-server/)
Using YUM is an easy way to get a reasonably current version of ImageMagick installed on your cPanel server to be used by your web applications. This method has the added advantage of allowing ImageMagick to be updated easily through yum when new versions become available in CentOS repositories.
To install ImageMagick on a cPanel server using yum, enter:
yum -y install ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-c++-devel
All additional dependencies that are required will also be listed along with the version of ImageMagick that is about to be installed. When you are prompted to install, type Y and hit enter.
Manual Installation
A manual installation is required if you want to have the absolute latest version. Follow the steps below to manually install ImageMagick.
1) To download the latest version, login to your server via SSH as root and type:
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
2) Unpack the downloaded files
tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
3) Configure and compile the installation files:
cd ImageMagick-6.8.6-7 ./configure make
4) After ImageMagick has compiled without any errors, install it on your system:
make install
5) To quickly check if ImageMagick has installed and is running correctly, enter:
/usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif
6) For a more thorough check to see if ImageMagick has installed and is running correctly, run the command below to perform a full test on the installation. If everything has gone well, you should see an "all tests passed" message.
make check
To install Imagick (Ref – http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/05/install-imagemagick-and-imagick-on-cpanel-server/)
Go to WHM -> Software -> Module Installers -> PHP Pecl (manage). In the box under "Install a PHP Pecl," type imagick and then click the "Install Now" button – easy!
To view details of the newly-installed Imagick and ImageMagick, restart Apache and go to your phpinfo page (see images below) (Ref- http://linuxsysadminblog.com/2009/05/install-imagemagick-and-imagick-on-cpanel-server/)
Test Your Installation
If the installation has proceeded smoothly, you should now have a running version of ImageMagick. A great way to test this is to install one of the many free PHP gallery applications, such as Gallery 3, Coppermine, and configure the application to use. ImageMagick. These applications should enable this feature with no errors and the gallery should function correctly on the front end if the installation has been successful.
Uninstalling is as simple as installing the application:
To uninstall ImageMagick:
To uninstall Imagick:
Go to WHM -> Software -> Module Installers -> PHP Pecl (manage). Click Uninstall for Imagick.
Once you have a clean install of ImageMagick and Imagick, you should be able to process large numbers of images with ease. We hoped you enjoyed this tutorial! If you are new to code in general, we recommend visiting out Coding 101 Series.

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Does football threaten rugby in Wales?
Welsh rugby fans are celebrating their win over England yesterday which gave them the six nations title. But is the game being increasingly challenged by football in the allegiance of youngsters? The national team still attracts fanantical support, but attendance at long-established clubs such as Llanelli and Pontypridd has been falling.
One of the strengths of rugby in Wales has always been that it cuts across class divisions. In England rugby union (as distinct from rugby league) has always been seen as something of a game for toffs, although efforts are being made to change that image.
The success of Swansea City in the Premiership and their victory in the league cup has appealed to a lot of youngsters and there are concerns that it is undermining the draw of rugby in schools. Next year Swansea City are likely to be joined in the top flight by Cardiff City, renewing their intense rivalry.
It's possible that one Welsh side, and perhaps even two, could be promoted to the Football League this season. Wrexham are currently second in the Blue Square Bet Premier and Newport County are fourth. Wrexham attracted a crowd of just under 4,000 for their game with Luton yesterday.
The Welsh Premier League, however, attracts poor crowds. The two biggest non-league sides are not there, of course, and this also applied to Merthyr Tydfil before it folded. The biggest attendance yesterday was for the game between The New Saints (once Total Network Systems) and Bangor, currently first and third respectively. 356 turned up: as the joke used to go, there are not many people walking in the streets of Total Network Systems. Dividing the league at this stage into a championship conference and a play-off conference doesn't seem to have done much to boost attendances.
Gaelic football in Ireland has feared being undermined by the appeal of football and there it forms part of a traditional Irish identity. Similarly, rugby is an important part of the distinct Welsh identity. Football is something of a globalising force, but as with all globalising forces, there are checks on their spread.


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Rethinking Hydrophilanthropy by Ned Breslin
The Guardian's newsroom on Water
Mapping water projects (Water for People)
Sustainability in the water sector
How do money and H20 go together?
What the EPA has to say about water
One of my favorite utilities ever!
What are we going to do after the MDGs expire in 2015?
Food-water-energy nexus video
Water footprints website
A look at hydrofracking
A wikipedia type approach to water projects
How is money in the WASH sector spent?
An interesting look at "water coverage"
Foundation Center's page on the global water crisis


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Changes in #circadianclock can alter the body's microbes and response to diet https://t.co/FM2tAvE56e @BCMHouston
— Medical Xpress (@medical_xpress) May 3, 2017
Animal Behavior
Birds reveal the evolutionary importance of love
Date: September 14, 2015
Source: PLOS
Summary: Humans are extremely choosy when it comes to mating, only settling down after a long screening process involving nervous flirtations, awkward dates, humiliating rejections and the occasional lucky strike. But evolution is an unforgiving force — isn't this choosiness rather a costly waste of time and energy when we should just be 'going forth and multiplying?' What, if anything, is the evolutionary point of it all? A new study may have the answer.
Doing a cost/benefit analysis of love is a challenging business, with many potential confounds, and — in the case of humans — some ethical limitations on doing experiments. A new study publishing on September 14th in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers, and Wolfgang Forstmeier from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, describes an elegant experiment designed to tease apart the consequences of mate choice.
The authors took advantage of the fact that the zebra finch shares many characteristics with humans, mating monogamously for life, and sharing the burden of parental care. Female finches choose mates in a way that is specific to the individual, and there is little consensus among females as to who the cutest male is.
Using a population of 160 birds, the authors set up a speed-dating session, leaving groups of 20 females to choose freely between 20 males. Once the birds had paired off, half of the couples were allowed to go off into a life of wedded bliss. For the other half, however, the authors intervened like overbearing Victorian parents, splitting up the happy pair, and forcibly pairing them with other broken-hearted individuals.
Bird couples, whether happy or somewhat disgruntled, were then left to breed in aviaries, and the authors assessed couples' behavior and the number and paternity of dead embryos, dead chicks and surviving offspring.
Strikingly, the final number of surviving chicks was 37% higher for individuals in chosen pairs than those in non-chosen pairs. The nests of non-chosen pairs had almost three times as many unfertilized eggs as the chosen ones, a greater number of eggs were either buried or lost, and markedly more chicks died after hatching. Most deaths occurred within the chicks' first 48 hours, a critical period for parental care during which non-chosen fathers were markedly less diligent in their nest-care duties.
Watching the couples' courtship showed some noticeable differences — although non-chosen males paid the same amount of attention to their mates as the chosen ones did, the non-chosen females were far less receptive to their advances, and tended to copulate less often. An analysis of harmonious behavior revealed that non-chosen couples were generally significantly less lovey-dovey than the chosen ones. There was also a higher level of infidelity in birds from non-chosen pairs — interestingly the straying of male birds increased as time went by while females roamed less.
Overall the authors conclude that birds vary rather idiosyncratically in their tastes, and choose mates on the basis that they find them stimulating in some way that isn't necessarily obvious to an outside observer. This stimulation "turns on" the females to increase the likelihood of successful copulation and encourages paternal commitment for the time needed to raise young; together these maximize the couple's likelihood of perpetuating their genes through their thriving offspring.
Sounds familiar? This is presumably what the human dating game is about, the need perhaps exacerbated by the extended phase of dependence during which our children need parental support. Indeed, these authors' results are consistent with some studies on the differences between love-based and arranged marriages in human society.
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The above post is reprinted from materials provided by PLOS. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal Reference:
- Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers, Wolfgang Forstmeier. Fitness Benefits of Mate Choice for Compatibility in a Socially Monogamous Species. PLOS Biology, 2015; 13 (9): e1002248 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002248
Gene Silencing Spurs Fountain of Youth in Mouse Brain
Feb. 7, 2013 — Cognitive decline in old age is linked to decreasing production of new neurons. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have discovered in mice that significantly more neurons are generated in the brains of older animals if a signaling molecule called Dickkopf-1 is turned off. In tests for spatial orientation and memory, mice in advanced adult age whose Dickkopf gene had been silenced reached an equal mental performance as young animals.
The hippocampus — a structure of the brain whose shape resembles that of a seahorse — is also called the "gateway" to memory. This is where information is stored and retrieved. Its performance relies on new neurons being continually formed in the hippocampus over the entire lifetime. "However, in old age, production of new neurons dramatically decreases. This is considered to be among the causes of declining memory and learning ability," Prof. Dr. Ana Martin-Villalba, a neuroscientist, explains.
Martin-Villalba, who heads a research department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and her team are trying to find the molecular causes for this decrease in new neuron production (neurogenesis). Neural stem cells in the hippocampus are responsible for continuous supply of new neurons. Specific molecules in the immediate environment of these stem cells determine their fate: They may remain dormant, renew themselves, or differentiate into one of two types of specialized brain cells, astrocytes or neurons. One of these factors is the Wnt signaling molecule, which promotes the formation of young neurons. However, its molecular counterpart, called Dickkopf-1, can prevent this.
"We find considerably more Dickkopf-1 protein in the brains of older mice than in those of young animals. We therefore suspected this signaling molecule to be responsible for the fact that hardly any young neurons are generated any more in old age." The scientists tested their assumption in mice whose Dickkopf-1 gene is permanently silenced. Professor Christof Niehrs had developed these animals at DKFZ. The term "Dickkopf" (from German "dick" = thick, "Kopf" = head) also goes back to Niehrs, who had found in 1998 that this signaling molecule regulates head development during embryogenesis.
Martin-Villalba's team discovered that stem cells in the hippocampus of Dickkopf knockout mice renew themselves more often and generate significantly more young neurons. The difference was particularly obvious in two-year old mice: In the knockout mice of this age, the researchers counted 80 percent more young neurons than in control animals of the same age. Moreover, the newly formed cells in the adult Dickkopf-1 mutant mice matured into potent neurons with multiple branches. In contrast, neurons in control animals of the same age were found to be more rudimentary already.
Blocking Dickkopf improves spatial orientation and memory
Several years ago, Ana Martin-Villalba had shown that mice lose their spatial orientation when neurogenesis in the hippocampus is blocked. Now, is it possible that the young neurons in Dickkopf-deficient mice improve the animals' cognitive performance? The DKFZ researchers used standardized tests to study how the mice orient themselves in a maze. While in the control animals, the younger ones (3 months) performed much better in orienting themselves than the older ones (18 months), the Dickkopf-1-deficient mice showed no age-related decline in spatial orientation capabilities. Older Dickkopf-1 mutant mice also outperformed normal animals in tests determining spatial memory.
"Our result proves that Dickkopf-1 promotes age-related decline of specific cognitive abilities," says Ana Martin-Villalba. "Although we had expected silencing of Dickkopf-1 to improve spatial orientation and memory of adult mice, we were surprised and impressed that animals in advanced adult age actually reach the performance levels of young animals."
These results give rise to the question whether the function of Dickkopf-1 may be turned off using drugs. Antibodies blocking the Dickkopf protein are already being tested in clinical trials for treating a completely different condition. "It is fascinating to speculate that such a substance may also slow down age-related cognitive decline. But this is still a dream of the future, since we have only just started first experiments in mice to explore this question."
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The above story is reprinted from materials provided byHelmholtz Association of German Research Centres, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Désirée R.M. Seib, Nina S. Corsini, Kristina Ellwanger, Christian Plaas, Alvaro Mateos, Claudia Pitzer, Christof Niehrs, Tansu Celikel, Ana Martin-Villalba. Loss of Dickkopf-1 Restores Neurogenesis in Old Age and Counteracts Cognitive Decline. Cell Stem Cell, 2013; 12 (2): 204 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.11.010
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (2013, February 7). Gene silencing spurs fountain of youth in mouse brain.ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 10, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130207150911.htm
Animal Magnetism: First Evidence That Magnetism Helps Salmon Find Home
Feb. 7, 2013 — When migrating, sockeye salmon typically swim up to 4,000 miles into the ocean and then, years later, navigate back to the upstream reaches of the rivers in which they were born to spawn their young. Scientists, the fishing community and lay people have long wondered how salmon find their way to their home rivers over such epic distances.
How do they do that?
A new study, published in this week's issue of Current Biology and partly funded by the National Science Foundation, suggests that salmon find their home rivers by sensing the rivers' unique magnetic signature.
As part of the study, the research team used data from more than 56 years of catches in salmon fisheries to identify the routes that salmon had taken from their most northerly destinations, which were probably near Alaska or the Aleutian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the mouth of their home river–the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. This data was compared to the intensity of Earth's magnetic field at pivotal locations in the salmon's migratory route.
Earth has a magnetic field that weakens with proximity to the equator and distance from the poles and gradually changes on a yearly basis. Therefore, the intensity of the magnetosphere in any particular location is unique and differs slightly from year to year.
Because Vancouver Island is located directly in front of the Fraser River's mouth, it blocks direct access to the river's mouth from the Pacific Ocean. However, salmon may slip behind Vancouver Island and reach the river's mouth from the north via the Queen Charlotte Strait or from the south via the Juan De Fuca Strait.
Results from this study showed that the intensity of the magnetic field largely predicted which route the salmon used to detour around Vancouver Island; in any given year, the salmon were more likely to take whichever route had a magnetic signature that most closely matched that of the Fraser River years before, when the salmon initially swam from the river into the Pacific Ocean.
"These results are consistent with the idea that juvenile salmon imprint on (i.e. learn and remember) the magnetic signature of their home river, and then seek that same magnetic signature during their spawning migration," said Nathan Putman, a post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University and the lead author of the study.
Important results
It has long been known that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to generally orient themselves and to follow a straight course. However, scientists have never before documented an animal's ability to "learn" the magnetic field rather than to simply inherit information about it or to use the magnetic field to find a specific location.
This study provides the first empirical evidence of magnetic imprinting in animals and represents the discovery of a major new phenomenon in behavioral biology.
In addition, this study suggests that it would be possible to forecast salmon movements using geomagnetic models–a development that has important implications for fisheries management.
Get out the map
Putman says scientists don't know exactly how early and how often salmon check Earth's magnetic field in order to identify their geographic locations during their trip back home. "But," he says, "for the salmon to be able to go from some location out in the middle of the Pacific 4,000 miles away, they need to make a correct migratory choice early–and they need to know which direction to start going in. For that, they would presumably use the magnetic field."
Putman continues, "As the salmon travel that route, ocean currents and other forces might blow them off course. So they would probably need to check their magnetic position several times during this migration to stay on track. Once they get close to the coastline, they would need to hone in on their target, and so would presumably check in more continuously during this stage of their migration."
Putman says that once the salmon reach their home river, they probably use their sense of smell to find the particular tributary in which they were born. However, over long distances, magnetism would be a more useful cue to salmon than odors because magnetism–unlike odors–can be detected across thousands of miles of open ocean.
A long, strange trip
Like other Pacific Salmon, sockeye salmon spawn in the gravel beds of rivers and streams. After the newly hatched salmon emerge from these beds, they spend one to three years in fresh water, and then they migrate downstream to the ocean.
Next, the salmon travel thousands of miles from their home river to forage in the North Pacific for about two more years, and then, as well-fed adults, they migrate back to the same gravel beds in which they were born.
When migrating, salmon must transition from fresh water to sea water, and then back again. During each transition, the salmon undergo a metamorphosis that Putman says is almost as dramatic as the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Each such salmon metamorphosis involves a replacement of gill tissues that enables the fish to maintain the correct salt balance in its environment: the salmon retains salt when in fresh water and pumps out excess salt when in salt water.
Salmon usually undertake their taxing, round-trip migration, which may total up to 8,000 miles, only once in their lives; they typically die soon after spawning.
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The above story is reprinted from materials provided byNational Science Foundation.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Nathan F. Putman, Kenneth J. Lohmann, Emily M. Putman, Thomas P. Quinn, A. Peter Klimley, David L.G. Noakes.Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting as a Homing Mechanism in Pacific Salmon. Current Biology, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.12.041
National Science Foundation (2013, February 7). Animal magnetism: First evidence that magnetism helps salmon find home.ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 10, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130207131713.htm
Sensing the Light, but Not to See: Primitive Organism's Photosensitive Cells May Be Ancestral to 'Circadian Receptors' in Mammalian Retina
Feb. 6, 2013 — Among the animals that are appealing "cover models" for scientific journals, lancelets don't spring readily to mind. Slender, limbless, primitive blobs that look pretty much the same end to end, lancelets "are extremely boring. I wouldn't recommend them for a home aquarium," says Enrico Nasi, adjunct senior scientist in the MBL's Cellular Dynamics Program. Yet Nasi and his collaborators managed to land a lancelet on the cover of The Journal of Neuroscience last December. These simple chordates, they discovered, offer insight into our own biological clocks.
The head of the marine invertebrate amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae), magnified 15 times. Amphioxus are the most ancient of the chordates (animals whose features include a nerve cord), according to molecular analysis. They are important to the study of the origin of vertebrates. (Credit: Photo by Maria del Pilar Gomez)
Nasi and his wife, MBL adjunct scientist Maria del Pilar Gomez, are interested in photo-transduction, the conversion of light by light-sensitive cells into electrical signals that are sent to the brain. The lancelet, also called amphioxus, doesn't have eyes or a true brain. But what it does have in surprising abundance is melanopsin, a photopigment that is also produced by the third class of light-sensitive cells in the mammalian retina, besides the rods and cones. This third class of cells, called "intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells" (ipRGCs), were discovered in 2002 by Brown University's David Berson and colleagues. Now sometimes called "circadian receptors," they are involved in non-visual, light-dependent functions, such as adjustment of the animal's circadian rhythms.
"It seemed like colossal overkill that amphioxus have melanopsin-producing cells," Nasi says. "These animals do nothing. If you switch on a light, they dance and float to the top of the tank, and then they drop back down to the bottom. That's it for the day." But that mystery aside, Gomez and Nasi realized that studying amphioxus could help reveal the evolutionary history of the circadian receptors.
As so it has. In 2009, Gomez and Nasi isolated the animal's melanopsin-producing cells and described how they transduce light. In their recent paper, they tackled the puzzling question of why the light response of these amphioxus cells is several orders of magnitude higher than that of their more sophisticated, presumed descendents, the ipRGCs. (In mammals, the ipRGCs relay information on light and dark to the biological clock in the hypothalamus, where it is crucial for the regulation of circadian rhythms and associated control of hormonal secretion.)
By detailing how the large light response occurs in the amphioxus cells, Gomez and Nasi could relate their observations to the functional changes that may have occurred as the circadian receptors evolved and "eventually tailored their performance to the requirements of a reporter of day and night, rather than to a light sensor meant to mediate spatial vision." The light-sensing cells of amphioxus, they discovered, may be the "missing link" between the visual cells of invertebrates and the circadian receptors in our own eyes.
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- C. Ferrer, G. Malagon, M. d. P. Gomez, E. Nasi.Dissecting the Determinants of Light Sensitivity in Amphioxus Microvillar Photoreceptors: Possible Evolutionary Implications for Melanopsin Signaling.Journal of Neuroscience, 2012; 32 (50): 17977 DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3069-12.2012
- M. del Pilar Gomez, J. M. Angueyra, E. Nasi. Light-transduction in melanopsin-expressing photoreceptors of Amphioxus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009; 106 (22): 9081 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0900708106
Marine Biological Laboratory (2013, February 6). Sensing the light, but not to see: Primitive organism's photosensitive cells may be ancestral to 'circadian receptors' in mammalian retina. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 7, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130206190630.htm
Grooming Helps Insects Keep Their Senses Sharpened
Feb. 4, 2013 — Like a self-absorbed teenager, insects spend a lot of time grooming. In a study that delves into the mechanisms behind this common function, North Carolina State University researchers show that insect grooming — specifically, antennal cleaning — removes both environmental pollutants and chemicals produced by the insects themselves.
The findings, published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that grooming helps insects maintain acute olfactory senses that are responsible for a host of functions, including finding food, sensing danger and even locating a suitable mate.
The findings could also explain why certain types of insecticides work more effectively than others.
Insects groom themselves incessantly, so NC State entomologist Coby Schal and post-doctoral researchers Katalin Boroczky and Ayako Wada-Katsumata wanted to explore the functions of this behavior.
They devised a simple set of experiments to figure out what sort of material insects were cleaning off their antennae, where this material was coming from, and the differences between how groomed and ungroomed antennae functioned. Schal likened the straightforwardness of some of the experiments to something you'd see in a well-equipped high-school science lab.
The researchers compared cleaned antennae of American cockroaches with antennae that were experimentally prevented from being cleaned. They found that grooming cleaned microscopic pores on the antennae that serve as conduits through which chemicals travel to reach sensory receptors for olfaction. Cockroaches clean their antennae by using forelegs to place the antennae in their mouths; they then methodically clean every segment of the antenna from base to tip.
The researchers found that both volatile and non-volatile chemicals accumulated on the ungroomed antennae of cockroaches, but most surprising was the accumulation of a great deal of cuticular hydrocarbons — fatty, candlewax-like substances secreted by the roaches to protect them against water loss.
"It is intuitive that insects remove foreign substances from their antennae, but it's not necessarily intuitive that they groom to remove their 'own' substances," Schal says.
The researchers also tested groomed and ungroomed cockroach antennae to gauge how well roaches picked up the scent of a known sex pheromone compound, as well as other odorants. Clean antennae responded to these signals much more readily than ungroomed antennae.
The researchers then put carpenter ants, houseflies and German cockroaches to many of the same tests. Although they groom a bit differently than cockroaches — flies and ants seem to rub their legs over their antennae to remove particulates, with ants then ingesting the material off their legs — the tests showed that these insects also accumulated more cuticular hydrocarbons when antennae went ungroomed.
"The evidence is strong: Grooming is necessary to keep these foreign and native substances at a particular level," Schal says. "Leaving antennae dirty essentially blinds insects to their environment."
Schal adds that there could be pest-control implications to the findings. An insecticide mist or dust that settles on a cockroach's antennae, for instance, should be ingested by the roach rather quickly due to constant grooming. That method of insecticide delivery could be more effective than relying on residual insecticides to penetrate the thick cuticle, for instance.
Finally, Schal says the study can also be used as a caution to other researchers who use insects in experiments. Gluing shut an insect's mouth to prevent it from feeding, for example, also prevents the insect from grooming its antennae. Experimental results could be skewed as a result of this sensory deprivation, Schal suggests.
Dale Batchelor, a researcher in NC State's Analytical Instrumentation Facility, co-authored the paper, as did Marianna Zhukovskaya at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The research was supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the Blanton J. Whitmire Endowment at NC State.
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- Katalin Böröczky, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Dale Batchelor, Marianna Zhukovskaya, and Coby Schal.Insects groom their antennae to enhance olfactory acuity. PNAS, February 4, 2013 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1212466110
North Carolina State University (2013, February 4). Grooming helps insects keep their senses sharpened. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 5, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130204153603.htm
This Is What a Fish Thought Looks Like
Jan. 31, 2013 — For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric drug discovery, according to authors of the study, appearing online on January 31 in Current Biology.
"Our work is the first to show brain activities in real time in an intact animal during that animal's natural behavior," said Koichi Kawakami of Japan's National Institute of Genetics. "We can make the invisible visible; that's what is most important."
The technical breakthrough included the development of a very sensitive fluorescent probe to detect neuronal activity. Kawakami, along with Junichi Nakai of Saitama University and their colleagues, also devised a genetic method for inserting that probe right into the neurons of interest. The two-part approach allowed the researchers to detect neuronal activity at single-cell resolution in the zebrafish brain.
Akira Muto, the study's lead author from the Kawakami lab, used the new tool to map what happens when a zebrafish sees something good to eat, in this case a swimming paramecium. The researchers were also able to correlate brain activity with that prey's capture.
The new tool now makes it possible to ask which brain circuits are involved in complex behaviors, from perception to movement to decision making, the researchers say, noting that the basic design and function of a zebrafish brain is very much like our own.
"In the future, we can interpret an animal's behavior, including learning and memory, fear, joy, or anger, based on the activity of particular combinations of neurons," Kawakami said.
By monitoring neuronal activity in the zebrafish brain, Kawakami thinks that researchers may also be able to screen chemicals that affect neuronal activity in the brain. "This has the potential to shorten the long processes for the development of new psychiatric medications," he said.
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- Akira Muto, Masamichi Ohkura, Gembu Abe, Junichi Nakai, Koichi Kawakami. Real-Time Visualization of Neuronal Activity during Perception. Current Biology, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.12.040
Cell Press (2013, January 31). This is what a fish thought looks like. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 2, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130131144419.htm
Leading by the Nose: Star-Nosed Mole Reveals How Mammals Perceive Touch, Pain
Jan. 30, 2013 — The most sensitive patch of mammalian skin known to us isn't human but on the star-shaped tip of the star-nosed mole's snout. Researchers studying this organ have found that the star has a higher proportion of touch-sensitive nerve endings than pain receptors, according to a study published Jan. 30 in the open access journalPLOS ONE by Diana Bautista and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbilt University.
Touch and pain are closely intertwined sensations, but very little is known about how these sensations are detected in our cells. In this study, the authors turned to a unique species for answers: the star-nosed mole. In addition to its distinction as the fastest-eating mammal known, the star-nosed mole also possesses one of the most sensitive tactile organs known in the animal kingdom. The star on its nose has the highest density of nerve endings known in any mammalian skin, with over 100,000 fibers in a patch of skin about 1 cm. in diameter. The authors found these nerve endings significantly enriched in neurons sensitive to light touch, with a lower proportion of neurons that detect and respond to pain.
The novel touch and pain receptors they identified in the star-nosed mole were also detected in sensory receptors in mice and humans, suggesting that these receptors are likely to be more common across other mammals as well. According to the authors, their results highlight how examining diverse and highly specialized species can reveal fundamental aspects of biology common across different animals.
Lead author on the study Bautista says, "By studying the star-nosed mole we identified candidate genes that may mediate touch and pain. These genes represent new potential targets for the development of much needed drugs and therapies to treat chronic pain."
The authors are supported by a U.S. National Institutes of Health Innovator Award DOD007123A, the Pew Scholars Program, and the McKnight Scholars Fund (to DMB) and NSF grant 0844743 (to KCC).
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- Kristin A. Gerhold, Maurizio Pellegrino, Makoto Tsunozaki, Takeshi Morita, Duncan B. Leitch, Pamela R. Tsuruda, Rachel B. Brem, Kenneth C. Catania, Diana M. Bautista.The Star-Nosed Mole Reveals Clues to the Molecular Basis of Mammalian Touch. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (1): e55001 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055001
Public Library of Science (2013, January 30). Leading by the nose: Star-nosed mole reveals how mammals perceive touch, pain.ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 31, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130130184156.htm
How Brain Cells Shape Temperature Preferences
Jan. 29, 2013 — While the wooly musk ox may like it cold, fruit flies definitely do not. They like it hot, or at least warm. In fact, their preferred optimum temperature is very similar to that of humans — 76 degrees F.
Scientists have known that a type of brain cell circuit helps regulate a variety of innate and learned behavior in animals, including their temperature preferences. What has been a mystery is whether or not this behavior stems from a specific set of neurons (brain cells) or overlapping sets.
Now, a new study from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) shows that a complex set of overlapping neuronal circuits work in concert to drive temperature preferences in the fruit fly Drosophila by affecting a single target, a heavy bundle of neurons within the fly brain known as the mushroom body. These nerve bundles, which get their name from their bulbous shape, play critical roles in learning and memory.
The study, published in the January 30, 2013 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that dopaminergic circuits — brain cells that synthesize dopamine, a common neurotransmitter — within the mushroom body do not encode a single signal, but rather perform a more complex computation of environmental conditions.
"We found that dopamine neurons process multiple inputs to generate multiple outputs — the same set of nerves process sensory information and reward-avoidance learning," said TSRI Assistant Professor Seth Tomchik. "This discovery helps lay the groundwork to better understand how information is processed in the brain. A similar set of neurons is involved in behavior preferences in humans — from basic rewards to more complex learning and memory."
Using imaging techniques that allow scientists to visualize neuron activity in real time, the study illuminated the response of dopaminergic neurons to changes in temperature. The behavioral roles were then examined by silencing various subsets of these neurons. Flies were tested using a temperature gradient plate; the flies moved from one place to another to express their temperature preferences.
As it turns out, genetic silencing of dopaminergic neurons innervating the mushroom body substantially reduces cold avoidance behavior. "If you give the fly a choice, it will pick San Diego weather every time," Tomchik said, "but if you shut down those nerves, they suddenly don't mind being in Minnesota."
The study also showed dopaminergic neurons respond to cooling with sudden a burst of activity at the onset of a drop in temperature, before settling down to a lower steady-state level. This initial burst of dopamine could function to increase neuronal plasticity — the ability to adapt — during periods of environmental change when the organism needs to acquire new associative memories or update previous associations with temperature changes.
The study, "Dopaminergic Neurons Encode a Distributed, Asymmetric Representation of Temperature in Drosophila," was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (grant number K99 MH092294).
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Scripps Research Institute (2013, January 29). How brain cells shape temperature preferences. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 31, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130129190251.htm
Primates, Too, Can Move in Unison
Jan. 28, 2013 — Japanese researchers show for the first time that primates modify their body movements to be in tune with others, just like humans do. Humans unconsciously modify their movements to be in synchrony with their peers. For example, we adapt our pace to walk in step or clap in unison at the end of a concert. This phenomenon is thought to reflect bonding and facilitate human interaction. Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute report that pairs of macaque monkeys also spontaneously coordinate their movements to reach synchrony.
This research opens the door to much-needed neurophysiological studies of spontaneous synchronization in monkeys, which could shed light into human behavioral dysfunctions such as those observed in patients with autism spectrum disorders, echopraxia and echolalia — where patients uncontrollably imitate others.
In the research, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, the team led by Naotaka Fujii developed an experimental set-up to test whether pairs of Japanese macaque monkeys synchronize a simple push-button movement.
Before the experiment, the monkeys were trained to push a button with one hand. In a first experiment the monkeys were paired and placed facing each other and the timing of their push-button movements was recorded. The same experiment was repeated but this time each monkey was shown videos of another monkey pushing a button at varying speeds. And in a last experiment the macaques were not allowed to either see or hear their video-partner.
The results show that the monkeys modified their movements — increased or decreased the speed of their push-button movement — to be in synchrony with their partner, both when the partner was real and on video. The speed of the button pressing movement changed to be in harmonic or sub-harmonic synchrony with the partners' speed. However, different pairs of monkeys synchronized differently and reached different speeds, and the monkeys synchronized their movements the most when they could both see and hear their partner.
The researchers note that this behavior cannot have been learnt by the monkeys during the experiment, as previous research has shown that it is extremely difficult for monkeys to learn intentional synchronization.
They add: "The reasons why the monkeys showed behavioral synchronization are not clear. It may be a vital aspect of other socially adaptive behavior, important for survival in the wild."
The study was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 'Neural creativity for communication' (22120522 and 24120720) of MEXT, Japan.
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Journal Reference:
- Yasuo Nagasaka, Zenas C. Chao, Naomi Hasegawa, Tomonori Notoya, Naotaka Fujii. Spontaneous synchronization of arm motion between Japanese macaques. Scientific Reports, 2013; 3 DOI:10.1038/srep01151
RIKEN (2013, January 28). Primates, too, can move in unison. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 30, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130128081952.htm


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Timothy Mitchell, MD, talks about the history of marijuana, legalization, its targets and how it is consumed. He also discusses pharmacodynamics in pregnancy and outcomes, neurodevelopmental outcomes, medical societies views and how to counsel patients.
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Dr. Mitchell is an obstetrician gynecologist and a fellow in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Washington. His interests include infectious disease and preterm labor, as well as genetic disorders and pregnancy.
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If you have a budding artist and are looking for a great activity to do outdoors, check out this amazing acrylic paint stand DIY posted by Meri Cherry. Of course, it could also be used inside, but using it outside adds an extra element of fun because you can incorporate water play into the activity. While Meri Cherry didn't actually make this acrylic paint stand, she does post directions and tips to help you make your own.
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Dorothy Spence
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Dorothy is a visionary business leader, author, connector and spiritual practitioner. She has developed the energy and curriculum of the Purpose Led Business School from a combination of everything she's learned in her time as a corporate and entrepreneurial leader, her extensive executive and business coaching experience, and her deep dive study into the spiritual practice of yoga.
As great leaders do, Dorothy has brought together a network of trusted collaborators with skill sets that compliment her own. She knows that this will ensure that the Purpose Led Business School programs are delivered according to the intention with which they were exactingly and lovingly created, which is to shift the consciousness of business from fear to love. She also knows that this will also support the creation of an ecosystem of purpose driven businesses. Dorothy believes will help and heal the world.
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Kath leads all things operational for the Purpose Led Business School programs. She excitedly brings her considerable entrepreneurial and corporate experience as well as her passion for all things small to medium business to this work.
The Purpose Led Business Programs are the perfect space for Kath to offer her enthusiasm for and sense of wonder about life as well as her aptitudes for business development, operations strategy and execution, and management of human resources and dynamics.
Throughout her career she has seen that effective emotional and technical support of entrepreneurs allows them to give their best not only to their businesses, but also to all other aspects of their life. In turn, these magic people can transform the economic reality around them. The yogi in Kath also feels that the Purpose Led Business Programs are the effective melding of two key factors in creating true prosperity - business done well and the best of human experience and practice.
She is here to innovate, create and support the team, program participants, and all other stakeholders to help ensure that everyone has a productive and meaningful experience.
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Woohoo! Fujifilm just keeps on giving and giving, by improving products we have already bought. And believe it or not, it's happening again. Fujifilm just released firmware version 4.0 for the X-T2, and that means they're giving us several goodies from the X-H1 goodies. And as usual, the upgrade is free!
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Before going home this week, the Senate and House will yet get to vote on a "clean-up" insurance bill that will include the contents of HB 2292, introduced last year by Rep. Pete DeGraaf (R-Mulvane). [UPDATE, MAY 13: the bill passed the Senate 28-10 and the House 86-30]
HB 2292 requires health insurance policies to remove abortion from automatic coverage, relegating it to individually-purchased riders. This only makes sense; pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not true healthcare.
Blue Cross of Kansas City implemented this policy decades ago in eastern Kansas, because their Missouri clients across the stateline had such a limit.
HB 2292 would only permit standard health insurance coverage for abortions done to save the life of the mother– although abortions for that reason have not occurred in Kansas since mandatory reporting began in 1998.
HB 2292 would also prevent any future 'Obamacare' state health exchanges from including abortion coverage.
Between 1978 and 1983, 6 states enacted laws only permitting 'life-of-the-mother' abortion coverage in private company health insurance: Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska [Correction May 13: the older Nebraska law only applied to publicly funded plans,the new bill applies to private insurance] North Dakota and Wisconsin. In 2007, Oklahoma enacted health insurance restrictions, but due to the pro-abortion governor, also included policies to cover abortion for rape/incest.
Pro-abortion reps argued on the Kansas House floor last year that families needed pre-paid abortion insurance to deal with fetal abnormalities and the rape of their teen daughters!
In the first case, Kansas forbade post-viability abortions for reasons of abnormality in 1998. In the second case, our nation has for too long acquiesced to the argument that unborn children must suffer the death penalty for the rape crimes of their fathers.
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Scott decided to get a window air conditioner for the playroom! Todd Dunston's two sons came down (Todd owns Plumbline Carpentry) to install it today. It was quite the job and they have been here a long time, but the unit is in and running, the guys just left, and we're waiting to see how long it takes to cool the room from 95 (or whatever it is in there) down to 79.
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Palestinian Muslims walking past Israeli police after leaving prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Entrance to the mosque was restricted by Israeli police following violent demonstrations against Israeli excavations near the Dome of the Rock.
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Nathan Beyer wrote: > Based on what I've seen of the excluded tests, category 1 is the predominate > case. This could be validated by looking at old revisions in SVN. I'm sure that is true, I'm just saying that the build system 'normal' state is that all enabled tests pass. My concern was over your statement you have had failing tests for months. What is failing for you now? Regards, Tim >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >> >> Is this the case where we have two 'categories'? >> >> 1) tests that never worked >> >> 2) tests that recently broke >> >> I think that a #2 should never persist for more than one build >> iteration, as either things get fixed or backed out. I suppose then we >> are really talking about category #1, and that we don't have the "broken >> window" problem as we never had the window there in the first place? >> >> I think it's important to understand this (if it's actually true). >> >> geir >> >> >> Tim Ellison wrote: >>> Nathan Beyer wrote: >>>> How are other projects handling this? My opinion is that tests, which >> are >>>> expected and know to pass should always be running and if they fail and >> the >>>> failure can be independently recreated, then it's something to be >> posted on >>>> the list, if trivial (typo in build file?), or logged as a JIRA issue. >>> Agreed, the tests we have enabled are run on each build (hourly if >>> things are being committed), and failures are sent to commit list. >>> >>>> If it's broken for a significant amount of time (weeks, months), then >> rather >>>> than excluding the test, I would propose moving it to a "broken" or >>>> "possibly invalid" source folder that's out of the test path. If it >> doesn't >>>> already have JIRA issue, then one should be created. >>> Yes, though I'd be inclined to move it sooner -- tests should not stay >>> broken for more than a couple of days. >>> >>> Recently our breakages have been invalid tests rather than broken >>> implementation, but they still need to be investigated/resolved. >>> >>>> I've been living with consistently failing tests for a long time now. >>>> Recently it was the unstable Socket tests, but I've been seeing the >> WinXP >>>> long file name [1] test failing for months. >>> IMHO you should be shouting about it! The alternative is that we >>> tolerate a few broken windows and overall quality slips. >>> >>>> I think we may be unnecessarily complicating some of this by assuming >> that >>>> all of the donated tests that are currently excluded and failing are >>>> completely valid. I believe that the currently excluded tests are >> either >>>> failing because they aren't isolated according to the suggested test >> layout >>>> or they are invalid test; I suspect that HARMONY-619 [1] is a case of >> the >>>> later. >>>> >>>> So I go back to my original suggestion, implement the testing proposal, >> then >>>> fix/move any excluded tests to where they work properly or determine >> that >>>> they are invalid and delete them. >>> Yes, the tests do need improvements too. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tim >>> >>> >>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-619 >>>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com > > -- Tim Ellison (firstname.lastname@example.com) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Sweatt v. Painter
"More than 60 years after Sweatt was the first African-American to apply to [the University of Texas School of Law], his story continues to be emotionally and politically relevant, and his case . . . led directly to the end of segregation." — Gary M. Lavergne, author of Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road to Justice
Case Summary
In 1946, Heman Sweatt, a 33-year-old African-American mail carrier from Houston, Texas, who wanted to be a lawyer appeared on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. He presented the President of the University, Theophilus Painter, with a copy of his undergraduate transcript from Wiley College and formally applied for admission to the University's Law School. He asserted that he had a right to the same legal training as any other Texan who was a college graduate and that since Texas did not have a law school for African-Americans, the state had to admit him to the University of Texas Law School.
Painter sought and received an opinion on Sweatt's application from the Texas Attorney General. In his letter to the Attorney General requesting his opinion, Painter wrote: "This applicant is a citizen of Texas and duly qualified for admission into the Law School at the University of Texas, save and except for the fact that he is a Negro." The Attorney General's opinion stated: "There is no doubt that if equal educational advantages are not provided for the applicant within the state, he must be admitted to the Law School of the University of Texas." However, the Attorney General wrote: "The state is entitled to a reasonable notice that the facilities providing equal educational advantages are desired before its established policy of segregation is abrogated." The Attorney General pointed out that in 1945 the Texas Legislature had changed the name of Prairie View A&M, the state-supported institution of higher education for African-Americans, to Prairie View University. In addition, the Legislature had authorized Prairie View to teach any graduate or professional level course, including law and medicine, offered at the University of Texas and specified that these courses should be "substantially equal to those offered at the University of Texas."
Once he received the Attorney General's opinion, President Painter dictated a letter to Sweatt informing him that at this time his application for admission was denied. In May 1946, Sweatt filed suit against Painter and all the members of the University's Board of Regents in a Texas District Court. The District Court denied Sweatt's petition for an order directing his admission to the University's Law School and gave the state six months to provide a law school for African-American students. If the state did not do so, the judge ruled, the University of Texas Law School would be required to admit Sweatt.
Before the District Court's decision could be appealed to the Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals in Austin, Prairie View University established a Law School in a suite of offices in downtown Houston, but not a single individual applied for admission. This meant that Texas still had no law school for African-Americans. In 1947, the Texas Legislature quickly passed legislation authorizing the University of Texas Board of Regents to establish a temporary law school in Austin to serve as "the School of Law of the Texas State University for Negroes." Such a Law School was established in four rooms in a building at 104 East 13th Street. The Legislature had mandated that students at this Law School would have access to the Texas State Law Library. Three professors from the University of Texas School of Law had agreed to teach classes for the African-American students. Heman Sweatt received a letter of admission to this new law school. Sweatt's lawyer advised him to reject the offer. Not a single applicant applied for admission.
The Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals set aside the District Court's judgment and directed that the case return for a rehearing before the District Court. After the rehearing where numerous witnesses for both sides testified, the District Court ruled that the state of Texas had now, as the court had earlier directed, provided Sweatt with a law school "substantially equal" to that of white students at the University of Texas School of Law. Therefore, the judge denied Sweatt's petition for an order directing his admission to the University of Texas School of Law.
In September 1947, Sweatt appealed to the Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals in Austin where Thurgood Marshall represented him. Marshall argued that the "separate but equal" argument was a fiction. The law school that the state had set up for Negroes on East 13th Street, Marshall asserted, was far from being equal to the University of Texas School of Law. The Third Court of Appeals, nonetheless, affirmed the District Court's judgment. The Texas Supreme Court then denied Sweatt's application for a writ of error, and the case was now appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Legal Issue
The Court considered the following question:
Does the equal protection of the law clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allow a state to provide separate law schools for students of different races if those law schools are "substantially equal"?
Chief Justice Fred Vinson wrote the opinion of the Court.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the state of Texas and in favor of Heman Sweatt. Chief Justice Fred Vinson wrote: "We hold that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that petitioner be admitted to the University of Texas Law School." Vinson elaborated: "The University of Texas Law School, from which petitioner was excluded, was staffed by a faculty of sixteen full-time and three part-time professors, some of whom are nationally recognized authorities in their field. Its student body numbered 850. The library contained over 65,000 volumes. Among the other facilities available to the students were a law review, moot court facilities, scholarship funds, and Order of the Coif affiliation. The school's alumni occupy the most distinguished positions in the private practice of the law and in the public life of the state. It may properly be considered one of the nation's ranking law schools. The law school for Negroes, which was to have opened in February 1947, would have had no independent faculty or library. The teaching was to be carried on by four members of the University of Texas Law School faculty, who were to maintain their offices at the University of Texas while teaching at both institutions. Few of the 10,000 volumes ordered for the library had arrived; nor was there any full-time librarian. The school lacked accreditation."
Vinson went on to write: "Whether the University of Texas Law School is compared with the original or the new law school for Negroes, we cannot find substantial equality in the educational opportunities offered white and Negro law students by the state. In terms of number of the faculty, variety of courses and opportunity for specialization, size of the student body, scope of the library, availability of law review and similar activities, the University of Texas Law School is superior. What is more important, the University of Texas Law School possesses to a far greater degree those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school. Such qualities, to name but a few, include reputation of the faculty, experience of the administration, position and influence of the alumni, standing in the community, traditions and prestige. It is difficult to believe that one who had a free choice between these law schools would consider the question close."
Vinson added: "The law school, the proving ground for legal training and practice, cannot be effective in isolation from the individuals and institutions with which the law interacts. … The law school to which Texas is willing to admit petitioner excludes from its student body members of the racial groups which number 85% of the population of the state and include most of the lawyers, witnesses, jurors, judges, and other officials with whom petitioner will inevitably be dealing when he becomes a member of the Texas bar. With such a substantial and significant segment of society excluded, we cannot conclude that the education offered petitioner is substantially equal to that which he would receive if admitted to the University of Texas Law School."
SOURCE: For a full treatment of Sweatt v. Painter see Gary M. Lavergne. Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice. University of Texas Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-72200-2.


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Welcome to my small news page all about Twilight, Into Twilight !
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Well… My name is Ema, and I'm 18 years old. I live in a small town in Australia, and am starting my first year of University this year.
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EMMA….just a word of caution regarding your online blog. Appreciate that you're keeping everyone up to date and all with everything Twilight. Here in the U.S. there's something known as intellectual copyright. On all photo postings, you need to cite your source. Same with text. You just can't copy and paste the entire article. Common courtesy is to paste no more than a 100 word blurb with a link. Plagiarism, not cool Hope that keeps you out of trouble and please keep those CITED updates coming.
Emma – I would love it if you could email me deborahng(at)blogtalkradio(dot)com.I wanted to tell you news about an upcoming BlogTalkRadio interview with Taylor Lautner.
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